Chapter 7: Discusses the importance of Stark"s industrial shareholding system
”Oh, my dear Uncle Obadiah. It is not good to kick a major shareholder out of the shareholders meeting, and it is not a big deal for us to be late, isn"t it?” Tony Stark naturally wouldn"t let Obadiah win so easily, so he immediately began to defend Zhou Yi.
And his reason, everyone knows one thing, that is, Mr. Stark is definitely the one with the most late arrivals at the shareholders meeting.
”I agree with Mr. Stark, Mr. Zhou is an important shareholder, and his opinions are absolutely indispensable part of our corporate plan.” With Tony Stark is in the front of the tank, and naturally there will be someone. After Obadiah saw this vocal person, the gloomy face became more and more gloomy.
Stark Enterprise is an arms company built during World War II. Because two generations of Stark are incomparable inventors, Stark has become the world"s most famous multinational giant with only two generations of efforts.
In the field of high-tech, only Osborn, Hammer Industries and j.a.pan"s Yoshida Industries are among the few giants that rival the Stark industry. And unceremoniously, Stark Industries is the leader.
Such a giant enterprise can crush nearly half of the European countries by virtue of its financial resources, so his composition is naturally quite complicated. The first is his master, Tony Stark, who owns about 23 percent of the company"s shares and is the largest shareholder and the owner of many patents on which the entire company lives. These professions are not only Tony Stark"s, and his father"s. Therefore, his position in this company is basically unshakable. Unless the stock of Stark Industries plays bungee jumping.
But don"t say anything else, the US government alone will not let this happen.
The next one is Obadiah Stane, this is followed by Tony Stark"s father started the company"s veteran, undoubtedly the second largest shareholder of Stark Industries, holding about 11% of his shares. At the same time, he is also the master of Stark"s business, of course, it is in Tony Stark permission.
And then down is Zhou Yi, he only owns 2% of the shares, but with the skyrocketing IT stocks, he used the IT stocks in his hands to trade with Wall Street people and some other shareholders, slowly the shares he held in his hand increased little by little, until now 6.7 percent, becoming the third largest shareholder.
About 5 percent of the remaining shares are in the hands of scattered shareholders. Wall Street"s financial tyc.o.o.ns hold a total of 7%, the US Air Force and the Army"s military hold a total of 10%, Osborn and Yoshida Industries each hold 4% and 5%. This is a party that shares each other and is normal in large companies.
As for the remaining 28% of the shares, there are more than 20 different companies and families, because according to the rules of Stark Industries, less than 1% of the shareholders have the right to partic.i.p.ate in the shareholders meeting. So there are only about six or seven people who can attend this meeting.
Of these six or seven people, naturally no one will offend the giants such as Opadiah, and even most of them will follow him. Therefore, the nature of the voice comes from other people, and the most willing to come to trouble is the US military.
Seeing the speech of the US military, Opadiah knew that it was no longer necessary to tear it down.
”So, that"s it. Mr. Zhou Yi, we just said that the company intends to formally trade the sixteen regions in the Middle East. According to our financial division, the annual profit is about 20 billion US dollars. The more they fight, the more we earn. The stronger our country"s ability to control this region. I believe that everyone understands this truth. If this plan is successful, your dividends will naturally be considerable, isn"t it?”
Obadaih continues his last effort, and he wants to use money to impress the various shareholders present. And when you hear profits and dividends, some people are really unable to sit still.
20 billion, a lot. But everyone here knows that this is the account on the bright side and is used to file tax returns. In fact, the least profit is also double. Of course, as a financial giant, Stark Industries will naturally not do things like tax evasion. If you do this, it will be really dead. For the American people, the IRS is definitely the most violent government agency. So even Stark Industries will not want to get into this mad dog.
In fact, the United States has always been a well-known heavy taxation country. This is especially true for such multinational corporations. In order to avoid tax evasion, every company in the United States and even every rich person has a special accountant to calculate how to avoid tax. The most common method used by such large companies is charity fund raising. What kind of fire fundraising, donate money to military family members, African children fundraising, and can even donate for dog"s death, as for the purpose, basically to avoid tax.
How did the reputation of Tony Stark philanthropist come from, as the boss of Stark Industries, a fundraising party came down to acc.u.mulate. Everyone present has such a t.i.tle, and most of their purpose is to avoid taxation.
Therefore, the dividends and the income on the books are completely irrelevant. Just like Zhou Yi, if he agrees to this plan, he can only divide the shareholder"s dividend to more than one billion, but in fact he can receive at least two billion. This is the gap, and it is also a fascinating interest.
”OK, We all understand the meaning of Mr. Stane. In fact, no one wants to go with Mr. Franklin. But I have a little doubt.” Zhou Yi sat near Tony Stark, he looked at the doc.u.ments prepared by Obadiah.
”In the armed list of the regions we sell, it seems that they are not all friendly parties to our lovely army. If one day, our missile hit the head of our own people, what should we do?”
”We don"t have our own people, Mr. Zhou! We are businessmen!” Obadiah endured the unhappiness in his heart and lengthened his tone and said a word.
”Of course, I understand!” Zhou Yi smiled. “But don"t forget, we are businessmen, but the American people can only think that we are Americans. Once my bad ideas come true, then who will face the angry American people. Who do you want to take responsibility for? I can declare first, I veto this proposal!”
Zhou Yi finished, Tony Stark immediately said: “Hey! I have to declare, I don"t object, but I don"t agree. In short, I won"t take this responsibility, certainly not!” It seems because it is very important, Tony didn"t said twice.
The military naturally would not agree with this proposal. Wall Street also did not want to smash this drowning. It is true that these are the guys who see the money, but most of them are Jews. They have no reason to support those Muslims. You know, the Jews and Muslims are the most justified and most likely to fight in the Middle East.
Although they will not put too much of those people in the Middle East, but when they are still enemies, they will come out to the top of the tank. These fine guys will not do it.
As for the two companies...o...b..rn and Yoshida, they are naturally willing to see old rivals lose a big business.
It seems that in a blink of an eye, Obadiah"s plan has lost more than half of the time. As for the remaining half, even if Obadiah uses the most fat part of his body to think about it, he knows that it is basically no play. So he was just sullen and sitting in the seat without a word, until the end of the meeting, he remained basically silent.
Of course, everyone understands that this is not a depression, but a silent volcano. So even Tony Stark, also quite wisely did not stimulate this old guy.
At the end of the meeting, Obadiah took a ticket and left the Stark Building in his own car. Obviously, he doesn"t want to see two guys in the git. It"s like this for at least some time.
Watching Obadiah"s car leave his sight, Tony Stark shake his wine gla.s.s and said with emotion: “He really get irritate, too easily. Have we done something too much?”
”Excessive, that is also your business, Obadiah is your uncle, not mine.” Zhou Yi rolled his eyes and drank the champagne in his hand.
”Hey, man! You can"t understand my sad mood? That"s the person I grew up!” Tony said dissatisfiedly.
For Tony"s cheeky behavior, Zhou Yi had a long experience. Those who can propose a champagne celebration after such a thing should not expect anything from his sympathy. So he just sighed down and expressed his feelings.
”Oh, what do you mean? Do you want to get beaten?” Tony was not a good talker, and now he began to face his comrades.
And Zhou Yi replied directly: “Oh, You can try, I don"t mind one-on-two, really!”
Thinking about the fighting ability that Zhou Yi showed, he estimated that his and Hogan"s fighting power, Tony wisely shifted the topic.
”Speaking of folks, we haven"t seen each other for so long. Should I gave you a party to celebrate? I believe that the lovely girls will miss us very much.”
”Let"s talk about it in a few days, old man!” Zhou Yi put down the gla.s.s and stood up. “I am not like you. I have a difficult parent meeting to get it!”
”Oh, it"s really annoying troubles.” Tony raised his gla.s.s of wine with a smile on his face. “You know, I always wanted to have a lovely sister or something.”
”Go to h.e.l.l, Tony.” Zhou Yi could not help but swear. He made a gesture and walked to the elevator.
Mr. Stark only replied with the same gesture, and did not forget to remind: “Don"t forget the party. I will let Jarvis inform you.”
”Do not worry, I will not forget this kind of thing. However, you want to invite Pepper, I am really curious.” After saying this, Zhou Yi took the elevator and left Tony in the Stark Building private floor.
”Wow, is it really a loss that I don"t want to eat?” Tony smiled, but his eyes floated on a stereo image, showing the cute Pepper. “But why don"t I want to invite her?”