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China’s smart devices saw a continued growth of 1.8% in active devices to 1.45 billion units in Q1 2018. iPhone still led this market. Android smartphones saw 900 million active users in Q1 2018 while Huawei overtook Oppo to have the highest retention rate. Smartphone shipments in China dropped by 16% in Q1 2018. Check out smartphone sales, shipment, top brands, market share, … [Read more...]
Xiami Technology News, Statistics & Insights
Xiaomi is a privately owned Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing, China. Its founder and CEO is Lei Jun. It started designing and selling flagship smartphone Mi and it has expanded into a wider range of consumer electronics.
Xiaomi, founded on 6 April 2010 by Lei Jun, focused their resources on online and mobile channels forgoing expensive retail outlets and sells mobile phones directly to consumers in China. It offers batches of 200,000 to 300,000 phones at a time, and they often sell out in minutes, which is a common marketing tactic employed by Xiaomi.
Xiaomi is good at social e-commerce marketing on Weibo, Wechat, Baidu Tieba, QQ, and other online forums. When it was just founded, their staff spent a lot of time on forums, making comments, and posting. And they also searched for senior users in forums and picked out 100 out of 1000 to join their operating system design and feedback.
Official website: Mi.com
Xiaomi making promising start in Europe
Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi, which is making debut in Europe, earned 4.4% of sales market share in five major European markets in Q1 2018, ranking No.4, according to latest smartphone OS data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. … [Read more...]
What does Xiaomi US$10 billion IPO in HK reveal?
Xiaomi filed an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong on May 3, 2018, becoming the first technology corporation to use Hong Kong’s new rule, i.e. dual-class shares, for going public. … [Read more...]
Top smartphone, technology brands in China 2018
The top smartphone brands in China are Apple, Huawei, Xiaomi, Samsung and OPPO according to Tencent’s Penguin Intelligence research. The top internet/technology brands are Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, and Jingdong (JD.com). … [Read more...]
Top 50 Chinese Global Brand Builders 2018
WPP and Kantar Millward Brown, in collaboration with Google, released the BrandZ Top 50 Chinese Global Brand Builders 2018 Report. It takes in-depth look at the Chinese brands that are making an impact with consumers in international markets and provides a rich seam of thought-provoking insights on how Chinese companies can successfully build their brands on a global scale. … [Read more...]
Top 5 smartphone brands in China account for 91% of total sales in Oct 2017
Leading smartphone brands have tightened their grip of urban China market. In the three months ending October 2017, the top five brands – Huawei (including sub-brand Honor), Xiaomi, Apple, Vivo and OPPO – made up 91% of smartphone sales in urban China, compared to 79% a year earlier, according to the latest smartphone OS data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. … [Read more...]
China smartphone market in Q3 2017; 4 out of 10 using Huawei or iPhone
iPhone and Huawei smartphones showed retention rates of 18.5% and 18.1% in China respectively as of September 2017 according to data from Jiguang. … [Read more...]
China smartphone shipment hights in Q3 2017; top 5 occupy >75% of the market
While the smartphone market in China saw a flat -1% YoY growth in Q3 2017 compared to the same period last year, the share of the top five smartphone companies grew from 65.2% in 2016Q3 to 76.0% in Q3 2017. … [Read more...]
China Double 11 Shopping Festival Sales Statistics 2017
In the ninth year of the world’s largest 24-hour shopping event, this year’s Tmall Double 11 2017 will showcase: … [Read more...]
Apple grew iPhone shipment in China by 40% in Q3 2017
Chinese smartphone shipments registered another 5% declinein Q3 2017 to 119 million units according to data from Canalys. The race to the top remains tight as Huawei, Oppo and Vivo took 19%, 18% and 17% market share respectively. … [Read more...]
Chinese consumer habits in smartphone purchases 2017
Chinese consumers were once notorious for changing and upgrading their mobile phones at a furious pace. In recent years, however, this trend has begun into change, driven by increasing quality in phones and by increasing prosperity, with fewer consumers viewing smaller purchases such as smartphones as signals of status. … [Read more...]
Russian purchases of Chinese goods up 3.5 times; Xiaomi a hot seller
The latest research data from Yandex Pay shows that the number of purchases from China by Russian increased by 3.5 times over last summer while the value of transactions with Chinese retailers on Yandex Pay increased by 3.3 times. … [Read more...]
GUIDE Micro-Commerce: WeChat Business Market in China
Micro-commerce, conducted through social media and chat software such as WeChat, is a hot market in China. It is viewed by enterprises as a new and improved way to market and sell compared to traditional e-commerce models, and by consumers as a quicker, less effort-intensive way to shop, using recommendations and shared information from people they trust. … [Read more...]
China smartphone market overview Q2 2017
According to the latest research from Counterpoint, the smartphones shipments in China grew a modest 3% annually during Q2 2017. … [Read more...]
Xiaomi smartphone shipment grew by 70% in Q2 2017
The shipment volume of Xiaomi smartphones totaled 23.16 million in the second quarter of 2017 with an increase of 70% QoQ according to an internal letter by Lei Jun. … [Read more...]
An overview of China’s quality retail e-commerce users
Premium quality products are becoming increasingly popular in China, and more and more e-commerce companies are turning its focus from low prices to high quality including Netease Yanxuan, Mijia Youpin (Xiaomi), Biyao, and Tmall (Taobao Xinxuan). … [Read more...]