Chapter 190: Using Connections (Thanks to Volcano and Crazy Song for Reward)
Even though he barely put together a somewhat nondescript team, Lu Tao did not relax. After briefly talking to a few people about what their website needs to look like and what functions they have, let a few people discuss it.
He wants to do the website, but at the moment, it is not the main direction, and in a year or two, his focus will still be on the laboratory equipment. After all, now that we have a relationship with the school, resources are slowly accumulating, and the recruited employees have also started, taking the opportunity to develop and expand the company is the primary task.
In addition to building a website and cooperating with the school, there is another item in the agreement negotiated before, that is, about the reagent brand.
"How about the name Adastine?" Yan Chun took out a piece of paper from the thick book and handed it directly to Lu Tao.
Lu Tao didn't react for a while, and couldn't help but wonder: "What's the name?"
Yan Chun glanced at him, a little dissatisfied, just to think of a name, he had been a little reluctant for several days.
"Oh, come to think of it, you mean the brand of the reagent. Lu Tao suddenly realized that there were a lot of things, and he always forgot them inadvertently, and he only remembered them when he was reminded of them.
"Yes. Yan Chun nodded, with some expectations, the name should be tall, unique, close to the national conditions, and a little bit of foreign flavor, Rao is her, and it did take a lot of effort.
"Adastine?" Lu Tao repeated softly in his mouth, there was already that kind of taste, not bad.
"How about Adas?" he said casually, feeling a little familiar with the name.
"Argentas?" Yan Chun's eyes widened.
"Well, no wonder it feels familiar, it turned out to be this. Lu Tao shook his head.
"Let's just call it Adanos. Lu Tao thought for a while and made modifications.
It looks like that, it's always more real in the name, or it's out of the reality itself, anyway, it's not too much of a hurry, to run a brand, there are many things that need to be done, the most important thing is technology and promotion.
"How is the website doing?" Seeing that Lu Tao made a decision directly, Yan Chun no longer insisted, and asked with his head tilted.
"I'm not in a hurry, I'll just say my thoughts, and when the time comes, I'll see the effect first, and then revise it slowly." ”
Although it is talking about the Brocade team, in essence, Lu Tao did not set up a technology company, and now it is just equivalent to testing the waters, if he really wants to develop the Internet, he has a big plan.
You can't become a big fat man by eating in one bite, you have to take your time in everything, you are too radical, you can't tell where you go wrong, and you fall into the abyss from which you will never recover.
Interview and report In the past few days, Lu Tao has been relatively busy, and he also specially told Liu Yan and Li Hong about this matter, asking them to mention it more when they run customers, and first spread the name in the scientific research circle of Shenyang, so as to start the company's name, and not worry about no orders coming over.
Since arranging several things, Lu Tao can almost be said to have completely ignored the final exam.
He didn't have much cash in his hand, which always gave him a strong sense of oppression, and he felt that the stall seemed to be spread out a little bigger, and he often fell into worry.
The plan needs to be constantly revised, and since he entered the industry for more than a year, Lu Tao has been in contact with a lot of suppliers, large and small. In the past, he has been doing the work of ordering goods directly from suppliers and manufacturers, and then selling them to customers, earning a price difference, but now since he wants to create his own brand, the way he can think of is to use his own OEM, with the help of a name of the research institute of petrochemical university, and then sell.
However, after a detailed and in-depth understanding, he found that things were not as simple as he had imagined.
With the established connections, Lu Tao consulted many companies, from the instrument industry to reagents and consumables. There is no way, although the development process of a company can be found on the Internet, most of it is vague, and the specific operation process and how to do it are not particularly understood.
"Mr. Lu, are you planning to engage in reagents yourself? That thing can't be played by ordinary people, not only the production facilities are strict, but also all aspects of the approval process are very troublesome. “
"Lu Tao, didn't I say, you are now doing a prosperous agency yourself, why bother to engage in any entity, these days, as long as you can make money, you still have to engage in your own brand, isn't it okay to find trouble?"
After a few phone calls, Lu Tao's face was a little ugly, his ideas were very simple, and it was not difficult to operate consciously, but he didn't expect that so many people were not very optimistic.
After thinking about it, Lu Tao made a phone call to Su Ruolan, in his memory, Su Ruolan would go back to the southwest to create her own chemical reagent factory in the future, and I think I would have some understanding of this area at this time.
In the public laboratory project, he defeated Bomai, but it did not affect the relationship between the two, mainly because among the customers that Lu Tao ran behind, there are really many customers who use Shimadzu's products, and he often takes goods from there, and the relationship between the two in private is not bad.
"Mr. Lu, what's the matter? It's about to be a holiday, are you going to invite me to dinner?" On the other end of the phone, Su Ruolan smiled, after people got acquainted, they couldn't help but joke, not to mention that even if the two of them were half fellow villagers, Su Ruolan was also more cheerful.
Lu Tao smiled: "Okay, if you are free today, you will do it today." “
"Come on, we're busy at the end of the year. Su Ruolan laughed, "Say, Mr. Lu, what's the matter, you don't have to beat around the bush, you and I understand, usually if it's okay, the department won't call me." ”
Lu Tao told the matter as it was, anyway, the current Su Ruolan has not developed to that point, and there is nothing worth hiding.
After listening to him, Su Ruolan was silent on the other end of the phone for a while, and then replied: "Our Shimadzu company mainly does instruments and consumables, but in terms of reagents, I do know how they did it at the beginning. “
"Oh?" Lu Tao was overjoyed.
"Don't you usually make reagents, and you must have heard of the Enos that has been developed in the last year, right?"
Lu Tao thought about it, he usually sells reagents for what customers need, and he will report two or three brands to him, but Enos, he really has no impression.
"They've only been around for a year, but they're doing very well. Su Ruolan continued.
Lu Tao doesn't care much about what people have developed, what he cares about is the initial model of others. In cooperation with the school, if he is allowed to directly buy land and build a factory, the investment will be large, and he can't afford to toss it at present.
"They are produced in their own factories?" Lu Tao asked directly.
"How is it possible, at the beginning, they were three people, and they have been engaged in foreign trade, and then it seems that they directly found a small reagent company from abroad, and then cooperated. ”
As soon as Lu Tao heard this, he immediately understood, and slapped his thigh suddenly: Why didn't he think of it.
Domestic reagent companies do not pay much attention to research and development, so in terms of quality, except for some large research institutes that synthesize and configure themselves, it can be said that the recognition is not high in the scientific research circle. For example, a simple standard, according to the chromatographic analysis test, the requirements basically need to reach 98%, and many domestic manufacturers, not only can not synthesize at all, but also the purity can not be reached.
Foreign ones are different, their own quality control is strict, and the R&D investment is relatively high, even if it is a small company, many times the quality is still guaranteed, especially in Germany, the United States and Sweden.
If you find a company to cooperate with from abroad, and after you arrive in China, you will need to invest a lot less in OEM packaging, and the quality can be guaranteed.
Thinking of this, Lu Tao was suddenly a little excited, and he didn't dare to say anything else, let him find a foreign reagent brand, it would be a simple matter.
After hanging up the phone, Lu Tao thought about it and said to himself: If Enos is really as Su Ruolan said, it should develop very well, why didn't he hear about it in his previous life?
He doesn't want to know what other people's brand management is, what he wants to know is why he hasn't done it?
To do business, always to avoid risks, logically speaking, Enos from now on, and the model they think is not much different, nothing more than a use of foreign reagents, and they originally planned to find domestic manufacturers for production. It's impossible not to be bigger, is there something wrong with it?
Shaking his head, he temporarily abandoned the random thoughts in his head, anyway, let's do it first, I don't believe that I can't be big with my reborn identity.
With a plan, it's much easier to get things done step by step. In just a few days, he contacted a large logistics company in Hong Kong through the relationship with his previous supplier.
Yan Chun is naturally full of questions about this matter, obviously looking for foreign reagent manufacturers, why is he looking for a logistics company in Hong Kong.
In this regard, Lu Tao made an explanation.
Chemical reagents are different from other products, the import procedures are very complicated, and the transportation conditions are very harsh, some need low temperature, some can not be extruded, some to avoid light, some can not shake, etc.; Therefore, it was decided that only China and Hong Kong could only import and transport it in.
Hong Kong, as a transit station, has many advantages, and its development is much earlier than that of the mainland. Many logistics companies have contact with foreign manufacturers, and it can be said that it is more reliable and easier than Lu Tao to ask suppliers one by one.
Things are just as Lu Tao thought, and people's replies can be said to be more professional than some reagent companies that are small agents.
"There are many kinds of reagents, such as general reagents, high-purity reagents, analytical reagents, instrumental analytical reagents, clinical diagnostic reagents, biochemical reagents, etc., the current mode of operation, but also most of the international Hong Kong and then domestic model, according to the requirements you said, we have a few reagent manufacturers who have occasionally done it before, you can give you their contact information, when you contact that side directly, follow-up logistics, our company as a professional logistics company, has a lot of advantages. ”
Lu Tao, who got the news, directly selected several manufacturers from the logistics company, and directly selected the Swedish company.
Contact and communication are also more troublesome, his English is not very good, let alone spoken, and he is not very familiar with foreign trade.
Fortunately, there is Yan Chun, a scholar, and she replies to all the emails she replies, and after going back and forth, the matter is finally finalized.
The process in the middle does not need to be detailed, in a word, the result of negotiation and communication is that Lu Tao's company has become its full agent in China, not only has the right to sell their products, but also can carry out sub-packaging and OEM independent operation, that is, to create an independent brand.
Businessmen are very profitable, and so are foreign manufacturers, seeing that other companies are making a lot of money in China, it is fake if they are not angry, but for various reasons, the Swedish company, which has no sales at all in China, is naturally willing to hand over the matter to Lu Tao's company.
products, Lu Tao has independent pricing power, and in addition to the supply chain, it is not controlled at all, relatively speaking, Lu Tao is relatively satisfied.
As long as they can make the brand, then they are equivalent to the manufacturer, after making money, you can take the road of building a factory research and development, and then recruit a group of talents, not afraid of manufacturers not cooperating, the big deal is their own production, the key point is a technology.
The investment in this is actually very small, first of all, it is a separate registration of a company that does chemical reagents, borrowing the name and relationship of the school, and then catching up with the government, as for the OEM or something, it is not a difficult matter, in terms of technology, under the banner of the institute, the school has a name, and it has profited, it can be said that it kills two birds with one stone, and by the way, it can also engage in the title of a science and technology enterprise.
In his memory, some companies in his previous life did this, once an enterprise received support from the government, it was difficult to develop.
It was a short time to say, but it took Lu Tao more than a week to do it, and after the negotiation was completed, there were things to do, such as the most important thing was to find a warehouse.
Since it is a full-fledged agent, and it is necessary to build its own brand, it is not possible not to hoard a little goods, which has a great advantage. First, the delivery speed is fast, easy to accumulate word of mouth, and the second is that the payment cycle is short, unlike imported futures, which take two or three months at every turn.
After determining the general development route, Lu Tao directly found the school, since the school was looking for him at the beginning, he donated a sum of money, and when he encountered some difficulties, it was not too much for them to help solve them.
The difficulty is what Lu Tao said, in fact, it is not at all to talk about, the idea is to rent a local warehouse, and put all the goods into it when the time comes, but the customer, only rely on two sales to promote, an unknown brand to do, it is really a little slow, without the help of some resources to speed up the development, that is not good.
Lu Tao is not looking for the principal, but the dean of the School of Petrochemical, the principal still doesn't bother others, not to mention what he has to do, in essence, is to promote the above things.
I felt that my idea would definitely be supported by the school, and I couldn't help but be full of anticipation.
It's better to use the network to go directly to the upper level to achieve the initial goal in one step, saving time and effort.
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