Another ghetto blaster
Oh look here, I bought another ghetto blaster because I don't already have enough radios.
I bought it for three reasons. Firstly, it's got that great 80's look to it with all those silver switches and the round speakers. Secondly, the cassette player works fine, the aerial is not broken, and the tuner really pulled in a lot of stations which I find hard to get on other radios. Most of these things are nearly destroyed by now. Third reason was that I haven't seen the name 'Candle' on anything this recent- the name was somewhat popular for Japanese shirt-pocket transistor radios in the 60's- but I've never seen it on anything else.
So I did some research on the company and found out that the company that owns the rights to the name in Canada is Jutan International (which would explain the JIL logo before the word 'Candle')... who also owns the rights to the Citizen name. Now, if you're familiar with watches, you'll know that a company called Citizen makes a range of watches; however that is a different company altogether.
Here's the best part:
So, which logo is for which, completely unrelated company? The one on the left is the electronics manufacturer... and the one on the right is the watch company! It appears that Jutan Int'l almost completely ripped off the Citizen logo, with one minor difference in that the 'C' is a bit higher up in theirs. I love how companies can get away with this stuff.
I bought it for three reasons. Firstly, it's got that great 80's look to it with all those silver switches and the round speakers. Secondly, the cassette player works fine, the aerial is not broken, and the tuner really pulled in a lot of stations which I find hard to get on other radios. Most of these things are nearly destroyed by now. Third reason was that I haven't seen the name 'Candle' on anything this recent- the name was somewhat popular for Japanese shirt-pocket transistor radios in the 60's- but I've never seen it on anything else.
So I did some research on the company and found out that the company that owns the rights to the name in Canada is Jutan International (which would explain the JIL logo before the word 'Candle')... who also owns the rights to the Citizen name. Now, if you're familiar with watches, you'll know that a company called Citizen makes a range of watches; however that is a different company altogether.
Here's the best part:
So, which logo is for which, completely unrelated company? The one on the left is the electronics manufacturer... and the one on the right is the watch company! It appears that Jutan Int'l almost completely ripped off the Citizen logo, with one minor difference in that the 'C' is a bit higher up in theirs. I love how companies can get away with this stuff.