Sennheiser
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | 1945 (as Labor W) |
| Headquarters | Wedemark-Wennebostel, Germany |
| Key people | Fritz Sennheiser, founder Jörg Sennheiser, CEO |
| Industry | Audio electronics |
| Products | Audio electronics for consumer, professional, and business uses |
| Revenue | € 300 million (2006)[1] |
| Owner(s) | Jörg Sennheiser |
| Employees | 1,650 |
| Website | www.sennheiser.com |
Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG is a private German company that makes high end microphones, headphones, telephony accessories, and avionics headsets for consumer, professional, and business applications.
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[edit] Company
Sennheiser is privately owned by the Sennheiser family. It has 1,650 employees, 60% of them working in Germany. Major subsidiaries of the company are Georg Neumann GmbH, 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 Holding Group, to develop and produce telecommunications products. In 2006, revenues of Sennheiser totaled € 300 million [2].
[edit] Products
- Headphones
- Microphones
- Aviation headsets
- Multimedia headsets
- Business headsets
- Conference and Information Systems
- Electronic sound-based components
- Speakers
[edit] Background
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 Palo Alto, California. Sennheiser has sales branches in France, the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, India, Singapore, Canada, Mexico and the USA.
[edit] History
The company was founded in 1945, just a few weeks after World War II, by Fritz Sennheiser and seven fellow engineers of the University of Hannover in a laboratory called Laboratorium Wennebostel. The laboratory was named after the village of Wennebostel, where it had been moved 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.[3] The company began producing modern wireless microphones in 1982. Also in 1982, founder Fritz Sennheiser handed the management of the company over to his son, Jörg Sennheiser.
[edit] References
- ^ Sennheiser-Annual Report 2005
- ^ Sennheiser-Annual Report 2005
- ^ "Sennheiser's success". http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/1999/11/15/58408/sennheisers-success.html.
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Sennheiser |
- Official Sennheiser Links
- Sennheiser UK (English UK)
- Sennheiser USA (English USA)
- Sennheiser Worldwide (English )
- Sennheiser Reviews & News
