As visitors step through the doors of Dahua Technology USA headquarters in Irvine, Calif., they are greeted with a poster of a local landmark — the Ferris wheel at the nearby Spectrum Center — proclaiming, “Hello Irvine!” Dahua (pronounced Dah-Hwah) has indeed embraced the Southern California way of business since establishing its North American headquarters in November 2014. In fact, the surroundings reveal little evidence that Dahua, a leading solution provider of video surveillance solutions with the second-largest market share worldwide, was founded in Hangzhou, China, where it maintains world headquarters.
Dahua’s first order of business after coming to California was to streamline its thousands of products — network cameras, NVRs, HD analog — to a manageable size for introduction to the U.S. market, while maintaining a focus on quality and competitive pricing.