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Overview
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An international Calling
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| In 1997, 61% of COM One's turnover was realised outside France. The international calling of COM One asserts itself through the years, with the installation of a double strategy : setting up of a sales force outside the European limits, and creation of products certified throughout the world. |
| COM One has now at its disposal an internal sales force composed mainly of bilingual and trilingual sales engineers dedicated to the export division. The company has as well reinforced its sales network outside France: from Sweden to South Africa, and United States to Asia, around fifteen distributors permanently represents COM One. The opening of a subsidiary branch in London in 1997 asserts the will of COM One to export its knowledge and products beyond our frontiers |
| Unavoidable specificity in the world of the telecommunication industry, the obtaining of a significant number of national agreements constitutes a major asset of the development of COM One outside France. |
| Thanks to an aggressive policy, the COM One products are agreed within 40 countries, over 4 continents: Europe, America, South East Asia and Australia. |
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COM One Timeline
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1987
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| Jacques Saubade, telecommunication engineer, present chairman and managing director, and Michel Petit, computer engineer, created COM 1 on the first of July. |
1989
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| A France Télécom subsidiary by the name of INNOVACOM buys 15% of COM 1's shares. SATIT is created, a private company, which owns 34,74% of the capital shares. |
1990
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| Creation of an American subsidiary, COM 1 Data Communication Corps, located in San Diego (California). COM 1 establishes in Cestas (Gironde - France). |
1991
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| COM 1 is quoted on the second stock market and on the Freiverkehr of Stuttgart (with 10 % of the shares) after a 5 million francs raise in capital. |
1992
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| COM 1 becomes the French legal representative of the PCMCIA association which gathers most of the computer software manufacturers and publishers. Development of the PCMCIA cards for laptop computers. The Viewcom product family is created, allowing high definition pictures transfer via PSTN. |
1993
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| Marketing of modems integrating vocal function (Djinn PC and Apple Djinn). |
1994
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| New raise of capital (16,5 millions francs) and diversification of the video monitoring and radio products. |
1995
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| COM 1 confirms its international role. The Asian market notably represents 20% of its turnover. The company keeps up its efforts of diversification and its researches are oriented towards promising topics, including Internet terminals. |
1996
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| COM 1 decides to position itself on the retail market. Marketing of the video security products (Viewcom) on the American market. |
1997
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| COM 1 celebrates its 10th anniversary and now employs 70. Design of the DomoTV terminal, allowing the connection to Internet on a regular TV set. |
1998
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The launch of new products:
In April: Platinum multi-function PCMCIA Card, ranked by the American magazine Byte as the best product in its category.
In November: DomoTV, multimedia, multi-function terminal for easy Internet access on television and already developed for full home or office automation. For the first time, distribution under its own trademark, COM 1, dominated the OEM market. |
1999
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| Increased strategic segmentation of corporate activities into three separate activities: Telecom, Video Security and Internet Appliances with the creation of three separate divisions. Setting up of ISO 9001 standard quality procedure. |
2000
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