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2000 Holtek Agent Convention On October 13th and with 95 agents from 18 countries from around the world in attendance, the Westin Resort in the rural area of Ta-Shee in Taiwan was the setting for this year's two-day Holtek Agent Convention.
Domestic Agents: 2000 Maximum Sales Record: Ultima Electronics Foreign Agents: 2000 Maximum Sales Record: SyCom Technology
On the following day, October 14th, a complete and intensive product presentation session was offered for the 4 major product lines: Computer, Microcontroller, Communication and Consumer. All major new products planned for the year 2001, such as the new 8-bit MCU series, cordless phone controller, RF mouse/keyboard devices etc. were introduced in detail to our agents. With this information in hand, our agents will be in a position to promote these new Holtek products in their own areas without difficulty.
The afternoon session was used to form several special interest groups, where attendees and Holtek personnel with similar interests could get together and discuss and exchange related market information. This was the first time that such discussions were organized but their success in deepening the relationships between agents, the Holtek product line and the market ensures their presence at future agent's conventions. At 5pm Holtek formally ended the 2000 Holtek Agent Convention and again, as in the past, evaluated the event as a necessary and successful part of Holtek's promotional activities. Holtek expresses its formal thanks to all those agents who took the trouble to attend this year's event and looks forward to welcoming all back to the 2001 convention. |
Mr.
Gordon Gau, president of Holtek, at 4pm, gave the opening statement
welcoming all attendees and later introduced Holtek's product
development strategy and its market expansion plans for the year
2001. Following on from this was the Recognition Award Ceremony with
6 awards being presented to the top performers in 3 different
categories based on the past fiscal year's statistics. Three awards
were presented each for domestic and international agents, the
details of which are shown below:
As
Holtek prides itself on being a provider of standard MCU Expertise
& ASSP Embedded microcontrollers, the company requires not only
a clear vision in terms of products and foundry capacity planning,
but also requires a sound financial foundation with which to launch
future investments into the latest IP, CAD tools, personnel etc.
during the coming year. With this in mind the financial strengths of
Holtek Semiconductor was demonstrated in the next session during the
presentation by Mrs. Patty Li, the director of Holtek's financial
division. Holtek's 1999 operations reported a very healthy revenue
of USD 121.2 million with a corresponding net income of USD 8.6
million, while for the year 2000 January to September period alone,
Holtek had already reached a record high revenue of USD 121.4. These
figures fully demonstrate Holtek's commitment to re-investment and
its long-term commitment to excellence in customer partnership.
To
make the most of the limited time available, the time during coffee
breaks was utilized to demonstrate a fully automatic OTP programmer
manufactured by the third party vendor Hi-Lo Systems. This provided
an opportunity for agents to see first hand how this efficient and
high throughput machine operates and provided evidence for the
prevalence of OTP type microcontrollers in the overall
microcontroller market area.