The Continental Edison is a French manufacturing and marketing company of electrical equipment established in 1882 by

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History

Continental Edison was established in 1882 by French investors in partnership with Thomas Edison with the goal of marketing electric illumination and other equipment based on Edison

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s. The company has gone through several changes of ownership and was a manufacturing company up to 1971 when it stopped producing its own televisions and other

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s, outsourcing production after that. Products sold under the name include

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s, and televisions.

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started his career in the

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at the newly established Continental Edison.

Timeline

* 1882 - Continental Edison founded * 1881-1958 - part of

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* 1958-1971 - owned by Compagnie Générale des Eaux (CGE) * 1971-1997 - owned by Thomson Multimedia * 1997-2002 - owned by Cofidur group, a French electronic subcontractor supplier * 1999 - diversifies into multimedia products for the TV, PC and the Internet * December 2002 , Continental Edison taken over by the AIT YALA K&S group. * 2006 , the brand was bought by the Chinese group Xoceco * 2011 owned by the French Casino Group. It is currently distributed almost exclusively by Cdiscount.

References

External links

Continental Edison (current marketing company)
{{Thomas Edison French companies established in 1882 Companies of France