Chapter 518: Suing United Corporation
There were voices of dissent when making this decision, but to the boss of the joint company, such dissent was almost non-existent. The more advantageous the company is, the more it will take advantage of the sluggish industry to achieve a monopoly position.
Now is not the time to raise prices just because of a fire, power outage or a fart, because in the cross-field, the joint company does not have the same position as the Samsung Group. The current stage is to take advantage of the bad market conditions to expand production and force competitors to death.
When it comes to occupying the market, low price has always been a very good means. There is no need to learn from others. Just think back to the development history of Penguin Games, and Sheffield will benefit a lot.
No matter how many sentiments you have, they are not as useful as free ones. This is the fundamental reason why Penguin Games defeated a bunch of giants before. The game market was actually corrupted before Penguin entered the market. Game manufacturers with innovative consumption models such as Giant and Shanda killed earlier game manufacturers by relying on plug-ins and piracy.
Piracy can be equated with free games. In the eyes of players from Giant and Shanda, free games are the biggest benefit. In the end, the earlier stand-alone game manufacturers were forced to have no way out. In the end, domestic stand-alone game manufacturers even had to seek sympathy for publicity.
When Penguin Games entered the market, Shanda, Giant and other manufacturers were having the best time. The standards of these manufacturers at that time were the same as those of a pig farm: you pay and I am still your father.
But Penguin Games has a huge number of users, but its attitude is more open than those manufacturers. If you pay, you are my boss. If you don't pay, it doesn't matter. You can still play the game. Penguin has a huge number of users, and it has pulled many users who didn't play games into the game circle, so it doesn't have to plunder like Shanda and Giant.
This is the reason why Penguin Games dominates the market. If you think about it carefully, Penguin Games does not have any games that require krypton gold. They have always been better than other manufacturers. The problem is the early copycat problem. Sheffield couldn't figure out how a group of manufacturers who represented foreign games had the nerve to say that Penguin Games was copycatting and destroying the market. When they represented foreign games and killed the earlier local game manufacturers, they didn't say that.
Some people may think that if Penguin Games fails, the huge number of game users will belong to them. The problem is that the huge number of Penguin Games users are actually their own. It was only when Penguin started to focus on games that they became game users. They have nothing to do with other game manufacturers from the beginning to the end.
The history of the development of games in the Republic is a process in which a group of foreign game agents, with their freeloaders, defeated local game manufacturers. Then they encountered Penguin, which had a larger user base, and defeated them as well.
In fact, few of the users who abuse Penguin Games have seen the chaos in the gaming industry earlier.
Sheffield now feels that the Gunpowder Field United Company is almost at the stage where Penguin Games is entering the market to sweep away all the monsters and demons. After killing DuPont, it will probably also be treated like Penguin Games. Maybe someone will even sing praises for DuPont by then.
If DuPont was squeezed out, even if someone sang praises for the loser, the slave owner would accept it. It's not uncommon to see people kneeling on the ground and punching hard. When it comes to saving money, few people are willing to pay for sentimentality.
This is especially true for Lei Jun. Kingsoft WPS was Lei Jun's true conscientious work in his early years. However, facing Microsoft's unconditional piracy, no one was willing to fight against Microsoft and pay for Kingsoft's hard work. As a result, Kingsoft WPS almost caused Kingsoft to go bankrupt.
Later, he established a grain factory to manufacture mobile phones. Although it had the most minor defects and the worst quality control among the four major factories, it relied on low prices to make a voice that did not match the market share. At that time, Lei Jun was no longer the same person who fought against Microsoft in the early years. He best reflected that it was better to cling to the good days of Qualcomm than to truly work on technology to fight against strong enemies.
Now that the political situation is favorable to the United Company and there is the additional boost of declining economic demand, Sheffield's price war this time is much more aggressive than before when the economy was booming.
The managers of related industries expressed great pressure, and Sheffield sent a telegram directly, "All benefits will not be affected by this year's losses. As a comprehensive company, there are other departments to help you share the risks. You must believe in the strength of the entire joint company. Once the opponent disappears, everything you do today will be extremely important to the development of the joint company."
The factories in New Jersey working overtime showed Sheffield's determination. The joint company announced that due to a series of problems such as raw materials, it would adopt a price reduction strategy. At the same time, the purchase price of raw materials remained unchanged. The anti-market behavior of bearing all costs by itself won unanimous cheers from related manufacturers, except for the DuPont consortium.
The DuPont family certainly realized that the price war initiated by United was aimed at them.
Even Morgan Jr., who was watching the fight, understood this. He was not sure what the outcome of the fight between the two big companies would be. Although the strength of the United Company was obviously stronger than that of the United Company, Morgan Jr. believed that it would not be easy to completely defeat a company like the DuPont family, which was the emperor of Delaware.
At DuPont's headquarters in Delaware, Pierre DuPont was at a loss as he looked at the figures produced by the finance department. He said, "Try to use raw materials that our family controls to reduce costs."
DuPont was not completely powerless in the price war, as Sheffield had already launched one a few years ago. It was also true that the economic environment was different. At that time, the national economy was in a bubble and speculators were rampant. It can be said that the United Company's move of killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred of its own did not make the DuPont family feel a crisis.
This time is obviously more dangerous than the last time. Both the political and economic environments are much worse, and it seems that the strength of the United Company is even greater than last time.
At the DuPont family meeting, Pierre DuPont analyzed the current situation with important members of the family with a serious face. Facing the friendly attention from the South, the whole family needed to unite.
According to Pierre DuPont's idea, the DuPont family should come up with a detailed response plan for the company within two days. The reason for introducing the plan is, naturally, to concentrate all forces on the issue of life and death of this family. At this time, any extravagance and waste are unacceptable.
As a family with a cohesive force far exceeding that of ordinary companies, Pierre DuPont now hopes that all the holding companies of the DuPont family can be mobilized to jointly deal with this crisis. Although the enemy is powerful, we are also a comprehensive company and have a lofty status in Delaware.
Pierre Dupont's suggestion was supported by important family members and some managers. Everyone knew that this turmoil was coming with great force and should be dealt with seriously.
There was even a suggestion that they should create some chaos and attack some factories in New Jersey to disrupt the opponent's layout. New Jersey is not far from Delaware, but it is far away from Texas, the headquarters of the United Company. With this geographical advantage, it should not be difficult to attack.
This idea had actually occurred to Pierre Dupont, and he had even implemented a similar idea many years ago in Chicago. The result of that military action made Pierre Dupont realize that in the field of using force, it was not only the Dupont family that was professional in the United States, but the remnants of the Confederacy were also very professional.
He didn't think that some of the thugs died in unclear circumstances because the gas was not turned off in winter, resulting in poisoning.
Another suggestion is more gentle and has greater symbolic significance, which is to sue the United Company in Delaware for unfair competition and then quickly make a judgment in favor of the case. Create a precedent in case law, and then sue the federal government's Department of Justice, pretending to fight to the death, to see if Sheffield can stop.
Given the DuPont family's position in Delaware, it was not difficult for them to get the state court to make a ruling in their favor. As long as a case law precedent was set, they could also drag the United Company into the water at the federal government level.
It will depend on whether Sheffield will feel the pain at that time. If the slave owner knew that this proposal was made at the DuPont family meeting these days, he would definitely be very surprised. It turns out that the DuPont family is also a master in the Seven Wound Fist world. It is really disrespectful.
Pierre Dupont showed great interest in this idea and nodded, "Contact the lawyers now and announce tomorrow that we will sue United Company for unfair competition."
The DuPont family lived up to their status as the emperor of Delaware and showed great efficiency in this matter. A day later, the news that the DuPont Consortium sued the Sheffield United Company was on the pages of major newspapers.
It was only then that Sheffield learned that his company had been sued by another notorious company in Delaware, a distant east coast state. To be honest, this operation was something the slave owner had never expected.
When they encounter a weak enemy, they use homemade planes to attack, and when they encounter a strong enemy, they appeal to the sacred law? Listening to the butler's narration, Sheffield pinched his waist, his face looked like he was suffering from constipation, and said, "I even thought that someone might blow up the factory. But I really didn't expect to be sued by such a rogue company."
The Seven Injury Fist actually hit itself. Does DuPont really have no idea about its own company’s dark history?
(End of this chapter)
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