Wang Wei and Yi Hailiang both had the same thought at the same time:
It's true what they say, when one door closes, another opens! The investment deal fell through, but the distributors came along!
Afterwards, Wang Wei personally went to see Lu Fan and gave him the quotations from the four companies for review.
Lu Fan frowned:
"Huh? How did you negotiate? The other party's bottom line is so low. Such a big company is actually offering us such good profits and terms?"
Despite being four companies in business competition, they somehow managed to agree on some of the most important details of their collaboration.
Moreover, even the smaller distributors, whose strength is far inferior to these four companies, are making profits of 70% to 80% or more.
But now these four companies are actually offering discounts of 50% to 60%.
There was also a steady flow of payments, and no other unexpected issues; accounts were settled monthly.
They didn't seem to be here to do business; they seemed to be here to do charity.
Wang Wei nodded suspiciously as she listened to Lu Fan's question:
"Yes, these are all details negotiated by the representatives of those companies. Some of them were agreed to without us even asking."
Such a favorable contract is something that even Wang Wei, let alone Lu Fan, still finds hard to believe.
Wang Wei pondered:
"Actually, I inquired about these distributors with some friends afterward."
"Apart from those large enterprises, other partners do not offer such favorable cooperation terms. I don't know what happened this time."
Lu Fan suspected something was amiss, and Wang Wei even more so; the threats made by Shengjing Company just half a month ago were still ringing in her ears.
Now, such a generous contract is coming to our door in person; it looks like a trap no matter how you look at it.
That's why Wang Wei brought the contract and came to Lu Fan for advice.
You can't figure anything out just by imagining things out of thin air.
Lu Fan then asked about the live stream:
"I heard that your sales department has started to engage in external liaison, asking popular livestreamers from various platforms to help write reviews of our products?"
Besides promoting themselves on their own live streaming platform, Wang Wei is not satisfied.
While continuing to mobilize the sales department to distribute goods, they also used personal connections to contact the management of those media platforms.
As a result, the progress of product distribution is far behind the sales volume of live streaming, leading to situations in various regions where people want to buy these products, but local supermarkets cannot find them at all.
Wang Wei briefly introduced the current supply ratio and the progress of subsequent distribution:
"This situation won't last long."
"Besides these four major distributors, there are actually some smaller companies that have extended offers to us."
"It's just that the four major companies offered the most favorable terms. Before you, Mr. Lu, rejected them, I stopped contacting the managers of those smaller companies. Lu Fan and Wang Wei were worried that these four companies were a trap."
The conditions are good, but if the wrong partner is chosen and the company falls into this trap, the current foundation could be destroyed in an instant.
However, only Lu Fan and Wang Wei had such concerns.
Everyone else thought they were worrying too much.
If it were truly Shengjing Company's retaliation, there wouldn't be such favorable conditions waiting for them.
Lu Fan's main concern was that if he handed over the exclusive agency rights to an external distributor, the distributor would hold him hostage.
What's worrisome is that the other party ostensibly wants to supply you with goods, but in reality, they're preventing your products from being listed.
But the experienced workers in the factory had a good point:
"Isn't Shengjing Company going to extreme lengths to rip off a small factory like ours, which is far inferior to theirs?"
This one sentence dispelled Lu Fan's concerns.
Yes, why use a sledgehammer to crack a nut?
The people at Shengjing Company couldn't be that stupid.
Lu Fan then handed the contract to Lü Qiuyi for review:
"Check these terms for any loopholes and give me a reply as soon as possible." The matter with Shengjing Company is only half resolved, with no follow-up.
Lu Fan was still figuring out when the other side would make their move when another incident occurred at the factory.
It's not that there are any loopholes within their own organization.
Rather, it's because production has increased, and Lu Fan's team is requesting that Yi Hailiang's workshop replace the equipment.
Although it's all about putting old wine in new bottles, using the same product with a different brand name is also a marketing strategy.
The previous 500 ml has been upgraded to 1 liter, along with several other sizes.
This has little impact on the production capacity of soy sauce factories.
As it turns out, this time the one who got into trouble was a foreigner.
The new assignment was given to another state-owned enterprise within the same factory area, Nanshan Printing Factory.
The soy sauce factory's original printing equipment was outdated and unreliable, which greatly affected production.
Meanwhile, the factory is working overtime to increase production capacity. The manufacturing equipment is already large and takes up a lot of space, so there is no spare factory space to invest in printing presses.
Fortunately, there was a printing factory in the same area, which had already taken several orders from Lu Fan.
The printing factory that is now in trouble is this very printing factory.
There used to be a saying in Nanshan City that once the printing factory started operating, tens of thousands of taels of gold would roll in.
While there may be some exaggeration involved, it does demonstrate how profitable this printing factory is.
Back then, there were over a thousand printing factories in Nanshan City, employing a total of 200,000 people.
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