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Inventec
(TSEC: 2356)
Taiwan
What's harder than being a Taiwanese original design manufacturer (known as ODMs —the suppliers that are constantly getting squeezed by their big-name customers)? The answer: being a second-tier Taiwanese ODM. While larger companies like Quanta Computer and Compal Electronics have won the bulk of orders from customers like Dell and Hewlett Packard, smaller player Inventec has long struggled to win recognition. But the company is now making some headway. With Japan's Toshiba outsourcing more and more of its notebook production, Inventec has turn into a big winner. And the company is also aggressively diversifying by promoting itself as a manufacturer of not just notebooks but also servers.
Company Info |
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| 2005 Rank | Not Ranked |
| Sales* ($ Millions) | 6,198.7 |
| Sales Growth (over prev. year) |
45 % |
| Profits* ($ Millions) | 102.1 |
| Return on Equity | 10.7 % |
| Total Return on Sales (12-mo.) | 59.3 |
| Share Price As of 5/31/06 | 0.68 |
| CURRENT MARKET INFO | TSEC: 2356 |
| No. of Employees | |
| Industry | Computers & Peripherals |
| COMPANY WEB SITE > | |
*Trailing 12 months
Stock price data as of 5/31/06
DATA: Standard & Poor's Compustat
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Company Snapshot
Inventec Corp., through its subsidiaries, engages in developing, manufacturing, processing, and trading computers, word processors, and related products. Its products include laptops, electronic dictionaries, language CDs, telephone and facsimile machines, servers, desktops, LCD TV, book and electronic publishing, and notebook PCs. The company's software products include Dr.eye 6.0, a learning and reference software utility, which provides dictionaries and two-way translation of Chinese to/from English, as well as Japanese; and OTXP, which is an application software platform that combines the functions of learning, communication, and entertainment. Inventec Corporation was founded in 1975 and is based in Taipei, Taiwan.
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