"Starbucks' current stock price is $14.7, compared to $19.8 at the beginning of the Black Knights program, the market value has evaporated by $1.75 billion, and the current total market capitalization is $5.3 billion... ”

Andy looked through the data in his hand and listened to the team leader in charge of the Black Knight Project introduce the progress of the project, and was very satisfied with their work, although the project used the cooperation of many other resources, but it was able to achieve this obvious effect, and the results were indeed quite remarkable.

"Boss, Starbucks' acquisition should be launched, the negative news and crackdowns we can use are almost over, and there are signs that its stock price has bottomed out at the support level, and in the coming period, if Starbucks has good news, it will bottom out. ”

Al timely admonished that if the suppression of a restaurant chain is not a real fatal problem, it is difficult to suppress the stock price of a listed company into junk stocks, and the negative news will be offset after a period of centralized public relations, and the stock price may bottom out.

Andy raised his head, looked at Al and nodded, but didn't say anything, but continued to look at the last piece of information in his hand, ten lines at a glance,

In 2002, Swedish scientists accidentally discovered that acrylamide can be produced in starchy foods heated at high temperatures, such as french fries, potato chips or bread heated at a temperature of more than 120 °C.

Almost all coffees on the market may contain acrylamide... There is currently insufficient evidence to suggest that acrylamide is carcinogen (possibly carcinogenic) to humans'

Andy frowned, raised his head and looked around the conference room for a week, then asked, "The content on the last page of the information tells me that drinking coffee can cause cancer?"

One of the think-tank experts who was in charge of compiling the data hurriedly explained: "Acrylamide is a toxic carcinogenic chemical that is not present in the coffee beans themselves, but is produced in the roasting process of coffee. At the same time, it can also be found in foods such as toast, french fries, baked biscuits, and fried dough sticks.

A 50-kilogram adult NIAN person will drink a carcinogenic dose of 130 μg, or 10 kilograms of coffee, every day, and 10 kilograms of coffee is almost equivalent to 28 cups of Starbucks medium cup coffee.

There is currently insufficient evidence that acrylamide is a carcinogen to humans, but it may be carcinogenic.

But I think it's a piece of data that can be used to create panic and depress the Starbucks stock price!"

The faces of the other think tank members, including Andy, twitched a little unnaturally, looking at the bespectacled one who was obliquely opposed, with his blond hair combed into a big back, and was a very Sven elite subordinate, looking at the faint smile on the other party's face, he had a feeling of a dog, too black.

"Ahem, don't talk about dosage and toxicity, this is a hooligan... Andy looked down at the details in his hand and muttered to himself in a black whisper.

The sound was not loud, but the conference room was quiet enough, and everyone also heard the boss's complaints, and they couldn't help but laugh, and a few people raised their eyebrows and chuckled at the glasses Sven man who spoke and explained before.

"Boss, I think this thing can be operated completely, it will deal a fatal blow to Starbucks, and it will distract them from a lot of JING power and attention to crisis public relations.

This kind of thriller rumor, although logically untenable, can cause a great panic effect in the short term, which will lead to a siege of public opinion and national attention, causing the stock price to plummet, and even a stampede, directly breaking through the current support level of Starbucks stock price.

Moreover, this data has existed for a long time, and many large catering companies are also aware of it, and they have been spending money to dilute and cover up this fact. After we buy Starbucks, the roles will be reversed, and it will be us who will face this time bomb, and someone may use this data to target us in the future.

It's better for us to detonate it before then, after all, Starbucks doesn't belong to us yet. In every way, it's very beneficial for us!"

Da Da Da –

After listening to Sven Nan's analysis, Andy's fingers tapped quickly on the table, his nails hit the table, making a crisp clicking sound, and his eyes flashed with brilliance.

"Al, what do you think? Will it directly destroy this brand?"

"You can control the rhythm, initially to suppress Starbucks, when public opinion ferments, panic spreads, after the goal is achieved, you can expand the scope of the crackdown, share the pressure of Starbucks, then the coffee industry association will naturally come forward to clarify, but in the short term, the impact on Starbucks will be great, the proposal is feasible!"

Hearing Al's words, Andy looked at the glasses Sven Man's slightly excited expression, and said with a smile: "Randy Watson... Then this matter will be left to you to operate, I will give you the authorization, so that you can mobilize all its media resources in the short term, don't let me down!"

"Thank you, boss, I won't let you down!" replied Randy Watson, slightly excited.

"Hehe, I'm waiting to see your wonderful performance. Everyone, we are also ready to start the plan, we have been laying the groundwork for the Starbucks acquisition for too long this time, and I hope that once it is launched, it will be resolved quickly and complete the acquisition with a crushing attitude!"

After Andy chuckled twice, his expression became serious, and he said solemnly to everyone.

"Understood!"

Everyone in the conference room replied in unison.

After the meeting, Andy and Al walked to the office side by side, Andy said with some emotion: "This hostile takeover may make the outside world's impression of me worse and criticized... ”

"In the early 80s, the crazy era of hostile takeovers using leverage, when being bought meant laying off employees or taking a salary cut - this is also the most criticized part of the social public opinion and morality of leveraged buyouts, and it was also severely whipped and crusaded by the media at that time.

Overly powerful greed permeated the business life of the time.

As long as we make Starbucks stronger, no one will care about everything we do now, people have always admired the winners!"

Andy chuckled and shook his head, walked into the office, took the coffee from the assistant, just wanted to drink it, seemed to think of something, hesitated, couldn't help but look at Al with a wry smile and said, "I made Randy Watson's data a little suspicious... ”

As he spoke, he blew his coffee and took a sip, Al shook his head and smiled, and the little assistant blinked a few times in confusion.

"It's still necessary to prevent Starbucks from launching a poison pill program in response to our hostile takeover. ”

Al nodded slightly and said: "However, the number of shareholders of Starbucks is too much, 6,000, and if you want to issue preferred shares, those major shareholders cannot accept the huge loss of issuing additional diluted shares after the stock price is almost cut in half, so it is difficult for the poison pill plan to pass within Starbucks."

On the contrary, it is necessary to guard against the disruption of a third party and the white knight, and deal with our hostile mergers and acquisitions at a higher price, resulting in a situation where the third party bids with us to acquire Starbucks.

And in the case of white knights, we can either raise the price of the merger or abandon the merger. ”

Andy nodded thoughtfully, frowned and touched his chin while thinking and said: "Let's take more than 10% first, even if there is a white knight's trouble, after all, what we have in our hands is tradable shares, and if the price is too outrageous, we will take advantage of the stock price to rise, make a big profit, and then go back and slowly clean up the business against me, anyway, the profit from Starbucks this time is enough to compensate us for this layout, and it is not my style to be willful!"