I earn really hard money

Chapter 396 General Meeting of Shareholders
"Ho ho ha, Mr. He, your request is too sudden, please allow me to think..."

Betra Wanhao smiled awkwardly. Among the ten major shareholders of the group, apart from her own family, among the other nine capitals, the one she is least willing to provoke is H·E Investment Company!

The outside world thinks that H·E Investment Company has a huge board of directors to control investors' funds. However, as a close partner, Betra Marriott knows more about H·E Investment Company than ordinary people, and knows the actual controller Only the He family!
Highly centralized management and highly concentrated funds are not comparable to those venture capital institutions in doing things!

Be it BlackRock, Vanguard, Blackstone Group, etc., every decision must be carefully considered, and decision makers often fight wits and courage. Sometimes it only needs to infiltrate a faction to influence the final direction.

H·E Investment Company is not the case. The He family is airtight, and it is impossible to reach inside. It can be said to be monolithic, like those big families that grew up a hundred years ago and then disappeared using various means!
"Mr. He, I guess you must have neglected the shareholders' meeting before. At that time... the shareholders had different attitudes towards participating in the siege of Shiyuan Group. Since you raised objections, I think it's better to vote again. Why? Sample?"

Betra Marriott nominally said that he would hand over the affairs to his son John to manage, but that didn't mean he couldn't take care of it. If something important happened, he would participate in the decision-making.

"I am also very embarrassed to bother everyone to come to the meeting on such a special day, but I still hope that everyone can give me face. Then I will trouble Mr. Wanhao to notify all shareholders."

He Xia said some high-sounding words.

Excelle and InterContinental are out of control for the time being, but Marriott Group must stop. As for Lotte, He Xia has other plans.

Betra Marriott looked at John, who was in high spirits in the restaurant through the door glass, and said with a smile: "Actually, Mr. He also has the right to initiate a shareholders' meeting, but since Mr. He has already spoken, let me do it."

"Thank you, Mr. Marriott, then I will wait and hope as soon as possible!"

He Xia said.

"Of course it will be soon, and I don't want this matter to be delayed until tomorrow, haha, I'll let John send a message and notify Mr. He when it's ready!"

After speaking, the two hung up the phone.

Betra Wanhao frowned slightly after finishing the call. Although she was nearly seventy years old, there were not many wrinkles on her cheeks, and her cheeks were flushed and moist.

A servant saw Beitra approaching, and hurriedly opened the door of the restaurant.

When Betra returned to the restaurant, the cheerful people gradually quieted down, because the old man's brows were full of thoughts, and everyone had doubts on their faces, why did they become like this after listening to a phone call.

"Dear Papa, are you all right?"

The eldest son, John, walked to Betra's side for the first time, supported the old man's shoulder and asked, with concern in his eyes.

He is very clear about the content of his father's will, and he takes good care of his eldest son. It is only natural for a father to be kind and his son to be filial.

Beitra raised her eyes and glanced at John, and said, "Call the assistant and follow me to the meeting room."

After finishing speaking, he put on a smiling face and looked at everyone: "Everyone eat first, John and I will talk about something, don't wait for us, continue, everyone continue."

The head of the family spoke, and although everyone was suspicious, they still couldn't hold back the festive atmosphere, and the laughter and laughter soon resumed. Only those who intended to get involved in the group looked thoughtfully at the back of Betra and John when they left.

"Dad, what's going on?"

After walking out of the restaurant, John hurriedly asked, he had already informed the assistant who was eating next door to come over quickly.

"H·E Investment Company wants to intervene in Shiyuan Group's affairs!"

Bertra is succinct.

Before John could react, a middle-aged man hurried over from another busy room. It was his chief assistant, Gerald.

"Mr. Marriott, Mr. John, what can I do for you?"

Gerald's face was still stained with cream, and he was talking while wiping it. The atmosphere in the attached restaurant was more lively than a family dinner.

"Immediately notify the major shareholders to hold a meeting, an emergency meeting."

Betra gave the order directly without waiting for John to speak.

"Emergency meeting?" Gerald didn't move immediately, but looked at his boss John with a puzzled face.

John was also surprised, but he still said, "Go!"

"By the way, there is no need to notify H·E Investment Company!" Betra added.

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Gerald didn't hesitate anymore, and quickly ran towards the end of the corridor.

Among the top ten shareholders, apart from the Marriott family and H·E Investment Company, there are still eight companies that need to be notified. Fortunately, there is a pre-set procedure, otherwise it would be too slow for each family to call to notify!

"Dad, what does H.E Investment mean by doing this? Why did it intervene in this matter after the plan was launched, and what did it do when it was voting!"

John asked angrily.

The plan to encircle and suppress Shiyuan Group was first proposed by Excelle Hotel Group, but this matter obviously cannot be completed by one family, so Hyatt Hotel Group secretly contacted several friendly merchants.

When Excelle Group first found Marriott, John was somewhat on guard. As a colleague, and the headquarters are in the same country, competition among them is inevitable, but there are no permanent enemies and friends in the world, only permanent interests!

After some deliberation, John felt that Excelle's plan this time was fine, so he held a general meeting of shareholders to vote, and only after going through the process did he participate in the plan.

When several parties reached a consensus, the layout began for more than a month.

Seeing that the implementation of the plan is coming to an end, it will not be long until the time to share the fruits of victory. The third largest shareholder who did not participate in the voting at the beginning actually stood up to oppose it?
It's not unreasonable, it's just too unreasonable...

John didn't question the timing, because they chose to launch an attack on Shiyuan Group around Christmas, which could create the greatest negative impact.

Betra Marriott walked towards the meeting room with John, with no obvious joy or sorrow on her face, but a little deep.

"John, you know that I was not very in favor of the group joining the sniper plan at the time, but I didn't object either. You should know the voting situation at that time. If H·E Investment Company objected, then the plan would be shelved."

The top ten shareholders own 80.00% of the shares of Marriott Group. At that time, in the absence of H·E Investment Company, the final result was 39 to 31. Two out of two wins.

"Now that H.E Investment Company is going to intervene in this matter, no matter how we look at it, we have no reason to fight against the He family. When we vote later, we must agree to withdraw!"

Betra said to John.

John scratched his head, his face was red after drinking, he drank a lot just now, and he frowned deeply when he heard his father's words, and said: "The plan has already started, even if we quit at this time, is there any point?" ?”

Everyone is in the hotel industry. John is very clear about the current situation of Shiyuan Group.

Betra glanced at John calmly, and said: "Since the chairman of H.E Investment Company proposed this matter, it means that he is likely to assist Shiyuan Group to tide over the difficulties!"

"The significance of our withdrawal is not whether we can save the Shiyuan Group on the edge of the cliff, but not to turn against H·E Investment Company, understand?"

Betra's words made John frown.

Although in his early forties, he had already passed the period of youth and frivolity, but as the next generation of the Marriott family, he still had arrogance in his heart, and he always had a little resistance to this kind of compromise.

Betra Marriott knew what his son was thinking when he saw his face. Standing at the door of the meeting room, he asked seriously, "Do you think the Marriott family is qualified to negotiate terms with the He family?"

This sentence made John's body tremble slightly.

The Marriott Group is very large in size, has long occupied the top three positions in the hotel industry, and has a market value as high as $800 billion. However, their Marriott family only accounts for a little over 13.00% of the total shares.

Although the current Marriott family has made a lot of achievements in real estate in addition to the hotel business, but even if both sides are added up, the family's assets will not exceed 200 billion US dollars!

This amount of money can't be said to be worth mentioning in front of H·E Investment Company, but it's definitely not that strong!
"Dad, do you think the He family will go to war for a small Shiyuan Group?" John still didn't give up.

Betra showed a smile on his face, patted John on the shoulder, and said, "To be honest, from the previous behavior of H·E Investment Company, I don't appreciate that kind of approach that doesn't leave a bottom line..."

"But I have to admit that the He family's style of doing whatever it takes makes me feel a little scary!"

John is busy with the company's affairs and doesn't know much about H·E Investment Company. Betra has basically retreated to the second line, and he has plenty of time to learn about interesting things. He knows what He Xia did before.

The way of taking money for revenge made him feel dizzy. Even if he hurt himself ten thousand, he would also hurt the enemy a thousand. Who can bear this?
With the body of the Marriott family, it's better not to provoke such a lunatic...

"But..." John was still a little unwilling, and said, "Even if we agree to withdraw, will the other shareholders agree?"

A deep smile appeared on Betra's face, and she said with deep meaning: "Those old foxes are smarter than me. They must understand what the H.E Investment Company's objection means, and they will never fight against it. If you don't believe me, we can make a bet. I can guarantee that there are no more than three companies that oppose the withdrawal!"

John's complexion finally changed. He had bet with his father many times since he was a child, but he had never won...

"There's no need to bet...Dad, you are right. Since H.E Investment Company wants to protect Shiyuan Group, it means that it will help Shiyuan Group deal with the intruders. We should draw a clear line with Excelle and the others." limit!"

Betra nodded slowly, pushed open the wooden door of the conference room by herself, and called He Xia at the same time.

The study in Hungerford Castle is not as good as Huguang Manor in terms of office work, but it is still easy to participate in a multi-person video conference.

In front of the camera, He Xia sat upright with his legs crossed. On the computer screen was a nine-square grid. Inside each grid was a shareholder or an investment bank representative. Marriott, Pioneer, BlackRock, Blackstone, and other investment banks were all present, and the picture was clear. .

Looking at the shareholders, there are seven men and two women, some old and some young, well-dressed, but some people have tired faces that cannot be concealed, probably because of the time problem, and some places may already be in the middle of the night or early in the morning.

When He Xia was looking at everyone, everyone was also looking at this mysterious chairman of the H·E investment company. He had never appeared at the shareholders meeting. The last time he saw it was at the World Cancer Conference. Take advantage of the opportunity of the video conference to take a good look .

The first image in everyone's mind is youth. He Xia is too young, and there is an obvious gap when he is with the other nine people. The youngest representative of the other nine people is also 20 years older than He Xia. The oldest old man can barely be his grandfather...

Everyone has the same doubts in their hearts, why is such a young guy able to manage such a huge amount of money, does he really have special skills, or is he a puppet set up by some forces?
Either way, it's enough to make people pay attention!
"First of all, I wish you all a Merry Christmas. I believe everyone is enjoying the Christmas dinner or attending the party. I just learned of the sudden change of Shiyuan Group. I apologize for urgently inviting everyone to hold a shareholder meeting."

It was the first time for He Xia to participate in the shareholders' meeting of the holding company, and he spoke generously without showing any embarrassment in front of a group of people.

The notice was issued by Beitra Wanhao, but He Xia was the initiator, so it should be him who spoke.

The people at the other end of the network line smiled and waved their hands. They might have been slightly displeased at first, but they stretched out their hands and didn't hit the smiling faces. They were polite and everyone was kind.

For everyone, festivals are nothing more than embellishing the joy of life, and the position of career always comes first.

"Maybe there are still people who don't know what was discussed at this meeting, let me tell you!"

He Xia believes that Beitra must have informed the shareholders when he invited the shareholders to a meeting, but he needs to reiterate.

"I know that it was Mr. John Marriott's decision to participate in the siege and suppression of Shiyuan Group. At the same time, it has been recognized by everyone. I do not deny that this is a move that is beneficial to the development of the group. I hope that the exit plan is purely my personal request."

"May I add a word..."

He Xia was talking when a man in a beige suit raised his hand and interrupted, then said with a smile: "Mr. It was approved, and I voted against it at the time."

He Xia looked at the label next to the frame of the avatar. It was the representative of BlackRock Group and the fifth shareholder of Marriott Group.

"Sorry, I actually don't agree with it, I think it's a little inappropriate..."

A woman spoke, about fifty, with chubby cheeks and a very youthful hairstyle.

She is the head of the Linnatz Foundation and the ninth shareholder of Marriott Group.

Immediately afterwards, two more people expressed their views, and they could see that they had a strong position. They did not follow the trend just because they implemented a plan that disagreed with them, nor did they give up their positions because they were about to achieve results.

Regarding this scene, those shareholders who voted in favor at the beginning did not make a special response, their faces were calm, neither angry nor happy.

Because no matter for or against, everyone's purpose is the same, that is, in order for the group to earn more money, they must have their own mature considerations and reasons.

(End of this chapter)