Hong Kong's new giants

Chapter 562 [1995 Years]

Monday, August 1995, 1.

On the first working day of the new year, Lin Zuhui came to the office of New Times Group as usual.

The recent newspapers have a lot of news about Lin Zuhui. At the end of last year, he continued to spend US$10 billion to acquire an 80% stake in Kingston and US$8 million to acquire a 49% stake in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, which made Hong Kong media report it.

Of course, there is also a lot of negative news. Some people bring up old stories again, saying that he is transferring capital. There are quite a few people who hold this view.Lin Zuhui doesn't care anymore. His investment in the mainland has already reached 600 billion Hong Kong dollars, and his actual expenditure has already reached 120 billion Hong Kong dollars (the loan ratio is relatively heavy). He is already the ultimate company for many Chinese capitals.

He is too lazy to explain too much now, he just uses his own media to promote positive energy occasionally, and no longer accepts interviews from other media companies.

In the morning, New Era Group held a group high-level meeting, and more than a dozen core high-level executives attended.

Everyone made work reports one after another. As a whole, the word "aggressive" can be used to describe the current development of the group, especially in the field of retail real estate and hotels in Europe and the United States. New Era Group has adopted large-scale investment.

After listening to everyone's reports, Lin Zuhui knew immediately.

At present, the company still has a cash flow of 125 billion Hong Kong dollars in its accounts. Last year's non-recurring profit was nearly 30 billion Hong Kong dollars, and the annual profit was about 210 billion Hong Kong dollars.A lot of new liabilities have been added, and the group's debt has reached 215 billion Hong Kong dollars.

The reason why there is a non-recurring profit of 30 billion Hong Kong dollars is that Chinese Land sold half of the equity in the Octopus Bank Building to Octopus Bank at a price of 20 billion Hong Kong dollars; the reason for only selling half is simple, because it is convenient for management. After all, Octopus Financial groups do not occupy much office space.

"This year, the group will focus on supporting Amazon Shopping Center and Langham Hotel Group. Even if the group has a debt of 300 billion, it must be supported. Therefore, colleagues in charge of these two departments must do a good job. To be honest, you let It is very simple for me to raise funds, but when I buy assets, I have to manage them well to have a future, so I have to work hard!"

"Yes, BOSS!" The two foreign core executives immediately replied seriously.

Steve, the president of Amazon Shopping Center, also serves as the vice president of New Era Commercial Management, and also has the authority to manage Fuli Real Estate (rental properties in Europe and America); therefore, he has been reused to manage New Era Group's collections in Europe and the United States. Rent ancestral property.

The management of office buildings in Europe and the United States is not so easy, especially the office buildings in Manhattan, which have a different taxation model, and because they are old-fashioned buildings, they need more careful management.Of course, Fuli Real Estate also has a local management team and president.

On the whole, New Era Group belongs to an international, high-quality and efficient management team.

Lin Zuhui said to Liang Zhenxun again: "Make financial arrangements and support!"

Liang Zhenxun nodded and said, "Okay."

Lin Zuhui said to Chen Bin: "The work of Xiangjiang is mostly handed over to senior staff, and the focus is on global business. Within three to five years, the local profit of New Times Group will be lower than the global profit. And the global profit will be mostly In Europe and America."

Obviously, the New Era Group is indeed mobilizing funds and moving in the direction of Europe and the United States.

Chen Bin said seriously: "Well, I will definitely manage the work of the group as a whole and share more with the boss."

He is the president of the group. For a long time, Lin Zuhui has been delegating power to the president. Now, Lin Zuhui does not need to sign for projects worth hundreds of millions or billions, and he will not sign.

After a meeting, the general direction of this year's group is almost clear.

This year, New Era Group’s profit may exceed 250 billion, growth is inevitable; non-recurring profits are also high, no surprises, just shorting the US dollar, Japanese yen, and Nikkei should make a profit of 30 to 40 billion Hong Kong dollars; In addition, backhand buying of US dollars and Japanese yen at that time will allow New Era Group's non-recurring profit to climb to 50 billion.

He was originally a stock god, and it would be no problem to lead the company to make some money financially.

These investments in US stocks are not counted. The current market value of New Era Group in US stocks has reached 13.5 billion US dollars, and it made a profit of nearly 35% last year; this is still a small amount. This year, the stocks of Citibank and Microsoft are estimated to soar by more than 40%.

As far as Lin Zuhui knows, throughout the 90s, the average annual return rate of Citibank's stock price was above 40%, and Microsoft was not weaker than this return rate.However, the investment of New Times Group can return about 90 billion U.S. dollars in the late 100s, which is simply amazing.

It is precisely because of this that Lin Zuhui decided to borrow money to develop the company, so he should invest in advance.

After the meeting.

Lin Zuhui came to his office, saw that the Hang Seng Index on the computer was already below 8000 points, smiled, and was again bet by him.

From the end of 1993 to the beginning of 1994, the family office cashed out funds of more than 60 billion Hong Kong dollars from Hong Kong Securities, and the average cash out was around 11300 points in the Hang Seng Index.

Now that the Hang Seng Index has fallen below 8000 points, if you buy it now, it is equivalent to making a 30% price difference.

In fact, the family office has been instructed by Lin Zuhui to start buying more than 8000 billion of funds back into blue-chip stocks below 60 points.

And Lin Zuhui also believes that the Hang Seng Index will fall below 7000 points, but it doesn't matter, anyway, the family office also buys in batches, which will reduce the average purchase price.

All of Jardine's companies will cancel the status of Xiangjiang's second listed company starting today, so the Hang Seng Index in January should be the time to bottom out.

Thinking of this, he decided to ask Hengjin Investment to buy the futures contract, trying to earn some pocket money from it this year.

Recently, he changed his mind. This year, each of the Eight Immortals will receive an investment quota of 3 million Hong Kong dollars, while the other four beauties will receive an investment quota of 2 million Hong Kong dollars.In this way, he will spend 30 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Although he is currently in high debt, reaching 10 billion US dollars, he is not in a hurry.Gold, foreign exchange, rent, dividends, these incomes can bring him about tens of billions of income, so why worry about having no money!

In a movie theater, the movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" adapted from previous lives is playing on the screen, and there are only two audiences in the whole movie hall; don't get me wrong, this is because Lin Zuhui has reserved a VIP movie theater in DreamWorks Cinemas, and the two audiences In addition to him, the famous audience also included the heroine Yuan Liangliang.

On the screen, the male and female protagonists had some intense Q scenes, which not only did not make Lin Zuhui feel "shame", but also felt an inexplicable excitement.Although Yuan Liangliang was his woman, Lin Zuhui never regarded her as his concubine. To put it bluntly, she was just a prop for looking for porcelain skin, so as long as she didn't make tertiary films, it wouldn't be a problem.

DreamWorks has shot two blockbuster films in a row, and the responses so far have been very good. The first "Resident Evil" has even recovered nearly [-]% of the cost within half a year. Not surprisingly, it can still be released in the United States.Therefore, it is impossible to lose money, but there will be follow-up income as profit in the future.

The movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" is more popular than "Resident Evil". The Taiwanese film company directly offered a buyout fee of 2000 million Hong Kong dollars, breaking the record for a buyout.The reason is very simple. The first is that "Resident Evil" has a very good box office in Taiwan; the second is that "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" has an investment of 2000 million U.S. dollars (actually more than 1700 million U.S. dollars), and it was filmed in the United States; the third is Andy Lau. It is very popular in Taiwan and South Korea.

Buy it out, buy it out, anyway, DreamWorks is 'fighting for reputation', making money is second;
What's more, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" can be shown in the Mainland. Since 1994, in order to save the film industry, the Mainland has started to introduce foreign films, which has given DreamWorks an opportunity.

In short, DreamWorks can still recover the cost of a movie with an investment of less than 2000 million U.S. dollars in two or three years, and even make some profits.Because of this, DreamWorks is currently preparing to shoot "The Matrix" and still chooses to shoot in the United States, but the main actors are all Xiangjiang.

To make two blockbuster films a year and keep the DreamWorks brand, this is Lin Zuhui's original intention.And what he needs to pay is nothing more than a brainstorming, if he remembers an excellent movie, he will make an outline and give it to Pan Cheng, and then remind him of the details he remembers, and he doesn't need to worry about the rest.

Why are you so serious!

Seeing the passionate scene of the two killer couples on the screen, Lin Zuhui pulled Yuan Liangliang into his arms, and stretched his hand into it unceremoniously.

"No, this is a movie theater, it would be bad if someone saw it!" Yuan Liangliang said in surprise.She could tell that Lin Zuhui was serious.

Lin Zuhui was unmoved, and said, "Don't be afraid, my bodyguards are guarding the door. Today we are Mr. and Mrs. Smith." After speaking, he put Yuan Liangliang in front of him and motioned her to squat down.

Yuan Liangliang immediately understood that this man was looking for porcelain skin!However, she didn't hesitate too much, and quickly surrounded Da Wu.

Cool fly!
At last, she was worthy of spending huge sums of money to make Yuan Liangliang popular. At this time, she had already surpassed Maggie Cheung. I heard that Jack Cheng and Zhou Xingchi lined up to invite her to make a movie. It happened that DreamWorks did not have her movie this year.

Lin Zuhui looked at the big screen, his whole body turned upside down, he was dual-purpose, and it didn't affect him watching movies at all.As for a 120-minute movie, except for the previous 20 minutes, the remaining 100 minutes are easy for him. He was afraid that Yuan Liangliang would beg for mercy, so he asked her to borrow prop O for 20 minutes.

"There's no monitoring, right?" Yuan Liangliang spat out and asked.

"What are you thinking? Public places in Xiangjiang cannot be monitored. Besides, I asked the bodyguards to check, and this is a VIP room again!"

"Hee hee, you are not afraid, and I am not afraid either!"

After Yuan Liangliang finished speaking, she stood up, and then the clothes slipped off one by one, and Miss Hong Kong's graceful figure was soon visible at a glance.

"I want to sit up!"

For a while, the main drama began.

Life is short, have fun in time.

No matter how much money you earn, what's the point if you can't spend it casually!

Who would have thought that the richest man in the world would be keen to do such a thing?
In the eyes of ordinary people, some well-known rich men are sanctimonious, but in reality?
Even a "great man" like Bill Gates maintains a long-term relationship with company employees, and a loving couple cannot match the years.

In the movie theater, Yuan Liangliang supported the seat in the front row, while Lin Zuhui was pushing hard at the back, and he was still able to watch movies, which was very satisfying.

(End of this chapter)