10. About Logitech Inc.
Logitech designs, manufactures and markets personal peripherals that enable people to effectively work, play, and communicate in the digital world. The company's products combine essential core technologies, continuing innovation,
Logitech International is a Swiss public company traded on the SWX Swiss Exchange under the symbol LOGN and on the Nasdaq National Market System under the symbol LOGI. The company has manufacturing facilities in Asia and offices in major cities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Logitech’s origins lie in the OEM sector, which remains an important part of its business, and represented 13 percent of the company’s total sales in Fiscal 2005. To meet the demands of its OEM customer base, which includes most of the world's largest PC manufacturers, Logitech offers
Logitech continues to broaden its product offering and its presence in the retail sector. This is fueled by a trend among consumers to enhance their basic PC systems with more fully featured personal peripherals that add functionality and cordless freedom to their desktops. They are also purchasing supplementary devices designed for new applications and specific purposes such as gaming, multimedia, or audio and visual communication over the Internet. Further, Logitech’s retail business includes personal peripherals for platforms beyond the PC, such as gaming consoles, portable music players, mobile phones and
Today, Logitech's retail business accounts for 87 percent of its revenue. To provide the market with a broadening array of
Additionally, the company believes that a number of strategic directions will result in continuing growth:
•Broadening the desktop presence: Logitech has already expanded beyond its traditional role as a provider of pointing devices for the desktop into a leading brand for webcams, keyboards, PC audio products, game controllers, digital pens and advanced universal remote controls.
•Moving beyond the desktop to the living room: Today, people are increasingly turning to digital entertainment, in the form of enhanced audio and multimedia products and to the growing world of entertainment consoles. Logitech currently makes several products for the popular PlayStation® 2 gaming console, as well as devices for the Microsoft® Xbox. Logitech also offers a family of advanced univeral remote controls for the living room.
The Logitech Harmony 880 Remote Reviewer’s Guide
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