Harman International Industries

Harman International Industries is an American organization that outlines and architects associated items for automakers, shoppers and ventures around the world, including associated auto frameworks; sound and visual items, endeavor computerization; and associated services.Sidney Harman and Bernard Kardon established the forerunner to Harman International, Harman Kardon, in 1953. Both Harman and Kardon were architects via preparing and had worked at the Bogen Company, which was then the top maker of open location frameworks. Their joint effort made another industry: high-loyalty sound.Harman purchased out his accomplice in 1956 and after that extended Harman Kardon into a sound powerhouse, as per a life story composed by the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame. At the point when Harman took office in 1976, he sold his organization to aggregate Beatrice Foods to keep away from an irreconcilable circumstance. Beatrice expeditiously sold numerous segments of the organization, including the first Harman Kardon division, and by 1980 just 60% of the first organization remained.After he cleared out government in 1978, he made Harman International Industries and reacquired various organizations he sold to Beatrice. The organization proceeded with its development arrangement with a series of acquisitions all through the 1980s that pushed Harman International's deals from about $80 million in 1981 to more than $200 million by 1986. Harman International opened up to the world in 1986 about a stock offering on the New York Stock Exchange. Money from that deal was utilized to, among numerous different buys, purchase Soundcraft, a U.K. maker of expert blending sheets, in 1988 and later - Salt Lake City advanced gadgets maker DOD Electronics Corp.

By 1990, Harman International was offering buyer sound apparatus under such brands as JBL, Harman Kardon, Infinity and Epicure amplifiers, and additionally proficient sound frameworks with so much brands as JBL Professional, UREI, Soundcraft, Allen and Heath, dbx Studer, DOD, Lexicon, AKG, BSS, Orban, DBX, Quested and Turbosound (the last one now under the control of Music Group .Harman extended to incorporate lighting in 2013 with the procurement of Martin Professional. In June, 2014, Harman finished the procurement of AMX LLC, from The Duchossois Group, bringing endeavor control and robotization frameworks and in addition sound/video changing and dispersing to Harman's offerings. In 2015, perceiving the expanding part of programming and administrations in the business sectors it served, HARMAN extended its abilities around cloud, versatility and investigation with the acquisitions of Symphony Teleca, a product administrations organization situated in Mountain View, CA, and Redbend, an Israeli-based supplier of programming administration innovation for associated gadgets, and over-the-air (OTA) programming and firmware redesigning administrations. With these increases, Harman reported the arrangement of a fourth division, which they called Connected Services.