Reborn since 1993

Chapter 625 The Law of True Fragrance
In the meeting room of the Lighter Import and Export Association, Zhang Xiaocheng, the president, sat there with a majestic figure and gave orders.

Li Dongling, who nominally serves as the director of the Lighter Import and Export Association, also sat in the conference room, looking at the owners of lighter manufacturers who were present today.

One command after another came out of Zhang Xiaocheng's mouth and was recorded. The people who heard Zhang Xiaocheng's orders had mixed expressions on their faces.

All these lighter companies received orders, totaling 10 million black label lighters, which were distributed by Zhang Xiaocheng in the name of the Lighter Import and Export Association. Such a meeting had already been held three days ago.

"President Zhang, we will definitely not make the same mistake as last time, but the deadline is too tight. We are now adding more staff and the new equipment needs to be debugged!"

The boss of Huiyao Company complained to Zhang Xiaocheng that if someone had told the boss of Huiyao a month ago that one day he would be troubled by too many orders for lighters, he would definitely have regarded it as a joke.

But now, the boss of Huiyao Company really feels this kind of "happy trouble". His company has received too many orders for lighters and he can't even finish them!
Now, companies like Huiyao receive foreign trade orders for black label lighters. The quality review of black label orders is very strict. If the unqualified rate of a batch of machines exceeds the standard in random inspection, the entire batch will be returned, and it will affect the subsequent orders.

However, Huiyao’s boss and other lighter companies endured this kind of random inspection, which far exceeded Huiyao’s previous quality inspections. There was no other reason, because the Lighter Import and Export Association gave a price that was too high, at $1.5 for a single black label lighter!

In other words, Huiyao can earn 12 yuan for producing a black label lighter, and an order of two million lighters means million yuan!

In the past, Huiyao produced a disposable lighter and the shipping price to dealers was only about 0.6 yuan, sometimes even less than 0.4 yuan. After deducting equipment maintenance, material costs, employee salaries, taxes, etc., the boss of Huiwan Company could only make a few cents at most for producing a lighter!
Based on previous profits, if Huiyao wanted to make 24 million, it would have to produce tens of millions of lighters, and it might not be able to make that much.

Now, due to the improvement of quality standards, Huiyao's production capacity has dropped significantly, but the profit has more than increased a hundred times!
The situation of all the lighter manufacturers present was basically similar to that of Huiyao Company. They had all started to receive orders from the Mainland Lighter Import and Export Association!

"That's your business. You're the only one who's been playing tricks on others. You even tried to bribe the people I sent to do the random inspections. If you do it again, you won't be able to get any orders from the Lighter Import and Export Association anymore!"

Zhang Xiaocheng glared at the latter, who looked embarrassed. Zhang Xiaocheng didn't care whether he was embarrassed or not. He was speaking to Boss Huiyao and also warning other lighter companies.

"Both the quality and the construction period must be completed on time. Don't be so mean to me, or I will turn my back on you!"

Zhang Xiaocheng said with a dark face that if the rules are not established, these lighter companies, which are used to intrigue and use various means to compete for orders, will still be accustomed to doing things with the old ideas and methods.

The other person sitting below, referred to as Old Liu by Zhang Xiaocheng, is also Liu Zhendong, the boss of Blue Flame Company. He is still a little dazed at this moment.

Liu Zhendong was the man who had fallen out with a group of colleagues in the Tongzhou Hotel before. After that day, he focused his attention on the new factory in the Torch Industrial Park.

Before coming here, Liu Zhendong was also very nervous. To be honest, he couldn't sleep for whole nights during this period. He invested most of his fortune in this new factory. If he lost money, then his past ten years of work would have been in vain.

But when he arrived in Pingyang, before he could react, he was called to a meeting at the headquarters of the Lighter Import and Export Association. Then as soon as he sat down, he heard an order for one million black label lighters falling from the sky.

It doesn't look like much, but this batch of goods is worth 12 million RMB. To be honest, he has never received such a lucrative order in all the years he has been in the lighter business. For a moment, Liu Zhendong even wondered if he was still asleep and dreaming...

After Zhang Xiaocheng finished speaking, Li Dongling knocked on the table lightly a few times, and everyone's eyes immediately turned to Li Dongling.

Li Dongling only serves as a director of the Lighter Import and Export Association, and on weekdays, he seldom interferes in the affairs of the Lighter Import and Export Association. However, this does not mean that these lighter manufacturers dare to ignore what Li Dongling says.

“This kind of high-priced order cannot last too long, so the construction period must be tight and the quality must be guaranteed!
If domestic lighters want to dominate the global lighter industry structure, standards, and pricing power, there must be no problems with quality! "

As soon as Li Dongling opened his mouth, Huang Xinhai, the owner of Xinhai Lighter, as well as Liu Zhendong, the bosses of Huiyao Company and others, all felt their scalps tingling.

While they were still considering whether they could survive and sell more lighters, Li Dongling spoke up and said he would lead the new global lighter landscape and formulate new lighter standards based on domestic lighters.

As colleagues in the lighter industry, who wouldn’t feel a chill down their spine when hearing this? At the same time, a thought that they had never thought of before popped up in their minds: Are they really qualified to influence the global lighter industry? Are they really qualified to participate in the formulation of lighter standards?
If it were in the past, they would not dare to even think about it, but now that Li Dongling brought it up, they couldn't help but have this thought in mind that they had never dared to think about before.

"Everyone, if you can complete the orders of the Lighter Import and Export Association on time, you will be able to stand with the Lighter Import and Export Association in the future. At the end of each year, the Lighter Import and Export Association will also issue corresponding special allowances and subsidies to each member company based on the number and quality of orders completed.

Just like the current order, if you can complete the order volume, then by the end of the year, you can also receive a subsidy of US$0.5 per lighter order!

Of course, this is the initial subsidy standard. The unit price of OEM may be adjusted in the future, and the unit price of subsidy will also be adjusted accordingly. I hope everyone can understand!" Li Dongling said.

Forgiveness? What forgiveness? How can the big money sponsor forgiveness? Liu Zhendong, like other lighter manufacturers, is already drooling.

The OEM price of $1.5 per cigarette is not counted. As long as we follow the arrangements of the Lighter Import and Export Association, at the end of the year, we will pay out subsidies at the price of four yuan per cigarette. Just for this first batch of machines, Liu Zhendong's company can receive a subsidy of four million yuan!
At this time, let alone forgiveness, Liu Zhendong would be willing to be a lackey for the Lighter Import and Export Association. Which lackey distributes dog food? Millions can be distributed by the end of the year. Who wouldn't want to be a lackey for such a big sponsor?

After the meeting, Liu Zhendong and others left in a hurry. During this period, they lived and ate in the factory, keeping an eye on the production line, fearing that there would be any problems with the order of black label lighters.

"These people are really good at counting dogs' faces. They change their faces at any time. They scolded me before, and now they come to me for begging!"

Zhang Xiaocheng and Li Dongling were the only ones left in the conference room. Zhang Xiaocheng threw a pile of documents on the table.

Li Dongling pulled out a document and took a look at it. It basically showed that all the lighter manufacturers who had heard the news were praising Zhang Xiaocheng and the Lighter Import and Export Association, and then begging for a batch of black label orders.

“For the Lighter Import and Export Association, this is an opportunity to establish its authority. Only when domestic lighter manufacturers stand by Torch Group and the Lighter Import and Export Association can Torch Group truly compete with those overseas lighter manufacturers headed by BAK!
What Torch Group wants is not to win one or two lawsuits, but to take away the standards and pricing power of the global lighter industry from companies like BAK.

This requires all domestic lighter manufacturers to stand with Torch Group!"

Li Dongling said that just as he said to Wang Yongyu a few days ago, this time Li Dongling also wanted to use Torch Group to test the nature of those overseas manufacturers.

Winning an anti-dumping lawsuit is nothing. As long as the voice and standards of the lighter industry are still in the hands of BYD, the other party can launch the second and third investigations and sanctions against domestic lighters.

Only when the right to speak in the lighter industry and the right to set global lighter standards are truly taken away, can the war in the lighter industry be said to have come to an end. However, this will not end in a short period of time.

But the Torch Group said that it must bring all domestic lighter peers into its own camp and must not have those traitors who are disloyal.

Otherwise, it is very likely that when the Global Lighter International Conference votes to formulate the new generation of lighter standards, some domestic lighter manufacturers will give money to their opponents, causing trouble for the Torch Group.

Whether it is a person or an organization, if you want to establish authority and make the people below obey your orders, the most direct way is power and money. You must have one of them. Otherwise, who would do something without benefits? If you want the people below to work, you must feed them.

In the case of the Inland Lighter Import and Export Association, when it takes the foreign trade order for black label lighters and hands it over to domestic lighter manufacturers, it can naturally control the other party as the financial sponsor of Party A!
If domestic lighter manufacturers want to earn high-priced black label lighter orders, they must produce and conduct quality inspections in accordance with the requirements of the Lighter Import and Export Association.

Due to the conflict of interest, over time, domestic lighter manufacturers "willingly" accepted the management of the Lighter Import and Export Association, and naturally followed the lead of the Torch Group.

If Torch Group wants to compete with overseas manufacturers such as BYD and Donghai for the right to speak and set standards in lighters, it also needs help.

The premise of all this is that the Lighter Import and Export Association has orders and can issue large sums of US dollars.

But now, the Lighter Import and Export Association lacks everything except orders!

"The order gap for black label lighters is too big now, with new orders of four million lighters every day. With the production capacity of Torch Group, even if we add the OEM work of members of the Lighter Import and Export Association, there is still a gap!" Zhang Xiaocheng said with a headache.

(End of this chapter)