AOC International (
trading asAOC, formerly Admiral Overseas Corporation and stylized as ΛOC;
Chinese: 冠捷科技有限公司;
pinyin: Guānjié kējì yǒuxiàn gōngsī) is a
multinational corporation and
electronics company headquartered in
Taipei, Taiwan, and a subsidiary of
TPV Technology. It designs and produces a full range of
LCD TVs and PC monitors, and formerly CRT monitors for PCs which are sold worldwide under the AOC brand.[2] The typeface used in the logo is a modified
Eurostile.
Admiral Overseas Corporation (AOC) was founded in
Chicago, Illinois, by Ross Siragusa as the Asian arm of his
Admiral Corporation, and later established in Taiwan in 1967 as the first manufacturer of colour televisions for export. In 1978, Admiral Overseas Corporation was renamed AOC International. Direct marketing under the AOC brand name began in 1979. From 1988 to 1997, AOC established its sales offices in United States, China, Europe, and Brazil. AOC was launched in India and Mexico in 2005 and 2006, respectively. Today,[when?] AOC products including
CRT and
LCD monitors,
LCD television sets,
all-in-one units and Android tablets, are available in more than 40 countries worldwide.[citation needed]
In 2022, AOC's AGON line of gaming monitors was the best-selling gaming monitor brand, with a 29% market share.[3]
In 2024, with its Graphic Pro series, AOC presented monitors aimed at professional users in the field of image and video editing for the first time.[4][5]