America's Road to Fame

Chapter 363 Paramount?
In Huaguo's group buying track, William Chen's Huaxia Future Capital has already made plans. They have invested in two websites, Dianping and Meituan.com respectively.

At the earliest, he got 20% of the shares of Dianping.com, and participated in the seed round investment of Meituan.com, and got 15% of the shares.

In Meituan’s A round of financing at the end of last year, Huaxia Future Capital even invested 2000 million US dollars to expand its shareholding in Meituan to 35%.

Therefore, at this time, Chen William mainly focused on watching the battle of thousands of regiments. Anyway, in the end, Meituan.com, which he favored, would merge with Dianping, thus opening the road to becoming a giant of Meituan.

If the two companies need funds during this period, William Chen will not refuse to continue to invest, but based on his understanding of Wang Xing, the other party does not intend to blindly start a money-burning war, but shifts the focus from the PC side to the mobile phone. The transfer of the Internet has finally proved that his decision is correct, and Meituan will have the last laugh.

In the face of this situation of thousands of regiments fighting, Dianping can't sit still anymore. They are also preparing to start a new round of financing. This time, Huaxia Future Capital will also participate in the financing. The goal is also to expand their holdings to A share of more than 30%.

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Unlike the battered economic situation in Europe that needs to be dealt with at the moment, Huaguo has already started a strong economic recovery at this time, and commercial real estate has also ushered in a new round of development, especially office buildings located in excellent locations in first-tier cities, which are very sought-after .

After all, capital is mobile, and they will always gather in the low places of value. In the current global environment affected by the European debt crisis after the subprime mortgage crisis, Huaguo's rapid development has allowed many companies to see opportunities.

According to the estimates of TC Commercial Management Company, according to the current operating conditions, among the buildings in the free shipping area, Yanjing and Guangdong Province, only the two buildings in Yangcheng and Shenzhen have not yet been completed - and they can be delivered in one or two months , the other buildings have already been delivered and are quickly leased out.

Under such circumstances, within 5 years, TC Commercial Management Company will be able to repay all Huaguo Bank loans, and within 10 years, it will be able to repay the current debt plus financing.

On the one hand, thanks to the heating up of the property market, the rental prices of office buildings began to rise sharply; on the other hand, the financing costs of the three landmark skyscrapers in Shanghai, Yanjing and Yangcheng are extremely low. And the current profit situation is very good, which is the main component of TC business management company's income.

Not only TC Commercial Management Company but also HT (HeyTea) Asset Management Company benefited from the recovery of Huaguo Real Estate. It has already held more than 100 prime location shops, which are rented out to HEYTEA at low prices, and this number is still expanding.

After completing the layout in the first-tier cities, HEYTEA is now continuing to quickly open branches in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, etc., while occupying the market, it has also begun to expand to new first-tier cities. In the future, it will be in Sichuan and Chongqing, Qindao, In big cities such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang, first of all, at least three HEYTEA shops will be opened in each city.

Chen William plans to merge HT Asset Management Company into Heytea Company after the number of Heytea stores in Huaguo exceeds 200. With 200 self-owned stores as the support, Heytea Company will not be limited to self-purchase Shops can develop rapidly by leasing shops and entering large commercial centers.

Now Yang Mi is already the spokesperson of Hey Tea Company, and after she participated in the founding of Hey Tea, in terms of film and television, she only took on two TV series this year, which is different from the seven or eight TV series she filmed in the previous year. For the record, it can really be called salted fish.

However, because of her success in HEYTEA and the difference in current resources, her popularity does not have much impact, and she is still one of the most popular florets in Huaguo.

After meeting Boss Ma, William Chen also met Yida's boss Wang Jianlin at a later reception.

William Chen had contact with Boss Wang several times before, and the relationship was pretty good, so Boss Wang took the initiative to arrange a private meeting with William Chen.

This time, William Chen brought Yang Mi with him, because he would also talk to Boss Wang about Heytea's presence in Yida Plazas in various cities.

Boss Wang brought Xiao Wang with him, and everyone mainly chatted and exchanged feelings.Moreover, Boss Wang obviously hopes that Xiao Wang can get in touch with Chen William more. After all, they are young people, but Chen William's identity is not ordinary. If Xiao Wang can have a good relationship with him, then he is a very strong one. contacts.

During the chat, William Chen brought up Heytea Company and HC Fashion Group's store in Yida Plaza by the way, and Boss Wang naturally agreed.

After all, HEYTEA has become a trend at this time, and this innovative milk tea is very popular among young people. Even now, there are generally more than a dozen branches in various first-tier cities, and even dozens of branches in Shanghai and Yanjing. Heytea shops in prosperous areas are often not readily available, and you have to wait in line for a while, which shows the popularity of Heytea.

This kind of popular brand's entry into Yida Plaza can also contribute to their increase in customer flow, and Boss Wang will naturally not refuse, which can be said to be a win-win situation.

As for the HC Fashion Group, it may not be well-known in China at this time, but Hermès under this group is a top luxury brand, so I heard that not only the HC brand store will be located in Yida Plaza, but the Hermès brand will also be opened adjacent to it. Boss Wang is also very happy to agree to the specialty store.

Boss Wang, on the other hand, is more interested in the film and television industry. Currently, Yida is seeking to acquire AMC, the second largest theater chain in the United States. He had contacted William Chen before, and William Chen also helped in this process, helping to open up a lot in California. Relationship, now it seems that this acquisition of up to 26 billion US dollars is about to be completed.

Boss Wang is still not satisfied. He is also interested in Hollywood film companies, so he asked William Chen for a lot of relevant information. After all, William Chen himself is the owner of a Hollywood film company, and his [-]th Century MGM is a The second largest film company in China, after being acquired by Netflix, Netflix at this time is already catching up with Disney rapidly.

Of course, the current big film companies in Hollywood either have Wall Street capital involved, or have large media groups behind them. It doesn’t mean that you can buy them if you have money, especially Huaguo companies like Yida, which are acquiring Hollywood. When working as a company, the first thing we need to face is the scrutiny of the American government, which is very strict.

And the choice of acquisition target is also very important. Often a company that seems to be doing well may have intertwined interest disputes behind it. After you acquire it, you may inadvertently find yourself in a big pit.

There were many such things in the previous mergers and acquisitions of overseas companies.Therefore, Boss Wang also very much hopes that William Chen can give him some professional advice, so that he can have a better understanding of the background behind these film companies.

At present, there is nothing to say about the five major companies in Hollywood, Disney. It is impossible to acquire it. William is not short of money at all; Sony Pictures is backed by the Sony Group, even if Sony is hit by the economic crisis, the current situation is not very good, but there is no hope at all to buy Sony Pictures from them.

The remaining Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. are also extremely difficult. They are supported by media groups. Comcast is behind Universal Pictures; Time Warner is behind Warner Bros. They are all media giants in the United States. It will be sold to Yida Group.

The only possibility is Paramount, which belongs to Viacom Group and whose boss is Redstone.Viacom Group is also a media giant that can compete with News Corporation in all aspects of the media industry.

Although the market capitalization of Meta Entertainment Media Company is not weaker than or even surpassed that of News Corporation and Viacom at this time, there is one point that William Chen’s Meta Entertainment Media Company pays more attention to the Internet in media channels, but has no TV network. It's not like News Corp. has Fox Network and other TV media; Viacom has CBS.

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