Reborn Tycoon Rise

He Guoyuan smiled and said: "A problem that can only be solved with money is not a problem!"

Xu Zhi laughed and said: "Yes, a good method!"

Different from the time when the motherboard factory was built, Midea's profit in the first half of 1979 alone was close to 80 million US dollars. If the company ranking is calculated based on profits, Midea Electronics is enough to enter the world's top 500!

This year, Midea has established branches in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom, and has begun recruiting elite talents from top local universities. Some Japanese universities have even targeted Midea Electronics as a subject of economic research.

At this moment, if Midea wants to build an LCD factory in Xiangjiang, even if there are no talents in this field, they can directly recruit people from Japan or even Europe and the United States. The cost will definitely be higher, but compared with having key core components stuck in the neck, This little extra labor is nothing!

He Guoyuan added: "Building a factory is not a problem, but we must first obtain some of the most basic patent authorizations for LCD."

"Liquid crystal patent?" Xu Zhi frowned and said, "Is it in Sharp's hands?"

He Guoyuan shook his head and said: "No, it's the RCA Company in the United States. This company invented liquid crystal display technology as early as 1961, and later made the first liquid crystal display model. However, due to technical reasons at the time, it was different from the TV color The gap between tubes is relatively large, so I slowly gave up research on liquid crystals!

Later, Japanese companies bought the technology and put it on products such as LCD watches and calculators, achieving great success. In the past ten years, many electronic giants in Japan have been developing LCDs, while the technology of RCA in the United States has declined. , but it still holds many basic patents in liquid crystal! "

"I see." Xu Zhidao: "In other words, the patent for the LCD screen will expire in two years?"

He Guoyuan said anxiously: "Xu Sheng, even if it's only two months, we have to buy it!"

Xu Zhi smiled and said: "I know, it's just a casual comment. I agree with the construction of the LCD factory."

At present, whether it is chips or LCDs, the entry barrier is not high. An LCD production line can be completed with a few million dollars. However, in the era of several global giants competing for hegemony thirty years later, the investment in the latest LCD production line will be as high as several billions. With U.S. dollars, few companies can afford this kind of investment and the subsequent money burn.

Compared with chips, LCD is less politically sensitive, and because it is a high-profit industry, it is not sensitive to labor costs. If the operation goes smoothly in the future, it can become one of the pillars of Hong Kong's industry!

"Okay, then I will immediately arrange for my colleagues in the United States to contact RCA." He Guoyuan said: "The long-term worries are solved, but the short-term worries are still there. Now several Japanese manufacturers are raising prices. What should we do?"

"Apart from Japan, are there no LCD factories in the United States?" Xu Zhi asked. He remembered that in the 1990s, Japan's LCD production accounted for 90% of global production, which also shows that other countries and regions still had a lot of shares before. of.

He Guoyuan said: "There are several companies, such as General Electric, Westinghouse, Motorola, and IBM, which have their own LCD departments. However, because the cost is too high and the price is expensive, the market is not good!"

Xu Zhi nodded and asked, "What's the price?"

He Guoyuan said: "If it were a screen the size of our Gameboy, it would probably be between HK$14 and 15."

Xu Zhidao: "In other words, these Japanese companies have actually calculated the price increase this time, and they are only slightly cheaper than their American counterparts!"

He Guoyuan nodded and said: "Looking at the situation, it should be like this."

Xu Zhi said: "Then you also arrange to contact these American companies and try to lower the price. I would rather buy from the United States now than accept the price increase of Japanese companies so easily."

He Guoyuan said: "I have arranged for people to go there, but these Americans are not fuel-efficient. They can easily find out the price increases of Japanese manufacturers, and they can also deduce our bottom line."

"It doesn't matter. Do you think I went to the United States to buy it because I couldn't stand the anger of Little Japan?" Xu Zhi explained: "From the company's perspective, profit comes first! Even if the Japanese company deliberately makes things difficult, as long as the cost is low, it should still be chosen them, but I decided to buy from the United States mainly considering two aspects:

If we succumbed to the Japanese price increase this time, it will definitely be the same next time!

Also, Japan is now in a dominant position in the LCD industry, and American companies are already struggling to survive. Once they really monopolize the entire market, they will inevitably raise prices on a large scale. We must guard against this move before we are unable to produce it ourselves! "

He Guoyuan said: "Understood, we will just get through this period. As long as our own factory can produce, everything will be completely different."

Xu Zhidao: "It's not that simple. Even if we have patents and production lines, the cost is not that easy to be lower than that of Japanese companies!"

He Guoyuan asked: "Is Xu Sheng worried about the scrap rate?"

Xu Zhi nodded and said: "Yes, a bunch of second-rate companies in the United States cannot compete with Japanese companies, so they only think that Japan's labor costs are low. This sentence was true in the 1950s and 1960s, but now Japan's per capita salary is not as high as It’s much lower than in the United States. The strongest point of Japanese companies is cost control, especially in the LCD industry. Good manufacturing is one thing, but large-scale low-cost production is another!”

In the past 20 years, from textiles, clothing, steel, electrical appliances, automobiles to the recent semiconductor, liquid crystal and other industries, Japanese companies have risen in the global market step by step on the corpses of their American counterparts. There are many reasons involved, such as The differences between American labor unions, Japanese professionalism, management style, etc.!

He Guoyuan said: "Then we can poach people from Japan. This involves the strategic development of our company, and no amount of money will be spent."

"Yes! Especially Sharp, if you dare to cheat us, you can recruit all their core engineers." Xu Zhi agreed. The loyalty of Japanese company employees ranks first in the world. This phenomenon makes Many Westerners and even Chinese people don’t understand it, but this is actually only effective for the bottom class!

This was only from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Japanese companies were developing rapidly and there was a serious shortage of labor. In order to stabilize employees, companies proposed a lifetime employment system and a seniority sequence system. This gave employees a stable working environment, but many consortium companies also formed Cultivate your own talents and avoid the additional expenses caused by job-hopping in a normal market economy.

But for some people who are ambitious or capable, this kind of restraint is a joke. Later generations of Samsung did not know how many top engineers and managers were poached from Japan to create a Samsung Electronics Empire.

He Guoyuan said: "Then I will contact the Japanese headhunting company immediately!"

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