Chapter 69: Using the Force to Fight Back
Just when the Coca-Cola headquarters made the decision to send Caesar and Frank to Hongsavadi to investigate the matter.
Hongsawadi, Yangon.
As two major local beverage producers.
Venus Company and SARS Company also felt tremendous pressure. In the past few years, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo's products continued to enter the market, and they could only barely resist.
Now, facing the Aoba Group, which is like a fierce dragon crossing the river, they have almost no ability to fight back. After all, the price is there.
The locals, whose income is already pitifully low, are very sensitive to prices when buying things.
If it weren't for some specialty products, Venus Company and SARS Company would have collapsed long ago.
But the bosses of both companies knew very well that if they didn't find a solution, Coca-Cola and Pepsi would be driven out of Hongsavadi. They didn't know, but Venus and SARS would definitely be finished.
Just today, someone from the Aoba Group called them and invited the bosses of the two companies to go to Dawei Port.
Upon hearing the news, both of them quickly rushed to Towei Port with their trusted followers.
In the passenger port of Dawei Port.
Wu De is the boss of the SARS company, a short middle-aged man; the tall middle-aged man wearing glasses next to him is Jing Hu, the boss of the Venus Company.
The two of them traveled together and got off the passenger ship.
I hailed a few taxis.
"Driver, go to the headquarters of Aoba Group." Jinghu said to the driver.
"Going to Aoba Group? No problem." The taxi driver glanced at the two of them and did not tell them that Tuwa Taxi Company was a subsidiary of Aoba Group.
Jing Hu and Wu De, sitting in the car, looked at the streets of Towei Port.
Compared to the shabby other cities in Hongsavadi, the roads in Dawei Port are well built. This was the first impression of the two people.
In fact, they didn't know that since they had their own people in both the black and white worlds, Aoba Construction Company, a subsidiary of Aoba Group, contracted the infrastructure construction projects of the entire city.
On the one hand, it is to digest the cement produced by another subsidiary, Qingye Building Materials.
On the other hand, it is to legally absorb the official financial funds of Dawei Port.
Therefore, not only are the supporting facilities of the port being improved around Dawei Port, but roads are also being built continuously. The cement road from the port to the headquarters of Aoba Group was built as soon as possible and has been completed recently.
The two soon saw that there was another track being laid on the south side of the highway. This was actually to reduce the bumps in road transportation and allow factories and ports to directly connect in logistics.
On the north side are residential areas, factories, etc.
At present, the glass industry is the pillar industry of Dawei Port, and the beverage industry is actually just a subsidiary industry.
In addition to Glass Factory No. 1 (flat glass) and Glass Factory No. 2 (glass bottles) which have already been put into production, there are currently three other glass factories under construction.
In a small city like Tuwa with a population of only a few hundred thousand, there was not much labor force, especially literate workers, who were siphoned off by the factories in an instant.
Therefore, the port of Dawei was very prosperous at that time. Working in a glass factory or a beverage factory, or becoming a construction worker or farm worker were all very good jobs.
The Aoba Group frantically merged various industries in the local area, and then formed a stable internal circulation. Unknowingly, the entire Toungoo Port and even the Tanindayi Province were under the economic control of the Aoba Group.
This kind of control is extremely terrifying.
For example, at this time, Tuwa Taxi Company is one of the subsidiaries of Qingye Bus Company, but few people know about this hidden relationship.
For example, the land and shops on the north side of this industrial avenue in front of us are all owned by Aoba Real Estate Company.
Except for some individual business owners and small landowners, the rest of the locals either work for the Aoba Group or are relatives of its employees.
This situation, coupled with Hongsawadi's extremely weak control over the local area, led to the crazy and barbaric .
Of course, in order to prevent Qingye Group from becoming a target, Liu Zhifan and the other two also adopted a variety of measures.
For example, various complex cross-holdings.
In other regions, they used local puppets to establish joint ventures, or used offshore companies, or soldiers held independent shares.
It seems that the Aoba Group is only the only dominant force in the Tanindayi Province, but in fact it has already extended its tentacles to the entire Hongsawadi, but it has not been exposed.
In addition, he also supported a large number of spokespersons in both the white and black worlds, and even deployed a number of soldiers and managers.
In the base camp of Towa Port, no matter how powerful the forces behind Wu De, Jing Hu and others are, they cannot threaten the Aoba Group.
When Wu De and Jing Hu arrived at the headquarters of Aoba Group, they were both a little surprised. It was not that the headquarters building was very magnificent, but that it was very shabby .
If it weren't for the Aoba Group's logo and name on it, they would have thought the driver had come to the wrong place.
"Brother Jinghu, let's go!"
The two men got out of the car, accompanied by their confidants and bodyguards, and explained their purpose directly to the security guard at the door.
After a while, someone came to take them upstairs.
In the reception room.
Liu Zhifan saw the two leaders, one tall and one short. He had seen their photos and said with a smile, "Please take a seat, would you like tea or coffee?"
"Let's have green tea!" Jing Hu sat on the sofa opposite first.
"Me too." Wu De secretly observed Liu Zhifan.
After Liu Zhifan asked his assistant to pour tea, he got straight to the point and said, "You two, I know there are people behind you, but the Qingye Group also has people behind you."
Jing Hu did not mention the matter of Venus Company, but reminded: "The distributors of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are not easy to mess with."
They both knew that they were all white gloves.
But they don’t know that the Aoba Group is the silver bracelet, and the so-called backers behind it have to obey the Aoba Group.
"We can all make money together. We are reasonable." Liu Zhifan said with a smile.
Jing Hu stared at Liu Zhifan and said, "Then please adjust your product prices back to normal. Otherwise, the vicious competition will continue and it will not benefit anyone."
"No... I have a better suggestion." Liu Zhifan handed two documents to the two people.
Jing Hu and Wu De looked at each other and said nothing. They wanted to see what Liu Zhifan meant.
When they opened the file, their expressions changed immediately.
"Are you sure? You want to supply us with glass bottles at this price?" Wu De couldn't help but ask.
Liu Zhifan nodded: "That's the price, the condition is that you must work with us to kick Coca-Cola and Pepsi out of the Hongsawadi market."
Jing Hu and Wu De exchanged glances quickly, and at the same time calculated the costs in their minds. The beverage packaging cost accounts for the largest proportion of a bottle of beverage.
According to the quotation from Aoba Group, they can get glass bottles at half the price of plastic bottles.
In this way, their company's beverage production costs can be reduced to about a quarter of the retail price, especially for those specialty beverages, and their competitiveness will be greatly enhanced.
But the two of them still had doubts.
"If you are worried about the supply of glass bottles, we can sign a long-term contract, three or even ten years, and set a huge penalty for breach of contract."
Liu Zhifan's proposal quickly dispelled the last doubts in the two people's hearts.
But Jinghu and the others didn't know that Liu Zhifan was fishing and also using the opponent's force to his advantage.
Na Yu is the person behind the two of them. Through this cooperation, Liu Zhifan plans to invite important members of the other party to come to the private island near Tuva Port to play for a while.
At the same time, the forces behind the two people will help Aoba Group to confront the distributors of Coca-Cola and Pepsi head-on.
