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Xiaomi’s Next Big Move: More Markets from February!

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January 21
by chris eilers

Half a year ago Xiaomi announced to their plans to expand to more international Markets in North America, Europe and Asia. Eventually they stayed within Asia though, with India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Singapore. Now Bin Lin announced a new big move in February.

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Although Xiaomi had very impressive Sales of 61.12 million, very little percentage of those sales are actually from outside China. Additionally they suffered many problems in China including a temporarily ban in India and criticized product patents.

Obviously for Xiaomi 2015 will be the focus on international markets. As the war is heating in China, further international expansion will help a sustainable developemnt of Xiaomi. After all Xiaomi is a very young brand with just 4 years.

Xiaomi International Expansion

This morning Bin Lin Co-Founder of Xiaomi announced, that Xiaomi’s international team will make a big announcment in February. At the same time he published a picture on his Weibo Account with Vice President of international business Hugo Barra, and International Product Director Donovan Sung.

Xiaomi’s newest Flagship the Xiaomi Note

Xiaomi Note Hands On

At the same time there are some users that are complaining that Xiaomi is not taking enough care of existing markets. The Xiaomi MI4 flagship for example will not come to Malaysia and just recently Xiaomi announced a price increase for their Powerbanks in Singapore.

Xiaomi will announce a new international move in February. What do you think which country will be the next on their list?