Chapter 895: The Lingering Ghost (4k)

Fang Zhuo is quite surprised that his company's business practices can be questioned by other fields.

He turned around and talked to Su Wei about this as an anecdote. Su Wei was also surprised by LG Electronics' attempt to exert pressure through abnormal channels.

"It's somewhat reluctant," she commented.

Fang Zhuo began to consider LG's response as more symbolic: "LG is a traditional mobile phone manufacturer, and this time it is partnering with Nokia's Symbian. This year is destined to compete with traditional manufacturers. Its fierce response is just A kind of microcosm.”

Since major manufacturers announced in January this year to follow up on 3G touch screen smartphones, the competition between old and new mobile phone manufacturers has begun.

LG is the fastest among the major manufacturers to go to market, and it is also very similar to the iPhone and Mars in terms of touch screen methods and sales models. However, it chooses to use the Symbian system.

"Come on, defeat LG." Su Wei still had work to do overtime, so she gave her some timely encouragement.

The next day, when Su Wei normally presided over the first head-to-head meeting with Taobao in June, an unexpected news came. Tesco’s previous cooperation with well-known cosmetics brands such as South Korea’s WHOO, Breathe 37 Degrees, and Laneige were canceled by the other party. Stop unilaterally.

Su Wei's first reaction was that Taobao Mall was ahead!

However, after the meeting, she learned about the situation in detail and conducted simple communication and found that most of the brands covering the first, second and third tiers that Tesco was preparing for this time, such as WHOO and Breath 37 Degrees, were LG Lifestyle and Health Company, a subsidiary of LG Group.

These cosmetics brands directly under LG are resolute and would rather break the contract and pay two bucks than fulfill the cooperation.

The attitude of other Korean brands such as Laneige is slightly more ambiguous, but they also stated that cooperation has been postponed and may not be able to catch up with the June wave. As for when it will be normal, we need to continue to study.

Su Wei cleared her thoughts and felt speechless for a while.

She was on the 22nd floor of Hang Lung. She looked up at the ceiling, grabbed the documents and went straight to the president's office on the 23rd floor.

There was a guest in Yike's president's office, and it was Ma Xiliang, the president of the General Chamber of Commerce.

His visit to Yike this time was mainly to talk about a happy event. The preparation for the establishment of the Yangtze River Delta Business Association went very smoothly.

The first was Shencheng, followed by Lin'an. With the positive attitude of these two cities, and the little brothers from Luzhou where the general ice core was located, we quickly established the Yangtze River Delta jointly sponsored by the Federation of Industry and Commerce of 9 cities in three provinces and one city. Business Association.

The association is under the banner of exchange of commercial resources, which is generally welcomed.

As for whether we can really implement this matter, it may depend on Mr. Fang's ability.

Ma Xiliang has done a lot of work recently and put in a lot of energy. He hopes that such an association covering the Yangtze River Delta can play a more active role. This day's visit is the visit to Europe that Mr. Liaofang always mentioned.

It is initially determined that this time may be November or December near the end of the year.

Su Wei knocked on the door and walked into the president's office, where she saw the president and vice president of the General Chamber of Commerce chatting happily.

When Ma Xiliang met Mr. Su from Tesco, he showed great respect and enthusiastically invited Mr. Su to join the General Chamber of Commerce this year and also hold the position of vice president.

Su Wei was not interested in these at all. She waited for about ten minutes, waited for President Ma to say goodbye in a sensible manner, and then slapped the documents on Mr. Fang's desk.

"What on earth did you do to LG? Look, you actually came directly to Tesco!" Su Wei was very helpless. This was really an unforeseen disaster.

Fang Zhuo briefly reviewed the news and realized that LG was really capable of new tricks.

There are still endless new tricks!

It can only be said that it is indeed a large consortium and has many resources at its disposal.

"I'm a little confused now. What did I do to LG?" Fang Zhuo put down the document, looked at Su Wei, and said with a smile, "It seems that LG values ​​our Yike more than Nokia."

LG Electronics' operating conditions have been average in the past two years. The newly launched touch screen machines have performed well and may have different positioning.

Now it's launching a push-back campaign against one of them after a series of patent lawsuits.

"There is still more than a month until June 18th. I have been planning so hard to give Taobao a try, but I have given up on myself before I even started. President Fangda, what do you think I should do?" Su Wei asked about the indirect reason. the causer.

"Business competition comes and goes. The LG Group has a big business and it's really annoying this time." Fang Zhuo thought about it carefully, "The time is tight. How about I, a foreign director of Sony, help me get in touch?" , see if you can find some supplements?”

Su Wei frowned: "You, Sony's foreign director, have already been squeezed out of your value once."

When she went to Japan last year to investigate and discuss cooperation, she took on the identity of Mr. Fang to find resources. Now that time is so tight and Japanese brand manufacturers are relatively conservative, it is difficult to rush the work and cooperate.

Su Wei sighed and looked at the frowning Fang Zhuo, feeling that she could only admit that she was unlucky this time.

"Let's see, I'll be with you when I visit Europe at the end of the year. Aren't those European brands highly recognized? L'Oreal, Lancôme, Clarins, let's see if we can talk about cooperation." Fang Zhuo stretched out the timeline and added He added, "I happened to make a little money by shorting Lehman. Then I will see if there is an opportunity to buy some shares or an independent brand. It is difficult to negotiate cooperation with a small website, but it should be easy to negotiate with shareholders."

When Su Wei, the webmaster of the small website, heard this arrangement, she suddenly felt, Hey, my mood doesn't seem to be that bad anymore.

She nodded and asked the most sincere question: "You always say that you made a little money by shorting Lehman. How much money is it?"

Su Wei felt that this was almost becoming Fang Zhuo's recent catchphrase.

"It's hard to say. Lehman's stock price has rebounded recently." Fang Zhuo shook his head, "Remember to ask me again after a while."

Su Wei looked at President Fang and said, "Okay, you should help me find someone in Japan to ask. If we can negotiate with one, we will try to promote domestic brands."

Which brand Yiguo promotes depends on the market recognition of consumers. There is still a lot of room for growth for domestic brands in the cosmetics sector.

There was another rather urgent knock on the door outside.

Fang Zhuo encouraged the development of the small website while letting people in: "Boss Su, come on, beat LG."

Su Wei glared at Boss Fang. Today's encouragement was painful! Yesterday's story became today's accident!

The person who came in was Secretary Liu Zonghong.

Su Wei saw that it was him, so she waited for a while and listened to any urgent news.

On May 3, LG Electronics sued Yike Mars in South Korea for infringing on its four important mobile phone patents.

On the same day, LG Electronics filed a civil lawsuit against Yike's touch and other patents in the US federal court, officially fighting back in legal procedures.

Two days later, Nokia's support came belatedly.

Similarly, Nokia also had the same idea, but it filed a patent invalidation with the Patent Appeals and Conflicts Committee under the US Patent and Trademark Office, and is expected to get a ruling within six months.

On May 7, it was still Nokia that began to try to deny the validity of Yike's touch patents in Europe.

After several days of movement, after Apple and Yike sued LG in the Symbian camp, LG and Nokia also gave procedural responses.

However, LG was quite powerful and directly counter-sued Yike for infringement, while Nokia was still making a fuss about the validity of the patent.

In the previous dispute between Apple and Yike, the former also played a patent idea, but Apple had similar patents.

Over the past few days, Yike's legal departments in the United States and Europe have been working overtime to pay close attention and analysis.

Let's not talk about Korea. LG Group can exert too much influence. As for Yike's two major markets, the prospect of the continuation of patent validity is still quite optimistic.

LG is a passive reaction, and Nokia is taking the initiative to protect the younger brother of the system camp this time.

However, it is really troublesome for you, Nokia, to accuse me of infringement. It is really difficult to directly try to remove it from the root.

Fang Zhuo smelled a hint of wanting to cut leeks from Nokia's unmanageable action. The younger brother of the camp was bullied. If you don't do it, it's not justifiable. If you really do it, the benefits are not that big, so just do it symbolically.

After all, even if LG is equipped with Symbian, it still has the identity of an important competitor.

It seems that the sales of LG's new phone of one million units seem to be enough to verify the power of the new Symbian system.

Fang Zhuo speculated on the thoughts of Nokia's senior management from a malicious perspective, and was quite calm about the movement in the past period of time.

From the time LG started to speak out until now, only the actions in the past few days are worth a closer look, but they are still a bit superficial. In the third quarter, we will first see the results of the court and ITC's review, and then it will be time to fight.

Domestic public opinion is not agitated, informal channels are ineffective, Korean public opinion is not taken seriously, and allies are brought in at the legal level. LG's actions gradually calmed down, and everything must return to the right track of the market and the law.

Fang Zhuo has no pressure on these, but he is a little annoyed when he always sees the news jumping up and down.

However, there is a more subtle situation in the past few days that may be more important. The new LG phone that has exceeded one million units in sales has not received a very enthusiastic word-of-mouth response, and now there are gradually more negative voices.

It is not only aimed at LG, but more about the Symbian system.

"Facebook's software is not easy to use."

"Why does Facebook have fewer functions on Symbian than on Android?"

"LG's mobile phone software is not compatible?"

"I thought Android was not as smooth as Apple, but Symbian was even less smooth. Why can't Nokia make Symbian better? Apple and Yike are both new companies making mobile phones!"

Fang Zhuo really wanted to tell users that new companies have no baggage, and Nokia's Symbian system is dancing in shackles.

However, he restrained the desire to express himself and wanted to focus on his business colleagues in the Yangtze River Delta.

It was a statement of attitude, support, and a real recognition that he was the one who took the lead.

On May 9, the Yangtze River Delta Business Association, which was about to be established, organized a group to visit Henglong Yike. Many company bosses participated enthusiastically with the mood of making friends, wanting to see the style of the richest man in the mainland.

In addition, the European inspection trip that has been revealed has also aroused the interest of some people.

The richest man in the mainland has a very good business overseas. Is this an opportunity for him to pass on?

The situation is unknown, but if there is a chance, you have to stand forward to get it.

On the evening of the 8th, many CEOs from various industries arrived in Shanghai and had a small party. By the afternoon of the next day, almost all the people who were scheduled to come had arrived, and everyone rushed to the Yike headquarters together.

Speaking of Henglong 23, where the Yike headquarters is located, since the fame of Mr. Fang's wealth has gradually grown, there have been some magical colors and legends. Many people came here with the mood of admiring.

When will I be able to jump on the table like Mr. Fang, grabbing investors by their collars and asking them to inquire about this street?

At 3:30 in the afternoon, Fang Zhuo personally went downstairs to pick up a business tour group of forty or fifty people. He was thinking about how to create a win-win situation for the trip abroad at the end of the year and make everyone return as full as possible.

A group of people exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then Fang Zhuo led everyone upstairs.

However, during such a pleasant moment, several reporters with cameras on their shoulders and microphones suddenly rushed in front of them.

Fang Zhuo subconsciously thought it was an arranged interview, but the next second he saw the secretary asking someone to keep his distance, he realized it was an emergency.

"Mr. Fang Zhuo, what do you think of LG suing Yike for mobile phone infringement?"

"Mr. Fang Zhuo, do you know what Korean public opinion says about you?"

"Are you worried about the validity of Yike's mobile phone patents? What do you think of the abnormal competition between Yike and LG?"

The reporter holding the microphone forced himself forward and asked questions about LG.

Fang Zhuo glanced at the microphone's logo, which seemed to be the Korean media.

With people from the Yangtze River Delta business group nearby, the situation was a bit confusing, and forcing people to take the reporter away seemed to have a negative impact.

Fang Zhuo changed his mind, waved his hand to the bodyguards not to take action, turned around and said seriously to his business colleagues: "Don't panic, everyone, you are here to see me, not to expose you."

The embarrassment of the group of people was relieved a lot, and many people still had smiles on their faces. I had actually seen this scene before.

Fang Zhuo emphasized in his next sentence: "Don't be afraid, it's not the domestic media, it's the foreign media."

A burst of laughter.

"Oh, you are from South Korea's Dong-A Ilbo? I have read your reports, and you said that I am a traitor, right?" Fang Zhuo found out the truth.

Now that he was an old friend in a way, he was more relaxed.

"You came from South Korea to Shanghai. I am very touched by this interview." Fang Zhuo said slowly, "As for these issues, what do I think about the competition between Yike and LG..."

"Mr. Nam Yong, the president of LG Electronics, flew from Seoul to Shanghai to apologize to me. His attitude was very sincere, which also moved me very much."

"However, I can't easily make business concessions just because of his sincerity. Mr. Korean journalist, don't you think so?"

Fang Zhuo shrugged, very embarrassed: "When it comes to the specific matters of the company's mobile phone products, I usually don't personally intervene, but the United States told me with great certainty that LG is infringing on Yike's patents. If this were not the case, LG would not be involved either. We will try every possible means to invalidate our patents.”

"I actually understand LG Electronics' approach very well, and I also understand the changes in Mr. Nam Yong's attitude before and after."

The Korean reporter had already taken a stand, but he still kept faithful records at the scene. He knew that the interview would not last long. However, China's richest man in the mainland had a kind attitude and was still very graceful.

Two seconds later, a faint smile appeared on Fang Zhuo's face: "I have always wanted to pursue a win-win situation in business, but sometimes, business competition means people eat people. He eats you, and I eat you, which is very cruel. "

Finally, he looked at the camera, put away his smile, gave the camera a staring look, and asked: "LG, do you think so?"