A leading worldwide provider of user friendly, high performance networking products has chosen Hong Kong as its Asia-Pacific headquarters and base for regional growth.

NETGEAR Chairman & Chief Executive Patrick Lo said the company chose Hong Kong for our superior logistics and telecommunications infrastructure, extensive pool of manufacturing, finance, logistics and management talent, our proximity to their manufacturing base on the Mainland, as well as our efficient economy and low tax structure.

Director-General of Investment Promotion at Invest Hong Kong Mike Rowse welcomed NETGEAR's expansion of its quality assurance, regional logistics, procurement, material handling and scheduling activities in Hong Kong to cope with the growing number of new customers around the world.

NETGEAR will add to Hong Kong's pool of expertise, further strengthening us as an advanced and sophisticated business hub in the region, Mr Rowse said.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, NETGEAR develops products that enable home and small business users to share Internet access, peripherals and applications among multiple personal computers.