It is understood that Hon Hai's panel factorySharpDai Zhengwu, president and president, said again this week that he would consider corporatizing the reinvestment factory (SDP). This is the second time that Dai Zhengwu himself has publicly expressed this sentence this month.

People can't help but wonder whether, as Dai Zhengwu said, SDP is a valuable asset to promote the 8K strategy, so do they want to corporatize the factory, or do they have other purposes?

Looking back on the history of SDP in the workshop, in February 2008 by Sharp,Sony Group CorpDecided to set up a new panel factory together. In April 2009, Sharp display products (Sharp Display Product Corporation) was officially established, and in October of the same year, Sharp's factory began to operate.

However, under the operation of Sharp, although SDP has the first leading technology in the world, it has been unable to make a profit, which has become a great burden on Sharp's operation.

In March 2012, Hon Hai planned to take a stake in Sharp's parent company, but suffered an unexpected setback. in the end, Hon Hai founder Terry Gou invested in SDP in his own name, and the company's equity conversion was completed in August. Gou's private investor Sio International Holdings Limited and Sharp each own 37.61%, letterpress and big Nippon Printing also own 9.54% respectively.

In December 2016, Sharp sold part of its stake to SIO International Holdings Limited,SIO International Holdings Limited, thus owning a 53.05% stake in SDP. Sharp's stake fell to about 26.71%.

However, since its establishment, SDP has made a profit of only four years, with the highest profit in 2014, with a profit of 7.2 billion yen for the whole year, followed by 2013 with a profit of 6 billion yen, while the profit figure in 2015 is the same as that in 2017, both at 4.3 billion yen.

In terms of such figures, it can only be a small profit, because compared with the loss-making year, there was a big loss of 59.2 billion yen in 2016 and a loss of 24.8 billion yen in 2018, with the smallest loss in 2012, but also a loss of 7.4 billion yen.

Taken together, Sharp threatened to corporatize SDP, at least for now, and there are many things that need to be solved.

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