After arranging things in Shengtang, Sun Mingren drove Liu Lang and Sun Hu back to Stanford. Liu Donglai and his wife and Sun Hu's wife and children had gone home yesterday. The villa was very clean after not living in it for more than a month.
Before Xu Wenxiu left, she hired two cleaners in Chinatown to clean the villa every three days.
, they are all Chinese introduced by Moran, and they usually rely on working to make ends meet. The salary Xu Wenxiu paid to the two of them was 3,000 US dollars each, which was 1,000 US dollars higher than the standard salary. Such a high salary is already equivalent to that of an American white-collar worker.
After all, he is a compatriot, so he can help a lot, and Liu Lang is not short of money anyway.
Liu Lang returned home at noon, and Zhong Knight came to find him at around two o'clock in the afternoon. Apparently he had an "insider" in Shengtang Company.
Because of Liu Lang's relationship, Knight is very familiar with many people from Shengtang Company. Even the male protagonist Qin Huo in Transformers wears Nike shoes. This is considered as a hidden advertisement for Nike Company, and
The computers used in Transformers are also Wan'an computers, and they are all "Liu Lang series".
In fact, the headquarters of Nike is in Silicon Valley, less than 20 kilometers away from Stanford University. Knight would chat with Liu Lang when he had nothing to do, and he would see him every month.
"Liu Lang, how was your summer vacation?"
Knight sat on the sofa, and Liu Donglai made him a cup of tea.
"Thank you Donglai!"
Knight said politely in Chinese that because of his constant contact with Liu Lang's family, his Chinese level has now reached Level 6.
"Okay, Phil, how is the company's sales now?"
Liu Lang is the third largest shareholder of Nike, but he is only responsible for design and basically doesn't care about other things. He rarely even goes to Nike.
Many people think that the growth of Nike is the result of Liu Lang's magical design. Only Liu Lang knows that even without others, Nike will be the world's largest sporting goods company in the future, with a market value of more than 200 billion. In fact, he took advantage of the other party.
That's right, so he has no doubt about Knight's ability.
"Of course it's very good! The latest advertisement for the fourth generation of Jordan has been released, and the effect is very good. It is expected that the monthly sales will exceed one million pairs after it is launched.
In addition, the pre-sale advertisement for the second generation of "Runner" has just been released. The number of pre-orders has reached 3 million. It is expected that the sales of this shoe will exceed 4 million pairs in one month! Now the sales volume of our Runner exceeds that of Jordan "Airman"
Series, this is great news!”
The "Flyers" series of sneakers are now Nike's mainstay in the basketball field, but Knight has always been worried that this shoe will give Jordan the leverage to bargain with Nike, so this year Nike has launched a new campaign for the "Runner" running shoes.
The marketing efforts of the shoes are greater than that of the "Flying Man" series, and it is already showing results.
"Well, that's right, we can't let those athletes have the power to influence us. Jordan is very popular, but he lacks personal honors. Without these honors, he has no qualifications to negotiate with us!"
Liu Lang said immediately.
Knight was stunned for a moment after hearing this. Liu Lang understood what he meant immediately. This ability of understanding must be amazing.
Liu Lang knows who Jordan is. "The God of Basketball" is the name given to him by later generations. His achievements in basketball are worthy of it, but his character is a matter of opinion.
The title of "Old Hooligan" is enough to explain the problem. He is a gambler and is bitter and stingy. Therefore, Liu Lang only admires him very much in basketball, but forget about other aspects. "Old Hooligan" is just polite.
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In the previous life, the "Flying Man" brand was designed by Jordan himself and became a separate subsidiary. He accounted for the majority of the shoes sold. In this life, the brand was founded by Liu Lang and is a brand of Nike's own company. From now on, Jordan
There is no way to make a fuss about this brand. Liu Lang will definitely exploit people like this.
"Liu, you are so smart. You got to the point right away. This Jordan wanted to renegotiate the contract with us, saying that he would enjoy 30% of the sales profits of the "Flying Man" brand. I rejected him on the spot. Next
I can give you more money in the contract, but there’s no negotiation about the brand!”
"That's right, this brand belongs to Nike, so it doesn't matter if we give it to him. This is the bottom line, and it can't be used as a bargaining chip at all. However, we still have to try to keep him. We can't negotiate with him unless it is absolutely necessary. At worst, we will give him a one-year contract."
He’s worth six million dollars!”
Liu Lang said.
"Haha, Liu, we thought of going together. The final result of our negotiation was that we negotiated a five-year, thirty-million-dollar contract with him. The effective date will be after this contract, which is 1991. This contract has already affected the entire sports industry.
This is the highest contract in the world, which is enough to show our sincerity.
And there are additional conditions. For example, if he wins the championship, he will get another five million, if he wins the regular season "MVP", he will get two million, and if he wins the championship again, he will get another five million U.S. dollars, which means he may get another five million in five years.
Received US$40 million within the year.”
Forty million US dollars for five years was a sky-high price in the NBA in the 1980s. Now Magic Johnson, the league's highest annual salary, only earns about two million US dollars a year. Jordan signed a new five-year contract with the Bulls last year, with an annual salary of
An average of 1.3 million per year, and a total of just over 6 million, which is incomparable to Nike.
Jordan is probably secretly glad that he signed such a big contract, but he doesn't know that the NBA developed at an extremely fast speed under the leadership of Stern, and by the mid-1990s, the NBA league became a world-famous league.
At that time, athletes' salaries will increase significantly. It is not uncommon for annual salaries to exceed 10 million, and advertising endorsements will be much higher. But who knows what changes will happen in the future except Liu Lang? Then the "old gangster"
I was afraid that I would faint from crying in the bathroom.
"Liu, I also brought you a new contract this time. If you don't have any objection, just sign it!"
Knight took out a contract and placed it in front of Liu Lang.
"Contract? What contract?"
Liu Lang took it and took a look. It turned out to be his original contract with Nike.
Liu Lang and Nike signed a contract three years ago. Nike cooperated with Liu Lang and gave him 6% of the shares, which was the minimum line. There was also a betting contract, which meant that Liu Lang would let Nike within six years.
The company's sales volume increased twelvefold. In 1983, Nike's sales volume was about 10 million U.S. dollars. This means that by 1990, the company's sales volume will reach 120 million U.S. dollars. Once this goal is achieved, Liu Lang will
He owns 10% of Nike's shares, and the contract in front of him is a contract for the transfer of the other 5% of Nike's shares.
"Oh, Phil, so this year's sales have reached $120 million?"
"No, it will reach 100 million US dollars by September, but there are still three months until the end of the year. I believe it will be easy to reach 20 million US dollars in these three months. Let's celebrate in advance!"