Chapter 162: Special Debts
After the early publicity and tasting of the new mineral water, customers have fully recognized the Tianquan Mineral Water. As soon as the new packaging was launched, it immediately triggered the first round of sales climax in Loess County.
The finished products produced every day, just like the original canned fish, are not in stock at all, and all of them are transported away by major shopping malls, supermarkets and even small vendors.
But I know that only the sales in Loess County are limited, and the price is not high, and the profit is not large, so my goal is not limited to this.
So I called the sales director and sold according to my previous plan.
Now there are 10 salesmen in the sales office, only these 10 people I think is not enough, the salesmen of the canning factory have also assigned them the task to help the mineral water factory to sell mineral water, and those who can get the order will be rewarded according to the number of orders.
The effect of this policy was immediate, and they had customer information about canned fish in hand, and they were able to receive orders without leaving home.
I am still not satisfied with this, so they must go out of their homes, focusing on the provincial capitals and big cities, and of course, the markets of other small counties.
For the sale of Tianzhuan brand mineral water, I implement the price difference strategy.
The retail price of small counties is 2 yuan, 3 yuan in medium-sized cities, 5 yuan in provincial cities, and more than 10 yuan in megacities. Wholesale prices will rise accordingly.
In order to avoid competition within the region, a regional agency policy is implemented, and there is only one agent in each specific region.
It is clearly stipulated that if it is found that cross-regional marketing earns wholesale price differences, its agency rights will be cancelled immediately and its legal responsibility will be investigated.
Seeing that I attach so much importance to this matter, the salesmen are serious and no longer blindly sign the order, they must ensure that this order is unique in a certain area.
The price I set is not only for the salesmen, but also for Tan Chong, Chu Xiangyi, and Bai Luoxue, who don't understand it very well, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to implement this policy. For this reason, Chu Xiangyi also started a debate with me.
Actually, I don't need to explain too much, because I believe that this mineral water is absolutely popular, and it doesn't matter if it can't be sold, and it doesn't matter if it's expensive. I told her it would prove out.
I made a bet with her that if this strategy didn't work, I would reward her with 100,000 yuan. If it continues, let her cook me a meal by herself.
This was originally a joke, but it was taken seriously by Chu Xiangyi.
Soon after the Tianquan Mineral Water Plant started, a creditor came to the door. This was expected by me, when I bought the factory, I took Fang Qingyu's debts together.
The first to come to the door are polyethylene suppliers, who owe the most people. Polyethylene, as a raw material for the production of plastic bottles, is a major part of the cost of bottled water.
Bulk raw material arrears are a common phenomenon, Fang Qingyu owes the other party more than 2 million, after checking the contract, checking the receipt list, did not pick out the other party's problems. In this case, I was not ambiguous, and I remitted the money to the other person after clearing the accounts.
Seeing that I was very happy, there was no mud and water, and the other party said that they could continue to cooperate. The production of plastic bottles is inseparable from polyethylene, listen to the original salesman reflected, this one is the cheapest, then continue to cooperate, re-sign the supply contract.
Other arrears are mostly auxiliary materials and equipment parts. I found that Fang Qingyu would owe any unit, and all suppliers had tails more or less. I specifically asked Tan Chong about this.
Tan Chong shook his head and sighed, it is not because the mineral water is not profitable, the turnover cannot be opened, there is no new capital injection, it is difficult to maintain production without arrears, and even the more you owe it, the more you owe it. Caught up with the water quality problem, and finally stopped production, and this stop never started again.
I asked the supply department and the finance department to check the arrears together, and almost all of them were paid off, and I found that there was no 8 million, only 5 million, and there was still a difference of 3 million. What's going on, could it be that Fang Qingyu is mistaken?
Re-checking the accounts, it is true that there are no large amounts of old debts in the financial situation. This makes me wonder a little.
Tan Chong also didn't know, except for the polyethylene raw materials, he didn't know who he owed millions of dollars to other suppliers.
It's really weird.
Fang Qingyu is very shrewd, he will never be wrong about things like this.
Tan Chong has always been the actual person in charge of the factory, but he just doesn't know.
I can't figure it out.
Bai Luoxue and Chu Xiangyi both helped analyze, or Fang Qingyu really remembered wrongly, and 5 million became 8 million. Either there are arrears that outsiders don't know about, and they don't show up financially.
This is impossible.
Unless, like me, there are some things that act alone and my secrets that others don't know. Fang Qingyu must not be the only one who knows about the arrears of the mineral water factory, and the finance should know.
I felt like I had gotten into the horns of a bull, and I couldn't figure it out for a while. I thought of the original treasurer, who should have known, but she resigned and took the secret news with her.
As it turned out, my guess was correct.
The new finance director received a phone call, it was a long distance, from a coastal city in the south, and the other party urged him to owe 3.6 million yuan.
When the director of finance reported to me, I finally understood that the difference was here.
The other party also sent the court's verdict.
It turned out that this was a lawsuit, and the Diquan Mineral Water Factory lost, because of the quality of the mineral water, which caused huge losses to the other party, 3.6 million, of which the payment was only 1.2 million, and the rest turned out to be reputation loss fees.
If the 3.6 million is added, the external debt of the Diquan Mineral Water Plant has reached 8.7 million.
I bought it in a package of 8 million, and if I paid it in full, not only would I not make any money from here, but I would have to post 700,000 yuan upside down. Although I'm not short of money now, the 700,000 yuan is also very painful for me, and I have to pay a little unjustly.
I can't escape this kind of problem, after understanding the specific situation of the other party, I sent Chu Xiangyi to negotiate, it is best to negotiate to lower the price, take less is some, I can't do this wrong.
When I promised Fang Qingyu, I still wanted to save money according to the cannery's practice, but I unexpectedly encountered an inexplicable lawsuit.
Without further ado, Chu Xiangyi set off on the same day, taking a plane to Qiongyang, and I followed suit.
I didn't fly, I drove a BMW.
Now I don't have to manage things in the space myself. To transport goods outside the space, with a special conveyor belt, I can do it with a few winds, and because of this, I can leave Loess County for a few days.
There's another reason why I'm going to make a personal trip, I'm going to meet my old classmates.
This lawsuit has been figured out, and the creditor is not someone else, but my junior high school classmate Qiao Hui.
He owns a large shopping mall in Qiongyang, and I don't know anything about how this mall started. Under the instruction of Fang Qingyu, the sales clerk sent him 1.2 million mineral water.
As far as I know, the relationship between Fang Qingyu and Qiao Hui is still good, when they were in school, they often played together, went to the streets together, fought together, were punished by teachers together, ranked at the bottom of the grade list together, and called each other brothers.
It can also be seen at Chen Yousheng's wedding banquet that they are relatively close, according to the current situation, they may only be good on the surface, but once it comes to interests, they will lose their buddy's righteousness.
No one is close in front of money.