Chapter 636

A few days later.

Zucker has left New York for o'clair, a city in Wisconsin.

When it comes to the 50 states of the United States of America, more people may be familiar with California, New York and Hawaii, while Wisconsin is undoubtedly unfamiliar to many people“ The word "Wisconsin" stands for "grass" and "Ruby" in Indian language.

The state is located in the north of the United States, facing Lake Michigan, one of the Great Lakes in the East, Michigan in the northeast, Minnesota in the west, Iowa and Illinois in the southwest and south. 45% of the land in the state is covered by forests, and the river network in the state is dense, with more than 10000 rivers.

Therefore, the economic characteristics of Wisconsin are mainly agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and paper industry.

It is relatively lacking in high-tech industry.

But... Wisconsin also has potential businesses!

For example: menaz home decoration!

This time, Zhuke arrived in o'clair, Wisconsin, just for menaz home decoration company.

"Hi, Zhuke, my friend, welcome to our company ~"

As soon as they arrived in Madison, Junker and his party were warmly welcomed by John Maynard Jr., the owner of menaz's home decoration.

Zhuke hugged him warmly.

"Man, you've had a good time recently. Even if I'm not in New York, I can see your news everywhere. With the collapse of Enron, you wall street people are making a lot of money."

John murnard Jr. spoke with admiration.

Hearing this, Zhuke waved his hand and said with a smile, "come on, old man. I made a lot of money in the Enron incident, but the people who really made the most of it were Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch. "

"It's the same. Anyway, your capital is not earning less." Murnard said quickly.

After a brief exchange, they left the airport.

In the car.

Zhuke smile convergence, solemn way: "old man, say, how can I help you?"

"Eh?"

John murnard, who was over sixty, was stunned immediately. A few seconds later, he sighed, "do you know all about it?"

"Isn't that bullshit?"

Zhu Ke said with a smile: "don't forget that I reminded you at the beginning. Can I not be clear?"

Little John murnard chuckled and nodded.

Since the outbreak of the September 11 incident, Internet companies and high-tech enterprises across the United States have suffered a disaster. Stock prices have fallen seriously, and many companies have closed down. Even today, the impact of the 9 / 11 incident continues to cause a huge blow to these enterprises.

All walks of life have been affected to varying degrees

Including the field of personal home decoration.

"In just a few days, my company lost at least hundreds of millions of dollars. Just bubble soup of personal home decoration orders, a total of more than 3000. Damn terrorists

It was a few days after 9 / 11 that John murnard, Jr. complained to Zucker.

As of today, the menaz home decoration company has lost at least $300 million, which is the reason why Mr. murnard reacted quickly enough, otherwise the loss would be $500 million.

Crisis and opportunity often coexist!

On the other hand, as the largest individual home decoration chain brand in Wisconsin, menaz home decoration will lose so much, so how about its competitors?

Moreover, occupy the middle and lower reaches of the strength of your company far less than the strength of small and medium-sized personal home decoration company, the situation is even worse.

In other words, if menaz home decoration can quickly annex some small and medium-sized home decoration enterprises in this crisis, it will surely rise to be an industry giant.

"Thanks to your original reminder, I do it now, but..."

Murnard's words stop.

"But what?"

Zhuke asked.

"But don't forget, in the field of personal home decoration in the United States, there are many stronger companies than menaz home decoration company, such as home depot and Lloyd's. they are the biggest companies in this industry."

Home depot?

Lloyd's?

Zucker repeated the names of the two companies.

Home depot is one of the world's leading home building materials retailers and one of the world's largest home decoration brand retailers. It is well known that home depot is located in the United States, Canada, Mexico and other regions.

So far, it has more than 700 chain stores in the United States alone;

Home Depot has been rated as "the most popular professional retailer" by Fortune magazine for several consecutive years;

In November 2001, home depot ranked 47th in Forbes magazine's "top 500 American enterprises" list.

Lloyd's, it's not bad either!

Lloyd's is also one of the world's largest home decoration brand retailers, with more than 400 stores in the United States, second only to home depot in the field of personal home decoration.

"Home depot and Lloyd's, I know, are the No.1 and No.2 giants in the field of personal home decoration in the United States, so what's the scale of your menaz home decoration?"

Asked Zhuke.

Murnard took a deep breath and said in a rather plaintive tone: "you can see that my menaz home decoration is the largest personal home decoration chain brand in Wisconsin, but its overall strength is much worse than that of home depot and Lloyd's

"Then you say it," Chuck said

The old man is not cheerful at all.

"49!"

"At present, there are only 49 stores in menaz, which is far less than the 700 stores of home depot and the 400 stores of Lloyd's..."

As he spoke, he spread his hands and said to himself, "I'm finished now. You should know my troubles."

Zucker nodded.

9 / 11 is both a crisis and an opportunity for all walks of life in the United States.

Big fish eat small fish~

As long as we can seize the opportunity, we can quickly annex some enterprises that are on the verge of bankruptcy, so that the company can grow rapidly, and even become a giant in the industry.

However, not everyone has the opportunity!

For example, the current menaz home decoration, in the field of personal home decoration, can not compete with the industry giant's home depot and Lloyd's.

"No, man. Just a few days after 9 / 11, I reminded you that you haven't made any progress in the past few months? "

Zhu Kezhi asked.

It's reasonable to say that with the reminder of Zucker, a smart man like Leonard should be able to take the lead.

"No money, man!"

Murnard said with a bitter smile, "you think I am you. Where can I have so much money? Even for the bank, I also borrowed 200 million US dollars, but it's still not enough. Well, it's not enough! "

There's one more thing he didn't say.

That's to borrow money from Zucker~

Of course, he did not exclude Zhuke's participation in his menaz home decoration.

"The first watch" is presented.

The minister's back. It's a big day today.