Gome

Gome is a Chinese consumer-electronics retailer that emerged in the 1990s as one of the country's dominant offline appliance chains. Founded in 1987 by Huang Guangyu, it reached 23.88 billion yuan in sales by the end of 2004, making it the largest home-appliance chain at the time and turning Huang into China's richest person . In the "Su-Mei" rivalry with Suning, Gome epitomized the channel-power era of Chinese retail: it fought for prime urban locations, flooded stores with promotions, and became the indispensable sales floor for smaller appliance brands . Its rise was tightly coupled with China's housing commercialization and the resulting boom in home-appliance demand . The chain is also referenced as a customer of SoundAI Technology's voice-AI systems in smart-home and retail applications .