Gateway, Inc.
Gateway ( NASDAQ , Fortune 500 ) is a US-based PC - chain along the lines of Dell .
It was founded in 1985 in Iowa as a garage company by Ted Waitt and has grown rapidly since then. It initially operated under the name Gateway 2000 and was based in Sioux City (Iowa, USA ), but then renamed itself and also relocated its headquarters to Irvine ( California ) under the new CEO Wayne Inouye (since September 2004) after had previously moved to San Diego ( 1998 ).
In 1994 Gateway 2000 also entered the German market.
Gateway was the third largest PC manufacturer in the US in 2005 and ranked tenth worldwide. The company was in a leading position worldwide in the direct sales of personal computers. Gateway produced computers in the USA, Ireland and Malaysia and in 1997 employed up to 9,700 people worldwide. In the summer of 2001, production and sales in Europe and Southeast Asia were terminated and the branches there closed. In January 2005, the number of employees officially listed on the company's website was 1,900.
In 1997, Gateway acquired - instead of VisCorp , which had withdrawn from the offer - the rights to the Amiga computers from the bankruptcy estate of the insolvent Escom AG . The existing Amiga Technologies GmbH was then renamed Amiga International GmbH - still under the direction of Petro Tyschtschenko . In 2000 Gateway sold the rights of Amiga to the US company Amino Development , which then renamed Amiga, Inc.
On August 27, 2007 it was announced that the Taiwanese computer manufacturer Acer Gateway will be acquired for 710 million dollars. Gateway is now part of the Acer Group and a B2B provider within the group .
Individual evidence
- ↑ tagesschau.de : $ 710 million for PC manufacturer Gateway (tagesschau.de archive) from August 27, 2007.
Web links
- Official website
- Amiga History .de V3