There was basically nothing going on before the Spring Festival. Zhou Nan officially resigned from his position as the general manager of Lanhai Company, and was temporarily "without an official position".
Lan Ruo could not come to Haidu until after the Spring Festival. Zhou Nan had nothing to do, so he took the initiative to go to the Feiteng Group headquarters and temporarily took charge of Lan Ruo for a few days. Although he nominally had nothing to do with Feiteng, in fact he still
He is the founder and actual controller of Feiteng. Who in the Feiteng Group dares to say no!
The Spring Festival is coming soon. For Zhou Nan, the Spring Festival of 1998 is not much different from previous years. It is just as bland and boring.
In the meantime, except for a trip to his hometown with his parents to spend a few days at his grandparents' house, he basically stayed at home to rest every day, or went to the Feiteng Group headquarters to participate in management decisions, refusing all social activities.
Feiteng Group did not suspend production during the Chinese New Year, and many workers would rather bring their families and stay in the factory to work overtime for the holiday than go home for the holidays. In addition to the attraction of high wages, Feiteng has probably initially formed an effective corporate cohesion within Feiteng.
In an enterprise, when workers subconsciously regard the enterprise as their home, the enterprise's corporate culture is considered to be relatively successful.
Zhou Nan once told Lan Ruo that when he was leading and shaping Feiteng's corporate culture and corporate spirit, he took a seemingly funny and childish shortcut - that is, he sincerely treated his employees by paying salaries that were higher than those of other companies in the same industry.
and generous welfare benefits to unite the hearts of employees. Facts have proved that this approach is correct. The company has spent a little more on salary costs, but the income is far beyond what money can measure.
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Of course, Zhou Nan has to have a phone call with Lan Ruo and Zhang Ying every night to care about and pay attention to the situation in Hong Kong. At the same time, he will feed back the situation at the headquarters to the two women so that they can control the overall situation in Hong Kong at any time.
Zhang Ying sent her parents to Australia to settle down before the holiday, and bought a garden house in an Australian city, allowing her parents to live a happy and peaceful pastoral life abroad.
After that, Zhang Ying concentrated on controlling the situation of Guanhao Group in Hong Kong. In fact, with the "secret support" of Lan Ruo and Lan's Enterprise, Chen Guanhao and his son could not stand up at all, and could only watch Feiteng Group slowly take control
Reach in.
Therefore, with the passage of time, Zhang Ying and Ma Xiaojing gradually grasped the real power of Guanhao, and gradually replaced the group's top managers and arranged for people from Feiteng Company to take up positions.
At the same time, Lan Ruo came forward and Zhang Ying cooperated. The two women organized a high-level management recruitment fair in Hong Kong a few days before the Spring Festival to recruit high-level corporate management talents from all of Hong Kong and the entire Chinese-speaking region.
After all, whether it is the headquarters of Feiteng Group, Feiteng International or Guanhao Group, the prototype of the entire Feiteng business kingdom has been basically completed, and senior management talents are in urgent need.
Feiteng Group has a good reputation, offers relatively high salaries, and applicants are very enthusiastic. Under Lan Ruo's arrangement, more than a dozen of her middle and high-level managers from Lan's Enterprise Group Headquarters and Lanli Energy Investment also applied to Lan's
The enterprise group resigned and came to Feiteng to apply for a job.
Because of her education and family background, Lan Ruo's management ability and capital operation vision for controlling enterprises are far superior to Zhang Ying's. Under Lan Ruo's unified deployment, the newly recruited personnel were assigned to Feiteng Group Headquarters, Feiteng International and Guanhao Group
Served in various companies he belongs to.
At the same time, Lanruo also relied on Guanhao Group's industries in Southeast Asian countries and the United States to set up branches or commercial offices of Feiteng Group in the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia and neighboring island countries. The next step is to gradually expand the business
and market expansion overseas.
Before the Spring Festival, Lan's Enterprise headquarters held a press conference. At the press conference, Lan Ruo announced that she would give up her status as the heir to Lan's Enterprise, resign as director, vice chairman and executive president of Lan's Enterprise Group, and no longer hold any Lan's Enterprises.
Group and its subsidiaries' equity, and officially took over as chairman and president of Feiteng Group.
This news once again triggered a news "battle" in Hong Kong and the mainland, but the protagonist was changed from Zhou Nan to Lan Ruo.
Lan Ruo spent the Spring Festival in Hong Kong and originally planned to come to Haidu on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. But just before she set off, she suddenly received an important business opportunity: Fengming Co., Ltd., the largest garment giant in the neighboring island country, was seeking asset restructuring from all over the world.
partners.
Previously, Mingming had a year-long negotiation and cooperation with a German company. Just when the cooperation was about to succeed, the German company announced that it would withdraw from the investment midway for unknown reasons. After that, Mingming Co., Ltd. set its sights again.
Hong Kong sent people to contact Lan's Enterprise to discuss cooperation matters.
From this, Lan Ruo became interested. Although Feiteng Group's current main business is in the field of fragrance production and manufacturing, Guanhao Group's industrial sector has a large clothing industry, with seven or eight clothing companies. With this,
With such a foundation, it is still feasible for Feiteng Group to enter the field of clothing design and ready-made clothing.
More importantly, in Lan Ruo's view, this is a rare opportunity for Feiteng Group to invest overseas and occupy the market. It will first establish a foothold overseas, and then slowly develop from point to point, radiating and developing, until it establishes Feiteng Group in
Overseas business system.
Lan Ruo thought for a long time and decided to take action decisively. The opportunity was rare, and if you miss it, you would miss it. So Lan Ruo immediately called Zhou Nan to discuss it with Zhou Nan.
"Zhou Nan, as far as I know, this company was once the largest clothing brand operator in the island country. It operates more than 30 famous clothing brands in the country and Europe, and has more than 2,000 clothing stores in the island country."
"However, in recent years, Mingming's situation has been in decline and has been losing money for four consecutive years. Mingming's annual report for fiscal year 1997 shows that its operating income decreased by 17.3% year-on-year to only 69 billion yen, with a net loss of 10.9 billion yen.
Although it is still among the top 10 clothing operators in the island country, it is already in trouble and faces the danger of bankruptcy."
"Our acquisitions and involvement in the past have three benefits. First, we take the opportunity to go overseas and establish Feiteng's marketing base overseas; second, we can not only directly enter the island market, but also acquire world-famous brands such as Durban, and in turn,
In the future, we can also switch to domestic sales and develop the huge domestic clothing market; third, we can go public in island countries through backdoor listings to achieve financing."
"We only need 4 billion yen in capital, which is about 300 million yuan in total, to control more than 50% of the equity of Fangfang, slowly take Fangfang as our own, and use it as a platform to establish our market base.
Lan Ruo said softly.
Zhou Nan pondered for a moment and smiled, "Xiao Ruo, you can do it if you think you can. You are the chairman of the group now, so you make the decision."
"I'm not discussing this with you..." Lan Ruo said coquettishly.
"The acquisition is the acquisition. In fact, it is not a big problem. We are trying to develop into other market areas. But I think we need to pay attention to two issues. On the one hand, it is funding. Feiteng has just completed the acquisition of the equity of Guanhao Group. At present,
Is there some difficulty in terms of funds? On the other hand, when dealing with islanders, you need to be extra careful."
"As far as I know, island companies prefer to be acquired by companies from European and American countries. They have some natural psychological resistance to mergers and acquisitions by Chinese companies. Legally speaking, as long as the shareholders of island companies agree to be acquired, it is fine, but island companies
Usually there are many old employees. Many of them have been working for the same company since they graduated from university and have a strong sense of belonging. Therefore, the board of directors attaches great importance to their opinions... They will worry that when Chinese shareholders come in, they may take away their technology and destroy the company.
Once you empty it out, forget about it..."
"In our opinion, it is enough to pay the equity transfer fee and buy the equity of the other company. In fact, the real difficulty lies in how to maintain the subsequent operations of the company. I think on the surface, it looks like acquiring an island company
It’s not difficult. You may be able to buy a small company for 1 million US dollars, but in the end we will find that after buying it, you have to bear a lot of costs such as not allowing layoffs or lowering wages, and you also have to negotiate with the labor union for follow-up.
The operation... is very troublesome!"
Zhou Nan said softly and slowly that these were his "experiences" from his previous life, but he couldn't tell Lan Ruoming.
But Lan Ruo already knew this, because Lan's company had dealt with many islanders.
"I understand all this. What you said is correct. It is indeed the case." Lan Ruo chuckled, "However, I am very experienced in dealing with island people. It is usually easier to discuss cooperation with island people, but it is easier to discuss cooperation with people from Europe and the United States.
When people talk about cooperation, they will be specific about every detail; Europeans and Americans like to determine the details of the terms in advance, and then implement them according to this mechanism, while the islanders like to develop a mechanism to solve the problem after discovering it. In fact, we Chinese are also the same
so."
"We are somewhat similar to the island countries in terms of cultural concepts. Everyone thinks that if we have good emotional communication at the beginning, we can fully cooperate in the future." Lan Ruo smiled, "Actually, in capital operations, Eastern culture is not suitable for business transactions.
There is a spirit of contract like in Europe and the United States."
"Therefore, when discussing cooperation with island country companies, it is safer to follow the European and American methods. All the details have been agreed upon, and after considering it, we are not afraid of them doing tricks later." Lan Ruo laughed, "Okay, as long as you don't object, I will
Just make preliminary contacts with famous people. As for the funds, you don’t need to worry, I will find a solution. If it doesn’t work, I can borrow part of it from Lan’s Enterprise first.”
"By the way, having said this, I remembered something. Feiteng Group should also set up an internal bank. Without such a financial platform, with so many subsidiaries, it is difficult to achieve financial control, and it is also not conducive to the development of funds.
Make reasonable use of it." Lan Ruo said hurriedly, "When I get there, we will start working on this matter. Zhou Nan, I may not be able to go back on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year... postpone it to the tenth day of the Lunar New Year. I'll stay and talk to the famous people."
Lan Ruo was obviously in a hurry to meet with the islanders, so she hung up the phone in a hurry.
Later facts proved that Lan Ruo's decision this time was a move with far-reaching consequences. In just two years, Feiteng Group not only successfully established a foothold in the island country, but also reorganized its holding Fengming Co., Ltd. into Feiteng Fengming Company (Group
), making fame become again
The island country's largest leading garment company has also successfully acquired three other island countries companies, extending its business reach into the core industries that the island country is proud of - electronic products and automobile manufacturing. It holds a 10-year stake in Hita Motors, the island country's largest automobile manufacturer.
% of shares.
By the time the islanders "woke up", Feiteng had taken deep roots in the island country and grown rapidly, gradually penetrating into many fields such as clothing design and manufacturing, electronic home appliances, automobile manufacturing, and financial product investment, employing tens of thousands of island employees.
People are inseparable and closely related to the economy of the island country, and they “can’t stop”.
An island country media later commented fiercely, "Fame Company lured the wolf into the house and is a sinner in the history of the island country!"
The backlash came back, but because Feiteng abides by the rules and disciplines of the island country and strictly abides by the laws of the island country, employs all employees from the island country, pays a lot of taxes, and promotes social and economic development, some ethnic radicals can no longer "make a fuss" even if they make a fuss.
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Putting down the phone, Zhou Nan couldn't help but smile. Although Lan Ruo claimed to have given up her identity as the heir of Lan's Enterprise and resigned from all positions in Lan's Enterprise, in fact, as Lan Tiancheng's only direct granddaughter, how could she
Is it possible that he really has nothing to do with Lan's Enterprise?
These are all tacit things. As for Lan Ruo's aunt Lan Xingyue and her family, as long as Lan Ruo doesn't come back to fight for the Lan family's property in the future, it will be up to her.
With the official document signed by Lan Ruo in hand, the Huang family feels confident and is not afraid of Lan Ruo's regret. But who knows, who said that if Lan Ruo is not the heir, he must be a member of the Huang family? There seems to be an inevitable causal relationship, but it is not.
.
When Lan Xingyue figured this out later, she regretted it, but it was already too late.
As Zhou Nan guessed, Mingming Co., Ltd. was indeed not interested in cooperating with Feiteng Group, a Chinese mainland enterprise. Due to the pressure of the upcoming break of the capital chain and capital operation difficulties, they had no choice but to come to Hong Kong to seek help from Lan Enterprises. In their view, this
This is already considered the worst of last resorts. If European and American companies are interested, they will definitely not seek support from Chinese companies.
But Lan's Enterprise resolutely rejected their cooperation proposal without leaving any room. Just when the two executives sent to Hong Kong by Mingming, Shishi Saburo and Kurai Ken, were about to leave Hong Kong and return to China in disappointment, the daughter of Lan's Enterprise
Miss Lan Ruo suddenly came to them and offered them an olive branch.
They had heard a little bit about Lan Ruo since they came to Hong Kong, and they also heard a little bit about Feiteng's strength. But if they wanted to agree to cooperate with Feiteng, they were still quite worried.
However, no matter how great the concerns were, they could not withstand the pressure of bankruptcy and closure. Representatives of Meimei Company called back that day and repeatedly solicited the opinions of the headquarters. After receiving the notice, Meimei Co., Ltd. in Tokyo immediately made an emergency temporary board of directors to study and discuss the matter.
Lan Ruo waited for a day, and the next morning, Shishi Saburo, on behalf of Renmin Co., Ltd., agreed to conduct further cooperation negotiations with Feiteng Group.
Lan Ruo summoned Zhang Ying and Ma Xiaojing, and mobilized several elites from Feiteng International who were skilled in business negotiations to form a strong team, and launched three days of arduous negotiations at the hotel where Saburo and Kurai Ken were staying.
The minimum limit given by Renmin Headquarters was 40% of the equity, but Feiteng insisted that it must hold a controlling stake. The two sides were tit-for-tat and refused to give in, and the negotiation almost collapsed in the end.
For Lan Ruo, if she cannot take control of the island country's company this time, it will become a wedding dress for the island country people, and it will be a waste of financial resources to help Mingming Co., Ltd. tide over the difficulties. Lan Ruo will never do this kind of loss-making business. She will never do it.
At the same time, I also knew that Zhou Nan would never agree.
Seeing that Saburo and Ken Kurai had no intention of giving in, Lan Ruo led everyone in Feiteng and walked away, and the negotiation broke down.
Next, Shizuo Saburo and Kurai Ken continued to stay in Hong Kong to seek partners, but unfortunately they both hit a wall.
On the island country, the situation of Mingming Co., Ltd. is even more tense. Because wages have been continuously reduced, many workers have gathered to cause trouble, and the island government has also intervened, leaving the boss of Mingming Co., Ltd. Taka Soto in a state of embarrassment.
Amid internal and external troubles, and with no choice but to do so, Gao Cangteng flew to Hong Kong in person and restarted cooperation negotiations with Lan Ruo. After bargaining and confrontation of interests, the two parties finally reached an agreement that Feiteng International would finance 4 billion yen to acquire Mingming Co., Ltd. 51
% of the equity, took over Mingming Co., Ltd. and became the largest shareholder.
After signing the cooperation agreement, the real asset restructuring had not yet begun, and Fengming couldn't wait to release the "asset restructuring" gimmick news in the domestic financial market. On the Tokyo stock market that day, Fengming's shares soared.
Several senior executives who switched jobs from Lan's Enterprises all have rich experience in doing business with islanders, and one is even proficient in the island language. Lanruo immediately dispatched a merger and reorganization team consisting of three senior executives and five middle-level managers.
The working group flew to Tokyo.
After finishing all this work, it was already the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, and Lan Ruo took the opportunity to fly to Haidu.
At this time, Zhou Nan was already a little impatient with the waiting. The appointment of the Provincial Party Committee Organization Department will be issued after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, which means that after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, he will rush to take up a post in the Central and South Region and leave Haidu.
According to Zhou Nan, the Zhou family should change to another house. The current house is too small and cannot be lived in. If it were before, Zhou Ningyu would definitely not agree, but now because his future daughter-in-law Lan wants to live at home permanently, it is indeed
It was a bit inconvenient, so Zhou Ningyu nodded in agreement.
It's just that I haven't found a suitable house yet, and I can't rush it. I can only think of ways slowly.
Lan Ruo directly "occupied" Zhou Nan's bedroom, but Zhou Nan had to be "expelled" by her mother to the study room and built a wire bed to survive. Although Zhou Nan wanted to shamelessly "squeeze" with Lan Ruo, she saw
Looking at his mother's very serious face, he knew that this good thing was basically useless.