099 Troublesome Rice-Royce
"BOSS, it's been a lively past two days. On this day, Mike John went to Li Feng's hotel room and smiled at Li Feng.
"Hahahaha... Isn't it very good, I kind of said hello to the former 'empire on which the sun never sets', and now they all know that I'm here, it seems that this effect is really good. Li Feng replied with a laugh.
Why do you say that, it turns out that after Li Feng decided to buy a mansion last time, he chose the mansion on Kensington Garden Street, and with the news coming out, it naturally attracted the attention of the London media.
Just a few days later, Alberto, the real estate agent, brought Li Feng good news, and three luxury houses were sold for a total of 60 million pounds.
Property transactions in the UK need to pay more stamp duty, rather than paying property tax every year like the US imperialists.
The stamp duty is about 10% of the selling price, so Li Feng spent a total of almost £66 million. According to the calculation of 1:1.62 and 3 of the pound against the US dollar today, it is almost about 100 million US dollars, and with the conclusion of the official deal, it naturally caused a sensation in London and even the whole of the United Kingdom.
Originally, Li Feng wanted to have one building, but in the spirit of picking up cheap anyway, he ended up buying it all without paying attention.
Recently, the British media is bored, the Premier League has just ended, and the British media, which has nothing to report, suddenly discovered new and best media materials, Li Feng, a talented young rich man, is not the best news focus.
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Next, it was naturally lively, after all, such a sky-high transaction is rare in the whole of London, this is more than 100 million US dollars in cash, and few people can really take it out. Li Feng happened to have a sum of cash on him, which was obtained from the sale of 5 points of Feixun before.
Well, all at once it was all spent. You must know that this house is not immediately inhabitable after purchase, such as the embassy house, which must be renovated before people can live in it. In the same way, the two connected mansions have been completely renovated and will be connected, and there may be no 18th and 19th in the future, and it will become a place.
According to the preliminary plan, all the designs will be completed, which will cost 30 million to 50 million US dollars, which is a considerable amount of money. At the same time, as a financial center in Europe, Li Feng's major companies have also begun to establish branches, such as preparing to build a new headquarters for the investment department, as well as the long-standing Feixun UK office
In addition to the above, there are also real estate companies, which are also preparing to establish branches in London, Li Feng is very aware of the potential of London's real estate industry, so let's see if there is a bargain to buy property or something.
Another point is that in line with the idea that the fertilizer water does not enter the fields of outsiders, Li Feng gave the business of reconstruction and decoration to his real estate company, which can be regarded as opening an entrance for the real estate company in the London real estate industry.
Li Feng even received a call from Kenny, saying that the US imperialists were also spreading the news that Li Feng had purchased a mansion in London, and there were all kinds of rumors, and some tabloids even claimed that Li Feng was preparing to transfer assets to the United Kingdom, which was very lively.
For this reason, in Los Angeles, Lin Xilei also held a simple press conference on behalf of herself, explaining the situation, only explaining that the trip to the UK was because of business matters and so on. Similarly, Lin Xilei also began to be in the limelight, there are not many such Asian beauties, which makes many people envious of Li Feng.
Although he did not explain what Li Feng was doing in the UK at the press conference, as a result, the vast media of the supernatural power dug out that he was going to buy Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, which immediately caused a sensation in Britain and the United States, and even began to spread in Europe.
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The United States is naturally very excited, and even the Los Angeles media called Li Feng an 'American hero', and the pride of being able to acquire Rolls-Royce, a famous British car brand and aristocrat, is naturally exciting and praised.
Most people of the United States imperialism actually do not like Britain as a former empire, after all, the United States imperialism used to be a pirate, a crime, and so on, and a country that has been built up in this way naturally does not have a good view of Britain, the former master.
Similarly, there are all of a sudden more competitors, in addition to BMW, which knew the news at the beginning, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, etc. have joined in, and the recent reports about Rolls-Royce have been very lively.
Although the volume of Rolls-Royce cars is less than 1 billion US dollars, who made him famous, what "the best car", "for the royal family, nobles" and a lot of other titles, it is simply one of the synonyms of luxury cars.
Coupled with the help of well-intentioned people, a little vanity and pride in John Bull's heart has led to the fact that the acquisition has now become the focus of the entire United Kingdom and has touched the nerves of the entire United Kingdom.
Naturally, Li Feng, a young genius who made trouble in the United States, also declared his excitement in Britain and even Europe, and everyone was shocked after reading Li Feng's resume, calling it a miracle of modern wealth.
Well, Li Feng now has the title of 'son of the miracle of wealth' in Europe, and he is famous in Europe.
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"BOSS, now I don't know if there will be new problems with the acquisition of Rolls-Royce. Mike John said a little worriedly.
"Oh... Tell me what could go wrong?"
"First of all, there is the issue of Rolls-Royce's trademark rights, because BMW AG controls Rolls-Royce Aircraft Motors, and Rolls-Royce Aircraft Engines controls the trademark rights of the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars brand.
If we buy Rolls-Royce, we will face an awkward situation, we have the rights to use the Flying Goddess logo and the radiator grille, but we can't make a Rolls-Royce car;
In fact, this is also the reason why BMW's offer is so low today, in their opinion, without BMW's support, the Rolls-Royce brand will disappear. ”
"Damn, what else is going on?" Li Feng couldn't help but exclaim.
To be honest, Li Feng really didn't know what it was, and he didn't elaborate on the phone before, and Michael John kept asking Li Feng to come to the UK to get ideas, after all, he was just an agent, and many things still needed to be made by Li Feng, the boss, in person.
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What Li Feng didn't know was that there was such an embarrassment in history, in the history of the previous life, Rolls-Royce first broke the news of the sale because it was about to go bankrupt, and then car companies including BMW, Volkswagen and other car companies flocked in.
Among them, BMW because of the Rolls-Royce brand trademark, so the offer is very low, BMW originally thought it was a safe acquisition, but Volkswagen intervened, with a higher offer and better commitments, such as promising to be in the UK, will not relocate and other conditions, reached an agreement.
But BMW's counterattack was very clever, and directly announced the suspension of Rolls-Royce's supply of engines, you must know that the company controls the trademark Rice-Royce, and now, Volkswagen is sitting on wax.
In the end, Volkswagen sat down with BMW, the two German car giants, and finally BMW spent money to buy the right to use the Rolls-Royce logo and radiator grille, and stipulated that the production of Rolls-Royce would start in 03.
Volkswagen's original Rolls-Royce Motor Factory in Creweshire, England, can only produce its other brand 'Bentley', which is why Bentley later replaced Rolls-Royce as the only designated car for the British royal family, and Rolls-Royce left the UK and completely became a German company.
In this way, the two major brands of Rolls-Royce were divided into two by two German car companies, and the division was completed, which was one of the heart diseases of the 'John Bull'.
"Now the general situation is like this, BMW offers the lowest price, and the conditions are the most demanding, but because they have the 'Rolls-Royce' car brand in hand, the most confident, Volkswagen and we offer similar prices, and the conditions are actually similar to us.
However, we have more disadvantages, after all, we have no experience in automobile production, and there is no automobile industry company behind us, of course, the final choice is now in the hands of the Vickers Group. ”
"So what do you think we're going to do next?"
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After listening to Li Feng's question, Mike John was also stuck, originally these problems were to be solved when Li Feng came, after all, he was just an agent, and many things could not be decided.