The next day, October 5, at 1:35 p.m., the 15th floor of the Pennsylvania Hotel......

The jubilation in the luxury suite, the two weeks of waiting, today finally has a result, everyone's tense hearts can finally relax, not only Mak Jiajun regained the lightness and happiness of the previous few days, even Thomas Karinske also showed a relieved smile, he is now truly relieved.

Just three minutes ago, through repeated covert operations, Camry Toys North America has won 17% of Hasbro's shares, and they no longer need to deliberately hide their acquisition attempts with enough chips in their hands, and they can rest assured that they can boldly sweep the goods directly in the market. It's just that at this moment, there are not too many selling orders to take in the market, and as Hasbro's stock price stabilizes, the people who have been selling in the past two days have turned into wait-and-see, and now most of them are unwilling to give up the last chips in hand easily.

Mai Jiajun leaned on the sofa and rubbed his temples on both sides with his hands, although the consumption of physical strength in the room was not obvious, but the continuous high-intensity thinking still made him look a little tired, what he wanted to do most now was to lie down and sleep well, but now is not the right time, so he can only close his eyes slightly, massage his head, and strive to relieve himself a little.

Thomas Karinske felt much lighter in his mood after an important matter, and he walked to the picture window, opened the curtains and looked out to see a beautiful tall building opposite the hotel, and from the upper floor, he could see the people coming in and out. Thomas Karinsk remembers that behind the tall building was a large white cylindrical building, the 121-year-old Madison Square Garden, and below that garden was Penn Station, one of the largest train stations in the country, and the exit of the station was right on the first floor of the tall building that he could see.

In fact, the Pennsylvania Hotel is quite well located, not only Madison Square Garden is close at hand, the largest department store, Macy's, is just a block away, and you can see one of the symbols of New York, the Empire State Building, across the street. If you are a tourist, many attractions in the vicinity can be reached on foot, but Thomas Karinsk has been here a few times before, and he has been preoccupied a few days ago, so he has not had the idea of going around the neighborhood, and now in a good mood, looking at the ant-like busy crowd downstairs and the traffic shuttling back and forth, he suddenly had the idea of walking around.

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Five minutes later, at 1:40 p.m. local time in Rhode Island, Newport Avenue in Portucket, ......

“…… Mr. Verrickchar, the main thing about my new idea is that we can try to get the backlog of Star Wars toys to China, where there are quite a few Star Wars fans, and we ......"

Yesterday's seminar was not a success, and for most of the day there was no real feasible plan, so in the end, CEO Al Verikchar could only pin his hopes on the more energetic John Frascotti, and let him go back and revise and improve his proposals. This afternoon, John Frascotti, who was ready, came to the CEO's office with his revised proposal to reintroduce it to Al Verikchar, and when he was talking about the key to the excitement, the phone on the desk suddenly rang.

"Sorry, I took the phone. Al Verikchar made an apologetic expression, then picked up the phone and put it to his ear, and after a while his face showed a solemn expression, and he commanded into the phone: "Well, I know, you keep an eye on it, I'll deal with this matter immediately." ”

When John Frascotti heard what the CEO said, he understood that most of today's promotion could not be done, and a slight disappointment welled up in his heart. Sure enough, after Al Verikchar put down the phone, he said, "I'm sorry, I have something that needs to be dealt with right now, or you can go back and think about it and see if there is anything that needs to be improved." ”

"Okay," John Frascotti struggled to control his emotions, keeping a smile on his face, and nodded, "Mr. Verikchar, then I'll go back and study it again." ”

After speaking, John Frasco got up and left the CEO's office, and when his back disappeared, Al Verikchar's face showed an anxious expression, and he picked up the phone and dialed an internal number, and as soon as the phone was connected, he hurriedly said: "Alan, we are in trouble......"

Twenty minutes later, in the chairman's office, Alan Hasenfeld looked at CEO Al Verrickchar anxiously and asked, "Al, how is the situation now?"

"Allen, I just received a report that someone is secretly buying Hasbro's shares, and it is estimated that at least 10%~12% of the shares have been swept away, and it seems that their target is likely to be the control of our company. ”

"Do you know who did it?" Alan Hasenfeld asked with a calm face as usual.

"It's not clear for the time being, further investigation is needed, it's not certain that it won't be Mattel's doing, and I believe that the other party will take the initiative to jump out soon. CEO Al Verikchar said with a little embarrassment, he was knocked on a stick, but he didn't even know who was the one, and he couldn't think of embarrassment in the face of the boss's question.

"Okay, I know about this, you continue to arrange for someone to investigate and find out who the other party is as soon as possible. With that, Alan Hasenfeld sent the CEO away, and now he needs someone to think about it.

The current situation is that if the other party really gets 10%~12% of the shares, it will be difficult to prevent the other party from joining the board of directors, then the only thing he can do now is to prevent the other party from taking the opportunity to take away control of the company, or even fully acquire Hasbro. However, in order to achieve this goal, he alone is not enough, as a public company, the Hasenfeld family actually owns only 26.2% of Hasbro's shares, let alone a controlling stake, and even a veto stake is not enough, so he must seek the support of other shareholders.

Thinking of this, Alan Husenfeld picked up the phone on the table and dialed a number, and said with a smile on his face: "Mr. Trim, there is something I would like to discuss with you......

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On the third day, Oct. 6, at 9:30 a.m. local time in Rhode Island, Newport Avenue in Portucket......

CEO Al Willikchar hurriedly came to the chairman's office and said to Alan Husenfeld sitting on the sofa: "Alan, we know who is buying Hasbro's stock!"

"Oh, who is it?" Alan Hassenfeld looked up, expecting the answer from Al Verikchar's mouth.

"Just look at the TV!" said CEO Al Verikchar, who walked over and turned on the TV in his office, then turned on the channel, and a press conference appeared on the screen.

On the TV, Thomas Kalinsk stands at the podium with a big smile on his face, and next to him are several Camry Toys North America executives, flakes of white light shining wildly and accompanied by the sound of a "click" shutter.

"Mr. Kalinsk, you just claimed that Camry Toys has acquired a 17.6% stake in Hasbro, what is the reason for your decision?" After the white light flashed, a reporter stood up and raised his doubts, and other reporters at the scene probably had the same idea.

"I'm sorry, but this is inconvenient to disclose for the time being because it involves trade secrets. Thomas Kalinsk replied with an apologetic smile.

The reporter sat down disappointed, and soon another reporter stood up again and asked, "Mr. Karinsk, can you reveal the purpose of buying Hasbro's shares?"

"I'm sorry, this issue involves trade secrets, so it's not convenient to disclose it for the time being. Thomas Kalinsk's face was still apologetic.

The reporters in the audience asked several questions in a row, trying to dig out more details from various aspects, but Thomas Karinsk refused to answer all of them on the grounds that they involved trade secrets, which made the reporters hate each one by one.

"Don't say anything, what kind of press conference!" muttered many reporters in their hearts.

"Mr. Kalinsk, can you tell us what your next steps will be after buying a stake in Hasbro?" the last reporter to stand up to ask a question tried to make a last-ditch effort and pondered a question that the other party would be willing to answer.

Sure enough, this time Thomas Karinsk did not prevaricate on the grounds of trade secrets, but replied very happily: "We will exercise our rights as shareholders in the next step, the current business situation of Hasbro is really worrying, we plan to convene a general meeting of shareholders to discuss countermeasures, the specific time is scheduled to be ten working days later, that is, October 20 at half past nine in the morning, the venue is the Peninsula Hotel in New York ......." ”

This is very exciting news, Camry Toys and Hasbro are going to fight each other, and there is a Daze Mattel next to them, many reporters have secretly made up their minds to find a way to interview Hasbro and Mattel later, as long as they say something, tomorrow's news headlines will be everything......

In front of the TV, Alan Hassenfeld waved his hand angrily, and he hated it now. This Thomas Karinske was born too long to dare to manage Hasbro's side. But anger is anger, and he himself understands that people are high-sounding to exercise shareholder rights, who makes Jiamei Toys not a listed company, even if he has money now, there is no place to fight back.

"Al, what do you think we should do?" Alan Hasenfeld quickly calmed down and asked CEO Al Verrickchar calmly.

"Well, Allen, we can actually leave them alone, we just need to seize control of the company, and we won't be afraid of what tricks they play. ”

Alan Hassenfeld nodded, he also thought so, as long as the control of the company was in hand, Thomas Karinsk would let him be a shareholder, anyway, there would be an opportunity to wash them out in the future. Thinking of this, Alan Hasenfeld stood up and came to the desk, picked up the phone and dialed a number to go out, yesterday had negotiated with Gale Trim of Van Clecle's union, the other party said that he would definitely stand on his side, but this was not enough, so he also planned to contact Citibank, the company's second largest shareholder, as long as Citibank was willing to stand on his side, he would be equivalent to holding more than 50% of the voting rights of the shares, and even if the other party did anything at the shareholders' meeting, he could not worry.

"Mr. Anderson, I'm Alan Hasenfeld...... Oh, you guys have representatives in New York...... Okay, okay......" Listening to the "good news" on the phone, Alan Hassenfeld's face slowly smiled......

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Oct. 20, 9:09 a.m. local time in New York, in the conference room of The Peninsula Hotel......

Although there were still about 20 minutes before the start of the meeting, Alan Hasenfeld had already arrived at the meeting early, in fact, he could not have come today, anyway, Van Clew United and Citibank have communicated, and it is enough for CEO Al Verrick Char and several representatives of the company to come. However, he really wanted to see those guys from Jiamei Toys, and wanted to see the embarrassment of his opponent with his own eyes, and when the opponent found that he had worked hard for a long time and finally ended up in nothing, he believed that the expressions on these people's faces must be very wonderful, and he was very convinced.

At 9:12, people came in the conference hall one after another, and Alan Hassenfeld also noticed that there were several people at the door who were registering shareholders, and Hasbro did not send anyone over, it was obvious that these people were from Camry Toys. Alan Hassenfeld pursed his lips disdainfully, and walked into the conference hall, and when he entered the door, he thought very evilly: "If these guys who help shareholders register on the spot find out that Bai is happy, I don't know what they will think at that time?"

Walking into the conference hall, Alan Hasenfeld casually found a seat and sat down, ready to wait for the opening of the shareholders' meeting. About ten minutes later, there was a commotion at the entrance to the conference hall, and Alan Hasenfeld looked back to see that Gale Trim, the representative of Van Locker's Union, had arrived, and he quickly got up to greet him.

"Mr. Trim, it's a pleasure to see you!" Alan Hasenfeld was still three or four meters away from Gale Trim, and Alan Hasenfeld had already begun to greet him warmly, after all, Van Clew Union was one of the important bases today.

Hearing someone shouting to him, Gail Trim apologized to the person who was talking, turned to look at him, and immediately changed his face to a sincere smile: "Aha, Mr. Hasenfeld, you came so early today!"

Alan Hassenfeld came to Gail Trim's side, and at this time, the two people who had been talking to Gail Trim had turned around and left, Alan Hassenfeld glanced curiously in the direction where the two left, and asked casually, "Mr. Trim, who were those two just now?"

"Those two guys, they want us to invest, but they can't even tell what they're going to do, huh!" Gal Trim snorted coldly.

Since he was looking for investment, it was very reasonable to talk to Gail Trim, so Alan Husenfeld didn't continue to explore, and after a few casual gossips, he invited Gail Trim to sit down and talk, and Gail Trim seemed to be in a good mood and immediately agreed.

When he left the door of the conference hall, Alan Hassenfeld glanced out again, he wanted to see if the representative of Citibank had come, and after calling for the past few days, Mr. Anderson was very enthusiastic, but he had never seen their representative, which made him still a little uneasy.

Back in his seat, Alan Hasenfeld began to brief Gael Trim about Hasbro's future plans, that he had to get every card in his hand now, and that the best way to get investors was to tell them how much money you could help them make in the future. While giving his introduction, Alan Husenfeld occasionally glanced at the entrance of the conference hall or two, and it was not until Paul Anderson of Citibank appeared at the door that his mind finally relaxed, and he felt that his control of the company had become secure again, which was why he did not notice the strange expression that occasionally flashed on Gail Trim's face.

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