Barco
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Barco N.V. (Euronext: [BAR]
Barco is a world leader in professional markets, in which it offers display and visualization solutions. Based upon in-depth market knowledge, the company designs and develops solutions for large screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection.
Currently Barco is active in the markets of traffic, surveillance, broadcasting, presentation, simulation and virtual reality, edutainment, events, media, digital cinema, air traffic control, defense & security, medical imaging, avionics, and textiles.
Barco is headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, and has facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. The US headquarters is located in Duluth, Georgia, just outside of Atlanta.
In 2004 Barco acquired Folsom Imaging located in Rancho Cordova, CA. Starting in 2005 they began to move all US service and repair facilities from their Atlanta Facility to a new service center in Rancho Cordova.
Worldwide, Barco employs more than 4200 people and realized sales of 672 million euro in 2004.
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