Chapter 458: Half-Year Summary
After the completion of Liu Ruoyi's acquisition, Liang Baiheng didn't expect this girl to complete the acquisition so quickly.
However, since Liu Ruoyi did what he said, indicating the great energy behind it, Liang Baiheng no longer hesitated, and immediately fulfilled his promise to resign from BNP BNP, in fact, he had already been interested in BNP, and the agreement with BNP had been completed, but he never thought of joining Liu Ruoyi's company.
Now that Liu Ruoyi has brought Yongxiang Bank over and is ready to develop him, it has become a logical thing for Liang Baiheng to join Yongxiang Bank as president.
And with Liu Ruoyi's commitment to 15% of the management's dividend sharing, Liang Baiheng moved very quickly to convene the elites of the Hong Kong Investment Bank. After all, not every boss is as generous as Liu Ruoyi, offering a high revenue share in addition to the normal salary.
For these elites, although the platform of Yongxiang Bank is small, it gives everyone a lot of room to play.
Therefore, it took Liang Baiheng less than a month to re-establish the investment banking division of Yongxiang Bank, which has not much banking business, and Liu Ruoyi now has no funds to expand in the banking business, and it is not yet time to enter the mainland market.
Whether it is strength or capital, Yongxiang Bank is a small point, Liu Ruoyi's idea is to rely on Yongxiang Bank, the investment banking business bigger and stronger, and then in the next few years, mainland enterprises flock to the Xiangjiang market in the process of a piece of the pie.
After becoming famous, Liu Ruoyi's capital accumulation has reached a considerable scale, and at that time she began to expand her business to the mainland, so as to integrate investment banking and traditional finance to create a new financial empire!
This is Liu Ruoyi's biggest attempt to transform into finance, with 5 to 6 years, Yongxiang Bank may have become a giant in the Xiangjiang investment bank, more powerful than the original Peregrine, by that time, the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008 will become an excellent opportunity for Liu Ruoyi to harvest again.
On turning crises into opportunities, who is now comparable to Liu Ruoyi, who is not a prophet?
However, these plans Liu Ruoyi can only be kept in her heart now, Liang Baiheng just keeps rushing forward according to the route she draws, in terms of funds, Liu Ruoyi, who has just harvested a wave of American leeks, is really not bad for money.
With Liu Ruoyi's financial commitment, Liang Baiheng's investment banking business, underwriting also dares to promise, of course, for the underwriting object, Liu Ruoyi still has to control it to a certain extent, and for those companies that are obviously coming to make money, Liu Ruoyi is still quite cautious.
There are more companies in the mainland queuing up to go public in Xiangjiang, and Liu Ruoyi and Liang Baiheng have room to choose, not to mention that with the name of Liang Baiheng's "father of red chips", they will not take those companies that do not rely on five to damage their reputation.
Building the investment banking business framework, Liu Ruoyi finally felt that it was easier.
The futures and investment banking sectors now have more capable people doing things, as long as they grasp the direction on their side, everything is under control.
It's just that Liu Ruoyi suddenly jumped out to acquire Yongxiang Bank and became the chairman of the board of directors of this listed bank, except for winning the title of a new financial godmother among retail shareholders, it has not attracted much attention in the industry.
is more of a very exaggerated publicity in the entertainment industry, describing Liu Ruoyi's encounter with a noble person in North America, which has triggered a lot of speculation about Liu Ruoyi's rumored boyfriend, some people speculate that it is the Persian Gulf oil tycoon, and some people speculate that it is the lover of the North American rich man and Xiangjiang White Gloves.
All kinds of rumors emerge one after another, there is no way, in the current entertainment industry, no one is more topical than Liu Ruoyi.
has just conquered the North American Billboard rankings and won another listed bank in Xiangjiang, such an eye-catching performance is simply a strong medicine for the paparazzi-filled Xiangjiang entertainment circle.
Now there are not too many paparazzi squatting at the entrance of Liu Ruoyi's newly purchased mid-levels villa and Aurora Media Building.
There is no way, as long as you can photograph Liu Ruoyi's face, it may be the temptation of the headlines, which can make these paparazzi crazy.
It's just that Liu Ruoyi has always been in-depth and simple, and basically does not appear in the public eye, even if there are cars coming and going in Aurora Media and the villa, it is really not easy for the paparazzi to take a photo of Liu Ruoyi in public.
There is no new material, and these paparazzi are not idle, constantly creating topics around Liu Ruoyi's surrounding characters, and scaring Zhao Shaodong, who originally likes clubbing and showmanship.
Because as long as Zhao Dashao appears in public, there will always be a bunch of paparazzi around him and constantly induce questions.
This kind of media bombardment that he has to accept every day finally made Zhao Dashao become a deep and simple person.
No way, the media asks you every day if you are making progress with Miss Annie?
Does Annie have the support of a mysterious man behind her, and why does Annie conjure up so much money like a jingle cat to make trouble?
Did the Zhao family participate in the acquisition of Yongxiang Bank?
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From gossip scandals to serious financial information, the paparazzi's problems are endless, and they can almost force a person to collapse.
Hong kong.
The Peninsula Hotel Cafe.
Before the release of Aurora Media's semi-annual report, the board of directors chose one of the private rooms for conduct.
Because Zhao Dashao has been remembered to squat and squat, whether it is the parking lot under the location of Aurora Media or the company floor, there may be paparazzi squatting everywhere.
In contrast, The Peninsula Hotel does a much better job in this regard, and for high-end customers, the hotel side has very private floors for customers to choose from.
Independent elevators up and down, strict security underground parking management, plus enclosed floor management.
It can be said that except for super spies like 007, the average paparazzi can't even break through the first line of defense.
Therefore, Zhao Shaodong, the board of directors for half a year, strongly proposed to put it in the Peninsula Hotel.
Aurora Media's results in the first half of the year are very good, whether it is a movie or a TV series, it is progressing very smoothly, especially the key investment "Hero" has now entered the post-production stage and is scheduled to be released this year.
In the music section, its singers and artists basically launched albums in the first half of the year, and the worst of them all got gold record sales, among which the key main promotion Han Hong, Liu Kun, and T2 groups won an amazing sales of more than 300,000 copies.
The albums of these three people have the golden songs written by Liu Ruoyi herself, and there is basically no suspense about the popularity, and the T2 group with a prominent image has run to enter the ranks of first-line singers, and now it has become the hottest new talent in Xiangjiang.
As for Han Hong and Liu Kun, they are also at the peak of the second tier with their strength, and they are close to winning the first-line award!
"Infernal Affairs II" in the movie section has been released in the summer, and although it seems difficult to break through the level of "Infernal Affairs I" at the mainland box office, it will not be too far behind.
In the overseas box office market, Asia is as hot as the harvest, the biggest harvest may be the North American market, this year's box office account sharing method, the box office revenue in the first two weeks exceeded 55 million US dollars, if nothing else, the box office of more than 100 million US dollars is not a big problem.
According to the sharing agreement between Aurora Media and Sony Classics, if the box office revenue exceeds 100 million US dollars, Aurora Media will receive 45% of the box office, and the remaining 15% will go to Sony Classics, but if the box office revenue exceeds 200 million US dollars, Aurora Media's share will exceed 50%, and Sony Classics will still get 15%, because after the box office hits, Sony Classics can get a higher share from theaters, from 60% to 65%!
Of course, these are theoretical values, in fact, these box office shares also need to be deducted from the publicity costs and taxes before Aurora Media really earns its income, with the $30 million publicity cost of the "Infernal Affairs II" budget, if the box office revenue is only $100 million, Aurora Media's share income will not exceed $30 million.
However, considering that there is also auction income from audio-visual works such as DVDs, Aurora Media is likely to earn more than $10 million in this area, so combined, the North American box office revenue is at least $40 million!
For the average film company, this is already an astronomical amount of income, excluding the 20% share of the director team, Aurora Media's North American revenue on "Infernal Affairs II" has at least more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars in gross income.
Coupled with the income from the mainland and Asia, it is estimated that there will be at least a total income of more than 400 million Hong Kong dollars, such an amazing achievement has become the object of envy and jealousy in the Hong Kong entertainment circle!
According to Liu Ruoyi's own estimates, Aurora Media's revenue in movies this year, if you add the share of "Hero", it is likely to exceed 1 billion!
Film revenue accounts for more than half of Aurora Media in terms of revenue, which shows that Liu Ruoyi's previous layout in movies was extremely successful.
It's just that "Hero" has not yet been listed, and now it is estimated that there is no reference at the box office, to be honest, except for Liu Ruoyi, most people now can't imagine that "Hero" will eventually achieve a huge income of more than 1.4 billion!
But even if the income of "Hero" is not counted now, the achievements of Aurora Media in terms of movies are already extremely dazzling, which makes Li Ergongzi, who participated in the report, secretly happy when he sees the report.
Although the stock price of Aurora Media was not cheap at the beginning, but now after seeing the revenue, everything is worth the money, and the revenue of Aurora Media in the first half of this year has exceeded 1 billion yuan (including ATV and after the integration of Jinhai Aurora).
In the entertainment industry, Aurora Media is already an out-and-out giant.
You must know that in 2002, the entire entertainment industry was actually full of sorrow, whether it was wireless or traditional print media, they were basically living a hard life, and wireless had laid off dozens of employees earlier and downsized the news department.
Although TVB did not completely eliminate the news department like ATV, the number of layoffs is so large that it can be regarded as a nerve-wracking thing in TVB's news department.
In the face of such a background, Aurora Media can still make great progress, of course Li Ergongzi will be happy, this kind of outstandingness shows that Aurora Media is indeed very good at grasping the direction.
What is even more rare is that Aurora Media has opened up the mainland market, the Asian market and the North American market, and the three major markets have their own strengths, with TV dramas and movies in the mainland market flying together, music products and movies in the Asian market each with their own strengths, and films in the North American market flourishing.
After Li Zihe finished reporting the report, the host Zhao Shaodong looked at Liu Ruoyi, "Annie, for the half-year results of Aurora Media, you can give a score and take a look." ”
"If you want me to say, our results in the first half of the year are also the passing level. Liu Ruoyi was not polite, but Zhao Shaodong's words went straight to the point.
One sentence brought up the hearts of several executives in the field.
"However, this passing grade is not because everyone does not work hard, but because we have wasted a lot of time on the integration of the company, which has affected the development of the company. ”
For Aurora Media's current results, in Liu Ruoyi's eyes, it can only be unsatisfactory, the best movies have been locked by her in advance, TV series have also won hits, and music is even more comprehensive to achieve the current results, so there is really nothing to say.
"Our progress in the film market, TV series and music market is still not big enough, especially our own director team, artist team is not strong enough, don't look at the first half of this year's income a lot, but everyone should see that more than half of these revenues rely on "Infernal Affairs II", which already shows that Aurora Media is still relying on individual people and individual hits. ”
"This income structure is extremely unhealthy and unsustainable, so this achievement is not a celebratory achievement. ”
Liu Ruoyi poured a basin of cold water on the several executives in the field who originally thought that their results were okay.
"Annie, I think it's okay, Aurora Media has not been established for a long time, and today's achievement is beyond many people's imagination. Li Ergongzi watched the atmosphere in the field become a little solemn, and couldn't help but cheer up.
Hearing Li Ergongzi speak, Liu Ruoyi still had to consider the shareholder's thoughts, and softened her tone, "The poor environment that Mr. Li said is also an external influencing factor, but for us Aurora Media, it is originally backward, if we can't attack when the industry is not good, lay a solid foundation, and wait until the market is good, we will be late." ”
"For the next development of Aurora Media, my idea is to recruit talents and artists, from excellent hosts, actors, singers to channel personnel, we all need to strengthen against the trend rather than reduce manpower. Of course, these personnel give priority to the excellent personnel, not the number. ”
"In terms of hosts and artists, we try our best to tap a group of front-line personnel to enrich our artist team, especially in the mainland market, whether it is TV drama actors or movie actors, now we still have too few signed artists, when building a talent team, we pay equal attention to the cultivation of first-line artists and newcomers, and improve the internal artist level. ”
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Originally, Liu Ruoyi didn't pay much attention to the details of the operation of Aurora Media, but only controlled the major policies.
However, seeing the half-year summary, Liu Ruoyi saw that in addition to the addition of more than 20 new newcomers to the artist part, the rest were the old people she introduced, Aurora Media had no shortage of funds, and its fame began to start, Liu Yang and Li Zihe focused on specific projects all day long, but the construction of this talent echelon was a little negligent.
This made Liu Ruoyi feel that the strategic level and comprehensive consideration of the company's management are still relatively lacking, and of course, it may also be that the recent depression in the entertainment industry has made the two main responsible persons have a conservative mentality.
If Liu Ruoyi can't see the rapid development of the mainland entertainment industry in the future, the strategy of the two of them is not wrong, the company was originally established, and it is understandable to talk about it after a few years of steady development.