The richest man

Chapter 153 I'm Just Selling Instant Noodles (Da Chapter)
Seeing that the matter of suppressing Hong Kong real estate is very simple, Zhang Jun will not mention it any more.

Turning around, I discussed with Ma Shimin how to develop Hutchison Whampoa.

Zhang Jun didn't know much about the port, so he asked Ma Shimin to handle it by himself, mainly talking about retail and manufacturing business, so that shareholders could see the potential of retail and manufacturing.

Hutchison Whampoa owns Watsons and ParknShop, and its manufacturing business has developed smoothly through these two channels.

Zhang Jun took a look and found that Hutchison Whampoa has a wide range of manufacturing businesses, including electrical appliances, textiles, leather, wood processing, furniture, food, clothing, printing, machinery and equipment, etc... The size of the company is different, which is also related to Heji It is related to the aggressive investment and merger strategy implemented by Huangpu.

Controlling so many small companies, Zhang Jun felt dizzy for a while.

Some companies must be sold to restore blood.

Zhang Jun discussed this with Ma Shimin for a long time.

The manufacturing business focuses on the development of electrical appliances, food, furniture, clothing, and mechanical equipment. The rest of the business, with obvious advantages, can be sold.

While calculating, Ma Shimin said to Zhang Jun: "After selling these businesses, Hutchison Whampoa can get at least 7500 million Hong Kong dollars in development funds!"

"In terms of electrical appliances, we mainly focus on the development of the four major pieces of TV sets, refrigerators, washing machines, and air conditioners."

"In terms of food, we mainly focus on developing beverages and instant noodles."

"In terms of furniture, it's mainly on the sofa."

"........."

More and miscellaneous, less but better!

Hutchison Whampoa's strength is limited, and it is currently trying to use funds for projects that can generate the most economic benefits.

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The suppressed real estate matter cannot be implemented immediately for the time being, otherwise it will appear too deliberate.

After a while, let some small newspapers publish some bad news about Hong Kong real estate.

Later, it was announced that Chinese Land would sell houses in public housing estates, which completely crushed the Hong Kong real estate industry.

The next morning, Hutchison Whampoa held a board meeting.

Zhang Jun announced at the meeting that Hutchison Whampoa took the lead in disposing of various manufacturing businesses.

This time, the opposition was relatively small.

Zhang Jun's proposal is reasonable.

Moreover, Hutchison Whampoa is seriously short of funds. By selling these businesses, the company can obtain a large amount of funds for development.

Furthermore, Hutchison Whampoa did not completely abandon the manufacturing business.

After the board meeting, Zhang Jun held another meeting with Ma Shimin and the senior management of Hutchison Whampoa.

Zhang Junduan sat on the first seat, and said in a deep voice: "The situation of Hutchison Whampoa is not optimistic. In the morning, the board of directors has decided to sell some manufacturing businesses to restore blood to the company!"

"Now I will say a few points."

"After selling the business, the company can get at least 7500 million Hong Kong dollars!"

"Among them, 2000 Hong Kong dollars will be used to expand the scale of Watsons and ParknShop supermarkets!"

"3000 million Hong Kong dollars to develop the port!"

"There is only 2500 million Hong Kong dollars left to develop the manufacturing business!!!"

"Obviously, such a small amount of money is not enough to allocate. Therefore, we must make a choice and give priority to the development of several businesses."

Zhang Jun paused, let everyone think for a while, and then said: "I decided to give priority to the development of beverages and instant noodles!!!"

Instant noodles were invented by a Chinese-Japanese named Wu Jiafu in August 1958. Because of their convenience, quickness and delicious taste, instant noodles were deeply loved by consumers once they were launched!

In 1967, Baodao Uni-President Enterprise was established, which has occupied half of the instant noodle market.

Zhang Jun feels that instant noodle technology is not difficult. As long as the marketing strategy is better, with the help of ParknShop Supermarket, the market will be opened soon.

For marketing strategy, Zhang Jun has a plan for a long time ago. The Raccoon Outlaws of the Marsh instant noodles became popular in China back then, relying on the strategy of collecting cards.

Zhang Jun can ask Phoenix TV to shoot the "Water Margin" TV series, and at the same time let DreamWorks produce "Water Margin" cartoons, and Legendary Comic Magazine Group produce "Water Margin" comics.

With the joint efforts of many parties, the instant noodles developed by Hutchison Whampoa will quickly become popular in Asia!
When Zhang Jun expressed his thoughts on instant noodles.

The strategy of collecting cards is an eye-opener for everyone, and they are amazed!
At the same time, I can't help feeling that Zhang Jun's entry into Hutchison Whampoa will bring huge resources to the company!

"Boss, your idea is unconstrained, and it will definitely work. I have to say a word of admiration!!!"

"Yes, the children will definitely like it very much, and our instant noodles will not worry about sales!"

"The boss is indeed a genius!"

"Moreover, the investment in instant noodles is low, and a few million Hong Kong dollars can build a large factory!"

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As a result, everyone present agreed and praised Zhang Jun for a while.

Zhang Jun waved his hand and smiled slightly, "After talking about instant noodles, let's talk about drinks!"

"My idea is to cooperate with Coca-Cola and strive to become the Coca-Cola brand agent in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, mainland China and even Southeast Asia!!"

Swire Group cooperated with Coca-Cola and made a lot of money, especially when it opened the Chinese mainland market. Swire Coca-Cola's annual sales reached tens of billions of yuan, and the profits were astonishing, which made people salivate.

Hutchison Whampoa has a self-operated store, ParknShop Supermarket, which has a greater advantage than Swire Group, but Hutchison Whampoa did not pay enough attention to the beverage industry, which resulted in Swire Pacific making a lot of profits.

"The taste of Coca-Cola is quite popular among the public, and Coca-Cola attaches great importance to brand promotion. It will definitely occupy the leading position in the beverage market in the future!"

"Therefore, we must seize the opportunity and reach a cooperation agreement with Coca-Cola very quickly!"

"As long as we are sincere, Coca-Cola will be very willing to cooperate with Hutchison Whampoa!!!"

The so-called cooperation is actually a joint venture with Coca-Cola to establish a bottling factory. The Coca-Cola Group will sell the globally unified Coke puree to these bottling factories. go.

After Zhang Jun finished speaking, everyone pondered.

The establishment of a joint venture bottling plant cost little to Hutchison Whampoa.

In addition, this business is indeed very promising, so it quickly won the support of many executives.

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At the meeting, Zhang Jun only talked about the instant noodles and beverages he is more familiar with, and did not do things like laymen guiding experts.

after the meeting.

Hutchison Whampoa started to take action, frantically selling off a large amount of business to the outside world, which attracted the attention of many media and stock investors.

Many newspapers couldn't help bad-mouthing Hutchison Whampoa.

"After all, Zhang Jun is too young and has no experience in business and management. He will only sell Hutchison Whampoa's business!"

"The huge Hutchison Whampoa company, once one of the four major foreign firms in Hong Kong, may fall out of the top [-] companies in Hong Kong in the future!"

"Zhang Jun is slimming down the Hutchison Whampoa Company, the effect is still unknown!"

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Hutchison Whampoa's share price plummeted.

Even ordinary stockholders are not optimistic about Zhang Jun.

In the past, Hutchison Whampoa invested heavily in mergers and acquisitions. When it came to Zhang Jun, it sold these businesses instead, and suffered heavy losses.

Shareholders are very dissatisfied.

I promised not to sell the real estate business before, well, I will not sell it, but I will sell the manufacturing business!

"Whether Zhang Jun can do it? If he sold so many businesses, wouldn't he be losing money? He bought them at a high price! Oh, what a prodigal. The stock price of Hutchison Whampoa has plummeted again. Fuck, I would have sold the shares in Hutchison Whampoa earlier!"

"Oh, don't mention it, I used to trust Zhang Jun very much, so as soon as I learned that he bought Hutchison Whampoa Company, I immediately bought shares from the stock market. Damn it, he ended up giving us this one, I think Hutchison Whampoa will be sold out by him sooner or later!"

"Forget it, sell the shares in your hands quickly. If I touch the shares of Hutchison Whampoa again in the future, I will put my name upside down!"

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For a while, stockholders panicked and sold shares in Hutchison Whampoa one after another.

Seeing this, Zhang Jun frantically bought shares at a low price.

Today, he has 56% of the shares on hand, but 7% of the shares are held separately by multiple accounts. The outside world only knows that Zhang Junming holds 49.99% of the shares.

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With the plunge of Hutchison Whampoa, the business community is also very concerned about it.

"Zhang Jun is a person I know quite well. He is a genius, with outstanding ability and uniqueness. I still believe that he can develop Hutchison Whampoa Company. Taking advantage of the current stock price drop, let someone buy it!" Huo Yingdong told his subordinates Said.

Cheung Kong Industries.

Li Jiacheng looked at the newspaper, muttered to himself and analyzed: "Newspapers are bad-mouthing Hutchison Whampoa, but in my opinion, it's not a bad idea to sell these non-core businesses. Instead, we can concentrate our efforts on big things! From what Zhang Jun has done in the past It can be seen from the companies he founded that Zhang Jun is amazingly talented, and every company is making a lot of money. It makes no sense, Hutchison Whampoa will not be able to develop..."

Li Jiacheng immediately ordered people to secretly absorb the shares.

In the stock market, the stocks of Hutchison Whampoa are very, very strange.

Retail investors have abandoned stocks!
The bigwigs and institutions are secretly absorbing it, while the newspapers are fanning the flames and continuing to sing bad news about Hutchison Whampoa to guide public opinion.

From the changes in the stock market, Zhang Jun naturally knew that someone was secretly buying shares in Hutchison Whampoa, but he didn't care anymore. No one could shake his control over Hutchison Whampoa now!
At the time when Hutchison Whampoa was on sale, other companies under Zhang Jun's name also took the opportunity to purchase a lot of businesses, such as printing, clothing, electronic manufacturing, etc...mainly to expand their strength and talents.

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The outside world does not look at Hutchison Whampoa, and shareholders complain.

Zhang Jun couldn't ignore it.

As an excellent entrepreneur with a sense of responsibility, he is obliged to consider the small shareholders and strive to increase the company's stock price.

In addition, if people lose confidence in him, his other companies going public in the future may be affected.

At this moment, the Legendary Entertainment Building.

The general managers of Hutchison Whampoa, Phoenix TV, DreamWorks, Legendary Comic Magazine Group, and Legendary Toy Company were all present.

Zhang Jun looked at the crowd and said, "Hutchison Whampoa recently plans to develop a brand of instant noodles, which will use Water Margin cards for marketing. There is a card in a pack of instant noodles, and consumers want to collect 108 of them." Outlaws of the Marsh hero card, you must buy a large number of instant noodles. This will promote the sales of instant noodles!!!”

Huang Xizhao, Liu Zhan, Li Yu, and Li Neng looked at each other and vaguely understood Zhang Jun's purpose for calling them here.

Sure enough, Zhang Jun then said to the four of them: "In order to cooperate with the promotion of Hutchison Whampoa's instant noodles, Phoenix TV began to produce the TV series "Water Margin", DreamWorks produced cartoons, Legendary Comic Magazine produced comics, and Legendary Toys produced Cards and character dolls!"

""Water Margin" is one of the four classic Chinese classics. It is well-known. After the TV series, cartoons, comics, and card toys are released, they will definitely be very popular. This is a win-win for everyone. We must do things well! !!"

"Yes!!" Huang Xizhao and others responded in unison.

Immediately, everyone began to discuss specific cooperation rules.

Zhang Jun sat on the first seat and drank tea leisurely, listening to their discussion there, he would also interject a few words from time to time. After all, Zhang Jun was well-informed, and his views from later generations could refresh people of the entire era.

After discussing for a morning, the four companies basically reached a simple cooperation plan.

After Huang Xizhao returned to Phoenix TV, he immediately held a high-level meeting of the company and announced the establishment of the "Water Margin" project.

"This is something the boss explained, and everyone must attach great importance to it."

"The investment budget of "Water Margin" is as high as 1400 million Hong Kong dollars, and there are more than [-] episodes. It must be made into a classic!"

The shooting cost of TV series is relatively low, and 1400 million Hong Kong dollars can be regarded as a big production at this time.

Everyone at Phoenix TV was shocked.

Seeing the surprised expressions on everyone's faces, Huang Xizhao couldn't help laughing and said, "That's not counting. DreamWorks will release the cartoon "Water Margin", Legend Comic Magazine will release "Water Margin" comics, and Legendary Toys will release cards and character dolls. All in all, if the boss doesn't make a move, it's enough, and if he makes a move, it will be a big move. At that time, the "Water Margin" frenzy will definitely be set off in the whole Asia!!!"

"Oh my god, this is really shocking. With the cooperation of many companies, "Water Margin" will undoubtedly become popular!!!" A vice president of Phoenix TV couldn't help shouting.

Everyone's heart is hot.

When "Water Margin" is broadcast, it will definitely beat TVB TV dramas, and maybe even set a record for ratings!
After the meeting, the news that the TV station was going to shoot "Water Margin" quickly spread throughout the company, and then the news spread to the outside world, attracting the attention of major media and the industry.

"Water Margin" is one of the four great masterpieces in China, and it also has many readers in Hong Kong and is very well-known.

In 1972, Shaw also made a film "Water Margin".

"Jin Ping Mei" is even more famous in Hong Kong. I don't know how many remakes have been made. Zhang Jun in his previous life was so excited to see it!

Therefore, as soon as the news that Phoenix TV was going to remake "Water Margin", it aroused heated discussions among the whole people!

However, this news has not waited for everyone to digest, and then it broke out that DreamWorks formed a "Water Margin" animation development team, and Legendary Comic Magazine established a "Water Margin" comic development team.

As for the toys, there is no rush yet.

Therefore, no news broke out, but the outside world also knew that the consistent style of the Legendary Toy Company was to wait for the cartoons and animations to be released, and then the toys would be released.

"Oh, Zhang Jun is going to make a big deal again, looking forward to the broadcast of "Water Margin"!"

"It's awesome. Only Zhang Jun in Hong Kong can make such a big sensation. Now it seems that Shaw Brothers, TVB, Golden Harvest, and Princess Golden... combined, their resources are not as powerful as Zhang Jun!!!"

"No way, these companies don't pay attention to cartoons and comics. Right now, Hong Kong cartoons and comics are almost monopolized by the company under Zhang Jun's name! But having said that, the advantages of such a group battle are too obvious!"

"Hehe, that's right, I'm so envious of Zhang Jun. He actually laid out comics and cartoons a long time ago, and now he can describe this situation! TVB and Shaw Brothers can't keep up even if they flatter them! Even if they plan to get in, if they don't With Zhang Jun’s talent, the comics and cartoons produced will not be popular. Many companies have tried it, and they have all failed! Lessons learned from the past have made Daheng Shao dare not easily set foot in the comics and cartoon industry..."

Fans of "Water Margin" cheered and rushed to tell each other, looking forward to the early broadcast of "Water Margin".

Inside Phoenix TV, the artists mobilized their contacts one after another, making connections, wanting to play the role of "Water Margin".For a while, the TV station was extremely lively.

tvb and Jiayi TV held an emergency meeting to discuss countermeasures.

"Boss, since Phoenix TV is filming "Water Margin", then we will film "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which is also one of the four classic Chinese classics, and the popularity of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is even higher than that of "Water Margin"!!!" A tvb exclaimed the executive.

As soon as the words came out, everyone immediately agreed.

Shao Daheng also nodded, and after pondering for a while, he said, "Okay, then our TVB will film "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"!"

"Then what is our investment budget? According to what I heard, the investment budget for "Water Margin" on Phoenix TV is 1400 million Hong Kong dollars!"

Shao Daheng frowned when he heard the number.

In the past, tvb filmed a TV series, at most more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars, all the actors were paid dead wages, and the costumes and props were simple, basically old ones were used directly...

Phoenix TV is rich and powerful, and dare to invest 1400 million Hong Kong dollars in a TV series. Do you still want to make money?
Seeing everyone's expectant eyes, Shao Daheng was very depressed. He didn't know that although the investment was large, as long as "Water Margin" was shot and became a classic, it could be sold all over Asia, and it was impossible to lose money.

TVB wants to produce "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" at this time. If the investment is small, Zhang Jun will be very happy. This means that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is likely to be a bad drama.

Phoenix TV can remake "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in the future.

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is magnificent and difficult to shoot. Zhang Jun doesn't believe it. With Shao Daheng's stingy character, he would be willing to spend huge sums of money to shoot this TV series! !

Jiayi did not sit still, they soon decided to shoot a "Dream of Red Mansions". In fact, Jiayi TV station had filmed "Dream of Red Mansions" in 1977 in the previous life, and the famous Hong Kong star Mao Shunyun was the leading actor. and Michelle.

Therefore, after Phoenix TV reported that they were filming "Water Margin", tvb announced that it would film "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and Jiayi announced that it was preparing to film "Dream of Red Mansions".

Four classics, ready to shoot three at once!
Don't mention how happy and anticipating the people of Hong Kong are at this time...

"Haha, tvb and Jiayi TV have been stimulated. Otherwise, how could they film "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Dream of Red Mansions"?! Speaking of it, I really have to thank Zhang Jun. Otherwise, we would not be able to watch it." When the classics are also remade into TV series! I am extremely looking forward to the early broadcast of these three TV series!"

"I hope tvb and Jiayi don't want to be petty. The investment budget for "Water Margin" is 1400 million. You have to keep up!"

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Not to mention how the Hong Kong media crazily feasted on the traffic of remakes of classic masterpieces, and the sales volume skyrocketed!
When the news spread to the outside world, even Baodao, the mainland, Japan and South Korea were sensationalized!
The four famous works also have the four great popularity in these places.

Right now, three of the four great classics have been remade, and only Journey to the West is missing.

The mainland and Treasure Island naturally cannot remain indifferent.

The mainland has no money, and the internal situation is a bit complicated, so although some people proposed to turn "Journey to the West", it ended up being nothing.

Some people in Baodao also proposed to revise "Journey to the West", but in the end it still failed.

Zhang Jun was having breakfast at home one morning when a phone call came in, telling him that a Japanese TV station had actually remade Journey to the West...

Zhang Jun was taken aback when he heard the words, and couldn't help but yell shamelessly.Why do the Japanese remake Chinese TV dramas? !
Right now, "Dragon Ball" is very popular in Japan, and Monkey King is too popular. It is normal for Japanese TV stations to remake "Journey to the West" so decisively.

Zhang Jun couldn't do anything about it, he cursed a few words, and went on to eat again.

I thought to myself, I never thought that I just wanted to sell instant noodles, why did so many things happen, oh...

(End of this chapter)