History Of Tecno, Infinix, Itel And Their Owners

Tecno Mobile

Tecno Mobile is one of the leading mobile manufacturing company in Africa. Its first research and development Centre was in Shanghai, China and it began operations in July 2006. Tecno focused its business on Africa and the South Asian market. However, following market research conducted in Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America, the company found that Africa was the most lucrative region.
As a result of this, in 2008, it stopped doing business in Asia to exclusively focus on Africa. The Tecno Camon helped the mobile phone manufacturer compete with market share of Samsung, and Apple in Africa. Tecno has a presence in 12 countries in Africa with an average market share of 20% in each country.

Tecno Mobile was founded as Tecno Telecom Limited, but later changed its name to Transsion Holdings with Tecno Mobile serving as one of its subsidiaries.

Founded	2006
Headquarters	Hong Kong
Area served	Africa
Products	Mobile phones
Parent	Transsion Holdings
Website	www.tecno-mobile.com

Infinix Mobile

Infinix Mobile is a Hong Kong-based smartphone manufacturer that was founded in 2013. The company has research and development centres in France and Korea. Infinix mobile phones are manufactured in China. Infinix is available in about 60 countries in the world and popular in the African market especially Nigeria and Pakistan. Infinix has focused on the African and Asian consumers of its products.

In 2012, Infinix smartphone brand was launched by Transsion Holdings. It was established with a mobile internet subsidiary company Afmobi.

Founded		2013
Headquarters		China
Area served		Africa, Asia
Products		Mobile Phones
Parent	Transsion Holdings

ITEL

In January 2007, officially launched a second mobile brand itel, TRANSSION started a dual-brand strategy, with Infinix making it a trio-brand strategy. In February, itel launched its smartphone series iNote, targeting at Africa market with high product performance and reasonable price.

In March and July 2013, itel introduced its first Android smartphone iNote mini and its second smartphone respectively, iNote Beyond, which was sold very well in East and West Africa.

Founded		2007
Area served		Africa,
Products		Mobile Phones
Parent	Transsion Holdings

Other notable info about Transsion Holdings

In 2009, second factory in Yantian, Shenzhen went into operation; after-sales service brand Carlcare was born.

In 2014, established an accessories brand Oraimo and In 2015, expanded to India market, established a home appliance brand Syinix.

CarlCare service points in Africa