Company type | Privately Held |
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Industry | Watch manufacturing, Luxury Goods |
Headquarters | Middlebury, Connecticut, U.S.; Hoofddorp, Netherlands [ citation needed ] |
Number of employees | 5,000+ |
Website | timexgroup |
Timex Group B.V., or Timex Group, is an American - Dutch holding company headquartered in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands and Middlebury, Connecticut.[ citation needed ] It is the corporate parent of several global watchmaking companies including Timex Group USA, Inc., [1] TMX Philippines, Inc., and Timex Group India Ltd.
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Timex Group B.V.'s products are manufactured in China, France, Hong Kong, India, Philippines and Switzerland, often based on technology that continues to be developed in Germany and the United States.[ citation needed ] The group has operations in a number of countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Oceania.
Shortly after purchasing the Waterbury Clock Company in 1941, founder Thomas Olsen renamed the company Timex, as a portmanteau of Time (referring to Time magazine) and Kleenex . [2]
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A few years later Thomas Olsen would rechristen the company Timex. He hatched the iconic name from an unusual confluence of sources. Recalls Fred: "My father always loved to noodle with words. He liked to read Time magazine, and he used a lot of Kleenex, so he put the two names together and got Timex.