China’s Midea Buys Majority of Toshiba’s Home Appliance Business
GUANGZHOU – China’s leading home appliance maker Midea Group announced Wednesday an agreement with Japan’s Toshiba Corporation to buy the latter’s home appliance business.
Midea will acquire an 80.1 percent stake in Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation (TLSC), the home appliance arm of Toshiba, at a price of approximately $473 million. Toshiba will retain a 19.9 percent holding. The business will continue to develop, manufacture and market refrigerators, washing machines, vacuum cleaners and other small domestic appliances under the Toshiba brand name.
All employees of TLSC engaged in the business will be kept on. Midea will be licensed to use the Toshiba name worldwide for 40 years and will receive more than 5,000 intellectual property assets and a license to use other home appliance-related intellectual property retained by Toshiba.
“Today is an important landmark in Midea’s globalization endeavor. With a strong global home appliance and HVAC business, the addition of Toshiba home appliance, its iconic brand, talented team and leading technologies, will significantly strengthen our competitiveness in Japan, Southeast Asia and the global market,” said Fang Hongbo, chairman and president of Midea.
Founded in 1968 in south China’s Guangdong province, Midea has established more than 200 subsidiaries globally and nine strategic business units, with 100,000 employees. It reported total revenue over $21 billion in 2015.
中国公司正在吞噬日本电子业
反观这几年,日本多家电子公司已经逐渐没落,并被中国企业收购。回溯1995年,当时世界500强榜单上有149家日本企业,而到了2015年,只有54家日企登上了该榜单。上世纪90年代索尼、夏普、松下、日立,东芝,三洋号称日本彩电六巨头,目前除了索尼、松下之外,其他公司的“日本制造”、“日本品牌”家电业务几乎都由中国企业在运营。
2011年7月28日,海尔与三洋电机签署并购备忘录,同年10月18日,双方签订并购协议,海尔收购三洋在日本和越南、印度尼西亚、菲律宾和马来西亚的白电业务。
2015年,中国长虹公司收购了松下旗下三洋电视业务,获得“三洋”品牌在中国大陆地区的电视品类独家使用权,并承接“三洋”品牌电视的开发、生产、销售和服务。
2016年,日本夏普公司接受鸿海精密3888亿日元(约合人民币224.7亿元)注资,成为鸿海的子公司。
2016年7月,联想以约13亿元人民币(200亿日元)收购2011年成立的联想-NEC控股公司NEC90%的股份。
而在前不久,联想又收购富士通个人电脑业务51%股权,收购的金额为178.5亿日元(约合人民币10亿元)。
截止到目前,似乎只有索尼还在盈利的边缘,不知道除此之外,日本电子业还剩下什么?
What’s next? Toshiba Computers?