Luxury Goods: From Handicraft Workshops To Domination Of The World

Take a look.

The factory area of ​​this handicraft workshop is like a large farmyard, covering an area of ​​five or six acres, and several handicraft workshops, warehouses, equipment rooms, etc. have been built in turn.

Opposite is a two-story western-style building, covered with white tiles, which is the tailor's dormitory.

On a large open space.

It was surrounded by a wooden fence and used as a vegetable garden.

Cucumbers and beans are hung on the green vines, green toon trees, purple eggplants, green tomatoes, and large cabbages are planted on the ground.

The fat orange was lying on the fence, listless.

prime time.

There are more than 200 tailors in the workshop of Gu Bai's family, but the efficiency is not good now. There are only about 40 people, and it seems a bit empty.

Hand workshop.

There wasn't much equipment, so after a quick inspection, and after meeting all the tailors, Gu Bai took Aunt Liu and several team leaders to the meeting room.

"Tell me about your finances."

Gu Bai cut to the chase.

The leather goods workshop of the Gu family is still insisting on "outdated" hand-sewing, with high prices and low output. It is not an opponent of machine foundries in the downward direction, and it cannot compete with the big luxury brands in the upward direction.

As you can imagine, the finances must not look good.

And so it is.

There is 1 million funds in the company account, which is enough for three months of expenses. But the problem is that the workshop has not received a foreign trade order for half a month, and the daily wages, water and electricity taxes, and equipment loss are all expensive expenses.

Every day when she wakes up, Aunt Liu has to find a way to make money to support her family. This kind of life is too tortured.

"Our home."

"There's nothing to say about the quality of leather goods, but the price is too high, and there is no way to sell them domestically. They mainly do foreign trade OEM of niche luxury goods from abroad. The customers include Monet, MiuMiu in Western Europe, and Fenty in North America."

"But in the past two years, in order to reduce costs, big brands have also begun to turn to machine factories for OEM, and our foreign trade orders have become less and less."

A well-dressed female group leader said.

Others have a similar opinion.

There is no way for the workshop to burn money and idle like this every day, otherwise, after three months, it will either close down or borrow money to survive.

Hand workshop.

The time has come for a transformation.

"Mr. Gu."

Aunt Liu opened a handbook, in formal occasions, it is still necessary to address the position.

She tapped the pen tip on the paper, hesitated again and again, and said, "I've thought about the transformation for a long time. There are currently two options to choose from. It's up to you how to choose."

"First, let's transform into a domestic e-commerce business. The price of 9 yuan and 9 free shipping is now very hot in the market, and the supply exceeds demand. The business department over there is eager to find cooperation with leather goods factories."

"Second, we do subcontracting, and we can accept some subcontracting orders from other factories."

Talk about it.

Both programs are still the way of foundry.

And they are all low-end OEMs.

In particular, when they heard that the knives were 9 yuan and 9 free shipping, the heads of several tailors in the room turned pale and their fingers trembled excitedly.

9 yuan and 9 free shipping.

Bitch who despise oneself despises industry.

In this mode, labor costs are compressed to the extreme, environmental protection is not considered, and quality does not exist. Only sweatshops that don't treat people as people can play well.

They are all veteran tailors who have been working for more than ten years or decades. In this line of work, they are craftsmen who have devoted their whole lives and love.

How willing to enter a sweatshop to spoil your own craftsmanship.

"I... also know it's hard."

"But the general environment is like this. We either try our best to introvert, or we will be eliminated by the times."

Aunt Liu pursed her lips, looking a little embarrassed.

She is the best tailor here, and she is one of the best tailors in Jiahu City. She is the last thing she wants this craft to be ruined, but she has no choice.

All of a sudden.

The meeting room was surprisingly quiet.

All eyes, coincidentally, gathered at one end of the conference table, looking at the only man here, who is also the man who controls the fate of the workshop.

Facing burning eyes.

Gu Bai was very calm, leaning against the back of the chair, with his arms hanging down naturally, his eyes were as calm as an ancient well without waves, which gave everyone a sense of security.

Young, calm in times of crisis.

And in fact.

Gu Bai found the game ironic.

As far as he knows.

In the Hermes leather goods factory on the banks of the Seine, a tailor who has worked for 5 years, enjoys a full set of medical insurance and pension, works 40 hours a week, and can get a salary of about 5,000 euros a month.

About 31 euros per hour.

Converted into Jackie Chan's currency, the hourly wage is about 221 yuan per hour.

If it is a senior tailor with decades of experience, the income will be higher, and other benefits will be better.

Instead, look in front of you.

These tailors with more than ten years of experience work more than 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, and after a month, the salary is no more than tens of thousands, and the salary is no more than five or six thousand when it is low.

The income of those foundries will be even lower.

Different people have different fates!

Gu Bai felt a little distressed, the same craftsman, the same person, why can we Longguo craftsmen only take one-tenth of other people's income?

"Mr. Gu, what do you think, we all listen to you!"

"Listen to Mr. Gu."

"Mr. Gu, make up your mind."

"President Gu has the final say!"

Aunt Liu and the others all spoke.

Unknowingly, Gu Bai, who just graduated, has become the backbone of these women, and they are waiting for Gu Bai to make the final decision.

Cleared his throat.

Gu Bai looked around at the crowd, and said, "In my opinion, we can't do 9 yuan and 9 free shipping, let alone be subcontracted by others—"

Said here.

Gu Bai stood up solemnly, spread his arms forward, and his voice was full of appeal: "My choice is to launch my own high-end leather products, go out of Jiahu, go to the whole country, and face the world!"

"Our future is to build our own luxury brand, form a brand matrix, form a luxury giant group that affects the world, and grow into a huge luxury empire!"

"Our employees must enjoy the best treatment, and our Long Kingdom's luxury goods must be number one in the world!"

A series of answers.

The sound is not loud, but it is deafening.

Aunt Liu opened her small mouth slightly, tightly clutching the ballpoint pen in her hand, her eyes widened.

Introducing high-end leather goods!

Create a luxury brand!

As a practitioner for more than ten years, Aunt Liu would instinctively think that this is a fool's dream, thinking that Gu Bai could not have a fever and his head was burned out, right?

But looking at Gu Bai's solemn expression.

There was another touch on her face, and finally, she nodded.

next.

Gu Bai announced the adjournment of the meeting.

The news that the new Mr. Gu wanted to create a high-end leather product also spread in the workshop. The tailors in each group are very curious, what design can this talented student who just graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts come up with?

But don't make a joke.

...

evening.

Gu Bai lived in the dormitory building.

In the small dormitory building on the second floor, Aunt Liu and the seamstresses lived on the first floor. Gu Bai is a man, and it is not convenient to live on the first floor, so he lives alone in a dormitory on the second floor.

Fluorescent incandescent lights lit up.

A blank sheet of paper was spread out in front of Gu Bai, and the buzzing of the old-fashioned air conditioner could be heard in his ears. His heart was as peaceful as water, and he entered a state of flow.

As a leather workshop.

The first piece, without a doubt, was a leather bag.

in his head.

The classic bag designs from the previous life flashed one by one like a revolving lantern.

The famous Dior Dior bag, the classic Prada killer bag, the Leboy bag that is regarded as the lover of life by countless girls... There are too many classics, too many.

But to come up with one, as the pioneering work of this life, to set the tone of the entire luxury empire, it seems a little thin.

"Yes."

There was a sharpness in Gu Bai's eyes.

If there is a bag in the previous life that created a myth of a trillion-dollar luxury empire, then this bag is definitely from a flight to England in 1984. It was designed by Jean-Louis-Dumas, the fifth-generation brand chairman of Hermes. Inspired by , BirkinBag.

The Chinese name is also called platinum bag.

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