Kuitumei Interview｜Chu Dan Daqi also frustrated Sun Daoxi: Dad taught me how to solve difficulties

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Written by: Kwong Yueting

2021-01-18 09:28

Last update date: 2021-01-18 09:29

Sun Daoxi, the managing director of Fotomax, grew up in a family of photography since he was a child. His father is Sun Dalun, the chairman of China Hong Kong Photographic Equipment Group (1123), and his brother Sun Daohong is the vice chairman and chief executive of the group.

During his childhood, my father had begun to train two sons to succeed: Dazi mainly teaches photography and Xizi mainly teaches photography, so that the two sons have their own strengths.

For Sun Daoxi, photos carry people's fond memories, and the photofinishing industry is an industry composed of memories.

Therefore, after working for Ernst & Young for 4 years, he began to take over the family business. At first he was in charge of managing the family's private investment. Later, he volunteered to help his family take care of the Kuatomei brand.

As an "airborne prince", he first tasted "bearing the banner". When he was frustrated, he even asked his father if he needed to lay off certain employees.

"Quick knife cuts the mess" seems easy, but as a helmsman, there is always more to carry.

"Before being an accountant was a part-time job, you only needed to listen to the boss's instructions, but after taking over the family business, sometimes the result of a business decision was not too good. When you do it many times, you will feel unhappy." Dad told him the reason that he should drink water and think about the source. This made him reflect a lot and finally restored the basic steps. After that, he spent 2 years communicating with every manager of Kuitumei’s 54 branches and getting to know each branch personally. For example, adding more French and Italian photo frame styles to branches in Tsing Yi City and Central Prince’s Building; decentralizing more power to let the store manager decide on the quantity of goods purchased and the way the store’s goods are displayed. Finally won the support of employees.

Sun Daoxi said that he currently maintains a good relationship with each store manager, and he will visit the store from time to time to understand the needs of customers and employees.

(Photo by Li Zetong)

Not planning to train her daughter to take over

At present, Sun Daoxi has no plans to imitate his father's method and train his daughter to succeed. "Whether the next generation will take over the family business will depend on his interest." However, since his daughter was born, he will bring her to Kuitu every month. Meipai’s ID photo, hopes to record her daughter’s growth process, so that her daughter can “get cold” at one time when she gets married in the future, "When I got married, my wife was in a bad mood, because he moved to the house and didn’t see the left picture. I hope that Yijia will help a female movie star. The first time the female elders will be happy to see them."

As a fast-following photographer, Sun Daoxi must be good at photography skills, but he self-confidently said that although he likes to take pictures very much, but the shooting is not good, "the worst is the photo wife, and Chengri will even complain. It’s not pretty, I really want to keep improving my skills.” When he was dating his wife Lin Shanting (Sandee) back then, his wife impressed him with photos.

"I don’t use my photo photographer to chase my wife. I remember it the first time I visited the Quwu Enterprise. I put a lot of pictures of us on the wall and put a lot of pictures of me on the wall. It took a lot of effort to organize and make me happy. Moving."

Interview with People in China-Hong Kong Photography (1123)