Chapter 983

Simon didn't ask to keep a low profile, so the news that the show was about to stop spread quickly that afternoon. At first, it was regarded as false news. Then, when some well-informed people got a definite reply from the people on the scene in the morning, the media immediately exploded.

First of all, the major network portal platforms directly push the news to the headlines.

After all, it has not been officially announced, and some press releases have deviated. They think that the fifth Weimi show of this year, which has been continuously reported before, will be suspended. Even if it is soon clarified, there are still too many people who find it incredible.

This is a super show with an average audience of tens of millions of people, which is known as the "fashion Super Bowl"!

Even if we don't mention the high market gain brought by the show in recent years, even if it is the show itself, the average sales volume of video tapes in the past few years is tens of millions of dollars, which also means hundreds of millions of dollars of real benefits.

Can't Simon westero be crazy if it's just stopped?

From Saturday afternoon, not only all the senior executives related to the brand and even the Ltd group, but also Simon received a series of phone calls to inquire about the news. In the evening, he attended the east coast management Party of daenerys entertainment. Robert egger and others also looked suspicious about whether Simon was under too much pressure recently and had mental problems.

The next day, more extensive traditional media began to join the discussion, and the situation became more lively.

As the largest shareholder of Weimi parent company ltd group, Apollo management company of cersei capital bears the brunt.

At the beginning, Apollo management team acquired Ltd group with us $2.45 billion in full cash. According to the normal operation method of private equity, they basically held it for about five years, went public again and cashed out. The merger and acquisition of Ltd group was completed in 1992, and it will be exactly five years next year.

Therefore, in fact, the Ltd group is quietly planning to go public again.

Simon suddenly announced that Weimi will stop holding after this year. Even if it is so-called suspension, it will inevitably have an impact on the re listing of the LTE group next year. After all, this fashion show is too obvious to drive the LTE group.

In the face of Apollo management company director Leon black eager inquiry, Simon also patiently explained.

It was Simon's idea to stop the show at the right time at the beginning of the show. He didn't want to rely too much on the show, and didn't want the whole LTE group to be completely covered by the light of the brand. In recent years, the fast fashion brand express of LTE group has also developed rapidly, but it has no style set off by the show.

All in all, Simon hopes that the company can calm down, rethink its product operation and advertising marketing strategy, and expand in a more rational attitude.

Mainly overseas expansion.

Before that, because the show was so eye-catching, almost everyone was intoxicated in the glory brought by the show and ignored many problems of the company itself. Just like the former Weimi, when the show was closed, all accumulated problems broke out, and the whole company soon almost came to an end.

On the other hand, even without this big show, with the rapid growth of LTE in recent years, coupled with the hot state of the US stock market at this time, the market value of next year's IPO is expected to reach 10 billion US dollars.

From the original $2.45 billion to $10 billion, in five years, the average annual return is over 60%, which is very worthy of investors. As a successful project invested by Apollo management company, of course, it will not be fully cashed out at one time. There is still considerable room for growth in the future, which can continue to bring returns.

At the same time, the announcement of the suspension this year, rather than after the IPO next year, has also avoided many potential lawsuits.

After all, the influence of this big show is really too great. If it is announced to suspend its operation after re listing next year, it will inevitably impact the stock price, and even lead to a class action of malicious manipulation of westrow system by investors to suppress the share price of Ltd. now, if Ltd is still in the state of privatization, there is no such problem.

From his own point of view, Leon black could not agree with Simon's statement, but could not refute it.

Simon's idea is entirely for the long-term development of the Ltd group. As a private equity, it often needs to obtain more interests in the shortest possible time, in which there are obvious potential conflicts of interest.

But Simon is the boss behind all this.

boss has the final say.

Secondly, the model circle is so sad.

Just like the shock reaction of the goblins when they first heard this news, they lost the most powerful exposure platform of the Weimi show. How can we take a shortcut to become famous in the future?!

Unfortunately, as the bottom of the food chain, these goblins have no voice.

Even if Simon is not the biggest boss at the top of the pyramid of the whole westero system, but just the top of Weimi who made the decision, there may be a group of cool goblins in some bones. In the original time and space, the Weimi show has been in harmony for 20 years, and the goblins revolted immediately after the show stopped.A joint letter.

Prosecution for harassment and sexual assault.

Expose and report all kinds of discrimination against Weimi.

Coupled with the low performance of Weimi itself, under the impact of public opinion, this old enterprise is further pushed into the abyss.

In short, how to say that sentence.

Well

It was forced anyway.

In any case, since a decision has been made and others are allowed to react, Simon has no intention of changing his decision.

Spending the weekend in New York, Simon leaves for London on Sunday afternoon.

A week-long trip to Europe is expected.

The main agenda here is for the investment promotion of continuous issuance of bonds by westerlow system in the second half of the year. Several investment banks, such as Goldman Sachs, who are responsible for bond issuance, hope Simon can attend in person.

Simon arrived in London on Monday, local time. On the same day, on July 15, igrit officially released its financial report for the first half of 1996.

Ever since the total revenue of igrit broke through the level of 10 billion US dollars, the growth rate of the Internet giant's performance has been slowing down. After all, it is unrealistic to double the growth rate as it was at the beginning. Prior to 1995, the annual revenue of igrit increased by 78% year-on-year. This year, the industry generally believed that the revenue growth of igrit would be reduced to about 50%.

Facts have proved that, due to the craziness of the new technology industry, the market obviously underestimates the performance growth of igrit.

In the first half of 1996, the total revenue of igritte in the first two quarters reached 13.91 billion US dollars, a year-on-year growth of 61% compared with the first two quarters of last year, significantly exceeding the industry's expectation of about 50%.

Not only that, because the gross profit of many businesses of igrit is really high, and the whole new technology industry is burning money almost uncontrollably, even if more income is used to develop business, the net profit rate of igrit in the first half of the year still exceeded 10%, and finally reached 11.9%, with a surprising net profit of US $1.655 billion.

Half year revenue of $13.91 billion and net profit of $1.655 billion, which is almost the revenue volume that many Internet giants in Simon's memory can reach after 10 years. Not to mention the original time and space in 1996, most Internet companies have not even formed a sustainable business model.

However, this achievement is real.

The foundation of the U.S. Internet industry was laid as early as the 1970s and 1980s. Simon, with his own forward-looking vision, not only advanced the development of the Internet industry by at least five years with the strength of the whole westero system, but also directly launched a series of mature business models.

In addition, igritte also has the current monopoly advantage of Internet basic tools and software business, which is equivalent to Warren Buffett's favorite kind of toll bridge that no competitor can freely price.

As a result, the software business, portal, search engine, social network, e-commerce, software store, game mall, cloud computing and other businesses are still in the relatively early stage of development, but at this time, igrit is almost equal to a collection of later major network giants.

All in all, compared with many new technology companies that are just burning money and telling stories at this time, igritte has far removed all potential competitors.

To put it in a more conventional way, igritte's current enemy is only himself.

According to Simon's potential plan, the company is bound to split up in the future. Once split up, it will be a super industry earthquake far more powerful than at-t's dismemberment. After all, at-t's market value at the time of split up was less than 100 billion.

Igritte is destined to be a super giant with a trillion dollar market value.

In any case, on July 15, igritte's more than expected revenue and net profit data directly drove the company's share price up again.

Just on Monday, the stock price of igritte rose by 3.6% in a single day. It seems insignificant for other companies to increase more than 3%. But don't forget, this is igritte, which has been close to US $400 billion before.

With a 3.6% rise in the share price, the market value of the emerging Internet giant broke through the $400 billion mark at one stroke. By the end of the afternoon, the market value of igrit had reached $410.3 billion.

In just one day, the total value of shares held by all igritte shareholders increased by $14.7 billion due to the 3.6% increase.

Compared with the volume of $400 billion of igritte, the market value growth of $14.7 billion seems insignificant. However, only the $14.7 billion still exceeds the market value of more than 90% enterprises in the US stock market at this time. It can only be said that the market value of igritte has been too high and numbing.

Just like later, faang, the top five technology giants in the US stock market, is often hundreds of billions of dollars, but in fact, there are too many enterprises hovering in the range of 10 billion dollars or even one billion dollars, so they can only look up to the top five technology giants.On Monday, the stock prices of Cisco, AOL, Microsoft, Intel, tincobail, Oracle and other companies rose. In fact, it is also because the recent period is the time when the financial reports are released intensively in the middle of the year. Some analysts even think that the NASDAQ index may have to hit 5000 points when July ends.

5000 points, which is Simon's peak in his memory around 2000 years ago. If

really breaks through in July, it may still be possible that the new technology bubble will not be followed until the November election.

This is not the case.

There is no doubt that igritte's performance has exceeded expectations. However, some people are happy, while others are worried. Igritte's outstanding performance does not mean that other new technology companies are also outstanding.

Similarly, in July, in addition to the fact that Cisco's growth continued to increase significantly due to the continuous increase in global demand for network equipment, AOL, another big technology giant of westero system, followed closely. Because of the continuous improvement and even saturation of Internet penetration in the United States, at least in the local area, its performance growth began to slow down significantly.

As a result, AOL's mid year results were lower than expected.

In addition, although the whole new technology industry is still crazy, AOL is still issuing bonds on a large scale and expanding infrastructure on a large scale, which seems to have a blind tendency, even though the penetration of its business areas is significantly higher than that of other operator areas, in fact, the saturation is higher and the growth potential is lower.

At this stage, the whole new technology industry is almost blind, which does not mean that we can not see the excessive investment tendency of AOL.

As a result, the stock price of AOL fluctuated recently.

In the view of investors, AOL urgently needs to develop new business and increase overseas expansion.

In fact, the direction is very clear.

The telecommunication act of the Clinton administration has removed the business barriers between the telecommunication industries. AOL should take the opportunity to develop fixed line telephone, cable TV and other businesses, and further break through its previous business areas, especially overseas.

AOL's overseas expansion is really strong, only in terms of business diversification. Although there are occasional rumors, AOL's actual action seems to be slow.

So it is inevitable to be urged by the capital market.

The most direct reaction is also the stock price.

AOL's market value among the three technology giants of westero system has been at the bottom, and it has been further enlarged in recent months.

On the same day, on July 15, after igrit's market value of $410.3 billion, Cisco's market value also surged to the following $375.6 billion, while AOL's market value was only $269.7 billion, which has been opened up by igrit and Cisco.

In addition to the big three, tingkobayer can be said to come from behind in the same new technology field.

With the great success of IREC series digital camera products released this year, tincobail has three flagship products, namely iPlayer, ICAM and IREC. Moreover, the annual sales of the three products have exceeded 10 million levels, and they are still increasing because of the rapid growth of the Internet.

As a result, tincobail, which broke through the 100 billion level when it was listed in the IPO, has reached a high market value of $226.3 billion by the close of July 15.

Another $200 billion corporate giant.

Together with Denise Entertainment Group in the field of media and entertainment, the closing market value of the day was $353.7 billion.

By calculation, the cumulative market value of these five Big Macs firmly controlled by the westero system has reached US $163.56 billion. Suddenly, people pay attention to one thing again. What's Simon westero's wealth now?