I’m in Hollywood Chapter 545: Gift from New York

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After Sophie left, Eric also rushed to the hotel restaurant for breakfast.

In recent days, affairs have been extremely complicated. Not only the Firefly investment company team led by Chris will come to Paris today to discuss the acquisition of Nokia Group, but Eric will also give these Europe local movie powers according to the agreement with Jack Valenti last night. Some sweetness, so that these ground snakes will not come forward to obstruct the "GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)" negotiations. Moreover, it is impossible for him to completely release the propaganda work of "Jurassic Park".

As the first assistant of Eric, Alan routinely sorted out some of the layouts in today ’s newspaper that required Eric attention. When Eric appeared in the restaurant, he put a stack of newspaper on his desk.

"Eric, I think you should look at this." Alan pointed to the top weekly magazine.

Eric was picked up. This is a French weekly newsletter. Although Alan only made English comments on key pages, Eric can still understand the reason why he made himself pay attention to this newspaper.

Because this news weekly uses a whole page, it contains a picture, a picture of Tyrannosaurus Rex rampage in Paris urban area, and the title is marked with "Culture: Attack of United States".

Eric does not need to read the content, almost can guess what this article is talking about.

France ’s so-called 《Germinal》, the most expensive film in history, failed Box Office in front of Jurassic Park. The investment of more than 60 million francs in 100 million only recovered 1 million franc Box Office on the first day. It is expected that Box Office will only be around 5 million francs in the first week. This number is not yet available. "Jurassic Park" has a lot of Box Office on the first day in France, it is understandable that the French will make such a response.

Eric quickly turned the next few points newspaper. There is no mood to read. Today in France, whether it is French or English newspaper, basically talking about the "Jurassic Park" Box Office.

However, thinking of last night's party, Eric's mouth could not help overflowing with a slight sneer. Even the local French movie powers are going to privately flee to Hollywood. What use is it for these media to clamor desperately, and ultimately nothing can be decided.

Leave today ’s newspaper aside, Eric instructed: "You call the Manager of the French branch and let him conduct appropriate crisis public relations, we do n’t have to worry about the rest."

Alan quickly wrote down the instructions of Eric on the memo. Another said: "Mr. Hansson's flight arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport at about ten o'clock. I have already arranged a few cars. Do you want to pick up in person?"

"I personally passed by," Eric nodded.

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The boarding hall of Charles de Gaulle Airport, the Chris group of people took a flight nearly one quarter of an hour later than expected to land at the airport.

Notice that the figure of Chris appears at the exit of the VIP channel. Eric smiled, waved his hand at the other party, and greeted him. After approaching, Eric only found that the followers of Chris followed him, but he walked side by side with a middle-aged man who had nothing to do with Firefly investment.

Middle-aged people are around forty years old, wearing a pair of rimless glasses. The mediocre looks at first glance will give people a clumsy feeling.

However, Eric did not underestimate this middle-aged man, because he had seen each other's photos on relevant materials more than once. This person is Nokia's current CEO Jorma Ollila, although the appearance is ordinary, but the resume of Jorma Ollila is not mediocre at all. This person not only has a double master's degree in governance and economics, but also served as an executive of Citibank at the age of 30. In the original time and space, Nokia was led by him from a near-bankrupt company to global communication The status of equipment hegemony.

"Eric, long time no see." Chris and Eric embraced and quickly introduced to him: "I think you must know him. Mr. Jorma Ollila."

Jorma Ollila took the initiative to step forward and shook hands with Eric: "Mr. Williams, this is Jorma Ollila. I am very happy to see you, I like your movie very much."

"Thank you, just call me Eric," Eric let go of Jorma Ollila's hand, did not care about the other person's smile with a slight gaze, and turned to greet the Firefly investment company team member brought by Chris.

Everyone left the airport, Eric took Chris into their car, car was just launched, Chris could n’t wait to open the carry-on suitcase: “Eric, according to the information you sent back to New York, I am again The company Nokia made an assessment ... "

If Eric interrupted Chris, he smiled and pointed to the car behind him: "You haven't told me what happened to Jorma Ollila, how could he come to Paris with you?"

Chris smiled, temporarily closed the suitcase and said: "He almost picked me up from New York."

"I know Jorma Ollila went to Wall Street to invest for Nokia, but the situation should not be as bad as you said?"

"As far as I know, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are not very interested in investing in Nokia, because the Boston consulting group published a report more than a year ago, claiming that the Nokia mobile phone business is completely incompatible with Motorola. Competing with Japan mobile phone manufacturers, and finally, Lehman Brothers, who just got rid of the control of the express company, intends to invest, but Lehman Brothers itself is very short of funds, and the conditions for opening are relatively harsh. When I contacted Yola.Ollila, he had already invested with Lehman Brothers. The Manager has been negotiated for a month, and has not been in talks with the other party. From this point of view, this person is indeed very capable, but at the same time he has also become a resistance to our acquisition of Nokia. Since he will not easily deal with Lehman Brothers Such a giant compromise, that is to say, he will not easily compromise with us. "

Eric asked: "Did you get the content of the negotiation between him and Lehman Brothers?"

Chris nodded slyly, "Of course," Chris opened the suitcase and took out a few documents from it to Eric.

“The dispute between Jorma Ollila and Lehman Brothers mainly focuses on the scale of capital injection and time to market. Lehman Brothers initially only agreed to capital injection of 50 million USD, but took away 10% of the shares of Nokia. In addition, Lehman Brothers gave the condition to help Nokia to operate after three years Go public, but Jorma Ollila hopes that Lehman Brothers can directly operate the Nokia listing and draw development funds from the stock market. "

Eric read the documents in front of him, wondering: "What is he eager to go to market, if Nokia has a good prospect for development. Is it possible to get more benefits after going public later?"

"I have also made analysis in this regard," Chris explained: "At present, most of the equity of Nokia is concentrated in the hands of several Finnish banks, which means that Nokia makes any major business adjustments. All of them need to obtain the permission of several bank shareholders. This situation has led to a very narrow space for the management of Nokia to play independently. But if it can operate Nokia listed on North America. Nokia will become a public holding company, so that the management With more room to play, you only need to be responsible to the majority of shareholders, and you do n’t have to listen to the instructions of the shareholders of several banks. "

"In the final analysis, he still wants more power. Right?"

Chris nodded: "Yes, so when I first started to contact Jorma Ollila, he was not too enthusiastic about investing in Firefly. I was worried that if he continued to talk with Lehman Brothers, he would suddenly reach cooperation, and he revealed some Cisco to him. Information, he promised to return to Europe with me. "

Although Firefly Investment hides the diversification of Cisco in several investment funds, it is still the largest shareholder of Cisco. However, in addition to the necessary personnel and financial supervision of Cisco, Firefly investment did not interfere too much with the operation of this company. Eric understands that Jorma Ollila should have taken a fancy to this point.

"Speaking of this, last week Cisco completed the merger of coc communications, and expanded the Cisco business to the catalyst5000 switch field. After this merger, our equity fell to 31%. However, according to the pre-closing last Friday Stock price. The current market value of Cisco has reached 5300 million USD, and the detailed information Headquarters is still being collated there. After completion, it will be sent to your mailbox, I will simply tell you about it. "

Eric nodded to understand. Since Clinton Administration came to power and announced the information superhighway plan, the stock prices of computer network-related companies have risen rapidly in the past six months. The stock price of Cisco has more than doubled from the beginning of the year to the present, although the most crazy time for network technology stocks It is far from here, but this trend has attracted the attention of a large number of Wall Street investors.

After finishing this, Chris quickly took out a delicately packed gift box from the suitcase: "Nà, the second thing, someone asked me to bring you a gift."

Eric did not notice the smirk in the corner of Chris ’s mouth, and opened the wrapping paper with some doubt, only to find that there was a 32-size photo frame. In the photo, two chubby little guys were sitting on the sofa, and the little boy glared A pair of eyes stared blankly at the camera, a little girl with eyebrows like Joanna, but stretched out her small hand indistinctly as if to grab something.

Eric saw the picture, and I remembered that the two little guys were born on April 10th, and the other day was the anniversary of the three months of birth of the two little guys, but he forgot about it. I haven't called back in the past few days. It seems that Virginia must be very angry, which made Chris bring him a 'gift'.

Chris said on the side: "On the Kevin baptism day, Emily and I also went. I am now the The Godfather Oh of the little guy. I thought you knew it and did not inform you. The day before yesterday Emily went to visit the two little guys, bring I will give you this thing when I come back, I know it. "

Western children generally receive baptisms after a few months of birth. Eric did n’t expect Virginia to discuss things with himself, he just took the matter and smiled awkwardly, and Eric realized what it was and asked: “Kevin ’s Baptism, what about Xiaxia? "

Chris spreads hands: "This should be something you discuss with Joanna," noticed the confused expression of Eric, and Chris said: "Joanna is Jewish, Jewish from mother, traditionally, Xiaxia should also be considered Jews, from a pedigree, she can also be regarded as an Englishman. British generally believes in Christianity, so you need to discuss with Joanna what kind of denomination the little guy believes in. "

Eric feels weird and mutters: "My daughter turned out to be Jewish."

After knowing for so long, Chris also realizes that Eric is a person who is not very sensitive to race, so he also knows that Eric did not have any discrimination in the words just now, laughing: "Yes, if you let Xiaxia connect Your class will definitely be welcomed by Hollywood. "

"It just feels weird," Eric also smiled: "What about you, Chris, which ethnic group is your family?"

Chris said: "My family is a Norwegian immigrant who has migrated since the time of the great voyage, and now it should be regarded as the American nation."

"Norway, I thought Hansson was also a United Kingdom surname," Eric laughed.

"The arrogance in British's bones," Chris quipped, before explaining: "The surname Hansson means" son of Hans ". If you have read fairy tales, you will find Han The name Si is often found in Nordic fairy tales, and Norway is one of the five Nordic countries. "

Eric put the photos of the two little guys together and said: "Well, don't talk about this for the time being, let's go back to Nokia."

Chris nodded and took out several documents from the suitcase: "This is some comparative testing I commissioned the technical department of Cisco. The communication method adopted by Nokia completely suppresses most of the mobile communication devices at this stage. At present, mainstream mobile phones use analog signals. Because they use pulse signals, they are very susceptible to interference during the transmission process and cause distortion in call quality. In fact, many mobile communication equipment companies are researching new communication standards. According to the test results given by the technical department of Cisco, the digital signal used by the 1011 mobile phone of Nokia is very stable. This signal uses the same binary principle as the computer. There is no distortion in the transmission process, so I think, If the GSM network used by Nokia can be promoted, it will cause a huge change in mobile communication equipment, and Nokia, which first launched the GSM mobile phone, will also gain a great advantage. If you do n’t want our investment to bubble up, after the acquisition is completed , The first thing we need to do is to lobby the Europe countries to adopt the GSM system. "

Eric said: "This seems to be something to be done after the acquisition is completed?" (to be continued)