The Industrial Giant Reborn

"The colored ones are also assembled. You imported the picture tube from RB?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"It's not RB, it's Wanwan." Lei Shengli shook his head and said, "Wanwan has opened a large foreign color TV company called RCA. It's from the United States. They also make color picture tubes and sell them to outsiders. The price is relatively low. RB's is much cheaper."

"RCA?" Chen Zhiwen thought for a while. He remembered that this American company was not a good company. It directly injected chemical pollutants into the local groundwater, causing serious pollution, but he didn't know if they had started doing this at this time. ?

Seeing that Chen Zhiwen seemed to be thinking about something, Lei Shengli didn't bother him. After a while, Chen Zhiwen said: "That's fine, anyway, it's just assembly. Maybe there will be new opportunities for color TV."

For any kind of product, the core components can only be purchased, which will always be a meager profit, and it will not be able to withstand any storms. In the future, in the field of electrical appliances, Midea will definitely deploy air conditioners, the core compressors of refrigerators, and software and hardware in the electronic age, etc. Wait, but the TV part is a bit of a headache, the layout of the picture tube? Even if technology giants like Sony can spend tens of millions of dollars to develop a new technology, they often click on the technology tree and get nothing in the end.

But it won’t work if you don’t have a layout. There are still more than 30 years in the TV LCD era, and it’s impossible to wait until that time. The most important thing is that Hong Kong doesn’t have talent in this field, and they can’t do it even if they have money. Now we can only take one step at a time. , keep the market first, wait until the mainland opens up, and see if there are any opportunities that belong to us.

"Okay, then I'll send someone to visit Wanwan." Lei Shengli said happily.

"Okay, let's do this first. The focus is on the motor. I want to reduce the cost of the fan as soon as possible." Chen Zhiwen said that in Hong Kong, he is not worried that anyone in the manufacturing industry can beat him, but South Korea's Samsung is a Tough opponents, but in my impression, Samsung electric fans seem to have little reputation, and maybe they don't like this market.

"Understood, then I'll go first." Lei Shengli said goodbye and left the office, leaving Chen Zhiwen alone.

This is a separate first-floor office on the highest floor of the industrial office building. Some administrators and managers work here, and a large one is reserved for the boss Chen Zhiwen, although he may not come here several times a year.

The layout of the physical manufacturing industry has successfully taken the first step, and the next step is to work in two directions. The first is naturally the field of industrial chains. As long as there is money in this area, at least the integration of low-end industrial chains is not a problem, but The second is the expansion of the terminal market. At present, relying on the Middle East market, we can temporarily obtain orders for Midea for a few years, but this will not last long. When the existing brand giants increase their production capacity, all of them will pour in. The market will also be saturated.

And by that time, if Midea fails to develop other markets, it will be doomed. Therefore, it must start to develop the European and American markets. With its current resources, it is natural to first develop the American market. Fortunately, Red Bull is a new player in the beverage market. With the current trend, it is not difficult for products to enter the channels of major supermarkets in the United States. With this relationship, at least people in Midea can have a channel that is not deeply related to communicate with these supermarkets. Although it may not be useful, it is sure It's better than not having this relationship.

As for Costco in the future, it will actually have little effect on Midea. No matter how fast Costco develops, if it wants to have a certain scale, it will take at least five years or even ten years.

After checking Midea's financial information, Chen Zhiwen left the industrial building. Although he was still losing money in the past few months, the development plan was finally within his expectations, so he was naturally a little happy.

Chen Zhiwen, on the other hand, generally likes double the happiness.

The presidential suite of the Hilton Hotel is full of cheerful atmosphere.

After changing a bed sheet, Zhang Yunxue talked about what happened during her last trip. Today she lived alone with Chen Zhiwen in the hotel. This rare opportunity made her very happy.

"Next time I'll buy a cruise ship, you can go wherever you want." Chen Zhiwen yawned while listening to the somewhat boring scenery description. Take a lap, and then stop in several cities for shopping, fun, compensation for food and so on.

Cruises are relatively high-end tourism, and some middle-class people with decent families in Hong Kong will participate. Chen Zhiwen was busy before, so he sent some of these poker friends out for travel.

"A cruise ship costs tens of millions? A building is so expensive?" Zhang Yunxue asked curiously.

Chen Zhiwen smiled and said, "No need, a few million is enough."

Today’s Hong Kong dollars and U.S. dollars are still very valuable. A few million Hong Kong dollars is a very large sum. At the same time, the shipbuilding technology in the 1970s is far inferior to that of later generations. The cruise ships for the rich are all small, and they will wait until the 1980s and 1990s. , Batch after batch of tech tycoons appeared, and large-size cruise ships became the standard equipment for the rich.

"That's really expensive." Zhang Yunxue said.

"I should buy it or buy it, why don't you go and see for me first, which European cruise ships are more beautiful, we will buy one and put it in Hong Kong, so that Hong Kong can go to sea if you get tired of playing here." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile , Playing mahjong at sea is also a hobby of Hong Kong's rich, but he can't mahjong, he can only play poker.

As for choosing a European cruise ship, there is no good choice. In the cruise ship industry, Europe is absolutely number one. Even after 50 years, the mainland has become the world's largest ship manufacturing country, and there is no way to win this field.

Of course, the market in this field itself is very small, and there is nothing worth it.

"I'm going to Europe?" Zhang Yunxue asked.

"It's okay to go, or not to go. There are representatives of these European shipbuilding companies here in Hong Kong. If you release the news, someone will contact you. When you are almost ready, you can go to Europe to see the real thing." Chen Zhiwen shrugged and said. .

Although Hong Kong is small, it is only a small city, but in the 1970s it was the largest customer gathering place in the global shipbuilding industry. There are at least 4 ship kings who can be ranked in the top 50 in the world. At the same time, the four major foreign companies and some Chinese families They also have the business of running ships. Naturally, the global shipbuilding industry attaches great importance to this place. Although the cruise ship industry and commercial ships are different, most of them belong to the same group.

"Good." Zhang Yunxue was very happy, suddenly thought of something, and asked, "Brother Wen, aren't you together?"

"You pick first, put away all the materials, and I'll read them later." Chen Zhiwen said while stroking his smooth hair.