Chapter 785: Acquisition of Victoria's Secret
(The new year is coming, this is the first day of 17 years, sad I wish everyone a healthy and happy new year! Today's three watches, this is the first change, double monthly pass is still there, ask for a guaranteed monthly pass, thank you!)
After chatting with Lei Shidong for most of the day, in the afternoon, Wu Cheng went to Tongle Toy Company and asked President Bill to sort out a copy of the company's materials. Since www.biquge.info is going to buy Viacom, then these funds must be prepared.
Bill, the president of Children's Toys, was somewhat worried about Wu Cheng's move. He is very clear about the future of children's toys, and now children's toys are among the top toy companies in North America. The Rubik's Cube is a toy that still brings great profits to the company every year.
It is worth mentioning that the comic "Transformers" created by Fengyun Animation Club has now been published in North America, of course, in a translated version.
However, some core ideas are somewhat mixed with some Eastern ideas, and individual heroism is attached to the idea of 'chivalry', which is the so-called 'justice'.
At the beginning, Wu Cheng's outline was just a simple outline, and everything else was filled in by the people of the comic club, so naturally it was inevitable to carry some 'private goods'.
Perhaps it is because of these 'private goods' that the sales of this sci-fi anime in North America are not as good as those of the original time and space. However, for those comics of Fengyun Animation Club, even if this "Transformers" does not sell well in North America, it is also the best selling in the animation club. Because of other anime, sales are much lower in North America.
However, the sales of comics are not good, but the sales of toys are not bad. Especially after the comic was made into an animation and broadcast on Oriental TV here, the sales of this toy have been rising, especially in California, showing extremely hot sales.
It's just that the sales brought by "Transformers" still can't offset the loss of the Great Wall Cubes from children's music toys.
Fortunately, the movie "Alien" appeared some time ago, which made the toy "ET" a hit again, and even the peripheral income of this movie is almost catching up with the box office revenue of this movie. Moreover, there is 'Star Wars 2' waiting for them after that!
So, as the president of children's toys, Bill has been in a good mood lately.
But for such a high-quality company, Wu Cheng actually took it out as collateral. If this can't be turned around for a while, wouldn't it be equivalent to giving the entire company to someone else?
Seeing Bill's concern, Wu Cheng smiled and comforted him.
If there is really a situation of poor capital turnover, it means that the empire established by Wu Cheng is almost over. You must know that these companies he is now in, except for those that are starting, other companies that are on the right track can continue to send him funds.
If it weren't for the fact that the company's listing to raise funds was not fast enough, Wu Chengdu was considering whether to list the unified instant noodles or the children's toys to be listed.
These two companies are currently the second companies that Wu Cheng is willing to take out for listing. Compared with these two, if you want to go on the market, you must rank in front of children's toys.
It's just that although the unified instant noodles are good, in terms of assets, they are still not as good as the toy company Children's Toys.
Therefore, if you think about it, the fastest way is to borrow money from the bank.
After staying here at the children's music toys for a while, Wu Cheng went to Storm Investment again.
After learning about the current situation of Storm Investment, Wu Cheng couldn't help but be stunned, because Storm Investment's assets today have become more than 3 billion US dollars...... In other words, as long as Storm Investments sells some of the stocks they hold, plus the liquidity in their hands now, they can already withdraw $3 billion. This situation made Wu Cheng's original intention of mortgaging children's toys temporarily dispelled. If it weren't for himself, Wu Cheng wouldn't want to mortgage his company casually, because with such a large loan, the interest is also a huge amount of money.
And, more importantly, putting children's toys at risk.
After chatting with Tony Tang for a while, Wu Cheng learned that although half of the nearly one billion extra was brought from the stock market, the other half was remitted from Wu Cheng's anonymous account in Switzerland. The source of this money, Tony Tang does not know, but Wu Cheng knows. Because this anonymous account was originally saved from Hongxing's income.
It can be seen that the income of Hongxing this year is very considerable.
So Wu Cheng thought about it, and with a phone call, he summoned Lei Shidong over.
After that, Wu Cheng made another phone call to Bill, the president of Tongle Toys, so that he didn't have to rush to prepare the materials, because this large amount of money had already been settled.
Hearing this, Bill's expression completely relaxed, and a happy smile appeared on his face. In fact, taking out the children's toys for a mortgage, he was more nervous than Wu Cheng.
Making these calls in front of Tony Don made Tony Don curious, and asked, "Boss, are you making another big move? Which company are you going to buy? Do you need my help?"
"Of course, I wouldn't have called people to you. Wu Cheng smiled and continued: "However, before that, you take a look at this first, and then arrange manpower to acquire this company first." Wu Cheng said as he threw the information in front of Tony.
Tony Don looked at the materials and couldn't help but be stunned, and then said with a strange expression: "Boss, are you sure you are not mistaken?
"Isn't a women's underwear brand a business?" Wu Cheng glanced at him and said, "Or, are you despising this kind of business?"
"Oh no, I didn't mean that, I just thought, this company is too small, as if there is no need to be so cautious. Tony Don coughed awkwardly and said.
Wu Cheng couldn't help but say when he heard this: "Tony, you must know that in my heart, this women's underwear brand company is much more important than the 'big companies' you invested in for me." So please be cautious when arranging this acquisition task. This time, I won't allow me to fail, it doesn't matter if I spend more money, but if I mess up, let him fuck off!"
Seeing Wu Cheng's serious face, although Tony Tang didn't know why Wu Cheng valued this women's underwear brand so much, he still didn't dare to take it lightly.
"Don't worry, boss, we'll be cautious!" said Tony Don earnestly.
The reason why the task of acquiring Victoria's Secret was given to Tony Tang, the head of Storm Investment, was because Wu Cheng was not prepared to contact Roy Raymond, the founder of Victoria's Secret, before acquiring Victoria's Secret. lest this guy is not ready to sell Victoria's Secret after he has hope, then he will really become empty and shoot himself in the foot.
Tony Tang went to arrange work, while Wu Cheng sat in his office with Erlang's legs crossed and drinking tea. In the office of the person in charge of these companies, there will be some tea leaves. Because they all know that their boss usually drinks tea instead of coffee in the afternoon.
After Lei Shidong arrived at Storm Investment, he was invited to Tony Tang's office. Seeing Wu Cheng sitting here drinking tea, Lei Shidong couldn't help but be surprised: "Cheng, how did you get involved with this venture capital company? Are they willing to lend you money?"
"Or are you going to let this venture capital firm participate in our plan?" Seeing that there was no one else next to him, Lei Shidong couldn't help but sit down next to Wu Cheng and asked in a low voice.
Wu Cheng couldn't help but smile when he heard this: "Somer, don't be nervous, to tell you the truth, this venture capital company is actually mine." There aren't many people who know this company is me, except for a few of my wives, and you're one of them. ”
"......" Lei Shidong was stunned, and then exclaimed, "Oh God! This venture capital company has heard that it has assets of at least two or three billion yuan, and it has a frightening amount of liquidity. Speaking of this, Lei Shidong was stunned again, and then looked at Wu Cheng with a strange expression and said: "But Cheng, you have so much liquidity, can't you still draw more than a billion yuan to buy Viacom?
Wu Chengxiao glanced at him and said, "If I say that I will invest in the Xiangjiang real estate industry next year, and wait for three or five years, this investment will roll over several times, you will definitely not believe it." ”
"This is impossible!" Lei Shidong shook his head and said, "Where can the real estate industry have such huge profits? It is rare to double it, and how many times it has been doubled?"
Wu Cheng shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "I knew you didn't believe it!"
Lei Shidong frowned and said, "Cheng, I know, you are smarter than me, and there must be a reason for you to make such a crazy decision." However, I still have to advise you, in your Huaxia words, that is...... Think twice, I think you should understand. ”
Wu Cheng smiled and said, "Don't worry about me, I know what I'm doing! Okay, don't talk about it." I called you here, just because I found out that I haven't learned about this investment company for a few months, and its assets have increased a bit, so I'm going to introduce you to Tony, who has a lot of experience in acquiring companies, and I think that you can get twice the result with half the effort if you work together. ”
As Wu Chengzheng spoke, Tony Tang knocked on the door and entered.
Wu Cheng beckoned to Tony and said, "Tony, let me introduce you, this is my partner Sommer Lei Shidong, I think his name, you should be familiar with it." ”
Tony lifted his glasses and smiled: "Of course, the cinema chain under his name has very detailed information on our side, with a total value of about 600 million." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to Lei Shidong and said, "Hello, Mr. Lei Shidong, my name is Tony Tang, you can call me Don, or you can call me Tony like the boss!"
Lei Shidong shook hands with Tony, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and then looked at Wu Cheng, and scolded with a smile: "I knew that your kid had the idea of beating my theater for a long time, right!" )