Chapter 90: Garment Factory
The courtyard of more than 1,000 square meters, in addition to the shrubs that are often tended by the wall, is also planted with pine trees and king palm trees, and the sun is just right and the sky is blue.
With a large area of green grass and white houses, where have Gao Boxue and Director Ma seen this meeting, just like Grandma Liu walked into the Grand View Garden, putting aside envy or envy.
The real estate market in the interior is not open, except for some exquisite old buildings left behind earlier, living in a small building is enough to make people drool with envy, and the two of them live in the family area of the factory, and they will inevitably be amazed when they come to the single-family villa in the wealthy area of the port city.
On the way, Gao Boxue inquired about the housing prices near Deep Water Bay Road from the mouth of the taxi driver, and learned that it cost tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, and the two of them only had a fixed salary of a few dozen yuan per month.
Chen Linzhi gave the nannies a sum of cash in advance, asking them to help them go out to buy some food, cook a table of dishes, and use the extra money as a tip.
Because they can be people, the housekeepers and aunts are naturally very happy, buy some seafood beef and mutton and come back, and are busy in the kitchen.
Chen Linzhi, who seemed to regard himself as the owner of the mansion, smiled when he went out to receive the two, and after several people introduced themselves politely, Song Yuewen was curious about Chen Linzhi's business, so she stayed next to him and did not leave.
"I went to the Huaxia Travel Agency in Hong Kong City yesterday to go through the procedures, and after a few days waiting for the visa to come down, I just went to see the goods and went to the Canton Fair to understand the market trends.
Recently, I am looking for sources of goods in the European and American markets, cosmetics, electrical appliances, etc., and only after the field investigation can I figure out what business is easy to do. β
Chen Linzhi had the idea from the beginning that the goods were dumped on both sides, but because there were no sales channels and no time to pave the way, he only purchased goods from the mainland and sold them to the American market.
Met Gao Erudite again, and introduced himself as the director of the horse factory who was in charge of thousands of female workers under his hands, and took the opportunity to find out first-hand information.
In his opinion, if you can catch up with a good time to get the exclusive agency rights of some foreign brands in the mainland, the future will definitely be promising, but how to do it must first complete market research and then ponder.
Director Ma is quite familiar with the Canton Fair, and said with a smile after listening:
"If you ask me, it's the right person, there is a branch factory not far from the venue, we have been participating every year since '79, and this time we will rush over and rent a booth, and both men's and women's clothing are sold.
The orders for bell bottoms received last year were followed up by several times, and it was not until last week that all the goods were rushed out, and a batch of new machines was ordered to expand the scale. β
Gao Boxue found a person, undoubtedly to help support the faΓ§ade, echoed: "Ma factory director their factory, has become a model leader of the joint-stock reform, the recent document said to be public to private, in the future Ma factory director is still the horse factory director, but the factory was directly contracted by them, and the loan was approved nearly one million." Mr. Chen always has a list of clothes, and it can't be wrong to hand it over to him to make a guarantee, and I have discussed the price with the director of the Ma factory, and it is calculated according to the lowest price. β
Chen Linzhi still remembers the history of the reform of public enterprises, but he always felt that it was in the 90s, but he did not expect that there would be signs of it from now on.
Director Ma used to be lazy in troubled waters, anyway, no matter how much money he made in the factory, he had to hand it over in the end.
Not anymore.
Once the garment factory is restructured and successfully contracted by them, they will be responsible for their own profits and losses, and they will make more money, but they will pay for it in case of loss, and their enthusiasm will rise instantly.
Director Ma used to know Gao Boxue, and the two had limited contact.
Recently, Gao Boxue found him and said that there were foreign trade orders to do, and the director of the horse factory came to Hong Kong City with him, in order to directly start the order production at full power once the dust settles on the restructuring plan.
As for why they wait for the restructuring, this is a bit interesting, they are worried that the business situation in the factory will improve, and they will change their minds, so this year there have been some passive sabotage, so to lower the price of the factory, to win loans from credit cooperatives, so far the small trick has been successful.
This is none of Chen Linzhi's business, as long as the price of the goods is low and the order is completed according to the quality and quantity, it will not have any impact on him.
Chen Linzhi listened to the two singing and harmonizing, and said with a smile: "The more workers, the better, my batch of orders is more urgent, and it must be completed and sent to Los Angeles within two months."
Isn't summer coming, a total of 500,000 short-sleeved orders of solid colors and yards, pure cotton material, it should be easier to do, yesterday Brother Gao said that your side is the most reliable, and you can get out in forty days?"
"Solid color, no other pattern, black and white cotton cloth are the two largest quantities, directly give me the style size, cut and produce it, with the scale of workers in our factory, forty days should not be a problem, it is really not possible to ask other factories to catch up with the goods." β
Seeing that the construction period is too short, the director of the horse factory is also making a small calculation in his heart, and now he has received the order to calculate the performance of the state-owned enterprises, and if he does not accept the factory, the funds are tight.
Especially the workers, since the beginning of this year, there has been no batch of goods, and they have not worked overtime after the Spring Festival, and no overtime means less wages, and they have begun to have opinions.
What's more, Gao Erudite was on the way, and he also pointed out that it was settled in US dollars, and dealing with foreign companies could get more loans, and there were also preferential taxes and fees, which had many benefits.
Therefore, the director of the Ma factory still prefers to win this big order first, paving the way for the future, and getting the channel first, so as not to push overseas large customers to other factories.
The first strike is strong, worried that after Chen Linzhi went to the Canton Fair, he would go online with other garment factories.
Unlike these coastal special economic zones, the director of the Ma factory is deeply touched by how crazy state-owned enterprises in some inland provinces can be in order to grab orders.
They don't have an advantage in labor costs alone, wages are higher in the special economic zones, and in many places workers earn less than twenty or thirty yuan a month, and they can't even buy a new hybrid cigarette from China.
Speaking of tobacco and alcohol, this time the director of the Ma factory came over and brought two bottles of China and two bottles of Moutai, and they were handed over to the supply and marketing cooperatives, spending a total of more than 100 yuan.
The price is not high in terms of American income, but in terms of inland income, this gift is already dodgy, and it is rare, and I think Chen Linzhi, a "foreigner", has never seen it.
Chen Linzhi handed them a cigar respectively, nodded and continued to ask: "I have just opened the market for clothing, and there should be a lot of orders in the future, and the salesmen under my hands are running." As long as you have good quality and good workmanship, I will give priority to you directly to the director of the factory in the future, and the price will be ...... Did Manager Gao talk to you?"
Mr. Ma lit his cigar, took a long puff of smoke, and replied:
"Well, the material cost is calculated according to the purchase price, I don't take a penny, I only earn labor fees, three cents a piece, which includes the cost of delivery to the dock. The freight is relatively expensive, and the labor cost of producing this piece alone is estimated to be sixty or seventy thousand, and I really can't make any money, so I should make Mr. Chen, a friend, ......"