Hong Kong's new giants

Well, the executives of the Dadong Telegraph Bureau were dumbfounded, and even thought that it was Lin Zuhui who instructed Ai Weilang to threaten.

"82 billion US dollars, if no one pays more than you, we will officially agree!"

The two sides fought again and again, and almost reached a preliminary agreement.

Of course, this is only a preliminary agreement, Dadong Telegraph is not stupid, someone offered a higher price, why not sell it at a higher price!

It can only be said that at the same price, they may take care of the New Era Group, which has a happy cooperation.

Of course, the money for this acquisition was paid by Hong Kong Telecom.

……

On the other side, Sing Tao Telecom came to the door and also proposed its own quotation of 76 billion US dollars.

Yang Li refused to hold a higher price, because he felt that the telecommunications assets were still plummeting, and he was worried that the price would be too expensive.

At the same time, everyone understands that this acquisition is not so easy to close the contract.

The Australian official is not the official of Xiangjiang, and the Australian official will consider ZZ factors.

At the beginning, the Xiangjiang government clearly stated that it would not interfere with commercial activities.

Chapter 693 [Small means]

mid-December.

Avelon came to Lin Zuhui's office and reported the progress of the work.

"Boss, the Dadong Telegraph Bureau has loosened up and intends to reach a deal. However, the public opinion in Australia is somewhat unfavorable for the acquisition."

It is understandable that telecommunications assets are not real estate or hotels, and not only need the consent of the government, but the government will also consider the influence of public opinion.

"Very serious?" Lin Zuhui frowned.

Evelyn nodded, then hesitated and said: "I suspect that someone is deliberately manipulating public opinion to prevent our acquisition."

Lin Zuhui asked: "What kind of public opinion?"

Avalon said: "Probably because there is a mainland shadow behind Heung Kong Telecom, and public opinion is worried that mainland officials will infiltrate the Australian telecommunications industry, thereby affecting national security issues."

"Have you explained it in the media?"

"Yes. I made it clear that Xiangkong Telecom is a public enterprise of Hongkong Telecom, without any official power..."

Lin Zuhui nodded. In fact, Mainland Telecom's shareholding in Heungkong Telecom was originally 10%, but after dilution and cash out, it should be very small now.

Unless, the Australian media will point the finger at him.

However, Lin Zuhui has always done better. He belongs to the kind of world businessman who invests globally without any official elements.

Suddenly, he thought of a problem. Evelyn suspected that someone was manipulating public opinion, which was pouring dirty water on him. No matter whether he had an official background or not, he would actually be affected by public opinion.

"Do you think someone is manipulating public opinion to prevent us from buying Optus Communications?"

"Just a guess!"

"Who would that be?"

"The biggest suspect is our biggest competitor!"

Lin Zuhui nodded, acknowledging the matter.

"Actually, our competitor is becoming more and more 'country D righteous'. Their major shareholder is Dan Macy, and holds more than 70% of the shares, which can be said to be full of official power; Dan Macy's influence in Asia is increasing, and it cannot be ignored. It is said that there is the official color of Sing Tao's country D, from telecommunications to finance, to real estate, etc., these are the spaces for their activities."

"Compared to Dan Macy, we have always been just a business group, never a ZZ vassal."

Avalon's eyes lit up, and he said immediately: "What the boss said is that if our background is worrisome, then the background of Sing Tao Telecom is even more worrisome."

Lin Zuhui nodded and said, "You are Australian. Our Xiangkong Telecom has a large number of foreign management teams with a clean background. This is our advantage. , even under the supervision of the world's media, it is just a purely commercial enterprise. Assuming we acquire Optus Communications, we will actively improve technology and services to serve Australian citizens."

Evelyn nodded seriously, and said, "Don't worry, boss, I know what to do!"

"Well. I won't interfere with anything about Hongkong Telecom. I will only give you some suggestions. This is where I think Hongkong Telecom will be better."

"Thank you boss for your trust!"

Although Lin Zuhui has been in the telecommunications industry for many years, he has been studying telecommunications knowledge, buying books and reading, etc.; but he only wants to understand the technical terms. In fact, he does not interfere with specific development.

Of course, if Heung Kong Telecom wants to grow and develop, the outline formulated by Lin Zuhui is crucial.

At this time, he felt that emerging Internet services such as PCC and video information were very worth investing in. Maybe the current effect is not obvious, but when it develops to a certain level in the future, it will not belong to the traditional telecommunications business.

For example, a certain actor in his previous life bombarded him for charging for watching TV. In fact, this is an Internet video service.

Heung Kong Telecom develops Internet services such as video information, PCC, and broadband services, and it is convenient to cooperate with the "content king" - the media group; for example, in Thailand, when people watch TV, they can use the information service of the charging model to watch Hong Kong streaming programs, sports events, etc. These programs cannot be provided by cable TV, and this has formed a new industry.

At the same time, Heung Kong Telecom is still a technology company that develops many auxiliary businesses: e-commerce services for business enterprises, data centers, Internet services, call centers, and so on.

Lin Zuhui also specially asked Heungkong Telecom to set up a venture capital fund, which has successively invested in many well-known Internet companies such as 'Du Niang' and 'Ctrip'.

The reason why he did this was not that he didn't want to make money, but that he didn't want to be too popular.

Moreover, the reason why Lin Zuhui didn't invest in Du Niang was because he didn't like it.If Penguin started from a cottage, then Du Niang started from "walking around the edge of the law".

The reason why Du Niang defeated Google in the previous life was not that its search engine was very powerful, but because of various reasons such as blocking Google by relying on a firewall, and Du Niang launched an MP3 service.In fact, its search engine technology is not worth mentioning.

This MP3 service made great contributions to Du Niang. At that time, MP3 downloads were popular, but mainlanders were used to free things, and Du Niang’s MP3s were all free. As a result, many copyright dealers complained, and Du Niang thought it was just a link. Coupled with the domestic laws, he just carried it over.No way, in the same case, the slow-broadcasting boss was jailed.

Therefore, although it is BAT, Lin Zuhui does not want Jingwei Capital to invest in Du Niang, but let Heung Kong Telecom participate in the investment; moreover, Du Niang's investment is the kind of investment that is cashed out before listing, that is, now the venture capital invested in Du Niang's shares. Before Du Niang goes public, you will be asked to cash out to avoid affecting its controlling interest.

In the previous life, Ali's founder team had the least influence, because the founder's equity was diluted a lot, and Softbank and Yahoo had a lot of voice;

As for Penguin's major shareholder, the South African Press Group, although they hold a high shareholding, they voluntarily gave up their voting rights, so Brother Xiao Ma has a great say.

In this life, Jingwei Capital has a large voting right in Ali and Penguin.

Holding a 25% stake in Ali, Ali hardly needed financing before Taobao appeared, because Lin Zuhui raised the price and gave 2500 million US dollars.The important thing is that the second round of Jingwei Capital will also participate in the investment, but it cannot fully invest, because Lin Zuhui is very clear about the C2C model.

Holding a 40% stake in Penguin, he gave 380 million US dollars, so that Penguin did not need to consider financing when it went public. Even the listing was arranged by Lin Zuhui's people.The reason is the simplest. Not only does Lin Zuhui hold 40% of the shares, but the most important thing is that ICQ is the world leader in instant messaging. Penguin is still on the way to imitate it.

……

After attacking Heung Kong Telecom, the Australian media turned to attack another competitor, Sing Tao Telecom, claiming that it is increasingly "country D righteousness", the official is the absolute majority shareholder, and its overseas investment is not subject to domestic media supervision , and is not subject to the supervision of the acquisition country.

All of a sudden, public opinion turned to Sing Tao Telecom.

At the same time, the public opinion in the media like Australia has also begun to make neighboring countries start to be wary of Damasy and start to examine Damasy's investment.

……

New Era Group.

Lin Zuhui smiled when he saw such news.

He is very satisfied with Avelon's tricks. He will not advertise and defend Hong Kong Telecom in the Australian media first, but first draw the trouble to the east.

In this way, the people of Sing Tao Telecom would never think that it was Xiangjiang Telecom who was playing tricks.

After all, according to common sense, it is the Australian media who are criticizing the two acquisition companies; after all, the Dadong Telegraph Bureau has not yet announced the ownership of the transaction.

The advantage of diverting disasters to the east is not only that it reduces the threat of Sing Tao Telecom, but at the same time, the small problems of Xiangjiang Telecom are directly covered.

And this acquisition will not have an answer so quickly, so Avelon's team will make public in the media afterwards, and Avelon himself is an Australian native and has worked for the Australian Telecommunications Bureau for more than ten years, so he naturally occupies a geographical advantage.

In fact, Lin Zuhui also knew that Dan Macy's troubles had already arrived.

About a few years later in the previous life, Danmaxi began to be guarded by Asian countries. Bangziguo did not recognize it as a financial institution, and not only refused DBS Bank to acquire a local Korean bank, but even held no more than 10% of its shares, which was obviously a deliberate target;

In short, Danmaxi is indeed very powerful, but it has also begun to be feared by everyone, because behind it is the official.

This time, Lin Zuhui called Ai Weilang to take advantage of this shortcoming to attack his opponent.

Then, Heung Kong Telecom has a much higher chance of success!

Although it is a bit despicable, Sing Tao Telecom does not follow the rules first.

What's more, shopping malls are like battlefields!

Of course, these small tricks did not prevent Lin Zuhui from going to Xingdao!

……

Sing Tao Telecommunications.

President Yang Li's face was dark. He didn't expect that the Australian media would not only criticize Sing Tao Telecom, but also criticize Dan Macy, who was behind it, and the public opinion increased sharply.

Some investment managers in Sing Tao even criticized: "Dan Macy has a high IQ, but a low EQ. Dan Macy has been operating in the domestic market for a long time, and will hardly be supervised by the state-controlled media."

"The acquisition is already not good for us, let's talk about it, what should we do?"

The chief executive is silent!

After a long time, an executive said: "At present, both competitors need to be approved by the Australian government. We can only conduct some explanations and activities through the government, which may have some effect."

Another executive said: "It's not the attitude of the Australian government now, but the Dadong Telegraph and Telegraph Bureau will not be willing to sell it to us at a price of 76 billion US dollars. Presumably Xiangjiang Telecom has paid more than 80 billion US dollars."

"With such a high price, Xiangjiang Telecom is really rich!"

At least it is richer than Sing Tao Telecom, that's for sure. After all, Hong Kong has a population of more than 600 million, while Singapore has only 400 million.

Last year, Hong Kong Telecom's net profit was HK$120 billion, a proper cash cow.

After a meeting, the executives of Sing Tao Telecom did not reach a good measure.

Not enough, these people have no doubts. Behind the public opinion is the shadow of Hong Kong Telecom. They only think that after the Australian media protested Hong Kong Telecom, they protested against Sing Tao Telecom.

Public opinion belongs to public opinion, but it cannot prevent the fate of Optus Communications from being sold, because Dadong Telegraph and Telegraph cannot protect itself, and there is no other way but to cash out.

……

The media once again reported that a consortium composed of Vodafone and Hutchison Telecom is also bidding for Optus Communications in the hands of Dadong Telegraph and Telegraph.

For a time, public opinion was in an uproar.

However, there are also media reports that Vodafone's participation in the bidding has violated the 'anti-monopoly law'.Because once Vodafone successfully acquires Optus Communications, its mobile business will account for more than 52%, which has already exceeded the 46% stipulated by the Australian Telecommunications Authority, and it is already within the scope of monopoly.

Some media pointed out that Vodafone intends to transfer 100 million customers to Hutchison Telecom, so as to avoid antitrust laws.

This is the third consortium joining the competition; this is not over yet, the fourth consortium, Telecom New Zealand, also joined the bidding.

Four consortiums bid for Optus Communications held by Dadong Telegraph Bureau, which even Lin Zuhui did not expect.

The most important thing is that he felt that Li Chaoren was a little unreasonable about his brotherhood, and even the Xiangjiang media began to criticize him.

After all, Heung Kong Telecom represents Heung Kong, and Lin Zuhui is not a real boss. After all, according to the calculation of layers of holdings, Lin Zuhui only holds less than 25% of Heungkong Telecom's equity.

In the end, Lin Zuhui decided to let go of this matter and hand it over to Avelon's team to tackle the problem.

The reason is simple, he also needs to downplay his influence in Hong Kong Telecom.And he also understands that it is normal for this matter to drag on for three to five months.

Therefore, he still shifted his energy to other investments.

To be honest, Lin Zuhui has no concept of personal gain or loss in the acquisition of Australia's Optus Communications. He purely wants to increase the potential for the Heung Kong Telecommunications industry, and even the technology industry.

……

Fila Headquarters, Italy.

Although Fila is listed in the United States, its headquarters is in Italy, because this brand was founded by Italian 'Fila Brothers' and has a history of more than 80 years.

"BOSS, this is President Santos."

"Boss, it's an honor to meet you!"

After Fila was acquired by Barings Bank, it was quickly replaced by Santos, a professional manager hired from the United States. This was the first time Lin Zuhui met.

Everyone came to the meeting room, and Lin Zuhui listened to everyone's work report.

Santos said energetically: "BOSS, the relocation of Fila's headquarters to the United States is expected to be completed within three months. At the same time, we have formulated a new strategy: abolish the route of luxury goods, and benchmark Nike and Adidas; sell The rest of the business...contains costs..."

After listening, Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "The overall strategy is correct, but it still lacks some offensiveness. My suggestion is that since it is the price of Nike and Adidas, we should naturally make professional basketball shoes and football shoes." At the same time, Fila's sports series should change the dull design in the past and add young and fashionable elements."

Santos and others showed expressions of approval, and they were not too surprised that Lin Zuhui made a good suggestion.

"Okay, Boss, we've written it down."

Lin Zuhui said again: "There is still the right to take back the naming rights of South Korea, and it is best to hold the management rights in your hands."

Santos said: "The naming rights in South Korea are in the hands of the Fila family, and it is easy to get them back. But the management there has already formed its own system and has been listed."

Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "The shareholding is very loose, the current president is not strong enough, so he directly buys it in the stock market. Of course, I have known the Korean president and he is a rare talent, so we can cooperate in the Korean market, but we must be major shareholder and has the right to participate in management.”

So what about a hostile takeover, a small company with a market value of only a few hundred million Hong Kong dollars.

Santos said seriously: "No problem, I will definitely solve this problem. By the way, Boss, you are making such a big move, are you planning to continue to increase investment in Fila?"