Jabra
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| Industry | Business & Consumer electronics |
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| Founded | 1983 |
| Founder(s) | Elwood Norris |
| Headquarters | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Area served | World-wide |
| Products | Headsets |
| Website | www.jabra.com |
Jabra develops, manufactures and markets wireless and corded headsets for mobile phone users, contact centres and office-based users. It is owned by GN Netcom. The Jabra subsidiary is based in Nashua, New Hampshire.
[edit] History
Jabra Corporation was founded in 1983 as Norcom Electronics Corporation, a Utah corporation, by inventor/entrepreneur Elwood "Woody" Norris.[1] 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.[2]
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.[2]
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 and Jennifer Blome. In September 2000, Jabra Corporation was acquired by GN Netcom, a division of the Danish company GN Great Nordic. In that same year, GN Netcom under the Jabra brand launched the world’s first Bluetooth headset for mobile phones, the Jabra BT100.
In 2006, GN Netcom consolidated its Contact Centre and Office (CC&O) headset division under the Jabra brand. This was followed by a restructuring in 2008, which established two distinct divisions within Jabra; CC&O and Mobile. This restructuring thus facilitated a greater focus on business to business and consumer markets respectively.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Utah Business Entity Search, entity # 839976-014
- ^ a b American Technology Corporation Annual Report (10-K), 12/13/1996
- ^ GN Great Nordic Annual Report 2008
