Chapter 194: The Beginning

The next day, a sudden heavy snowfall, so that the temperature in Beijing suddenly dropped by 5 degrees, in the morning to look at the snowflakes fluttering outside the window, Cai Siqiang smiled and said to Dong Feng and others, "Come on, I can't go anywhere today, it seems that God wants everyone to stay in the hotel to recharge their energy to meet tomorrow's challenges." ”

After yesterday's small relaxation, everyone got up this morning and became high-spirited, listening to Cai Siqiang's words, everyone couldn't help but smile, relaxed and faced the upcoming difficult negotiations with a full attitude and mentality. Everyone easily exchanged ideas about how to deal with possible scenarios tomorrow, and before they knew it, the day was over.

"Mr. Terry, I hope the bad weather in Beijing hasn't affected your good mood." On the third day, facing Terry, who was delayed due to heavy snow yesterday and is still a little sleep-deprived, Cai Siqiang greeted politely.

"Thank you Mr. Cai for your concern, compared to the ice and snow in Helsinki, this heavy snow in Beijing is really nothing." Sitting across the table was Nokia's vice president Terry, who seemed to be in a good mood and said to Duke with a smile.

Among the people attending the meeting today are five people from Nokia, including Sampson, Vice President of Terry and President of Nokia Asia Pacific, Eariel Saarinen, Director of Investment and Financing at Nokia, Frank Morrie, Consultant of M&A Consulting Firm, and Rick Marie, Translator.

"But we're not here to talk about the weather in Beijing today." Terry shifted his words and went straight to the point. "I heard that Mr. Cai was very interested in our Nokia mobile phone business, but it was confusing that Mr. Cai also rejected our joint venture development proposal. Instead, a new proposal was put forward for a comprehensive acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business. ”

"As far as I know, SAL recently acquired TOMTOM through financing, and now it has embarked on a new project with a huge investment, and there is not a lot of cash, so I am very curious where the money will come from for SAL's acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business?"

Terry's question is a bit aggressive, obviously there is also research on SAL, in fact, SAL is still a private company, the company's accounts do not have to be made public, and it is relatively difficult to collect information about SAL.

But there has never been an impermeable wall in this world, and some things in SAL can't stop the eyes of people with hearts, not to mention that Sampson still has a huge network in China, and some basic materials of SAL have been collected and sorted into relevant reports in the past period of time and sent to the hands of Nokia's senior management.

If it weren't for the fact that SAL already had a considerable understanding of SAL, including its mobile phone technology reserves, past performance, and SAL's strength, Nokia's senior management would not have put forward a proposal for cooperation with SAL in the mobile phone business.

It is the successful cooperation between SAL and Gemdale mobile phones that has touched the hearts of Nokia's senior management, you must know that no mobile phone company now has such a powerful voice recognition and control technology as SAL, this technology is almost a lifeline for their own high-end mobile phones in the eyes of Nokia's senior management.

Yes, compared with the Android platform and the iOS platform, whether it is Nokia's own Symbian platform, or Microsoft's windowsphone Apple, they lack the strength to compete, and there is no outstanding selling point to compete with the two platforms that have formed a climate.

The advent of SAL's voice recognition and control technology gave Nokia's top management a glimmer of hope. If this technology is grafted in, it is enough for Nokia mobile phones to have the strongest highlights that other mobile phones cannot follow. So as to regain the fighting qualification of high-end mobile phones.

The temptation of this technology is so great that Nokia's top management has taken the initiative to condescend and propose favorable conditions for reciprocal cooperation with SAL in mobile phones.

It's just that Nokia's senior management never imagined that SAL's ambitions were even greater than they imagined, and they actually wanted to directly annex the entire Nokia mobile phone business.

"In terms of funding, Mr. Terry does not have to worry about SAL at all, we can guarantee that the payment will be made on time after the agreement is signed and the approval of all parties is completed, and SAL is now very healthy in cash flow, and we are fully capable of making the necessary financing at any time to solve the payment problem." Cai Siqiang replied politely.

Although Cai Siqiang doesn't know where Duke got this huge amount of money now, Cai Siqiang believes that Duke must have a way to solve it.

Taking 10,000 steps back, even if Duke has no choice, Cai Siqiang is confident that he can solve this problem by using bridge loans.

You must know that Geely's acquisition of Volvo was not in this way, using Volvo's China base as a bait, and getting most of the acquisition funds from several local governments.

This move Cai Siqiang will also, now SAL company's acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business is still in the process of secret operation, as long as this matter progresses to a more reliable time Cai Siqiang will release the news, think about this is the former mobile phone boss, this shock and influence is definitely not inferior to Geely's acquisition of Volvo half a point.

Compared with the project of SAL's new display base, the landing of the Nokia brand in Chengdu alone is worthy of 100% efforts from the municipal party committee and the municipal government and even the province.

This is not a conceptual project at all. Nokia mobile phone is down, and last year's sales were tens of billions of dollars, although it was a loss, but this sales were still very tigerish.

I don't know how to get to the level of hundreds of billions in the hands of SAL, you must know that last year Gemdale mobile phone did more than 40 billion sales, although the city and province bosses do not know much about technology, but they are very sensitive to numbers, plus every deputy provincial boss behind at least a very professional team of bright-eyed people, SAL plays a key role in the hot sale of Gemdale mobile phones, who in the industry is not clear?

How difficult it is for a province to cultivate a 100 billion industry, the bigwigs in the province all know that if there is really such an opportunity in front of them, who is willing to do it, or even who dares to let it go easily?

In an era when the economy is in charge, it would be a political mistake to let such a project go.

So Cai Siqiang is not worried that after the talks are over, he will fail because he can't come up with the money to pay.

Looking at Cai Siqiang's confident appearance, Terry obviously didn't understand why Cai Siqiang was so confident. Of course, Terry has a very limited understanding of the market economy with Chinese characteristics, and has no idea that the government has such a powerful energy and motivation in business activities.

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