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.
Jabra Corporation was founded in 1983 as Norcom Electronics Corporation, a Utah corporation, by inventor/entrepreneur Elwood "Woody" Norris. From its inception, it was engaged in the development of ear-radio and ear-microphone technologies.
In September 1984, American Technology Corpo...
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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.
Jabra Corporation was founded in 1983 as Norcom Electronics Corporation, a Utah corporation, by inventor/entrepreneur Elwood "Woody" Norris. From its inception, it was engaged in the development of ear-radio and ear-microphone technologies.
In September 1984, American Technology Corporation (ATC), a publicly traded corporation also founded by Woody Norris, acquired 100% of the outstanding shares of Norcom Electronics.
In March 1988, ATC sold Norcom Electronics to Norris Communications, Inc. (NCI), another publicly-traded corporation founded by Woody Norris, in return for 700,000 shares of NCI common stock and a 1% royalty on gross sales of its EarPHONE product.
NCI subsequently changed the name from Norcom Electronics to Jabra Corporation and began a process of spinning it off to two senior NCI employees; Randy Granovetter...
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