Chapter 945 Crazy British and Asian Investment Company
At Merrill Lynch's London headquarters in Western Europe, Dampier Worthy, president of Merrill Lynch's Western Europe affairs, has been quite troubled these days.
This time, their California consortium is preparing to acquire British National Steel Company and British European Airlines to expand their industries in Europe.
Unexpectedly, this acquisition actually encountered a strong opponent. Personnel from a company called Yingya Investment Company were also in contact with this group to discuss the acquisition.
Merrill Lynch's Western European headquarters has been in London for many years, and it can be considered a local leader here. The reason why they acquired these two companies is because they are large and there are no consortiums or forces ready to acquire them yet.
Although the Li consortium is coming with force, according to the information he has received, Li Guangyu's main targets this time are natural gas, tap water and electric power companies, and has no intention of purchasing steel companies and British European Airlines.
He had never heard of this Yingya Investment Company before. How could a company that suddenly appeared have such strong power to acquire this company?
In order to know himself and the enemy, he specially arranged for company personnel to understand the company in detail, so that he could better deal with the next thing.
Dampier Worthy, who was worrying about this matter, heard the knock on the door. When he came to his senses, he said: "Please come in."
Lisa McGuire, general manager of the administrative department of Western Europe Merrill Lynch, walked in and said: "Worsey, there has been some progress in the investigation of Yingya Investment Company. This company is very crazy. It is not only targeting people we like.
The two companies are making acquisitions, as well as British Petroleum, Rolls-Royce, British Aerospace, water, natural gas and electricity companies are their targets."
Dampier Worthy listened to Lisa McGuire's report and felt that this investment company was a lunatic. Where did they get so much capital? Even if their California consortium Jia Da Ye Da spent so much money at one time to acquire
, is also a very difficult thing.
Although their consortium has strong assets, those are just assets. It is very difficult for them to spend hundreds of billions of dollars at once.
This little-known company actually wants to swallow up several major British companies this time. He has such a big appetite that even Morgan and Rockefeller don't have such courage.
He asked: "Which force is behind this company? Have they investigated clearly? Such an acquisition plan cannot be accomplished by ordinary forces, not even the California consortium backed by Merrill Lynch."
Lisa McGuire responded: "The president of this investment company is an Englishman. Through our investigation, we found that he once worked for the Duke of Westminster and was a talent that he relied on very much. This company must be very similar to the British."
Nobles are inextricably linked."
Worthy knew the Duke very well. Merrill Lynch had cooperated with him in the past, but based on his understanding of the Duke of Westminster, he was not such a crazy person, and their financial resources were not enough to eat them all in one bite.
These are the groups.
There must be other forces involved here. Before contacting us, there were rumors that the Li Group was discussing cooperation with some British nobles. Could there be Li Guangyu involved?
As for Li Guangyu, the rather young founder and leader of the consortium, he really didn't know if Li Guangyu would do anything crazy.
He asked Maigui: "Has the Li Group done anything in the past few days? What are Li Guangyu and the senior officials he brought doing?"
"Since we started acquiring British industries, the Li Group has kept a very low profile and stopped contacting various companies. The day before yesterday, Li Guangyu even sent his own special plane to send some senior executives back to Hong Kong. Currently, he is the only one with him.
Assistant and person in charge of the British side.
I have also been visiting his industries in the past few days. I guess after knowing about our intervention, he knew how to advance and retreat and chose to give up strategically."
Dampier Worthy didn't believe that Li Guangyu gave up the acquisition of British industries so easily. There must be evil when things go wrong. Li Guangyu's low profile this time was simply not in line with his usual approach.
The development of the Li Group in recent years has posed some threats to major financial groups in the United States. Tianyu Financial Group is still a mystery to the outside world. No one knows how many assets this group controls, nor does Li Guangyu know.
How much liquidity do you have.
Last year, there was news from Wall Street that before the Plaza Accord, a huge amount of funds entered the market. A large part of them did not know the source. However, there were some small stocks that allowed them to find clues. Heung Kong Bank of East Asia, which is one of the affiliates of the Heung Kong Consortium.
's bank.
The Lee Group is also one of the Hong Kong Groups, but it is listed separately because it is too large, just like First Citigroup and Rockefeller.
Since the Xiangjiang Consortium has entered the market, how could the Li Group not participate? That huge amount of funds probably belongs to the Li Group and the Xiangjiang Group.
During this period of time, Li's consortium has not invested heavily. Li Guangyu must have a large amount of funds in his hands. Now that their American consortium has intervened, Li Guangyu is retreating like this. He does not believe it.
Li Guangyu has never been afraid of their American consortium. When he was not too strong, the Texas consortium wanted to make him a member of the Texas consortium. Li Guangyu refused without hesitation, which shows Li Guangyu's ambition.
In the past two years, in the US market, the US auto industry and Motorola have been suppressed without leaving any room. Now Motorola is regretting provoking this madman.
In the U.S. mobile phone market, it is really small profits but quick turnover. In the past, a mobile phone could earn more than a thousand US dollars, but now it is good to earn a hundred US dollars.
Lanfeng Mobile Phone Company, a joint venture in California between Phoenix Mobile and the eldest lady of Foremost Group, quickly occupied the market in the western states and New York with its low price. The price is only 1,288 US dollars, which is a full 1,600 US dollars lower than Motorola's price.
With the Phoenix Group backing behind to endorse the quality of Lanfeng mobile phones, American citizens are very enthusiastic about purchasing Lanfeng mobile phones.
Now the general manager actually said that Li Guangyu knew how to advance and retreat. This was simply a fantasy. He was sure that the Li Group was involved in Yingya Investment Company this time.
It can be seen from the name of the company that the British aristocracy is obviously cooperating with Asian forces, so it is named after Yingya.
But he still doesn't know if there are other forces besides Li's consortium. If it's just Li's consortium, it probably won't be so crazy. Li's consortium can't come up with so much cash.
He said to Lisa Maguio: "You ask someone to check for me to see if this company has anything to do with the Li Group, and conduct a detailed investigation into the situation of the Li Group these days. At the same time, please ask Xiangjiang,
With the assistance from Tokyo and the headquarters, we need to know what kind of gods are behind this company."
Listening to Dampier Worthy's explanation, she knew that her boss was suspecting that this company was related to the Li Group.
Although she was absolutely certain that the Li Group would not have done such a crazy thing. After all, this time they were the top four consortiums in the United States. By doing this, Yingya Investment Company was starting a war with several of their major consortiums at the same time. The Li Group
How can the consortium have such confidence?
However, she still responded that she would immediately arrange for personnel to investigate. After all, Worthy had already confessed, and it was not easy for her to contradict him.