Chapter 515 This Move Is Actually a Failure

"Someno wants to acquire PATEO to create the world's largest machine tool giant... Who are you kidding!"

Reading the news headlines from several domestic financial newspapers, Tang Zifeng showed a sarcastic smile.

After Meuse brought He Jian's suggestion back to Germany, Botai's senior management discussed it and believed that it was still feasible to invite Someno to act in a play. At this time, Global Peace Watch is putting pressure on the EU to ban mergers and acquisitions of European high-tech companies. If news is released that PATEO may be disgraced, people will be anxious.

The pressure exerted by "Global Peace Watch" can be either light or serious for the EU. Europeans have become more and more cheap in recent years, but they still have the aristocratic style of old Europe and refuse to admit that they are not good enough. They don't dare to offend the United States, and they follow the lead of the United States in everything, but they also have to make some awkward moves from time to time to show that they are not a running_dog of the United States, but have dignity, confidence and independent opinions.

In the minds of European politicians, selling a group of high-tech companies like PATEO has nothing to do with European security. So far, the biggest threat to European security is still Russia.

To put it bluntly, even if there is a scene like Genghis Khan sweeping across Europe in the future, it will be decades at least. What does it have to do with current European politicians?

What is currently plaguing Europe is a serious economic crisis. The youth unemployment rate in Spain, Portugal and other countries is close to 50%. These hormonal guys wander the streets all day long, posing a threat to social security that is greater than thousands of east winds. 17. Selling some seriously loss-making enterprises can help the EU reduce economic pressure and free up the EU to restore the economy and promote employment. Why not do it?

When a universal government works, procedural justice is the most important thing. After receiving the request from Global Peace Watch, the EU sent officials to Botai to investigate and asked Botai to prove his innocence. EU officials said that as long as PATEO can submit a report and sign and state that the technology it masters cannot help improve the level of military industry, the EU can reject the request of Global Peace Watch and issue a sales license to PATEO.

The EU officials who went to investigate also hinted to Wardenberg that Botai's report only needs to be literal and reasonable, and no one will bother whether the content is true. After all, technology is developing, and military technology is highly confidential. If you say that you have mastered a certain technology, but you just keep it secret, who can prove that you are wrong? Now that PATEO has mastered this technology, there will naturally be no problem if PATEO sells this technology.

After receiving this hint from the EU, Wardenberg knew what was happening. On the one hand, he let people know that PATEO opposed the EU's sales ban, but on the other hand, he delayed in submitting the self-examination report required by the EU, giving people the illusion that PATEO might indeed be prohibited from selling.

As Liang Zile can see, PATEO is waiting for a price. As long as China's bid meets their expectations, they can quickly settle the EU, then wash themselves clean and jump into the pot.

The emergence of He Jian gave Wardenberg a new negotiating weight. Someno didn't have any requirements, it was just to get more blood, and Botai didn't have to pay any price for it. The cost is zero and the benefits are unlimited. Why not do such a thing?

As for whether this matter will be self-defeating and lead to giving up the acquisition of PATEO at the last moment, Wardenberg is not worried. It is not that PATEO does not have its own intelligence channels. Wardenberg has long known that Linji’s senior management is very eager to acquire PATEO.

Although the specific bid is still highly confidential and cannot be understood by ordinary middle-level cadres in the group, the group is already arranging to take over PATEO's manpower and discussing with Linhe City the sale of Linyiji land. These matters cannot be hidden from outsiders. of. It is impossible that Linji's senior management had not estimated the cost of acquiring PATEO, and now that they are preparing with such great fanfare, they will not give up completely because of the price difference of several hundred million euros.

After all, PATEO's own psychological price is also very low, only 2 billion euros. Compared with the actual value of the tangible and intangible assets owned by PATEO, 2 billion euros is considered a reasonable price.

"Mr. Tang, if it is true, we have to guard against it."

Chief Engineer Guo Daihui reminded worriedly. Guo Daihui has long been salivating over the large number of technology patents owned by PATEO. Since the group started the process of acquiring PATEO, Guo Daihui has woken up from his sleep laughing countless times, and his wife has threatened him to sleep in separate beds.

"Lao Guo, don't worry. Someye can't protect itself now. What can it do to acquire PATEO?" Han Weichang, general manager of the sales company, comforted calmly.

At this time, everyone is having a group office meeting together. The topic of today's discussion is the acquisition of PATEO. This is also the matter that the group executives are most concerned about in recent times.

"Someye still has some strength. We can all acquire PATEO, so it will be no more difficult for Someye." Guo Daihui said.

Han Weichang said: "You are talking about Someno's technical strength. In terms of market share, it has long been inferior to us. After acquiring PATEO, we can immediately apply its technology to production and launch new machine tool varieties. . Someno has acquired Botei, what use is it to it? What Someno lacks now is not technology, but the market."

"What if..." Guo Daihui continued to question calmly. Guo Daihui didn't understand the market, but Guo Daihui also knew that Someno had not released any new machine tool products in recent years.

He once asked Han Weichang about this, and Han Weichang gave him this answer at the time. Someye did not lack technology, but because of the high product prices, inconvenient after-sales service, and far less competitive market competitiveness than before, naturally there was no motivation to launch new products. .

Will a company that has no motivation to update its original technology spend more than ten to two billion euros to acquire another company? Even a technical geek like Guo Daihui can guess the answer.

"Mr. Tang, what do you think about the EU ban?"

After Han Weichang answered Guo Daihui's question, he turned to Tang Zifeng and asked.

"According to the feedback from Liang Zile, the EU ban is not without room. As long as PATEO is willing to go to the EU to prove that its technology is not sensitive, the EU will lift the ban." Tang Zifeng said.

"Botai is probably waiting for us to make an offer." Zhang Jianyang said with a smile.

"Jianyang, be more confident. You can remove the word 'estimate'." Tang Zifeng said with a smile.

Group Vice President Zhan Keqin echoed: "Mr. Tang is right, PATEO is just waiting for us to make an offer. We have made such a big noise, and PATEO knows that we are determined to win it, so we cooperate with the EU in releasing such a price." Feng, we are waiting for us to rush up and talk to them."

"They brought up Ranye for this purpose," Han Weichang said.

"Well, if we had known this, we shouldn't have exposed our intentions too early." Guo Daihui said regretfully.

Guo Daihui may have the greatest responsibility for exposing his acquisition intention. He arranged for many engineers to study PATEO's technology. For those technologies that were about to be obtained from PATEO, the group's technology department reduced investment, which was equivalent to leaving a hole waiting for a batch of ready-made technologies to be obtained from PATEO. The radish is planted in.

Ji Ji made things so obvious, how could Botai fail to see Ji Ji's intention? This is like marrying a bride. You have laid out the banquet, invited the guests, and are just waiting for the bride to get on the sedan. Don't they ask for wedding money like a lion?

"You can't hide this kind of thing even if you want to." Tang Zifeng said, "In the final analysis, the final decision in the business world can only be the strength of each person. Even if you can win by tricks, you can't win forever."

"Yes, Mr. Tang really said the true meaning of marketing. It's just like our marketing. Customers ultimately have to see whether your products are of high quality and low price. Just relying on tricks and conspiracy won't last long." Han Weichang said.

The senior executives nodded, but they all held back evil smiles in their hearts.

Damn it, don’t you two love conspiracy the most in the entire group? Especially you, Mr. Tang, people in the circle say that you are half Russian, and your original name is "Tang Zifeng Ski". Hey, isn't this a Spanish name?

As for Han Weichang, it turned out that when he was working at the Linyi Machine Technology Department, he was somewhat down-to-earth like an engineer. Since he started running the market with Tang Zifeng, he has become more evil day by day.

The two of you are talking so much here about not relying on tricks or conspiracy. It really makes people feel uncomfortable.

After laughing, everyone still admitted that Tang Zifeng and Han Weichang were indispensable for the development of Linji Group. The problem with many old state-owned enterprises is that they are too strict about rules and are not even willing to do some public relations hype.

In today's market, if you don't brag about yourself, customers will think you are incompetent. You pretend to be low-key every day, saying that you are big but not strong, and you can barely live in the third echelon. Are people going to look down on you? In the end, if your good products cannot be sold at a good price, who will suffer?

"I think the fact that Botera Someno cooperated with it in acting shows that it has no confidence in its heart. In this transaction, it is more anxious. Can we take advantage of its psychology and suppress it severely? The price. We originally planned to complete the acquisition between 1.5 billion and 1.8 billion euros, but now we simply set the target at 1.5 billion. If it doesn't agree, we will let it go immediately and sell it to Someno." Executive Chen Bo suggested.

"What Lao Chen said is exactly what I think!" Tang Zifeng said, "I also think that Patei's move is actually a failure. Let's use its psychology to lower the price severely."