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Article: Gibson acquires Deutsche Wurlitzer: Wurlitzer trademark now owned by single firm as guitar maker takes over leading juke box and vending machine company.(INDUSTRY FOREFRONT)
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- Music Trades
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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GIBSON GUITAR CORP. has acquired Deutsche Wurlitzer from Nelson Group Overseas, part of the Nelson Group of Companies based in Sydney, Australia. The deal brings the Wurlitzer Jukebox and Vending Electronics brand wholly under the Gibson banner and brings to an amicable conclusion several years of litigation between Gibson and the Nelson Group regarding the use of the Wurlitzer brand name. The deal was negotiated and finalized by Gibson Chairman and CEO Henry Juszkiewicz and Trent Karoll, joint managing director of the Australian-based Nelson Group. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Deutsche Wurlitzer, with a manufacturing plant and headquarters in ...