Chapter 633 Overseas Investment Plan
Li Xiaolong's movie once again became popular in Hong Kong and many Asian countries, and the same was true in Japan;
In an instant, he became an Asian superstar that was popular half of the world. Many foreign media came to Hong Kong to interview him. With the cooperation of Changxing Group, he also accepted exclusive interviews from several media outlets, which increased his fame.
On the other hand, Li Xiaolong also began to shoot advertisements to promote Red Bull. When Red Bull is ready in the United States, he can go to American TV stations and newspapers for publicity;
In the early stage, Red Bull would not immediately invest huge amounts of money to sponsor various strenuous sports, but would proceed in steps, with sales volume becoming more and more successful, and sales channels would increase. After the return of interests, it would increase advertising, which was also a reasonable expansion process.
Similarly, there are other brands who invite Li Xiaolong to endorse, which is also the most profitable part of the entertainment industry, and even the sports industry is the same.
Changxing Film Company has eliminated some companies that may have competitive relationships based on the needs of the group, and other companies can negotiate. For this wave of endorsement, if you cooperate with several of them, even after the share, Li Xiaolong's profit will be higher than the income of making a movie;
Of course, movies are the foundation for endorsement. After Yang Wendong negotiated with representatives of several Hollywood giants, he finally decided to cooperate with Paramount. Changxing Film Group and Li Xiaolong also began negotiations with Paramount in this regard, just like with 20th Century Fox before, discussing business sharing, movie content, etc.
Yang Wendong naturally won't participate in such professional matters anymore. He just needs to wait until the two parties have negotiated it, and he can take a look at the content.
Hong Kong movies, the second step to entering Hollywood, has officially begun.
In the 1970s, many major events happened in global history. For example, in February of this year, British Prime Minister Edward Heath signed the Treaty of Brussels and officially agreed to the United Kingdom to join the European Economic Community (EEC). This decision officially came into effect on January 1, 1973, marking the beginning of economic integration between the United Kingdom and the European continent.
After receiving this news, Yang Wendong immediately convened several of its industrial companies: Changxing Industrial, Honor Electronics, and Watsons.
"You should also know the purpose of letting you come today. Europe intends to build a common market and achieve economic and market integration." Yang Wendong first said: 'Although this kind of thing is ideal and it is difficult to achieve it really, it is at least the beginning, so we also need to negotiate internally how to better develop the European market. ’
The European Community is actually the predecessor of the EU. In the future, the euro will be born. Its core purpose is to create the third pole of the world. In addition to the United States and the polar bear, Europe is the third, or in other words, the intention is to tie for third.
It's just that imagination is beautiful, but reality is cruel. Whether it is the United States or the polar bear, they naturally do not want a competitor with great potential. In addition, there are too many countries within Europe and the mutual interests and needs are different, so every step is full of difficulties. It was not until more than 20 years later that the EU was officially established in 1993, and several countries often demanded withdrawal, such as the United Kingdom.
Of course, these have nothing to do with Yang Wendong's current situation. He just needs to avoid getting involved. His purpose is to do business.
Wei Zetao replied: "In the European Community, many tariffs are exempted or very low, but the problem is that they do not include British Commonwealth members. In other words, our various products are shipped from Hong Kong to the UK and want to enter the European market by taking advantage of entering the European market. At least it is not possible to do so directly."
"It doesn't work directly, so it's indirect." Wang Zhiqun said with a smile: "We can leave some assembly process and put it in the UK. In this way, it can also be considered madeinBritish."
"This is indeed a method." Yang Wendong nodded and said.
After the mainland became a global industrial giant in the past, it was also targeted by some countries, such as increasing tariffs. Therefore, many domestic merchants sent goods to the Vietnamese country and then carried out the last step of assembly in the local area. Some may even just put a label, which can be regarded as avoiding the tariff issue.
Of course, this is just the beginning. Later, countries such as the United States learned to limit the proportion of materials and required more than half of the raw materials and components to be processed in the mainland, etc. This had a certain impact on the mainland's manufacturing industry, but it could not prevent the rise of industrialization in the mainland, and on the contrary, various hindering behaviors led to serious inflation within the United States and European countries.
While now or under normal circumstances, ordinary countries do not force this way, and often they just turn a blind eye. Wang Zhiqun continued: "But even so, we still need to invest a lot of factories in the UK. This is not the part of the investment in the UK before, just say it."
Yang Wendong said: "I know, in fact, I am also preparing to invest in the UK on a large scale. Now Europe and the UK have preferential tariffs, which is more suitable for my plan."
The mainland is still rising early. It took 78 years to change the opening ceremony. It took 30 years to have a certain voice in the international community and reach its peak after 40 years;
Although Yang Wendong is willing to provide help in this, for his business group, he cannot rely on domestic services for a long time in the future;
In this case, the UK is a good choice. Although it has declined, at least the remaining power is still there, and there will still be some international voice in the next 10 or 20 years.
Of course, if it involves Hong Kong issues in the future, he will definitely choose the right person, or if he does not participate. Even if he does nothing, what happened in history will still happen now. Some business behaviors of time travelers will not affect some international events, such as the oil crisis that will break out next year.
Wang Zhiqun said: "The UK is indeed a country that is very suitable for our investment. It is close to the east coast of the United States and South America is also OK. It produces on a large scale there and supplies transportation is very convenient, which also prevents all our group's production bases from gathering in Asia;
But the local labor cost is still too high. Many of our industries are crowd-intensive. If you produce in the UK, you have to choose a suitable industry."
Yang Wendong smiled and said, "The labor cost is indeed necessary. In summary, it may be a little higher than in Asia, but it is still necessary for ZZ purposes;
Some cumbersome parts are still produced in Hong Kong, and the UK is mainly responsible for assembly. It is no problem to recruit some white people. Some of our products are about to move towards a high-profit model, especially the electronics industry."
There are two purposes for investing in the UK. It is hard to say clearly here. The first is that the oil crisis is coming. In those years, the cost of shipping has increased sharply. Even if you have a fleet, But transporting your own goods cannot be very cheap, which is also an internal loss, and it is also feasible to migrate appropriate production capacity to near Europe and America;
After two oil crises in the 1970s, oil prices soared 10 times, and it will be difficult to fall in the future. If it weren't for the popularization of containers, then this oil price would be a fatal blow to global trade. Some suitable industries should be placed outside Asia, and then considering the local market, it is also necessary. After all, it is not the era when mainland industries dominate decades later. Many global companies will invest in and build factories in many places around the world.
The second reason is that he is soon ready to take action against British capital. The Hong Kong and British government may not dare to stop itself openly, but may also use some indirect policies. At this time, if its UK has a large number of factories or is about to invest in a large number of factories, which will drive jobs in the UK, which has worse and worse economy, then there will naturally be ZZ forces to stand up to help itself. This is a community of interests.
While gaining some of the benefits of the UK, you can also better obtain profits in Hong Kong. This transaction is still cost-effective. The profits of factories in the UK are a little lower or even profitable. However, as long as investments are successful in Hong Kong and even some other promising British colonies, it is enough. Sometimes, some investments are not for profit. Large consortiums often know the right degree.
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Wang Zhiqun nodded and agreed, "Okay, I'll study what electronic products are produced in the UK. After deducting tariffs, it will be more cost-effective."
"Okay, our group should still focus on your industry." Yang Wendong nodded and looked at Zhou Haoran again: "Old Zhou, what do you think about building a factory in the UK in your food industry?"
Zhou Haoran thought for a while and said, "Our main products, instant noodles and ham sausages, have been sent to Europe and the United States. There is almost no market for instant noodles, and locals don't eat them at all;
Some people like ham sausages, but European locals prefer pure sausages with a lot of meat, and there are many local brands, and they are also making ham sausages. It was not difficult for us to build a factory in the past, but the difficult thing was how to sell it, which is a difficult point. "
Many products are too easy to make. As long as you have money, open a factory, buy equipment, find a few professionals and a group of workers, more than 80% of the world's products can be made, except for some high-tech content or patent copyright protection.
But the biggest problem in doing business is orders. If there is no order, there will only be a loss to bankruptcy. In turn, others can get OEM. This is also why Hong Kong Trade and Foreign Exchange controls most of the Hong Kong factories, and orders are the fundamentals.
Yang Wendong thought for a while and said, "You discuss with Fang Xianming. He has invested in many supermarket industries in Europe, and the business of these supermarkets is getting better and better. Perhaps this will be an opportunity. ”
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