Chapter 365: Honeymoon (Part II)

"Mr. JeanBernard Levy, I'd like to know what made Vivendi Group so eager to sell off its 12% stake in Activision Blizzard. I believe that this 12% stake will bring good profits to the Vivendi Group every year, and as time goes on, how can the Vivendi Group sell this egg-laying hen? ”

Although Li Haoyu was already suspicious just now, he couldn't help but be startled when Jean Bernard Levy really said it, Activision Blizzard is definitely one of the most profitable game companies in the world, how could Vivendi Group sell the shares in his hand, and still take the initiative to find himself to peddle it, which makes Li Haoyu a little unbelievable.

Jean Bernard Levy said with a wry smile: "It's not a secret, this year's debt of our Vivendi is as high as more than 13 billion euros, totaling more than 17 billion US dollars, and we are already preparing to split the entire Vivendi Group to reduce debt, so this is the sale of Activision Blizzard's shares, just ......"

Li Haoyu probably understood what Jean Bernard Levy meant, Activision Blizzard's shares are definitely a good thing, Vivendi Group must have contacted many interested companies before, but it should be difficult to negotiate the price. Jean Bernard Levy met him out of the blue, and then approached Li Haoyu with the intention of giving it a try, to see if the upstart in the gaming industry could sell his stake in Activision Blizzard at a better price.

Li Haoyu only shook his head at the plight of the Vivendi Group, a French giant enterprise with a history of more than 150 years, even if it is proud now, there will eventually be a day of decline, and the Vivendi Group is a good example.

"Mr. Jean Bernard Levy, I'm really interested in Activision Blizzard's shares, what is the psychological price of Vivendi Group?" Li Haoyu is still a little interested in investing in Activision Blizzard, after all, this company now represents the pinnacle of the game industry in the entire world, and to hold the shares of such a company, in addition to continuously obtaining infrared for himself, he can also use Activision Blizzard's channels for so many years to accelerate the development of Mythical Group.

Jean Bernard Levy said: "Chairman Li, a while ago we were preparing to sell only 41.5 million shares of Activision Blizzard, accounting for 6.2% of the total shares, with a total value of $958 million. Now that Vivendi Group is about to take shape, we have decided to sell all of Activision Blizzard's shares, a total of 80.5 million Activision Blizzard shares, accounting for 12% of Activision Blizzard's total shares, and if Chairman Li wants to buy, he can get 12% of Activision Blizzard's shares for only $1.938 billion. ”

More than $1.9 billion? This figure is indeed a bit too high to buy Activision Blizzard, and Activision Blizzard's most profitable project at the moment should be Activision's Call of Duty series of games and the distribution of games for game manufacturers around the world. The original Blizzard Entertainment began to fall into a bit of silence after experiencing the glory of Warcraft, Interstellar and Warcraft, and in addition to StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm, Diablo 3 and the strategy card game Hearthstone, there is only one online game that has just been launched, Titan, which is not bad.

Activision Blizzard is indeed the largest game company in the game industry, but 12% of the shares need nearly 2 billion US dollars, which is indeed too high, and Li Haoyu can't take out so much money for the time being, and IBM's dividends in 2016 have not yet come down.

Even with so much money, Li Haoyu is not ready to buy Activision Blizzard's shares, 12% of the shares is too little, and it is estimated that even Activision Blizzard's board of directors will not be able to enter. In addition to the annual dividends, at most, it only increases the possibility of cooperation between the two sides, but it is a pity for the Mythical Group to be tasteless and abandoned, and it is better to use so much money on the Mythical Group itself.

The mythical group itself is now poor money everywhere, Li Haoyu's dividends from IBM last year have been almost spent, tens of billions of yuan smashed out, coupled with the mythical group's own profits, which ensures the rapid and steady development of the mythical group. As for the channels in the global market, don't forget that the Myth Group also has the Xbox console, as long as there is this, everything is not a problem to expand globally.

Of course, if the price offered by Vivendi Group is very favorable, Li Haoyu will not mind buying a 12% stake in Activision Blizzard. It's just obvious that Vivendi Group should be too short of money, and the price offered is much higher than Activision Blizzard's stock price, presumably to use these funds to make up for its own debt problems.

The one who wants to buy back shares from Vivendi Group the most should be Activision itself, they used to spend nearly $6 billion to buy back 61% of the shares, and now they definitely want to buy the rest of the shares back, maybe Vivendi Group's offer greatly exceeds Activision Blizzard's bottom line, so the negotiations have been deadlocked.

JeanBernard Levy negotiated with Li Haoyu this time, maybe he didn't think that Myth Group would buy Activision Blizzard's shares, he did it just for Activision Blizzard's management. If you want to get the shares back from Vivendi, you have to agree to our terms, otherwise we will sell the shares to someone else, so if Activision Blizzard really wants to buy back the shares, it will have to pay a higher price than the market price to buy the shares.

Of course, if the Mythical Group is willing to pay this price for these shares, the Vivendi Group must be very willing.

Tomorrow, it is estimated that there will be news in the French newspapers that the president of Vivendi has a private meeting with the chairman of Huaxia Mythical Group, and what exactly are the two companies that do not seem to have much intersection with each other are talking about in secret, and it is related to Vivendi Group's recent intention to sell Activision Blizzard's shares, which will give many people infinite reverie.

Li Haoyu sighed in his heart when he thought of this, none of these personable business elites were really good to get along with, and he was unconsciously yin by Jean Bernard Levy.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Jean Bernard Levy, but your company's asking price is too high to be accepted." Li Haoyu has no intention of being a gunman for the Vivendi Group.

Sure enough, hearing that Li Haoyu's offer to him was too high and was rejected, Jean Bernard Levy had already guessed it, and he didn't continue to talk to Li Haoyu, saying: "Chairman Li, it's a pity, I feel very sorry for Lang wasting your time." ”

Li Haoyu said lightly: "Mr. JeanBernard Levy, if there is nothing to do, I will leave first." ”

Jean Bernard Levy smiled: "Chairman Li, I'll send you out." ”

Coming to the lobby of the Hilton Hotel again, Li Haoyu was keenly aware that someone was holding a camera to film the scene of him talking to Jean Bernard Levy, and he couldn't help shaking his head in his heart, and immediately returned to the reserved room after saying goodbye.

Xiao Yuqing hadn't rested yet, and when she saw Li Haoyu coming back, she took Li Haoyu's coat and hung it on the coat rack, and asked, "Haoyu, did that old man have anything to do with you just now?" ”

Li Haoyu said it briefly, and did not say that he was yin by Jean Bernard Levy, he didn't want his wife to come into contact with this.

Xiao Yuqing didn't have a room in her heart, she didn't look sleepy at all now, and said with a travel magazine: "Haoyu, where do you say we will go tomorrow?" ”

Li Haoyu said with a smile: "We will go wherever you like, and I will resolutely obey my wife's words!" ”

Xiao Yuqing smiled like a flower: "I know that I am poor!" ”

Li Haoyu suddenly hugged Xiao Yuqing in his arms, and said with a smile: "I am a model of a new generation of good men in the 21st century, my wife must follow when she goes out, obey my wife's words, blindly obey my wife's mistakes, wait for my wife to put on makeup, be willing to spend money on my wife, endure my wife's anger, and I always remember my wife's birthday." ”

"This is the old society outside of you, and there is nothing to follow and four virtues!" Xiao Yuqing's heart was very happy and rewarded Li Haoyu with a fragrant kiss.

After playing with Xiao Yuqing for a while, both of them felt very sleepy, and soon fell asleep after hugging each other.

When the two woke up the next day, Li Haoyu was eating bread and milk while browsing the latest news on the computer.

Sure enough, the English edition of France's largest newspaper, the newspaper Le Le Monde, published in a conspicuous place the private meeting between Li Haoyu and Jean Bernard Levy, accompanied by a photo in which Li Haoyu and Jean Bernard Levy talked as they walked, and it seemed that some agreement had been negotiated. "World Circle" boldly speculated that the French giant Vivendi Group is estimated to have reached an agreement with Huaxia Mythology Group to acquire 12% of Activision Blizzard shares in the hands of Vivendi Group, and it seems that the negotiations between Li Haoyu and Jean Bernard Levy are going well.

Li Haoyu couldn't help but shake his head, sure enough, he was used as a gun by JeanBernardLevy, even if he now issued a statement saying that he had no substantive contact with JeanBernardLevy, it is estimated that the outside world will not believe it, let alone the management of Activision Blizzard?

Looking at the comments of French netizens on this news on the Internet, there are many netizens who don't know what company Ludao Huaxia Mythology Group is, and some netizens obviously have Xbox consoles at home, but they don't know that Ludao's current Xbox already belongs to the Mythical Group, and only a small number of netizens know about the Mythical Group.

It seems that Myth Group still has a long way to go to become the next Activision Blizzard, or even better than Activision Blizzard!