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Grand opening for Bose Professional headquarters planned for May 20
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A new business spun off of the Bose Corporation is set to open its doors on South Street with a grand opening this May.
Bose Professional will be celebrating the opening of its offices at 117 South Street on May 20. The day will feature a ribbon cutting, tours of a museum inside the building and a luncheon. [Editor’s note: These events are private.]
“We’re very, very excited about this,” said Mark Williams, manager of global communications for Bose Professional.
“It’s really the end of this huge landing for us with a dozen new global offices and now a global headquarters,” he added.
Bose Professional was its own division of the Framingham-based Bose Corporation until the spring of 2023, Williams explained. Taken private by Transom Capital, the company solely focuses on professional audio solutions for commercial clients.
“It’s really a different market [for the Bose Corporation],” Williams explained, noting that the former parent company’s primary focus is on home audio solutions.
Williams says his company has occupied the South Street office building for a few weeks and is “driving toward” its grand opening.
As to why the company chose Hopkinton for its global headquarters, Williams said that the town was a “clear choice.”
“Keeping it local and right for everybody was the right move,” he said.
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Michelle McDonald of Animal Adventures lets kids get up close and personal with a kinkajou during The Friends of Hopkinton’s Family Fling event on Saturday. Click here for more photos.
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“Bose Professional” has nothing to do with the Bose Corporation we all know and love. Selling off this important component of sound reproduction will prove a costly mistake for both Bose, and the new unBose entity. Dr. Amar Bose often recognized the high quality science being done by the professionally driven engineers, and their work gave Bose a lot of their current technology. This includes the noise reduction headphones now so ubiquitous in the audio world. It was Bose Professional that invented this technology, first used by NASA and the aircraft industry.
Dr. Bose would not approve of this kind of cavalier change. He often told staff “Everwhere there is great sound is a place for Bose audio”.