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2002 (ELSA Technology Inc.)
ELSA Technology Inc. in Taiwan was founded in 2003, not 2002. Multiple contemporaneous sources — including a company bio and reporting from 2004 — place its founding in 2003.
Full reasoning
The infobox date for ELSA Technology Inc. is off by a year.
Multiple sources identify the Taiwanese company as having been founded in 2003:
- heise online reported on April 1, 2004 that in Taiwan, "Dort hat sich im Jahr 2003 die Elsa Technology Inc. gegründet" ("ELSA Technology Inc. was founded there in 2003").
- iThome's company-profile text for ELSA states: "艾爾莎科技股份有限公司(ELSA Technology Inc.)成立於2003年" ("ELSA Technology Inc. was established in 2003").
- A Taiwanese business-listing page that reproduces registry data lists 核准設立日期 2003-11-20 (approved establishment date: 2003-11-20) for 艾爾莎科技股份有限公司 / ELSA Technology Inc.
So the specific infobox entry 2002 (ELSA Technology Inc.) is contradicted by both contemporaneous reporting and registry-derived company information. The rest of the article body on this page also says the Taiwanese company was founded in 2003, which reinforces that the infobox year is inconsistent.
3 sources
- Elsa spricht nun Chinesisch | heise online
Dort hat sich im Jahr 2003 die Elsa Technology Inc. gegründet, welche die Markenrechte an Elsa zuvor von Thomas Georg, Insolvenzverwalter der ursprünglichen Elsa AG, gekauft hatte.
- 艾爾莎科技與捷元攜手合作 邀您一起,節源愛地球愛心園遊會 | iThome
艾爾莎科技股份有限公司(ELSA Technology Inc.)成立於2003年,致力於提供客戶全面且專業的行銷服務和技術支援。
- 艾爾莎科技股份有限公司的統編、統一編號: 80543836
核准設立日期 | 2003-11-20 ... 公司名稱 | 艾爾莎科技股份有限公司
It was founded in 1980 as ELSA Technology AG
The original German company was not founded in 1980 as "ELSA Technology AG." Sources describe it as being founded in 1980 as ELSA Gesellschaft für elektronische Systeme mbH, with the AG form coming later.
Full reasoning
This sentence gets the original company's founding name and legal form wrong.
Contemporaneous and retrospective sources identify the original German company as ELSA Gesellschaft für elektronische Systeme mbH in 1980, not ELSA Technology AG:
- Computerwoche referred to the company in 1991 as "Elsa, Gesellschaft für elektronische Systeme mbH," showing the company used the mbH name/legal form in its early years.
- CRN summarizes the firm's history by stating: "Die ELSA Gesellschaft für elektronische Systeme mbH wurde 1980 von Klaus Langner und Andreas Steinkopf gegründet. 1998 folgte der Börsengang der ELSA AG." In other words, the company was founded in 1980 as an mbH, and the AG came later.
So the claim that it was "founded in 1980 as ELSA Technology AG" is inaccurate on both the company name and the legal form at founding.
2 sources
- Fax-Software für Elsa-Modems im Netzbetrieb | Computerwoche
AACHEN (pi) - Der Aachener Modemhersteller Elsa, Gesellschaft für elektronische Systeme mbH, bietet jetzt eine Netz-Version für die Faxsoftware seiner SendFax-Modems an.
- Devolo und Bintec Elmeg - vom Wandel im Netzwerkmarkt
Die ELSA Gesellschaft für elektronische Systeme mbH wurde 1980 von Klaus Langner und Andreas Steinkopf gegründet. 1998 folgte der Börsengang der ELSA AG am Neuen Markt.
its Taiwanese subsidiary was founded in 2003 as ELSA Technology Inc.
ELSA Technology Inc. was described by contemporaneous reporting as a new Taiwanese company created after the ELSA brand rights were sold there in 2003 — not as a subsidiary of the original German company.
Full reasoning
The phrase "its Taiwanese subsidiary" is misleading.
Contemporaneous reporting says the ELSA brand rights were sold by the insolvency administrator of the original German ELSA AG to buyers in Taiwan, and then a new company, ELSA Technology Inc., was founded there in 2003:
- heise online wrote that the Taiwan-based company was founded in 2003 and had purchased the ELSA trademark rights from the insolvency administrator of the original ELSA AG.
- Golem.de likewise reported that the naming rights were sold in 2003 to Taiwan, where ELSA Technology Inc. was founded in the same year.
That description matches a successor/new company formed after a sale of brand rights, not a subsidiary of the bankrupt German parent. So the article's wording is inaccurate about the corporate relationship, even though the 2003 founding year itself is correct.
2 sources
- Elsa spricht nun Chinesisch | heise online
Dort hat sich im Jahr 2003 die Elsa Technology Inc. gegründet, welche die Markenrechte an Elsa zuvor von Thomas Georg, Insolvenzverwalter der ursprünglichen Elsa AG, gekauft hatte.
- Elsa - Golem.de
Das Namensrecht verkaufte 2003 der Insolvenzverwalter der alten ELSA AG nach Taiwan, wo noch im gleichen Jahr die ELSA Technology Inc. gegründet wurde.