海航在法國啓動“巴黎國際周”
If last week’s news about Chinese regulators reviewing the borrowing habits of a handful of companies, including HNA, was meant to take the wind out of the sails of the Hainan-based company, there was no signs of it on Monday night in Paris’s historic Petit Palais art museum.
如果上週有關中國監管機構審查包括海航(HNA)在內的少數公司借款習慣的新聞，意在讓這家總部位於海南的公司在境外收購方面有所收斂，那麼，本週一晚在巴黎具有歷史意義的小皇宮藝術博物館(Petit Palais)中，這家近些年來在海外頻頻收購的中國集團則絲毫沒有這樣的跡象。Here the Chinese group kicked off what it dubbed Paris International Week, which among others things will see HNA as the lead sponsor of the Open de France golf tournament. (Not to be outdone, HNA’s aircraft leasing group Avolon signed an MOU at the Paris Air Show last week to purchase 75 Boeing 737 planes, with an option to buy a further 50.)
海航在這裏啓動了其所謂的巴黎國際周(Paris International Week)，包括成爲法國高爾夫公開賽(Open de France)的主贊助商。（不甘被蓋過風頭的是，海航旗下的飛機租賃公司Avolon上週在巴黎航展(Paris Air Show)上籤訂諒解備忘錄，擬購買75架波音(Boeing) 737飛機，還可以選擇購買另外50架。）Monday evening’s affair was to celebrate HNA’s annual charity night, which saw the company make a series of financial commitments to philanthropic initiatives in front of about 300 guests, who drank from magnums of 2008 Chateau Batailley and dined on a menu that was provided by Michelin starred-chef Jo?l Robuchon and HNA’s own catering business.
週一晚的活動是爲了慶祝海航的年度慈善之夜活動，在大約300名賓客面前，海航就多個慈善項目做出了一系列金錢承諾，活動上的酒品包括2008年巴特利酒莊紅葡萄酒(Chateau Batailley)，掌勺的是米其林星級大廚喬爾?羅比雄(Jo?l Robuchon)和海航自己的餐飲公司。
It was also a birthday party of sorts for Chen Feng, HNA’s chairman (pictured below), who is undoubtedly the face of the company and who is increasingly finding himself in demand among the world’s leading dealmakers.
這也類似於海航董事長陳峯的生日宴，他無疑是海航的代言人，他日趨發現自己在全球領先交易撮合者中頗受歡迎。
Among those seated with him at the top table were executives from commodities trading group Glencore, socialist party politician Claude Bartolone, who until recently was president of France’s National Assembly, and famed chef Alain Ducasse. Nearby was Max Baucus, former US ambassador to China.
同時與他在主桌落座的嘉賓包括大宗商品交易集團嘉能可(Glencore)的高管、社會黨政治人士克勞德?巴爾託洛內（Claude Bartolone，直到不久之前擔任法國國民議會(Assemblée nationale)議長）以及著名大廚艾倫?杜卡斯(Alain Ducasse)。在附近就座的還有美國前駐華大使馬克斯?鮑卡斯(Max Baucus)。Chief executive Adam Tan told the audience that HNA companies now have in aggregate annual revenues of around $100bn and a global workforce of 410,000, with about 170,000 employees in Europe.
海航首席執行官譚向東(Adam Tan)告訴觀衆，海航集團現在的年度總收入大約爲1000億美元，在全球聘用員工41萬人，在歐洲的員工爲大約17萬人。To put HNA’s staggering growth through dealmaking in perspective: at a similar event last year, which was hosted in London’s Old Royal Navy College, HNA cited annual revenues of about $25bn in 2015 among its holdings.
讓我們看一看海航通過交易實現的驚人增長吧：在去年一場類似活動（在倫敦舊皇家海軍學院(Old Royal Navy College)主辦）上，海航指出其2015年年度收入大約爲250億美元。Big ambition. Big deals. Big questions remain about HNA’s ultimate strategy and how it can successfully integrate so many different types of businesses, while continuing to do more deals.
宏大的理想。宏大的交易。至於海航最終的戰略以及它如何能夠在繼續達成更多交易的同時整合好這麼多不同類型的業務，外界仍抱有大疑問。
