Chapter 78: Halal Incident
After the second official meeting with Zhao Hongbing, in fact, Li Tianhai also felt that there was a business crisis in his Kutuan.com, but he never sought Zhao Hongbing's help, first, he had rejected the latter repeatedly before, and second, because of his innate stubbornness, which led to some deviations in his judgment of the market.
After Kutuan.com lagged behind Latin takeaway for the first time in market share, there was another thing that was enough to collapse Li Tianhai - the halal incident.
The so-called halal incident is because Kutuan.com originally wanted to respect religious customs, and prepared a unique halal incubator for Christians A, which generally does not put food such as pork into it, and the starting point of Li Tianhai and others is good.
In the beginning, the halal incubator was also welcomed by Christians A, because most Christians did smell pork and could not eat it, which is a religious taboo in Christianity.
However, more non-A-Christian consumers expressed their opposition, believing that this was Kutuan.com's religious discrimination against non-A-believers, and then some trolls on the Internet began to spread rumors and slander Kutuan.com and Li Tianhai, which made Kutuan.com's market value evaporate 10 billion Huaxia coins in a week.
"What? No way! When pigs fly! ”
After Li Tianhai learned the truth, he almost fainted in his seat, he categorically did not expect that he would fall into today's situation, for Li Tianhai, he still hoped that Kutuan.com could grow into the boss of the industry.
Of course, Kutuan.com has indeed been the leader of the food delivery industry for a while, but because Li Tianhai rejected the C round of financing from many consortiums, including Feitong, and the emergence of the halal incident, it had a great impact on the stock price of Kutuan.com, Li Tianhai was so angry that he fainted and was almost sent to the hospital.
Li Tianhai, who fell on the recliner in his office, felt extremely regretful at this time.
"Alas! Why did I turn down Pete's stake in the first place? Li Tianhai cried bitterly.
Just then, the cell phone on his desk rang.
"Mr. Li, now I plan to invest in Kutuan.com, you shouldn't have any objections, right?" Zhao Hongbing said with a smile.
Li Tianhai, who was holding the Feitong P12 mobile phone, was indeed a little confused, thinking to himself how Zhao Hongbing could know the news so quickly?
"Pete, it's a secret...... My company is indeed a little stretched, if I don't give up, I can! Li Tianhai said briskly.
After hearing the other party's words, Zhao Hongbing was already confident, after all, after he learned the news of the drop in the stock price of Kutuan.com, he immediately called Li Tianhai, and there was less than two minutes between him and back.
"That's good! I will go to your company in two days to sign the agreement, do you think it is appropriate? ”
Even though he has occupied a favorable position to invest in the capital, Zhao Hongbing still maintains his demeanor and does not get carried away because he got Kutuan.com.
"Okay! Pete, look at it, come on, I've been ...... lately anyway There is no big itinerary, but it's a pity that I didn't deal with the halal incident, and now the follow-up impact is still quite big, alas! Li Tianhai said helplessly.
"Don't worry, since I have bought the shares of the cool group, I will naturally make suggestions for the cool group, and now I have asked the people of the company to build momentum for you, and soon public opinion will fall to us." Zhao Hongbing responded.
Naturally, Zhao Hongbing also made this call to Li Tianhai after he was ready.
The so-called preparation actually uses Feitong's huge Internet information interaction, such as UU, UU space, UU music, UU portal and other media, to hire a large number of gunmen to write public opinion news that is beneficial to Kutuan.com, and then use various technical means to introduce a large wave of water army into the comments, and make comments that are favorable to Kutuan.com, so that things can be calmed down.
Of course, this is only to control public opinion from the information level, and to really solve this problem, we have to start from the source.
Zhao Hongbing spent a lot of money to invite a well-known domestic public relations team to let the gold medal writer write an atmospheric apology statement, which was placed on the homepage of Kutuan.com and the main page of the APP.
Zhao Hongbing's series of measures made Li Tianhai admire, although Zhao Hongbing has not held any position on the board of directors of Kutuan.com, but many employees within Kutuan.com have already regarded him as another "god".
A month after the halal incident, the stock price of Kutuan began to gradually recover, although the gap with Latin takeaway and Yiwang takeaway has not narrowed, but Kutuan online has rekindled confidence.
Li Tianhai found Zhao Hongbing again, and thanked him in person: "Pete, you are really my Tanaka Shouichi!" Thank you so much! ”
Seeing Li Tianhai, who was a few years older than him, half-bowed to him, Zhao Hongbing was a little flattered.
And the so-called Shouichi Tanaka, in fact, is the president of the island country soft company, when Ma Fei went to the United States and New Zealand to carry out the IPO of Aladdin Din, Tanaka Shouichi once gave him strong support, and the friendship between the two is also a good story among Internet people.
"Where, where! I believe that as long as we work together, we will be able to do the two takeaway companies of Latin and Yiwang, and in the future, I will not only make Kutuan the largest takeaway company, but also make Kutuan become a comprehensive service-oriented convenience website! Zhao Hongbing continued to say impassionedly.
Li Tianhai excitedly shook Zhao Hongbing's hand, and was naturally very happy.
For Zhao Hongbing, this time it was indeed unexpected for him to take a stake in Kutuan.com, but it was also because he was able to keep an eye on the development of Kutuan.com, especially the development of the takeaway industry, so that he could grasp this opportunity in time.
If it weren't for the accidental stake in Kutuan.com this time, maybe Zhao Hongbing would not be able to intervene in this future fragrant and dumpling industry at all, and he would lose another city in the competition with Ma Fei.
Now, he has finally stabilized the gap between himself and Ma Fei, and also let Feitong Company bite Aladdin Ding tightly, and the two companies are like twin stars in China, competing with each other, constantly glowing with their own brilliance.
Feitong is gradually entering the fifteenth birthday, Zhao Hongbing is only one year away from his forty years old, and he is still not married at the age of thirty-nine, although he and Zhang Xiao are already a pair of lovers, but the two have never taken the last step.
On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the establishment of Feitong, Kutuan.com once again surpassed the two companies of Yiwang and Latin Takeaway, occupying 42% of the market share of the takeaway industry, which was 2% higher than the previous glorious period, which made Zhao Hongbing very happy.
In this year, there is another thing that Zhao Hongbing should pay attention to, that is, the 32nd International Olympic Games will be held in Tangcheng, China, Zhao Hongbing hopes to become the number one sponsor of the Olympic Games, his competitors are Ma Fei's Aladdin Dindin, Zhou Lei's Yiwang and several large state-owned enterprises.