章節 1177: Chapter 1177: The ragtag army of the six major consortia
"Boss, I also have a certain understanding of the six major consortia in the island country. The island country can be said to be the country with the most serious monopoly of consortia in the world, which is even more serious than the United States and Europe. Moreover, the top six consortia in the island country control more than 60% of the island country's assets.'
'Each of the consortia now has assets of over 100 billion US dollars, and there are also intricate connections between the consortia.'
'Only you have the courage to take on the Sanwa Consortium. Just hearing you talk about it makes my blood boil!'
Tang Yong said excitedly after he had come back to his senses.
'Yes, boss, hunting the Sanwa Consortium, I will never forget this plan in my life!'
'...'
After Tang Yong finished speaking, the others also chimed in, expressing their shock and excitement.
Xia Yu listened to their praise with a smile, allowing them to vent so that they could continue the meeting with a calm mind later.
After a minute or so, Xia Yu continued, 'Tang Yong was right about some things, but he only understood the surface of things.'
'The six major financial groups in the island country are indeed very powerful, but there is also an order of priority, and the order varies at different times. However, at this time, the power from top to bottom is the Mitsubishi Group, the Mitsui Group, the Sumitomo Group, the Fuji Group, the Kangyin Group, and the Sanwa Group.'
'In fact, the Sanwa Group, which is the fifth-to-last established, is actually the weakest. Despite this, the assets involved in this weakest financial group also amount to more than 150 billion U.S. dollars!'
'However, don't be fooled by the Sanwa Consortium's assets. In fact, it is just a sick tiger to me, and it is having a hard time. You will know the details when you look at it.'
After saying that, Xia Yu gave Li Wuming, who was sitting behind him, a wink, and Li Wuming immediately took out a stack of information and handed out a copy to each person.
There wasn't actually much information, as it was just a list.
'The list you have been handed is a list of the companies that make up the Sanwa Group, with Sanwa Bank at its core. It includes the 41 core companies of the Sanshui Club and 136 peripheral companies with a stake of more than 10%!
'When he said this, Liu Yao and the others could no longer wait and started flipping through the information.
Xia Yu had already read this content countless times and knew it by heart.
According to the timeline, the Sanwa Group was the fifth post-war consortium to be established on the island, founded in 1967, after the Fuji Group in 1966.
But to be honest, the Sanwa Group was established in a hurry and with reluctance, quite a panic-stricken attempt to establish a consortium to enhance competitiveness and counter the four major consortia that had been established first.
The reason for saying this is that one has to mention the island's old four major financial groups – the Mitsubishi Group, Mitsui Group, Sumitomo Group and Yasuda Group.
These four financial groups are each controlled by a core family, corresponding to the Iwasaki, Mitsui, Sumitomo and Yasuda families.
These four old financial groups were also the financial groups that supported the island nation during World War II. Because of their strong fighting capabilities and high degree of monopolisation, they were dismembered by the United States after the island nation's defeat.
However, after the war, as the United States was fighting against the socialist camp, the leash was loosened, and the four families once again gathered their holdings and formed new conglomerates, with family members acting as the link.
Among them, the Sumitomo Foundation, which was the least involved in the military industry, suffered even less after the war, and was therefore the first to be re-established in 1951. The Sumitomo family controls a very high degree of the foundation's equity, which is not less than 50%!
Next came the Mitsubishi Zaibatsu, which was the strongest in the beginning, and was re-established in 1954.
Then in 1961, the Mitsui family also regrouped and completed the restructuring, and the Mitsui Zaibatsu appeared again.
Four years later, the Yasuda family, which had suffered the greatest losses, finally completed the integration with someone else. Since they could not completely control the situation and were involved in too many things, the Yasuda family could not dominate the situation, so the Zaibatsu changed its name and became the Fuji Zaibatsu.
At this point, the four old financial groups were reborn in a broad sense.
And because the four old financial groups were dismembered after the war, the business environment in the island country has been greatly improved, and many new families have grown or appeared.
However, after the four financial groups reappeared, these families were unwilling to suffer unfair competition again, so they established the Sanwa Financial Group, with Sanwa Bank, which previously mainly provided loans to small and medium-sized enterprises, at its centre.
The final Kangyin Consortium was a late bloomer, and it wasn't until 1978 that it managed to recruit enough members to establish itself at once, overtaking the Sanhe Consortium, which had been established eleven years earlier.
Because the Sanhe and Kangyin Consortia were established later and are joint consortia, their execution and combat effectiveness are weaker than those of the previous four major consortia.
In particular, the Sanhe Consortium is nothing more than a ragtag army among the six major consortia in the island country!
It is not an exaggeration to call it a 'miscellaneous consortium'!
The core bank of the Sanwa Consortium, Sanwa Bank, itself rose to prominence by lending to small and medium-sized enterprises, mainly in the light industry and textile industry. Therefore, after the establishment of the Sanwa Consortium, the heavy industry sector was weak.
Many of the core companies of the Sansui Club of the Sanwa Consortium were brought in to boost morale.
For example, Nissho Iwai Corporation, one of the top ten trading companies in the island country, was obviously the first to be persuaded to join the Sansui Club, even though Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank was the largest shareholder and Sanwa Bank was only the second largest.
The Sanwa Consortium then wanted to merge with Nichimen Corporation, another one of the island country's top ten trading companies that was at the bottom of the pile, but unfortunately this never happened.
After the Kan'yō Zaibatsu was established in 1978, Nissho Iwai became a member of the Kan'yō Zaibatsu at the same time.
In addition, Kobe Steel, one of the leading steel companies in the Sanwa Zaibatsu, is also a peripheral member of the Kan'yō Zaibatsu.
Although the island's largest insurance company, Island Life Insurance Company, is a core member of the Sansui Club of the Sanwa Zaibatsu, it maintains a high degree of independence because it is too powerful, and Sanwa Bank does not have much influence on it.
Many core companies such as Ube Industries and Teijin Chemical also maintain a high degree of independence.
As a result, there are many internal discord and power struggles within the Sanwa consortium, and it has the lowest unity.
For example, the Fukuhara family of Ube Industries is one of the typical representatives. Its family member Kazunari Fukuhara serves as the deputy manager of Sanwa Bank, but has been plotting the leadership position of the Sanwa consortium.
If it were just poor strength and lack of unity, but the Sanwa consortium also has bad luck.
Maruzen Petroleum, the third largest petroleum company in the island country, is the core company of the Sanwa Consortium and has had a relationship with Sanwa Bank for decades. However, six years after the establishment of the Sanwa Consortium, the first oil crisis in the world broke out, affecting Maruzen Petroleum and then Sanwa Bank, which was deeply related, thus triggering asset fluctuations.
After a few years of hard work, the second oil crisis hit. In 1980, Maruzen Oil's deficit reached 100 billion yen. Maruzen Oil was having difficulty operating, and if it weren't for the strong support of the Sanwa consortium, it would have gone bankrupt long ago.
As of last year, 1982, Maruzen Oil's total revenue reached 6.3 billion U.S. dollars, but its net profit was only 9.6 million U.S. dollars, which was outrageously low. However, at least it was considered a net profit and no longer a negative number.
This shows how difficult it has been for the Sanwa consortium over the years.
How can just one island nation's top five Sanwa Bank and a medium-sized Toyo Trust Bank drive so many companies?
Unlike Xia Yu himself, after excluding the assets of the Milky Way Fund, the total assets are less than 140 billion U.S. dollars, which is less than the Sanwa Consortium, but it owns a series of large banks such as HSBC Holdings, Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard Chartered Bank, Jiuding Bank, and Wells Fargo.
With the full support of these banks, how could the Sanwa Consortium be at the bottom of the class?
But on the other hand, the Sanhe Consortium is so loose and its financial sector is weak, so it is also the easiest to hunt and the easiest to complement with his Jiuding Consortium.
Time passed slowly, and Liu Yao and the others finally finished reading the information about the Sanhe Consortium.
However, after they finished reading it, their expressions were all a bit strange.
Xue He couldn't help but complain, 'Boss, this Sanhe Consortium is really like you said, a sick tiger. It looks shiny on the outside, but in reality, it's kind of miserable!'
'Yes, it is a bit miserable. No wonder you say that the Sanhe Consortium is at the bottom of the six major consortia in the island country. It would be strange if it wasn't at the bottom.'
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The others followed suit.
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