Chapter 235 Development of the Universal Trading Company
Although this boss looks young, only about fourteen or fifteen years old (Sun Dahai looks older, but he is actually just a little kid), but in the United States, there are many cases where bosses are young, and Wu Dawei is ahead of schedule.
I told him so, so Michael accepted this fact easily.
The main course for dinner was pork elbows, one for each person. Both Barter and Wu Dawei took the elbows in their hands and gnawed them without saying a word. Michael was dumbfounded by such a bold way of eating.
After chewing half of the elbow, Wu Dawei noticed that there were cooked food on the table that Sun Dahai had packed back. This was the real German flavor.
Wu Dawei was very happy. When he saw the dishes on the dinner table, he knew that Sun Dahai had specially prepared them for him.
Naturally, Wu Dawei would not be polite when encountering delicious food. He took a piece of Black Forest ham cut as thin as a cicada and put it into his mouth. He closed his eyes, chewed it gently, and tasted it carefully.
Then Wu Dawei, whose mouth was full of fragrance, gave Sun Dahai a thumbs up and praised the dish for its pure taste.
Sun Dahai laughed loudly and said: "Uncle Wu, now you have a very good mouth. You can tell that this is authentic Black Forest ham. Unfortunately, we bought this ham, not made by me."
"Oh, where did you buy this? If you want to eat authentic German food in Xiangjiang, besides those old restaurants, are there new ones?"
"Lan Kwai Fong opened yesterday, but you didn't catch up. I bought this from a German bar in Lan Kwai Fong Phase 1. When you have time, go to the store to taste it.
By the way, I almost forgot. Barter, take out the fresh beer we bought from the refrigerator and let everyone taste it and feel how it tastes."
Barter and Ren Zhifeng each took out a wine barrel from the refrigerator, one was dark beer, the other was wheat beer, which was freshly brewed by a German bar.
There were no beer mugs at home, so Battle took out a few large glasses, opened the faucet at the bottom of the barrel, asked everyone about their needs, and poured wine for everyone. Michael did not speak Chinese, and Battle did not speak English, so the two had to rely on others to translate.
Sun Dahai said: "This is not possible. Our company is a Xiangjiang company, and more than half of them are Chinese. Uncle Wu, you have to arrange for the Xiangjiang employees in the company to learn to speak Mandarin.
Michael, you are new to the company, so you should seize the time and learn Chinese. At least you should be able to communicate simply in daily life.
Of course, I hope you can learn some Chinese culture in depth. In this way, it will be easier for you to communicate with others in the company. In the future, when you go to mainland China to deal with people, you can truly understand each other."
Then, he said to Barter in Chinese: "Your Cantonese is now practiced well. In the future, you will work harder to master simple English conversations."
With a grimace on his face, Battle took a big gulp of beer, and then said: "I have been practicing Cantonese this year. Just now I can speak Cantonese without any problems, and you are pushing me harder again."
"Haha, your foreign language skills should be better than mine, because you have learned Chinese and Mongolian together since you were a child. This can be regarded as adapting to 'bilingual learning' since you were a child."
Everyone finished dinner while talking and laughing.
Michael also liked the relaxed communication, but it was not convenient to eat the elbow with a knife and fork. The elbow was stewed so soft that the knife did not require strength, so it was easier to use a fork and a spoon together.
Linfenberg is a China expert. He has been working and living in Xiangjiang for more than ten years. Although his wife is Swedish like him, they got married and started a family in Xiangjiang, and they know a lot about Chinese culture.
Sweden has popularized English throughout the country since the end of World War II. In addition to the German he took as an elective when he was in college and the Cantonese he learned after coming to Hong Kong, he can now use these four languages with ease.
After the meal, it was left to Battelle and Ren Zhifeng to clean up the tableware, while Sun Dahai and Wu Dawei went to the living room to talk about work.
Huanyu Trading Company has developed rapidly. From just over ten people when it was taken over last year, it now has more than fifty employees. The company's business scope has gradually expanded from the original Britten and Northern Europe to the entire Europe.
With the help of the overseas distribution of the movie "Shaolin Temple", Huanyu Trading Company used its agent's cultural shirts to open up the market in other parts of Europe.
Especially in Central Europe, in Poland, Czechoslovakia and other countries, "Shaolin Temple" has been extremely popular among young people, and its box office revenue ranked at the top of the movie box office charts in these countries that year.
The local underwriters are both powerful and courageous. Before the movie was released, they determined that the movie would be a hit just based on the preview screenings.
So they continued to place orders to replenish supplies, so that when the movie became popular across the country, the supply of cultural shirts was not interrupted.
Because the price of cultural shirts is not high, many young people in Poland, Czechoslovakia and other countries buy a complete set of two or four pieces of cultural shirts.
From this alone, Huanyu Trading Company gained millions of dollars in profits, and the local underwriters also made a lot of money.
Not only that, Huanyu Trading Company also used their channels to introduce Su Bian, which was customized at Five Star Winery through barter transactions, into the Eastern European market.
In the previous life, Su Bian was a great success in Eastern Europe and Mauritius, and it is still the same now. Once launched this time, it achieved a double harvest of word-of-mouth and sales within a short period of time.
The retail price of low-end liquor in Eastern Europe is about US$10 per bottle. Huanyu Trading Company has designed a mid-range route for Su Bian. The port price in Eastern Europe is about US$12, and the recommended retail price is US$16.99-19.99.
However, Huanyu Trading Company got the FOB price from China, which is US$0.5 per bottle. After accounting for freight, insurance, and import tariffs in Eastern Europe, the cost per bottle is only US$1, which is really a huge profit.
Due to production restrictions, Su Bian passively formed a hunger marketing trend, and a bottle of wine was sold for forty or fifty dollars on the black market.
This is not intentional by Huanyu Trading Company, but because domestic grain sales are strictly controlled by the state, Red Star Winery cannot suddenly increase too much cheap grain for the production of Su Bian.
During the Canton Fair last year, the company signed a contract with Five-Star Winery to produce three million bottles of Su Bian in the Three Generations. This year is the first year, and it plans to produce 800,000 bottles throughout the year. It is only September now, and the production tasks for the whole year are
Already done.
Wu Dawei reported that the domestic five-star winery and the export agent Huaxin Trading Company have jointly reported to the State Planning Commission and urgently applied for the allocation of grain for winemaking at a low price to produce Subian that can be exported to earn foreign exchange, and requested to increase next year's production.
Food supply plan.
The final result is not known yet, but according to Vice President Zhao of Huaxin Trading Company, earning foreign exchange from exports is the focus of the country’s current economic activities, and requests for exports will receive special attention from superiors.
Besides, the application report has been communicated in advance. Even if the final number of applications cannot be approved, at least half of the number must be available."
