Chapter 176 Korn Ferry Group
Cang Yaozu's home is playing games in Cang Mansion, and it is playing "Legend of Sword and Fairy". Oh, the DOS version, and the Windows version of Cang Yaozu has not yet released. Cang Yaozu likes this game very much, although from his perspective, the picture is a little rough.
To be precise, Cang Yaozu likes this IP very much and can adapt film and television. It seems that someone has to be sent to Wanwan to get Daewoo Information. Oh, and there is also the spectrum information of Wanwan. Cang Yaozu also likes to play "Monaur: Richest in the World". In two years, this game may be ported to the mobile phone.
Sophie and Monica worked hard for their own industrial group. Monica's acting skills were a little worse, mainly taking the sexy route. Now Cang Yaozu doesn't want her to shoot so-called art films, so there are much fewer film appointments. She will join the group to shoot "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" in a few months, and now director Giuseppe Tonadore is still filming "The Pianist on the Sea".
Monica's other drama appointments were rejected, and Cang Yaozu promised her agent's film universe that had not started yet, so Monica's focus has been on supermarkets recently, and she is very motivated.
Monica chose four places in Magic City and began to build her large supermarket chain. Yao Mengjin has also helped her in the past few days. She is already an expert in property management. The two of them are recruiting locations and purchasing personnel every day, and negotiate with merchants to enter the market, which is very fulfilling.
The requirement that Cang Yaozu gave them was to standardize everything, be ambitious, and raise his positioning to the same height as Carrefour and Walmart. If you strictly demand yourself, it would not be too bad.
Sophie's words, because "The Sun in Tuscany" will not be filmed until summer, so there is still some free time in April. Recently, she is busy negotiating with Uniga. Now Uniga has not agreed to the overall sale, but has agreed to Sophie's request for part of its shares to acquire. She has agreed to transfer 26% of the shares to her. Soon, Sophie may be Uniga's largest individual shareholder, but she is still unable to control the shares.
Next, what we want to talk about is the investment of Panda Fund. Sophie, on behalf of Cang Yaozu, provided various favorable conditions to Unicharm and depicted a beautiful future scenario.
Panda has strong capital and has huge connections in Asia, America and Europe, which can help Unicharm quickly occupy these markets.
In particular, Panda Fund is seeking to acquire 7-Eleven convenience stores as a whole, and is also deploying large supermarket groups, which can greatly benefit Uniga.
At the same time, behind Panda Fund is also home to China's No. 1 portal QQ.com and the world's No. 1 instant messaging software icq. The business scope spans the Internet and film and television music industries. Such a high-quality partner can have a huge boost to Uniga's business through cross-industry linkage.
Once the Panda Fund abandons Uniga and instead works with her competitors in Sakura Country, Uniga will face a huge blow and cruel competition.
After reporting to the Japanese headquarters, Natsume Kuroshi agreed to the Panda Fund's capital injection request after several meetings. After all, there are extremely powerful competitors such as Procter & Gamble in the daily chemical market. If he can use the power of Panda Fund to achieve rapid development, there may be a slight chance of surpassing. Even if he cannot surpass it, it is acceptable to be evenly matched.
After several rounds of negotiations in recent months, Panda Fund has invested in 40% of Uniga Co., Ltd., and Sophie's shares, her 26% of shares have been diluted to about 15%. However, it can be regarded as completing its holdings in Uniga. In the future, it can continue to increase its shareholding share through mergers and acquisitions.
Uniga, the Magic City, was jointly established by Uniga and Uniga. The current market value of Modu Home is not high, which is also a goal of Sophie. However, domestic companies are relatively rigid now and are not particularly used to the shareholding system. Although the Magic City is open to a high degree, there are still resistance.
Cang Yaozu could only find someone to clear the relationship. He specially contacted the presidents of several universities in the Magic City to set up scholarships and establish research centers. Fudan and Magic City Jiaotong University are both good at strength, and they also have a lot of intersections with Cang Yaozu's industry.
After a period of communication and negotiation, Sophie and Panda Fund invested 10 million US dollars, occupying 42% of the shares of Modu Jiahua. Through this investment, Modu Jiahua also enhanced its strength and had more R&D funds.
Sophie's next goal is Hengan Group. Now it has some technical reserves of Uniga and the advantages of linkage with various industries. There is technology in the upstream, funds in the middle, and channels in the downstream are built. I believe that Hengan Group will not last long in the face of such an offensive.
The acquisition of 7-Eleven convenience store was not very smooth. Kurao Yuzu acquired a lot of shares of Southern Company on the American stock market through Wilder's family bank and launched acquisitions of Southern Company. Southern Company is the parent company of 7-Eleven convenience store, while Ito Yokado is the major shareholder of Southern Company.
Kura Yokozu's team is also negotiating with Japan's Ito Yokawado. To acquire all the equity of 7-Eleven convenience store, Ito Yokawado is very resistant. Although Japan's economic situation has not been good in recent years, the development of 7-Eleven convenience store is still good. This kind of high-end convenience store is very popular among professional white-collar workers.
Ito Yokado was very resistant, but Cang Yaozu still offered a high price and continued to purchase a large amount of shares of Southern Company in the US stock market. Some small shareholders of Southern Company were very interested in the price offered by Cang Yaozu. Off the market, Ge Liqin also helped to acquire many shares of Southern Company from these small shareholders. At the same time, Cang Yaozu's team also found Wanwan Unigroup and Jardine Group's Xiangjiang Milk Company, which was under Jardine Mail, to acquire the 7-Eleven convenience store's operating license in Wanwan and Xiangjiang.
The money spent during this period is indeed quite large. More than half of the more than 10 billion US dollars raised from Southeast Asia is spent. Although Cang Yaozu doesn’t really want to enter the physical industry in this period of time, it may be better to wait for the two-year opportunity. But since the action has begun, then spend money, and there will be no loss anyway, and the return rate is low at most.
Another advantage of investing in industry is that it can be mortgaged. Cang Yaozu naturally won’t forget to do this. Only by increasing the utilization rate of funds can more profits be created.
Sigram Wine Company is now reorganizing and establishing a group company, which then holds the wine company, Tropical Juice Company, and the recently acquired Dole Company.
Cang Yaozu recently founded Huaxia Jiaduobao Tea Beverage Company in Magic City. Jiaduobao Tea Beverage is now developing ice black tea, ice green tea and herbal tea series products. Tea Beverage products will be the beginning of Sigram Group's efforts in the Chinese market.
Alcohol, tea, juice, sanitary napkins, diapers, tissues, shower gel, shampoo, toothpaste, these are all ammunitions prepared by Cang Yaozu for the 24-hour convenience store complementary business model of Supermarket Group's supermarkets.
Ito Yokado also attaches great importance to the strength in Yaozu's hands. If Cang Yaozu's investment is made, I believe that 7-Eleven will not only win the huge retail market of China, but also stand invincible for a long time. Therefore, I am very moved by Cang Yaozu's plan to deal with Huaxia Wandian.
But they were reluctant to let go of the 7-Eleven brand. They were undecided in the face of Cang Yaozu's acquisition offensive in the Citigroup stock market, but they could not hesitate. Cang Yaozu has already acquired many shares in Southern Company, and the remaining few small shareholders may not last for a few days under his high premium. It can be said that Cang Yaozu's entry has become a foregone conclusion.
Fortunately, Ito Yokado still occupies the position of major shareholder. Ito Yokado covets the Chinese market and is moved by the Wandian plan proposed by Kura Yokado. The current plan they give is that Ito Yokado transfers 20% of its shares to Kura Yokado. The 7-Eleven brand is owned by 7-Eleven brand authorization in Japan and Citigroup. Kura Yokado's Guanghui International Supermarket Group has 7-Eleven brand authorization in China and Southeast Asia.
Cang Yaozu agreed to this plan. His main focus is on China. Half of the 7-Eleven brand has reached most of the acquisition plans. His alcoholic beverages can be sold more easily using the 7-Eleven channel.
The reason why the supermarket group established by Kura Yosu and Monica is called Guanghui International is that Kura Yosu acquired Japan's Sogo Co., Ltd. by the way. Sogo Sogo Department Store is too debt-to-demand and has no resistance to Kura Yosu's acquisition, and is even happy to see it happen. At the same time, Kura Yosu also established a self-operated fresh food supermarket, which is Yonghui Supermarket. As a supplement to the supermarket group, Chongguang and Yonghui each take one word, which is the origin of the name Guanghui International.
Cang Yaozu also sent a team to Xiangjiang to prepare to acquire Watsons. Qiu Qichang recently went to Xiangjiang due to the Asian financial crisis and had a lot of contact with Li Chaoren. In this acquisition, he also said a lot of good things to Cang Yaozu. Li Chaoren intends to give up part of the equity, and the price is fine, but the share of the sale is a little less, only 25%.
Cang Yaozu naturally disliked him. He proposed his own cooperation method. Guanghui International obtained the brand authorization of Watsons and was fully responsible for the mainland market in China. He also made a promise to build 1,000 Watsons stores before 2,000, but he required to invest in Watsons and occupy 45% of the shares.
Out of his importance to the mainland market and Cang Yaozu, Li Chaoren hopes to have more cooperation with Cang Yaozu in the future and happily agrees to transfer 45% of Watsons shares to Cang Yaozu's Guanghui International.
After a very intensive series of acquisitions, Guanghui International, under the name of Cang Yaozu and Monica, has SOGO Sogo Department Store, SOGOMART Supermarket, Yonghui Supermarket, and Watsons and 7-Eleven, which have almost half the equity.
The next task is to spend money in. Cang Yaozu is good at it. He gave Yao Mengjin 1 billion US dollars to acquire a venue suitable for establishing supermarkets. Well, he only bought it but not rented it. He placed it all in the name of Shanfang Real Estate. Then he continued to buy property while mortgaged it, and once again started crazy revolving loans. After the last investigation of Cang Yaozu's financial fraud, Cang Yaozu's popularity in the banking field has increased again. Everyone knows that he likes to purchase real estate the most, and then mortgage loans, lending the money to him with low risk and stable returns, and will not generate bad debts. Needless to say, this time, the enthusiastic loan is released.
Chapter completed!