Logitech

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**Logitech**
Image:Logitech logo.jpg
Type	Public (NASDAQ: LOGI)</br> (SWX: LOGN)
Founded	1981
Location	Fremont, California
Key people	Guerrino De Luca, President and CEO
Industry	Peripherals
Products	Peripherals
Revenue	Image:Green up.png$1.268 billion USD (2004)
Employees	6,900
Website	www.logitech.com

Logitech (NASDAQ: LOGI) (SWX: LOGN).

Logitech, headquartered in Fremont, California, is an industry leader in the personal peripheral market. Logitech produces a wide range of peripheral devices for a variety of platforms including PCs, gaming consoles, portable music players, mobile phones, and home entertainment systems, but currently focuses primarily on the computer peripheral market. Logitech’s chief competitor in the computer peripheral market is Microsoft.

Outside the PC sector, Logitech manufactures a variety of cordless controllers, wheels, and headsets for Xbox and PlayStation 2. In the most recent move the company entered the digital home area by acquiring Canada-based Intrique Technology, which manufactures the Harmony remote. On the Japanese market, Logitech uses the brand name Logicool.

History

Co-founded in Apples, Vaud, Switzerland in 1981 by Logitech founded by two former Stanford graduate students, Daniel Borel and Pierluigi Zappacosta, and Giacomo Marini, formerly a manager at Olivetti.

Logitech is a spin-off of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), more precisely of the LAMI, where Professor Jean-Daniel Nicoud invented the modern computer mouse.

At one point during its formative years, Logitech's Silicon Valley offices occupied space at 165 University Avenue, Palo Alto, California, home to a number of noted technology startups.