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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | [[Audio electronics [Education]]] |
| Founded | 1946 (as the educational products division of Robert Metzner’s Roberts Electronics) |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, USA |
Key people | Robert Metzner, founder, CEO |
| Products | Audio Visual electronics for educational and business uses |
| Owner | School Specialty |
| Website | www.califone.com |
Califone International, Inc (branded Califone) is a private USA audio visual company specializing in the design and production of a wide range of both educational and business products, including headsets, headphones, computer accessories,Learning Centers, Media Players, Portable PA fear, Installed PA systems, DVD Players,Student Response Systems,Document Cameras, Overhead Projectors, Card Readersfor educational facilities and business applications.
Company[edit]
Founded as Labor W and family-owned since 1945, Sennheiser has 2,100 employees,[1] 60% of them working in Germany.[2] 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.[3]
History[edit]
The company was founded in 1946, 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.
Locations[edit]
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.
Products[edit]
- Headphones
- Microphones
- Aviation headsets
- Multimedia headsets
- Business headsets
- Micro-Hifi Systems
- Surround Sound Amplifiers
- Conference and Information Systems
- Electronic sound-based components
- Speakers
- Amplifiers
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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reportwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Fritz Sennheiser gestorben", Heise Online, May 19, 2010 (in German).
- ^ "Sennheiser's success".
External links[edit]
- Sennheiser Worldwide (English)
Category:Audio equipment manufacturers Category:Headphones manufacturers Category:Microphone manufacturers Category:Companies established in 1945 Category:German brands Category:Companies based in Hanover