13 Facts About Thomson SA

Thomson SA moved to Philadelphia, USA, at the age of 5, with his family.

Thomson SA formed the Thomson SA-Houston Electric Company in 1879 with Edwin Houston.

Thomson SA merged with the Edison General Electric Company to become the General Electric Company in 1892.

In 1893, the Compagnie Francaise Thomson SA-Houston was formed in Paris, a sister company to GE in the United States.

In 1968 the electronics business of Thomson SA-Brandt merged with Compagnie Generale de Telegraphie Sans Fil to form Thomson SA-CSF.

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Thomson SA Brandt maintained a significant shareholding in this company .

In 2000, Thomson SA Multimedia purchased Technicolor from Carlton Television in the UK and began a move into the broadcast management, facilities and services market with the purchase of Corinthian Television, becoming Thomson SA Multimedia.

Thomson SA then purchased the Moving Picture Company from ITV and the internet startup Singingfish, but then sold it to AOL in late 2004.

In 2004, Thomson SA increased its stake in the Bangalore, India based company Celstream Technologies, which specializes in product engineering.

In July 2005, Thomson SA agreed to purchase PRN Corporation for $285 million.

In 2004, Thomson SA set up a joint venture with China's TCL, giving to TCL all manufacturing of RCA and Thomson SA television and DVD products and making TCL the global leader in TV manufacturing .

Thomson SA initially retained all marketing of TTE's products, but transferred that to TTE in 2005.

In October 2007, Thomson SA agreed to sell its consumer electronics audio video business outside Europe including the worldwide rights to the RCA brand.