Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

  Chapter 812 Three Billion Market Cap

   Seeing Shen Porridge's attitude that it has nothing to do with him, Yang Chen secretly scolded the other party as a 'chicken thief'.

   However, as one of the shareholders of HSBC, it is understandable that Shen Porridge behaves like this.

   After all, Shen Conge, as HSBC's Taipan King, once he favors a certain director, it will make other directors uneasy.

  Shen Conge was unwilling to help, and Yang Chen didn't care. Under everyone's attention, Yang Chen turned his attention to the strange man sitting on the board of directors of Swire Pacific.

   The Taipan King of Swire Pacific, Yang Chen had met before, but today the other party seems to be unavailable, just sent an employee over.

   Generally, the people who can replace the boss to hold meetings of this level are mostly confidants.

After staying on the strange man for three seconds, Yang Chen stood up from his seat, looked at the directors, and said, "I think everyone should know that I was in the UK some time ago at the request of Mrs. Thatcher, and bought it. British Aerospace, the largest military-industrial company in the UK."

   When he said this, Yang Chen deliberately aggravated the tone of "at the request of Mrs Thatcher", making everyone mistakenly think that the reason why he bought the British Aerospace Company was because of Mrs Thatcher's instructions.

   As the leader of the Conservative & Party, Mrs Thatcher's meaning naturally also represents the meaning of the Conservative & Party government.

   Anyway, his meeting with Mrs Thatcher was conducted in private. No one knew what the two of them said at the Prime Minister's Office in Downing Street. Even Baron Dennis only knew a general idea, and he didn't know the details.

  There are big flags that can be pulled, tiger skins can be pulled, Yang Chen naturally wants to make full use of it.

   Sure enough, after Yang Chen finished speaking, there was a slight change in the expression of the unfamiliar man who was originally indifferent. Although it was not very obvious, it was just a flash away, but it was still captured by Yang Chen.

  As British-owned enterprises, their backing background mainly comes from the British government, and they are somewhat in awe of the government behind them.

   "Why the British Aerospace Corporation was sold, I won't say much about the specific reasons. After the Falklands War, if there are no major accidents, there should be no more wars in the UK.

   In order to make the British Aerospace Corporation profitable again and ensure its technological development, the British Aerospace Corporation will carry out some reasonable transformations, shifting most of the military to civilian use, so as to promote the development of the British Aerospace Corporation.

   Among them, British Aerospace Corporation has great technical advantages in passenger aircraft manufacturing. The A300 passenger aircraft is an existence that can compete with Boeing's civil passenger aircraft.

   Therefore, British Aerospace will conduct more in-depth research on passenger aircraft, build larger and more advanced passenger aircraft, and strengthen its influence in the global passenger aircraft market. "

   "As the Asian economy heats up, civil aviation also has a certain foundation. As the largest civil aviation company in Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific Airways is one of the largest civil aviation companies in Asia..."

   When Yang Chen said this, all the directors present understood what he was thinking about, and after a long time of emotional turmoil, this God of Wealth had an idea for Cathay Pacific, a subsidiary of Swire Pacific.

  The former boss of Cathay Pacific Airways is an American and an Australian. Based on this, the passenger planes purchased by Cathay Pacific Airways are all aircraft owned by the American Boeing Company.

  If you want Cathay Pacific to change buyers, the first thing you have to do is convince Cathay Pacific's parent company, Swire Pacific.

   Obviously, Boss Yang is not willing to beg others in a low voice. Instead, he took the most direct method. Acquisition, as long as he becomes the boss of Cathay Pacific, it is not up to him to decide which company he wants to purchase.

   In this regard, everyone has different ideas.

   However, one thing is certain, that is, for this board of directors, Yang Chen is definitely for the 30% of Cathay Pacific shares held by HSBC.

  Although the 30% shares held by HSBC are far from the 70% shares held by Swire Pacific, as long as Yang Chen obtains this part of the shares, it will be a stepping stone.

   No matter if Swire Pacific is willing or not, with HSBC holding 30% of the shares, Yang Chen will be able to have a certain say in Cathay Pacific Airways.

   As for the decision-making power, it must still be in the hands of Swire Pacific. After all, they hold 70% of the company's shares, far more than half, and have an absolute controlling position.

   However, now Yang Chen is pulling the tiger's skin, pulling the banner, and directly carrying out Mrs. Thatcher and the British government, which makes the big guy embarrassed.

  Compared to British Aerospace, Cathay Pacific, a civil aviation company, is obvious in the eyes of the British government.

   Based on this, the strange man representing Taikoo Yangxing wanted to object, but he didn’t know where to refute.

   In addition, Yang Chen's momentum is now on the rise, and even the Jardine Group, the leader of the four major foreign companies, has been killed. Facing such a murderer, a strange man really dare not offend the other party easily.

   At this time, everyone had no choice but to turn their attention to King Shen Dapan and pin their hopes on Shen Conge.

Seeing this, Shen Cong didn't dare to continue watching the show, and said to Xi Ni: "Yang Sheng, Secretary Shi, I think it's better for the two of you to discuss it privately. For Cathay Pacific Airways, the most important thing is stable development. You two They are all shareholders of HSBC, and I hope you don't get hurt over this matter."

  Although there has always been a competitive relationship between HSBC and the Big Four, competition is competition, and there is still some cooperation.

   Just like Cathay Pacific, HSBC and Swire Pacific jointly hold its shares, which is a good example.

  Compared to Jardine's domineering, Swire Pacific is much more low-key without taking everyone in the eye. Even if there is competition, it will not be too stiff.

   The most important industries of Swire Pacific are Swire Shipping and Swire Properties. Although Cathay Pacific is good, it is far less important than the first two.

   However, Cathay Pacific has a good future, and Swire ships is now facing a ship disaster and cold wind, which increases and decreases, making Cathay Pacific important again.

   Seeing that Yang Chen didn't speak, Shi Leshan had no choice but to say: "Yang Sheng, I will report to the president about Cathay Pacific Airways. Let's make an appointment for another day and discuss it privately. What do you think?"

"No problem." Yang Chen shrugged, showing an indifferent expression, before Slosan was happy, Yang Chen continued, "However, today I came to HSBC and asked Mr. Shen to convene the board of directors, mainly for HSBC's holdings. 30 percent of Cathay Pacific."

   "Dear Directors, I am willing to purchase the 30% shares of Cathay Pacific Airways held by HSBC for HK$900 million in cash."

   "I wonder what the directors think?"

   "900 million?"

   Everyone was a little surprised when they heard Yang Chen's quotation. With the price given by Yang Chen, the market value of Cathay Pacific has exceeded 3 billion Hong Kong dollars.

  Is Cathay Pacific worth HK$3 billion? ? ?

   There is a question mark above everyone's head...

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   (end of this chapter)