As the saying goes, talents go abroad, and a new generation changes the old ones. The same is true of retail rivers and lakes. When Suning's announcement was made public, the dust finally fell on Zhang.
On July 12, the resolution of the board of directors was issued, and it was reviewed and approved that Xian Handi, Ms. Zhang were candidates for non-independent directors of the company. At the same time, the announcement also stated that Mr. Zhang, Sun Weimin, Meng Xiangsheng and Yang Guangxian would resign as directors and members of special committees of the Board of Directors.
At this point, the Zhang era of Suning. com came to an end.
After Ma Yun, Liu and Zhang, Zhang left the rivers and lakes he once knew in almost the same way, leaving only his legend.
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There are many speculations about Zhang's departure. If we sort out these speculations, we will find that most of them are related to Suning's huge losses. Some people say that Suning has lost nearly 10 billion yuan; It is also said that Suning lost nearly 20 billion. No matter what the specific figures are, one thing is certain: Suning is losing money and has already lost money.
If you look at it ten years ago, it is difficult to associate these figures with Suning. At that time, Suning's retail market in China was a beautiful place. For example, at 20 1 1, Suning's non-net profit was as high as 4.6 billion yuan, while Ali was only/kloc-0.6 billion yuan at that time, and JD.COM was still at a loss.
At that time, Zhang was truly the richest man in China, and he led a "lonely loser" in the retail industry.
The arrival of the mobile internet era has disrupted Suning's progress, but Zhang, who is in full swing, did not feel the crisis coming.
In order to build his planned business empire, he kept buying in buy buy. Whether it is to acquire Wanda Department Store or take over Carrefour; Whether buying Jiangsu football team or eating Daily Express; Whether it is betting on Evergrande or acquiring PPTV；; ; Whether it is investing in a hammer mobile phone or participating in the live broadcast of Dragon Ball.
On the surface, through this series of buy buy purchases, Suning has indeed realized the diversification of commercial layout. Now Suning is not only engaged in retail, but also covers retail, logistics, finance, science and technology, real estate, sports and other fields. However, if we only focus on the buy in the buy buy and ignore the subsequent returns, then behind the buy in this series of buy buy is more of a wayward.
With the dissolution of Jiangsu football team, the domino effect of Suning began to appear. There are many speculations about the future direction of Suning. It was not until July 5 that the news that Suning was about to accept the mixed reform was officially announced, and the relevant speculation was settled.
According to the mixed reform plan, Zhang transferred 65,438+06.9% of Suning shares to Jiangsu Xinxin Retail Innovation Fund Phase II Limited Partnership Company headed by Ali at a price of 8.8 billion yuan. This also marks that Zhang completely handed over the control of Suning, and the era of Zhang belonging to Suning ended.
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Suning, once in full swing, is really embarrassed today. The development history of Suning is more like a true portrayal of the retail industry in an era. For Zhang, what he brings us is more inspired by the ups and downs of business.
First, capital is a double-edged sword. Being rich is a good thing, but how to make good use of money is a problem for a university. Throughout the ages, many business tycoons have killed 1,000 enemies and lost 800 because of money. What Zhang should really think about is how to make good use of capital to serve himself.
The author believes that the key to ensure that everyone who is ups and downs in the business world can truly achieve stability and prosperity is to always maintain awe of money and always maintain a correct view of capital. Undoubtedly, the power of capital has made Suning and Zhang successful, but at the same time, capital has also trapped Suning and Zhang in a cage of self-paralysis.
What Zhang left us is to really make good use of capital, truly respect capital and make capital work for us.
Second, the alarm of "ecological counterattack" is ringing. Every enterprise, especially after its development and expansion, will always move towards the road of building its own ecology. Jia Yueting came first, then Zhang, all of them. Looking back at Jia Yueting and Zhang, we will find that they both have one thing in common, that is, they constantly expand their business territory and business ecology.
It should be noted that the construction of an ecology can indeed bring benefits to the growth of enterprises, but if it is only for the sake of ecology and for telling wonderful stories, then the so-called ecology will inevitably have a "reversal" crisis.
In the past, Suning achieved such rapid development, not only because of the big environment at that time, but also because Suning focused on its own strategic core and constantly used this core to lead its own development.
Now Suning, Sougou will get so much criticism, in addition to the current environment, more because Suning began to lose its strategic core, constantly losing its own development source power.
Third, the times have always been manned, not manned. As I said at the beginning, talented people come forth in large numbers, and a new generation changes old people. There has always been only people of a certain era. They were born and developed by the times, not someone who created an era. Suning's highlight moment is because it seized the development opportunity of that era and achieved rapid development, and Zhang was only a person of that era.
When that era is over, new people are needed to lead this era. There is no doubt that Suning is trying to reshape its bright moment by expanding online e-commerce business, laying out new retail and blessing the financial industry. However, the wheel of the times has moved forward, and the era belonging to Suning has gone.
What Suning really needs to do is to change birds and keep up with the wheel of history, instead of blindly maintaining the status of rivers and lakes.
While Zhang achieved great success in his times, he also brought the ZaiXin Liu era to an end. So there is never someone's era, only someone in the era. For Zhang, not being in the Jianghu may be the best ending.
There is no Zhang in the rivers and lakes, but Suning still has to move forward. As stated in Suning's announcement, Suning.cn will become a new socialized enterprise facing the market.
Goodbye, Zhang.
Hello, New Suning.