Curtis Mathes Corporation
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Curtis Mathes was a North American electronics retailer based in Garland, Texas specializing in the sale of private label brand electronics and repair services.
The company once sold equipment sourced from Matsushita, Pioneer, Thomson, Samsung, and other manufacturers. The brand also appeared briefly in the late 1990s to early 2000s as an in-house brand for Kmart Corporation.
On June 2, 1983, the chairman, Curtis Mathes, Jr., 54, died in the Air Canada Flight 797 fire that started in a rear lavatory. While a definitive cause was never established, the NTSB suspected a cigarette as the cause of the fire. As a result of the incident, the FAA increased safety requirements for lavatories.
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