Through the wealth life

Chapter 535
Maybe it's because the Li's consortium is too threatening to them, or they don't want to lose their most important Xiangjiang market.

After discussions at the board of directors of the Standard Chartered Bank headquarters, it was decided that Standard Chartered would join hands with HSBC and Jardine Matheson in Xiangjiang, and let the Jardine Group hold back the Li's consortium in the front, so that the Li's consortium would not have the extra energy to suppress them in the financial industry. Standard Chartered Bank.

This time, the actions of several companies were quite fast. After the shareholders of Standard Chartered Bank of HSBC communicated with them, they also changed their attitude and asked their representatives on the board of directors to support Shen Bi's decision on the board of directors.

Just before Youde took office, at nine o'clock in the morning on May 5th, Jardine Holdings Group held a press conference. HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank held 19% and 17% of the group's shares respectively, becoming the third and fourth largest in the group. shareholder.

As for the first and second are the Jardine family and the Keswick family, they hold 26% and 25% of the shares respectively to ensure that the two have control over Jardine.

Since today is Wednesday, as soon as the news came out, the shares of Jardine Holdings Group in the stock market immediately began to rise, and even Jardine Land also had a considerable increase.

At the press conference, Henry Keswick, Shen Bi and George Lavin attended at the same time.

In Li Guangyu's office, Gan Qin made a detailed report to Li Guangyu on the situation of Jardine's press conference today.

Li Guangyu knew that it would be more difficult to squeeze Jardine out of the Xiangjiang market in the future. With the joining of HSBC and Standard Chartered, Jardine would not have any major problems in terms of funds. Knowing whether the upcoming price war will have any effect on Jardine.

Li Guangyu said: "Ganqin, you go and tell Liu Tianci, Ms. Zhou Liang and Chen Linwen to come to my office. At the same time, you go to contact Li Ka-shing and the shareholders of Xiangjiang Zhonghua Investment Company and ask them if they have time at noon. I'm at the Peninsula Hotel Invite them to dinner."

Gan Qin knew that Li Guangyu was about to start a price war, so she immediately replied, "Alright Mr. Li, I'll do it right away."

Soon, Zhou Liangshuyi, Liu Tianci and Chen Linwen came to Li Guangyu's office.

After they sat down, Li Guangyu said, "You must know the news from Yihe, right?"

These few people naturally knew that Chen Linwen made people pay attention to the movements of the Jardine Group at all times, and Zhou Liangshuyi and Liu Tianci had reporters under their own banners, so it was natural for someone to report such an important matter to them.

Zhou Liangshuyi said: "Li Sheng, this time Jardine has the entry of HSBC and Standard Chartered, and it will be more difficult to deal with in the future. At least they will not be as short of financial resources as before."

The bank has the most cash. As long as the Jardine Group has mortgages, they dare to give Jardine a loan. Besides, they invest in Jardine with the money of customers. There is not much pressure. They only need to give customers a certain amount of profit every year. That's it.

The market capitalization of HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank is inferior to that of Li's Xingyu Group. When it comes to annual profits, Xingyu Group is a few blocks ahead of the two major banks, but when it comes to using funds, the two major banks directly crush Xingyu Group.

This is the advantage of owning the bank. They hold the funds of countless depositors and customers in their hands, and they can freely invest in some enterprises. They only need to pay interest to depositors according to the interest rate every year.

Li Guangyu said: "No matter how difficult it is, we will fight. If our Li Group wants to develop stably in Xiangjiang, we must suppress the influence of Jardine Matheson and the two major banks. Keeping them is always a threat to us. .”

Zhou Liangshuyi and the others all understood Li Guangyu's thoughts. He just wanted to develop steadily in Xiangjiang. Now who in Xiangjiang would easily trouble Li's group.This is obviously because Li Guangyu wants the Li Group to become the only overlord of Xiangjiang, so he wants to eliminate the previous overlords of Xiangjiang one by one.

Liu Tianci asked, "Sheng Li, do you have any orders for the entry of the two major banks, Standard Chartered and HSBC?"

Liu Tianci knew in his heart that Li Guangyu must have already made a complete plan to invite some of his own people to come here this time, otherwise he should have called a meeting of the top management of Hengyu Supermarket Group at this time, instead of letting some of his own people come.

Li Guangyu said: "We will launch an unlimited price war this time. Your TV stations and newspapers will magnify the losses of Wellcome Supermarket for me to report, and make trouble for them."

Selina Chow knew that this was a counterattack against HSBC and Standard Chartered. This was an accusation against HSBC and Standard Chartered. They ignored the interests of their own bank shareholders and invested in companies that knew they would lose money.

Although this cannot have a devastating blow to HSBC and Standard Chartered, it still has some impact on the stock market.Once there are more such negative reports, it will also affect the choice of customers.

Liu Tianci said: "Sheng Li, I will arrange it after I go back. I will make a lot of reports on the situation of Wellcome Supermarket in the past few months, with the focus on their profits. Secondly, we will report on the internal They have a lot of problems now, I will ask a third party to contact the former shareholders of Jardine Holdings Group and get some information from them."

Li Guangyu didn't say much about it. It's the best if this matter can be done, and it doesn't matter if it can't. The key now depends on who takes longer, the Li Group or the British consortium.

HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank entered at a high position, but they helped those small shareholders a lot. In a few months, the market value of Jardine Matheson Group will plummet by half from the current level. I don’t know how Standard Chartered and HSBC shareholders will feel.

Moreover, the Jardine Holdings Group has a lot of debts. After the properties of its group have depreciated with the stock market and property market, their shareholders need to take out funds to fill the hole. Even the two major banks must inject capital.

If they dare to exceed the loan limit to Jardine, then the problems behind will be much more serious. Once the outside world finds out, the two major banks will suffer heavy losses, so they will not do such a thing.

After Li Guangyu ordered Zhou Liangshuyi and Liu Tianci, he said to Chen Linwen: "Get ready at your supermarket. If there are no accidents, you will implement a [-]% discount starting tomorrow. Don't care about these losses at this time. Everything is to defeat Huikang. for the goal."

Chen Linwen had already been mentally prepared for this. The matter was discussed at the last meeting, and they were also actively preparing for it after the meeting.

Chen Linwen said: "Li Sheng, we have recruited some people these days, and we can barely cope with the soaring passenger flow. We are still recruiting and will not affect the normal operation of the supermarket."

Li Guangyu is not too worried about this, everything that needs to be prepared is ready, everything depends on the development of the next few days, Li Guangyu is not sure whether Jardine will continue to follow up this time, after all, this time the [-]% discount In terms of sales, the monthly loss is not a small number.

Li Guangyu finally said to Chen Linwen: "You should pay attention to the logistics and our supply of goods. You must ensure that the supply of goods is sufficient, and we cannot let our supermarket run out of stock."

Chen Linwen said: "Sheng Li, please rest assured that Vice President Fang Ruoqiang is in charge of this, and Vice President Liang Bohua will also provide assistance to deal with this situation and ensure that there may be a rush to buy this time."

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(End of this chapter)