Chapter 931 Romantic Luo Guowei

The three businesses were discussed separately, and the effect was better than Li Dong imagined.

The number of investment institutions making quotations on Weibo soon exceeded 10.

On the far side, a little bit of news has also leaked out, that is, several new institutions and enterprises have entered the market.

The entry of Victoria Harbor, Baidu, and Softbank did indeed cause quite a stir.

But Li Dong thinks it's good, some people don't think it's good.

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Lin'an.

Seeing that Yuanfang is getting bigger day by day, whether it is the Internet industry or the industry, they have achieved considerable success, and Ma Yun can't sit still.

What made Ma Yun even more angry was that Softbank actually betrayed him at this time!

Yes, he knows that Softbank is an investment company, and everything is for making money.

But at this time, Softbank came forward, which made Ali a little embarrassed.

If Yuanfang is just a pure Weibo company, or if it doesn't operate as a mall, Ma Yun doesn't care, you can invest in whoever you like.

But just when Yuanfang became their biggest competitor, their biggest investor invested in a competitor. Isn't this a face-slap!

Ma Yun was angry in his heart, but he couldn't vent it.

Finally, after thinking for a long time, Ma Yun also decided to invest.

Of course, not far away, he is not so stupid.

Ali's stock price has fallen sharply recently, and the B2B business has been unable to make a breakthrough. After much deliberation, Ma Yun decided to expand some businesses.

The O2O model of Yuanfang is good, and the supermarket is one point that Ma Yun wants to invest in.

But for the supermarket, he hasn't figured it out yet. What he is planning to invest in now is Weibo.

Of course, it is not Yuanfang Weibo, but Sina Weibo.

What Ma Yun thought in his heart was that Yuanfang Weibo should not be allowed to dominate.

Now Yuanfang Weibo has more than 100 million registered users, and the account barrier has been broken,

Ma Yun had a hunch in his heart that after a while, the number of registered users of Yuanfang Mall might surpass that of Taobao.

Although the number of registered users does not represent anything, nor does it represent turnover.

However, if he is surpassed by a leader in all aspects, the legend of Taobao will be completely broken.

Next, Taobao is likely to be completely surpassed.

Ma Yun can't tolerate such a thing happening, if that's the case, then he should also invest in Weibo.

Although Sina Weibo is a little worse than Yuanfang, but the other party still has portal support after all, and has great potential.

If the two sides cooperate, it is not hopeless to go beyond the distance.

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When Ma Yun was planning to cooperate with Sina, Li Dong set his sights on Carrefour again.

From the evening of the 14th when he posted on Weibo to the 20th, it took almost a week.

This week, Yuanfang recruited 1,600 people in East China!

Of course, it is mainly in East China, and there are not many recruits in other places. Including East China, the scale is about 2,000.

Almost all of these 2,000 people came from Carrefour. Based on the 150 people in one store, it is equivalent to Li Dong hollowing out the employees of about 14 Carrefour stores.

Losing so many employees at once, even if Carrefour urgently raised the salary, the manpower seemed to be stretched.

That is to say, their business is not good now, otherwise there would have been chaos long ago.

Carrefour vomited blood angrily, but there was really no way to solve this matter.

They have also imposed restrictions, and even started to sign labor contracts, and they have to pay liquidated damages if they leave early.

However, before this, they did not sign contracts with grassroots employees.

In Carrefour, a large part of employees are not considered their regular employees, they are almost equivalent to temporary workers.

The reason why this happens is well known in the industry.

After signing a formal contract, the benefits that the company needs to bear will increase, and a large part of Huaxia employees don't like to sign contracts.

Because signing the contract means paying five social insurances and one housing fund, and the monthly expenditure will be several hundred more.

Carrefour is happy to push the boat smoothly. Among the tens of thousands of employees in Huaxia, no more than half of them actually sign the contract.

And the remaining half can come and go at any time.

Before poaching people from afar, Carrefour's executives were still proud of how much money they could save each year, and Huaxia people were so foolish.

At that time, they never thought that there would be such a day when a company would recruit tens of thousands of people.

And even if you want to dig, it's not that easy.

Who would have expected that at the most inappropriate time, he would meet the most unreliable competitor.

Li Dong in the distance, this guy has no moral bottom line.

With so many people digging it out by hand, is it worthwhile for you to spend so much every month?

A part of the stores in the distance have not yet opened, which means that these people are all raised for nothing now, and if they really don’t need money, what is the matter!

Although the heart is full of resentment, Carrefour currently has no way to solve this problem.

There was a loss of personnel, the business was bleak, and the store was losing money every day.

The far side is actually much better than them, and the business is sure to be booming.

Although it didn't make money, it didn't lose money this time.

It was different from the previous Suguo bloody battle. At that time, both sides were engaged in a price war, and almost all of them were operating at a loss.

What about Carrefour?

They wanted to fight a price war, but it didn't work, and no one came.

No one, is there any point in doing promotions?

Is there any point in going shopping with Yuanfang besides harming others and benefiting oneself?

Not everyone is Ma Jialiang, and not everyone is Li Dong. For the sake of winning or losing, these two people do not hesitate to go in and out of the red knife.

After all, the battle in southern Jiangsu was a matter of life and death, so they couldn't help but do their best.

But Carrefour is different, not to mention the East China region, even the Huaxia region is actually just a corner for them.

Around the world, they have nearly 10,000 operating retail units, and the total sales in 2007 reached 100 billion US dollars, more than 700 billion yuan.

In Huaxia, their total turnover did not reach 30 billion last year.

Relatively speaking, 30 billion is not a large volume.

Under such circumstances, the headquarters of Carrefour is hesitating whether to fight Yuanfang to the death or not, and it always feels that it is not worthwhile.

Even if you want to fight, but in the current situation, it seems useless to fight.

Carrefour was hesitant and hesitated, and there were even different opinions at the headquarters.

Some people say that they want to fight with Yuanfang to the end. Carrefour has the confidence to lose to a local company with an annual turnover of less than 10 billion US dollars.

Some people also said that they should simply give up the Chinese market.

It's not a day or two since foreigners look down on Huaxia. In their eyes, Huaxia has always been so old-fashioned.

With this energy, they can definitely expand their scale in the European market.

No, it’s okay to go to the Americas. In short, Asia is not a good place.

No wonder they think so. It is not the first time that Carrefour has failed in investing in Asia.

In 2000, they entered the Japanese market. As a result, in 4 years, Carrefour was forced to withdraw from the Japanese market in 2004.

That was the first time they suffered heavy losses in Asia, and they turned their attention to China and increased their investment in China as a last resort.

The result is good, and it hasn't stopped for a few years, and Huaxia's side is not reliable anymore.

Before Yuanfang appeared, Carrefour actually had a good life. With the foreign capital brand here, they have an advantage over domestic companies.

In Japan, the retail industry is well-developed, and everyone is implementing a low-price strategy. Carrefour's prices do not have an advantage, and they soon failed and resigned.

In Huaxia, in fact, they do not have an advantage in price, but Huaxia people like to go shopping in foreign-funded enterprises.

Even if the prices of Bailian and China Resources are lower, that does not prevent them from going to Carrefour. Even if everyone’s goods are actually provided by the same supplier, it does not prevent Huaxia people from thinking that Carrefour’s products are better and more authentic.

Originally, they thought that this situation would continue forever.

Unexpectedly, domestic politicians suddenly went crazy.

It doesn't matter if they go crazy, Yuanfang on Huaxia's side also goes crazy. This is the first time they have encountered such an extremely aggressive Huaxia retail enterprise.

Before Bailian, China Resources, and Suguo, except for Suguo, which was a bit more aggressive, the others were not very aggressive.

When they met Yuanfang, the people at Carrefour knew that it turned out that Suguo wasn't the most aggressive, but Li Dong was!

The high-level opinions are not unified, and there is no way for Huaxia to make a decision.

Now if it is delayed for one day, they will lose one day.

Moreover, I don't know when this kind of day will be the end, and more and more high-level officials are inclined to withdraw from China.

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Shanghai.

Carrefour China Headquarters.

Luo Guowei is not in a good mood these days. Of course, despite his Chinese name, Luo Guowei is an authentic Frenchman.

He has been in Huaxia since 2006, and until now, two years later, he has also become the president of Huaxia District.

Before coming to China, Luo Guowei served as the president of Carrefour Argentina.

In those few years, Luo Guowei lived a comfortable life without worrying about anything.

Before coming to Huaxia, he was a little reluctant.

However, he had no choice but to pack his luggage obediently and come to the mysterious ancient eastern country from far away Europe.

When he came to Huaxia, he couldn't see his favorite football game here.

China's football level makes Luo Guowei miss his time in Argentina very much.

Originally, he could bear the days without football. Anyway, he only needs to survive for a few years before he can leave this place.

Of course, the premise of everything is that the business is good and he can get a promotion.

In the past two years, things have been developing in a good direction, but recently, Luo Guowei is very irritable and angry.

Li Dong!

It was this guy who caused him to be angered by the headquarters and reprimanded by the headquarters.

Luo Guowei felt very wronged, and it would be the same for someone else.

That guy Li Dong is a lunatic. Didn't he fight Su Guo to the death before him? Even China Resources didn't dare to fight him desperately.

Now that lunatic is eyeing Carrefour, Luo Guowei knows that that guy won't stop until he bites off a piece of meat.

In fact, at this time, what Luo Guowei most wanted to see was a post from the headquarters to withdraw from this ghostly place in Huaxia!

He doesn't want to stay here any longer, damn Chinese is really hard to learn, but most of the people here are Chinese, he can't communicate without learning Chinese.

There are no exciting football games, no hot beach beauties, only boring Chinese, crazy businessmen, and those politicians who stare at themselves...

He hates being here, and he hates staying in Huaxia!

Just when he was upset, the assistant knocked on the door and came in.

Glancing at his assistant, Luo Guowei became even angrier.

The assistant was not the hot girl he wanted, but a staid Chinese woman in her forties.

No romance at all, no surprises at all.

But he couldn't refuse, because this assistant was assigned to him by the headquarters.

The old man can speak Chinese, English, and French, and graduated from the most famous business school, which can bring him great help.

However, for the French who pursues romance, what he hopes to see is a beautiful woman with a hot figure, rather than an old aunt who wears big glasses all day long and has a serious look.

As soon as the assistant came in, Luo Guowei knew her opening words, and murmured in his heart: "Mr. Luo, excuse me, the headquarters has a document... Or, Mr. Luo, a certain official wants to have an interview with you...or else, Mr. Luo Anyway, have you read yesterday's financial statement?"

He is tired of this kind of same topic now.

It's not like when I was in Argentina, my secretary always said "dear" before entering the door, or simply sent a kiss.

Just when Luo Guowei was distracted, the female assistant said unsurprisingly: "Mr. Luo, someone downstairs wants to see you."

Luo Guowei said absently: "Who? An official from the Commerce Commission? Or the Industry and Commerce Bureau, or the Public Security Bureau?

According to your Chinese tradition, this is called playing the autumn wind, right?

I don't want to see you, just say I'm not here now, and let the people in the PR department handle it.

Damn politicians, I'm busy right now, don't they know?

When you need them for something, they like to... like to play football, right?

Football is such an amazing sport, but in China, only officials can play football, Xie Te, I'm fed up! "

Luo Guowei complained a lot, but in normal times, he wouldn't be like this.

But now, he is really not in a good mood.

The female assistant turned a blind eye to his complaints. After he finished speaking, she adjusted her glasses and said, "Boss Luo, the ones waiting below are not officials."

"Who is that? A charity or a chamber of commerce?"

"No, it's Mr. Chen Langchen from Yuanfang Group."

"distance?"

Luo Guowei regained his energy all of a sudden, raised his head and asked, "What do people from far away come here for? Do they want to ask for peace?"

The female assistant smiled stiffly, her boss really knew how to joke.

Sue?

Do you really understand Chinese?

At this time, how can the distance beg for peace? We are the ones who demand peace.

But the female assistant didn't bother to explain, she just said calmly: "Mr. Luo, the guest is still waiting, do you need to see him?"

"Chen Lang, Chen Lang, I know, the former CEO of China Resources Vanguard, he came in person?" Luo Guowei muttered a few words.

After a while, Luo Guowei straightened his shirt and said seriously, "Invite Mr. Chen to wait for me in the conference room, I'll be right there."

After finishing speaking, Luo Guowei asked his assistant again: "What do you think of my current state?"

The female assistant didn't hide anything, and said directly: "You don't look very good, and your hair is a bit messy, Mr. Luo, you can tidy up a little bit. I'll go to entertain Mr. Chen first."

"OK, I'll be fine soon!"

Luo Guowei still paid more attention to his image, and hurried into the lounge in his office.

The female assistant ignored him and turned around to leave the office.

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