Alba (brand)

This article is about the British consumer electronics brand. For the unrelated watch brand, see Alba (watch). For all other uses as a brand, see Alba (disambiguation) § Brand.

Alba
IndustryConsumer electronics
Founded1917; 107 years ago (1917)
FounderAlfred Balcombe
Defunct2022; 2 years ago (2022)
Headquarters
Milton Keynes
OwnerSainsbury's
Alba-branded reel-to-reel tape recorder made in Japan

Alba was a British consumer electronics brand used for budget electronics.[1]

Established in 1917, Alba acquired its rival Bush in 1988, and was bought by the Home Retail Group, the parent company of the retailer Argos in 2008, who in turn was taken over by J Sainsbury plc in 2016.[1] Products bearing the brand name were primarily sold at Argos, and to a lesser extent at Sainsbury's. The Alba brand was quietly dropped by Sainsbury's in 2022 and replaced by its more upmarket sister brand Bush, which has a similar history.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b c Martin Pratt. "Should you buy a Bush, JVC, Logik or Technika TV?". Which. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Never mind the badge on the front - who REALLY made your TV set?". The Yorkshire Post. 5 September 2016.