Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

As soon as Shen Congee finished speaking, several directors present subconsciously turned their heads to look at Yang Chen, among them was the Chartered Ship King.

According to the charter king's understanding of Yang Chen, the other party would definitely not take the time to attend any board of directors for things that generally don't have much to do with him.

Especially this time, the meeting of the board meeting was relatively sudden. Generally, only when Shen Porridge, the king of the class, made a big move, or at the request of a certain shareholder, would a special meeting of the board meeting be held.

"Yang Sheng, today's meeting of the board meeting was requested by you. How about you tell everyone about the next thing directly?"

With small eyes, Shen Porridge glanced at the director of Taikoo Foreign Firm, thinking of what Yang Chen discussed with him, he himself didn't want to get involved, and he didn't want to convene this board meeting.

But there is no way out, Boss Yang is determined to dig meat from Swire Pacific, and according to the current cooperative relationship between HSBC and Yang Chen, he can only pinch his nose to recognize it.

However, the success of the board meeting this time depends on Yang Chen's own ability, anyway, he doesn't intend to express any opinions.

Chapter 817 30 million market value

Seeing Shen Congee's attitude of being nothing to do with himself, Yang Chen secretly scolded the other party as a 'chicken thief' in his heart.

However, as Swire Pacific is one of the shareholders of HSBC, it is understandable for Shen Congee to behave like this.

After all, Shen Congee, as the boss of HSBC Bank, once he favored a certain director, it would make other directors feel uneasy.

Shen Congee was unwilling to help, and Yang Chen didn't care. Under the gaze of everyone, Yang Chen turned his gaze to the strange man sitting on the director's seat of Swire.

Yang Chen had met the big class king of Swire Pacific before, but the other party seemed to be busy today, so he just sent an employee over.

Generally, most of the people who can replace the boss to hold this level of meeting are confidantes.

After staying on the strange man for three seconds, Yang Chen stood up from his seat, looked at the directors, and said, "I think everyone should know that some time ago I was in England at the request of Mrs. Thatcher and bought British Aerospace Corporation, the largest military enterprise in the UK."

When he said this, Yang Chen deliberately emphasized the tone of "at Mrs. Thatcher's invitation", making everyone mistakenly think that the reason why he bought British Aerospace Corporation was at the behest of Mrs. Thatcher.

As the leader of the Conservative Party, Mrs. Thatcher naturally represented the meaning of the Conservative Party government.

Anyway, the meeting between him and Mrs. Thatcher was conducted in private. No one knew exactly what the two said at the Prime Minister's Office in Downing Street. Even Baron Dennis only knew the general idea, not the specific details.

There are big flags to pull, tiger skins to pull, Yang Chen naturally wants to make full use of them.

Sure enough, after Yang Chen finished speaking, the face of the strange man who was originally calm showed a slight change. Although it was not very obvious, it just disappeared in a flash, but it was still captured by Yang Chen.

As British-funded enterprises, their backing background mainly comes from the British government, and they are somewhat in awe of the government behind them.

"I won't go into details on why British Aerospace was sold. After the Falklands War, if there are no major accidents, there should be no more wars befalling Britain.

In order to make British Aerospace Corporation profitable again and ensure its technological development, British Aerospace Corporation will carry out some reasonable transformations next, and transfer most of the military use to civilian use, so as to promote the development of British Aerospace Corporation.

Among them, in terms of passenger aircraft manufacturing, British Aerospace Corporation has great technological advantages. The A300 passenger aircraft is an existence that can compete with Boeing's civilian passenger aircraft.

Therefore, next, British Aerospace Corporation will conduct more in-depth research on passenger aircraft, build larger and more advanced passenger aircraft, and strengthen its influence in the global passenger aircraft market. "

"As the Asian economy heats up, civil aviation has also established a certain foundation. As the largest civil aviation company in Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific is one of the largest civil aviation companies in Asia..."

When Yang Chen said this, all the directors present understood what he was planning, and after a long time of emotional turmoil, this God of Wealth had an idea about Cathay Pacific Airways under Swire Pacific.

The former bosses of Cathay Pacific Airways were Americans and Australians. Based on this, the passenger planes purchased by Cathay Pacific Airways are all aircraft owned by the Boeing Company of the United States.

If you want Cathay Pacific to change buyers, the first thing is to convince Cathay Pacific's parent company Swire Pacific.

Obviously, Boss Yang was not willing to beg others in a low-key manner, but took the most direct method of acquisition. As long as he became the boss of Cathay Pacific, it was not up to him to decide which company's aircraft he wanted to purchase.

In this regard, everyone has different opinions.

However, one thing is certain, that is, this time the board of directors, Yang Chen must be for the 30.00% shares of Cathay Pacific held by HSBC.

Although the 30.00% shares held by HSBC Bank are far from the 70.00% shares held by Swire Pacific, but as long as Yang Chen obtains this part of the shares, it is equivalent to a stepping stone.

Next, regardless of whether Swire Pacific is willing or not, with the 30.00% shares held by HSBC, Yang Chen will be able to have a certain say in Cathay Pacific Airways.

As for the decision-making power, it must still be in the hands of Taikoo Matheson. After all, they hold 70.00% of the company's shares, far more than half, and have an absolute controlling position.

However, now Yang Chen is pulling the tiger's skin, pulling the big banner, and directly bringing out Mrs. Thatcher and the British government, which makes it difficult for the big guys.

Compared with British Aerospace Corporation, Cathay Pacific Airways, a civil aviation company, is obviously more important in the eyes of the British government.

Based on this point, although the strange man representing Swire Pacific wanted to object, he didn't know where to refute.

In addition, now that Yang Chen is gaining momentum, even the Jardine Group, the leader of the four foreign firms, has been laid down. Facing such a murderous person, a strange man really dare not easily offend him.

At this time, everyone had no choice but to cast their eyes on Shen Daban Wang and pin their hopes on Shen Congee.

Seeing this, Shen Congee didn't dare to continue watching the show, and said softly, "Yang Sheng, Secretary Shi, I think the two of you should discuss it in private. For Cathay Pacific, the most important thing is stable development. The two of you They are all shareholders of HSBC Bank, I hope everyone will not hurt their peace because of this matter."

Although HSBC has always had a competitive relationship with the four foreign banks, competition is competition, and there is still some cooperation that should be there.

Just like Cathay Pacific Airways, HSBC and Swire Pacific jointly hold its shares. This is a good example.

Compared with Jardine's domineering, Swire Pacific is much more low-key and does not take everyone seriously. Even if there is competition, it will not be too rigid.

The most important industries under Swire Pacific are Swire Shipping and Swire Properties. Although Cathay Pacific is good, it is far less important than the first two.

However, Cathay Pacific has a good prospect, and Swire Shipping is now facing the cold wind of ship disaster. One increase and one decrease make Cathay Pacific become important again.

Seeing that Yang Chen didn't speak, Slosar had no choice but to say: "Sheng Yang, I will report to the president about Cathay Pacific. Let's make an appointment another day to discuss it privately. What do you think?"

"No problem." Yang Chen shrugged his shoulders, showing an expression of indifference. Before Slosar was happy, Yang Chen continued: "However, today I came to HSBC to ask Mr. Shen to hold a board meeting, mainly for HSBC's holding 30.00% of Cathay Pacific’s shares.”

"Dear directors, for the 30.00% shares of Cathay Pacific held by HSBC, I am willing to purchase [-] million Hong Kong dollars in cash."

"I don't know what the directors think?"

"Nine hundred million?"

Everyone was a little surprised when they heard Yang Chen's quotation. With the price Yang Chen gave, the market value of Cathay Pacific Airways has exceeded 30 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Is Cathay Pacific worth 30 billion Hong Kong dollars? ? ?

There are question marks over everyone's heads...

Chapter 818 Voting Approved

There is no doubt that the total market value of Cathay Pacific at this time is less than 30 billion Hong Kong dollars, and it would be good to have a market value of 20 billion Hong Kong dollars. Cathay Pacific's main routes are concentrated in Asia.

Most of the people who fly in Asia these days are business people, traveling and so on. Only people in developed countries in Europe and the United States have this kind of leisure and capital. Ordinary Asian people don’t have the hobby of traveling. Even if there are people, most of them travel domestically. , very few people go abroad.

Although it has been nearly forty years since Cathay Pacific was established, in the 60s and [-]s, there was no development in Asia. Except for island countries, South Korea and Singapore, most Asian countries were still in the small peasant economy at that time .

The economic development is not fast, and the aviation field naturally cannot talk about development.

However, Yang Chen knows better than anyone else that civil aviation will gain a lot of room for development in the next 20 years.