187 The So-Called Monopoly (Part 2)
After the "specialized product sales" incident came out, Zheng Lan specially contacted the Political Research Office, Chen Baoguo, Zhen Jingyi, and Luo Yangyu for a separate meeting, and also contacted Chen Jing, the actual person in charge of Lotte.com, for exchanges. No one had any specific and good ways to deal with it.
If it is to maintain the experience and concept of Tianmin Group, these partners will definitely terminate the sales on Lotte.com, and at least those "specialized sales products" must be removed from the shelves. But it is obvious that the other party has also carefully studied the laws and national standards. If it is not illegal, it is a practice of illegal contracts when you remove other people's products.
However, when Zheng Lan asked Luo Yangyu, Luo Yangyu said a sentence to remind Zheng Lan that Chairman Ye never asked me if I could do this. He adhered to the moral bottom line. So even like the last incident in Xijiangzhou, we must have an attitude of recognition, so that the public can understand how the black history of Wanzhen Pavilion Ancient Pharmaceutical Factory came about. We cannot take responsibility for it for nothing and let it be handled. This is an irresponsible attitude towards Wanzhen Pavilion of thousands of people.
Zheng Lan drafted a "Opinions on Handling Special Sales Products on Lotte.com", convened senior management personnel at the vice president level and Luo Yangyu to discuss it, and then improved it to form a document.
On December 20, 218, an extraordinary shareholder meeting of all shareholders of Lotte.com was held, requiring shareholder representatives to attend all without appropriate reasons, otherwise it would be considered an act of recognition of the notice after the meeting. The location was not chosen in Tianmin Building of Tianmin Group, but a large conference room of Yunzhou Hotel was chosen because there were too many shareholders in Lotte.com.
As one of the shareholders, Zhao Jun received a notice and participated this time. The Nanyunzhou Market Supervision Bureau, Quality Inspection Bureau, Industry and Commerce, and Taxation were also invited to attend the meeting.
The shareholder meeting of hundreds of people certainly attracted the attention of the media. More people already know that the seven small media affiliated with Limin Culture have some connections with Tianmin Group. They inquire in private, but they did not obtain enough news information. This time, Tianmin Group did not invite the media to attend, and they did not even prepare for the press conference after the shareholder meeting. The media seemed to smell a trace of unusualness.
On behalf of Zhongsheng Information Company and Lotte Information Company, Zhen Jingyi made a notice of the "special product sales" incident at the meeting and announced the results of the handling, contacted the cooperation of these companies, and removed all the products of these companies from Lotte.com at the same time. After the final product quality assurance period for sale ends, the final sales settlement will be conducted, and the quality assurance funds of these companies from Lotte.com are returned in full without interest. The notice ended, and several shareholders involved in this incident received information from the company. Lotte.com has removed all the products of all the companies involved in the incident at the same time.
The scene suddenly became chaotic, and these shareholders immediately stood up to question what was going on? Your notice did not say that we were illegal, and in fact we did not violate the law. Why do we do this? Can the major shareholders suppress and treat small shareholders randomly?
Zhen Jingyi continued: "Lotte.com is a subsidiary of Nanyun Zhongsheng Information Information Technology Service Company and a platform of Nanyun Zhongsheng Information Service Co., Ltd. Everyone is a member of the commercial alliance structure under the platform of Lotte.com. There are even some people appointed and seconded by shareholders on Lotte.com. Although their work is under the jurisdiction of Lotte.com, their roots lie in all the companies. So, when you say these words, please consult your employees first. Lotte.com, Zhongsheng Company, and even Tianmin Group are companies that suppress and treat small shareholders randomly?"
The purpose of Zhen Jingyi's words was to let them know that Tianmin Group did not rely on its power to suppress it. Moreover, the environment she grew up in and her experience in the past two years gave her a bit of temperament and oppression. After seeing the shareholders of those companies sit down, she continued: "As the largest shareholder and chairman of Zhongsheng Company and Lotte Company, please beg for An Jing first. Ms. Zheng Lan, the president of the group, will explain the matter and express your opinions later."
Seeing Zhen Jingyi's body leaning back, Zheng Lan continued: "The decision of Lotte.com just now was not based on the major shareholder's suppression of small shareholders or partners. Before what I want to say next, I would like to thank these partners on behalf of Tianmin Group. It was their behavior that let us know another aspect of market demand, or the behavior of a consumer group. We will keep this thanks in our hearts and cooperation."
Just now, Zhen Jingyi had clearly stated that she had terminated her cooperation with these shareholders and had removed the products sold on Lotte Online, but Zheng Lan said that she would stay in the cooperation with this thanks and was a little confused.
Zheng Lan continued the topic: "When Tianmin Group and Lotte.com were recruiting partners, everyone signed a cooperation contract. The agreement clearly stated in Article 2 that we believe in the business philosophy of integrity and service. Article 36, the first paragraph also clearly states that if the partner violates integrity, Party A Nanyun Lotte Information Technology Service Co., Ltd. has the right to unilaterally terminate the cooperation and recover or transfer it at the original price of the shareholding price of this contract. What you did is not illegal in commercial operations, comply with the national standards, but does not meet the honest operation we recognized. This dishonest manifestation is that Lotte.com released two products with the same appearance and shape and function, but did not clearly mark them in reducing manufacturing costs, but only marked with the word "special sales". It is equivalent to using high-quality products as a benchmark to sell qualified products. Such marketing planning is not illegal, but violates the principle of integrity. We also implement it according to the relevant terms in the cooperation contract."
"At the beginning, everyone chose to cooperate with Lotte.com. What everyone values was Lotte.com's integrity and service. If we cannot adhere to these two points, then what is the value of Lotte.com in your hearts? Tianmin Group is not the standard maker, but we believe that the national standard is just a threshold. Strictly speaking, it is a legal bottom line. It is illegal to fall below or fail to meet the national standard. But it does not mean that if you meet the national standard, you will do it well. We believe that the national standard is just a threshold, and the control of quality is based on consumer satisfaction, which means that it must be far higher than the national standard. But it is undeniable that at some stages or specific factors, there is a consumer market that cares more about prices, and the requirements of this market are only enough to meet the national standard."
The meaning of these two paragraphs is very obvious. Tianmin Group's hard indicators for honest operation exceed any cooperation clause in the contract, and the quality requirements are higher than the national standards. At the same time, it also recognizes that products that meet the national standards have a consumer market, but it does not allow the coexistence of high-quality products and qualified products to LeTian.com, which is likely to cause consumer misunderstandings and vicious quality declines.
Zheng Lan picked up another document from the table and said: "For the several original partners who have terminated the cooperation, I just said thank you for letting us see the needs of another consumer market. After research by Tianmin Group, we will initiate the establishment of another online shopping platform company, with the name tentatively set to 'Yunji' and the registration location is selected in Jiangdu City."
There were originally some quiet communication venues, but they suddenly became quiet and the needles could be heard. Another sudden "gathering" made everyone a little confused. If Lotte.com wants to do a good job, it can expand its scale, and even problems like high-quality and qualified products can be solved. Why should we initiate the establishment of another platform?
I heard Zheng Lan continue to introduce: "Yunji's model will focus on absorbing the consumption demand of qualified products, but also adhere to the concept of honest operation, which will not change at any time. Yunji's communication will no longer use LeKou, but will adopt embedded, reducing operating costs. Logistics and distribution will be open to social recruitment and will no longer rely entirely on Tianmin Logistics and LeLe Housekeeping."
"Lotte.com will provide technical support to account for 15% of the shares and cannot be changed. The remaining 65% will be calculated by the shareholders present in accordance with the proportion of their honest operation, revenue and customer satisfaction in Lotte.com in the past year. The remaining 20% will be recruited to the public for the public. Given the thank you for what I just said, each of these 20% of the shares can be given priority to 1% of the shares, and of course it can also be waived. The first chairman has Lotte.com temporarily, and all shareholders have registered, and the chairman and board of directors will be established in accordance with the shareholders' resolutions, and managers except for the technical level will be appointed."
"The biggest difference between Yunji and Lotte is its flexibility under the legal framework. Not only does it have a BTC model, but it will also add a CTC model. It will have a very large market for small entrepreneurial enterprises. But it is reminded that Yunji's business is completely independent and will no longer be a subsidiary of Tianmin Group and Zhongsheng Information. We are only treated as an investment-based stakeholder. We will not require a consistent pace with the operations of Tianmin Group or Lotte.com. You do not need to consider the issue of shares held at all. You can think that it is a competitor that Lotte finds for itself."
Chapter completed!