TechniSat

{{Short description|German manufacturing company}}

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| name = TechniSat Digital GmbH

| logo = File:TechniSat logo.svg

| logo_size = 250px

| type = Private

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| foundation = {{Start date|1987|06|10|df=y}}

| founder = Peter Lepper

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| location_city = Daun

| location_country = Germany

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| locations = Eisenach, Stassfurt, Schöneck, Berlin, Wolfsburg, Paris, Wrocław, Budapest, Kosmonosy{{cite web | url=http://www.technisat.com/de_DE/Standorte/352-13/ | title=Standorte }}

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| key_people = Peter Lepper, Stefan Kön

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| products = Direct broadcast satellite
Televisions
Car navigations
Tablet computers

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| revenue = € 440.3 million (2010)

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| num_employees = 2500 (in 2011)

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| homepage = [http://www.technisat.com/ www.technisat.com]

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TechniSat is a German manufacturer of direct broadcast satellite receivers. The company produces televisions, car navigation and entertainment systems as well.{{cite web | url = http://www.carcommunications.technisat.com/ | title = Innovation, quality & service | accessdate=2009-04-25}} Together with Loewe and Metz, it is one of the few remaining independent consumer electronics companies which develop and produce consumer electronics products in Germany and Europe.{{cite news | url = http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2763980,00.html | title = Technisat: Television Equipment Made in Germany In Cooperation with Handelsblatt | date=2009-04-25 | publisher=Deutsche Welle}}

History

TechniSat was established in 1987 in Daun by Peter Lepper. In 1992, the company launched then the smallest digital antenna in the world.{{cite web | url = http://www.technisat.com/indexf207.html?nav=History,en,94®isterkarte=2#register | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081129102429/http://www.technisat.com/indexf207.html?nav=History,en,94®isterkarte=2#register | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2008-11-29 | title = TechniSat history | accessdate = 2009-04-25 }} In 2007, it started its own TechniTipp-TV channel, which was closed down in September 2008.

In 2009, TechniSat had a revenue of nearly 350 million Euro (up from 305 million in 2008).

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