Reborn Industrial Tycoon

At the Canton Fair in the 1980s, there were not many types of household appliances on display. After thinking about it, Li Weidong thought that the only thing that could be called a "big iron box" was his own air fryer.

"No wonder I looked around and couldn't find the air fryer. It seems that it was placed in the most remote booth."

Thinking of this, Li Weidong asked: "Senior, where is your Chunhua Vacuum Cleaner booth?"

"It's right over there! Behind the side of the refrigerator." The sales representative of Chunhua Vacuum Cleaner pointed in one direction, and then said: "I'm right, if I don't point, you may not be able to find it.

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"Indeed, this booth is mostly blocked by the refrigerator in front. You can't find it unless you look carefully." Li Weidong nodded and walked over.

In the most remote corner next to the vacuum cleaner display cabinet, Li Weidong finally saw his air fryer, placed alone on a shelf.

In front of this shelf is a row of refrigerators, and there is a TV set on the counter on the side. Next to it is a vacuum cleaner booth. To the side and in front of the vacuum cleaner is a washing machine. There is also an electric fan and air conditioner on the side of the washing machine. It is no exaggeration to say that,

The rack of the air fryer is surrounded by 360 degrees in the corner.

In comparison, the Primavera vacuum cleaner is indeed much better. At least you can still see the vacuum cleaner booth through the gap between the refrigerator and the washing machine.

If merchants want to see the air fryer, they have to go behind the refrigerator and washing machine to see the air fryer on the shelf.

I believe that no merchant would be idle and go behind the refrigerator to look for exhibits.

Facing this remote booth that his grandma didn't care for and his uncle didn't love, Li Weidong could only sigh helplessly.

No way, who said that the air fryer is a brand new product!

Other exhibits in the home appliance exhibition area, such as televisions, refrigerators, washing machines, etc., have been around for decades and have long entered thousands of households, and the market has already proven the demand for these types of home appliances.

, it is also a matter of course to place common home appliances such as TVs and refrigerators in conspicuous places.

What's more, those who come to the Canton Fair are all the best in domestic home appliance companies, and they are all big brands. Of course, big brands must occupy the most conspicuous and advantageous positions.

In contrast, the air fryer is a household appliance that has never appeared before. Whether the market will accept this product is still unknown. In addition, Li Weidong's air fryer has not even registered a brand, so it will naturally be placed in a remote location.

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The Canton Fair at that time was like this. It was extremely unfriendly to new products that were not well-known. Last year, Li Weidong's linen car seat cushion was directly canceled from the booth.

Once a certain commodity proves its ability to earn foreign exchange through export, the treatment will be different. Products that can be exported to earn foreign exchange can have their own independent booth, stand in the C position in an exhibition area, or even have a dedicated exhibition area.

This is very similar to writing on the Internet. A master opens a new book, a splash screen promotion, a text push, an independent topic, all in one set. Tens of thousands of words can be collected into hundreds of thousands of collections, and the listing results will skyrocket;

When a senior author opens a new book, a complete set of recommendations will be put on the shelves, and there will also be various homepage and APP recommendations, which will provide extremely high exposure;

A new author opens a new book. After waiting for a long time to test the waters, it is still a mosquito-like thing. If the effect is not good, he just GGs it. There may never be another chance.

Of course, there are occasional exceptions. For example, there is a certain veteran called Guan Guan who has been running around naked since it was put on the shelves. His works have no exposure at all. He only relies on kind-hearted readers to give monthly votes to keep staying up late to write articles.

The Canton Fair is also like this. If you haven't proven your products, you are like a newcomer, so why should you have a good booth?

Li Weidong frowned slightly: "I guess no stupid foreign businessman would go behind the refrigerator to look at my air fryer. Unless he is a tall man over two meters tall, he can see what's behind when he stands in front of the refrigerator.

Situation. What should I do in such a bad location? The alley is too deep even if the wine is fragrant!"

The next moment, Li Weidong suddenly thought of a way.

"Smell of wine? Deep alley? Got an idea! Since foreign businessmen can't see my booth, let them smell it! I'll go buy some pork belly, potatoes and the like soon, and I'll air-fry them on site during the Canton Fair.

When the meat is fried in a pot, the aroma spreads, which will definitely attract foreign businessmen!"

Li Weidong couldn't help but think of the meat salesmen in Korean supermarkets.

Due to their eating habits, Koreans prefer to eat grilled pork belly. In addition, Korea also has a relatively raw ham sausage, which is also grilled.

In large supermarkets in South Korea, whether it is Lotte or emart, you can always see salesmen wearing aprons and masks, frying meat and ham in a small barbecue oven, then cutting it into small pieces, inserting toothpicks, and giving it to customers to taste.

The smell of fried meat can be smelled from a long distance away, and customers passing by will involuntarily come up to have a look, taste it, and then most likely buy this product.

"Last year I was a taxi driver, this year I have to be a supermarket salesman." Li Weidong laughed at himself.

But the next second, Li Weidong suddenly discovered that there was no power supply around!

Without a power source, the air fryer cannot be started, and there is no way to fry things on the spot. Li Weidong's plan will be in vain.

"What the hell? There is no power supply in the household appliances exhibition area! This organizer is so unprofessional!" Li Weidong complained in his heart, and then began to think about how to get a power supply.

"I have to ask the organizer to pull a power cord over. But if I go to ask for power alone, the organizer may not be willing to pay attention to me!" Li Weidong sighed softly.

If it is a product with a glorious record such as car seat cushions, it is definitely qualified to make requests to the organizer, and the organizer will try its best to meet them. However, the air fryer is just a new product, and it is obviously not qualified to make requests to the organizer.

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"In this case, we can only take advantage of the situation! Although I am a soft-spoken person, there are many well-known brands in this home appliance exhibition area!" Li Weidong looked around, and sure enough, they were all big home appliance brands from the 1980s.

Looking at the entire home appliance exhibition area, the most popular products are refrigerators and televisions.

The boss of the refrigerator section is the Snowflake refrigerator, a brand born in 1956 that once produced China's first refrigerator.

Before the reform and opening up, Snowflake refrigerators were always for medical use and were not used for civilian use until the 1980s. At that time, Snowflake refrigerators used the production equipment and technology of Philips of the Netherlands. The refrigerators produced had stable performance and moderate prices.

, deeply loved by consumers, the products are in short supply.

The second best in the refrigerator area is naturally Haier. At that time, Haier was still called "Liebherr". Haier's CEO Zhang's smashing of refrigerators made Haier refrigerators successfully become the top in China.

In addition, there are Meiling refrigerators from Hefei Second Light Factory, Rongsheng refrigerators from Zhujiang Refrigerator Factory, and "Xinxiang Philips" refrigerators from Xinxiang Refrigerator Factory, which are later known as Xinfei refrigerators. These are all famous refrigerators in the future.

Refrigerator brand.

The leader in the TV area is undoubtedly Panda TV. In addition, Peacock TV, Beijing TV, and Peony TV also occupy a place.

The following brands have never been heard of by people born in 2000, because none of them can survive into the 21st century.

Among the future giants in the domestic color TV industry, only Hisense came to the Canton Fair. Hisense was formerly a radio factory and began producing TV sets as early as 1978. It is considered an older manufacturer in China.

Other TV giants, Skyworth was established in 1988; Konka is a joint venture and has its own dedicated export channels; TCL is still producing tapes and telephones; as for Changhong, it is being beaten and killed by domestic TV manufacturers, and it has no

Dare to come to the Canton Fair.

At the end of the 1980s, the domestic TV industry experienced its first major reshuffle. The reason was that Changhong had overcome the technical difficulties of color TV picture tubes. The cost of domestic picture tubes was very low. Changhong's 14-inch color TV only cost more than 300 yuan.

In comparison, a 14-inch color TV using imported picture tubes costs thousands of dollars.

Changhong's color TVs were cheap and quickly seized the market, but it also offended all domestic color TV manufacturers. Those old color TV companies naturally wanted to fight against Changhong. Fortunately, the market finally chose companies that had the courage to make technological breakthroughs, and

They are not those old state-owned enterprises that are stuck in their ways.

In the air-conditioning exhibition area, Chunlan air-conditioning is the standout, in addition to Guqiao and Swan air-conditioning.

This Swan brand air conditioner is not the Little Swan that is known to people in later generations, but is produced by a factory under the aerospace department, which is considered a military-related enterprise.

In the future, Swan Air Conditioners will mainly produce military, industrial and marine air conditioners. The General Staff, General Assembly, General Logistics, Air Force, Navy, Second Artillery, etc. are all customers of Swan Air Conditioners.

In 1988, Gree, the two giants in the future air-conditioning industry, was still producing plastic electronic watch cases. As for Midea, their main product was electric fans, which shared a booth with another well-known brand, Great Wall electric fans.

In the washing machine area, Little Swan is the oldest brand, and there are also brands such as White Chrysanthemum and Narcissus. Washing machines of that era seemed to like to be named after animals and plants.

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Li Weidong took out a pack of cigarettes and went to get close to other exhibitors.

Li Weidong's strategy is also very simple. He continues to pretend to be a newbie, act like he doesn't understand anything, and humbly ask the "old seniors" for advice.

This trick is very effective. When most people meet a newbie, even if they only know a little about it, they will probably pretend to know a lot and show off their knowledge to show their ability. To put it bluntly, they are pretending to be cool in front of the newbie.

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Li Weidong also pretended to be open-minded and receptive, allowing other people's vanity to be satisfied.

It didn’t take long for Li Weidong to become familiar with several exhibitor representatives.

A few people chatted for a while, and Li Weidong felt that the time was almost up, so he finally got to the point: "I have gained a lot of knowledge after chatting with you seniors for a few minutes today. I didn't expect that there are so many ways to do this at the Canton Fair."

"That's right. There are so many ways to learn about the Canton Fair. I just talked about it today! Xiao Li, after the Canton Fair officially starts, watch it carefully, study hard, and ask more questions if you don't understand." said a person next to him.

Act like a teacher.

"You have to study hard." Li Weidong smiled slightly and said in a change of voice: "Although this is my first time here, I always feel that our home appliance exhibition area seems to be missing something."

"What's missing?" another person asked.

"Lack of electricity!" Li Weidong pointed to the color TVs and refrigerators around him, and then said: "We are in a household appliances exhibition area, how can we have no electricity!"