Company analysis: Nokia corporation

Type
Public – Oyj
(OMX: NOK1V, NYSE: NOK,FWB:NOA3)
Founded
Nokia, Finland (1865)
Headquarters
Espoo, Finland
Key people
Fredrik Idestam, Founder in 1865
Kari Kairamo, CEO in the 1980s
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, President &CEO
Jorma Ollila, Chairman
Industry
Telecommunications
Products
Mobile phones
Multimedia computers
Mobile gaming devices
Enterprise Architecture
Networks
Wireless systems
Wireless data devices
Wireless voice devices
Wireless switching equipment
Revenue
€41.121billion (2006)
Net income
€5.488 billion (2006)
Employees
68,483 as of December 31, 2006
Slogan
Connecting People
Website
www. nokia.com
HISTORY
What is known today as Nokia was established¹ in 1865 as a pulp mill by Knut Fredrik Idestam on the banks of Nokia rapids. Finnish Rubber Works established its factories in the beginning of 20th century nearby and began using Nokia as its brand. Shortly after World War I Finnish Rubber Works acquired Nokia wood mills as well as Finnish Cable Works, a producer of telephone and telegraph cables. All these three companies were merged² into the Nokia Corporation in 1967.The Nokia Corporation was involved in many sectors, producing at one time or another paper products, bicycle and car tires, footwear, personal computers, communications cables, televisions, electricity production, etc.
The seeds of the current incarnation³ of Nokia were planted with the founding of the electronics section of the cable division in the 1960s. In the 1967 fusion, that section was separated into its own division, and began manufacturing telecommunications equipment. Since 1964 Nokia had developed VHF-radio simultaneously with Salora Oy, which later in 1971 also developed the ARP-phone. Fusion of these two companies resulted in 1979 as Mobira Oy and in three years it launched the NMT phone. Nokia bought Salora Oy in 1984 and now owning 100% of the company, changed the company's name to Nokia-Mobira Oy. In 1988 Jorma Nieminen and others started a spin-off company; Benefon Oy. One year later, Nokia Mobira Oy became Nokia Mobile Phones and in 1991 the first GSM phone was launched.
In the 1970s, Nokia became more involved in the telecommunications industry by developing the Nokia DX200, a...

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