Chapter 268: Slander
The Xu family may be rich, this is normal, with Mr. Xu and Xu Teng's control of history, it is a matter of time before they reach this state, but in 2005, the strength of the Xu family is still not strong enough, and it has not reached the realm of being able to do great things. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
After the press conference, Xu Teng did not rush back to Ruilin's house, but met with the senior partner who was actually in charge of the Hyatt Group at the Jiateng International Building.
This person's name is Shen Mao, who was formerly the CEO of Jinjiang Co., Ltd., and is 47 years old.
In the matter of Hyatt, the acquisition process is not under Xu Teng's control, mainly Li Daxiao is responsible, but after the formal acquisition, it will be controlled and operated by Xu Teng, and he will be responsible for it.
The consortium originally had seven more suitable candidates, and Xu Teng finally chose this Shen Mao, in addition to his outstanding ability, the main reason was that this person was very patient, calm, and well-organized as a professional manager.
Different commanders, like different generals.
Mr. Xu likes the kind of corporate executives who are bold and bold, similar to wolf-like generals, Xu Teng is different, he prefers endurance, calm and intelligent, and horse-like generals.
Tang Jun, Chen Si, Tang Hailing, Yu Liang, Luo Hongyan, Yang Fuyou, Shi Lirong, Zhang Ping'an...... They are all this type of people, and they can also be reused on Xu Teng's side, they can solve all kinds of cumbersome problems encountered in their work, handle their respective work in an orderly manner, and there will be few conflicts and contradictions between each other, and they can coordinate with each other, but if you want them to do something that is too challenging, things that need to be solved quickly, the effect is often not good.
There are really two of these wolf generals on Xu Teng's side, one is Cao Guowei of Tencent's wireless business department, and the other is Ma Zheng, chairman of the board of directors of Zhongqu Group.
Strictly speaking, Ma Zhu is not a wolf general, but a monkey king.
Like Cao Guowei, a wolf general with an inflated desire for power and a strong ability to open up new markets, he can kill countless people outside and countless people inside, Xu Teng really doesn't particularly like it.
Of course, Xu Teng will continue to use this person, and he will reuse it until the two turn against each other...... This may really be a matter of time, because Cao Guowei's goal is to replace Tang Jun, or he will open up a second Zhongqu Group and become a faction of its own.
Shen Mao, the new CEO selected by Xu Teng for Hyatt Group, is a typical horse general, a little braver and more agile than a bull general, and a lot less aggressive than a wolf general.
Whether you have the ability or not, this kind of thing is difficult to say, you can only roughly estimate it through your resume and background check, but whether you are aggressive, smart and careful enough, these things are easy to judge, you can roughly see if you meet for a meal and talk for two hours.
Anyway, Xu Teng's treatment of the executives under his command has always been very good, as long as the other party has the ability and performance, whether it is a share allotment or a dividend, he is never stingy, and he will never discount how much he wants to give.
Xu Teng is also good at delegating and tolerant, willing to trust his subordinates and give them opportunities, even if they do something wrong, Xu Teng will rarely kick the other party out immediately.
In this regard, Xu Teng has a reputation, and many people know it.
Xu Teng rarely gives interviews to the media, but the people below him, Tang Jun, Yu Liang, Li Yu, and Tang Hailing...... These are often dealing with the media, especially Li Yu, as the spokesperson of Tencent Group and the president of the media division, there are several media activities almost every week, and everyone is still very happy when it comes to Gao Shuaijian's boss Xu.
Xu Teng's style determines that the internal contradictions of each sub-group of the Huateng system are relatively few, very harmonious and stable.
Jiateng International Building was originally the headquarters of Huateng Company, Fuxin Group and Shenzhou Media Group in the capital, because of business development needs, Huateng Company and Fuxin Group moved out at the end of last year, and took a piece of land in Chaoyangmen, just opposite the CNOOC Building, next door to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Building, to build a new Huateng Plaza and Fuxin International Building.
Mr. Xu still has an office on the 21st floor of the Jiateng International Building, which has been sitting unused, where he talks to Shen Mao, the new CEO of Hyatt Group.
Xu Teng has nothing to explain here, and Shen Mao will go to the administrative headquarters of Hyatt Group in the capital in the afternoon to officially take over the company's administrative power.
This business is a bit complicated and needs to be reviewed and approved by the Ministry of Commerce, as well as the relevant government departments in Europe and the United States, because Hyatt Group is a global international hotel group, and its assets in China, the United States and Europe must exceed the minimum approval amount of the business bills in the three places.
Of course, these are process issues.
There will be no problems in the three directions of China, the United States and Europe, as for other countries, one is that they do not need to be approved, and the other is that even if they do, they are basically not a problem.
Therefore, it is optimistically estimated that it will not be until October that Hyatt Group will be officially incorporated into Huateng Company.
Shen Mao doesn't look old, he looks like he is forty years old, his hair is black, his figure is not bad, there is no sign of middle-aged fat, he is dressed in a suit and leather shoes, and he is very particular about his manners.
Xu Teng talked with him for half an hour, and he was generally very satisfied, basically the problems that should be taken into account, the other party has prepared multiple sets of filings in advance, which is the benefit of rich experience and cautious personality.
Shen Mao is still very motivated, and wants to invest in the establishment of a global convenient hotel chain by Hyatt Group.
Xu Teng did not rush to veto, but he did not agree, the investment is high, the return is low, the management is complicated, this kind of business can have a Jiangtai Huating Hotel, and it is really meaningless to have more.
Xu Teng rarely came back, and not long after the newly selected senior partner Shen Mao left, Chen Daqiao came over and went to Xu Teng's office on the 21st floor to have a glass of cognac with Xu Teng and talk about the development of the film industry.
After the listing of Shenzhou Media Group, the scale of capital expanded rapidly.
Chen Daqiao holds only 1/3 of the shares in Shenzhou Media Group, and his net worth exceeds 10 billion, and he will definitely be among the top 10 on the domestic rich list this year, even so, he is still the second largest shareholder of Shenzhou Media Group.
The real major shareholder is the Xu family, and with the number of shares held by Fuxin International, the Xu family roughly controls more than half of the shares of Shenzhou Media Group.
This is also the unified feature of the listed companies of the Huayin Consortium, the internal shareholding ratio of the consortium is generally more than 70%, the market outstanding shares usually do not exceed 30%, the outstanding shares of Tencent Group are only 12%, the outstanding shares of Huaxia Financial account for only 14.5%, and the outstanding shares of Shenzhou Media Group are only 19.7%.
This situation is similar to that of many very large state-owned enterprises, no matter how much you try to absorb chips in the secondary securities market, you will not even want to seize a controlling stake in the company, and even the possibility of entering the board of directors does not exist.
"In fact, there is a saying from the outside world that we are so big as to threaten the central enterprises...... Especially after we privatize XCMG!" Chen Daqiao originally reported to Xu Teng to talk about the expansion plan of Shenzhou Media Group in the second half of the year, but for no reason, he suddenly diverted to this topic.
Chen Daqiao's fate has changed dramatically, and now he lives in the capital all the year round, and he has finally become a predator in the domestic media and entertainment industry, with the goal of stopping Disney.
Jian Chen and Xu Teng share a common desire to acquire Hyatt, or Starwood Hotels & Resorts.
Chen Daqiao and Xu Teng also have a common desire - to acquire Marvel, this is next year, or the year after tomorrow, how to operate, for the time being, has not yet been decided, Chen Daqiao has been keen to contact each other, and the effect does not seem to be very good.
To put it simply, Mr. Chen's compulsion is not enough.
If Xu Teng came forward, there would be a chance for the other party to listen to the offer, Chen Daqiao...... I didn't even get a chance to talk about it.
"You mean to say that we should try to make more mergers and acquisitions overseas and reduce mergers and acquisitions at home, right?" Xu Teng's shrewdness was definitely beyond Chen Daqiao's estimate, and he could see through the other party's true intentions at a glance.
That's embarrassing!
"Hehe, I'm just talking about it casually, the general policy is still formulated by you, Mr. Xu, and Lao Jiang, anyway...... Xu Teng, you know, I will always support you, and my vote in our consortium will always be yours. Chen Daqiao smiled wryly, it was indeed a little embarrassing to deal with a boss who was too shrewd.
Hurry up, drink.
Chen Daqiao picked up the glass of cognac in his hand and saluted Xu Teng, "Congratulations to our Huayin Department for another city, although we have not been able to directly win the Starwood Group, but we can win the Hyatt Hotel Group, we have been the first in Asia, leaving behind other domestic competitors for decades!"
"yes. Xu Teng and Chairman Chen touched their glasses, drank most of the glass happily in one breath, put the wine glass directly on the table, and informed Chen Daqiao by the way, "Negotiate the acquisition of Marvel, you can speed up a little and strive to complete it next year." In terms of funding, both the Xu family and the consortium will provide support. ”
The Xu family holds the shares of the hottest American technology companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Flix, and Facebook, and even if the shareholding ratio is very high, they have no way to control it, but can only make financial investments.
Rather than this, it is better to use the high-tech stock market in recent years as a bargaining chip to trade in exchange for other companies that can actually control it.
Google's market capitalization has exceeded $100 billion, and the Xu family's shareholding is still as high as 35%, and it only uses a small amount of chips to trade to win Hyatt Hotels Group.
Everyone knows that Google will continue to skyrocket, and it will be easy to double it again.
To put it mildly, Mr. Xu told the Pritzker family that they were willing to trade with their Google shares, and the Pritzker family was very happy.
Hyatt Hotels Group is a typical asset-heavy company, even if it is listed, the price-earnings ratio will not be high, Xu Teng is optimistic to estimate, roughly that is, the market value of five billion US dollars, according to the agreement signed by the Xu family and the Pritzker family, the final transaction cost of a complete acquisition is roughly around four billion US dollars.
That's it at most.
Maybe one day Google will collapse, and Hyatt Hotels Group will continue to stand tall, but the profits are still meager, and even if the market value rises to $500 billion, who will have the courage to sell these stocks to the market?
The Chinese have an old saying, buy up not buy down, when a thing continues to increase in value, it is easy to get rid of it, and it is difficult to get rid of it when it rises to the point that others feel that it is very dangerous.
What's more, Hyatt Group has a very special benefit for the Huayin Consortium, if it is in a second-tier city, a commercial real estate has a five-star hotel such as Park Hyatt, Hyatt, and Grand Hyatt, and the average price should increase by at least 15%, and the real estate of 10 billion yuan can earn 1.5 billion more, and after paying taxes, you can also get 1 billion yuan, and the real money can earn in your own pocket.
Therefore, the Xu family has to acquire Hyatt Hotel Group first, and the sooner they start, the more profits they will make, and the more time they can expand their layout and complete the acquisition of Hyatt, so that they can have the spare time to take a look at Marvel.
Xu Teng is the big boss, nodded and agreed, Chen Daqiao was like a chicken blood, very excited.
In addition to being excited, Chen Daqiao also wanted to emphasize his thoughts again, "Xu Teng, what I just said is actually true, I have been in the capital for the past few years, I have more friends, and I have heard a lot of rumors." Now everyone knows how big the Huayin consortium is, especially our development speed is fast, and this model is also a bit taboo. ”
"There's some truth to what you're saying, but don't worry too much. You are a joint partner and you should be well aware that our accounts will stand the test of time and scrutiny. Xu Teng has also seen some dissenting reports that the rapid expansion of the Huayin consortium is based on the transfer of loan capital from Huaxia Bank and Huaxia Insurance, which is both correct and incorrect.
"yes, I'm just worried about the rumors. Chen Daqiao nodded, Huayin Consortium does have innate advantages in financing channels, and it is not difficult to borrow 100 billion, but these operations are within the scope of legal compliance, and will never violate various restrictions promulgated by the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the Insurance Regulatory Commission.
Chen Daqiao's worry is that everyone says so, and in the end, it will usher in some policy changes.
The Huayin consortium is indeed too large, and this model of private enterprise grouping is too special.
"Don't worry about it for the time being, even for 20 years, there will be no problem if you don't break the law. Xu Teng does not have such worries, he is very confident in the domestic business environment, the bigger the Chinese do things, the more popular, the larger the scale of the Huayin Consortium today, the more popular and respected in the local area, the more preferential the investment promotion policy of the Huayin Consortium.
"Oh, that's good!" Chen Daqiao didn't want to say anything, this was a guarantee made by someone and several high-level representatives of the Huayin Consortium, although he was also a joint partner of the Huayin Consortium, but he was not a real Big Three, and the level was too low to reach that level.
Chen Daqiao thought about it, but he still had to continue to find a topic, after all, Xu Teng rarely came to the capital, don't look at him as a huge rich man with a net worth of tens of billions, and he has to befriend the prince.
If Jiang Ningyuan is a cabinet scholar and prince of the Huayin Foundation, Chen Daqiao is at most a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, and the gap is not small, and now he also wants to get a cabinet scholar and become a high-level leader.
As for the following senior partners sitting in one province and one city, they are at best a group of governors, and the gap is even more than 108,000 miles.
"Tomorrow I will go to the Commerce Bureau Group and participate in the board of directors of China Merchants Bank, right?" Chen Daqiao decided to change the topic to a relaxed and pleasant topic, the Huayin Consortium's development efforts in the financial industry are a bit too strong, although the four major domestic banks dare not get involved, the four small banks have already been involved in three.
Huaxia Bank, one of the four small banks, has risen much faster than the other three in recent years, opening more outlets in various counties and cities across the country, and expanding thousands of branches and branches a year.
The key is that Huaxia Bank is doing financial services for the whole industry chain, in addition to commercial banking business, there are insurance, securities, wealth management and other business integrated operations, in addition to reinsurance, it already has all domestic insurance photos, and the securities license is also close to perfect.
At present, the two major branches of the Huayin Consortium, Huateng is involved in China Merchants Bank, Ping An Insurance and Huatai Insurance, and Boan is involved in Minsheng Bank and Sunshine Insurance.
In short, the Huayin Consortium is not only the largest Kang Caien private consortium in China, but also leaves other private enterprises far behind, and the operation of the Huayin Financial Solidarity Alliance is already the most enthusiastic thing for many private enterprises in China.
The Huayin Consortium clearly doesn't think so.
Compared with alliances with more private enterprises, the Huayin consortium is more keen on forming alliances with central enterprises, and the central enterprises also think so.
Of course, the big guy has to be friends with the big guy, and the little ones please step aside, who has ever seen a junior high school student play with a kindergarten child?
As soon as the news of Xu Teng's visit to the capital this time leaked, Chen Daqiao's phone was blown up, and he was asked to introduce him in various ways, from noon today to the evening ten days later, every meal was full.
Of course Chen Daqiao knew that it was fake for these scumbags to invite him to dinner, and it was true that he wanted to meet Xu Teng, bastard...... Chen Daqiao burst into tears, he is also a co-partner of the Huayin Consortium, and he is also a top rich man with a net worth of 10 billion yuan and ranks among the top five in the country!
Chen Daqiao was not angry, he was happy for Xu Teng.
Thinking that at the beginning, when Xu Teng wanted to control Shenzhou Media, Chen Daqiao was actually unhappy, and was forced to agree to the strong deterrence of Mr. Xu's mother, but now that I think back, it was really the wisest decision in Chen Daqiao's life.
If it weren't for the beginning, how could he be the first place in the production and distribution of film and television dramas in China today, and even go deep into the United States, Legendary Pictures, the holding subsidiary of Shenzhou Media Group in the United States, not only has a big director like Li An, but also has "Legend of the Night", "Chainsaw" two classic series of films, "Terminator 4" production contract, Warner also handed over to Legendary Pictures to cooperate in shooting, and is currently just waiting for the schedule of several leading actors.
"By the way, are you free?" Chen Daqiao originally wanted to be a close friend with Xu Teng, talk about the future of the Huayin Consortium, and think about it together, but he didn't expect that the little thing he had been pondering for half a year, the three giants of Jiang Xiaoxu and Mr. Xu had already pondered a hundred times, and now they can only continue to change a more relaxed topic, only talking about feelings, not about hegemony.
Lao Jiang judged that Mr. Xu's mother was deliberately semi-retiring, except for the gambling industry, the rest had to be slowly handed over to Xu Teng to control and take over the shift in advance, after all, Xu Teng has the ability and courage, and he may be able to do better and more beautiful than Mr. Xu.
Chen Daqiao also judged this way, taking advantage of Xu Teng's more than a month in the capital, Chen Daqiao wanted to hurry up and strive to become one of the core high-level of the Huayin Consortium...... It turns out that the top is the top and there is inside information.
"I'm free today, do you have anything to do here?" Xu Teng looked at the time, until 6 o'clock in the evening, he was free, Xia Li came over in the evening, and the family of three lived in Ruilin Mansion, so there was no time.
"I'm asking if you have time to make a movie, "Tales of the Night 2" is currently being prepared, after all, it is a co-production, considering the domestic market, we want to add a Chinese actor, the director also agreed, the script has been written. The key is to find a suitable actor, in fact, you are the most suitable. "Chen Daqiao is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, so he can only have some fun with Xu Teng in his own territory and get closer.
However, he was not wrong.
Xu Teng is now busy and busy, saying that he is not busy, and he doesn't need to be too busy, making movies has been put on hold for a long time, if all the scenes are concentrated in a month and the filming is prioritized, Xu Teng can really consider it.
Especially movies like "Terminator" and "Legend of the Night", which are a bit forced, Xu Teng can fully consider them.
"You can shoot, after all, it's your own company, so it's your duty to help. Of course, Xu Teng knows his net worth, this is not an actor-level box office appeal, everyone is just out of curiosity, and it can also increase the domestic box office by 200 million, "You ask the director to send the script to me, if there is no big problem, it can be filmed within a month, I will consider it." ”
"If you want to act, the script must be overhauled. Chen Daqiao was very excited, he didn't expect Xu Teng to really agree, Xu Teng was the most suitable for this matter, and he was also one of the very few action actors in China who had experience in filming in Hollywood.
"Okay, they'll show me when they're done. Xu Teng smiled a little mysteriously, but he was still very happy, he has been busy with business in the past few years, and he is really a little tired, rather than going to Thailand for a vacation, it is better to take out this month to do something very interesting.
"Oh, you said it earlier, Li An has been holding the schedule of "Terminator 4" and not filming, and wants to wait for the original cast, even if Schwarzenegger can't come, it's okay to make a cameo. On your side, Li An and I don't dare to ask if you would like to make a cameo. Chen Daqiao regretted it, if he had known that Xu Tenggui was the richest man in Asia and still had an interest in making movies, why did he keep the contract of "Terminator 4" on Legendary Pictures.
Because Schwarzenegger could only make a cameo, Warner was afraid of losing money, so he handed over the contract of "Terminator 4" to Shenzhou Media and Legendary Pictures, and the three co-productions, the problem is that Li An was also worried about losing money, so he didn't dare to move.
Xu Teng, as the most brilliant one in the original team, is really willing to return, with his particularity, it will definitely have a lot of stimulating effect on the box office, at least in the news, it will definitely cause a sensation.
"The schedule is arranged, and at most one month a year will be drawn, so let's play it. Xu Teng is also up to the point, he can't invest more time and energy, he really wants to spend all his time making movies, and the Huayin Consortium will definitely not agree.
Xu Teng really didn't find out before that Chen Daqiao, who has thick eyebrows and big eyes, is actually a slanderer.
It's no wonder that Chen Daqiao didn't need to be a courtier in the past, just work hard to be a boss, but now he has to be both a boss and a courtier, which is also very hard. (To be continued.) )