Gentex Corporation 
- US: Mirror maker maxes money (REG)
28th January 2010
Rear view mirror maker Gentex made a fourth-quarter profit of US$30m compared with a $10.4 loss a year ago.
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25th January 2010
The news last Friday morning had a lot of people talking. Johnson Controls beat Wall Street’s expectations with its fourth-quarter earnings, the first in a series of announcements that is expected, over the coming days, to produce a number of strong financial results for suppliers. In North America, 2010 will be a case of the “haves” and the “have-nots”, according to SupplierBusiness. - US: Gentex High-Beam Assist available on Lexus LS
20th November 2009
Gentex has announced that it is shipping interior and exterior auto-dimming mirrors and its SmartBeam High-Beam Assist (called Intelligent High Beams by the car maker) for the 2010 Lexus LS. - US: Gentex supplies automatic high-beam assist on Range Rover
21st May 2009 - US: Gentex supplies rearview mirrors on Lexus RX
17th April 2009 - RESEARCH ANALYSIS: Review of rearview mirrors
8th December 2008 - US: Gentex warns of tougher future as sales and income fall
22nd October 2008 - RESEARCH ANALYSIS: Market review of rearview mirrors
1st June 2007 - US: Mazda combines rear-view camera display and mirror (REG)
5th April 2007 - US: Mirror maker sales up, profit falls (REG)
19th October 2006
Background
Updated: 31st October 2005
Founded in 1974, Gentex Corporation is an international company that provides high-quality products to the worldwide automotive industry and North American fire protection market. Based in Zeeland, Michigan, the Company develops, manufactures and markets interior and exterior automatic-dimming automotive rearview mirrors that utilize proprietary electrochromic technology to dim in proportion to the amount of headlight glare from trailing vehicle headlamps. Many of the mirrors are sold with advanced electronic features, and approximately 95 percent of the Company's revenues are derived from the sales of auto-dimming mirrors to nearly every major automaker in the world.
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