Television Ltd.
22 Frith Street, London W1 (1925)
Motorgraph House, Upper St Martins Lane, London WC (Feb. 1926)
133 Long Acre, London WC (Feb. 1928)

Baird Television Development Company
(1927)

Baird International Television Ltd.
133 Long Acre, London WC2 (ca. 1928)

The history of Baird is complicated and marked by multiple takeovers, mergers, and renamings and involves more than one company only.

Baird today is a brand that is used for consumer electronics such as LCD and plasma TVs.

1925:
Television Ltd. was registered on 11th June 1925 with John Logie Baird as 'electrical engineer' and W.E.L. Day as 'merchant'.

1927:
Founding of Baird Television Development Company to acquire the rights to John Logie Baird's television system from Television Ltd.

1928:
Incorporation of Baird International Television Ltd., with a controlling interest in Baird Television Development.

1930:
Baird International absorbed Baird Television Development and changed its name to Baird Television Ltd. In the same year, Scophony Ltd. was founded by Solomon Sagall with the goal of developing the system invented by G.W. Walton. Partners are Gaumont British, Ferranti Electric, and Oscar Deutsch (chairman of Odeon Theatres).

1939:
Baird announces that from June on they will undertake all manufacturing themselves and cease working with Bush Radio.
Scophony gets active in the USA, opening an office in New York City and beginning demonstrations and other activities preliminary to establishing a manufacturing and distributing business there.

1940:
Baird Television is acquired by Cinema-Television Ltd., part of Gaumont-British.

1942:
Scophony, after getting into financial trouble, enters financing contracts with American motion picture and television interests, including Paramount and General Precision.

1948:
Scophony acquires John Logie Baird Ltd. and the associate company W. Andrew Bryce and Co., manufacturer of transformers and components. A new factory at Wells is set up and television production at the Wembley factory is expanded.

1949:
The company is renamed Scophony-Baird Ltd.

1952:
The company changes its name to Baird Television Ltd.

1960:
Baird is acquired by Radio Rentals.

1961:
The now defunct Baird brand is used by Radio Rentals for television and radio receiving sets.

1968:
Radio Rentals is taken over by Thorn Electrical Industries.

1998:
Caversham Finance Limited, previously a subsidiary of Thorn Group plc, is taken private.

2005:
The name Baird is registered with seniority date 17. Nov. 1989 by Caversham Trading Ltd., 5 Hercules Way, Leavesden Park, Watford WD25 7GS. This company is incorporated on 17 March 2005. Caversham Finance Ltd. does retailing and rental business as BrightHouse (founded in 1994).

2007:
Caversham is bought by private equity company Vision Capital.