Native name | 广东步步高电子工业有限公司 |
---|---|
Romanized name | Guangdong Bubugao Electronics Industry Co., Ltd. |
Company type | Private [1] |
Industry | Consumer electronics |
Founded | 18 September 1995 |
Founder | Duan Yongping |
Defunct | 7 April 2023 |
Fate | Deregistered |
Successors | Oppo Vivo |
Headquarters | Futian District, Shenzhen, China |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | Smartphones Smart TVs Hi-Fi Home theatre Audiovisual |
Brands | Oppo Vivo iQOO OnePlus Realme |
BBK Electronics | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Simplified Chinese | 广东步步高电子工业有限公司 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 廣東步步高電子工業有限公司 | ||||||
Literal meaning | Guangdong Bu Bu Gao Electronics Industrial Corporation Ltd. [a] | ||||||
|
BBK Electronics was a Chinese multinational electronics conglomerate. It was a leading consumer electronics brand specialized in audio and video equipment,home entertainment products and home appliances. It also acted as an investor in leading companies in various sectors of consumer electronics. The company specialized in developing consumer electronics products such as smartphones,tablet computers,smartwatches,smart TVs,Hi-Fi equipment,Blu-ray players,and digital cameras.
BBK Electronics Corp has restructured its major Indian brands—Oppo,OnePlus,and Realme—into independent entities to safeguard against potential regulatory scrutiny on Chinese companies. This move aims to clarify revenue accountability and strengthen operational independence amidst rising geopolitical tensions. The company was deregistered on 7 April 2023. [2] [3]
Guangdong BBK Electronics Corporation limited was established on 18 September 1995,in Dongguan,Guangdong,China. [4] Duan Yongping founded the company,but began "spinning off the company's divisions into individual entities in 1999." [5]
BBK Electronics Corporation was split into three individual entities Oppo,Vivo,and BBK Education Electronics. Oppo's subsidiaries include OnePlus and Realme. [6] [7] Vivo's subsidiaries include iQOO (a sub-brand of Vivo). [8] [9] It also marketed Blu-ray players,headphones,headphone amplifiers and smartwatches under Oppo Digital brand. [10] [11] In March 2019,BBK Electronics announced imoo as its newest member and also a performance sub-brand. [12]
BBK Electronics' headquarters and production base were located in Chang'an,Dongguan. [13] It was the biggest taxpayer in Chang'an. [14]
In Q1 2017,BBK Electronics shipped 56.7 million smartphones,surpassing Huawei and Apple to become the 2nd largest smartphone manufacturer in the world,behind Samsung. [15]
In 2020,BBK Electronics represented by Oppo,announced its involvement in independent research and development of chips. [16] Vivo also followed up to manufacture chips,mainly in cooperation with MediaTek. [17]
As of October 2022,BBK Electronics' Chinese-market website redirects to its subsidiary,Guangdong Little Genius Limited Technology Corporation,a manufacturer of smartwatches marketed for children. [18]
Dongguan, alternately romanized via Cantonese as Tungkun, is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. An important industrial city in the Pearl River Delta, Dongguan borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the north, Huizhou to the northeast, Shenzhen to the south, and the Pearl River to the west. It is part of the Pearl River Delta built-up area with more than 65.57 million inhabitants as of the 2020 census spread over nine municipalities across an area of 19,870 square kilometers (7,670 sq mi).
TCL Technology Group Corp. is a Chinese partially state-owned electronics company headquartered in Huizhou, Guangdong province. TCL develops, manufactures, and sells consumer electronics like television sets, mobile phones, air conditioners, washing machines, refrigerators, and small electrical appliances. In 2010, it was the world's 25th-largest consumer electronics producer. On 7 February 2020, TCL Corporation changed its name to TCL Technology. It was the second-largest television manufacturer by market share in 2022 and 2023.
Oppo is a Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer headquartered in Dongguan, Guangdong. Its major product lines include smartphones, smart devices, audio devices, power banks, and other electronic products.
The electronics industry in China grew rapidly after the liberalization of the economy under the national strategic policy of accelerating the "informatization" of its industrial development. Subsequently, labour costs have risen and creating wealth for citizens. The industry has been a major contribution to the modernization of China and the development of new job opportunities. There are many instances of labour exploitation and subpar working conditions.
A mobile operating system is an operating system used for smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, smartglasses, or other non-laptop personal mobile computing devices. While computers such as typical/mobile laptops are "mobile", the operating systems used on them are usually not considered mobile, as they were originally designed for desktop computers that historically did not have or need specific mobile features. This "fine line" distinguishing mobile and other forms has become blurred in recent years, due to the fact that newer devices have become smaller and more mobile, unlike the hardware of the past. Key notabilities blurring this line are the introduction of tablet computers, light laptops, and the hybridization of the two in 2-in-1 PCs.
Duan Yongping is a Chinese-American billionaire entrepreneur and electrical engineer. He was the director of the Subor Electronics Industry Corporation and founded BBK Electronics Group. Duan's net worth was estimated at $1.5 billion, according to the 2018 Hurun China Rich List.
Honor Device Co., Ltd., commonly known as HONOR, is a Chinese consumer electronics company majority-owned by Shenzhen Zhixin New Information Technology Co. Ltd. It was formerly a subsidiary of Huawei, who sold the brand in November 2020. Honor develops smartphones, tablet computers, wearables and mobile device softwares.
OPPO Digital is an overseas division of Chinese multinational company Oppo, sharing the brand name OPPO with the better known consumer electronics company Oppo. Established in 2004 in Menlo Park, California, US, it conducted all of its sales online. OPPO Digital offered audio and video equipment, including Blu-ray Disc players and personal audio products such as headphones.
The electronics industry in Bangladesh is one of the fastest-growing industries in the country with great potential. Popular Bangladeshi electronics brands include Walton Electronics, Singer Bangladesh, Jamuna Electronics, Vision Electronics. Local companies such as Fair Group, Butterfly Group, Electra, Rangs Group, Electro Mart, and Transcom Group manufacture and assembles Electronics Home Appliances in collaboration with foreign brands such as Samsung, Whirlpool, LG, Sony, Gree, Konka, and Sharp.
OnePlus Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., doing business as OnePlus, is a Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It was a subsidiary of BBK Electronics, a company which also had Oppo and Vivo.
Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd., d/b/a vivo, is a Chinese multinational technology company headquartered in Dongguan, Guangdong, that designs and develops smartphones, smartphone accessories, software, and online services. The company develops software for its phones, distributed through its V-Appstore, with iManager included in their proprietary, Android-based operating system, Origin OS in mainland China, and Funtouch OS elsewhere. It has 40,000 employees, with 10 R&D centers in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Nanjing, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Xi’an, Taipei, Tokyo, and San Diego.
Umidigi, formerly known as UMI, is a Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer based in Shenzhen, Guangdong. Established in February 2012, the company made its debut July of that same year with the launch of their first phone, the UMI X1.
Carl Pei Yu is a Chinese-Swedish entrepreneur. He co-founded OnePlus along with Pete Lau, in 2013 and was the director of OnePlus Global. He left the firm in October 2020 to start a new hardware venture, called Nothing.
The realme X50 Pro 5G is a smartphone from the Chinese company Realme, released in February 2020.
Madhav Sheth is CEO of HTech India(Honor Phones Indian branch) & former chief executive officer of realme (India), president of realme International Business Group and vice president of realme. He is from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Realme is a multinational Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer based in Shenzhen, Guangdong. It was founded by Li Bingzhong on May 4, 2018, who was a former vice president of Oppo. Starting originally as a sub-brand of Oppo, Realme eventually ventured as its own brand. Realme then became the fastest-growing 5G smartphone brand in Q3 2021.
iQOO Communication Technology Co. Ltd. is a Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer headquartered in Dongguan, Guangdong. The company was founded on 30 January 2019 as a subsidiary of the consumer electronics manufacturer Vivo based in the same city. The brand name iQOO stands for I Quest On and On.
AVOW is a German company that specializes in acquiring new users for mobile app developers and brands. AVOW has partnerships with global mobile OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Vivo, OPPO, OnePlus, realme, Transsion, Itel, Tecno and Infinix.
{{cite web}}
: Missing or empty |title=
(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)So who is OPPO? They certainly are not a household name and with good reason as OPPO is a newly created North American branch of BBK Electronics of China, a giant in the manufacture of consumer electronics, employing 12,000 people worldwide. So while OPPO is a new name, the company and the technology behind it are quite substantial.
OPPO Digital are based in Mountain View, CA and are the US arm of BBK Electronics who are a huge Chinese market leader and who have been a private label OEM for companies such as Denon, NEC and BOSE. Manufacturing all sorts of electronics gear, BBK Electronics is a market leader in China and looking to expand globally hence the creation of their North American arm – OPPO Digital.
BBK (OPPO) is a leading enterprise in Chinese electronic information industry with headquarters and production base set in Chang'an Town. It is the highest taxpayer of Chang'an.