B&G
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| Company type | Privately Held Owned by Navico |
|---|---|
| Industry | Marine Electronics |
| Founded | Lymington, England (1956) |
| Headquarters | United Kingdom ,  United Kingdom |
Area served | Global |
Key people | Knut Frostad, President & CEO[1] |
| Products | Zeus, Vulcan, WTP, H5000, Triton, ForwardScan Sonar, HALO Radar, VHF |
| Website | www.bandg.com |
B&G, formerly known as Brookes and Gatehouse, is a developer and manufacturer of instrumentation, autopilot and navigation systems for racing and cruising sailing yachts.
History
[edit]The company was founded in 1956 by Major R.N. Gatehouse and Ronald Brookes who had formed a partnership the previous year to develop and manufacture a new radio direction finder (RDF) for use by private sailing boats.
Over the course of the 1950s, B&G, then based in Lymington, extended its activities into echo sounders and in 1960 produced its first speedometer.
The company has changed hands a number of times during and is now a brand of Navico, a Norwegian-based company in the marine electronics sector.
Products
[edit]B&G is primarily known for producing sailing instrumentation systems that collect and analyse data relating both to a yacht's performance and the external conditions in which it is sailing. T
Alongside instrumentation, B&G also designs and manufactures autopilots for sailing yachts.
In 2010 B&G re-entered the navigation market with their Zeus range of multi-function displays.
See also
[edit]- Navico, parent company of B&G
- Simrad Yachting, another Navico brand
- Lowrance Electronics, another Navico brand
- C-MAP, another Navico brand
References
[edit]- ^ "Navico Appoints New President & CEO". Archived from the original on 2007-07-28. Retrieved 2007-09-23.
