Barco

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Barco N.V.
Image:Barco_logo.png‎
Type Public company
Founded 1934
Headquarters Kortrijk, Belgium
Key people Martin de Prycker, CEO
Antoon van Petegem, CFO
Industry Display technology
Products CRT, LCD and DLP projectors, LED and Flat panel displays
Revenue € 751 million (2006)
Employees 3,800 (2006)
Slogan Visibly yours
Website www.barco.com

Barco N.V. (Euronext: BAR) is a display hardware manufacturer specialising in CRT projectors, LCD projectors, DLP projectors, LED displays, display walls and flat panel displays. Barco is an acronym that originally stood for Belgian American Radio COrporation.

Barco is headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, and has facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. Worldwide, Barco employs more than 3800 people and realized sales of 751 million euro in 2006.

Barco is a world leader in professional markets, in which it offers display and visualization solutions. Based upon in-depth market knowledge, the company designs and develops solutions for large screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection. Currently Barco is active in the markets of traffic, surveillance, broadcasting, presentation, simulation and virtual reality, edutainment, events, media, digital cinema, air traffic control, defense & security, medical imaging, avionics, and textiles.

In 2004 Barco acquired Voxar, a leading 3D medical imaging software company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

In 2004 Barco acquired Folsom Research, Inc, based in Rancho Cordova, California. Folsom's product lines cover solutions for image processing, image communication and image functionality & interactivity.

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