In the evening of that day, Li Guangyu held a small meeting with the senior management. This time he planned to let everyone split up. He, Cao Weiqing, Li Xuelan, Chen Linwen and others went to Ottawa.
Zhou Zhigang didn't need to go there with them. Zhou Zhigang's plan this time was to acquire Canada's Husky Energy Company.
At present, Xiangjiang Petrochemical Group relies entirely on buying crude oil and natural gas. It does not own oil fields or gas fields, nor does it have a mining team. This acquisition of Husky Energy Company can well make up for Xiangjiang Petrochemical Group's shortcomings in this aspect.
The current price of Husky Energy is relatively cheap, at around US$1 billion, and it would be very easy for the Lee Consortium to acquire this company.
More importantly, due to the current weak economic impact of the West, the price per barrel is still hovering around more than ten dollars, and many oil companies have extremely low profits. Husky Energy is already debt-ridden and has been looking for buyers.
, it’s a pity that no company has ever offered a suitable price.
The automobile market and the oil market have been having a hard time in the past few years. The economies of Western Europe and North America are still struggling. Many well-known automobile brand companies are facing losses. Many luxury car brands are trying to get rid of big brands such as the British.
Rolls-Royce is also looking for a buyer. Li Guangyu already owns a Bentley, so he has no plans to buy Rolls-Royce. After all, the two brands have highly consistent positioning. This brand is useless to the Bentley Group.
Li Guangyu is going to let Zhang Ziyu take the opportunity to win over Lamborghini this time. He has no chance with Ferrari, and Fiat Automobile Group in Italy will not give him this opportunity.
Li Guangyu said to Zhou Zhigang: "At present, our petrochemical group does not have autonomy in the supply of raw materials, so Husky Energy is very important to us this time, and this opportunity is also very rare. The Canadian government is helping us, so you have to do your best."
Maybe I can win this company and make some concessions on the price. I will inject US$2 billion into the group for this acquisition and subsequent expansion."
Li Guangyu knows very well that oil is similar to Australian ore. It will only be valuable in the next decade. Now the main thing is to hoard resources, reserve some oil fields and natural gas fields, and exploit them to meet the needs of his own group and Treasure Island, etc.
If we increase the mining volume in a few years, then it will be time to make a lot of money.
Zhou Zhigang is very happy that his group has put its hands into the development of oil and natural gas fields. In this way, the Xiangjiang Petrochemical Group has formed a closed industrial chain. From crude oil extraction to the final sale of refined oil, their petrochemical group can complete it, and the group's development will not be blocked.
Any business is stuck.
At the same time, this has further enhanced the strength of Xiangjiang Petrochemical Group. He believes that with the development of time, Xiangjiang Petrochemical Group will definitely become one of the top groups of the Li Group in the future, and it can also attack the top five or even the top three in terms of turnover.
, the same is true in terms of profits.
Now, the one that has been sitting on the throne of the Li Group for a long time is the Hengyu Supermarket Group, and judging from the current development speed, no company can surpass it in a short time.
In terms of turnover in the future, it is estimated that there will be a competition between several major retail groups. Whether Xiangjiang Petrochemical Group can rank first in turnover among non-retail groups is an important indicator for them to enter the top five.
Whether it is Hengyu Supermarket Group, 7-11, Xuelan Supermarket, or South China Electrical Appliance Chain Group, the turnover of these retail groups is growing very fast, and the annual expansion rate is also very rapid. It is not easy for other groups to suppress them in terms of turnover.
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The Li Group platform is good, but the competition pressure is too great. Not only does it have to compete with the same industry outside, it also needs to compete internally with dozens of groups.
The most important personnel in the Li Group are always those at the top of the group hierarchy. The group presidents at the bottom of the list do not have much say or influence in the Li Group.
For example, now, Li Xuelan's status in the Li Group is getting higher and higher. The reason is that she is in charge of the retail group under the Li Group, and now the status of several major retail groups in the Li Group is getting stronger and stronger.
Zhou Zhigang is now very lucky to be able to come out of Feiyu Group, otherwise he would not have much say in the clothing department, with Chen Dong and Xie Tao suppressing him, so he would basically not have to speak.
The petrochemical industry is relatively independent and is currently under the direct control of Li Guangyu. He has more say than the general presidents of the apparel, retail, and real estate departments.
As the Li Group develops for a longer period of time, the internal industries will become larger, and the more industries it spans will become more complicated. The forces of all parties are complicated, and there are many internal factions competing with each other and checking and balancing each other.
This is no longer a simple enterprise. It is more troublesome and has more things than some small countries internally.
The population of some countries is not as large as the number of employees of the Li Group. Naturally, it is impossible to be so harmonious in such a huge enterprise.
On the surface it is very harmonious, everyone is very reasonable, but secretly they are intrigues and fierce competition has never weakened.
There are only a dozen or so people at the top of the Li Group. Who doesn't want to be one of the top members? Zhou Zhigang thought the same.
If you want to join the executive team, you not only need Li Guangyu's approval in this regard, but you also need to have strong influence. Only in this way can your words have weight in the Li Group. Otherwise, even if you become a member of the executive team, you will only be a member of the executive team.
vassal.
For example, Qin Peng, Guo Fengtao, Xie Tao, and Zhao Yu, their influence in the Li Group is much lower than that of other executives, and they are slightly better than the president. They are not the core of the Li Group.
existence.
The Li Group's recognized giants are Du Yuemei, Chen Dong, Li Xuelan, Yuan Tianfan, Qin Jiao, Gan Qinglin, Peng Xiaoli, Gu Zhengsheng, and Zhou Xiaoning.
Zhou Zhigang is sometimes depressed that he has not been able to rely on Pengyu Group to become the executive officer of the Li Group. However, compared to himself, he feels that Fujiwara Keiin should be more sad. As for the Li Group, she has established and developed three groups, and she still has no one.
Be able to join the executive team.
Thinking about his nationality, Zhou Zhigang didn't know when Li Guangyu would be able to completely let go of this barrier and allow non-Hong Kong senior executives to join the executive team.
The Li Group says it is managed by a family. Most of its industries are managed by managers, but it is not a family-owned company. These industries are firmly controlled by Li Guangyu's various headquarters agencies.
For example, finance, the group's financial director is directly under the jurisdiction of the headquarters, as well as the legal affairs, confidentiality department, security department, review department, etc. These ministers are directly appointed by the headquarters, and they are all loyal defenders of Li Guangyu's interests.
Moreover, those from the Li Group who are promoted fastest must be those from Xiangjiang. Under the same circumstances, they will definitely be promoted first.
Things have gotten better in the past few years, at least non-Chinese people can hold the position of president. In the past few years, even the presidents were basically from Xiangjiang. It was an accident for him, and he is of Chinese descent, so it will be relatively better.
Things are relatively much better now. A white American is the president of Xinghong Sports Group, Japan's Toru Iwatani is the president of Xingyu Gaming Group, and Fujiwara Keiin, the eldest lady, has served as president of many groups.
Zhou Zhigang's biggest wish now is to have senior executives from outside Hong Kong join the executive team. Only in this way can he hope to go further in the future.