貿易通2018年中報

05 貿易通電子貿易有限公司  二零一八年中期報告 Chairman’s Statement 主席報告書 Dear Shareholders, For the first half of 2018, the Group’s business performance was favorable with revenue for the period at HK$125.1 million, up 10.6% on HK$113.1 million, and after tax profit at HK$38.3 million, up 15.0% on HK$33.3 million, for the same period last year. The Group’s operating profit for the period at HK$44.9 million was slightly lower than the profit last year at HK$45.1 million, due to the combined effect of an increase of operating costs and a decrease in interest and other net incomes. More specifically, there were increases of 22.6% and 7.8% on our cost of sales and operating expenses respectively, making our total costs at HK$87.7 million, 9.6% higher than the costs at HK$80.0 million for the same period last year. Unlike last year that we had to impair part of a bond investment, there was no major impairment loss of our other financial assets this year allowing the Group to generate a double digit growth in our after tax profit. As a matter of fact, with the disposal of the remaining half of the impaired corporate bond in our other financial assets for which an exceptional impairment loss was recorded last year, we were able to make a small reversal of impairment for the period. As regards the share result of our PRC associate, due to the less than satisfactory performance of Guangdong Nanfang Haian Science & Technology Service Company Limited (“Nanfang”), the Group recorded a share of profit of HK$0.4 million only for the period compared to HK$2.2 million last year. Looking at the changing environment of our operating businesses and how we should organize the company to face the identified challenges and take advantage of certain market trends, we have decided to combine the reporting of the two sub-segments under E-Commerce (Government Electronic Trading Services (“GETS”) and Commerce Services) into one set of segment numbers to align with the strategic development of our E-Commerce business in the light of the upcoming Government Trade Single Window (“SW”) implementation and the demand for the various e-solutions for the logistics industry. With common customer base in the trade and logistics industries, the two sub-segments can indeed be tightly coupled with to allow our customers to enjoy both trade facilitation and process improvements from our suites of Government and commercial services. Combining them together to become a single E-Commerce business denotes the Group’s strategic push to further integrate our commercial e-commerce business with GETS and to enable us to provide more comprehensive solutions to our customers in the trade and logistics industry. Also as mentioned in my Statement in the 2017 Annual Report, we have moved our Smart Point-of-Sales (“PoS”) payment business previously under Security Solutions — DigiSign/TESS to Other Services. Likewise for similar reason, the new business venture started by Commercial Services last year and currently still in investment stage has also been moved to the Other Services segment. Therefore, we shall report our financial numbers for trade facilitation and logistics solutions under “E-Commerce”, our suite of identity management products and solutions including digital certificates, security tokens, biometric solutions and eKYC (“Know-Your-Customer”) under “Identity Management” (“IDM”) and all others including our GETS related services and the new pilot businesses under “Other Services”. 致各位股東： 二零一八年上半年，本集團業務表現良好，期內收益為港幣 125,100,000 元，較去年同期的港幣 113,100,000 元增加 10.6% ，而除稅後溢利為港幣 38,300,000 元，較去年同期的 港幣 33,300,000 元增加 15.0% 。在經營成本上升及利息和其 他收益淨額下跌的雙重影響下，本集團期內的經營溢利為港 幣 44,900,000 元，較去年的港幣 45,100,000 元輕微下跌。較 明顯的是，銷售成本及經營開支分別上升 22.6% 及 7.8% ， 令成本總額較去年同期的港幣 80,000,000 元上升 9.6% ，至 港幣 87,700,000 元。與去年我們需要就一項債券投資作出部 份減值的情況不同，今年我們其他財務資產並沒有重大的減 值虧損，令本集團的除稅後溢利得以錄得雙位數增長。事實 上，有關其他財務資產下已於去年作出減值的企業債券，隨 著出售餘下的一半後，我們於期內可就減值作出少量撥回。 就我們分佔中國聯營公司的業績而言，由於廣東南方海 岸科技服務有限公司（「南方」）的表現未如理想，因此本 集團期內僅錄得分佔溢利港幣 400,000 元，而去年則為港 幣 2,200,000 元。 因應業務經營環境轉變，我們如何面對已知挑戰並順應 市場趨勢，本公司決定將電子商貿下兩個子分部（即政府 電子貿易服務（「 GETS 」）及商業服務）合併為同一分部進 行財務匯報。有鑒即將實施的政府貿易單一窗口（「單一 窗口」）及物流業對各類電子方案的需求，這兩子分部的 結合能配合我們電子商貿業務的策略發展。因擁有共同 的貿易及物流業客戶群，這兩個子分部實際上可緊扣連 合，讓客戶享受我們政府及商業服務組合所帶來的商貿 便利及流程優化。將該兩個子分部合併為單一的電子商 貿業務，彰顯本集團的策略推動將商業服務與 GETS 作進 一步合作，讓我們能為商界及物流業客戶提供更全面的 解決方案。 誠如本人於二零一七年年報主席報告書所述，我們已將 過往屬於保安方案 —DigiSign/TESS 的智能銷售點（「銷售 點」）支付業務，轉至其他服務分部下。去年由商業服務 所開展、目前仍處於投資期的新業務，亦因相類似原因 而轉至其他服務分部。因此，我們將於「電子商貿」分部 下報告與商貿便利及物流解決方案有關之財務數據，而 包括數碼證書、保安編碼器、生物認證解決方案及電子 化認識你的客戶（「認識你的客戶」）在內的整套身份管理 產品及解決方案則於身份管理（「身份管理」）分部匯報， 而與 GETS 相關服務及新試行的業務等所有其他服務，則 於「其他服務」中匯報。