Pan Gang, member of the Party Committee, Chairman and President of Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd., is an EMBA of China Europe Business School.
Pan Gang, 1970, from Inner Mongolia; 1992 joined Yili group after graduating from university in July; In July 2002, he served as the president of Yili Group and the general manager of the liquid milk division, and was the youngest president among the 520 key industrial enterprises in China. At the shareholders' meeting in June 2005, he was elected as a director with the unanimous support of the representatives of tradable shares, and was subsequently elected as the chairman and president of Yili Group.
Under the leadership of Pan Gang, Yili Group has created outstanding business performance of continuous progress and become the leader and leader of food industry in China. It has five divisions: raw milk, liquid milk, cold drink, milk powder and preservation, and the three main products of liquid milk, cold drink and milk powder rank first in the whole industry. The company's sales revenue in 2004 was 8.735 billion yuan, and the sales revenue in the first half of 2005 was 5.659 billion yuan, ranking first in the industry.
Pan Gang has been the general manager of the liquid milk division of Yili Group since 1999, and has been praised as "the first person in liquid milk in China" both inside and outside the industry. With the change of market consumption demand and the adjustment of product structure of leading enterprises, liquid milk has replaced milk powder as the most important product in china dairy. Under the leadership of Pan Gang, Yili Group took the lead in introducing advanced foreign equipment and technology on a large scale, extending the shelf life of liquid milk by more than 20 times, breaking through the sales radius previously confined to local areas, thus changing the rules of the game and triggering the follow-up of the whole industry. Now the liquid milk division contributes more than 65% of the sales revenue to Yili Group every year, and the production and sales of liquid milk in China account for more than 50% of the whole industry.
After Pan Gang became the president and took charge of the company's operation, he showed his outstanding management leadership, and Yili Group entered a golden age of accelerated development. In 2002, the sales revenue was 40 1 100 million yuan, an increase of 5 1.24% compared with 270.2 million yuan in 2006, and the total profit increased by 56.57%. In 2003 and 2004, the sales revenue reached 6.299 billion yuan and 8.735 billion yuan respectively, up by 57.09% and 38.67% respectively. In 2005, the sales revenue will easily exceed10 billion yuan.
In 2004, Yili Group encountered unprecedented difficulties and challenges. The company has successively encountered "independent director storm" and "executive incident". 65438+In February, 2004, Zheng Junhuai, the former chairman of the company, and other five senior managers were put on file for examination according to law for suspected crimes, which shocked the whole country and caused some circulating shareholders to be uneasy and shaken. Pan Gang, who has established great prestige inside and outside the company, is expected to lead the company to turn crisis into opportunity. With its unique steady and meticulous style, Pan Gang comprehensively implemented precise management, intensified resource integration, strengthened the transparency system of information disclosure, attached great importance to profitability, and took the initiative to assume social responsibilities, which quickly enhanced the centripetal force of employees, investors and public opinion, and led Yili Group to continuously create the best business performance in the first quarter, the second quarter and the third quarter in china dairy history. In the first three quarters, the sales revenue has exceeded the annual level of 2004, and the profitability has been greatly improved. At the same time, Yili has also become a "milk expert". He presided over and passed a package investment plan of more than one billion yuan, which surprised people inside and outside the industry. He is vividly called "will release production and marketing energy like a nuclear bomb", leading the company into another golden age of development.
Pan Gang is also the winner of the May 4th Youth Medal in China and one of the top ten outstanding young people in Inner Mongolia. In 2003, he was selected as "10 the most valuable new generation entrepreneur under 40 years old" by the well-known domestic financial magazine Manager, and concurrently served as the vice chairman of Inner Mongolia Youth Federation, China Dairy Association and China Dairy Association.