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Chapter 239 This must be fought back!

"I do suspect someone, but I'm not sure." Chen Shoulin was a little conflicted about whether to say it out loud.

After all, in Chen Shoulin's view, this was just his guess.

If it is not as he guessed, counterattacking easily will be equivalent to hurting others by mistake.

"Mr. Chen, just tell me. I will investigate it thoroughly before making a decision!" Lin Haoran said with a smile.

"Well, I'll be frank. I suspect the other party is the Yihe Electric City under Yihe Jiaye Company. This electric city currently has eight chain stores in the whole of Hong Kong, including five on Hong Kong Island.

Relying on our own advantages, our Fengze Electrical Appliance Company has always sold electrical appliances well, especially electric water heaters. No other company in Hong Kong can match our sales volume.

Because of this, we are considered to be the largest electrical appliance chain store in Hong Kong.

Jardine Matheson Company has big ambitions. Last year, there were only three Jardine Electrical Appliances stores. In less than a year, they opened five more stores. However, it is said that the sales are not very good and it has been in a lukewarm state. It is impossible to lose money, but there is no profit either.

However, after the recent incident at our Fortress Electrical Appliances Company, I also noticed that the flow of people at Jardine Electrical Appliances City increased, and not surprisingly, their electrical appliance sales also increased significantly.

Taking all these factors into consideration, I suspect that the reason why our Fengze Electric Company was targeted and even fabricated this time was because of Yihe Electric City. "Chen Shoulin expressed his conjecture.

"Mr. Chen, do you have any specific information about Fengze Electrical Appliance Company?" Lin Haoran asked.

He only knew which subsidiaries were under the Hong Kong Electric Group, and he had not previously learned much about the situations of the subsidiaries.

"Yes, boss. I'll find the information for you right away." After Chen Shoulin said that, he rummaged through the bookcase at the back and finally took out a folder.

"This is the detailed information of Fengze Electric Appliance Company from its establishment to the present." Chen Shoulin flipped it open and took a look. After making sure that he had taken the right folder, he handed it to Lin Haoran.

So Lin Haoran started reading.

Fengze Electric Appliance Company was founded in 1975, and it has been five or six years since then.

It has a very big advantage that other electrical appliance malls that simply sell electrical appliances cannot compare with.

That is, Fortress Electrical Company uses all electricity payment centers of Hong Kong Electric Group as sales outlets.

On the Hong Kong Island, Fortress Electrical Appliances Company has 21 sales outlets, covering most of the prosperous areas of the entire Hong Kong Island, such as Central, Causeway Bay, Wan Chai, North Point, Sheung Wan, Kennedy Town, Heung Kong Tsai, Stanley, Chai Wan and other places.

Even with the development in recent years, separate electrical appliance sales outlets have been opened in Tsim Sha Tsui, Mong Kok, Sham Shui Po, Kwun Tong and other places on the Kowloon Peninsula.

Due to the advantages of electricity payment outlets, when citizens pay their bills, they always pay attention to the electrical appliances in the electricity payment business hall, especially the electric water heaters. Therefore, the electric water heaters of Fengze Electric Appliance Company have become the best-selling electrical appliance products.

Moreover, the store does not need to hire additional salesmen. Instead, the electricity salesmen can serve as part-time salesmen, which saves a lot of basic salary expenses.

For these salesmen, selling these electrical appliances can give them an extra commission, which is a good job to increase their income.

Therefore, when Fortress Electric Appliance Company was first established, everything went very smoothly.

All salesmen at electricity payment centers must not only know how to handle payment business, but also be proficient in sales business, and these are all trained.

Initially, Fortress Electric Company only sold electric water heaters.

With the development, household appliances such as electric fans, induction cookers, and electric ovens have gradually been added.

Today, Fortress Electrical Appliances has become the largest electrical appliance chain brand in Hong Kong in terms of industry reputation and market share, and is deeply trusted by consumers.

In other words, Fortress Electrical Appliances Co., Ltd. has the largest share in the field of home appliance sales in Hong Kong.

Since Jardine Electrical Appliances City has ambitions, it is normal for it to want to encroach on the market share of Fortress Electrical Appliances Company.

Lin Haoran has no objection if they rely on their own strength to develop.

But if the purpose this time is to increase the sales of their Jardine Electrical City by relying on Fortress Electrical Company, then don't blame him.

I must fight back. If I don't, it seems like you think Lin Haoran is easy to bully.

Of course, before fighting back, we must investigate clearly whether it is Jardine Matheson Electric Appliances City that is behind this.

If it is really as Chen Shoulin guessed, then they will naturally fight back.

If we don't teach them a severe lesson, this kind of problem will surely continue to occur in the future.

After closing the information booklet of Fengze Electric Appliance Company, Lin Haoran gently placed it on the desk, then raised his head and looked at Chen Shoulin.

"Mr. Chen, no matter if there is someone behind this conspiracy, Fengze Electrical Appliance Company cannot go on like this. Do you have any solution?" Lin Haoran asked.

"If my guess is true, then the competitor is using this fictitious propaganda war to target our Fengze Electric Company. British companies are the best at using this kind of trick. I don't know how many Chinese companies have been ruined or even closed down by them.

In the past, our Hong Kong Electric Group was still a British-owned enterprise, so perhaps the other party did not take action. However, now that the Hong Kong Electric Group has been acquired by you, the boss, the other party’s attitude is different.

In my opinion, if this incident was really done by Jardine Matheson Electric City, the boss of Jardine Matheson, Niu Bijian, must have known about it. After all, our Hong Kong Electric Group is not a small enterprise. When they initiated this incident, they must have considered our uniqueness and must have made the decision after careful consideration.

Since Mr. Niu Bijian acquiesced, it would be difficult for us to redeem ourselves in this regard. Because, whether it is the police or the Department of Justice, they would definitely acquiesce to the actions of Jardine Matheson, and they might not care even if we were accused of something that was not true.

In this situation, although we are right, it is difficult to resolve the matter through legal means.

The best way to restore our reputation is to make the evidence we have public by utilizing more influential media.

In addition, we cannot sue Jardine Electric City, but we can sue Hong Kong Times. We will sue them in the Court of First Instance, even if it may end up being a protracted battle and the lawsuit may take a year or two. However, our goal is not to win the lawsuit in the end, but to make this matter bigger, and the bigger the better, because the responsibility for this matter is not on us!
If they continue to report like this, the losses caused to us will become greater and greater, so we must make the truth of this matter known as soon as possible!
We also did not expect that the other party actually bought off a comprehensive newspaper like the Hong Kong Times. To be honest, even if we file a lawsuit, we may not win in the end, and even if we win, we will not get much compensation.

Fortunately, they didn't buy the Oriental Daily News, which is the best-selling newspaper in Hong Kong, otherwise we would be in more trouble." Chen Shoulin expressed his thoughts.

It has long been a habit for the Hong Kong media to spread rumors and create trouble. They can do anything for the sake of sales, popularity and profit.

Because these can be said to be legal loopholes. Even if they lose the lawsuit, they will not be ordered to pay too much money. For these media companies, they will not suffer much loss by exploiting these loopholes.

Precisely because the cost of spreading rumors is so low, Hong Kong's media is notoriously chaotic. In the name of "freedom of the press", they report a lot of fabricated news.

After listening to Chen Shoulin's words, Lin Haoran nodded.

He was deeply touched by the chaos in Hong Kong media.

It was for this reason that he tried to find a way to take over Oriental Daily News, the newspaper and media company with the largest sales volume.

However, it is amazing that no one has noticed that Oriental Daily has changed its owner.

But it's normal. Even within the Oriental Press Company, not many people know about this. If they don't announce it, not many people will know about it.

To this day, many middle and low-level employees of Oriental Press Group still believe that the boss of their company is the Ma family.

The Oriental Press Company itself is managed by Cui Zilong. As for the Ma family, they are just the bosses behind the scenes. It makes no difference whether they are there or not.

Therefore, even if the entire Ma family moved to Taiwan, no one would have thought that they had actually sold the Oriental Press Company.

Even Chen Shoulin didn't know that the Oriental Daily News was owned by Lin Haoran.

The middle and low-level employees don’t know that their boss is Lin Haoran, and Lin Haoran doesn’t really care. As long as he controls the top management of Oriental Press Company, that’s enough.

"Mr. Chen, I have news for you." Lin Haoran said mysteriously.

"Oh? Please go ahead, boss." Chen Shoulin looked at the boss curiously, wanting to know what he would say.

"In fact, the current Oriental Daily is already my company. I have acquired it a long time ago. If you want to use the Oriental Daily to fight back, there is no problem at all. I will let the general manager of Oriental Press Company cooperate with you!" Lin Haoran said with a smile.

"What? The Oriental Daily was actually acquired by you, the boss?" This news really surprised Chen Shoulin.

After the establishment of Oriental Daily News, it quickly became the best-selling newspaper in Hong Kong, and this status has continued to this day.

Some people once tried to acquire this newspaper company, but were rejected by the Ma family.

For the Ma family, Oriental Daily News is the best tool for them to whitewash themselves. How could they sell it so easily? They are not short of money.

So, over time, everyone gave up their covetousness for the Oriental Daily.

No one had ever imagined that this most famous newspaper company in Hong Kong would be secretly acquired by his boss.

This was indeed shocking and unexpected news for Chen Shoulin.

"Well, the acquisition has been completed several months ago, but I just didn't announce it. It's enough for you to know about it. There is no need to publicize it." Lin Haoran nodded.

"That's really great. This way, it will be much easier for our Hong Kong Electric Group to do things." Chen Shoulin said excitedly.

With the support of Oriental Daily News, why would he be afraid of Hong Kong Times?
The sales volume of the two is simply not at the same level. The sales volume of Oriental Daily News is basically several times that of Hong Kong Times every day.

"I will ask the Oriental Newspaper Company to investigate this matter for Fortress Electric Appliance Company to see if it is Jardine Matheson Company that is behind this. If so, we will not let Jardine Matheson Company go. Jardine Matheson Electric Appliance Company wants to develop, right? We will ruin their reputation and make sure they never have a chance to rise again!" Lin Haoran continued.

Today, the Hong Kong Electric Group and the Hong Kong Land Development are partners, and the Hong Kong Electric Group is even a shareholder of the Hong Kong Land Development.

Therefore, if they were really behind this, Lin Haoran would be very surprised.

However, it is not impossible, because the last time the Hong Kong Electric Group competed with Jardine Matheson to acquire China Gas Company, it severely embarrassed Jardine Matheson and Niu Bijian.

On that occasion, Jardine Matheson thought they had a sure win and could not wait to announce in advance their acquisition of China Gas Company, but in the end they were slapped in the face.

Having suffered such a huge loss of face, they must be full of hatred, which is why they launched this revenge. It is not impossible, and the possibility is quite high.

However, everything needs to wait for Cui Zilong to send someone to investigate.

Until the results of the investigation come out, everything is just speculation.

Although this speculation is becoming more and more likely.

(End of this chapter)