In September 1973, Galaxy Holdings, which had been established for two months, officially had more than 100 employees, of which only 20 were in administrative and logistics positions. The rest were sales, purchasing, and legal personnel with rich manufacturing backgrounds. and some senior managers.
The only task of these people at present is to keep an eye on the well-known manufacturing companies in Hong Kong and check all the data and information of these companies. After the oil crisis in the near future, Galaxy Holdings will inevitably start to acquire or invest in some manufacturing industries with potential and scale. Enterprises can directly enter this market. In this way, the efficiency will be greatly increased. Compared with building a company from beginning to end, it can save at least two years.
However, it does not mean that you will sell others if you want to acquire them. Generally speaking, you still need to select several companies and eventually capture one or two. Dozens of professionals at Galaxy Holdings are also trying their best to choose targets, of which two directions are the most important, namely factories that make beverages and food or factories that make electrical appliances.
Chen Zhiwen also became busy during this time, concentrating on reviewing the detailed information of various manufacturing companies submitted by his subordinates, which contained a large amount of data. Although he could not obtain the core secrets of these companies, as long as he spent some resources, he could get it from the port. While obtaining the export data of these companies, and through analysis by industry insiders and the size of the companies, we can roughly understand the situation.
The submitted information has been analyzed in detail, but it is still up to the boss, Chen Zhiwen, to decide which company to acquire.
When this information gradually became known to Chen Zhiwen, he realized that he had underestimated Hong Kong's manufacturing industry. Although Hong Kong's manufacturing industry has always been "low-end", this "low-end" is actually different from manufacturing industries such as RB, Europe and the United States. Compared with powerful countries, Hong Kong also has some companies that are not weak in strength.
For example, Johnson Electric, which mainly produces motors, sells its products to dozens of countries and is also a local supplier of RB Toyota; Global Electronics, which produces radios, produces more than 500,000 radios every month; Fashion Electronics, which mainly produces watches, Jibao Group produces millions of watches of all types every year. There are countless other light industries such as home appliance OEM and clothing OEM. There are also some large-scale companies that even have their own brands.
Although they all belong to the light industry, looking at the world, there are not many countries or regions that can provide complete light industry supporting facilities.
The most fundamental reason for this is that even the most basic light industry requires a large number of educated talents. In the past few decades, Hong Kong has done well in basic education. It is definitely among the best in Asia. In addition, many people from Many of the people who came to Hong Kong from the mainland were business elites, and the worst were literate, which naturally led to the rapid development of Hong Kong's industry.
However, Chen Zhiwen knew that the good days of Hong Kong industry were coming to an end. The local market was too small to cultivate a strong local manufacturing industry. He had to rely on foreign markets. The local area was small, there were few talents and there was a lack of fresh water, so heavy industry could not develop. Light industry without heavy industry is actually just a castle in the air.
In other places in Asia, such as South Korea and the Gulf, in the early 1960s, the scale of industrial exports was far less than that of Hong Kong, but by the 1970s, it had far surpassed it on a large scale. This was caused by the crushing population base. When basic education became popular in these places Eventually, Hong Kong’s advantages will be gone.
However, due to the rapid development of the global economy and the huge incremental market, Hong Kong, a region where the overall ratio has declined, is still developing at a high speed.
The upcoming oil crisis has destroyed the huge demand in the European and American markets. The exports of various countries have changed from incremental markets to stocks or even declines. Competition has become fierce immediately. All raw materials for Hong Kong's manufacturing industry are imported, and many are related to Petroleum has a strong relationship. The customer side and the supply side are attacked from both sides. Hong Kong's manufacturing industry will naturally be severely impacted.
"Dong dong dong..." A knock on the door sounded outside: "Sheng Chen, Mr. Qin Zhihao is here."
"Come in." Chen Zhiwen said.
"Sheng Chen." The person who came was a middle-aged man about 40 years old. He was slightly fat and wore a pair of black-rimmed glasses. When he smiled, he almost lost his eyesight.
"Old Qin, it's only been two months, why have you gained so much weight?" Chen Zhiwen put the information away and said with a smile: "It seems that the food in Thailand is good."
"It's not that the food is good, it's that I drank too many drinks, which made me sick to my stomach. These drinks are full of sugar. Do you think I can keep from getting fat?" Qin Zhihao said with a bitter smile.
"There are a lot of drinks over there in Thailand?" Chen Zhiwen asked.
"Yes, there are many. Coke is actually not very famous in Thailand. There are still some supermarkets in big cities. Outside of big cities, they are basically local drinks. There are too many varieties. On some roads, there are people making fresh iced drinks. The cost is much cheaper than Coke." Qin Zhihao said.
"Have you found the drink to relieve fatigue?" Chen Zhiwen asked with concern.
When people go to Thailand to look for drinks, they naturally want to find the originator of the energy drink brand that has not yet been born---Red Bull.
After traveling back to Hong Kong last year, although Chen Zhiwen has been living and drinking, when he has time, he still thinks about how to develop in the future. After combining the future knowledge in his mind and the information collected over several months, In the end, he decided to develop from the electronic field and the beverage and food field.
Of course, there is no need to consider the former. In a few years, the electronics industry will usher in a big explosion. Computers are just the beginning. A series of electronic products and software surrounding computers are countless super business opportunities. Even household appliances will begin to be updated, forming a There is a huge new market worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Entering the market at this time, although the technology may not be as good as that of various international companies, but you know the direction of development, and it is definitely not a problem to get a big share of the entire electronic and electrical industry.
The latter was an accidental opportunity. After a strenuous exercise, Chen Zhiwen thought of Red Bull and then remembered that Red Bull had not yet been born in 1972.
You must know that Red Bull beverage is the second largest beverage brand in the future after the two major colas. Discovering this vacancy, Chen Zhiwen naturally wanted to seize this opportunity.
However, in 1972, he had no money and could only plan. At the beginning of 1973, after cashing out the huge profits in the stock market, Chen Zhiwen began to make plans. The first thing he did was to register the Red Bull brand around the world and send people to Thailand to find this brand. Aspects of drinks.
"I found more than a dozen kinds of drinks. I feel like I can restore my physical strength after drinking them, but they all taste bad. The specific reasons need to be analyzed in the laboratory." Qin Zhihao said.
"Okay, let's start right away. I only have two requirements. The first is that it can restore physical strength, and the second is that it tastes good. It's not so sweet, but at least it can't be offensive." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.
Qin Zhihao was actually the first person he recruited. He was once an executive at a beverage factory under the Swire Group. He understood both technology and management. In the past six months, he also formed his own small team in Hong Kong and also set up a special team. The laboratory specializes in analyzing drinks brought back from Thailand.
Many samples had been brought back before, some of which also had a refreshing effect, but more or less had some shortcomings, so both sides worked hard at the same time. The Hong Kong side continued to research and improve, while Qin Zhihao went to Thailand again to look for new products. Variety of drinks.
"Okay, if that doesn't work, I will go to Thailand again." Qin Zhihao said.
