People in Hong Kong create super chaebols

Currently, the largest shareholder of Jardine Matheson is the Keswick family. According to information, the Keswick family may hold shares of Jardine Matheson through multiple accounts.

Therefore, even Brother Wu was unable to investigate how much of Jardine Matheson's shares the Keswick family actually owned. He only had a rough idea that the Keswick family held roughly between 10% and 15% of Jardine Matheson's shares.

The Keswick family is also the most powerful shareholder of Jardine Matheson. Even if someone is a big boss of Jardine Matheson, they can remove him through a board meeting if the Keswick family is not satisfied.

In addition, many other large and small British financial groups also control a considerable number of shares in Jardine Matheson. Basically, the British financial groups that are openly involved control nearly 50% of the shares in Jardine Matheson.

If it were other people, seeing the share ratio of Jardine Matheson, they would definitely give up the desire to covet Jardine Matheson.

But Su Cheng would not do that. Instead, he just laughed at the current shareholder information of Jardine Matheson.

Don’t be fooled by the fact that Jardine Matheson is now under the absolute control of British companies.

Wait a few more years and see?

The British financial group behind Jardine Matheson, like most British financial groups, is worried about the uncertainty of Hong Kong's future.

So, in the world of Suzhou's previous life, in the late 1980s, Jardine Matheson Group moved its company registration location from Hong Kong to Bermuda, and in the early s, it moved the listing location of the company and its many subsidiaries from Hong Kong to Singapore or London.

Although Jardine Matheson's headquarters has always been in Hong Kong, it can be seen from these aspects how worried Jardine Matheson's shareholders are about the future of Hong Kong.

Therefore, even though the British financial groups control so many shares now, sooner or later their position will be different.

At that time, there will definitely be some timid people who will try to sell their stocks.

Although Jardine Matheson can withdraw many industries from Hong Kong, its main business still relies on Hong Kong. The profits they make in Hong Kong are also the greatest. It is impossible for them to withdraw completely.

Of course, Suzhou’s current focus is not on Jardine Matheson, because even in the future, it will be difficult to control Jardine Matheson.

His focus now is entirely on the Jardine Matheson Group.

The shareholding structure of Hong Kong Property Group is completely different from that of Hong Kong Land.

In addition to the 26% stake controlled by Jardine Matheson, there are many other shareholders who own shares in Jardine Matheson, but the shares they hold are not large.

The second largest shareholder is a British woman named Gunna Bustamante, who holds only 2.26% of the shares.

The subsequent shareholders could become the fifth largest shareholder of Jardine Matheson Holdings by holding only 0.82%.

It is no wonder that Jardine Matheson has always had absolute control over Hutchison Whampoa Group. This 26% stake can indeed provide absolute control over Hutchison Whampoa Group.

It can be seen from the investigation data that the total amount of shares publicly controlled by Swire Properties is only about 40%.

If there are no hidden shareholders, such as Su Cheng, then it means that the shares of Swire Properties in the market account for nearly 60%.

With so many shares in the hands of retail investors or in the hands of the hidden Lao Liu, if Su Cheng starts to lay out his plans now, he may really be able to secretly control the land in the future.

So, after reading these materials, Su Cheng had another idea.

Originally, Jardine Matheson wanted to poach Wen Yu, but he just wanted to see what shortcomings Jardine Matheson currently had and teach the other party a lesson.

But now, seeing the secret between Jardine Matheson and Hutchison Whampoa, Su Cheng has plans to control Hutchison Whampoa.

Su Cheng had read an article in his previous life that said that in the late 80s, Li Chaoren also had the idea of ​​taking over the Hutchison Whampoa Group. He then joined forces with several Chinese real estate tycoons to secretly find a way to merge with the Hutchison Whampoa Group.

Unfortunately, at this time, the mutual control plan of Hutchison Whampoa and Jardine Matheson had been in action for many years, and the Chinese capital consortium headed by Li Chaoren ultimately ended in failure.

After this incident, Jardine Matheson's control over Hong Kong Land became more solid. The battle for Hong Kong Land acquisition, which had lasted for several years, ended with this result. This was also one of the few setbacks for Li Chaoren's acquisition.

Li Chaoren’s failure does not mean that Su Cheng will fail.

Because now it is 1988 years earlier than 9.

At this time, Jardine Matheson and Hong Kong Property Group had just come up with plans for mutual control, and it could even be said that they had not yet taken any formal action.

Therefore, Sucheng’s chances are very great.

Moreover, Su Cheng’s advantage is also very obvious, that is, it has a very large cash flow.

If he is given enough time, he will be able to slowly absorb the shares of Hutchison Whampoa through the stock market.

He could even absorb some of Jardine Matheson's shares at the same time to use as a trump card in the future.

"It looks like Tianyuan Investment Company will be busy again." Su Cheng said to himself.

At present, Tianyuan Investment Company has many businesses. They are constantly acquiring stocks with huge future potential in the international market. At the same time, the most important business is to secretly acquire the stocks of Huifeng Group.

But now, Su Cheng is planning to let them add another piece of land.

Everyone knows how great the Central financial and commercial district plan created by Swire Properties will be in the future.

Landmark Plaza, Landmark Alexandra, Landmark Prince's, Landmark Chater, etc., that area all belongs to Landmark.

Controlling Swire Properties is equivalent to becoming the largest landlord in Central, which is much better than slowly acquiring properties.

Therefore, instead of relying on Tianqi Property Company to slowly control the properties in Hong Kong, it would be better to directly merge with Swire Properties and thus acquire many properties in Central, the most prosperous area in Hong Kong.

Of course, Tianqi Property Company cannot stop acquiring properties. Controlling Swire Properties does not mean that it cannot control more properties.

Rubbing his forehead, Su Cheng put the information aside.

I watched it for two hours straight. I was originally very energetic, but now I feel a little sleepy.

It looks like I have to look for Zhang Qizhen again tomorrow.

The acquisition of the car brand has not been completely completed yet, and he has to be busy with other things. Su Cheng feels a little guilty.

However, since the idea of ​​merging with Swire Properties has been proposed, the sooner this happens, the better.

He knew that there would be a real estate downturn in Hong Kong in 1982.

However, it would have been impossible to completely acquire the land in 1982.

For a special enterprise like Hong Kong Swire, under the control of Jardine Matheson Holdings, it takes a long time to plan.

If we secretly acquire some shares between now and 1982, and then take advantage of the low point of the real estate market and the sharp drop in the share prices of real estate companies in 1982, we may be able to easily take over the property.

As a person who traveled through time from decades later, Su Cheng naturally knew that even though Hong Kong's real estate had hit a low point in the past ten or twenty years, it quickly rebounded and continued to rise.

Looking at the time, it was already past midnight, so Su Cheng got up and prepared to take a shower.

It's so late, it's time to rest. (End of this chapter)