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Gerard Philips (1858–1942), founder. The Philips Company was founded in 1891, by Dutch entrepreneur Gerard Philips and his father Frederik Philips. Frederik, a banker based in Zaltbommel, financed the purchase and setup of an empty factory building in Eindhoven, where the company started the production of carbon-filament lamps and other electro-technical products in 1892.
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXP for Next eXPerience) is a Dutch semiconductor manufacturing and design company with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands. [2] It is the third largest European semiconductor company by market capitalization as of 2024. [3]
Originally located at 79 Washington Street in Brooklyn, New York, Amperex was a long-established manufacturer of transmitting tubes when they were acquired by the Dutch firm, Philips, (known more widely as Norelco in the US), around 1955. Philips continued to improve and enlarge the tube plant in New York, but also used the Amperex name to ...
Respironics is an American medical supply company owned by Philips that specializes in products that improve respiratory functions. It is based in the Pittsburgh suburb of Murrysville in Pennsylvania, United States. Some of its products had hazardous foam that disintegrated and entered patients' bodies.
The "Continental Oil and Transportation Company" was founded by Isaac Elder Blake in November 1875. [9] [10] Based in Ogden, Utah, the company distributed the recently discovered mineral resources of petroleum / oil (first found in August 1859 by Edwin Drake (1819-1880), in a well drilled at Oil Creek, near Titusville, (Crawford County), in the far northwestern corner of Pennsylvania) and its ...
[8] [9] In the early 1950s, Philips started with the production of semiconductors in Nijmegen [10] and Hamburg, [9] where the Nexperia wafer fab is located. [11] In 1981, Philips opened a factory in Cabuyao, Philippines. The fab is owned and operated by Nexperia. [12] In 1991, Philips founded ITEC, a manufacturer of semiconductor equipment.
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Phillips Distilling Company LLC is an American beverage manufacturer and distributor based in Princeton, Minnesota.The company produces a variety of alcoholic drink products, including UV Vodka and Kamora liqueur.