Perfection of Rebirth

Chapter 761 Opening

Time is a silent language and one of the most precious treasures of human beings. It plays a very important role in our daily life.Differences between different cultures and civilizations will inevitably lead to differences in the concept of time, which in turn affects the normal communication between people of different cultures and causes cultural conflicts.

People in different cultural backgrounds have different understandings of the concept of "punctuality".

In the United States, formal appointments must be on time, no more than 5 minutes after the scheduled time.If you are more than 10 minutes late for an appointment, you should apologize to the other party or explain why.People who know they will be late will often call first to let them know.It is considered irresponsible to be late for a formal appointment without reason.

So, in American life, there are two things that they are really careful to save: time and manpower.Americans believe that time can be arranged, saved, wasted, invaded, consumed, etc. They also charge for time because they believe that time is a precious resource and a precious commodity.

At 55:[-] in the morning, Lilith came to the hotel lobby to pick up a group of Guanghui Group.

Under the leadership of Jiang Hui, Guanghui Group has always had a strong sense of time, so no one lost the chain, and the vehicle set off on time at nine o'clock.

After a mid-forty or fifty-minute drive, the car made it to Ford.

Alan Mulally personally led a group of people downstairs to greet them.

Generally speaking, when receiving visitors, Americans do not spend too much time chatting with visitors, or going to restaurants to entertain guests to establish friendly and cooperative relations.Therefore, after a simple and courteous greeting with the guests, they will soon talk about the topic.

Alan Mulally is no exception.

After shaking hands with Jiang Hui and saying a few words, the group came to the conference room.

When they arrived at the meeting room, several people exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then sat down in their seats, ready to start negotiations.

Ford attended, in addition to CEO Alan Mulally, as well as the head of the legal department and the head of their investment department. There were more than 20 people in total, and the entire conference room was full.

As a foreshadowing, Jessick, Ford's vice president in charge of Jaguar Land Rover sales, spent about 10 minutes introducing and reviewing the results of the negotiations over the past year.

At the same time, it also explained the purpose of today's negotiations.

For Ford Motor, it suffered huge losses for two consecutive years in 2006 and 2007, with a loss of 200 billion US dollars a year. Another burden can be dropped.

With the continuous rise of oil prices, Americans who are not short of money have begun to care. The sales of suv models have declined very fast, and Ford's main models are various suvs, not to mention Jaguar Land Rover.

In this case, Mulally very much hopes to sell Jaguar Land Rover as soon as possible.

Similarly, Brilliant Motors, although it has been established for two years, and the production of prototypes of its self-developed models has begun, there is still something missing after all.

If it is possible to acquire the internationally renowned Jaguar Land Rover, it will be very beneficial in terms of management, quality control, and brand awareness.

This concubine's concubine is destined to have a result in this negotiation.

"Jiang, Jaguar Land Rover has world-class manufacturing equipment and factories, amazing production efficiency and a strong recycling system, and controls every link from procurement, production to operation. It is definitely a very valuable enterprise", Mu Larry started selling Jaguar Land Rover as soon as he came up.

No matter what the business is, the seller will brag about his own things, while the buyer will belittle things, even if he likes them very much.

"Alan, what you are talking about is the glorious past of Jaguar Land Rover. Since 2002, the global sales of Jaguar have shown a general downward trend. Now, the sales volume of a year is not as good as the sales volume of Mercedes-Benz and BMW in one month. Although the sales volume of Land Rover is overall It is rising, but it has been losing money year after year, and now it is even more mire," Jiang Hui said bluntly.

Speaking of it, I don't know whether Ford's vision is good or not.Regardless of whether it is Jaguar Land Rover or Volvo, Ford has been losing money year after year, but once it is sold, it is in the hands of other people, but it quickly makes a profit.

Presumably the bosses of Ford Motor are also very depressed.

Originally, in June 2008, Tata Motors acquired Jaguar Land Rover from Ford for US$6 billion. Judging from the market reaction at that time, this transaction was in the range of negotiation between the two parties.

In fact, at the beginning of the acquisition, both analysts and other companies were not optimistic about Tata Motors from India, thinking that it would be difficult to maintain the luxury of Jaguar Land Rover and could not make money. Ford did a good business.

However, in addition to continuing to lose 2009 million yuan in 5, Tata Motors turned around and made a profit of 16 billion U.S. dollars from the next year.

Similarly, when Geely acquired Volvo, no one was optimistic about Volvo. They all thought that Ford had found a successor and made a good deal.

What is the result?
Geely is not losing money, just look at the performance of Geely and Volvo in 2017.

"Jiang, the loss is temporary. If there is no such damn financial crisis, we would never be willing to sell it. I heard that Jaguar is a higher-end existence in your dynasty than Mercedes-Benz and BMW, and Land Rover is loved by many rich people. I have reason to believe that the development of Jaguar Land Rover in China will enter a new development climax," Mulally said.

Mulally can be regarded as empty talk, obviously according to his one Ford philosophy, all the messy non-main brands belong to the sale plan, and he has to say that he is reluctant to sell.

However, I have to say that he has a very clear view of Jaguar Land Rover's development in China.

I don't know if it was just right.

"I heard that General Motors is considering applying for a bailout from the U.S. government. As Ford is a company controlled by the Ford family, I believe you don't want to hand over control of the company to the U.S. government, right?" Jiang Hui smiled Said.

Since 1927, General Motors has been the world's largest car company for a long time. However, since 2005, General Motors has almost been losing money, even worse than Ford.

Waiting until next year, it will directly file for bankruptcy.

Of course, the current GM is still lingering, and it just keeps applying for some assistance.

However, no one would have imagined that after bankruptcy and rebirth, General Motors would become even stronger.

Among them, the Celestial Dynasty should have contributed an important force.

In such a comparison, Jiang Hui's words can be regarded as stabbing a knife in Mulally's heart.

(End of this chapter)