In the following days, Li Yuhang made some slight adjustments to the personnel of several companies, and Zhang Guangming became the general manager and legal representative of Guocheng Silk Company.
Huang Shoucheng serves as the general manager and legal representative of Jianan Agricultural Products Company. He only serves as the executive director and general manager of Jianan Supermarket Retail Co., Ltd., as well as the legal representative of the company.
At the same time, he also established an investment company in Guocheng called Hangyu Investment Company, and his shares in several companies were held by this company.
At the same time, in terms of school, Li Yuhang specially established an education company called Singhang Education Co., Ltd., which is jointly held by Hangyu Investment Company and Starair Real Estate. Hangyu Company holds 55% of the shares and Starair Real Estate holds 45% of the shares.
At present, the company owns Xinghang Primary School and Xinghang Kindergarten, as well as Chengze Primary School, Chengze Kindergarten and Xinhang Middle School under construction. When the time is right in the future, the company will also establish secondary vocational schools, higher vocational schools and undergraduate universities to provide itself with
Affiliated companies cultivate talents.
Li Yuhang, who is busy, does not know that the rapid expansion of his supermarket has not only attracted the attention of domestic retail giants, but also several major foreign supermarket giants have also set their sights on Jianan Supermarket.
In particular, Carrefour and Wal-Mart, two major retail giants preparing to enter the mainland market, are very interested in Jianan Supermarket.
Instead of entering into a joint venture with some companies to establish a mainland branch of Wal-Mart or Carrefour and starting from scratch, it is better to cooperate directly with Jianan Supermarket, buy a stake in Jianan Supermarket, and let all Jianan Supermarkets use their own company brands, so as to quickly open up the mainland market.
Purpose.
The day after Li Yuhang brought his grandparents to the city, he received an unexpected guest.
The reason why he thought it was because this person was neither from Wal-Mart nor Carrefour, but Watsons, a well-known retail company in Hong Kong, and behind him was Hutchison Whampoa, which was controlled by a world-famous Chinese boss.
Still have the same surname as him.
Both Watsons and its PARKnSHOP supermarket entered the inland market ten years ago, but they did not expand much. Currently, there are only a few stores.
There are many reasons for this, and the most important reason is that the other party's focus is not on this, but Cheung Kong Industries is the focus of the other party's attention.
In the office, Li Yuhang said to Wang Wuwen, the deputy general manager of Watsons who came from afar: "Mr. Wang, the place is simple, please bear with me. This is the famous Fengming Maofeng tea in our province. Mr. Wang can try it."
Do as the Romans do. There are some differences between mainland China and Xiangjiang in some terms. Wang Wuwen knew that Li Yuhang grew up in this small southwestern town. He didn't know about some of the conditions in Xiangjiang and would not say anything.
Over in Xiangjiang, the general manager can have his surname followed by "general manager" and "deputy general manager", and then he must become the deputy general manager.
This has also caused many businessmen in Xiangjiang to suffer a bit when they come to the mainland, especially when it comes to addressing government officials. When they see a deputy, they call them deputy. However, in mainland China, they usually ignore the word deputy when addressing them.
Wang Wuwen's Mandarin is really good. It's no wonder that he came here this time. After all, before coming to visit Li Yuhang, the other party must have learned about Li Yuhang's situation in detail, and Li Yuhang didn't know Cantonese.
"Mr. Li, I came to visit you specially today, mainly because I want to get to know the elites in the retail industry. Mr. Li's legendary manager even praised Li Sheng, the chairman of the board of directors of our group, and even asked me to invite you on his behalf to come when you have time.
When I was in Xiangjiang, I went to his home as a guest."
Li Yuhang didn't know whether what this person said was true or not. Compared with his current assets and the Chinese business leader who was about to become a stable leader, the difference was like an ant and an elephant.
This year's Forbes list of richest people in the world is second only to another Hong Kong tycoon named Li, with assets of nearly US$10 billion.
"I am really surprised to receive Mr. Li's attention. I also ask Mr. Wang to tell Mr. Li that I will definitely pay him a visit at his home next time I go to Xiangjiang."
After some polite greetings, Wang Wuwen finally began to tell the purpose of his visit. This time he came here very simply, he just wanted to cooperate with Jianan Supermarket. Watsons intends to invest 100 million yuan in Jianan Supermarket, occupying 35% of Jianan Supermarket.
shares.
Li Yuhang was not moved at all when he heard such a low price. Just kidding, the other party couldn't have calculated it based on the investment capital of Xinyu Investment Company. That guy was just using his left hand and his right hand.
Not counting the stores under renovation, there are only 20 stores at present. Jianan Supermarket has a monthly turnover of more than 76 million yuan and a gross profit of more than 32 million yuan. Even after excluding various expenses and taxes, the monthly net profit
There are nearly 20 million.
Watsons actually wanted to acquire 30% of the company's shares for only 100 million yuan. Li Yuhang could only say that he thought too much.
Li Yuhang responded calmly: "Thank you Watsons for thinking so highly of my supermarket, but at present our Jianan Supermarket has sufficient funds and relatively stable development, and has no plans to raise funds."
When Wang Wuwen paid this price, he never thought that the negotiation would be successful. He just tested whether Xinyu Investment Company had anything to do with Li Yuhang.
It is now obvious that the founder is not an idiot. He sold Jianan Company at a low price. This was clearly because the other party transferred the shares. In fact, the shares of the company belonged to Li Yuhang.
Wang Wuwen smiled and said: "Mr. Li, we can continue to talk about price. I believe that our cooperation will help promote the better and faster development of Jianan Supermarket."
It's a pity that Li Yuhang has no intention of letting outside capital enter Jianan Supermarket. Not to mention Watsons' investment of 100 million, even if it is 1 billion, he will not sell the shares of Jianan Supermarket.
This supermarket is now his cow, a perpetual motion machine that continuously provides nutrients to other industries.
With other capital coming in, some operations are no longer as convenient as they are now, especially since the other party actually holds 35% of the shares, which means that he does not have two-thirds of the voting rights, and some plans may be restricted.
"Personally, I am very willing to cooperate with a large enterprise like Watsons. However, our company currently does not have any need in this regard in the near future. I will definitely contact Mr. Wang as soon as possible the next time the company seeks external financing."
Wang Wuwen knew that his company seemed to have no chance to invest in Jianan Supermarket. The other party was now a problem, and Watsons' sales might be suppressed by Jianan Supermarket in a few years.
Compared with their company's conservative management, Jianan Supermarket has expanded too fast, and it is basically a mass store with an area of about 2,000 square meters.
It's not like they play in large stores. This also makes Jianan Supermarket's investment relatively small, but its business is not low. Its fresh agricultural products and home appliance after-sales have attracted the attention of many retail companies, and some companies are learning from it.
Jianan Supermarket’s approach is to include fresh agricultural products in the market.
Because Jianan Supermarket delivers home appliances in packages, it has also completely changed people's shopping habits. When buying large items, they no longer need to worry about transporting them home and installing them. The store will take care of this for them.
This has driven an industry, that is, the delivery and courier industry, adding more jobs to society.