The Johor State Tyre Dealers Association (JSTDA) celebrated its 45th anniversary with a grand dinner at the Grand Ball Room recently.
JSTDA Launches 45th Anniversary Booklet
The Johor State Tyre Dealers Association (JSTDA) celebrated its 45th anniversary with a grand dinner at the Grand Ball Room, Restoran Pekin Johor Jaya, Johor Baru on 26th May, 2019.
Approximately 800 people attended the celebration. The restaurant was filled with people laughing, chatting and calling out to each other.
During his opening speech, President Dylan Tay thanked the JSTDA committee and members for their support. He expressed the honour of being elected and was grateful for having the opportunity to lead the JSTDA that was founded by his late father Tay See Cheon.
“Being an active member under the guidance of the past Presidents such as Kew Kuik Tin, Foo Chong Seng and Goh Soo Choy for the past 15 years allowed me to accumulate priceless knowledge and leadership skills for this role. I sincerely thank them for all the guidance,” he continued.
Tay urged all the members and tyre industry players living in today’s digital age to work together. “We are in the early stage of the ‘sharing economy’. More and more businesses are conducted through e-commerce or social media platforms. The impact is that information could easily be available, accessible and transparent. Therefore, price transparency is inevitable. To differentiate from the others, members need to embrace new technologies and upgrade service and skills. As such, the JSTDA is planning to organise more workshops, training sessions and seminars to equip our members for the change.”
The ‘sharing economy’, he pointed out, was slowly becoming a reality especially in the automotive industry. Consumer behaviour would change as the popularity of E-hailing, E-leasing and car-sharing grew. These trends not only lowered car ownership but would result in a few players in the market owning large fleets. With large fleets, these companies would have big bargaining power in the purchase of tyres and other related products. He urged the members to consider the possibility of working together and sharing customer source.
Meanwhile, Organising Chairman Desmand Kew thanked the committee for its effort in making the celebration a huge success.
“We managed to get 100 sponsors for the dinner opening ceremony, drumming performance and ribbon cutting as well as advertisements in our anniversary booklet. We thank them for their generosity, which helped us to achieve our fundraising goal,” he said.
The decoration of the restaurant that night was inspired by Formula One motor racing, which Kew explained, was to remind members that the tyre industry should be like motor racing, always pushing for better performance and progress.
A special 45th anniversary booklet was published to capture the history of the JSTDA, member directory and trade advertisements.
柔佛州轮胎商公会庆祝创会40周年
柔佛州轮胎商公会（JSTDA）于2019年5月26日假柔佛再也北京楼设宴，庆祝创会40周年。
大约有800人出席该盛宴。整个会场冠盖云集，热闹非常。
柔佛州轮胎商公会会长郑明发在其致词中，首先感谢全体会员和理事会对他的支持和爱戴。他为能当选担任会长一职，领导其已故父亲郑世昌和其他前辈一同创立的公会而深感荣幸。
“这15年里，作为公会活跃会员的我有幸在历任三位会长邱国庭、符俊成及吴素星的带领下，取得学习机会，并从中获得宝贵知识和提升领导能力。我在此向他们致谢。”他继续。
郑明发呼吁今天生活在数码时代的会员和轮胎业者团结起来，站在同一阵线上。 “我们才刚刚进入‘共享经济’的时代。随着通过电子商务和社交媒体达成交易的商品不断增长下，消费者可轻易接触到信息，获得信息，信息也变得愈发透明化，而价格透明化的现象将无可避免。为了脱颖而出，会员需要提升他们的技术，服务及技能。为此，柔佛州轮胎商公会计划主办更多的工作坊、培训及研讨会，加强会员的装备，使他们能够应付这些改变。”
他指出，‘分享经济’将逐渐在汽车业中普及化。随着电子召车、电子汽车租赁及汽车共享的大幅增长，消费者行为将会有所改变。这些趋势不仅将降低汽车保有量，也会导致市场被少数几家拥有大车队的公司所垄断。这些大车队公司在购买轮胎和其他相关产品时，将拥有更大的议价能力。他呼吁会员考虑一同合作和共享客源的可能性。
与此同时，该纪念晚宴筹委会主席邱崠益则谢谢工委们的通力合作和努力，使该庆祝晚宴能够顺利举行。
“我们成功征求到100名赞助商家，分别赞助我们的开幕剪彩、大会鸣锣、击鼓及在我们的纪念特刊上惠登广告，助本会一臂之力达到筹款目标。”他说。
邱崠益表示，值得一提的是此次晚宴的布置以第一方程式赛车为主题，提醒会员轮胎行业就好比赛车，只有不断追求进步才不会被淘汰。
此外，趁此庆典，该公会也出版了45周年纪念特刊，内容包含公会历史、会员名册及商业广告。
