Chapter 141 [Adjustment of Structure] (Please vote for me!)
Author: Ren Zhufei
Chapter 141 [Adjustment of Structure] (Please vote for me!)
"Brother, we are in trouble!" Chen Xianjin held a court summons and handed it to Chen Jun, saying anxiously.
Chen Jun immediately became nervous. He picked up the summons and took a closer look. Sure enough, it was a crocodile shirt suing "Cardile Crocodile" for infringement of the trademark name and crocodile graphics.
After a long time, Chen Jun calmed down and said: "There is no other way but to respond. There is no need to be nervous, so what if we lose, in the worst case, we will use Cardile. Moreover, there is no crocodile sign, we only need to learn the crocodile shirt
The essence of success is naturally success.”
Chen Jun admires Hong Kong's crocodile shirt business very much, so he has been checking out the store. Cardile has just started anyway, so losing the lawsuit is not a big deal.
Chen Xianjin complained: "Having said that, once the lawsuit is lost, it will also have an impact on Cardile's brand. This is really stealing the chicken but losing the rice. Brother, let's do it separately! You go to your Hong Kong to make a clothing brand, I'm here
My Xingdao is a clothing brand, everyone does his own thing and doesn’t interfere."
Chen Jun looked at Chen Xianjin in surprise. The two brothers had started fighting among themselves before the lawsuit started. But the younger brother had the right to say so. He had his own business in Hong Kong and was just eyeing the Cardile clothing brand owned by his younger brother.
"The lawsuit must be ended! Don't worry, I won't be greedy and greedy. I will create a new brand when the time comes."
Chen Xianjin said angrily: "Isn't this just one more trouble?"
Chen Jun wanted to get angry, but he kept silent. When he was named "crocodile", his younger brother also echoed loudly; and when he talked about how Hong Kong's crocodile shirts are well managed, he also listened with fascination.
Now it's better, the failure is all my fault.
"It's too late to say that now. You agreed with it at the beginning! Moreover, now that Hong Kong and Xingdao are developing, if we brothers don't unite and communicate more with each other, we can't be as good as others. If you think you can do it without me, I am
As a big brother, I have nothing to say."
Chen Xianjin calmed down after hearing this. After all, his eldest brother understood this better than himself. He quickly said: "Brother, why are you so angry, brothers!"
When Chen Jun heard this, he almost didn't recite it. He kept saying it for a long time because he was looking for trouble!
He endured it, who is his biological brother?
When the lawsuit is over, he will return to Hong Kong to create his own clothing brand to avoid being angry with his brother.
At this time, Chen Jun also vowed to make the crocodile shirt look good and create a strong competitor.
The other side.
Lin Zhichao left Sing Tao with satisfaction. In addition to inspecting his own property and getting to know Lawyer Li, he also had another important matter, which was to purchase land on Orchard Road.
He entrusted Lawyer Li as the land purchase lawyer to explain his thoughts on the commercial structure of Orchard Road, intending to gain an impression first.
In the mid-1950s, Lin Chi-chao planned to build department store buildings simultaneously on Paterson Street in Hong Kong and Orchard Road in Sing Tao. Of course, the department stores had to go to Japan to seek partnerships, because he knew that Japan in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s
The products were very popular around the world, and department stores were invincible until they were finally defeated by supermarkets.
After the founding of Singapore, although there was a law that the government had the right to forcibly reclaim private land, the subsidy price was based on the market price before expropriation. But if the owner was a real estate developer, then he could rebuild according to the government's plan, and the government would also
Your land will not be expropriated maliciously.
Therefore, Lin Zhichao was not worried at all about the commercial land in Xingdao being confiscated in the end.
Orchard Road is 2.8 kilometers long in total, and there are more than 20 shopping malls here in later generations. Lin Zhichao's goal this time is about 200,000 square feet, which will be enough to build two large shopping malls (retail shopping, theaters, office buildings) in the future. As for
The land for the hotel will be discussed next year.
Tsuen Wan.
In the large conference room of Yangtze River Industrial, more than 20 managers gathered together, including the management of Yangtze Zipper, Yangtze Plastics, Yangtze Trading, Uniqlo, Yangtze Garment, Yangtze Real Estate and other companies. Everyone basically knew each other.
After a while, everyone looked at the door of the conference room. It turned out that Lin Zhichao and Tang Caiyun walked in.
"Boss, Mrs. Lin"
Lin Zhichao nodded and sat in the prepared position with Tang Caiyun, with Tang Caiyun sitting next to him.
Afterwards, Lin Zhichao glanced around and found that all the important management personnel of each company were gathered together, and no one was absent. Including Bao Chunlai from Sing Tao, they had already rushed back to Hong Kong for the meeting.
"Okay, everyone is here today, let's officially start the meeting."
"This time I summoned all the important management to formally establish a group company and restructure the Yangtze River Group's organizational structure."
"I'll tell you the general plan first, and then you can discuss it."
"First, I will establish a 'Changjiang Holding Group Company' and then control its two major groups - Yangtze River Industrial Group and Yangtze River Industrial Group."
“Secondly, the Yangtze River Industrial Group’s three major subsidiaries—Yangtze Zipper, Yangtze Plastics, and Uniqlo; Yangtze Trading is still affiliated with Yangtze Zipper and a subsidiary company of the group; Crocodile T-shirt is a brand of Uniqlo; Yangtze Clothing
, became the production department of Uniqlo.”
"Finally, the Yangtze River Industrial Group will be a company specializing in real estate development in the future, and will be involved in the entire real estate industry such as real estate development, architectural design, building materials, infrastructure, etc.; Yangtze River Real Estate is its subsidiary, and will be responsible for the group's commercial real estate projects in the future.
, it is a real estate company that mainly collects rent.”
"The Yangtze River Industrial Group and the Yangtze River Industrial Group will operate independently from now on. The holdings above are just multiple layers of skin."
While everyone was listening and recording, they were still shocked.
Generally speaking, no boss would be so confident in planning such a big game, but his own boss was very confident. The important thing is that everyone felt proud and confident in the boss and the group.
This is probably the leading effect!
Afterwards, Uniqlo's Zhao Mingyi asked: "The Yangtze River Garment Factory has been converted into the production department of Uniqlo. Will it accept external orders in the future?"
Lin Zhichao replied: "We only manufacture branded clothing and do not accept other orders. Therefore, we currently do not accept external orders. You need to continue to inherit quality and management and prepare for the future. With the development of the economy, clothing will also
Knowing how to be fashionable, diversified and branded, we need to lay a solid production foundation."
Zhao Mingyi nodded and said, "Okay."
Next, everyone discussed and asked some questions, and the matter was roughly finalized, and formal procedures will need to be followed later.
Several senior executives of Changjiang Real Estate have no doubts because they know that the company will not enter real estate on a large scale in recent years. This is what the boss said. In fact, several core managers have been funded by Lin Zhichao to study abroad.
further study.
Lin Zhichao said: "Wang Liang temporarily serves as the deputy general manager of Yangtze Industrial Group and the general manager of Yangtze Zipper. Bao Chunlai serves as the deputy general manager and is in charge of actual work. The general manager of Xingdao Yangtze Zipper is Li Chengdong."
In terms of personnel, there are only slight changes, and we will slowly adjust and recruit later.
However, the organizational structure has begun to be adjusted, and it will be officially completed in a month or two at the latest, mainly involving legal issues.
Wang Liang immediately said: "Should we establish the management and office of Yangtze River Industrial Group?"
Lin Zhichao nodded and said: "Yes! The finance office, remuneration committee, and office departments all need people. Ms. Tang Caiyun will become the chairman of the group's remuneration committee. We will discuss it later. In short, the group is not a decoration and has great rights.
The subsidiaries also have great independence, and we will slowly explore the management in between."
"OK."
Everyone understood that the boss planned to let his wife take part in politics, and he entrusted her with an important task from the very beginning, that is, everyone's future salary would be determined by this committee.
Of course, they have no worries because the boss is a "generous boss" and has always attached great importance to employee welfare. He is recognized as a good boss.
After the meeting, Tang Caiyun said worriedly: "Brother Zhichao, am I afraid it will be inconvenient for me to go to work like this?"
Lin Zhichao said with a smile: "Your job is managed and worked by the deputy manager. You are the boss just like me. You only need to understand the work of this department, and the deputy manager will report to you. So, there is no need to come to work here.
, or if you think of it, you can come to the company to have a look. As for the future, you will also serve as the chairman of the remuneration committee of Cheung Kong Industrial Group, and then it will be convenient to work in Central."
Tang Caiyun nodded, she finally fully understood that Lin Zhichao just wanted her to get in touch with the company's affairs.
The next day.
Wang Liang and Bao Chunlai came to Lin Zhichao's office to report on their work.
"Boss, we need to order machines. The 25 automatic rice arranging machines are running out," Wang Liang said.
Lin Zhichao nodded, he was also thinking about this issue. The global demand for zippers is growing rapidly, and Yangtze zippers are very popular in the market. After all, they are high quality and low price.
"Okay, let Bon Machinery deliver us 20 automatic rice arranging machines in installments again. This time, we will pay in one-year installments and deliver the machines in one-year installments."
There are different models and specifications of zipper machines. Bourne Machinery is now doing very well in the zipper machine business and has also developed a variety of zipper machines, which saves a lot of trouble for Yangtze Zipper.
"OK"
The price of 20 automatic zipper rice arranging machines is between 500,000 and 600,000 US dollars, which is about 2.8 to 3.3 million Hong Kong dollars. Yangtze Zipper can make a profit of 6 million Hong Kong dollars a year, so it is still okay to invest this money.
However, as machines are added now, the gross profit is also decreasing, so maybe 30 machines can only earn the profit of the previous 20 machines. The era of huge profits has ended with the birth of competitors; the good news is of course that market demand
increased.
Last year, Yangtze Zipper actually had 3 million Hong Kong dollars in cash, of which more than 500,000 in cash flow, Tang Zhongyuan owed 700,000 Hong Kong dollars, plus 1.8 million in raw materials purchased with its own funds. This year, it made another 300,000 Hong Kong dollars from the sale of plastic pellets.
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Every month this year, the monthly profit from zippers alone can reach nearly 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, and it is still growing steadily.
This is just like Yangtze Zipper can have more than 9 million Hong Kong dollars in funds this year, so even if it invests more than 4 million Hong Kong dollars in the zipper industry, there will still be 5 million Hong Kong dollars in funds for Lin Zhichao to invest in real estate.
The land on Orchard Road in Sing Tao only costs about 1.5 to 2 million Hong Kong dollars, so this year you can still buy 3 million Hong Kong land.
As for the Yangtze Plastic Factory and Uniqlo's profits, the combined annual profits are in the millions. In addition to their own development, they can also be handed over to the group.
"What do you think of our biggest competitor, YKK zippers?" Lin Zhichao asked a question.
Bao Chunlai thought for a while and said: "It is a very powerful competitor. Of course, they will not be able to take advantage in the short term. But if Japan can produce its own aluminum alloy, they can make up for the price advantage."
Wang Liang also said: "The most powerful thing is the Japanese industry. It took them about two years to improve the automatic zipper rice arranging machine from scratch. In the zipper industry, there are still many technological products with different varieties, materials and specifications.
There are many, so we have to continue to invest more and pay attention to research and development."
Lin Zhichao nodded and said: "It's good that you can face the enemy squarely! However, although Japan is very industrialized, the zipper industry is not high-tech. In the future, we will produce non-metal zippers, smelt aluminum alloys ourselves, and the machinery department will also grow.
In short, I will insist on investing half of the profits every year."
The two of them immediately became more confident!
Lin Zhichao himself knew that Tadao Yoshida did not develop so quickly. After all, he had no funds, so how could he develop?
At this time, the share of YKK zippers in Japan has not exceeded that of Yangtze Zipper, so why should we consider the one-stop industry?
YKK zipper.
"President Yoshida, according to the development progress of YKK zippers, it seems that our Hitachi Machinery can temporarily not arrange production of the subsequent machines." Matsushima said with some dissatisfaction.
I thought that by supporting YKK zippers, we could quickly occupy the Japanese zipper market and even sell well around the world. Unexpectedly, YKK zippers did not even achieve impressive results in more than half a year.
Tadao Yoshida felt helpless and frustrated at this time. The Yangtze River Zipper was too difficult to deal with.
"President Songdao, Yangtze Zipper exports zipper products to Japan at low prices, focusing on small and medium-sized customers. This is something I did not expect. But don't worry, the market for YKK zippers in Japan has greatly increased, and it will be just around the corner to regain the top spot in the Japanese market."
Matsushima said in a sarcastic tone: "That's not what you said before. What you said was to drive them out of the Japanese market."
Tadao Yoshida was immediately embarrassed and could only bite the bullet and said: "It's not impossible! At present, Yangtze Zipper has very good cost control, and they will take advantage of this to compete with us in the Japanese market. So, if we
If you can smelt aluminum alloy by yourself and weave it yourself, your advantages will be greatly increased and there will be no disadvantages."
Matsushima said: "That is really a distant thing. You should work hard to make money and pay for the machine!"
Tadao Yoshida was immediately speechless. Hitachi Machinery's debts for 20 automatic rice arranging machines and 8 automatic stamping machines were already as high as 450,000 US dollars. However, YKK Zipper has not earned half of it in more than half a year.
So it would take him more than a year to repay the money for the machine alone. Not to mention investing in a large factory in Kurobe.
hateful!
As you can imagine, Hitachi Machinery decided not to produce machines for YKK zippers until the debt is repaid.
After Matsushima left, Tadao Yoshida sighed.
He is now severely hit by reality. Even when he was bombed back then, he was not as hit as he is now!
Although nothing was left after being bombed, he at least still had the confidence to make a comeback.
In the past few years, every time he wants to win, others are always one step ahead. This feels really bad.
He is really afraid that when YKK develops its one-stop industry, others will also be smelting and reducing costs.
By then, he still has no advantage at all.
The important thing is that he understands that his opponent is an extremely smart and far-sighted entrepreneur.
Just opening a branch factory in Xingdao is enough to prove that Lin Zhichao, the owner of Yangtze Zipper, had already anticipated that Hong Kong might be subject to an import and export blockade by the United States.
He originally thought that Yangtze zippers would lose the U.S. market, but he did not expect that others would produce and ship from Xingdao.
"I can't be afraid of my opponent!"
"It doesn't matter. Since the price may not be affordable, I will insist on using quality and technology to win. One day, YKK zippers will surpass Yangtze Zippers."
Finally, Tadao Yoshida said to himself firmly.
"Father-in-law, sit down!" Lin Zhichao welcomed Tang Zhongyuan to the sofa and said with a smile.
He was very grateful to Tang Zhongyuan. After all, Tang Caiyun and Xu Caiying were raised by him. With this kindness, he would definitely support Tang Zhongyuan to become a rich man.
Of course, Tang Zhongyuan is also a child of a prominent family, and his own abilities are not bad. Now his career has opened up. At least in the textile industry, he already has the potential of the four major families, and is even slightly ahead of others.
Tang Zhongyuan sipped tea and then said: "I want to build another factory, so I plan to let Changjiang Real Estate build it for me."
Lin Zhichao nodded and said, "No problem! But your development is fast enough, and the factory area is even ahead of mine."
Tang Zhongyuan said with a smile: "The textile industry is a large land user, and it is a low value-added industry. How can it be compared with your zipper factory. But now Oriental Textile's annual profit is estimated to be more than 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars. In this industry in Hong Kong,
We are also at the forefront, and our development is going very smoothly.”
Lin Zhichao said in surprise: "So powerful?"
Tang Zhongyuan nodded, and then said: "The situation of the garment factory is very good, accounting for almost half of the profits. The main reason is that I followed your advice and purchased a large number of advanced machines. Now other Hong Kong factories want to buy machines, but they have no channels.
, On the contrary, Oriental garment factories are now in Southeast Asia and can compete with Japanese garment factories. What's more, we still have a big market in South Africa."
In the 1950s and 1960s, Japanese textiles were not something to be underestimated, and they were so powerful that they were targeted by Europe and the United States.
Lin Zhichao said: "Indeed! In the past few years, if others can't buy machines, it's your turn to get rich. When the lockdown is lifted in a few years, you will distance yourself from everyone again."
Tang Zhongyuan replied: "That's right! I also plan to purchase some surrounding land this year to prepare for future emergencies."
Lin Zhichao immediately said: "If you have an opportunity, don't miss it! When the Peninsula War ends, our industry will explode. By then, whether it is the Asian market or the European and American markets, we will be competing for it."
Tang Zhongyuan asked curiously: "How many years do you think it will take to fight this?"
A few years of war means that Hong Kong has been banned from trade for several years, which will still have an impact on industry. In fact, even without this war, Hong Kong will still follow the path of industry, because so much capital, technology, and equipment have come from the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
It is already bound to happen.
Lin Zhichao said: "Two or three years! We can only leave this kind of thing to fate!"
Tang Zhongyuan nodded, and then added: "I can pay back your money in the first half of this year."
"My father-in-law is out of town, so I just need to use the money. I don't need that much!"
"Of course I have to pay it back if I have money! What's more, I can borrow money from the bank now. To be honest, Oriental Textile is now very strong."
Seeing this, Lin Zhichao stopped talking about this matter.
Tang Zhongyuan had an industrial chain of "textile dyeing", and throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he still had to invest in this industry. It would not be too late to wait until the sunset of this industry to attack everywhere.
After Tang Zhongyuan left, Lin Zhichao also began to think about expanding the factory.
It seems that he also built a five-story factory and made preparations in advance.