"How did he bypass Midea's fan?" Chen Zhiwen asked again, Midea Group's fan business, in the entire group, in fact, is no longer the core business, but in terms of scale, it is still one of Midea's main businesses, the value of a single is indeed very low, the profit is lower, but the number is very large, in overseas developed countries, the fan itself is a consumable, many people bought one before the summer, and may throw it away directly after the summer, and then buy a new one in the next year, especially in the small urban apartment, a few dollars to a dozen dollars a thing, Who gave you a reservation until next year? Taking up space in the home is annoying.

The huge production capacity, coupled with the use of low-cost labor costs in China, has allowed Midea to compress the cost of fans to the extreme, and Yanran has become the world's largest fan factory, but in terms of profit, it may not be as good as a game.

"The fan made by Aimeco is a ceiling fan, not a Midea desktop fan, so the competition is not strong, coupled with the style of their design, much like an antique fan dozens of hundreds of years ago, opened the European and American markets, in last year, Aimeco's export volume was as high as 500 million Hong Kong dollars, except for our group, in the entire Hong Kong export enterprises, has been able to rank in the top ten." Zhou Jiayang said.

"In what year was this Aimeigao founded?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"1981." Zhou Jiayang replied.

"That is, in three years, the turnover exceeded 500 million Hong Kong dollars, which is faster than the development of our Midea fan?" Chen Zhiwen said.

"Yes, just from the point of view of development speed, it is true, but the beauty of the year, but they all built their own supply chain, and the cost and time were spent more, Aimeco is now directly using the existing supply system of Midea in Hong Kong and Shenhai City, and the advantages in this regard are too great." Zhou Jiayang replied.

"It's true to say that, many suppliers of the United States are open to anyone, and it is this Aimei Gao that they seized the opportunity and can develop so fast." Chen Zhiwen said with a light smile.

Over the years, Midea has been in the field of fans and small household appliances, with the layout of the whole supply chain, with this strong overseas market, Hong Kong + deep sea has the world's lowest cost and most efficient supply chain, and most of these supply chains are other companies, following Midea to drink soup, and Midea does not say that they are only allowed to drink soup with themselves, and other businesses can be done normally.

Even Midea's own secondary supply enterprises, such as providing motors or compressors for fans, refrigerators, and washing machines. If someone else comes to buy a motor, is it possible not to sell it?

"Yes, Liu Luanxiong, who loves Meigao, is indeed a stakeholder." Zhou Jiayang nodded and said.

"You know a lot about this Liu Luanxiong?" Chen Zhiwen asked with a smile.

"Yes, one of Hutchison's main businesses at present is investment, in addition to some traditional companies, emerging real estate companies or industrial companies, it is also my goal, this Aimeigao is also very good among all the investable targets, so I also paid special attention to it, they have just been listed, I sent someone to show that we want to invest, but Liu Luanxiong refused." Zhou Jiayang said with a smile: "But I didn't force it anymore, just arrange for someone to buy its shares on the stock market." ”

"Well, okay, just make a proper acquisition." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said: "Theoretically speaking, part of the credit for his ability to get up so fast is to rely on the whole industrial chain built by Midea in Hong Kong, but if you want to continue to develop, this will also be an obstacle, at least in the field of electrical appliances, so you have to pay attention to Liu Luanxiong, if he is a smart person, I estimate that he will change the development of the industry." ”

In Hong Kong, grasp a track that the United States does not pay attention to, such as ceiling fans, that is no problem, but this small market is also limited, if you want to continue to develop, it is inevitable to enter some large-scale markets, that is, normal fans and even other household appliances, but in this way, it is hard to meet with the United States, it is really unclear, no matter how strong the ability is, don't take the track that others have succeeded, that is, Chen Zhiwen re-started his business, the same.

"What does Chen Sheng mean is that Liu Luanxiong will enter the real estate industry?" Zhou Jiayang asked.

"It's possible, so it doesn't matter what Imeico is, if Liu Luanxiong uses Imeco to enter the real estate industry, then it's no problem, if he creates another company, you can just arrange someone to pay attention to it." Chen Zhiwen said.

Entering Hong Kong in the mid-80s, if you want to develop here, there is only real estate or finance, and other industries can hardly develop, even if Chen Zhiwen deliberately left a few physical manufacturing industries for Hong Kong, it is because of high profits can barely do it, and the industry from scratch is impossible to succeed, if Chen Zhiwen crossed this year, then he can only engage in real estate, or go to the mainland to do industry from scratch, but the probability of success is also very low, there is no advantage.

"Okay." Zhou Jiayang nodded and said.

"Kwai Chung Port, the fifth container terminal, is about to be auctioned, right?" Chen Zhiwen asked again, this time to Hutchison, the main purpose is this, Hong Kong's wharf will be the world's top in the next few decades, and the annual income is no less than a Central building, and it controls a large number of jobs in Hong Kong, as well as a large number of goods, and its influence is much stronger than a few rent-collecting buildings, not to mention, Hutchison's core business in the future is a global port giant, if even Hong Kong can't get enough advantages, it will not become a joke.

"Yes, we are also ready to bid, this fifth container terminal, in terms of scale, is much larger than the previous four, according to the current market valuation, the auction price will exceed 3 billion Hong Kong dollars." Zhou Jiayang said.

"Money is not an issue, which companies are competing with us right now?" Chen Zhiwen nodded and asked, the investment of a large wharf is not low compared to a super building, which is also the reason why the Hong Kong government itself cannot build it by itself, it is too expensive, even if the enterprise bids, it is to make full use of the bank's funds to obtain the right to use the wharf at the same time, and then build the wharf, with future income, to repay the loan, but the advantage is that the risk is low, generally as long as the regional industry and economy do not have major problems, the wharf can not lose.

Of course, Hong Kong is the exception, in the next few years Hong Kong's real estate market grew exponentially, all the industries have run away, that is, the mainland supports Hong Kong, but also deliberately suppresses the development of ports near Hong Kong, otherwise Yantian Port continues to expand, Hong Kong terminals don't think about making domestic money, and Hong Kong's local demand for daily necessities, so many ports and terminals can not be used at all, after all, after the development of the mainland's industry, more daily necessities can be imported from the mainland.

However, now that he knows the future situation of Hong Kong, Chen Zhiwen will naturally focus on seizing this opportunity to take Hong Kong's port.

"On the British-funded side, mainly Swire, Chinese-funded side, and the global shipping in Baoyugang also participated, and on the foreign-funded side, there are several Japanese and American port companies, and the others are not very large-scale, so there should be nothing to fear." Zhou Jiayang replied.

"Bao Yugang also participated? It's kind of interesting. Chen Zhiwen said with some surprise.

In the original history, after Bao Yugang acquired Wharf, he did not focus on the development of Wharf's port business, but focused on the development of real estate.

If you think about it carefully, it may also be because in the original history, he and Jardine Matheson fought hard, at least spent more than 2 billion Hong Kong dollars, and the vitality was greatly damaged, and now the acquisition of China Power, the loss is not so big, and China Power has a very stable income, and relying on geographical advantages to supply power to Shenhai City and cooperate in investing in various power plants in China, it is relatively much more stable, in this case, even if the shipping crisis breaks out, the impact on the port is not great.

The essence of this shipping crisis is not that there are fewer global goods, but that there are too many ships built in the past few years.

"Yes, Bao Yugang's son-in-law Wu Guangzheng also greeted me before, and they didn't want to miss this opportunity." Zhou Jiayang said.

"It's okay, we can't let others participate in the industry we fancy to the industry, right? It's all about strength. Chen Zhiwen said indifferently.

No matter how domineering you are, you can't say that others can't touch what you like, which doesn't conform to the most basic operating rules of modern business society.

Moreover, it is other Chinese capital that avoids itself, so British, American, and Japanese capital are not afraid, even if the capital is not comparable to themselves, they are just bidding for land or docks, and the comparison is not the amount of funds, but who is more optimistic about the project, who dares to invest more money.

However, these people certainly can't compare to their own understanding of Hong Kong's future, and who would have thought that Hong Kong's land prices could rise tenfold in the next ten years? Can the economy as a whole turn Hong Kong people from the income of the developing world to the income of the most sophisticated developed cities?

"I think so too, this dock, we are bound to get it." Zhou Jiayang said with a smile: "I have negotiated with Standard Chartered Bank, and they will provide sufficient funds. ”

"Standard Chartered? What percentage of the acquisitions are we in the UK? Chen Zhiwen suddenly asked again.

"It's 11.2% at the moment, we've bought some of it through some shareholders, and Standard Chartered Bank's UK headquarters also knows about it, and I also arranged for someone to explain that it's just an investment, and as for whether they believe it or not, there's no way." Zhou Jiayang said: "However, if the acquisition exceeds 16%, then all the loans on our side will have to be transferred again." (End of chapter)