At the beginning of November, the Shibuya Center Street neighborhood in Tokyo becomes particularly lively.

In addition to the bustling crowd on the street, a large group of employees in suits and leather shoes were also neatly lined up in the square in front of the building.

It is also a bit visually stunning from a distance, and it also adds a beautiful scenery to Shibuya.

They are all employees of Shirakawa Electric, and the headquarters building will be opened today. Everyone gathered here to prepare for the housewarming ceremony.

However, it is not quite appropriate to say that it is a ritual. It's probably such a memorable moment, and it must have a sense of ceremony.

Standing on the temporary platform, Shirakawa Kaede looked at the team of nearly one or two thousand people below and secretly sighed.

I didn't expect Shirakawa Electric to have grown to such a scale, even if it is placed in neon, it can be regarded as the first echelon.

This is where all employees, excluding the shop floor workers, from the board of directors to the lowest department group, are here.

With a slight sweep of their eyes, everyone's expressions looked filled with joy and anticipation.

Also, the joy of housewarming is also joy. Of course, we should be happy that everyone's working environment has improved.

So no longer hesitating, Shirakawa Kaede stood on the platform and began to speak briefly.

After all, it is not comfortable for everyone to stand outside in winter, and the important thing is to take a group photo below.

However, in just a few words, as Shirakawa Kaede announced the official opening of Shirakawa Building, everyone below cheered and clapped their hands.

Then, under the organization of the administrative department, everyone took a group photo with the Shirakawa Building as the background.

Speaking of Shirakawa Building, Shirakawa Kaede is quite satisfied with the appearance alone.

The entire office building covers an area of more than 3,000 square meters and consists of a high-rise main building and a low-rise auxiliary building.

Because Shirakawa Kaede's initial design requirements were a sense of technology and fashion.

Therefore, the shape of the main building is similar to that of an ordinary office building on the middle and lower floors, but it has a bit of a spiral from the middle to the top.

Because of the dislocation of rotation, there is an extra circle of building spaces on the periphery of the building, which winds up as the building rises.

And this circle of vacant building spaces is also filled with exquisite green plants and flowers, and it really looks like a hanging garden from a distance.

The red flowers and green leaves, and the glass curtain wall reflecting the blue sky, form an unexpected harmony.

Well, very good. Shirakawa Kaede turned around and looked, the surrounding Shirakawa Building was the most conspicuous, and the 109 shopping building not far away was compared to it.

If nothing else, the Shirakawa Building will definitely become one of Shibuya's most iconic landmarks in the next decade or so.

And the combination of this pair of flowers and plants and the steel jungle also attracted the surrounding passers-by to stop and watch.

At this time, the huge blue logo in the upper right corner of the top of the building has played a good role in publicity.

"KITA" is so big that it is guaranteed to be visible from a kilometer away.

At night, there is a logo letter on the roof with lights flowing.

360-degree all-round to the surrounding intersections, announcing its existence.

I have to say that with my own headquarters building, it feels different.

Although the building is only about 30 floors, it has reached 4 meters because the floor height exceeds the requirement of 3 meters for the residence, and the feeling of being majestic and high from the outside is overwhelming.

At a height of nearly 100 meters, pedestrians stand at its feet, and they need to raise their heads to see the existence of the roof of the building vaguely.

Divided by the level of neon commercial office buildings, Shirakawa Tower definitely meets the highest specification of Class A requirements.

There are more than 2,000 square meters of standard floors, and the total construction area is nearly 70,000 square meters.

With the latest seismic technology and complete infrastructure, it is definitely second to none in an office building.

Not bad, the needle does not poke.

It seems that Minato Ward is also going to get another piece of land, as well as Setagaya District and Bunkyo Ward, so it's a good time to start while land prices haven't soared yet.

While Kaede Shirakawa was still admiring his building and preparing to make another windfall, Shirakawa employees had already begun to line up to enter the building.

At the door, the club also prepared a souvenir for each employee to commemorate the opening of the headquarters.

Soon one or two thousand people disappeared outside the building like droplets of water into the river, and their office seats were ready in the office building.

According to the location of the area allocated in advance, everyone can find the desk marked with their name according to the map.

But despite so many people, there are still nearly a third of the vacant seats at the headquarters.

Most of these areas have been reserved for future expansions, while some areas have been temporarily converted into recreation areas for employees to relax in their spare time.

Although he had seen it more than once, Shirakawa Kaede still observed it for a while before preparing to enter his office floor.

It's not easy, this Shirakawa Building is not only where its own confidence lies, but also where Shirakawa Electric's status lies.

With it, it is worthy of the special watershed of trillion market capitalization.

Shirakawa Kaede's office is on the penultimate floor at the top, and because the closer you get to the top, the smaller the floor area, so most of this floor is his exclusive office area.

The ultra-luxury office area of more than 200 square meters is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

The sitting area is larger than where many people live, and there is a separate meeting room for meetings, separate from the interior of the office.

Sofas, tables and chairs, bookshelves, lamps, carpets, decorative paintings, etc., are all the top materials.

In particular, the entire wall facing the street has been replaced by floor-to-ceiling windows, and there is nothing to say about the lighting.

This is not only the office area, but also his private leisure area, reception area and other places.

In general, even the office of the domineering president in the TV series is not so luxurious.

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, overlooking the street below for a while, Shirakawa Kaede sighed contentedly.

There was a knock on the door.

"Please come in," Shirakawa Kaede turned back to his desk.

It was Assistant Komatsu who opened the door, and today she was exceptionally heroic, with an unconcealable smile on her face.

"President, this is the data analysis table of the CD player for the recent period, and a fax from Warners has also been sent over.

Please take a look at the sales of the first CD and the follow-up cooperation plan. ”

As Shirakawa Kaede's chief assistant, she now has six or seven sub-assistants under her.

After all, in addition to Shirakawa Electric, there are also a lot of things in Shirakawa Holdings.

Some of the content that needs special attention is summarized by a dedicated assistant, and then handed over to Komatsu, and finally she is responsible for reporting to Shirakawa Kaede.

And as the chief assistant, he has a rank. Now Komatsu also has his own private office, which is located in the next room outside the door.

She just moved into the headquarters building today, and she is also in good spirits on happy occasions, with a smile on her face.

"I see, let's put it down." Shirakawa Kaede sat down at his desk and stretched out his arms to get to work.

"By the way, it's almost the end of the year. Pick out some important matters and sort them out, and I'll focus on them.

Some annuity plans have also been made by the personnel department and the finance department to hurry up, everyone has worked hard this year, and the benefits should be sent down as soon as possible. ”

"Hai" Hearing this, Assistant Komatsu's mood became even more beautiful.

Shirakawa Electric's annuity is notoriously generous, and it is listed again, and this year's benefits are absolutely indispensable.

Watching Assistant Komatsu leave, Shirakawa Kaede also felt a little emotional, and in a blink of an eye, even Komatsu became a big girl.

Think about her who moved from Watanabe Electric a few years ago, like a high school student.

Although Komatsu's education is not too high, Shirakawa Kaede is used to her presence.

As an assistant, she is familiar with all the living habits and preferences of Shirakawa Kaede, and her documents are well organized and she is also careful.

That's enough for Shirakawa Kaede, at least for the time being, he has no plans to change to other assistants.

Picking up the documents on the table, Shirakawa Kaede looked at them carefully.

It's been almost a month since the CD player went on sale, and more than 400,000 units have been shipped so far.

Shirakawa Kaede is still very satisfied with this number, after all, there are not so many CD records, and in the absence of content, it is not easy to sell 400,000.

Nowadays, the profit margin of portable CD players is not very high, only more than 7,000 yen, and the profit margin is about 15%.

This is because the original cycle is too urgent, and some design and production processes are not very mature, which leads to high costs.

However, Shirakawa Electric is already dealing with this problem.

It is expected that the cost will be reduced by nearly half next year, and the profit margin should easily reach 20%~30% by then.

The rate of return in this range is very impressive, and if you maintain this sales volume for less than two months, all the investment in the CD player will pay off.

The profit of 400,000 units of nearly 3 billion is okay, and with the launch of overseas markets next year, it should not disappoint itself.

However, there are many problems with the first generation of CD players, and the research and development of the next generation of models must be solved, and they will be checked by themselves when the time comes.

Putting down the documents in his hand, Shirakawa Kaede picked up the fax from Warner again.

This has the one-month sales of Akina Nakamori's first CD single, and his eyes sweep to find the target data.

The result of 500,000 copies is still very good, although Shirakawa Kaede doesn't understand the record market.

But because I often hear Seiko Matsuda whispering in my ear, I also know that if more than 300,000 is successful, then 500,000 must be even more successful.

No wonder Warner couldn't help but send this good news to Shirakawa Electric, this is the first month, and there will be a rise in the future.

With the stimulus of this achievement, Warner couldn't wait to urge Shirakawa Electric's optical disc factory to start work quickly.

There are a lot of big artists under Warner, and it makes sense to change those vinyl records in the past to CD release.

In fact, Shirakawa Electric's optical disc factory has already started, and the efficiency is amazing, with an average of one disc per second on a single production line being pressed.

With such an astonishing output, any record company can place an order in a matter of days.

Now all of Neon's CD orders are in the hands of Sony and Shirakawa Electric, and this is also a sure-fire deal.

As a pioneer in the industry, you can enjoy much more dividends than those who come after you.

And judging from the development prospects of CD, it is no problem to eat this dividend for more than ten years.

Seeing the sales of his own CD player, Shirakawa Kaede finally put his mind at ease.

The CD market is basically stable, and it's time to go to SIC to take a look, and the development of STN-LCD screens seems to have made good progress.

(End of chapter)