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The Hira Company Ltd (incorporating Texet Sales Ltd) is a family-owned UK company specialising in the import and distribution of consumables. It is based in Manchester, England.
Their subsidiary Texet was founded in the 1970s and focuses on calculators and electronic gadgets. It was partly responsible for driving Sinclair out of the pocket calculator market, often with devices manufactured in Far Eastern countries such as Hong Kong and South Korea. The company still sells calculators and similar devices under the Texet name and (according to their own figures) have 26% of the UK calculator market.
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Texet Sales Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA