Video Game Empire

Mergers and acquisitions between large companies are usually a very complicated and cumbersome process. In particular, if both parties to the merger and acquisition are listed companies, authorization from the board of directors is required in advance.

This will not only slow down mergers and acquisitions, but also make it difficult to maintain confidentiality. This allows competitors to have enough reaction time to formulate corresponding spoiler plans.

When Li Xuan acquired RA Company, the reason why he was able to make a quick decision was that, on the one hand, the high price offered by Li Xuan made it difficult for RA shareholders who were constantly tormented by the stock price to fall; At that time, ra's main business, the TV industry, was already recognized as a sunset industry, and it was difficult to attract competitors to disrupt the situation.

The r company is different, it itself is a well-run enterprise. In particular, with the rapid promotion of A-machines in the banking industry, which has promoted R-company, which dominates this segment, the stock price has continued to rise in recent years.

Investors' value expectations for such a rising company are completely different from those of the surviving RA company at the beginning. Therefore, when the rumors of a & company's intention to acquire r came out in the market, r's share price immediately ushered in a rise.

And when Ikon announced that it would join the bidding, the value of r was even higher. As far as company r's management and shareholders are concerned, they very much welcome Aikang, the half-assailed Cheng Yaojin.

Because for the management and investors of company r, since they are not opposed to being acquired, they definitely hope that they can sell at a good price. And the more opponents that participate in the competition, the more the r company has the opportunity to sell at a price, so that it can sell itself at a sky-high price!

The only one who is angry may be the management of a& company. Because of the emergence of Aikang as a competitor, it is easy to increase the appetite of r shareholders. Even if they succeeded in acquiring r company next, the price to pay would be higher than expected.

Before getting involved in the acquisition storm, the total market value of R company fluctuated around $6 billion. To complete such a big business, it is impossible for a& not to be well prepared.

For someone who jumped out to disrupt the situation, it is impossible for a&'s acquisition team to have made a response plan in advance. And since they have made up their minds to buy R Company, they will definitely not give up their original acquisition plan immediately because of the addition of such an opponent as Aikang Company.

"I found out that Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs are the M&A strategy consultants for Aikang Corporation! These two investment banks have had very close cooperation with the Oriental Group in recent years, and there are no less than 5 cases involving mergers and acquisitions!"

Robert Allen is sitting in his office reviewing a batch of documents. He leads a & is a giant company with operations all over the world, and his daily work as the chairman of the board is also very busy.

But the phone ringing that he suddenly remembered interrupted Allen's work. On the phone, the person in charge of the acquisition r team reported the first news to Allen.

Aikon was the first to join the bid for r, which made Allen a little puzzled. Although R is also considered a computer manufacturer in a broad sense, it is not wrong for Aikon to expand its market share by acquiring R.

And Ikon seems to be doing exactly that. Their president has just reached a cooperation agreement with a number of banks in Hong Kong, and it looks like they are ready to enter the financial computer market in a big way.

A&'s acquisition team also analyzed these recent moves by Aikang, and felt that the other party was really likely to compete for R company, rather than bluffing.

However, Allen did not agree with this judgment of his own team. He can sit as the chairman of a multinational giant with tens of thousands of employees and the top 500 companies in the world in terms of revenue, such as A& Company, which is naturally not a vain person.

Judging from his decades of experience in the industry, Allen does not think that the acquisition of R Company will be of any benefit to the subsequent development of Aikang.

Why did a& company buy r company? That's because they missed the gold mine in the early days of the computer industry's boom. Now, the curtain of the Internet era is slowly opening. Computers are producing for the entire human beings, and if they want to not be abandoned by the times, they urgently need to get on the train.

And company r can give a& company a chance to get back into the game. Although R's personal computer business is not very good, but at least the foundation has been laid.

And even if the next entry into the personal computer business fails, r's leading position in the financial computer market such as a machine is enough to allow a& company to advance and retreat, and not to collapse.

Therefore, the decision of a & acquisition of company r is a defensive attack, which can greatly reduce its own risk!

But not for Ikon, which itself has always been a leader in the computer industry. The only benefit for it to acquire R company is to expand a part of its market share~www.readwn.com~ But does Aikang really value R's market share? The entire industry knows that Ikon is after profit margins, not market share.

Therefore, in recent years, Aikang has been withdrawing from the most competitive mid-to-low-end computer market, and only kept the high-profit mid-to-high-end computer product line.

It is precisely because of the clear vision of Aikang's development ideas that Allen can't understand why the other party is interested in r!

But no matter what, Ikang and the strength of the Oriental Group behind it are there. And the acquisition of r company is the most important work of a & company in the next period of time, so Allen can't help but ignore it!

"Tom, help me inquire about Mr. Li of the Oriental Group, the itinerary in New York for the next few days! ... Yes, if possible, I hope to have a chance meeting with him!" Allen frowned and thought After a while, he suddenly grabbed the phone and gave instructions to his assistant.

Allen felt that it was necessary to test the true purpose of Ikang, and Li Xuan, who happened to be in New York recently, was undoubtedly his best contact. He doesn't believe that Li Xuan, the major shareholder of Aikang, has no idea about such a big move involving six or seven billion US dollars in the acquisition of R company.

Even... Allen thought of Li's richest man again, & the company's losses are not bad.

When Allen thought of this, he seemed to have grasped a little clue at once, whether there is a connection between these two things...