CHAPTER 627: CHAPTER 626: SNOWFLAKE GOES PUBLIC

Since the middle school exam is only one and a half months away, Han Mingyue had already agreed with Zhen Yu that starting this Monday, after their visit to Longsha Park, he would spend all his time outside of class hours solely on tutoring his younger brother.

And the same applies to Zhen Yan, who is even worse off! He didn’t even dare to go to the park to play with everyone this time!

Because the college entrance exam is much more important than the middle school exam. Wasting a day means missing hundreds of practice questions! It could completely lead to missing a major question in the college entrance exam! Creating a lag of more than ten points!

In order to get admitted to the Public Security University, Zhen Yan can’t afford to play around! So he could only study day and night!

During this busy time for these two, Snowflake milk powder finally officially started production and went on the market!

Right after lunch on Monday, Zhen Yu received a call from Factory Director Lu, who was so happy that she immediately said she wanted to go buy two bags to try!

"Haha! You probably can’t buy it yet!" Factory Director Lu laughed heartily on the other end of the phone. "The goods have just been shipped out not long ago! It takes a few days for them to distribute layer by layer, to reach the small stores near your school!"

"Oh..." Zhen Yu seemed to understand but couldn’t help asking more, "Are the original sales channels still in place?"

"Of course, they are! I haven’t been factory director for all these years for nothing!" Factory Director Lu suddenly burst out with strong confidence when he talked about this. "I’ve renegotiated all the original sales channels for Snowflake milk powder! As long as our milk powder’s quality is top-notch, we definitely won’t worry about sales!"

"That’s great!" Zhen Yu knew that in the region around Qi City, the original market share of Snowflake milk powder absolutely dominated! The brand reputation was also excellent! In her view, even after a few months of production halt, once it hit the market, there should not be any stock left unsold!

The following words from Factory Director Lu also well confirmed this!

"The distributors who came to pick up the goods all told me that if Snowflake’s milk powder didn’t hit the market soon, everyone would almost give up!"

Zhen Yu was surprised, her mouth agape, "Ah?!"

"When a product first runs out of stock, everyone generally thinks it’s due to supply not meeting demand! But once the news of production halt spreads, most people would start to watch and wait, possibly even hoping for its return. However, when they wait and wait and there’s no result, most people would then turn to choosing a new brand from its substitutes!"

Zhen Yu felt that what Factory Director Lu said was very much like her own everyday thoughts, she couldn’t help but nod her head in approval, "Right! That’s true! So it’s still not too late for the milk factory to start production, right?!"

"Yes! It’s because we need to race against time! That’s why we worked overtime before! Fortunately, everything was still on time!" Factory Director Lu said with some emotion, "Luckily I had inside information, knowing their big group’s operational efficiency was low! If we had waited until Wanshan Group finished integrating the tangible assets of the original Snowflake Milk Factory, Snowflake’s original market share would have been completely nibbled away!"

After hearing this, Zhen Yu remembered that the market share did not only depend on the purchasing audience’s will but also on the competition among peers! "Wanshan Group’s branch factory isn’t ready yet, what about other milk factories? Didn’t they scramble? Will our Snowflake’s market share be much reduced compared to before?"

"The production capacity of other milk factories is just there! They want to scramble but they also need the production capacity first! As for the market share, it’s hard to say! The reduction is certain, but how much exactly will be reduced can only be known once the monthly sales figures are out!"

"Hmm! Let’s just wait for now. We can only wait now, so I won’t take up any more of your valuable time, Factory Director Lu."

"All right! Then I’ll hang up first! I’ll contact you if there’s any news!"

"Okay! Goodbye!"

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From that day on, every day after dinner, Zhen Yu would run to the small store at the school gates for a round.

It wasn’t until Wednesday evening when she finally saw the long-awaited Snowflake milk powder.

Many years have passed, the packaging was still the same, and still... ugly!

Not only was it ugly on the bag, but also on the trademark!

First about the packaging bag! The transparent milk powder bag was occupied by a bold, big red ’V’ on the upper two-thirds of the front side, and the remaining third had a black-and-white colored dairy cow printed on it. In the middle of the ’V,’ slightly lower, two thick black lines framed a rectangular area, which horizontally displayed in big characters—Full Cream Instant Milk Powder.

Then about the trademark! If it hadn’t been for ’Snowflake Brand’ firmly printed below the trademark, Zhen Yu’s first glance would have thought it was a football!

Ouch, my eyes! What kind of bizarre packaging is this!

Taking ten thousand steps back, even if Zhen Yu could tolerate the above two issues, there was still one thing she absolutely could not stand!

What on earth was with the pinyin over the dairy cow?!

QUANZHISURONGNANFEN! With that dairy cow there, would there really be illiterate people who need pinyin to confirm they are buying milk powder, not something else?!

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With extreme speechlessness and internal crazed criticism, Zhen Yu, with a resigned expression, walked out of the small store holding two bags of milk powder.

As she walked back to the school, she kept pondering! How could she start a conversation with Factory Director Lu in a way that would get him to redesign the logo and packaging? Meanwhile, she could also educate him about some promotional methods used by future milk powder manufacturers...

But before she had walked far, she was stopped by the two hooligans she had encountered once in the roller skating rink.

"Little sister! You’re by yourself! Brother will take you to play!" Man B posed in what he thought was his coolest look and started chatting up.

Zhen Yu, whose thought process was abruptly interrupted, was obviously extremely annoyed!

She emitted a cold aura from head to toe, speaking quite rudely!

"Scram! Haven’t you ever heard the saying that a good dog doesn’t block the way?!"

"Hey! You little girl! After showing off a few moves, look how capable you are..."

"I’m capable, what’s it to you!" Zhen Yu didn’t intend to leave any face for the other party at all! Her retorts came swiftly!

"If you don’t want to end up without arms or legs, better clear off now! If your skin feels too tight, go home and let your dad take care of it!"

Man B’s face turned a livid purplish-black, and after exchanging a glance with Man A, they both suddenly reached out towards Zhen Yu!

"I won’t let it go today! Let’s see what you can do to me!"

Soon, he found out what Zhen Yu could do to him, because she spun around to dodge while suddenly shouting aloud, "Molestation! Help! Someone help! These hooligans are harassing me! I’ll kill you two filthy scoundrels!"