Chapter 400: A New Position
Taiwan today is similar to the mainland in 20 or 30 years, although the slogan is sustainable development, but in fact economic development is the priority. It is still the old road taken by developed countries in Europe and the United States, pollution first, and then treatment!
It is precisely because of this relaxed environment that RCA did not need to consider the issue of environmental protection costs when it first came to Taiwan to invest and build a factory. If RCA's factory in the United States dares to bury and discharge industrial waste residue without any scruples, then Li Xuan will probably have to lose most of RCA's assets now!
After CBS's ace program "Sixty Minutes" exposed the serious environmental problems of RCA's overseas factories, many influential newspapers and magazines across the United States quickly began to follow suit. And the person who bears the most pressure from public opinion is undoubtedly Charleson, the current CEO of RCA.
Charlison's previous experience in RCA Taiwan made it difficult for him to prove that he really didn't know about the serious environmental pollution in the Taiwan factory in advance!
Although Charleson defended himself, when he was the manager of the Taiwan branch, he spent most of his time at the headquarters in Taipei, and rarely went to the factory in Taoyuan to interfere in the actual operation and management. But according to NBC's own street survey, only 15% of the people who follow this matter believe that he is innocent, and 65% think he is lying!
This result was a very fatal blow to Charlison's professional image, so he took the initiative to resign from Li Xuan. He has realized that his continued role as CEO will only further tarnish RCA's overall image. How can a company that even its CEO thinks is a liar get consumers to trust their products?
But Charleson only took up the role of CEO of RCA in September last year. It's only been a year now. Bradshaw, the chairman of RCA at the time, chose him to take over as CEO. To a large extent, he valued the personal friendship between him and Li Xuan.
Charleson was one of the first executives within RCA to become friends with Li Xuan. Charleson was not only instrumental in the acquisition of RCA by the Eastern Group last year. In the year since the completion of the merger and acquisition, he has been following Li Xuan's ideas to strategically adjust and shrink the business of RCA.
It can be said that Charleson is Li Xuan's number one cronie and biggest contributor in the RCA company, and he must make a proper arrangement for Charlison's future, otherwise it is easy to chill the hearts of others.
"Peter, I don't accept your resignation, you shouldn't take responsibility for this matter!"
As soon as Li Xuan got off the plane, he went straight to the RCA Building in Manhattan. When he entered the headquarters of RCA and watched the tired CEO in front of him resign to him again. He shook his head firmly at the other party.
"Lee, I'm not fit to stay in this position anymore!" Charlison said with a bitter look on his face. How could he be willing to leave his current position, after the previous year's cleanup, he has basically completed the company's business adjustment, and the next time is to show his strength.
"Yes, but you shouldn't leave in the form of resignation! Mr. Han Peng will focus on the work of the headquarters of the Oriental Group next, and he used to be the president of the Oriental Commercial Company, and I hope you can take over!
And I want you to be the Senior Vice President of the Eastern Bloc at the same time, but not at the headquarters of the Eastern Bloc. Oriental Commercial Company is still located in Hong Kong, so you may have to say goodbye to the Big Apple City and work in Asia!" Li Xuan said with a smile.
Oriental Commercial Company seems to be inconspicuous within the entire Oriental Group, but in fact it is one of the companies with the widest business scope and the most important responsibilities in the entire group. The three core businesses of the Eastern Group are semiconductors, games and computers. They correspond to the three major companies of Oriental Research Institute, Oriental Game, and Aikang Computer.
Don't look at the processor chips developed by the Oriental Research Institute, as well as the various game consoles of the Oriental Game Company, which are popular all over the world, but in fact, these two companies only focus on research and development. The production and marketing of the products are entrusted to Oriental Commercial Company.
After the company was listed in the UK, it began to gradually improve its own structure system. However, the focus of its own marketing channel construction is first and foremost on the European market. Now it is gradually expanding to North America, but marketing in the Asian market is still entrusted to Oriental Trading.
In recent years, Li Xuan has made every effort to build a triangle with Hong Kong, Taiwan and the mainland as the support points. The supply chain system and foundry system that have included hundreds of electronic enterprises are specifically implemented by Dongfang Commercial Company.
The president of Oriental Commercial Company has been concurrently held by Han Peng, the second person in the group, and Charleson is very aware of the status of this position in the Eastern Group, which is no less than the CEO of RCA.
For a long time, the headquarters of the Eastern Bloc was actually an empty shelf. Li Xuan has always pursued the idea of employing people without suspicion and suspicion, and he does not want to set up a centralized group headquarters for each subsidiary, which will only reduce the efficiency of decision-making.
Decision-making is communicated at the highest level through regular senior management meetings within the Eastern Group. In practice, Oriental Commercial actually played the role of a link and lubricant for the entire group.
Now, as the size of the Eastern Bloc continues to expand, the shareholding structure of many subsidiaries in particular is no longer as pure as it was at the beginning. After other companies and investors took shares, Li Xuan's command of these subsidiaries could not be as casual as at the beginning, so it was necessary to strengthen the functions of the group headquarters to communicate and coordinate.
Oriental Group now has more than a dozen subsidiaries including Oriental Trading, Oriental Games, Oriental Research Institute, Oriental System Software, Oriental Application Software, Oriental Semiconductor, Fairchild Semiconductor, Lam Research, Aikang Computer, Computer Park, Jiahua Bank, ATV Media, Hong Kong Telephone, etc.
As the president of the Oriental Group, Han Peng's mere coordination of various internal interests and relationships is enough to keep him busy. He had long wanted to step down as the president of Oriental Commerce, but this position was very critical to Li Xuan, and he had not thought of a suitable replacement before.
Now Charleson has just taken this opportunity to leave the United States and come to Hong Kong to avoid the limelight. According to Li Xuan's previous strategy, RCA will move all the manufacturing operations of home appliances such as televisions, radios, and video recorders to Asia, where production costs are lower, in the next three to five years.
Charleson, the CEO of RCA, will take over as the new president of Oriental Trading, which will make the cooperation and communication between the two companies smoother.
Li Xuan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Charlison, it seemed that the other party was also satisfied with this arrangement. (To be continued......)