Chapter 712 Li Li Becomes President

Phillips did not stay in San Francisco for long. He just had a fast food meal at a nearby KFC and booked the nearest flight back to Chicago.

On the acquisition of Ashley Press, Meng Dawen and Garcia started negotiations and called Fang Minghua every day to tell him the specific progress of the negotiations.

Fang Minghua had nothing to do, so he went to the Dell store near the community and bought a Dell laptop to type at night to avoid Li Li's return and fight with others for the computer.

Unfortunately, the English version of W95 was installed, and Chinese characters could not be used to input. In the Microsoft store, there was a newly released Chinese version of the win component.

The Chinese version of WIN95 was not needed, but the Chinese version of Office was very necessary. I saw the price: $780!

It was a robbery.

Fang Minghua cursed inwardly, but had to buy it.

It was really hard to find pirated software here.

Finally, I can type, don't forget my job.

Meng Dawen's negotiation work was relatively smooth. One wanted to buy and the other wanted to sell, and it took only one week to reach an agreement.

Fang Minghua purchased all the assets of Ashley Press for 4.1 million US dollars, including the debt owed by 1y Press.

Meng Dawen told Fang Minghua about this on the phone: "Mr. Fang, all the text materials are ready, waiting for you to come and sign. In addition, Mr. Garcia has made an additional request."

"What request?"

"He hopes that after you acquire the publishing house, the name of the publishing house will remain unchanged - Ashley Press has been used for 43 years."

Fang Minghua was silent for a while: "Okay."

Of course, the signing of both parties is still the first step, and then you have to take the signed documents to the local government department to register the change of legal person, taxation, industry and commerce, etc.

Fortunately, Fang Minghua only acquired a small publishing house, which does not involve the provisions of the "U.S. Comprehensive Trade Act of 1988", otherwise it will have to be reviewed and approved by the relevant departments of the federal government.

Of course, Fang Minghua only needs to take his passport and the tax certificate documents he once paid in the United States and follow Meng Dawen, and he will be responsible for everything.

A week later, all the acquisition change procedures were completed, and 2.5 million US dollars were transferred to the other party's account according to the contract. The remaining 1.6 million was directly paid to the debtors owed by the company.

The formal transfer procedures will be completed tomorrow morning. In the evening, Fang Minghua stood at the door of the study, looking at Li Li who was concentrating on writing an academic paper in the room, and called out: "Lili."

"Hmm?"

Li Li turned her head and looked at him.

"Ashley Press is handed over to you to manage." Fang Minghua said.

"Ah? No, you know I can only translate and study, but I don't know how to run a business. I'm not as capable as my cousin." Li Li immediately refused.

"But I will eventually return to China, what about the publishing house?" Fang Minghua asked back.

"It's simple. You hire someone who understands company management as the president. In the United States, there is a kind of person called a professional manager who specializes in serving as the CEO of each company. They definitely do better than me." Li Li came up with an idea.

"I know that we should hire a professional manager to manage the company, but where can I find the right person right now? Even if there is a suitable person to be the CEO in the future, I can't trust him completely. In the United States, you are the one I trust the most."

"But, I am really worried that I can't do it well."

"It's not that complicated." Fang Minghua walked up to Li Li and gently touched her shoulder: "I positioned Ashley Press to translate and publish our country's excellent literary works, as well as some works written by Chinese writers. Of course, we can also publish a small number of excellent literary works from other countries. This is its feature."

"I don't want to be a large publishing company like Simon and Random House, nor do I require much profit. The publishing house can just make a small profit or break even."

Li Li understood.

"Minghua, you actually want to make Ashley Press a window to promote our country's literary works, right?"

"That's what I mean."

"Well, this is also the original intention of doing translation. I also hope to let more foreigners see our country's excellent literary works. I will do a good job!"

"Well, let's discuss how to carry out the work of the publishing house." Fang Minghua said

The next morning after breakfast, Li Li drove the two of them to Ashley Press at 48 Baptistery Boulevard.

No changes have been made outside, including the company sign that has become a little old due to wind and sun.

Fang Minghua took a look and went upstairs to the original president's office.

Garcia was waiting for him.

Seeing Fang Minghua come in, Garcia showed a complicated expression on his face.

But the two sides still shook hands very friendly, and then Garcia handed over a document with the names, positions, ages, etc. of the company's current employees.

"Thank you."

"Mr. Fang, I regret that this publishing house no longer belongs to the Garcia family, but fortunately Ashley Press still exists."

Garcia looked at Fang Minghua and said sincerely: "I hope that under Mr. Fang's management, Ashley can be run better and better."

"I will."

Garcia left, taking only a photo frame from the bookshelf behind the boss's desk, and soon appeared on the road downstairs.

It was windy outside, and his back was a little hunched.

Fang Minghua looked at it for a while, then slowly looked back and smiled at Li Li, "Lili, President Li, it's your turn to take office now."

Li Li rolled her eyes at him very gently and didn't say much. She took the information left by Garcia and read it for a while before saying: "Minghua, David, the editor-in-chief, started working as an ordinary editor in a publishing house when he was young. , he has been working as editor-in-chief until now, so he has rich experience, and I plan to continue to let him be editor-in-chief.”

"Okay, you are the president now, you have the final say." Fang Minghua said with a nonchalant attitude.

"You don't want to take care of things so quickly? No wonder my cousin said you like to be lazy."

Li Li muttered and continued: "The person in charge of the finance department needs to be re-recruited. Jack from the marketing operation and promotion department is temporarily retained. I want to see how good he is? In the future, human resources and the office will be merged into one. Why does a publishing house with 40 people need so many departments? "

"Appropriately expand the staff of the editorial department, and directly outsource the translation work. I will go to our school to find it, and focus on recruiting marketing personnel. This is the key point! Minghua, am I right?"

After Li Li finished speaking, she looked at Fang Minghua.

Seeing the other party giving her a thumbs up, Li Li smiled sweetly.

"Do we need to call together several major responsible persons for a meeting? President Li?" Fang Minghua asked half-jokingly and half-seriously.

"Yeah! Need it."

Fang Minghua immediately picked up the desk phone. He called Garcia's secretary Marilyn and asked her to notify the heads of various departments of the publishing house to come to the office for a meeting.

These people entered the office one after another, and they found that the person sitting behind the boss's desk was not the Oriental man who bought the publishing house, but a beautiful and graceful Oriental woman.