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Marantz is a company that develops and sells high-end audio products. [2] ... During the 1980s, while owned by Philips, [4] [5] a pioneer in compact disc technology ...
D+M Group, formerly known as DMGlobal and D&M Holdings, is a Japanese corporation that owned several audio and video brands. It was formed in 2002 from the merger of Denon and Marantz. [1] [2] It had acquired several other companies since that time. Prior to 2008, it was owned by RHJ International, which is associated with Ripplewood Holdings.
In April 2014, inMusic acquired Denon DJ, Denon Professional and Marantz Professional from D&M Holdings, who retained the non-professional consumer divisions of those brands. [16] In August 2015, the company launched a new brand of lighting products, MARQ. [17] In July 2016, inMusic acquired Rane Corporation. [18]
In August 2016, Kevin Duffy was named the company's CEO, replacing retiring CEO Jim Minarik. [7] In March 2017, the Sound United audio division acquired YS consumer electronics company D+M Group, whose brands included Denon, HEOS by Denon, Marantz and Boston Acoustics. At the time, D+M was the world's largest supplier of audio/video receivers. [8]
Denon (株式会社デノン, Kabushiki Gaisha Denon) is a Japanese electronics company dealing with audio equipment. The Denon brand came from a merger of Denki Onkyo (not to be confused with the other Onkyo) and others in 1939, but it originally started as Nippon Chikuonki Shoukai in 1910 by Frederick Whitney Horn, an American entrepreneur.
In 1980, Philips acquired Marantz, a company renowned for high-end audio and video products, based at Kanagawa, Japan. In 2002, Marantz Japan merged with Denon to form D&M Holdings and Philips sold its remaining stake in D&M Holdings in 2008. Origin, now part of Atos Origin, is a former division of Philips.
Onkyo was founded by Takeshi Goda in 1946 while he worked in sound at Matsushita Electric. [3] It was renamed Osaka Onkyo in 1947. The company name changed from Osaka Onkyo K.K. to Onkyo Corporation in 1971.
McIntosh Laboratory is an American manufacturer of handcrafted high-end [1] [2] [3] audio equipment headquartered in Binghamton, New York. [4] [5] It is a subsidiary of McIntosh Group, which in November 2024 was acquired by Bose Corporation, a fellow American audio company..