The richest man

Chapter 228 Crazy Acquisition
"Alibaba is coming to buy our Zhonghua Toothpaste!" The young assistant replied excitedly. "Alibaba?" Kang Junai asked suspiciously, "What kind of company is this company?"

At this time, General Manager Xiang Jiafu said, "Alibaba is a large group under the name of Zhang Jun, the world's richest man. , Mannings Pharmacy, Master Kong, Coca-Cola, KFC, etc..."

Kang Junai was dumbfounded when he heard this.

Even though he is ignorant, he has heard of the names of these subsidiaries.

"Ah~ Alibaba is so powerful!" Kang Junai exclaimed in surprise.

"Yes! The most important thing is that the boss of Alibaba is Zhang Jun. He is Chinese. Let's sell Zhonghua toothpaste to him. In the end, Zhonghua toothpaste is still a national brand!!!" Xiang Jiafu said with a relaxed face Many, what he is most worried about is selling Zhonghua Toothpaste to Unilever, and then Unilever hides Zhonghua Toothpaste. This kind of thing is not without precedent.Alibaba is different. As a retail giant, it just needs a toothpaste brand.

When Kang Junai heard the words, he couldn't help but nodded in agreement: "That's good, that's good!"

Xiang Jiafu looked at the young assistant at this moment and asked, "Are the people from Alibaba here?"

"I didn't come, but I called. They said that they would send someone over to negotiate at noon tomorrow."

"Well, I see, you should inform the news immediately to boost the morale of the employees, and then do a good job of welcoming tomorrow!" Xiang Jiafu ordered.

"Okay, General Manager!"

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The next day.

A group of teams in suits and leather shoes came to Zhonghua Toothpaste Company.

At the gate, Xiang Jiafu, Kang Junai, and a city government leader led a group of people to greet them warmly, and hung a banner: "Warmly welcome Alibaba to come and inspect!"

The two sides exchanged simple greetings.

Xiang Jiafu and others first led the Alibaba team to visit the factory and introduced the history of Chinese toothpaste in detail.

After more than an hour, everyone sat down at the negotiating table.

"Mr. Liu, are you still satisfied with our Zhonghua Toothpaste?" Xiang Jiafu looked at Liu Jianqun, the person in charge of Alibaba, and asked.

Liu Jianqun smiled and nodded: "It's quite satisfactory. Zhonghua toothpaste is an old brand. The reason why it can't compete with foreign toothpaste brands is that consumers are more obsessed with foreigners and think that foreign products are the best; secondly, Zhonghua toothpaste itself. There are problems with management; in the end, the production technology and equipment of the factory are relatively backward. This has also led to the decline of Zhonghua Toothpaste! But..."

Speaking of this, Liu Jianqun smiled and said lightly, "We Alibaba can solve these problems. What our company values ​​is the Zhonghua Toothpaste brand, and we don't want the long-established national brand to die out. Alright, let's go straight to The topic, let’s talk about the acquisition conditions straight to the point. Alibaba is willing to acquire all the assets of Zhonghua Toothpaste for 1 million yuan, and at the same time assume the debts of Zhonghua Toothpaste, and guarantee that it will not lay off workers casually and protect the interests of most workers. However, If there are those who steal and play tricks, they must be kicked out of the company."

Xiang Jiafu, Kang Junai and Qiong Xingjin, the leader of the city government, were all overjoyed when they heard the words.

"I didn't expect Alibaba to offer such good acquisition conditions, much better than Unilever!"

"Yeah, Unilever is only willing to spend 6000 million RMB, and it's not willing to take on the company's debts!"

"The main purpose of Unilever's acquisition of Zhonghua toothpaste is to kill our Zhonghai toothpaste brand, and the other is to let our factory manufacture their brand toothpaste!" Kang Junai said through gritted teeth, very unhappy.Zhonghua Toothpaste Factory does not produce Zhonghua Toothpaste. Once time passes, this brand will become obsolete. Unilever has sinister intentions.

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Xiang Jiafu, Kang Junai and Qiong Xingjin discussed in a low voice, and finally agreed to Alibaba's acquisition plan.

"Mr. Liu, we finally negotiated and agreed to sell Zhonghua Toothpaste to Alibaba!" Xiang Jiafu said.

Liu Jianqun smiled and was not surprised.

He had already inquired clearly about Unilever's acquisition conditions, so he offered a price that both the top and bottom of China Toothpaste Company and the local government could hardly refuse, thus realizing the purpose of lightning acquisition.

On the contrary, the longer the delay, the more troublesome.

Unilever will definitely compete with Alibaba and increase the acquisition conditions. After some competition, the final acquisition price may exceed the current one.

Zhonghua Toothpaste, like other state-owned enterprises, is seriously underestimated.Normally, a well-known national brand like Zhonghua Toothpaste is worth hundreds of millions to say the least.But now, it only needs to spend 1 million yuan to buy it.

The next morning, Liu Jianqun signed the acquisition agreement with the municipal government and the general manager of Zhonghua Toothpaste on behalf of Alibaba.

Alibaba has a very complete talent pool.

As soon as Zhonghua Toothpaste was won, it began to send personnel to take over the company, carry out reforms from top to bottom, and develop a modern enterprise management model.

The factory introduces more advanced technology and equipment. At the same time, it strengthens its independent research and development capabilities and develops better toothpaste products, so that Zhonghua Toothpaste can be reborn from the ashes!

In terms of sales, with the help of ParknShop Supermarket and Kanghui Supermarket, vigorously carry out promotional activities for Zhonghua toothpaste to increase sales and build a reputation.

In the past two weeks, Zhonghua Toothpaste has taken on a new look, the company is thriving, and smiles appeared on the faces of countless workers...

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Alibaba has many acquisition teams. When Liu Jianqun was in charge of acquiring Zhonghua Toothpaste, other acquisition teams had their own goals.

Good news came one after another. Dabao, Little Nurse, Supor Electric, Xiangxuehai Refrigerator, Nanfu Battery, Yinlu, Harbin Beer, Xuejin Beer, Shuanghui Ham, Xu Fuji, Golden Monkey Candy, Totole Essence of Chicken... were all purchased by Ali. The Baba acquisition is completed.

Instead of selling these companies to foreign countries, it is better to sell them to Zhang Jun.

Zhang Jun, the richest man in the world, is more powerful than those international companies, and he is still Chinese.

Of course, Zhang Jun has great influence, and the local government will favor him even more.

It took Alibaba about half a year to basically fulfill Zhang Jun's request.

However, each company does not say that it is over after the acquisition, but also develops them.

This is actually more difficult.

Zhang Jun spent 50 billion US dollars to develop these companies. Presumably, with the help of these funds, these national enterprises can be reborn from nirvana!

But having said that, after Alibaba acquired these companies, it produced and sold them on its own, and its profits increased greatly.Future profits are quite exciting.ParknShop Supermarket and Wellcome Supermarket also have a large number of overseas supermarkets. If products such as Zhonghua toothpaste, Shuanghui ham, and Golden Monkey candy can be exported overseas, the profits will be higher.

At this moment, countless people were shocked by Alibaba's series of handwriting, and major newspapers couldn't help discussing Zhang Jun with an Indonesian named Huang Hongnian.

"Alibaba has only acquired more than a dozen companies. Although Zhang Jun is the richest man in the world, in terms of the number of companies he has acquired, he is far from being able to compare with Huang Hongnian, the second son of Huang Yicong, the son of a wealthy Indonesian businessman! Huang Hongnian The company he founded spent 4.52 million US dollars to acquire 196 companies in just a few years, and then successively acquired more than 100 state-owned enterprises, with a total investment of more than 90 billion yuan. This was undoubtedly the first in China in the [-]s Unprecedented generosity!!!”

In a financial TV program, an expert professor said in an interview with the host, "At this time, countless state-owned enterprises are not doing well and have become a burden to the government, but Huang Hongnian has bought the state-owned enterprises together. Pack and go overseas and other places to raise funds, realize the company's profit and loss, and revitalize many enterprises immediately!"

In Hangzhou, Wayne Webb and Ma Yun were watching TV. Wayne Webb immediately felt that the professor on TV was "just bad money", trying to create momentum for Indonesia, so as to trap more state-owned enterprises.

At this time, many state-owned enterprises are looking for a way out.

Many local governments hope to get rid of this burden as soon as possible.

However, the burden of "your arsenic, my honey" has become a battlefield for Huang Hongnian, and he has made a lot of money from it.

Some time ago, Alibaba suddenly started large-scale acquisitions, which made Huang Hongnian feel a sense of crisis, and worried that Alibaba would "rob business" with him.

Therefore, Huang Hongnian spent money to invite experts and professors to build momentum for himself.

If you want to get a state-owned enterprise out of trouble, then come to me, Huang Hongnian.

However, Huang Hongnian obviously thought too much.

"Mr. Webb, this Huang Hongnian looks very powerful!" Ma Yun couldn't help sighing, it's really not easy to buy so many companies and turn many companies around.

Wayne Webb said to Ma Yun with a smile: "This Huang Hongnian is really capable. The 'capital operation' in China can be said to be the perfect interpretation of connections, capital, and operations! The children cultivated by a big family are indeed better than Many people. And his capital operation is actually very simple, for example, merge all the purchased rubber tires into the name of "China Tire Holding Company", and then issue new shares and list them on the New York Stock Exchange, using the funds raised , and then continue to acquire other companies in this industry. Merge the acquired beer company into the name of "China Beer Holdings Company", go public in Canada, and then use the money from financing to continue to acquire breweries, and finally sell them to his back Itochu consortium, and Itochu will sell it to Asahi Beer! But..."

"But what..." Ma Yun asked curiously.

"Huang Hongnian has no industrial experience, and he has no interest in it. He has acquired hundreds of companies, and has never stationed a single person. He relies on the original factory directors to continue the operation. There are only two or three financial personnel in the headquarters who conduct audit tours throughout the year. At the beginning of the acquisition, due to the liberation of the system, productivity can naturally be stimulated, and there has been a rebound in profit growth. However, with the increasing marketization of the general environment and economic atmosphere, the advantages of the system are gradually disappearing. The original industrial form is backward, the equipment is aging, and the new The old problems such as poor product development and unreasonable talent structure have been highlighted one by one. Huang Hongnian has more than enough acquisitions, weak integration, rapid entry, hesitant exit, and will definitely fall into the quagmire of specific operations in the end!!!” Wayne Webb said with great certainty.

Hearing this, Ma Yun was stunned.

Wayne Webb deserves to be the CEO of Alibaba, he is awesome, a top talent in the world.

At this time, Wayne Webb continued: "I will continue to look for and acquire companies with more potential, and fight against Huang Hongnian to grab some high-quality resources. You will be responsible for developing Alibaba's e-commerce and gain a firm foothold in China." It has become the largest e-commerce website in China. What the boss means is that Amazon and eBay focus on the European and American markets, and Alibaba focuses on the Asian market. So, Ma Yun, you have a heavy burden!"

Ma Yun looked down and said: "Mr. Webb, don't worry, I will cherish this opportunity and do my best to develop Alibaba's e-commerce."

"Well, work hard, the boss accepts it, and Alibaba E-Commerce Company will launch an equity incentive plan, that is to say, if you do well, you can become a shareholder of Alibaba E-Commerce Company in the future." Wayne Webb shot Afraid of Ma Yun's shoulders, encouraged.

Hearing Ma Yun's words, she was very excited. Alibaba is a large international group. Even its Alibaba e-commerce is not easy. The registered capital alone is as high as 5000 million U.S. dollars, which is obviously aimed at the largest e-commerce company in China. to go.If I get the shares of Alibaba e-commerce company, maybe I can become a billionaire soon! ! !

Ma Yun is full of expectations.

The "China Yellow Pages" website he founded was directly sold to Alibaba e-commerce, which developed on this basis and carried out "B2B" and "C2C" businesses at the same time.

B2B is to provide a platform for businesses to do business with each other.

The most representative C2C platform is Taobao, e-commerce between individuals.

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Ma Yun was incorporated.

After Zhang Jun heard the news, he smiled slightly.

Although the establishment of Alibaba e-commerce does not necessarily require Ma Yun to be the CEO to be successful, but Zhang Jun feels that without Ma Yun, there is always something wrong, and there is a lack of a big man in the world of pretentiousness.

Sometimes Zhang Jun can't help fantasizing that in the future, at a dinner party, Ma Yun, Ma Huateng, Liu Qiangdong, Ding Sanshi and other Internet bigwigs will all sit in a row. ".

Zhang Jun is not interested in money, but he just has some bad tastes.

Thinking about that scene, Zhang Jun was a little excited.

Zhang Jun didn't care about Huang Hongnian mentioned by Wayne Webb.

Two years later, in 1997, most people who like to play with money operations will suffer, and Huang Hongnian is no exception. In the 97 financial crisis, he suffered heavy losses, and the myth was shattered, and he was subsequently accused of being an "empty-handed white wolf".

When the crisis comes, we need to improve the layout.

Always pay attention to the dynamics of Quantum Fund, and speculate when they will do it.

Perhaps because of the butterfly effect, the timing of the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis has changed.

"However, the economic structural problems in Southeast Asia are very serious, like a gunpowder keg, it will explode at any moment, so the financial crisis will definitely erupt." Zhang Jun murmured.

(End of this chapter)