E L I T E G R O U P
C O M P U T E R
S Y S T E M S
( E C S )
TIMELINE 2002
Achieved the sale of two million motherboard units per month and ranked eighth in the BusinessWeek InfoTech 10 as one of the top IT performers
2005
Established new offices in China, Korea and Russia, as well as new EU headquarters in Holland
2006
Acquired Tatung Desktop PC BU & Uniwill computer Corp
2007
Headquarters moved to a new building and extended notebook manufacturing site in Suzhou, China
2009
Integrated manufacturing sites at Golden Elite in Shenzhen, China for better productivity and supply chain management
2010
Established a new plant, Elitegroup Electronic (ChangShu) Co., Ltd at Jiangsu to produce printed circuit board for DT & NB
2013
ECS has embraced technology in its own internal processes and even its headquarters
Inventory Reduction Policy and green building objectives. “The Company has long considered greenhouse gas reduction strategies and carried out emission reduction measures. All of our new buildings have to meet ‘Base Greenification’, water resource, sewage and garbage management; and other key objectives including ecology, conversation and fulfilling corporate social responsibility activities.
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New ideas
Considered a manufacturing powerhouse at the centre of the world’s laptop and portable device production, Taiwan remains one of the lesser sung manufacturing heroes in Asian industry. Facing tough competition in an increasingly saturated market, ECS is winning this tough uphill battle based on its long tradition of manufacturing for a significant number of multinational
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ECS announced the “LIVA” mini PC series
2014
ECS headquarters adopted an intelligent building system to optimise energy efficiency
2016
Broadened the Company focus to include not device manufacturing, but also software solutions, such as smart campus solutions, IoT and digital signage solutions