TCL Wins China Top Electronics Brands at Silicon Valley

 

Silicon Valley—Media OutReach--October 22, 2011 - TCL Corporation, China’s consumer electronics conglomerate, won an award of China’s Top 10 Electronics Brands in Silicon Valley, along with other Chinese national brands due to their global competitiveness.

 

It is the second time for TCL to win this China Top 10 Electronics Brands Award. In January this year, TCL was also listed in the China’s Top Ten Brands at the 44th Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in the United States, with the qualification of green initiatives.

 

“Innovation is a lasting war for competitiveness,” Li Dongsheng, Chairman of the Board and CEO of TCL Corporation, made the speech at the Sustainable Development and Global Competitiveness Forum held by the IDG, or International Data Group, the world's leading technology media, research and event company. “To innovate, Chinese companies should coordinate their advantages from different parts in global, foster their original innovation ability in form of enterprises, and combine it with social and environmental responsibilities for green technology,” Li noted. Meanwhile, the success of innovation depends on a sound ecological system and social environment, Li added.

 

Hosted by IDG, this award is committed to select China's most globally competitive brands, in a bid to increase their global influence, enhance their global competitiveness for sustainable development and help them to expand overseas markets.

 

It has taken nearly six month for IDG, together with well-known global brands, insiders, and third-party professionals to make the process from 37 candidates. Online voting was also a help.

 

TCL has sharpened their competitiveness via innovation in the past 30 years, and more than ten years’ internationalization has helped TCL to a high level of innovation.

 

At present, TCL Group has four R&D headquarters, 7 R&D centers in the global with thousands of staff. TCL has poured 1.9 billion yuan on R&D in the past five years, and applied 1,812 patents in total.

 

Recently, TCL has set up an innovation center in the Silicon Valley in the United States to follow up global trends in new technologies, and also further studies.

 

TCL won German Red Dot Design Award and "Star of Design 2007"in France. This year, TCL received the award for Global Annual Quality Flat TV and Global Annual 3D TV at the CES in the United States. Looking forward, the company is determined to pick up more international awards for Chinese enterprise in the global competitive market.

 

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Caption: Mr. Li Dongsheng, Chairman and CEO of TCL Corporation, is making a speech

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About TCL: TCL：An Emerging Power in China’s Wave of Globalization TCL stands for “The Creative Life,” a slogan that represents TCL’s aspirations of building one of China’s most innovative and resourceful enterprises. Founded in 1981, TCL is one of the largest consumer electronics enterprises in China with a global presence. TCL Corporation has three listed companies: TCL Corporation (SZ.000100), TCL Multimedia (HK.1070) and TCL Communication (HK.2618). Currently, TCL Corporation TCL Corporation has set up four business units – TCL Multimedia Holdings, TCL Communication Holdings, China Star Optoelectronics Technology and Home Appliances Group, as well as six business groups – System Technology Unit, Techne Group, Emerging Business Group, Investment Group, Logistic & Service Group and Real Estate Group. TCL employs more than 60,000 people and has more than 40 sales offices around the world, selling TCL, Thomson branded television and TCL, Alcatel branded mobile phones. In 2010, TCL Corporation achieved global sales of RMB 51.87 billion, with sales volume of 7.464 million sets of LCD TV and 36.223 million handsets globally. TCL Corporation has established R&D centers and more than ten R&D branches in China, U.S.A., France and Singapore and owns 20 manufacturing bases globally, in China, Poland, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam. TCL’s vision is to build the most creative Chinese brand in ten years. Looking forward to the future，TCL has drawn up a strategic development target: to build a respected global leading enterprise that offers customers only the most innovative and creative products.