Philips agreed in January to sell that division to Japan's Funai Electric for 150m euros.
Philips filled it with big-ticket medical equipment like magnetic resonance imagers, CT scanners and X-ray devices.
In June 1975 Houghton turned around and sold Signetics to U.S. Philips Trust--an affiliate of N.
Philips' biggest competitors include the lighting and electronics divisions of General Electric and Siemens.
My old friend Binky Philips, who used to help run a record store on St.
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Philips Park in Manchester opened a year earlier but was funded by public subscription.
Philips is one the leading brand of Docking Speakers globally and the market leader in Europe.
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Philips itself has a long Chinese history, having first opened its doors there in the 1920s.
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New York finished off the Celtics 88-80 shortly after the horn sounded at Philips Arena.
Sony and Dutch powerhouse Philips are pushing their own DVD format, dubbed the MultiMedia CD.
Sony and Philips have not indicated a retail price for a MultiMedia CD player.
Like the Philips Curve, promoting exports by debasing the currency effectively pokes the pendulum.
After objections from Philips, a Dutch rival, the Commission began a review last month.
In the United States alone, fluorescents consume about 200 terawatts annually, according to Philips' estimates.
"We're a little more democratic than Sony or Philips, which are elitist, " says Kim.
Philips is generally regarded by enthusiasts as the producer of the first true home video recorder.
Made by Dutch electronics giant Philips, the bulb swaps filaments for light-emitting diodes to provide illumination.
HP's first big customer for its product is Royal Philips Electronics' semiconductor division in the Netherlands.
Today's agreement does not impact any of Funai's existing brand licensing agreements with Philips.
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For example, Philips, a Dutch electronics manufacturer, has already built a pager that uses asynchronous technology.
As Europe follows the same path, the same will probably have to happen at Philips.
Philips's market value is 30 billion euros a 25% discount to the value of its assets.
Not, though, some of the boomers working in Britain for Philips, a Dutch electronics firm.
No doubt Mr Kleisterlee intends to move away from what remains of Philips's conglomerate culture.
He has, however, already shown that he has his own ideas about what Philips needs.
Multinational firms like Intel, Texas Instruments and Philips all have factories in the Philippines.
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Dutch-based Philips faces the biggest penalty of 313.4m euros, followed by LG Electronics with 295.6m.
The Philips HTL9100 SoundBar with detachable wireless speakers brings Fidelio innovation, build quality and sound excellence to Home Cinema.
Bigger electronics giants are trying to expand in the business, too, including Siemens and Philips.
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