National Tide 1980.

Chapter 526
In fact, Ning Weimin was somewhat over-concerned about the exchange of favors with Song Huagui.

You must know that at the beginning of the reform and opening up, there were no real manufacturers of Western-style tableware in Beijing.

Maxim's Restaurant is also a pioneer to introduce the elegance and romance of French cuisine into the Republic.

It was a heavy bet, and it was clear that it would not simply pursue profits, but rather bear long-term losses, but also maintain the style of the Paris head office's business strategy, and would not quit easily.

So from the day of the signing ceremony of the formal establishment of the Maxim restaurant project, Song Huagui has been worrying about how to ensure the supply of tableware.

The reason is very simple. If this kind of continuous consumables are imported forever, the cost will be too high. We must try our best to make localization efforts.

However, in this era, information circulation is very blocked, and it is by no means easy to find a manufacturer capable of supplying it.

The actual situation is that several people from the head office take a set of cutlery airlifted from Paris as samples all day long, wandering around the capital like headless flies.

But because no one understands the situation of the arts and crafts industry, it hits a wall everywhere.

Among other things, the plate level is not easy.

No matter the ceramic factory or ceramic shop they found, they all claimed that they could not do it because the plate tire was too thick.

In the end, someone managed to find Liling Ceramics Store in Zhushikou, Hunan, and the manufacturer agreed to try to undertake it.

It is even more difficult to find a home for knives and forks. Everyone shakes their heads when asked, and everyone is helpless.

It was thanks to the model performance in Zhongnanhai that Song Huagui had the opportunity to complain to the upper management.

Only then was the specially approved three tons of nickel-nickel-nickel copper, which was handed over to the Shanghai Mint to make it.

As for the most difficult problem to solve, it is the glass.

It sounds like nothing, but the problem is that there are many types of foreign drinks, and there are corresponding glasses.

Especially French food is more particular about cups.

Red wine glass, white wine glass, champagne glass, water glass, high wave glass, classic glass, spirits glass, aperitif glass, long drink glass, cocktail glass, punch glass, Irish coffee mug...

There are dozens of subdivisions.

However, these cups are not difficult to buy in foreign countries, but there is no domestic manufacturer that can make them.

What's more, the demand is not too high, at most a few hundred per sample, and even a hundred or eighty for infrequently used ones, mass production is not cost-effective.

So at present, the head office is negotiating with a glass cup factory in Chengde found at the glassware exhibition.

The other party was also reluctant, and was very reluctant to take over, even if it was foreign exchange certificate settlement.

In short, this matter is actually a bit ridiculous to say.

Just because no one on Song Huagui's side knew that Chongwen District was home to almost the entire capital's handicraft manufacturers, they had no choice but to negotiate supply contracts with foreign manufacturers.

It is conceivable that based on the domestic logistics conditions at this time, even if a cooperation is reached, it will take time, effort and money.

But it was different for Ning Weimin to help him.

Through the procurement of the "Altar Palace" restaurant, he has long been familiar with the situation of various handicraft factories in the district.

Like porcelain, he can go to the Jingcheng Handicraft Factory, which specializes in antique porcelain.

Although this factory is not named ceramics, they specialize in antique porcelain, and they take over the customized business.

For them, it is a piece of cake, far more advantageous than most civilian ceramic factories that rely on machines for mass production.

There is also the matter of knives and forks. In fact, the badge factory in Beijing can handle it.

Although due to the high-level face, this matter is not good for the Shanghai Mint.

But when the knives and forks are produced, it will not be a problem to take over the silver plating processing business three times a year.

This also avoids the trouble of returning to Shanghai every year for maintenance in order to ensure that the knives and forks are as bright as new.

As for the dozens of types of glasses, it was actually like Ning Weimin asking a tailor to undertake Pierre Caton's scattered clothing-making tasks.

For glassware manufacturers, it may be a headache and tasteless business, but for handicraft workshops, it has become a sweet business.

Don't forget, grapes are often blown out one by one by workers using traditional techniques.

It's not easy to blow some glass!
Didn't this happen to be delivered to Ning Weimin?

In short, Ning Weimin took over, this matter is an absolute win-win situation, not to mention how cost-effective it is!

Not only can it help Song Huagui completely solve the supply problem of localized tableware, but also completely solve this troublesome headache for her.

Moreover, Ning Weimin himself can fill his own pockets openly and aboveboard, and at the same time use these orders to sell favors to antique porcelain factories and badge factories.

So, when Ning Weimin really figured out the actual situation, he calculated that he had actually saved nearly half of the cost for the head office.

He was calm in an instant, and happily became the middleman.

And I figured out how to use the tickets of this "PC" international fair to bring goods for myself.

In fact, what to do is also very simple.

The smaller the technical content and the easier it is to mass-produce, the more it should be "OEM" for export.

Conversely, the more technology is needed and the lower the output, the less suitable it is to do so.

In view of this principle, Ning Weimin retained his own brands of silk figurines, material utensils, bionic porcelain and stone carvings.

At the exhibition, the brocade boxes from the Brocade Box Factory, insect straw weaving from the street sewing club, antique porcelain tableware, and even the first batch of wine glasses blown out by the Donghua Street Production Co.

Not to mention, it's really a big gain.

An agent from the UK took a fancy to the brocade box and gave Ning Weimin several styles of hat boxes on the spot.

Ning Weimin needs to make a brocade box, according to the style he provided, and give a quotation of [-] pieces of each.

In the end, an agreement was reached on the spot based on 2 yuan of foreign exchange certificates.

Ning Weimin will provide [-] brocade hat boxes with qualified quality and "PC" nameplate trademark for Marks and Spencer, an old British brand, within two months.

There are also several Italian agents who value the Chinese food porcelain made of antique porcelain, and inquire about the price of "PC" brand western food tableware.

But because Ning Weimin was unable to give a detailed quotation on the spot, this matter is only a preliminary cooperation intention.

He can only give a reply after discussing with Liu Yongqing and the antique porcelain manufacturer, and continue to discuss this matter.

The most surprising thing is the wine glass from Donghuashi Sub-district Production Co.

Because they were blown temporarily, the colors of the sticks of two cups were accidentally mixed.

The final blown cup is not pure and transparent.

Instead, from top to bottom, from red, yellow, blue and green mixed colors to colorless and transparent gradient effect,

This is a mistake, and it is more favored by foreign businessmen.

Someone was going to order two thousand red and white wine glasses with this effect at that time.

There are also people who need products in other colors and detailed quotations.

Ning Weimin, who was surrounded by several people, was so frightened by the enthusiastic response from the agents that he dared not respond.

He could only find an excuse to get away and contact Chang Yuling urgently to ask if he could produce a product with constant effect.

In this way, after receiving Chang Yuling's affirmative answer.

After the end of this three-day international fair, the Donghua Street Production Co., Ltd. not only became the "originator" of the Republic of China in making western food glass wine sets.

Moreover, it also accidentally owned a kind of western food wine set with gradient color as the main product of OEM foreign exchange earning, and obtained overseas orders worth about 13 yuan in foreign exchange certificates and [-] wine glasses of various colors.

This small workshop, which used to have only a dozen people and was once closed down, became more and more prosperous. Under the hands of Ning Weimin, it began to expand the production scale to 80 people.

But in comparison, Ning Weimin is actually the biggest beneficiary.

Because from the immediate point of view, the business negotiated at this exhibition, if 10% of the OEM fee is deducted and handed over to the head office, he can still earn at least [-] yuan in foreign exchange certificates.

So how could he not love Pierre Carton, respect his boss, and cherish his position?

To be honest, there is really no need for a promotion, no need...

(End of this chapter)