Chapter 610: Attention of the Rothel Family
Because during the period when the acquisition was stalled, Elena led the acquisition team, together with Lloyds Bank and the public accounting firm, to get to the bottom of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, so when the formal negotiations were made, the progress was very rapid.
With sufficient preparation in the early stage, coupled with another green light from the top management, this acquisition ended lightning in just ten days.
On May 31, the agreement was officially signed, and the Bright Fund, together with Norfolk Investment Company, a Norfolk investment company of the Howard family, wholly acquired Rolls-Royce Motor Cars for 120 million pounds in cash.
The acquired assets include Rolls-Royce Motor Cars' production lines, existing Rolls-Royce and Bentley vehicles in stock, sales network, after-sales service system and permanent access to the Rolls-Royce brand.
One of the most valuable is the use of the Rolls-Royce brand and the production line that includes the engine.
In the process of acquisition, some people also raised doubts and worried about the leakage of technology, but at the critical moment, Duke Howard came forward to vouch, and the technology of automobile engines is not the top technology of aero engines, and finally it was approved after some arguments.
Of course, the British government is not without a backhand, considering that the Bright Fund has foreign capital on the surface, and is worried that the Labour Party will use this as an excuse to attack their Conservative Party, the contract was signed with a separate precondition, that is, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is prohibited from moving out of the UK.
This pre-clause, Elena reacted to Xia Yu, and Xia Yu agreed without hesitation.
If you don't move, you won't move, as long as you absorb the technology, it's a big deal to directly establish an automobile company on the mainland when the time comes, and there are many ways.
Even if the production line is moved to the mainland, there are no skilled workers in a short period of time, and it will not work at all.
Moreover, with the prices of Rolls-Royce cars and Bentleys, the main markets are now in Europe and the United States, and the mainland economy has not yet risen, and it is not very popular in the mainland now.
This acquisition, because it has been negotiated before, the Bright Fund holds 80% of the shares, and the Howard family 20%, so the Bright Fund will contribute 96 million pounds, and the Howard family will contribute 24 million pounds.
After that, the two parties injected a total of 50 million pounds into the reform of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars according to the proportion of shares.
As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused a sensation, because Rolls-Royce Motor Cars was originally a private company, and the sale of Rolls-Royce Group did not cause much public outrage at this time, coupled with the injection of 50 million pounds into reform once the acquisition was acquired, so that Rolls-Royce Motor Cars employees would not resist.
Among them, News Corp.'s "The Sun" also broke the news that the person in charge of the Bright Fund's acquisition of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars was actually the daughter of Duke Howard, a young girl who had just graduated from college, which attracted the attention of a large number of readers.
Many people subconsciously ignore the background of the Bright Fund, and the turmoil that they had feared might not appear.
As for Xia Yu's Jiuding Newspaper Company's newspaper, it only reported on the acquisition of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars by the Bright Fund, and did not advertise that the Bright Fund was Xia Yu's company.
As soon as the acquisition was over, Xia Yu asked George Berkeley to come forward and go to take over Rolls-Royce Motor Cars with the head of the Howard family's Norfolk Investment Company, as well as Elena and others.
And took out the development plan of the automobile company that had already been made, handed it over to Rudolf Brooke, the general manager of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, and ordered it to start the reform according to the development plan, and to achieve results within half a year, otherwise his position would be readjusted, which made Rudolph Brooke put pressure on him and devoted himself to the reform.
The acquisition of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has a far-reaching impact, not to mention that in this acquisition, Duke Carter Howard, the top tycoon, is also involved, and it is impossible not to attract attention, all major British families are concerned about this matter, trying to analyze the true intentions of Duke Carter Howard.
This attention, the Bright Fund and Xia Yu behind it, naturally entered the eyes of some people.
In the eastern suburbs of London, there is a special castle that belongs to a family of lords.
The title of Lord is placed in the aristocratic system of the whole of England, and it is not at all conspicuous.
But this lord family is not simple, and it has a deep influence in the whole of Britain, and no one dares to take it lightly, not even Duke Carter Howard must treat it seriously.
This family is none other than the Rothschild family, once the uncrowned kings of Britain and even Europe.
Even if World War II suffered a major blow, was targeted by Germany, betrayed and betrayed by the Rockefeller family and the Morgan family, and was secretly suppressed by the ancient British aristocratic alliance because of fear after the war, in this case, the strength of the Rothschild family is still the top in Britain.
However, the Rothschild family has preserved the most power in Britain, and the huge financial empire has long since fallen apart, and has been purged and confiscated in the German dominions, and now its influence is mainly limited to Britain, Switzerland, Austria, the United States, France, Canada and other places.
The French power was rebuilt after the war, and the branch of the United States was also rebuilt after the war, and the Austrian branch was separated and went to the west coast of the United States to rebuild its foundations.
Among all these branches, the British branch is the main one, so the head of the British branch is also the nominal leader of the Rothschild family members all over the world.
Now the fourth generation of the head is named Jacob Rothschild!
In the hall of Rothel Castle, Jacob Rothschild, who was only forty-three years old, sat at the top of the house, carefully browsing through a business intelligence in his hand.
In the hall, there were also five members of the Rothschild family, and Jacob Rothschild was his cousin Evelyn Rothschild and his cousin Leobold Rothschild.
The previous head of the British branch of the Rothschild family was Anseni Rothschild, who was initially succeeded by his brother Charles and eldest son Leobard after Ansey's death in 1961, with his son Evelyn as a partner.
Later, Jacob Rothschild relied on his superior means and abilities to rise to prominence, and in order to make the family rise again, Leobold took the initiative to give way to Jacob Rothschild.
After Jacob Rothschild came up, he lived up to the expectations of the rest of the family, first using means to re-privatize the nationalized Rothschild Bank, and then re-established the M&A division of Rothschild Bank, which became a trump card in just a few years.
The Rothschild family has the blood of being good at playing with capital, the bank is in hand, and the young and promising members of the Rothschild family quickly found the family business they once had, and in just over ten years, the Rothschild consortium once again stood at the top of the UK.
But this also aroused the hostility of the major British conglomerates and the ancient aristocracy, the Rothschild family is the Jews after all, coupled with the former power of the Rothschild family, many big families are unwilling to let this family rise again.
After all, it is enough to have a real queen standing above your head, two is too many!
But in the face of interests, no matter how strong the fortress is, it will be breached, and the Rothschild family is under heavy pressure, and the ancient noble alliance is divided and dissolved, and it is still in chaos.