The first thousand two hundred and seventy-six chapters(1/2)
"You are confident, what are you going to do?"
Berezovsky said without hesitation.
It sounds like there is something wrong with Berezovsky's answer. He doesn't even know what Fang Chen plans to do. Where does he get the confidence?
But in Berezovsky's view, as long as Fang Chen says he has a method, it will not be difficult to make Nokia succumb with his execution ability.
In Russia, Fang Chen’s new title is now Cardinal Archbishop of the Kremlin, and he is the “Patriarch of Moscow.”
It is known as the sharpest knife in Fang Chen's hand.
Although this made his reputation in Moscow and even Russia as a whole bad, it even had the slightest intention of stopping children from crying at night.
But he is proud of it.
Besides, it’s Finland.
A look of contempt flashed in Berezovsky's eyes.
There is no doubt that Finland is a small country and is geographically located at the intersection of the two camps during the Cold War.
However, as the Soviet Union was a superpower directly adjacent to Finland, Finland must unconditionally maintain good relations with the Soviet Union.
Finnish President Bjorn once said: "Finland is a free country, but you must never offend the Soviets."
"I was reading some information about Nokia recently and found that the telecommunications business only accounts for about 30% of the revenue of the entire Nokia group, while revenue from traditional fields such as papermaking, chemicals, rubber, cables, pharmaceuticals, natural gas, and oil accounts for 30%.
It accounts for 70% of the entire group’s revenue.”
"Now, Nokia's president, Ollila, is asking Nokia to sell off all these traditional businesses and retain only the telecommunications business. This is obviously an extremely unreasonable thing and has also attracted opposition from a large number of Nokia veterans."
"I think you can do some work in this regard, for example, discuss with the veterans of Nokia to directly sell Nokia's telecommunications business to us."
Hearing this, Berezovsky couldn't help but narrow his eyes, showing a hint of excitement.
He likes Fang Chen's plan to remove the firepower from under the cauldron.
Aren’t you unwilling to sell mobile phone production technology to Qingtian?
Then Qingtian had no choice but to take away all of Nokia's telecommunications business.
"I believe that since traditional industries account for 70% of Nokia's total revenue and have been operating for hundreds of years, there will be a large number of supporters of traditional industries both among shareholders and on the board of directors."
"Even if Nokia's traditional industry is declining, there may not be a reason why they are involved in it and reap huge benefits. However, they certainly do not hope that Ollila will separate Nokia's traditional industry from Nokia, which will harm their interests.
suffered huge losses.”
“It’s just that now the entire Nokia only has a large profit in its telecommunications business, and the traditional businesses they occupy have been losing money, so in the face of Ollila’s aggressive offensive, they have to compromise and sit back and watch as Ollila abandons these traditional businesses one by one.
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"But now, once we intervene, it will be different. They will have a new choice..." Fang Chen said with a smile, with an inexplicable light shining in his eyes.
"They can choose to sell their telecommunications business to us. In this way, their traditional industries can be retained, and they can even invest new funds into traditional industries. Then maybe their traditional industries can be revived.
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Speaking of this, a strange smile flashed across Berezovsky's lips: "After all, traditional industries such as papermaking, chemicals, rubber, cables, pharmaceuticals, natural gas, and oil are still indispensable to society, and everyone
It’s inseparable because there are too many competitors, so it’s more difficult to make money. But after getting a new investment, I’m afraid it will be different.”
After seeing that Berezovsky completely understood what he meant, Fang Chen couldn't help but smile and nodded.
As the saying goes, a thousand-mile dike breaks in an ant nest, and castles are breached from within.
If he goes head-on with Ollila, the chance of success may not be high.
The reason is also very simple. He did not have the fatal bargaining chip that could impress Ollila, so Ollila had to license the mobile phone production technology to him.
The only cards in his hand that can be called chips now are China and Russia.
He has already played the China card.
As for the Russia card, it’s not easy to play.
Although Russia has a little influence in Finland, Russia is still too busy taking care of itself, so how can it help him in these matters.
So obviously, coming up with a solution from within Nokia is a very good idea, or even the only idea.
As long as Nokia's directors and shareholders who side with traditional industries are moved, then Nokia will have the leverage to force Ollila to submit.
After all, at that time, if Ollila was unwilling to license Nokia's mobile phone production technology to him, he would have faced the possibility that the entire telecommunications business would be taken away by him.
He believed that Ollila could weigh clearly which one was more important, and which one was more important to him and Nokia.
As for Ollila, he refused to give in and would rather die with him. Even if he acquired Nokia's telecommunications business, he would not agree to license Nokia's mobile phone production technology to him.
This possibility should be extremely small.
But even if there is, it doesn't matter. He just thinks that Nokia, the mobile phone overlord in the previous life before the smartphone era, has been included in his pocket.
At its peak, Nokia accounted for about 30% of the world's mobile phone market share, with annual shipments of two to three billion units and a market value of US$115 billion, which was half of Microsoft at the time and US$30 to 40 billion higher than the entire Samsung Group.
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Now, Nokia's market capitalization is only US$7-8 billion, and its mobile phone business alone may not even be worth US$3 billion.
For less than three billion US dollars to exchange for such a cash cow, a giant in the mobile phone field, he will make money no matter what.
It's just that he knows that Ollila will never allow him to do this, and he will do his best to stop it.
In addition, if he, a Chinese, were to control a Finnish company, he would know with just his fingers that it would not run smoothly.
Motorola and Ericsson will definitely find ways to stumble him.
Furthermore, Nokia is just a nice name for him. Once Qingtian obtains its mobile phone production technology authorization, Nokia will be almost an empty shell for him. At most, it will have some designers who can
Some value.
But such scientific research and design personnel are also available in China, and they are better and cheaper than those in Finland.
Then think about how everyone laughed at Nokia Technology back then, saying, "Technology is based on changing shells." It was like a lot of Russian matryoshka dolls.
Fang Chen suppressed his greedy heart a little, thinking that as long as he could get Nokia's mobile phone production technology into his pocket, that would be enough.
In addition, I have to say that now is a good time.
Although Nokia has launched its own first-generation mobile phone and has Gorbachev as its spokesperson, the second-generation mobile phone that really put Nokia on the map, the Nokia 2110, has not yet been launched and is still in the laboratory.
At that time, after surviving a long cold winter, Nokia finally enjoyed what it means to have the same strength as time and space.
That year, the actual sales of Nokia 2110 reached 20 million units, which became the first mobile phone record in Nokia's history.
Nokia 2110 not only occupied the Finnish domestic market, but also entered the United States across the ocean like a tide, and also squeezed into the conservative major European markets. Even in China, many people who got rich first were crazy about Nokia 2110.
It is precisely because of the outstanding performance of Nokia 2110 that the gloom that has enveloped Nokia people since the 1988 crisis has been swept away.
It also made Ollila's reputation and authority within Nokia skyrocket.
All this makes Ollila more determined to reach the top of mobile communications.
In the same year, with the huge momentum of Nokia 2110's victory, Ollila successfully persuaded the directors at Nokia's board meeting in Hong Kong to agree to sell off all Nokia's traditional industries in order to concentrate resources and energy on communications.
From this time on, Nokia continued to accumulate capital from cash flow, continuously strengthened mobile phone research and development and expanded production scale, and eventually became a mobile phone empire.
At Nokia's peak, one out of every three mobile phones sold in the world was Nokia's.
But what can I say? His method should be good, but in the final analysis whether it can succeed depends on how well Berezovsky executes it.
But he has confidence in Berezovsky.
Over the years, nothing has reassured him more than Duan Yongping and Berezovsky.
However, this kind of dirty work of making trouble behind the scenes is obviously not suitable for Duan Yongping, let alone Qingtian cannot do without Duan Yongping.
Fang Chen felt like his scalp was numb when he thought about the days when Duan Yongping escaped and left him to work at the headquarters.
After discussing with Fang Chen how to do it specifically and where to start, Berezovsky was ready to leave.
He can't wait to go to Finland to get Nokia.
Ever since he took care of the bastards in the oil field a few months ago, he felt that life had become boring.
However, at this moment, Wu Maocai suddenly groaned twice, with a look of hesitation on his face, and hesitated to speak.
Fang Chen glanced at Wu Maocai and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it. Don't moan. I'm not a roundworm in your belly. I can't guess what you want to say."
"I want to go to Finland with Berezovsky on business."
After groaning for several seconds, Wu Maocai finally made up his mind and said.
Seeing Wu Maocai's face of risking everything, Fang Chen suddenly smiled.
"You can go out if you want. As for this appearance? If you didn't know this, I would have thought you were preparing to blow up the bunker and seize the stronghold!"
Fang Chen frowned slightly, looked at Wu Maocai angrily and said.
After hearing this, Wu Maocai was stunned for several seconds before he recovered and said excitedly: "Master Jiu, do you agree with me to go?"
But then, a thought flashed through Wu Maocai's mind, and his expression suddenly turned resentful again, as if Fang Chen had either abandoned him or owed him 100 million.
"Master Jiu, don't you mean you are reluctant to let me leave you? Don't you think about who will arrange your daily life after I leave? Who will deliver the documents of Mr. Duan and the branch below? What if you miss it?
What should I do if I receive an important call..."
To be continued...