10 l April 2014
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Celestion honours long service staff at PL+S
“IT’S AMAZING that a speaker company has come right through to 2014 and is still very successful,” said Celestion managing director Nigel Wood at a presentation honouring two of its key staff on the second day of the Frankfurt show. The Ipswich-based loudspeaker manufacturer was celebrating the occasion of its 90th anniversary of building components at Prolight + Sound.
Consulting engineer Ian
White was presented with a 30 years’ long service award by Ian Doggett (MD, Vox Amplification).
“Ian has been one of the most
influential speaker designers of the last generation, certainly for all of us as customers or suppliers,” said Doggett. “I can’t say it feels like 30
years, but to some at Celestion it certainly does!” joked White in reply. “In the last decade, the company is more focused than it’s ever been, and that’s down to the current team, and to Nigel, so we look forward to a great future.” Receiving an even more
impressive award – for 40 years of service – was Dee Potter. Wood revealed that, since the days she started with the
company on 6 February 1974, Potter had built, or supervised the building of, over eight million speakers. Jon Ellery, MD of Marshall Amplification, presented the award to the production manager, who was visiting PL+S for the first time ever. “Eight million speakers? Nigel, I want 50p for every one…” she announced to cheers from the assembled guests. Potter went on to cut a cake
specially baked in the shape of a subwoofer. At Prolight + Sound, Celestion
unveiled the FTX range of coaxial loudspeakers, as well as the new CDX14-3030 ¼-inch
Ian White has been there 30 years...
ferrite compression driver. Early speaker designs from the company’s long history were on display, too. John Paice, marketing/artist relations for the company, said
..but Dee won the cake-cutting honours
Celestion was currently selling around “1,000 compression drivers a day”, with the target for the year 2014-2015 set at “half a million”.
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