Ninestar Corporation

Founded in 2000, Ninestar Corporation has been focusing on the printing and imaging industry for over 20 years. As one of the top 500 listed companies in China, it has now become the world's fourth largest laser printer manufacturer, with a market cap of more than 70 billion RMB（As of June 2022） and annual revenue of more than 20 billion RMB. Ninestar has been listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (stock code: 002180) since 2014. Ninestar has achieved full coverage of printing industry chain, and runs its business in more than 150 countries and regions around the world, with a series of well-known brands across a variety of industry segments, including "Lexmark","PANTUM", "APEXMIC", "G&G", and "Static Control". Ninestar hires more than 23,000 employees worldwide, of which 20% are R&D staffs . Its technological products include laser printers and consumables, integrated circuit chips, printer core components, etc. It owns 4,885 independent R&D patents, 3,378 of which are invention patents. Ninestar attaches great importance to technological innovation and patent creation. Ninestar started from the scratch through producing compatible printer consumables, and then developed its own patented printing consumable chips. Over the past decade, it has maintained its leading position in the global compatible printing consumables industry, with a No.1 market share. In 2010, it launched the first laser printer of China, " PANTUM "-branded printer, a laser printer with independent intellectual property, which filled the core and critical technology gap in China. In 2016, the company acquired "Lexmark International", a printer business formerly established by IBM. With this acquisition, Ninestar has covered almost the entire printing industry chain, starting from upstream core components and consumables to downstream printer hardware, from entry-level printers to high-level printers, and from traditional printer product sales to managed print service (MPS) solutions.