On the morning of April 1, Li Guangyu, accompanied by Gan Qin and Zhang Ziyu, visited the Bentley Building, which is under construction.
This building will serve as the Western European headquarters of the Lee Group in the future. Not only the Bentley Group will work here, but also the Western European headquarters of Xingyuan Group and its major groups will work in this building.
Therefore, this building not only occupies a large area, but also has 56 floors, three underground floors, and 53 floors above. The total height of the building above ground reaches 201 meters, and the planned investment is one billion US dollars.
Once the Bentley Building is completed, it will be the tallest building in London. It will also be another group building costing more than one billion US dollars by the Lee Group after the Wheelock Building.
Although the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Tower is the world's first single building with an investment of more than one billion US dollars, making the following buildings second only, the Bentley Building is still the first in London.
As for Xiangjiang, it started with HSBC, followed by many others, such as the Wheelock Building, the Hong Leong Building of the Singapore Consortium, and many groups behind it are ready to move.
Zhang Ziyu said: "Li Sheng, the construction speed here is far from comparable to that of Xiangjiang, let alone the mainland. I'm afraid it will be 90 years before our building is put into use."
Li Guangyu didn't have a good solution for this. Workers in Xiangjiang could work overtime for twelve hours and not take any vacation for a month.
Wanting such workers here is tantamount to wishful thinking. This is why Li Guangyu doesn't like to put production plants here. The workers that reassure him most are those from Greater China. Other regions really can't give him much.
sense of trust.
Even if labor costs in mainland China rise in the future, Li Guangyu will move his industry to the west of mainland China. He does not want his industry to go on strike or cause trouble that day.
Li Guangyu said: "There is no rush here. It will be a little later. Your current office area will be temporary. The British economy is starting to gain momentum. You can see if there are any suitable buildings for sale. If there are, buy them.
Come on, you won’t lose money on this aspect anyway. I will inject another billion US dollars into your group this time, which is enough for you to acquire an office building."
Li Guangyu brought more than 20 billion US dollars this time to prepare for bargain hunting, but there were some problems in France, and the funds in his hands were not used. Since the construction speed of the Bentley Building here was slower than expected, he should use it to make some money.
Money to buy a building does not put much pressure on Li Guangyu now.
Zhang Ziyu was very happy when she heard that Li Guangyu injected another 10 US dollars into Bentley, which made Bentley even more financially wealthy.
In just over six years since Bentley was established, Li Guangyu has invested more than US$5 billion.
Coupled with their rapid development in recent years, even if the Bentley Group has not been listed, major institutions have valued them at more than 10 billion US dollars.
Currently, the only companies that cannot compare with them are Xiangjiang Air Transport Group and Hengyu Supermarket Group. Xiangjiang Air Transport Group is more ruthless than them.
In just over four years since its establishment, that group has received an investment of nearly 10 billion U.S. dollars from Li Guangyu, turning it into the world's top air transport group.
Hengyu Supermarket Group's profitability is too strong. Last year's turnover officially exceeded the 9 billion U.S. dollar mark, which was 1.2 billion U.S. dollars more than Wal-Mart's announced revenue and 2 billion U.S. dollars more than Carrefour.
The world's retail groups currently ahead of them are Kmart and Sias in the United States. Kmart has a revenue of 28 billion U.S. dollars, and Sias's turnover has exceeded 21 billion U.S. dollars.
Zhang Ziyu knows very well that the profit of his Bentley Group cannot be compared with that of Hengyu Supermarket Group. The development of this group is too terrifying, and Hengyu Supermarket Group has an advantage over Carrefour and Wal-Mart in all their supermarkets and convenience stores.
It's all self-owned.
In terms of profit, it will be far behind these two supermarket groups. And as time goes by, Hengyu Supermarket Group will definitely be able to leave these two groups far behind in terms of turnover and catch up with the two top retail companies in the United States.
group.
Zhang Ziyu herself has no intention of competing for the first group under the Li Group. Her biggest wish is to keep the Bentley Group in the top five under the Li Group.
Although the Bentley Group is already very strong and has a very good market value, it is mainly due to Li Guangyu's continuous capital injection that it has achieved such results.
If Bentley does not work hard on its own development, Bentley's status in the Lee Group will continue to decline as time goes by.
For example, the current Xiangjiang Communications Group, Phoenix Group, Oriental Semiconductor Group, Nanhua Group, and several real estate groups all have very good future development prospects.
As for the Xingyuan Group, Zhang Ziyu automatically filtered out the cheaters. This was not a normal development group at all, and Zhang Ziyu was too lazy to compete with it.
They have worked hard for many years, but it is not as good as the piece of land Li Guangyu gave to Xingyuan Group. With this piece of land, Xingyuan Group's market value easily exceeded 10 billion, if Li Guangyu hadn't allocated funds from the sale of two major iron ore shares.
, no other group can compare with them.
Even so, the market value of Xingyuan Group still occupies the third place among Li's companies. Some institutions have valued their market value at 13 billion US dollars, which is only lower than Hengyu Supermarket Group and Xiangjiang Air Transport Group. Even Bentley cannot do anything about them.
Compared with that.
Zhang Ziyu said excitedly: "Li Sheng, I will study the London market carefully and try to choose a building with potential. Even if our office is moved to Bentley Building in the future, this building will still be able to earn good profits."
Zhang Ziyu, who grew up in Xiangjiang, is naturally aware of the prospects of the real estate industry. It is a pity that the Bentley Group she leads is a pure automobile group and cannot develop these side businesses. Otherwise, she would really want to set up a real estate company.
She knew that if she did not focus on the development of the automobile industry, her position as president of the Bentley Group would not be secure, so knowing that the real estate industry was very profitable, she had no choice but to give up.
Li Guangyu doesn't know Zhang Ziyu's thoughts. In his plan, the Bentley Group is an automobile group, and there will be no companies unrelated to automobile research and manufacturing. In the future, the Bentley Group will compete with Toyota, Volkswagen, General Motors and other automobile groups for the dominance of the world's automobile groups.
, he doesn’t want the Bentley Group’s development path to go astray.
In the future, mainland China's cars will mainly be marketed in Japan, the United States, and Germany. As for South Korea, Italy, and France, the top three countries are not on the same level.
Li Guangyu hopes that this situation can be broken by then, and that Bentley Group Motors can suppress these groups in the mainland market.
Li Guangyu stayed at the Bentley Building construction site for nearly an hour before returning to the Regal Hotel.
This afternoon, Li Guangyu will visit Thatcher and communicate with her about some group matters. Li Guangyu is only going to discuss the big acquisition policy with Thatcher. As for the specific details, it will naturally be discussed in detail by the following personnel, involving large companies.
An acquisition with a group cannot be negotiated in a day or two.
The last acquisitions of Xingyuan Group and British Telecom were discussed for nearly half a year, and it is estimated that this time it will not be much different.
This time Li Guangyu plans to take over the British Electricity, Water and Natural Gas Company. As for the steel company, it doesn't matter whether he can take the best or not.