Raymarine UK Ltd. is the UK operating entity of the Raymarine marine-electronics brand, headquartered at Marine House, Cartwright Drive, Fareham, Hampshire (PO15 5RJ). The Raymarine brand traces to Raytheon's marine division (first echo depth sounder, 1923) and to Nautech, founded 1974; the Raymarine name was adopted following a 2001 management buyout of Raytheon Marine backed by HgCapital, with a London Stock Exchange listing in December 2004. Raymarine UK Limited itself was incorporated on 31 October 2002 (company no. 04578449). It is not publicly traded: after financial distress and administration in 2010, Raymarine was acquired by FLIR Systems, and since Teledyne's 2021 acquisition of FLIR it sits within Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY) as part of the Teledyne Marine / Teledyne FLIR group. Companies House data puts the UK entity at roughly 186 employees (other trackers list a 201–500 band); filed turnover figures differ sharply across aggregators, so no reliable revenue figure can be confirmed.
Products and operations. Raymarine designs and manufactures marine electronics for the recreational boating and light commercial marine markets. Product lines include radar, autopilots, GPS/chartplotters, instruments, fishfinders/sonar, thermal night-vision cameras, VHF communications and integrated onboard systems, sold through a global dealer and distributor network. This is a genuine operating manufacturer, not a patent-assertion vehicle.
Litigation posture. The tracked record shows 0 cases as plaintiff and 1 as defendant — the profile of an operating company being attacked rather than an active enforcer. The single appearance is a Section 337 complaint at the U.S. International Trade Commission, not a district-court action, so the Eastern District of Texas venue pattern common to NPE suits does not apply here.
Notable case. Furuno Electric Co., Ltd. et al. v. Garmin Ltd. et al. (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-900), filed 23 September 2013. Furuno asserted U.S. Patents 6,084,565, 6,424,292, 7,161,561 and 7,768,447 — covering navigation, radar and display/mapping systems — against Garmin, Navico, Raymarine Inc. (Nashua, NH) and Raymarine UK Ltd. The investigation was terminated as to Navico (April 2014) and Garmin (June 2014) on settlement, and as to the Raymarine respondents in August 2014, also based on settlement; Furuno filed parallel district-court claims in Oregon.