Chapter 992: Miss Wang Wants to Open a Women's Clothing Store
"This is Mr. Hu, the representative of TX, this is Mr. Zhong from Yunli Group, and this is Mr. Yang from Tianrun Group."
Several people came to the small conference room. Qi Liang, as half the protagonist, gave a brief introduction to both parties and reiterated the important terms of Mingpinhui's financing.
In this round of financing for Mingpinhui, TX Group and Tianrun Group invested 200 million each and acquired 10% of the shares respectively. Yunli Group, which has a brand advantage, invested 250 million and acquired 12% of the shares.
Among the original shareholders, Hua Xia Fengwu invested an additional 100 million yuan and its shares dropped from 45% to 40%. JD Mall, which did not make any additional investment, saw its shares dropped from 45% to 20%. As the general manager, Jiang Minchi's shares dropped from 10% to 8%.
Through this round of financing, Mingpinhui once again obtained 750 million yuan in funds, and also indirectly obtained cooperation intentions from nearly 180 brands, which can be said to be a win-win situation for everyone.
If Quanpinhui doesn't make any big moves, just this time, Mingpinhui will be able to leave its competitors far behind and completely establish its No. 1 position in the discount sales industry.
“It’s been a pleasure working with you.”
“It’s been a pleasure working with you.”
Soon, after the legal departments of their respective companies confirmed the contract, the representatives of the three companies all signed their names, and the staff presented champagne to celebrate.
"Mr. Zhou, I would like to ask why your company refused to merge our company's Pipi.com into Mingpinhui?"
After the contracts were collected by special personnel, the formal atmosphere disappeared. Mr. Hu from TX came to the young wealthy man who was really in charge, holding a red wine glass in his hand and asked his doubts.
In fact, in the initial negotiations, TX intended to merge its online shopping platform Pipi.com into Mingpinhui. While saving money and gaining more shares, it also added a considerable amount of traffic to Mingpinhui, which can be said to be a complementary win-win situation.
However, this proposal was directly rejected by Mingpinhui.
According to the information they have obtained, this is the opinion of Mr. Zhou, the behind-the-scenes helmsman of Hua Xia Fengwu Investment. The meaning behind this is worth pondering.
"Your company's Pipi.com has a lot of traffic, but there is not much overlap with Mingpinhui's discount sales business. After the merger, Mingpinhui's original discount sales brand scale will not increase much, which is a pity for Pipi.com, which has a lot of traffic."
Hearing the question from the middle-aged Mr. Hu, Zhou Anan answered in a tactful and official tone.
In fact, he just looked down on Pipi.com.
Although TX has huge traffic support, it is always suppressed by Ali and JD.
You can still hear some noise nowadays, but after more than ten years, there is almost no news at all. It can be said that he is a transparent person in the online shopping industry.
You know, when Pipi.com was first established, it claimed to be the best in the industry, but what happened?
The most important thing is that they have investigated and found that the shopping praise rate of Pipi.com is lower than that of Ali's TB.com, which is really too bad.
At present, TB.com's daily turnover is breaking through step by step, and the daily goods trading volume is extremely large, but the quality of goods has been criticized by many consumers. Pipi.com, which has a much lower sales volume, can achieve a lower praise rate than TB.com, which is also a talent.
If such an online shopping platform were to be merged into Mingpinhui, Zhou Anan was really worried that Mingpinhui's reputation would decline instead of improve, not to mention hoping to increase traffic through this merger.
With Mingpinhui's current reputation and traffic, as long as it moves forward steadily, continuously wins inventory sales cooperation with new brands, and ensures good after-sales service and logistics speed, it is not an exaggeration to become the number one in the industry in the future.
Why take the risk? It would be better to get some real money from TX.
"Boss Hu, Boss Zhou was embarrassed to say it, so I said it for him. Your company's Pipi.com is not very good."
Zhong Yunli, chairman of Yunli Group, came over and joked with a smile.
As one of the top industrialists in Jiang Province, Zhong Yunli naturally has the capital to joke in front of Mr. Hu from TX, not to mention that what she said was not wrong.
"Sister Li, you're exaggerating."
Unexpectedly, Miss Zhong came to add fuel to the fire. Zhou Anan couldn't help but deny it.
Although it was what he really thought, it was not nice to say that other people's things were bad in front of others.
"Haha, Mr. Zhou, don't mind it. What Ms. Zhong said is also true. Even I myself feel that Pipi.com is not that good. The group headquarters has poured so many resources into it, but there is no achievement. Otherwise, we wouldn't want to take this opportunity to give it a new lease of life."
Mr. Hu smiled heartily and showed great generosity.
This is not the first or second time that TX has cooperated with this young CEO. The topic of each other often comes up at the group's board meetings. Mai Jiachan highly praises him and has a great liking for this outstanding young man.
Otherwise, they would not have taken the initiative to raise the amount after receiving the financing invitation from Mingpinhui and drove out the potential competitor Ali.
"Mr. Hu is so modest."
Hearing the other party's self-deprecation, Zhou Anan, who deeply agreed with the other party, was unable to comment further and could only speak vaguely.
If it was the more familiar Mr. Mai, he would speak frankly and it would not affect their friendship, but this was the first time they had dealt with Mr. Hu.
The reason for rejecting Ali's financing was not because the other party could not accept the financing price, but because the other party's daily style did not conform to Zhou Anan's philosophy.
When cooperating with Ali, the other party will try every means to turn the company into the Ali system and direct traffic into the Ali system, and then they will not care whether the subsequent development is good or bad.
Relatively speaking, Zhou Anan appreciates TX's consistent non-controlling cooperation approach.
"Mr. Zhou, the supermarket we're working with is almost ready for inspection. When can we go take a look together?"
After they talked for a while, Yang Su, a representative of Tianrun Group, came over and spoke to the young CEO, indirectly bringing the two closer together.
The supermarket that the two of them cooperated on in their hometown of Lizhou can be considered a good bond.
"That's great. When Mr. Yang is free, I will definitely accompany you."
Looking at the beautiful lady from Taiwan Province in front of him, Zhou Anan clinked glasses with her, without any alienation in their words.
Compared to the time when the two of them met in the Bamboo Garden, it has been quite a while. In fact, they knew each other much earlier than Miss Zhong.
As usual, after having dinner with several partners, Zhou Anan remembered the costume that Liu Feifei wore for the first Condor Goddess two years ago that she had seen on the Internet, and she was quite looking forward to tonight's arrangements.
“The brightest star in the night sky.”
Hearing the familiar ringtone, Zhou Anan, who had just gotten in the car, took out her phone and thought about switching to the English song she listened to a few days ago. She looked at the number displayed on the screen and immediately picked up the phone: "Hello, young lady."
"Go to Beishan Street."
After hanging up the phone, Zhou Anan talked to the driver in front, Xiao Ping, and temporarily changed the itinerary.
"An An, come and help me take a look, what do you think of the location of this store?"
Seeing An Xiaodi pushing the door in, Wang Xiaoxiao, who was chatting with the original owner, hurried over and asked him to help refer to the location of the store.
"The location is good and the area is large enough. It would be a good place to sell luxury goods. Is the second floor also suitable?"
After looking at the simple layout and numerous clothing racks in the shop of about 100 square meters, Zhou Anan pointed to the stairs in the corner and asked casually.
At a glance, the layout of this store looks quite neat, but there are not many customers in the store right now, so I guess the business is not very good.
"Yes, you can clearly see the West Lake from upstairs. Come, follow me and have a look. I plan to set up a circular teahouse here, where people who buy clothes can have tea and chat."
Taking little brother An upstairs, Wang Xiaoxiao told him her idea.
Listening to Miss Wang's ideas for the store that has not yet been acquired, Zhou Anan smiled and offered some small suggestions of her own.
Who would have thought that Miss Wang, who is usually very active at work, suddenly wants to take over a clothing store and become the boss.
"How much was the monthly rent for this store?"
After looking around, Zhou Anan asked practical questions.
Being located adjacent to West Lake and not far from the West Lake business district, the rent for the store should not be cheap.
"Xiaoyang said that the original rent here was 30,000 a month and it will expire at the end of the year. If I want to transfer, Xiaoyang doesn't want my transfer fee, as long as I pay the next four months' rent and help deal with the remaining clothes. It's about 230,000 in total. What do you think?"
When Wang Xiaoxiao heard An Xiaodi's question, she answered without hiding anything.
Although she thinks that this cost is not a problem, which is only half a year's salary for her, but when it comes to doing business, Brother An is the master, and she always has to listen to his professional opinions.
"Those clothes below cost 110,000?"
Although they had no objection to the rent transfer, Zhou Anan couldn't help but raise her eyebrows when she heard that the women's clothing downstairs cost 110,000 yuan.
He had casually taken a look at the quality of the clothes before, and they were just ordinary stuff, and the styles were affordable for most people.
Compared to the imported clothing store across the street, the one that Miss Wang took him to last time, Zhou Anan, who didn't know much about women's clothing, could see that there was a big gap between the two.
Could it be that he is deliberately trying to lower the price because he thinks Miss Wang is easy to talk to?
"I also looked at those clothes. They are probably worth about 200 to 500 yuan. There are 189 pieces in total. They are definitely not worth that much. But Xiaoyang is my high school classmate. He lost money in his business and wants to return to his hometown in Wencheng to live. I think I should help him if I can."
Seeing An's confusion, Wang Xiaoxiao expressed her original intention of transferring the store.
Wang Xiaoxiao often goes in and out of high-end women's clothing stores, so she can naturally tell the quality of the clothes. However, she did not expose them for the sake of her classmates.
"That's fine."
After learning Miss Wang's reasons, Zhou Anan did not object.
At this time, his cell phone rang. Zhou Anan picked it up and said a few words, then smiled and said to Miss Wang, "Let's go downstairs and see, the landlord is here."
(End of this chapter)
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