The company was sold in 1959 to Relay Exchanges Ltd and through a series of sales and mergers ended up under ownership of Radio Rentaset Ltd, Thorn-EMI plc, and TGI Group.

Goodmans Industries, which by then was marketing foreign-made products like in-car entertainment and television sets, was purchased by the Alba Group in 1994.

Legally, Harvard International went by as Alba Broadcasting Corporation Ltd.[7] Goodmans was the shirt sponsor of the English football team Portsmouth F.C.

Also at the time, Goodmans marketed a loudspeaker named Maxim, which was described as "unusually small" in a BBC research department's document.

[11] Goodmans launched their first DAB digital radio products at the end of 2002, including the GPS280 portable stereo CD player.