在这个市场8年了,继续!
A very challenging but rewarding experience
非常有挑战且很值得的经历
This November 18, 2018 we will celebrate our 8th anniversary as a ceramic manufacturing and distributing brand in the Chinese Market. During this period of time I have seen so many different things, good and bad, I have experienced an unbelievable amount of very interesting, challenging and unique situations that were not easy at all, they were extremely difficult, so much that most individuals wouldn’t be to handle.
2018年11月18日,我们将庆祝品牌在中国市场生产和营销的八周年。在这段时间里,我见过如此多不同的事情,好的坏的,我经历过令人难以置信之多的非常有趣、有挑战性以及独特的境况,它们一点都不轻松,极其困难,困难到大部分人都无法完成。
I have seen companies come and go (Many), I don’t recall any company that started at the same time that we did that would still be open or operating. There may be some, I am not sure, but if there is one or two out there I don’t think they are important. I have experienced so many changes, anti-dumping cases, people changes, government policy changes,devaluations, president changes, economy recessions, and so on and guess what, we are still here alive and kicking.
我曾见过很多公司来来去去,我不记得和我们一起开始的企业有哪些现在还在运营。也许有一些我也不是很肯定,但是就算有那么一到两个我也不认为是举足轻重的品牌。我曾经历过如此多的变化,反倾销案、人员变动、政府政策改变、货币贬值、主席变更、经济衰退等等。你猜怎么着,我们还活着,并且生猛得很。
I have not only seen but lived the experience of the incredible changes like here in Foshan and in China in general, from no fast speed trains to the biggest network of fast speed trains in the world, the construction of more than 100 new airports,shopping malls with top international brands all over China when back 8 years ago there were any at all, hundreds if not thousands of new 5 start hotels domestic and international brands all over the country, a new bridge connecting Hong Kong with Macau over the sea (The longest in the world), in Foshan I saw how hundreds of ceramic brands were moved from the city to places kilometers away to improve the environment and pollution, I saw how downtown Foshan was transformed with the upgrade of Old Foshan to now the Crown Plaza Hotel, The Swiss Hotel that was an empty building for many years,the new Marco Polo Hotel, The NOVA Shopping Mall and other hotels in the city like The Hilton, Intercontinental, Ramada,Sofitel and so on when back then there was any of that. I saw how Foshan from one international restaurant changed to having almost a hundred now days. The hard to believe transformation of the Old Villages downtown to become what we know now as LINGNAN Tiandi. From no Starbucks in the city to having dozens, the new subway connecting Foshan and our neighbor Guangzhou, and many, many things more that I could almost write a book about them.
我不仅看到这些,我在佛山以及中国亲身经历了不可思议的变化,从没有高铁到世界上最大的高铁网络,超过100个新机场的建设,有着顶级国际品牌的商场在全国遍地开花,新的连接香港与澳门的跨海大桥(世界最长),在佛山我见过为了提升环境质量控制污染把数以百计的陶瓷品牌工厂从城市搬迁出去,我见过佛山市区的升级,老的佛山宾馆变成今日的皇冠假日酒店,瑞士恒安酒店曾经很多年都只是空楼,新的马哥孛罗酒店,岭南站商场以及这个城市的其它酒店像希尔顿、洲际、华美达、索菲特等等,当年这些全都没有。我见过佛山怎么从只有一个国际餐厅到现在拥有将近100家,从一个老村落令人难以置信地变成今天的岭南新天地,从没有星巴克到星巴克遍地开花,新的连接佛山与我们邻居广州的地铁,还有很多很多事情,多到我可以写一本书。
Regarding our Industry, I saw how it changed so dramatically that I remember like if it was yesterday when I came back in 2003 I just couldn’t find a reliable company that could supply us with decent glazed porcelain (Flat screen back then of course) in 33x33 size and 50x50 and how that changed to printing with rollers and having finally some options and then to digital printing and the booming of the Chinese Industry worldwide.
关于我们行业,我见证了它翻天覆地的变化。记得2003年我刚来这里的时候就仿佛在昨天,我当时找不到一家可以信赖的公司能为我们生产过得去的33x33cm和50x50cm规格的瓷质釉面砖(当然了当时还是丝网工艺),随后变成辊筒印刷,后来终于有了一些可靠选择,接着到了喷墨印刷时代,以及中国陶瓷行业的全球急速发展。
I saw how we as a company with very humble beginning but big dreams and relentless work and ambitions coming out of nowhere, tiny but fast learned how to play with the BIG BOYS, the monster brands of the ceramic world. We stayed with our heads down, worked harder than everyone else, we trusted and believed in what we were doing and finally we came out when most other companies were sleepy, slow, relaxed and shacked the system pretty hard. In some way I know we did things well and even if it was a tiny little we helped the industry move forward and became a reference a good brand name,a company that grew and is still growing fast in the most demanding and difficult times. A company that has stores all over China and selling to customers in many other countries.
我见证了我们作为一家公司是怎么样谦卑地从小小的不为人知开始,带着大大的梦想和野心,通过不懈的努力,快速学习如何去和大个子们,陶瓷世界的巨头级品牌们去玩游戏。我们低下头,比其它所有人更加努力地工作,我们相信自己所做的事情,最后当大部分其它品牌在打盹、放松、放缓脚步的时候,我们冒出头来大力撼动了这个体系。 在某种程度上我知道我们把事情做好了,哪怕就算只是一点点,我们也推动了这个行业前行。我们成了一个参考,一个拥有好名声的品牌,一个在有着最高要求和最困难的时期成长起来并且还一直在快速成长的品牌,一个店面分布全中国、并且还销往很多其它国家的品牌。
How did that happen? The stories, the experiences, the decisions, failures, the success cases all of these things are so many that every time I get the chance to talk a little about them with anyone that is interested they get so amazed when they hear them. People see only where you are at now but don’t understand how much we have done, suffered, worked, sweat, to get here.
这是怎么发生的?这些故事,这些经历,这些决定,所有这些成功与失败的案例,如此之多,每当我有机会向任何感兴趣的人谈到一些的时候,他们都对此感到惊叹。人们只能看到你现在所处的位置,但是不懂得我们付出了多少,承受过多少,多努力地工作,挥洒了多少汗水才到达这个位置。
I can’t deny this has been the most unique, wonderful, challenging, rewarding and life changing experience for me personally and for my family as well, including the ICC family. I have seen with my own eyes the most amazing people transformation, company change and Country change that is hard to explain. I have seen people that nobody believed in become the most incredible managers, administrators, product developers because I believe in them, they believed in me and they believed in themselves, and we all believed in our project.
我无法否认,这是最特别、最精彩、最具挑战性、最值得也是最改变人生的经历,对我个人来说是这样,对我的家庭也是如此,包括ICC大家庭。我曾经亲眼见过最令人惊叹的人员变化,公司变化甚至难以解释的国家变化。我见过没人相信的人成为最令人难以置信的经理、管理者、产品开发者,因为我相信他们,他们相信我,他们相信他们自己,而且我们都相信我们的项目。
There is no question that we are who we are because of our people, the most important asset of the company. And as long as we all keep working together and trust and believe in what we are doing…then the sky is the limit. We welcome the next years to come with all the obstacles and challenges that they may come with. We are ready, we were born ready!
毫无疑问,因为我们的人,公司最重要的资产,我们才成为了现在的样子。只要我们继续一起努力工作并且相信我们所做的事情,只有天空才是极限。我们欢迎未来年月的到来,带着所有可能的障碍与挑战。我们准备好了,我们生来就准备好了。
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