Furthermore, at that time, bringing in foreign capital was a political achievement in the East, and many local leaders, for the sake of political achievements, completely disregarded the real intentions of the other party and introduced these foreign beverage companies into local beverage firms.
As a result, when companies like Coca-Cola acquired stakes and management rights, they directly put the original state-owned beverage brands on ice and completely took over their sales channels.
Since then, domestic beverage brands entered a period of stagnation. It took decades for them to recover.
What Donnie was doing now was essentially the same. If he could take control of A&P, Donnie could apply this same method to A&P.
At that time, with the two largest retail companies in the United States as the foundation, Donnie, when acquiring goods channels, would actually possess pricing power.
The profit therein could even allow Donnie to forgo retail profits.
