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The Li Group's actions in the past two days have been noticed by the Swire Group. In particular, the media companies of the Li Group have deliberately targeted their airlines in the past two days with reports that have made them very angry. Fortunately, Xiangjiang is currently monopolized by one company, otherwise
The company's business will plummet.
At the same time, Wooden Swire also received notice from the British family that the president of the Lee Bentley Group went to visit Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, with the purpose of allowing the Lee Group to establish a new airline in Hong Kong.
Wooden Shihuai felt that the Lee Group was powerful. HSBC had just rejected their acquisition, and now it was about to build its own airline to compete with Cathay Pacific Airways. Moreover, it was impossible to work with the Hong Kong government.
At that time, they went directly to the British government to get permission to form an airline.
What makes Wooden Swire not happy is that this time the British government seems to no longer protect their interests, and the era of Cathay Pacific's monopoly on Xiangjiang's aviation business is coming to an end.
This made Wooden Swire very unwilling. He had just taken over the Swire Group, and now that the stock market has plummeted, the group has lost billions of Hong Kong dollars in the stock market. Without Cathay Pacific's monopoly privileges, the company's profits will definitely decline rapidly.
, this is not a good thing for the current Swire Group.
Wooden Shihuai contacted the family, hoping that they could find some connections to prevent the government from allowing the Lee Group to establish an airline, hoping to eliminate the Lee Group's ideas at the source. At the same time, Wooden Shihuai was here.
We also contacted several major British-funded consortiums to discuss how to resist the Li Group's attack on their British-funded consortiums.
In the private room of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Henry Keswick and Paul Madden were already chatting here.
Paul Madden said: "Keswick, the development prospects of our British-funded consortium are worrying now. Our situation at Wheelock is a bit bad. I wonder if Jardine can help us?"
Henry Keswick has been worried about Jardine and Hessian for the past few days. How can he have any spare energy to support other British-owned consortiums? He has now made up his mind to sell the Xiangjiang Electric Lighting Group, but he has not yet found a suitable person to take over.
That's all, he doesn't want to sell this group to Li Guangyu.
Henry Keswick said: "Madden, you don't know how much we have lost in the stock market this time. We are also unable to protect ourselves now. You can ask Shen Bi later to see if HSBC can give you some support."
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Paul Madden was a little disappointed after hearing this. The Madden family suffered heavy losses this time, and the Feng family, the second largest shareholder of Wheelock, was eyeing the controlling stake of Wheelock. If not careful, Wheelock could easily lose.
Lord.
After a while, Shen Bi walked in with Wooden Shihuai Ya. Today, George Lavin from Standard Chartered Bank was not present. He was currently busy with the takeover of Standard Chartered Bank. He had just arrived and had no idea about Xiangjiang.
He is not too familiar with it yet, and many relationships require him to walk through it in person.
As for why Wooden Swire invited several of them, they knew very well that the Lee Group was now eyeing Hong Kong's aviation business and wanted to seize Cathay Pacific's market in Hong Kong. In the past two days, the media under the Lee Group had
They are going all out, just to ruin Cathay Pacific's reputation.
Wooden Shihuai said: "Today, our British-funded consortium should work together to overcome the current difficulties. The ambitions of the Lee Group are gradually expanding as the Lee Group becomes increasingly powerful. If we do not jointly resist, I am afraid that Hong Kong will never have the success of our British-funded consortium."
Among them, Shen Bi is a little better. The other three are worried that after the Li Group takes over the airline, it will attack their companies again. Especially the Jardine Group, they also have many people and citizens of Xiangjiang. closely related companies, and the Li Group likes to acquire such companies.
Once the Li Group succeeds in Taikoo, I am afraid that the Li Group will immediately point its guns at Jardine. Its own milk company is the largest supplier of milk products in Hong Kong. The Li Group will definitely not give up on this. opportunity, the stock market is at a low point today.
Henry Keswick said: "Shihuaiya, this time we want to prevent the Lee Group from establishing a new airline, mainly on the mainland. As long as there does not agree with the Lee Group to establish an airline in Hong Kong, they will have no chance. Develop aviation business in Hong Kong.”
Everyone here knows that the issue has now moved to London, where the government's decision will determine whether Cathay Pacific can still monopolize the aviation business in Hong Kong. These companies can dominate Hong Kong, but they do not have much influence in London. In terms of influence, they don't even have noble titles now, and the group's influence is not too strong in London. Their influence on the government is quite small, especially this time it is the Prime Minister's decision.
Wooden Shihuai said: "This time, I invite you here because I hope you can join me in putting pressure on the Xiangjiang government so that they can align with our interests. At the same time, there is also the issue of public opinion in Xiangjiang. I think It is necessary for the government to exercise some control, otherwise the Lee Group always likes to let its media attack its opponents."
After hearing this, Shen Bi said: "We put pressure on the Hong Kong government and disagreed with the Li Group's establishment of an airline. But you said that it is impossible to control the media. You should know why London wants the freedom of the Hong Kong media. These things It cannot be changed.”
After hearing what Shen Bi said, Wooden Shihuai came to his senses. He had been really annoyed by Li's media group in the past few days. He actually thought about asking the government to interfere with the freedom of the press in Hong Kong. This was It goes against some of London's policies.
Wooden Shihuai said: "Forget it about the news. You must know that we should not have watched Li's TV station be acquired by Qiu Degen. As a result, our strength in the media industry in Hong Kong is almost non-existent. With Li's In the competition between different groups, we are naturally at a disadvantage in terms of public opinion."
At that time, who knew that the Li Group would develop so fast. In just a few years, the alliance of several British-funded consortiums was somewhat irresistible. At that time, any of the consortiums on our side was far stronger than the Li Group.
Henry Keswick said: "It is useless for us to complain about these now. We should think about what to do next. This time we can only rely on the relationship in Britain to get the government to give up supporting the Lee Group to establish an airline. Shihuai Ya, Your family can contact us, the Keswick family and the Jardine family, to see what conditions the government has put forward, and if possible, we will also intervene."
Naturally, Wooden Swire would not refuse Henry Keswick's proposal. Even if they could not stop the British government's decision, they would still create chaos.
Wooden Shiwaiya said: "I also ask you to contact the MPs who have good relations with you to put pressure on the Thatcher government. Her decision is a harm to our British-funded consortium and to the British people." Economic development is quite unfavorable.”
Shen Bi said: "Shi Huaiya, this aspect can also be done, but the effect is not likely to be too great. Some of Thatcher's policies are very supported by local financial groups. Now those financial groups are waiting for Thatcher's drastic reforms. , it’s just that the Labor Party has some constraints on them, so Thatcher asked Li Guangyu Capital to go in and conduct an experiment. It is said that the Queen also supports Thatcher’s policies.”
Although the reality may be as Shen Bi said, Wooden Shihuai is still unwilling to give up such a plan. Even if it cannot succeed, he will cause trouble to the Lee Group and let their airline be established as late as possible. This way you will have more time to deal with the matter.
Henry Keswick also did not want the Lee Group to obtain the permission to form an airline so easily, so that they could spend more energy on this, lest the Lee Group come up with their own ideas and support Wooden Swire. opinions.
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