Chapter 671 Boeing

Pepsi, which is famous in later generations, is not well-known now. There is not even a news about such an acquisition in Virginia.

Of course, the most important reason is that the current US economy has collapsed. Thousands of acquisitions are born every day in the whole United States. Who would care about this small company with a market value of only hundreds of thousands of dollars?

Although the task of acquiring Pepsi-Cola Beverage Company was completed, Frank was not in a hurry to leave. Instead, he announced in a high-profile manner that he would inject $1 million into Pepsi-Cola as the controlling shareholder of Pepsi-Cola.

This matter was actually explained by Arthur. After all, Pepsi-Cola has experienced several bankruptcies in history. If Pepsi-Cola is waiting for its own development, it is unknown how long it will take.

The biggest disadvantage of Pepsi-Cola is that it has no money, which also makes the beverage company's investment in advertising almost zero.

Without advertising, it can't be sold at all. People only know the more famous Coca-Cola. When they see Pepsi-Cola, they will think it is a counterfeit product and will not take the initiative to buy it.

Under such circumstances, the sales of Pepsi-Cola will get worse and worse. Even though the United States had already started prohibition, Pepsi-Cola has never been able to replace alcohol and become a new drink for Americans.

The $1 million that Frank invested in a high-profile manner was to stabilize the situation of Pepsi-Cola Beverage Company and prevent the already low stock price from falling further.

Secondly, it was to give confidence to all Pepsi-Cola employees and let them know how strong the capital of the company's new controller was.

Even in 1927, $1 million was definitely a lot. In fact, companies with more than $1 million can already become big companies, and it is not a problem to even get out of the economic crisis with this $1 million.

The last point is to give Pepsi-Cola enough marketing funds. Although the quality of the product itself is also very important, if it does not undergo large-scale marketing, more people will not know the Pepsi-Cola brand.

If you want this beverage company to become a giant in the beverage industry, you have to continue to advertise for Pepsi-Cola and increase its popularity.

Although the funds were handed over to PepsiCo's manager Pradoham, Frank was not worried that the funds would be embezzled by Pradoham.

First of all, PepsiCo's annual financial statements are reported, and whether there are any financial problems can still be seen.

Secondly, if Pradoham wants to run away with the money, it depends on whether the intelligence department of Australasia agrees.

$1 million is not a small amount of money. Before Pradoham's loyalty is ensured, he will be monitored to ensure that he will not run away with the money.

On February 26, 1927, Arthur quickly received the acquisition information from the other side of the ocean.

In just three or four days, the intelligence personnel spent $20 million in funds, and the number of acquired companies was as high as more than 600, with an average acquisition fund of about $30,000 per company.

Although this amount of money does not seem to be much, the US stock market has already fallen to a low point. These companies with an average market value of only more than 30,000 US dollars were generally large companies with a market value of more than 100,000 US dollars or even hundreds of thousands of dollars before the economic crisis.

If the intelligence personnel had not adhered to the principle of giving priority to the acquisition of large and medium-sized enterprises, I am afraid that the number of enterprises acquired now would be even greater.

Because there are still a large number of enterprises with market capitalizations ranging from thousands to tens of thousands of dollars in the US market that are on the verge of bankruptcy or have already gone bankrupt, it costs almost nothing to acquire these enterprises, and a few thousand dollars can acquire such an enterprise.

Looking at some of the companies on the acquisition list that are famous in the future, Arthur is still very satisfied with this acquisition plan.

Although there were some twists and turns in the acquisition, such as other companies or forces competing with Australasia for the acquisition, which led to some companies that Arthur was optimistic about being acquired first, etc.

But after all, those forces and companies did not have a sky eye, they did not know which companies would develop well in the future market, and would only acquire companies they thought had potential.

Arthur was still satisfied with the speed of acquiring more than 600 companies in a few days. If we look at the value before the economic crisis, the market value of these more than 600 companies is very likely to be around hundreds of millions of dollars, and it is completely profitable to get them with only 20 million US dollars now.

Moreover, this 20 million US dollars is not entirely the money for acquiring the company, and some of the money is used for the development of the company.

In the acquisition of companies, automobile companies, oil companies, beverage companies, agricultural products companies and other industrial companies are the main targets of Australasia's acquisition.

These more than 600 companies are spread across the United States' agriculture, animal husbandry, light industry and heavy industry, as well as various grain products, chemicals, etc.

According to the current exchange rate between the US dollar and the Australian dollar, the value of 20 million US dollars is equivalent to 8 million Australian dollars, which is not much for Arthur.

There are still tens of thousands of companies on the verge of bankruptcy or bankrupt in the US market, and these companies are waiting for Arthur's financial relief.

In order for Americans to have a stable job, Arthur has invested a lot of money and asked Director Batty to instruct those intelligence personnel to acquire a large number of American companies at all costs, and the operating funds have also expanded to 100 million US dollars.

With Arthur's strong support in terms of funds, many intelligence personnel disguised themselves again and acquired a large number of companies scattered throughout the United States.

The new round of acquisition targets has added aviation, machinery manufacturing, aircraft, military industry, shipbuilding and steel enterprises, and there is a trend of directly monopolizing American industry.

Among the many acquisition targets, the already well-known Boeing Company has become the first choice in terms of aircraft.

Speaking of Boeing, the first thing that comes to mind should be Boeing's famous series of civil aircraft.

But in fact, Boeing is also a military aircraft manufacturer, and has made good achievements in military and civil aircraft.

Boeing was founded in 1916, and its founder is the famous William Edward Boeing.

Seeing William Edward Boeing, it is actually clear that the origin of the name of Boeing is William Edward's surname.

The current Boeing Company's main industry is still the field of military aircraft. In terms of civil aircraft, it only involves transport aircraft, and civil passenger aircraft has not yet been involved.

But this does not conceal Arthur's desire to acquire Boeing. It's not that the current Boeing Company is so powerful, but if the United States loses one Boeing Company, it can weaken the United States's strength in aircraft a little bit.

Because William Edward Boeing was of German descent, the Royal Security Intelligence Service cleverly sent Scott Costild, who was also of German descent, as the acquirer.

At Boeing's headquarters, Scott successfully met William Edward Boeing, the helmsman of Boeing.

This famous aircraft designer is actually only 46 years old.

But in the original history, the United States split Boeing into three companies during the Great Depression, and William Edward Boeing retired directly after the company was split.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Boeing." Scott took the lead in extending his hand and smiled at William Edward Boeing who came to meet him in person.

"Me too, Mr. Scott." William Edward Boeing nodded first, then went straight to the point, saying meaningfully: "Mr. Scott's purchases in the United States have been on the news. Apart from anything else, you are enough to be a friend of the Americans just by giving many Americans the opportunity to regain their jobs."

Scott was not embarrassed by William Edward Boeing's direct statement of his intentions. Instead, he pretended to be very honored and replied with a smile: "Then it seems that Mr. Boeing does not reject my acquisition?"

Hearing Scott say this, William Edward Boeing did not respond directly, but was silent for a while, sighed, and then said helplessly: "If it was before the damn economic crisis broke out, I would definitely not want the company to be acquired. But now, even the workers' salaries can't be paid, and it's time for Boeing to change."

William Edward Boeing is still very open-minded about the changes that Boeing is about to face, which is why he retired gloriously after the company was split.

After all, no matter what, Boeing has made him earn enough money, and it's no problem to be a rich man.

"Thank you Mr. Boeing for your appreciation of us. Please rest assured that after we acquire Boeing, if you wish, you can still have control over Boeing. Of course, as a token of sincerity, you can retain 5% of Boeing's shares and see with your own eyes how Boeing grows and develops." Scott said with a smile.

Since William Edward Boeing does not reject the acquisition of his hard work, the next thing will be much easier.

Giving Boeing shares, acquiring Boeing and transferring the headquarters to Australasia, this is Scott's next task.

"But, Mr. Scott, I have to remind you. Boeing's current market value is as high as 5 million US dollars. Are you sure you have enough funds to acquire it?" Looking at Scott, who looked confident, as if the acquisition of Boeing was a foregone conclusion, William Edward Boeing was a little curious. Is the capital behind him really that strong?

"Don't worry about the funding, Mr. Boeing." Scott said with a smile: "After acquiring your company, we can inject an additional $2 million into your company as research and development funds to help you study the technology of monoplanes.

We have only one request, that is, Boeing's technology cannot be transferred or sold without permission, and finished aircraft or parts cannot be sold to any individual or force without permission.

Moreover, we want to move Boeing's headquarters to a more suitable place, which will be more suitable for Boeing's development."

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