Reborn in Hong Kong as a Tycoon

Chapter 370 Acquisition of Marvel

Since before Christmas, companies in the United States have almost started to have a holiday, which is similar to the Spring Festival in Huaguo.

Of course, although it is said to be a holiday, it does not mean that all employees take a break and the company closes. According to different companies and the requirements of the company, some companies just take turns to take a break.

For example, in the toy stores of Starlight Company, around Christmas is the best time for business. How can they have a holiday? The company allows all employees to work during this time in the form of overtime.

Of course, you would say that Americans don’t work overtime, but with trade unions, it is impossible for companies to force employees to work overtime.

The facts are indeed true, but there are policies and countermeasures.Companies often do not force employees to work overtime, but lure employees with high salaries. At the same time, employees who do not want to work overtime will find temporary workers to replace them.

When the time comes to officially start work after the year, employees who did not work overtime before will find that their jobs have been taken up by temporary workers, and the company will not fire these employees, because there is a contract, and the dismissed employees will have to pay a fee.

Companies often do this, which is to let these employees do nothing for the time being, and receive half or one-third of their salary every month, and many people do not have enough money to survive the company. Able to resign on their own and find another job.

After so many years, capital has long thought of ways to deal with employees.Of course, the capital did not dare to go too far, because if the employees unite with the help of the guild, once there is trouble, the capital will lose the most in the end.

After all, once a large number of employees go on strike, it will inevitably cause a lot of losses.What's more, once things get serious and the media and the White House start to intervene, it will not be so easy to calm things down.

After Christmas, Lin Baicheng took Haruko Mori to other cities to play because several companies stopped working. At the same time, he went to the Starlight Toy Store in the city to observe how the clerks were doing.

After Christmas, another thing that made Lin Baicheng happy happened, that is, the international gold price started to rise again, and after rising above 230 US dollars per ounce, it began to fluctuate sideways.

The international gold price rose, and the increase was not small. Naturally, the stock price of Hutchison Whampoa also rose a wave, breaking through the price of 60 Hong Kong dollars again, but it did not rush to 65 Hong Kong dollars, let alone the previous high of 70 Hong Kong dollars.

The stock price of Hutchison Whampoa once again exceeded 60 Hong Kong dollars, and the shares of Hutchison Whampoa held by offshore companies can naturally be sold slowly to withdraw funds.

On New Year's Day, Lin Baicheng and Mori Haruko returned to Los Angeles.

This day is actually the statutory New Year's Day in the United States, but Americans don't pay much attention to the New Year's Eve, and there is no New Year's atmosphere at all, and its excitement is simply incomparable with Christmas.

Relatively speaking, Americans pay more attention to religious holidays such as Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving.

Americans themselves don't pay much attention to the New Year, and Lin Baicheng doesn't pay much attention to it. When he returned to Los Angeles on New Year's Day, he and Haruko Mori didn't go anywhere, and they didn't specially celebrate the holidays. They just stayed in the villa.

On the second day after New Year's Day, many companies officially started to go to work today, and the companies under Lin Baicheng's name, except Starlight Company, all started to go to work officially.

As for Xingguang Company, because they didn't have much rest in the past, starting from tomorrow, they will arrange for employees to take vacations. After the festival, the flow of people has begun to drop, and it is time to compensate the employees.

That night, Lin Baicheng and Goldman Sachs' Wade Thomas met at the villa.During the day, Wade Thomas said that he wanted to talk to Lin Baicheng about Marvel Comics, and the two made an appointment to meet at Lin Baicheng's villa in the evening.

In the study, apart from Lin Baicheng and Wade Thomas, Haruko Mori was also there, and Lin Baicheng did not avoid her.

"Alan, Marvel Comics is now in the hands of Cadance Industries, which bought Marvel Comics from Martin Goodman, the founder of Marvel Comics, in 1968 for $1500 million. Comics, this is the first time that Marvel Comics has changed ownership."

"Comics is not the main business of Cadance Industries. The reason why Cadance Industries acquired Marvel Comics was because the prospects of the comics industry at that time were very attractive. In 67, the month of Marvel Comics The circulation was 600 million copies, and the domestic population at that time was about 2 million people. This circulation represented that about 3% of Americans read Marvel comics every month. Marvel at that time had become a IP cash cow, such a cash cow was of course seen by the market, and was finally acquired by Cadance Industries from the founder.”

"However, as I told you that day, after the end of the 60s, under the impact of color TV, the comic industry began to decline. Although the overall market value of Marvel Comics has increased a lot compared to the original, it has not given Card Sri Lanka Industries brings expected huge returns."

"Therefore, although Goldman Sachs has not contacted Cadance Industries, as far as we judge, as long as there is a sufficient premium, Cadance Industries will definitely not mind selling Marvel Comics."

"Thomas, you mean, I can buy Marvel Comics, right?"

Hearing what Wade Thomas said, Lin Baicheng asked the most critical point. If it can't be acquired, it's meaningless to say more.

"Yes!"

Wade Thomas nodded and said: "Although Marvel Comics is quite famous, its profitability is average and it is not considered a big company. As long as Alan and you reach a deal with Cadance Industries, and then spend a lot of money on public relations lobbying, it will definitely Get you through the acquisition of Marvel Comics.”

Lin Baicheng nodded, and asked aloud: "So, what is the valuation of Marvel Comics now? How much will it cost me to acquire this company, and how much will it cost for public relations and lobbying?"

Wade Thomas listened and said: "Alan, this requires Goldman Sachs to conduct an in-depth investigation before we can give you a rough valuation, and without confirming whether you have entrusted Goldman Sachs to acquire Marvel Comics, we are not It would be a waste of resources to investigate this company."

"Okay, come back at around ten o'clock tomorrow morning. Then I will ask someone to draw up a contract and officially entrust you Goldman Sachs to help me acquire Marvel Comics."

Lin Baicheng immediately said that although it would cost tens of millions of dollars to acquire Marvel Comics, and after the acquisition, it is impossible to think that this company will make a lot of money for Lin Baicheng in the short term, but the sooner this company is acquired, the better. In the future, this company will give He brings huge returns.

"Okay, no problem."

This is a performance for Wade Thomas, and he has no reason to refuse.

(End of this chapter)