Far away launched acquisition offers for major retail groups, both inside and outside the industry, including foreign retail giants, were paying attention.
Previously, Li Dong gave up the department store business in the Capital City market, and many people thought that he would make a move soon.
However, since he gave up after the annual meeting, and it was almost July, Far away had not made any big moves.
However, on the last day of June, Far away suddenly recovered, and many people couldn't help but be a little worried.
This year, Far away might aim for the throne of the world's top ten retail. According to the analysis of the outside world, even if Far away really suffered a loss, in order to achieve the strategic goal of the top ten, it was very likely that they would carry out a large-scale acquisition plan.
The key was, who was the target of the acquisition?
Baijia in Xiangjiang?
Wumei in Huabei?
Shang in the northeast?
Gao Xin in Huabei?
As for Wal-Mart, as the leading foreign company in Hua Xia and the world's number one retail company, the possibility of them agreeing to the acquisition plan Far away was very low.
And the different acquisition targets actually meant that Far away's strategic goals were different.
If it was Baijia, it meant that Far away would enter the Huabei market, surround Huabei from Hong Kong and Macao, and encircle and suppress other large retail groups.
And the acquisition of Shang and Wumei meant that Far away's strategic goal of retail would move north. It might be as Qi Yunna said, Far Away had plans to enter the European market from the north.
Different acquisition targets meant that Far Away's next step was different.
As for the acquisition at the same time, no one thought about it at this time. On one hand, Far Away did not have that much capital, and on the other hand, outsiders also felt that Li Dong did not have such a big appetite.
Acquiring a company was not something that could be easily done with just money. The integration of resources, the layout of the stores, the change of personnel, and the connection of the backend were all big projects. The difficulty of taking over so many companies at once was not ordinary.
And recently, Far Away had been in turmoil. If a large number of foreign systems were introduced, was Li Dong not afraid that Far Away would become more and more unstable?
While thinking about this, everyone was also paying close attention to which companies would agree to the acquisition talks Far Away?
In the past few years, the competition in Hua Xia's retail industry had been fierce.
In fact, compared to other industries, retail and e-commerce were the most competitive in the past few years. At this time, there might really be large giants who would agree to withdraw.
From the blossoming of a hundred flowers a few years ago to now, Carrefour, Gome, Suguo, Yonghui, Tesco, Lotte, Best Buy, Trust-Mart, Shinichi … these companies either withdrew, were acquired, or closed down.
Now, Hua Xia Retail had formed a situation where there were many strong competitors.
Far away companies continued to display their ambitions. It was understandable that some companies chose to withdraw from the increasingly competitive Hua Xia market.
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Just as everyone was concerned about this, it was already July.
On the first day of July, the Hua Xia Enterprise Association and the Hua Xia Enterprise Association released the Hua Xia Enterprise Ranking List according to international practice.
The previous World's Top 500 list was a global list. Moreover, it was mainly the result of data compiled by authoritative media such as Fortune.
Countries would generally follow international practice and have some official organizations and authoritative non-governmental organizations jointly release their own country's enterprise ranking list.
In the past, Hua Xia released the list relatively late. Most of the time, it would be around September.
However, since two years ago, the giant entrepreneurs of Hua Xia no longer participated in the list release. The organizers of the list realized that the process might be too slow and these entrepreneurs were not willing to come.
Far Away's Li Dong even publicly said at the Enterprise Club that Hua Xia's list was more difficult to give birth than giving birth to a child. It did not matter whether they looked at it or not. If he had the time, he would be able to compile a detailed list in three days.
These words were a slap in the face. It made the Enterprise Association and the other organizations a little embarrassed.
However, Li Dong's status was extraordinary. Since he said this, the others would not participate in the list release.
Considering this, in the end, the organizations decided to shorten the process and release the Hua Xia enterprise ranking list right after the release of the World's Top 500 list. At the same time, they could also ride on the popularity.
Therefore, on the first day of July, the Hua Xia enterprise ranking list was released in advance.
When the list was released, Li Dong did not pay attention to it. He was waiting for the results in the conference room.
Previously, there was news that on the first of July, the employees of Far Away would organize a demonstration to oppose the unequal treatment of Far Away.
This kind of large-scale demonstration usually had to be reported to the government.
However, this kind of demonstration organized by employees would not be reported at all. Many enterprises did not have enough time to deal with it because of this situation. In the end, the trouble became bigger and bigger.
This kind of demonstration sometimes had good intentions. However, in the end, it often turned into violent acts.
Far Away had industries all over the country. Once they failed to deal with it, it was very likely that the participating employees would be affected by the environment and eventually turn into violent demonstrations.
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Li Dong was waiting for the results. The other executives were also holding down the fort in various parts of the country.
On the government's side, they also received the news. On this day, a large number of police forces and a large number of negotiation experts were ready to intervene at any time.
Some big shots also focused their attention. Faraway Group had hundreds of thousands of employees. Once there was a problem with the response, it was likely to cause a large-scale chain effect.
Although Far Away had made arrangements, Li Dong's response was too tough. Many people were worried that because of his toughness, it would make things worse.
Unfortunately, things happened too fast. Far Away's response was too fast. The government did not have time to participate, and it had already reached the critical point of the outbreak.
At this time, the government had no other way but to ensure that the matter did not escalate and that the demonstration did not turn into a violent demonstration.
It was possible to forcibly stop and forcibly disperse, but it was better to disperse than to block. The more you blocked, the more intense the outbreak might be.
Instead of that, it was better to see how Far Away would resolve it. In the end, when there was no way to resolve it peacefully, the government would appear and carry out the final clean-up.
Everyone understood that once it reached the point where the government wanted to clean up, Far Away would be in big trouble.
In the conference room.
Li Dong did not say a word. The team next to him had been answering the phone and keeping in touch with various places.
The executives who were still at home could only wait for the results at this time.
When Bai Su said that the Hua Xia Enterprise Ranking was out, Li Dong frowned slightly and said, "What's the use of looking at these things at this time? By the way, didn't you say you were going to Huabei in July? Why are you still here? "
Bai Su was a little helpless and said softly, "Recently, there have been a lot of things in the group. I'm worried that Zhou Lan, who is the temporary replacement, will not be able to adapt. I won't be going for the time being."
Li Dong raised his eyebrows and did not say anything.
Yuan Chengdao saw that the atmosphere was a little tense and could not help but say, "General Manager Li, why don't you take a look? The ranking is not important. The key is the retail ranking in the sub-ranking. Organizations like the Hua Xia Enterprise Association, although the efficiency is average, their statistical data is actually more accurate than ours. Especially for the statistics of state-owned enterprises, there will generally not be any errors. This time, since we are moving out on a large scale to prepare to acquire some enterprises, we still have to take a look at these data. "
The source of data for the Hua Xia Enterprise Ranking was the official statistics.
And the official sources of data were often based on the data reported by the enterprises and the data of tax payments.
If the enterprises did not evade taxes, then the data was extremely accurate.
Generally, state-owned enterprises would not deliberately conceal the data, unless the leaders had their own motives. Otherwise, it would not be beneficial for them to report more or less.
For private enterprises, large enterprises, there were reasonable methods to avoid taxes, but tax evasion was usually very rare. After all, in order to avoid taxes, doing some illegal things was easy to be caught.
This data was more accurate than the data collected by him So Far, and even more accurate than the data collected by Fortune.
The value of the ranking was still a little bit.
When Li Dong heard that, he looked at the time. It was still early, and he did not know when the demonstrations would start. In fact, it was a problem if there were even any demonstrations, so there was no need to sit and wait.
After Yuan Chengdao finished speaking, Li Dong looked at Bai Su and said, "Go and print a few copies for everyone to see."
Bai Su was already prepared. When she heard this, she quickly distributed the documents in her hands with the staff.
Li Dong was the first to get it. He picked it up and glanced at the first page.
The first page was the overall ranking. Li Dong knew that this should not have changed much from the previous World's Top 500 list. Since the World's Top 500 list was authoritative, the rankings of the enterprises in the list should not change. The real value was the rankings of those enterprises that were not in the World's Top 500 list.
The results were as expected. So far, Honghai from Taiwan was not in the list.
Among them, there were three enterprises with revenue of more than 1 trillion RMB. Petrochemical, Oil, and State Grid had revenue of more than 1 trillion RMB.
So far, the revenue was 213 billion RMB, which was not much different from the previous statistics of Fortune.
Of course, this data did not include the performance of Gome, let alone the revenue of other cooperative enterprises. It was only the revenue of So far last year.
Even so, So far, the revenue of more than 200 billion RMB was still very obvious.
On the first page of the list, Li Dong also saw many familiar companies' names. COFCO, Bailian, China Resources, Suning, Gome, Association … These companies were ranked on the first page.
As for the Internet companies, Li Dong did not see any of them on the first page.
He was too lazy to read further. He casually flipped through the first few papers until he reached the retail sub-list.
The retail sub-list only listed the retail companies and only calculated the revenue of the retail business. It was not like the overall ranking. So far, the revenue of real estate, logistics, and Internet were all included.
There was no doubt that the first place on the sub-list was So far Retail.
So far Retail was the well-deserved first place with 195 billion RMB revenue. This ranking obviously included the revenue of the B2C self-operated shopping mall So far.
Li Dong did not care much about this. Whether it was calculated or not, everyone had a scale in their heart. It was not that important.
However, the B2C business could definitely be considered as a retail business. This should be recognized, and it was not impossible to include it. In fact, Li Dong had always included it in the calculation.
195 billion RMB was much lower than the data So far announced to the public. However, this could not be said. So far was not satisfied at this time. If they wanted to sue the other party like they did to Forbes, then they would be really stupid.
If they really wanted to do such a thing, So Far had to pay the tax first.
Even if they reported 300 billion RMB, the government would not object. The key was that the extra 100 billion RMB in tax was not a small amount. So Far still had to pay the tax?
Therefore, regardless of whether the statistical results were accurate or not, no one would say anything at this time.
So Far Retail was first. The second place was not Suning, but Bailian.
Bailian acquired Agriculture, Industry and Commerce and Yonghui. They directly cancelled their establishment and incorporated them into their own system.
According to the statistical rules, under normal circumstances, the revenue of these companies would only be calculated in the second year of the merger.
However, perhaps the rules of the ranking had changed, and there were more mergers and acquisitions recently, if they continued to maintain the previous statistical plan, the value of the existence of the ranking would be much lower.
Today, Bailian, Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, Yonghui, and other acquired companies had a total retail revenue of 135 billion RMB.
Third was Suning. Suning and Dazhong had a revenue of 120 billion RMB.
Fourth was Gome, which had a revenue of 105 billion RMB.
If Gome was included in So Far, So Far's retail revenue had just reached 300 billion RMB.
Fifth …
When he saw the fifth place, Li Dong was suddenly stunned. Not only was he stunned, but Chen Lang, who was beside him, was also stunned. Then, he said in a daze, "Fifth is Da Shang!"
A few of the management who had not seen the ranking began to flip through the papers. Then, Yuan Chengdao also said in surprise, "Da Shang is ranked fifth! China Resources is sixth! "
In everyone's eyes, Far Away, Bailian, China Resources, Suning, and the previous Gome, these were the five retail giants of Hua Xia.
And Da Shang, which was limited to the northeast region, in the eyes of many people, was the top of the second tier. They could not enter the first tier.
But this time, when the ranking was released, even Li Dong was a little stunned.
Da Shang had actually surpassed China Resources and ranked fifth. In fact, after the Gome system disappeared, Da Shang had already entered fourth place.
Da Shang had a revenue of 75 billion RMB in 2008!
China Resources + Hongkelong, ranked sixth, had a revenue of 72 billion RMB.
China Resources, even with the addition of Hongkelong, was still surpassed by Da Shang.
At this moment, Li Dong could not help but say, "Are the people of the northeast so passionate about consumption? Da Shang has almost no presence in the central and southern regions. Even so, they can still generate 75 billion RMB in revenue? Now that they've done this, it seems like we're all doing nothing. We've been tossing and turning all over the country, and we've had acquisition plans one after another. In the end, China Resources hasn't even become a Da Shang. This … This is too much! "
Chen Lang's expression also kept changing. After a while, he said, "It might have something to do with Da Shang consolidating their position in the northeast region last year. They acquired a large number of small and medium-sized retail companies in the northeast region.
Moreover, Da Shang's market share is actually not low. It's just that everyone has always ignored it.
Da Shang also has a household retail business, and the scale is also not small.
As early as 2004, Da Shang was actually ranked second on the chain enterprise ranking, second only to Gome.
However, in the past few years, Da Shang has been focusing on the operations in the northern region, causing us to neglect Da Shang's strength.
Who would have thought …
Who would have thought that under such intense competition, Da Shang would actually make a comeback and be ranked fifth. In fact, it's fourth. "
One had to know that Bailian had acquired Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, Yonghui, and many other small companies. China Resources had also been doing mergers and acquisitions.
Everyone was doing it with a bang, but in the end, China Resources actually lost to Da Shang Group in the retail business.
The few of them looked at each other, then began to look down.
Looking at this, many of the figures were actually beyond everyone's expectations.
China Resources was ranked sixth. In seventh place was RT-Mart and Auchan's Gaoxin Retail, with retail revenue of 52 billion RMB.
In eighth place, it was Wal-Mart's turn. Wal-Mart and Trust-Mart had a revenue of 51 billion RMB.
In ninth place, it was once again out of everyone's expectations. It wasn't Wumart, but Wushang Alliance. With the combination of China Bai, China Shang, and Hubei Wushang, Wushang Alliance had a revenue of 45 billion RMB.
In tenth place, it was Wumart and Keikelon's turn, with a revenue of 43 billion RMB.
After looking at the top ten, everyone was deep in thought. Li Dong was silent for a moment. After a long time, he shook his head and laughed. "What is this called? Can a dog that bites stop barking?
The one that surprised me the most was actually Da Shang. It was too unexpected!
China Resources, which we viewed as a rival, was actually taken down by the other party without a sound.
If Bailian didn't acquire Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce and Yonghui, we would be in danger this time.
What is this?
To think that we previously said that regional giants were nothing to worry about. Their revenue had reached 75 billion RMB.
Last year, if we didn't add in the mall business and Carrefour business, we might not be able to compete with Da Shang. This time, it was a slap in the face. "
Li Dong laughed at himself. It wasn't that they didn't compile these figures, but other companies' performance was other people's business. So far away, they couldn't do detailed statistics.
This time, Li Dong realized that he and the others had been neglecting a dominant enterprise.
This was not a small matter!
Da Shang was so powerful, and they were in the northeast region. They were expanding towards the northwest. If not for the appearance of the rankings, Li Dong still stuck to his previous thoughts and felt that Bailian and the others were their opponents. That would be troublesome.
Once he fought with Bailian and the others one day, Da Shang would take down the northwest region, then enter the north and take down Wumart. Then, they might become the number one offline existence!
They fought with their lives on the line. If the number one was taken away by others, it would be the biggest joke in the country and even the world.
At this moment, Li Dong couldn't care about anything else. He said in a deep voice, "Call Qi Yunna. Da Shang is so powerful. Some of the plans have to be changed. If we can take down Da Shang, we must!
This is no longer a problem of conquering the northeast and entering Russia.
If Da Shang continues to develop, they might become our biggest opponent in the end!
Also, once Wumart joins Da Shang, they will occupy the entire northern region and monopolize the northern market. They will be stronger than all of us.
Although the south's economy is more developed than the north, there are too many retail companies in the south. We are all fighting and snatching, but the north is dominated by Da Shang. This is not the outcome we want.
We fought with our lives on the line, but in the end, we created a giant retail company. They easily took over the north. Who can I reason with? "
When he said this, Li Dong felt a headache.
It seemed like he had to add another company to his target list.
This time, it was fortunate that he came to his senses in advance. If not, some unexpected things might really happen in the end.
He couldn't use the past to measure the current situation.
In his previous life, Da Shang did things quietly. He didn't go to the north, so he always neglected Da Shang.
He only knew about Bailian, Huarun, Suning, and the currently weak Yonghui. However, he forgot that there was a ferocious tiger in the north.
Compared to Yonghui, Da Shang was ten times stronger than Yonghui!
He definitely shouldn't ignore such a ferocious tiger. In the end, he allowed the other party to rise up right under his nose, and he and the others neglected him.
This was also Da Shang's ability. From this, it could be seen that the leader of Da Shang was much stronger than he had imagined.
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