Chapter 10: The Fall of Cartier, King of World Jewels (part 2 of 2)
Cartier Jewelry, known as the king of Shijie jewelry, was doomed from the moment Zhang Meng set his sights on her.
As Zhang Meng's right-hand man, Madoff and Snooker once again combined their swords and staged a great show to annex Cartier.
After Snooker's request to wholly acquire Cartier was unanimously rejected by the three Cartier brothers, they ordered a batch of jewelry from Cartier as a buyer, totaling up to $13 million.
The three Cartier brothers were sad because of the sluggish market, and after learning that snooker appreciated the sincerity of Cartier's jewelry, they readily agreed to his huge order request.
Due to the huge amount, snooker was required to pay a deposit of $3 million in advance. However, snooker also demanded that the production of this batch of jewelry must be completed within three months with quality and quantity, otherwise the breach of contract will be fully compensated according to Cartier's one-compensation and three-compensation commitment.
For the three Cartier brothers, with the exquisite craftsmanship of their company's designer team and jewelry makers, it was no problem to complete the jewelry in three months, so they readily agreed to Snooker's request, signed the relevant breach of contract liability clause with him, and submitted it to the New York Notary Public for notarization.
Snooker did not make any excessive demands with Cartier after that, but just visited the production progress of the jewelry as usual, and the three Cartier brothers saw that Snooker was really a sincere buyer, so they gradually became relieved.
A month later, on a dark night, there was a burglary in the Cartier headquarters. The vault used to keep the jewelry was stolen, and hundreds of pieces of jewelry worth $40 million were all stolen. This includes some of the jewels in snooker orders.
Five of the fifteen security guards on duty that night were missing, the other ten were all dead, and Diana, the wife of Jamis, one of the three Cartier brothers who was in charge of the keys to the vault, was nowhere to be found. The NYPD determined that James' wife, Diana, had stolen with the five security guards, and together they killed ten other colleagues who refused to cooperate with them, then opened the vault and stole all the jewelry and fled.
The New York police immediately issued a maximum warrant for Diana and five other security guards, and they promised the three Cartier brothers to solve the case as soon as possible, but no one was caught for decades, because Diana and the five security guards had completely disappeared from the face of the earth, and their bodies were packed in sacks and airlifted by Boeing 247D planes over the Atlantic Ocean, thousands of kilometers away from New York.
Can easily open the vault door of Cartier. He can silently kill fifteen well-trained security guards, he can arrange for the destruction of the body of the Boeing 247D, and he can plan the theft of outsiders into an insider self-theft. With such strength, jishu and IQ, I am afraid it will be difficult to find anyone other than the Blue Fox Special Service Team trained by Zhang Meng.
The Mountain Eagle Commando under the Blue Fox Special Service was responsible for carrying out this mission, and Zhang Meng responded to the request of Snooker and Madoff. They were sent to assist the two in completing the acquisition of Cartier.
After the theft. The three Cartier brothers were naturally sad and beat their chests. In particular, Jamis's two older brothers believe that their brother-in-law and daughter-in-law have stolen the jewels from the vault with the security guards, so they have a disagreement with Jamis.
Snooker only met with the three Cartier brothers on the third day after the incident, asking them about the theft and whether his order could be delivered on time.
The three Katia brothers naturally swore that there was no problem, only snooker laughed secretly in his heart, these three brothers were afraid that they would burn their eyebrows and die quickly.
The theft caused Cartier a lot of losses, but if they couldn't complete the snooker order on time, they would be punished and discredited.
The three Cartier brothers immediately contacted their channel provider. I plan to restock and complete the snooker order first. However, the suppliers said that the rough jewelry they asked for was bought by a merchant named Madoff. It takes at least three months to restock in a short period of time.
The three Cartier brothers panicked and hurriedly inquired about Madoff's whereabouts and asked someone to introduce him.
Madoff deliberately delayed the meeting for a few days, and only when the three Cartier brothers stopped Madoff's car in a hurry on the street, did Madoff ignore them and negotiate with them.
Obviously, Madoff and snooker are in a group.
However, the three Cartier brothers, who were in a hurry to burn their eyebrows, had lost their original vigilance, and when Madoff offered twice the price they had paid for the rough from the channel supplier, the three Cartier brothers were dumbfounded. But they thought that if they couldn't get this batch of rough stones, they would not be able to finish it on time, and then they would have to pay snooker three times the damages, that is, $39 million in liquidated damages. If they had not been stolen, they might have had the money, but after the theft, they simply could not come up with this huge amount of money, and what awaits them is a sentence and the bankruptcy of the company.
The three Cartier brothers gritted their teeth and accepted, and they bought the rough material from Madoff for $12 million. In this way, even if they complete the jewelry required by snooker on time, they will lose money.
What's more, it is impossible for Snooker and Madoff to let these three brothers escape.
In fact, Madoff could have not sold the rough to the three Cartier brothers, so that they would definitely complete the order of non-snooker and have to pay him $39 million in compensation. But Madoff knew that with the family background of the three Cartier brothers over the years, they were likely to sell their property and keep the company, which was more than 80 years old. In that case, Madoff would not be able to complete the task assigned to him by Zhang Meng.
As a result, Madoff sold the rough to the three Cartier brothers at a high price in order to further reduce their assets. Because he knew that the three brothers had no liquidity on hand because the company was stolen before, they mortgaged their real estate and part of the company's equity to the Bank of New York, and used the loan from the Bank of New York to pay for the rough stone.
Madoff needs to keep pushing the three brothers until they pledge all of the company's equity to the bank. At that time, it was much easier for Madoff to deal with the bankers than with the three brothers.
The three Cartier brothers were ready to complete the order at a loss, and they asked the craftsmen to rush to work 24 hours a day, but they also demanded quality and quantity. Immediately, the craftsmen complained.
Snooker took the opportunity to buy off these craftsmen, and he lured them with a generous offer. In the end, snooker poached most of Cartier's elite designers and craftsmen at two to three times the salary, resulting in a serious shortage of workers in Cartier for a while, and as a result, it was unable to deliver orders to Snooker on time after three months.
Snooker immediately turned against them and demanded that Cartier immediately compensate him for all his losses. At this time, the three Cartier brothers could not pay $39 million in damages, and if they were not able to pay compensation, Cartier would face a lawsuit. At that time, Cartier's reputation will be greatly affected.
On weekdays, the three brothers are very harmonious, but at the critical moment, the three brothers suddenly fought among themselves. They have undoubtedly put the blame on the third child. So the old three sold the equity in his hand directly to snooker in a fit of anger.
After Snooker acquired a third of the shares, he once again asked the other two brothers to buy Cartier, on the same terms as before, and at the same time would not pursue liability for breach of contract. Maintain the image of Cartier.
The two brothers thought about it. It was finally agreed to transfer Cartier to Snooker.
On July 14, 1931, Cartier changed owners on that day. Founded in 1847 and with 178 branches in Shijie, this top international jewelry company is known as the emperor of jewelers, the jeweler of the emperor, and has come to an end after more than 80 years of its journey.
Zhang Meng, the new owner of Cartier, established Datang Royal Jewelry Company, and all 602 jewelry design patents of Cartier Company were merged into the branch of Datang Royal Jewelry Company, and all the original employees continued to be retained with high salaries.
Take advantage of Cartier's network. As well as its appeal to the elite of Shijie countries, the name of Datang Royal Jewelry Company appeared on the list of top international jewelry industry for the first time. And it caused quite a stir.
The three Cartier brothers are not easy to bully, although they transferred the Cartier company to Zhang Meng, it does not mean that they will not make a comeback.
Soon after, the three Cartier brothers set up their own jewelry companies, and used the network they had left behind in their dealings with the elite in Europe and the United States in an attempt to regain their favor.
I have to admit that the three Cartier brothers are all geniuses in the jewelry industry. Many of the jewels they designed were loved by the elite in Europe and the United States. It's a pity that there was an estrangement between the three brothers, and they didn't start a new business together, but fought on their own, and as a result, they were scattered.
After the acquisition of Cartier by Datang Royal Jewelry Company, although it obtained the original huge sales network and sales channels of Cartier, the designers and craftsmen of the original Cartier Company also relaunched a series of exquisite jewelry products, which achieved a good market response. However, there are still some European and American elites who question whether Datang Royal Company can play the level of Cartier in the future, and their doubts have affected the international image of Datang Royal Jewelry Company.
When Zhang Meng learned about it, he immediately drew more than a dozen top Shijie jewelry designs in the 21st century, and gave them beautiful names full of Eastern and Western cultural heritage. These include the 'Till Death' Marriage and Love series, the 'Love Without Ending' couple ring series, the 'Eternal Heart', the 'Greek Goddess' and other series, these diamonds, gemstones and rare metals such as gold and silver are all designed by later generations of Shijie masters, almost all of them are popular around the world for a long time.
After being created by professional designers and craftsmen, it immediately attracted the unanimous amazement of the whole shijie elite class, especially those ladies and ladies, who fell in love at first sight after a glance, no matter how much money they dared to buy as long as Datang Jewelry Company was willing to offer a price.
The Datang Royal Jewelry Company naturally resolutely pursues Zhang Meng's jewelry marketing strategy of 'not seeking the best, but seeking the most expensive'.
For a time, Datang Royal Jewelry Company was well-known all over the world, and its jewelry designs were popular all over Shijie, and it was famous as the world's most expensive jeweler, and no matter what it had, it was almost more than twice the price of similar products in its peers.
And the more expensive it is, the more it is loved by the elite class of Shijie countries, so that Datang Royal Jewelry Company can quickly replace the name of Cartier Company and become the king of Shijie jewelry. (To be continued......)