Peiker Acustic
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- Andreas Peiker, Chairman of the Board
- Reinhard Kromer - von Baerle, Managing Director
The peiker acustic GmbH & Co. KG is a family owned company based in Friedrichsdorf in the Hoch-Taunus district, in Hesse, and more than 600 employees worldwide, which, inter alia, the manufacture of microphones, loudspeakers, handsets for wireless and mobile telephony, with more than 60 years specialized hands-free devices as well as vehicle multimedia solutions and the integration of other mobile devices. 2013 generated sales of approximately 183 million euros, the group of companies. After the closure of large parts of the Milupa work in Friedrichsdorf peiker is now the largest employer in town.
Customer base
The main customers include the leading automotive and mobile phone manufacturers also various industrial companies, police, fire, emergency services, government agencies and offices, as well as the public transport (PT ). Core competencies include the fields of acoustics ( with analog and digital signal processing ), validation, production, design and development of hardware and software for example, vehicle connections.
Geographical location and structure of the company
The headquarters is located in Friedrichsdorf (Taunus ). International subsidiaries are the peiker Inc., headquartered in Dallas, Texas, a branch called peiker France SAS in Poissy in France, the daughter peiker Mexico SA de C.V. in Ciudad Juárez and the competent authorities for the worldwide distribution of product range pei tel Communications GmbH in Teltow.
Since 2007 peiker back to 100 percent indirectly in the hands of the founding family. The Executive Board is responsible Andreas Peiker as Chief Executive Officer, Reinhard Kromer - von Baerle is also a managing director, while Dr. Helmut Rothenberger is Chairman.
The root building in Friedrichsdorf Industrial Area Max -Planck-Straße has manufacturing, warehouse and office space, its own plastic injection molding located in the neighboring district Köppern. In addition, since 1996, there is a directly connected thereto logistics center. The important development for the company department is housed in different buildings and even foreign locations.
History
In 1946, Heinrich Peiker together with his father Paul Beerwald the company " Beerwald & Co. " to produce piezoelectric and acoustic devices and distribute. Headquarters was then Bad Homburg. The big breakthrough came in the entrepreneurs with the development of a piezo sound cells microphone (crystal microphone ), the electrical matching exactly at that time usual tube amp was designed. This model is considered peiker " Urmikrofon " and has been revised and improved several times over the years.
In 1957, the American balloonist Major David G. Simons, was the first person in over 30,000 m altitude and carried it into his helmet microphone integrated specialty of peiker. Four years later, the peiker Handheld Microphone TM70 was used for tape devices of the brand UHER report as a first microphone on a Himalayan ascent.
In the following year the company headquarters to Ober-Eschbach was relocated in 1967 eventually also changed the company name (company) in " PEIKER, Factory electro-acoustic devices, Heinrich Peiker " GmbH & Co. KG.
10 years later was awarded the Order of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in recognition of his entrepreneurial and social services Heinrich Peiker the Hessian Minister of Economics, Heinz -Herbert Karry.
In order to continue to leave the company that produced continuously new microphone and speaker variations in family hands, took over in 1983 Andreas Peiker (since 1981 Managing Director) after the death of his father the management.
In subsequent years, a change in the portfolio of the company became apparent: With the development of handsets for mobile, the first car kit for Siemens as well as the first digital answering machine for Alcatel peiker came as an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer ) into a new product line, a. The focus shifted more and more on the supply of communications solutions for mobile and automotive industry, which gradually replaced the microphone manufacturing as the main pillar of the company.
In 1992, the company headquarters and the company changed. The " peiker acustic GmbH & Co. KG " has its headquarters now in the industrial area Max -Planck-Straße in Friedrichsdorf Taunus. Parallel to this was in Berlin / Teltow the pei tel Communications GmbH for development and sales of peiker standard program. Furthermore, the Partnership for ALAC GmbH, a manufacturer of multimedia hands-free systems etabliertec.
In 1993, peiker its first subsidiary abroad: " peiker France Sarl " (now " peiker France SAS "), located in Poissy, Paris.
In 1996, the new branch " peiker Inc." in Auburn, United States, opens. 1999 moved to this location to Dallas.
In 2000 brought peiker in cooperation with ELSA one of the world's first Bluetooth handsfree kits for vehicles on the market.
Two years later PEIKER opened a technical office in Detroit.
2004, a further production site was opened: " peiker Mexico" in Ciudad Juárez. In the same year was also the competence center Böblingen, which is mainly dedicated to voice input systems and vehicle connections, was founded.
2005 peiker developed the first complete integration of the Apple iPod into a vehicle.
In June 2006, dedicated peiker on the premises of the headquarters in Friedrichsdorf the new logistics center with over 3000 m² a.
2008, the purchase of the 12,000 m² of neighboring property, it was decided in the interest of further expansion.
2011 peiker developed an automotive -compatible module, which can perform the EU-compliant, automatic eCall.