144 Door-to-door opportunities
The next morning, Li Feng was enjoying a Cantonese breakfast, but Wang Siqing brought a new visitor, which made Li Feng painful and happy.
"Mr. Zou, long time no see!" Li Feng said with a smile as he looked at the Chinese entertainment industry bigwig.
That's right, this time it was Mr. Zou Wenhuai from Golden Harvest, but the old man Zou that Li Feng saw at this time was completely different from what he saw last time, his complexion was too different, and now he looks more like a dying old man.
In addition to one of his daughters, there is also Mr. Liang Feng, who is also a veteran of Golden Harvest, but this Liang Feng is more involved in movie performances, so for Golden Harvest, Old Man Zou and Old Man He are the pillars.
"Mr. Li, I haven't seen you for a long time, we are not outsiders anymore, I really have a request for Mr. Yu this time. The old man went straight to the point, and he was not polite. After that, it began to tell the story.
It turns out that with the increasing recession of the Hong Kong film and television industry, Golden Harvest is really in debt, especially since the 90s, Golden Harvest is bent on impacting Hollywood, except for a limited number of movies, most of them are operating at a loss.
The investment in those movies is often more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars or even hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, and only Golden Harvest has such courage in Hong Kong, but unfortunately, the box office of these movies is only tens of millions at most, and the result is naturally a loss to grandma's family.
Naturally, Golden Harvest was unlucky, and some people couldn't sit still and wanted to buy Golden Harvest. Over the years, Golden Harvest has repeatedly faced hostile takeovers, but fortunately, although Mr. Zou does not have much wealth in Hong Kong, his connections and face are still quite large, and he has survived.
However, recently his friend He Guanchang passed away, and the death of his old friend hit Mr. Zou very hard, and under the situation of the inability to revitalize Jiahe, he once thought about retiring and enjoying his old age, after all, he was in his early 70s, and now he is really strong.
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"Mr. Li, now that Yuanlou has gone to Hollywood to shoot the rush hour, we are also partners, I don't know if the matter you said last time about taking a stake in Golden Harvest is still counted?"
"Oh, it's a pity, Old Man He's death is a loss for Chinese films, but are you ready to sell Golden Harvest and retire completely?" Li Feng replied suspiciously.
After expressing his intention to acquire last time, Li Feng let people contact Golden Harvest, although it was not successful in the end, but he also understood Golden Harvest, although Golden Harvest is not as good as day by day, but now it should be able to hold on, why did the old man talk about it.
"Mr. Li, if you are willing to promise to retain the management team after the acquisition of the company, then we can have a good talk, what do you think?" Listening to Li Feng's words, Old Man Zou finally proposed with a smile.
After listening to others' words, Li Feng understood that now Jiahe is in debt, but it has not reached the time when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, and it has its own theater, film and television city, etc., even if it does not invest in making movies, it can always make money every year.
But if you don't invest in filming, it's still Golden Harvest, so it seems that you want Li Feng to do this wrong, if Li Feng buys Golden Harvest and is still willing to retain the management team, this can not only get Golden Harvest out of financial difficulties, but also continue to be in charge of Golden Harvest's things and introduce Hollywood resources, which is naturally the best.
Li Feng represents Hollywood's resources and wealth, and compared with other consortium acquisitions in Hong Kong, it is obvious that Li Feng is the best choice for Golden Harvest who wants to break out of Asia and go global.
Listening to other people's requests, Li Feng couldn't help but ponder.
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"Zou Lao, I promise that I can only go to you, if you retire, then Jiahe I will really take power, of course, if Zou Lao, your descendants are really very good managers, I don't mind letting your descendants manage.
If you can agree to my request, I will agree to take a stake in Golden Harvest, but I want a controlling stake in Golden Harvest, a vice president in charge of finance, and half of the voting seats on the board of directors. Finally, Li Feng looked up and replied.
For Li Feng's request, Mr. Zou also began to consider it, obviously, Li Feng made it very clear, if Mr. Zou could still be in power, Li Feng agreed, but if Mr. Zou retired directly, then obviously, in the future, Jiahe will be Li Feng's final say.
Old man Zou couldn't help but think of the current situation of Jiahe at this time, although his children were all pulled to Jiahe by himself at the beginning, but in the end they all left, and his last daughter was still supporting, but in fact, he didn't have much ability, obviously, he was not a qualified successor.
Liang Feng, one of the entrepreneurial veterans of Golden Harvest next to him, was originally a very suitable successor, but unfortunately this veteran is more interested in starring in movies, and he is not a suitable successor for managing the film company, but unfortunately, his best partner He Guanchang passed away, otherwise he would not even have a person to discuss, thinking of this, the old man couldn't help but feel depressed.
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"Ah Feng, what do you think?" the old man couldn't help but turn his head to his old partner, chubby Liang Feng beside him.
"Wen Huai, you know, over the years, I have not been involved in how to manage Jiahe, and I am really not interested, you and Guanchang are in charge, now that Guanchang is gone, I will listen to you in the future, over the years, haven't you all come over like this. Liang Feng said with a smile and didn't mind.
"You... What do you think?" asked the old man again, turning to his daughter beside him.
"Father, I don't object, I think if it can become a subsidiary of Mr. Li's media group, I think it will be of great benefit to Golden Harvest. Old Man Zou's daughter also said with a smile.
This Golden Harvest's eldest son is actually relatively enlightened, although she is also from a film art background, and now she has been engaged in the film industry for so long in Golden Harvest, and she does find that she is not a qualified company manager.
Moreover, he graduated from the Stanford Film School with a master's degree, and he can be regarded as knowing the corporate management model of the United States, and he is relatively enlightened, so he really does not object to Li Feng's acquisition.
At this time, Golden Harvest has not introduced too much capital, therefore, the shares of several veterans combined are firmly in control of the overall situation, as a listed company, the market value of Golden Harvest is really not much, and now it is only about 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Later, in order not to be hostilely acquired, Golden Harvest also introduced Hong Kong's local consortium forces, that is, the Li family, the first wealthy family in Hong Kong, and later Golden Harvest Li Chaoren was the second largest shareholder after Old Man Zou.
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"Mr. Li, since this is the case, we agreed, but I hope that Mr. Li will directly use funds to invest in shares to dilute our equity and take control, what do you think?" The old man made a new request at this time.
"Oh... Yes, I don't mind, then I will arrange someone to come and negotiate with you in detail, and I will wait for the good news. Li Feng replied with a smile.
After listening to others, Li Feng also understood that today's Golden Harvest really has no funds, otherwise, Li Feng would not be allowed to invest directly in the company with funds.
In this regard, Li Feng really didn't mind, in fact, Li Feng really didn't expect that there would be something that would be automatically sent to the door, he originally planned to buy Golden Harvest in Hong Kong, and this time he was sent to the door, and he had no reason not to agree.
This is really thinking about something, in this way, I finally really got involved in the Asian entertainment industry, after all, in addition to the mainland, Golden Harvest has a complete distribution network all over Asia.
For the broken ship of MGM, the perfect distribution network throughout Asia is still a very good complement. Who let the once perfect distribution network of MGM be sold, and it was really dozing off to send a pillow.
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However, Li Feng also understands that for Jiahe, which is now heavily in debt, it is also very urgent to introduce the necessary funds.
Obviously, for Golden Harvest, which is bent on developing towards Hollywood, Li Feng and his media group are the best.
After bidding farewell to Mr. Zou and his party, Li Feng immediately picked up the phone and contacted him regardless of the time difference.