Is your business expected to thrive in 2023?
It was once a national brand that the whole country was proud of, with unlimited scenery, but it will be in trouble in 2023, exhausting 10 billion funds and going out of business within a year090,000 families are suffering and can't turn over.
What happened to them? What hastened their demise? - WM Motor "——
Galloping in the automotive field not only requires huge financial support, but also cannot rely on personal financial strength alone, which requires the boss to have strong financing capabilities.
If the company cannot stand out among the many new energy vehicle brands in the process of burning money, then it may face the danger of elimination. WM Motor is a leader in financing among new EV manufacturers, and 2021 was the fastest year for WM Motor's expansion, opening three stores in Shanghai within a month.
All this stems from the fact that WM received 10 billion yuan in financing in 2020, which set a record for the largest single round of financing in the history of new EV manufacturers.
Although WM has excelled in fundraising, the speed and amount of money it has lost is equally impressive. From 2019 to 2021, WM Motor's expenditure on sales, administration and other related aspects exceeded the R&D investment expenditure, and also far exceeded the related expenditure of other new car manufacturers.
It is said that in 2021, the reward payment of the management will reach 2.7 billion, and the news of "1.2 billion annual salary of the founder of Weimar" once attracted public attention. It can be seen that the 10 billion yuan of WM Motor's crazy financing was not used on the cutting edge, which led to the cumulative delivery volume of WM Motor in 2022 is very small, and the delivery volume from November to December will not exceed 200 vehicles.
As expected, WM Motor's deliveries in 2023 can no longer be found, and the suspension of production has been more than 1 year, and everyone has seen news such as suspension of production, salary arrears, and layoffs.
In 2023, a new car will be launched every other day, and most of these new cars will come from local domestic brands. Weimar, the former new energy boss, does not seem to have escaped such a fate, and was even once suspected of going bankrupt.
Although Weimar has repeatedly stated that it is not bankrupt and said that it is actively saving itself, the most worrying thing is undoubtedly the car owner, after-sales service will become a major problem, and the promised "lifetime free warranty" now seems to be just an empty word.
Judging from the dynamics of WM Motor's Shen Hui, WM has been trying to regain its strength. However, WM, which is undergoing a pre-restructuring, can only be regarded as a self-help act to avoid bankruptcy, and at the same time hopes to attract strategic investors through debt restructuring.
Although WM is facing great challenges in the car manufacturing industry, they have always adhered to the spirit of not giving up, which is different from other new forces.
It has been disclosed that the headquarters of Gome Electric Appliances in Beijing's East Third Ring Road has been quietly emptied, and the once prosperous office buildings now seem deserted and lonely. The 36-storey building, with its apron, has witnessed the glorious moments of Gome's founder, Huang Guangyu, becoming China's richest man three times, as well as the cold reality of a 90% employee turnover rate.
Before 2010, China's merchandise retail market relied heavily on offline channels, and Huang Guangyu seized the opportunity to capitalize on the boom and lucrative profits of hypermarkets to grow the GOME brand.
At their peak, Wang Jianlin and Xu Jiayin were overshadowed in front of Huang Guangyu.
Between 2017 and 2022, the rise of the internet had a negative impact on Gome, causing the company to start losing money, and the retail industry was losing more money, and the rate of employee turnover was also rapid.
During this period, a pop-up window appeared on the Wheel of Fortune** page on the Gome app, which contained some insulting remarks against Gome's chairman Huang Xiuhong and founder Huang Guangyu, accusing them of defaulting on wages and loans.
This incident may be a sign that Huang Guangyu will face some trouble.
China Entrepreneur once reported that in the last few days of October 2021, Gome held a high-level meeting for five consecutive days. However, Huang Guangyu sat in the main seat, focusing on playing the tablet game on the table.
Zhao Qiang, an employee who resigned from Gome, once complained on ** that sometimes Boss Huang slept during the day and asked for a meeting late at night, which made the executives tired.
Before Huang Guangyu was imprisoned, his wife had been by his side, and under her management, Gome still had an annual income of nearly 6 million. However, since Huang Guangyu was released from prison, he has been disconnected from society and missed the most turbulent period of China's internet for more than a decade.
Therefore, under his leadership, Gome not only did not improve, but went into decline.
In 2023, GOME was caught in 1,219 lawsuits, which involved a large number of sales disputes and unpaid wages for employees. In the era of e-commerce, Gome fell. Despite his attempts to change lanes and rerun, it remains to be seen whether Huang Guangyu's comeback will bring good luck to Gome.
Because at present, the 2022 Christmas decoration style is still maintained in the headquarters office of Gome.
In the highly competitive chip market, R&D is expensive and complex, and it is not easy for ordinary companies to afford. However, with China's strong support and investment in the local chip industry, the cost of chip manufacturing has gradually increased, but profits are declining.
With the continuous investment and competition of major manufacturers in the field of chips, the domestic market share has reached a saturated state, and even losses have occurred. According to Qichacha data, in 2023, China will have 1090,000 chip-related enterprises were cancelled or revoked, an increase of 89 compared to 20227%。
However, despite this, the competition and pressure in the chip industry have not been reduced, which just reflects the rapid development and continuous change of China's chip industry.
Just like a technology giant like Huawei, although it took decades of hard work to successfully set foot in the field of chips, in order to gain a firm foothold in this highly competitive field, many companies are competing fiercely in the same field, which has led to the phenomenon of first-class war and blind expansion.
Therefore, 2023 will undoubtedly be a difficult year for chip companies.
Xiamen Lianchuang Micro, an integrated circuit design enterprise founded in 1999, has been known as one of the first eleven famous integrated circuit design enterprises in the country, and has an enterprise postdoctoral research workstation approved by the Ministry of Personnel.
Its particularity lies in the fact that it has successfully combined the state's support for high-tech industries with the independent management interest mechanism of private enterprises, backed by state-owned enterprises, and injected the vitality of private enterprises, which was once the leading role in Fujian Province.
Even in the post-Asian financial crisis era, when the semiconductor industry declined, it maintained a strong momentum with innovation. However, after 24 years of development, the benefits of this veteran semiconductor company are not good, and in 2021 it was paid about 13The arrears of 70,000 yuan were enforced due to inability to repay.
Although Lianchuang Microelectronics only has a deposit of 1,000 yuan in its account and no other assets available for execution, the main reason for coming to this point is the change in the market environment, just like many domestic semiconductor companies in those years, falling into a dead end of only input, but no output.
The companies that suffered setbacks in 2023 were once brilliant, but they failed to turn around in this year, and the ending is regrettable.