Reborn in Hong Kong as a Tycoon

Chapter 80 The Toy Company and the Rubik's Cube

Having an assistant is just different.

It is not necessary for Lin Baicheng to do it himself, but within three days, Cheng Yufeng has selected several toy companies for Lin Baicheng. These toy companies have complete factories and workers, and they can be put into production after purchase.

Lin Baicheng now has some capital, and there is no need to develop slowly, so he chose a larger toy company this time and asked Cheng Yufeng to negotiate an acquisition.

After all, Cheng Yufeng had just joined the job, and Lin Baicheng was not familiar with him, so out of caution, he secretly asked lawyer Chen Gao to evaluate the toy company to be acquired, so that he could know what Cheng Yufeng was doing this time. There is no harm to his interests in the acquisition.

It's not that Lin Baicheng is a villain, but you must be careful about this kind of thing, otherwise you will only be regarded as a fool, and you will lose a lot of money without knowing it.

Five days later, Cheng Yufeng negotiated with the boss of the toy company for a price of 820 million Hong Kong dollars. This price was slightly lower than Chen Gao's valuation of about 850 million Hong Kong dollars. It can be seen that Cheng Yufeng's ability is indeed good.

Lin Baicheng signed a transaction contract with the boss of the toy company. For this transaction, he only needs to be responsible for signing and transferring the funds.

The toy company was directly renamed Jupiter Toys Company by Lin Baicheng. The company has a factory covering an area of ​​more than 3000 square meters and four stores in Tai Po. Each store has an area of ​​about 100 square meters. The prices of these four stores alone exceed [-] million Hong Kong dollars.

This toy company has nearly 200 employees. The reason why the boss chose to sell it is because the company does not make much money now, and the annual profit is limited. The boss is very happy to get a large amount of money at once to do other things Business.

In fact, the toy company was still very profitable in the early years. Otherwise, the factory would not have been built so large, and it has also operated four stores. It is a pity that the old master who is in charge of making toys has no novel innovations. The toys developed today are no longer subject to Children's favorite.

It's not that the boss didn't spend money to hire other masters, but the toys invented by the masters he hired were not popular. After several times, the boss lost a lot of money. The boss didn't dare to take any more risks, so he had to sell some toys without copyright, so The profit is limited every year, and you can't make much money.

Lin Baicheng does not rely on the people below to invent popular toys when he buys a toy company. He has a lot of ideas himself. It is better to have experienced masters, as long as he can make his ideas into real things.

After buying the toy company, Lin Baicheng took Cheng Yufeng to the toy company's factory, met Huang Jianhe, the former director of the factory, chatted with him, and found that this person had no problems in management, so he decided to let him temporarily He will continue to be the factory manager, and he will decide whether to stay or not based on his ability to work later.

"Director Huang, go and call the person in charge of toy design and production in the factory."

"Okay, Mr. Lin."

Huang Jianhe didn't neglect Lin Baicheng because he was young. After all, he still had to eat under his hands, so how dare he neglect him.

After a while, Huang Jianhe brought in an old man in his 60s or [-]s.

"Mr. Lin, this is Mr. Gong Xiang, who is in charge of making toys in the factory."

Huang Jianhe first introduced Lin Baicheng, and then said to Gong Xiang: "Master Gong, this is the new boss of the company, Mr. Lin."

"Mr. Lin."

"Master Gong, please sit down."

After all, he is an old man, so Lin Baicheng can't let the other party stand all the time.

"Master Gong, let's see if this mechanical Rubik's Cube can be made under the conditions of our factory."

While speaking, Lin Baicheng handed over a blueprint of a third-order Rubik's Cube.

When it comes to toys, we have to mention the enduring Rubik's Cube, and the Rubik's Cube known to the public is usually the third-order cube Rubik's Cube, and this Rubik's Cube is the most popular.

In fact, Lin Baicheng didn’t know when the Rubik’s Cube was invented at the beginning. After all, for people decades later, buying the Rubik’s Cube is something to play with. Definitely not many, and Lin Baicheng is not one of them.

Therefore, in order to avoid patent infringement disputes, when deciding to acquire the toy company, Lin Baicheng contacted Isabella in the United States and asked Isabella to check whether the Rubik's Cube had come out in the world.

Then, Lin Baicheng knew that the Rubik's Cube had actually been invented.

As early as 1970, Larry Nichols invented the 2×2×2 Rubik’s Cube, applied for a Canadian patent, and obtained a US patent two years later.

As for the third-order Rubik's Cube, it was invented by Rubik Erno, a professor of architecture and sculpture in Hungary in 1974, and obtained a Hungarian patent in 1975, but Rubik Erno did not apply for an international patent.

As far as Isabella's investigation is concerned, the third-order Rubik's Cube has been sold in toy stores in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, a few months ago. Fortunately, because Rubik Erno did not spend money to promote the relationship, the sales volume is mediocre.

After learning this, Lin Baicheng immediately asked Isabella to go to Hungary in person to find Rubik Erno to buy the ownership of the third-order Rubik's Cube. Rubik Erno has not yet realized the value of the Rubik's Cube. Therefore, it was very happy to sell it at a price of 50 US dollars, and it was cheap to die.

After obtaining the ownership of the Rubik's Cube, Lin Baicheng asked Isabella to apply for the international patent of the Rubik's Cube, and at the same time entrusted Rubik Elno himself to continue to develop the Rubik's Cube, fourth-order, fifth-order and more Rubik's Cube gameplay.

At the same time, Lin Baicheng, who knew how much the Rubik's Cube would sell in the future, asked Isabella to buy Larry Nichols' patent after applying for an international patent, mainly to avoid being hit by the Rubik's Cube after the fire.

There are many such things in Western countries. After a novel or movie becomes popular, anyone who is involved with the copyright will jump out and say that the copyright belongs to them, and then spend money to sue for infringement. The problem is that it's still legal.Failure will waste at most some legal fees for litigation, and there is not much loss.

The international patent is already in the process of being applied for, and now that the toy company has been bought, Lin Baicheng is of course planning to make the toy.

Although there are patents and copyrights, some people do piracy to make money, but they dare not do it publicly, and the production of Rubik's Cube is not that difficult, and it does not require much capital to make pirated Rubik's Cube, so Lin Baicheng plans to do more at the beginning Prepare the Rubik's Cube, and after he hypes up the Rubik's Cube, he will sell it in large quantities at once, leaving no room for piracy.

Gong Xiang took the drawing and looked at it, and then gave Lin Baicheng an affirmative answer that this third-order Rubik's Cube could be made under the conditions of the factory.

After getting the answer that he could do it, Lin Baicheng immediately asked the factory director Huang Jianhe to stop making the previous toys, and only make Rubik's Cube in the future, and all the toys in stock were cleared and sold.

Because the Rubik's Cube will be sold to Western countries, Lin Baicheng decided to strictly screen the materials for making the Rubik's Cube, absolutely not to pass the environmental protection standard, so as to avoid being sued for accidents caused by children playing with the Rubik's Cube.

Although the cost of doing this Rubik's Cube will definitely be greatly increased, but the wool comes from the sheep, at most the Rubik's Cube will be sold at a slightly higher price.

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