Among the five major business news networks in Japan, Asahi TV ranks fourth. SoftBank and Sony, Star TV bought 21.4% of Asahi TV's stock, becoming the largest shareholder of Asahi TV in one fell swoop.
Shocked the entire Japanese press!
The strong alliance between the three is an extremely rare business practice in Japan, a country that has always been closed.
Software Bank has just been listed and is in the limelight. Masayoshi Son took the lead in holding the press conference, which is also the fundamental reason why Sony and Star TV want to join the group.
Software Banking and Masayoshi Son must be considered an anomaly in Japanese business society. Compared with traditional aristocratic families, Masayoshi Son's rise is like the monkey popping out of the Sky Stone.
Pushing him and SoftBank to the front stage is undoubtedly an excellent target to share firepower.
The technology upstart has mastered traditional media, which is definitely a big news in the Japanese press, so that Sony and Star TV, both partners were ignored by some Japanese media intentionally or unintentionally.
They only regard these two parties as business partners who were brought to help the boxing by Masayoshi Son.
After the press conference, many people in the press expressed concerns about SoftBank's investment in Asahi TV, while Masayoshi Son repeatedly emphasized through the media that it would not affect the content of Asahi TV's program after becoming a major shareholder.
He is concerned about new communication technology and has no interest in the content of the program.
But even so, the turmoil in the Japanese press could not be calmed down.
On the second day of the press conference, the Yomiuri Shimbun, the largest circulation in Japan, published an article saying: "SoftBank controls Asahi TV to break the country's closeness to Japan's radio and television!"
After SoftBank held a press conference, Tao Yushu stayed in Japan for another week. The first purpose was to observe the social reaction of Japan's Skyline Broadcasting Corporation after it acquired a stake in Asahi TV.
It seems that Masayoshi Son is still easy to use, and Sony and Star TV have not received much attention in this wave of public opinion.
Her second self-employed person in Japan was to establish Star TV. Sony is now the second largest shareholder of Lin's Pictures, and Lin's Pictures is also the largest shareholder of Star TV.
With Sony, the "leader" helping, things have become much easier.
But Star TV is launched in Japan, which is definitely not like Southeast Asian countries, just to replace the original program with subtitles and voice, and then simply make some localized programs.
After all, this is the second largest single market in the world, so we should still give enough respect.
Skyline Broadcasting Corporation only used 41.75 billion yen, or approximately US$417.5 million in acquisition of Asahi TV.
With a business worth more than $400 million, Star TV, SoftBank and Sony jointly dispatched, it would be a bit of a waste of money.
In fact, becoming a major shareholder of Asahi TV is only the first step for the three companies to jointly enter the Japanese TV industry. The localization and localization of Star TV are what they value more.
To this end, the three companies will invest another US$420 million to help Star TV Japanese company land in Japan, and will launch TV channels including information channels, movie channels, music channels, sports channels, geographic channels and other TV channels, which is almost equivalent to replicating a Star TV Japanese branch.
The investment was 837.5 million yuan, and the three companies were evenly distributed, and Star TV would invest about US$280 million.
It is a bit difficult for Star TV today, but fortunately, a considerable number of these funds are left hand and right hand.
Although Star TV's implementation is mainly localized, several channels are released together, and a large number of external program resources and program copyrights are required. The copyright library of Star TV and Lin's Film is naturally an important source.
The landing of Starry Sky TV cannot be completed in a short period of time. After the general direction and plan are determined, the rest is what the subordinates need to be busy, so Tao Yushu is ready to fly back to Xiangjiang.
"Teacher Lin!" Before boarding the plane, Lai Wanqin handed Tao Yushu a newspaper.
There are international newspapers and magazines in Haneda Airport's bookstore. Lai Wanqin handed over a copy of the Boston Herald, which came only three days ago.
"Beware the Chinese CapitalTakeover of Hollywood".
The huge title is placed on the front page, which is extremely eye-catching.
Translated into Chinese is probably "Beware of Chinese capital invasion of Hollywood".
Tao Yushu's mouth showed a disdainful smile, "Is this so angry that he is embarrassed?"
The Boston Herald was once brilliant in the 1980s, setting a record high of 800,000 daily sales.
Unfortunately, it was later on the decline and was acquired by Murdoch's News Corporation.
After acquiring the Boston Herald, Murdoch made drastic reforms to the newspaper, which is the "lower three-way" strategy he is good at.
The sales of newspapers have improved after the reform, but they have also added the nickname "Juggling News".
At the same time, with the help of News Corp., the Boston Herald has also expanded its overseas distribution channels, which is why Tao Yushu was able to see this newspaper at Yuyou Airport.
"You intercepted Asahi TV and even Masayoshi Son came over. It was normal for him to be angry, but that's all." Lai Fangqin said in a compliment.
Tao Yushu put away the smile on his lips and said seriously: "News Corporation has a strong root in the United States, so how can it be so easy to deal with?"
Murdoch has been deeply engaged in the United States for many years and has mastered the St. Anthony Express and the Boston Herald.
Many newspapers and magazines such as "Chicago Sun", "New York", "Voice of the Country", and "Star".
The most important thing is that Fox TV now has a vague trend of running side by side with the three major American TV networks.
Once such a powerful public opinion matrix is ​​exerted, the pressure the Lin family in the United States will inevitably be huge.
"This has verified your foresight. To introduce Sony as a partner, CBS is equivalent to becoming our public opinion weapon."
Tao Yushu shook his head, "Natural!"
"CBS has limited help to us, and it is always easier to destroy than to build."
After saying this, Tao Yushu looked at the plane that was taxiing outside the window, "The ironwork must be strong himself!
It is almost midsummer in July when I return to Xiangjiang again.
When Tao Yushu arrived home, there was laughter and joy in the villa No. 75 Shenshuiwan Road. Du Feng and Chen Lan were visiting at home.
Chen Lan is now 7 months pregnant, and she has to stuff some food into her mouth with her big belly from time to time.
"It's really possible that he's a kid so much," she said with some worries.
After this summer vacation, Dongdong is about to enter the middle school stage. He is only 12 years old and has reached 165.
When I was a child, my round figure also lost weight. I inherited my mother's excellent genes and had a bit of a handsome guy's potential between my eyebrows.
However, although people grow up, their personality is becoming more and more rebellious. In Lin Chaoyang's words, they call cats and dogs all day long, and they can't stay idle like monkeys.
When I was a child, I could still use sticks to educate me. Now I am old and I am not afraid of being beaten a few times. I even dare to show off after eating the belt.
Especially compared with the well-behaved and cute Yan Yan, it is simply disgusting.
Looking at such a naughty child, Chen Lan is now extremely resistant to having a son.
It’s better for a daughter. Her daughter is a caring little cotton jacket. She knows cold and heat and will hurt people.
"It's the same for a boy or a girl!" Du Feng said happily.
Chen Lan gave him a blank look and felt that he was sure that his son would say that because he was sure that his belly was his son.
Du Feng has been in a good mood recently, on the one hand, because Chen Lan is pregnant, and on the other hand, because of the successful listing of Asia and Europe.
On March 15, Asia and Europe were officially listed on the Stock Exchange, with the listing set a stock price of 3.4 yuan per share, and 212 million shares were allocated to the public, raising a total of HK$720.8 million.
On the day of listing, as a rare joint venture private enterprise in Hong Kong stocks in Hong Kong, Asia and Europe stocks were enthusiastically sought after by the market. The stock price once broke through 6 yuan and finally closed at 5.2 yuan per share, with a market value of HK$5.5 billion.
In just one day, the value of the stocks in Du Feng's hands soared from 1.8 billion to 2.8 billion Hong Kong dollars, which was faster than robbing the bank, which naturally made him feel overjoyed.
Fortunately, the company's stock price has risen and fallen in the past few months, and he has gradually woken up from the initial excitement and satisfaction and devoted his energy to the main business.
During this period, he has been in contact with supermarkets and enterprises in Xiangjiang.
He wants to build a shopping mall like Walmart, but he has neither experience nor management team nor supply chain.
The best way is to find a master first.
It just so happens that Xiangjiang's supermarket industry has considerable advantages in this regard.
Nowadays, local supermarkets in Xiangjiang are led by Huikang and Baijia, which is a chain supermarket of Jardine Mahjong and Baijia, and Baijia is a chain supermarket of Watsons, a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa.
Unfortunately, these two companies had already laid out the mainland market as early as the 1980s, one targeted the factory and the other targeted the self-market in Shanghai.
However, the development speed of both companies in the mainland is not fast, which can be regarded as giving Du Feng a chance.
"Huikang's attitude is not very positive and he looks down on my small workshop. Baijia has some ideas, but he always wants to make money by making money. He doesn't want to invest too much, and wants to take a share." Du Feng said with a headache.
"If you want to find a master, you always have to pay the tuition. Although I don't know much about the supermarket industry, supply chain management must be an extremely important thing. It is always a good thing to have their management experience to learn from," said Tao Yushu.
Du Fengshou said, "I understand the truth. I am afraid that the tuition will be in vain. Their business scope is limited to Xiangjiang, Wandao and Southeast Asia. They have no experience in a wide environment like the mainland. Unfortunately, Wal-Mart ignored me.
Du Feng wanted to find a master, and the first one to target was a world-class company like Walmart, the United States and Love in France. Unfortunately, multinational companies are proud of now and don’t even look at Du Feng at all.
Then he settled on the second best to lock his light on the supermarkets and enterprises in Xiangjiang.
He thought about it for a long time, just to ask Lin Chaoyang and Tao Yushu to give him an idea and who should cooperate with.
"You decide this kind of thing yourself, we can't help."
Tao Yushu's opinions made Du Feng a little disappointed. During this period, he had been talking about Tao Yushu's tiger skin, otherwise he would not have been able to get in touch with the Milk Company and Watsons.
"Then let's work with Baijia. They are now exploring the super square model, and I'll try it out in the mainland." Du Feng finally made the decision.
After dinner, Du Feng and Chen Lan left. Lin Chaoyang got into the study. Tao Yushu learned that he was going to write a new book, so he asked happily.
"What are you going to write about this book?"
"Writing about the events of the 20 years before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the war of warlords, the war of resistance against Japan, the war of liberation, and a group of people split up because of different beliefs, and the story of incompatibility of water and fire."
Lin Chaoyang briefly narrated the central idea of ​​the story, and Tao Yushu pondered and said, "The pattern is very big!"
"It's useless to just have a big pattern, so you still have to start from the details. I often call your uncle these days, and the material is still a bit lacking."
Tao Yushu teased and said, "It's not okay to make a phone call, you have to talk about this kind of thing in person. When you go back and invite him to have a meal, let him call all the old buddies in the army, so that they can have enough materials."
Lin Chaoyang shook his head, "It's a headache to have too much material. Most of the things your uncle said to me cannot be written."
"It's simple. After you go back, you've written it out. Leave the manuscript to my uncle and let him solve it."
Lin Chaoyang smiled and said, "It's the same as "The Wreath Under the Mountains", right?"
After the couple talked for a while, Lin Chaoyang was involved in the creation, while Tao Yushu planned to tame the donkey.
She spent most of the time on business trips in the past two months. Lin Siyan was so naughty that Tao Yushu would receive tips almost every two days.
It is impossible not to invite family rules.
After a while, a faint sound of ghosts and wolves cried to the study room. Lin Chaoyang chuckled and shook his head helplessly.
In early July, a news suddenly appeared in Xiangjiang media that Mingpao Enterprise intends to acquire South China Morning Post Group.
Since the beginning of this year, news about the change of ownership of the South China Morning Post Group has appeared almost every once in a while, causing a lot of controversy.
When investors and institutions hear this news again, it is a bit irritating.
But the difference in this news is that the rumored acquirer is Mingpao Enterprise, and his strength is not ordinary.
With Lin's Film and Television, it has a TV network covering half of Asia, which is backed by Lin's Film and Television. If Mingbao companies want to acquire South China Morning Post Group, it is not a secret to the difficulty of competing from the perspective of strength.
Next is the willingness to acquire and industrial structure. Mingpao companies are now firmly in the top spot in the media industry in Xiangjiang. If they want to compete for anything, they will definitely be English newspapers and international influence.
The South China Morning Post, a subsidiary of the South China Morning Post Group, can provide this momentum, which forms a complementary effect.
Finally, it is South China Morning Post Group. Although it is backed by the Xintest Group, there have been bad news this year.
First, it was reported that the parent company Xintest Group's debt ratio was too high, and a large number of foreign editors were poached.
These are all secondary. Some time ago, the South China Morning Post Group was suddenly exposed that the company had been involved in a loan of hundreds of millions of dollars, which immediately triggered a fierce reaction from investors.
The continuous bad news has caused the stock price of South China Morning Post Group to fall continuously. Although there seemed to be a large amount of capital pallets during the period, the overall stock price is still not optimistic, and it has fallen by 40% compared with the beginning of the year.
Now, news of Mingpao's intention to acquire it suddenly came out, and the stock price of South China Morning Post Group suddenly seemed like a patient on the verge of death was injected with a shot of a heart attack, which rose 3.5% that day.
In the next few days, a media reporter first called Mingpao Enterprise to ask if the acquisition was true.
I got an ambiguous answer, which immediately made the media smell an unusual smell.
Several important financial media followed up on the report.
The enthusiasm of the market was completely driven, and the stock price of the South China Morning Post Group, which had been hovering for two or three months, finally rose.
2 yuan8, 3 yuan, 3 yuan3—
The positive effects of the acquisition stimulated the stock price of South China Morning Post Group to rise for a week. Even though South China Morning Post Group refuted the rumors as early as the next day and had no contact with Mingpao companies, it still could not stop the enthusiasm of shareholders.
The rise in stock prices is ultimately a good cream for the company.
After seeing the rumors being refuted, the investors were still enthusiastic and too lazy to refute the rumors and explain them again. They were like salted fish being spread on the chopping board and stopped struggling.
Of course, the rapid rise in the stock price of South China Morning Post Group is not only the enthusiasm of investors, but also the market makers who are planting fish in muddy waters.
The South China Morning Post Group's fund for protecting the market noticed something was wrong, but the dealer wanted to raise the stock price and ship the goods.
They can't keep the stock price down.
This battle made a lot of money, but I felt a sense of aggrievance.
Half a month later, the share price of South China Morning Post Group returned to 4.8 yuan, which hit its peak since September last year.
But the South China Morning Post Group was not happy because they knew clearly that this was just a situation created by others for the company.
Don't fight for them, even their big boss, Murdoch, who has never lost in Europe and the United States, has no choice but to do anything about it.
Monday, July 25.
Ms. Lin Ye Yushu, Chairman of the Dong Gao Bureau of Mingpao Enterprise, accepted an exclusive interview with Mingpao, responding to the recent new test of Mingpao Enterprise's acquisition of South China Morning Post Group.
"I did have a meeting with the Murdoch pioneer of the Xintest Group, but you should also know that it is because the Murdoch pioneer wants to buy the Starry Sky Wushi.
As for Mingpao Enterprise’s acquisition of South China Morning Post Group, it is purely a fictitious thing.”
Once the new test was reported, the stock price of the South China Morning Post Group went straight to a dive. Many investors were happy for a few days and put on the mask of pain again.
Three days later, Huazhang Tiandi.
As a standard building in Central, even if you change your owner, it still keeps busy every day.
Liang Botao took the elevator to the top floor and walked into the office under the guidance of Lai Wanqin.
"Madam Lin!"
"Botao!"
When Ye Yushu saw Liang Botao, he smiled. The battle was finally over, and he should comfort his hard-working comrades-in-arms.
She personally poured a cup of tea for Liang Botao, "Try the freshly fried Biluochun in the spring."
"The fragrance is elegant and refreshing."
The truth or falsehood of this statement is not important. What is important is Liang Botao's attitude. Ye Yushu smiled and argued: "I'll go back and give you some money. Chaoyang Zheyou sent it from Zhejiang, so I'll try it."
"Then I'll be disrespectful."
After a few gossips, the two of them started talking about the prick.
Ye Yushu joined forces with Liang Botao to snipe the stocks of South China Morning Post Group. In the first three months, nearly 1 was used.
HK$300 million.
Based on profit and loss, we make money first and then lose money. We did not make a profit until the last wave of increase and we made a profit.
The profit reached HK$350 million.
With a capital scale of 1.3 billion, he was determined and unintentional in advance, and used huge media resources, the yield rate was not high.
The main reason is that from a strategic perspective, Ye Yushu suppressed the stock price of South China Morning Post Group in the medium term at no cost, forcing South China Morning Post Group to use funds to protect the market.
Although it involves the other party's energy and funds, it also spits out all the profits in the early stage and also loses a lot.
In this blind story, Ye Yushu owes Bai Fuqin and Liang Botao a favor.
"What did Mrs. Lin say? Most of the funds this time were paid by Lin's family, and we just followed you and beat the drums.
Besides, Baifuqin's profit last year was only HK$800 million, and the profits of this victory have been a big gain for us."
Ye Yushu held the saying: "One code returns to one code."
While the argument was over, Ye Yushu took out a document bag from the drawer of the desk and handed it to Liang Botao.
"this--"
Liang Botao glanced at the file bag and was a little surprised, and didn't know how to act for a moment.
"Madame Lin, this is not suitable, we have made a profit."
"There is nothing wrong. This time, you Bai Fuqin has made a lot of efforts and have taken a lot of risks. If it weren't for my strategy, you would have earned tens of millions more.
These are what you deserve personally, and as for Baifugen, there will be rewards in the future."
Ye Yushu scared Liang Botao's file bag containing bearer stocks from software bank, worth $3 million to reward him for his exquisite trading and risks for his cooperation.
In the year of establishment, Baifuqin has been among the top ten companies in Xiangjiang to join the bank, with a turnover of HK$5.4 billion and a profit of HK$800 million last year.
Although Liang Botao is the co-founder of Renyi, he does not have many shares, only 8%.
Based on paper wealth, he has already gained hundreds of millions of dollars, but stocks cannot be cashed out at any time after all.
Therefore, his income is mainly based on salary, bonus and dividends. Even as his income has been rising steadily in recent years, his annual income is only 3,000 to 4,000 square meters.
3 million US dollars is equivalent to his income in the past year, and this gift is not small.
The key is that Liang Botao felt that he and Baifuqin had already obtained the rewards he deserved in sniping the stocks of South China Morning Post Group. He was so ashamed to take these stocks that he felt a little nervous and jealous.
Liang Botao's psychological activities are unknown, but from his fingers holding the file bag, it can be seen that he is experiencing a fierce ideological confrontation.
This is also the effect Ye Yushu wants to see.
Liang Botao and Du Huilian were able to achieve annual revenue of hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars in just a short period of time. They were indeed outstanding in any of the top ten securities companies in Xiangjiang.
Moreover, after knowing each other for so many years, Ye Yushu trusts Liang Botao's abilities and character.
Through this sniping of the South China Morning Post Group, she once again looked at the power of capital weapons.
Chapter completed!