The COVID-19 pandemic has spread to numerous countries, causing a major global impact. In order to show respect to Chen Shih-chung, Minister of Health and Welfare, and the frontline healthcare workers, police, and firefighters combating COVID-19, President Gary Wang said that with Eastern Group as a public welfare leader, this time, he has given special instruction to Eastern Natural Beauty to donate pandemic prevention gifts. The current best-selling skincare product on the platform has been selected, and President Wang personally announced today (4/9) that “Eastern Natural Beauty – STREMARK Moisturizing & Soothing High Performance Extract”, with a total worth over NT$30 million, will be donated to care for the hardworking healthcare workers. A certificate of appreciation was presented by Chairman Kao Ching-chiu of the Taiwan Union of Nurses Association (TUNA), to accept the donation on behalf of all healthcare professionals in Taiwan.

Asia’s leading multinational beauty company, Eastern Natural Beauty, has long been committed to the brand philosophy of “Natural is Beautiful”. This afternoon (8th), the second “Eastern Natural Beauty Industry-Academia Summit” was held at the biotech R&D center. The theme of the summit was “Go International, Create More Beautiful Miracles”, which focused on important topics such as emerging market development, product development, and next-generation customer base expansion. Gary Wang, president of Eastern Group, said that Eastern Natural Beauty has been actively expanding its market coverage and enhancing brand credibility this year. The company has listened to the advice of the professional consultant team to create the new blue ocean of the cosmetics and skincare market, in order to be firmly established as the leading Asian beauty brand.

Eastern (2614) reinvested in ETMall and reported a total revenue of NT$21.12 billion from ETMall and Strawberrynet combined in 2019, showing an annual increase of 22%, with the after-tax earnings per share (EPS) at NT$6. Out of which online shopping revenue grew at a remarkable rate, reaching NT$5.7 billion, a 55% annual growth rate. Gary Wang, chairman of ETMall, said due to the excellent performance of proprietary products and the online market, which drove the overall revenue growth, Eastern will adopt six major strategies to move forward in 2020. In January this year, despite the seven additional days of the Chinese New Year holiday period compared to last year, ETMall’s net profit after tax still managed to grow 22.7% in spite of unfavorable factors. Eastern earned NT$6 per share after taxes last year, and this year’s EPS is on pace to hit its NT$8 per share target.

Asia’s leading multinational beauty company, Eastern Natural Beauty, has long been committed to the brand philosophy of “Natural is Beautiful”. Today (14th), on the 49th anniversary of its founding, the company established the first professional aesthetic biotechnology research and development center. Gary Wang, president of Eastern Group; Joanna Lei, chairman of Natural Beauty Hong Kong; Liao Shang-wen, chairman of Natural Beauty Shanghai; Shih-heng Chao, vice-chairman of ETMall; Rose Lin, CEO of Eastern Natural Beauty; as well as professional consultant team members Dr. Edward Chern, Dr. Jih-jung Chen, and Dr. Tsong-min Chang attended the opening ribbon-cutting ceremony and jointly set a new milestone for Eastern Natural Beauty.

With the spread of the novel coronavirus across the world, the health of the population is under the care of virus prevention experts and medical professionals. ETtoday Pets, a subsidiary under Eastern Media International Corporation (2614), is dedicated to guarding the health of your pets during the pandemic. With the professionalism of ETtoday Pets gaining the public’s trust, it performed exceptionally well in the first month of 2020, with the monthly revenue reaching a new high!

Eastern Group and ASUS (2357) Intelligent Cloud Services (AICS) have signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation today (16th). In the future, ASUS’ advanced AI technology solutions will be applied to Eastern’s media, retail, and cultural creative business entities. It will be used for the integration of Online to Offline (O2O) domain data, application of hardware and software resources, as well as the creation of an international smart innovation industry in the highly competitive global new media and new retail market.

Eastern Group announced that it had signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation with ASUS Intelligent Cloud Services (AICS) on the 16th to jointly develop retail AI technology. Eastern revealed that it will collaborate with ASUS on three major technologies, including phone voice recognition data mining, ETtoday Pets store image recognition, and membership data processing for users.

Eastern Group, based in Taiwan, is now turning its attention to the international market and will be making great strides towards globalization. Eastern Group President Gary Wang said today (January 8th) that Eastern’s services has entered the international online sector, so the internationalization of the enterprise is inevitable. In addition to gaining a firmer grip of the China market, the Group-owned business entities will also be advancing to the Southeast Asian markets. Wang also announced that 2020 will be the first year of the Group’s internationalization strategy.

Eastern Media International Corporation made a major announcement today (25th). It will invest NT$10 billion in the Linkou International Media Park. In addition to setting up the Eastern Global Operations Headquarters, it will also integrate related companies under the Group, including ET New Media Holdings and ETMall, to create the Eastern Lifestyle Circle. The target for group-related revenue in 2024 is to exceed NT$130 billion.

Eastern (2614) reinvested in ETMall, from January to December 2019, the consolidated Strawberrynet annual revenue grew 22% to reach NT$20.4 billion, breaking the 20 billion mark. The overall performance of the entire channel was particularly outstanding, mainly due to the effectiveness in promoting ET coins through the integration of the Group’s resources. Since its launch, more than 5.4 billion ET coins have been issued, becoming the largest “King of Coins” out of all retail and e-commerce channels, and the results have driven other industry operators to follow suit.