Resource Tycoon Reborn

Chapter 41 Noisy October

In October, several news broke out one after another in the Shanghai Stock Exchange that shocked the Shanghai Stock Exchange and even the Chinese supermarket retail industry.

Carrefour Supermarket officially announced that Carrefour Supermarket and Hong Kong Kuok Shipping Group Co., Ltd. have reached a deal to hold 10% of each other's shares. This news caused the share price of Kuok Shipping Group Co., Ltd. to rise by 7% on the Hong Kong stock market.

June 2, the day with the largest daily increase in the past year. And in the next half month, the stock of Guo's Shipping Group Company slowly increased by nearly 18.34%. This news was released at the same time

What's more, an unknown company in the United States invested in Carrefour Supermarket and acquired 3% of the shares. This indicates that Carrefour Supermarket has fully met the standards of a true Chinese-foreign joint venture.

Domestic media have mixed comments on this point. Naturally, there are many people who say that Carrefour Supermarket is no longer a purely Chinese company. However, more media still believe that Carrefour Supermarket’s approach should be to introduce more

A good management system and foreign talents are needed for better development in the future and to cope with the future attempts of two major foreign supermarket chain giants to enter China. Anyway, American companies only account for less than 3% of the total shares, and they are still far from holding a controlling stake.

It's a thousand miles apart. It would be ridiculous to accuse Carrefour Supermarket of changing its owner just because of this. Your state-owned enterprise is still introducing foreign capital. For a private enterprise, foreign capital only accounts for 3%.

shares, what’s all the fuss about!

There were various opinions in the media, but Carrefour Supermarket did not say a word about it. Then a second piece of news came out. The quality inspection center department of Carrefour Supermarket was officially separated from the ranks of Carrefour Supermarket Department and re-registered in Hong Kong. Regarding this

As soon as the news came out, ordinary people did not have any big reaction, but supermarket chain companies, large and small, were quite concerned about this matter.

Because no one understands better than them that the Carrefour Supermarket's Product Quality Inspection Center now holds a high position in the minds of consumers. It is precisely because of the existence of the Product Quality Inspection Center that the possibility of counterfeit and shoddy goods appearing in Carrefour Supermarket has been suppressed to the extreme.

Low level. Although the profit that can be earned is less, it attracts huge customer flow!

Not only in Qinxi Province, but now in cities all over the country, the sales of supermarkets near Carrefour supermarkets are very pessimistic. Even if their goods are cheaper, many people would rather walk a few more steps.

, go to Carrefour supermarket to buy with peace of mind. Only those supermarkets that are more than three stops away from Carrefour supermarket will have less obvious impact on their turnover. But even so, many consumers who buy a lot of things at one time,

Will still choose to go to Carrefour supermarket.

These supermarkets have not thought about setting up their own quality inspection centers like Carrefour Supermarket, but firstly, the investment is not a small amount. Secondly, they do not have the same confidence as Carrefour Supermarket.

You must know that just two years ago, Carrefour supermarket exposed a ham manufacturer that was well-known in the country. The reason was that this ham manufacturer had a chance to repackage a batch of expired and spoiled hams for sale.

It was given to Carrefour Supermarket, but after being checked out by Carrefour Supermarket's Quality Inspection Center, it refused to return or exchange the product. As a result, Carrefour Supermarket's Quality Inspection Center put it on the blacklist for purchasing, and it was also notified to the national media!

For a time, the manufacturer's sales dropped steadily, and many merchants asked for returns. The manufacturer sued Carrefour Supermarket in anger and used its official power to put pressure on Carrefour Supermarket. However, the manufacturer

What they didn't expect was that Carrefour Supermarket responded to the lawsuit without hesitation and eventually won! The ham manufacturer had to refund Carrefour Supermarket's payment and compensate Carrefour Supermarket for five million yuan! This is

At that time, it was a sensational news.

In fact, only a few people knew that in court at that time, the ham manufacturer produced the inspection exemption certificate from the provincial department and arrogantly demanded that Carrefour supermarket apologize to the manufacturer in a well-known national newspaper and compensate for all losses.

However, Carrefour Supermarket produced an inspection report signed by well-known quality inspection agencies and dozens of quality inspection experts from the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom. The inspection results are slightly different from those previously announced by Carrefour Supermarket, although some data are slightly different.

, but the conclusion is completely consistent - the item submitted for inspection is spoiled and expired food. The ham sausage submitted for inspection also has a notarization certificate from the Chinese national authority, proving that the item submitted for inspection is indeed the ham manufacturer.

produced.

This immediately put the local court in a difficult position. They actually wanted to favor the manufacturer, and the two sides were at odds with each other, but they were not stupid. The test report produced by Carrefour Supermarket was issued by a well-known foreign quality inspection agency.

Yes, if they unconscionably refuse to acknowledge these test reports, they may cause more trouble in the future. They don’t think that in the face of the anger of foreigners, the leaders above will stand firm to protect themselves. Moreover, they must overthrow

Those test certificates from well-known foreign quality inspection agencies may involve the government department that issues the notarized certificate, which is even more troublesome.

What's more, they themselves also know in their hearts that the provincial inspection exemption certificate produced by the ham manufacturer is bullshit! As long as you are willing to pay tribute to the department, as long as someone believes it, let alone the provincial inspection exemption certificate,

Even if the whole galaxy is exempt from inspection, those people dare to issue it!

However, the development of the matter soon relieved them from this trouble. After the representative of the ham manufacturer took out this series of test reports from Carrefour Supermarket, he looked at the well-known quality inspection agencies on the report, and then looked at the following

After signing the name of the person, I couldn't bear it at first. I took the initiative to propose reconciliation.

They know very well that if the trial continues and more and more media pay attention to the matter, then these test reports will inevitably spread throughout the country. And by that time, the people will believe their so-called

Isn’t it self-evident that the provincial inspection is exempted from the inspection report submitted by Zhang Carrefour Supermarket? Isn’t this a slap in the face that I have already received several times, and a few more slaps?

A slap?

If it really comes to that point, even if the court rules in favor of itself, what's the use? If you win the lawsuit, but you completely lose the market, for a company, what's the use of winning the lawsuit?

In the end, after the strong intervention of the relevant government departments, there was no choice. Who made the ham manufacturer a state-owned enterprise? Carrefour supermarket finally had no choice but to accept this result. Then the media were asked to remain silent on this matter. Even Carrefour supermarket

The matter of winning the lawsuit was only mentioned in an understatement on the third and fourth pages, in a place the size of a small piece of tofu. This was the result of Carrefour Supermarket's strong request. Otherwise, it would not even have this treatment.

But even so, the products of this ham manufacturer have never entered the shelves of Carrefour supermarkets since. Moreover, the business has been deteriorating. The ham brand that was famous nationwide two years ago has now become a local brand.

Apart from this province, the products can only be seen in third-tier cities or towns.

After this incident, anyone who knows the inside story will understand that just because the Quality Inspection Center of Carrefour Supermarket dares to do this, it does not mean that other companies can do the same!

Now that the Carrefour Supermarket Product Quality Inspection Center has become independent and re-established in Hong Kong, does this mean that it will no longer be the official quality inspection center of Carrefour Supermarket, but will be open to other companies as well?

Before these people could figure out the problem, on October 16, Carrefour Supermarket general manager Sun Zhaolun officially announced that Carrefour Supermarket is currently preparing for its listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. It is expected that if everything goes well, Carrefour Supermarket will be listed on September

In the first half of five years, it was officially listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

As soon as this statement came out, it immediately caused an uproar in China. This time, not only the supermarket chain retail industry, but also companies in other industries were jealous of it. You know, in 1994

At that time, the two cities were basically dominated by state-owned and collective enterprises. In the supermarket chain industry, Carrefour Supermarket was truly the first!

Those companies that have been waiting for several years and still have not been able to determine when to go public are naturally dissatisfied and have protested to the Shanghai Stock Exchange about Carrefour Supermarket's queue-jumping issue. But they only said one thing to the Shanghai Stock Exchange -

"This is the decision of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government!" They all shut up.

The Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government may need to go to some trouble to discuss with the Shanghai Stock Exchange if they want to support a company's listing, but if they want to suppress a company's listing, that is much simpler. In any case, Shanghai

Shanghai is also the most economically developed city in China, and the Shanghai Stock Exchange is still on its territory.

And more stock investors are overjoyed. The development of Carrefour supermarkets can be really felt around them. Especially in first-tier cities, with the opening of branches one after another, there is also the crowded passenger flow

, it all means that Carrefour Supermarket is developing well now. It is better for a private enterprise with real profits to go public than to state-owned enterprises that are losing money to go public to make money!

Amidst the clamor of the media, people did not notice that on October 17, a local industry association was officially established in Shanghai!