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Harman Acquires Headphone Maker Yurbuds

June 18, 2014 by Ted 4 Comments

Yurbuds logoHarman International Industries, Inc. announced today that is has acquired St. Louis-based Yurbuds, LLC., a manufacturer of headphones. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition seems surprising, given the fact that Harman already owns brands such as JBL and AKG that already offer headphones.

Why would a company that already offers headphones, acquire a headphone company? See more… [Read more…] about Harman Acquires Headphone Maker Yurbuds

Filed Under: Brands, Financial, Management, Manufacturers, News, Pivot Point, Strategy, Tech Trends Tagged With: AKG, Harman, JBL, Yurbuds

New THIEL CEO Tells Us THIEL’s the Real Deal

December 6, 2012 by Ted Leave a Comment

Photo of Thiel Factory“It’s really not that fancy,” new Thiel CEO Bill Thomas told us with a chuckle and a noticeable Southern drawl when we asked about his private equity company that was mentioned in a Thiel press release announcing its acquisition last week. [See our post on the acquisition here…] In a telephone interview with strata-GEE.com earlier this week, the 55-year old Thomas said it was simply he and two friends that came together to purchase Thiel Audio Products Company – not some high-powered M&A company.

This was just one of several surprises the CEO shared with us about the acquisition… [Read more…] about New THIEL CEO Tells Us THIEL’s the Real Deal

Filed Under: Manufacturers, News, Pivot Point, Specialty, Strategy Tagged With: Bill Thomas, Brad Paulsen, Dawn Cloyd, JBL, Kathy Gornik, Pioneer, Thiel

AudioXperts Korners the Market

September 19, 2012 by Ted Leave a Comment

Photo of AudioXperts President Eli Harary Showing KornersThe recent CEDIA Expo was, as usual, dominated by hundreds of companies engaged in a seemingly endless and often mindless rash of line extensions – effectively burying us in a sea of products of uninspiring incrementalism. This year, however, thanks to the diligent effort of many of strata-GEE.com’s and ALERT’s  readers and followers that we saw at the show – we were often pointed us in direction of some hidden gems. Thanks to you, we were successful in uncovering wisps of innovation from a few new or reincarnated companies.

One such interesting start-up, whose launch we recently reported on here, with a follow-up story here, is AudioXperts. At Expo, AudioXperts showed us an interesting new product concept they call Korners.

And Korners may just represent the first successful attempt to bring peace in our industry’s biggest and bloodiest war… [Read more…] about AudioXperts Korners the Market

Filed Under: Associations, Industry Trends, Manufacturers, Marketing, News, Shows & Events, Specialty, Strategy Tagged With: AudioXperts, Boston Acoustics, CEDIA Expo, Eli Harary, Infinity, JBL, Klipsch, Klipschorns, Korners, subwoofer

Eli Harary, Ex-D&M, Launches AudioXperts

July 17, 2012 by Ted 2 Comments

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Well-known industry personality Eli Harary, formerly with D&M’s Boston Acoustics division (which he left in June 2011), announced today that he is forming a new company called AudioXperts. AudioXperts will offer a “collection of unique designer/consumer-friendly high performance audio solutions.” Harary, the new company’s President, has assembled a team of…presumably…audio experts, to assist him in this endeavor.

Joining Harary at AudioXperts…

[Read more…] about Eli Harary, Ex-D&M, Launches AudioXperts

Filed Under: Brands, News, Pivot Point, Specialty, Strategy, Tech Trends Tagged With: AudioXperts, Boston Acoustics, D&M Holdings, Eli Harary, Harman, Infinity, JBL, Jeff Litcofsky, John Fischbach, Marion "Chick" George, Mark Nazar

New York’s Huge ‘Alliance Expo’ Dealer Show is Next Week

May 16, 2012 by Ted Leave a Comment

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<May 16, 2012> New York manufacturers representative firm Audio Associates tells me that they are ready-to-go for their huge dealer show called “Alliance Expo 2012 – Partnering for a Stronger Tomorrow” scheduled for next week and originally announced in the ALERT last month. Launching this coming Tuesday, May 22nd and wrapping up Wednesday, the company says they are pulling out all of the stops for another mega-event, taking place this year at the Hilton Doubletree Hotel in Newark, NJ. [Read more…] about New York’s Huge ‘Alliance Expo’ Dealer Show is Next Week

Filed Under: Brands, Industry Trends, Retailers, Shows & Events, Specialty, Strategy Tagged With: Audio Associates, Boston Acoustics, Denon, Elan, JBL, Marantz, Mike Lefkowits, Monster, Niles, Xantech

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