Far away had a lot going on in October.
From the beginning of the month, the international version of Weibo was launched, the mobile version of Wan Tong was launched, the Far away Logistics Park opened, and the investigation team settled in Wan Tong …
Then there was Weibo's Series B financing, the option incentive plan was released, and the professional level was unified.
Shancheng was still fighting with Yonghui Supermarket, Huadong was integrating with China Resources, and Far away Airlines was also in the process of locating …
And the second round of the Far away project was officially launched!
Li Dong allocated 10 billion yuan to acquire another 10 pieces of land. In addition to the previous 10, in about 10 years, 20 Far away cities would land on the land of Hua Xia at the same time!
At this point, Faraway Group entered the second round of expansion mode.
In the first few years, Far away was laying the foundation. From the second half of 2008, Far Away began to expand in depth.
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And just when everyone's eyes were on the Internet industry Far away.
Domestic retail companies seemed to be in place, or felt the opportunity. While Far away was not paying attention, they all made their moves.
Since the beginning of October, major retail groups have been moving frequently.
In terms of supermarkets, on October 1st, Dashang acquired the northeast local retail giant Eurasian Supermarket, took over Xinglong, and acquired several local retail giants such as Zhongxing Supermarket and Central Red Supermarket.
At this point, Dashang completed all the retail layout in the northeast region.
Dashang, known as the "Northeast Tiger of Retail," began to recuperate. In the northeast region, the retail turmoil had calmed down.
In the three provinces in the northeast, Dashang was the leader of the retail industry.
In North China, Wumart completed the integration of Xinhua Supermarket. Because Dashang focused on the territory of the three provinces in the northeast, they gave up competing with Wumart for the controlling stake of the Beijing local retail giant, Supermarket.
Based on this, Wumart, after many twists and turns, finally won the controlling stake of Supermarket.
The three major local retail giants in Beijing, Wumart, Supermarket, and Keikelon, were now completely absorbed by Dashang.
There was even news that Wumart had the idea of Keikelon, and intended to unify all the local retail forces in Beijing to counter the invasion of other foreign capital.
The foreign capital mentioned by Wumart was mainly Faraway Supermarket.
After Faraway Supermarket acquired Carrefour, Carrefour already had a large market share in the Beijing-Tianjin area. With the merger of the two, even Wumart, a local retail giant, felt suffocated.
Other than Beijing and Tianjin, Northern China also included Hebei and Jin provinces. However, the local retail industry in these two provinces was weak. Only Jin Province's Meitehao Supermarket entered the top 100 retail industry and was slightly famous in Northern China.
Most of them were external investors, such as Auchan and RT-Mart's Gaoxin, Bailian's Lianhua, Lotus, Huarun Vanguard …
Including Far away and Carrefour, there were large-scale deployments in North China.
Instead of being used in Northeast China, the retailing of department stores in North China had formed a situation where the four foreign capitals, Far away, Huarun, Gaoxin, and Bailian, and the three local giants, Wumart, Kyokelon, and Meitel, were in charge.
The Eastern China region was much clearer than other regions.
The entire Eastern China could be seen as two large pieces. With Shanghai as the dividing line, Jiangbei, Jiangzhe, Sunan, Shandong, and Jiangxi provinces were mainly dominated by Far away and Huarun.
In Shanghai and Minnan, Bailian and the Agricultural-Industrial Complex had the advantage.
Other local players, such as Yintai and Yonghui, were shrinking their scope at the moment, consolidating their fixed market, and no longer dared to attack.
Now Huarun and Far away had joined forces, and Bailian and the Agricultural-Industrial Complex had joined forces.
Originally, Bailian and the Agricultural-Industrial Complex had only joined forces, and the two sides had not been unified. However, on October 7th, the Shanghai State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission released news that Bright Group was about to restructure.
The Agricultural-Industrial Complex was likely to be separated and completely merged into Bailian.
Shanghai hoped to increase the strength of Bailian and expand its influence to resist the invasion of Far away and Huarun.
Since ancient times, local protectionism had existed.
Even an international metropolis like Shanghai, although there were no restrictions on foreign enterprises, they also wanted to see the competitiveness of local enterprises increased.
Once Bailian and the Agricultural-Industrial Complex were defeated by Far away and Huarun, the local retail industry in Shanghai would be completely controlled by foreign forces.
In Southern China, after Wal-Mart acquired Trust-Mart, it occupied the first place, followed by Huarun Vanguard, and RT-Mart ranked third. The local companies, such as Xinyijia and Renren Le, couldn't even enter the top three.
As a coastal area, Southern China was also the region with the strongest foreign investment.
Even if Huarun made a fortune from this, it couldn't withstand the attack of Wal-Mart.
In the three provinces of Central China, the local companies were respected by the Wushang Alliance. Under the fierce attack of Far away and Huarun, Bailian finally realized that it had made a big mistake and led a wolf into the house.
Far away was not a wolf, but a pack of hungry wolves, and it was very likely that the future of Bailian would be completely ruined.
After several hesitations and the facilitation of Hubei Province, under the strong external threat, the three major retail giants of Hubei Province, Bailian, Zhongshang, and Ewu finally chose to sit down to negotiate and restructure.
On October 10th, the three parties announced that they would soon form the Wushang Alliance.
The retail structure of Eastern China, Northern China, Central China, Southern China, and Northeastern China was already relatively clear.
In the Southwestern and Northwestern China, apart from Shancheng Business Alliance, the local companies had no one to support them.
If it wasn't for the fact that the giants were anxious to unite their forces in the Eastern China and start preparing for war, the local small and medium-sized enterprises in the Western China would have long been divided up.
Up until now, as the major department store chains continued to change, expand, or shrink.
Xinyijia, which previously still had the strength to fight, completely withdrew from the ranks of hegemony, and the New Business Alliance's local market was also swallowed up by the giants, in imminent danger.
The stable situation in the first half of the year changed again, forming a situation where the eight retail giants, Far away, Huarun Vanguard, Bailian, Wal-Mart, Gao Xin, Da Shang, Wushang, and Wushang Alliance, fought for hegemony.
The foreign companies, Carrefour, completely disappeared. Tesco, Lotte, and a few other foreign companies saw the giants rise in Hua Xia. The few foreign retail companies that were already a step behind, seeing this situation, other than sighing helplessly, they no longer had the desire to win.
Other than Wal-Mart and Gao Xin, which were among the eight giants, the other foreign companies all withdrew from the hegemony.
The eight giants occupied the majority of the market in Hua Xia.
The next level were Keiko, Meitel, Yintai, Xinyijia, Renren Le, Yonghui, Yamashiro Business Alliance … these local companies, as well as foreign companies such as Tesco and Metro.
The situation in Hua Xia's department store was already clear.
Apart from the supermarket industry, the other main business of the retail industry was the retail of home appliances.
The retail of home appliances was much clearer than the retail of the supermarket. Suning, Gome, Dazhong, Yongle, Five Star, Best Buy, Sanlian, Hongtu, Dixintong, and Shengxing Electrical Appliances divided up 80% of the national market.
Among them, Yongle and Sanlian were swallowed up by Gome, Dazhong was swallowed up by Suning, Five Star was swallowed up by Best Buy, and Shengxing Electrical Appliances faced bankruptcy under the impact of the financial crisis.
In an instant, five of the top ten home appliances retailers were gone, leaving only five giants fighting for the top.
And Best Buy did not make any moves for the time being. Although Dixintong was known as a giant, its strength was actually weak. In the battle between Gome and Suning, Hongtu was also powerless to intervene. In the field of home appliances, there was a situation of two giants fighting for hegemony.
However, under the situation that everyone had forgotten.
The three e-commerce websites, Far Away Mall, Tmall, and Jingdong Mall, gradually emerged and began to invade the field of physical home appliances.
Far away supermarkets also gradually increased their own home appliances business.
With the support of Wal-Mart, Jingdong also began to have ideas on several traditional e-commerce companies such as Suning, quietly beginning to invade their inherent market.
For a time, a storm was brewing.
However, in the environment of the financial crisis, everyone was restraining themselves and quietly accumulating strength.
Once they had enough strength, a long war was bound to break out in the retail industry of Hua Xia.
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October 13th.
Li Dong held a meeting for the supermarket executives.
Sun Tao and Wang Yue, the two vice presidents of the group, attended the meeting. The other executives were Chen Lang, Tan Haiying, Chen Heming, Zhang Mingduo, Qi Yunna, and others.
In the meeting room.
When everyone arrived, Li Dong had already arrived.
When Sun Tao and the others arrived, Li Dong was lying on the table, studying a map.
When everyone arrived, Li Dong smiled and said, "Everyone, take a look. The current situation is gradually becoming clear. Previously, everyone was looking at flowers in the fog and everyone was fighting. Now, the situation is finally clear."
Everyone stood up and looked over.
Seeing that there were more people, Li Dong smiled and said, "Haiying, you are in the Internet business. Later, make a few electronic maps for us. We have to keep up with the times."
Tan Haiying quickly nodded.
Chen Lang looked at the map and said, "General Manager Li, is there going to be a war again?"
"Why are you being so alarmist? What do you mean by war?"
Li Dong laughed and said, "It is to let everyone have an idea. There are still a few months before the end of this year. It is also to set a goal for everyone, lest you all run around like headless flies."
Chen Lang laughed dryly. Setting a goal? Who knew how many goals Faraway Supermarket had now.
This year, just the expansion of South, North, and Central Provinces had made Chen Lang anxious.
Also, over at Shancheng, Yonghui was very resilient and had not been taken down for a long time. It was also a problem.
Now, Li Dong said that they were running around like headless flies. Wasn't this a joke?
Although he was speechless, Chen Lang did not say anything, and the others would not say anything.
Li Dong did not care about them. He pointed at the map and said, "Now, the situation in Hua Xia is the clearest, but also the most complicated.
Bailian and the Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce have united to form a super group, and their strength has skyrocketed.
If we want to unify Hua Xia, it will be much more difficult.
The cooperation with Huarun will at most destroy some second-tier department store chain companies.
For example, local companies such as Yintai and Jiayue are our main targets this time, as well as foreign companies such as Metro and Tesco, which are not strong in Hua Xia.
While we are cleaning up these companies, Bailian and the Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce will expand south and attack Minnan. They will attack Yonghui from both inside and outside.
Yonghui will not be able to hold on for long. It will be destroyed before the end of the year!
These second-tier companies will be destroyed. Next, Hua Xia will be the situation of three countries fighting for hegemony. It will not be shaken for the time being. "
Everyone nodded slightly. These second-tier companies were not weak.
But under the encirclement of the three top giants, there would be no way out.
The final result was either being acquired or using local protectionism to defend the local market.
However, the local protection was not limitless.
If you were not strong enough, you would be eliminated sooner or later. In addition, everyone was developing now, but if you stubbornly defended the local market, you would completely lose your hope of becoming big.
Li Dong said and continued, "Let's not care about Hua Xia for the time being. Huarun and Bailian are both strong. We can't do anything to them for the time being. But … "
Everyone pricked up their ears and waited for Li Dong to continue.
Li Dong chuckled and said, "However, the so-called Eight Titans now still have people who are unqualified to make up the numbers.
Central China's Martial Business Alliance and North China's Wumart are still a lot weaker compared to the others.
Gao Xin, Wal-Mart, and Huarun are fighting openly and covertly in Hua Xia. If we don't provoke them, they won't provoke us.
"As for the Great Business Alliance, they are in the northeast. Although they are not strong, the northeast is tightly controlled by them. We can't do anything to them for the time being.
"Only Wumart is in the middle of war. The retail war in Hua Xia can be said to be extremely chaotic.
"So, after we deal with Hua Xia, our target will be North China. After we get rid of Wumart, North China will be our world. At most, we will give a share to Huarun and a few others.
And the Martial Business Alliance is the most important! "
Li Dong's expression turned solemn. Chen Lang continued, "The merger of Zhongbai and Huarun to form the Martial Business Alliance is a huge taboo for us.
"We have been operating the southwest market for a long time, and Hubei happens to be the transit point between Jiangbei and the southwest. It is also our strategic military route.
"Now that they are blocking our military route and cutting off our connection with the southwest, they are courting death.
"I feel that Wumart is not in a hurry. Hua Xia is a place of war, and it can't be finished in a short time.
"On the other hand, the Martial Business Alliance must be defeated as quickly as possible and not give them the chance to unite their forces.
"Opening up the main route with the southwest is to prepare for our large-scale invasion of the southwest in the future."
Everyone nodded. Sun Tao pondered for a moment and said, "The establishment of the Martial Business Alliance is indeed unwise. It would be better if they didn't merge. We can just borrow their route. Plus, with their cooperation with Zhongbai, it is not good for us to kill them. "But now that they have joined forces to drive us out of Hubei and cut off our military route, we have no choice but to make a move. "Once they are allowed to grow, our connection with the southwest will be completely cut off. In the southwest, we have a lot of investments in Shancheng and Sichuan. "If we are cut off, I am afraid there will be a lot of trouble."
The few of them analyzed the pros and cons, and Chen Lang asked Li Dong, "General Manager Li, what you mean is that after we defeat the second and third tier retail groups in Hua Xia, we will turn to Hubei and open up our connection with the southwest?"
Li Dong nodded and said, "Not just Hubei. Didn't I say before? We must defeat Wumart and completely connect the business in Hua Xia and North China together. Every time I go to Beijing, I always feel that there is a cut off point between Jiangbei and Beijing. It is not entirely Wumart, but Wumart is indeed strong in Hua Xia. After defeating Wumart, the other companies are nothing to worry about, and it is enough for us to connect our industries and completely dominate the eastern market. "
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