Ma Xiuhui
– Founder, Opple Lighting
Inspiration from Great Business Leaders: The story of Chinese women entrepreneurs, who earned their name for their hard work.
“For the first time in 1990, the construction of traditional bulbs began”
Ma Xiuhui and husband Wang Yaohui started the construction of traditional bulbs in Guangdong province in 1990. Today Xiuhui’s company is praised for creating Opple Lighting LEDs lights. Their customer is in more than 50 countries. She is competing with Western nations such as GE, Philips. However, Opple makes more cheaper LED lamps than it does. In 2015, the company’s sales were $ 650 million. The company has over 6000 employees worldwide. Ma is the general manager of the company and Wang is the chairman. Her family’s total wealth is $ 2.6 billion. She is called the Media Lightning queen. The company’s headquarters are in Shanghai.
“Today, Xiuhui ‘s company’s opple lighting LED lamps are sold in more than 50 countries”
“Started their first factory of the LED bulb from $ 3 million of their savings”
He was born in 1971. The beginning of the work was difficult. Both husband and wife worked together. During pregnancy also became. But then he also helped in the work. There was the talk of energy saving bulbs at that time. Then Wang came with a LED bulb one day and asked if we could make it. Then both of them decided to start their first factory of the LED bulb from $ 3 million of their savings. Before starting this manufacturing company, the husband and wife started Bulb’s wholesale business. The company started making traditional bulbs but after it became CFL. In 1999-2000, the company launched its brand Opple. Expansion began abroad in five years of the company’s establishment. About the start of the company, he states that we did not have any big plans. Every day new hope came against new challenges. Life became too sweet with difficult. However, in 2004, the company started its first overseas branch in Dubai.
