Hewlett-Packard


Hewlett-Packard

(HP) Hewlett-Packard designs, manufactures and serviceselectronic products and systems for measurement, computationand communications. The company's products and services areused in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine andeducation in approximately 110 countries.

HP was founded in 1939 and employs 96600 people, 58900 in theUSA. They have manufacturing and R&D establishments in 54cities in 16 countries and approximately 600 sales and serviceoffices in 110 countries. Their revenue (in 1992/1993?) was$20.3 billion. The Chief Executive Officer is Lewis E. Platt.HP's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and thePacific, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris exchanges.

Quarterly sales $6053M, profits $347M (Aug 1994).

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