Text/Leju Finance Yang Kaiyue
Wang Xiaoming, who was just elected chairman of Wanhua Hexiang Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Wanhua Hexiang Group") last month, publicly said in a recent interview: There is a lot of pressure, especially in the current economic downturn and weak consumption environment, which brings pressure to everyone and every company.
In June this year, Wang Xiaoming, the former president of Wanhua Hexiang Group, officially became the chairman of the group.
At this year's Guangzhou Construction Expo, Wang Xiaoming publicly said that he was 62 years old, which should have been the age of retirement, but Wang Xiaoming officially took on the responsibility of Wanhua Hexiang Group.
Wang Xiaoming graduated from Southwest Jiaotong University and is a "new third" candidate after the resumption of the college entrance examination. According to public information, Wang Xiaoming entered Wanhua enterprises in 1979, and his position was unknown in the early days, but since 2010, Wang Xiaoming has officially entered the middle and senior management sequence of Wanhua enterprises.
From 2010 to 2018, Wang Xiaoming successively served as the deputy general manager and chief engineer of Wanhua Energy Conservation Technology Group Co., Ltd., the chairman and general manager of Wanhua Integrated Housing (Yantai) Co., Ltd., the chairman of Wanhua Energy Conservation (Yantai) Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., and the chairman of Wanhua Concrete Co., Ltd. From 2019 to 2022, he served as the chairman of Wanhua Ecological Board Industry Integration Equipment Co., Ltd. From 2022 to June 2024, he served as the director and president of Wanhua Hexiang Group, and since June 2024, he has served as the chairman of Wanhua Hexiang Group. Among them, since 2023, he has also served as the vice president and chief engineer of Wanhua Ecological Group. He is a veritable "old man" of the Wanhua department.
According to public reports, Wang Xiaoming's successful promotion to chairman of the board of directors has a certain relationship with the good performance results he has achieved during his three-year tenure as president. At the same time as its personnel appointment, there is also a new round of organizational structure adjustment of Wanhua Hexiang Group.
First of all, the nature of the company has changed to a certain extent, according to the information disclosed by Tianyancha, Wanhua Hexiang Group Co., Ltd. will be changed to "Wanhua Hexiang Group Co., Ltd." from June 26, 2024.
Secondly, with the promotion of Wang Xiaoming, a series of changes have also taken place in the senior management team of Wanhua Hexiang Group. Yu Wenjie, the former chairman of the board, was changed to a director, Hu Guoliang was added as general manager, Dong Wenchao and Che Yun were added as supervisors, and a number of independent directors and deputy general managers were also added. There are about 15 executives involved, and more than half of the new executives have been added, which is quite a bit of a "once a son of heaven and a courtier".
On the whole, although it has not yet been listed, Wanhua Hexiang Group has introduced a number of investors, and the number of its shareholders is 26, of which the largest shareholder is "Wanhua Ecological Industry Group Co., Ltd.", with a shareholding ratio of 52.2072%, and the second largest shareholder is "Xinyang Dingxin Forest Industry Group Co., Ltd.", a wholly-owned state-owned subsidiary of Xinyang Municipal Finance Bureau, with a shareholding ratio of 9.7892%.
Wanhua Ecological Industry Group also introduced multiple capitals, and finally under the dilution of multiple shares, Guo Xingtian, one of the founders of Wanhua Hexiang Group, only held about 13% of the equity of Wanhua Hexiang Group through direct and indirect shareholding, and Yu Wenjie, the former chairman of Wanhua Hexiang Group, who had just retired, finally held about 3.1% of the shares. The new chairman Wang Xiaoming's shareholding ratio is only about 0.48%.
After taking office as chairman, Wang Xiaoming summed up his new position as "continue to face difficulties". Perhaps he has to face not only the dilemma of the entire market and the industry facing a slowdown in growth, but also some troubles from the brand itself.
At the end of November last year, someone asked on the public platform: "How to complain about counterfeit Wanhua Hexiang board?" It can be seen that some consumers have suffered losses due to the counterfeit and shoddy products of Wanhua Hexiang board.
Coincidentally, in July of the same year, Wanhua Hexiang Group published an article "Solemn Statement" on the official website of "Wanhua Ecology". Wanhua Hexiang Group resolutely cracks down on trademark infringement, counterfeiting and sales and other infringements", which discloses the statement letter and complaint trial results of Henan Xide Industrial Co., Ltd.'s infringement of the "Hexiang" trademark, and discloses the "anti-counterfeiting scene" of Wanhua Hexiang Group. It is shown that in 2023 alone, Wanhua Hexiang will find and report fakes of its own brand in Tangshan, Jiangxi, and Shandong.
It can be seen that Wanhua Hexiang Group's fake goods cover a wide range. But judging from the results, even though a detailed anti-counterfeiting statement was issued in July, in November of the same year, there were still consumers affected by fakes. Wanhua Hexiang is on the road of "fighting fakes", or there is still a long way to go.