Salora (Finnish company)
Salora Oy was a Finnish electronics company headquartered in Salo. Its main products were radio receivers and televisions. The company was founded under the name Nordell & Koskinen in 1928 by F.A. Nordell and Lauri Koskinen.[1] In 1937, the company introduced its first product under the brand name Salora (from a combination of the words Salo and radio),[2] and in 1945, the company changed its name to Salora Oy.[1] In 1995, the company was merged into Nokia Oyj.[1]
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| Osakeyhtiö | |
| Industry | Electronics |
| Fate | Merged |
| Founded | 1928 |
| Founder | F.A. Nordell Lauri Koskinen |
| Defunct | 1995 |
| Headquarters | , |
| Products | Radio receivers Television sets |
During the 1970s to 1990s black and white and later also color TV sets were also assembled in Israel at Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk. Production ended there with the mass import of TV sets from the far east.
References
- Liukkonen, Jukka (December 31, 2001). "Salora Oy 1928-1995" (DOC) (in Finnish). Retrieved May 1, 2012.
- "Salora Oy - from a radio workshop to a market leader". Finnish Industrial Design Archives (FIDA). Central Archives for Finnish business records (Elka). Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
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