Through the wealth life

Chapter 869
In the morning of the next day, Li Guangyu discussed with Gu Zhengsheng about the development of the Marandu iron mine in his office.

This time, there are a lot of projects in Western Australia, and the investment is extremely huge. It is not only necessary to build supporting facilities for iron ore mining, but also to build a port and a dedicated railway from the port to Marandu Iron Mine to facilitate the transportation of iron ore. In the future, Star Source Group and Rio Tinto will compete with BHP Billiton for capital.

Now the railway and port are established by a joint venture company, so that he can save a lot of cost. This joint venture company is managed by Xingyuan Group, and other shareholders will only send directors. In the future, Xingyuan Group can also mine iron ore from this railway. And port shipments, will not be subject to any restrictions.

For this reason, Li Guangyu attaches great importance to the chairman of the Marandu Iron Ore Development Company, so Gu Zhengsheng should be in charge of the affairs in England, otherwise Li Guangyu would have arranged for him to directly serve as the chairman of the joint venture company.

In the reception area, Li Guangyu said to Gu Zhengsheng who was sitting opposite him: "I have thought about it this time, and it is more appropriate to arrange for Xu Yuntao, the vice president of the group, to be the chairman of this company. You tell him and ask him to step up the work of the port. Site selection and planning of the railway line, the transportation volume of the railway line should be considered as much as possible, and our group will not stop at the Marandu Iron Mine.”

Gu Zhengsheng is very clear that there is still such a huge iron mine waiting for him to discover. So far they have only explored one-fifth of the area approved this time, and there are still four-fifths waiting for them to discover. Among them is one The area that Li Guangyu asked them to focus on, was of the same status as Marandu.

Now that such a big discovery has been made in the Marandu iron mine, it must not be too small. The daily transportation volume of their new railway should be considered at least [-] to [-] times the daily mining volume of Marandu. There will be insufficient capacity in the future.

As for the experts in ports and railways, the Sumitomo family and the Mitsui family can help them solve the problem very well. At present, Marandu Company needs money and resources, and it needs to wait for the person in charge to pull up the company structure. It's officially up and running.

Gu Zhengsheng said: "Li Sheng, I will go to Western Australia with Xu Yuntao. I plan to put the headquarters of our joint venture company in Perth, its capital, and its registered place in Xiangjiang, which is more conducive to our development."

Li Guangyu agreed to Gu Zhengsheng's proposal. At present, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton are headquartered in Melbourne, the southern city of Australia. Li Guangyu has no interest in going to South Australia to fight with them. It is more beneficial for the company's headquarters to be in Perth. develop.

At present, Li Guangyu focuses on the development of iron ore, and this resource is mainly concentrated in Western Australia. The Marandu Iron Ore Development Company mainly develops the Marandu Iron Ore in the Pilbara region. At the same time, the construction of railways and ports are in Western Australia. It is fitting that the company is headquartered in Perth.

Although Melbourne is the second largest metropolitan area in the South Pacific of Australia after Sydney, it is the center of industry, electronics, and automobile manufacturing. It is not suitable for the headquarters of Xingyuan Group. It is suitable to establish an Australian headquarters here, so as to radiate markets in countries such as Australia and New Zealand.

Li Guangyu instructed: "After you go to Western Australia this time, you don't need to come back to report in person. You still need to preside over the affairs in Western Europe, especially the current competition between our Hengyu Supermarket Group and Carrefour in the British and French markets." Very anxious, you should always pay attention to the dynamics over there and give Hengyu Supermarket Group some help."

It has been more than three months since Hengyu Supermarket Group opened dozens of supermarket chains in England and Paris. At present, the competition with Carrefour is very fierce. The headquarters of Xiangjiang Hengyu Supermarket Group has mobilized [-] million US dollars to Western Europe to support the development there. .

Chen Linwen, executive vice president of the group, even sits in London and is in charge of Western European affairs of Hengyu Supermarket Group.

It's better in England. After all, the influence of Bentley Group and British Telecom Group is not small. In addition, Li's consortium has been working in this market for many years. It is not too disadvantageous for Hengyu Supermarket Group to compete with Carrefour here.

But in Paris, Hengyu Supermarket Group is under great pressure. Paris is the headquarters of Carrefour Group. This time, Hengyu Supermarket Group has opened several supermarkets in Paris. This is a serious challenge to them. Carrefour has issued a series of policy to suppress Hengyu Supermarket Group.

At this time, the shareholders of Carrefour Group were very united, creating obstacles for Hengyu Supermarket Group through various relationships, in an attempt to make Hengyu Supermarket Group quit in the face of difficulties.

Li Xuelan is determined to snatch the market from the Carrefour Group, even though several stores of the Hengyu Supermarket Group in Paris are currently at a loss, they still have no plans to withdraw.

The Western European market has always been regarded by the Carrefour Group as its own private land. Now the hungry wolf of the Hengyu Supermarket Group suddenly broke in and seized the extremely important British market and their old Paris market. The group is forced to retreat, how can they compete for the world's largest retail supermarket group.

There is no problem in England, they can compete fairly with Carrefour, but Li Guangyu far underestimated the influence of Carrefour Group in Paris and France.

In Paris, many city councilors and members of Congress often express some unfavorable remarks against their Hengyu Supermarket Group, and the Paris government agencies have very frequent inspections of the Hengyu Supermarket Group.

Li Guangyu knew very well that behind this was the shadow of the shareholders of Carrefour Group, otherwise this situation would not have happened.

Although he currently has a good communication with the mayor of Paris Chirac, just a Chirac will not play a big role in this. He is not the only one who has the final say on some things in Paris, and the members of the parliament do not listen to him alone. Besides, Carrefour is their local company. Compared with Hengyu Supermarket Group, they are more willing to support Carrefour.

Gu Zhengsheng is also aware of the arduousness of the matter. It is quite difficult for a company to occupy a new market, especially when the same industry has already developed and matured, such pressure will be very heavy, let alone this time Hengyu Supermarket The group still ran to other people's lair.

If Carrefour allowed Hengyu Supermarket Group to capture the Paris market so easily, it would be impossible for it to develop into its current scale, one of the world's three largest retail supermarket groups. This is not something that can be developed by luck.

Gu Zhengsheng said: "Li Sheng, after I return to England, I will coordinate the consortium's resources in Western Europe, focus on promoting our Hengyu Supermarket Group, and make our supermarket group more famous in Western Europe. At the same time, I suggest that we temporarily bypass France for future expansion. , expand other regions first, so that our pressure will be less.”

Since France is the home field of Carrefour, Hengyu Supermarket Group will face many interferences from the government and protectionism when they develop there. In other countries, such problems will not occur.

Other countries in Western Europe welcome Hengyu Supermarket Group to enter and compete with Carrefour, so that they can enjoy more benefits, and a monopoly is not conducive to their development.

At that time, whether Carrefour will continue to occupy the main market or Hengyu Supermarket Group will suppress Carrefour, this has nothing to do with their country and citizens, they will pay more attention to the price of products.

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(End of this chapter)