At three o'clock in the afternoon the next day, reporters from all major media in Hong Kong gathered at Wheelock Building.
The reporters present were quite surprised to see Li Jianhui and John Madden walking into the press conference together. They were still wondering why the Wheelock Group suddenly held a press conference, but now it seems that it has something to do with Li Jianhui.
As John Madden announced that he had transferred his shares to Li Jianhui and resigned as chairman of the board of directors of Wheelock Group and president of Wheelock Group, the reporters present fell into a brief silence.
They were all wondering if they had heard it wrong. The Madden family was a symbol, one of the four major foreign companies. It had been in Hong Kong for hundreds of years and had always been an insurmountable mountain for Chinese-owned enterprises in Hong Kong.
Now John Madden has announced the transfer of shares and will no longer hold any position in the Wheelock Group. This marks that the four major foreign banks will become history and Wheelock will become a Chinese-owned enterprise.
Those present know very well how valuable this news is. As long as this news gets out, it will immediately cause huge waves.
There are too many topics here, including the four major foreign banks, Li Jianhui, the Marden family, British and Chinese capital in Hong Kong.
They believe that in the next month, this news will be the most talked about in the streets and alleys of Xiangjiang.
Li Jianhui's reputation will rise to a higher level. With the Wheelock Group in his hands, he is fully qualified to sit on an equal footing with the heads of the top families in Hong Kong.
Who could have thought that one day the four major foreign banks would be acquired by Chinese capital, and who would have thought that the first person to acquire the four major foreign banks would be Li Jianhui, who was less than 18 years old.
January 3rd is destined to be a day that will leave a mark in the history of Hong Kong. This day marks the end of the era of the four major foreign companies in Hong Kong.
As the press conference ended, the news that Li Jianhui acquired the shares from the Madden family and became the chairman of the board of directors of Wheelock Group spread like a hurricane to every corner of Hong Kong.
Nubigian, Shi Huaiya, Shen Bi and others were not only angry but also filled with deep uneasiness.
Li Jianhui's industrial expansion is too fast, and they are very worried that their business will be taken action in the near future.
When Li Chaoren heard the news, he immediately chose to go home. Wheelock was also one of his plans. Now that Li Jianhui was in charge, he knew that he had basically no chance of getting this company.
What made him most angry was that Li Jianhui unknowingly acquired Wheelock, and his several attempts to acquire Hutchison Whampoa failed due to unexpected changes.
The charter king also felt uncomfortable. He also had thoughts about Wheelock Group. He started cooperating with Wheelock a few years ago, especially in shipping port warehouses.
He didn't expect that before he took action, Li Jianhui would take Wheelock into his pocket, causing his plan to be aborted.
Regardless of what the outside world said, Li Jianhui immediately convened a high-level meeting of Wheelock Group after the press conference.
It was announced that Zhang Qijun will be appointed as the director of the group's financial department, and Su Jiangting will be appointed as the general manager of the group's administrative department.
As for other positions, Li Jianhui has not changed them for the time being. First, he does not have enough equity. In addition, he has acquired a total of 29.6% of the shares in the stock market, which is only 2.3% more than the Zhang Yuliang family. There is no absolute advantage.
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At this time, Wheelock Group mainly focuses on stability to avoid arousing dissatisfaction among major shareholders and group executives due to too big changes.
Especially Zhang Yuliang, although he stated at the shareholders meeting in the morning that he would not interfere in the group's affairs, it would be difficult to say if the group's top management changes frequently and several major shareholders are scurrying around.
The main reason is that Li Jianhui is a bit poor now. He borrowed HK$300 million from Daoheng Bank to acquire John Madden's shares. Without selling the London gold list in the hands of Blue Maple Investment Company, Li Jianhui does not have much funds for the time being.
Continue to acquire.
All the loans from Dao Heng Bank have reached 610 million Hong Kong dollars, which has put some pressure on Dao Heng Bank. It is impossible for Feng Jingyao to give him unlimited loans.
Li Jianhui is now running the Wheelock Group, and then waiting for the game company to slowly acquire shares in the stock market in 1979, bringing his share to 33.5%, which is a relatively safe line in Hong Kong at present.
As long as he survives this year, he will have enough funds to take over most of the shares of Wheelock Group and make this group his pillar industry.
Especially in real estate and retail, which are also two industries that Li Jianhui will focus on in the future. With Wheelock as the foundation, as long as the funds are in place, it can expand rapidly.
It's a pity that too many people don't want Li Jianhui to expand at such a high speed. Just when Li Jianhui is sinking his mind to understand Wheelock's operation, some people have already contacted Zhang Yuliang.
In particular, several representatives of Xiangjiang British Capital were the most active. Shen Bi, New Big Kin, Shi Huaiya, and Wei Li put aside their past grievances and communicated with each other. Their purpose was only one, which was to resolutely drive Li Jianhui out of Wheelock.
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The four major foreign banks are their pride. Even if Wheelock is to be acquired, it will only be acquired by their British capital, not by a Chinese, especially since that person is still a great threat to them.
Li Jianhui.
Zhang Yuliang, who is in Zhixin Holdings Company, feels like his head is getting big in the past two days. He invests in Wheelock more just to make money and has no intention of managing Wheelock at all.
Even this time Li Jianhui took over, he had no objections. He was even prepared to see if Wheelock Group could replicate the legend of Huihong Gaming Company, so that he would get on Li Jianhui's giant ship and receive generous returns.
Who would have thought that just replacing John Madden with Li Jianhui would cause such a big commotion. Within a few days, big bosses who rarely met him visited his place one after another, with only one purpose, and that was to hope that he could stand up and take charge of the meeting.
Defeng.
Zhang Yuliang knows his abilities very well. He is good at managing investment companies, but he is not good at taking charge of a comprehensive group like Wheelock.
He was also unwilling to offend Li Jianhui. After all, he and Li Jianhui were both Chinese, and with the potential that Li Jianhui had shown, there was no need to do it for a chairman of the board of directors and president who he didn't care about.
Seeing that Zhang Yuliang was reluctant to come forward, Shen Bi, Niubijian and others offered to buy his shares.
This made Zhang Yuliang hesitate. Since he invested in Wheelock Group, he has not made much profit, and it has only taken more than a year for him to start to improve.
He is investing to make money, and selling shares is normal.
But he knew that once he sold his shares to Shen Bi and others, it would be difficult for Li Jianhui to live in peace, and the Wheelock Group might also fall into civil strife.
Unable to make up his mind for a while, he simply adopted the procrastination strategy and prepared to wait and see before talking.
Moreover, he was not satisfied with the current price offered by Shen Bi and others. He also wanted to see if these people would raise the price.
When the time comes that he really wants to take action, he will give priority to Li Jianhui, and he has fulfilled his duty of friendship as a descendant of Yan and Huang.