Chapter 402

Although the Bank of Columbia is named after the country, it is not a very attractive investment target in the capital market of the United States. It can be said that compared with most banks in the United States, Columbia bank is a small bank to the letter.

Xie liaosha's acquisition is carried out through offshore companies. Because Xie liaosha intends to borrow the platform of CBC for a long time, his privatization action can not tolerate any violations, and he must carry out acquisition activities in full accordance with the provisions of the law.

In order to test the local market reaction in Colombia in advance, seryosa asked Mediterranean trading company to order more than 800 LADA nivas from Volga automobile factory and ship them to Colombia by sea to Escobar for operation.

From Rostov on the coast of the Black Sea to Buena Ventura in Colombia, thousands of miles away, just when the fleet reached the middle of the journey, seryosha's acquisition action had entered the next stage. Because seryosha had obtained 5% of the equity of CBC, he had to raise his hand to the US government regulatory authorities before he could carry out the next work. In this case, Mr. seryosa can only compete with the existing operators for a controlling stake in CBC.

The amount of money Xie liaosha has in his hands is not comparable to that of ordinary small consortia. With his investment regardless of cost, Xie liaosha has spent a lot of money, but has won precious time. For the newly acquired bank, Xie liaosha did not participate too much in the management, but added a sum of money to specialize in auto loan business.

Under escoval's low price sales strategy, LADA Niva is gradually familiar with the Colombian consumers. First of all, the biggest advantage of this car is that it's too cheap. It's even cheaper than Japanese brand cars. Escobar proposed a 5% down payment strategy for the car, while the corresponding bank of Columbia provided low interest loans for the car for at least three years and at most five years. In this way, most of the customers who were excluded from the consumption threshold of cars were attracted. For a moment, Escobar's car sales company was full of people as soon as it opened.

In order to attract people's attention, the car sales company also showed LADA Niwa dragging a plow to use as a tractor. It's amazing how to drive up 45 degree stairs. The parts of LADA Niva are very versatile, and the structure is simple, so the local experienced automobile repairmen can quickly master the maintenance skills of this kind of automobile after simple training. In order to solve the problem that LADA Niva can't pull goods, the car sales company even launched a matching trailer to match this kind of car to transport goods. The biggest drawback of LADA Niva is that it doesn't have Japanese cars to save fuel, but it's not a problem in Colombia, because its neighbor is Venezuela, the country with the richest crude oil reserves in the world, and Colombia is also one of the oil producing countries, where the price of gasoline is very low.

There was a certain purpose for shagliaosha to decide that Escobar was in charge of the sales. Because Escobar's sales speed is directly proportional to the speed of capital operation, the more he sells, the more his legal income will be. Therefore, escovar even used some unconventional means to help LADA Niva gain more market share. Some car dealers selling Japanese brands and European and American brands soon found that the police and government departments began to look for their troubles from time to time. Mr. seryosa is more than happy with this, because both Mediterranean trading company and Bank of Columbia will benefit more from it.

Mediterranean trading company converted its profits into raw materials for agricultural products in Latin America, importing cocoa, soybeans, sugarcane, corn and coffee from Brazil, and frozen beef from Argentina. Now, except for Japan, almost all the old industrial countries in the world have fallen into a stage of stagnation or even recession. Latin America, as a traditional raw material exporting country, has suffered a lot. The prices of these agricultural products are not high now, so Mediterranean trading company naturally makes a lot of money from them.

Although the Mediterranean trading company is a state-owned company, the profits are not owned by seryosa. However, he is Xie liaosha's enterprise, which is still firmly in the hands of his own people. The better the Mediterranean trading company develops, the more stable he will be in the Ministry of foreign trade and economic cooperation. It is unscientific to rely on a company to save the Soviet Union. It can only help Xie liaosha to secure his official position. Xie liaosha relies on Mediterranean trading company to further control more power of MOFTEC. As long as the Mediterranean trading company develops well, shariosha will be more valuable in the eyes of the Kremlin's top officials.

In fact, according to seliosha, in addition to the shortage of daily necessities and food supply, the gap between the people of the Soviet Union and Western Europe and even the United States is not so big. Objectively speaking, the life of the people of most countries in the world is much happier. Almost every family in the Soviet Union popularized basic household appliances such as radios, refrigerators, televisions and washing machines. Moreover, there are many families who own cars. Although the gap in housing between China and the United States is far away, on the whole, they have crossed the threshold of developing countries. At least from now on, the whole country's economy has not come to the point of disintegration.

Just two months after seryov returned to Moscow, Yakovlev arranged everything and returned home. When he comes back, he will naturally report to Gorbachev, and Xie liaosha will naturally go with him.

Yakovlev is worthy of being a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He has a thorough understanding of the problems of Britain and some Western European countries. He introduced in detail to Gorbachev a series of measures taken by Prime Minister Thatcher after he came to power. In his words, he spoke highly of Britain's reform path. He specially pointed out that French President Francois Mitterrand had been nationalizing banks and industrial groups since he came to power in 1981. However, just one year after he took office, he made a 180 degree change and began to learn from Margaret Thatcher's privatization. Xie liaosha looks at Yakovlev with deep meaning. Although this guy is a communist, he believes in capitalism from the bottom of his heart. However, Yakovlev's example of British Steel Company becoming the most efficient steel enterprise in Europe after privatization made Gorbachev move. Because everyone here knows that one of the biggest problems faced by the domestic economy of the Soviet Union is labor efficiency.

"Secretary Gorbachev, it seems that both the British and the French have completely abandoned Keynes's theory of large state-owned enterprises. On the contrary, the liberal economy advocated by Prime Minister Thatcher can better solve the current predicament!" Yakovlev said meaningfully.