Chapter 1576: The Unexpected "Siberian Tiger"

Just when Yuanfang launched a merger offer for major retail groups, retail giants both inside and outside the industry and even abroad were paying attention.

Before Li Dong gave up the department store business in the capital market, many people thought he would make a move soon.

But since I gave up after the annual meeting, and now it's almost July, there hasn't been much movement in the distance.

However, on the last day of June, Yuanfang suddenly recovered, which distracted many people.

This year, Yuanfang may hit the world's top ten retail sales. According to external analysis, even if Yuanfang really loses money, in order to achieve the top ten strategic goals, it is very likely to carry out large-scale mergers and acquisitions.

The key is still, who is the target of the merger?

Hong Kong's Top 100?

Wumart in North China?

A big business in the Northeast?

Or Sun Art in South China?

As for Wal-Mart, as the leading company of foreign capital in China today, and its status as the world's number one retailer, the possibility of agreeing to Yuanfang's merger and acquisition plan is very low.

The different M&A targets actually represent the different strategic goals of Yuanfang.

If it is Baijia, it means Yuanfang will enter the South China market, encircle South China from Hong Kong and Macau, and encircle and suppress other large retail groups.

The merger and acquisition of Dashang and Wumart means that Yuanfang’s retail strategic goal has moved northward. Like Qi Yunna said, Yuanfang has plans to enter the European market from the north.

Different M&A targets mean that Yuanfang has different plans for the next step.

As for simultaneous mergers and acquisitions, no one thought about it at this time. On the one hand, Yuanfang did not have so much capital, and on the other hand, outsiders also felt that Li Dong did not have such a big appetite.

Mergers and acquisitions of a company are not easy to pay for. The integration of resources, store layout, personnel changes, and background access are all major projects. Taking over so many companies at once is not ordinary.

Moreover, the distance has been turbulent recently, and with the introduction of a large number of foreign systems, Li Dong is not afraid that the distance will become more and more unstable?

While considering these, everyone is still paying close attention to which companies will agree to distant M&A talks?

In recent years, it is an indisputable fact that China's retail industry is highly competitive.

Even compared to other industries, the competition in retail and e-commerce has been the fiercest in recent years. At this time, it is not certain that some large giants will agree to withdraw.

From the blooming of a hundred flowers in the past few years, to now, Carrefour, Guomei, Suguo, Yonghui, Tesco, Lotte, Best Buy, Trust-Mart, Xinyijia... These companies have withdrawn, some have been acquired, and some have closed down.

Today, Huaxia Retail has formed a situation of one super and many strong.

At this time, Yuanfang continues to show its ambitions, and it is understandable that some companies choose to withdraw from the increasingly competitive Chinese market.

...

Just when everyone was concerned about these, time entered July.

On the first day of July, the Huaxia Enterprise Confederation and the Huaxia Entrepreneurs Association released the Huaxia Enterprise Rankings in accordance with international practice.

The last list of the world's top 500 companies was the world's list, and it was mainly based on the statistics of authoritative media such as "Fortune".

And countries, generally in accordance with international practice, jointly publish their own country's corporate rankings by some official organizations and authoritative non-governmental organizations.

In the past, Huaxia released the list relatively late, and most of the time it would be around September.

But since the giant entrepreneurs in Huaxia stopped participating in the list conference two years ago, the organizers of the list realized that the process might be too procrastinated, and these entrepreneurs were reluctant to come.

Especially Li Dong in the distance, even publicly said in the Entrepreneur Club that Huaxia's list is more difficult to produce than having a child. Single data comes out.

As soon as this remark came out, it was a slap in the face, embarrassing the Enterprise Federation.

But Li Dong's status is extraordinary, he said so,

Others will not participate in the list conference.

Considering this, several organizations finally decided to shorten the process and release the ranking list of Chinese enterprises immediately after the release of the list of the world's top 500 companies.

Therefore, on the first day of July, the Huaxia Enterprise Ranking List was released ahead of schedule.

When the list was announced, Li Dong didn't pay attention to it. He was waiting for the result in the meeting room.

Earlier, there was news that Yuanfang employees would organize a demonstration on July 1st to oppose the unequal treatment in Yuanfang.

Such large-scale demonstrations generally have to be reported to the government.

However, in many cases, such demonstrations organized by employees will not be reported at all, and they will be raided directly. Because of this situation, many companies do not have enough time to respond, and eventually the troubles become bigger and bigger.

This kind of demonstration movement sometimes has good intentions, but in the end, it often turns into violence and smashing.

Yuanfang has industries all over the country, and if it fails to respond, it is very likely that the participating employees will be affected by the on-site environment and eventually turn into violent demonstrations.

...

Li Dong is waiting for the result, and other executives are also sitting down across the country.

The official side also received news that on this day, a large number of police forces and a large number of negotiating experts were dispatched to intervene at any time.

Some big figures have also paid attention to it. Yuanfang Group, with hundreds of thousands of employees, is likely to have a large-scale chain effect if there is a problem in the response.

Although Yuanfang had already made arrangements, Li Dong's response was too tough. Many people worried that because of his toughness, the matter would be made worse.

It's a pity that things happened too fast, and the response from the distance was too fast. Before the official side had time to participate, it had already reached the point of explosion.

At this time, the authorities have no other good solution other than to ensure that things do not expand and that the demonstrations do not turn into violent demonstrations.

Forcibly stopping and dispersing is feasible, but blocking is worse than sparse, the more you block, the stronger the outbreak may be later.

Instead of this, it's better to see how to solve it in the distance. In the end, when it is really impossible to solve it peacefully, the official will appear and make the final finishing touch.

Everyone understands that once the trouble comes to an official end, the troubles in the distance may be a little bit bigger.

In the conference room.

Li Dong didn't say a word, and the working team next to him was always answering the phone and keeping in touch with various places.

For the few executives who are still at home, all they can do at this time is wait for the result.

When Bai Su said that the Huaxia Enterprise Ranking List came out, Li Dong frowned slightly and said, "What's the use of looking at these things at this time?

By the way, didn't you say you were going to North China in July? Why are you still here? "

Bai Su was a little helpless, and said softly: "Recently, there are a lot of things going on in the group. I'm worried that Su Ya, who is a temporary substitute, won't get used to it, so I won't go there for now."

Li Dong raised his eyebrows, but said nothing.

Seeing the solemn atmosphere, Yuan Chengdao couldn't help saying: "Mr. Li, why don't you take a look, the rankings are not important, the key is the retail rankings in the sub-lists.

Although organizations like the Huaxia Entrepreneurs Association are generally efficient, their statistics are actually more accurate than ours.

Especially for the statistics of state-owned enterprises, there are generally no errors.

This time, since we are mobilizing on a large scale and preparing to acquire some companies, we still need to look at these data. "

The data sources of Huaxia Enterprise Rankings are official statistics.

The official data sources are often statistically integrated based on the data reported by enterprises and tax payment data.

If the company does not have tax evasion and tax evasion, the data will be extremely accurate.

State-owned enterprises generally do not deliberately conceal reports, unless the leadership has their own purpose, otherwise, it is not good for them to report more or less.

For private enterprises and large enterprises, there are reasonable means of tax avoidance, but tax evasion is generally rare. After all, in order to avoid tax, they do some illegal things, and they are easy to be caught.

These data statistics are more accurate than those collected by Yuanfang itself, and even much more accurate than those collected by "Fortune".

The value of the list is still a little bit.

Li Dong heard the words and looked at the time. It's still early, and the demonstrations in various places don't know when they will start, or even whether they will be there, so there is no need to sit and wait.

After Yuan Chengdao finished speaking, Li Dong looked at Bai Su and said, "Go print a few copies and show them to everyone."

Bai Su had prepared it long ago, upon hearing this, he and the staff hurriedly distributed the document in hand.

Li Dong was the first to get it, picked it up and glanced at the first page.

The first page is the ranking of the general list. This Li Dong knows that it should not change much from the previous ranking of the world's top 500. Since the list of the top 500 is authoritative, the ranking of the companies that enter the list should not change again. What is really valuable are those rankings that have not entered the world's top 500 companies.

The results were not as expected, except that Hon Hai of Baodao was not included in the list, and Yuanfang ranked 16th.

Among them, there are three companies with revenue exceeding RMB 1 trillion, petrochemical, petroleum, and State Grid, with revenue exceeding RMB one trillion.

On the far side, the revenue is 213 billion yuan, which is not far behind the previous statistics of "Fortune".

Of course, this data does not include the performance of Guomei, let alone the revenue of other cooperative enterprises, but only the revenue of Yuanfang last year.

Even so, Yuanfang's revenue of more than 200 billion yuan is still very conspicuous.

On the first page of the list, Li Dong also saw many familiar company names, such as COFCO, Bailian, Huarun, Su Lin, Guomei, Lenovo... These companies were all listed on the first page.

As for Internet companies, Li Dong didn't find any on the first page.

He didn't bother to scroll down, so he casually flipped through the first few sheets of paper until he reached the retail sub-list.

In the retail sub-list, only retail companies are listed on it, and only the revenue of retail business is calculated, unlike the general list, where revenue from real estate, logistics, and the Internet are all included in the far side.

No. 1 in the sub-list is undoubtedly Yuanfang Retail.

With a revenue of 195 billion yuan, Yuanfang Retail has become the well-deserved number one. This ranking obviously includes the revenue of Yuanfang's self-operated B2C mall.

Regarding this point, Li Dong didn't pay much attention to it. Calculating or not, everyone has a steelyard in their hearts, but it's not that important.

However, B2C business can definitely be counted as retail business. This point should be recognized, and it is not impossible to count it in. Li Dong has always counted it in the calculation.

195 billion, which is much lower than Yuanfang’s self-published data, but there is nothing to say about this. Yuanfang is not satisfied at this time. If you want to sue the other party like suing Forbes, you would be really stupid.

If you really want to do this kind of thing, Yuan Fang has to pay the tax first.

Even if you report 300 billion yuan, the government has no objection. The key point is that the extra 100 billion yuan in taxes is not low, and tens of billions of taxes are paid, or not?

Therefore, no matter whether the statistical results are accurate or not, no one will speak at this time.

Yuanfang retails first, and the next second is not Sulin, but Bailian.

Bailian took down Nongshang and Yonghui, directly abolished their establishments, and incorporated them into its own system.

According to statistical rules, under normal circumstances, the revenue of these companies is not counted until the second year of the merger.

However, it may be that the rules of the list have changed, and there have been more mergers and acquisitions recently. If the previous statistical plan is maintained, the value of the list's existence effect will be much lower.

Today, Bailian + Nongshang + Yonghui + other acquired companies have a total retail revenue of 135 billion yuan.

The third is Su Lin. The revenue of Su Lin + Dazhong is RMB 120 billion.

Fourth, Guomei won this position, with a revenue of 105 billion yuan.

If Guomei is included in Yuanfang, Yuanfang's retail revenue has just reached 300 billion.

fifth……

When he saw the fifth place, Li Dong was stunned for a moment, not only he was stunned, but Chen Lang beside him was also stunned, and then he said in a daze, "The fifth retailer is a big business!"

Several managers who hadn't seen the list started to flip through the paper industry, and then Yuan Chengdao was also surprised: "Dashang ranks fifth! Huaren ranks sixth!"

In the eyes of everyone, Yuanfang, Bailian, Huarun, Su Lin, and the previous Guomei are the five retail giants in China.

The big merchants limited to the Northeast region, in the eyes of many people, are the second-tier top-notch ones, but they cannot be included in the first-tier ranks.

But this time, when the leaderboard came out, even Li Dong was a little confused.

Dashang unexpectedly surpassed Huarun and ranked fifth. In fact, after the Guomei system dissipated, Dashang has already entered the fourth place.

Dashang, the revenue in 2008 was 75 billion RMB!

Huarun + Hongkelong ranked sixth, with a revenue of 72 billion yuan.

Even with the addition of Hong Kelong, Hua Run was still surpassed by Da Shang.

At this time, Li Dong couldn't help but asked: "Are the people in the Northeast so enthusiastic about consumption? Big businessmen have almost no presence in the central and southern regions. Just like this, can they generate 75 billion yuan in revenue?

Being fooled by them like this, it seems that we are all living for nothing. We have been tossing around all over the country, making acquisition plans one after another. In the end, Huarun has never worked in a big business. This...

This is too bad! "

Chen Lang's face was also fluctuating, and he said after a while: "It may be related to the consolidation of the position of the big merchants in the northeast region last year, and the merger and acquisition of a large number of small and medium-sized retail companies in the northeast region.

Moreover, Dashang Electronics actually has a high market share, but it has been ignored by everyone.

Dashang is also engaged in home furnishing retail business, which is also not small in scale.

As early as 2004, Dashang was actually the second in the list of chain enterprises, second only to Guomei.

It's just that in the past few years, Dashang has been focusing on the operation of the northern region, which has made us ignore the strength of Dashang.

did not expect……

Unexpectedly, under the circumstances of such intense competition, the opponent actually came back and ranked fifth, actually fourth. "

You know, Bailian has acquired Nongshang, Yonghui and many other small companies, and Huarun has also been conducting mergers and acquisitions.

Everyone did it with great fanfare, but it turned out that Huarun lost to Dashang Group in the retail business.

Several people looked at each other in blank dismay, and then began to look down again.

From this point of view, many data are actually beyond the range of everyone's expectations.

China Leap ranked sixth, and the seventh place was Sun Art Retail formed by RT-Mart + Auchan, with a retail revenue of 52 billion.

In the eighth place, it is Wal-Mart's turn. Wal-Mart + Trust-Mart has a revenue of 51 billion.

The ninth place, once again beyond everyone's expectations, is not Wumart, but Wushanglian. With the combination of China-Belarus + Zhongshang + Hubei Wushang, Wushanglian has created a revenue of 45 billion.

The tenth place is the turn of Wumart + Jingkelong, with a revenue of 43 billion.

After reading the top ten, everyone was in deep thought. Li Dong was quiet for a moment, then shook his head and laughed and said, "What's this called? Can you stop a biting dog from barking?

The thing that surprised me the most was Dashang, too unexpected!

Hua Run, who we regarded as an opponent, was killed by the opponent without making a sound.

If Bailian did not acquire Nongshang and Yonghui, it would be in danger this time.

what is this?

Thanks to what we said before, regional giants are nothing to worry about, and their revenue has reached 75 billion.

Last year, we did not include the business of the mall, and without the business of Carrefour, we may not be comparable to Dashang. This time we were beaten in the face. "

Li Dong laughed at himself. It's not that they haven't counted these data, but the performance of other people's family belongs to other people's family, and it is impossible to do detailed statistics in the distance.

Fortunately, this time, Li Dong discovered that he and others had been ignoring a dominant company.

This is no small matter!

The big merchants are so strong, occupying the Northeast region, and are expanding to the Northwest. If it weren’t for the appearance of this list, Li Dong still sticks to his previous thinking, thinking that Bailian and the others are the opponents, and that would be troublesome.

Once he fights with Bailian and the others one day, and Dashang wins the Northwest Region, then enters North China, and wins Wumart, it is very likely that he will become the number one offline existence!

What they fought to the death, the first to be taken away by others, that is the big joke of the whole country and even the whole world.

At this time, Li Dong didn't care about anything else, but said in a deep voice: "Call Qi Yunna, Dashang is so powerful, some established plans need to be changed, Dashang, if you can win, you must win!

This is no longer a question of navigating the Northeast and marching into Russia.

Let Dashang continue to develop, and it is very likely to become our biggest opponent in the end!

Also, once Wumart joins Dashang, Dashang occupies the entire northern region and monopolizes the northern market, which is actually stronger than all of us.

Although the economy in the south is more developed than that in the north, there are too many retail enterprises in the south, and we are all fighting for it, but the north is dominated by a large merchant. This is not the result we want.

We fought life and death, but in the end, we created a giant retail group. They swallowed the North without any effort. Who do I ask for reason? "

When he said this, Li Dong had a headache.

It seems that another family has to be added to the intended target.

This time, fortunately, he woke up early, otherwise, some unexpected things might really happen in the end.

I can no longer use the previous pattern to measure the present.

In the previous life, Da Shang did things quietly, and he didn't go to the north very much, so he always ignored Da Shang.

He only knew about Bailian, Huarun, Su Lin, and Yonghui, who was still very weak, but he forgot that there was a fierce tiger entrenched in the north.

Compared with Yonghui, Dashang is ten times stronger than Yonghui at this moment!

Such a fierce tiger, I should never ignore it, but the result is that the other party rises under my nose, and people like myself ignore it.

This is also the ability of Dashang. From this, it can be seen that the helm of Dashang is much stronger than I imagined.