Chapter Seventy-Five: Flagship Store Planning (Collect!)
Of course, Xia Yu didn't come up with this idea on a whim.
In fact, for this meeting, he prepared much more than Xu Jiahui imagined.
Since Xu Xiao called him the day before yesterday, he asked someone to check the information of Chunhui Electronics in detail, including the detailed resume of Xu Jiahui.
Watching people make decisions is also one of the habits of investors.
Speaking of which, Xu Jiahui, who resigned from the position of deputy general manager of Fu Chunhui production to start a business, still has a vision, can see the momentum of the future MP3 market explosion, and has the connections and resources to support a new brand.
But he also inquired carefully about this person's reputation. In addition to his hot temper, he is a very good person, but his temperament is really a bit extreme, or too serious to pursue perfectionism.
This is a disadvantage that is not a disadvantage - it is good to pursue the ultimate in products, but it is easy to fall into the horns when playing strategy.
Chunhui Electronics has been engaged in it for so long, and although the quality of the MP3 finally launched is not bad, it has dragged on for too long and completely missed the market.
However, when it comes to production management, Polestar Electronics is really lacking such a talent!
Now there are many workers in the two factories of Polestar Electronics, and Liu Mingsheng has gradually left his position there, mainly by Zhang Kui and Ma Dongsheng from the original Mingde No. 1 factory.
To be honest, their level is okay, but they lack that kind of overall view and overall management ability.
In particular, Polestar will definitely expand, and the first thing to do when the headquarters is built is to continue to recruit workers, and he plans to initially double the number of workers to about 300, so that production management will be a problem that has to be considered.
If you dig Xu Jiahui over...... This may be a bit difficult, but Polestar Electronics is in the period of rapid growth, and maybe you can consider directly merging the small Chunhui Electronics!
For this, he made a special trip to Liu Mingsheng to go to the production workshop of Chunhui Electronics, and asked an acquaintance to find a technician over there to inquire about the situation.
The situation is really not good, and the large amount of inventory makes the atmosphere of the whole factory not very good.
However, after Liu Mingsheng came back, he also admitted frankly that the workshop, management level and assembly process of about fifty or sixty people there are indeed far above the old Polestar factory before Xia Yu took over the previous year, and even higher than the new Polestar factory after several training and rectification.
But Xu Jiahui was really shocked when he heard Xia Yu's words.
"You're saying that Polestar is going to buy Chunhui?"
Xia Yu saw that his feelings were wrong, but this kind of thing was nothing, nodded and slowed down his tone and continued: "Polestar is about to expand, and we are currently preparing to build a new headquarters. In fact, it can also be said that the two companies merged, and Polestar Electronics was willing to take out some cash to help Chunhui redeem other people's shares, and then you joined Polestar Electronics as a major shareholder of Chunhui. ”
Xu Jiahui knew that Xia Yu was not joking, but he never thought that this would be the situation before!
He stared at Xia Yu for a moment of silence before he said slowly: "Forget it, I know what you mean." If it was before, I might have promised you, but now that people are old, they still want to guard their own one-third of an acre and slowly make a living. ”
Mess around, if you want to mess around, be your vice president in Fu Chunhui!
Xia Yu didn't believe this statement, but this matter can't be rushed.
The two chatted a little more about things in the circle.
After all, Xu Jiahui has been in this circle for many years, and he has a deep understanding of many things, which makes Xia Yu also have a better understanding of the players in the entire industry chain.
In particular, he revealed that there are several new companies with no shortage of backgrounds that have been eyeing Polestar Electronics, and if they want to break through by imitating the Polestar model, they may use some shady means. These are all news that will only circulate in a small circle, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false, but Xia Yu also secretly remembered it.
Similarly, Xia Yu's judgment on future product functions and popular trends also surprised Xu Jiahui.
This kid's business talent is really not ordinarily strong!
Xu Xiao also came back from outside, and at this time, he saw Xia Yu chatting with his father there, and it was often his father who listened to him and felt weird.
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When Xia Yu returned to the company, he felt that he had been a little busy recently, and he sorted out the itinerary again.
Supply chain, mass production schedule, marketing promotion, press conference, retail partner and media invitations, as well as headquarters, retail stores, company management...... Well, while there are a lot of things that you don't have to take care of personally, you have to keep an eye on.
Now it seems that it is too wise to take a decisive leave of absence, and seeing that all the Polestar generals are busy, they are not only reluctant to go to class again, but also not at ease.
It can be seen that the pole star is now in a state of excitement up and down, and there is a rhythm of a big battle.
This is also one of the biggest characteristics of startups, people are much better than large companies, of course, it has to be the kind of startups with promising prospects and rising business.
Everyone is looking forward to K2's success, especially Luo Dong and others, who later joined Polestar Electronics.
Why not Xia Yu himself?
In the months since its rebirth, Polestar Electronics has been formed step by step and gathered a group of people, but in fact, what step of Polestar is not as adventurous as walking on thin ice?
Some of the analysis in the media is indeed not untargeted, and once K2 fails, Polestar, whose capital chain is broken, will definitely be beaten back to its original shape.
Feeling irritable left and right, Xia Yu spread out a piece of paper on the table again, and began to look at the computer data, touching the picture in the depths of "memory" little by little, listing the most popular MP3 brands and features in the next period of time......
After a while, the front desk called to inform Xia Mingde that he had arrived.
Xia Yu hurriedly came out, this time the uncle was not flirting with the little sister at the front desk, chatting with Zheng Wei.
"Uncle, are you here, the plan is out?" Xia Yu remembered talking on the phone in the morning, and Uncle went to meet the people from the architectural design company.
"Yes, I had a good chat today, and I also brought the plan first. ”
There are two proposals from two design companies. Entering the office, Xia Yu spread out the first one, and the first thing that caught his eye was a rendering.
According to his vision, the headquarters should include four parts: administrative office, production and assembly, R&D warehousing and living space, which can initially meet the normal work and life of 800 people.
The scheme is also based on this idea, consisting of four main buildings, the main building is an administrative office building with six floors, two three-storey annex buildings, one for R&D, materials and storage, and the other for living buildings. Finally, there is the production workshop, which covers the widest area and is directly set up by a general large factory with a height of four meters.
On the renderings, the main building is all made of sky blue glass curtain wall structure, and the factory building is a blue plastic steel structure of internal bricks, which looks full of vitality.
Because of the location, the road leading to the main building is directly set up 12 meters wide, and there is a small fountain square in front of the building.
In addition, the 60 acres of land are not used at all, and basically half of them are vacant in the back, reserved for other use in the future.
The advantage of this scheme is that the space utilization rate is very high, reasonable and convenient, and it is relatively atmospheric. It's a bit of a norm, though.
Xia Mingde frowned at him and said, "Zheng Wei and I both think this is good, but the following one is okay." ”
Xia Yu spread out another one, and suddenly felt that his eyes lit up!
It is also a rendering covering four areas, but this plan directly sets up a five-story headquarters building, which is directly a large square shape, and the same glass curtain wall is wrapped, which is similar to the Water Cube that Xia Yu is very familiar with in later generations.
On closer inspection, this plan is actually divided into four areas directly in each floor, the two underground floors are mainly assembly workshops, the third floor is R&D and warehousing, the fourth floor is the living area, and the last five floors are office areas.
Looking at the scale, the entire building covers an area of only 10,000 square meters, which is about 15 acres.
"I like this", Xia Yu said directly: "Is this overall transparent cool enough!"
"That's pretty good, but the cost is higher, about 12 million!" Zheng Wei reminded.
It's so expensive! That's a problem.
At least now Polestar can't come up with this huge amount of money.
However, Xia Yu is full of confidence in K2, anyway, he doesn't have to take it out first, he can still take out a loan if he is too late to get the money back, and he directly clapped the decision and said: "That's it! What do you think, uncle?"
Xia Mingde waved his hand: "You can decide! The vision is always better than mine! By the way, tomorrow is the 26th, the auction is about to start, don't forget!"
"Hey, the more I look at it, the more I like it, and I'm going to take it anyway! It's a big deal, let's report hundreds of thousands more. ”
He also explained some ideas for this plan, Zheng Wei wrote them down one by one and asked: "Mr. Xia, there is one more thing I want to report here, the flagship exhibition store I mentioned last time has already recruited people to start preparing for decoration, and you will guide me again?"
That's right!
Uncle's previous contract for the store in the prosperous area of Tianhe officially expired, and Xia Yu still remembered that it was the first thing he did after he was reborn, which was to help Uncle push the renewal contract of this store.
The location is really good, only more than 100 meters away from the soon-to-be-completed Tianhe Square, and the flow of people is absolutely abundant. In addition, it covers an area of just over 200 square meters, so it is just right to be a display store.
For a while, Zheng Wei has been busy with this.
She had previous experience in this area, so the operation was quite smooth. It took a week to select a store manager and four employees, and after a brief training, they waited for the renovation to be completed and the trial camp opened.
"Just follow the plan I told you last time, hey, we just like transparent glass!"
This flagship display store, of course, can't be the same as the setting of the store, Xia Yu didn't worry too much, and directly modeled it on Apple's official experience store.
Since 2001, when Apple began to enter the computer retail market and opened its first retail stores, its design philosophy of transparency and the pursuit of craftsmanship has extended from products to retail store design, and even later applied for a trademark for its store design!
Of course, this style is very popular, but Xia Yu only borrows from the style and that feeling, and it is not necessary to learn it directly.
"Okay, I'm keeping an eye on the renovation progress here, if it's a qiē shun lì, it should be completed two days before K2 goes on sale!"
"Then I'll give you a credit!"
"Hey, Mr. Xia has to count when he speaks!"
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