Chapter 322 Big Business
After the listing announcement and prospectus of Shirakawa Electric were released, it naturally attracted a lot of attention.
In addition to the public who pay attention to finance, many investment institutions have also expressed a certain interest in this.
The most active among them are not the major Japanese chaebols, but rather foreign capital that has begun to frequently contact Shirakawa Electric .
After investigating Shirakawa Electric's background, Morgan, ABN AMRO, Goldman Sachs and others all felt that its relatively clean record made it more worthy of an investment.
Foreigners are also afraid of chaebols. Those subsidiaries of the six major chaebols with legitimate roots have no shortage of capital at all.
Also due to factional reasons, they have little interest in foreign capital.
However, the chaebol label on Shirakawa Electric is much lighter. According to the investigations of these institutions, Shirakawa Electric only accepted foreign capital injection in the first two months.
Such emerging companies still make them somewhat interested.
However, most of Shirakawa Electric's shares have been subscribed by Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank and others, and the remaining shares are probably not enough to be put on the free market.
But Baichuan Feng did not reject these foreign capitals that arrived late.
He suggested that these international friends might as well attend Shirakawa Electric's briefing at the end of the month, as they might get unexpected gains by then. After all, Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank and others would also be there to sell stocks.
In addition to the prospectus released to the public, Shirakawa Electric also opened an internal employee subscription channel.
This is a rare opportunity to distribute benefits greatly, and in this regard, Shirakawa Feng is also generous in giving back to his members.
All original shares purchased by internal employees were priced at 200 yen per share, which was more than half lower than the estimated issue price for financing.
Of course, the number of original shares that each person can purchase is limited according to their job level, and does not exceed 10,000 shares.
After all, there are several thousand people. If there is no upper limit, the stocks on hand will not be enough for internal employees to consume.
Only senior executives have the authority to buy 10,000 plants, and most ordinary employees can only buy 1,000 or 2,000 plants at most.
But even so, all the employees of Shirakawa Electric did their best without hesitation and bought enough shares.
They are not stupid. As soon as the company goes public, the stocks they hold will appreciate several times in value.
Even if we calculate based on the stock prices of similar companies on the market, we can make a steady profit of 500 yen per share, which means 500,000 yen for 1,000 shares.
Such a huge profit difference is almost their three months’ salary.
This is still the minimum profit. If the final listing price is higher, or the stock price rises sharply in the future, it is not impossible to double it.
So after everyone did some calculations, they were all very excited, this was definitely a windfall.
For office workers, apart from a fixed salary, there are very few opportunities to get rich.
Although there is a restricted sale period, it is not a problem at all in just one year.
Since you know you can get rich, why hesitate?
With thousands of people signing up enthusiastically, tens of millions of original shares were quickly consumed.
At the same time, the number of shareholders of Shirakawa Electric jumped to four or five thousand, easily meeting the 2,000 people required by the Tokyo Stock Exchange's first section.
Although nearly 10 million original shares may seem like a lot, they actually account for less than 1% of Shirakawa Electric's total capital.
This 1% of original shares will also be shared equally by several current shareholders of Shirakawa Electric. This is the agreement signed by everyone in the previous prospectus.
It is only right to provide benefits to employees, and both parties can understand this.
Every company does this before going public, with a sense of grandeur that seems to be granting amnesty to the world.
However, Baichuan Feng gave benefits to his employees, and the people around him did not forget.
He just remembered this incident when he woke up from his sweet dreams.
"Qingzi, Shirakawa Electric will go public this year, if possible, buy more stocks when they are cheap at the beginning.
I also have some original stock certificates, which I will give to you later."
It was already summer, and Shirakawa Feng got up from the bed and was too lazy to put on clothes, so he just sat up with his upper body naked.
"Eh?" Keiko Matsusaka, who came over from the living room carrying herbal tea, was stunned when she heard this.
At this time, her hair was loose and her thin clothes revealed her beauty.
The skin that was occasionally revealed during his gestures was so white that it glowed. Baichuan Feng, who had already entered the sage time, almost couldn't control himself when he saw this scene.
He didn't understand how this sister maintained her looks, but her age was the most beautiful for a woman.
She is generous, gentle, dignified, quiet, and at the same time charming to the core, making people unable to stop.
At this moment, Matsusaka Keiko, who was half-dressed, was stunned at first and then laughed when she heard Shirakawa Kaede's concern.
"Hey, don't overthink it. This is a legitimate investment. You're making money from the stock market."
Baichuan Feng was afraid that she would misunderstand, so he explained it specially.
"Hai~ Hai~" Keiko Matsusaka sat down beside him with a cup of tea, and without Shirakawa Feng doing anything, she personally brought the cup to his lips.
Tsk, the caring elder sister is really considerate and thoughtful. Look how gentle she is.
Unlike that little tiger who can only move his mouth, he just works hard every day but can't take care of others at all.
Baichuan Feng leaned on her bare hands and sipped the tea leisurely, feeling comfortable.
Contentedly, he hugged Keiko Matsuzaka and wanted to be more affectionate with her, but she stretched out her white index finger and tapped his shoulder.
"It's too hot. I'm sweating."
Hey, do you know that it is because of the faint glow of water on your body that makes people feel itchy?
However, after she reminded him of this, Baichuan Feng also felt that the weather was a bit hot and unbearable.
“It’s quiet here, but it’s not very friendly to life.”
Baichuan Feng turned his head to look at the quaint wooden house, smacking his lips in distress.
It’s not good to be too retro, there’s not even an air conditioner.
It 's not like didn't raise any suggestions, but Keiko Matsuzaka refused to install this summer artifact on the grounds that the noise from the air conditioner would destroy the Zen mood.
Alas, literary young women are sometimes really difficult to deal with.
"If it doesn't work, go somewhere else to escape the heat next time."
As if knowing what he was thinking, Keiko Matsuzaka took a wet towel and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"That's fine. We can go to Hayama. It's close enough to Tokyo and a summer resort. It must be a good choice."
Hayama is located on the Shonan Coast of Kanagawa. It is close to the sea and has beautiful natural scenery.
Now a large villa area has been developed there, making it a good place for wealthy people to escape the summer heat.
You can go there sometime and buy a summer resort there.
It's only an hour away from Tokyo, making it a great place to relax after work.
When she heard it was Hayama, Matsusaka Keiko nodded in agreement.
There is a villa facing the sea among the dense woods. Well, it fits her petty bourgeois aesthetic very well.
"By the way, Keiko, have you heard of Tokuma Bookstore?"
After enjoying the beautiful woman's considerate care, Baichuan Feng started talking about another thing.
"Tokuma Shoten?" Keiko Matsusaka looked at him with some surprise, "Does Shirakawa-kun also read books published by Tokuma Bunko?"
Of course, Keiko Matsusaka knew the name of Tokuma Shoten. As a literary young woman, her reading range was quite wide.
The "Weekly Asahi Entertainment" below it is the magazine she subscribes to every issue.
She has also read books such as "The Chase" and "Railway Police" published by Tokuma Bunko.
So when she heard Shirakawa Kaede talking about Tokuma Shoten, Matsusaka Keiko thought he was going to discuss literary works, and the literary young woman instantly became interested.
However, Shirakawa Kaede didn't have time to read any books . He mentioned Tokuma Shoten because he was currently negotiating a business deal.
As one of the founders of Tokuma Shoten, Hirotomo Takei recently seems to want to cash out his shares and then concentrate his capital on real estate.
At a Ziming Society gathering a few days ago, the other party happened to bring up this topic, and Baichuan Feng expressed some interest.
However, the matter is still under discussion and has not been finalized.
Because he didn't know much about the publishing house, and thought that the literary young woman might be more interested in news in this area, Baichuan Feng asked her about it.
"I only know a little bit about Tokuma Shoten. Does Keiko know about this publishing house?"
Seeing that Shirakawa Kaede seemed to be talking about official business, Matsusaka Keiko felt even more puzzled.
But since he cared, Keiko Matsusaka told him the rumors she knew.
“Although Tokuma Shoten is not as good as old-line publishers such as Kodansha, Shogakukan, Kadokawa Shoten, and Shueisha, it is still quite famous in the industry.”
As Matsusaka Keiko spoke, she poured him another cup of tea.
“Also, Tokuma Yasuyoshi, the president of Tokuma Shoten, seems to be a very capable leader.
However, due to his strong personality, he often had conflicts with the investors behind him, and I heard that they are having a disagreement again recently. "
Hmm? Baichuan Feng raised his eyebrows, wondering if the investor was his senior, Takei Hirotomo.
Thinking about the headache the other party had when talking about Tokuma Shoten, Shirakawa Feng became even more suspicious.
But this is not important. If I want to enter the media industry, I need a capable person in the industry.
And let's take the shares first. As for the powerful Tokuma Yasuyasu, Shirakawa Kaede is not worried.
If the shares are not in an advantageous position, I am still young and the worst that can happen is that I just have to endure it.
Could it be that Sun Quan couldn't survive Cao Cao and Liu Bei?
This Tokuma Yasukai seems to be in his early sixties this year, and Shirakawa Kaede said he is not in a hurry.
"I heard that there is a Daiei Co., Ltd. under Tokuma Shoten?"
"Eh" Matsusaka Keiko was stunned, and looked at Shirakawa Kaede, "That's true, but the business situation seems to be very average."
As an artist, Keiko Matsusaka knows even more about Daiei.
This film production company actually has a long history and was once listed on the stock market.
However, due to poor management, it was delisted by the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the 1970s.
Daiei was forced to leave the stock market in disgrace and almost disbanded because of this.
Later, it was Tokuma Shoten that took over and the company has survived to this day.
But because of this, Daiei became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tokuma Shoten.
Shirakawa Kaede said that he might be able to get involved in publishing houses and film studios under the media industry in the future.
"Keiko, what do you think about buying Daiei and investing in Tokuma Shoten?"
"Huh?" Keiko Matsusaka looked at him blankly.
This business is too big, even bigger than the several hundred million dollars in her belly.
Keiko Matsusaka said this was beyond her knowledge.
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As the end of July approaches, Shirakawa Electric's much-anticipated briefing is getting closer.
During this period of time, Baichuan Feng has been busy with this matter, especially at SIC.
Some of the things that are going to be released at the conference are not even available yet.
