Clarifying Made in Taiwan status "Philips invested in Taiwan 27 years ago, and certainly at first the Taiwan branch was just an offshore production unit with cheap labor," says Cheng Cheng-wen, executive vice president of Philips Taiwan. But because Philips 'chairman served as the manager of the Kaohsiung factory, he understood that Taiwan has many outstanding engineers, and could do much more.
「飛利浦廿七年前在台灣投資，一開始的確只是一個廉價勞工的海外生產單位」，飛利浦執行副總裁鄭承文表示，但總裁羅益強因曾任高雄廠總經理，瞭解台灣有許多優秀的工程師，其實可以做更多發揮。