TOKYO, Sep 1, 2020 - (JCN Newswire) - Bitterz LLC (Hinds Building, Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines）は、本日（9月1日）、日本製の海外仮想通貨取引所であるBitterz（ビッターズ）を日本国内居住者向けにサービス提供を開始いたしました。
現在、グランドオープンキャンペーンとして新規口座開設（無料）頂いたお客様に1万円相当のビットコインをプレゼント中です。このビットコインを利用して日本製の仮想通貨取引所を体感下さい。
Bitterz公式サイト
https://bitterz.com/refs/top/5
■Bitterz主な特徴
１：安心して取引を続けられる環境
Bitterz（ビッターズ）は、海外取引所では珍しい完全日本製の仮想通貨取引所です。最大レバレッジ200倍やゼロカットシステム、万全のサポート体制など、資産を築いていくのにふさわしい取引環境をご提供いたします。
２：開発陣が全員日本人
Bitterz（ビッターズ）のシステム開発陣は全員日本人となり、元大手一部上場企業のエンジニア集団となります。
３：仮想通貨に特化したMT5
MT5の高速レスポンスにより、ストレスのない取引環境を実現いたしました。変化の大きい仮想通貨市場でも取引タイミングを逃しません。
４：安全性の高いセキュリティ環境
ディーリングとセキュリティによる24時間監視、お客様の資産を守るためのコールドウォレット運用、不正ログイン防止のための2段階認証システムを完備し、安全性の高い取引環境を実現しております。保有仮想通貨には保険も掛かっており、コールドウォレットはマルチシグ対応となっておりまして、複数の管理者が承認しないと送金できない仕組みとなっております。ホットウォレットにはユーザ出金する数日分を入れておく予定ですので、殆どの資産はコールドウォレットにて管理致します。
５：安心のサポート体制
日本人スタッフ完備で業界一の最速サポートにより、安心の取引環境をご提供いたします。
６：デモ口座による取引体験
実際の取引環境と同じバーチャルトレードで、自身の資金を使わずに、リアルな仮想通貨取引を体験できます。リスクなしで取引を体験したい方や、事前にツールの使いやすさを確認したい方にもおすすめです。
７：安心のゼロカット処理
当社ではゼロカットシステムを採用しています。万が一の場合でも、資産を超える追証は発生しないため、安心してアクティブな取引を行えます。
８：出金（送金）手数料実質永久無料
出金（送金）手数料無料になっている取引所はたくさんありますが、マイニング手数料はお客様のご負担になっているところがほとんどです。もちろん当社でも、お客様より出金に伴う手数料をいただくことは一切ございません。さらに当社では、マイニング手数料についてお客様のご負担にならないよう、手数料分をMT5ボーナスクレジットとして付与する事で還元させていただいており、出金（送金）手数料を、実質無料とさせていただいております。
９：キャンペーンの充実
365日年中無休で何らかのキャンペーンを常時開催を目指しております。
只今、グランドオープンキャンペーンとして新規口座開設（無料）頂いたお客様に1万円相当のビットコインをプレゼント中です。詳しくは下記公式サイトをご確認下さいませ。
Bitterz公式サイト
https://bitterz.com/refs/top/5
【本プレスリリースに関するお問い合わせ先】
https://bitterz.com/ja/inquiries
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8/31/20
NEC、光ファイバセンシング技術やAI技術を応用し、コンクリート電柱のひび割れ検知の実証を電中研と実施
背景
近年、国内の電力送配電事業者においては、送配電設備の保全・工事の担い手不足や、災害時の設備被害の状況の迅速な把握といった課題があり、配電設備の点検・管理業務の高度化且つ効率化を実現する仕組みが求められています。特に現在、国内の電力会社は2200万本以上の電柱を保有しており、これらの経年劣化の状態や、災害時における被害状況の把握の効率化が課題となっています。
今回、NECは電中研の協力のもと、光ファイバの振動波形の遠隔測定を可能とする光ファイバセンシング技術や、振動データを基に解析・分類を行うAI技術を組み合わせた分析システムを用いて、電柱の劣化状態を判定する際の重要な基準であるひび割れの有無を遠隔で判定できることを確認しました。
実証実験の概要
NECの光ファイバセンシング技術では、光ファイバケーブルの片端から光パルスを送信し、微弱な戻り光(後方散乱光)の位相の変化を検出することで、経路上に生じた振動などの状態変化を測定します。本実証では各電柱設置地点を事前に特定し、そこから得られる振動波形を各電柱の自然振動として継続的に取得します。また、NECの最先端AI技術群「NEC the WISE」(注1)の一つである「RAPID機械学習」(注2)により、この振動波形と電柱のひび割れの有無をセットとした学習モデルを構築します。これらにより、遠隔での電柱のひび割れ有無の判定を行います。
光ファイバから得られる振動には周辺音響や交通振動まで様々含まれるため、フィルタを適用して電柱に起因する振動成分を抽出する必要があります。今回の実証では、試験対象の電柱群の振動特性を事前に調査・設定することで振動成分を抽出しています。
本実証は電中研 赤城試験センター構内の電柱を用いて行われ、その結果、ひび割れ電柱を遠隔から約75％の精度で判定することに成功しました。
NECは、電中研とともに、今後はより広範囲な構造・材質の電柱へ対象を広げる等、多様な環境での評価検証・判定制度の向上に取り組みます。
なお、本活動は本年9月9日～11日に開催される「令和2年 電気学会 電力・エネルギー部門大会」にて発表を予定しています。
本発表にあたり、電中研 エネルギーイノベーション創発センター 上席研究員 中島 慶人様(注3)よりコメントを頂いております。
「今後、労働人口の急速な減少が進む中で、点検作業の効率化は必須です。作業の効率化や業務そのものの変革の道具に本技術が役立つものと期待しています。また当所は、電気事業全体に関わる研究実績や知見を多数有しております。今回実証で使用した赤城試験センターを始め、横須賀地区、我孫子地区、狛江地区、塩原実験場では大型の研究設備を多数有しており、実環境を想定した様々な新技術の検証が可能となっております。これらの研究設備を活用し、本センシング技術の更なる応用可能性についても引き続き検討していきます。」
本リリースの詳細は下記をご参照ください。
https://jpn.nec.com/press/202009/20200901_01.html
概要：日本電気株式会社（NEC)
詳細は www.nec.co.jp をご覧ください。
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TANAKA Memorial Foundation to Offer Precious Metals Research Grants of up to 5 Million Yen
TOKYO, Sep 1, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - The TANAKA Memorial Foundation (Representative Director: Hideya Okamoto) announced that it will take applications for research themes for FY2020 Precious Metals Research Grants between September 1 (Tue) and November 30 (Mon). Applications will be accepted from Japanese educational institutions and public research institutes conducting research and development using precious metals. In this 22nd year of the research grant, recipients will receive 5 million yen for the Platinum Award, 2 million yen for the Gold Award, 1 million yen for the Silver Award, 1 million yen for the Young Researcher Award, and 300,000 yen for the Encouragement Award.
Applications for the Precious Metals Research Grants are open to themes in all fields related to new technology and research and development in which precious metals can make a contribution. Applications can be submitted using the application form on the TANAKA Memorial Foundation website (https://tanaka-foundation.or.jp), and, after strict examination, award recipients will be announced at the end of March 2021.
The TANAKA Memorial Foundation aims to contribute to the development and cultivation of new fields for precious metals and to the development of science, technology, and the social economy by conducting activities that enable more people to experience a prosperous society. This program is being implemented to help support the various challenges faced in the "new world opened up by precious metals." Last year research on "precious metals recycling technology" that operates at a lower cost, is more efficient, uses less energy, and has a low-carbon footprint won a Gold Award. Another Gold Award was presented for research on a "high-sensitivity measurement system" that brought to light the organic bond structure and dynamic molecular behavior of the surface of gold.
Overview of the 2020 Precious Metals Research Grants
Theme:
- Themes that involve any of the following: new technologies to which precious metals can make a contribution, research related to precious metals that will bring innovative evolution to products, or research and development of new products using precious metals
Grant Amounts:
- Platinum Award: 5 million yen (1 award)
- Gold Award: 2 million yen (1 award)
- Silver Awards: 1 million yen (4 awards)
- Young Researcher Awards: 1 million yen (2 awards)
- Encouragement Award: 300,000 yen (several awards)
* The grant amount is treated as a scholarship donation.
* Awards may not be granted in some cases.
* The number of awards is subject to change.
Eligible Candidates:
- Personnel who belong to (or work for) educational institutions in Japan (universities, graduate schools, or technical colleges) or public and related research institutions may participate.
* As long as the applicant is affiliated with a research institution in Japan, the base of activity can be in Japan or overseas.
* The Young Researcher Awards are for researchers under the age of 37 as of April 1, 2020.
Application Period:
- 9am, September 1, 2020 (Tue) - 5pm, November 30, 2020 (Mon)
Application Method:
- Enter the required information on the application form available on the TANAKA Memorial Foundation website (https://tanaka-foundation.or.jp) and upload details of the research (papers and supplementary material on the theme).
Announcement:
- Results will be announced on the TANAKA Memorial Foundation website around the end of March 2021.
* TANAKA will contact the award recipients directly.
Conditions:
Research content that falls under any of the following
- New technology related to precious metals
- Research and development related to precious metals that bring about innovative evolution in products
- Research and development of new products using precious metals
* Precious metal refers to eight elements of platinum, gold, silver, palladium, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium and osmium.
* If development is conducted jointly (or planned to be) with other material manufacturers, please indicate so.
* Products that have already been commercialized, put to practical use, or that are planned are not eligible.
Inquiries Concerning the Research Grant Program:
Precious Metals Research Grants Office
Marketing Department, TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K.
22F Tokyo Building, 2-7-3 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-6422
TEL: 03-6311-5596 FAX: 03-6311-5529 E-mail: joseikin@ml.tanaka.co.jp
TANAKA Memorial Foundation website: http://tanaka-foundation.or.jp
Press release: http://www.acnnewswire.com/clientreports/598/2020901.pdf
TANAKA Memorial Foundation
Established: April 1, 2015
Address: 22F Tokyo Building, 2-7-3 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Representative: Hideya Okamoto (Senior Advisor to TANAKA Holdings Co., Ltd.)
Purpose of Business: To provide grants for research related to precious metals to contribute to the development and cultivation of new fields for precious metals, and to the development of science, technology, and the social economy.
Areas of Business: Provision of grants for scientific and technological research related to precious metals. Recognition of excellent analysis of precious metals and holding of seminars and other events.
TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K.
Headquarters: 22F, Tokyo Building, 2-7-3 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Representative: Koichiro Tanaka, Representative Director & CEO
Founded: 1885
Incorporated: 1918
Capital: 500 million yen
Employees: 2,393 (as of March 31, 2020)
Sales: JPY 992,679,879,000 (FY2019)
Main businesses: Manufacture, sales, import and export of precious metals (platinum, gold, silver, and others) and various types of industrial precious metals products.
URL: https://tanaka-preciousmetals.com
Press Inquiries
TANAKA Holdings Co., Ltd.
https://tanaka-preciousmetals.com/en/inquiries-for-media/
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Applications for the Precious Metals Research Grants are open to themes in all fields related to new technology and research and development in which precious metals can make a contribution. Applications can be submitted using the application form on the TANAKA Memorial Foundation website (https://tanaka-foundation.or.jp), and, after strict examination, award recipients will be announced at the end of March 2021.
The TANAKA Memorial Foundation aims to contribute to the development and cultivation of new fields for precious metals and to the development of science, technology, and the social economy by conducting activities that enable more people to experience a prosperous society. This program is being implemented to help support the various challenges faced in the "new world opened up by precious metals." Last year research on "precious metals recycling technology" that operates at a lower cost, is more efficient, uses less energy, and has a low-carbon footprint won a Gold Award. Another Gold Award was presented for research on a "high-sensitivity measurement system" that brought to light the organic bond structure and dynamic molecular behavior of the surface of gold.
Overview of the 2020 Precious Metals Research Grants
Theme:
- Themes that involve any of the following: new technologies to which precious metals can make a contribution, research related to precious metals that will bring innovative evolution to products, or research and development of new products using precious metals
Grant Amounts:
- Platinum Award: 5 million yen (1 award)
- Gold Award: 2 million yen (1 award)
- Silver Awards: 1 million yen (4 awards)
- Young Researcher Awards: 1 million yen (2 awards)
- Encouragement Award: 300,000 yen (several awards)
* The grant amount is treated as a scholarship donation.
* Awards may not be granted in some cases.
* The number of awards is subject to change.
Eligible Candidates:
- Personnel who belong to (or work for) educational institutions in Japan (universities, graduate schools, or technical colleges) or public and related research institutions may participate.
* As long as the applicant is affiliated with a research institution in Japan, the base of activity can be in Japan or overseas.
* The Young Researcher Awards are for researchers under the age of 37 as of April 1, 2020.
Application Period:
- 9am, September 1, 2020 (Tue) - 5pm, November 30, 2020 (Mon)
Application Method:
- Enter the required information on the application form available on the TANAKA Memorial Foundation website (https://tanaka-foundation.or.jp) and upload details of the research (papers and supplementary material on the theme).
Announcement:
- Results will be announced on the TANAKA Memorial Foundation website around the end of March 2021.
* TANAKA will contact the award recipients directly.
Conditions:
Research content that falls under any of the following
- New technology related to precious metals
- Research and development related to precious metals that bring about innovative evolution in products
- Research and development of new products using precious metals
* Precious metal refers to eight elements of platinum, gold, silver, palladium, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium and osmium.
* If development is conducted jointly (or planned to be) with other material manufacturers, please indicate so.
* Products that have already been commercialized, put to practical use, or that are planned are not eligible.
Inquiries Concerning the Research Grant Program:
Precious Metals Research Grants Office
Marketing Department, TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K.
22F Tokyo Building, 2-7-3 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-6422
TEL: 03-6311-5596 FAX: 03-6311-5529 E-mail: joseikin@ml.tanaka.co.jp
TANAKA Memorial Foundation website: http://tanaka-foundation.or.jp
Press release: http://www.acnnewswire.com/clientreports/598/2020901.pdf
TANAKA Memorial Foundation
Established: April 1, 2015
Address: 22F Tokyo Building, 2-7-3 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Representative: Hideya Okamoto (Senior Advisor to TANAKA Holdings Co., Ltd.)
Purpose of Business: To provide grants for research related to precious metals to contribute to the development and cultivation of new fields for precious metals, and to the development of science, technology, and the social economy.
Areas of Business: Provision of grants for scientific and technological research related to precious metals. Recognition of excellent analysis of precious metals and holding of seminars and other events.
TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K.
Headquarters: 22F, Tokyo Building, 2-7-3 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Representative: Koichiro Tanaka, Representative Director & CEO
Founded: 1885
Incorporated: 1918
Capital: 500 million yen
Employees: 2,393 (as of March 31, 2020)
Sales: JPY 992,679,879,000 (FY2019)
Main businesses: Manufacture, sales, import and export of precious metals (platinum, gold, silver, and others) and various types of industrial precious metals products.
URL: https://tanaka-preciousmetals.com
Press Inquiries
TANAKA Holdings Co., Ltd.
https://tanaka-preciousmetals.com/en/inquiries-for-media/
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More Impactful Partnership to Address Asia's 'Gathering Food Security Storm' Urged by Regional Plant Science Industry
"Our regional supply of safe and nutritious food is being threatened like never before," said Dr. Siang Hee Tan, CropLife Asia Executive Director. "These unprecedented times call for an unprecedented response -- including strong partnership among the region's food supply stakeholders.
"In the fields, regional farmers are contending with limited natural resources, increasingly erratic weather, and a greater number of weeds, diseases and pests with which to contend. Sadly, the COVID-19 pandemic has only added to the pressure on our regional growers as well as the larger food supply chain.
"The meetings this week are a great opportunity to bring our regional food supply stakeholders closer together in delivering shared solutions. It's critical that we use this opportunity to drive more impactful partnership across the food supply chain and meet the challenges posed by the gathering food security storm we face in Asia."
Earlier this year, the UN's 2020 State of Food Security & Nutrition in the World concluded that almost 690 million globally went hungry in 2019. The research also indicated that Asia is home to the greatest number of undernourished people.
In another policy brief released by the UN recently, The Impact of COVID-19 on Food Security and Nutrition, serious concerns were also raised regarding the effect COVID-19 is having globally on the most vulnerable parts of society already experiencing hunger and malnutrition.
Plant science continues to play a crucial role in helping feed our growing global population. Biotech crops are developed with improved traits such as increased yield, better resistance to pests and/or improved nutrition, among others. These traits are important tools that enable farmers to meet global challenges such as food insecurity. Meanwhile, farmers continue to rely on crop protection products to produce more food on less land and raise productivity per hectare. Without crop protection products, 40 percent of global rice and maize harvests could be lost every year and losses for fruits and vegetables could be as high as 50-90 percent.
About CropLife Asia
CropLife Asia is a non-profit society and the regional organization of CropLife International, the voice of the global plant science industry. We advocate a safe, secure food supply, and our vision is food security enabled by innovative agriculture. CropLife Asia supports the work of 15 member associations across the continent and is led by six member companies at the forefront of crop protection, seeds and/or biotechnology research and development. For more information, visit us at www.croplifeasia.org.
For more information please contact:
Duke Hipp
Director, Public Affairs & Strategic Partnerships
CropLife Asia
Tel: +65 6221 1615
duke.hipp@croplifeasia.org
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China Risun Announces 2020 Interim Results
HONG KONG, Sep 1, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - China Risun Group Limited ("China Risun", or the "Group", stock code: 1907), the global leading integrated coke, coking chemical and refined chemical producer and supplier in China, has announced its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2020 ("1H2020" or "the reporting period").
Affected by the outbreak of COVID-19 and the decrease in international oil price, during the reporting period, the Group's revenue recorded at RMB8,133.1 million. Gross profit amounted to RMB1,157.2 million and gross profit margin increased slightly to 14.2%. Profit attributable to owner of the Company was approximately RMB351.0 million. Basic earnings per share was RMB8.58 cents. Cash and cash equivalents amounted to RMB929.4 million.
To reward shareholders for their continuous support, the Board determined an interim dividend of RMB2.58 cents per share, with total interim dividend amount of approximately HK$119.4 million.
Leverage existing coal chemicals production capacity to tap into hydrogen market at lower production cost
The Group believes that hydrogen is one of the major strategic directions for the PRC's energy transformation and the Group has huge advantage in refining the coking coal which contains hydrogen chemical element. By making use of its existing coal chemicals production capacity, the Group plans to focus on the pure hydrogen production and utilisation where the production bases are located at. During the reporting period, the Group co-operated with the People's Government of Dingzhou City in relation to the production, storage and transportation of hydrogen and the construction and operation of hydrogen refueling stations. Such pure hydrogen production facility commenced to operation in July 2020.
In addition, we actively optimized the product portfolio of the refined chemical business and focused on products with positive market expectations. In Tangshan production base, the new styrene production project, which possesses annual production of 300,000 tons and was under construction since 2019, will commence production by the end of 2020.
Further strengthening leading position via JV and operation management services
By leveraging its vertically integrated production chain and extensive experience of more than 25 years in the coal chemical industry, the Group will continue to tap into the downstream refined chemicals markets, aiming of developing more sustainable and striving for the best benefits for all of its stakeholders.
During the Reporting Period, the Group obtained all necessary approvals from the People's Governments in Liaoning Province and Lingyuan City after the establishment of a joint venture with Lingyuan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. in December 2019 and subsequently consolidated into the Group after establishment. It is expected that the construction will commence in the second half of 2020.
Furthermore, the Group entered into one new operating management agreement with an independent third party in Jiangxi Province with annual coke production capacity of 1,300,000 tons. The project jn Jiangxi Province hallmarked a new phase that for the first time the Group has expanded its operation and management business footprint into the East China region. It also laid a solid foundation for the Group to further explore the local market. Meanwhile, several new operating management projects are proceeded steadily. Regarding to the new trading company established in Japan, the Group started to import coke from Japanese coke producers, which is remarkable in its history. The Group aimed to expand its trading business from merely export to import & export in future to increase its influence in international trading market.
Looking forward, the Group will continue increasing its market share especially through both light and heavy asset approaches and further expand coke production business. For the refined chemicals, the Group is examining the whole refined chemicals production chain to further develop high potential products e.g. caprolactam to enhance profitability. With an aim of strengthening its leading position as a global coke and refined chemicals producer and supplier, the Group will make use of establishment of new subsidiaries/joint ventures, acquisition of existing coke and refined chemicals producers together with provision of operation management services to third parties in different provinces of China.
About China Risun Group Limited
China Risun Group Limited is the world's largest independent producer and supplier of coke by volume in 2019, according to Frost & Sullivan. The Group is an integrated coke, coking chemicals and refined chemicals producer and supplier in China and holds leading positions in a number of refined chemicals sectors both in China and globally. The vertically-integrated business model together with more than 25 years of experience in the coal chemicals industry production chain has enabled the Group to further tap the downstream refined chemicals markets and hence diversify its income sources and create greater value.
China Risun has been listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since March 2019 and is now included in various index series, including Hang Seng Composite Index, Hang Seng Stock Connect Hong Kong Index, Hang Seng Stock Connect Hong Kong MidCap & SmallCap Index, Hang Seng Stock Connect Hong Kong SmallCap Index, Hang Seng SCHK Mainland China Companies Index, and Hang Seng SCHK ex-AH Companies Index. For more details, please visit http://www.risun.com/En/
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Affected by the outbreak of COVID-19 and the decrease in international oil price, during the reporting period, the Group's revenue recorded at RMB8,133.1 million. Gross profit amounted to RMB1,157.2 million and gross profit margin increased slightly to 14.2%. Profit attributable to owner of the Company was approximately RMB351.0 million. Basic earnings per share was RMB8.58 cents. Cash and cash equivalents amounted to RMB929.4 million.
To reward shareholders for their continuous support, the Board determined an interim dividend of RMB2.58 cents per share, with total interim dividend amount of approximately HK$119.4 million.
Leverage existing coal chemicals production capacity to tap into hydrogen market at lower production cost
The Group believes that hydrogen is one of the major strategic directions for the PRC's energy transformation and the Group has huge advantage in refining the coking coal which contains hydrogen chemical element. By making use of its existing coal chemicals production capacity, the Group plans to focus on the pure hydrogen production and utilisation where the production bases are located at. During the reporting period, the Group co-operated with the People's Government of Dingzhou City in relation to the production, storage and transportation of hydrogen and the construction and operation of hydrogen refueling stations. Such pure hydrogen production facility commenced to operation in July 2020.
In addition, we actively optimized the product portfolio of the refined chemical business and focused on products with positive market expectations. In Tangshan production base, the new styrene production project, which possesses annual production of 300,000 tons and was under construction since 2019, will commence production by the end of 2020.
Further strengthening leading position via JV and operation management services
By leveraging its vertically integrated production chain and extensive experience of more than 25 years in the coal chemical industry, the Group will continue to tap into the downstream refined chemicals markets, aiming of developing more sustainable and striving for the best benefits for all of its stakeholders.
During the Reporting Period, the Group obtained all necessary approvals from the People's Governments in Liaoning Province and Lingyuan City after the establishment of a joint venture with Lingyuan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. in December 2019 and subsequently consolidated into the Group after establishment. It is expected that the construction will commence in the second half of 2020.
Furthermore, the Group entered into one new operating management agreement with an independent third party in Jiangxi Province with annual coke production capacity of 1,300,000 tons. The project jn Jiangxi Province hallmarked a new phase that for the first time the Group has expanded its operation and management business footprint into the East China region. It also laid a solid foundation for the Group to further explore the local market. Meanwhile, several new operating management projects are proceeded steadily. Regarding to the new trading company established in Japan, the Group started to import coke from Japanese coke producers, which is remarkable in its history. The Group aimed to expand its trading business from merely export to import & export in future to increase its influence in international trading market.
Looking forward, the Group will continue increasing its market share especially through both light and heavy asset approaches and further expand coke production business. For the refined chemicals, the Group is examining the whole refined chemicals production chain to further develop high potential products e.g. caprolactam to enhance profitability. With an aim of strengthening its leading position as a global coke and refined chemicals producer and supplier, the Group will make use of establishment of new subsidiaries/joint ventures, acquisition of existing coke and refined chemicals producers together with provision of operation management services to third parties in different provinces of China.
About China Risun Group Limited
China Risun Group Limited is the world's largest independent producer and supplier of coke by volume in 2019, according to Frost & Sullivan. The Group is an integrated coke, coking chemicals and refined chemicals producer and supplier in China and holds leading positions in a number of refined chemicals sectors both in China and globally. The vertically-integrated business model together with more than 25 years of experience in the coal chemicals industry production chain has enabled the Group to further tap the downstream refined chemicals markets and hence diversify its income sources and create greater value.
China Risun has been listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since March 2019 and is now included in various index series, including Hang Seng Composite Index, Hang Seng Stock Connect Hong Kong Index, Hang Seng Stock Connect Hong Kong MidCap & SmallCap Index, Hang Seng Stock Connect Hong Kong SmallCap Index, Hang Seng SCHK Mainland China Companies Index, and Hang Seng SCHK ex-AH Companies Index. For more details, please visit http://www.risun.com/En/
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GOME's "Home Living" Strategy Speeds Up at Its All-out Efforts
HONG KONG, Sep 1, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - GOME Retail Holdings Limited (493.HK) today announced its unaudited interim results for the six months period ended 30 June 2020 (the "Reporting Period").
"Home Living" Strategy Speeds Up at Its All-out Efforts and Successfully Completed the First Phase of Strategical Development
In the first half of 2020, the Group implemented steadily the strategy of developing into an Internet-based enterprise and strived to become an integrated solution, service solution and supply chain provider. During the Reporting Period, GOME made full use of the innovative platform of "Community + GOME APP" to capture chances brought by the rapid transformation of consumption pattern in "Stay Home Economy" and promote significantly the cash conversion rate of social media based online channels. As a result, the GMV of "Community + GOME APP" with GOME Retails' genes grew by more than 70% year-on-year ("yoy") and daily GMV occasionally exceeded RMB 1 billion. During the Reporting period, the number of online communities of the Group grew by over 40% yoy, representing a 65% increase yoy.
Explore Continuously New Retail Model and Create GOME's New Growth Engine of Quality Live Streaming
During the Reporting Period, GOME has developed proactively its community marketing and leveraged fully GOME's advantages on supply chain, logistics and community social interaction. As a result, the cash conversion rate of GOME online community reached 30%, significantly higher than the industry average, increasing by more than 150% yoy. Additionally, GOME capitalized on its resources and capabilities, creating a quality live streaming model characterized by "Knowledge-based contents + Premium IP with huge traffic + Immersive scenario". In the first half of 2020, the Group already hosted over 2,000 live streaming events with various themes and scale, reaching over 100 million people. During the Reporting Period, in four of the super live streaming events, the Group's sales revenue reached RMB2,500 million in total. In the second half of this year, the Group will continue to cooperate with top media platforms - CCTV News, and launch steadily live streaming events across 31 provinces nationwide, showcasing GOME's "New Growth Engine" and its localized retail model to consumer across the country.
Open Supply Chain, Introduced Two Strategic Partners to Enjoy Mutual Benefits through Collaboration
The Group entered into strategic cooperation agreements with JD.com and Pinduoduo.com in the first half of the year. As of now, all parties have deployed in-depth cooperation at different areas. During the Reporting Period, the GMV of the Group generated from JD.com, Pinduoduo.com and other e-commerce platforms grew more than 100 times yoy. In August 2020, GOME and JD.com have strengthened their cooperation by signing up the joint procurement with an aggregate amount of RMB30 billion. This was ranked the largest year to date procurement in the home appliance and 3C industry in China. At the same time, GOME has been offered access to more than 20,000 non-home appliances SKU from JD.com. This line-up is expected to facilitate the sales of GOME's full range of products. GOME will utilize the in-depth cooperation with JD.com and Pinduoduo.com to share edge resources from each other, develop continuously new retail model with online and offline integration, as well as realize greater synergy effects.
Coped Actively with the Impact of Pandemic and Cash-on-hand Maintained at a Healthy Level
The Group's large home appliance business, which was affected seriously by COVID-19, recovered in the second quarter this year as reflected by a quarter-on-quarter increase of 103% in its sales revenue. On a positive note, sales revenue generated from large home appliance business remained resilient in June 2020 as compared with the corresponding period last year. In addition, overall gross profit margin also showed a trend of month-on-month recovery since the second quarter this year and rebounded to the pre-pandemic level of 16%. Moreover, the operating cost was reduced by 26% yoy. With regard to financial strength, the Group maintained sufficient capital after the full repayment of US$500 million overseas bonds during the Reporting Period. The Group's cash and cash equivalents amounted to approximately RMB11.4 billion as at June-end, illustrating a healthy financial position.
Entered into the Second Strategic Phase of Open Sharing and Constructed GOME's Own Integrated Online and Offline Retail Ecosystem
In the first half of this year, the Group's business was impacted by the novel coronavirus outbreak. However, the Group withstood this stress test and successfully achieved the goal of the first phase of strategic development. Going forward, the Group will ride on its 33 years of industry experience and break new grounds in a bid to construct an integrated online and offline retail ecosystem featuring Social Interaction + Commerce + Sharing. GOME is the only enterprise in China with online and offline dual platform focused on "Social Interaction + Commerce + Sharing" covering a wide of products. With regard to offline platform, the Group has established a huge team of approximately 100,000 staffs, spanning across over 2,800 stores in the country. Leveraging the physical store as the center and the community in a grid network, the Group provides its services to users within three to five kilometers. Besides, leveraging the staff as the link, the Group realizes the face to face social communication with users. Turning to online platform, the Group owns e-commerce channels which supports the localized operational development, social sharing platforms, extensive communities and widespread users. In the past, by taking advantages of these resources, the Group maintained its leading position in vertical integrated home appliances sector. For future growth, the Group will be more open-minded to enter into the second phase of strategic development with a goal of achieving win-win synergy.
Focus on Local Retail and Create a New GOME Oriented by User, Platform and Technology
Capitalizing on the solid foundation of its current home appliances sales business, the Group plans to increase the business volume mainly through platforms, servicing external enterprises and the whole society. On the online platform, the Group will support the development of enterprises by empowering traffic, SaaS and intelligent management and decision system. Regarding the empowerment of traffic, the Group will share with the third parties its accumulated high-quality traffic with high conversion rate to facilitate their business development. With regard to the empowerment of SaaS, the Group will utilize its local retail operation and adopt the mode "one store one webpage" at the store end, "one community one webpage" at the community end, and "one people one webpage" at the user end to achieve coordinated development, significantly reducing their operation costs and helping them to diverse online traffic to offline. In the meantime, by offering digitalized artificial intelligence management tools, the Group will help them to enhance enterprise decision making and operation efficiency. In tandem with the ever-changing consumption pattern, online transaction has become a pronounced development trend. Therefore, e-commerce operation will emerge as the triggering point and remote control of industry development. The two core elements of offline platform were the showcase of quality products and life services. The Group will leverage fully the competitive advantages of its store network and provide strategic support selectively to those online enterprises which do not have offline outlets to showcase their quality products and associated scenarios. Moreover, the Group will strive to improve the offline supply chain operational efficiency of these enterprises by over 40%. Meanwhile, underpinned by various offline scenarios, the Group intends to bring in new operation model and content of home services. With the extension of home scenarios, namely living room, dining room, kitchen and showroom, and the theme of entertainment-styled marketing, the Group will provide users with various services related to catering, entertainment, shopping, leisure, etc., in the offline platform. Moreover, as a social interaction venue, the offline platform also provides users with quality time in social communication, meeting, relaxing and family gathering, thereby satisfying different demands from members of various ages and classes and of different families within the community. With its professional service team, GOME's offline stores are able to provide comprehensive scenarios of In-store and In-home services at different time throughout the day. Leveraging the marketing of gridded community backed by life services and selected quality product showcases will render users in the community to become the loyalty member of GOME's platforms, which serve users' daily consumption needs and become cash conversion drivers.
Construct Diversified Vertical Supply Chain System through Stringent Selection
GOME will continue to strengthen its leading position in home appliances sector by deploying high efficiency and low-cost operation models. Moreover, the Group will continue to build up the supply chain system of home appliances with the advantages of rich product mix and bargaining prices. This would spearhead the Group to raise its market shares, regain its original position in the market and realize greater profitability in the shortest possible time. The Group strives to increase the number of offline stores by 20% next year or the first half of 2022 and realize the promotion of sales scale and profitability. In addition, the Group plans to share with the third parties its supply chain edges. This would be achieved by opening its supply chain system to the strategic partners and franchises in low tier markets. Leveraging the expansion drive of supply chain cooperation between the Company and strategic partners with same open-minded approach, this would enable all parties to consolidate their resources and create more opportunities through multiple channel sales, thus generating win-win situations for all parties. In third-tier to sixth-tier cities, the Group will continue to employ its asset-light business model to speed up the franchise expansion and explore profoundly the market potentials.
Meanwhile, the Group plans to expand its product mix to non-home appliance products through stringent selection. The Group currently completed the self-operated vertical sales trial of fresh foods, hotpot foods and home decoration services in its full industry chain. The Group has fine-tuned the operational process and improved the business model during these trials. The management expected to beef up efforts to promote such businesses in the future. Stringent selection use strict selection standard to further develop the integration advantages of upstream supply chain, expanding the customized category and scale. By providing the best quality goods and services, GOME can form a deep traffic interactive platform, transforming high-quality private sector traffic into public sector traffic of the platform, and improve the conversion rate of the platform.
All business segments in the "Dual Platforms" ecosystem are expected to benefit from mutual complement, connection and interaction. Both users and retailers would be served by rapid developing models such as panic-buying in social media, bonus sharing, entertainment-styled marketing and one store one webpage strategy. This in turn would bring about cash conversion. All platforms would share information and all retailers in the platforms would converge their traffic. Thus, the private sector traffic would precipitate the inflow of public sector traffic, thereby creating a virtuous cycle of expansion.
Mr. Wang Junzhou, Chief Executive Officer of GOME concludes: "In the first half of 2020, the Group has continued to uphold the spirit of persevering amidst adversities and overcame the difficulties and challenges from the pandemic. Meanwhile, the Group has further enhanced its capabilities on business operation and the scope of services in virtue of its advantages gained over the years. In the future, the Group will consolidate and optimize its existing resources in order to exert the 'multiplier effect' and gain more resources, enabling the 'leaping' transformation from the self-operated retailer to become GOME ecosystem combining online and offline platform. GOME is the only domestic online and offline enterprise with full category of online and offline platforms, which is focused on 'Social Interaction + Commerce + Sharing'. In the past, we have been leading the industry in the vertical field of household appliances around price advantage, service standard and brand reputation. Now, we are going to enter the second stage of strategy faster and more openly, with full confidence and expectation: focus on local retail, and create a new GOME oriented by user, platform and technology".
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source http://www.acnnewswire.com/press-release/english/61213/
"Home Living" Strategy Speeds Up at Its All-out Efforts and Successfully Completed the First Phase of Strategical Development
In the first half of 2020, the Group implemented steadily the strategy of developing into an Internet-based enterprise and strived to become an integrated solution, service solution and supply chain provider. During the Reporting Period, GOME made full use of the innovative platform of "Community + GOME APP" to capture chances brought by the rapid transformation of consumption pattern in "Stay Home Economy" and promote significantly the cash conversion rate of social media based online channels. As a result, the GMV of "Community + GOME APP" with GOME Retails' genes grew by more than 70% year-on-year ("yoy") and daily GMV occasionally exceeded RMB 1 billion. During the Reporting period, the number of online communities of the Group grew by over 40% yoy, representing a 65% increase yoy.
Explore Continuously New Retail Model and Create GOME's New Growth Engine of Quality Live Streaming
During the Reporting Period, GOME has developed proactively its community marketing and leveraged fully GOME's advantages on supply chain, logistics and community social interaction. As a result, the cash conversion rate of GOME online community reached 30%, significantly higher than the industry average, increasing by more than 150% yoy. Additionally, GOME capitalized on its resources and capabilities, creating a quality live streaming model characterized by "Knowledge-based contents + Premium IP with huge traffic + Immersive scenario". In the first half of 2020, the Group already hosted over 2,000 live streaming events with various themes and scale, reaching over 100 million people. During the Reporting Period, in four of the super live streaming events, the Group's sales revenue reached RMB2,500 million in total. In the second half of this year, the Group will continue to cooperate with top media platforms - CCTV News, and launch steadily live streaming events across 31 provinces nationwide, showcasing GOME's "New Growth Engine" and its localized retail model to consumer across the country.
Open Supply Chain, Introduced Two Strategic Partners to Enjoy Mutual Benefits through Collaboration
The Group entered into strategic cooperation agreements with JD.com and Pinduoduo.com in the first half of the year. As of now, all parties have deployed in-depth cooperation at different areas. During the Reporting Period, the GMV of the Group generated from JD.com, Pinduoduo.com and other e-commerce platforms grew more than 100 times yoy. In August 2020, GOME and JD.com have strengthened their cooperation by signing up the joint procurement with an aggregate amount of RMB30 billion. This was ranked the largest year to date procurement in the home appliance and 3C industry in China. At the same time, GOME has been offered access to more than 20,000 non-home appliances SKU from JD.com. This line-up is expected to facilitate the sales of GOME's full range of products. GOME will utilize the in-depth cooperation with JD.com and Pinduoduo.com to share edge resources from each other, develop continuously new retail model with online and offline integration, as well as realize greater synergy effects.
Coped Actively with the Impact of Pandemic and Cash-on-hand Maintained at a Healthy Level
The Group's large home appliance business, which was affected seriously by COVID-19, recovered in the second quarter this year as reflected by a quarter-on-quarter increase of 103% in its sales revenue. On a positive note, sales revenue generated from large home appliance business remained resilient in June 2020 as compared with the corresponding period last year. In addition, overall gross profit margin also showed a trend of month-on-month recovery since the second quarter this year and rebounded to the pre-pandemic level of 16%. Moreover, the operating cost was reduced by 26% yoy. With regard to financial strength, the Group maintained sufficient capital after the full repayment of US$500 million overseas bonds during the Reporting Period. The Group's cash and cash equivalents amounted to approximately RMB11.4 billion as at June-end, illustrating a healthy financial position.
Entered into the Second Strategic Phase of Open Sharing and Constructed GOME's Own Integrated Online and Offline Retail Ecosystem
In the first half of this year, the Group's business was impacted by the novel coronavirus outbreak. However, the Group withstood this stress test and successfully achieved the goal of the first phase of strategic development. Going forward, the Group will ride on its 33 years of industry experience and break new grounds in a bid to construct an integrated online and offline retail ecosystem featuring Social Interaction + Commerce + Sharing. GOME is the only enterprise in China with online and offline dual platform focused on "Social Interaction + Commerce + Sharing" covering a wide of products. With regard to offline platform, the Group has established a huge team of approximately 100,000 staffs, spanning across over 2,800 stores in the country. Leveraging the physical store as the center and the community in a grid network, the Group provides its services to users within three to five kilometers. Besides, leveraging the staff as the link, the Group realizes the face to face social communication with users. Turning to online platform, the Group owns e-commerce channels which supports the localized operational development, social sharing platforms, extensive communities and widespread users. In the past, by taking advantages of these resources, the Group maintained its leading position in vertical integrated home appliances sector. For future growth, the Group will be more open-minded to enter into the second phase of strategic development with a goal of achieving win-win synergy.
Focus on Local Retail and Create a New GOME Oriented by User, Platform and Technology
Capitalizing on the solid foundation of its current home appliances sales business, the Group plans to increase the business volume mainly through platforms, servicing external enterprises and the whole society. On the online platform, the Group will support the development of enterprises by empowering traffic, SaaS and intelligent management and decision system. Regarding the empowerment of traffic, the Group will share with the third parties its accumulated high-quality traffic with high conversion rate to facilitate their business development. With regard to the empowerment of SaaS, the Group will utilize its local retail operation and adopt the mode "one store one webpage" at the store end, "one community one webpage" at the community end, and "one people one webpage" at the user end to achieve coordinated development, significantly reducing their operation costs and helping them to diverse online traffic to offline. In the meantime, by offering digitalized artificial intelligence management tools, the Group will help them to enhance enterprise decision making and operation efficiency. In tandem with the ever-changing consumption pattern, online transaction has become a pronounced development trend. Therefore, e-commerce operation will emerge as the triggering point and remote control of industry development. The two core elements of offline platform were the showcase of quality products and life services. The Group will leverage fully the competitive advantages of its store network and provide strategic support selectively to those online enterprises which do not have offline outlets to showcase their quality products and associated scenarios. Moreover, the Group will strive to improve the offline supply chain operational efficiency of these enterprises by over 40%. Meanwhile, underpinned by various offline scenarios, the Group intends to bring in new operation model and content of home services. With the extension of home scenarios, namely living room, dining room, kitchen and showroom, and the theme of entertainment-styled marketing, the Group will provide users with various services related to catering, entertainment, shopping, leisure, etc., in the offline platform. Moreover, as a social interaction venue, the offline platform also provides users with quality time in social communication, meeting, relaxing and family gathering, thereby satisfying different demands from members of various ages and classes and of different families within the community. With its professional service team, GOME's offline stores are able to provide comprehensive scenarios of In-store and In-home services at different time throughout the day. Leveraging the marketing of gridded community backed by life services and selected quality product showcases will render users in the community to become the loyalty member of GOME's platforms, which serve users' daily consumption needs and become cash conversion drivers.
Construct Diversified Vertical Supply Chain System through Stringent Selection
GOME will continue to strengthen its leading position in home appliances sector by deploying high efficiency and low-cost operation models. Moreover, the Group will continue to build up the supply chain system of home appliances with the advantages of rich product mix and bargaining prices. This would spearhead the Group to raise its market shares, regain its original position in the market and realize greater profitability in the shortest possible time. The Group strives to increase the number of offline stores by 20% next year or the first half of 2022 and realize the promotion of sales scale and profitability. In addition, the Group plans to share with the third parties its supply chain edges. This would be achieved by opening its supply chain system to the strategic partners and franchises in low tier markets. Leveraging the expansion drive of supply chain cooperation between the Company and strategic partners with same open-minded approach, this would enable all parties to consolidate their resources and create more opportunities through multiple channel sales, thus generating win-win situations for all parties. In third-tier to sixth-tier cities, the Group will continue to employ its asset-light business model to speed up the franchise expansion and explore profoundly the market potentials.
Meanwhile, the Group plans to expand its product mix to non-home appliance products through stringent selection. The Group currently completed the self-operated vertical sales trial of fresh foods, hotpot foods and home decoration services in its full industry chain. The Group has fine-tuned the operational process and improved the business model during these trials. The management expected to beef up efforts to promote such businesses in the future. Stringent selection use strict selection standard to further develop the integration advantages of upstream supply chain, expanding the customized category and scale. By providing the best quality goods and services, GOME can form a deep traffic interactive platform, transforming high-quality private sector traffic into public sector traffic of the platform, and improve the conversion rate of the platform.
All business segments in the "Dual Platforms" ecosystem are expected to benefit from mutual complement, connection and interaction. Both users and retailers would be served by rapid developing models such as panic-buying in social media, bonus sharing, entertainment-styled marketing and one store one webpage strategy. This in turn would bring about cash conversion. All platforms would share information and all retailers in the platforms would converge their traffic. Thus, the private sector traffic would precipitate the inflow of public sector traffic, thereby creating a virtuous cycle of expansion.
Mr. Wang Junzhou, Chief Executive Officer of GOME concludes: "In the first half of 2020, the Group has continued to uphold the spirit of persevering amidst adversities and overcame the difficulties and challenges from the pandemic. Meanwhile, the Group has further enhanced its capabilities on business operation and the scope of services in virtue of its advantages gained over the years. In the future, the Group will consolidate and optimize its existing resources in order to exert the 'multiplier effect' and gain more resources, enabling the 'leaping' transformation from the self-operated retailer to become GOME ecosystem combining online and offline platform. GOME is the only domestic online and offline enterprise with full category of online and offline platforms, which is focused on 'Social Interaction + Commerce + Sharing'. In the past, we have been leading the industry in the vertical field of household appliances around price advantage, service standard and brand reputation. Now, we are going to enter the second stage of strategy faster and more openly, with full confidence and expectation: focus on local retail, and create a new GOME oriented by user, platform and technology".
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Singapore's Elite Partners Acquires Warehouse in Poland for over EUR30 Million (S$48.6 Million) from Subsidiary of Sovereign Fund GIC
SINGAPORE, Aug 31, 2020 - (JCN Newswire) - Elite Partners Capital ("Elite Partners" or "Elite") announced today it has acquired a warehouse in Mszczonow, Poland for more than EUR30 million (S$48.6 million) from a subsidiary of Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC. The transaction spearheads its build-up of a portfolio of specialised logistics assets in Europe to address opportunities arising from COVID-19-related disruptions.
Elite, a Singapore-based private equity firm, said its Elite Logistics Fund (the "Fund") acquired the warehouse from GIC's wholly owned P3 Logistics Parks. Headquartered in the Czech Republic, the latter also owns a second logistics hub in the Polish town of Piotrkow.
The 58,500 sqm (629,700 square feet) facility is the largest warehouse in PepsiCo Poland's distribution network, and consolidates the global F&B leader's logistics and warehouse processes, which were previously run out of several different locations across the Central European nation.
The transaction increases Elite's presence in the Mszczonow Park to six buildings, with a total area of over 230,000 sqm (2,476,000 square feet). It follows the acquisition of five buildings in March 2020, which was one of the largest transactions in Poland's logistics sector this year.
Situated south-west of Warsaw, the Mszczonow warehouse is well served by expressways and motorways connecting the Polish capital to Berlin. It is also strategically located just an hour's drive from the Lodz terminal - the main terminal for the Chengdu-Lodz railway, linking Europe to China.
The latest acquisition is the Fund's third since May 2020 and has proceeded despite the market and economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Fund is building a portfolio of European assets focusing on specialised warehousing (in particular, for e-commerce fulfilment and food logistics distribution), cold chain logistics as well as logistics infrastructure. Launched in January 2020, the Pan-European fund is targeting such specialised assets in Poland and the United Kingdom - where it already owns eight other properties - amongst other countries in Europe.
Elite Partners believes that recent supply chain disruptions - first due to Brexit, followed by the COVID-19 pandemic since the beginning of 2020 - have opened up new challenges and opportunities for specialised logistics in Europe.
Mr Victor Song, CEO and Managing Director of Elite Partners, said "We are elated by the completion of this acquisition. The dedicated warehouse in Mszczonow is a vital part of our strategy to build up a Pan-European portfolio of specialised logistics assets in Poland and the United Kingdom with specific geographical focus in the key European logistics hubs.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need to establish dedicated warehouses for sorting and distribution to meet the surge in e-commerce and cold chain to store and distribute food and perishables at a time when more people are working from home. In turn, these require support from specialised logistics infrastructure. Our Fund will cater to all three aspects," added Mr Enoch Tan, Portfolio Director of the Fund.
Mr Tan noted that Poland has cost advantages for e-commerce fulfilment, exceptional land, sea and air connectivity and is an important component of China's Belt and Road Initiative.
"Poland also serves as a bridge for commerce and investments between Europe and Asia. We intend to leverage on Elite Partners' expertise in private and public capital markets to unlock value and opportunities in specialised logistics," said Mr Desmond Wang, Executive Director of JMD Holdings, a co-investor in the Fund and a unitholder of Singapore Exchange (SGX")-listed Elite Commercial REIT.
Incorporated in 2017, Elite Partners has launched four funds to date. It is also the Sponsor of Elite Commercial REIT, the first sterling-denominated Singapore REIT listed on the SGX.
Media Contact
Elite Partners Capital
Emily Goh, emilygoh@elitepartnerscapital.com, tel: +65 6779 9288
WeR1 Consultants Pte Ltd
Isaac Tang, elite@wer1.net, tel: +65 6737 4844
About Elite Partners Capital
Incorporated in 2017, Singapore-based Elite Partners Capital is an alternative asset management company focused on the management of yield-accretive global assets with high growth potential and well-defined exit strategies. Backed by a team with proven expertise in private equity and real estate investment trusts (REITs), its threefold investment philosophy aims to protect initial capital, preserve investment value and create new growth opportunities.
Elite Partners Capital holds a Capital Market Services (CMS) licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) under the Securities and Futures (Licensing and Conduct of Business) Regulations. For more information, please visit: http://elitepartnerscapital.com
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Elite, a Singapore-based private equity firm, said its Elite Logistics Fund (the "Fund") acquired the warehouse from GIC's wholly owned P3 Logistics Parks. Headquartered in the Czech Republic, the latter also owns a second logistics hub in the Polish town of Piotrkow.
The 58,500 sqm (629,700 square feet) facility is the largest warehouse in PepsiCo Poland's distribution network, and consolidates the global F&B leader's logistics and warehouse processes, which were previously run out of several different locations across the Central European nation.
The transaction increases Elite's presence in the Mszczonow Park to six buildings, with a total area of over 230,000 sqm (2,476,000 square feet). It follows the acquisition of five buildings in March 2020, which was one of the largest transactions in Poland's logistics sector this year.
Situated south-west of Warsaw, the Mszczonow warehouse is well served by expressways and motorways connecting the Polish capital to Berlin. It is also strategically located just an hour's drive from the Lodz terminal - the main terminal for the Chengdu-Lodz railway, linking Europe to China.
The latest acquisition is the Fund's third since May 2020 and has proceeded despite the market and economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Fund is building a portfolio of European assets focusing on specialised warehousing (in particular, for e-commerce fulfilment and food logistics distribution), cold chain logistics as well as logistics infrastructure. Launched in January 2020, the Pan-European fund is targeting such specialised assets in Poland and the United Kingdom - where it already owns eight other properties - amongst other countries in Europe.
Elite Partners believes that recent supply chain disruptions - first due to Brexit, followed by the COVID-19 pandemic since the beginning of 2020 - have opened up new challenges and opportunities for specialised logistics in Europe.
Mr Victor Song, CEO and Managing Director of Elite Partners, said "We are elated by the completion of this acquisition. The dedicated warehouse in Mszczonow is a vital part of our strategy to build up a Pan-European portfolio of specialised logistics assets in Poland and the United Kingdom with specific geographical focus in the key European logistics hubs.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need to establish dedicated warehouses for sorting and distribution to meet the surge in e-commerce and cold chain to store and distribute food and perishables at a time when more people are working from home. In turn, these require support from specialised logistics infrastructure. Our Fund will cater to all three aspects," added Mr Enoch Tan, Portfolio Director of the Fund.
Mr Tan noted that Poland has cost advantages for e-commerce fulfilment, exceptional land, sea and air connectivity and is an important component of China's Belt and Road Initiative.
"Poland also serves as a bridge for commerce and investments between Europe and Asia. We intend to leverage on Elite Partners' expertise in private and public capital markets to unlock value and opportunities in specialised logistics," said Mr Desmond Wang, Executive Director of JMD Holdings, a co-investor in the Fund and a unitholder of Singapore Exchange (SGX")-listed Elite Commercial REIT.
Incorporated in 2017, Elite Partners has launched four funds to date. It is also the Sponsor of Elite Commercial REIT, the first sterling-denominated Singapore REIT listed on the SGX.
Media Contact
Elite Partners Capital
Emily Goh, emilygoh@elitepartnerscapital.com, tel: +65 6779 9288
WeR1 Consultants Pte Ltd
Isaac Tang, elite@wer1.net, tel: +65 6737 4844
About Elite Partners Capital
Incorporated in 2017, Singapore-based Elite Partners Capital is an alternative asset management company focused on the management of yield-accretive global assets with high growth potential and well-defined exit strategies. Backed by a team with proven expertise in private equity and real estate investment trusts (REITs), its threefold investment philosophy aims to protect initial capital, preserve investment value and create new growth opportunities.
Elite Partners Capital holds a Capital Market Services (CMS) licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) under the Securities and Futures (Licensing and Conduct of Business) Regulations. For more information, please visit: http://elitepartnerscapital.com
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Kidsland Stays Resilient during Challenging 1H 2020
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Despite tough operating conditions, the Group stays focused on executing its many workstreams under the digitalization and customer-centric strategic blueprint. Kidsland has achieved another important milestone of its efforts in online and offline integration of the customer journey in spite of the current challenging business environment. The Group launched LEGO Certified Online Store (https://LEGO.kidslandgroup.com) in Hong Kong on 3 August 2020, offering the most diversified and comprehensive LEGO product range in Asia Pacific, which recorded strong sales on the first day of operation, with turnover exceeded HK$4 million in just one day. Also, it opened its fifth LEGO Certified Store in Hong Kong on 29 April 2020 which witnessed satisfactory results. Furthermore, the Group's first flagship Kidsland store under the new image and brand platform was launched in Beijing on 28 August 2020.
In the first half of 2020, the Group's revenue from Hong Kong business continued to stay resilient at approximately RMB66.3 million (1H 2019: RMB65.5 million). With intensified expense and product procurement management, the Group managed to increase its cash position from RMB36.2 million as of 31 December 2019 to RMB117.8 million as of 30 June 2020 and reduced its inventory from RMB576.4 million to RMB473.9 million. Selling, distribution, general and administration expenses also decreased by 7.4% to approximately RMB340.9 million. Excluding the non-cash impairment provision of property, plant and equipment, and right-of-use assets, selling, distribution, general and administration expenses would have decreased by 12.9%.
The Group also continuously optimised its retail network in Mainland China and renegotiated and exited loss-making retail locations. As at 30 June 2020, the number of self-operated retail points of sale consisting of retail shops and consignment counters was 717, down from 750 a year ago.
Mr. Lee Ching Yiu, Chairman and CEO of Kidsland, said, "Despite the uncertainty retail environment under COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical uncertainty, the Group has stayed resilient and strengthened our cash position in the first half of this year, while optimizing our retail network to enhance overall efficiency. Moreover, the Group has continued our journey of digitalization and forming an O2O omnichannel that offers more comprehensive shopping experiences to customers. We will continue to improve our competitiveness to capture any opportunities from future market rebound and the ongoing consumption upgrade and sophistication."
About Kidsland International Holdings Limited (stock code: 2122)
Kidsland International Holdings Limited ("Kidsland" or "the Group") is engaged in the retail, wholesale, e-commerce and brand operation of toys and infant products in China. As the largest toy retailer and distributor in China, Kidsland has close to 20 years of industry experience and carry a portfolio of world-renowned, category-leading brands. The Group owns the most comprehensive online and offline sales network in China. Currently, its self-operated offline retail system includes Kidsland stores, LEGO Certified Stores, and the FAO Schwarz flagship store.
Media Enquiry:
Strategic Financial Relations Limited
Vicky Lee Tel: (852) 2864 4834 Email: vicky.lee@sprg.com.hk
Antonio Yu Tel: (852) 2114 4319 Email: antonio.yu@sprg.com.hk
Cara Lau Tel: (852) 2864 4890 Email: cara.lau@sprg.com.hk
Fax: (852) 2527 1196
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Pizu Group Made Capital Injection to Anhui Jinding Mining Co., Ltd.
Jinding Mining is a company engaged in the mining and processing of gold, copper and iron polymetallic ore and the sale of these mineral products. On 29 June 2020, the Group signed a capital injection and co-operation agreement with Jinding Mining through Pizu Shenzhen. Under the capital injection and cooperation agreement, Pizu Shenzhen has agreed to inject a total of RMB270 million in cash into Jinding Mining's capital, of which RMB191,399,347 and RMB78,600,653 will be recognized as registered capital and capital reserves of the target company, respectively. The Group intends to fund the proposed capital injection with its internal resources. Within the completion of the capital injection, Jinding Mining's registered capital will be increased to RMB375,292,836 and will be owned by Pizu Shenzhen or another wholly subsidiary of Pizu Group, with the remaining 49% owned by Jinding Mining's existing shareholders.
By taking this opportunity, the Group hopes to extend its industrial chain to the non-ferrous metals and precious metal mining and development industry, so as to promote the diversification of the Group's business and drive the long-term sustainable development of the Group. Jinding Mining owns considerable reserves of gold, copper, pyrite and iron ore. Among them, the total mineral reserves of gold are about 22.8 tons, including 12.9 tons identified under the mining license and 9.9 tons identified under the exploration license; while the total mineral reserves of copper are about 62.4 thousand tons, including 47 thousand tons identified under the mining license and 15.4 thousand tons identified under the exploration license. The Group is confident that Jinding Mining will generate favourable returns to the Group when it commences production.
"The acquisition of Jinding Mining is in line with the Group's core development strategy and makes the Group's business more diversified," said the management of Pizu Group. "Jinding Mining's mineral resources are of good quality and are expected to commence production in the near future, which is believed to bring significant contribution to the Group's revenue. In addition, the mineral resources of Jinding Mining are mainly composed of gold and copper. In view of the financial environment in the next decade, we are optimistic about the future prices of mineral resources, especially gold. Therefore, we are confident that the acquisition of Jinding Mining will lead the Group to a new peak, helping it to achieve stable performance in the current challenging environment and create long-term value for the Group's shareholders."
About Pizu Group Holdings Limited
Pizu Group Holdings Limited (Pizu Group) is mainly engaged in the production and sales of civil explosives, the relevant businesses related to blasting operation and the trade business of buck commodities.
The Group has civil explosive production companies, business companies, blasting operation companies and distribution to blasting operation. The Company is one of the few companies which have both explosive production qualification and blasting operation qualification, is in the industry-leading position and also the only listed company on Hong Kong GEM which is engaged in civil explosive industry.With the gradual development of the business, the Group's turnover and net profit have achieved a multiplier growth in the recent years.
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FILMART Online attracts 7,000 international buyers
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More than 20 fringe events facilitate exchange
A total of 22 fringe events took place as part of FILMART Online, drawing more than 35,000 views in total. Among these events, six online conferences addressed the latest industry developments in areas such as streaming platforms and technologies for developing interactive entertainment content. Representatives from Japan, France, the Philippines, Finland and Taiwan introduced their quality productions and detailed local measures introduced in support of entertainment projects.
Multifunctional online platform continues until late September
Various functions of the FILMART Online platform will remain available until 30 September. Up to and including that date, exhibitors can continue to promote their productions and connect with buyers through the multifunctional online platform, while buyers can search for projects and enjoy online screenings, as well as viewing footage from the online conferences and seminars held as part of the event.
Website: http://www.hktdc.com/hkfilmart
Photo download: https://bit.ly/2EFZhm2
About HKTDC
The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) is a statutory body established in 1966 to promote, assist and develop Hong Kong's trade. With 50 offices globally, including 13 in Mainland China, the HKTDC promotes Hong Kong as a two-way global investment and business hub. The HKTDC organises international exhibitions, conferences and business missions to create business opportunities for companies, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in the mainland and international markets. The HKTDC also provides up-to-date market insights and product information via trade publications, research reports and digital news channels. For more information, please visit: www.hktdc.com/aboutus. Follow us on Twitter @hktdc and LinkedIn
Contact:
Sam Ho, Tel: +852 2584 4569, Email: sam.sy.ho@hktdc.org Cathy Lee, Tel: +852 2584 4393, Email: cathy.wk.lee@hktdc.org
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source http://www.acnnewswire.com/press-release/english/61212/
三菱造船、川崎汽船および日本海事協会と共同で洋上用CO2回収装置検証のための小型デモプラント試験 "CC-Ocean"プロジェクトを実施
本実証試験は、陸上プラント用のCO2回収装置を洋上用に転用し、実際の船に搭載して実施します。 "CC-Ocean （Carbon Capture on the Ocean project）" のプロジェクト名で、洋上におけるCO2回収の実現を目的としているものです。
試験期間は2年間を予定しており、2020年8月から日本海事協会を主体として、デモプラントおよび実船搭載に関わるHAZID（HAZard IDentification：潜在危険および想定災害についての判定）検証を開始します。また、三菱造船が中心となって、CO2回収小型デモプラントの製造およびシステム安全性評価も実施します。小型デモプラントは2021年半ばにも製造を完了し、工場における作動試験を経て、川崎汽船が運航する東北電力株式会社向けの石炭運搬船に搭載する予定です。その後、2021年度末まで実際の海上環境下における運転と性能確認や計測を通じて、洋上システムとしてのコンパクト化に向けた検討、ならびに仕様要件の決定を目指します。
今回洋上で行う実証試験は、世界初の取り組みとなります。そこで得られた知見は将来的に、洋上設備や船舶の排ガスからCO2を回収する技術・装置の開発につながることが期待されます。さらに、回収されたCO2はEOR（Enhanced Oil Recovery：原油増進回収法）への新たなCO2の供給源や人工合成燃料の原料としてもリサイクル利用が期待され、温室効果ガス（GHG）の排出削減にも大きく寄与できると考えます。
三菱造船はパリ協定発効後、世界的に脱炭素化への意識が高まる中、船舶のみならず洋上設備からのGHG排出削減についても継続して課題解決に取組み、環境保護への貢献を続けてまいります。
本リリースの詳細は下記をご参照ください。
https://www.mhi.com/jp/news/story/20083101.html
概要：三菱重工業株式会社
詳細は www.mhi.co.jp をご覧ください。
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三菱自、特別顧問（元取締役会長 代表執行役）益子修 逝去について
1. 氏名：益子 修（ますこ おさむ）
1949年2月19日生（享年71歳）
2. 死亡日：2020年8月27日（木）
3. 死因：心不全
4. 通夜・葬儀：近親者にて内々に執り行いました。
5. 備考：
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生前皆様から賜りましたご厚情に、故人に代わりまして、厚く御礼申し上げます。
【これまでの功績】
2005年1月に社長就任。「三菱自動車再生計画」を策定・実行し、当社の立て直しに尽力しました。選択と集中の方向性を掲げて身の丈に合った経営を目指しつつ、世界初の量産電気自動車『i-MiEV』や世界初の4WD SUVのプラグインハイブリッドEV『アウトランダーPHEV』に代表される、環境にやさしい先進的な車両の開発を主導的に進めました。さらに、当社の強みとなったアセアン地域では、故人の強みを最大限発揮し、多数の国での現地生産に成功し、大きく販売を拡大しました。また、その人柄と幅広い人脈で、協力会社、アライアンス各社、三菱グループの経営者との良好なコミュニケーションにより関係を構築。故人は16年にわたり、その経営手腕で多くの困難を乗り切り、当社に多大な功績を残しました。
本リリースの詳細は下記をご参照ください。
https://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/jp/newsrelease/2020/detail5462.html
概要：三菱自動車工業株式会社
三菱自動車の企業コミュニケーションワード「Drive@earth」
地球を走る。地球と生きる。三菱自動車。
人とクルマ、社会とクルマ、地球とクルマの新しい時代を拓くために。いま、三菱自動車は挑戦を始めています。走行中のCO2排出ゼロ。地球温暖化防止に貢献する新世代電気自動車、i MiEV（アイミーブ）の世界投入。軽自動車で培った技術を存分に活用、燃費性能にすぐれたグローバル・スモールの提案。世界の環境基準をクリアしながら、走りの楽しさにあふれた三菱ならではの小型ＳＵＶの開発。さらに、新ディーゼルエンジンによるラリー参戦を通じて、走りと環境を両立する、新次元のクルマづくりを追求してゆきます。
私たちは信じています。私たちのクルマへの熱い想いと技術が、新しいクルマの価値をつくることを。ドライブ・アット・アース。走る歓びが永遠であるように。クルマが地球と共生できるように。
詳細はこちらからご覧ください。 www.mitsubishi-motors.co.jp
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The Second "Chun Wo Innovation Student Awards" Receive Overwhelming Response - Attracts Over 70 Student Teams
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To increase participating teams' understanding of how to get involved in smart city development with the latest technologies, the Awards have invited Mr. Fred Sheu, National Technology Officer, Microsoft Hong Kong, to join a webinar on 24 August. During the occasion, he introduced and shared with over 40 students the usages of Microsoft AI technology, including the tools for analyzing data efficiently, which in turn can enhance the quality of their proposals, leading ultimately to the advancement of the smart city.
Sr Stephen Lee, Chief Executive Officer of Chun Wo Construction Holdings Company Limited, said, "I am extremely delighted that the second 'Chun Wo Innovation Student Awards' have received a highly encouraging response, with the number of participating teams exceeding last year. I would like to thank Microsoft Hong Kong for providing information on Microsoft's AI technology, so that students can understand its application in data analysis, leading to higher quality proposals. Through the 'Awards', Chun Wo hopes to stimulate young minds to develop innovative solutions relating to infrastructure, technology and social development in the city. I am looking extremely forward to the proposals from all the participating teams, and I wish that they all deliver outstanding performances in the final judging stage, so that ultimately, the most distinguished team becomes the award winner."
The second "Chun Wo Innovation Student Awards" will have three tiers of winners - Gold, Silver and Bronze, and three merit awards to acknowledge outstanding ideas. The Gold Award winner will receive a cash prize of HK$100,000, with the cash prizes of the Gold, Silver, Bronze and three merit awards combined amounting to HK$200,000. In addition to the attractive cash awards, the winning team of the Gold Award can also join the "Experience trip for start-ups in the Greater Bay Area" as well as participate in the two-year "2+1 Post-Award Program" which provides resources and technical assistance to the team to execute their ideas.
Teams can choose to participate in one or more of the five categories: Smart Construction, Smart Living, Smart Environment, Smart Mobility and Smart Public. The deadline for submitting a detailed proposal is 1 September. This year's judging will include the following grading: 20% on objectives and intended results, 60% on engineering solutions, and 20% on commercial value.
Important Dates
1 September: Deadline for submission of proposal
October: First round screening
Late November: Interview and presentation of shortlisted candidates and Award Presentation Ceremony
For more details of the "Chun Wo Innovation Student Awards 2020", please visit: www.cwisa.com.
Chun Wo Development Holdings Limited
Chun Wo Development Holdings Limited ("Chun Wo") was founded in 1968 and is a key subsidiary of Asia Allied Infrastructure Holdings Limited (stock code: 00711.HK). The Company is principally engaged in the core construction and property development businesses with the professional capability to undertake large integrated construction projects. Recent examples of large infrastructure projects in Hong Kong within which the Company has undertaken works include the Central-Wan Chai Bypass, Liantang/Heung Yuen Wai Boundary Infrastructure, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Passenger Clearance Building and so on.
Asia Allied Infrastructure Holdings Limited (stock code: 00711.HK)
Asia Allied Infrastructure Holdings Limited ("Asia Allied Infrastructure") is listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under stock code 00711. The Group operates businesses such as construction engineering and management, construction consultancy, property development and assets leasing, security and facility management, tunnel management, construction financing, premium safe deposit box leasing as well as an online construction materials procurement and management platform and a quality international education platform. Its subsidiary Chun Wo is a renowned construction contractor and property developer in Hong Kong. Chun Wo's solid construction experience and professional capabilities have enabled the Group to seize suitable development opportunities, allowing the Group to enhance its overall profitability and investment value.
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トヨタ、災害時の電力確保を目指し、移動式発電・給電システムを構築して電気を届ける実証実験を開始
近年、台風や豪雨などの災害により送電網がダメージを受け、家庭や避難所に電気が届かないという問題が発生しています。この問題に対して、トヨタとHondaは両社の技術を持ち寄り、移動式発電・給電システムを構築して、電気を届ける実証実験を行います。移動式のシステムであるため、災害時には災害対応の一助として被災地で電力供給を行う一方、平常時にもイベントなどで日常的な活用が可能な“フェーズフリー※”のシステムです。今回の実証実験を通じて、ニーズや使い勝手を検証します。
移動式発電・給電システム「Moving e」はトヨタの燃料電池バス「CHARGING STATION（チャージングステーション）」と、Hondaの可搬型外部給電器「Power Exporter（パワーエクスポーター）9000」、可搬型バッテリー「LiB-AID（リベイド）E500」・「Honda Mobile Power Pack（モバイルパワーパック）」、モバイルパワーパックの充電・給電器「Honda Mobile Power Pack Charge & Supply Concept（チャージアンドサプライ コンセプト）」で構成され、「CHARGING STATION」にすべての機材を積み込んで必要な場所へ移動し、電気を供給します。具体的には燃料電池バスを電源とし、可搬型外部給電器・可搬型バッテリーを用いてバスから電気を取り出し、電気製品に電気を供給します。
トヨタの燃料電池バス「CHARGING STATION」は、従来型の「トヨタFCバス」をベースに、高圧水素タンクの本数を倍増させて水素搭載量を大幅に増やすことにより、高出力かつ大容量の発電能力（最高出力18kW、発電量454kWh）を備えており、災害などによる停電時には「Power Exporter 9000」を介して、発電した電気を可搬型の大容量バッテリー「Honda Mobile Power Pack」や「LiB-AID E500」に貯めることで、避難所などの屋内や車内などで電気が使用できます。
なお、「CHARGING STATION」は車内に仮眠が取れるスペースを作っており、災害発生時には、休憩の場所としても活用することができます。
移動式発電・給電システム「Moving e」は、提供の条件が整い、実証にご協力頂ける自治体や企業に活用いただくことで、フェーズフリーなシステムであることを実証していきます。
実証実験概要
開始時期：2020年9月
派遣可能エリア：燃料電池バス対応の水素ステーションより100km程度まで（目安）
電力供給量：最大約490kWh（往復200km走行した場合 約240kWh）
移動式発電・給電システム「Moving e」の構成
- 燃料電池バス「CHARGING STATION」1台
- 外部給電器「Power Exporter 9000」2台
- 可搬型バッテリー「Honda Mobile Power Pack」36個、「LiB-AID E500」20個
- 充電・給電器「Honda Mobile Power Pack Charge & Supply Concept」36台
本リリースの詳細は下記URLをご参照ください。
https://global.toyota/jp/newsroom/corporate/33598919.html
概要：トヨタ自動車株式会社
詳細は http://toyota.jp/ をご覧ください。
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富士通、携帯端末販売代理店事業に関する株式譲渡契約の締結について
尚、FJPは、販売パートナーの皆さまを通じて国内の法人のお客様に対してPC、サーバ、ソフトウェア、周辺機器を販売してきましたが、この販売事業については従来どおりFJPが継続し、お客様のニーズに応えて参ります。
モバイル販売事業の譲渡の概要
モバイル販売事業（FJP子会社である株式会社富士通パーソナルズリテールサービスの全株式を含みます）は、会社分割によりFJPより新会社（モバイル販売会社）に事業が承継され、富士通が持つモバイル販売会社の全株式をティーガイアに譲渡することで、ティーガイアグループの一員になります。
モバイル販売事業を承継する新会社は、NTTドコモ様のドコモショップ運営についての豊富なノウハウを持ち、全国で110以上の店舗を運営するとともに、法人のお客様に対する携帯端末の販売や関連するサービス提供の実績も保有しています。ティーガイアは、日本全国および海外で事業展開する通信事業者の国内最大手の一次代理店であり、今後は、両社が持つ店舗網や営業力といった事業基盤の拡大とともに、IoTなどの法人向けソリューションにおいても両社のシナジーを活用することにより事業を拡大していきます。
モバイル販売会社の概要 （2020年11月2日予定）
会社名：未定
事業内容：携帯端末の販売代理店事業
本社所在地：東京都港区
代表者：白瀧 靖宏
設立日：2020年9月上旬
資本金：1,000万円
株主：株式会社ティーガイア 100%（2020年11月2日（予定）に富士通から株式譲渡）
従業員数：約910人（連結）
本リリースの詳細は下記をご参照ください。
https://pr.fujitsu.com/jp/news/2020/08/31.html
概要： 富士通株式会社
詳細は http://jp.fujitsu.com/ をご覧ください。
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Moonstake Launches Staking for QTUM
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Founded in 2016, QTUM, a cryptocurrency that uses a consensus algorithm called Offline Staking, was released by the QTUM Foundation, a non-profit software development organisation in Singapore. QTUM launched various applications and softwares on blockchain that have been integrated into open developer offerings from Amazon Web Services' China and Google Cloud Platform. Qtum combines Ethereum's smart contract functionality with bitcoin's security to create a suitable platform for adoption by large organizations to solo developers.
Moonstake is an advanced technology company with specific focuses on blockchain and staking technologies to build Asia's biggest staking network. Moonstake was established to develop a staking pool protocol to satisfy increasing demands in regional and global blockchain markets. Signature products are Moonstake Web Wallet along with Moonstake Mobile Wallet (iOS/Android), enabling full staking functionality and an all-in-one gateway for users to maximize the usage and potential of cryptocurrencies. Currently, Moonstake's staking pool supports Cosmos, IRISnet, Ontology, Harmony, Tezos, and most recently Cardano.
Qtum recently released news about their hard fork, which has been scheduled to activate at block height 680,000, with an estimated date of August 28, 2020. No new coins will be created by the hard fork. Regardless of this Hard Fork, Moonstake web wallet will support QTUM, and users can stake with one click.
In order to get rewards by staking QTUM with Moonstake Wallet, users are to hold QTUM in your Wallet. Only UTXOs (Unspent Transaction Outputs), which are greater than 100 QTUM and only mature coins will be staked. Rewards will be distributed to you immediately when you get selected to create the block. Since rewards are automatically distributed from the blockchain, there is no need to "claim rewards". You are free to send and receive tokens in your wallet anytime, even while staking. There is no lockout period.
About Moonstake (https://www.moonstake.io/)
Moonstake was recently established to develop a staking pool protocol to satisfy increasing demands in regional and global blockchain markets. Moonstake develops a staking pool protocol and provides business services through partners and companies. Moonstake aims to create the largest staking pool network in Asia, a robust environment for the cryptocurrency holders is one of its missions. Establishing a clear partnership roadmap with Moonstake represents another significant milestone for continuing to strengthen ties with leading platforms across Asia's burgeoning Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ecosystem. partnership has been announced with Emurgo, Ontology and NEO to boost staking adoption, Binarystar, Japan's biggest blockchain hub, OIO Holdings Limited (SGX: OIO), a Singapore Catalist-Listed company. Industry's reputed advisors, such as Lisk and Lawrence Lim of RAMP DEFI support Moonstake's innovative journey.
About QTUM (https://qtum.org/en)
Qtum is an open-sourced public blockchain platform, leveraging the security of UTXO model while enabling multiple virtual machines including EVM and soon the revolutionary x86 VM. Qtum is PoS based and boasts a Decentralized Governance Protocol (DGP) allowing specific blockchain settings to be modified by making use of smart contracts.
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三菱重工工作機械、新シリーズMV-Bxを発売 門形マシニングセンタの製品ラインアップを拡充
MV-Bxシリーズは、「立形マシニングセンタのテーブルには載らないサイズ（1.0～1.5m）の対象物（ワーク）や、横中ぐり盤では段取り（取り付け・付け替え）が面倒で加工の効率が悪いワークを効率良く加工できる機械」として、フレーム・架台などの製缶物の加工から鋳物を用いた構造部品の重切削加工まで、"あらゆる産業のあらゆる加工"に対応できる、高能率化と使い易さを兼ね備えたハイコストパフォーマンス機です。
同シリーズ最大の特長は、加工スペースを広く取りながら機械設置面積を減少させたことです（設置面積：MV12Bxは5,425×4,196mm、MV16Bxは6,770×4,760mm）。MV16Bxは、現行機MVR25Ex（テーブルサイズ1,500×3,000 mm）と比較して、機械設置面積が約40％減った一方で、テーブルサイズは最大1,500×3,260mmとしたことで、単位面積当たりの生産性を向上し、スペース効率と投資効率を高めています。また、広く用いられている汎用的な機能を多く取り入れることで、取り扱いが容易であらゆる加工に対応できる導入しやすい機械としました。さらに、MV16Bxはオプションで五面加工仕様も用意しました。
MV-Bxシリーズでは、コラムやベッドなどの主要構造体には鋳物を使用し、熱対称構造・コラムブリッジ一体構造とし、さらにZ軸（主軸頭上下）にはすべり案内面を取り入れることで剛性を高めています。主軸はギヤ減速方式を採用し、低速域の重切削加工から超硬工具などによる高速高能率加工まで幅広い加工への対応を可能としました。また、独自開発のIoT（モノのインターネット）対応モニタリングシステムである三菱DIASCOPE（ディアスコープ）を搭載しました。これにより、機械運転中の稼働監視とリモートモニタリング機能での保守サービスにより、信頼と安心を提供します。
三菱重工工作機械は、MV-Bxシリーズの市場投入により、門形マシニングセンタのラインアップの拡充をすすめるとともに、微細な加工を得意とする精密加工機「μVシリーズ」、横中ぐり盤「MAFシリーズ」と多彩なラインアップを有することで、お客様にとって最適な製品を提供し、生産性の向上に貢献してまいります。
本リリースの詳細は下記をご参照ください。
https://www.mhi.com/jp/news/story/200831.html
概要：三菱重工業株式会社
詳細は www.mhi.co.jp をご覧ください。
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Moonstake Web Wallet、QTUMを使用したステーキングサービスを開始
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MPoSと呼ばれるコンセンサスアルゴリズムを採用した暗号通貨QTUMは、シンガポールの非営利ソフトウェア開発団体であるQTUM Foundationによって、2016年にリリースされました。QTUMは、Amazon Web Services（中国）やGoogle Cloud Platformから、オープンな開発者向けに統合されたブロックチェーン上の様々なアプリケーションやソフトウェアを発表しています。QTUMは、イーサリアムのスマートコントラクト機能とビットコインのセキュリティを組み合わせ、大規模な組織でのアドプションに適したコインとなっています。
Moonstakeは、創業以来、革新的なステーキングプロトコルを自ら開発することにより、アジア地域や世界規模で高まる需要に応えることを目指してきました。Moonstakeのプロダクトは、ステーキング機能を備えているワンストップソリューションであり、ウェブウォレットとモバイルウォレット（iOS / Android）を介して、ユーザーが暗号通貨の使用を円滑化し、暗号通貨の可能性を最大化するためのゲートウェイになっています。現在、Moonstakeのステーキングプールは、Cosmos、IRISnet、Ontology、Harmony、Tezos、そして、直近ではADAのステーキングを行えるようになりました。このステーキングコインのラインナップに、QTUMが7番目のコインとして加わることになります。
Qtumは先日、2020年8月28日に予定されているブロック高680,000で行われるハードフォークについてニュースを発表しました。このハードフォークによって新たなコインが誕生することはありません。このハードフォークに関わらず、MoonstakeのウェブウォレットはQTUMをサポートし、ユーザーはワンクリックでステーキングをすることができます。
QTUMをステーキングして報酬を得るためには、ユーザーはMoonstakeウェブウォレットにQTUMを保有する必要があります。100QTUM以上のUTXO(Unspent Transaction Output)がステーキングされます。ブロック生成に選ばれるとすぐに報酬が配布されます。ブロックチェーンから自動的に報酬が配布されるため、「報酬を請求する」必要はありません。ステーキング中でも、いつでも自由にウォレット内のトークンを送受信することができます。ロックアウト期間はありません。
今回のQTUMステーキング開始に伴い、Moonstakeのユーザビリティは一層向上します。3月のステーキング実装以降、Moonstakeのステーキングプールは、5ヶ月間でステーキング総額350億ドルを超えました。QTUMの追加で、アジア最大のステーキングプールに向け、一層ビジネスを拡大していきます。
Moonstakeについて(https://www.moonstake.io/)
Moonstakeは、アジア地域や世界規模で高まる需要に応えるため、ステーキングプール・プロトコル開発のために設立されました。Moonstakeはステーキングプールのプロトコルを開発し、パートナーや会社を通してサービスを提供していきます。Moonstakeは暗号資産保有者にとって活発的な環境を提供するアジアにおいて最大ステーキングプールネットワークになることを目標としています。アジアを率いるエコシステムを構築していくためにEmurgo、Ontology、NEO、PundiX、Wanchain、Qurasらと、次々とメジャープロジェクトとのパートナーシップを拡大しています。さらに、日本最大のブロックチェーンハブのBinarystar、シンガポールCatalist上場企業のOIO Holdings Limited (SGX: OIO)、と提携しています。アドバイザーには、世界的なプロジェクトのLISKや、プロジェクトの著名プレイヤーを迎えています。
QTUMについて(https://qtum.org/en)
Qtumはオープンソースのパブリックブロックチェーンプラットフォームで、UTXOのセキュリティを活用しながら、EVMや革新的なx86 VMを含む複数の仮想マシンを可能にします。QtumはPoSベースで、スマートコントラクトを利用して特定のブロックチェーン設定を変更できる分散型ガバナンスプロトコル（DGP）を利用していることが特徴的です。
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8/30/20
Nissin Foods Delivers Resilient 2020 Interim Results
Revenue of the Group increased by 15.9% year-on-year (YoY) to HK$1,735.4 million (2019: HK$1,497.9 million), primarily attributable to the increase in demand for most types of instant noodles and frozen food products in Hong Kong, as well as the improvement in sales volume of cup-type instant noodles and the made-in-Hong Kong bag-type instant noodles in the PRC. This reflects the additional demand generated from the "stay-at-home" economy spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the reporting period, the new joint venture distribution business in Shanghai commenced operation in April 2020 as scheduled and also began contributing to the Group's growth in revenue. Gross profit margin increased by 1.7 percentage point to 33.9% (2019: 32.2%), mainly attributable to the reduction in utility overheads, the relatively stable price for key raw-materials year-on-year and the shift of product mix in Hong Kong.
The Group's EBITDA grew by 34.9% YoY to HK$310.7 million (2019: HK$230.3 million) and the EBITDA margin was 17.9% for the reporting period (2019: 15.4%). Profit attributable to owners of the Company was HK$178.4 million, representing an increase of 34.3% YoY from HK$132.9 million for the corresponding period of 2019 and a net profit margin of 10.3% for the period (2019: 8.9%). This was mainly due to the boost in sales among the Group's operating regions and the better control in the operating and non-operating expenses. Basic earnings per share increased by 34.3% to 16.61 HK cents (2019: 12.37 HK cents).
As of 30 June 2020, the Group's cash and cash equivalent was HK$1,492.3 million and the gearing ratio was zero. The strong financial position enables the Group to weather the challenges and continue to deliver results in uncertain times like this.
Hong Kong Operations
Revenue from Hong Kong operations increased by 13.1% to HK$708.6 million (2019: HK$626.4 million), mainly attributable to the surge in demand for most types of instant noodles and frozen food products fuelled by the growth of the stay-at-home economy under the pandemic. Segment results increased significantly by 66.8% to HK$97.9 million (2019: HK$58.7 million), mainly due to the surge in revenue and reduced deployment in advertising and promotion during the reporting period.
The Group takes it as part of its corporate social responsibility to ensure a timely replenishment of instant noodles and frozen food products in the market. Hence, the Group had promptly adjusted its production schedule and related procurement and logistics arrangement to meet the sudden surge in demand in the reporting period, and continues to keep a close dialogue with distributors, wholesalers and retailers under the pandemic.
At the same time, the Group has made an effort to expedite new product launch across the family of brands under Nissin Foods to enrich customer experience. The signature items are: the New Japan Ramen Shop Style Cup Series of "Demae Iccho", which features authentic Japanese taste with a thick soup base; new Southeast Asian flavours for "Cup Noodles; "U.F.O." Kewpie Salad and Kewpie Dan Dan Flavour Stir Noodles and others. Under the non-fried instant noodles category, Nissin Frozen Ramen has collaborated with four popular ramen shops to launch various signature ramen packs. The Group has also further developed a 40g small-pack Granola series this year to bring higher convenience to consumers to enjoy the crispy and tasty cereal puff with fruit mix.
Furthermore, to broaden the income stream as well as enhance the healthy options to customers, the Group has made an initial investment of approximately HK$7.1 million this year to set up its first production line on pre-packaged ready-to-eat fresh-cut vegetables in Hong Kong situated in the Group's chilled and frozen food production plant in Tai Po Industrial Estate. The Group will utilise Japanese state-of-the-art production and management expertise to offer a healthy, fresh, delicious and yet convenient and affordable choice for health-conscious customers, and production will commence in December 2020.
PRC Operations
Revenue from PRC operations increased by 17.8% (in local currency: 23.8%) from HK$871.5 million to HK$1,026.8 million for the reporting period. The cup-type instant noodles, especially the "Cup Noodles" brand, continued to be the dominant growth driver in the PRC, recording good sales momentum across different regions. Our signature made-in-Hong Kong bag-type instant noodles under the "Demae Iccho" brand has also recorded substantial growth in Southern and Eastern China due to increasing brand awareness and customer trial under the pandemic. The Group continued to record double-digit revenue growth (in local currency) for its key operating regions and was especially satisfactory in Eastern China. Segment profit has increased by 43.7% to HK$142.8 million (2019: HK$99.4 million), mainly due to the solid performance of organic revenue growth, coupled with the reduction in the advertising and promotional expenses.
The Group has witnessed good sales pick-up from its customers amidst the pandemic. On top of regular purchase by existing customers, the Group received support from new customers through product trial under the pandemic to "Cup Noodles" and the made-in-Hong Kong "Demae Iccho" bag-type noodles.
In addition, the Group is committed to expanding its business presence in the PRC market and further enlarging its customer base. The Group has formed a joint venture company in January 2020, which would engage in import and sale of Japanese-branded food and beverage products in Shanghai and other first-tier cities in the PRC. It has already commenced operation since the second quarter of 2020, and this trading platform would enable other Japanese manufacturers to enter the region, as well as to help the Group's products to further penetrate across the PRC in the long run.
Prospects
Looking ahead, the unpredictable nature of the COVID-19 pandemic would inevitably continue to affect the global economy. The Group would keep monitoring the situation and ensure a stable supply of its products to its customers in Hong Kong and the PRC. The Group would also continue to inject fresh momentum into its business along with new product launches and geographical expansion in the PRC.
Furthermore, the Group has been selected as a constituent of Hang Seng family of indexes effective Monday, 7 September 2020. The Group will be included to Hang Seng Composite Index, Hang Seng Consumer Goods & Services Index, Hang Seng Stock Connect Hong Kong Index and other indexes. The inclusion as a constituent stock in the Hang Seng family of indexes enable Mainland-based investors to trade directly in the securities of the Group via Stock Connect scheme. This represents continual capital market's recognition of the Group and is expected to expand shareholder base and increase trading liquidity of the Group.
Mr. Kiyotaka ANDO, Executive Director, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nissin Foods, said, "In the first half of 2020, we recorded a resilient performance in Hong Kong and the PRC despite the outbreak of the pandemic. As the leading food manufacturer, it is of the utmost importance for us to ensure a stable and reliable supply of food products to cater for the changing needs of the customers in good and bad times. As the Group strives to reinforce its position in the industry, we are very honoured to be included on the Hang Seng family of indexes, enabling trading via the southbound Stock Connect. This demonstrates the capital market's recognition of the Group's performance and business outlook. Going forward, we will continue to look for new innovation in order to enrich the existing product portfolio and broaden the customer base of the Group. This will broaden our revenue stream and enhance our overall competitiveness, thus create value for all our stakeholders."
About Nissin Foods Company Limited
Nissin Foods Company Limited (The "Group"; Stock code: 1475) is a renowned food company in Hong Kong and the PRC with a diversified portfolio of well-known and highly popular brands and the largest instant noodle company in Hong Kong. The Group officially established its presence in Hong Kong in 1984. The Group primarily manufactures and sells instant noodles, frozen foods and other food products under its two core corporate brands, namely "NISSIN" and "DOLL" together with a diversified portfolio of iconic household premium food brands. The Group's five flagship product brands, namely "Cup Noodles", "Demae Iccho", "Doll Instant Noodle", "Doll Dim Sum" and "Fuku" are also among the most popular choices in their respective food product categories in Hong Kong. In the PRC market, the Group has introduced technology innovation through the "ECO Cup" concept into the market and primarily focuses its sales efforts in first- and second-tier cities located in the eastern and southern parts of the PRC. For more information, please visit www.nissingroup.com.hk.
For media enquiries:
Nissin Foods Company Limited
Public Relations Department
Blanche Wong / June Lau
Email: pr@nissinfoods.com.hk
For investor enquiries:
Nissin Foods Company Limited
Investor Relations Department
Shingo Yamazaki / Peter Kwok
Email: ir@nissinfoods.com.hk
Strategic Financial Relations Limited
Vicky Lee Tel: (852) 2864 4834 Email: vicky.lee@sprg.com.hk
Carven Tsui Tel: (852) 2864 4859 Email: carvensm.tsui@sprg.com.hk
Cara Lau Tel: (852) 2864 4890 Email: cara.lau@sprg.com.hk
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トヨタ、幹部職の人事異動について
幹部職（統括部長以上）の異動
氏名／新／旧
石井 直生／＜転籍＞愛知製鋼株式会社／渉外広報本部（副本部長）
本リリースの詳細は下記URLをご参照ください。
https://global.toyota/jp/newsroom/corporate/33557796.html
概要：トヨタ自動車株式会社
詳細は http://toyota.jp/ をご覧ください。
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Tianneng Power's 2020 Interim Results Scaled the Heights Again
HONG KONG, Aug 31, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - Tianneng Power International Limited ("Tianneng Power" or the "Company"), together with its subsidiaries, (the "Group"; stock code: 819.HK), today announced its interim results for the 6 months ended 30 June 2020 ("During the reporting period").
In the first half of the 2020, despite a complex and unpredictable external environment, the Group's main businesses maintained stable growth momentum with steady progress and improvement of quality. During the reporting period, the Group's sales revenue amounted to approximately RMB22,635 million, representing an increase of 14.26% year-on-year. The gross profit was approximately RMB2,116 million, representing an increase of 14.23% as compared with the same period last year. It was mainly attributable to an increase in sales volume and a growth in the battery gross profit margin. The gross profit margin was approximately 9.35%, which remained stable as compared with the same period last year. The net profit was approximately RMB860 million, representing an increase of 45.57% year-on-year.
Strives for Progress on High-end Eco-friendly Batteries Business
High-end eco-friendly batteries are one of the Group's main businesses, providing the Group with a solid cash flow. During the reporting period, the sales revenue of high-end eco-friendly batteries was approximately RMB11,641 million. The Company has now formed a product system based on lead batteries and supplemented by lithium batteries that includes motive, start-stop and energy storage batteries. Among these types of batteries, lead batteries have a history of more than 160 years. Characterised by their high safety, high recyclability, high price-performance ratio, mature technology and excellent performance in high and low temperature environment, lead batteries enjoy a sharp competitive edge. As a result, lead batteries occupy a leading position in the global market of rechargeable batteries and are currently the most commonly used batteries in vehicles and equipment such as light electric vehicles, special electric vehicles and start-stop systems in automobiles. The overall market demand for them will continue to grow steadily.
In the future, the fields of application for lead batteries will continue to grow and expand, and the related technologies and processes will continue to develop with the aim of achieving higher energy densities, higher price-performance ratio and higher safety. With the in-depth application of the 5th generation mobile network (5G), lead batteries will also go "smart" with features like identifiability and traceability, remote controllability and connectivity to the Internet of things.
Rapid Development of New Energy Batteries Business
As one of the new energy batteries, the lithium-ion battery is an important strategic segment of the Group. During the reporting period, the Group's operating revenue in the new energy battery business was approximately RMB403 million, representing an increase of 58.08% year-on-year. In November 2019, Tianneng signed a cooperation agreement with SAFT, a subsidiary of the French company Total S.A., one of the world's top 500 enterprises, to form a joint venture that focuses on the development, manufacture and sale of advanced lithium-ion batteries for the Chinese and global markets. The cooperation with SAFT will allow the Group to share the world-leading lithium battery company's rich experience in the construction and management of R&D systems and technological reserve to enhance the Group's global competitiveness. Over the years, the Group has continued to expand its product line of lithium-ion batteries. In addition to the sector of motive batteries, the Group's lithium battery business has also gained a foothold in smart energy storage, 3C and backup battery industries. The Company won the awards of "Best Provider of Systems Integration Solutions" and "Best Demonstration Project for Energy Storage" at the 7th Global Solar+Energy Storage Conference & Expo (2020) July this year.
The Company will further increase its cooperation with renowned battery companies in and outside China, deepen its distribution in the sectors of lithium-ion motive batteries for special vehicles and lithium-ion batteries for smart energy storage, and pay close attention to the technological trends and market developments of automobile start-stop lithium batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries and solid-state batteries, so as to make the lithium-ion battery business one of the Company's core segments and enhance the market competitiveness of the Company's lithium battery business.
Green New Materials Business Scudding along before the Wind
The Company is the first enterprise to develop circular business. After over ten years of technology accumulation and scientific operations, green new materials segment has become one of the three major businesses of the Company, and has had an important position in the Company's future development plan. In the first half of this year, the Group accelerated the industry distribution, and focused on the development of circular business. During the reporting period, the Group's external operating revenue in green new materials business recorded approximately RMB397 million. The Group will continue to put much effort in the circular business, gradually expand the categories of renewable materials for recycling, and at the same time extend to the up and down streams in the industry, thus steadily progress towards the goal of setting up large circular industry clusters.
Strategic Blueprint for Global Presence, Market Share Expansion
During the first half of this year, the Group leveraged on its overseas offices as the "bridgehead", deeply explored the market potentials in regions such as Southeast Asia, South Asia, Europe as well as Central and East Africa, constantly developed new markets and sectors, and used its overseas business division as platforms, thereby enhancing international communications and cooperation. The Group will continue to strengthen cooperation with scientific research platforms overseas, integrate world's top technological resources, thus foster core technological advantages for the entire industrial chain. At the same time, the Group continues to seek mergers and acquisitions opportunities for upstream and downstream products, and establishes research and development production bases overseas in due time while creating a global supply chain network, with the Group striving to become the "world's leading green energy solution provider".
Capital Development
In accordance with the results of the 51st review meeting of the Listing Committee for Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2020 that was held on 6 July 2020, the issue of A shares by Tianneng Battery Group Co., Ltd. and the listing of the A shares of the Spin-off Company on the Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange has been approved by the Listing Committee.
Looking to the future, Mr. Zhang Tianren, the Chairman of the Board, said, "The Group will adhere to the sustainable development strategy of "new materials, new structures, new technologies, new sectors", follow the strategic direction of "artificial intelligent, globalization, platform-building", strive to seek after diversified fund raising channels to assist businesses with sufficient fundings for future development, as well as fully promote reforms in quality, efficiency and driving forces. Leveraging on its advantages in technology, production framework, market channels, brands and information technology system which have been accumulated in the battery industry for many years, Tianneng will strengthen the international leading position of its high-end eco-friendly batteries, enhance the product competitiveness of new energy batteries, create closed-loop green smart industry chain, construct a smart energy service system, build a logistics supply chain platform, actively expand businesses such as start-stop batteries and energy storage systems, and continue with the technological development of fuel cells and new-generation batteries, with the aim of becoming the most respected first-tier new energy enterprise across the globe."
About Tianneng Power International Limited
Tianneng Power International Co., Ltd. ("Tianneng Power") is a leading company in the new energy power battery industry in China, which was founded in 1986. In 2007, Tianneng Power was listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited as the "First China Company of Power Battery." After more than 30 years of development, it has become a large high-tech energy group focusing on the manufacturing and provision of services of environmentally friendly power batteries for electric vehicles, while offering integrated power storage ancillary services, and integrating the R&D, production and sale of lithium batteries for new energy vehicles, start-stop batteries for vehicles and wind power and solar power storage batteries; the recycling and cyclic utilization of waste batteries; the construction of smart micro-grids in cities; as well as the building of green and smart industrial parks. In July 2020, Tianneng Power won the awards of "Best Provider of Systems Integration Solutions" and "Best Demonstration Project for Energy Storage" at the 7th Global Solar+Energy Storage Conference & Expo (2020).
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In the first half of the 2020, despite a complex and unpredictable external environment, the Group's main businesses maintained stable growth momentum with steady progress and improvement of quality. During the reporting period, the Group's sales revenue amounted to approximately RMB22,635 million, representing an increase of 14.26% year-on-year. The gross profit was approximately RMB2,116 million, representing an increase of 14.23% as compared with the same period last year. It was mainly attributable to an increase in sales volume and a growth in the battery gross profit margin. The gross profit margin was approximately 9.35%, which remained stable as compared with the same period last year. The net profit was approximately RMB860 million, representing an increase of 45.57% year-on-year.
Strives for Progress on High-end Eco-friendly Batteries Business
High-end eco-friendly batteries are one of the Group's main businesses, providing the Group with a solid cash flow. During the reporting period, the sales revenue of high-end eco-friendly batteries was approximately RMB11,641 million. The Company has now formed a product system based on lead batteries and supplemented by lithium batteries that includes motive, start-stop and energy storage batteries. Among these types of batteries, lead batteries have a history of more than 160 years. Characterised by their high safety, high recyclability, high price-performance ratio, mature technology and excellent performance in high and low temperature environment, lead batteries enjoy a sharp competitive edge. As a result, lead batteries occupy a leading position in the global market of rechargeable batteries and are currently the most commonly used batteries in vehicles and equipment such as light electric vehicles, special electric vehicles and start-stop systems in automobiles. The overall market demand for them will continue to grow steadily.
In the future, the fields of application for lead batteries will continue to grow and expand, and the related technologies and processes will continue to develop with the aim of achieving higher energy densities, higher price-performance ratio and higher safety. With the in-depth application of the 5th generation mobile network (5G), lead batteries will also go "smart" with features like identifiability and traceability, remote controllability and connectivity to the Internet of things.
Rapid Development of New Energy Batteries Business
As one of the new energy batteries, the lithium-ion battery is an important strategic segment of the Group. During the reporting period, the Group's operating revenue in the new energy battery business was approximately RMB403 million, representing an increase of 58.08% year-on-year. In November 2019, Tianneng signed a cooperation agreement with SAFT, a subsidiary of the French company Total S.A., one of the world's top 500 enterprises, to form a joint venture that focuses on the development, manufacture and sale of advanced lithium-ion batteries for the Chinese and global markets. The cooperation with SAFT will allow the Group to share the world-leading lithium battery company's rich experience in the construction and management of R&D systems and technological reserve to enhance the Group's global competitiveness. Over the years, the Group has continued to expand its product line of lithium-ion batteries. In addition to the sector of motive batteries, the Group's lithium battery business has also gained a foothold in smart energy storage, 3C and backup battery industries. The Company won the awards of "Best Provider of Systems Integration Solutions" and "Best Demonstration Project for Energy Storage" at the 7th Global Solar+Energy Storage Conference & Expo (2020) July this year.
The Company will further increase its cooperation with renowned battery companies in and outside China, deepen its distribution in the sectors of lithium-ion motive batteries for special vehicles and lithium-ion batteries for smart energy storage, and pay close attention to the technological trends and market developments of automobile start-stop lithium batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries and solid-state batteries, so as to make the lithium-ion battery business one of the Company's core segments and enhance the market competitiveness of the Company's lithium battery business.
Green New Materials Business Scudding along before the Wind
The Company is the first enterprise to develop circular business. After over ten years of technology accumulation and scientific operations, green new materials segment has become one of the three major businesses of the Company, and has had an important position in the Company's future development plan. In the first half of this year, the Group accelerated the industry distribution, and focused on the development of circular business. During the reporting period, the Group's external operating revenue in green new materials business recorded approximately RMB397 million. The Group will continue to put much effort in the circular business, gradually expand the categories of renewable materials for recycling, and at the same time extend to the up and down streams in the industry, thus steadily progress towards the goal of setting up large circular industry clusters.
Strategic Blueprint for Global Presence, Market Share Expansion
During the first half of this year, the Group leveraged on its overseas offices as the "bridgehead", deeply explored the market potentials in regions such as Southeast Asia, South Asia, Europe as well as Central and East Africa, constantly developed new markets and sectors, and used its overseas business division as platforms, thereby enhancing international communications and cooperation. The Group will continue to strengthen cooperation with scientific research platforms overseas, integrate world's top technological resources, thus foster core technological advantages for the entire industrial chain. At the same time, the Group continues to seek mergers and acquisitions opportunities for upstream and downstream products, and establishes research and development production bases overseas in due time while creating a global supply chain network, with the Group striving to become the "world's leading green energy solution provider".
Capital Development
In accordance with the results of the 51st review meeting of the Listing Committee for Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2020 that was held on 6 July 2020, the issue of A shares by Tianneng Battery Group Co., Ltd. and the listing of the A shares of the Spin-off Company on the Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange has been approved by the Listing Committee.
Looking to the future, Mr. Zhang Tianren, the Chairman of the Board, said, "The Group will adhere to the sustainable development strategy of "new materials, new structures, new technologies, new sectors", follow the strategic direction of "artificial intelligent, globalization, platform-building", strive to seek after diversified fund raising channels to assist businesses with sufficient fundings for future development, as well as fully promote reforms in quality, efficiency and driving forces. Leveraging on its advantages in technology, production framework, market channels, brands and information technology system which have been accumulated in the battery industry for many years, Tianneng will strengthen the international leading position of its high-end eco-friendly batteries, enhance the product competitiveness of new energy batteries, create closed-loop green smart industry chain, construct a smart energy service system, build a logistics supply chain platform, actively expand businesses such as start-stop batteries and energy storage systems, and continue with the technological development of fuel cells and new-generation batteries, with the aim of becoming the most respected first-tier new energy enterprise across the globe."
About Tianneng Power International Limited
Tianneng Power International Co., Ltd. ("Tianneng Power") is a leading company in the new energy power battery industry in China, which was founded in 1986. In 2007, Tianneng Power was listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited as the "First China Company of Power Battery." After more than 30 years of development, it has become a large high-tech energy group focusing on the manufacturing and provision of services of environmentally friendly power batteries for electric vehicles, while offering integrated power storage ancillary services, and integrating the R&D, production and sale of lithium batteries for new energy vehicles, start-stop batteries for vehicles and wind power and solar power storage batteries; the recycling and cyclic utilization of waste batteries; the construction of smart micro-grids in cities; as well as the building of green and smart industrial parks. In July 2020, Tianneng Power won the awards of "Best Provider of Systems Integration Solutions" and "Best Demonstration Project for Energy Storage" at the 7th Global Solar+Energy Storage Conference & Expo (2020).
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Singapore's Elite Partners Acquires Warehouse in Poland for over EUR30 Million (S$48.6 Million) from Subsidiary of Sovereign Fund GIC
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Elite, a Singapore-based private equity firm, said its Elite Logistics Fund (the "Fund") acquired the warehouse from GIC's wholly owned P3 Logistics Parks. Headquartered in the Czech Republic, the latter also owns a second logistics hub in the Polish town of Piotrkow.
The 58,500 sqm (629,700 square feet) facility is the largest warehouse in PepsiCo Poland's distribution network, and consolidates the global F&B leader's logistics and warehouse processes, which were previously run out of several different locations across the Central European nation.
The transaction increases Elite's presence in the Mszczonow Park to six buildings, with a total area of over 230,000 sqm (2,476,000 square feet). It follows the acquisition of five buildings in March 2020, which was one of the largest transactions in Poland's logistics sector this year.
Situated south-west of Warsaw, the Mszczonow warehouse is well served by expressways and motorways connecting the Polish capital to Berlin. It is also strategically located just an hour's drive from the Lodz terminal - the main terminal for the Chengdu-Lodz railway, linking Europe to China.
The latest acquisition is the Fund's third since May 2020 and has proceeded despite the market and economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Fund is building a portfolio of European assets focusing on specialised warehousing (in particular, for e-commerce fulfilment and food logistics distribution), cold chain logistics as well as logistics infrastructure. Launched in January 2020, the Pan-European fund is targeting such specialised assets in Poland and the United Kingdom - where it already owns eight other properties - amongst other countries in Europe.
Elite Partners believes that recent supply chain disruptions - first due to Brexit, followed by the COVID-19 pandemic since the beginning of 2020 - have opened up new challenges and opportunities for specialised logistics in Europe.
Mr Victor Song, CEO and Managing Director of Elite Partners, said "We are elated by the completion of this acquisition. The dedicated warehouse in Mszczonow is a vital part of our strategy to build up a Pan-European portfolio of specialised logistics assets in Poland and the United Kingdom with specific geographical focus in the key European logistics hubs.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need to establish dedicated warehouses for sorting and distribution to meet the surge in e-commerce and cold chain to store and distribute food and perishables at a time when more people are working from home. In turn, these require support from specialised logistics infrastructure. Our Fund will cater to all three aspects," added Mr Enoch Tan, Portfolio Director of the Fund.
Mr Tan noted that Poland has cost advantages for e-commerce fulfilment, exceptional land, sea and air connectivity and is an important component of China's Belt and Road Initiative.
"Poland also serves as a bridge for commerce and investments between Europe and Asia. We intend to leverage on Elite Partners' expertise in private and public capital markets to unlock value and opportunities in specialised logistics," said Mr Desmond Wang, Executive Director of JMD Holdings, a co-investor in the Fund and a unitholder of Singapore Exchange (SGX")-listed Elite Commercial REIT.
Incorporated in 2017, Elite Partners has launched four funds to date. It is also the Sponsor of Elite Commercial REIT, the first sterling-denominated Singapore REIT listed on the SGX.
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About Elite Partners Capital
Incorporated in 2017, Singapore-based Elite Partners Capital is an alternative asset management company focused on the management of yield-accretive global assets with high growth potential and well-defined exit strategies. Backed by a team with proven expertise in private equity and real estate investment trusts (REITs), its threefold investment philosophy aims to protect initial capital, preserve investment value and create new growth opportunities.
Elite Partners Capital holds a Capital Market Services (CMS) licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) under the Securities and Futures (Licensing and Conduct of Business) Regulations. For more information, please visit: http://elitepartnerscapital.com
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