| Type | Public (TWSE: 2371) since 1962-02-09 |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer hardware Electronics |
| Founded | 1918 |
| Headquarters | Zhongshan, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Key people | Weishan Lin, Chairman of the Board, General Manager |
| Products | Personal computers, LCD TVs, home appliances, and others |
| Revenue | NT$ 43.072 Billion (2007) (US$ 1.351 Billion) |
| Website | http://www.tatung.com |
Tatung Company (TWSE: 2371) (Chinese: 大同股份有限公司; pinyin: Dàtóng Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī), also known as Tatung, is a multinational corporation established in 1918 and headquartered in Zhongshan, Taipei, Taiwan.[1] Tatung also maintains a regional headquarters in Long Beach, California for the U.S. market.
The main Tatung factory in the United Kingdom was located at Bridgnorth near Wolverhampton, during which time Tatung sponsored Wolverhampton Wanderers FC before moving in the late 1980s to Telford. Since 1998, Tatung's European head office has been located in Wijchen, Netherlands, where they had production of LCD TVs and computers until 2006, when the production was completely moved to Plzeň (Pilsen) in Czech Republic. The factory in Plzeň produces today all LCD TVs for the European market, and TATUNG has regional offices in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech Republic and in Spain.
Tatung designs and manufactures an array of digital consumer products, including personal computers, liquid crystal display televisions, plasma displays, network-connected devices, storage-based media players, videophones and home appliances. Tatung also produces products for business computing, such as Tablet PCs, blade servers and wireless thin clients. Tatung also has power and energy businesses in the industrial sector, and is one of the world's biggest producers of cables (electric cables, telephone cables etc.). Tatung has 3 factories in China, another factory in Mexico in addition to the factory in Plzeň, Czech Republic.
Tatung also manufactures PC hardware on an OEM basis for Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, Acer and Dell. Tatung has been known to have made a chip for every computer that is made by Hewlett-Packard and Sharp. It now continues to make products such as televisions and music players in the European market.
Today, Tatung produces more than 2000 products under their own brand; the product range includes washing machines, televisions, vacuum cleaners, water boilers, rice boilers, laptops, tablet pcs and air conditioner units. Tatung is also the world's biggest producers of flat-panels used in LCD TVs and monitors, and produce up to 60% of the flat panels in the whole world.
On September 2009, Tatung opened a retail outlet in which sells flat panel TVs directly from its factory. Both the retail store and factory are located in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.