For over forty years, the Tecate Group has been a global manufacturer and supplier of electronic components and assemblies, bringing customers the power of the future, today. From its corporate headquarters and distribution center in San Diego, California, as well as from stocking locations in Asia and Europe, the Tecate Group supplies high-quality ultracapacitors, capacitors, and electronic assemblies to customers worldwide. Tecate serves a wide range of markets, including the data storage, smart grid, military/aerospace, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries. Tecate Industries was founded in 1975 by Ralph Scarano, a San Diego electronics engineer and entrepreneur with more than 60 years' experience in the capacitor industry. By 1987, the company was headed by Ralph's son Bob Scarano and had grown enough to add a new division. Tecate Products was founded to meet the audio and automotive industries' needs for contract manufacturing and full turn-key design. Within a few short years, Tecate Products had received the QS9000 certification and built a client list that included eight of the ten largest national speaker manufacturers and all three of the major domestic automakers. In the early 2000s, the Tecate Industries and Tecate Products divisions merged into a single entity, the Tecate Group. Benefiting from the synergy developed through Tecate Industries' capacitor experience and Tecate Products' assembly experience, in 2004 the Tecate Group began to design, build, and market ultracapacitor cells and modules.