Mundo Reader

Mundo Reader, S.L.
bq
Sociedad Limitada
Industry Consumer electronics
Headquarters Las Rozas, Spain
Area served
 Worldwide
Products Smartphones, tablets, E-reader, 3D printers and Domotic
Number of employees
 1,028 (2014)
Website www.bq.com

Mundo Reader, S.L., trading as bq, is a Spanish producer of smartphones, tablets, electronic readers, and 3d printers founded in 2009.[1]

In 2014, the company had a total revenue of 202.5 million euros.[2]

The company had 960 employees in 2014.[3]

BQ sold about 400,000 handsets in 2013, having 3 percent of Spain's smartphone market in 2013, of about 12 million units.[4]

History

The company started its business in 2009 importing e-readers from Asia.[1] In 2010 it started to produce its own tablets and e-readers.[1]

In 2013, the company started to produce its own line of smartphones and phablets based on Android and 3d printers based on Makerbot Replicator 2.[1][5][6]

In 2013, the company had 600 employees and it produced 400,000 tablets and 100,000 e-readers.[3]

In 2014, the company entered the Portuguese market.[7]

In 2015, the company produced a smartphone (BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition) that runs the Ubuntu operating system.[8]

In 2016, the company released the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet.[9]

Revenue, by year:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 E. Arrieta (December 12, 2013). "El fabricante de tabletas BQ contratará a 400 personas,Empresas y Finanzas.". Expansion.com. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Ramón Muñóz (25 May 2015). "BQ: Móviles con la marca España". El Pais. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 Marimar Jimenez (November 27, 2014). "La española BQ presume de sus ventas millonarias de ‘smartphones'". Cincodias.com. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
  4. ↑ Rodrigo Orihuela (June 24, 2014). "Can Spain's Home-Grown Smartphone Compete With Samsung, Apple?". Bloomberg. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
  5. ↑ Marta Juste (February 1, 2013). "El teléfono-tableta ‘low-cost made in Spain’ se llama BQ Elcano". Expansion.com. Retrieved November 27, 2014. C1 control character in |title= at position 21 (help)
  6. ↑ Ana Gamazo (March 10, 2013). "La tecnológica española bq se volcará este año en los smartphones". Expansion.com. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Spain's bq expects to sell 100,000 smartphones in Portugal - Telecompaper". Telecompaper.com. May 23, 2014. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Ubuntu smartphone offers alternative to apps". BBC News. 6 February 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  9. ↑ "Canonical fulfills its Linux convergence vision". betanews. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2016.

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