Newland Digital Technology
Chinese IT company
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Newland Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 新大陆数字技术; pinyin: Xīndàlù shùzì jìshù), previously known as Fujian Newland Computer Co., Ltd., is an IT products and services provider headquartered in Fuzhou, Fujian, in China.[1] It provides service and application products based on networking for markets in data identification, electronic financial payment, mobile communication support, expressway information systems, cloud computing and big data services.
| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Point of sale, Payment terminals |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | |
| Website | dt |
History
The company was founded in 1994 by Hu Gang.[2][3][4] It was listed as a public company on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2000 and became the first A-share listed company in Fujian Province in 2005.[2][4][5] In 2010, the company released the world's first QR code (2D barcode) decoding chip.[6][7][2] In 2016, Newland acquired Fujian Guotong Xingyi Network Technology Co., Ltd., the only company in Fujian Province that obtained a national bank card acquiring license.[2][5] The company changed its name from Fujian Newland Computer Co., Ltd. to Newland Digital Technology Co. Ltd. in 2018.[8]
Subsidiaries
Newland Payment Technology (Newland NPT)
Founded in 1994, Newland NPT mainly manufactures payment terminals, PIN pads, and point of sale (POS) hardware and software.[9][10] In 2016, it was ranked the third POS terminal supplier worldwide after Ingenico and Verifone.[11] In 2017, the company overtook Verifone and became the second-largest POS terminal manufacturer in the world.[12][13] In the same year, the company produced the world's first full-touch screen smart POS[14] and it helped the company to receive in December, the "Red Star Award", the highest design award in China.[5] In 2022, the company awarded the "National Industrial Design Center" at the 5th China International Industrial Design Expo held in Wuhan.[15]
Newland AIDC
Established in 1999 as a subsidiary of Newland Digital Technology, Newland AIDC provides services in the Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) industry.[16] It operates globally as one of the world's four largest manufacturers in the field.
Newland EMEA (Newland Europe)
Newland EMEA (Newland Europe BV) is a member company of Newland Auto-ID Tech and a subsidiary of Newland Digital Technology Co. Ltd. It was founded in 2009 in Culemborg, Netherlands.[17][18]
Newland S&T Group
Newland S&T Group is a high-tech company that supplies digital TV comprehensive solutions & wireless communication equipment and services for environment protection.[19]
Guotong Xingyi
A wholly owned unit under Newland Digital Technology, Guotong Xingyi is an integrated payment services provider for bank card settlement.[20] Founded in 2010, it obtained its payment business license from the People's Bank of China (PBOC) in 2012.[20][21]
Awards
- 2018, iF Design Award of the International Forum Design for NPT's Intelligent POS System N850.[22]
- 2019, Red Dot Design Award for NPT's Intelligent POS System N850.[23]