Through the wealth life

Chapter 564
Henry Keswick, Shen Bi and others breathed a sigh of relief when the Lee Consortium announced its entry into the Southeast Asian market with great fanfare. Li Guangyu showed with his actions that he did not target the British consortium for Li Xuelan's matter this time.

But this time, the Lee Consortium suddenly sent a number of high-level executives to several countries in Southeast Asia to open up markets. Henry Keswick and the others don't know if they have discovered any problems.

At this time, they can only continue to wait, hoping that the Li's consortium can announce the mastermind behind it, and they will not let this matter go easily.

If Li Guangyu hadn't been calm and restrained enough this time, he might have directly attacked the British consortium. Faced with the full suppression of the Li consortium, Henry Keswick was not confident that his Jardine Group could resist it.

This time, the black hand behind the scenes obviously wanted to use himself and others as gunmen to let the British consortium hold back the Li's consortium in Xiangjiang, so that the Li's consortium would not have much energy to expand outside, so that they could profit from it.

It's a pity that Li Guangyu was not fooled by them. Henry Keswick knew that the reason why Li Guangyu made such a big publicity this time was to see the reaction of the black hands behind the scenes.

In the past, Li's consortium did not have such a high-profile entry into other regional markets. It was often after Li's top executives took action there that they received the news.Where is it like this time, the high-level executives are still in Xiangjiang, and the expansion plan of the Li consortium has been reported.

This is clearly telling the competitor that the Li's consortium is going to expand, and it has even been reported to the regional leaders. It is obvious that the Li's consortium is behind the scenes to stimulate this layout.

After Henry Keswick knew of Li Guangyu's actions, he didn't contact Shen Bi and the others to celebrate. He picked up the phone on his desk, looked at the phone number of the president of Carrefour's Asian affairs, and dialed him.

"Hi, I'm Victor Bill."

"Bill, it's me, Keswick, do you have time this afternoon? I'll treat you to tea."

Victor Bill was worrying about the news at noon today. He thought that the Lee consortium would not deploy the Southeast Asian market so quickly, and the Carrefour headquarters would not allocate funds to him until the middle of next month. Used to develop the Southeast Asian market.

He didn't expect that Li's consortium would go all out to enter the Southeast Asian market at this time, and it would be developed in multiple countries at the same time, which made him a little anxious.

It's just that it's not yet dawn in London, and I can only contact the headquarters in the evening.I hope that the headquarters can consider entering the Southeast Asian market in advance, otherwise it will be difficult for Carrefour to enter the market when the Lee consortium takes over the market.

Victor Bill said: "Keswick, what's the matter with you? You also know that the Lee Consortium has just announced that it will enter the Southeast Asian market with all its strength. Now I need to make a countermeasure. In addition, if it is to discuss the issue of taking over your supermarket stores, No need, we, Carrefour, have no plans to set up a branch in Xiangjiang for the time being.”

The reason why Henry Keswick met with Victor Bill today was to confirm some things.Li's consortium's sudden announcement of the supermarket group's aggressive entry into the Southeast Asian market gave him some thoughts, and he wanted to see Victor Bill's reaction.

He clearly remembered that on the morning of the 15th, he met with Victor Bill, who said that he would not consider Xiangjiang for the time being, but would choose some emerging markets, and the current Asian emerging markets Japan, Baodao, Xiangjiang Both of them are occupied by Li's consortium, and they can only choose Southeast Asia.

The Lee Consortium will also select the market in Southeast Asia after solving its own Wellcome. Li Xuelan is the president of Hengyu Supermarket Group. Under normal circumstances, this accident will definitely delay the expansion of the Li Consortium.

If it can cause hostility between their own group and the Li's consortium, then they can expand in Southeast Asia with more confidence, without worrying about the Li's consortium entering and competing with them for the market.

Thinking about it this way, Henry Keswick felt more and more that it might be Victor Bill who made the layout behind, letting himself and the Lee consortium fight to the death, and Carrefour was lucky to benefit from behind.

Henry Keswick said: "Bill, if you're not particularly busy, I hope we can meet at the place where we last met."

Victor Bill didn't know why Henry Keswick insisted on meeting him at this time.Although the Li's consortium is already planning to enter the Southeast Asian market on a large scale, it's just that there is no way for him to do so without the approval of the headquarters.

Anyway, at this time, I can only wait, why not go to see Henry Keswick, and see if he is anxious to see me.He also hopes to strengthen ties with the Hong Kong British-owned consortium, which will be very beneficial to their expansion of Carrefour.

At 03:30 in the afternoon, Victor Bill arrived at the place where he had last met Henry Keswick.

After seeing Henry Keswick, he said: "Keswick, what's the matter with you insisting on asking me out today? You also know that Carrefour's market development in the Asian region is quite bad, and I am now facing a lot of problems. What about the trouble?"

Henry Keswick said: "Bill, this matter won't be resolved for a while, so don't be too anxious. Have a sip of tea first. This is the famous Wuyi Mountain Dahongpao in mainland China. I managed to buy some."

Victor Bill had also heard of the fame of this tea, but he had never tasted the authentic Wuyi Dahongpao. Although he actually preferred coffee, Henry Keswick entertained him with such precious tea. Also tasted it.

After taking a sip, he said: "This time it deserves its reputation, it is indeed very good."

Henry Keswick said: "Bill, Ms. Li Xuelan, the president of Hengyu Supermarket Group, has been injured for nearly ten days. The perpetrator is still at large. The Li's consortium has issued a huge reward of 100 million Hong Kong dollars and there is still no news. I don't know you What do you think of this incident?"

Victor Bill was a little puzzled by Henry Keswick's question about Li Xuelan at this time. He was so eager to ask himself out why he asked about the Li's consortium.

Although Victor Bill was puzzled, he still replied: "This incident is a serious provocation to us executives. Just imagine, if business competition develops into personal attacks on competitors' high-level executives in the future, what safety can we have?" In other words, I also hope that the Lee Consortium and the Xiangjiang government can find the perpetrators and the behind-the-scenes as soon as possible, and give the Li Consortium and all walks of life in Xiangjiang an explanation."

Henry Keswick had been paying attention to Victor Bill's expression, and seeing that he didn't evade the matter, he suspected that his idea was wrong.

Henry Keswick said: "Bill, the Li's consortium suddenly announced that it will be led by several executives of the group to fully develop the Southeast Asian market. I wonder what your Carrefour Group thinks about this?"

Victor Bill was also very anxious when he heard Henry Keswick asking about this issue. He knew that there were not many markets left for Carrefour in Asia. If the Southeast Asian market was also lost, Carrefour would basically be able to make a move. After returning home, he doesn't think that his Carrefour will be the opponent of Hengyu Supermarket Group in the mainland market.

Victor Bill said: "Keswick, I am also worrying about this matter now. I will contact the headquarters later to see how the high-level decision is made. I can't do it myself. host."

Henry Keswick said suddenly: "Bill, according to the information we got from the Li's consortium, they believe that you are behind Li Xuelan's incident, that's why the Li's consortium announced in a high-profile manner that Hengyu Supermarket Group is aggressively entering the Southeast Asian market." , keep your Carrefour out of the Southeast Asian market.”

Victor Bill was quite angry when he heard that, how could he do such a thing? This is a complete slander to their Carrefour.

He said: "Keswick, this matter has absolutely nothing to do with our Carrefour Group. As a well-known retail group in Europe, how could our Carrefour Group do such a despicable thing. We have always adopted a commercial approach in our development. We will never do such a thing. Besides, even if it is to hold back the expansion of Hengyu Supermarket Group, we will not choose Li Xuelan, do you think we will be fools?"

Henry Keswick said with a smile: "Bill, don't get excited. I just heard about it. I don't know what's going on. However, the Li's Consortium suddenly announced that Hengyu Supermarket Group will enter the Southeast Asian market on a large scale." , it’s easy to think of.”

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(End of this chapter)