Kenwood is a Japanese enterprise of the maintenance and communication electronics industry.

Products

Kenwood develops and produces among other things:

• Entertainment electronics (car radio, HiFi devices, Home Entertainment, navigation etc.)
• Communication electronics (radios - also amateur radio devices)

Firm history

After that 2. World war became Kenwood 1946 as a radio manufacturer, originally as Kasuga radio CO. Ltd. in Komagane town center of Jiro Kasuga based and 1950 in Kasuga radio Industry corporation umfirmiert.

1955 were established in Tokyo a work to the mass production and renamed 1960 the company in Trio corporation.

1961 were taken up the enterprise at the stock exchange to Tokyo and with an address in the USA in the year 1963 in Los Angeles began the expansion and world-wide marketing. To 14. May 1968 opening of the European address in Belgium.

1972 leave the firm founder Jiro Kasuga the enterprise and create a new company with name Kensonic.

Starting from 1980 the enterprise in production and marketing of radio and tape decks for motor vehicles "Car audio" specialized.

1986 again a Umfirmierung takes place in Kenwood corporation and the manufacturing from mobile CD-Playern.

Starting from 1992 also navigation systems for motor vehicles ranked among the product range, which constantly extended and also integrated portable radio systems (PHP personnel mobile phone phone system).

1997 conception of the receiver for the digital terrestrial radio transmission standard DAB system in motor vehicles.

Later took place the integration from non removable disk and DVD navigation systems, Smartphones as well as the digitization of the operating radio after the APCO 25 - and TETRA standards.

Data

• Coworker: 3,000 coworkers
• Net turnover: 1,83 billion euro (conditions: 2002)
• President and CEO: Haruo Kawahara

Not to confounding also

Kenwood Appliances is a British houseware manufacturer and belonged today (conditions 2006) to the De'Longhi group. Kenwood markets world-wide among other things mixers, egg digesters and kitchen machines.

The Logo of Kenwood Appliances has stilisierts a K as brand name, while the Kenwood uses corporation a representative w.

Apart from the common name the two enterprises are not related with one another.

Related links

• http://www.kenwood.de/

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