Acer

Acer - Taiwanese company manufacturing computers and electronics. The company occupies 487 in the Fortune Global 500 (2011).


Acer in Russia

The head of the Russian representation - Gleb Mishin (until March 2012)
In 2007, the leaders of the notebook market - 31.2% (nearest competitor - Asus, 25%). Acer the third consecutive year, the first line of the sales of laptops in
  Russia. The main part of the product portfolio of the corporation in Russia are laptops (60% in I quarter 2008) and desktops (10%).


Sponsorship

At the end of 2007, Acer has signed an agreement with the International Olympic Committee, which comes into force in 2009 According to the agreement, the company will sponsor the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Criticism

Free software Foundation
criticized for selling Acer laptops preloaded with Linux, which rendered unworkable. Used distribution Linpus had no drivers for some of the devices installed on the laptop, in particular, the module WiFi), supplied without a graphical interface and applications that are available on most distributions .