Although the Bank of Colombia is named after the country, it is not a very attractive investment target in the U.S. capital market.
It can be said that compared to most banks in the United States, Bank of Colombia is a small bank in the truest sense of the word.
Seryosha carried out the acquisition through an offshore company, because Seryosha intends to borrow the platform of the Bank of Colombia for a long time, so his privatization operation must not tolerate the slightest irregularity, and the acquisition must be carried out in full accordance with the provisions of the law.
In order to test the local market reaction in Colombia in advance, Seryosha asked the Mediterranean Trading Company to order more than 800 Radaniwa from the Volga Automobile Factory to be shipped to Colombia by sea to Escobar for operation.
Halfway through the flotilla, Seryosha has entered the next phase of the takeover, as Seryosha has taken a 5 percent stake in Bank of Colombia and must show up to the U.S. government regulators before he can move forward.
In this case, Seryosha can only compete with the existing operators for a controlling stake in Bank of Colombia.
The amount of funds in Seryosha's hands is not comparable to that of ordinary small conglomerates, and under Seryosha's investment regardless of the cost, although he spent a lot of unjust money, he won valuable time.
For the newly acquired bank, Seryosha did not participate too much in the management, but only added a sum of money to specialize in car loans.
Under Escobar's low-price sales strategy, Radaniva has gradually become familiar to Colombian consumers.
First of all, the biggest advantage of this car is that it is too cheap, even cheaper than a car of a Japanese brand.
Escobar proposed a sales strategy of five percent down payment for the car, while the corresponding Bank of Colombia offered a low-interest loan for a minimum of three years and a maximum of five years.
As a result, most of the customers who were originally excluded from the car consumption threshold were attracted to it.
All of a sudden, Escobar's car sales company was packed with people from the moment it opened.
In order to attract attention, the car sales company also specially showed the scene of Ladaniwa dragging a plow as a tractor.
What is the unique trick of driving the car up the stairs at 45 degrees is even more breathtaking.
The versatility of the parts in Rattaniva and the simplicity of the structure allow experienced local car mechanics to quickly master the repair skills of this type of car with simple training.
In order to solve the shortcomings of Lada Niva that cannot pull goods, car sales companies have even introduced a matching trailer to transport goods with this vehicle.
The biggest disadvantage of Ladaniva is that it does not have Japanese cars to save fuel, but this is not a problem in Colombia, because their neighbor is Venezuela, the country with the richest crude oil reserves in the world, and Colombia is also one of the oil producers, and the price of gasoline here is very low.
Seryosha decided to put Escobar in charge of the sale for a certain purpose.
Because Escobar's sales speed is directly proportional to the speed at which his money moves, the more he sells, the more legitimate he earns.
As a result, Escobar even resorted to unconventional tactics to help Radtaniva gain more market share.
Some car sellers selling Japanese brands, as well as European and American brands, soon found that the police and government departments began to trouble them from time to time.
Seryosha is even more happy to see this, as both the Mediterranean Trading Company and the Bank of Colombia will benefit more.
Mediterranean Trading converts its profits into agricultural raw materials for Latin America, importing cocoa, soybeans, sugar cane, corn and coffee from Brazil and frozen beef from Argentina.
At present, except for Japan, the economy of almost all the old industrial countries in the world has fallen into a stage of stagnation or even recession, and Latin America, as a traditional raw material exporter, has also suffered as a result, and the prices of these agricultural products are now not high, and the Mediterranean Trading Company has naturally made a lot of money from it.
Although the Mediterranean Trading Company is a state-owned company, the profits received do not go to Seryosha.
But he was the company that Seryosha single-handedly founded, and it is still firmly in the hands of his own people.
The better the development of the Mediterranean Trading Company, the more stable Seryosha's position in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation will be.
It is unscientific to count on companies to save the Soviet Union, and it can only help Seryosha to stabilize his position.
Seryosha will rely on the Mediterranean Trading Company to further grasp more power of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.
As long as the Mediterranean Trading Company develops well, Seryosha will be more valuable in the eyes of the Kremlin's top brass.
In fact, in Seryosha's view, apart from the shortage of daily necessities and food supplies, the gap between the common people of the Soviet Union and Western Europe and even the United States in other aspects is not so big, and objectively speaking, the life of the people of most countries in the world is much happier.
Almost every household in the Soviet Union popularized the basic household appliances of radio, refrigerator, television, washing machine.
There are also many families who own cars, and although the gap between the United States and the United States in terms of housing is still far away, it has crossed the threshold of developing countries on the whole.
At least for now, it seems that the economy of the whole country has not yet reached the point where it has to disintegrate.
Just two months after Seryosha returned to Moscow, Yakovlev also arranged everything and returned home.
When he returned, he naturally had to report to Gorbachev, and Seryosha naturally had to go with him.
Yakovlev is worthy of being a member of the Central Committee, and he has a very thorough view of the problems of Britain and some countries in Western Europe, and he gave Gorbachev a detailed introduction to a series of measures taken by Prime Minister Thatcher after he came to power.
The rhetoric is quite admiring of Britain's path of reform.
He specifically pointed out that French President François Mitterrand had been nationalizing banks and industrial conglomerates since he came to power in '81, but just a year after he took office, he made a 180-degree turn, and began to learn from Margaret Thatcher's large-scale privatization.
Seryosha looked at Yakovlev with deep meaning, although this guy is a communist, but in his bones he believes more in the capitalist set of things.
But Gorbachev was impressed by Yakovlev's mention of British steel companies becoming the most efficient steel companies in Europe after privatization.
Because it is clear to all of you that one of the biggest problems facing the domestic economy of the Soviet Union is the problem of labor efficiency.
"Secretary Gorbachev, it now seems that both the British and the French have completely abandoned Keynes's theory of large enterprises, and it is the liberal economy advocated by Prime Minister Thatcher that can better solve the current situation," Yakovlev said meaningfully. t1706231537: