Four hundred and ninetieth chapters can not dig the foot of the wall
Compared with the fierce competition in the retail markets of Canada and the United States, the retail markets in East Asia and Southeast Asia appear to be sluggish. Whether it is Lotte or Wal-Mart, although they shout powerful slogans, they are quite conservative in their specific actions and do not want to compete with Lian.
Carver and others plan to launch a price war.
However, Li Jianhui obviously has no intention of letting Lotte Supermarket gain a foothold in the Hong Kong market. Al Myrester, president of Wheelock Holdings, made a special appointment with Simon Keswick, president of Jardine Matheson Holdings.
In the Lanlu Cafe in Central, Maires said to Keswick opposite: "Ten Lotte stores in Hong Kong are currently open, and several of them are a few hundred meters away from Wellcome supermarkets. I don't know what Mr. Keswick knows about it."
What’s the idea?”
"Mairis, let's not do what the Chinese do. Let's get straight to the point. What are your plans for establishing a department?"
"Keswick, since you have come to Xiangjiang, you must do as the locals do. Only in this way can the development of Yihe be smooth.
I won’t lie to you. According to Li Sheng’s wishes, Lotte must withdraw from the Xiangjiang market. I hope we can reach a consensus in this regard and both parties will cooperate to attack Lotte’s development in Xiangjiang.”
At present, the retail market in Xiangjiang is mainly occupied by Xin Jian Department Store and Jardine Matheson. Simon Keswick also does not want Lotte to come in and share the cake.
Especially when the Xinjian Department and Yihe have a tacit understanding in the development of the retail industry, no matter which retail company enters the Xiangjiang market, it will break the balance of the retail market between the Yihe Department and the Xinjian Department, and will inevitably suffer double consequences.
Suppress.
This time, if Myris doesn't go to Keswick, Keswick will go to Wheelock, and both parties will negotiate and jointly suppress Lotte Supermarket.
The two parties had a consensus on this, and the subsequent discussions were much more pleasant. In just half an hour, the two reached a preliminary cooperation agreement.
As for how to operate it specifically, this requires detailed communication between Wellcome and Lane Crawford, Watsons, etc. Maires and Keswick cannot control that detail.
After the official conversation was over, Keswick spoke up and said: "Mairis, you are from the United Kingdom, why are you willing to serve under a Chinese, and it is a position with little real power.
If you are willing to come to Jardine, I am willing to let you serve as the vice chairman of the board of directors of Jardine Holdings, the chairman of the board of directors of Jardine Land Group, and the president of the group. You will be fully responsible for the affairs of Jardine Land."
Chairman of the board of directors of Wheelock Holdings Group and president of the group, his position seems to be very high, and the group's market value is nearly HK$50 billion.
However, the market value of Wheelock Holdings is mainly supported by its major listed companies including Lane Crawford, Watsons, Tesco Electrical Appliances, IKEA Convenience Stores, Tesco Logistics, and Wheelock Land.
Because these listed companies themselves are group structures and are located in Hong Kong, they are basically directly managed by Li Jianhui. Under normal circumstances, Wheelock Holdings cannot interfere in the affairs of these groups.
This also results in Wheelock Holdings essentially being an angel investment company without much real power.
It's just that Keswick still underestimated Li Jianhui's management system, and his rhetoric could not shake Myris's confidence in working in the Xinjian Department.
Especially when it comes to cooperation with British-funded companies and even Commonwealth companies, fortunately, Li Jianhui basically arranges for him to come forward.
For example, at the ASEAN Economic Development Summit to be held in Kuala Lumpur next month, he was also asked by Li Jianhui to go there. The main reason was that Sin Chew and Malaysia are also Commonwealth countries.
Moreover, there are rumors that the Xin Jian Department will soon add a person in charge of Latin American affairs and South Asia affairs. He is likely to go to Mumbai to take charge of Xin Jian Department's affairs in South Asia.
"Keswick, thank you for your kindness, but Nubigian once said similar words to Weili, and Weili also used the opportunity to invite Nubigian to join the Xinjian system.
Because your family is the majority shareholder of Jardine and you are the heir, I will not invite you to join the Xinjian family.
I know that you are a little unhappy about Nubigian joining the Xinjian Department, and you also want to retaliate against the senior officials of the Yaxinjian Department.
But I advise you to give up this idea. Yihe cannot give us such great autonomy, let alone such a big platform.
Not to mention others, Jardine, Swire, Whampoa Hutchison, and Wheelock were once among the four major foreign banks. Jardine was the first of the four major foreign banks, and Swire was also ranked ahead of Hutchison and Wheelock.
Now look at these four major groups. Wheelock Holdings has a market value of nearly HK$50 billion, and Whampoa Holdings has a market value of more than HK$30 billion.
As for Jardine Matheson and Swire, your market value is far behind. When it comes to the assets under your control, you two can't even see the backs of Whampoa and Wheelock.
The management you used to have is outdated. By following Li Jianhui, we not only have a higher salary than our peers, but we can also obtain shares in listed companies. This is the only company in Hong Kong that has no equal."
Senior executives of the Xinjian Department and above know very well that working for other companies in Xiangjiang for ten years will only earn an income of 10 or 20 million Hong Kong dollars at most. However, working for the Xinjian Department for ten years and earning the income to become a billionaire will not be a problem at all.
For example, Zhou Pengfei, who is the idol of all senior executives in the Xinjian Department, owns 5% of Lanfeng Holdings and has a market value of billions of Hong Kong dollars.
The assets of Huang Guangxing, Tian Haichuan, Iwatani Toru and others are also not low, because when Huihong Group was listed, the companies secretly controlled by the Xin Jian Department were not exposed in the open, so there were not many senior executives of the listed companies. Huang Guangxing, Tian Haichuan, Iwatani
Several people who have made great contributions to the group each received 0.5% of the shares.
Just this 0.5%, based on the current 163 billion Hong Kong dollars of Huihong Group, is also 815 million Hong Kong dollars.
Even though they had to sign a lot of terms, no one from the top Xinjian Department refused to receive such a generous treatment, and he also signed an agreement with the Xinjian Department.
In the past two years, as a large number of companies under the Xinjian family have gone public, as an executive, he has also obtained shares in many companies. Although there are more senior executives in the stock division, the shares obtained by each company are relatively small, but the total market value
Already have nearly 20 million Hong Kong dollars.
Mairis only regretted that it was too late for him to enter the Xinjian Department, otherwise he would have been able to join the ranks of the rich now.
Simon Keswick was speechless. In his opinion, Li Jianhui was a nouveau riche. As long as his company went public, he would give 5% of the shares to senior executives of the Xin Jian Department and the middle management of the company, regardless of whether the market value was high or low.
, every listed company operates this way, and it also makes those elites flock to this Xinjian system.
Nowadays, the first choice of enterprises for top students in Xiangjiang is Xinjian enterprises. After being rejected by Xinjian enterprises, they will consider Tung Wah Hui enterprises, and finally other enterprises in Xiangjiang.
Although many people at the helm know what the problem is, they cannot learn from Li Jianhui's operation.
Although it was impossible to poach Mairis, Simon Keswick expressed deep regret and also said that the door of Yihe would always be open for Mairis. If Mairis would be unhappy staying in Xinjian Department one day, it would be totally unacceptable.