It has been three months since the seven-fold sale of Hengyu Supermarket, but Li Guangyu has no intention of stopping, and Watsons does not care about Watson's slight loss because several major shareholders are Li Guangyu and their families.

As time passed, the pressure on Henry Keswick grew, although he himself hoped that Jardine Matheson would continue to keep the Wellcome.

However, the shareholders of Jardine Matheson Holdings have put pressure on him again and again, asking Henry Keswick to give up the operation of Wellcome Supermarket, and withdraw the funds from this area to continue to invest in Singapore and Australia, and accelerate the development of the market there.

On May 16, just three months after the sale of Hengyu Supermarket, Henry Keswick contacted Li Guangyu and asked if Li Guangyu had time at 10 a.m., when he would visit Li Guangyu at the Lee Building.

Henry Keswick wants to negotiate with Lee Guangyu, whose three supermarkets have been operating at a loss for months, and he hopes to persuade Lee to stop this harmful approach in this stalemate.

After Li Guangyu received the news, he immediately asked Gan Qin to reply to Jardine Matheson, and he would wait for Henry Keswick to arrive in the office.

Lee Kong Yu also has some sources of intelligence in his own hands, not to mention anything else, just his media have reporters stationed in major regions, and he is quite clear about the recent actions of the Jardine Matheson Group in Singapore and Australia.

He also wanted to see what Henry Keswick had come to see him today, what he wanted to discuss with him, and he didn't believe that Henry Keswick had come to surrender.

Even if Lee Guangyu and Henry Keswick fight to the death in the mall, they both hope that the other company's business will go out of business. But on the surface, it still attaches great importance to gentlemanly demeanor.

Li Guangyu specially instructed Gan Qin to wait for Henry Keswick's arrival at the front desk of the building, and at the same time instructed his assistant Yao Jingwei to make a pot of Wuyishan Da Hong Robe and send it to the office.

The headquarters of the Jardine Matheson Group is quite close to the Lee Building, both of which are in Central, and it did not take long for Henry Keswick to arrive at the Lee Building.

When Gan Qin saw Henry Keswick's arrival, he immediately stepped forward to greet him: "Mr. Keswick, welcome to you. ”

Henry Keswick naturally knew the person in front of him, and he didn't expect that Li Guangyu would send Gan Qin to greet him at the front desk in person. It seems that Li Guangyu is still very personable.

He never thought that Li Guangyu would personally greet him at the front desk, that was not realistic at all, he and Li Guangyu were not on the same line at all now, and he was not qualified to let Li Guangyu greet him in person.

Before he came, he had thought about some possible situations, and with the current relationship between Jardine Matheson and the Lee consortium, he even thought that he might be brought to Lee Kong Woo's office by the front desk administrator when he came here.

Gan Qin's greeting still made him very happy, at least Li Guangyu still recognized the status of Jardine, and there were not many people in Xiangjiang who could greet Gan Qin at the front desk now.

After coming to Li Guangyu's office, Li Guangyu and Henry Keswick exchanged a few polite words, and then settled down opposite each other in the reception area, and Gan Qin poured tea for the two of them and left Li Guangyu's office.

Li Guangyu said: "Mr. Keswick, I don't know if you have any advice for coming this time?"

Henry Keswick immediately said: "Mr. Li, now I am afraid that it is difficult for someone in Xiangjiang to give you any more advice, and I myself do not have such qualifications, this time I just came to hope that our two groups can reach a consensus in some aspects to promote mutual benefit and win-win results between the two groups." ”

Li Guangyu knew why Henry Keswick came as soon as he heard it, and now the problem between himself and the Jardine Group is mainly in the supermarket, it seems that the Jardine side is probably unable to bear it, otherwise Henry Keswick would not have come to negotiate with him.

Li Guangyu estimated that Henry Keswick was also under pressure from the minority shareholders of Jardine Matheson, you must know that many small shareholders on their Hutchison Whampoa side were quite dissatisfied because of Watsons' problems, and Li Guangyu and Li Ka-shing directly invited these shareholders out.

How could Jardine be stable over there, it is estimated that Henry Keswick has been worried about this matter a lot in the past few months. And because of financial reasons, it is very difficult for Henry Keswick to buy back the capital of these small shareholders, and they currently have a lot of debt in HSBC and Standard Chartered.

Especially last year, Li Guangyu cheated the Keswick family and the Jardine's family, so that the two families are currently relatively short of funds, so that they can no longer afford to buy back the shares in the hands of these small shareholders.

Li Guangyu was quite happy when he thought of this, he knew that as long as he held on for a few more months, Wellcome Supermarket would definitely be finished, and he would definitely not make peace with Henry Keswick at this time.

Li Guangyu said with a smile: "You are too awarded, I am just in my early twenties, I am still quite lacking in experience, and I don't know enough about many problems. We businessmen are all about mutual benefit and win-win results, and I also hope that our two groups can reach an agreement on certain issues. ”

Henry Keswick filtered the previous sentence of Lee Guangyu, and he focused on the latter sentence, which made him seem to see the hope of reaching a consensus with the Lee consortium, and his Wellcome supermarket would continue to survive.

He said: "Mr. Li, since the discount of several of our supermarkets, we have lost hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars in profits every month, which is obviously not in our interests, I wonder if you have any plans to end this discount?"

Li Guangyu said: "Regarding the matter of the supermarket group, I have always respected the opinions of Hengyu's senior management, and I have not received a proposal to end this event for the time being, so we have no such plan at present." Although the loss is a bit big now, I believe that the senior management of Hengyu has its own considerations, and the current loss will definitely be able to obtain greater returns in the future. ”

Henry Keswick listened to Li Guangyu's answer, his heart cooled, it seemed that he was happy in vain, Li Guangyu obviously didn't give up if he didn't get his Wellcome out of business.

As for the opinions of the top management of Hengyu Supermarket that Li Guangyu said, Henry Keswick did not believe it at all, and everyone in Xiangjiang knew that the development of the major groups under the Li consortium was planned by Li Guangyu, and the major groups were just implemented according to the plan given by Li Guangyu.

Besides, Hengyu Supermarket Group has such a big discount loss, how dare they do it without Li Guangyu's approval, Li Guangyu's prevarication is really outrageous.

Henry Keswick said: "Mr. Li, you should know that we in the Jardine Matheson Group are not afraid of such competition, and we have the strength to keep Wellcome like this. I have come to negotiate with you in the spirit of mutual benefit and win-win results, and I hope that you can seriously consider this matter from the perspective of a businessman, after all, we start a business for profit, not for charity. ”

Li Guangyu didn't believe that Wellcome could stand up to his Hengyu Supermarket Group, and if that were the case, Henry Keswick wouldn't have come to visit him.

Li Guangyu said: "Mr. Keswick, this matter is very important, I still need to discuss with the senior management of the Li family and the senior management of Hengyu, and I cannot give you a positive answer for the time being." Over the years, our Li Group has always adhered to a mutually beneficial and win-win attitude to seek development, and we will not do anything that harms others and ourselves. ”

Henry Keswick knew that there was no hope for this, and as for what Li Guangyu said, he believed him and estimated that his property had been eaten by him.

Henry Keswick said: "Mr. Li, then I won't bother you, and I hope you will think about it seriously, I look forward to your good news." ”

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