Chapter 162 bidding for gambling cards
The most important thing is that Phantom not only has mastered the world's largest media group Book Media, but also has a great influence in the entertainment media industry! Someone once said: "Even Zhou Runfa, the world's most influential superstar, can make Fa disappear in all media at any time with just one word from Phantom, and even disappear in the entertainment industry from now on!"
If Zhenru Yifei thinks he is an enemy of the world, just one word from Phantom, any promotion of Dai Ning is unlikely to appear in any media! Therefore, it is obviously completely impossible to avoid Phantom! Then their investment will really turn into a river of spring water flowing eastward!
"Forget it, it doesn't matter if you don't cooperate with the Phantom!" Qi Yuan glared at Yi Fei sadly. He still didn't understand what that kid Yi Fei was thinking: "Then consider other partners!"
In fact, in some aspects, there is no need to cooperate with other companies in a century. Of course, cooperation with Feiyuan is inevitable. Australia Entertainment itself has shipping business, hotel and banking business, so it is very skilled in doing it.
However, Macau Entertainment has no long-distance shipping, so it is no problem for short-distance. Therefore, this determines that Macau Entertainment's shipping business is destined to be able to be launched in Daining. For real long-distance voyage, you need to master the shipping company of large cruise ships. In this way, tourists can choose to travel thousands of miles to Daining by boat.
The shipping cooperation that a hundred years are seeking is this long-range aspect. Yi Fei and Qi Yuan didn't think much about the hotel and real estate industry. After all, Xinyue is not for acquisition, and the real estate industry is a good opportunity for Feiyuan to develop. Therefore, some things that Feiyuan can do do do don't need partners, especially in the hotel industry.
However, that doesn’t mean that Centennian only needs to cooperate with Feiyuan! The most typical example is that in the aviation industry, 20% of the equity of Macau Airlines controlled by Macau Entertainment has been handed over to Centennian. On the surface, since Centennian has controlled the equity of Centennian, there seems to be no need to seek aviation partners anymore.
However, don’t ignore it. Macau is often only used as a terminal and a departure station. It is impossible to let every tourist who goes to Daining go to Macau first and then take the air to Daining! What’s more, even if you are so stupid that you do this, what about the routes between Daining in other countries and regions? Then airlines in various places also need to increase their routes!
Therefore, Air Macau really doesn’t play any role in this regard! Yi Fei is more willing to control Cathay Pacific in Hong Kong. Unfortunately, Cathay Pacific, as one of the top airlines in East Asia, obviously no one is willing to sell its equity!
In short, all aspects of cooperation are too broad, and the most typical one is infrastructure. There is no doubt that Bai Nian’s investment in Dai Ning is very large, but Feiyuan is not familiar with the infrastructure industry at all, so he must find a partner for this business.
In terms of infrastructure, what makes Yi Fei feel a headache is that Chengji Infrastructure, a subsidiary of Phantom, is one of the few infrastructure groups in Asia. Chengji is not very qualified, but he holds the equity of at least hundreds of infrastructure projects, such as Europe has an airport construction with an investment of tens of billions of dollars. Therefore, such infrastructure projects are undoubtedly the most qualified! But he is now worried about having any relationship with Phantom!
After roughly agreeing to this matter, Qi Yuan was relieved. Yi Fei's persistence made them choose other companies with relatively weaker strength to do it. Those may not be good things! Suddenly thinking of something, he asked: "Xiao Fei, how is the case with the bidding rights in Singapore?"
Singapore passed the law a few months ago and was determined to release two more gambling rights. Centennium naturally could not miss such an opportunity! Now Singapore’s gambling rights have 15 companies from all over the world who officially obtained the bidding qualification, including Centennium.
Yi Fei pondered for a moment. Singapore's conditions this time were quite harsh, which also led to many gambling companies not being qualified! It seems that Singapore is planning to seriously interfere in the gambling industry and make high profits from it. However, although Singapore is very interested in competing for the Macau market, it was investigated shortly after Yi Fei entered the Macau Entertainment industry. Even if there are a large number of casinos in Asia, it is impossible to really shake the Macau gambling industry! So, he is quite relieved about this!
Singapore had already started gambling a few years ago and officially issued a gambling card. In its first attempt, the Singapore government maintained a very conservative attitude and gave the first gambling card to the Singapore Horse Racing Administration. The management of the administration was not very poor, and it also earned a lot of money for Singapore, which catalyzed the emergence of the second and third gambling cards!
Thinking of this, Yi Fei temporarily put down his fear of Phantom and smiled slightly. Singapore Gambling Company was originally a subsidiary of He Jing's Tema Holding Company, but in 2004, the Ministry of Finance of Singapore announced that it would hand over the Gambling Company to the Horse Racing Administration.
In this way, the Horse Racing Administration became the largest dealer in Singapore, and was the full-right manager of digital gambling, sports betting, horse racing and all gambling businesses. The mystery of this can be guessed by colleagues, which is obviously due to the suppression of He Jing’s power!
He Jing can almost be called the Singapore gambling king. Although he failed to get the first gambling card, this title is obviously quite appropriate with his strong influence on the Singapore gambling industry. And this time, He Jing's Tema also became one of the fifteen gambling companies. I believe that even if Singapore allows him to get a gambling card, he will have to find a stronger opponent to suppress it.
Of course, Yi Fei was not sure whether He Jing could get compensation from Singapore or anything else. However, he was sure of one thing that Singapore could not tolerate three gambling cards! The annual number of tourists in Singapore is only 7 million, even higher than that of local residents. The number of tourists in Macau is as high as 15 million, and they are all for gambling, which has created the prosperity of Oriental Casino.
What’s ridiculous is that in order to restrict the entry of its own residents into casinos, Singapore has also issued many laws, strictly prohibiting domestic residents under the age of 25 from entering casinos. Various implicit laws indirectly restrict Singapore’s domestic market, which means that the profits of casinos must be achieved by tourists.
I'm afraid that most of those who travel to Singapore are not for gambling, Yi Fei can be sure of this. In this way, the profits of the casino can be imagined. Moreover, there are still gambling ships sailing near the high seas of Singapore, which is something that can directly impact the casino!
He and Ning Xiaoyu once carefully analyzed the turnover and profits of Singapore Gambling Corporation (Xinbo for short) in recent years. Due to experience issues, Xinbo basically equals a loss in the first year. It was not until the second year that it started to make a profit. Last year, Xinbo had a total of 500 gambling tables, distributed in a total of eight casinos! The turnover was 4 billion US dollars, and in addition to the total gambling tax of nearly 40%, the pure profit was 80 million US dollars!
Of course, all of this is just an off-the-scene account. For example, the off-the-scene account and the actual account are different. Peripheral gambling is the number that cannot be recorded. Of course, that is also acquiesced by the government.
The numbers of Xinbo are very interesting. Macau is known as a casino. There are so many tourists who come here specially, but there are only nearly 2,000 gambling tables. Singapore's first gambling card has achieved 500 gambling tables, and the market can be said to be more than half of the market has been occupied by Xinbo.
In this way, if you think about He Jing’s affairs, you can roughly guess why Singapore has to issue two more gambling cards, and insist on claiming that Singapore has the ability to accommodate three gambling cards. Singapore wants to open up the gambling industry, but is worried that it can’t beat Macau, and also wants to use the gambling industry to contribute growth points to the tourism industry. This time, extremely demanding conditions are put forward, which forces companies that get gambling cards to invest heavily to recover their investments. In that case, Singapore will be the cheapest in the end.
It is impossible to admit that the Singapore government is indeed very cunning, and it can even be described as despicable. Otherwise, Xinbo would not have made a "market" as big as 500 gambling tables in just a few years, but the remaining market can only be contested by the other two companies.
Strictly speaking, if Yi Fei had not needed to open a casino to every corner of the world in his grand vision, he would not want to participate in this bidding, because there would not be much profit to make. He even believed that the entire gambling industry in Singapore would not be as good as the future Daining.
Here, we must talk about Yi Fei’s expectations for Daining. According to detailed predictions and calculations, after the first phase of the project for Daining in the past century and other collaborators completed the preliminary construction, Daining will generate no less than one million tourists every year, with the middle class and the rich as the main sources of tourists.
After the first phase of the casinos on the three islands of Daining, based on the current gambling industry and gambling gameplay, regardless of the number of external gambling, they can achieve at least 2 billion US dollars in turnover and 200 million US dollars in profits! And this is just a gambling aspect. If other aspects are added, the profit figure will only become larger and larger.
However, Yi Fei needs, he really needs to have his own casinos or his own casinos all over the world. Only in this way can he realize a huge and novel new gambling method, a gambling method that is more suitable for modern people!
As for Singapore's gambling industry, he didn't even look down on it. Yi Fei was very interested in the Japanese gambling license that officially started in August 2008! Although the conditions issued by the Japanese government are very high, it is obviously a huge profit to be tapped in the face of such a market with a population of more than 100 million.
The market is very large! Japan, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines and other countries will open up the gambling industry within two years, which is the best opportunity for the century-old group to develop. Whether it can take over the Singapore gambling industry this time is undoubtedly an opportunity to show itself to other countries.
This is why Singapore has set up harsh conditions and still has many gambling companies to participate in the competition. Because for Western gambling companies, being able to show their strength and qualifications to countries by operating the gambling industry in an Eastern country or region is undoubtedly a great advantage.
Obviously, the gambling industry in various places is not in Singapore, but in Asia. In Yifei's view, the global gambling industry is currently undergoing a turning point, a transition from regional to global.
Whether it is Platinum Group's acquisition of Sinrachi or other gambling groups' intervention in casinos around the world, this is a manifestation. After years of development, the turbulent gambling industry has gradually become unable to keep up with the pace of the times.
In this information society, there is not even professional publications, which proves that the gambling industry is far behind other industries in terms of information age. In fact, besides online casinos, it seems that it is difficult for the gambling industry to have any relationship with the information society. At least major gambling groups have shown heavy concerns and hesitation about this.
It is precisely because of this collective lag behind the times that major gambling groups have opened online casinos, as if trying to use this to show that gambling has actually kept up with the pace of society! However, Yi Fei believes that online casinos represent far from keeping up with the pace of the times, but another conservative presentation of the self-righteousness of major gambling groups.
The great creativity in his mind is the new gambling method that can truly keep up with the pace of the times, and truly connect with the times and integrate them together. No matter what, the confusion of the gambling industry group in the future is reflected in their own actions, and everyone took the wrong path at the same time and headed towards the globalization of the gambling industry.
Strictly speaking, Yi Fei does not think that the globalization of the gambling industry is a bad thing, and even believes that the gambling industry is indeed a critical moment for integration to enter super and globalization. In the face of life-and-death battle, the gambling industry group will inevitably undergo changes in the past few years, and the resulting changes will inevitably be a series of mergers or mergers, etc.
Yi Fei's view cannot be said to be very novel. At least many wise senior officials of the gambling industry have realized that the gambling industry will be unified, and the final remaining must be the super group after the cruel battle.
In Atlantic City, Zhang Haowen quickly annexed the business of the old gambling king Trumpet Tracy with thunder. In addition, other gambling companies in Atlantic City, which were shocked, have successively merged and annexed. In Atlantic City, there are only four large-scale gambling companies left. This can be said to be a classic example!
However, Yi Fei's view is certainly not very novel, but his most fundamental view is completely different from the current gambling group. He does not think that gambling group only chooses cross-regional expansion methods. This is indeed a means and an inevitable process. Macau Entertainment is currently going through such a process.
However, he still believes that the gambling industry has more effective and beneficial means, saving human or material resources, and expands consciousness or conceptually. Of course, others did not think of the methods he thought of, so they all chose to expand in the region and in some way of economic aggression! Even Macau Entertainment had to choose this method to complete a certain super- and global transformation!
Of course, all of this can only be said to be Yi Fei's analysis of the current and future gambling situation. As for Singapore's bidding, I dare not say that I am determined to win for a century, at least I still want to get it. In this way, I can initially create the prototype of an Asian gambling kingdom.
Yi Fei was quite happy when discussing these business-level things with Qi Yuan. At least he was not very interested in specific management and management. Qi Yuan did not express anything about Yi Fei's views. He didn't understand betting very well, but he believed in Yi Fei's judgment!
Chapter completed!