Hong Kong's new giants

Lin Zuhui got up, Li Jiaxin and Li Zi also got up quickly, and helped him arrange his clothes.He himself only wears a suit and doesn't even wear a bow tie. For him, he only needs to dress formally, but he will not cater to the so-called 'London nobles'.

The London side will definitely award him a knight title in the future, after all, Lin Zuhui also plans to use London as a springboard to do business in Europe.Of course he will accept it. Others award it to you because you have invested a lot in the UK. If you don’t accept it, no one else will do business for you. The reason is as simple as that.

After some tidying up, Lin Zuhui got into the Rolls-Royce convoy waiting in the front yard of the manor and drove to the Keswick family's manor in London.

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The Keswick family deserves to be the invisible richest family in later generations. The manor really covers a large area, and there is an ancient castle-like building.

In terms of the wealth calculation of the entire family, it is much richer than the so-called richest man in Britain in later generations; but this kind of family has a large number of members, so after apportioning the wealth, the reputation will not be obvious.

Lin Zuhui has also been thinking about whether the main company of the Lin family in the future should be passed on to one son like Li Chaoren and send out the other sons; The group holding company, the children of the main family serve as directors and chairman of the company, and each holds a part of the shares.

After all, even if it is passed on to a son, the son's descendants might still have to run the family business.That is to say, a person with outstanding ability will be the chairman of the board of directors, and others who are capable will serve as directors.Of course, the post of president is held by an outsider.

"Mr. Lin, welcome to the Keswick family!" Simon Keswick, Jardine's fifth head of the Keswick family, warmly received him.

Lin Zuhui stretched out his hand and responded: "Thank you for the hospitality of the Keswick family. I am very happy to come here to witness a family that has been around for more than 100 years. It is very worth learning from me!"

Simon smiled and said, "Let me introduce you. This is my cousin Henry Keswick. He worked in Hong Kong in the 70s and is currently working in politics!"

Lin Zuhui stretched out his hand confidently, and said, "The battle of Hongkong Land Drinking Milk is the originator of the takeover battle in the Hong Kong Securities Market, and it is also the object for our younger generations to learn from. Mr. Henry, it is a pleasure to meet you!"

The real stock market acquisition of Xiangjiang, or the classic acquisition, was created by this Henry Keswick. Back then, Landmark swallowed up the milk company with rich land without spending a penny. Now the milk company is Jardine's retail flagship The company, ParknShop Supermarket, and 7-11 Convenience Store (Hong Kong and Macau) are its retail enterprises.

Henry Keswick also valued Lin Zuhui very much. It can be said that Lin Zuhui is more popular than Li Chaoren in London. Just because he is young, it means that the future has greater potential and farther than Li Chaoren.

"Mr. Lin, your leveraged buyout method and financial vision are, I believe, better than mine!"

"Your acquisition technique is art!"

"Haha, thank you for your compliment!"

After some business bragging, everyone came to the banquet hall together. There were many London celebrities invited by the Keswick family to entertain Lin Zuhui, such as Prime Minister Yau's nephew Nicholas, who was also a conservative member of parliament. There were also many nobles and Business celebrities.

Lin Zuhui behaved very calmly, chatted with everyone, and there was no bloody incident, some people looked down on and provoked Lin Zuhui and so on.Just because Lin Zuhui made such wealth at such a young age, these people can't underestimate it.

Of course, the highlight of the reception was the exchange with Wilson, the president of the London Railway Shipping Company.

During Lin Zuhui's trip to London, one of the important things was the acquisition of Port Felice du Port, which was of course only one of the itineraries.If he acquires the port of Felix Doo, then he will enter the container terminal business in Europe before Superman Li, which is quite a 'remarkable' business move.

Li Chaoren was a real Chinese "businessman" in his previous life, the businessman with the greatest achievements, of course he was just a businessman.

"President Wilson, it looks like our deal will be concluded next week!" Lin Zuhui said with a smile.

Wilson responded with a smile: "Does Mr. Lin like to discuss business at receptions?"

"Why not!"

"Of course, I am also very optimistic about the conclusion of this deal, but there are still some objections, which need to be discussed seriously next week!"

"Well, I'm sure we'll come to an agreement soon."

He has a steelyard in mind, that is, based on the calculation of 75% equity of 9000 million pounds (11 billion Hong Kong dollars), he will win the equity of British Railways.So far, that's pretty much it.

The two parties had a pleasant cooperation, that is, British Railways sold the equity of Modern Containers, and the price offered by Lin Zuhui made them very satisfied.The situation at that time was complicated, and it would be good if they could make a move. Lin Zuhui also gave them a satisfactory price.

Lin Zuhui didn't bother with this topic, after all, the two sides had already reached a point where Simon Keswick also participated in the negotiations.

"Mr. Lin, thank you for your generosity to us conservatives!" Nicholas also talked enthusiastically with Lin Zuhui.

Lin Zuhui said seriously: "Because I am optimistic that the conservatives will be re-elected, and I am willing to support the conservatives!" Now Lin Zuhui, all of whom are British on his ID card, discussing this issue does not conflict at all.

What's more, when doing business in London, it is impossible not to deal with Z customers, so he did donate a donation of 200 million pounds, which is considered a very large sum for conservatives.

Nicholas seemed very interested, and continued: "Then you are optimistic about Mrs. Saar's re-election?"

Lin Zuhui said boldly: "No, I don't think she has much hope. Personally, I am more optimistic about Chancellor Major!"

Nicholas was taken aback for a moment, and said, "It makes sense, I've been convinced by you!"

In fact, Lin Zuhui's main purpose of donating money is to build a relationship with Fei Peng, and hope to take care of one or two at the Hong Kong container terminal in the future.He knew that Fei Peng was dissatisfied with Li Chaoren's monopoly on the container terminal, so he said hello in advance.

The banquet was a very free one, and a group of people chatted with each other. The Keswick family attached great importance to Lin Zuhui, a new friend, and always warmly entertained him.

Lin Zuhui also learned and consulted the Keswick family's success, not in business, but in family education and inheritance.As you can imagine, Lin Zuhui was greatly inspired.

Chapter 354 [British Telecommunications Industry]

On Tuesday, Lin Zuhui, on behalf of Asia Containers, and Wilson, the president of British Shipping Lines, formally signed an agreement on the equity transfer of Felix Du Port, involving an amount of 8 million Hong Kong dollars (55% equity).

After this transaction, Asia Containers already owns 75% of the equity of Felix Doo Port, with a total cost of 11 billion Hong Kong dollars.The remaining 25% stake is also on the next acquisition agenda.

The British Iron Line Steamship is an old-fashioned company. In 1837, it used the steam sailboat to start the sea passenger and mail transportation business, which was the prototype of the cruise ship.Although it has a glorious history, it still can't stop the company from going downhill and selling assets to survive.In fact, in the 21st century, the company is still struggling.

After winning the Port of Felix Doo, Lin Zuhui continued to develop business in London non-stop. His next goal is to enter the British telecommunications industry.

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In an office building in London, Lin Zuhui is listening to a report from the president of Times Communications, Longstadt.

Earlier this month, Times Communications has registered a subsidiary in London - Times Communications (UK), intending to develop the UK's telecommunications industry and is committed to becoming one of the largest telecommunications companies in the UK.

The Great Wall's first step was to acquire one of the UK's national paging companies and a wireless phone company with a CT1 license.

In Hong Kong, this industry is called 'non-proprietary telecommunications', which provides customers with wireless phone and communication services, and wireless phones are ordered from mobile phone manufacturers such as Motorola.In this era, mobile phones cannot be sold separately, and must be sold by telecom operators, who charge high network access fees.Of course, telecom operators also need to invest a lot of money to build signal stations.

The telecommunications industry at this time is still like a baby in all countries, and the penetration rate of wireless phones is not high, so it is very appropriate for Lin Zuhui to enter this field at this time.

"Boss, we have reached an agreement with Milikon Paging Company to acquire... We are negotiating with a mobile phone company that holds a CT1 license, and I believe we can gain something soon." Langstadt reported earnestly.

Lin Zuhui looked at the information about Milikon, which is one of the seven nationwide paging companies in the UK. Buying it means that Times Communication (UK) has taken a solid step in the UK.

Pager service in this era is much more popular than wireless phones. When customers have mobile phones, they must have pagers.

Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "This industry is like a new industry. We have an advantage by stepping in at this time. Hutchison Communications has developed in London this year. We are faster than them and invest more than them!"

Hutchison Communications currently also has a pager service market in Australia, but Lin Zuhui intends to only develop the telecommunications industry in Europe. Here is the world leader in telecommunications. European GSM (European telecommunications standard) is more popular in the world. "Sell Oranges"!

Longstall immediately said confidently: "Boss, don't worry, we will definitely develop better than Hutchison Communications in Europe!"

Lin Zuhui nodded. He knew the history of the European telecommunications industry. As long as the 2003G licenses came out around 3 and did not participate in the bidding, the industry could make a lot of money.

The competition for 3G licenses is fierce, and the governments of various countries want to make a fortune, resulting in too expensive license fees; and they need to invest a lot of money to build communication stations. When the cost can be recovered, 4G will come out again.

2G communication is different. It will appear next year. It has a development period of nearly 15 years. It can start business immediately. First, it will invest a lot of money to increase customers, and then seek to return to the IPO. Finally, it will sell its shares and earn hundreds of billions.

This is actually the earliest "Internet" routine, which was first played by Li Chaoren and Huo Jianning in the previous life.

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Lin Zuhui invested heavily in the UK, which was reported by the local media. Because he is young enough, he has received far more attention and topicality than Li Chaoren, so the media is very sought after.

Therefore, the news of investing in Philisto Port and Milikon soon spread to Hong Kong, which surprised Li Chaoren and urgently convened a high-level meeting of Hutchison Whampoa.

In the conference room, Li Chaoren showed a very little regretful expression, and said: "Felix Dou Port is the port I have been considering to buy, but it was taken one step ahead by the Asian container."

Ma Shimin said: "When Modern Containers invited Jardine to join us, we all guessed that they were for No. [-] Kwai Chung Container Terminal. Now it seems that it is because Modern Containers needs British capital to develop ports in Europe and America. Knowing about overseas development, should we also consider increasing investment overseas and relocating our company, which will be more conducive to the development of Hutchison Whampoa!"

In the matter of relocation, Ma Shimin represented the interests of Hutchison Whampoa's British capital.Because of this, the former Ma Shimin actually fell out with Li Ka-shing and his son in the past few years, which eventually led to his resignation as the general manager of Hutchison Whampoa in 1993.

Some British executives echoed their views. In their view, Lin Zuhui is a new immigrant from the mainland, and now he has begun to invest heavily overseas, which is obviously not so specific to the mainland.Then, as a group with a large proportion of British capital, Hutchison Whampoa should relocate overseas.

Huo Jianning frowned, of course he knew what the boss was thinking, once the re-registering, the influence would be greater than Jardine's re-registering, and the boss would immediately attract fierce criticism from the mainland.Then, whether to invest in the mainland in the future, isn’t the investment for so many years in vain?

Sure enough, Li Chaoren resolutely said: "Xiangjiang is the most suitable place in the world to develop a company. It can do business in both the West and the Mainland. It is very suitable for developing Hutchison Whampoa into a global group company. Therefore, you don’t need to talk about the relocation. What we need to discuss now is that the development of Hutchison Whampoa in European ports and British Telecom has encountered a real opponent. We must carry out targeted development and surpass New Times Group. .Now, tell me your thoughts on this!"

Under Li Chaoren's suppression, the eager British capital fell again. He fought against the British Big Three at Hutchison Whampoa, Li Chaxin and others. In the end, he won a complete victory and drove the three of them away. authority.

Next, Hutchison Whampoa expressed their opinions, nothing more than starting to buy ports in Europe and investing heavily in the British telecommunications industry.

In fact, soon in the British telecommunications industry, two Chinese capitals will shine, and they are not local companies. (Currently, landlines are absolutely mainstream, so the UK is not open to foreign companies)

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After finishing the British port and telecommunications matters, Lin Zuhui immediately got busy. He stayed in London for another three days to recruit the management of the family office.

The candidates who came to apply for the job were all introduced by headhunting companies, and all of them were excellent talents.However, Lin Zuhui was more cautious, and did not plan to recruit all the staff of the family office soon, which would appear to be in a hurry.Therefore, at the beginning, it was just to build the shelf of the management.

After three days of recruiting in London, he immediately flew to Los Angeles for another three days of recruiting.

In the end, he identified a total of 16 senior staff, including the heads of six departments of the family office.

The family office has initially taken shape:

CEO: Rob Featherston Howe (American)

Investment management department: Bruce Wayne (American)

Estate Planning Department: George Hall (British)

Tax planning department: Li Zhaolin (British Chinese)

Trust Service Department: Wen Tianlun (Canadian Chinese)

Family Governance Department: Birchall (American)

Administrative service department: Charles (British nationality)

None of the seven core executives is from Xiangjiang. That is because Xiangjiang people are not familiar with the operation of the 'family office', so they cannot find top talents.However, there are two Chinese joining, which can be regarded as Lin Zuhui's deliberate intention. Of course, the two Chinese are also top talents.

For example, Li Zhaolin is a senior talent with an accounting background and has rich work experience.

However, in order to check and balance this situation, Lin Zuhui will definitely recruit some senior staff in Xiangjiang; Xiangjiang is a place where Chinese and Western cultures meet, and English is also one of the official languages, so there is no problem for Chinese and foreigners to communicate.

The Lin Family Office is committed to a world-class family office, and there will be three headquarters in the future - Hong Kong, Switzerland, and Los Angeles.

Chapter 355 [Hengchang Enterprise]

Monday, May 6.

Lin Zuhui came to Huazhi Center, and now he goes abroad for ten days and a half months every time. Several major companies under his company have adapted to this situation, and there will not be a situation of "a group of dragons without a leader".

As long as he lives in the world, there will be no chaos in his companies, which confirms the words of Konosuke Matsushita, the god of management - when the scale of the business is large, a spirit is needed to rule the company.

Undoubtedly, Lin Zuhui has become the spiritual pillar of tens of thousands of people in his company.

In the office, Lin Zuhui read the newspaper as usual, and a piece of news surprised him: Changshi Group announced that the net assets of the Changshi Group reached 1100 billion Hong Kong dollars. (1200 billion in the same period in the previous life)

After reading the news carefully, Lin Zuhui couldn't help sighing: "Are you still so far behind Li Cucumber?"

However, Lin Zuhui quickly came to his senses. Although the Changshi Department controlled by Li Chaoren has a net asset of 1100 billion, his actual rights and interests are not high.Because he only holds 39% of Cheung Kong's shares, and Cheung Kong holds 45% of Hutchison Whampoa's shares, and Hutchison Whampoa controls 35% of HK Electric and Jiahong.

Layers of holdings, small to control big.

Li Chaoren's personal wealth is not as high as imagined, and of course it is not as low as the newspapers.

On the other hand, Lin Zuhui's New Times Group has net assets of 550 billion. Recently, the stock price has soared to nearly 380 billion, overwhelming the limelight of all real estate companies.And his own worth naturally skyrocketed again.

The reason for the skyrocketing market value of New Era Group is very simple. Most of the real estate properties have returned to the level before the plunge; and the properties that New Era Group bought at the bottom have generated a lot of profit.

Lin Zuhui directly holds 49% of New Era Group, and his book wealth has surpassed that of Li Chaoren.

Immediately, ATV, Ming Pao Group, and Giordano will all be listed in June and July, and the number of listed companies controlled by Lin Zuhui has once again increased.However, Lin Zuhui will basically not be privatized again.

Lin Zuhui tapped on the table, thinking about the development of New Era Group. He still felt that the development of New Era Group was too slow and needed a more radical development method.

Anyway, if you understand the general trend, you can avoid disasters, so why be too steady!

"That's right, why did I forget He Shanheng's Hengchang Enterprise!" Lin Zuhui looked a little excited and said to himself.

He started too late, and he should cherish every hard-won opportunity. If he misses high-quality companies and assets, then he will never surpass Li Chaoren's influence.

After all, if it is just a 'secret shooting' in finance, although his wealth is high, his influence is not enough.Without influence (including the number of employees employed, regional economic influence, political relations, etc.), the wealth he owns may become "children holding money in the downtown".

Lin Zuhui stood up from his office, came to the center of the spacious office, and began to pace.

The acquisition of Hengchang Enterprise requires careful planning.

Hengchang Enterprise is a non-listed company with an annual turnover of 100 billion and a net profit of more than 10 billion. The main equity is concentrated in the hands of He Shanheng, Liang Qiuju, Lin Bingyan's family, He Tian and others, and there are hundreds of small shareholders few).

According to Lin Zuhui's knowledge, after the outbreak of "Iraq's invasion of Kuwait" in August in his previous life, Lin Xiufeng (Lin Bingyan's family), Zheng Yutong, and Xu Zhantang would form a group to initiate a purchase, but they were eventually rejected because the bid was too low.Later, the consortium formed by Huaxin made up for it, and finally achieved its goal.

Therefore, he must finish it in August, otherwise it will be an errand that offends others.

He is determined to acquire Hengchang Enterprise. Not only can he acquire a large trading company, but he can also acquire a talent—Yuan Tianfan.

Yuan Tianfan only has more than half a year left in his position as the chairman of the stock exchange, and he has no position yet.

Li Chaoren's long-term talent is full of talents, and he may not be willing to give in.

If it's the president of Hengchang Enterprise, maybe he can be attracted!

"I'm sorry, everyone!" There was a smile on the corner of Lin Zuhui's mouth.