Eight hundred and fifty first chapter center of gravity shift
This time Li Guangyu began to inspect several Western European countries and invested such a huge sum of money in England, which also marked the official shift of the development focus of the Li Group to the Western European market. The Li Group has changed from focusing on Greater China and Southeast Asia.
market, thinking about entering the European and American markets in a big way.
The Lee Group has also moved from a regional consortium to the world, competing with European and American consortiums in various markets.
Even though Li Guangyu had always hoped that the Lee Consortium could compete with the world's top consortiums as early as the 1990s, the development of Li's industry and the changes in the world situation obviously would not change according to his will.
For example, this time, he can only enter the Western European market in advance. This is a good opportunity for him. He is not willing to miss this time. If the British government had not intended to carry out privatization reforms, how would he have the opportunity to take over British Telecom?
The group won.
Although British Telecom Group will now be supervised by the British government, this will not affect his management of the group, let alone his gains.
As the business scope of the Li Group becomes wider and wider, there will be more and more competition between the Li Group and European and American groups. Li Guangyu obviously will not let his group stick to the Asian region and be in a passive defense.
Although there is still a big gap between the Lee Consortium and some consortiums in Japan, the United States and Western Europe, the industries under the Lee Consortium are basically not listed on the market. It is impossible for the wolves of Wall Street to swallow up the Lee Consortium all at once.
The most important thing is that the companies under the Li's Consortium rarely borrow money to operate, there is not much pressure on funds, and the ability to withstand risks is extremely strong. Even if it faces other consortiums, the Li's Consortium is still able to fight.
As long as they survive these few years, after 1987 and 1989, the Li Group will no longer worry about funds. By then, the mainland market was already good, and Li Guangyu would have enough confidence to compete with those groups.
The Li Consortium currently has such good development opportunities, and Li Guangyu has to thank the Japanese and American consortiums. It was they who held back each other, allowing Li Guangyu to expand markets in Southeast Asia.
Without the U.S. consortium, the Southeast Asian market would only become the exclusive preserve of several major Japanese consortiums. Instead of Japan competing exclusively with the U.S. consortium in the North American market, this market would also be occupied by U.S. consortiums, and the development of the Lee Consortium would be even more difficult.
Several countries in Western Europe are currently experiencing economic weakness. Some Western European consortiums are now recuperating and preparing to take a share of the government's economic reforms. At this time, they do not have much energy to compete with the Li Consortium.
In addition, the Li Group's current main strength is in England, and the financial groups in Western Europe do not have many interest disputes with the Li Group. There is not much pressure on the Li Group yet.
Moreover, Li Guangyu has made more friends with large Western European powers. The main competitor of the Lee Consortium in the future is mainly the American consortium. As long as Li Guangyu is determined to enter the high-tech field, he cannot avoid competition with the American consortium.
Regardless of the future chip industry, mobile phone industry, Internet industry, and communications industry, they will compete with American consortiums.
The Lee Consortium alone is obviously unable to engage in a business war with the American consortium. Li Guangyu not only needs to ally with the Southeast Asian consortium and the Japanese consortium, but also needs some allies in Western Europe to ensure that the products of the Lee Consortium can be successfully sold in these markets.
With restrictions and such a vast market, there is no need to worry about the US consortium manipulating Congress to specifically target the Lee Consortium.
At present, the Lee Group has two main competitors in Western Europe, one is France's Carrefour Group, and the other is West Germany's Volkswagen Group.
Carrefour Group was established by the Fournier family and the De Foret family. Nowadays, the two families have a good influence in France. Although after the group was listed, the two families did not occupy a lot of shares in the Carrefour Group. Carrefour is still owned by these two families.
Call the shots.
The Volkswagen Group is currently held by the West German federal government and state governments with 20% of the shares each, and it is stipulated that other individuals shall not hold more than 5% of the shares of the Volkswagen Group, so the Volkswagen Group is firmly controlled by the government.
Among the automobile groups in Western Europe, the Bentley Group's biggest competition is the Volkswagen Group. Especially in the mainland market, the competition between the two is currently quite fierce.
And as time goes by, the Lee Group, Logia and Ericsson Group will also become competitors. Whether it is the mobile phone industry or the communications industry, it is impossible for several companies to give in for the sake of the market.
As the Li's consortium's industries continue to increase, there will be more competitors in the future. Facing the complex world situation, Li Guangyu can only rely on a superficial understanding of his previous life to try to avoid major losses to his consortium.
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Putting aside the dangerous situation that the Li Group will face in the future, the problems in Xiangjiang are giving Li Guangyu a headache.
Li Guangyu had just had breakfast with his family in the morning, and Gan Qin reported to him what happened in Xiangjiang.
Li Guangyu knew that HSBC and Standard Chartered would definitely not want to sit back and wait for death, but he did not expect that they would make a big fuss about the Tianyu Bank issue this time.
The focus of this attack is that Tianyu Bank is not a listed company and is not transparent enough to the outside world. Allowing Tianyu Bank to have the right to issue Hong Kong currency notes is irresponsible to Hong Kong Finance and the more than five million citizens of Hong Kong.
As the flagship of the Li Group, Tianyu Financial Group, Li Guangyu never thought of listing the group.
Public opinion is now very unfavorable for Tianyu Bank to obtain the right to issue Hong Kong dollar notes. Since Tianyu Financial Group is controlled by Li Guangyu personally, it is not subject to the strict supervision of government departments like listed companies. In addition, HSBC and Standard Chartered have added fuel to the fire, making this problem impossible.
If it is enlarged, it is likely that Tianyu Bank will not be able to obtain the right to issue Hong Kong dollar notes.
Li Guangyu will not change his mind because of the issue of the right to issue Hong Kong dollar notes. Tianyu Bank, as the center of the Li Group, has a strategic position for the Li Group. Li Guangyu will never list Tianyu Financial Group.
Li Guangyu said to Gan Qin, "Inform Li Xuemei that she will be solely responsible for the affairs in Xiangjiang. If Tianyu Bank fails, it will be replaced by Xiangjiang Bank. Xiangjiang Bank can be listed."
At the beginning, Li Guangyu also intended to support the Bank of Hong Kong to win the right to issue Hong Kong currency notes. The Bank of Hong Kong has a greater advantage. This bank has many shareholders. Once the Hong Kong issue is settled, the bank will be listed, so there is no need to worry about these public opinions.
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The senior management of Li's consortium hopes that Tianyu Bank will be better off in acquiring this interest. Although the biggest beneficiary of Xiangjiang Bank is Li Guangyu, compared with Tianyu Bank's full ownership, Li Guangyu's shares in Xiangjiang Bank are too small.
Yes, this is not in the interests of the Li Group.
You must know that this time for the right to issue Hong Kong dollar notes, the Li Group has paid a huge effort and price. Now it is the Xiangjiang Group that enjoys the results. The top management of the Li Group is not happy at least.
It's just that public opinion is now extremely unfavorable to Tianyu Bank. The citizens of Xiangjiang are not reassured that a bank that is not listed on the stock market has obtained such rights and interests. As a last resort, the Li Group can only let the Bank of Xiangjiang take over.
this right.
After all, Li Guangyu is also the biggest benefit recipient. Tianyu Bank does not want to go public, so it can only take this approach.