Chapter 30 IBM Meetings
It takes time to build a factory, this time it is not only an assembly plant, many accessories are developed by Wujiang Company, such as motherboards, keyboards, etc., and a few electronic components, including Z80 chips, Sharp LCD screens, etc., must be imported from abroad.
Fortunately, Zhao Ye had already asked Wang Anshi to establish a branch in Hong Kong, sell Hanka, and make a lot of money.
At present, Hanka has sold well in Hong Kong and has sold well.
As for the sales volume of Baodao and Southeast Asia, it is relatively small, after all, the company has not done publicity there, and it has not reached the level of completely opening up the two markets by relying on the brand influence of Hong Kong alone.
The Hong Kong branch already has a lot of Hong Kong dollars on its books.
It is much easier to exchange Hong Kong dollars for US dollars in Hong Kong than to exchange RMB for US dollars in the mainland.
As a result, the Hong Kong branch has been able to procure electronic components such as chips and Sharp LCD screens independently.
However, with the explosion of mainland production capacity, the Hong Kong branch may not have as much foreign exchange to purchase electronic components.
Either find a way to export to earn foreign exchange, or act as an agent for foreign PC products, such as IBM-PC, and finally negotiate with IBM to settle in the form of a part of US dollars + RMB and pay to Wujiang Company.
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A week passed.
In the summer, the heat is extremely hot, and the construction of the Borderless Factory is in full swing.
Secretary Zhang Fulin, Zhao Ye and others inspected the construction site with a hard hat.
In order to speed up the construction of the project and shorten the construction period, Zhao Ye mobilized several construction teams.
The factory building will not be repaired very high, Zhao Ye only plans to repair three or four floors at most, and the construction of low-rise buildings is fast and the cost is low.
Moreover, the factory has a low floor, so it naturally covers a lot of land, so it is very reasonable that you need more land.
The land bought by Wujiang Group is relatively close to the core area of Zhongguancun, and it will definitely be demolished in the future to build high-rise buildings.
That's what Zhao Ye thought in his heart, first build a factory, mix it for seven or eight years, and then move the factory to the suburbs, use the original site for commercial building development, and at the same time build the headquarters science and technology park belonging to the Wujiang Group here.
"The construction speed here is so fast!" Secretary Zhang Fulin looked at a busy construction site and said with some surprise.
Zhao Ye smiled, China's speed, isn't it a waste of fame?
"Leveling the land and building the factory will be completed in about three months!"
"The sooner the factory is built, our company will be able to produce typewriters one day earlier."
Zhao Ye took Secretary Zhang Fulin to visit the construction site, and then went back to give the other party a reassurance, indicating that our Wujiang Group is doing practical things, and did not cheat the government's land at a low price, and then hoarded it there, waiting for the land to appreciate, but really wanted to build a factory.
Sure enough, Secretary Zhang Fulin was very happy to see that the factory was indeed starting.
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At this time, the company's purchasing department is also very busy, according to the technical requirements of raw material procurement provided by technicians, buyers need to contact suppliers, select from them, negotiate and bargain, things are not easy at all.
And try to take care of domestic enterprises and realize localization.
The benefits of localization are mainly reflected in the high quality and low price, for Wujiang Group, it can not only reduce production costs, but also save foreign exchange.
In the 80s, foreign exchange was really difficult to get, and even if the products were exported to earn foreign exchange, most of the foreign exchange was eventually taken away by the state. At this time, the country's foreign exchange reserves were very small, for example, in 1980, China's foreign exchange reserves were only 1.2 billion US dollars......
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On the other side of the ocean.
IBM Executive Meeting.
"In the past month, IBM-PC sales in China have plummeted, and the main reason for the report is that there is a relatively cheap IBM-PC compatible brand, Super, which has severely squeezed our market share in China.
In addition, the company that represents the Super product has a bit of strength in China, and they have developed a product that can support Chinese characters on computers, image-Hanka, and it is a big hit in China.
Many users in China will consider buying an Imagine-Hanka when buying a computer. For this reason, the company that developed Imagine-Hanka was almost invincible when it came to promoting the sale of super-PCs. ”
An assistant spoke at the meeting.
IBM's executives were slightly surprised.
"Oh, Imagine-Hanka is important for Chinese...... It seems that the company that developed Imagine-Hanka does have some strength, and if this company can be our distributor in China, then IBM-PC sales should increase significantly. By the way, what's the name of this company? A company executive asked in a faint tone.
The assistant replied: "It used to be called Imagine Technology Company, and then it was called Imagine Group, and then it was called Imagine Group, and it still retains the Imagine brand. When it comes to publicity, most of them are still based on Imagine. ”
"What the hell is Borderless??? Forget it, don't bother. Anyway, whether it's called Borderless or Imagine, you can contact this company and inform him that he will be attending our IBM Agency Conference on October 10th this year! If the conditions given by this company are better, we can give it the sole agency of IBM-PC in China!! ”
"Okay!" The assistant nodded.
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At around half past nine in the morning, Zhao Ye was reading documents in the office.
"Jingle bell jingle bell!"
The phone rang.
"Hey, hello, who are you?" Zhao Ye picked up the phone, greeted and asked, he never imagined that the other end of the phone was actually from IBM......
PS: This chapter is a little short.,It's too late to write.,The word count is almost 1600.,It's barely three more today~.
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