Chapter 842: The Sword Pointed at Wal-Mart

Lu Shaohua left Chu Lei, Lu Jiahui, Liu Mingzhang, Li Yunqing and Qin Sichen behind, as for what happened to them, Lu Shaohua did not say in a hurry, but waited until everyone else left the conference room, and when the door of the conference room was closed, Lu Shaohua motioned for them to sit down and prepare to speak.

"I'm looking for you to have something else, so sit down." Lu Shaohua waved, then paused for a while, and after everyone sat down, Lu Shaohua went straight to the topic and said. "Wal-Mart, I believe everyone is familiar with this name, yes, this group company is the hegemon of the global retail industry, but also the Walton family's industry, with their branches in Hong Kong and China, speaking of our Phoenix supermarket competitors."

Lu Shaohua first talked about Wal-Mart Group, and after pondering for a while, Lu Shaohua continued. "I want to buy Wal-Mart, as for how many shares to buy, it has not yet been decided, but the only thing that is certain is that I can try to have an absolute controlling stake."

Lu Shaohua's idea of hitting Wal-Mart Group is not a day or two, but Lu Shaohua has been busy with other things some time ago and has not mentioned this matter, and today he took this opportunity to say it together.

Of course, this is also because of the reason why Phoenix Supermarket wants to enter the overseas market, otherwise Lu Shaohua would not have proposed it so early.

"It's very difficult." Li Yunqing was the first to speak, and after finishing speaking, he didn't look at Lu Shaohua, and when he saw that the latter didn't react much, Li Yunqing knew that Lu Shaohua also knew that there was a lot of difficulty in this, but Lu Shaohua's eyes were obvious, that is, let him continue, so Li Yunqing did not hesitate, and continued. "Regarding the Wal-Mart Group, I have researched and planned to make a long-term investment, but in the end I gave up for no other reason, when I investigated, I found that Wal-Mart is almost the private property of the Walton family, most of their shareholders are members of the family, and there are very few stocks circulating in the stock market, which is not very worth investing."

Speaking of this, Li Yunqing paused again, took a breath, and then said again. "And it's not easy for us to buy their shares, and it's even more difficult to say that we can buy more than 51 percent, unless we can force the Walton family members to sell their shares, otherwise we can't complete the acquisition."

What Li Yunqing said is true, most of the shares of the Wal-Mart Group are in the hands of members of the Walton family, holding more than 60% of the shares, and the Walton family itself has sufficient financial resources, so it is difficult to acquire its shares.

In previous acquisition cases, Lu Shaohua used two methods, one was to play some tricks from the stock market to suppress the stock price, and finally absorb the goods, and then make a move to the minority shareholders after the absorption was sufficient, and buy the shares in the hands of the minority shareholders to make up for it.

The second method is to negotiate with them directly and buy the shares of the largest shareholder at a bid price, which is a bit like a merger and acquisition. It's just that Lu Shaohua rarely uses this method, and it is also used when acquiring Yahoo and Alibaba websites, and the others use the first method.

It is obviously impossible to buy the Wal-Mart Group, because it is the private property of the Walton family, although they are a listed company, but the entire group is under their control, and it is almost impossible to get the Wal-Mart family to give up.

As for the first method, it is not very realistic to use the first method to suppress the stock market first, play tricks, and finally complete the acquisition, because the members of the Walton family control too many shares together.

Lu Shaohua didn't know this, when he started the idea of the Wal-Mart Group, Lu Shaohua asked Li Zhijie to collect information about the Walton family, and the results showed that the current head of the Walton family occupied 37% of the shares of Wal-Mart, and 23% of the shares were in the hands of several other members, and the total was just 60%.

This is the result of the data showing, and there is another aspect of intelligence. Interestingly, the Walton family is not as harmonious as it seems on the surface, and there are also fights, but they have always been unanimous with the outside world, and the outside world thinks they are very united.

However, who knows that where there are people, there will be rivers and lakes, especially a family like Walton, where the direct members are all relatives who are related by blood, but when they fight, there is a little family consciousness, and it is completely desperate.

This is Lu Shaohua's opportunity, Lu Shaohua can start from this aspect, make some small moves to make their family messy, and then secretly buy the remaining 40%, as long as 40% of the shares are acquired, then Lu Shaohua is the largest shareholder.

Then, Lu Shaohua dug into the corner of the wall again, and acquired another 11% from the members of the Walton family, wouldn't he have mastered 51% of the shares?

This is Lu Shaohua's plan, but Lu Shaohua also knows very well that it is easier said than done, and there are many difficulties in it, especially in the later stage, if you want to acquire 11% of the shares from the Walton family, it is a big challenge.

However, Lu Shaohua is not worried, because even if he fails in the end, it is not bad to have 40% of the shares of Wal-Mart Group in his hand, and he is also the second largest shareholder, and he has already achieved his goal, because the second largest shareholder has a great say in the group.

Lu Shaohua wants the right to speak, as long as he has the right to speak, Lu Shaohua is sure that the Walton family has no intention to deal with Phoenix Supermarket to enter the overseas market, and Phoenix Supermarket, which has less resistance, will directly face Carrefour, the second largest giant in the retail industry.

One-on-one, Lu Shaohua has not been afraid of anyone, not to mention that Carrefour will not face only one Phoenix supermarket at that time, Lu Shaohua, who controls 40% of the shares of Walmart Group, can stand up and attack Carrefour a lot, even if he can't block it with all his might, it can also create a little trouble.

But then again, how easy is it to acquire 40% of the shares held by the Walton family, after all, Wal-Mart Group's performance is good and rising, and the people who hold Wal-Mart shares are still holding the shares and sleeping peacefully and waiting for death?

If Lu Shaohua hadn't founded the Phoenix Group and developed the Phoenix Group, I believe Lu Shaohua would have chosen to take the shares of some companies with good performance and wait for death. Lu Shaohua, a reborn person, has this mentality, let alone others.

However, is Lu Shaohua really helpless?

No, since Lu Shaohua dares to say that he will attack Wal-Mart Group, then he has the means to deal with those shareholders, so that those shareholders will willingly give up their shares, as for how to deal with it, Lu Shaohua intends to use official means.

There is no doubt that the Walton family is very powerful, but the Wal-Mart group has a shortcoming, that is, they do not have a seemingly unofficial organization of labor unions, and the laws of any country clearly stipulate that a company, especially a larger company, must set up a labor union.

If Lu Shaohua starts from this point, then Wal-Mart Group will be finished, so many branches around the world, to let them all set up a union, it is a lot of money, plus the official punishment, it is even worse.

A company, especially a listed company, if the company has a little slump, then the stock price will definitely plummet, this is an immutable law, not to mention that Lu Shaohua is making trouble, how can he let go of such the best opportunity.

As soon as Lu Shaohua makes a move, the stock price will be even worse, and it is possible for the stock price of Walmart Group to plummet in a short period of time.

People in Western countries are very realistic, they only recognize money, if you watch the shares in your hands continue to shrink, how can there be a reason not to act?

This is Lu Shaohua's opportunity.

And Lu Shaohua also told everyone about his plan one by one, as for what kind of official means to use, Lu Shaohua did not say, but everyone knew very well that it was too simple for Lu Shaohua to do this, after all, Lu Shaohua's energy was very amazing.

Chain reaction, this is a frequent occurrence, Lu Shaohua's wife's father - Zeng Aimin can be the secretary of the municipal party committee of Shenzhen, the power is in his hands, it just so happens that Wal-Mart also has a branch in Shenzhen, as long as Shenzhen makes a move, I am afraid that the entire Chinese provinces and cities will move, and then it will have to give Wal-Mart a headache.

If the domestic side is allowed to do it, and then the news is released, it will affect Europe and other regions in a short period of time, and it will be difficult to ensure that the political axes of European countries will not be popular, after all, the fines can be directly returned to the national treasury, and who will let go of such a good opportunity.

Lu Shaohua wants this to make people smell blood, and then pounce on them and take a bite, no matter how strong Walmart is, no matter how powerful the Walton family is, it will not be able to support it.

"I know the Waltons own the majority of the shares, but their holdings are too separate, and this is our chance, as long as we seize a little bit as a breakthrough point, we have a chance." Lu Shaohua said lightly, and then, his tone became gloomy again, and said. "I'm going to create a huge crisis for the Walton family, and then you can buy it directly, well, as much as you can, it's best to buy 51% of the shares, and if not, you have to become the second largest shareholder."

Lu Shaohua's last words fully showed his true intentions, if he can acquire 51%, he will try his best to acquire it, if not, he will retreat and become the second largest shareholder, there is no problem, well, this is also Lu Shaohua's bottom line.

"Understood." Liu Mingzhang obviously understood Lu Shaohua's true intentions, nodded heavily and said. "I'll try to mobilize funds to get ready."

"Hmm." Lu Shaohua nodded, and finally couldn't help but explain more. "When mobilizing funds, we should pay attention to one point, don't take time, now the group needs money in many aspects."

Think about it, Lu Shaohua wants to buy Manchester United, it will cost hundreds of millions of pounds, which is equivalent to seven or eight hundred million dollars, billions of yuan, and then there is a large amount of money to be invested, and Lu Shaohua's plan also needs money, anyway, there are too many places that need to use money, so Lu Shaohua can't afford to be careless.

"I will."

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(To be continued)