Chapter 439

"Unlike war, chairman, business is a wonderful art."

Walking in the clear floor aisle and stepping on the thick and soft woven carpet, Lorraine and manager sterence walked together.

The manager is not that kind of arrogant person. On the contrary, he is as attentive as the old Oriental shopkeeper on TV.

He was very meticulous. He began to prepare for the arrival of Lorraine's team when the golden deer entered the dock. The office prepared English tea and Spanish snacks, and even fur, Tamia and pita.

Fuer, Tamia and pita are characteristic snacks in Egypt.

Pita is a strange bread baked with corn and wheat. It is characterized by that the chef will use a special way to leave an interlayer when kneading the dough. The dough will bulge hollow when baking, and cut in half to become a pocket, so it is also called "pocket bread".

Fule and Tamia are the fillings of pocket bread.

Fule is a salad like dish, with broad beans as the main ingredient, seasoned with oil, lemon, salt, meat, eggs and onions; Tamia is a small ball made of ground chicken beans and spices.

To be fair, these things are not rare in terms of preparation methods and raw materials, and the finished products are very like salty Coriolis.

But Haina hasn't eaten the folk snacks in her hometown for more than ten years. As soon as the smell of pita cake came out, she couldn't move anymore.

The business of shelling fake virgins was gone, and the demeanor of cold-faced asasin was gone. She occupied the reception room like a wild cat protecting food, and even Lorraine was pushed and shooed out.

The fact that she was blown out by Haina let Lorraine know that van nuggel Terrence was a man with a heart.

A dedicated office manager like him will never be arrogant in front of the boss. His provocative tone can only attract Lorraine's attention and strive for an opportunity to show himself in front of the big boss.

So Lorraine stopped and looked out the window at the busy street: "tell me, where is the subtlety of business?"

Terrence was beaming.

"Chairman, there are four exchanges in the two islands of Viking and leeward under our office. Among them, the specialty of Leeward Islands is sucrose, and Viking islands are rich in copper besides sucrose."

"These are two different products. The trade line of sucrose is divided into two lines. The inner line is to Barbados, which mainly supplies the ocean fleet of the European branch, and the outer line is to many ports in northwest Europe. 70% is still supplied to the European branch for transfer trade, and we don't do much on our own. The copper mine has only one line, which starts from St. Croix, transfers at St. Dana and arrives in Boston."

"Offshore trade and ocean trade." Lorraine interrupted at the right time to prove that he listened carefully.

"Yes, offshore and ocean!" Terrence cheered up. "In terms of water alone, the output of copper with the same value is roughly 1.5% higher than that of sucrose in the same cycle and 47% lower than that of sucrose outside."

"However, this algorithm ignores labor, ship damage, accidents and storage costs. If these are calculated, the gross profit of copper is 28.6% higher than that of sucrose, and the basic income is only slightly lower than that of sucrose."

"Then there is the third element of art, fashion!"

"Thanks to the beautiful Xavier manager and the wise Parker president Hong Fu, we have great policy preferences in the new America, just like the seasonal art popularity will produce a premium, and high-grade copper mines are widely sought after in the United States."

"This is a great victory for mathematics, chairman! Our office has collected 107 incoming and outgoing records for six months. We are shocked to find that the net profit of copper is 69.2% higher than that of sucrose, and 14.9% higher than that of sucrose."

"This completely subverts the traditional perception that the profits of medium and short-distance trade cannot be compared with long-distance trade. It is worth for each office to reassess its own trade chain, give full play to regional characteristics and optimize the industrial structure!"

A roar of excitement made Lorraine's head tremble. He retreated a little more without a trace, covered his mouth and cleared his throat.

"Calm down, Mr. sterns." Lorraine paused. "I just heard a subversive discovery, but I don't understand it."

"It seems that this discovery should be treated more seriously. In a more formal way, the American branch should lead the firms to conduct trade chain assessment and form a broader report, and then the general association should make conclusions and suggestions in combination with the trade situation in Europe, rather than... Er..."

Lorraine put his hand in embarrassment: "sorry, I don't think you should at least give me your opinion in private in this way similar to secret discussion. Let me guess, is that what President Parker means?"

Terrence's face changed suddenly: "no! Chairman, I think my expression has caused you unnecessary misunderstanding. I don't mean to question the principle of resource sharing among branches."

"We are all Drake. Every middle-level manager of the chamber of Commerce knows that the sharing principle is the most effective way to use the resources of the chamber of Commerce. Although the internal discounts of the branch and the branch will indeed lower the unit price of goods, it is the same for goods imported from Europe."

"President Parker will put the discount we give together with the discount given by Europe at the annual meeting. Every year, there is a surplus in the Americas. After all, Europe only exports industrial products, and the value of each shipment is much higher than our output."

Lorraine frowned: "then I don't understand..."

"Chairman, the analysis I just made is based on the trade discounts between branches." sterence solemnly said, "the leeward and Virgin Islands have mature copper mining industry, and the new United States has greedy demand for minerals, which forms the extreme example of our office."

"Does such an example exist in other offices? As you just said, my report has been submitted to New York, and the trade chain evaluation of Pan branch started two months ago, which is dominated by Vice President Leonard."

"What I am saying today is only on behalf of our office, chairman. Because of this discovery, the office plans to adjust and expand the trade focus in the next five years. President Parker is very interested in our new plan and has added ￡ 3000 in investment. He has ordered four latest 30 meter Bermuda slups for us at the maritime group."

"These new ships can double our transportation capacity and make room for the new copper mine contract without giving up the sucrose contract. I even won the new contract, with a five-year negotiation of 100000 pounds, a current price of 50000 pounds, a tax rate of 3% and a free long-term rental berth in St. Croix!"

"Isn't that very good?" Lorraine became more and more confused. "You have proved your business talent and working ability with the new ship and new contract. As long as you implement this contract in place, I believe you will have a bright future."

"Not enough, chairman!"

Terrence stared like a grave robber who lost his mind in front of a treasure.

"Nineteen months ago, I was suddenly promoted from Kingston trade manager to St. Croix. At that time, it ranked ninth among all ten offices in the Americas. Its business flow and annual profit were only slightly higher than that of barios office in the Gulf of Honduras, and we were not as good as barios in terms of profit margin."

"I guess that's why President Parker asked me to be promoted. Even if the Virgin Islands has the reputation of pirate islands, even if the Leeward Islands can't get out of the shadow of windward neighbors in business, in any case, we shouldn't operate worse than our Central American colleagues during the sanctions period."

"I boldly played a tyrant. In just three months, I replaced all four trade office managers, fired 11 employees, swept out the original short-term employment and temporary employment, and replaced them with young people who cherish their work more."

"I also forcibly prevented the establishment of trade unions. The labor leaders in Boston and Kingston called me a worker thief and threatened to retaliate against me and let me pay for my actions."

"So I still don't know who broke my leg outside the old office, but I don't care."

"With the tragic situation of being black and blue on the wheelchair, I successfully applied for the fund to buy land and built the current office. The water warehouse allowed the maritime group to set up a ship repair dock in this shallow port where the conditions were not outstanding, which attracted the attention of members of the hundred business associations."

"The business of the office has advanced by leaps and bounds. In the monthly report of last June, our flow ranked ninth among the 14 offices, the profit rate ranked fifth, and the profit margin climbed to third, second only to New York and St. Dana, which are mainly engaged in European business, reaching the highest peak since the establishment of the office."

"It's a pity that God's care for me has ended here. After the peak, our water is still rising, but the growth of profits slowed down, and the profit margin fell back to the ninth among the fifteen offices."

"I started the evaluation of the trade chain in the bottleneck, and got the support of the president for the second time by relying on the evaluation report. I have told you that four large transshipment ships will be delivered every month since August this year."

"I saw the second opportunity for the rise of the office!" Terrence suddenly became fanatical. "But in front of this opportunity, President Parker's support is far from enough. The four sloops that are inseparable from the islands can only make us rise, and can not achieve my ambition to make the St. Croix office the most competitive office in the whole Americas!"

"Chairman, the Virgin Islands are pirate islands. Based on the consideration of route risk, gunboats have never been configured here. Our output to the United States has always relied on expensive employment ships, with a return rate of 72%, and three out of every ten ships refuse or lose the ability to continue serving us."

"You launched an encirclement and suppression against the skilful Derek. After six months of fighting, our return rate has risen to 94%. Pansy has established enough prestige in this dangerous sea. The best time for the office to start independent transportation is the day you win!"

At this, Lorraine finally understood.

In order to improve the competitiveness of each branch, Lorraine and Carmen launched a development fund of £ 30000 a year shortly after the establishment of the general association asset management company, which is only distributed to offices with excellent plans and good prospects.

As for whether or not to distribute and how much to distribute, these powers are controlled by the development section of the asset management company, and the final decision is in Carmen's hands.

Lorraine has a great influence on this money, but generally only the most attractive projects will be delivered to his desk. Lorraine will not intervene in those small projects of more than thousands of pounds, and Carmen will filter them out for him.

He looked at sterns with a smile and a smile: "after a big circle, it seems that you have handed the plan to the General Assembly Development Section..."

In the blink of an eye, Terrence broke his work and stood straight in embarrassment: "he handed it over for four months, and there has been no reply..."

"It will take another two or three months. Manager Xavier has no time to read the plans. She is preparing to set up an industrial and mining group."

"Establish... Industrial and mining group?"

"You'll hear it soon." Lorraine smiled. "Your vision is very accurate and your plan is excellent. I'll ask manager Xavier to carefully consider your project, but you need to find an excellent supervisor before the plan is implemented."

With that, Lorraine turned and left.

Terrence stood blankly at the window and said, "Lieutenant... Isn't it the captain?"