Chapter 7: Christmas
1881 was a year of development, and the citizens of Vienna ~ the material life became more colorful. Ferdinand, who had a big brain, also went farther and farther on the road of profiteers, and all kinds of routines were overwhelming.
Shuanghui Food Group has more and more products, such as a wide variety of noodles, such as biscuits with many brands, and French fries with different flavors.
The baker also officially moved into the supermarket, and all kinds of pastries also appeared one after another, taking the sight of the citizens of Vienna and greatly facilitating people's lives.
Of course, it also enriched Ferdinand's pockets, and Volvo had gone to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, with footprints in every major city.
Of course, Shuanghui Food Group, along with the supermarket, has become more and more worthy of the name from a leather bag company, and has become a large company in the field of food processing in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Christmas was approaching, Volvo was getting busier, and under Ferdinand's spur, Ferrantz was in a daze and began to prepare for the Christmas event.
Unable to relax Ferdinand, Vienna now has several supermarkets, which are beginning to be renovated, and the style is basically a copy of Volvo.
There was also unconventionality, but it was automatically ignored by Ferdinand. If you don't understand anything, you will engage in innovation, and if you are full of death attributes, it will not pose a threat at all.
As you can imagine, in 1882 Vienna would have sprung up with a large number of supermarkets. Ferdinand's monopoly era is coming to an end, and a hundred schools of thought are coming.
Ferdinand estimated that the next three to five years will be the golden age of supermarkets, and competitors are still in the learning and exploration stage; Within five to ten years, there will be a gradual transition to the silver stage, with an increase in competitors and a thinning of profits.
However, Volvo's supremacy has been determined, and it will be difficult for rising stars to challenge in the short term. Ten years later, its own supporting industry will be perfected, and then it will have a complete industrial chain to maximize benefits.
Taking stock of the harvest in 1881, Volvo opened on June 18 and opened 36 new stores in nearly half a year, slightly exceeding the plan.
At the same time, it contributed a net profit of 30,000 pounds to Ferdinand, and the profit was mainly consumed to open a new store. The average monthly profit of each supermarket is still around 800 pounds, which is a horror and is Ferdinand's biggest income now.
Shuanghui Food Group Co., Ltd. also performed very well, after the restructuring of the flour mill, thanks to the rapid expansion of sales channels, from the beginning of the 300 pounds per month profit, to the current 1,000 pounds per month.
The newly established noodle factory sold mediocre, and although Ferdinand made many brands, Europeans were not used to using chopsticks, so the pasta sold well.
At first, he lost a little, but now he made a profit of only about a hundred pounds a month, much to Ferdinand's disappointment.
Fortunately, this is just a small factory of about a dozen people, and it has not blindly expanded its scale, otherwise it would not have won now.
The benefits of the snack processing factory are good, such as popcorn, French fries, all kinds of biscuits, etc., are selling well.
Since its establishment, the snack processing plant has been expanded twice and now has more than 800 employees. The scale of Ferdinand's industry is second only to Volvo. Now the monthly profit is as high as 8,000 pounds, and there is still a lot of room for improvement.
Throughout 1881, Ferdinand created an estate worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, but he added less than £10,000 in cash to his pocket.
It's Christmas, and there's a beautiful Christmas tree in front of the Volvo and a wide variety of food items on the counter.
Wearing a red peaked bowler hat and a bright red robe with a white beard, Santa Claus carries a gift bag and waves to people and gives bags of food to children passing by.
Supermarkets have also opened holiday discounts, and a dazzling array of goods are marked with discounted prices to attract passers-by.
This is completely Ferdinand~ according to the later Austrian Christmas, the arrangement. It looked like it was working well, many items were snapped up, leaving the supermarket with only rows of empty shelves and exhausted salespeople.
Christmas is the most important holiday in the West, and the Ferdinand family was no exception, and they were invited to Schönbrunn Palace to have a Christmas dinner with a group of relatives in Vienna.
Afterwards, the family sang and danced under the Christmas tree and exchanged Christmas gifts, and the whole scene was full of warm atmosphere.
When the clock rang at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, Ferdinand and the others stood up, lit candles, read the Bible in unison, blessed each other, and then sang Christmas songs, the first Christmas song that spread all over the world originated in Auburndorff in Salzburg, Austria.
After singing the Christmas carol, Ferdinand left Schönbrunn Palace for Mass at Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.
At this time, there is a tall Christmas tree in the church, and a shining star on the tree points to the road to Bethlehem of the "Three Kings of the East" Casper, Badasa and Melcius.
The streets and alleys of Vienna are now full of children, singing Christmas songs and going from house to house to report good news.
The aristocrats and capitalists were also rarely generous, the workers were all on holiday, and many of them could also receive Christmas gifts.
At least those who worked for Ferdinand received a Christmas present, some factory-grown snacks, and some unsalable products. In any case, Ferdinand's factory produced food, which was a very valuable gift to the destitute workers.
If it weren't for Karl's timely reminder, Ferdinand would have almost given out a year-end bonus. Fortunately, he reacted in time, knowing that in those days, raising the wages of workers without authorization would be hostile to the capitalists.
After a lively Christmas, Ferdinand was called out by Princess Clementina the next morning.
Sleeping was a bad habit that Ferdinand had developed in his previous life, but Princess Clementina hated it, believing that it would drain one's will.
Ferdinand resisted several times to no avail, and finally obediently obeyed, thinking that Christmas could be an exception, but reality told him that he couldn't.
Morning exercises are also a tradition of the Kohali family, and the days of the military aristocracy are not as good as the legend says.
Drunk gold fans, with very few exceptions. Most of the German aristocracy followed tradition, was strictly required from an early age, had much more to learn than ordinary people, and hardly had a good childhood.
The Viennese aristocracy began to decay, but most of them were the new nouveau riche, who were greedy for pleasure and ruined the reputation of the entire aristocratic circle. The real noble people have strict requirements for their descendants, beyond the imagination of ordinary people.