Time flies, and it’s October this year in a blink of an eye!
In October, one thing is very important for black and white images.
As the first satellite company for black-and-white imaging, Hsu Pictures' movie "The Ghostly Star" will be released this month.
Located in the main building of the Tseung Kwan O studio, in the review room, Chu Huan watched the sample film of "Double Star", and Fang Jianhui sat next to Chu Huan with a smile on his face.
"Brother Huan, what do you think of this movie?"
Fang Jianhui and others have already watched the sample film and agreed that it is a very good movie and may become the company's hit movie this year, so they designated it as the company's most important movie this year.
Chu Huan came to inspect the Tseung Kwan O studio today and happened to watch the movie in advance!
Can a movie that has become the box office champion in Hong Kong be any worse?
Chu Huan said with a calm smile: "It's pretty good, it's fun, it should be a big seller!"
With Chu Huan's attitude, Fang Jianhui felt confident and said proudly: "The company has regarded this movie as the most important movie of this quarter and has given it a top-notch publicity strategy. It is scheduled to be released this month."
Released on the 13th!”
Chu Huan nodded indifferently and said, "You can just agree on these things among yourselves!"
Chu Huan no longer cares much about the specific operation of black and white imaging. What Chu Huan is most concerned about now is when the company can win Jiahe!
Jiahe's position in Xiangjiang is becoming more and more embarrassing. In another time and space, the reason why Jiahe was able to succeed was because after discovering Li Xiaolong, it discovered Xu Guanwen in time.
In addition, at that time, no company in Xiangjiang except Shaw Brothers could have an influence on him, but it is different now.
Li Xiaolong has completely placed his main battlefield in Hollywood, and in Hong Kong they have a powerful opponent, Black and White Video, which has taken away almost all the interests of Golden Harvest in Hong Kong.
In addition, starting from this year, none of the local films in Xiangjiang invested by Jiahe have sold for money. This has made the consortium behind Jiahe not so active in investing in Jiahe.
This caused Jiahe to fall into an endless loop.
Although Jiahe had also learned from black and white images before and launched the New Director Grand Prix, it was a pity that it was not as successful as black and white images, and in the end it only ended up losing money and making a profit.
For this reason, Zou Wenhuai, who was far away in Hollywood, rushed back to Xiangjiang, hoping to stabilize Xiangjiang's basic market!
So in August, it was reported that Golden Harvest was going to invest in a major production in Xiangjiang, and it was scheduled to be released in October this year.
"What's the status of the new movie over at Jiahe?"
Chu Huan sat there and asked Fang Jianhui.
Fang Jianhui said: "Golden Harvest really put a lot of thought into this time. They invited director Long Gang to direct their new movie. They also invited Xie Xian from Tse Brothers Film Company and Deng Guangrong from Taiwan to serve as the male lead.
host."
"Longgang?" Chu Huan frowned slightly when he heard the director's name. It was not because the director was not famous in Hong Kong, but because the director was too famous in Hong Kong at this time.
Just talking about commercial films, in the early 1970s, some people called Hong Kong directors Li Hanxiang, Chang Cheh, Chu Yuan, Luo Wei, Cheng Gang, Long Gang and Liu Jialiang as the "Seven Masters of Swordsmanship in Huashan"!
The reason why Chu Huan frowned was because in April this year, Jiahe was responsible for the distribution of a Longgang movie "Hiroshima Twenty-Eight", and the content of this movie is similar to that of Marvel Comics before Chu Huan was reborn.
The ending of "The Eternals" was the same, with a black man kneeling down in response to the explosion.
When Chu Huan found out about this, he was very nauseated. He directly ordered Fang Jianhui to use the company's best movie at the time to snipe this movie, and personally found Shao Yifu. Then Shaw Brothers also used their company's best movie to snipe this movie.
Movie.
Coupled with the influence of public opinion at the time, criticizing Longgang for filming this movie was simply an act of insolence. In the end, Longgang's movie lost everything!
"What do you think Jiahe thinks? You actually want to use Longgang's movie to make a comeback?"
Chu Huan did not expect that after a few months, Jiahe not only failed to learn from this matter, but also dared to approach Longgang to film a movie.
Fang Jianhui also sneered at this and said disdainfully: "There is no other way for Jiahe. Li Hanxiang is the director of our company, Zhang Che, Chu Yuan, Cheng Gang, and Liu Jialiang are the directors of Shaw Brothers. Luo Wei has now been hired by the whole Hong Kong
With the ban, now there is no one available for the top directors in Hong Kong except Long Gang.
But Jiahe may also feel that one Longgang is not enough, so he hired Xie Xian and Deng Guangrong to hold the battle!"
Xie Xian, Xie Xiaochu’s father, needless to say, became famous in the 1950s and was a popular figure in the world.
Deng Guangrong is still developing in Taiwan, and together with Qin Han and Qin Xianglin, he is one of the three major literary and artistic film niche actors in Taiwan.
However, for future generations, Deng Guangrong is best known for his investment in Wang Sunglasses' two films, "Carmen in Mongkok" and "Days of Being Wild."
Wang's first film "Carmen" was a hit both in terms of word-of-mouth and box office, which made Deng Guangrong pay special attention to Wang, so he subsequently invested in Wang's second film "Days of Being Wild".
As everyone knows, Wang's sunglasses started to fly just after he became famous, and they no longer floated.
The attributes of a great director of literary and artistic films have exploded. It doesn’t matter how much money you invest, whether you are the boss, or whether the audience understands it. Anyway, I have to make myself happy.
Therefore, this movie, which cost 40 million Hong Kong dollars, only had a box office of more than 9 million in Hong Kong. Deng Guangrong was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot. In the end, he had to hold on for the sake of face and said that he had made money by investing in Wang Sunglasses' movie.
But the real situation is that since then, Deng Guangrong has never invested in Wang Sunglasses again.
As for Wang Sunjing, relying on his status as a great director of literary films, he turned around and founded his own Zedong Pictures, and received investment from Japan.
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Fame, profit, are all mine, I will pay the boss to do it!
At that time, Wang Sunglasses already had a status in the international film industry. Otherwise, according to Deng Guangrong's background, someone would have to find someone to kill Wang Sunglasses!
Talking about Deng Guangrong, in fact, Deng Guangrong and Xie Xian have a very good relationship.
In the 1960s, Deng Guangrong had already formed a band called "Silver Rat Team" with Xie Xian, Zhang Chong, Chen Ziqiang, Chen Hao, Qin Xianglin, and Shen Feifei.
Moreover, these seven people are sworn brothers and sisters of the opposite sex!
The eldest brother, Zhang Chong, was originally a director of Shaw Brothers and also an actor, but he left the most profound impression on people in the first part of "Five Lucky Stars", in which he played the boss of two counterfeit money syndicates who likes to wear white clothes.
The second brother, Xie Xian, naturally needs no introduction.
Third brother Chen Ziqiang, Xiangjiang's gold medal manager, Cheng Long, Zheng Yuling, Zhang Xueyou, Zhang Manyu, Zhong Chuhong, etc. were all brought out by him.
The fourth brother, Chen Hao, is a senior screenwriter in Xiangjiang and has a transcendent status in the entertainment industry.
The fifth is Deng Guangrong. In the early days, he was one of the three leading figures in Taiwanese literary films. In the late 1970s and 1980s, he became the best choice for the big brother of Hong Kong Jianghu movies. Even Zhou Runfa had to be the second brother in front of him!
The sixth actor is Qin Xianglin. He was also one of the three leading actors in literary and artistic films in the early days. Later he came to Hong Kong to develop. He is most famous for his American ginseng in "Five Lucky Stars". He has never been more famous. It is the story of two Qin and one Lin between him, Qin Han and Lin Qingxia.
The youngest Shen Feifei is a pistachio in the eyes of the Xiangjiang audience, but whether this person is good or bad is always a question mark because of Lan Jieying's matter!
"When will their movie be released?" Chu Huan asked directly.
Fang Jianhui smiled and said: "It's also the 13th of this month!"
Chu Huan was stunned for a moment. Although the movie "Double Stars" has not been released yet, it can be seen from the scale of publicity that the black and white images attach great importance to the movie. In addition, this movie is now a huge box office hit in Hong Kong. The powerful comedian Xu Guanwen.
Jiahe is so brave enough to compete with Black and White Video?
Fang Jianhui then clarified Chu Huan's doubts: "Actually, they were the ones who set the schedule for this movie first. I know Brother Huan that you don't like the director Long Gang, so I directly decided to let Xu Guanwen's "Ghost Horse Double Star" compete with the other party. Got it!"
After Chu Huan listened, he showed a satisfied expression, and Fang Jianhui said: "You understand my thoughts more and more."
Fang Jianhui laughed and said: "That's necessary. Besides, I don't like the director Long Gang either. His butt is so damn crooked!"
Chu Huan was very satisfied that Fang Jianhui could stand in the same position as him on this matter.
After chatting with Fang Jianhui for a few words, the two walked out of the screening room.
Fang Jianhui proposed to sit in the office, but Chu Huan refused. After the black and white video was moved to the Tseung Kwan O studio, Chu Huan had not come to see it, so he took advantage of this time to look around.
Now the Republic of China area of the studio has been completely completed, and half of the costume area has been built. In addition, on the Tseung Kwan O studio, Yunhai convenience store and some other living facilities have also been installed, as well as a small bank, the Bank of East Asia, and artist apartments. and staff apartments have also been completed.
But even so, various construction sites can still be seen everywhere here.
After Chu Huan walked around, he left the Tseung Kwan O studio and went to Hang Lung Properties!
After entering October, Hang Lung Properties still has one major matter to deal with, which is to pay the remaining HK$230 million for the Golden Gate Tower to Land!
He Bingguang, the general manager of Hang Lung Properties, is already waiting for Chu Huan at the company.
"Chairman, Land has sent a notification letter, expressing the hope that our company will pay the final payment of the Golden Gate Tower before the 10th of this month!"
Chu Huan has already made plans for this fund. The profits from Youth Toys in the past few months are enough to easily cover this fund.
"Tell them that on the 10th, the company will deposit the funds into their accounts on time."
He Bingguang naturally knew that Chu Huan had already prepared the funds, and now that he was talking about this matter again, it was more to remind Chu Huan.
"Tell me about the company's situation this year!"
Chu Huan sat there and asked He Bingguang.
In fact, Hang Lung Properties has not yet recovered from the impact of the stock market crash. According to the current situation of Hang Lung Properties, the company's rental income this year is only HK$14 million, accounting for 28% of the company's operating income. In other words, Hang Lung Properties' income this year is only HK$50 million.
Hong Kong dollar.
It seems that the weekly profit of Youth Toys is not as high as that of Youth Toys, but Hang Lung Real Estate's land reserves and properties will increase several times when the real estate industry in Xiangjiang develops again in the future.
That is to say, Chu Huan now has a youth toy, plus the money he earned during the oil crisis invested 50 million into Hang Lung Real Estate. Otherwise, according to the previous situation of Hang Lung Real Estate, it will take at least a few years to turn around.
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"As for the contact with Chinese Real Estate that the chairman explained before, the other party has not responded yet, but now regarding the acquisition of Chinese Real Estate, HSBC and Cheung Kong are also involved. Now the situation seems a bit unclear!"
Compared with repaying the balance of Land Golden Gate Tower, Chu Huan actually gave Hang Lung a bigger task to acquire the Chinese Bank on Pedder Street in Central!
Although the price of the Chinese Bank does not seem to be as high as that of the Golden Gate Building, this is mainly because the Golden Gate Building can be used immediately, but if the Chinese Bank is bought, it will have to be rebuilt!
At the beginning of the 20th century, Central on Hong Kong Island was dominated by foreign companies, and Chinese businessmen who wanted to join Central had no place to gain a foothold.
At that time, a real estate developer was building a commercial and office complex in Queen's Road Central. After the building was completed, Chinese people competed to occupy it and rent it.
Foreigners have always considered themselves superior to others and disdain to live in the same building with Chinese people. Foreigners who have paid deposits have canceled their leases one after another.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! So this building became an "independent kingdom" for the Chinese, and the name of the building was changed to "Chinese Bank".
This is how the Chinese Bank got its name.
Later, the Chinese Bank became an asset of Chinese Real Estate, but now Chinese Real Estate is interested in selling this property. After Chu Huan learned the news, he immediately ordered He Bingguang to contact the other party to discuss the acquisition.
“HSBC and Cheung Kong are indeed involved!”
Chu Huan sighed lightly. If he hadn't appeared, the Chinese Bank would have been acquired by HSBC and Cheung Kong. Later, the Chinese Bank would be rebuilt by Cheung Kong and HSBC, and later it would become the headquarters of Cheung Kong.
"I will follow up on this matter!" Chu Huan said to He Bingguang.
Now that the matter has involved HSBC, He Bingguang is already a little dissatisfied. The next step is to compete between himself and HSBC.
I thought that the competition between the two sides would not start until next year, but I didn't want to bring it forward now.
However, HSBC was later able to sell all the interests of Chinese Bank to Cheung Kong, which shows that HSBC did not care too much about Chinese Bank, so this time it should be just a pure business competition and not involve too many other things.
Later, He Bingguang reported to Chu Huan about the land purchase. After having youth toys, these companies under Chu Huan have finally overcome the dilemma of shortage of funds. The funds from "Fantasy Comics" continue to be used to invest in youth toys.
During the construction of flagship stores around the world, the profits from youth toys were handed over to Jiaku Consulting Company, and then part of them began to flow out to other companies under Chu Huan's name under the calculations of the Finance Department.
Among them, Hang Lung Properties and Huhua Properties are the largest.
There is no way, the land price in Xiangjiang is too cheap during this period. If we cannot purchase more land during this period, it would be simply a crime!
For example, just last month, Hang Lung Properties and Huhua Properties jointly cooperated and purchased the West Lake site in Brammar Hill Road, North Point, from Swire Properties for HK$80 million.
Saixi Lake covers an area of 864,000 square feet. After joint discussions, Lu Qi and He Bingguang plan to build 925 large residential units of 1,260 to 1,640 square feet as well as shopping malls, parking garages, etc. on the site. The total building area reaches 1.32 million square feet, with an average
The land cost per square foot is only 64 yuan, which is very cheap.
The two then reported the plan to Chu Huan. Under Chu Huan's instruction, the site will not be moved this year and construction will start after next year. Calculated based on a two-year construction period, Xiangjiang's real estate industry will recover by the time it is completed.
And Hang Lung Properties and Huhua Properties will also make a fortune!
At the same time, it purchased a large amount of land in Pok Fu Lam Road, Tsuen Wan, Boundary Street, Fuk Wing Street, Kwai Lam Street, Longzhu Island, Tsing Yi and other places. During this period, it also entered into several price wars with Sun Hung Kai Properties.
Now excluding Huaye City, Huhua Real Estate and Hang Lung Real Estate combined are already the only Chinese-owned real estate companies in Xiangjiang in terms of land reserves.
After coming out of Hang Lung Center, Chu Huan returned to Jiahu Building.
Here, Chu Huan called Shen Bi, the general manager of HSBC.
When Shen Bi heard that Chu Huan actually wanted to discuss the matter with him about the Chinese Bank, he smiled and said that this matter was an important development plan set by HSBC, and it was imperative for the Chinese Bank and HSBC!
Naturally, Chu Huan didn't take this kind of official talk to heart, and then said that everything can be discussed, so we might as well make an appointment to meet and have a good talk.
As expected, Shen Bi had no objection to Chu Huan's suggestion.
Then the two parties agreed on a time to meet and hung up the phone!
On Chu Huan's side, due to the emergence of youth toys, Chu Huan once again received sufficient funds to continue to expand his territory. On the other side, as Chu Huan's most important opponent this year, Li & Fung Group, during this period Life is not going well!
Just like the grand opening of Youth Toys "R" Us, Li & Fung Group was worried that because Li & Fung Toys delegated the management rights of Disney animation peripherals to other toy retailers in Hong Kong, the passenger flow of Li & Fung Toys City would decrease. Extremely declining.
"How about taking back the operating rights?"
Feng Muying suggested at this time.
"Can't!"
Feng Hanzhu immediately expressed his objection, and then explained to Feng Muying: "Although the revenue of Li & Fung Toys has dropped a lot, because the sales of Disney animation peripherals in Hong Kong have increased, the order volume of Disney animation in Hong Kong has increased. This also indirectly allowed the toy manufacturers in Xiangjiang to increase their orders of raw materials.
Therefore, although the sales and profits of our toy store have declined, the company's physical profits have not declined much!
If we take back the operating rights now, we cannot guarantee the sales of Disney animation peripherals in Hong Kong, and naturally there is no way to ensure that the supply of raw materials can remain the same as before.
In addition, if it is withdrawn, the reputation of our Li & Fung toys in Hong Kong will be ruined, and at the same time, all the retailers will be completely pushed to Chu Huan!
If Chu Huan releases the peripheral production rights of "Fantasy Comics" at that time, our Li & Fung Toys and Li & Fung trade will be affected!"
Feng Muying was a little irritated after hearing Feng Hanzhu's explanation.
"This won't work, that won't work either. Are we just going to watch our market being squeezed bit by bit by Chu Huan? If this is the case, sooner or later the other party will swallow it up!"
Feng Guojing said from the side: "It is impossible to swallow it up. The basic market of Disney animation peripherals is still there. At most, the profits will not be comparable to before!"
Feng Muying said: "Doing business is like sailing against the current. If we don't advance, we will retreat. Now our profit point is still affordable, but what about the future? If the real estate industry in Xiangjiang recovers, the rents of chain stores in major shopping malls will inevitably rise. How much profit do we have to fill this hole?"
Feng Muying's words caused everyone to fall into silence.
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Everyone understands that the real estate industry in Xiangjiang will definitely recover. At that time, where will Li & Fung Toys go?
Although there are no immediate worries, there are long-term worries!
At this time, Li & Fung Toys has fallen into a dead end. If Li & Fung Toys cannot find a way to break the situation, then maybe one year or two years from now, Li & Fung Toys will completely disappear.
This is not alarmist, but this is the situation.
"It's better to just sell Li & Fung toys!"
At this time Feng Muying suddenly preached.
Feng Hanzhu and Feng Guojing were startled by Feng Muying's proposal.
But Feng Muying seemed to feel that her proposal was very constructive and continued to preach.
"The value of Li & Fung toys is still there. If we let it out, there will definitely be many people who want to get it. If we wait another two years, I'm worried that even if we want to sell it, no one will want to buy it!
We can even sell Li & Fung Toys directly to Chu Huan. I think Chu Huan will definitely be very happy to take over Li & Fung Toys. This will not only expand their company's sales scope, but also expand their sales channels.
The most important thing is that we can save 30 million Hong Kong dollars in compensation!"
The verdict regarding "Fantasy Comics" suing Li & Fung Toys has come down. After two months of trial, the court made a verdict and ruled that Li & Fung Toys lost the lawsuit and paid 30 million Hong Kong dollars to "Fantasy Comics" after publishing an apology in the newspaper.
Economic losses!
Originally, it was impossible for this lawsuit to end so quickly.
However, in the court, the defendant Luo Decheng, who represented "Fantasy Comics", presented the most favorable evidence, which were photos and statistics of the sales of imitation "Fantasy Comics" peripherals in major Li & Fung toy stores.
There is no need to continue this lawsuit.
Li & Fung Toys was a complete failure.
Just as we entered October, the court finally announced its verdict!
Feng Guojing could not accept the sale of Li & Fung Toys. After all, he was the person in charge of Li & Fung Toys, and it was also the first project of Li & Fung Group that he was responsible for after returning to Hong Kong.
If he sells his first project in Li & Fung Group, it will be an important stain for Feng Guojing to take over Li & Fung Group in the future.
"Can't sell!"
Feng Guojing directly expressed his attitude, and then said to Feng Muying: "Uncle, Li & Fung Toys is a subsidiary of Li & Fung Group. It was founded when my grandfather was still alive. When everyone mentions Li & Fung Toys,
, will all think of Li & Fung Group. If we sell Li & Fung Toys, what will outsiders think of our Li & Fung Group?
When the time comes, they will say that we are just bastards and don’t feel bad about it!”
Hearing what Feng Guojing said, Feng Muying's expression froze. He cares about reputation. He would not be able to accept such a reputation in Xiangjiang.
"In addition, if we just sell it, outsiders will say that we can't beat Chu Huan, and then give up. If other companies have ideas for other businesses of our group in the future, will we not be able to fight against them?
In this case, should we also sell other businesses of our company?"
"In that case, how much of Li & Fung's business can be sold?"
Feng Guojing persuaded seriously.
Feng Muying was a little depressed and asked directly: "Then do you have any other ideas?"
If they don't sell, there must always be a way to deal with the current problems. Otherwise, in their hands, Li & Fung Toys will no longer be a profitable company, but a burden.
Feng Guojing pondered, if he had a better way at this time, he would have come up with it long ago, why wait until now!
But he knew that Li & Fung toys must not be sold!
After thinking for a long time, Feng Guojing could only say that if he wanted to keep Li & Fung Toys, he needed to sell more toys and more toys from world-famous brands.
Only in this way can the sales volume and profits of Li & Fung Toys be increased.
"Dad, uncle, I plan to go to Europe and the United States again during this period. As long as we can get more agency rights, I believe those companies will be willing to cooperate with us.
No matter what, we at Li & Fung Toys are still the largest toy retailer in Southeast Asia!"
Feng Hanzhu was the first to express his agreement, but he also wanted to appease his brother, so he said to Feng Muying: "Brother, I think what Guojing said makes sense, and our sales only encountered problems in Xiangjiang, not in Xiangjiang.
In the whole of Southeast Asia, the profits in other regions are still very objective. It would really be inappropriate for us to admit defeat like this!"
Feng Muying sighed and said: "I don't want to sell Li & Fung Toys either. Since both of you have this idea, let's do what you want first!"
Seeing that Feng Muying no longer insisted on this matter, Feng Hanzhu and Feng Guojing breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, Feng Guolun suddenly came to the office with a face of surprise.
"Daddy, uncle, big brother, we have a big order, a big order!"
Faced with such a surprise, Feng Guolun, the three of them immediately looked at each other. Finally, Feng Muying was the first to ask: "What order?"
"Europe, a European garment company just asked our company if it can take a large order of 100 million Hong Kong dollars!"
Garment export has always been one of the most important industries of Li & Fung Group, and Li & Fung is also one of the largest garment exporters in Hong Kong!
"An order of 100 million?"
The three people in the office all showed surprised expressions. This is the largest single garment order since the opening of Hong Kong.
But... what kind of company is the other party? It wants such a large quantity?