"President Yoshida, the agent has decided to set the price at a similar level to yours, or even a little lower. At the same time, I have seen their new samples, and the quality of the zippers seems to be better than those made in Japan."

Tadao Yoshida was shocked, and then said in disbelief: "Impossible! I have used their zippers, and they are not as good as those from our little RB Empire!"

"Haha, I won't lie. As far as I know, other people's sliders are going to use automatic stamping machines, so the costs in all aspects will be reduced. You can go to the agent to find out more about the situation!" Then he hung up the phone.

Tadao Yoshida was stunned. He promoted his own products with confidence, and originally received a lot of results; but who knew, someone would reject his order not long after.

But he didn't understand where his zipper was missing!

The next day.

Tadao Yoshida found Hiroto Yokokawa's store. The two could be considered competitors, but after all, they were both from RB, so there was no malicious competition.

"President Yokokawa, I would like to know about the situation of the zipper factory in Hong Kong. I wonder if you can tell me?" Tadao Yoshida said modestly.

Hiroto Yokokawa used to be easy to talk to. After all, at that time, he felt that Tadao Yoshida was not a threat. But after experiencing this crisis, he suddenly realized that even though they were both RB players, they were even more competitors.

Once Tadao Yoshida's zipper products seize more markets, he will lose a profitable business.

In the past year, zippers have brought him a lot of profits.

"President Yoshida, I'm sorry, this is already a commercial secret! But don't worry, our pricing is about the same at present. As long as everyone doesn't compete maliciously and cut prices, I believe there will be orders. After all, the Japanese zipper market is growing."

When Tadao Yoshida heard this, his heart sank.

Having said that, his idea is to dominate RB's zipper market, not to share the world equally with Hong Kong zippers.

But he knew that he and Hiroto Yokokawa were already competitors, and it was impossible to get any more information.

Not willing to give in!

Tadao Yoshida's facial expression changed, and after a long time he suddenly said: "President Yokokawa, what Hong Kong Zipper Yangtze can do, our little RB empire can do better, it's just a matter of time, after all, they don't have the industry of our country.

Basics. Suppose you are willing to tell me some information. When YKK zippers develop and grow, I would like to invite you to be our zipper agent and open up overseas markets."

What Hiroto Yokokawa was afraid of was that there were few ways to make money, and Tadao Yoshida provided him with this way of making money. Both of them were from RB, so the result was that Hiroto Yokokawa told the situation.

On the way back, Tadao Yoshida was shocked, admired, and finally determined again.

"When the business is stable, I will also invite Hitachi Machinery Factory to cooperate to improve and develop automatic rice arranging machines and automatic slider punching machines. No, I will also develop more tools to achieve integrated mechanical production."

In late December, Cheung Kong Industries.

Lin Zhichao and his colleagues burst into gasps of exclamation as they watched the skilled workers carefully tear open the protective layer to reveal individual machines.

There are a total of five automatic zipper rice arranging machines and two automatic slider punching machines.

The five automatic rice arranging machines are new machines that can reach 3,000 revolutions per minute, while the old-fashioned machines only have 1,500 revolutions. In other words, five machines are equivalent to ten machines.

Of course, the original machines will suffer from quality deterioration and other problems after two years due to heavy operation. Therefore, Cheung Kong Industries will replace all of them with new machines and eliminate those machines.

"Boss, we don't need to worry anymore - the order was missed because it was too late to complete!" Wang Liang sighed with a look of pain on his face.

In the past month or two, Cheung Kong's orders have been overloaded again, so it has missed a lot of orders. Now that the new machines have arrived, the production capacity has almost doubled.

Lin Zhichao said with a smile: "That situation will never happen again. Our current machines can be purchased from Germany at any time. What I am worried about now is how to open the European and American markets. By the way, has Smith sent out an invitation?"

This American zipper businessman has always cooperated with Cheung Kong Industries, so Lin Zhichao's first thought was him.

"I sent out an invitation, and he responded and said he would come to Hong Kong as soon as possible."

"Okay, I hope he can give us a good start!"

As new machines are put into use, prices in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong have also been reduced. Although there are no competitors yet, if you do not take the initiative to lower prices, then once there are competitors, you will have no advantage.

For example, when Lin Zhichao's first zipper machine was put into production, the price of zippers in Hong Kong dropped sharply. Why didn't he choose to earn more?

The reason couldn't be simpler. If he makes more money, other people in Hong Kong may be jealous and buy zipper machines. So he controls the price within a reasonable range, which will set back those people.

Because they feel that the market is already saturated, and they can’t make huge profits by buying more machines, so why bother taking risks. As Cheung Kong has more and more machines, people are even less willing to take risks.
Chapter completed!