Rebirth of the Wild Age

In the suite of Xijiao Hotel.

The two bodyguards ate in the living room, while Song Weiyang and Shen Si ate in the bedroom. The food they ate was not special, they ordered according to their own wishes from the menu, and Song Weiyang, the employer, paid for the meals. As long as they went out with him, it was considered a work meal.

Song Weiyang and Shen Si sat side by side in front of the writing desk in the guest room, a plate of eight-treasure chicken, a dish of cabbage, and shredded pork and soybean soup.

Two dishes and one soup, no more, no less, neither shabby nor wasted.

Song Weiyang stared at the laptop while gnawing on the chicken. It's the end of the year again. Although he doesn't participate in management, he has to read all kinds of data carefully, so as not to have a bad eye on his company.

At the end of this year, Xifeng Group has a big operation.

The milk and milk beverage business, including Xiangpiaopiao Milk Tea, was spun off from the Beverage Division of Xifeng Group, and a new company was formed as a joint venture with Mengniu Group.

Because Xifeng invested 10 million yuan in Mengniu in the early stage and became the third largest shareholder of Mengniu, there are many terms of cooperation between them. With the rapid development of Mengniu in recent years, the products of the two sides have overlapped and competed. Mengniu controls Xifeng’s milk source, and Xifeng controls some of Mengniu’s sales channels. Naturally, they have developed to the point of stabbing each other.

In particular, Mengniu went public last year, and after it had sufficient funds, it not only spent a lot of money on publicity, but also made acquisitions everywhere, and its own sales channels became more and more perfect. And Xifeng's shareholding has also been diluted by Mengniu's listing, and it has become the fifth largest shareholder, and its control over Mengniu is getting weaker and weaker.

Yang Xin endured this situation for a long time. As soon as the 12-month stock restriction period of the original shareholders of Mengniu expired, Xifeng immediately made a decisive move. It cost hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars to acquire the shares of several original minority shareholders of Mengniu at a premium, and instantly became the third largest shareholder of Mengniu, second only to Yinniu Company (owned by executives of Mengniu affiliated companies) and Jinniu Company (owned by executives of Mengniu).

Not only that, Xifeng also began to frantically buy stocks from the secondary market, and was about to become Mengniu's second largest shareholder. Boss Niu finally couldn't sit still anymore and took the initiative to contact Yang Xin. The two sat together and had a pleasant communication.

The two parties have separated part of the milk beverage business into a new joint venture company, and the headquarters are not allowed to sell similar products. For the shares of the joint venture company, Xifeng holds 65% and Mengniu holds 35%.

By the way, because under Song Weiyang's instructions, Xifeng grabbed the naming rights of Super Girl, Mengniu's development is far from that of another time and space.

And Yang Xin's decision to increase his stake in Mengniu was not just to deal with Mengniu, but to kill two birds with one stone to deal with Danone in France.

The French Danone Group has been expanding wildly in China these years!

The first is the attack on the water beverage market. Danone holds 51% of the shares of Wahaha (joint venture company), acquired 92% of the shares of Robust, and also acquired 50% of the shares of Meilin Zhengguanghe Water Company. Jiangcheng owns more than 50% of the shares of two beverage and food companies. These companies are all producing water beverages, and they have formed a semi-encircled situation on Xifeng.

The second is the attack on the milk market. Danone has been engaged in joint venture projects with Bright Dairy since 1994. As of October this year, Danone has increased its holdings for the third time, owning nearly 20% of Bright Dairy. And Danone has not stopped, and continues to buy in the secondary market. It seems that it will not stop until its shareholding reaches 20%.

In Yang Xin's eyes, the Danone Group's threat to Xifeng far exceeds that of Pepsi and Coca-Cola. Although the development of Coca-Cola is rapid and domineering, Danone's ambitions are even greater. Judging from its investment layout, it is obvious that it wants to monopolize China's milk, milk and water beverage markets.

Fortunately, the boss Zong of Wahaha was disobedient, and Danone has been unable to send people to manage it. And Bright Dairy is a state-owned enterprise, and with the lessons learned from Tianfu Cola, Danone Group has been unable to achieve its control goals.

Before Xifeng invested in Mengniu, he originally wanted to invest in Bright. It's a pity that we can't even touch the threshold. The leader of Guangming said that he only accepts capital injections from foreign giants, and introduces advanced technology and management experience through international cooperation.

"Look, boss." Shen Si suddenly pushed his laptop over.

This is an email that Yang Xin sent casually. Clicking on the link leads to a news page. Song Weiyang laughed directly when he saw the title.

Danone and Wahaha have just signed a contract, Danone allows the non-joint venture company founded by Boss Zong to use the trademark "Wahaha" free of charge.

This contract is not the beginning of the tacit cooperation between Danone and Wahaha, but the final sign of the two sides' tearing apart.

There was a problem with Zong’s blind investment back then, and Danone and Baifule were brought in due to extreme lack of money. Who would have thought that BF would go bankrupt due to the Asian financial turmoil and transfer all its shares to Danone, which would own 51% of the shares at once. The trademark "Wahaha" belongs to the joint venture company, which means it is controlled by Danone.

Boss Zong soon realized that something was wrong. He not only refused to allow Danone to infiltrate the management, but also illegally established a large number of non-joint venture companies, trying to steal away from Danone's control.

Danone hated this, and after lengthy negotiations, the two parties finally reached an "understanding". But the problem is that the list of non-joint venture companies provided by Boss Zong is only a small part of it. It will not be long before Danone finds out that he has been deceived, and he is even more shocked by the unimaginable number of non-joint venture companies controlled by Wahaha.

Then Danone opened its mouth to the lion, wanting to forcibly acquire these gray companies at a very low price. Boss Zong directly ignited public opinion, aroused the patriotic sentiment of the public, and brought in government forces to intervene. Danone also has this kind of operation, frantically promoting the spirit of the rule of law internationally, and wants to solve it through the EU and the French government.

In the end, Boss Zong came out on top. In other words, the Chinese government is very powerful. In other words, Danone’s food is too ugly, and it can’t win against Wahaha in an international lawsuit (the record of the two parties’ lawsuits is 21:0, and Wahaha wins all). At the beginning, Danone will acquire Wahaha’s non-joint venture of 5.6 billion yuan at the cost of 4 billion yuan. company. The forced acquisition was unsuccessful, and Danone said it would sell its 51% stake to Wahaha for 50 billion yuan. After the two governments intervened, they only sold it for 3 billion yuan.

If Danone raises the price a little bit and buys at a premium according to commercial rules, it is absolutely sure that it will win the lawsuit. But it is too greedy! Even the international court of the European Union is unlikely to support Danone's acquisition, and at most it will sentence Wahaha to pay trademark royalties.

"Do you want to stab Wahaha?" Yang Xin sent another message. He had already seen Boss Zong's tricks.

Song Weiyang smiled, and replied: "Don't interfere, just wait and watch the show."

Yang Xin said: "This is a good opportunity to mess with Wahaha."

Song Weiyang said: "Not necessarily. This is a pool of muddy water, we don't want to wade into it."

"That's fine, I'll listen to you." Yang Xin replied.

Due to the strong rise of Xifeng, many beverage and food companies, including Wahaha, have been affected. In particular, Xiang Piaopiao, which makes milk tea, has been robbed of its main products by Xifeng. Now it is only a small local business, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to grow in this lifetime. As for the development of Wahaha, it is estimated that it is only 60% of the original space-time scale. It is really too much for Xifeng to grab the market.

Shen Si took back her computer, browsed RenRen for a while, and Taobao for a while, then yawned and prepared to rest.

"Aren't you going back?" Shen Si asked.

Song Weiyang closed the computer: "Let's go."

Tomson Golf is located in the eastern suburb of Shenghai. As the name suggests, the Xijiao Hotel must be in the western suburb, and you have to go through the entire city of Shenghai to go home. If I set off in the evening when I just woke up from alcohol, I would probably get stuck in traffic halfway and get constipated. Now I just go out to avoid the evening rush hour.

Song Weiyang's current car is a 93 Cadillac Fleetwood with the license plate "Shanghai a·z0001".

The license plate is Shenghai Private Car No. 1, and the car is the official vehicle of the US Consulate General in Shenghai. The car is about 10 years old, and it is well maintained, mainly because the comfort level is at the top level, and this model was discontinued as early as 1997.

Even driving an old car that has been retired for ten years, Song Weiyang spent a full 3 million to take pictures. The license plate was actually more expensive than the car, and the auction price was 4.8 million yuan, because it was the No. 1 plate of Shenghai's private car.

In another time and space, this car and this license plate were also put together by a local tyrant.

Song Weiyang was purely malicious, he had seen this car once before crossing, and was envious at the time. Now that he had the opportunity, he immediately spent huge sums of money to combine this car with this license plate.

The low-key and luxurious Cadillac walks through the streets of Shenghai at night.

Wherever you come and go, neon lights flicker and lights are brilliant.

Countless grassroots are working hard here, and countless rich people have risen and fallen from here. Prosperity, darkness, wealth, crime, complement each other.

Song Weiyang looked at the night scene through the window, and suddenly felt his shoulders sink, but it was Shensi who fell asleep, with his head tilted down and leaning on his arm.

Feeling that the wind was a bit strong, blowing chills, Song Weiyang closed the car window smoothly, so as not to catch cold when thinking about it.

The relationship between the two is very special now, they are both employers and employees, and teachers and students, and they are gradually moving closer to friends.

In front of Song Weiyang, Shen Si became more and more open-minded, and his speech was much more casual than before. Occasionally, he would chat with him about his thoughts, and even express his admiration intentionally or unintentionally.

But Song Weiyang was always hesitant and indecisive. This was his first love in his previous life, not to mention marrying other men, Song Weiyang couldn't accept it even if he was dating. Fortunately, Shen Si had always acted like a workaholic and had no time to care about personal feelings for the time being.

And if you take Shensi away, let alone Lin Zhuoyun, Chen Tao still has a big belly.

Don't look at Song Weiyang as cheating, cunning and cunning, but in terms of personal emotions, he is relatively conservative. Before crossing over, he was a rich man, but he only had one wife and one little lover. And that little lover, who had relationship problems with his wife (Doudou), only found it during the long-term separation. He should be in junior high school now.

Another problem is that if the relationship with Shen Si develops into a relationship between a man and a woman, then Shen Si's assistant position will definitely be cancelled. The relationship between the two parties will not be as simple as it is now, there must be a lot of messy things to consider, Song Weiyang is actually quite satisfied with the current state of contemplation, a bit of spiritual love.

It's just that Shen Si is almost 30 years old, and if she drags on, she will become an old girl.

Headache!

Song Weiyang looked at the street scene and couldn't help but sigh.