Chapter 39: End of the Year
After Jiang Ran's interview with the "Tian Tian Ribao" came out, the sales of the "Tian Tian Ribao" increased by more than 10 percent that day, and the newspaper's circulation reached 130,000 copies on the same day.
After Jiang Ran's interview, the Hong Kong people's curiosity about Jiang Ran increased unabated, and Jiang Ran even had to accept a TV interview with TVB.
"Ah Ran, I want to thank you this time. You're in the news in Hong Kong right now. You can refuse Leigh's TV station and accept an exclusive interview with our wireless station, I remember your favor. After the interview, Jiang Ran was accompanying Run Run Shaw for afternoon tea.
For Jiang Ran's interview this time, both Wireless and Li's stations sent invitations to Jiang Ran, and Run Run Shaw personally called Jiang Ran, and considering that he might borrow the manpower of Shaw Brothers and Wireless in the future, Jiang Ran finally rejected the invitation of Li's TV station.
"Sixth uncle, you are too polite, we have cooperated with Wireless for so long, and both sides have cooperated very happily. Between Li's and wireless, I definitely have to choose wireless. And I want to thank Uncle Sixth for greeting the host in advance, otherwise if I ask something embarrassing, then I won't be able to handle it. Jiang Ran said to Run Run Shaw with a smile.
Run Run Shaw looked at Jiang Ran's childish face that had not completely faded, and said with some emotion: "Hey! Seeing Ah Ran, you have created such a great career at such a young age, I feel that I am old, I have just entered Tianyi Film Studio not long ago when I was your age." ”
"Sixth uncle, I'm just lucky, plus you seniors. Besides, if you want to say admiration, who doesn't admire the courage of the sixth uncle to give up the industry in Nanyang and go to Hong Kong alone to found Shaw Brothers. Jiang Ran complimented Run Run Shaw.
Jiang Ran really admires the courage and courage of Run Run Shaw to start a new business in his sixtieth year, for 99% of the people in this world, there is no such courage and great determination.
"Ha-ha! Aran, you're so good at talking. Run Run Shaw was obviously very useful to what Jiang Ran said. Indeed, he gave up the Nanyang industry in the year of the sixtieth year, re-established the film company in Hong Kong, and made Shaw Brothers dominate the Hong Kong film industry for decades, which will be something that Shaw will be proud of for a lifetime.
Time passes slowly, not by human will. After a period of time, the craze caused by Jiang Ran in Hong Kong also slowly subsided, after all, no matter what happened, there was no new idea after a long time of reporting.
Jiang Ran is just a very capable and rich stranger to most people. Aside from satisfying some curiosity, it doesn't make a difference in people's lives. As a result, people's curiosity slowly fades after a period of time.
Although the craze about Jiang Ran has passed, several of Jiang Ran's companies have gained tangible benefits during this period of time.
First of all, the turnover of Ranfeng audio-visual entity distribution companies has increased significantly in recent times. Originally, the monthly turnover was basically stable at 1.23 million, but during this time, it only took half a month to reach 1.2 million.
In the past half a month, the circulation of "Tiantian Daily" has increased from more than 90,000 to 130,000 copies, although this growth is phased, but it has expanded the consumer group and influence of the newspaper, and has an immeasurable positive impact on the development of subsequent newspapers.
Oriental Charm magazine and Oriental Phantom Costumes were the ones who profited the most from this incident. Not to mention the number of copies released for the magazine increased to 380,000 this month. As for clothing, in just over half a month, the sales volume has reached three million, which is equivalent to the usual sales of one month. Moreover, after this success, the clothing brand of Oriental Phantom has completely become famous in Hong Kong, and it can be regarded as a real firm foothold in the Hong Kong clothing industry.
In the end, it is Ranfeng Film Company, although this incident did not bring direct benefits to the film company, but it made the citizens of Hong Kong know about Ranfeng, a film company, and know that this company is very good at making movies, and the movies it produces are all movies with a bumper harvest at the box office and word of mouth.
The world is in turmoil, and the time has unconsciously come to mid-January, and few people have paid attention to the news topics caused by Jiang Ran's "Nightclub" and Jiang Ran himself, while the Hong Kong film market has entered a lively New Year's schedule.
On January 16th, the first "Bald Detective" of the best partner series of movies in New Arts City was filmed at the Golden Princess. From the first day of the film's release, the film has caused a movie-watching boom in Hong Kong, and it is even more popular than Jiang Ran's "Nightclub".
On the same day, some media reported that this movie would be the first film to exceed 10 million at the box office in 1982, and only Jiang Ran would know how much impact this film would have on the Hong Kong market.
The box office of 10 million may be an insurmountable gap for many movies, but for "Bald Detective", it may only be a matter of a week.
Jiang Ran knew that the final box office of the film would reach a staggering 26 million Hong Kong dollars, and in the next seven or eight years, New Arts City would produce five films of the series one after another. And Princess Jin can be said to have relied on this series of movies to gain a firm foothold in the Hong Kong film market, and began to suppress Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers films.
Jiang Ran also knows that starting from this year, the Hong Kong film market is really beginning to enter a golden age, and movies with a box office of 10 million yuan will be common in the future. Jiang Ran's only regret is that his "Nightclub" has just been dominating the box office position of 20 million for the first month, and he will face the fact of being pulled down.
On the 21st, when "Bald Detective" in Xinyi City was lonely in the film market, Golden Harvest launched "Young Master Dragon" starring Jackie Chan. On the same day, Shaw Brothers Films also launched Liu Jialiang's "Eighteen Martial Arts".
At a time when the Hong Kong film market is hot and the three cinema companies are struggling to solve the box office market, the real estate industry, which is the backbone of Hong Kong's economy in recent years, has begun to show a sluggish state, and people's confidence in real estate has begun to decline.
Jiang Ran only knew in his previous life that in the 80s, it seemed that Hong Kong's real estate industry had been very sluggish for a few years, and he still knew about these things on the Internet, and he had no concept of the specific situation.
Although Jiang Ran has no plans to invest in the real estate industry to make money, he thinks that he may enter the cinema market in the future, so Jiang Ran still hopes to buy some real estate when the house price is low, so as to prepare for the construction of cinemas and his own stores in the future, as well as the office of the group company in the future.
Of course, Jiang Ran has no plans to buy a house now, and now the real estate industry is beginning to show signs of malaise, and he believes that it will be a good time for him to make a move in the next two years.
On January 18, 1982, Ranfeng Group held a year-end meeting under the chairmanship of Jiang Ran, including the senior executives of the group and the executives of various subsidiaries.
"The group has reorganized the company this year, established the group company and various subsidiaries, so far, the group's management system and manpower construction has been completed, the company is currently operating well, and the business situation of each subsidiary is also very ideal.
Among them, the film company produced two films this year, and now all of them have been released, and the overall profit of the company is about 35 million.
Although the audio-visual distribution company did not expand again this year, the company further improved various management methods and operating methods, and ensured that the company's market share did not decline in the increasingly fierce leasing and distribution market, bringing more than 15 million profits to the company as a whole this year.
In addition, since its inception in May, the circulation of the magazine has basically stabilized at 300,000 copies, bringing nearly 8 million profits to the company. Since its opening in August, the clothing company affiliated to the magazine has now set up five brand stores in Hong Kong, and now its monthly turnover has reached more than 3 million Hong Kong dollars, making the company recoup its investment while making a profit of more than one million Hong Kong dollars.
Finally, the "Daily Daily", which joined the group company in mid-July, has now stabilized its circulation at nearly 110,000 copies, which can make a stable profit of about 600,000 yuan per month.
Generally speaking, this year, the company has developed from a single leasing and issuing company to the current group company, which can be said to have made great progress, and the ability to resist risks has been greatly strengthened.
Now the Chinese New Year is coming soon, each company should arrange various affairs of the Spring Festival, in addition, the group will give a certain amount of annual bonus according to the operation of each company, you will report the bonus share of the company's employees to the group as soon as possible, and must ensure that the bonus will be sent to the employees before the annual leave. ”
Jiang Ran was at the conference table, put away the summary draft in his hand, and then said to the executives of each subsidiary.