Chapter 1356 Offensive and Defensive Alliance

The banquet lasted a long time.

It wasn't until almost 11 o'clock that the crowd gradually dispersed.

Li Dong and Xu Shengzhe bid farewell to everyone. Before getting into the car, Tan Yong got out from nowhere, leaned up to Li Dong and said in a low voice, "Mr. Li, I have something to tell you."

Li Dong nodded, and said calmly: "Don't be in a hurry, we will talk when we get home."

"good."

Tan Yong didn't speak any more, turned around and got into the car.

Shen Qian at the side didn't ask them what to say when she saw this, she led the two children into the car together.

When the car arrived at the provincial party committee compound, Shen Qian hugged the sleeping little stone and said, "I'll take the children back first, so you should come back early."

"Well, you go to bed early, don't wait for me."

Li Dong replied and watched them enter the yard.

After Shen Qian left, Tan Yong immediately said: "The people from Lao Zhou received news that Liu Xinyi gave birth in the hospital today, probably due to emotional factors and running around, she was born prematurely."

"Didn't you ask you to withdraw the person?"

"I was just about to evacuate, but at least I had to know where they went before I could evacuate, so I delayed a little."

Tan Yong said immediately: "This is not the point, Mr. Li, the interesting thing is that Lao Zhou is gone!"

"It's gone?" Li Dong asked suspiciously, "What do you mean?"

Tan Yong immediately said: "Liu Xinyi just gave birth, and Lao Zhou went back to the hotel.

It didn't take long for Lao Zhou to come out, and those who followed him thought he was going to the hospital.

Unexpectedly, he turned left and right, and left our people behind in three strokes.

You also know that he is also an expert, it is too easy to get rid of the eyeliner, and his wife and children are all there, so everyone didn't pay much attention at first.

But when the hospital checked, no one was there, and he never went back to the hotel.

People just disappeared so suddenly! "

"Disappeared?" Li Dong rubbed his chin, pondered for a moment and said, "He's gone far away, why did he just disappear?

Did you scare him? "

Tan Yong said helplessly: "How come,

You said you don't want to trouble him, I just want to let people see where he is, lest he refuses to leave.

He disappeared suddenly, which was beyond my expectation. "

Li Dong thought about it for a while, and finally waved his hand and said: "Just disappear, don't worry about him.

I can't figure out what this guy is thinking.

But it is said that the bridge returns to the bridge and the road returns, and he is free to go wherever he goes. "

Tan Yong said in a low voice: "You said, did he go to connect with the people behind him?

I thought he didn't know about it before, but now that he suddenly disappeared, I'm a little suspicious, maybe he's the clear one.

How about we increase our manpower and continue to track down? "

"Why do you need to do that, are you too free?

The security company has a lot of things going on here, and it's better than anything else if you take care of it.

Also, Lao Zheng left and let the Red Soldier take over.

Make an arrangement tomorrow, and I will meet with the brothers from the inner guard team. "

Hearing what he said, Tan Yong could only nod his head and said, "Then I'll make arrangements immediately, Mr. Li, do you really not care about Lao Zhou's affairs?"

Li Dong glared at him, and said angrily: "Why are you staring at him? I don't care about this guy's affairs now. If you don't worry about your brother, you can ask someone to check it yourself. You don't need to follow me for everything." report."

"No, I don't even consider him a brother anymore, I'm worried about what he's doing.

I'm mainly worried about my sister-in-law and Guoguo. If he runs away suddenly, it will be difficult for the two of them.

Forget it, I'll do it myself, so I won't bother you. "

Li Dong thought for a while, then said softly: "Take care if you can, and take my private account.

Leaving his wife and children and running away, this bastard can do it. "

Shaking his head, Li Dong didn't say anything, opened the door and got out of the car.

...

In January 2009, in Li Dong's memory, nothing major happened, except for the Spring Festival.

However, on the last day of January, everyone seemed to have discussed it, and several companies announced some news to the outside world.

January 31, the sixth day of the first month.

When the Chinese people were still immersed in the Spring Festival holiday, in the morning, Suning issued an announcement to acquire 27.36% of the shares of the island country laox Co., Ltd., becoming its largest shareholder.

Laox is not well-known in China, and almost no one knows about it.

Ordinary people don't care much about this news.

However, for Li Dong, who has just acquired Gome, this news is quite worthy of attention.

laox is a famous home appliance retailer in the island country. Although it only has 6 stores, it is the fourth largest home appliance chain enterprise in the island country.

And its establishment time can be traced back to 80 years ago.

Suning's becoming its largest shareholder also means that Suning has officially started its overseas expansion.

Li Dong hasn't set foot in the island country yet. Although this news came a little fast, Li Dong still doesn't take it seriously.

However, Suning seemed to be afraid that Li Dong would not be surprised enough, and sent out several messages one after another.

In addition to the acquisition of laox, Suning paid a consideration of 35 million Hong Kong dollars to acquire the Hong Kong Laser brand, network and business.

In addition, it cost HK$180 million to acquire the assets and interests of its related businesses, including inventory, fixed assets, and intellectual property rights.

Entering the island country has little to do with Li Dong, but entering Xiangjiang has a lot to do with it.

On the Xiangjiang side, Gome has a store. Although the business is mediocre, on the Xiangjiang side, Gome's market share exceeds Suning by a large margin.

Although Suning has a subsidiary in Xiangjiang, its business has been unable to expand. Not to mention the local brands of Xiangjiang, Gome still overwhelms Suning in terms of home appliance brands entering the mainland.

But now, after Suning acquired Laser, it surpassed Gome's market share in Xiangjiang in one fell swoop.

These are all markets in other cities, and in the mainland market, Suning has also made a lot of moves.

The announcement declared that Suning will add more than 300 stores in the whole year of 2009, mainly expanding the rural and county markets.

In addition, Suning continued to expand the scale of self-operated logistics, increased investment in Suning.com, launched its self-operated payment system Yifubao, and abandoned the Wanka payment business that had been used before.

Because of the cooperation with Yuanfang before, Suning.com, which was the former Suning Mall, has always adopted Wanka payment as the main payment method.

Today, Suning has chosen to launch its own payment system and directly cut off Wanka Payment. It has to be said that this choice officially declares that the cooperation between the two companies has completely ended.

Expand the scale of self-operated logistics, increase investment in online, and launch its own payment system.

All of this declares that Suning is ready to go to war at any time!

After Yuanfang acquired Gome, Suning finally couldn't bear it anymore and felt a strong crisis.

On this day, Suning announced another brief personnel change.

The former chairman of Dazhong Electric, Mr. Zhang Dazhong, officially assumed the post of president of Suning Electric. The founder of Dazhong and the founder of Suning jointly took charge of Suning.

As for their opponent, there is currently only one.

Gome, which was acquired by Yuanfang!

Li Dong's threat made Zhang Jindong feel a deep crisis. After the previous acquisition of Dazhong, Suning has been weakening Zhang Dazhong's influence on Dazhong Electric.

However, this was before.

If there is no external threat, Zhang Jindong can take his time and slowly absorb and digest Dazhong Electric.

But now time waits for no one. Although Li Dong has not moved at present, once Gome is digested by Yuanfang, it will be a big threat.

Taking advantage of Yuanfang's side not making any big moves, Zhang Jindong chose to compromise, choosing the strategy of uniting with Zhang Dazhong and bringing Dazhong Electric under his command as quickly as possible.

These are just Suning's actions.

On the same day, Wumart in Beijing announced the acquisition of all the stores of Yichu Lotus in Jinmen. Its hypermarkets in Jinmen increased from 12 to 17, surpassing China Resources and second only to Yuanfang.

At the same time, Wumart acquired all the shares of the remaining shareholders of Meilianmei at a price of 800 million yuan, completely bringing Meilianmei under its control and becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary.

On the same day, China Resources announced that it would acquire 11 stores of Aijia Supermarket, 4 stores of Century Lianhua in Northeast China, and 100 stores of Shenzhen Minrun.

As a retail giant, Bailian is not to be outdone, and officially announced the renovation and rebranding of several new stores in Yonghui and Nongshang.

In addition, Bealead has shrunk its national front and replaced some stores with China Resources.

The sale of Century Lianhua in Northeast China is just the beginning.

Bealead has also started to sell some stores in the northern market, or it is more appropriate to replace them, in exchange for some stores of China Resources in the southern market.

The retail industry, which had been quiet for a few days, suddenly exploded in one day.

The replacement of the replacement, the expansion of the expansion, the consolidation of the territory.

As for the e-commerce market, there have also been some changes at this time.

Bealink formally reached an agreement with Ali, and Bealink will go online to the mall and enter Tmall, striving to connect the online and offline systems and complete the O2O strategic expansion.

And Wal-Mart, which has already reached a cooperation with JD.com, announced that it will raise 10 million U.S. dollars in JD.com No. 1 store, striving to open up the online market.

...

One day, other retail companies that had been silent for a while began to move.

Obviously, this didn't happen overnight.

When Li Dong acquired Gome, these people were not idle, but kept moving.

The reason why the unification erupted at this time was not so much a coincidence as it was a deterrent to Li Dong.

If you want to be the uncrowned king of the domestic retail industry, you have to ask their opinions.

It is okay to be a king, and it is okay to be the first, but it is absolutely impossible to be a dictatorial retail king.

Several large retail groups, including the e-commerce sector, announced news at the same time, which also contains potential implications.

Obviously, everyone reached a tacit agreement.

In other words, these people may have reached a deeper level of cooperation, and the offensive and defensive alliance is not an unreasonable guess.

...

Faraway Building.

meeting room.

Yuan Chengdao said softly: "In troubled times, the expansion of the distance for five years may completely arouse everyone's fear."

Sun Tao said in a deep voice: "China Resources, Bailian, Suning, Alibaba, JD.com, Wumart...

It is impossible for these companies to choose to announce on the same day as a coincidence.

So there must be a tacit understanding, it should be for our retail alliance plan.

We sent out some invitation letters before, inviting the heads of major retail companies to attend our annual meeting.

I'm afraid it was also this move that made them feel the crisis, so they chose to launch it at this time. "

Chen Lang nodded and said: "That's true, although we only invited everyone to the annual meeting, there are also suspicions of coercion.

At this time, in order to protect themselves and get rid of our control, many companies must be unwilling to compromise.

It is not unusual for several companies to issue statements at this time to strengthen their confidence and even start to win over these second- and third-tier retail companies.

Now, I'm afraid we should not make big moves.

Gome entered the company for the first time, and Carrefour's resources have not yet been integrated. At this time, the pressure is too strong, and it is easy to create a dangerous situation surrounded by enemies.

So I suggest to suspend the pace of expansion in the south, choose to shrink the front, and consolidate the inherent market. "

Yuan Chengdao also nodded and said: "Mr. Li, I also suggest to do this. On the one hand, there are too many enemies, and on the other hand, it is also a problem of funds.

Last year, we ran out of funds.

Although the later loan was 15 billion, almost all of it was used by Gome.

Now on the far side, it can only be said that it is barely operating at the current scale.

In addition, we still have a lot of debts to repay this year, including the final balance of the previous mergers and acquisitions of companies such as Carrefour and Wing On, most of which need to be paid off this year.

In addition, our Yuanfang City also requires a large amount of investment, and the final payment for some land is also due.

Last but not least is Gome. Mr. Huang, don’t forget that in addition to the previous 8 billion, there will be another 5 billion to be paid every year for the next two years.

A few days ago, Director Liu and I made a budget, even if we don’t do any expansion this year, we will operate step by step.

These arrears plus the final payment, as well as the basic expenses of the company, are as high as 30 billion! "

Li Dong frowned and said, "So many?"

Yuan Chengdao nodded and said, "That's all. In the past few years, we were highly overdrawn. Now, it's time to pay the bill.

The 30 billion funds will expire this year.

In terms of our profit, the retail group has the most. If we add Gome and online, it is expected to be around 20 billion this year.

There are also industries such as logistics and PP, which will not make too much profit. At most, maintaining their own operations is not even enough.

In terms of real estate, unless part of the land is sold, otherwise, the 30 billion yuan will be a problem.

But when the 30 billion yuan is due, our debts will go down, and we can make loans again at that time.

All in all, if we do not expand, we will be able to make ends meet this year.

Once we continue to expand, the funding aspect will become our greatest pressure. "

Li Dong frowned and said, "Is that an exaggeration? With an annual profit of tens of billions, the debt ratio is not too high. I don't think there is a big problem with the funds. If it doesn't work, I will borrow again!"

However, there is a problem in terms of personnel, as well as our internal problems, whether we can fight another tough battle.

Now the internal situation in Yuanfang is a bit complicated, and the cohesion is probably much weaker than before. The overall strength has not seen explosive growth, but it has been somewhat delayed.

Once I confront several companies head-on, I am a little worried that if our time is prolonged, we will be dragged to death. "

Everyone in Yuan Chengdao nodded. This is a fact.

Over the past five years, Yuanfang has continued to expand and acquire other companies.

The scale is big, but the internal problems are getting more and more serious, and the contradictions are getting more and more serious.

Usually, it was fine, even if Li Dong started a war, he would decide it quickly, without giving his opponent any time to delay.

But once it is prolonged, it will be a big trouble.

Some people on the Internet say that Li Dong is invincible in blitzkrieg, but not in protracted warfare, and this is not a lie.

As long as it can be dragged to Yuanfang's side, Li Dong's invincible momentum will be broken, and with Yuanfang's background, the entire Yuanfang group will be exhausted and become a trapped beast.

This is not a joke, it is also true.

The employees from far away can have the momentum and cohesion they have now, all thanks to Li Dong alone.

And Li Dong's strength lies in surprise attacks, lightning strikes, and not giving the opponent the power to fight back.

If this trick doesn't work, and if the battle continues for a long time, not only will the employees be exhausted, but Li Dong will also be exhausted, and it will be dangerous at this time.

In many cases, the success or failure of an enterprise depends not only on funds, but also on people's connections, but also on people's hearts.

The hearts of the people are scattered, the energy is gone, and you have more money, which is also cheaper for others. What's more, there is not much liquidity in Yuanfang now, but a lot of debts due.

After Li Dong finished speaking, the meeting room fell silent.

The current situation, everyone felt that it was no longer suitable for expansion, but what Li Dong thought was still unknown, and everyone could only wait for him to make a decision.