But there is a problem with acquiring Nikon. Although Nikon is listed on the US stock market, it only has 40% of its shares outstanding. The remaining 60% is in the hands of the major organizations.
The four consortiums held the most shares. Although the four consortiums would not directly interfere with Nikon's operations, most of the shares were in their hands.
Also, Nikon is a well-known company in Fusang. If Feng Yu acquires Nikon, it will cause a lot of problems in Fusang. The Daqian will be in trouble if the government intervenes.
So, if Jia Yapeng wants to acquire Nikon, he must get the support of the four consortia. This way, he can get all of Nikon's shares from the four consortia and start the acquisition plan.
Secondly, he can make use of the political influence of the four consortia to help him settle the problems with the Fusang government and acquire Nikon.
However, Boss Jia had always felt that he did not have enough bargaining chips to make the four major consortiums compromise. In the end, the other party had actually taken the initiative to deliver bargaining chips to him. Naturally, Boss Jia would make good use of this opportunity.
"Nikon …" Mitsui Hidei hesitated. Although Nikon's situation is getting worse, it is still profitable. The annual dividends are not bad.
Nikon, Canon, and Sony form the optical technology triangle in Fusang. This will ensure that Fusang has enough market share in the optical technology industry in the future.
Once the triangle loses a corner, Jia Yapeng will have the ability to take over the optical technology market.
From Mitsui Hidei's perspective, Jia Yapeng must be targeting the digital camera market and wants to enter this market through Nikon. After all, Boss Jia had taken over a large share of the music market by releasing MP3 players. This caused Sony's shares to plunge by about 5%, which hurt the four consortia.
Although the four consortia will not do anything to the Daqian because of the 80 billion RMB, they still want to annoy them. This is one of the reasons why the investigation team is formed.
But now, the Daqian company was going to enter the digital camera market. According to the Daqian company's previous brilliant achievements, they might really be able to occupy a large share of the digital camera and digital photography market. Then, the stocks of the major companies under them would plummet again.
Therefore, Boss Jia was right. Mitsui Hidei and the four consortiums behind him were very reluctant to sell Nikon's shares.
Under normal circumstances, the four consortiums would have rejected Da Qian's offer.
But this time, there was an 80 billion contract, and Mitsui Hideki was in a bit of a predicament.
"I'm willing to buy Nikon at a 30% premium. Nikon's total market value is 4 billion USD. I'm willing to pay 5.2 billion USD to buy all of Nikon's shares!" Boss Jia added.
Now, the Daqian was really rich. Previously, in order to buy the shares of Qualcomm, they used all kinds of means to suppress the share price of Qualcomm. In the end, they bought Qualcomm at a very low price.
However, in the face of Nikon, Boss Jia didn't even try to lower the price. Instead, he directly raised the price by 30%.
"5.2 billion USD!" Mitsui Hideki's eyes lit up. The profit in this was quite good, and it didn't seem impossible.
However, this kind of thing obviously couldn't be decided by Mitsui Hideki alone, so Mitsui Hideki said that he wanted to discuss it with others. So Mitsui Hideki flew back to Fusang that night and communicated with the representatives of the four consortiums.
"No, we absolutely can't sell Nikon's shares. This is cultivating competitors for us!!" The most vehement opposition was still from the Sumitomo Group, because the Sumitomo Group had a large number of shares of Canon Group.
Once the Daqian got involved in Nikon, then Canon was bound to face a more terrifying opponent, which was something the Sumitomo Group absolutely didn't want to see.
"Oh, I'm afraid that you guys are the least qualified to speak here!" The representative of the Mitsubishi Consortium said with a smile. Indeed, because they bought a large number of Canon Group's shares, the Sumitomo Group's shares in Nikon were the least, only about 4%, and the other three consortiums' shares were more than 10%. The Sumitomo Group was indeed not qualified to speak.
"I also don't think we can sell it!" The representative of the Fuji Group sighed, "Haven't you noticed that the Daqian Group is actually crazily devouring our Fusang's market?"
"First, it was Sony, then they occupied the broadband market, and now they are targeting the digital camera market. They want to completely devour the international market that originally belonged to Fusang!"
"When all these markets become Daqian's, what can we do even if we have a lot of dollars? The Daqian Group is digging up our roots! "The Fuji Group's words silenced many people present.
Yes, the rise of the Daqian Group did indeed make them afraid. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been so active in promoting the establishment of an investigation team. After all, although the bank loan agreement stated that they could investigate the special funds, only a few banks actually did it. This was against the unspoken rules of the entire industry.
However, the four consortiums still did it. They hoped to take this opportunity to take down the Daqian Group, so as not to cultivate an opponent that they were afraid of in the future.
But everything was so bad. Not only did the Daqian Group fail to take down the Daqian Group, but now, they were being bitten by their opponent, forcing them to sell Nikon!
"Everyone, what you said is right, but let me ask you, if the Daqian Group wants to enter the digital camera market, can we stop them?" Mitsui Xiuyi said with a smile. "Don't forget that the Daqian Group did not buy any companies in the personal music market and the mobile phone market. They directly entered the market with their own strength, and then defeated all the other companies in the industry."
"According to my contact with Jia Yapeng, he is a very cunning man, and he will not give up until he gets what he wants. Once he wants something, he will definitely kill. He must get it!"
"Even if we can stop the sale of Nikon, what about the Daqian Group buying Canon?"
"Or directly buying Samsung's optical business?"
"He might even buy Zeiss directly. After all, the current market value of this company is only 2.5 billion US dollars. It is cheaper than Nikon, but its technology is more advanced. It's just that Europe is more reactionary, and the Daqian Group won't be able to do it!"
"Even if the Daqian Group can't buy Nikon, I think the Daqian Group will enter the market alone. We can't stop them!" Mitsui Xiuyi said, "So instead of refusing, it's better to sell Nikon to him. Nikon is in decline anyway. It has lost to Canon in terms of technology, and the market is completely controlled by Canon. As long as we can keep Canon, the digital camera market will not change much! "
"But Nikon has the technology!" The people from the Sumitomo Consortium snorted and said, "The biggest threshold in the digital camera market is the technology patent threshold, and Nikon is the key. Without this key, it will be difficult for the Daqian Group to enter. If you ask us to sell Nikon, you are inviting the wolf into the house. Did you accept the Daqian's bribe? "
"Yes, I did accept the Daqian's bribe!" Unexpectedly, Mitsui Xiuyi nodded and said, "Jia Yapeng promised me that as long as I do my best to facilitate this matter, the loan contract with the Mitsui Group will continue regardless of whether it succeeds or not. It will not change!"
"You …" The eyes of the people from the three consortiums turned red. It seemed that this guy was the one who had taken all the benefits!
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