Shure Incorporated is an American corporation originally founded by Sidney N. Shure in Chicago, Illinois in 1925 as a supplier of radio parts kits. The company became a consumer and professional audio-electronics manufacturer of microphones, wireless microphone systems, phonograph cartridges, discussion systems, mixers, and digital signal processing. The company also produces listening products, including headphones, high-end earbuds and personal monitor systems.
Shure Inc. is one of the world's largest, most respected manufacturers of microphones. Shure's microphones have been used by the world's leading performers and public speakers for over seventy years. The company makes a broad range of sound equipment, including mixers, conferencing systems, phonograph cartridges, signal processors, and personal monitor systems. Shure products are endorsed by over 240 of the world's best-known performers in the entertainment industry. The company markets its products outside the United States through a network of subsidiaries and distributors. Shure Incorporated has been owned by the Shure family since its founding.
Shure Incorporated, along with its subsidiaries, manufactures audio products that amplify, process, and mix sound. Its products include microphones, wireless systems, personal monitor systems, earphones, headsets, sleeves, cases and adapters, mixers and audio processors, feedback eliminators, isolating earphones, portable audio electronics, digital signal processors, discussion systems, DJ phonograph cartridges and needles, ribbon microphones, and accessories. The company serves sound installers, audio engineers, musicians, home recordists, and other audio professionals and enthusiasts. Shure Incorporated offers its products online. The company was formerly known as Shure Brothers Incorporated. Shure Incorporated was founded in 1925 and is based in Niles, Illinois with additional offices in Chicago and Shanghai, as well as in Germany.
Founded in 1925, Shure Incorporated is widely acknowledged as the world's leading manufacturer of microphones and audio electronics. Over the years, the Company has designed and produced many high-quality professional and consumer audio products that have become legendary for performance, reliability, and value. Shure’s diverse product line includes world-class wired microphones and wireless microphone systems for performers and presenters, award-winning earphones and headsets for MP3 players and smartphones, and top-rated phonograph cartridges for professional DJs. Today, Shure products are the first choice whenever audio performance is a top priority.
Shure Incorporated corporate headquarters is located in Niles, Illinois, in the United States. The Company has additional manufacturing facilities and regional sales offices in China, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, The
As the 1990s got underway, Shure was making inroads into teleconferencing systems, a market in which it had first become involved in the mid-1980s. Teleconferencing was a natural extension of the firm's expertise in microphones and sound mixers. This market gave birth to a completely new division of Shure, one that specialized in selling teleconferencing systems which, unlike microphones and cartridges, sold for thousands of dollars. Furthermore, teleconferencing was still relatively unfamiliar outside the United States at the time. To publicize the usefulness of the technology, Shure set up the first global interactive teleconference between 21 cities in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia, South Korea, and South Africa. The first transatlantic trial, held between Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and London, England, also used Shure equipment.
By the mid-1990s, according to the Journal of Commerce, exports comprised 35 percent of Shure's total teleconferencing systems sales. Foreign markets had long been important to Shure. For years it had been active in England, Western Europe, and Japan. In the early 1990s, soon after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, Shure began distributing its products in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. Later in the decade, it expanded into Ecuador, Paraguay, Guatemala, and Vietnam. By 1995, China was Shure's main export market, accounting for 22 percent of its total foreign sales. At this time, the company began moving some of its production out of the United States. In an effort to keep its labor costs as low as possible, Shure built plants for the assembly of microphones and phono cartridges in Agua Prieta and Juarez, Mexico.
Shure's microphone line was refined and expanded in the 1990s. It finally entered the burgeoning wireless market it had given up in the 1950s when it abandoned the Vagabond. Shure had nevertheless been active in the wireless market, albeit indirectly, through much of the previous decade, during which it had produced microphone heads for other manufacturers' wireless systems. The company's leaders eventually realized that the huge numbers of heads they were producing represented an equally vast market they could be selling to directly. Its "L" series of modern wireless mics was introduced in 1990. Shure also actively promoted its line of high-performance Beta microphones first developed in 1989. Because of their improved design, these microphones reproduced vocals with even greater fidelity than the old "SM" series. In addition, the new mics possessed hardened grills and sturdier shock mounts.
A third new market that Shure aggressively courted in the 1990s was sound contractors. Shure products had always been favorites of these businesses which specialized in the design and installation of sound systems in churches, auditoriums, and similar buildings. Shure developed a new line of products specifically for the needs of sound contractors.
In 1995, at the age of 93, after leading the company for seventy years, Sidney Shure passed away. He had given up running the day-to-day operations of the company in 1981, when a new president was named. He remained as chairman of the Shure board of directors until his death, when his widow, Rose Shure, succeeded him. Mr. Shure had been an individual of broad and continuing interests. He was a renowned collector of stamps who eventually donated much of his collection to the Smithsonian Institution. He trained himself to be an accomplished photographer. He had a longstanding interest in languages and began learning Hebrew when he was in his eighties. His modest, unassuming nature helped create a family-like atmosphere for workers at Shure.
A Long History Continues into the 2000s
When Shure Incorporated celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2000, the difficulties of the 1980s were forgotten. Microphones, wired and wireless, were once again the central focus of the company's business. The line that had included about 50 various mics in the 1950s had grown to some 300 items in 2000. The introduction of inexpensive digital recording gear--especially for home recording--led to the growing popularity of Shure's KSM line of mics, which were designed especially for recording. By 2003, Shure had lines of microphones for broadcasters, sound contractors, recording studios, live sound, two-way communication, and paging. Other new products were also beginning to gain in popularity, including a selection of in-ear monitors for live performance situations. In the spring of 2003, Shure left its longtime headquarters in Evanston for a futuristic building designed by architect Helmut Jahn in Niles, Illinois.
Principal Subsidiaries: Shure UK; Shure Europe; Shure Asia.
Principal Competitors: Sennheiser; Audio Technica; Telex Communications Inc.
Statistics:
Private Company
Founded: 1925
Employees:1,400
Sales:$245 million (2001 est.)
NAIC: 334419 Other Electronic Component Manufacturing; 334310 Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing
Key Dates:
1925: Shure Radio Company is founded in Chicago by Sidney N. Shure.
1928: Shure's brother Samuel J. Shure the joins firm, which is renamed Shure Brothers Company.
1932: The company introduces its first microphone, the Shure Two-Button Carbon Microphone.
1933: Production of the Model 40D, the company's first high-end microphone.
1937: The company's first phonograph cartridge is introduced.
1939: The Model 55 Unidyne microphone is launched.
1941: The company begins production of microphones for the War Department during World War II.
1946: The company is renamed Shure Brothers Inc.
1953: The Vagabond, the world's first wireless microphone system, is introduced.
1966: The SM58, the most popular microphone in Shure's history, is introduced.
1968: The M67 battery-powered mixer makes live remote news coverage possible for broadcasters.
1989: Beta microphone line is launched with the introduction of the Beta 58 microphone.
1990: Shure re-enters the wireless microphone market.
1995: Founder and chairman of the board Sidney Shure dies at the age of 93.
1999: The company is renamed Shure Inc.
2000: Shure celebrates it 75th anniversary.
2003: Company headquarters are moved to Niles, Illinois.
KEY EXECUTIVES
Mr. Santo LaMantia
Chief Executive Officer and President
Ms. Theresa Quinn-Accurso
Director of Global Finance
Mr. Ron Thompson
Vice President of Operations
Age: 87
Mr. Paul Erbach
Chief Information Officer and Vice President
Ms. Christine Schyvinck
Executive Vice President of Global Marketing & Sales
Address:
5800 West Touhy Avenue
Niles, Illinois 60714
U.S.A.
Shure Inc. is one of the world's largest, most respected manufacturers of microphones. Shure's microphones have been used by the world's leading performers and public speakers for over seventy years. The company makes a broad range of sound equipment, including mixers, conferencing systems, phonograph cartridges, signal processors, and personal monitor systems. Shure products are endorsed by over 240 of the world's best-known performers in the entertainment industry. The company markets its products outside the United States through a network of subsidiaries and distributors. Shure Incorporated has been owned by the Shure family since its founding.
Shure Incorporated, along with its subsidiaries, manufactures audio products that amplify, process, and mix sound. Its products include microphones, wireless systems, personal monitor systems, earphones, headsets, sleeves, cases and adapters, mixers and audio processors, feedback eliminators, isolating earphones, portable audio electronics, digital signal processors, discussion systems, DJ phonograph cartridges and needles, ribbon microphones, and accessories. The company serves sound installers, audio engineers, musicians, home recordists, and other audio professionals and enthusiasts. Shure Incorporated offers its products online. The company was formerly known as Shure Brothers Incorporated. Shure Incorporated was founded in 1925 and is based in Niles, Illinois with additional offices in Chicago and Shanghai, as well as in Germany.
Founded in 1925, Shure Incorporated is widely acknowledged as the world's leading manufacturer of microphones and audio electronics. Over the years, the Company has designed and produced many high-quality professional and consumer audio products that have become legendary for performance, reliability, and value. Shure’s diverse product line includes world-class wired microphones and wireless microphone systems for performers and presenters, award-winning earphones and headsets for MP3 players and smartphones, and top-rated phonograph cartridges for professional DJs. Today, Shure products are the first choice whenever audio performance is a top priority.
Shure Incorporated corporate headquarters is located in Niles, Illinois, in the United States. The Company has additional manufacturing facilities and regional sales offices in China, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, The
As the 1990s got underway, Shure was making inroads into teleconferencing systems, a market in which it had first become involved in the mid-1980s. Teleconferencing was a natural extension of the firm's expertise in microphones and sound mixers. This market gave birth to a completely new division of Shure, one that specialized in selling teleconferencing systems which, unlike microphones and cartridges, sold for thousands of dollars. Furthermore, teleconferencing was still relatively unfamiliar outside the United States at the time. To publicize the usefulness of the technology, Shure set up the first global interactive teleconference between 21 cities in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia, South Korea, and South Africa. The first transatlantic trial, held between Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and London, England, also used Shure equipment.
By the mid-1990s, according to the Journal of Commerce, exports comprised 35 percent of Shure's total teleconferencing systems sales. Foreign markets had long been important to Shure. For years it had been active in England, Western Europe, and Japan. In the early 1990s, soon after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, Shure began distributing its products in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. Later in the decade, it expanded into Ecuador, Paraguay, Guatemala, and Vietnam. By 1995, China was Shure's main export market, accounting for 22 percent of its total foreign sales. At this time, the company began moving some of its production out of the United States. In an effort to keep its labor costs as low as possible, Shure built plants for the assembly of microphones and phono cartridges in Agua Prieta and Juarez, Mexico.
Shure's microphone line was refined and expanded in the 1990s. It finally entered the burgeoning wireless market it had given up in the 1950s when it abandoned the Vagabond. Shure had nevertheless been active in the wireless market, albeit indirectly, through much of the previous decade, during which it had produced microphone heads for other manufacturers' wireless systems. The company's leaders eventually realized that the huge numbers of heads they were producing represented an equally vast market they could be selling to directly. Its "L" series of modern wireless mics was introduced in 1990. Shure also actively promoted its line of high-performance Beta microphones first developed in 1989. Because of their improved design, these microphones reproduced vocals with even greater fidelity than the old "SM" series. In addition, the new mics possessed hardened grills and sturdier shock mounts.
A third new market that Shure aggressively courted in the 1990s was sound contractors. Shure products had always been favorites of these businesses which specialized in the design and installation of sound systems in churches, auditoriums, and similar buildings. Shure developed a new line of products specifically for the needs of sound contractors.
In 1995, at the age of 93, after leading the company for seventy years, Sidney Shure passed away. He had given up running the day-to-day operations of the company in 1981, when a new president was named. He remained as chairman of the Shure board of directors until his death, when his widow, Rose Shure, succeeded him. Mr. Shure had been an individual of broad and continuing interests. He was a renowned collector of stamps who eventually donated much of his collection to the Smithsonian Institution. He trained himself to be an accomplished photographer. He had a longstanding interest in languages and began learning Hebrew when he was in his eighties. His modest, unassuming nature helped create a family-like atmosphere for workers at Shure.
A Long History Continues into the 2000s
When Shure Incorporated celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2000, the difficulties of the 1980s were forgotten. Microphones, wired and wireless, were once again the central focus of the company's business. The line that had included about 50 various mics in the 1950s had grown to some 300 items in 2000. The introduction of inexpensive digital recording gear--especially for home recording--led to the growing popularity of Shure's KSM line of mics, which were designed especially for recording. By 2003, Shure had lines of microphones for broadcasters, sound contractors, recording studios, live sound, two-way communication, and paging. Other new products were also beginning to gain in popularity, including a selection of in-ear monitors for live performance situations. In the spring of 2003, Shure left its longtime headquarters in Evanston for a futuristic building designed by architect Helmut Jahn in Niles, Illinois.
Principal Subsidiaries: Shure UK; Shure Europe; Shure Asia.
Principal Competitors: Sennheiser; Audio Technica; Telex Communications Inc.
Statistics:
Private Company
Founded: 1925
Employees:1,400
Sales:$245 million (2001 est.)
NAIC: 334419 Other Electronic Component Manufacturing; 334310 Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing
Key Dates:
1925: Shure Radio Company is founded in Chicago by Sidney N. Shure.
1928: Shure's brother Samuel J. Shure the joins firm, which is renamed Shure Brothers Company.
1932: The company introduces its first microphone, the Shure Two-Button Carbon Microphone.
1933: Production of the Model 40D, the company's first high-end microphone.
1937: The company's first phonograph cartridge is introduced.
1939: The Model 55 Unidyne microphone is launched.
1941: The company begins production of microphones for the War Department during World War II.
1946: The company is renamed Shure Brothers Inc.
1953: The Vagabond, the world's first wireless microphone system, is introduced.
1966: The SM58, the most popular microphone in Shure's history, is introduced.
1968: The M67 battery-powered mixer makes live remote news coverage possible for broadcasters.
1989: Beta microphone line is launched with the introduction of the Beta 58 microphone.
1990: Shure re-enters the wireless microphone market.
1995: Founder and chairman of the board Sidney Shure dies at the age of 93.
1999: The company is renamed Shure Inc.
2000: Shure celebrates it 75th anniversary.
2003: Company headquarters are moved to Niles, Illinois.
KEY EXECUTIVES
Mr. Santo LaMantia
Chief Executive Officer and President
Ms. Theresa Quinn-Accurso
Director of Global Finance
Mr. Ron Thompson
Vice President of Operations
Age: 87
Mr. Paul Erbach
Chief Information Officer and Vice President
Ms. Christine Schyvinck
Executive Vice President of Global Marketing & Sales
Address:
5800 West Touhy Avenue
Niles, Illinois 60714
U.S.A.