Zhang Shuo drove senior brother Wang Yan's Passat B6 into the underground garage and found that a red Mazda was already parked at his usual parking spot, and the surrounding parking spaces were all full.
After walking around the basement for a long time, I found a parking space in the corner.
Arrived at the office.
Chen Xiaowan obediently served a cup of freshly brewed Longjing tea.
"How many parking spaces has Feige Property allocated to the company?" Zhang Shuo asked the secretary casually.
"18 pcs."
Chen Xiaowan is quite competent and there is no need to look up information.
"Why so few?" Zhang Shuo frowned.
Sprout Holdings, together with its three subsidiaries, has rented a full three-story office building in Feige Building, accounting for 1/12 of the total office floors.
There are at least 350 underground parking spaces in Feige Building.
This is too bullying.
"In the past, there were few cars in the company, so we didn't care about it. Boss, is your parking space occupied by someone else?" Chen Xiaowan was really a roundworm in Zhang Shuo's stomach, and he guessed it right away.
She wanted to find out who occupied the boss's parking space.
"The parking space is not exclusive to me. If I occupy it, I will occupy it. The key is that more and more people in the company have cars. Although the parking space is a small matter, it cannot be ignored."
Zhang Shuo had no intention of pursuing anyone.
Senior Brother Wang Yan parked his BMW
It’s not that anyone really has no discernment.
"I'll go communicate with Feige Property later and apply for more parking spaces." Even though Chen Xiaowan was so humble in front of Zhang Shuo, as an administrative secretary, she was very impressive outside.
"Please come over, Mr. Pei."
The parking space is just a small incident, let the people below deal with it.
Zhang Shuo still has to be busy with business.
It has been almost a week since Pei Weiping took office. I heard that he works overtime for two days on weekends. He should be familiar with Qingcheng Retail, so I just called him over for a chat.
"Okay!"
Chen Xiaowan stepped on her high heels and kicked out.
After a little leaning, Pei Weiping arrived.
Zhang Shuo personally made a cup of tea for Pei Weiping and moved to the sofa where guests were waiting. Instead of talking about work in a hurry, he asked with concern: "How is your father's condition?"
Pei Weiping felt warm in his heart. He took the tea cup respectfully and replied gently: "The operation was done the day before yesterday afternoon. The operation was quite successful. The rest is to rest slowly."
"That's good."
Zhang Shuo also breathed a sigh of relief, so that Pei Weiping could concentrate on nothing else. Then he got to the point of the conversation and asked with a smile: "How do you feel after being here for a week?"
Qingcheng Retail's current business can be roughly divided into three sectors.
The first is the business departments and functional departments of the headquarters.
There's nothing much to say about this.
The second is the 14 stores that have been put into operation in the Lubei area, including the central kitchen.
With the central kitchen as the hub, 14 stores as nodes, and the product supply chain as the pipeline, a sales network covering the entire Lubei area is woven.
It is also the testing ground for Qingcheng’s new retail model.
In the next step, Qingcheng Retail’s takeout experiment will be promoted first in the Lubei area. After it matures, it will be promoted to the whole city on a large scale.
This sector of business is also an area where problems are concentrated.
The previous "maggots on chicken legs" incident was just a fuse that detonated management loopholes.
Past week.
Pei Weiping mainly inspects this business.
The third is that Sprout Holdings purchased 128 shops throughout Binhai City for a total price of 1.1 billion, together with a bank commercial loan of 550 million, which has been injected into Qingcheng Retail.
After the injection of this part of assets, Du Qingqing's shares in Qingcheng Retail have been diluted to 0.5%.
Just a symbolic shareholding.
Because these assets have just been taken over, they are still in the rent collection stage.
There's no big problem.
But just for these businesses, Sprout Holdings has injected more than 30 million in cash and fixed assets worth more than 1.2 billion into Qingcheng Retail.
This shows how difficult it is to start a business.
In comparison, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment's investment is almost worth mentioning, but it has created most of the profits of Sprout Holdings. It is no wonder that Tenda is so keen on the gaming industry.
“Through the survey in the past week, we have indeed discovered many problems in Qingcheng Retail, such as lax control of the supply chain, unsmooth work processes, and even disconnection between top and bottom; loopholes in the supervision of each work link and loose management; company-related
The rules and regulations are imperfect, and the systems are ineffective during the implementation process. However, these problems are often encountered by a start-up retail enterprise in the early stages of development. Therefore, I believe that the overall risk of Qingcheng Retail is controllable."
Pei Weiping is very calm and confident.
For him who has been in charge of a mature retail chain, this can only be regarded as a small test at best.
"Then I'll be relieved." Zhang Shuo also smiled.
This is the value of high-level talents. There is no need to bother training from the bottom up, and there is no need to spend the cost of trial and error. As soon as they take office, they can open up the situation in a very short time, or even stabilize the situation.
There is no need for Zhang Shuo to worry.
“Talk to me about your views on the next development of Qingcheng Retail.”
Zhang Shuo took advantage of the situation and pushed the conversation one step further.
Pei Weiping is not afraid of stage fright, and he obviously has a gap in his heart, "I think that in the next period of time, Qingcheng Retail will mainly do three things well."
"Tell me."
"The first is rectification. In view of the problems that have been exposed, adjustments should be made, improvements should be made, and leaks should be repaired. It is not too late to heal the wounds."
"I fully support this, just go ahead and do it."
Zhang Shuo gave Shang Fang the Sword, obviously knowing that rectification was to lay a solid foundation for take-off.
Isn't that why you invited Pei Weiping here?
"Thank you, Mr. Zhang." With the authorization, Pei Weiping felt more confident and continued: "The second is expansion. According to Mr. Zhang's plan for Qingcheng Retail, we will open a new store at least every three days."
Zhang Shuo's previous plan was to complete the layout of the Lubei area before New Year's Day.
But plans can't keep up with changes.
Due to sufficient funds, the Lubei area has not yet been completed, and its tentacles have been extended to the entire Binhai City.
Now that all the shops have been bought, of course it is impossible to live on the rent. We must complete the decoration of the new store as much as possible and accelerate the completion of the layout of the Binhai City market.
"I support this too."
Zhang Shuo admired Pei Weiping's courage, and of course he couldn't hold him back. He said domineeringly: "I will ask the finance department to inject another 100 million into Qingcheng Retail later. Is it enough?"
The 1.5 billion from Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment has been transferred to the account of Sprout Holdings.
Zhang Shuo has also arranged for financial department manager Han Mei to pay back 10 million in low-interest loans, 30 million in commercial loans, and 3.5 million in bridge loans in advance, and then inject 100 million in Chunmiao Fund.
Although the remaining 1.5 billion funds are said to be used to buy land, there is no big problem if 100 million is temporarily injected into Qingcheng Retail.
The process of obtaining land is already very long, and it cannot be completed even in a short time.
Second, even if a land purchase contract is signed, there is no need to pay the land purchase price in full on the spot.
With the current profit level of Sprout Holdings and the support of the support fund, it can close the 100 million capital gap in one month, so there will be no delay in acquiring land.
"enough!"
Pei Weiping was stunned by Zhang Shuo's arrogance, and he opened his mouth to make a small target.
Based on Qingcheng Retail's store decoration standards, the average cost of opening a store is about 800,000 yuan, and 100 million yuan is enough to open 125 new stores.
Even if it takes three days to open a new store, the funds will not be used until a year later.
Of course.
In addition to renovating stores, we also need to prepare and build central kitchens in each district, which is also a considerable expense.
Adding in various operating expenses such as employee wages, administrative expenses, product purchase funds, and marketing expenses, if you calculate it carefully, 100 million yuan is actually not very profitable.
But Pei Weiping is already very content.
We can only blame Qingcheng Retail for its poor current profitability, which relies entirely on blood transfusions from the holding company.