Chapter 615: The Booming Auto House
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The deal with GM about Suzuki's shares was reached in secret, Jin Xiaoqiang's side and Nick. Reilly reached an intention to make a deal, and Shinyuki Nado, who was in charge of acting, and GM's negotiation team signed a contract.
So the mysterious Redstone Holdings naturally became the second largest shareholder of Suzuki, and as for this transaction, Suzuki was not notified at all.
As for Suzuki, it was left to GM to explain, as for whether they figured it out or not, Naruto Shinyuki, the representative of Redstone Holdings, didn't care very much, did the Suzuki guys still dare to be tough with GM?
You must know that although Suzuki and GM have signed an agreement, Suzuki has the right of first refusal to buy back GM shares, but some people are more generous than you Suzuki, do you Suzuki have anything to say?
If you want to say that you can only blame yourself, who made you quote the price so low at that time? Is it very dissatisfied with the general needs of the family? Now someone is offering a higher price than yours, and of course they want to transfer the equity to the person with the highest price.
And even if Suzuki is no longer happy, there is still GM as a shield!
You must know that GM owns 23% of Suzuki's shares, and they only transferred 20% of the shares to Redstone Holdings.
GM is still one of the shareholders of Suzuki, although it is not an executive shareholder with more than 5% of the shares, but only a standing shareholder, but now it has let go of its hands and feet, but it is not the previous GM that was tied up.
Moreover, GM transferred its stake to Redstone Holdings, and retained three percent of its own, and the two companies can be said to be natural allies within Suzuki.
The current GM is not the previous restrained GM, in case it really annoys the GM, and the people tear their faces with you, they can do anything, and when the time comes, it really attracts the revenge of the GM, don't look at the GM now seems to be in crisis. But if you want to crush a Suzuki, isn't it like crushing an ant?
And in the current domestic market, Toyota and Honda are both eyeing Suzuki's compact car market, and they can't wait for Suzuki to have a civil unrest.
Therefore, even if the senior directors of Suzuki are no longer happy with this transaction, I am afraid that when the time comes, GM will not be able to pinch his nose in front of him and accept the facts.
Therefore, Naruto Shinyuki was not worried about the reaction within Suzuki at all, but after the successful negotiations, he brought representatives from GM. and Jin Xiaoqiang's letter of appointment to his plenipotentiary, swaggering back to Japan to take office.
Jin Xiaoqiang, who negotiated two deals, is also very happy, but there are still more things to do in Beijing this time. Not only did he acquire Suzuki's shares, but he also had to go to his other right-hand man, Zhang Chi, the leader of Autohome, to talk about it, especially the development of the website in the future.
Today, the atmosphere on the 24th and 28th floors of the Pacific Commercial Building is very tense, and yesterday the company got off work early and invited the cleaners of the building to clean the offices on several floors.
Then in the evening, a meeting was held for the middle-level leaders, and after the leaders came out of the president's office, they called their respective supervisors together for a meeting. conveyed the meaning of the company's upper echelons, that is, the company's big boss will come to the company to inspect tomorrow, so everyone should be careful not to make any mistakes.
In short, it is to be careful, don't make any foreign appearances tomorrow, so that the company's senior management will lose face, if you don't give the company's leaders a long face. Then don't blame other leaders for smashing your job.
So today, some of the small employees in the company are still a little trembling, they are all carefully dressed in formal clothes, and the attitude of giggling and laughing at work is gone, and they are sitting at their workstations one by one, not daring to walk around at will as in the past. …,
At ten o'clock in the morning, the elevators at the door of the company opened, and then a few sharp-eyed employees saw it. Mr. Zhang of the company accompanied a young man, accompanied by a group of entourages behind him, into the office.
The history of the Autohome website is relatively short, and most of the people who work on this website are also computer professionals who have just graduated from major universities in Beijing in recent years.
Of course, the development of the past few years has been carried out within the company. In addition to the computer professionals specializing in website management recruited at the beginning, it has also recruited a lot of market influence, especially in e-commerce.
It also recruits a lot of online editors, while managing various automotive online forums on the company's website, and on the other hand, it is also providing some advertorials for car manufacturers who want to advertise on the Autohome website.
At present, the Autohome website, because of the early intervention and professional content, has also opened up an ingenious car forum for various different models at the earliest, so that car owners who come to all parts of the world can have a platform for casual communication, and can also release information on the listing of various new cars in real time, so don't look at the establishment of a short time, but it has rapidly grown into a well-deserved No.1 car portal in the Celestial Empire.
The number of registered members has already exceeded 10 million, and the number of members who browse online every day is more than 6 million, which is a huge wealth!
And it is under the influence of such data that all the car manufacturers and dealers who do business in the Celestial Empire now dare not offend this Autohome website.
And once they have a new car to launch, they will first think of coming to Autohome and looking for review editors to write advertorials to tout their models and advertise.
Of course, every time such a transaction will make the Autohome website make a lot of money, but Autohome is not only for money to write advertorials, as the founder of Zhang Chi, always requires his editors to maintain their professional ethics, although the money to write advertorials, is to have a certain tendency, but at least the key is to maintain neutrality.
Therefore, although many registered people of Autohome have discovered that Autohome has the habit of writing advertorials, the status of Autohome's website in the hearts of car fans is still undiminished.
Moreover, the current business ideas of Autohome are very different from the previous life of the Autohome website, although on the Autohome website, there are model parameters of major automobile companies, as well as quotations, 4S quotations and other resources to make money.
But in terms of the way of grabbing profits, there are still very big differences and differences from the previous life.
First of all, the same means of helping to list, display, and advertise as in the previous life have not been left behind, and at the same time, Autohome in this life also has another ability to make a living, that is, the road of e-commerce.
It's just that the products bought on the e-commerce website made by Autohome are different from other e-commerce websites, and other e-commerce websites are all-inclusive, such as clothes, shoes, and even underwear and underwear and socks, but the e-commerce website of Autohome only buys car parts.
The biggest difference between this life and the previous life is that they have Huayang Power as the backing behind them, and Huayang Seiko, a subsidiary of Huayang Power, specializes in auto parts business.
There are also an extraordinary number of car enthusiasts in the Celestial Empire, and once these enthusiasts buy their own cars, they immediately need to decorate them like buying a house.
For example, for models without GPS navigation, install GPS navigation, replace the small rearview mirror on the original car, install anti-glare rearview mirrors, or install tire monitoring systems on your own car, etc.
And such small transactions are sold on Autohome's e-commerce website, and even small gadgets such as seat cushions, floor mats, and tissue boxes are sold by them. …,
This is also one of Zhang Chi's development plans, that is, all small industries closely related to the automobile industry are tied to the Autohome website, so that everyone can buy and sell products through Autohome's e-commerce platform.
And for some car enthusiasts who like to change their own cars, the Autohome website can also provide the corresponding engine, transmission, and other components.
These products are produced by Huayang Seiko, they are very trustworthy products, of course, these are business activities that will not violate the law, after all, the name of the newspaper, but the engine or transmission of someone's car is broken, people don't want to go to the 4S store to be stabbed, so they buy related products online, go back to DIY!
It is under the guidance of this line of thinking that the business of the Autohome website is much more prosperous than in the previous life, and in just over three years, it has rapidly grown into a well-deserved first automobile portal website in the Celestial Empire.
Nowadays, many venture capitalists or funds are staring at Autohome's website, and if Autohome's website needs financing for expansion, they can immediately take out their checkbook and prepare funds for them.
There is no other reason, that is, because the operation of this website is so popular, and under the influence of Huayang Power, this website, and even opened an English website and a Spanish website, really attracted a lot of customers from all over the world.
This is really not easy for a pure Celestial Empire website!
In the English forum of Huayang Power products on this website, there are hundreds of thousands of foreign fans of Huayang Power products registered, and they post on the forum every day to discuss various issues.
And those foreigners with strong hands-on ability and not weak economic ability also like to buy Huayang Seiko's engine and gearbox from Autohome's e-commerce website, and go back to DIY and modify their cars.