2000s

2006

• RadioShack ranked as number one in customer service among all consumer electronics retailers in a nationwide consumer perception survey by the Real People Ratings (December 2006)
• RadioShack Corporation Offers Free Shipping in New Ship-to-Store Program. (November 22)
• RadioShack's New Accurian(tm) HD Digital Radio(tm) Now Available in Nearly 2,400 Stores Nationwide and Online at RadioShack.com. (November 20)
• RadioShack Corporation and Powered, Inc. announce customers can take free online consumer electronics educational courses through http://learningcenter.radioshack.com. (October 18)
• RadioShack Corporation Names James Gooch as Chief Financial Officer. (July 31)
• RadioShack Corporation Board of Directors selects Julian Day to serve as chairman and chief executive officer of the company. (July 6)
• Skype®, the global Internet communications company, announces on June 21 that it is working with both RadioShack Corporation and the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States to provide U.S. service members and their families with Skype(tm) starter packs.
• Former RadioShack CEO Len Roberts announces his retirement as executive chairman of RadioShack Corporation effective May 18.
• President-Chief Operating Officer and Acting CEO Claire Babrowski presents a new management team structure to simplify reporting, narrow accountability and improve decision-making. (March 16)
• Axiom Telecom, Brightstar Corp., Dangaard Telecom, and RadioShack Corporation announce the formation of BRAXDA Telecom, a distribution, supply chain and retail alliance built to serve the wireless telecommunications industry worldwide. (March 6)
• RadioShack Corporation Board of Directors promotes Claire Babrowski to president and acting chief executive officer on Feb. 20, following the resignation of President and CEO David Edmondson. Babrowski had come to RadioShack in July 2005 as executive vice president-chief operating officer after 30 years with McDonald's Corporation.
• Fifteen-year-old Rachel Friesel's public service announcement, The Jungle, is released. The 30-second spot focuses on Internet safety and how parents and guardians need to help children protect themselves from online victimization through prevention education. (Jan. 17)
• RadioShack joins Cingular Wireless in an effort to sign up 1 million new subscribers to receive Wireless AMBER Alerts on wireless handsets and other devices. (Jan. 12)

RadioShack's World Head-quarters is located along the banks of the Trinity River in downtown Fort Worth, Texas.

2005

• RadioShack announces long-term partnerships with Sprint Nextel and Cingular Wireless.
• RadioShack Corporation commemorates grand opening of new Riverfront Campus World Headquarters in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. The campus boasts state-of-the-art technology in an environment that facilitates and encourages collaboration, teamwork, efficiency and innovation.
• RadioShack Corporation Board of Directors announces Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Leonard Roberts will continue as executive chairman and transition CEO role to David Edmondson. Edmondson, the company's president and chief operating officer, will become president and CEO on May 19, 2005.
• RadioShack to offer new plug-and-play portable home projector DVD theater system that creates a big-screen experience in the home

2004

• RadioShack Corporation premieres the winning public service announcement from its "Take Your StreetSentz All the Way to Hollywood" contest
• RadioShack Corporation honors its top business partners with the first-ever Innovation Awards during Worldwide I-CON Innovation Conference
• Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation and RadioShack Team Up to Launch National Cell Phone Recycling Week
• RadioShack Corporation Signs Multi-Year Agreement With SAM'S CLUB to Operate Wireless Kiosks
• RadioShack Corporation Retail Services Division Serves Business-to-Business Customers
• Sprint and RadioShack Corporation Sign Multi-Year Agreement for Operation of Retail Kiosk Program
• David Jun Crowned America's First Ever XMODS Racing League National Champion
• Santee, Calif., Man Gains Healthier Heart and LifeWise Heart truth Challenge $20,000 Grand Prize
• RadioShack Corporation Unveils Multi-Year Growth Strategy
• RadioShack Begins Offering Monster Brand Products
• RadioShack Selects National Winner of Public Service Announcement Competition for Teens
• RadioShack Corporation Named to IDG Computerworld Annual List of Best Places to Work in Information Technology.
• RadioShack and Universal Orlando Resort Offer "A Vacation From The Ordinary."
• Mobility Electronics and RadioShack Announce Shipments of New iGo Power Products with iGo itips Smart Connector Technology.
• RadioShack Introduces Broadband Internet Telephony Service in Nearly 4,000 Stores in 38 States.
• RadioShack Offers Fans a Chance to Win a Trip for four to the 2005 NBA All-Star Game in Denver.
• RadioShack to Offer Sprint Small Business Services, including special wireless pricing plans and small business solutions.
• Major League Soccer and RadioShack offer fans a chance to win $1 million.
• RadioShack launches nationwide "Take Your StreetSentz all the Way to Hollywood" public service announcement contest.
• Motorola and RadioShack form strategic alliance to leverage joint development, sourcing and licensing power.
• EchoStar and Sirius join forces with RadioShack to form satellite entertainment alliance.
• Samsung and RadioShack encourage racing fans to "Call Your Driver" in national sweepstakes.
• LifeWise hits the "Road to Wellness" with heart disease prevention messages.
• RadioShack becomes official consumer electronics retailer of the National Basketball Association.

2003

• Mobility Electronics and RadioShack announce global product distribution agreement.
• Samsung and RadioShack announced as sponsors of the 2004 Samsung/RadioShack Supercross racing team.
• RadioShack and E.N.T. Exceptional New Technologies sign agreement to identify new, emerging business opportunities in Israel.
• RadioShack announces agreement with GlobeSecNine to seek and develop personal, family, home security technologies.
• ADAM Missing Child Poster Program launched in RadioShack stores across the country.
• RadioShack introduces LifeWise, a new product line to promote consumer health and comfort.
• Mobility Electronics and RadioShack enter into strategic alliance for power technology products.
• RadioShack hosts ICON, a worldwide innovation conference designed to establish business relations with strategic partners looking to introduce new products and technologies.
• RadioShack creates Business Innovation Team to identify emerging growth opportunities.
• RadioShack Corporation, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and the YMCA of the USA launch StreetSentz, a pilot community program designed to provide tools and education to families about ways to keep children safer from abduction, violence and abuse by providing free child ID kits.
• Company launches the second annual Xtreme Baseball Fan contest using Cal and Bill Ripken as spokespeople.
• RadioShack breaks ground on riverfront corporate headquarters in downtown Fort Worth, Texas.
• Neighborhood Answers Grant program is launched as a way for RadioShack to help local nonprofit organizations fund worthy causes that help families protect children from abduction, violence and abuse.
• RadioShack announces marketing sponsorship of Major League Soccer.
• RadioShack sponsors keynote speaker Dr. Benjamin Carson at the National Science Teachers Association conference where the RadioShack National Teacher Awards were presented.
• RadioShack introduces XMODS, an exclusive line of custom RC cars.
• Company sells its 10-millionth Sprint wireless phone.
• RadioShack launches the Xtreme Race Fan contest using the A.J. Foyt facing family - A.J., Larry and A.J. IV - as spokespeople.

Interior view of one of RadioShack's new "Best-to-Shop" concept stores, which features more floor space, easier to navigate aisles, improved displays and colorful interchangeable graphics.

2002

• RadioShack was one of the first companies named to the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism in response to the tragic events on September 11, 2001.
• Company announces its promotional partnership with Samsung to sponsor the Samsung/RadioShack 500 NASCAR race in April at Texas Motor Speedway.
• RadioShack announces it will offer DISH Network direct to-home satellite TV.
• RadioShack sponsors keynote speaker Sen. John Glenn at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics conference where the RadioShack National Teacher Awards were presented.
• Company finalizes plan to build a new 46-acre urban corporate campus in downtown Fort Worth on the bank of the Trinity River.
• Inaugural Xtreme Baseball Fan Contest is launched with Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith as spokesperson.

ZipZaps micro radio-controlled car and controller. This RadioShack exclusive debuted in the fall of 2002 and was a huge holiday success that year.

• RadioShack becomes national sponsor of the Major League Baseball All-Star game in Milwaukee.
• Company signs NBA-star Shaquille O'Neal of the Los Angeles Lakers as a celebrity spokesperson.
• RadioShack commemorates the closing of the historic M&O "Tandy" Subway, the only privately owned subway system of its kind in the United States, to make way for its new corporate campus.
• Company completes its nationwide initiative to refresh and retrofit every RadioShack store in America with new displays, improved parts bin area and signage in order to make way for more distinct digital products.
• RadioShack announces an end to its longtime practice of asking for names and addresses at checkout.
• RadioShack stores in Jacksonville, Fla., debut as the third concept of its Best-to-Shop design.
• RadioShack stores collect used wireless phones with proceeds benefiting Students in Free Enterprise, which uses the funds to develop innovative programs to solve local community problems.
• ZipZaps, a line of collectible micro radio-controlled cars exclusive to RadioShack, debut as a huge success.

2001

• RadioShack was one of the first 150 companies recognized as a low-risk importer by the U.S. Customs Service.
• RadioShack collects 133,000 used wireless phones to help domestic violence victims.
• RadioShack stores become national collection sites for the September 11th Fund.
• RadioShack announces plans for new corporate headquarters in downtown Fort Worth, Texas.

RadioShack executives celebrate the company's name and stock symbol change from Tandy Corporation (TAN) to RadioShack Corporation (RSH) at the New York Stock Exchange on May 31, 2000.

• Tandy Corporation becomes RadioShack Corporation.
• RadioShack begins trading under the symbol "RSH" on the NYSE.
• RadioShack forms strategic alliance with Verizon Wireless.
• Introduction of broadband in stores nationwide.
• David Edmondson promoted to President/COO.
• RadioShack collects more than 52,000 wireless phones to aid victims of domestic violence.
• Company debuts new Best-to-Shop store designs in Tucson, Ariz., to test new store layout.

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1990s

1999

• RadioShack forms strategic alliance with RCA/Thomson Electronics.
• Leonard Roberts becomes CEO and Chairman of the Board of Tandy Corporation.
• Tandy Technology Scholars become RadioShack National Teacher Awards.
• Company introduces celebrity advertising campaign featuring football legend Howie Long and actress Teri Hatcher.

1998

• RadioShack forms strategic alliance with Compaq.

1997

• RadioShack forms strategic alliance with Sprint.

1995

• Leonard Roberts becomes president of Tandy Corporation.

1994

• RadioShack becomes a founding sponsor of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.
• Computer manufacturing plant sold to AST.

RadioShack's classic store design prevalent throughout the 1990s.

• Leonard Roberts becomes president of RadioShack.
• TE Electronics spun off.

1992

• Computer City opened.

1992

• Incredible Universe opened.

1990

• Tandy Brands renamed Bombay Company.

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1980s

1988

• Tandy Technology Scholars started.

1987

• Tandy Corporation acquires GRiD Systems.

1986

• Tandy Corporation spins foreign retail operations into InterTAN.

1985

Tandy Center, the new corporate headquarters for Tandy Corporation, RadioShack's parent company at the time, opens in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, in 1977. Charles Tandy is in the lower middle part of the photograph.

• Tandy Corporation acquires McDuff Electronics.
• Tandy Corporation acquires VideoConcepts.
• RadioShack introduces its first high-performance satellite television system.
• RadioShack introduces first transportable cellular telephone.

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1970s

1979

• ColorTile spun off from TandyCrafts.
• Tandycrafts sells Stafford-Lowdon, a printing company, to American Standard.

• Tandy Center, the new corporate headquarters for Tandy Corporation, opens in downtown Fort Worth, Texas.
• Charles Tandy dies.
  

RadioShack TRS-80 Model I, the first mass-marketed personal computer introduced in 1977.

1977

• TRS-80, the first mass-marketed personal computer, manufactured and introduced at RadioShack.
• First 40-channel CB radio sold at RadioShack.

1975

• Wolfe Nursery sold to Pier 1.

1975

• Tandy Brands and Tandycrafts spun off.

1972

• RadioShack sells its first all-electronic calculator.

1970

• Tandy Corporation buys Allied Radio.

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RadioShack store (circa 1970).

1960s

1969

• Tandy Corporation opens RadioShack stores (named "Tandy Stores" for linguistic purposes) in Australia, England, Belgium, France, Germany and Holland.

1968

• Tandy Corporation acquires ColorTile.Pier 1 Imports sold in initial public offering.
• Tandy Corporation acquires Leonard's department store in Fort Worth, which was later sold to Dillard's.
• Tandy Corporation opens RadioShack stores in Canada.

1965

• Tandy Corporation acquires Wolfe Nursery, a regional garden center.

1963

• Tandy Corporation purchases RadioShack.

RadioShack Realist tuner/amplifier (circa 1954).

1960

• Tandy Corporation officially established.
• Tandy Corporation stock traded publicly ("TAN").

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1950s

1959

• First Realistic CB radio hits the shelves at RadioShack.

The third RadioShack store, located on Commonwealth Avenue across from Boston University (circa 1950s).

1954

• First Realist tuner/amplifier hits the market at RadioShack. (The "Realist" private label brand was soon changed to "Realistic.")

1950

• Tandy Leather Company established.

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1940s

1947

• RadioShack opens first Audio Comparator Showroom for customers to view audio equipment.

Hinckley-Tandy Leather Company building in Fort Worth, Texas. The company provided leather soles, heels and laces to shoe repair shops in the area.

1920s

1921

• RadioShack founded in Boston, Massachusetts.

1910s

1919

• Hinckley-Tandy Leather Company established in Fort Worth, Texas. The company was a "shoe findings" business that provided shoe repair shops with leather soles, heels, shoe laces and other items.

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