Other Business Segments of HKET Holdings
Apart from Printed Media business segment, HKET Holdings has diversified its business into Financial News Agency, Information and Solutions; Recruitment Advertising and Training; and Lifestyle Portals:Financial News Agency, Information and Solutions
- ET Net: is Hong Kong Number One financial news agency. ET Net has obtained approval certificate to disseminate electronic financial news and information in Mainland China with reporters stationed in Beijing. Besides, ET Net has developed strategic partnership with financial information vendors in the Mainland, to further develop its quotation business in the market. Currently, it has offices or agents in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. Its financial news website business ([1] and [2]) targets Hong Kong and Mainland China viewers respectively and also offers online advertising service. Besides, [3] is authorized by the HKEx to provide Free Real-Time Stock Quote Service to public investors.
- ET Wealth: Specializes in providing wealth management solutions and application with full-scale funds database, fund performance analysis tools and real time news and commentaries. ET Wealth has developed a total content-rich wealth management system for the banking, finance and insurance industry.
- ET Trade: Provides the financial market with a truly “One-stop-shop” solution that integrates front office trading system, back office settlement system and Internet trading system for banks and brokerage firms.
- EPRC: Electronic property information has been offered since 1991. EPRC currently provides comprehensive, user-friendly professional property information, direct marketing and solution businesses for professionals.
Recruitment Advertising and Training
- Career Times: Career Times recruitment weekly and its online version careertimes.com.hk has been launched to provide jobseekers and human resources professionals a comprehensive and interactive platform for job searching and recruitment purpose, targeting businessmen and executive. Career Times is the Market Number Two in recruitment classified advertising.
- ET Business College: Established in 1990, ET Business College specializes in different formats of training for business executives and professionals. Services offered include conferences and seminars, academic and professional courses, corporate training and consulting as well as Hong Kong Mainland China exchange programmes. Among which, educational programmes focusing on finance, investment, China business and management are the main specialties. Apart from co-operating with local universities, ET Business College also offers its own branded courses. Customers include large corporations and government departments.
Lifestyle Portals
- Health Smart: Being inaugurated on 28 February 2008, Health Smart aims to ride on an e-commerce platform to provide comprehensive health care services, from health supplements, personal health care products, organic snacks to professional health knowledge, to its membership base with over 120,000 HealthSmarters. The website, Health Smart facilitates the HealthSmarters with the latest health-related news update, convenient online shopping services and special online offers, at anytime in anywhere. Its core value "Spend Smart with Health Smart" is widely shared.
- TravelUSB: a travel portal for travel enthusiasts, was officially launched in October 2008. Featured with the latest tourist spots, hottest amusement news, around the world travelogues and travel blogs, and forum for like-minded travelers, TravelUSB.com is where travel begins.
- UFood: Launched in November 2008, Ufood.com.hk is a Web 2.0 dining info-site featuring a comprehensive restaurant directory, as well as various dining privileges, news and reviews from restaurant owners and web-users, complete with interactive features such as charts, forum, and voting zones.