580: Chapter 580 As long as you don't stop him from giving his employees a raise, we can all be partners!

After reaching a preliminary acquisition agreement, the employees of the Mergers and Acquisitions Department at Jufan Holdings began to take action.

Su Yang also took the initiative to go to Shancheng to host a dinner!

At the dinner table, Han Kun repeatedly observed the young Su Yang and couldn't help but feel a bit helpless.

Su Yang's move had indeed put a lot of pressure on him and affected his original plans!

But he also felt that this might not be a bad thing!

However, he still asked: "President Su, are you really confident that you can revive Tiancheng Cola?"

At the table, the various parties looked at Su Yang curiously, as if waiting for his answer.

"Of course I have confidence!" Su Yang raised his glass and smiled generously. "If I didn't have confidence, I wouldn't have bought shares in Tiancheng Cola in the first place. My money didn't just blow in on the wind... After buying Tiancheng Cola, I will inject 100 million in funds within three months. Not only will I improve employee benefits, but I will also invest heavily in R&D, and then use the channels of our Jufan Holdings for marketing, publicity, and distribution..."

"Good!"

"Well said, President Su!"

"I believe in President Su!"

"President Su is truly young and promising!"

"A toast to President Su!"

"Come, come, let's all toast to President Su!"

"..."

Regardless of what Han Kun thought, the leaders responsible for investment promotion at the table were quite happy.

With money, Su Yang showed them the determination of Jiuxiang Food!

In recent years, most companies have been shrinking and digesting debt, so it has been hard to attract investment!

They also hoped that Tiancheng Cola could develop with the help of Jiuxiang Food.

That would also be a good achievement!

Han Kun couldn't help but smile bitterly... This was clearly Su Yang's open conspiracy!

It all depended on whether he would follow along!

To be honest, he was a bit hesitant!

Su Yang seemed too wealthy and powerful.

However, he understood it after giving it some thought; Su Yang's companies were indeed very profitable, especially Spark Entertainment Group!

Whether it was internet celebrities, live-streaming sales, or short dramas, he heard they were all making a fortune.

And Su Yang's Jiuxiang Catering frequently made headlines, could compete head-on with Guodilao, and had an enviable cash flow!

Not to mention Jiuxiang Food, which was developing very rapidly, even their wine was selling at a premium!

Su Yang even had his own vocational college, which was basically sitting there collecting tuition fees...

If it were a few years ago, he certainly wouldn't have felt intimidated.

But in recent years, affected by centralized procurement, his pharmaceutical business hadn't been doing well, and profit margins had been compressed to a very low level.

You have to know, his pharmaceutical companies also had debts!

Selling 55% of the shares in Tiancheng Cola and obtaining tens of millions in cash flow not only helped him reduce the burden of Tiancheng Cola but also helped him alleviate the pressure on his capital chain to a certain extent.

After thinking for a moment, Han Kun asked again: "President Su, do you think it's necessary for me to follow along?"

"I am very willing to cooperate with President Han!" Su Yang smiled. "No one who has cooperated with me has ever regretted it!"

Han Kun looked seriously into Su Yang's eyes. Su Yang's gaze was clear and bright, filled with confidence and sincerity.

It didn't look faked at all!

"Alright then, I'll join in!"

"That works, let's make money together!"

"Happy cooperation, everyone?"

"Good!"

"Then let's have another toast!"

"..."

The atmosphere at the dinner table became lively again.

Of course, Su Yang didn't mind cooperating with Han Kun; money can never be fully earned.

He didn't rely entirely on company profits to make a living anyway.

Having a few more capable partners in Shancheng was actually not bad, and Tiancheng Cola did indeed need to cooperate with pharmaceutical companies. As long as Han Kun didn't stop him from raising salaries for employees... everyone could be partners!

If it weren't for the fact that Shancheng Textile Group really wanted to withdraw, Su Yang would have wanted to pull them back in.

Next was the debt and asset assessment investigation of Tiancheng Cola by Jufan Holdings.

As long as there was no major discrepancy with the data published by the textile group, Su Yang would proceed with the acquisition as agreed.

Because Tiancheng Cola had just gone through bankruptcy reorganization a few years ago, its debts were relatively clear, which reduced the difficulty for the employees of the Mergers and Acquisitions Department quite a bit.

Coupled with the cooperation of the textile group and Han Kun, Cheng Wenhuo estimated that it would be settled by the beginning of next month.

While the Mergers and Acquisitions Department was investigating Tiancheng Cola, Su Yang also had headhunting companies start taking action to help him scout for top management talent in the beverage industry.

Even if they were currently employed, he was willing to pay a high price to poach them!

The current general managers and vice presidents of Tiancheng Cola did not satisfy him.

Nowadays, Su Yang was already a VIP client of several local headhunting companies.

Upon receiving Su Yang's task, they also exerted their full efforts just to satisfy him!

By late October, Spark Media had also established a branch in Hangzhou.

The company office was located together with the branch of Meixing Model Agency!

Counting it up, Spark Media now had branches in Fengtian in the north, Shanghai, and Hangzhou.

Yu Siying's next step was likely Beijing and Shenzhen.

The main reason was that Su Yang had businesses in Beijing and Shenzhen, so it would be convenient for the employees of Spark Media to go there and have support!

At the current stage, Spark Media still had a gap compared to large MCN Companies, and the gap might just be in top-tier streamers.

However, Ji Lanjun and Jiang Yan were both quite hardworking; Ji Lanjun's total followers across the web had reached over eight million, and if she developed steadily, she had the potential to become a ten-million-follower streamer.

Jiang Yan was slightly inferior to Ji Lanjun, barely having seven million followers!

However, she was a regular at Comic-cons and could also get game endorsements, so her income was also rising steadily.

Besides that, Spark Media also had two others with more than five million followers across the web.

Su Yang could only say that people like Ji Junlan and Jiang Yan might have been born at the wrong time.

If they had entered this industry in 2018, during the blue ocean phase of self-media, they might have already surpassed ten million followers!

As for streamers with over one million followers across the web, Spark Media had over four hundred of them.

Among them, there were nearly two hundred who had over one million followers on a single platform!

There were now over five hundred people receiving a monthly base salary of ten thousand from Spark Media.

The number of other ordinary signed internet celebrities exceeded three thousand, most of whom were working part-time to earn extra money.

Niu Zhitong, Gong Caiyun, Chen Jiahui, and Sun Yubin from the Fengtian Spark Media branch, who had been rising very quickly recently, had all helped Spark Media achieve significant results!

Because Spark Media was developing better and better, its reputation was growing, and its word-of-mouth was quite good.

The difficulty for Spark Media to sign internet celebrities was very low, and the number of internet celebrities coming to self-recommend was numerous!

There were also some self-media bloggers whose follower base had already reached hundreds of thousands and showed considerable potential, and even "wild" internet celebrities with over a million followers would join in after receiving an olive branch from Spark Media!

Many self-media bloggers created content that could indeed attract followers.

But wanting to monetize followers was another matter entirely!

Many inexperienced self-media bloggers were very prone to failing!

Otherwise, Spark Media's team of internet celebrities couldn't have expanded so quickly!

Even though Spark Media's volume wasn't huge, in terms of industry "appeal," it was not inferior to the top five MCN Companies in the country.

Relying on the good treatment for newcomers, the best reputation in the industry, strong content production capabilities, and excellent internet celebrity incubation capabilities, Spark Media might be even more attractive than the top five MCN Companies!

As for Meixing Model Agency, after being acquired by Spark Entertainment, Su Yang also helped them scout over twenty good models, and their performance was also rising all the way.