Background Founded in 1976‚ Acer ranks among the world’s top five branded PC vendors. In 2000‚ Acer spun-off its manufacturing operation to focus its resources on developing technologically advanced‚ user-friendly solutions. The decision to support the sales of its product lines through specific marketing activities that best utilise distribution channels‚ has allowed Acer to achieve excellent results worldwide. Overcoming the barriers between people and technology: This is Acer’s long-term
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Acer Incorporated Company profile Acer Incorporated – company profile 2 SOMO Stichting Onderzoek Multinationale Ondernemingen Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations Policies and business overview - General characteristics Acer has constantly pursued the goal of breaking the barriers between people and technology. Focused on marketing its brand-name IT products around the globe‚ Acer ranks as the world’s No. 3 vendor for total PCs and No. 2 for notebooks‚ with the fastest
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CASE: ACER‚ INC.: TAIWAN ‘S RAMPAGING DRAGON In comparison to Stan Shih‚ Leonard Liu was a Taiwan-born‚ US based senior IBM executive “with a reputation for a no-nonsense professional management style”. On the other hand‚ Stan Shih had a more frugal approach to management and delegated a decision making responsibilities to his employees to harness “the natural entrepreneurial spirit of the Taiwanese. Shih believed in a “hands off” style of management‚ bias for delegation and an informal manner
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Executive Summary Acer Incorporated is a Taiwanese multinational electronics manufacturer that is involved in selling computer hardware and software‚ and providing IT business services for companies around the world. Acer currently uses an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system called Triton‚ which is a self-developed ERP system. One of the factors that set Acer apart from its competitors is that the company is its own Original Equipment Manufacturer in addition to selling its own brand
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Demand-Supply Analysis of Acer Notebooks Managerial Economics Assignment Introduction Supply and demand is one of the most fundamental concepts of economics and it is the backbone of a market economy. It is defined as an economic model of price determination in a market. It concludes that in a competitive market‚ the unit price for a particular good will vary until it settles at a point where the quantity demanded by consumers (at current price) will equal the quantity supplied
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Acer Aspire E5-573G Laptop Review Even if you’re buying a budget laptop‚ you still want to make sure you get the best bang for your buck. There have been quite a few affordable all-round laptops from almost every manufacturer. You have the Lenovo Z50-75‚ the HP Pavilion 15‚ the Dell Inspiron 15‚ and the Toshiba Satellite L50-B. Then there are the Acer Aspire E1 and E5 series models‚ affordable 15.6-inch all-rounders that have been giving good price to performance ratios for some years already
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Harvard Business School 9-399-011 Rev. April 9‚ 2001 Acer America: Development of the Aspire In early 1998‚ Stan Shih‚ CEO of Taiwan-based personal computer (PC) manufacturer Acer‚ Inc.‚ was reviewing the first estimates of 1997 year-end results. With revenue of $6.5 billion from own brand and sales to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) such as IBM‚ the company was now acknowledged to be the third largest PC manufacturer in the world. Although the performance was respectable in the wake
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researchandmarkets.com/reports/564783/ From A to A+ Notebook PC Market Strategies of Acer and Asus. Description: Both in terms of performance and price‚ notebook PCs are closing the gap with desktop PCs‚ and the desktop PC replacement phenomenon is becoming increasingly common. In 2007‚ notebook PC shipments share of total PC shipments has a chance to reach 40%. In this rapidly growing and competitive market‚ Taiwanese companies Acer and Asus have maintained high growth rates‚ and their successes in the Asia-Pacific
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