The Industrial Giant Reborn.

Chapter 400 The Beginning of the Disney Acquisition

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

"It's okay to invest in Shenhai City, but it's probably not from TVB, but from Hehuang." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said, "The land in Hong Kong is expensive, and the area of ​​the film and television city built is small, so it doesn't matter if you shoot the interior. But it’s hard to be grand on location, so since we’re planning to invest in the mainland, we’ll build a large-scale one, such as a palace or a city wall that’s a little more majestic. It’s best to imitate the Forbidden City, so that the visual impact will be better. Our goal can be achieved. It is not enough to satisfy the city of Hong Kong, but also the Chinese in half of the world, the sense of reality must be strong!"

At this moment, Chen Zhiwen recalled the ancient costume Hong Kong dramas he watched in his previous life. Those involving the palace were basically repeated in those places, and those involving wars and sieges had very small walls. Even because of the cost, even the siege There are only a few hundred people, and there is no shocking vision of tens of thousands of people attacking the city.

Although this has something to do with Sir Run Run Shaw's "picking" in history, the hardware facilities are indeed not enough, and if a large-scale film and television city is built in the mainland, not only the hardware is available, but also when a large number of people are really needed, it can also be nearby. Pulling people, the scene of tens of thousands of people attacking the city can be easily reproduced, and the labor cost in the mainland is relatively much lower, and sometimes even braised pork for lunch can attract people for free.

This can also reduce costs for TVB. Before the explosion of computer technology, this kind of war film and television can only be performed by real people, and this time may take another 30 to [-] years.

"That's the best way, we TVB can do the program shooting with peace of mind." Liang Shuyi said.

"However, the professionalism and Huang are not as good as yours. I will inform Zhou Jiayang later. You may need to communicate with Shenhai City first to see how much the cost is!" Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said: "Although this is Hutchison Huang's investment, it will be managed by you in the future, and it will be regarded as TVB's assets."

Hutchison and TVB, after several years, have been completely privatized. They are both their own companies, and it is more convenient to transfer funds or assets. Hutchison will be a company that invests heavily in assets in the future. , Professionals are still needed to be in charge. Moreover, these two companies may be listed in the future. It will be more convenient to distinguish assets now.

"Thank you Chen Sheng!" Liang Shuyi was overjoyed. Although it is the company's assets, many things will be much more convenient if she manages it. With more funds, her follow-up work will also be smoother. Which professional manager, Who doesn't like having their company well funded?Invest in whatever you want!
"That's how it is. When there is progress on these things, you can come here and report to me. From today onwards, you can directly contact my secretary's office. If you need to see me, you can make an appointment in advance." Chen Zhiwen said.

At present, the scale of the entire group is large enough. Except for a few core industries, the leaders of other branches can not meet him at random. Basically, they communicate with the higher-level company or the headquarters office.

In the past, TVB was positioned as a TV station in Hong Kong, and had limited impact on Chen Zhiwen's global business. But now that I have sufficient funds and resources, I need to build my own media platform. 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. This time, the boss summoned her, which basically showed that in the future, TVB will definitely develop its hands and feet, which is very important for her. It is also an opportunity to show your abilities.

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Taking Hong Kong as the foundation, making good 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. In addition to concentrating resources to make good content, TVB has a high probability of being able to obtain A very different development from the previous life.

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

And if in the future, TVB can really expand in the field of satellite TV, then he naturally wouldn't mind launching a dedicated TV signal satellite in Asia.

This will be a matter of a few years later, there is no need to think about it at the moment, and you can do the most basic business with peace of mind, and wait until the satellite TV business is successful in the future. In the original history, Li Jiacheng's second son also founded a satellite TV station. It was also leased at the beginning, and it was considered a very successful operation. However, it is clear that the Li family is a real estate gene. After the success of the TV station, it was sold to media tycoon Murdoch for US$8 million. City, the rare opportunity for the whole of Hong Kong to make some achievements in the global media market and the Internet market, was completely ruined by the Li family.

However, it is also possible that they are also members of the Li family, and they are not sure about doing things other than real estate and infrastructure. After all, a normal company has its own field of expertise. That is to say, relying on the golden finger of memory, it has entered the four fields of real estate, retail, electronic technology and functional drinks. Other investments, either follow the industry giants to drink some soup first, such as Anta OEM for Nike, Galaxy Trade acquired a large number of retail giants orders, or invest in related companies and profit from it.

But there is another way, that is to directly acquire a company that is promising in the future but has encountered difficulties at a certain period of time. A giant company whose scale is not lower than Hongkong Land, but because it is not listed, outsiders are not sure.

The second large-scale acquisition is naturally AMC Motors. However, the development of the automobile industry is too slow, especially relying on the mainland market. It may take more than ten or twenty years to show its strong potential, but 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 for the future.

The third large-scale acquisition is RCA's TV business. Relatively speaking, this investment is not very large, and after the acquisition, it was also merged into Midea.

The fourth is Disney, which is about to be acquired. This company is now thinking that it is in trouble for various reasons, and its market value is only a little over one billion US dollars. According to the original historical development, after the advent of the era of computer animation, coupled with the management of a high-quality management team , Disney can come back to life within 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 cheat and his own abundant funds, Disney will only become stronger.

On April 1983, 4, Chen Zhiwen received news from the United States that the White House and the Ministry of Commerce had verbally agreed to the acquisition, but the approval of Disney’s board of directors and shareholder meeting was necessary. Sniping, this is also in line with Chen Zhiwen's meaning, he is not interested in planning a large-scale hostile takeover in Europe and the United States.

Although some people make a lot of money from hostile acquisitions, such as Liu who will rise in a few years, most of the rich still rely on their actual ability to operate step by step. Most of the acquisitions in the world are also Incorporated in good faith.

After Disney agrees, it will officially submit the information to the Ministry of Commerce again, and then the US government, US labor unions and other departments will negotiate with the acquirer. But the level is completely different. A medium-sized company like AMC is not worthy of the attention of the White House or even some big media, but Disney is completely different in terms of dimensions.

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. The stock price was 17.5 US dollars per share, and the total price was 14.7 billion US dollars, which was 12.1 billion US dollars higher than Disney's market value. It is 21.5% higher, and sincerity is enough, most companies will raise prices appropriately for mergers and acquisitions, and the first 20% increase is considered an upper-middle level.

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

Although Disney has declined more and more in the past ten years, at least half of the people in the United States have watched Disney cartoons when they were young. Even if they don’t like it now, who wouldn’t know?This is arguably one of the most important cultural representations of Americans.

Even if this kind of company is acquired by an American company, it is enough to become an important hot news, but now it is acquired by an overseas fund. The old United States has become the world's most powerful country since World War II. Basically, they buy other people There is no such thing as a conversely, but the acquisition of Disney?That's totally different.

After in-depth investigation by some American media, they soon discovered that the person behind the acquisition was Chen Zhiwen from Hong Kong.

For this name, most of the media in the United States still know it more or less. Last year, it was the richest man in the world. In the whole of Asia, he is also a real estate tycoon second only to Japan. It is Costco, one of the emerging retail giants in the United States.

But no matter what, it is unbearable for many people to buy Disney from an Asian. Over the years, Japanese brands have dominated many industries in the United States. Now it is the turn of the Chinese to buy the most powerful cultural company in the United States?

(End of this chapter)