At 8:45 a.m. the next day, Li Guangyu, Du Yuemei, and Zhang Ziyu arrived outside the Jaguar headquarters, waiting for the arrival of William Lyons.
Jaguar's top management apparently also received the news that William Lyons was coming to the company. The top management of the company, headed by President Sampson Gerrard, also came outside the headquarters to greet the veteran who founded the company single-handedly.
Sampson Gerald walked over to Li Guangyu and the others and said, "Hello, Ms. Du, this person next to you is Mr. Li."
Li Guangyu said: "Mr. Gerald, nice to meet you."
Sampson Gerrard said: "Mr. Li, you have worked really hard to acquire our company. First you have done the government work, and now you have invited Mr. Lyons. It seems that Li Sheng is determined to win our Jaguar company."
ah."
Li Guangyu knows that the person who is least willing to acquire Jaguar by himself is the CEO of Jaguar in front of him.
Li Guangyu said: "Mr. Gerrard, this is why Mr. Lyons has developed Jaguar very well. Jaguar has the right to be valued by me. I also hope that Jaguar can become the same under my leadership as it was under the leadership of Mr. Lyons."
A generational leader in the automotive industry."
Sampson Gerrard's face was a little stiff when he heard Li Guangyu's words. Li Guangyu obviously said that he was not capable of leading the development of Jaguar and looked down upon his ability.
Sampson Gerald said: "Mr. Li, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you. All the employees in our company don't welcome you to join our company. I advise Mr. Li to give up."
Li Guangyu said with a smile: "Mr. Gerald, I'm afraid you can't represent all the employees of Jaguar Company. Mr. Gerald had better think about the way out in the future, and don't block his own way, so that he can be better in the future."
That’s tragic.”
Sampson Gerard also said with a smile on his face: "Mr. Li, you don't need to worry about my way out. I won't even be able to find a job."
When Li Guangyu was about to say something else, William Lyons had already arrived outside the headquarters building.
After meeting Li Guangyu and others, Lyons said to Sampson Gerrard and others: "You all go and take care of the company's affairs. You don't need to accompany me. I will go around the company to look around."
Sampson Gerald said: "Mr. Lyons, just let me stay with you. I'll tell them all to go back to work."
William Lyons had no intention of letting Sampson Gerrard accompany him, and said to him: "No, I'm familiar with this place. Just let Shane accompany me, and it won't delay your work."
Seeing that William Lyons insisted not to accompany him, Sampson Gerald could only say to Shane Wesley, the director of the automotive design department next to him: "Shane, please accompany Mr. Lyons to visit the company."
Then Sampson Gerrard told the senior staff to go back to work, then said goodbye to William Lyons and Li Guangyu and left.
After Sampson Gerrard and others left, William Lyons said to Li Guangyu: "Shane Wesley was in charge of the design department before I left the company. Over the years, Jaguar's appearance design has been completely
It was only because of his presiding that we achieved such results."
Li Guangyu said enthusiastically: "Hello, Mr. Wesley, nice to meet you."
Shane Wesley also said enthusiastically: "Hello, Mr. Li."
Then Li Guangyu and others followed William Lyons and started touring the Jaguar company. At the same time, William Lyons was also introducing some people to Li Guangyu so that Li Guangyu could get to know them.
Shane Wesley, who accompanied them on the tour, knew that this was William Lyons paving the way for Li Guangyu to enter the company and supporting Li Guangyu's intention to acquire Jaguar. Everyone in the company and Li Guangyu's contacts knew it.
Shane Wesley himself also hopes that Li Guangyu can acquire Jaguar. He is now very dissatisfied with some senior executives led by Sampson Gerrard, who are unwilling to make progress and have brought politics into the company.
The reason why Sampson Gerrard strongly opposed Li Guangyu's acquisition this time is because Sampson Gerrard belongs to the Labor Party. They are strongly opposed to the Conservative Party's plan to use Jaguar as an example to privatize state-owned enterprises.
.This time Sampson Gerrard has some big bosses in the Labor Party backing him, so he is so emboldened. Even though he knows that the government intends to sell Jaguar to Li Guangyu, he and some senior officials still oppose Li Guangyu's acquisition.
Under the introduction of William Lyons, Li Guangyu had some communication with Chemir Michelson, chairman of the Jaguar union.
This old man who has followed William Lyons for many years has no obvious political party position. Since William Lyons supports Li Guangyu's acquisition of Jaguar, he himself also supports Li Guangyu's acquisition.
Li Guangyu said: "Mr. Michelson, please communicate more with the company's employees. After I acquire Jaguar, I will never reduce their salary and benefits. And when Jaguar opens the market in Asia, our company's benefits will continue to increase."
It will improve as the company’s performance increases.”
Chimere Michelson said: "Mr. Li, since you can win the support of Lyons, I believe you can lead and develop Jaguar well. In terms of employees, you can rest assured that I will communicate with them. As long as their salary and benefits are not
If things change, they won’t care too much about who owns the company. Moreover, employees are not very satisfied with some of Sampson’s current practices.”
Li Guangyu said: "Mr. Michelson, thank you for your support. After I take over Jaguar, I will definitely develop Jaguar and I will not let Mr. Lyons and you down."
At noon, Li Guangyu also invited William Lyons, Shane Wesley and Chemir Michelson to have dinner together at a restaurant near Jaguar.
After the luncheon, Li Guangyu said to Shane Wesley: "Mr. Wesley, thank you for accompanying me this morning, and please continue to lead the company's design department. The company needs you just like this. Jaguar
Only then can we develop and grow.”
Shane Wesley replied: "Mr. Li, you're welcome. I also hope that after you take over Jaguar, our Jaguar can reproduce the glory of the 1960s."
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Li Guangyu immediately contacted government representative Weaver Clark in the afternoon, told him about today's events, and asked him to start negotiations on the Jaguar acquisition as soon as possible.
Weaver Clark said: "Mr. Li, we can go to Jaguar headquarters again tomorrow to discuss the acquisition. If the people headed by Sampson Gerrard still block it this time, I will report to the Prime Minister. This time the Prime Minister
But pay close attention to this acquisition personally.”
Li Guangyu said: "Mr. Clark, thank you for your support."
As a member of the Conservative Party, this time the Labor Party actually jumped out to stir up trouble and wanted to interrupt their reform plan. Weaver Clark will never let them succeed. If necessary, he can even ask Li Guangyu to take the initiative first
Take over Jaguar and kick out Sampson Gerrard and others. As long as Jaguar employees don't cause trouble, there will be no problem at all.
Weaver Clark said: "Mr. Li, I also hope that you can communicate more with Jaguar employees. As long as they have no problems, we can reach this transaction."
Li Guangyu said: "I will arrange for Ms. Du Yuemei to handle this matter."