Huawei divides business in the CIS into parts and creates a new headquarters in Bahrain

Huawei split the corporate division in the Eurasia region into two parts: business in Russia and Belarus will operate separately from other CIS countries. The Russian-Belarusian division will remain in Moscow, and the work of Huawei Enterprise in all other CIS countries will now be supervised by the vendor’s headquarters in Bahrain, two interlocutors close to the company told Vedomosti. Specialists responsible for business development in Russia and Belarus, partly remained in Moscow, and partly were relocated to China, one of them knows. The press service of Huawei declined to comment.

The Huawei Enterprise division operating in Russia was responsible for the supply of IT and telecom solutions to corporate customers also in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The most priority sectors for the company were financial and state. From the reporting of Huawei for 2021 follows that incomes of all direction of Enterprise amounted to 102.4 billion yuan (876 billion rubles), or 16.1% of the total revenue of the company. In the revenue of the Eurasia region, the share of Russia was about 70%, and the rest of the CIS countries accounted for no more than 30%, estimates Telecom Daily CEO Denis Kuskov. According to his calculations, the revenue of the Russian “daughter” of Huawei Enterprise is approximately 115-130 billion rubles. excluding self-import. Russia for Huawei Enterprise was indeed a priority market in terms of money, confirms a source close to the company.