Chapter 158 Profit Settlement

Flessel added: "This is only the income of the organizing committee. The city hall should have hundreds of thousands of livres of income. The specific amount will be calculated by them.

Only the income from the Tuileries Palace and the amusement park belongs to the Fashion Week Organizing Committee, while the extra money earned from buses, museums, theaters, etc. belongs to the city hall.

Joseph nodded calmly, but he was quite excited in his heart. This number was nearly one million livres higher than he expected. And this is only the sixth day of Fashion Week. There are still two days to go. The total profit must be more than 5 million livres-as for why Fashion Week has 8 days? Haha, in fact, there are more than half a month of various activities to go. Such as fashion art exhibitions, charity weeks, food weeks, etc., will last until the end of the frost month.

However, he was not satisfied with this income I was not too surprised. After all, this kind of one-stop service for eating, drinking and having fun, and the huge gimmick of fashion, is the first time in the world, and it will definitely be sought after by the upper class in Europe.

This is the result when transportation and information are not smooth. For example, almost no one comes from America, and even there are not many guests from Eastern Europe. If it were in the railway era, it is estimated that the revenue of Fashion Week could double again.

In addition, Joseph has several other huge profits that have not been calculated.

The first is the real estate project.

The vacant land in the Tuileries Garden was developed into the "Palace Garden" community. There are a total of 75 villas in the first phase, with an average price of 48,000 livres. Half of them have been sold so far. That is an income of more than 1.8 million livres. And there are many people coming to consult and see the house every day.

You know, the house is not finished yet, and no one can see the finished product, otherwise it might have been sold out long ago.

Joseph was not in a hurry either - according to the routines of later real estate, the price would increase from time to time, and there would be news that "Duke X" moved in. When the house was capped, the average price was estimated to be at least 60,000 livres.

Moreover, after the completion of the first phase of the project, the supporting hospitals, schools, etc. were also built, and the second phase of the project was basically pure profit.

Compared with real estate that can make huge amounts of money, the cosmetics of "Angel of Paris" company and the carriage sales of "Bao Shijie" carriage shop seem unimpressive.

Among them, cosmetics sold more than 800,000 livres in 6 days, and because the carriage shop was just starting out, it was seriously insufficient in supply, and only less than 120,000 livres in revenue.

Joseph roughly estimated that by the end of the fashion week, the Fashion Week Organizing Committee should be able to earn about 7 million livres. The French treasury and the royal family accounted for the majority of this, and the Paris Chamber of Commerce also received 3% of the profit because it invested some money.

However, for Joseph, most of this money was his - the French government owed him a loan of 6 million livres, and he later paid several million to buy food. Brothers should settle accounts clearly. The French government has to pay this money back to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, so it should be deducted from the revenue of the fashion week.

As for the royal family, it went directly into his pocket. At the beginning, the queen said that the Tuileries Palace would be given to her son for free. Of course, some of it must be given to the queen later. If there is money, everyone will make money, and the road ahead will be wider.

And the income of the "Royal Palace Garden" all belongs to Joseph. Because he is the only developer. He spent 50,000 livres to buy the land of the Tuileries Garden before - it was all vacant land at that time, but now it has become the top luxury residential area in Paris.

After all the calculations, he worked hard to organize a fashion week, and the net income was about 10 million livres.

With this money, he could buy more food from overseas to cope with the upcoming famine.

Joseph continued to look through the income details of the fashion week.

Among all the projects, the highest income was naturally the sales share of fashion, shoes, hats, jewelry, etc., including store rent, a total of 1.47 million livres. According to the 15%-25% share, the fashion week has sold more than 6 million livres of clothing and jewelry so far!

The project with the second highest income surprised Joseph a little - it turned out to be an inconspicuous amusement park.

There are 75 machines in the Tuileries Palace and 30 machines outside. In the past 6 days, a total of more than 800,000 livres have been earned!

On average, one machine can earn 1,200 livres a day! !

Joseph suddenly felt that why bother to engage in industry and commerce, isn’t this thing faster than making money?

However, he also understood that the reason why these game machines can make so much money is that they are novel and everyone wants to have fun; secondly, the people who come to participate in the fashion week this time are all wealthy people. As long as they have fun, they don’t care how much money they invest.

If everyone’s novelty wears off in the future, coupled with economic factors, it is definitely impossible to have such an exaggerated income.

And Joseph doesn’t want the French to be financially constrained by their addiction to these game machines. In the future, only a dozen of them will be placed in the Palace of Versailles, and the rest will be taken to the colonies.

The following income items are: accommodation, Eden Amusement Park, special services, catering...

Joseph then asked Fleisel about some things about the operation of the fashion week, and heard melodious music coming from outside, so he had to end this revenue report - the show will start in more than ten minutes, and Fleisel has to go to work.

Joseph looked at the crowded fashion week scene outside the window, and was already planning how to maximize the benefits of this event.

In fact, he cares more about the hidden benefits of fashion week than direct economic income.

For example, it has made a great contribution to improving the image of France.

When the guests who attended the fashion week return home, they will inevitably tell everyone about the grand occasion of the fashion week and the prosperity of Paris.

This will attract additional investment to France, as well as various talents who yearn for the comfortable environment here.

After the influence of the fashion week stabilizes, we can organize the "European Expo" and various award activities on this basis to further improve France's international status and attract more investment and talents.

In addition, the total price of various types of clothing sold during this fashion week is more than 4 million livres, most of which are from Lyon.

Previously, due to the lack of competitiveness of France's textile industry and the reduction of tariffs by the Treaty of Eden, Lyon's textile industry was almost on the verge of collapse.

Historically, the large-scale unemployment of textile workers in Lyon was also one of the fuses for the outbreak of the Great Revolution.

And after the publicity of this fashion week, French clothing will be hot-selling-although my French textile technology is not as good as yours in the UK, our clothes sell well, which can largely make up for the high cost of fabrics.

Of course, at present, most families buy fabrics and make their own clothes. The ready-made clothing market is still very small, and it is mainly concentrated in the lowest end.

However, Joseph is confident that he can use some promotional methods to greatly increase the sales of ready-made clothing.

This will allow the French textile industry to maintain stability until it can compete with the British.