Chapter 501 Get LL Cool J

"I thought it would be a competitor like GAP."

Could it be that Scout, the general manager of A+ Apparel, is secretly communicating with big companies like the general manager of Bain Company? Song Ya immediately followed Roberto Clivell's words carefully.

"Haha, do you think we are already GAP's opponents?"

Roberto Clerville laughed and said: "We sold a lot of clothes, but we didn't make much money. In autumn and winter, we didn't maintain the good momentum of summer..."

The patterned T-shirts brought by Song Ya and Mariah Carey are high-quality and cheap, and are very popular with the lower class people in the United States.

A+ Apparel does not have its own store, the distribution model at all levels is complicated, and the loyalty of distributors is very low. When T-shirts sell well, everything is easy to talk about. After the backlog of autumn and winter clothing with higher unit prices, the following distributors began to show their skills in order to clear the inventory. , What is the unified suggested selling price of the whole rice? Can I eat it? Excessive discounts and price confusion naturally caused some damage to the brand reputation.

Moreover, similar T-shirt products from brands such as GAP will be launched next year, and some celebrities or cartoon characters will also be invited to be co-branded. There will be no problems in the promotion and design of large companies, and the differentiated advantages of A+ clothing will be wiped out quickly. flat.

"Why would Wal-Mart want to buy our company?" Song Ya asked: "The private label T-shirts in their supermarkets are cheaper than ours, although the quality of those from Ceylon and Bangladesh is a little worse."

Roberto Clivell replied: "I don't know. A few days ago, I met an old friend who works at Wal-Mart. He said that Wal-Mart was considering acquiring our company. He was joking, but I don't think so..."

Old Walmart friend, just kidding? There are mistakes everywhere...

"I'm not going to sell." He said regardless of what Roberto Clivell was thinking, "I have a specific plan for this company, a new plan."

A+ Apparel is not like Bain Company. Song Asheng has been involved in the specific management in San Francisco, and he often travels to and from Huaguo. If there is any trouble, he will definitely report it to himself as soon as possible. The competition in the clothing industry is fierce, but the barriers to entry are low. Dressing and matching is a very personal choice. The public will follow fashion and also have personalized demands. Big brands are not as sinister as monopoly enterprises in the chemical industry. Besides, the annual shipment of A+ clothing is not enough for those big brands.

"Oh? Tell me about it." Roberto Clivell.

"Hey! Are you really going to talk business at the party?"

Mariah Carey immediately protested, "Honey, shall we visit the Clift suite upstairs?" She shook Song Ya's arm coquettishly.

"Visit... ok."

Song Ya bowed: "Sorry, excuse me."

"Go, go." Walt and the three of them suppressed a knowing smile.

It feels good to be upright. Of course, it was more exciting when it was secretly in the past. This time the party was all paid for by Song Ya himself, and the entourage of Mariah Carey's concert was invited, and people from the Daniel and Newman faction inside Sony Columbia Records, The guy who danced out of my life crew, and his and Mariah Carey friends.

In the awards season at the beginning of next year, neither of them has any ideas. They have no new works in 1993, and Mariah Carey's music box album will be released at the end of the year, so they can't catch up.

"You should also pay more attention to the maintenance of your voice. You will be in Philadelphia on the 2nd of next month, right?"

When she reappeared in the banquet hall, Mariah Carey almost put her whole body weight on Song Ya's arms, shining brightly. Her tour at the end of the year is about once a week. Compared with Madonna or MJ's tour, the task cannot It is heavy, after all, there is no need to dance, but because of too many difficult singing methods in her songs, the fatigue of the vocal cords is unavoidable.

"Yes, and then back to New York for the last show on the tenth, at Madison Square..."

She rubbed her throat and replied, "No problem, I will be lazy in Philadelphia and try my best to win the game in my hometown."

"How will Daniel and Newman arrange next year?" Song Ya asked her.

"In the first half of the year, I will go abroad to announce the release. They said that the global sales momentum is very good." She became less emotional.

"Pay attention to your body, I'll tell Daniel so they don't tire you out."

"Um."

The two were chatting, Linda leaned behind them and reported in a low voice, "Here we are."

"OK."

They were greeted at the entrance of the banquet hall. He and DefJam were mutual achievements. In the 1980s, DefJam praised him as the number one hip-hop singer on the east coast, and he also made DefJam the most influential hip-hop factory at that time. one of the cards.

In the 1990s, the two sides fell silent under the tide of gangsta rap and Chicago rap at the same time.

"YO,..." Song Ya greeted proactively, stretching out her fist.

This guy with a height of nearly 1.9 meters has a relatively kind face, and his personality is also different. Unlike other hip-hop singers who like to pretend to be cool, he has always appeared in front of the public with a more friendly image, so the mainstream media has a good impression of him. Even though it has gradually passed away, it is still a frequent visitor to major music awards. The alliance of Russell Simmons and Quincy Jones will find a way to give him various resources every year, and of course Will Smith and others.

Russell Simmons is not only his boss, the two are also teachers and friends, and they have a good personal relationship.

"APLUS, Miss Kelly."

But it would be a big mistake if he was really a pure and harmless little white rabbit, "Introduce for you, DJIrv." He lazily introduced a companion behind him, who was the guy NAS specially reminded to pay attention to. Background, the record producer Irv Gotti who used the mafia godfather Gotti as his stage name.

"Hello, brother." Song Ya bumped fists with the two, "Go and talk?"

He lifted his chin and agreed.

The relationship between the two parties is very stiff. Not long ago, they were still helping Russell Simmons resist himself and Daniel, and let go of a lot of harsh words.

Mariah Carey very discerningly found a friend to greet her, and left this small circle where the atmosphere was a bit awkward.

"Are you also filming a new movie?" Song Ya and Linda met each other's eyes, and the relationship between the two parties was brought closer according to the designed dialogue.

"No, let's talk about cooperation with Marvel."

Answer, this guy is very sober, knowing that he is out of breath, and began to work hard to find a way out as a host, variety show guest, film and TV actor, and the effect is very good, especially the radio host.

"I know, superhero Blade is it?"

Song Ya raised her glass with a smile: "I heard you beat Wesley Streep for that role?"

"yeah……"

Sure enough, he laughed, "That guy was next door at the time, and he wanted to steal my corner, and I found out, so... bang bang bang bang..." He imitated the sound of violently beating the other party and gestured proudly with his hands with.

Seriously, with his harmless face, Marvel shouldn't give him the cool vampire superhero role, Wesley Streep is much more suitable, but Song Ya will not say this in person , finally found a common topic, so he echoed: "That guy is just looking for a fight."

"I heard you beat him too?" Irv Gotti asked cheerfully.

"Yeah, at Spielberg's masquerade party, I beat him up with one punch." Song Ya also boasted about her "brilliant deeds".

"Hahaha, well done." And Irv Gotti laughed and praised.

Smart people know how to make choices. Anyway, Song Ya became the largest individual shareholder of DefJam is irreversible. Since he is willing to come to the party, it means that he does not want to continue the cold war. The two sides have an enemy they both hate, so The more we chat, the more speculative we become.

"Marvel wants to make Blade Runner and Black Panther into movies. You know, there are not many black superheroes, and resources are scarce."

Said: "Why don't you just steal Wesley's Black Panther? Let's co-invest in these two movies and let him go!"

"But I heard that Marvel always uses this trick to fool our investment?" Song Ya asked.

Marvel is a giant in the comic publishing industry. It has been very popular in recent years. The old comics of his family and DC, Dark Horse and other established comic companies, superhero cards and other peripheral products have been sold at crazy prices by the market. But after Song Ya did some research, she also knew that the situation inside was very complicated. Marvel's parent company had been acquired by the tycoon Perelman, who was good at capital hype and ranked fourteenth in the world's richest list last year. They are richer than Murdoch, Redstone and others. According to the calculation of Fujibi magazine, there are six billion dollars.

Perelman also owns a number of leading companies in various fields, such as Hummer, Durex, and Revlon. He was also a party to the rumored incident of rejecting the top rich people in the Upper East Side of New York.

However, Perelman’s attitude towards the industry is not good. For him, the industrial companies under him are just the golden goose hen for his financing. All long-term profits and stocks have been used to make various pledges and loans to support him. In the substantial expansion of the banking industry, he received a huge federal guarantee totaling 5.1 billion knives when the Elephant Party was in power, as a special aid to take over a number of bankrupt banks in Texas, and then started a career in the banking industry. A series of mergers and acquisitions expansion.

Marvel, Revlon and other companies are all transfusing blood for Perelman's business empire. Revlon is doing well, but its financial statements are still losing money year after year, and all profits have been squeezed dry by Perelman's various radical financial methods.

The situation of Marvel is a little bit better. It was successfully listed in 1991, and then it started the road of mergers and acquisitions. It bought, for example, Fleer, which produced comic star cards and football cards, and ToyBiz, which produced toys and peripherals. But that's just Perelman's old trick, using the golden hen to go public for financing, and then continue to issue bonds for mergers and acquisitions, first to avoid taxes, and second, to use huge debt interest to transfer profits from the entity company to his complicated banking network, and finally Transformed into part of his net worth of the fourteenth richest man in the world.

The method is completely legal, but unreasonable. In the past two years, many financial people have criticized this practice of killing chickens and taking eggs, so Song Ya knows so clearly.

"There are not many superheroes that black people can play, and if there are holes, take them as soon as possible."

He is obviously fascinated by the beautiful vision outlined by Marvel. He is not the kind of singer who spends countless money. Money makes things, but this is still an opportunity, isn't it? Wesley Streep is not a character, and it's okay to pick a script."

"Okay, I'll think about it."

"Okay, then I'll wait for your news? As soon as possible, you have my call."

"Can……"

He tacitly did not mention Russell Simmons from the beginning to the end, and Song Ya basically figured out his attitude, and took the opportunity to mention the Source Hip-Hop Music Awards in April next year, "If I go, can you help take care of it?" Is it?"

"No problem, New York is our territory." He promised very readily.

"Where's Fergie? She should be there too."

"Well, she's not liked by the black girls in the business...you did so well on London Bridge for her, the girls were jealous."

"But she is a hip-hop singer after all, so why not take her to play in the first special hip-hop music awards?"

"It's not that we don't bring her. You know, most of the guests will be old blacks. I can't guarantee that the girls won't say anything nasty to her."

"But you and your people won't do anything to her, right?" Song Ya asked, "I'll figure out a way for the other groups of people."

"certainly."

He and Irv Gotti looked at each other and nodded in agreement.