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Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Logitech

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Daniel Borel




Picture of Products











Brief description of the product/company concept




Logitech is a Swiss company which started from product mice and become the world’s most famous computer peripheral equipment suppliers and the income of Logitech in 2005 has reached 1.8 billion US Dollars. According to the IDC’s data, from 1982 to 2004 with Logitech, 55% of global production of personal computer which means 900 million PCs has equipped with Logitech mouse, the world of top 20 computer manufacturers are its customer.






How the business started


Logitech was cofounded by Daniel Borel, Pierluigi Zappacosta and Giacamo Marini in a farm in Swiss in 1981. Daniel Borel and Pierluigi Zappacosta meet in Stanford University in California and then they joint Giacamo Marini who is from Zappacosta’s hometown and founded the company.


When they started, they were focused on software design and development, which ultimately lead them to study the mouse as a graphical user interface input device. And they believe that the mouse will become one of the most important computer peripherals, so they started to sell the mouse which produced in Swiss.








How the business gained sucess



25 years past, Logitech already has more than 7,200 employees in more than 30 countries. The company already sold out 1 billion mouse, and their product line including keyboard, network cameras, headset, speakers, headphones, game controller and remote control.








The ups & downs of the entrepreneur & his business.





Danie Borel: chairman of the board, one of the founders.
Guerrino DeLuca: CEO.
Macel Stolk: senior vice president - global business marketing.
Erh-HsunChang: senior vice president - manufacturing and the far east area general manager.
David Henry: senior vice president – general manger of controller.
Junien Labrousse: senior vice president – general manger of video.
Kristen Onken: senior vice president – CFO






Business Strategies




1.      Widen computer peripheral product line.
2.      From the desktop to the living room.
3.      Provide personal peripheral equipment for moving people.








How the product / company got its name





On 2 October 1981, two Stanford university graduates Daniel Borel and Pierluigi joint Giacomo Marini cofounded the company in a small village in Swiss and their first trade is to develop a graphics editor for Ricoh company. Because of the background of them they choose “Logitech” as the name of company which is from French “Logiciel” means software.




Product History



In 1982, release the first Logitech mouse.
In 1983, release the first optical mechanical mouse.
In 1984, release the first wireless mouse.
In 1985, developed the first mouse which don’t need external power supply.
In 2001, release the first wireless optical mouse.

In 2002, release the first wireless mouse using Bluetooth technology “Cordless Presenter”.
In 2002, release MX optical engines and optical mouse MX series.

In 2004, release Logitech MX1000 laser wireless mouse using laser positioning technology.
In 2009, release Performance Mouse MX and Anywhere Mouse MX using DarkField technology.

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