The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

Chapter 112 is quite a big deal!

End of June.

Boiling Sheep has opened five more stores within the Second Ring Road.

All of these were investments made previously, and after three months of renovations, they have now officially opened for business.

It's worth mentioning that from now on, at least five to eight new Boiling Sheep stores will open every month.

After more than half a year of adjustment, Gao Hu finally figured out how to operate a chain store.

This is a great way to learn.

After all, Tengsheng Fruit has already opened more than 100 stores, and there haven't been any major problems.

This is mainly because each store has three or four on-site shareholders in charge.

Although Boiling Sheep canceled the dividend shares, it set a very high year-end bonus.

For any traditional store to remain stable, in addition to the headquarters' operations, the key is to ensure the stability of its employees.

In a store with 20 employees, three or four serve as the core management team, which means each manager is responsible for six people.

This makes it much easier to manage.

In addition, the wages at Fei Yang Yang are far higher than those of its peers, employee satisfaction is high, and the headquarters provides strong promotion.

It is foreseeable that Boiling Sheep will open stores at an increasingly faster pace in the future.

Its positioning is completely different from that of Shuiyunjian.

Shuiyunjian only targets the high-end market, so only 25 to 30 stores can be opened in Beijing.

Fei Yang Yang is a budget-friendly restaurant catering to the widest consumer base, offering high quality at low prices.

In a top-tier city, one hundred to one hundred and fifty such stores can be opened.

After a lively celebration at home for the baby's one-month-old, the couple returned to work.

Song Yanxi drove her LaFerrari directly to the newly renovated Shuiyunjian Beauty Academy.

Nearly 50 million yuan was invested here, and it took three months to complete the overall renovation.

From a somewhat dilapidated old junior high school to the now completely renovated Shuiyunjian Beauty Academy.

That feeling is truly hard to describe.

“Sister-in-law, during your pregnancy, I personally took care of things here. Now that Xinyi is a month old, you can focus on taking care of things here as well.”

Shuiyunjian had always been under her responsibility, but it was only during her pregnancy that the responsibility fell to her husband.

Compared to a few months ago, this place has clearly undergone tremendous changes.

This impressive academy speaks for itself.

The moment Song Yanxi stepped out of the car, her true goddess aura was undeniable.

A fitted white shirt paired with black trousers—she's both a career goddess and a domineering female CEO.

"Your brother has really had a tough time these past few days."

After making a couple of remarks, Song Yanxi led Chen Qi into the beauty academy owned by her family.

"President Song."

"President Song is here."

"I heard her baby is only a month old, and she's already back to work."

The beauty academy has brought all 300-plus beauticians who were previously trained at the small headquarters here.

Song Yanxi first visited the staff dormitory building, because they need to recruit about a thousand high school graduates for training.

The dormitory rooms all have six beds in each room, with bunk beds.

The interior decoration is quite nice, each room has air conditioning, and the walls are in warm colors.

Two five-story dormitory buildings, barely enough to house a thousand female students.

As for the teaching building, in addition to the existing twenty-eight classrooms, it has also been renovated to include a huge conference room and the president's office.

In addition, there are the finance department, training department, and other major offices of Shuiyunjian headquarters.

It can be said that this place is both an independent academy and the headquarters of Shuiyun Academy in the capital.

Song Yanxi went to her office and was quite satisfied.

The office wasn't big, but it was filled with some of her favorite flowers and plants, clearly the work of her husband.

"Xiaoqi, notify Zhou Chun and the others to come to the meeting." Currently, there are only five Shuiyunjian stores open, but nine more are expected to open in October.

There's an unusually large amount of work going on here. I don't know how her husband managed to handle so much all by himself before.

Zhou Chun was the first store manager recruited by Chen Qi and was also the first to develop with Shuiyunjian.

In less than a year, she had already bought two apartments in Beijing and a Maserati Quattroporte in cash.

This made the other store managers quite envious.

The store managers who came later didn't have as many shares as her; when she came, she received 20% of the dividend shares.

As Shuiyunjian rapidly developed, the percentage of profit-sharing given to store managers later became 8%.

No one objected; on the contrary, they felt it was perfectly reasonable.

Once business picks up at Shuiyunjian, the annual profit of a single store will be at least 30 million.

In other words, the store manager can receive at least 250 million yuan a year from that 8% commission.

Who could object to that? After all, the headquarters doesn't require them to spend their own money to buy it.

These are benefits provided entirely by headquarters.

If you add the standard annual salary of 300,000 to 800,000 yuan for a store manager, it can be said that as long as you can manage a Shuiyunjian store well, you can earn a living.

Then they are definitely high-income earners.

It can instantly outperform 99.99% of working people.

To emulate the executives of those large corporations.

Who has time to be jealous of others? Doing your own job well is the most important thing.

"President Song."

The four new store managers are all quite young, around 28 or 29 years old, and they started learning beauty techniques a long time ago.

After another six months of training with everyone at the previous villa, their demeanor is completely different from before they came.

Song Yanxi kindly invited them to sit down first. "Because of my pregnancy, I haven't had time to come here. Now that the baby has been born, I can finally come and see everyone. I called you here today to ask about the current situation of Shuiyunjian. After all, the four newly opened stores have been operating for two months."

Zhou Chun was the first to stand up and introduce that Shijingshan benefited from the two large-scale events held previously.

The customer base is very stable, and currently the main activity is consuming credit cards.

However, new customers are also constantly coming in.

"Previously, Mr. Chen emphasized the door-to-door service, which has received very positive feedback from customers. Currently, more and more people are ordering door-to-door service."

"That's true. Mr. Chen was very farsighted. He recognized the fragmented nature of customers' time and vigorously promoted door-to-door service in the store. As a result, we were referred by customers in various ways and quickly gained a large number of high-end customers."

"Mr. Chen also launched a series of high-end customized services in the store, such as professional coffee ordering service and professional violin performance."

"Currently, we are far ahead in terms of customer reputation. After the group of beauticians who underwent six months of training started working, customers could clearly feel that their overall quality far exceeded that of their peers."

Song Yanxi chuckled, put down her teacup, and said proudly, "My husband would never do anything meaningless. He has his reasons for spending over ten million to train beauticians. Since he values ​​door-to-door service so much, we must do it well too."

After a pause, Song Yanxi continued, "Besides these, he also mentioned something to me yesterday. The store we invested 90 million to open is expected to officially open in October. All stores will not hold any large-scale events before December, which is the end of December, the day of the New Year."

"We at Shuiyunjian will host a grander New Year's Eve celebration, one that surpasses all other local New Year's Eve parties."

"A Night of Grandeur?"

Zhou Chun and the other store managers were clearly puzzled; it was the first time they had ever heard of a beauty salon holding a New Year's Eve party.

"Yes."

Song Yanxi said, "My husband will invest heavily in this gala. It won't be limited to top domestic stars. We've already contacted Psy, who's a global sensation, as well as Do Min-joon and Jun Ji-hyun from 'My Love from the Star.' We might also invite a Hollywood star. Yang Mi will definitely be coming from China. We're also in contact with three generations of goddesses, including Vivian Chow, Andy Lau, and Aaron Kwok. At least two of the Four Heavenly Kings will be there."

"In short, what we need to do beforehand is to lay the groundwork properly, so that this gala can generate at least 500 to 800 million in sales."

The boss is working harder and harder.

This isn't an annual meeting that a beauty salon could afford; it's a whole setup that only CCTV could pull off.

With so many superstars on the same stage, deciding who stands in the center and who is the final act is a big question.

However, I was also quite excited.

They even managed to organize an unprecedented superstar New Year's Eve party on their own.

No wonder it's called the Night of the Prosperous Age.

With such a powerful lineup, how could it not be called a golden age?

(End of this chapter)