Chapter 234 Yang Ming also wants to be the world’s shipping king!

The Imperial Group successively swallowed up Wharf, Hutchison and Jardine Matheson.

In addition to having a large amount of reserve land.

For example, Wharf Matheson owns a large number of high-quality wharves and warehouses in Hong Kong. This is why in history, Bao Yugang set his sights on Wharf, and even decided to win over Wharf, because the wharves and warehouses owned by Wharf are suitable for him. The huge maritime fleet of the Bao Yugang family.

As for Hutchison Whampoa?

Hutchison Whampoa owns a large number of terminals and warehouses in Hong Kong and even overseas.

Historically, after Li Jiacheng swallowed up Hutchison Whampoa, his Changchun Industrial Group also began to own huge ports and terminals in Hong Kong and around the world.

Jardine Land?

Currently, 40% of Jardine's business volume is in Hong Kong, and 60% of its business volume is in the world. In addition to Nanyang, it also has the Middle East, South Philippines, and even European and American countries.

Many terminals and warehouses in these countries are also industries owned by Jardine Matheson.

Now the Imperial Group has swallowed up all three major foreign companies.

Yang Ming wants to organize the shipping businesses of these three foreign companies into the first shipping group in Xiangjiang, so that they can make full use of their resource advantages.

After the combination of the shipping industry of the three major foreign shipping companies, the total deadweight tonnage has exceeded 3 million tons.

This is already the third or fourth largest shipping group in Hong Kong, after Bao Yugang's Global Shipping Group, Asia Shipping Group, and Orient Overseas Group.

"Boss, do you mean to integrate resources and combine the shipping companies of Wharf Group, the shipping companies of Jardine Matheson Group, and the shipping companies of Hutchison Shipping Group into a new shipping company?" Ma Shimin asked.

"Yes, that's what it means."

In addition to its own resource advantages.

Yang Ming is very aware of the upcoming changes in the international environment and domestic environment.

It has to be said that historically, Bao Yugang and Cao Wenjing's predictions about the international shipping industry in the 1980s were relatively accurate. However, from beginning to end, the shipping industry has always been Bao Yugang's main business, and he only gave up temporarily. That’s all.

Historically, Bao Yugang obtained a large amount of funds by abandoning his ship to land, and successively swallowed Wharf, Wheelock, and invested in Zedong Bank. Later, he continued to expand the global shipping industry.

After Bao Yugang died of cancer in 1991, the Bao family property was divided into four parts. Among them, the eldest daughter and son-in-law Su Yiwen inherited the main business of global shipping.

This time, Yang Ming wants to enter the shipping industry not only because of the integration of internal resource advantages.

Yang Ming also wants to be the world's shipping king!

"Actually, I also want to be the world's shipping king."

Yang Ming looked at Mai Lisi and others and smiled.

Meris knew that it was not that simple for his boss to do that.

Among them, that is actually the real purpose.

Yang Ming has already begun to quietly target Wheelock & Company, the third largest foreign trade company in Hong Kong.

Yang Ming and the Imperial Group successively swallowed up Hutchison Whampoa, the second largest foreign company in Hong Kong, and Jardine Matheson Land, the largest foreign company in Hong Kong. This has aroused the vigilance of Wheelock & Company and Swire & Company.

Wheelock & Company now has two major shareholders jointly controlling Wheelock & Company.

The second largest shareholder is John Horseman. The Horseman family owns 2103.5 million Wheelock A shares, accounting for about 6.7%, and owns 5354.9 million Wheelock B shares, accounting for about 22.7%.

However, the largest shareholder of Wheelock & Company is the Zhang Yuliang family.

The Zhang Yuliang family owns more Wheelock shares than the John Horseman family.

Among them, Wheelock A shares accounted for 1385.5 million shares, accounting for 4.4%, and Wheelock B shares accounted for 1.15 million shares, accounting for 48.9%.

In the mid-1970s, Jardine Matheson and Company, and even Hutchison Whampoa, which was controlled by Huifeng Bank, once wanted to acquire Wheelock & Company.

Due to various relationships, Jardine Matheson Land and Hutchison Whampoa failed to acquire Wheelock & Company.

Now Wheelock & Company is divided into A shares and B shares. It is precisely because of that that it is more difficult for other companies to acquire Wheelock & Company. They need to control both A shares and B shares.

In addition, the combined shares of the Zhang Yuliang family, Wheelock's largest shareholder, and John Horseman, the second largest shareholder, completely control Wheelock and Company. Even if other people covet Wheelock, they have no way to start.

in history?

Why did Bao Yugang successfully swallow Wheelock.

This is also because in the 1980s, when the global shipping industry was in decline, John Horseman, as Wheelock's chief executive, ignored the opposition of the Zhang Yuliang family and continued to invest in the shipping industry on a large scale, causing Wheelock to suffer serious losses. , need to borrow money from the outside world to solve the debt problem.

This also led to irreconcilable conflicts between the Zhang Yuliang family and the Ma Shi family.

In 1985, a consortium of wealthy businessmen headed by Nanyang tycoon Qiu Teck Piao set their sights on Wheelock & Company and acquired Wheelock & Company at a high price.

At this time, Bao Yugang, who had just swallowed Wharf, had naturally been secretly eyeing Wheelock & Company.

Bao Yugang has never rashly proposed to acquire Wheelock & Company because of his relationship with the John Horseman family and he cannot rashly come forward.

However, Pao Yugang could not just watch Wheelock and Company fall into the hands of Nanyang Consortium Qiu Teck Pho and others.

After Bao Yugang personally and secretly contacted the Zhang family.

Because of the irreconcilable conflict between the Zhang Yuliang family and the John Horseman family, they also wanted to withdraw from Wheelock and Company, so they gave up their shares in Wheelock and sold them all to Bao Yugang.

After Bao Yugang obtained the Zhang Yuliang family's shares in Wheelock & Company, he was already the largest shareholder, but it was not enough to control Wheelock & Company.

Moreover, at that time, the Qiu Tak Pho consortium, which had acquired 25% of Wheelock & Company, had no intention of giving up Wheelock & Company.

In addition, John Mazhi did not want to give up easily.

When the Pao Yugang family purchased Wheelock & Company's shares in the market at a high price, it was the same as the acquisition of Wharf Matheson at a high price in history.

In the end, the Bao Yugang family successfully purchased Wheelock & Company shares to 49%.

The Qiu Tak Pho consortium, which owned 25% of the shares, gave up Wheelock & Company and sold its shares to Wharf. The Pao family completely controlled Wheelock.

The Ma Shi family saw that Bao Yugang had completely controlled the company and left Wheelock.

Now Wheelock & Company is divided into A shares and B shares. In addition, after the Empire Group successively swallowed up Hutchison Whampoa and Jardine Matheson Land, it began to make the Ma Shi family and the Zhang Yuliang family nervous.

During this period, in addition to controlling more A shares and B shares of Wheelock & Company, these two major shareholders basically controlled Wheelock & Company completely with their combined shares.

If John Horseman or the Chang Yuliang family had not abandoned Wheelock & Company, it would have been impossible for any other third party to swallow up Wheelock & Company.

Yang Ming knew that with John Horseman's character, he would continue to increase investment in the shipping industry as he had in history, which would eventually lead to Wheelock losing a lot of money and lead to irreconcilable conflicts with the Zhang Yuliang family.

At that time, the Zhang Yuliang family will still give up its shares in Wheelock & Company and withdraw from Wheelock & Company. Then that time will be the best opportunity for the Imperial Group to swallow up the third largest foreign company in Hong Kong.

In addition, Yang Ming is now also targeting Bao Yugang's global shipping.

At the beginning of the year, Bao Yugang had already proposed the plan of abandoning the ship and landing. The purpose was to sell part of the ship, transfer funds to land, and invest in other industries on land.

Historically, this is how Bao Yugang swallowed up foreign companies such as Wharf.

Now that Yang Ming is involved in the shipping industry, the Bao Yugang family must be very suspicious. Should they continue the plan to abandon the ship and land?

After all, the shipping industry is the root of the Bao Yugang family. If it is surpassed by the Imperial Group, it will still be a big blow to the Bao Yugang family.

In that case, the Bao Yugang family had to take precautions and even continue to increase investment in the shipping industry.

This is for Yang Ming.

It's not just as simple as killing three birds with one stone.

In addition to forming the largest shipping group, Yang Ming wants to become the world's shipping king.

We also need to target John Stool of Wheelock & Company and the Zhang Yuliang family, and swallow up Wheelock & Company at the right time.

We also want the Bao Yugang family to be suspicious of this and not dare to carry out the plan to abandon the boat and land again.

In other words, in addition to building a real world shipping king, Yang Ming also needs to prepare for swallowing up Wheelock & Company, the third largest foreign trade company in Hong Kong.

Except for himself, no one like Meris knows this now.

Because of Yang Ming's relationship, he successively swallowed Wharf, Hutchison Whampoa, and Jardine Land, which really scared other British-owned foreign companies.

Not only is Wheelock difficult to acquire, Swire & Company is also very difficult to acquire.

Unless the purchase price offered by Yang Ming was enough to seduce the Chang Yuliang family of Wheelock, historically, had it not been for the irreconcilable conflict between John Horseman and the Chang family, it would have been basically impossible for the Chang Yuliang family to withdraw from Wheelock.

If the Zhang Yuliang family did not withdraw and continued to cooperate with John Ma Shi, outsiders, including Qiu Debo and Bao Yugang, would not be able to swallow up Wheelock.

As for Swire & Co., Ltd., which is controlled by the Schweizer family, through various cross-holdings, it is more complicated than the cross-holding of Jardine Matheson Land in history.

In fact, Swire's Swire family has already owned more than 49% of Swire & Co.'s shares. It is basically impossible for other Chinese capital to swallow up Swire & Co.'s shares.

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