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In the technologically charged marketplace of consumer electronics, Dynascan Corp. has always been content to copy inventions of other companies.
Now, almost by accident, Dynascan finds itself in the unaccustomed role of front-runner, selling several key high-tech products that are the envy of much larger competitors.
Chicago-based Dynascan has always distributed and marketed electronics goods in the U.S. that were made to its specifications by various manufacturing sources in the Orient. Suddenly, Dynascan is shipping some of those goods to unfamiliar markets in Europe and elsewhere,
Moreover, the company continues to hunt for its own manufacturing facilities in this country. Dynascan has never manufactured its own products before, on these shores or anywhere else. Most of the company's aggressive new ventures are benefiting the balance sheet so far, with the notable exception of last year's acquisition of loss-ridden Lloyd's Electronics, which has been slow to bear fruit.
But Wall Street analysts expect even Lloyd's-which, like Dynascan's Cobra division, markets consumer electronics-to turn the corner later this year.
Dynascan maintains a tiny research department-its budget was a minuscule $2 million last year-and has never apologized for...