WCA July 2012

ANNIVERSARY SECTION

Wire & Cable ASIA: celebration time

IT is with no apology that we spend the next few pages of this issue congratulating ourselves. We have achieved our 21 st anniversary and it’s with justifiable pride that we can tell our subscribers, advertisers and readers about reaching this notable milestone. Our founder, John C Hogg, proudly proclaimed in his first editorial in the February 1992 issue: “only Wire & Cable ASIA provides this industry with a regular technical publication reviewing and reporting on all aspects of wire.” Since then we have done our utmost to uphold this. The blossoming Asian market was quickly seized upon by Mr Hogg with the introduction of Wire & Cable Hong Kong exhibition in 1993 and then, two years later, wire Singapore – both exhibitions that led to the success of Wire & Cable ASIA. Mr Hogg, who was also co-founder of the International Wire and Machinery Association, formed Intras Ltd in 1984, publishers of sister wire publications EuroWire and e-zine wiredInUSA. That very first issue in 1992, then published

quarterly, became a bi-monthly magazine in November of 1993. Since the first issue – and in keeping with changes in publishing – Wire & Cable ASIA has been transformed over those 21 years. Advances led to the magazine going ‘full colour’ in 2007, launching its first website in 1991 and then joining the social networking sites Facebook and Twitter in 2010. All of this has been done through a team of multi-national and multi-lingual staff dedicated to making Wire & Cable ASIA the trusted source for news and information in the wire and cable industries. The fact that so many of the original advertisers remain with us today is testimony to that hard work and the relationships that have been built over the years. Ensuring that the family tradition continues within the company, Mr Hogg’s daughter and our publisher, Caroline Sullens, has written her own foreword to accompany that of her father’s from 21 years ago.

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