Chapter 840 Penguin 2005
In the most conspicuous position, four large golden characters stand proudly.
Taihua Plaza.
This is Taihua’s earliest project in Pengcheng.
It consists of the unfinished building ‘New Century Plaza’ and the tallest building in Pengcheng ‘Hongchang Plaza’.
Construction of New Century Plaza started in 1993, with several starts and stops in between. It was not until September 1998 that the main body was capped, and the civil engineering and curtain wall projects were basically completed.
In October 2000, New Century Company was unable to continue investing, and the entire project was completely stopped and became an unfinished building.
In 2002, after several discussions with creditors and the Pengcheng government, Taihua Group took over all the rights and interests of New Century Plaza for 180 million Chinese dollars.
Contains claims of 1.8 billion Chinese coins.
However, during the subsequent construction, Xu Liang was a little dissatisfied.
According to the original construction plan of New Century Plaza.
The entire project consists of a 4-story basement, a 7-story podium and two 46-story east and west towers.
The project covers an area of 13,000 square meters, and the total construction area of the project is 188,000 square meters.
The lower part of the east tower is a hotel with more than 300 business rooms and a presidential suite.
The upper part is high-end apartments, including a total of 90 apartments of various types.
The west tower is a Class 5A office building.
The podium building has various functions such as business, banking, catering, entertainment and hotel lobby.
The swimming pool and tennis court are located on the seventh-floor rooftop.
The basement is used for equipment rooms and parking garages, with 560 parking spaces.
Such a plan seems to have no problem in this era.
The 55,000-square-meter commercial area of the podium is large enough in this era.
But Xu Liang was obviously not satisfied.
In his opinion, the commercial area of 55,000 square meters is too small, and during the design, the seven-story podium was layered, with no hollow atrium in the middle.
The moving line design also lacks scientific planning.
Not enough for a shopping mall.
But if we change it again, there will be no room.
After all, the entire New Century Plaza only covers an area of 13,000 square meters.
Excluding the reserved public space, the single-story podium area is only 8,200 square meters.
What to do?
Xu Liang quickly aimed at the ‘Hongchang Square’ next to it.
The ‘Hongchang Plaza’, which started construction in 1992, was invested and constructed by Xiangjiang Hongchang International Investment Co., Ltd.
The elevation is 248 meters, and the area is similar to that of New Century Plaza, also 13,000 square meters.
The total construction area is 141,000 square meters.
The building is 67 floors high (4 floors underground and 63 floors above ground), making it the third tallest commercial building in Pengcheng.
In terms of planning, the 4-story basement of Hongchang Plaza is mainly used for garages, machine rooms and reclaimed water treatment facilities.
The 7-story podium is mainly used for shopping malls and restaurants, and the 8-story or above towers are mainly offices and apartment-style office buildings, with a revolving restaurant and a helicopter landing pad on the top.
The plans of New Century Plaza and Hongchang Plaza are very similar.
The commercial areas are all seven floors above ground and do not require major changes.
With the support of Xu Liang, Taihua spent 1.5 billion Huaxia coins to acquire Hongchang Plaza.
Taken together, the entire project covers an area of 26,000 square meters.
There is ample room for display.
After redesign, the gap between the two projects was changed into an upper and lower hollow atrium.
Air passages are installed between each floor to connect them.
With this change, the commercial area of the entire Taihua Plaza project has doubled to 120,000 square meters.
The total construction area of the project has also increased to 330,000 square meters.
After two years of rectification, it opened in September 2004 and quickly became a commercial star on Shennan East Road, even a top commercial center.
The golden glass curtain wall leaves a deep impression on everyone who passes by.
"Go ahead, I'll pick you up in the afternoon."
"Yeah."
After Zhang Junning got off the car and left, Xu Liang's motorcade arrived at Penguin's headquarters. Yada Building'.
Eight years after starting its business, Penguin has moved from the humble SEG Technology Innovation Park to the Fiyta Technology Building in Nanshan District.
This is a new office building opened in July 2003.
The building area of 83,000 square meters is spacious enough.
“Brother Liang, we’re here.”
Huo Gang, the co-pilot, reminded.
Xu Liang responded. Through the car window, he had already seen the banner hanging outside the building door.
‘Welcome Mr. Xu Liang to visit Penguin Company’.
Little Ma, in a suit and leather tie, stands at the front wearing gold-rimmed glasses. On the right is Zeng Liqing and on the left is Zhang Zhidong.
More than a dozen middle and high-level officials lined up to greet them.
“It’s quite grand.”
"Boni, look, the car is coming."
Zeng Liqing's sharp eyes quickly saw the convoy approaching quickly.
Nowadays, many people know that Xu Liang usually rides three or five Maybach bulletproof cars when he goes out.
No one in the country is so extravagant except him.
Ponima adjusted his clothes, and when he saw the convoy stopped, he quickly went up to meet it.
"Mr. Xu."
After holding his hand, Xu Liang smiled and said, "Bonnie, you are becoming more and more successful now."
"My achievements It’s not worth mentioning in front of you.”
“Haha, I’m so humble.”
After greeting Zeng Liqing and the others, the group entered the Fiyta Building.
Arriving at the floor that Penguin rented, he stepped out of the elevator and saw the dense flow of people around him.
Before Xu Liang could react.
Thunderous applause sounded.
From their faces, Xu Liang saw curiosity, excitement, and even admiration. Xu Liang smiled and waved.
"Hello everyone, I am Xu Liang."
"Boss."
"Boss Xu."
"Financial Caesar."
"Boss, I love you."
"Boss Xu, I want to give birth to a monkey for you."...
A bold and excited person shouted.
The messy sounds made many people laugh, and the atmosphere on the entire porch seemed particularly lively.
After everyone calmed down a little, Xu Liang continued with a smile.
“I feel everyone’s enthusiasm, but for the brother who wants to give me a monkey, I accept your wishes, but I still prefer humans to monkeys.
Best of all, you don't have this feature either. ”
“Haha…. "
There was a burst of laughter at the porch.
After the laughter subsided, Xu Liang continued.
"To be honest, I am very happy to see everyone here today.
After eight years, with your efforts, Penguin has finally grown from a start-up with only five people to a company with nearly 1,200 people in 21 countries and regions including China, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia. Large Internet companies.
These are the fruits of your hard work.
As a partner of Penguin, I want to say something to you very seriously.
Thank you.
Thank you for your hard work. ”
Wow….
Warm applause sounded again.
“But what I want to tell you more is that success only belongs to yesterday, and there will be more difficulties waiting for us to overcome in the future.
And the more successful Penguin is, the more competition it will face. Intense.
I hope you can keep your nerves tight to deal with challengers from all over the world.
Of course, Mr. Ma and I also understand that there is no reason in the world to only let cows plow the fields and not let them eat grass.
Penguin will give enough options to everyone so that everyone can share Penguin’s success. ”
Crash….
The applause was fiercer than ever before.
Sure enough.
Compared with empty talk, everyone still cares more about real interests.
After giving a short impromptu speech, and getting to know Penguin’s middle and senior management under the leadership of Ponema, the group walked into the conference room.
The current penguin.
Bonnima is the CEO, Zeng Liqing is the chief operating officer (COO), and Zhang Zhidong is the chief technology officer (CTO).
Chen Yidan is the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and is responsible for all administrative matters, including logistics.
Xu Chenye is the Chief Information Officer (CIO), responsible for news media affairs and also manages the portal website.
The real outsider among the senior management is Luo Hanhua, the group’s senior vice president and chief financial officer.
And Liu Ying, Penguin’s senior vice president in charge of overseas business management.
Two people, Luo Hanhua is from Hongyan; Liu Ying was the director of the administrative department of Hongmeng Japan subsidiary at first, and was later transferred to the senior vice president of Hongmeng Nanyang subsidiary. They have rich overseas management experience.
After everyone took their seats, Zeng Liqing stood up.
"Director Xu, let me explain to you the current adjusted management structure of Penguin."
After Xu Liang smiled, Zeng Liqing turned on the projector next to him.
“After several adjustments, Penguin currently has four major departments.
Marketing department, R&D department, overseas department and functional department.
The R&D department has four Department:
The Wireless Development Department is responsible for the SMS business on the mobile phone;
The Basic Development Department is responsible for the underlying technology and server maintenance;
The Product Development Department is responsible for the technical development and maintenance of the QQ client.
The Overseas Development Department is responsible for the localization development of overseas QQ client, space and other technologies.
The marketing department consists of the ‘Comprehensive Marketing Department’ and the ‘Mobile Communications Department’.
The former is responsible for the construction and management of the national sales team, and the latter is responsible for business docking with the three major telecom operators.
The overseas department is responsible for the business coordination and connection between overseas subsidiaries and the head office. ”
Although Penguin has developed faster than the same period in memory with his support, it has not yet evolved to the point where it is necessary to establish a business department.
“Financial aspects.
As of the end of April, Penguin’s total revenue increased by 20.1% compared with the same period last year, reaching 634.1 million Chinese coins (US$76.6 million);
Internet value-added service revenue increased by 56.0% to 318.9 million Chinese dollars (US$38.5 million);
Mobile and telecommunications value-added service revenue decreased by 9.4% to 270.8 million Chinese dollars (32.7 million US dollars);
Online advertising business revenue increased by 92.1% to 40.5 million Chinese dollars (US$4.9 million);
Operating profits fell by 2.7% to 222.2 million Chinese dollars (US$26.8 million).
Profit during the period increased by 30% to 283.9 million Chinese dollars (US$34.3 million).
Business:
The highest number of QQ simultaneous online accounts increased by 22.7% compared with the previous quarter, reaching 16.2 million.
QQ.com page views increased by more than 50%.
The proportion of Internet value-added service revenue in total revenue increased by 89.6% compared with the same period in 2004.
In terms of online games, the highest number of simultaneous online accounts on the "QQ Game" portal reached 1.44 million.
Online game revenue increased by 20.8% compared with the previous quarter, reaching 25.3 million Huaxia coins.
The proportion of mobile and telecommunications value-added service revenue in total revenue dropped from 64.7% in the same period of 2004 to 40.9%.
Among them, mobile voice value-added service revenue increased significantly, but SMS revenue declined due to the impact of mobile operators’ account clearance.
The proportion of online advertising revenue in total revenue increased from 5.1% in the same period of 2004 to 7.6%.
(End of this chapter)