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Coby Electronics Corporation was an American manufacturer of consumer electronics products headquartered in Lake Success, New York, with offices and factories around the world (including the United States, Mexico, and China). With the joint efforts of Coby Electronics Co. of Hong Kong and Coby Electronics Corp. of the United States the products reached consumers in Asia, North America, South America and Europe; however, the company mostly sold in Europe and the United States. Coby also served as an OEM manufacturer for brands including Samsung, NEC, RadioShack's Presidian brand and Hyundai. Coby formerly provided OEM manufacturing for Daewoo, which is now defunct. Although Coby shutdown their products are still widely spread and used today. Coby closed its doors in June 2013 due to financial trouble. Gordon Brothers Group acquired some assets formerly owned by Coby Electronics. Gordon Brothers Group did not purchase liabilities such as customer warranties.〔http://gordonbrothers.com/About-Us/Press-Releases/2013/8/Coby.aspx〕 ==History== Coby was founded by Young Dong Lee who owned 100 percent of its capital stock. Its name came from deleting the "w" and second "o" in Cowboy.〔(Coby Electronics 20th Anniversary - cobyusa.com - Retrieved October 8, 2011 )〕 The logo was written in Bookman Old Style Bold,〔(WhatTheFont )〕 which resembles the serif font used in the Sony logo. Lee (born 1955 in South Korea) originally owned an electronics wholesaler called Cowboy.〔(A Maker of $14.99 TV's Aims for Higher Ground - New York Times - April 5, 2006 )〕 The company's original headquarters was in an industrial area of Maspeth, Queens. In 2008 it moved the world headquarters to Lake Success, New York. The former headquarters remained as a company warehouse.〔Coby Electronics expands from Queens to Lake Success - Newsday - May 23, 2008〕 With the establishment of a new factory and new manufacturing processes in early 2006, the company very publicly sought to re-brand itself as a maker of higher-quality goods; they tended, however, to be in the low-price range. Its main factory was on in Jiangxi Province in China. It was designed to accommodate up to 5,000 employees.〔 In March 2013, Coby Electronics lost a case in New York State by Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V for failure to pay DVD licensing fees.〔(Decision and Order ) NY Court law report〕 In April 2013, Coby Electronics laid off 35% of their work staff and closed a warehouse in Savannah, GA citing slow economic times.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.twice.com/articletype/news/coby-cuts-workforce-closing-warehouse/106714 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coby Electronics Corporation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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