When it comes to Japan's Itochu Corporation, which has risen rapidly in recent years and successfully entered the top 10 list of the world's top 500 companies this year, many people will definitely find this name unfamiliar, and it is currently the world's largest multinational trading company with a turnover of more than 100 billion US dollars.

After more than 140 years of development, it has become a large-scale comprehensive trading company with about 145 bases in more than 60 countries and regions in the world, and its business covers hundreds of fields such as fiber, machinery, information and communication, avionics, metals, energy, living materials, chemicals, finance, real estate, insurance, logistics, etc.

At this moment, Mr. Fujiwara Shoichi was staring at Han Xuan with a very strange gaze, and the reason why he admired it was naturally because the first and second companies in the world's top 500 companies were Snow Mountain Group and SOS Group.

Japan's most powerful Mitsui Group, can only be ranked fifth, from fifth to seventh are Japanese companies, the tenth is also, respectively, Mitsui, Itochu, Mitsubishi and Toyota, American companies occupy five, in addition to the Snow Mountain Group and SOS Group, General Motors got the third place, Chrysler Group got the fourth place, Ford and General Electric occupy the eighth and ninth place, affected by the SOS Group to seize a large amount of market share, Wal-Mart's scale can only rank thirteenth.

This is the list of 1998, this year has not been over, so it will not be announced until January next year after the statistics are completed, according to the current situation, the first and second positions will not change, the top 10 of the world's top 500 companies, a total of five seats occupied by the automotive industry, which is enough to see the importance of the automobile industry, "one of the three major industries in the United States" The title is not in vain.

Benefiting from the popularity of the automobile consumer market, General Motors should be able to maintain the third position this year, and it is precisely because of the huge market in the automotive industry for the next ten years that Han Xuan will start to enter the automobile manufacturing market in 1994.

Among the top 20 of the world's top 500 companies, the automotive field occupies a total of half of the seats, and the Snow Mountain Group has successfully occupied the first place because of the Blueberry Group, Starbucks, Han's Automobile Company and other industries, with a turnover of more than 560 billion US dollars last year, which is about double the turnover of the second-place SOS Group.

This is only the turnover, not the net profit, the net profit of the SOS Group is barely maintained at about 10%, and Han Xuan's Snow Mountain Group can reach 12 percent, that is to say, last year, the Snow Mountain Group recorded more than 60 billion US dollars, which is actually more than this number, and part of the wealth was quietly transferred by him.

At present, the profit of electronic products in this era can be said to be a failure if it is less than 40%, and the products of Han's Automobile Group are sold at a higher price than the products of other automobile companies, and the maintenance business of 4S stores can also bring a lot of profits.

Don't think that repairing cars, computers and mobile phones is not profitable, this alone can probably bring more than $7 billion in revenue to the Snow Mountain Group this year......

Mr. Fujiwara Shoichi told Han Xuan in Japanese, "You are partly right, but not entirely, because our president, Mr. Niwa Uichiro, has decided to sell 10% of the shares of the Time Warner Group to you, and the other 11.3% will continue to be held by Itochu, but will transfer the voting rights of that part of the shares to you."

After all, when doing business now, we must deal with the media, and the shares of Time Warner Group are one of the talismans of ITOCHU Corporation in the United States, and I believe you can understand our company's difficulties.

In addition, our president, Yuichiro Niwa, is unwilling to accept such a high loss, and he insists that you must have a way to make the lost market value of Time Warner Group rise again, even higher than before.

He asked me to tell you that ITOCHU and SOS Group have been working together for more than 20 years, and we will always be your friends, and we can cooperate in many fields in the future. ”

Han Xuan actually wants to buy all the shares of Time Warner Group they hold, but these business people are not fools, many major shareholders are the same as their president, Mr. Niwa Uichiro, choose to sell part of the shares to make up for the loss, and continue to hold part of the wait-and-see market, anyway, the market value of Time Warner Group is about to fall to the bottom, and they don't mind taking some time to gamble.

After thinking about it briefly, I found that with the 10% shares, plus the original shares, and 11.4% of the company's decision-making voting rights, I was already able to say more than 30% of the words of Time Warner Group, plus the part of people who had fallen to him and were about to fall to him, I could almost say nothing in this company and really get control of Time Warner Group.

I am very sure that it should be the American Donkey Party that has compromised, otherwise the timing of ITOCHU Corporation's change of position is too precise, Han Xuan asked tentatively: "I think we can discuss it again, you keep 10%, and I take 10%, there is not much difference."

Also, President Uichiro Niwa? I remember that the name of your president of Itochu was called Ryuzo Sejima, and I met him once.

I know the friendship between the SOS Group and Itochu Corporation, but isn't it true that 7-Eleven, SOS convenience stores, and familymart are doing business in Japan together with your company? ”

"Whether you take 10 percent or we take 10 percent, these are trivial matters, I can make the decision now, you take 11.4 percent!"

Mr. Fujiwara Shoichi said with a smile, he had just tested Han Xuan in his words, and found that Han Xuan did not deny that he could bring Time Warner Group back to life, and a stone in his heart was finally put down, so that their company would not lose too much.

He continued, "Since 1997, our company has introduced a CEO system, and most of the rapid growth in the past two years can be attributed to the wise decisions of Mr. Niwa Uichiro.

After he took office, he overhauled ITOCHU Corporation, which was founded in 1858 and has a history of more than 100 years.

Ordered the liquidation of all dead and bad debts on the books, amounting to $4 billion, and the closure of non-profitable departments.

The goal of the reform of the personnel system is to employ new people, eliminate the phenomenon of reluctance to make progress, and vigorously reduce the cost of the company, so that we can become the first Japanese company to recover and continue to grow after the Asian financial crisis, and now we are revitalized within the company. ”

"Sounds pretty good, he should be a very capable person, I can take the time to talk to him when I have time, my company has little influence in Japan, many Japanese high-tech industries are interesting to me, such as semiconductor manufacturing and some electronic product manufacturing technology, if you are interested, you can partner to do a small business together."

I understand the business climate in Japan, and it is difficult to grow much without the help of a company that is familiar with the local business environment.

Japan's tenured employee system is quite interesting, basically it is a tenure system, because there are no worries, so they can work for the company wholeheartedly, and treat the company as their own home, but there are also drawbacks, there will definitely be some lazy employees, I think you can use my company's elimination system, so that they can continue to work hard. ”

The so-called "lifelong employee" is the basic employment system of Japanese companies in the post-war period, and large Japanese companies generally use this method to recruit job seekers who have graduated from various schools, and after they are officially hired, until retirement, they always work in the same company, and unless there is a major problem, business owners habitually avoid laying off employees.

This is not a system prescribed by law or written regulations, let alone an "iron rice bowl" that cannot be fired regardless of whether they do a good job or a bad job, but the implementation of this employment system can ensure that excellent employees work hard and they can also receive fixed guarantees, which has made great contributions to the take-off of Japan's economy in the past half century.

Talking to Han Xuan, Fujiwara Masashi didn't dare to be distracted at all, making sure that every word was heard clearly, Han Xuan said that it was a "small business", but he didn't dare to really treat it as a small business, even if he invested billions of dollars in the field of electronics and semiconductor manufacturing, he couldn't afford to make a big splash, this is really big business!

After thinking about it briefly, he replied with a smile on his face: "We are naturally very interested, and I will convey your meaning to our president, and now our company has this kind of business, but the scale is not large."

The adoption of a system of elimination is a good suggestion, and I would like to give advice to the president in this regard, because Japanese people are not as diligent as they used to be, and many people think about how to be lazy every day rather than how to do their work better.

I would venture to ask, the Internet industry has recently ...... Something went wrong, do you think it's right to enter now? ”

"Something went wrong?" Han Xuan shook his head with a smile and told him: "I don't think so, it's just Internet concept stocks that are in trouble, and people are starting to don't believe that those companies can bring returns to themselves in the future."

The brick-and-mortar manufacturing industry is fine, and in the last week, my Blueberry Group has sold more than $10 billion worth of products worldwide, do you think there is a problem? ”

With a sudden realization, Fujiwara said with a smile: "I understand."

Our company has a very high status in Japan, and we are definitely not afraid of losing money when doing business, and we will reply to you soon, and I believe that the company will definitely agree that the electronics manufacturing industry is definitely your strength......"