448. The Recipe for Milk Tea
The director of Lipton was an American, a big white fat man named Smith, who was sitting in front of Heidi and sweating.
In fact, don't look at him as the director of Lipton China, but in front of Heidi, the executive director of Unilever, he is not even a fart.
You must know that Unilever is a behemoth spanning more than 70 countries in Shijie, with 14 branches in the design of daily necessities, chemicals, and catering industries, each of which has branches in many countries in Shijie, and the director of a branch like him, who is not too successful, is like a Jiupin Zhixian in front of Heidi.
In the hands of Heidi, he has the power to kill him, for such a person, although the other party is a beautiful woman who can make people swallow saliva, but he can't afford to have such thoughts at all, he can only sit there and keep sweating.
In fact, this Smith is also an unlucky guy, originally he was born as a Jishu engineer, and he used to specialize in tea drink formulas, but in recent years, Lipton's development in the Chinese market is struggling, and he has been sinking into the sand again and again, which makes Unilever very dissatisfied, and has changed generals several times in a row, Zuihou has no choice, so he has been put on top.
In fact, he also knew that he was just a temporary and excessive role, and he would definitely be replaced when there was a suitable candidate on the head office.
But he was still a little unwilling to step down like this.
As Lipton's regional director in China, it is like a local emperor, although his salary is only twice that of his time in the United States. It's less than $100,000. But the point is that he sits in this position. It has a lot of resources and a lot of power.
For example, the delivery channel operated with Pepsi, as well as various benefits, such as the high-end apartment that can be rented with the help of the company, as well as the embrace of those Chinese beauties, and the most important thing is the rebate that can be eaten when purchasing.
Although on the surface, the salary of this position is only more than 80,000 US dollars, but if you add those hidden benefits. If there are also kickbacks, how can he say that in a year, he is also an American gold collar of more than 200,000 US dollars.
Now Lipton Huaguo's business situation in China is not good, the above has been very dissatisfied with this part, I heard that the business policy adjustment is brewing, and does not rule out the possibility of changing the general.
So he is thinking about whether he will take advantage of the new policy of the head office and his successor before he appears, so that he can make a fortune, and then he will go to the United States to retire.
But Heidi's sudden appearance shocked him. He is not a high-level figure of Lipton, but he is the executive director of Unilever behind Lipton. This shows that her status is not good, and her status is higher than that of Lipton's boss in Unilever, how dare he not serve such a person?
Looking at the opposite Smith, who was constantly taking out his handkerchief and sweating, Li Yifan felt a burst of amusement in his heart, Heidi just posed as a queen, and the other party was already weak, it seems that this cooperation should not be too hindered.
"Mr. Smith, when the head office proposed to acquire Jinghua Tea Corporation, as well as the proposal of Jinghua Tea Processing Factory, it was you!"
Smithton's heart flickered, and then he immediately replied, "Yes, it's me." ”
In fact, he was the one who proposed the big family card like the head office, otherwise it would not be his turn to be the director of Lipton Huaguo.
"However, since the company acquired Jinghua Tea Corporation last year and launched Jinghua brand instant tea bags with Jinghua Tea Processing Factory, Lipton Huaguo's sales in Huaguo do not seem to have improved as quickly as you said, turning losses into profits!?"
The cold voice that came from Heidi's throat made Smith feel like he was going to tremble, my house, my ticket, the villa I bought in Florida had only just paid the down payment, and there were tens of thousands of loans to pay every year, and now if I lost my job, the house would be finished......
Finished with my sun, sand, villas, and countless bikini beauties......
At the thought of this, Smith felt himself tremble and break out in a cold sweat......
"Miss Heidi, I need time, we only completed the acquisition at the end of '99, and then carried out the jishu more obvious, the installation and commissioning of the production equipment, etc., until the second half of last year, we started to officially start construction......"
In the face of Heidi's questioning, Smith could only find a plausible excuse for himself as much as possible.
"Forget it, Mr. Smith, even if you only started production in the second half of last year, but now more than a year has passed, and the business situation of Lipton Huaguo has not improved?"
Heidi's words were heart-wrenching, at this time Smith even had the heart to die headlong, but in the face of Heidi's questioning, he was completely helpless, it is true that the situation of Lipton Huaguo is very bad now, if the people above come down to check the accounts, then he may go directly to prison......
Smith was already a little restless at this time, and what he was most afraid of at this time was that Heidi would ask him to go to the headquarters of Lipton in the United States, in that case, he would have to run away, because he did receive kickbacks in the purchase of tea in China this year, and the company's accounts were not very clean.
"Hehe, but Mr. Smith, you don't have to worry, I wasn't sent by the headquarters to inspect, I don't care too much about your current business situation, I have other things to do with you today."
After giving Smith a heavy killing blow, Heidi changed her smile, and at this time Smith was relieved, no wonder, if the headquarters above sent someone to inspect, why didn't he receive any news?
A big man like Heidi, even if people come to China, they won't be able to take their turn at all, maybe Unilever's general representative in China has to come over in person to pat her ass, no matter how bad it is, Dove, Ao Miao and other chargé d'affaires come over, and he, the director of Lipton in China, is really not on the table compared to those people......
"I don't know, Miss Heidi, what are you doing with me today?"
As soon as I heard that there was nothing wrong with me, this white fat man had the spirit, his job was saved, his job was not smashed, and there was still hope for his villa in Florida, so the rest of the things were to serve the queen well, maybe if the relationship with the queen was handled, his position could be more stable?
As soon as he thought of this, Smith's mind became a little excited, and he quickly used his brain, thinking about how to make a good picture of the queen's ass.
"Mr. Smith, if I'm not mistaken, you're from tea recipes, aren't you?"
Heidi picked up the coffee next to her and took a sip gently, which instantly made Smith feel a little hot, but in the face of this queen, he quickly suppressed his crooked thoughts.
"Yes, before I came to China, I always worked in Lipton's tea formulation laboratory."
As soon as he talked about his old profession, Smith couldn't help but puff up his chest, he really had reason to be proud of this, he participated in the research and development of Lipton's milk tea recipe and iced tea drink, and made considerable contributions, otherwise he would not have jumped from a jishu worker to a manager.
"Well, my friend just wants to make tea drinks, especially milk tea, so I hope you can give him some advice."
What's the opinion, isn't it just the formula? Smith is like a mirror in his heart, but when Jean will not say it to his face, in fact, the formula of this tea drink, there are so many tea drinks on shijie, everyone is just a big copy of the eternal article, you copy mine, I am copying yours, there is really no secret at all, although everyone has applied for patents, but in fact, these patents are not very useful, because as long as those formulas are slightly fine-tuned, they can be confused, and the taste of the tea drinks made is actually similar.
This was no secret when Smith was working on tea drink recipes.
And Li Yifan also invited a few milk tea concoction jishu members from Baodao through Wang Fatzi at the beginning, and he was helping to prepare milk tea with flavors in various states by himself, but getting a little secret recipe from Smith, in his opinion, there was no psychological pressure at all.
After all, Lipton's bagged instant milk tea once occupied the dominant position in the domestic milk tea market, which shows that their milk tea still has its own uniqueness in taste, so getting a little formula from them can be regarded as a little reference for their beverage factory.
Moreover, people in the West, Europe and the United States have excessively promoted such instant bagged milk tea, which has not been a year and a half, but has a very long history, so people have very rich experience in this area, so it is inevitable to learn a little from themselves.
Smith was a man of considerable understanding, and although he did not understand who the young man sitting next to Heidi was, he had long been aware of the intimacy with which Heidi spoke to the young Chinese man.
He could see that the relationship between these two people must be extraordinary, so in order to please Heidi, it would not be a big deal to buy some benefits like this person.
Thinking of this, this Smith immediately became quite undisciplined.
"In fact, I have a lot of secret recipes for milk tea, which are all my personal treasures......" (To be continued......