Barco NV
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| Type | Public company |
| Founded | 1934 |
| Headquarters | Kortrijk, Belgium |
| Key people | Martin De Prycker, CEO Dirk De Man, CFO |
| Industry | Display technology |
| Products | CRT, LCD, DLP and LCoS projectors, LED and Flat panel displays |
| Revenue | € 747 million (2007) |
| Employees | 3,800 (2006) |
| Website | www.barco.com |
Barco N.V. (Euronext: BAR) is a display hardware manufacturer specialising in CRT projectors, LCD projectors, DLP projectors, LCoS projectors, LED displays, display walls and flat panel displays.
Barco is headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, and has facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. Worldwide, Barco employs more than 3600 people and realized sales of 747 million euro in 2007.
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[edit] Active markets
Barco offers display and visualization solutions for professional markets. The company designs and develops solutions for large screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection. Currently Barco is active in the markets of traffic, surveillance, broadcasting, presentation, simulation and virtual reality, edutainment, events, media, digital cinema, air traffic control, defense & security, medical imaging, avionics, and textiles.
[edit] History
Barco is an acronym that originally stood for Belgian American Radio COrporation.
[edit] Acquisitions
- Barco Graphics was the graphics division of the Belgian Barco Group. It was the result of the 1989 merger of Digitised Information Systems Corporation (D.I.S.C.), Aesthedes and Barco's own "Creative Group".
- In 2004 Barco acquired Voxar, a leading 3D medical imaging software company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The same year, it also acquired Folsom Research, Inc, based in Rancho Cordova, California. Folsom's product lines cover solutions for image processing, image communication and image functionality & interactivity.
[edit] Divestments
- In the early 2000s Barco Graphics was acquired by Danish Purup-Eskofot, and renamed Esko-Graphics, which was again renamed Esko in 2006.
