Chapter 3597 3599【Linglang Food Factory】
“Food factory?! OK?” Wang Xiang hesitated.
He has only driven trains in his life and has never done business. As for starting a food factory, I don’t even know what to do.
"Don't worry, Dad, I'm here to help you with ideas." Xiang Nan said with a smile, "And if you open a food factory, you can be the boss. When the time comes, call back all the unemployed colleagues in our factory , then you are the 'Factory Director Wang'."
In fact, it is very easy to help Wang Xiang find something to do. Opening a canteen in the family area is enough for him to pass his free time.
However, Xiang Nan wanted to help more people. After all, this time Huagang collapsed, but tens of thousands of workers were unemployed. Only the manufacturing industry can absorb so many unemployed people.
Selling barbecue, opening a massage parlor, driving a taxi... Such service industries are simply not feasible and cannot accommodate too many people.
After all, when people are unemployed and have no money to earn, how can they have spare money for massages, barbecues, and sex? Only when people earn money can the service industry prosper.
Hearing what Xiang Nan said, Wang Xiang was very moved.
He has never been an official in his life, that is, he only shows his seniority in the maintenance department. It would be really great if I could really become a factory director.
Moreover, so many brothers and sisters have been laid off and can't find anything to do now. The whole family is deprived of food and clothing, which makes him feel quite distressed.
If you open a food factory and everyone has something to do and make money, it will also be a good thing to accumulate merit.
So Wang Xiang thought about it again and again, and finally decided to accept Xiang Nan's suggestion and prepare to open a food processing factory.
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It is actually not easy to open a food processing factory.
First, there must be space. Smaller food processing plants must also have production workshops, raw material warehouses, and product warehouses, and they must occupy at least a few acres of land;
The second is to have machinery. Including production machines, packaging machines, quality inspection machines, etc., these machines all need to be purchased or even customized;
Third, to open a food processing factory, you need to apply for a series of documents. Just running these procedures will take a long time.
So in the next half year, Xiang Nan and Wang Xiang have been working on this matter. I don’t know how many difficulties he encountered during this period, and Wang Xiang even wanted to back down a few times.
He just wanted to do something and cheer up his old colleagues, but he never expected that he would encounter so many twists and turns. But no matter what, the two gritted their teeth and persisted.
Through continuous efforts, the factory buildings, equipment, and certificates are all in place.
The factory building is rented from a former municipal food factory.
The No. 1 food factory in the city originally produced foods such as peach cakes, biscuits, and cakes. Originally, the performance was pretty good. Back then, it was a big factory that everyone was vying to go to.
However, due to the backward technology, single taste, and the fact that the factory director and others were filling their own pockets, it eventually declared bankruptcy. Xiang Nan saw that the venue could still be used, so he spent money to rent it.
The equipment is customized from a machinery factory in the south. The South reformed and opened up early, and businessmen were more flexible in their thinking. Machinery factories run by other people allow private customization of machinery.
Unlike some machinery factories in the north, they do not accept customized orders at all. Even if some are willing to accept customization, when Xiang Nan only orders a few machines, they all find it too small and unwilling to accept the order.
Judging from this point alone, Xiang Nan knew that those companies that failed were not unjust.
When applying for a business license and a food processing and production license, Xiang Nan and Wang Xiang discussed it and gave the food factory a resounding name, called it Liangliang Food Factory.
In the play, when Wang Xiang introduces himself, he likes to say, "My name is Wang Xiang, loud and clear."
This self-introduction sounded quite domineering when he was working as a train driver, and everyone looked up to him.
This also marks Wang Xiang’s loneliness in life.
Hence Xiang Nan specially named the food factory "Langliang Food Factory" and planned to make Wang Xiang's name famous throughout the country. "Dad, when our factory becomes prosperous, you can become a famous figure in the world like Li Ning." He smiled and said to Wang Xiang.
“Okay.” Wang Xiang nodded with a smile and had high hopes for this food factory.
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After everything was ready, the Liangliang Food Factory began to recruit workers.
As soon as we recruit workers, thousands of people come to apply.
Because a large number of people are unemployed at this stage and really cannot find a job.
As Xiang Nan expected, service industries such as barbecues, massages, and restaurants simply cannot handle so many people. Only by vigorously developing manufacturing can we provide more jobs.
However, for the time being, the Loudang Food Factory can only provide jobs for a hundred or so people.
Because the initial investment of the food factory is only 500,000 yuan, it can only be regarded as a small food factory. A food factory like this cannot accommodate too many people.
Only with future development will it be possible to solve more people’s problems.
As for the first batch of workers recruited, they were all workers from the Hua Steel Factory, and they were all honest, down-to-earth and hardworking. Among them were Li Qiaoyun and Liu Qianli.
Wang Xiang knew that the burden on his wife and his wife was heavy, so he wanted them first, which made the couple very grateful.
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After recruiting workers, the Liangliang Food Factory officially opened.
Mainly produces roasted nuts and dried fruits, such as roasted peanuts, roasted melon seeds, pine nuts, hazelnuts, pecans, etc.
In order to increase sales, Xiang Nan not only sent salesmen to promote the products to supermarkets and department stores, but also advertised on TV stations, newspapers, and magazines.
He has plenty of money in his hands, so he is naturally not afraid of spending money. Moreover, he knows that the fragrance of wine is also afraid of deep alleys. Without publicity, there will be no sales. Therefore, even if it is hard to speculate, we must make the brand loud and clear.
Sure enough, hard work pays off. After a series of large-scale publicity, a resounding brand has been established, and the sales of the product are still good.
At the beginning of the new century, despite the wave of layoffs and economic turmoil, the GDP growth rate was actually very fast. The GDP growth rate in 2000 was as high as 10%.
The economy is generally good, so snack foods such as dried fruits and roasted seeds and nuts are still very popular.
Hualin has developed agriculture, with high yields of melon seeds, peanuts, pine nuts, hazelnuts, etc., high quality, and controllable costs. Therefore, the products of Liangling Food Factory can be said to be of high quality and low price.
Coupled with strong publicity, product production and sales are booming.
In the first year of operation, the cost has been recovered, with annual revenue reaching one million yuan. After excluding the cost of raw materials, workers' wages, water and electricity rent, equipment depreciation, corporate taxes, etc., there is still a profit of tens of thousands.
Such an income was naturally remarkable at the beginning of the new century.
Wang Xiang became famous in one fell swoop.
He used to be a train driver at Huagang. Although he thought he was good, he was actually just an ordinary employee. Even the young man from the locomotive section and Huang Liru were not convinced by him.
But it’s different now.
He opened a food factory. He was like a boss. He was in charge of hundreds of people and could still make hundreds of thousands in profit. He was a serious person and no one should look up to him.
So now Wang Xiang is the leading figure in the Huagang family area, which is really amazing.
(End of this chapter)