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Chinese robot vacuum maker Dreame gives gifts of gold and trip to Antarctica to employees

Dreame’s surprise largesse reflects its robust business growth in 2025, as it remains one of the world’s top robot vacuum cleaner brands

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A Dreame 10s Ultra robot vacuum cleaner. Photo: Dreame
Eunice Xu
Chinese household appliances maker Dreame Technology will present gifts of gold and a trip to Antarctica to employees, on top of their year-end bonuses, as the company boosted its position as one of the world’s leading vendors of robot vacuum cleaners.
The additional largesse was revealed over the weekend by Dreame founder and CEO Yu Hao in two WeChat Moments posts.

Yu said every employee will receive a one-gram gold bonus in addition to their standard year-end payout. The company also planned to reward 10 employees with a trip to Antarctica, he added.

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The company’s total gold giveaway would cost roughly 26 million yuan (US$3.7 million), as retail gold prices currently hovered at 1,400 yuan per gram, according to a report by Hongxin News, which based that sum on an estimated internal staff count of around 18,500.

Dreame declined to comment on Monday.

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The surprise reward underscored Dreame’s robust business growth this year, as Chinese robot vacuum cleaner vendors continued to dominate the global market.

The world’s top five vendors during the first three quarters of 2025 were Roborock, Ecovacs, Dreame, Xiaomi and Narwal, according to data from research firm IDC. These firms accounted for nearly 70 per cent of worldwide robot vacuum cleaner shipments during that period.
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