[ reprinted from Digest 970406 ]

When the American Wurlitzer firm stopped making jukeboxes in the United
States in 1974 (at Tonawanda, New York, at the old DeKleist factory site)
-- but kept going with pianos and other musical equipment -- they turned
the jukebox operations over to their German subsidiary.  When the German
jukebox production boomed, the German company, by then independent, went
into other coin-op operations, including vending machines.  They have
become one of Europe's leading coin machine makers.

So, American company to Germany, with German company now exporting
Wurlitzer jukeboxes to America.

An American marketing company with the Wurlitzer name is located in
New Jersey, with the German Wurlitzer company now a major supplier of
jukeboxes to the United States and the world.

What goes around comes around.

Dick Bueschel