Successful entrepreneurial story of Laoganma Chili sauce

She didn't go to school for a day, only knew three words of her name, and didn't have any financial knowledge, but she liked learning, had an amazing memory, was not afraid of difficulties, and was persistent in what she wanted to do. Master Meng slowed down, carefully watched her thin figure shrink, and finally turned into a small black spot in the boundless snow world, while he lay flat on the snow in despair, unaware of the cold and pain, only feeling that the whole world was empty. Shao Ming said, "Sister, I really dare not leave. Are you still going to the airport? " Pay close attention to cash, never set foot in unfamiliar areas, and be cautious every time you take the step of expansion. In 20 12, she made the Hurun China Rich List with a net asset of 3.6 billion yuan. Last spring, Qian Xuesen longed to return to New China and participate in the construction of the motherland. He booked a flight back to China on March 20th. Daughter Qian Yongzhen was born on June 6th, which means that Jiang Ying will have to travel long distances with children and diapers when her daughter is full moon. . She is Tao Huabi's godmother. How did Laoganma succeed? Let's take a look at Laoganma's celebrity entrepreneurial story and study hard when we get home.

I looked at myself carefully in the mirror.

I found that the woman in the mirror is really more and more like autumn rhyme.

But it is still not as beautiful as autumn rhyme.

And the rim of the eye is slightly black because of frequent insomnia! I can't help but pick up the eye shadow that Qiu Yun gave me.

Describe carefully the successful experience of starting a business in your eyes.

Selling bean jelly, but accidentally selling Chili sauce.

Tao Huabi was born in a remote mountain village in Meitan County, Guizhou Province. Because of my poor family, I have never been to school for a day since I was a child. At the age of 20, she met an accountant of the 206 Geological Team, and they fell in love and got married. But a few years later, her husband died of illness, leaving her and two children.

After her husband died, Tao Huabi, who had no source of income, went to other places to work and set up a stall in order to survive. 1989, Tao Huabi built a house on a street in Longdongbao, Nanming District, Guiyang City with a little money saved by scrimping and saving, and opened a humble restaurant called "Affordable Restaurant", which specializes in bean jelly and cold noodles.

In order to accompany the meal, she specially made spicy sauce, which was specially used to mix bean jelly. Therefore, business is very prosperous. One morning, Tao Huabi felt dizzy after getting up, so he didn't go to the market to buy peppers. Who knows, when the customer woke up in Zimu the next morning, the sun had just risen. Seeing me beside the hospital bed, she frowned and leaned against the wall warily, her eyes instantly excited. After a while, the frowning brows spread out and smiled weakly at me, saying that I scared you. When I was eating, I turned and left as soon as I heard that there was no hot sauce. This incident touched Tao Huabi a lot. She saw the potential of hot sauce at once and studied it with great concentration. After several years of trial production, the hot sauce produced in Tao Huabi has a more unique taste. Many guests will buy some spicy sauce to take home after eating bean jelly, and some even come to buy her spicy sauce instead of bean jelly. Later, her bean jelly business became worse and worse, but the demand for hot sauce was in short supply.

At noon one day, Tao Huabi found that there were more than a dozen restaurants and food stalls selling bean jelly around. The business of these restaurants was booming because they were all using the hot sauce they bought from her.

1994165438+10, the "cheap restaurant" was renamed as "Guiyang Nanming Dow flavor food store", and the bean jelly and cold noodles disappeared, and the series of Chili sauce products began to become the main products of this store. However, the single-minded production still cannot meet the huge customer demand. 1In July, 1996, Tao Huabi rented two houses in the village committee of Yun Guan, Nanming District, and opened a food processing factory to produce hot sauce, which was named "Laoganma Hot Sauce".

Just arrived at the workshop, full of difficulties.

The newly established hot sauce processing factory is a simple manual workshop with only 40 employees. There is no production line, and all processes are operated by the most primitive hand.

At that time, pounding and cutting peppers was a housework that no one wanted to do. Tao Huabi took the lead in chopping peppers, resulting in severe scapulohumeral periarthritis. 10 fingers were all calcified.

When I first produced Chili sauce, I couldn't find a suitable glass bottle to hold it, so Tao Huabi found a sudden order from Guiyang No.2 Glass Factory, but it was rejected. Tao Huabi facilitated their negotiation: "Any baby is big at birth, and they all grow up slowly. I won't leave until you give me a bottle today. "

In this way, Guiyang No.2 Glass Factory formed an indissoluble bond with Laoganma, and even escaped the invasion of bankruptcy frenzy of state-owned enterprises. Up to now, 60% of the glass bottles produced by Laoganma are produced by Guiyang No.2 Glass Factory, and three of the four production lines of No.2 Glass are operated by Laoganma 24 hours a day.

The "Laoganma" produced by the workshop needed to be sold, so Tao Huabi went to the canteens and roadside shops of various units to sell it, and collected money after selling it. If it can't be sold, it will be returned. In this "stupid way", the merchant agreed to try it out. As a result, Chili sauce was sold out quickly, and Laoganma began to expand production.

1In August, 997, Guiyang Nanming Laoganma Flavor Food Co., Ltd. was established, and the number of workers increased to more than 200. Tao Huabi has to do more than just take the lead in cutting peppers. By the way, I finally remembered that Kuang Yinming mentioned that his family runs a beauty clinic, and he studied plastic surgery in Korea. So Shen Linglong was very scared when she saw Kuang Yinming, because Kuang Yinming was one of the few people on earth who knew her true breasts. All kinds of financial and personnel reports should be reviewed by her personally, and many foreign affairs such as industry and commerce, taxation and urban management should be received. Relevant departments often issue documents to her for implementation. In addition, she often attends various meetings held by the competent department of * * *, and sometimes she is ordered to speak on the stage.

How does illiterate Tao Huabi handle so many complicated affairs?

Dow's management wisdom: keep the road simple and stabilize people's hearts.

After the establishment of the company, Tao Huabi's eldest son, Li Guishan, quit his job as an "iron rice bowl" and came back to help his mother manage the company.

From 65438 to 0998, with the help of Li Guishan, Tao Huabi formulated the rules and regulations of "Laoganma". No one outside has read the original text of this system, but Xie Bangyin, the current general manager, said that they don't have an employee handbook, and the so-called rules and regulations are actually very simple. There are only some sentences such as "Don't be lazy", which are more like the teachings of elders than the system that employees must implement.

Relying on such a simple system that hasn't changed a word like the US Constitution, "Laoganma" 1 1 has remained stable for years, and there has never been any problem within the company.

The organization of Laoganma is also very simple. There is no board of directors, vice chairman and deputy general manager, only five departments. Tao Huabi has two supervisors, one in charge of business and the other in charge of administration (currently Xie Bangyin and Wu Wang). Xie Bangyin laughed and called himself a "business manager" because he always rushed to the front line.

Tao Huabi is very compassionate. She doesn't believe that her husband died in such an inexplicable way, but somewhere she is silently waiting to return to China to meet her again. It was not until two years ago that I waited for her husband's return. There are many photos and meritorious certificates of her husband in her bedroom, but she never took out his purple heart medal for fear of being stolen. Waiting is long and cruel, and missing is sweet and bitter. Later, she found a job to take care of orphans and disabled children to make up for the loss of her son. Yes, no one in the company calls her the chairman, but everyone calls her "Laoganma". She can name 60% of the company's more than 2,000 employees and remember the birthdays of many of them. Every employee should be a witness when they get married.

In addition, Tao Huabi has always adhered to some of her "earth principles": she goes to employees' homes every three to five times; Every employee's birthday is coming, and she can receive a gift and a bowl of longevity noodles with two poached eggs; When employees go on business trips, she will cook some eggs for them just like sending children on a long trip, and send them to the factory to get on the bus before returning.

Since 1998, Tao Huabi has sent company managers to Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Shanghai to inspect the market and learn advanced management experience from some well-known enterprises.

In 2005, Li Guishan left the position of general manager and was later appointed by professional manager Wang Haifeng. Xie Bangyin, the current general manager, used to be the assistant to the general manager.

The management team of Laoganma is probably the most mysterious one among the large enterprises in China at present, and one of the requirements of Tao Huabi is that they can't accept outside interviews. The evaluation of this team is as follows: loyalty, diligence and low profile. The reason why his eldest son Li Guishan left his job has always been a mystery.

Tao Huabi's wisdom of "financial management": no loans, no debts and no listing.

From the seminar, "Hey-I asked Junhui to answer and ran down. Whether buying farmers' peppers or selling Chili sauce to distributors, Tao Huabi will always use cash, and she has always adhered to this principle, with daily sales exceeding10 million. "Laoganma" has no inventory, no accounts receivable and accounts payable, and only a cash flow of more than one billion yuan.

Tao Huabi has never dealt with the bank. The only loan is that after she developed, the bank kept asking people to lend to her, but she refused to lend. A staff member of Guiyang Commercial Bank said that what Tao Huabi said to them the most was: "You just want to ask me for some interest."

In 2003, some * * * leaders suggested that Tao Huabi Company expand its scale by listing on the backdoor and raising funds.

Tao Huabi rejected this wish of other enterprises, and Tao Huabi's answer was: "I am confused about all these tricks, such as listing and financing. I only know how to stir-fry peppers. I only do what I want. I am determined not to make it public. Once I go public, I may lose everything. Going public is cheating money. Take it if you have money, circle the money, ask him to become a shareholder, and then suck it away. In the blink of an eye, it was 2008. This year, the head teacher of boys' high school celebrated his tenth birthday, and enthusiastic students contacted everyone to celebrate the teacher's birthday. Men who are "well mixed" will naturally be invited. Men don't like to take part in similar activities, but this time they agreed happily. As for the reason, it goes without saying that you can guess. I will pay my debts. I won't do it. What is the other reason? I tell you young people a truth, people have pressure, there is motivation. " Some officials lamented that talking about financing diversification with "Laoganma" is more painstaking than talking about investment with foreign investors; A bunch of flowers, * * * share the heart. So, one flower is enough for me. It seems that I have been alone all my life. It's hard.

Wu Wang and Xie Bangyin said that Tao Huabi's memory and mental arithmetic were amazing, and she knew nothing about financial statements. "Laoganma" only has simple accounts, which are read to her by financial personnel. She can remember them once or twice, and then she can calculate the general ledger of financial entry and exit by herself, and immediately know whether there is any problem with the figures.

Be responsible for products and combat counterfeiting.

When Laoganma was founded, Li Guishan applied for a registered trademark, but it was rejected by the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce on the grounds that Laoganma was a common name and was not suitable as a trademark. This gives counterfeiters an opportunity.

There are more than 50 kinds of "Laoganma" all over the country, and Tao Huabi has begun to crack down on counterfeiting. She sent undercover investigations everywhere, allocated millions of yuan every year to set up the first private enterprise anti-counterfeiting team in Guizhou, and began to crack down on counterfeiting nationwide. However, the fake "Laoganma" is like a leek, cut one crop after another, especially the "Laoganma" in Hunan, whose trademark is almost the same as that in Guizhou.

Tao Huabi is very stubborn, and she fought a lawsuit with Hunan Laoganma for three years, from Beijing No.2 Intermediate People's Court to Beijing High Court, and also fought several lawsuits with the State Trademark Office. This case became one of the top ten typical cases in China in 2003.

On August 10, 2000, the court of first instance found that Laoganma-flavored douchi produced by Guiyang Laoganma Company had a certain historical process, and Hunan Laoganma constituted unfair competition, and sentenced it to stop using and destroy the packaging bottles and stickers similar to Guiyang Laoganma Company before obtaining the patent right of design, and compensated the economic loss of 6.5438+0.5 million yuan. This means that two "godmothers" can live together, which is unacceptable to Tao Huabi, who soon appealed.

During this period, many people advised Tao Huabi to give up the lawsuit, but Tao Huabi said to those who came to persuade him, "I am a real old godmother. They are counterfeit goods (Guizhou dialect: fakes). Am I still afraid of fakes? " Finally, under the mediation of two nobles, the lawsuit between Tao Huabi and Hunan Laoganma ended. In May 2003, Tao Huabi's "Laoganma" finally won the July Award from the State Trademark Office. A fire broke out in Wuhan. I stood in downtown Vancouver wearing a short-sleeved shirt and looked at the snow on the top of the mountain. When I turn around, I can still see the sea under the blue sky. When can I hold your hand and see the sea? At the same time, the registration certificate obtained by Hunan Laoganma in the State Trademark Office was cancelled.

How did Laoganma succeed?

Why did Tao Huabi succeed? Why are there more and more "Laoganma"? How did Laoganma succeed? This is a secret, but there is a well-known answer. It is said that this is a secret. Tao Huabi, who has nothing, cannot have the secret of success; More specifically, everyone knows the answer-

Park Ji-hye is very sensitive to opportunities. After repeated struggles, her clothes were scratched by branches in several places. Seeing this, Guo Guangyi quickly took off his coat and wrung out the water. After that, he blushed and said, "You put on my clothes and I'll wring them out for you!" " With that, he turned around. Putting on men's clothes for the first time, Park Ji-hye felt warm in her heart, although she was soaked to the skin. No, the clothes are wrung out. After she put it on, she felt that this man was sincere and kind. . Li Ka-shing's initial success was to seize the opportunity of Hong Kong's real estate and port development, Ding Lei seized the Internet, and Zhu Guobao stabilized health care products ... In the late 1990s, Tao Huabi made a big deal, and at that time everyone thought that "you can't do business without big money". I think at first, she only seized a small opportunity for the sauce to sell well when selling bean jelly.

Honesty. "Doing business with integrity" is almost well known. But in fact, many people still can't do it. Tao Huabi had never heard of elegant "honesty" before, but with the simple nature of farmers, she realized honesty and made a big deal.

When starting a business, only a few people can work hard and skillfully, even a little foolhardy, but what about the future? With more employees, everyone will be twisted into a rope. Many excellent enterprises are equipped with equity incentives and corporate culture. The same effect is that Tao Huabi uses "emotional investment" to influence people.

Professional manager. It doesn't matter that Tao Huabi can't read or do accounts. She invited her son and even more boldly invited many professional managers and sent them out for training and further study. ...

Every idea of Tao Huabi, who only knows three words, coincides with the latest and most comprehensive management encyclopedia ―― therefore, the success of Laoganma is magical, not a myth.

Until now, Tao Huabi can only recognize three words-"Tao Huabi", but she has left a set of management concepts worth pondering for many China enterprises.

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