Rebuilding the troubled IT-Group: HP wants to split – n-tv.de NEWS

Rebuilding the troubled IT-Group: HP wants to split – n-tv.de NEWS

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 Monday, October 06, 2014

 
 
 

 
 The technology company, HP wants a radical step out of the crisis. The company plans to transfer some of the transactions. This thought there had been some years ago – and was rejected .
 

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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”, 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. Officially, HP wants the step that had been considered for quite some time announce on Monday. An HP spokesman declined to comment on the report. HP chief Meg Whitman should later lead the company’s business, further reported the Journal. The management of the PC and printer manufacturer should then take the HP-manager Dion Weisler.

The Group would thus follow a call by many investors and analysts. They had demanded a fork or a sale of the PC division repeatedly in the past. This means that HP could focus on more profitable activities such as computer servers and data storage for company. HP had missed the connection in smartphones and tablet computers and alienated with an unclear course also customers in the traditional PC business.

plans had sharp fall triggered

The former HP CEO Leo pharmacist had pleaded before a good three years for it to split the PC area. The stock market responded to this idea with a price drop, the reflections were discarded after a few months.

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The PC business of HP, which weakened many years, but recently grew again 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 more jobs.

  Source: n-tv.de