Volume 1: Entrepreneurship Chapter 149: Participating in a trade fair and stealing the art Simmons
"Great. Elder brother! Now we're all relieved. First contact Wenzhou, let them send 100 chairs, and then talk about buying accessories for the chair and assembling it yourself, at least talk about some of our own production, such as the chair surface. ”
"Okay."
"There are 100 sets of office furniture that can be delivered next week, and when the chairs arrive, the bank will give them enough, and the rest will be given to the second light bureau. Let them pay the full amount, and then give the remaining dozens of sets. ”
"Hmm. I made a note of it. By the way, Shi Fang called and said that the plate might not be enough, and reported the quantity. ”
"Brother, encourage the young man, I will temporarily let him manage the factory, and you will distribute the goods according to his needs."
"Okay."
"Anything else?"
"It's gone."
"Okay, I hung up and called the aluminum factory to ask about the profile. No, we'll send another part from Wenzhou. ”
Yang Liufang first called his office in the industry and trade company, but no one answered the phone a few times, and then directly called the office of the executive deputy director of the aluminum factory, contacted the director of the factory, and talked about the production of profiles. Through the director of the factory, he knew that the secretary and the director had signed the production plan at the office meeting, and he asked the secretary to personally escort the secretary to the woodware factory in Yangliufang, Hanwangchuan, just as soon as the product passed the inspection of the production line. Yang Liufang finally breathed a long sigh of relief after hearing this, from the establishment of the industry and trade company between the two sides to the present, it has lasted more than a month, and finally there is product news. And according to the situation he has learned, the office furniture production workshop of his factory should be able to be stationed next week, so that it can be seamlessly connected.
Yang Liufang immediately called back to Li Tongfu of the supply and marketing cooperative, wanting to tell him the good news, but the line has been busy, and it seems that Li Tongfu is communicating with Yiwu about the situation of the chair. At this time, someone knocked on the door, it was Wang Shan, saying that it was lunchtime, and asked Yang Liufang to go to the restaurant with them for dinner. Yang Liufang opened the door and stepped on the thick carpet with them, walked through the long passage, and then took the elevator with the other guests to the cafeteria on the second floor.
Yang Liufang had only heard of buffets, and it was the first time he had seen this kind of restaurant that could be chosen. Walking in front of a row of delicate silver shiny plates, people in suits and leather shoes lined up, holding plates and picking vegetables with tongs, and some people who had already prepared the dishes and acquaintances sat together chatting softly and eating at the same time. The three of them like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, Handan followed others to take the dinner plate under the dining table like a toddler, and then followed behind the guests, learning to pick up vegetables. In front of the willow square, add a few slices of beef, a chicken thigh, a few shrimps, some greens, and a few cakes.
Looking at Shi Yong behind him, he was different, picking braised pork, beef, chicken thighs and other meat dishes, as well as a few fried eggs, and filled a large plate. Wang Shan couldn't hold back his laughter in the back, afraid that others wouldn't laugh when they saw the joke, so he also sandwiched beef, braised pork and green vegetables, as well as a small portion of fried noodles.
The three of them sat down in a corner, and Wang Shan and Shi Yong joked: "You are a fool, and you are not afraid of other people's jokes." ”
"What, free? Don't let you eat? ”
"Let eat, let eat, you can't just ask Hanako to go into the city to make this hill, clip less, and add more after eating!"
"That's not enough for me. Alas! Master, when do you think my village will be able to eat like this? ”
"In the future, in the future, our factory will develop well, and everyone will be invited to eat like this at dinner."
The three of them ate with their heads bored, and after the first plate was finished, they all went to clip some more. It's just that Yang Liufang ate more vegetables, Shi Yong and Wang Shan sandwiched some meat, and the two of them finished eating when their belts were loose and loose. After eating, they burped back to their room for a lunch break, and according to the plan, they were invited to visit the park in the afternoon.
The factory sent two large trucks to pick up the guests attending the exhibition, and after about an hour's drive, they arrived at an industrial park. It is worthy of being a southern city, the industrial park is full of green trees, and grass is planted in the open space under the trees, which is full of greenery and looks more pleasing to the eye. After getting off the bus in the park, they first visited the cultural exhibition hall, which introduced the development history of Simmons mattress factory. It turned out that this was a Sino-US joint venture Simmons mattress production factory, formerly known as Jiangsu State-owned Spring Factory, after the joint venture with Simmons of the United States, in addition to acting as an agent for the United States "Simmons", but also produced a brand called "Simmons" Simmons mattresses.
On one wall, there is a large map of China, which indicates the cities and agents where the two mattresses have been sold, and some cities that have opened outlets are marked in red, while Yang Liufang sees that the northwest region is blank. As expected, he couldn't suppress the joy in his heart, but he pretended to be calm. In the name of the agent here, Yang Liufang saw the company he represented. Then there is the profile sample exhibition area, the photo wall of the leadership care, as well as the honorary display cabinet and ISO9001 certification certificate obtained. Yang Liufang asked Wang Shan to take pictures one by one.
Walking into the production workshop, there are rows of production lines, which are basically mechanized production. A row of five steel bars with a diameter of two meters are rolled on the production line, and after the machine is stirred out is the spring, according to the introduction, after adjusting the machine settings, it can produce tension springs, S-shaped springs, etc., these products Yang Liufang has seen when making sofas. After the spring produced is cut to a certain specification, it is sent to the combination workshop, which is still mechanized in the group and workshop, and the workers only need to put a dozen tension springs and S-shaped springs on a 1.6m*1.2m plane machine, and the machine can automatically hook them to a 2m*1.8m steel frame, so that the springs can automatically combine a 2m*1.8m plane, and the whole process takes less than ten minutes. Yang Liufang made a 60*60 sofa cushion, and it took four workers 2 hours to make the spring surface. After one side of the spring is combined, the other side is combined in the same way, so that the spring structure of the mattress comes out.
It's just that Yang Liufang and they haven't seen how to flip it before they were taken to another workshop, which is still a mechanized operation. A smooth fabric is sewn together with an S-shaped ground needle thread and a 1cm sponge, and then it is tightly laid on the spring steel frame that has been made, and then sewn it with a hand-held sewing machine with a sewing strip of cloth, and the worker presses the lathe button to loosen the tight cloth, and a mattress is made.
Wang Shangang wanted to take pictures, but was stopped by the staff who introduced him, saying that he was not allowed to take pictures. Yang Liufang had an idea and asked if he could pretend to operate the machine by himself here, make his own mattress, take a photo, and return to the store as a promotional background to convince customers. The staff agreed after consulting the leader, so a photo of Yang Liufang operating the machine to cover Simmons' bed under the guidance of the staff was frozen.
After the visit, everyone took a commemorative photo at the gate of the industrial park, and then took the bus back to the hotel. In the evening, it was a reception banquet, twelve people at a table, full of all kinds of exquisite dishes, the American and Chinese representatives of the mattress factory toasted the guests respectively, to Yangliufang here, said that it was the representative of the Wenzhou furniture store, and the Chinese representative of the mattress factory immediately greeted him in Wenzhou dialect: "Nihe, are you brewing for a long time (are you from Wenzhou?)" )”
"Nihe, the longer Yang Shi brews (I am from Yang City, Wenzhou)."
"Fortunately, we are from the same place (we come to the same place). Please forgive me for the inconsiderate hospitality. The two of them clinked glasses and drank.
"Please take care of yourself." Then the fellow villager went with the American representative to toast the other guests. The banquet ended very late.
The next day was the exhibition, the opening ceremony of the Jiangsu Province leaders were invited to speak, from the Sino-US cooperation and development, to the reform of state-owned enterprises, to employment, to intellectual property rights and so on for a long time, we do not know how many times to applaud, and then the leaders will be "green civilization joint venture" medals awarded to this mattress factory. The US representative took the stage to receive the medal from the leader, and the two took a group photo together. Next is to visit the exhibition products, the exhibition area of all kinds of Chinese and American bed exhibits have been arranged, the scene is exactly the same as the bedroom, of course, there are also a variety of hotel rooms, including a special-shaped mattress is designed in the shape of a peach, said to be a "couple's bed". Yang Liufang took Wang Shan and Shi Yong to walk around the various exhibition areas, listened to the introduction of the person in charge of the exhibition hall, and then took pictures until all the films they brought were taken, and they were still unsatisfied.
Lunch is still a buffet, and in the afternoon there is a signing ceremony. Yang Liufang signed the annual agency agreement on behalf of Wenzhou's furniture store, although it had already been agreed between the mattress factory and Wenzhou's store, he still took a cursory look at the contract, and was a little surprised when he saw the sales of 3 million. This is just a city in Wenzhou, the sales are so large, and they are facing a northwest province, according to the leader of the bank responsible for their own loans, it is: 7 regions, 5 provincial municipalities, 2 autonomous prefectures, and the market of this product in these cities is blank, even if there is no Wenzhou rich, sales are immeasurable. After signing the contract and taking pictures, Yang Liufang was absent-minded, thinking about his own market.
After the signing ceremony, the whole exhibition was over, and Yang Liufang found a post office to send the signed contract back by registered mail according to the address provided by the Wenzhou store. He also took Shi Yong and Wang Shan back to Xizhou. The trip was in a hurry, and the three of them wanted to buy some souvenirs in the small shops around the Nanjing Railway Station, but Shi Yong and Wang Shan saw the expensive and staggering goods, and they were not willing to give them some cheaply. Yang Liufang couldn't bear it, so he paid for ten packaged osmanthus saltwater ducks, two for Shi Yong and Wang Shan, and the rest for himself to be sent back to Chairman Yan of the Industry and Trade Company, President Li of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, Secretary Shi and Secretary Wang of Hongclay Village. The remaining two factories and the staff of the supply and marketing cooperatives tried it together. After doing this, they got on the train back to Western State.
Running all the way, it was already May 3 when they returned to Xizhou, and Zhang Feng came to the train station to pick them up. When he arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative, Wang Shan's clever mouth told Yanhua about the luxury of the Jinling Hotel, the luxury of the buffet, the size of the mattress industrial park, and the American foreigner with a high nose and blue eyes, and of course, he didn't forget to say that Shi Yong was embarrassed to eat the buffet. Zhang Feng and Qin Jiajun said, obediently, if it is free, we will eat as hard as Shi Yong!