Barco
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Barco is an acronym that originally stood for Belgian American Radio COmpany. It is a hardware display manufacturer, primarily of both CRT and DLP projectors, LED walls and flat-panel displays.
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.
Barco is headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, and has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. The US headquarters is located in Kennesaw, Georgia which is just outside of Atlanta.
Worldwide, Barco employs more than 4200 people and realized sales close to euro 630 million in 2003.