Chapter 217 Seduction
The entire third floor of the Hilton Hotel was rented to the famous Bouchard restaurant in Rhode Island.
The guests were full and there was no seat at noon. After Han Xuan arrived early, the staff of the Hilton Hotel arranged two window-by-window locations to them and gave the hotel three-day executive suite rights to the original table owner. The guests of the two tables were happily accepted.
After packing the table, Allen Hassenfield happened to come here. When he saw Han Xuan, he was stunned and asked uncertainly: "Mr. Han? Quark from Marvel Comics is your grandfather?"
"Yes, hello, Mr. Hassenfield."
Han Xuan reached out and smiled and asked the waiter to send the menu, "Please feel free, the seafood in Boushael Restaurant tastes pretty good."
"…It looks much smaller than I thought." Hassenfeld handed it back, "You order first, I'll treat you today."
If a child of sixteen or seventeen years old could sit down and talk, but now Hasenfield has pushed all the work in the afternoon waiting for Guo Muzhou to arrive and talk about the copyright of Marvel Heroes. At this moment, he thought to himself as a holiday and chat with the boy first.
Understanding Hassonfield's thoughts, Han Xuan didn't mind shrugging and opened the menu, "A baked snail, what's the dessert?"
"Coffee bread, our signature here, is very good for dessert after meals," the waiter replied.
"Then let's do it."
"Fried duck breasts, no dessert, give me some soup." Hassenfield must have been here and said familiarly.
Before the food was delivered, Hasenfield was about to explain the history of Rhode Island to Han. When he accidentally learned that he was studying at Brown University, he was surprised, "Where did I graduate from? In 1981, it's not easy to go to college at such a young age."
Americans don’t like to talk about business at the dinner table, believing that alcohol will affect thinking and judgment, but it is not absolute.
After chatting for a while, Han Xuan said, "Mr. Hassenfield. When I was a child, I really liked Hasbro toys.
You know, Marvel has many heroic characters. After my grandfather bought Marvel, the original cooperation agreement between our two companies also expired.
Mattel Toys and LEGO have both come to Marvel and want to buy the peripheral copyrights of those heroes, but I think I can talk to you about it.
I asked someone to contact Hasbro some time ago and wanted to buy the movie adaptation rights of Transformer Gold Steel toys and animations. Is it still in your hands?"
Mattel Toys focuses on Barbie dolls, and is the world's number one and third largest toy companies respectively.
It wasn't lying to contact Marvel. It was just that they wanted to buy the full copyright and did not agree to share the share. The agreement was finally rejected by the boy's grandfather.
"Marvel wants it too?"
"also?"
"Yes, Director Steven Spielberg came to ask me last month if I had any ideas for selling it."
Han Xuan didn't know why Spielberg fell in love with Transformers and asked, "Did you sell him?"
Hasenfield looked at Han Xuan. It was normal for a boy to like toys. He didn't think deeply, "Not yet, he was willing to pay a price of one million US dollars. And with the current technology, it's not possible to shoot it. I didn't agree to him. Maybe the price will increase in the future."
I breathed a sigh of relief at the moment.
So far, Han Xuan believes that Hasenfield is a very easy-going person, and it also shows that he is not ambitious enough.
It should be a good thing in normal times, but at this time it gave Han Xuan a headache.
If you like money, it's best to do it. Just give him money. If you quote a high price, you may sell the shares, but he doesn't seem to care too much. Instead, he keeps talking about Hasbro's upcoming charity Children's Hospital.
Han Xuan whispered and ate some baked snails with a fork.
I recalled the details of the morning information in my mind, and didn’t introduce much about Allen Hasenfield’s personality. I think of the series of acquisitions since he took office for several years, which shows that it is not entirely a ceO. Maybe it’s true that I don’t want to talk to myself.
I occasionally talked during meal time, and it took more than twenty minutes to quietly pass.
After the waiter cleaned up the table, Han Xuan spoke tentatively: "I want to acquire part of your company's shares so that I can feel at ease to cooperate with Hasbro.
You'll finish listening to me first, Mr. Hassenfield.
Marvel Comics is under the Dimen Pictures, and soon there is a huge plan to be launched. It is expected that the initial investment will be no less than one billion US dollars to bring animation heroes to the big screen, and now it is just waiting for the special effects technology to mature.
Cartoons and comics have much weaker influence than movies. At that time, like Disney, the market size of Marvel movies' peripheral products can be imagined by your ability.
In fact, the entire copyright of the Harry Potter novel is also in my hands and has not been authorized to anyone. If you promise to accept financing, I can hand it over to Hasbro along with the entire Marvel Hero authorization.
More than 8,000 comic characters including Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, Wolverine, Daredevil, Ant-Man, Ghost Rider, etc., as well as superheroes such as Avengers, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Guardians of the Galaxy, I want to impress you enough.
If you don't agree, Marvel will release a message saying that it will soon enter the toy industry, which may be troublesome in the early stage, but it's not that I can't do it. I don't want that day."
Hassenfield shook his hand when he heard this, and then retorted: "This cannot threaten Hasbro's status, and only part of our main direction will overlap!
But I want to hear your conditions, billions of dollars are not a small amount..."
Han Xuan pointed to the sbs midday news that was being played on the TV on the wall, "SOS Group, which launched a franchise event in Chicago, is a sole proprietorship under my grandfather's name. You can find out after checking the relationship with Dimen Pictures. I will not lie to you in this regard.
Please rest assured about funds. You can list them in the contract. The Snow Mountain Investment Company under my name will receive more than one billion US dollars in cash in two months. If you are willing, I can acquire 50% of Hasbro's shares at a market value of 800 million US dollars, and the 27.6% you hold will be more valuable in the future than 77.6% now.
After this financing, I will sell Hasbro’s products in those thousands of convenience stores, and the quantity will not be too large, but Hasbro’s profit can increase by at least 30% every year.”
“That means you want an absolute controlling stake in Hasbro, right?
I cannot agree to this point. It is not my own, but the entire Hassenfield family, which is not allowed to fall into the hands of outsiders. If I put Hasbro on the market again, it will definitely be more than 800 million US dollars."
Allen Hassenfield frowned and shook his head, thinking about this in advance, but 50% was beyond his expectations.
"It's indeed more than so many listings, but the scale of Haizhibao Company has long been limited. The net profit last year was only more than 100 million, right?
It’s different from my cooperation. Its potential will be endless. You will still have fewer shares in your hands for listing financing, 50% of a billion, and 20% of a billion, and you can get 400 million US dollars in cash. It’s such a simple arithmetic problem.”
"Sorry, I have something to do in the afternoon. I'm leaving first. I'm sorry to your grandfather for me. Let's make an appointment next time."
Hassenfield stood up and took out his wallet: "Waiter! The money is here, and it's your tip for extra!"
"Think carefully, sir, you haven't given me a reply yet." Han Xuan shouted at Hasenfield's back.
Thomas's eyes never left the boy's table during dinner, and then walked over and stood beside him, "How about Jinzhan?"
"I don't know yet, have you heard it?"
Han Xuan took out the checkbook and asked the waiter for a pen to sign the name, "One hundred thousand dollars, look for the largest financial newspaper in Rhode Island, and buy them the headlines of the newspaper half a month later. Since the shares belong to the entire Hassenfield family, it depends on whether they can be united in the face of wealth."
"Why half a month?"
"Some foxes will not sell their shares to me after they know the news, so they will ask Mr. Perez's acquisition team to come from New York as soon as possible..." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!