Hong Kong, Connaught Building, Hongkong Land Headquarters.

Dong Youwei was full of smiles, walked into the office of Chairman Chen Zhiwen, and said: "Chen Sheng, there is news from the stock exchange that the Malay billionaire Khoo Teck Puat has stopped the policy of buying Wheelock shares in the Hong Kong stock market, and I contacted an assistant of Khoo Teck Puat through Mr. Kwok Henian, and he said that Khoo Teck Puat has given up the acquisition.

It is estimated that it was also because it was too high-profile before, and now it has suddenly stopped and has not been announced to the public, otherwise it may lose face. ”

Guo Henian is also a super-rich man in Malaysia, but the main business is quite different from Qiu Depua, but the two of them still know each other, over the years, Guo Henian has also mobilized capital to invest in Hong Kong many times, and the relationship with Hongkong Land and Hutchison is also good.

Although their group is not afraid of the rich in Southeast Asia, but most of the business, without an absolute conflict of interest, everyone tries to do harmony as much as possible, otherwise, even if they are stronger, there will be losses in the event of a conflict, besides, the current land debt is still relatively heavy, there is no need to fight hard with others.

"It's smart enough to give up." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile: "For the sake of face or something, let's leave some for him, don't hold any press conferences or make any announcements during this time, by the way, does he intend to sell the shares in his hand?" ”

"I also asked, what Khoo Teck Puat means is that he wants to use Defeng's shares as a long-term investment, which may also be the reason why I see that you have already invested in shares." Dong Youwei said.

Over the years, Chen Zhiwen has acquired many enterprises in the Hong Kong market, some large and small, some of which are privatized and wholly owned by themselves, but some of them continue to retain the status of listed companies, and these listed companies, without exception, have skyrocketed several times in a few years after being acquired by Chen Zhiwen.

One of the most conspicuous is Taohua Datong Company, which was originally just a Hong Kong kitchen seasoning product, with sales to Southeast Asian countries, and after being acquired by Chen Zhiwen, not only through Galaxy Trade, a large number of sauces were sold to Europe and the United States, but also began to use this platform to produce cheese sauce and tomato sauce with the highest demand in Europe and the United States, etc., at the same time, the most conspicuous is the several hot sauces they developed, which are very popular in Europe, America and Asian countries, and the demand is very large.

The original factory of Taohua Datong was only two or three hundred people, with the expansion of business, the factory has expanded dozens of times, and the number of employees has exceeded 4,000 people, becoming one of the largest factories in Hong Kong, and the total market value of the stock price has risen from about 100 million Hong Kong dollars before being acquired by Chen Zhiwen to nearly 2.5 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Several other data may not be so exaggerated, but it is basically not lower than the real estate market, and the first three years were a real estate crisis, and the Hang Seng Index is not good, but this does not affect these companies.

Therefore, many people are also reluctant to sell Chen Zhiwen's companies that are still listed, and many people are crowded into the market, and for this reason, the stock price is higher.

"If he holds it, let him be, anyway, our agreement with Bao Yugang is to buy half of the property, and after that, the management rights will all belong to them, and we will not interfere with Wheelock." Chen Zhiwen said.

Qiu Depuat also estimates that he will inevitably focus on experiencing Wheelok Fung, and like Hongkong Land and Wong, if this is the case, then it must be cost-effective for him to hold it for a long time now.

It's a pity that Chen Zhiwen will not participate in the shipping industry, he only needs to get part of Wheelock's property, and this process will be paid by Hongkong Land to Wheelock Company, which is equivalent to buying, and Watsons will also pay to buy Lane Crawford, and after that, Wheelock has nothing to do with himself.

As for whether Bao Yugang wants to be privatized or remain the same, that is also his business, but there is a high probability that he will remain listed, the original history is like this, and for most companies, it is better to be listed than not to be listed, it is convenient to raise funds, and it binds many interest groups, etc., and Chen Zhiwen, because he has the ability to know, so he is not in a hurry to let the company go public, but it really develops to a very large scale, and he will still consider going public.

"Zhang Yuliang holds 33% of Wheelock shares, and he is only 2 points away from activating the takeover bid, and Bao Yugang can quickly and completely control Wheelock." Dong Youwei said: "I have sent someone to check all the properties of Wheelock, this is the list, we are ready to talk to the Bao family about this matter, I don't know if Chen Sheng has any properties that must be acquired?" ”

"Is there a big property in Central, or Tsim Sha Tsui, which is a prime commercial location?" Chen Zhiwen looked at it and asked, they were not very famous, and he didn't know very well.

"There are properties in places like Central and Tsim Sha Tsui, but they are all small properties, at most they are the first floor of an office building, or some shops along the street. However, outside of these prime locations, there are some large plots of land that used to be warehouses and the properties were also commercial, and if they were acquired, they could be used to build office buildings or residences. Dong Youwei said.

"Forget about the residence, the land suitable for building a residence, or the property, give it to the Bao family, we don't want it." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said: "In this way, you look at the location, if it is okay, and it is suitable for building an office building, then we will strive to take it down, if the business is prosperous, we want a shop on the street, the kind of one-story or a small area of the office building, you can take it, if you can't take it, forget it, let it be given to the Bao family." ”

Since it is a property of Defeng in Hong Kong with the Bao family, it is naturally impossible to give everything good to yourself, and give what you don't need to others, so there is a trade-off problem.

At this time, it can be regarded as a favor and given to the Bao family, and it will be enough to take down the land and property suitable for building office buildings.

The commercial area, whether it is a street shop or an office building above, is a high-quality asset, but if you choose one of the two, Chen Zhiwen chooses the street shop, because the number of shops is far less than the office building, after all, the latter can build a high-rise up, the former is mainly on the first floor, especially some high-quality locations. And there are too many office buildings, and there are too many Hongkong Land brands, and a little more or less will have little impact.

Of course, this is still their ideal state, and the Bao family may also want these things, so it will depend on how to negotiate and distribute them, but they have set their own priorities, which is also convenient for their subordinates to operate.

"Okay, Mr. Chen." Dong Youwei agreed.

"Sean from KFC, how did you talk to you before?" Chen Zhiwen asked suddenly.

Less than half a month ago, KFC CEO Sean came to Hong Kong, had a chat with Chen Zhiwen, and verbally set a lot of future development plans, the first of which is to implement the expansion in Hong Kong, and at the same time, after the expansion, based on Hong Kong, and then spread to half of Asia.

If it is a normal situation, it is very difficult to expand in Hong Kong, even if it is McDonald's with more abundant capital, it is a headache just to choose a location, and the rent in Hong Kong is also very high.

However, this is Hong Kong, Hongkong Land is the biggest "land king" in Hong Kong, or the land king in Hong Kong's most prime business district, and they are all the same boss, Chen Zhiwen naturally arranged Hongkong Land to cooperate with Sean.

Just a few days ago, under the instruction of Chen Zhiwen, Morgan Stanley and Red Bull signed an agreement with Huber Lane on the acquisition of KFC in the United States, which can be regarded as an official end to this matter, but this is also the beginning of KFC's expansion.

Hong Kong, as the first place where KFC intends to break through, has naturally attracted much attention.

"Chen Sheng, we had a very smooth conversation with Mr. Sean, and we also took him to a lot of Hongkong Land's shopping mall properties or shop properties, as long as he likes, you can give it to him, but some of them may still be in the lease period with other people, and we need to wait." Dong Youwei replied.

"How many suitable spots have you found?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"Before Sean left, he had found almost 60 locations, which is still only a week, and with those commercial locations that are not under our Land, I estimate that he will not have a problem finding 300." Dong Youwei said.

Although Hongkong Land is the first land king in Hong Kong, it is only a small part of it compared to all the real estate in Hong Kong, and no one can control more than a few percent of the property in a city, even if the funds are sufficient, it is impossible, because this way of playing will only bind themselves to the city heavily, but all capitalists will not play like this out of risk considerations.

"300 is not much, and Hong Kong's economy is worth so many Western-style fast food restaurants in the future." Chen Zhiwen said.

In the future, there are almost 300 McDonald's in Hong Kong, which is still taking into account the result data of Hong Kong's housing prices, and now Hongkong Land controls a lot of real estate in Hong Kong, although it is not enough to say that there is no rent, but at least you can go wherever you want, otherwise, McDonald's is rich, but in terms of location, it is not what he wants.

"That's right, there are 40 shopping malls directly or indirectly controlled by Hongkong Land alone, plus many stores, as well as Wharf and Hutchison, I'm afraid we can also get together 300 sets of shops for KFC internally." Dong Youwei nodded and said.

"Well, just try to cooperate with them, the future of KFC, not only will there be many branches in Hong Kong, but also the Asian headquarters, since Hong Kong is our headquarters, then KFC must be a monopoly, it can't be on the territory of KFC, or McDonald's dominance." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

"Of course, not to mention that KFC is not much worse than McDonald's, it is an ordinary brand, as long as we have our internal help, we will never let McDonald's continue to dominate." Dong Youwei nodded and said.

Today's Hongkong Land is very valued by the boss, and any good things in Hong Kong are handed over to themselves, such as the previous Disney cooperation, this time part of Wheelock's real estate transfer, these were all Hutchison's before, but now Hutchison's positioning is mainly overseas business.

However, whether it is Hutchison or Land, it may be very large in scale, or even more than Midea, but in terms of importance, it is still incomparable, after all, for real estate companies, it is the easiest to make less money by charging less rent, but for industrial companies, the cost is lower, you can get more customers, if it is the kind of old customers who can repeat transactions, the benefits will be higher.

"Hmm." Chen Zhiwen nodded. He asked, "How are the negotiations at Disneyland?" ”

"At present, there is no negotiation, in terms of area, the Hong Kong government still wants to invest a little less, we just want to take a little more at one time." Dong Youwei said: "In addition, we have bought land near the paradise where we are ready to invest, and we are ready to build a community, so that when the demolition starts in the future, we can directly arrange to change houses." ”

"Well, okay, let's continue to talk, in addition, we also need to talk with Disney about the licensing fees of various cooperation projects as soon as possible, and these also need to be determined as soon as possible." Chen Zhiwen said.

"Okay, no problem." Dong Youwei nodded, then chatted for a while, and finally exited the room after greeting him.

Relatively speaking, the carve-up of Defeng is just a trivial matter, although it was once one of the four major foreign companies, but after all, people's main business is shipping, and it ranks fourth, and the inventory in the real estate sector may still be very important for ordinary companies, but it is far worse than Land.

A few days later, what Chen Zhiwen didn't expect was that Bao Yugang made an appointment with him again to meet at the hotel.

originally thought that it might be because of Wheelock's separation, but when Chen Zhiwen arrived, he found that there was another person accompanying Bao Yugang, and he knew that today's meeting had nothing to do with Wheelock.

"Chen Sheng, this is Mr. Cao Guangbiao, the plush king of Hong Kong, Cao Sheng, this is Chen Zhiwen Chen Sheng." Bao Yugang stood up with a smile and introduced, and at the same time began to pour tea for the two.

"Hello Cao Sheng." Chen Zhiwen shook hands and said with a smile, the plush king Cao Guangbiao was still very famous when he just crossed over to Hong Kong, and then from 75 years ago, the real estate market bull market broke out exponentially, resulting in Hong Kong's real estate tycoons completely suppressing all the industrial tycoons, and the former various "industrial kings" slowly declined.

"Hello Chen Sheng." Cao Guangbiao said with a smile: "Bao Sheng, this kind of thing as the plush king was ten years ago, and it doesn't make sense to talk about it now." ”

"Also, your goal in the future, the four words plush king are not worthy of you." Bao Yugang laughed and said: "Chen Sheng, I asked you out today because Cao Sheng wants to see you, Cao Sheng, you should talk about this matter yourself." ”

"Okay." Cao Guangbiao nodded and said: "Chen Sheng, I am going to lead some Chinese billionaires to set up an airline called Ganglong, I don't know, are you interested in joining in?" (End of chapter)