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Dr. Nicholas Matten, Managing Director for Sales, Marketing and Finance, Stiebel Eltron(Germany)
Mr. Roland Hoehn, ‎Managing Director, ‎Stiebel Eltron Asia
Dr. Kai Schiefelbein, Managing Directorof Technology, Stiebel Eltron(Germany)

Bangkok, Thailand – Stiebel Eltron, Thailand’s leading manufacturer of water heaters, water filters and hand dryers has officially opened its second factory to expand its water pump range.

Stiebel Eltron Asia recently welcomed Dr. Nicholas Matten, Managing Director for Sales, Marketing and Finance and Dr. Kai Schiefelbein, Managing Director of Technology from Stiebel Eltron headquarters to its Ayutthaya plant. The auspicious occasion was to officially open its new Stiebel Boost water pump which is the company’s latest innovation.

Stiebel Eltron’s core mission is to bring ‘German Engineering’ quality to every product provided to its consumers. With Stiebel Boost, Stiebel Eltron aims to expand its existing customer base and provide quality water solutions.

Mr. Roland Hoehn, ‎Managing Director, ‎Stiebel Eltron Asia said, “We always strive to provide innovations to improve our customers’ daily tasks and I strongly believe that the Stiebel Boost is the perfect addition to our range of quality domestic water appliances. Our dedicated engineers and research and development teams are constantly brainstorming on how to provide efficient and best products in the market and that is why we are one of the main players in Asia.”

Quiet but powerful

Stiebel Boost is a sleek water pump developed using premium material like stainless steel. Moreover, it is designed to provide powerful performance without the disturbing loud noises.

The Stiebel Boost took three years to conceptualize, develop and test. The domestic water pump is designed to operate efficiently even at low power flow unlike anything else in the market. This is especially useful in combination with other water appliances in the household.

Mr. Kai Brusdeylins, Product Development Manager, Stiebel Eltron Asia added; “As a water specialist company, we thrive to provide the best and most reliable water appliances for our consumers. From our past experience dealing with our consumers’ problems, steady and reliable water supply sources can ease the comfort at home.”

The Stiebel Boost production line at the new Stiebel Eltron second factory

With the launch of the new product line, Stiebel Eltron will be able to produce up to 2,000 units per month. The production capacity will be doubled by the beginning of 2018 and will increase later according to the market demands.

The Stiebel Boost comes in four different models including 3A-CS (300 watts), 4A-CS (450 watts), 6A-CS (600 watts) and 7A-CS (750 watts). Each model retails for THB7,990, THB8,990, THB10,990 and THB12,990.

Stiebel Eltron is the world’s leading manufacturer of water heaters, water filters and hand dryers. To learn more about future campaigns and stay up to date with the latest product updates, please visit www.facebook.com/stiebeleltronasia or http://www.stiebeleltronasia.com.

Industry-first Voice Service-enabled Thai language voice command

capability available from 2018,
long-term cooperation for innovative living innovation planned

Sansiri PLC, one of Thailand’s leading property developers, announced its plan to launch a new Thai voice enabled smart assistant for their popular Sansiri Home Service mobile property management application, built on Artificial Intelligence (AI) from Amazon Web Services. The smart assistant is part of the company’s transformation journey to bring to life innovation for consumers living in condominiums and detached house projects starting from 2018.

Thailand’s leading property developer Sansiri PLC. adopted world-class technology by Amazon Web Services, the world’s leading Internet-based service provider under Amazon.com with a wide range of offerings including Artificial Intelligence, to bring to life “the New Era of Limitless Living” that will rewrite the rule in housing innovation for consumers in the digital era. The new technology is introduced through the cooperation with Dailitech, a leading local IT expert company, offering the first Thai-language voice command in the popular Sansiri Home Service mobile application.

The new capability is enabled by Artificial Intelligence solutions from Amazon Web Services, one of the world’s top voice command platforms, and will turn Sansiri Home Service into a smart assistance.

The voice command capability will be launched in 2018. Sansiri and its IT partners will later develop the innovative service further to enhance customers’ living experience.

Dr. Tawicha Trakulyingyong, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Sansiri Public Company Limited, said: “This is a year of transformation at Sansiri as we prepare for greater growth and strengthened leadership and to better address our customers’ demands. A major part of the transformation is our investment in innovation. With 35 years’ experience in the Thai property market, we have observed rapid changes in customers’ lifestyles and demands in the digital era. Technology is the answer to complete their living experience, we believe.

“Being a customer-centric company, Sansiri has built our competitive advantages on the synergy from partnership to better address customers’ demand. We work closely with organizations that share the same values of being open minded, thinking positively and striving for new developments and innovation. The new offering will not only strengthen our technology leadership, but also emphasizes our commitment to R&D, both by ourselves and by our partners. This customer centric approach allows us to understand our customers’ actual needs and lifestyle, and then create innovations that best address their everchanging needs. This is what we mean by “Complete Your Living Experience”,” Dr. Tawicha said.

“This year, innovation will be our focus. We are planning to build Innovation Center that will be our home innovation showcase.We always seek opportunities to work with world-class companies with shared vision, in developing relevant technology based on the customer centric approach that will raise our customers’ quality of life. Our cooperation with global leaders like Amazon Web Services and Dailitech results in significant improvement in housing innovation or what we call “The New Era of Limitless Living”. said Dr. Tawicha.

Under this cooperation, Amazon Web Services technologies are used to turn Sansiri Home Service into a smart assistant. Thanks to Artificial Intelligence solutions from Amazon Web Services for natural and easy-to-use voice command, customers’ way of life will be made easy. The mobile application allows users to manage all home-related activities with greater convenience from anywhere, at any time and with high security.

Dr. Chawapol Jariyawiroj, Country Manager of Amazon Web Services (Thailand), said: “We are excited that Sansiri and Dailitech have selected to use Amazon Web Services, starting from Artificial Intelligence technology, in this transformation journey. As Amazon Web Services continues to drive innovation for our customers, Sansiri’s commitment to digital transformation reflects that both companies share the same value of customer obsession”.

Dr. Vit Niennattrakul, Managing Director of Dailitech Co., Ltd., who is an Amazon Web Services technology partner and developer for Thai-language capability of Artificial Intelligence solutions from Amazon Web Services, said: “We are thrilled with this cooperation in creating innovations for Sansiri. We have selected some renowned Amazon Web Services technologies for this project because they are easy to use, have many different functions and have the capability for developers to further develop value-added services. For the pilot capability, Dailitech has focused on the functions that will increase Sansiri customers’ convenience.”

The functions to be fully available in 2018 are:

Basic commands: utility bill checking, parcel status and facility status (such as availability of yoga classes) to name a few.
Home automation control: smart home functions include electricity control, temperature control of air conditioning, powered-curtain control and television channel switching.
More interactive services: basic information is made easy through voice control. This includes, weather forecasts, traffic status and daily news summaries.
More fun living the digital life: innovative capability including radio station changes with easy song and Thai station selection

Dr. Tawicha added that Sansiri would continue to apply world’s leading technology from Amazon Web Services through close cooperation with Dailitech to create more value and benefits to Thai customers. This will allow Sansiri to have a wide range of platforms and innovations. New features will cover health, food, travel and shopping, will be added to complete people’s living experience. Intelligent Amazon technology will also be used to enhance Sansiri’s sales, business and service capability.

“We are a market shaper who relentlessly seeks the world’s best expertise to add value to our services and provide a living experience that exceeds expectations of our customers as well as a ‘glocal’ (global + local) living experience,” he said.

Experience the intelligent Artificial Intelligence solutions from Amazon Web Services with all Thai dialects support on Sansiri Home Service from 2018 onwards. Stay tune and keep updated on future Prop Tech innovations from Sansiri, please click www.sansiri.com.

Mr. Christian Olofsson, Managing Director of Megabangna & Megacity (SF Development Co., Ltd.). announced that Megabangna shopping centre will be temporarily closed on Thursday, 26 October 2017 from 15.00 hrs. onwards and will be reopened as normal on the next day on Friday, 27 October 2017. The Royal Cremation day marks a momentous moment for all Thais towards our late King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Therefore, we would like to open the opportunity for our co-workers and store staffs to take part in paying a final tribute either to attend the ceremony at Sanam Luang Ceremonial Ground, or offering sandalwood flowers at designated replicas of the Royal Crematorium or watch the broadcast on television of the late King’s cremation. Our shuttle bus to/from Udomsuk shall remain in operations as usual and we will also provide free parking for public from 6am of 26th October to 3am of 27th October, in order to facilitate our customers, employees, and the general public to attend the Royal Cremation Ground.”

Megabangna has coordinated with Bangkok Mass Transit Authority to arrange a station of Free Buses to Sanam Luang at Mega Terminal (nearby Big C Extra) starting for Monday, 23 – Tuesday, 31 October 2017 from 6.00 – 24.00 hrs. in order to facilitate people, customers and co-workers who would like to travel to attend the Royal Cremation Ceremony.

More than 1 in 2 Thais waste an average of 4 Days of Annual leave each year due to poor planning.
A staggering 76 percent cite work responsibilities as the main culprit, while 31 percent lose out because they actually fear vacation planning.

BANGKOK - A regional survey commissioned by Beringer Vineyards, Napa Valley, has revealed that while the majority (86 percent) of Thais claim to ‘long’ for their next vacation and most consider themselves well-travelled (74 percent), over three quarters (82 percent) believe that they could have maximised their annual leave if only they were better at travel planning.

62 percent of respondents from Thailand even admitted that they have gone to a destination they have no interest in, just because someone else was willing to plan it for them.

The survey of over 5,000 respondents across five countries* was commissioned to better understand attitudes towards vacation planning – whether Thais have the know-how or a genuine fear of planning, to who takes charge and how much time is invested in making plans.

“We were shocked to find that there’s a growing trend of Thais who are short changing themselves when it comes to getting the most from their annual leave, given that they work so hard to earn it,” commented Chris Thomas, Regional Marketing Director, Beringer Vineyards.

“In response to the findings, Beringer has launched a campaign on the world’s largest travel site TripAdvisor, to inspire a holiday planning movement. We want people to see that making vacation planning a social occasion is the way forward. A little bit of planning can have a huge impact on the kind of holiday you experience and it’s well within everyone’s reach. We believe that vacation planning is always better when shared with others over a glass of wine,” added Thomas.

Survey findings also revealed that 31 percent of Thais actually fear vacation planning, 22 percent hate it and do their best to avoid it and 35 percent likened vacation planning to being at work. However, 96 percent agreed that sharing the responsibility of vacation planning makes it more likely to happen, and more enjoyable.

Annual Leave – Use it or Lose it

While well over half of Thais (66 percent) find themselves rolling over annual leave to the next financial year, or losing it completely, a staggering 86 percent acknowleged that they could have enjoyed more trips if only they were better at planning.

The main reasons Thais are not maximising annual leave include challenging work schedules / responsibilities (76 percent) and conflicting schedules of travel buddies (40 percent). Moreover, 14 percent shared that they find vacation planning so overwhelming that they shut down completely.

Against the Clock or Time to Plan?

Thais typically only start vacation planning just eight weeks or less before their departure date. They only spend an average of eight hours to research a destination, prepare an itinerary and secure the best deals. They admit that this last minute approach does add to their stress levels unnecessarily. Only six percent of Thais would commit to more than seven months ahead to plan a trip.

Not so Happy Holidays

Unashamedly, almost three quarters (73 percent) are guilty of being critical of travel plans they have not helped to develop. In comparison, 29 percent of those surveyed frequently feel frustrated when they face criticism over travel plans that they have been forced to plan alone, and often feel on edge for most of a trip.

Turn Back Time?

The top three holiday regrets Thais would most want to change if they could turn back time on that holiday include: better destination research (73 percent), taking advantage of lower cost travel by booking early (64 percent), and encouraging social planning with friends to make planning more enjoyable (39 percent).

Getting Tactical

Committed planners use multiple tactics to entice their planning phobic travel buddies to input, align and get excited to plan ahead of a trip. Woman are more likely to set up a WhatsApp group, whereas men opt for a quick phone call. While Thais are more likely than Singaporeans (47 percent vs. 36 percent) to attempt to arrange a social meet up to discuss plans, over 90 percent in both countries agree that sharing the responsibility of planning for a vacation would make planning more enjoyable, which could lead to a better trip.

Top 5 Planning Hacks:

1) Be first– If getting your annual leave approved is tricky, apply at least 6-9 months ahead of time. You don’t need to finalise your travel plans then, but it’s highly likely that your request will be signed off quickly as it’s unlikely to clash with others and it’s typically too far ahead for work clashes to be predicted.

2) Be social – You are statistically more likely to maximise your annual leave if you schedule face-to-face meet ups to plan together with your travel buddies. Disguise these as regular get-togethers over a cheeky glass of wine, so as not to scare off the non-planners in your group!

3) Be single minded – Don’t try to set the date, destination and itinerary at once. This will most likely lead to your group failing at the first stage of planning and paying a higher price if you are fixed on a destination.

4) Slow and steady wins the race – Once your date and destination are set, slow down and make time to plan your itinerary together. Research shows that sharing the responsibility of vacation planning is more enjoyable than going solo.

5) Public holiday panic – It’s true, the thought of not maximising every public holiday is sinful, but the reality is that no matter how quickly you move, airlines and hotels already have these dates marked too, so you’ll already be paying a premium. Given using leave is more of an issue in Thailand than not having enough, consider using a public holiday to get together with your group to plan the best trip ever.

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Notes :

The independently commissioned survey was commissioned in July 2017 and polled 5,000 respondents representative of the population aged 25-65 years old.

*Research was conducted across five countries: Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia.

ABOUT BERINGER VINEYARDS

The epitome of a modern classic, Beringer has been Napa Valley’s benchmark producer since its establishment in 1876. Winemaker Mark Beringer crafts classic wines from Napa’s finest appellations and Beringer’s exceptional collection of vineyards. A winemaking legacy is reflected in an acclaimed portfolio of wines, which are collected worldwide. The historic estate in St. Helena offers a tradition of hospitality that defines the Napa Valley.

Nexus Property Marketing reveals that land prices in Thonglor to Asoke area have risen during the past 7 years. Most of the land plots transacted in this location were developed as residential projects including condominium and rental residence like serviced apartment or hotel as this location is one of the most stylish lifestyle locations for people in Bangkok. This factor boosts residential prices to soar in the same direction.

Mrs. Nalinrat Chareonsuphong,Managing Director, Nexus Property Marketing Co., Ltd., says about overall and trend of land prices in Asok to Thonglor area that land in Asoke to Thonglor area has risen consecutively with a growth of 19% per year during the past 7 years or from approximately 350,000 Baht per square wah to 1.01 Million Baht per square wah. In the next two years it will be in an upward trend with an increase of at least10% peryear.