230. Two big money-attracting companies that are beginning to show scale.
Although the cooperation between Black and White and Golden Harvest was carried out quietly, two days after they signed the contract, Shaw Brothers' CEO Yifu Shao had already received the news.
It can be seen that not only Jiahe has its own insiders in Shaw Brothers, but also Jiahe also has Shaw Brothers insiders.
In Shao Yifu's office on the Clear Water Bay set, Shao Yifu sat there with a calm expression, as if he had not heard the news at all.
Fang Yihua could no longer sit still.
"Brother Six, you have to make an idea. Chu Huan is obviously thinking of taking advantage of both sides. If Chu Huan continues to develop like this, Black and White Image will be able to create their own Black and White Image in less than five years.
With the distribution network of foreign channels, and judging from Chu Huan’s attention to black and white images, he will definitely build his own studio in the future. By then, no one in Xiangjiang will be able to stop Chu Huan!"
Shao Yifu sat there and preached slowly: "What you can think of, Zou Wenhuai can't think of?"
Fang Yihua said anxiously: "I don't care whether Zou Wenhuai can think of it or not. All I know now is that Chu Huan's black and white image has threatened our status in Shaw Brothers!"
This is a very strange mentality. Before this, both Shao Yifu and Fang Yihua hoped to overthrow Jiahe first after joining forces with Chu Huan.
But when Chu Huan's black and white image was about to reach this point, Fang Yihua found that she could no longer accept such a result.
Maybe they didn't expect that Chu Huan's black and white image would be so successful in overthrowing Jiahe!
In their imagination, even if the black and white image defeated Jiahe, they would suffer eight hundred losses, but now!
Black and White Image actually did not suffer any losses in this process, but instead further expanded the scale of its company.
This makes it a little difficult for them to accept.
"The Chu Huan now is no longer the Chu Huan before!" Shao Yifu said without any end, then looked up at Fang Yihua and asked: "Since you want to target Chu Huan, let me ask you, what do you want?
How to target Chu Huan?"
Fang Yihua said directly: "This is simple, suspending their rental contract for the Clearwater Bay studio and the distribution of their company's films through overseas channels!"
Shao Yifu knocked on the table and said calmly: "Now Black and White has signed a rental agreement with Jiahe for the Jiahe studio. If we stop the rental agreement for Black and White, will it have any impact on Black and White? Or are you prepared to compensate Black and White?
Image loss?”
Fang Yihua didn't know how to answer.
Yifu Shao continued: "You also said that you would terminate the company's contract to distribute black-and-white films in other places. Do you know how much money the company has made by distributing black-and-white films in the past year?"
"If it stops, who will bear the losses?"
Fang Yihua's face became even more gloomy, and she had no answer to such a question.
Now she is like a furious and incompetent person, full of anger towards Chu Huan, but there is nothing she can do!
In the end, I could only look at Shao Yifu helplessly and asked: "Is there nothing we can do?"
Shao Yifu chuckled, "Now the initiative is still in our hands. If we want to find a way, it's not impossible."
Fang Yihua immediately asked excitedly: "What can we do?"
Yifu Shaw's eyes were a bit deep, like an abyss with no bottom: "Black and White Film can continue to use the Clear Water Bay studio according to the contract, but our Shaw Brothers movies also need to use the Clear Water Bay studio. How to arrange the time?
It’s our word that has the final say!”
Fang Yihua's eyes immediately shone with light. With a simple reminder from Shao Yifu, she had already thought of a way to deal with it.
"I understand, we can put the black-and-white movie in first, and then when they are halfway through filming, we suddenly tell them that our company also needs to use this venue, so the black-and-white movie will naturally be postponed."
"In this case, their movie is already halfway through filming. If they were to change to Jiahe's studio at this time, the scenes would not match up."
Yifu Shao did not comment on Fang Yihua's method, but continued: "As for the issue of overseas distribution, although Black and White Image has its own employees overseas to calculate the box office, in the end it is only a rough calculation. The real box office revenue is what we are talking about.
Calculated."
Fang Yihua had to sigh... He is indeed a cunning person!
Why didn't I think of this method of making black and white images suffer?
"Brother Six, I understand!" Fang Yihua said immediately with a smile.
Shao Yifu nodded slightly and continued to remind: "At the beginning, don't go too far, at least don't make the black and white image too offensive."
"Understood!" Fang Yihua was silent for a moment and asked tentatively: "Brother Six, actually I have another way!"
Shao Yifu looked at Fang Yihua with an interested expression and asked: "What can I do?"
Fang Yihua said carefully: "Zou Wenhuai must hate Chu Huan to death now. If we extend an olive branch to Jiahe at this time and jointly deal with black and white images, I think Zou Wenhuai will be very willing!"
Shao Yifu's expression suddenly changed and he said loudly: "I would rather let Chu Huan's black and white image replace Zou Wenhuai's Jiahe than cooperate with Jiahe!"
Fang Yihua's neck shrank and she didn't dare to say anything anymore.
...
Only people from Shaw Brothers and the film industry are paying attention to the cooperation between Black and White Image and Golden Harvest. For ordinary Xiangjiang citizens, they don't care about it.
Two months have passed. Although the stock market crash is still continuing, ordinary Xiangjiang citizens have begun to accept it in their hearts.
Since you didn't jump off the building, you have to continue living after all.
But some changes still exist. At this time in the vegetable market, the maids who buy vegetables are no longer so lavish. They start to argue with the vendors, and they have to calculate every cent or two for a long time.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Ordinary workers have become more diligent than before. The employment environment in Hong Kong is very bad now. If you don’t work hard, you may be
If you lose your job, your whole family will have nothing to eat.
In the past, everyone would immediately check how the stock market in Xiangjiang was doing today, but not anymore. They would only occasionally glance at the news about the stock market in the newspaper, and then they would sigh and continue their work.
It was under such circumstances that the citizens of Xiangjiang suddenly discovered that there seemed to be some subtle changes in their lives.
Where they live and work, suddenly there is a convenience store decorated with clouds.
Yunhai Convenience Store!
In fact, Yunhai Convenience Store already had some reputation in Hong Kong in the past, but at that time it was more concentrated among white-collar workers and some young people in Central.
In fact, convenience stores are small supermarkets. As for the supermarket industry, even in Hong Kong, it was only in the 1970s that the first supermarket with self-selected goods - Wellcome Supermarket!
Wellcome Supermarket was originally a subsidiary of the Dairy Milk Company, but with the success of Land's acquisition of the Milk Company, Wellcome Supermarket now naturally belongs to Jardine!
By the early 1990s, there were 167 Wellcome supermarket chains in Hong Kong.
In addition, another supermarket chain in Xiangjiang, PARKnSHOP, was established this year, and the company behind them is PARKnSHOP, a subsidiary of Watsons under Hutchison Whampoa!
Also in the 1990s, the PARKnSHOP supermarket chain already had 155 stores in Hong Kong, almost as many as Wellcome!
But the current Yunhai convenience stores are fundamentally different from these two large supermarkets. Their space area is much smaller. Each Yunhai convenience store is only about 700 square feet, and the goods are naturally not as large as those in large supermarkets.
Therefore, the competitors of Yunhai Convenience Store are not large supermarkets like Wellcome and Parknshop at all, but traditional supermarkets in Xiangjiang.
Compared with Shiduo Store, Yunhai Convenience Store appears much taller, and at this time, Yunhai Chain also put forward its own business slogan: Convenient, Fast, Clean!
Compared to messy supermarkets, Yunhai Convenience Store is very clean and tidy, and the goods are arranged very neatly. Customers can clearly know where the products they need are without having to search for them.
This model is very popular among young people and white-collar workers.
Not only that, Yunhai convenience store also has advantages that other stores do not have.
Most taxi shops in Xiangjiang are open until 90 pm and then close for rest.
But Xiangjiang is a city that never sleeps. Even late at night, there are still people living their lives. Another advantage of Yunhai convenience store is that it is a 24-hour convenience store. When people rest, the store does not rest!
At the same time, the convenience store also has a variety of convenience foods for customers to choose from, including quick-frozen steamed dumplings, steamed buns, siomai, soup dumplings; ready-to-eat foods such as pastries, bread, and biscuits; and drinks such as milk, coffee, and juice.
There is a microwave in the store for customers to warm their food.
Such considerate service is very useful to night shift drivers and white-collar workers in Central.
In addition to these fixed groups of people, there are other groups of people.
For example, people like Xiao Yun just finished work tonight and immediately turned on the TV when they got home to watch the Miss Xiangjiang beauty pageant on TVB.
His favorite thing is Deborah in it. Every time he sees Deborah through the TV screen, he feels impulsive.
After he watched Miss Xiangjiang's program, the little flame in his heart couldn't be suppressed, and he immediately called his girlfriend.
Invite the other person to your home, watch his cat do backflips, and do some regular exercise by the way!
The girlfriend also agreed to the other party's request very thoughtfully, and soon the man and woman started playing poker.
"T-zi, T-zi!"
"We've used it up a long time ago. Let's do infantry today!" Xiao Yun said impatiently.
However, my girlfriend quit the job and made it clear that she would not be able to do it without a wife. After all, she would be getting married in a while, and she didn’t want to let things go wrong at this time!
Xiao Yun said helplessly: "It's time now. Where do you want me to buy T-shirts? All the stores are closed."
The girlfriend said: "When I just came here, I saw that the Yunhai convenience store downstairs from your house was still open. There is something to buy there. You go!"
Xiao Yun showed a suspicious expression, but in the end he had no choice but to go downstairs to Yunhai convenience store to try it out.
He remembered that some time ago, there was no Yunhai convenience store like this near his home. Why is there one now?
When he found the signboard of Yunhai Convenience Store, he remembered that he had seen it being renovated some time ago.
Without any time to think about it, Xiao Yun immediately rushed into the Yunhai convenience store and was attracted by the clean environment here. However, Xiao Yun did not think much about it. It was better to buy the T-shirt as soon as possible and go back to play poker to beat the king.
Then he saw that Yunhai Convenience Store thoughtfully had a small shelf selling T-shirts near the counter, with various styles of T-shirts on them.
After thinking for a while, Xiao Yun took five boxes directly, and then saw the cigarette cabinet behind the salesperson, which contained various brands of cigarettes.
Afterwards, a cigarette will make the piston faster!
Then I bought another box of cigarettes, and when I was about to leave, I realized that I hadn't had dinner yet. Then I saw the frozen dumplings on the shelf of Yunhai convenience store, and I couldn't help but take two bags.
Everything is so natural.
After finishing the work, he returned to his place, only to be greeted by his girlfriend complaining, "Why did you stay there for so long?"
"It will take longer!" Xiao Yun couldn't wait to prepare for the two of them to play poker!
...
In this way, Yunhai Convenience Store has entered the lives of Xiangjiang people in a quiet and gentle way.
At this time, at the headquarters of Yunhai Chain, Zhu Xiaozhao was reporting to Chu Huan on the current situation of Yunhai convenience stores.
"Brother Huan, I received the 10 million cash you put into the company's account before, and the remaining 1 million cash from the company, a total of 11 million cash. The company used this fund to establish a total of 55 Yunhai stores in the past two months.
Convenience stores, including the previous ten, the company now has a total of 65 convenience stores.
When Chu Huan opened his first convenience store in Causeway Bay, he spent 700,000 Hong Kong dollars just to purchase property. But things are different now. During the stock market crash, everyone was selling properties crazily, hoping to exchange for cash to survive.
After passing this level, land prices naturally plummeted wildly.
In addition, the crazy expansion of Yunhai chain this time is no longer limited to prosperous areas such as Causeway Bay and Central. There are also Yunhai convenience stores in other areas. On average, each store only costs 300,000 Hong Kong dollars.
That’s all. As for what’s left, it’s naturally a bank loan!
The monthly sales of each convenience store is about 90,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the profit after all costs is about 10%. In other words, the monthly profit of each convenience store is about 9,000 Hong Kong dollars. We now have
The monthly profit of 65 convenience stores is about HK$585,000, and the annual profit is HK$7.02 million!"
The profit that Zhu Xiaozhao mentioned was actually offset by the rent. All the Yunhai convenience store properties were bought by Yunhai Chain.
Chu Huan is quite satisfied with the current profit. After all, this is only Xiangjiang in 1973, and prices in Xiangjiang are not that high yet. When prices in Xiangjiang become higher in the future, convenience stores will earn more.
"How are the employees?" Chu Huan asked aloud.
Zhu Xiaozhao smiled and said: "Fortunately, we spent nearly a year training talents before, so there are no problems with the staff of the new convenience store."
Chu Huan nodded and said: "Yes, but this opportunity is rare now. The housing prices in Xiangjiang are still falling, and those large consortiums have not noticed this yet. Therefore, the company's subsequent development route is to use the profits to continue to expand our business."
With the number of convenience stores, the most important thing is not to forget the training of personnel. Every employee working at Yunhai convenience store must be trained!"
Zhu Xiaozhao showed a look of surprise. In her opinion, 65 convenience stores were already a lot, but Chu Huan actually wanted to expand.
Thinking of this, Zhu Xiaozhao asked in a low voice: "Brother Huan, how many stores do we want to expand to?"
Chu Huan said with a smile: "You have to have at least 400 restaurants in Xiangjiang!"
Zhu Xiaozhao was really shocked by Chu Huan this time. If calculated according to the current profit, if the Yunhai chain really expands to 400 stores, then the annual profit will be astonishing... 432 million Hong Kong dollars!
"Isn't this too exaggerated?" Zhu Xiaozhao couldn't help but said, and then said with some worry: "And I'm worried that the purchasing power of the current population of Xiangjiang is not that much?"
At this time, the entire population of Xiangjiang was only over 4 million.
Chu Huan is not worried about this. The population of Xiangjiang will only increase. Especially in this era, the population will increase by one million almost every ten years.
"Don't worry, I'm not asking you to expand so many convenience stores overnight. I'll give you three years. Within three years, I won't use a penny of the company's money. You can
Use them all for expansion!”
Yunhai Chain is one of Chu Huan's trump cards. Its role is not only in retail, but also has a greater role in the future. In fact, Chu Huan will not use Yunhai Chain's funds, let alone the past three years.
Years later, Chu Huan will not use Yunhai Chain's funds, because at that time Yunhai Chain's goals will no longer be limited to Xiangjiang, but the entire Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and other regions!
After Yunhai Convenience Store seizes the market in these places, Yunhai Convenience Store will face the challenge of 7-11, the dominant player in the retail industry!
In Chu Huan's plan, Yunhai Convenience Store will become a large global convenience store chain in the future!
However, this plan is still too far away, so now Chu Huan only tells Zhu Xiaozhao about the market in Xiangjiang.
Zhu Xiaozhao breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Chu Huan would not use the company's funds, so he also put forward his own opinions later.
"Brother Huan, three years is not enough. In this expansion process, the company must not only train employees, but also establish its own warehousing, transportation and other related supporting facilities, so I hope Huan
Brother, you can give me five years.
Five years later, I will definitely return all 400 Yunhai chain stores to you!"
After hearing Zhu Xiaozhao's words, Chu Huan fell into silence.
When Zhu Xiaozhao saw this, his confidence disappeared instantly, and he once again regained his weak temperament in front of Chu Huan, "Brother Huan, did I say something wrong?"
Chu Huan laughed and said: "No, you said it very well. I am very happy. Being able to think of these things shows that you have grown up, which is good!"
"So, Brother Huan, do you agree with my idea?" Zhu Xiaozhao said with some excitement. This was the first time she had put forward her idea in front of Chu Huan, and she was very happy to be recognized by Chu Huan.
Chu Huan nodded and said, "Of course I agree!"
"Thank you, Brother Huan!" Zhu Xiaozhao said happily.
Chu Huan rubbed Zhu Xiaozhao's head habitually. Although Zhu Xiaozhao was a little shy about Chu Huan's intimate gesture, he enjoyed it very much.
"Why are you so polite to me!"
"Got it!" Zhu Xiaozhao nodded.
Chu Huan retracted his hand and said with a smile: "There is one more thing I want to tell you."
Zhu Xiaozhao nodded and said, "Brother Huan, you tell me!"
"It's just a matter of your own personal effort..."
Before Chu Huan finished speaking, Zhu Xiaozhao hurriedly said: "Brother Huan, I already have a lot of labor, and I don't have much money to spend!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Although Chu Huan enjoys being an exploitative capitalist, and Zhu Xiaozhao did not take the initiative to ask for an increase in his salary, Chu Huan cannot really treat these as invisible.
Zhu Xiaozhao is one of the people he trusts most, and he does not want Zhu Xiaozhao to be dissatisfied because of this kind of thing in the future.
Of course, Chu Huan would not do that kind of thing like giving away shares for free.
"This matter is settled like this. The labor force will be increased by 50% on your original basis. If you can complete the number of convenience stores on time in the future, not only will the labor force increase, but the company's profit dividends will also be distributed.
Refuse, you also know that this is the treatment that the president of every company will receive!"
Under the current operating environment of the company, Chu Huan will definitely give Zhu Xiaozhao the best remuneration, but it will never exceed the highest level.
Many things have proved that no matter how much you trust a person, if there is no reward, it is likely to cause a series of vicious reactions.
Seeing that Chu Huan had already made up his mind, Zhu Xiaozhao didn't know what to say.
Now that the business is done, let’s move on to some personal matters.
Of course, it wasn't a romantic thing. Chu Huan just chatted with Zhu Xiaozhao about the past, and then got up and left Yunhai Chain!
Chu Huan left Yunhai Chain and came to Brother Audio and Video, which is in charge of Chen Haichao!
Like Zhu Xiaozhao, Chen Haichao also started his own expansion path after receiving funds from Chu Huan. However, Brother Audio and Video, which had more liquidity, only chose to expand the same number of branches as Yunhai Chain.
stopped.
He did not spend all his money on the expansion of the company.
After meeting Chu Huan, Chen Haichao directly expressed his thoughts without any delay.
"Brother Huan, I want to set up a record company!"
Chu Huan sat there and did not comment on Chen Haichao's idea. He just asked: "Tell me what you think."
"With the increasing number of chain stores, we have become the largest chain of video stores in Hong Kong. This has actually controlled the distribution channels of record companies. With such convenient conditions, if we did not open a store of our own
own record company, I think this is a waste of resources!"
Chen Haichao preached with a calm expression.
Chu Huan said with a smile: "But record companies are not very profitable? And if you founded a record company, then the current record companies in Xiangjiang will be hostile to you. So even if Brother Audio is the largest chain of video stores in Xiangjiang, think about it
I’m afraid it’s not an easy thing to deal with the accusations from those record companies, right?”
Seeing that Chu Huan did not reject it immediately, Chen Haichao understood that Chu Huan actually had no objection to his idea, but he also needed to come up with a suitable reason.
"I have thought about it. When the record company was founded, it could completely put aside its relationship with Brothers Audio. Although this situation cannot be hidden for a long time, what we need most now is time. As long as there is this time difference, Brother Audio will
We can continue to expand, and when we have an absolute monopoly in the field of record sales in Hong Kong, those record companies will have nothing to fear!"
Having said this, Chen Haichao was silent for a moment, and then continued to preach.
"I guess, based on your personality, Brother Huan, you will definitely not just satisfy the market in Xiangjiang. Therefore, in the future, Brother Audio and Video will definitely develop towards Taiwan, Southeast Asia and other regions. Naturally, you will not be able to make money simply by looking at the record market in Xiangjiang.
How much does it cost, but if it includes Taiwan, Southeast Asia and other places, it will be different.
Moreover, this way we can also interact with black and white images, after all, the popularity of celebrities in Hong Kong is now diversified!"
Chu Huan agreed very much with Chen Haichao's thoughts. In fact, what he said was what he had thought before.
"Well, since you already have an idea, I won't say anything, but now most of the singers in Hong Kong have signed contracts with major record companies. Since you want to cover up the relationship between record companies and audio and video in the early stage,
If you don't have the relationship with the store, then you lose your biggest trump card in recruiting singers. As a result, it is not easy for record companies to develop."
Chu Huan raised his concerns and wanted to see how Chen Haichao was prepared to deal with it.
Chen Haichao was different from Zhu Xiaozhao. When he told Chu Huan about this matter, he must have already considered it all, so when Chu Huan raised questions, Chen Haichao immediately had his own thoughts.
"Although there are no large-scale singing competitions in Hong Kong now, various types of small competitions are emerging in endlessly. My idea is that when the record company was first established, it first aimed at signing new singers. Although we do not want other records to
The company knows the relationship between our own record company and Brother Audio and Video, but we can still give some care to the company's singers in some aspects.
In addition, I also got some inspiration from the previous black and white Hong Kong New Directors Competition. I want to cooperate with Hong Kong Li TV to hold a Hong Kong New Talent Singing Competition. In this case, we can find
More singers!”
So smart!
Chu Huan couldn't help but praise Chen Haichao's idea in his heart.
Shaw Brothers also has its own record company, so cooperating with TVB may have greater influence, but the competition will be more intense. It would be better to cooperate with Li TV, which does not have its own record company.
And as Chen Haichao said, there is no real large-scale singing competition in Hong Kong at present. Now the new singing competition that Chen Haichao is thinking about will definitely cause a sensation in Hong Kong once it is launched.
Just like the Miss Hong Kong election launched by wireless station.
"Okay, I don't have any objections here, just do what you think!"
Since Chen Haichao already had a complete plan, Chu Huan naturally said nothing.
After confirming this matter, Chu Huan also told him about increasing Chen Haichao's salary, and Chen Haichao happily accepted it!
After finishing all the arrangements, Chu Huan went to New York in late May and signed an oil order contract with the five major oil companies.
The two parties agreed to deliver the goods in mid-August. If the transaction cannot be completed in the middle, five times the liquidated damages will be provided. At the same time, Chu Huan also paid a 30% deposit in advance!
After doing all this, Chu Huan was ready to take a good rest, but at this time, another unexpected news came to Chu Huan.