Chapter 460 Packing a box

"What are you talking about? Baby."

When Barron returned home, he saw Bonnie sitting on the sofa and chatting with Victoria Beckham, so he asked casually.

"We were talking about the big treasury robbery last month, but I didn't expect it to be really exciting..."

After he sat next to Bonnie, the other party leaned next to Barron and talked about this matter with interest.

Barron knew what Bonnie was talking about, which was the treasury robbery that took place in Kent County, not far from London, on the night of February 21st.

Speaking of which, this case also set a new record in England and became the largest bank robbery in England so far.

After Barron returned to England, he also learned about this matter for the first time. The reason why this robbery is so popular is that it is different from the previous rough bank robbery methods. This robbery happened like What happens in those movies is average.

The vault that was robbed was the vault of the Bank of Scotland, the central bank of England, in Kent. The bank robbers disguised themselves as police officers and kidnapped Dixon, the bank vault manager, on his way home from get off work.

Another group of three robbers, also disguised as police officers, went to Dixon's home, kidnapped his wife and children in front of Dixon, and threatened their cooperation with their lives.

In the end, Dixon agreed to cooperate, and then led the robbers into the bank vault. After the robbers took control of the bank with guns, they opened the bank's vault...

At that time, the bank's vault contained a full 150 million pounds in cash, most of which were new banknotes just delivered from the banknote printing plant.

The robbers only took away 53 million pounds.

It's not that they are "good at stealing", but because the white minivan they drove over at that time could only hold 53 million pounds of banknotes...

After loading the banknotes, the robbers locked 14 bank employees, vault manager Dixon, and his wife and children into cages that originally contained cash, and then drove away.

By early morning on February 22, the whole of Britain knew the breaking news.

The Kent County Police Department launched a special investigation into the robbery, and 300 police officers devoted themselves to the investigation of the robbery 24 hours a day - but there were no clues in the case, and the police were extremely worried.

As a result, the Kent County Police Department finally issued a reward order, with a maximum reward of 2 million pounds for anyone who can provide clues to the robbery.

As soon as such a high reward was issued, the enthusiasm of the people was mobilized, and clues came one after another. The robbers were too careless and did not even escape for so long. They were arrested one after another within the next 48 hours. , but this provided people across the UK with a topic for discussion after dinner for a long time.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that Victoria Beckham, who is now with Barron and the others, gave birth to another child last year, her third child...

But Barron feels lucky that this child has nothing to do with him, so he doesn't have to bear any responsibility.

But I have to admit that Victoria's figure is indeed maintained well. It has only been more than three months since she gave birth to her child, and she has completely recovered her curves.

When they had lunch together, Bonnie also asked Victoria a lot about how to get back in shape after giving birth.

Bonnie was now more than eight months pregnant and tired easily. Shortly after lunch, she went back to the house to lie down and rest.

Then at this time, Victoria entered Barron's study...

Different from the elegance and dignity she showed before, Victoria at this time showed another style.

I don’t know why, even though he had just finished eating, Barron still felt a little hungry, so Victoria thoughtfully served...

"I'll drink less, in case your child doesn't have enough..."

"No, Your Highness the Duke, please enjoy it to your heart's content."

Victoria's breathing became more rapid. She placed her hands on Barron's abdominal muscles and began to move downwards...

"What are you doing? Madam."

"I...want to see the English cannon, Your Majesty."

Victoria ran her tongue across her lips and said expectantly.

…

"Regarding Hermès, we are currently in the process of packing it. Two boxes have been filled and the third box is now being packed..."

During his last trip to Paris, Barron had already begun planning the acquisition of equity in Hermès.

However, Barron is proceeding very carefully due to the "lessons learned" from the failure of LVMH's acquisition of Hermès in his previous life.

Just like what the person in charge in front of Barron, who was wearing a professional suit and had a good figure, said.

Ashley Weber, 29 years old, has been working at DS Holdings for more than two years and is currently in the strategic mergers and acquisitions department. Her previous work was also appreciated by DS Holdings CEO Amber Sheehan, so she came to Responsible for this acquisition of Hermès.

In her words, the acquisition of Hermès was like moving. In order to avoid being discovered by the Hermès family and the LVMH Group, the DS Group cooperated with local French banks and set up offshore companies one after another. …

In this process, they also made full use of intelligence. For example, after carefully investigating all shareholders holding Hermès shares, they classified these shareholders according to their willingness to sell their Hermès shares.

Among the shareholding members of the Hermès family, they also do the same - there are currently 200 Hermès family members holding shares, and the shares are very dispersed. The family members here also have different attitudes towards the Hermès company. There is hope that the Hermès company will stay. There are those who are under the control of the family and those who don't care.

Therefore, they first targeted those members and shareholders who did not care about the Hermès family, and used seemingly unrelated offshore companies to begin the acquisition of Hermès shares.

These offshore companies are what Ashley calls "boxes" because in France, if you hold 5% of the shares of a listed company, you need to hold a sign to indicate your willingness to acquire these shares.

So according to their regulations, after an offshore company holds 4.9% of Hermès shares, it means that "this box is full" and continues to change to the next box to start loading...

It is worth mentioning that the current total share capital of Hermès is about 74.85 million shares, so about 3.66 million Hermès shares can "fill a box"...

Their goal is naturally to fill more than 10 boxes, and eventually complete the control of more than 50% of the shares of Hermès, in order to prevent the Hermès family members from concentrating some shares in that company in order to resist the acquisition of the LVMH Group in the original time and space. In a trust company called H51, something happened that prevented the other party from controlling the company...

Of course, this is also because in the original time and space, Bernard Arnault, the boss of LVMH Group, was too careless, thinking that he held more than 22% of the shares of Hermès at that time. After becoming the largest shareholder, he would be able to control the members of the Hermès family. It was broken. I didn’t expect that many people in the Hermès family valued the family’s honor so much that they directly gathered their shares...