Established in 1980, The Konka Group is China' s first Sino-foreign joint consumer electronics enterprise, manufacturing and distributing its own brand of prime quality products. The Konka Group's major product lines are Color TV sets and mobile phones. Refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners, component, packaging material also form part of the Group' s product lines.
In August 1991, Konka was restructured into a Sino-foreign public share-hold company and on March 1992, the company' s A-share and B-share were listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
It has five major manufacturing plants in the North-East, North-West, South, East and South-West of China, and has established production bases in Indonesia, Mexico and Slovakia.
In 2003, retail sales of Konka' s color TV in China' s domestic market increased by 32.32% , making it the number 1 brand domestically. At the same time, the sales volume of mobile phones exceeded 1.6 million units, an increase of 327% over 2002.
While increasing its market share domestically, Konka is also setting its sight on international expansion. Konka was the first Chinese TV producer to obtain both the International and Domestic ISO9001 and ISO14001 in 1997. At present, the "Konka" brand is enjoying growing acknowledgement abroad: In Jan 2000 at the Las Vegas International Consumer Electronic Fair, Konka won the award for Innovation. With three world-class R&D centers in China and one in the USA, Konka is successfully developing a series of new generation electronics and telecommunications products with high market adaptability and competitiveness, including large-screen color TV, Combo TV, Digital TV, LCDTV, Plasma screen etc.
Konka is one of four members of the China National High-Definition Digital TV Standardization Specialist Committee, and is also a member of the American Digital TV Alliance.
