Acer buys Gateway; bumps to No. 3

Acer Gateway Taiwanese computer manufacturer Acer Inc. announced yesterday that it’s acquiring US-based Gateway Computers.

Once the acquisition is complete, it will put Acer as the no. 3 PC-maker worldwide.

The Gateway sale is pegged at $710PHP 41,667INR 60,172EUR 676CNY 5,168 million, or $1.90PHP 112INR 161EUR 2CNY 14 per share will help make the Taiwanese company a bigger player in the worldwide market, next only to Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP). It will overtake Lenovo for that 3rd spot.

The combination will create a multi-branded PC-company with over US$15 billion in revenues and shipments in excess of 20 million PC units per year. The acquisition is expected to close by December 2007. Gateway is the 4th largest PC brand in the US.

Official announcement published at Acer Global News Release.

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Abe Olandres

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5 Comments

Jaypee says:

18 years ago

This is good news as it means more competition for HP and Dell. As always competition is good for us consumers. :D
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jhay says:

18 years ago

Hope it will mean cheaper Acer notebooks. :D
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Kiven says:

18 years ago

ohhhhh Gemstone….
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BrianB says:

18 years ago

Good, bagay silang dalawa.
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fidel oliva says:

14 years ago

one real good news as i bought my gateway laptop in the united states of a. I was worried about its product support. now it’s here.
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