Feng Yu personally went to the airport to send the two Tata gentlemen off to the plane. This cooperation with the Tata Group was very successful. It turns out that Ladan Tata also has a lot of resentment towards European and American companies. He admires Feng Yu's series of actions very much.
For example, among the software engineers in the world, the second largest number are Indians, while the Chinese can only rank third. Some people even say that perhaps Indians have the most software engineers in the world, because 40% of the software engineers in Silicon Valley are Indians.
Feng Yu could put China's software industry at the top, compete with Microsoft, and win. This makes Tata envious.
Tata Consulting is also one of the world's top IT companies. They are also trying to recruit Indians abroad, but the results are far less good than Lianxiang Yinshan.
In fact, Feng Yu doesn't have a good solution for this, because China's national conditions are still very different from India's. Although they are both developing countries with large populations, and although they are now beginning to pay attention to education, the gap in concepts is too big.
There are obvious slums in India, and the intensity of reconstruction is far less than that of China. The gap between the rich and the poor in India is even wider, and the class system has even been retained for many years. This is why many Indians are unwilling to return to India, but many Chinese are willing to return to their motherland.
Of course, traditional Chinese ideas such as local sentiments, returning wealth and wealth to one's hometown, and parents not traveling far away also influence many Chinese people. After all, not all Chinese people can accept the kind of life in the United States.
Especially those poor Chinese people, they would rather go to the city than live in the suburbs after arriving in the United States. What is the difference between that and living in the countryside in China? There are still many people who like to live in crowded and bustling cities.
Although Feng Yu did not give very good suggestions for attracting orders, the two parties still carried out various cooperation in electronics, communications, software, networks, automobiles, daily chemicals, food, etc.
For example, Feng Yu promised that in the next ten years, he would jointly establish several large-scale factories with the Tata Group in India, which made Ladan very happy.
But he did not expect that Feng Yu believed that China's per capita wage would rise rapidly, the population would experience negative growth, and labor would no longer be cheap.
At that time, India was a good place to build factories. Labor costs were low and there were many unemployed people, which could effectively reduce the production costs of many products.
As for the Americas, Feng Yu chose Brazil. The economy in that place was also full of serious hidden dangers, and it collapsed before Feng Yu was reborn.
In this life, Feng Yu sees no change. In less than ten years, Brazil's economy will still collapse. At that time, Brazil's labor costs will be much lower, and it will become Feng Yu's largest factory center in the Americas.
On the European side, they are still mainly building factories in Russia, and then targeting countries such as the United Kingdom. Feng Yu will not go to France to build a factory anyway.
France has been able to switch from two days off to three days off a week, and the workers are not satisfied yet. They are required to work three days a week and have four days off. Feng Yu would not dare to invest in a place like this. The labor costs will definitely scare people to death. .
In the previous life, Thomson Company later failed and even fell into bankruptcy. This has nothing to do with it. Today, Thomson is still the largest electrical appliance manufacturer and seller in North America and the top electrical appliance manufacturer and seller in Europe.
Labor costs have soared by 20%, which is unbearable for any manufacturing company.
But in this life, there may be some differences. At least as one of Feng Yu's most important allies, Feng Yu doesn't want to see this company collapse.
As far as TV set-top boxes are concerned, Thomson, as the leader in the world market and the setter of various standards, is currently cooperating with Fengyu Electrical Appliances in full swing.
In addition, Thomson's DVD disc production ranks first in the world, and it has a deep cooperation with Fengyu Electronics. In terms of TV sets, we work closely with Changhong.
Feng Yu has reminded Thomson's chairman that they rely too much on factory efficiency.
Thomson's technology research and development in recent years has been somewhat behind the times, especially in televisions, where they have embarked on the wrong path, focusing on plasma televisions.
In the past, Thomson could rely on higher production efficiency to keep its costs low, and rely on its strong sales channels and brand advantages to ensure profits.
Now plasma color TV has shown its decline and the growth rate has slowed down. LCD TVs that are equally light, thin, and have the same large screen have become more and more accepted by ordinary families.
Flat-panel TVs of the same size cost more than 10,000 yuan, and only cost more than 5,000 yuan. The difference usually seems not big. How will the average consumer choose
In addition, LCD TV manufacturers are now beginning to claim that plasma TVs are extremely profitable and consumers suffer losses, making plasma TVs even more difficult.
In the flat-panel TV market, LCD TV sales have accounted for nearly 50%, and are still increasing. Not to mention, LCD flat panels are not just TVs, but also computer monitors.
The reason why Thomson focused on plasma was not only because plasma was clearer, but also because plasma was simpler to mass-produce than LCD and the cost of producing large-screen TVs was lower.
But now the LCD flat panel market with the largest demand is the LCD monitor, which has a small screen, and this plasma cannot do it at all.
Just like when you were still watching 19-inch and 21-inch TVs, suddenly 42-inch TVs started to be sold on the market, and there were no middle sizes at all. So many people would rather choose the 21-inch TV.
Because many people's houses are not that big now, they simply cannot use such a big screen. In the eyes of many people, watching on a big screen makes them dizzy.
Obviously, plasma is cheaper on large-screen TVs, but because it is clearer and other reasons, the price is higher. It is not unfair to say that they have higher profits.
The technical difficulty of shrinking a plasma screen is much higher than that of expanding an LCD screen. The application of LCD flat panels is now more widespread, which means that the market share of plasma is destined to gradually shrink.
Thomson made the wrong choice on the route and now has a chance to change it. However, the investment required is larger. But if they wait until their country's labor laws change before they want to switch to LCD panels, it will be too late.
At that time, Thomson relied heavily on its production cost advantage. The advantage would disappear, or even turn into a disadvantage. By then, Thomson would really embark on the same path of bankruptcy in its previous life.
However, after Feng Yu reminded them, Thomson decided to walk on two legs like Four Star Group and others, and they made both LCD and plasma. With their Thomson brand advantage and the technical support of Taihua Holdings and Philips, They can still make money.
There is another important reason why Feng Yu helps Thomson in this way, and that is to let those companies in the island country that insist on plasma suffer another loss!
… To be continued.