Volume 2 Chapter 174 - Company reorganization (1/2)

Even if Xu Yi had worries in his heart, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s development didn’t slow down.

After a quiet April, once they entered May, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce first announced the marriage of Xu Yi and Still, then they released a new product, the Magic Freezer.

To be honest, the Magic Freezer wasn’t a completely new product, it was just an extension of the Magic Refrigerator.

It was different from the Magic Refrigerator that could only keep things frozen. The Magic Freezer was divided into two levels, with the lower level keeping things frozen and the upper level only lowering the temperature, but not freezing things and just keeping them fresh.

[TL note: I know that the previous refrigerator is actually a freezer, but the author used the chinese words for refrigerator (冰箱) instead and uses freezer (冰柜) for the new product which should be a refrigerator, so these terms will be kept the same.]

Once the Magic Freezer came out, it was immediately welcomed by many families.

Because the Magic Refrigerator could only keep things frozen, it had a single use, so its sales numbers were normal. There were only higher sales numbers in summer when ice cream and other frozen products were being sold.

But the Magic Freezer was different, its dual function was quite practical for many households.

Especially the top half’s function of keeping things fresh. Dishes that weren’t finished could be kept fresh in them to be eaten next time.

This solved many problems for housewives, so naturally it was very popular.

The Frestech Brand Magic Freezer was only released for a week and it had sold over twenty thousand units.

Each unit had a price of twenty five gold coins, so in just a week, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned five hundred thousand gold coins.

Taking away the cost, the net profit was over three hundred thousand gold coins.

Adding in the Magic Refrigerator, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s household magic machine department now had the Magic Fan, the Magic Air Conditioner, the Magic Bread Maker, the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker, the Magic Lamp, the Magic Freezer, and the Magic Kettle, a total of eight products.

Not including the Magic Freezer that was just released, the sales of the other seven products had stabilized after their explosive periods.

The other seven products had sales of seven hundred thousand to eight hundred thousand, which was also steadily increasing.

Taking away the costs, the household magic machine department was bringing a net profit of around four hundred thousand gold coins a month to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

This number was already quite shocking.

So when Xu Yi announced that Ankhto would be managing the household magic machine department, although he was prepared since Heinz had told him, his breathing became faster and he was very nervous.

“I…..I will work hard…..Eh, to do well. I definitely won’t let down the chairman’s expectations of me!” Ankhto said in a loud voice.

Xu Yi nodded with a smile, “Alright, I believe in your abilities. Other than that, since your responsibilities have increased, your salary must also increase. Ankhto, as the manager of the household magic machine department, your current monthly wage will be fifty gold coins. How about it? Are you satisfied with this wage?”

“Ah? Fifty gold coins? Isn’t that the same as general manager Kennard’s?” Ankhto was shocked, “How could that be, I can’t compare to general manager Kennard.”

“There’s no need to be modest, you haven’t been holding responsibilities in our company’s household magic machine department for a few days, your abilities aren’t bad. Other than that, I have other plans for general manager Kennard, you don’t need to worry.” Xu Yi signaled to Ankhto to sit down with a smile before turning to Evita sitting beside Ankhto, “Evita, although your magic research facility isn’t in the same management area as the company, the magic research facility is the most important department to me, so I’ve decided to change the wage for the magic research facility. You are the magic research facility chief and you will be treated the same as the managers of the other department, so your salary will be fifty gold coins per month. As for the adjustment of the other members of your department, that is up to you as the chief. Give me a report in two days.”

Evita was calmer than Ankhto. She just revealed a smile and gave a slight nod as she agreed to this.

The conference today was to reorganize the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so the people attending were all high and medium level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had more and more products, becoming bigger and bigger, Xu Yi found that for a medium level manager like Ankhto, there was a conflict of authority in unclear situations. So before this problem came up, he would reorganize the structure of the company. The goal was to clarify authority, letting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce develop even more smoothly.

There wasn’t much change to the overall authority structure of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was just clarifying the distribution of authority, identifying what each person was in charge of.

For example, Ankhto had received the job of being the manager of the household magic machine workshop from Heinz a long time ago and he had done an outstanding job the entire time. The household magic machine workshop was properly managed, so he could definitely become the manager of the household magic machine department, being responsible for managing all related operations to the production of household magic machines.