On the island of Taiwan, when mentioning the name of "Lin Minxiong", many people immediately think of the "supermarket brother" Quanlian Supermarket related to their daily life, and he is also the construction tycoon of the indicator mansion, and even Jay Chou's investment in real estate has consulted with him.
On the newly released Forbes Taiwan Rich List, Lin Minxiong, the 71-year-old chairman of the All-Union Who Built Taiwan's Largest Supermarket, is worth $2.5 billion, ranking 18th in Taiwan's 50 Rich.
Seeing the "second sister" Jiang Hui as his own sister, Jay Chou entered the real estate to find him
Jay Chou, Kunling and his daughter Hathaway and son Romeo
May 12 is the 13th anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake, and "Daoxiang" written by Jay Chou, the "Heavenly King Singer" for the earthquake, has been sung to this day, healing people's hearts.
Jay Chou has been married to actress Kunling for many years, and has a daughter Hathaway and a son, Romeo, a family of four people who are happy and envious. As the king of the Chinese music scene, Jay Chou is versatile, in fact, the cross-border development of "Zhou Dong" is also quite successful. In addition to art, he knows how to run a family life, his friends are also very broad, and he also has many business friends around him, such as Lin Minxiong.
In January this year, there were media reports that Jay Chou also intended to enter the real estate, and Lin Minxiong, chairman of Yuanli Construction, seemed to be interested in cooperating with yuanli construction builders to enter the real estate market.
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Chairman lin minxiong (middle)
On the whole island of Taiwan, Lin Minxiong's Quanlian has more than 1,000 stores and is a leading enterprise in the supermarket retail industry. At the same time, Lin Minxiong, who is also the chairman of "Yuanli Construction", is also a famous construction tycoon, and his Yuanli construction agency is famous for building luxury houses.
Successful bosses are people who do things seriously, but also people who know how to be people. Lin Minxiong himself has a set of "philosophy of being a person": "Be a person with a large measure, treat people with affection, and know how to take care of others in everything." ”
When I first met Lin Minxiong, the first impression was that his pair of squinting eyes were shrewd, but among the construction industry, he had the reputation of "Aminㄟ good funny". "Good funny" is a Hokkien dialect, probably meaning easy to get along with, Lin Minxiong is also a person with a wide range of friends, including many well-known artists.
Jay Chou was exposed to have taken the "Yuanli Construction" exclusive elevator upstairs with his wife Kunling, held closed-door talks with Lin Minxiong, and rumored that he intended to invest in the construction company and asked Lin Minxiong for cooperation. Some media revealed that Jay Chou bought two mansions, and both were built by Yuanli. In addition to the well-known "Yuan Da Yi Pin Yuan", he lives on the top floor of the "Peace Garden" mansion worth up to NT$660 million with his wife Kun Ling and a pair of children.
There are also media reports that it is rumored that Zhou Dong has a lot of real estate investment, and there is quite a set of real estate properties.
However, Jay Chou responded to the idea of entering the real estate that he did not know why there were rumors, but he praised Yuanli Construction as a very high-level and great construction company. The Yuanli Company also responded to the media report, saying that Zhou Dong is a resident of Yuanli, and it is normal to enter and exit the Yuanli Headquarters and the reception center, and if it is really necessary to cooperate, it is also optimistic.
Minnan singer Tianhou Jiang Hui
It is worth mentioning that although Yuanli responded that he and Jay Chou did not cooperate at present, they did not say anything.
Wu Lijin, deputy general manager of Yuanli Construction Business Department, also said in response to media rumors that Jay Chou is quite talented in art, who knows what will happen in the future, if there is an opportunity, of course, I hope to cooperate, it can also be said that I am optimistic.
Lin Minxiong's friends in the variety circle, in addition to Jay Chou, the most concerned by the outside world is his interaction with Jiang Hui, the "second sister" of the Minnan language diva. "Second sister" Jiang Hui retired in 2015 and has since faded out of the variety show industry. Interestingly, Fei Yuqing, who is regarded as Jiang Hui's super good friend in the show business circle, also said goodbye to the 47-year acting career he had gone through at the "2019 Farewell Concert".
In the world, there are too many unpredictable things in the world, and Chen Weixiang, the record industry promoter who used to hold the red phoenix feifei and Jiang Hui and other heavenly queens, has also changed the track in recent years and sold the "oyster noodle line".
Interestingly, not only Jay Chou, but also the "second sister" Jiang Hui also likes the mansion built by Yuanli. In January 2019, the mysterious buyer of Taipei City's "Mansion King" and Yuanli Construction's "One Park Taipei Yuanli Xinyi Lianqin" was exposed, and after investigation, she learned that she bought it. It is said that the 27th floor household purchased by Jiang Hui has a total price of NT$427 million, 176.37 pyeong, and three parking spaces.
Jiang Hui and Jay Chou
In February 2016, Jiang Hui, a Hokkien divan who sealed mai, reported that she had accepted the invitation of Lin Minxiong, chairman of the All-China Federation, to serve as a director of Yilan Traditional Arts Center, which caused a heated discussion.
Jiang Hui and Lin Minxiong are good friends who have known each other for 20 or 30 years, and the two have a deep friendship, and even become the object of the "paparazzi". The Jiang Hui Fengmai concert, exclusively sponsored by the All-Union, was once "painted and painted" by the outside world, and it was also rumored that the two had an ambiguous relationship.
Later, the All-Union hired Jiang Hui as a public welfare spokesperson, and Lin Minxiong was afraid of being made an article by others, so he simply jumped out and responded: "All the rumors are false, Jiang Hui is like my sister!" He and Jiang Hui have known each other for many years and have known their families. Lin Minxiong said that he is a very supportive entrepreneur for Jiang Hui, and they interact like brothers and sisters, just like the elderly love the younger generations. "There have been media shooting for more than 2 years, and nothing has been filmed."
Lin Minxiong revealed that Jiang Hui, like him, likes to do public welfare, and she is the public welfare spokesperson of the All-Union and does not charge a dime.
It is a normal phenomenon for the corporate world to interact more with people in the variety circle, in addition to the needs of the company's brand promotion, some are also personal preferences for artists. For example, Guo Chuyongzhen, the mother of Hon Hai founder Gou Taiming, likes Fei Yuqing's brother, Zhang Fei, a well-known host known as "South Pig North Zhang". Therefore, Honghai does the tail teeth, the host often has Zhang Fei, Zhang Fei's son Zhang Shaohuai and Weng Xinyi held a wedding, and Gou Taiming, who has a lot of friendship with Zhang Fei, and his wife and children also personally attended the ceremony.
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Lin Minxiong's wife, Ye Yuwen
Ye Yuwen, the wife of Lin Minxiong, the chairman of All-Union, the largest retail leader in Taiwan, is usually mainly devoted to public welfare, and she is also the chairman of the All-Union Qingxiang Charity Foundation and the All-Union Peihua Dream Social Welfare Foundation.
Adhering to the spirit of "taken from the society and used for the society", Chairman Lin Minxiong of all-union Lin Minxiong, under the name of the All-Union Welfare Center, which has always paid attention to and invested a lot of resources in public welfare activities, founded the "All-Union Qingxiang Charity Foundation" in 2006, and in 2011 created the "All-Union Peihua Dream Social Welfare Foundation".
In May this year, the All-Union was awarded the "Csr Corporate Social Responsibility Public Welfare Promotion Award", Lin Minxiong said, the All-Union Charity Public Welfare, the All-Union set up a charity foundation, is to take the surplus for public welfare, never used the commercial advantages to find a manufacturer to get any dime.
Cai Qingxiang, the former general manager of All-Union, died of lung cancer 16 years ago. In March 2006, Lin Minxiong, a self-made man, in his seventh year of running the All-Union, thought of "not making money and putting your own pockets", so he established the "Qingxiang Foundation" in the name of his younger brother Cai Qingxiang, which was renamed "All-Union Qingxiang Charity Foundation" four years later.
There was a time when Lin Minxiong and Ye Yuwen, who were invincible and invincible in the shopping mall, suffered a lot in family affection. After his younger brother Cai Qingxiang died of cancer, his only daughter, Lin Peihua, fell to her death in 2011 from the top floor of her residence in Baolai Garden Plaza. The departure of close relatives one after another is naturally a pain in the heart, and it also strengthens the determination of Lin Minxiong and his wife Ye Yuwen to actively promote public welfare activities.
Zhang Yijun, CEO of All-Union Qingxiang Charity Foundation (2nd from left)
Lin Minxiong was originally a self-made businessman engaged in the construction industry. All-Union Industrial Co., Ltd., formerly known as the "All-Union Society" purchased in 1974 for the supply of welfare products for public servants, later became the "Military Public Education Welfare Center".
In 1998, Lin Minxiong was asked to spend NT$600 million to take over 66 "military public education welfare centers" that were considered the least competitive at that time, and handed over to his late brother Cai Qingxiang, who had always loved him.
Lin Minxiong, chairman of Yuanli Institution, has been starting from scratch for more than 40 years, and often holds the mentality of being the most happy for good, and at present, his three major undertakings (All-Union, Yuanli Construction, huatai Bank) often do good deeds and engage in public welfare activities.
Lin Minxiong also said that the widespread friendship, good things automatically come to the door, and many fates take the initiative to approach. He said that because of his soft heart, he was often asked to take over some cases, and the result became a boost to the scale of his career.
Lin Minxiong said at the All-Union Qingxiang Charity Foundation he founded that he wanted to set up "the all-union of public welfare, the store of public welfare", and he said that "eating fruit and worshiping the head of the tree" is to give back to everyone.
Lin Minxiong, chairman of Yuanli Institution and all-union
Over the years, Quanlian, which has opened more than 1,000 stores in Taiwan, has overthrown the retail giant Carrefour and become a major business legend.
Last year, Carrefour acquired "Top Good" and Jasons supermarkets, and the industry has interpreted it as a move to refer to the "supermarket brother" Quanlian. When asked about this, Lin Minxiong, chairman of the All-Union, stressed that the other party was a "respectable opponent", but he responded domineeringly, "We are not afraid of competition!" "Where there is competition, there is progress.
All-Union is the fastest-growing chain retail giant on the island in recent years, officially breaking through 1,000 stores at the end of 2019, almost equivalent to the number of convenience stores. At present, Quanlian's competitors, from mass sales, supermarkets to large supermarkets, are almost foreign-oriented.
23 years ago, Lin Minxiong took over 36 dirty and old "military public education welfare centers" for NT$600 million, and according to his later description, "some stores may not have been painted and renovated for 20 years, in order to save money, even paint is saved." After he took over as a "layman" with no retail experience, he underwent a "cannibalization" expansion until he opened 300 stores.
After more than 20 years of efforts, the revenue of Quanlian Supermarket has been the first. Some people say that the reason why AllIanz can bring down Carrefour and become a "supermarket brother" is to rely on the "only earn 2%" strategy of small profits and high sales. In fact, it is not only that, the business miracle created by All-Union, in addition to having a very good management team and very good operational efficiency, lies in his persistence and determination to compete with the internationally renowned retail group Carrefour.
A layman in the cross-border supermarket industry, Lin Minxiong once said that he seemed to have "strayed into the jungle" 23 years ago, but he said that "if you get wet, you have to wash it!" ”
In 2018, Lin Minxiong delivered a speech at the 20th anniversary celebration of the All-China Federation
In 2018, Lin Minxiong said in his speech at the 20th anniversary celebration of the All-Union that all-union is a company that fully authorizes the team, "I, the chairman, only care about the direction, regardless of small details", "how much is a toothpaste and a pack of toilet paper, I have no concept".
Lin Minxiong, who is already in his seventies, many people pay attention to when he will hand over the baton to the eldest son, Lin Hongbin, but the son replied to him, "Wait! "Lin Minxiong's YuanLi started from the real estate business, only in the greater Taipei area, and built many benchmark mansions. Lin Minxiong, who has always cherished fame and attached great importance to reputation, has money but is very low-key, and some people say that the land reserve he raises is second only to Baojia Group.
When decorating the mansion, Lin Minxiong has extremely high requirements for the quality of building materials, and sometimes the wall surface is "not good enough to replace", at no cost. Many people say that Lin Minxiong's helm of the All Union is good, Yuanli is good, the operation is very stable, he personally never speculates in stocks, and he is very low-key. He is good friends with Wang Guangxiang, chairman of Sanyuan Construction, and when Wang Guangxiang bought Datong stock a few years ago, he was the first to cooperate with him. But Lin Minxiong told him that I was in business, and my name could not always appear in the social version, so that the Whole Union would sink.
Lin Minxiong once said that he himself was not from a good background, had no backing, had no back road, was more conservative in doing things, and the first thing to do business was the concept of cost, and he would look closely at a piece of capital. The 911 earthquake, typhoons, SARS and financial tsunamis, many famous construction companies in the central and southern regions have collapsed, and only one or two listed companies have survived; Lin Minxiong said that he watched others fail all the way and studied how others failed, so that he would not repeat the same mistakes.
Lin Minxiong once smiled and said to his son Lin Hongbin: "You have a good father, but I don't!" "When he was young, Lin Minxiong had calloused feet in a remote area of Mie, and every time he encountered a typhoon, his home would flood. He said: Society is fair, and he himself has worked hard.
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