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LG.Philips Displays was a joint venture created in 2001 by
LG Electronics LG Electronics Inc. () is a South Korean Multinational corporation, multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation headquartered in Yeouido-dong, Seoul, South Korea. LG Electronics is a part of LG, LG Corporation, the fourth ...
of
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and
Philips Koninklijke Philips N.V. (), simply branded Philips, is a Dutch multinational health technology company that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, its world headquarters have been situated in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarter ...
Electronics of the
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in response to the maturing
cathode-ray tube A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a phosphorescent screen. The images may represent electrical waveforms on an oscilloscope, a ...
(CRT) market. It primarily manufactured CRTs used in traditional television sets. It was the world's largest manufacturer of CRTs. These two companies also operated another joint venture, LG.Philips LCD, which focused on LCD panels used in flat panel television sets and laptop computers. As of 2006, the company had run into bankruptcy and restarted under the same name with investments of a third party (
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). LG.Philips LCD was not affected by this bankruptcy. LG.Philips Displays shares were sold in the beginning of March 2007. The company name was changed to LP Displays on 1 April 2007. LP is a historic reference to the old parent companies LG and Philips. The company ended operations in December 2008 due to voluntary liquidation.According to company search conducted on https://www.e-services.cr.gov.hk. To reproduce, log in by selecting "unregistered services" or similar, where you will be asked for personally identifiable information. Then select search, and select Left partial search, then search "LP Displays". Then select the search result, then under "Please select if you want to perform other searches or order other products for this company" select image record then click on go. Then click proceed, then go. The company chose to wind up voluntarily at the end of December 2008.


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