The company’s new global headquarters are located at Compass East, the former Sheehan Memorial Hospital, at 425 Michigan Avenue, owned by McGuire Development Co., on Buffalo’s East Side. The tablet PC devices are primarily marketed to developing countries for educational purposes. While Bak USA is a very small step towards tackling this urgent problem, it is a step nonetheless: we can begin to contribute towards solving world illiteracy,” JP Bak said.īak is one of the first companies in the world to produce own-branded electronic tablets outside of Asia. We created Bak USA because we wanted to be able to put affordable products on the market which would help students learn all around the world, products that would last for a long time and that would truly make an impact where help was needed. “We have been blessed every step of the way and our journey is only beginning. Bak added.Ĭo-founder JP Bak said today’s grand opening represents much more than the establishment of the company’s world headquarters in Buffalo. I’d also like to say ‘thank you’ to all the local government and non-profit entities, as well as the countless individuals who have made us feel so at home here in Buffalo,” Ms. These connections are invaluable to cementing our social entrepreneurship model here in Buffalo and expanding it globally. “I would like to express my deepest thanks to the START-UP NY program for making it possible for Bak to be part of Buffalo’s high-tech transformation. “Today is a celebration of a dream come true for Bak USA and our 20 members of our company ‘family.’ In just six months, we’ve achieved so much and are poised to create the 100 jobs we promised to Buffalo in our first year and will likely double that goal,” said Ulla Bak, president, Bak USA. In the six months since receiving START-UP NY designation, the company has established its headquarters, trained its first operators and assembled the first 500 of the 80,000 tablets it anticipates producing in 2015. Buffalo, NY – Bak USA today held the official grand opening of its world headquarters, becoming one of the first companies in the world to assemble its own branded electronic tablets in America.
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