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EKCO

British electronics and plastics company producing radio and television sets from 1924 until 1960
Organization business Q5323238

Facts

16 properties
Instance of
business, radio manufacturer, enterprise[3][4]
Inception
October 2, 1926[8]
Founder
Eric Kirkham Cole[5]
Headquarters location
Southend-on-Sea (1930–present)[6]
Country
United Kingdom[2]
Short name
EKCO[15]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
1960[9]
End time
1960[11]
Has works in the collection
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen[18]
Imported from
wholeness_audit_2026-05-02
Industry
consumer electronics industry[7]
Legal form
private company limited by shares (1926–1930), public limited company (1930–present)[13][14]
Official name
Eric Kirkham Cole Limited[12]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
NADD Wikidata project[17]
Owner of
Dynatron Radio Ltd (1954–present)[16]
Start time
1926[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en EKCO en EKCO Electronics Ltd en E. K. Cole Ltd en EK Cole Ltd en Ekcovision en Eric Kirkham Cole Limited
🔖 Identifiers · 6
VIAF cluster ID
152704539
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Ekco radio display.jpg ↗
Boijmans artist ID
5590
Freebase ID
/m/0404dv3
Museum of Modern Art artist ID
9259
Radiomuseum company ID
684

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Summary

EKCO is a business[1].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . radiomuseum.org. radiomuseum.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . radiomuseum.org. radiomuseum.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . boijmans.nl. Retrieved . boijmans.nl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . boijmans.nl. Retrieved . boijmans.nl. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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