Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 112 20 Times Reward

"Michael, my friend, welcome to Xinghai Semiconductor."

Although it seems a bit strange for a company that sells radios to have the word "semiconductor" in its name, it's nothing special once you get familiar with it.

Besides, early radios also represented semiconductors and high technology.

In principle, it makes sense to call it this now.

"Hello, President Takeshita. Sorry to bother you again."

Michael has lived in Japan for a long time and has been almost assimilated into the Japanese. His etiquette is more standard than that of Takeshita Masato himself.

If the two sides swapped faces, it would definitely be more harmonious.

"What's the big deal? I wish you would bother me every day."

The more times Michael comes to him, the better the product sells.

Like the suitcase project, Michael rarely takes the initiative to contact us now.

On the contrary, Matsumoto Manufacturing often invites Michael and others to banquets, and gives Michael and others various benefits during festivals.

Suitcase projects have blossomed everywhere, and Matsumoto Manufacturing now only has the advantage of being the first mover. Even Fuya, the most stable brand, is facing the impact of luxury goods manufacturers.

Luxury giants such as LV and Hermès are constantly infiltrating the luxury travel luggage industry.

Fortunately, Japan is a major consumer of luxury goods in this era, so Fengya can still occupy the position of high-end brand by virtue of its number one title.

Japanese and Americans still recognize elegant brands.

Only in Europe have sales volumes declined sharply, with market share now less than 40%.

This is the result of being the number one company. It is estimated that in three to five years, the market share will not exceed 20%.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Takeshita Masato took the initiative to ask, "Friend, how many radios are you going to order this time?"

Michael sat up straight and pretended not to care, and asked tentatively: "Old conditions, okay?"

"Of course not!"

Michael really didn't have much money at the time, and since the suitcase project was expanding into overseas markets for the first time, he was naturally given very favorable conditions.

This is called buying bones with a lot of money.

Now Masato Takeshita has gained a certain reputation in the American retail industry, and Michael has also grown into a medium-sized agent.

Naturally, he would not give the unfavorable operation of settling the payment after selling the goods.

"Okay, then give me 35 pieces first."

Although Michael was mentally prepared, he was still disappointed and had to come up with Plan B.

"The company is developing well. We can already take out tens of millions of dollars at a time."

"No, they are all loans."

Michael did make a lot of money through the suitcase project, but it was really difficult for him to take out tens of millions of dollars in cash at one time.

He currently only had a few million in liquid funds. Even if he included fixed investments, his assets barely reached 2000 million.

"Having a loan proves that your company has grown into a small giant, doesn't it?"

After the great success of the luggage project, Michael did not rest on his laurels, but used the luggage project to expand into clothing, shoes and hats and other products.

The results were great, and he has become a rising star in the California channel.

Of course, filial piety is indispensable in this process.

Just to the police departments in various places, he would donate some activity funds every now and then.

Convenient with others, convenient with yourself.

Compared to Michael's desperate all-in, Jesse Penny seemed very at ease and directly placed an order for 150 million pieces.

JCPenney has strong political and economic connections in California, and disaster emergency radio involves public safety, so it is easy to convince governments at all levels in California.

If Xinghai Semiconductor's production capacity was not limited, Jesse Penny could still easily digest even if there were another 100 million units.

As for the price, it may be a little higher than in Japan. For example, if you sell a radio conservatively, you can sell it for 500 US dollars. If you are a little more arrogant, you will be sold at 1000 US dollars, which is a big loss.

Don't ask, the only thing is that the safety of the American people comes above all else.

"It's a pity that we can only watch a lot of money slip away."

Xinghai Semiconductor has limited production capacity, and can only produce 1 million units in a year. Japan will take up more than half of the production capacity, and the rest can be sold overseas.

The overseas production capacity is directly monopolized by American companies. Even if Western European countries want to buy, they can only do so through parallel import channels.

“But it’s also more stable this way.”

Many companies die from blind expansion.

This year, production capacity is seriously insufficient, so direct loans are required to expand the factory scale.

Then the next year, orders shrank by half, and the company was forced to go into bankruptcy proceedings.

Just as Masato Takeshita was counting the accounts, Masanagi Morita walked into the office happily.

"As expected of the president, he earned back a wafer fab in one go and also reserved a large amount of liquidity funds for the company."

Xinghai Semiconductor can earn 800 yen for each of the 8000 million radios produced, and even after deducting various expenses, the net profit is more than 300 billion yen.

This is the charm of classic inventions.

As long as you have enough production capacity, you can easily earn hundreds of millions of dollars in the first year.

In fact, there is a company in China that has similar opportunities.

Unfortunately, this company called Hailutong failed to catch it.

This project is the famous universal charger.

"I just made a suggestion. It's mainly everyone's credit. Don't worry, the R&D team, including you, will have their bonuses and salaries increased 20 times this month. And at the end of each year, a portion of the project bonuses will be distributed as dividends."

Only when there is a big reward can there be brave men.

Masato Takeshita wants to use high returns to attract frustrated scientific researchers from large companies.

If this trick doesn't work, then he can only go the three-star route.

You don't want to leave the company?

It's okay, you don't have to leave.

We will pay you several times the salary and only ask you to come on Saturdays and Sundays.

Japanese semiconductor industry engineers can't even refuse Samsung, so it's naturally even more difficult for local Japanese companies to refuse.

"So many, we are totally unworthy?"

Morita was shocked and didn't think he was worth the reward. The work he did could be done easily by many home appliance repairmen.

"Don't refuse. You and your team are both worthy. My opinion is indeed more important, but it still depends on your efforts to achieve it. Aren't those materials all tested out bit by bit by everyone?"

"But……"

"That's it."

Masato Takeshita rudely interrupted Masanori Morita, then turned to give new instructions to Yuriko Kagawa.

"Notify all scientific researchers to hold a meeting. I will read this message in person at that time."

"Yes, President!"

Although he was scolded, Morita Masanagi felt happy instead.

After so many years, Japan finally has a company that values the treatment of scientific and technological talents.

He even felt like crying.

The life of Japanese scientific researchers is really too hard. Not to mention compared with the United States, they are even worse than those in China.

(End of this chapter)