NCIX

Netlink Computer Inc.
NCIX
Private
Industry Online retail sales
Founded April 28, 1996
Founder Steve Wu
Headquarters Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Website www.ncix.com
NCIX store in Ontario

Netlink Computer Inc. (doing business as NCIX) is an online computer hardware and software retailer based in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, founded in 1996 by Steve Wu (伍啟儀).[1] It has retail outlets in Vancouver, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Richmond and Langley, British Columbia, as well as Markham, Mississauga, Scarborough, Ontario and Ottawa, Ontario. NCIX has 3 shipping facilities, one in Richmond, British Columbia, another in Markham, Ontario, and one in Industry, California. As of July 17, 2017, NCIX has closed the Mississauga, Toronto, and Ottawa retail locations. Only the Markham warehouse remains open in Ontario.

History

Steve Wu was born in Taishan, Guangdong province in 1968.[1] In 1986, he was admitted into South China University of Technology's program for the Design of Chemical Machinery.[1] Three years later, he graduated and immigrated to Canada with his parents.

On April 28, 1996, Wu established Netlink Computer Inc.[1] [2], a walk-in retail outlet in Burnaby, British Columbia.[3] In 1997, a website was conceived to provide a growing number of Canadian and U.S. customers access to the store’s large selection of computing products online.[1]

In 2002, the company—now known as NCIX—began establishing additional walk-in retail outlets in the Metro Vancouver area, and debuted a new online store acquired from an unnamed development and marketing team in Toronto. The Vancouver, BC store (located on West Broadway) opened in 2003, and the Richmond, BC store was opened to the public in 2004.

In 2010, NCIX expanded its retail presence in Eastern Canada with two outlets and a showroom/distribution center in Markham and Scarborough, ON. They also opened additional BC retail stores in Sea Island Way, Coquitlam, and Langley; and in 2011, an NCIX retail outlet opened in Mississauga, ON.

Also in 2011, NCIX's new distribution center began operating in California, U.S.A., working with a new shipping facility in City of Industry, California in order to serve U.S. residents faster and more economically. In addition, NCIX opened two business-to-business (B2B) call centers, one in Richmond and the other in their old (West Broadway) Vancouver store. There is a new, larger NCIX retail outlet three blocks west of their old location (now the new B2B call center). Also in 2011, NCIX was the first to open an official Samsung Partnership store in North America, located in Aberdeen Centre, City of Richmond, Metro Vancouver, British Columbia.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Information about Steve Wu". 21cbh.com. August 31, 2012. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Company History". Facebook.
  3. ↑ http://us.ncix.com/go/?about
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