He looked over.
This workshop was like a large farmhouse, covering an area of five to six acres. Several workshops, warehouses, and equipment rooms were built in order.
Opposite was a two-story western-style building with white porcelain tiles pasted on it. It was the tailor's dormitory.
On a large open space.
It was surrounded by a wooden fence and used as a vegetable garden.
Green vines hung with cucumbers and beans. There were green Chinese toon trees, purple eggplants, green tomatoes, and large curly cabbage on the ground.
Fatty Orange lay on the fence, listless.
At its peak.
There were more than 200 tailors in the Gu Bai family's workshop, but the efficiency was not good. There were only about 40 people, and it seemed a little empty.
Handcraft workshop.
There was not much equipment, so he quickly finished checking. After meeting with all the tailors, Gu Bai brought Aunt Liu and a few team leaders to the meeting room.
"Tell me about the financial situation."
Gu Bai went straight to the point.
The Gu family's leather workshop was still insisting on the " outdated " hand-made sewing. The price was high and the production was low. It was not a match for the machine factory, but it could not compete with the luxury brands.
One could imagine that the finance department would not look too good.
This was indeed the case.
There was one million yuan in the company account, enough for three months of expenses. However, the problem was that the workshop had not received any foreign trade orders for half a month. The daily salary, water, electricity, taxes, and equipment wear and tear were all expensive expenses.
Every day when she woke up, Aunt Liu had to think of a way to earn money to support her family. This kind of life was too torturous.
"Our family."
"The quality of the leather goods is excellent, but the price is too high, so it can't be sold in the country. We mainly do foreign trade for small luxury goods. Our customers include Monet, MiuMiu from Western Europe, Fenty from North America, and so on.”
"However, in the past two years, in order to reduce costs, the big brands have also started to turn to the machine factory for manufacturing. Our foreign trade orders are getting fewer and fewer.”
A well-dressed female team leader said.
The others had similar opinions.
It was not a solution for the workshop to burn money every day. Otherwise, three months later, it would either close down or borrow money to survive.
Handcraft workshop.
It was time for a transformation.
"President Gu."
Aunt Liu flipped open a notebook. In a formal setting, one still had to address one's position.
She tapped the tip of her pen on the paper and hesitated for a while before saying,"I've been thinking about the transition for a long time. There are currently two plans to choose from.”
"First, we'll transform into a domestic e-commerce company. The market is very hot now, and the supply exceeds the demand. The business department over there is anxious to find a leather factory to cooperate with.”
"Secondly, we can do some subcontracts. We can take on some subcontracts from other factories.”
In the end.
The two plans were also the path of manufacturing.
Moreover, they were all low-end OMs.
Especially when they heard that it was 9.90 yuan for free delivery, the faces of the few tailor team leaders in the room turned pale, and their fingers trembled with excitement.
9.90 yuan, free shipping.
a slut despises himself, despises his profession.
Under this model, labor costs were reduced to the extreme, environmental protection was not considered, and quality was non-existent. Only a sweatshop that did not treat people as humans could work.
They had been tailors for decades and had devoted their entire lives to this line of work.
How could he be willing to enter a sweatshop and waste his skills?
"I... I also know that this is very difficult."
"But the environment is like this. We either try our best to get involved, or we will be eliminated by the times.”
Aunt Liu pursed her lips and looked a little troubled.
She was the best tailor here, one of the best in Jia Hu City. She didn't want her craft to be ruined, but she had no choice.
For a moment.
The meeting room was strangely quiet.
Everyone's eyes gathered at one end of the conference table at the same time. They looked at the only man here, the man who controlled the fate of the workshop.
Facing the burning gaze.
Gu Bai appeared very calm. He leaned against the back of the chair with his arms hanging naturally. His eyes were as calm as an ancient well, giving everyone a sense of security.
He was young and calm in the face of danger.
And in reality.
Gu Bai felt that the game was ironic.
As far as he knew.
In the Hermes leather factory on the banks of the Seine, a tailor who had worked for five years enjoyed a full set of medical insurance and pension. He worked 40 hours a week and could earn about 5000 euros a month.
That was about 31 euros per hour.
Converted to the Dragon Country's currency, the wage was about 221 yuan per hour.
If it was a veteran tailor with decades of experience, the salary would be higher and the other benefits would be better.
On the other hand, in front of him.
These tailors with more than ten years of experience worked more than ten hours a day, six days a week. In a month, the highest salary was only ten thousand yuan, and the lowest salary was only five or six thousand yuan.
The income of those factories would be even lower.
The same people had different lives!
Gu Bai's heart ached a little. The same craftsmanship and the same person. Why should the craftsmen of the Dragon Country only take one-tenth of the income of others?
"President Gu, what do you think we should do?”
"I'll listen to President Gu."
"President Gu, you make the decision."
"President Gu has the final say!"
Aunt Liu and the others said.
Unknowingly, Gu Bai, who had just graduated, had become the backbone of these women. They were waiting for Gu Bai to make the final decision.
He cleared his throat.
Gu Bai looked around at everyone and said," In my opinion, we can't do a knife fight for 9.90 RMB, and we can't be reduced to a sub-contract for others-"
At this point.
Gu Bai stood up solemnly and spread his arms forward. His voice was very infectious."My choice is to launch my own high-end leather products, go out of Jiahu, go to the country, and face the world!”
"Our future is to build our own luxury brands, form a brand matrix, form a luxury goods giant group that affects the world, and grow into a huge luxury goods empire!”
"Our employees must enjoy the best treatment. Our Dragon Country's luxury goods must become the world's number one!”
A series of answers.
His voice wasn't loud, but it was deafening.
Aunt Liu's mouth was slightly agape. She clenched the ballpoint pen in her hand tightly, and her eyes widened.
Launching high-end leather goods!
Creating a luxury brand!
As a professional for more than ten years, Aunt Liu instinctively thought that this was a fool's dream. She thought that Gu Bai was not having a fever and that his brain was fried, right?
However, when she saw Gu Bai's solemn expression, she felt that she had lost her mind.
Her face was touched again, but in the end, she nodded.
Next.
Gu Bai announced the end of the meeting.
The news that the new President Gu was going to create a high-end leather product also spread in the workshop. The tailors in each group were very curious. What kind of design could this fresh graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts come up with?
Don't make a fool of yourself.
……
In the evening.
Gu Bai moved into the dormitory building.
Aunt Liu and the female tailors lived on the first floor of the two-story dormitory. Gu Bai was a man, so it was not convenient for him to stay on the first floor. He stayed alone in a dormitory on the second floor.
The flickering incandescent lights lit up.
A piece of white paper was spread out in front of Gu Bai. He could hear the sounds of the birds downstairs and the buzzing of the old-fashioned air conditioner. His heart was as calm as water, and he entered a state of flow.
As a leather workshop.
The first item was undoubtedly a leather bag.
In his mind.
The classic bag designs from his previous life flashed through his mind one by one.
The famous Dior Diana bag, Prada's classic killer bag, and the Leboy bag that countless girls regarded as their lifelong lover... There were too many classics.
However, it was a little too thin to take out a brand that could be used as the foundation of the entire luxury goods empire.
"Yes."
Gu Bai's eyes lit up sharply.
If there was a bag in his previous life that created the legend of a trillion-dollar luxury empire, then this bag was definitely the Birkin Bag, inspired by Jean-Louis-Dumas, the fifth-generation chairman of Hermes, on a flight to England in 1984.
Its Chinese name was also Platinum Bag.
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