Chapter 256: The First Call
After this matter was resolved perfectly, good fortune seemed to come back to me.
The sample inspection report sent to the food safety supervision department a few days ago was also received the next day, and several samples all passed the food safety tests, which means that there are no more problems, and we can start production.
Before this, I had hired a professional seafood ingredient master and a baker through the county's employment agency, and I personally interviewed these two people in the county, because these two positions are very important, and there can be no sloppiness, if there is a problem in the ingredients, and the taste is not in line with the public's taste, then all the efforts we have made will be in vain, let alone the baker.
One of the two masters is surnamed Zhang and the other is surnamed Li. I know that they have been in the seafood industry for many years and are familiar with the whole process of making food, which is one of the reasons why I chose them.
Of course, the salary I give them is also quite considerable, if the factory starts to produce their role will be the most critical, if they have distracting thoughts, can not serve the factory wholeheartedly, I am afraid it will cause unnecessary trouble, must let them realize their true value, will arouse their sense of responsibility and sense of achievement.
Two days later, all the work was ready, I simply held an opening ceremony, and then began the official production operation, and the company called New Life Food Co., Ltd. was officially opened.
Due to the preparation work done in advance, even the front-line operators have been interned in the factory in the county for more than a month, and every step can be mastered, and there are two masters who have been operating in this industry for more than ten years on-site guidance, and the whole production process can be said to be handy and orderly.
When the first batch of food was taken out of the oven, I tasted it myself, and I deliberately compared the taste with the products made by other companies that I bought from the county.
After comparing the tasting with the two ingredient masters and a few villagers who came to help, it was hard to tell what was different, and I finally put my mind at ease.
In terms of production in the factory, there is nothing to worry about, and the next most important thing is to sell these products.
I haven't gone out of my way to go to shopping malls, supermarkets and some retail stores to promote before, because whether the product sells well depends on whether consumers buy it or not.
Two days later, I took the well-packaged products to various supermarkets in the county in my pickup truck, and found the person in charge to promote our products with them.
Because the market already has a perfect supply and demand chain, and there are countless products of the same type, all of them are not very interested in the performance of my products.
This is also something I expected, for this, I have long thought of countermeasures, so after I proposed that we can supply first, the next supply to pay the payment, most of the store managers wavered, with the mentality of giving it a try and agreed to put my products on the shelves. After all, there is no loss for them, in case the product is welcomed by consumers, and it is a good and harmless thing for them, they naturally have no reason to refuse!
After a day's travel, I have scattered all the goods in various stores in the county
, from shopping malls and supermarkets to small stores and dry goods stores next to markets.
In the next few days, I shipped the products to neighboring counties and cities, and it was still the same routine, and of course no one would refuse my goods.
In one week, I have already traveled all the counties, cities and towns within a radius of 300 kilometers. The factory has also processed all the seafood that the villagers raise at home that can be used for food, and I even bought some seafood raw materials from other villages in the form of bookkeeping.
In half a month, the processing has been completed, and the finished products produced have been packed and packed, almost filling half of the factory.
Then it was time to test the results, and I had been quietly waiting for the news, which was naturally the last time I sold the goods. If our product is popular, we will definitely be notified of the news that I want to stock it after it is out of stock in the store.
During this time, my attention was almost always on my phone, for fear of missing any calls.
However, half a month has passed, but there is not a single call to ask for goods.
When there was almost no place to put the processed products in the factory, I had to turn off the machine and suspend production.
I also experienced the taste of torment again, I thought that this kind of product was very popular, as long as the taste I made was the same as that of others, it would not be unsold, but in this tormented waiting, I couldn't help but feel a little shaken in my original self-confidence, was my prediction of things too optimistic? Or is there something lacking in your product that you haven't noticed?
Another half a month has passed, and there is still no movement. Some people in the villagers have already started to talk about it, and I think it is also true, my factory will be dumb for a month after ten days of operation, and anyone will be shaken at all.
Some villagers have even asked Uncle Wang to test me and ask them what to do with the seafood raised in the sea!
Although I am more anxious than anyone else, I really can't do anything, and I can naturally understand the doubts of the villagers, if the factory does not open, their seafood will have to find another way, and they will not be able to keep it in the sea all the time!
These days, I hardly sleep at night, thinking about this problem anxiously all day long, but there is really no effective solution to travel.
After another villager came to me and asked me about it, I finally couldn't sit still. I decided to take a trip to the county tomorrow to find out if my product was really uncompetitive or if there was some other reason. If it doesn't work, I have to continue transporting the villagers' seafood to the food factory for the time being.
However, the world is unpredictable, and early the next morning, when I was just about to drive to the county seat, my mobile phone suddenly remembered. The displayed number is an unfamiliar number.
After I connected, my heart jumped wildly when I heard the other person's first words.
"Hey, is it Mr. Wei, I'm the manager of the county Huasheng supermarket, your goods have been sold out, can you help me send some more?"
As soon as I heard this, my heart was filled with great joy, and the happiness came so suddenly that I was so excited that I couldn't speak incoherently with excitement for a while, and replied vigorously: "Good, good, good!" "I forgot to ask how much the other party wanted.
After hanging up the phone, I excitedly called Da Zhuang and asked him to gather a few people to go to the factory to load goods. I think since this supermarket is sold out, then the rest of the place will count
It's almost time before it sells out. Anyway, we have to make a trip, so why not bring a little more with you!
When I went to Watson Supermarket, the person in charge told me that my product was very popular with consumers because it was more material and reasonably priced than other similar products. This time he asked for fifty boxes, about half of what I had brought, and I was ecstatic. What makes me happiest is that they paid me for the goods.
In his words: "I promised you the next delivery because we didn't know if your products would sell well, and now that we know, then the cash on delivery should be cleared!" ”
After leaving Watson's supermarket, I went to the other stores I visited last time, and as I expected, there were not many goods left in the second store, and even if I didn't come, they would definitely notify me in the near future.
A truckload of goods was already completely distributed, when I went to the third supermarket. My mood suddenly swept away the gloom of the previous day, and I was so excited that I almost wanted to stand on the street and laugh a few times.
Because this undoubtedly shows that my products have begun to have a market, my idea of opening a food factory is not wrong, this is only a county town, but the phenomenon is the same, presumably other towns are the same, and the goods in the factory are not marketable at all. What if I made it a little bigger? Expand to the whole province? What if you are a little more arrogant and develop to the whole country?
In addition to being excited, I couldn't wait to go back to the village to inform everyone in person, so I immediately took out my mobile phone and made a call to Da Zhuang, asking him to immediately call the villagers to start production.
As soon as I hung up the phone, a call came in, and when I answered the call from another supermarket, I felt that my heart was a little overwhelmed with excitement.
From this indication, I know that almost all of my first batch of goods have now been sold, and the next call for goods may be endless.
I had no intention of lingering, and drove to the village with the throbbing feeling that my dream was about to come true.
As I expected, I was almost busy delivering goods for the next few days, but fortunately, the factory had half a month's inventory so that I wouldn't be in a situation where others wanted the goods and I didn't have the goods.
However, after a few days, the inventory has been all sent, and even later, there is really no ready-made goods that can be sent to customers immediately.
This situation made me excited and made me realize that I was right, and the market demand for this seafood product is very high. I have done detailed research on this, although the coastline of our country stretches for thousands of kilometers, it stands to reason that there should be no shortage of this seafood product.
But after researching, I learned that this idea is a bit taken for granted, and although the coastline is long, not all places can grow this kind of seafood.
As far as I know, only in our county and city can we raise such high-quality seafood in the seaside climate and water quality, although other places are not absolutely impossible, but they are much inferior to mine.
This is also the reason why the villagers here near the sea make a living from seafood farming. With this premise, it is not difficult to explain the phenomenon of many seafood processing factories in the county. Although this county is not known for its name and its economic construction is inconspicuous, it is the only seafood production base in the country with a complete industrial chain.