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When the Hong Kong Return Ceremony is being held, in the distant Netherlands, the fourth European company packard, an internal dispute is also brewing.

PB company is also a veteran electrical appliance company in Europe.

It was first established in 1930, and its main business was radio. In the 1970s, the company became a subsidiary of a Dutch defense company. By 1986, it was acquired by its own consortium again and began to change its business direction and produce cheap computers.

In 1995, Japan's nec company... the largest shareholder.

Hosokawa, the board representative of the company it dispatched, also successfully won the position of chairman of the board.

In 1996, PB company borrowed $500 million from the bank to plan to expand its production scale. At that time, the company's stocks had risen all the way. In January 1997, the company's production line was officially completed.

But in reality, it seems that it is different from what the company's senior management expected. The company's personal computer sales volume did not show rapid growth momentum. Packardll's personal computers, countries, Portugal and other countries have better sales. However, in other European countries, they cannot compete with American computer companies.

So far, PB company has a share of eight percent in the Western European market, far lower than the company's expectations.

A large bank loan has to be paid, but the company's business is in a downturn, and the company is worried about it. The unfavorable situation also affects the company's stocks and slump in the stock market, making the company's shareholders anxious about it.

Today, the company held a board meeting at the request of the directors to discuss how to face this situation.

Heddle drove the car to the company parking lot and did not rush to get off the car. Instead, he passed the head office instructions he received last night in his mind so that he could face the expected fierce debate at the board of directors for a while.

Heddle is a German computer company representing the local representative on the board of directors.

The company he works in has only been established for two years, and its main focus is on computer motherboards to supply major computer companies. When it was established, in order to survive, the company vigorously invested in pb. 11% of the shares of pb company, becoming the second largest shareholder after nec company. It hopes to board this big ship and form a strategic alliance with it.

From the day Heddle served as a member of the company's board of directors, he received an order from the head office: to fully assist the No. 1 major shareholder, Nec, whose representative in the company's fumigation board, Hosokawa, is determined to stand on his side in any matter.

As a serious German, Heddle executed the orders of the headquarters without fail.

No matter what happened, he acted as a vocal worm of Hosokawa, perfectly playing the role of his Dinghai Secret. The two of them combined more than 45% of their shares, so that the opinions of other shareholders could not be implemented without their consent.

He has only taken the initiative to participate in one thing.

That is to convince Hosokawa to borrow money from the bank and build a new computer production line.

And this is actually the requirement of the head office.

Although he didn't understand why he did this, he still tried his best and achieved his goal.

Perhaps, this is the head office that the head office hopes that the PB company will expand its production scale and help the head office gain greater benefits.

But now it seems that there is obviously something wrong with the decision of the head office. PB company..._The continued decline has caused all shareholders to suffer great losses. Other small shareholders must be full of resentment.

Heddle sighed, what should come will always come. At least, on the board of directors, he and Hosokawa, the Allied Forces, followed the instructions of the headquarters and let him take the lead. Just keep silent. At this sensitive moment, don't stand up as a target.

Although he was fully prepared, today's board of directors still made him feel extremely uneasy.

From the beginning, the meeting was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder.

At first, he was a small shareholder with one percent of the shares and spoke first. He bypassed Heddle in very intense language and launched a storm-like attack on Hosokawa, accusing him of his business policy mistakes.

Then, one shareholder after another stood up and fired fire at Hosokawa one after another.

Driven by this emotion, almost all shareholders began to attack Hosokawa, and the sharp words made Heddle feel frightened.

Perhaps all the directors knew that he was just Hosokawa's soundtrack, and no shareholder targeted Heddle, completely regarded him as a transparent person.

To be honest, it is not impossible to pin this decision-making mistake on Hosokawa. After all, he is the chairman of the Kou Council and bears an unshirkable responsibility for the operation of the company.

But to be fair, Heddle, the first initiator of the new production line, just nodded and agreed to the decision.

However, the shareholders who were emotionally out of control by the decline in stock prices took this opportunity to vent all the resentment they had before. Under the excitement of the crowd, it seemed that they would be dismissing the chairman of the Hosokawa Kaoru Council.

The shareholders' tough attitude also angered Hosokawa.

At first he tried his best to explain the company's policies and stated that Nec Company intends to transfer part of its computer production business to the company. The current difficulties are only temporary, and the future will be bright, so on...

What Hosokawa did not expect was that several shareholders seemed to have eaten explosives and did not listen to his explanation at all. They kept attacking him fiercely in sharp language. All the old sesame seeds and grains were turned out by them, including some bad debts that could not be counted on him. They also deducted him all the sewage.

Some shareholders also vaguely feel that the situation is out of control, but out of their disgust towards Hosokawa's arbitrary behavior, they did not speak out to stop it.

Hosokawa finally broke out

He slapped the table and fought back angrily. He blurted out Japanese, which he was not very skilled in English and did not speak, and spoke for more than half an hour without rest.

The directors were stunned for a while, and then the most intense quarrel broke out since the meeting began.

Everyone lost their minds, and the meeting room of PB company became a place like a shrew who scolded the streets. New and old grudges always exploded at this moment. A shareholder even rushed up and punched Hosokawa Sora hard in the nose.

By this time the meeting was no longer possible.

Heddle, who had been sitting next to Hosokawa, bowed his head and acted as a young wife, had to stand up and announced that today's board of directors would end here as the company's second largest shareholder. We will continue to discuss tomorrow.

As soon as he finished speaking, the angry shareholder forwarded his anger to him without waiting for the angry shareholder to immediately get up and strode away from the noisy venue.

This long-standing meeting will probably last for a long time, and it is really unreasonable to be wasted like this! When Heddle drove away, he felt deeply pessimistic about the investment prospects of the head office.

The problem is that his pessimism has not yet reached a deeper essence.

On the second day of the board farce, July 2, Heddle, who was still wearing a nightgown and just picked up the newspaper from the garden ground at the door, was stunned by the headlines in the newspaper.

"The board of directors is in conflict, and the future of PB company is in danger!"

He hurriedly opened the newspaper, and only read a little half, then angrily crumpled the newspaper into a ball. He was so angry that his face turned red and his neck was thick.

In the newspaper, the reporter vividly described the quarrel that broke out on the board of directors yesterday. I don’t know which bastard was, but told the reporter the whole process of the quarrel that every sentence above was in line with the facts.

Even Hosokawa and several shareholders criticized each other for "dog shit" and were published.

Heddle could not imagine how investors would judge the future of the company when they saw this report.

He came to the company worriedly. Before he could enter his office, he heard the sound of fighting in the board of directors. As soon as he opened the door, he suddenly found that Hosokawa and several shareholders were fighting in a ball. His nose was beaten yesterday, and the tape on it was also lifted, his face was blue and purple, obviously outnumbered, and he was beaten up by the other party again.

The other shareholders stood aside with a cold face, without any intention of persuading the fight.

Heddle rushed up, dragged a few people away, and let Hosokawa get up from the ground. He shouted angrily: "The company has reached this point now. Do you still have the heart to fight? What's going on with the newspaper today? Who exactly revealed the content of yesterday's board of directors to the newspaper? Don't you know that the company is over and you will also suffer huge losses?"

"It's not that bitch! If it weren't for him, how could it be that everything would be remembered so clearly?" The shareholders pointed at Hosokawa indignation, "We just vented our dissatisfaction yesterday, and we had forgotten what we said long ago. Only this little dwarf remembered the words of others so clearly!"

A shareholder next to him also said skeptically: "But what are the benefits of doing this? Isn't it their nec the one that suffers the biggest loss?"

"Do they want to cut down the stock price and force us to stay calm and then acquire all our shares?" a shareholder whispered.

"That's not necessarily true. Hosokawa has complained many times at the Kawashima, saying that the board of directors has too much control over him, making him unable to exercise his skills. Maybe he just wants to drive us away and then make the company a subsidiary of Nec

More and more people began to stare at Hosokawa with strange eyes.

When the door was pushed open hard, an employee rushed in with a panic expression and shouted loudly to the shareholders of the company: "Company stocks... stocks..."

"How is the stock? Have it risen or fallen?" The company's stock value is actually related to everyone's wealth. Although the shareholders saw him in a hurry, they still asked with luck.

"Slump! Big drop! As soon as the stock market opened, the stock fell sharply by 30%. The sell-off was too big! It was amazingly big!" There was no blood on the employee's face.

Heddle was shocked, and then, relying on his height and length, rushed out of the conference room first.

In the company's stock analysis room, there was a fog. Every employee in charge of the company's stock analysis faced the computer screen with pale complexion.

When Heddle saw the latest stock price of the local company, he felt a darkness in front of him and a slump in his eyes, sitting on the sofa.

PB company was surrounded by a desperate atmosphere, but in a securities company in London, England, there were bursts of laughter: "It fell, it fell, it fell again!"

A middle-aged man in a suit and tie walked around in front of the computer excitedly and issued an order to his employees: "Smash it, smash it hard. Today, he will not turn the stocks of the PB company into garbage, but he will also let it sink to the end!"

Large orders that exceed everyone's expected price are entered into the computer, and then, they are in a position slightly above the quote, through many small accounts. They buy these stocks back.

Stock investors only saw huge orders hanging on the screen, and then slowly digested.

Although the takeover is still very strong, it seems that all sellers are taken away. But in the eyes of investors, the selling pressure of PB company has a more profound impact on them.

Under the psychological suggestion of this huge selling place, PB's stock began to dive downwards at a high platform.

"Stop! Stop! Stock investors can't help it anymore. We no longer continue to waste costs. Let the stock price drop in inertia. Today our task has been successfully completed!" The manager of the securities company laughed to the sky.

He turned his head

Staff on one side: "How do we gain from hedging transactions? Can we lose money?"

The securities company employee of the operating table stared at the screen nervously, looking at the stock price that was still falling rapidly, and calculated quickly, then raised his head and said, "If this price remains unchanged, we will not only not lose, but also make a small profit because of short selling!"

"yes!" the manager clenched his fists hard and shouted loudly, "You guys, just pray that the price will continue to decline! If we don't lose money today, I will invite everyone to a French meal!"

"Roar!" All the employees of the securities company responded loudly with unprecedented monographs, and prayed that the PB company's stock would continue to fall.

Heddle was also clenching his fists and shouting loudly in the stock analysis room of PB.

However, what he shouted was completely opposite to what the employees of London Securities Company thought: "Rise, you can raise it!"

The company's shareholders were all sweating and shouting madly beside him: "Rise quickly! Let me rise quickly!"

The closing of the day, PB's stock rose slightly. But in the end, the company's stock fell by a full 28%, and the wealth of all shareholders shrank by one-third on this day!

Hosokawa was also in the analysis room, staring at the screen blankly, sweat dripping down his forehead.

The shareholders stared at him with a gloomy face, as if he was the culprit that caused the company's stock decline.

Suddenly, a shareholder roared angrily: "Shokawa, you idiot! Look at what you did? Tell you, I will never forgive you! If my stock must be sold, I will never sell it to you!"

Hosokawa looked at the angry faces of the shareholders in panic. He had no idea how things suddenly turned out like this.

Tiandi’s conscience, he really hasn’t done anything, I’m sorry for the company!

He returned to the office in a daze. Before entering the door, he heard a loud noise on the phone on the desk in the office. When he opened the door, the phone ringing stopped.
To be continued...