Nokia Corporation (
Finnish pronunciation: [ˈnɔkiɑ]) (
OMX:
NOK1V,
NYSE:
NOK,
FWB:
NOA3) is a
Finnish multinationalcommunications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki.[2] Nokia is engaged in the manufacturing of mobile devices and in converging Internet and communications industries, with over 132,000 employees in 120 countries, sales in more than 150 countries and global annual revenue of over €42 billion and operating profit of €2 billion as of 2010.[1] It is the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones: its global device market share was 31% in the fourth quarter 2010, up from an estimated 30% in third quarter of 2010 but down from an estimated 35% in the fourth quarter of 2009. Nokia's estimated share of the converged mobile device market was 31% in the fourth quarter, compared with 38% in the third quarter 2010.[1] Nokia produces mobile devices for every major market segment and protocol, including GSM, CDMA, and W-CDMA (UMTS). Nokia offers Internet services such as applications, games, music, maps, media and messagingthrough its Ovi platform. Nokia's subsidiary Nokia Siemens Networks produces telecommunications network equipment, solutions and services.[3] Nokia is also engaged in providing free digital map information and navigation services through its wholly owned subsidiary Navteq.[4] Nokia also has greater dependency on England based company duo namely SymbianCorporation for its mobile operating systems and OVI for its mobile based application software development and distribution, which has made Nokia as highest selling mobile phone vendor within the last few years. Nokia has sites for
research and development,
manufacture and
sales in many countries throughout the world. As of December 2010, Nokia had R&D presence in 16 countries and employed 35,870 people in research and development, representing approximately 27% of the group's total
workforce.
[1] The Nokia Research Center, founded in 1986, is Nokia's industrial research unit consisting of about 500 researchers, engineers and scientists.
[5][6] It has sites in seven countries: Finland, China, India, Kenya, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
[7] Besides its research centers, in 2001 Nokia founded (and owns)
INdT – Nokia Institute of Technology, a R&D institute located in Brazil.
[8] Nokia operates a total of 9 manufacturing facilities
[9] located at
Salo, Finland;
Manaus, Brazil;
Cluj, Romania;
Beijing and
Dongguan , China;
Komárom, Hungary;
Chennai, India;
Reynosa, Mexico; and
Masan, South Korea.
[10][11] Nokia's industrial design department is headquartered in
Soho in
London, UK with significant satellite offices in Helsinki, Finland and
Calabasas, California in the USA.
In recent years,
Finns have consistently ranked Nokia as one of the best Finnish brands. In 2008, it was the 27th most respected brand among Finns, down from sixth place in 2007.
[15] The Nokia
brand, valued at $29.5 billion, is listed as the eight most valuable global brand in the
Interbrand/
BusinessWeek Best Global Brands list of 2010 (first non-US company).
[16][17] It is the number one brand in Asia (as of 2007)
[18] and Europe (as of 2009),
[19] the 41st most admirable company worldwide in
Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies list of 2010 (third in Network and Other Communications Equipment, seventh non-US company),
[20] and the world's 120th largest company as measured by
revenue in
Fortune Global 500 list of 2010.
[21] As of 2010,
AMR Research ranks Nokia's global
supply chain number nineteen in the world.
[22] In July 2010, Nokia announced that their profits had dropped 40%.
[23] In the global
smartphone rivalry, Nokia dominates the worldwide mobile markets, but remains fragile in the United States.
[24][25][26]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone
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