Chapter 121: Popularity
Pfizer and Novartis are public companies, and management must not only obtain the consent of the directors when making major decisions, but also publicize them to all shareholders after the decisions are made. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Therefore, without the initiative of the magic energy company, they have already announced to the world that they have spent 50 billion US dollars in cash and 25% of sales commission to buy the lung cancer killer.
It's 7 p.m. here in China, and it's exactly 7 a.m. in New York, and people are just getting up to start their day. Therefore, as soon as the announcement of Pfizer and Novartis came out, it immediately attracted the attention of the pharmaceutical industry and even major news media.
Countless phone calls poured into the two corporate headquarters, and New York, where Pfizer is headquartered, became a gathering place for journalists, all of whom knew that such a big news would always have a press conference.
Although Novartis is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, it also has a key branch in New York, and it is surrounded by many journalists downstairs.
The time soon reached 10 o'clock in the morning, and the press conference jointly organized by the two companies officially began.
Pfizer Chairman and CEO Yan Ruide stepped onto the podium, and below him were hundreds of reporters holding microphones and cameras, as if they were hungry wolves. However, as an old fox who has been up and down in the business world for more than 30 years, he doesn't care about such a scene at all.
"The company recently made the decision to purchase all the patents for its product 'Lung Cancer Killer' from China Magic Energy with Novartis for $50 billion and 25% of the future sales of Lung Cancer Killer," Yan announced. This project is the company's largest merger and acquisition action this year, and the announcement is hereby made. β
As soon as the words fell, the underground reporters pressed the shutter one after another, and a light more dazzling than the sun suddenly enveloped Yan Ruide on the podium. However, he was prepared, so he closed his eyes in time and avoided the blinding light.
A buzzing noise rose into the air, and all the reporters who had made some preparations were full of doubts. Pfizer and Novartis, the world's No. 2 companies in the pharmaceutical industry, how can they buy from Chinese companies that only know how to produce generic drugs?
In fact, there is nothing excessive in the hearts of these reporters. The vast majority of anti-cancer drugs, cardiovascular drugs, hepatitis drugs, diabetes drugs, and autoimmune disease drugs are developed by Western companies.
Otherwise, where does the anti-cancer drugs with a price tag of tens of thousands come from in Chinese hospitals? It's not that it can't be developed in China, and it is charged high fees by foreign companies.
Such exciting news is definitely the most important headline in the tech world today. Soon it was the reporter's turn to raise his hand to ask questions, and the arms raised high were as dense as a forest.
Yan Ruide ordered the reporter of the "New York Times", as an old partner in the same city, he naturally had to be the first to take care of it.
The chosen reporter immediately stood up and asked, "I'm Tamp, a reporter from the New York Times. Colin, may I ask Mr. Yan Ruide, I don't seem to have heard of what kind of company this Chinese magic energy company is.
Your company and Novartis have to buy lung cancer killers from them at such a big cost, what is so special about it? Even if it's special, the majority of the profits are taken by the Magic Energy Company, and such conditions are too aggrieved for you. β
Yan Ruide smiled and nodded, and after a slight groan, he said, "If you want to say that the magic energy company is not famous, because it was established this summer, it has only been three months now, so it is normal that you have not heard of it.
However, the R&D strength of the magic energy company is absolutely world-class, and super healing agents and myopia potions are all its products. Lung cancer killers have performed astounding in our labs, killing lung cancer cells with 100% efficiency, and are the greatest drugs of the new century.
As for the issue of profits, our two companies will never do anything at a loss, please believe in this. When the lung cancer killer is in clinical trials, everyone can see its surprising effect, and it is worth the high price. β
After answering, he pointed to the second reporter.
As the CEO of Pfizer, Yan Ruide has a lot of things, and he just returned to three reporters and announced the end of the reception. Although the reporters were a little dissatisfied, who made Pfizer's shelf big, so they had to surround the press spokesperson.
Soon, the results of the press conference quickly spread and caused a huge stir in the United States and other countries around the world. Like a bomb, it set off a huge wave on the Internet, and soon made headlines in the technology pages of major news websites.
"Pfizer and Novartis have joined forces to spend $50 billion plus a 25 percent commission on sales, an unprecedented bargain on the purchase of products from a Chinese pharmaceutical research and development company that has little presence. Today is not April Fool's Day. -- Time Magazine.
"What exactly is a lung cancer killer, and why do Pfizer and Novartis rush to buy it at a huge cost? Is it the same as the name, it can kill all lung cancer? -- The Times.
"The shares of Pfizer and Novartis have risen 4% since the press conference, and the momentum has not stopped, and it may be able to rise by 10% in a day. The shareholders of both companies should have a good laugh. βThe Wall Street Journal.
Although some media have questioned that lung cancer killers can kill 100% lung cancer cells, it seems like jumping from the Pentium 486 30 years ago to today's Core i7, which looks too much like a lie.
But people's eyes are bright, Pfizer and Novartis will not be collectively brain-dead and send money to the magic energy company, right? So by the end of the afternoon, Pfizer's shares had risen 8.2 percent to $195 billion, and Novartis' shares had risen 9.7 percent to $201.3 billion.
The CEO of Yan Ruide and Novartis, who got the news, have laughed out loud, and although it hurts them to spend $25 billion per company, the rising stock price alone is almost making back the money spent.
If we wait until the lung cancer killer conducts clinical trials and treats lung cancer patients, the stock price will definitely soar. Thinking of this, the presidents of the two companies have decided to push forward with clinical trials as soon as possible, and they believe that the company's market capitalization of $300 billion is hopeful.
Of course, such a market value cannot be compared with Apple's $592.2 billion, nor can it be compared with Facebook's $358.6 billion, but compared with friends, it can be regarded as coming to heaven.
Shares of GlaxoSmithKline, Bayer, Eli Lilly and others have fallen by at least 5%, wiping off billions of dollars in market value.
After the press conference, the magic energy company, which was only well-known in China, suddenly became famous, and the name spread to the world in one day, and netizens remembered the lung cancer killer and the magic energy company.
The Magic Energy Company took a website that few people browsed on weekdays, and millions of netizens poured in at once. If Chen Xi hadn't enabled the backup server in time, the web page would have crashed and crashed.
The previous products, Super Healing Agent and Myopia Potion, began to be dug deeper. It was at this time that many people learned that there was such a miraculous drug in the world, and many of them left messages wanting to buy these two medicines.
As for the perspective machine that can only be used on jadeite rough, foreign netizens do not pay much attention. However, many people in China have exclaimed, no wonder the price of jadeite products has dropped by 30% recently, and the rough stone is the result of the magic energy company.
A Wall Street analyst said that because the number of lung cancer patients worldwide is increasing by 1.6 million every year, Magic Energy is reasonably valued at $200 billion just by virtue of the continuous gold mine of lung cancer killers, which is about the same as the market value of Pfizer/Novartis.
The analyst said that Chinese analysts are not very professional, the previous valuation of 100 billion yuan (yuan) is too low, and Goldman Sachs is willing to become a listed brokerage company of Magic Energy and guarantee that Magic Energy will be listed in the United States.
With the heated discussion abroad, major domestic websites and media noticed this incident, and it was only dawned the next day, and the magic energy company exploded in China.
$50 billion plus 25% sales commission, Pfizer and Novartis, $200 billion valuation and other eye-popping words are linked to Magic Energy, which is staggering.