Kurokawa Yuhide was right. When he heard the name Tashiro Club, Kitajima Masanobu almost knelt down.
Tashiro Kaisha is one of the top three chain retailers in Japan. If Kitajima Masanobu wants to sell household chemical cleaning agents in the Japanese market, he must cooperate with companies like Tashiro Kaisha.
Or to put it more directly, Kitajima is setting up a stall on the streets of Tokyo to lure out companies like Tashiro Corporation.
When Kitajima Masanobu came back from China, he brought two barrels of chemical cleaning agent prepared by Gao Fan in the laboratory. Because the bottles for the cleaning agent had not yet been manufactured, Gao Fan found two plastic barrels for industrial raw materials.
To hold these cleaning agents.
Back in Japan, Kitajima Masanobu bought some spray bottles from the market, filled the cleaning agents into the spray bottles, and then started trying them at his own home.
Previously, he asked his relatives and friends in Japan to help him collect money and remit it to China as the capital of the joint venture with Gao Fan. In order to strengthen the confidence of his relatives and friends, he said that he had found an excellent opportunity to make a fortune in China.
Now that he has returned from China, his relatives and friends naturally want to come and see what he means by the opportunity to make a fortune.
Kitajima Masanobu demonstrated the cleaning effect of chemical cleaning agents in front of his relatives and friends, and everyone was really impressed. Regarding the pricing of consumer goods, it does not require advanced knowledge. Based on their own life experiences, relatives and friends thought that the chemical cleaning effect was so miraculous.
The price of a bottle is 3,000 yen, which is completely affordable.
Gaofan promised that the shipping price to Japan would be 1,500 yen per bottle. Kitajima Masanobu decided to wholesale to retailers at a price of 2,000 yen per bottle, so that each bottle would have a gross profit of 500 yen. If it can sell 100 yen per bottle in a year
With 10,000 bottles, the gross profit can reach 500 million yen.
In this era, the average annual salary of an ordinary Japanese is 3.2 million yen, and 500 million yen is equivalent to 150 times the annual salary of ordinary people. Isn’t this an opportunity to make a fortune?
The opportunity to make money is right in front of you, but there is another obstacle to realizing this opportunity, and that is how to sell your products to several of the largest retailers.
Kitajima Masanobu tried to call them, but when the other party heard that the products he represented came from China, they immediately hung up the phone. The reason is simple. Nowadays, Japanese manufacturing is at its peak, and even the European and American markets are flooded with it.
Made_in_Japan.
In the eyes of the Japanese, China is only a supplier of mineral products. At best, it has some handicrafts such as silk and wood carvings, which are acceptable. When will it be China's turn to export daily chemical products to Japan?
Not to mention these over-the-top large retailers, even Kitajima Masanobu's relatives and friends were full of suspicion after seeing the miraculous effect of the cleaning agent with their own eyes, and even speculated that Kitajima Masanobu had obtained this artifact from the United States.
The reason why he pretended to be from China was entirely to prevent others from spying on the source of his goods.
"This is China's military technology product."
This is a statement thought up by Kitajima Masanobu.
The Japanese look down on China's civilian industry, but they have some sense of mystery about China's military technology. In any case, China is also a country that can build two bombs and one satellite. It is not surprising that the military industry department has some black technology.
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In order to attract attention, some Japanese animation writers have compiled many jokes about China's mysterious military technology or "military killing fists". The more such jokes are spread, the more people will believe them.
In Kitajima Masanobu's mind, there is another concern, that is, he remembers that Gao Fan once claimed to be the person who holds the secrets of nuclear technology.
Masanobu Kitajima was a little skeptical about Gao Fan's statement, but he did not dare to completely deny it. When he first saw the household chemical cleaning agent displayed by Gao Fan in Cangtang, he believed in this statement a little more.
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A product that has never even appeared on the Japanese market can actually be seen in a remote small town in China. Who would believe that this is not military technology?
Nowadays, we are in the "honeymoon period" of relations between Western countries and China. Americans are even helping Chinese military industry companies improve their products. Therefore, labels such as China's military technology will not be politically sensitive in the Japanese market.
Create some commercial gimmicks.
Several major retailers did not give Kitajima Masanobu the opportunity to promote, so Kitajima Masanobu had to find a way on his own. He found some places full of dirt, cleaned them with chemical cleaning agents, took comparison photos before and after, and made them into display boards.
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Later, he collected a bunch of dirty cooking pots to use as props for live demonstrations, and set up a stall on the streets of Tokyo.
Kitajima Masanobu's idea is to build momentum. Once enough people notice this magical cleaning agent, those retailers will no longer be able to ignore it. At the worst, even if it is not the top retailers,
If some small retailers are willing to test-sell the products, they can also increase the reputation of the cleaning agent.
The hard work paid off. After he set up the stall for more than a week, the purchasing manager of Tashiro Club came to his door.
Facing Kurokawa Tomohide, Kitajima Masanobu decided to appear calm and composed, just like he often did when dealing with the purchasing managers of large retailers.
However, dog meat is not on the market. After all, Kitajima Masanobu is just a cottage. I heard that the other party is the manager of Tashiro Club. How can he keep his thighs from trembling.
"Kitajima-kun, can I ask? You just said that your Tokusatsu Corporation is the general agent of this cleaning agent in Japan. So, which company is its Chinese supplier?" Kurokawa Tomohide asked.
"It's Cangsong Technology and Trade Company in Maolin Province, China." Masanobu Kitajima answered. Before the other party could ask further questions, he added, "As the name of this company shows, it is a joint venture between China Canghua Company and us.
A joint venture company established by Tokusatsu Corporation.
"China Canghua Company is a very low-key military technology company. They do not deal directly with foreign companies, so they established a joint venture with us to carry out export trade."
This addition by Kitajima Masanobu is very necessary. Kurokawa Yuhide has realized the market value of this product. Since Tokusatsu Corporation is a small business, why doesn't Tashiro Corporation bypass this so-called general agent and directly contact the Chinese company?
What about supplier contact?
There is no middleman to make the difference, the profit is all yours, isn't it great?
By emphasizing the existence of Somatsu Company, Kitajima Masanobu is declaring his sovereignty to Kurokawa Yuhide and telling him: It is impossible to intercept Hu, and only our Tokusatsu Corporation can control the relationship in China.
"So that's it..." Kurokawa Tomohide nodded, "Then, if our Tashiro Club intends to sell this cleaning agent, what will your wholesale price be?"