America's Road to Wealth

Chapter 380 Oh, that's all!

As Christmas approached, New York became more and more lively in the cold wind.

Not to mention that most ordinary people are shopping and preparing for the biggest festival of the year.

I spent three months in Europe.

In a circle of traditional European fashion models, he forced his way out.

Elizabeth's garden models, who also gained great popularity in Europe, also returned to New York on December 12.

This morning, JFK International Airport in New York.

A large number of entertainment media reporters in North America received the news last night.

I know that Elizabeth models, who are the most popular in the modeling circle today, will return to New York today.

They all gathered in the departure hall of JFK International Airport today, just to take first-hand photos and first-hand news of these girls.

As one of the most famous cities in the European and American world, it is also one of the favorite cities for various entertainment superstars.

New York's Kennedy International Airport has long been used to this situation.

Even in the departure hall, there is a special area for journalists.

In this way, the reporters can try their best to interfere with the normal operation of the airport as little as possible.

In the reporter area, many reporters from major entertainment media used chatting to pass the boring waiting time.

"A lot of people!"

Jason, a special correspondent of the famous American entertainment magazine "Vanity Fair", looked at the obviously large number of reporters in the field, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Next to him came the voice of his friend, who is also regarded as a colleague and competitor, Irene, a reporter from "American Entertainment Weekly":

"Yes. It's hard to imagine that it's just a group of models that have attracted so many entertainment media. With this number and level, even if two Toms come, that's it at most."

Jason nodded, expressing his approval of Irene's statement.

As we all know, the entertainment industry in any country in the world has a similar chain of contempt.

Generally speaking, in this chain of contempt, the film circle exists at the top.

Below the movie circle is the TV circle and the music circle.These two circles despise the fashion circle at the same time.

To put it simply, movie stars are the highest, TV stars and singers are second, and models are the last.

At the lower level, it's a deadly trick.

That's the real bottom layer.

There are two main reasons for the formation of this ecological chain.

One is income and the other is fame.In the words of the Internet age, it is traffic.

In terms of income, of course it depends on the income of the top ceiling in the circle.

In the entertainment industry, the top earners are naturally those A-level movie stars.

Their income from a movie is as high as more than 2000 million US dollars before tax.

Many even have commissions, and there are no shortage of films that make $6000 to $[-] million before taxes.

This income, the most powerful TV actors, singers and models combined, can be said to be inferior.

Is Michael Jackson good enough?

Arguably the most profitable singer, the most influential pop music singer in the world.

His ability to make money is undoubtedly the number one existence in the music circle.

But there is only one singer like him in the entire music circle.

In the film circle, just in terms of income, the amount that can be compared with him is more than 10 fingers.

And MJ is a supermodel in the music industry, no matter in terms of income or influence, even Britney Spears can't compare with him.

In other words, the income of a top to extraordinary super singer is about the same as that of a normal A-level Hollywood superstar.

In terms of income, Hollywood beats the music industry.

Then there is the popularity/traffic that is most important in the entertainment industry.

A successful movie can often make most of the audience familiar with several stars.

Even one note is many years, relying on one character for many years.

Can be a singer or TV actor.If you want the audience to remember it, it is difficult to do without more than one excellent work.

In addition to these, in all aspects, the film industry represented by Hollywood ranks high in the world's entertainment ecological chain.

Even the music circle and the TV circle are like this.

Not to mention the fashion circle, which has always had a relatively small audience.

This circle has always been at the bottom of the entertainment circle, no matter which country it is.

Otherwise, Xiao Li, who has already become a trend in parallel time and space, has no way to use Victoria's Secret at that time as a candidate harem, and one by one, he will seek out supermodels.

That is because the supermodels of Victoria's Secret are eager to increase their popularity through the scandal with Xiao Lizi.

Only in this way can they become more famous, be able to charge more when accepting jobs, and even seize the opportunity to enter the film industry or something.

Otherwise, with this group of people, how could they not know Leonardo's love?

Why are you willing to be played by him?

This is because, even if they have reached the top in the fashion circle, they have become international supermodels.

But they are still at the bottom of the ecological chain of the entire entertainment industry.

If there is a chance to climb up to the upper realm, of course it will take a lot of effort.

In the past, this circle has always been like this.

But after last year, with the emergence of Elizabeth's back garden.

This kind of ecological chain looks like it is about to be broken.

It turned out that through Abel's crazy money burning, he directly sent a group of the most beautiful and sexy models in the world to most of the LSPs around the world.

Almost overnight, these supermodels suddenly surpassed many stars in the movie, TV and music circles in terms of popularity.

Let the models in Elizabeth's back garden, at least in terms of popularity, have the basis to fight against other circles.

While making Isa's angels popular overnight, it also allowed them to form a unique position in the entertainment circle.

That is, most of the time, they are already able to compete with ordinary TV, movie, and music stars in terms of popularity flow.

Too many viewers (mainly LSPs) would love to see them in newspapers, magazines, TV.

There are such objective laws.

The media naturally picked what they liked, and the level of their pursuit was also mentioned to the same level as the other three circles.

In the fashion circle, this is the existence of being out of the circle.

Jason, a reporter from "Vanity Fair", and Irene, a reporter from "Entertainment Weekly", were amazed when they discussed.

It's just to marvel at the change in status of Isa's angels in the fashion circle, or in the entertainment circle.

Just when the two reporters wanted to continue their discussion.

At around 10 am, among the reporters waiting for the flight, someone yelled.

"...Hey, they're out!!"

Jason and Irene, who were talking, quickly ran forward with their cameras.

I saw the iconic rock security staff appear near the VIP exit.

Under their umbrella, supermodels who have achieved great success in Europe.

They appeared one after another like big-name stars.

The one who walked in the front was naturally the leader of Angel Isa, with an aura of [-] meters.

Gisele Bundchen, who has been nicknamed "Queen of Models" and "Queen of Bundchen" all over the world.

Bundchen's aura is indeed strong, as soon as she appeared, she almost attracted the flashes and shutters of most reporters.

Behind is Carmen Kess, who already has the nickname "Card God".

Behind them are the young KK, Lima, and Ambrosio, all of whom are familiar faces to the media.

All of them have hot bodies and are so glamorous that they are not comparable to supermodels in other fashion circles.

The successful experience, coupled with the super popularity and traffic, also gave them a star-like aura.

This makes them more confident when facing reporters.

Under the coordination of the airport staff and the arrangement of Yisha Company.

They also went to specific venues one after another to accept interviews from reporters.

When they were interviewed for half an hour, they left JFK International Airport.

13 1th Avenue, Kings Point, New York.

Elizabeth's secret back garden, which is no longer so secret, is in the manor house.

In the glass dome swimming pool.

Abel came to the pool in swimming trunks and brought two rottweilers who had grown into big dogs.

Even if the wind is howling outside.

Glass dome swimming pool, under the blessing of high technology.

At this time, it was hot inside like summer.

It is very suitable for swimming and doing some physical and mental sports.

Abel stood by the pool, moved his body, and warmed up his lower body.

Li Xinyu was still with him a few days ago.

But I don't know if little Laura noticed something, or for other reasons.

Yesterday, Little Laura suddenly called Li Xinyu.

It was noon then.

Abel did not leave No. 65 East 138th Street at that time. After lunch, he planned to "accompany" Li Xinyu before going out.

When little Laura called.

Her best friend is doing something inappropriate with Abel.

Li Xinyu was too scared to answer the phone.

But Abel didn't allow it at all. She was forced by Abel to connect to the phone.

Then there is a story that cannot be described.

Little Laura invited Li Xinyu, a good friend, to go to Texas to spend Christmas with Little Laura.

Li Xinyu wanted to refuse, she wanted to stay with Abel.

But Abel made her accept little Laura's invitation.

The reason is that if Li Xinyu went to spend the holiday with little Laura, it would be equivalent to spending Christmas with the shrub family.

This is of great help to Li Xinyu in the Li family, and even Li Fuzhen in the Li family.

Let them speak harder when facing their family members.

In the end, without revealing anything, Li Xinyu agreed to go to Texas for the holiday.

Anyway, Abel will go back to Texas in a few days.

Early this morning, Li Xinyu had already set off for Texas.

In New York, except for Avril Lavigne and Britney Spears who are running activities.

Abel finds his women, or the mermaids in the pond, running away.

Fortunately, today, the most numerous mermaids finally came back from Europe.

The owner of the fish pond has the idea of ​​challenging his physical limit again.

At the moment by the glass dome swimming pool, he is doing warm-up exercises before launching the self-challenge.

Let's go for a swim first.

By the pool, Abel stretched out his arms and crossed them vigorously, the muscles of his whole body tensed up, and his perfect figure was undoubtedly displayed.

"Peng-"

Warm-up is over.

He plunged into the swimming pool and dived in the water like a fish
Two Rottweilers saw that their owner fell into the water and never showed up, barking and wandering around the swimming pool.

puff--

Supported by the terrifying lung capacity, after diving for several minutes, Abel came out of the water, stepped on the water, watched two Rottweilers wagging their tails and barking wildly at him, and waved at them in a funny way.

The two big dogs snorted a few times and hesitated, but finally jumped into the water one after another, and the dogs swam towards Abel.

It's just that they didn't play for long, and they all ran back to the shore.

Looking at Marvel and DreamWorks who climbed ashore and frantically flicked water droplets on their bodies by the pool, Abel couldn't help but rolled his eyes.

These two stupid dogs still don't like playing in the water very much. After swimming for a while, they stopped playing and just ran back and forth by the pool, following Abel who was swimming around.

After swimming more than a dozen times, Abel came out of the pool with his hands on the edge of the pool, turned his head to control his ears, walked to the deck chair, picked up a white bath towel to wipe clean, and wrapped it around his waist.

Let the maid standing beside her turn a little red.

Tell me about the photos.

Last year, it had already been photographed many times by entertainment reporters.

Especially at that time, he would often go to the beach, the beaches of Los Angeles and Hawaii, and left many photos of him in this regard.

After those photos were published in the newspaper.

I don't know how many male people are envious and jealous. After all, men are always prone to vanity in this regard.

I don’t know how many female people are limp or drooling after seeing the straight legs. After all, they love this one.

And these people don't even know the Isha angels who were in high spirits when they were interviewed by reporters at the airport not long ago.

Just half an hour later, they were transported by three helicopters.

Came here and appeared outside the glass dome swimming pool.

Without waiting for orders, they all smiled coquettishly and walked into the warm glass swimming pool.

Wear them outside to keep out the cold, and at the same time show their beautiful clothes, take them off all over the floor, and throw them all over the pool.

And then there's thump-thump--

The sound of the mermaids falling into the water and the splashes they made were very conspicuous in the swimming pool.

These delicate and lovely supermodels have hundreds of millions of male fans around the world.

All turned into hungry and thirsty mermaids, and killed the delicious "food" in their eyes.

On the "food" side, he helped his waist and said to himself:
It's only 25 for a dozen, and it's not like I haven't played before!
Fight for the man's honor!

So...

In the swimming pool, the story of Abel's version of "The Old Man and the Sea" suddenly appeared again.

The story lasted from about eleven o'clock in the morning until more than four o'clock in the afternoon.

There are several breaks in between.

At the end of the story, the mermaids were finally defeated.

All were caught by fishermen and pulled ashore.

Fight 25 mermaids alone and get the victorious fisherman.

It's not that he didn't pay the price, his price was that he was too tired.

After all, Ip Man only dared to say that he would hit 10, and Abel "hit" more than twice as many as Ip Man.

Gently thumping his waist, and relaxing with a self-massage, the "fisherman" in pajamas walked out of the room.

Before closing the door, Abel looked back and said with a sneer, "Oh...but that's all!"

ten minutes later.

He came to the largest living room of the manor villa, lay down on the sofa, and rarely felt physically exhausted.

Although the mermaid is good, but Tang is greedy, and that is really tiring.

But the spirit is good but not good, you can continue to deal with things.

Next to the sofa, Michael Levine was also standing.

He is the general manager of Isa Corporation and one of the presidents of Smith Media.

Usually he is the one who sends the angels of Isa to Abel.

And Alan Baker, managing director of the Smith Group, and Abel's chief advisor.

Naturally, David Jones is also indispensable, who is now almost a shadow of Abel.

Except when Abel is doing things like "catch a mermaid".

David is almost always present not far from his side.

He snapped his fingers, or called out, and the butler of the Smith family would appear.

"Hi...Michael and Allen."

Abel greeted Michael and Allen, "Good afternoon."

The two quickly responded to the boss before they started talking.

Michael Levine, as always, is in charge of this year's Elizabeth's back garden, Times Square Christmas Eve show.

It can be said that at least for now, this big show carries nearly half of the value of Isa.

Without this big show, it would be impossible for Yisha Company to grow to this level within a year.

It is visible to the naked eye that for a long time, Isha must also hold this big show.

This is a huge pressure on the company, I have to say.

Fortunately, their boss, Mr. Abel Smith, has a growing influence in the city.

With Michael Bloomberg taking office.

It almost means that at least in the next four years, Isha can continue to hold this kind of big show.

This made the prospects of Yisha Company suddenly stable and promising.

Almost at the same time that New York elected Congress this year and announced Bloomberg's victory in the election.

Elizabeth's back garden, the company's valuation in the capital market, also suddenly increased from 30 billion US dollars to 50 billion US dollars.

It has almost doubled, and it can be regarded as the company that benefits the most from Abel if Bloomberg is the mayor.

"...as of November 2001. We have 11 stores throughout North America. The number in Europe is 356. Asia is 256, Oceania is 150, Africa is 69, and South America is 10. 20 branches."

"...As of November, in the first three quarters of the year, Isha achieved a net income of US$11 million and an operating income of US$55690 million. There is no data for the previous year, because the sales had not been rolled out in the previous year."

After listening to Michael's report, Abel nodded.

He can be said to be very satisfied with the results made by Isa.

Because strictly speaking, among the various companies under him at present.

Except for the financial department, others are still losing money or burning money.

The only one that really makes money is Yisha Company, and it's not a lot of money at all. Of course he is happy.

And in fact, the hard-to-measure part of the investment brought about by his influence and connections cannot be ruled out.

Abel's investment in Isha's company is only about 3.5 million to 4 million US dollars.

Such a small investment, in exchange for an annual profit of nearly 6 million US dollars.

The valuation is a little bit short, and it can exceed a $50 billion company.

If he was in Nihong, his achievements could be called "Entrepreneurship Immortal", okay?

"Good job." Abel said with a smile:
"But after this Isa show, there shouldn't be much money in the account, right?"

Michael nodded honestly and replied:

"Yes. In order to maintain the speed of expansion, there is also the cost of Isa Show and the cost of developing the market in Europe. Most of the net income has been reinvested. After the end of Isa Show, the company's account, There will probably only be about 3000 million US dollars left, which is only enough to maintain the normal operation of the company. It will probably not be relatively abundant until the first quarter of next year."

Elizabeth's back garden has made a lot of money this year.

The biggest earners are all selling Isa underwear in chain stores, accounting for more than 99%.

Since the beginning, the reason for the foundry in China was determined.

The cost of these underwear products is very low, and the gross profit is more than 90%.

The gross profit of some products can be as high as 95%.

As for the bulk of the company's expenses, material costs and foundry costs are deducted.

Basically, it is in the store rent, transportation fee, channel fee and other miscellaneous expenses.

After deducting it, the net profit is almost over 50%, which can be said to be very profitable.

This can be regarded as a blessing for Abel's good vision.

Replace it with someone else, even a senior person in the industry.

Even with Abel's influence and financial resources, it is impossible to dare to put all the OEMs directly in Huaxia from the very beginning.

It can only be said that the European and American world in this era has too deep a stereotype of Chinese manufacturing.

As everyone knows, at least in the field of textile and clothing OEM.

Huaxia, which has gone through the era of three come and one make up, has begun to make a leap in quality.

Under relatively high OEM fees and very strict quality control.

The quality of the products produced by Yisha company is almost the same as that of the OEMs in Europe, America, or South Korea, Japan and other places, and at the same time, the price is almost several times cheaper or more than 1/2.

Let Yisha company control the cost, surpassing most of the world's well-known brands.

The cost is cheap, but the sale is not cheap.Even if it is cheap, it is compared with other similar competing products.

But once you compare the cost, it's really cheap.

So the profits are naturally very rich.

It's just that Abel is not short of money.Directly invest all the profits of Yisha Company in its crazy expansion.

The result is that Isha has made a lot of money this year, but there is not much of that money left.

Because it was all invested and spent in opening more branches.

Hundreds of millions of dollars of profits are invested.

It is also the main reason why Isha can increase its branches from 100 at the beginning of last year to 861 this year within one year.

(End of this chapter)