Location and Facilities

Innes Corporation chose to locate their sales centre, warehouse facilities and technical support professionals in Hornsby - a conveniently accessible suburb of Sydney, Australia.

Hornsby was chosen having noted the high concentration of advanced technology companies as well as supporting manufacturing and component supply facilities within the area.

Positioned only 45 minutes drive from Sydney International Airport, Innes Corporation is ideally located to service both its local, Australian and international clients.

Our History

Prior to the establishment of the business, Managing Director John Innes worked on HF and VHF transmitters until the advent of television in Australia in 1956. Then he transferred his talents across to television.

He joined RCA, first as a field engineer installing TV transmitting antennas and transmitters, plus radio transmitters up to 100 kilowatts, and studio colour cameras, microwave, and video switching systems, to Australia and a number of overseas countries.

John held the position of Chief Engineer for RCA's Australian operation until his resignation from RCA. Projects during this period included building the Radio Australia transmitting station near Darwin, NT, Australia.

He subsequently worked for RCA on a consulting basis, including development work on RCA's 5 kilowatt solid state AM transmitter in their Meadowlands, Pennsylvania plant, and radio and TV transmitter installations in the Pacific and Asian areas.

Innes Corporation was established in 1977, serving both television stations and radio stations. After the Bond ownership of Channel 9 collapsed resulting in the banks taking ownership of the major channels, TV equipment sales almost disappeared and Innes Corporation's business turned its focus and expertise towards the radio industry.

In the early 1980s, major milestones were the securing of exclusive dealerships for Potomac Instruments Inc., Delta Electronics Inc. and CRL Systems Inc.

Innes Corporation captured one third of the AM Stereo market in Australia, including all the ABC stations that were converted to AM Stereo, using the the Delta Electronics product line. This was a larger market share than was taken from Motorola, the inventor of the system, in any other country.

Innes Corporation Today

The success of the business led to incorporation as a Proprietary Limited company in 1987. The radio services side of the business has been primarily built around antennas, transmitters and measuring instruments, including input equipment for these areas.

Innes Corporation have developed and manufactured program logging recorders, Microsoft certified professional PCI sound cards, AM/FM radio capture cards, processing equipment and audio watermarking software for film, TV and radio.

In recent times more and more international distributors have come on board and exports to Europe, the US, Canada and Asia are ensuring that the Innes Corporation Product line is taking the world by storm.