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HP in Brief

HP, the world's largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure.
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 321,000 employees worldwide.
HP's revenue for the four fiscal quarters ended Oct. 31, 2008: $118.4 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 $3.5 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

» #1 globally in total disk storage systems

» #1 globally in distributed system management software*

» #1 globally in automated software quality*

» #2 globally in IT services**

» #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 2009 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World list and a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Indexes

* IDC Q2 2008 worldwide data
** IDC; Gartner’s April 2008 IT Services Market Metrics Worldwide Market Share

Did you know?


» We ship more than 1 million printers per week.

» We ship 48 million PC units annually.

» One out of every three servers shipped worldwide is from HP.

» HP Software makes calls possible for more than 100 million mobile phone customers around the globe.

» HP helps 50 million customers store and share over 4 billion photos online.

» HP supports the top 200 banks and more than 130 of the world’s major stock exchanges.