The technological empire begins with polymer materials - Chapter 86 Battle with Kunlun! The North American League strikes hard! (1)

Kishimoto Ishibashi saw that Michelin Group President Fellaini was imparting experience to Nike boss Phil Knight, and his face immediately darkened.

I thought that all the breast-feeding jokes on the Internet were just jokes, but I didn’t expect that the French are not only good at surrendering themselves, but they are also good at teaching surrender experience to others…

At this time, everyone also discovered Ishibashi Kishimoto and walked towards him one after another.

“Mr. Ishibashi, welcome.”

“How are you doing lately?”

Everyone was talking about the most common hypocritical social expressions in the West, and Ishibashi Kishimoto looked around and was surprised to find Mark Doyle, President of DuPont Group, and Richard Kramer, President of Goodyear Group.

Immediately, Ishibashi Kishimoto felt a chill in his heart and asked tentatively: “You…you are actually here too?”

Doyle smiled slightly and said apologetically: “Mr. Ishibashi, I’m afraid you’re a little late.”

Kramer proudly handed Ishibashi Kishimoto a glass of champagne, nodded slightly and said: “Yes, just when you got off the plane, we have reached an agreement with the Michelin Group to formally merge Michelin with a stock exchange and cash. The Group’s tire business.”

Doyle added with a smile: “In this way, the Michelin Group can focus on their restaurant rating business in the future. After all, when it comes to eating, the French are experts.”

Hahahaha~

The two of them smiled at the same time, but Ishibashi Kishimoto turned pale and drank the champagne in his hand.

“So, now that you have Goodyear and Michelin, you are already the world’s largest tire manufacturer…” Ishibashi Kishimoto seemed a little exhausted.

Doyle said: “In addition to our DowDuPont Group, as the largest chemical supplier in the world, we will provide all the support we can to the Goodyear Michelin Group from the bottom up.”

Holding up a finger and shaking it gently, Doyle said with a stern face, “Sending our opponents to meet God is our consistent principle at DuPont Group. No one can stab us and still escape unscathed. nobody!”

Immediately, Ishibashi Kishimoto felt a chill in his heart, and his brows twisted into a Sichuan shape.

“So, you are going to continue to wage war with the Chinese in the field of tires?”

“Yes.”

“when?”

Doyle, the president of the DuPont Group with a quarter of Turkish descent, gritted his teeth and said in a fierce voice: “From the moment we signed the contract to acquire the Michelin Group, the war has already begun!”

…

In late April, earth-shattering news!

To everyone’s expectation, the world’s largest chemical group, North America’s DowDuPont Group, teamed up with the world’s fourth largest tire manufacturer, North America’s Goodyear Group, to acquire the world’s second largest tire manufacturer for 9.5 billion euros. French Michelin Group.

As a Fortune 500 company and the inventor of tire technology, the French Michelin Group’s market value once exceeded 20 billion euros. However, due to recent strong challenges from China’s eight largest tire groups, they were finally sold for 9.5 billion euros. It has to be lamented by the rapid changes in modern business wars.

“Michelin has been sold! Do you know about this?”

“Why panic? They only sold the tire business, but the restaurant rating business is still retained. You still have the opportunity to eat at restaurants recommended by Michelin.”

“That’s not the point at all, okay!”

“Now that North America has the most powerful tire production capacity in the world, China’s eight major tire groups may be in trouble.”

“I heard that this acquisition was financially supported by the two major Wall Street consortiums, Goldman Sachs and Morgan. It is very obvious that Angsa Group wants to target Kunlun Company and Plateau.”

“I also heard a rumor that on the day of signing, it was said that the boss of Nike Group was also present. Maybe Nike is also a member of this alliance.”

“It’s normal. Because of the sudden emergence of Kunlun Infinite technology, Nike boss Phil Knight’s stock was cut in half. He suffered heavy losses. He is hating him to death right now.”

People who eat melons are discussing it in various forums.

The Chinese people never expected that the DuPont Group would be so stubborn. After losing in the chemical fiber field, it refused to admit defeat and pursued it all the way to the tire field.

The originally calm sky was suddenly filled with gloom, and everyone was predicting that a new war would begin soon.

Sure enough, at the end of April, DuPont Group and Goodyear Group officially announced the news of the acquisition, and will hold a major event conference on May 1st in Paris, France.

…

While the outside world is turbulent, Gao Yuan is living a peaceful life at two points and one line.

Another early morning, Gao Yuan appeared in the laboratory on time, taking his assistant Zhou Helin with him to review yesterday’s experimental data.

Although there is a high-end knowledge base provided by the system, it is still extremely difficult to put knowledge and blueprints into reality.

Recently, Gaoyuan has encountered the problem of insufficient number of nanotubes, resulting in the energy density of the solid-state battery in the experiment not meeting the standard. Gaoyuan must develop new polymer filling tools and adjust the element ratio inside the battery.

In the afternoon, Gao Yuan received a call from Cao Feiyu, asking him to go to the big conference room to watch the live broadcast in Paris.

After a series of acquisitions and preparations, North America is finally going to take action. Cao Feiyu and the company’s management are very concerned about this matter.

“Let’s go and see it together.” Gao Yuan smiled and said to Zhou Helin: “I heard that this is a global live broadcast. Those guys were afraid that our English was not good, so they specially arranged Chinese subtitles. The challenge was too obvious. .”

Zhou Helin nodded, and the two went to the conference room. They saw Cao Feiyu, Xu Qingzhou, Li Changxing, Song Yuewen and other company’s main players already seated.

Everyone in Kunlun Company behaved quite calmly. They placed melon seeds and drinks on the conference table, as if they were having a tea party.

Shortly after Gao Yuan sat down, the live broadcast began. Michelin Group President Fellaini and Goodyear President Kramer appeared on stage together and announced the merger of the two giants in public.

There was moderate applause from the audience, because this live broadcast was held in France, and the proud French people did not seem to appreciate it. They always felt that the North American tycoons had taken advantage of their own companies by acquiring them.

Europe has always been disdainful of North America. They generally believe that North America is a group of farmers who lack sentiment, work hard, worship money, and take making money as their greatest pleasure, and are not enthusiastic about art and culture.

This perception did not improve until the end of the 19th century, because the more industrious Chinese people came…

As expected by Gao Yuan, the biggest strategy adopted by North America after acquiring Michelin was to sell at reduced prices.

For example, the Michelin Haoyue series of ultra-quiet tires have a price cut in half, followed by a 30% discount and an additional one-year warranty.

“I’ll go, this is too cruel!”

“The price is so low that I can cut it to the knee with a knife!”

“Michelin used to be the most expensive tire, but now it’s the cheapest!”

“Michelin is cutting prices like crazy, other tire companies will follow suit, right?”

“How to follow? In order to expand production capacity, China’s eight largest tire groups borrowed a lot of money from the bank. Do they not have to pay interest?”

“I heard that the eight major tire groups don’t make much money. The main one is Kunlun Company. They are responsible for providing technical support and taking the maximum profits at the same time.”

In the barrage, netizens talked a lot.

Price reduction has always been the simplest and crudest business strategy, so is the price reduction storm in North America effective?

It should be said that it is still effective. After all, the performance of Michelin’s high-end series has always been very strong, especially low-speed performance, anti-skid texture design, friction noise, etc. Michelin has always been at the forefront of the world.

Nowadays, Michelin’s high-end series have been slashed in price, much cheaper than Kunlun Rolling Stone, which highlights its cost-effectiveness. Consumers who do not have such a strong pursuit of performance will consider their products.

After all, most vehicles are tools for home transportation. They only need to be able to pick up children and buy groceries. Only a minority of consumers pursue extreme performance.

Robbing his hair with his hands, Gao Yuan asked everyone around him, “What do you think?”