The German radio manufacturer Nordmende had a good reputation not only for his tube-equipped home radios but also for transistor travel radios. After the introduction of the Globetrotter in 1967, Nordmende became one of the major German manufacturers of world receivers. The developers missed to stop into digital technology in the 1980s and Nordmende lost a lot of favour among shortwave listeners with its purely analogue shortwave radios.