Lin Hui asked hesitantly, “What say I go and open up a clothing shop too? I won’t do it the same way that Wu Xiuyue did. I’ll go the way you had originally suggested for her and open up a high-end women’s clothing shop and attract quality customers. Lin Hui’s shop is busy alright but it was like the market and it looks messy all the time. I don’t like it much.”
“What about your job then?” asked Shu Yan.
“I’ll keep my job. It isn’t like I need to stay in the shop all the time. I can hire someone.” Obviously, she had been planning this for a while now.
“Well, you want to think this through first. I hadn’t been running the shop for a while now and don’t know much about the current environment.” After her experience with Wu Xiuyue, Shu Yan didn’t want to get involved again. Everything that Lin Hui said right now sounded good but who knew what would actually happen.
“I’ll check out the market first. I won’t just jump in blindly. Oh right. Didn’t you just mention that your company started a women’s clothing line as well? How about I join the franchise?”
“We have no plans for franchise for the time being,” said Shu Yan subtly.
Their setting for the women’s clothing line was different than that of the undergarment. They wanted to go the high-end women’s clothing route. As such, it would be counterproductive to open up shops all over. A luxurious brand is not only luxurious because of their price point but they also need to appear more superior than a regular brand in every way. For example, if they were to have a shop in a shopping mall, it would have to be the biggest mall. They could only open up in tier-1 cities. Not even tier-2 cities were worthy of them. For their quantities, they would stick to the announced number nationally with a few limited-edition ones, perhaps only 10 or so nationwide. In addition, their company had already sent someone over to Hong Kong and Taiwan to check out the market. They would have counters there as well. if they did well in the overseas competitions, Shu Yan might consider counters in some major cities overseas as well.
Lin Hui felt regretful. She knew how successful Shu Yan’s undergarment brand was. There was a shop by the University and its business was great. Unfortunately, she wasn’t planning on going into business back then. She would be making money by now. It would never have been Wu Xiuyue.
When they were almost done with the fruits, Shu Yan went home with her plate.
Fang JunRong drove Shu Yan to work the next day. The two had been going to and from the office together all the time now. Many in the building were aware that they were dating.
Many men were envious of Fang JunRong. They should have pursued Shu Yan. So what if she was a single mother? She was competent and pretty.
“Is Boss Hu back yet?” Shu Yan asked the front desk.
“Yes, she is. She is in her office right now.”
“Okay.” Shu Yan went straight to Hu Ruixue’s office and found her talking to someone from Designs and Marketing.
“Oh, here you are.” Hu Ruixue smiled when she saw Shu Yan. There were dark circles under her eyes and she looked very tired. “Okay. That’s all for now. Go and organize what we have just talked about. We will need that for our meeting in a minute.”
After she had sent off the individuals from Designs and Marketing, Hu Ruixue walked over, laid down on the couch and said feebly, “We visited a total of 4 countries and entered into over 10 competitions. We only received consolation prizes in the major competitions but we did well in the small-scale ones.”
Shu Yan looked through all of the wards, let out a sigh of relief and smiled. “That is quite impressive already. I will have someone draft something up and this can be published on the newspapers tomorrow. The commercials are mostly ready. Just waiting for your return to take a look on them.:
Nobody not in the field would pay any attention to clothing design competitions. All they need to know was that Shu Yan started a female clothing line and that they had received a lot of awards in major competitions overseas.