Chapter 1807 High-speed rail and big plane
Canada's Bombardier Company now has a low share in the large passenger aircraft market and its market share in high-speed high-speed railways is also not high. In this era, few countries have built high-speed railways. Gulfstream Aerospace is the most famous in the small private business aircraft market, and it is competing with many second-rate companies to seize the market.
Although there is still a lot of room for growth as of now, it seems that the existing major shareholders are no longer satisfied with the slow growth rate and are trying to get Han Xuan's capital injection to accelerate the pace of corporate expansion. In addition, some shareholders are also trying to cash out part of their gloves.
This is what Anthony executive said. For men, Bombardier is undoubtedly a cool company. It builds private business jets, regional passenger aircraft, high-speed rail, motorcycles, and also occupies part of the market in railways and subways.
For Han Xuan, this company is very attractive. The main reason is its growth. It has everything involved, but it does not have much market share and has a good foundation. After obtaining investment, it can quickly grow into a comprehensive transportation equipment manufacturer through independent research and acquisition of existing companies.
He really wanted to build high-speed rail in the United States. The United States is vast and sparsely populated. Building high-speed rail in most areas will undoubtedly fall into a long-term loss situation. Due to the perfect highway and air transportation network, it has seized too many passenger resources.
However, in some cities and regions, there is great potential for developing high-speed rail projects, such as connecting the five major cities on the East Coast, where the population flows heavily and the airport in New York is too far from the city, so it takes a long time to go to the city every time.
The most famous high-speed rail transportation routes in the world are the Shinkansen and Eurostar. China's high-speed rail construction has not yet begun to develop. As for the richest United States, they are actually interested in high-speed rail. There is great potential for laying high-speed rails between some cities, but no company can support such a huge investment amount. After all, the United States, where every inch of land is valuable, the labor and resource costs are very high.
This is not a difficult task in Han Xuan’s opinion. The cost is high and the fare can be increased accordingly. As long as it is slightly cheaper than the plane and faster than driving, it means success. It is cheaper to fly to a large airport in the United States. If you take off or land from a small airport, it will definitely not have to do with the cheapness.
Han Xuan himself has an airport. In this private-owned United States, it is strange that those capital businessmen can miss the opportunity to make money. Both airports need to make money, and airlines need to make money. In addition, maintenance costs, service costs, etc., it is strange that the fare can be cheaper.
The United States has not much railway passenger flow, but it has the best railway freight system in the world. The railway has two basic functions: freight and passenger transport. Currently, the total freight mileage of American railways is firmly ranked first in the world, with more than 200,000 kilometers.
According to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Transport, the US freight railway transports about 55 million tons of goods every day, which is more than any country in the world. Mr. Han’s SOS transport company is also signing long-term cooperation with these railway freight companies. Considering cost factors, railways are cheaper than highways, but the disadvantage is that they are slower.
If customers are in a hurry, they can add more money to transport on the road. If they add more money, the plane can be delivered within three days. If they are close, it will take one or two days. In addition, the same-city freight system that is delivered on the same day in big cities is directly delivered to the self-pickup point because it does not require distribution, so it greatly saves time.
This is just Han Xuan’s idea. Even if it is truly implemented, it cannot be completed in one or two days. For Bombardier, he attaches more importance to the development of high-speed rail, passenger aircraft, and private business aircraft. Gulfstream Holdings is in his hands. He can cooperate with Bombardier to give users new choices.
At this moment, I asked the executive Anthony and said: "What is the financing amount?
I can't just pay the money but become a small shareholder who has no say in the company. If so, I would rather acquire Airbus or Boeing.
I have rejected me once, and I can't play with me again. They are not that tempting to me yet."
"It's not bad, about 4 billion US dollars. This time they are trying to acquire part of the large passenger aircraft business of McDonald Douglas, and enter the large passenger aircraft business. The acquisition will cost about 3.1 billion US dollars. The remaining funds will be spent on the research and development of high-speed rail and private business aircraft.
If a cooperation is reached, you will own forty percent of the company's shares. I think you can easily achieve the holding in the future. They have made concessions. According to my estimate, it may be that you want to borrow your influence and get more orders.
In other words, they plan to hand over the company to you to manage..."
When he said this, the tone of Executive Anthony was a bit complicated. A company believed in someone and was even willing to hand over the company's operating rights. This often happens in small companies, but Canada's Bombardier is not a small company. This shows how powerful the reputation of the small boss Han Xuan is now.
It cannot be said that the Bombardier directors are stupid. The acquisition by Han Xuan is a matter of hope. The news that Han Xuan was preparing to acquire it some time ago made many investors who hold shares in Bombardier Company extremely happy, but they refused. Even many Canadian newspapers published articles saying that this was definitely a stupid decision.
Looking at Gulfstream, Han’s Automobile Group will know that Han Xuan is quite talented in how to operate these transportation equipment industries, and has a huge sales channel, which can also bring sufficient R&D and acquisition funds to Bombardier.
Putting aside the so-called sentiment, half of a company with a scale of 30 billion US dollars is much higher than a company with a scale of nearly 10 billion US dollars. From an investment perspective, this is the right choice, as long as it will not be moved out of Bombardier's headquarters.
It is said that shopping malls are like battlefields. When wars are fought, weak countries like to rely on the strong, and the same is true for doing business. Now the companies under Han Xuan are invincible, constantly expanding new markets, occupying a large number of high-quality resources and talent. No matter what business they do, they have superior or even several operating channels.
As a result, many companies in the world are not afraid of being acquired by the Han family, but are afraid that they will not look down on themselves. Starbucks, Hasbro, Pixar, Dimen, Rolls-Royce, Gulfstream, ABC, Aston Martin, Bloomberg News, Trump Real Estate, Qualcomm, Cisco, Nvidia, BebooK notebooks spun off from Apple, etc. Countless successful cases have proved the Han family's extraordinary ability in running a business!
Because it has not been acquired, the market value of the old GE company has fallen by 15% recently. In fact, its business situation is not a problem. The reason is that Han Xuan gave up on acquiring it. Now, the CEO of GE talks to Executive Anthony every now and then to test their ideas.
Merchants are chasing profits, and how many people are truly sentimental? Let’s not talk about the rest. After KFC was acquired by Han Xuan about 15% of its shares, it obtained Destiny browser, WOW chat’s Internet promotion channel, and issued some electronic coupons. The performance in the second half of this year increased by 22%! You should know that this is an old company, its market value has not fluctuated for a long time, and there are no new profit points!
What's even more amazing is that their chicken suppliers have begun to regulate. Although they have reduced some of their profits, their reputation has suddenly surpassed McDonald's and their income has increased!
Speaking of McDonald, the company was acquired by Boeing two years ago. Boeing is now competing with French Airbus. If Airbus acquires it first, Boeing will be at a disadvantage.
Boeing's merger of McDonald is mainly to prevent McDonald from being merged by Airbus. After Airbus' merger with McDonald, it will be stronger than Boeing, which is something Boeing doesn't want to see.
In addition, Boeing also values McDonald's productivity and strong R&D capabilities, especially military aircraft R&D capabilities. Boeing has never intervened in military aircraft since the end of World War II. However, McDonald is the main fighter jet supplier of the US Air Force. F-4 "Ghost", F-15 "Eagle", and F/A-18 "Bumblebee" are all products of McDonald's. The YF-23 "Black Widow" was only a little selected by the US Air Force.
In the research and development of civil aircraft, Boeing's models are advanced than McDonald's. Therefore, after the merger and acquisition, Boeing only completed McDonald's unfinished civil aircraft orders, and its excess productivity is used to produce Boeing series passenger aircraft and military aircraft. Overall, it is a large aircraft manufacturing company with good technology.
Han Xuan was very excited. He was confident of opening up the Asian market. Now he just lacked large aircraft products...
Chapter completed!