Chapter 147: Take East Zeiss
"ZEISS has a long history in East Germany, and acquisitions need to be carried out quickly! Rex, you told the GDR government that the Borderless Group was willing to buy East Zeiss with dollars, and the Borderless Group was willing to give $500 million in exchange for the East German Mark!! ”
The East German economy was sluggish, and the East German mark naturally kept depreciating. For the East German government, the foreign exchange of the US dollar was very important.
When Rex Aiden heard this, he was immediately a little stunned, the East German mark has been depreciating, and the boss is still willing to exchange dollars for the East German mark, isn't it a big loss?
"Boss, even if you buy East Zeiss in dollars, why spend an additional $500 million to convert it into East German marks? You must know that the East D is corrupt, the economy is about to collapse, and the East German mark is also depreciating all year round. We exchanged dollars for East German marks, which doesn't feel cost-effective! Rex Aiden frowned.
When Zhao Ye heard this, he couldn't help but smile slightly, yes, under normal circumstances, the East German mark will indeed depreciate all the time, but who would have thought that after the reunification of the two Germanys, Germany made a huge tilt towards East Germany at the economic level. First of all, there is a one-step blood transfusion policy to help the east carry out economic reforms. One of the most important measures was the conversion of East German marks to West German marks, which allowed former East German citizens to exchange their worthless East German marks for West German marks at a ratio of 1:1 – the East German marks were overvalued by 400% at the actual exchange rate at the time.
At that time, the Wujiang Group will hold a large number of East German marks in its hands, how can it be said that it can make a lot of money!
If it weren't for Zhao Ye's fear that the Wujiang Group would eat too many East German marks held by the Wujiang Group and offend the German government, how could he only exchange East German marks worth 500 million US dollars?
Zhao Ye didn't explain this to Rex Aiden, but just told him to do what he was told.
Needless to say, when the East D government learned of the conditions proposed by Zhao Ye, it was very surprised, and any resistance seemed insignificant in the face of money.
Besides, it is worth selling a loss-making company in exchange for a large amount of foreign exchange~
On Christmas Day, December 25th, the East German government officially approved the acquisition of East Zeiss by Wujiang Group.
When the news spread to China, it immediately caused a huge sensation in the industry!
Domestic researchers in the lens-related industry were shocked.
The country's top leaders were all excited.
The general public is proud of what kind of company ZEISS is.
Although the development of East Zeiss company has not been good in recent years and has been violently beaten by Japanese manufacturers, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse. As a world-renowned optical giant, ZEISS still has the world's top optical lens technology!
Wujiang Group paid a considerable price for the acquisition of East Zeiss, but it was worth the money.
The next morning, Rex Eden arrived at ZEISS East.
"Mr. Lance Garden, please call all the scientific researchers, I have something to say." Rex Eden said to Lance Garden, the new president of East Zeiss.
In his investigation over the past year, Rex Eden found that although the top management of East Zeiss was corrupt and superfluous, there were still some people who were dedicated and talented, among whom Lance Garden was the best. As a result, on the day of the acquisition of East Zeiss by Wujiang Group, Lance Garden was quickly promoted to the new president and mercilessly fired a large number of company moths, including several East Zeiss executives who accepted bribes.
These people can't help but scold Rex Aiden for crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, and being ungrateful.
However, when Rex Aiden directly threw the evidence that they used their power for personal gain and embezzled the interests of East Zeiss Company in their faces, they suddenly didn't dare to say a word one by one.
"Yes, Mr. Aiden." Lance Garden replied and immediately went to inform the scientific and technical staff of East Zeiss to come to the conference room for a meeting.
Half an hour has passed.
The crowd came to a large conference room.
At this time, the industrial decline, the economy was on the verge of collapse, the social injustice, the privileges and corruption of the bureaucratic class, and the suffocating political repression had made people see no future and a way out.
In addition, East Zeiss has been losing money year after year, resulting in the scientific research and technology of East Zeiss people are very poor, and at a glance, everyone's spirit is very poor.
However, the acquisition of East Zeiss by Wujiang Group has given them a glimmer of hope.
Rex Aiden looked around at this time and said loudly to everyone: "Hello everyone, my name is Rex Aiden, on behalf of Chairman Zhao Ye, welcome everyone to join the big family of Wujiang Group!" Here I have an important thing to announce. ”
After a pause, he said, "At present, the environment in East Germany is very bad, and Chairman Zhao hopes that you can go to Shanghai, China, which is the most economically developed and prosperous city in China, ranking among the top in Asia." Wujiang Group can provide you with a superior scientific research environment, scientific research start-up funds that far exceed the competitiveness of the same industry, double salary, housing subsidies and housing apartment guarantees, etc......
And you can arrange jobs for your family, arrange schools for your children, and solve all your worries.
So, does anyone want to work in Shanghai, China right now? ”
Rex Aiden finally asked.
As soon as the voice fell, the conference room suddenly became noisy.
Everyone looked at each other and talked about it.
"Double the salary, this is a good salary, and arrange jobs for my family, then my whole family can immigrate to China."
"It is said that China has developed rapidly in recent years, and Shanghai is about to become an international city! Moreover, the headquarters of Wujiang Group is located in Shanghai, in my opinion, we go to work in Shanghai, it seems that there are more prospects for development! ”
"I'm already disappointed in the corruption of East D, and I'm going to go to China to have a look!"
“……”
After a minute of thought, Rex Aiden then said loudly: "Raise your hand if you want to work in Shanghai, China?" ”
As soon as the words fell, in a short period of time, four-fifths of the people raised their hands, almost more than 400 people.
Seeing this, Rex Aiden nodded with satisfaction.
"Mr. Rex Eden, what are you going to do for those of us who don't want to go to China?" At this time, someone raised his hand and asked, a trace of worry flashing across his face. They don't want to leave their homeland, but now it's not easy to find a job in East Germany, and they are afraid of being fired because they don't want to work in China.
Rex Aiden smiled at the man and replied, "Don't worry, for those who really don't want to work in China, our group company also has arrangements...... Then it is better to stay in Germany, and the Wujiang Group will also build a large scientific research center here. However, you may not be paid as much as those who travel to China for work. ”
In fact, the focus of Wujiang Group's scientific research has always been in Shanghai.
As for Germany, this research center is mainly used to attract East German talent, so that they do not emigrate to the United States.
As we all know, precision machining in Germany has always been strong.
Therefore, Zhao Ye just planned to take advantage of the current unstable situation and economic recession in East Germany to poach people.
Tiangong Technology Co., Ltd. has reached the level of hunger and thirst for precision machining talents.
Towards the end of the meeting, Rex Aiden asked people to register a list of people who wanted to work in Shanghai, China.
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The acquisition of East Zeiss by the Borderless Group caused a stir in the field of research in East Germany.
Many people are more concerned about the treatment of East Zeiss employees after the acquisition of East Zeiss by Wujiang Group.
After the acquisition of East Zeiss, Wujiang Group injected 300 million East German rubles to purchase new scientific research and production equipment for East Zeiss, and increased the salaries of employees by 10% to 100%. It is said that as long as scientific researchers go to work in China, their salaries will be doubled! "The level of manufacturing technology in East Germany is actually quite high, and it is not only East Zeiss...... For example, the East German People's Cooperative Machinery Plant is very powerful, and at this moment, Peter Eugene, a technical expert in the factory, could not help but sigh when he read the newspaper.
Several of Peter Eugene's colleagues looked envious.
"I'm so envious, seeing this, I want to go too. The welfare package is much stronger than ours. Our machine factory hasn't paid us for months! ”
"yes, don't you know that Wujiang Group is still recruiting?" Someone asked.
At this time, Peter Eugene spoke: "The Borderless Group has been recruiting people in East Germany, and not long ago, someone from the Borderless Group contacted me and asked me to jump ship to them. ”
When everyone heard this, they were taken aback, and immediately, someone proposed: "Peter Eugene, why don't you take us to jump ship to the Borderless Group?" The People's Consortium Machinery Factory has not paid us wages for several months, and if it continues like this, we will have to drink the northwest wind! ”
Peter Eugene thought for a moment and nodded solemnly: "Okay, let's jump to the Borderless Group together!" ”
In fact, the choice of Peter Eugene and others was only a microcosm in East Germany, and at the moment, similar things are happening in major East German companies.
The wages of these East German researchers and technicians were actually terrible, and even so, the factories were often in arrears, so it is no wonder that these people wanted to leave the GDR.
Compared with the current Chinese researchers, the salaries of researchers in East Germany are not much stronger.
Zhao Ye is very willing to hire them to develop in China with a high salary.
Wujiang Group's products are mainly in the European and American markets, and the scientific researchers come from all over the world, and the salary level is also as close as possible to Europe and the United States.
There is a saying that "not suffering from a small number but suffering from unevenness", many domestic scientific researchers and European and American scientific researchers work in the same research institute, if the salary level is too different, it is easy to cause an imbalance in the mentality of domestic scientific researchers.
Of course, the stronger the person, the higher the salary he can get.
Zhao Ye's Wujiang Group follows Huawei's job title division, salary system, and welfare benefits in the previous life......
For example, the staff level of Wujiang Group is also divided into 13-22 levels, and 23 and above are high-level bosses.
From 13 to 18 levels, each level is divided into three small levels of ABC, most of the employees are within 18 levels, and the salary increase above 15 levels is slow.
The average employee who has worked in Wujiang Group for ten years is about level 16-17, with an annual salary of about 50,000-100,000 yuan.
Newly recruited undergraduates are generally 13C, generally 2 elementary levels per year. Of course, employees with particularly outstanding performance can also rise by one level or even jump two or three times a year.
Employees will be assessed for promotion, and the assessment is divided into quarterly assessment and annual assessment, which will not be described one by one.
Generally speaking, Wujiang has established a result-oriented assessment mechanism and a contribution-based treatment system.
Therefore, it is not difficult to see that in Wujiang, employees can change their destiny in two ways, one is struggle, and the other is contribution.
However, Zhao Ye has not planned to use Huawei's virtual equity system at present.
At the moment, equity incentives are not popular enough globally.
Which boss wants to easily distribute shares to employees?
Even Zhao Ye, who came from his previous life, was reluctant, so at this stage, he mainly used bonuses as rewards.
When the share incentive in Silicon Valley quietly becomes a trend, Zhao Ye will probably consider whether to start the equity incentive plan, and it is still Huawei's virtual equity incentive model.
As soon as an employee leaves the company, the company can receive the virtual shares given to him.
Of course, considering the size of the Wujiang Group and its control over the company, even if the virtual equity system is to be used, it will not be used for the Wujiang Group, but for its subsidiaries.
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"Boss, this is Rex Eden who sent the East Zeiss camera - Contax S, the world's first pentaprism single-lens reflex camera!"
Liu Yinyin took a camera and handed it to Zhao Ye.
Zhao Ye took this Contax S and couldn't help but look at it carefully, this camera can be described as an antique, born in 1949, a 35mm SLR with built-in pentaprism framing.
Zhao Ye fiddled with the Contax S and said: "One of the most famous products of East Zeiss is the Contax camera brand, if more money is invested in research and development, we will definitely be able to create a camera product that sells well all over the world, and compare with Japanese cameras!" ”
Zhao Ye also likes photography, and he has bought a lot of cameras in his previous life, so he can't put down the Contax S in his hand.
As the world's most famous DSLR camera, the Contax S has a great collector's value.
"Boss, why don't you take a few pictures, try it." Liu Yinyin suggested, and then crossed her legs, stroked her hair, and put on a good-looking and sultry pose.
Zhao Ye was stunned for a moment, quickly reacted, and said with a smile: "Okay, then you stand up, I'll take a few photos for you." ”
"Okay, boss!" Liu Yinyin smiled at Zhao Ye, stood up to the proud peak, and looked at the camera.
As a non-famous business photographer, Zhao Ye's photography skills are also good, and he knows a lot of photography skills.
It's just that Liu Yinyin may be in too good shape, and the black OL women's clothes she wears on her body are extremely sexy, the convex and the convex, the warped, the key is that when taking pictures, the flattering eyes are frequently discharged, which can't help but make Zhao Ye, an "old man", a little dry.
Zhao Ye resisted the hot impulse in his heart, and reluctantly took more than ten photos of the sexy little secretary.
"The little secretary is seducing me!" Zhao Ye shouted in his heart.
(End of chapter)