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Published on: 3/30/2005
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Speaking exclusively to HEXUS, PC Partners' CEO - Tony Wong - took some time to introduce his company, its background and share his thoughts.
Ray Cheung (left), key UK tech guy for EQS mainboards, stands with PC Partner CEO Tony Wong
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PC Partner was founded in Hong Kong on 1st July 1997 and Tony Wong is one of the original four founders, the other three being F.P. Wong, Kan Leung, and the late Boscoe Ho.
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So it was against the sad backdrop of the early deaths of these two respected men, which Tony Wong found himself taking the reigns of PC Partner.
Tony explained that the PC Partner of today came about as a result of effectively a management buy-out of the PC division of the electronics company V-TECH.At that time Tony, Boscoe, F.P Wong and Kan Leung were apparently all employed at V-TECH, but that V-TECH wanted to devolve itself of its PC business, which seemed to trade under the styles of Laser and PC Partner.Consequently a deal seems to have been struck, and Tony and his three partners then decided to take the PC Partner brand name, and haven't looked back since.
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At that time each of the four founders of PC Partner assumed very specific roles; Boscoe primarily dealt with administration, finance and company development matters; Tony Wong was responsible for sales and marketing; F.P. Wong procurement, and Kan Leung was the tech guy, who dealt with research and development and factory production issues.
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PC Partner is certainly a South East Asian success story, but something Tony was particularly emphatic about was that, as much of the global IT market seems dominated by Taiwanese manufacturers, its particularly a success story for Hong Kong - and Hong Kong is where PC Partner still proudly retains its headquarters.Indeed it was pointed out that PC Partner might be the single listed survivor of the Hong Kong IT industry.
We don't know which part of the PC Technology business doesn't face stiff competition, and interestingly, when questioned Tony cite ASRock - the subsidiary of the Taiwanese company ASUSTeK - as one its' primary commercial competitors.
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ASUSTeK, now a big volume ATi customer, (yesterday one of its officials confirmed that after only a year or so of incorporating ATi VPUs in its product range, its sales are around 50/50 ATi/NVIDIA) is already in the consumer electronics space, and when questioned over the future ambitions of PC Partner, Tony explained that momentum is gathering within PC Partner to fully establish a new division focused on consumer electronics, initially starting with MP3 players.
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In any event, for the present, PC Partner looks to be as rocking as ATi, and Tony Wong came across as guy on a mission, hungry to see his company move to even greater successes.For someone who can obviously afford a nice meal, his hunger for new challenges surprised me somewhat.It seems that for for the past nine years or so PC Partner have been happy to remain in the background as the anonymous contract manufacturer, powering solutions driven at the front end by major, high profile customers.But when questioned as to PC Partner's and his own ambitions, it seemed clear that Tony wanted his companies identity and successes recognised by a wider audience, and he stated that energy and resources are being put behind developing PC Partner brand visibility.
I left Tony thinking that that on balance the odds were on his side, and working with HEXUS sure seems like a step forward in the right direction.
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