Planar Systems, Inc. NASDAQ: PLNR is a U.S. digital display manufacturing corporation based in Hillsboro, Oregon. Founded in 1983 as a spin-off from Tektronix, it was the first U.S. manufacturer of electroluminescent (EL) digital displays. Planar also makes a variety of other specialty displays. Planar is the ninth largest manufacturer of flat panel displays in North America. The company with $259 million in revenue is headed by chief executive o...
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Planar Systems, Inc. NASDAQ: PLNR is a U.S. digital display manufacturing corporation based in Hillsboro, Oregon. Founded in 1983 as a spin-off from Tektronix, it was the first U.S. manufacturer of electroluminescent (EL) digital displays. Planar also makes a variety of other specialty displays. Planar is the ninth largest manufacturer of flat panel displays in North America. The company with $259 million in revenue is headed by chief executive officer and president Gerald K. Perkel.
Planar was founded in 1983 by Jim Hurd, Chris King, John Laney and others as a spin-off from the Solid State Research and Development Group of the Beaverton, Oregon, based Tektronix. In 1986, a division spun off from Planar to work on projection technology, InFocus.
In 1991, FinLux, a competitor in Espoo, Finland was purchased and is now the company's European headquaters. Planar's executives took the company public in 1993, listing the stock on the NASDAQ boards Planar acquired Tektronix's avionics...
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