Rebirth of the Strongest Tycoon

"Jianning, the profits of these companies, except for the Galaxy Fund, do not need to be transferred."

"You go to convene a think tank, and according to the original financial market layout, let each company increase investment according to their own strengths and circumstances."

"But you still need to come up with a top-level plan for me to see."

After putting down the statistical report, Xia Yu called back Huo Jianning in a trance and gave him an order directly.

"Okay, I will step up to complete the task in the next two days." Huo Jianning responded loudly immediately.

"Well, let's go."

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After Huo Jianning left, Xia Yu looked at the time and found that it was already late, so he returned home to see his wife and children.

And taking advantage of these few days, Xia Yu also thought about it, after earning so much money, where should he spend part of it.

The financial layout is already huge, and it takes a long time to wait for the right harvest time.

And this time interval, but can't wait to waste time.

Just after he checked the Fortune 500 list in Economic Weekly, Xia Yu inspired some inspiration.

Subsequently, he immediately arranged for someone to investigate the market situation and collect relevant information.

Within a few days, the business intelligence network all over the world gathered all the information he needed.

This time, he is eyeing the global commodity trading market!

Bulk commodities refer to material commodities that can enter the field of circulation, but are not retailed, have commodity attributes and are used for industrial and agricultural production and consumption.

The objects of bulk commodity trading are not ordinary consumers, and it is difficult for ordinary people to reach them.

Even, many countries do not pay attention to this field, or do not know much about this field.

Just like the mainland, after joining the WTO in the previous life, in 2004, it suffered a severe downfall in commodity trading.

ABCD's four major international grain merchants have used bulk transactions to wipe out almost all the companies in the soybean field in mainland China. They also took the opportunity to buy major companies in the mainland soybean industry at a low price, opening up the entire industrial chain.

Forty million bean farmers,

Half of them were laid off and had to leave their hometowns to become one of the 200 million migrant workers, which had a huge negative impact on society.

Closer to home.

Soybean is a kind of bulk commodity and also belongs to the category of agricultural products.

In fact, there are many kinds of commodities, such as gold, silver, copper, iron and aluminum and other worrying metal products, crude oil, natural rubber, propane, heating oil and other energy and chemical products, as well as corn, soybean, wheat, rice, cocoa, cotton and other agricultural products By-products are all commodities.

For the convenience of classification, they are divided into three categories, namely energy commodities, basic raw materials and agricultural and sideline products.

In terms of commodity trading, in fact Xia Yu has been doing it for a long time, and he is still the boss.

After all, the status of the commodity market is tied to the possession of resources.

When it comes to resources, Xia Yu has too many, so relatively, he already has a very high market influence in many fields.

Needless to say about natural rubber, because it is backed by Southeast Asia, the Hong Kong Commodity Exchange has become the world's largest natural rubber futures trading place.

The two rubber kings in Southeast Asia are all allies of Xia Yu, the company is also owned by Xia Yu, and the Heung Kong Commodity Exchange is controlled by Xia Yu. Therefore, Xia Yu controls the highest pricing power for natural rubber.

In terms of minerals, Blue Star Mining Company, a giant crocodile hidden in the water, relied on the resources provided and provided by Xia Yu, and ran wildly on the road of mining hegemony.

In terms of crude oil, Pacific Oil Company, in accordance with Xia Yu's instructions, is also a big rich man after winning each big oil field. As long as there are plans to develop some oil fields later, it is enough to gain a pivotal market position.

In these areas, there is no shortage of resources, but it is necessary to strengthen the power in links other than mining.

After all, it is one thing to have resources in hand, and whether it can be sold at a high price to earn more profits is another.

But in any case, with huge resources, it is already invincible.

In Xia Yu's plan, Bluestar Mining Company mainly focuses on metal products in the three major categories of commodities.

The Pacific Oil Company, on the other hand, relies on the most basic crude oil to improve energy and chemical products such as heating oil, unleaded regular gasoline, propane and petroleum extracts.

Look at it this way.

In commodity trading, he also has an obvious shortcoming, that is, agricultural and sideline products and the entire industrial chain.

In this regard, it is not that he has no company, but that he is not strong.

For example, Swire Agriculture Group, a first-level subsidiary of Jiuding Industrial Group, owns Swire Cotton, Swire Sugar, Swire Tea and other companies, and has many plantations and farms in Australia, India and other countries.

On a global scale, it can be regarded as a strong one.

In Australia and New Zealand, Queensland Sugar Company and New Zealand Sugar Company occupy the largest market share in New Zealand and Australia, with a market share of more than 75%, and are also the largest sugar exporters.

In the mainland, there is a Huanong Group established three years ago, which is an agricultural production materials group with a whole industrial chain in agriculture. There are subsidiaries in feed and seedling cultivation.

But in the final analysis, Huanong Group is positioned as a supplier of agricultural production materials, rather than a seller of agricultural products, and the difference is still very large.

It's not that Xia Yu doesn't want to build a company comparable to COFCO in the mainland, but it's actually not very mature now.

It has been less than eight years since the implementation of the household contract responsibility system in mainland China. Land is very sensitive. Moreover, the mainland is still dominated by small farmers. If Jiuzhou Industrial Group wants to enter the field of agricultural and sideline product production, it is possible, but if it wants to. It is basically impossible to make a Big Mac now, and it will be more realistic after entering the 1990s.

Therefore, if Xia Yu wants to become a global giant in the bulk trading of agricultural and sideline products, he can only find a way in countries outside the mainland.

Because there is enough capital, the easiest way is to build a high-rise building and acquire an existing industry giant.

There is no doubt that the four major grain merchants of ABCD in later generations were targeted by Xia Yu. In the information collected this time, these four companies are listed impressively.

American Cargill, the C of the four major grain merchants, is the largest agricultural product trading overlord in later generations.

Cargill, which was established in 1865, has been an old company for more than 120 years. So far, the unlisted Cargill is jointly controlled by the Macmillan family and the Cargill family. The two families have been married to each other for hundreds of years. has long been inseparable.

In addition, the business style of the two big families is very stable, and they do not like loan business, so the development speed is relatively slow. At this time, Cargill has entered the Asian market, and even started trade with China after Nixon visited China in 1972.

A of the four major grain merchants is the American ADM Company, which was established in 1902 and is now a top oilseed, corn and wheat processing company.

The company, unlike Cargill, has gone public and is currently run by the founding family, the Daniels family.

Because AMD was founded by the founders of Daniels and Archer, and later merged with Midland, it is not as concentrated as Cargill in terms of equity.

Among the four major grain merchants, B is Bunge, but because the headquarters has not moved to the United States, it is not an American company.

Bunge is also an extremely old company, older than Cargill. It was established in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1818, and was the world's main food supplier even before Cargill was established.

At present, the Bunge Company has not been listed. For more than 160 years, it has been in the hands of the Bunge family, and the control is so deep that it cannot be shaken at all.

The last D of the four major grain merchants is the French Louis Dreyfus Company. This company was established in 1851. Its development strategy is similar to that of Cargill.

At present, the Louis Dreyfus family is not listed either. % of the shares are also concentrated in the hands of other members of the Louis Dreyfus family.

In addition to these four giants, there are now Ikham, Dalivan, Paul Reinhardt, Olam and so on in the global agricultural and sideline products bulk trading market.

It's just that most of these companies are very low-key, making a fortune in silence, not going public, and their equity is relatively concentrated.

After finding out these circumstances, Xia Yu also felt a little headache.