Chapter 827

Denise entertainment and metropolitan ABC Group attracted most of the media's attention, while another merger was finalized during this period.

San Francisco, Silicon Valley.

On June 28, tincobail, an emerging electronics company that has risen rapidly in recent years, suddenly announced that it has reached an agreement with online radio and audio sales website broadcast, and the two sides will formally merge. Because they are private non listed companies, tincobail and broadcast did not announce a specific merger agreement. Another piece of news accompanying the merger has attracted more attention.

After the merger, tincobail will officially launch its IPO plan.

In the past few years, tincobail company has been rumored about its IPO for many times, because its growth rate is comparable to that of new technology enterprises in recent years, and it is also regarded as one of many "women" in the westero system (tincobail is also a woman's name). Therefore, the capital market has been looking forward to the IPO of this company.

Unfortunately, in the past few times, there was no follow-up.

This time, since it is an official release, it is unlikely to be false news again.

With the release of the news and the excavation of the media, the details of the merger of the two companies have been disclosed one after another. In this merger, the valuations of tincobaier and broadcast are US $15 billion and US $2 billion respectively. Both valuations seem to be very high. However, under the market analysis, tincobaier is still considered to suffer a lot.

After tincobail's sales data last year, the industry's valuation of the company has reached 10 billion level.

After the digital music player iplayer-10 was launched in the first half of the year, in the past more than a month, tincobail company has increased its production capacity to 300000 sets per month, and the demand is still in short supply. It is estimated that the total sales volume of iPlayer will be comparable to the company's ICAM series launched for several years in just one year.

This is equivalent to a direct doubling of the size of tincobail.

Moreover, with the launch and hot sale of icam-50, the market share of tincobail digital camera has returned to more than 60% from 53% last year.

Combined with these positive factors, even a valuation of $20 billion is not excessive.

Look at broadcast again. Since its launch in 1993, although the total number of registered users of broadcast has exceeded 30 million and a more suitable business model has been found, in 1994, the revenue of this network platform was only 26 million US dollars, which is actually only a little more than that of tincobail at the present stage.

although iPlayer-10's revenue has also started to rise after the launch of the Broadcast, the value of $2 billion is very large.

However, after a heated discussion in the media, it is suddenly found that the two companies are all enterprises of the westero system after all. No matter what the merger is, they are just left-handed and right-handed. What's more, we can all see that because of the hot sale of iPlayer player, tincobail won broadcast and completely controlled the content channel, which will only benefit a lot.

It's actually the same.

After the merger, the equity structure of the new tincobail company is more complicated. However, the shares directly controlled by westero company still reach 61.6%, which is still an absolute holding. Broadcast is hatched by the venture capital Department of igritte company, and igritte is absolutely controlled by westero company. After the merger, 8.1% of the shares nominally held by igritte company are actually controlled by westero system.

None of the other parties involved in the merger was unhappy.

In order to win over several major newspaper groups, Simon opened up a series of projects that igritte incubated to these old media giants for investment. Last year, the New York Times Company acquired 15% of the shares of broadcast website with us $30 million. After the merger, the 15% shares of the New York Times group were converted into 1.8% shares of Tinkerbell company, which seems to have decreased a lot, but in accordance with this principle According to the total valuation of 17 billion US dollars, 1.8% of the shares are worth 300 million US dollars, which is equivalent to a ten fold increase in one year.

C-girl's stake in tincobail has fallen to 13.2% from 15% before. According to the combined valuation, Simon's former vicar maid has a personal worth of $2.2 billion.

It's the birth of another super rich man at the billionaire level.

It is comparable to Alice Ferguson, the former housekeeper who got 76 million shares of igritte some time ago.

With igritte and Tinkerbell about to go public one after another, the two girls are even hopeful of entering the top 10 of Forbes 400 list.

It's not just the subsidiaries of vestro system named after women, such as danielis, igritte, melisandro and cersei. In recent years, the powerful "women's Gang" in vestro system, which has huge assets and outstanding abilities, has become more and more famous.That's not the most important thing.

Over the years, all kinds of things have happened one by one. Every once in a while, the westero system can produce some big news that attracts the attention of the whole people. Even if many people don't want to admit it, the growing business empire built by Simon westero is everywhere with the rising wealth of a young man.

Conspiracy theorists always feel that someone is quietly taking control of the world.

That's true.

However, for western countries with relatively perfect social system, it is difficult for power to concentrate on a few people. In fact, it is a huge vested interest class that controls these countries.

In depth, it is still two words, capital.

With the increasing scale of capital controlled by the Westeros system, the invisible power of the Westeros family in this country and even in the world is also growing.

From the perspective of the whole civilization evolution cycle, Simon created all this in less than 10 years, without giving too much reaction time to the old vested interest class. In fact, it is no less than a violent revolution to change the social class structure.

That's right.

Even if many people are absolutely reluctant to admit that a new king has emerged in this world.

The king of capital.

Midtown Manhattan.

In the conference room of elite modeling agency headquarters at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 27th Street, grace spatter felt that a young man sitting next to him was her own king.

It's the morning of July 3, Monday, the day before the Independence Day holiday in the United States.

It started a week ago.

Fernando Lima, signed by grace at the beginning of the year, celebrated her 18th birthday on June 25. Immediately after that, the Brazilian girl, who has just turned 18, won the show Angel contract for the new WIMI show.

With the three daughters of Tracy Goff, EVA hezgova and Daniela pusteva, only grace already has four members of the vermeen angels.

Over the past few years, the circle has gradually found that the models who are lucky enough to be on the t-show of Weimi can definitely get not only the short-term scenery of the t-show, but also the full range of resource support of the whole westero system in entertainment and fashion channels.

In fact, it is also a win-win situation.

It's just that the video sales of the previous Weimi shows have brought hundreds of millions of dollars in profits to the westero system in recent years.

Therefore, as long as they can get on the stage T of Weimi, even if they are not the official spokesmen of Weimi, the value of the relevant models will rise, their fame will increase, and the number of commercial invitation such as show endorsement will increase greatly.

There are millions of men and women engaged in modeling industry in the world's fashion circle, but few of them have really reached the top.

Now, with the support of the powerful resources of the westero system, the Vimy Legion has firmly locked itself at the top of the circle pyramid.

The total number of the Vimy army was only about forty.

When a lot of small model agencies go all out to fight for one or two places for the vermeen angel, grace spotter, an agent, has four places. How can other people not be envious?

Even elite President John Casablanca can't afford it.

Fernando Lima's signing with Vermeer has become a hidden fuse.

The conflict between Casablanca and grace goes beyond that.

After elite set up the new media operation Department last year, Casablanca didn't pay much attention to it at first. However, it didn't expect that the development and expansion of this department would be so rapid. Since its establishment last year, in just one year, Grace's new media operation Department has signed $26 million contracts with major brands.

Elite, founded in 1972, has developed over 20 years, and its branches have spread all over the world. Not counting the new media operation Department, the total contract amount won for thousands of models last year was only 120 million US dollars.

This is already a big Mac in the modeling industry.

But these basic businesses, in the face of the strong rise of the new media operation Department, suddenly dwarfed.

If this department is directly controlled by John Casablanca, it's nothing. It's just another senior executive of the company. John Casablanca increasingly finds that if grace spelter continues to be in charge of the new media operation Department, his position may not be guaranteed.

Not only that, at a meeting last week, grace spatter also proposed to create an advertising department again.

In fact, there are successful cases.

The CAA of Hollywood successfully entered the field of advertising planning a few years ago, and even won the advertisement of Coca Cola. The famous polar bear advertisement of Coca Cola came from the idea of CAA. At that time, it not only defeated many old advertising planning companies, but also achieved great success.

As the largest model agency in the industry, elite's core business is still the traditional model agency business, which is definitely not a long-term sustainable business model.The core of a brokerage company is people.

If people break up, there's nothing left.

Over the years, many modeling agencies have sprung up and gone.

If we can gradually open up other businesses and let elite own relatively fixed "assets", the company can maintain its position for a longer time.

Grace's proposal is definitely for the long-term development of elite. However, after running a company for more than 20 years, it has reached the peak of the industry. John Casablanca has not been enterprising for a long time, so he is too lazy to open up any new business these years. However, he absolutely does not allow others to threaten his power.

If the advertising planning department is successful again, the founder will have to go away.

As a result, Casablanca did not hesitate to reject Grace's proposal, and went further, asking grace to give up control of the new media operation Department. He intends to take charge of it in person. In exchange, he can promote grace to become president of elite North America.

The standard goes up and down.

Grace naturally would not agree. A quarrel soon broke out between the two sides. Then, John Casablanca announced on the spot that grace was fired.

All of a sudden, the whole elite is a little bit confused.

What's going on?

Grace also simply, a simple arrangement, the day left the company.

John Casablanca, as the founder, shareholder and President of elite, has all the strength to fire her, but grace has more confidence.

It's enough to have a man of your own.

Simon was in Los Angeles when he called. He just asked Grace to have a rest for a while, and nothing else.

For Simon, grace is totally blind, and men do what they say.

Busy for a year, just did not accompany a pair of children for a long time, taking advantage of the summer vacation, simply took two children to the Caribbean to play around.

In fact, I know Simon is a little busy these days. I thought he would have to wait for a long time. Unexpectedly, just a week later, I received a call again asking her to return to New York as soon as possible.

Grace came directly from the airport to elite headquarters on Fifth Avenue this time.

Before getting on the plane, I got some information from Simon's assistant.

In just one week, the world was turned upside down.

At least, for elite, that's it.

As a marginal supplement to many industries, talent agency companies, even giants like elite, are just small dishes in the final analysis.

Therefore, Simon just explained that he didn't have to do anything by himself. In a week, Apollo management company of cersei capital negotiated a purchase agreement with elite's first batch of shareholders. Apollo management company took 55% of the shares from elite's first batch of shareholders at a price of 65 million US dollars.

In the nature of elite, it's actually quite a generous price.

Taking the total contract amount of 120 million US dollars in 1995 as an example, it seems like a lot, but in fact, even according to the higher 20% commission of the modeling industry, elite's income is only 24 million US dollars, most of which will be taken away by its many brokers, and the so-called profit left to shareholders is very small.

What's more, the representatives of Apollo management company made a statement, and elite shareholders had no other choice at all.

If we continue to keep our shares, it is likely that a brand new modeling agency will rise in the short term, and then take away a large number of elite customers. Although there are more than 2000 models under elite, the most valuable ones are the top ones. The contracts for these models are still very loose.

Even if some people stay at elite, the entire westero system, which has a strong influence in the field of fashion and entertainment, will not last long if it starts with this model agency.

Simon westero didn't give up either. He only took 55% of the shares and gave a further development plan for elite. Everyone got benefits and had a long-term expectation, so they didn't have much resistance.

John Casablanca, who had only symbolically held 5% of elite's shares before, was naturally swept out of the house.

Today is the handover.

Simon had the idea of letting grace take charge of elite last year. Originally, he planned to simmer for a few years. Now that this happened, it's crisp.

And Simon knows what kind of person John Casablanca is.

In history, John Casablanca, who was swept away by the scandal a few years later, became enemies with this circle, constantly attacking and exposing the inside story of the modeling industry. This time, Simon also gave John Casablanca a "preventive shot" in advance. He should not only let the other party leave honestly, but also shut his mouth honestly after the other party leaves.It's also very simple.

Over the years, the "Godfather" of the modeling industry is really not clean. That man always likes 18-year-old girl Terrier, which comes from John Casablanca to a large extent. As a matter of fact, the other party actually likes younger girls. Simon gives orders at will, and the intelligence team of the Westeros soon collects a lot of black materials that John Casablanca can wear in prison for the rest of his life.

Since he tore his face, Simon didn't keep his hand on Casablanca. He bought the other party's shares on the spot and swept the other party out of the house cleanly.