Chapter 739 Acquisition Negotiations at the Dinner
After Long Fei became the focus of everyone, in addition to Campbell and Lisa in a complicated mood, there was another person in the crowd who also thought about Xiao Jiujiu in his heart.
This person is Powell, the president of Clarins Group. Although Clarins Group's performance is declining and no longer as glorious as before, Powell is still a person with a social status in the United States, so he was also invited to dinner today.
When Powell saw that Long Fei and Chris's family were so familiar, he couldn't help but regret not agreeing to Long Fei's acquisition. Long Fei has raised the acquisition price to US$2 billion, which is four times the current market value of Clarins, and the board of directors is members.
We have agreed to the price.
But Powell saw Long Fei and Lin Susu coming from the mainland not far away, and in the United States it was rootless Ping, so he wanted to stretch Long Fei and Lin Susu to get a higher price. But when he saw Long Fei and
After the relationship between the Chris family, he felt that his wishful thinking might be disappointed.
Chris's father is Brown, the president of Citigroup. He has a lot of energy in the United States and has Brown's help. If he does not agree to Longfei's acquisition, Longfei can easily acquire other cosmetics companies! With Lin's
The quality of cosmetics will probably be able to suppress other brands of cosmetics soon! At that time, Clarins, which has been in turmoil, may not even be able to maintain its current market share, and the company's market value will continue to shrink, and at that time, it may be worth 500 million US dollars.
No one took over!
If that happens, the board of directors can peel them off and then tear him down!
"No, I have to find an opportunity to have a good talk with Long Fei right away. Well, it's best to reach an oral agreement with him tonight and then sign a formal agreement tomorrow." Powell thought to himself.
Powell was thinking about it, and the dinner went on as usual. After Chris's mother introduced Long Fei, everyone gave the gift, Chris blows candles, everyone shared the cake, and then the dinner officially began.
This kind of banquet is actually a social banquet, and birthday is just a reason. Everyone holds wine glasses, looking for people they are willing or need to make friends with, and chats with each other. The waiter holds all kinds of fine wine on a tray, constantly shuttles through the crowd, giving the crowd a lot of money.
Those who need to add wine pour wine.
Powell was the first to come to Long Fei with a glass of wine and said enthusiastically: "Hi, Mr. Long, I'm very happy to see you here! It's really a place to meet in life."
Long Fei was also a little surprised to see Powell. He originally wanted to ask Brown to help him and promote the acquisition of Clarins. Unexpectedly, Powell came too. And looking at this guy's expression, he seemed to be happy to have a good talk with him.
.So Long Fei also smiled at Powell and said, "Hi, Mr. Powell, I am very happy to see you again. The night tonight is really charming. For this charming night, we need a drink."
"Oh, it's great, I like this night too, cheers!"
The two raised their glasses and clinked them, and then took a sip. When foreigners said to cheer, they actually meant to clink glasses, and they wouldn't really be cheering, which is very different from the cheers of China. What China values is emotion
Deep and stuffy.
After the two of them chatted about the weather, Powell gently shook the red wine in the glass and said, "Mr. Long, I think we can talk about the business between us..."
Powell was about to talk to Long Fei about the acquisition, but a guy came over to drink with Long Fei with a glass. Powell had to stop his words and wait until Long Fei socializes with the other party, but he kept cursing this in his heart to interrupt himself.
The guy who drank with Long Fei.
What made him depressed was that after this man left, there were people coming to drink with Long Fei one after another. Among these people, they even planned to work with Long Fei to create a Lin's cosmetics branch in the United States!
Powell was frightened when he listened to Long Fei's conversation with these guys. If Long Fei chose to cooperate with others, he would be in trouble! Unfortunately, it was a public dinner now, not his alone moment for Powell and Long Fei, so
Although Powell wished he could drive all these guys away from Long Fei, he could only think about it in his heart.
Powell waited for a long time before the wave of people left Long Fei, so he immediately came to Long Fei and said, "Mr. Long, I think we can talk about the transaction between us again."
When Long Fei was drinking and socializing with others, his eyes were also paying attention to Powell. Seeing that Powell looked calm on the outside but actually looked anxious on the inside, he couldn't help but feel a little funny. He said slowly: "Oh, sorry, Powell
Sir, you have rejected us. I think there is no business to negotiate between us. Let’s talk about the weather. Look at the big and round moon today, but unfortunately it is not as round as the moon in China!”
"Talk about the weather of your big head! What does it have to do with which round the moon in China and the moon in the United States?" Powell cursed in his heart and said, "Oh, no, no, I don't think our business is
It's over. We really should have a good talk, Mr. Long."
"Mr. Powell, you have seen it just now. There are many people who are willing to cooperate with our Long Group, so I don't plan to acquire Clarins Group anymore." Long Fei said.
"Long, I think you should still acquire Clarins. Clarins is a very powerful cosmetics group. We have production lines and we have skilled workers. Acquiring Clarins can give you the least investment and the fastest rebate! Four billion, four
What about a billion dollars?” Powell said.
"1.5 billion!" Long Fei said with a smile and took a sip of red wine. The wine is Lafite from 1982 and the taste is indeed very good.
Powell almost jumped up and said excitedly: "Impossible! This is impossible, our market value has reached 3 billion! It is absolutely impossible for the directors to sell the group by 1.5 billion!"
"Mr. Powell, I think we should meet honestly. The market value you mentioned is 3 billion is the market value two years ago. We conducted a survey and Clarins' market value has now shrunk to only 500 million US dollars!" Long Fei said with a smile.
"I bet, it must be something wrong with Mr. Long's intelligence. Well, we won't discuss this issue anymore. Three billion!" Powell lowered another billion.
"1.5 billion!" Long Fei did not let go.
"Okay, we'll follow your original price, two billion, how about it? One and a half billion, I can't explain to the other directors at all! They won't agree either." Powell said a little depressedly.
In fact, 2 billion is already the price in Long Fei's mind. Although Clarins' market value has shrunk to 500 million US dollars, its real value will definitely exceed 1.5 billion! As long as they have a good product, they will definitely be able to revive the dead and rebuild their glory! But
Clarins has been relying on his old capital over the years, but his innovation ability is not good, and his products continue to move to the low-end market, and finally fell into a miserable situation where even the low-end market cannot occupy it.
Therefore, after hearing Powell's price of 2 billion, Long Fei smiled slightly and said, "Okay, the deal is complete!"
Powell breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and said, "Cheers!"
Powell wanted to continue having a good talk with Long Fei, but found that Chris's father, Mr. Brown, came over with a glass of wine, so he said hello to Long Fei, and then drank another glass of wine with Brown and left.
Brown is a very capable middle-aged man with a tall figure and a slightly thin one. He has a square face, his forehead is covered with head-up patterns and golden curly hair. After a few greetings with Powell, he came to Long Fei and said with a smile.
: "Hi, Doctor Long, thank you very much for saving my daughter on the plane, and thank you very much for effectively treating my daughter's huge fibroadenoma. Traditional Chinese medicine is such a magical medical technique. I have a cup of Dr. Long."
"Nothing, I'm a doctor, this is all I should do." Long Fei raised his glass and touched Brown for a while, then said, "Mr. Brown, I want to ask you two people, one of them is Walker,
One is named Perez, I wonder if you have heard of it?"
"Walker Perez? I don't seem to have heard of these two names. What do they do? Are they very famous in the United States?" Brown asked.
"They are all in pharmaceutical business, so they should be very famous, right? By the way, they have an organization called the Gospel Organization. The Gospel Organization has a laboratory called Orphee Laboratory." Long Fei added.
"Evangelical Organization? Orphee Laboratory?" Brown frowned and thought for a moment, and said, "I have never heard of it. Can you be sure that the two of them are in Seattle?"
Long Fei shook his head and said, "No." In fact, he only knew these two names. Now he even suspected that these two names were both fake names obtained by the head of the Gospel organization in the secret website.
Brown smiled and said, "Maybe they don't live in Seattle. Or aren't they very famous? Otherwise I should know them all. Do you have any important things to ask them? Do you need me to investigate it for you?"
"They owe me a debt, and I need to take it back. Forget it, I'll check it myself. These are a bunch of very dangerous people. I don't want to cause trouble for Mr. Brown." Long Fei said.
"Okay, then good luck. If there is something in need of me, just talk." Brown and Long Fei raised their glasses and clinked again.
Brown was about to leave, but Campbell came over with a glass of wine. He had long wanted to find an opportunity to have a relationship with Brown and talk about the loan, but he had never had a chance. Now seeing Brown and Long Fei having a speculative chat, he got together.
Come over.
"Dear Mr. Brown, can I have a drink with you?" Campbell said respectfully.
"Of course, come on, man, cheers!" Brown took the initiative to touch Campbell's glass.
Campbell didn't expect Brown to be so polite to him, so he quickly made a drink, and then talked about his plan to take out a loan in a bit embarrassing manner.
"This is no problem. Who made you a friend of Dr. Long? I will notify the bank manager tomorrow and you can go and handle the business!" Brown said.
"Thank you so much for Mr. Brown," Campbell said in surprise.
"Don't thank me. If you want to thank me, thank Dr. Long. If it weren't for his and Miss Lin's sake, I wouldn't have helped you. Okay, let's talk first, I'll go over there and take a look.