Chapter 222: On the eve of the auction
Helena Bergman had already visited Stanford University, and there was something going on in the middle school.
After she contacted her father to buy the ticket, she told Han Chudong that she would leave that day, and there were many things on the company's side, so Han Chudong only asked the driver to take Helena to the airport.
By the way, I did a little favor and took advantage of the free benefits in the bank to upgrade her to first class.
It's really busy.
From morning till night, it's either a meeting or on the way to a meeting.
The number of Rainbow Beauty stores is in a stage of frantic expansion, and there are many internal and external problems, and they have to personally watch the preparations for the cooperative rights auction.
In addition, Han Chudong also had to find time to personally contact those colleagues who had already arrived in Los Angeles to participate in the auction, and brought people to visit the factory to understand the current situation of the soft mask market.
Just a few minutes earlier, he had taken Johnson & Johnson's senior vice president and Christine Dior's CEO on a tour of the factory, and rushed back to the company after a brief conversation.
It's already past six o'clock in the evening, and today's schedule hasn't been processed yet.
The new assistant is Arthur Jonas, who graduated from the Yale School of Management for two years, is fluent in four Chinese, has a lawyer's license, and has a master's degree in law.
can fight his way out of a bunch of competitors and come to Han Chudong's side as an assistant, and his mind and ability are naturally not much worse.
To be honest, it's much more professional than Mochizuki Kiko, but Han Chudong won't say this fact, unless he wants to make his backyard catch fire.
At this moment.
Han Chudong stretched his waist and asked, "Arthur, what are the arrangements for tonight, deal with it as soon as possible, and you can also get off work early." ”
Arthur Jonas is nearly thirty years old, with brown hair and black-rimmed glasses, just judging from his temperament and dress, he looks more like a boss than Han Chudong.
Arthur, after reviewing the itinerary down to the minute, told:
"Boss, forty-six minutes ago, the director of the beauty business said that the director of this branch asked you to call him back, and the jet lag was just right. And then there's Mr. Cowleygan, the director of Warner Studios, who invites you to his private party, saying that he wants to talk about the Jaws movie.
In addition to that, you have a thirty-minute break, and if you don't want to go to Mr. Cowligan's, you can go to the Red Cross Relief charity fundraiser. To be honest, I've looked at your previous schedule, and you have ignored almost all of your invitations to social parties, and those occasions may actually help your business, such as meeting with the celebrity gentlemen of the constituency, Mayor Villaralegosa is coming to the end of his term, and you should pay more attention to that. ”
Han Chudong was quite satisfied with the new assistant, nodded and replied: "I understand, but I don't plan to participate in these activities in the past few days, just help me push it off, and finish the auction first." ”
In addition to arranging trips and assisting in the management of the company, Arthur Jonas is also valued in other aspects, such as coordinating the specific work of the secretary's office, and handling matters such as intelligence gathering and organizing meetings in an orderly manner.
Before him, Mochizuki Kiko had too soft a personality to control the guys in the secretary's office, and it was all Han Chudong's first order that she would solve it as required.
Yes, I tried my best, but I certainly didn't have the ability of Assistant Arthur.
Speaking of which, Mochizuki Kiko is only an accounting major, and she has no experience as a secretary, and the size of the company is better than when she was a child, but then she began to be in a hurry and couldn't cope with it.
Now that she has been transferred to other departments, Han Chudong is relaxed, she is also relaxed, and she is good to each other.
Assistant Arthur nodded and finished recording, crossed out some of the night's arrangements, and continued: "Then today is only left to contact the office of the local office, and after reading these documents, the red folders are urgent, and the blue ones can be left for tomorrow." ”
Han Chudong flipped through it casually and found that it was some financial statements again.
Baofeng Electric Company plans to open five stores at a time in Oregon and three stores in Texas first, and without his signature, the finance will not agree to the loan.
There is also rainbow beauty, and his signature must be on the budget plan copy of the next advertisement before it can be implemented.
In the company's finances, Han Chudong took all the power into his own hands and hired a third-party accounting firm to regularly review the accounts to prevent "big rats".
When the scale becomes large, the management company depends on the rules.
Finance, procurement, and senior executives are the three aspects that he grasps the most, and the human resources are not taken care of for the time being, mainly because of the rapid development, and it is difficult to make specific adjustments because of the influx of new people every day.
In the future, when it gradually stabilizes, it will definitely be a big wave of gold panning, and it will be paid more and more attention.
Now Han Chudong is only staring at the middle and upper executives, who is responsible for not doing a good job, sorry, hurry up and get the money out......
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During the day the next day, it was busy from morning to evening.
Hundreds of rainbow beauty counters will start operating in a month or two, and it is already difficult to open a store itself, not to mention marketing, management, warehousing and logistics.
Need.
Han Chudong spent money to hire a third-party company to help recruit him.
Ask for money.
The entire Mason United Group's funds, including the profits of Mango Toy Company, were concentrated in Rainbow Beauty, and another loan was obtained from the First Quanye Bank.
Even expensive TV advertising channels have begun to get involved, just to catch up with competitors and make Rainbow Beauty's business grow as much as possible and form brand soft power before competitors appear.
It seems that the situation is difficult, but in fact it can barely be coped with, after all, there is no travel pool for funds, markets, and quality, and more and more female consumers have begun to pay attention to soft mask products, relying on the ex-boyfriend series of masks alone, which can provide nearly two million US dollars of liquidity every day, which is a terrible number.
If he is not sure, how dare Han Chudong expand at full speed.
In the evening, I went home to take a shower, changed into a Gucci black suit, and went out again without even eating, rushing to the Marriott Hotel in the center of the city.
Before he arrived, many bidders who were invited or took the initiative to participate had already arrived at the small auction site in advance, which can also show how much importance they attach to this auction tonight.
Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble are bitter rivals, and they both sent a senior vice president to the company, followed by a group of people.
When the two senior vice presidents of the world's top 500 companies met, they could detect the smell of gunpowder from a few meters away, and Christine Dior, as well as Maybelline and other company executives, knew that something was wrong before the auction began, and their funds could not compare with these two old giants of daily necessities, even Estee Lauder, Shiseido, etc., could not fight, and could only pin their hopes on that they did not want so much.
The reserve price of the auction has reached $35 million, and the news has been made public......