v3 Chapter 1424： ABCD4 Major Grain Merchant

"Jianning, the profits of these companies, except for the Galaxy Fund, don't 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 its own strength and depending on the situation."

"But you still need to show me a top-level plan."

After putting down the statistics report, Xia Yu summoned the tranced Huo Jianning and gave him instructions directly.

"Well, I will step up to complete the task in these two days." Huo Jianning immediately replied loudly.

"Well, go ahead."

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After Huo Jianning left, Xia Yu checked the time and found that it was not too early, so he returned home to see his wife and children.

And using the time of these few days, Xia Yu also pondered over what to spend after making so much money.

The financial layout is already very large. If you want to wait for the right harvest time, you need to wait a long time.

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

Just after he checked the list of the world's top 500 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 collected all the information he needed.

This time, he is focusing on the global commodity trading market!

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

Commodity transactions 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.

Take the mainland, for example, after joining the WTO in the previous life, in 2004, it made a big deal in bulk commodity trading.

ABCD's four major international grain merchants used bulk trading methods to almost completely wipe out mainland soybean companies, and took advantage of the opportunity to purchase major mainland soybean companies at low prices, opening up the entire industrial chain.

Of the 40 million bean farmers, half of them are laid off. They can only leave their homes and become one of the 200 million migrant workers, which has caused a huge negative impact on society.

Closer to home.

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

In fact, there are a wide variety of bulk commodities, such as gold, silver, copper, iron, aluminum and other non-ferrous metal products, crude oil, natural rubber, propane, heating oil and other energy and chemical products, as well as corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, cocoa, cotton and other agricultural products. By-products are all commodities.

In order to facilitate classification, it is divided into three categories, namely energy commodities, basic raw materials and agricultural and sideline products.

In terms of commodity trading, Xia Yu has actually been doing it a long time ago, and he is still the big one.

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

Speaking of resources, Xia Yu has too many, so relatively, he has a very high market influence position in many fields.

Needless to say, natural rubber, because 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 allies of Xia Yu. The company is also owned by Xia Yu. The Xiangjiang Commodity Exchange is controlled by Xia Yu. Therefore, Xia Yu controls the highest pricing power for natural rubber.

In terms of minerals, Bluestar Mining Company, a giant crocodile lurking in the bottom of the water, relied on the resources provided by Xia Yu to run wild on the road of mining hegemony.

In terms of crude oil, Pacific Petroleum Corporation, following Xia Yu’s instructions, is also a rich man after winning one of the big oil fields. As long as there are plans to develop some oil fields later, it will be 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, resources are one thing at hand, and whether they can sell at a high price to make more profits is another matter.

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

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

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

Look at it this way.

He also has an obvious shortcoming in bulk commodity trading, that is, agricultural and sideline products and the entire industrial chain.

In this regard, he is not without a company, just not strong.

For example, the first-tier subsidiary of Jiuding Industrial Group-Taikoo Agriculture Group, has companies such as Taikoo Cotton, Taikoo Sugar, Taikoo Tea, etc., 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 the Huanong Group, which was established three years ago. This is an agricultural production material group with a full industrial chain in agriculture. It specializes in pesticides and pesticide equipment, chemical fertilizers, small farm tools, semi-mechanized farm tools, mechanized farm tools, There are subsidiaries in feed, seedling cultivation, etc.

But in the final analysis, the positioning of Huanong Group is a supplier of agricultural production materials, rather than a seller of agricultural products. There is still a big difference.

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

The household contract responsibility system in mainland China has been implemented for less than eight years, and land is very sensitive. Moreover, the mainland is still dominated by small-scale peasants. Kyushu Industrial Group wants to enter the field of agricultural and sideline product production. It is basically impossible to become a Big Mac now, and it will be more realistic after entering the 1990s.

Therefore, if Xia Yu wants to become a major global agricultural and sideline product trading giant, currently he can only think of ways outside the mainland.

Because there is enough capital, the easiest way is to build a house and buy an existing industry giant.

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

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

Founded in 1865, Cargill has been an old company for more than 120 years. So far, the unlisted Cargill has been jointly controlled by the Macmillan family and the Cargill family. The two families have been married for hundreds of years. Has long been indivisible.

In addition, the two big families have very stable business styles and do not like loan operations, so the development speed is relatively slow. At this time, Cargill has entered the Asian market and even started trading with China after Nixon's visit to China in 1972.

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

This company is not the same as Cargill. It has already gone public. The company is currently run by the founder's family, the Daniels family.

Because AMD was founded by the two founders, Daniels and Archer, and later merged with Midland, so in terms of equity, there is no such concentration of Cargill.

Among the four major grain merchants, B is Bunge, but it is not a US company because its headquarters has not been moved to the United States.

Bunge is also an extremely old company, older than Cargill. It was founded in 1818 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and before Cargill was established, it was already a major food supplier in the world.

At present, Bunge is not 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 among the four major grain merchants is the French company Louis Dreyfus. This company was founded in 1851. Its development strategy is similar to that of Cargill. They are always moving forward in concealment, far away from public view.

At present, the Louis Dreyfus family is not listed, and it is in the hands of the Louis Dreyfus family. The current family head and group chairman is Robert Louis Dreyfus, who holds 81% of the shares of the Louis Dreyfus Group, and the remaining 19 % Of the equity is also concentrated in the hands of other members of the Louis Dreyfus family.

In addition to these four giants, there are also Icham, Dalivan, Paul Reinhardt, Olam, etc. in the global agricultural and sideline product trading market.

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

After finding these things, Xia Yu also felt some headaches.