Sharp TVs are designed by Sharp Corporation, a Japanese company owned by Taiwan’s Foxconn since 2016, and built by Sharp group plants and licensees in several regions. European Sharp TVs come from a plant near Toruń in Poland, Indonesian ones from Karawang, Egyptian ones from Elaraby Group, and the Roku-based US models announced for 2022 from a Foxconn-run plant in Mexico. From 2015 to 2018 the picture was different: Hisense built Sharp-branded TVs for the Americas and Skytec UMC for Europe.
Who owns Sharp today?
Sharp Corporation is a Japanese company, but it has belonged to Taiwan’s Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry) since August 2016. Foxconn stepped in when Sharp was close to collapse after years of losses on LCD, and Sharp preferred its offer to a rescue plan backed by a Japanese state fund.
Hisense, which people often confuse with the owner, never owned Sharp. In 2015 the Chinese company bought Sharp’s TV factory in Mexico for $23.7 million and received the right to use the Sharp name in North and South America. In Europe a similar deal went to the Slovak company Skytec UMC, which licensed the brand in 2015 and took over Sharp’s Polish TV plant.
Under Foxconn, Sharp set out to win its brand back. It bought 56.7% of Skytec UMC in 2017 and agreed in 2019 to buy the rest. In the Americas it sued Hisense in 2017, claiming damage to the brand, and in 2019 announced its return to the US market.
Where are Sharp TVs made today?
Sharp TVs are built in several regions rather than at one factory, and the plant that built yours depends on where you bought it. Sharp cut jobs in its Asian TV business in 2024, so treat the Asian rows below as the latest published picture, not a guarantee for every current model.
| Region | Site and company | Role for Sharp TVs |
|---|---|---|
| Europe | Łysomice near Toruń, Poland: Sharp Consumer Electronics Poland, the former Sharp Manufacturing Poland | Part of the UMC group, which designs, builds and sells Sharp-branded TVs in Europe |
| Americas | A Mexican plant run by Foxconn | Assembles Sharp Roku TVs for the US, announced for 2022 |
| Indonesia | Karawang: PT Sharp Electronics Indonesia | LED TV factory opened in 2016 with a stated capacity of about 1 million TVs a year; over 7 million TVs built by early 2025 |
| Philippines | Sharp (Phils.) Corporation | Builds LCD TVs and audio products; LED TV production began in 2012 |
| Malaysia | Sharp Manufacturing Corporation (M), Johor | Listed by Sharp as a Malaysian plant. Earlier reporting says it assembles TVs for Singapore and nearby markets; this is not independently confirmed |
| China | Nanjing Sharp Electronics | Makes LCD modules and components; Nanjing is described as a major base for Sharp LCD TVs |
| Egypt | Elaraby Group, under the Sharp brand license | TVs are one of five Sharp-brand product lines made and sold in Egypt |
Who built Sharp TVs from 2015 to 2018?
In these years the Sharp name was licensed out in the Americas and Europe, so a Sharp TV came from a different builder depending on the region.
In the United States and the rest of the Americas, Hisense built Sharp-branded TVs at the former Sharp factory in Mexico. In Europe the builder was Skytec UMC, which took over the Polish plant together with the brand license.
In Japan and the rest of Asia, Sharp kept the brand and kept building TVs in its own plants; its Karawang factory in Indonesia opened in 2016. For some former Soviet markets, Sharp TVs were reportedly assembled under contract at the Horizon plant in Belarus.
If you own a TV from this period, the label and model number (see the steps above) show which of these supply lines it came from.
How Sharp made TVs before 2014
Until 2014 Sharp designed and built its own TVs, together with the LCD panels inside them. It assembled TVs for North America in Mexico, for Japan in its Japanese plants and for Europe in Poland, where its factory near Toruń began production in 2007. Other plants worked in Indonesia, Malaysia and China.
The bet on LCD backfired. Sharp opened its giant Sakai panel plant in 2009 at a cost of about $2.7 billion, and the losses that followed pushed the company into crisis. At the same time it struggled to keep up with Korean and Chinese competitors. In 2012 Foxconn took a 9.9% stake in Sharp and 46.5% of the Sakai panel venture, a step that led to its 2016 takeover. From 2014 Sharp began handing TV production in Europe and the Americas to licensees, as described above. In 2024 it went further and stopped making large LCD panels at Sakai.
I don’t know that, but probably not.
do egypt manufacture sharp tv
We need to see which motherboard model is installed in the TV. And find a P/N similar one on the Internet.
Good day sir/madam pls I need to command a sharp mother board what should I do?