Chapter five hundred and eight, double afternoon tea with the crown prince
London, the largest city in Europe and one of the most important financial centers in the world, stands countless modern towers in the newly developed area corresponding to the ancient city. Major banks, financial groups and top 500 enterprises in the world have settled here.
Roswell Building is towering into the sky, and its shiny glass curtain walls are shining brightly in the sunshine that is shining west. Many companies have set up their headquarters, branches or offices here. But it is still rare in the world to monopolize the entire or even multi-story enterprise with a newly established company like Vanda and Umbrella Company.
"After a long time, we will definitely need to separate." In the reception room, Li Zekai poured a cup of afternoon black tea for Crown Prince Charles: "With the potential of the umbrella company, a one-story office building will definitely not be enough, and you will still need to search for new office buildings everywhere."
"I believe this is not a problem for the protective umbrella at all." Crown Prince Charles took the black tea and sipped it, and looked out the window: "Vanda Square, Mr. Li, please tell me more about its current utilization rate. After all, such a commercial real estate will definitely have an unparalleled role in promoting the economy."
Looking into the distance from a height of 100 meters, six modern office buildings that are equally more than 100 meters high are across the Thames River. The first industry of vanda has entered the initial operation stage. The British Empire's architectural strength cannot be despised, nor is it the six Empire Buildings or the World Trade Center. It has royal sponsorship, and the efficiency of building such a few buildings is no longer slow.
"At present, fourteen large companies have settled in," Li Zekai smiled and said, "These include Microsoft, which occupies the entire building A and building B, and Cisco's European headquarters. You have to learn more about this specific details from our chairman, but at least as far as I know, Cisco is in full swing recently."
"Yes, the completion of a European headquarters has many jobs that need to be handled from personnel to administration, from market to sales chain." Charles put down his teacup and frowned and said, "In addition, I just saw in the newspaper not long ago that Cisco hired a full-time CEO, right? It's called...what is it?"
"John Chambers, His Highness the Crown Prince."
With a gust of windy heel taps, the door suddenly opened, and a white windbreaker rippled, Alice quickly walked into the office: "He is a MBA who has been in the sales field for a long time. I'm sure he will leave the company to him for management."
"Ah, Alice!" Charles immediately stood up happily when he saw the visitor, saying, "Congratulations, congratulations! Congratulations on graduating from Eton, Alice!"
"Just do a few test papers." Alice waved her hand modestly. Although she knew how much modesty she could accept was a big problem.
After a while of greeting, when the Lord came, Charles immediately opened the point and said, "Alice, I have a few things to discuss with you today. First of all, regarding the hypoxia accident that occurred in the institute last time, in order to prevent similar situations from happening again, do you think it would be better for us to build another research center?"
Alice took Li Zekai's teacup. She knew that the crown prince would not have come in person just for casual chat. As expected, this was a very heavyweight proposal. The umbrella has not been listed yet, and there are only a few shareholders in total. Although the Windsor family does not occupy much weight, the comprehensive resources of the royal family are there, which cannot be underestimated.
She smiled and said, "Are you worried that once a similar accident occurs, the company's research team will be killed in a collective battle?"
Li Zekai sat aside with a sad expression. This is normal. Seventy or eighty researchers starting from master's degree, all of which are provided by the Yangtze River Group. If they are really going to be affected by the lack of oxygen caused by the "air conditioning system disorder", they will have no place to cry.
Prince Charles spoke: "Our London is not a small city. We can completely build several vanda squares. I don't feel it is necessary to let researchers concentrate in one place."
Alice looked at the south bank of the Thames River outside the window. Although there were many high dragons around it, it was hundreds of meters above sea level, and it was not difficult to overlook it for more than a thousand meters away.
"That's of course excellent... If the scale of the protective umbrella is so large that it can occupy a skyscraper, we can certainly set up a research institution here. But you can see that we only occupy one floor at present."
As she said that, she didn't forget to point upstairs.
Of course, Vanda's boss's office is on the 29th floor. Isn't it just a umbrella upstairs?
Prince Charles nodded and said, "So Alice, this is related to the second thing I came today. How is the weight loss pill testing going?"
Alice had finished drinking the tea, and she stood up and said, "Just upstairs, let's go and see it directly, what do you think?"
Of course, Charles said yes, and Li Zekai did not stay here idle, so the three of them walked upstairs.
There is only one company registered on the top floor of the Roswell Building, that is, the height of the 30th floor, which can be clearly seen on the registration board at the bottom of the building. In any case, the registered company on the top floor of an office building and the company on the highest floor are particularly eye-catching, especially this company called the Umbrella, which is also adjacent to a new company that occupies a full four floors.
Occupying a whole floor or even many floors of an office building is never a simple achievement. Of course, small and medium-sized enterprises renting cheap office buildings and large enterprises renting high-end office buildings is a layered layer, but on the same basis, if a company can still occupy many offices, even one floor or even many floors, it is by no means a simple achievement.
The number of offices and even floors occupied is the number of employees. Enterprises will not hire idle people, and the more technically oriented companies, the more amazing the wealth each employee can create. The output value of IT companies with a scale of fifty people is of course much higher than that of plastic flower factories with a scale of fifty people, but the same IT companies have plastic flower factories with a scale of one hundred people, of course, it is stronger than that of fifty people.
A plastic flower factory with a scale of fifty people is enough, a cheap three-story office building in the suburbs of the city; a plastic flower factory with a scale of one hundred people is amazing, just build a warehouse next to the office building.
A 50-person IT or financial investment company, a large office in a high-end office building in the central city is enough. It is amazing that the boss and executives only have three or two single rooms, which can exceed 500 square meters. A 150-person IT or financial investment company will occupy several large offices that can be rented separately in a high-end office building in the central city, and more than 1,000 square meters can barely occupy half a floor area.
So, what is the concept of an IT or financial company with a scale of 150 people?
In fact, everything is related to rent and geographical relationship. For enterprises with good operations, turnover and rent have always been in a fixed proportion, and their geographical location can better illustrate the nature of their industry. For many people, after understanding a company's industry, number of people, and office location, its scale will naturally take shape in their minds.
The Roswell Building in the City of London Financial District occupies a whole floor and four floors in a row. This is the best publicity for the company.
"Oh, so many people?"
Charles was so surprised when the elevator door opened.
There were more than thirty chairs next to the front desk, and at least twenty were all filled with people, but judging from the appearance of these people, they would never be public relations personnel from other companies or job hunting.
When the front desk lady saw the visitor, she subconsciously said, "Miss Wang, and...ah, Your Highness the Crown Prince?"
The crisp sound caught everyone's attention, and when they looked at the old man beside the girl, almost everyone stood up immediately.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince? Oh my God, he is really the Crown Prince!"
"Your Highness, my God, I've seen the crown prince!"
"Hello, Your Highness, my God, it's such an honor!"
Men, women, young and old rushed up and immediately surrounded the door of the company. Crown Prince Charles stood in the middle of the crowd, calmly and smiling, and said loudly: "Please calm everyone, please calm! I was invited by Miss Wang to visit your company today! Please calm everyone!"
When the civilians saw the royal family, they could imagine how enthusiastic they were, but of course they were still rational. Li Zekai immediately moved forward and repeatedly blocked some people who were too close to them.
Alice waved to the front desk: "Biyangka, who are these people?"
"All of them are volunteers who come to take our new drug test." The female front desk also rushed forward and quickly made a passage for the boss and the Crown Prince. The crowd around were also very cooperative. After all, this was not the idols fans met, but they cooperated, but they were also looking at Charles and Alice with curiosity, surprise and sensational eyes.
"Everyone, thank you for your strong support for the company."
Although she passed through the crowd, since it caused a sensation, Alice could not hide in the house immediately. She stood in front of the front desk and said to more than 20 volunteers of all kinds on both sides: "I wonder how you feel about our new product? How many times have you tested it? Haha, how many kilograms of meat have you lost?"
Yes, isn't this the chance to prove its achievements for the royal family? Isn't it that Charles' eyes are as big as Kappa?
“It’s simply amazing!”
A mother-level lady came up and looked at the slightly loose long gown. It seemed like she bought it during pregnancy?
"This lady, and His Royal Highness, I just gave birth to a baby last month, and then I gained a full five pounds of meat! But now I have participated in the new drug test for this company, guess what, I have lost all of it!"
The woman was so excited with operatic tone, dramatic expression, and silent film-like body movements!
Chapter completed!