Chapter 52: A Hidden Crisis
In the face of Meng Zhiyang's words, James's handsome and mysterious face was still as calm as water, and he was not surprised that Meng Zhiyang would be so straightforward.
James is seven or eight years older than Meng Zhiyang, and he is just thirty-three years old, and James has much more experience in shopping malls than Meng Zhiyang.
However, James subtly discovered that Meng Zhiyang's personal courage was not only cultivated by mixing in the shopping mall, but also with innate self-confidence and arrogance. He only has decisiveness in his bones, and there is no such thing as groveling!
Previously, he deliberately made it difficult for "Hangmeng" in advance, and deliberately did not show up on time when he said he would meet, just to make Meng Zhiyang nervous. But now it seems that Meng Zhiyang is not only fully prepared, but also has no confusion at all that he wants to see.
North Group is a big customer in "Hangmeng", and any other company that wants to tie up North Group will never face the team he personally leads with such an arrogant attitude.
At least he hadn't seen anyone who wanted to work with the North Group use such an attitude towards him, even if the other party was also the leader of a large group. Some of the people who were much older than him were stammering at him as well.
A person like Meng Zhiyang, who is so young and has a platform that is still a small company with only a few hundred people, dares to ignore his power like this, and he is completely neither humble nor arrogant.
To be honest, James had to admit that the future prospects of the "Hangmeng" led by Meng Zhiyang were immeasurable, so he bothered to deploy it in person!
A small company that has only been established for a few years can create such a high profit value, and it is impossible to have such a result if it is not for the ability of the leaders to be big enough.
James now finally understands why his father, Edward, was so fond of the small company that was Brilliant. Or it should be said that his father favored Meng Zhiyang, because the influence of the Enos Group is more worthy of cooperation than the large group of "Hangmeng" around the world. And the value created will be higher than the value obtained by cooperating with "Hangmeng".
But his father didn't care about making more or less money, and set up the group's electronics industry cooperation in Asia in the small company "Hangmeng".
James looked at the benefits obtained from cooperating with "Hangmeng" in the past few years, although the profitability is getting higher and higher year by year, but it is far from maximizing the benefits he wants to get.
Therefore, he does not intend to be satisfied with that small profit growth rate, and his business philosophy has always been to maximize the benefit of capital. He will see the opportunity to create the maximum benefit in the shortest time.
He was indeed as Meng Zhiyang thought, and he had another purpose in this negotiation. Originally, he also planned to make it clear about the same time, but now that Meng Zhiyang mentioned his true purpose first, James quickly put away his indifference, looked at Meng Zhiyang and said:
"I only ask for one change in the contract, and we will buy out the patent of every new product you develop in the future."
Hearing James's request, Meng Zhiyang frowned, but he didn't react immediately, he was just silent.
Wang Jun, who was sitting next to Meng Zhiyang, didn't want to be silent, he changed his usual talkative attitude, looked at James seriously and said:
"Mr. James thinks the product we developed is a cat or a dog, and can it be bought out casually?"
After a new product with a market is developed, it faces the entire market, that is, the moment the product comes out, as long as the patent is in someone's hands, who can freely dispose of the new product on the market, and the benefits can be large or small.
Once the patent is bought out, no matter how much the product benefits, it has little to do with the developer.
Although the electronics industry is now full of vientiane and more and more competitive, the enterprises that can occupy a place in the electronic market rely on the continuous development of products that meet the market demand.
The advantage of Hangmeng lies in continuous innovation, and the developed products can always seize the market at the first time, attract the attention of consumers, and be the first to obtain market benefits!
Every product patent of Hangmeng is never sold, the so-called patent is like a "child", without special circumstances, who will sell the "child"?
Wang Jun is responsible for leading the R&D department, and he knows best what R&D means! Therefore, it is completely impossible for him to agree to James's conditions.
James looked at Wang Jun, he knew that although this person named Wang Jun was not as dazzling as Meng Zhiyang, he was not a person who could deal with it casually.
Smiling, James didn't care about Wang Jun's cynicism, he said:
"There's nothing you can't buy in the mall, it's just a matter of price, isn't it?"
"That's right, business isn't just about price. Since Mr. James is interested in buying out the patents for our products, there is nothing we can't sell. ”
Meng Zhiyang calmly opened his mouth to pick up James's words, and then said to Wang Jun:
"Wang Jun, you are the leader of the development department, how much do you think each of our product patents is worth?"
Wang Jun originally chuckled in his heart when he heard that Meng Zhiyang seemed to be willing to sell the patent, but when he saw Meng Zhiyang's unwavering eyes, Wang Jun raised his eyebrows and smiled, and said:
"It's not worth a few dollars, if you really want to sell it, there are already a billion patents at present, and I don't know if it will be more valuable in the future!"
Lisa, who was sitting next to James, had her eyes flashing and said:
"As far as I know, none of your current products have a profit of more than one billion, do you think it's appropriate to shout this price?"
"We don't sell it, you have to buy it, we can only sell it, the patent itself is not valuable, but our feelings about the product are more valuable, in other words, we sell feelings, not product patents."
Wang Jun said sincerely, as if he was really selling his own child.
"It is said that Chinese have a lot of bent intestines, it turns out to be true, a so-called emotional shouting price of one billion yuan, really not very cheap." James joked indifferently.
"It's a billion dollars, not yuan!"
Meng Zhiyang's calm eyes swept towards James, and his domineering demeanor was full of aura, he made himself equal to James from beginning to end, and there was no unequal position of "A and B".
James also raised his lips arrogantly, his eyes sharpened, he thought that Meng Zhiyang Killing Fruit was definitely not easy to deal with, but he didn't expect it to be such a powerful aura.
However, he is not just saying that he will swallow "Hangmeng", the proportion of Hangmeng currently needing North is far more than not needed, if North terminates all cooperation with Hangmeng, Hangmeng's situation will become very difficult, and may even be directly eliminated from the market.
In the face of the duel at a critical time, James never dragged his feet, he and Meng Zhiyang looked at each other, and said strongly:
"Every patent that has been put on the market is acquired by the North Group for 50 million US dollars, and the new product patent that is ready to be renewed is worth one dollar, and all new products developed in the future must be the priority choice of North, unless North gives up buying, you can't put it on the market at will!"
"Every patent is a billion dollars, the new and old patents are the same price, and the new products developed in the future will be talked about later, and we will not choose who will be preferred."
The more hardened Meng Zhiyang not only did not back down, but strengthened the position of Hangmeng even more difficult for people.
James's proposal is ostensibly to spend money to buy patents, but his later condition is the intention to swallow Hangmeng in disguise.
In other words, as long as the contract plus North's priority to purchase Hangmeng's patents, the gold and silver mines produced by Hangmeng will be North's property in the future, which is tantamount to turning Hangmeng into North's "subsidiary".
With such obvious intentions, even the most mindless person should know how ridiculous this kind of business is.
Of course, Meng Zhiyang is also a businessman, and he offered James a billion dollars in purchase conditions, according to the cost of time, the dream is not a loss, and North will not lose, but North's profit may not be much more.
So, as long as North is willing to offer him, he is willing to sell the existing patent.
But in the future, all patent rights will be given priority to North's condition, Meng Zhiyang didn't have to think about it, and directly vetoed it.
Meng Zhiyang's direct veto made James's smile completely hidden, he could see that Meng Zhiyang would definitely not compromise today, he took the lead in standing up and preparing to leave before saying:
"I'm afraid today's negotiation can't go on, you need to weigh the situation inside the dream again, rather than waiting for the whole dream to capsize, it is more practical to really collect money into the bag."
"We will consider your proposal, but please also consider giving up the latter conditions and cooperating according to the original agreement, so that we are still a win-win situation, doesn't Miss Lisa also approve of this?"
Meng Zhiyang also stood up, he guessed that today's negotiations would not go well, and also guessed that James would veto the contract they offered to cooperate normally. But he didn't expect James's ambition to be so excessive, and he wanted to go around the bend and swallow the entire Hangmeng!
When James and Meng Zhiyang were going toe-to-toe, Lisa, who had been silent, heard Meng Zhiyang mention herself, her bewitching face was noncommittal, she raised her eyebrows and looked at Meng Zhiyang, and said:
"As you said, your contract just went through me, and it was James who made the final decision, and if he didn't approve the contract, my approval would be meaningless."
"Since the conditions on both sides of us are not recognized by the other party, there is no need to waste time, let's talk about it here today, if you still want to talk about it again, we are here."
Meng Zhiyang stretched out his hand to James, James also gave face, shook hands with Meng Zhiyang wordlessly to end this unsuccessful negotiation, and then left Hangmeng with his team!
Wang Jun followed Meng Zhiyang back to the office, and as soon as the door closed, Wang Jun asked:
"What do you think James will do next?"
Meng Zhiyang sat down, his eyes were deep, his brows were furrowed, and he said:
"He's going to seal off all our retreats, and the mere removal of North from all our cooperation is already a big blow to us. In addition, his intention is to devour us, and if we do not agree to his terms, he will not only terminate our cooperation, but he will also prevent us from cooperating with others. I hadn't thought much of it, but James' recent actions made me suspect that he might already be meddling in our other businesses. ”
"If that's the case, then we can't sit still, there is no hope for North's cooperation, at least the other cooperation can't be missed, otherwise we will probably return to the pre-liberation period one day."
"You should ask the PR department to contact the other partners immediately and see what is going on. In addition, the Lin family in City B is also very important to us, just in case, let people make an appointment in advance with the chairman of the Lin Group~ Lin Piaoyu, I will personally go to City B tomorrow to meet with her to confirm whether the cooperative relationship between them and us is stable. ”
The Lin family in Meng Zhiyang's mouth is a big customer that Hangmeng has only started cooperating with in the past year, and the relationship is not too mature. If James wants to get in the way, with the influence of the Nos Group, Hangmeng can't fight North.
Keeping the cooperation with the Lin family is equivalent to keeping the motor of the Hangmeng family, and it will not stop easily, so Meng Zhiyang must quickly and personally implement the Lin's support for the Hangmeng, will there be any bad changes.
Once Lin also withdraws from cooperating with Hangmeng, the difficulties faced by Hangmeng will be doubled.