The Industrial Giant Reborn.

Chapter 522 BOE’s future plans
As early as 1982, there was an opportunity to acquire KFC. In the 70s, although KFC was developing well, the parent company behind it was affected by the oil crisis and the financial crisis and suffered serious losses, so it could only transfer KFC's employees. This makes it difficult for KFC to develop even if it wants to develop. In the end, it has to resort to large-scale franchises. As a result, the quality of franchisees always has problems, which affects KFC's reputation.McDonald's, which is also a Western-style fast food chain, spends eight times more money on expansion than KFC in a year. In addition, its scale is larger, so KFC has no advantage at all.

By 1982, the parent company behind KFC couldn't bear it anymore and finally packaged up all its businesses and sold them to a company called Huberline.

Pierce, the general manager of Costco, also knew the CEO of KFC at the time, and asked Chen Zhiwen if he should consider acquiring the company, because Chen Zhiwen had expressed his interest in KFC in front of Pierce once.

It's just that in 82, Disney and Land had not yet been acquired. AMC in the automobile industry was also burning money. Although KFC would have high profits in the future, it was not in a hurry because other companies that needed to be acquired were There is a time limit, if you miss it, it will be gone, and KFC will not matter, so there is no need to waste your money so early.

And this Huberline is actually a company specializing in the alcohol business. The acquisition of KFC was completely inexplicable, and the subsequent operations were naturally not good.

By 1987, KFC will be sold to Pepsi. From this point of view, this year or two will be his window. Otherwise, if they are acquired by Pepsi, with their scale, even if they are not as good as Chen Zhiwen, there is nothing Chen Zhiwen can do. Forcefully acquire other people's subsidiaries when they are not short of funds.

"Is that the time to go to the Olympics this time?" Liu Xiaoli asked.

"Yes, the Olympics are relatively long, so I will only watch some sports that interest me, and forget about other times. But if you want to watch, you can watch the whole process." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.Even people who love sports cannot like all sports. Relatively speaking, Chen Zhiwen only likes basketball, football, and other sports. If there are powerful Chinese participating, you can also watch them.

"I like gymnastics." Liu Xiaoli said.

"Okay, I'll go watch with you then." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said. Gymnastics is indeed the strength of the Chinese. Especially in this Olympics, the prince of gymnastics Li Ning can be said to be a global sensation, and this person will also be a member of the mainland business community in the future. One of the top figures in the world, not to mention business interests, but from a personal perspective, Chen Zhiwen also wanted to meet him.

"Great." Liu Xiaoli said happily: "Is that KFC better than this one?"

In order to keep in shape, after arriving in Hong Kong, she had to resist the temptation of many delicious foods. This was a bit too difficult. Later, she asked the nutritionist arranged by Chen Zhiwen for her and found out that if she wanted to keep in shape or lose weight, she had to know Some general knowledge, such as why people become fat or thin, the most basic logic is that there is a gap between the food calories absorbed and consumed.

As long as you know a person's approximate daily energy consumption and the calories of daily food, and do some calculations, you will have an idea.What she knows is that among meat foods, chicken is better, and because of its good taste, she likes it. However, when it comes to fried chicken, you still need to consider the heat of the oil, but it can be controlled.

"It should taste better than this, but no matter which one you eat, you can't eat too much. The food we eat at home every day is the best." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

"Oh." Liu Xiaoli nodded and said.

After a while, everyone finished eating the fried chicken nuggets happily. However, because the weather was a little hot, after eating the spicy chicken nuggets, everyone bought another bottle of water, which made the fried chicken stall owner again. Made a small profit.

After it was almost done, everyone returned to the place where they started before heading back home. They came here just to take a look. Only in 86, when it is scheduled to be completed, would there be anything new to see.

In the original history, the Yanjing International Trade Center was signed at the end of 84, construction started in 85, and was not completed until 90. However, that was because the original investor, Robert Kuok, had limited funds. Although he could provide the funds, he still had to To balance his own business, the construction speed is not fast, but now it is Chen Zhiwen who invests. He doesn't care about the financial problem, he just builds it quickly. Once the money is in place, the entire construction site has people and machines shut down 24 hours a day.

You know, in Shenhai City, a miracle of building one floor in three days was once created. Although that was also for the purpose of "creating a miracle", many things were already prepared, but this is enough to show that domestic speed is not a problem at all. Of course, The floors, area, and specifications of Yanjing International Trade Center are much better than ordinary office buildings in Shenhai City. It was also designed by Mr. Bei Jinming.

The construction plan and speed were also approved by Mr. Bei Jinming and some domestic construction experts. It will take three years, including the preliminary foundation and building decoration, and will be inspected by foreign inspection companies in the future.

Both Chen Zhiwen and the mainland hope that these buildings can be completed as soon as possible. The former hopes to collect rents as soon as possible and start building the second phase at the same time. The latter hopes that they can be used to receive foreign parties after they are completed as soon as possible. As a guest of major economic cooperation, it can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

The next day after returning to the hotel, Lei Shengli came and brought some information about Yanjing No. [-] Electronics Factory. "Have you prepared your future development plan so quickly?" Chen Zhiwen saw the title on the first page and said with a smile.

In fact, for a factory with current sales of only tens of millions of yuan, under normal circumstances, Chen Zhiwen would not bother to ask questions at all. Even if Yanjing City came forward, it would only be a matter of one sentence to give the government face, invest some money or give some orders. You need to spend time on this, just let your hands go.

However, this is the future BOE, and the future BOE team will also be within it, which makes Chen Zhiwen pay attention. You must know that Chen Zhiwen’s prophetic golden finger can be very effective for some creative products, such as games, software, Even Red Bull, which has the first-mover advantage, once successful, it will be difficult for others to catch up.

But the same cannot be said for products with high technical content, such as chips and liquid crystals. Even if Chen Zhiwen finds a direction, it will be useless. It is difficult for you to make them. These require a very rich technical foundation. Of course, it costs a little. You can also try, for example, the current chip and LCD factories in Hong Kong may be one thing, but it is another thing to surpass others or maintain an advantage for a long time, because the existence of Moore's Law determines that this industry is very complicated, not only It’s about capital but also about technology. Midea, which is located in Hong Kong, cannot compete with those in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea. Therefore, the chip-LCD industry established in the past few years, although the equipment has been updated once in the middle, still cannot keep up with the pace. , fortunately, it is currently only supplying to the home appliance industry, so it is not a problem.

Of course, purchasing chips and LCDs from overseas also takes into account the need to maintain certain trade factors. Otherwise, it will definitely not last long if we only make money from others without making money for others.

Since you are not capable of doing it yourself, then invest in people who are capable of doing it. In the field of chips, he has already invested in TSMC. In the field of liquid crystal, the best target is naturally BOE. However, Chen Zhiwen does not know who the veterans who founded BOE were. , but there is a high probability that it is already inside Yanjing No. [-] Electronics Factory.

"Don't you dare to displease them if you speak personally? I guess the top leaders of Yanjing City will have to hurry up." Lei Shengli said with a smile, not to mention Chen Zhiwen, if he said that he wanted to invest in a company, the local government would probably We need to take it very seriously. Midea’s current scale means that many overseas countries have to look up to it.

"Have you read the contents?" Chen Zhiwen asked after turning the first page.

"I've seen it." Lei Shengli nodded and said: "The idea of ​​the First Electronics Factory is to continue to develop the previously failed project, which is the signal transmitter for color TVs, after obtaining sufficient funds. They also believe that the future of color TVs will TV sets must be a very big market," Lei Shengli said.

"Signal transmitter? Can the previous RCA make this thing?" Chen Zhiwen asked. RCA was once the largest TV seller and manufacturer in the United States. It later declined, but its heritage is still there, and its technical reserves in all aspects are still relatively good. substantial.

"Yes, we built the factory in Wanwan ourselves. This time we plan to build a large factory in China, which also includes this." Lei Shengli said, the boss may not be clear, but he can't. After acquiring RCA, he But it took a lot of effort to understand it. Later, He Guoyuan took over Midea's home appliance business and often communicated with him on these issues.

"Well, you can't provide for us anymore." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

"It's not a problem if we give them some orders, but the quality needs to be strictly controlled." Lei Shengli said again. Of course he could see that the boss wanted to invest in this company and save it. Although he didn't know why, he didn't Obstacles can be said in passing.

"No need for the time being. The direction of this plan is good, but we can't just look at the direction. I also said that aviation can make money, but if it can't be done, it will be in vain." Chen Zhiwen shrugged and said: "Assign professional people to conduct a strict review and see Look at how their technology is, and look at the management as well. If there is a possibility of rectification, then Midea will come forward and invest a sum of money to save the company first.

As for this signal transmitter, if it is really developed, let them supply it to other domestic brands first. If there is no problem, then they will supply it to us. "

History has changed. It seems a bit difficult to expect First Electronics Factory to survive until the 90s before a savior emerges and establishes BOE, and then invests in it. After all, the entire 80s was the beginning of his large-scale deployment in the mainland. It has a huge impact on the entire electronics industry.

If the veterans of BOE are really capable in the future, they will most likely seize the opportunity of Midea to enter the country and leave. Then I will not know where to find these people. So, the easiest way at present is, That is to stabilize Yanjing No. 80 Electronics Factory first, and neither let it die nor live well. Theoretically speaking, there were still relatively few people who dared to leave stable state-owned enterprises in the [-]s. Even if BOE’s veterans are among them in the future, they can leave If there are not many, the impact will not be big.

As for how to get these people to the top in the future, it can only be through high requirements for the First Electronics Factory and forcing capable people to realize their potential. As long as their abilities are improved, Chen Zhiwen should be able to find out if he sends more people to pay attention.

Of course, this kind of thing cannot be said to be 100% successful, or even a high probability. It can only be said to be a try. Anyway, the investment is not large. Even if it is lost, the current location of the First Electronics Factory and the The land will not be lost.

(End of this chapter)