Acer CEO J.T. Wang announced he is resigning after several quarters of "poor financial results."
“Acer encountered many complicated and harsh challenges in the past few years," reads a statement Wang delivered to the company. "With the consecutive poor financial results, it is time for me to hand over the responsibility to a new leadership team to path the way for a new era.”
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He will be replaced by President Jim Wong. Wang will serve as CEO until Jan. 1 and as chairman until June 2014. He had served as CEO since 2005.
Wang's resignation came after the company posted a $446 million net loss -- Acer's largest to date -- in its third quarter. The company is also cutting 7% of its work force as a cost-cutting measure. Like other PC companies, Acer has struggled as consumers have flocked to tablets. PC sales fell 11.4% globally in the second quarter versus the same period in 2013, according to IDC. The researcher also reported that Acer's shipments fell 32.6% year over year.
Acer lost $236 million in its second quarter. In Q1 Acer posted a modest net profit of $17.4 million. Over the past five years, Acer's stock price is down more than 57%.
The news comes just a day after BlackBerry announced that its CEO, Thorsten Heins, was also leaving the company.
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