Guangdong tycoon behind share listings of local firms
June 26, 2014 Leave a comment
Guangdong tycoon behind share listings of local firms
Staff Reporter
2014-06-23
Timber tycoon Liu Shaoxi, founder and chairman of the Guangdong-based Yihua Enterprise Group, has been a key player behind the share listings of local companies from the southern region, reports Guangzhou’s Time Weekly.
Founded in 1995, Yihua alongside its subsidiary Guangdong Yihua Timber, was the first private business in Shantou city in Guangdong to launch a listing in Shanghai on Aug. 24, 2004.
In November 2007, Yihua’s real estate subsidiary completed its share listing, and became the first property company in eastern Guangdong to be publicly traded, the paper said.
Today, a total of 27 companies from Shandou and neighboring Chaozhou are listed on the A-share market, either in Shanghai or Shenzhen, and have a combined market value of over 110 billion yuan (US$17.7 billion).
While the cluster of businesses that have formed in the region are seen as the reason behind local companies’ interests in a share listing, the paper highlighted one characteristic of these companies —they often hold stakes in each other.
A local official told the paper that companies planning to list often sought advice from Liu and his brother, as they are seen as the “godfathers of capital.”
Yihua has owned stakes in four listed companies through various investment firms it set up in recent years. These four companies were telecoms giant Huawei Technology, Guangdong Taiantang Pharmaceutical, Guangdong Jinming Machinery and Shantou Dongfeng Printing.
Through its investment in these companies, Yihua owned a 9.48% stake in Huawei, 6.75% in Jinming, and 5.45% in Dongfeng at the end of March, but has sold its stake in Tianantang, the paper said.
Yihua is also linked to four of the nine companies that have completed preliminary disclosures for their public listing, either through the investment companies or because of a personal connection with Liu.
These four companies are Guangdong Guanghua Sci-Tech, in which a company represented by Liu’s son holds an 8% stake, Guangdong Songfa Ceramics, where Liu’s son is the third-largest shareholder, ceramics company Guangdong Sitong Group and home decorator Mingdiao, where the president’s wife is Liu’s sister, the paper said.
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