Chapter Ninety-Eight: Sniping
Seeing that the car door was brought by Jessica, who was in the car by Zuihou, Lee Jae-min turned around and asked, "What's the matter?" β
"The matter of Life Square, just now Haizhong oppa called once, and I listened to the tone a little anxious." Park Shin-jeong lowered her head and took out her mobile phone, flipped to Choi Hae-jong's number and dialed it, waited for a while, and then handed it to Lee Jae-min and said, "His phone is working." β
"Brother Hai Zhong, I'm in Min!" Lee Jae-min took the phone and put it in his ear and asked, "What happened to Minyeon Life Square?" β
"It's not!" Cui Haizhong's tone was a little hesitant, and then he raised his voice as if decisively, "A representative of the company leaked the last proposal, and our branch plan was maliciously sniped. β
In the business environment where South Korea is almost monopolized by many large conglomerates, it is inevitable that the development of enterprises will reach a certain scale, and it is inevitable that they will be sniped by business. Lee Jae-min didn't expect that his company was just about to make a little bigger move, and it was very unexpected, but now the development of LTF company, nationwide, can't get into the eyes of big conglomerates, who will stare at a small company like LTF in this still depressed economic environment, "Is it a branch in Suwon City?" β
"Suwon City is no problem, it's a Jeju branch. The two locations of the Jeju branch in the planning were suddenly acquired by a company today. β
After the Suwon branch was finalized, Lee Jae-min and Choi Hae-jong began to prepare for the second branch, even if they could not be launched for a short time, they were always prepared. Although the economic environment continues to be sluggish, Jeju's economy has been gradually picking up in the past few months, so they are preparing to put a second branch there.
Originally, this was a plan that would be implemented at least a few months later, but I didn't expect that under the double stimulation of the increasing sales record of the Jeonju main store and the upcoming opening of the Suwon branch, most of the merchants who entered the store were like stimulants, and most of them had paid the entrance fees to the shopping mall for several years, and they could not refund the hard refund, so they accumulated some available liquidity for the company, and the sales of the "One Day One Day" album and music sources were already able to support the start of this project. At this time, the site designated by the previous Jeju branch company was suddenly acquired!
"That representative is a very senior of mine, I didn't expect him to be so careless, I have already fired him and the people he brought. I'm sorry! In Min! He really leaked it unintentionally, can he ......" Cui Haizhong's voice became smaller and smaller, and such an act of leaking the company's trade secrets caused a certain loss, and there are few who have not been sued by the company.
"It's okay, this matter, Brother Hai Zhong, you just need to watch and do it." Lee Jae-min believes that Choi Hae-jong will be more cautious in the future after this incident, "We can't enter Jeju Island for the time being, we can target other cities." Brother Hai Zhong, which company acquired these two properties, what follow-up jihua do they have, have you heard about these? β
"Xiexie, Jaemin!" Cui Haizhong in the mobile phone breathed a sigh of relief, and then listened to him, "It is a foreign company called YUAN, and the information of the company's owners has not been investigated for the time being, and the news they released later is that high-end apartments will be built in these two places!" β
Lee Jaemin frowned, the mysterious foreign company, the acquisition of a good section with commercial development prospects to build an apartment, based on these two points, it can basically be determined that this is a malicious business sniper, but people have this strength of capital, and they can't help it, he just wants to break his head and doesn't understand, which company will do this kind of thing to the current LTF, this is an act of hurting the enemy and losing eight hundred, and the amount of loss in the middle is definitely not a decimal.
Choi Hae-jong didn't hear Lee Jae-min's voice for a long time, and then asked, "Then I'll let the planning department prepare tomorrow and start researching and estimating the location of our second branch, etc.?" β
"The plan for a second branch has been put on hold for now." The cold wind was blowing, Lee Jaemin saw Park Shenjing's warm body rubbing his hands and stomping his feet, a woman's nature of loving beauty is regardless of seasons, no matter how cold the weather is, she doesn't like to wear bloated, even if she has to endure the cold all the time, he waved her hand and signaled her to go back to the car first, there is no need to accompany herself here to be cold.
"Shelved?"
Seeing Park Shin-jung running into the car quickly, Lee Jae-min put up the collar of his down jacket and said, "The last time I discussed the plan for a second branch, I saw the gradual recovery of the domestic economic environment. β
Cui Haizhong said puzzled, "There is no change now, the domestic economy has not shown signs of recovery, and the government has also recently issued a number of support policies, many experts are very optimistic about the economic market next year!" β
Lee Jae-min said, "Brother Hae Jong, do you remember some time ago when I asked you to sort out information about the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States? β
The subprime mortgage crisis in the United States is also known as the subprime mortgage crisis, also known as the subprime crisis. A financial crisis triggered by mortgage defaults and a sharp increase in foreclosures in the United States. The subprime mortgage crisis in the United States has led to continued chaos in financial markets, which in turn has triggered a massive reshuffle in the financial industry, and even the elimination of large financial institutions that have been hit hard.
The subprime mortgage crisis originated at the end of the last century, marked by the bankruptcy of the New Century Financial Corporation, the second largest subprime mortgage company in the United States in the second half of the year, and spread from the real estate market to the credit market, resulting in a crisis of illiquidity in the world's major financial markets, and then evolved into a global financial crisis.
However, in early October, the United States introduced a series of rescue measures, especially in the last month or so, and the crisis seems to have been very much under control.
"Do you think this crisis is over?" Cui Haizhong's stunned voice came.
"During this time, I carefully read all the information you sent, and asked my friends in the United States to help me collect relevant information and analyze it, and I feel that this real crisis may not have passed. Now that we may be targeted by other companies, it is better to stop the planning of the branch for the time being. β
At the beginning of the development of business, Lee Jaemin was completely relying on his enthusiasm in the layout, but this business sniper made him recognize the reality, in fact, the last time a company proposed to acquire Minyan Life Plaza, he should have paid enough attention, but he always thought that his company was still very small, and coupled with the depression of the national economic environment, he would ignore it.
Now there is a targeted sniping, this is the first time, but he believes that this will not be the first time Zuihou, it just so happened that during this time, he analyzed the information about the subprime mortgage crisis, and took the opportunity to adjust the direction of development.
"In addition to the necessary funds for the Suwon branch, from now on, as much as possible to withdraw the working capital, for the current entry business reputation haode merchants, you can sign an additional one to two years of admission contract, and the state government also run a little more, our company is not still in the preferential period of the contract, see if we can lend another amount, the maximum amount of it!"
Cui Haizhong seemed to be a little out of breath, and he gasped and asked, "Do you want to make such a big move?" What is the goal? β
Lee Jae-min turned to look at the nanny car, thinking of Taeyeon sitting inside, the concert dream flashed through his mind, he took a deep breath and said, "Gmarket! β
βGmarketοΌβ Cui Haizhong called out the name on the phone, and then there was no sound.
Gmarket is Korea's largest integrated shopping site and ranks first in terms of total value of goods sold in Korea's online retail market, mainly selling books, MP3s, cosmetics, computers, home appliances, clothes, and more. Now South Korea's popular boy band Bigbang is the spokesperson of its official website, and the economic strength of the website can be imagined.
"Gmarket, even if it has been greatly affected by the financial crisis this year, but now the market value is at least hundreds of billions of won, and after the third tranche of funds from the fourth largest shareholder in the United States, the fourth largest investment bank, is in place, the market value will definitely increase several times, to put it mildly, it can buy us LTF for a fraction, what's the use of staring at it......" After a long time, Cui Haizhong's voice came a little hoarse, and his words stopped abruptly at this point, and after waiting for a while, he said incredulously, "The ...... of the American investment bank"
"Yes, Gmarket's largest shareholder is Lehman Brothers, the fourth largest investment bank in the United States, and if the financial crisis rebounds, or worse, it will be our chance to drink soup, and it's too early to talk about how much we can drink. Don't be prepared early! If you don't have the opportunity, you should make more financial preparations for the next branch, so as not to be caught off guard by the current situation. You should pay more attention to this news, and if you have the opportunity, you can try to contact the senior management of Gmarket more ......"
"Okay, I'll let you know when there's news or progress!"
Hanging up Choi Hae-jong's phone, Lee Jae-min put the phone in his pocket, rubbed his cold hands, and walked towards the nanny car. Traditionally, the industry is the most vulnerable to sniping, Gmarket is tantamount to an elephant and a snake for the current TLF, even if the financial crisis rebounds, affecting its largest shareholder, Lehman Brothers, but after all, it is difficult to say how much meat can be bitten off, but at least it is an entry point for the development and transformation of a company, which can effectively avoid the current business sniping.
The nanny car was pulled away by Lee Jaemin, and the chattering inside suddenly quieted down, and then Park Shin Jing in the driver's seat turned his head to look at him and smiled, seeing Sunny stiff and exaggerated body movements frozen in the center of the car, he didn't guess that this vitality element must be talking about the previous things on the set.
"I think you should go to acting class with Yuna." Looking at Sunny's dripping eyes, Lee Jae-min angrily pressed her head and pushed her back to her seat.
"There's no need! I think Xiao Sun just learned a lot like you, looking at Sister Zhaoxi affectionately, and proposing to Sika with affection......" At this time, Taeyeon, who was sitting in the row of Zuihou, poked her little head and didn't finish speaking, she was counterattacked by Jessica, and the two were in trouble for a while.
The other three, including Park Shin-jung, thought that Taeyeon was just teasing Lee Jae-min and Jessica, as Jessica did, and only Lee Jae-min noticed the slightly pouting mouth and wrinkled nose when she said this.
"What's this! Xuan Mei said that she had touched Ahn So-hee's little hand in Min Oppa! Sunny and Lee Jae-min got used to getting into trouble, and they didn't get hurt by his push at all, and continued to break the news, "And hugged Jessica." β
"What!" It was Tiffany and Park Shin-jeong who shouted out in surprise, followed by a muffled "bang", but it was Taeyeon who stood up violently and hit her head on the roof of the car.
"Yikes! Little Sun! Jessica pounced on Sunny, obviously a misunderstanding, but was distorted and spread everywhere by the strongest vitality in the team, and it was really unbearable.