No matter where it is, age is always a difficult topic to get around. The ancients often said that when you reach the age of 30, if you don’t make a career, it seems that you will not succeed. Especially in today's workplace, 30 years old is a watershed for women.
If a female employee cannot improve her work ability and achieve rapid success before she is 30 years old, then the cruelty of her in the workplace is doubled. Coupled with family factors and their own physical and psychological influence, almost few people can achieve business achievements.
There are exceptions in everything. This woman started her business at the age of 51 and built a world in the packaging industry with her own efforts. In 25 years, she has achieved annual sales of hundreds of billions of dollars and annual revenue of 8.1 billion. She is Guan Yuxiang, the founder of Origin.
Maybe many people have never heard of Orijin's company and its founder Guan Yuxiang, but the products produced by Orijin are permeated in every corner of our lives. For example, the cans of Red Bull, Jiaduobao, Coke and other beverages that we often drink, as well as the cans of milk from Yinlu and Wangwang Group and the eight-treasure porridge from Orijin.
So in places we can't see, the role played by Origin is still very powerful, and the hero behind the scenes that support Origin to this day is Guan Yuxiang.
Guan Yuxiang was born in 1939. This was a not-so-good era. The turbulent life made her suffer a lot. But the advantage is that it cultivates Guan Yuxiang's perseverance and tenacious character, which is also a valuable life experience. When she grew up, Guan Yuxiang joined the Beijing Instrument Factory, and 32 years have also transformed her from a flowery girl to a loving 51-year-old lady.
Originally, at this age, retired Guan Yuxiang should have lived a life of enjoying her grandchildren and enjoying her old age. But Guan Yuxiang did not surrender to the years, but instead set out again to start her business. Of course, Guan Yuxiang, who was based on experience for the first time, was quickly defeated by reality and declared a failure.
But Guan Yuxiang, who had been through artillery fire since she was a child, did not give up. She learned her first lesson and began to investigate the market. It was not until 1994 that Guan Yuxiang, who was traveling, suddenly discovered the business opportunity of bottled cans. Seeing that the canned packaging industry was still a blue ocean, Guan Yuxiang knew that the opportunity had come.
Guan Yuxiang, who returned to her hometown, quickly made a decision and took all her belongings to Hainan for packaging. Aorijin Packaging Industry Co., Ltd. was established. Fortunately, in the second year of Origen's establishment, it welcomed its first major customer.
It is Red Bull. At that time, Red Bull had just entered China and it urgently needed to find can manufacturers in China. However, Red Bull has very high requirements for the quality of cans, and many companies are timid. Only Yuxiang led Origin to catch up and solved the technical difficulties to obtain Red Bull's production orders.
Because he clearly realized the importance of Red Bull to Origin, Guan Yuxiang firmly followed Red Bull in the early development of Origin and reached an intimate partnership with Red Bull. On the road to development based on Red Bull, Guan Yuxiang has never relaxed in technical research, and has to invest tens of millions of research expenses every year.
It is her persistence that has made Origin go further and further, and has more than a dozen patents. Its customers have also added well-known companies such as Jiaduobao, Wangwang, Yinlu, Yili, and Qingdao Beer from the original Red Bull. The number of cans sold each year has reached tens of billions, and the total revenue in 2020 has exceeded tens of billions. Guan Yuxiang has also become a veritable "can queen" with a net worth of over 10 billion.
From Guan Yuxiang's entrepreneurial story, we can see that as long as you are willing to work hard, age cannot become an excuse to bind you. As the saying goes, the bigger the heart is, the bigger the stage is.
