Business consolidation of Kyocera and Sanyo

Business consolidation of Kyocera and Sanyo Electric in the production of mobile phones aimed at increasing the profitability of the brand Qisda. January 21 representatives of the company Kyocera announced the acquisition of a $ 375-468 million units for the production of Sanyo mobile phones. The merger will allow Kyocera to climb in the ranking of manufacturers of mobile phones from the ninth position in the seventh. The meaning of these permutations is to capture operational as soon as possible a greater share of CDMA- segment of the market and the gradual strengthening of the global company's position in the future.

Since Qisda has OEM- manufacturer of mobile phones, specializing in low-end segment of the market, the management of Kyocera hatched plans for a union Kyocera-Sanyo, to strengthen their market position. However, the main competitor Qisda - Company Arima Communications, already the supplier of OEM- 2. 5G- for Sanyo phones in Europe, said that may change the terms of the transaction. In the next 2-3 years, the Japanese mobile phone manufacturers will seek to limit their business with Taiwanese OEM- manufacturers. Although this kind of consolidation, as the Kyocera-Sanyo and NEC-Panasonic, talking about a very good prospects of Taiwanese OEM- business.