At 5:30 in the afternoon, Li Guangyu's special plane landed at Taoyuan (Chiang Kai-shek) International Airport. Also coming to Baodao this time were Wang Hui, Gan Qin, and Chen Juncai, vice president of Hengyu Supermarket Group.
At eight o'clock that night, Li Guangyu had dinner with Gu Zhenfu, Lin Tingsheng, Yan Shunwen, Qing Qingyuan, Lin Xianggang, and Wang Jie in the box of Jiuhua Hotel in Taipei, and discussed some situations on Treasure Island.
Gao Qingyuan said: "Mr. Li, the current situation is very unfavorable to us. The gossip from the outside world has begun to spread wildly. Dean Li is regarded as the pioneer to break the monopoly class. His guns are mainly aimed at Hengyu Supermarket Group and Uni-President Group.
It is believed that our two companies occupy the vast majority of Baodao’s market, which has seriously affected the interests of Baodao citizens.”
Market monopoly often means price monopoly. Although their sales prices are not high, Takarashima citizens don't think so. They feel that the large-scale entry of Wal-Mart and Ito-Yokado will definitely break the current situation and they can enjoy
Cheaper prices.
But these ordinary citizens have no idea that the reason why Ito-Yokado and Wal-Mart asked Dean Li to stand up this time is because they hope that the government can maintain stability in the retail market. This is because Hengyu Supermarket Group can defeat its opponents time and time again.
It depends on the price war.
Carrefour is a lesson for them. Carrefour once entered the Japanese market and the Baodao market, but was repelled by Hengyu Supermarket Group with its price advantage.
Walmart is a listed company, so how dare they engage in crazy price wars? As long as they do that, the company will immediately plummet in the stock market.
So they need the government to maintain a relatively stable price range. Li Guangyu doesn't care about the profit. They care. No matter how they compete, profit is the goal in the end. If losing money can kill Hengyu Supermarket Group, they don't care. But
Hengyu Supermarket Group, which relies on the Li Group, cannot be killed just because it wants to.
Ito-Yokado and Wal-Mart Supermarket have never wanted to completely eliminate the Lee Group from the Asian market. Unless the Lee Group collapses, such a situation will never occur.
Regardless of Ito-Yokado, which is dominated by a Japanese consortium, or Wal-Mart, which is dominated by an American consortium, they hope to enter markets across Asia and operate for a long time so that they can have a platform covering most markets in Asia.
Let many of your products be sold directly to various regions through this platform.
With the strength of Hengyu Supermarket Group, it is obviously unwilling to allow them to enter these markets. The price wars against Wal-Mart and Carrefour in Western Europe in the past few years will be staged again. This is not what the American consortium and the Japanese consortium want to see.
They know Li Guangyu very well. This guy doesn't care about profit at all in order to defeat his competitors, but they don't do that here.
Hengyu Supermarket Group and even the Li Consortium are all made by Li Guangyu alone, and each of their consortiums has many core personnel. What's more, the supermarkets are jointly held by multiple consortiums. Many issues cannot be decided immediately.
The major financial groups within them are also not very united.
Mitsui and Mitsubishi are not very harmonious within Japan. They each have some supporters, so they can unite externally. There is also no shortage of internal struggles.
The consortium in the United States is even more chaotic. The feud between Morgan and Rockefeller has been entangled for hundreds of years. The western consortium headed by the California consortium and the eastern consortium headed by the First Citibank consortium are also at odds with each other.
It is already very rare to get them to unanimously target the outside world and target the other two forces, but they will definitely not be willing to keep filling in the holes. These consortiums have been focusing on one thing for hundreds of years, and that is interests.
They are unwilling to do it knowing that they will lose money.
The Japanese consortium is a little better. Although they are mainly financial, they have many real industries and can open up the market through such a platform. In addition to the financial industry, the American consortium also has heavy industry and high-tech industries. Supermarkets are very important to them.
It is of some use, but not too much. They are not willing to fight the price war with the Li Group to the end.
Their purpose is very clear, that is, they hope to impose restrictions on Hengyu Supermarket Group through the Baodao government. As long as there is no price war, their supermarkets can survive in Baodao.
This Dean Li is one of their pawns, and the reason why he is asked to step forward and act as a vanguard this time is to put him and the Li Group on completely opposite sides, to prevent this person from playing both sides of the fence between them and the Li Group.
And they will also try their best to get this person in the position, so that they can gain a firm foothold in the Baodao market.
Taking advantage of public opinion has always been a favorite thing for American consortiums to do. As long as President Li has the support of public opinion, Li Guangyu and the others will have nothing to do with him. No company can go against local public opinion, which will only make itself worse.
Lost at the local market.
Now the purpose of the American consortium and the Japanese consortium is very clear, which is to position the Lee Consortium as a crocodile in Baodao, a big mountain pressing on the citizens of Baodao. They came in to help them move the mountain away.
This is just like Baodao. If they were in the Japanese and American markets, they would have already manipulated the government to conduct an anti-monopoly investigation on Hengyu Supermarket Group. Moreover, in their country, they would never allow the Li Group to engage in unrestricted price wars.
Li Guangyu naturally knew that behind these gossips there must be American and Japanese consortiums. In the past, he himself was a dragon-slaying warrior. He constantly attacked the British conglomerates in Xiangjiang and broke the Chinese-owned family's shadow over everyone.
Decades of clouds.
And now he himself is regarded as an evil dragon by some people. What a cycle of heaven.
Li Guangyu said: "This time we just have to be prepared. Ito-Yokado and Wal-Mart will definitely come in. We need to plan in advance and carry out promotions in their surrounding stores when necessary to resolutely inhibit their development in Baodao.
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In fact, Li Guangyu doesn't have too many worries about these two companies entering Baodao. Here in Baodao, the Li's Consortium has an absolute advantage in terms of procurement, logistics, and stores. It is not easy for these two parties to find a suitable store when they enter the Baodao market.
Easy, the good place has long been occupied by Hengyu Supermarket Group.
Instead, he was more concerned about Dean Li. He was the most dangerous to the Li Consortium. If he was not brought down, he would be a time bomb for the Li Consortium and its allies. What Li Guangyu needed was the situation on Baodao.
Stable, so that his industry can develop better.
Gao Qingyuan is not too worried about this. He unified the group mainly in 7-11 convenience stores. This time Ito-Yokado and Wal-Mart came in mainly supermarkets, and their main opponent was Hengyu Supermarket.
While Li Guangyu and his allies were having dinner and discussing, Dean Li was also meeting with Iwasaki Kimori, a direct member of the Iwasaki family, and Robert Walton, the eldest son of Wal-Mart.
Now he has embarked on a road of no return. There is only one way to go to the dark side. There is no way out. He is not having a good time in the president's office today. Even if he points out the many shortcomings of the Li Group's monopoly on the Baodao market,
It still couldn't calm the president's anger towards him, and it even made him reflect on what he had done.