Sennheiser
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Audio electronics |
| Founded | 1945 (as Labor W) |
| Headquarters | Wedemark, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| Key people | Fritz Sennheiser, founder Jörg Sennheiser, CEO |
| Products | Audio electronics for consumer, professional, and business uses |
| Revenue | € 300 million (2006)[1] |
| Owner(s) | Jörg Sennheiser |
| Employees | 2,100 [2] |
| Website | www.sennheiser.com |
Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG (branded Sennheiser) (English: /ˈsɛnhaɪzər/) is a private German audio company specializing in the design and production of a wide range of both consumer and high fidelity products, including microphones, headphones, telephony accessories, and avionics headsets for consumer, professional, and business applications.
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[edit] Company
Founded as Labor W and family-owned since 1945, Sennheiser has 2,100 employees,[2] 60% of them working in Germany.[3] Major subsidiaries of the company are Georg Neumann, which builds studio microphones, and Klein + Hummel, a producer of high-quality studio monitors. In 2003 Sennheiser Communications A/S, Denmark was announced, a joint venture between Sennheiser electronic and William Demant, to develop and produce telecommunications products. In 2006, revenues of Sennheiser totaled € 300 million.[1]
[edit] History
The company was founded in 1945, just a few weeks after the end of World War II, by Fritz Sennheiser (1912–2010)[4] and seven fellow engineers of the University of Hannover in a laboratory called Laboratorium Wennebostel (shortened, "Labor W"). The laboratory was named after the village of Wennebostel, where it had been moved to due to the war. Its first product was a voltmeter. Labor W began building microphones in 1946.
By 1955, the company had 250 employees. Labor W was renamed 'Sennheiser electronic' in 1958. Sennheiser was transformed into a limited partnership (KG) in 1973. In 1980, the company entered the aviation market, supplying Lufthansa with headsets.[5] The company began producing modern wireless microphones in 1982, the same year when founder Fritz Sennheiser handed the management of the company over to his son, Jörg Sennheiser.
[edit] Locations
Sennheiser is headquartered in the municipality of Wedemark, Germany (near Hannover). Its United States headquarters is located in Old Lyme, Connecticut. The company has factories in Burgdorf, Germany; Tullamore, Ireland (since 1990); and Albuquerque, New Mexico (since 2000). Sennheiser's R&D facilities are located in Germany and San Francisco, California. Sennheiser has sales branches in France, the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, India, Singapore, Canada, Argentina, Mexico and the USA.
[edit] Products
- Headphones
- Microphones
- Aviation headsets
- Multimedia headsets
- Business headsets
- Micro-Hifi Systems
- Surround Sound Amplifiers
- Conference and Information Systems
- Electronic sound-based components
- Speakers
- Amplifiers
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b Sennheiser-Annual Report 2005
- ^ a b "Sennheiser was 98", Realtid.se, May 21, 2010, http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.realtid.se%2FArticlePages%2F201005%2F21%2F20100521090054_Realtid049%2F20100521090054_Realtid049.dbp.asp&act=url
- ^ "Sennheiser – Spielwiese für Entwickler" (in German). Gesamtmetall. August 2006. http://www.gesamtmetall.de/gesamtmetall/meonline.nsf/id/DE_AD92006_1?open&ccm=080&gn=1510200613102006094507. Retrieved July 27, 2011.
- ^ "Fritz Sennheiser gestorben", Heise Online, May 19, 2010, http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Fritz-Sennheiser-gestorben-1002809.html (German).
- ^ "Sennheiser's success". http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/1999/11/15/58408/sennheisers-success.html.
[edit] External links
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- Sennheiser Worldwide (English)
