I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1187: Invincible twist hand
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With the continuous skyrocketing of Comcast's stock price, Firefly Group decisively stopped its buying operation, and finally held 7.1% of the company's shares.
Because Comcast is already a public shareholding company, the shareholding structure is very fragmented, and no one shareholder even holds more than 10% of the shares. Therefore, with 7.1% of the shares held in hand, Firefly Group is still the largest shareholder of Comcast.
The whole process seems easy, but in fact, for this 7.1% stake, Firefly Group has invested more than 2.5 billion USD in total for more than one month.
In the context of the current North America economic situation with the Nasdaq stock market crashing and the overall cooling, many corporate giants are shrinking their businesses and saving money. Companies that can easily take out 1 billion USD cash for acquisitions like Firefly Group are absolutely Very few.
Since the prelude to the merger has been opened, Firefly Group no longer hides its intentions.
Although no longer buying stocks, Katzenberg quickly made a request to Comcast to join the other party Board of Directors.
The Roberts family also realized that if they agreed to the request of Katzenberg, it was not just the company ’s operations that had no secrets in front of Firefly Group. Moreover, with the strong influence of the Firefly system, Comcast shareholders are likely to gradually fall to the other side as Firefly system executives join Board of Directors.
Therefore, Comcast Chairman Ralph · Roberts immediately rejected the Katzenberg request on the grounds that the Board of Directors member was less than the deadline.
Normally, a listed company often discusses the replacement of Board of Directors members in the new annual general meeting of shareholders.
Although the shares held by Firefly Group are not enough to hold an extraordinary general meeting, Comcast ’s annual general meeting is held in January. Unless Ralph · Roberts dared to cancel the annual shareholders' meeting against the wishes of all Comcast shareholders, the other party could only delay for up to three months, so Firefly Group did not act too eagerly.
At the same time, during the game between the two parties, Firefly Group also began to contact AT-T, making the gesture of hoping to acquire AT-T's remote communication, giving the outside world the illusion of turning to remote communication if the acquisition of Comcast is not successful.
AT-T naturally hopes that its assets can be sold at a good price, and also gives a very positive response.
Just like you come and go, time unknowingly enters the end of November.
Despite seemingly frequent actions, in fact, Eric has given up the expectation of winning either Comcast or remote communications in the short term.
The oppression of Comcast and the contact with AT-T are only to delay the progress of the negotiations between the two companies.
The winter of capital in the field of new technology has just begun. Next, the decline of the Internet industry will also affect the basic operator field. Time delay will only make Firefly Group more and more beneficial.
Affected by the idea of Eric, Firefly Group executives also put more energy into the acquisition negotiation with Hasbro, and successfully reached the final acquisition agreement with Hasbro in early November.
After negotiations, Firefly Group finally acquired the Hasbro toy company with a 2.8 billion 60 million USD offer. The heir of the founding family of Hasbro, Alan · Hassenfeld, will continue to serve as HasbroCEO, and Firefly Group will also integrate it with the company's surrounding toy departments in the next few months.
On November 1, Eric and Katzenberg and several other high-level officials flew to Providence, the capital of Rhode Island on the east coast.
Rhode Island is a very small coastal state located between Massachusetts and Connecticut. It covers an area of more than 3,000 square kilometers, and is only a bay of two 30 kilometers from Long Island.
After attending the signing ceremony at the company Headquarters of Hasbro, and visited the toy design department of Hasbro and a toy factory in the suburb of Providence, Katzenberg continued to stay and discuss the next integration with the senior executives of Hasbro. Eric took the Long Island airport The helicopter sent directly flew to Martha's Vineyard.
At the same time, the new line Film Industry's "Final Destination3" and Universal Pictures's "Human Bone Jigsaw" are released one after another as Halloween arrives, announcing the end of the year.
Less than 3 weeks before the release of "Gravity", the final stage of the super blockbuster, which represents the Firefly system's ambition to open a new era of movie screenings, has also become fiercer. TV announcements, cinema posters, and online marketing are all spread out on a large scale with a high-intensity frequency of visual bombing.
The film ’s global premiere is scheduled to be held on November 12th at the IMAX theater in Los Angeles Santa Monica.
Through several internal auditions, Firefly Group has had absolute confidence in the quality of the film "Gravity". Therefore, the distribution department decided to hold small-scale screening events in North America around the weekends of November 6, 7 and November 13 and 14, respectively, to accumulate word of mouth for the film's release in advance.
Although everything is in full swing, this time "Gravity" mainly focuses on Jodie · Foster and George · Clooney, and highlights the new 3D and IMAX projection modes. Except for the global premiere on November 12, Eric did not arrange other media campaigns for itself.
After spending a few days in Martha ’s Vineyard and Eath Hampton, Eric arrived at Manhattan.
The two major agencies, IMG and Elite, which Eric bought under private names, have completed the initial adjustments, but some things still require him to personally communicate with the heads of the two companies.
IMG's problem is not big, this company has formed a very perfect business operation system.
Although Mark · McCo Mark has resigned from the position of Chairman with the completion of the transaction, CEO Payne · Foster Man is a very capable person, enough to lead the IMG Group further.
In addition, Cindy and Linda originally invested 20% of the shares of IMG Group in 300 million USD, and both joined IMGBoard of Directors at this time. Although the two women were charged by Eric, they were very cautious and did not intervene in IMG management, but with them staring, IMG management was unlikely to make any effort.
The bigger problem is Elite.
Before the acquisition, Eric proposed that Elite founder and Chairman John · Casablanca can retain the company's shares, but during the transaction, John · Casablanca chose to cash out less than 5% of the company's shares. Therefore, Eric is now 100% owned by this company, John · Casablanca is simply responsible for taking care of this company as a professional Manager person.
From the original BBC documentary incident, it is not difficult to see the serious problems in this global's largest professional model Brokerage Firm.
After taking over Elite, Eric immediately disbanded the company's original Board of Directors, which is equivalent to completely rip off the supervision of John · Casablanca. Except for Eric, Boss, John · Casablanca is almost not responsible for anyone.
Of course, Eric will certainly not make such an obvious company management mistake.
Due to a series of changes, EliteEurope Chairman and other positions that were vacant due to the impact of the BBC documentary incident have not yet had time to fill.
After completing the acquisition, John · Casablanca provided the Eric with a list of candidates for the first time. However, Eric was not adopted, but under the recommendation of Cindy and Linda, some senior executives in the fashion industry were selected to fill these positions. The two women have been in the circle for so many years. Their familiarity with the industry is no less than John. Casablanca. The Manager people they recommend must be more reliable than John. Casablanca.
In addition, Eric also redeployed personnel from Firefly Group, took over the finance department of Elite, and began to comprehensively sort out Elite's previous financial situation.
It can be said that this month, through a series of personnel adjustments, Eric has largely mastered the control of Elite.
Naturally, these actions that deprived John · Casablanca of the power inevitably made this industry big man unhappy.
During this time, Eric has received more than one call from John · Casablanca complaining that the accounting audit of Elite ’s accounting department has affected the company ’s operations, and it implicitly implied that Eric did not keep its original promise to completely hand over Elite. Take care of him.
Manhattan, Lexington Avenue arsenal.
John · Casablanca entered the arsenal hall under the leadership of Eric bodyguards, where a new Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show rehearsal work is in progress.
Only the T stage in the hall was lit with lights, and the surroundings were a bit dim. Eric sat in a corner, watching the rehearsals on the stage with his legs relaxed, and occasionally chatting with Edward · Razek beside him sentence.
This year is the sixth session held by Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which will soon be the new millennium. This session of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show will also be very meaningful. LTD will also officially launch the first sky-high dream BRA at this big show.
When Eric was still in Long Island, Emily called and hoped he could personally check the preparations for this big show and give some suggestions.
In a few years, Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show has formed a very perfect holding process. Eric does n’t actually feel that there is anything that can be involved. Therefore, he just quietly came to sit quietly for a while today. At this time in the arsenal, except for this big show Director and the accompanying LTD group Vice Chairman Edward · Razek, others did not know his arrival.
Without the influence of Eric, it is naturally impossible for the Victoria’s Secret production team to gather all supermodels every time, but to rehearse by topic.
The theme of today ’s rehearsal is the wings of dreams. The design inspiration is mainly from butterflies and other lepidopteran insects, so it can also be said to be a theme with many wings.
The theme starts with Trish Goff, and the girl is one of the five new spokesmen for Victoria’s Secret.
Due to the childish image of baby face, Trish Goff also serves as the spokesperson of Victoria’s Secret girl brand PINK. The other four spokespersons are the old Tyra · Banks and Diane · Kruger, as well as the new Gisele · Bündchen and Carmen Case. Alessandra just turned eighteen this year, Eric did not rush to push the girl to this position.
John · Casablanca came to Eric and greeted Eric and Edward · Razek respectively before sitting down on the other side of Eric.
The girls on the T stage are performing a new rehearsal with the music. Eric has no opening, and John. Casablanca is waiting quietly. Although he had complained to the young man beside him on the phone, John · Casablanca immediately felt a natural sense of oppression immediately after sitting next to Eric.
John · Casablanca also participated in the investment of technology stocks in the first half of the year. He was lucky that he sold most of the stocks before the stock market crash. After the Nasdaq crash, although the technology stocks in his hands were basically locked up, John Casablanca did not lose as much as many people, but instead had a surplus.
Because of the focus on the Nasdaq stock market, John · Casablanca can easily feel the ubiquitous and powerful influence of the Firefly system on new technology and media. As the head of the economic empire of the Firefly system, although Eric is more than 20 years younger than himself, the huge power and wealth possessed by this young man is definitely beyond his reach.
After the girls walked through cat walk and the music fell, Eric said to Edward · Razek: "The sixth girl to appear, the one with transparent wings, wait for her to come over. I will chat with John first."
After listening to Eric ’s instructions slightly, Edward · Razek sideways agreed, respectfully agreed, and nodded to John · Casablanca, then got up and left.
John · Casablanca subconsciously recalled the girl said by Eric.
He ca n’t remember the order of appearance of the girls, but Eric mentioned the transparent wings, John · Casablanca also roughly remembered a perfect and flawless beautiful face, slightly cool temperament, naturally with a charming eyes, able Selected as Victoria’s Secret angel, his body is naturally impeccable.
John · Casablanca knows every situation of Elite's supermodel, but there is no information about the girl. The other party obviously belongs to other professional model Brokerage Firm.
Although the performance on the T stage has just been somewhat restrained, John · Casablanca has recognized the potential of girls at a glance by virtuous eyes in the circle for many years. This is obviously a good seedling of supermodel. Perhaps the other party has already emerged in the circle, but he doesn't know.
Thinking so, John Casablanca couldn't help but envy. It is estimated that only Eric Williams can casually express the meaning of "I want her" to these beautiful stunners.
Although he is the helm of Elite, for his supermodel, John. Casablanca can really touch a few. Sometimes, he even has to provide these beautiful stunners like serving his aunt and grandmother.
Eric and other Edward · Razek walked away, and did not explain the meaning of his words. He just came suddenly and wanted to create the invincible twister in advance.
Looking at the John · Casablanca with a change of look beside her eyes, Eric first said: "So, John, how is it going?"
John · Casablanca involuntarily turned sideways to Eric like Edward · Razek, and said: "Not bad, but suddenly busy a lot."
Although Eric did not mean to intervene in Elite management during this period, the senior executives who were successively inserted into Elite by Eric were not at all polite. They showed obvious aggression as soon as they took office, in order to avoid themselves The power has been more deprived, and the John Casablanca, which has begun to slacken over the years, has to regain its spirit.
"If you feel that you can't handle it, I can find someone to help you," said Eric with a smile on his face, saying: "In this way, Elite resets the CEO and you come to serve. I will give you a Chairman. "
John Casablanca suddenly complained a little bit. He just complained in disguise, and Eric was willing to weaken his power again.
Shaking his head quickly, John · Casablanca said: "It's still not necessary, Eric, I think I can still do it."
"Actually, I understand what you mean on the phone during this time," Eric also put away the smile on his face, and said with a serious expression: "However, you should also understand, John, I am Elite now. Boss. I respect the achievements you have made in the professional model brokerage industry, but this does not mean that I will let Elite go. "