Jump to content

Simrad Yachting: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit
Convert to redirect
Tags: New redirect Visual edit
 
(3 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
#REDIRECT [[Navico]]{{R category shell|{{R from related topic}}
{{Infobox company
{{R from merge}}}}
| name = Simrad Yachting
| logo = Simrad Yachting logo.svg
| logo_size = 200px
| type = [[Privately held company|Privately Held]]<br/>Owned by [[Navico]]
| foundation = [[Oslo]], [[Norway]] ({{Start date|1947}})
| key_people = Knut Frostad, President & CEO<ref>{{cite web| title = Navico Appoints New President & CEO| url = http://www.navico.com/viewPress.php?id=5| accessdate = 2007-09-23| url-status=dead| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070728201917/http://www.navico.com/viewPress.php?id=5| archivedate = 2007-07-28| df = }}</ref>
| area_served = Global
| industry = [[Marine Electronics]]
| products = NSO evo2, NSS evo2, IS40 Instrument, SonicHub, ForwardScan Sonar, SonarHub, 4G Broadband Radar
| homepage = [http://www.simrad-yachting.com www.simrad-yachting.com]
| footnotes =
}}

'''Simrad Yachting''' is a manufacturer of marine electronics for the leisure and professional markets. A member of the [[Navico]] family of brands, Simrad Yachting develops, manufactures and distributes [[navigation]] systems, [[autopilot]]s, [[marine VHF radio]]s, [[chartplotter]]s, [[echosounder]]s, [[Navigation radar|radars]], [[fishfinder]]s and a wide range of other marine technology.

== History ==

The Simrad name has been in existence for over sixty years. The brand was established in 1947 by [[Willy Christian Simonsen]], who set up his own wireless company called '''Sim'''onsen '''Rad'''io. Initially he focused on the production of radio communications for fishing vessels but a few years later coined the name Simrad to encompass a wider range of activities – namely the design and manufacture of navigation, communication, auto-steering and fish-finding technologies.

In 1996 the Simrad Group was purchased by the [[Kongsberg Gruppen|Kongsberg Group]] which, following a decision to focus on the industrial market, sold on the Simrad recreational product range to [[Altor Equity Partners]] in 2005, creating Simrad Yachting. Simrad Group and Simrad Yachting are therefore now entirely independent of each other, with separate owners and distinct product specialisations. It was the merger of Simrad Yachting and [[Lowrance]] Inc in 2006 that went on to create the [[Navico]] Group, now the largest leisure marine electronics manufacturer in the world.

== Product range ==

Simrad Yachting produces a range of navigation instruments designed to withstand challenging conditions and provide navigation solutions for both leisure boaters (via the Simrad Yachting range) and coastal mariners (via the Simrad Professional range). In 2008 the company absorbed MX Marine – acquired as a result of the takeover by Navico of the marine electronics division of Brunswick New Technologies Inc in 2007 – into its Simrad Professional line-up, further extending its position in the commercial [[GPS]] and [[DGPS]] sector.

== See also ==
* [[Navico]], parent company of Simrad
* [[B&G]], another subsidiary of Navico, which focuses on the sailing market
* [[Lowrance Electronics]], another subsidiary of Navico

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.simrad-yachting.com/ Simrad Yachtings official website]
* [https://www.navico-commercial.com/ Simrad Commercial official website]

[[Category:Marine electronics]]
[[Category:Norwegian brands]]

Latest revision as of 21:46, 21 February 2024

Redirect to: