Just as Plank was immersed in the news of becoming a millionaire in a daze, Kobe and his agent, Terlem, also arrived at the Hilton Hotel.
Xiao Yang borrowed a conference room from the hotel. Normally, a press conference would be held, but Anderma did not have a proper office address yet.
Therefore, both parties decided to sign the contract first. After An Dema was ready, they would hold another press conference. It would definitely be completed before the start of the regular season. After all, Xiao Yang still hoped that Kobe would wear An Dema's signature shoes to make an official appearance in the NBA.
Kobe brought Terlem to the conference room to carefully look at the contract that Xiao Yang had asked his lawyer to draft in advance. Plank also took a look at it.
When he saw the amount of the contract, he could not help but look at Kobe and then at Xiao Yang. He shook his head helplessly when he realized that Xiao Yang had no intention of backing down.
Kobe had carefully confirmed the terms of the contract. The conditions that Xiao Yang and Kobe had mentioned were clearly written on it, so there were not many doubts. Both parties signed the duplicate contract smoothly, and Kobe officially signed Anderma.
"Pa, pa, pa." Xiao Yang stood up and clapped excitedly." You'll be glad for your decision.”
"Thank you, I think so too.”Kobe smiled.
"When the venue is set up, we will officially hold a press conference with you.”Xiao Yang said as he shook hands with Talem.
" Xiao, you are now the owner of Kobe's team and shoes. We have absolute trust in you, haha!" Talem laughed.
"Kevin, you have to confirm the venue in the next few days. We can't delay any longer. We still need time to recruit people. Moreover, we need to have a place to distribute our flagship stores in various places, at least in a few big cities in the United States.”Xiao Yang was a little annoyed by this. It was only 1996, and online shopping was not popular yet. Most people bought their goods in physical stores, and at most, there were some phone purchases. If An Dema wanted to develop, it would definitely have to open its specialty stores in various places.
"Yes, I've already found a place. I'll bring you to take a look later. If there's no problem, we can sign the rental contract in the afternoon.”Plank nodded. Time was indeed tight. Fortunately, Xiao Yang had brought along a few pairs of design drafts for the core products. Otherwise, he would have had to worry about the designer.
The two sides hugged and said goodbye again. Kobe and Talham left. Kobe still had to go back to training. This time, he had taken two hours off from the coaching session and had to make up for it later.
Xiao Yang left with Plank. He wanted to check the company's address and confirm it as soon as possible if there were no problems.
" This is so sad. Didn't I plan to be a hands-off manager? Why am I now designing products and looking for a spokesperson? Now, I have to confirm the company's address..." Xiao Yang's thoughts were a little sorrowful, which had deviated from what he had expected.
Soon, Plank arrived at his destination. It was an office building that was close to the city. The traffic was quite convenient. Xiao Yang looked up at the office building." How many floors?" He suddenly realized that it was not far from Charaz's apartment. Haha, it would be very convenient in the future.
"The office building has a total of 33 floors. I'm looking at the 27th floor. This place is also close to the city, so the transportation is convenient.”Plank had obviously picked many places to compare.
"Not bad, let's go up and take a look." Xiao Yang didn't waste any time and walked in front of them into the office building.
The two of them quickly took the elevator up. It was obvious that it was a company. Now that it had moved away, the door was not locked. Xiao Yang went in to take a look. Hmm, the place looked quite empty. It was probably about two thousand square meters.
" Call the property manager up. This is it. We don't have time to pick anymore. We'll build our own independent office building when we earn money in the future," Xiao Yang said to Plank.
Plank nodded and made a call. A few minutes later, a fat man walked in, panting.
"Hey, Kevin, have you finally decided?”Fatty shook hands with Plank happily.
"Hansen, this is my boss, Xiao.”"This is the property manager of this building, Hansen.”Plank introduced both parties.
"Hello, Hansen." Xiao Yang simply shook hands with Hansen." Haha, I didn't expect Kevin's boss to be so young.”Hansen smiled.
"Can you introduce me to this place?”
"Of course, my friend." Fatty said happily," You should know the geographical location of this place. Although it's not downtown, it's not far from the city. The transportation is even more convenient. This floor was originally owned by an insurance company, but the boss seemed to have a problem with the capital chain, so he didn't renew the lease. This place is 1,800 square meters, which is definitely more than enough to accommodate more than 100 people.”Hansen said in one breath.
"These are okay. What about the rent?"
"Hehe, I told Kevin last time that it would be 1.5 million dollars a year.”
"1.2 million. Sign the contract immediately.”Xiao Yang didn't waste any time and directly stated the base price. "You have to know that the economy is in a bad state now. You don't know when you can rent this place out even if you leave it empty. Moreover, the rent of 100,000 yuan a month isn't cheap.”
"This…Alright, but you have to pay in full.”Hansen hesitated for a moment before agreeing.
"No problem, Kevin. Go down and sign the lease now.”Xiao Yang was not conflicted. What was important now was efficiency. Otherwise, he would not be able to make it to the regular season.
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After confirming the office address, Plank quickly hired a few assistants. After all, there were quite a lot of things to do later on. It was too tiring and inefficient to rely on himself. Now, he handed the secondary tasks to the assistants and took charge of the more important things.
In the next half a month, Plank quickly set up the company's structure. He also poached a few designers from Nike and Addy with high salaries. Xiao Yang also sent the finance team to Anderma.
The few designers who had been hired with high salaries had initially looked as if they were treasures, but when they saw the design drafts that Plank had taken out, claiming that the boss had drawn them himself, they were instantly shocked. They all turned into obedient primary school students, hoping that Xiao Yang could give them some pointers.
Xiao Yang didn't have the time to do that. He casually mentioned some of the design concepts and aesthetics of the later generations, as long as they were obedient and stopped dancing.
Plank quickly found a factory and made the design drafts into samples.
"The real thing looks even more stunning than the one drawn on paper!”Plank looked at the few pairs of sample shoes on Xiao Yang's desk with a look of fascination. Although he had seen them many times, when he showed them to Xiao Yang, he was still amazed by Xiao Yang's talent.
"Yes, she's quite beautiful." Xiao Yang did not feel anything. After all, he had seen the real thing many times in his previous life.
"Oh right, add this to the Heavenly Foot and Mandarin Duck Shoes.”Xiao Yang handed over a drawing. It was Kobe's classic scabbard logo. He had forgotten to draw it the last time. He was afraid that Kobe's classic logo would change after signing with Anderma, so he drew it himself.
"This is?" Plank frowned as he looked at the blueprint.
"Kobe's personal logo. Add it to both pairs of shoes. Both pairs are his signed shoes.”Xiao Yang said calmly. Anyway, Kobe was the only spokesperson for Anderma now. There was no point in keeping the shoes, so he might as well give them all to Kobe. It could also be considered as a closer relationship with Kobe.
“wtf？Both pairs are signed by Kobe?" Plank's eyeballs almost fell to the ground." Are you okay? He's just a rookie. I don't know much about the NBA, but how many people in history have had their own autographed shoes in their rookie season, let alone two pairs? It can be said to be unprecedented.”
"That's right, you're right. It's unprecedented for a rookie to have two pairs of autographed shoes, but isn't that a good thing?”Xiao Yang's lips curled into a smile." This is unprecedented. How could the media miss such a thing? Would the public be interested to know what kind of shoes this unprecedented rookie is wearing?”
"This unprecedented news will firmly attract everyone's attention. This is something that Anderma can't do no matter how much money he spends. Now that we can do an advertisement for free, why don't we do it?”Xiao Yang looked at the sneakers in front of him.
"When people's attention shifts from Kobe to the sneakers, do you think they'll be amazed by the sneakers?”Xiao Yang smiled." Besides, do we have any other players besides Kobe? If we don't give him these two pairs of shoes this year, do we have to wait until next year?”
"This…Alright, you're right. This unprecedented move will definitely attract a lot of attention from Andrew.”Plank nodded in agreement with Xiao Yang's statement.
"Then, what you need to do now is to set up as many specialty stores as possible, so that others won't be able to find a place to buy them.”Xiao Yang's only worry now was that the supply channels could not keep up with the market's popularity. Then, he could only watch helplessly as he could not earn any money.
"Don't worry, I've already rented many stores in the top cities in the United States. I'm already renovating them. After these products are confirmed to be produced, they can be supplied to specialty stores everywhere.”Plank nodded.
Before the preseason of the 96-97 season, Anderma officially signed Kobe at a press conference. Whether it was the amount of the contract or the unprecedented two pairs of autographed shoes for rookies, it shocked the entire country. A group of reporters swarmed forward like sharks that smelled blood and reported on it. The fans also began to turn their attention to Kobe, a 17-year-old high school player, wanting to see what was so special about this child.
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