In fact, after reading the investigation report, combined with the memories of his previous life, Xia Yu already has the best acquisition target in his heart.

However, Gavin Peter had a hard time, and Xia Yu still wanted to hear his thoughts, so as not to hit his motivation.

Gavin Peter perked up, immediately sat up straight, cleared his throat, and said the prepared manuscript: "Chairman, I think that the publishing market is still in a low period, and it is worth acquiring any large publishing house, so my opinion is that it is undoubtedly best to acquire one of the top three publishing houses in various countries, if you can acquire the largest publishing house." ”

"West Germany, I intend to buy the Betelsmann Publishing Group. ”

"In France, I intend to acquire the European Publishing Exchange. ”

"In Spain, I intend to buy Salvat Publishing. “

"And I heard that Fritz, the chairman of the Ithaca Publishing Group, which is a publishing and wholesale group, has passed away, and the heir, Fritz Jr., does not want to run a book business and wants to make a career in the mining sector, and they want to sell their shares, so I also want to buy them. ”

Xia Yu was not surprised by Gavin Peter's previous words, but the words he added at the end attracted Xia Yu's attention.

He opened the investigation report again and found information about Ithaca Distribution.

According to the information, Ithaca is the largest book wholesaler in Spain, not only controlling the largest book club in Spain, the Readers' Club, but also a shareholder of Crystal Bookstore, the second largest bookstore chain in Spain.

Generally speaking, the distribution channels of books are: publisher-wholesaler-bookseller-reader, or publisher-bookseller-reader.

Ithaca, on the other hand, is undoubtedly the most powerful middleman in Spain, and it also has some publishing businesses, although it is not particularly strong, but it relies on the most powerful distribution strength, and it is also the level of more than ten in Spain.

Gavin Peter mentioned Fritz was the original chairman of Ithaca, and the Fritz family held 35.8 percent of the shares.

As long as the acquisition of the equity in the hands of Fritz Jr., then it can be invincible, and if you buy the most powerful Salvat publishing company, you can instantly become the hegemon of the Spanish publishing field.

Books from publishing houses acquired in France and West Germany were also able to easily enter the Spanish market.

It can be said that Gavin Peter's plan would be very beneficial if it succeeded.

It's just that all of this is still hypothetical.

Xia Yu thought for a while and said, "Gavin, if your plan can succeed, it will undoubtedly be the best situation. ”

"But if you want to buy the largest publishing houses in three countries, you should understand the difficulty, which is too conspicuous and can easily cause obstruction by the local government. ”

Gavin Peter's face was grim, nodded and said, "Chairman, you are right, but I think there is still a certain degree of certainty, and I want to try it." ”

"Try it?" Xia Yu muttered softly.

Looking at Gavin Peter with a solemn face, Xia Yu didn't want to hit his self-confidence, anyway, he was right before, now is the trough of the European publishing industry, no matter which one is acquired, it will not lose money in the future, the difference is only a question of which one's value growth rate is the largest.

Obviously, Gavin Peter thinks that it is the largest publishing house in various countries with the greatest value potential, and Xia Yu didn't argue with him, and said with a slight bow: "Yes, if you want to try, you can try hard, and I will give you the greatest support in terms of funds." ”

Gavin Peter was immediately overjoyed, nodded heavily and thanked: "Thank you, Chairman!"

Xia Yu smiled and said, "After reading your investigation report, I also have some ideas, and it just so happens that there are plenty of funds now, so in addition to your plan, you can acquire more publishing companies." ”

Gavin Peter was surprised, but for this kind of thing, he wished that it would happen more, and he waited intently for Chairman Xia Yu's words.

Xia Yu flipped through the investigation report, then took out a pen, circled it, and then turned a few more pages and circled it twice.

After the circle, he handed the investigation report to Gavin Peter and said, "You can see first, these three companies are also listed as acquisition targets, and they will be fully acquired. ”

Gavin Peter was surprised and found the place where Xia Yu circled.

Each of the three countries has a publishing company.

They are Springer Publishing House in West Germany, Hachette Publishing Group, which ranks fifth in France, and Planetary Press, which ranks third in Spain.

Gavin Peter frowned, took a serious look at the three investigations, and found that it was not surprising that the only thing that was a little special was Hachette Publishing Group, which also owned six magazines, and its parent company, Lagardère, was chasing the stake in France's Airbus.

There is nothing special about these publishing houses, Gavin Peter can't see anything worth remembering by the chairman, he searches his memory, and he is still a little ignorant.

Looking at Gavin Peter's incomprehensible expression, Xia Yu smiled and said: "Gavin, these companies all have certain characteristics, you just go to acquire them, and you will be able to find out more about them later." ”

Xia Yu didn't explain, because this was selected by him based on the memories of his previous life, and everything hadn't happened yet, so there was no way to explain it.

Can he say that the planetary publishing house in Spain will become the largest book publisher in Spain in the future?

Can he say that the largest Salvat publishing company in Spain was later acquired by Planetary Press?

Not only that, the Planetary Group, which evolved after Planet Press, also involved in the fields of culture, education and training, information services and entertainment, and had a great influence in the original Spanish colonies in South America, and the awards set up were also the main literary awards in Spain.

As for the Springer Publishing House, which was the third in West Germany at this time, it had obvious characteristics, and was very prominent in science and technology and academic publishing, and later became one of the largest science and technology publishing houses in the world, with a huge influence among high-level elites.

The most valuable of the three publishing houses selected by Xia Yu was the Hachette Publishing Group, which ranked fifth in France at this time, with a valuation of 10 million francs (about 6 million pounds).

The current Hachette Publishing Group has a weak publishing business, and four of the six magazines under the subsidiary Hachette-Philippe Newspaper and Magazine Publishing Group are also in the red.

But what Gavin Peter didn't expect was that Hachette Publishing Group later counterattacked, and as soon as the French economy improved, Hachette Publishing Group's revenue automatically rose sharply.

One of the most prominent is its subsidiary, Hachette-Philippe newspaper and magazine publishing group, at this time the loss-making "elle" and "Marieclaire" two magazines, after entering the nineties, each issue of sales exceeded 10 million copies, in the fashion industry is huge, at this time the most powerful magazine in the French fashion industry "boundary" was thrown to the whereabouts of the unknown.

In addition, the Hachette-Philippe newspaper and magazine publishing group has become the world's largest newspaper and magazine publishing group publishing more than 260 periodicals and newspapers, relying on huge profits and acquisitions.

At that time, the Hachette Group topped the world's publishing industry with an annual turnover of $7.37 billion.

In 2006, the Hachette Group acquired Time Warner Publishing Group, the fifth largest publishing group in the United States at that time, at a price of 537 million US dollars, becoming the world's three largest publishing groups in one fell swoop.

This potential big gold mine was worth only 10 million francs at this time, only about 6 million pounds.

This kind of big leak was seen by Xia Yu, and it would be intolerable if he didn't pick it up.

After winning it, Xia Yu will have a huge influence in the French fashion industry in the future, and he can enter the French fashion industry at that time, and the lucrative luxury industry can easily enter.

Moreover, its parent company, the Lagardère Group, is chasing the stake in Airbus, and it is also very likely that it will sell the Hachette Group accumulated at this time to raise its own, and it will not be too difficult to acquire.