The richest man

Chapter 175 Buy Disney!
At this time, the American Disney Company was divided into two factions in the face of Zhang Jun's acquisition offer.

One faction supports it, and the other faction opposes it.

The members of the opposition were mainly members of the Disney family, such as Walt Disney's nephew and son-in-law: Roy Edward Disney and Ray Miller.

Once the Disney company is acquired by Zhang Jun, the Disney family will lose control of the Disney company, which they cannot tolerate.

However, the total shares held by the members of the Disney family may not exceed 15%, all relying on the support of other shareholders.

However, Zhang Jun is not an ordinary person, and the wealth myth he created can't help but make people extremely amazed.

Therefore, some shareholders of Disney very much welcome Zhang Jun's entry into Disney, which will change the decade-long sluggishness of Disney.Because only in this way can the shares in their hands be more valuable...

In terms of interests, the Disney family can no longer create greater value for shareholders.

At the Disney shareholder meeting, supporters of the two factions were even more arguing.

"The current state of the Disney company, everyone knows that since the death of Walt Disney, the Disney company has been going downhill. It is obvious that Roy Edward Disney and Ray Miller cannot lead the Disney company to glory. In my opinion, It's time for Disney to change to someone else!" A middle-aged man with a short beard said in a deep voice.

As soon as the words fell, the faces of Roy Edward Disney and Ray Miller became gloomy.

"You fart! The Disney Company was founded by the Disney family, and no one understands the Disney Company better than members of our Disney family!" Roy Edward Disney slapped the table angrily.

The short-bearded man sneered, "You know Disney? If you knew Disney, the Disney company wouldn't be what it is now!"

"you……"

"What are you, aren't you?"

The short-bearded man retorted, then glanced at the others, and said, "At present, the best way to get Disney out of the quagmire is to let Zhang Jun take over the Disney company. Just imagine, with Zhang Jun as a monster A talent like Zhang Jun will certainly be able to develop and grow the Disney company. And the shares in your hands may be diluted because of Zhang Jun's shareholding, but they are worth more! Of course, you can also take this opportunity to sell them directly and sell them at a high price !"

Many shareholders couldn't help but nod their heads when they heard the words.

……

Zhang Jun's actions were very fast, and he quickly formed a negotiating team and rushed to Disney.

Roy Edward Disney and Ray Miller were powerless to stop the demands of numerous shareholders.

Negotiations took place quickly.

At this time, Disney's market capitalization was only $[-] billion.

There may be a premium for the acquisition, but it certainly won't rise to $25 billion.

Sony bought Columbia Pictures for nearly $50 billion.But it was already 1989 at that time, and the dollar had depreciated a lot.

Of course, Zhang Jun wants to acquire Disney wholly, and plans to privatize the company after acquiring Disney, so he rushed to acquire it from the very beginning. Disney shareholders want to wait for dividends, which is impossible.

……

After the opening of Disney's acquisition negotiations, it has attracted the attention of the whole United States.

A week passed and three rounds of negotiations took place.

As long as the purchase price is relatively high, Disney shareholders can also accept it.

Disney's offer gradually dropped from a big opening of $30 billion to $23.5 billion.

The price of US$23.5 billion is still unacceptable to Zhang Jun.

The two sides are at an impasse in negotiations...

However, this acquisition is a big move, and it is inevitable that news will be leaked.

A major acquisition involving more than 20 billion US dollars is relatively rare in history, and it cannot help but attract global attention and discussion.

At the Hong Kong Jockey Club.

Many wealthy people gathered together, chatting and laughing, and they naturally talked about Zhang Jun.

Everyone looked at Shao Daheng, and Li Zhaoji, vice chairman of Sun Hung Kai Properties Co., Ltd., said: "Boss Shao, do you think Zhang Jun can buy Disney?"

The corner of Shao Daheng's mouth twitched, the acquisition of more than 20 billion US dollars, converted into Hong Kong dollars, would be more than 100 billion. Just thinking about this figure makes people feel scalp numb.

The combined market value of Shaw Brothers Film Company and TVB is not so much!

Once Zhang Jun completes this acquisition, it will have a great impact in Hong Kong, and countless big stars who want to enter Hollywood will scramble to curry favor with Legendary Film Company.

Cheng Long, the most popular actor in Hong Kong, is paid only 100 million Hong Kong dollars.

But Hollywood star, the pay is several million dollars,
"Zhang Jun is very rich. In my opinion, if the U.S. government doesn't stop it, Zhang Jun may buy Disney!" Shao Daheng nodded and said truthfully.

Hearing this, Lee Shau Kee couldn't help sighing: "More than 20 billion US dollars, I'm afraid he can easily take out the whole of Hong Kong..."

Around, Bao Yugang, Li Jiacheng, Huo Yingdong and others also sighed.

Zhang Jun is already the undisputed richest man in Hong Kong.

His wealth has far exceeded that of everyone present.

In front of him, most of the people present can only be regarded as poor people.

But at this moment, Zhang Jun frowned, Disney's quotation was too high, he was hesitating whether to agree or not!
"Cut the mess with a quick knife!"

"It's too late to change!"

"It's better to buy the Disney company as soon as possible!"

Zhang Jun immediately picked up the phone and called the person in charge of the negotiation team.

After the call was connected, Zhang Jun said: "Reduce the purchase price to 22 billion US dollars, and if the other party agrees, sign the contract immediately."

"Okay, boss!"

A new round of negotiations has begun, and Disney's major shareholders also want to facilitate this cooperation. They are afraid that the final negotiations will break down, which will cause Zhang Jun to abandon the acquisition, so after discussion, he reluctantly accepted the acquisition price of 22 billion US dollars.

At the same time, the acquisition was approved by the US Department of Commerce, and the other party did not stop it.

So on November 1976, 11, Zhang Jun came to the United States and signed the purchase contract in person.

After signing the contract.

Zhang Jun asked Disney to delist and complete privatization as soon as possible.

Zhang Jun has not yet considered whether to re-list in the future, and there is a high probability that he will not re-list, because Disney will become a cash cow in his hands, and there is no problem of lack of money.

But right now, Disney needs to reorganize and adjust Disney's development business.

Disney is very confused now, not paying attention to animation production, and ignoring the creation of IP content!
Zhang Jun held a meeting of Disney executives.

Looking at the crowd, Zhang Jun said in a deep voice: "Disney is a creative company. The founder of the company, Mr. Walt Disney, is great. I personally admire him very much. Unfortunately, since his death, Disney has begun to decline. .And the new helm of the Disney company has not carried out Mr. Walt Disney's strategic direction!"

Zhang Jun paused and laughed, then stood up and turned on the projector.

Walt's complex flowchart drawn in 1957 loomed large on the screen.

The flow chart defines the company's components and strategic direction, with movies at the center and theme parks, merchandise, music, publications and television shows surrounding it.

After Zhang Jun watched the flowchart, he said: "If Disney has been implementing Walt Disney's strategy, I think Disney should have become the largest film company in Hollywood by now." , instead of being acquired by me! Therefore, from now on, Disney must immediately reorganize its business, attach importance to the production of movies and cartoons, and put movies at the core!"

"Yes!!!" Everyone nodded in response.

Subsequently, Zhang Jun began to integrate Legendary Films and Disney.After thinking for a long time, Legendary Films was finally merged into Disney.

Legendary Films is only famous in Asia, but Disney is famous all over the world.

However, Legendary Films still retains the film distribution brand, which is dedicated to producing some legendary films, classics that can be remembered by film history.Ordinary movies are not good enough to be released in the name of legendary movies...

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Jun established the Oriental Entertainment Media Group.

Disney, Marvel, DreamWorks, Legendary Comics, Legendary Toys, Hong Kong Daily Group, Phoenix TV, and Universal Music have integrated resources with each other, and then merged into Oriental Entertainment Media Group to create a giant business empire. .

After some integration, Zhang Jun mainly has six major groups: Standard Chartered Bank, Legend Technology, Oriental Entertainment, Chinese Land, Hutchison Whampoa, and Alibaba.

Hutchison Whampoa is almost devoted to port construction.

The Mandarin Oriental Hotel was merged into China Landmark.

Master Kong Beverage and Food Company, ParknShop Supermarket, and Wellcome Supermarket have been merged into Alibaba.

In addition, there is also a "Holy Beast Financial Group"!
With Kirin Financial Group as the core, there are also four holy beast investment companies: Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku, and Xuanwu.

However, these companies named after the holy beast have not yet exerted their strength.

The business scale of Kirin Securities and Kirin Insurance is not too large.

However, it won't be long before Holy Beast Financial Group will become one of the core groups under Zhang Jun's name.

Looking at so many groups, Zhang Jun couldn't help being ambitious.

It's July 12th.

The integration work of major group companies has come to an end.

The first battle since the acquisition of Disney was to release the "Spider-Man" movie.

On Christmas Day, December 12, "Spider-Man" hits theaters.

The movie "Superman" filmed by Warner Bros. was released that day.

Both of these two films have become popular films at the moment, especially the "Spider-Man" cartoon has been broadcast on major TV stations, which has also caused the popularity of "Spider-Man" to far exceed that of "Superman".

And because the special effects of "Spider-Man" were created by Industrial Light and Magic, the special effects technology beats "Superman".

Two films are released.

The reputation of "Spider-Man" has exploded, and the audience has expressed that the film is very shocking, the application of special effects is super awesome, and the fighting scenes between Spider-Man and the villains are very enjoyable.

On the other hand, "Superman" has a poor reputation, a bloated prologue, too many story lines, and poor special effects, but overall, it is still a very good movie, if there is no comparison with "Spiderman"...

After the first day, the box office of "Spider-Man" broke through 1350 million US dollars, while "Superman" was only 824 million US dollars, occupying the first and second North American box office of the day respectively.

As soon as this data came out, the whole of Hollywood became a sensation.

"Spiderman" has achieved such a high box office. According to this trend, "Spiderman" is very likely to achieve a box office score of more than 2 million US dollars in the United States!

For a time, Marvel superheroes and DC superheroes became the targets of major Hollywood film companies.

It's a pity that when they noticed Marvel, they had already been acquired by Zhang Jun, which made many companies regret it.

"I didn't know that Marvel superhero movies were so popular. If I knew it, Columbia Pictures would have bought Marvel first!" A vice president of Columbia Pictures shook his head and sighed.

Because he himself has been a fan of Marvel since he was a child, he also noticed that Marvel was acquired at the time.It's just that he didn't expect that after the Marvel superhero was adapted into a live-action movie, it would be such a hit.

Eight days later, "Spider-Man" broke through $8 million at the U.S. box office, making it a national sensation again.

By releasing "Spider-Man", Disney not only made a lot of money, but also stabilized the company and boosted morale.

After the news reached Hong Kong, the media sensationalized, the industry was shocked, and heated discussions arose.

"Only 8 days, the box office of "Spider-Man" exceeded [-] million US dollars, damn it! I'm going crazy, the box office is so high, the global box office of this movie is probably another [-] to [-] million US dollars?! Isn't Zhang Jun Earn a lot of money again?!"

"More than that, do you know Marvel? There are hundreds of popular superheroes in Marvel, and Spider-Man is just one of them. If every superhero can get such a high box office, think about it, how profitable it is ?In addition, Spiderman toys and clothes are selling like crazy in the United States, and the income from peripheral products is higher than the box office! In short, Zhang Jun is making a lot of money!"

"Ah... just spent a huge sum of 22 billion US dollars to acquire Disney, wouldn't it be possible to earn back by making a few more Marvel movies?"

"..."

Various business leaders in Hong Kong watched the news, shocked, speechless, envious and jealous want to vomit blood.

It is so easy for others to make money, but I am exhausted, and the family business I have accumulated for decades is not comparable to a movie.

God, how unfair?

……

Zhang Jun looked at the fax sent from the United States, and couldn't help but smile slightly.

He had already watched the "Spider-Man" movie in advance, and it was very good. He was not surprised that the box office was so high.

Zhang Jun is studying a world map and developed cities around the globe.

There are two Disneyland in the United States, one in Los Angeles, California, which was built in 1955.The other is Disneyland in Orlando, Florida, USA, which was built in 1971.

The Walt Disney Company plans to build more Disneyland, and after examining the market, plans to build a third Disneyland in Tokyo.Disney is currently negotiating with the Tokyo government of Japan, and originally planned to cooperate in the form of franchising.

This so-called franchise cooperation means that Japan is authorized to use Disney Group’s trademarks, intellectual property rights and engineering-designed amusement facilities. Disney Group charges a certain royalty, which is equivalent to 7% of annual sales.At the same time, Disney can receive about 10% of ticket revenue and 5% of food, beverage and other revenue.

However, under this model, the Disney Group’s franchise fee is also limited, and most of the profits are eaten by the Tokyo government.

In addition to the franchise investment model, there is also a direct investment model. As the name suggests, it is direct investment by Disney. As long as it succeeds, the profits will naturally be huge.

There is also a joint venture model.

The original Disney company had difficulties in operating, and naturally it had no money to invest directly in Tokyo Disneyland, so it adopted the franchise model.

Right now, Zhang Jun has already bought the Disney company, so he won't engage in franchising anymore.

What's more, Zhang Jun knows that Tokyo Disneyland is the most successful Disneyland, and the key to its success lies in localization, which perfectly combines Japanese etiquette culture with Disney's happy concept in design.

And it has a famous slogan "Disney that can never be built". Every year, 1/3 of the hardware equipment is cleaned up here, and 1/3 of the new concept projects are newly built. freshness.

Zhang Jun breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that Disney hadn't signed a contract with the Tokyo government.

He took out a red pen and ticked the location of Tokyo on the map. He looked confident and smiled, then picked up the phone and dialed the office number of the new Disney CEO.After the call was connected, he gave an order to the other party: "Tokyo Disneyland will change the investment model, cancel the franchising, and adopt a direct investment model. I will invest more in this project, and you don't need to worry about funding!"

"Okay, boss, I'll notify the negotiating team right away!"

"Ok!"

Zhang Jun nodded, then hung up the phone.

He walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows and looked into the distance, thinking about investing in Tokyo Disneyland.

"Although the investment in Tokyo Disneyland is huge, the income is astonishing, and the increase in the land in Tokyo is very exaggerated. In the future, it is claimed that Tokyo real estate can buy the entire United States... Therefore, investing in Tokyo Disneyland can make a lot of money just from the land! "

"However, what I value is not the land, but the long-term benefits that can be obtained from operating Tokyo Disneyland. However, if this project is accidentally messed up, I can sell the land to make money. Anyway, I will not lose money."

"Disney has successful experience in operating parks. As long as local people are recruited to design Tokyo Disneyland locally, it is almost impossible for this project to fail!"

"If you choose direct investment, you don't have to spend your own money. You are also planning to develop commercial real estate in Hong Kong. Therefore, you can borrow money from Japanese banks. Borrow yen and pay back dollars. The yen will appreciate, while the dollar will depreciate. Who is not cheated, of course, the Bank of Japan must be cheated..."

Thinking of this, Zhang Jun showed a smirk, and decided to go to Japan himself, and inspect the Japanese branch by the way...

(End of this chapter)