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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.
Yelp Inc. is an American company that develops the Yelp.com website and the Yelp mobile app, which publishes crowd-sourced reviews about businesses. It also operates Yelp Guest Manager, a table reservation service.
The Philips Plaza is a high-rise office building in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, which was renamed from the Bank of America Plaza in 2018. Philips Plaza is the 20th tallest building in Nashville, with 20 stories and a height of 291 ft (89 m).
[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.
Philips continued to improve and enlarge the tube plant in New York, but also used the Amperex name to distribute their new line of Dutch-made miniature tubes, (12AX7, 12AU7, 12AT7) to feed the booming U.S. hi-fi market. Classic hi-fi brands such as Marantz, Fisher, and H. H. Scott, Inc., used these tubes.
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After Philips Consumer Electronics acquired companies as Magnavox and Sylvania in the late-1970s, Philips managed to sell their 100-millionth TV-set in 1984. Throughout the 1990s, increasing competition from East Asian manufacturers (initially Japanese, then Korean and Chinese) led to a general erosion in market share, particularly in ...
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.