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| Industry | Electronics |
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| Founded | 1932 |
| Founder | William J. Halligan |
| Headquarters |  Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Products | Radio equipment |
Number of employees | 2,500 (1952) |
The Hallicrafters Company manufactured, marketed, and sold radio equipment, and to a lesser extent televisions and phonographs, beginning in 1932. The company was founded by William J. Halligan and based in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
In 1966 Halligan sold the company to the Northrop Corporation and Halligan family involvement ended. Northrop ran the company until the early 1970s, but by this time, fierce Japanese competition was putting pressure on the US domestic electronics market. Northrop sold the company name (but kept the factory, by then located in Rolling Meadows, a Chicago suburb) in 1975, bringing non-military electronics production to an end, and turning the plant into Northrop Corporation's Defense Systems Division.