Editing Philips (section)

====Singapore====
[[File:Philips Singapore HQ.JPG|thumb|A part of the former Philips Singapore HQ complex at Toa Payoh in September 2006; the new Philips APAC HQ was opened on the site of this particular building in June 2016]]

Philips began operations in Singapore in 1951, initially as a local [[Distribution (marketing)|distributor]] of [[import]]ed Philips products.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0326862D:SP | title=Philips Singapore Pte Ltd – Company Profile and News | website=[[Bloomberg News]] | access-date=15 May 2022}}</ref> Philips later established manufacturing sites at [[Boon Keng|Boon Keng Road]] and [[Jurong|Jurong Industrial Estate]] in 1968 and 1970 respectively.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://remembersingapore.org/2015/07/25/50-made-in-singapore-products-exhibition/ | title="50 Made in Singapore Products" Exhibition at the National Museum of Singapore | date=25 July 2015 | access-date=15 May 2022 | archive-date=24 January 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124060907/https://remembersingapore.org/2015/07/25/50-made-in-singapore-products-exhibition/ | url-status=live}}</ref> Since 1972, its regional headquarters has been based in the central [[New towns of Singapore|HDB town]] of [[Toa Payoh]], which from the 1990s until the early 2010s consisted of four interconnected buildings housing offices and factory spaces. In 2016, a new Philips APAC HQ building was opened on the site of one of the former 1972 buildings.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.philips.com.sg/a-w/apaccenter/innoexp-articles/workplace-innovation/witness-the-unveiling-of-our-new-apac-center.html | title=Witness the unveiling of our new APAC Center | access-date=15 May 2022 | archive-date=31 August 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220831105522/https://www.philips.com.sg/a-w/apaccenter/innoexp-articles/workplace-innovation/witness-the-unveiling-of-our-new-apac-center.html | url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.laudarchitects.com/philips | title=Philips | access-date=15 May 2022 | archive-date=4 August 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804230420/http://www.laudarchitects.com/philips | url-status=live}}</ref>