Chapter 113: To be rich is to be capricious
Chapter 113
Howard was speechless and walked away shaking his head.
Knowing that he knew that he was despised, Rao was thick-skinned enough, and he felt a little unbearable. Because in his heart, Howard is the kind of simple-minded fool, but one day, he was suddenly despised by the guy he had always regarded as a fool.
STX Europe?
Isn't it awesome?
For this STX Europe, Zhang Lie is jealous. Immediately, people were asked to find relevant information in the field of shipbuilding, and at the same time, they focused on STX Europe.
Soon someone handed over the thick information to Zhang Lie, and Zhang Lie didn't look at the information of this STX Europe first. Rather, it's about the current situation in the shipbuilding industry.
Just at the first glance, Zhang Lie was speechless. Now his worldview has been subverted, the boss of the shipbuilding industry, the southern stick country. The second oldest in the shipbuilding industry, the third in the shipbuilding industry, and the third in the shipbuilding industry.
STX Europe is actually only a subsidiary of STX, and STX is only ranked seventh or eighth in this industry, but its strength is not bad. In particular, his name STX Europe was formerly known as the world's most prestigious luxury yacht manufacturing company.
He didn't expect that a small southern stick country would actually be the largest country in the shipbuilding industry, is this possible? But the reality is, that's what it is!
It seems that the situation is not optimistic, since the year before last the world fell into an economic crisis, the shipbuilding industry around the world has almost fallen into a crisis. The tonnage of newly-built ships has plummeted, and it is simply not enough to feed so many shipbuilding companies.
And STX is a tragedy. The year before last, after the acquisition of the most prestigious Aker shipyard in Europe. At that time, the French president even said with grief that the southern country had bought the last fig leaf in Europe. From now on, there will be no place for Europe in the world's ship processing.
STX is crazy and has put the finishing touches on their big brother buying up other shipyards in Europe and is the most prestigious Aker shipyard in the world. STX is crazy and even abandoned this awesome name after acquiring Aker. The Aker shipyard will be famous in the world for a hundred years. It became STX Europe.
It is said that STX at that time was very awesome and openly declared. STX does not accept small orders, only tall orders. For example, if you want to build a small sampan, STX will tell you very boldly. I'm sorry, but STX manufactures class luxury ships. Small sampan, please find Huaguo Shipyard, they are good at this.
They are crazy, they drag, and others can't do anything about them. That year was the proudest year for STX. But the following year, things changed dramatically.
The whole world is in an economic crisis, reaching the point where the country is even bankrupt in debt. The world's shipbuilding industry has shrunk dramatically. Especially STX, a company that makes tall people. is even more kneeling, just asking for a list.
In the first year, I ate my old book to get by. The second year. Borrow to get by. In the third year, debts piled up. STX has been completely mired in various crises, such as forced debts by banks and a recession in the industry. They were already completely hopeless, so STX had to consider selling the Aker shipyard, which was so awesome at the time. to relieve the pressure on the business.
"No orders?" Zhang Lie immediately turned on his brain, thinking about how to solve this problem.
It seems that the future of this industry is not good. Yachts are not like cars, and the middle class can buy a luxury car after working for a while. But yachts seem to be only for the rich. And now that the economy is sluggish, the rich have extra money, which seems to be spent on the maintenance of the company.
Why don't you know it? He doesn't feel so strict, he usually doesn't have to live how to live, and he hasn't heard of any company that hasn't survived the economic crisis and closed down.
It's really not good, we can't export, let's do domestic sales. There are so many wealthy people in China, I don't believe that they don't buy it, and Zhang Lie has the means to let them buy it.
And Zhang Lie is confident that someone will buy what he builds, and if the shipyard is built, no one will buy a yacht. Then build other ships, and if there are other ships, no one will buy them. Then build a warship, he won't believe it, and no one will buy a warship.
Of course, he is just self-conscious, he wants to build a warship, and he has to let him build it.
Directly contacted Cui Xueli and asked her to help with the investigation, Howard's kid said that his family cooperated with Nanbang State, what was going on. It seems that that kid can force the southern country to sell STX Europe to himself at a low price.
Cui Xueli got Zhang Lie's instructions and quickly found the relevant information. At the same time, it was passed to Zhang Lie for the first time, and his own ideas were proposed.
Zhang Lie looked at this information, Nanbangguo and Howard's family really have business dealings, and the scale is not small. Nan Bangguo purchased twenty F16C fighters from Lockheed Martin at one time. And there may be thirty F16C fighters in the later stage, but this batch of fighters will be assembled in the southern country.
If this kid puts pressure on the government of the South Stick Country, the government of the South Stick Country will really betray STX for the smooth delivery of this batch of fighters. After all, STX is in the South Bang Country, although it is still okay, but it is far less than the giants of the shipbuilding industry in the South Bang Country.
And just now Cui Xueli also said that if it is the acquisition of STX, she can also help. Don't forget to take it, people are the godsons and daughters of the president of the Nanbang country, and they must be regarded as the godprincess of the Nanbang country. If she comes forward to buy STX, it's really not a lot of pressure.
It's just that Zhang Lie is not interested in STX, he is only interested in the Aker shipyard.
Acquisition, must be acquired! As long as you buy the Aker shipyard and empty the Aker shipyard, your own shipyard will be completely fine.
Leaving this matter to Steven in charge, the last time he dealt with that matter in Germany, Zhang Lie was very satisfied, and Zhang Lie was not embarrassed. And with the help of Howard's kid, coupled with Shirley's identity, it shouldn't be a big problem to get a southern base.
Steven was actually watching Aker, after all, STX Europe was in dire straits. He's got it. He didn't rush to make a move, and a large part of the reason was to study whether STX Europe was still worth acquiring.
Three years. The world's most prestigious Aker shipyard has become STX Europe, which is not loved by fathers and mothers. What the hell has it been plagued by the STX Group.
Whether his relevant technology patents are still retained, whether they have been completed by its parent company, STX Group, and how many of his master designers and technicians are still retained.
Now Boss gives him instructions. Ask him to buy the business. Steven immediately reported his concerns to Zhang Lie, after all, he had not done a thorough investigation.
"Steven. You just have to remember one thing for me, what is missing and how much less he is than in the Aker period. Is there still value for acquisition? Determine these, those things he is missing, directly deduct them from the total amount of my acquisition. Then, you throw dollars at me, I want my shipyard to have the most powerful R&D and manufacturing team in the world. Zhang Lie said coaxingly, there is no way, more money is willful.
With instructions from his boss, Howard certainly knew how to do it. What's more, it's Lockheed Martin to help out. Miss Choi Shirley will do the work of President Lee Chang Min again, let alone the acquisition of STX Europe, even if it is a low-cost acquisition of STX, there is no problem at all.
Acquisition of one STX Europe. How can he show his ability. With the help of Lockheed Martin and Miss Sherry Choi, he decided to accept the STX Group at a low price. If Boss doesn't like some of his properties at that time, he can completely split them up and sell them. This can also recoup some of the funds, and even make a lot of money.
In fact. Zhang Lie didn't know that Steven would stay in Europe for this time. It's really making Europe a bit of a chicken. That's why the German Chancellor wanted the line that Ka Zhanglie ordered at Siemens. Otherwise, there is no big conflict of interest between Germany and China, and there are no problems left over from history. Can Germany offend China, which is far away on the other side of the world?
Steven, as Zhang Lie's loyal dog, in addition to Catherine's personal training, is stimulated by green dollar bills.
In just three months with Zhang Lie, the commission he received has reached three million US dollars. This is for a small Wall Street person like him, who was not famous in the past and had an annual income of only a few hundred thousand dollars. Zhang Lie and Catherine are his benefactors of reinvention, not to mention the world's economic recession, and he faced unemployment almost at any time before being mentioned by Catherine. When the time comes, what will the third princess of his birthplace take to raise, and their family of seven will probably be an excuse to sleep in the open and beg along the street.
So, in order to repay *OSS for the kindness of the encounter. Steven waved green dollar bills in Europe and kept poaching people. He has cooperated with almost all the headhunting companies in Europe, not to mention the designers and technicians, sometimes it is not possible to solve it with US dollars. But top designers and technicians, in this environment, dollar bills play a key role.
Steven's knowledge of the overall sale of STX Europe was because he had already recruited several well-known designers from STX Europe.
Using high salaries as bait to lure these guys to leave Europe and work hard in China. Steven even approached a design team to design a schematic diagram of the beautiful living environment. to lure these foreign devils, as long as they go to China, they can live in such an environment. Not only can you earn a lot of dollars, but you can also enjoy the best life. After retirement, those who do not want to leave can even live in China permanently. Willing to leave, and the most lucrative dollar for him to bring back.
Steven's methods are vulgar, almost vulgar, not at all like what a cultured person can do. But just by this means, those foreign devils who are getting more and more strapped will eat this set. In just this time, there were almost hundreds of people gathered under his hands. Among them, there were more than 20 people in Germany, and this incident alarmed the German government. But the German government has no right to stop it, after all, although these people have some ability, they are not national treasures, and they are subject to the previous finance ministers' meeting, so they are not good at obstructing these people who serve Zhang Lie.
"After the acquisition of STX Group, I will take these people to report to Boss, I don't know what kind of reward there will be?" (To be continued)
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