Xiao Ran was determined to help Redstone. He needed an ally, and Redstone was a good choice. This was something he decided beforehand. For this reason, he even asked the headquarters to raise 10 billion through loans and other means.
US dollars.
In this situation, which was all complicated by the appearance of Phantom, Wei Dongling called angrily because of this fundraising. Phantom was almost in financial difficulties. If it weren't for the help of the Bank of China, which loaned 4 billion US dollars at a very fast speed.
, I am afraid that Phantom, which has been short of funds due to frequent acquisitions, will not be able to come up with this huge figure.
Xiao Ran wanted to swear to ensure that there would be no problem, so Wei Dongling let Xiao Ran go. Xiao Ran asked Huang Ling to call Pylock and Han Long, and then he picked up the phone in the room and called home. The person who answered the phone
It was my mother. She showed joy when she heard Xiao Ran's voice: "Son, how are you doing in the United States now? Don't do anything to disgrace Qingxia!"
Xiao Ran smiled bitterly. With the current situation in Hollywood, he couldn't do anything he wanted to do. After a few words of assurance, his mother went to call Lin Qingxia: "Husband, what's the matter? The children are about to go to bed!"
"It's okay, I'm just a little nervous!" Xiao Ran took a deep breath. This acquisition has finally reached the limit of Phantom, which has expanded too much. If it fails, the only option is to quickly sell Hathaway's shares.
Anyway, those shares have already earned Phantom hundreds of millions of dollars. If sold, Phantom can earn more than ten times the investment.
Among the stocks controlled by Phantom, the company's stock is the one that Xiao Ran values the least. After all, Buffett is doing financial investment, which is different from Xiao Ran's purpose. Financial investment is too imaginary, and he might lose money that day.
The details may not be known yet. Therefore, Xiao Ran has always been very cautious in this regard.
"What's wrong? What happened to you? Why are you so nervous?" Lin Qingxia immediately forgot everything except her concern for her husband.
"It's nothing. This time I want to initiate an acquisition, which will be very helpful for the development of Phantom." Xiao Ran sighed. Sometimes he really didn't want to expand through such frequent acquisitions or mergers, but he didn't have enough time to do so.
This is the only way to manage: "It is just because of this that Phantom has a shortage of funds, so I am afraid that if the acquisition fails, we will suffer a lot of losses! If there is a chain effect by then!"
Lin Qingxia thought carefully and immediately smiled: "Don't lie to me, Tianxia Fund has developed into a large fund of 30 billion, what is there to be afraid of? When the time comes, they can be allowed to raise funds, and the momentum is not controlled.
The two Russian oil companies, those are very valuable!"
Xiao Ran was stunned for a moment and scratched his head in embarrassment. He didn't expect Lin Qingxia to think of all this so quickly: "No, it's mainly because I'm a little nervous, which will be difficult to explain for a while. In short, if this acquisition is
If we succeed, then we can be considered as making our first footprints in Hollywood!"
"I can't help you, so I will cheer for you from Hong Kong. If it fails, the worst possible outcome is to withdraw. Phantom is also the largest entertainment media company in Asia!" Lin Qingxia didn't know whether she was angry or funny. Her husband had gone through so much.
Feng Yu, I didn’t expect that I am still nervous about an acquisition case now.
Go back? Does it make sense? Xiao Ran shook his head slightly. It's not that he can't tolerate failure, but he can't tolerate failure at this best time. If he can successfully complete the acquisition at this time, he can save billions like Sony.
Lost money.
But at this moment, he didn't know why, but he thought of the two children, and smiled softly: "The children haven't rested yet, I want to talk to them!"
"Xiao Qing played like crazy during the day and has rested now, but little Ling'er hasn't rested yet." Lin Qingxia motioned to the wet nurse to bring little Ling'er over, and then she hugged the child and said to Xiao Ran: "Here, what do you want?
say what?"
"Little Ling'er, how are you? Do you miss daddy?" Xiao Ran was filled with tenderness at this moment, as if he had seen Xiao Ling'er with his own eyes. Listening to the hoarse whine coming from the microphone, Xiao Ran lost his voice.
Yixiao: "Take her to rest quickly, and you should rest early too!"
After hanging up the phone, he washed his face in the bathroom, looked at the still slightly dark skin in the mirror, the same mustache, and the piercing eyes. He stayed silent for a moment, and then
He came to the sofa and sat down, waiting for the arrival of the two of them.
This acquisition is not something that cannot be afforded, but if it is lost, it will lose the opportunity for Phantom to rapidly expand in North America. Maybe there will be opportunities in the future, but it will definitely cost more energy than today. Acquisition is not the ultimate goal, but
It's a process, and the alliance with Redstone is the purpose. As for Columbia, Xiao Ran doesn't even want to deal with it. With those two idiots around, there must be nothing they can do. It's enough to arrange Universal to give those two idiots a little sweetness.
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Pylock and Han Long arrived almost at once. Seeing that they were all here, Xiao Ran stood up and walked around for a while, announcing the reason why they came so late: "I want to buy Blockbuster."
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Both of them were shocked at the same time, especially Han Long. Han Long obviously knew that the company had just experienced frequent acquisitions, and it would definitely be risky to acquire Blockbuster now. Although he had only been in the United States for three days, but
Having already been familiar with the U.S. market, he also knew very well that Blockbuster is the world's largest video chain store, and it would definitely not be easy to complete the acquisition. He didn't even know whether it could pass the official U.S. hurdle.
Pylock was even more secretly frightened. After learning that Phantom acquired Universal, he immediately investigated Phantom's information. The results of the investigation shocked him. Phantom controlled Power Group, and several major subsidiaries of Power Group
The company controls Nokia, which has outstanding achievements in mobile phones, as well as two Russian oil companies, as well as electronics and telecommunications companies acquired in the United States.
Because Phantom has strong control and is not short of money for development, the equity control of its subsidiaries is very strict. Except for the equity distributed to employees and senior executives, it is basically controlled by Phantom. Perhaps it is better to say that
The control is in Xiao Ran's hands.
It is actually a great thing to have such a huge entertainment media empire as a new owner. However, Pylock also knows that Phantom has made too many acquisitions recently. He never expected that Xiao Ran would just complete the acquisition of Universal.
Take risks before launching an acquisition.
Of course, both Pylock and Han Long knew that Phantom was definitely qualified to launch such an acquisition. Even if it suffered a loss, it would not harm the Phantom empire at all. At most, it would be a short-term shortage of funds. But Bank of China is already raising money for Phantom at any time.
The capital crisis has passed, and the Tianxia Fund is secretly preparing to prevent Phantom from being attacked. Even Wei Dongling is preparing to slowly sell Hathaway to get cash to tide over the crisis.
However, they still don't quite understand why Xiao Ran did this. They all understand what kind of wealth Blockbuster would be if it were controlled by Phantom. But they don't understand why Xiao Ran is so anxious!
Why is there such a rush? Xiao Ran knows very well that Redstone's acquisition of Paramount is currently in a stalemate stage due to attacks from friends and rivals. Historically, Redstone's way of breaking the deadlock was to buy Blockbuster.
, after raising debt and increasing the purchase price of Paramount, the acquisition was completed.
Therefore, Xiao Ran had to take this risk. As long as he could buy Blockbuster first and then provide financing to Redstone to obtain Paramount's equity, Paramount would definitely be a heavyweight ally by then.
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In fact, these 10 billion are far from threatening the Phantom Empire. If you can kill two birds with one stone, why not do it. Besides, Xiao Ran is absolutely unwilling to miss this turbulent period. During this period, in addition to Disney and Warner, the Seven Kingdoms
There have been changes of ownership or other problems, so this is definitely a rare opportunity.
"I will spend 10 billion US dollars to Universal, and you will complete this acquisition!" Xiao Ran finally stopped walking and stared at the two of them: "Tomorrow, I will propose a goodwill acquisition to Blockbuster, and the purchase price will be 88.
Billion dollars. Han Long, you are responsible for this acquisition, and Pylock, you assist him in completing this acquisition, and use your personal connections to lobby for official approval of the acquisition!"
Han Long quickly understood what Xiao Ran meant, but Pylock had some doubts: "So will Universal's rectification and reorganization have to stop because of this? This is not a wonderful thing!"
"The reorganization can be left to your assistant for the time being. I want..." Xiao Ran's eyes gradually became deep and powerful: "I want this acquisition to be completed within ten days and the contract to be signed!"
After the two left, Xiao Ran gave Ge Wenqiu a call. Don't think that Ge Wenqiu has made little achievements in the United States in the past few years. He has invested in about a dozen films and made a total profit of more than 200 million US dollars. Moreover, Ge Wenqiu's most important
The result is that, with the full support of the head office, he has gained very good connections in the upper class society in the United States.
And this is what Xiao Ran wants to take advantage of. He needs the official approval of this acquisition by the United States. In recent years, most of Phantom's acquisitions in the United States have been successful due to Ge Wenqiu's hard lobbying. Is this time an exception?
Heroes emerge from troubled times. Whether Xiao Ran can achieve the expected results in the current chaos of Hollywood is still unknown. At least he is working hard...
On the fourth day that Xiao Ran came to the United States, he was enjoying the program of Disney's ABC TV network in his room, which is a news channel. Finally, the news he had been waiting for came. The famous reporter on TV was on the TV.
Holding a microphone that looked like a grenade with a wooden handle, Han Long's figure was behind her.
This woman didn't look very pretty, and she didn't know how she could be famous. However, at least what she said now was what Xiao Ran liked to hear: "The Phantom Group from the East has just completed the acquisition of Universal Pictures, and only a few days later
, Universal proposed an acquisition to Blockbuster this morning, with a purchase price of US$8.8 billion..."
This unfinished deal obviously alarmed many people. Many reporters tried to interview Xiao Ran. Even fools knew that Universal would definitely not be able to come up with the money. The boss behind the scenes was of course the Phantom Group, which had just taken over Universal. And Xiao Ran
At the Beverly Hills Hotel, it would be really stupid if the reporter didn't know how to come and ask questions.
However, Xiao Ran asked Huang Ling to refuse all interviews, at least he thought it was not suitable to be interviewed today. The reporters quickly looked up the background of Phantom, and then noticed the acquisitions that Phantom had made in the past four years.
There are so many cases of mergers and acquisitions that they believe that "Phantom Group is like a hungry shark, constantly looking for targets to annex."
On the third day after the announcement, Xiao Ran believed that the time had come and accepted the program invitation from CNN (I don’t understand how American TV talk shows are made, so don’t laugh when you make mistakes).
After the famous female program host Lai Wei said hello to the audience, she introduced loudly: "Look what guests we have invited this time. This is Mr. Xiao Ranxiao, the chairman of the board of directors of Phantom Group from the East. Let's come together.
Welcome him!"
Xiao Ran was not very used to this kind of program, but he just followed the Romans. Since Americans like this program, he would choose a program that the other party likes. So, he smiled and said to the huge audience and the camera:
"Good evening, American audience. I'm very honored to be here!"
At this moment, Xiao Ran glanced around and saw several banners forming a sentence - "Chinese people, get out of Hollywood, it belongs to the Americans!"
After a pause, countless thoughts went through his mind, wondering if it was arranged by Warner, or was it the vent of some dissatisfied local people? Before Lai Wei could get ahead of him, Xiao Ran still said with a very cold smile: "Miss Lai Wei
, have you seen it? I think it’s a very funny thing.”
Could it be that Lai Wei didn't see the truth? She was just quite used to such things, so she could just pretend not to see it. Seeing Xiao Ran asking like this, she could only turn her eyes away and said with a smile: "Why does that make you feel so bad?"
It’s very funny, I think everyone would like to know more about it!”
"Anyone who is familiar with American history knows that this place did not originally belong to the so-called Americans. According to this theory, I think..." Xiao Ran smiled lightly: "I think the local indigenous people can also call on the U.S. government and all outsiders to get out.
What do you think about leaving this land? Miss Lai Wei!"
Lai Wei forced a smile, thinking that this was really difficult to deal with, and immediately glanced at the staff next to her, then cleverly changed the subject, and hoped that Xiao Ran would not get entangled in it: "Mr. Xiao, you know that sometimes I often
Being told to get out of CNN is something we always have to get used to!"