Over the past three years, Lenovo has undergone a major reorganization while forming a joint partnership with NEC in Japan and acquiring the top PC and electronics firm in Germany. New products, aggressive marketing and expansion has triggered record growth and profits for Lenovo, which vaulted past Acer and Dell to become No. 2 in PC sales behind HP. Lenovo, which maintains its executive headquarters in Morrisville but is primarily based in China, also has expanded into smartphones and spun off a videogame platform manufacturing company in China. "The committee was initially established with the goals of increasing management efficiency and communication between the upper echelons of management and of planning, strategizing, and implementing major company decisions," SINA said. "The committee became Lenovo's highest-level strategy organization. A source inside the company previously claimed that all major Lenovo strategy in 2009 came from the LEC."