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VTech Holdings Ltd Annual Report 2001
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Our Brainstation PresidentTM won the Belgium Toy Award 2000 and Toy of the Year
Award in the category 8-12 years in Netherlands. It was also awarded the Consumer
prize by consumers throughout Belgium.
Our Non-Stop GirlTM, Little Smart DJ Jazz'n JamTM and Muttzart's Symphony SoundsTM
were given the prestigious "Children's Choice Award" by the Canadian Toy
Testing Council.
November 2000
Announced a partnership with South China University of
Technology to establish SCVTech, an application services
provider and consulting firm.
Launched the VTech School of IT which offers integrated
classroom and online professional IT training for learners with
different levels of technical knowledge from various sectors.
At the 2000 HK Awards for Industry, our electronic learning
product, DJ Jazz'n JamTM won the Consumer Product Design
Award and our Power ZoneTM Edge was awarded a Certificate
of Merit in Consumer Product Design.
December 2000
Our B2B website, Chinacommercer.com launched its on-
line travel channel, providing segmented demand-and-supply
information on 24 different categories of travel products,
industry news and highlights of selected quality products.
January 2001
Our consumer telephone products in the US received the "Strategic Partner of the Year"
award from Office Max, a leading distributor of telecommunication products in the US.
March 2001
Announced a broad-based restructuring plan to streamline global operations, reduce operating
costs and focus on higher margin products in order to drive bottom line growth.
Our contract manufacturing services were named one of the top 50 contract
manufacturers in "Manufacturing Market Insider", a popular monthly periodical catering
to the contract manufacturing industry.
Launched our Mirage C100 DECT phone in the UK.
Year in Review
Muttzart’s Symphony SoundsTM