Five local enterprises from diverse backgrounds ranging from
financial technology to health food won the 2015 Enterprising Hong Kong Awards
on Thursday, a programme honouring Hong Kong's most promising small and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that is entering its second year.
Created by the South
China Morning Post and
sponsored by DHL Express, the awards this year recognised the best of the best
in entrepreneurship, innovation, export, branding and corporate social
responsibility among Hong Kong's SMEs, defined as manufacturers with fewer than
100 staff members and services firms with fewer than 50 employees.
"SMEs contribute to more than 50 per cent of Hong Kong's GDP,
and 1.3 million jobs, or 40 per cent, of the total working population of the
city," said Robin Hu, chief executive of the SCMP Group.
To the founders and managers of the 20 finalists for the five
award categories at yesterday's awards ceremony, he said: "I say you are
the true bedrock of Hong Kong's world-class business engine, and it is your
collective effort that makes Hong Kong one of the shiniest trade-capitals of
not only China, but the world."
Infocast, a vendor of financial information technology products
and services founded in 1996, won the Innovation Excellence Award for its
one-stop trading platform and cloud solutions. Alex Cheung, its director of
platform strategy, said: "With the stock connect schemes, our system is of
particular help to smaller brokerage firms that cannot afford their own IT
departments."
Advance Bright, the company behind the Ye!! brand of portable
speakers and phone accessories featuring colourful designs, received the Export
Excellence Award. Its managing director Felix Chan said: "Our products are
available in 40 countries including the UK, Australia, and Japan, but we put
'Designed in Hong Kong' on them. We are very proud to be a Hong Kong
brand."
Anything But Salads, a superfood provider co-founded by Calista
Goh and Noel Tuan, won the Brand Excellence Award for new health food options
it has created for the city's millennials, such as chocolate with ganoderma
that is a fusion of modern Western snacks and ancient Asian herbal remedies.
Wessen, founded by Dr Thomas Su, received the Corporate Social
Responsibility award for its organic baby skincare products under the brand of
Swissnatürlich.
Derek Wu, an engineer-turned entrepreneur, received the Young
Entrepreneur Award for growing his company Future Lighting Collection to become
the exclusive distributor of lighting brands such as Philips.
-South China Morning Post
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