In the evening, Li Guangyu, accompanied by his bodyguards, arrived at the Ito family's mansion.
The cooperation between the Lee Group and the Ito family has been very good in recent years. In the Japanese supermarket retail market, the two parties have negotiated the layout of stores to avoid major competition. The Ito family is also the agent of 7-11 in Japan. The current development is very good and the profit is
Keep improving.
Masatoshi Ito, the current patriarch of the Ito family and the helmsman of Ito-Yokado, personally welcomed Li Guangyu's arrival outside the mansion.
After so many years of cooperation, this was the first time that Li Guangyu came to visit the Ito family. Seeing Masatoshi Ito waiting outside, Li Guangyu said: "Mr. Ito, I am very honored to accept your invitation."
"Mr. Li, your arrival has made our Ito family shine. Please come inside."
Tonight, the Ito family prepared Japanese banquet dishes. Although Li Guangyu didn't like them too much, he still praised the deliciousness of these dishes.
Masatoshi Ito invited Li Guangyu to his home today, hoping to strengthen the relationship between the two parties. The current Li Group is the one they need to look up to.
And with the speed of development of Li's Consortium, he believed that it wouldn't be long before the Li's Consortium would have the strength to compete with several major consortiums in the country.
Although the Ito family's cooperation with the Li Group is good, it is still far behind the Fujiwara family.
Before cooperating with Li Guangyu, the strength of the Fujiwara family was far lower than that of the Ito family. In just a few years, they were on equal footing with them. The Li family group played a very big role in this.
Although the Ito family also has members working in the Li Group, they are far behind those of Fujiwara Keiin.
Besides, Ito Xiangyue (Zhou Xiangyue) is just a sideline. Although her husband is the president of the Li Group, Zhou Zhigang has not much contact with the Ito family. This leads to the distant cooperation and relationship between the Ito family and the Li Group.
It cannot be compared with the Fujiwara family.
After the dinner, Li Guangyu and Masatoshi Ito had a private meeting.
Masatoshi Ito said: "Mr. Li, our cooperation has been very pleasant over the years. I hope to broaden the scope of our cooperation and promote our common development."
Regarding strengthening cooperation with the Ito family, Li Guangyu is happy to see the results. Currently, the only real allies in Japan are the Fujiwara family and the Ito family. Although the Sumitomo family has a good relationship with the Li family, the Li family is still with them.
Fight against the American consortium. Once the threat of the American consortium disappears, Japan's major consortium will not give up suppressing the Lee Consortium.
Now that we are strengthening our cooperation with the two first-class families, the Fujiwara family and the Ito family, we may have unexpected gains when we have conflicts with Japan's major conglomerates in the future.
Li Guangyu said: "We have maintained a very good friendship over the years. I personally am very willing to deepen our cooperative relationship and expand our cooperation projects. I wonder what Mr. Ito's plans are?"
Ito Masatoshi had already prepared. The Li Group invested heavily in Japanese real estate and also attracted a group of allies. Obviously seeing the profits in the Japanese real estate market, he naturally wanted to get in and get a share of the pie.
There are three real estate groups under the Li Group, and there are as many as eight real estate groups that are his allies. Ito Masatoshi believes that the real estate industry is definitely an industry worth cooperating with.
The most important thing is that he hopes that this joint venture can enter the mainland, so that his Ito-Yokado supermarket will also enter the mainland.
The Li Group has long told the world's major supermarkets and brand merchants how to cooperate with real estate developers. Every project under the Li Group and its allies has been launched, and brands under the Li Group have settled in. After the development of these projects, there will be no shortage of customers, geographical location
The location is also quite good.
Just like retail, if there is no Hengyu Supermarket nearby, a large supermarket will be opened. If there is, a convenience store will be opened. Cooperation between various groups will make the Li Group extremely competitive in the local area.
Masatoshi Ito said: "Mr. Li, the hottest thing here right now is the stock market and the real estate market, especially driven by Xingyue Group and some of your Xiangjiang groups, our real estate market continues to rise. I hope we can build a new company like the Fujiwara family.
A real estate group mainly engaged in the development of commercial residential properties.”
At present, Starlight Real Estate Group is mainly engaged in commercial residential development, Xingyue Group is engaged in commercial buildings and commercial residential developments, and Wheelock is currently mainly engaged in commercial complex development.
Li Guangyu still admires the Ito family for choosing to enter the Japanese real estate industry at this time. The Japanese real estate market has not yet officially taken off, and now you can still get some benefits.
Anyway, Japan is so big and worried about the addition of such a group, Li Guangyu directly agreed to cooperate in this area.
Li Guangyu said: "Mr. Ito, I don't know how to divide the shares of this group. How much capital should we jointly invest?"
Masatoshi Ito said: "Mr. Li, as far as I know, the Fujiwara family holds 33% of the shares in Xingyue Group, and our Ito family only holds 33% of the shares in this newly established group. I plan to build our group
We have jointly invested US$3 billion and hope that Mr. Li will not favor one over another."
Ito Masatoshi invested so much in this new group this time. Firstly, he wanted to deepen his relationship with Li Guangyu. Secondly, he hoped that the newly established group could narrow the gap with the Xingyue Group. Thirdly, he hoped that Li Guangyu would pay attention to this.
Home Group.
For this reason, he deliberately chose the same 33% share as the Fujiwara family. He knew very well that he had too many shares and Li Guangyu would not pay much attention to the development of this group. It can be seen from the practices of the Li Group over the years that Li Guangyu
If there is no absolute controlling group, he will not take care of it at all.
For example, in Xiangjiang Swire Co., Ltd., the Li Group holds 31% of the shares, but it has been managed by the Shihuai Ya family in recent years. Li Guangyu only sent a director and deputy financial director.
Masatoshi Ito founded this group because he hoped that under the leadership of Li, it would develop rapidly and the market value would continue to rise. His shares would also appreciate rapidly, allowing the Ito family's wealth to grow rapidly.
If the Ito family were to manage the group themselves, it would be meaningless to cooperate with Li Guangyu.
The Ito family does not have the vision and ability of Li Guangyu. Otherwise, the Ito family would have been upgraded to a consortium long ago, and it would not be like this.
Li Guangyu did not expect that Masatoshi Ito could make such a big concession and at the same time make such a heavy bet, jointly investing three billion U.S. dollars. This meant that the Ito family would have to invest nearly one billion U.S. dollars, which was not achievable for any family.
A small number.
It seems that the Ito family is preparing to make a big gamble this time, and the bet is on themselves.
Li Guangyu said: "Mr. Ito, thank you for your trust in me. I will treat the two groups fairly. I believe that your investment this time will definitely get rich returns. I dare not promise you too much. I believe
In less than five years, the market value of this group will definitely exceed 10 billion US dollars."
You must know that when the Japanese property market was at its peak, prices were three times what they are now. With these three billion US dollars entering the market, plus loans from banks, it will not be too difficult to earn tens of billions in profits by then.