Chapter 786 The Imperial Group quietly swallowed up the third ocean in Hong Kong
1983 2 Month 10 Day.
The twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Thursday.
18:00 in the evening.
Imperial Group Conference Room.
At this time, many reporter representatives came here.
The Imperial Group has not held an important press conference for some time. This time, these reporter representatives received a call from the Imperial Group in the afternoon. Reporters from major newspapers and magazines immediately prepared to come to the Imperial Group conference room.
Not long.
The conference room is here.
First, Mr. Merlis, the general manager of the Empire Group, Miss Tang Shilian, the financial director of the Empire Group, and John Bao, the former vice chairman of Huifeng Bank.
Even Mr. Zhang Yuliang of the Zhang family, the largest shareholder of Wheelock & Company, Mr. John Ma Shi, the second largest shareholder of Wheelock & Company, and senior executives of Wheelock's major groups were all invited to come. Attend this meeting.
Last night, John Ma Shi had learned that Sir Yang had invited John Bao to take over his position. From this point of view, John Ma Shi really admired Sir Yang's broadmindedness and ability.
Others think that since Sir Yang is Chinese, he will definitely re-employ Chinese elites. Now Imperial Group and its major executives are still mainly white people.
From this point of view, John Ma Stool felt that there were not many people in Xiangjiang who could match Sir Yang's vision.
These people are here in the conference room.
The reporters below were very surprised when they saw it.
Could it be that Imperial Group has acquired Wheelock & Company?
How else could the major shareholders and executives of Defeng Yang Company appear here?
Yang Ming did not appear at this press conference. The person presiding over today's press conference was still Melis.
Mai Lisi sat in the chief position, with Zhang Yuliang and John Horse on the left and right.
After Zhang Yuliang and John Ma Shi met just now, the two of them were no longer what they were before. After they were no longer partners, their relationship became normal. There was no longer any interest between the two parties. The original irreconcilable conflict naturally disappeared. It was resolved.
"Dear journalists, I have something very important to announce at this press conference."
"Mr. Merrith, is this related to Wheelock & Company?"
A reporter immediately picked up the microphone and asked.
. . .
These reporters were so excited.
Last year, the Imperial Group swallowed up 11 Chinese-owned banks in Hong Kong and directly solved the crisis of Chinese-owned banks in Hong Kong. At that time, it really shocked Hong Kong, Nanyang, and even the world.
At this time, it would be even more shocking if it really swallowed Wheelock, the third largest foreign trade company in Hong Kong, again.
In 1978, the Imperial Group swallowed up Wharf and Hutchison Whampoa.
Later, the Imperial Group swallowed up Jardine Matheson Land & Bank, the largest foreign bank in Hong Kong.
Imperial has also been acquiring other companies since then.
Including, Heung Kong Water Company, Heung Kong Electric Light Company, and even Heung Kong Mass Transit Railway Company, Heung Kong Kowloon Bus Company, Heung Kong Chung Hwa Bus Company, etc.
However, in terms of overall strength, Wheelock & Company ranks third among the four major foreign banks in Hong Kong, which shows that its scale is very large.
At this point, compared with Wheelock and Swire before the bankruptcy and liquidation of Chen Songqing's Carnegie Group, in fact, this was used by the media and Chen Songqing to bump into each other, and then increased the share price of Carnegie Group.
The two are not on the same level at all.
Meris looked at the excited and shocked reporters and continued: "After friendly negotiations between our Imperial Group and the Zhang family, Wheelock's largest shareholder, and the Ma Shi family, Wheelock's second largest shareholder, we have reached an agreement with them respectively. Wheelock's A shares are priced at HK$5.5 per share and B shares are HK$0.55 per share. It acquires all the shares of Wheelock's largest shareholder and second largest shareholder. In addition, Imperial Group has also been acquiring shares in the past few years. Wheelock’s A shares and B shares are calculated based on the effective controlling interest. As of today, Imperial Group’s effective controlling interest in Wheelock has reached 51%.”
Shock!
Every word Malice said!
The reporters present were shocked!
. . .
at this time.
It is the rush hour for getting off work in Xiangjiang.
Li Jiacheng was sitting in his luxurious Mercedes-Benz car.
I don’t know why, but the most important thing is that I feel an inexplicable worry.
Li Jiacheng's full-time driver encountered the traffic light in front and could only stop and wait.
At this time, the Xiangjiang Radio station in the car had just been broadcasting news from Hong Kong and the world. Li Jiacheng likes to listen to the news the most. When he is in the car, he either reads the newspaper or listens to the news.
"An important piece of news is inserted below. The news was just sent back by our reporter Miss Cai Lifen in the Empire Group conference room. Empire Group has signed a contract with the Zhang family, the largest shareholder of Wheelock, and the Ma Shi family, the second largest shareholder of Wheelock. The acquisition contract..., Empire Group officially acquired Wheelock & Company, the third foreign company in Hong Kong."
Empire Group actually acquired the third largest foreign bank in Hong Kong?
When Li Jiacheng heard this, he couldn't believe it.
When did Empire Group acquire Wheelock?
Why doesn't he have any news?
If it was before, when Empire Group acquired other companies, he would have been able to receive some news in advance, such as Wharf, Hutchison Whampoa, Heung Kong Electric Lighting Company, etc., and he had made a fortune in all of them.
Now the Imperial Group has quietly swallowed up Wheelock & Company, the third largest foreign trade house in Hong Kong, and used nearly 20 billion Hong Kong dollars in funds. He really doesn't know at all.
Li Jiacheng's expression became a little ugly.
However, at this time, I can only sit here.
Li Jiacheng took the car back to the Li family villa in Deep Water Bay.
Holding the briefcase, I walked in a little tiredly.
Mrs. Zhuang Yueming came out to greet her and saw her husband looked very unhappy.
"Sir, what happened?"
"Imperial Group has just officially acquired Wheelock & Company."
Zhuang Yueming was also shocked when he heard it.
Why didn’t she hear any news about Empire Group’s acquisition of Wheelock & Company?
"Sir, is this true?"
"I just heard it from the radio host in the car."
If that's the case, then it must be true.
Zhuang Yueming was once again shocked and speechless.
The most important thing is that the Empire Group's acquisition of Wheelock & Company was to directly convince Wheelock's largest shareholder and second largest shareholder, as well as its own shares. Together, it controls Wheelock, and it seems that it is like other ordinary shareholders. It doesn't matter at all.
The true strength of the Imperial Group has already completely exceeded Li Jiacheng and Zhuang Yueming's imagination.
Li Jiacheng knew it.
What makes Li Jiacheng uncomfortable now is not that the Imperial Group swallowed up Wheelock & Company.
But he was worried.
He didn't know whether his Changchun Industrial Group had also been quietly acquired many shares by the Imperial Group.
"Sir, what are you worried about?"
"Changjiu Industrial Group."
At this time, Li Jiacheng's shares in Changchun Industrial Group were only about 30%, and the rest were all circulating shares.
Although he is now the largest shareholder, who knows when the Imperial Group acquired the shares of other Changjiang Industrial Group?
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