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Consumer electronics include electronic equipment intended for everyday use. Consumer electronics are most often used in entertainment, communications and office productivity. Some products classed as consumer electronics include personal computers, telephones, MP3 players, audio equipment,...
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Alba
Harvard International plc (previously known as Alba plc) is a consumer electronics company, based in the United Kingdom.
The Alba company originally made only low-cost consumer products under its own brand name, but has both founded and acquired...
Date founded:
- 1917
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Alpine Electronics
Alpine Electronics, Inc. (アルパイン株式会社, Arupain Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 6816) is traditionally known as an aftermarket car audio and navigation systems manufacturer, famed for their high quality, premium in-car audio units commonly known as headunits....
Archos
Archos (pronounced /ˈɑrkoʊs/) is a French consumer electronics company that was established in 1988 by Henri Crohas. Archos manufactures portable media players and portable storage devices. The name is an anagram of Crohas' last name, and it is also...
Date founded:
- Oct 4, 1988
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Atari
Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by Atari Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of the French publisher Infogrames Entertainment SA (IESA). Atari Interactive has in...
Date founded:
- 1972
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BBK Electronics
BBK Electronics Corporation, Inc. is a Chinese company specialized on electronics such as television sets, mp3-players, digital cameras.
The company has three factories in China.
The primary market for BBK, as said at the official site, is Russia....
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Bose
Bose Corporation (pronounced /boʊz/) is a privately-held, American company, based in Framingham, Massachusetts, that specializes in audio equipment. Bose products can be found in Olympics stadiums, The Broadway Theatre, the Sistine Chapel and the...
Date founded:
- 1964
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Bowers & Wilkins
Bowers & Wilkins is a British loudspeaker company that produces reference quality hi-fi and home theater speakers. The company name is often abbreviated to just B&W.;
Joe Atkins is current owner and chairman. He is the successor to Robert Otto Trunz...
Date founded:
- 1966
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Cabasse
Cabasse is a French audio manufacturer founded by Georges Cabasse in 1950. It is mainly known for its home loudspeakers but has also produced professional audio speakers for studio recording or sound reinforcement in theatres and power amplifiers....
Date founded:
- 1950
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Clarion Technologies
Clarion Co., Ltd. (クラリオン株式会社, Kurarion Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 6796) is a Japanese manufacturer of car audio, automotive navigation systems, AutoPCs, visual equipment, bus equipment, and communication equipment. Up until the end of 2005, products in...
Date founded:
- Dec 1940
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Coleco
Coleco was an American company founded in 1932 by Maurice Greenberg as "Connecticut Leather Company". It became a highly successful toy company in the 1980s, known for its mass-produced version of Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and its video game consoles...
Date founded:
- 1932
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Commodore International Corporation
Commodore International Corporation (CIC) is a Netherlands-based company that bought all the global rights, patents and assets to the Commodore brand in 2005. The company provides digital media services, software and hardware and delivers media...
Date founded:
- Jul 2004
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DEODEO
DEODEO Corporation (株式会社デオデオ, Kabushiki-gaisha DEODEO) is one of the largest consumer electronics retailer chains based in Hiroshima, Japan.
The company was established in 1947 called "Daiichi Sangyo Kabushiki-gaisha" well known as "Daiichi" in...
Date founded:
- May 7, 1947
Edifier
Edifier is a privately held company based in Beijing, China that specializes in audio equipment.
The company was founded in 1996. Their goal is to provide quality sound equipment at affordable price. In 1998, the company became a multinational....
Date founded:
- 1996
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Epos
Epos Ltd is a British loudspeaker company that specialises in home cinema and hi-fi speakers.
Epos was founded in 1983 by Robin Marshall. In 1998 Epos was sold to Mordaunt-Short who had been bought by the TGI PLC group in 1987. When the TGI PLC...
Date founded:
- 1983
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Goldvish
GoldVish Luxury Communications is a manufacturer of luxury GSM mobile phones. It specializes in handcrafted production and post-purchase support.
"The GoldVish collection will be available in the most exclusive department stores and the best...
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Goodmans Industries
Goodmans Industries is an electronics retailing company which is part of Harvard International plc (formerly Alba).
Goodmans Industries Ltd markets a wide range of entertainment products including Digital TVs, LCD TVs and Digital Set Top Boxes,...
Date founded:
- 1932
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Griffin Technology
Griffin Technology is a privately-held U.S. company founded in Nashville, Tennessee in 1992 by Paul Griffin. The company designs and manufactures computer peripherals, consumer electronics, and accessories, the first products being primarily video...
Date founded:
- 1992
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Hinari domestic Appliances
Hinari Domestic Appliances or Hinari LP is a British manufacturer of domestic electrical products, Hinari LP is one of the highest volume suppliers of microwaves and small domestic appliances and has entered the major white goods and air...
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Humax
Humax is an electronics company. Founded in South Korea in 1989, it manufactures set-top boxes, digital video recorders, televisions and other consumer electronics. It is publicly traded on KOSDAQ.
Listed on the Korean stock exchange (KOSDAQ), Humax...
Date founded:
- Feb 1989
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Jabra
Jabra is a maker of headsets for cellular telephones and other applications owned by Danish-based GN Netcom. The Jabra subsidiary is based in Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S..
Jabra Corporation was founded in 1983 as Norcom Electronics Corporation, a...
Date founded:
- 1993
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Jasco Products Company
As a GE licensee, Jasco Products Company develops, markets, and distributes more than 2,000 GE branded consumer electronic accessories, computer accessories, home electric products, and security/surveillance products.
Steve Trice established Jasco...
Date founded:
- 1975
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Jens of Sweden
Jens of Sweden was a Swedish company founded by Jens Nylander. They mostly made portable media players. Nylander declared the company bankrupt on 20 September 2005. According to Nylander, the company's financial problems were mostly due to the...
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K's Holdings Corporation
K's Holdings Corporation (株式会社ケーズホールディングス, Kabushiki Kaisha Kēzu Hōrudingusu) is a consumer electronics retailer chain headquartered in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. The holding company handles ten subsidiary companies and two affiliate companies...
Date founded:
- Sep 29, 1973
Kenwood Electronics
Kenwood Corporation (株式会社ケンウッド, Kabushiki-gaisha Ken'uddo) (TYO: 6765) is a Japanese manufacturer of amateur radio as well as Hi-Fi and portable audio equipment.
The company first started in 1946 as the Kasuga Radio Co. Ltd. In Komagane City, Nagano...
Date founded:
- 1946
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Lik Sang
Lik Sang (traditional Chinese: 力生; Cantonese Yale: lik6 sang1; literal: "powerful and energetic") was a popular distributor of Asian electronics. The company sold import games, toys, figures, anime-related items, and obscure adapters and controllers...
Date founded:
- 1998
Lipinski Sound
Lipinski Sound is a professional market and audiophile oriented manufacturer of loudspeakers, subwoofers, powered speaker stands (patent pending), surround sound systems, power amplifiers, microphones and microphone preamplifiers.
The company was...
Date founded:
- 2003
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MicroProse
MicroProse, as a corporation and brand name, has been owned by several entities since its original founding by Sid Meier and Bill Stealey in 1982, as Microprose Software.
Founded in 1982 by Bill Stealey and Sid Meier, Microprose Software, Inc was...
Date founded:
- 1982
Microprose Systems, LLC
Microprose Systems, LLC. was a video game accessories, and consumer electronics developer, reformed from the MicroProse brand in 2007.
During the Summer of 2007, the Microprose brand was acquired from Frederic Chesnais to form Microprose Systems LLC...
Date founded:
- 2008
Mimobot
MIMOBOT (pronounced mee-mo-bot) flash drives are a line of collectible designer toy USB flash drives launched in 2005 by Mimoco, Inc., headed by Evan Blaustein. Designed by contemporary character artists, preloaded with original media content like...
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Mobiado phone
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Mobile Edge
Mobile Edge is an American laptop bag company that specializes in laptop computer carrying cases and accessories. Mobile Edge is based in Anaheim, California.
Established in 2002 by President & CEO, G. David Cartwright, and COO, Steve Goodman, both...
Date founded:
- 2003
Monster Cable Products
Monster Cable Products Inc. owns the Monster Cable brand of consumer audio and video cable, which is primarily used to connect audio and video components.
The company produces consumer electronics accessories including audio and video cables,...
Date founded:
- 1979
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Navigon
NAVIGON AG is a privately owned Hamburg, Germany-based manufacturer of GPS devices and GPS navigation software.
Navigon's full portfolio includes Navigon branded personal navigation devices as well as OEM software solutions for the navigation,...
Date founded:
- 1991
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Olive Media Products
Olive Media is a privately held company that brings the ease and accessibility of digital music to the home stereo in high-fidelity. It was founded by Dr. Oliver Bergmann and Robert Altmann in 2005. Olive sees itself at the crossroads of high...
Date founded:
- 2005
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OPPO Digital
OPPO Electronics Corp., Ltd is an electronics manufacturer based in Dongguan, Guangdong, China. Its American division is OPPO Digital, Inc.
OPPO Digital, Inc., is an electronics manufacturer based in Mountain View, California United States. It is...
Date founded:
- 2004
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Oregon Scientific
Oregon Scientific, Inc. is a manufacturer of electronic products including radio-referenced clocks, home weather stations, public alert monitors, youth learning aids, and fitness devices. The firm was started in 1989 in Portland, Oregon, United...
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Pioneer Corporation
Pioneer Corporation (パイオニア株式会社, Paionia Kabushiki-kaisha) (TYO: 6773) is a multinational corporation that specializes in digital entertainment products, based in Tokyo, Japan. The company was founded in 1938 in Tokyo as a radio and speaker repair...
Date founded:
- 1938
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Plantronics
Plantronics is a hardware company based in Santa Cruz, California, that specializes in lightweight headsets.
In the early 1960s, airline headsets were so large and clunky that many pilots had switched back to the use of handheld microphones for...
Date founded:
- 1962
Polk Audio
Polk Audio is a manufacturer of audio products best known for their home and automobile speakers. The company also produces a wide range of other audio products such as amplifiers and FM tuners. The company is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland...
Date founded:
- 1972
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Practical Devices Corporation
Practical Devices Corporation (abbreviated PDC) is a privately-owned company which designs, manufactures, and sells high-end headphone amplifiers. PDC's portable products are notable for having a very rich set of features, despite a small physical...
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Proac
ProAc is a British loudspeaker manufacturing company. The company was founded by Stewart Tyler in 1979.
Date founded:
- 1979
ProAc Loudspeakers
ProAc is a British loudspeaker manufacturing company. The company was founded by Stewart Tyler in 1979.
Date founded:
- 1979
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Renchi
RENCHI.com is an online game consoles, video games, accessories, and DVD Bluray Movies and TV shows retailer located in Hong Kong.
Renchi was established in 2005 in Hong Kong and was part of the The Redwolf Airsoft Group which is famous in the...
Date founded:
- 2005
Roberts Radio
Roberts is a global consumer electronics limited company based in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, England. It has been producing radios for over 70 years. Initially the company only traded in the United Kingdom, but now exports worldwide. The company...
Date founded:
- 1932
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Rockford Fosgate
Rockford Fosgate is a manufacturer of aftermarket and OEM car audio and ICE products.
Rockford Fosgate is the parent company of Lightning Audio, a brand aimed at entry level products as compared to the offerings of the Rockford Fosgate label....
Date founded:
- 1973
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Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics (SEC, Korean: 삼성전자, KRX: 005930, KRX: 005935, LSE: SMSN, LSE: SMSD) is the world's largest electronics company, headquartered in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea. It is the largest South Korean company and the flagship subsidiary...
Date founded:
- 1969
Smarthome
Smarthome is a consumer electronics company specializing in home automation products, information, how-to videos and industry information.
It was created in 1992 by Joe Dada III, founder and CEO. It is based in Irvine, California.
In 1992, Joe Dada...
Date founded:
- 1992
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Sony
Sony Corporation (commonly referred to as Sony) (Japanese: ソニー株式会社, Sonī Kabushiki Kaisha) (TYO: 6758) is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue...
Date founded:
- May 7, 1946
Strangeberry
Strangeberry was a high technology
startup in the consumer electronics space. Created a Digital Media Receiver
for playback and display of personal digital media such as music, video,
games. The company was acquired by TiVo Inc in January of...
Date founded:
- 2002
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Thomson SA
Thomson SA (NYSE: TMS , Euronext: TMS), formerly known as Thomson Multimedia is an French international provider of -- for the creation, management, delivery and access of video, for the Communication, Media and Entertainment industries. Thomson’s...
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Tvonics
TVonics is trading brand of TVonics Solutions Limited, an electronics company. Founded in Wales, UK in 2004, it manufactures set-top boxes and digital video recorders. TVonics was original founded as TVonics Ltd, but was acquired in February 2008 by...
Date founded:
- 2004
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Tweeter
Tweeter Opco, LLC (Pink Sheets: TWTRQ) was a specialty consumer electronics retailer providing high end electronic equipment, including flat panel TVs, plasma TVs, car radios, home theater systems, GPSs and more. Tweeter also offered top of the line...
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Vertu
Vertu is a British-based manufacturer and retailer of luxury mobile phones. The company is an independently run, wholly-owned subsidiary of the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia.
The concept of the company is to make mobile phones in the same...
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Violet
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Vizio
Vizio, is a privately-held producer of consumer electronics, based in Irvine, California, USA. It was founded in October 2002 as V Inc.
Vizio currently produces primarily LCD televisions. Amtran, a Taiwan-based company, is one of a number of...
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VTech
VTech is the common name of Video Technology Ltd. (SEHK: 0303 , LSE: VTH ,Pink Sheets: VTKHY), a United Kingdom-based manufacturer of consumer electronics. VTech products include cordless telephones and accessories, single-function computers such as...
Date founded:
- 1976
Yamada Denki
Yamada-Denki Co., Ltd. (株式会社ヤマダ電機, Kabushiki-gaisha Yamada Denki) (TYO: 9831) is one of the largest consumer electronics retailer chains in Japan. Some of its stores also sell other products, such as books.
The company was founded in 1973 as a...
Date founded:
- 1978
Zenith Electronics
Zenith Electronics Corporation is a former American manufacturer of televisions headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois. It was the inventor of the modern remote control, and it introduced HDTV in North America. Zenith is now a member of the South...
Date founded:
- 1918
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Panasonic Corporation
Panasonic Corporation (パナソニック株式会社, Panasonikku Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 6752 NYSE: PC), formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (松下電器産業株式会社, Matsushita Denki Kabushiki-gaisha), is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered...
Date founded:
- 1918
Apple Inc.
Apple Inc., (NASDAQ: AAPL) formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an American multinational corporation which designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products. The company's best-known hardware products include Macintosh computers, the...
Date founded:
- Apr 1, 1976
