Rebirth: My 80s

Chapter 875: Gains from bargain hunting in half a year

Li Jiankun felt that his boss was somewhat incompetent.

The people in the conference room right now are all core executives of various companies. However, he doesn't know some of them yet, or in other words, has no impression at all...

He cast a grateful look at his left hand. Without sister Effie, his career in Hong Kong City would be paralyzed.

Obviously, in the past six months, new people have entered the management of various companies. Li Jiankun asked them to make introductions one by one and try their best to remember them.

If you still can't remember.

Can't blame him either.

The stalls are getting bigger, this is bound to happen.

For example, in some multinational groups, there are hundreds of thousands of employees around the world, and there are only a few hundred core executives. How can the boss keep track of them all?

After the pleasantries, the meeting officially began. Li Jiankun planned to go through each company one by one:
“Let’s start with Taishan Real Estate.”

I don’t know if I want to give the chairman a surprise.

Then, Yan Ruohong introduced each property in detail.

Originally, my business was doing well, but it could not withstand the bad economic environment in the past two years.

"Now, there are eight buildings under Taishan Real Estate. It was originally nine buildings. One of them was given to Chairman Huangfu Jingwen to establish the Kunlun Chamber of Commerce...

At his conference table at nine o'clock, several people sitting together were refreshed. After making eye contact, a fat woman in her forties with good temperament stood up in the middle.

The number of such properties is inherently limited.

“There are also three independent supermarkets, two in Kowloon and one in Causeway Bay.

In other words, in the most prosperous core area of ​​the port city.

"The company has made statistics. If the existing properties are added together, according to the current market conditions, the annual rent collection can earn the company 4.6 million Hong Kong dollars..."

"There is something that Chairman, you may not know yet."

If you don't seize the opportunity, you won't be able to acquire it.

"Gamma Media."

“Three buildings are located on the banks of Victoria Harbour, three are in Central and two are in Kowloon.

rustling...

It is said that the daughter-in-law is a popular star, but I don’t know who Li Jiankun is.

A handsome uncle like a domineering president.

Do it for Li Jiankun.

The woman's name is Yan Ruohong, and she is traveling with Liu Jingyan.

"Sit down and talk."

The reasons circulated in the circle are:

The chairman once put forward three expectations for the development of Gamma Media: radio, print media, and television stations will all flourish.

She submitted her own resume, and was later appreciated and promoted by Effie.

There is no sign of middle-aged men gaining weight.

Peng Yu was born as a journalist. At the age of 26, he became the editor-in-chief of "Fashion Frontline", a fashion magazine in Hong Kong.

"The company has established a property management company. Since I have the connections and resources in this area, the operation went online relatively quickly. Currently, all properties under the company have been arranged for our personnel to be stationed and managed.

TV station...Peng Yu didn't even dare to think about it at the time.

Radio and print media are okay.

Yan Ruohong sat upright and said in a reporting tone:

Peng Yu glanced at Ai Fei. Before the meeting started, he asked Vice President Ai, who said that he had not informed the chairman yet.

As we all know, Hong Kong City has only issued three terrestrial television licenses so far, and one Jiayi TV station closed down in 1978, ostensibly due to poor management.

Following Li Jiankun's instructions, the people on the right side of the conference table immediately cheered up. The person reporting from Gama Media was named Peng Yu, who was in his mid-thirties.

"Except for this building, the shortest one is sixteen stories high, and the tallest one is fifty-seven stories high.

Effie wrote quickly and took notes.

As Li Jiankun listened, he thought, no wonder people say he bought Hong Kong City. These properties are all high-end properties on the Kowloon Peninsula and both sides of Hong Kong Island, close to Victoria Harbour.

“There are also six commercial complexes, one in Central, one in Wan Chai, two in Causeway Bay and two in Kowloon.

"Thank you, Chairman."

It has a good reputation in the industry.

"Adhering to the purpose set by our chairman, Taishan Real Estate only engages in commercial real estate business. In the past six months, it has mainly focused on acquiring and managing properties sold by British-owned groups..."

Currently, there should be no bigger charterer than him in Hong Kong City...

He also started out selling high-end residential properties, and later became the general manager of a real estate sales company. Then he seemed to be tired of the real estate sales industry and founded a property management company of his own.

At that time, Jiayi was indeed in debt crisis because it was filming high-quality dramas regardless of cost. However, it was Jiayi. It had produced "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "Blood Sword", and "Flying Fox in the Snow Mountain". It had only been in business for three years and had five productions. The best of sixty TV series.

How could there be a shortage of investors?

Chinese investors are extremely active, but the British Hong Kong government does not want Chinese investors to take over TV stations.

Today, this field is divided into two parts: TVB and ATV.

One of the founders of TVB, Qi Dezun, is a native of Eagle Country; the other founder, Li Xiaohe, is a member of the famous Li Hysan family in Hong Kong City, one of the four major families in the old days.

The former died in 1981, and the latter died in 1980, so...

TVB Shao Yifu now has the final say.

Asia Television, formerly known as Li's TV, is the parent company of Yingguo's "Li's Voice" company.

"Oh? What?" Li Jiankun asked.

"We, Gamma Media, have acquired 38% of ATV's equity and are now the second largest shareholder." Peng Yu replied.

"!!!"

Li Jiankun looked at Effie who was looking down in surprise, who smiled slightly.

She really wanted to surprise her brother.

Li Jiankun was indeed pleasantly surprised. He grinned and asked, "How did you get it?"

"Actually, it wasn't us who took the initiative. It was the Qiu family who knew we were interested and invited us to become shareholders," Peng Yu said. "The Qiu family of the Far East Group?"

Li Jiankun confirmed that he did not know much about the ownership structure behind ATV.

All we know is that after the 1980s, the structure of Hong Kong's television industry changed. In 1982, Qiu Degen of the Far East Group injected capital to acquire 50% of ATV's equity.

Effie saw what he was thinking and explained: "Mr. Qiu of Far East Group acquired other shares of ATV last year and has full control of ATV.

"As for why he spent so much effort to win ATV and why he was willing to sell his equity to us, I don't understand the reason."

This requires a face-to-face interview... Li Jiankun thought to himself.

No matter what the reason was, Qiu Degen gave him enough face and respect.

By the way, Far East Group seems to have had an incident and lost control of ATV, and ATV subsequently fell into the hands of Lin Baixing...

Compared with becoming the second largest shareholder of ATV, the radio station and several print media acquired by Gamma Media are not worth mentioning.

Li Jiankun thought to himself, if he goes to ATV now, he is guaranteed to see Zhang Guorong, who is a contracted singer of ATV.

I have to find time to go around...

TV station, one of the two major TV stations in Hong Kong City!

Just thinking about it makes me happy.

"Syndrome of particles."

The full name of this company is "Particle Bank Management Development Group".

The person who made the report was the former general manager of Huaqiang Swire Bank, named Pei Chengxue, a slender man in his fifties.

Now the banking industry has been spun off from Huaqiang Swire Group, but Huaqiang Swire Bank still exists.

Pei Chengxue is currently the CEO of Particle Syndicate.

“Our gains are not as good as those of several sister companies.”

He said modestly: "Since the group's independent development, we have mainly done four things in the past six months:
“1. Expand the business of Huaqiang Swire Bank and open five more branches in Hong Kong City.

“2. The group acquired % of Standard Chartered Bank’s equity.

“3. The group invested in HSBC and obtained a board seat.

"4. The group fully acquired 'Overseas Trust Bank'."

Li Jiankun remembers all these things.

Buying a stake in Standard Chartered Bank was something he had expected when he made the plan last year. At that time, the seller had already intended to transfer.

It is not surprising to get a seat on the HSBC board of directors. After all... Li Jiacheng is now a director of HSBC.

After receiving a report from Ran Zi at that time, Li Jiankun was most delighted to win the "Overseas Trust Bank".

You know, this bank is the third largest bank in Hong Kong after HSBC and Hang Seng Bank. It is too big to fail...

It was founded in 1956 by Malaysian wealthy businessman Zhang Mingtian.

If Particle Syndicate does not take over Overseas Trust Bank, the Hong Kong government will 100% be forced to take over, just like the unsustainable Hang Lung Bank in 1983.

In other words, he now has two banking licenses and two wholly-owned banks in Hong Kong City.

In addition, it has a 12% stake in a century-old British bank, the fourth largest shareholder.

A seat on the board of a century-old British bank.

These two British banks have one thing in common: they are both note-issuing banks in Hong Kong.

Another one is our Bank of China.

It can be said that Particle Syndicate already has considerable weight in the Hong Kong financial sector.

"Where's Huadian?"

This is the first time for Chinese Electronics Group to participate in this kind of meeting. After all, it is not a new company. In fact, "family members" now know that the boss owns it earlier than Huaqiang Swire Group and Quinlan Investment.

It can be called a big brother.

After years of obscurity, it is finally soaring into the sky.

This time he was specially called by Li Jiankun.

There was also a team of people, led by the vice president of the group named Wu Bolong. He had been Effie's assistant for a while before and had a master's degree in business administration. Effie thought that his abilities and moral character were good, so she recommended him to Li Jiankun.

As for the president, Lin Xinjia is naturally the one in charge.

Lin Xinjia also knew that he was not qualified for the position of president. After all, he only had a primary school education, so he mainly stayed in the mainland and handled some trivial matters for TCL and SAR Huadian Company.

Of course, as long as we return to Gangcheng Huadian Group——

The group is now changing from gun to gun. The address is no longer in the rental house in Zhen Yip Building, Kowloon, but has an entire floor in Central.

Then he is still Mr. Lin.

All employees of Huadian Group know that he is the boss's absolute confidant.

"Our Huadian Group has acquired quite a few companies in the past six months..." Wu Bolong looked around and smiled apologetically, "I may need an hour to report."

blind!
The participants looked at each other, how many houses did they buy?
They all know that Huadian Group is aggressively engaging in mergers and acquisitions, but they don't know much about the specific situation.

Wu Bolong saw their doubts and informed them first: "There are more than fifty companies."

Hoohoo!

Is this an attempt to monopolize the electronics industry in Hong Kong City?

"Is that so much?" Effie looked up, and she was also startled.

So how could I remember Li Jiankun? He said in a voice that only two people could hear: "You know what I want to do."

After thinking about it, he glanced at the audience and said, "Okay, you go ahead and do your work. The people from Huadian will stay."

The report is too lengthy. They are each responsible for their own companies. It doesn't matter whether they listen or not.

In addition, after clarifying the current size of Huadian Group, Li Jiankun has more important things to do.

When he approved the acquisition of these more than 50 companies, he had carefully considered them. Each of them had a role, or could be acquired without losing money.

It’s time to put it together properly.

You have this kind of technology, I have that kind of technology, maybe you can figure out a key material for making chips...

(End of this chapter)