Lying there and staring at the beautiful chandelier above his head, he answered, "Okay, if we go to France, we can just arrange a meal with Madame Hermès and Mr. Yves Saint Laurent. Every time we meet, they always ask me to say hello to you on their behalf. It would be better for you to discuss the alliance with them in person."

"Then I'll talk to them in person. It's good for everyone. In fact, whether you say it or I say it, the result will be the same. There's no reason for them to disagree."

"I think so too...leaving in the afternoon?"

"Well, when the new plane arrives, it will take off after inspection. I have already contacted United Airlines and they will help me arrange the route."

They are discussing forming an alliance among several luxury brands to compete with their peers such as Chanel and Louis Vuitton. They are planning to open new stores in a cluster to create an invisible influence and achieve barrier-free communication on internal information such as customer flow, sales amount, and advertising effectiveness to avoid wasting money.

Han Chudong holds shares in companies including Christian Dior. Since there is a basis for forming an alliance, there is no need to consume each other. Acting in unison can help them seize more market share.

These shares, together with the shares in Cheval Blanc and Romanee-Conti, together constitute a new company called "Mason Boutique Group", which is affiliated to Mason United Group, with unified scheduling and joint management. Its headquarters is located in Los Angeles and moved into a brand new office building today, occupying two full floors.

Han Chudong lazily got up and went to the window to look out. He could see a small park and a city hall. The environment was not very good, but the location was quite good. He could just make do with it for the time being until he had the spare money to build a more high-end office building.

The entire top floor was his private apartment, and downstairs was a private office designed as a small library, with a large space for the staff in the secretary's office.

Further down are the office floors of several companies. The reception on the first floor is decorated exceptionally luxuriously. After Han Chudong took over this unfinished building last year, it was redesigned and the entire building has been raised by more than one level. The total investment was as high as 20 million US dollars. Even the walls of the toilets are covered with marble.

Many employees came to visit in advance, and they all knew that it was more comfortable to work here. So while Han Chudong and Mochizuki Kyoko were getting cozy in the new house, various things were being moved downstairs in full swing. Under the arrangement of the company's supervisors, new desks were being assigned to the employees.

Company information, printers, coffee machines and other items were also transported downstairs by truck. It was only a few hundred meters away from the office building that was rented at the time, so it was estimated that everything could be done today.

Most large companies have a grand office building.

The name of "Mason United Group" is currently hanging on the edge of the rooftop. Although the building is not very eye-catching and is just okay, Han Chudong recently became the world's richest man, which can add some impression points in the eyes of others.

Recently, news related to this building has been reported in newspapers, calling it low-key and mysterious, as if the secret of Han Chudong's sudden wealth is hidden in the building.

There are not many secrets, and the newly built archive room has added a lot of security guards, and standardized the process of searching archives. Last month, an unknown writer used the gimmick of revealing secrets to write an article about Han Chudong, and the detailed sales data of facial mask paper and mango toys appeared in the article. These materials should be kept strictly confidential, and several archive room employees and an intern accountant were fired for this.

In fact, Han Chudong was not sure whether there were any traitors among the people who were fired. There were so many unreliable people in the company anyway. Instead of investigating them one by one and making everyone panic, it would be better to prevent the leakage of internal documents from the source. Until recently, security training activities were still being carried out, especially for Baofeng Electric, which was about to go public.

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As the first company personally nurtured by Han Chudong and about to go public, potential competitors of Baofeng Electric are popping up all over the United States like mushrooms after a rain.

Many electrical appliance merchants unscrupulously copied and learned the business philosophy and management model of Baofeng Electric, trying to use it to build their own home appliance sales network. The reason for this situation is that Baofeng Electric's expansion speed is not fast enough, and there are still many blank markets.

In the past two months alone, Baofeng Appliances has acquired two of its competitors at high prices and added more than 30 chain appliance malls.

The threshold for entry is too low, and retailers such as Walmart are also facing similar problems. However, whether in terms of operating costs or management team, Baofeng Electric, which has developed better and earlier, has an advantage over most of its peers, so it will not be afraid of anyone when competing.

Joe Austin, the former head of Baofeng Electric, has officially joined the JC Penney Group. With the funds from this giant enterprise, he is currently on the road of expansion starting from small and medium-sized towns.

The name of all the stores is Penney Electric. They don’t pay any attention to the decoration inside the store and the store area is relatively small. However, in just half a year, the store has expanded to more than 100 stores, with a considerable average sales volume.

Having worked under Han Chudong for so long, he naturally knew where Baofeng Electric's weaknesses lay. First, it did not pay attention to third- and fourth-tier cities. Second, the store rental costs were too high. Especially after it recently started to switch from renting to buying, the cost of opening a store has skyrocketed.

It was under such circumstances that Penney Appliances, headed by Joe Austin, used large amounts of capital to enter the blank market.

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Speaking of the reason why this former executive changed his job, Han Chudong had heard some news. It was said that Joe Austin took the initiative to contact the chairman of the Penney Group, and after offering advice and suggestions, he got 3% of the shares and an annual salary of more than 200,000 US dollars. So he jumped from Baofeng Electric without hesitation and did not come back at the beginning of the year.

When doing business, such troubles happen almost every day. The other party poached people from Baofeng Electric, and Han Chudong was also poaching people from Penny Electric. The two sides were in a hostile competitive relationship, and their goal was to pursue profit.

Not wanting to give J.C. Penney an easy time, Baofeng Electric, which is about to complete its layout in first- and second-tier cities, is also using its eight large logistics and warehousing centers across the United States to expand into small and medium-sized cities. The focus of the competition is none other than several populous states such as California, New York, and Florida.

Just when Han Chudong went downstairs to inspect the relocation work, he learned that Joe Austin wanted to talk to him face to face to discuss avoiding conflicts and dividing up the territory.

At this moment, Han Chudong didn't think about it and replied directly: "Reconciliation is an issue that will be brought to the table for discussion when the two sides are evenly matched. Tell that guy that Penney Appliances is not qualified, and Joe Austin is even less qualified..."