Chapter 85 Fight against Kunlun! The North American Alliance strikes hard! (1)
When Kishimoto Ishihashi saw that Michelin Group President Fellaini was teaching experience to Nike boss Phil Knight, his face turned black immediately.
I thought that the jokes on the Internet were all jokes, but I didn’t expect that the French were not only good at surrendering themselves, but also good at teaching others the experience of surrendering...
At this time, everyone also discovered Ishihashi Kishimoto and walked towards him one after another.
"Mr. Ishiqiao, welcome."
"Are you in good health recently?"
Everyone was talking about the most common hypocritical social wording in the West, and Kishimoto Ishihashi looked around and was surprised to find Mark Doyle, president of DuPont Group, and Richard Kramer, president of Goodyear Group.
Ishihashi Kishimoto immediately felt a chill in his heart and asked tentatively: "You...you are actually here too?"
Doyle smiled slightly and said with a little apology: "Mr. Shiqiao, you may be one step late."
Kramer proudly handed Ishihashi Kishimoto a glass of champagne, nodded slightly, "Yes, just as you got off the plane, we have reached an agreement with Michelin Group to officially merge the tire business of Michelin Group in exchange for shares and cash."
Doyle added with a smile: "In this way, Michelin Group can focus on their restaurant rating business in the future. After all, when it comes to eating, French are experts."
Hahahaha~
The two smiled at the same time, while Ishihashi Kishimoto's face turned pale and drank the champagne in his hand.
"So, now Goodyear and Michelin, you are already the world's largest tire manufacturer..." Ishihashi Kishimoto seemed a little exhausted.
Doyle said: "We also need to add our Dow DuPont Group, as the world's largest chemical supplier, to provide all our support from the bottom to the Goodyear Michelin Group."
He raised a finger and shook it gently. Doyle's face was cold and said in a deep voice: "Sending his opponent to see God is the consistent principle of our DuPont Group. No one can stab us in the body and still escape without anybody!"
Immediately, Ishihashi Kishimoto felt a chill in his heart and his brows frowned into the shape of Sichuan.
"So, you are going to continue to fight against the Chinese in the tire field?"
"Yes."
"when?"
Doyle, the president of DuPont Group with a quarter of Turkish descent, gritted his teeth and said harshly: "From the moment we signed the acquisition of Michelin Group, the war has begun!"
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In late April, it was shocking!
To everyone's expectations, the world's largest chemical group, Dow DuPont Group, joined forces with the world's fourth largest tire manufacturer, Goodyear Group, to acquire the world's second largest tire manufacturer for 9.5 billion euros, Michelin Group, France.
As the world's top 500 companies and the inventor of tire technology, the French Michelin Group's market value once exceeded 20 billion euros. However, due to the recent strong challenges of China's eight major tire groups, they were eventually sold for 9.5 billion euros. It is a pity that the modern commercial war is changing rapidly.
"Michelin was sold! Do you know about this?"
"What a panic? They just sold the tire business, and the restaurant rating business is still retained. You still have the opportunity to eat the Michelin recommended restaurant."
"This is not the point at all, okay?"
"North America now has the world's most powerful tire production capacity, and China's eight major tire groups may be in trouble."
"I heard that this acquisition was supported by two major consortiums, Goldman Sachs and Morgan on Wall Street. The meaning of Anssa Group to target Kunlun Company and Plateau is already very obvious."
"I also heard a rumor that on the day of signing the contract, it was said that the boss of Nike Group was also present, and Nike may also be a member of this alliance."
"It's normal, because Kunlun Infinite Technology was unveiled, Nike boss Phil Knight's stock was cut in half, and he suffered heavy losses. He was so angry that he was about to die."
The melon-eating crowd was talking about it in major forums.
The Chinese people never expected that DuPont Group was so tough that after failing in the chemical fiber field, it refused to admit defeat and chased after the tire field.
The originally calm sky suddenly became haze, and everyone was predicting that a new war might begin soon.
As expected, at the end of April, DuPont Group and Goodyear Group officially announced the acquisition and will hold a press conference on major events in Paris, France on May 1.
...
When the outside world is surging, the plateau is living a peaceful life of two points and one line.
It was another morning, and Gao Yuan appeared in the laboratory on time, taking his little assistant Zhou Helin to review yesterday's experimental data.
Although there is a high-end knowledge base provided by the system, putting knowledge and blueprints into reality is still extremely difficult.
Recently, the plateau has encountered the problem of insufficient number of nanotubes, which has led to the energy density of solid-state batteries in the experiments not meeting the standards. The plateau must develop new polymer filling tools and adjust the element ratio inside the battery.
In the afternoon, Gao Yuan received a call from Cao Feiyu, asking him to go to the conference room together to watch the live broadcast in Paris.
After a series of acquisitions and preparations, North America is finally about to take action. Cao Feiyu and the company's management are very concerned about this matter.
"Let's go and have a look together." Gao Yuan smiled and said to Zhou Helin: "I heard that this time it was a global live broadcast. Those guys were afraid that we were not good at English, so they specially arranged Chinese subtitles. The challenge was too obvious."
Zhou Helin nodded, and the two went to the conference room and saw Cao Feiyu, Xu Qingzhou, Li Changxing, Song Yuewen and other main players who had already sat down.
Everyone in Kunlun Company was quite calm. They placed melon seeds and drinks on the conference table, as if they were going to hold a tea party.
Shortly after the plateau sat down, the live broadcast began. Michelin Group President Fellaini and Goodyear President Kramer, the two appeared together and announced the merger of the two giants in public.
There was not a lot of applause from the audience, because the live broadcast was held in France, and the proud French people seemed to be unhappy. They always felt that it was the North American tyrant who acquired their own companies and took advantage of their own.
Europe contempts North America throughout the world. They generally believe that North America is a group of farmers, lacking mood, hard work, materialism, making money as their greatest pleasure, and not passionate about art and culture.
This feeling did not improve until the end of the 19th century because the more hardworking Chinese people came...
As expected by Gaoyuan, the biggest strategy adopted by North America after acquiring Michelin was to sell at a price.
For example, the Michelin ultra-silent tire Haoyue series is priced directly halved, then 30% off, and an additional one-year warranty is also included.
"I'll go, this is too cruel!"
"This price has dropped, just cut it to the knee with one knife!"
"In the past, Michelin was the most expensive tire, but now it's better to become the cheapest one!"
"Michelin has been cutting prices wildly, and other tire companies will follow up, right?"
"How to follow? In order to expand production capacity, China's eight major tire groups borrowed a lot of money from banks without paying interest?"
"I heard that the eight major tire groups don't make much money, mainly Kunlun Company, they are responsible for providing technical support and will also take away the biggest profit."
In the barrage, netizens were talking about it.
Price reduction has always been the simplest and most brutal business strategy. So is the price reduction storm in North America effective?
It should be said that it is still effective. After all, Michelin's high-end series has always had strong performance, especially low-speed performance, anti-slip texture design, friction noise, etc. Michelin has always been at the forefront of the world.
Now Michelin's high-end series is crazily lowering its price, which is much cheaper than Kunlun Rolling Stone, highlighting its cost-effectiveness. Consumers who do not have such a strong pursuit of performance will consider their products.
After all, most vehicles are tools for transportation at home, and it is enough to pick up children and buy vegetables. The pursuit of extreme performance is only a few of the consumers.
Chapter completed!