Our Glamorous Time( A Vsoo adaptation novel by Ding Mo)

Chapter 32(Truths and Falsities)

He had an entirely fresh set of subordinates under him who would gladly follow his instructions.

After the respective departments had finished reporting a brief outline of their situations, it was time for their subsidiary company Vinda, which was under a team of three executives led by Mr Gong Yoo. Just then, Jimin interrupted, “It’s such bad news that Vice President Gong has had such an issue crop up on his end. Vice President Gong Yoo can just go over the main points.”

The moment those words were said, everybody’s expression became solemn. Jisoo’s heart tremored. She had just returned to Lin City last night and had rushed over to the company first thing in the morning. She had no knowledge of this matter.

Taehyung’s expression was still and did not reveal any emotion.

Mr Gong Yoo nodded. First, he briefly reported on Vinda’s sales during the period in the new year before revisiting its total sales thus far. Of course, the numbers were encouraging. Then he said something that completely changed the atmosphere.

“However, according to reliable sources, SMQ will be preparing to launch a subsidiary product line similar to ours this year. At the same time, their large-scale mid-range product range will launch a series of aggressive promotional and sales activities.

“Apart from that, the other companies who are ranked top ten in the market will also be pushing out similar products and carrying out their plans for online advertising and sales. Everyone is capable of fighting for a place in the market, and such moves by our competitors are very likely to impact Vinda’s growth and development, reducing our share of the market.”

The entire meeting room fell silent.

After a moment, Liu Tong took a drag of his cigarette and without emotion said, “SMQ will always be like that. Copying, maintaining low-prices and engaging in underhanded methods of competition. They have no creativity and are extremely shameless.”

Although it was true, the market was a free-for-all. Even if everyone was upset and nervous about the competitor copying them, their actions were still within reason.

After a moment of silence, Taehyung said, “Does anyone have any thoughts or opinions?” As he spoke, his gaze remained calm and relaxed. He leaned back in the boss’s chair, his fingers entwined and lightly resting on his knees. It gave people the sense that he would maintain his usual stable self and have full control of the situation.

Although the competitors were near, everyone had different opinions on how to deal with them.

Some suggested to similarly launch a sale as they wanted to protect Vinda, their only source of hope, to their last dying breaths.

Others suggested that they enhance their online advertising and, instead of lowering prices, strengthen their product marketing instead. This was something that Mr Gong Yoo, Jisoo, and the relevant parties were currently and had constantly been doing. The few of them listened and nodded their heads.

However, Jisoo quickly noticed that in this heated discussion, Taehyung and his other main confidantes—Liu Tong, Mr Park Jimin, and Mr Gong Yoo—did not express many of their views. They mainly scribbled down valuable opinions from the discussion in their notebooks. This caused Jisoo to zone out for a moment as she considered how deep Taehyung’s thoughts went and how complicated his means to an end could be. He had probably predicted this problem a while back.

It appeared that the big shots had long since reached a conclusion about how to handle this problem.

However, Jisoo didn’t expect this “consensus” to be her responsibility.