Suny Electronics

Founded: 1991

Headquarters:

Tel Aviv, Israel

This teeny-tiny article needs some work. You can help us by expanding it.

Suny Electronics (סאני אלקטרוניקה), formerly known as just Suny (סאני) is an Israeli company started by Ilan Ben-Dov in 1991. Prior to the formation of Suny, Ilan Ben-Dov had been importing Sega video game products since about 1987. Suny started as retailer of video games from Sega (Mega Drive, Game Gear), Nintendo (Super Nintendo, Game Boy) and Famiclones (Family Game, Goodboy, Micro Genius, BS 550, Hitex etc.). In 1993 Suny became a public company and its shares are traded in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. From same year, they began to work as STV Sega Israel, until 1998, when they became the Israeli distributor of Samsung cell phones.

In March 2000 Suny began to provide internet accesses to mobile phone phone through the subsidiary GoNext. In August 1999 Suny began to operate a website that called "achla". On January 2001 this website has merged with the website Tapuz, and few years later they founded 2 video websites "Flix" and "BlogTV". On August 2009 Suny accquired 51% shares of "partner communications" which operted the cellular provider "Orange" in Israel. As of 2018, Suny holds Real Estate in Romania.