406 Good News and Bad News
No one cares about Liu Anran's T-shirt and pants that have long been torn and can no longer be torn, and now Hope and its four children have become the focus of everyone's attention. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The massage of the massage, the tickle of the tickle, anyway, it is not good to give them comfort, and the throat keeps snoring.
Since it has been decided to hold this family meeting, it has to be organized.
Of course, he doesn't have to do it himself, there are still a lot of staff in the company, and he has the experience of the last time, so they can make these arrangements themselves.
The only trouble is the extraction of those lucky viewers. The lucky audience of the last meeting was a little blind and unscientific, resulting in some people who were far away from being unable to rush over.
This time, we have to make a good overall plan and try to distribute it fairly in all regions. It's a lot of work, especially for those who have been drawn, and they still need to call to confirm if they can come.
Tickets to meet and greet are free, but they have to pay for the travel costs. Liu Anran can't afford these contracts, otherwise he will have to spend a lot of money every year.
I carefully held a conference call with the relevant personnel of the company and finalized everything. I'm tired enough to choke him, I used to just inform George or Edward about these things, but this time I have to do it myself.
"Huh? George, when did you come over? When he came out of the room, he saw George sitting on the sofa chatting with Andy and asked curiously.
"I haven't been in contact with Vivendi for a while, and there's some news over there, both good and bad." George said.
"It was only eight years ago that Messier came to the rescue of Vivendi by selling off the non-core business of Vivendi's predecessor, CGE. Now that he has taken office, Futu is not small, planning to sell C****** to get rid of more than $30 billion in debt, and also intends to sell some of the assets of VUPublishing. ”
"The good news is that what they're going to sell is the company's VUGames, of which Blizzard is a development division. The bad news is that their intention now is to sell it in a package. It's not just Blizzard, but also Snow Mountain, Universal Interactive, and BlackLabel Games. ”
"It's okay to eat Blizzard's funds, but if we plan to eat up all of VUGames, our company can't do anything."
Blizzard is just a small company, but VUGames is a behemoth to the current Star Dream. Vivendi originally planned to build a global entertainment group, and invested heavily in each sector, and the game sector is naturally the same.
Liu Anran is also a little worried, the current Vivendi has just acquired Blizzard by the way, and he doesn't know what kind of gold-sucking cow Blizzard will become in the future. Don't look at Blizzard is only a small company now, but in the future, when Activision and VUGames merge, they will use the Blizzard name.
Now people want to package and sell, and the pick-up man is estimated to be poor in terms of price. Those big game companies can't eat it, and it's hard for a small family to eat it all.
"George, when you came into contact with them, did they express even the slightest idea of splitting and selling?" Liu Anran asked after thinking for a while.
"I can't see it yet. If the C***** is sold by them, it is unknown whether VUGames will be sold. George thought for a moment and said cautiously.
"Now Vivendi is only affected by a high debt crisis, and if he puts aside more than 30 billion US dollars of debt at once, it will relieve Vivendi a lot of pressure. If we want to buy Blizzard, we'll have to get ahead of them ***** sell C. ”
"I'm irritable, I'm irritable, I'm fighting. You just go over with a check and talk to Vivendi and them, even if they increase the value of Blizzard, we'll buy it. If it's not more than $500 million, let's buy it. Liu Anran muttered a sentence and said to George.
"Andy, you have to calm down, Blizzard is not worth the price at all." George said with a frown.
"They're now selling at a little more than $200 million, less than $300 million. Although they can be regarded as a relatively well-known company in the world, Warcraft 3, which has just been released, has also been widely acclaimed. But how many of their well-known products are there? In addition to Warcraft, the rest are StarCraft and Diablo. ”
"The price we are giving now is about twice their value, and if it is 500 million US dollars, we can't buy any kind of game company that you want."
The bottom-line price given by Liu Anran really scared him, and he didn't know if Liu Anran was stimulated by the acquisition of MGM. Anyway, now he felt that Liu Anran was a little abnormal, and after finishing speaking, he gave Fang Yufu a look. He knew that among all of them, the only one who could stop Liu Anran was Fang Yufu.
But what made him depressed was that Fang Yufu saw his eyes, but he didn't seem to understand what he meant, and he lowered his head and continued to play a clapping game with the cat, which was very devoted.
"George, you only see the value of Blizzard now, not their future value." Liu Anran didn't notice the interaction between George and Fang Yufu, and said after thinking about it for a while.
"For a gaming company, Blizzard has been slow to grow. Like you said, they only have three popular single-player games at the moment. ”
"But if you change to the rest of the companies, with the help of the hot sales of these three games, how much will they scale? I don't think at least 500 people can't hold it. But now Blizzard has less than 200 people, why is this happening? ”
Without waiting for George to answer, Liu Anran continued: "I think they are deliberately controlling the company's expansion, so as not to expand too quickly and become bloated and lose competitiveness." ”
"In fact, they are taking a professional and refined path, which is similar to some of our company's concepts. Such a company will be very competitive because they have put their heart and soul into the development of each game. ”
"It's not so much that I'm interested in Blizzard, but that I'm interested in their people. Blizzard isn't worth the price, but their people are worth the price. ”
After listening to Liu Anran's words, George fell silent. Although it seems to make sense to listen to Liu Anran, he still doesn't think that spending such a large price to acquire Blizzard is a high-quality investment.
"George, trust me, do a good job on Vivendi's side. $500 million is just our bottom line, and it's better to spend less. Seeing that George was still a little hesitant, Liu Anran said with a smile again.
George sighed and nodded. He still understands Liu Anran's willfulness, and this matter has been determined in Liu Anran's heart. (To be continued.) )