Audiovox Portable CD Player Cassette Deck CD AM/FM Radio for sale in Atlanta, GA
AudioVox Portable CD player no Manuals. Very Good condition - Clean and Plays Well. Gray Cassette Tapes, CD player , AM/FM Headphone jack, Built-in Speakers ( 2 ) Audiovox is a company that cut it's teeth behind the wheel of a car and is still a premier supplier to the automotive aftermarket. Everyone knows how we became a mobile electronics company but it is a story worth repeating. It is 1965...and a young John Shalam, Wharton School graduate, has shucked his job at Continental Grain Company in New York and is in the fourth year in his own small business called Custom Imports. He'll sell anything and everything and as the original 'outsourcer' gets all of his products from Asia. No manufacturing overhead for him...in fact no overhead at all, as he is president, sales manager and secretary all rolled into one. An ordering mix up leaves him the owner of an overstock order of 2,000 car radios, no customers and the loan to pay for them coming due soon. With the yellow pages as his only salesman he calls around to a dozen companies listed under the category of 'car radios'. Twelve get a letter and a sample radio and much to his surprise eleven companies actually place orders. The 2,000 radios disappear quickly. It's a few days before Christmas and John closes up the tiny office and heads out for a holiday weekend skiing. Young and single, car radios are the farthest thing from his mind. When John returns to work after the New Year he's surprised by messages from a number of his new customers. "Philadelphia sold out - they want more radios." "Detroit wants 200 more radios". Harold Freedman in Miami called, he needs 300 more. At first John says, "There are no more radios" but the calls don't stop. It does not take long for the merchant in him to take over and "There are no more radios" becomes "How many do you need?" That's how we started back in 1965 as a car sound company that soon became the aftermarket car sound company. In those days many cars came without a radio or with a cheap factory installed system. We offered high power radios, 8 tracks, cassettes and CD's and now we include satellite radios and in dash pop out screen systems that are the latest in entertainment and information convergence. Although we have added much, we have never forgotten that mobile is our "roots".
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