The Goddess Shines on America

By the way...

Umbrella company, this is it.

Every time she sits behind this desk, Alice is all kinds of excited.

No doubt, she printed the company's registered LOGO on the floor of this office.

Red and white hexagons...

In fact, she has thought about a very serious question many times.

That is the problem of establishing a conglomerate.

Let's count on your fingers.

Here in the United States, except for Lockheed, which is a shareholder, and a security force of 2,000 people, all of them are concentrated in California.

Cisco has an absolute holding; even though Microsoft shares have been diluted several times after listing, she is also the second largest shareholder and an extremely important technical advisor; Intel has her $400 million in capital; Adobe and Autodesk were acquired by her; Electronic Arts Games The company was also bought by her and slowly developed; in the end, she also participated in a large share of DreamWorks.

Then there is a clothing company in mainland China, and there is a budding Huawei in Shenzhen. In Southeast Asia, the Vietnam War veteran who was sent there was playing his smuggling game, and by the way helped Alice figure out the situation of the Golden Triangle. There are only a few real estate buildings that have just been sold in Japan, and a sushi restaurant has just bought shares, which is a blank area for business.

Then there's the UK. The computer research center was built in the name of an individual, and the underground medical research institute was affiliated with the umbrella company. Here in the Roswell Building in the City of London, the thirtieth floor is the umbrella, while the lower four floors are the "Vanda" of commercial real estate. Germany's Drakken Drill Company is renting her computer, a little partnership, and...

Well, Hong Kong. There is no need to care about Hongkong Electric's shareholding, but Li Ka-shing intends to expand to the United Kingdom and California at the same time. Here in the UK, Vanda and Umbrella have his shares and help. In California, after he moves the logistics and port business of Hutchison Whampoa there, Alice, a local snake, will be entertained and has a bright future.

——The above is her development in the past four and a half years.

Therefore, it is indeed time for Alice to integrate the industry. Even though she is still far away from the top ten of Forbes, she is also called a billionaire. Especially in the late 1990s, when the shares of Microsoft, Cisco, and Intel came together, it really broke the rhythm of 50 billion every minute.

So the question arises - how to integrate?

The first thing Alice needs to distinguish is whether she wants to set up a group company or a consortium?

The difference is huge.

An enterprise group is a limited liability company with independent legal personality. Because of its diversified business strategy, it has established corresponding wholly-owned and holding subsidiaries in many fields, and has been facing each other in the form of a group. That is to say, a group company must exist in the form of a sub-parent company, and only the parent company itself has the legal personality. The subsidiaries are like the six ministers under the emperor's seat, but they are only subordinate to the state and perform their own duties.

So of course Alice can't set up a group company. After all, at least, neither Microsoft nor Intel is a personal company controlled by her, let alone Lockheed, a guy with a deep foundation—unless she wants to single-handedly dump it.

Not to mention the parent-subsidiary relationship—Oscar \u0026 Hannah are Cisco’s sidelines? Umbrella Sideline Commercial Real Estate or Commercial Real Estate Sideline Pharmaceutical Company? How should they establish affiliation with clothing and Internet hardware companies?

Alice has established separate companies from the beginning, and did not let them all belong to Cisco, which she first established. In fact, Cisco itself is already a group company. Products such as routers, switches, and firewalls can theoretically set up separate subsidiaries for them—it’s just not necessary.

Therefore, if she really wanted to integrate her businesses, she would definitely go the way of the consortium.

The consortium has a long history and is classified according to the old regulations. It is the abbreviation of "financial capital group". become. Its field usually includes a small number of large banks, insurance companies and a large number of industrial and mining enterprises, commercial enterprises and transportation enterprises-of course, this is the definition made before World War II.

Compared with other forms of legal persons, consortia have obvious characteristics.

First of all, it is strong, and as its strength and stability increase, the color of the industry will become increasingly weak. The funds controlled by the consortium are very large, and the number of departments controlled is also increasing day by day, covering heavy industry, light industry, traditional industry, emerging industry, production department, circulation department, etc., all within the scope of expansion - purely based on the parent-child relationship of the group company It is difficult to sort them out.

Then there is strong control. The giants of the major consortiums often personally serve as heads of state and important positions in government departments, and organize various non-governmental organizations to exert influence and pressure on the government in order to control the state apparatus. Of course, supporting parliamentarians is their real forte. After all, capitalists make money first, unless they are interested in official careers, otherwise few people will become public servants of the people.

As for the reasons for aspiring to an official career--I want to benefit the people, I have made enough money, the company is handed over to my son, and I want to change things after statutory retirement. There are many reasons for this.

The last thing worth noting is the family color. In the early years, the names of Morgan, Rockefeller, DuPont, Mitsubishi, Mitsui, and Sumitomo were widely known, but now, this color has long faded. The mutual infiltration and integration of various consortiums caused some consortiums to change from single family control before the war to multi-family control. Although the old consortia kept their original family names, they were actually dominated by several or even more families. further socialized.

So to put it bluntly, this is a community of interests.

A group company is the product of the diversified operation of a large company; an enterprise consortium is a situation in which capitalists from many companies come together to communicate with each other within a certain range, and everyone can talk, laugh and do whatever they want to discuss.

If it were put before World War II, with Alice's current situation, of course it would be the rhythm of establishing a "Wang Consortium". But considering the current social situation, and the monosyllabic word "Wong" is not suitable for naming in the English environment, the "Wang Consortium" will definitely not be born. But when it comes to the "Alice Foundation"...

"The second illness is full of breath."

So also rejected.

So what should you call it when you fall down?

Looking at the red and white pattern on the ground in front of the desk, do you still have to hesitate for this answer?

In fact, there is no legal definition of a consortium.

The so-called top ten conglomerates in the United States, the six largest conglomerates in Japan, and even the so-called four big conglomerates in China consisting of CITIC, China Resources, Poly and China Merchants are all academic titles. That is to say, after a large-scale group has expanded to a certain extent, it is just a title given by people inside and outside the industry.

Typical examples such as the Boston Consortium, the Chicago Consortium, the Texas Consortium, the California Consortium, and China’s Chaozhou Business Group, etc., all belong to the typical names named by region-the people in the rivers and lakes say, you are a god horse~

So of course Alice can't go to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau stupidly and register a "umbrella consortium".

Facts prove everything. As long as the Alice Building in downtown Los Angeles crashes to the ground, and all the affiliated companies plunge into it, and then print the LOGO of the umbrella all over the sky, the result will naturally be there.

This piece of Silicon Valley, this part of the UK, and even the Chinese region across the ocean, these companies all form a new consortium with Alice as the link. It doesn't belong to Silicon Valley forces, it doesn't belong to the European medical industry, and it doesn't belong to any single industry such as the game industry and film industry, but they are all connected by her, Alice, a young girl.

Hmm... So, is it still the Alice Foundation?

Well, this kind of question can actually be put aside first.

After all, the establishment of the name of the consortium is different from that of martial arts. For the latter, as long as the heroes come to the martial arts competition and fight with their signature kung fu, there will be lion king Xie Xun and white-browed eagle king immediately; The actual development is gradually gaining popular support.

"So the most urgent thing is to develop the umbrella company?"

Alice pondered, if there is a company that has the most potential to be a boss, it must be the Umbrella Company.

That's right, this idea came from "Resident Evil". Alice didn't deny her plagiarism at all, anyway, she had already made plans. Capcom game company Shenma, of course, took the time to acquire it. Since it has established a protective umbrella, how can it be called malicious propaganda? Although people didn't say it on purpose.

However, this will make the world lose a lot of classic series of games, series of adapted movies, and many derived fan fictions, etc...

Alas, all for the greater good!

So, all in all, since it is the umbrella of plagiarism, it can be blatantly borrowed from the corporate structure.

There are three main divisions of umbrellas in the game, referred to simply as the Red Umbrella, White Umbrella, and Blue Umbrella.

Red Umbrella is the paramilitary division of the company under which its military units come under its jurisdiction. It is also the research and development and management department of related computers. Its most important research and development achievement is the "Flame Queen" that first appeared in the movie. So after thinking about it, Exeter's computer research center can be merged into Umbrella Corporation by then.

Blue Umbrella is the company's biological and chemical weapons research department, and the Licker is their outstanding work. In this regard, um...Alice is really stupid to copy it, and pass it in seconds.

Then White Umbrella, theoretically called the biological research department, is doing routine drug research and development while providing technical support for Blue Umbrella. This can be possible, honestly create new medicines to benefit mankind, anyway, it is also a "protective umbrella", but those who support the operation of the blue umbrella, let's just step aside.

Thinking, thinking, sitting at the table, Alice giggled.