400 The beginning of the Disney acquisition

"Mainland? It's okay, Shenhai City is also very close to Hong Kong, and it's not a problem to go back and forth every day, it's very convenient. Liang Shuyi said.

"It's no problem to invest in Shenhai City, but it is estimated that it will not be invested by TVB, but by Hutchison." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said: "The land price in Hong Kong is expensive, the area of the film and television city is small, it doesn't matter if you shoot the interior, but it is difficult to get atmospheric if you are going to invest in the mainland, so since you are ready to invest in the mainland, then build a large-scale, what palace, city wall to build a little majestic, it is best to imitate the Forbidden City, so that the visual impact is better, our goal is not to meet the city of Hong Kong, and most of the Chinese in the world, the sense of reality must be strong!" ”

At this moment, Chen Zhiwen recalled the costume Hong Kong dramas he watched in his previous life, involving the palace, basically repeating the filming in those places, involving the war siege, the city wall is also very small, and even because of the cost relationship, there are only hundreds of people attacking the city, and there is no shocking vision of tens of thousands of people attacking the city at all.

Although this has a certain relationship with Run Run Shaw's "picking" in the original history, the hardware facilities are indeed insufficient, and if a large-scale film and television city is built in the mainland, not only the hardware is there, but when a large number of people are really needed, they can also pull people nearby, and the scene of 10,000 people attacking the city can be easily reproduced, and the labor cost in the mainland is relatively much lower, and even sometimes Chinese rice can be free to attract people by eating braised pork.

This can also reduce costs for TVB, before the explosion of computer technology, this kind of war film and television can only rely on real people, and this time may take twenty or thirty years.

"This is the best, we TVB can shoot the program with peace of mind." Liang Shuyi said.

"But professionalism and Huang are not as good as you, I will inform Zhou Jiayang later, you guys will sum up this matter, and you may need to communicate with Shenhai City first to see how much it costs!" Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said: "Although this is Hutchison Investment, it will be handed over to you for management in the future, and it will be counted as TVB's assets." ”

Hutchison and TVB, after several years, have been completely privatized, they are their own companies, and it is more convenient to transfer funds or assets, Hutchison will be a company with its own heavy asset investment in the future, but the operation of the film and television city still needs professionals to be responsible, besides, these two companies, it is not ruled out that this may be listed in the future, and it will be more convenient to divide assets now.

"Thank you Chen Sheng!" Liang Shuyi was happy in her heart, although it is the company's assets, but if it is managed by her, many things will be much more convenient, and there will be more funds, so her follow-up will be smoother, which professional manager, who doesn't like their company's sufficient funds? You can invest in whatever you want!

"That's it, these things, when there is progress in the future, you will come and report to me, from today onwards, you can contact my secretary of the board office directly, you need to see me in advance to make an appointment." Chen Zhiwen said.

At present, the scale of the whole group is large enough, except for a few core industries, the leaders of other branches are not able to meet him at will, basically through a higher company or contact with the headquarters office to communicate business.

In the past, TVB was only positioned as a TV station in Hong Kong, and it had a limited role in Chen Zhiwen's global business, but now that he has sufficient funds and resources, he needs to build his own media platform, and TVB is the first step, and its importance will naturally increase.

"Okay, I'll report back to you when I have further news!" Liang Shuyi said happily that this time the boss summoned her, which basically showed that in the future, TVB will inevitably show its development, which is also an opportunity for her to show her ability.

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Based on Hong Kong, doing a good job in TV content, and then transmitting signals through satellites, to obtain other additional markets, although it may be in a gray area, it is indeed the only way to expand, plus concentrating resources to do a good job in content, TVB is likely to achieve a very different development from the previous life.

However, although he has money, he will not use it indiscriminately, when there is no shadow of satellite TV, he naturally cannot spend hundreds of millions of dollars to launch an independent satellite into space, which is completely different from the Costco demand in the United States, because there is a lot of signal data, having a satellite of its own, but it can create higher benefits, and it is more cost-effective economically.

And if TVB can really grow in the field of satellite TV in the future, then he will naturally not mind putting on a special TV signal satellite in Asia.

This will also be a few years later, there is no need to think about it at present, peace of mind will first make the most basic business, and then the satellite TV business will be successful in the future, in the original history, Li Jiacheng's second son also founded a satellite TV station, which was also leased at the beginning, and it was also a very successful operation, but obviously the Li family is a real estate gene, and after the success of the TV station, it was sold to the media tycoon Murdoch for 800 million US dollars, plus the Hong Kong Science and Technology City that he pitted, The rare opportunity for Hong Kong to make some achievements in the global media market and the Internet market has been wasted by the Li family.

However, it is also possible that they are also people of the Li family, who are not sure to do things other than real estate and infrastructure, after all, a normal enterprise has its own areas of expertise, jumping away from this field, even if the capital is abundant, it is difficult to succeed, even if it is Chen Zhiwen, that is, relying on the memory of the golden finger, he has entered the four fields of real estate, retail, electronic technology and functional drinks, and other investments, either follow the industry bosses to drink some soup first, such as Anta to Nike OEM, Galaxy Trading to obtain a large number of orders from retail giants, or to invest in related companies, Profit from it.

But there is another way, that is, to directly acquire a promising company in the future but in difficulty at a certain time, such as Hutchison Once, after its own low-price acquisition, with the help of the Hong Kong real estate market bull market and other opportunities, has become a giant enterprise no less than Hongkong Land, but because it has not been listed, outsiders are not sure.

The second large-scale acquisition is naturally AMC Automobile, but the automotive industry is developing too slowly, especially relying on the mainland market, which may take more than ten or twenty years to show its strong potential, but at the right time in the future, Chen Zhiwen will also acquire other brands in other markets to form an automobile group that can combine technology and market after-sales, but this is a matter of the future.

The third large-scale acquisition is RCA's TV business, which is relatively not a large investment, and the acquisition has also been merged into Midea.

The fourth, Disney, which is preparing to be acquired, is now in trouble for various reasons, with a market value of just over a billion dollars, and according to the original historical development, after the advent of the computer animation era, coupled with the operation of a high-quality management team, Disney can come back to life in a few years and become the largest cultural company in the United States.

In this regard, Chen Zhiwen will naturally not let go of this opportunity, especially with his memory golden finger and his own abundant funds, Disney will only become stronger.

On April 1, 1983, Chen Zhiwen got the news from the United States that the White House and the Department of Commerce had verbally agreed to the acquisition, but it must require the consent of the Disney board of directors and the general meeting of shareholders, that is, it can only be acquired in good faith, not maliciously sniped, which is also in line with Chen Zhiwen's meaning, he is not interested in planning a large-scale hostile acquisition in Europe and the United States.

Although some people make a lot of money by relying on hostile takeovers, such as Da Liu, who will rise in a few years, most of the rich people still rely on their actual ability to operate step by step, and most of the acquisitions in this world are also good-faith mergers.

After Disney agrees, then it will officially hand over the information to the Ministry of Commerce again, followed by negotiations between the U.S. government, U.S. labor unions and other departments and the acquirer, there are many things in this, and I have experienced it when I acquired AMC, but the level is completely different, AMC is a medium-sized company, it will not deserve the attention of the White House and even some big media at all, but Disney, the dimension is completely different.

On the same day, Morgan Stanley Investment Bank officially announced that it would represent a large overseas investment fund to initiate an acquisition of Disney, with a stock trading price of $17.5 per share and a total offer of $1.47 billion, which is 21.5% higher than Disney's market value of $1.21 billion.

When the news broke, the media and public opinion in the entire United States exploded in an instant.

Although Disney has been declining more and more in the past decade, at least more than half of the people in the United States have watched Disney's cartoon animation when they were children, even if they don't like it now, but who doesn't know? This is arguably one of the most important cultural representations of Americans.

This kind of company, even if it is acquired by an American company, is enough to become an important hot news, but now it is being acquired by an overseas fund, and the United States has become the world's largest power since World War II. That's completely different.

After an in-depth investigation, some American media soon discovered that the person behind this acquisition was actually Chen Zhiwen of Hong Kong.

Last year, he became the richest Chinese in the world, and in the whole of Asia, he is also second only to Japan as a real estate tycoon, and he also has a lot of investments and industries in the United States, the most famous of which is Costco, one of the emerging retail giants in the United States.

But no matter what, an Asian to buy Disney, is unbearable for many people, over the years, Japanese brands have hung many industries in the United States, and now it is the turn of the Chinese to buy the most powerful cultural company in the United States?

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