In terms of clothing, Ye Zhiming is currently stepping up his layout of Du Peng's stores, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium... Major Western European countries are all within his plan.

Currently, the stores have expanded to 90, which is as many as 24 more than in April. On average, a new store is opened every two days.

With such rapid expansion, the funds and manpower are naturally very large. Fortunately, Du Peng has summer financial support, and the education level of European people is generally high, so neither of these two aspects are a big problem.

Based on Xia Tian's guidance, Ye Zhiming asked his designers to design with famous luxury brands such as Hermes, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, and Gucci.

This greatly increases the speed of designers launching new products. Designs that were completed in three or four months in the past can now be completed in just one or two weeks. As soon as these light luxury products with similar styles of luxury designs were released, they immediately attracted a large number of customers to buy them.

Although Europe is economically developed, not everyone has money. In fact, in Europe, luxury goods are also out of reach for ordinary people, and not everyone can afford them.

For example, Chanel's classic leather bags are sold in the UK for more than 3,000 pounds, while the average monthly income of British people is only about 1,000 pounds. In other words, it takes three months for ordinary people to afford a leather bag without eating or drinking.

Therefore, when they saw that DuPont's leather bag was sold for only two or three hundred pounds, less than one-tenth of the price of luxury goods, and the styles were very similar and the production was excellent, they naturally couldn't help but feel excited and generously donated money to take it down.

So in the past month, DuPont's sales have surged, reaching 25 million US dollars, which is more than double the previous surge.

However, DuPont's actions also made many big brands dissatisfied and sent lawyer letters to it, warning it to stop infringement immediately, otherwise it would file a lawsuit against it.

DuPont's attitude towards this is to ignore it, and still do whatever he wants and copy it without hesitation.

Because the clothing industry has almost no intellectual property rights, and most clothing designs are just micro-innovations, and it is often only necessary to change one element and be considered a new design. Therefore, it is really difficult for these luxury companies to win the lawsuit.

Even if you win in the end, it will take a lot of time, money and energy, and the compensation you receive is no more than one million US dollars, which is a typical thankless one.

For example, the well-known fast fashion brand Zara had to compensate tens of millions of euros every year for infringement in the past. However, compared with its annual sales of tens of billions of euros, it was simply a drop in the bucket. Therefore, its plagiarism not only did not converge, but was becoming more and more rampant.

DuPont is now copying Zara's business path.

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In terms of computers, Bainaohui's factories invested in the mainland have begun to be built, with an initial investment of HK$60 million, and the total investment will be as high as HK$250 million.

Because it has huge investment and is also a high-tech industry, it is highly valued by the mainland government and is listed as a key project for investment promotion in Shenzhen in 1988. Therefore, from site selection to factory construction, the green light was given all the way, and it was given considerable care. Therefore, the construction of the new factory was particularly fast and it is expected to be completed and put into production in the second half of the year.

In addition to mainland investment, Bainaohui has also successively invested in Taiwan's high-tech industries such as MSI and Yingtai.

Companies such as MSI and Yingtai were actually established similarly to those of Bainaohui. However, because Bainaohui was successfully listed less than a year after its establishment, and there was no risk of capital from then on, so its development speed was much faster than other companies.

Bainaohui is now one of the largest computer companies in Asia, and it is also the main customers of manufacturers such as MSI and Yingtai, accounting for as much as 30% of their total sales. For this reason, MSI and Yingtai have to allow it to invest in order to retain this customer.

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In terms of Zhongrong Gas, the main development direction is to acquire Canadian oil fields.

It is the low period of international oil prices. Those oil fields are all cheap and suitable for buying at the bottom. In a few years, when the Soviet Union collapses and the United States stops suppressing oil prices, the prices of these oil fields will rise several times or even dozens of times.

Therefore, in the summer, I am happy to acquire oil fields.

Currently, Zhongrong Gas has 4,500 oil wells, 1,600 natural gas wells, two heavy oil refineries, and 256 gas stations in Canada, accounting for 15% of the Canadian oil market.

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In terms of real estate, in addition to the land that is being auctioned by the Hong Kong government, Tianxia Group now mainly relies on the acquisition of old buildings and demolition and reconstruction to develop projects.

There are currently 62 projects under construction, including 12 commercial buildings, 44 residential buildings, two industrial factories, and four parking lot projects.

Today, Tianxia Group is the largest real estate developer in Hong Kong, ranking first in Hong Kong in terms of market value, capital, property, and projects.

However, Xia Tian was not complacent because Hong Kong is a small place after all, and the room for development is quite limited. If you want to make a lot of money, you have to go out.

Like Lee Ka-shing’s Hutchison Whampoa, a few years ago, it started building buildings in Canada. It was specially sold to Hong Kong people who immigrated. I heard that the sales volume was very good.

However, in summer, I don’t know much about the Canadian real estate market, I don’t know when it will flourish, nor when it will decline, so I dare not go to the muddy waters.

However, Xia Tian still knows more about Taiwan's real estate.

He liked CCTV's "Cross-Strait" program very much in his previous life (mainly liked the beautiful host Li Hong), so he had some understanding of the housing prices in Taiwan.

I know that in my previous life, the housing prices in Taiwan, especially in Taipei, were simply outrageously high. It took fifteen years for ordinary working people to eat or drink, so they have great investment potential.

So he planned to let Tianxia Group go to Taiwan to try the waters and participate in the real estate development there. After a few years, when mainland policies allow it, he will prepare to enter the mainland market.

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In terms of games.

Square has launched a new action game "Double Dragon" again.

Once this horizontal action game was launched, it immediately attracted players' snatch, especially male players, who were fascinated by this game.

Because boys are born with violent complexes, they are really irresistible to fight games.

Especially the operation and impact of "Double Dragon" is very refreshing, and the graphics and sound effects are also first-class, so the players are even more moved and can't stop playing.

Therefore, after its launch, the sales volume on the first day reached 300,000 copies, and the cumulative sales volume exceeded one million copies, becoming another big-selling work by Square.
Chapter completed!