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Electronics products...where are they made/designed?

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themadhippy:

--- Quote ---True, but they all are produced independently despite coming from the same factory. Waitrose, M&S etc had very differing requirements from the cheaper brands.
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wanna bet? i spent several weeks working in a factory and saw it with my own eyes,  the only difference is how its packaged,so waitrose cheapest brand is exactly the same as tescos cheapest,waitrose expensive is the same as aldis finest, apart from being in different packaging.Another clever trick is a brand advertising they dont make for any one else,no they dont, but they dont make it themselves either ,the product is made by there mother company who also churn out the same product for anyone who wants to buy it.

PlainName:
What gets me is how come Marmite and the various own-brand clones are so different. Must be the exception to prove the rule :)

AlbertL:
Somewhere I have a 1960s issue of Popular Electronics magazine that includes a quiz titled "The Geography of Electronics", where the reader has to match a company name to its home city.

It's interesting to see how that geography has changed over the years, and how certain regions became associated with certain types of products.  For example, I recall that a lot of companies making magnetic-tape recording equipment were based in the Los Angeles area, presumably because it was a center of the entertainment industry which was a big user of those products.
     

Faringdon:

--- Quote ---Gtech was started by Nick Grey  if his products are any thing related to other brands that would be VAX as he used to work for them.
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Yes thats right, VAX must have been quite an inspiring place, both Nick Grey, and Sir James Dyson, worked at/with  VAX at the same time, from 1990 to 1991.

I must admit i had been considering applying to Gtech for electronics work, but looking on linkedin, there is a long list of Gtech employees in UK, but only one employee that is obviously a serious electronics engineer in UK.

Apparently Nick Grey started Gtech, now a multi million pound company, with just £18k of savings, and an empty garage.....
https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/things-to-do/whats-on/ceo-interview-nick-grey-gtech-7243262

Does anyone know if the electronics engineering is now done mostly in China, or mostly in UK?
(forgive reference to UK, but i think its relevant to people from other countries in the West also, and even beyond that)

Faringdon:
....So Nick Grey appears to be an engineer at heart, so it would be shocking if Gtech has resorted to getting  most of its design and manufacture done in China. But is it?

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