Bright Star Road [Entertainment]

"Mr. Yang is really a joker." Li Wei laughed lightly.

Although Li Wei is a little interested in Best Wei Xun Company, but Marcos's price is obviously killing himself as a fat sheep.While Li Wei was chatting with Marcos, Zhou Xiao had already contacted the financial investigation company to conduct an investigation on Best Wei Xun Company.According to the preliminary investigation results, Best Weixun has been insolvent for a long time, but it has not declared bankruptcy because of the pressure from the government and labor unions.Although Best Wei Xun has more than 400 stores in North America and a cheap theater circuit with more than a hundred screens, these properties are all products of the middle of the last century and are extremely expensive to maintain.Even if Best Wei Xun owns the property rights and land rights of these properties, it is basically a worthless business.In particular, Marcos also asked for a commitment not to lay off employees for five years, which resulted in a labor cost to be spent after the acquisition.

"Although it's my first vacation in Honolulu, this film represents the first time I pay attention to the North American market. If Mr. Yang can't give me a good offer, then there is no need to talk about this cooperation. Although I do have a need, but with the development of the Internet age, Mr. Yang thinks my Kirin website really needs your Bestway? Well, Mr. Yang, why don’t we stop talking here. We will talk about it soon When it’s time to eat, we also suggest you find a good restaurant and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Hawaiian dusk and the special food here.”

Marcos secretly blamed himself for being too greedy when he heard that Li Wei turned his face. Now there are almost no people who are willing to accept BestWeixin.Marcos immediately said: "Mr. Li, pack $15 billion!"

"No! $10 billion package." Li Wei gave his own price lightly, "At the same time, I will review the salaries and benefits of all employees, and give new salaries and benefits based on their abilities and the average salary level of the market , if they cannot accept it, then they must automatically resign; and the bonus agreements, option agreements and golden parachute guarantees of the executives must all be frozen; finally, I can only promise not to voluntarily lay off employees within three years. Mr. Yang, if you can accept, Let's talk about it."

"Employee salaries and executive benefits, I can agree to these two items." Marcos said with a wry smile, "But the package price is indeed too low. At the same time, you may need to discuss the length of the employee protection period with the trade union organization. I have no way call the shots."

Li Wei does not have a particularly good impression of the labor unions in Citigroup. It can be said that the main reason for the high labor costs in Citigroup is these ubiquitous labor unions.If you think that the labor unions in Citigroup protect the interests of the working class or laborers, then you are completely wrong.Citigroup's trade unions only protect workers who have paid membership dues in this industry, and the rest are not within their scope of protection.For example, in order to maintain the salary level of workers who pay dues, they will strictly prohibit companies from hiring workers who are not members of the union; they even hesitate to suppress more advanced production methods.For example, Citigroup is actually very convenient to build a railway network, and the transportation cost of railways is actually the lowest.But the most powerful trade union organizations in Citigroup are the Motor Transport Workers Association and the Longshoremen's Union. Therefore, in order to protect the interests of workers in the two industries of road transportation and inland waterway transportation, they have been hindering the development of Citigroup's rail transportation.

If it hadn't been for the air transport industry to take away the hatred value of the two major trade union organizations, Citigroup's rail transport industry may have remained at the level of development of the last century.And in company bankruptcy and acquisitions, trade unions often jump out to disrupt the situation.For example, the newly taken over company is required not to dismiss old employees for a few years, and then the benefits and salaries of old employees must be guaranteed and so on.Often under the influence of labor unions, the originally negotiated acquisition agreement will be temporarily suspended, eventually leading to the bankruptcy of the acquiree and all employees losing their jobs.At this time, the trade union will blame the acquiring company and the acquired company. In short, the trade union is right.For politicians, trade unions are often their biggest source of votes and financial support, so supporting trade unions has become politically correct.

"I can negotiate with the union, but I will add this to the acquisition agreement." Li Wei sneered.

If the trade union wants to come out to disrupt the situation, then he should act first.It depends on whether you choose to be unemployed immediately or choose a three-year protection period.In Li Wei's view, if you still can't adapt to the new company within three years, why should the company support you for another two years?Li Wei recognizes the contribution of employees to the company, and believes that employees and the company are mutually reinforcing, but the premise of all this is that the employee must meet the company's standards, and at the same time, the employee is willing to work for the company.As for the kind of idle employees, Li Wei can only say that everyone is happy to get together, after all, no matter how much money he has, he is not used to support lazy people.At the same time, what is important is that as long as there is one lazy person in a department, the entire department will soon be collectively lazy.

After hearing what Li Wei said, Marcos himself smiled wryly. As an entrepreneur in Citigroup, he knew better than Li Wei the virtues of trade union organizations.If the early trade union organizations were indeed protecting the interests of workers and laborers, then the current trade union organizations have been completely reduced to thug organizations of big capitalists and politicians.And more importantly, because the early labor unions had connections with certain criminal organizations, and were even peripheral organizations of criminal organizations or transformed organizations after laundering, the methods at the hands of some old trade unions were enough to make some small and medium-sized entrepreneurs feel taboo.However, Marcos did not discuss these matters with Li Wei. After all, he and Li Wei were just business partners, nothing else.And if Li Wei is really frightened, then he will be unlucky in the end.

So Marcos said: "I will arrange for union representatives to intervene in our acquisition negotiations as soon as possible. What do you think?"

"Just do as you said." Li Wei nodded and said, "It will take about a week for me to organize the acquisition negotiation team, so how about we continue to negotiate in Honolulu after a week?" Li Wei actually has a 24-hour The acquisition negotiating team is on call at any time, but he needs time to evaluate the value of Best Wei Xun and understand the information of relevant creditors and labor unions.

Of course, Marcos understood what Li Wei meant, but he didn't point it out, but said with satisfaction: "In this case, I will bring my negotiating team to Honolulu in a week to find Mr. Li for formal acquisition negotiations. .”

After sending Marcos away, Zhou Xiao suddenly said: "This guy is not honest, he definitely has a lot of things to hide from us."

"How many people in business are not cunning? I have only met him once so far, and it is only right for him to plot against me." Li Wei didn't mind Marcos plotting against him, but on the contrary, if Marcos If he puts his heart out, Li Wei still has to worry about what is the purpose of his courtship for nothing. "But my advantage is not so easy to take advantage of, he will pay the price."

"Why do you plan to acquire a video rental and sales store? This is a sunset industry everywhere, and doesn't this industry conflict with your video website?" Zhou Xiao still has some understanding of Li Wei's industry, "It's you I can understand why you want to enter cheap cinemas, after all, your Caesars cinemas also have a cheap cinema of ours.”

"The theater market in North America is different from that in China. The ticket prices of most of China's theaters are actually inflated. Therefore, it is necessary for me to develop another cheap theater chain for low-end users, but North America Movie tickets in China are already very cheap, and it is completely unnecessary to create cheap theaters at the expense of the viewing environment and effects.” Li Wei explained, “North America’s film sources are much richer than ours, and they The mainstream theater chains themselves need discounts and promotions, so cheap theater chains actually use shabby environments and old projection equipment to keep costs down, which will cause audiences to come once and never come again; It is used to show adult restricted works to meet the biological needs of some low-income men."

In fact, the situation Li Wei mentioned also existed in the early China of the earth plane. Relying on the tertiary |movies from Hong Kong saved many movie theaters that were struggling with income.However, with the country's emphasis on spiritual civilization, such theaters soon declined.

"So it is impossible for me to lower the price below the cost price, which is tantamount to fishing out the water. What I want is to make it into a dining bar and a themed screening hall."

Dining bars are a variant of foreign bars, mainly selling all kinds of fast food and snacks.In order to gather users, dining bars are often made into cultural themes, and it is obviously a good choice to enjoy delicious food while watching movies.

In addition to the dining bar, there are so-called drive-in cinemas.The cinema is the parking lot, and the audience can drive in to watch the movie, and at the same time use the car radio to receive the fixed-frequency radio signal, and then they can enjoy the stereo sound in the car.At the same time, this kind of drive-in movie theater also provides various foods, as long as you call the service number.

In addition to these two specialty cinemas, theme theaters are obviously a better choice.Sci-fi themes, horror and thriller themes, etc. Movie fans who come to watch movies in such themed theaters are generally sentimental users. They don’t mind whether the movie they watch is old or not, as long as the atmosphere is good.

"As for those stores, I plan to make our Kylin Culture offline store. You know, our Kylin Culture has accumulated a lot of high-quality IP in Asia, and the sales of related publications and derivative products are very good. I plan to go to North America Market. The important thing is that in the future, I will also invest and acquire local IPs in North America for development. Besides, our game peripherals are the most important thing. North America has always had a soft spot for physical games, selling remakes, For the collector’s edition, I estimate that it will be fully profitable within three to five years.”

"Your plan is very shrewd. By the way, are you planning to bring my Yushanfang together in the restaurant plan?" Zhou Xiao asked, "You know, I have been committed to building a restaurant in North America. Fast food brands, but currently they are basically concentrated in the Asian region, if you want to expand to the whole country, your plan is worthy of my investment."

"No problem." Li Wei agreed with a smile, "After the acquisition is completed, I will split the company into two physical companies, the store and the theater. At that time, you can inject capital into the theater company. Isn't this a good cooperation? But I suggest that it is best for us to completely localize the company this time, that is, the executives and key employees are all from North America, and we can send supervisors from core departments such as finance, legal affairs, and personnel. Expanding the employment rate is guaranteed."