After Li Guangyu finished discussing the Phoenix Group with He Jin, he just walked out of He Jin's office when he bumped into He Chaoqiong coming in a hurry.
After working as an assistant with He Jin for more than a year, He Chaoqiong has now transformed into a strong woman in the workplace.
Although they work in the same building, Li Guangyu and He Chaoqiong spend very little time meeting each other, far less than the time they spend meeting each other at several parties.
In Li's Building, except for extremely important meetings, Li Guangyu and He Chaoqiong do not have direct contact in work. Under normal circumstances, if there is any problem in the group, He Jin will go to the top and report to Li Guangyu personally, or else
It was Li Guangyu who asked Gan Qin to send the notice directly. Meetings like this are very rare.
After He Chaoqiong saw Li Guangyu, he immediately said: "Cousin, did you receive some news today that made you come here?"
He Chaoqiong felt that Li Guangyu had forgotten that he was still working as an assistant to He Jin. The Li Group had been established for so long, and no one except Gan Qin had served as his assistant for a year and a half.
Gan Qin was unwilling to change positions, but he was not the same. Other assistants in the group could be transferred to the group vice president in a year at most. But he was better off. It had been a year and a half, and there was still no news.
This made He Chaoqiong quite anxious.
But she couldn't tell Li Guangyu about this openly, because he would be too embarrassed to ask for a position, which would only make him appear incompetent.
Fortunately, I am luckier than He Hao. I am currently enjoying the treatment of the vice president of the Li Group. He Hao is still equivalent to the treatment of the manager of a subsidiary of the Li Group, which is a seventh-level treatment, with an annual salary of only 200,000 Hong Kong dollars.
More miserable than myself.
Li Guangyu smiled and said: "Cousin, what news? Do you have any bad news? Look at you in such a hurry."
"Cousin, our group is in some trouble this time. I just got the news that the U.S. government is planning to impose special tariffs on our Phoenix mobile phone and Lukia in Western Europe. This will cause us to suffer another heavy blow in our already small market in the United States.
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Li Guangyu knew that this day would come sooner or later, but he didn't expect it to come so early and so fast. You must know that Motorola's shipment volume is higher than that of Phoenix Group. Even so, they still want to persuade the government and treat Phoenix Group.
The increase in tariffs on mobile phones and Lukia makes it impossible for Phoenix Group and Lukia to compete with them for the market in the United States.
And in this regard, Li Guangyu has no countermeasures at all. Motorola can persuade the United States to target Phoenix mobile phones. Who can Li Guangyu persuade? Hong Kong is a free trade port, and governments such as England, Taiwan, and Japan will obviously not do it for Phoenix.
The group went ahead to increase tariffs on American companies.
This is also the biggest weakness of the Lee Consortium. In this position, the Lee Consortium is like a rootless duck. It will be difficult to occupy the U.S. market before it achieves a comprehensive lead in technology against the rogue competition from some American groups.
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At present, Li Guangyu needs to speed up the opening of the Western European market and the Australian market, while continuing to stabilize the market in Asia. Only in this way, when American consortiums and companies want to target the Lee Consortium, the Lee Consortium will not be severely damaged.
Li Guangyu said: "Cousin, you go and notify the senior management of the group to come to the conference room for a meeting in 10 minutes. At the same time, notify Gan Qin to attend. I will go in and explain the situation to Sister Jin."
He Chaoqiong also knows the importance of this matter. The United States is currently the largest market. Once the Phoenix Group loses this market, it will be very detrimental to the development of the Phoenix Group.
After he responded, he immediately went to notify the relevant personnel.
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When Li Guangyu and He Jin walked into the conference room, Gan Qin and the top executives of Phoenix Group had already arrived in the conference room, waiting for their arrival.
After everyone sat down, Li Guangyu said: "Chaoqiong, please tell everyone the news you received."
After listening to Li Guangyu's instructions, He Chaoqiong said to those present: "I just received a report from the person in charge of our mobile phone store in the United States that the U.S. Congress will vote on tariffs on some imported products at 9 a.m. local time on December 9.
, including our group’s Phoenix mobile phone, the tariff will be adjusted from the current 10% to 50%. In addition, this also involves our brother group, Bentley’s Bentley, Jaguar, Maserati and other luxury cars and sports cars.”
The senior executives here are not paying attention to the problems of the Bentley Group. Now the United States has suddenly raised the import tariff on Phoenix mobile phones to 50%. This is to directly sweep Phoenix mobile phones out of the US market.
Once Motorola starts a price war, they and Lukia have no ability to fight back, and there is no way to compete.
The faces of the senior officials present here are very ugly. They are not afraid of anyone in terms of business, but they can't think of any way to solve this kind of hooliganism committed by the government.
When Li Guangyu saw that everyone was silent, he smiled and said: "Why, you are frustrated after Motorola's move. Isn't the United States specifically targeting our Phoenix Group and the Logia Group in Western Europe this time to escort their domestic Motorolas?"
Well, there’s nothing worth being so discouraged about.”
"You have to remember that our group's market, whether now or in the future, is in the Greater China region. In Asia, as long as we stabilize the market here, we are not afraid of any company joining forces with their government to play hooligans against us and undermine fair competition.
Market principles.”
Seeing that the senior executives were infected by Li Guangyu's emotions, the negative emotions caused by the news just disappeared. As senior executives of the Li Group, they are very aware of Li Guangyu's strategy. The U.S. market has never been the focus of the Li Group.
The focus of the consortium has been on Greater China and Asia from the beginning, and it has not changed over the years.
The mainland market will be their focus in the future. Since they are from the same country, these senior executives believe that mainland China will not specifically target the Phoenix Group.
At present, the quality of Phoenix mobile phones and Motorola are similar, so the impact of tariffs is very large. When a new generation of mobile phones appears in the future, they will reduce a lot of pressure. As long as they develop mobile phones that are popular with American citizens, the tariffs increased by the United States will
Naturally, American citizens will foot the bill.
He Jin said at the meeting: "Our group must make preparations in all aspects. This time it is the United States, next time it may be Japan, and it may be other countries in the future. In the future, our Phoenix mobile phone will definitely not win the market based on price. We will not
With the price advantage, it is impossible to compete with local companies in these countries."
"So our senior management must now establish a concept that our group can only rely on technology to win the market. As long as our mobile phones and computers are always at the forefront of the same industry, we will be able to occupy a large range of markets and our group's prospects will be bright."
It will be bright."
Li Guangyu wants Phoenix Group to follow the path of Apple in its previous life. Although the sales volume is not the largest, the group is the most profitable. As long as Phoenix Group's products remain in the leading position, he is not afraid that some countries will specifically increase tariffs on Phoenix Group.
Zhou Libin, vice president in charge of technology research and development, said: "Li Sheng, Miss He, please rest assured that I will definitely attach importance to development and investment in this area so that our group's products can lead the industry trend and our technology can far surpass similar products."