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
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 minutester.
This was the third board meeting of the Baron Group in a few days. The sessive mistakes of the
Baron Group had caused panic. In fact, most of the directors here did not sleep wellst 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 secondster, a sly smile appeared on Alvin''s face, but it shed away. If Antonio hadn''t
observed carefully, he might have thought that his eyes had deceived him.
Antonio gently tapped on the rectangr 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 momentter, 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 alreadye out, which shows that the skin problems of those women are caused by
the cosmetics of ourpany."
What he said caused a stir in the conference room immediately.
He broke theirst 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 departmentter, 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 topensate these women whose faces have been ruined by the cosmetics
of ourpany so that they would stopining 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.
"Ourpany 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 thepany out of current predicament, but
at the expense of too great a loss.
If thepany lost money, he, as a shareholder, would also lose money. How would he be willing to it?
Antonio gave him a cold nce and continued, "I''m sure that you must all have seen the growth of our
future, but there will always be difficulties and challenges to ovee if we want ourpany to be
more and more powerful."
"Although my proposal will cause great losses to thepany, it can let people in J City and even the
whole nation know what ourpany is like. Ourpany can earn more money in the future even if it
loses money now. However, it will be difficult for apany 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 ourpany, but a chance. It is a chance for ourpany to
be 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 be famous throughout the country. They
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even thought that the Baron Group could be 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 ck. It
requires at least hundreds of millions of dors 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 youe 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 ourpany 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 thepany''s interests in order to bring Antonio
down.
Thepany''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 ourpany!"
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 nce 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 n 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.
Adide 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.
Adide 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 dy 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.
Adide 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 shoulde were here. She cleared her throat, adjusted the
microphone to the appropriate height and dyed 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 Adide Swift, and I am the wife of
Antonio, the president of the Baron Group."
The reporters who sessful 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?"
Adide 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 exined, "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 exined, the more she confirmed that
Antonio was a bad man. They were all amazed and took clear pictures of the bruise on her forehead.
Adide 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 Adide. 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 Adide was pure and gentle, so some
of them would believe it even she said that Antonio had gone through stic 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 rissa Swift, the daughter of the boss of the Swift’s
Group, which had been acquired?"
The reporter asked after hearing what she said. Adide nodded and proved that her guess was
correct.
She took out a USB sh drive from the bag she was carrying and handed it to the staff here. Soon, the
pregnancy test sheets for her and rissa were shown on the screen behind her.
The photographer got very close and took pictures or videoed it.