"Chairman!"

"Chairman!"

As soon as Xia Yu walked out of the elevator, he heard a slightly surprised voice, Xia Yu followed the prestige and saw Yan Wenhan walking towards him quickly.

Not only that, but next to Yan Wenhan, there was another person who surprised him very much, and it was Jiang Zhiqiang, the general manager of Global Cinema Company.

"Xeon, when did you come to the United States?"

Xia Yu first smiled at Yan Wenhan, and then asked Jiang Zhiqiang with a smile.

Yan Wenhan came to San Francisco, he knew because he reported to him some time ago.

But Jiang Zhiqiang came to the United States, and he really didn't know.

Jiang Zhiqiang explained embarrassedly: "Chairman, I came to the United States because of the distribution of a film, I know that you are in the United States, but you have a lot of opportunities, so I am embarrassed to disturb you." ”

Xia Yu smiled and understood Jiang Zhiqiang's mentality, and asked casually: "I haven't paid attention to movies for a long time, what is the result?"

The smile on Jiang Zhiqiang's face froze, and his face was embarrassed.

Xia Yu's expression moved, and he realized that Jiang Zhiqiang was probably in trouble, this was not a suitable place to talk about things, and the time was not early, so he said before Jiang Zhiqiang said: "It's not early, go to me first, and other things will be said later." ”

Jiang Zhiqiang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, nodded again and again, and said, "Okay." ”

Then, the group walked out of the hall and drove to Xia Yu's home in San Francisco.

After more than ten minutes, I finally arrived home.

After getting out of the car, Yan Wenhan and Jiang Zhiqiang couldn't help but marvel after seeing Xia Yu's spacious mansion, of course, how much sycophancy there was in it.

"Let's go, this is not a company, you can treat it as your own home at will, and do whatever you want. ”

"I'll go back to my room first. ”

After speaking, Xia Yu left Yan Wenhan, Jiang Zhiqiang and Li Wuming, and walked towards the stairs by himself.

After all, they are all colleagues, and the three of them are also very familiar, seeing that the chairman is not there, they are not so restrained, the three of them chatted quietly, and Jiang Zhiqiang also boiled water to make tea between chats.

......

At 1:13 o'clock, a few people who had eaten and drunk came to the sofa again and sat down, drinking tea comfortably.

Xia Yu took a sip and put down the teacup, looked at Yan Wenhan, and asked, "Wenhan, did the San Francisco Chronicle take it?"

Yan Wenhan suddenly smiled, nodded and replied: "I have already acquired it, I signed the agreement yesterday morning, and now I am doing the takeover work." ”

"But this morning I came directly from the San Francisco Chronicle, and the agreement was still in the hotel, so I didn't bring it with me. ”

Xia Yu bowed slightly, and said with appreciation: "It doesn't matter, as long as the acquisition is in hand, with this newspaper, the newspaper company can be regarded as having a banner in the western United States." ”

Yan Wenhan said with a smile: "Yes, the San Francisco Chronicle is the second largest newspaper on the West Coast of the United States after the Los Angeles Times, and its sales volume can rank twelfth in the country. ”

"The San Francisco Chronicle was formed in 1965 from the merger of the original San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Observer, and is now the only daily newspaper in San Francisco. ”

"It's just that zooming in to the entire West Coast, there is still a big gap from those big newspapers, although "USA Today" has radiated to the West Coast, but there is still a way to go, so I plan to take San Francisco as the center and acquire some newspapers in the surrounding states and cities, so that the influence of Dajiuding Newspaper Company can expand and cohesive. ”

Xia Yu commented: "This idea is right, just follow your plan, as long as you don't get the egg, seize the opportunity to expand in recent years, don't be limited to paper media, local TV and radio stations can be acquired, funding is not a problem." ”

Xia Yu knows that before 1983, the media industry in the United States was still relatively scattered, and although many large newspaper groups had appeared, their strength was not particularly strong.

After the formation of the News Corporation, stimulated by Murdoch, the major newspaper groups were forced to develop by leaps and bounds, and the consortiums have increased their control over the media, from TV stations to newspapers, as long as they are related to the media, they will gradually gather together, and it will be much more difficult to hunt at that time.

It is not so easy to spit out in the mouth of a big consortium.

Xia Yu's support and recognition made Yan Wenhan's heart settle, he smiled, nodded heavily and said: "Okay, chairman, I will make a detailed plan to let the company expand steadily." ”

Xia Yu bowed his head slightly and said no more, his eyes moved to Jiang Zhiqiang, who had been silent, and the latter immediately sat up straight.

Xia Yu asked gently: "Xeon, tell me about the current situation of the company." ”

I thought that the chairman would ask him about the troubles he encountered in the United States, but he didn't expect to ask about the current situation of the company.

"Chairman, after a series of acquisitions, the company currently has 208 theaters with property rights, including 30 in Hong Kong and Macao, 162 in Southeast Asia, and 16 in island countries. ”

"In addition, there are as many as 98 theaters in Asia that have joined Universal Cinemas. ”

"The total number of distribution networks in our company has reached three hundred and six!"

"At present, whether it is in Hong Kong or Southeast Asia, our global cinema chain ranks first in the industry, and the second-ranked Shaw Brothers cinema chain still has a distribution network of more than 200 companies. ”

"And because we have enabled the sharing system and have been unanimously supported by film manufacturers, Shaw Brothers Cinemas is not our opponent at all, but Shaw Brothers Cinemas is already seeking change, and is learning from us to transform theaters into multiplex theaters, but unlike we have the strong help of Jiuding Infrastructure Company, the transformation speed is very low. ”

"Because of the problem of film sources, Shaw Brothers Cinemas has fallen into a loss. “

"So our company has a strong position as a leader in Asia. ”

"In terms of revenue, in the first half of 1980, the company's total revenue exceeded 100 million Hong Kong dollars, of which Chinese films accounted for 74 percent and foreign language films accounted for 26 percent......

Xia Yu listened quietly, in general, these data satisfied him, the revenue of 100 million Hong Kong dollars seems to be very low, but combined with the total volume of the film market in Southeast Asia and East Asia, it is already very amazing, according to this trend, the revenue can reach 200 million Hong Kong dollars in a year.

Think about this time, the annual box office of Hong Kong's local movies is only 200 million Hong Kong dollars.

With an annual revenue of 200 million Hong Kong dollars, according to the high net profit margin of the cinema chain, coupled with the asset-heavy operation of the global cinema chain, the theaters are all self-operated and there is no rent pressure, so the net profit of 50 million or 60 million Hong Kong dollars is definitely there, and the valuation of the capital market can reach 500 million Hong Kong dollars, which is appropriate to squeeze into the top 80 enterprises in Hong Kong.

"It's going fast, it's doing well, and it hasn't let me down. ”

After Jiang Zhiqiang finished speaking, Xia Yu said with satisfaction.

Jiang Zhiqiang was humble again and again.

But because of his good grades, Xia Yu was curious about what problems Jiang Zhiqiang had encountered.

Therefore, he changed his words and suddenly asked: "Xeon, did you encounter any difficulties when you came to the United States this time?"

Jiang Zhiqiang smiled for a moment, pursed his lips and sighed: "Yes, we failed to open up the American market, from mid-July to the end of August this year, Galaxy Film Company produced a movie that became popular in Xiangjiang and Southeast Asia, so Wu Siyuan and I have high hopes to see if we can open the American market in one go." ”

"So at the end of August, I personally came to the United States with that movie, but I didn't expect it to hit the streets. ”

Speaking of this, Jiang Zhiqiang's face was ugly, and he was extremely unwilling in his heart, feeling very embarrassed.

That movie was really good, but because he was hindered by others, his results were directly pounced, and he was so aggrieved that he was defeated, how could he be willing.

But this is someone else's territory, and the strength of the Universal Cinema Line is far inferior to others, and the enemy is determined to subdue him if he doesn't make money, so he can only admit it.

However, when he met Yan Wenhan today and was told that Chairman Xia Yu was coming to San Francisco, he struggled for a long time, but he still followed Yan Wenhan with a thick face, expecting the chairman to call the shots for him.

After all, he is self-aware, and without the support of the chairman, even if he wants to enter the American market with the current strength and development speed of Universal Cinemas, he does not know that it will be the year of the monkey.

But if the chairman is willing to call the shots, then ......

Thinking of this, Jiang Zhiqiang raised his head and looked at Xia Yu, with a faint look of expectation and apprehension in his eyes.