The Goddess Shines on America

Roswell Building, located in the center of London, has a height of 30 floors. As early as when Umbrella and Vanda Company settled together, they directly occupied the top five floors. The two companies plan to occupy vacant floors according to the expansion of the company, and eventually fill up all five floors.

However, now, the fifth floor has not only been fully occupied, but has also become crowded. As early as January, Li Zekai, who was the CEO of Vanda, had to put a large number of businesses in Tower A of Vanda Square in London, leaving most of the space in Roswell for umbrella use. Compared with Vanda, which is constantly building commercial real estate, the umbrella of 17 pharmaceutical factories under its jurisdiction, with markets all over Europe and entering the United States, is already too huge.

This is what Alice encountered when she flew to London by plane and took the elevator all the way to the top floor of Roswell.

"Wow wow, have I come to the vegetable market?"

Even the floor where the executive officer is located is extremely crowded. As soon as the elevator door is opened, there are rows of office seats that are extremely dense. Nearly a hundred employees are working hard on the seats, and a dozen employees are quickly shuttling between the aisles. The sounds of telephones and printers are everywhere, so the scene should not be too lively!

"Hey, are you new here?"

A young employee saw Alice entering the door, and waved directly: "Hurry up and send this document downstairs to Director Michelle, KPMG's accounting team will arrive tomorrow, let them get ready!"

Alice raised her eyebrows, is the IPO work in progress?

"I'm sorry, buddy, leave this work to you." Alice Li ignored him, and saw a person in charge directly in the crowd: "Hockinson, give me the latest list of headquarters employees."

The named Hodgkinson was the administrative director of the company's headquarters. When he heard the voice, he raised his head again. He froze for a moment, and then said loudly, "No problem! Ms. Wang! Are you sending it to Mr. Spencer's room?"

After nodding, Alice walked quickly through the crowd, and then, led by the secretary of the board who heard the sound, strode into Spencer's executive office.

Oswell Spencer was standing in front of the open space, looking at the bustling central London through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

"Alice, long time no see."

"Yeah, I haven't been here for a while. It's really crowded here." Alice sat on the reception sofa as soon as she entered the room, looking lazy and unwilling to move: "I will change the office building as soon as it goes public. I assure you."

Spencer has switched from the state of looking up at the sky, and walked towards the reception area with a smile: "Seeing it with my own eyes, it really feels different, right? I told you earlier that this five-story office building is no longer enough for an umbrella. It is obviously a medical office. The company, but it feels like a Wall Street investment bank full of traders, which makes people question our professionalism."

Alice rolled her eyes: "What a mess, okay, I know you're complaining, I promise I'll find a new place right away, how about Vanda's Block B?"

Spencer sat on the sofa, raised his eyebrows and said, "Let's change the address of our umbrella to the floor of Block B, Vanda Square, London, such a nondescript sentence?"

"So, you still need to buy a piece of land?"

Alice snorted and laughed. It feels really interesting. Regardless of the rapid development of the company since its establishment, Spencer will inevitably have some complaints. The five floors of a building are constantly crowded. As the former president of Pfizer Europe, how long has it been since he has suffered this kind of grievance?

"I'm quite used to the scenery here." Spencer poured a cup of coffee for Alice, still smiling calmly: "So boss, why don't you just buy Roswell? Instead of letting the company move, Why not tell the small companies downstairs to move out one by one?"

Tsk tsk tsk, what a big tone, it is obviously still an unlisted company, but it is not polite at all to tell other companies that are also settled in central London to pack up and leave.

This style, Alice likes.

She waved her hand and said, "These are all easy to handle, but go downstairs to find companies and tell them to pack up and leave. I won't do this job."

"At least it's less troublesome than building another building. Since you have already started the listing work, when the company ushers in a new round of explosive development, even if it occupies the entire 30 floors, it will not take a few years. Even if you immediately If you are looking for other suitable buildings in the urban area, don’t you have to notify the settlement companies one by one to move.”

In this way, within two minutes after entering the room, Alice and Spencer quickly settled on a major matter, but since they came all the way, of course they didn't know what they needed to talk about. Spencer specially called the secretary of the board into the room, and informed the cancellation of a meeting, an interview and a guest meeting, so as to make enough time for Alice's personal visit.

After that, the top priority was the construction of the Tokyo Science and Technology Park, which had been neglected since Alice joined the Gulf War.

The Miyano couple also sat on the umbrella board of directors and enjoyed full control over the branch. The 30-story single-family building and the total usable area of ​​the park behind it were enough to make Spencer envious right now.

Three months of construction is enough to complete many projects. All the old buildings have been demolished, and all construction waste has been transported away. The construction of three seven-storey laboratory buildings has started first, and the greening work of the park is also proceeding simultaneously. Since the address is close to the river bank, a small wharf has also been included in the construction period, and construction can start at any time.

Also as a research center, with the technical support of Cisco, the anticancer drug laboratory located in Kyoto has begun to lay optical fiber network, which will realize direct connection with the Tokyo area and share data. As for the products there, of course Spencer had already prepared a report, waiting for Alice to read it in person.

"So...we're ready to release it to the public, okay?"

Alice shook the information and said: "The drug test will take a long time, but as long as we can provide the news to the public on time and report the progress, we don't have to worry about how bad the stock price will be after the listing of Umbrella. Spencer, get ready This work, since we have already started the IPO, isn’t this all good news?”

Spencer nodded and said, "That's right, the audit team from KPMG will arrive at the company's finance department at nine o'clock tomorrow morning to conduct a thorough check on the accounts. However, Exeter's research center and the recently merged The Blackwater International that joined the company is not included in the scope, are you sure you want to do this?"

"Well... the group company, at present, it only needs to list the pharmaceutical part. The umbrella security, and the research team, you know, are very independent."

Of course, Alice knows what the corporate structure of the umbrella is. From the perspective of industry and business, it is divided into three parts: drug sales and research and development, mercenary companies, and computer research and development. But in the real internal operation process, it is the marketing department, the scientific research department and the military armed department, such a division!

Spencer, the CEO, is only in charge of marketing and sales, and the scientific research department is the Miyano couple in Japan, and Exeter, the upper and lower two research institutes of Delof and Harry Poness. . Finally, count Uncle Akaman and Maiya, forming a three-legged state.

With such a division model, of course there is no reason for all employees to integrate and go public. Isn't that scary?

Therefore, Alice has more things to explain to Spencer.

"According to the current development of the company, the focus of work may gradually shift to the Japanese branch. Japan, China, and even the whole of Asia are emerging markets. Low-income people especially have a strong dependence on weight-loss drugs, and the same is true for anti-cancer drugs. And compared to the UK, Japan’s technical accumulation in biology is only stronger than weaker, otherwise why do we need that science and technology park, right?”

"So here in the British headquarters, the current task is to completely stabilize the pharmaceutical market. Not only diet pills, since we already have 17 pharmaceutical factories in Europe, of course we have to open up channels for most categories. The pharmaceutical group has a history of more than 100 years, and it is time for new members to join."

Spencer obviously felt a sense of relief: "The European pharmaceutical market is my old business, and there is absolutely no problem in this aspect. I know the entire business model of Pfizer in Europe. As long as you need it, I can make it without violating the confidentiality agreement Under the premise of helping you reproduce this model.”

Embarrassment is embarrassment here. It is very easy for an executive to change jobs to a peer and still work in the same area, which will easily arouse the resentment of the old employer. Fortunately, Umbrella has been selling weight-loss drugs these days. If he really sells products like Viagra and aspirin, which robs Pfizer of the original market, Spencer will easily be unable to eat it. !

"Hmm... annexation of Pfizer...seems like a very tempting choice." Alice, who was not surprised and kept dying, suddenly said something like this: "The Umbrella Security is there, but it goes directly to the Washington route. It's on the top Under the premise of someone, as long as we have enough funds, even if we acquire a large pharmaceutical group, the rebound effect will be much smaller, right?"

Spencer couldn't help the corners of his eyes twitching wildly, and almost spit out the coffee he was about to take a sip: "That will cost several billions!?"

"It's a lot of money, billions is just a controlling stake, I know that. But, Spencer, I have analyzed the prospect of Internet finance explosion for you many times, as long as you sell some stocks at the peak period Can't save such a sum of cash?"

Spencer, who is not from the Silicon Valley world, was taken aback for a while before he remembered what Alice said earlier, the investor boss's Amway to his subordinates. I can really get it together, and if I really buy the controlling stake in Pfizer...

Doesn't he, Spencer, ascend to heaven?