game trailblazer

Chapter 339
The next day, at 10:5 p.m. on October 35th, on the fifteenth floor of the Pennsylvania Hotel...

There was joy in the luxury suite, after two weeks of waiting, today finally came the result, and everyone’s tense hearts can finally relax. Not only Maggie returned to the relaxed and happy days before, even Thomas Kalinske He also showed a relieved smile, he is really relieved now.

Just 3 minutes ago, through repeated covert operations, Camry Toys North America had acquired 17% of Hasbro's shares. With enough bargaining chips in their hands, they no longer needed to deliberately cover up their acquisition attempts. When you come down, you can directly scan the goods in the market with confidence and boldness.It's just that at this moment, there are not many selling orders to take on the market. With Hasbro's stock price stabilizing, those who have been following the trend of selling in the past two days have turned to wait and see, and now most of them are unwilling to give up easily It's the last bet.

Mai Jiajun leaned on the sofa and rubbed his temples on both sides with his hands. Although the physical exhaustion of staying indoors was not obvious, the continuous high-intensity thinking still made him look a little tired. What he wanted to do most now was to immediately Lie down and have a good sleep, but the time is not right now, so he can only close his eyes slightly, massage his head, and try to slow himself down a bit.

After finishing an important matter, Thomas Kalinske felt a lot more relaxed. He walked to the viewing window, opened the curtains and looked out. There was a beautiful tall building opposite the hotel. Going down, you can still see people coming in and out.Thomas Kalinske remembers that there is a large white cylindrical building behind this tall building. There is the 121-year-old Madison Square Garden. Below this garden is Pennsylvania Station, one of the largest train stations in the United States. The exit from the station happened to be on the first floor of the tall building he could see.

In fact, the location of the Pennsylvania Hotel is quite good. Not only is Madison Square Garden close at hand, Macy's, the largest department store, is also just one block away. You can also see the Empire State Building, one of the symbols of New York, across the street.If you are traveling, you can go to many nearby attractions on foot, but Thomas Kalinske has been here a few times before, and he has been preoccupied a few days ago, so he has no idea of ​​going around nearby. But now that he was in a good mood, seeing the ants-busy crowd downstairs and the traffic passing by, he suddenly had the idea of ​​taking a walk nearby.

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Five minutes later, at 5:[-] p.m. local time in Rhode Island, Newport Avenue in Pawtucket...

"...Mr. Vilik Char, my new idea is mainly like this. We can try to get the backlog of Star Wars toys to China. There are quite a lot of Star Wars fans there. We..."

It can be said that yesterday's seminar was not a success, and after most of the day, a truly feasible plan was not presented, so in the end, CEO Al Verikchar could only pin his hopes on the more aggressive John Frasco Mention it to him and ask him to go back and revise and perfect his proposal.This afternoon, John Frascotti, who was ready, took his revised proposal and made a special trip to the CEO's office to recommend it to Al Verikchar again. When he was talking about the key to the wonderful, the table The phone rang suddenly.

"Sorry, I took the call." Al Verikchar made an apologetic expression, then picked up the phone and put it to his ear. After a while, a serious expression appeared on his face, and he looked into the phone He ordered: "Well, I know, just keep an eye on it, I will deal with this matter right away."

Hearing what the CEO said, John Frascotti understood that most of today's promotion would not be able to go on, and a slight disappointment welled up in his heart.Sure enough, after Al Vilicchar put down the phone, he said, "Sorry, I have something to deal with right now, why don't you go back and think about it, and see if there is anything that needs to be improved."

"Okay," John Frascotti tried hard to control his emotions, kept a smile on his face, nodded and said: "Mr. Verikchar, then I will go back and study it."

After finishing speaking, John Flascoti got up and left the CEO's office. When his back disappeared, Al Virikchar showed an anxious expression on his face, picked up the phone and dialed an internal number, the phone As soon as he connected, he hurriedly said: "Alan, we are in trouble..."

Twenty minutes later, in the chairman's office, Alan Hassenfeld looked anxiously at CEO Al Verikachal and asked, "Al, how is the situation now?"

"Alan, I just received a report that someone is secretly buying Hasbro's stock. It is estimated that at least 10% to 12% of the shares have been taken away. It seems that their goal is likely to be the control of our company."

"Do you know who did it?" Alan Hasenfeld calmed down at this moment, and asked with a normal expression.

"It's not clear right now, and further investigation is needed. It's not certain that it won't be done by Mattel, and I believe the other party will jump out of it soon." CEO Al Verikchar said a little embarrassed, and was The man hit a sap, but he didn't even know who was the one who did it, so he couldn't help being embarrassed when facing the boss's question.

"Okay, I know about this matter, you continue to arrange people to investigate and find out who the other party is as soon as possible." After finishing speaking, Alan Hassenfeld sent the CEO away, and now he needs someone to think about it carefully .

The current situation is that if the other party really gets 10% to 12% of the shares, it will be very difficult to prevent the other party from joining the board of directors, so the only thing he can do now is to prevent the other party from taking the opportunity to take away the control of the company. Even the full acquisition of Hasbro.However, in order to achieve this goal, it is impossible to rely on him alone. As a listed company, the Hasenfeld family actually only owns 26.2% of the shares of Hasbro, not to mention the controlling rights, even the veto shares. Not enough, so he has to seek the support of other shareholders.

Thinking of this, Alan Hasenfeld picked up the phone on the table and dialed a number, and said with a smile: "Mr. Trim, there is something I want to discuss with you..."

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On the third day, October 10, at 6:[-] a.m. local time in Rhode Island, Newport Avenue in Pawtucket...

CEO Al Vilicchar hurried to the chairman's office and said to Alan Hassenfeld who was sitting on the sofa: "Alan, we know who is buying Hasbro's stock! "

"Oh! Who is it?" Alan Hasenfeld raised his head, looking forward to the answer from Al Verikchar's mouth.

"Just watch the TV and you'll know!" Saying that, CEO Al Vilicchar walked over and turned on the TV in the office, then adjusted the channel, and a press conference appeared on the screen the scene.

On the TV, Thomas Kalinske stood in front of the podium with a bright smile on his face. Beside him were several senior executives from Camry Toys North America. Pieces of white light were frantically shining, accompanied by "Crack" shutter sound.

"Mr. Kalinske, you just claimed that Camry Toys has acquired 17.6% of Hasbro's shares. May I ask what made you make such a decision?" After the white light flashed, a reporter stood up and raised the question in his heart. Doubt, and the other reporters at the scene probably have the same idea.

"I'm sorry, this is temporarily inconvenient to disclose because it involves commercial secrets." Thomas Kalinske replied with an apologetic smile.

The reporter sat down disappointed, and soon another reporter stood up and asked: "Mr. Kalinske, can you disclose the purpose of purchasing Hasbro's shares?"

"I'm sorry, this question involves commercial secrets, so it's not convenient to disclose it for the time being." Thomas Kalinske still had an apology on his face.

The reporters in the audience asked several questions in a row, trying to dig out more details from various aspects, but Thomas Kalinske refused to answer all of them on the grounds that they involved commercial secrets, which made all the reporters hate him. Tooth itchy.

"Don't say anything, what kind of press conference are you doing!" Many reporters muttered in their hearts.

"Mr. Kalinske, can you tell us what your next move will be after purchasing shares in Hasbro?" The last reporter who stood up to ask a question tried to make a final effort and asked a question that the other party was willing to answer.

Sure enough, this time Thomas Kalinske did not prevaricate on the grounds of commercial secrets, but replied happily: "We will exercise our rights as shareholders in the next step. The current operating conditions of Hasbro are really worrying." , we plan to convene a general meeting of shareholders to discuss countermeasures, and the specific time is scheduled to be ten working days later, that is, at 10:20 am on October 09, and the venue will be the Peninsula Hotel in New York... "

This is very breaking news. Camry Toys and Hasbro are going to fight each other, and there is a dazed Mattel next to them. Many reporters have secretly made up their minds and are going to find a way to interview Hasbro and Mattel later. They say whatever they want, and tomorrow's news headlines will have everything...

In front of the TV, Alan Hassenfeld waved his hand angrily, and now he is itching with hatred.This Thomas Kalinske was born too long, and he dared to take care of Hasbro.But the anger is the anger, and he himself understands that they want to exercise their shareholders' rights in a high-sounding manner. If Jiamei Toys is not a listed company, he has no place to fight back even if he has money now.

"Al, what do you think we should do?" Alan Hasenfeld quickly calmed down and asked CEO Al Verikchar calmly.

"Well, Alan, we don't have to worry about them. As long as we seize control of the company, we won't be afraid of their tricks."

Alan Hassenfeld nodded, and he thought the same way. As long as the company is in control, Thomas Kalinske should let him be a considerable shareholder. Anyway, there will be opportunities to wash them out in the future.Thinking of this, Alan Hassenfeld stood up and went to the desk, picked up the phone and dialed a number to go out. Yesterday he had already negotiated with Gail Trim of Van Locke United, and the other party said that he would definitely stand On his side, but this is not enough, so he also plans to contact Citibank, the company's second largest shareholder. As long as Citibank is willing to stand on his side, he will have the voting rights of more than 50% of the shares. Even if the other party does something at the shareholders' meeting, he doesn't have to worry about it.

"Mr. Anderson, this is Alan Hasenfeld... oh, you have a representative in New York... ok, ok..." Listening to the "good news" on the phone, Alan Hassenfeld A smile slowly appeared on De's face...

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On October 10, at 20:[-] a.m. local time in New York, in the conference hall of the Peninsula Hotel...

Although there are still about [-] minutes before the start of the meeting, Alan Hassenfeld has already arrived at the meeting site early. It was enough for Al Verikchar and a few representatives of the company to come over.However, he really wanted to see those guys from Jiamei Toys, he wanted to see the embarrassment of his opponents with his own eyes. When the opponents found out that they had worked hard for a long time but in the end it was in vain, he believed that the expressions on the faces of these people must be very wonderful, he was very sure .

Starting at [-]:[-], people came in one after another in the conference hall. Alan Hasenfeld also noticed that there were a few people at the door who were registering with the shareholders who were present. Hasbro did not send anyone over. Apparently these guys belonged to Camry Toys.Alan Hasenfeld curled his lips in disdain, and walked into the conference hall. When he was about to enter the door, he thought with a wicked taste: "The guys who help shareholders register on the spot will be happy if they find out , I don’t know what you will think then?”

Walking into the conference hall, Alan Hassenfeld found a seat and sat down, preparing to wait for the opening of the shareholders meeting.About 10 minutes later, there was a noise at the entrance of the conference hall. Alan Hasenfeld looked back and found that Gail Trim, the representative of Van Locke United, had arrived, and he quickly got up to greet him .

"Mr. Trim, I'm so glad to meet you!" Alan Hassenfeld was already three or four meters away from Gail Trim. One of the important bases.

Hearing someone calling himself, Gail Trim apologized to the person who was talking, turned around and looked over, and immediately put on a sincere smile on his face: "Aha, Mr. Hassenfeld, you are here today It's really early!"

Alan Hassenfeld came to Gail Trim's side. At this time, the two people who had talked with Gail Trim had turned around and left. Alan Hassenfeld curiously looked at the two people. He glanced in the direction he was leaving, and asked casually, "Mr. Trim, who were those two just now?"

"Those two guys want us to invest, but they can't even explain what they are going to do, hum!" Gail Trim snorted coldly.

Since he came here to find investment, it was very reasonable for him to talk to Gail Trim. Alan Hasenfeld did not continue to explore. After a few random gossips, he invited Gail Trim to join him Sitting down for a chat, Gail Trim seemed in a good mood and agreed right away.

When he left the entrance of the conference hall, Alan Hassenfeld blinked out again. He wanted to see if the representative of Citibank had come. He had only been on the phone these days. Mr. Anderson was very enthusiastic, but He has never seen their representatives, which made him feel a little uneasy.

Returning to his seat and sitting down, Alan Hassenfeld began to introduce Hasbro's future development plan to Gail Trim. He must win over every card in his hand now, and winning over investors is the best. The best way is to tell them how much money you can help them earn in the future.While making the introduction, Alan Hassenfeld occasionally glanced at the entrance of the conference hall once or twice, until Paul Anderson from Citibank appeared at the door, he was finally relieved completely, He felt that his control over the company was secure again, and because of this, he didn't notice the strange expression that occasionally flashed across Gail Trim's face.

(End of this chapter)