Bang & Olufsen (B&O) is a Danish high end consumer electronics company that designs and manufactures audio products, television sets, and telephones. It was founded in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, who designed a radio to work with alternating current, a product of significance at a time when most radios were still running on batteries.
Harman International Industries, Incorporated, commonly known as Harman, is an American audio electronics company. Since 2017, the company has been an independent subsidiary of Samsung Electronics.
Serene is a mobile phone produced as a joint venture between Samsung Electronics and Bang & Olufsen. It was released in the last quarter of 2005 in Europe. It was available in select stores throughout the world and cost $1275 (~€1000).
ICEpower a/s is a Danish development, production and sales company specialising in Class D amplifiers for audio applications.
BeoCom is a line of telephones manufactured by Bang & Olufsen. Between the BeoCom 1 and the BeoCom 2 phones there is much interoperability. The current versions of these telephones use independent wireless base stations known by the name BeoLine. The Mark 1 version of the BeoLine PSTN base can support up to six BeoCom handsets. the Mark 2 version of the Beoline PSTN base can support eight BeoCom handsets.
Struer is the main town of the kommune of Struer, Region Midtjylland, Denmark with a population of 10,175.
Denmark–Taiwan relations or Sino-Danish relations are foreign relations between Denmark and the Republic of China. While Denmark only recognizes the People's Republic of China, it maintains an informal trade council in Taipei. The ROC maintains an informal representative office in Copenhagen. In 2005, both countries signed a tax treaty.
Timothy Jacob Jensen is a Danish industrial designer. He was best known as CEO and Chief Designer of Jacob Jensen Design Studios from 1990 to 2018. Jensen was also the founder of the Scandinavian brand JACOB JENSEN™. He has created numerous well-known designs for timepieces, jewellery, communication equipment, houseware, furniture and kitchens. He has also been prominent within the automotive design, branding and value clarification fields.
Jacob Jensen, was a Danish industrial designer best known for his work with Bang & Olufsen. Jensen designed numerous popular high-end consumer products, developing a functional minimalism style that formed a prominent part of the Danish modern movement. In 1958 he founded the Jacob Jensen Design Studio. Jensen designed for other brands including Alcatel, Kirk, Boform, General Electric, International Gift Corporation, JO-JO, Labofa, Rodenstock, Rosti, and Stentofon. His works have been featured at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, and have received numerous design awards.
David Whitfield Lewis was a British industrial designer. He is best known for his work for Bang & Olufsen. He was a distinguished member of Royal Designers for Industry. Several of the products he designed are included in the MoMA permanent collection of design.
Johannes Torpe is a Danish designer, musician, producer, and former creative director of Bang & Olufsen (2011-2015). Currently, he is the CEO and creative director of the design company Johannes Torpe Studios based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Bang is both a Scandinavian surname as well as a Korean surname. The Scandinavian surname is derived from the Old Norse banga which means to pound or hammer. The Korean surname is cognate to the Chinese surname Fāng (方). Notable people with the surname include:
Jørgen Olufsen's House is located in Aalborg, Denmark. Built in 1616 on the Østerå, a wide-mouth stream which became the city's harbour. Its current address is Østerågade 25. The three-storey house is Denmark's best preserved merchant's mansion in the Renaissance style. Built mainly of sandstone, it also has a half-timbered section. Olufsen, the older half-brother of Jens Bang who built the equally notable Jens Bang's House, was a successful merchant as well as Aalborg's mayor. The residence features an integrated warehouse.
Jørgen Olufsen was a Danish politician. Olufsen built Jørgen Olufsen's House, Denmark's best preserved merchant's mansion in the Renaissance style. The son of the Horsens merchant, Hans Felthuus, and his wife, Sidsel Jørgensdatter, he was named after his grandfather, Jørgen Olufsen, who was mayor of Horsens. He moved to Aalborg where he married Maren Pops, the daughter of Mayor Povl Pops. Olufsen younger half-brother, the merchant Jens Bang, built his own mansion, Jens Bang's House.
Vifa is a Danish consumer electronics company that designs and manufactures high-end audio products. It was founded in 1933 by N.C.Madsen, manufacturing driver units for many high-end brands until 2014, when it made a transition into making its own wireless speakers. It launched a line-up of Bluetooth systems in 2014 and 2016 which are named after the capital cities of Scandinavian nations.
Svane Apotek, which existed from 1660 to 1994, was one of the first pharmacies to open in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was in 1849 acquired by Alfred Nicolai Bentzon and was owned by the Benzon family until 1967. Its former building. a five-storey, Functionalist property located at the corner of Østergade and Ny Østergade, was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places by the Danish Heritage Agency in 1992.
Peter Boas Bang was a Danish engineer and entrepreneur. In the year 1925 he founded the company Bang & Olufsen with Svend Olufsen.
Olufsen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The Samsung SGH-F310 Serenata was the successor to the Serene mobile telephone. The device, a collaboration between Samsung and Bang & Olufsen, featured the logotypes of both companies. Designed by David Lewis, it was introduced in October 2007.
