Target Shift

The eyes of capital from all the European countries had converged on the stock market in New York, America. Although this had delayed Australasia's plan to buy at the bottom by quite a bit, it was not necessarily a bad thing.

After all, there were still plenty of worthwhile companies in Europe. With the attention of all the European countries focused on the United States, it would also be convenient for Australasia to carry out acquisitions in Europe.

Of course, such acquisition operations could not possibly be hidden from the British. Arthur had never intended to hide them from the British, as British capital was not something Australasia could contend with at present.

This also meant that most of Australasia's operations in Europe took place in Germany, with a smaller portion in other small and medium-sized European countries. There were almost no acquisitions in the United Kingdom.

This could be considered an exchange of interests between Australasia and the British. Australasia would stay out of affairs concerning the London stock market in exchange for Britain's support for its acquisitions in Germany and other countries.

Arthur's first target among German companies was the BMW Automobile Group, whose funding chain was currently suffering serious problems.

BMW Group was highly renowned in later generations and was also one of the famous BBA companies. BBA was actually an abbreviation for BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Audi.

Australasia already possessed Mercedes-Benz. If it could acquire BMW as well, it would own more than half of the three major automobile companies.

Of course, Audi Automobile Group was also among the acquisition targets this time. However, compared with BMW, whose funding chain was already in serious trouble, Audi would be much more difficult to acquire.

On May 1, 1927, Australasia's intelligence personnel successfully visited the BMW Automobile Group and