Yiwu Christmas supplies dare not say to the European and American markets?

“Compared to last year, the Christmas products manufacturers in Yiwu have increased their investment in new products and new production technologies. The traditional Christmas items have also started to transform into functional daily-use decorative products. This is a good phenomenon.” Yesterday The reporter learned from the Yiwu Christmas Goods Industry Association that from the current situation, most companies are not satisfied with the order, and it is the lack of labor cost and skilled workers. Another obvious change is that due to various production costs, the price of Christmas items this year has a general increase of 5% to 10%. The main areas of foreign trade have gradually extended from Europe and the United States to countries such as Russia and Central America.

The status quo survey employee salary rose by 10% of companies spending more than 500,000 yuan If you go to the labor market to search for Christmas goods company's manual jobs, you will find that this year's salary has been from about 1800 yuan last year, the general increase to the current 2,000 yuan.

“Employees' salary seems to have only increased by 10%. For the factory's cost structure, it is the largest expenditure item.” Huang Wei, a merchant who runs Christmas products in Yiwu, calculated for the reporter: A worker rose 200 per month. Yuan salary is 2,400 yuan a year. The factory's various positions add up to more than 200 employees, and an additional 480,000 yuan will be spent each year. In fact, some of the positions required to work overtime because of the peak season, but also to pay additional overtime wages, and the salaries of a few managers are more than 2,000 yuan. Therefore, only the labor cost for this year will increase by more than 500,000 yuan over last year. In contrast, the impact of price increases such as raw materials and logistics is much smaller.

According to Huang Weijun, if companies continue to operate, the necessary expenses will still have to be spent. Although the increase in various costs is higher than the price increase rate of the products, the prolonged production time also indicates that there are more orders received. Comparing the two, the big deal is to make less money.

It is understood that large-scale Christmas goods manufacturing companies are trying to pull down the production cost of individual products by receiving large orders. The labor costs of small-scale enterprises are even greater.

In the interview, some business owners revealed that several small companies had to shut down the factory from the industry due to the high production costs and the fact that the production conditions did not reach the standard.

Avoiding the potential impact of power cuts on off-site processing of outsourced enterprises In addition to labor costs, the potential impact of power cuts cannot be discounted. In order to avoid power cuts, some companies choose to set up additional processing plants in the field, while others will outsource some upstream and downstream processes to other factories.

Mr. Zhang, who runs the Christmas accessories business in Yiwu, has suffered from power cuts. Last year, his family was located in Jinhua's processing plant because of power cuts. Usually, one day's work can be completed in three days. "If this is still the case this year, it will definitely affect the credibility of the company and it will also have an adverse impact on the receipt of orders in the future."

Considering again and again, Mr. Zhang will split the list into several parts this year. All the simple manual procedures will be outsourced to processing sites in Lishui and other places, and then distributed to downstream companies.

For the Christmas supplier whose hometown is not Yiwu, the urgency of moving the production base to Yiwu is not as high as it used to be.

“Especially when the order date is tight, stopping for a day can bring about a series of negative chain reactions.” Some businesses in Yiwu Futian Christmas Products Market, known as the “Christmas Village,” said that they are basically Several generators were prepared in the factory to deal with the power cuts that may be encountered at any time. If possible, it will also consider setting up additional laboratories in surrounding counties or cities, or looking for suitable outsourcing companies to cooperate in other places.

The transformation sample abandons the increase in the production cost of traditional decorative products for daily use. The traditional product alone cannot guarantee the original profit rate. To solve the problem, you can only make more articles on new products and take specialized products that “I have no people”.

In the "Xinjiang Village" Bo Xu handicrafts company store, the owner Huang Yunxu designed a few months of new products have been sampled.

Last year, Huang Yunxu launched the first Christmas Lantern incorporating Chinese and Western elements and was well received by customers both at home and abroad. This year, he has just launched the mirror acrylic hollow hanging series of products (pictured), also received praise from customers.

This series of products is divided into 40 cm square, 20 cm square and many other specifications, the largest can be made of 1.2 meters by 1.8 meters of specifications, the design of various hanging pieces can be changed at any time according to customer needs.

Huang Yunxu introduced that this kind of hanging piece can be used as a pendant on a Christmas tree, or it can be used alone to decorate doors, windows or walls. As long as there are slight changes in the pattern, it can also be used for other holidays outside Christmas, suitable for family, business, hotel or party use.

In order to expand sales, Huang Yunxu has also designed several new products with quartz clocks in the middle of the pattern, extending the concept of Christmas supplies to the category of household daily necessities. In addition, he is also designing a magical hanging coupon with LED lights to increase the added value of the product.

"The appearance of the product is very delicate, but the production process is very time-consuming, small hanging pieces must be engraved with a laser engraving machine for more than 1 hour, so the wholesale price is more expensive, a small size of 4 yuan, the size of the 16 yuan to a Huang Yunxu told reporters that many domestic and foreign customers have no objection to the product, and the key point is also the price.

In a few days, he was planning to go to Guangzhou to inspect new alternative materials and production equipment and specialize in developing and producing this series of products. For this reason, he withdrew all the traditional meager commodities such as the previously sold Christmas balls and Christmas ornaments.

Robotic arm replacement is not only a good result of manual investment, but also new products to be developed. The Cai Yongliang, the vice president of the Yiwu Christmas Products Industry Association and Huangyan Christmas product manufacturer, has a lot of experience.

“The factory introduced a batch of mechanical arm equipment to replace the artificial position.” Cai Qinliang introduced that skilled workers are not good at recruiting, and some employees will soon be vacant, which will have a great impact on the operation of the plant. Mechanized equipment can be used. Better solve these problems.

Cai Qinliang's robot arm mainly produces Christmas balls, Christmas bells, and other pendants, which are much more efficient than manual production. However, the price of robotic arm is not cheap, and a production line will cost more than 1 million yuan.

Cai Qinliang frankly stated that if it is an ordinary small business, it is not necessarily willing to introduce similar new equipment. However, for companies that are accustomed to low-profit goods, Ebb Tide is the inevitable result. If there is no long-term development goal, companies will certainly not be able to keep up with the pace of product upgrading.

The person in charge of the Christmas Goods Industry Association believes that an overly focused and low-tech production company will only bring about increasingly fierce price competition, and at the same time it will not help improve the grade and quality of Yiwu commodities. Only by breaking up, will it be possible to drive the future development of the entire industry and grab a greater share in the mid- to high-end Christmas market.