Homegrown African Hardware Companies

In Afrinnovator:

Wayan Vota writes about the dominant laptop brand in Nigeria. It would be very easy to guess that typically it would be some foreign company such as Dell or HP. However, as Wayan notes, the reality is that it is neither of these but a local laptop manufacturer, Zinox.

If you think the answer to, “Who sells the most laptops in Nigeria?” is a big western brand like HP, Dell, or Toshiba, you would be wrong. You may be surprised to learn that the leading laptop sales company is the homegrown, Nigerian compnay Zinox, as IDC confirms:
The Q2 2010 IDC report posted on the company’s web site reveals that Zinox laptops are the fastest growing and best selling Notebooks in the Nigerian market. Zinox is strongest in the laptop market where it leads six other international brands, including HP, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Lenovo and LG Electronics, with a 53.6% market share and a year-on-year growth of 799 per cent, while its closest competitor, HP, achieved a 23.6 per cent market share

Continuing:

Not only are companies such as Omatek setting the pace for hardware manufacturing, they are also setting the pace for hardware innovation in Africa. Omatek manufactured and launched it’s ‘handtop’ the world’s smallest desktop computer

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