Escom AG (stylized in uppercase; previously Schmitt Computer Systems) was a German computer company, best known in Germany, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States as the successful purchaser of Commodore International and the Amiga trademarks in 1995.
Escom was founded by Manfred Schmitt of Darmstadt, West Germany as the computer division of his music company in 1986.
In 1993, it became a publicly traded company, and it grew rapidly, controlling 11.2% of the market of German PCs by 1994.
During 1992 and 1993, a British operation was set up with a distribution and assembly base in Irvine, North Ayrshire and a small number of retail stores.
[1][2] It started using the Commodore name on computers sold in Europe, and established a separate division for Amiga related technologies.