Chapter 6, the food factory set sail
Capitalists are profit-seeking! - Das Kapital
Carl's butler is very efficient, and the results are very gratifying. The owner of eight of them is willing to sell.
No one wants to do an unprofitable business. In Austria, which has completed industrialization, the flour processing factory is already a sunset industry, and the cruel competition makes people lose sight of the money.
Negotiations, Ferdinand still handed over to Karl, after all, the old housekeeper's talent in this area made him ashamed. The previous supermarket purchases proved this, and Ferdinand himself was really not suitable for bargaining.
In the end, Ferdinand bought a flour mill called Cateway Porto for £18,000.
The machinery and equipment were all purchased a year ago. There are more than 180 skilled workers and more than 50 employees. They are fully fired up and can produce 2,000 metric tons of flour per day.
After buying these machines, Catavi Porto has not been operating at full capacity, and the number of employees has been reduced from more than 500 in the heyday to the present.
Even so, Catavi Porto struggled to support, hovering on the edge of loss and profit.
Ferdinand was very satisfied with the acquisition, the new owner must have a new look, and then changed the name of Catavi Porto.
Shuanghui Food Development Co., Ltd., the tall name, is the new name of the flour mill, heralding a new beginning. Well, it's actually a spoof of Ferdinand. He intends to pirate all familiar brands in the future.
Ferdinand retained the original director of the factory, Willian Schubert. In the fiercely competitive Vienna, the flour mill was able to break even, which was enough to prove his ability.
In fact, the original Caterpillar Porto is still running very well, it is well managed inside and out, and the cost is reduced to a minimum.
However, in terms of sales, it can be said to be a mess, there is no brand, and there is no large wholesaler, and the products are mainly sold to the vast countryside.
No way, as a rising star, the city's market has been carved up. Being able to open up the rural market is also enough to show that the boss has a strategic vision, but unfortunately it is too advanced. The countryside of this era is so poor that it is a dream to complete the encirclement of the city by the countryside.
But now with Ferdinand, everything is not a problem. Of course, in the short term, the sales in supermarkets are limited, and the rural market cannot be given up immediately.
As the boss, Ferdinand personally went to the factory to appease the employees. He made a promise in public that he would never owe wages, and checked the status of the factory.
Finally, seeing the dark bread, I was moved with compassion and announced that the original standard of food expenses would be increased by 20%, which immediately won the support of the workers.
Managers were dispatched, and with the cooperation of the workers, after a short run-in period, the factory continued to operate.
In order to improve production efficiency and stimulate workers' enthusiasm for production, Ferdinand proposed a constructive bonus plan to Weilian.
Wei Li'an quickly took it out, in line with the actual factory reward system, and reported it to him.
Ferdinand was very satisfied with Wilhelm's approach. As a boss, he could be generous to the workers, but the opposite was true for managers. Like many bosses, only he can be a good person and buy people's hearts, while managers must be evil and save money for him.
In Willian's plan, workers will either increase the average monthly output on the existing basis, or increase the overall quality. For every 1% increase in output or quality, the team to which it belongs will receive a sack of flour as a reward.
This measure is beneficial and not expensive. The flour is produced by itself, and the cost is very low. The workers can also take it home and eat it for themselves, which is the same as the direct bonus.
Ferdinand also discovered that Vivian still had a basic conscience, and on the premise of not harming his own interests, he did as much as possible to increase the benefits for the workers, which made Ferdinand even more satisfied.
Mr. Willian, you have done a beautiful job of this plan,
Workers need to be motivated. Well, you go down and count, all employees who work in the factory, how many family members they have, can use the factory price to buy corresponding rations from the factory in the future. Ferdinand once again has a strategy to buy people's hearts.
Okay, Your Highness~ I'll do it right away! Wei Li'an said excitedly
From factory to retail, the price of flour has increased by at least three layers. Moreover, flour is a staple food in Europe, so the living expenses of workers will be greatly reduced, which is equivalent to an increase of two or three layers of salary.
This is Ferdinand's idea of the best way to improve the living conditions of the workers as much as possible under the premise of reproducing the conditions and not harming the existing interests.
Facts have proved that Ferdinand's strategy is correct. As his industry expands, the more welfare policies his workers enjoy. When the labor movement flourished in the future, his factory was always the safest, where unions were far less influential.
Time flies, and the flour mills are quickly on the right track, with increasing production and quality. When it finally stabilized, total production was up nearly 30 percent, with premiums up 11 percent.
And the price he paid was the distribution of several hundred more bags of flour every month. On average, each worker could get two or three bags of flour.
When calculating the reward, Wei Li'an performed very vigorously, and he was basically full. However, when giving out the reward, he was very unscrupulous and changed the reward to a small bag, because it was not clear at the time, and the workers had nothing to say.
This is a specially developed size package to adapt to supermarket sales. There are large bags of 50㎏, medium bags of 20㎏, small bags of 10㎏, and small bags of 5㎏, and even micro-packages of 1㎏ have been developed. Of course, on average, the smaller the package, the higher the unit price.
Wei Li'an was still a little human, and didn't change to the smallest package, otherwise the workers would really want to cry without tears. Now, a 10㎏ bag of flour is distributed, and two or three bags are enough for one person's ration, so the workers happily took it away.
Ferdinand was afraid of bad debts, so he separated the finances of the factory and the supermarket very early. Even supermarket purchases had to be paid, and settled with reference to market prices.
Because of the increased sales in the supermarket, the flour mill soon became profitable, making a profit of 300 pounds in the first month, although it was not as good as a supermarket.
However, Ferdinand is still very satisfied. This is a good start. The factory's production capacity has only been opened for one-third, and many products are sold to the countryside. There is almost no profit. If all of them can be produced and sold by themselves , There is still a lot of room for improvement in factory profits.
Ferdinand came up with the most commonly used trick for later generations of merchants. It was very unscrupulous and changed into different packaging bags, and came up with seven or eight brands for customers to choose from. Like unscrupulous merchants in later generations, they sold the same flour at different prices, and they made a lot of profits.
