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Orange wins The Queen’s Award For Enterprise and International Trade 2006 and 2009 and once again in 2012 www.queensawards.org.uk, Nov 09 “The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are the UK’s most prestigious awards for business performance. They recognise and reward outstanding achievement by UK companies. The Awards are made each year by the Queen, on the advice […]
The OPC was a computer designed and built for a specific purpose: just as you have PC’s for gamers – the OPC was a computer made for musicians by musicians. Charlie Cooper – Marketing Director I’ve always been interested in building computers and media centres. A few years ago my dad, (Charlie is Cliff’s youngest […]
ORANGE UK In 2009 Orange moved their headquarters to a much larger facility and office complex in the UK located in Borehamwood in Hertfordshire. It is the home of the Orange Custom Shop where we pioneered and developed the Tiny Terror amplifiers and Isobaric bass cabinet design. There is a separate department dedicated to transformer […]
Cliff Cooper – Founder & CEO One day in 1978 – without giving any notice – building contractors appeared on the scene, closed off New Compton Street and prepared for demolition work of all the shops… including ours. Customers and suppliers could not enter the street and the shops couldn’t trade. A good friend of […]
Emperor Rosko Cliff Cooper – Founder & CEO Rosko is a very energetic larger-than-life character – even by DJ standards! He was adamant that his PA had to be the loudest as well as the best. When Orange upgraded it to 4000 watts he was overjoyed. Unfortunately, the council health inspectors weren’t so pleased because […]
Landing the deal for Orange equipment to be used exclusively onstage at the MIDEM shows was a real coup for us…. It was where Stevie Wonder first tried and loved our amps, and in effect launched Orange onto the world stage. Cliff Cooper – Founder & CEO MIDEM (Marché International du Disque et de l’Edition […]
Cliff Cooper – Founder & CEO We originally had the idea of building the biggest speaker cabinet in the world so we built two guitar cabinets that were 24×12”. We also built a 10×15” bass cab. We used these cabinets at outdoor festivals and we received massive press coverage. Those cabs certainly sounded great and were […]
Cliff Cooper – Founder & CEO After we set up Orange Hire in 1969 we supplied Orange equipment to a lot of English and American bands when they worked in Germany and the rest of Europe on tours organised by the major German promoters, Lippmann and Rau. People working in the German music business soon […]
In early 1969, we introduced cartoon comic strip advertising, which was very successful and after a short time, attracted a devoted following – many fans actually wrote to us with their own ideas for the cartoons. They had a tongue-in-cheek humour, and often exposed emerging situations in our business.
Cliff Cooper – Founder & CEO In the early years we used our name on all sorts of selected products which were music-industry related and which we believed there would be a demand for. We started with the Orange DJ Consoles. Then guitar and bass strings, which sold very well. The microphones came next: anti-feedback […]