FHKI 60th Anniversary Commemorative Album

In 1938, the first Hong Kong Brands and Products Expo was held. It was a carnival-style fair staged for local industrial companies to sell their products to Hong Kong people. It illustrated that early Hong Kong industries were “Hong Kong made, Hong Kong brands for the Hong Kong market”. Some of these food and clothing brands, like Lee Kung Man, Chicks, Lee Kum Kee, Pat Chun Vinegar, Yan Chim Kee, were popular among the local consumers and their products were exported to the Southeast Asian market. Then in the 1950s, the large influx of immigrants from the Mainland provided abundant cheap labour which led to the rise of textiles and clothing, toys and food industries. Then the electronics industry was introduced into Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s industrial activities were already in existence in the 1930s, although the scale was small and products were mainly catered for the local market. Because of family reasons, Dr Roy Chung, who was still a teenager, came to Hong Kong from Macau in 1968 to look for job opportunities. He worked first as a junior warehouse keeper at an American electronics company. He worked day-time and continued schooling in the evening to finish his secondary education. In 1985 he co- founded Techtronic Industries Co Ltd with his German partner and developed it into a global leader in the production of power tools and household appliances (vacuum cleaner series). He witnessed and experienced how Hong Kong industries thrived during the booming years in the 1960s and 1970s. Roy Chung 香港工業總會六十周年紀念專集 28