as tsx et industry broadcast engineering founded scarborough ontario 1966 founder dieter evertz rose evertz headquarters burlington ontario canada area served worldwide key people romolo magarelli ceo douglas debruin chairman rakesh patel cto products electronics revenue cad 293.4 million 2012 net income cad 59.5 million 2012 total assets cad 431.8 million 2012 number of employees 2200 website www.evertz.com evertz microsystems limited is a canadian developer and manufacturer of electronic systems for the broadcast and film industry . evertz was originally founded in 1966 as dynaquip electron devices limited by dieter and rose evertz specializing in equipment for film timecode and closed captioning . the company was renamed evertz microsystems limited from evertz technologies limited in 1983 . in 1997 it was purchased and reorganized by a group of former employees of leitch technology now owned by harris corporation . 1 evertz held an initial public offering in june 2006 and raised 67 million cad 2 listing its stock on the toronto stock exchange . in june 2011 evertz announced it would buy back as many as 3.8 million of its 74.47 million outstanding shares . 3 in 2008 evertz was awarded the philo t. farnsworth corporate achievement award which is a primetime emmy award given by the academy of television arts & sciences to honor companies which have significantly affected the state of television and broadcast engineering over a long period of time . 4 evertz acquired router manufacturer quartz electronics in 2005 5 and software developer pharos communications in 2011 . 6 references edit evertz hopes tsx gives it a profile for growth . globe and mail . retrieved 19 july 2011 . tv hardware maker evertz completes 67 million ipo . globe and mail . retrieved 19 july 2011 . evertz technologies to buy back 3.8 mln shares . reuters inc. retrieved 19 july 2011 . evertz celebrates philo t. farnsworth emmy award . business information group . retrieved 20 july 2011 . evertz to acquire quartz . tv technology . retrieved 20 july 2011 . michael grotticelli . evertz acquires automation vendor pharos . penton media inc. retrieved 20 july 2011 . this article about a canadian corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title evertz microsystems & oldid 683208604 categories companies listed on the toronto stock exchangeelectronics companies of canadacompanies based in burlington ontariocompanies established in 1966canadian company stubs1966 establishments in ontariohidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 28 september 2015 at 21 05 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view