Manhattan Reborn 1978

Island country, Tokyo.

A quarter past ten in the morning~

Tokyo Imperial Hotel, 1-1 Uchisuki-cho, east of Hibiya Park, Chiyoda-ku.

In a luxurious suite on the ninth floor of the hotel.

While David was eating the baked desserts brought by the waiter, and after chatting with Peter about the details of the investment, he turned to Carnes, who was watching TV boredly, and asked with a smile.

"Hey~ it's our turn!"

"Ah... Just tell me, I'm listening." Karnes turned off the volume of the TV with the remote control, glanced at little Peter sitting next to David, and replied with half-closed eyes.

David looked at Bill with a grin and said, "Was he a sloth or a turtle in his previous life?"

"I want to kick him, do you have any objection?"

"Hahaha~ Whatever!" Bill turned his head towards the window and replied with a laugh.

"Okay!" David put down the juice cup in his hand, walked towards Kanes with a wicked smile on his face, and said with a bared smile.

"Boy, your good days are over!"

Karnes sat upright and looked at David with very contemptuous eyes: "Come on, I can deal with you with only one hand!"

"Uh..." David stopped, blinked, and turned back to ask little Peter.

"Is he really that powerful?"

"Yeah~" Little Peter replied feeling very interesting.

"When he was in high school, while others were busy studying and participating in interest groups every day, he was obsessed with Greco-Roman wrestling and played with several very powerful wrestlers holding dummies all day long."

"Hahaha~" David stood there looking at Carnes with a gossipy face and laughed.

"There are so many beautiful female classmates and you don't want to hug them, but why do you want to hold a dummy and play wrestling every day?"

"There's something wrong with your brain!"

"Haha~" Kanes sneered twice and retorted contemptuously.

"Beautiful female classmate...how do you think?"

"That's because I dislike them pestering me all day long and don't want to waste time with them."

"When you were in high school, did any female classmates take the initiative to pursue you?"

"jerk!"

"Surely not?"

"Uh..." David was choked by his counterattack again, and said with an awkward smile and spread his hands.

"I'm not the same person I used to be!"

"But you..."

"Bullshit!" Kanes pointed at the sofa next to him and said angrily.

"Stop talking nonsense and get down to business!"

"Tsk, tsk~ Okay." David chuckled and sat on the sofa, crossed his legs and thought about it, then smiled.

"In fact, we have just talked about a lot of preparations that must be made for the plan to be implemented next."

"But I'd like to know, do you know the history of Coca-Cola's external expansion?"

"Coca Cola?"

"Does it have anything to do with our plan?"

"It doesn't matter." David explained with a fake expression and a smile.

“World War II played a key role in Coca-Cola becoming the world’s most popular drink.”

"After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States had just declared its entry into the war, and Coca-Cola began shipping bottled beverages to the front lines."

"The domestic media in the United States criticized this and believed that during the war, the government should use its limited transportation resources to transport military supplies instead of cola."

"In order to solve this problem, the Coca-Cola Company decided to change its strategy after a series of discussions, switch to exporting concentrated Coke puree, and establish a bottling plant near the war front."

"So during World War II, Coca-Cola established a total of 64 bottling plants, covering a vast area from Iceland to the deserts of North Africa and tropical jungles."

"With the end of the war, these bottling plants became civilian facilities, and Coca-Cola established a global production and sales network through these bottling plants."

"But to this day, there may still be many people who don't know why Coca-Cola has barely increased its price for so many years?"

When David said this, he deliberately stopped and turned to look at Little Peter and Bill, raised two fingers and said.

“This is largely due to their unique bottle licensing system.”

"We all know that Coca-Cola's overseas bottling plants consume astronomical amounts of water every year."

"With such a large amount of water consumption, if all Coca-Cola finished products are produced by the parent company and then transported to dealers in various places for sale, the transportation costs will be staggering."

"So the business strategy adopted by Coca-Cola is that the parent company only needs to produce Coca-Cola semi-finished puree, and then dealers in various places only need to fill bottles and add water by themselves before selling it, saving a lot of transportation costs."

"This allows Coca-Cola's parent company to transfer the risk of possible price fluctuations in the cost of Coca-Cola's most important raw material, water, to external institutions."

“In addition, due to the lack of water and equipment in some backward countries, Coca-Cola will establish its own official network through branches in various places and pass on a large part of the construction cost of water resources equipment to the local government. "

"Secondly, in order to avoid the risk of price fluctuations in the international cane sugar market, Coca-Cola invented a dehydrated and desugarized Coca-Cola puree."

"This amazing idea of ​​killing two birds with one stone transfers the cost risk of water and sugar in raw materials to external bottlers."

"So when I first heard about these business strategies of Coca-Cola Company, I immediately thought... can I learn something from them?"

David put down the two raised fingers, looked at Carnes and smiled: "For example, can we learn from Coca-Cola's approach and invest in crude oil spot?"

"...Be more specific!" Kanes understood what David meant and soon had a vague idea in his mind.

"ok~"

David reached out and picked up the globe he had just used, placed it in front of Karnes, pointed to the location of the Nakhodka Commercial Port in the Bear Country, and said.

"Before I asked people to open the crude oil trade channel of Nakhodka Commercial Port, I was not very sure about this plan."

"But when I was chatting with Grandpa Lewis in San Francisco a few days ago, I finally confirmed that since the last oil crisis, there has been a tacit understanding within the US government that no one will admit."

"This tacit understanding is to turn a blind eye to the ever-expanding crude oil export trade of the bear country."

"Now!"

"Now that I have roughly determined the attitude of the US government, the next step is for us to learn from Coca-Cola's strategy, find some more powerful partners, and continue to operate this trade channel!"

"cooperate?"

"Do you want to cooperate with a consortium from the island country?" Kanes asked, frowning.

"Haha~" David smiled and shook his head without answering. Instead, he turned to look at Bill, invited him to come over and sit down, and then asked.

"If we accumulate a large amount of crude oil before the end of the year, are you able to sell them in a short time?"