48 Galaxy Trade
"Since you can start your own business, that's a good thing." Chen Zhiwen smiled lightly: "In addition, there is one more thing, I went to the United States this time and reached a preliminary cooperation agreement with the owner of a supermarket chain, they will give us some orders for daily necessities, and I am responsible for purchasing in Hong Kong or nearby Asian regions, looking for high-quality and low-cost goods, so I want to prepare to set up a trading company, which is called Galaxy Trading."
As you may know, many large companies in Hong Kong have one or even several trading companies under their banners, but their companies are all small fights, and I am ready to make a big one this time, and this trading company is positioned to provide high-quality goods for supermarket chains around the world, and I will also invest a lot of resources into it.
However, now during the start-up period, there are no people, and it is inevitable to recruit from the outside, but if you have people in non-technical positions who are interested, you can apply for transfer, but it is best to know English, and you can consider releasing people appropriately according to your own situation, so as to give people who join early and have some ability to have better opportunities. ”
Costco's future scale is needless to say, just this ten years later, the order of daily necessities may be able to make a trading company become the largest exporter in Hong Kong, and if it can catch up with Wal-Mart or those potential retail giants in Europe, the trade volume is enough to go to another scale, at the same time, his future layout in Hong Kong, should also involve the retail industry, Hong Kong's local retail scale is not small, and at the same time, it can also be centered in Hong Kong, and the retail business can radiate to other parts of Asia, Not to mention that in the future, the northern mainland will be a super huge market.
Huge order volume, but also a very influential weapon, light industry orders although low profits, but in the last 20 years, the entire Asian region will be dominated by light industry, this massive order will become the target of nearby countries, after all, the future of Hong Kong's de-industrialization is inevitable, and Hong Kong is such a small place, it is impossible to meet so many retail supermarket orders.
Since the dedication to the selection of talents is naturally the top priority, Hong Kong has no shortage of trade talents, such as one of the four major foreign companies, Hutchison Whampoa, its trading company in Hong Kong first, but recently has reached the end of development, the stock price is a thousand miles, many people think that Hutchison will be the first Hong Kong to collapse of the four major foreign firms, Chen Zhiwen naturally knows the history, but now there is no plan to do it, because its stock price has not yet reached the lowest point.
But how to give some to their own people, this year and Huang and the United States has developed very rapidly, the number of employees has been thousands, and there are hundreds of management personnel, relatively speaking, many opportunities have gone, so the newly opened trading company is also an opportunity for many people, first find someone from the inside to set up the framework, and at the same time recruit externally, after all, internal people, trust will always be a little better.
Everyone looked at each other and agreed.
Then some business details were discussed, the financial situation and other issues, at noon, the meeting ended, Chen Zhiwen took a group of people to a nearby hotel to have a big meal, such a dinner is actually generally once a month, the company's other employees, basically once a quarter will also be arranged, this is also the company culture, moreover, for ordinary Hong Kong workers, meat is not a low cost of living, to be able to let go of a big meal is still relatively rare.
In the afternoon, Chen Zhiwen slept in the office for a while, drank a little wine at noon before, and slept directly until 3 o'clock with sleepiness.
After waking up and washing his face, he began to deal with the company's information, as the boss, although he delegated power, but personnel and finance will not let go, personnel naturally needless to say, the company's middle-level recruitment he needs to have a general understanding, senior management is also personally involved in the interview, financial, a certain amount of expenses, contracts need him to sign, if you encounter a business trip and encounter a very urgent consumption, you also need to call for instructions.
As the scale becomes larger in the future, the threshold of the number will also be raised, which can not only give professional managers a certain amount of authority, but also reduce his workload, after all, Chen Zhiwen likes to do business very much, but also likes to be free, and there is also a balance between the two.
At present, the company's business, in fact, Red Bull is making money, after all, it is a profiteering product, and the investment is not much, even if you count the investment in the acquisition of United Soda, it is equivalent to 5 years and is still profitable, not to mention that the largest asset of United Soda is actually the land below, and the price of this land can easily increase several times in a few years.
Others, basically at a loss, the United States has always been Chen Zhiwen into it, electric fans and radios are OK, not much loss, but air conditioning and refrigerators, although the sales volume of the Middle East market is not low, but in such a large range of business teams, as well as after-sales teams, plus bad weather, labor is very expensive, the total input cost is also very high, but the advantage is that people in the Middle East have not seen the world, even if the equipment has problems, they will not make trouble, most of them will only wait for after-sales with peace of mind, This also provides a lot of questions for the Hong Kong technical team, optimizes the quality, and also provides a lot of valuable information for the next generation of research and development.
The last industry is real estate investment, this year, Galaxy Holdings has been using HSBC and other banks to acquire industrial real estate, leverage is very high, the rent of these industrial real estate is not enough to pay interest, but also need to pay additional funds, but the good news is that with the end of the overseas oil crisis, Europe and the United States to Hong Kong orders began to gradually pick up, although it is far less than 73 years ago, but the real estate economy itself is relying on confidence, with hope, the price of industrial real estate began to rise, It is much stronger than the commercial and residential markets.
The cost of this period of time is not very much, it is all normal investment, and Chen Zhiwen also signed after reading it, until a reminder from the Hilton Hotel.
"The hotel lost 300,000 Hong Kong dollars in the second quarter?" Chen Zhiwen said to himself.
An Qi on the side saw that the boss's tone was a little abnormal, so he could only add in a low voice: "Boss, according to the contract with Hilton, the hotel is losing money, and we need to bear part of it." ”
"Well, I know, it's just a little unpleasant." Chen Zhiwen said helplessly, when the Hilton hotel property was bought, the contract was also followed, and this contract was very strong, and the hotel operation owner couldn't intervene at all. Even the financial audit stipulates that it can only be done once every three years, and everyone who has done management knows that there are too many cats in it, and the purchase price alone can swallow up the hotel's profits.