Chapter 278: The Return of the King
After Luo Jun successfully applied for the job, the first task he received was to hand over the management of the more than 1,700 stores with Watsons Group.
It's a bit of a lot of work, and it's never something that one person can do.
The benefits of choosing Luo Jun were also reflected, and he went straight to Watson's Huaguo Branch Company.
Stepping into the door of the company again, Luo Jun was full of emotion, last time he was "blamed for resigning", and he left in disgrace.
But this time, I can be regarded as the return of the king!
Seeing Luo Jun, many old employees greeted him in surprise: "Mr. Luo, why are you here?"
"Luo is always good!"
Luo Jun has been in charge of the mainland business for so many years, and he still has prestige, which of these employees of the branch was not personally recruited by him and led on the road by hand.
"Boss?!, why are you here?"
Luo Jun's assistant Xiao Lu shouted in surprise.
Hearing the noise outside, the current general manager, that is, Mike, a native of Xiangjiang who came with Luo Jun last time, was displeased.
He asked his secretary: "What are the employees doing outside, they are so noisy during working hours, no wonder the accident in the mainland store a while ago was caused by Luo Jun's lax discipline!"
The secretary quietly probed and observed, and hurriedly turned around and reported: "It's Luo Jun who is back again!"
Mike was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself what Luo Jun was doing when he came back again, isn't this making trouble!
Originally, Mike was very annoyed in the past few days, and he had survived for so many years, from a middle-level manager in the headquarters, to finally survive to his current position.
This is the general manager of Huaguo, Watsons personal care chain stores has the largest number, and it is also the market that the group attaches the most importance to!
It was about to take off, but the chain store business was sold by the group......
After the new boss takes over, it remains to be said whether he can still sit in this position. One by one, the leaders of the headquarters returned to the group, and the regional manager like himself was abandoned.
I want to go back to the group and there is no suitable position, so let's stay, and I'm not sure what the future holds, so Mike has been on fire for the past few days.
Furious, he got up and pulled open the door to his office and went outside to the common area.
Luo Jun was still greeting his old subordinates when he heard someone talking loudly.
"Luo Jun, you are no longer an employee of Watsons, what are you doing here?"
Looking up, Luo Jun found that it was the new general manager Mike shouting, although he was unhappy, Luo Jun still greeted with a smile: "Hello Mike, I also have business to do when I came over today." β
"Oh, what can you do, haven't you been expelled from the group?" said Mike, impatiently.
In fact, his usual personality is not so mean, but he is really irritable these days, and his future is uncertain, where can he have a good temper.
Luo Jun couldn't help it now, he said with a straight face: "Let me correct it, I resigned by myself, not to be fired!" And what is the reason for that incident, the people present are not outsiders, everyone knows, Mike, it's not interesting for you to say that." β
Mike opened his mouth, he wanted to speak and stopped, he knew that Luo Jun was right, and he couldn't refute it if he wanted to.
But he quickly asked again, "Well, since you said you are here for business, what is the matter?"
Without waiting for Luo Jun to answer, Mike patted his head and suddenly said: "You won't be the business representative of a small cosmetics company and want to enter the Watsons chain store, let me tell you, don't think that you know a lot of people in the company, you can go through the relationship to get preferential conditions, everything must be in accordance with the company's rules and regulations!"
This kind of thing is also common, people who go out from Watsons are hired by a cosmetics company with a high salary, and then specialize in docking Watsons' channel business. Therefore, Mike thought that Luo Jun had also done this.
Luo Jun was speechless, this Mike was thinking too much, he didn't bother to go around in circles, and said directly: "You know about Meigo.com's acquisition of Watsons' chain store business, and now I am hired by Meigo.com to officially take charge of the chain store business department, so ......"
There was an uproar and exclamation in the company, and of course, most people were happy.
Xiao Lu said in surprise: "Boss, have you been hired by Meigou to manage all the chain stores?!"
"It's still Mr. Luo, who turned around and changed from the general manager of Huaguo District to the boss of the entire business department!"
"Congratulations to Mr. Luo!"
Mike was also dumbfounded, of course he knew about the acquisition of the chain store business by Meigo.com, isn't he having a headache these days!
Of course, he doesn't think that Luo Jun is talking about it, everyone is an elite in the workplace, and they won't be so naΓ―ve. Since Luo Jun said so, it proves that things are indeed like that.
But if he said this, wouldn't Luo Jun be his top boss in the future......
Mike is worthy of being an elite who has been in the workplace for many years, and his face immediately changed, and he said to Luo Jun with a smile on his face: "It turns out that Mr. Luo has been promoted again, congratulations, congratulations! From then on, Mr. Luo will be everyone's leader, if there is anything we need to do, Mr. Luo will command!"
Luo Jun is here to do business today, of course, he doesn't have time to talk to Mike, he just told Mike to gather the middle management of the branch for a meeting.
It is said that although Luo Jun was hired by Meigou to be responsible for the overall business of the chain store, after all, Meigou and Watsons Group have not officially handed over, and strictly speaking, Luo Jun is not qualified to order the people in the branch to do anything.
But at this time, who cares about this thing, it is clear that Luo Jun will be his top boss in the future, and he is in control of the fate of these people, who dares to jump out and say that his actions are not in accordance with the rules.
Summoning the middle managers of the branch to the large conference room, Luo Jun sat down as the chief, he stood up, supported the conference table with both hands, and glanced around with blazing eyes.
He is very familiar with these people in the conference room, and he knows each person's advantages, shortcomings, preferences, etc., and these people are also the foundation for him to build the chain store business department in the future.
"Dear colleagues, now we are facing an opportunity! Everyone knows that the chain store business was acquired by Meigou as a whole, and I don't need to say more about the strength of Meigou!"
"This time, I met with Mr. Wang Ye, the chairman of Meigou.com, and Ms. Xu Jing, the CEO, both of whom are full of expectations for the development of the chain store business and are willing to give strong support. β
"In the past, there will be no more performance-only theory in the future, and in the future, our chain store division will pursue sustainable development, improve consumer satisfaction, and want the store to be full of well-known brands!"
"This time, I came to the branch to select a group of people to form a work handover team to take over the affairs of the Watsons chain in Asia. If you are willing to participate, please raise your hand!"
Before Luo Jun's words fell, everyone in the conference room had already raised their hands in unison, including Mike......
What are you kidding, this so-called handover team is obviously the senior management of the chain store division in the future.
For professionals, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and who would be so stupid not to raise their hands to show loyalty in front of Luo Jun, the immediate boss.
As a result, Luo Jun directly organized the old subordinates of Watsons Huaguo Branch, and then formed a receiving team with the financial staff of Meigou to hand over Watsons Group.
Many of the people in this team are employees who have worked at Watsons for several years, and of course they are very familiar with the chain business, and the handover is simply without obstacles.
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Regarding the question of whether to change the name of the acquired Watsons personal care chain, the senior management of Meigou.com made a special meeting to discuss.
The brand "Watsons" is also part of the acquired assets, and Meigou has paid a fee and can use it as you like.
Similarly, Temasek's acquisition of Watsons Distilled Water also includes brand ownership.
So now there are three companies that have the right to use the "Watsons" brand, Watsons Group, Temasek and Meigo.com.
Of course, this was stated in the acquisition negotiations that the "Watsons" brand could only be used for distilled water and beverages by Temasek, and no other use.
On the other hand, Meigou can only use this brand to open a cosmetics chain store.
The question that Meigou is discussing now is not whether it can continue to use this name, but whether it is better to continue to use the brand "Watsons", or whether it is more appropriate to change it to "Meigo", its own brand.
The participants were divided into two groups, one group believed that it would be better to continue to use the "Watsons" brand, and the other group advocated changing to the "Meigou" brand.
"The Watsons brand has a history of more than 100 years, and it is very famous throughout Asia, and I don't think it can be easily replaced. Li Guanghua analyzed objectively.
At the beginning, it spent 2.5 billion US dollars to acquire the "Watsons personal care chain", of which the "Watsons" brand alone will be valued at more than 500 million US dollars, and the money spent can't be wasted.
"But our acquisition of this chain store is to serve Meigou.com, if we adopt the Meigou brand, will it still play a role in promoting our website? Xu Jing expressed a different opinion.
The two sides represented by the two of them are in dispute, and no one can convince anyone.
Wang Ye sat next to him and didn't speak, he was thinking about whether there was a more secure way. In fact, Wang Ye also tends to change to the "Meigou" brand, but the sudden replacement of the signboard will also have a great impact on the store.
If it's just domestic, it's a lot easier, in the mainland, the reputation of Meigou is definitely much greater than Watsons, but abroad, Meigou is a bit unknown.
"Domestic ...... Foreign ......" Wang Ye muttered to himself a little, while subconsciously tapping his fingers on the table.
In the conference room, everyone was still in a heated discussion, and Luo Jun, as a newcomer who had just joined, was not in a hurry to speak.
This kind of change of store name and signboard is unusual and must be done very carefully.