I became the richest man in the world after losing my life in a vegetative state - Chapter 1493

#1493: Imperial Group acquires British Group for HK$120 billion

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Sunday.

Today is also Christmas Eve.

In the morning.

Hong Kong Central Park, the opening ceremony was held by Hong Kong Governor Zhong Yijie and others.

Although Yang Ming and others were invited to attend, Yang Ming thought that he had been there a few days ago, so he did not go again, but sent Diana and others to go.

This time, after the grand opening ceremony.

Hong Kong Central Park was officially open to the public, and it was free and no tickets were charged.

That day, because it was Sunday and Christmas Eve.

In addition to the nearly one million people from Hong Kong who came to Hong Kong Central Park, there were also hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the world.

Even so, more than one million people poured into this 400-hectare park, and it still looked very spacious.

This day.

Yang Ming stayed in the Repulse Bay Hillside Villa.

Because there was also a grand Christmas Eve banquet here today.

In addition to inviting Hong Kong Governor Zhong Yijie and his wife, Hong Kong Chief Secretary, Financial Secretary, Attorney General and others, it was mainly white executives of the Empire Group.

Including Mai Lisi, Ma Shiming, Wei Li, Mou Shili, Wei Peter, Xia Boyin, Shen Bi and so on.

There are still many people coming.

Although it is not as lively as the New Year’s Eve dinner, there are really many guests coming.

At 18:30 in the evening.

The Christmas Eve dinner officially began.

At the dinner, Diana, Sarah and others as Yang Ming’s hostesses attended mainly, and there were other white executives.

It can be said that it was still very lively.

In addition, Huo Jianning also attended the Christmas Eve dinner for the first time.

In fact, he attended this dinner because of something important.

In addition, the eldest princess of Sanxing Group, Li Fuzhen, also came to attend.

This Christmas Eve dinner lasted until more than nine o’clock in the evening.

Before the end of the dinner, Yang Ming gave a golden apple to each guest who attended the Christmas Eve dinner tonight.

And this golden apple is pure gold, each weighing at least one pound.

According to the current gold price, it is about 385 US dollars per ounce, and a pound of gold is about 17.6 ounces. This golden apple is worth more than 6,000 US dollars, or more than 50,000 Hong Kong dollars.

It seems not much.

In fact, money is still very valuable now, and the price of gold will continue to rise. This golden apple is different from ordinary gold and has more collection value.

In other words, every guest who attended tonight got a very good gift.

After many guests said goodbye to Yang Ming.

Soon, there were only a few people left here.

One is the general manager of the Empire Group Cabinet, Mai Lisi.

One is the deputy general manager of the Empire Group Cabinet, Huo Jianning.

One is the fourth person in the Empire Group, cabinet member Ma Shimin.

There is also Wei Li, the executive president of Hutchison Whampoa under the Empire Group, who is also the fifth person in the Empire Group.

These four people stayed.

In particular, Huo Jianning’s arrival was naturally related to one thing.

That is, last year, Yang Ming had already begun to plan to acquire the last foreign company in Hong Kong.

Ying Zhijie.

During this year, the Empire Group has been secretly talking with the shareholders of Inchcape.

They talked for a long time.

Finally, last week, the Empire Group acquired the Inchcape Group for 120 billion Hong Kong dollars, or 15.3 billion US dollars.

In 1995, it was very crazy and terrifying to acquire a group with more than 100 billion Hong Kong dollars.

But now the acquisition is over.

Except for the core figures in the Empire Group, no one else knows.

“Boss, we have successfully acquired Inchcape. I don’t know when it will be officially announced to the public.”

In fact, the scale of Inchcape Group is very large, not even inferior to the previous four major foreign companies in Hong Kong, and larger than the Wharf Group.

However, Inchcape was relatively low-key before, and it was somewhat different from the four major foreign companies.

In the 1990s, Inchcape Pacific has become the largest trading company in Hong Kong. As a subsidiary of Inchcape Group, Inchcape Pacific is mainly responsible for the group’s business in the Mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laowo.

Among them, Hong Kong is the business focus of the group, and the group’s core businesses are very active in Hong Kong.

In terms of automobile distribution, as the main automobile distributor in Hong Kong, Inchcape Pacific is the agent for the sales of various brands of automobiles such as Toyota, Master, Aston Martin, Bentley, Junlang, Jaguar, Lexus, Lotus, Peugeot, Rolls-Royce, Land Rover, Land Rover Cross Country, Hino Trucks, etc., and the automobiles it distributes account for about 40% of the automobile market in Hong Kong.

In terms of market expansion, Inchcape Pacific is the agent for the distribution of more than 200 brands of daily necessities, medical drugs, personal care products, sports goods, famous brand leisure products and durable goods in Hong Kong, and also represents various world famous wines for 30 clients. In addition, Inchcape Pacific is also the main distributor of office equipment in Hong Kong, especially copiers and fax machines, as well as various industrial and engineering products and building materials.

In terms of commercial services, Inchcape Insurance is one of the largest insurance intermediaries in Hong Kong. The insurance consultancy services it provides cover all industries in Hong Kong, including construction, shipping, manufacturing and jewelry firms. It also acts as an agent for many well-known insurance companies in the world.

Inch Pacific also provides quality testing and safety inspection services for various export products in Hong Kong, from toys, electronic products, textiles to ready-made clothes, and its inspection equipment in Hong Kong is of first-class level in Asia.

In addition, Inch Shipping is one of the largest independent shipping service agencies in the world.

It can be said that Inch Pacific is very large.

This time, Yang Ming thinks that the acquisition at a price of 120 billion Hong Kong dollars is a good deal.

Because this company itself is a large group that ranks first in Country Y.

Yang Ming has already known about the successful acquisition of Inch Pacific Group.

But these days, he has been waiting for the right time to announce it to the public.

“Is the boss of Inch Pacific Zheng Mingxun?”

“Yes, boss.”

“What is his attitude now?”

Zheng Mingxun replaced Mai Jiazhuo, who returned to the UK, as the chairman of the board of directors of Inch Pacific, and is also the company’s first Chinese boss.

However, compared with Shen Bi and other bosses, he is of course far behind.

When Empire Group was secretly acquiring Inchchi Group and negotiating with Inchchi’s shareholders, Zheng Mingxun didn’t know that Inchchi Group was actually going to be sold.

When he learned that Inchchi Group was eventually sold to Empire Group by the major shareholder for HK$120 billion, he didn’t sleep well that night.

Then, he thought of meeting Sir Yang, the chairman of Empire Group, as soon as possible.

However, until now, in addition to continuing to work normally in the Inchchi Group Building in Hong Kong, Sir Yang didn’t seem to want to meet him.

However, he already knew that Inchchi Group, like other foreign companies, had changed its owner.

This owner was none other than Sir Yang. (End of this chapter)