After hanging up the phone with Shen Qian, Li Dong didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
These women were all cunning and impossible to guard against.
But at this point, there was no need to hide it. In fact, did Shen Qian not know about Yuan Xue?
Although Li Dong didn't ask, he could guess that Shen Qian most likely knew.
On the day of the East Star Charity Night, several people met at the venue. With Shen Qian's shrewdness, she might have already seen through something.
…
On August 2nd, Li Dong rushed to Beijing.
On the same day, there was also a meeting in Shanghai.
Bailian Group's CEO Lu Yongming, Huarun Venture Group's CEO Cheng Shulin, and Guangming Group's CEO Wang Zhongnan began their meeting.
At the beginning of the meeting, the three parties set the tone to work together to resist the invasion of Far away!
Wang Zhongnan was the first to speak, "Ever since Far away was established, it has been extremely aggressive.
Especially after acquiring Carrefour, Far away's ambition, or should I say, Li Dong's ambition, has reached its peak!
From the start of the problem of milk powder, Li Dong had revealed his fangs. He was not targeting one or two companies, but the entire retail industry!
The market doesn't need a spoiler. Su Guo was defeated, Carrefour was defeated, and the next step is Huarun Venture and Bailian!
At this point, if we continue to wait, we will be sitting ducks.
All three of us are state-owned enterprises and have a natural basis for cooperation.
Far away's market space for Guangming's Agri-Industrial Supermarket has been repeatedly compressed.
Chen Lang's or Li Dong's goal, we can all see it.
First, he will clear out the small and medium-sized supermarkets and continue to expand in Shanghai. After defeating Agri-Industrial Supermarket, his next target is 100% Huarun Venture and Bailian.
If we continue to remain indifferent, we will only end up being divided and eaten by Li Dong. "
Although there were not many department stores under Guangming, Agri-Industrial Supermarket was also a well-known department store and still had a large market share in Shanghai.
At this moment, Far away's first target was Agri-Industrial Supermarket.
Earlier on, Guang Ming had been affected by the melamine. Even now, Guang Ming's strength was weakened and could not resist at all.
It was true that Wang Zhongnan and Li Dong were members of the Hua Xia Alumni Association. It was also true that they chatted in the group chat.
However, when it came to benefits, when it was time to be ruthless, no one would show mercy.
Wang Zhongnan did not believe that it was Chen Lang's idea to target the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. It must be Li Dong's tacit approval, or it might even be Li Dong's instructions.
Li Dong was too ambitious. It was not enough for him to become the leader of the department store industry. He also wanted to control the downstream industry chain.
Wang Zhongnan even suspected that Li Dong wanted to enter the Radiant Sect, which was not impossible.
When they first met at the Hua Xia Alumni Association, Li Dong half-jokingly asked him how much it would cost to buy Guangming.
At that time, Wang Zhongnan thought that he was joking, but now Wang Zhongnan was skeptical. Who could tell if this guy had any intentions or not?
The first thing Wang Zhongnan said was a threat. It might sound like an alarmist, but in fact, no one felt that he was wrong.
In 2006 or 2007, if someone said that Li Dong's target was the entire retail industry, everyone would scoff and treat it as a joke.
Li Dong had once bragged in front of the media, pointed his sword at Huadong, and provoked Bailian and Huarun Resources.
However, at that time, who really took Li Dong's words seriously?
Everyone treated it as a joke and did not even care about him.
At that time, Huarun Resources and Bailian were still discussing with Li Dong about the acquisition of Faraway Supermarket. They gave Li Dong a certain amount of shares and let him retire at home.
But now, how long has it been?
Faraway Supermarket was heading for the top position in the country. It was simply like a legend.
If it was just the top position, Bailian and the other companies would not gather. Everyone had their own pride and were not afraid of Li Dong.
However, Li Dong's number one position was not developed step by step.
He first killed Su Guo, then he killed Carrefour. These two companies could enter the top ten among the chain department stores in China.
Li Dong had stepped on the bodies of two of the top ten companies to get to where he is now.
If this goes on, the other people in the top ten will not have a good ending.
Just when Wang Zhongnan finished speaking, Huachuang's CEO Cheng Shulin added: "What Manager Wang said is right, but Agriculture, Industry and Commerce is still too weak. It is unable to resist the attack from Faraway.
What I mean is, Guangming should focus on production.
There are specializations in the industry. Guangming is doing physical retail stores. Everyone has seen the situation these years.
Agriculture, Industry and Commerce used to occupy the largest market share in the middle and lower reaches of Shanghai market.
But in the past few years, other people are expanding, but Agriculture, Industry and Commerce is still in the same place.
Now, to resist the attack from Faraway or even defeat Faraway, it is too difficult and unrealistic to rely on only one company.
But with three companies working together, the resources are also scattered, and it is difficult to command them.
Currently, China Resources is the strongest in East China, we should concentrate our resources … "
Before Cheng Shulin finished, Bailian's CEO Lu Yongming interrupted with a smile: "Manager Cheng, you can't say that. In East China, to say that China Resources is the strongest is debatable. Bailian is now unifying the brands. As long as Hualian and Lianhua are unified, Bailian will not be afraid of Faraway in East China! "
Lu Yongming said: "Of course, Faraway has integrated Carrefour's resources, and its strength in Shanghai market has increased greatly.
Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, Industry and Commerce will soon follow Su Guo's footsteps if they continue to resist alone.
Manager Wang, I think we must first confirm one thing in this cooperation, and that is, Agriculture, Industry and Commerce must be integrated into our two companies.
Of course, we will not ask for it for free.
Guangming will be our most loyal partner in the future. China Resources and Bailian's channels are ten times better than Faraway!
With us two companies taking the blame for Guangming, Agriculture, Industry and Commerce is dispensable. "
Wang Zhongnan glanced at the two of them. He did not expect these two to talk about Agriculture, Industry and Commerce the moment the meeting started.
Is Agriculture, Industry and Commerce as weak as they say?
From their words, it was as if Agriculture, Industry and Commerce is a small supermarket.
But in fact, Agriculture, Industry and Commerce is not small!
In terms of the number of stores, China Resources is inferior to them. They have more than 2,000 stores. Of course, most of them are convenience stores.
Under the Agribusiness Group, there were several well-known convenience store brands, such as Ke's Convenience Store, Hao 'de Convenience Store, and Wu Yuan Discount Store.
Furthermore, Agriculture, Industry and Commerce had not fallen out of the top 10 department store chains for many years.
Although the development speed is not fast, their revenue had exceeded 20 billion RMB in 2007, and it is not weaker than Wal-Mart. This year, it will surely exceed 20 billion RMB.
A supermarket with 20 billion RMB is almost a pawn in these two people's mouth.
Wang Zhongnan frowned: "Both of you, I came with sincerity for this meeting. The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission also hopes that we can reach an agreement and develop together. Developing together does not mean that Agriculture, Industry and Commerce will leave the light. If this is the case, what's the difference from being annexed by Li Dong? "
Lv Yongming shook his head: "The difference is huge. I think among us, CEO Wang should understand Li Dong better. You have also said that he is too ambitious. Most importantly, he likes to monopolize everything! If Agriculture, Industry and Commerce is annexed by Far away, there will be no return. This is inevitable. We are different. We are not saying that we must annex Agriculture, Industry and Commerce. As long as we can work together, we don't care about controlling shares. "
Cheng Shulin also nodded: "That's true. CEO Wang, Far away is not going all out now because they are consolidating Carrefour's resources.
Far away is also shrinking the market of small and medium-sized supermarkets and is preparing to annex them.
If this goes on, Agriculture, Industry and Commerce will collapse sooner or later.
Although they do not want to admit it, with Chen Lang around, the possibility of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce holding on is very low.
In the past few years at Huarun Vanguard, Huarun Vanguard went from being unknown to becoming the second largest department store chain in the country. Most of it was Chen Lang's strategy.
Now that Chen Lang has his eyes on Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, with the support of Li Dong, it may not be long before Agriculture, Industry and Commerce's doomsday. "
Lv Yongming continued: "This is inevitable. For now, only by consolidating resources and unifying can we completely resist Far away's attack.
We can even counterattack!
Agriculture, Industry and Commerce's main business is in Shanghai, and so is Bailian.
Bailian is now consolidating its resources and incorporating Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, and its strength will definitely skyrocket.
After Bailian digests these resources, our market share in Shanghai and East China will exceed Far away.
SASAC has this intention for a long time now.
Bailian was established to build the largest circulation group in the country.
Mr. Wang should know this better than me. You should have feelings for the Bailian Group.
As the first CEO of Bailian, Bailian was established to achieve and consolidate its leading position in the industry.
Now that Bailian's leading position is about to be lost, we are anxious, SASAC is also anxious, isn't CEO Wang anxious? "
Lv Yongming played the emotional card. Before Wang Zhongnan was transferred to Guangming, he was the CEO of Bailian.
Which was Lv Yongming's current position. In fact, the two were colleagues working together.
As for Bailian's integration of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, SASAC did have this intention.
However, if he could not convince Wang Zhongnan, it would be very troublesome. If Wang Zhongnan set up obstacles, it would not be so easy to complete the integration of resources.
Just like in Hubei province, Zhongbai, Wushang, and China Shang, SASAC had always hoped to complete the integration and expand the influence of the province's retail group.
However, it had been a few years, and there was no effect at all.
It was not that SASAC did not work hard, but someone was causing trouble.
Especially the CEO of Zhongbai, Wang Aiqun, colluded with Li Dong and led the wolf into the house, causing the hegemony of Wushang Group in Hubei province to be in jeopardy.
It was the same in Shanghai. Don't look at how the mayor of Shanghai personally tried to recruit Li Dong.
Far away was a private enterprise after all, Bailian, Guangming, and a few others were state-owned.
Of course, SASAC did not want Far away to overshadow Bailian and Guangming and become the industry leader in Shanghai.
As for China Resources, although it was not a company in Shanghai, it was still a state-owned enterprise. At this moment, it was better to pull it over to defend against Far away's attack.
Wang Zhongnan naturally knew what SASAC and Bailian were thinking.
However, everyone had their own selfish motives. The integration of resources in state-owned enterprises was different from that of private enterprises.
If Agriculture, Industry and Commerce was separated from Guangming, then the value of Guangming would be greatly reduced.
Listening to Bailian's tone, did they talk about money from the beginning to the end?
Because they were not prepared to pay at all. They would directly pull Agriculture, Industry and Commerce from Guangming. At most, both sides would have a strategic cooperation.
Agriculture, Industry and Commerce's annual sales reached more than 20 billion, even in the entire system of Guangming Group, it occupied an extraordinary position.
The entire Guangming Group's annual revenue was less than 50 billion, and supermarkets accounted for half.
If this was taken away, then his position as the chairman would also fall to the bottom.
At this moment, Wang Zhongnan suddenly understood why these two companies did not send the chairman.
These people had probably already made up their minds to swallow him this time.
The reason why the chairman did not come was because they were afraid that the negotiations would collapse and it would be difficult to continue.
Now that the deputy came, even if the negotiations collapsed, they could still continue later.
Looking at the SASAC director sitting next to him who did not say anything, Wang Zhongnan frowned. He was careless. He originally came to ask for help, but he did not expect it to become a forced abdication.
Internal conflict, no matter what, was inevitable.
Wang Zhongnan cursed in his heart, but on the surface, he smiled and said, "Yongming, I naturally have feelings for Bailian. But now, Guangming's business has been affected by the financial crisis, and it depends on the retail business. Previously, the dairy company's performance was not bad, but this time, it was hit hard by Li Dong. If Agriculture, Industry and Commerce is integrated, then what about Guangming? There are hundreds of thousands of employees in Guangming, I can't let these employees have nowhere to go because of selfishness … "
"CEO Wang, don't misunderstand …"
"…"
The few of them were arguing. Although they wanted to unite, they also wanted a bigger share, so it was obvious that they could not come to an agreement in a short period of time.
This was normal, this was the trouble of state-owned enterprises.
Although the group's money was not their own, in fact, they valued this more than the people at the helm of private enterprises.
For private enterprises, when it came to acquisition, sometimes it could be decided with just a few words.
Li Dong was not the only one who was like this. In fact, large private companies were very efficient.
Today's negotiations, tomorrow's results, this was not the first time this happened.
But for state-owned enterprises, this kind of situation almost never happened.
Don't think that a few companies started to negotiate now, there might not be a result even after a few years.
Of course, this was under the circumstances that external threats were not too serious.
If Far away forced them again, it would be hard to say.
…
Beijing.
Li Dong had just arrived at the entrance of the branch when his phone rang.
Li Dong pressed his hand to Qi Yunna and picked up the phone.
After Chen Lang said a few words on the other side of the phone, Li Dong deliberated for a moment and said, "I know about the matter, but don't worry too much. You know their character, there won't be any results in two to three months. But at this stage, don't force the Agriculture, Industry and Commerce too much. Otherwise, Wang Zhongnan might compromise with the idea that both sides would suffer. "Put the Agriculture, Industry and Commerce aside. Right now, Shancheng is at war with Yonghui. After we take down Yonghui and integrate Carrefour into the system, it won't be too late to fight then."
"I understand."
"Okay, also, start to finish up in Shanghai as soon as possible. If you keep staying there, they will feel a sense of crisis."
Chen Lang laughed, but this was also the truth.
If either Li Dong or Chen Lang stayed in Shanghai and did not leave, these companies could feel a strong sense of malice.
As time passed, they might really be able to complete the alliance.
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