Chapter 316: New Business Comes to the Door

Often, Chamberlain would think of the mysterious figure who had once appeared, and thank him for giving him this perfect body, and at this moment, he thanked again the mysterious man, in his heart, that was God, although he always called himself the devil.

Chamberlain is now faster than the nerves, and as soon as Winnie waved his hand, he pulled Zhang Zilin into his arms, so that he finally got a good shot, Winnie's slap did not slap Zhang Zilin's pretty face, but just passed in front of her hair.

Zhang Zilin's hair fluttered in the fierce palm wind, and if this slap slapped on the latter's pretty face, she wouldn't want to appear in public in a short time.

Zhang Zilin is not easy to mess with, she is from a sports background, when she was dating before, she smiled at Chamberlain and introduced herself to be wild and untamable, Chamberlain thought she was joking, but now it seems that this is not the case.

Zhang Zilin struggled fiercely in Chamberlain's arms, calling Gu Chen to clean up Winnie together.

Chamberlain tried his best to persuade the rampaging Zhang Zilin and the hesitant Gu Chen away, he found two armed policemen to help stop them, and he took Winnie and Shirley into the car and left in embarrassment.

Fuck, these women are crazy, Chamberlain couldn't help but sigh.

The two armed policemen couldn't help but sigh: Fuck, they are all men, why is the gap so big? But it seems that someone is taking pictures with a camera, do you want to remind Chamberlain? The two glanced at each other, and they all chose to turn a blind eye, fuck, they have to let this kid suffer some losses and converge.

Chamberlain wiped a cold sweat in the car, sneered and asked Winnie, "Why did you suddenly come to Beijing?" Did you miss me? ”

Winnie may not have joked since she was a child, she gave Chamberlain a blank look and said, "Shirley is, I'm not, I got a call and have a few endorsements to discuss with you." You performed very well in the Olympic Games, and many big customers who were not interesting to you before have also taken a fancy to you, and this time they came to negotiate with Lenovo Group, Pegatron Group, Ping An Group, Haier Group, etc., and they are all interested in you. ”

Changing the topic, things were easy to do, Chamberlain scratched his head and said: "I didn't play as well in the Olympics as the NBA, why are they suddenly optimistic about me now?" Didn't they watch the NBA before? ”

Winnie wanted to call him an idiot, but she patiently explained: "It's very simple, no matter how well you play in the NBA, at most you are an excellent basketball player, but now it's different, you're about to become a national hero, just like your compatriot Liu Xiang." ”

Chamberlain suddenly realized, Liu Xiang is indeed in the limelight now, Lenovo Group he understands, because now the Olympic Village is full of Lenovo advertising, Lenovo Group funded and sponsored all the electronic equipment of the Olympic Games, all computers during the Olympics are provided by Lenovo, Liu Xiang is also one of Lenovo's big-name spokespersons, and now there are Lenovo advertisements for him in the Olympic Village a few steps away.

Winnie has a violent personality, but her temper comes and goes quickly, and after talking about business with Chamberlain, she forgot about Zhang Zilin and Gu Chen.

Chamberlain had already figured out her character, and after a while, he waited for Winnie to stop paying attention to this matter, and then explained his relationship with Zhang Zilin and Gu Chen.

Winnie's rationality is greater than her emotion, and when she realized that she had misunderstood the relationship between the three of them, she frowned apologetically and said, "So that's the case?" I thought they were just like those who just wanted to get the best out of you, and the next time we met, I would apologize to them. ”

Chamberlain was overjoyed, but Winnie added, "I won't listen to your one-sided words, I'll investigate this matter myself, and if it's really just a relationship between you and friends, I'll apologize, but I don't believe it." ”

Lenovo Group and Pegatron United Group are rivals, the latter is a subsidiary of the ace boss of Taiwan's electronics industry, Asus Group, and Lenovo is one of the trump cards in the electronics industry in mainland China.

Pegatron Group has just been established, officially established on January 1, 2008, the group adheres to the rich experience in product development and the vertical integration of the production process of the manufacturing process, is committed to providing customers from the most creative design to the systematic manufacturing service of the consistent process, complete and efficient to meet all the needs of customers.

Pegatron has just been established, as the saying goes, the new official took office with three fires, they got the net assets of the parent company injected a new NT$82 billion, and now it is not bad money, but the bad is the influence, Pegatron United Group is not a simple kind of subsidiary, but similar to ASUS to build and invest in a new group, the business scope covers more from motherboards, personal computers, laptops, servers, interface cards, optical disc drives, modems, wireless communication products, game consoles and their peripherals, network products, PBX switches, From digital audio-visual players to LCD TVs, what is needed is influence.

Lenovo Group is bigger, it is divided into two headquarters in the world, the first is located in Beijing, China Lenovo Group global administrative headquarters of Lenovo China Building, the second is in 2004 when China Lenovo Group acquired the United States IBM global PC business just set up in New York temporary headquarters, called Lenovo International.

Lenovo China Building, Beijing Group, China, is the location of Lenovo Group's true global administrative headquarters, after the acquisition of IBM's global PC business in 2004, China Lenovo Group set up two main operation centers in Beijing, China and Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, through Lenovo's own sales organization, Lenovo business partners and alliances with IBM, the new Lenovo's sales network throughout the world.

Lenovo employs more than 27,000 people worldwide. R&D centers are located in Beijing, Shenzhen, Xiamen, Chengdu and Shanghai in China, Tokyo in Japan and Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

As a leader in the global personal computer market, Lenovo develops, manufactures, and markets the most reliable, secure, and easy-to-use technology products and professional services that help customers and partners around the world succeed. According to the 2008 list of the top 500 global enterprises published by Fortune magazine in the United States, Lenovo Group, the fourth largest computer manufacturer in the world, was on the list for the first time, ranking 499th, with an annual revenue of 167. $8.8 billion.

Winnie's car, is provided by Lenovo Group, they directly dispatched the vice president to lead the negotiation, the afternoon began to discuss the endorsement situation, Lenovo is now wealthy, and since the acquisition of IBM, I want to enter the international market, to compete with the world's top three computer manufacturing companies to compete for the market.

However, Lenovo Group's international route has been very difficult, especially in the United States, because they acquired IBM, many local electronics people think that they are invading the electronics industry in the United States, and computer fans are very resistant to Lenovo's products.

Pegatron United Group gave Chamberlain an endorsement fee of 12 million US dollars for five years, but they have one condition, that is, if Chamberlain signs a contract with Pegatron United Group, then he must also serve the Asus Group, after all, everything they do is still to serve the overall situation of the Asus Group.

This cost is definitely not low, because the overlap rate of sports stars and electronic products is too low, before Lenovo Group invited Ronaldo Jr. to endorse, but only paid the price of 2.57 million US dollars a year, and only signed him for one year, and then the effect was not good, and the contract was terminated by the two parties in half a year.

In the view of Pegatron United Group, Chamberlain's influence is not as good as Xiao Luo, right? In the past few years, the most popular player in football may be Ronaldo: in 2004, Ronaldo won the 2004 World Footballer of the Year award by FIFA, beating Thierry Henry and Shevchenko, becoming the fourth World Footballer of the Year to come out of Barcelona after Romario, Ronaldo and Rivaldo.

2005 is a veritable "year of Ronaldo", he dominated the Ballon d'Or and the world footballer in the field of football, and completed the "Grand Slam" of personal honors, that year no athlete in the NBA can compare with him, even the new scoring champion Kobe Bryant.

Pegatron United Group speculated that Lenovo Group's contract to Chamberlain would be about $2.5 million a year for a short term or about $10 million for five years for a long time, because Lenovo is different from them, they just want to take the domestic route, and Chamberlain has almost become a national hero now, with great influence in China, but in the international arena it is average.

But when Lenovo Group handed over the quotation contract to Winnie, when everything was confirmed, Pegatron United Group was shocked, and the contract fee given by Lenovo was 25 million for five years, that is, they were willing to pay 5 million endorsement contracts for Chamberlain every year!

When they saw this contract, many marketing directors in the industry thought that Lenovo Group was crazy, did they plan to do charity? It's not that Chamberlain isn't worth the endorsement fee, but it depends on the field, if Adi and Nike gave him a five-year contract of 25 million, Winnie scoffed, and the little emperor LeBron James took a contract of 90 million for eight years from Nike when he was in high school.

However, the electronics industry is different from the sports circle, the main consumer of electronic products, and many people do not even pay attention to sports.

The endorsement given by Lenovo Group is very firm, and in their opinion, it is worth it, firstly, because of Chamberlain's huge appeal in the United States; The second is because they believe that the main sales force of electronic products is shifting from white-collar workers to youth teams, and the influence of sports stars on white-collar workers may be limited, but the impact on teenagers is huge. Moreover, they must take Chamberlain, otherwise let Pegatron United Group, that is, Huashuo Group, take Chamberlain, which will be too big a blow to them.

Lenovo Group and Asus Group's strategy in the world is similar, now they are all national brands, and they all claim to represent the Chinese nation, in the former's view, they lose Chamberlain and the opponent gets Chamberlain, then so go and come, the opponent's image will win them too much.

The gap in this contract is too big, and there is no doubt at all, Winnie chose Lenovo, Pegatron United Group cannot give Chamberlain so much endorsement fee, they think Chamberlain is not worth so much money, and because they do not represent ASUS Group, they do not have so much influence.

The cooperation with Lenovo Group is the fastest, so fast that Chamberlain and Winnie were surprised, generally speaking, this kind of negotiation is very slow, and it requires excellent patience, but now Lenovo Group is very anxious, and directly gave the reserve price, when Winnie tentatively raised the price, their vice president tactfully but firmly said that this is their reserve price!

Winnie and Chamberlain were actually very happy with the price, and the two sides prepared a draft contract on the night of contact, and Chamberlain did not have time to attend the press conference and signing ceremony held by Lenovo for the time being, because on August 16, the fourth round of the competition began.