Age of Dreams

Acquiring WeWork is the easiest thing, just look for the Blackstone Group to come forward, at most a month, several million dollars can be bought, including their WeWork company registration name.

It's not to say how important the name WeWork is. It's just that they used the name WeWork to become famous in the past life. Now it is only a matter of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Xiao Qi is also willing to let it retain a little more of the track of the past life.

The acquisition of Chipotle, a burrito company, is not so difficult.

Acquisitions like this in the United States happen all day long, and it is estimated that even Americans themselves are used to this kind of life.

As long as it does not wake up, the Coca-Cola Company will change its owners. Basically, Americans will not take care of these nosy matters.

What's more, there are not a hundred and eighty fast food restaurants like Chipotle in the United States, which is worth two or three billion dollars. There are so many competitors. Before Chipotle is completely rushing, not many people can watch it. It is such a precious piece of gold.

Others always say that the United States is so good and the businesses there are conscientious and will not cheat their own people, but is that really the case?

Let’s not talk about the illusions. Just watch Chipotle step on McDonald’s and KFC together and become one of the most popular healthy fast food restaurants in the United States. We know that Americans are often harmed by junk food. They also hope to There are healthier foods.

This is actually the same as our roadside deep-fried dough sticks stall, which insists on changing fresh cooking oil every day in front of everyone. It will make the people feel that he is very conscientious and take care of his business a lot. It's just fried dough sticks. No burrito is as tall as it is.

Therefore, we can also know that, in fact, the secret of Chipotle's success lies in healthy eating.

Xiao Qi remembered that because Chipotle hadn't anticipated such rapid development, the meat supply contract they signed with the ranch could not keep up with the consumption caused by expanding the store. For example, pork shredded stuffing was often sold very early. It's gone, and the diners are very complaining.

In the future, if I want to develop Chipotle a lot, I also need to prepare in advance in the United States.

In Xiao Qi's memory, China's Shuanghui acquired Smithfield, the world's largest pork processing company, in 2013, at a cost of more than 7 billion U.S. dollars.

For such a processing factory with simple functions, Xiao Qi does not like it very much, because it does not control the original source of food raw materials, only the food processing industry.

Moreover, a major shareholder of Shuanghui is still Goldman Sachs, and Goldman Sachs is also a shareholder of Smithfield. If there is no Goldman Sachs doing a ghost or doing some asset transfer, Xiao Qi absolutely does not believe it.

Goldman Sachs certainly has its purpose in doing things. It will never do things for no reason, and it will definitely not do good things.

They are so darkhearted!

Back to the topic.

If you want to impress the founders of Chipotle, so that they can become Xiao Qi's subordinates with sincerity, it is best to directly buy enough land to build your own ranch and raise enough pigs, cattle and sheep for Chipotle's use.

It doesn’t matter if there are more pigs, cattle, and sheep. Americans still welcome good quality meat.

Even if this is still too much, it can also be made into various processed meat products, such as bacon, sausages, canned food, etc., which can also consume a lot of meat.

Of course, such a situation is generally impossible.

Don’t think that only Chinese people like to eat meat. Americans eat more meat than Chinese people. In fact, Europeans and Americans eat a lot of meat. The big meat is eaten directly, um, or with a knife and fork, which is definitely more meat than eating two or three dishes.

Therefore, as long as Xiao Qi doesn't enclose half of the United States to breed pigs, cattle and sheep, there is no need to worry about slow sales of meat.

Moreover, the current US economy is so sluggish, and the pastures have closed one after another. If Xiao Qi invests, they are too happy to have time.

As for the vegetable ingredient base, it doesn't have to be so troublesome. For one thing, there are hundreds of vegetable ingredients, the seasons are different, and the amount required is not much. If you do it yourself, it seems too cumbersome.

It is better to directly package to some farmers around the Chipotle store, which can solve their own material problems, generate income for them, and create a good reputation. If Chipotle encounters anything in the future, they will definitely be more nervous than Xiao Qi, because of this. But it is related to their jobs!

The uncles of farmers in the United States are the most terrible. This truth was already known to the people of the world during the anti-agricultural dumping investigation in China in the previous two years.

There are also the farmers employed in the ranch. If you add them together, whoever dares to move Chipotle will at least usher in large-scale protests from tens of thousands of farmers. This is something no government wants to see.

Xiao Qi is very familiar with the United States, but he doesn't know much about this specific agricultural production.

But it doesn't matter, he knows people who understand agriculture and animal husbandry.

Taking out his cell phone, Xiao Qi made a call.

"Wade, what are you doing?"

"Haha, sir, I am working in the office now, something?" Wade, president of the New York branch of Citibank, said with a smile.

"I heard you say before that you are a Californian, and you have worked for Citibank in California for 10 years? Are you responsible for the agricultural loans in California?"

"Yes, my family runs a farm, so I am very familiar with the farm. After I entered the bank's credit department, I went to get agricultural loans. I dare not say that there are more than 80,000 farms in California. All of the top 1,000 have ran more than once, and I know the top 3,000!" Wade said very proudly.

In fact, it was because his memory was so amazing that he was able to treat every customer he dealt with, dealt with them well, and made outstanding achievements in agricultural loans, and he was promoted all the way to the vice president of the California branch. Then it was transferred to the asset management department of the New York branch.

Speaking of his being able to have a good relationship with Xiao Qi, it is also because he has always been passionate about people and likes to help, so he can be appreciated by Xiao Qi, and now he can climb to this position.

Even Xiao Qi was able to curry favor, let alone the group of farmers in Western California. They were naive and rude. As long as they had an appetite, they were all friends. Wade was like a fish in water, and it was not without reason.

Xiao Qi first said that he wanted to acquire Chipotle, and then said: "So I want to buy some farms in California, specifically for raising pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry, so as to achieve self-sufficiency in raw materials. Maximize, what do you say should be done?"

"This question is very simple!" Although Wade has left California to work in New York for several years, he goes home for a one-month vacation every year, so he is not unfamiliar with it. "I will go and check the number of Chipotle's daily customers, Investigate the amount of materials used, and then calculate how many livestock should be purchased for consumption, and how much land these livestock will occupy.

As for the more demand brought about by future growth, there is also a calculation formula. Based on this result, I will select a dozen large farms for you and merge some surrounding farms. It is completely enough. And don’t worry about transportation. Fresh slaughter and cold chain transportation in the United States are perfect. It is not unusual for freshly slaughtered livestock to be shipped to various states in the United States within a day.

In fact, I think you can buy more wheat farms, so that the ingredients for the burrito will be available, which will be more convenient. In fact, it is very simple to grow organic wheat, as long as you are willing to spend money, you can do it! Those who are rich and young people are sure to enthusiastically support it for healthy eating. "

Listening to him being so organized, Xiao Qi nodded secretly, "In that case, can I guarantee completion of this matter if I leave it to you?"

"It must be done well!" Wade said seriously, but the next moment he smiled hippiely. "But you see, there is a Chinese saying that "one thing does not bother two masters", which means that you don't need to find two people to do one thing. Since Citibank helped solve this upstream raw material, can we also entrust Citibank to do the acquisition of Chipotle~www.readwn.com~?"

"Ok!"

Xiao Qi readily agreed.

He understood Wade's thoughts. In fact, when he called Wade to talk about the farm, he had already decided to hand over the acquisition task to Citibank instead of the Blackstone Group that he had considered before.

Regardless of the fact that the acquisition of Chipotle is only a matter of more than four billion US dollars, Citibank can get a commission of about 300 million US dollars at most.

However, it is not a trivial matter in the United States that is related to the acquisition of more than four billion US dollars. Citibank's participation in it proves that they have a strong ability in the eyes of customers.

Besides, it was Xiao Qi who acquired Chipotle. Citibank helped Xiao Qi acquire the company and acquired so many farms. This tells others that they have a very good relationship with Xiao Qi.

Since even the richest man in the world trusts us Citibank and entrusts us with Citibank, what are you ordinary people hesitating? Come to Citibank to do business! (To be continued.)