Ningbo Bird or Bodao (宁波波导股份有限公司) is a Chinese manufacturer of
mobile phones
A mobile phone, cellular phone, cell phone, cellphone, handphone, hand phone or pocket phone, sometimes shortened to simply mobile, cell, or just phone, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link whil ...
. Ningbo Bird was the largest vendor of mobile phones in China from 2003 to 2005.
History
The company was established in 1992 in
Fenghua
Fenghua (; ) is a district of the city of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China. The district and its administrative hinterlands has a population of over 480,000.
Fenghua is most famous for being the hometown of former Presidents Chiang Kai-shek ...
and, in 1997, became China's largest pager manufacturer. Ningbo Bird started manufacturing mobile phones in 1999. It was listed on the
Shanghai Stock Exchange
The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) is a stock exchange based in the city of Shanghai, China. It is one of the three stock exchanges operating independently in mainland China, the others being the Beijing Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exc ...
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the next year. Seeking to expand into international markets, BIRD International was established in Hong Kong in 2003.
In 2009, Ningbo Bird sold its Shanghai-based operations for 60 million yuan, realising a gain of around 37 million yuan.
[ In the same year, the company received a government subsidy of 14 million yuan.][
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Operations
Ningbo Bird has research and development centres in Chongqing, Hangzhou and Ningbo.[
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References
Further reading
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External links
*http://www.chinabird.com/
Privately held companies of China
Mobile phone manufacturers
Chinese brands
Companies based in Ningbo
Companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange
Electronics companies established in 1992
Telecommunication equipment companies of China
Chinese companies established in 1992
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