The Company was incorporated in Singapore on 4 November 1999 under the name of New Wave Technologies Pte Ltd to be the holding company of the Group. It was converted into a public limited company on 14 July 2000 and changed its name to New Wave Technologies Ltd. The Company has three core business activities, namely- Component Distribution- Value Added Distribution and- e-commerce & IT Services. 1. The Component Distribution Division is in the business of sourcing and distributing active and passive electronic components. 2. The main focus of the Value Added Distribution Division is to distribute electronic components and systems with design-in services. Design-in services involve the selection of the right components, sub-systems and systems to be used in customers' products. The Group has also to ensure that the selected components, sub-systems or systems can perform their required tasks, when integrated with other components in the customers' products.3. The subsidiary company, Eplus Technologies Pte Ltd (Eplus) focuses on providing e-commerce and IT services and solutions to the Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Services provided by Eplus include the following:- Business Process Innovation;- Systems and Network Consultancy and Implementation;- Internet/Intranet systems design; implementation and hosting;- Application Design and Development; and- Application Maintenance and Support.