Midea Group Co., Ltd.
美的集团
000333
Shenzhen Stock Exchange
Company Profile
A leading global technology company in smart home and commercial and industrial solutions As a leading global technology company in smart home and commercial and industrial solutions, Midea provides services to customers in over 200 countries and regions. It leads the way in various markets, including various household appliances and their key components, commercial air conditioners, robotics and automation. In 2023, Midea Group’s revenue reached RMB373.7 billion, marking its ninth consecutive year on the Fortune Global 500 list, demonstrating its global leadership and outstanding performance. Midea persists in consolidating its market leadership in the global home appliance industry. According to a report by Frost & Sullivan, based on sales volume and revenue in 2023, Midea is the world’s largest home appliance supplier. Currently, Midea has an extensive brand matrix targeting high-end, mass-market, and young consumer segments, and provides various smart home appliance products. Based on value of retail sales in 2023, Midea’s products ranked first in eight categories in both online and offline markets in Mainland China. Furthermore, Midea has become a sizable provider of commercial and industrial solutions, leading the way in multiple markets. According to production volume, Midea ranked first in the residential AC compressor market in 2023, with a global market share of over 45%. Also, based on production volume, Midea ranked first in residential air conditioner and laundry appliance motors, with global market shares of 40% and 22%, respectively. According to a report by Frost & Sullivan, based on revenue in 2023, Midea is the largest commercial air conditioner supplier in Mainland China and the fifth largest globally. Additionally, according to Frost & Sullivan’s report, KUKA Group, a subsidiary of Midea, is one of the “Big Four” industrial robot companies globally and the second largest heavy-duty robot company based on sales volume and revenue in 2023.
Full description
Midea is a leading global technology group comprising the Smart Home Solutions, Energy Solutions & Industrial Technology, Intelligent Building Technology, Robotics & Automation, and Other Innovation businesses. With a business portfolio that is focused on the coordinated development of the ToC and ToB businesses, Midea offers various smart home products and services to individual consumers, as well as provides diversified commercial and industrial solutions for corporate clients. To be specific, Midea Smart Home Solutions primarily covers smart appliances, smart home and related peripheral industries and ecological chains, undertakes the construction of intelligent scenarios for end users, user operations and data value discovery, and is committed to providing end users with the best experience of entire-house smart home appliances and service. Midea Energy Solutions & Industrial Technology, with technology as the core driver, commands key technologies in “green energy” and “key industrial components”. It operates many brands including GMCC, Welling, CLOU Electronics, HICONICS, SERVOTRONIX, MR, MOTINOVA, MSCT, TOSHIBA, SUNYE, etc., with its products covering high-precision core components such as compressors, motors, chips, valves, reducers, auto parts, motion control and automation, high- and low-voltage variable frequency drive, energy storage and cooling modules. It provides green, efficient and intelligent products and technology solutions for pan-industrial customers across the world. Midea Intelligent Building Technology is principally engaged in products and services in relation to buildings, as well as the relevant operations. With iBUILDING, Midea’s digital building service platform, as the core, its business covers HVAC, elevators, energy, building control, etc. Its primary products include VRF units, large chillers, unitary units, machine room air conditioners, escalators, passenger elevators, freight elevators, etc., as well as building automation software and building weak electricity integrated solutions. Supported by “Building Equipment and Facilities + Digital Technology + Industrial Ecosystem”, it facilitates logistics, information, feeling and energy flows of buildings to empower buildings with digital and low-carbon technologies and build sustainable smart space. Midea Robotics & Automation primarily focuses on providing solutions of industrial robotics, automatic logistics systems, and transmission systems for future factory-related fields, as well as solutions for health care, entertainment, new consumption, etc. The Other Innovation Business mainly includes Annto, which provides customers with end-to-end digital and intelligent supply chain solutions; Midea Cloud, which provides industrial software and digitalisation consulting services for intelligent manufacturing and industrial interconnectivity through its industrial internet platform M·IoT; Midea Lighting, which focuses on the R&D, production, and sales of lighting and intelligent pre-decoration electrical products; and WDM, which is committed to innovation in medical imaging technology, providing high-quality medical imaging products and services for clinical use. With “Bring Great Innovations to Life” as its corporate vision, “Integrate with the World, to Inspire Your Future” as its mission, “Embrace what’s next - Aspiration、Customer First、Innovation、Collaboration、Dedication” as its values, “High-quality Development and High-performance Operations” as its management and operation standard, Midea integrates global resources and promotes technological innovation to create a better life for over 400 million users, major customers and strategic partners in different areas worldwide every year with satisfying products and services. In face of higher requirements for products and services in the digital Internet era, Midea continues to promote its strategic focus of “Technology Leadership, Direct to Users, Digitization & Intelligence Driven, and Global Impact”, so as to build Midea in the new era. To be specific, it strives to achieve Technology Leadership by building scale advantages in R&D and strengthening the efforts and investment in core and cutting-edge technologies; be Direct to Users through direct contact and interaction with users and reinventing product service and business models; be Digitization & Intelligence Driven through “Comprehensive Digitalization and Comprehensive Intellectualization”, as well as improving efficiency internally and focusing on users externally; and achieve Global Impact by seeking breakthroughs in key regions in terms of market, channel and business model dimensions and serving global users. Midea, a global operating company, has now established a global platform with over 400 subsidiaries, 33 R&D centers, 43 major manufacturing bases, and more than 190,000 employees. Its business covers more than 200 countries and regions. Overseas, Midea has 17 R&D centers and 22 major manufacturing bases in more than ten countries.