Chapter 973 The Company on Lanai Island

The previous owner of Lanai Island was Larry Ellison, a madman with a paranoid enthusiasm for spending money. As early as after buying Lanai Island, he invested wildly in infrastructure construction and agricultural and animal husbandry development on the island. As the saying goes, the predecessors planted trees and the descendants enjoyed the shade, and Yang Cheng was obviously the one who got the cheapest.

After taking over Lanai Island, the hired design company specifically asked whether to cancel the originally planned development of agriculture, animal husbandry and planting. Yang Cheng said to the other party with an idiotic look, "Are you going to let me alone?" Do people bear the full cost of investment?"

Later, the designer who asked this question was fired. He had no choice but to almost offend a top client whose wealth was enough to buy thousands of companies like theirs.

With 141 square kilometers of land, Lanai has all the possibilities for development. It not only has pineapple plantations that supply the whole United States, but also has a large area of ​​fertile land that can grow a variety of crops. It relies on fruit and grain exports every year. Lanai can reap big tax dollars.

That's right, it's taxes. Whether it's Larry Ellison or Yang Cheng, they are the largest shareholders of this land. The Hawaii State ZF only retains a symbolic 2% of the shares. It does not participate in dividends and has no decision-making power. As for David Ellison, who was going to buy with Yang Cheng, also voluntarily gave up because of financial problems. That is to say, Yang Cheng independently invested 600 million US dollars and won 98% of the equity in Lanai Island. Companies that make money on the land have to give part of their profits to major shareholders, otherwise they cannot continue to operate.

Among them, Yang Cheng is most concerned about the two companies, one of which is the world's largest pineapple producer - Doerr, whose founder bought the land on this deserted island as early as the 1920s. Pineapple planting and production, and later Larry Ellison bought the entire island, several attempts to get the land back through negotiations, all ended in failure.

In fact, no matter how stupid the people at Doerr are, they would never hand over their lifeblood, so the pineapple plantation on Lanai Island is equivalent to a country within a country. Like psoriasis on people, it has become a piece of the island. ill.

Now Yang Cheng has also taken over this task. Ever since he completed the equity transaction with Larry Ellison, he has been sending special personnel to communicate with Doerr, and he must take this land no matter what;

As for the other two resorts opened by Four Seasons Hotel on the island, Four Seasons Hotel is obviously more commercialized than the inflexible Toure Company, and has great enthusiasm for all ways to make money, so when Yang After the people from Orange came to the door, they responded with the most positive attitude from beginning to end, but they were backed by the world's richest man and a wealthy Middle Eastern tycoon. The Four Seasons Hotel's appetite was astonishing. Buy the resort.

However, Yang Cheng also became ruthless. Thanks to Larry Ellison, who was not bad at the time, there was a small power company and a water company on the island. The water and electricity for all enterprises on the island were supplied by these two companies. Luxury resorts have very strict control over costs. The increase in water and electricity prices will inevitably reduce the small profit ratio, and the other party still can't find a reason. Yang Cheng has ten thousand reasons for raising the water and electricity bills. Coupled with the "protection fee" handed in every year, the two resorts of the Four Seasons Hotel can't make much money.

Recently, because the negotiations have fallen into a critical stage, the relationship between the two parties is very tense. Four Seasons Hotel simply suspended the operation of the two resorts, announcing to the public that the hotel will be undergoing equipment maintenance and will not be open to the public for the time being, so that Yang Cheng has no place to stay on the island. .

Yang Cheng and Luo Yue's mother and daughter got off the plane,

The person in charge of the island personally drove to pick him up. In the Mercedes-Benz car, the person in charge who was nearly 60 years old said to Yang Cheng who was sitting in the co-pilot, "Boss, the process of renovating your own holiday manor is very fast. It can be done before.”

Because it was based on the original Larry Ellison's estate, it didn't take too long.

Yang Cheng nodded, "Well, I won't live on the island in the short term, so I told the construction team that there is no need to rush the project, and quality and quantity are the most important thing."

"Because of the suspension of the Four Seasons Hotel, the number of high-end tourists on the island has dropped sharply, but this has also unexpectedly stimulated the development of homestays. Many tourists with limited funds will choose to stay at the homes of residents on the island, using self-driving tours or cycling. Touring on the island, so our tourism income has not decreased, but has increased, which is an unexpected discovery.”

The person in charge is Lukacs, a Croatian-American, who used to be a manager of the Amman Hotel. He met Yang Cheng when he received Yang Cheng in the summer, and his ability was recognized by Yang Cheng. After Yang Cheng proposed to manage a small island , considered accepting the invitation again and again, joined the New Era Cultural Tourism Group, and is currently fully responsible for the related work on Lanai Island.

Yang Cheng was also quite surprised when he heard the words. Before that, most of the tourists on Lanai Island were high-end people. Because they liked the unique and private environment of Lanai Island, they would come here for a week or even a month every year. , but the proportion is relatively small. After all, the prices on the island are still quite expensive, and the most expensive thing is the accommodation fee. It is not worthwhile for ordinary people to spend a year's salary for a trip.

"This is good news, but you have to control the flow of people, and you can't break the biggest advantage of Lanai Island." Yang Cheng reminded.

Lukacs has rich experience in the management of high-end hotels, and has benefited from the concept of Amman, and has a strange dedication to privacy and tranquility!

"Of course, boss, there is good news. The negotiation with Four Seasons Hotel has made a breakthrough. Both of us have put forward an acceptable plan. We will continue to retain the name of Four Seasons Hotel and use the naming rights to buy shares to retain 40% of the shares. and operating rights, and we will get 60% of the actual income and be responsible for the hotel’s cost expenses.”

Yang Cheng frowned and thought about it, and responded quickly, "40% is too high, my bottom line is 30%."

Lukacs hesitated for a moment, "I know, I will make demands on the members of the negotiating team and try my best to achieve them."

Yang Cheng glanced at him, "It's not about trying, it's about having to."

"Yes, it must! In addition, the issue of Doerr's company is relatively complicated, because of the contract restrictions with the previous owner, Larry Ellison, we can't use the way we dealt with Four Seasons Hotel to deal with Doerr's company, because the contract period It’s 99 years, it’s almost the same as a permanent contract, and there’s nothing we can do about it.”

"Now that Party A has changed, the contract will naturally have to be re-signed. We are not obliged to assume the responsibilities of the previous contract."

"It was originally like this, but there is a special clause in the contract, which clearly shows that the contract will not be invalidated due to the change of Party A, so..." Lukacs was also very helpless.

Yang Cheng was upset. Larry Ellison often signed this kind of weird contract with his head, and it made others feel better if he didn't talk about it.

He waved his hand, "Then think of other ways. In short, I don't want Dürr to suck too much blood from Lanai every year."

In his opinion, the reason why Doerr can become the world's largest pineapple producer is entirely due to the climate and land of Lanai Island, and now all of this should belong to him, so why should he be divided by others? You must know that the actual annual income of Doerr is as high as one million U.S. dollars. Even for local tyrants in the Middle East, several million is not a small amount, not to mention that this income is very stable.

Of course, then again, if it weren't for the huge benefits, the two sides wouldn't have such a fierce dispute.

"By the way, boss, the crew of "Jurassic World" is filming at the Garden of the Gods, shall we go to see it?"

The Garden of the Gods is a famous scenic spot on Lanai Island, famous all over the world for its strange surface like the surface of the moon.

Yang Cheng didn't care. She turned around and asked Luo Yue and the others. The two of them were curious about the filming of the crew, so let's go and have a look.

Lukacs turned around on the spot and headed northwest. The Garden of the Gods is located at the northwest end of Lanai Island. After driving off the main road and crossing a gravel-filled path, he came to the location of the crew.

The film crew blocked the road from a long distance away, and ordinary tourists could not enter this area for the time being. As the island owner and the big boss who invested in the film crew, there was naturally no problem of being restricted.

Fortunately, Lukacs was driving a Land Rover Discovery, with its powerful off-road passability, he walked on the rocky road like a flat ground.

Soon, its mysterious moon-like scene came into view. Both sides of the gravel road are covered with large boulders and stone towers, stone pillars, stalagmites and strange landforms formed by weathering for thousands of years. The most charming face, the warm golden afterglow of the setting sun shines on the craggy rocks, covering them with mysterious red and purple clothes.

Although it is the morning, the wonderful landscape has not appeared, but the weather is fine, when the car passes a corner cliff, you can even overlook the outline of Oahu Island, the calm sea is like a sapphire mirror, and the eyeballs are captured The most wonderful baptism.

At this time, Lukacs pointed to the front and said, "Boss, the crew is right in front, we can't get too close, it will disturb their work."

Lukacs has the rigidity of an Eastern European, and he is not at all afraid that his words will offend the big boss.

Of course, Yang Cheng didn't care about it, and hummed, "Then stop, let's go down for a walk."

Get out of the car first, take the initiative to open the car door for your mother-in-law, and wait for Luo Yue to trot over from the other side to hold her mother's arm before leading the way.

Originally, Yang Cheng planned to take a look around and leave. He didn't intend to alarm the crew, but he didn't expect to see Donna Lande in casual clothes. She seemed to be bringing her assistants to visit the crew. At that time, he noticed Yang Cheng's figure, greeted him from a distance, and said with a smile, "Boss, what a coincidence~"

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