Since its founding in 1976, Acer has constantly pursued the goal of breaking the barriers between people and technology. Focused on marketing its brand-name IT products around the globe, Acer ranks as the world's No. 3 vendor for total PCs and No. 2 for notebooks, with the fastest growth among the top-five players. A profitable and sustainable Channel Business Model is instrumental to Acer's continued growth, while the successful mergers of Gateway and Packard Bell complete the company's global footprint by strengthening its presence in the U.S. and enhancing its strong position in Europe. The Acer Group employs more than 6,000 people worldwide. 2008 revenues reached US$16.65 billion.

Over 30 years of making history in the fast-paced IT industry shows that Acer has walked in the right direction. Its far-reaching strategy of focusing on R&D and marketing development laid the foundations and created a company ready to embrace the challenges of the future.

Steelseries is a leading manufacturer of gaming accessories. One of our portfolios, Steel, was established upon the idea of offering supreme mousepads to professional gamers. Our mousepad Steelpad has revealed new performance standards in professional gaming and are known worldwide.

The end-users of Steelseries products are very often gamers and due to the extreme requirements set by gamers our business is to fulfil these requirements. To ensure this, gamers feed-back is vital to our organization and the R&D department who continuously work hard to improve our products functionality and standards.