Asus 2009 Annual Report Download - page 11

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July 1999 Presented ASUS super thin
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B.
October 1999 Increased the paid-in capital
t
o NT$11.464 billion with cash for an amount NT$15
million and with NT$300 million collected.
December 1999 Sales revenue of the year amounted to NT$49 billion representing 39.2% growth
from the year before.
January 2000 Purchased the eight pieces of land of the 4
th
lot, Fong-
N
ien Lot, Beitou District,
Taipei where adjacent to the head office on Li-Te road for business expansion
with an area of 7,186 pings.
Asiamoney ranked the company in the second place of “Best Managed Companies
in Taiwan.”
February 2000 Presented new NB L8400.
May 2000 Completed the construction of Beitou II Plant with an area of 1,453 pings for use.
June 2000 Increased the paid-in capital to NT$15.671 billion with retained earnings.
August 2000 Ranked in the first place of Tech 200 by Globalviews Magazine.
September 2000 China Credit Information Service Ltd. ranked the company’ s business performance
in the third place of Top-10 Manufacturers in 1990-1999.
October 2000 Commonwealth Magazine ranked the company in the first place of Taiwan
Electronics and in the seventh place nationwide.
N
ovember 2000 Business Wee
k
(U.S.A.) had the company ranked the 44
th
p
lace worldwide of The
InfoTech 100.
December 2000 Sales revenue of the year amounted to NT$70.7 billion representing 44.38%
growth from the year before.
March 2001 ODC (ODC is for the certification of environmental protection without using any
material that is dangerous to Ozone layer) was awarded to ASUS.
June 2001 Increased the paid-in capital to NT$19.769 billion wi
t
h retained earnings.
June 2001 Business Weekly ranked ASUS in the 26
th
p
lace of World Business 100.
N
ovember 2001 Business Wee
k
ranked ASUS in the 28
th
p
lace of The InfoTech 100.
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ovember 2001 Completed the construction of Taipei Plant with an area of 9,073 pings for use.
December 2001 Readers of PC Magazine had awarded ASUS with the “Product of the Year
Award” for the motherboard, NB, CD-ROM, and VGA in 2001.
December 2001 Far Eastern Economic Review ranked the quality service/product of ASUS in the
fourth place.
December 2001 Sales revenue of the year amounted to NT$77.9 billion representing 10.16%
growth from the year before.
January 2002 Seventeen products of the company were awarded with the “Symbol of
Excellence” this year; therefore, the company was the biggest winner of the 10th
national “Symbol of Excellence” award.
April 2002 Awarded as the excellent health and safe institute by Taipei City Government.
April 2002 Ranked in the Top-10 of Manufacturers 1000 by Commonwealth Magazine, the
Top-3 of computer and elements, and the Top-3 of most profitable business.
June 2002 Launched MyPal A600 that was the first PDA supporting Intel’ s 400MHz
PXA250CPU; also, it was the most light weighted, thin, and functional pocket PC.
July 2002 Increased the paid-in capital to NT$19.988 billion with retained earnings.
October 2002 Awarded as the excellent health and safe institute nationwide.
October 2002 Asia Week ranked ASUS in the Top-10 of Chinese Businessmen 500.
December 2002 The company had 17 million mother boards shipped this year; therefore, one out of
six computers was built with ASUS mother board.