Chapter 13: The Wharf where the target emerges
The Central Tower is located in the heart of Yau Tsim Mong district, with a total of 32 floors and an area of 60,000 square feet.
The conference room of Oriental Animation Company on the 16th floor of the Central Building, the conference room of two hundred people was full, on the podium, Zhang Heng looked at the 200 people sitting below, I don't know how Zhang Heng remembered that half a year ago in a small conference room, there were only twenty or thirty people sitting below when he stood on the podium and gave an impassioned speech.
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Looking at everyone, Zhang Heng patted the microphone and said, " Hello everyone, let me introduce myself first, my name is Zhang Heng, I am the founder of Oriental Comics, I will work with you in the future, all of you here are the elites of your respective industries, otherwise you will not sit here, I will first talk about the colleagues of the comics department, each of you is personally discovered by me, you don't believe it, I know each of you very well, each of you is carefully selected by me, I believe and firmly believe that you will become a generation of comic masters through your own efforts and learning, a great man once said, pay 99% of the blood and sweat plus 1% of the inspiration will be successful, but here I want to say yesThere are some things that are difficult to achieve success without that one percent of inspiration.
For example, comics, I think drawing comics requires talent, and all of you who have that one percent of the inspiration, as long as you catch the ninety-nine sweat, you will definitely succeed, I hope you work hard and don't waste that one percent of your talent.
As for the sales managers, I won't say much, they are all the elite of the elite, otherwise they wouldn't be sitting here, and you will soon be going to various countries, I just hope that you can be worthy of your respective salaries. ”
In order to open up the situation as soon as possible, Zhang Heng spent an annual salary of 500,000 US dollars, and hired all the best sales leaders in various places, and he had his own set of sales.
"After arriving at the branch, open up the market as soon as possible, you have all seen our comics, and there is no doubt about the excellence of them, if you can't do a good job in this way, then I can only doubt whether your ability is worthy of the word elite. ”
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"Alright, adjournment. ”
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Zhang Heng's office
"Wang Cheng, in the future, the Oriental Comics will be handed over to you to manage," Zhang Heng said
"Okay, Mr. Zhang," Wang Cheng replied excitedly
Wang Cheng didn't expect that he was the deputy manager of a third-rate magazine half a year ago, and in just the past half a year, he has become the general manager of a company with a market value of tens of millions, all of which is given by the man in front of him, and Wang Cheng's loyalty to Zhang Heng has skyrocketed.
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This time, Zhang Heng also knew that the step was indeed a little bigger, a bit risky, and if he was not careful, he would never recover, and once he returned to the pre-liberation period.
But the reason why Zhang Heng also did this is that it is now 1997, and the next few years of Xiangjiang can be said to be a sudden change in the wind and clouds, and the clouds are weird, which has not been seen for 30 years, and can make it a great change that can turn into a dragon.
If there is no capital, then even if Zhang Heng knows the direction of the matter, he can't get involved.
Hong Kong's assets are fixed, you have more points, others will have less, so to be able to stand at the top of the pyramid is destined to be only a small number of people, if you want to stand on the top of the pyramid overlooking the Xiangjiang River, you must step on the bones of others.
Most of the wealthy and consortia in Hong Kong are based on real estate, and now most of the real estate resources in Hong Kong are in the hands of the British-funded foreign banks and the British government in Hong Kong, and if you want to get a share of these real estate resources, there are two prerequisites, first of all, you must have a lot of capital, and then you can compete for those real estate resources from the hands of the British-funded foreign banks.
Most of the ten richest people in Hong Kong in later generations developed by taking over and grabbing the real estate resources of British-funded foreign firms, such as Bao Yugang's Wharf and Wheelock, Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa, Heung Kong Electric Light, and the three Kwok brothers............
These are Zhang Heng's future competitors, Li Ka-shing's Changjiang Industry has now been listed, with a market value of hundreds of millions, as the head of the old four ship kings, not to mention Bao Yugang's capital, the three Guo brothers............
So Zhang Heng wants to raise as much capital as possible, without capital, you don't even have the qualifications to speak, if Zhang Heng can't participate in this competition, then it will be difficult for Zhang Heng to surpass them in the future.
And those who can win in this competition will definitely be able to stand out from their peers in the future and ride the dust.
Of course, Zhang Heng's biggest enemy is still British-funded foreign firms, after all, the largest real estate resources in Xiangjiang are now in the hands of British-funded foreign firms.
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Zhang Heng, as a talented student in the Department of Finance in the 21st century, once dreamed of showing his strength in the financial industry, so Zhang Heng deliberately learned about all the successful financial cases in the world in the past 40 years, and wanted to summarize the reasons and laws of success.
Now that he has been reborn, Zhang Heng has another chance to show his talents, and this time Zhang Heng's target is Wharf.
According to Zhang Heng's memory, Wharf belongs to the Jardine Matheson Ocean Company, and Wharf is not a warehouse in the strict sense, but the largest cargo port in Hong Kong, with a deep-water wharf, an open-air freight yard, and a freight warehouse. In 1886, Paul Chater led the establishment of a dock warehouse in Kowloon, of which Jardine Matheson was one of its major shareholders.
As a listed company of Jardine Matheson, it is known as the "two wings" of Jardine Matheson together with Hongkong Land. The properties of The Kowloon Warehouse Company Limited include most of the wharves and warehouses in Tsim Sha Tsui, the New Territories and Hong Kong Island in Kowloon, as well as hotels, buildings, trams and the Star Ferry.
With a long history and abundant assets, it can be said that whoever owns Wharf controls most of Hong Kong's cargo handling, storage and transportation, and cross-harbour ferries.
If it can make full use of its land resources, it can see a good momentum of 30% annual growth in the next 20 years, but Wharf shares are now undervalued, and if properly developed, the future is bright.
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Through investigation and analysis, Zhang Heng found that although Jardine Matheson is now the majority shareholder of Wharf Limited, in practice the company holds less than 20% of the shares, which is not proportional to all the shares it controls
If the total amount of the company's real estate shares is quietly purchased by 20%, it will be the same as the shares of Jardine Matheson, that is, the same number of major shareholders, and then compete with Jardine Matheson for the remaining shares, whoever has more will be the major shareholder.
Even if the final bid fails, after the acquisition of both parties, the stock price will rise sharply, and Zhang Heng will also make a lot of money at that time.