COLD STEEL: BRITAIN’S RICHEST MAN AND THE MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR BATTLE FOR A GLOBAL INDUSTRY
Book ID/图书代码： 06580008B20692
English Summary/英文概要： COLD STEEL is the gripping story of the world’s biggest and most hard-fought industry takeover of recent years, an epic corporate battle that would send shockwaves through the political corridors of Europe, excite the world’s financial markets, enrich thirty hedge funds and transform the global steel industry. In 2006, the two largest steel-producers went head to head in a bitter battle for total market domination. Lakshmi Mittal, a Calcutta-born industrialist who had raised himself up from humble beginnings to become the world’s fourth-richest man, proposes a friendly merger with rival Arcelor, a pan-European company whose interested parties include the governments of Spain, Luxembourg and Belgium. Arcelor’s mercurial CEO, Frenchman Guy Dolle, firmly refuses, and the scene is set for a massive hostile takeover involving billions of dollars of finance, government and shareholder manoeuvring, and accusations of jingoism and double-dealing. Fast-paced and electrifying, COLD STEEL brings to life the cut and thrust of big business at war.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 2006/1/27印度鋼鐵大亨拉克希米-米塔爾(Lakshmi Mittal)致電Arcelor的CEO Guy Dolle，提出收購歐洲大鋼鐵廠Arcelor，立刻引起政治經濟上的大震盪。極具野心的米塔爾如何在競爭最激烈的鋼鐵產業中稱王！
Lakshmi Mittal印度鋼鐵大亨，白手起家的他現在是全英國最有錢的男人也是世界排名前五名的富豪。他位於倫敦的房子就價值5千7百萬英鎊！
具有遠見的Lakshmi Mittal於2006年一月向首要勁敵Arcelor提出合併計畫，此計劃不只在金融市場引起震盪，也在政治上引起許多爭議，尤其是許多歐洲政府是Arcelor大股東，許多歐洲政治家紛紛表態反對。
這五個月的合併戰可說是峰迴路轉如同史詩般的壯麗戰役。但最終市場力量與小股東戰勝政府及管理階層，Arcelor最終同意與印度企業合併為安賽樂米塔爾公司(ArcelorMittal)。。此書除了揭示合併戰本身的精采過程、米塔爾的性格如何讓他致勝，且此案對於經濟政治層面皆具有重大指標性意義。
Awards/获奖情况：’A rare, insider’s account of lots of people making millions . . . The book reads like a thriller, with each side trying to rope in other steel companies on both sides of the Atlantic as allies . . . As this book shows, money and business logic prevailed in the end over politics and protection.’---The Economist 2008/4/17 Full review
A business book that "appeals to the general reader…the authors recount events in the form of a thriller:..The result is a tumultuous narrative in which the dramatis personae seem constantly engaged in agitated conversations on their mobiles”---Sunday Telegraph
"Too few page turning books are written on the high drama and low cunning of business and finance. Cold Steel is a welcome addition…A compelling tale”---Financial Times
Cold Steel’s authors are “admirably qualified to guide us through the myriad twists and turns of this compelling business saga…an enormously entertaining read”.---Daily Express
‘Tim Bouquet and Byron Ousey have written an account of the takeover in the style of a thriller. Cold Steel describes the often brutal and chaotic five-month battle between Mittal and Arcelor. The combatants are described as though starring in a fictional work of industrial espionage’---Management Today
About the Author/作者介绍： Tim Bouquet has interviewed Lakshmi Mittal many times, and as a result, Mittal has given full cooperation for this book along with more than fifty other leading players in the story, including Guy Dollé.
As a journalist, Bouquet contributes to leading titles including the Telegraph Magazine and The Times. Until October 2005 he was features editor of the British edition of Reader’s Digest, the world’s biggest-selling magazine. He also teaches creative writing courses at West Dean College in West Sussex, and acts as a journalism consultant in London.
Ousey is a managing director with an international financial public relations consultancy that specialises in advising governments and major corporations on takeovers and mergers as well as crisis management. In the Mittal v Arcelor battle he advised the Luxembourg government on its communications strategy and was at the epicentre of the battle.
After fifteen years as a business journalist, specialising in civil engineering writing for The Times and the Sunday Times, Ousey worked for Lloyds Bank, as its first ever externally appointed press officer, De Beers, where he became Manager of International PR (apartheid, conflict diamonds, price collapse), and Morgan Grenfell, taking it public and riding straight into the Guinness affair.
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