• SHKL launches a score of cutting edge new products (Read more)
• IT launches new Intranet – WiKi to facilitate information sharing (Read more)
• SHKL wins 2008 RFID Awards and 2008 HK Awards for Industries (Read more)
• SEAL Shenzhen participates in NEPCON 2008 (Read more)
• Tesa Product Training in Shenzhen inspiring ESE staff (Read more)
• SHKL awarded with Company Caring Logo (Read more)

SEGL to streamline support function

SEGL is taking necessary measures in fighting off the worst ever financial crisis in the century and in building a sustainable platform that can carry us through the difficult time. In this light, we have combined the Finance; HR and Office Administration functions of South East Asia into one big team managed by Ms. Lo Yang Hong, our financial Controller in Singapore. In North Asia, we have grouped the support function teams from different companies (SHKL, ESEL, SEAL) into centralized teams serving the three companies as a whole, i.e., the Finance function will be reporting to Mr. Daniel Lin while the HR and OA function will be reporting to Ms. Becky Ma. With such measures in place, we are able to save support cost up to 25%.

Change of SEAL Management

Mr. TY Lim, Managing Director of SEAL will be leaving us by early March 2009. Meanwhile, he will return to Singapore and dedicate his remaining time to taking care for South East Asia business. A new Steering Committee, comprising members of Beck Ma, Daniel Lin, Daniel Or, Klaus Festl, Ringo Chan, Stephen Chau, will therefore exercise a joint leadership to manage North Asia business for SEAL. Despite the above change, Daniel Or and Ringo Chan will continue to lead the ETS and SMT in PRC and Hong Kong. Thanks for the supervisors who are committed to taking up additional responsibilities.

Fashion Technology division to merge with Competence Centre

The then General Manager in Fashion Technology, Mr. Matthew Man, has left SHKL on 5 December 2008 and the business will be taken up by Warwick So, General Manager of Competence Centre and his team in addition to their existing roles.

A new look of Intranet - Wiki

Not long away you will become a Wikipedian. I think the word “Wikipedia” is not strange to you when browsing information on websites. The encyclopedia not only can let you to search scores of information easily in different languages but allow you to freely share your idea and edit it. The new intranet template “Wiki” comes with the similar idea that everyone can get access to the intranet and make your own contribution in building up this website. It also contains a number of micro pages for different companies/ divisions to customize their own page for their specific needs. This Wiki site will make intranet a collaborative platform between divisions and build a closer-knitted community through improved communication. We encourage all of you to get engaged in our new WiKi. Training classes will be given for individual divisions and the WiKi site will be officially launched by 19 February 2009.

SHKL Trademark Registration

We are pleased to announce that SHKL has been granted with the Trademark Certificates by Hong Kong and Singapore. The Registered Mark will be applied to these two countries and the applications for other countries are still on process.

The Registered Mark

Office Relocation

SHKL and SEAL Shanghai office relocation

SHKL and SEAL in Shanghai have integrated into the existing ESEL office in the same building, effective since 1 January 2009. The three companies now become a one big family. The telephone and facsimile lines remain unchanged.

902 Shenshi Mansion, No. 511 Weihai Road, Shanghai.
上海市静安区威海路 511 号绅士大厦 902 室

SHKL Headquarters relocated to 34/F

To better utilize office space, the head office at 21/F will be integrated to 34/F of Citicorp Centre by the end of February. In the meantime, we will open a new office located within the walking distance at 17/F, Greenwich Centre where will house part of the functions/BUs and is expected to become operative by mid-February.

Tesa Product Training in Shenzhen (8&9 December 2008)

Tesa organized a seminar at ESE Shenzhen Office on 8 & 9 December 2008 to share the updated market information and technical knowledge with the sales team. Mr. Victor Wong, Tesa South China Sales Manager, Mr. Dennis Wang, Tesa Marketing Manager and their Technical Support Team presented the latest products, the basic tapes knowledge and their applications in mobile phone, flat screen TV and refrigerator market segments to the attendees.

To meet the rapid market change, Tesa has launched a host of new products such as new foam tapes, new non-woven tapes, with a particular attention to PET extension solution, an innovative product enables customization to improve customers’ production efficiency and effectiveness. By designing different linear, different colors and thickness of backing and adhesives, Tesa can be able to offer the best solution to meet different clients’ needs. Mr. Dennis Wang afterwards also mentioned about how the roles that ESE could be to become the biggest distributor in future.

We had a good interaction and discussion during the seminar and would like to extend our appreciation to everyone in Tesa for their support and dedication to the success of the seminar, which has given us a valuable chance to beef up ourselves.

MLiS Product Seminars in Taiwan and Vietnam

SHKL Wireless has held a very successful seminar for MLiS range products in Taiwan on the 7 August 2008. With the help of Taiwan team and Siemens A&D, we have created the awareness and good response from the customers attended the seminar. In June, Wireless also held another very successful seminar in Vietnam, well attended by a number of suppliers. This will be a role model for the rest of the regions to follow suit in creating our brand & product awareness and leading ourselves to not only the leading distributor of wireless modules but also provider of wireless solution in the broad arena.

Seminar held in June 2008 in Vietnam.	Seminar held in August 2008 in Taiwan.

ETS - LitePoint Seminar (26 June 2008)

SEAL ETS Shenzhen jointly held a seminar with the supplier LitePoint Co. in Shenzhen to introduce about MIMO and WIMAX telecommunication technology. The seminar was well attended by 90 people.

DELO-EVENT (24 – 27 June 2008)

ESE IM colleagues from Shenzhen, Jason Chu and Ken Yu, and colleagues from Hong Kong Eric Ko and Samuel Law have attended the DELO-EVENT 2008 from 24 – 27 June 2008 in Germany.

IM colleagues with DELO supplier

From left Eric Ko (IM-HK), Samuel Law (IM-HK), Ken Yu (IM-SZX)

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Congratulations to the following colleagues and thank you for their continued commitments to the company throughput the years.

SHKL awarded with Caring Company Logo

Engaging the company and staff to serve the community is one of the important shared values of us. We are pleased to inform you that SHKL has been awarded with the Caring Company Logo. To adhere to the strict requirements set out by The Hong Kong Council of Social Service, the organizer of the event, the company has to fulfill at least 2 of 6 criteria and is nominated by a non-profit charitable organization. We are delighted that we are committed to 3 criteria in the past year in Employee Friendly, Employing Vulnerable, and Giving categories. This award will act as a powerhouse for what we have been doing as a social responsible organization. The award presentation ceremony will be held on 10 February 2009.

Schmidt-HKUST Apprentice Program gets into its second round Four HKUST students, Mr. KOO Park Lam, Mr. LAU Hok Kan, Miss TAM Chin Wai Queenie and Mr. TEOH Chenn Yih won the scholarship on the Schmidt-HKUST Apprentice Program 2008 with their proposal of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) application in healthcare industry. Introduced in 2007/2008, the Program comes into its second year, with a total of twelve students enrolled in the program. Three groups of four students from the Dual Degree Program in Technology and Management were respectively working on healthcare, wine and food safety projects and went through a 3-month intensive training and attachment program jointly provided by HKUST and SHKL. This Program gives students an opportunity to test in the practical environment the skills acquired in the throughput of the course. The Final Presentation cum Closing Ceremony was held on the 4 December 2008 in which the wining team was entitled to the scholarship sponsored by SHKL. The champion team of the program. ESE Christmas Party All staff of ESE HK Office has participated in the X'mas BBQ party on the 19 December to celebrate the festival. The party was full of joy and happiness with delicious seafood and deserts, lucky draw, and most of all, physical exercises…! Special thanks go to the generosity of Ricky and Stephen for sponsoring the event and Sandy for her hospitality in offering a nice barbecue and exercise venue. Barbecue Parties ESE IM Shenzhen organized a barbecue party at YinHu Park on the 1 May 2008, at their own expenses. After the barbecue, they went on going to Karaoke to continue the happiness till mid-night and all of them had a great time. Jason Chu & Lillian’s baby Tarcy Lin & Isa Hu PCBA Chen Xiao Wei From left Tracy Lin, Isa Hu, Ssissi Lee, Ken Yu ESE IM Dongguan also organized the similar barbecue party on the 22 November 2008 at their own expenses. All the staff have joined the activity and had a good time together. Aaron He & Eric Liang Ken Yu & Longer Cai   Sophie Hu and her son   SHKL Bowling Day Recreation Committee in HK Office held its first Bowling Day on the 12 September 2008. Over twelve participants used all their might to demonstrate their bowling skills at EMAX, Kowloon Bay and they all had a wonderful evening with lots of funs. German Class – learning with funs SHKL Hong Kong Office has held the German Classes during the lunch hours between June and July 2008, thanks to two German teachers, Monika Nowicki and Patrick Felgner their devotion of spare time to teaching us. The class, which ran on every Wednesday and Friday, have received a round of applauses. The course was run in an entertaining and fun-fueled atmosphere in which students were engaged in games and quizzes while learning new foreign language. “The class is relevant to me and give me the confident to speak out some of the words when I have encountered it” says Anny, one of the students in the class. Students also expressed their interest in joining the similar courses again in the future. German Teacher Monika remarked that the course has given her a valuable opportunity to get to know other co-workers and also the satisfaction in seeing them enjoying learning. Patrick also enjoyed his first taste of being a teacher very much. Colleagues were attentive to the teaching. The graduation day. Capital Entrepreneur, Monthly Magazine (HK, December 2008) SHKL Managing Director Mr. Klaus Festl was interviewed by Capital, a reputable business magazine in Hong Kong, in which he told the reporter he loved Hong Kong and he had seen himself being part of it. MingPao Daily, Newspaper (HK, 31 October 2008) A famous local newspaper, MingPao Daily has interviewed Mr. Klaus Festl and Warwick So in SHKL for the latest trends of RFID in Hong Kong and PRC. In the interview, they had talked about the applications of RFID in hospitals, healthcare centres, libraries, and fashion shops. RTHK’s Innovation Squad, TV program (HK, 15 October 2008) A program serious casting the latest IT innovations had talked about the SHKL’s Smart Retail System during the golden evening hours on TV in October. e-Zone, Weekly Magazine (HK, 11 September 2008) SHKL was interviewed by the IT Magazine for the sake of the winner of 2007 ICT Awards. China Computer World, Weekly Magazine (PRC, 14 July 2008) SHKL CFO, Daniel Lin and General Manager of Competence Centre Warwick So were interviewed by the PRC renowned IT magazine, in which they had talked about the history and success of the company, and the latest Automatic Identification trends in PRC. The magazine has a circulation of 260,000 in China. For more information, please contact Flora Chan in Hong Kong.