giants of the era

Chapter 484 Acquisition of Tesla

On the morning of December 12, this meteorite was in the hands of Li Zetian.

Li Zetian ordered people to take the meteorite away, and while building a meteorite pendant, he ordered a team of experts to test the composition of the meteorite to see if it was harmful to the human body.

Meteorites, after all, are still foreign things, very mysterious, they may contain radiation, or they may contain elements that humans have not yet discovered. In short, it is better to be careful.However, as far as Li Zetian knows, meteorites, "extraterrestrial stones", are rare and precious, but they are generally not radioactive and harmless to the human body.

On January 2006, 1, after Li Zetian's family returned from vacation, the expert team sent Li Zetian a test report. The meteorite contained some mysterious and unknown components, but it was not radioactive and harmless to the human body.

In addition, the meteorite pendant will be made by the top craftsmen of Tiffany in the United States. In order to make it a boutique among the boutiques, it cannot be delivered in a short time.

Li Zetian nodded secretly, expressing his understanding, knowing that good things are always worth waiting for!

Two days later, Li Zetian was going to fly to Germany again.

The negotiation between BMW and Bosch has made a lot of progress. Li Zetian is here to sign the contract, and to make persistent efforts to do some big things!
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Li Zetian told Norbert Reithoff not to come to pick up the plane. Brother has always been a very low-key person.

It's a bit late today, Li Zetian didn't go directly to the BMW company, but went to the hotel to stay and rest first.

The Hilton Munich Airport Hotel is located between Terminals 1 and 2 of Munich Airport. It has a striking glass facade, and Li Zetian naturally stayed here directly.

Lying on a comfortable bed, Li Zetian suddenly discovered that it is really beneficial to buy and build hotels all over the world.Think about it, no matter which big city you go to, you have your own hotel, so you can live here comfortably and at ease!

At around 8 o'clock the next day, Li Zetian went to the headquarters of BMW after having breakfast at the hotel.

After arriving at the company, Norbert Reithof and the representatives of Bosch in Germany greeted him together.

Norbert Reithoff first introduced Li Zetian to some other parties, and after a brief exchange of pleasantries, they came to the meeting room together.

Norbert Reithoff had almost talked with the representative of Bosch in Germany. Li Zetian came here this time, basically to directly sign the contract.

BMW will acquire Germany's Bosch AG for $20 billion plus 7.5% of BMW's common stock.

In the conference room, after the two parties confirmed that the contract was correct, they formally signed it.

"Happy cooperation!"

"Happy cooperation!"

"Congratulations, Mr. Li, from now on, you are the boss of Bosch!!" The representative of Bosch smiled.

Li Zetian showed a faint smile: "The share exchange is a win-win for both of us. I believe that the future of BMW and Bosch must be extremely brilliant!!!"

"Haha, with Mr. Li's support, why should BMW and Bosch fail to succeed!!!"

"I have asked the secretary to prepare the champagne, let's have a toast!" Norbert Reitheff laughed.

"Okay! Let's have a drink!!"

Norbert Reitheff's secretary poured everyone a glass of champagne, and everyone began drinking champagne to celebrate.

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At about 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, BMW announced that BMW had successfully acquired Bosch in Germany.

As soon as the news came out, the industry was shocked.

"Damn it! I said a long time ago that after Chronos Li acquired BMW, he would definitely do something! Sure enough, look, BMW has acquired the world's largest automotive technology supplier - Germany's Bosch!!!"

"Damn, what rich people play is capital! Capital crushes, you have to obey!"

"Hey, the competition in the auto industry will become more intense in the future..."

"Whatever, the sky is falling and there is a tall man standing on top of it. The most worried person should be the Japanese Toyota Motor Corporation."

"..."

Auto companies all over the world complain about Li Zetian and are very afraid of his involvement in the auto industry.

At the same time, auto parts companies are also very dissatisfied with Li Zetian, and are very afraid because he bought Bosch in Germany.

In short, in the auto industry, competitors simply regard Li Zetian as a devil!
In this regard, Li Zetian is very helpless, no matter what business he does, it will always harm the interests of some people.

However, no matter how the outside world discusses and evaluates, Li Zetian ignores it. He still has things to do.

In fact, Bosch is not only a giant of auto parts, but also a giant of home appliances. In 1967, Germany's Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances Group jointly established "Bosch Home Appliances", with each party owning 50% of the shares.Since then, Siemens home appliances have been independently produced, sold and provided after-sales service by BSH.That is to say, in recent decades, the Siemens home appliances purchased by consumers are no longer "pure" Siemens brands, but manufactured by Bosch Home Appliances jointly invested by Bosch and Siemens!
Li Zetian knew that Siemens in his previous life completely withdrew from the home appliance market in 2014 and sold the remaining 50% of the shares in Bosch Home Appliances to Bosch.Therefore, Li Zetian was thinking that Siemens seemed to be willing to sell Siemens' home appliance business to Bosch a few years in advance...

Li Zetian had a long chat with Norbert Reitheff and Bosch CEO Franz Fehrenbach. On the evening of January 1, Franz Fehrenbach sent an email to the chairman of Siemens, stating that Bosch wanted to acquire 20% of the shares of Bosch Home Appliances held by Siemens.

Li Zetian thought that Siemens might consider it, but it turned out that the other party refused very decisively!

"It was rejected!" Li Zetian frowned into the word "Chuan".

Li Zetian may not know much about Siemens. There are two reasons why Siemens in his previous life sold home appliances. The profit margin of the big-name home appliance business is only about 2006%; second: Siemens learns from GE, sells its manufacturing business, transforms into a software and data company, and enters the industrial Internet of Things! ! !
As far as the current situation is concerned, the home appliance market is still profitable, and the industrial Internet of Things has not yet emerged. As a manufacturing giant, Siemens will naturally not give up its decades-old home appliance business!

Li Zetian thought about it, and finally stopped the idea of ​​buying Siemens' home appliance business.

It is now 2006, and the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States is about to come. At that time, GE has been busy selling its home appliance business. I am afraid that Siemens also has this idea... However, in the previous life, everyone was in danger, which one? Companies dare to buy their home appliance business?
The reason why Li Zetian wants to acquire Siemens' home appliance business this time is to develop smart home appliances. However, since the other party does not plan to sell, Li Zetian can wait a little longer.

Therefore, Li Zetian no longer paid attention to Siemens, but discussed the next step of the company's development with BMW CEO Norbert Reithoff.

"Now, Bosch has been successfully acquired by BMW, and the next step is to increase investment!"

"Okay, no problem, you invested 250 billion US dollars in BMW before, and now, BMW has very strong financial resources!!" Norbert Reitheff responded with a smile.

"By the way, Tesla Motors has already registered!" Li Zetian asked.

"Mr. Li, I was about to tell you about this!"

Norbert Reithoff smiled wryly, “When I sent someone to register Tesla Motors, I found that there was already a car company in California that registered Tesla Motors in 2003, but because the company was too It's small, and it hasn't launched a real car yet, so I haven't heard of the company..."

Li Zetian couldn't help being taken aback when he heard the words, the bosses of BMW are big bosses, do they always look down on small companies?But after thinking about it carefully, Norbert Reithoff was once the chairman and CEO of BMW, how could he have time to pay attention to small companies as far away as California, USA... I don’t know how many car companies are born every year, Are you paying attention~
In addition, affected by the butterfly effect, Elon Musk is not the Elon Musk of the previous life, and he did not invest in Tesla Motors, which led to the slow development of Tesla Motors in this life~
Compared with traditional cars, electric vehicles have less impact on the environment. Although their prospects are good, the technology is still immature. Therefore, many people are not optimistic about pure electric vehicles. Naturally, very few people dare to invest in Tesla Motors.Tesla Motors in this life did not get investment and help from Elon Musk, so it is lucky that it did not die.

Norbert Reithoff continued at this time: "However, I have sent people to acquire Tesla Motors, a company in the United States. The company has been committed to the development of electric vehicles since 2003 and has accumulated a large amount of Technology."

"No matter how tortuous the process is, it's enough to get things done, and the successful acquisition of Tesla Motors this time can be regarded as a small surprise, which can speed up the development of electric vehicles." Li Zetian paused and said with a smile: " Hehe, the combination of electric car + unmanned car should be more selling point!!!”

"Well, it is true!"

(End of this chapter)