DescriptionHewlett-Packard is one of the world's largest computer companies and the foremost producer of test and measurement instruments. The company's more than 29,000 products are used by people for personal use and in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education.
In addition, the company makes networking products, medical electronic equipment, instruments and systems for chemical analysis, handheld calculators and electronic components.
HP is among the top 20 on the Fortune 500 list. The company had net revenue of $42.9 billion in its 1997 fiscal year. More than 56 percent of its business comes from outside the United States, and more than two-thirds of that is from Europe. Other principal markets are Japan, Canada, Australasia, the Far East and Latin America. HP ranks among the top 10 U.S. exporters. HP is No. 5 among Fortune's Most Admired Companies and No. 10 among Fortune's Best Companies to Work for in America.
Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company employs more than 120,000 people, of whom some 69,000 work in the United States. HP has major sites in 28 U.S. cities and in Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Canada.
HP sells its products and services through about 600 sales and support offices and distributorships in more than 120 countries, and through resellers and retailers.
