This year's Customer Product Design Grand Award winner is nothing if not ambitious, despite its humble origins. Founded in 1967 by Kwok Kang-sang as a locally based sole proprietorship, and carried on by his sons Jimi and Daniel, Golden Sun Housewares Manufacturing started off making machine parts and then ventured into stainless steel kitchen items.
With about 2,500 employees and three mainland factories, the company is highly regarded as a manufacturer of quality stainless steel and plastic houseware.
Golden Sun is one of the largest local houseware manufacturers and exporters, with average sales of more than US$28 million a year. It exports mainly to clients in Europe, North America, Japan, the Middle East and the mainland.
Jimi Kwok, Golden Sun's managing director and design department manager, still regards the company as a small and medium-sized enterprise and attributes his family's success to its drive to make the best stainless steel kitchen utensils and gadgets for a reasonable price.
He lauds his staff for being experts in their fields.
He says it is their distinguished professionalism - visible in the quality of Golden Sun's products and design quality - that he especially appreciates.
While Kwok concedes that Golden Sun's prices are not necessarily the lowest, he believes his company's greatest strengths are its vertical integration from design to production, and its stable output quality and distinctive design.