This was the first time Lin Mai saw the completed and renovated Vantone Group headquarters building.
With a total of sixteen floors, it can definitely be called a high-rise building in this era.
The shape of the building is very beautiful.
Although Yu Lao did not intend to design it as a landmark at the time, it became one.
Lin Mai got out of the taxi and passed by the doorman. The new doorman did not recognize her and asked her to register her information before entering.
Lin Mai did not reveal his identity and registered in a polite manner.
Before the registration was completed, a male voice was heard: "Uncle Wang, you are getting more and more courageous. You actually dare to ask our Mr. Lin to register."
Uncle Wang immediately panicked: "Oh, it's Mr. Lin, so there's no need to register."
Lin Mai smiled and said: "What's wrong with me being the president? I follow the same rules and regulations.
In our company, we do not engage in privileges.
Uncle Wang, you have done a good job and you will continue to do so in the future.
I will tell the human resources department later that I will give you an extra ten yuan bonus this month."
Uncle Wang was overjoyed when he heard this and kept thanking Lin Mai.
Lin Mai finished registering and smiled at Uncle Wang: "You're welcome. This is what you deserve for your hard work."
After saying this, she turned around and saw Zhao Liang.
He was wearing a crisp suit, a pair of shiny leather shoes, and a woolen coat outside the suit.
Just like the big brother in Hong Kong movies, he is very stylish.
Lin Mai entered the company with him, and she couldn't help but look at him: "You were not so particular about your clothes before, how come you suddenly become so particular?"
Zhao Liang chuckled and said, "Mr. Zheng arranged a super luxurious office for me. If I don't dress better, it won't match the office."
Lin Mai soon brought the topic to the dispute in the dormitory building of the light factory and asked Zhao Liang what was going on.
She hurried back to Jiangcheng this time just because Shen Xiaoping reported to her.
There was a dispute in the dormitory building of the Qingqing Factory, and Gao Yuanzhong, who was in charge of Wantong Real Estate and Jiangcheng Real Estate, could not resolve it.
Let her go back to Jiangcheng as soon as possible to resolve this matter.
When the dispute over the dormitory building of the light factory was mentioned, Zhao Liang suddenly sighed: "It's all my fault that Brother Feng got caught up in something in Hong Kong.
He handed over all the real estate projects in Jiangcheng to Gaoyuan Zhong.
But this man in the plateau couldn't bear to see others pretend to be pitiful in front of him and suffer miserably.
The director of the light factory cried a few times in front of him, and he relented.
Without any payment from them, the workers of the light factory were allowed to move into new houses.
As soon as they moved in, the director of the light factory turned against him and agreed to give one-third of the money to the workers as soon as they moved in.
Now I won’t give you a penny, and I’m still hiding from Xiao Gao who comes to ask for money.”
Lin Mai felt a headache after hearing this.
Not to mention that the light factory is extremely poor, even if others are extremely rich.
If you ask employees to move into the dormitory and then wait for them to pay, you are afraid that they won't pay a penny until you die.
Why is it so outrageous in this plateau? Don’t you know how to pay with one hand and deliver the goods with the other hand?
Chen Feng arranged the wrong person this time, just like Zhuge Liang mistook Ma Su, and asked him to guard the street pavilion, which resulted in heavy losses.
Will he suffer heavy losses like Zhuge Liang?
The two took the elevator, and Lin Mai was led by Zhao Liang to the small conference room.
It is said to be a small conference room, but it is more than twice the size of the small conference room in Jinxiu Clothing.
All the furniture placed inside is high-quality office furniture. In addition, there are also several pots of green plants. The entire conference room looks very high-end.
The only shortcoming is that the small conference room is a bit large and there is no heating facility, so it feels a bit cold when people sit in it.
But the executives here ignored the cold and were all worried about the fact that the light factory could not get the money to build houses.
In fact, it's not just the wages for building the house, but also the materials advanced by Wantong Real Estate, totaling hundreds of thousands.
Lin Mai looked around the crowd and asked, "Why didn't Manager Gao come to the meeting?"
The high manager she talks about is Gao Yuanzhong.
Zheng Xudong said: "Manager Gao led his people to chase and intercept the director of the light factory.
Isn't it about to celebrate the New Year? Such a large sum of money for the project must be recovered.
Otherwise, how will the wages of migrant workers be paid?”
The 1980s were not as good as the following decades.
In the next few decades, if companies default on the wages of migrant workers, the government will help to collect them.
But now, there are very few cases of arrears of wages to migrant workers, and the government has not thought of such a situation, so it has not introduced policies to help migrant workers get their wages.
Lin Mai thought that if she couldn't get the money back even if she took action, she would go to the superiors.
Let's have a meeting now.
Ren Baozhu spoke first, saying that there has been a craze for Jinxiu clothing franchise stores in first- and second-tier cities across the country.
But she doesn't dare to move too fast. Currently, there are only 30 Jinxiu Clothing franchise stores in first-tier cities, and only ten franchise stores in second-tier cities.
The quota is currently full.
The Chinese New Year was about to come, and in order to grab business during the twelfth lunar month, Ren Baozhu asked the franchisees to put up unified signs and start business.
After the Chinese New Year is over and the off-season for clothing sales enters, we will uniformly decorate the stores for those franchisees.
This was a good solution. Lin Mai praised Ren Baozhu, and then asked Ren Baozhu to cancel the Jinxiu clothing wholesale point from her clothing wholesale building.
Ren Baozhu was stunned for a moment: "Why do you want to cancel the wholesale point? Doesn't that mean you have blocked a sales channel?"
Lin Madao: "The cancellation of wholesale points is to improve the business of franchisees.
Only if the business of franchisees is better, more bosses will join."
Although her original dream was to make Jinxiu the number one luxury product in China.
But the ideal is very full, and the reality is very skinny.
Jinxiu clothing is already very famous, but the price is only around 200 to 300 yuan. It can only be considered an affordable luxury, which is far from the price of luxury brands.
Jinxiu Clothing cannot follow the route of a luxury brand because of the current national conditions.
Ordinary people's wallets are not warm. If you ask them to spend several months' salary to buy a piece of clothing, no matter how good the quality of the clothing is and how fashionable the style, not many people will be willing to buy it.
In this case, let’s just stick to the light luxury route for now.
When the time is ripe, it will slowly transform into a high-end luxury brand.
She will never give up on this goal.
Because the profits from high-end luxury products are so huge, why should she let foreign high-end luxury brands make money from Chinese people?
Wouldn’t it be nice for her to make money?
To take the light luxury route, open more franchise stores and earn franchise fees, decoration fees, management fees, and supply fees.
Although Ren Baozhu was reluctant to give up the wholesale business, she could not refute Lin Mai's decision and had no choice but to nod in agreement.
Zheng Xudong said that in the past two months, he has opened more than a dozen new Baohaochi chain stores and Human Fireworks chain stores in Jiangcheng.
Lin Mai nodded and asked him to open Baohaoshi and Human Fireworks chain stores not only in Jiangcheng, but also in other cities, striving to flourish across the country.
Moreover, it is required that the chain stores of Kaibao Haochi and Human Fireworks must be located in stable business districts. Shops that can be bought must be bought, and those that cannot be bought must be rented for a long time.
The delivery and supply chain of delicious packages and human fireworks in each city must keep up.
As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses are moved, the food and grass should go first. This trick is not only applicable to wars, but also to business wars.
Zheng Xudong quickly took out his notebook and wrote down Lin Mai's words seriously.
However, he still had some questions in his mind: why should the store be bought or rented for a long time?
When he raised the question in his mind, Lin Mai did not explain it and asked him to just do as she told him.
Next, Hou Xinyi spoke and said that the production scale of Jinxiu clothing is not small now, and the scraps of cloth left every day are calculated in tons.
These scraps of cloth are not enough to make clothes for infants and young children, but they are still enough to make slippers for winter.
He wanted to set up a slipper factory to recruit disabled people, and asked Lin Mai if it was feasible.
Lin Mai nodded: "As long as you can make money, that's fine.
We can use the money earned from the slipper factory exclusively for charity."
She thought for a while and then added: "The scraps of cloth in autumn and winter are all thick fabrics that can be used to make slippers and sell them.
The scraps of cloth in spring and summer are all thin fabrics that can be sold as mops.
In this way, disabled workers in the slipper factory will have work all year round and will not have to take breaks in spring and summer, making their lives more secure."
Hou Xinyi nodded: "Okay, that's what I'll do later."
Following Lin Mai's instructions, Zhao Liang opened not only two food markets but four food markets at once after returning from the capital, overfulfilling the task.
Now all the three towns in Jiangcheng have their Fuduoduo vegetable market.
People in the three towns can buy the ingredients they want in this area.
We no longer have to go to Jianghan District across the river and across the bridge to buy a few kilograms of beef and mutton that are free of charge, as before. Life is much more convenient.
In addition to reporting good news, Zhao Liang also reported a sorrow.
However, this concern has no impact on Fuduoduo Vegetable Market, it only affects vegetable farmers.
That is, although there are already six Fuduoduo vegetable markets in Jiangcheng, there are too many greenhouse vegetables grown in the suburbs and rural areas around Jiangcheng this year.
As a result, both the purchasing price and selling price of greenhouse vegetables have plummeted.
However, there are still many greenhouse vegetables grown by farmers that may not be sold and rot in the ground.
Lin Mai once said that if the farmers who supply them encounter difficulties, they must find ways to solve them.
Farmers have been working hard for a year, and it is not easy to grow some crops.
But Zhao Liang couldn't solve it, so he raised the matter as a problem.
Lin Mai thought for a while and asked Zhao Liang to contact state-owned markets in surrounding provincial capitals, such as Changsha and Zhengzhou, to purchase greenhouse vegetables and sell them to them.
The economic conditions of the people in the provincial capital are not too bad, so they can definitely afford greenhouse vegetables, not to mention that the prices of greenhouse vegetables have dropped this year.
In this way, the difficulties of vegetable farmers in Hu Province can be solved, Fuduoduo Vegetable Market can also make some money from it, and it can also enrich the vegetable baskets of brother provincial capitals, killing three birds with one stone.
Zhao Liang chuckled and said, "Why didn't I think of buying greenhouse vegetables and selling them to other provincial capitals? Mr. Lin is so smart."
Lin Mai smiled.
Her head is not necessarily much smarter than the executives here, she just has the experience of her previous life.
Next, other executives spoke.
After all the senior executives had finished speaking, Lin Mai also handled some matters on the spot and ordered Shen Xiaoping to set up a poverty alleviation foundation for the company.
The funds come from Vantone Group and do not accept external donations.
Anyway, Hou Xinyi wanted to set up a slipper factory, so it was not without funding sources.
Even if the profits of the slipper factory are too small and the money for charity is not enough, the head office can subsidize some more.
If you are poor, you can only benefit yourself; if you are rich, you can help the world.
Now that Lin Mai has money, it's time to give back to society.
If you make so much money, you won’t be able to bring it with you when you are alive, and you won’t be able to take it with you when you die.
Using a little money to do good deeds will not affect her quality of life, but it can help people in need. Why not do it?
The reason why she does not accept external donations is because she does not want to have a bad reputation of making money in the name of poverty alleviation.
Her worries are not groundless.
In her previous life, a female singer with a very positive energy set up a charity fund, but was questioned about making money in the name of the fund.
Although most netizens support the female singer, anyone involved in such a thing will feel bad.
The female singer can explain clearly when she encounters this kind of thing, but Wantong Group may not be able to explain clearly.
Lin Mai didn't want to be misunderstood after giving out money, so he should avoid it from the beginning.
In addition to asking Shen Xiaoping to register a charity fund, Lin Mai also asked her to organize a small team dedicated to charity.
Vantone Group's charity event at the end of this year is to select 3,000 poor families.
Each poor family will receive a donation of 100 yuan from Vantone Group to allow them to have a peaceful Spring Festival.
Three thousand poor families may not sound like a lot, but 100 yuan per family is a total of 300,000. This amount is still astonishing.
While Shen Xiaoping was taking notes, she thought to herself that she couldn't let Mr. Lin spend the three hundred thousand yuan in vain, and she had to let the media know about it.