History
| 1938 | Establishment of Videoton Company |
| 1955-1991 | The state owned company develops, manufactures and sells Videoton branded consumer electronics, IT and defence electronics products. |
| 1988–1990 | After the change in the political system the state-owned company lost its markets |
| 1991 | Privatisation: In a public bidding present shareholders and a Hungarian bank acquired the assets of the company. |
| 1992 | Re-structuring of Videoton. Introducing subcontracting, realisation of outsourcing/transfer projects for Consumer electronics, Automation and Automotive costumers. |
| 1996 | LBO: private shareholders took full control of the company |
| 1995-1997 | Acquisitions in Hungary for capacity expansion: new plants in Kaposvár, Jászberény, Törökszentmiklós, Kunhegyes, Salgótarján. Videoton enters the Household Appliance Industry. |
| 1998 | New strategy: Contract Manufacturing. Videoton offers complete end-to-end solution in this area including material procurement, part manufacturing, final assembly and testing, financing and engineering services. First businesses in Industrial Electronics started. |
| 1999 | Acquisitions of DZU AD in Stara Zagora in Bulgaria. Videoton becomes a regional CEM company. New business line: production support services for industrial firms on the Hungarian market. |
| 1999 | First high-tech venture capital investment. |
| 2002 | The largest independent EMS Company in the CEE region, in TOP 30 worldwide, TOP 10 in EU. Phase-out of defence electronics. |
| 2005 | Videoton starts to develop into an ODM company in some market segments. First investment in green-energy projects. |
| 2007 | First investment in healthcare projects. |
| 2009 | New location in Ukraine (Mukachevo) |
| 2010 | Opening to new markets like green energy or air engineering industry. Acquisition of STS Group ZRt., and Ventifilt ZRt. in Hungary. |
| 2011 | Acquisition of the direct majority ownership of STS Technology Kft., a former STS Group ZRt. subsidiary, which is specialized in the integration of high complexity machines. |
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