The UREi trademark is owned by JBL (effectively Harman - if you look at the last UREi-branded gear made in the early '90s, it has "manufactured by Harman Audio" printed on stickers on the back).
The UREi brand lives on as "UREi by Soundcraft", manufactured in China...
If you think the current incarnation of "UREi", whereby Mr Putnam's marque is jointly branded by a British firm who outsource the manufacturing to China, to be a healthy arrangement, let me know...
Last time I visited Abbey Road and Strongroom, the racks were teaming with Chinese-made equipment y'know...honest...
(yeah, Soundcraft had loads of connections to the 1176... In fact, Duke Ellington was mixed by Putnam on a Soundcraft console)
BTW, Cemal: irrespective of your point regarding ethics pertaining to the Gyraf / UREi / SSL debacle, I fail to see how it concerns the 'web's only dedicated non-subjective audio forum. IMHO, it's highly selfish of someone to drag the Lavry organisation into a petty BB squabble between them and the Prodigy forum.
If I were Mr Lavry (that'd be great, I'd have converters at cost price : - ) I would delete this thread without a second's hesitation - either that or move it to the off-topic forum.
Justin
edited because I had a couple of Margeritas with my dinner...