Chapter 50: Jardine Land Boss Nouvel's Response!

The Hong Kong stock market has not closed yet, and the market has been widely rumored that Chinese tycoon Li Jiacheng is going to acquire Wharf Holdings.

So much so that when Newby drove from the company and passed a newspaper, he saw the report on this.

When Newby arrived at the Peak Villa.

Newby saw Henry Keswick waiting for him.

"Newby, what's going on?" Henry Keswick asked.

"Sir Keswick, look."

When Newby handed the newspapers to Henry Keswick, Henry Keswick took a look and was almost stunned.

Now the front page is a photo of Li Jiacheng wearing a suit and looking vigorous, and there is information about Li Jiacheng, chairman of Changgang Industrial Group.

Needless to say, now the market has been rumored that Li Jiacheng intends to acquire Wharf Holdings.

"Now the share price of Wharf Holdings has soared to 45 yuan per share. As the major shareholder of Wharf Holdings, our Jardine Land only has 10% of the shares. I am afraid that Li Jiacheng is now the largest shareholder of Wharf Holdings. However, he has not officially announced it to the media." New Bijian said on the side.

For Henry Keswick and New Bijian, Wharf Holdings is too important to Jardine Land, and naturally cannot lose its controlling rights.

Before this, Jardine Land only had 10% of Wharf Holdings shares, and was already the largest shareholder. The rest of the shares were mainly retail investors and small investors. If they were targeted by other wealthy people, they would really be eaten up if they were not careful.

"How much money can Jardine Land use? Tomorrow we will also compete with Li Jiacheng for Wharf Holdings shares."

"I am afraid that there is not much money."

"What should we do?" Henry asked.

"You can only sell the subsidiaries of Jardine Matheson or Landlord to get some funds to buy Wharf shares."

Jardine Matheson and Landlord are both Hong Kong-based companies. Although they are big, their liquidity cannot be used indiscriminately. This will definitely affect the development of Jardine Matheson's parent company and its subsidiaries.

In order to maintain Wharf's controlling position, it can only sell some subsidiaries that are considered unimportant.

"Which companies' shares should be sold?" Henry Keswick asked again.

Subsidiaries are like the palm and back of Henry Keswick's hand, and they are all flesh. He will definitely not sell them unless he has to.

New Bijian thought for a while and said, "Sir Keswick, many of our listed subsidiaries can sell some shares."

Because the Jardine Group has Jardine Securities, it can start selling some listed shares through Jardine Securities, and then try to get more funds to buy Wharf shares.

"Your suggestion is good, that's it."

Henry Keswick knew that this was the only way. Now he had to keep Wharf, so he had to get more funds to buy Wharf shares.

In the absence of more liquidity, he was forced to sell part of the shares of the listed subsidiary.

In addition.

Henry Keswick thought of a way.

That is to let Huifeng Bank boss Shen Yi act as an intermediary to match Li Jiacheng to give up the acquisition of Wharf Holdings.

However, no matter what, Henry Keswick knew that he must acquire as many Wharf Holdings shares as possible to have greater confidence.

. . .

Deep Water Bay Mid-Levels Villa.

Li's family.

Li Jiacheng just came back by car.

After Zhuang Yueming came to take Li Jiacheng's briefcase and suit, the landline phone in the living room rang.

Zhuang Yueming went over to pick up the phone.

"Sir, it's Qianli calling."

"Old Zhou, what's the matter?"

"Mr. Li, something big has happened. Now the outside market is saying that you are interested in acquiring Wharf Holdings."

Zhou Qianli just found out.

Now, because the share price of Wharf Holdings soared, the market was rumored that it was Li Jiacheng, chairman of Changkang Industrial Group, who was interested in acquiring Wharf Holdings.

Zhou Qianqi knew this best.

At the beginning, Li Jiacheng might have had such an idea.

However, in the afternoon, the acquisition of Wharf Holdings shares had been stopped, and the Li family did not have so much funds to use.

"Who spread it?"

Li Jiacheng had such an idea, but he knew it was impossible to do it.

"I don't know, now the newspapers outside have spread it."

If it was just a few newspapers, he could just call someone to complain.

Now many newspapers in Hong Kong have spread it like that.

Li Jiacheng could only smile bitterly.

"There's nothing we can do about it."

Li Jiacheng hung up the phone.

Zhuang Yueming asked, "Sir, how is it?"

"Qianqiu said that it is said that I want to acquire Wharf Holdings. Qianqiu has only bought about 5% of Wharf Holdings' shares. Wharf Holdings' share price is already very high. Our Li family has limited funds and has stopped buying in the afternoon."

"Sir, who do you think is acquiring Wharf Holdings?" Zhuang Yueming is very smart.

Obviously, she guessed that someone in the market was eyeing Wharf Holdings, but it was not her husband. Her husband does not have much money now.

"It should be Mr. Bao."

The only person Li Jiacheng could think of was Bao Yugang.

In his opinion, the only wealthy Chinese in Hong Kong who has that ability now is the other party.

Zhuang Yueming thought for a while and said, "It could be Mr. Bao, or it could be someone else."

"Forget it, Wharf Holdings is taking advantage of the situation now. I will let Qianqiu sell all the stocks in the stock market tomorrow, and I can make a profit of more than 100 million."

Zhuang Yueming felt it was a pity.

She also knew that the strength of the Li family and Changgang Industrial Group was just like that now.

Although it just swallowed up the American-owned Yonggao Company last year, so what?

. . .

Deep Water Bay.

Bao Family Mid-Levels Villa.

Bao Yugang had just returned from Prince's Building, the headquarters of Global Group.

When he just came back, his second son-in-law Wu Guangzhen came over and said, "Father, it is now rumored that Li Jiacheng intends to acquire Wharf Holdings."

Li Jiacheng wants to acquire Wharf Holdings?

Bao Yugang was also a little surprised.

Now Bao Yugang has already felt that the global shipping industry has begun to decline.

Then, as the global shipping king, Bao Yugang must avoid risks.

After all, the risk at sea is too great, so it can only be transferred to land.

At this time, Bao Yugang has not really decided to abandon the boat and land, but he already has ideas in this regard.

If he sells the big ships in his hands and gets funds, he must invest in land.

Bao Yugang has those large funds, so what industry should he invest in.

Now, when he heard Wu Guangzhen mention Wharf Holdings, he thought that acquiring Wharf Holdings was not wrong, but he never thought that Li Jiacheng would take the lead.

"I know Li Jiacheng, he is afraid he does not have that strength." Bao Yugang said.

Speaking of which, Bao Yugang is much stronger than Li Jiacheng now. He is also a shareholder of Huifeng Bank and is more familiar with Shen Yi than Li Jiacheng.

"Father, if it's not Li Jiacheng, then who is it? Now the share price of Kowloon Wharf has soared several times."

"I can't guess it either. Let's wait and see. However, we must not let Li Jiacheng eat up Kowloon Wharf."

"Father, what do you mean?"

"If we abandon the boat and land, Kowloon Wharf is a very good place for us to stay."

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