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Posted 08 December 2010 - 04:03 PM

The opening ceremony and press conference for Phoenix Contact China Shanghai Center was ceremoniously convened in Shanghai China on October 28, 2010. More than 300 people, including partners in East China from Siemens, Emerson and partners in the segments of power transmission and distribution in Shanghai, customers and news media personnel from major domestic industries were invited to participate in this event. Stuehrenberg, executive vice president global sales, Massmann, overseas sales director, and Gu Jiandang, general manager of Phoenix Contact China attended the event as well.

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At the meeting, with the gorgeous ball blooming light, Gu Jiandang, general manager Phoenix Contact China, on behalf of Phoenix solemnly announced the official establishment of Shanghai Center for participating journalists, Phoenix Contact partners and user representatives. Stuehrenberg, executive vice president global sales, brought the recognition on the rapid development of Phoenix Contact China and best wishes for the opening of Shanghai center from Germany Headquarters across the Atlantic and said the group would gave more concerns and support for the Chinese market and customers in the future.

As to the Shanghai center, general manager Gu said the future Shanghai center will set the base in Shanghai, radiating the markets in East China and Yangtze River Delta region by fully relying on the globally recognized electrical connection, electronic interface, high-quality power and signal transmission and industrial automation system solutions as well as the robust marketing, sales, R & D and marketing resources of its Chinese companies. It was set to follow users' needs and meet the special demands of regional customers to create for them new value. It would also provide products fitting the technology operating environments of China region and build high efficiency and rapid response capacity to bring the world-leading innovative technologies and comprehensive solutions to Chinese customers and achieve customized services of products and projects in the purpose of promoting the development and progress of China's national industry and improving the international competitiveness of China's manufacturing industry.

According to manager Gu, as a crucial step in the company's future development strategy, the establishment of the Shanghai Center also symbolized the sweeping enhancement of its core competitiveness in the East China region. By the long-term planning of Chinese companies, Phoenix has set up the Beijing center in the North in 2008. One year on, the service capacity was greatly enhanced, fully witnessing the importance of this strategy. The core competitiveness center in the South would be built subsequently with more extensive competitiveness networks gradually set up in major capital cities and industrial cities. Recalling the 17 years of rapid development, Gu Jiandang believed that the long course was actually a road followed by Phoenix Contact to set root in China and serve Chinese customers. Ever since its establishment, the Chinese company has had "uplift the national spirit and serve the public" and "be a good corporate citizen" as its basic goals in China, as reflected in its long evolving course with localized production factory set up in 1995, R & D center in 1997, being the first registered research and development enterprise in 2007, the construction of China company building for electronic products in October 2008 with an investment of 2 billion RMB and the infrastructure and solutions business in 2009. And today we saw the official establishment of Shanghai center.

After the meeting, the guests visited the office building of Shanghai center located in the Shang Cao River Path high-tech development zone with great interest. Upon entering the door of the center, they were impressed with the complete and unified regional functional planning, with brand new multi-media exhibition hall showcasing the application of line products and industry solutions display panels attracting the attention of many representatives who conducted in-depth exchanges with on-site product experts on the topics of their respective concern.

Phoenix China is the subsidiary of Germany Phoenix Contact Group and the business center in the Asia Pacific. Germany Phoenix Contact is a globally recognized industrial leader in electrical connection, electronic interface, lightning protection and technology industrial automation solution. There were Nanjing Phoenix Contact Co., Ltd., Phoenix Pacific Electric (Nanjing) Co., Ltd., Phoenix Electric (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and Phoenix (Nanjing) Engineering R & D Centre under the Phoenix Chinese companies with more than 1,100 employees and the annual sales of over one billion RMB.

The companies provide customers with the world most advanced modular terminal blocks, printed circuit board connectors, industrial connectors, modular electrical interface products, lightning and surge protectors, the world's leading industrial Ethernet and fieldbus control systems. It has set up in succession more than 20 offices and over 100 distribution facilities nationwide, providing world-class products and quality and efficient service for power, electronics, telecommunications, machinery, construction, metallurgy, petroleum, chemical, transportation, automobile and tobacco industries.

During the seventeen years of development, Phoenix Contact China has always maintained high growth in business. Since 1996, it has topped the market share among the domestic counterparts. From 2009, it has ranked first in the world group, starting from several varieties of products to more than 500 kinds, together with a 10-times increase of the total employees, 50-times growth of the investment and a 350-times surge of output. Considering the speed and efficiency to achieve sustainable and rapid development, during which process, it set equal importance on both speed and efficiency, achieving rapid and sustainable development.

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