Phung

Whether you are a small business owner or the office manager of a large company, you understand that office phones have to work. Despite the large move to email and instant communication over the Internet, telephones still hold a vital place in the office environment. One enterprise focused telephone manufacturer is Toshiba, a corporation that has a diverse background and a history spanning over a century.

Started in 1875, by founder Hisashige Tanaka, the company became Japans first manufacture of telegraphic equipment. As the company began to grow and diversify itself, it became the corporation we know today after the merging of two companies in 1939. Shibaura Seisakusho and Tokyo Denki created a new company called Tokyo Shibaura Denki, that later was nicknamed Toshiba. This became the official name in 1984.

Over the course of its lifetime, Toshiba Corporation has been responsible for many Japanese firsts. Such as the radar, the color video phone, the laptop personal computer and most recently HD-DVD players in 2006 that display up to 1080p resolution. Toshiba also manufactured Japans first electric washing machines and refrigerators in 1930.

As demand for Toshiba products increased throughout the United States, the corporation signed a contract in 2001 with Orion Electric, a large consumer video electronic maker and supplier, in order to meet the high demand. Since then, Toshiba announced the discontinuation of manufacturing traditional cathode ray tube television in favor of the new flat-panel digital televisions now in high demand.

Toshiba is currently the 7th largest integrated manufacturer of electric and electronic equipment in the world and is still well known for its laptops, televisions, HD DVD players, and telephone systems.

Gary Evans is CEO of Hi Line Supply, a Dallas-based telecommunications company with 20 years experience in finding Toshiba office telephones, selling Toshiba phones, and repairing Toshiba telephone systems. With a company at the forefront of telecommunication equipment, their services reach beyond Texas and the US to their international clients.