Chapter 554: Between Friend and Foe

It is impossible not to let this person do business, you must know that the person in front of him is now a celebrity in the eyes of the California Yankee consortium, and an EA listing suddenly made many people take a sip of oil, making them give up their business interests, not to mention a governor of Hong Kong, even the president of the United States will not work.

If there is too much currency talk, these people can even kill the president of the United States, who cares about a British governor.

Supporting a person to compete?

The British are really good at this, but this product is also too cunning, generally the Chinese produce a plush toy, the production of a plastic product is copied, the British can kill such a company with a patent excuse.

But what does Marvel look like, and what kind of volume is it?

If the British want to kill it, will they rely on daily audits or patent lawsuits?

The British really don't dare, it is related to the lives of more than 100,000 people, and the British are not stupid.

In short, the British now have a feeling of dog-biting and mouth-biting of the young people in front of them.

Of course, Lawrence believed that the British Empire would find an opportunity to clean up the young man in front of him, but not now, and he had to be a little patient, and the British Empire has always been patient.

Both sides of the showdown understood each other's demands, one side wanted the society to return to the original peace, singing and dancing to a good scene, and the other side wanted not to let Lao Tzu speak Cantonese, Lao Tzu couldn't speak and didn't want to learn.

What is non-negotiable?

As long as the two parties are harmonious, sit down and talk seriously, they can always talk about common ground, just like Lawrence and Gu Siwei now.

It's just that they're not talking about Hong Kong, they're talking about the weather in London.

"There's really nothing I can do about business in Europe."

Gu Siwei spread out his hands.

Talking about the weather is just an introduction, and in the end it has to involve money, people like Lawrence and Gu Siwei will talk about money after sitting together, and there is nothing else to talk about except money.

What to talk about? Talking about women?

With so much money in their pockets, who has time to talk about women, isn't that a waste of time to earn money, everyone is quite busy.

The fire of "Star Wars" in the American market naturally wants to be introduced to Europe, which goes without saying, and for the European market, Gu Siwei obviously has no enthusiasm, not that he doesn't want to be enthusiastic, or that the European market is not attractive, but with the European market to Lao Gu's feeling is one sentence:

There are a lot of thieves!

Think about how many countries there are in Europe, each country has different laws and regulations, and now how can I be in the mood to pay attention to these.

When Lawrence heard this, his eyes lit up, and his heart trembled, and he asked: "EA's current European dealers are not doing well."

Gu Siwei couldn't hear the meaning of these words, but he could only hehe.

Now EA's agent in Europe is a French company, as for why it's not a British company, it's very simple, all continental Europeans know that the British guy is a-stirring stick, and a British company wants to play in France, so it's like a dream.

In the big European market, both French and German companies have a better face than the British.

Gu Siwei does not use French, German agents, and British? Isn't that a hole in the brain?

But Lawrence didn't think so, he thought that this thing could be operated, and after talking to Su Siwei for a few words, he felt that this matter was very profitable.

It is true that Lawrence is an aristocrat, but their family is not small, and the family's land is not much in his hands, so Lawrence's enthusiasm for making money is much stronger than serving the British Empire.

What Lawrence means is that now it's the agents who deal with EA and even Marvel's business in Europe, what kind of agents do you want, wouldn't it be good for everyone to set up a joint venture together? A few more people came in, and everyone made the plate bigger together.

Lawrence organized his own language and suggested to Gu Siwei: "I think the agency system is not good."

"Huh?"

Gu Siwei was a little curious, looked at Lawrence and asked, "Tell me what you think."

"I think it's better to set up a joint venture and bring in a few more people to form a multi-capital business...... Lawrence said.

Lawrence's idea is very simple, directly bring in the powerful British, French and Germans, and everyone invests according to the share capital to set up an EA European company in Europe, but this company only has the EA brand, and does not belong to EA's branches, but independent subsidiaries, independent operation, independent accounting, and full responsibility for the development of the European market.

Gu Siwei, well, I think this method is good.

Then Gu Siwei proposed that if a joint venture company was formed, he could provide a lower purchase price, a ladder, for example, what is the price of 100,000 pieces sold, and what kind of purchase price is 500,000 pieces, in short, it must be lower than the current price for these second-class dealers.

Isn't the reason obvious, Gu Siwei can withdraw money from the joint venture company, and although he has earned much more than before, there is no more for him to take care of.

What Europeans don't talk about human feelings, they only talk about business, Europeans do business fairly, etc., it's all nonsense, so that these bitches raise a lot of bad stumbling bitches.

This is the most important reason why Gu Siwei didn't directly let EA enter the European market, even at this time, the top American company is not used, only one country at a time, he might as well manage the American market, and wait for a few years The market in the north slowly unfolds, he will pick up the gun and enter his hometown, that small day is beautiful.

Why be angry with the Europeans!

Besides, Gu Siwei is really not a pure businessman, he is more of a toss to do this, not about how much money he makes, but purely for fun.

Enjoy the comfort of what plane and what yacht for Gu Siwei, than the space over? What beauty...... Oh, he admitted to this matter, there are indeed people who are more beautiful than his daughter-in-law, but Gu Siwei still has a little cleanliness fetish, and he always feels that people outside are sick and always wants to infect him.

In short: there are always female Diao people who want to harm me!

Now as soon as Lawrence put forward the idea, Gu Siwei suddenly felt wonderful!

So Gu Siwei simply brought Guan Youpeng over, and the three of them chatted together while drinking, and this chat lasted for two hours.

At this time, Gu Siwei looked at Lawrence as young and promising, and Lawrence looked at Gu Siwei with clear eyebrows, and everyone suddenly felt that the other party was a lot more pleasing to the eye.

"Then I'm going to let the European side do it right now and try to catch up with Star Wars in Europe," Lawrence said.

Gu Siwei made a bitter face: "There really isn't much distribution of peripherals on the European side."

Lawrence laughed when he heard this: "Aren't you ready?" ”

Lawrence must know that Marvel has long done peripherals for "Star Wars", and many people, including Lawrence, thought that "Star Wars" was a big gamble, and this person simply didn't care about it, and prepared completely according to the momentum of the "Star Wars" explosion.

Lawrence and others didn't expect that now "Star Wars" is really popular.

And Gu Siwei didn't expect that this kind of outburst was particularly beyond his expectations, he originally knew that "Star Wars" was a cultural phenomenon, but he really didn't expect that this cultural phenomenon would be so swept away.

This reminded Lao Gu of grabbing salt decades later, these fans didn't care about it at all, as long as it was something around Star Wars, they wanted it.

"I can only say that the preparation I have made is far from enough," Gu Siwei said helplessly.

"OEM, there are a lot of capable toy factories in Hong Kong now. I think they can accommodate your request," Lawrence said.

Gu Siwei nodded: "It's already arranged."

At present, a large part of the toy factories in Hong Kong City are living on Marvel, but they do not produce high-end products, they produce low-quality and low-cost Transformers, and the main sales places are not the United States and Europe, but Southeast Asia, South America and other underdeveloped countries and regions.

Gu Siwei can only turn a blind eye to this kind of thing.

It's not that he doesn't care about patents, or that he doesn't care about being infringed.

But the problem before him now is that if he asks the owners of these small workshops to collect the patents, the place of production may be transferred to countries like Malaysia.

Will small workshops in these countries give Gu Siwei royalties? Gu Siwei was so bold that he didn't dare to think about it.

So Gu Siwei felt that it was going to be stolen anyway, and it was better for the meat to rot in the pot.

It is better to earn money for your compatriots than for foreigners.

Lao Gu's arms have always been turned inward, and this has never changed.

So there is, as soon as the Marvel Tai Po factory came out, the nearby small factories began to copy it, and even almost did it to the market at about the same time as the Marvel factory's products.

It's just the quality, some toys touch for a while, and the hands are a layer of dust.

It's just that people who buy this kind of toy don't care about health. If you want to be cheap and have good quality, what kind of stupid lack will have such an idea?

Now what Gu Siwei asked Guan Youpeng to do is to let some of these factories have better technology to share the production pressure of Marvel.

"A lot of people grab orders, right?"

Lawrence didn't have to think about it, he knew that there must be countless people robbing the orders from Marvel's side, because even Lawrence is very appreciative of Marvel's credit-heavy behavior.

Marvel's contract execution even exceeds that of most European and American companies, to a harsh degree.

Lawrence admires the young people in front of him at this point. He used to look down on the companies run by Orientals, thinking that they had nothing but low prices, and this low price was often based on the oppression and harshness of his compatriots.

Sometimes, Lawrence felt that some companies in the port city did the same way as the British factories a hundred years ago, not treating the workers as human beings, but only treating them as a tool of production, like a hammer or a wrench, and did not care about their health or their lives.

But the young man in front of him broke his view, Marvel's factory has strict discipline, does not promote overtime culture, but emphasizes efficiency, quality control, and most importantly, the wages of workers are far above average.

He integrated Marvel into a business machine, and every part worked so well that even some professors of business studies in London became interested in Marvel's business model.

But this is what Lawrence pondered in his heart, that is, now he is full of money, in addition to EA, there are also Transformers toys sales in Europe, which is all a gold mine!

(End of chapter)