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HP, the world’s largest technology company, provides printing and personal computing products and IT services, software and solutions that simplify the technology experience for consumers and businesses. HP completed its acquisition of EDS on Aug. 26, 2008.

Learn more: HP in Brief
  • 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 312,000 employees worldwide.

  • HP's 2008 Fortune 500 ranking: No. 14

  • HP's revenue for the four fiscal quarters ended July 31, 2008: $113.1 billion.

  • 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 and notebooks, and #2 globally in Pocket PCs and workstations*
    • #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

* Refers to units. Source: IDC Q1 2008 for all categories except large-format printing, print servers and supplies for which source is HP.

** Refers to factory revenue. Source: IDC Q1 2008.

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