Day: May 11, 2021

BAODING, China, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — On May 10, Google and Kantar jointly released the “2021 BrandZ™ Top 50 Chinese Global Brand Builders”, and GWM was listed among other brands for the first time. Meanwhile, GWM was also listed among “2021 BrandZ™ Top 20 Rising Stars”. GWM has once again drawn the attention of global users with its manufacturing strength and steady growth after Auto Shanghai 2021.

BrandZ™ is an international and authoritative large brand building platform and the one and only brand value list that take consumers’ opinions into account. Since 2017, Google had joined with Kantar to collect data on the Google research platform and assess the growth of Chinese Global Brands with the globally recognized BrandZ™ brand value model developed by Kantar and based on the search volume on Google. The “2021 BrandZ™ Top 50 Chinese Global Brand” was released by Kantar along with Google. The research covered more than 860,000 consumers from 11 market places. The Top 50 list was based on scores of the significance, differentiation and high-lighting, and was selected from 1,662 candidates in 15 categories. According to IMF, the global economy has dropped by 3.5% due to the pandemic. However, many Chinese brands including GWM have shown the resolution to promote the brand establishment and boost overseas business growth facing the “black swan” incident.

In the last month, GWM has officially launched five brands at Auto Shanghai 2021, i.e. HAVAL, WEY, ORA, Pickup, and TANK in order to steadily promote their global expansion. As the major brand under the SUV category of GWM, HAVAL had won the first place among automobile brands on the 2020 “BrandZ™ Top 50 Chinese Global Brand”. In the first half of 2021, JOLION and 3rd Gen HAVAL H6 have been launched successively in core markets such as Saudi Arabia, Australia and South Africa. While the previously launched GWM POER has become the first Chinese pickup brand entering several countries. With overall layout in the global market, GWM will certainly solidify its leadership in the industry.

As one of the BrandZ™ Top 50 Chinese Global Brand Builders, GWM has formed its global sales network in major markets such as the Middle East, South America, Australia, South Africa and Russia, comprising more than 500 distributors. Its overseas sales cover more than 60 countries around the world. In the next five years, GWM will invest more than RMB 30 billion in global R&D and introduce more than 400 global automotive engineers and IT experts. Meanwhile, it will cooperate with global tech giants including Intel, Google and Apple to develop the most super-advanced technologies, and provide global users with more intelligent, high-tech and high-quality products.

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BEIJING, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The “2021 China Brand Value Evaluation Information” released on May 9 amid the Fifth China Brand Day celebration, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (HKG: 0386, “Sinopec”) ranks No.1 across the energy and chemical industry in China with a brand value of 308.59 billion yuan ($48.01 billion), a 9.491 billion yuan ($1.48 billion) growth compare to 2020. Brands value of its Easy Joy, Epec.com, Sinopec Lubricant Company, and Sinopec Donghai Asphalt raised significantly.

At the forum on China Corporate Brand Building held on May 10, Mr. Zhang Yuzhuo’s keynote speech solemnly stated that Sinopec will accelerate to build a world-class independent brand to better lead the high-quality development of the enterprise.

Manufacturing capacity in China continues to grow and develop, showing vigorous vitality and creativity with increased number of Chinese brands going abroad.

For 38 years, Sinopec has emphasized on strengthening brand building and committed to bring the society cleaner, higher-end and more diverse energy and chemical products. Fulfilled its brand promises with actions and responsibilities, Sinopec will continue to meet people’s needs for better life and promote the company’s brand value, reputation and influence.

“Sinopec will step up in building a world-class brand, adhering to the brand value proposition of ‘Innovation leads the future of the industry, creating better life with responsibility,” as well as making the brand slogan of ‘Cleaner Energy, Better Life’ deeply rooted in customers’ hearts, entering thousands upon thousands of households as a responsible international enterprise,” said Zhang Yuzhuo, chairman of Sinopec.

In the future, Sinopec will Implement the brand strategy vigorously and firmly establish the concept of “quality is always one step ahead” and “every drop of oil is a promise” to highlight Sinopec’s commitment to quality first, speeding up the promotion of brand vitality. Guided by the implementation of a world-leading development strategy, Sinopec will strengthen its operation management and speed up to improve brand support.

By taking the opportunity of building a pioneering technology company, Sinopec will also continue to innovate and boost its brand competitiveness, along with speed up the green and low-carbon transition, promoting clean fossil energy, scaled non-fossil energy and low-carbon production process to ensure that it reaches the carbon emissions peak before China’s goal and strives to achieve carbon neutral by 2050.

In addition, Sinopec will support key projects of rural revitalization, Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, health express initiative, public open days, charity gas stations for sanitation workers and more to consolidate social responsibility and elevate brand influence, making “responsible” a keyword of the Sinopec brand.

About Sinopec

Sinopec Corp. is one of the largest integrated energy and chemical companies in China. Its principal operations include the exploration and production, pipeline transportation and sale of petroleum and natural gas; the sale, storage and transportation of petroleum products, petrochemical products, coal chemical products, synthetic fiber, fertilizer and other chemical products; the import and export, including an import and export agency business, of petroleum, natural gas, petroleum products, petrochemical and chemical products, and other commodities and technologies; and research, development and application of technologies and information.

Sinopec sets ‘fueling beautiful life’ as its corporate mission, puts ‘people, responsibility, integrity, precision, innovation and win-win’ as its corporate core values, pursues strategies of value-orientation, innovation-driven development, integrated resource allocation, open cooperation, and green and low-carbon growth, and strives to achieve its corporate vision of building a world leading energy and chemical company.

For more information, please visit: http://www.sinopecgroup.com/group/en/.

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Financial professionals in the Middle East Africa & Asia Pacific regions will now have access to preparation courses for leading financial planning and analysis (FP&A) certification.

SINGAPORE, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) and HOFT have announced a formal partnership to offer exam preparation courses for finance professionals based in the Middle East Africa & Asia Pacific regions The courses will equip financial professionals with the tools they need to earn the Certified Corporate FP&A Professional (FPAC) certification.

The FP&A credential, sponsored by AFP, establishes a set of core competencies for the corporate FP&A profession and addresses areas that are not necessarily covered by a traditional degree. As it is the only credential specific to FP&A, FPAC credential holders step to the forefront as financial experts, strategic and adept communicators, and trusted advisors to the business. Certified FP&A professionals are also equipped with planning, forecasting and analysis skills combined with an ability to see the overall strategy of the organization.

By partnering together, AFP and HOFT are helping finance professionals within the Middle East Africa & Asia Pacific regions to transform their careers by using a strategic finance leadership framework to become finance leaders of the future. HOFT has a world class team of experts in finance, finance transformation, finance business partnering, FP&A, strategy, emerging technologies, data analytics and leadership who have global experience within large groups of multinational and Fortune 100 companies.

“This collaboration with HOFT helps AFP transform financial professionals into global strategic finance leaders,” said Himashi Soriano, managing director of APAC. “This path to earning AFP’s FPAC credential will help practitioners in these regions distinguish themselves among their peers.”

“With its vision to support global community of finance professionals in their career transformation journey towards next generation finance, HOFT is highly thrilled to partner with AFP to support finance professionals in their transformation journey towards best-in-class FP&A leaders,” said Muhammad Taqi, Head of Finance Transformation Projects at HOFT.

For any press queries, please contact Melissa Rawak, mrawak@afpoline.org.

About AFP^®
Headquartered outside of Washington, D.C. and located regionally in Singapore, the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) is the professional society committed to advancing the success of treasury and finance members and their organizations. AFP established and administers the Certified Treasury Professional and Certified Corporate FP&A Professional credentials, which set standards of excellence in treasury and finance.

About HOFT
Headquartered in U.A.E, Hub Of Finance Transformation (HOFT) is a global training and consulting services provider of business excellence solutions since 2018.

HOFT’s mission is to build a global network and community of highly polished, tech-savvy, and strategic minded accounting and finance professionals with a unique ability to add tremendous amount of value to their employers, businesses, careers, families and communities.

HOFT is the hub for global community of finance professionals aspiring to transform their finance careers to the next generation of finance by becoming world class strategic finance leaders of the future.

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• SEEGENE BACKS GERMANY IN ITS EFFORT TO RETURN TO NORMALCY
• GERMAN SUBSIDIARY TO SUPPLY COVID-19 DIAGNOSTIC TESTS ENOUGH TO TEST 734,000 PUPILS

SEOUL, South Korea, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Seegene Inc. (KQ 096530), a leading molecular diagnostics firm said its German subsidiary, Seegene Germany GmbH is taking part in the government’s Back-to-School program called the “Lolli-Test,” a starting point in returning our daily lives back to normalcy. Under the program, Seegene Germany GmbH will be supplying COVID-19 diagnostic tests to laboratories, in business with the federal government, worth up to 19.3 million Euros

The deal states that Seegene Germany GmbH contribute COVID-19 diagnostic tests to laboratories weekly for nine weeks starting May until before the start of the summer break. The diagnostic tests will then be sent to some 400 laboratories in the North Rhine-Westphalia region to test over 734,000 pupils at 3,764 elementary and special schools.

Three of Seegene’s COVID-19 diagnostic, the ‘Allplex^TM SARS-CoV-2 Master Assay¹‘ ‘Allplex^TM SARS-CoV-2/FluA/FluB/RSV Assay²‘ and ‘Allplex^TM SARS-CoV-2 Assay³‘ will be used for the program.

The ‘Allplex™ SARS-CoV-2 Master Assay’ can detect a total of 10 targets including four coronavirus genes (E gene, RdRP gene, N gene and S gene) as well as five defined virus variants. Those variants include B.1.1.7, B.1.351, P.1, and B1.1.207. With UK variant still being reported as the most dominant of COVID-19 variant, it is largely anticipated that the variant diagnostic test will be mainly used for the program.

The ‘Allplex™ SARS-CoV-2 Master Assay,’ can also be used in conjunction with ‘Allplex™ RV Essential Assay’ a one-step assay for screening a total of 17 target causative viruses for respiratory infections. It’s an ideal way of screening coronavirus genes as the pandemic continues to rage after being coupled with a number of contagious variants. The variant diagnostic test has acquired CE-IVD mark in March and was first exported to European countries and Chile last month.

Other diagnostic tests, the ‘Allplex™ SARS-CoV-2/FluA/FluB/RSV Assay’ is a real-time PCR assay that can simultaneously detect and differentiate eight target genes, including Flu A, Flu B, RSV A/B and three different target genes of COVID-19 (S gene, RdRP gene and N gene). The multiplex assay can be used to differentiate individuals with common flu and COVID-19, both of which show identical symptoms fever and cough.

Seegene’s ‘Allplex^TM SARS-CoV-2 Assay’ can detect a total of five targets including four coronavirus genes (E gene, RdRP gene, N gene and S gene) and an exogenous control (entire process control in a single reaction tube, allowing accurate results and maximize throughput for high volume testing. Such diagnostic test is critical in precisely detecting the existence of coronavirus, especially as new variants continue to emerge worldwide.

Ho Yi, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of Seegene said through the program, it hopes to fully back German government’s push to return to normalcy starting with schools. He added that Germany’s project become a model for other economies around the world and Seegene will help governments get back to pre-COVID-19 life.

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