Chapter 428: The Sixth Partner

In total, Masayoshi Kishimoto had three alternative proposals. He only said two, and the last remaining one was to make an all-out acquisition.

As far as he was concerned, the founder, Willy Hori, had become dispensable to the HORIPRO firm. Or rather, he was a symbol of the company’s spiritual dimension.

The centerpiece of HORIPRO ASSOCIATES is the current president, Shingo Oda. Although he is heavily utilized, he is constrained by the two sons of HORIPRO.

The reason why Masayoshi Kishimoto was able to talk his way into becoming his sixth partner. For one thing, he was rehired, and the price offered was not only for Shingo Oda to succeed Wiff Hori’s position as president of the HORIPRO office, but also for him to take on the position of president of Hard Gold Media directly.

After the reorganization of the HORIPRO office, it would definitely be under the banner of Hard Gold Media. Not only that, but there was also TV Tokyo under Hard Gold Media.

As a matter of fact, the status of the president of HORIPRO Media was much higher than that of the chairman of HORIPRO Office.

Even though Masayoshi Kishimoto had given HORIPRO’s founder, Wilfred Hori, a two-year transition period and allowed his two sons to take on the positions of vice president and president, respectively, they were still completely under the command of the president of Hard Gold Media.

Such a promise given by Masayoshi Kishimoto to Shingo Kohda simply left the other party with no reason to refuse. Who let him see through the irreconcilable point of conflict between Shingo Oda and the Hori family?

In addition, Shingo Oda’s business philosophy is not at all different from the Hori family’s father and son. Even if he became the head of the HORIPRO office, he would still be constrained.

The reasoning was simple. The founder of the company, Wilfred Hori. He naturally wanted his own son to inherit the presidency. Shingo Oda was a transition.

In the end, Shingo Oda would still step aside. Instead of being forced by others and doing the bidding of others, it was better to take the initiative to demand a better future for himself.

Not to mention the fact that the staff and artists within the HORIPRO office would inevitably have a clear line of defense. As a result, there would be internal conflict, and there would even be people who would disregard Shingo Oda because he was a member of the Hori family, causing his authority in the company to be challenged.

When the HORIPRO office came under the umbrella of Hard Gold Media, there was a fundamental change. The Hori family, father and son, would no longer be the owners of the original company, but would simply become shareholders.

The three of them would have to have their shares diluted even more than in the past. The fewer the shares, the less say they had in the board meetings.

Secondly, Kishimoto Masayoshi had analyzed the information obtained by Takayuki Nanno, the personnel director, and found out that Shingo Oda was a person who did not have much ambition, but was bent on doing a good job, making the company bigger and stronger, and enjoying the happiness brought by success.

He provided the other party with not only more free space to play, but also gave him a bigger stage and financial support. This will shorten the time for him to realize his dream and greatly increase his success rate.

Thirdly, Kishimoto’s justice was to use people without any doubt, and not to use them without any suspicion. He did so by delegating authority to Shingo Oda. Therefore, he himself would no longer hold the position of president of Hard Gold Media, and would be replaced by Shingo Oda.

At this time, there was an extremely lively discussion in the conference room of the HORIPRO office. Apart from the Hori family’s father and son, the other shareholders were divided into two factions, but all of them belonged to the two choices that agreed with Masayoshi Kishimoto’s proposal.

One faction felt that there was nothing wrong with receiving cash directly. In the beginning, the purpose of one’s investment was simply to earn more money.

Now, that one purpose has been accomplished. One can completely cash out and leave the market. As for the future, investing in another project is fine, after all, cash is king.

The other faction felt that there was nothing wrong with exchanging the shares of the original HORIPRO firm for those of Hard Gold Media, and even felt that the future would be brighter and the profit margins would be greater.

They do not attach much importance to the demand for the right to speak. In the past, the HORIPRO office was in the hands of Wilfred Hori. In the future, it would be Shingo Oda who had the say. As far as they were concerned, the two were just switching places.

The three Hori family members, father and son, looked at the current scene and realized in their hearts that the tide had turned. The hearts and minds of the people were now all directed toward Masayoshi Kishimoto.

In particular, Wilfred Hori’s heart was filled with a lot of emotions. The company that he had founded with his own hands had ended up with basically nothing left except a name and some shares.

He had no illusions at all that his two sons would be able to fight back in the future, so that they would be able to buy back their shares from Masayoshi Kishimoto’s hands, and then break away from Hard Gold Media and regain their freedom.

Who let Masayoshi Kishimoto so young to become Japan’s newest plutocrat, that and is his own two sons can be compared to the ability?

At the same time, Kishimoto Masayoshi, Takahashi Kazuya and Yamada Mirai three people did not say a word to look at them to carry on all kinds of discussion.

Of course they knew what it meant to have the situation settled. The next thing was for Shingo Oda to lead the merger and reorganization.

While the meeting continued in the conference room on one end, on the other end there were whispers of the annexation spreading within the HORIPRO office.

Some of the people who worked at the HORIPRO office were more or less worried.

The brunt of this will be in the personnel above the various adjustments. Many staff members are afraid of being laid off, and secondly, they are afraid of being transferred from a good position to a bad one.

As for the artists, they are afraid of not being taken seriously, and they are afraid of reducing the resources invested in them. Even if Shingo Oda is the one who will be in charge of HORIPRO from now on, it will be difficult for some of them to have peace of mind.

Although the low monthly salary of HORIPRO’s artists is very well known in the industry, unpopular artists earn less than 100,000 a month, even the biggest name, Wada Nowako, has to receive a salary, and the salary is very disproportionate to its big-name status, but HORIPRO’s treatment of its artists is more humane, and will not abandon the artists just because they are outdated, many of them who are unpopular can still stay in the office. Many artists who had lost their popularity were still able to stay at the firm and be supported by the firm.

At this critical time, even if Kyoko Fukada was not staying at the HORIPRO office, she was still shooting outside, and all of them knew about it.

When she was taking a break in the middle of the movie, one after another phone call was made to her own cell phone and her manager’s cell phone to talk about this matter.

In other people’s opinion, Fukada Kyoko and Kishimoto justice relationship is extraordinary, then in the future will inevitably be greatly valued. HORIPRO office, the title of the first sister is not her.

However, Fukada Kyoko could not be happy, her mood became very complicated. Even she couldn’t figure out what kind of medicine Masayoshi Kishimoto was selling.

From her point of view, Ayase Yoyo was just the best excuse for him to annex HORIPRO office. What she was worried about was that Masayoshi Kishimoto would really try to promote Ayase Yao to the top in the future.