Icom America Company Profile
Icom America's parent company, Icom, Inc., was
founded in 1954 by Tokuzo Inoue in Osaka, Japan. Icom Incorporated is a publicly
held Japanese corporation; its stock is traded on the Tokyo and Osaka Stock Exchange.
Icom, Inc. began as an engineering and manufacturing company in the business of
designing, engineering, and manufacturing highly advanced, compact solid-state radio
equipment for use in the Amateur industry. The company's product line has since
expanded to include communications equipment and products based in the Marine, Avionics
and Land Mobile industries.
Icom Inc. has sales offices and branch offices all over the world including Australia,
Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, Canada and of course the U.S. Icom America
is Icom Inc.'s largest subsidiary company and is the U.S. distributor. Icom America
was incorporated in October of 1979 and has continued to gain market share in each
of its five major divisions: Amateur, Aviation, Land Mobile, Marine and Receivers.
Amateur
Icom is one of three companies who dominate the worldwide amateur radio market.
Currently, Icom enjoys a significant market share position in the amateur business,
both worldwide and in the U.S. Currently Icom makes amateur radio products for use
in long and short-range communications. Icom also makes advanced technology products
allowing worldwide communication relayed through space satellites owned by amateur
organizations and manufactures a series of short-wave receivers used for hobby,
industrial and government applications.
Aviation
Icom has introduced aircraft handheld, mobile and base radios for use onboard and
in field aviation use. These radios are used as primary ground communication as
well as ground to air and backup aircraft communication equipment. Icom introduced
the first navigation handheld, which also provides navigation information and direction
location information. Icom has a current market share in the 50% range.
Land Mobile
Icom joined the land mobile industry approximately nine years ago. This equipment
is used in such areas as fire, public safety activities, as well as security, construction
and farming communication. Icom currently supplies the radio system used by the
U.S. Army for inter-squad communication known as the Soldier Intercom System.
Marine
Icom has successfully introduced a series of communications equipment for use in
the marine industry. Icom's equipment includes long range, ship-to-shore, side band
transceivers for worldwide communications from shipboard operations as well as short
range VHF communications equipment. In addition, Icom has produced a series of highly
advanced, very compact, handheld transceivers for use in communication on marine
vessels as well as between marine vessels and shore-to marine applications. While
Icom enjoys significant market share in the industry (top three position) Icom has
also won numerous awards for its marine VHF handheld radios as decided and voted
by the marine dealers Independent Dealer Association - NMEA. This is a highly prestigious
award and reflects the industry's confidence in Icom handheld technology and quality.
Receivers
Icom's communication receivers range from a small, pocketsize handheld to top-of-the-line
super wide range receivers like the IC-R9000L. Icom also developed the unique receiver
in a box (PCR1000) which turns your PC into a receiver. Icom continues to develop
and manufacture receivers using new and innovative technology.
Icom America Inc.
2380 116th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
Phone: (800) 872-4266
Fax: (425) 454-1509
Customer Service: (800) 426-7983
