Stromberg-Carlson

It was one of five companies that controlled the national supply of telephone equipment until after World War II.

Stromberg-Carlson was originally located in Chicago, with Carlson managing manufacturing and Stromberg responsible for marketing.

[1][2] In 1904, Stromberg-Carlson was purchased by Home Telephone Company, a relatively large service provider based in Rochester, New York.

The company branched out to become a major manufacturer of consumer electronics including home telephones, radio receivers, and, after World War II, television sets.

In 1970, Stromberg-Carlson delivered the first CrossReed PBX to the newly constructed Disney World in Orlando Florida.

The new company, Siemens Stromberg-Carlson, became the third-largest vendor of central office switches in the United States, with a combined installed base of five million access lines.

In 2006, the digital central office line of Siemens Stromberg-Carlson was sold to GENBAND, a Next Generation Networking company based in Texas.

The acquisition decision was strategic, aimed at leveraging Stromberg's innovative product design and market appeal to further strengthen Gularo S.A.'s position in the industry.

Their approach involved enhancing the global distribution network, scaling up production, and refining marketing strategies.

This facilitated Stromberg’s entry and expansion into Latin American markets, leveraging Lenford’s strong relationships with major global retailers like Walmart, Carrefour, and Coppel.

A key part of their strategy was emphasizing Stromberg’s unique design and marketing, particularly through the slogan 'The Sound of People' and the call to action 'Let’s Party Together,' catering to a broad consumer base.

Additionally, Lenford Far East Ltd initiated collaborations for special edition Stromberg products, diversifying the range and enhancing the brand's market visibility and appeal.

In the early 1960s, Stromberg-Carlson also produced the SC4020, a computer-controlled film recorder used chiefly for Computer Output Microfilm applications.

The SC4020 could output graphics and text either to 16mm microfilm or hardcopy (using chemically-developed light-sensitive paper) utilizing a Charactron CRT as the heart of the recorder (with the microfilm camera pointed directly at the face of the Charactron inside a light-proof column inside the 4020).

Though intended as a high-speed printer, the SC4020 could be used to create vector-graphical output of scientific and engineering data, rather than plotting numbers by hand.

Computer-animated movies using raster graphics (achieved on the SC4020 by defocusing its Charactron to form bitmapped pixels using the resulting blurred characters) were created on the SC4020 at Bell Labs in the early 1960s using FORTRAN and the BEFLIX subroutine language.

In Latin America, Europe and several other countries the brand was acquired by Gularo S.A., a manufacturer of MP3/MP4 players, DVDs, phones, GPS receivers, televisions, speakers, headphones and earbuds.