Some things will not develop as he imagined. Originally, Li Yuhang thought that the merger of state-owned retail in the province would take a long time, and even the interests of all parties directly caused the matter to end.
However, reality gave him a hard blow. As long as the top made a decision, no matter how careful the bottom was, they could only give in. In just half a month, the province completed the integration of eastern Sichuan, western Sichuan, southern Sichuan, and northern Sichuan.
The only thing that is a little surprising is that Guocheng Retail Company didn't know which way it took, and just tore a piece of meat from the other three companies, making it sit on an equal footing with New Four Seasons, Hongqi Chain and Zhuhai Supermarket.
Let it merge retail companies and some stores in Tongzhou, Lizhou, Bazhou, Xizhou, and Suizhou, and become one of the five largest retail supermarket companies in the province.
After the merger, Guocheng Retail Company specially sent an invitation letter to Li Yuhang and held a celebration party at the Beihu Hotel.
On the evening of October 26th, Beihu Hotel gathered most of the business leaders and company leaders in Guocheng, including Li Yuhang, Li Chengxing, Zhang Jianmin, general manager of Mingyu Company, Wu Guisheng, general manager of Tianyuan Beverage Company, and general manager of Menghua Food Company.
Manager Wei Zhixian and other private entrepreneurs.
There are also Liu Guohua, general manager of Chunfei Company, Wang Xingtai, general manager of Guocheng MSG Company, Li Chaohua, general manager of Baoning Vinegar Company, etc.
Most of the private entrepreneurs who came today are related to Li Yuhang. Most of them are suppliers of Jianan Supermarket, such as Wu Guisheng and Wei Zhixian. They have developed through the continuous expansion of Jianan Supermarket.
Whether it is the mineral water from Tianyuan Company or the snacks from Menghua Company, they are the key products promoted by Jianan Supermarket, and their sales positions are more advantageous than similar products.
Of course, it is impossible for Li Yuhang to pretend to be a good person. The investment company behind him holds shares in these two companies, occupying 30% of the shares in Tianyuan Company and 25% of the shares in Menghua Company.
Li Yuhang could just listen to the opening scenes of the celebration banquet in the evening, but they didn't mean much.
Tonight we will talk more about cooperation and the competition between Jianan Supermarket and Guocheng Supermarket.
Li Yuhang's table was in a private room. In addition to him, there were Liu Guohua, general manager of Chunfei Company, Wang Xingtai, general manager of Guocheng MSG, Huang Shoucheng, president of Jianan Agricultural Products Group, Zhang Guangming, president of Guocheng Silk Group, Baoning Beef and Mutton Processing Factory (
Zhang Fei Beef) Factory Manager Qing Xiaobing, Baoning Vinegar Company General Manager Li Chaohua and Guocheng Retail Company General Manager Chu Xingchen.
This Chu Xingchen is not a simple person. Although he is only 32 years old, he has already become the head of an enterprise at the deputy director level. He has worked in Yuzhou Department Store for a long time. This time, the province specially dropped him to take the helm of the Fruit City Retail Company.
After three drinks, Chu Xingchen, the host, said with a smile: "Everyone here is the elite of Guocheng, and they have made outstanding contributions to the economic development of Guocheng.
Guocheng Retail Company is an enterprise managed by Guocheng State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and we hope to establish closer cooperation with you in the days to come to promote the common development of our enterprises."
Some scenes will naturally require responses. Even if Jianan Supermarket and Guocheng Supermarket are in a competitive relationship, Li Yuhang will give Chu Xingchen a lot of face tonight.
In addition to Huang Shoucheng and Zhang Guangming, the other four also maintain a good cooperative relationship with Jianan Supermarket. Due to the rapid expansion of Jianan Supermarket, their shipments are also growing rapidly. These few are not willing to offend them unless necessary.
Li Yuhang's.
What Liu Guohua and others fear most is that Jianan Supermarket and Guocheng Supermarket are incompatible with each other. If they are caught in the middle and choose one, it will be a huge blow to them.
Seeing that Li Yuhang responded politely, these people also responded enthusiastically to Chu Xingchen, expressing their willingness to strengthen cooperation with Guocheng Supermarket.
After so many years in the shopping mall, Chu Xingchen has clearly seen that Li Yuhang’s influence on this table today is much higher than his. Even though Chunfei Company, Guocheng MSG and Guocheng Supermarket are both under the jurisdiction of the Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, these responsible
More people still consider Li Yuhang’s attitude.
This made Chu Xingchen feel a lot of pressure. He understood that if Guocheng Supermarket could not quickly integrate and expand externally, the attitudes of these companies would become more biased towards Jianan Supermarket.
The reason is very simple. For Liu Guohua, Wang Xingtai and others, they will stand on whichever side orders more from their company. After all, the better the company develops, the better the company's treatment will be, and they will have the opportunity to continue.
going up.
After everyone calmed down, Chu Xingchen picked up the wine glass and said to Li Yuhang: "Mr. Li, I have heard your name often this year. Today is the first time we meet, so I want to toast you."
With such a favor, Li Yuhang naturally wouldn't do anything to spoil the fun. He immediately raised the wine glass on the table and said, "Mr. Chu is too kind. I believe that under the leadership of Mr. Chu, Guocheng Retail Company will move towards glory."
Everyone was talking nicely tonight. Regarding the competition between Jianan Supermarket and Guocheng Supermarket, everyone tacitly did not mention it. This is something that the two parties will communicate in private later, and will not be discussed at the wine table.
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There are two protagonists on the table tonight, one is Chu Xingchen and the other is Li Yuhang. These two are gods of wealth to others. Cooperating with these two can greatly increase their profits.
Therefore, the wine tonight was mainly dedicated to these two people. Chu Xingchen was the host of tonight's banquet, and Huang Shoucheng and Zhang Guangming were under Li Yuhang's banner, so they drank more wine than Li Yuhang.
Fortunately, this person has been working in shopping malls and official circles for more than ten years, and his drinking capacity is pretty good. When the dinner was over, he was still relatively sober.
Li Yuhang is more controlled in his drinking now, so it is not bad. The two of them also choose a day rather than a collision. The two of them, who have no problem, immediately go to the small conference room of the hotel and drink tea while discussing the competition between Jianan Supermarket and Guocheng Supermarket.
communicate.
"Mr. Li, I personally understand that you are dissatisfied with the province's actions this time and believe that it is intended to suppress private retail companies like you.
It’s just that the done deal is now done, and we all need to look forward. The development of Jianan Supermarket has exceeded many people’s imagination. With the current scale of Jianan Supermarket, it is not something that can be suppressed whenever we want, or suppressed whenever we want.
The province currently supports four state-owned retail companies mainly to compete with other provinces and even foreign brand retail companies that are about to enter the mainland.
Guocheng Retail Company and Jianan Supermarket Group are both Guocheng enterprises. I hope that Guocheng Supermarket can reach a strategic partnership with Jianan Supermarket, avoid vicious competition in our common market, and join forces with external parties to jointly seize the market."
It is impossible to say that Li Yuhang is not unhappy in his heart, but now that it is like this, he has no choice, his arms can't hold his thighs, and now he can only think of other ways.
As for cooperating with Guocheng Supermarket, Li Yuhang naturally has no objection. At this time, he does not want to start vicious competition with several retail companies in the province. Anyway, several companies now have restrictions. Each company can only build one store of more than 100 square meters in a district or county.
Supermarkets, even if they engage in price wars, will do more harm than good and cannot capture much of the market.
With this energy, he might as well choose to focus on the East China market. The profits there will be much higher than here, and there are not so many restrictions here.