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Chairman’s Statement

In order to ensure that the quality, reliability
and durability of the Group’s high value-added
products are in line with those from world-
renowned brands, we have been continuously
increasing investment in our manufacturing
capabilities, not only in terms of automation
and robotization, but also in human resources,
resulting in rising number of the Group’s in-
line workforce being graduates of technical
institutes. Also, more software development
and programming of the Group’s automation
equipment and robot arms are now done by With a few of the Group’s existing tablets
in-house support team. starting to gain traction and popularity in new
markets around the world (even though still in
relatively small quantities for the time being),
the Group expects revenue from new markets
to gradually gain in importance. Based on past
channel relationships and brand experience of
the Group’s dedicated marketing professionals
in B2B/Commercial Notebook PCs, which are
being developed by our Taiwan technical team,
our strategy is to first enter the Business and
Enterprise Markets of Hong Kong, Taiwan and
Singapore; followed by India, Pakistan and the
Middle East.

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