Pepsi, which became famous in later generations, is not very famous now, and such an acquisition is not even in the news in Virginia.

Of course, the most important reason is that the US economy is now in disarray. With thousands of acquisitions being made every day across the United States, who cares about a small company with a market capitalization of just a few hundred thousand dollars?

Although the task of acquiring PepsiCo Beverage Company was completed, Frank did not leave in a hurry, but announced in a high-profile manner that he would inject $1 million into PepsiCo as the controlling shareholder of PepsiCo.

This matter was actually explained by Arthur, after all, Pepsi has experienced several bankruptcies in history, and if you wait for Pepsi to develop on its own, you don't know when it will have to wait.

PepsiCo's biggest drawback is that it doesn't have money, which also makes the beverage company spend almost zero on advertising.

Without advertising, it can't be sold at all, and people only know the more famous Coca-Cola, and when they see Pepsi, they will think it's a fake product and won't take the initiative to buy it at all.

In such a situation, PepsiCo's sales will get worse and worse. Even if the United States has long started Prohibition, Pepsi has not been able to replace alcohol and become the new drink for Americans.

The $1 million injection by Frank is intended to stabilize the situation at PepsiCo Beverages and prevent the stock price, which has little left, from continuing to fall.

The second is to give all PepsiCo employees the confidence to understand how well capitalized the new owners of the company are.

Even in 1927, $1 million was definitely a lot. In fact, companies with more than $1 million can already become large companies, and even relying on this $1 million to get out of the economic crisis is not a problem at all.

The last point is for PepsiCo to have enough marketing funds. Although the quality of the product itself is also very important, if it does not go through a wide range of marketing, more people will not know about the Pepsi brand.

If you want this beverage company to become a giant in the beverage industry, you have to constantly advertise Pepsi and increase the popularity of Pepsi.

Although the funds were given to Pradoham, the manager of PepsiCo, Frank had no fear that the funds would be embezzled by Pradoham.

First of all, PepsiCo's financial statements will be reported every year, and it can still be seen whether there are any financial problems.

Secondly, if Pradogham wants to run away with the money, it will depend on whether the intelligence services in Australasia agree.

$1 million is not a small amount of money, and until Pradoham is loyal, he will be under some scrutiny to make sure he doesn't run away with the money.

On February 26, 1927, Arthur soon received an offer from across the ocean.

In just three or four days, intelligence officers spent $20 million on more than 600 companies, with an average of about $33,000 per company.

Although this money does not seem like much, the US stock market has already fallen to a low point. These companies, with an average market capitalization of just over $30,000, were generally large enterprises with a market value of more than $100,000 or even hundreds of thousands of dollars before the economic crisis.

If it weren't for the fact that intelligence personnel adhered to the principle of giving priority to the acquisition of large and medium-sized enterprises, I am afraid that the number of enterprises acquired would be even greater now.

Because there are still a large number of companies in the U.S. market with a market value ranging from tens of thousands of dollars to the verge of bankruptcy or have gone bankrupt, these companies can acquire such a company at almost no cost, a few thousand dollars.

Looking at some of the companies in the acquisition list that are well-known in later generations, Arthur is still very satisfied with this acquisition plan.

Although there were also some twists and turns in the acquisition, such as other companies or forces competing with Australasia for acquisitions, resulting in some companies that Arthur was optimistic about being acquired first, etc.

But after all, those forces and companies have not opened their eyes, they don't know which companies will develop well in the future, and will only buy companies that they think have potential.

With the acquisition of more than 600 companies in a few days, Arthur was still satisfied. If you look at the value before the economic crisis, the market value of these more than 600 companies is very likely to be around hundreds of millions of dollars, and now it is completely profitable to get it for only 20 million US dollars.

And the $20 million is not exactly the money for the acquisition of the company, some of the money is used for the development of the company.

In the acquisition of companies, automotive companies, oil companies, beverage companies, agri-food companies and other industrial companies are the main targets of Australasian acquisitions.

These more than 600 companies are located in the United States in agriculture and animal husbandry, light industry and heavy industry, as well as a wide variety of food products, chemicals and so on.

Based on the current exchange ratio between the US dollar and the Australian dollar, the value of $20 million is equivalent to 8 million Australian dollars, which is not a lot of expenditure for Arthur.

There are also tens of thousands of companies on the verge of bankruptcy or already in the U.S. market, all of which are waiting for Arthur's financial relief.

In order for Americans to have a stable job, Arthur also paid for it, and asked Director Barty to instruct those intelligence officers to buy a large number of American companies at all costs, and the activity funds also expanded to $100 million.

With Arthur's strong financial support, many intelligence agents once again disguised themselves and made a large number of acquisitions of scattered American enterprises.

The new round of acquisitions has included aviation, machine building, aircraft, military, shipbuilding and steel enterprises, and there is a tendency to directly monopolize American industry.

Among the many acquisition targets, Boeing, which is already quite famous, has become the top target for aircraft.

Speaking of Boeing, the first thing that comes to mind should be Boeing's famous various series of civil aircraft.

But in fact, Boeing is also a manufacturer of military aircraft, and it has a good track record in dual-use aircraft.

The Boeing Company was founded in 1916 by the famous William Edward Boeing.

When I saw William Edward Boeing, I actually knew the origin of Boeing's name, which was William Edward's surname.

At present, Boeing mainly conquers the field of military aircraft, and civil aircraft only superficially involves transport aircraft, and civil airliners have not yet been involved.

But that doesn't hide Arthur's desire to buy Boeing. It's not that the current Boeing is so powerful, but having one less Boeing in the United States can weaken a little bit of America's power in aircraft.

Because William Edward Boeing was of German descent, the Royal Security Intelligence Service cleverly sent Scott Kostilde, who was also of German descent, as the acquirer.

At Boeing's headquarters, Scott met William Edward Boeing, the man at the helm of Boeing.

The current age of this famous aircraft designer is actually only 46 years old.

But in its original history, the United States split Boeing into three companies during the Great Depression, and also allowed William Edward Boeing to retire directly after the company was split.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Boeing." Scott was the first to reach out and smiled at William Edward Boeing, who had come to meet him in person.

"Me too, Mr. Scott." William Edward Boeing nodded at first, then went straight to the point, and said with a little meaning: "Mr. Scott's purchase in the United States has been in the news. If nothing else, you're a friend to Americans just because you've given so many Americans a chance to get jobs back. ”

Scott was not embarrassed to directly identify William Edward Boeing with his intentions, but pretended to be very honored, and replied with a smile: "So it seems that Mr. Boeing does not reject my acquisition?" ”

Hearing Scott say this, William Edward Boeing did not respond directly, but was silent for a while, sighed, and then said helplessly: "If this damn economic crisis broke out, then I definitely don't want the company to be acquired." But now, with the workers no longer being paid, it's time for Boeing to change. ”

William Edward Boeing was still very aware of the upcoming changes to Boeing, which is why he retired with honor directly after the company was broken up.

After all, no matter what, Boeing has made him enough money, and it is no problem to be a rich man.

"Thank you, Mr. Boeing, for taking a high value on us. Rest assured, after we acquire Boeing, you will still have control of Boeing if you wish. Of course, as a good faith, you can keep 5% of Boeing and see for yourself how Boeing grows. Scott said with a smile.

Since William Edward Boeing did not rule out the acquisition of his own whims, the rest of the matter was much easier.

Giving Boeing shares, buying Boeing and moving its headquarters to Australasia was Scott's next mission.

"But, Mr. Scott, I have to be reminded. Boeing currently has a market capitalization of $5 million, are you sure you have enough money to buy it? Looking at Scott, who looked confident, as if the acquisition of Boeing was a foregone conclusion, William Edward Boeing was a little curious, is the capital behind him really so abundant?

"You don't have to worry about the funds, Mr. Boeing." Scott smiled and said, "After acquiring your company, we can inject an additional $2 million into your company as research and development funds to help you research monoplane technology."

We have only one requirement, and that is that Boeing's technology cannot be transferred or sold without permission, nor can finished aircraft or parts be sold to any person or force without permission.

And we wanted to move Boeing's headquarters to a more suitable location, which would be a better fit for Boeing. ”

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