Chapter 78: The Organs Are Exhausted
The safest way was to wait until the cargo arrived at its destination and inspect the goods on the spot in Europe. The chaotic evidence formed was enough to allow Starlight Factory to join the Chinese manufacturers of dumping. However, what Philips lacked the most now is time. From China to Europe, it will take more than half a month to reach Europe. The news of anti-dumping cases has been revealed, and Philips can no longer wait.
So on October 15, 1999, three major European energy-saving lamp companies, including Philips, Oslang, Sivania, etc., filed an anti-dumping investigation into China's compact energy-saving fluorescent lamp products with the European Commission. On October 17, the EU announced with extremely rare high efficiency.
It accepted complaints from three EU energy-saving lamp companies and filed an anti-dumping investigation into China's energy-saving lamps. The customs code for the product involved was 85393190. This case involved the export amount of tens of millions of dollars from more than 100 energy-saving lamp companies in China. Starlight Factory's products are also listed. Philips believes that China's energy-saving lamp manufacturers are dead this time.
The subsequent situation caught Philips off guard. Originally, Philips believed that this anti-dumping case would not arouse the disgust of the Chinese because it was completely reasonable and legal. However, as soon as the anti-dumping case was passed, Chinese media turned their attention to Philips, and several magazines even reported Philips' bad actions in large quantities, and a wave of boycotting Philips products was immediately formed across the country.
Then, China's chain industry giant Zhengrong Group announced that due to the quality of Philips products, all Philips products were removed from the shelves, setting a precedent for the chain industry to challenge famous foreign manufacturers. In fact, the quality of Philips products is still good, but no matter how good the product is, it is impossible to guarantee that there will be no problem. With such a large sales base of Zhengrong Group, it is like playing to collect Philips product quality problems.
With the actions of Zhengrong Group, other regional supermarket chains have also begun to remove Philips products. On the one hand, it is in response to Zhengrong Group's call, and on the other hand, Philips products are no longer easy to sell. People at Philips headquarters may not have expected that. The seemingly gentle and kind Chinese nation has a sense of arrogance in its bones. If it does not violate a certain bottom line, it will do anything at that time. However, once it violates this bottom line, the subsequent punishment will be extremely severe.
The kind of pride formed in five thousand years is not something that Western countries are full of money-smelling businessmen, so they suffered a huge blow. The sales performance in October was only 31 million yuan, which is still the vast majority of the signed contract sites. In fact, the sales situation in November will be even more cruel. Philips' expectations are lower than 10 million, while the previous average sales were more than 130 million. The huge contrast made the people at Philips headquarters stunned.
However, in the eyes of the people at Philips headquarters, although the losses are heavy, this is just a temporary loss. With Philips's big business and big business, it can still hold on. After surviving this trend, its performance will return to normal. The energy-saving lamp market is a long-term layout. It is still aligned.
But soon, Philips found that the most hit Philips was not the only one. Less than half an hour after the EU anti-dumping investigation began, Philips China received an emergency fax from Starlight Factory, with the content very simple. There were only a few words: "The goods are wrong, sorry!"
The goods will also be wrong, which is nothing great, but the misunderstanding of Starlight Factory will make Philips speechless, "The goods order is also wrong."
After Philips urgently checked the goods order, the spot order actually contained 3,000 energy-saving lamps. After sending an emergency investigation team to the ship for inspection, the result was that except for the energy-saving lamps on the top, the rest were all used home appliances, and all of them were Philips home appliances.
Only at this time did Philips realize that she was completely fooled by Xingguang Factory and kept her last glimmer of hope. Niu Zengguang, general manager of Philips China, urgently came to Xingguang Factory, hoping that Xingguang Factory would urgently get goods and take out the contract. The moment she took out the contract, Niu Zengguang's face looked a little ugly. I don't know when the deposit on the contract became three thousand. If the first order of goods turned into three thousand, Niu Zengguang thought that his subordinates had a typo, but now the contract with black and white text has also turned into three thousand, it could not be a typo, but a complete tampering. Xingguang Factory made trouble on the contract.
Niu Zengguang asked angrily: "Director Zhang, why did the amount of breach of contract on the contract become three thousand?"
"It was originally three thousand, you remembered it wrong." Zhang Yan pretended to be stupid. In fact, there was something wrong with this contract. The land used for ten thousand words was a kind of highly volatile chemical sticker on it. It would disappear after a long time, so the liquidated damages have become three thousand yuan. Zhang Yan took out three thousand yuan, threw it over, and said, "Mr. Niu, I know it's not easy for you to come once, so all the money is ready for you."
"You're ruthless." Niu Zengguang did not collect money but stood up and left. It was not that he didn't want to clean up the Starlight Factory, but because Philips China was already in a state of turmoil and had no time or energy to deal with these things. Under the strong pressure of China's response, Philips China immediately started crisis public relations and made the following statement:
"Philips is also a victim..."
However, these statements did not play any role, which attracted higher anger. In a sense, Philips China's statement was more like a confession, admitting all crimes completely, and the consequences were even more serious. Anti-Philips alliances had appeared on the land of China. Philips realized for the first time that simply using legal means would not work on the land of China.
The anti-dumping case is still in progress. Although it is expected that most Chinese manufacturers will be driven out of the European market by this anti-dumping bill, before that, Philips had completely withdrawn from the Chinese market and removed goods for hundreds of millions of yuan, and its market was divided by Chinese and foreign manufacturers. If it were known that it was this consequence, Philips would not have made such a decisive decision. Unfortunately, there is no regret in the world, and Philips can only be endless regret.
The anti-dumping case filed by Philips missed Starlight Factory. As a batch of 3,000, it could not even reach the minimum standard for prosecution, so it was impossible to investigate Starlight Factory, which made Starlight Factory the only remaining energy-saving lamp manufacturer in China. In a sense, it was equivalent to Philips who was a free killer for Starlight, clearing all the enemies of Starlight, including Philips itself.
At this time, Zhang Yurong and Zhou Yulan also looked nervously at the door of the obstetrics and gynecology department. Zhang Yan was walking nervously in the corridor of the hospital: "Mom, it's been so long, why haven't there been any movement?"
"How could I give birth so quickly? When I gave birth to you, I gave birth to you for more than ten hours." Zhou Yulan replied with a smile, but her smile was a little stiff. At that time, the director of the hospital with a gray head next to her comforted him: "Don't worry, we have hired experts from the Third Hospital of Medical University, so there will definitely be no problems."
Zhang Yurong was already the mayor of Yinzhou City at this time, and was much calmer in comparison. He looked at the dean and said, "Well, you are experts in these things, let's listen to you. If you need any cooperation, just say it."
The dean said casually: "Mayor Zhang, can you come to inspect..." Only after he said this did he realize that he was wrong and his face turned red. Fortunately, Zhang Yurong didn't want to listen to this, so he nodded and responded for a moment, then turned his gaze to the door.
Time passed by minute by minute, Zhang Yan's breathing was rapid. He wanted to calm down several times, but he couldn't even calm down. His mind was so messy that countless people quarreled. If he had known this, he would have had a caesarean section. At that time, he heard the doctor's nonsense that children who gave birth naturally were smarter and obedient, so he chose to give birth naturally.
"Director, is it okay to have a caesarean section now?" Zhang Yan wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked the dean in a low voice.
"This is OK, but since it is decided to give birth naturally and the mother is not old, I think it is better to give birth naturally. Of course, if Mr. Zhang insists..." The dean is also an old man. He handed the problem to Zhang Yan in just a few sentences, but Zhang Yan could not decide this problem. A few days ago, my wife's words rang in his ears again.
"The child is better born naturally, so it's okay to make the child happier. It's okay for mothers to suffer more...."
"You are not allowed to feel sorry for me at that time. That is our children. The continuation of our lives is not allowed to be slow to treat our children unless it is absolutely necessary."
Zhang Yan knew that if he asked the dean to have a caesarean section, the dean would probably agree, but his wife would never agree. He really knew his wife very well and looked very gentle, but once there was something she needed to protect her, he would definitely stick to it to the end. So Zhang Yan could only pray that everything would go well!
The door of the obstetrics and gynecology department opened suddenly. Murong Xue walked out of the door, took off her mask, smiled at Zhang Yan, and said tiredly: "Congratulations, it's a boy, mother and son are safe!"
Chapter completed!