Chapter 658 The silent arrival of shared bicycles
“What did you say? Mr. Xiang is not in Paris anymore?”
After getting off the plane, while Wang Sicong was buying clothes, Zhang Sen gave Ding Zhong made a phone call.
The call went through.
But the result surprised him.
I flew here overnight, but the person disappeared?
"Yes." Ding Zhong glanced at Xiang Yang in the car and said, "Mr. Xiang and I have arrived in the Netherlands."
"You are not." Zhang Sen was surprised. .
He remembered the phone call he had with Ding Zhong before departure. The two of them were scheduled to leave for Rotterdam in two days.
Could it be that you are hiding from yourself on purpose?
Zhang Sen couldn't help but guess.
“The plan cannot keep up with the changes.” Ding Zhong blurted out.
He just happened to be resting in the hotel last night, but after receiving a call from Xiang Yang, he was called to the bar for a drink.
As soon as we met, we learned that the drinking party was over and we were going to Amsterdam.
I was accompanied by two dogs and a cat
At this moment, they were in the car behind, accompanying the blonde Annabelle as she looked curiously at the city that would be known as a tax haven in the future.
Many multinational companies like to set up their headquarters in Amsterdam.
It’s not just logistics.
The low tax policy is also the main reason that attracts them to set up camp here.
This is the same reason why Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Google, and Facebook set up their headquarters in Ireland.
Previously, when Uber was founded, its headquarters was also located here when it just launched its layout in Europe.
However, because of Macron’s persuasion, Xiangyang and Musk discussed moving it to Paris, but the data center is still located in Amsterdam.
INS and WhatsApp also operate in the same way.
Xiang Yang was originally going to Rotterdam, so he stopped by Amsterdam to see his business. This reason was very reasonable.
After hearing Ding Zhong give this justifiable statement, Zhang Sen suppressed his blush.
How did you say that?
Who told you not to say hello in advance?
People have already made arrangements in advance.
"In that case." Looking at Wang Sicong who was communicating with a beautiful shopping guide in the store, Zhang Sen sighed:
"I will rest here in Paris first, and then go to Rotterdam. Meet Mr. Ding.”
Hearing this, Ding Zhong smiled.
What is an unpretentious business war?
Xiang Yangming was deliberately trying to get Wanda together, hoping to let them know the position of cooperation.
"Mr. Xiang, what do you think?" Ding Zhong covered the phone and relayed Zhang Sen's words to Xiang Yang in a low voice.
“Ask them to come.”
Xiang Yang moved the corners of his mouth slightly.
"Okay." Ding Zhong nodded and politely conveyed Xiang Yang's message to Zhang Sen who was waiting on the other end of the phone.
We agreed to see you in Rotterdam, and we will see you in Rotterdam.
"Okay, I get it, it's Mr. Ding's trouble."
Zhang Sen exchanged pleasantries for a few words before hanging up the phone.
Regarding Xiang Yang's play, he was not stupid as he had been in shopping malls for a long time and knew what the young man's intention was.
But what can be done?
There are very few commercial cooperations between Hermès and Wanda.
Even the Hermès perfume counters sold in department stores are mostly not operated by Hermès itself, but are sold through agents.
So he could only swallow this dumb loss.
As for the shops leased to FILA and Anta in Wanda Plaza
“Mr. Ding, when your company’s design center in Milan is established, you must come here to establish more branches.”
Seeing Ding Zhong hang up the phone, Xiang Yang pointed out the window with interest.
Amsterdam is a tax haven.
And the means of tax avoidance are also very simple.
It is to register a shell company to use the transfer of intellectual property rights to reasonably avoid taxes.
Of course, the specific implementation is still very cumbersome.
The reason for knowing this is that Musk told Xiang Yang, otherwise he would not know how to operate it specifically.
To put it simply, a subsidiary provides loans and transfers its intellectual property rights, and the subsidiary owns shares of a Dutch shell company under the same group to achieve mutual holding methods to exploit loopholes.
If you go back and forth, you can save a lot of money.
(Uber used this trick to register a network of 50 shell companies and evade $20 billion in taxes in Europe).
Because of this, the European headquarters of Uber, INS, and Whatsapp claim to be in Paris.
But in fact, this data center in the Netherlands and the future shell company network are the main bodies.
Anta will set up a professional overseas department to take charge of tax response. Ding Zhong is more concerned about:
"Mr. Xiang, I heard that you will have to deal with Decathlon next. Deep cooperation.”
"Yes."
Xiang Yang nodded and continued: "Our HYS supply chain still has many shortcomings, which need such cooperation to improve. But Mr. Ding can rest assured that this will not affect us. It’s a cooperation between the two parties.”
“In fact, I personally think that Anta should also join in.”
“Oh?” I heard that Xiangyang wants to expand sales. Channel, let’s make a little money together, Ding Zhong asked immediately.
Recently, I have spent too much.
"Learn from Decathlon's experience and then transplant it over." Xiang Yang explained.
"Mr. Xiang means that HYS will also have a layout in the professional supermarket marketing model in the future?" Ding Zhong swallowed his throat.
“It’s not HYS, but FILA.”
Xiang Yang said solemnly: “It’s mainly the North American market. We have to think carefully about how to integrate into it. This market. Over there, Amazon has a huge impact on both direct sales channels and supermarket marketing. The investment required to set up an e-commerce department alone is also daunting."
Xiang Yangyi. frame output.
Ding Zhong listened with rapt attention.
It turns out that Xiangyang began to think about this matter as early as when he acquired the FILA brand and emphasized that he wanted to obtain the operating rights of FILA in the United States.
Sales in North America are indeed very challenging.
The reasons for this are not only daily operating expenses and high logistics, but also the backlog of inventory, which makes life difficult for all operators when facing huge store expenditures.
"Mr. Xiang, do you have any specific ideas?" "Some, otherwise I wouldn't have dragged you all the way here." Xiang Yang laughed and said:
“Our Uber financing has been completed this year, and there will be another financing at the beginning of next year or before the end of this year. I hope that if there is a problem with my funds, Mr. Ding can help me.”
Xiang Yang asked him to borrow money!
Ding Zhong felt inexplicably excited.
But he was quickly confused.
Xiangyang is not short of money!
And the first round of financing announced by Uber was only in the million-dollar range.
With Xiang Yang’s strength, he handed over the money with his eyes closed.
Could it be that.
"I intend to propose to Musk the establishment of a trucking industry in the next round of financing. Maybe we will need to acquire a trucking or freight company by then." Xiang Yang I don’t know how much this proposal will cost.
But the establishment of UberFreight was only a matter of time.
As for how to convince Musk.
That's not a problem at all.
The fourth largest employment field in the United States, he really doesn’t believe that Musk is unaware of the personal benefits that establishing this business will bring to him.
Besides, UberFreight business has great market prospects.
It brought Uber $500 million in revenue in its first year alone, and that was even after others took the lead.
He calculated the amount of his funds.
If you want to quickly increase your assets, you must let the shares you control appreciate quickly.
The only way to survive in this money-burning war is to rely on external help.
He had no intention of borrowing money from Ding Zhong.
But
CIB.
He only had one previous contact with people from CIB, so he was not familiar with them.
Ding Zhong felt a little uncomfortable for some reason when he heard that Xiangyang was not borrowing money from himself, but from CIB.
But he will definitely help.
"Don't worry, Mr. Xiang, I believe CIB will provide you with the help you need."
"Mr. Ding laughed."
Xiang Yang said sarcastically.
“This is normal, it’s nothing.” Ding Zhong smiled heartily. They also borrowed the money for Anta’s acquisition.
Xiang Yang can rely on himself to have such high-quality assets as collateral.
It's already great.
“So Mr. Xiang thinks that the pain point that needs to be solved first is the high cost of logistics?”
“Yes, that’s right.” Xiang Yang pursed his lips and said, “By the way, Let's connect our own companies."
"It seems that Mr. Xiang has also thought deeply about investment."
Ding Zhong said with emotion.
A humble Uber can not only earn commissions, but also advertising fees, and can also provide services for its own career development.
This layout
He gave Xiang Yang a thumbs up from the bottom of his heart.
"Mr. Xiang, do you think China is suitable for such soil?"
"Ah?"
"I mean, our market in China is so big, why don't you consider letting Uber enter."
"Uh this."
Xiang Yang couldn't hold it back and swallowed.
Domestic taxi-hailing software is burning money. Even the already developed Uber couldn't stand it when it entered the game. If you go into this muddy water, your pants will be mortgaged to the bank.
But there is one thing that seems not impossible to do.
"Mr. Ding, I have an idea."
"Tell me, Mr. Xiang."
"What do you think, we put a certain number of bicycles in colleges and universities? To provide them to college students While riding on campus every day, Anta can also use this event to join hands with our HYS to expand the domestic cycling market. "
"Campus public bicycles?"
Ding Zhong frowned. lower eyebrow.
"Wait a moment, I'll contact my secretary." Xiang Yang seemed to remember something, so he took out his mobile phone and called Bea Shaffer.
Bea Shaffer, who was presiding over the meeting, saw her cell phone on the table flashing for a few times and took a glance at it.
Finding that the call was from Xiang Yang, she cleared her throat and said, "Everyone, take a rest first."
Then, as everyone walked out, she picked up her phone.
“Boss, what do you want from me?”
"Shaffer, help me see if there are any successful cases of public bicycles in Europe and the United States."
"Public bicycles?"
Bi Shaffer frowned, there must be some. .
But
Xiang Yang would probably find something to do for himself.
Taking the notebook she put on the desk and typing it in the search bar, she breathed out wordlessly and said:
"Boss, the first generation of public bicycles is in the city where you are now. . In 1965, Amsterdam launched a white bicycle plan. "
"Huh?"
"The paradise city that Little John said last year followed the example of the public bicycle system introduced in Paris. It's about solving the 'last mile'."
"."
Xiang Yang is a bit incredible.
Didn’t I say that shared bicycles were only launched in 2014?
"Then please help me quickly check which cities in China are there now."
"Shanghai, Hangzhou, Wuhan."
Hearing these three familiar cities Place names, blinking towards the sun.
Co-author, he, his wife, and Little John were wandering around several cities in China, and it was as if their eyes were blind, and they couldn't see anything.
It really works!
(End of this chapter)