Chapter 175 Korn Ferry Group
Cang Yaozu is playing games in the Cang Mansion, and what he is playing is "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", oh, the DOS version, and there is no windows version of the Legend of Sword and Fairy, Cang Yaozu likes this game very much, although in his eyes, the picture is a little rougher.
To be precise, Cang Yaozu likes this IP very much and can adapt film and television, and it seems that he has to send someone to Wanwan to take down Daewoo Information. Oh, there is also Wanwan's spectrum information, their "Monopoly's Rich World" Cang Yaozu also likes to play, and this game may be transplanted to the mobile phone in two years.
Sophie and Monica worked hard for their own industrial group, Monica's acting skills are poorer, mainly taking the sexy route, and now Cang Yaozu doesn't want her to shoot those so-called art films, so there are a lot fewer film appointments, she will join the group in a few months to shoot "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", and now director Giuseppe Tornatore is still filming "The Pianist of the Sea".
Monica's other drama appointments have been pushed down, and the agent movie universe that Cang Yaozu promised her has not yet started, so Monica's focus recently has been on supermarket companies, and she is very motivated.
Monica chose four places in the magic capital and began to build her large supermarket chain, and Yao Mengjin has also been helping her these days, and she is already an expert in property management. The two of them are recruiting personnel for site selection and acquisition every day, and negotiating with merchants to enter the market, which is very fulfilling.
Cang Yaozu's requirements for them are to standardize everything, be ambitious, and raise their positioning to the same level as Carrefour and Wal-Mart. If you are so strict with yourself, it will not be too bad.
Sophie's words, because "Under the Tuscan Sun" will not be filmed until the summer, so there is still a period of free time in April, recently she is busy negotiating with Unicharm, and now Unicharm has not agreed to sell as a whole, but has agreed to Sophie's request to buy part of the shares, and has agreed to transfer 26% of the shares to her, soon, Sophie may be Unicharm's largest individual shareholder, but she can't control it yet.
The next thing to talk about is the investment of the Panda Fund, and Sophie's representative Cang Yaozu provided Unicharm with various favorable conditions and painted a beautiful scene for the future.
Panda Capital has strong strength and huge connections in Asia, the Americas, and Europe, which can help Unicharm quickly occupy these markets.
In particular, the Panda Fund is seeking to acquire 7-Eleven convenience stores as a whole, and is also deploying large supermarket groups, which can be of great help to Unicharm.
At the same time, behind the Panda Fund is also standing the first portal of China, QQ.com, and the world's first instant messaging software icq, whose business scope spans the Internet and the film and television music industries.
And once the Panda Fund abandons Unicharm and instead cooperates with her competitors in the Sakura Country, then Unicharm will face a huge blow and brutal competition.
After Natsume reported to the Japanese headquarters, the Japanese headquarters agreed to the Panda Fund's capital injection request after many meetings, after all, there are extremely powerful competitors such as Procter & Gamble in the daily chemical market, if you can achieve rapid development with the help of the Panda Fund, there may be a chance to surpass, even if it can't be surpassed, it is acceptable to be evenly matched.
After several rounds of negotiations in recent months, the Panda Fund injected capital to obtain 40% of Unicharm Co., Ltd., plus Sophie's shares, her 26% stake has been diluted to about 15%, however, it can be regarded as completing the holding of Unicharm. Subsequently, we can continue to increase the equity proportion of our own side through mergers and acquisitions.
The magic capital Unijia is jointly established by Unicharm and Modu Jahwa, the current market value of Modu Jahwa is not high, and it is also a goal of Sophie, but now domestic enterprises are more rigid, and they are not particularly accustomed to the joint-stock system, although the magic capital is relatively open, there is still resistance.
Cang Yaozu can only find someone to dredge up the relationship, he specially contacted the presidents of several universities in the magic capital, set up scholarships, set up research centers, Fudan and the magic capital Jiaotong University are both good, and there are many intersections with Cang Yaozu's industry.
After a period of communication and negotiation, Sophie United Panda Fund injected 10 million US dollars, occupying 42% of the shares of Modu Jahwa.
Sophie's next target is Hengan Group, now with some technical reserves of Unicharm, and the advantage of capital and linkage of various industries, there is technology in the upstream, there is capital in the middle, and the downstream builds channels, I believe that Hengan Group will not last long in the face of such an offensive.
The acquisition of 7-Eleven was not very smooth, as Cang Yaozu acquired a number of shares in the stock market of the United States through Wild's family bank, and acquired the Southern Company, which is the parent company of 7-Eleven, and Ito-Yokado is the majority shareholder of the Southern Company.
Cang Yaozu's team is also negotiating with Japan's Ito-Yokado, wanting to take all the shares of 7-Eleven convenience stores, Ito-Yokado is very resistant, although Japan's economic situation has not been good in recent years, but the development of 7-Eleven convenience stores is still good, this kind of high-end convenience stores are very popular with professional white-collar workers.
Ito-Yokado was very resistant, but Cang Yaozu still offered a high price, and continued to buy a large number of shares of the Southern Company on the United States stock market, and some small shareholders of the Southern Company were very interested in the price offered by Cang Yaozu, and Ge Liqin also helped to acquire a lot of shares of the Southern Company from these small shareholders outside the market. At the same time, Cang's team also approached Wanwan's Uni-President Group and Heung Kong Milk Company, a subsidiary of Jardine Matheson Group, to obtain the authorization to operate 7-Eleven convenience stores in Wanwan and Heung Kong.
There is indeed a lot of money spent during this period of time, and more than half of the more than 10 billion US dollars raised from Southeast Asia have been spent, although Cang Yaozu does not really want to enter the real industry during this time period, and it may be better to wait for two years for the opportunity. But since the action has begun, then throw money at it, and you won't lose anyway, at most the rate of return will be low.
There is another advantage of investing in industry, that is, you can get a mortgage, Cang Yaozu will naturally not forget to operate like this, only by improving the utilization rate of funds, can you create more profits.
Sigram Wines is now in the process of restructuring and forming a group of companies, which then take control of the Spirits Company, Tropicana Juice Company and, more recently, Dole Corporation.
Cang Yaozu also recently set up Huaxia Jiaduobao Tea Beverage Company in the magic capital, Jiaduobao Tea Beverage is now developing iced black tea, iced green tea and herbal tea series products, tea products will be the beginning of Seagram Group's efforts in the Chinese market.
Alcohol, tea, juice, sanitary napkins, diapers, tissues, shower gel, shampoo, toothpaste, these are the ammunition prepared by Cang Yaozu for the supermarket group's supermarket + 24-hour convenience store complementary business model.
Ito-Yokado also values the strength in the hands of Cang Yaozu, if there is a stake in Cang Yaozu, I believe that 7-Eleven can not only win the huge retail market in China, but also stand in an invincible position for a long time, so I am very excited about the Huaxia Wandian plan proposed by Cang Yaozu.
But they are reluctant to 7-Eleven's brand, and they have been undecided in the face of Cang Yaozu's acquisition offensive in the Citigroup stock market, but they can't be allowed to hesitate, Cang Yaozu has already won a lot of shares in the Southern Company, and the remaining few small shareholders are estimated to not be able to hold out for a few days under his high premium. It can be said that Cang Yaozu's entry is a foregone conclusion.
Fortunately, Ito-Yokado still occupies the position of major shareholder, Ito-Yokado covets the Chinese market, and is excited by the 10,000-store plan proposed by Cang Yaozu, and the current plan they give is that Ito-Yokado transfers 20% of the shares to Cang Yaozu, 7-Eleven brand share, Ito-Yokado has 7-Eleven's brand authorization in Japan and Citigroup, and Cang Yaozu's Korn Ferry International Supermarket Group has 7-Eleven's brand authorization in China and Southeast Asia.
Cang Yaozu agreed to this plan, and his current main direction of efforts is Huaxia, and the 7-Eleven brand, which owns half of the brand, can be regarded as reaching a majority of the acquisition plan, and his alcoholic drinks can be sold more conveniently through 7-Eleven's channels.
The reason why the supermarket group established by Cang Yaozu and Monica is called Korn Ferry is because Cang Yaozu acquired Japan's Sogo Co., Ltd. by the way, and sogo Department Store was too heavily indebted, so he had no resistance to Cang Yaozu's acquisition, and was even happy to see it come true. At the same time, Cang Yaozu also established a self-operated fresh supermarket, that is, Yonghui Supermarket, as a supplement to the supermarket group, Sogo and Yonghui each take one word, which is the origin of the name of Korn Ferry International.
Cang Yaozu also sent a team to Xiangjiang to prepare to buy Watsons. Because of the Asian financial crisis, Qiu Jichang recently went to Xiangjiang and had a lot of contact with Li Chaoren. In this acquisition, he also said a lot of good things to Cang Yaozu. Li Chaoren intends to give up part of the equity, and the price is no problem, but the share of the transfer is a little less, only 25%.
Cang Yaozu was naturally very disgusted, he proposed his own cooperation method, Korn Ferry obtained Watsons' brand authorization, took full responsibility for the mainland market of Huaxia, and made a commitment to build 1,000 Watsons stores by 2000, but asked to take a stake in Watsons and occupy 45% of the shares.
Out of the importance of the mainland market and Cang Yaozu, Li Chaoren hoped to have more cooperation with Cang Yaozu in the future, and happily agreed to transfer 45% of Watson's shares to Cang Yaozu's Korn Ferry International.
After a very intensive series of acquisitions, Korn Ferry under the names of Cang Yaozu and Monica has SOGO Sogo, SOGOMART Supermarket, Yonghui Supermarket, and Watsons and 7-Eleven, which are almost half owned by them.
The next task is to throw money into it, this Cang Yaozu is good at, he gave Yao Mengjin 1 billion US dollars to acquire a site suitable for the establishment of a supermarket, well, only buy not rent, all placed in the name of mountainside real estate, and then continue to buy a house while mortgaging, and once again started a crazy revolving loan, after the last investigation of Cang Yaozu's financial fraud, Cang Yaozu's popularity in the banking field has improved, and he knows that he likes to buy real estate the most, and then mortgage the loan, and lend the money to him with low risk and stable returns, and will not produce bad debts, needless to say, this enthusiastic lending。
Cang Yaozu also figured it out, although he is not rich in funds now, and it costs a lot of money to enter the industry, but now the real estate is also sluggish, and the price is very low. Then start opening stores on a large scale, what are you waiting for?
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