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  • Xiaomi: The Popular Chinese Electronics Company

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    ‘Quality products at honest pricing’ is almost everyone’s need. Xiaomi has a separate fan base for its high-grade products built with cutting-edge technology at reasonable prices. Xiaomi is a Chinese company that has its major ground in electronics. The company has a presence in over 100 countries and regions and has been hailed as the world’s most-valued tech startup already in 2014. Xiaomi currently ranks in the 70th position on the Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands in 2021 by Kantar BrandZ.

    Xiaomi Mobiles have also gained much popularity in India, which has only seen growth year on year. The company tops the list of the best-selling phones in India. Xiaomi India even made it to the ‘GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS’ by building the largest light mosaic (logo) in the world. It was set by placing 9,690 bulbs and this momentous work is found on the terrace of Xiaomi’s head office in Bengaluru. Here are some more interesting facts and figures about Xiaomi.

    This article is all about the journey and functioning of Xiaomi. Know more about Xiaomi and its historyits Founders and Team, origin, Startup Story, background, Business Model, revenue model, IPO, Funding and Investors, Revenue Model, Competitors, and more.

    Xiaomi – Company Highlights

    Startup Name Xiaomi
    Headquarters Beijing, China
    Sector Consumer Electronics
    Founders Lei Jun
    Founded April 2010
    Parent Organization Xiaomi.Inc
    Website Mi.com

    About Xiaomi
    Xiaomi – Founders/Owners
    Xiaomi – History
    Xiaomi – Name, Tagline & Logo
    Xiaomi – Funding & Investors
    Xiaomi – Competitors
    Xiaomi – Revenue Model
    Xiaomi – Growth & Revenue
    Xiaomi – Future Plans

    About Xiaomi

    Xiaomi is an electronics company based in Beijing, China. It was founded by Lei Jun in April 2010, and in 2014, Xiaomi was the largest smartphone company in China. Today, Xiaomi is one of the top five smartphone vendors in the world. The smartphone commodities of Xiaomi include different series such as Mi Series, Mi Note Series, Mi Max Series, Mi Mix Series, Mi NoteBook Series, Redmi Series (Redmi 9, Redmi 8, Redmi 9i, Redmi 9a), Blackshark, and Pocophone. Xiaomi has around 291.6 million active users for its MIUI updates. Besides, the company also offers laptops, mobile apps, mobile accessories, wearables, home appliances, and smart-home devices.

    In 2019, Xiaomi even started selling accessories such as caps, bags, glasses, backpacks, and also lunchboxes, pillows, cups, filters, umbrellas, and screwdrivers.

    In 2018, Xiaomi launched Mi Credit in India for easy accessibility of personal loans. The Xiaomi company also offers various value-added-internet services like ‘Mi Music’, ‘Mi Video’, and ‘Mi Game’.


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    Xiaomi – Founders/Owners

    Lei Jun

    Lei Jun - Founder, CEO, and President of Xiaomi
    Lei Jun – Founder, CEO, and President of Xiaomi

    Lei Jun is the founder, CEO, and President of Xiaomi. The other co-founders are Lin Bin, Dr. Zhou Guangping, Liu De, Li Wanqiang, Wong Kong-Kat, Hong Feng, and Chuan Wang.

    Lei Jun is a graduate in computer science from Wuhan University. In 1992, Lei Jun joined Kingsoft, a Chinese software company as an engineer. In 1998, Lei Jun became the CEO of Kingsoft. In December 2007, he resigned from Kingsoft for health-related issues. While he was still working with Kingsoft, Lei Jun founded an online bookstore named Joyo.com. Joyo.com was acquired by Amazon.com in 2004.

    After resigning from Kingsoft, Lei Jun became an angel investor and invested in over 20 companies. He still invests in various companies through Shunwei Capital. In 2008, he joined UC Web as Chairman, and in 2010 Lei Jun founded Xiaomi.

    Xiaomi co-founder & Vice Chairman, Lin Bin is a graduate in radio electronics and holds a rich experience of working with companies like ADP, Microsoft, and Google. Lin Bin is also a member of the board of advisors of Tufts University School of Engineering located in Boston (USA).

    Dr. Zhou Guangping, who has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, worked with Motorola and held various pivotal positions in the company before joining Xiaomi. Dr. Zhou led the hardware and BSP teams at Xiaomi. Currently, Dr. Zhou Guangping works with Motorola as Director of Engineering.

    Liu De is an M.S. and an expert in Industrial design. He is the co-founder and Senior Vice President of the company. He established the Industrial Design Department at the University of Science and Technology Beijing. In 2003, Liu De founded ‘New Edge’, an Industrial Design Company. Mr. Liu currently looks after the industrial design and Ecosystem Development teams at Xiaomi.

    Li Wanqiang is known as one of the earliest UI and HCI experts in China. He is a former Senior VP/Chief Brand Officer at Xiaomi Corp. After completing his graduation in Industrial Engineering in 2000, Mr. Wanqiang joined Kingsoft, where he led many important and well-known software projects. In 2010 Wanqiang joined Xiaomi as a co-founder.

    Wong Kong-Kat graduated in computer science in 1997 and joined Microsoft, where he worked till 2010. Mr. Wong is now in charge of the Mi wifi and Mi Cloud teams.

    Hong Feng holds a post-graduate degree in computer science. He started his career with Siebel System as a Lead Software Engineer. In 2006, Mr. Hong joined Google as a Senior Software Engineer. Later he also looked after the development of the various localized products of Google (in China) like Google Music and Google Pinyin Input as a Senior Product Manager at Google China. Mr. Hong now looks after the MIUI division at Xiaomi.

    Xiaomi co-founder Chuan Wang is a seasoned entrepreneur. In 1997, Mr. Wang founded Thunderstone Technology, which grew to be the largest VOD (Video on Demand) system provider in China. In 2007 Chuan Wang founded a digital book company named Beijing Duokan Technology of which he is currently the CEO. In 2012, Mr. Wang joined Xiaomi as the co-founder and Vice President. Presently he manages the Mi TV and Mi Box teams at Xiaomi.


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    Xiaomi – History

    Lei Jun founded Xiaomi in 2010, as a software company and created MIUI ROM based on Google’s Android. The idea behind developing MIUI was to offer more functionalities and a better UI than Android. MIUI indeed got the popularity it deserved. As per reports in March 2020, the MAU ( Monthly Active Users) of MIUI increased to 330.7 million worldwide.

    In 2011 Xiaomi entered the hardware segment by launching the Mi One phone. The Xiaomi team’s focus has been on creating quality hardware devices and selling them at comparatively lower costs than those available in the market while they intended to make revenue through their services and content. The company today not only sells mobile phones but more mobile apps, wearables, home appliances, and smart home devices.

    The meaning of the word ‘Xiaomi’ is ‘Millet’ and few reports show that it also means ‘Rice’. Lei Jun relates the word ‘Xiao’ to the Buddhist concept that, a single grain of rice is as great as a mountain’, indicating the company’s endurance. “Only for fans” was its tagline before.

    Xiaomi Logo
    Xiaomi Logo

    The logo of the company shows the word ‘MI’. It is the abbreviation for “Mobile Internet”, but Xiaomi has mentioned that it can also be read as “Mission Impossible”, representing all the challenges the company has faced so far.

    Xiaomi – Funding & Investors

    Xiaomi has raised funding worth approx. $7.4 Billion over 15 different funding rounds. Xiaomi went public in 2018.

    Date Stage Amount Investors
    December 2, 2020 Post-IPO Debt $855M
    December 2, 2020 Post-IPO Equity $3.1B
    April 2018 Secondary Market $800K Qualcomm Ventures
    July 28, 2017 Debt Financing $1B Morgan Stanely, Deutsche bank, NGP Capital
    March 1, 2016 Secondary Market
    April 27, 2015 Funding Round Ratan Tata,DST Global,HOPU Fund,GIC,All-Stars Investment,YunFeng Capital
    December 22, 2014 Series E $1.1B
    October 29, 2014 Debt Financing $1B Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase
    August 22, 2013 Series D DST Global
    June 2012 Series C Morningside Venture Capital
    June 2012 Series C $216M Morningside Group
    December 2011 Series B $90M IDG Capital, Shunwei Capital, Morningside Venture Capital
    December 2010 Series A $41 Million

    Xiaomi – Competitors

    Top competitors of Xiaomi include Samsung Electronics, Apple, Huawei, Samsung, OnePlus, and Oppo. Xiaomi sustains its paramount position with constant updates and optimization along with marketing at reasonable prices. Apple and Samsung provide good quality phones but have high prices. Whereas Xiaomi provides a number of features at reasonable prices.

    Redmi smartphones are priced at as low as 6000 rupees on Amazon, and Xiaomi continues to have the highest market share for smartphone shipments in India. One of Xiaomi’s strongest competitors is Realme. Realme is a daughter brand of Oppo also coming up with equally great phones like Xiaomi. And thus there is strong competition between Realme and Xiaomi. Motorola and Samsung are increasing the competition. Samsung released the M series where they did focus on value for money without compromising necessary specs.


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    Xiaomi – Revenue Model

    Xiaomi’s primary source of revenue is from smartphones, the Internet of Things (IoT) and lifestyle products, internet services, and other miscellaneous products and services that the company offers.

    A major portion of Xiaomi’s revenue comes from the sale of smartphones. In 2018, the company is reported to have sold 119 million smartphones. Around 25% of Xiaomi’s revenue comes from IoT and Lifestyle products. The company deals in a wide variety of IoT-enabled products like smart TVs, electric scooters, vacuum cleaners, cameras, rearview mirrors, etc. As regards the internet-based services provided by the company, pre-loaded apps and services form a good part of Xiaomi’s revenue. Besides the company offers monthly subscriptions to its TV shows, games, and movies, and also earns by providing advertisement services.

    Xiaomi – Growth & Revenue

    In the third quarter of 2024, Xiaomi achieved record revenue and strong earnings growth. Total revenue for the quarter reached RMB92.5 billion, marking a 30.5% year-over-year increase. Within segments, the smartphone × AIoT segment generated RMB82 billion in revenue during the same period. Xiaomi has grown in sales and product ranges.

    Xiaomi's Annual Revenue from 2015 to 2023
    Xiaomi’s Annual Revenue from 2015 to 2023

    However, due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the smartphone company saw a decline in the Q1 of 2020. However, Xiaomi has also been declared as the only brand among the top five smartphone sellers, to achieve comparatively sound sales in the first quarter of 2020. It saw a 1.4% YoY from 2019, during the first quarter of 2020.

    In 2019, Xiaomi’s total revenue was approximately RMB 205.84 Billion, and gross profit was nearly RMB 28.55 Billion. In the Q4 of 2019, the company’s total revenue grew by 27.1% to RMB 56.5 Billion with an attuned net profit of RMB 2.3 Billion and a 26.5% YoY increase.

    “Despite headwinds from the Sino-US trade war and global economic downturn, Xiaomi stood out in 2019 with a commendable set of results as our revenue exceeded RMB 200 billion for the first time. We also celebrated several key milestones, ranging from the successful launch of our dual-brand strategy as Xiaomi and Redmi are spun-off and independently operated, the affirmation of ‘5G+AIoT’ as our strategic roadmap, to our inaugural entries into the prestigious ranks of the Fortune Global 500 and BrandZ’s Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands” says, Mr. Lei Jun, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Xiaomi.

    According to reports dated September 1, 2021, Xiaomi has revealed that it would not be launching any more of its products with the Mi brand. The Chinese tech giant has decided to withdraw the “MI” name from all their future products.


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    Xiaomi – Future Plans

    Xiaomi has ambitious future plans:

    • Market Expansion: Xiaomi aims to open 2 more stores in Singapore by 2025, reaching 10 stores, and expand to 219 sales stores and 143 service centers by 2024.
    • R&D Investment: The company plans to invest 30 billion yuan (US$4.1 billion) in 2025, focusing on AI, operating systems, and chips.
    • Electric Vehicles (EVs): Xiaomi is developing smart EVs with advanced features, though it currently faces net losses despite a strong profit margin.
    • Carbon Neutrality: Xiaomi targets carbon neutrality by 2040 and will transport 2.32 million products via sea and rail in 2022 to cut emissions.
    • Smart Device Ecosystem: Xiaomi is dedicated to creating a connected world of smart devices.

    Xiaomi’s vision is to make quality technology accessible to everyone, i.e., “Innovation for everyone”. The company makes this possible with its high-quality products and remarkable services.


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    According to reports, Xiaomi has 7 factories in India, four of which are in Andhra Pradesh, two in Tamil Nadu, and one in Noida. As claimed by the company about 99% of Xiaomi phones are produced in India. The company has also started a pilot project whereby the company is exporting Xiaomi phones made in India to Bangladesh and Nepal. Besides smartphones, the company claims that almost 100% of smartphone chargers, USB cables, and batteries are made in India. Xiaomi also has a smart TV manufacturing plant in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.

    FAQs

    Xiaomi company belongs to which country?

    Xiaomi is a company based in China.

    What is Xiaomi?

    Xiaomi is a Chinese multinational company that designs and manufactures smartphones, smart home devices, laptops, and consumer electronics. It was founded in 2010 by Lei Jun and is known for offering high-quality products at affordable prices. Xiaomi also develops software, including its MIUI operating system based on Android.

    What is Xiaomi HyperOS?

    Xiaomi HyperOS is Xiaomi’s new operating system that replaces MIUI. It offers faster performance, AI features, and better connectivity across devices like phones, tablets, and smart home products.

    Which is Xiaomi parent company?

    Xiaomi Corporation is its own parent company. It was founded by Lei Jun in 2010.

  • How Xiaomi Became Successful In India [Xiaomi Case Study]

    Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese gadget manufacturer established by Lei Jun in 2010 and headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and puts resources into cell phones, versatile applications, trimmers, headphones, television, and numerous other products. Ranked 468th, Xiaomi was the most youthful organization on Fortune Global 500 List of 2019.

    Xiaomi launched its first cell phone in August 2011 and quickly picked up a piece of the overall industry in China. It became China’s biggest cell phone organization in 2014. At the beginning of the second quarter of 2018, Xiaomi was the world’s fourth-biggest cell phone manufacturer. Xiaomi later built up a more extensive scope of hardware catalog, including a brilliant home (IoT) gadget ecosystem.

    Xiaomi has 15,000 employees in China, India, Malaysia, and Singapore; it is now expanding to different nations like Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Africa. According to Forbes magazine, Lei Jun, the CEO of Xiaomi, has more than $12.5 billion in assets.

    Lei Jun is China’s eleventh most extravagant individual and 118th in the world. Xiaomi is the world’s fourth most important innovative startup in the wake of getting $1.1 billion subsidizing from financial specialists, pegging Xiaomi’s valuation at more than $46 billion.

    History Of Xiaomi Corporation
    Business Strategy Of Xiaomi Corporation
    How Does Xiaomi Prosper And Increase Its Revenue?
    Business Growth Of Xiaomi Corporation
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    Xiaomi’s Unique Strategy 

    History Of Xiaomi Corporation

    Xiaomi Corporation
    Xiaomi Corporation

    Xiaomi was founded in April 2010 by Lei Jun. MIUI, the ROM made by Xiaomi, turned into an immense achievement and has been ported to numerous gadgets. Since 2014, MIUI can be downloaded and installed in more than 200 gadgets in both English and Chinese. By the end of 2013, Xiaomi had more than 30 million MIUI clients around the world, an impressive figure for a youthful organization.

    The MIUI ROM isn’t as user-friendly as Apple’s iOS and gives modern administrations, for example, cloud reinforcement, simple to utilize music player, and an application store. The group at Xiaomi joyfully takes on fan criticism using numerous channels and updates the ROM regularly with bug fixes, improvement, and extra highlights.

    In 2011, Xiaomi launched the Mi One phone. Xiaomi just doesn’t make its own product, but it fabricates its own equipment. The Mi One was a top-spec phone with signigicant features.

    While commentators rush to call the Beijing-based organization “The Apple of China”, Xiaomi likes to contrast itself with Amazon. Xiaomi makes ground-breaking equipment which it sells and depends on administration and substance to make up a greater part of its income.

    Xiaomi Ceo - Lei Jun
    Xiaomi Ceo – Lei Jun

    Xiaomi’s income in 2013 alone was over $5 billion, very noteworthy for a young organization. There are comparisons between Xiaomi and Apple as both are equipment and programming organizations, both have solid power over stock-chains, and both have a hot fanbase.

    Aside from this, the two organizations don’t share anything else practically. Apple prices its phones at unbelievable costs and doesn’t take on a lot of client input, whereas Xiaomi is polar opposite.

    Xiaomi dispatched 7.2 million phones in 2012 and 18.7 million phones in 2013. It even sold more than Apple in one quarter. In the principal quarter of 2014, Xiaomi sold over 11 million phones, more than what it sold throughout 2012.

    The demand for Xiaomi keeps increasing because of the good-of its gadgets and the economical price at which its products are sold in universal markets, for example, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore.

    Hugo Barra (ex-Google android official) has been tasked with the job of overseeing Xiaomi’s expansion beyond China. Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, and India will see Xiaomi phones straightaway.


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    Business Strategy Of Xiaomi Corporation

    Xiaomi had some wonderful achievements in its third entire year as a device creator. The Company is on course to sell 60 million phones this year, and it has ensured footed (if rather moderate) strides into various markets in Asia, for example, Indonesia and India. The organization’s development is amazing given the the variety in its product catalog aside from phones.

    An ongoing social marking report on Xiaomi by Resonance China dissects an enormous assortment of the startup’s procedures and shows how pleasantly they are working out.

    Xiaomi's Business Model
    Xiaomi’s Business Model

    The business strategies are described below:

    Xiaomi – A Web-Based Business Organization

    Business visionary and Xiaomi prime supporter Lei Jun states Xiaomi as a web-based business organization—one of the numerous reasons he loathes the successive examinations among Xiaomi and Apple. They feel a comparison with Amazon is more relevant. Xiaomi has its e-store and has a customer-facing facade on Alibaba’s Tmall. The numbers back up Lei Jun’s case.

    Xiaomi’s site is the third biggest business-to-customer (B2C) internet business store in China in terms of deals volume (behind Tmall and nearest rival JD). On China’s Singles Day on November 11, a business bonanza saw $9.3 billion spent on Tmall; and Xiaomi was the top brand on Alibaba’s commercial center that day.

    Xiaomi sold 1.2 million telephones during the 24-hour deals occasion, piling on, alongside offers of some different devices, RMB 1.56 billion ($254 million) in items sold.

    Xiaomi by and large sells its gadgets in constrained glimmer deals, ordinarily in clusters of around 50,000 to 100,000 in China and bigger sums abroad. Thus, Xiaomi fabricates only what is certain to sell.

    The upstart organization’s attempt to close the deal doesn’t stop once somebody has purchased a phone. New clients find that their phone includes a pre-installed Xiaomi store application.

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    The Landing Page Is An E-store

    Most device brands use their landing pages as showrooms or celebrated online adverts. Xiaomi gets to the point by making its landing page into an unadulterated web-based business store.

    Xiaomi’s e-store is updated every day to put an accentuation on which items are next accessible in its progressing streak deals. “Xiaomi’s item pages copy best practices from Tmall,” says Rand Han, the organizer and overseeing chief of Resonance China.

    Tmall is China’s greatest image-arranged online commercial center with a huge number of merchants, for example, Uniqlo, Costco, and Burberry. That makes Xiaomi’s site design recognizable to the huge number of customers on Tmall and other mainstream online business locales in China.

    It has the typical tabs to switch between pictures, details, and purchasers’ audits and appraisals. Apple’s site isolates all that stuff into the Apple Online Store, whereas Xiaomi keeps it upfront.

    Uses Another Sort Of Social Trade

    Since Xiaomi generally sells its phones over the web, online networking is significant. It does this in China, for the most part, using Weibo, and in new markets, Xiaomi uses Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.

    On Weibo, Xiaomi regularly observes commitment levels well more than 60%, as per the Resonance China report, on account of incessant everyday posts on an amazing assortment of themes.

    Not exclusively is there the standard buzz for items and news about glimmer deals, yet also motivating forces for retweets, how-to aides, and fun things like photograph challenges. Xiaomi’s Weibo will likewise retweet some popular substance significant to its users by circumventing China’s web. The retweet also binds into social issues around contraptions and innovation.

    Each Item Range Has A Social Center

    Xiaomi has 10 primary Weibo accounts, the most prominent of which is the Xiaomi Mobile Weibo with near 11 million fans; the latest account for the MiPad has crossed 500,000 followers.

    Xiaomi’s corporate Weibo account has 4,000,000 adherents, demonstrating that individuals would prefer to communicate online with contraptions (as it were) as opposed to an organization.

    Notwithstanding Xiaomi’s social records, the company’s administrators are likewise active on Weibo and fill in as brand representatives. Lei Jun has more than 11 million supporters, while Lin Bin has more than 4,000,000.

    Consistent Shortage

    Xiaomi’s glimmer deals help it get control over stock and lessen wastage, staying away from the sort of over-creation calamities seen as of late with Amazon’s Fire Phone and Microsoft’s Surface RT.

    While that makes it harder to get a Xiaomi device, the organization has figured out how to turn that into a positive, making occasional promotion in terms of offering a predetermined number of gadgets every week.

    Xiaomi’s online life accounts, especially on Weibo and WeChat, play a key job in driving individuals to the enrollment page for each new blaze deal.

    At that point, when a glimmer deal is finished, Xiaomi uses “fast sell-out” stats in further online networking postings; for instance, 50,000 Mi4 cell phones sold out in only 25 seconds. Not every person invites streak deals. The procedure is unquestionably much more mind-boggling than the typical snap-and-checkout on most online business locales.

    The framework appears to have met with more analysis outside of China than it has in Xiaomi’s home country. When Xiaomi propelled in India in September, it confronted a reaction as interest exceeded supply by a factor of two-to-one, bringing about a rush of baffled and disappointed remarks on the brand’s Facebook India page. Notwithstanding those disadvantages, new phone manufacturers are imitating Xiaomi (OnePlus) using blaze deals.


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    Brings Down The Cost Of “Premium”

    For Apple, premiums start at about $700. For Samsung, it’s about $600. However, Xiaomi slashed it in half in 2011 by offering phones premium specs (yet a simple, blocky structure) at low prices – just $325. Xiaomi has also increased its equipment configuration game with the goal that the feel of the phone doesn’t contrast with the amazing specs.

    Enlivened by Apple, Xiaomi instructs purchasers on its plan reasoning, underscoring attention on straightforwardness and usefulness in its items. Xiaomi’s very own rendition of Android, called MIUI, has additionally assisted with this superior feel as it is more preferred than most of the Android skins out there.

    Runs Its Locale

    Alongside its cautious online networking stratagem, Xiaomi is likewise starring dynamic in running its locale gatherings, or BBS. This is the place the brand’s most bad-to-the-bone fans, named “Mi fans,” meet to examine devices, share information, and by and large hang out.

    This is something regular to Chinese organizations, yet to a great extent unused by significant brands abroad. Xiaomi’s BBS has 30 million enrolled clients and sees 579,000 new posts day by day.


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    How Does Xiaomi Prosper And Increase Its Revenue?

    Q2 of 2018 saw Xiaomi a 152% hop in its abroad income which is esteemed at about Rs 16,700 crores. The internet services help Xiaomi get a net benefit of around 60%. At the point when it at first began its tasks in India, Xiaomi profoundly relied upon informal publicizing to spare any kind of overhead cost.

    This enabled the Chinese giant to sell its items (cell phones particularly) at a lower cost than its rivals. Xiaomi was able to pull in more clients as a result. More procurement implies more clients who use Xiaomi gadgets.

    Some of its clients will, in general, become faithful to administrations like the MIUI, Mi Store, and so on. This is what Xiaomi needed ever since it began manufacturing phones. Selling the best of equipment at a lower cost and creating a dedicated fanbase is Xiaomi’s plan of action.

    Xiaomi's Smartphone Sales
    Xiaomi’s Smartphone Sales

    Things weren’t, however, that simple for the Chinese company. After an underlying lift to its cell phone deals, Xiaomi went down in positioning not long after players like Oppo, Vivo, and Huawei (with Honor) overwhelmed the phone space through disconnected streams. Even though Xiaomi was the pioneer in the online space, individuals still favored purchasing phones physically.

    Therefore, Xiaomi started to grow its disconnected nearness by opening Mi Home stores and joining hands with the neighborhood merchants. Opening Mi Home Stores achieved two targets:

    1. Xiaomi now had one more channel to sell phones.
    2. People visiting the Mi Home Stores would regularly wind up purchasing different extras like power banks, earphones, and other accessories fabricated by Xiaomi.

    Business Growth Of Xiaomi Corporation

    In the second quarter of 2021, Xiaomi’s total revenue amounted to RMB 87.8 billion. Xiami has recorded an increase of 64.0% year-over-year. It adjusted net profit for the period was RMB 6.3 billion.

    The Chinese have a fixation with establishing world precedents. So when Xiaomi propelled 500 disconnected stores in India in October, 2019 at the same time, it registered a global record to its name. For a brand that has greatly depended on web-based blaze deals, opening so many stores was a new strategy.

    Internationally, cell phone shipments declined 4.1% in the last quarter of 2018, topping off the “most noticeably awful year ever” for cell phone shipments as reported by industry tracker IDC. Be that as it may, India hasn’t seen any stoppage.

    In 2018, almost 142.3 million cell phones were dispatched in India. That implies a development of 14.5% over the earlier year. Among the cell phones sold in India, Xiaomi has seen significant strides with a 58.6% year-on-year increment in unit deals in 2018 to capture a piece of the overall industry at 28.9% (IDC stats).

    It has been in the Indian phone market for just four years but has overtaken Samsung. The latter has a 22.4% share of the overall industry. India represents more than 33% of Xiaomi’s cell phone deals all around.

    In 2018, Xiaomi India booked an income of Rs 23,000 crore ($3.24 billion), a 174% development over the earlier year, selling telephones valued at a normal price of $142.53. Samsung’s cell phone business in India rounded up about Rs 37,349 crore ($4.82 billion) in a similar period, up 9% from the prior year.

    The South Korean organization’s phones are valued higher with the catalog starting at $250.

    Xiaomi's Full Year Revenue
    Xiaomi’s Full Year Revenue

    In 2016, Xiaomi propelled the RedMi Note 3 and the RedMi 3S — both selling like hot cakes and helping the organization cut into the offers of Indian makers such as Micromax and Lava.

    Xiaomi presently sells disconnected in more than 40 urban communities and has more than 4,000 favored accomplices who sell Xiaomi phones. It likewise propelled enormous organization retailers that year through Sangeeta, Poorvika, Croma, and Reliance Digital. The third mainstay of the organization’s disconnected procedure was propelling Mi Home stores, which only sell Xiaomi gadgets.

    One aspect that has worked very well for Xiaomi is the organization’s evaluating procedure. Xiaomi co-founder Lei Jun broadly said a year ago that the organization could never make over 5% edges from its equipment portfolio, adjusting the organization to its vision of going past being an equipment creator.

    “India is very value touchy and almost (every) client survey of the Xiaomi telephone will say that it is useful at the cost,” says Vijay Raj, a Bengaluru-based blogger and analyst.

    It’s not just about making modest smartphones. There’s likewise something exceptionally shrewd affecting everything here. As a Harvard Business Review article brings up, Xiaomi keeps its models in the market longer than other telephone producers.

    So when segment costs fall, Xiaomi makes a benefit. A half-year prior, it posted a $2.1 billion benefit for its first quarter of business as a traded-on-an-open market organization.

    According to one gauge, Xiaomi’s MIUI has around 70 million month to month dynamic clients. That makes it a ground-breaking conveyance stage. “They would need to investigate what we can do to make extra dollars of it,” says Kawoosa of TechArt. Xiaomi is making Rs 40-45 for each client for each month, he says.

    MIUI was one of the earliest cell phone working frameworks making use of locally available infrared blaster to control apparatuses at home. It additionally presented clever highlights that make it simple for clients to duplicate one-time passwords for online exchanges and organize train booking affirmation messages to conspicuously show the PNR number.

    Xiaomi's Vs Other Brand Growth
    Xiaomi’s Vs Other Brand Growth

    Xiaomi likewise lets clients arrange two WhatsApp numbers on the same phone.. Xiaomi, generally speaking, has an arrangement of more than 200 items — extending from a pen to a cleanser gadget to consoles and PCs — a catalog created through its “biological system accomplices.” Most of these aren’t sold in India yet.

    The organization plans to get as many brilliant gadgets as reasonably possible on a typical Internet of Things platform it calls the “Mi Home application”. The primary classes in India are presently telephones, TVs, control banks, sound, wearables, and air purifiers. In September, Xiaomi propelled a home surveillance camera.

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    Future Plans Of Xiaomi

    During his visit to India, Xiaomi’s Founder and CEO Lei Jun discussed the organization’s arrangements, techniques, targets, and a few indications on the upcoming product offerings for the Indian market. Here are some key highlights of his discussion:

    Plans To Expand Disconnected Piece Of The Pie

    “If we see by and large market, online is a little piece… so it’s somewhat reliant on what number of individuals embrace the Internet. In China, after we have accomplished such a scale (in the online market), the test is how we can accomplish the equivalent in disconnected with effectiveness.

    In India, after we accomplished over half piece of the pie in online space, the inquiry is how to do likewise in disconnected,” Jun said.

    New Assembling Plant

    Xiaomi recently enlisted a assembling plant in Andhra Pradesh and guaranteed that over 95% of its phones for the Indian market would now be produced locally. As indicated by this ET report, the organization may even take a gander at sending out Indian produced phones later on.

    The cell phone producer as of late guaranteed that it has crossed $1 billion in income from its India operations. Xiaomi makes money by selling phones, wearables, frill, air purifiers, and so on.

    In Q4 2016, Xiaomi was the second biggest merchant in India as far as phone shipments were concerned, as indicated by IDC. The organization’s Mi Band shipments additionally represented 10.3% of the Indian wearables market in Q2 2016.

    More Stockrooms And Administration Focuses

    The organization is additionally setting up a third distribution center in Delhi NCR and plans to twofold its administrations focus check from 250 to 500 by the principal half of this current year.

    Note that Xiaomi has its web-based business store named mi.com in India. In July 2015, Xiaomi declared that it would also put in resources for setting up a claim distribution center and coordinations.

    As disclosed to The Hindu, Xiaomi will dispatch another arrangement of items, although Lei Jun didn’t mention what sort of items they would be. Jun additionally implied that the organization is keen on venturing into the money related segment in India.

    We are investigating the probability of giving budgetary administrations in India. Be that as it may, this part is exceptionally managed. It requires various licenses. If we could get such licenses, we are glad to be a piece of this monetary administration’s development in India.

    We have to comprehend if there are confinements on remote substances,” Jun says. Xiaomi additionally has an installment administration called Mi Pay that is only accessible in China at the moment and has tied up with Bank of China and Union Pay, a card arrange in China.

    On Creating New Openings And Income Targets

    Jun likewise talked about how the organization focuses on making 20,000 new openings in the following three years by venturing into disconnected retails, assembling, and dissemination. Addressing ET, Jun said that the organization plans to create near $15 billion in general income by concentrating on developing markets like India and Indonesia.

    FAQs

    What is the origin of Xiaomi?

    Xiaomi was established in April 2010 by Lei Jun and headquartered in Beijing, China.

    Who is the founder of Xiaomi?

    Xiaomi was founded by Lei Jun, Lin Bin, Zhou Guangping, Wong Jiangji, Wang Chuan, Liu De, Li Wanqiang, and Hong Feng.

    How does Xiaomi make money?

    Xiaomi makes money by selling phones, wearables, frill, air purifiers, and so on. In Q4 2016, Xiaomi was the second biggest merchant in India as far as phone shipments were concerned, as indicated by IDC. The organization’s Mi Band shipments additionally represented 10.3% of the Indian wearables market in Q2 2016.

    What makes Xiaomi unique?

    Its varied and unique ecosystem of products and the different way of marketing makes Xiaomi Successful and unique from others.

    Is Xiaomi trusted brand?

    Xiaomi Corporation is a trusted Chinese gadget manufacturer established by Lei Jun in 2010 and headquartered in Beijing.

    Why Xiaomi is successful in India?

    Xiaomi propelled 500 disconnected stores in India in October at the same time, it registered a global record to its name. For a brand that has greatly depended on web-based blaze deals, opening so many stores was a new strategy. Internationally, cell phone shipments declined 4.1% in the last quarter of 2018, topping off the “most noticeably awful year ever” for cell phone shipments as reported by industry tracker IDC. Be that as it may, India hasn’t seen any stoppage.

    Is Xiaomi and Huawei same company?

    No, Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese gadget manufacturer established by Lei Jun in 2010 and headquartered in Beijing, While Huawei is another multinational company of China and a competitor of Xiaomi.

  • Xiaomi to soon enter Electric Vehicle Market with $10b Investment

    The Chinese Smartphone company Xiaomi is reportedly planning to enter into the Electric Vehicle platform. The company which is involved in manufacturing consumer electronics is planning to invest into the Electric Vehicle Industry. Let’s look at this article to understand the plans of Xiaomi about its EV industry.

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    Xiaomi planning to enter Electric Vehicle market
    Xiaomi’s EV Investments
    China’s Electric Vehicle market
    Other Players in Electric vehicle market
    FAQ

    Xiaomi

    Xiaomi is a Chinese Multinational company which is headquartered in Beijing. The company was founded in the year 2010. Xiaomi makes and invests in smartphones, laptops, mobile apps, home appliances, bags, shoes, consumer electronics, accessories, and IoT devices.

    Xiaomi is the fourth company to develop a mobile system on chip (SoC) capabilities after Apple, Samsung, and Huawei. Xiaomi is the fourth largest mobile manufacturing company in the world. The company has a leading position in the largest market which is China and the second largest market which is India.

    Xiaomi planning to enter Electric Vehicle market

    Xiaomi has plans to be part of the Electric Vehicle market. Xiaomi has confirmed its intention to invest $10 billion in its own subsidiary firm which is completely owned by Xiaomi. They had confirmed their intentions at the Mi MIX Fold Global Launch Event.

    The initial investments according to the confirmation stand at CNY 10 billion. The founder and CEO Lei Jun is expected to lead the Electric Car project of the company for the time being. Xiaomi has not revealed any information about the products they plan to introduce or work on in the Electric Vehicle segment of the company.

    There are no announcements regarding their projects and no information about the company’s launch plans. Xiaomi has said that they want to work on providing quality electric vehicles which would let everyone in the world to enjoy smart living anytime and anywhere.

    Top selling light duty plug-in Electric vehicle global market
    Top selling light duty plug-in Electric vehicle global market

    Xiaomi’s EV Investments

    According to the report by Chinese media LatePost Xiaomi’s entry into the EV market to manufacture Electric cars was taken after considering it for years. They have also said that the company’s plans are just in the early stages and it might change in the future as well.

    The report has also said that in the year 2018 Xiaomi had launched an early project in the electric vehicle segment called Mi car to explore the electric car making industry. It is said that the CEO of Xiaomi Lei Jun had visited Elon Musk who is the CEO of Tesla in 2013 twice.

    Xiaomi has also made a mark in the Chinese Electric Vehicle segment by investing in Xpeng motors which delivered around 27,041 vehicles in the year 2020. They have also invested in NIO which is also a Chinese homegrown Electric Vehicle maker.

    China’s Electric Vehicle market

    China’s Electric Vehicle market has seen a significant growth in the recent years. It has attracted a lot of high-profile companies ranging from traditional automobile companies to internet companies.

    According to a research by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, In the year 2020, the country saw an increase in the sales of EV which accounted for 1.37 million. There is an increase in the sales of up to 11% year-on-year.

    China based automaker Greely auto has said that it is planning to focus more on to the Electric Vehicle segment. The founder and Chairman of the company Li Shufu have announced that the company has plans to shift 90 percent of its production to hybrid Electric vehicles and is also planning to set up a new factory for New Energy Vehicles.

    The growth of the Chinese Electric Vehicle market has come after the multiple policy campaigns which are to promote carbon reduction which includes the plans to reach carbon neutrality by 2060.

    Other Players in Electric vehicle market

    Earlier, Huawei had announced its plans to enter into the manufacturing of Electric Vehicles. There were several speculations through various news reports which had suggested that the company had approached China’s Changan Automobile, BluePark New Energy Technology, and other players in the industry. Huawei has plans to concentrate on developing smart bits and to let the car manufacturers provide car parts.

    From the western world, there has been a lot of rumors of Apple entering into the Electric Vehicle segment. It is said that the iPhone manufacturer is working on an electric vehicle of its own. The company is focusing on building the autonomous tech, battery, and the technical parts of the car and would require another partner from the automobile sector to work on the rest of the parts of the car.

    FAQ

    Which is the cheapest electric car?

    Smart EQ Fortwo EV is one the cheapest electric car.

    What are the 3 types of electric cars?

    Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs), Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs), and Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) are the 3 types of electric cars.

    Who is the CEO of Xiaomi?

    Lei Jun is the current CEO of Xiaomi.

    Conclusion

    Compared to Apple and Huawei, Mi has still not announced any of its plans for its products or the launch. We will have to wait for any more news regarding the Chinese smartphone manufacturer’s entry into the Electric Vehicle Segment.