Talk:Barco (manufacturer)

I worked for Purup-Eskofot UK in 2000 / 2001. They were a Danish company, not Belgian. --unsigned by 86.8.83.25 2010-01-31T01:29:58‎

Thanks for the hint. I have correct it. It's a pity that it took more than five years for someone to fix it.

--Matthiaspaul (talk) 00:50, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

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I'm currently working for Barco. As the company has changed significantly over the years, there are numerous changes that are relevant. To respect the Wikipedia guidelines, rather than edit the page directly, I would like to suggest that editors first consider the changes below and incorporate them when relevant.

I have built on the existing text. I am also researching links for some of the items listed on the main page as well as the various acquisitions and divestments that have taken place since the article was last edited.

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Barco NV is a technology company that develops visualization and collaboration solutions to help professionals work together, share information, and project images in cinemas and elsewhere.

Its focus is on three core markets: Enterprise (from meeting and control rooms to corporate spaces), Healthcare (from radiology departments to the operating room), and Entertainment (projectors for movie theaters, live events and attractions). In 2017, the company realized sales of 1,085 billion euro. It has a team of 3,600 employees located in 90 countries. The company has some 400 granted patents.

Barco is headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, and has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.

The company has been named Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute for several years in a row.

Active markets • Entertainment: projection in cinemas, venues and hospitality • Enterprise: sharing solutions for office environments, control and meeting rooms • Healthcare: diagnostic, surgical and clinical imaging

Name

Barco is an acronym that originally stood for Belgian American Radio Corporation.

History

Founded by Lucien De Puydt in the Belgian town of Kortrijk in 1934, Barco was originally set up as the “Belgian-American Radio Company” to manufacture a brand of radios.

In 1949, Barco started developing a multi-standard television that accepted different signal standards, becoming a leader in that field. A jukebox called Barc-O-Matic was sold from 1951. In 1967, it was one of the first European companies to introduce color TV. Building on this, it then entered the professional broadcast market in the late ‘60s, supplying TV monitors to broadcasters.

From the ‘60s onwards, Barco branched out into numerous other activities, which included mechanical components for industrial use, and quality control monitoring for the textile and plastics industries. In 1967, Barco became the first European manufacturer to produce transistor-based portable televisions. Several Barco TVs were sold worldwide.

Barco first entered projection technology in 1979 when it pioneered the development of cathode ray tube (CRT) projection aboard airplanes. Over the following years, it gradually focused solely on professional markets.

In the mid ‘80s, Barco became a main projection technology supplier for computer giants IBM, Apple and Hewlett-Packard. In the late ‘80s, it entered the Brussels stock market. By 1991, Barco’s market share in the graphics projection market alone reached 75%, and the company had established offices spanning the world, including regional headquarters in the United States and East-Asia.

Through the ‘90s and the first decade of the new millennium, Barco developed and marketed new display technologies such as liquid crystal display (LCD), light-emitting diodes (LED), Texas Instruments’ Digital Light Processing (DLP), and later, liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS). It now covers markets that include media and entertainment, security and monitoring, medical imaging, avionics, 3D and virtual reality, digital cinema, traffic control, broadcast and training and simulation.

In 2018, Barco entered into a joint venture with China Film Group Corporation (“CFG”), Appotronics and CITICPE to commercialize each company’s products and services for the global cinema market excluding mainland China. In Barco's case, this involved the company's cinema projectors.

Miclewk (talk) 10:06, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

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