Chapter 753 In-depth cooperation

9days ago Celebrity fiction 8
The person who came to UFO Records was Peng Guohua. To be precise, he has been in Hong Kong several times. He had been talking to Deng Yimin and Ye Zipei before, but now Kang Jianfei has to come forward to make an idea in person.

Fengxing Records Company.

Ye Zipei took the tray from the female secretary's hand and put the tea in front of Kang Jianfei and Deng Yimin.

Deng Yimin took the teacup, nodded to Ye Zipei and said: Thank you!

Kang Jianfei used the tea cup lid to tick the tea leaves floating on the water and asked: Are you saying that Warner Records wants to buy the UFO, and the UFO is here to ask for help?Warner Records is an international big company, and Peng Guohua really looks down on me.

Deng Yimin said: The main markets of Chinese-language records are Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and Nanyang, as well as the newly emerging mainland market.The Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Nanyang markets have been divided up, and although the mainland market is born, it contains unlimited potential. If it grows bigger, it can even exceed the sum of other regions.Boss, you and Ms. Ye walked very early. A few years ago, Xiongfei Records was founded in mainland China. The sales channels in provincial cities across the country are already very mature, and the second-level distribution network is also being improved. This is far stronger than Warner Records, which has just entered the mainland business.

After detailed explanations by Deng Yimin and Ye Zipei, Kang Jianfei had previously known Peng Guohua's purpose.

Kang Jianfei knew that UFO Records would acquire part of its equity by Warner Records next year and would be swallowed up step by step in the following years.

But he took it for granted that the merger of UFO Records by Warner Records was due to Taiwan's economic recession and the recession of the record industry.

But the fact is just the opposite. Taiwan’s record industry is in its most prosperous era, and UFO Records is forced to be acquired by Warner in the future.

This matter will start from the 1980s.

Many things in Taiwan are based on the 1987 relief and strictness as the turning point.

Political, economic, and social, all of them are the same. The record industry, which is based on music culture, is also based on this, which is very different around 1987.

Before the lifting of strict discipline, Taiwan's record industry was strictly controlled by the authorities, just like the mainland.

Overseas companies cannot conduct business directly on the island, and their products need to be agent-made, issued and sold by Taiwanese companies. This is the so-called agency system.

For example, Kang Jianfei’s Fengxing Records Company was originally agenda for Haishan Records to release records to Taiwan, and later the agency was replaced by UFO Records.

Because of the agency system, many powerful international record companies cannot directly enter the Taiwan market, while local Taiwanese companies that have obtained the agency rights of international record companies have grown rapidly.

UFO is one of them. It has the agency rights of large companies like Warner Records in Taiwan, and also has the agency rights of small and medium-sized companies such as Fengxing Records.

But after the lifting of the strictness in 1987, everything changed. The Taiwan authorities gave up control of the record industry.

At this time, the international record industry has basically completed group integration, and five large record groups have dominated the global record industry, with abundant funds and unparalleled momentum.

Under such circumstances, international record manufacturers have advanced to the Taiwan record industry stage.

The five major companies have established their own Taiwan branch through acquisitions, mergers, and reclaiming agency rights to directly operate their business.

A more typical example of this is that in 1989, Polykin directly reorganized Qifei, merged into related businesses of Colin and other companies to establish Polykin Taiwan Branch, and EDA and BMG took back the agency rights of Rolling Stone to establish their respective Taiwan branches, etc.

As the two most original record companies in Taiwan, Rolling Stone and UFO are immediately Alexander. Faced with the pressure of the five major international record companies, they only have two choices: lie down and obey, or fight hard.

Rolling Stone Records are domineering and choose the most direct and violent way of fighting.

In just a few years, we have opened branches in countries and regions such as Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and Hong Kong, and have frantically expanded our overseas territory and fought head-on with international record companies where all Chinese records can be sold.

Rolling Stone's way of fighting was too bloody and seemed to be glorious, but with insufficient funds, it was already dying and became a weak giant.

If Rolling Stone Records had not entered the mainland market to make money after 2002, the company would have died of excessive bleeding.

The managers of UFO Records are more conservative. They do not have the momentum of rushing forward like Rolling Stones, so in another time and space, it took Warner Records nearly 10 years to eat it.

The problem facing UFO Records now is that a large part of the company's profit comes from Warner Records' agency business. At the same time, the distribution of UFO Records in Nanyang also depends on Warner Records' channels.

Now Warner Records is threatening to take back the agency rights and terminate cooperation, and demands to invest in UFO Records. If UFO does not agree, the company's profit points will be cut off by more than half in an instant.

If it is a small company or other partner, it is absolutely fine to agree to invest, but the large-scale expansion of the five major record companies around the world has allowed all musicians to see their faces clearly.

Once Warner is agreed to invest in the UFO, the UFO will be eaten up step by step in the next few years, which is also the ending of another UFO record in the time and space.

The differences within the UFO are very serious. Although everyone knows that accepting Warner's shareholding is a way to quench thirst, they are reluctant to give up the huge profits in their hands. Deng Yimin said that Peng Guohua advocates termination of cooperation with Warner. The previous few times he came to seek comprehensive cooperation between UFO and Fengxing Records in Hong Kong and Nanyang.However, if you want to recover the huge losses of breaking up with Warner, you must develop your mainland business.

Kang Jianfei thought for a moment and asked: Then why did he see me?Just talk to you and Zi Pei directly.

Ye Zipei smiled and said: He hopes you can invest in Warner.

He refused to invest in Warner after suffering huge losses, but instead asked me to invest in it. What were the shareholders of the UFO? Kang Jianfei said funny, are they not afraid that I will swallow the UFO record in the end?

Deng Yimin said: You don’t have the strength to eat them, at least not now.Compared with the world's five major record companies like Warner Records, Fengxing Records is like a child, and UFO Records is also a child.The current situation is that two children have to join forces to fight with the strong man, which is a win-win situation for us.To be honest, Fengxing Records is under increasing pressure. The five major record companies are developing too fast in Asia. If this continues, Fengxing Records will become increasingly difficult to survive in Nanyang.

Kang Jianfei asked: Are their internal opinions unified?

Deng Yimin said: It has not been completely unified yet. Although they both agreed to cooperate with us, there is another voice that I hope that Fengxing Records and UFO Records can exchange shares.

Kang Jianfei asked directly: Which company is more profitable by us and them?

Deng Yimin said: UFO records are much more profitable than ours, but once they terminate their cooperation with Warner, they will be greatly damaged.

Kang Jianfei asked: What do you think?

Deng Yimin said affirmatively: Agree to exchange shares.

Kang Jianfei nodded: OK, let’s operate as you wish. After the plan to exchange shares is completed, just show it to me.

Ye Zipei said: After Fengxing Records and UFOs reach their intentions, Xiongfei Records can follow up.

Kang Jianfei thought for a while and said: There is also like South Korea, Rolling Stone Records has already opened a branch there.After the UFO cooperates with us, South Korea's record business should also be launched. In the future, the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan markets will be the Iron Triangle base areas, the Korean market is our back garden, and the Nanyang region and the Japanese market are the battlefields.After all, the five major record companies are large international companies. When necessary, we can cooperate with Fang Yihua's Huaxing Records, and they also need allies in the Nanyang market.

The words Kang Jianfei just said are the future development program of Fengxing Records, UFO Records and Xiongfei Records.

He only needs to establish a general direction, and the specific operation depends on Deng Yimin, Ye Zipei, and Taiwan's Peng Guohua and Wu Chuchu.

After the three reached an agreement, Kang Jianfei came out to meet Peng Guohua and served in Liyuan with wine.

Peng Guohua has long hair, and his first impression is that he is an art-oriented person. He has the style of a literary youth. If he doesn’t know the details, he can’t guess that he is the boss of a record company.

When Peng Guohua learned that Kang Jianfei had agreed to exchange shares of the two companies, he was overjoyed. This condition was enough to make him go back and convince other shareholders of the company.

In fact, the main reason why Peng Guohua chose Kang Jianfei to cooperate rather than to find Huaxing Records was that he was attracted by Kang Jianfei's relationship and sales channels in the mainland. In addition, the influence of Oriental Culture and Entertainment Group in South Korea is also a reason.

What does Mr. Kang think about the prospects of the mainland record market?Peng Guohua asked.

Kang Jianfei said: A few years ago, a group of singers born and raised in mainland China have appeared, which are very popular among the public. The best ones sold in each record are millions.There have been new changes in the past two years. Even the Northeast and Northwest like to listen to Hong Kong and Taiwan songs, which is the perfect period we have entered.

Peng Guohua clapped and said: I think so too. In the future, we will rely more on Mr. Kang and Ms. Ye.

After Peng Guohua said that, he raised his glass and respected Kang Jianfei and Ye Zipei's wine.

The courtesy of the mainland market to Hong Kong and Taiwan singers in the 1990s was simply a servile one. A third-rate Hong Kong and Taiwan singer went to the mainland to sing two songs casually, and the appearance fee was at least 50,000 or 100,000 yuan. His mother reimbursed the round-trip air tickets. Most workers in the mainland had a monthly salary of only a few hundred yuan.

When Hong Kong and Taiwan celebrities go to the mainland, they don’t sing, but go to grab money. The microphone is a machine gun, and the record album is a grenade.

Of course, piracy is still the biggest problem, and this thing cannot be solved at all.

Christmas is coming soon, and Kang Jianfei's energy will inevitably be transferred to the movie.

However, after the Lunar New Year, the tripartite cooperation between UFO Records, Fengxing Records and Xiongfei Records will basically be launched, and he will have to go to the mainland and Taiwan.

Isn’t it just the top five international record companies?When I ran to the Chinese-speaking area, I would hang it for me if it was a dragon, and I would lie down obediently. There are some classic Chinese songs in Kang Jianfei's pocket.

The Little Tigers are now popular in the Chinese band. Although the Girls Team has been formed, they have no reaction.

Maybe you can create a SHE combination in advance and pick a few beautiful girls to put them in. It is definitely a big killer for today's teenagers.

The Happy Girls Group created by Kang Jianfei was once very popular, and the Taiwan market gradually became silent due to the ban from the Taiwan authorities.

When Peng Guohua left, Kang Jianfei deliberately took care of him and asked him to find a few more beautiful girls for him to spare, and he could always choose three suitable ones.