Island country, inside the building of Marubeni Trading Company.

Tetsu Wakabayashi, director and executive director of Marubeni Trading Co., Ltd., walked through the passage without hindrance, and all the employees he met bowed and said hello. And he, as long as he nodded solemnly.

Shi Shiran walked into his office and prepared to start the day's work.

His eyes were quickly attracted by a new piece of information - "China's Jiagu Group intends to acquire the United States Gaohong".

It made his heart skip a beat.

Among the top six trading companies in the island nation, Marubeni is the fifth. In the field of resources, it is difficult to look at the back of Mitsubishi and Mitsui. Therefore, Marubeni set its development goal of "catching up with Tomotomo and Chaoi (Fujichu)", and chose the grain industry, which was growing in demand, as the center of the development of the trading company, and decided to become the No. 1 general trading company in the island nation in the field of grain.

The core executive figure of the entire plan is Wakabayashi Tetsu.

Within the scope of his authority, Wakabayashi Tetsu is already one of the top players in Marubeni Trading Company. But even with his pride, he did not dare to ignore the name of Kaya.

The acquisition of Gaohong in the United States is the clarion call for Marubeni to enter the international grain business. When "Gao Hong" and "Jia Gu" were linked, Ruolin Zhe had a bad premonition in his heart.

He immediately called Akio Ota from the Ministry of Intelligence.

Like Mitsui Trading, Marubeni handles tens of thousands of products through hundreds of business departments, and naturally has its own intelligence agency.

"Minister. Akio Ota arrived at Wakabayashi's office as fast as he could.

Ruolin Zhe nodded slightly, with a serious look: "You can tell me in detail about the information of Jiagu Group's intention to acquire Gaohong in the United States." ”

The title "Kaya" evokes the memories of Akio Ota again.

In the past, he was also a capable officer in the grain department of a trading company, but now he has been transferred to the intelligence department, which is already a derogatory according to the departmental hierarchy within Marubeni.

And what caused this loss was the experience of Akio Ota who folded in Kaya. After failing to compete with Jiagu for the development of soybeans in the Russian Far East, in the following years, the non-GMO soybean production base in Northeast China was not splashed with water, and the non-GMO soybean base in the United States was overgrown with "super weeds", resulting in him not making any progress in the non-GMO soybean business for the trading company, and his former position was not stable.

This sting also made him pay more attention to Kagu after he entered the Intelligence Department, and became a well-known "Kagu-dori" in the trading company.

The memory in his mind was only a moment, and Akio Ota humbly replied, "...... We have received news that Jiagu Group is making Jiagu milk in the United States on the condition that it will be supported by some large American pharmaceutical companies for its acquisition of Gaohong......"

As soon as the words fell, Wakabayashi Zhe's face sank visibly, and Akio Ota hurriedly lowered his head.

Originally, Wakabayashi Zhe was not very worried.

Although Kaya's name is getting louder and louder, in the United States, Marubeni has been deeply cultivated for many years. Reading the Library

As early as 1975, Marubeni began its grain business in the United States by acquiring a 51 percent stake in a grain trading company in the United States and acquiring three inland grain silos. At the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis in 1997, Marubeni had a three-tier grain storage and transportation system in the United States, including nine inland grain silos, two transit grain depots, two terminal warehouses and one port terminal warehouse...... At this time, Jiagu didn't even have a shadow.

Although in the so-called "lost decade" after the bursting of the economic bubble in the island countries, Marubeni's grain distribution industry in the Americas was basically in a state of stagnation and contraction, and it was not until 06 that the Marubeni Grain Division was born, and the expansion journey was restarted. But he believes that Marubeni's influence in the United States is incomparable to that of Kaya.

What's more, in the Western economic system, mergers and acquisitions in countries such as Japan and South Korea are "friendly competitors", and the degree of restrictions is far looser than that of China's Jiagu, which is a "hostile competitor".

But all this, with the intervention of large pharmaceutical companies in the United States, will change dramatically.

As a giant of the capitalist world, could he not be aware of the terrifying influence of big pharmaceutical companies in the United States?

"And ......" The air pressure in the office was getting lower and lower, and Akio Ota shrank his head.

"What else?" Wakabayashi Zhe's eyes narrowed, still very majestic.

Akio Ota snorted and said, "Some people in the top management of the trading company are inclined to withdraw from the competition to acquire Gao Hong, in exchange for the ...... of Katani producing Katani milk in Japan."

"......" Wakabayashi almost laughed angrily.

He wanted to scold him for being an "idiot", but he held back.

Although Akio Ota did not name names, if Lin Zhe thought about it, he would know that who else could make such a suggestion, except for the sixty or seventy-year-old old men on the board of directors who were afraid of death?

Speaking of which, Marubeni was also one of the first forces to discover "high-energy growth factors", and the research on "high-energy growth factors" is naturally more in-depth. He understands that the senior executives of the dying trading company will not hesitate to seize any opportunity in order to recover the lost vitality, but if it is to sacrifice his interests, it is difficult to make him smile.

What's more, the acquisition of Gao Hong is also related to the far-reaching strategy of the trading company.

Although Marubeni's annual trading volume of soybeans, corn and other bulk agricultural products has reached 25 million tons, it is limited by its purchasing and blending capacity, and most of the other than 8 million tons have to be purchased from ABCD's four major grain merchants. When the entire circulation link of grain from the production area to the market has to pass through the hands of the four major grain merchants, Marubeni has to pay a lot of miscellaneous and huge amounts of handling fees, commissions, insurance premiums, etc., and Marubeni is like a "purchasing agent", the higher its trading volume, the greater the profit of ABCD.

Only after the acquisition of Gao Hong can this situation be reversed in one fell swoop.

In addition, it is important to note that if Marubeni can acquire Gaohong, Marubeni's talent system for the grain business will also be improved at the international level. You must know that ABCD has about 100 top traders each, while Marubeni has only 10 people, and the lack of top traders limits the development of Marubeni, and Kaya is also facing such a situation.

Therefore, if Marubeni acquires Gao Hong, Marubeni will become a veritable world-class grain merchant, and conversely, if Jiagu acquires Gao Hong, there will also be a veritable international grain merchant in China.

In other words, if Marubeni gives up, it will not only lose the opportunity to go to the next level, but also cultivate a strong competitor.

"No, I'm going to discuss with the president, we should never give up such a good opportunity!" Wakabayashi thought with a cold face.

He also wants milk containing "high-energy growth factors", but he is not in a hurry, anyway, he is in the prime of life, but the success of the acquisition of Gao Hong may be related to whether he can cross his current position, and he must not let the old men who eat and wait for death to do bad things.

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