Sir William the motivator

WHEN Sir William Purves left the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation after many years in Hong Kong, he made a speech to the local business community about what he thought the future held.

'He said that Hong Kong businesses must now learn to create products for the world market, and should not just let themselves be a manufacturing base for other people's products,' remembered S K Cheong, marketing and sales manager for Television Broadcasts (TVB).

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