I found out a few days ago that B&W owns Rotel and now Classe. Go figure...
B&W and Rotel and Classe
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Hamlyn,
My understanding was the B&W did own Classe (a recent aquistion) but did not own Rotel (a Japanese family run company) however they do have some relationship (part ownership?) with a number of the Rotel Distributors such as Rotel America....
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To elaborate on what Geoff said, B&W does own Classe (and iCommand). They have a cooperative, but not ownership, role with Rotel. B&W and Rotel share a common distributor (Equity International) and B&W and Rotel share a common R&D facility in the UK.
I outlined this and other details about B&W in this post here if you are interested...
My local Rotel/B&W dealer hosted an “invitation-only” (translation: you’ve spent money here before) event the week to meet Marc Schnoll, who is a product specialist with B&W and Rotel. Marc was a very informative and entertaining speaker. He talked quite a bit about the history of B&W and Rotel, the philosophy- Bottom
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A little search on iCommand provided the following link:
Pretty interesting. I guess they are looking at the future of home theater.- Bottom
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