Reborn fashion designer

Chapter 658 The Quiet Arrival of Shared Bikes

"What did you say? Mr. Xiang is no longer in Paris?"

As soon as he got off the plane, while Wang Sicong was buying clothes, Zhang Sen called Ding Zhong.

The phone is on.

But the result surprised him.

I flew here all night, but the person is gone?

"Yeah." 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 with Ding Zhong before departure. The two of them were scheduled to leave for Rotterdam in two days.

Could it be that he is deliberately avoiding me?

Zhang Sen couldn't help but guess.

"Plans cannot keep up with changes." Ding Zhong blurted out.

He was just resting in the hotel last night, but after receiving a call from Xiang Yang, he was asked to go to the bar for a drink.

As soon as we met, I learned that the drinking party was over and we were going to Amsterdam.

There were two dogs and a cat traveling with us.
At this moment, they were in the car behind, accompanying the blonde and blue-eyed Annabella, curiously looking at this 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 because of logistics.

The low tax policy is also the main reason that attracts them to settle here.

This is the same reason why Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Google and Facebook have their headquarters in Ireland.

Previously, when Uber was first established and was just beginning to expand into Europe, its headquarters was also set up here.

However, due to Macron's persuasion, Xiangyang and Musk discussed and moved it to Paris, but the data center is still in Amsterdam.

INS and WhatsApp operate in the same way.

Xiangyang was originally going to Rotterdam, and he stopped by Amsterdam to check on his own business. This reason was very reasonable.

After hearing Ding Zhong's legitimate explanation, Zhang Sen's face turned red.

Why did you say that?
Who told you not to say hello in advance?

They had already made arrangements in advance.

"In that case." Zhang Sen sighed and said, looking at Wang Sicong who was communicating with the beautiful shopping guide in the store:

"I will rest in Paris first, and then go to Rotterdam to meet up with you, Mr. Ding."

Hearing this, Ding Zhong smiled.

What is a plain and simple business war?
It was obvious that Xiang Yang was deliberately trying to trick Wanda so that they could understand the position of their cooperation.

"Mr. Xiang, what do you think?" Covering the phone, Ding Zhong whispered Zhang Sen's words to Xiang Yang.

"Send them here."

Xiangyang moved the corner of his mouth slightly.

"Okay." Ding Zhong nodded and politely conveyed Xiangyang's intention to Zhang Sen who was waiting on the other end of the phone.

We agreed to meet in Rotterdam, so let’s meet in Rotterdam.

"Okay, I got it. Thank you for troubling Mr. Ding."

Zhang Sen exchanged a few pleasantries before hanging up the phone.

As a veteran in the business world, Xiangyang was not stupid and knew what the young man's intention was.

But what can be done?

There is very little business cooperation between Hermès and Wanda.

Even the vast majority of Hermès perfume counters in department stores are not operated by Hermès itself, but are sold through agency companies.

So he could only swallow this loss.

As for the shops leased to FILA and Anta in Wanda Plaza
"Boss Ding, when your company's design center is established in Milan, you must set up more branches here."

Seeing Ding Zhong hung up the phone, Xiangyang 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 he knew this was that Musk told Xiang Yang, otherwise he wouldn't know how to do it specifically.

Simply put, it is to provide loans and transfer its intellectual property rights through a subsidiary, and the subsidiary owns shares in a Dutch shell company under the same group, achieving mutual holding to exploit loopholes.

All in all, you can save a lot of money.

(Uber used this trick to register a network of 50 shell companies and evaded $200 billion in taxes in Europe).

This is also why Uber, INS and WhatsApp claim that their European headquarters are in Paris.

But in fact, this data center in the Netherlands and the future network of shell companies are the main body.

In response to taxation, Anta will set up a professional overseas department to take charge. Ding Zhong is more concerned about:
"Mr. Xiang, I heard that you are going to have in-depth cooperation with Decathlon next."

"Yes."

Xiang Yang nodded and continued, "There are still many shortcomings in our HYS supply chain, and we need this kind of cooperation to improve it. But don't worry, Mr. Ding, this will not affect the cooperation between us."

"Personally, I think Anta should also join in."

"Oh? What do you mean?" Ding Zhong asked immediately when he heard that Xiang Yang wanted to work with Anta to expand sales channels and make some money together.

Lately, I've been spending too much.

"Learn from Decathlon's experience and then transplant it here," Xiang Yang explained.

"Mr. Xiang, what you mean is that HYS will also have to develop a professional supermarket marketing model in the future?" Ding Zhong swallowed.

“It’s not HYS, it’s FILA.”

Xiang Yang said solemnly: "It's mainly the North American market. We need to sit down and think carefully about how to integrate into this market. Amazon has a huge impact on both direct sales channels and supermarket marketing. The amount of money required to set up an e-commerce department for this purpose is also daunting. So."

Xiangyang outputs a lot.

Ding Zhong listened attentively.

It turns out that Xiang Yang had begun thinking about this matter when he emphasized the need to obtain the operating rights of FILA in the United States when he acquired the FILA brand.

Sales in North America are indeed very challenging.

The reasons for this are not only the daily operating expenses and high logistics, but also the backlog of inventory, which makes life difficult for all operators when faced with huge store expenses.

"Mr. Xiang, do you have any specific ideas?" "I have some, otherwise I wouldn't have dragged you all the way here." Xiang Yang laughed and said:

"We have completed financing for Uber this year, and will have another round of financing early next year or before the end of this year. I hope Mr. Ding can help me if I have any funding problems."

Xiangyang asked him to borrow money!

Ding Zhong felt inexplicably excited.

But he soon became confused again.

Xiangyang is not short of money!

Moreover, the first round of financing announced by Uber was only in the millions of dollars.

With Xiangyang's ability, he paid the money with his eyes closed.

Could it be that.
"I intend to propose to Musk the idea of ​​establishing a truck industry in the next round of financing. Maybe we will need to acquire a truck or freight company at that time." Xiang Yang also doesn't know how much this proposal will cost.

But the establishment of Uber Freight was only a matter of time.

As for how to convince Musk.

That's not a big deal.

As the fourth largest employment sector in the United States, he really doesn't believe that Musk doesn't realize the benefits that establishing this business will bring to him personally.

Moreover, Uber Freight's business has great market prospects.

In the first year alone, it brought Uber $5 million in revenue, even though others had already taken the lead.

He calculated the amount of his funds.

If you want to increase your assets quickly, you must make the shares you hold appreciate quickly.

So if you want to survive in this money-burning war, you can only rely on external forces.

He had no intention of borrowing money from Ding Zhong.

But
CIB.

He had only had one previous encounter with the CIB people and was not familiar with the route.

When he heard that Xiang Yang was not going to borrow money from him but was going to CIB, Ding Zhong felt a little uncomfortable from the bottom of his heart for some reason.

But he will definitely help.

"Don't worry, Mr. Xiang. I believe CIB will provide you with the help you need."

"I'm sorry to have made Mr. Ding laugh."

Xiangyang said embarrassedly.

"This is normal, nothing." Ding Zhong smiled heartily. The money for Anta's acquisition was also borrowed.

Xiangyang is able to rely on himself to have such high-quality assets as collateral.

It's already great.

"So Mr. Xiang thinks that the first pain point to be solved is the high cost of logistics?"

"Yeah, that's right." Xiang Yang pursed his lips and said, "And by the way, let our own enterprises be connected in series."

"It seems that Mr. Xiang has also thought carefully about this investment."

Ding Zhong sighed.

An inconspicuous Uber can not only earn commissions and advertising fees, but also provide services for its own career development.

This layout
He gave Xiangyang a thumbs up from the bottom of his heart.

"Mr. Xiang, do you think the soil in China is suitable for this kind of soil?"

"what?"

"I mean, the Chinese market is so big, why don't you consider letting Uber in?"

"Uh this."

Xiangyang couldn't help but swallow.

The domestic taxi-hailing apps are burning money in such a way that even the already established Uber couldn't stand it when they entered the market. If they get involved in this mess, they'll have to mortgage their pants to the bank.

But there is one thing that seems to be possible.

"Mr. Ding, I have an idea."

"Speak to you, sir."

"What do you think about us putting a certain number of bicycles in colleges and universities? They can be provided to college students for daily cycling on campus. By the way, Anta can also use this activity to join hands with HYS to expand the domestic cycling market."

“Public bicycles on campus?”

Ding Zhong frowned.

"Wait a moment, I'll contact my secretary." Xiang Yang seemed to remember something, so he took out his cell phone and called Bi Shaffer.

Bea Schaeffer, who was chairing the meeting, saw her cell phone on the table flash a few times and took a look.

Finding that it was Xiangyang calling, she cleared her throat and said, "Everyone, take a break."

Then, as everyone was walking out, she picked up her phone.

"Boss, what do you want to talk to me about?"

"Shafer, help me find any successful cases of public bicycles in Europe and the United States."

"Public bicycles?"

Bi Shafer frowned. Of course there is.

but
Xiangyang is really good at finding things to do for himself.

She took out the notebook on her desk and typed something in the search bar. She sighed and said:
"Boss, the first generation of public bicycles, is in the city you are in now. Amsterdam launched the White Bike Program in 1965."

"what?"

"The paradise city that Little John talked about followed the example of Paris last year in introducing a public bicycle system, saying it was to solve the 'last mile' problem."

"."

Xiangyang is a little bit incredible.

Wasn’t it said that shared bicycles were only launched in 2014?

"Then help me check which cities in China have it now."

“Shanghai, Hangzhou, Wuhan.”

Hearing these three familiar place names, Xiangyang blinked.

It turns out that he, his wife, and little John were wandering around these cities in the country, but they were like blind people and didn't see anything.

It works!
(End of this chapter)