The Industrial Giant Reborn

Acquisition and recording are not difficult, the difficulty lies in how such a large group should take over.

It is impossible to take over directly by yourself, even Li Jiacheng in the original history, there is no way to take over directly, you must know that Cheung Kong Industrial has been in the real estate market for 20 years, and the team of Cheung Kong Industrial is also full of talents, but for Hutchison's different business, there is still no way.

Therefore, it was necessary to find a professional to operate. Chen Zhiwen chose this person for a long time. First of all, he could only choose from the famous people who had left their names in history. Being able to leave a name shows that they have considerable ability.

Ma Shiming, the leader of Hutchison Whampoa in later generations, is naturally the most famous, but after Chen Zhiwen sent someone to investigate, he found that this person is currently only the middle management of Jardine Matheson. There are still nearly ten years left. Without these ten years of experience, it is impossible for Ma Shiming to be able to manage such a large group as Hutchison.

The second candidate is Wei Li, who was invited by Shen Bi of HSBC Bank in the original history. This person was born in Australia in 1932. He came to Hong Kong in 1964 and took charge of the Xiapa Motor Company. Three years later, he successfully developed the company into The largest car sales group. In 1973, he was invited to take over the soon-to-be-bankrupt Xinchang Enterprise, and turned it around during the economic crisis for more than a year. Since then, Wei Li has won the title of "Company Doctor" in the business world. In the original history, Wei Li was invited by Shen Bi to take over the entire Hutchison Group. After three years, Wei Li turned Hutchison into profit.

It’s just that in the case of a large-scale increase in land prices, Hutchison’s turnaround may not be considered a big achievement. Maybe Wei Li is very capable, but the problem is that this person is too arrogant. When he took over Xiapa Motor Company and Xinchang Enterprise , There have been many conflicts with shareholders, but because of his management ability, shareholders have calmed down.

In the original history, after Wei Li successfully rescued Hutchison, he became dissatisfied with HSBC's control over Hutchison. He used various methods to dilute HSBC's Hutchison stocks, and had many conflicts with Shen Bi, and even made Shen Bi in front of the media. Difficult.

Only then did Shen Bi transfer Hutchison Whampoa (the merger carried out during Wei Li's time) to Li Jiacheng at a low price. In addition to wanting to attract Li Jiacheng, another reason was that Wei Li was too arrogant and ignorant of flattery. After the ability, let Li Jiacheng take care of him.

This kind of bad temper can be tolerated by ordinary people because of his ability to make money, but Shen Bi can't bear it. Naturally, Chen Zhiwen doesn't need to suffer this kind of anger. After finding out Wei Li's history, he naturally passed.

In the end, Chen Zhiwen locked on Richard. In the original history, Li Jiacheng drove away Wei Li in 1981. Richard took office and became the top class of Hutchison Huang. He did things quite well, but he also had his own problems. Richard De also hoped that Hutchison would operate independently, and that Li Jiacheng could be a shareholder with peace of mind. Finally, in 1983, when Li Jiacheng's team became familiar with Hutchison's operating model, they also drove him away.

The current Hutchison must find a capable person to manage it. Relatively speaking, the best choice is Richard. At least even if he is not willing to let the Chinese manage Hutchison, he is still very disciplined. , did not do everything possible to dilute the equity of major shareholders like Wei Li did, and also gave Li Jiacheng a lot of face in public.

Moreover, the Richard in history is the Richard 6 years later. He may have been seriously influenced by Wei Li, and it may not be the same now. At the same time, he is now one of the top executives of Hutchison. His understanding and the trust of Hutchison staff are both the best choices.

"I'm going to be a big class?" Richard was startled. Although he had a little bit of this hope before, but when Chen Zhiwen really said it, his heart was a little turbulent.

"Qi Dezun has a certain ability, but his virtue is not worthy. All the problems in Heji are caused by him. After I take over Heji, the first thing I do is to abolish his position. I plan to resign from this position. Hutchison chooses suitable talents internally. I think Mr. Richard is very suitable. I know that your idea has always been to slim down Hutchison. This is similar to my idea. The current problem of Hutchison is too bloated and messy business There are a lot of them, but there is not much profit." Chen Zhiwen said lightly.

"How about Hutchison's employees, how will Mr. Chen deal with them? Do you need to lay off staff?" Richard asked, he was more concerned about this.

"Of course, there are too many high-level Hutchison staff. Those who should leave must leave. Below the middle level, I will not directly lay off staff, but because a large number of businesses need to be sold, these people will also leave with the business department or the company. In the future Fate, I can't control it." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

"Then what are my duties and powers in the future Hutchison operations?" Richard asked.

Chen Zhiwen took a sip of coffee and said, "I will decide on major business and investment plans. Of course, we can also discuss them. As long as you have reasons to convince me and prove that my ideas are wrong, then I can also follow your decision." The specific implementation is up to you, but your operation process will take a while to report. At the same time, in terms of finance, we can also give you an absolute number based on the size of the company and your future performance. This number is tens of thousands. I need to sign for expenses above Hong Kong dollars, and you can decide for those below this figure, but I need to keep track of the company’s situation in order to sort out these expenses to my assistant every month.

This number can also be changed in the future. If the scale of Hutchison becomes larger in the future, the number can also be increased. The premise of everything is that you can get Hutchison out of the debt crisis.

In addition, I need to arrange people to go in both personnel and finance, but as long as there are no major problems, they will only observe and will not interfere with your behavior.

To put it simply, this is it, you should be clear, my request is not too much, right? "

"Such a request is indeed not too much." Richard nodded and said.

A normal company actually follows this process. Even if it is a listed company, the management needs to report to the board of directors composed of several shareholders every once in a while. In a company like Heji, the management is the one who covers the sky with one hand and is used to having no constraints. .

"Any questions?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

Richard thought for a while and asked: "Mr. Chen, because the Chinese capital has acquired Hutchison, the British staff in Hutchison are relatively nervous. If you are willing to make a promise to let them work with peace of mind, I think, It will be better for our work."

"Then there should be more Chinese in Hutchison, right? Should I also make a promise to them?" Chen Zhiwen said lightly: "I don't care whether the people under me are British or Chinese, as long as they work hard, as for the British I don’t deny the staff’s concerns, but I can tell you that my plan for Hutchison’s future is not only to make money in Hong Kong, a tiny city, but the huge overseas market in the future is my goal, including Europe and the United States. In many countries and regions in China, I naturally need white people to do things, so as long as I have the ability, I will not specifically target them. '

Hutchison's current main assets are still a large amount of land, properties, and a large number of company stocks in Hong Kong. There is very little overseas business. The port in Indonesia has also caused serious losses. In the future, Hutchison will definitely expand in Hong Kong, at least copying the old Li’s path is not difficult, but overseas is the same. Apart from the port, Hutchison has many other directions in his plan. These places are all the territory of the Westerners. It is relatively better to send the British to do things than the Chinese. Not a lot.

Therefore, even though the labor cost of the British in Hutchison far exceeds that of the Chinese, Chen Zhiwen is not prepared to make a heavy hand. Of course, if it is sold along with any business, that is another matter.