Acquiring WeWork is the easiest thing. As long as the Blackstone Group comes forward, it can be purchased for millions of dollars in up to a month, including their WeWork company registered name.
It's not that the name WeWork is that important, but they used the name WeWork to become famous in their previous life. Now it's just a matter of hundreds of thousands of dollars more, and Xiao Qi is willing to let it retain a little more of the trajectory of its previous life.
The acquisition of chipotle, a burrito company, was not that difficult.
Acquisitions like this are happening all day long in the United States. It is estimated that even Americans themselves are used to this kind of life.
As long as the Coca-Cola Company doesn't change its owner overnight, Americans basically won't meddle in these nosy matters.
What's more, there are not even 100 but 80 fast-food restaurants like Chipotle in the United States, worth two to three billion U.S. dollars. There are so many competitors that not many people can even watch Chipotle until it takes off.
It turned out to be such a precious piece of gold.
People always say how good the United States is, and how the businesses there are conscientious and will not harm their own people, but is it really like that?
We don’t need to be hypocritical. We only need to see that Chipotle has trampled McDonald’s and KFC under its feet and become one of the most popular healthy fast food restaurants in the United States. In fact, Americans are often harmed by junk food, and they also hope that they can
There are healthier foods.
This is actually the same as our roadside fried dough sticks stall, which insists on changing fresh cooking oil regularly in front of everyone every day, which will make people think that he is very conscientious and take more care of his business, except for fried dough sticks
It's just not as high-end as a burrito.
Therefore, we can also know that the secret to chipotle’s success lies in healthy eating.
Xiao Qi remembers that because Chipotle did not expect that it would develop so fast, the meat supply contract they signed with the ranch could not keep up with the consumption caused by expanding the store. For example, the stuffing of shredded pork was often sold very early.
It was empty, which made the diners complain a lot.
If I want to develop chipotle more in the future, I need to prepare in advance in the United States.
In Xiao Qi's memory, China's Shuanghui acquired Smithfield, the world's largest pork processing company in the United States, in 2013, spending more than 7 billion U.S. dollars.
Xiao Qi doesn't like such a processing factory with very simple functions, because it does not control the original source of food raw materials and is just a food processing industry.
Moreover, one of Shuanghui's major shareholders is Goldman Sachs, and Goldman Sachs is also a shareholder of Smithfield. Xiao Qi would never believe that Goldman Sachs was not behind the scenes and doing some asset transfer.
Goldman Sachs must have a purpose for doing things. It will never do things for no reason, and it will definitely not do good things.
They just have such dark hearts!
Back to the topic.
If you want to impress the founders of Chipotle and convince them to become Xiao Qi's subordinates, it is best to directly buy enough land to build your own pasture and raise enough pigs, cattle and sheep for Chipotle's use.
It doesn't matter if there are more pigs, cattle, and sheep produced. Americans still welcome high-quality meat.
Even if this is still too much, it can also be made into various processed meat products, such as bacon, sausages, canned food, etc., which can still consume a lot of meat.
Of course, such a situation is generally unlikely to occur.
Don’t think that only Chinese people like to eat meat. Americans definitely eat more meat than Chinese people. In fact, people in Europe and the United States eat a lot of meat. Chinese dishes have both meat and vegetables, while European and American people generally eat more meat than a slap in the face.
Chew the big pieces of meat directly, or use a knife and fork. This way you will definitely get more meat than eating two or three dishes.
Therefore, as long as Xiao Qi does not enclose half of the United States to raise pigs, cattle and sheep, there is no need to worry about unsalable meat.
Moreover, the U.S. economy is in such a sluggish state now, and ranches are closing down one after another. If Xiao Qi invests, they will not be happy in time.
As for the vegetable ingredient base, it doesn’t need to be that troublesome. First of all, there are hundreds of vegetable ingredients, and the seasons are different, so the quantities required are not large. If you make it yourself, it seems too cumbersome.
It is better to directly outsource it to some farmers around the Chipotle store, which can not only solve their own material problems, but also generate income for them and create a good reputation. If anything happens to Chipotle in the future, they will definitely be more nervous than Xiao Qi, because this
But it is related to their jobs!
The American farmers are the most terrifying. People all over the world already knew this during China’s anti-agricultural dumping investigation two years ago.
There are also farmers employed in the ranch. Taken together, whoever dares to touch chipotle will usher in large-scale protests by at least tens of thousands of farmers, which is something no government wants to see.
Xiao Qi is very familiar with the United States, but he does not know much about this specific agricultural and animal husbandry production.
But it doesn't matter, he knows people who know about agriculture and animal husbandry.
Taking out his mobile phone, Xiao Qi made a call.
"Wade, what are you doing?"
"Haha, Mr. Qi, I'm working in the office right now. What's the matter?" Wade, the president of Citibank's New York branch, said with a smile.
"I heard you say before that you are from California. You also worked for Citibank in California for 10 years? You were specifically responsible for agricultural loans in California?"
"Yes, my family runs a farm, so I am very familiar with the farm. After entering the bank's credit department, I started to get agricultural loans. There are too many to say. There are more than 80,000 farms in California.
Everyone in the top 1,000 has run more than once, and I know all the top 3,000!" Wade said very proudly.
In fact, it was because of his amazing memory, his ability to know every customer he dealt with, and his good relationship with them, as well as his outstanding achievements in agricultural loans, that he rose through the ranks to become the vice president of the branch in California.
Then he was transferred to the Asset Management Department of the New York Branch.
It can be said that he has a good relationship with Xiao Qi because he has always been enthusiastic about dealing with people and likes to help, so he can be appreciated by Xiao Qi and can now climb to this position.
He could even be friendly with Xiao Qi, not to mention the group of farmers in Western California. They were originally honest and rough people, and as long as they liked him, they were all friends. Wade was like a fish in water, and it was not without reason.
Xiao Qi first talked about his intention to acquire Chipotle, and then said: "So I want to buy some farms in California, dedicated to raising pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry to achieve self-sufficiency in raw materials."
Maximize, what do you think we should do?"
"This question is very simple!" Although Wade has left California to work in New York for several years, he goes home for a month's vacation every year, so he is no stranger there. "I'm going to check the number of chipotle customers every day.
Investigate the quantity of materials used, and then calculate how many livestock to buy based on consumption and how much land these livestock will occupy.
As for the more demand brought about by future growth, there is also a calculation formula. Based on this result, I will select a dozen large farms for you and merge some surrounding farms. It will be enough. There is also transportation.
There is no need to worry about the problem. The fresh slaughtering and cold chain transportation in the United States are very complete. It is common for freshly slaughtered livestock meat to be transported to various states in the United States within one day.
In fact, I think you can buy more wheat farms so that you can have the ingredients for burritos, which will be more convenient. In fact, growing organic wheat is also very simple, as long as you are willing to spend money, you can do it.
!And those rich people and young people who want to eat healthily will definitely support it enthusiastically."
Hearing what he said in such an orderly manner, Xiao Qi nodded secretly: "In that case, if I leave this matter to you, can you guarantee that it will be completed?"
"It must be completed properly!" Wade said seriously, but the next moment he smiled playfully, "But you see, the Chinese have a saying called 'One thing does not bother two people', which means you don't need two people to do the same thing.
, since we, Citibank, have helped solve the upstream raw materials, can we also entrust Citibank to do the acquisition of Chipotle?"
"All right!"
Xiao Qi readily agreed.
He understood Wade's thoughts. In fact, when he called Wade to talk about the farm, he had already decided to hand over the acquisition task to Citibank instead of Blackstone Group, which he had previously considered.
Regardless of the fact that the acquisition of Chipotle is only a matter of more than 4 billion U.S. dollars, Citibank will only receive a commission of about 300 million U.S. dollars at most.
But when it comes to an acquisition worth more than 4 billion US dollars, it is not a trivial matter in the United States. The fact that Citibank can participate in it proves that they have strong capabilities in the eyes of their customers.
Besides, it was Xiao Qi who acquired Chipotle. Citibank helped Xiao Qi acquire the company and acquire so many farms. This tells others that they have a good relationship with Xiao Qi.
Since even the world’s richest man trusts Citibank and entrusts us to do business, you ordinary people, why are you hesitating? Come to Citibank to do business! (To be continued.)