Chapter 357 Valentine’s Day

"I noticed that Argos Retail Group has launched a business of mailing goods. To be honest, I have tried it too. It feels like Amazon in the United States?"

"Yes, Mr. Brown, this must be a trend. Just like now, Amazon's market value has reached 20 billion US dollars!"

After each had completed some knowledge study, Barron and Brown met again.

But this time, the two people were talking about no longer such a sensitive topic as the differences within the Labor Party, because now they were not the only ones in the room. In Brown's arms, he was holding the man he had just had. The model who communicated was Miss Rose; beside Barron, Rosie Huntington was also nestling next to him like a bird.

I have to say that this kind of atmosphere does make the two of them seem closer.

"But I noticed that Argos Retail Group has transferred a large number of product production to China. This is not a good thing for British employment."

As Chancellor of the Exchequer, Brown is naturally concerned about the economic situation in the UK. Employment and productivity transfer are naturally also what he is concerned about.

"There is no way to do this. It is determined by labor costs, because Argos Retail Group is not only in the UK, but also entering Ireland, France, Germany, and more European markets. We must rely on lower costs to compete with those The country’s local businesses compete.”

Barron shrugged and said:

"But this is not a bad thing, Mr. Brown. First of all, our high-end manufacturing will still remain in the UK. In addition, with the development of our Argos retail group e-commerce, it will provide more jobs for the UK, just like the As we cooperate with Yingyun Logistics, they need to recruit more couriers to deliver express delivery..."

Since Caesar Fund began its acquisition of Ying Yun Logistics in January, Argos Retail Group has started cooperation with the other party. In the markets they are currently involved in, Ying Yun Logistics is mainly used for express delivery.

You know, in Europe at this time, there is no so-called "free shipping" concept like in China in the future, and the cost of express delivery is not low.

Therefore, this alone, with the development of Argos Retail Group’s e-commerce business, can bring considerable benefits to Yingyun Logistics.

Even now, Argos Retail Group's e-commerce business is developing quite well, so Yingyun Logistics needs to increase the number of couriers to ensure the smooth progress of these businesses.

After completing the acquisition of British Transport Logistics, Caesars Fund then launched the acquisition of Northern Gas Company. Similarly, it acquired Northern Gas Company, one of the largest natural gas network suppliers in the UK, from the secondary market.

In Barron's previous life, Yangtze River Infrastructure, owned by Hong Kong's Li Chaoren, spent a total of 2.4 billion pounds on two purchases of Northern Gas Company, a natural gas energy supplier in northern England, in June of this year and in 2009. of.

Before that, Barron already owned 1.5% of the shares of Northern Natural Gas Company. This was part of the legacy that Mrs. Emma left to Barron. He has always retained these shares in order to prepare to sell them in advance at the right time. Bought this energy supplier with many users.

In fact, for many old money families, their favorite investments are not high-tech and Internet companies, but companies that are needed for people's livelihood and can make stable profits, such as Coca-Cola, medicine, real estate, and It is an infrastructure energy project like Northern Natural Gas Company.

Don't look at companies like this. The market value will not grow too fast, but in the fields of energy, electricity, and water services, everyone needs to buy them. No matter what time, there will not be much change.

For example, Northern Gas Company has fixed users in the north of England. Energy suppliers like this have basically fixed each other's user groups in England. Although they will not develop much, they are more stable and can make regular profits every year. This is what the old money families are most interested in. Valued.

Similarly, if Barron wants to consolidate its control in the UK, in addition to having a layout in the more profitable fields such as the Internet and finance, people's livelihood projects are also very important.

And this time, Barron had another intention in acquiring Northern Natural Gas Company.

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"Baby, you are so beautiful today. By the way, this is a gift for you..."

"so beautiful."

Tamaran opened the exquisite gift box that Barron handed her and couldn't help but exclaimed when she saw the necklace studded with diamonds inside.

"Do you like it? Baby."

"Well, please put it on for me..."

The girl had lunch with Barron today. She was wearing a low-cut skirt. This bright necklace was worn around her neck. The pendant was close to the profound career line, which inevitably aroused people's imagination.

Today is February 14th, which is the annual Valentine’s Day in the West.

Speaking of which, this day was really a bit...busy for Barron.

It was like he was in London. Today he would have lunch with Tamaran, and in the afternoon he would go to the villa in Westminster to spend time with Rebecca and his daughter Jennifer. In the evening, he would go home with His real girlfriend Bonnie had a sweet dinner.

In addition to his other women, including the Hearst sisters and Ivanta who are far away in the United States, Barron would talk sweetly on the phone for a while, and would also prepare gifts to send over...

So, you only see some successful men hugging each other freely and comfortably, but who can know the efforts behind them...

In addition, Barron also received news from Ivanta that today, a website called YouTube was launched.

Sure enough, history has not changed, but the YouTube that was first launched was not a website focused on videos, but a dating website...

Well, as you can see from its launch today, YouTube at this time was just a website for men and women to get to know each other and go on dates.

However, because this website was initially launched, it was not favored by women. Therefore, in April, they added the function of uploading videos. Later, they slowly transformed into a video sharing website and began to be open to the public for free.

After being reminded by Barron, Ivanta, who had been paying attention to several former Paypal employees, discovered this website for the first time and was ready to contact them and provide them with angel investment in the name of IC Capital.

At this time, IC Capital was no longer the start-up investment company it was when it first invested in MySpace—at that time, IC Capital could only rely on the family behind Ivanta to attract the other party to allow them to invest.

After its investment in MySpace, and more importantly, IC Capital's recent acquisition of DoubleClick, a well-known Internet advertising company, IC Capital's popularity in Silicon Valley has greatly increased.

Just recently, DoubleClick finally made an acquisition offer after IC Capital held a certain percentage of its shares and its board of directors agreed to their offer of US$1.1 billion, which was a 50% premium to its previous market value. acquisition of the internet advertiser.

It was also through this acquisition that IC Capital demonstrated its strength, and Ivanta's identity as the daughter of the most talked-about real estate tycoon in the United States also provided IC Capital with extremely high popularity.

It can be said that although it has only made two investments so far, IC Capital's popularity is no less than that of some established venture capital companies.