Chapter 460 Packing the Box
“What are you talking about? Baby.”
When Barron returned home, he saw Bonnie sitting on the sofa, talking to Victoria Baker Ham asked casually while chatting about something.
"We were talking about the big treasury robbery last month. I didn't expect it to be really exciting..."
After he sat down next to Bonnie, the other party leaned against Bonnie. Next to Lun, he talked about this matter with great interest.
Barron knew what Bonnie was talking about, which was the treasury robbery that took place in Kent County, not far from London, on the night of February 21st.
Speaking of which, this case also set a new record in England and became the largest bank robbery in England so far.
After Barron returned to England, he learned about this incident immediately. The reason why this robbery is so popular is that it is different from the previous rough bank robbery methods. The incident happened just like what happened in those movies.
The vault that was robbed was the vault of the Bank of Scotland, the central bank of England, in Kent. The bank robbers disguised themselves as police officers and kidnapped the bank vault manager Dixon on his way home from get off work.
Another group of three robbers, also disguised as police officers, went to Dixon's home, kidnapped his wife and children in front of Dixon, and threatened their cooperation with their lives.
In the end, Dixon agreed to cooperate, and then took the robbers into the bank vault. After the robbers took control of the bank with guns, they opened the bank's vault...
At that time, there were enough There are 150 million pounds in cash, most of which are new banknotes that have just been sent from the banknote printing plant.
The robbers only took away 53 million pounds.
It's not that they are "good at stealing", but because the white van they drove over at that time could only hold 53 million pounds of banknotes...
After loading those banknotes Afterwards, the robbers locked 14 bank employees, vault manager Dixon, and his wife and children into cages that originally contained cash, and then drove away.
By early morning on February 22, the whole of Britain knew the breaking news.
The Kent County Police Department launched a special investigation into the robbery, and 300 police officers devoted themselves to the investigation of the robbery 24 hours a day - but there were no clues in the case, and the police had a huge headache.
As a result, the Kent County Police Department finally issued a reward order, with a maximum reward of 2 million pounds for anyone who can provide clues to the robbery.
As soon as such a high reward was issued, the enthusiasm of the people was mobilized, and clues came one after another. It was also the robbers who were too careless and did not even escape for so long. In the next 48 hours They were arrested and brought to justice one after another, but this provided people across the UK with a topic for discussion after dinner for a long time.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that Victoria Beckham, who is now with Barron and the others, gave birth to another child last year, her third child...< br>
But Barron feels lucky that this child has nothing to do with him, so he doesn't have to bear any responsibility.
But I have to admit that Victoria's figure is indeed maintained well. It has only been more than three months since she gave birth to her child, and she has completely recovered her curves.
While they were having lunch together, Bonnie also asked Victoria a lot about how to get back in shape after giving birth.
Bonnie is now more than eight months pregnant and gets tired easily. Shortly after lunch, she went back to the house to lie down and rest.
Then at this time, Victoria entered Barron's study...
Different from the elegance and dignity she showed before, Victoria at this time showed another style. I don’t know why, even though he had just finished eating, Barron still felt a little hungry, so Victoria thoughtfully offered...
“I’ll drink less, just in case. You don’t have enough children...”
“No, Your Highness, enjoy it.”
Victoria’s breathing became more rapid, and she put her hand on Barron. Above the abdominal muscles, start downward...
"What are you doing? Madam."
"I...want to see the English cannon, Your Majesty the Duke."
Victoria ran her tongue across her lips and said expectantly.
……
“About Hermès, we are currently in the process of packing it. Two boxes have been filled and the third box is now being packed...”< br>
During his last trip to Paris, Barron had already begun planning the acquisition of equity in Hermès.
However, Barron is proceeding very carefully as he has learned from the failure of LVMH to acquire Hermès in his previous life.
Just like what the person in charge with a good figure in a professional suit said in front of Barron at this time.
Ashley Weber, 29 years old, has been working at DS Holdings for more than two years and is currently in the strategic mergers and acquisitions department. Her previous work was also influenced by Amber Sheehan, CEO of DS Holdings. Appreciated, so she was responsible for the acquisition of Hermès.
In her mouth, the acquisition of Hermès is like moving. In order to avoid being discovered by the Hermès family and the LVMH Group, the DS Group cooperated with a local French bank, and the other party came forward to form Offshore companies one after another...
In this process, they also made full use of intelligence. For example, after carefully investigating all shareholders holding Hermès shares, they classified these shareholders according to their willingness to sell their Hermès shares.
Those shareholding members of the Hermès family do the same thing - there are currently 200 Hermès family members holding shares, and the shares are very dispersed. The family members here also have different attitudes towards the Hermès company. , some hope that the Hermès company will remain under family control, while others do not care.
So they first targeted those members and shareholders who did not care about the Hermès family, and used seemingly unrelated offshore companies to begin the acquisition of Hermès shares.
These offshore companies are called "boxes" by Ashley, because in France, if you hold 5% of the shares of a listed company, you need to hold a placard to explain the purpose of acquiring these shares. What is the will.
In their regulations, after an offshore company holds 4.9% of Hermès shares, it means that "this box is full" and continues to change to the next box to start loading...< br>
It is worth mentioning that the current total share capital of Hermès is about 74.85 million shares, so about 3.66 million Hermès shares can "fill a box"...
Their goal is naturally to fill a box. If more than 10 boxes are filled, the company will eventually be able to control more than 50% of the shares of Hermès to prevent the Hermès family members from concentrating part of their shares into the trust company called H51 in order to resist the acquisition of the LVMH group in the original time and space. , something happened that prevented the other party from controlling the company...
Of course, this was also because in the original time and space, Bernard Arnault, the boss of LVMH Group, was too careless, thinking that he held more than 100% of Hermès at that time. With 22% of the shares, after becoming the largest shareholder, he was able to defeat the members of the Hermès family one by one. He did not expect that many people in the Hermès family valued the family's honor so much that they directly gathered their shares...< br>
(End of this chapter)