Chapter 11

Three hours later, Yang Cheng sat in the first class cabin of the Eastern Airlines Boeing 777 with a constipated look on his face. She looked at her outfit before she had time to change it. She couldn't help but smile, hating Louis Lehman even more. It's all because of him.

The family's private plane was about to go to New Zealand to go fishing with her grandparents, so she had to "mistaken" Duong Trung into the first class cabin. The tickets were bought urgently, so Elena and two bodyguards were placed in the business class. This time, Dad sent a secretary to help Duong Trung, also to facilitate communication with the parties.

Thinking about the words Duong Sam said to him at noon, Duong Trung always felt a sharp pain in his head. This time with the participation of Yuanshan Capital, Lehman family and Hershey (North America's largest chocolate and candy manufacturer). Three American companies, two major subsidiaries of Lotte Group and Tairong Real Estate, and Lotte (Country Z) Foods, a joint venture with Hershey participation at the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The heart of this enterprise is the Hershey Company, a 120-year-old company headquartered in Pennsylvania.

There is no doubt that the food giant has a market value of more than 20 billion US dollars, the largest market share of North American confectionery sales in the world, and annual sales of more than 7 billion dollars America, favored by the Lehman family. focuses on mergers and acquisitions in the food industry. Hunting target.

But unlike other companies, Hershey's is actually in the hands of a group of children.

The Hershey founder had no children before his death. Hershey's thoughtful wife decided to devote her motherly love to orphans who had lost their families. His proposal was fully supported by Mr. Hershey.

In 1909, the Hershey couple founded the Hershey Industrial School, the predecessor of today's Hershey School, to train and educate orphans across America.

Hershey School provides them with all educational and boarding expenses.

Currently, Hershey School has grown to 1,500 students and is the largest private school in America. Hershey's student dormitories are beautiful villas. Each student residence hall houses 8-12 students and Hershey staff or community volunteers serve as temporary parents.

The tuition fee provided by the school for each student is a total of 70,000 USD.

This university of only 1,500 students ranks fifth among the richest schools in the United States. Behind only Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford, it has assets of more than 9 billion US dollars!

And the Hershey Trust, which manages these assets, owns 70% of the voting power of the Hershey board of directors. In other words, the question of whether the company will be sold is a matter under consideration by this committee.

As a group of standard businessmen, they cannot be expected to always consider a group of children, their first interests as their principle.

Since the general operating objective of listed companies is to maximize shareholder benefits, the best way to achieve or increase shareholder value is through mergers and acquisitions when stock prices decrease due to activity. ineffective.

As early as 2002, the Charitable Trust Board considered selling Hershey and authorized the chairman at the time to find a buyer. Cadbury and Nestlé both offered a price of 10.5 billion USD, while Wrigley Wrigley Confectionery offered a price of up to 12 billion USD. However, residents of Hershey, the city of Hershey, protested because they feared the new owner would fire employees or even close the factory. The media reported one after another, making noise for a while, so Pennsylvania's attorney general and senior judge intervened. In this case, the sale was stopped by legal means.

The attorney general replaced the members of the trust committee who voted for it, and LeRoy S. Zimmerman, the former attorney general of Pennsylvania, became chairman of the charitable trust committee. Zimmerman has repeatedly stated publicly that the board should insist on maintaining the Hershey Company. In a recent statement, the Charitable Trust Board emphasized that "the rapid growth of the company does not mean that the Board should abandon its involvement".

After the 2002 incident, Pennsylvania law required that in all cases, as long as a school board committee decides to lift Hershey's detention, advance notice to the attorney general's office must be given.

The Act also grants the Attorney General the authority to prevent a school board of trustees from making any transaction inconsistent with the board's obligations.

It is probably not common practice to pass special laws to protect businesses. This certainly adds to the difficulty of the Hershey merger and acquisition. Any conduct that could threaten the incumbent position of a school board of trustees is a challenge to this act.

Paul Lehman, the old fox knows, of course doesn't know, so the biggest obstacle to a successful acquisition of Hershey is not capital but how to overcome the current attorney general of Pennsylvania, Catherine Kane .

It can be said that this matter has nothing to do with the Duong family. One company is involved in the underperforming real estate assets sector and the other is focused on the food sector. The relationship never worked out. The two had never communicated before, but sometimes things just happen that way. a surprising situation.

In 1967, Stanley Milgram, a psychology professor at Harvard University, wanted to describe an interpersonal network that connects people and communities. He performed an experiment on letter strings and proposed the theory of six-degree separation.

Simply put: "There should be no more than six people between you and any stranger." That is, you can get to know any stranger through up to six people. »

This theory is completely consistent with the current situation. The Duong family has grown to this position, as the Royal Family, seeking political protection is inevitable. As early as the 21st century, Mr. Yang began to conquer the political stars of Texas, then Yang Sen. Focusing on the entire United States, the Yang family consulting organization established a major public relations team to maintain relationships with political figures.

Of course, the Duong family has no political leanings. It doesn't matter if you are like the party or the donkey party, as long as you are capable and friendly to the Chinese people, the most important thing is to give the Yang family the strongest protection, you can become the Yang family . Catherine Kane is his friend.

About two years ago, in 2012, with the help of the Yang family, Catherine Kane became the first person from the party to serve as attorney general of Pennsylvania since 1980, as well as the first female attorney general of 'Bang'. .

For this reason, the Yang family spared no expense in buying bankrupt farms in Pennsylvania to raise dairy cows. The milk produced was purchased by Hershey and all profits were invested in social projects in Pennsylvania, adding to the glory of Catherine Kane's political achievements. Not everything is clear to the outside world, but it certainly will not escape the investigation of interested people.

The Lehman family has not yet discovered this. They want to find evidence of the Yang family's connection to Katherine Kane, in order to force Katherine Kane to buy back the Hershey Company. As for how other members of the Attorney General's Office handle public relations, it couldn't be simpler. Everyone is an adult and has their own desires. Beauty is always good, as long as you talk.

However, investigating the Yang family is not easy. As the mother of the Duong family, Luu Van naturally became a breakthrough person in Louis Lehman's eyes. Women, whether Eastern or Western, once in love, are blind and crazy about the person who loves them. Isn't it difficult to imagine the action, let alone leak the news?

I don't know if this product is due to many years of success making him arrogant, completely forgetting the Liu Yun bloodline in country Z, which is very different from their Western culture, or if he thinks that the Duong family is also Just like that. common goods that he uses provocatively. , This time he hit an iron plate.

The Boeing 777 passenger plane gradually climbed into the stratosphere to navigate, and the beautiful flight attendant began taking steps to provide drinks to first-class guests.

"Mr. Yang, you can take the Eastern Airlines flight." What do you want to drink? As soon as he got on the plane, Duong Trung fell into deep thought and was a little confused by that pleasant voice.

Turning her head to follow the voice, the solemn and elegant flight attendant stood next to the independent position with a refreshing, bright and beautiful smile, and a graceful charm flashing in the corner of her eyes, making everyone swoon. . Duong Trung was a bit disappointed. It wasn't that he had never seen a beautiful woman. He tasted someone more beautiful and more attractive than the person in front of him, but she was Duong Thua, yes. . . It seems there are no special words to describe, it's so comfortable, like seeing the hustle and bustle of the city, suddenly coming to a deserted green valley, small bridges, flowing water, birds and flowers, the whole body has been washed clean. , but clearly this is not love at first sight, it is just some basic urge of a man towards a woman.

He was looking at Jiang Shiyu, the flight attendant, at the same time as Jiang Shiyu was watching him. Compared to Duong Trung's countless readers, with her professional background and environment, she is well-trained and can sit down. Who isn't part of the elite class of international direct flights? Tall, short, fat, thin, young, old, ugly, beautiful, everything. But Duong Trung alone made her a little curious. To be honest, Duong Trung is not the type of beauty to flirt with people like that. If UU reads www.uukanshu.com to score, it will be around 70, which is not enough. Furthermore, it belongs to the Xiaoshuai class.

But his handsome face with a bit of classical Western style and his gentle demeanor towards everyone are really easy to impress, especially if you seriously think he has no charm. mature. Khuong Thi Ngoc remembered her work, took the lead and said with a smile: "Mr. Duong?" What do you want to drink?

Duong Trung rubbed his face, making sure not to reveal Heo's expression just now. He used his fingers to pat his thigh, muttering: "A glass of red bar." He needed alcohol to calm his frayed nerves.

Jiang Shiyu smiled and nodded, "Okay Mr. Yang, please wait a moment."

When Jiang Shiyu's graceful figure left, Duong Trung gently slapped himself, scolding in his heart: "You look like you've never seen the world, you don't promise anything.

If the time changes, Duong Trung will definitely not miss the opportunity to chase the beauty. The flight attendant can always bring endless dreams to a man, but unfortunately, now he is filled with thoughts about how to complete the task his father gave him.

Such an important role was assigned to him, other than being his family member, being able to trust him 100%, there was nothing to check. Yang Sen knows his son is smart, and previous stock investments can also prove Duong Trung's vision, but at best it is just a small waste, on the way to investors or entrepreneurs. It's still really long.

Especially now that Duong Trung has escaped decadence and wants to start a career, Duong Sam is satisfied and must also cultivate it carefully. After all, Duong Trung is the only heir of their Duong family, they must promote Duong Trung's abilities without destroying him. This level of confidence is not easy to hold, this mission can only test Duong Trung's ability. As for Yang Cheng, Yang Sen has also improved a lot.