Volume 2 Hidden Dragon in the Abyss Chapter 1603 Hands reached out to the NBA
While planning the unlucky old man, the Alice Group's sales and global promotion plans for the luxury private jet project also began.
With the huge procurement plan reached by Ellison and his friends with the Alice Group, the Alice Group once again occupied the front page of the world media overnight, but unlike previous reports, this time it was Ellison who occupied the front page of the media with the Alice Group - Zhang Lan felt that Ellison should pay an extra sum of money to himself, if this matter was left in the past, how much would he need to spend to be able to achieve such an advertising effect, but now, look at Ya, just bought a few things, made the whole world know about it, so Zhang Lan felt that she was losing a lot.
For the media, they don't care what you're doing, anyway, as long as people like to watch these things, they will do their best to report it. Of course, in order to arouse the people's interest in reading, the division of labor of these guys is also very different, but whether it is impossible and unbelievable, or whether they think that the Alice Group may really succeed, they have reported again and again about the ship and plane that the Alice Group planned to sell to Ellison, a madman!
Taking this opportunity, the Alice Group organized a series of final test flights of the prototypes to be built in one fell swoop - it is a bit ashamed to say that this last test flight was actually the first test flight - and brought the aircraft into close contact with the media.
Of course, the test flight is just a formality, and Zhang Lan has never doubted Xiao Chenxi, Alice, Brother Zhuzi, and Brother Tian's talent in front of these "simple" toys: if there is really something wrong with these toys, then these guys' faces will really be lost.
After the end of the test flight, Alice Group officially said that after this last test flight, it was proved that the performance of these aircraft designed by Alice Group is very good, and they all exceed the technical level of similar aircraft in the world.
Since this is the case, then the endorsement matter can naturally be put on the agenda, and the previous negotiations with the San Antonio Spurs have come to fruition: all the players of the San Antonio Spurs have become the spokespersons of a series of private, business/official luxury aircraft of the Alice Group, and the Alice Group has given a luxury business jet to the San Antonio Spurs as an endorsement fee.
This is a large business/business aircraft the size of a Boeing 717, with a cabin space similar to that of a Boeing 717-200 airliner, with a maximum flight range of 12,000 kilometers, but fuel consumption is basically the same as that of a Gulfstream 550 luxury private, allowing the Spurs to easily afford the maintenance of this aircraft on weekdays - during the break of the season, the San Antonio Spurs also have the option to rent out the aircraft to make money to support the aircraft.
On the plane, every player and coaching staff member can have their own room, so they can get enough rest and maintain full physical strength during the flight; There are locker rooms like the San Antonio Spurs' stadium, and there is a conference room that can accommodate all the members of the team, so the team can discuss tactics on the way to the opponent, and there is even a large galley on the plane!
Specifically, of course, ownership of the aircraft belongs to the San Antonio Spurs and Spurs players, with the team owning 50% and the remaining 50% going to the entire Spurs.
In view of the high turnover of personnel in the NBA, in order to prevent disputes over the ownership of the aircraft after a player leaves, the San Antonio Spurs also signed an agreement with the players: calculate the ownership of the aircraft by each player, what is the value of the aircraft they own, and when the player leaves the San Antonio Spurs, the team chooses to pay this money plus a 10% premium to buy back the ownership of the aircraft in the hands of the players. …,
This 10% is equivalent to the amount of money that the player puts into the team, and the team uses the money to earn for the player, and it increases year after year as the player has been with the team. Of course, a player can also choose to sell the aircraft to the team in the second year, even if he does not leave the team, and even if the player does not own the aircraft, he can still enjoy this benefit, but the player who owns the aircraft can use the aircraft for free for a different number of days per year, depending on the proportion of ownership of the aircraft in his hands.
Therefore, although it is equivalent to the fact that the players have not made any benefits in this endorsement contract for the time being, considering that in the long season, the team no longer has to squeeze the "crowded" business class when playing away - although the business class is already very good, but for these tall players, it does seem a little more crowded - no longer have to worry about the delay of the plane, no longer have to endure the difficulty of crowded civil aircraft, and finally lose a considerable part of their physical strength and energy before the war starts.
Although it is not possible to get the money for the time being, with this plane, it means that in the next few years, the San Antonio Spurs will no longer have to have abnormal physical and energy consumption when playing on the road. And don't you have the option to ask for cash?
Asking the Spurs to endorse is something that has been planned for a long time, and basketball is only the last of the three major sports of baseball, football and basketball in the United States, but when it comes to influence in the world, basketball is definitely much more influential than baseball and football! After all, baseball and football are just things that Americans play in their own homes with their doors closed, and except for the Japanese little brother who waved a few sticks with his master, there is really no one in the world who plays this sport, and the same is true for rugby.
But basketball is different, there are few countries in the world that do not know the NBA, for countless people, the NBA represents the highest level of technology on the planet, the most gorgeous competitive sports, and therefore, the NBA has become one of the most profitable competitive sports on the planet, with influence all over the world, choosing them to endorse, you can maximize the influence of your products.
To this year David . Since the Alice Group intends to sell these products globally, there is no doubt that it is the best choice to ask the most successful teams in the NBA in the 02-03 season to endorse their products.
For the Spurs, although the Spurs have money, they don't have the luxury to equip the team with a private jet, but if the endorsement product can be exchanged for a comfortable, team-owned business jet, it is a different matter - of course, the Spurs only have one plane for all the players, which is a bit low, which does not rule out the possibility that the Spurs want to have something with the Alice Group or that the Spurs owner wants Alice to take care of his property.
For Alice Group, the biggest benefit of this endorsement fee is: earned!
Zhang Lan originally planned to invite Tim, the double MVP of the NBA regular season and finals in the 02-03 season. Duncan endorsed himself, but later found that it seemed a little uneconomical to do so, so it was better to directly ask the Spurs to speak for him, although Zhang Lan didn't want to do this, but there was no way, the whole world knew that what can be recognized and accepted by Americans is a good thing, but this is not subject to Zhang Lan's will.
Fortunately, the endorsement was very successful, after the endorsement contract was signed, although the aircraft could not enter the United States for the time being due to airworthiness certificates and other issues, there were already many wealthy people and aviation enthusiasts who began to express interest in this series of products of the Alice Group -- in addition to various types of luxury private jets, the World War II fighter assembly kit launched by the Alice Group, and the luxury "air sports car" modified on the basis of the MiG-21 have also received great attention! …,
There are still quite a few rich people with strong fighter plots.
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When the matter here is basically done, Alice Group in fuel cell vehicles with the same automobile, second automobile, SAIC three major central enterprises cooperation has been preliminarily reached: Alice Group set up a new power company, with this company as a shareholder, FAW, FAW and SAIC with their own subordinate power manufacturing company shares, the four companies jointly set up a power company engaged in from 60KW - 330KW automotive fuel cell set + electric motor power company, Alice Power Company occupies 40% of the shares, The other three each have a 20% stake.
The new company will build a new fuel cell power production base in Lu province, and after commissioning, all products will be sold to the outside world in addition to the four companies.
Alice Group's technology in hydrogen fuel proton exchange membrane fuel cells has reached the point where a fuel cell capable of producing 330 kW can be integrated into the engine compartment of a car? Although Alice Group has previously used nuclear fuel proton exchange membrane fuel cells based on controlled nuclear fission technology in the An-124 "Ruslan", a super-large strategic transport aircraft, and has a series of follow-up research and development programs, the use of ordinary hydrogen fuel cell stacks in cars?
In people's impressions, in addition to the concept cars launched by major automobile manufacturers, there are only the two fuel cell vehicles launched by Alice Group two years ago, with a power of only a pitiful thirty or forty kilowatts. ……,