The computer Bauer Hewlett-Packard is apparently facing the biggest change in its history. As it is said, the company wants to split the business with computers and printers – and focus mainly on services
The crisis-plagued U.S. technology company Hewlett. Packard (HP) drives his conversion progress apparently. The computer Bauer will be split according to a media report. The California-based company intends to summarize the PC and printer business in an area that reported the “Wall Street Journal” (WSJ) on Sunday, citing people familiar with the plans. In a second company, therefore, to the hardware activities for corporate clients and services are bundled. The splitting will targeted for the coming year. An HP spokesman declined. Commenting
Hewlett-Packard would thus follow a call by many investors and analysts report. They had demanded a fork or a sale of the PC division repeatedly in the past. Thus, Hewlett-Packard could concentrate on more profitable activities such as computer servers and data storage for company. The former HP CEO Leo Apotheker had pleaded before a good three years for it to split the PC area. The considerations but were rejected. Only at the end of September, the U.S. online retailer Ebay announced to pressure from investors to outsource its payment service Paypal as an independent company and go public.
PC business of HP, which weakened many years and rivals like Dell made to an insolvency case, however, grew again last unexpectedly clear. Consumers and businesses replaced their in the aging equipment. In the PC business, it was in the third quarter sales increase of twelve percent. In the other areas of the US group it was however less round, so that the total revenue climbed only by one percent to 27.2 billion dollars. The profit increased slightly to $ 1.7 billion.
HP employs more than 300,000 people worldwide. This year, the turnover of the company founded in 1939 is expected to be around $ 112 billion. In May, HP announced to reduce up to 16,000 jobs
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