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| Company type | GmbH |
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| Industry | Technology |
| Founded | 1896; 129 years ago (1896) inNuremberg |
| Headquarters | , Germany  |
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| Parent | Kyocera (since 2010) |
TA Triumph-Adler GmbH (formerlyTA Triumph-Adler AG) is a German office equipment manufacturer based inNuremberg and founded in 1896. The company currently manufacturescomputer printers and otherdocument management systems. The company is now part of the Japanese conglomerateKyocera.
Triumph-Adler was founded in 1896 bySiegfried Bettmann asDeutsche Triumph FahrradwerkeAktiengesellschaft (AG) inNuremberg as a subsidiary of theTriumph Cycle Co. Ltd. ofCoventry.[1]: 7
Until 1909,Deutsche Triumph Fahrradwerke AG only produced bicycles. Briefly, they also manufacturedmotorcycles. In 1909, Triumph entered the office equipment business after purchasing the equipment of a bankrupttypewriter company whose assets were being auctioned off to the public.[2]: 19–20 [3]: 382
In 1911, the company changed its name toTriumph Werke Nürnberg AG, and two years later it was split off fromTriumph Engineering. DuringWorld War I andWorld War II, Triumph mainly manufactured typewriters, bicycles, motorcycles and even automobiles. On the side, it also produced wheelbarrows and handcarts.[3]: 383
In 1957,Grundig under control of its founderMax Grundig purchased a majority stake in Triumph Werke Nürnberg as well as inAdlerwerke.[2]: 26 In 1958, Grundig merged both companies as well as thedictation machine division of its Grundig tape recorder factories (Grundig Stenorette) to formTriumph-Adler-Büromaschinen-Vertriebs-GmbH. From then on, the company only produced and sold office machines.[3]: 383
In 1968, Triumph-Adler was ranked the sixth-largest office machine manufacturer in the world.[4] In 1968, Grundig sold Triumph-Adler to theLitton Industries of the United States.[5]: 79 This had come after Grundig had been looking to streamline the company, after it began focusing most of its efforts around producingconsumer electronics and especiallycolor television sets—a booming market for Grundig in the late 1960s.[6]: 190 In 1979, Triumph-Adler returned to Germany afterVolkswagen AG acquired a majority stake in 1979, followed by the remaining stakes in 1980.[3]: 383 Volkswagen had previously failed to enter the office machines industry in 1978 after a bid to gain a majority stake inNixdorf Computer fell through.[7]: 77 In 1980, Triumph-Adler acquired a majority stake inPertec Computer Corporation. Pertec themselves had acquiredMicro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), designers of the famousAltair 8800 microcomputer, in 1977.[8] Triumph-Adler further expanded its strategic position with the Alphatronic brand of computer systems in the increasingly competitive computer business.[9]: 247–248 In 1981, they acquiredOmnidata ofWestlake Village, California, to expand their presence in the turnkeyword processor computer systems segment.[10]
In 1985, the name was changed again to TA Triumph-Adler AG.[3]: 384 In 1986,Olivetti S.p.A., a competitor to TA based in Italy, purchased the majority of TA's holdings from Volkswagen.[11][12] With this acquisition, Olivetti grabbed 50% of the European typewriter market.[13]: 183 After the acquisition, domestic production and development of TA products in German largely halted, and several German manufacturing facilities, including the traditionalFrankfurter Adlerwerke in 1993, were shuttered and sold off. Sales were outsourced to a separate company. In 1994, a consortium of shareholders acquired the Triumph-Adler subsidiary from Olivetti and converted it into a medium-sized holding company that now included office, games and leisure, construction technology and healthcare divisions.[3]: 384
In 2003,Kyocera Mita Corporation (now Kyocera Document Solutions), a Japanese manufacturer of copy, print and fax systems, acquired a 25% stake in TA in exchange for rebranding Kyocera's hardware under the TA name.[14]: 76 In early 2009, Kyocera Document Solutions took over the majority of Triumph-Adler; and in October 2010, they purchased the remaining shares.[15]: 366
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