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Subsidiaries of the Registrant
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2014
Subsidiaries of the Registrant [Abstract]  
Subsidiaries of the Registrant
A.            Subsidiaries of the Registrant
The LGL Group, Inc. (the "Company"), incorporated in 1928 under the laws of the State of Indiana and reincorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware in 2007, is a holding company with subsidiaries engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of highly-engineered electronic components used to control the frequency or timing of signals in electronic circuits.


 As of June 30, 2014, the subsidiaries of the Company are as follows:
 
Owned By The LGL Group, Inc.
M-tron Industries, Inc.
100.0%
M-tron Industries, Ltd.
99.9%
Piezo Technology, Inc.
100.0%
Piezo Technology India Private Ltd.
99.0%
   M-tron Asia, LLC
100.0%
   M-tron Services, Ltd.
100.0%
Lynch Systems, Inc.
100.0%

The Company operates through its principal subsidiary, M-tron Industries, Inc., which includes the operations of M-tron Industries, Ltd. ("Mtron") and Piezo Technology, Inc. ("PTI"). The combined operations of Mtron and PTI and their subsidiaries are referred to herein as "MtronPTI."  MtronPTI has operations in Orlando, Florida, Yankton, South Dakota, Yantai, China and Noida, India.  MtronPTI also has sales offices in Sacramento, California, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Hong Kong and Shanghai, China.
During 2007, the Company sold the operating assets of Lynch Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of the Company, to an unrelated party.
On January 31, 2014, MtronPTI completed the acquisition of certain filter product line assets from Trilithic, Inc. ("Trilithic") for net cash consideration of $700,000, excluding acquisition costs. The acquired assets were comprised of intellectual property for Trilithic's fixed and tunable frequency filter products used in cellular, military and other wireless applications, as well as some equipment.  See Note D – Intangible Assets.  This investment is expected to further strengthen and differentiate MtronPTI's high reliability RF & microwave portfolio, providing increased service to clients in the Internet Communications Technology, or ICT, and Aerospace and Defense, or Aero/Defense, market segments.
B.            Basis of Presentation