SDI Technologies is the name of a consumer electronics

Consumer electronics

Consumer electronics are electronic equipment intended for everyday use, most often in entertainment, communications and office productivity. Radio broadcasting in the early 20th century brought the first major consumer product, the broadcast receiver...

 manufacturer whose products are marketed under several national brands, including Timex

Timex Group

Timex Group B.V., or Timex Group, is a Dutch holding company headquartered in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands, and the corporate parent of several watchmaking companies around the globe including Timex Group USA, Inc., TMX Philippines, Inc., and Timex Group India Ltd...

, Sylvania

Osram Sylvania

Osram Sylvania Inc. is the North American operation of lighting manufacturer Osram GmbH, which is owned by Siemens AG. It was established in January 1993, with the acquisition of GTE’s Sylvania lighting division by Osram GmbH....

, and iHome. They used to market under Soundesign

Soundesign

A defunct division of SDI Technologies. Soundesign marketed inexpensive home and portable electronics, but was originally known as RealTone. The Soundesign brand faded as SDI began selling its products under the Zenith brand in 1993. SDI's current offerings include small electronics of the iHome...

, a now defunct brand. They are affiliated with KIDdesigns, a manufacturer of child-oriented toys and games. SDI Technologies employed 110 in 2007, and has a distribution network that covers over 45 countries. Including Asia, SDI employs over 400 people.

History

SDI Technologies was founded in 1956. In that year, they introduced one of the first pocket cigarette lighter

Lighter

A lighter is a portable device used to generate a flame. It consists of a metal or plastic container filled with a flammable fluid or pressurized liquid gas, a means of ignition, and some provision for extinguishing the flame.- History :...

s and transistor radio

Transistor radio

A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver using transistor-based circuitry. Following their development in 1954 they became the most popular electronic communication device in history, with billions manufactured during the 1960s and 1970s...

s.

Timeline

• 1956: Founded
• 1961: Went public with stock listed on the American Stock Exchange
  American Stock Exchange
  NYSE Amex Equities, formerly known as the American Stock Exchange is an American stock exchange situated in New York. AMEX was a mutual organization, owned by its members. Until 1953, it was known as the New York Curb Exchange. On January 17, 2008, NYSE Euronext announced it would acquire the...
  
   (however, today it is a private company)
• 1970: Introduced the world’s first Stereo Rack System
• 1972: Introduced the world’s first cassette clock radio
• 1983: Introduced the world’s first telephone clock radio
• 1989: Introduced KIDdesigns division to market Playskool
  Playskool
  Playskool is an American company that produces educational toys and games for children. It is a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., and is headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.-History:...
  
   toys
• 1993: Signed license agreements with Timex
  Timex Group
  Timex Group B.V., or Timex Group, is a Dutch holding company headquartered in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands, and the corporate parent of several watchmaking companies around the globe including Timex Group USA, Inc., TMX Philippines, Inc., and Timex Group India Ltd...
  
   & Zenith
  Zenith Electronics
  Zenith Electronics Corporation is a brand of the South Korean company LG Electronics. The company was previously an American manufacturer of televisions and other consumer electronics, and was headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois. LG Electronics acquired a controlling share of Zenith in 1995...
  
   to market audio electronics.
• 2005: Introduced the world’s first iPod
  IPod
  iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle...
  
   Clock Radio.
• 2007: Signed license agreements with SanDisk
  SanDisk
  SanDisk Corporation is an American multinational corporation that designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a range of form factors using the flash memory, controller and firmware technologies. It was founded in 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra, non-volatile memory...
  
   and Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
   to market audio electronics for the Sansa
  SanDisk Sansa
  The SanDisk Sansa is a line of 2 to 16 gigabyte flash memory-based digital audio players and portable media players produced by SanDisk.- Sansa Fuze+:...
  
   and Zune
  Zune
  Zune is a digital media brand owned by Microsoft which includes a line of portable media players, a digital media player software for Windows machines, a music subscription service known as a 'Zune Music Pass', music and video streaming for the Xbox 360 via the Zune Software, music, TV and movie...
  
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