Cherry (keyboards)
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| Corporation | |
| Industry |
Electronic switches Computer hardware |
| Founded | 1950s |
| Founder | Walter Lorraine Cherry |
| Headquarters | Auerbach i. d. Oberpf., Germany and Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin |
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Key people
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Manfred Schöttner (CEO) |
| Revenue | 250 Mio. Euro (2007) |
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Number of employees
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3,100 (2007) |
| Website |
cherryswitches.com cherryamericas.com www.cherry.de |
Cherry GmbH (formerly Cherry Corporation) (stylized as CHERRY) is a German computer peripheral-device maker. The company has its roots in the United States. They also manufactured a large range of products including sensors, input devices and automotive modules until 2008, when Cherry was bought by ZF Friedrichshafen and renamed to ZF Electronics GmbH. ZF-Division Computer Input Devices was outsourced as Cherry GmbH in January 2016 and will continue to sell products under the Cherry brand.
Cherry was founded by Walter Cherry in 1953 in the basement of a Highland Park, Illinois restaurant. With the passing of its founder, his son Peter took over the ownership of the organization. The company's headquarters were moved to Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, Germany in 1979. Cherry has manufactured keyboards since 1973, and claims to be the oldest keyboard manufacturer still in business.
Cherry maintains production facilities in Europe (most notably in Bayreuth, Germany), Asia, and the Americas. All of its products are designed and developed at the company's headquarters in Auerbach in der Oberpfalz. It also has offices in the UK, Italy, France, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Australia and other locations, with distributors in most major countries.
In 2008, Cherry was bought by ZF Friedrichshafen AG and incorporated as the ZF Electronics GmbH Corporate Division. The Cherry brand continues to be used.
Among Cherry's widely known products are its line of MX and ML key switches that have been used in industrial electronics and Point Of Sale environments since their inception in the 1980s, and more recently (~2008) by numerous manufacturers of consumer PC keyboards.
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