Vol 5 Chapter 55: fruitful

Seeing this news, there were still very few people who were annoyed like Liu Jizhong. The next morning, this news made many people very excited. Our classmate Xiao Feng, it is not enough for our company to be listed in the United States. Acquired a US listed company!

Various paper media are naturally scrambling to report this news. Even newspapers such as the Finance and Economics Daily, which has a prudent intention and style, have become such a headline party today. "A Chinese company successfully acquired a well-known American listed company for the first time." .

What kind of titles such as the top ten, the top ten, and the common people like this one.

Therefore, after reading this news, many people did not care about the subject of this acquisition. In fact, it was a company registered in the United States, and they did not care about this well-known American listed company. As long as we know one thing, we are awesome, and we can also buy listed companies in the United States!

The employees of the Jiasheng Group can be said to be the first to know about this. At this time, there was a sense of rushing to tell the news. This news was displayed on the electronic screens of all its hotels, convenience stores, and specialty stores.

If we make a statistics, the enthusiasm of all employees today will increase by at least 10 points, and the collective sense of honor of all employees will always increase by 10 points from today.

Of course, not all people are optimistic about this matter. In other words, some experts just want to rely on their own unique perspectives to make a difference. In the evening, on the Internet and in the newspapers, there are already some experts who are not optimistic about Jiasheng’s. Talk about an acquisition.

To be fairer, or to say the same as not to say, is generally the view, "Acquisition is easy to integrate,"

This is actually an objective fact. Most domestic companies started late in internationalization, are not familiar with the foreign business environment, are not used to foreign business operations, and many seemingly good mergers and acquisitions ended in failure, let alone, The company that Jiasheng acquired this time seems to have little relevance to its main business. It is even more difficult to integrate organically.

This is not bad. Those who are purely trying to get out of their positions write directly, "A fast and brilliant company is about to decline."

"Compared with Europe and the United States, our domestic companies have never had a long average life expectancy. It now appears that Jiasheng, the most well-known private enterprise in China, may also be the same. This Jiasheng, which has set many records, will likely be better than It rises rapidly and declines faster,"

"We admit that all the projects that Jiasheng previously operated in China were very successful. However, an excellent entrepreneur may not be an equally good keeper."

"Perhaps he was dazzled by the previous victory. The decision makers of Jiasheng are also very casual now. It is said that this acquisition was made by him temporarily while on vacation in Seattle."

"We are certainly hard to guess the thoughts of the richest man. However, many of my colleagues and I have checked a lot of relevant information, but I still wonder how the acquisition of such a coin company will add to his main business? "

"We should not be the only ones who disagree. We noticed that after the news of the SEC's approval of the acquisition today, the share price of the acquired company, Coin Star, fell sharply. As of press time, it has fallen nearly 10 percentage points,"

"Ten points. This should be a very clear response from the market and investors to this merger."

"We also noticed that the other two companies of Jiasheng listed on the Nasdaq, dragged down by this news, the stock prices that have already risen also tend to enter the downward channel,"

"Internationalization is the only way for many outstanding domestic companies in the future. There have also been some unsuccessful examples. Many companies that have developed well in the country have ambitiously internationalized. As a result, internationalization has not If it succeeds, it has been implicated in the main business of the country. According to the current trend, one more example will probably be added."

"Combined with previous reports, we can infer that this acquisition is one of our four major banks providing financial support. Here, I also want to remind state-owned banks that also aspire to internationalization. Confused, such a major decision should pay more attention to various investigation and analysis reports."

"Otherwise, many seemingly good opportunities are actually more likely to be traps,"

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In Shanghai, Fang Yingzhi took a fax from the Administration Department, "Mr. Jin, these are the media who want to interview you."

"Oh, it's quite a lot," Jin Ling took a look at it, "Let's let it go, let the administrative department publish the announcement according to the previously planned content,"

"President Jin, have you read some media reports?"

"I didn't look very much," Jin Ling shook his head.

"Some of them are too much, I think we need to refute, otherwise, those reports will have a very bad effect,"

"What bad influence?" Jin Ling smiled lightly. "The three companies are all companies listed in the United States. The false domestic reports and our refusal will not have any effect on American investors. "

"Besides, don't you know Yiping? He has always believed in doing more than words. Don't worry, there will be good news coming out in the United States soon."

Seeing Fang Yingzhi's still unconcealed worry, Jin Ling shook her head, "Don't you also think that Yiping was a temporary intention and decided to buy Coin Star?"

"Huh?" Fang Yingzhi was taken aback, she really thought something like this. After hearing Jin Ling say this, she immediately shook her head, "No,"

Thinking about Feng Yiping's previous style of doing things again, the next shook his head was very firm, "Of course not."

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Feng Yiping is so busy now that he has no time to bother about these disturbances from the outside world. The day before the news was officially announced, he led the team to Seattle. On the morning of the news, he was greeted by Merbach. Enter the coin star.

He only paused in front of the office building, thinking that this building and all the tangible and intangible assets in it belonged to him, and he was really in a good mood.

"Old Mo, I looked at the plan in detail and did a great job,"

"This is the result of several drafts." Merbach seems to be under pressure recently. He is a little haggard and his voice is a little hoarse, but his mental state is quite good. "The last one must be the most convincing. A portion of,"

"Thank you, Lao Mo for your hard work,"

"Hello Feng, this is George from the Public Relations Department," a handsome middle-aged man in a suit snatched out from behind Merbach. "Do you need me to summon everyone, you give a speech?"

Mike, who came with me, wanted to cover his eyes. This guy is afraid that he is the same as himself at the beginning. A small boss from China will like this tune, but this is his own opinion, or he has listened to the company. Suggestions from Asian employees?

"I didn't see it necessary," Feng Yiping glanced at him, then looked at his watch, "Old Mo, inform all the chiefs of the company that there will be a meeting in ten minutes."

"Okay," Merbach told his assistant, "I will take you to your office."

In less than ten minutes, all the chiefs of Coin Star were all concentrated in the conference room. No one would be too stupid to want to give the new boss a look at this time.

Although it was not the first time they had contact with Feng Yiping, it was just different from the time they met before. Their identities had changed a lot, so they were a little bit nervous.

It's not easy to find such a decent, high-paying job.

"Hello everyone," Feng Yiping, accompanied by Merbach, walked into the office with a smile at 9:30.

"Hello Feng," the chiefs took turns to shake hands with him warmly.

"Thank you, everyone, please sit down," Feng Yiping sat down at the end, and forced Merbach to hold him beside him, "I, and the few who came this time, are all familiar with each other, so I won't introduce them one by one."

"I am very happy to have the opportunity to work with you, and hope that you will continue to support the company and continue to support our CEO Merbach."

"I noticed the stock price. I must first say sorry to you, but please also believe that as long as we implement the following plan, our stock price will rise accordingly, and the stocks held by you will definitely appreciate substantially. "

If calculated at the current stock price, he paid nearly 500 million for the acquisition, which has now shrunk by nearly 10%. With the addition of Yijia and Auto.com, his net worth has shrunk by nearly 300 million US dollars today.

Of course, there is nothing like this, he believes the stock price will rise soon.

He doesn’t worry that someone will take advantage of the low price to absorb, and that doesn’t matter. Although his apparent shareholding is less than 20%, he adds the holdings of two institutions under his control, Jiasheng Investment and Leading Capital. Those two companies both hold more than 50% of their shares. A while ago, due to the impact of the acquisition motion, when the stock price fell, they also bought back a lot. Therefore, no one can absorb shares in the secondary market. Obtain control of the company.

"So, I don't say much. Next, I announce that the coin exchange program is officially launched. Everyone, come on, I am waiting for your good news."

One by one the executives immediately stood up, just like the generals of De Ling, and walked out with high spirits, "Feng, I won't accompany you either, Starbucks, I have already scheduled a meeting," Merbach said.

"Please Lao Mo," Feng Yiping shook his hand and shook it vigorously a few times.

They analyzed that Starbucks should be the easiest object to reach a cooperation agreement.

"I will definitely come back with the intention of successful cooperation," Merbach is also very confident.

"If you need to contact me at any time," Feng Yiping, as the top person in charge of the company, is not suitable to be on the front line. Moreover, it is enough to talk about cooperation as the CEO of Merbach.

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The Starbucks headquarters, the one that received Merbuck, is still Drucker, the vice president who received Feng Yiping last time. "Welcome to Merbuck, Howard is waiting for you."

Howard is naturally the founder and helm of Starbucks, Howard Schultz.

Well, this is also a hairline that is very far behind, the eye bags are not small, and the nose is not small and tall. In the same city, it is not the first time he and Merbach have contacted. "Congratulations Merbach," he is big. Step by step, he took Merbach into the office, "Come today, it's not your new boss, you want to buy us," he said with a smile.

Merbuck also laughed, “I’m really not sure if he will do this in the future, but if he has such an intention, it’s normal, because Starbucks is such an outstanding company.”

"Haha, please sit down," Howard laughed. "It seems that Mr. Feng does have something extraordinary. You agree with him. Drucker also thinks that he is a very good young man. I really want to see him. ,"

"Have a chance," Merbach took out two documents. "This is a plan he put forward. After reading it, you will understand the gap between me and him."

"Oh," Howard took it, "It's about us?"

"It's good for Starbucks and Coin Star,"

This is not an agreement, but just a plan, which details the benefits that Starbucks and CoinStar can bring after the cooperation. As for the specific costs, that is the next stage of the problem.

Howard read it first, "Is this his opinion?"

"Yes," Merbach nodded, "We have been thinking of ways to attract more users to use our services, but we have not been able to find a reasonable way. His plan is perfect."

"This idea is good, but how many additional customers can this bring us?" Howard asked.

"On average, we conduct more than 15 million transactions each year. This is mainly because many users are unwilling to pay handling fees. If we can achieve a coin-for-card program, they will no longer pay handling fees. A conservative estimate is that every year There will definitely be more than 20 million transactions. In this total of 20 million transactions, how many will choose to redeem Starbucks consumer cards? Howard do you think?"

This is the biggest dilemma that Feng Yiping is currently facing. Many people prefer to put the coins in the box at home instead of paying the nearly 10% handling fee ~www.wuxiaspot.com~. plan.

That is, the handling fee can be completely reduced. The premise is that you exchange the coins into shopping cards or shopping vouchers of cooperative merchants on the coin exchange machine, and then the merchants return the commission to Coin Star in proportion-this is the coin exchange program .

This method was very common later, but now, Feng Yiping is the first.

"I think it's good," said Drucker, who had just read the plan. "If this option is introduced, at least my house will not have a lot of coins in the future."

"Howard, Drucker, for the sake of safety, if Starbucks agrees, I would like to launch this service first in three places, Seattle, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. We can agree on a quarterly pilot period, discover and Solve the problems that may exist in the implementation, and at the same time, you can also see the effect intuitively."

"I think this kind of investment should be more effective than advertising in other media, what do you think?"

"At the same time, I think that cooperating with a company like NEXTDOOR, which has a large number of home users, will be beneficial to the future development of Starbucks."

"You should also understand that Feng is also very influential in China. They have many convenience stores and hotels, and they also have the opportunity to cooperate with Starbucks...,"

Merbach was still talking about the reasons one by one, Howard had already stretched out his hand, "Then we will try!"

There is really no hesitation in this.

Howard knows the minds of consumers and exchanges troublesome coins with equivalent Starbucks coupons for free. Such a service will definitely be very attractive.

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In the new office pretending to watch the scenery, Feng Yiping was still a little nervous and expectant, and soon received the desired call, "Feng, the first battle is won!" (To be continued.)