Consumer Electronics

Logitech Corporate Office

Logitech was founded in Switzerland by Stanford graduates Daniel Borel and Pierluigi Zappacosta, along with former Olivetti engineer Giacomo Marini.

Logitech is a Swiss American manufacturer of hardware and peripherals for computers, tablets, and cell phones.

The company name is derived from the French word Logiciel, which means software.

Logitech develops and markets personal peripherals for PC navigation, video communication and collaboration, music, and smart homes, including keyboards, mice, tablet accessories, headphones and headsets, webcams, universal remotes, Bluetooth speakers, and much more.

In April 2016, the company agreed to pay the SEC $7.5 million in penalties for accounting violations.

Logitech acquires many other companies as a means of expansion.

In 2016, Logitech acquired JayBird, a manufacturer of wireless headphones, for $50 million.

In 2018, the company acquired Blue Microphones for $117 million.

In 2019, Logitech acquired StreamLabs for $89 million.

In August 2022, Logitech began closing down operations in Russia citing ongoing environmental concerns and due to the war, Russia is engaged in against Ukraine.

Logitech maintains a corporate office in the US in Newark, California.

Epson Electronics Corporate Office

Epson can trace its roots back to a Japanese clockmaker, Hisao Yamazaki, when he began to make clock parts in 1942 for the company that would one day become Seiko.

Seiko Epson Corporation, known more commonly as Epson, is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of computer parts, printers, and imagining-related equipment.

The company has a great number of subsidiaries around the world that manufacture printers, printer cartridges, and ink, scanners, computers, home theater equipment, robots, industrial automation, cash registers, and more.

Epson is one of three core companies of the Seiko Group, a name traditionally known for manufacturing timepieces since its founding.

Since 2016, Epson has been producing Smart Glasses, with the most popular model used in combination with drones.

The robotic market is in particularly high demand at this time and is expected to grow substantially within the next 5 years.

Smart Glasses are also expected to see substantial growth through 2025.

In November 2021, Epson signed with Gibson Engineering to be an official distributor of Epson Robots automation solutions.

Epson maintains a corporate office in North America in Los Alamitos, California.

JemJem Corporate Office

JemJem was founded in 2014 by current CEO Jay Kim. Originally operating only through Amazon, the company began by offering self-manufactured Android-based tablets. After trying out Apple iPhones and tablets, Kim decided to begin refurbishing iPads for resale.

In 2017, the company collaborated with Walmart to sell their refurbished products through Walmart’s platform. All orders are handled through JemJem, including support, returns, and exchanges.

In 2018, the company received certified status for selling their refurbished Apple products on Amazon.

JemJem uses FedEx for delivery worldwide and offers ApplePay as its optimal transaction notification platform.

JemJem is the 3rd largest retailer of refurbished Apple products, according to the Huffington Post. In February 2018, the retailer announced that they would add Samsung refurbished phones to their product lineup with a 90-day warranty on Samsung phones.

The company also operates iPelican.Com, which buys used cell phones and tablets from consumers.

Headquarters are located in Newport Beach, California.

Huawei Corporate Office

Huawei, which roughly translated means “a splendid act”, was founded by Ren Zhengfei, a former deputy director of the People’s Liberation Army, in 1987 in Shenzhen, China. Rather than rely on joint ventures to secure technology transfers from foreign companies, which were often reluctant to transfer their most advanced technologies to Chinese firms, Ren looked to reverse engineer foreign technologies with local researchers. At a time when all of China’s telecommunications technology was imported, Ren hoped to build a domestic Chinese telecommunication company that could compete with, and perhaps one day even replace, foreign competitors.

Huawei is multinational telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics manufacturer. The company offers its products and services in more than 170 countries, and it serves at least 45 of the 50 largest telecom operators. Huawei has over 1,500 networks, reaching one-third of the world’s population. Huawei overtook Ericcson in 2012 as the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world and in 2018, overtook tech giant Apple as the second-largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world, just behind Samsung.

In December 2018, Huawei reported that its annual revenue had risen to $108.5 billion in 2018 (a 21% increase over 2017), surpassing $100 billion for the first time in company history.

Officials and politicians within the U.S. federal government have raised concerns that Huawei-made telecommunications equipment may be designed to allow unauthorised access by the Chinese government and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army since founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei, served as an engineer in the army in the early 1980s. In a 2011 open letter, Huawei stated that the security concerns are “unfounded and unproven” and called on the U.S. government to investigate any aspect of its business.

Several major U.S. wireless carriers, as well as consumer electronics giant Best Buy, began to drop Huawei’s products in early-2018, prompting Huawei to pull out of the market entirely. The company has argued that its products posed “no greater cybersecurity risk” than those of any other vendor and that there is no evidence of the U.S. spying claim.

Huawei classifies itself as a “collective” and does not refer to itself as a private company. The U.S. headquarters for Huawei are located in Plano, Texas.

Nintendo Corporate Office

Nintendo’s beginnings started off very differently from the company we know today. Back in 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi opened a playing card company he called Nintendo Playing Card Company. The handmade cards were so popular that they were soon being sold around the globe. The company does still produce playing cards, but they are sold only in Japan. The word Nintendo is roughly translated to “leave luck to heaven.”

In 1963, the company renamed themselves to just “Nintendo.” The company tried many other business ventures in the US in the 1960’s, everything from taxis to motels, instant rice to television networks, but none of them were successful.

After partnering with a toy and game company in the early 1970’s, business began to turn around. They created a light-activated shooting style arcade game that became very popular and the company’s direction took an entirely new turn.

The company’s first video game was made in 1977. In 1985, the company created what would become one of the most famous video game consoles, the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, and video game in the world, Mario Brothers.

Today, Nintendo is one of the world’s largest video game companies, creating some of the best-known consoles and games in the world, including Mario Brothers, Pokemon, and The Legend of Zelda.

Nintendo is Japan’s 3rd most valuable company, with a market value of more than $85 billion. Headquarters are located in Kyoto, Japan, with the American corporate office located in Redmond, Washington.