Chapter 1307 Time Magazine

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"Heh! it seems that this guy is really fast!" After chuckling, Liu Dong continued, "In this way, after this annual meeting, you will immediately go to France with Rob Chayer." You're in charge of signing the contract, and Universal Music Group will be merged into Matrix Media!"

"What ...... the acquisition funds?" Feng Jianhui hesitated.

Universal Music Group is the world's largest music group, accounting for 22% of the world's music market, leading the entire American and European markets.

It is certainly impossible to acquire the music giant without more than half a billion dollars!

"You don't have to worry about the funds, I'm ready!"

More than $20 billion in funds from Citibank and HSBC are enough to pay for all the funds for the acquisition of BHP Billiton and Universal Music Group, as well as to ensure the construction of a series of large-scale investment projects such as the reconstruction plan of the Old Summer Palace, the construction plan of Yanjiao New Town, the Baotou Petrochemical Plant, the China-Mongolia Railway, the Pacific Industrial Oil Pipeline, the third phase of the Oriental Iron and Steel Group, and the Russian iron ore development project of the Oriental Resources Group!

Looking at Liu Dong, who was full of confidence, Feng Jianhui shook his head secretly in his heart after being stunned.

After he met Liu Dong, no matter how incredible and expensive the plan was, Liu Dong never seemed to worry about the problem of funding.

There is no shortage of cash flow in his hands!

"Understood, Chairman!"

The 10-day annual meeting of GCA Group was officially held in Vancouver, in fact, this time is also the time for the world's major enterprises to conduct year-end summaries, and it is also the busiest time of the year for the world's major financial newspapers.

The annual meeting of the Chinese family, which is now more and more known as a consortium in the global business community, has naturally attracted almost all the world's large financial media, including the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.

However, because of the strict security system of the GCA Group. They were never able to get close to the Valley Farm, where the meeting was held.

But as the meeting convened, there was still some news that came out.

One of the most incredible, and admirable, is the Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Option Pool Plan implemented by GCA Group in 2004!

"Mr. Liu, what made you make such a big decision? You must know that if you follow your decision, you will personally lose nearly 40% of your wealth and a huge profit of nearly 10 billion US dollars every year!"

A handsome white woman in a light gray lady's suit asked Liu Dong with a voice recorder in her hand.

As a special correspondent for Time Magazine. Mia Ackers is the first media reporter to be given the opportunity to interview Liu Dong since the establishment of GCA.

This honor has not even been won by the Washington Post and Newsweek, which are owned by the Matrix Media Group.

In order to retain talents, in order to increase the centripetal force of employees to the company, the vast majority of enterprises in the world will adopt employee stock ownership plans and option pools, and Hanhua Group is just one of them!" Liu Dong said indifferently.

"After this reform, do the major subsidiaries of Hanhua Group still have specific listing plans?"

"The purpose of listing is to raise funds, but now Hanhua Group is not short of funds, so we have no plans to go public in the short term!"

"That's what you mean. If GCA had had enough money, your subsidiaries would never have gone public, would they?"

"It can be understood so!" Liu Dong nodded.

After experiencing the fact that Standard Chartered Bank could be suppressed, Liu Dong has little interest in the stock market. Rather than raising a lot of money from the stock market, Liu Dong longs for uncontrolled freedom.

It's really bad to play intrigue with Stillman, Rothschild, and even Morgan and Rockefeller all day long.

If you have all this time, you might as well tinker with your favorite antiques!

"Mr. Liu, many people now know about it three and a half years ago. You're just an ordinary freelancer in the thrift market in Quancheng, Shandong, China, and that's what has made you in just over three years. What about creating a business empire with assets of more than 100 billion dollars?"

"The reason is simple: like most people who come from poor backgrounds and want to change the status quo of their families, I also embarked on the road of business with the dream of making a fortune. Moreover, my luck is relatively good, and I have achieved unimaginable success in a short period of time!" Liu Dong said.

"What do you mean by luck? You are known as the 'Jade King' in Myanmar and China!"

"This is only part of the story! In fact, in addition to gambling stones, I am also good at BO lottery, and I have won a lot of money from this aspect!"

Recalling his several shots in Macau, Liu Dong smiled.

"Mr. Liu, this time Standard Chartered Bank's stock price is in crisis. You've spent a huge amount of more than $30 billion to bail out the market! With the financial situation of the GCA Group's groups not providing such a large amount of money, do they receive funding from the Chinese government, as the outside world speculates?"

Faced with this somewhat acute question, Liu Dong did not panic. In fact, the speculation and rumors about Standard Chartered Bank, or even the Chinese government's control behind Standard Chartered Bank and even the GCA Group, are not new news for a long time.

"The source of the funds involves the confidentiality of the company, and there is no comment, but both Standard Chartered Bank and all subsidiaries of the GCA Group are 100% privately owned. Otherwise, do you think the group's employee stock ownership plan and option pool plan will be approved?" Liu Dong asked rhetorically.

This is also one of the reasons why Liu Dong implemented the shareholding reform this time. Otherwise, once someone with a heart is allowed to put the label of the Chinese government controlling the Hanhua Group on him, then it will be far more difficult to enter the American and European markets in the future than before, or even more than ten times.

This is by no means what Liu Dong wants to see!

Therefore, he would rather take out nearly 10 billion US dollars of annual profits in the future, as well as nearly 40% of the shares of each subsidiary, to shrink his assets by nearly half, and to weaken the increasingly strong 'state-owned' flavor of the Hanhua Group.

For Liu Dong's explanation, Mia Ackers still agrees.

Indeed, as Liu Dong said, it is impossible for the state to take tens of billions of dollars in capital and let Liu Dong give free money to hundreds of thousands of employees of the Hanhua Group.

Not to mention that the Chinese government refuses, but also the US government and the British government will not allow it. Otherwise, angry taxpayers would have removed them from office long ago.

"Mr. Liu, in the past four years, the subsidiaries of your GCA Group have been expanding and expanding at an astonishing rate. According to statistics, from 2000 to the present, 186 companies have been acquired by the GCA Group, and 237 companies have participated in the company! This is unimaginable for any group! I wonder if your GCA Group will adopt such a radical expansion policy in the next few years?

Since Ms. Ackers has used the word radical to describe it. The expansion of the Hanhua Group will naturally have to slow down. In fact, for any new business, or even a country, there is always a period of rapid expansion in their initial stages. For example, in Germany in the 19th century, in less than half a century, it changed from the Kingdom of Prussia to a world power with colonies all over Europe, Asia and Africa. ”

“…… Microsoft and Amazon, in 20 years, or even less, have developed themselves into world-class giants! And the same is true of Hanhua Group, after the rapid expansion in the early stage, it also needs a long-term period of stability, so in the next three to five years, or even longer, Hanhua Group will change its development strategy, from the initial rapid expansion to a stable, small-step expansion development strategy!"

"What do you think about the future of the world economy, where many economists are predicting a new economic crisis?"

"Economic crisis? maybe, but I think instead of speculating about possible crises in the future, it is better to spend more time developing your own business, I think a healthy, healthy development of the enterprise is enough to survive any economic crisis!

I don't know if this Mia Akers got the opportunity to interview Liu Dong because it was not easy, for nearly three hours, countless questions came out of the other party's mouth, in addition to Liu Dong's own fortune, the development strategy of the Hanhua Group, Liu Dong's own outlook for the world economy, and even the unrelated Afghan war has become a question from the other party's mouth.

An afternoon was almost used up by the other party.

Fortunately, after the completion of the Hanhua annual meeting, Liu Dong's time was much more relaxed, otherwise he wouldn't have the energy to chat with each other for so long.

At night, there were Wang Qiang, Lin Ling, and Helen around him, but Liu Dong could only stay alone in the empty room. Gain, Liu Dong's Hanhua Group's share reform involves too much share division and sorting, coupled with the group's development plan for the next year, too many official affairs are piled up on the desks of the three people, even Helen, who is Liu Dong's secretary, is too busy to touch the ground.

After returning to the room, I basically fell asleep, and I didn't have time at all, let alone the energy to be happy with Liu Dong!

Pitied their fatigue, Liu Dong not only used internal strength and pills to regulate their bodies, but also tried his best to share some official duties with his confidantes.

Therefore, during this time, Liu Dong also fought every day.

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… (To be continued.) )