
HP
Company information
About us
HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. We explore how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams. We apply new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology, continuously improving the way our customers live and work.
No other company offers as complete a technology product portfolio as HP. We provide infrastructure and business offerings that span from handheld devices to some of the world’s most powerful supercomputer installations. We offer consumers a wide range of products and services from digital photography to digital entertainment and from computing to home printing. This comprehensive portfolio helps us match the right products, services and solutions to our customers’ specific needs.
HP fast facts
HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers — from individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure, HP is among the world’s largest IT companies, with revenue totaling $110.4 billion for the four fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2008.
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- Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ)
- Headquarters: Palo Alto, California
- HP serves more than one billion customers in more than 170 countries on six continents.
- HP has approximately 172,000 employees worldwide.
- HP’s 2008 Fortune 500 ranking: No. 14
- HP’s mission is to invent technologies and services that drive business value, create social benefit and improve the lives of customers — with a focus on affecting the greatest number of people possible.
- HP dedicates $3.6 billion (U.S.) annually to its research and development of products, solutions and new technologies.
- HP is:
- #1 globally in the inkjet, all-in-one and single-function printers, mono and color laser printers, large-format printing, scanners, print servers and ink and laser supplies*
- #1 globally in desktop PCs, notebooks and workstations, and #2 globally in Pocket PCs*
- #1 globally in blade, x86, Windows®, Linux, UNIX and high-end UNIX servers and #2 globally in total disk storage systems**
- #15 on the World’s Most Innovative Companies ranking by BusinessWeek
- Listed on all four FTSE4Good Index lists — U.S., Global, UK and Europe — which rate the performance of companies meeting globally recognized corporate responsibility standards
- #24 in the 2007 Accountability Rating, the first global index that evaluates how well the world’s 100 largest companies account for their impact on society and the environment
- #10 globally and #1 in the U.S. in Environment, Social Impact Ratings by The Economist
- On the 2007 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World list and a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Indexes
Technology leadership |
| HP’s three business groups drive industry leadership in core technology areas: | ||
| • | The Personal Systems Group: business and consumer PCs, mobile computing devices and workstations | |
| • | The Imaging and Printing Group: inkjet, LaserJet and commercial printing, printing supplies, digital photography and entertainment | |
| • | The Technology Solutions Group: business products including storage and servers, managed services and software | |
Contribution |
| HP strives to be an economic, intellectual and social asset to each country and community in which we do business. | ||
Growth |
| HP is focused on three technology shifts that have the power to transform our customers’ lives and businesses. | ||
| • | Next-generation data center | |
| • | Always on, always connected mobile computing | |
| • | Ubiquitous printing and imaging | |
