Acer & AOpen: Why Acer Buys into Digital Signage

Author Thomas Wolfe was wrong: you can go home again…Who remembers when AOpen was the Open System Business Unit of Acer Computer?AOpen was incorporated in December 1996 as a subsidiary of Acer Group with an initial public offering (IPO) at the Taiwan stock exchange in August 2002. It was also the first subsidiary spun out of Acer under the supervision of Stan Shih,Taiwan's famous PC entrepreneur and founder of the Acer Group (and perhaps the most important man in the history of Taiwan's desire to build its own consumer brands.)In 1998, Acer re-organised into five groups: AOpen grew from one of those groups.To dispel complaints from clients that Acer competed with its own products (branded sales vs. […]