In March 2008, the Director General had just received a surprising and unsolicited offer from a Japanese company to buy it AmData China's software company, which owns the exclusive franchise mainland China to distribute the software of this seller American. The Japanese company owns the exclusive franchise like in Japan. After preliminary negotiations, including the demand from the Japanese company to declare the amount of business sales in U.S. dollars, the initial $ 2.5 million offer was increased to $ 5.5 million. However, this amount has not been agreed upon by both parties and the evaluation of the business will be crucial to the key decision factor: the Director General to sell the company now or continue to develop it for sale in the future? These can be sold on the IPO of a Chinese stock exchanges. "Hide
by Hugh Grove, Yuhua Hao, Tom J. Cook, Thomas S. Klett Source: North American Case Research Association (NACRA) 24 pages. Publication date: April 15, 2010. Prod. #: NA0011-PDF-ENG
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