Chapter five hundred and forty-ninth parties calculation
Early the next morning, major newspapers in Hong Kong carried a large number of reports on HSBC and Slag's investment in Jardine Matheson Holdings Group.
At the same time, some newspapers, including Xiangyu Daily, reported to the outside world that Hengyu Supermarket and Watsons would offer a 40% discount on the entire store starting today in order to repay the support of Xiangjiang citizens to the Lee Group and several major Chinese groups.
When countless Xiangjiang citizens saw this news, they all felt that the Li Group was determined to attack Wellcome this time and would not give up until Wellcome was squeezed out of the Xiangjiang market.
At the same time, they are very happy. In the past few months, their living costs have dropped a lot. This time the price has been reduced once again, and they can save a lot of money. They hope that Wellcome can return to what it was three months ago.
That way, if they continue to follow up, they can enjoy the discount for a long time.
At Henry Keswick's home, he also saw reports about the 40% off sales at Hengyu Supermarket and Watsons. As the propaganda outlet of the Xiangjiang Li Group, he naturally ordered the Xiangyu Daily to facilitate his understanding of the Li Group.
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Although Henry Keswick knew about the entry of HSBC and Standard Chartered, the Lee Consortium would definitely fight back, but it was not likely to come so quickly and so ruthlessly. Now the Lee Consortium is typically using its own initiative to hurt others.
He knew very well that it was time for him to make a choice again. He could either choose to follow up and continue to waste money with Li Guangyu, but this would require him to be prepared for huge losses. Or he could prepare to liquidate Wellcome Supermarket.
, prepare to go out of business.
Henry Keswick was obviously unwilling to let Wellcome Supermarket go out of business. In order to keep Wellcome Supermarket, he spent a lot of energy to bring in HSBC and Standard Chartered. Not even two days later, Wellcome Supermarket
If he just graduates, why bother putting in the effort? All his previous efforts will be in vain.
Henry Keswick picked up the phone at home and immediately contacted Shen Bi and George Lavin. He needed to discuss with these two people. Faced with the Lee Consortium's self-inflicted approach, he could not make the decision on his own.
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Shen Bi himself also saw the report about the 40% off sales of Hengyu Supermarket and Watsons, and he felt very headache. He knew that the Li Group had many groups, and they could not care about this loss, but the Jardine Group could not.
Originally, Jardine Matheson Group's finances are relatively tight now. At this time, it has to spend tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars every month to subsidize Wellcome Supermarket. This is really difficult.
At the same time, Shen Bi also felt a deep chill at Li Guangyu's extreme actions. In order to overthrow Huikang, the Li Consortium now doesn't care about the cost at all.
This is rarely seen among other group competitors, especially those listed companies. They must be responsible to their shareholders. Such decisions will cause the company's market value to plummet.
He didn't know why Hutchison Whampoa agreed to such a decision. At this time, Shen Bi didn't want to find out the reason. He knew that several major Chinese families were planning to play with Li Guangyu, and he didn't care about the loss.
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As for the plunge in the stock market, Li Guangyu's privatization of the listed companies is no longer one or two, and he certainly doesn't care about delisting Hutchison Whampoa Group.
Facing such a consortium that didn't care about the group, Shen Bi felt very headache. Especially the vast majority of groups like the Li Consortium were owned by Li Guangyu alone, and Li Guangyu had the final say in everything.
For example, regarding the discount this time, if there were more shareholders, how could it have been implemented in such a short time? HSBC and Standard Chartered only entered the market yesterday, and today they have discounts.
Shen Bi was also speechless towards Li Ka-shing and Lee Shau Kee. They are both top families in Hong Kong, so why bother following Li Guangyu? With these top families united together, it is really difficult for these top families to develop and grow in Hong Kong. .
Shen Bi now very much hopes that the Chinese-owned family can fight among themselves, so that they will be much less stressed.
It's a pity that he is very disappointed at the moment. Originally, Shen Bi laid a trap for the Xiangjiang family on Cathay Pacific Airways, hoping that Cao Guangbiao and several other families from Ningbo could compete with the Li family consortium.
As a result, Cao Guangbiao did not disappoint him. On the Cathay Pacific side, he not only brought in Bao Yugang and Dong Haoyun, both from Ningbo, but also Huo Yingdong, Hu Yingxiang and others.
Shen Bi originally thought that he and others would watch the show, but he didn't expect that the Li Group's actions were very violent and directly disabled Cathay Pacific. Moreover, the Li Group was very restrained and did not take any action against this person. The other industries of several major families made Shen Bi's idea come to nothing.
However, he was gratified that after this incident, Bao Yugang did not join the interest groups of the Li Group, which indirectly reduced the power of the Li Group and at the same time made the Li Group There is also a gap in the hearts of the consortium and those big families.
Shen Bi is now considering some of the bargaining chips in his bank's hands to see if there is anything that Li's consortium wants to get involved in and that other families are willing to take over.
He wants to find some people from the Xiangjiang Chinese family to stand on the other side of the Li Group and distract the attention of the Li Group.
If there are more such families, HSBC will be safer, and once there is a gap between these families and the Li Group, their business will be transferred to their side.
Shen Bi is plotting against the Li Group here. What he doesn’t know is that the Li Group is also plotting against HSBC, but it’s just a long time ago. Once the Li Group’s plan is completed, Shen Bi will probably be very angry. Vomiting blood.
Li Guangyu has already had plans for Standard Chartered and HSBC, and the focus is on the devaluation of the Hong Kong dollar. The current exchange rate between the Hong Kong dollar and the US dollar is 52:1. By September next year, the exchange rate will be at the same level in just over two months. Surges to 98:1 and then back to a fixed rate of 78:1.
Li Guangyu will severely defraud HSBC and Standard Chartered in this case. Although most of the losses here are depositors' money, Li Guangyu will make these two major banks unable to make much money this time.
Moreover, Li Guangyu did not target these two major banks in the end. He knew that it would be impossible to squeeze these two major banks out of the Hong Kong market. Li Guangyu wanted to attack Hengfeng Bank, a subsidiary of HSBC, which is a Chinese-funded bank. The name of the bank is actually HSBC Holdings, and Li Guangyu set his target on them this time.
After receiving a call from Henry Keswick, Shen Bi told him that he needed to discuss with the bank directors before he could decide on HSBC's attitude towards Wellcome Supermarket.
George Lavin from Standard Chartered Bank responded quite simply this time, telling Henry Keswick not to worry, Standard Chartered Bank supports all his decisions.
Henry Keswick was very surprised to receive such a reply, but it made him happy and it would save him a lot of trouble.
In fact, what Henry Keswick didn't know was that something had happened at the headquarters of Standard Chartered Bank this time. Qiu Deba from the Singapore consortium had acquired part of the shares of Standard Chartered Bank and became a shareholder of Standard Chartered Bank. This time he
He put a lot of effort into it and talked up the threat of the Li Group.
Tianyu Bank, a subsidiary of the Lee Consortium, put a lot of pressure on them in Malaysia. They hoped that the Jardine Matheson Group would hold back the Lee Consortium in Hong Kong so that the Lee Consortium could not fully expand outside.