Focal and Focal Professional are registered trademarks of Focal-JMlab French company, a manufacturer of consumer

Consumer

Consumer is a broad label for any individuals or households that use goods generated within the economy. The concept of a consumer occurs in different contexts, so that the usage and significance of the term may vary.-Economics and marketing:...

 and professional

Professional

A professional is a person who is paid to undertake a specialised set of tasks and to complete them for a fee. The traditional professions were doctors, lawyers, clergymen, and commissioned military officers. Today, the term is applied to estate agents, surveyors , environmental scientists,...

 audio

Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...

 products. Company was founded at the end of 1979 year in Saint-Etienne

Saint-Étienne

Saint-Étienne is a city in eastern central France. It is located in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon in the Rhône-Alpes region, along the trunk road that connects Toulouse with Lyon...

, France

France

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 by audio engineer Jacques Mahul, and JMLab stands for Jacques Mahul's Laboratory. Initially the product range was consisting of JMLab home audio

Home audio

Home audio, essentially, refers to any audio electronics intended for home use, such as shelf stereos and surround sound receivers, which are becoming the most popular piece of home audio equipment...

 loudspeaker

Loudspeaker

A loudspeaker is an electroacoustic transducer that produces sound in response to an electrical audio signal input. Non-electrical loudspeakers were developed as accessories to telephone systems, but electronic amplification by vacuum tube made loudspeakers more generally useful...

 and Focal raw drivers.

Now Focal-JMlab design, manufacture and distribute audio products in three main directions:

• Home audio
  Home audio
  Home audio, essentially, refers to any audio electronics intended for home use, such as shelf stereos and surround sound receivers, which are becoming the most popular piece of home audio equipment...
  
   products branded as Focal (former brand name was JMLab) consists of loudspeakers for two- or multichannel sound reproduction, including active stylish compact and Apple iPod/iPhone oriented systems

• Mobile audio products branded as Focal consists of speakers, subwoofer
  Subwoofer
  A subwoofer is a woofer, or a complete loudspeaker, which is dedicated to the reproduction of low-pitched audio frequencies known as the "bass". The typical frequency range for a subwoofer is about 20–200 Hz for consumer products, below 100 Hz for professional live sound, and below...
  
  s and amplifiers

• Professional audio
  Professional audio
  Professional audio, also 'pro audio', refers to both an activity and a type of audio equipment. Typically it encompasses the production or reproduction of sound for an audience, by individuals who do such work as an occupation like live event support, using sound reinforcement systems designed for...
  
   products branded as Focal Professional consists of active monitors and subwoofers for sound recording studio
  Recording studio
  A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician to achieve optimum acoustic properties...
  
   and home studio

The raw driver manufacturing still remain, but has very little part of current company's business.

Focal-JMLab is biggest loudspeaker manufacturer in France, in the top three in Europe and in the worldwide top ten in that category. Global presence of Focal-JMLab products covers 80 countries.

Main office with administration, warehouse&logistics, R&D department, driver unit and loudspeaker production facilities placed at Saint-Etienne

Saint-Étienne

Saint-Étienne is a city in eastern central France. It is located in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon in the Rhône-Alpes region, along the trunk road that connects Toulouse with Lyon...

, France

France

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. Also company has speaker cabinet production facilities at Bourbon-Lancy

Bourbon-Lancy

Bourbon-Lancy is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.It is a rural town on the Loire River with a walled medieval area on the dominant hill...

 and Pau, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...