Honorary University Fellows
Mr Joseph Chong Chun Wong is the Chairman and CEO of Stelux Holdings International Limited.
Stelux is regarded as a leading player in the watch and optical retail and wholesale sectors, and includes instantly recognisable brands like City Chain, Optical 88, Solvil et Titus and Seiko. Mr Wong was appointed a Director of the Group in 1986, and under his leadership, the Group diversified its product offerings and significantly expanded its business throughout Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Mainland China.
Mr Wong holds a First Class Honours BSc degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Bradford, UK, and an MSc (Distinction) degree in Operational Research from the University of Southampton, UK.
Mr Wong's parents, the late Mr and Mrs Wong Chue Meng were both staunch supporters of higher education and HKU, and Mr Joseph Wong has continued this tradition. He is the Founding Honorary Patron of the HKU Foundation and has served enthusiastically on the Board of Directors of the HKU Foundation for over 15 years. He has also recently supported the Endowed Professorships and the Centennial Bricks Campaign of the University of Hong Kong.
Mr Wong also actively participates in a variety of activities organised by local associations, including the Hong Kong Management Association and the Hong Kong Retail Management Association as speaker, panelist and judge, serving retail and marketing management field in Hong Kong.
Citation delivered by Professor Wing Sum CHEUNG, Acting Dean of Science
Mr Joseph Wong Chong Chun is the Chairman and CEO of Stelux Holdings International Limited.
Stelux is recognised as a leading player in the watch and optical retail and wholesale sectors, and includes instantly recognisable brands like City Chain, Optical 88, Solvil et Titus and Seiko.
Mr Wong was appointed a Director of the Group in 1986, and under his leadership, the Group diversified its product offerings and significantly expanded its business throughout Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Mainland China.
Mr Wong also actively participates in a variety of activities organised by local associations, including, the Hong Kong Management Association and the Hong Kong Retail Management Association as speaker, panelist and judge, serving the retail and marketing management field in Hong Kong.
Mr Wong holds a First Class Honours BSc degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Bradford, UK, and an MSc (Distinction) degree in Operational Research from the University of Southampton, UK.
Mr Wong’s relationship with HKU is an intergenerational family affair, and really starts with his parents.
The late Mr Wong Chue Meng and Mrs Wong Chuang Lai Wah were both staunch supporters of higher education and HKU, and backed many of the University’s research endeavours through the HKU Foundation.
Mr Joseph Wong has continued this proud family tradition.
He is the Founding Honorary Patron of the HKU Foundation and has served on the Board of Directors of the Foundation for over 15 years.
Mr Wong has also recently supported the HKU Endowed Professorships by establishing the Stelux Professorship in Marketing.
Through this, he hopes to commemorate the development of Hong Kong brands, while furthering the field of knowledge through the University and its outstanding professionals who share the same philosophy and research interests.
As a business professional, he understands well that a company’s brand is really an idea that exists in the mind, and that very often that idea is an emotional one.
So it is perhaps telling that the current Stelux Professor of Marketing, Chair Professor David KC Tse, in a recent co- authored article, explored how intimacy, passion and commitment can be used to conceptualise a customer’s strong, enduring affectionate bonds with a firm.1
Intimacy, passion and commitment: these are also characteristics that exemplify Mr Wong’s strong, enduring and unshakable belief in the University’s endeavours.
It gives me great pleasure, Mr Pro-Chancellor, to present Mr Joseph Wong Chong Chun for the Honorary University Fellowship, in recognition of his contributions to Hong Kong and academia.
Notes
1. ‘Strengthening customer loyalty through intimacy and passion: Roles of customer–firm affection and customer– staff relationships in services’. Yim, Chi Kin (Bennett); Tse, David K.; Chan, Kimmy Wa. Journal of Marketing Research 45. 6 (Dec 2008): 741-756.