"Ha! It seems that this guy moves really fast!" After a chuckle, Liu Dong continued, "In this way, after this annual meeting is over, you and Robert Chayer will go to France immediately.
You are responsible for signing the contract, and as for Universal Music Group, just merge it into Matrix Media!"
"What about the acquisition funds...?" Feng Jianhui hesitated.
Universal Music Group is the world's largest music group, accounting for 22% of the world's music market and leading the entire American and European markets.
It is definitely impossible to acquire this music giant without more than five billion US dollars in funds!
"Don't worry about funds, I'm ready!"
More than 20 billion US dollars in funds from Citibank and HSBC are enough to pay for the acquisition of BHP Billiton and Universal Music Group, as well as to ensure the reconstruction plan of the Old Summer Palace, the construction plan of Yanjiao New City, the Baotou Petrochemical Plant, China-Mongolia
The construction of a series of large-scale investment projects such as the railway, the Pacific Industrial Oil Pipeline, the third phase of the Oriental Steel Group, the Russian iron ore development project of the Oriental Resources Group, etc. has begun!
Looking at the confident Liu Dong, Feng Jianhui was shocked and shook his head secretly.
After he met Liu Dong, no matter how incredible the plan was and required huge investments, Liu Dong never seemed to worry about funding.
He never lacks a steady stream of cash in his hands!
"I understand, Chairman!"
The ten-day Hanhua Group Annual Meeting was officially held in Vancouver. In fact, this time is also the time when major companies around the world are making year-end summaries, and it is also the busiest time of the year for major financial newspapers in the world.
Nowadays, the Hanhua Annual Meeting is increasingly known as a consortium in the global business community. Naturally, it has also attracted almost all large financial media in the world, including the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.
However, due to the strict security system of Hanhua Group, they were never able to approach the valley farm where the meeting was held.
But as the meeting was held, some news finally spread.
Among them, the most incredible and admirable is the employee stock ownership plan and option pool plan implemented by Hanhua Group in 2004!
"Mr. Liu, what made you make such a major decision? You must know that if you follow your decision, you will personally lose nearly 40% of your wealth and a huge profit of nearly 10 billion US dollars every year!"
A handsome white woman wearing a light gray women's suit asked Liu Dong with a recording pen in hand.
As a special correspondent for Time Magazine, Mia Ackles is the first media reporter to have the opportunity to interview Liu Dong since the establishment of Hanhua Group.
Even the Washington Post and Newsweek, owned by Matrix Media Group, have not received this honor.
"There is no particularly important reason, it is just inevitable after the company develops to a certain level! In order to retain talents and increase employees' attachment to the company, most companies around the world will adopt employee stock ownership plans and option pools, Hanhua
The group is just one of them!" Liu Dong said calmly.
"After this reform, do the major subsidiaries of Hanhua Group have any specific plans to go public?"
"Listing is for financing. But now Hanhua Group is not short of funds, so we have no plans to go public in the short term!"
"You mean that if Hanhua Group has sufficient funds, your group's subsidiaries will never go public, right?"
"That's understandable!" Liu Dong nodded.
After experiencing the suppression of Standard Chartered Bank, Liu Dong no longer has any interest in the stock market. Compared with the large amount of funds raised from the stock market, Liu Dong desires freedom from control more.
It's really a terrible time to spend all day playing intrigues and intrigues with world-class giants like Stillman, Rothschild, and later even Morgan and Rockefeller.
If you have this time, you might as well play with your favorite antiques and art!
"Mr. Liu, many people now know that three and a half years ago, you were just an ordinary freelancer at the flea market in Quancheng City, Shandong Province, China. What made you become a successful person in just over three years?
How about creating a business empire with assets of more than 100 billion US dollars?"
"The reason is actually very simple. Like the vast majority of people who come from a poor background and are eager to change their family's status quo, I also embarked on the road of business with the dream of getting rich. Moreover, I was relatively lucky and achieved the success of others in a short period of time.
Unimaginable success!" Liu Dong said.
"Is the luck you call gambling on stones? According to our understanding, you are known as the 'Jade King' in Myanmar and China!"
"This is just part of it! In fact, in addition to betting on stones, I am also good at gambling and have won a lot of money in this area!"
Recalling his several moves in Macau, Liu Dong smiled.
"Mr. Liu, during this crisis of Standard Chartered Bank's stock price decline, you used a total of more than 30 billion US dollars to rescue the market! The financial conditions of the various groups under the Hanhua Group cannot provide such a large amount of funds. I would like to ask if they can.
It is speculated by the outside world that you have received funding from the Chinese government?"
Faced with this somewhat acute question, Liu Dong did not panic. In fact, the speculations and rumors about Standard Chartered Bank and even Hanhua Group being controlled by the Chinese government during this period are not new news.
"The source of funds involves company confidentiality and there is no comment! But both Standard Chartered Bank and all subsidiaries of Hanhua Group are 100% private enterprises. Otherwise, do you think the group's employee stock ownership plan and option pool are
Can the plan be passed?" Liu Dong asked rhetorically.
This is also one of the reasons why Liu Dong implemented the shareholding reform this time. Otherwise, once someone labels Hanhua Group as being controlled by the Chinese government, it will be very difficult to enter the US and European markets in the future.
It is several times, even ten times larger than before.
This is definitely not what Liu Dong wants to see!
Therefore, he would rather use nearly 10 billion US dollars in annual profits in the future and nearly 40% of the shares of each subsidiary to reduce his assets by nearly half, and also weaken the increasingly strong "state-owned" flavor of Hanhua Group.
Mia Ackles still agrees with Liu Dong's explanation.
Indeed, as Liu Dong said, it is impossible for the state to use tens of billions of dollars in capital and ask Liu Dong to give free charity to the hundreds of thousands of employees of Hanhua Group.
Let alone the Chinese government, the British government would not allow it if it were the US government. Otherwise, angry taxpayers would have forced them to step down.
"Mr. Liu, in the past nearly four years, all the subsidiaries of your Hanhua Group have been expanding at an astonishing speed. According to statistics, from 2000 to now, all the subsidiaries acquired by Hanhua Group have
The number of companies has reached 186, and the number of joint-stock companies has reached 237! This is unimaginable for any group! I wonder if your Hanhua Group will adopt such a radical expansion policy in the next few years? "
"Since Ms. Akers has used the word radical to describe it, the expansion of Hanhua Group will naturally slow down. In fact, for any newly emerging enterprise, or even a country, in their initial stages,
There was a period of rapid expansion. For example, Germany in the 19th century transformed from the Kingdom of Prussia into a world power with colonies all over Europe, Asia and Africa in less than half a century."
"...Microsoft and Amazon have developed themselves into world-class giants in 20 years or even less! The same goes for Hanhua Group. After rapid expansion in the early stage, it also needs long-term stability.
Therefore, in the next three to five years, or even longer, Hanhua Group will change its development strategy from the initial rapid expansion to a development strategy that focuses on stability and expansion in small steps!"
"So what do you think of the future world economy? Many economists are predicting that a new economic crisis will break out?"
"Economic crisis? Maybe, but I think instead of guessing about the crisis that may break out in the future, it is better to spend more time developing your own enterprise. I think a healthy and healthy enterprise can survive any economic crisis! This is
The most practical!”
I don’t know if this Mia Ackles finally got the opportunity to interview Liu Dong. For nearly three hours, countless questions came out of the other party’s mouth, except for those related to
In addition to issues such as Liu Dong's personal fortune-making process, Hanhua Group's development strategy, and Liu Dong's own outlook on the world economy, even the unrelated war in Afghanistan has become an issue on the other side's lips.
The entire afternoon was almost used up by the other party.
Fortunately, after the Hanhua Annual Meeting was completed, Liu Dong's time was much more relaxed, otherwise he would not have the energy to chat with him for such a long time.
At night, with Wang Qiang, Lin Ling, and Helen around him, Liu Dong could only guard the empty room alone. Because, Liu Dong's Hanhua Group share reform involves too many share divisions and arrangements, plus the future
With one year of group development planning, too many official duties piled up on the desks of the three of them. Even Helen, who was Liu Dong's secretary, was too busy to stay busy.
After returning to the room, I basically fell asleep. I had no time or energy to have fun with Liu Dong!
Taking pity on their tiredness, Liu Dong not only used internal energy and elixirs to recuperate their bodies, but also asked his confidante to share some official duties as much as possible.
Therefore, during this period, Liu Dong also burned the midnight oil and fought every day.