Chapter 130 Trip to Japan
Shibuya, Tokyo, is a gathering place for Japanese technology companies. It is home to a series of IT companies including BIGLOBE, Nifty, and Excite.
On the fifteenth floor of the Pacific Building, the office area of Excite Company here is nearly 6,000 square meters.
However, after the Nasdaq crisis and continuous layoffs, nearly half of the area has become vacant.
After a simple welcome ceremony, Xu Liang brought the senior executives of both companies to the conference room.
Company personnel from both China and Japan sat on both sides of the desk with clear distinctions.
Xu Liang sat in the center, his calm and profound eyes scanning the crowd.
“Before today’s meeting, let me emphasize one thing first.
Hongmeng Company’s overseas expansion strategy always adheres to localization of management, so the future development of Hongmeng Japan Company will be managed by Hongmeng Japan The layer is solely responsible.
If you don’t understand this strategy, you can refer to Yahoo Japan.”
As soon as this statement came out, Excite's original management showed joy on their faces.
If you could be in charge of the family, no one would want a mother-in-law to suddenly appear above your head.
The reason why Xu Liang explained the management issues at the beginning was to reduce the differences between Chinese and Japanese managers, reduce internal friction, and integrate the businesses of both parties as early as possible.
“However, subsidiaries must obey the strategic planning of the parent company, especially business development. In the next period of time, I hope that both of you can actively cooperate and strive to connect Excite’s index database to Bing Search and Hongmeng as soon as possible. . ”
After Excite’s business in Asia was purchased, their business, index database and hardware were also acquired.
The addition of this part directly allows Bing to index more than 400 million web pages, with more than 70 million daily visits.
"In addition, since Excite will take back their brand, the Excite portal will be renamed Naver. The search engine will be renamed 'Bing'."
"President Fukunaga?"
Hideo Fukunaga, who is tall and thin and wears glasses, responded quickly.
“You have to lead your employees to connect with the headquarters and let me see your abilities.”
"Hi. President, please rest assured that I will definitely complete every task you have given me."
Hideo Fukunaga knows in his heart that whether the two parties can cooperate and successfully complete the business integration is related to whether he can continue to be a Hongmeng Japanese company. Company president.
Encouraged by the localization strategy, he has decided to go all out.
"Finally, I announce a few appointments."
Everyone looked nervous.
"Appoint Cheng as the chief financial officer of Hongmeng Japan Company."
It turns out that the chief financial officer of Excite was an American. As the company was acquired, he had been recalled to the United States.
A young man wearing a black suit and gold-rimmed glasses stood up and motioned to everyone.
Everyone responded with polite applause.
When Hongmeng decided to enter the Japanese market, the HR Department began to look for financial talents.
Cheng Cheng, who studied abroad in Waseda and joined the Japanese telecommunications company NTT after graduation, was recruited. One month after joining the Hongmeng Finance Department, he joined the Japanese working group.
"Chen Hai has been appointed as the vice president of Hongmeng Japan, responsible for the search business."
The young man wearing a dark gray suit with a square face stood up quickly.
His background is similar to Cheng Cheng, and he is also a top student who has studied in Japan for many years. But he has a PhD in computer science from the University of Tokyo and worked at Yahoo! Japan before being poached.
These two people are Xu Liang’s eyes on Hongmeng Dongying Company.
The localization strategy is only the localization of management, not completely laissez-faire.
"Manager Bomu?"
Takazawa Bomu, who is in charge of the human resources department, responded quickly.
“Recruit all the people laid off by the company before, and cooperate with the head office staff to continue to recruit computer engineers and UI designers. Next, the company will make great strides forward, and we need a large number of qualified professionals. ."
"Yes."
"Okay, today's meeting will end here. Let's go back and work hard. I will give you one month to complete the integration. After one month, I will test the results. Those who are unqualified or neglect their duties will be fired." Xu Liang Act vigorously and resolutely.
"The meeting is dismissed."
After everyone left, Fukunaga Hideo took Xu Liang to the president's office that had been prepared in advance.
The area is about seventy square meters.
There is a statue of Guan Gong inside, Chinese landscape paintings are hung on the wall, and a huge bookcase is behind it.
Xu Liang saw this and couldn't help but shake his head secretly.
This office style is favored by bosses in the South, especially Hong Kong and Taiwan.
He prefers simple style.
I wanted them to remove it, but after thinking about it I decided not to.
Now the company does not have sufficient funds, so we will save as much as we can.
"President Fukunaga, how much money is left in the company's accounts now?"
"63.2 million yen."
According to the current exchange rate between Chinese currency and Japanese yen, it is equivalent to 3.16 million Chinese currency about.
Xu Liang frowned slightly, it was obviously not enough to rely on this money to develop Hongmeng Japan.
Fortunately, Excite’s search business originally ranked second in the Japanese market, occupying 35.37% of the market share.
Second only to AltaVista, which provides search services for Yahoo Japan, that is, Vision.
The portal business ranks third in Japan, behind Yahoo Japan and Goo, which is owned by Japan's largest telecom operator NTT.
Occupies 15.4% of the market share. Therefore, Excite’s foundation is still good.
However, the Internet is a winner-take-all industry, and second place means failure.
Xu Liang pondered for a moment, "Do you know Boya Inoue, the president of Yahoo Japan?"
"Yes, we have met at a charity reception organized by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry."
"You Make an appointment for me. I want to pay him a visit."
After Hideo Fukunaga nodded, "President, when will you agree?"
"The sooner the better."
"Okay, I'll get in touch right away."
"The contact has been made, please remember to notify me as soon as possible."
"Yes."
After Hideo Fukunaga left, Xu Liang pinched his eyebrows.
There are so many things going on in Japan, and there will still be headaches ahead.
Lu Hui came over.
As Xu Liang’s political secretary, she also came to Japan with her.
"Mr. Xu, your hotel is ready."
"It's still early. Follow me to the company."
Xu Liang got up and walked out , Lu Hui quickly followed.
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There are twenty-three districts in Tokyo, and Minato District is the most prosperous and wealthy district among them. It is the gathering place for the Japanese upper class, and there is gold everywhere.
80 of Japan’s 154 embassies are in Minato City. In addition, TV stations such as TV Asahi, TV Japan, TBS, and Fuji are all concentrated here.
People in Hong Kong look at other districts, just like people from Beijing and Shanghai look at people from other provinces and cities. Their eyes are on the top of their heads.
The prosperity of the port area has also attracted many large companies at home and abroad to set up their headquarters here.
Among them, Yahoo Japan's headquarters is located in Minato Midtown Tower.
This once brightly lit building was inevitably affected by the Nasdaq crisis and began to lay off employees.
Masahiro Inoue frowned, looked at the layoff list in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh.
Actually, Yahoo Japan’s business is not bad, but the global Internet environment is too bad. Many companies are worried about their business conditions and have canceled their original advertising.
As a result, the company's revenue continues to decline, but Nasdaq is still falling. No one knows when it will fall.
Dong Dong…….
There was a knock on the door.
“Come in.”
Secretary Yuko Oda walked in wearing a white suit with small lapels.
“President.”
"Is something wrong?"
"The president of Hongmeng Company hopes to visit you at the company tomorrow."
"Hongmeng Company?"
He has never heard of this name.
“This is a Chinese company. They acquired Excite’s business in Japan.”
Inoue Masahiro suddenly realized.
The Japanese Internet is so big, so naturally he has heard about the change in control of Excite.
“Do you have any information about this Hongmeng company?”
Oda Yuko quickly handed over the information he had collected in advance.
Time was short and she could not collect much information. However, Hongmeng Company has been established for almost a year, and coupled with the popularity of "Legend 1", many people have noticed it.
"Games and search?"
"Yes. At present, their main business is these two. And according to the survey, their game business is developing very well, accounting for 60% of the Chinese game market. "
Inoue Masahiro was horrified.
Although China's current economy is not as good as Japan's and there are not many game users, after accounting for 60%, it is an astonishing number no matter how you look at it.
He didn’t pay attention to Hongmeng’s search engine business.
Before the rise of Google, the whole world believed that search was just a vassal of portals and had no development potential at all.
"Did they tell you the reason for visiting us?"
Masahiro Inoue put away the contempt in his heart and asked seriously.
"They only talked about business and did not say the specific reasons."
Nodding slightly, Inoue Masahiro pondered for a moment.
"You reply to them right away. I will wait for them in the company at nine o'clock tomorrow morning."
"Okay."
"Also, let the administrator clean the company and don't let the guests see it. Joke."
"Yes."
(End of this chapter)