"Is BMW crazy? They want to sell these three brands for 3.6 billion USD! " In the afternoon, Hans sent the list over. Wang Chuanfu took a look at it and exploded.
On the list sent by Hans, there were only three automobile brands under the Rover Automobile Group. In addition, there were three factories. One was in Ying State, one was in Germany, and one was in the United States.
It seemed quite good, but according to Wang Chuanfu's prior investigation, these three factories were actually new in the 1960s. They were factories from the old Rover era.
If it were 30 years ago, these factories might have been more advanced. But 30 years later, these three factories had not changed at all. The production lines inside were still the production lines from 30 years ago. They had long been abandoned by the times.
In fact, these three factories had been abandoned. There was not a single worker in them. They had been packaged and sold together with the Rover Group. The only valuable thing was probably the land under the factories.
But these three pieces of land could not be sold at the crazy price of 3.6 billion USD.
Someone asked, "Didn't Rover produce new cars? Then where were these cars produced? "
These cars were, of course, from BMW's own production line. They just had a Rover logo on them. So now, Rover had actually lost the ability to produce cars.
After all, what Wang Chuanfu valued most was the various technologies, patents, and engineers under the Rover cars.
But since the factories were empty, the engineers naturally ran away. Only the administrative staff was left. The most annoying thing was that the technologies and patents were not on the list.
Wang Chuanfu went to ask, but Hans arrogantly said that these technologies had been integrated into BMW's technology library. If he wanted to buy them, he would have to pay extra.
This made Wang Chuanfu so angry that he did not even have the interest to talk. He directly announced that he would not buy them. Mr. Hans laughed, as if he was very happy that this deal had failed.
"Hmph!" Wang Chuanfu walked away angrily. Hans gave his secretary a look, and the secretary sent Wang Chuanfu away.
"Mr. Wang, don't be angry. Actually, the failure of this negotiation is mainly on you!" The secretary suddenly said when she was sending the guests off.
"Why? Did we offend you in any way?" Wang Chuanfu asked angrily.
"Just a little!" The secretary smiled slightly.
"Oh, please advise me, Miss Secretary!" Wang Chuanfu was stunned for a moment. He really did offend this guy, but he didn't know it at all!
"That's just hearsay!" The secretary said in a low voice, "Our vice president took a special flight back from Hua Xia this time. As a result, he met one of your employees on the plane. This person spoke rudely to our president and even flirted with a woman. Our president couldn't stand him and tried to stop him. As a result, she was scolded by him!"
"In the end, during the negotiation yesterday, our president happened to see that guy, the young man with the mask. Naturally, he was in a bad mood. Our chairman thinks that it's an insult for such a young man to stay in the automotive industry … Hehe, I've only heard about it. I'm not sure if that's the case. Think about it yourself! " After the secretary finished speaking, she sent Wang Chuanfu out of BMW's headquarters, leaving Wang Chuanfu standing in the same place, somewhat dumbfounded.
It seemed that as long as he fired that young man, there would be room for discussion. But the problem was, did he have the guts to fire Jia Yapeng?
Even if he had the guts, did he have the ability?
Wang Chuanfu returned to the hotel with a strange expression. Then, he found that Boss Jia was still looking at the list.
"Chairman, is there anything interesting on this list?" Wang Chuanfu asked curiously. He had only glanced at this list once and was not interested in looking at it again. He didn't expect Boss Jia to look at it with great interest!
"Nothing, I just didn't expect that Land Rover was actually a brand under Rover Automobile!" Boss Jia said with squinted eyes.
Like many automobile companies, Rover Automobile naturally had many of its own sub-brands to undertake different markets.
There were a total of three brands under Rover Automobile. The first was naturally the biggest brand, Rover itself.
Next was Land Rover, the off-road car brand, and another sports car brand.
If he didn't see this list, Boss Jia really wouldn't have thought that Land Rover and Jaguar, two famous brands in the future Hua Xia market, were actually brands under Rover Automobile. Now, they were just small brands that were packaged and sold.
Later, Rover Automobile was broken down and sold. Rover was re-sold to the Ying State, and Land Rover was sold to the Ford Group for 2.9 billion USD.
However, Land Rover continued to lose money in the hands of Ford. In the end, it was bought by India's Tata Group for 2.3 billion USD, so it became the most famous car brand in India. Later, it even went to the Hua Xia market to make money for the Indians. It was really strange.
Boss Jia was actually not interested in Rover Automobile, but he was very interested in Land Rover and Jaguar.
Especially the Land Rover Range Rover, it was the world's first real urban SUV. It was a model that could not only adapt to urban roads, but also freely go off-road.
Thinking of the popularity of urban SUVs in the future Hua Xia market, Boss Jia was really envious if he could buy the related technology and patents of Land Rover and the urban SUV in his hands.
Urban SUVs were still undeveloped in the previous world. Now, the mainstream of private purchase of vehicles was either good-looking cars or larger commercial vehicles. Urban SUVs could only be considered as leftovers.
Therefore, when India's Tata Group bought Land Rover, the price was quite cheap, only 2.3 billion USD. But now, Land Rover's total market value was more than 20 billion USD.
Looking at it this way, Hans had actually sold the Rover, Land Rover, and Jaguar for 3.6 billion USD. It was a good deal. After all, Ford had spent 3.9 billion USD to sell the Land Rover and Jaguar separately.
But in Hans's list, there were only brands and basically abandoned factories. Engineers, technology, and so on were not in the list. Obviously, if he bought them like this, he would suffer a big loss.
"Chairman, something happened just now!" Seeing Boss Jia give up on the list, Wang Chuanfu quickly passed on the information that Hans's secretary told him to our Boss Jia.
"This guy, he flirted with my sister and actually turned around to bite me. This kind of guy …" Boss Jia shook his head. He didn't care about this guy, but this guy still wanted to take revenge on him. Were all these villains retarded?
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