Chapter 471 Luxury Car Brand
Fan Bingbing did not take on the movie "Apple" like Barron did in his previous life.
However, the director of the film still found Fan Bingbing. Although she did not agree to star, she still invested in the film and helped the film's female director Li Yu contact other actresses.
The opening ceremony and first match of this year's World Cup in Germany will be held on June 9 at the Allianz Arena in Munich.
The Allianz Arena is very familiar to many fans as it is the home stadium of Bundesliga leader Bayern Munich.
In fact, the Allianz Arena was originally jointly funded and built by rivals Bayern Munich and Munich 1860, with each party holding 50% of the shares. It opened just a year ago, at the end of May last year.
But more than a decade later, Bayern Munich bought the entire stadium, making it their exclusive home.
The A\u0026R shipyard is near Bremen, Germany, located in the northwest of Germany, while Munich is located in the southeast of Germany, so going from Bremen to Munich almost passes through the entire Germany.
After deciding to purchase the superyacht that had been resold, there were still a few days before the opening of the World Cup, so Barron took advantage of this time to visit many places in Germany with Fan Bingbing...
It was a rare opportunity, and Fan Bingbing was very happy to spend more time with Barend. The two of them even entered the Netherlands from Germany and spent a day in Amsterdam.
Barron arrived in Munich before the World Cup started.
Munich is the capital of Bavaria, Germany. After arriving here, Barron was invited to visit BMW's headquarters.
After all, as we all know, the abbreviation of BMW is "Don't Touch Me"...BMW, and its full name is Bayerische Tractor...er, no, it is Bayerische Motoren Werke AG.
"Hello, Your Highness the Duke, and this beautiful lady..."
The person who received Barron was not Dr. Punk, the 60-year-old chairman and CEO of BMW, but Reithof, the director in charge of its production department at this time.
He will take over as chairman and CEO of BMW on September 1 this year.
In fact, Barron has always been an important customer of BMW - he has purchased many Rolls-Royce cars so far, and most of them are specially customized.
Speaking of which, for his current status, if he originally chose a "British brand", he would have to choose between Rolls-Royce and Bentley.
However, these two brands, one belonging to BMW and the other to Volkswagen, have been bought by German companies.
In the beginning, Rolls-Royce and Bentley belonged to the same company - Rolls-Royce-Bentley.
To put it simply, Rolls-Royce and Bentley have been one company since 1931.
In 1998, Rolls-Royce Bentley was in financial crisis and on the verge of bankruptcy.
So at that time, BMW and Volkswagen successively made bids to acquire the company.
The main reason is that they all hope to obtain the two luxury car brands of Rolls-Royce and Bentley to fill their product lines.
In the end, Volkswagen outbid and won the Rolls-Royce-Bentley.
But the matter did not end here. Although the acquisition of Rolls-Royce-Bentley was completed, Volkswagen found that they did not have the power to produce Rolls-Royce cars at all.
why?
Because many key components of Rolls-Royce-Bentley at that time came from BMW - including the source of their engines, Rolls-Royce Aircraft Engines, in which BMW also held a stake.
BMW threatens Volkswagen to stop supplying engines, air conditioners and other key components to Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph and Bentley Arnage.
Volkswagen knows very well that they cannot assemble Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars without these components from BMW.
It will take Volkswagen another 4 to 5 years to develop new models.
In the end, BMW agreed to continue supplying parts to Rolls-Royce, while Volkswagen could only produce Rolls-Royce until 2002, after which BMW would build a new base to produce Rolls-Royce.
BMW paid 40 million pounds for the Rolls-Royce brand, while Volkswagen paid 640 million pounds for the Bentley brand and the Rolls-Royce-Bentley plant and Cosworth engine plant in Crewe, England.
Barron's has sent the CEO of Caesars Fund to the United States to negotiate with Ford to acquire their previously acquired British car brands including Aston Martin, Jaguar and Land Rover.
If given the opportunity, he would naturally hope to buy Rolls-Royce and Bentley, the two top British luxury car brands, from BMW and Volkswagen.
But now it seems that this possibility is very low.
Because unlike Ford, which has already sunk and suffered serious losses, BMW and Volkswagen will not easily give up the two top luxury car brands they own, and the subsequent development of these two brands is not bad.
Not to mention Rolls-Royce and Bentley, I’m afraid it’s not that easy to acquire Mini from BMW.
Therefore, after visiting the BMW headquarters, Barron left there with Fan Bingbing without raising any topic of acquisition.
Next, Barron went with Fan Bingbing to watch the opening ceremony of the World Cup and subsequent games.
Long before the World Cup, the second Devonshire Hotel in continental Europe opened in Munich.
This time Barron and Fan Bingbing stayed in the Duke's Suite of the Devonshire Hotel (Munich) - also because of the World Cup, even luxury hotels like the Devonshire Hotel were almost Full.
It can be said that during this period, the focus of the world has been on the World Cup in Germany.
However, neither Barron nor Fan Bingbing are suitable to be captured by cameras.
Otherwise, it will definitely become the headlines of various newspapers...
Therefore, whether it is the opening ceremony, the opening game, or subsequent games, they will watch them in a special VIP box.
The opening match is between the host Germany team and the Costa Rica team, which was in the same group as the Chinese national football team in the last World Cup.
The final result of the game also showed that there was no weak team in the same group as the Chinese National Football Team.
Although the German team won the game 4-2, facing the relatively strong German team this time (eventually ranked third), the Costa Rica team still tenaciously scored two goals.
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"Your Highness the Duke, Mr. Phelan O'Neill has sent the information of the fund company he chose to your email, as well as the information of some traders you asked him to investigate..."
"Okay, I know."
After Wang Wanting left, Barron walked into the study room of the suite and turned on the computer.
