Batch 642 Suo Ni's strong counterattack
The headquarters of Legend Technology, located in the middle of the bustling Zhongguancun Street, is the busiest time at eight o'clock in the morning. Countless IT elites and industry experts are driving or taking the subway at the moment, and they are rushing here to work, showing their talents and sweat in the electronic building of Rulin.
Here, every day new miracles are born, new rich people are born, and this has always been the place where legends are made.
And now, when it comes to the hottest company, it has to be Legend Technology.
Legend Technology, from a small company with a registered capital of less than 100 million, in less than half a year, has become one of the most well-known technology companies in the world with a small technology product - MP3, and this digital playback device the size of a lighter has also become the most popular digital playback product in the world from the beginning of obscurity!
Today, Legend Technology has become the world's most promising electronics company, with a conservative estimate of its market capitalization of about 2 billion yuan. Of course, this is only because the company has not been listed for a long time and cannot accurately estimate it. If Legend Tech goes public, its value will probably be three to five billion!
And its founder, Liu Yufan, who is over 20 years old, also frequently appears on the covers of major media newspapers and magazines, and is known as the most influential figure in the world in the 21st century! Its hairline history is also very much talked about by some digital enthusiasts.
It's just that although Legendary Entertainment is on fire, those electronics companies that compete on the same stage are becoming more and more sad.
As one of the first companies to be affected by legendary technology, Suo Ni Company is one of the first companies to be affected by legendary technology. The current days can be described as rivers and rivers. Originally, for China. The company has always regarded it as the most important market in Asia, and the annual sales of CD players, PS consoles and records in China account for nearly 40% of the company's total business. But now? The advent of MP3. People have no interest in the CD player that Suo Ni was proud of before, and the rest of the parts, the highlight of Suo Ni, the camera and the SLR camera, have also been greatly impacted. In less than half a year after Legend Technology launched Meizu MP3, Legend Technology launched two heavyweight products - Meizu S TV game console and Meizu HD digital camcorder! The former not only has all the functions of the PS host, but also adds network confrontation and web browsing functions on this basis. And the price is only a little more than half of the Suo Ni PS2 console! Originally, the sales of the PS2 console in the Chinese mainland market have always led the trend and are known as the benchmark of video games. But as soon as Meizu S came out, it suddenly covered up the light of PS2! The Meizu S host is not only exquisite, but also powerful, both in terms of hardware specifications and software functions. All of them are directly spiked PS2 consoles! Coupled with its two major killer moves of domestic production and pro-people, PS2 has directly changed from being sought after by everyone at the beginning to being cared for.
As for the high-definition digital camera, it is a stab in the soft underbelly of the company!
For a long time, the field of digital video cameras has been the world of Suo Ni and Panasonic. Although the country has launched several waves of boycotts of mud-bombarded products. But in the face of powerful clay cameras, it is almost impossible to resist, because from DV enthusiasts to professional TV stations, most of the equipment is Clay and Panasonic things. There is simply no alternative to them on the market.
However, Meizu's high-definition digital video camera has completely changed this situation!
Although this digital camcorder with the latest memory card and 3CCD technology cannot compete with the products of Suoni in the international market, it has achieved a one-sided advantage in a very short period of time in the mainland market. Many companies or individuals who have been using Suoni cameras before, after seeing the performance of Meizu's high-definition digital cameras, have not hesitated to abandon the original products and replace Meizu's high-definition digital cameras.
The reason is very simple, the camera of Suo Ni is still in the era of cassette, and a blank tape must be put into the camera when shooting, and if you want to edit the recorded video, you also need to use expensive capture cards and capture software to edit the video source, and you need to prepare these equipment completely, which requires a huge cost. Meizu's high-definition digital camcorder, due to the use of memory card technology, not only greatly reduces the cost of the machine, so that consumers do not have to buy expensive capture cards and video tapes, they can easily record images, but also directly through the camera, directly generate MPEG format film source, eliminating the process of conversion, and its imaging quality, almost the same as the high-definition camera of Suoni. In such a situation, who will continue to choose the camera of Suo Ni?
Although the Chinese market is not the main market of the company, the profits brought by the Chinese market to the company every year cannot be ignored by the senior management of the company. Especially in recent years, China's development speed is getting faster and faster, and the consumption level of residents is getting higher and higher, so that these foreign companies pay more and more attention to the Chinese market, and try their best to open up.
The Ministry of Commerce is located in the second ring road of Beijing, and there are countless foreign enterprise personnel who come here every day to find various subordinate bureau-level units and ministers.
However, for Li Kun, Minister of Commerce, there are really not too many opportunities for him to personally receive foreign businessmen.
However, there are exceptions to everything. Today, he received an important guest from a foreign company in his office.
As the Minister of Commerce of the Republic, Li Kun's power is not insignificant, especially for those foreign companies doing business in China, this person is a big Buddha who cannot afford to offend. On weekdays, those foreign executives who are invincible in various cities will make a submissive posture in front of him, even so, it is difficult to meet him!
It's just that today's meeting is quite special.
Because, the representative of the foreign company who met Li Kun. He is one of the largest shareholders of Suo Mud, Akio Ota. At the same time, this person is also the chairman of Suo Ni Company!
Now. In Li Kun's office, Akio Ota was sitting upright under him, albeit politely. But there was a sense of arrogance in his expression.
Of course, Akio Ota has a proud capital, although the other party is the Minister of Commerce of the second largest economy in Asia, but the company is the world's top 500 enterprises, every year in the production of enterprises in China, will contribute a very considerable amount of tax to the local government, therefore. The top level of the Chinese government has always had great respect for the company. Although there is a feud between the two countries, it is a political and cultural matter, and it does not have much to do with business. In business, from the perspective of national interests, the Chinese government has to pay attention to this company. Although the other party relies on its technological superiority, it has to take a lot of profits from China every year. However, for the sake of the country's long-term development, the departments concerned should still do their best to maintain good relations with each other.
"Mr. Akio, I don't know what you are here for?" After a business-like conversation, Minister Li asked with a smile. Look at this and sit in front of yourself. There are some little old men who are grateful, and in his heart, the Ming Tombs dare not take it lightly. Although he is the Minister of Commerce of a country, he also needs to work hard to deal with an international giant like Suo Ni. It's not that he's afraid of this old man or the company, it's just that everything needs to be in the interests of the country, and it has to be so.
Today's meeting was a private meeting, and there were no reporters on site, not even reporters or interpreters. Although such an occasion may seem a little informal, everyone knows that only in such an occasion will the thing being talked about be something that really has "meat".
"Minister Li, with all due respect, you can see that the company has contributed to China's tax revenue and solved the employment problem for China over the years, and we have always adhered to the principle of friendship between China and Mud, and provided friendly assistance to your country, but your government is really disappointed in the fight against piracy and the protection of investors' interests." Looking at Li Kun, Zhaofu said very dissatisfied.
"Hehe, why did the chairman say this?" Minister Li Kun kept a smile on his face and asked with a pleasant face, but in his heart, he secretly scolded the other party for talking nonsense. Over the years, the company has relied on its technological advantages to carry out various dumping to the Chinese market, which has made the development of state-owned electronics enterprises weak, and at the same time, although it has nominally set up a joint venture with China, it has taken most of the profits from China by relying on its own technological advantages. It leaves only a small part of China's profit margins. And the technologies that are sold to China are also outdated technologies.
For such a person, Li Kun naturally will not have a good impression. He himself is a very muddy official, although he has to communicate well with the other party due to his identity, but from the bottom of his heart, Li Kun has no good impression of them at all.
As for why this Ota Akio came to him, Li Kun also had some plans in his heart, and he was naturally very proud. For many years, the devil begged for himself in a low voice, which is still an unprecedented thing. Even, Minister Li also had a good impression of that legendary technology.
However, in front of Ota Akio, Minister Li still has to decisively pretend to be confused, and he has been an official for decades, and he has long been trained in this hand.
"Minister Li, there is an old Chinese saying that the Ming people don't speak dark words. I came to find you today, the main purpose is that I believe you have already been clear, recently, your country's legendary technology company, maliciously stole our company's confidential information, illegally copied our company's products, disrupted the market, and brought huge losses to Suo Ni. I hope that your country will maintain a fair position on this issue, punish this company as it deserves, and give justice to the company and ensure the interests of the company in China. Looking at Li Kun, Akio Ota said unceremoniously. 、
Although the other party is China's Minister of Commerce, in the eyes of Akio Ota, he does not think too highly of him. This guy is a complete hawk figure, who has never had a good impression of China, and is full of aggression in his bones. Since taking the helm of Suo Ni Company, he has given a lot of support to the hawkish forces of the Mud Bomb Country, both openly and secretly. In his opinion, it is a huge waste for such a rich piece of land to be occupied by China, a "low" country.
Moreover, from several encounters with Chinese government officials, Ota Akio also felt their weakness and incompetence. Many times. As long as he was a little scared, the other party immediately agreed to all the requests, and he couldn't wait to offer himself as an ancestor.
This time. He also has full confidence in his actions.
"Haha. Mr. Akio, as far as I know, this legendary technology should be a company with relatively complete procedures, and there are no such things as you said, and some of their technologies are completely independent intellectual property rights, so there should be no problem of misappropriation. Facing Akio Ota's questioning. Minister Li is playing haha. On weekdays, he has seen a lot of such situations, and it is naturally no problem to deal with them. He doesn't have a good impression of this old devil at all, if it weren't for his identity, I'm afraid he would just shoot the case and bombard the other party and leave!
"Minister Lee. What you mean by these words is that you want to be partial to Legendary Technology. Again, I repeat that the technology used by Legend Tech for game consoles and HD cameras was obtained through illegal means from us at Suo Ni. If your country cannot give our company a satisfactory answer on this matter, we will consider withdrawing from the Chinese market! Watching Minister Li play Tai Chi with himself, Zhaofu was also a little angry.
Dare to speak to the minister of commerce of a dignified country, especially the minister of commerce of a large country with the second largest economy in Asia, I am afraid that except for Suo Ni Company, few companies have such courage.
"Mr. Akio, don't get excited, we need to conduct a specific investigation before we can give you an answer. If the results of the investigation, as you said, are the legendary technology that has stolen your technological achievements, we will definitely not be biased against them, this matter, I will personally pay attention to it" Li Kun said this, looked at his watch and said: "I'm really sorry, Mr. Zhaofu, I have an important meeting to attend in a while, so I can only talk to you about it today, if there is any situation, you can contact my secretary directly, okay, that's it." Minister Li said, ignoring Zhaofu's angry face that was about to turn blue, and walked out of the office directly.
"Damn the Shina people, I'll make you regret your indifference today." Looking at Minister Li who walked out of the office, Akio's face showed a gloomy look.
At the same time, Minister Li Kun, who walked out of the office, was in a very happy mood. For many years, he has not let the little devils suffer such a loss, as a dignified Minister of Commerce of the People's Republic of China, he always has to suffer from these little devils on weekdays, and he is also very unhappy. Today there is finally a chance to vent this breath in his heart, although the matter has not yet been decided, but at the moment, he is in a good mood.
"Xiao Wang, arrange for me to meet the chairman of that legendary technology." Looking at the secretary who was following him, Minister Li said loudly.
"Okay minister, I'll arrange it right away." Xiao Wang is also thirty-six years old this year, and since he entered the office, he has been by Li Kun's side for four or five years. He also knows Li Kun's character very clearly. Although this minister seems to be easy-going on the surface, he is very radical in his bones, especially for little devils, he has always been very unaccustomed. Feeling his excitement today, it is estimated that it must be the old devil Akio of the Suo Ni Company who has suffered a loss under his hands.
"Minister, that legendary technology Liu Yufan really has some ability, I heard that the two products produced by his company are at the leading level in the world, although they have only been on the market for less than a year, they have already earned more than a billion, this Liu Yufan is really extraordinary." Secretary Xiao Wang saw that the minister was in a good mood and joked with him.
"Hehe, yes, our national enterprise needs such young people who dare to think and do, and have talent. Our national enterprises started late, and the gap between them and those large foreign companies is also large, if there is no sense of competition, when will they be able to catch up with their level? This Xiao Liu is very interesting, I think, I want to talk to him well. Minister Li said with a smile.
"This Liu Yufan, now developed, can be favored by Minister Li, looking at the entire republic, which enterprise CEO can get such an honor." Listening to Minister Li's words, Secretary Xiao Wang thought with emotion.
Minister Li was in a good mood, but Akio Ota was in a very unhappy mood. Without hearing what he wanted from Minister Li's mouth, he returned to the headquarters of the mud bombardment country and threw something. And then he took the next step.
Suo Ni is a large global company, in China, Suo Ni company has a large number of factories and sales organizations in major cities. With the order of Akio Ota, many factories in China have stopped working, and large-scale demonstrations have broken out, and the spearhead is directly aimed at Legendary Technology!
At the same time, some commercial websites have also appeared some posts attacking Legend Technology, calling Legend Technology a shameless villain who misappropriates technology, and the technology of high-definition cameras and game consoles produced is stolen from Suo Ni Company through improper means.
However, for Legendary Technology, which is standing on the cusp of the storm, it seems that there is no such thing at all, not only did the official not make any response, but even the principal Liu Yufan did not mention this matter in public, as if this matter had never existed!
And the Chinese government, this time the attitude towards this matter is also very puzzling, Suo Ni has been tossing for a month, according to the convention, someone should have come out to say a soft word, but now there is no movement at all.
A week after the strike incident, in a small conference room of the Ministry of Commerce, Li Kun finally met with the protagonist of the incident, Liu Yufan, the chairman of Legend Technology. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )