As the saying goes: The plan for a year begins with spring.
Basically every company will hold a meeting at the beginning of the year to set the company's development direction and goals for the next year.
The same is true for Xu Tongdao's Ximen Group.
This morning, the heads of several branches of Ximen Group gathered in the conference room of the group headquarters to hold the group meeting at the beginning of this year.
Xu Tongdao, as the group president, attended the meeting.
The person presiding over the meeting was his assistant to the president, Tan Shi.
Wang Xing, general manager of Ximen Food Co., Ltd., Fu Yuan, general manager of Ximen Yipin Hot Pot, Jin Yunfei, general manager of Ximen Real Estate Development Company, Ge Lianghua, general manager of Ximen Road Internet Cafe Company, and Su Ping, general manager of Meijia Decoration Company, and others attended the meeting.
The meeting first discussed the development status, achievements and shortcomings of each branch in the past year.
Following, the heads of each branch talked about their development ideas and development goals for the branch they are responsible for in the new year.
etc.
During the first half of the meeting, Comrade Xu mainly listened and did not speak much.
It wasn't until more than half of the meeting had passed, and he had listened to the heads of each branch, their summary of last year's work, and their plans and goals for this year's work, that Comrade Xu coughed lightly and drew everyone's attention to himself.
Only then did he formally speak.
“I listened carefully to what everyone said just now, and they were all very meaningful and well said!
However, I have a somewhat different view on the development direction of each branch of our group in the next year."
After a pause, he glanced at everyone, under everyone's curious gaze.
Tongdao Xu: "In 2003, the development of our Ximen Group must be focused. I think the focus should be temporarily on Ximen Food Co., Ltd., Ximen Real Estate Development Company, and Meijia Decoration Company!
As for hot pot and Internet cafes, expansion is suspended!
If you have any opinions on this, you can speak freely now!"
As soon as he said this, everyone in the conference room had different expressions.
Some people are happy, some people are frowning and confused.
Naturally, we are delighted by the heads of the three branches listed as the focus of this year's development - Wang Xing, Jin Yunfei and Su Ping.
The ones who frowned in confusion were Fu Yuan, the person in charge of Ximen Yipin Hotpot, and Ge Lianghua, who was in charge of the Ximen Road Internet Cafe.
When Wang Xing and others heard the good news that was good for them, they all smiled and didn't rush to say anything.
Because Ge Lianghua and Comrade Xu are cousins, he was the first to ask a question: "Why? Mr. Xu! The development momentum of our Internet cafe is just right. Why do we have to suspend expansion for the next whole year? This,
Isn’t this unscientific?”
Seeing him taking the lead in questioning, Fu Yuan, the person in charge of Ximen Yipin Hot Pot, echoed: "Yes, Mr. Xu! The development of our hot pot business last year is obvious to all, and the profits are also very good. This year I am planning to develop at least three more branches.
I have even trained reserve cadres for branches here. As long as we are given the authority to expand, I can prepare branches here at any time."
After they finished asking, Comrade Xu nodded and did not answer in a hurry.
Instead, he glanced at the secretary Tang Qing behind him and gave Tang Qing a slight signal.
Tang Qing understood and hurriedly stepped forward and distributed stacks of newspapers to everyone present.
Those who were assigned newspapers immediately began to look through the newspapers with doubts.
At the same time, Comrade Xu spoke calmly: "I have asked people to circle the reasons for suspending the expansion of Internet cafes and hot pots in these newspapers this year with red pen.
As the saying goes: A big roc rises with the wind and soars ninety thousand miles.
If the mythical roc wants to fly higher and farther, it needs to take advantage of the wind, let alone us who run a company?
When I formed this group company, I divided the company's development direction into the current major blocks in order to avoid development risks.
Recently, a disease called SARS has spread abroad. I am worried that this disease will also spread to our country in the near future.
That’s why I decided to suspend the expansion of Ximen Yipin Hotpot and Ximen Road Internet Cafe this year, and shift the group’s development focus to the other three branches.”
Having said this, Comrade Xu looked at Ge Lianghua and Fu Yuan.
"As for Manager Ge and Manager Fu, there is no need to worry. You two will suspend expansion this year. If there are no unexpected events next year, we will speed up the development of the parts you are responsible for."
Yes!
In fact, SARS had already appeared abroad years ago.
At that time, Comrade Xu, who went online almost every day to learn about current affairs, noticed it.
And SARS is what he remembers as the SARS that caused panic in China in 2003.
Because of the memory reminder before his rebirth, he decided early to adjust the company's development focus this year.
The expansion of hot pot and Internet cafes has been suspended.
The focus of development will be on real estate, decoration and instant noodles.
During the SARS period, he estimated that catering and entertainment would be restricted in business.
In comparison, the three industries of real estate, decoration, and instant noodles should be less affected.
Seeing this, someone may ask: Doesn’t instant noodles... belong to the catering industry?
At first glance, instant noodles seem to belong to the catering category.
But it is very different from the catering industry such as hot pot restaurants and Chinese restaurants.
Instant noodles... do not need to receive a large number of diners every day.
If you want to eat instant noodles, just go to the supermarket or canteen to buy some and take it home.
Tongdao Xu remembers that during the SARS period, many schools were closed and students could not leave the school easily. Many factories also implemented closed management, preventing employees from contacting the outside world at will.
In this way, students and employees who eat in the cafeteria every day will miss many delicious foods outside and will soon get tired of the food in the cafeteria.
And instant noodles...
In Xu Tongdao’s memory, many people loved buying it during the SARS epidemic in 2003.
Although everyone knows that instant noodles are not open for business, eating too much is not good.
But...it can at least satisfy everyone's cravings.
It is undeniable that the taste of instant noodles is very good to many people.
…
Comrade Xu gave such a reason. Although Ge Lianghua and Fu Yuan disagreed a little, they did not believe that SARS would spread to the country and thus affect the two businesses they were responsible for.
but……
Xu Tongdao is the president, and the entire group company belongs to him.
Since Comrade Xu had a sound basis and had made up his mind, as the heads of the branch, they had no choice but to obey.
On the other hand, Wang Xing, Jin Yunfei and Su Ping, seeing that the overall situation had been decided, spoke one after another to express their agreement and support for Comrade Xu's decision.
He also smiled and comforted Ge Lianghua and Fu Yuan.
At this moment, Comrade Xu suddenly felt the cell phone in his trouser pocket vibrate several times.
He calmly lowered his head slightly and took out his cell phone.
He discovered that it was Zhang Fafa from Zhiweixuan who had just sent him a new text message.
The content is: "Brother! Hou Jinbiao is crazy. He wants to invest in the construction of an instant noodle factory. He invited me over in the middle of the night last night and wanted to buy me a stake. I refused. By the way, according to him, he currently has
There are already two flavors of instant noodles recipes, he seems to be competing with you, so be careful!"