Jim Rogers was born in Boulogne, France in 1918. With an English father and French mother, he became bilingual before settling in England with the family at the age of 15. Whilst serving his engineering apprentice at the Woolwich Arsenal during the Second World War, Rogers set up a factory-wide sound system for BBC radio broadcasts.

In 1947 Rogers established the company that would bear his name and began the small scale manufacture of amplifiers and tuners above a shop in Blackheath. By the 1960s Rogers Developments was mass-producing affordable and quality hi-fi electronic equipment from a factory in Catford, and had began its long association with the BBC as a licensed manufacturer of the industry-renowned LS3/5a monitor loudspeakers (over 50,000 pairs were produced)

Unfortunately, the invasion of inexpensive Japanese imports in the mid-1970s, combined with invidious taxation changes crippled the amplifier side of the operation and Rogers were liquidated in 1975.

In January 1976, the company was taken over by Swisstone Electronics, who carried on using the Rogers name on their hi-fi products (predominantly concentrating on the design and manufacture of hi-fi speakers) but the operation closed down in 1998.

Jim Rogers passed away in September 2002 at the age of 84.