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Chapter 613 [Opportunity in the automotive field! 】

In June, Wu Guangyao flew to London by special plane.

Thatcher has already been elected as the British Prime Minister in May, so the resources and money invested by the Wu family before will start to reap!

Wu Guangyao has taken a fancy to two fields in the UK, the first is the oil field, and the second is the automobile field;
In the oil field, it is to get the shares of BP Petroleum Company, and at least 5% of the shares, and even 10% of the shares can be considered;
Wu Guangyao believes that this is not difficult. First of all, the Wu family has nearly 2.5 million tons of oil mining rights in the North Sea oil field in the UK, accounting for 8% to 10% of the entire North Sea oil field in the UK;

In recent years, with the skyrocketing price of oil, the United Kingdom raised the mining tax to 70%, just to prevent foreign investors from earning too much;

Even if it is increased to 70%, it will not be able to stop the huge profits generated by the soaring oil price;
Moreover, Wu Guangyao knows that the highest mining tax will be 80% next year;

However, due to the protests of foreign investors, the British government worried about driving away investors and affecting economic development, so it slowly returned to about 60% in the follow-up.

So, in any case, Wu Guangyao holds so many oil resources, it is a very good condition for him to become a shareholder of BP.

The second favorable condition is that the Wu family is the biggest supporter of Thatcher's campaign, they shouted for the Conservative Party in the media, and donated a lot of campaign funds. These are very favorable conditions;
The third is the personal relationship between Kayla and Thatcher. It can be said that they are like sisters. They have been dating for more than ten years, and they are still alumni!

Of course, politicians are basically not emotional;

If it is a Chinese who wants to play BP's idea, it is definitely impossible, after all, public opinion can make the government not pass;

But the Wu family is different. It has branches in the UK, and it is also a native of British whites (mixed race).

Therefore, there is no need to consider political factors at all!

The second field that Wu Guangyao is interested in is the automobile field!
Since entering the 70s, the British economy has been in decline, especially when it encountered the first world oil crisis, and the world economy has also fallen into a period of depression.

Especially in December 1976, John Bull, who had always been extremely arrogant, had no choice but to lower his head and borrowed a loan of 12 billion pounds from the International Monetary Fund, but the price was to require the UK to carry out a series of economic reforms.

Affected by the overall economic environment, whether it is the manufacturing industry or the service industry in the UK, they are in a dilemma.

Therefore, the Labor Party failed in the general election because of economic problems;

And Thatcher competed with the slogan of 'privatization' and won the votes of the voters.

And Wu Guangyao just wanted to take Rolls-Royce in the name of Keira and his son Wu Xianyu, and then gradually annexed other British car companies, such as Lotus Motors, Leyland Motors, Jaguar, and Land Rover.
Integrate the entire British automobile brand and industry, and then come up with marketing strategies and exterior designs for later generations. It may not be impossible to compete with Japan and Germany in the future.

Speaking of this, I have to mention Rolls Royce.

The English name of Rolls-Royce is Rolls-Royce. This word can be translated into two meanings. The first one is Rolls-Royce, the symbol of the automotive field.

The second translated name is equally famous, that is, Rolls-Royce, the famous Rolls-Royce company.

Rolls-Royce is a famous British aero-engine company and the largest aero-engine company in Europe. Various aero-engines developed by it are widely used in civil and military aircraft around the world.

Rolls-Royce is the world's second largest civil engine company and the world's second largest military engine company, and is one of the world's three largest aero engine manufacturers.

Not only that, Rolls-Royce is also involved in the British defense, shipping, and energy fields, and they all occupy important positions.

The automotive sector is just one of them.

Naturally, the Wu family just bought the car department, and promised not to take the brand out of the UK, and to increase capital investment;

In this way, Thatcher would not be worried about Wu Guangyao!

Bentley is the only other brand of Rolls-Royce Motor Company besides the Rolls-Royce brand.

Walter Owen Bentley founded the Bentley Motor Company in 1919. Because of his pursuit of speed, Bentley embarked on a journey of professionally designing high-end sports cars and racing cars.

"To build a fast car, a good car, and the most outstanding car in its class." It was once the founder Walter Owen Bentley's initial pursuit of ultimate excellence in car manufacturing.

The period from 1919 to 1929 was the most glorious period of Walter Owen Bentley, and it was also the period when Bentley was famous. He almost won the championship of every famous 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Even Bentley still has the image of a "royal athlete" in the car world, because of its own luxury and speed.

It's a pity that in 1931, the poorly managed Bentley Motor Company was acquired by Rolls-Royce at a price of 12.5 pounds. The automobile production line and engine research and development center were moved to Crewe, England, and they completely lost themselves and became Rolls-Royce. Rice's rebranded products and market additions.

However, Bentley has been under Rolls-Royce for so many years, and Rolls-Royce has indeed tried its best. After decades of shaping, the concept of Bentley luxury cars has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

The concept that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people is the most difficult to shape, which requires years of accumulation, and it is completely the foundation.

Many auto magnates in mainland China in the later generations wanted to build luxury cars in China by spending huge sums of money, but unfortunately they all failed. This shows the difficulty. Brands are the most difficult to build, even if you have money, and it takes time to settle.

The Wu family is about to reap a huge sum of money, which is a total of 500 billion U.S. dollars, which is simply incomparably rich;

This fund is mainly composed of two parts, one is gold futures/spot income, and the other is oil futures income;

What is the concept of owning 500 billion U.S. dollars in this era? It is said that in 1978, the wealthiest family in the world had only 3500 billion U.S. dollars in funds; what is important is that this fund does not belong entirely to this family, and a large part of it is investors , Partner's money only.

And how much is the value of the entire British auto industry, I am afraid that 20 billion US dollars can be packaged!

In the previous life, in the 90s, Rolls-Royce only sold for 7 million US dollars, and the initial offer was only 5 million US dollars, and Rolls-Royce also agreed; but later, Volkswagen intervened in this matter and raised the offer to 7 million US dollars.

As for whether it can develop after the acquisition, Wu Guangyao is not worried;

According to history, many car brands in the UK are representatives of luxury cars in the world, such as Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover, etc.;

With so many well-known car brands, who dares to say that British cars are weak!
You know, the British automobile field can be said to have dominated the automobile field for more than half a century!
(End of this chapter)