Although it is very attractive to the mainland market, if Carrefour can gain a foothold in Xiangjiang, it will indeed be very helpful for entering the mainland market in the future. But judging from the current situation, it is not worth it for Carrefour to come to Xiangjiang to take over Wellcome Supermarket and fight with the Li consortium.

Victor Beale plans to enter Carrefour ahead of schedule before Hengyu Supermarket Group has reached out to the Southeast Asian market. In these places, the Lee consortium does not have local partners, and their Carrefour faces much less pressure.

In Japan and Takushima, he was really depressed, and every time he opened a branch, he would always face the joint sniping of several supermarkets in the surrounding area, and he didn't want them to gain a foothold in the local area.

After listening to Henry Keswick's explanation of the relationship between the Lee consortium, Victor Beale plans to enter the Singapore and Malaysian markets, which are mainly the domain of the Singapore consortium, and the relationship with the Lee consortium is not very friendly.

Even if the Lee consortium has some connections in Malaysia, it is much worse than Japan and Treasure Island, and these areas greatly reduce the advantages of Hengyu Supermarket Group.

As for Xiangjiang's side, he wouldn't suggest the headquarters to enter anyway, it would only be a pit to come in, Carrefour could only do loss-making transactions when he came in, and if the headquarters didn't care about losses, he naturally didn't care.

Victor Beale did not discuss the topic of Wellcome with Henry Keswick again, and he himself asked more about the Lee consortium, especially with the top management of the Hengyu supermarket group, which was their main rival.

Because when Carrefour entered Japan last year, it was Chen Linwen who was presiding over the expansion of the Japanese market in Hengyu Supermarket Group at that time, so Victor Bill was most impressed by the senior management of Hengyu Supermarket Group.

Victor Bill also has some understanding of the senior management of Hengyu Supermarket Group, Li Xuelan, the president of the group, and Zhao Xiaoyan, the first-ranked vice president, he has not met them, and he does not know their abilities very well.

As for the three new vice presidents, one in charge of administrative resources, one in charge of finance, and one in charge of logistics, Victor Beale did not take them to heart.

He felt that Chen Linwen was the most dangerous to Carrefour, and as for Li Xuelan, he also had some information.

Victor Beale, who debuted as the secretary of Lee Kong Woo in the Lee Consortium and her sister is the first executive officer of the Lee Consortium, believes that Li Xuelan's ability to sit in the position of president is more due to this relationship than her strength.

As for Zhao Xiaoyan, vice chairman of the board of directors and vice president of Hengyu Supermarket Group, Victor Bill looked down on him. According to his understanding, this person has reached this position now, mainly because when Li Guangyu was in charge of the family business, she was a manager of the Li consortium.

With the continuous expansion of the Li consortium, from a garment production company to a comprehensive consortium spanning several industries and as many as a dozen groups, Zhao Xiaoyan's status has also risen with the tide, from a small company manager to a high position of vice president of the group.

Henry Keswick listened to Victor Beale's disdainful comments on many high-level executives of the Lee Consortium, but he mourned for the Carrefour Group in his heart. With such an arrogant attitude of the president of Asian affairs, how did he compete with the Lee consortium.

Henry Keswick has never looked down on the high-level executives of the Li Foundation, although many of them are very young, and many of them have been promoted from a small manager of the company to the vice president of the group in just a few years, but the development of the Li Consortium has not slowed down because of their youth, but the emergence of these high-level leaders has made the Li Consortium full of vitality.

As long as they work hard and contribute to the Li Foundation, the top management of the Li Foundation will have their place, and this kind of vitality cannot be compared with many groups in Xiangjiang.

Besides, Victor Bill himself is now just the president of a large region of the Carrefour Group, and he is far from Li Xuelan in terms of level.

Moreover, although the market value of Hengyu Supermarket Group is lower than that of Carrefour Group, it is not much lower. As for the reason why the Hengyu supermarket branch is much lower than Carrefour, the main reason is that the expansion of Hengyu supermarket group is purchased by itself, and Carrefour's own stores are not more than 20%, which makes the outside feel that Carrefour Group is much more powerful than Hengyu Supermarket Group.

Victor Beale has not learned Li Xuelan's power, but Henry Keswick has a good understanding this year. Although Li Xuelan did not preside over the affairs of Hengyu Supermarket Group this time, Henry Keswick knew that Li Xuelan was in command of this operation against Wellcome.

Henry Keswick did not remind him of Victor Bill's arrogant attitude, but echoed his statement, and even said that the reason why they became the current situation this time was that the Hengyu Supermarket Group led by Chen Linwen had a very big relationship.

Victor Beale said: "Keswick, the reason why the Li consortium is now gaining power is mainly because of their unlimited financial resources and the practice of not caring about profits, which is destined to be unable to last long, once the Li consortium has financial difficulties, that is, when their consortium collapses, without this sharp weapon, Hengyu Supermarket Group does not have any strength to compete with our Carrefour." ”

Henry Keswick preferred to bring Carrefour supermarkets to Xiangjiang to relieve the pressure on their British-funded consortium, but although Victor Beale revealed in his words that he was disdainful of the Li consortium and Hengyu Supermarket Group, he had no intention of taking over Wellcome, which made him feel a little lost.

Henry Keswick said: "Bill, please also tell your Carrefour executives, if you want to get a share of the Asian market, you don't need to fight with the Li consortium, dodging is useless, and competing with the Li consortium in Xiangjiang can show your Carrefour's strength and courage, and at the same time, we will provide you with some help in the British consortium." ”

Although Victor Bill looks down on some high-level executives of Hengyu Supermarket Group, he is not stupid, Xiangjiang is the foundation of the Li consortium, and Carrefour is here to compete with them, not to prove how bold he is, but to be a fool's behavior.

He already has a plan in his heart, he is ready to put the battlefield of Carrefour and Hengyu Supermarket Group on the Southeast Asian market, where there are many countries and the market is big enough, even if the Li consortium has enough influence in these regions, it will not be able to tell the winner in a short time.

Victor Beale said, "Keswick, I also hope that you can give me more information about the Lee Consortium so that we can get to know this opponent in more detail. After we gain a firm foothold in other regions, we Carrefour will enter the Xiangjiang market, and I believe that in the future, your Wellcome today will be the tomorrow of Hengyu Supermarket Group. ”

Henry Keswick doesn't want to say anything more, with Victor Beale's current attitude, he estimates that Wellcome's today is estimated to be Carrefour's tomorrow in Asia.

However, he still responded: "Bill, I will ask my assistant to give you a detailed information about the Li consortium later for your reference." ”

After saying goodbye to Victor Beale, Henry Keswick contacted Shen Bi and George LaVine to officially inform them about the closure of Wellcome, which will be officially closed in three days, on June 18.

Henry Keswick also felt that it was a mistake to keep the Wellcome supermarket at the beginning, knowing that it was very difficult, and he still had to think about persevering, and in the end after losing countless funds, he still couldn't save the Wellcome supermarket.

Thinking that it has been less than a year since he went to Xiangjiang to receive Jardine, two Jardine pillars have already fallen, and he doesn't know how long he can hold Jardine.