Chapter Seventy-Six: The Visker Group

The Visker Group is a large integrated company, the company's products are divided into aircraft engines and automobiles, and automotive products are divided into three categories: off-road vehicles, sedans and sports cars.

But now his manager, Simpson, could not be happier, and now he looked feebly at the financial statements in front of him, his face full of sadness.

He is well aware that the Group's automotive products are a rotten cake, and they have been losing money for several years, with cumulative losses of £2.5 billion.

Among the six major car brands of "Rover, Jaguar, Land Rover, MG, Rolls-Royce and Bentley", Rolls-Royce and Bentley have used the same chassis for 30 years, and many people say that Bentley is actually a copy of Rolls-Royce.

Rover, Jaguar, Land Rover, MG four major brands are losing more and more serious money year by year, and now it has threatened the development of the company's aircraft engines.

What's more, the reason why he took office at the beginning was because he took a fancy to the development of the company's aircraft engines. In his view, these car brands are accessories to aircraft engines.

After he took over the Rolls-Royce and Bentley brands, the quality and innovation that he once prided himself on were also discarded because of his lack of attention.

He later poured a lot of attention into the Bentley brand, and he has injected the Bentley brand with a lost sporty spirit.

The sales of the Bentley brand have indeed increased a lot, and the annual sales have exceeded 1,000 units, but it has been seriously affected by the somewhat old-fashioned Rolls-Royce, and the annual sales of Rolls-Royce have been reduced to less than three figures.

In fact, these two brands only need him to pay a little attention to quality and innovation, and he will completely revitalize them, but the outcome is often surprising.

Although the Louvre brand has sold 20% of its shares to the islanders, the Simpson always looks like he sees the plague god whenever he sees its financial statements, it is so terrible, it is simply a bottomless pit of burning money.

In the past, Luofu was also the queen's car, but later it was reduced to the fact that the chassis and engine had to be provided by the islanders.

In addition, affected by the financial crisis of the island country itself, the people of the island country themselves are unable to return to the sky, where can they still have the heart to revitalize the 20% shares?

Although the Jaguar and MG brands are not as unbearable as the Luofu brand, the company really has no funds to continue to invest.

Although the Land Rover brand will not lose money, Simpson is afraid that Land Rover will repeat the mistakes of Bentley and Rolls-Royce.

Simpson had a bold idea for a long time to sell all of these car brands, and once joked with BMW's Reitzler that he would only need 350 million marks ($20 million) to take Rolls-Royce home.

Because BMW's own 3 Series was born with serious flaws at the time, Reitzler rejected at the time: "The 3 Series can operate stably, and I still have a lot of work to do." "That's it.

He has already found all his familiar partners, either the other party has no intention of taking over or the price is too outrageous.

Just when he couldn't figure it out, his former college alumnus, an old friend, Deakens, is now a director of Ford Motor Company.

After chatting with him a few words about the current situation and some salty and tasteless words, Dickens somehow talked about the current embarrassment of the Visker Group.

Simpson may simply be whining in front of his old friends, or he may be trying to spread the news through Deacens's mouth, and then sit and wait for investors to come to the door, so that he can still wait for the price to sell!

Deacon is a loyal listener who is not good at gossip, and after listening to the complaints of his old friend, he directly brought him good news: an investor in San Francisco, named Thompson Edward, was looking for an auto company to invest in some time ago.

Deacens also laughed and told him that Thompson had even lobbied for the sale of his Ford shares.

But that was a few months ago, and now it's up to him to verify whether he still has the intention!

This news was great news for Simpson, who had no solution for the time being, and he asked for Thompson's phone number from Deacens.

When Simpson got to work the next day, he had his assistant call Thompson and give him a rough idea of how he wanted to sell the car company as a whole.

Thompson didn't know why someone would ask him to buy a car company, and after hanging up the phone in great confusion, he hurriedly ran to Lu Zheng's office and reported the strange news to Lu Zheng.

Lu Zheng was stunned at first when he heard it, he didn't know if the car manufacturers on the Blue Star were the same as they were on the earth.

He secretly wrote it down in his heart, and decided to find an opportunity to ask Peter, no matter what kind of car among their wealthy families, how much do you know?

Then he thought that no matter what the facts were, he should first explore the way, and he arranged: "You organize a negotiation team, arrange someone to go to the site first, and after the results of the investigation come out, you will go to meet Simpson for a while." We are fact-based, based on the results of our site visits, with a focus on production lines, research institutes and patents. Just keep in touch. ”

Lu Zheng continued to ask: "You don't know anything about them?" Seeing Thompson shaking his head, he smiled: "You go and ask Woolf, who has great powers, maybe there will be unexpected gains." ”

Thompson never imagined that it was precisely because of his blind operation at the beginning that he was like a headless fly asking people to sell car shares to provoke him. What seemed like a nonsense at the beginning is now a surprise for the company.

We do a lot of useless work, and many colleagues or classmates are puzzled when they see it, and they may make fun of it.

It is this kind of idle chess, from the moment we touch it, there is a seed that takes root and sprouts, and when it breaks through the ground, it depends on luck.

Thompson made a rare appearance in Woolf's office at Equatorial Trade.

Woolf greeted warmly, "Why did you have time to come to me?"

Thompson told Woolf verbatim about the cause and effect of the Visker Group's contact with him, asking, "What do you think?"

Woolf looked at him with a very complicated expression and said sincerely: "Although our company has invited them to participate in the offer, they have never worked with us. ”

After saying that, he smiled mysteriously: "Although Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Land Rover have not worked with us, I have also seen a high roller car is one of them." He sighed, I specifically asked at the time, and it was Rolls-Royce that was particularly domineering, especially its logo - the goddess of celebration. Bentley is the next best in its class, I heard that it is all handmade, and the Land Rover has strong off-road performance.