Rebirth 99 to become a car giant.

Chapter 119 Implement the other proposal of the little secretary

When Cao Yang boarded the plane back to China, the auto parts antitrust issue in the United States was in full swing.

As NTN jumped out to backstab SKF, some other parts giants also began to jump out and backstab their peers.

For example, Lenny from Germany exposed the Japanese Yazaki's cooperation with them in the field of wiring harnesses to cheat Ford.

This makes more parts giants become trembling with fear, fearing that they will accidentally become a hot topic of public opinion.

Ford Motor and General Motors are taking advantage of this opportunity to continue to complete their price reduction negotiations.

Normally, OEMs definitely don’t want to see parts suppliers being fined.

Because this means that the other party's ability to lower prices for itself has decreased.

Therefore, if suppliers are willing to cooperate in lowering their prices, Ford and General Motors will be willing to lobby the American judicial authorities to let these suppliers go.

The American judiciary, which has investigated dozens of companies at once, also knows that its energy is limited and it is impossible to understand every factory clearly.

Besides, Ford and General Motors are, to a certain extent, their bread and butter.

Now that the parents want them to relax, they are naturally willing to find a step down.

So although this wave of antitrust investigations came suddenly, they progressed very quickly.

It's normal for an investigation like this to last for several years, but this time it only took a month before the end seemed to be in sight.

Of course, these are all later stories.

At this moment, Bu Defan was communicating with Cao Yang, who had just returned to China, about antitrust matters.

"Japan's parts companies have gone too far in monopolizing supply, especially for OEMs outside Japan. This approach is even more excessive."

"This time, General Motors and Ford Motor Co. were also deeply affected, so they took action against these suppliers."

"Although in China's automobile market, European and American cars such as Volkswagen, General Motors and Shenlong are currently selling better."

"But Honda and Toyota have already established joint ventures in China, and there are rumors that Nissan also intends to establish a joint venture in China next year or the year after."

"At that time, Japanese automakers and parts companies will further squeeze the living space of European and American automakers."

“With this opportunity, we can definitely allow more excellent local suppliers from China to enter Volkswagen’s supply system.”

"Let the Volkswagen headquarters unite with other car series to push the EU to take action in the anti-monopoly of auto parts."

"In this way, whether it is the price reduction task of the Volkswagen Headquarters Procurement Center or the annual price reduction of the Volkswagen Procurement Department in Shanghai, it will become much easier."

For Bu Defan to take the initiative to propose antitrust matters within Volkswagen, it is natural for the other party to be fully aware of the benefits of this matter to Volkswagen.

Otherwise, why would anyone bother?

Cao Yang, who already has successful experience in General Motors and Ford Motors, can naturally find many high-sounding reasons to convince Bu Defan.

"Cao, you just came back from the United States. You should have heard that General Motors and Ford took advantage of the anti-monopoly opportunity to find suppliers to reduce prices. I wonder what the effect was?"

Bu Defan did not directly agree to Cao Yang's proposal.

But when he asked this, it showed that he was already a little moved inside.

“It went very well!”

"I heard that NTN has cooperated with the price reduction by 10%."

“Lenny’s wiring harness has also been reduced in price.”

"Although some other suppliers may not reduce prices by 10%, there is definitely no problem with 5%."

"Even after the news broke, Ford's stock price went up a few points."

When Cao Yang said this, Bu Defan was completely moved.

There is not much pressure on Volkswagen to cut prices.

After all, in 2001, China's automobile market was far from fiercely competitive.

As long as the car is built, even a product that is several years behind the international market can be sold at a high price.

Even for products that are so-called of the same generation as those in the international market, it is very common to have reduced configurations, which does not affect sales at all.

Therefore, Bu Defan has really not had much pressure to reduce prices in recent years.

If we really want to talk about pressure, that is, there is a little pressure to increase the localization rate under China's special policy.

However, Volkswagen in Shanghai does not have much pressure to cut prices, which does not mean that Volkswagen headquarters is not under pressure.

Volkswagen has surpassed DaimlerChrysler to become the fourth largest car company in the global automotive industry.

However, the gap with No. 3 Toyota has not only not narrowed, but has actually widened.

This is true both in terms of sales and profits.

"Cao, I will report your proposal to the headquarters properly."

"I heard that part of the evidence handed over by NTN in the U.S. antitrust investigation case is also related to China."

"I wonder if you have any clues that you can provide me with?"

Bu Defan is not stupid.

Cao Yang must have a purpose for being so proactive in thinking about Volkswagen.

It’s not been a day or two since we all got to know each other.

Bu Defan was willing to hear what benefits Cao Yang wanted to gain.

"Don't tell me yet, we Nanshan really got some information, which may be of some help to you."

"This part of the evidence is somewhat similar to what NTN submitted to the American judicial authorities, which is that SKF teamed up with several bearing manufacturers to deal with Modu Volkswagen, Modu General Motors and Shenlong Motors."

"They even joined forces with bearing manufacturers and machine tool manufacturers to deliberately raise the prices of machine tools sold to Nanshan Technology Co., Ltd."

"This kind of abuse of our market monopoly position must not be tolerated."

"Otherwise, they, Party B, will climb on Party A's head in the future."

When Cao Yang mentioned SKF, Bu Defan immediately understood many things.

During this period, Bu Defan was very clear about the grievances and resentments between SKF and Nanshan Bearing.

In order to suppress Nanshan, SKF also adopted many methods.

Some of the methods he didn't like very much.

For example, SKF and Modu Automobile established a joint venture bearing factory and wanted to obtain orders directly through the shareholder relationship of China.

This approach has harmed Volkswagen's interests to a certain extent.

Now that Cao Yang has taken the initiative to give himself a weapon to deal with parts giants such as SKF, Bu Defan has no reason to refuse.

"What you said makes sense. Volkswagen cannot allow such a thing to exist."

"Don't worry, I believe the headquarters will push the EU to launch antitrust investigations in the field of auto parts as soon as possible."

"Especially in the field of bearings, we should pay more attention to it."

Not only did GM and Ford know about reciprocating love, but Bu Defan was also well-connected.

They all have to be attacked anyway, and it doesn’t matter who they attack first or who they attack last.

In this case, let's sell Cao Yang a favor.

After all, the relationship between OEMs and parts companies is not so simple as Party A and Party B.

Sometimes, OEMs also have requests from suppliers.