TCL Corporation

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TCL Corporation

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legal form Corporation
founding 1981 (as TTK Home Appliances Co., Ltd. )
Seat Shenzhen , Guangdong , People's Republic of ChinaChina People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
management Li Dongsheng (Chairman of the Board and President)
Number of employees 75,000
sales $ 13.9 billion (2013)
Branch electronics
Website www.tcl.com

Alcatel One Touch M'Pop 5020D (Android)
The Alcatel One Touch Fire , first mobile phone with Firefox OS (at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2014)

TCL ( Chinese:  TCL 集團  /  TCL 集团 ) is a group in the People's Republic of China that manufactures consumer , household and telecommunications electronics products. The head office of the international company is located in the sub-provincial city and special economic zone of Shenzhen . The abbreviation formerly stood for Today China Lion 今日 中国 雄狮 , since 2007 it has stood for The Creative Life Chinese  创意 感动 生活 . The company is listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE).

The group has divided various divisions of its business activities into subsidiaries, including above all TCL Multimedia , TCL Communication , China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT), TCL Houshold Appliances and Tonly Electronics , some of which are also listed.

history

Established in 1981 as TTK Home Appliances Co., Ltd. in Huizhou , the company began as one of a total of thirteen joint ventures to manufacture audio and video cassettes . The formerly state-owned company developed rapidly in the 1990s - after complete privatization by foreign investors - into one of the fastest growing companies in the world. Its average growth rate over the past twelve years has been 42.56%. As a result of the Asian crisis from 1997, the company suffered major sales losses. Li Dongsheng , CEO since 1996, decided to make the group competitive in the international market in the future. Even before the turn of the century, TCL was able to position itself successfully on the world market for electrical engineering with avant-garde and technologically advanced products . Today, the TCL brand name is worth $ 3.5 billion .

TCL now has more than 50,000 employees in more than 80 global offices and operations, including 18 research and development centers , 20 manufacturing facilities, and more than 40 sales offices. TCL also operates more than 40,000 sales outlets worldwide. From 2000 onwards, Li Dongsheng gradually tried to establish himself as the operator of a global corporation by taking over foreign companies. In 2002 TCL took over the insolvent Schneiderwerke from Germany and in 2004 the television production division of Thomson from France , which made TCL the world's largest manufacturer of tube televisions .

In August 2004, TCL agreed a joint venture with the French telecommunications company Alcatel , TCL & Alcatel Mobile Phones Ltd. (short: TAMP). The community was 55 percent owned by TCL. A ten-year license agreement followed in May 2005, so that TAMP became a wholly-owned subsidiary of TCL. TAMP was renamed TCT Mobile Limited and is now called TCL Communications. The company sells mobile phones and tablet PCs worldwide through subsidiaries under the name Alcatel One Touch , including as one of the few providers devices with the alternative operating system Firefox OS. TCL Communication Ltd. manufactures for the mobile communications provider Vodafone . Android contract devices. In 2016 TCL acquired the rights to build Blackberry phones ever since.

According to his own statements, Li Dongsheng is sticking to a strategy through which he wants to make TCL a “Chinese Sony or Samsung ”. In the field of flat screens , a move up into this top group has already been achieved (as of 2014).

Group structure

TCL group members

  • Multimedia Electronics SBU
    • Household Appliance Marketing Co., Ltd.
    • AV Business Department
    • Monitors Business Department
    • Muti-brands Sales Business Department
    • Rowa TV Business Department
  • TCT
    • TCL Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
    • TCL & Alcatel Mobile Phones Limited
  • Digital Electronics SBU
    • TCL Computer Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    • Hanlinhui Software Industry Co., Ltd.
    • Electronic University Online Distant Education Technology Co., Ltd.
  • Home Electrical Appliances SBU
    • Air-conditioner Business Department
    • White Home Electrical Appliances Department
    • TCL Small Home Appliances Division
    • TCL Ruichi (Huizhou) Refrigeration Equipment Co., Ltd.
  • Electrical SBU
    • TCL INT'L Electrical OBU
    • TCL Lighting Electrical OBU
    • TCL Industrial Electrical OBU
    • TCL Building Technologies OBU
  • Overseas SBU
    • TCL Vietnam
    • TCL Indonesia
    • TCL Russia
    • TCL Philippines
    • TCL Indian
  • Electronics & Components SBU
    • Huizhou Shenghua Industrial Co., Ltd.
    • TCL Hyperpower Batteries Co., Ltd.
    • ShenZhen ASIC Micro-Electronics Ltd.
  • Strategic OEM SBU
    • TV Business PC
    • AV Business PC
  • other companies
    • TCL Cultural Development Co., Ltd.
    • TCL Communication Equipment (Huizhou) Co., Ltd.
    • LG Electronics (Huizhou) Co., Ltd.
    • Go.Video
    • TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings Limited

Awards

International

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c About us. In: Company website. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Is the world going to be Chinese? Die Zeit , No. 25, June 16, 2005
  3. ↑ 000100 TCL集团 on szse.cn . Retrieved September 5, 2019.
  4. ^ TCL Communications: Company Profile
  5. ↑ Alcatel One Touch ( Memento from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Who is behind Alcatel? , August 3, 2014
  7. ↑ Vodafone 150 and 250: Entry-level cell phones from 11 euros ( memento from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), February 16, 2010
  8. ↑ Tobias Költzsch: Cooperation: TCL will build all Blackberry smartphones in the future. In: golem.de. December 16, 2016, accessed May 13, 2017 .

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