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Chapter 174 Jardine Land, the largest foreign company in Xiangjiang!

When the Chinese and British capitals of Xiangjiang thought that Yang Ming was satisfied and wanted to digest Wharf and Hutchison Whampoa, Yang Ming never stopped.

No one else knew about this except Meris.

Yang Ming's real goal has been placed on Jardine Land, the largest foreign company in Xiangjiang.

Jardine Matheson.

Xiangjiang's largest foreign company.

In addition to the Wharf Group, which was swallowed up by the Imperial Group, the most important thing under its umbrella is Xiangjiang Land & Co., which is known as the jewel in the crown of Xiangjiang and the largest real estate company in Hong Kong.

In 1972, Heung Kong Land even broke out the famous "Cow Buying War" and finally successfully won the milk company.

The milk company was first built by British capital in Xiangjiang to raise dairy cows and squeeze fresh milk for sale.

This would not have sold much in Xiangjiang.

However, in the early days, the Dairy Company had a lot of land in Pok Fu Lam and Causeway Bay.

Those lands would have belonged to pasture cattle.

In the past, these lands were worthless.

After these years, the land in Pok Fu Lam and Causeway Bay has become more and more valuable.

For example, Lijia has encircled a lot of land in the Causeway Bay area in the early years, so that it was called the King of Causeway Bay by the citizens of Xiangjiang.

In fact, the Milk Company also owns a lot of land in Causeway Bay.

After the Milk Company was swallowed up by Heung Kong Land, the Milk Company, like Wharf, became a subsidiary of Heung Kong Land.

In other words, Xiangjiang Land can be hailed as the crown jewel of Xiangjiang, the largest real estate company in Xiangjiang, and has a lot of land reserves and newly built properties in Xiangjiang.

In addition to Heung Kong Land, there are also hundreds of companies under Jardine.

And buildings, Golden Gate buildings.

Shipping, Heung Kong Air Cargo Terminal, Jardine Airport Services, Heung Kong Container Terminal.

Retail, Wellcome Supermarket, 7-11, Pizza Hut, Maxim's Group.

Investment bank.

Hotel, Mandarin Oriental.

Insurance.

. . .

Wait, the total number of employees exceeds one hundred thousand.

In addition to Hong Kong, Jardine also has other investments in Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States.

Jardine's industrial chain is very large and wide.

but.

before this.

Jardine Taipan, Jardine's largest shareholder, the Josek family.

In the early days, the Josek family only had 5% of Jardines' shares, and controlled Heung Kong Land through Jardines' 10% stake in Hongkong Land.

In addition, like Wharf and Jardine Land only have 10%.

It is precisely because of that that the shares in Wharf are too small, which has attracted the attention of Li Jiacheng and others.

In 1975, Henry Josek was defeated in the internal struggle of the board of directors with Niu Bijian, and Niu Bijian, the managing director of Jardine Land, took over the position of Henry Joseph Niu Bijian.

The Josek family has never given up.

Until 1983, Jardine's internal shareholders and management struggled, including Jardine Niu Bijian, the general manager of Jardine Landmark, and Bao Fuda, the general manager of Landmark, had to resign. center of power.

Henry Joseph recommended his younger brother Simon Joseph to take Niu Bijian's place.

before this.

Niu Bijian made great contributions to keeping Jardine Land.

Historically, in the 80s, after Qingzhou Yingni, Hutchison Whampoa, Wharf and other old British capitals were swallowed up by Chinese-funded consortiums one after another, the myth of the invincibility of British-funded consortia has been completely shattered.

Growing stronger and stronger, after devouring and digesting those foreign firms that were acquired, the Chinese tycoon began to turn to the next target.

Jardine Land Corporation.

Hongkong Land is very attractive to Chinese real estate developers.

It is in the prime location of the Central Banking District, the heart of Hong Kong's economy, and has a huge portfolio of high-end commercial buildings.

Known as the "Pearl in the Crown" of Xiangjiang Real Estate.

Only by controlling Hongkong Land can we truly be called the "king of kings" in the real estate industry of Xiangjiang.

At that time, there were various rumors in the market. Some said that Li Jiacheng was secretly buying the shares of Landmark, and there were also rumors that Li Jiacheng and Bao Yugang jointly challenged Landmark.

It was even rumored that the Chinese capital teamed up to take over Jardines, and then controlled Hongkong through Jardines.

In this case, the Joseph family of Jardine, and even Niu Bijian, the chief executive of Jardine, became nervous.

At this time, the Josek family only had 10% of the shares in Jardines, and Jardine Matheson and Jardine Securities only held about 20% of the shares in Landmark.

That is to say, Jardine Land's largest shareholder controls Jardine Land with a small fortune.

It was precisely because of this situation that not only the Joseph family was scared, but Niu Bijian was also scared.

Jardine Matheson has increased its shareholding in Landmark by injecting assets.

Jardine has injected assets such as real estate and listed company stocks into Hongkong, increasing its shareholding ratio to 27.8%.

Secondly, Jardine bought the shares of Hongkong Land by increasing its holdings at high prices in the secondary market, and its shareholding ratio increased to 40%.

During the same period, Landmark also bought Jardine shares in the secondary market, holding a total of 40% of Jardine shares.

By 1980, Jardine and Landmark formed a "40%-40%" cross-shareholding structure.

Niu Bijian used this method to keep Jardine Land from being coveted by Chinese capital.

However, following the real estate collapse of Xiangjiang Real Estate in 1983 due to the [-] issue, Yizhi Mutual Control turned into a burden for Yizhi.

1984年1月置地以每股12.3港元配售7200万股怡和股票，套现8.6亿港元，使置地持有怡和股权从42.6%减至25.3%。

At the same time, Jardine also reduced its shareholding in Hongkong Land from 30% to 25%.

In March 1986, Jardine Securities purchased 3% ​​of Jardine's shares from Hongkong Land, which further reduced Hongkong's shareholding in Jardine to 12.5%.

Historically, except for the Joseph family and Niu Bijian who kept Jardine Land through this method.

There is another foreign firm, Swire Pacific.

Almost at that time, through cross-holding or buying more shares, the Swire family controlled more shares to keep Swire Pacific.

now.

All these have happened in Jardine Land in history.

It is now 1978.

Yang Ming has just swallowed Wharf, nine months after Hutchison Whampoa.

Niu Bijian of Jardine Landmark has been shocked by Yang Ming's successive acquisitions, but it's not like it was in history.

Besides, Niu Bijian didn't know how much liquidity Yang Ming had.

In Niu Bijian's and other British capital's view, Yang Ming's acquisition of Wharf, Hutchison Whampoa, and even a stake in Huifeng Bank paid a very high price, and he must no longer have so much liquidity to acquire other companies.

It was precisely because of that that Yang Ming knew that the longer the time passed, the more the Yosek family and Niu Bijian would react.

At the right time, he will swallow Xiangjiang's largest foreign company.

Jardine Matheson, Heung Kong Land.

That is Jardine Land.

Except for Meris who knew about Yang Ming's shocking plan, Ma Shimin, Wei Li, even Kaila, Tang Shilian, Lin Xiuzhi and others didn't know about it.

It was the first time they heard about Yang Ming's plan to swallow Jardine Land.

"Boss, are we strong enough to swallow Jardine Land?" Wei Li asked in disbelief.

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