佳世達轉虧為盈了~

Handset Maker Qisda Turns Profitable in First 3 Quarters

Taipei, Oct. 17, 2007 (CENS)--Infused with nearly NT$5 billion sales from non-core business over the past three quarters of this year, Qisda Corporation, a spin-off company of Taiwan's BenQ Corporation, is poised to challenge net earnings per share (EPS) of NT$1 per share in the quarter, turning profitable for the first time after terminating partner relationship with Germany's Siemens, according to company sources.

Furthermore, with upcoming orders from Britain Telecom and Korea's LG, respectively, for mobile phones and liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs in the fourth quarter of the year, Qisda is poised to embrace a promising future, according to institutional investors.

Since being split from BenQ at the beginning of this September, Qsida has been specialized in production for outsourcing companies, while BenQ has focused on branding operations.

In fact, Qisda is still plagued by deficits in its core business operations, with a loss estimated at NT$2.1 billion for the second quarter. However, thanks to NT$5 billion sales from non-core business for the third quarter, the company has smoothly turned profitable.

Institutional investors project that Qisda's profits in the third quarter could offset a loss of NT$1.2 billion for the first half of this year.

Qisda has landed additional orders for the fourth quarter, including an order from Britain Telecom for E72 series smartphone, which is Britain Telecom's first model procured from Qisda for promotion of its unlicensed mobile access (UMA) service.

Also, Qisda already won orders from LG for 500,000 LCD TVs a year, and is seeking to sign another supply contract for one million units. Noteworthy is that AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), affiliated with Qisda and a world-level supplier of display panels, can back the latter to vie for orders more competitively.

Hsung Hui, president of Qisda, is also AUO's vice president in charge of business with Japanese and Korean clients of AUO. He emphasized that AUO will help Qisda to diversify its product lines by sharing production with the latter for LCD TVs, LCD screens and LCD modules in particular.

Qisda reported sales revenue of NT$10.8 billion for September, declining from NT$13 billion posted in August, as the company started to exclude sales of branded products from its revenue in the month.

雖然我一直以為m7是benq-siemens轉虧為盈的關鍵
可惜阿,合作關係沒撐到m7推出

不過還是恭喜佳世達囉~