When the three businesses were discussed separately, the effect was better than Li Dong had imagined.
Soon, there were more than 10 investment institutions quoting for Weibo.
Far away, there was also some news leaked to the outside world, which was that a few new institutions had entered the market.
The entry of Wei Gang, Baidu, and SoftBank had indeed caused quite a stir.
However, while Li Dong felt that it was good, some people did not feel that it was good.
…
Lin 'an.
Looking at Far away growing day by day, whether it was the Internet industry or the real estate industry, they had achieved a lot of success. Ma Yun could not sit still.
What made Ma Yun even angrier was that SoftBank had actually betrayed him at this time!
Yes, he knew that SoftBank was an investment company, and everything was about making money.
But at this time, SoftBank came forward, and it made Ali a little embarrassed.
If Far away was just a simple Weibo company, or if it was not a shopping mall, Ma Yun did not care. They could invest in whoever they wanted.
But when Far away had become their biggest competitor, their biggest investor went to invest in their competitor. Wasn't this a slap in the face?!
Ma Yun was angry, but there was no way to vent.
Finally, after thinking for a long time, Ma Yun also decided to invest.
Of course, it was not Far away. He was not that stupid.
Ali's stock price had fallen sharply recently, and the B2B business had been unable to make a breakthrough. After thinking about it, Ma Yun decided to expand some of the business.
Far away's O2O model was not bad, and the supermarket was one of the points that Ma Yun wanted to invest in.
However, he had not thought about the supermarket for the time being. He was going to invest in Weibo now.
Of course, it was not Far away Weibo, but Sina Weibo.
Ma Yun thought in his heart that he could not let Far away Weibo be the only one to be big.
Far away Weibo had more than 100 million registered users now, and with the account barrier opened, Ma Yun had a hunch that after a period of time, the registered users of Far Away Mall might surpass Taobao.
Although the number of registered users did not represent anything, nor did it represent the turnover.
However, if they were to be surpassed in any aspect, Taobao's legend would be completely broken.
Following this, Taobao might be overtaken in all aspects.
Ma Yun couldn't tolerate such a thing happening. Since that was the case, he would also invest in Weibo.
Although Sina Weibo is not as good as Far away, it has the support of a portal and has great potential.
Far away, if the two sides worked together, it was not impossible to surpass them.
…
When Ma Yun is planning to work with Sina, Li Dong set his sights on Carrefour.
From the night of the 14th to the 20th, it had been almost a week.
Far away, they had recruited 1,600 people in the East China region this week!
Of course, it was mainly the East China region. There weren't many people recruited in other regions. Including the East China region, there were about 2,000 people.
Almost all of these 2,000 people were from Carrefour. Based on the 150 employees in each store, it was equivalent to Li Dong poaching all the employees in 14 of Carrefour's stores.
After losing so many employees, even if Carrefour had increased their benefits, they will still be short of manpower.
If not, there would be chaos in Carrefour.
Carrefour was furious, but there was no way to solve this problem.
Carrefour had set some restrictions and even started to sign labor contracts. Those who leave early will have to pay the penalty.
But before this, Carrefour had not signed any contracts with their employees.
In Carrefour, most of their employees are not considered official employees. They are only temporary workers.
Everyone in the industry knows why this happened.
After signing a formal contract, the company will have to bear more benefits. Also, most of Hua Xia's employees do not like to sign contracts.
This is because the employees will have to pay the insurance and housing fund after signing the contract, and their monthly expenses will increase by a few hundred.
Carrefour was happy to go with the flow. Among the tens of thousands of employees in Hua Xia, less than half of them signed the contract.
The remaining half can come and go at any time.
Far away, before poaching people, Carrefour's top management was still proud of how much they could save every year. Hua Xia's people are easy to fool.
At that time, they did not think that there would be a day when a company would poach people with tens of thousands of employees.
Even if they wanted to poach people, it would not be so easy.
Who would have thought that they would meet the most unreliable competitor at the most inopportune time?
Far away, Li Dong, this guy has no moral bottom line.
With so many people poaching over, is it worth it to spend so much every month?
Far away, some of the stores have not opened yet. It is equivalent to paying these people for nothing. Is it really free?!
Although they are full of resentment, Carrefour has no way to solve this problem.
With the loss of employees and poor business, the stores are losing money every day.
Far away is actually better than them. Business is definitely booming.
Although it does not make money, it did not lose money this time.
It is different from the previous bloody battle with Su Guo. At that time, both sides were fighting a price war, and in the end, almost all of them were operating at a loss.
What about Carrefour?
They wanted to fight a price war, but it was ineffective. No one came.
No one came. Is there any point in promoting?
Is there any point in fighting with Far away, other than harming others without benefiting oneself?
Not everyone is Ma Jialiang, and not everyone is Li Dong. In order to win or lose, these two people do not hesitate to go in with a white knife.
After all, the battle with Sunan is a matter of life and death. It is not up to them not to do their best.
But Carrefour is different. Not to mention the East China region, even the Hua Xia region is actually just a corner of the world.
In all parts of the world, they have nearly 10000 operating retail units. In 2007, the total sales reached 100 billion US dollars, more than 700 billion yuan.
In Hua Xia, their total sales last year did not reach 30 billion.
Relatively speaking, 30 billion is not a large amount.
In this case, Carrefour headquarters are hesitating whether to fight Far away to the death. They always feel that it is not worth it.
Even if they want to fight, it seems to be useless in the current situation.
Carrefour is hesitating, and even the headquarters have different opinions.
Some people say that they want to fight Far away to the end. Carrefour has this confidence. There is no reason that they will lose to a local company with less than 10 billion US dollars annual turnover.
Some people say that they should just give up the Hua Xia market.
It is not the first time that foreigners look down on Hua Xia. In their eyes, Hua Xia has always been so old-fashioned.
With this energy, they can expand in the European market.
If not, they can go to the Americas. In short, Asia is not a good place.
It is not surprising that they think this way. It is not the first time that Carrefour has failed to invest in Asia.
In 2000, they entered the Japanese market. In the end, four years later, in 2004, Carrefour was forced to withdraw from the Japanese market.
That was the first time they suffered a heavy blow in Asia. They had no choice but to focus on Hua Xia and increase their investment in China.
In the end, after a few years, Hua Xia also became unreliable.
Before Far away appeared, Carrefour is actually living a good life. With the brand of foreign investors, they have an advantage over local companies.
In Japan, the retail industry is developed, and everyone is implementing the strategy of low prices. Carrefour does not have an advantage in terms of prices, and they soon fail and withdraw.
In Hua Xia, they actually do not have an advantage in terms of prices, but people in Hua Xia like to shop at foreign companies.
Even if Bailian and Huarun's prices are lower, it does not stop people from going to Carrefour. Even if everyone's goods are actually provided by the same supplier, it also does not stop people in Hua Xia from feeling that Carrefour's goods are better and more authentic.
Originally, they thought that this situation will continue.
Who knew that the politicians in China will suddenly go crazy.
Not only them going crazy, but Hua Xia's Far away also went crazy. This is the first time they encountered such an aggressive retail company in Hua Xia.
In the past, other than Bailian, Huarun, and Suguo, other than Suguo, the other few companies are not aggressive.
When they met the people from Carrefour Far away, they realized that Suguo is not the most aggressive. Li Dong is the most aggressive!
The higher-ups do not have a unified opinion, and Hua Xia cannot make a decision.
Now, every day they delay, they will suffer losses.
Also, they do not know when this kind of situation will end, and more and more higher-ups are leaning towards withdrawing from Hua Xia.
… …
Shanghai.
Carrefour headquarters in Hua Xia District.
Luo Guowei is not in a good mood these few days. Of course, although his name is Hua Xia, Luo Guowei is a Frenchman.
He came to Hua Xia in 2006, and now, two years have passed, and he has become the President of Hua Xia District.
Before coming to Hua Xia, Luo Guowei was the President of Carrefour Argentina District.
In those years, Luo Guowei's life was very comfortable, and he did not have to worry about anything.
Before coming to Hua Xia, he was not very willing.
However, he could not do anything about the transfer from the headquarters. He could only pack his luggage and come to the mysterious ancient country from Europe.
When he came to Hua Xia, he could not see his favorite football match here.
Hua Xia's football level made Luo Guowei miss the time in Argentina.
Originally, he could bear the days without football. After a few years, he can leave this place.
Of course, the premise of all this is that the business is good, and he can be promoted.
In the past two years, things have been going in a good direction, but recently, Luo Guowei is very irritated and angry.
Li Dong!
It was all because of this guy that he was angry with the headquarters and reprimanded by the headquarters.
Luo Guowei felt very wronged. If it were someone else, it would be the same.
Li Dong is a madman. Before, he also fought with Su Guo to the death, and even Huarun Resources did not dare to fight with him.
Now that the madman has his eyes on Carrefour, Luo Guowei knows that the guy will not stop until he bites a piece of meat.
In fact, at this time, what Luo Guowei wants most is to see the headquarters issue a letter to withdraw from this damn place, Hua Xia!
He does not want to stay here any longer. Damn it, Chinese is really difficult to learn, but most of the people here are from Hua Xia. If he does not learn Chinese, he cannot communicate at all.
There is no exciting football game, no hot beach girls, only boring Chinese, crazy businessmen, and those politicians who stare at him …
He hates this place, and he hates to continue to stay in Hua Xia!
Just when he is annoyed, his assistant knocks on the door and comes in.
Glancing at his assistant, Luo Guowei is even angrier.
The assistant is not the hot girl he wants, but an old-fashioned woman in her forties from Hua Xia.
It is not romantic at all, not surprising at all.
But he can not refuse, because this assistant is assigned to him by the headquarters.
The old-fashioned woman can speak Chinese, English, and French, and she graduated from the most famous business school, which can bring him a lot of help.
However, for a Frenchman who pursued romance, he would prefer to see a beautiful woman with a hot body, rather than an old lady who wore big glasses all day long and had a rigid look.
As soon as the assistant enters the door, Luo Guowei knows what she is going to say. He mutters in his heart, "President Luo, sorry to disturb you. There is a document from the headquarters … Or, President Luo, an official wants to talk to you … Or, President Luo, have you finished reading yesterday's financial statement?"
He is tired of this kind of monotonous topic.
It is not like when he was in Argentina, his secretary, before entering the door, called him "dear", or simply gave him a kiss.
Just when Luo Guowei is distracted, the female assistant says, "President Luo, someone downstairs wants to see you."
Luo Guowei said absent-mindedly, "Who? An official from the Commerce Commission? Or the Industry and Commerce Bureau, or the Public Security Bureau?
According to the tradition of Hua Xia, this is called asking for money, right?
I don't want to see you. Just say that I am not here now, and let the public relations department handle it.
Damn politicians, don't they know that I am busy now?
When there is something to look for them, they like to … like to play football, right?
Football is such a magical sport, but in Hua Xia, only the officials know how to play football. Sh * t, I have had enough! "
Luo Guowei complained a lot. Normally, he would not be like this.
But now, his mood is really not very good.
The female assistant turned a blind eye to his complaints. When he finished, she adjusted her glasses and said, "President Luo, the person waiting downstairs is not an official."
"Then who is it? A charity or a chamber of commerce? "
"No, it is the COO of Faraway Group, Mr. Chen Lang, Mr. Chen."
"Far away?"
Luo Guowei suddenly became spirited. He looked up and asked, "Far away, what are they doing here? Do they want to ask for peace? "
The female assistant smiled a little stiffly. Her boss really knows how to joke.
Ask for peace?
Do you really understand Chinese?
At this time, how can Far away ask for peace? We should be the ones asking for peace.
However, the female assistant was too lazy to explain. She just calmly said, "President Luo, the guest is still waiting. Do you want to see him?"
"Chen Lang, I know Chen Lang, the former CEO of Huarun Vanguard. He came in person?" Luo Guowei muttered a few words.
After a while, Luo Guowei straightened his shirt and said seriously, "Invite Mr. Chen to the conference room to wait for me. I will be there soon."
After that, Luo Guowei asked the assistant again, "What do you think of my current state?"
The female assistant did not hide it and said directly, "You don't look very good, and your hair is a little messy. President Luo, you can tidy up a little. I will go and entertain President Chen first."
"Okay, I will be there soon!"
Luo Guowei still paid more attention to his image and hurried into the lounge in his office.
The female assistant ignored him and turned to leave the office.
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