Chapter 108: When people get along, put yourself in their shoes and compare your heart with your heart
"Mom, you have to work hard to take care of the family, I have to go to Hong Kong tomorrow for an important meeting, stay for one night, and come back early the day after tomorrow." Aimee said to her mother-in-law as soon as she got home.
"You can go to the meeting without worrying about your home. Don't rush back and stay with the day for a few more days. The mother-in-law brought over the soup stewed by herself and sat next to Ning Qian.
"I've asked about the day, he's going on a business trip the day after tomorrow, and I'll be in time to go to him after the meeting tomorrow, and I won't be able to meet him a day late." Ning Qian said happily while drinking the soup.
"It's hard for you to go on a trip, can't you go on a business trip two days late during the day, and then accompany you?" The mother-in-law was dissatisfied with her son.
"Mom, their time is all scheduled in advance, his itinerary has changed, and other people have to follow suit, the impact is too great."
"Moreover, if any man cancels a business trip because he wants to accompany his wife, he will definitely be laughed at for being unambitious." Ning Qian hurriedly appeased her mother-in-law.
Daylight's mother understands the living conditions of the two of them more and more, although she knows that the two of them are very close and sweet when they are together, but she is still worried that the relationship between the young couple will fade if they have seen each other so little. In addition to doing her best to help them arrange their home, she still didn't call Ning Qian's mother to talk about their affairs, Ning Qian's mother also discussed cooking skills with her in-laws on the phone and often sent them some soup ingredients. The two mothers get along more and more like best friends who talk about everything.
Ning Qian has always reminded herself: people should still pay more attention to the way to get along with people, she wrote down the two key people mentioned by Mr. Fürst on the phone and Schmidt in her notebook, and kept asking: If I were him, it was him, what would I think about this? Why should I object? Under what circumstances can I accept it?
She knew that she would have to face tomorrow, although it was a business negotiation, but these two had no grievances with her, and the big boss had already agreed, so they didn't need to stop it. If they don't agree, and the big boss hesitates, they must have said very reasonable reasons. So what will these reasons be? How can we get them to let go of these concerns?
Harbour City, Hong Kong office, Mr. Fürst, Schmidt and Aimee around the meeting room. Shortening the time to praise Aimee's styling to the shortest and shortest to almost just politeness, he directly stated: "Retail is not our cultural and museum business, and we have never set foot in this field." You've been opening stores before, but those are small stores, so we pretend not to know and don't care. But now, you are making such a big move, isn't this a blatant enemy for our cultural museum? What do the retailers we always supply think of us? ”
"You've always been very forward-thinking and radical before, and we've been following your footsteps all the time, and we're already feeling tired, but we're still desperately following your rhythm. Now, you're flying out of Earth on a rocket, and we really can't catch up. You are so bold, my management of you is simply out of control, how can I manage you and this joint venture company in China in the future? Schmidt poured out all the troubles he had been suffering all this time.
Mr. Fürst did not speak, but looked at Aimee quietly. The thoughts of the two of them have been expressed to him, when he was in Shanghai, in the environment at that time, the blood was boiling, and he immediately agreed to invest from the heart, and now after listening to the advice of the two of them, calm down, I feel that I really need to be cautious, and it is also sincere.
"DT, I understand your worries very well, and your worries are also reasonable."
You're right: retail has never been a cultural business, and the group has never been involved in this field in other countries. I still remember very clearly: when you first came to our company and negotiated the joint venture agreement with me, you told me that the reason why Wenbo chose me and chose Huanzhong, which I founded, was because I was doing brand building and channel building, which you have always wanted to do in China but have not been able to do. Do you remember? ”
Nodding: "Yes." ”
"We are opening big stores now, the purpose is to quickly open brand awareness and establish channel benchmarks, is there a deviation in the direction?" No one answered.
"Have I made enemies for Wenbo? What will the retailers we always supply to think of us? - So far, all international customers who have entered the Chinese market, we have fully supplied. When we opened, we invited major retailers to purchase from us, and when they came here, they saw that we had such a rich product line, and this big store was also our showroom, so that our current customers could not only see our products, but also see our strength. On the opening day, we confirmed the cooperation intention of dozens of new products in the KA channel, and our efforts in the past so long have not been as fast as the progress made on that day. ”
"The store also knows that Wenbo is powerful, and if they don't support us, we are fully capable of opening a toy store in the shopping center where one of their stores is located. This kind of relationship with retailers is also friend and foe, and there is nothing bad about Wenbo China in the current pioneering period, after all, toys are not an important category in these KA, and our radicalism has promoted their concern for the category of toys. ”
"Of course, I don't rule out competition, such as young questions, they are very concerned about us opening big stores, and ask me to close all the outlets that have been opened."
"Really?" The two of them all paid attention to this issue, Aimee didn't tell them before, thinking that even if she said it, she would have to take someone to fight this tough battle, so it was better to face it first.
"How many stores do they have in China now?" Asked curiously.
"Not yet, the first one may open next month." Schmidt has learned of the progress from Hong Kong.
"There is no one, why do you still make such a request?" I think it's incredible.
"yes, that's what I asked. I also told them, is it impossible to close, what are the conditions of our cooperation? Aimee told them all the conditions of the question.
"We can choose to give up the stores that have been opened in the past, surrender to the young problem, and honestly only supply them, so how big is the loss of closing the store now, and can we bear it?"
"There is another way, which is to continue to go the way we used to go, and to go faster than they are! Opening a big store is to quickly consolidate our channel position. We don't regard young topics as enemies, but we also can't give up the market that has been developed for their sake. ”
"If you were me, what would you choose?" Aimee's eyes are sincere for help.
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