Heco

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Heco
legal form KG
founding 1949
Seat Pulheim , GermanyGermanyGermany 
Branch Entertainment and communication electronics
Website heco-audio

The Heco company was founded in 1949 by Gerhard Richard Hennel and his wife Susanne as Heco Hennel & Co. KG in Schmitten in the Hochtaunus district as a company for the production of loudspeakers for cinemas and restaurants.

From 1960, Heco supplied chassis for Braun , Dual and Telefunken . With the models B200 and B300 , the first hi-fi loudspeakers came onto the market under their own name in 1964 . In 1969 the competitor FEHO and its production facilities in Remscheid were taken over and a legally independent plant was set up in Berlin .

After the death of senior boss Gerhard Hennel in 1972, the naming rights and the production sites in Schmitten and Remscheid were sold to the British Rank Organization by his widow Susanne . The range has been expanded to include receivers and record players . The Berlin plant initially remained independent with its Visonik brands , producing for CEC , Dahl and the company of their son Hans-Günter Hennel Summit , until it was taken over by the Bruns group in 1979 .

In 1996 the American Recoton Group took over the trademark rights. In 2003 Audiovox acquired the insolvent Recoton. A Rewe store was then built on the former company premises in Schmitten .

Today Heco is a brand of Magnat Audio-Produkte GmbH based in Pulheim .

Web links

Commons : Heco  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heco Hennel + Co on Brand History , accessed on June 15, 2020
  2. ↑ Heco (Schmitten) in the HiFi Museum , accessed on June 15, 2020
  3. ↑ Heco '77 , prospectus, accessed August 21, 2020
  4. ^ Manufacturer - Information and History Funkschau, Issue 21 from October 8, 1976 on radiomuseum , accessed on June 15, 2020
  5. ↑ ... the true Summit story at Summit Museum , accessed June 15, 2020
  6. ↑ The Taunus Sound , in the HiFi Museum , accessed on June 15, 2020
  7. ↑ New products from Magnat at High End 2011 , Stefan Schickedanz for connect on May 9, 2011, accessed on June 15, 2020

Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 4.8 ″  N , 8 ° 26 ′ 28.1 ″  E