Lenovo
Lenovo's official logo since 2015[1] | |
Headquarters in Haidian, Beijing, China | |
Native name | 联想集团有限公司 |
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Romanized name | Liánxiǎng Jítuán Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī |
| Company type | Public |
| SEHK: 992 | |
| Industry | Computer hardware Electronics |
| Founded | 1 November 1984 (as Legend 联想) Beijing, China |
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Area served | Worldwide |
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| Revenue | US$56.863 billion (2024)[6] |
| US$2.005 billion (2024)[6] | |
| US$1.102 billion (2024)[6] | |
| Total assets | US$38.750 billion (2024)[6] |
| Total equity | US$6.081 billion (2024)[6] |
Number of employees | 69,500 (2024)[7] |
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| Website | www |
Lenovo Group Limited, trading as Lenovo (/ləˈnoʊvoʊ/ lə-NOH-voh, Chinese: 联想; pinyin: Liánxiǎng), is a Hong Kong–based Chinese[9] multinational technology company specializing in designing, manufacturing, and marketing consumer electronics, personal computers, software, servers, converged and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, and related services.[5] The smartphone brand is Motorola Mobility. Its global headquarters are in Beijing, China, and its North American headquarters are in Morrisville, North Carolina, United States;[3][4] it has research centers at these locations, elsewhere in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, in Stuttgart, Germany, and in Yamato, Kanagawa, Japan.[10][11]
Lenovo originated as an offshoot of a state-owned research institute.[12] Then known as Legend and distributing foreign IT products, co-founder Liu Chuanzhi incorporated[2] Legend in Hong Kong in an attempt to raise capital and was successfully permitted to build computers in China,[13] and were helped by the American AST Research.[14] Legend listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1994 and became the largest PC manufacturer in China and eventually in Asia; they were also domestic distributors for HP printers, Toshiba laptops, and others.[13] After the company rebranded itself to Lenovo, it merged with IBM's PC business which produced its ThinkPad line in 2005, after which it rapidly expanded abroad.[15] In 2013, Lenovo became the world's largest personal computer vendor by unit sales for the first time,[16] a position it still holds as of 2024.[17]
Products manufactured by the company include desktop computers, laptops, tablet computers, smartphones, workstations, servers, supercomputers, data storage devices, IT management software, and smart televisions. Its best-known brands include its ThinkPad business line of notebooks, the IdeaPad, Yoga, LOQ, and Legion consumer lines of notebooks, and the IdeaCentre, LOQ, Legion, and ThinkCentre lines of desktops. Lenovo is also part of a joint venture with NEC, named Lenovo NEC Holdings, that produces personal computers for the Japanese market. The company also operates Motorola Mobility, which produces smartphones.
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Headquartered in Beijing, it's the world's largest PC vendor by unit sales and fourth biggest smartphone maker.
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Address: No 6 Chuang Ye Road Shangdi Information Beijing, 100085 China
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