Only then did the people of the three consortiums remember that if this matter was not negotiated, the 80 billion loan contract and tens of billions of USD of infrastructure contracts would be gone. Compared with these, a Nikon was really nothing.
"Everyone, it's just selling a Nikon, and Nikon is just a good company in the camera field. Do you think you will lose to a Hua Xia company in the camera field?" Mitsui Xiuyi laughed.
"…" Everyone stopped talking. Mitsui Xiuyi was right. Just because the Daqian wanted to enter the digital camera market, they were afraid of stopping them. It really looked a little stupid.
Not to mention that there were tens of billions of USD of business here, which was equivalent to several Nikons.
"In that case, sell it!" The people of the Fuji Financial Group were the first to agree. Fuji Financial Group did not have much interest in the digital camera business. Even if the Daqian occupied this market, it had nothing to do with the Fuji Financial Group. Selling Nikon at a 30% premium would make them a profit. Why not?
"Mitsubishi also agrees!" Like Fuji, Mitsubishi also did not have much interest in the digital camera field. The Mitsubishi Financial Group and the Sumitomo Financial Group invested heavily in these two industries.
However, looking at Mitsui Xiuyi's attitude of helping Jia Yapeng, the Mitsubishi Financial Group had obviously been convinced by Jia Yapeng. The only trouble left was the Sumitomo Financial Group.
As for the Sumitomo Financial Group, although they snorted a few times, they still agreed very simply. Anyway, it was only 4% of the shares, so it was not painful to sell it.
In this way, the four consortiums and the Daqian Group reached an acquisition intention. The Daqian Group bought 38% of Nikon's shares at a 30% premium. Coupled with some shares acquired by the Daqian Group, the Daqian Group had a total of 53% of Nikon's shares, occupying the majority of the entire company.
Therefore, on March 4, Nikon released a low-key announcement that the Daqian Group had completed the acquisition of most of Nikon's shares. Jia Yapeng of the Daqian Group had now become the chairman of Nikon's board of directors and gained control of the group.
Not only that, but Nikon Group also made another announcement. The chairman of Nikon Group announced that he would initiate the privatization process of Nikon Group. Nikon Group would pay a premium of 30% to be delisted from the Nikkei and US stock markets. At the same time, he launched a tender offer to acquire most of the company's shares and complete the privatization.
This acquisition had attracted a lot of attention all over the world. In Huaxia and Japan, it had even set off a huge wave.
Once upon a time, Hua Xia was able to acquire a Fusang company, and it was a famous company like Nikon.
All of a sudden, the people of Hua Xia were excited. Daqian's fame soared, and it greatly boosted the morale of the people. The effect was similar to Lenovo's acquisition of IBM in history.
In history, the reason why Lenovo was able to become the representative of the national PC industry and almost monopolize the entire business computer market was because Lenovo acquired IBM's global computer business. This made Lenovo the glory of Hua Xia and gained great prestige.
Of course, because Lenovo acquired IBM's business and then made a joke that computers in the United States were cheaper than Hua Xia, it caused even more dissatisfaction and fell from the altar. It could be said that Lenovo's success and failure were all because of the same person.
On the other hand, the Fusangpeople were a little sad. Nikon was one of their former glory, but it was acquired by a Hua Xia company. Many Fusangpeople were jealous.
But there was no other way. With the permission of the four major consortiums, the government did not have the slightest obstruction. Nikon was not a Fusang company, and it was related to national security. There was no need to stop it.
Therefore, the acquisition process was very fast. At the end of April, the delisting procedures were completed. 87% of Nikon's shares were in the hands of the Daqian Group. There were still some people who were unwilling to sell their shares.
It was probably because the Daqian Group invested in Nikon. Nikon had a bright future!
However, Boss Jia did not spoil them. He directly controlled Nikon and divided its business into two parts. The camera business remained unchanged and still belonged to Nikon.
The photolithography machine business was directly divided and then sold to the Daqian Group. It completely became the assets of the Daqian Group.
During the whole process, the remaining shareholders did not know about it. When they found out, they had no ability to resist. Many people felt that it was very boring. In the end, they sold their shares to the Daqian Group.
After that, Nikon had been working on the digital camera business. It did not seem to have any intention of expanding the market. Instead, its profits dropped a lot. Many shareholders were desperate and sold their shares.
Until Nikon completely became the Daqian Group's company.
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By the way, it seemed that the final performance of the Daqian Group in 1997 had not been mentioned. It could not be helped. Boss Jia was too busy. Today's performance report was very messy. A simple report was enough.
First of all, it was the Daqian Group's foundation, the Daqian Group.
First of all, the Daqian Group's Boss Jia basically did not care about it anymore. The former factory director also retired. Now, the person who was in charge of the Daqian Group was a newcomer.
He entered the factory in 1993 and had been doing well in the Daqian Group. Unknowingly, he became the successor of the Daqian Group. He was still very young, only 29 years old.
And this young man did have his own ideas. He launched more than a dozen snacks. Although most of the results were average, the sales of these snacks were huge enough thanks to the Daqian Group's huge sales network.
Moreover, the "Wei Long Spicy Strips" he launched were unexpectedly popular. Coupled with the Daqian Group's signature snack sales strategy, in less than a year, the Wei Long Spicy Strips had become the snack second only to the Elf Crispy Noodle Snacks. Looking at this momentum, it was possible that the Wei Long Spicy Strips would surpass the Elf Crispy Noodle Snacks in the domestic market next year.
In the end, the Daqian Group had a total turnover of 780 million yuan in 1997. It was the well-deserved leader of the entire domestic snack industry.
Then came the Daqian Puzzle. Xiaoyi continued to expand the market. After the mini 4WD, Yu-Gi-Oh, and other ace products, he finally came up with a hit product, which was the Battle Top.
When Boss Jia first saw the product proposal, he was shocked. Then, he directly approved Xiaoyi's application to make a special animation to promote the Battle Top.
In September 1997, the animation and product of the Battle Top were fully launched. Although it did not have as huge an impact as the mini 4WD, the sales were still quite good.
But this was not the focus of the Daqian Puzzle in 1997.
The biggest success of the Daqian Puzzle in 1997 was the introduction of the "Hao Ji Xing" electronic dictionary to the market in April 1997.
This was actually a very outdated product for the Daqian Group. It was just a dot matrix screen that was about to be phased out. Then, it was coupled with an electronic dictionary, a voice function, and so on. This somewhat crude first generation product was priced at 599 yuan per unit.
In the end, from April to December, this product sold 6 million units nationwide. Boss Jia could not help but sigh. Hua Xia's parents were always the most willing parents to spend money on their children.
And these 6 million units also brought in an astonishing profit of 1.2 billion yuan for the Daqian Puzzle. It was even crazier than the Little Top Student learning machine.
It was said that the second generation of the Hao Ji Xing with more comprehensive functions was already in the process of development. It seemed that Xiaoyi was planning to take full advantage of this market and let all the children of Hua Xia fall in love with learning English.
As a result, the annual sales of the Daqian Puzzle in 1997 exceeded 5 billion yuan. The net profit reached 2.132 billion yuan, once again setting a new record.
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