I want to be a giant of Hong Kong Island

Chapter 465 [Land Drinking Milk [-]]

At the end of October, Wu Guangyao returned to Hong Kong Island.

Deep Water Bay Villa 79

Lin Yueru has been in the dressing room for 20 years, and began to help Wu Guangyao organize his clothes, hair and other image projects.

Lin Yueru looked at Wu Guangyao's face, and said, "Many friends say that you have been living at the age of 30!"

Wu Guangyao said with a smile: "I was only 39 years old, not yet 40 years old!"

While arranging Wu Guangyao's clothes and hair, Lin Yueru said: "When you were young, you asked me to help you design your image at 30 years old. If you do business like this, others will not have the illusion; I have discovered in the past few years that you are still With a 30-year-old face, it looks like ten years younger. I am really afraid that in ten years, you will still look 30 years old, and I will become an old woman, and I am afraid that I will be embarrassed to go out together!"

Wu Guangyao was taken aback for a moment, but Lin Yueru became sentimental. He quickly put his arms around her and said affectionately, "Coincidentally, many of my friends said that you are only 30 years old, and you are still shy and beautiful."

Lin Yueru became really happy when she heard that, and said softly, "No way, I'm afraid they said I look like I'm in my thirties, and you deliberately removed the word '几' to coax me."

Lin Yueru is also very confident. Although she is 42 years old, others do praise her for taking good care of herself. She looks like a woman in her thirties.

Although Wu Guangyao admitted it in his heart, he said in his mouth: "If you say you are ten years younger, you are only 32 years old! The secret of being young is to have a good attitude, so let's relax and don't care about those irreversible things. We have been married for 20 years. You should understand what I mean."

The middle-aged couple got bored for a while before they walked out of the dressing room.

At 8:30, Wu Guangyao came to the Yangtze River Building on Queen's Road;
It is a very wise choice for the boss to come to the company at this time without squeezing the elevator.

Not long after sitting down, Shi Jun came to Wu Guangyao's office.

"Boss, Henry Keswick succeeded his father John Keswick as the chairman of Jardine Harmony and Land Taipan, and Niu Bijian became the executive director and general manager." Shi Jun said as soon as he sat down.

"Hey, old John is relieved!" Wu Guangyao couldn't help but said.

The reason why Wu Guangyao sighed was actually that Henry Keswick took over his father's position more than a year earlier;
Could it be that John Keswick was a little discouraged because of Wu Guangyao's appearance these years, and chose to retire early?

"Henry Keswick is very powerful. I have dealt with him several times, and I feel that he is very smart and capable!" Shi Jun commented.

Wu Guangyao nodded, he did not deny this!
In his previous life, Henry Keswick did many great things when he was in Jardine and Taipan;

For example, Hongkong Land annexed a milk company, and it actually annexed a large company without spending a penny;

For example, set off a boom in the reconstruction of commercial buildings in the Central District, renovate all the old buildings in the heart of the Central District of the Hong Kong Land Department, and connect them together through pedestrian bridges;
Later, in 1975, Henry Keswick returned to London to work in politics before he handed over the power to the senior wage earner - New Bijian.

But this life!

Just let him go back to London in disgrace!
Wu Guangyao has already decided that once Hongkong Land Company initiates a 'hostile takeover' of Milk Company;
Then even if the British-funded company sets a precedent, there is no need to hide it!
Wharf, Qingzhou Yingni, Hong Kong Tramways.
Let's catch all these British-owned companies with a lot of land!

As for Hutchison & Co., Wu Guangyao plans to take over directly from HSBC in three or four years, and HSBC will not deny it!
The reason why Wu Guangyao dared to directly acquire these British-funded companies now is also because his own strength has become full-fledged, and he has mastered the public opinion and public opinion of Hong Kong Island;

In addition, after years of observation, Wu Guangyao found that the successive Hong Kong governments have always pursued a 'positive non-intervention policy';
That is, the Hong Kong government has always been on the sidelines to the commercial competition between "British vs. British", "British vs. China", and "China vs. China".

Because of this, Wu Guangyao concluded that as long as there is no "malicious competition", the Hong Kong government has absolutely no reason to intervene in commercial activities.

Hongkong Land Company is an old British-funded real estate company, founded in 1889, and was the largest registered company in the port at that time;

The founders of Hongkong Land were Chater and Keswick, and Chater spared no effort to promote the implementation of his reclamation plan by the then Hong Kong government;
The Hong Kong government has reclaimed the sea on a large scale on the island, and Hongkong Land Company has made the most profits, and has gradually become the land king in the Central District;

After Chater's death, Landmark was annexed by Jardine Matheson.

Henry Keswick sat in the Landmark Taipan office in high spirits, but he was calculating in his heart, how to prove himself;

Isn't there an old saying among the Chinese people--three fires for a new official to take office!

The development of Hongkong Land has entered a bottleneck. If I lead Hongkong Land to break through the bottleneck, then my prestige will definitely be established!

The bottleneck of Hongkong Land is that the headquarters of Hongkong Land has always been Central;

For a long time, Central has been the heart of Hong Kong's commercial and economic activities. Its pulse represents the power and vitality of Hong Kong's overall society and is a symbol of Hong Kong's prosperity;

However, the properties in Central are already saturated. If Hongkong Land wants to develop properties, it must develop outward;

At this time, the second commercial district of Hong Kong Island has begun to move to Causeway Bay;

The Submarine Tunnel is still one and a half years away from completion, and by then the causeway bay will be even higher.

Henry Keswick, like a hunter, began to look for his prey;
Soon, Milk Company came to his mind!
"The milk company was originally our British company, but now it has become a Chinese-funded company. If I do this, it can be regarded as taking back our British assets!" Henry Keswick said to himself.

It turns out that the history of the milk company can be traced back to 1844, when American businessman Dieudo opened an ice factory (ice store) on Ice Factory Street. ;

In 1886, a company that had nothing to do with the snow factory appeared on Hong Kong Island—the Milk Company. Dr. Winson of England set up a cattle farm on the barren slope of Causeway Bay; in 1890, the Milk Company opened a second cattle farm in Pok Fu Lam. fields and farms.

In 1918, the snow factory and the milk company merged to form a new company - Milk Ice Factory Co., Ltd., until the emergence of refrigerators, ice production also shrank, and the company became the milk company again.

Therefore, it is not wrong to say that the milk company is a British company!
However, after a hundred years of changes, such an old-fashioned company on Hong Kong Island has already diluted its shares;

Zhou Xinian became a shareholder of the milk company and became a major shareholder, which is also a smooth thing;

Chow Sin-nian is a two-time Hong Kong governor political celebrity, naturally many big companies recruit him as a director, this is the consistent style of Hong Kong Island enterprises;
After Zhou Xinian became the director of the milk company, he focused on buying the stock of the milk company, gradually became a major shareholder, and successfully became the chairman of the board of directors;

As the saying goes, 'the water does not scare the fish and the fish does not jump', it is not like the takeover battle in the previous life, where swords and swords were shaking the world.

Henry Keswick asked someone to collect the milk company's information, and looked it up carefully!

"Causeway Bay has become a prosperous city, but the milk company raises cows and milks in the prosperous city; the land in Pok Fu Lam is also very good, and it will be developed sooner or later, and the land price will definitely soar."

As the saying goes, "Happiness at Seeing Hunting" describes Henry Keswick's mood on this matter,
Looking at the information on the milk company, the smile on Henry Keswick's mouth never stopped, as if the British thought they had found the New World.

However, Henry Keswick soon thought of something!
Although Hongkong Land is strong, it is not easy to annex the milk company;

Because the milk company has as many as 2000 employees and a market value of 3.5 million Hong Kong dollars;
What's more, although Zhou Xinian, the chairman of the milk company, is frustrated in officialdom, his foundation in Hong Kong Island is still very strong.

"Peaceful takeover is the best, even if there is a 'hostile takeover', I still need to keep Zhou Xinian in the chairman position to show that I really think about shareholders!" Henry Keswick said to himself in the office Said.

(End of this chapter)