Chapter 551: High-level Infighting(1/2)
Since its establishment, Youpin has developed very rapidly with the strong strength of the group company and Wangye's influence in the commercial real estate industry.
The first batch of stores opened was one hundred stores. Now a year has passed, and the number of stores has expanded to more than 300.
Because all of them are self-operated stores, Liu Wenjuan has truly become a "flying person" over the past year. She has to fly to a city on average in two days to inspect the situation of the new store.
Logically speaking, she is the boss of the company and does not need to do everything in person, but Liu Wenjuan doesn't think so.
Her goal is not to become the vice president of Youpin Company, but to become the boss of this brand company and remove the word "deputy".
Even, to go further, she must lay a solid foundation first so that she can take over as chairman of Wang Ye’s Huayou Group in the future!
Liu Wenjuan knew that within the group, at present, her only competitor was the new Ye Caini.
Liu Wenjuan was also afraid of Ye Caini, and she had touched the bottom of this person in private.
Ye Caini’s past experience is not confidential information, and it is easy to find out.
Like myself, after graduating from a prestigious Ivy League school, she would call herself a senior sister after meeting. Moreover, Ye Caini’s advantage is that she has managed a super-large team and has been an executive of a multinational company.
This experience is something I don't have.
Don't underestimate this, this will play a big role when you really compete for executive positions.
My advantage lies in the fact that I joined Huayou Group earlier than Ye Caini and had a first-mover advantage.
The two offset each other, and the result is that the two are now standing on the same starting line. Who can win in reality is probably largely up to the point that depends on who performs better.
Therefore, Liu Wenjuan has worked very hard this year. Although the store opening speed of Liu Wenjuan opened quickly, the company is still in order and staff from various departments are also supplemented.
The Youpin Headquarters occupies a whole office building. At the beginning, there were only a few floors of people working, and the whole building seemed empty. Now it is different. More than 30 floors have their own uses.
Several office buildings in the central area of Mingguang District were bought by Wangye's companies, and now this area is quite lively.
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Liu Wenjuan parked her car in the parking lot in front of the office building, and walked towards the lobby with a single crocodile leather platinum bag.
Her car is a Porsche 911. Executives of various companies under Wang Ye, I don’t know if it’s because of her aesthetic vision and Wang Ye’s influence, especially those female executives, who buy cars like Porsche, Bentley, Rolls-Royce, etc. No one buys those cooler supercars.
In the parking lot and executive parking area in front of the office building, the parking lots are all Porsche 911, Porsche 718, Bentley Continental, and Rolls-Royce Phantom.
That Rolls-Royce Phantom is Xu Jing's new car. Among the company's executives, Xu Jing is the biggest "rich woman". Not to mention anything else, just selling the company to Meigou.com, she cashed out hundreds of millions of cash, and her income is also the highest among the bosses of various companies.
There is no way, who has let the Meigou Network, which has a market value of over 100 billion US dollars, of course, the revenue of such a super large company must match the company's scale.
Li Qinghuan's wealth potential is actually greater than Xu Jing, because Li Qinghuan holds shares in several companies, but none of them have been cashed out.
After that, if Li Qinghuan cashed out all the shares she had, she would definitely transform herself into a "rich woman" with a net worth of billions. However, now she is not as rich as Xu Jing, so the car Li Qinghuan drove was the Porsche 718 she had bought for two years.
It can be seen that Wang Ye chose brands from Britain and Germany when buying cars. He has never been interested in cars from Italy, Japan, the United States and France.
"Hello, Mr. Liu!"
"Good morning, Mr. Liu!"
Along the way, the employees I met greeted Liu Wenjuan one after another.
Liu Wenjuan also smiled and nodded in response. Although she had a strong personality, she still had a very kind attitude towards employees in normal times.
Liu Wenjuan believes in managing people with systems, not relying on people to manage people. Therefore, in terms of systems, she has made strict decisions and attached great importance to performance appraisal. How much contribution you have made to the company, then everything is spoken with data.
In the face of the system, everyone is equal.
When he came to his office, Liu Wenjuan put down her handbag, sat behind her large desk, and called her assistant.
"Have that plan been approved?"
The plan she mentioned is about the plan of Youpin Company to go out of the mainland market and expand outward.
Now, in the mainland market, Liu Wenjuan feels that her potential has been fully tapped. In the future, she will open stores in scattered ways, and it is impossible to open stores in large quantities.
Because, although the price of big stores like Youpin is very cheap, they are still important for location selection.
In ordinary small cities, they cannot support a super store of 3,000 square meters. Therefore, the fewest preferred products are required and they must be opened to the core business districts of prefecture-level cities. It will be difficult to expand further.
There are less than 300 prefecture-level cities across the country, and most of them have already opened stores, or have already selected addresses and are preparing to open stores.
According to Liu Wenjuan and company executives' evaluation, a total of 600 stores were opened in China, which was basically saturated.
Now, there are more than 300 stores that have opened, and there are still more than 100 stores that are being renovated. After the decoration of these stores is completed and opened, there will be nearly 500 stores in the mainland market!
Don’t feel that this is small, these are all super big stores, which are different from those of the Huashang brand.
When all these stores opened, Liu Wenjuan was confident that she would make her annual revenue reach more than 50 billion!
This is a conservative estimate. If you are bolder, it is possible to score 70 billion.
This is just the mainland market, and it can be so high, so Liu Wenjuan can no longer hold back and wants to expand outward.
A few days ago, she drafted a plan to expand abroad. After discussing with her senior executives, she felt that there was no problem, so she submitted the plan to the chairman's office, which is Wang Ye.
Although Liu Wenjuan could directly take the plan to discuss with Wang Ye, she did not do this because now, Ye Caini, the special assistant to the chairman, if she crosses the matter and goes directly to Wang Ye, she will inevitably lose her verbal words and makes people say that she has reported her work higher and higher.
According to the formal process, the plan must be submitted to the Chairman's Office first, and after review by Ye Caini and Wang Ye's secretariat, then submitted to Wang Ye.
If Wang Ye feels that there is no problem after reading it, he will sign and approve it directly and they can implement the plan according to the plan.
If Wang Ye feels that there is something wrong with him after reading it, he will ask the Secretariat to notify Liu Wenjuan and company executives to hold a special seminar.
In the past few days, Liu Wenjuan has not received a call from Liu Ruomei, so she thought the plan was not problematic and directly approved it.
She just flew back from another place, and as soon as she arrived at the office today, she asked about this plan.
Who knew that the assistant's answer surprised her quite.
"It was approved, but Assistant Ye directly approved it. He said that the plan was unqualified and asked us to do it again."
Liu Wenjuan was stunned at first, then a little angry. Ye Caini really took herself seriously. She didn't even let Wang Ye see the plan she worked hard on and called back directly!
"Did you say why?"
Liu Wenjuan stabilized her mood and asked calmly.
"Some say that there are problems with the first batch of expansion areas we chose, so we recommend that we choose a better area."
The assistant replied.
Liu Wenjuan chose Xiangjiang, Baodao, Lion City, and Macau for this first batch of expansion areas.
Among them, three regions belong to China, and the other is also mainly Chinese.
Liu Wenjuan also has her considerations for choosing this.
Although Youpin is a well-known brand in China, it is now considered a well-known brand, but who knows you abroad? So when she chose the first batch of market expansion, she deliberately chose a place dominated by Chinese.
In this way, it will be easier to spread word of mouth or to do brand promotion in the future.
They are all Chinese, and their preferences and traditions are naturally similar. It is easier to adapt to the store by opening a premium product.
If it is suddenly thrown into European and American countries, it will probably take a long time to adapt to local habits and it is easy to fail.
I don’t know how many failed precedents are there when Chinese companies go overseas. It is because they want to go to the most core countries and cities in Europe and the United States to make a lot of money. As a result, when they get there, they feel like they are trapped in a quagmire.
Different cultural traditions, different aesthetics, and even different work systems and habits. If you take the domestic management method, the employees there will really not be overtaken by you. The union there is not just a talk, but it is really a place to be your boss’s home.
To be honest, Liu Wenjuan is not ready to go to Europe and the United States, and neither talent reserve nor brand building have yet to achieve it.
Therefore, she chose to expand the area now in Asia, and it is the place where Chinese people are most concentrated.
This is also good, and it will develop step by step and be relatively stable. Even if the investment fails, the losses will not be large.
Who knew that such a carefully prepared plan was actually called back by Ye Caini.
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After hanging up the assistant's phone, Liu Wenjuan's face darkened. She turned on the computer and read the plan again. She still felt that there was no problem. It was indeed reasonable and well-founded. For the Preferred Products, it is the best choice at present.
She thought for a while, picked up the phone and dialed Ye Caini's landline directly.
Soon, the phone was connected.
"Hello, this is Ye Caini."
A pleasant female voice came from the phone.
"Hello Assistant Ye, I am Liu Wenjuan. I want to ask you for advice on something." Liu Wenjuan asked with a smile.
"Oh, Mr. Liu, please tell me what's going on." Ye Caini replied simply.
"The plan for the expansion of preferred products outward."
"I knew that Mr. Liu must have wanted to ask about this plan. I did not show the plan for Mr. Wang because I really felt that there was no need to show it for him. Let's do this. At ten o'clock, come to the small conference room No. 2 on the top floor, and let's discuss it together."
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At ten o'clock, Liu Wenjuan came to the small conference room on the top floor, where only Ye Caini was inside.
"Assistant Ye, what's wrong with this plan? This is the plan that our management team discussed collectively."
Liu Wenjuan asked calmly, she had something in her words, and did not say that the plan was made by her, but that it was discussed collectively by the company's management.
In this way, what Ye Caini denies is not her Liu Wenjuan’s plan, but the collective opinion of the management of Youpin Company.
Ye Caini didn't know if she could hear the meaning of her words, but just smiled and said to Liu Wenjuan: "Mr. Liu, don't be anxious, listen to my opinion first."
To be continued...