2016年10月7日，福耀玻璃美国有限公司竣工投产庆典上，全球最大售后汽车玻璃零售公司拜朗集团总裁盖瑞·伦伯纳（Gary Lubner）向福耀集团董事长曹德旺表示祝贺，并借庆典的机会宣布福耀集团获得了拜朗2016年度“最有价值伙伴奖”。

据悉，拜朗集团每年均为遍布世界各地的供应商设立奖项，最高荣誉为“最有价值伙伴奖”，代表着拜朗公司对供应商质量、供应能力和成本的综合认可。盖瑞.伦伯纳特别指出：在过去一年中，福耀集团的产品品质达至史上最高的全优水平，而且在过去的5年中，有着难以置信的平均98%满足供应能力，比所有供应商的平均水平几乎高了整整10%。他为与福耀多年精心经营，业已形成的双边关系感到骄傲，并对福耀集团在美国俄亥俄州代顿地区建立工厂充满信心和期望。

拜朗集团总裁盖瑞·伦伯纳（左）向曹德旺董事长颁发2016年度“最有价值伙伴奖”

 

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拜朗集团总裁盖瑞·伦伯纳在福耀玻璃美国有限公司竣工投产庆典上的演讲
 

拜朗集团总裁盖瑞·伦伯纳盖瑞·伦伯纳 Gary Lubner

尊敬的西洛德.布朗参议员，曹主席，各位嘉宾，

感谢你们让我在这个全球汽车玻璃业的重要时刻发言，有此机会我感到十分自豪和荣幸。

拜朗集团是全球汽车玻璃修补和安装行业领军者，在全球的34个国家，聘用27,000名员工，每年为超过1700万客户提供服务。

我们透过旗下许多著名品牌而被广泛了解，在美国的塞佛莱汽车玻璃业务，是我们集团最大的业务，它的总部在俄亥俄州的哥伦布，离这里不远，聘有13000名员工，每年为几百万驾驶员和保险公司提供服务。

拜朗是由我祖父在100年前创立的，他早年的经历和曹先生十分相似，被迫14岁离开学校，推着木桶在南非的约翰里斯堡街头卖玻璃。某种程度上，那是（今天汽车玻璃）移动服务的早期雏形。

看看曹先生的过去，他也是14岁被迫离开学校，展开他的职业生涯。我想让曹先生知道，与对祖辈的不同的是，我更把曹先生作为一个朋友来敬重。

拜朗集团和福耀集团之间的关系可以追溯到多年前，我对业已发展成的双边关系感到骄傲，这种关系是建立以下在一系列的事实基础上的。

首先，我相信我们有共通的价值观。我们的目的是通过真诚的付出，为客户，为大众和为我们的社会排忧解难，促进他们得到日新月异的进步。正是如此初衷，回馈和慈善是拜朗基因的一部分……最初始于我祖父个人的对那些不怎么幸运的人的慈善行为，我很高兴有像曹董和像福耀集团这样的公司同行，大家有共同的信仰，那就是当人民，社会有需要的时候，我们去回馈。

其次，今天成就彼此的，不只是简单的买卖关系，而是我们彼此在努力成为对方的真诚伙伴。伙伴不只是让另一方看过去更好，而是促进对方变得更好。一个很好的例子就是我们是福耀俄罗斯在俄罗斯汽车售后市场的独家客户，并且在全球汽车售后市场当中，是福耀集团单一最大客户。

第三个原因，对于福耀在俄亥俄州的代顿投资我感到特别高兴。我前面提到拜郎在美国的业务——塞佛莱汽车玻璃，就是以俄亥俄州为总部，并且取得过去多年的成功。未来，我们还将有一系列雄心勃勃的计划会在这里推出，这些需要我们有创新、有创意和有像福耀集团这样最优秀的伙伴。

（福耀集团）在代顿建立工厂的决定，将成为拜朗（在美国）成功里程中的重要助力，我们很高兴我们将在未来很长的一段时间是这里的一个主要客户。

在美国投资制造业是福耀集团大胆的举措，它是这个公司对美国经济和美国人民表明决心和担当。我为福耀集团的这一创举鼓掌。

拜朗集团在全球范围，如果没有几千个供应商，也有几百个。每年，我们为全世界各地的供应商设了一些奖项，其中的最高荣誉叫做“最有价值伙伴奖”，它代表我们对质量、供应能力和成本的认可，它代表着“伙伴”这个词汇所涵盖的精髓。

我们最近完成了对全球所有的供应商的评判工作，今天的场合十分适合我在这里宣布，福耀集团获得了拜朗2016年度“最有价值伙伴奖”。

过去的5年里，我们（向福耀集团）购买了超过1200万片的玻璃，产品品质在过去一年达至最高的全优水平。

而且在过去的5年当中，福耀有着难以置信的平均98%满足供应能力，比我们所有供应商的平均水平几乎高了整整10%。

我今天想把这个奖项颁给曹先生。恭贺福耀集团，我祝愿你们接下去年年的成功和繁荣，感谢你们帮助拜朗成为一个更好的公司。

感谢你们给我这个机会，参加这个历史性的盛会。

盖瑞.伦伯纳

拜朗集团CEO

英文原文：

Senator Sherrod Brown, Chairman Cho, honoured guests –

Thank you for giving me the honour of saying a few words, on this very important moment in the glass industry worldwide.

I am very proud and honoured to have been given this opportunity to speak to you today.

For those of you who do not know, Belron is the world’s leading automotive glass repair and replacement company, operating in 34 countries around the world, employing 27,000 people and serving over 17 million customers a year.

We are known by many brand names and here in the United States, we have our largest business, Safelite AutoGlass, which is based nearby in Columbus, Ohio. Safelite employs 13,000 people and delivers outstanding service to millions of motorists and insurance companies every year.

Belron was founded by my grandfather, over 100 years ago, when in a striking resemblance to Mr Cho’s history, he was forced to leave school at the age of 14 and pushed a barrow around the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, selling glass. Some say that was the early beginnings of providing mobile service!!!

Looking at Mr Cho’s history – he too was forced to leave school and began his entrepreneurial career at the age of 14.

Mr Cho – I do want you to know that I regard you more as a friend than as my grandfather!

The relationship between Belron and FYG goes back a number of years, and I am very proud of the relationship that we have developed. It has been a relationship built on a number of factors:

Firstly, I believe that we have shared values. Our purpose is to make a difference to customers, to people and to our communities by solving their problems with real care. As such, Giving Back and Philanthropy are part of the DNA of Belron … begun initially by my grandfather’s personal philosophy of helping those less fortunate, and I am delighted to be associated with an individual like Mr Cho and a company like FYG, which also believes in Giving Back to people and communities in need. Mr Cho’s personal philanthropy is legendary.

Secondly, we have both built our success by not being in a supplier/customer relationship, but rather acting as true partners. In any partnership … partners don’t just make each other look better … rather, in a great partnership, like ours, good partners make each other BE better. A great example of this is that we are the exclusive ARG customer for the FYG plant in Russia, and are their single biggest customer in the aftermarket worldwide.

The third reason why I am so delighted to be here is because of this investment in Dayton, Ohio. I mentioned that our business here in the US, Safelite AutoGlass, is headquartered right here in Ohio. They have enjoyed several years of explosive growth … and the good news is the best is yet to come as we have very ambitious plans, for which we will need innovative, creative and outstanding partners … just like FYG.

The decision to build this factory in Dayton, will become a very important part of our future growth journey and we are delighted that we will a major customer of this plant for many years to come.

This is a bold move by FYG, to invest in manufacturing in the United States and shows the determination and commitment that this company has in both the US economy and the US people’ and I applaud FYG for taking this big step.

Belron worldwide has many hundreds, if not thousands of suppliers. Each year, we make a number of awards to our suppliers around the world. The highest accolade that a company can get is what we call, The Most Valued Partner Award. This is an award that recognizes quality, availability and cost … as well as epitomizing the very essence of the word partnership.

We have recently been judging all of our suppliers around the world and it is very fitting for me today to announce that FYG has been awarded the Belron Most Valued Partner Award for 2016.

Over the past 5 years we have bought over 12m pieces of glass, the quality has been outstanding with no issues at all in the past year.

And across 5 years, there an incredible supply consistency, averaging more than 98% - almost a full 10% higher than the average for our suppliers.

I would like to present that to Mr Cho today.

To FYG – Congratulations, I wish you many years of success and prosperity. Thank you for helping make Belron a better company.

And thank you for the opportunity to participate in this historic event.

Gary Lubner

CEO

Belron International Limited

 

关于拜朗集团：

拜朗集团总部位于伦敦国际机场附近的米尔顿公园。

年营业额超过28亿欧元，完成VGRR工作1100万个；其中更换玻璃810万片，前挡修补290万片。包括批发在内，年采购玻璃超过900万片。

在全球24个国家拥有直营店，在10个国家拥有连锁店，包括智利，乌克兰，印尼，拉托维亚，塞尔维亚，立陶宛，克罗地亚，爱沙尼亚，斯洛文尼亚和芬兰；

拥有2440个VGRR服务中心和9400辆移动VGRR外勤服务车。每年完成572万个店外和店内528万个修补或玻璃更换工作。每年更换前挡650万片，边窗100万片和后挡50万片。

全球有17个分销中心和183个地区批发仓库，库存产品70000万种，库存量350万片汽车玻璃；95%的销售都可以从库存中取得。

在全球5大洲34个国家，有超过26500名员工；其中17000个安装技师直接面对客户提供服务。每两年举办全球汽车玻璃修补和安装大赛，选出全球最佳选手，提升员工向心力，统一服务标准，提升技术能力以及营销宣传。

在全球拥有34个呼叫中心/TPA,有3300名员工在那里工作。

拜朗拥有的全球AGRR的品牌包括：

拥有一个汽车玻璃技术中心，主管汽车玻璃产品质量控制，汽车玻璃安装标准和修补安装技术开发创新。

拥有一个汽车玻璃修补和安装工具开发和销售中心。

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