"What did you say?! Feiyang Drinks has added our signature drink to the menu too!!"
"Mr. Qian, how should we respond to the distributors? The data on new distributors joining this month shows a clear downward trend. Some distributors who were originally prepared to pay are now hesitant."
"Feiyang Entertainment! If you're going to make a soap opera, then make a soap opera!!! Don't you even know the rules of the beverage industry?! Wait, you said Feiyang Beverages has the same brand as ours, what's your legal department doing? Just collect evidence and sue, then buy some publicity. Isn't Feiyang Entertainment the best at waging media wars? Let's see what they have to say this time!"
"Mr. Qian, the legal department has already investigated, and their formula is somewhat different from ours."
What Secretary Wang didn't say was that Feiyang Beverage's formula was actually better. Mentioning it now wouldn't help at all; it might even make things worse.
As far as he knew, several beverage companies' recipe writers had been secretly studying and finding inspiration in "Cute Creatures in a Cup." While they claimed to be looking for inspiration, who knew if those modified recipes were actually leaked by these very recipe writers?
There were rumors circulating in the company that the company was not doing well and would be laying off employees. Of course, as the chairman's secretary, Secretary Wang knew this. This was not a rumor. On the one hand, it was a message deliberately released by the group to warn the employees. On the other hand, it was to pave the way for the subsequent layoffs.
These are all capitalist tactics. If the company is really not doing well, the boss will be more anxious than anyone else. He would never release news about poor performance and layoffs, because once the news gets out, there will be no one willing to take over.
Some companies' financial reports look very prosperous, but in fact they are already on the verge of bankruptcy. Before the low-level workers even realize it, the boss takes the opportunity to abandon them.
As for those companies that are rumored to be performing poorly, they are actually just using people as a way to "discard them after they've served their purpose" because they are profitable and have already built up their platforms. It's simply that with more people, less profit is going to the capital, so they want to kick people out.
Of course, sometimes a few lucky ones will be left as "samples," but unlike that, a company that is really going bankrupt and can't find a buyer will definitely go bankrupt quietly.
You go to get off work as usual today, but when you arrive at the company tomorrow, you find that the boss has run away, and all the money in the accounts has already been quietly transferred. Your expected salary and stable life have been shattered overnight without any warning.
After Mr. Qian got angry, he met online with several other beverage brands. The other brands were also furious. Their core recipes had been modified and sold cheaply, and they felt they couldn't swallow their anger, not to mention that Feiyang Entertainment completely disregarded the rules of the beverage industry.
Everyone was openly competing and profiting from franchisees, but now you're operating your own business, putting yourself in opposition to all other brands.
If it were just self-operated, that would be fine; there are plenty of purely self-operated businesses in the beverage industry. But the problem is that Feiyang Beverage's online recipe revenue sharing model allows many hesitant franchisees who think the franchise fees are too expensive to try opening a single beverage business and making money with zero cost. How can that be acceptable?
The established giant in the beverage industry isn't affected. Besides, several other companies have tried to take down the giant several times before. When the giant was called in, he didn't seem to care at all, because they make money through the supply chain, which is different from the franchise model. So the established giant is naturally not in a hurry.
"If you ask me, why don't we just lower the price? I just got a new investor."
"Another price cut?! I haven't even recovered from the last price cut yet, can't you come up with something else?"
"I can't keep up either. The product categories I previously discounted are now back to their original price and I can't sell them at all! Sales have plummeted!"
"I could follow suit, but the price range I can accept is only on par with similar drinks from Feiyang Drinks. How can I compete with that?"
"Don't panic, everyone. Several of us have lowered our prices, and if we team up with Feiyang Drinks, we'll definitely cripple their cash flow..."
"Ha, are you kidding me? Mr. Xu, Feiyang Drinks didn't have much investment, and He Youfu didn't give much money either, but Feiyang Drinks has Feiyang Entertainment and Feiyang Games behind it, not to mention other companies. You're trying to compete with Feiyang Entertainment on revenue?! Are you kidding me?! I'm not playing along."
Even after Mr. Sun finished speaking, the sneer on his lips hadn't faded. He wasn't going to follow suit. He'd already made a fortune with a small investment, and he'd found someone to take over. Besides, the beverage industry wasn't interesting. He'd heard that the blind box industry was where you could make money hand over fist. He was just waiting to cash out and move on to the blind box industry to rake in money. Who had time to waste with these people?
"Mr. Qian, say something!"
Mr. Qian was really upset. If he had known He Youfu was such a scoundrel, he wouldn't have led the group to leave the party and embarrass him. Now things have gotten so messed up.
Unlike Mr. Qian and the others who were filled with regret and remorse, Lin Xiaoxiao was completely stunned.
"This report is correct?! How can there be so much money?!" Lin Xiaoxiao's face remained expressionless. She simply glanced at Cai Sheng. There shouldn't be any falsification in this report. After all, she knew Cai Sheng quite well. Moreover, since she became a boss, no, since she started giving quotes to others, she had learned to read reports and spot the tricks in them.
Lin Xiaoxiao, who hadn't originally planned to learn anything, chuckled to herself. Sure enough, people really do learn things easily when they're doing bad things.
Cai Sheng adjusted her glasses, feeling quite calm. She had been at Feiyang Entertainment for some time now. Before, at the Orange platform, she was quite serious about her work and had poor interpersonal relationships, so no one would associate with her.
She didn't mind; she was there to earn money, not to make friends. Thinking this way, she felt much better. As a result, she had made many friends not long after arriving at Feiyang Entertainment. At first, she was scared, afraid that someone would try to get her to do things on the books, but later she discovered that her colleagues here were indeed as easy to get along with as she had encountered on previous projects.
Cao Wei, her current nominal boss, is also a good person. Although she sometimes makes you want to worry about her, she is a responsible person.
As Cai Sheng thought of this, the corners of his mouth, which he had been pursing, couldn't help but turn up.
Lin Xiaoxiao, sitting in her executive chair behind the desk, was practically beaming with joy. Making money from drinks?! And this place has only been open for a short time!! It's already more lucrative than filming TV dramas!!
"Cao Wei has also contacted impoverished families in communities and local towns. The staff of the subsequent town branches will give priority to children from nearby orphanages or members of impoverished families. Cao Wei is already compiling the addresses of the subsequent branches."
Lin Xiaoxiao thought to herself, "These days, everyone still really likes to drink beverages. Not bad (*^▽^*)."
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