Speck Products

Speculative Product Design, doing business as Speck Products is a San Mateo, California-based company that makes protective cases for portable electronic devices including iPad, iPhone, MacBook, Android devices, Windows Phone devices, tablets and eReaders.[1] It became a subsidiary of Samsonite on 29 May 2014.[2] who later sold Speck to Telementum Global, LLC in July 2021.[3]

History

Speck was founded in 2001 by Ryan Mongan, David Law and Tony Lillios as an offshoot of Speck Design.

In 2006, Irene Baran joined Speck as CEO. She is a member of the Women in CE Hall of Fame.[4]

In May 2014, Samsonite purchased Speck Products for $85 million from VMG Partners.[5]

In July 2021, Telementum Global, LLC acquired Speck from Samsonite.[3]

Products

Speck Products makes cases such as the SmartFlex Card phone case[6] and the HandyShell tablet case.[7]

Other Speck cases include its CandyShell line, PixelSkin HD and FabShell for smartphones; FitFolio and SmartShell for tablets and eReaders; and SeeThru and SmartShell lines for MacBook.[8][9][10]

Presidio case range for smartphones and laptops was first introduced for the iPhone 7 in 2016, and has expanded to include most smartphones. These cases are thinner than the previous CandyShell line.[11]

Awards

• Speck was featured on the Inc. 5000 fastest growing private companies list in 2006,[12] 2007[13] and 2008,[14] and has been ranked as high as #41.
• Speck cases were chosen as iLounge's iPhone Case of the Year in 2009 (CandyShell for iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G),[15] 2010 (PixelSkin HD for iPhone 4),[16] 2011 (CandyShell Flip for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4)[17] and 2012 (CandyShell Flip for iPhone 5).[18]
• CandyShell Wrap for iPad 2 was named iLounge iPad Case of the Year for 2011.[17] This case was also selected as an International CES Innovations 2012 Design and Engineering Awards Nominee.
• SpeckProducts.com was named as a Webby Awards 2012 Honoree in the Best Practices category.[19]

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