Hong Kong's new giants

Let Maersk understand that if you have money, you can really do whatever you want!

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"What? Times Shipping is serving Sealand, negotiating an acquisition?" The old Muller suddenly cheered up at this moment, and said in disbelief.

Charlie nodded, and said: "That's right! And the sea and land service people didn't inform us, it seems that they are satisfied with the price! If we hadn't cooperated for so long, and I know one of their executives, I'm afraid we are still in the dark middle."

Muller immediately said: "What is the origin of shipping in this era, why is it so generous and aggressive?"

Charlie said: "The parent company is the No. 100 consortium of Xiangjiang, and the boss was the richest man in the world last year. The important thing is, it is said that their parent company has US$100 billion in their accounts, and there are also European and American securities worth US$210 billion. It also built [-] million tons of various ships at one time in South Korea.”

Muller was stunned for a moment. No matter how old he was, he had heard of Lin Zuhui, the richest man in the world. His wealth even surpassed that of America's "proud" and "tech giant" Bill Gates recently (450 [-] million dollars), the result is that the Americans are overjoyed, as if the collective is very proud.

"You fly to the United States immediately and negotiate with Sealand Services, the price, keep in touch with me, we must annex Sealand Services!" Mueller finally said firmly.

Charlie nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go to Hailu to serve right away!"

Muller couldn't help but said: "The price must be cautious, keep in touch with me, it can't be too expensive!"

Charlie's morale dropped by half, but he still nodded!

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Times Shipping, Maersk, and the two companies once again had malicious bidding, which made Sea and Land Services take control for a while.

Major media also began to report one after another, especially the American media began to hype, expecting to sell high prices for sea and land services.

"A new shipping giant is about to be born, and it is already challenging the number one in the world!" (In fact, even if the acquisition is completed, the combined share of the three companies will only be more than 6%, while Maersk's share is about 10%)

"Maersk, lost the South African shipping, and lost the sea and land service?"

Such slogans emerge in endlessly, aiming to stir up the flames of war!

America.

Morris felt that he was very unlucky, and wanted to acquire two shipping companies properly, so as to make the boss more trustworthy; unexpectedly, Maersk was lingering and chased him from South Africa to the United States.

"Call the boss!" Morris still made a decisive decision.

After all, an acquisition of more than 8 million US dollars is not a small number. If it is more than [-] or [-] million US dollars, he is more or less over-responsible.

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Lin Zuhui also felt a little helpless when he heard the news in Xiangjiang. This Maersk was haunted and made him spend a lot of money.

Of course, then again, perhaps others have long regarded these two companies as acquisition targets, but Times Shipping has preempted them.

But Lin Zuhui didn't worry for too long!

On the phone, Lin Zuhui asked: "How much do you think Maersk will give up? Sea-Land Service will have to sell?"

On the other end of the phone, Morris said: "Sea and land services are different from South African shipping, and Maersk will be more determined. I think the price of 10 billion US dollars should make Maersk go back."

"Well, this time we directly open the offer, and we will buy it for 10 billion U.S. dollars, and we will complete it in a week!"

"it is good!"

After hanging up the phone, Lin Zuhui wasn't unhappy at all, and his expression didn't fluctuate!

If the acquisition is completed, he will indeed be cheated out of 3 million US dollars, but he doesn't care, and naturally it won't affect his mood.

If this acquisition is not completed, next year it will acquire the giant Iron Bank Java, and see if Maersk's cash flow can compare with him!

The value of Tiehang Java is at least 15 billion US dollars, and Maersk's cash flow is absolutely insufficient.

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"What, bid $10 billion, are they crazy?" Mueller couldn't help raising his voice when he received the call.

How can he acquire a company worth up to 8 million US dollars at a higher price?

Charlie said on the phone: "However, they are already crazy, maybe the Chinese are too rich! And this time they made clear the price of the acquisition, and also said that if there is no clear answer within a week, they will withdraw from the acquisition."

Muller's first reaction was that this was Time Shipping's "making a bureau" to retaliate against "South African Shipping".After all, in that acquisition, Times Shipping was about to complete the acquisition, and Maersk joined the bidding, allowing Times Shipping to win it at a higher price of 8800 million US dollars.

"Sea and land service, what do you say over there?"

"They said they hoped that we would make an offer in a week, even if it was 10.1 billion US dollars, they would agree to our acquisition!"

Muller immediately said: "We are not fooled, sea and land services are not worth the money, up to 8 million US dollars! Let them buy it, and let them regret it in the future!"

Charlie tentatively said, "Maybe the shipping cycle is coming?"

Muller immediately said: "This is just a guess, but it is not worth our risk! Shipping not only depends on the cycle, but more importantly, cherish every penny, so that we can survive the shipping ice season."

Charlie immediately said in admiration, "Okay!"

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A week later, many world media have reported that Times Shipping, a shipping company that has not entered the top 20, has successively annexed two of the world's top ten shipping giants, becoming the world's third-ranked shipping giant (with a share of more than 6%) ).

"Crazy, Asians are crazy! Asia is going through an unprecedented financial crisis, and shipping has also been hit hard. The former richest man in the world seems to be operating against the market. I don't know if he still has that kind of luck. ?”

"Times Shipping is crazy about shipping, buying two shipping companies for 17 billion US dollars, building 17 million tons of various ships for 210 billion US dollars, and this year they have won two European ports. They have already spent more than 36 billion US dollars on shipping. .I just want to say, they are too rich!"

One by one, the news was published in the world's major business newspapers, and there was a lot of discussion for a while.

At the same time, the news also came back to Xiangjiang.

Of course, in Xiangjiang, Lin Zuhui is like a god. In the eyes of investors, his strategy can't be wrong.

Therefore, the shares of New Times Group are still strong. Although the Xiangjiang stock market continued to fall in early June, it has fallen to 6 points as of June 10 (Wednesday), which has reached Lin Zuhui's investment line.

The stock of New Times Group is still in the early 4000 billion Hong Kong dollars, firmly maintaining the "legendary" signboard.

Although Lin Zuhui is not very sad that he spent 2.88 million US dollars more than expected this time, he has no intention of forgetting it.

Maersk’s Liang Zi has already taken over. Before Muller’s death, he will see Times Shipping’s market share surpassing Maersk’s and see Times Shipping making a lot of money.

At the same time, the New Era Group lost a little over 20 billion Hong Kong dollars, and naturally had to find a way to make up for it.

Chapter 629 [Decisive Battle]

Thursday, November 6.

Lin Zuhui came to the top floor of Block A of Huazhi Center, which is the global headquarters of his family office.

Lin Zuhui feels that the family office is very worthwhile to establish after years of operation!

Of course, it’s not because of making money. After all, the funds/assets of the family office are currently more than 1550 billion Hong Kong dollars, seven or eight times the profit level, which can only be regarded as mediocre; but other aspects of the family office make Lin Zuhui very satisfied. For example: serving Lin family members' education, travel, shopping, taxation, legal affairs, investment advice, etc.

"How's the situation?" Lin Zuhui came to the trading room and said to Li Hao who was busy.

When Li Hao saw the boss coming, he immediately asked the trader to continue, and then said to Lin Zuhui: "Boss, I bought about 6 million Hong Kong dollars yesterday, and I will continue to buy blue-chip stocks today. The current market trading volume is small, only 40-60 million Hong Kong dollars per day." The scale is [-] billion, so our capital entry has had a very stable effect on the entire market.”

Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "Since the effect is so great, let's enter the market with 6 million funds every day. The international speculators haven't had their fill yet!"

The implication is that international speculators are bound to come again, and then take the opportunity to buy more bottoms and lower prices;

At the same time, the trading volume is too small and the funds are too large, which is easy to attract attention.

Li Hao's eyes brightened. He always felt that the boss was plotting against the "international speculators" and let the "international speculators" work for the boss.After all, his boss is too familiar with international speculators, and every time he guesses whether they will come to Xiangjiang.

"Okay, I'll arrange it!"

There are still more than 500 billion Hong Kong dollars that have not been bought, but Lin Zuhui is not in a hurry. He knows that August will be the decisive battle.In the previous life, the Hong Kong government spent hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars in the market in just half a month.

Obviously, August is the best month to fish in troubled waters. In the first half of the month, international speculators sold a lot, and the trading volume magnified; in the second half of the month, the Hong Kong government bought blue-chip stocks, and the trading volume increased many times.

Therefore, he still hopes that in August, he still has 300 billion Hong Kong dollars in funds to enter the market.

The price is low and the influence can be reduced.

Of course, since the Hang Seng Index has fallen below 10000 points at this time, Lin Zuhui believes that it will not fall much lower in August, and 8000 points is already the limit (considering various factors, it is at least 1500 points higher than the previous life) .

This wave, it seems that there is no technical rebound, which scares investors enough.

In May, the Hong Kong government launched a series of real estate rescue measures. However, in June, the property market situation in Hong Kong has not improved.

Therefore, today the Hong Kong government introduced some measures to save Hong Kong Properties:

9. Originally planned to auction two pieces of land in the New Territories. Due to the weak property market and people in the real estate industry generally requesting the government to freeze land auctions, the Hong Kong government announced the cancellation of the auction plan and a freeze on land sales for [-] months.

二、将1998／1999年度预留‘首次置业贷款’的36亿增加至72亿，希望以此将合格家庭从6000户增加至12000户。

4500. The number of households providing 'home loan' increased from 10000 to [-].

...Wait, there are nine measures to relieve people's hardship.

Why does the Hong Kong government want to save the property market in Hong Kong?

The reason is actually very simple. The purpose of stabilizing the small and medium-sized residential property market is to prevent the collapse of the property market from dragging down the banks and causing instability to the linked exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar.

If the real estate market plummets, it will endanger the banks and the Hong Kong dollar. This is what international speculators wish for.International speculators know that it will be impossible to directly attack the Hong Kong dollar, but instead adopt a roundabout strategy of "destroying the property market and bringing down the banks", and finally overthrow the linked exchange rate system. This conspiracy is quite vicious.

July is not a month for futures and index delivery. It seems that international speculators will definitely visit Xiangjiang in August.

And this wave of decline is almost over. After all, the 10000 points that international speculators had not broken through in the previous two times, not only broke through this time, but also fell directly below 9500 points.

International speculators understand that Heung Kong has the third largest foreign exchange reserve in the world, and the Heung Kong stock market is also the third largest market after the United States and Japan. It cannot be settled in a pinch, but should gradually break down investors' psychological defenses and spread panic.

Therefore, August is the decisive battle!

Chapter 6 Thirty [Three Beauties of the New Generation]

In the office of New Era Group, Lin Zuhui received Totole President Glory from the Mainland, and Cao Renxian, President of Yang Xiecheng Group, accompanied him.

At present, New Era Group (Singapore) has been privatized, and its properties, including China Plaza (Singapore), Baisha City and other expensive properties, have been included in New Era Commercial Management.

The Yeo Hiep Seng Group, which was originally held by New Times Group (Singapore), naturally also directly belongs to New Times Group and increased its shareholding to 66.2%.

The reason why Yeoh Hiap Seng Group is not directly privatized is that Lin Zuhui also hopes to have a listed company in Singapore, and the trademark of Yeoh Hiep Seng Group is too strong, so privatization is unnecessary.Even the members of the Yang family are still the chairman of the Yang Xiecheng Group, but they don't have any real power. The real power is in the hands of Cao Renxian, the president dispatched by the New Era Group.

"Boss, this is Mr. Glory Zhong, the CEO of Totole Chicken Essence from Mainland China. Mr. Rong, this is our boss, Mr. Lin Zuhui!"

Lin Zuhui came to the two of them and said happily: "Mr. Rong must be no stranger to Xiangjiang, he has been here, right?"

Glory quickly stretched out his hand, and then said modestly: "It is true that I have been here many times, just for the listing, but unfortunately I was a bit unlucky and closed down three securities companies in a row."

Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "In this financial crisis, the three companies in Xiangjiang are not the only ones that have fallen! Come and sit down!"

Totole originally wanted to go public in Heung Kong to expand the factory and production capacity. Unexpectedly, just halfway through the investment, the listing process was interrupted, and there was no hope of going public again. It suddenly became very difficult.After all, half of the investment has already been made. If there is no funds, the previous investment will be in vain, and the previous funds must have loans.

After sitting down, Lin Zuhui sipped tea with the guests leisurely.

On the contrary, Glory couldn't help but take the initiative to say: "Mr. Lin, I welcome the acquisition of Totole by Yang Xiecheng Group, and I am very satisfied with the price. However, I just hope to keep 20% of the shares in our hands. After all, such a Come to our founding team to feel hopeful!"

It turned out that for the acquisition of Totole brand, Lin Zuhui wanted to buy it in full, because he wanted to increase investment and build Totole into a full range of condiment products.

Lin Zuhui said: "Did President Cao tell you that after the acquisition of Totole, we plan to develop other condiments?"

Glory nodded, and said: "I said it! That's what I thought, Totole can develop chicken essence first, and then enter other fields after getting funds."

In fact, Lin Zuhui has also thought about this problem: Glory and others want to keep 20% of the shares, in fact, they are optimistic about the prospect of chicken essence, thinking that they will cash out the 20% shares after sitting up in the future.And Lin Zuhui is very appreciative of this 'successful person' in Glory. After all, he can't guarantee whether using his own people to manage Taitaile will reach the height of his previous life.

Based on these thoughts, Lin Zuhui said heartily: "No problem, keep 20% of the shares, and Totole will continue to be managed by you. However, we also have to join in the management and guidance."

Yeoh Hiep Seng Group itself is a time-honored brand that makes sauces, so the level of management is still there.

In Glory, he did not expect Lin Zuhui to agree so readily. You must know that Yang Xiecheng Group hoped to hold 100% of the shares at the beginning, and the price was very ideal; but he thought about it, chicken essence has not yet defeated MSG, and Totole must have a bigger prospect, so Leaving 20% ​​would be the best option.

"Thank you Mr. Lin for your approval. Don't worry, Totole's performance will definitely satisfy the major shareholders. We also welcome a time-honored seasoning group company like Yang Xiecheng to join in the management guidance."

Lin Zuhui smiled and said, "Haha, then it's settled!"

After chatting for a while, Lin Zuhui arranged for Cao Renxian to see off the guests for him.

After a while, Cao Renxian returned to Lin Zuhui's office.

"boss!"

Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "After the acquisition, Totole will still be mainly managed by the team in Glory, but we can provide some good suggestions. For example, see if CCTV has any cooking program plans. If not, we will Come plan one and ask Taitaile to sponsor it; if there is any, it will be directly sponsored. In short, we need to push the pace of Taitaile to speed up."

Cao Renxian's eyes lit up, and he thought that the boss's marketing method was very clever. After all, he was a senior executive from Hengchang Beverage and Food, so he naturally knew the importance of marketing.

"Okay, boss."

After Cao Renxian left, Lin Zuhui showed a smile.

It's not that he wants to do everything, but that New Era Group's funds must find a way out, and a large group will always involve many businesses in the end.

The New Times Group is already considered pretty good. Many businesses are hand-picked by Lin Zuhui, so they won't lose money.

For example, the acquisition of the Yeoh Hiep Seng Group, which is close to Hong Kong and Singapore, is enough to make money, not to mention the business of beverages and condiments.