China’s Huawei Technologies, the world’s fourth-biggest smartphone maker, is ahead of schedule on smartphone shipments and will meet its 2015 target of 100 million handsets before the end of the year, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters.
Shenzhen-based Huawei has recorded monthly global smartphone shipments of more than 10m every month since May, the head of the company’s consumer business, Richard Yu, wrote to staff in a memo sent on Monday.
Huawei shipped 75m smartphones in 2014, below its original sales target of 80m. Earlier on Monday Huawei reported a 30 per cent increase in first-half 2015 revenue to 175.9 billion yuan and said it would achieve “effective growth” in 2015.
The company had a 5.4 percent share of the global smartphone market in the first quarter of this year, a distant fourth behind Samsung, Apple and Lenovo, according to research firm Gartner.
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