Industry Co-Creation

WPG Holdings adheres to the spirit of “Grow Together and Strive Together” and gives back to society using the company’s professionalism on corporate and supply chain management, cultivating talents by supporting diversied industry-academia collaborations.

• "Wisdom sharing Lecture Hall“ from Taipei Electronic Components Suppliers' Association (TECSA)

Taipei Electronic Components Suppliers' Association (TECSA) has set up the “Wishdom sharing Lecture Hall” to promote in-service education and enhance talent training in the electronic components distribution industry, as well as pass on knowledge and experiences of the supply chain and distribution industry. The association invited members and supervisors of TECSA, senior managers of WPG Holding, industry experts, well-known entrepreneurs, and scholars to lectures and held training lessons for employees of member companies and industry practitioners. There was a total of 830 participants in 2021 and a total of 356 participants in the lectures given by the senior managers of WPG Holdings.

Association information, please refer to TECSA

• Management Intelligence Sharing Association (MISA)

The "MISA" initiated by K.D. Tseng, Chief Sustainability Officer of WPG Holdings, with experience inheritance as the core value, comprised many senior entrepreneurs as corporate masters, transferring the management wisdom to the leaders of the enterprises during the growth and transformation period; and established MISA Academy with a variety of business courses, including MISA coffee seminars, academician lectures, one-on-one tutoring, strategic private board meetings, and masters and academicians gatherings, etc. In 2021, the senior managers of WPG Holdings served as the academician class enterprise masters and delivered a total of 33 sessions; K.D. Tseng, Chief Sustainability Officer was appointed to serve as a lecturer for 5 sessions of the Academy, with a total of 261 participants.

Association information, please refer to MISA

• Taiwan Industrial Holdings Association (TIHA)

Since WPG Holdings has established in 2005, we created a brilliant business performance with the management model of industrial holdings. The Taiwan Industrial Holdings Association was born in 2019 when Simon Huang, Chairman of WPG Holdings served as the director. Through the Industrial Holdings Association, to increase exchanges and experience sharing within the industry, government, and academia, thereby promoting various industrial cooperation and strategic alliances in Taiwan; looking forward to the birth of more holding-style mergers in Taiwan, to create an industrial win-win ecosystem. A total of 4 seminars were held in 2021. Chairman Huang acted as the director of the board and shared the management experience of WPG with the members. Taking WPG Holdings as the main case, published the book "Co-opetition 2.0" and a guide to the formation of industrial holdings.

Youth Training

• Digital Governance Association - OIU Overseas Internet University Alliance Project

Participating in the "OIU Overseas Internet University Alliance Project" co-operated by the Digital Governance Association and the Overseas Community Affairs Council of the Republic of China, sponsoring and providing employment resources. The object of the project is overseas Chinese students. The professional courses are arranged to improve the digital skills of overseas Chinese students, hoping to narrow the gap between the industry and education and to attract outstanding overseas Chinese students to study and work in Taiwan, to solve the problem of the low birth rate and the loss of talents in Taiwan.

• WPG scholarship awards in the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taipei University of Technology

Since 2011, the WPG Scholarship has been set up in the Taipei Tech College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to provide financial assistance to disadvantaged students to prevent students from dropping out of school due to nancial difculties or sudden changes and be able to graduate with the help of social care. Five scholarship applications were provided each semester in 2021. To encourage students in developing professional skills, the company included the learning plan as selection criteria, in the hope to help students learn and develop in addition to economic relief.

• National Yunlin University of Science and Technology “Information Technology Internship Plan”

Since 2017, we have cooperated with the Yunlin University of Science and Technology on the IT intern project, while cultivating professionals for the industry, so that the students can apply what they have learned in practice, through work and study in the workplace, try different possibilities, face different challenges, and experience in the process of working in the enterprise, help the students to determine the direction of future career development. In 2021, a total of 6 Yunlin University interns were recruited, of which 5 were directly
transferred to full-time employees after the internship, to achieve the goal of seamless integration of the campus and the workplace.

• NCCU College of Commerce Supply Chain Management Plan

Since 2010, WPG Holdings sponsored and supported the three-year period "Supply Chain Management Plan" of NCCU College of Commerce for the 11th consecutive year till 2021. Combining theory and practice in industry-academia collaboration to systemize the knowledge of Taiwan's supply chain management while setting up a complete set of supply chain management teaching materials to cultivate supply chain management professionals in the industry.

Supply chain management covers cross-eld management science, with related courses in departments of the College of Commerce. Each department cannot establish a relatively complete set of professional and market-oriented academic training. Therefore, by integrating various departments, all existing curriculum resources are made for the supply chain management program, and new supply chain management courses are developed, while the "Bachelor's Program" and " Master's Professional Training Course" are conducted to meet different target groups in order to cultivate supply chain management talents in Taiwan.

WPG Holdings will continue to support the industry-academia collaboration plan for supply chain management to share industry knowledge and achieve industry-academia collaboration. We also plan to further launch the system of "WPG Supply Chain Management Elite", which will give the students an honorary status based on their academic and industrial performance, personal characteristics, and future development. In the future, we will continue to launch relevant resources related to the program, such as scholarships, internship opportunities, corporate mentorship arrangements, etc.

Social Impact

WPG Holdings adheres to corporate value "Team, Integrity, Professionalism, and Effectiveness" (T.I.P.E.) when practicing corporate social responsibility, with long-term investment in industry interactions, industry-academia plan, and social welfare in the hope of creating a virtuous cycle.

Adhering to the belief that what is taken from society and gave back to society, WPG Holdings established "WPG Holdings Education Foundation" to enhance the knowledge economy, build up a high-quality educational environment, promote academic and practices research over business management, and care for arts, culture, and environment education. Focusing on industry contribution as a development strategy. We strive to deepen distribution knowledge, showcase the core competencies in industry supply chain management, and cultivate professionals required by the industry through industryacademia cooperation and education support.

In terms of social welfare, we focus on "Caring for the Disadvantaged and Regaining the Spirit of Technical Education", dedicating efforts to social care and technical education, hoping to energize the industry and thus lay a foundation for sustainable development.

• Social Input

• Charity events that reects craftsmanship:WPG Ladies Open

WPG Holdings attaches great importance to the development of sports events and the cultivation of sports talents in Taiwan, subsidizing charity sports events together with its sub-groups. In 2020, the company organized the WPG Ladies Open in cooperation with TLPGA for the first time, providing opportunities for professional players, and increasing the visibility of Taiwanese players to make contribution to society. In 2021, we held the event for the second time. 75 domestic players were invited to participate in the competition. The concept of sponsoring the Taiwan Tournament was continued. We kept promoting ESG as an initiator, and 33 IDM/Fabless were invited to participate in the grand event, with the sponsorship amounting to NT$2.45 million. The total award of the competition was increased to NT$6 million, an increase of 25% compared with the first time, and the exposure of the multi- platform broadcast of the competition exceeded 1.15 million times.

For more information, please refer to Ladies-Open