Of course Liu Lang didn't choose to acquire those construction engineering companies on a whim.
At a time when economies around the world are generally weakening, large-scale 'stud investment' seems unwise.
But Liu Lang no longer has that much time to look forward and backward.
He only had a year to prepare.
No matter how much money the next series of preparation operations require, Liu Lang doesn't care at all.
Because more than three hundred days later, the end of the world will come. At that time, no matter the US dollar, Dragon Coin, or other sovereign national credit currencies, they will be reduced to a pile of waste paper.
As the leader of the Spark Consortium, Liu Lang must now turn all the wealth controlled by the consortium into resources and power before the end of the world comes.
He must race against time and race against time!
After comprehensively acquiring many high-quality construction engineering companies in China, the Commercial Department of Spark Consortium quickly moved on to the next phase of work.
Domestically, we have convened many leading, first-line e-commerce and offline supermarket brands such as tb, id, RT-Mart, etc. for discussions.
It is announced that the Spark Consortium will officially enter the field of logistics and warehousing from now on. In the future, it will be able to provide the most cost-effective logistics and warehousing services to various e-commerce and supermarket groups.
After the news came out, the outside world suddenly understood why the Spark Consortium spent huge sums of money to acquire construction engineering companies that were not favored by the market.
It turns out that everything is aimed at entering the logistics field on a large scale.
But at the same time, the financial investment community and economic analysts are even more confused.
As we all know, the warehousing and logistics industry has always been an 'asset-heavy' industry.
The construction of supporting logistics bases, infrastructure facilities, highly automated logistics parks, and some even have high requirements for transportation fleets.
These require massive investment of real money.
Compared with other industries, the warehousing and logistics industry requires high investment and a long return cycle. It is an industry with a low cost performance.
The finance, biomedicine, and bioengineering departments that the Spark Consortium is most proud of can almost be regarded as profit-making industry departments comparable to 'money printing machines'.
With the same resources and capital investment, the return in finance and biomedicine is almost hundreds or thousands of times that of the logistics and warehousing industry!
Those authoritative analysts in the international investment market can't figure out why the Spark Group would give up its strengths and enter the logistics and warehousing field that it has never been involved in before.
In their view, for the world's top chaebol power like the Spark Consortium, there is no need to get involved in any industry that cannot generate huge profits.
Entering the field of logistics and warehousing is completely an investment failure of the Spark Consortium.
However, some authoritative analysts pointed out that the identity of Liu Lang, the head of Spark Financial Group, may be the key to this large-scale investment.
Although capital knows no borders, capitalists have nationalities.
Liu Lang may have received official instructions from the Dragon Kingdom, and the two parties reached an intention to cooperate. Through the resources and influence of the Spark Consortium, they would indirectly assist the Dragon Kingdom in its economic structural adjustment and transformation.
At the same time, the Spark Consortium will also acquire many high-quality assets in the domestic construction engineering industry of Dragon Kingdom with the cooperation of Dragon Kingdom officials.
In essence, this is an investment.
It's just that the two parties to the transaction are the world's second largest economy and the world's most powerful consortium.
Every move of the Spark Group will trigger countless speculations in the financial and investment circles.
But Liu Lang had no time to pay attention and clarify these rumors.
Negotiations with major e-commerce and supermarket groups are what he is most concerned about at the moment.
“Our Spark Consortium will establish integrated logistics and warehousing bases in 356 cities across the country in the future.
In addition, in cooperation with 20 special railways and 33 road transportation lines in the north-south and east-west directions across the country, there are also four river and lake transportation companies, the Spark Air Transport Department, and no less than 160 cargo transport aircraft of various types. . .
Establish an unprecedentedly large logistics system across the country! "
After listening to the speeches of the representatives of the Spark Consortium, representatives from major e-commerce and supermarket groups were stunned.
They did not expect that the Spark Consortium would be so determined to enter the warehousing and logistics industry.
With the reputation, status, and past history of the Spark Consortium, it is absolutely impossible for such a joke to be made in such a public place.
Once what the representative of the Spark Consortium said, then the logistics department of the Spark Consortium, at least in the Dragon Kingdom, will definitely become the largest and most powerful existence.
How important logistics and warehousing are to e-commerce and supermarket groups, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the 'lifeline'.
The top e-commerce and supermarket companies in the industry compete for the speed and quality of their respective warehousing and logistics services.
Representatives from all parties were even more shocked when they saw the warehousing and logistics service quotation given by representatives of the Spark Consortium.
"Such a low price, are you serious?"
"It's half the cost of building our own logistics. How did you, Xinghuo, do it?"
"Crazy, really crazy!
Are you trying to drive out all other domestic logistics companies? ! "
There was a lot of noise in the business conference room, and the faces of representatives from various e-commerce and supermarket groups were full of disbelief.
As representatives of the leading e-commerce and supermarket groups in the industry, they certainly know the costs of logistics and warehousing and how transparent their profits are.
For example, id has planned and built its own logistics system from the beginning.
After asking his subordinates several times, the ID representative looked a little depressed.
Because he found that the logistics and warehousing service quotation of the Spark Consortium was half lower than the cost of self-built logistics that ID was most proud of.
In other words, once the Spark Consortium's logistics and warehousing services are enabled, the cost expenditures of various e-commerce and supermarket groups can be significantly reduced.
In this way, they will have greater cost advantages and room for price reduction.
Using the logistics and warehousing services provided by the Spark Consortium, we can squeeze competitors out of the market through price wars.
After realizing this, representatives of various companies could no longer sit still.
Now it is not a question of whether you are willing to cooperate with the Spark Consortium.
But if the other party doesn't cooperate with you, it won't be long before your competitors can eliminate you by taking advantage of low logistics and warehousing costs.
Although I don’t know how the Spark Consortium has compressed the service costs of logistics and warehousing.
But after seeing the cooperation contract, which started ten years ago, representatives from various companies were finally relieved.
Because this means that unless the Spark Consortium, the world's top chaebol, goes bankrupt, the other party will provide them with high-quality and low-price logistics and warehousing services for at least ten years.
After receiving the news that each company signed a letter of intent for cooperation, Liu Lang also smiled.
Because this means that the products in the future warehouses of major domestic e-commerce and supermarket groups will become the assets of the Spark Consortium in one year.
