The reason why Tang chose to target Glencore Strata at the beginning, instead of BHP Billiton, which had grievances, or Rio Tinto, which has been loading soy sauce, is not only because Glencore Strata has the most important sales channel for Tang, but also because Glencore Strata has the layout of Glencore Strata in global grain and oil.

Although Glencore Strata is the famous king of bulk goods trading and a well-known mining company, on the surface, it seems that Glencore can have such a strong strength and is inseparable from its achievements in the mining industry. But in fact, Glencore Strata had been walking on three legs before it was acquired by Tang's Anglo-American.

The troika that pulls the trading aircraft carrier forward is metals, minerals, energy products and agricultural products.

That's right, among the three most important business segments of Glencore Strata, agricultural products are an important economic pillar of Glencore's strata economic empire.

Back in 1982, it was still called Mark Murphy. Glencore of the Rich Fund has been involved in the agricultural products industry, starting from the establishment of the Dutch grain purchasing and trading company, and slowly developed to the formation of an extremely large basic agricultural products enterprise group, relying on Glencore's huge sales channels, Glencore's basic agricultural products enterprise group has developed rapidly.

I have to say that the founder of Glencore, Mark. Richie is a very long-term genius. This trade wizard, who has been wanted by the United States for more than ten years, although he started with the trade of mineral products and oil and gas, he began to lay out the layout of agricultural products early, and after more than 30 years and two generations of operation, Glencore Strata's energy in agricultural products has been huge and somewhat scary.

At present, the world's thirteen largest suppliers of agricultural products are led by the famous "A, B, C, D" four major grain merchants, almost controlling more than 90% of the global agricultural product market share. The so-called "A, B, C, D" four major food giants refer to the English abbreviations of the four largest food giants in the world. That is, the world's No. 1 American ADM, No. 2 American Bunge, No. 3 American Cargill, and No. 4 French Louis. Duffs. The English abbreviations of these four grain giants happen to be "A, B, C, D", so when it comes to "A, B, C, D" in the agricultural industry, almost everyone knows that it is worth these four food giants.

These four major grain merchants control almost 80% of the world's grain trade, and they are well-deserved as the four giants that can influence the fate of mankind. After all, everyone knows what is most important in these years? Grain!

Just like former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, once famously said: "Control the grain." Just control the human race! ”

This is very reasonable, in ancient China, there was a saying that "the people take food as the sky, and grain is the treasure of the country", and in modern times, there is a saying that "no agriculture is not stable, no work is not rich, no business is not living", and in modern times, "food security" is listed as a professional academic term.

This can be seen from these aspects. How important is the place of food in human society. It is no exaggeration to say that now human beings have entered space, don't look at the fact that human beings have big mushrooms that can destroy the earth a hundred times, don't look at human beings have now entered the age of electronic information, but on this planet, you can leave the space shuttle, you can do without big mushrooms, you can not use computers, mobile phones and other electronic products. But you give me half a month without meals to try!

So, food is the most important thing on the planet!

At present, there are thirteen agricultural giants led by the four major grain merchants of "A, B, C, and D". It has unconsciously completed the layout of the world.

The "young" Glencore Strata is logically unable to squeeze into this circle, just like the Huaxia Grain Group, in terms of scale, COFCO's scale can be said to be the world's largest grain group, but COFCO just can't become a global food giant. Why? Because the thirteen grain giants led by "A, B, C, D" have already laid out all the bureaus. Others want to come in, no way!

But Glencore Strata has successfully squeezed into this huge, bottomless and deep circle by virtue of the identity of a junior, and for more than 30 years, Glencore Strata has been mixing like a fish in water in this circle with her excellent skills.

Glencore has grown to such a scale in just over three decades. Its killer feature is mergers and acquisitions, and through a series of visionary mergers and acquisitions, Glencore Strata has not only become the world's fourth largest mining company, but also a significant force in the global agricultural industry.

In the global agricultural products industry, Glencore Strata is not conspicuous, and compared with the thirteen food giants led by "A, B, C, D", Glencore Strata is not very famous, but if you can understand the group companies in which Glencore Strata is a shareholder, you will suddenly realize that Glencore Strata is the real master of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.

Over the past few decades, with strong sales channels, relations with many countries in Europe and Africa, and Glencore Strata has used all kinds of means to do so, and now Glencore Strata has held a certain percentage of shares in the world's thirteen grain giants

Like ADM, the world's largest grain merchant, Glencore Strata occupies 11.8% of the shares, and is the third largest shareholder of ADM; In Bunge, Glencore Strata also owns more than 13% of the shares, and even owns 14.2% of Cargill and 13.5% of Louis Dreyfus Company.

As for the grain giants located in Southeast Asia, Glencore has a stake of no less than 16%.

If you add up all these shares, then you will find that the shares of these grain giants held by Glencore Strata quietly have reached a very terrifying point. It is no exaggeration to say that if Glencore Strata concentrates these shares, then Glencore Strata's position in the global agricultural industry can definitely squeeze into the top four, which is to kill Louis. Duffs or even Cargill are not necessarily difficult

As a Chinese, Tang Feng knows COFCO's embarrassing position in the global agricultural products industry, but Tang Feng can't change this situation. And as the owner of the star core, once the star core is upgraded to level five, Tang Feng is the controller of this planet.

But if you can't control the world's most important food as a controller, how can Tang style be embarrassed?

It is precisely for this reason, coupled with the fact that the sales channel of Glencore Strata is really what Tang needs most at present, so Tang Feng did not hesitate to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to acquire Glencore Strata.

Of course, after the successful acquisition of Glencore Strata, Tang has a great say in the global agricultural products industry in addition to having a great say in the mining industry. This is what Tang Feng needs most (to be continued.) )