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IGB Eletrônica

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Type
  
Sociedade Anônima

Industry
  
Electronics

Founder
  
Eugênio Staub

Revenue
  
588.2 million USD (2012)

Parent organization
  
Hag Participações S/a.

Traded as
  
BM&F Bovespa: IGBR3

Number of employees
  
18,400

Founded
  
1964

Net income
  
86.2 million USD (2012)

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Key people
  
Eugênio Emílio Staub, (CEO)

Products
  
televisions, flat panels, LCDs, plasma display, DVDs, hi-fi, home theater, portable audio, mobile phone, karaoke machines

Stock price
  
IGBR3 (BVMF) R$ 1.02 0.00 (0.00%)17 Mar, 5:05 PM GMT-3 - Disclaimer

Headquarters
  
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Profiles

IGB Eletrônica S.A. (Portuguese for IGB Electronics), doing business as Gradiente, is a Brazilian consumer electronics company based in Manaus, and with offices in São Paulo. The company designs and markets many product lines, including video (e.g. televisions, DVD players), audio, home theater, high end acoustics, office and mobile stereo, wireless, mobile/smart phones, and tablets for the Brazilian market. The company was founded in 1964. In 1996 they founded Playtronic, a fully owned subsidiary who licensed the manufacturing of Nintendo consoles in Brazil, and while publishing games for various systems they also provided Portuguese translations of some games (among them, South Park and Shadow Man for the Nintendo 64). However, they stopped the partnership with Nintendo in 2003 because of the high price of the dollar at the time.

The Gradiente iPhone case

In 2000, Gradiente, now legally known as IGB Eletrônica SA, filed for the brand name "iphone" in Brazil's INPI (National Institute of Industrial Property, the trademark authority). Only by 2008 the Brazilian government granted full brand ownership for Gradiente, and currently (since January 2012), the company is selling Android-based smartphones under this name. Until 2018 that trademark is fully owned by IGB Eletrônica SA, which released its Android-powered iphone neo one under the Gradiente brand. The iphone neo one is sold for R$ 599 (about US$ 287), a dual-SIM handset running Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread. It has a 3.7-inch, 320 x 480 display, a 700 MHz CPU, 2GB of expandable storage, Bluetooth, 3G, WiFi and 5 / 0.3-megapixel camera.

References

IGB Eletrônica Wikipedia