Chapter 245 Microsoft wants to acquire Blue Star Games?

Bai Xiaolu also found several interesting details when visiting Pangdonglai Life Plaza. Xingmin YOUNG style billiards club was invested by her boyfriend’s uncle Zheng Xingmin, and the Magnolia Women’s Beauty Club was invested by her boyfriend’s mother and aunt.

Everyone also visited Pangdonglai Supermarket and found that the details of Pangdonglai Supermarket are indeed different. Each cashier or weighing clerk is equipped with a stool of moderate height and the clerk does not have to stand for a day.

As for weighing seafood, it is normal for supermarkets to filter out the moisture first and then weigh it. The price tags of fresh food in supermarkets are larger than other supermarkets. The elderly carts in supermarkets are also equipped with magnifying glasses, and children also have their own exclusive carts.

After Bai Xiaolu experienced the service of Pangdonglai, she found it very interesting. "No wonder people from other counties came here to shop specially. Pangdonglai implemented the spirit of serving customers in every detail, but she didn't know if they could persist for a long time."

"With Pangdonglai Supermarket in Yushan Town, there is no soil for other supermarkets to survive. The square's cleaners' salary is 2,200 a month, and there are still a few hundred yuan bonus per month, and they can get more than 40,000 yuan a year. You ask Hongyu, how much is the monthly salary of sanitation workers now? After the square opened, many people wanted to work in Pangdonglai. As long as they cherish the current job, the service quality will not be worse." Zheng Wentong said.

Pangdonglai is nothing more than two things: one is to ensure the quality of the product, and the other is meticulous service, just like Haidilao, which has just entered the first-tier city. It is easy for the catering industry to imitate Haidilao, but it is not easy for large supermarkets to imitate Pangdonglai. After all, not every boss can have the courage to give benefits to employees.

When they learned that the boss came to inspect, the supermarket manager came to receive Zheng Wentong and others. At this time, a sharp-eyed person recognized Wang Zhongxun. When they saw Wang Zhongxun standing beside Zheng Wentong and talking about things, they immediately recognized Zheng Wentong.

Everyone greeted Zheng Wentong enthusiastically in dialect, and Zheng Wentong waved his hand politely. Someone was preparing to hand over the cigarette to Zheng Wentong, and Zheng Wentong politely refused, clasping his fists and signaling, "No smoking now, thank you. The supermarket requires no smoking indoors. Please cooperate with the supermarket work. Thank you very much."

Some customers used photos of Zheng Wentong and Bai Xiaolu, and some people used their mobile phone to record videos. When the bodyguard asked Zheng Wentong whether to communicate with the guests, Zheng Wentong stopped him. Wang Zhongxun knew that there was no way to continue visiting today, so everyone left Pangdonglai Life Plaza together.

Zhou Hongyu asked Bai Xiaolu, "Did you encounter similar situations when filming outdoors? You are surrounded by everyone, crowded with people?"

Bai Xiaolu replied, "I'm fine. Compared to me, Wentong has a better reputation. When he won the Top Ten Economic Person of the Year Award, didn't the Yamen City Government Affairs Network send a congratulatory letter?"

Zhou Hongyu said: "This is not the most funny thing. When my dad went to the city for a meeting, the city leaders congratulated my dad, and my dad was stunned. However, my parents didn't expect that Wentong would actually make the company bigger and bigger now. They said that at least three or four companies under Xili Investment could go public. I had dinner outside several times and heard them discussing who Wentong or Wang Zhi is the richest man in Zhongchu Province."

"You should know Wang Zhi, right?" Zhou Hongyu asked Bai Xiaolu.

"I know, I am elected as the top ten economic figures of the year with Wen Tong, the owner of Zhuoer Football Club. Wang Zhi invited Wen Tong to return to Jiang Chu to invest, and wanted to jointly build a football club with Wen Tong, but Wen Tong refused." Bai Xiaolu said.

When Zhou Hongyu and Bai Xiaolu were chatting, Zheng Wentong had already begun to think about the source of funds for the acquisition of Zhongchu Machinery Group and Zhongchu Bearings.

Currently, the revenue sources of the slope system are mainly divided into three major parts: Blue Star Game, WeChat Xinke and Weimeng Media, and other companies are relatively small in size. According to Zheng Wentong's estimate, the combined annual income of these three companies in 2017 is about 10 billion yuan.

If the slope system wants to raise enough funds to complete the acquisition, it is still somewhat ineffective to rely on the slope system's own funds. Zheng Wentong plans to sell part of the equity of Blue Star Games and then lend a part of the money from financial institutions.

In addition to the gaming giants that have been in contact with Blue Star Games, Microsoft is very interested in acquiring Blue Star Games. They are willing to acquire Blue Star Games as a whole, offering Blue Star Games a quotation of $4 billion.

Among them, the Chinese server version of "Peace Elite" and the mobile game version of "Peace Elite" will continue to be handed over to Netyi Games for operation. This acquisition only involves Blue Star Game's overseas game business and does not involve the mainland market.

Microsoft's current CEO Satya Nadella is a powerful character. Indian-born executives have gradually dominated Silicon Valley. After he replaced Steve Powell as Microsoft's CEO, he focused on Microsoft's development on Office365 and cloud computing business, and completed several heavyweight acquisitions. Microsoft's market value later exceeded 2 trillion US dollars, competing with Apple for the highest-capital technology company.

Microsoft's acquisition of Blue Star Games is indeed a good business. After Blue Star Games was merged into Microsoft's game division, it would be helpful to promote Microsoft's Xbox console business. Secondly, Blue Star Games' revenue will also be merged into Microsoft's financial statements, which is also the growth point of the company's business. Microsoft later acquired Activision Blizzard, one of the world's largest game companies, for a sky-high price of 68.7 billion US dollars.

Zheng Wentong has now proposed two plans for Microsoft. Slide Investment first sells 25% of its equity to Microsoft, and Bluestar Games' company is valued at US$4 billion. Another plan is that Microsoft directly invests 6 billion US dollars, and Slide Investment and Tonglu Investment Fund sell all 100% of its equity to Microsoft at one time.

Of course, Microsoft tends to acquire Blue Star Games as a whole. "PUBG:Mobile" has always ranked first in the game category of App Stores in many countries, and its revenue ranking is even better.

If Microsoft buys 25% of the shares of Blue Star Games for US$1 billion, if the game "PUBG" becomes more popular around the world and its revenue hits a new high in the next two or three years, Microsoft will be able to buy the remaining 75% of the shares at a higher price, and the overall purchase price of US$6 billion exceeds Microsoft's psychological expectations.

Before "PUBG: Mobile" was launched, external investment institutions valued Blue Star Games at US$3 billion. Now the monthly revenue of "PUBG: Mobile" and "Peace Elite" mobile games after the merger in January has exceeded US$50 million. From this perspective, it is not outrageous that Zheng Wentong offered a price of US$6 billion for Blue Star Games.

Bluestar Games is now starting to guide the Middle East market and develop a customized mobile game "Revenge of the Sudan" for the rich people from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and other countries.

"Revenge of the Sudan" is actually an early web game in China, but the game's character and plot have been extremely localized. In order to respect local cultural customs, Blue Star Games hired historical and cultural experts in the Middle East as game consultants.

The content of this game is set in the Arab world in the 14th century. Not only does the shape and scenery fully conform to the Arab characteristics, but the character design is also beautiful. The man can refuse to compete for the world in the game and have the temptation of power and beauty. This game has dominated the list of many countries in the Middle East once it was launched, easily achieving monthly flow of more than 5 million US dollars.

Blue Star Games has begun to prepare for the 2017 PGC Global Finals. Principal Wang has begun to form the "PUBG" IG team. After the PGC Global Finals in November, it will attract more gamers to participate in the game "PUBG".

It is only February 2017. Zheng Wentong remembers that Lin Xiangwei completed the acquisition of Zhongchu Bearings in January 2018. There is still plenty of time left for Zheng Wentong.

Zheng Wentong hopes that Microsoft can accept an overall offer of 6 billion US dollars, so that the slope will not require financing through financial institutions in the next three years. Among them, the 1.5 billion US dollars of Tonglu Investment Fund will be left in overseas accounts.

If Microsoft intends to acquire 25% of the shares first, Zheng Wentong will transfer the 25% stake held by Tonglu Investment Fund to Microsoft at one time, so that Tonglu Investment Fund will also have US$1 billion in overseas assets.

After the slope investment and sale of Blue Star Games, the overseas revenue of the slope system can only be counted on Tik Tok, the ace app. However, it will take at least 3 to 4 years to become a short video app that is popular all over the world.

While Zheng Wentong was thinking about the problem, he found that Zhou Hongyu brought them to Zheng Xingjian's Huawei mobile phone store. Zheng Wentong was confused, so he said, "Aren't you going home? Why did you come to the store suddenly?"

Zhou Hongyu brought Bai Xiaolu to the poster of Honor 8 in the store. Bai Xiaolu on the poster is more beautiful than a real person, but Bai Xiaolu, who is bare-faced, is also very good-looking.

The clerks in the mobile phone store also recognized Bai Xiaolu because Zhou Yuling introduced Bai Xiaolu's spokesperson identity more than once in the store. When the clerk made a photo request, Bai Xiaolu agreed happily.

Bai Xiaolu stood in front of her poster and finished a photo with the clerk. After soliciting Bai Xiaolu's opinions, the clerk posted the photo on WeChat, with the caption: "This should be the most comprehensive Huawei mobile phone store in the country, right?"

Among the Zhou family's cousins, Zheng Wentong, Zhou Hongyu and Yang Jianbin have the best relationship. Since Bai Xiaolu doesn't mind, Zheng Wentong did not stop Zhou Hongyu from making fun of it. Zhou Hongyu first took a photo with Bai Xiaolu's poster, then took a photo with Bai Xiaolu, and then posted it on WeChat Moments, "Our Xiaolu is definitely the most dedicated mobile phone spokesperson. Huawei can consider our Xiaolu to increase the endorsement fee."

Zhou Hongyu originally wanted to ask about Yang Jianwu's wife Yang Hui, but Zheng Wentong obviously didn't want to talk about this matter and signaled Zhou Hongyu to end the topic. Zhou Hongyu stuck out his tongue and dared not mention it again.

"You are cousins, you should understand Wentong's character. He has always been willing to help relatives, but he has a bottom line and a sense of responsibility. At this time, Yang Hui is the wisest thing to stay at Weimeng Media honestly. If she is hot-headed and encourages Jianwu to leave and go to other companies, her path will only become narrower and narrower." Bai Xiaolu grasped her boyfriend's thoughts and told Zhou Hongyu that she also hoped that Zhou Hongyu would persuade Yang Jianwu.

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