Volume 5: The Age of Storms Chapter 0729: Targeting the Tata Group
Hunting is not just for hunting. Although a competition has been added, the atmosphere is still very peaceful.
They all had serious careers, especially Pabhu, who was the mayor of a city and could not stay outside for too long. After staying in the Bandhavgarh National Park for two days, Nan Yi and his four companions set out on the journey back to Mumbai.
This journey made Nan Yi realize that he had to choose an appropriate time to have a heart-to-heart talk with Sonu. To a certain extent, he had to eliminate the mutual suspicion and vigilance between the two and become close partners.
But no matter what his true thoughts were, before returning to the Sesagoa headquarters in Goa, Sonu still found a lawyer, Akshay Patera, for the labor group, and also got Nan Yi an invitation letter to the Tata Group's annual meeting, with Nan Yi and Priyanka's names written in the invitee column.
Nan Yi quickly arranged for Vikram of Shockwave to explain the plan of operating United Cement stocks to Sonu , Prabhu and Neeraj. The three were very satisfied with Vikram's plan, especially the arrangement of Harshad Mehta as a scapegoat, which they called a stroke of genius.
After the briefing, Vikram, Neeraj and Rana Sawan, the president of the independent trade union, met privately again.
Harshad Mehta is just a fairly successful agent . The benefits he can bring to Rana Sawan are very limited. Rana Sawan naturally knows who to cooperate with to gain more benefits.
In this way, the union chairman, who was supposed to represent the interests of the workers, was in collusion with the very people the workers wanted to fight against.
Later, with the help of Prabhu, Sanjay Malpani, the chairman of the BSE, was also united into the larger collective of the labor group and became a part of the alliance of interests.
Bad crowd groups are active in Pinar del Rio in Cuba, the Champs Elysees in Paris, Fifth Avenue in New York, and the Silk Market in Hangzhou.
Nan Yi himself doesn't use any luxury goods, but the Nan family's spending on luxury goods has always been high. There are many projects and many links that need to be connected. Especially this year, so far, nearly 30 million US dollars have been spent.
But there was no way. From the first day the bad guys group was established, Nan Yi knew very well that this was a high-budget department. As long as there was a return for the effort, he would be willing to spend it even if it cost tens of billions a year.
“Chairman, the Tata Group is now facing a huge crisis. The crisis does not come from outside, but from within. Under the huge industrial cluster of the Tata Group, there are nearly thousands of large and small enterprises, of which 96 can be considered medium-sized enterprises.
There are 28 companies whose financial reports are available to the outside world, and the total assets of these companies exceed US$12 billion. A rough calculation of the assets of other companies shows that they will definitely not be less than US$70 billion.
However, the business empire worth more than 100 billion US dollars is almost entirely controlled by a group of leaders who are over 70 years old, and the oldest is 90 years old. They have rigid thinking, but they hold high positions and have great power.
J.R.D. Tata is now 84 years old. He once said publicly within the Tata Group that he would hand over the Tata Empire to Ratan Tata. However, Ratan, who is 51 years old this year, was ridiculed by Tata's senior management as "still wet behind the ears". They were very resistant to him taking over the chairmanship of Tata. Some senior management of subsidiaries even said that they would not follow Ratan's instructions.
"The trillion-dollar empire you mentioned, actually the Tata family only owns about 30 billion, right?" Nan Yi said as he flipped through the documents in his hand.
"Almost. Chairman, the Tata Group does not have absolute controlling rights in many subsidiaries. It is only the largest shareholder, but the amount of shares it holds is not too high. In some companies, the shares it holds are even in the single digits."
"Then tell me, what will Ratan do to change the passive situation?"
"Increase the shareholding of high-quality enterprises to at least 50% and gain relative controlling rights, and then issue retirement regulations in these enterprises, requiring managers above a certain age to retire compulsorily."
"Yes." Nan Yi nodded, "What you said is a good idea, but there are two problems. One is capital. If you want to buy shares, you will have to spend a lot of money. The Tata family may not be able to come up with so much liquid funds.
Secondly, although replacing too many senior executives at once could restore some of the vitality of the Tata Group, it would also cause serious internal instability. There would definitely be senior executives who were reluctant to give up power and unite to overthrow Ratan. "
Nan Yi paused, thought for a moment, and then continued, "This also explains why the Tata Group's annual meeting invites outsiders to attend. Ratan wants to expand his external influence and may even want to bring in a white knight."
"President, do you want to invest in Tata Group?"
"Haha, of course I want to, but it depends on whether there is an opportunity." Nan Yi smiled and said, "The world is ours and yours, but in the final analysis, it still belongs to capital and aristocratic families. The Tata family in India is a combination of capital and aristocratic families. Do you think this family will fall?"
"No, unless India reshuffles its cards." Han Zhenhe said firmly.
“Call Ma Shimin and ask the Jardine Matheson Bank to formulate a support and investment plan for Indian enterprises, and then go to Mumbai in a high-profile manner to contact the Reserve Bank [central bank] to discuss the establishment of a branch in Mumbai.
We should prepare for both situations. If it is impossible, we can use it as an excuse to enter India. If it is possible, we can go with the flow. Our main goal is to catch the big fish, Ratan."
" OK."
After Han Zhenhe left the study, Nan Yi started looking at Nan's copy report on the computer again.
Generally speaking, Nan's reports on major decisions will be delivered directly to Nan Yi. For some daily affairs and less important decisions, Liang Huiwen and Ueto Masami can cross-examine and discuss the decisions. As long as they are ranked according to priority, a copy of the report will be sent to Nan Yi within a certain period of time.
It’s just that the current network is not developed enough, otherwise it would be more convenient to send it directly on the internal ERP system, without the need for floppy disks and hard drives as it is now.
Nan Yi looked at the report and did not take any action without any doubt. He wrote down the serial numbers of the business items that needed detailed information. After returning the serial numbers to the Nan Office, Ueto Masami would ask the people below to submit the detailed information.
It took Nan Yi more than an hour to finish reading the report. He tapped a few times on the keyboard and the encryption program was executed immediately. The report was re-encrypted and saved to the floppy disk. At the same time, the cache in the memory was deleted.
"Campus Beauty, 3, 12, 25, 12 is urgent, I want to see the information as soon as possible."
"clear."
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