Skyworth, KwaZulu-Natal’s largest electronics manufacturer, has successfully launched the award-winning Nex Playground motion games into South African retailers and announced that it has begun rolling out the first of its digital lifestyle products under a new brand, QVWi.
These include streaming devices, broadband routers and portable power solutions – both instore and online.
A Premier Brand of Skyworth, QVWi is following this up with the launch of its locally assembled Google televisions. Akash Panday, Managing Director of Skyworth Digital Middle East Africa (MEA) as well as Group CEO of QVWi, says that a 10-year-old international investment into manufacturing is now bearing fruit.
Home to Africa’s largest television manufacturing lines (where a wide range of products are created), including smart Google TV’s as well as three TV Google or Android streaming devices, monitors for gaming and office, broadband devices, portable and residential power solutions and internet protocol cameras (IPC).
At the heart of the QVWi brand ecosystem, sits a digital wallet that is soon to become the epitome of the brand. Known as QVWi Pay, it is backed by Mastercard and a leading bank.
QVWi Pay will allow users to get additional benefits linked to QVWi products such as extended warranty, discounts, vouchers and many other value-added benefits.
The ecosystem will launch shopping, insurance, parking payment, cloud-based printing services and insurance applications to become a formidable player in the wallet space.
“From the outset, we are following our market to where the need is greatest in South Africa in light of the ongoing electricity crisis. As a group, we are investing heavily into providing the power that drives this range of lifestyle brands – portable batteries, solar panels and inverters. We’ve already rolled out portable power solutions into retailers and we are working with our Skyworth Green Energy Division on residential and commercial inverters and solar panels,” explains Panday.