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Benq North America history
Benq North America company history timeline
1976: Acer Computers is founded as Multitech.
The BenQ Group was founded on April 21, 1984, and is an IT company acting worldwide.
1984: Computer OEM components and systems subsidiary, Continental Systems, is established.
After Multitech adopted the Acer trade name in 1986, the subsidiary became known as Acer Continental.
After being passed over for the CEO position at the Acer parent in 1989, Lee left the company to take a position in Lausanne instead.
In 1991, the name was changed into Acer Communications & Multimedia, probably due to marketing reasons and customer presence.
1992: The company opens a production subsidiary in Malaysia; a sales and marketing subsidiary is opened in the United States.
1993: A manufacturing subsidiary is established in Suzhou, China.
By 1994, Acer Peripherals had succeeded in producing its first 2X CD-ROM drive.
Arriving back at the firm, Lee was placed in charge of the Acer Peripherals subsidiary. It also coincided with K.Y. Lee's return to Acer in 1995.
Since 1996, the company expanded.
Meanwhile, Acer Peripherals had spotted the potential of the market for mobile telephone handsets, and in 1997 the company debuted its first GSM 900-compatible cellular phone.
1997: The company debuts its first LCD monitor; the company enters the mobile telephone market.
The company backed up its diversification effort with the 1998 opening of a new production plant in Suzhou, called the Acer Suzhou Technology Park.
The company also expanded through acquisition, buying Bri-Link Technology Co. in 2000.
As such, Acer Peripherals was itself spun off as a separate company, Acer Communications & Multimedia, in 2000.
Finally in 2001, the BenQ company, with BenQ as the brand, is built.
2002: The company changes its name to BenQ, derived from the company slogan, "Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to Life," and begins a drive to establish itself as a global brand name in computer and electronic peripherals.
In 2003 Philips and BenQ´s Digital Storage comes out of Royal Philips Electronics and BenQ. The headquarters is in Taiwan but Sales and Marketing are handled by the BenQ Corp.
Further the BenQ hospital had been built in 2004.
BenQ owned following market shares in 2005: for 24% scanner, 14% projectors, 12% storage, 9,5% storage products and for 5% mobile phones.
The partnership started in the beginning of the fourth quarter of 2005.
The turnover for cell phones had been 3.9 billion Euro in 2006.
The insolvency administrator Martin Prager said the possibility to find an investor is 50%. But the probability to find an investor until the end of 2006 is low.
The court of Munich opened the insolvency process on 03.01.2007.
In the beginning of 2007 there had been several companies that were interested in BenQ Mobil.
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