I Became the Richest Man in the World After Losing My Life in a Vegetative State

Chapter 788 Swire Pacific!

Swire & Co., as one of the four largest foreign companies in Hong Kong, ranks fourth, which shows that its strength and scale are still inferior to Jardine Matheson, Hutchison Whampoa, and Wheelock & Co.

Swire & Co. actually has many main businesses.

One of them is aviation.

Hong Kong's National Airlines is owned by Swire, and now Hong Kong National Airlines directly monopolizes all flights.

It was not until the emergence of Dragonair, which was established by Chinese capital, that Hong Kong had a second airline.

Now, National Airlines monopolizes all Hong Kong's external flights.

There is also Swire Soda.

Swire Soda mainly involves Coca-Cola soda and bottling industry. It almost monopolizes Hong Kong and even the Asian market. Even Coca-Cola in China is related to Swire.

There is also Swire Sugar.

Swire Sugar has invested a long time ago and is also spread all over the world.

In addition to Swire Dockyard, Swire Shipping, Swire Trading, Swire Energy, Swire Cold Storage, there is also Swire Properties.

Later, Swire Properties, which emerged in China, built high-end retail landmarks in first- and second-tier cities in China, with the block-style shopping mall "Taikoo Li" and the comprehensive commercial complex "Taikoo Hui" as the two major brand lines, making the word "Swire" synonymous with "top luxury shopping malls" in the minds of high-net-worth people.

At this time, Swire's main businesses were still Guorui Airlines, Swire Soda, Swire Sugar, Swire Dockyard, Swire Shipping, Swire Trading, and Swire Properties.

However, Swire Properties' development efforts are still far behind, and it actually has a lot of reserve land in Hong Kong.

This time, after the Empire Group quietly swallowed up Wheelock & Co., it really scared the current chairman of Swire, Mr. John Swire, the fifth-generation head of the Swire family.

Although he had begun to respond a few years ago, facing the rise of strong Chinese capital, how to avoid falling into the hands of Chinese capital like Hutchison Whampoa and Jardine Land.

In addition to the fact that a large number of shares of listed companies related to Swire have been gradually repurchased by the Shi Huaiya family, and the control is carried out through complex cross-holding methods.

Even so, John Shi is still afraid now.

In Shi Huaiya's view, Hong Kong will return to Country Z in due course.

So by that time, will the Shi Huaiya family still be able to keep the controlling rights of Swire?

He doesn't want to lose Jardine Land like the Joseph family did.

When John Shi stood up to think.

He was thinking, should Swire's headquarters be moved directly back to London?

. . .

When Mai Lisi and Bao John and others held a press conference, Yang Ming had already taken a car back to the Repulse Bay Mid-Levels Villa.

Just returned to the Empire Group.

Yang Jirong, Li Yufang, Ah Zhu, Zhong Chuhong, Guan Jiahui, and Lin Dezhong all came out to greet him.

They have learned that the Empire Group has officially swallowed up Wheelock, the third largest foreign company in Hong Kong.

Even though Yang Ming has been making large-scale acquisitions abroad in recent years, they were still shocked to hear the news.

"Daddy, Mommy."

Yang Ming got out of the car.

"Peter, I really didn't expect that you and Empire Group would acquire Wheelock & Co. again."

After dinner.

Yang Ming went upstairs.

This time, because it was too easy to swallow Wheelock & Co., Yang Ming was not as excited as his parents.

For him, everything seemed to go with the flow.

He knew that he had been planning for several years.

Now, among the four major foreign companies in Hong Kong, only Swire was left.

In history.

Yang Ming knew that the smartest one was the Swire family of Swire.

The other three major foreign companies.

Hutchison Whampoa was swallowed up by Li Jiacheng.

Wheelock was swallowed up by the Pao family.

Jardine Matheson Land was frightened, and Niu Bijian used cross-shareholding to retain the controlling rights.

Even so, in 1984, Simon Joseph, the boss of Jardine Matheson Land, announced that the registered address of Jardine Matheson Land would be moved from Hong Kong to Bermuda. In addition, the headquarters was moved from Hong Kong back to London.

This incident had a great impact in Hong Kong, and even led a large number of British and even Chinese capital to move their registered addresses to Bermuda and their headquarters to London.

In addition, Jardine Matheson Land's business was gradually moved to Southeast Asia, Europe and other places.

As for Swire.

The Swire family of Swire did not do the same as the Joseph family, but the headquarters was still moved back to London.

Because Swire's main business is in Hong Kong, it is impossible to move the business away. Later, it cooperated with domestic Chinese capital. In addition, it began to invest in domestic real estate, which allowed the Swire family to keep the controlling rights of Swire very well.

Today.

The Empire Group has swallowed up the top three foreign companies.

The remaining Swire.

It is impossible to say that Yang Ming does not pay attention.

From the beginning, Yang Ming knew that a single move would affect the entire body.

That was why he considered swallowing up Wharf Holdings, Hutchison Whampoa, and then Jardine Land.

Instead of Wheelock or Swire.

If he wanted to swallow up Swire from the beginning, Yang Ming knew that it was possible, but the problem was that the price was too high, and it would be difficult for him to swallow up Jardine Land.

Among the four major foreign companies, Swire is the most difficult to deal with.

Yang Ming already knew that the Swire family of Swire must have been frightened by his series of acquisitions.

Then the controlling rights of Swire's related listed companies must have been bought back by Swire.

It is basically impossible to acquire Swire through the stock market.

However, it is not impossible to start from other places.

Like Swire's most important business now.

International flights of Guorui Airlines.

And Swire Soda.

Why is there only Guorui Airlines in Hong Kong and it monopolizes all flights.

This is the cleverness of Swire and the Swire family.

Because they have people in the Governor's Office and London, if other consortiums propose to establish a new airline, it will be immediately rejected.

It was not until 1985 that the second airline in Hong Kong was established by Cao Guangbiao, Bao Yugang, Huo Yingdong and other Chinese tycoons and Chinese institutions.

However, this airline was a failure and was not a rival of Guorui Airlines at all. In the end, Guorui Airlines acquired it. This was also Bao Yugang's most unsuccessful investment.

As for Swire Soda, Yang Ming has been paying attention to it for a long time.

In other words, Yang Ming thinks that there is still a good chance to defeat Swire, or even acquire or swallow up Swire.

Unless the Shi Huaiya family takes the initiative to give up the business in Hong Kong.

But that is impossible.

If Swire leaves Hong Kong, it will no longer be the original Swire.

Yang Ming thought until late at night.

Rest for a night.

Today is the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month.

It is also Friday.

Yang Ming plans to go back to work at the company today. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, so he will rest.

Yang Ming accompanies his parents to finish breakfast.

Came to the chairman's office of Empire Group.

Just as he sat down and Lin Xiuzhi made him a cup of coffee, there was a knock on the door. It was Mai Lisi who walked in.

"Boss, I just heard a very important news."

"What news?"

"It is said that the Shi Huaiya family is going to move the registered place of Swire to Bermuda and the headquarters of Swire to London."

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