America’s Road To Wealth

  Chapter 380 Ah, that's all!

  As Christmas approaches, New York in the cold wind becomes more and more lively.

   Not to mention that most ordinary people are shopping and preparing for the biggest festival of the year.

  Spent three months in Europe.

   In a circle of traditional European fashion models, he forcibly fought his way out.

  Elizabeth’s backyard models, who also gained great popularity in Europe, also returned to New York on December 20.

  This morning, at JFK International Airport in New York.

  A large group of North American entertainment media reporters received wind of the news last night.

  I know that Elizabeth models, who are the most popular in the modeling circle today, will return to New York today.

   They all gathered in the departure hall of JFK International Airport today, just to take first-hand photos and first-hand news of these girls.

  As one of the most famous cities in the European and American world, it is also one of the favorite cities for various entertainment superstars.

  JFK International Airport in New York has long been used to this situation.

  Even in the departure hall, there is a special area for journalists.

  In this way, reporters can try their best to interfere with the normal operation of the airport as little as possible.

  In the reporter area, many reporters from major entertainment media used chatting to pass the boring waiting time.

   "A lot of people!"

  Jason, the special correspondent of the famous American entertainment magazine "Vanity Fair", looked at the obviously large number of reporters in the field, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

  Beside him came the voice of his friend, who is also regarded as a colleague and competitor, the reporter of "American Entertainment Weekly", Irene:

   "Yes. It's hard to imagine that it's just a group of models that have attracted so many entertainment media. With this number and level, even if two Toms come, that's it at most."

  Jason nodded, expressing his approval of Irene's statement.

   As we all know, the entertainment industry in any country in the world has a similar chain of contempt.

  Generally speaking, in this chain of contempt, the film industry is at the top.

  Below the movie circle, there are the TV circle and the music circle. These two circles despise the fashion circle at the same time.

   To put it simply, movie stars are the highest, TV stars and singers are the second, and models are the bottom.

   If it is a little lower, it is a dead end.

   That's the real bottom layer.

  There are two main reasons for the formation of this ecological chain.

  One is income and the other is fame. In the words of the Internet age, it is traffic.

  In terms of income, of course it depends on the income of the top ceiling in the circle.

  In the entertainment industry, the top earners are naturally A-level movie stars.

  The income of one of their movies is as high as more than 20 million US dollars before tax.

  Many even have commissions, and there are many people who earn 50 to 60 million US dollars before tax for a movie.

  This income, the most powerful TV actors, singers and models combined, can be said to be inferior.

  Michael Jackson is good enough, right?

   Arguably the most profitable singer, the most influential pop music singer in the world.

  His ability to make money is undoubtedly the number one existence in the music circle.

  But there is only one singer like him in the entire music circle.

  In the film industry, just in terms of income, the amount that can be compared with him is more than 10 fingers.

   And MJ is a supermodel in the music circle, no matter in terms of income or influence, even Britney Spears can't compare with him.

   In other words, the income of a top to extraordinary super singer is about the same as that of a normal A-level Hollywood superstar.

   In terms of income, Hollywood beats the music industry.

   Then there is popularity/traffic that is most important in the entertainment industry.

  A successful movie can often make most of the audience familiar with several stars.

  Even one note lasts for many years, relying on one role for many years.

   Can be a singer or TV actor. If you want the audience to remember it, it is difficult to do without more than one excellent work.

  In addition to these, in all aspects, the film industry represented by Hollywood ranks high in the world's entertainment ecological chain.

  Even the music and TV circles are like this.

   Not to mention the fashion circle, which has always had a relatively small audience.

  In the entertainment circle, no matter which country, this circle has always been at the bottom.

   Otherwise, Xiao Li, who has become a trend in parallel time and space, has no way to regard Victoria's Secret at that time as a candidate harem, and seeks out supermodels one by one.

   That's because the Victoria's Secret supermodels are eager to increase their popularity through the scandal with Xiao Lizi.

   Only in this way can they become more famous, they can charge more when accepting jobs, and even seize the opportunity to enter the film industry or something.

   Otherwise, with this group of people, how could they not know Leonardo's love?

  Why are you willing to be played by him?

   This is because, even if they have reached the top in the fashion circle, they have become international supermodels.

  But they are still at the bottom of the entire ecological chain of the entertainment industry.

  If you have the opportunity to climb to the upper realm, of course you will work hard.

  In the past, this circle has always been like this.

   But after last year, with the emergence of Elizabeth's back garden.

  This kind of ecological chain looks like it is about to be broken.

  It turned out that through Abel's crazy money burning, he directly sent a group of the most beautiful and **** models in the world to most of the LSPs around the world.

   Almost overnight, these supermodels suddenly surpassed many stars in the movie, TV and music circles in terms of popularity.

  Give the models in Elizabeth's back garden, at least in terms of popularity, a basis to fight against other circles.

   While making Isa Angels popular overnight, it also allowed them to form a unique position in the entertainment circle.

   That is, they are often able to compete with ordinary TV, movie, and music stars in terms of popularity flow.

   There are too many viewers (mainly LSPs) who are happy to see them in newspapers, magazines, and TV.

   There is such an objective law.

  The media naturally liked what they liked, and the level of their pursuit was also mentioned to the same level as the other three circles.

  In the fashion circle, this is the existence of being out of the circle.

  Jason, a reporter from Vanity Fair, and Irene, a reporter from Entertainment Weekly, were amazed when they discussed.

   I am amazed at the change in the status of the Isa Angels in the fashion circle, or in the entertainment circle.

  Just when the two reporters wanted to continue their discussion.

  At around 10 am, among the reporters waiting for the flight, someone yelled.

   "...hey, they're out!"

  Jason and Irene, who were talking, quickly ran forward with the camera.

  I saw the iconic rock security staff appear near the VIP exit.

  Under their protection, supermodels who have achieved great success in Europe.

  They appeared one after another like big-name stars.

   The one walking in the front is naturally the leader of Angel Isa, with an aura of 10.8 meters.

  Giselle Bundchen, who has been nicknamed "Queen of Models" and "Queen of Bundchen" all over the world.

  Bundchen's aura is really strong. As soon as she appeared, she almost attracted most of the reporters' flashing lights and the sound of shutters.

  Following her is Carmen Kess, who also already has the nickname "Ka Shen".

   Behind them are young KK, Lima, and Ambrosio, all of whom are familiar faces to the media.

   Each of them has a hot body and is so glamorous that they are not comparable to supermodels in other fashion circles.

  The successful experience, coupled with the super popularity and traffic, also gave them a star-like aura.

   This makes them more confident when facing reporters.

   Under the coordination of the airport staff and the arrangement of Yisha Company.

  They also arrived at specific venues one after another, and were interviewed by reporters.

   When they accepted a half-hour interview and left JFK International Airport.

  No. 1, 13th Road, Royal Point, New York.

  Elizabeth's secret back garden, which is not so secret anymore, is in that manor villa.

  In the glass dome swimming pool.

  Abel was wearing swimming trunks and came to the pool with two Rottweilers who had grown into big dogs.

  Even if the wind is howling outside.

  Glass dome swimming pool, under the blessing of high technology.

   At this time, the inside is hot like summer.

  It is very suitable for swimming and doing some physical and mental sports.

  Abel stood by the pool, moved his body, and warmed up his lower body.

  Li Xinyu was still with him a few days ago.

   I don't know if little Laura noticed something, or for other reasons.

  Yesterday, Little Laura suddenly called Li Xinyu.

  It was noon at that time.

  Abel did not leave 138 East 65th Street at that time. After lunch, he planned to "accompany" Li Xinyu before going out.

   When little Laura called.

  Her best friend is doing some inappropriate things with Abel.

  Li Xinyu was too scared to answer the phone.

  But Abel didn't allow it at all. She was forced by Abel to connect to the phone.

   Then there is an indescribable plot.

  Little Laura invited Li Xinyu, a good friend, to go to Texas to spend Christmas with Little Laura.

   Li Xinyu originally wanted to refuse, she wanted to stay with Abel.

   But Abel made her accept little Laura's invitation.

  The reason is that if Li Xinyu goes to spend the holiday with little Laura, it is equivalent to spending Christmas with the shrub family.

   This is of great help to Li Xinyu in the Li family, and even Li Fuzhen in the Li family.

   Let them speak a lot harder when facing their family members.

  Finally, without revealing anything, Li Xinyu agreed to go to Texas for the holiday.

   Anyway, in a few days, Abel will go back to Texas.

  This morning, Li Xinyu had already set off for Texas.

  On the New York side, except for Avril Lavigne and Britney Spears who are running activities.

  Abel finds his women, or the mermaids in the pond, running away.

   Fortunately, today, the most numerous mermaids finally came back from Europe.

  The owner of the fish pond has the idea of ​​challenging his physical limit again.

  At the moment by the glass dome swimming pool, he is doing warm-up exercises before launching the self-challenge.

   Let's go for a swim first.

  By the swimming pool, Abel stretched out his arms and crossed them vigorously. The muscles of his whole body tensed up, and his perfect figure was undoubtedly displayed.

   "Peng—"

   Warm-up is over.

  He plunged into the swimming pool and swam like a fish

  Two Rottweilers saw their owner fell into the water and never showed up, barking and wandering around the swimming pool.

   poof—

   Supported by terrifying lung capacity, after diving for several minutes, Abel came out of the water, stepped on the water, watched two Rottweiler dogs wagging their tails and barking at him, and waved at them in a funny way.

  The two big dogs snorted a few times and hesitated, but finally jumped into the water one after another, and the dogs swam towards Abel.

   It's just that they didn't play for long, and they all ran back to the shore again.

   Looking at Marvel and DreamWorks who climbed ashore and frantically flicked water droplets on their bodies by the pool, Abel couldn't help but rolled his eyes.

  These two stupid dogs still don’t like playing in the water very much. After swimming for a while, they stopped playing and just ran back and forth by the pool, following Abel who was swimming around.

  After swimming back and forth a dozen times, Abel put his hands on the edge of the pool, came out of the swimming pool, turned his head to control his ears, walked to the deck chair, picked up a white bath towel to wipe clean, and wrapped it around his waist.

   Asking the maid who was standing next to her to serve her, her face turned a little red.

  Talk about the photos in this regard.

  Last year, it was already photographed many times by entertainment reporters.

  Especially at that time, he would often go to the beach, the beaches of Los Angeles and Hawaii, and left many photos of him in this regard.

  After those photos were published in the newspaper.

   I don’t know how many male people are envious and jealous. After all, men are always prone to vanity in this regard.

   I don’t know how many female people are limp or drooling after seeing the straight legs. After all, they love this one.

   And these people don’t even know the Isha angels who were in high spirits when they were interviewed by reporters at the airport not long ago.

   Just half an hour later, they were transported by three helicopters.

   came here and appeared outside the glass dome swimming pool.

   Without waiting for orders from anyone, they smiled coquettishly and walked into the warm glass swimming pool.

  Wear them outside to keep out the cold, and at the same time show off their beautiful clothes, take them off all over the floor, and throw them all over the pool.

   Then there's plop-puff-

  The sound of mermaids falling into the water and the splashes they made were very conspicuous in the swimming pool.

   These charming supermodels have hundreds of millions of male fans around the world.

  All turned into hungry and thirsty mermaids, and killed the delicious "food" in their eyes.

   On the "food" side, he helped his waist and said to himself:

   One dozen is only twenty-five, and it's not like I haven't played before!

  For the honor of the man, fight!

  So...

  In the swimming pool, the story of Abel's version of "The Old Man and the Sea" suddenly appeared again.

  The story lasted from about eleven o'clock in the morning to more than four o'clock in the afternoon.

   There are several breaks in between.

  The ending of the story is that the mermaids are finally defeated.

  All were captured by fishermen and pulled ashore.

   Fight alone against 25 mermaids, also get the victorious fisherman.

   It's not that he didn't pay the price, his price was that he was too tired.

  After all, Ip Man only dared to say that he would hit 10, and Abel "hit" more than twice as many as Ip Man.

   Gently beating his own waist, massaged himself to relax, and the "fisherman" in pajamas walked out of the room.

  Before closing the door, Abel looked back and sneered, "Oh...but that's all!"

   Ten minutes later.

  He came to the largest living room of the manor villa, lay down on the sofa, and rarely felt physically exhausted.

  Although the mermaid is good, but Tang is greedy, which is really tiring.

   But the spirit is good, but it is not good, and I can continue to deal with things.

  Beside the sofa, Michael Levine was also standing.

  He is the general manager of Yisha Company and one of the presidents of Smith Media.

  Usually he is the one who sends the angels of Isa to Abel.

   There is also Alan Baker, the general manager of the Smith Group, and Abel's chief consultant.

   Naturally, David Jones is also indispensable, who is now almost becoming the shadow of Abel.

   Except when Abel is doing things like "catch a mermaid".

  David will almost always appear not far from his side.

  He snapped his fingers, or called out, and the butler of the Smith family would appear.

   "Hi...Michael and Alan."

  Abel greeted Michael and Allen, "Good afternoon."

  The two quickly responded to the boss before they started talking.

  Michael Levine, as always, is in charge of this year's Elizabeth's back garden, Times Square Christmas Eve show.

   It can be said that at least for now, this big show bears nearly half of the value of Isa.

   Without this big show, it would be impossible for Yisha Company to grow to this level within a year.

   Visible to the naked eye For a long time, Isha must also hold this big show.

  This is a huge pressure on the company, I have to say.

   Fortunately, their boss, Mr. Abel Smith, has a growing influence in the city.

   With Michael Bloomberg taking office.

   It almost means that at least in the next four years, Isha can continue to hold this kind of big show.

  This made the prospects of Yisha Company suddenly stable and have unlimited prospects.

   Almost at the same time that New York elected Congress this year and declared Bloomberg's victory in the election.

  Elizabeth's back garden, the company's valuation in the capital market also suddenly increased from 3 billion US dollars to 5 billion US dollars.

   It has almost doubled in size, and it can be regarded as the company that benefits the most from Abel if Bloomberg becomes the mayor.

"...as of November 2001. We have 356 stores throughout North America. The number in Europe is 256. Asia is 150, Oceania is 69, Africa is 10, and South America is 20, for a total of 861. branch."

  "...As of November, in the first three quarters of Isha, Isha achieved a net income of 556.9 million US dollars and an operating income of 930.6 million US dollars. There is no data for the previous year, because the previous year had not yet rolled out sales."

   After listening to Michael's report, Abel nodded.

  He is very satisfied with the results made by Isa.

  Because strictly speaking, in each of his companies.

  Excluding the financial department, others are still losing money or burning money.

  The only one that really makes money is Yisha Company, and it doesn’t make a lot of money. Of course he is happy.

  And in fact, the hard-to-measure part of the investment brought by his influence and connections cannot be ruled out.

  Abel’s investment in Isha’s company is only about 350 million to 400 million US dollars.

  Such a small investment, in exchange for an annual profit of nearly 600 million US dollars.

  The valuation is just a little bit short, and it can exceed a company of 5 billion US dollars.

  If he was in Neon, his achievements can be called "Entrepreneurial Immortal", okay?

   "Good job." Abel said with a smile:

   "But after this Isa show, there shouldn't be much money in the account, right?"

  Michael nodded honestly and replied:

"Yes. In order to maintain the speed of expansion, there is also the cost of Isa Show and the cost of developing the market in Europe. Most of the net income has been reinvested. After the end of Isa Show, the company's account, There will probably only be about 30 million US dollars left, which is only enough to maintain the normal operation of the company. It will probably not be relatively abundant until the first quarter of next year."

  Elizabeth's back garden has made a lot of money this year.

  The biggest earners are selling Yisha underwear in chain stores, accounting for more than 99%.

  Because from the beginning, the reason for the OEM in China was determined.

  The cost of underwear for these products is very low, and the gross profit is over 90%.

  The gross profit of some products can be as high as 95%.

  As for the bulk of the company's expenses, material costs and foundry costs are deducted.

  Basically, it’s all about store rent, transportation fees, channel fees and other miscellaneous expenses.

  After deduction, the net profit is almost more than 50%, which can be said to be very profitable.

   This can be regarded as the blessing of Abel's good vision.

   Replace with someone else, even a senior person in the industry.

   Even with the influence and financial resources of Abel, it is impossible to dare to put all the OEMs directly in Huaxia from the very beginning.

   It can only be said that the European and American world in this era has too deep a stereotype of Chinese manufacturing.

   As everyone knows, at least in the field of textile and clothing OEM.

  Huaxia, which has gone through the era of three to one supplement, has begun to make a leap in quality.

  Under relatively high OEM fees and very strict quality control.

  The quality of the OEM products produced by Isa is almost the same as that of the OEMs in Europe, America, or South Korea, Japan, and other places. At the same time, the price is almost several times cheaper or more than 1/2.

  Let Isha control the cost, surpassing most of the world's well-known brands.

  The cost is cheap, but the selling price is not cheap. Even if it is cheap, it is compared with other similar competing products.

  But once the cost is compared, it is really cheap.

  So the profits are naturally very rich.

   It's just that Abel is not short of money. Directly invest all the profits of Yisha Company in its crazy expansion.

   The result is that Isa has made a lot of money this year, but there is not much of that money left.

  Because it was all invested and spent in opening more branches.

  Hundreds of millions of dollars of profits invested.

   It is also the main reason why Isha can increase its branches from 100 at the beginning of last year to 861 this year within one year.

  (end of this chapter)