Chapter 609 The first step
For Yoichi Takeda, last year was really an unlucky year.
The GT animation production company of which he is the president originally planned to expand its business last year and increase its profits by 30%.
But things went against expectations, and the company failed to produce several animations in succession.
In fact, even the animation production companies of many works understand that they will not make much money when produced. Rubbish animations have always been criticized, but they still exist, and there must be a reason for their existence.
The most important point is that there are indeed so many novice two-dimensional readers who like these works. It seems that the reason why novice readers continue to be novices over the years is definitely not because novice readers will continue to be novices, but because there are so many people every year.
Graduating from kindergarten, entering elementary school, and then learning to read and read is all.
Judging from the situation in previous years, although the several works of GT Animation Company last year could not make a huge profit, they could at least make a small profit, which was enough for him to buy an additional small property in Tokyo, Japan, a place where land is very expensive.
It's a pity that the company's internal employees were dissatisfied with their salaries, changes in market trends, the proliferation of animation works of the same type as their company's, and his tendency to gamble. All these factors combined to cause the company to suffer huge losses last year.
It was delayed until September this year. Although I reluctantly produced two animations in an attempt to reverse the situation of operating losses, how could the works produced by the employees working with resentment be good? It is not an excellent animation in itself, and the production is terrible, even if
I'm a noob at 2D, and I also call their company's works "irritating." One of the animations was rated third in Shimamoto's annual garbage animation rankings in Japan.
In itself, it was just an ordinary animation company in the Tokyo area, but it suffered losses one after another, which made the company in trouble, and the whole company was in disarray from top to bottom.
So Takeda Yang thought about it one by one and thought about retreating.
Although the GT animation company he founded is average in scale, it generally has some talents. Although the company has never produced any hit animations and made a lot of money, overall it does not owe a lot to the bank.
Butt debt.
If you want to quit now, you can pack up the company and sell it, including equipment, personnel, etc., for at least 30 million. Takeda Yoichi thinks there is no problem.
If it drags on and produces one or two loss-making animations one after another, the company's finances will be ruined, all the people under it will run away, and the company will become a shell company. It will be difficult to sell it after all. After all, they are all in their sixties.
As a 20-year-old man, instead of using money to continue working hard, he feels that it would be more attractive to him to just use money to retire.
So after having this idea, he not only entrusted a specialized agency to help him find someone willing to take over, but also asked his friends in the industry to help him spread the news to those who were "powerful" and optimistic.
Animation industry, people who want to get involved.
But two months passed without a single buyer, which made him panic. After all, the people under his command had to pay their salaries as usual. If the time went on, the losses would be huge.
And today, when he was sighing about this matter, his friend in the industry, the owner of a company that specializes in animation outsourcing, Junpei Obata, brought him good news. Someone seemed to be interested in his company.
At the agreed time, Takeda Yoichi saw the so-called buyer when he arrived in a private room of a high-end hotel.
A boy in his twenties had a handsome appearance. Although he felt vaguely familiar, the old man thought about it carefully and really didn't think of anything.
Moreover, this young man was accompanied by two stunning-looking women, a sharp-eyed man in his thirties, and a large group of professional business people sitting next to him. They were probably asset appraisers hired by the other party, holding various documents.
equipment, computers and files, constantly reporting information to the young man in the middle.
Takeda Yoichi was very confused after eating this meal.
He communicated with the young man for a full two hours, and the other party didn't even frown at his offer of 60 million dragon country coins.
Takeda Yoichi knew in his heart that the other party was obviously not bluffing. This young man really didn't take these tens of millions seriously.
Could it be that he is a big fat sheep? The kind of rich second generation who doesn’t know anything came into the trap to mess around?
The young man is naturally Chu Yu. Since he doesn’t understand, he should hire a professional team to carry out the acquisition business. Anyway, he only needs to make a decision after understanding whether these companies meet his conditions.
For one week, Chu Yu led a large number of people to meet with five owners of animation companies who were interested in selling their own animation companies.
However, it is obvious that all three companies were rejected. The copyrights of some of the past works are quite valuable. If Chu Yu wants to acquire them, he will definitely have to spend a lot of money.
He had no use for those things, and he didn't like them, so he naturally didn't consider them. As for GT Animation Production Company and Dongzheng Animation Production Company, two small companies came into Chu Yu's eyes.
They are all small companies with less than a hundred employees. They all started out as outsourcing companies and then failed due to poor management.
Although both of them are small, they have a complete industrial chain. From project establishment to distribution, online, and profitability, the companies have people who are familiar with the business, and even if some departments do not, some non-core businesses are in Tokyo.
It is not easy to find an outsourcing company.
As long as the acquisition is made, some bloated connections are laid off, and some capable people are hired, the ruthless small animation production factory will be able to start up in no time.
However, for these two companies, it is obvious that Chu Yu will definitely not be willing to be taken advantage of if the lion's price is too high.
But time is money. In order to save time, Chu Yu doesn't mind spending a little more money to go out. After all, he is in Japan every month, and the income from his past works will not be less than tens of millions. It is a waste of too much time on this, and the gain outweighs the loss.
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So in less than a week, through connections and various means, the boss of GT Company, Takeda Yoichi, found out the psychological limits of the boss of the rival company Tosho Animation Company, and offered a price of one million lower, thirty-three hundred
For a price of RMB 10,000, she had tears in her eyes but was actually happy inside. After selling the company she had nurtured for more than 20 years to Chu Yu,
A month after Chu Yu came to Japan Island in mid-September, he changed from a well-known cartoonist in the Dragon Kingdom and the boss of a well-known animation studio to the boss of this small animation company that had been established for more than 20 years.
Then Chu Yu's goal became obvious.
He has procrastination in life, but he is impatient at work.
Chapter completed!