Since Cao Dewang, the head of Fuyao Glass, pushed his 45-year-old son-in-law Ye Shu to the position of general manager, he chose his son-in-law who was not bound by blood relationships when choosing a successor.

Since Cao Dewang, the head of Fuyao Glass, pushed the 45-year-old son-in-law Ye Shu , to the position of general manager, the son-in-law who was not bound by blood when choosing a successor has become a hot topic.

In many Japanese family businesses, it is not uncommon for son-in-law to take over. For example, ITOKI, one of Japan's four major office furniture giants, has a 127-year foundation inheritance and has had 8 generations of successors so far, including 2 sons-in-law. After famous Japanese business masters like Konosuke Matsushita, Shunzo Suzuki, and Saki Toyota pass on their position to their non-blood-related son-in-law, the company's development will be better than blood-related inheritance!

(ITOKI President Masato Matsui)

is not affected by political reasons and the "little birth rate" caused by birth policy. Many Taiwanese companies have longer company history than mainland companies. They not only have many children, but also have many inherited more than three generations, and many of them are still the fourth and fifth generations are already on the way to succession.

Taiwan family businesses, which are deeply influenced by patriarchal inheritance culture, are still mainly inherited by offspring in the inheritance process, but the inheritance performance of family businesses in Taiwan is still better than Hong Kong and far higher than that in the mainland. Among them, during the handover process, the rise of the son-in-law successor group and its role played have a positive impact.

Gu Zhenfu's son-in-law Zhang Anping, Yishuo's minister, supported

late Straits Exchange Foundation former chairman Gu Zhenfu's second son and Taiwanese Ni chairman Gu Chengyun On January 21 this year, he fell from the upper floor and was sent to the hospital for treatment and "left away". In order to help the company overcome difficulties, the Gu family urgently summoned their son-in-law to support him. Gu Chengyun's son-in-law Zhang Anping was ordered to take over the Taiwan Mill and take on the role of "fire-fighting team".

Zhang Anping, who once helped TSMC boss Zhang Zhongmou solve the case of "Talent Bull" Huizhi Computer's withdrawal from the market, helped his second brother-in-law Gu Chengyun's management optimization, going west to the mainland and diversification. He himself is the chairman of Jiani Group and the CEO of the famous Yunlang Tourism Group.

In fact, there are many family businesses in Taiwan like Zhang Anping. For example, the son-in-law of the founder of Uniform Group , Luo Zhixian, is also a typical figure in the succession of a son-in-law.

(Taiwan Ni Chairman Zhang Anping)

Unified "Son-in-law" Luo Zhixian runs faster than others

The founder of Unified Group Gao Qingyuan was born in a poor family in Tainan. His father Gao Quan is a bull dealer. He started as an apprentice at the age of teenagers. He ushered in a major turning point in his life at the age of 38 and created the "Unified" brand. Now, the Unified Group he founded is already the largest food group in Taiwan. It is not only the well-known "Unified Instant Noodles". Its undertakings spanned technology, real estate development, department stores, finance, food, etc., with a territory spread throughout the mainland and Asia, from manufacturing to brand circulation, such as 7-11 and Starbucks. Because he started his career from scratch, some people described his unfortunate childhood, just like the Taiwanese version of "Ashin", and because of his ability to continuously develop new careers, he was called the "Taiwanese version of Konosuke Matsushita".

As the "son-in-law" of the Unified Group, Luo Zhixian has taken over as the general manager of Unified Group in 2007, and has also raced against time with himself, advancing south and west, conquering everywhere, and carrying out a series of mergers and acquisitions; among them, the battle with Master Kong , and the acquisition of another noodle company Weili debt rights, has been hotly discussed in the business world. In addition, such as spending 300 million yuan to acquire Huiyuan Shanghai Company, investing in Wandashan Dairy, Jinmailang Juice, Sanshui Jianlibao Trade, etc., the "T" shaped formation that unified the mainland market to enter the mainland has achieved fruitful results. In addition, with Yang Xiecheng, the largest beverage factory in Singapore and Malaysia, setting up a factory in Thailand, Luo Zhixian's actions are dazzling.

and Old Taishan HD wish that the past was stable and conservative style was different. Under Luo Zhixian's leadership, the unity was like taking Huichun pills. In terms of management, he will greatly renovate the unified corporate culture with human touch. No matter the seniority of new employees, they will be paid according to their position and performance. Daxing emphasizes performance-oriented American style.

In the past, HD was willing to do mergers and acquisitions, but without more than half of the equity, he would not invest; but Luo Zhixian's viewpoint was different. He said: "The first step for a great company is to be able to tolerate other people's culture." In Luo Zhixian's view, some companies are well-managed, and we don't have to intervene. "It is not a unified 'martial arts' that is called 'martial arts'!"

not only HD was willing to like the performance of "the prince consort", but even Duanyi's major shareholder and vice chairman of Tainan Textile Hou Boming praised him. He was very motivated and had an international perspective!

entered unified enterprise at the age of 29. Luo Zhi first struggled from the grassroots level. In the first ten years of unification, it can be said that he did a very unsatisfactory job. Luo Zhixian, who was reported to have changed the manufacturing date due to Budweiser's agency business (beer, tomato sauce, etc.), was jointly and severally responsible, was suddenly "sent" to the United States Unified Biscuit Company by the then general manager to do things, staying away from the core of power, which cannot be said to be a blow.

In the United States, he studied for a master's degree in business administration from the University of California, Los Angeles, and was later transferred to Shanghai to be responsible for marketing. After returning to Taiwan in 1999, he went from assistant manager, vice president to executive vice president to "triple-level jump" all the way, to apply his words: "We are running, others are running, no faster than others, how can we catch up?"

In 2016, the 88-year-old high-definition was willing to die and ended an extraordinary legendary life. Because he resigned from the chairman in 2013 and handed over his career to his son-in-law Luo Zhixian and his daughter Gao Xiuling, he turned the era of Luo Zhixian and the "Luo Gao couple" who were in charge of the past, and became the era of "Luo Gao couple" early on. Therefore, the death of the founder had almost no impact on the company.

(High Definition Vow, founder of Uni-Uniform Group)

According to the practice of high-definition Vow during his lifetime, in recent years, Uni-Uniform Group has strictly implemented the "retreat behind the scenes at the age of 60 and formally retired at the age of 65", that is, the "60 system". Many veterans of the "Huangpu Phase I" who worked together with Gaoqing to fight for "unification" retired one after another, and the group's high-level business team has replaced the new generation of leaders, which also brings new vigor to "unification" over 50 years old.

For the "60 system", "son-in-law" Luo Zhixian is no exception. On June 23, 2016, he was just 60 years old, and he stepped down as general manager and handed over the position of general manager to Hou Ronglong . According to the high-definition wish of "Old Taishan" and left only the position of chairman and began to be semi-retired. Previously, Hou Ronglong was the general manager of Unified Central Control, responsible for expanding territory in the mainland. Attach great importance to the role of the system has become the handover feature of the unified group. You should know that at that time, the successor of the general manager was consulted. Everyone felt that "everyone had the chance, but everyone was not sure", rather than the "one-man show" of the head Luo Zhixian.

knows Gao Xiuling, the only daughter of high-definition wishes. It must be said that when Luo Zhixian was studying in Xinhua High School in Tainan, he was eloquent, loved sports, and had good English. His grades remained in the top three. He was tall and handsome, so his classmates named him a nickname: "Gaxian".

(Luo Zhixian and Gao Xiuling and his wife)

Luo Zhi was admitted to the Department of Foreign Languages ​​of Chenggong University, while his classmate Gao Xiuling transferred to Tainan Girls' Middle School and later went to junior college. Taiwan has a military service system. After retiring from the army, Luo Zhi first joined a Taiwan advertising company (now Taiwan Dentsu). Later, he was poached by foreign company DeBeers Diamond Company and served as a business representative in Taiwan.

Gao Xiuling once had a marriage. After the divorce, the two old classmates contacted each other. After the old love rekindled, Luo Zhixian moved to a unified enterprise to do things. At present, the largest individual shareholder of a company in Gao Xiuling system, is the chairman of Hankyu Department Store, Uni-Pharmaceuticals and Uni-Pharmaceuticals, and his personal value exceeds 10 billion yuan.

Once, Gao Xiuling's fair skin and good skin care, she chatted with reporters about how to take care of her? In order to promote the company's beauty business, her husband Luo Zhixian said that he would rely on facial mask maintenance to the outside world. In order to give the tip of his husband, Gao Xiuling said: If you marry the right husband, you won't get old! Because you are in a good mood and your physical condition will naturally be good, so you don’t need any special maintenance! Since then, " will not get old if you marry your husband" has become a classic quote for the Unified Princess.

Two son-in-law help. Zhengxin's second generation entered the "iron triangle"

A few days ago, Zhengxin Tire announced that the company's two-year-old Indian motorcycle tire factory will be officially put into production in June. As a Taiwanese tire manufacturer, Zhengxin Tire may achieve good results this year as the mainland shared bicycle market heats up.

June 17, 2014, at the regular meeting of Zhengxin Tire shareholders, everyone found that on that day, the nearly 90-year-old founder Luo Jie did not attend as usual, but was chaired by Luo Jie's second son Luo Cairen. On the same day, Zhengxin completed the generational replacement, and Luo Cairen took over as the new chairman, and he also served as the chairman of Zhengxin China. Zhengxin's second generation succession was officially launched.

Zhengxin Group has now become one of the largest automobile tire manufacturers in the world and is operating in the mainland market thriving. The founder Luo Jieyu has 2 men and 2 women, and his eldest son Luo Minghe holds 11.42% of Zhengxin's equity, making him the largest individual shareholder.

Luo Cairen, 64, has become the "orthodox" successor for Luo Jie. He was once the deputy general manager of Xiamen Zhengxin. In 1993, he was responsible for the establishment of Zhengxin China and served as chairman. In 2010, he planned to set up the Zhengxin factory in Chongqing.

It is worth mentioning that Zhengxin Scepter was given to that time, two important roles, that is, the appointment of the two sons-in-law. The eldest son-in-law Chen Xiuxiong serves as the director and the chairman of Xiamen Zhengxin, and is responsible for the operations of its many companies such as Zhengxin Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Tianjin; and the second son-in-law Chen Ronghua serves as the director and Zhengxin General Manager. In addition to coordinating the operation of the Taiwan operation headquarters, he is also responsible for the operations of Zhengxin Thailand Factory and Vietnam Factory.

In 2016, Chen Ronghua, the general manager who has served in Zhengxin for 40 years, retired and Luo Cairen was appointed as the other party. However, the Zhengxin "iron triangle" composed of Luo Cairen, Chen Xiuxiong and Chen Ronghua has not yet evolved. Chen Ronghua is likely to retreat and shift his focus from Taiwan to Southeast Asia and India.

(Zhengxin’s “Iron Triangle” and founder Luo Jie and his wife)

Now, with the expansion of their career territory, the rapid growth of corporate market value, and shareholders of various families of Zhengxin have become rich people in Taiwan one by one.

Luo Jie's eldest son-in-law Chen Xiuxiong is 77 years old this year. He studied in Japan in his early years and came to Zhengxin after graduating in 1970. In order to create the tire carrier of Zhengxin, he went to Xiamen to set up a factory in 1989 and founded Xiamen Zhengxin Tire for 28 years.

Many new employees asked the chairman, you are already in your seventies, why don’t you plan to retire? I see that you arrive at the company at 7 o'clock every day and go home at 6 or 7 o'clock in the evening. Chen Xiuxiong smiled happily: Luo Jie, the founder of our Taiwan Zhengxin, is in his 90s this year and still works in the company every day. Compared with Chairman Luo, I am still very young!

In Taiwan, the "son-in-law" of many family businesses, like Chen Xiuxiong, works diligently and conscientiously for the company, and will never stop moving forward and continue to pursue progress.

(Chairman Chen Xiuxiong)

I’m a hero, but my son is not necessarily a hero. Many companies are bound by blood relationships and lament that no one takes over. Compared with professional managers, choosing a son-in-law with excellent abilities in all aspects can be a good choice. From Taiwan’s son-in-law Zhang Anping and Luo Zhixian, we see that in addition to having outstanding leadership skills, they are also in charge of the family’s strong feelings of running for the family. Therefore, they see better the balance between the long-term dreams and short-term returns of the company, which is what professional managers lack. (Want to have dinner with business celebrities and communicate with success? Follow the WeChat public account "Yiboshu" and the 617 celebrities meet to fulfill your dream!)