DRAMA NOVEL ONLINE Chapter 147 Astounding Statement
At noon of the next day, the inspection report of those cosmetics finally came out. Even though Antonio had already been prepared psychologically, the report still weighed heavily on his mind. The report showed that there was something wrong with the cosmetics of the Baron Group.
Oscar, who stood aside, asked anxiously after Antonio kept silent for a long time, "Mr. Antonio, what should we do now?"
Antonio hid his emotion and said calmly, "Contact the women who made trouble yesterday and let them come to our company."
Oscar didn't ask questions anymore. He nodded and was about to leave when Antonio suddenly said, "In addition, hold an emergent board meeting."
Oscar paused and nodded again.
Oscar worked in such an efficient manner that all members of the board were at the meeting room when Antonio sat in the chair at the front of the conference room 10 minutes later.
This was the third board meeting of the Baron Group in a few days. The successive mistakes of the Baron Group had caused panic. In fact, most of the directors here did not sleep well last night. The Baron Group was their cash cow, but there had been frequent mistakes in it recently. How could they sleep well?
It wasn't quiet in the conference room. Everyone was talking to each other. Antonio sat in his chair, quietly watching the discussion without the intention of interrupting.
He looked around the conference room and found only Alvin was sitting there with a calm expression and no one to speak to.
He couldn't help looking at him, his uncle, for a few more seconds. Alvin seemed to feel it, turned around and rested his eyes on Antonio's.
A few seconds later, a sly smile appeared on Alvin's face, but it flashed away. If Antonio hadn't observed carefully, he might have thought that his eyes had deceived him.
Antonio gently tapped on the rectangular conference table with two fingers thoughtfully.
After a while, he stood up and made a gesture to the crowd to let them be quiet. A moment later, it was quiet in the conference room.
"I believe that you all know what happened the day before yesterday." Antonio came straight to the point, "To tell you the truth, the result of the check of the hospital and the inspection report of the cosmetics have already come out, which shows that the skin problems of those women are caused by the cosmetics of our company."
What he said caused a stir in the conference room immediately.
He broke their last hope. They were experienced, so they knew that it was difficult to deal with this matter.
"I'm going to talk to the general manager of the cosmetics department later, but now, I call this board meeting to tell you the solution I have in mind. I have to do this because it's urgent."
Antonio clicked his fingers, and it was quiet again in the conference room.
All the directors picked up their ears and wanted to hear what solution Antonio had.
Antonio picked up the cup of tea on the table and took a sip.
"The top priority now is to compensate these women whose faces have been ruined by the cosmetics of our company so that they would stop complaining everywhere.'
"At the same time, we have to recall all cosmetics produced and sold in the past two months, and promise that consumers who have purchased them in the past two months can return the products without any reason."
Antonio's stirring words shocked the directors present.
"No way!" Matthew objected to it.
"Our company will suffer great losses in this way." Although Matthew was not as clever as his name indicated, he was not a fool. Antonio's method could get the company out of current predicament, but at the expense of too great a loss.
If the company lost money, he, as a shareholder, would also lose money. How would he be willing to it?
Antonio gave him a cold glance and continued, "I'm sure that you must all have seen the growth of our company over the years as the largest enterprise in J City. Surely, our company will have a bright future, but there will always be difficulties and challenges to overcome if we want our company to be more and more powerful."
"Although my proposal will cause great losses to the company, it can let people in J City and even the whole nation know what our company is like. Our company can earn more money in the future even if it loses money now. However, it will be difficult for a company to develop well if it loses its credibility."
"In short, this is the best solution so far. Ladies and gentlemen, in my opinion, the skin care product incident is actually not a disaster for our company, but a chance. It is a chance for our company to become famous all over the country!"
Antonio looked around with full confidence. Many directors in the conference room were actually excited due to what he said.
It seemed as if they had seen the Baron Group in J City become famous throughout the country. They even thought that the Baron Group could become the second Mitchel Group after hearing what Antonio said.
In the past, the Mitchel Group recalled all the refrigerators and destroyed them when there was something wrong with the refrigerators, which made their brand known to the whole country.
"It takes a huge amount of fund to recall all the cosmetics produced and sold in the past two months, so we have to vote on it." Antonio sat down and stared at them while speaking, "Now, let's start voting."
"I am the first to object to it. Antonio, you are an eloquent speaker who could call white black. It requires at least hundreds of millions of dollars to recall all cosmetics." Matthew spoke again, looking at the directors, "Don't listen to him, and vote against it with me."
However, no one in the conference room agreed with him.
This embarrassed him a little.
Suddenly, a director who rarely expressed his opinions stood up and looked at Matthew, "With all due respect, Mr. Matthew, can you come up with a better solution except the one Mr. Antonio suggested?" Matthew opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to answer.
Antonio ignored him and said to other people, "Let's start voting."
Antonio was very satisfied with the result of the vote. Except for the abstention of Matthew, all the other directors voted in favor of it, including Alvin.
This board meeting was held urgently to discuss how to deal with the skin care product incident and it was supposed to be over since they had reach a consensus on the issue.
However, after everyone voted, Antonio didn't announce that it was the end of the meeting, but went on to say with bright eyes, "Ladies and gentlemen, in fact, there is a question that I have been very puzzled about."
####Chapter 148 Alvin's Trick
"The skin care products of our company have never had any quality problems. Why did it happen this time?" Antonio finally stared at Alvin.
Yes, although there was not yet any evidence, Antonio intuitively felt that Alvin had done this.
These days, Alvin often overstepped the limits, but Antonio had always turned a blind eye to it because Alvin was his uncle. But this time, Alvin sacrificed the company's interests in order to bring Antonio down. The company's interest was Antonio's bottom line, so it was impossible for him allow Alvin to overstep the bounds.
Antonio wanted to give him a small warning. Of course, if he had evidence, that would be a different story.
Without waiting for them to answer, he continued, "The cosmetics we produced are subject to strict inspection before they are transported and sold, so it's s almost impossible to have any quality problems. But now, there are a few skin care products with quality problems in the market. I have reason to believe that there is a traitor in our company!"
What he said caused another stir in the conference room. Traitor was an extremely sensitive word for any enterprise.
"The traitor is highly likely to be one of us who are in the conference room." his eyes gradually became keener, "Although I have no ready evidence, I have a general guess in my mind. If the traitor is really present, I advise you to stop as soon as possible. Otherwise, I'll send you into prison when I find the evidence!"
His words scared everyone, including those who hadn't done anything wrong.
Antonio secretly gave Alvin a glance when he was about to finish his words. Alvin looked straight ahead without any expression on his face.
After the meeting, Antonio went to the General Manager of the cosmetics department and asked him to carefully check the sales records of cosmetics in the past two months to see if there was something wrong with the whole batch of cosmetics.
However, Antonio wouldn't change his plan even if there was no problem with the whole batch of cosmetics. After all, the Baron Group had been in the line of fire. He could only use such a method to pacify customers.
He checked this mainly to make sure if it was unqualified inspection that led to the outflow of unqualified cosmetics. If not, then it meant that someone deliberately gave those women the cosmetics with quality problems.
Back to his office, Alvin drew the curtains warily. Just now Antonio said that he would hold a press conference tomorrow to put an end to the incident that was getting worse. How much effort did he spend on setting this trap? How was it possible that Antonio could deal with it so simply? Alvin put on a seeming smile.
He took out his cell phone and dialed the number that he seldom dialed.
Adelaide frowned when she saw the name of the person calling her. In addition to striking Antonio as allies, she had little contact with that person. She answered the phone and that person quickly analyzed the situation to her briefly.
This time Antonio would not have a chance to rise again?
She agreed only after a few seconds of hesitation.
Adelaide was at the venue where people came and went. She was wearing a demure white dress and was still beautiful without any makeup. However, the dark circles under her eyes were very obvious without the foundation.
When reporters were notified of it, they didn't dare to delay at all and hurried to the venue with their photographers. Tonight, reporters were from big newspapers and media in J City. They were very quick to spread news.
Adelaide was used by someone, but she didn't know it. When there was only five minutes left before the start, she fixed her hair with her fingers and strode up the stairs with her head held high. The venue was well arranged and all the people who should come were here. She cleared her throat, adjusted the microphone to the appropriate height and delayed for a while. Soon it was eight o'clock.
The security guard at the door closed the door. The lights at the venue was very well-lighted. After she deliberately pinned a strand of hair behind her ears, the bruise on her forehead, which was caused by Antonio, was instantly exposed to them.
She took a deep breath, as if she could finally expressed herself freely at this moment after years of torture and pain, "Hello, let me introduce myself first. My name is Adelaide Swift, and I am the wife of Antonio, the president of the Baron Group."
The reporters who successful got the seat in the first row were very delighted. They waved their hands and motioned for the cameramen to follow them. The reporter who asked Antonio tough questions in that morning asked so loudly that everyone present could hear, "Hello, Mrs. Baron, I saw bruise on your forehead. Did Mr. Antonio do this to you?"
Adelaide looked at her when she heard her voice. She held back her tears when she pulled her hair to her chest in a hurry, waved her hands nervously and explained, "No, no, it has nothing to do with Antonio. Don't mistake it."
It looked like a clumsy denial of the truth. The more she explained, the more she confirmed that Antonio was a bad man. They were all amazed and took clear pictures of the bruise on her forehead. Adelaide had a skin as white as snow, so the bruise on her forehead was very obvious. Besides, she didn't cover it up with makeup, so it was a bit frightening in the pictures and videos. Another reporter kindly took out a packet of paper towels to Adelaide. She hurriedly said thanks, sobbed and continued, "Originally, I didn't want to reveal it, but as a woman, I really cannot bear to let others be blinded by Antonio." She took out a paper towel and wiped her tears, looking at the camera poorly, "He looks cold and serious, but in fact he is really a bad man. He often beats and scolds me since we married two years ago. Last year, he...he had an affair with my younger sister."
What she said instantly caused a stir. They firmly believed that Adelaide was pure and gentle, so some of them would believe it even she said that Antonio had gone through plastic surgery at this moment. The reporter quickly thought about her words in her mind and didn't find any loopholes in her words. As a woman, she used to like the handsome man she saw. As the only handsome man in the industry, Antonio was knew by everyone.
"Excuse me, does your younger sister refer to Clarissa Swift, the daughter of the boss of the Swift's Group, which had been acquired?"
The reporter asked after hearing what she said. Adelaide nodded and proved that her guess was correct.
She took out a USB flash drive from the bag she was carrying and handed it to the staff here. Soon, the pregnancy test sheets for her and Clarissa were shown on the screen behind her.
The photographer got very close and took pictures or videoed it.0000☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐