Fox Electronics

What Fox Electronics does

Fox Electronics is a Fort Myers, Florida-based supplier of standard and custom frequency control products, with a product line centered on crystals and crystal filters. Founded in 1979, the company has operated in the passive electronic components industry for over four decades, serving electronics OEMs and manufacturers that require timing and frequency reference components in their designs. Its product portfolio spans both catalog-standard devices and custom-engineered variants, addressing customer requirements across a range of frequency and packaging specifications typical of industrial, communications, and consumer electronics applications.

The company's go-to-market model is B2B components distribution, with design-in engagement as the primary commercial motion given the embedded nature of frequency control devices in customer bill-of-materials. Fox employs between 1,001 and 5,000 people, indicating a mid-sized manufacturing operation with in-house production, engineering, and likely global sales reach through electronic component distributors. Pricing is not publicly disclosed in the available sources, consistent with industry norms for negotiated OEM supply agreements.

In December 2020, Fox Electronics received an investment from The Riverside Company, a private equity firm, marking a transition to PE ownership. Gene Trefethen serves as President, providing executive leadership. The combination of long operating history, custom and standard product offerings, and PE backing positions the company as a stable mid-market player in the frequency control components category, though detailed financial, customer, and product-line data remain undisclosed in the available sources.

Name

Fox Electronics

Website

https://foxonline.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1979

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Fox Electronics, founded in 1979 and headquartered in Fort Myers, Florida, is a supplier of standard and custom frequency control products — primarily crystals and crystal filters — serving electronics OEMs and manufacturers through B2B design-in engagement and component distribution.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Frequency Control Components

NAICS

Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (33451)

SIC

Electronic & Other Electrical Equipment (No Computer Equip) (3600)

akta.pro primary industry

Frequency Control Components (Quartz Crystals/Oscillators/Resonators) (HDAHANAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Passive Filters & RF Passives (LC Filters/Diplexers/Baluns/Attenuators) (HDAHANAG)

Keywords

• Frequency control products
• Crystal oscillators
• Crystal filters
• Timing devices
• Electronic components

Headquarters

HQ city

Fort Myers

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Core offering

Fox Electronics is a supplier of standard and custom frequency control products. The company manufactures and distributes crystals and crystal filters used in electronic applications requiring precise timing and signal control.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Standard Frequency Control Products
• Custom Frequency Control Products
• Crystal Oscillators
• Crystal Filters

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Abracon: Direct competitor supplying standard and custom frequency control products including crystals, oscillators, and filters into similar industrial, automotive, and communications OEM customers.
• ECS Inc. International: Mid-sized manufacturer of quartz crystals, oscillators, and ceramic filters with a comparable catalog-plus-custom go-to-market model serving the same OEM customer base.
• Crystek Corporation: Specialty supplier of precision frequency control products including crystals and crystal filters, competing directly with Fox in RF and timing applications.
• Rakon: Global frequency control product manufacturer competing across telecommunications, industrial, and consumer markets with comparable crystals, oscillators, and filtering solutions.
• TXC Corporation: Large Asian volume manufacturer of frequency control components, competing with Fox across commodity and custom crystal/oscillator product lines.

Emerging players

• SiTime Corporation: Silicon MEMS oscillator specialist whose products increasingly substitute for quartz crystals in performance-sensitive applications, representing a structural competitive threat to Fox's quartz-centric portfolio.

Broad incumbents

• Murata Manufacturing: Global electronic components incumbent with a substantial frequency control product portfolio, competing with Fox on scale, technology breadth, and pricing across most end markets.
• Microchip Technology: Diversified semiconductor and timing-solutions supplier offering integrated oscillators and timing ICs that overlap with Fox's discrete frequency control offerings.
• Seiko Epson (Timing Devices): Established Japanese manufacturer of quartz crystals and oscillators with deep technology and scale advantages, competing across industrial and consumer timing applications.
• AVX Corporation (Kyocera): Broad passive and frequency control component manufacturer offering crystals, filters, and related products that overlap with Fox Electronics' portfolio across multiple end markets.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fox-electronics

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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