1.Date of occurrence of the event:2015/02/03
2.Company name:WPG Holdings Limited
3.Relationship to the Company (please enter ”head office” or
  ”subsidiaries”):Head office
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Benefited from increased markets demand combined with growing shipments of
communication-related components, automotives, industrial electronics, and
cloud applications, WPG, the distributor of semiconductor components,
announced 2014 Consolidated sales reached NT$452.567 billion.
Under effective expense control, Operating income and net income increased
26.2% and 21.8% to NT$7.937 billion and NT$5.791 billion respectively. EPS
was NT$3.5 per share, represented 22% increase over previous year's NT$2.87
per share.
Consolidated sales of fourth quarter was NT$117.171 billion,
Operating income was NT$1.776 billion, net income was NT$1.33 billion,
represented 5.3%, 23.1% and 32.3% growth year over year. EPS was NT$0.80 per
share, represented 32% increase over previous year’s NT$0.61 per share.
The profit growth has been delivered by domestic demand of emerging markets.
Contribution of 3C products such as mid to high-end smart phone, tablet,
wireless broadband, cloud servers and televisions were continued growing.
Non-3C segments' contribution such as automotives and industrial electronics
remained healthy. With increased profit and improving operating efficiency,
2014 Key financial indices: Return on Working Capital (ROWC) and ROE was
9.0% and 13.6% respectively.
Management guides the total sales of first quarter 2015 will be between
NT$108 billion and NT$113 billion, with the gross margin in the range of
4.4%~4.7% and the operating margin between 1.6%~1.8%.