Rebirth

In fact, John Rupert, who has just returned from South Africa to the nest of Europe, is furious at his Swiss Richemont headquarters and office of the chairman.

"Shit! You TM are all shit, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Lange..., these brands are about to be acquired by others, I just saw from the media, do you all eat shit?"

Looking at a group of Richemont executives in the office, John Rupert was out of anger. He had just left Europe for a few days, but he didn’t expect that several watch brands he likes were all sold by the other side Shahua Group. Concerned about it.

The Shahua Group on the other side of the century cannot be underestimated. Everyone knows that there is a big gold master like Li Feng standing behind it, and watch brands such as Jaeger-LeCoultre and Lange are all related to the development strategy of the Richemont Group. If you want to compete with the Shahua Group, it will be more difficult to win these brands. No wonder Rupert is so angry.

In fact, this is also the reason why John Rupert immediately hung up the phone to Li Feng when he returned to Europe. Rupert was fortunate about this matter. Fortunately, he bought some shares of Standard Bank before, and he currently has some in his own hands. The hole card is naturally the shares of Standard Bank.

Rupert’s original idea was to forgive Li Feng for a few days before contacting and bringing the representative of Standard Bank, CEO, etc. to the door, so that he could hold the initiative of negotiation in his hands, but now he has to It was ahead of schedule and completely disrupted my plan.

"Boss, what should we do next?"

"Shit...! What else can you do? Haven't you all seen it? I just talked to someone on the phone, and now I can only negotiate with them to see if I can let them abandon the acquisition plan, lest we directly compete with him. "

All the executives of Richemont Group shrank their necks when they saw the current situation. There is no way. The next thing is not for this group of executives to participate in the work. Just wait for news from their bosses. .

...

Li Feng returned to London in the afternoon of the same day. There was no way. It was not far from Sweden to England. In addition, Li Feng's private plane was always ready, and he returned to London soon.

Similarly, after hanging up the phone with Li Feng, John Rupert also began to make arrangements. Then on the same day, he followed Li Feng and rushed to London in his own private plane, but it was relatively late. Li Feng has not been contacted yet.

Back in London, I slept comfortably with the three beauties in my arms. The refreshed Li Feng was taking the three women to exercise in the gym early the next morning, but the housekeeper William was holding Li Feng’s personal mobile phone. come over.

"Sir, there is your call. It is Mr. John Rupert. He said that he had an appointment with Yun."

"Oh... let's take it, you called so early, so anxious?" Li Feng paused for a while, stopped the movement in his hand, and said to himself in a slightly surprised tone.

He answered the phone while wiping his sweat with a towel, and started talking directly into the microphone: "Rupert, hello, why did you call so early? Did you bring me any good news? "

"John, maybe it's good news. The CEO of Standard Bank is with me now. He is here on behalf of the Standard Bank board of directors and shareholders to get in touch first. How about? Are you interested in talking?"

A familiar and hearty voice came from the other end of the phone. It was the voice of John Rupert, who had been in a relationship before.

"Wow... Rupert, this should be good news for me, OK, I think I will be very interested in chatting with Mr. CEO to express my wishes. I also look forward to Mr. CEO and you. Bert’s arrival."

"Haha..., OK, John, then we'll see you in the afternoon, I will bring someone directly to your house then, how about?"

"Of course, that couldn't be better, I'm waiting for a big drive at home!"

"Bye...!"

...

After talking on the phone with John Rupert, Li Feng also ended his gym exercises. After washing up, he ate breakfast. Then he took a copy of the standard bank information and read it. After all, he had to face the old fox in the afternoon. Point is always ready.

For Standard Bank, Li Feng naturally has some understanding. After all, he wants to acquire the other party, and the necessary information is inevitable. Standard Bank and Standard Chartered were merged to form Standard Chartered Bank.

Unfortunately, in 1987, due to political factors in South Africa, Standard Chartered withdrew from South Africa, sold its shares in Standard Bank, and lost its controlling stake.

The holding company of Standard Bank is the Standard Bank Group of South Africa, which is a comprehensive banking group integrating banking, financial securities and insurance. This group is the target of Li Feng's acquisition.

The current market value of the entire Standard Bank Group is around US$4 billion, and Li Feng asked him to offer a price of 4 billion. Of course, the price must be raised a little bit for the purchase. It is quite normal to buy at a premium.

Similarly, the shares of Standard Bank Group are also very dispersed. At the beginning, Standard Chartered acquired 39% of Standard Bank’s shares to achieve a controlling stake. In fact, the largest shareholder of Standard Bank Group, South Africa Public Investment Corporation, now only occupies 15%. The left and right shares are only, the public investment company is an investment company with a background in South African state-owned assets.

All the remaining shares are scattered among thousands of large and small shareholders. The largest of these shareholders is only about 5%, and even many shareholders may only have one thousandth or one ten thousandth of the shares.

Today's Standard Bank is still a South African-based bank, and it rarely participates even in Africa except South Africa. The real expansion of Standard Bank in Africa will be after 1998, and it will be in the third place after the new century. The expansion of the world finally achieved the reputation of Africa's largest bank.

...

After lunch, while Li Feng was waiting for John Rupert to come, Wu Jianmin brought Zhuang Sibei and Davis, the three of them together. This is what Li Feng informed the three of. Talent is the three giants of the new Standard Chartered.

One is the chairman of the group, one is the director of the vice chairman, and the other is the chief executive and director. Now the three are busy with the privatization of Standard Chartered, which has basically been completed. Then they are integrating resources from all parties to establish Century Standard Chartered Bank ) Holding Group, referred to as CSCB.

The basic framework has been perfected. As long as the acquisition of Standard Bank is successful, four branches of the banking group will be established.

The original Standard Chartered Bank’s Americas business and East West Bank’s Americas business will be integrated into the CSCB Americas, and will be directly listed in New York in the future;

Standard Chartered’s original Greater China region business plus East West Bank’s China region business will be integrated into the new CSCB Greater China region, which will be listed in Hong Kong in the future;

With the original Standard Chartered Bank, all businesses except for the Greater China, Americas, and Africa regions were removed, and the registration place is still in London, and the CSCB is still used as the name, and it is still listed in London;

Finally, I hope to integrate Standard Chartered Africa's business with Standard Banking into the CSCB Africa region and list it in Johannesburg.

Now the first three are slowly being integrated, and the only one is the African region. Its core Standard Bank acquisition is still in the initial contact stage, but with John Rupert’s involvement in it, coupled with Standard Bank’s internal accounting The acquisition of the city dominates the mainstream, but Li Feng is confident.

...

When Standard Bank is formally acquired successfully, when the new Standard Chartered comes out, it is guaranteed to surprise people.

Li Feng is still very much looking forward to the arrival of John Rupert and others today.