According to the report, the defendants in this case also include Wuxi Tian Hong Enterprise Management Consulting Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Wuxi Tian Hong) and Baoding Yixin Consulting Service Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Baoding Yixin).
According to several court judgments, from 20 18 to 20 19, nine employees of Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. joined Wuxi Tian Hong and Baoding Yixin respectively to provide services for Honeycomb Energy, a competitor of Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. The court found that Wuxi Tian Hong and Baoding Yixin were related parties of Honeycomb Energy. Contemporary Anpu Technology Co., Ltd. believes that these nine people have violated the Confidentiality and Non-competition Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the Non-competition Agreement) signed with them, so they are required to pay a penalty of 6,543,800 yuan.
It is understood that the main business of Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. and Honeycomb Energy is power batteries for new energy vehicles. According to the statistics of South Korean market research institute SNE, the market share of Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. in the global power battery field was 32.6% last year, ranking first in the world for five consecutive years. Honeycomb Energy entered the top ten in the world with a market share of 1%. In 20021year, the installed capacity of the company's power batteries increased by more than 430% year-on-year.
The predecessor of Honeycomb Energy is the Power Battery Division of Great Wall Motor (60 1633). Shh). In 20 18, Honeycomb Energy broke away from Great Wall Motor and began to operate independently. The company recently started listing counseling and plans to land in the capital market.