Even at the company, when no one is around, Dong Qing will still call Fang Lin by her name directly. Of course, when there are other people around, he will call her Secretary Fang.
Of course, Fang Lin would also call Dong Qing by his name when no one was around, which shows that their relationship was truly inseparable, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe them as siblings.
Fang Lin said okay, and then began to announce the start of the meeting.
Soon, several senior executives of the company entered the office, and Li Yuzhu also arrived. They walked to the sofa and sat down.
Dong Qing said, "Let's have a small meeting. I just received a call from Yun Huina, the factory manager of the garment factory. She invited me to dinner tonight to discuss an important matter. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be about negotiating the acquisition of the garment factory and sharing your thoughts."
Dong Ermei said, "The Municipal Garment Factory is a loss-making enterprise every year, and I do not agree with the acquisition of the Municipal Garment Factory."
Dong Qing said, "Go on, tell us your thoughts."
Dong Damei said, "I voted against it."
Dong Qing asked, "General Manager Gu, what's your take on this?"
Gu Yurou pondered for a moment and said, "If the chairman intends to acquire the garment factory, then there is a reason for you to acquire the garment factory as well. I will remain neutral."
Ultimately, Dongqing's three older sisters opposed the acquisition of the city's garment factory. Gu Yurou remained neutral, while Li Yuzhu remained silent. Dongqing asked, "Yuzhu, what's your opinion?"
Li Yuzhu said, "Don't listen to my opinion yet. We acquired the city's garment factory for profit. Putting aside whether the garment factory is a mess or not, tell everyone why you acquired it. Do you have a way to revive it?"
Li Yuzhu's words are the key point: before acquiring a mess, there must be rectification measures. If production continues in the old way after the acquisition, no one can revive the garment factory.
Dong Qing said, "We're eliminating all the old clothing designs from the garment factory, redesigning fashionable styles, and opening up new markets."
Li Yuzhu said, "We understand what you're saying, but that's the current level of designers. Men's clothing is either Zhongshan suits or Western suits, and women's clothing is limited to a few styles. To put it bluntly, the dresses and skirt suits they design don't look beautiful on women at all, let alone sexy."
Dong Qing said, "I'll handle the design after the acquisition."
Li Yuzhu asked, "Have you studied fashion design? Are you capable of it?"
Dong Qing said, "Do you think I'm not up to the task? It's settled then. I've decided to acquire the city's garment factory. Yu Zhu and Fang Lin, you two come with me to the hotel to meet Yun Huina. Meeting adjourned."
That's just Dong Qing's style of doing things. Everything he does is unpredictable, and he's decisive in his words and actions. No one can stop him from doing what he wants.
At six o'clock in the evening, Dong Qing and his wife entered Su Wei's hotel and saw Su Wei standing in the lobby on the first floor. She said that Yun Huina had arrived and had been arranged to go into a private room. She said, "Please come with me."
After listening, Dong Qing nodded and followed Su Wei into a private room on the second floor with his wife and Fang Lin.
Sitting in the private room was a woman in her forties. Although she was middle-aged, she had an outstanding presence and a leader-like demeanor.
This woman is quite a prominent figure in the city, and Dong Qing knows her easily; she is Yun Huina, the director of the city's garment factory.
She stood up and said with a smile, "I've been waiting for you all! Please have a seat."
Dong Qing, his wife, and Fang Lin sat down. He said, "Thank you for your hospitality, Director Yun. You can't possibly take time out of your busy schedule to treat us to a meal. I heard you say on the phone that you had something important to discuss. Please speak frankly."
In business, there's no need to beat around the bush. Being direct and straightforward makes the meal more enjoyable, which is exactly Dong Qing's personality.
Yun Huina said, "Chairman Dong is a very straightforward person. I'll just get straight to the point: are you interested in acquiring the city's garment factory?"
Dong Qing said, "To be frank, I'm just a businessman. I'll do business if there's business to be had, but I won't do business that doesn't make money. Everyone knows that the city's garment factory has been losing money year after year, and I really have no interest in that."
Yun Huina said, "Chairman, you're mistaken. The municipal machinery factory used to lose money every year, but after you took over, didn't you still turn it around and make a profit? You helped your sister-in-law acquire that bankrupt company, and didn't you manage to make it a success?"
After listening, Dong Qing remained silent for a long time before saying, "Tell me the terms of the sale."
Yun Huina said, "Putting aside the issue of selling, what do you think of me as a person?"
Dong Qing wasn't stupid; she understood what Yun Huina meant. Even after the garment factory was acquired, she still wanted to stay and become the factory manager. She needed to find a way out for herself.
Dong Qing knew Yun Huina quite well; she was a graduate of a prestigious university, where she studied business administration.
This woman has a good work ethic, unlike Yi Minghui who accepts gifts indiscriminately. She also has strong work capabilities. It's not entirely her fault that the clothing factory has been losing money year after year; the main problem is the lack of good clothing design. Clothing design in this era was all the same, especially women's clothing, which lacked any sense of fashion aesthetics.
In recent years, clothing designers have simply followed other people's products without being able to design their own novel fashion styles.
However, clothing in this era was all trademarked, so people generally dared not imitate it directly. They would alter the clothing style to the point of being riddled with holes, ultimately losing the purpose of imitation.
If clothing factories produce garments according to someone else's style, it will be considered illegal counterfeiting and may be considered an infringement of someone else's trademark rights. In such cases, they will be subject to legal sanctions, so clothing factories have never dared to do that.
The city's garment factory was losing money mainly because it lacked good design technology, and this couldn't really be entirely blamed on Yun Huina. Thinking of this, Dong Qing said, "After the garment factory is acquired, you can continue to serve as the factory manager, and I will also provide you with a personal car."
Yun Huina, despite being the factory manager of a large enterprise, still commutes to work by bicycle. She said, "To be honest, whether I become the factory manager after the garment factory is acquired is irrelevant. I mainly admire you and want to work for you; that's all I ask for."
Yun Huina spoke from the heart. After the garment factory was acquired, she would still be a leading cadre even if she was transferred elsewhere, at most she would be demoted.
However, the factory managers under Yusheng Company now all have cars. She herself is just a factory manager of a municipal garment factory, but now she is not as good as the factory managers of Yusheng Company's subsidiaries. This is the main reason why she wants to join a private enterprise.
The garment factory has too many unsold garments and was forced to close for the month. She had to think about all the factory's employees, even if it meant putting herself first. She consulted with her superiors and decided to sell the garment factory to provide dinner for the workers.
The garment factory itself was a loss-making unit. After the higher-level leaders held a meeting to discuss it, they agreed to sell the municipal garment factory. This afternoon, the approval document for the sale of the garment factory was delivered to the factory. So, I asked Dongqing to come out tonight to discuss this matter.
Dong Qing said, "Since Director Yun thinks so highly of me, I'll hold a board meeting tomorrow to finalize this matter. After the board approves it, I'll send someone to your factory to take over."
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