Hand Held Products
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Hand Held Products (formerly HHP) manufactures a range of data collection and communication products designed for mobile, on-site, and transaction processing applications.
The current company was created in a merger between the former Welch Allyn Data Collection, Inc. and Hand Held Products, Inc. in late 1999.
Welch Allyn Data Collection was formed in 1972 as a subsidiary of Welch Allyn, headquartered in Skaneateles Falls, New York, and by the 1990's was manufacturing a complete line of handheld bar code readers.
The original Hand Held Products company, established in 1983 in Charlotte, North Carolina, began life as a manufacturer of memory modules for Hewlett-Packard programmable calculators, but quickly came to the industry spotlight that same year, as a package delivery company by the name of Federal Express selected their Micro-Wand portable data collection device to begin its first major proof of delivery system for package tracking.
In 1997, the Hand Held Product's Dolphin portable computer was selected by the United States Postal Service to be part of their own proof of delivery system, although a third party provided the manufacturing for this deal, which was the largest single order in the history of the industry - 300,000 units.
Since the merger in 1999, the company has maintained its company headquarters in NY.
As of January 1, 2005, the company dropped HHP as its brand name and returned to its previous name Hand Held Products. (The legal company name has always been Hand Held Products, Inc.)
