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Digital China to expand distribution
By Jonathan Yeung (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-07-13 09:28

"They (desktops and laptops) also account for 15 per cent and 25 per cent respectively of the company's total turnover in the 2005-06 fiscal year," Lin said.

Lin said that revenue from selling desktops and laptops would still be a major source of the company's total revenue.

"With a 28.5 per cent growth in turnover, we are well above the average annual growth rate of China's IT market, which is about 11.4 per cent," said Digital China's President and CEO Guo Wei.

Guo said that the appreciation of the yuan also helped pump in more profit for the company. "It allowed us to reduce costs such as those from importing products from overseas," he said. "In the end it helped us generate some HK$31 million (US$4 million) in net profit."

Digital China expects to find more new customers, especially in China's electricity industry.

"This (electricity industry) is the sector that our company will be keen to develop," Guo said.

Digital China is now providing software integration and hardware integration services to more than 100 major companies and organizations mainly from the banking, telecommunications, taxation and government sectors.

Lin dismissed the rumour that his company was in talks with Ingram Micro, the world's largest technology distributor, about the latter buying 60 per cent of Digital China's distribution business for US$260 million.


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