Eastern Group is much lauded for its long-standing commitment to indigenous welfare activities, and it has been 15 years since the “Breakfasts Made of Love” program was implemented for indigenous school children in 2007. The National Chengchi University (NCCU) is a leading academic research institute for indigenous culture in Taiwan. Today (30th), Eastern Group and NCCU held an industry-academia collaboration press conference, where they announced their joint participation in the Indigenous Intensive Development Project. For this project, Eckare will invest NT$5 million, while the Center for Aboriginal Studies of NCCU and Chi Cheng, executive consultant, will serve as advisors; in addition, the Golden Bell Awards production team will film programs related to indigenous culture, cuisine, and cultural and creative industries. With the abundant resources of ETtoday, a new media under Eastern Group, we hope to preserve and promote the culture of indigenous cultures, and to drive local tourism. Let’s work together to ring in the Golden Bell Awards next year!

ETMall, a subsidiary of Eastern Media International Corporation (2614), reported today (12th) that the annual consolidated revenue of ETMall (merged with Strawberrynet) was NT$2.099 billion, with an annual growth rate of 15%, showing an increase of 36% from NT$74.92 million over the same period last year and a single-month EPS of NT$1. The Spring Festival fell in February this year, two weeks later than last year’s, so the combined profit for January and February was NT$266 million, with an 81% annual growth rate.

Last year, Eastern Group publicly announced that it had been awarded the Base B project of the Linkou International Media Park in New Taipei City. The Linkou Global Headquarters building is expected to open in 2025. Eastern Group will invest NT$12 billion in a comprehensive plan for healthcare, beauty, pets, hotel, exhibition venue, and e-sports, including a multi-functional exhibition hall and shopping mall. The building will be 180 meters high, and will be sitting upon the 250-meter Linkou Plateau, which will create a new 430-meter landmark of healthcare and beauty in New Taipei. In addition to the planned multi-functional media park, the new brand “Silks X” of the Silks Hotel Group will also be located in the headquarters building, with a NT$1.5 billion investment from Eckare for the joint operations of the hotel. Gary Wang, President of Eastern Group and Chairman of Eckare, and President Steven Pan, Chairman of the Silks Hotel Group, attended a joint press conference today (3/5). The two parties officially signed an agreement announcing the first cross-sector strategic alliance between Eastern Group and Silks Hotel Group, which represented the first new hotel brand debut worldwide in the post-pandemic era.

The “ETMall Big Bonanza ★ New Year Lotto” campaign ran for 12 consecutive days from 2/10 (Wed) to 2/21 (Sun), with prizes drawn every day. Today (2/21), the 12th day, was the last day of the lotto, but unfortunately, the first and second prizes were never drawn, and the prize worth NT$12 million in Eastern vouchers remains unclaimed.

ETMall (merged with Strawberrynet), a subsidiary of Eastern Media International Corporation (2614), reported a consolidated revenue of NT$2.57 billion for the first month of the year, setting a new record for the highest revenue in January, with an annual growth rate of 41% and a profit of NT$164 million. It has shown more than double the growth compared to the NT$71.88 million from same month last year and a single-month EPS of NT$1.61.

The Year of the Ox is here, and ETMall is celebrating the Lunar New Year with the biggest gifts ever for our members! From February 1st (Mon) 00:00 to February 21st (Sun) 19:59, ETMall will be holding the “ETMall Big Bonanza ★ New Year Lotto” ET coin campaign. All members are invited to come place a bet and the minimum bet is only 50 ET coins. Starting from 2/10, for 12 consecutive days, a NT$1 million shopping voucher will be given away every day, and there will also be more than NT$50 million worth of amazing gifts up for grabs! At a press conference today (2/1), Chairman Gary Wang of ETMall even cosplayed as the most authentic version of the “God of Wealth” ever for the first time, and he happily announced that over 12 billion ET coins have been issued, making ETMall the official “coin champion of e-commerce”.

In order to cultivate biotechnology talent and deepen the collaboration between industry and academia, Eastern Group will donate a “Biotechnology Building” to National Taiwan University (NTU), which will cover an area of around 23,141 square meters. Yesterday (27th), Chairman Gary Wang and NTU President Kuan Chung-Ming signed the “Letter of Intent for Biotechnology Building Donation and Industry-Academia Collaboration”. The construction of the building is expected to start within three years and completed within six years. The use of the building will be shared by the Department of Biochemical Science & Technology and the Institute of Fisheries Science, both under the College of Life Science, National Taiwan University. Furthermore, a “NTU-Eastern Industry-Academia Research and Development Center” will be set up to jointly nurture talent in biotechnology- and agriculture-related fields. In addition, Eastern Group’s Eastern Natural Beauty, Eckare, and Eastern Farm under ETMall will also take the opportunity to deepen industry-academia collaboration, refine product development, and provide better customer services to our members.

Since its establishment more than 30 years ago, Eastern Group has been upholding the spirit of “others are about business, we are about public welfare”. For New Taipei City, where Eastern Group is located, we are committed to the concept of “giving back to the local community” and have long cooperated with the New Taipei City Government. To support New Taipei City’s “Good Day of Love Platform”, we have made donations of over NT$1 million every year. Last Lunar New Year, Eastern donated pomfret fish to symbolize the Lunar New Year blessing “may there be prosperity year after year”, and also donated the proceeds of NT$500,000 from the Happiness Market charity sale. We add another event to last year’s Double 12 shopping festival for public welfare. Eastern organized the “Food and Love Charity Drive 1212” for Double 12, where in the name of Eckare, we donated NT$1 million in cash and NT$500,000 in resources to help the disadvantaged families registered with the Department of Social Welfare in New Taipei City and the stray animals of New Taipei City.

The end of the year is the season to give love and kindness to others. Eastern Commerce Company (Eckare) and Taipei City Councilor Ying Shao-Wei joined hands to hold a public welfare event at the Rixiang Community Activity Center in Wanhua District today (1/23) to provide food and clothes for free to disadvantaged groups. Eckare donated 150 sets of turkey dinners. Each turkey was locally reared and weighed 5 kilograms, totaling a market value of approx. NT$600,000. The staff and students of Juang Jing Vocational High School’s catering department cut and prepared the turkeys into nearly 2,000 delicious meal boxes. In addition to the turkeys, Ying Shao-Wei’s mother also paid hundreds of thousands of dollars out of her own pocket to purchase 3,000 sets of thermal clothing, keeping disadvantaged people’s bodies and hearts warm during the cold winter days. Ko Wen-Je, Taipei City Mayor; Tsai Ping-Kun and Huang Shan-Shan, Taipei City Deputy Mayors; and Gary Wang, Chairman of Eckare, all attended the event and enthusiastically responded to the end-of-the-year public welfare activities.