Chapter 216: Hasbro Inc

Ten torture clips flashed through my mind, and I walked upstairs while drinking yogurt.

The three bodyguards on the sofa raised Erlang's legs like uncles, and Thomas and Jerry Maia stood straight in front of them, telling what had happened, motionless, for fear of misunderstanding.

Seeing Han Xuan coming, Thomas was overjoyed and shouted, "Boss!

"That's going to be a good mood. Han Xuan joked casually.

Gabriel, knowing that the little fun was over, stood up and said, "Let's go to the store and help." ”

Waiting for them to leave, Han Xuanheng lay down, "How's Hasbro's investigation?"

"I went to the tax office and asked a mid-level official, and he told me that Hasbro paid more than 30 million yuan in taxes last year, and that it had acquired many toy companies in recent years, according to the statements released to shareholders.

In 1968, Hasbro was listed on the U.S. stock exchange, and then temporarily withdrew from the decline in sales, and it can only be estimated that its current assets are about 600 million US dollars, and there are at least 100 million cash reserves, and it can borrow from banks, and there is no problem with funds.

More than 70% of the shares are in the hands of the Halsenfeld family, and the chairman of Textron Corporation, who once wanted to buy a part of Hasbro's shares as a gift for his grandson, was directly rejected by the Hassenfeld family. ”

Han Xuan rubbed his eyebrows, the meaning of Thomas's words was very clear, it was not easy to attack Hasbro.

Marvel Comics does not have its own peripheral channels, and only 30% to 40% of the profit of the film industry comes from the box office, and the rest is the income from the sale of movie derivatives and rights.

In the United States, the revenue from merchandise is as high as 70% of the total revenue of the movie, far more than twice the box office of the movie, such as the three "Star Wars" filmed by Lucas, which grossed $1.8 billion, and the revenue from the merchandise derived from the movie. It is more than $4 billion.

A "Star Wars" can do this, and counting Marvel's heroes, there are too many series that can be filmed.

There is no channel for his own "Harry Potter" series, and later history has proved that its peripheral goods are simply astronomical, and it is let go in vain, giving most of the profits to others. It's not Han Xuan's style.

As the second largest toy company in the United States, Hasbro has a well-established channel from manufacturing to sale, and has a high reputation after decades of establishment.

Nowadays, many elderly people grew up playing with Hasbro toys and have a fixed buying group, which is not available to newly established companies.

And it also has the rights to "Transformers", and this future revenue alone can exceed the current market value of Hasbro, but they don't know. The information on both sides is not equal, and the operation space is extraordinarily large.

Textron Inc. has a strong presence in Rhode Island, making aircraft, motor vehicle engines, industrial products and military equipment, and has a strong presence in the state, and Hasbro can turn them down, but not necessarily himself.

DC Comics collapsed after being acquired by Time Warner, and the information stated that the sales of Batman merchandise in the past few years were only more than 30 million, which did not meet Hasbro's expectations at all. A little temptation was enough to make the Hudsenfield family change their attitude. From DC Comics to the Marvel camp.

Thinking of this, Han Xuan asked, "What time is it?"

"Eleven twenty. ”

"Help me have lunch with the president of Hasbro, in the name of Marvel Comics. ”

Han Xuan looked at the list of shareholders on the paper, "Alan Hassenfield......

Send the list to Perez's lawyer and ask him to contact all the minority shareholders. The maximum premium was 40 per cent for the acquisition of shares from them, with a delay of two months.

Do you know of any fancy restaurants nearby?"

Thomas was blind, not only did he not know who Perez was, but he was also unfamiliar with the city of Providence.

The day before yesterday I was surprised to find after thinking about it. This boy is more promising than in the talent-rich SOS Group, a 10-billion-dollar heir, and he doesn't soar if he is acquainted?

In the past two days, I have been busy handling the things he explained, so how can I pay attention to other things.

Han Xuan glanced at Thomas, immediately understood, reported Perez's number to him, and said with a smile: "I'll arrange the restaurant, do you have Mr. Hassenfield's phone number?"

"Yes, in my bag. Jeremiah replied.

Thomas was stunned, he knew this, he secretly scolded him for being in a daze, he really wanted to slap himself in the face

On the outskirts of Providence, at the Hasbro factory.

A man in his forties is working on documents in his office.

Affected by the sales of comics in recent years, Hasbro's performance has also declined, and when the board of directors was opened, shareholders believed that it was the after-effects of the aggressive acquisition, dragging down the parent company of Hasbro.

Since the death of his brother the year before last and Alan Hasenfield took over as CEO of Hasbro, this voice has not stopped, and if it were not for the concentration of most of the equity in the hands of the family, life would be even more difficult.

The idea of relisting has been on his mind recently, and the stock market may be able to drive Hasbro's appreciation, but the company's performance is a big problem at the moment, and investors are not fools, and IT stocks are the hot ones.

The female secretary knocked on the door and came in, covered the phone with her palm and said: "A boy said that he was the assistant to the president of Marvel, and he wanted to invite you to the Hilton Hotel for lunch together, there are some things that you will be interested in, about the copyright of anime periphery." ”

"Kid, it's supposed to be a troublemaker...... Forget it, I'll call and ask, you say I'm not there first. ”

Hasenfield subconsciously wanted to refuse, but felt that it seemed to be a good excuse to contact the new boss of Marvel Comics, so he found Guo Muzhou's business card, dialed it and said, "Hello, Mr. Quark, there is a boy who said it was your assistant?"

He asked me to talk about Marvel, and I wanted to get in touch with you. ”

"Boy?ah~ If it's called Han Xuan, that's right, you can talk to him first, I'll go to Providence in the afternoon, I'm already in the car, and I'll contact you then." ”

“…… Okay, I'll wait for you to come over. "Hasenfeld now thinks that he is raising offspring, giving some company things to the children in the family to deal with, and he has experienced it as a child.

Lie back in a chair with your hands folded on your waist and close your eyes.

It's not that I didn't have any ideas about Marvel Comics before, but the emaciated camel was bigger than a horse, and at that time, Marvel's market value was close to $200 million, and Hasbro was ready to make a move, so it was delayed with a bank loan.

The Chinese man who called just now was too accurate, and before Hasbro could react, he had already swept the circulating shares on the market, and then Marvel rose in price and fell sharply, thinking that it would be good to take over when he sold at a high price.

A series of operations are clearly the usual methods of Wall Street, and now that Marvel Comics has been delisted and changed hands, it is too late to regret it.

Having not understood why the other party came to the door, Hasenfield said to the secretary, "Call the boy back, the time is set at twelve o'clock, and I will go to ......" (to be continued). )