E. Gluck Corporation

E. Gluck Corporation
Private
Industry Watch manufacturing
Founded 1956
Founder Eugen Gluck
Headquarters Little Neck, NY,
New York City, New York, U.S.
Area served
 U.S.
Owner Eugen Gluck
Divisions Armitron
Website Armitron

E. Gluck Corporation, founded in 1956 by its current President, Eugen Gluck, is an American watch manufacturer headquartered in Long Island City, New York.[1][2] E. Gluck Corporation manufactures watches under two flagship brand names, Armitron and Anne Klein. As of 1999, Armitron had the fifth largest share of all watch purchasers, by brand, in the United States.[3] As of 2005, Armitron ranks as one of the top ten fine and fashion watch brands in the US, along with Timex, Fossil, Seiko, Citizen, Casio, Guess, Bulova, Movado, and Pulsar.[4]

Divisions

Armitron

Main article: Armitron

Armitron is a medium-price watch manufacturing company which manufactures and retails watches in U.S. only.

Brands

Major categories

Digital watches

Armitron started making digital watches in the 1970s with LED displays. The LED displays consumed so much battery life that, in 1977, the company stopped production.[9] Armitron subsequently began manufacturing their digital watches with LCD displays,[1] which eventually became the industry standard.

Automatic movements

In 2007, Armitron began manufacturing automatic watches.[10][11]

Notable marketing efforts

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Barmash, Isadore (November 17, 1991). "All About/Watches; Fighting the Recession By Spotting Some Fads And Inventing Others". New York Times. pp. A5.
  2. ↑ Shuster, William George (March 2007). "Is the Wristwatch Past Its Time?". JCK (Seacaucus, NJ) 178 (3): 84.
  3. ↑ David W. Conklin, ed. (2006). Cases in the Environment of Business. Ivey Casebook Series. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, Inc. p. 63. ISBN 1-4129-1436-1.
  4. ↑ Primeau, Marty (Nov 7, 2006). "Is time ticking for watches?". Knight Ridder Tribune Business News. p. 1.
  5. ↑ Critchell, Samantha (December 18, 2008). "The hands of time moving on two tracks for '09". Associated Press. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Karimzadeh, Marc (August 9, 2004). "JLO BY JENNIFER LOPEZ ADDS FOOTWEAR, WATCHES". WWD (New York) 188 (28): 11.
  7. ↑ Tell, Caroline (March 31, 2008). "Lucky Brand Expanding Into Watches". WWD. Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  8. ↑ "Sprout Watches". Retrieved August 16, 2011.
  9. ↑ Barrett, M. Edgar (June 2000). "Time marches on: The worldwide watch industry". Thunderbird International Business Review (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Periodicals Inc) 42 (3): 349. doi:10.1002/1520-6874(200005/06)42:3<349::AID-TIE5>3.0.CO;2-M.
  10. ↑ Fenton, Lois (December 2, 2007). "MALE CALL : Get wound up: Perpetual watches are good choice". Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Retrieved 2008-11-09.
  11. ↑ Wright, Jason Ashley (June 3, 2008). "Wound up: Watches are still a must-have fashion accessory". McClatchy - Tribune Business News.
  12. ↑ Mike Vaccaro (2006). Emperors and Idiots. New York: Random House, Inc. p. 1. ISBN 0-7679-1910-6.
  13. ↑ Vaccaro, Mike (April 20, 2007). "SKY MIGHT NOT EVEN BE THE LIMIT ANYMORE". New York Post. Retrieved 2008-11-16.