Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 570: Suspecting goods are the buyers

Sure enough, after Cao Zhiqiang said arrogantly, "Of course I insist, because I know what I said is the truth!", the expressions of the two Japanese changed.

Especially the young Gao Koushu, his face turned red, and he seemed to be about to stand up and refute loudly.

But just as he was about to stand up, Ikeda Yukina next to him suddenly pressed his shoulders and shook his head at him with a serious expression.

"Senior!" Takaguchi looked at Kota Ikeda with grief and indignation, "He, he..."

"Stop talking!" Ikeda Kota shook his head, "Let me do it!"

After suppressing his subordinate Takaguchi again, Ikeda Kota looked at Cao Zhiqiang with a serious face again.

After discovering that Cao Zhiqiang's face was still indifferent and showed no sign of repentance, Ikeda Yukita suddenly laughed.

"Hahaha."

Iketani Yuta laughed a few times first, and then he pretended to be happy and said to Cao Zhiqiang with a smile: "Cao Sang, I know that there is a saying in your country that says 'the one who dislikes the goods is the one who buys the goods,' what do you think about our company's production line?" Being so picky, even picky about this technical parameter, it seems that you really want to buy it, right?"

Seeing that Ikeda Kota actually endured all this, Cao Zhiqiang was impressed.

But think about it, one of the most respected concepts of the Japanese is patience, otherwise there would be no "ninjas".

Considering that this is indeed the first Japanese company to come to your door automatically, Cao Zhiqiang also decided to give him some face, so he nodded in a slow tone: "That's true, I have actually heard a little about your TAIYO YUDEN company, although the current The scale is still small and cannot be compared with big companies such as Sony, but the products are not bad.

For example, audio tapes, your that`s brand tapes are of good quality. "

"Ah, you've heard of that`s too!" Ikedani Yuki said happily.

"Of course." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "Although your tapes are relatively small, there are still many in Japan, and in our country, there are also some second-hand tapes that come in through different channels, including that`s, but This is just being treated as a miscellaneous brand.”

"Hehe." Yukita Ikeda smiled, "That's just because our current main business is not audio tapes, but our technology on this is absolutely fine, and the production line is absolutely top-notch. The products produced are no better than The difference between TDK and Sony and Fuji."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "If this is the case, you can give it a try, but you just want to negotiate a contract with me just to show me the information and photos. Isn't that too child's play? At least let me visit the actual production line in person. operating conditions."

Iketani Yuki was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "That's no problem, I can arrange a visit to the production line for you as soon as possible."

"As soon as possible?" Cao Zhiqiang asked, "Now? I'm free right now."

"This..." Iketani Yuta smiled dryly, "I'm very sorry, that's right, our company has certain rules and regulations for product inspections, at least, we need to contact the relevant personnel first.

I'm from the sales department, and I'm just a section manager, so I don't have authority in this area, at least I can't let them make time for you to inspect immediately.

But don't worry, I'll go back and ask for instructions, and I will give you an answer as soon as possible, do you think it's okay? "

Cao Zhiqiang also knew that this was the opponent's limit, so he nodded: "Okay, let's arrange it as soon as possible."

"Yes." Ikeda Kota nodded, "Are you really interested in this production line? Will you really buy it?"

Cao Zhiqiang said: "What's the rush? I'm definitely going to import tape production lines, accessories and so on. For the time being, I think I'll also import them, but it's up to me to decide which one to choose.

Although you are the first company to come to us, we have never been to the actual workshop to watch, so it is not good for us to give an answer, right? "

Ikeda Kota followed suit: "That's right, that's true. So how about it, Cao Sang, I'll go back and ask for instructions. As long as there is no problem, I will notify you as soon as possible to visit the factory. Do you think it's okay?"

"Okay." Cao Zhiqiang nodded.

"Cao Sang, have you been living here?" Ikeda Kota asked.

Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "I have another place to live. This is the residence of my secretary Anping, and it is also our official office. So, you can come here if you have something to do."

"Then how long will you stay here?" Ikeda Kota asked again.

"I have paid the rent here for three months." Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile, "What do you think?"

"Understood!" Ikeda Kota nodded, "If that's the case, then come here first, and I'll go back and ask for instructions immediately?"

"Okay!" Cao Zhiqiang nodded.

Immediately afterwards, Ikeda Xingta stood up with his subordinates, bowed to Cao Zhiqiang at the same time, and then Ikeda Xingta said to Cao Zhiqiang and Anping who also stood up: "You two, we will leave first. If there is news, Definitely come and visit again.”

Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile: "It's easy to say, but let's keep this information first, let us read it slowly, okay?"

Iketani Kota was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "Of course it's no problem, this document is originally for you, of course you can keep it."

"Very good." Cao Zhiqiang smiled and stretched out his hand, "Then let's walk slowly."

Iketani Kota bowed to Cao Zhiqiang together with Takaguchi, and then left in a proper manner.

Although Cao Zhiqiang didn't go to see him off, instead he sat down and read the materials slowly, but Anping, who is a secretary and translator on the surface, can't do this.

So Anping still put on a smiling face, like a normal leadership secretary, very politely went over to give it away.

After Anping politely sent him away, when he came back, he found that Cao Zhiqiang was reading the documents slowly with his legs crossed.

"President Cao." Anping walked over with a smile and said, "It seems that you value this Japanese company."

"Oh?" Cao Zhiqiang raised his head, "How did you see that?"

"President Cao..."

"Don't call me President Cao in private, I'm younger than you, just call me Xiao Cao."

Although Cao Zhiqiang said so, Anping definitely couldn't call him that, so he just smiled and said, "Zhiqiang, can I call you that?"

Cao Zhiqiang shook his head: "Whatever, what do you want to say?"

Anping said: "That's right. I think the section chief is right. If you suspect that the goods are the buyers, you criticize them as useless and say that their parameters are fake. Finally, you want to visit their factory. You are very interested in this company, right?"

Only then did Cao Zhiqiang nod, put down the information gently and said, "That's right, I really value this company."

"Why?" Anping said, "I've never heard of this company. It should be a small company with no reputation. Is this small company with no reputation really reliable?"

Cao Zhiqiang said: "It's normal that you haven't heard of it, TAIYO YUDEN, also known as Taiyo Yuden, this company originally specialized in ceramic capacitors, and it is quite powerful in this field.

Later, this company began to learn from other Japanese companies, began to expand horizontally, and opened up many other businesses, such as the audio tape business, which is one of them.

However, as far as I know, this company is a little late to enter the audio tape. Although it can use the latest technology and production lines, the market in this area has become saturated, and it will be difficult for them to grab market share. .

But the production line has already been launched, and the technology has been developed to a certain extent. It is not the style of Japanese companies to cut it off easily.

In addition, the entire Japanese society is now in a state of prosperity, so even if there is a little loss, it is estimated that this company will continue to develop.

By the way, if there is no accident, this company should now specialize in the field of CD storage, similar to CD turntables, CD players, do you know? "

"CD player?" Anping was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "I know that, it's a small laser disc. I heard that the sound quality is very good and the storage time is very long, which is incomparable to magnetic tape."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "That's it! As far as I know, the brand That`s is mainly engaged in records. It used to be mainly cassette tapes and LPs, but now it focuses on CD record technology.

Not long after the CD technology came out, the market was almost blank, and it was a good time to snatch the market.

Taiyo Yuden is considered to be a company that developed this technology relatively early, and has enough accumulation. As long as they are given a little more time, the CDs they produce will definitely occupy a place! "

Cao Zhiqiang is not talking nonsense, but has historical proof.

In fact, the record brand That`s is not the most famous tape, but the CD.

The That`s brand CD is a symbol of quality, and it is definitely a high-end disc.

Even before Cao Zhiqiang crossed over, the best CD on the market was the Green Disk of That`s brand.

That's Japanese original Taiba discs can basically be regarded as the top discs of the year in the consumer market.

Relatively speaking, That's cassette disks are not very well-known, but they are still very good, and they are also the niche top disks in cassette disks.

However, Cao Zhiqiang suddenly remembered a material he had read in his previous life, which was Taiyo Yuden's strategic mistake on cassette discs.

It seems that Taiyo Yuden, because it pays special attention to the latest cutting-edge technology, so when the United States released metal tapes in 1978, Taiyo Yuden was one of the first companies in Japan to develop metal tapes, and it did make achievements, producing excellent Metal tape, the quality is better than that of 3M company in the United States.

However, when they developed high-quality metal tape technology, CD records have become popular. No matter how good your metal tape is, it cannot be compared with ordinary CD records.

Fortunately, Taiyo Yuden also developed CD technology at the beginning, and entered this field very early, otherwise it would fall behind.

But no matter what, Taiyo Yuden's cassette tapes did go through a lot of twists and turns.

From this point of view, since Taiyo Yuden wants to develop and produce the latest and most cutting-edge metal magnetic tape, part of the old production line must be dismantled.

In other words, Taiyo Yuden's original production line should be decommissioned or transferred. Otherwise, their people would not come first. In fact, they are more interested in selling old production lines.

Taiyo Yuden's ordinary tape production line must be a relatively advanced production line, and because they are eager to upgrade their technology and produce higher-end metal tapes, this is a good opportunity to take over.

Compared with Taiyo Yuden, which is eager to upgrade its technology and production line, several other large companies probably do not have such a sense of urgency, and the price and conditions given should not be better than Taiyo Yuden.

Therefore, as early as when he heard Section Chief Ikegani came to the door, he had decided to choose this company to have a look, and now that he had read the information again, he was even more interested.

Because according to the data, the ordinary tape technology they are currently using is actually an iron chrome tape.

This magnetic tape is also called a double-layer magnetic tape. Its magnetic powder is divided into two layers. The upper layer is coated with about one micron of chromium oxide powder, and the lower layer is coated with about five microns of ferric oxide powder.

It has the advantages of both iron and chromium strips, and its performance is comparable to that of iron-cobalt strips, but its price is cheaper than chromium strips and cobalt-containing strips.

At present, in the magnetic tape market, the price is from high to low. The most expensive is metal powder tape, followed by chromium tape, then iron-cobalt tape or cobalt-containing tape, next is iron-chromium tape, and finally is ordinary iron tape.

In other words, in terms of cost performance, the iron-chrome band is the best, because the material is cheap, and the sound quality is comparable to that of a cobalt-containing band. From a technical point of view, it is very good.

Taiyo Yuden obviously has patents related to this kind of double-layer tape technology, so it launched this kind of production line.

The cost of this kind of tape is only slightly higher than that of ordinary iron tape, but the sound quality is very good, especially the recording effect is very strong.

However, it turns out that the cost of this kind of tape is slightly higher than that of ordinary tapes, but the sound quality is not as good as that of chrome tapes, and the market performance is not satisfactory, at least in the Japanese market.

The reason is simple. This technology has just emerged, and there are too few production lines and too little output, which leads to high R&D costs and thus high prices.

In addition, the market has long been robbed by other large tape manufacturers and there is not much left. As a result, the sales volume of Taiyo Yuden's new tapes is not high, and it has been in a loss situation.

If it weren't for this, they wouldn't be in a hurry to sell the production line, specializing in metal tapes that not many people have entered yet.

From a certain point of view, the metal tape is really good. The sound quality of this thing is completely incomparable to that of the chrome-plated tape. It can even wrestle with the early CD discs.

Unfortunately, the rapid development of CD technology has diluted the advantages of metal disks. In addition, the price of metal disks does not have much advantage. fall.

However, CDs became popular, and it must have been in the 90s. The prices of early CD discs and CD players remained high, and they were only in the top niche field. The real mass records were still cassette tapes.

So at least in the 80s, the tape production line was making a steady profit, and this double-layer tape technology, once introduced into the country, must be the top technology.

As long as there is a little publicity, and the sound quality of this tape really beats those low-quality ordinary tapes in China, it will definitely cause a panic buying frenzy.

Cao Zhiqiang estimated that even if this kind of tape was sold for eight yuan, or even ten yuan a disc, there would still be people rushing to buy it. At that time, he could make a lot of money just by selling tapes in China.

"In short, I am inclined towards Taiyo Yuden, but as the Japanese section manager said, the buyer is the one who dislikes the goods, and vice versa." Cao Zhiqiang said, "Since we want to choose Taiyo Yuden, we should choose Taiyo Yuden. It’s a lot to pick a little bit, let out the wind by the way, investigate a few other companies, and put a little pressure on Taiyo Yuden.”

"Is this appropriate?" Anping asked, "What if we do this and make them think we are not sincere and won't sell us the production line and technology?"

Cao Zhiqiang waved his hands with a smile: "Don't worry, they are more anxious than us now. Their double-layer magnetic tape technology is not popular in Japan at all, and there is no future. They can only sell the technology and production line to us, or sell it to us. Cooperate and engage in joint ventures.

In fact, I personally prefer to set up a joint venture company, which can save money, but the specific situation will have to be discussed later. "

When Anping heard this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief: "I said, where do we get so much money, so you are thinking of setting up a joint venture company, then there is no problem."

"Hehe." Cao Zhiqiang smiled playfully and didn't say much.

In fact, Cao Zhiqiang is more inclined to buy out the technology and production line, and then build a brand by himself, and eat alone in China, not to set up a joint venture company.

After all, it looks like he has no funds, but in fact he has.

Because the public funds of [-] million U.S. dollars were actually for him.

As long as he goes back and gets the offshore company settled, he can consider sending the money over.

At that time, he will set up a leather bag company in Japan or Hong Kong, transfer the money from overseas offshore companies, and then form a joint venture with himself in the name of that company. Not bad.

But there is no need to tell Anping about this kind of thing.

(End of this chapter)