Reborn Tycoon Rise

In Allentown, Xu Zhi stayed for another three days. If he wanted to acquire a trucking company with more than 3,000 employees, there must be many aspects involved. During these three days, Xu Zhi held meetings with Mark’s management, labor union, and government representatives. Initial negotiations.

Representatives from these parties are quite satisfied with this acquisition. After all, Xu Zhi will invest huge sums of money to help the company develop and develop the Asian market after the acquisition. This is undoubtedly a timely help for Mark, who is already in financial difficulties.

After obtaining consent from several parties, Goldman Sachs immediately began to contact several major shareholders. Mack Trucks has been established for more than 80 years. After World War I, the Great Recession, World War II, and several subsequent economic fluctuations, Mack Trucks' shares have long been dispersed. , among which the largest holding institutions are some large pension funds and labor union funds.

After entering the 1970s, high-tech companies suddenly emerged. Many funds were naturally more optimistic about technology companies, but naturally did not care much about traditional companies. Faced with acquisitions at a premium of 30%, several major funds were naturally willing to sell their shares.

On April 1, 1980, Goldman Sachs Group announced that the HK Investment Fund from Hong Kong would fully privatize Mack Truck Company for US$238 million and would also assume its US$60 million debt. In the afternoon of the same day, the Foreign Investment Committee also announced that it had approved the project. acquisition.

Although truck engines are high-tech products, they are still far behind some military weapons, semiconductor technology, aviation technology, etc. Goldman Sachs also has strong public relations capabilities. Xu Zhi signed an agreement on several core technologies. After the non-proliferation agreement, the Foreign Acquisitions Committee successfully cleared the acquisition.

In fact, Xu Zhi has no intention of spreading these technologies. This is the core competitiveness of Mack Truck Company. After acquiring it, he naturally hopes that this company can develop better in the future.

With the assistance of the Manhattan Law Firm, Xu Zhi successfully took over all of Mark's shares, and in accordance with the agreement with the management, the first R\u0026D fund of 50 million US dollars has been remitted to the company's account. This fund is not only used for While developing new heavy-duty horsepower engines, we will also reuse existing technologies to design new light-duty trucks and passenger vehicles to develop the Asian market in the future.

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The United States is a country that worships sports. Several major TV stations shoot a large number of TV series every year, but basically only broadcast 22 episodes a year. In addition to avoiding holidays such as Christmas and Thanksgiving, the main reason is to avoid When the finals of various sports leagues are held, especially football and baseball games, no matter how good the TV series is, they have to give way, including the most classic Friends in later generations.

In the United States, the most influential and profitable games have always been football and baseball, and the NBA, which countless Chinese in later generations were obsessed with, was just the younger brother among the younger brothers until David Stern joined the NBA and served as president for 30 years. Later, through powerful commercial packaging, star strategy and international promotion measures, the NBA developed into the most successful professional sports league in the world, involving many fields such as film and television, catering, and clothing.

But that is the future, and the current NBA is only slightly famous. Except for the San Francisco Warriors, Celtics and other teams that are slightly famous, most of the others are losing money. In the 1980s, of the 23 teams in the league, 17 At a loss, the Chicago Bulls were on the verge of bankruptcy.

If in later generations when the NBA was at its most famous, it was often impossible to buy a team even if you had money. Except for a few super rich people in history, all other transactions were for the sale of teams with poorer standards, and even if you had money, you couldn't buy them. It also needs to be approved by the NBA. But this time is completely different. Many bosses are eager to sell these burdens.

In his previous life, Xu Zhi liked to watch the NBA, especially in high school, when the Lakers and Kobe Bryant were at their peak, and Yao Ming represented all Chinese to a certain extent. In the past, Xu Zhi only dreamed of being able to watch a game in the infield one day.

But it is completely different now. As a businessman, he will not be addicted to this kind of sports competition, but something profitable can attract him. In the future, just in the mainland market, the huge advertising benefits that the NBA can create will be worth the current investment. Investment, let alone relying on the memory of future generations, can select some excellent players in advance, and you can also select some potential stocks in China. Even if they are on the bench every day, as long as they are captured on the live video, they can still have star effect.

Such small-scale business negotiations naturally did not require Xu Zhi's intervention. A team of professional business lawyers spent a week buying the Chicago Bulls and a large basketball stadium in the suburbs of Chicago for Xu Zhi for US$18 million.

After successfully acquiring the Bulls, Xu Zhi arranged for his men to rush to a high school in Delaware, where the most famous basketball star in future generations-Jordan!

The two words NBA and Jordan are almost connected to a certain extent. No one knows whether it was the NBA that made Jordan or Jordan the NBA. At this moment, Jordan has been successfully selected into the All-American High School Team and has begun to be chosen by many teams. focus on.

However, potential is potential. These teams did not plan to contact him privately in advance, but waited a few years later, when Jordan entered college, to participate in college leagues and the NBA draft.

Xu Zhi knew the value of Jordan, so of course he had to come first, otherwise what would be the point of buying the Bulls?

At Wilmington Laney High School, Jordan was dunking majestically on the basketball court, causing the surrounding cheerleaders to exclaim from time to time.

Suddenly, the loudspeaker in the gymnasium rang: Please come to the principal's office, George Jordan!

"Oh, man." As soon as Jordan heard the horn, he who had been smiling playfully just now immediately looked pained. In high school, being called to the principal's office usually didn't mean anything good.

A white boy next to him laughed and said, "Jordan, you didn't let earthworms into the cheerleading locker room again, did you?"

"Tch, I won't do the same thing again!" Jordan ignored the teaser, shot a beautiful three-pointer, grabbed his clothes, wiped his sweat and ran out the door.

"Dong dong dong..." Jordan knocked on the door and found that in addition to the principal, there were five or six people sitting nearby.

The principal smiled and said: "Jordan, come here, this is Jerry Sloan, the coach of the Chicago Bulls."

"Hello!" Jordan immediately wiped the sweat stains on his pants and shook hands.

"Please sit down!" Jerry smiled and said, "Jordan, I'm here today because I saw your game video by chance, so I want to invite you to join our Bulls team!"

"Really!" Jordan shouted excitedly. You must know that last year, when he was still a sophomore in high school, he was considered by the school basketball coach to have no basketball talent. Although his level has improved this year, he did not expect that the NBA team coach would personally come to invite him.

Jerry smiled and said: "According to the law, you are still under 22 years old and cannot enter the league. I am here just hoping to book your future, but this time the contract needs to be signed by your parents."

Jordan also calmed down and said, "Do you have a contract? I need to take it back to discuss it with my parents."

Jerry nodded and said, "Of course, this is the contract we signed. Can you take a look at the amount on it first?"

"Amount?" Jordan was stunned for a moment, quickly turned over a few pages, and said in surprise: "The signing bonus is 200,000 US dollars! The first year's annual salary is 250,000 US dollars!"

Jerry said: "This annual salary can be said to be the average salary income of current NBA players. It can be said to be unique among newcomers, and this does not include that if your basketball level reaches a certain level, you can be a sports star. If you come to receive external advertisements, although our team will get a share, your income will also be very high, and an annual salary of one million US dollars in the future is not a problem."

"Why do you spend so much money to sign a newcomer like me?" Jordan asked. His dream is to join the NBA, but the normal procedures are very cumbersome. There are cases like this of being signed by the team in advance, but it is very rare.

Jerry smiled and said, "I don't know either. I just accepted the boss's order?"

"Boss?" Jordan asked again: "Then can I see him?"

Jerry shook his head and said: "He won't see you. If you really want to ask why, just prove it yourself. Prove that our boss's vision is right. As long as you meet his expectations of you, you will naturally be able to see him." .”

Jordan nodded and said, "I understand, I will get my parents' consent, but what should I do now?"

Jerry said: "Study hard and practice your ball skills more. When the time comes, we will naturally come to you again!"