There is no doubt that from a moral point of view, Gu Kun did a cruel trick on Francois Pinault by cutting off Gucci.
Two years ago, when he first entered the luxury world, in order to attract resources and business, he promoted each other and realized that "the average of these three people, Gu Kun, Rupert and Pinault, can occupy the second place in the ranking of global luxury giants"
to fourth place” indicator.
He has done a lot of things like "telling Pino that his ambition is to focus on the male luxury economy, so his ultimate positioning is to replace Rupert" or "telling Rupert that his ambition is to focus on taking on Arnold
A special banner, occupying the ecological niche of "Arnott's strongest enemy".
In other words, at that time, he was just a newbie who was begging to be "equalized" by the big guys. Although he had money, he had no way to get in. He had to work hard to survive between the second and third place in the world.
The despicable means convinced them that Gu Kun was not a threat to him.
Who would have thought that just over two years later, Gu Kun would reveal his fangs and stab Francois Pinault in a decisive move.
However, if you don't have business, you are not a traitor. In the business world, if you follow the law and abide by the contract, you will be a reliable businessman.
The personalities, interests, and styles revealed in casual chats are not guaranteed.
It can be a true display of one's temperament, or it can be staged. No one can accuse it, and it has no legal effect.
Ma Feng also said that he has never touched money and is not interested in it. Goudong also said that he is blind and does not know whether people are beautiful or not. Do you believe it?
One day they change their story and say they are interested in rich and beautiful women. Will they be legally responsible?
Do you believe you deserve to be tortured to death?
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"Asshole, this guy Gu Kun is completely going back on his word! I must condemn him!"
After figuring out the specific terms of Gucci's private placement, Francois Pinault was of course furious. Even though he was already 65 years old, he was supposedly well-educated after seeing too many storms, and he still had some problems.
Didn't stay calm.
Next to him, Mr. Jean-Jacques Aragon, the former Minister of Culture of France and now the director of the Palazzo Grasci Museum in Venice, also felt quite embarrassed. This kind of scene where a fellow financial sponsor lost his temper was really not suitable to watch, and it was not suitable to avoid it.
Pino's assistant had no choice but to wait for the boss to calm down a little before asking for instructions: "Mr. de Soret has chosen to hold a press conference tomorrow, and there will be a thank you banquet. Do you want to attend? Or do we want to attend?"
Send someone to attend?”
"Attend? That white-eyed wolf from Sorey has the nerve to send me an invitation? What are you doing? Are you looking at a joke? I won't go! I won't send anyone!" Pino was very distressed that his opportunity to invest in Gucci was gone, and he couldn't calm down at all.
However, fortunately, the IQs of the guests around him are still above average. Someone who has served as a butler for one term in France cannot be easy-going, and he must be very smart in dealing with people.
Jean-Jacques Aragon coughed slightly, and then Pino's assistant walked away very wisely, making it easier for the minister to persuade the boss.
After hearing Aragon's cough, Pino finally calmed down a little. He could lose his composure in front of his assistant, but he could not lose his composure in front of a former minister.
In fact, he is a very well-mannered person. The main reason is that today's sudden news is really irritating. An investment that he has followed for almost a year is still the largest and most important investment in his life. It is so dirty.
, who can bear this?
A layman may not have enough understanding of the importance of Gucci's defection, but insiders know that it is very fatal - let's put it this way, the core of future Kering Group's ability to remain the world's third largest luxury goods group
The bargaining chip is Gucci. Without Gucci, he might not be able to maintain his third position in the world.
After the assistant left, Jean-Jacques Aragon observed Pino's mood and picked up the worthless Picasso draft from the ground that was torn to vent his anger. After confirming that Pino had calmed down, he pointed out to the point.
:
"People in your circle, as long as they don't formally break up, you don't have to be so quarrelsome on the surface. François, I haven't seen you lose your temper like this for many years.
On this occasion, since they dare to give invitations, so what if they go there openly. If there is no shame, there is no shame. If you act more open-minded, you might be able to instigate others to feel embarrassed."
There is no shame in pointing out, is there no shame?
Francois Pinault is also a man who has matured with age. Of course, he immediately felt that this sentence "won my heart".
Indeed, at present, only he knows that "Henri de Soret had considered inviting his Kering Group before inviting Gu Kun to conduct a private placement."
Of course, De Sole and Gu Kun also knew.
But they didn't point it out, which shows that they don't want to enmity with Pinault and Kering Group.
Then, it means that Bernard Arnault and John Rupert also don't know that "Pino and his Kering Group are being paired up."
In other words, at most it is just speculation without evidence.
At this time, if Pino behaves arrogantly, his colleagues' suspicions will be confirmed, and that will only make him lose more face. It is better to attend the thank-you banquet openly and naturally, pretending that it has nothing to do with him.
Moreover, as long as you pretend to stay out of trouble, there are other additional bonuses you can enjoy - then you can pretend to be calm and calm to sow discord, help others analyze the chain of suspicion "objectively and impartially", and dress Gu Kun as "the right one"
I am not a threat, but I am more of a threat to those who are still ahead of Gu Kun."
In a nutshell, it is like saying to the cold palace green tea scheming people in the palace fight drama: "I am not favored anyway. It has nothing to do with me to compete for favor in front of His Majesty. But my sister is now in the royal family, so I should take care of myself."
reason.
Although this metaphor is a bit awkward.
After thinking about everything, Pino decided to accept the invitation very gentlemanly, went to the banquet calmly, and staged a drama of "green tea is the original tea, but it is humble online".
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On Christmas Eve night, the former Napoleon's former residence winery on Elba Island (the "former" is added in front of the former residence to emphasize that it is not specially protected as the former residence of celebrities)
Several of the world's top luxury goods giants were invited to attend the press conference and appreciation dinner for Gucci's private placement of new shares.
Not surprisingly, Pino saw two other old colleagues - Bernard Arnault and John Rupert.
The three of them have been performing the Three Kingdoms drama for a lifetime. Most of the time, Pino and Rupert played "Sun Liu Alliance" to fight Cao's thief Arnot, but occasionally they fell into Sima Yi's treacherous plan.
, play the internal fighting drama of Lu Meng's sneak attack on Jingzhou.
At this moment, Pino made a brief observation and noticed that only Arnott's attitude was undisguised, and he did not hesitate to show his hostility towards Sorey and Gu Kun before and after everyone, while Rupert seemed to be very aloof.
This is not surprising, because Arnault’s ambition to take over Gucci in a hostile manner has been obvious for a long time. The world has known about it for more than a year. Now that the hostile takeover has failed, it is wrong for him to pretend that nothing is wrong and he is not embarrassed.
It's possible. So it's better to express your hostility openly.
There was an undercurrent surging off the field, but the press conference on the field was not affected at all. Gucci CEO Henri de Solet soon took the lead in officially announcing today's decision in front of everyone watching:
"I am very happy that all my colleagues are here to support us. Today our company officially announced a decision. In order to prevent Gucci from being taken over by a hostile takeover, we will issue new shares with a market value of 7 billion euros. The additional shares will be equivalent to double the original share capital. Therefore, all original shares will be issued."
The shareholders' shares will be diluted to one-half of their original value. The invitation for the additional issuance is the Lanfang Art Group from Lanfang Country. Next, we will officially hold a signing ceremony."
The audience immediately burst into warm applause, and the signing ceremony went smoothly in front of everyone's attention. Then Gu Kun picked up the large symbolic check and held it up with De Sore, allowing media friends to take pictures. The spotlight flashed for a while.
The scene was extremely lively.
After the main procedures of the press conference are completed, the rest is the thank you dinner.
Francois Pinault, who had been holding back his resentment for a long time, took a glass of champagne and saw an opportunity when lvmh boss Arnault and Richemont boss Rupert happened to be relatively close, and took advantage of every opportunity to strike up a conversation and provoke them.
"Hey, isn't this Mr. Arnott? He must be in a bad mood today. I have followed the acquisition project for almost two years and it ended like this - Brother, I really don't deserve it for you. You said you saved so much money in the first place?
Why do you need a lawyer's fee? Hire a top Dutch lawyer to help you put the brakes on before taking action. If you think about it in the long term, maybe there will be a success, and I won't worry about anything about Kun today."
Although Pino's business is smaller than Arnault's, he has no problem calling him "brother" because in terms of age, Pino is already 65, while Arnault is only in his 50s.
A slap in the face is not a slap in the face. Pino exposed his shortcomings in such a gentlemanly manner, and Arnott had to fight back:
"This is not a lawyer's problem. If you are not envied by others, you are a mediocre person. So many people are afraid of me, so why am I always so unkind? Solei probably thinks that if he falls into my hands, he will die badly."
This remark is quite tyrannical and has the same effect as having the courage to say, "I would rather let the world betray me than let the world betray me."
Moreover, after saying half a sentence, Arnott immediately changed the subject: "Pino, stop pretending, you were the 'white knight' that Soleil was looking for, but you ended up being a spare tire for others. It's really terrible."
It's an embarrassment to us French people. Originally, I thought, even if I didn't succeed, the world would still belong to us French people, and you couldn't win against a yellow man, haha..."
Pino's face changed slightly, but he could only grit his teeth and endure it, and quickly re-entered the drama pretending to be calm and relaxed: "Really? Then you must have misunderstood, I have almost forgotten about this matter. At the beginning of the year, Solei
It seemed that they had looked for me, but they didn't look for me again for more than half a year. I thought that the matter was over, and I didn't think about whether it was a white knight or not. Maybe Solei felt that the conditions I offered were too harsh.
If Gu Kun can win, I don’t know how much profit he will give to Solei. Maybe he is just an amateur fat sheep. 7 billion euros are thrown in. How to spend it in the end is all Solei’s word. Gu Kun will be good if he doesn’t get tricked by that little fox.
It doesn’t matter to me at all.”
It is very embarrassing to fail in the bidding, but if it is "I always insist on harsh conditions and do not relax, the other party cannot afford it, so I can only find a guy with a lower bid to take over", then it is different. It is equivalent to dumping someone and being rejected.
The difference between dumping is that being dumped is very embarrassing, but dumping is not.
"Really? Then I don't know what kind of humble conditions Gu Kun has imposed that are humiliating and humiliating the country. Let's find out together?" Arnott teased with a feigned smile.