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                            Introduction
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Tadiran refers to a former Israeli conglomerate, which was founded in
1962 by the merger of two companies, Tadir and Ran (itself founded as
a batteries manufacturer in 1932). The name of the company is a
joining of both companies’ names.

Through the years the company had interests in electronics, home
appliances (refrigeration and air conditioning), telecommunications,
batteries, medical systems and defence electronics.
The company does not exist as a conglomerate anymore. The brand name
survived through the former conglomerate's many spin-offs and sold
divisions. They include:

* Tadiran Telecom
* Tadiran Telecommunications
* Tadiran Batteries
* Tadiran Air Conditioners
* Tadiran Appliances
* Tadiran Electronic Systems
* Tadiran Spectralink
* Tadiran Communications
* Tadiran LifeCare
* Tadiran Telematics

These brands and business are described below.


                          Tadiran Telecom
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* Tadiran Telecom - a manufacturer of business telecommunications
equipment, privately held company owned by Afcon Industries which is
controlled by the Shlomo Group.


           Tadiran Batteries (owned by Saft Groupe S.A.)
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* Tadiran Israel TL-5151 3.6 Volt Lithium battery. Size: half
AATadiran Batteries -  One of the world's largest suppliers of Lithium
batteries. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Saft Groupe
S.A. of France, which was created in January 2004 when the Doughty
Hanson Funds bought the batteries business of Alcatel (who originally
purchased Tadiran Batteries in 2000).


Tadiran Air Conditioners, Tadiran Appliances (owned by Tadiran Holdings)
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Tadiran Appliances (also known as Tadiran Air Conditioners), was
acquired by the Carrier Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer
and distributor of heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC)
systems, itself a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation (UTC)
of the USA and a constitute of Dow Jones Industrial Average. Carrier
initially acquired 26% of the company in 1997 and took full ownership
of it in 2004.

In October 2009, Carrier sold Tadiran Appliances to Crystal Consumer
Products, a white goods distributor in Israel, which shortly
afterwards changed its name to Tadiran Holdings ().

In the past, Tadiran Appliances used to manufacture a wide range of
White goods, including: refrigerators and freezers; stoves and ovens;
TV sets (assembly of Italy's Voxon models) and Radio sets and Car
Radios. However, today only the Air conditioning business remains
active (and still has the highest market share by far in Israel).

In January 2021, Tadiran Appliances filed an international patent for
a new air conditioning system that purifies 99.999% of viruses, germs
and bacteria.


        Tadiran Telecommunications (merged with ECI Telecom)
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* Tadiran Telecommunications - was a manufacturer of networking
infrastructure solutions for carrier and service providers listed on
NASDAQ (NASDAQ: TTELF). In September 1998 Tadiran Telecommunications
merged with ECI Telecom Ltd. In July 2007 ECI Telecom was acquired by
a private equity group and,  after 25 years, has been delisted from
Nasdaq.


Tadiran Electronic Systems, Tadiran Spectralink, Tadiran Communications -> Elbit Systems
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* Tadiran Electronic Systems - a manufacturer of military electronic
equipment now part of the Elisra Group.
* Tadiran Spectralink - a supplier of advanced wireless communications
products for crewed and uncrewed aircraft, also part of the Elisra
Group.
* Tadiran Communications - a supplier of Military HF and VHF tactical
radios and communication systems
In July 2008 Tadiran Communications and Elbit Systems merged, which
brought all three of the above companies to exist under one group
(this since Elisra Group itself is a subsidiary of Elbit Systems).


        Tadiran LifeCare (owned by Aerotel Medical Systems)
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Tadiran LifeCare was a division within Tadiran Spectralink,
established to design and develop wireless monitoring solutions for
healthcare applications.  Tadiran LifeCare was acquired by Aerotel
Medical Systems in January 2007.


                    Ituran & Tadiran Telematics
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Ituran was established in 1994 by the Tadiran conglomerate to develop
and operate a service for locating stolen vehicles using a technology
that was originally developed for military use at Tadiran Telematics,
a subsidiary of Tadiran Communications. In 1995 Tadiran decided to
sell the Ituran concept to a group of investors for $250,000 USD.

In 1998, the company had an initial public offering on the Tel Aviv
Stock Exchange, raising the capital required to develop the service
overseas in the United States, Brazil and Argentina.

In November 1999, Ituran acquired  Tadiran Telematics, which continued
to manufacture the vehicle tracking systems Ituran was using for its
services, for $10 million. The acquisition enabled Ituran to reduce
the cost of the systems it sold. Ituran changed the company's name to
Telematics Wireless.

In 2004, Telematics Wireless won contracts to install and deploy
vehicle tracking systems in Korea and China, for local companies
developing a service similar to Ituran's.

In 2005, Ituran raised approximately $50 million in an initial public
offering on Nasdaq, which gave the company a value of $294 million.

In November 2007, Ituran sold Telematics Wireless to Singapore based
ST Electronics, part of the ST Engineering corporation, for $90
million.


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