Barco N.V.

Type	Public company
Founded	1934
Headquarters	Kortrijk, Belgium
Key people	Erik Van Zele, CEO Dirk De Man, CFO
Industry	Display technology
Products	CRT, LCD, DLP and LCoS projectors, LED and Flat panel displays
Revenue	€ 747 million (2007)
Employees	3,800 (2006)
Website	www.barco.com

Barco N.V. (Euronext: BAR) is a display hardware manufacturer specialising in CRT projectors, LCD projectors, DLP projectors, LCoS projectors, LED displays, display walls, flat panel displays, automated luminaires, digital lighting and lighting controls.

Barco is headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, and has facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. Worldwide, Barco employs more than 3,600 people and realised sales of 747 million euros in 2007.

Contents 1 Active markets 2 History 2.1 Acquisitions 2.2 Divestments 3 External links

[edit] Active markets

Barco offers display and visualization solutions for professional markets. The company designs and develops solutions for large screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection. Currently Barco is active in the markets of traffic, surveillance, broadcasting, presentation, simulation and virtual reality, edutainment, events, media, digital cinema, air traffic control, defense & security, medical imaging, avionics, and textiles.

[edit] History

Barco is an acronym that originally stood for Belgian American Radio COrporation.

[edit] Acquisitions

• In 1997 Barco acquired EIS (Electronic Image Systems), a world leader in high brightness, high resolution calligraphic CRT projectors for the flight simulation market.
• Barco Graphics was the graphics division of the Belgian Barco Group. It was the result of the 1989 merger of Digitised Information Systems Corporation (D.I.S.C.), Aesthedes and Barco's own "Creative Group".

• In 2004 Barco acquired Voxar, a leading 3D medical imaging software company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The same year, it also acquired Folsom Research, Inc, based in Rancho Cordova, California. Folsom's product lines cover solutions for image processing, image communication and image functionality & interactivity.

• In 2008 Barco acquired High End Systems, an automated luminaires, digital lighting and lighting controls company, based in Austin, Texas.

[edit] Divestments

• In the early 2000s Barco Graphics was acquired by Belgian Purup-Eskofot, and renamed Esko-Graphics, which was again renamed Esko in 2006.

• In 2007 BarcoVision was acquired by Itema Group from Bergamo, Italy [1]

• Announced sales of Barco MID Advanced Visualisation (AVIS) strategic market unit (the previously acquired Voxar [2]) to Toshiba Medical (TMSC) on 21st November 2008 [3].

[edit] External links

• Barco web site