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The history of the company began in 1930 with the establishment of a store named Fuerth, Grundig & Wurzer (RVF), which sold radios. After World War II Max Grundig recognized the need in Germany for radios and in 1947 produced a kit, while construction of a factory and administration centre was in progress at Fürth . In 1951 the first televisions were manufactured in the new facility with the company and the surrounding area growing rapidly. At the time Grundig was the largest radio manufacturer in Europe. Divisions in Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Karlsruhe were set up. In 1960 tape recorders were manufactured in Ireland , the first outside Germany. In 1972 , Grundig GmbH became Grundig AG . After this Philips began to gradually accumulate Share s in the company over the course of many years until assuming complete control in 1993 , but resold several years later. Philips, in turn sold it to a Bavaria n consortium in 1998 due to unsatisfactory performance. At the end of June 2000 the company relocated its Headquarters in Fürth and Nuremberg , and Grundig took a loss of €1.281 million the following year. In the Autumn of 2002 , the Grundig's banks did not extend the company's lines of Credit , leaving the company with an April 2003 deadline to announce Insolvency . Grundig AG declared Bankruptcy in 2003 , selling its satellite equipment division to Thomson . In 2004 , England's Alba Plc and Turkey's Beko Elektronik A.S. jointly Took Over Grundig Home InterMedia System (HIS), Grundig's consumer electronics division. Currently, the Alba/Beko consortium retain control of Grundig, although in the United States , products marketed under the Grundig Brand are manufactured by the Eton Corporation (formerly Lextronix), based in Palo Alto, California . Vitelcom of Spain are also licensed to manufacture mobile telephones using the Grundig Mobile brand. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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