Chapter 114: Peers are enemies

At the beginning, GM Group took advantage of the Asian financial crisis to merge Daewoo Group, which was a lucrative deal. With this premise, some other fragmentary institutions are just collateral value.

Since it is incidental value, GM Group is not very concerned about these low-value assets, and perhaps those institutions are very important to the original Korean Daewoo, but from the perspective of GM Group, this is not the case.

GM's abandonment of the Russian market and its comprehensive withdrawal can play a huge role in shaking up and creating an image in the hearts of the American people who do not bow their heads.

On the other hand, this decision is not very difficult to choose, in fact, GM itself does not have much profit in Russia, after this turmoil, the situation will be even more difficult, rather than barely maintaining the organization received from Daewoo Group, it is better to cut through the mess quickly.

When the news came from the U.S. headquarters, it was widely discussed by commercial newspapers for a while, and the mainstream idea was, of course, to stand with the American dad and angrily denounce the darkness of the Russian market.

There are two sides to everything, and for others, it's a good thing. My honey, his arsenic. As one of the giants of the automotive industry, GM Group's depletion in this matter is not only not a bad thing, but also a huge good thing for GM's peers.

Ford, which is also a competitor in the American auto industry, did not pay much attention to this matter because the vehicles and alignments made by General Motors were very consistent, because the positioning of the two was the same, and Ford Motor had repeatedly hit a wall in Russia, not a rival between German and Japanese cars.

Rarely, the Ford Motor Group has not fallen into the trap of General Motors, a domestic competitor, but this does not mean that others will not do it, whether it is Japanese Toyota, Honda, or German Volkswagen, they will not let go of this opportunity.

The CEO of GM Group has just announced that GM Group has abandoned the news of the Russian market, the entire automotive industry, the atmosphere has suddenly become weird, after a short period of silence, many people take the initiative to enter the GM Group, the reason is nothing more than to see the GM Group is about to sell the institutions in Russia, these institutions GM no longer needs, but for other companies, it is still a valuable wealth.

Rick Wagner knows this and understands the reason for the kindness of these peers at this time. It is nothing more than to take a fancy to the outlets in the hands of the General Motors Group, and when the time comes, the acquisition will directly change its appearance and serve its own automobile group.

Volkswagen and Toyota first became the first customers of the GM Group, either implicitly or directly stated that the purpose was to take a fancy to the outlets of the GM Group, and there may be other automobile companies to inquire about the news in the future.

Within the GM Group, which is well aware of the intentions of Volkswagen and Toyota, there are also two opinions on this matter. One is to throw the performance of the party with the high price, and the other is of course against. The automobile market itself is becoming more and more competitive, and selling the outlets in your hands to other automobile companies can only make short-term profits, and in the long run, it will definitely make the opponent stronger, which is equivalent to raising wolves, and when the wolf grows up to be wild and untamable, it may bite back.

Both opinions have their own reasoning, and the side that supports the sale to other auto companies believes that the situation of several major automobile groups standing side by side will not change in essence because of this incident. Since Durant founded General Motors 100 years ago, GM has produced and sold a range of branded models and services around the world. The full range of models of many brands of General Motors are sold well in more than 100 countries and regions around the world, and the roots are deep, and the foundation of the General Motors Group will not be affected by small things.

"That's wrong!" After listening to the opinions of both factions, Rick Wagner did not hesitate to lean towards the latter, that is, it is not possible to do anything to help his peers, "We always think that the market in the world is big enough, and it is more important to open up new markets than to keep our own chassis, and this is completely wrong, at least equally important." We sell cars, not toilet paper, not all countries have enough purchasing power to spend on cars, and there are so many people in Africa, how many cars do we sell in a year? A country with purchasing power is a market, and a country without purchasing power is just a desert. Didn't you agree to sell the outlets and institutions that you acquired from Daewoo Group because we didn't make money in Russia? ”

As CEO Rick Wagner spoke, the room fell silent and the others listened in silence as Rick Wagner continued, "You know, compared to Germany and Japan, we are at a disadvantage in Russia. In the case of disadvantage, do we also want to help competitors who are already strong in their own right? This will make our opponents even more difficult to defeat in the future. In case the environment changes after a few years, we can't go back even if we want to. ”

Rick Wagner's words made most people nod in their hearts, the auto industry is just like he said, it can be said that every man wants to own a car of his own, no one will doubt this, but not everyone can afford it, this is also a cruel reality.

"Officially reject Volkswagen and Toyota, we don't sell. If there are businessmen from other industries who can take it, we can think about it, and would rather sell it off, anyway, it is something for the Koreans. Rick Wagner said the nail on the head. Peers are enemies, and they are vividly expressed by this GM controller.

Soon, representatives of other auto groups came to the door and were closed, and GM made it clear that it was not ready to sell outlets in Russia, which was simply perfunctory, and representatives of other auto companies understood this.

Thousands of miles away in the Far East, Lin Ye, who is still in the low-end field, naturally doesn't know that high-end players also follow the basic principles like this, if he knows, he may be subverted Three views, aren't high-end players all polite? It turns out that it is the same trick.

So far, it has been very successful for Lin Ye, although he has not earned a dime, and he has spent a lot. But he can enjoy the pleasure of making trouble for the little people, but letting the big group pay, so that he now walks with the wind.

"If you're interested, I'll find you an instructor, right?" Lidia, who put her hands on her chest anymore, looked at Lin Ye who seemed to be exercising with dumbbells with interest, and shook her head secretly in her heart, practicing like this has no effect.