Chapter 71 The most popular small commodity in the 20th century: Post-it Notes
Time flies so fast, 2 months passed quickly.
Where the Changxing Plastic Factory is located, two new assembly plants have been built a long time ago, and the workers have also moved here. The injection molding and assembly processes are combined, which also increases production efficiency.
However, the old factory is still in use, so the space cannot be wasted. After all, the rent has been paid and will be refunded when it expires.
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Yang Wendong didn't know how the two major traders in the Japanese and British markets marketed the sticky mouse boards and fly sticky boards in their own countries. However, orders have been pouring in in the past two months, making the Changxing factory so busy that the company's employees There are also more than a hundred people.
In the office:
On the table in front of Yang Wendong, a large number of small plastic squares were placed in front of him. There were several pieces of paper underneath, and there were many drawn graphics on the paper.
"Dong dong dong" There was a knock on the door, and Lin Haoyu and Zhao Liming walked in.
Yang Wendong gathered the small plastic squares on the paper, put them aside, and then said: "Sit down, you two come over together, what do you want?"
After Zhao and Lin sat down, Zhao Liming said: "Brother Dong, orders from Japan and the UK have suddenly declined recently, especially from Japan, which is more than half the amount compared with the previous week."
"It's September now, and dealers and terminals will have some inventory. It's normal for orders to drop at this time." Yang Wendong glanced at the calendar next to him and nodded.
In Hong Kong, although winter is a bit cold, it is not very obvious. This is why many people in Hong Kong live without a fixed residence, or live in wooden squatters like Yang Wendong in the past, and still survive. Make it through the winter without freezing to death.
But Japan, the UK and even Europe are different. In these two places, in winter, all rats will definitely hide in underground pipes and will basically not appear next to humans. Flies and the like are even more common. No more.
Zhao Liming nodded and said, "Yes, I also knew that winter would affect us, but I didn't expect it to be so soon."
Yang Wendong added: "It's just the beginning now, and it will be even more exaggerated in the next few months. There's nothing we can do about it."
Zhao Liming asked: "Brother Dong, can we find a way to expand the market in Southeast Asia?" I won’t say much, but it will at least make us a little better.”
“I have tried it a long time ago, and the effect is not very good.” Yang Wendong smiled and said, “Most of these places are the same. It was the same as when we were in the squatters , too poor, generally don’t care about mice.
The only pity is that the American market has not opened, and it has been winter.”
In the past two months. During this period, Yang Wendong also visited many businessmen doing business in Southeast Asia and reached some cooperation on sticky mouse boards. However, I don’t know whether it was due to their capabilities or problems in the Southeast Asian market. In terms of sales, they were far inferior to those in the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom. Japanese.
As for the largest U.S. market, Yang Wendong also tried to find some traders, but in the end he missed the best time. He had just tried to achieve some results, and winter had arrived;
Winter in the United States is colder than in Europe.
Zhao Liming nodded and said: "Brother Dong, in this case, we can only produce next year's stock in winter. But doing this seems a bit too expensive."
"Well, yes, stocking up is definitely necessary, but I still need to discuss with a few dealers and customers how much to stock up." Yang Wendong nodded and said.
Even though he knew that by next year, the sales volume of his sticky mouse boards would definitely not be bad, he still had no way to stock up on a large scale because the financial pressure was too great.
In the past two months, because business in Japan and the United Kingdom was very good, he made a net profit of more than 30,000 Hong Kong dollars.
It’s just that he spent a lot of money during this period. He purchased this factory and land, and later spent some money to build a new factory. Counting the more than 10,000 Hong Kong dollars he had in hand before; now he has Yes, it’s almost HK$40,000.
If the shipment volume is very low for a few months, but your factory is still working hard to produce, this amount of money may not be enough; furthermore, from a risk perspective, you cannot bet like this.
"Okay, then I will start to control workers' working hours and part of their wages recently." Zhao Liming said.
The wages offered by the Changxing factory are not much worse than those outside, at least above the average. But if it enters the off-season, costs must be controlled. After all, the workload of the workers is also low, maybe one I can still take a few days off every month; in fact, I have already prepared for these. Yang Wendong nodded and said: "Well, okay, but don't reduce the welfare too much, at least keep the food normal."
In fact, in today's Hong Kong society, workers do not have any social security insurance. Even if Yang Wendong is a good old man, he has nowhere to pay if he wants to;
The benefits he talks about are actually giving employees more food. , can make them full and eat a little better; for example, add some broth to the rice, and then have meat dishes once a week.
This is already much higher than other factories. I am afraid that only those workers doing manual labor on the dock can compete with the Changxing factory for food.
Zhao Liming nodded and said, "Okay, Brother Dong."
Lin Haoyu on the side also said: "It's the same here. There are much fewer mice in Hong Kong in winter, but fortunately not many customers have terminated their contracts with us."
"At our price, they are probably too lazy to bother with it. ." Yang Wendong smiled.
In fact, he is imitating Bao Yugang's shipping model. He does not make short-term huge profits, but extends the time so that he can make a small profit every month, and then over time, he can make more money.
Especially in the rodent control business, if you do it well in the early stage, you will only need daily maintenance in the later stage. You can also save costs and earn more profits.
It’s just that the upper limit of this business is too low. At present, it is still far behind the factory. It can only be said to be a supplement to my current business.
Lin Haoyu added: "It's just that there are fewer rats now, and it's a lot more difficult for me to expand my business."
"Well, normal, these are seasonal problems." Yang Wendong nodded and said: "Just keep operating at low efficiency. I will make a forecast together with the dealer, and then we will decide how much to produce in advance."
"Okay." Zhao Liming agreed.
In the afternoon, Su Yiyi came over to report the accounts, saw a bunch of small squares on the table, and asked: "Brother Dong, are you still studying these things?"
"Yes, I have been studying for a while. It’s time, but it hasn’t come out yet,” Yang Wendong touched the square and sighed.
Two months ago, after he took over the injection molding factory, he thought about it for a long time, and still felt that building a Rubik's Cube would be the fastest and most profitable. Many Internet articles in his previous life also wrote this.
However, although he can play Rubik's Cube, he is not an expert in mechanical structure. How to realize the multi-angle rotation structure in the middle of the Rubik's Cube, he has not figured out;
And currently his factory It's still relatively low-level, and it hasn't recruited very powerful talents, so this matter has been stuck.
Su Yiyi said again: "Brother Dong, these are the previous account books. I have one thing to say. I misremembered two accounts, involving almost more than 100 yuan, and they have been corrected."
"Well, it's okay." Yang Wendong didn't care and said, "But you still have to pay attention in the future. Financial aspects don't matter occasionally, but you can't make mistakes often."
Su Yiyi nodded and said: "Well..., it's just that sometimes when the working hours are long, I deliberately wanted to remember something a few days ago, but then I forgot it."
"So I have to write it down." Yang Wendong She laughed and said: "A good memory is not as good as a bad pen."
Su Yiyi said: "I also remembered and wrote small notes, but sometimes the notes were lost and then forgotten."< br>
"Find some convenience." Yang Wendong suddenly stopped. He thought, in this era, there should be no sticky notes, right?
This thing is a creative product with a simple structure but a large market. It was one of the most popular products of the giant 3M company in the 20th century. It was even rated as one of the 100 inventions of the 20th century.
Moreover, there is glue on it, which is more or less related to my existing industry!
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