The first thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight chapters
Hearing Chen Chu's words, Badler couldn't help but show joy on his face. This time, Ouqi Games can create such a great momentum in Europe, which is closely related to the support of Chu Ke's partners here.
Micromania game video game company, Chuko's partner in France, is the Lagardere Group, who coordinates to thread Ouqi Games. Otherwise, Ouqi Games could have hooked up with it so quickly.
Not only Lagardale Group, but also Grosvenor in the UK, have also begun to make efforts, because the old British aristocrats have huge connections in Europe and with the support of Grosvenor, Ouqi Games will basically not encounter obstacles in acquiring other European game retailers, nor will there be institutions, consortiums or the like, deliberately hinder Ouqi Games.
If it was just an Ouqi game, then this time there would probably be many monsters and monsters jumped out to interfere, and then caused trouble for Badler and Ouqi games, hoping to take the opportunity to make a fortune.
But with Chuko Technology, Lagardale Group, and Grosvenor Group, this time Ouqi Games is almost horizontal in Europe. No one will jump out to make things difficult for Ouqi Games at this time.
After hanging up the phone, Badler, who had not been sleeping all night, looked extremely excited and looked up at the people who looked at him, "Accelerating the acquisition of Micromania Games is not only the French market, but Ouqi will become the largest game retail company in Europe as soon as possible!"
Knowing that Badler is supported by Chen Chu, the atmosphere is naturally high. With Chen Chu's support, Ouqi Games' advantages are naturally much greater.
After Chen Chu hung up the phone, he read a few more emails and reports, and basically had thoughts about Ouqi Games and GameStop.
Chen Chu didn't care about Ouqi Game's offline retail market. The key is GameStop. The purpose of Chen Chu and Chu Ke is both GameStop. Now let Ouqi Game enter the game retail market is just to get GameStop to launch it.
After looking out the window, Chen Chu saw that the sky outside had completely dimmed, and Chen Chu also felt a little tired. In the past few days, Chen Chu had been running all the way, and he was a little more tired than in Yanjing.
After receiving the call from Chen Chu, Badler's movements were even more frequent, but GameStop was still trying every possible way.
There was still a lot of busyness on GameStop. Facing the sudden appearance of opponents, especially behind them, there was the shadow of SG Games wanting to interfere in offline game retail business, Leonard Richo and GameStop couldn't help but become more cautious.
"Ouqi Games must not be allowed to acquire Micromania, otherwise GameStop will be too passive in the European market!"
At GameStop headquarters, Leonard Richo discussed with a group of executives, the vice president in charge of global markets, saw that he had been arguing for so long and did not come up with a plan except to make a fuss. He couldn't help but say anxiously.
"Everyone understands this, but if you intervene in this matter, GameStop will need to pay a lot of money to steal Micromania Games from Ouqi Games!"
The person who said this was an executive of the Finance Department of GameStop. When he said this, he couldn't help but look at Leonard Riccio. He was undoubtedly Leonard Riccio's confidant, so he naturally knew what Leonard Riccio was thinking.
If you compete with Ouqi Game for those game retailers, GameStop will definitely have to spend a lot of money, and its performance next year will definitely not be good, and maybe it will lose a part of it. This is definitely not good news for Leonard Richo, who wants to push up the stock price and get equity rewards and dividends.
After all, Leonard Richo is also a professional manager no matter what. When it comes to his own interests and GameStop, he will definitely think of himself first.
Taking a deep breath, Leonard Richo knew that he could not hesitate anymore. Seeing that Ouqi Game was about to hit the doorstep of his house, if he was hesitant, the seat under his butt would probably not be able to be kept, let alone any equity rewards.
"Take a quote to Micromania Games, don't let it fall into the hands of Ouqi Games!" Leonard Richo said with a slap in the table.
Seeing that Leonard Richo had made up his mind, the senior executives of GameStop were about to leave and began to prepare for the acquisition and grab Micromania, the vice president in charge of the marketing department suddenly received a call, and a look of shock appeared on his face. He said to Leonard Richo who was about to go out, "It's too late, Ouqi Game has already been obtained!"
Leonard Richo soon knew what this sentence meant. Ouqi Games used the famous blitzkrieg this time, and before the outside world could react, it directly acquired Micromania Games.
When Leonard Richo saw Ouqi Games give Micromania's acquisition conditions, he was a little shocked.
Ouqi Games spent $590 million to acquire all of Micromania's equity and debts, and appointed Micromania's president, and still allowed it to manage more than 300 Micromania stores.
In other words, this time Ouqi Games fully acquired Micromania, assumed the debt, and retained Micromania's management position. The conditions offered were already quite generous. No wonder Micromania can accept the acquisition so happily!
From this time, when Leonard Richo and GameStop had no reaction at all, Ouqi Games and Badler began to acquire crazy acquisitions like endless Americans.
This made the entire game industry a little amazed that Badler was possessed by the German beard during World War II. After acquiring French Micromania in Blitzkrieg, Badler continued to do so and spent $68 million to acquire Free Recird Shop, the largest game retailer in the Netherlands and Norway. At this time, Ouqi Games had more than 410 stores, which was no less than GameStop's stores in Europe.
At this time, everyone in the entire game industry knew that Ouqi Games, or the SG Games and Chu Ke behind it, were not false. This time, they were going to really take action on the offline game retail market!
But Badler has not stopped yet. After the autumn wind swept away the fallen leaves, shocking news came out. Ouqi Games took over GameGroup, the largest game retailer in Britain, spent more than US$300 million, and obtained 32% of the equity of GameGroup Group, becoming the major shareholder of GameGroup, the largest game retailer in Britain!
This almost marks that the largest game retail group in England has officially joined Ouqi Games, and it is at a price that is almost bargain!
You know, when GameStop was logged into Europe, it was eyeing GameGroup, but it never succeeded. This time, it was easily captured by Ouqi Game. When GameStop received this news, it almost vomited an old blood.
The reason why Ouqi Games was able to succeed was naturally related to the Grosvenor Group, the largest real estate tyrant in Britain. More than one-third of GameGrosvenor Group's stores are rented under the Grosvenor Group. Faced with the Grosvenor Group, which acts as a lobbyist, GameGros has no ability to bargain at all.
Either they cooperate with Ouqi Games, and they can get a three-year store rental discount from the Grosvenor Group, or they are kicked out by the Grosvenor Group. GameGroup Group has no hesitation about how to choose.
After taking GameGroup, Ouqi Games is basically the largest game retailer in Europe. It then acquired several small game retailers, allowing Ouqi Games to break through the 1,000 mark in Europe's retail stores!
If the store stalls provided by Blockbuster and Barno Bookstore for Ouqi Games, in name, the number of Ouqi Games stores is not much higher than GameStop. Of course, in fact, it is still far from the same gap, not to mention management, cost, cooperation from CD manufacturers, etc.
But it seems that Ouqi Game is indeed very popular. In just a few days, it formed a game retail group known as the world's second largest game e-commerce platform. In addition, Ouqi Game's valuation has officially exceeded the 3.9 billion US dollars mark!
This scene was shocking. Whether it was blowing a balloon, Ouqi offline retail group suddenly increased by thirteen times, or Ouqi Games became the most beautiful cub in the game industry this winter.
GameStop has reached 10 billion US dollars, and it has only reached a market value of 10 billion US dollars since the last century. How long has it taken for Ouqi Game to increase its 13-fold valuation from 300 million US dollars to nearly 4 billion US dollars?!
When Leonard Richo saw this news, he probably only knew what he felt. After working hard for so many years, he was still not as good as a whining person?
More importantly, what made Leonard Richo feel fear was that the European sub-consortiums and North American Wall Street institutions actually expressed their optimism about Ouqi Games and believed that Ouqi Games was the future of the game retail industry. This made Leonard Richo feel a little chilled when he felt absurd. He understood what this sign means.
As long as Ouqi Games has big moves, Wall Street will probably have to take action. Although GameStop seems to be developing better now, its stock price has grown too slowly. On the other hand, Ouqi Games has a constant slogan, and it is stance that it is going to be so arrogant in the game industry, and its valuation has grown too fast. Investments can't like this set very much.
Chapter completed!