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二零一七年年報
貿易通電子貿易有限公司
Chairman’s Statement
(Continued)
主席報告書
(續)
Prospects (Continued)
To further enhance and enrich our solutions so as to stay competitive in
the market, we acknowledge the need for innovation and creativity in
our solutions. Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) as a topical subject is not just
a buzzword to us as we have since last year started investing resources
to look into the application of AI on our Commercial Services and
Security Solutions. We have so far identified several useful and
interesting aspects where we could make use of AI to enhance our
solutions providing more benefits and/or conveniences for users. While
we would continue investing in the research and study of such
technology and related applications in 2018, we expect the development
of some of our initial ideas would complete within the year. We are
excited about our suite of AI-enabled Commercial Services and Security
Solutions.
Last but not least, regarding the performance of our investments in PRC
associates in 2018, we are rather confident as since 2017, we no longer
need to share the loss of
上海匯通供應鏈技術與運營有限公司
(“U-Link”) and in this case we are largely referring to the Nanfang
business which not only has had a heathy recovery after the settlement
of their previous legal issues, but also has strengthened its momentum
since then.
Dividends
As always we take our shareholders’ interests as our priority. On this
basis, the board of directors of the Company (the “Board” or the
“Board of Directors”) has decided to recommend a nearly 100% payout
of the Group’s profit of HK$76.2 million after excluding the deferred tax
charge of DTTNCo at HK$2.1 million for 2017. This means a final
dividend of HK 6.3 cents, which together with the 2017 interim dividend
of HK 3.2 cents, will result in a total dividend of HK 9.5 cents for 2017,
higher than the total dividend for 2016 at HK 8.7 cents by 9%.
前景(續)
為進一步提升及豐富解決方案,以保持市場競爭
力,我們深知我們的解決方案需不斷創新及創
意。人工智能(「人工智能」)一詞為城中熱話,但
對於我們而言並非空談。我們自去年開始已投放
資源,探求將人工智能應用於商業服務及保安方
案上。迄今,我們已識別多個實用且有趣範疇,
讓人工智能派上用場,加強解決方案為用戶提供
更多效益及╱或便利。於二零一八年,我們將繼
續投資於鑽研該科技及相關應用,期望一些初步
構思將於年內完成開發。我們屏息期待一系列具
人工智能的商業服務及保安方案組合。
最後,由於自二零一七年起,我們毋須分擔上海
匯通供應鏈技術與運營有限公司(「上海匯通」)的
虧損,在此情況下,我們的國內投資表現大致是
指南方業務,就南方而言,其業務不但於南方解
決過往法律問題後穩步復甦,此後勢頭亦增強,
因此我們對二零一八年於中國聯營公司之投資表
現相當有信心。
股息
一如既往,我們以股東權益為上。就此,本公司
董事會(「董事會」)決定建議派發本集團二零一七
年度溢利港幣
76,200,000
元(不包括
DTTNCo
之遞
延稅項支出港幣
2,100,000
元)之接近
100%
作為股
息,即末期股息每股
6.3
港仙,加上二零一七年中
期股息每股
3.2
港仙,二零一七年度股息合共
9.5
港仙,較二零一六年度總股息
8.7
港仙增加
9%
。