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Volume 1 Chapter 610 French EMI

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    As soon as he got off the plane and got into the car after leaving the airport, Lin Xiaozhi learned that the CCTV group was visiting the ATV headquarters.  Ignoring his exhaustion, he ordered the driver to take his wife Li Jiaxin home, while he called a company car and went to the Media Asia headquarters, preparing to take the opportunity to meet with the visiting CCTV executives.  When he arrived at the Media Asia headquarters, he sent someone to inquire about the new ATV office building next to it. He learned that people from CCTV were still visiting the old building and would have to wait a while before he could get here. After telling him that someone was coming to inform him,  , he returned to his office and prepared to take a short break.  Just after taking off his coat, Lin Xiaozhi was preparing to make himself a cup of coffee to refresh himself, when there was a knock on the door outside the office. After he said "come in", the door was pushed open with a creak, and he turned around.  It was Chen Qiang.  "When did you come back from the UK?" Lin Xiaozhi was a little surprised. When he went to the UK to discuss the acquisition of UCT Cinemas with PolyGram and reached an impasse, and his family urged him to go to Australia, he asked Media Asia President Chen Qiang to rush there.  Britain took over the matter of continuing negotiations.  Calculating the time, from the time he rushed to Australia from the UK to the time he returned to Hong Kong, it only took three and a half days. Because he felt that it would be difficult for both parties to reach an agreement immediately in such a short period of time, so after he came to the company just now, he also  I didn't ask the secretary about Chen Qiang.  "I came back one day earlier than Lin Sheng!" Chen Qiang had a smile on his face, and you could tell he was in a good mood.  Seeing him like this, Lin Xiaozhi couldn't help but feel happy. He didn't even bother to drink the freshly brewed coffee, and quickly asked: "How's the conversation going at UCT? Did PolyGram let go?" Chen Qiang smiled and nodded heavily: "  Lin Sheng, the day after you left, I met with Maersk. He offered me a price of 342 million pounds, but I didn¡¯t agree. I said that I needed to report it to the board of directors and prepare to give them a cold shoulder for a few days. " Lin Xiaozhi also revealed.  With a smile, I am not afraid of the other party shouting a high price, but I am afraid that the other party will not express his position.  UCT is definitely a high-quality asset in the hands of Media Asia, because Media Asia, as a Hong Kong film production company, very much needs a stable theater chain to export movies to Europe and the United States, the world's largest box office market. It can be said that as long as there is a stable theater chain channel  , Media Asia can completely export the current average of only two to three movies per year to Europe and the United States for release, directly double the expansion, and profits will also rise accordingly.  But in the hands of PolyGram, UCT may not necessarily be considered a high-quality asset.  Their main business is records. In recent years, PolyGram has been expanding into other industries in order to diversify its operations.  Although PolyGram also has a film company that is considered to be strong in Europe - PolyGram International Film Company, its profitability is too poor and it relies on the European mainland which is too rich in literature and art. It can only hire  The directors and the scripts they bought were too literary and artistic, but the management still didn't realize that they urgently needed to shoot a batch of successful commercial movies to increase profits after shooting a number of money-losing movies.  PolyGram's board of directors, or to be more precise, the two industrial giants Philips and Siemens behind PolyGram are obviously very dissatisfied with PolyGram's performance in recent years. After it began to diversify its cross-industry operations, PolyGram's  Profits have been falling year after year, especially after getting involved in film shooting and establishing PolyGram International Film Company.  It¡¯s also thanks to the fact that there is still some market for records in the past two years. If we really have to wait a few more years and even the records start to be unsaleable, it¡¯s no wonder that the two giants in the past discussed it and directly sold this former company regardless of what PolyGram¡¯s executives thought.  The first brother of International Records was sold to a French guy.  "We can negotiate with PolyGram about the quotation, but our money is not blown by the strong wind. It is better to save a little." Seeing that the PolyGram board of directors has already had the idea of ??selling UCT, Lin Xiaozhi was in a good mood.  "Necessary snubbing is also a means of negotiation. Since you have returned to Hong Kong, wait until the Academy Awards are over before going to the UK. I will no longer participate in the subsequent negotiations. The other party's quotation is more than 4,000 yuan different from ours.  Ten thousand pounds, cut it in half as much as possible!" Chen Qiang nodded, with excitement on his face: "Don't worry, Lin Sheng, I will definitely get this done!" If Media Asia really succeeds in acquiring UCT Cinemas!  , that is definitely the largest acquisition case since the group was founded, involving a total amount of more than 3 billion Hong Kong dollars. Even if we look at the entire acquisition cases in Hong Kong in the past ten years, it ranks very high.  For a professional manager like him, it is undoubtedly a good opportunity to increase his net worth. Even if Media Asia does not want him in the future, he has the qualifications to handle such a huge acquisition. Looking at Hong Kong and Taiwan, he will not worry about not having a company.  Want him.  Lin Zhi didn't think about driving Chen Qiang away. After asking him to sit down and taking a sip of coffee, he suddenly remembered that when he met with PolyGram Vice President Anthony, he had mentioned that he wanted to acquire Media Asia.  , couldn't help but asked with a smile: "By the way, Mr. Chen. After I left, PolyGram didn't mention to you that they wanted to acquire Media Asia, right?"   Chen Qiang shook his head, "No!" However, the expression on his face was a little subtle. After hesitating for a moment, he said: "After Lin Sheng mentioned this to me before, I asked someone to inquire about it out of curiosity.  PolyGram International Film Company, I unexpectedly heard some news" Lin Xiaozhi felt a little interested and nodded for him to continue.  Chen Qiang continued: "Lin Sheng still remembers "The Legend of Columbus", which was said to be the most profitable movie last year! This movie was originally initiated by a Spanish film company, but later PolyGram International Film Company gradually took over the  I found out that Polygram was in contact with EMI, which was involved in the investment at the time, and seemed to want to acquire EMI!" Lin Xiaozhi was stunned, and his face changed slightly.  He naturally knew that the EMI company Chen Qiang mentioned was not Electronic and Music Industries (EMI, commonly known as EMI), one of the five largest international record companies today, but another French film company that participated in the investment in "The Legend of Columbus"¡ª¡ª  EMI Films.  The uniqueness and arrogance of French films originated from the glory of French Impressionist films before World War I. Although it declined somewhat before and after World War II, with the national comprehensive rejuvenation strategy of striving to be the best in Europe during the De Gaulle era, French films were inevitably affected by it.  .  In Europe, where literary and artistic and various consciousness films are popular, French filmmakers should be the first to try to find a way to create films that perfectly integrate business and art.  The reputation of this French film company is not prominent in Asia, but if you inquire about North Africa and Europe, you will find that this old film company, which was founded a century ago, lives up to its slogan of "making first-class movies."  It is a symbol of the past glory of European local film companies.  It is a pity that EMI Film Company has fallen into a low ebb since the end of World War I. Although it produces movies every year and continues to try to integrate film artistry and commerciality, looking back on its development in the half century since World War II  Judging from the above, there is no doubt that the path taken by EMI is not successful.  Why EMI took the wrong path? Lin Xiaozhi has no intention of caring about such issues.  It is undeniable that EMI has lost more money in the movies it has invested in in recent years, but if we really want to make a list of the companies that Lin Xiaozhi wants to acquire now, the number one after UCT Cinemas is EMI France.  The reason why this is so is actually not surprising.  Although the current French people still don¡¯t understand how to make commercial films successfully, there is no need to question the French people¡¯s business talents.  Although EMI's main film business has been declining for more than half a century, its side businesses have done better than the other, continuously providing the company with a large amount of film production funds.  In Europe, EMI Film Company owns the "Author and Literary Film Association", the "Italian Art Film Company", the "Literary Society" in Berlin, the "EMI Limited" in London, and the "EMI Trading Company" and "Triangle Film Company" in the United States.  " and many other production companies. Although more than half of them have ceased operations, EMI Films is still one of the most powerful production companies in Europe.  In New York, EMI once owned a film factory, which was bought by the DuPont consortium more than 20 years ago with a huge sum of money.  The former boss Charles Path¨¦ also spent more than 2 million francs to purchase multiple plots of land in New York when he went to the United States to promote French films in 1908.  EMI has survived crisis after crisis over the past half century simply by selling land.  In France, EMI Film Company not only owns Napoleon Conti Photography Company, the most professional manufacturer of photographic equipment in France in the past, but its "EMI Associates" is still one of the most important cinema operators in France.  Together, Gaumont Film Company monopolized more than half of the theater chains in France, making Lin Xiaozhi jealous for who knows how long.  In Europe, the five most important box office markets are Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the West. As a long-established world-class power, the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets has now declined, but the wealth plundered over the past few hundred years still allows its citizens to continue to enjoy the sun never sets.  The powerful dividends of the fallen empire in the past, so Lin Xiaozhi is bound to win the UCT Cinema!  East and West Germany have just merged in recent years. Although Germany's economic development rate is far faster than that of France, it will still take a few years for its domestic box office to surpass France. As the former hegemon of Central Europe, France does not have to give in. The domestic box office market is the third in Europe.  two.  ??In Lin Xiaozhi¡¯s earlier plan, he was planning to win UCT first to get a ticket to enter the European cinema market, and then in the next few years, he would gradually raise money to win EMI Film Company.  Therefore, when Chen Qiang mentioned that he had found out that PolyGram was contacting EMI Film Company, his face suddenly changed.  "Is the news reliable?" Lin Xiaozhi's voice couldn't help but become heavier.    Chen Qiang didn¡¯t know his plan, but he also had a keen eye, and he noticed that Lin Xiaozhi seemed a little worried. Although he was curious, he still nodded and responded: "The news should not be bad, but I am not sure about PolyGram International Film  How far has the company come into contact with EMI? " This is indeed a headache. Lin Xiaozhi remembers that when EMI had no assets to sell around the millennium, it was annexed by the French monster-Vivendi.  But with the rebirth of his little butterfly, the butterfly effect caused will only become bigger and bigger. Therefore, no one can guarantee whether the record giant PolyGram, which is still not short of money, will become really hot.  EMI bought it.  You must know that according to the data he had inquired and calculated before, the current EMI Film Company as a whole is worth at most one billion US dollars. For PolyGram, it is really not an expensive toy.  With worry on his mind, he could only frown and tell Chen Qiang: "You can inquire in detail later. I hope to get more detailed information about the contact between PolyGram and EMI as soon as possible!"
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