Chapter 725: 249, The Chain Stratagem_2
But now it was clearly the most perilous ti for A&P, and John Hardford could no longer tolerate these people’s idleness!
Josh Hunter and Lao Hobbs both nodded and then stood up to carry out John Hardford’s orders!
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“Donnie, I haven’t arrived late, have I?”
At this ti, Maholi had finally arrived from New York to Kansas City and t with Donnie and Helen.
This ti Maholi was not alone, she brought a whole team, and the person in charge of this team was none other than the manager of the rgers and Acquisitions Departnt of the grain empire’s food company, Obie Dawson!
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After shaking hands with Maholi, Donnie asked, “How is the situation on the grain empire’s side? Have they agreed to our plan?”
Maholi, with a smile on her face, pointed at Obie Dawson and the others behind her and said with a laugh, “Donnie, did you not see that I brought the whole team with ?”
Donnie laughed heartily and said, “It seems that this ti, your position in the grain empire’s food company will be even more secure!”
Maholi showed an expression of gratitude; she had thought that being with Walker ant she had found love, but she didn’t expect not only to gain love but also to consolidate her career.
Since taking over the grain empire’s food company, Maholi, as a woman, had endured no small amount of difficulty from the company’s board of directors, especially concerning her marriage to Walker.
Many mbers of the board of directors thought she had been blinded by love.
But now…
The Apollo Chain which she had invested in personally had already made a national appearance, and in less than a month, Apollo Chain had beco the nation’s second-largest chain company.
Even she had not anticipated such a miracle!
Compared to A&P’s cash crisis, Apollo Chain, which had been promoting sales earlier and with more force, was not considered by the outside world to be in a cash crisis, at least not yet.
All of these benefits were thanks to Donnie behind the scenes at Apollo Chain.
There was no helping it, those who knew Donnie were aware that he had control over two large cash pools, the private empire of spirits, Surf Hotel!
When Maholi and the board of directors of the grain empire’s food company were eting, there was even a shaless director who proposed that Maholi should not have invested in Apollo Chain in her na; it should have been in the na of the grain empire’s food company, conveniently forgetting his earlier strong opposition to such an investnt!
A group of people arrived at the conference room of Apollo Chain’s headquarters.
Donnie sat at the head, with the others seated on either side.
“What you have in front of you is the details of the stock swap between A&P and Kraft Foods, please take a good look!”
Maholi and the team she had brought with her picked up the docunts on the table and started to carefully go through them, while Donnie also took this opportunity to continue introducing the details to them.
“Jas Cuff of Kraft Foods clearly has big ambitions. Despite the completely different market values between A&P and Kraft Foods, he has put forward more cash to buy into A&P’s shares. One thing is certain, although Kraft Foods and Jas Cuff still have so cash now, they absolutely cannot withstand a takeover battle.”
The reason Donnie asked Maholi to co to Kansas City was to plot the takeover of Kraft Foods.
Jas Cuff, in his eagerness to buy into A&P, has lost his composure, forfeiting the cash that is most vital to a company!
If the grain empire’s food company could successfully take over Kraft Foods, then in the snack domain in the United States, the grain empire’s food company would basically have no competitors.
And the benefits of this endeavor would also reflect on Donnie; if the top two ranked snack companies in the United States, the grain empire’s food company and Kraft Foods, refused to cooperate with A&P, that would be a devastating blow to A&P, already troubled by the promotional war.
“To complete the acquisition of Kraft Foods, we’ll have to rely on your assistance, Donnie!”
The difficulty in acquiring Kraft Foods lies in the fact that the company, although now the second-largest in the snack industry in the United States, is not publicly traded.
The stock swap with A&P relied on Kraft Foods’ market valuation.
Actually, Jas Cuff has been working on taking Kraft Foods public, with the expected IPO date in another tiline being 1924.
With A&P’s investnt, Kraft Foods could get a better valuation at the ti of its initial public offering.
This was the reason Jas Cuff agreed to the stock swap with A&P.
Although Kraft Foods is not yet public, in the past they have accepted a lot of investnts for rapid developnt, and Jas Cuff’s stake in Kraft Foods is no longer the majority.
If it had been earlier, the grain empire’s food company’s attempt to acquire Kraft Foods would have been extrely difficult, as no one would be willing to sell shares of a company on the rise, fully focused on growth!
But now, with Apollo Chain’s promotional battle with A&P, it’s clear that A&P, with the bigger “pan,” is now at a disadvantage.
In such a circumstance, Kraft Foods, which has just entered a deep collaboration with A&P, naturally also falls into peril.
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