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Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG

Type	Private
Founded	1945 (as Labor W)
Headquarters	Wedemark-Wennebostel, Germany
Key people	Fritz Sennheiser, founder Jörg Sennheiser, CEO
Industry	Audio electronics
Products	Audio electronics for consumer, professional, and business uses
Revenue	€ 300 million (2006)[1]
Employees	1,650
Website	www.sennheiser.com

Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG is a private German company that makes high end microphones, headphones, telephony accessories, and avionics headsets for consumer, professional, and business applications.

[edit] Company

Sennheiser is privately owned by the Sennheiser family. It has 1,650 employees, 60% of them working in Germany. Major subsidiaries of the company are Georg Neumann GmbH, which builds studio microphones, and Klein + Hummel, a producer of high-quality studio monitors. In 2003 Sennheiser Communications A/S, Denmark was announced, a joint venture between Sennheiser electronic and William Demant Holding Group, to develop and produce telecommunications products. In 2006, revenues of Sennheiser totaled € 300 million ^[2].

[edit] Products

The Sennheiser HD650 open-air headphone

• Headphones
• Microphones
• Aviation headsets
• Multimedia headsets
• Business headsets
• Conference and Information Systems
• Electronic sound-based components
• Speakers

[edit] Background

The Sennheiser e845s microphone

Sennheiser is headquartered in the municipality of Wedemark, Germany (near Hannover). Its United States headquarters is located in Old Lyme, Connecticut. The company has factories in Burgdorf, Germany; Tullamore, Ireland (since 1990); and Albuquerque, New Mexico (since 2000). Sennheiser's R&D facilities are located in Germany and Palo Alto, California. Sennheiser has sales branches in France, the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, India, Singapore, Canada, Mexico and the USA.

[edit] History

The company was founded in 1945, just a few weeks after World War II, by Fritz Sennheiser and seven fellow engineers of the University of Hannover in a laboratory called Laboratorium Wennebostel. The laboratory was named after the village of Wennebostel, where it had been moved due to the war. Its first product was a voltmeter. Labor W began building microphones in 1946.

By 1955, the company had 250 employees. Labor W was renamed Sennheiser electronic in 1958. Sennheiser was transformed into a limited partnership (KG) in 1973. In 1980, the company entered the aviation market, supplying Lufthansa with headsets.^[3] The company began producing modern wireless microphones in 1982. Also in 1982, founder Fritz Sennheiser handed the management of the company over to his son, Jörg Sennheiser.

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[edit] External links

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Official Sennheiser Links

• Sennheiser UK (English UK)
• Sennheiser USA (English USA)
• Sennheiser Worldwide (English )

Sennheiser Reviews & News

• New York Times review of Sennheiser sports headphones
• Article: Sennheiser Headphones, UK Market Leader?