Gateway, Inc.

Gateway ( NASDAQ, Fortune 500) is a US-based PC retail chain based on the model of Dell.

It was founded in 1985 in Iowa as a garage company by Ted Waitt and has since grown rapidly. First, they operated under the name Gateway 2000 and had its headquarters in Sioux City (Iowa, USA), has but then renamed and under new CEO Wayne Inouye also the seat according to Irvine (California ) transferred ( since September 2004), after had already been moved to San Diego ( 1998).

In 1994, Gateway 2000 rose in the German market.

Gateway is considered the third largest computer manufacturer in the United States and is ranked 10 in the world (as of December 2005). Gateway was the direct sales of personal computers worldwide to a leading position. It produced its computers in the U.S., Ireland and Malaysia and employed worldwide in 1997 at times up to 9,700 people. In summer 2001, production and sales in Europe and Southeast Asia have been completed and the local offices closed. In January 2005, the officially stated on the company's website headcount stood at 1,900.

Gateway acquired in 1997 - instead of resigning from the offer VisCorp - the rights to the Amiga computers from the bankruptcy estate of the insolvent Escom AG. The existing Amiga Technologies GmbH was then - still led by Petro Tyschtschenko - renamed Amiga International GmbH. In 2000, Gateway sold the rights to the Amiga by U.S. companies amino Development, which then changed its name to Amiga, Inc..

On 27 August 2007 it was announced that the Taiwanese computer manufacturer Acer Gateway will take over for $ 710 million. Meanwhile, Gateway is part of the Acer Group, and the Group a B2B provider.