Chapter XIX Reorganization
In the fall of 1919, the U.S. election was launched. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In John? Huntelaar's reminder, Dwight? Kent plagiarized Harding's campaign ideas in advance, winning the support of many voters with laissez-faire and isolationism. Led by the Huntelaar consortium, the support of major consortia also played an important role.
Of course, the major media under the Huntelaar consortium are also full of firepower!
With this unprecedented support, Kent was finally elected by a landslide, thus becoming the 29th president of the United States! And at the moment when Kent was elected, he called John as soon as possible, making it clear that he would fulfill his original promise and fully support the Huntelaar consortium on the China issue in addition to buying time for the Huntelaar consortium!
The success of this election made Kent excited but also secretly frightened.
The support of the Huntelaar consortium is a matter of course, but half of the big conglomerates in the United States have also given their support overtly and covertly, which makes Kent happy and secretly frightened. For John? For the first time, Kent had the most intuitive understanding of Mr. Huntelaar's huge energy!
In return, John also made his attitude clear.
In addition to supporting Kent's domestic policies, John made it clear that he would continue to support Kent's re-election as president four years from now, barring any major changes. Of course, the meaning of this major change John did not say clearly, he could be a major event, or a change in Kent's concept, and everything was waiting for future developments......
On the sixth day of Kent's election as president, the Huntelaar consortium held a press conference.
John? Mr. Huntelaar was not present in person, but as his plenipotentiary, Henry, a key figure in the current Huntelaar consortium, was not present in person, but as his plenipotentiary, Henry? Ford announced a decision: in view of the fact that the scale of the Huntelaar consortium is too large, which has affected the decision-making and development of the consortium to a certain extent, and at the same time, a small number of companies have monopolized the market for the corresponding products, and there is already a suspicion of violating the antitrust law. Mr. Huntelaar has decided to reorganize the Huntelaar consortium!
For the Huntelaar consortium, this is undoubtedly a large and tedious job.
The restructuring includes the splitting of some of the largest companies, such as Huntelaar Motors into passenger cars and trucks, Huntelaar Aircraft Manufacturing into civilian and military, and military into two companies, one for the development and production of fighters and bombers; Another example is that Huntelaar Chemical will also be split, and the laboratory will be completely independent, while the other parts will be divided into military and civilian ......
There are splits, and there are mergers.
The most important merger is in the field of media, Huntelaar Publishing, Huntelaar Radio Broadcasting, Huntelaar Animation and Huntelaar Film and Television, and of course, more than 40 newspapers acquired by John over the years have all merged to form the leading Huntelaar Media Group! This media giant will completely change the situation in which American newspapers dominate the world. The concept of modern media proposed by Huntelaar.
Along with the split and reorganization, there are also a large number of assets sold!
These assets are mainly related patents, such as the Huntelaar Motor Company's advanced technology, which Ford sold for a high price to four consortiums planning to enter the auto industry, including the Morgan consortium, which has been eyeing the industry. The entire set of automobile production patents and assembly line technology alone brought John 60 million dollars in direct benefits, plus 10% of the shares of the four automobile companies!
For example, the ammonia synthesis technology of Huntelaar Chemical was transferred to DuPont and two other chemical companies, and it was a complete transfer! In other words, the Huntelaar consortium will no longer produce synthetic ammonia in North America in the future, and all the patent rights will be sold to three companies for 150 million US dollars, and all the equipment of the synthetic ammonia plant will be packaged and shipped to China to build the largest synthetic ammonia factory in Asia!
In addition, some companies suspected of monopolies, technology is also for sale.
For example, the Huntelaar Aircraft Manufacturing Company, the Radio Company, and so on, will sell their technology and patents to support themselves to compete with each other. Of course, these companies will keep a lot of money when they sell their patents, and in addition to the huge cash sums, they will demand at least 10 percent of the new company's shares......
There are also some properties that are sold outright.
For example, the agricultural machinery company, the Huntelaar daily necessities company, the elevator company, Nike and Adidas, etc., are all on sale, and even the Lego toy company that John started back then, John also sold all the shares for four million dollars after asking the consent of his old friends......
To be clear, this will be a long process.
According to the finance department's plan, it will take at least two years to complete the split, restructuring or sale of all companies, mainly for negotiations with the various giants. When all the work is completed, the Huntelaar consortium will be reduced by half, except for the five completely independent laboratories, only the main industries such as automobiles, chemicals, wireless communications, wireless broadcasting, media and aircraft manufacturing, shipbuilding, weapons manufacturing, minerals, and railways will be retained, and all other assets in the details will be sold out.
The sale of these assets will bring John a huge income of more than a billion dollars!
After so many years of development, John sold the best assets of this era, such as the Huntelaar Commodity Company, which almost occupies 80% of the market in the United States and more than 50% in Europe, so it is not an exaggeration to sell 300 million US dollars. You must know that in history, Procter & Gamble is worth at least $100 million at this time!
Another example is the Huntelaar Elevator Company, which was just a small point with an annual income of tens of thousands of dollars, but with more and more skyscrapers in the United States, medium-height floors and a large number of hotels installing elevators, today's elevator companies can sell thousands of elevators every year, and they are growing rapidly every year! With such a company, there's nothing wrong with selling it for 10 million dollars, right? As for the huge Nike and Adidas, it is easy to sell them for two or three hundred million dollars......
Who is the richest man in the United States and even in the world, no one debates anymore.
With the split, reorganization and sale step by step, some people with good intentions also dug out John's net worth step by step, and then came to a terrifying conclusion: even if you don't count the industries retained by the Huntelaar consortium, the cash from the sale of patents, technologies and companies alone has exceeded 1.3 billion US dollars! And everyone knows that these companies that Mr. Huntelaar is selling are definitely not the best assets, because they keep the really good things......