Chapter 64 Talents are scarce, don’t miss it!
"Does Mr. Su know me very well?" Weili said with some surprise.
"Of course, I have heard about Chairman Wei's deeds. In the business community in Xiangjiang, you are called the "company doctor" by many big guys in the business community. This shows that your strength is recognized by everyone. Yes." Su Cheng laughed.
Hearing Su Cheng's words, although Wei Li didn't change much on the surface, he was actually very happy inside.
Weili, who was born in 1932, is only 46 years old now, in the middle age.
"It just so happens that Mr. Su and Mr. Zhang are visiting our Hutchison Whampoa headquarters for the first time. Then I will take you to visit our headquarters building." Weili stood up and said proactively.
"Then I'll trouble you, Chairman Wei." Su Cheng nodded. He also wanted to know about Hutchison Whampoa today.
The two of them followed Wei Li and visited the main departments of the group starting from the fifth floor of the building.
Along the way, many employees watched curiously as BOOS took two Chinese people to visit and introduce them, and they immediately knew their identities.
Hutchison Whampoa is a British-owned enterprise, and most of its employees are foreigners. In Hong Kong, which is dominated by Chinese, there are not many Chinese employees here.
Tianyuan Company's acquisition of Hutchison Whampoa's stock caused a stir in Xiangjiang. As employees of the company, they naturally knew it very well.
“Hutchison Group actually originally owned a total of 315 companies, but most of them were in a state of loss. The most serious ones were investments in Indonesia and Singapore. Most of the other overseas companies were also in a state of loss. It was not good, so after I took office, many loss-making subsidiaries were dissolved or sold. In the end, only 180 subsidiaries were left. This gave Hutchison Group some time to breathe. After that, I increased my holdings in Watsons. The equity interests in these two high-quality companies, Hutchison Whampoa Shipyard, transformed the two associated companies into subsidiaries of Hutchison Group. Later, Hutchison Group and Whampoa Shipyard merged to form today's Hutchison Whampoa Group."
Along the way, Wei Li took the two of them around Sioux City and briefly introduced the history of Hutchison Whampoa in the past two or three years.
Although Weili said it very simply, Su Cheng knows that these are not something ordinary professional managers can do. Therefore, the current executive of Hutchison Whampoa is a rare talent.
He suddenly had the idea of taking Wei Li into his own hands.
In fact, just now, he had asked Xiao Ai to learn about Wei Li's information.
In his early years, Wei Li had the same occupation as Bald Qiang, and was just a lumberjack.
In 1951, Weili, who was only 19 years old, came to Malaysia and worked in a car dealership company, and was promoted from engineer to manager.
In 1964, Weili was invited to come to Xiangjiang to take charge of Xiaba Automobile Company. Three years later, he developed the company into a huge enterprise group.
In 1973, Wei Li was once again invited to take over Xinchang Enterprise, which was about to go bankrupt, and quickly turned the company from losses to profits.
His career was not complicated, but it was very amazing. Because of this, Wei Li began to emerge in the Hong Kong corporate world and became a "corporate wizard."
This is also the reason why Wei Li was invited to Hutchison International by Shen Bi in 1975.
This is really a real business wizard, he has almost no failure record.
Although Su Cheng knows that in another parallel world, Hutchison Whampoa, controlled by Li Ka-shing, has several very good executives, among whom Ma Shiming and Fok Jianning are the most famous.
But in fact, Huo Jianning is still a young man and has no management experience at all.
And Ma Shiming is still working at Jardine Matheson. As the person who single-handedly carried out the Wharf acquisition case, Yihe's attitude towards him was definitely not much better. It was still very difficult to acquire Ma Shiming, who was also a foreigner.
When he officially announces to the world that he has completely taken over Hutchison Whampoa, Hutchison Whampoa will definitely need a very capable executive.
In this era, it is really difficult to find Chinese executives with this kind of management experience. Yang Chaoye’s can be said to be a pure surprise.
So, Wei Li is a very good choice to manage Hutchison Whampoa.
Talents are scarce, and talents like Wei Li cannot be missed easily.
Not only is he capable and experienced, he has also managed Hutchison Whampoa for three years. The changes in Hutchison Whampoa in the past three years are obvious to all.
The only difficulty now is how to convince him.
However, there is no rush for the moment. Sioux City needs to secretly continue to increase its holdings of Hutchison Whampoa's shares until it reaches 75% of the shares, and then he will choose to announce it.
At that time, Wei Li had only two choices, either to resign or to stay and continue to manage Hutchison Whampoa.
"Mr. Su, in your opinion, is there anything else that Hutchison Whampoa needs to rectify now?" Wei Li suddenly asked Su Cheng.
"Chairman Wei, before I came here, I also learned about some of the situation of Hutchison Whampoa. Under your management, Hutchison Whampoa has indeed changed a lot. From a company with serious losses to one year ago, It can cost hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, but I think Hutchison Whampoa still has room for improvement," Su Cheng said with a smile.
"Oh? What's your opinion, Mr. Su?" Weili asked curiously.
“Hutchison Whampoa should sell the seaport project that has been losing money for many years. In this case, Hutchison Whampoa’s performance will be further improved and profits can be significantly increased.” Su Cheng pointed out the key.
If you want to conquer him, you must not be underestimated by him.
These were naturally what Xiao Ai told him.
In Sioux City’s previous life, after Li Ka-shing took over Hutchison Whampoa, he sold the harbor project. The result was that Hutchison Whampoa’s annual profit quickly increased from HK$411 million to HK$1.167 billion. This shows how much money Hutchison Whampoa spent on the harbor project!
“As expected of a person who can be the majority shareholder of Hutchison Whampoa, Mr. Su is a great talent. In fact, I wanted to sell the harbor project last year. Unfortunately, Huifeng Bank did not The reason why I support my decision is because the harbor project is one of the eight major listed companies under Hutchison Whampoa," Wei Li said helplessly, and at the same time, his eyes when looking at Su Cheng began to change, and he became surprised.
"Chairman Wei, please rest assured. I will fully support you on the board of directors regarding Hutchison Whampoa. You can rest assured to do the sale of the harbor project." Su Cheng said with a smile.
"If that's the case, then I'm relieved." Weili nodded and said.
The reason why Weili is so active in increasing Hutchison Whampoa's profits is naturally related to the contract he signed.
When Wei Li joined the board of directors of Hutchison International, he signed an entry contract with Hutchison International. In addition to having a fixed basic salary, Wei Li also stipulated that once Hutchison returned to profitability, Wei Li could Enjoying Hutchison International’s 2.5% net profit is why he works so hard to manage Hutchison Whampoa.
There are many talented people. Su Cheng doesn't think there is anything wrong with this. After all, people do not work out of obligation and pay without compensation. There are not many such kind people in the world.
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(End of this chapter)