Chapter 461: Walking in the Xiangjiang River (8)
。 Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info. On the charcoal grill shelves, strings of seafood skewers, meat skewers, and vegetable skewers are scorching on the red coals, emitting bursts of smoke and clouds of strange compound taste, or strong aroma, or burnt gas, or sea fishy smell, or green vegetable smell, or sheep meal gas, and so on.
Fa Ge is not the only one who is busy barbecuing, but many male stars and agents also take the initiative to cook. Actresses have to take care of their own image, and they can only play on the sidelines, or command.
Usiris and Chen Xiaodao didn't go to help, but hid to the side and chatted.
Chen Xiaodao said his latest business expansion plan; He has a huge sum of $50 million in his hand that has not yet been used, and he was originally going to buy 760 old Shaw Brothers movies. Ussie has already paid for it, so naturally he doesn't need a knife to pay again.
The plan and the capital are directly linked, and how much capital there is, how big the plan is; On the contrary, you can only hold back your grievances and make a rigorous small and medium-sized plan.
Prior to this, Usilis had the idea of acquiring Hong Kong TV due to SBBA expansion, but the capital was too small at that time, so Chen Xiaodao could only explore the bottom; Now the situation is different, Ussi has enough capital, and has successfully acquired 13% of TVB's equity and 760 old movie reserves, and has a good opportunity to intervene in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
Chen Xiaodao's original plan was to use 760 old movies as the foundation, and then cooperate with theaters in the mainland, so that he can gain a firm foothold; As for the Malaysian consortium, ahem, no matter how good they are, they don't dare to chase them to the mainland.
Chen Xiaodao's new plan is to acquire ATV (Asia Television Co., Ltd.), cooperate with TVB, and merge a bunch of small companies in the film industry, so as to create a media group integrating film, entertainment, music, sports, and news.
Usilis is also having a similar plan, he now quickly wants to integrate the media resources in Hong Kong, and then in the form of a mortgage, cough cough, from AOL Times Warner or CBS, secretly get a huge amount of money, go to the Middle East to buy oil companies.
The accumulation of capital is a snowball, the more it rolls, the more it rolls, the richer it gets; Ussy has a lot of titles on him, so you don't have to use them in vain!
In the 70s of the last century, ATV had a battle with TVB for hegemony, but because Australian media tycoon Merktor secretly acquired 61% of ATV's equity, it caused collective dissatisfaction among the rich people in the local film and television entertainment industry, and set off a series of business wars.
Mercado barely took control of the company for a year and a half, and finally had to hand over the equity and management to Qiu Degen; Afterwards, the "Far Eastern Bank's fraudulent accounts" were exposed, and Qiu Degen was kicked into the cell of the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
A small newspaper suddenly broke the news, and a group of foreign media coaxed the response, which is enough to destroy everything for a business tycoon, which shows how important the "right to speak" is!
This is normal, but if you don't retaliate, it's weird?!
Who made you accidentally get someone to grab the tail?!
There are more vicious things to come, in 87 ATV just went public, the headquarters building was attacked by incendiary bombs, and the losses were heavy; As for who set the fire, it doesn't matter, the key is that the police force didn't catch any arsonists!
There are a bunch of spy satellites in the sky, and a bunch of cameras in the streets and alleys are lit, all of them are "blind", which is extremely weird!
In the past 15 years, the controlling stake of ATV has changed hands many times, and the business profit is very sluggish; Since 98, it has become popular because of the sci-fi TV series "I Have a Date with a Zombie" and the introduction of "Huanzhu Gege".
Liu Changle and Feng Xiaoping formed Longwei Co., Ltd. to acquire 46% of ATV's equity; Huang Baoxin's Luen Wang Co., Ltd., which owns a 5% stake in ATV; The two companies are tied together and have an absolute controlling stake of 51%, with Huang Baoxin as the chairman of the board.
The other 49% of bearer stocks are also relatively concentrated, with the Lin Baixin family, New World Development Co., Ltd., and the Qiu Degen family each owning about 10% of the shares, and only 19% of them are placed on the stock market.
At present, ATV has a market capitalization of about 1.544 billion Hong Kong dollars (equivalent to 188 million US dollars).
If this is not set, some unknown foreign consortia will suddenly emerge, with strong capital, the stock market of ATV has been repeatedly tossed and beaten like a roller coaster in a small area, making people dare not relax for a moment; Hehe, it's very weird, and it's very funny;
Ahem, as for who it is, everyone knows it, so I won't mention it!
Switch topics.
188 million US dollars, Ussi naturally took it out, but the problem he faced was the collective stumbling block of ATV's internal forces and Hong Kong's local tycoons!
In Ussi's view, ATV's business has begun to improve in the past three years, as long as a large number of local commercials and foreign media news are eliminated, it can enter the benign state, introduce Hollywood movies and NBA, go public at the fastest speed, and make a lot of money; But what will the executives within ATV think?!
ATV, at present, it is a "pit"!
Relatively speaking, TVB's share structure is simple and directly tied to the Hong Kong government, but foreign investors can't move if they want to; There is also an even more bullish and coaxing Emperor Media, which is backed by five brother listed companies, has strong capital, and is not afraid of the hostile takeover war of any foreign consortium. Prior to this, it was for this reason that Ussy asked Chen Xiaodao to apply for a Hong Kong passport to see if he could buy a free-to-air TV station separately from ATV or TVB.
On the contrary, if you have a Hong Kong passport, you are naturally considered a local, and the acquisition is relatively easy.
Now, Chen Xiaodao has put forward a new plan, opening his mouth to ask for part of the TVB equity in Wuxi's hands and 760 old movie reserves, and asking Wuxi to provide another $50 million in financial support; He can also see that Uxi's acquisition of TVB must have another plan, and it is enough for him to ask for a little equity!
From the point of view of the amount of funds, the capital of the knife is enough, but the network is still too weak, and it will definitely not be able to achieve the goal in a short period of time!
Usiris pondered for a while before patting Chen Xiaodao's shoulder and said with a smile: "Xiaodao, I can support your plan unconditionally, but there must be a time limit; After 8 years, I might siphon off all my money, you know? ”
8 years, that is, the moment when the debt crisis in the "oil tycoon plan" of Ussi broke out, success is a dragon for nine days, and defeat is a heavy loss!
Chen Xiaodao was overjoyed and said with a smile: "8 years is enough!" ”
At this time, Sixth Uncle Boss Shao, Li Zekai, Huo Zhenting, Boss Xiang, Xiang Tai and others finally caught up, and seeing that Wuxi was staying here, they naturally followed to join in the fun! (To be continued.) )