"According to information we received from within Starbucks, they will announce another 6,700 layoffs and close 300 stores at the end of December in response to the sluggish economic situation.

According to Starbucks' plan, they will complete the plan before the end of September next year. This is after the large-scale layoffs announced in July and the plan to close the store, which could again have a huge impact on Starbucks.

In the third quarter of the fiscal year just ended, Starbucks net profit fell by 69% compared to the same period of the previous fiscal year. . . "

Arvitelli introduced the latest situation of Starbucks, and Andy quickly browsed the files in his hand.

"Being able to cope with the gloats of critics, the vagaries of public opinion, and the slump in Wall Street's stock price have to say that Schultz's courage is indeed extraordinary.

In a weak international consumption environment, if Starbucks wants to continue to pursue a good development plan, it must reform and strengthen its business power through effective operations and maintaining basic strength and brand value.

At this point I very much agree that great companies must be accompanied by great management. The influence of a great management on the company is unimaginable. If you give him time, the changes that Schultz brings to Starbucks will be successful.

Unfortunately, I won't give him this time! "

Andy closed the file and smiled, not hesitating to admire and praise Howard Schultz, chairman of Starbucks who also served as ceo.

Appreciation and appreciation, now the two sides are standing on the opposite side. In the past few months, Andy's men have almost suppressed the share price of Starbucks.

"Closing stores is to reduce costs and has a positive impact on profits-the factor of closing stores is not necessarily negative for market value.

Starbucks has a fundamental foundation to support. Anyway, if the boss wants to successfully acquire Starbucks, a valuation of 5 billion US dollars can impress some people, and at least more than 50% of the shares are needed to fully control the Starbucks company.

After all, Howard Schultz's prestige is very high. Without half of the shares, we may not be able to shake his chairman's throne. "Alvette said solemnly.

"Well, I know, it was the tiger's mouth that grabbed the food. Naturally, the tiger should be subdued and the news sent out. Tomorrow, we will officially issue a takeover offer to Starbucks. The plan begins!"

Andy doesn't want to drag on. With the acquisition of Starbucks, he will overwhelm the past with ample funds. The wealth is moving. If you don't, then it must be that the money is not in place. Instead, he will continue to use the money!

"Good boss." Alviter nodded solemnly, knowing that in the next period of time, it might be the most stressful, embarrassing and risky period for his boss.

As long as it is passed smoothly, his boss will soar into the sky and become an entrepreneur in this world who directly controls or interferes with huge financial resources and has power in many fields. The global power list must have his place.

"Howard Schultz ..."

Andy frowned, squinting his eyes slightly, fingers constantly hitting the table like a piano, and the name murmured in his mouth.

"Talk to him at that time. Anyway, you can't manage a coffee chain yourself or find a ceo. I don't believe Howard Schultz will refuse to continue to be ceo. After all, he will still be a member of the board of directors. , He has an unusual feeling for Starbucks. "

As Carl, who knows Andy very well, naturally guessed that Andy is thinking about this Howard Schultz, and may be hostile to each other in the subsequent acquisition process, but it does not mean that after the successful acquisition, it needs to continue to be hostile. The key still depends on Andy's appraisal.

"You can think about it." Alvitelle also groaned for a moment, echoing his words. He believes that the think tank can help his boss to control all the companies.

"Hopefully, you know that my" barbarian "is very unpopular with the founders of the company. I hope Howard Schultz can calmly and rationally look at this acquisition, otherwise I don't mind kicking him out of Starbucks completely! "

Andy nodded solemnly, but the light in his eyes was really sharp and firm, and he would not leave the restless factors with him.

"Uh-"

At this moment, a short mobile phone beep sounded in Arvitelle's pocket. Al didn't hesitate to take out a BlackBerry phone from his pocket, glance at the screen, and said to Andy, "It's Atherland on Facebook. Branch ... "

Andy nodded. This was his representative assigned to the Facebook board. Sending a message at this time must be something.

"Ha ha..."

Looking at the email, Al shook his head and chuckled, and both Andy and Karl aside looked curiously at him.

"It was Facebook that wanted to buy Twitter for $ 500 million in stock, but it was rejected. The main reason for the transaction abortion was that the investors and founders of Twitter doubted the true value of Facebook's stock, and also had concerns about the integration and cost of both parties."

"Hehe, Xiao Mazi is being beaten. But Twitter is pretty persistent, it was crushed by my photo wall like that, the team was dug out, and so confident, really can't be underestimated."

Andy first laughed at Xiaomazi gloatingly, but soon his eyes narrowed, his eyes sharply touched his chin, and he frowned.

Arvitelli also has a convergent smile. In fact, the reason why Facebook bought the idea of ​​Twitter, the internal rumor of Facebook is that Facebookceo Mark Zachberger has lost the limelight on the rise of Instagram, according to company insiders, Zuckerberg is very optimistic about the development of twitter and hopes to take it to his Majesty to deal with Andy's photo wall.

Integrating the world ’s fastest-growing social network website with Twitter ’s microblogging service is definitely a match made in the eyes of Xiao Mazi. Although Facebook has powerful social network functions, its innovations in “status update” have been adopted by Twitter. Beyond.

And the success of Instagram threatens the status and development of Facebook, which is undoubtedly unacceptable to Little Mazi.

"Last year, Microsoft invested US $ 240 million to obtain a 1.6% stake in Facebook, which made Facebook's valuation reach US $ 15 billion. Later, Li Shoufu of HK also invested in Facebook at this valuation, although the outside world generally believes that this valuation has high.

But in the latest round of financing, Twitter, which had a valuation of only 98 million US dollars, even rejected the acquisition of 500 million US dollars of stock. To be honest, this really surprised me. "

Hearing the doubts of his boss, Arvitelli could not help but confuse: "Twitter investors and executives have great confidence in the company's revenue. Although Twitter currently does not have revenue, Arthur from some People familiar with the matter know that Twitter is very confident that Twitter can earn revenue and resist the effects of the economic downturn as long as time passes. "

"Hehe, if Mark really annexed Twitter, relying on the huge number of registered Facebook users, plus Twitter, can indeed generate high communication costs, but now, how can I continue to give them this opportunity to grow and grow! "

Andy took a sneer and picked up the mobile phone on the desk, said, and found out the number of the photo wall company and dialed out.

"People who continue to tweet!"

The call was connected, and Andy only explained one sentence, and ended the call.