From 65438 to 0974, after the top management of Guo Group established Kerry Group Co., Ltd. in Hong Kong, Hong Kong and China Mainland gradually became the focus of the Group's further regional development in the 1970s and 1980s. Since then, the Guo Group has diversified its investment, operating hotels, real estate, warehouses, food industry, insurance, transportation and trade. The name "Kerry" has also become a symbol of the extensive business of the Kwok Brothers Group in Hongkong and mainland China.
Guo Henian's second son, Guo Kongyan, returned from studying abroad and was mainly responsible for Singapore-Malaysia business. Kong Cheng settled in Hong Kong with his father to take care of the business in Hong Kong and the Mainland, which was of great help to his father in expanding his business in Hong Kong and the Mainland.
Although in the mid-1970s, Guo Enterprise Group had firmly controlled 65,438+00% of the world sugar trade and was recognized as the world's six largest sugar, it did not stop there, but gradually expanded its territory from tourism, real estate to media.
In stark contrast to Kong Yan, the second son in charge of Singapore's Pacific shipping business, and his son-in-law who is a Malaysian securities giant, Guo Kongcheng has been standing at the forefront of the Guo Group with his father, taking the lead and attacking the city.
Among Guo Henian's children, Guo Kongcheng is in charge of the hotel industry. As a result, Guo established a huge Shangri-La hotel system in Asia, and was rated as "the new core value of Asian hotels" by the famous British business travel magazine.
1988, Guo acquired 30% equity of HKTVB and became the largest shareholder. Guo Henian and his eldest son Guo Kongcheng entered the board of directors as alternate directors.
In August 2006, Guo cooperated with the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of China to build the World Trade Center and China World Hotel in Beijing. Today, Guo Kongcheng frequently visits the mainland as the head of Guo, and has launched a series of cooperation projects in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beihai, An, Wuhan, Shenyang, Changchun, Harbin, Qingdao and Dalian.
On the issue of successors, Guo Henian said: "I have been talking about retirement, hoping that successors can play a role. Overnight, the company's business in Chinese mainland developed rapidly. /kloc-When I was 0/6 years old, I studied Chinese for 18 months. My Chinese is limited, but I can still come in handy in communication with the mainland. " Obviously, the future development of Guo Group will focus on the mainland.
For Guo Kongcheng, whose career has just started, all this is also determining whether he can really surpass his parents and continue to write Guo Legend in the new century. Guo Kongcheng, a Malaysian national, is a permanent resident of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. 1975 graduated from Mona University, Australia with a bachelor's degree in economics. He used to be managing director of Kerry Trading Co., Ltd., chairman of Shangri-La Hotel Group, chairman of Shangri-La (Asia) Co., Ltd., chairman of Kerry Group Co., Ltd., chairman of Malaysia's Rasasayangbeachhotels (Penang) BHD, director of Malaysia's PerlisPlantationBhd, and vice chairman of CITIC Pacific Limited. He is currently the chairman of Kerry Group Co., Ltd. and the chairman of Teresa Teng Kerry Trading Co., Ltd., together with Guo Kongcheng.
After attending the groundbreaking ceremony of the city that never sleeps in Shanghai in his early years, Guo Henian revealed that he had initially faded out of the business world and made his eldest son Guo Kongcheng the managing director of Kerry Group. This economic giant, who has many titles such as "Asian Sugar King", "Hotel Tycoon" and "Media Emperor", regards the selection of Guo's successors as a more important primary task than expanding the enterprise territory.
In the end, he chose the eldest son to act as an advance party, and other children and relatives were in charge of the family business, which was a drill for the inheritance of Guo's career. Nowadays, most of the elders of the "Crane" generation in this family are old, and they are gradually withdrawing from the front line of enterprise management and handing over the leadership to the "Kong" generation. Guo Henian's eldest son, Guo Kongcheng, has succeeded his father as the chairman of the board of directors of Kerry Group Co., Ltd., becoming the most promising successor of "Sugar King" among many brothers and sisters.