Chapter 512: Spring Festival
Although the 1984 Hong Kong Music Awards Season has ended, the media is still enthusiastic about the three high-profile awards ceremonies this year.
It's just that after the three major award ceremonies, Chen Lang just held a celebration banquet, and then he entered the campus again to prepare for his final exam, and at the end of January, Chen Lang officially started his vacation, but Chen Lang was not idle on vacation, because there were still many company things waiting for him.
Among the Chen family's current companies, the earliest one was an entertainment goods company, including Lang Lang Qiankun stores and commodity production factories, and now the Lang Lang Qiankun stores in Hong Kong have already reached a stable period, with good and relatively stable income.
Taiwan's specialty stores have also completely gained a foothold in Taipei and Taichung, and the monthly income has reached a peak and stabilized, while Tainan, which is relatively economically backward, has only opened a store in the city center and has no other action, and it is obvious that the economic situation here is not worth vigorously entering for the time being.
Southeast Asia's Lang Lang Qiankun stores are in the expansion stage, before Lang Lang Qiankun has been set up in the main cities of Southeast Asian countries respectively set up two stores, now the company plans to add three more stores, and began to march to the next level of cities, and strive to expand the radiation scope and sales channels of Lang Lang Qiankun stores as soon as possible.
This is not only the expansion of the entertainment merchandise company, but also the future expansion of the sales channels of all Chen Lang's companies in Southeast Asia.
Lang Lang Qiankun's expansion in Southeast Asia is of great significance, so Chen's father became the direct person in charge of Southeast Asia, and accompanied by the newly hired deputy general manager Hu Meng, he began Lang Lang Qiankun's expansion in Southeast Asia.
In order to carry out the work smoothly in Southeast Asia, Chen's father and Hu Meng still took a lot of effort to successfully enter the market with the help of the sales channels of Haishan Rolling Stone Records and Zheng Zhenkun.
Chen Lang mentioned to Chen's father his positioning of Lang Lang Qiankun store, so Chen's father will be so hard-working, although he is not necessarily more professional than professional managers, but after knowing that Lang Lang Qiankun means the great significance of sales channels, Chen's father is still not at ease to follow the principle of professional things to professional people to do, and the expansion of Southeast Asia has opened up the situation.
LL Publishing House is still in a state of highlight, because of the hot serialization of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", LL Publishing House, which took advantage of the opportunity to publish a physical book, made a lot of money, and this kind of sales are also hot in Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
At present, "Ming Dynasty" has only come out to the fourth volume, and there are still three volumes, and Chen Lang's first few novels are also in the planning of the publishing house, and the sales hotspots in the next two or three years have already been determined, plus there is a good fan base, I believe that the publication of each book will bring huge benefits to the company.
Although the income of LL Publishing House has been reduced by more than half because of piracy, the income of LL Publishing House has reached the top level in East Asia, and many large book publishers are very anxious, but behind LL Publishing House is Chen Lang, a great god in the novel industry, and if you want to offend easily, you have to consider it.
Of course, at this time, the book printing figures of LL Publishing House in Southeast Asia and Taiwan were contracted to local publishers, reducing transportation and printing costs at the same time, and expanding the sales channels of books in these regions, but cooperation is better than monopoly, so now LL Publishing House began to embark on the road of mergers and acquisitions after obtaining huge benefits.
LL Publishing House has acquired two larger publishers in Hong Kong, and began to integrate the resources of the two to prepare for the establishment of the largest publishing house in Hong Kong, which is only the current stage of the publishing house's plan, and the completion is not bad, but these are far from enough, people's greed can never be satisfied, the acquisition of Hong Kong is still ongoing, and the acquisition of publishing houses outside Hong Kong is also on the agenda.
LL's goal is obviously to become the largest book publisher in East and Southeast Asia, and although this goal is far away, LL Publishing is doing well now, and it is backed by the best-selling fiction writers in Asia, and the goal for the future is difficult, but not impossible.
Haishan Rolling Stone Records has developed rapidly, the development of Taiwan has risen steadily, and the records released by its singers have achieved a good market response, and the trainee department has also absorbed a lot of materials that can be made, according to Zheng Zhenkun, there are several very good seedlings worth cultivating, Chen Lang does not know whether there are future superstars among these seedlings, but Zheng Zhenkun's vision should not be wrong.
In order to open up the situation faster, record companies in Southeast Asian countries have signed a lot of potential new stars, and they have relied more on digging into the wall to quickly open up their popularity and gain a firm foothold.
Of course, there will inevitably be friction with international giants such as Polygram, Warner, and Baidai in this process, but at the request of Chen Lang and Zheng Zhenkun, the company has enforced the competition policy, and even international giants still have to compete to the end.
Such a strong dialogue is a bit like the Rolling Stones in the previous life, but at this time, the Haishan Rolling Stones have a better economic foundation and sales channels, and Chen Lang, the big boss behind the scenes, even if it competes with major international giants, the victory or defeat will not be easily decided, and the final result can only wait for the future.
Although LL Records has only been established for less than half a year, it already has three platinum records, and Jenny's "Charming May" has become the most popular female singer in the awards season, and its sales have increased again, and it has been certified as six platinums.
At the same time, Zhen Ni's "Concert Selection" record has also been released, and with the help of the concert and the momentum of the awards season, it has been launched and has been sought after by music fans, and the current sales have reached four platinum, and Xu Guanjie's "I Like You the Most" is gradually approaching five platinum.
Coupled with the performance of Xu Guanjie and Zhen Ni in the awards season, especially Zhen Ni's victory over Anita Mui, Chen Lang, one of the two kings of the new generation, has also passed LL records, even if Chen Lang has not released a record yet, at that time, coupled with Chen Lang's popularity and influence, LL Records at this time has become one of the top four record companies in Hong Kong.
At the same time, Chen Shufen is preparing to dig into the wall, and many singers whose contracts are about to expire have become Chen Shufen's targets, such as Chen Baiqiang, the melancholy prince, whose contract with Warner Records is about to expire, and Warner seems to have an unhappy relationship with Chen Baiqiang.
Chen Baiqiang, who has always been a twin star with Chen Lang as a new generation, only released one record last year, and the record quality is average, and there is obviously a suspicion of rushing work, which further proves that there is indeed a problem between Chen Baiqiang and Warner, and now although Alan Tam has become a new generation of kings, the attraction of Hong Kong's first powerful idol singer who has been performing well is also huge, and Chen Baiqiang has become the focus of competition for many record companies at this time.
At the same time, Chen Shufen, under Chen Lang's instructions, also began to attack Lin Yilian, one of the four future divas who has not yet emerged, Chen Lang naturally does not want to miss it.
In addition, Chen Shufen is also urging Chen Lang to quickly determine the production and release time of the next record, and asked Chen Lang when he wants to hold a concert and release the record, Chen Lang is not worried, but has some expectations for the concert, although he has participated in Teresa Teng and Xu Guanjie's concert as a special guest, but after all, it is not his own concert, and it must feel different, but Chen Lang has more important things to consider at this time.
After LL Films produced the second and tenth films in the annual box office list last year, it began to receive more and more attention, but near the end of the year, the company did not make much move, and only the screenwriting department of the company at this time was busy, busy writing "Happy Ghost 2" and the revision of Wang Jing's new script.
The special effects studio attached to the company is busy for a while, and the team has expanded again, and the number has reached 53 people, according to the team leader Li Zhiwei said that the team is still learning and progressing, and it is still difficult to develop new technologies, and they are still learning American technology.
The only change is that the investment has begun to become larger, and now the monthly investment has reached about 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, and it may be even greater in the future, as for when it will be able to reach the level of industrial light and magic is still unknown, fortunately, Chen Lang knows that the special effects research is a gold-swallowing monster, and the current investment is not outrageous, so Chen Lang is still responsive.
As for the animation team,A group is continuing to produce the animation of "Xiyangyang and Big Big Wolf",While starting to produce the "Zhu Xian" anime,It can be seen that Anno Hideaki is really serious about this work.,Now it's still doing a variety of characters.、Divine soldiers、Image design of fairy beasts,Although there is already a comic version,But Anno Hideaki feels that the comics are still a little rudimentary.,Of course, in order to avoid making comic fans unacceptable.,The change is small.。
To say that Chen Lang's most attentive thing now must be about the acquisition of Shaw Brothers Cinemas after the New Year, so after spending a few days dealing with several companies, Chen Lang put his main energy on discussing the acquisition of Shaw Cinemas with Xue Tianlan.
Time passed in a hurry in the dense discussion of the acquisition plan between the two, during which Chen Lang had to interrupt the discussion and attend another annual meeting of the company.
After the end of the company's annual meeting, the footsteps of the Spring Festival have also arrived, and the whole Hong Kong is full of a strong festive atmosphere, and everyone is celebrating the arrival of another New Year.