93: Chapter 93: Spark Fitness Company Established! Rapid Development!

At this moment, Su Yang naturally did not know what Gong Zihao was thinking.

Even if he did know, there was no way he would let him go.

The contract was already signed, so he might as well just be a good employee!

In the following time, Su Yang had the headhunting company help him find a general manager who was adept at managing and operating fitness chain stores, someone with plenty of experience.

He now owned four gyms under his name and could completely establish a company to manage them uniformly.

Most importantly, the three Spark Fitness gyms already possessed sustainable profitability.

The newly acquired Changdong Fitness also had a quite good location and a group of loyal customers.

After the reforms, it would only suffer minor losses for a short period.

However, the scale of the fitness company in the early stages definitely wouldn't be as large as the catering or media companies; after all, Su Yang was already feeling the pressure on his funds.

It was only the beginning of the month, and he only had a few hundred thousand left!

Not long after, Spark Fitness Service Co., Ltd. was quietly established in Hyatt Plaza.

The office was right above Jiuxiang Catering.

The general manager of Spark Fitness was Yi Jiangang, who was in his forties.

He had previously served in management at a well-known domestic chain fitness brand.

His ability to manage and operate fitness brands was quite good.

Su Yang gave him an annual salary of 500,000 and 5% in dry shares.

These 5% dry shares also only granted dividend rights; they could not be resold or inherited.

After leaving the company, the shares would be reclaimed by the company.

It could only be considered a benefit, and the system would refund it.

Moreover, they would also implicitly help Su Yang pay taxes.

If Su Yang wanted to take money out of the company account, he would also need to pay taxes.

But if he gave the money to employees or executives, the tax matters would naturally be handled by them.

For example, if Yi Jiangang received a 100,000 dividend from the company.

Then he would have to pay 20,000 in personal income tax to the state, and he would only actually receive 80,000.

But on Su Yang's side, the system would directly refund him 100,000.

The tax was collected by the state and had nothing to do with the company; the company was just paying it on their behalf!

This might not be a system bug.

It was more like some kind of bias of this Great Entrepreneur System towards employees.

Yi Jiangang was also very satisfied with the treatment Su Yang offered.

There were simply too many fitness brands in the country that had collapsed recently.

Well-known chain fitness stores were no exception.

In addition, Su Yang also transferred Xu Zhiping to be the vice president of Spark Fitness.

He gave him an annual salary of 400,000 and 3% in dry shares.

The original Spark Fitness Qinglong District store would have Ding Wenhao, recommended by Xu Zhiping, as the store manager.

Spark Fitness recruited twenty new employees, which was more than enough to manage the four gyms under its banner.

Su Yang also took the opportunity to transfer Luo Yihan and the others to the head office.

Future event promotions and such would also be the responsibility of the head office.

After the company was established, Su Yang demanded stronger management of the fitness coaches.

Not only did he want to assess their professional abilities, but he also wanted to conduct monthly physical tests on them.

These were all basic qualities that every fitness coach should have.

Since he gave them such good base salaries, it was time to set requirements for them!

Su Yang also transferred Feng Jianxing, who possessed the Master Strength Training skill, to the headquarters.

From now on, he would be responsible for assessing and training the fitness coaches.

Of course, Su Yang was not an unfeeling person.

If a fitness coach failed the assessment, he could give them one more chance to re-test.

However, during the re-assessment period, he would definitely have to impose a certain salary reduction penalty on them.

Anyway, it would all be written in detail in the company's rules and regulations.

After the company preparations were mostly complete and each employee began to perform their respective duties, Yi Jiangang and Xu Zhiping found Su Yang.

Yi Jiangang asked directly: "Boss, does our Spark Fitness still need to continue expanding?"

When Yi Jiangang passed the interview, he had also been fed the "pie" (vision) painted by Su Yang.

Su Yang said he had sufficient funds and was determined to create a nationally renowned fitness brand.

There was naturally no need to say much about Xu Zhiping.

He had been with Su Yang the longest and not only often ate the "pie" painted by Su Yang.

But also had a blind trust in Su Yang!

Su Yang thought for a moment and nodded:

"You can make contact first and see the quotes for those gyms. If the price is right, you can notify me."

He did have funding pressure now, but slow expansion of the gyms was still no problem!

Waiting for others to come to him for acquisition was ultimately a bit passive.

Moreover, he was not the same person he was back then; his funds were limited, so he had to spend sparingly.

Now the system's monthly cashback amount exceeded three million, which was enough to build a medium-to-large gym!

Xu Zhiping asked: "Then Boss, do you have any requirements for the scale of the gyms?"

Xu Zhiping understood Su Yang and knew his preferences.

But at this time, Su Yang slightly changed his mind: "Try to get the bigger ones!"

He did like big gyms, but now he wasn't being picky.

Large and medium-sized gyms in Rongcheng were ultimately limited, and the market was also limited.

Before, he disliked small fitness studios because they had few people and were troublesome to manage.

But now that the company was established, it was completely different.

Management and operations could be handed over; he didn't need to worry about it.

If even this could have problems, then killing the management team would be the right thing to do!

"You can send people to talk to those gyms. If they have an intention to sell and the quote isn't too high, notify me!"

Su Yang didn't have much money left now, but that didn't hinder making some contacts.

He also wasn't worried about other gyms raising prices arbitrarily; if it wasn't worth it, he just wouldn't buy it.

"Understood, Boss!"

Having received Su Yang's promise, Yi Jiangang and Xu Zhiping were both full of motivation!

After handling the affairs of Spark Fitness, Su Yang had Jiuxiang Catering help him recruit a driver.

Ma Ran probably wouldn't come back to be a driver.

Although Su Yang could drive himself, he used to have a driver.

Now that he didn't have a driver, those who didn't know might think he couldn't afford to hire one!

Not long after, Su Yang's driver arrived.

Feng Hua, twenty-nine years old, was a veteran.

He chose to retire because of a major change in his family and was now married with children.

Before coming for the interview, like Ma Ran, he had been driving for Didi in Rongcheng.

He was physically strong, skilled in fighting and driving, and should have been keeping up with his exercise.

Su Yang had a pretty good impression of him.

When he had time in the future, he could also learn some fighting from him.

After recruiting the driver, Su Yang's main daily task was to check the shops found by the Market Expansion Department employees, and then look at the potential internet celebrity candidates recommended by Spark Media.

Occasionally, he would also go to the two Spark Fitness locations in Lu Lake and the High-tech Zone to motivate the employees and work out by the way.

The loyalty of the employees at these two gyms still had potential to be tapped!

After all, some simple-minded employees were very easy to be bought over.

Because Su Yang paid high salaries, employees naturally had a good impression of him.

Coupled with Su Yang's outstanding looks and the added bonus of his affinity, he could remember every employee's name.

This allowed him to quickly gain the goodwill and loyalty of many employees.

The loyalty of several employees directly increased to 90 points.

This also earned him 190,000 in cash, 1 agility point, and 1 strength point.

This 190,000 in cash, to some extent, made Su Yang's already limited cash flow slightly more abundant.

Besides working out, Su Yang would also take time to enter various manufacturing parks in Rongcheng to inspect them.

He wanted to see if there were any manufacturing industries suitable for him.

The result made him a bit helpless; he couldn't afford companies that were profitable and had technology.

Even if the company was in a loss-making state, the price was still in the hundreds of millions or billions.

Looking at it gave him a headache!

He could afford companies and factories with low profits, or those that were loss-making and highly indebted.

But most were just doing supporting roles, or relying on manual labor to earn meager profits.

However, there was still quite a bit of good news: four more hotpot restaurants under Jiuxiang Catering had opened, and Su Yang had also confirmed the locations for four hotpot restaurants.

On the Spark Fitness side, there were two gyms with an intention to transfer.

On the Spark Media side, because Yu Siying had poached internet celebrity talents like Dai Jiaying, the company passed the platform audits and successfully settled on mainstream platforms like Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and Bilibili.

And on Li Xiang's side, he had all kinds of support from the team.

His video updates were stable, and the video quality was also very high.

Sometimes, without the company doing any promotion, the long videos he produced could still make it to the homepage recommendations on Bilibili.

This made Yu Siying very satisfied!

After Gong Zihao appeared on camera in women's clothing, he gained 40,000 followers on Douyin within half a month.

This made Yu Siying even more amazed at Su Yang's good eye!

Besides this, Su Yang also personally signed three more good potential internet celebrities!