Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 838 All-round cooperation

  Through these words, Yang Chen also explained the matter of digging a corner of himself, avoiding the important and lightly.

   He held Wal-Mart high with his hand, which was very timely. Even if Uncle Sam felt helpless, he could only choose to calm down.

   After all, job-hopping happens in any company. People go to high places and water flows to low places.

  Walmart can’t give what the Chinese want, and it’s normal for people to switch jobs.

The only bad thing about    is the loss of a large number of Chinese middle-level management, which has a great impact on Walmart's subsequent expansion into overseas markets, especially the Asian market.

  Uncle Sam: "Yang, I received news that your investment company has secretly acquired a lot of Walmart shares. I wonder if this is the case?"

   The highlight is here. One of the main reasons for Uncle Sam to call Yang Chen to his house this time is that he discovered the abnormal fluctuations in Wal-Mart's stock earlier.

  Naturally vigilant, he has always been sensitive to the stock price of his own company. When he found something wrong, he immediately sent someone to start an investigation.

  In the end, after investigating all the way, I found that the mastermind behind the acquisition of Wal-Mart's stock was a young rich man from the East, and this young rich man was very famous overseas, especially in Europe and the United States.

  Uncle Sam has a lot of information about Yang Chen. Regarding Yang Chen's experience, Uncle Sam is getting more and more interesting. On a whim, he asked his old friend Bush Sr to send him an invitation letter.

  "Uh" Yang Chen was stunned when he heard the words, and immediately said: "Uncle Sam, I am very optimistic about the future development of Walmart. As a qualified investor, I don't think I should turn a blind eye to a company like Walmart."

   In Yang Chen's view, his behavior is a normal investment, there is nothing shameful, but he has invested in too many companies and invested a lot of money.

   Therefore, he was afraid that once this kind of thing was reported by the media, in the end, the same stock would be worth several times more for no reason.

   The so-called celebrity effect.

  The future stock **** Warren Buffett wants to invest in that company. Once he starts to act, it will inevitably cause market investors to flock to it.

   In this way, the investment cost is increased indirectly.

   Therefore, he will let his investment company secretly acquire the stocks of the companies he is optimistic about in the market, so as to avoid attracting too many people's attention and raising the stock price too high.

   Yang Chen's face was neither red nor panting, and he didn't feel embarrassed at all.

   This kind of thing cannot be hidden from everyone, which is expected.

   Some small and medium-sized companies may be aware of it, but because of insufficient levels and insufficient personal connections, even if they are discovered, it is difficult to find out specific information.

   But at the level of Uncle Sam, it is too easy for them to inquire about something, not only in the business world, but also in government departments.

   Therefore, Yang Chen was not surprised that Uncle Sam was able to detect that someone secretly acquired Wal-Mart's stock, and he was able to find him all the way.

  If Uncle Sam didn't have this ability, he would not have developed Wal-Mart into a retail giant, but also a leading company in the world.

Uncle Sam didn't continue talking nonsense, and said straight to the point: "Yang, I am also very optimistic about the development of your Carrefour supermarket. Next, Wal-Mart is going to enter the overseas market. Asia is the most populous region in the world. With the country's economic growth rate, the Asian market will inevitably become more and more prosperous in the future.

  The retail industry is a very large market, and it is impossible for one or two of our companies to monopolize it. I think you should hold a lot of shares in Wal-Mart by now. Do you think there is any chance for the two of us to further cooperate? "

   Yang Chen frowned and said, "Mr. Sam, you should know that the Carrefour supermarket under my banner is not a listed company."

   Uncle Sam waved his hand and said, "Whether Carrefour is a listed company does not affect the partnership between the two of us."

   Seeing that Uncle Sam was not joking, Yang Chen immediately became serious and asked, "Then I don't know which aspect Mr. Sam intends for the two of us to cooperate?"

  Uncle Sam did not hesitate and said bluntly: "I hope our two can cooperate in all aspects."

   "All-round cooperation?" Yang Chen was really stunned, he didn't expect that the other party would propose all-round cooperation.

  Since ancient times, the Chinese have a saying, "Peers are enemies." Under normal circumstances, it is normal for everyone to compete with each other to break down.

   Even if you are a little more friendly, everyone does not compete maliciously, and it is the kind of old age and death that does not communicate with each other.

  Cooperation is built on the basis of win-win situation. Only when there is a trend of interests can both parties work together.

  Co Carrefour and Wal-Mart, do they have a basis for cooperation?

  The market decides that they only have a competitive relationship. Although cooperation cannot be said to be 100% impossible, there will never be a so-called all-round cooperation.

   Not sure what Uncle Sam wants to do, Yang Chen didn't speak, and quietly waited for the following.

   "I think you won't be willing to stick to just one market in Asia. Carrefour wants to develop and must enter the European and American markets in the future. The retail market is huge. This is not something that one or two companies can monopolize..."

   "We don't necessarily have to be competitors. I think it is more beneficial to join forces than to compete with each other."

   "After all, you can't make enough money."

   After listening to Uncle Sam's analysis, Yang Chen was a little moved. Carrefour's development model was completely copied from Walmart. The two companies' systems can be said to be exactly the same.

   However, not everything is the same between the two companies. For example, there is a big difference between the things sold by the two companies. The things sold by the two companies have different origins, different prices, different varieties, and so on.

   Ordinary people in Europe and the United States, they have no resistance to cheap goods in Asia. This has been proved by the flow of high-quality and cheap Chinese-made products to the world in later generations.

  Similarly, the gradually rich Asian countries, after their people became rich, began to gradually pursue high-priced products in Europe and America, especially those famous brand products in Europe and America, which made many people unable to resist the temptation.

  Through these, Yang Chen thought of the two instant noodle giant companies, Uni-President and Master Kong, who fell in love with each other for many years, and finally evolved into a situation where you have me, and I have you, both are indispensable.

   Every time an outside force enters the instant noodle industry, the two companies do not boycott the third party, but the two parties do it first, and once the two giants do it, there is basically nothing for the third party to do.

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   (end of this chapter)