NOKIA

Nokia Corporation (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈnɔkiɑ]) (OMX: NOK1V, NYSE: NOK, FWB: NOA3) is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki. Nokia is engaged in the manufacturing of mobile devices and in converging Internet and communications industries, with 128,445 employees in 120 countries, sales in more than 150 countries and global annual revenue of EUR 50.7 billion and operating profit of 5.0 billion as of 2008.It is the world's largest manufacturer of mobile telephones: its global device market share was about 37% in Q1 2009, down from 39% in Q1 2008 and unchanged from Q4 2008.

Nokia's history starts in 1865 when mining engineer Fredrik Idestam established a groundwood pulp mill on the banks of the Tammerkoski rapids in the town of Tampere, in southwestern Finland, and started manufacturing paper. In 1868, Idestam built a second mill near the town of Nokia, fifteen kilometres west of Tampere by the Nokianvirta river, which had better resources for hydropower production.[26] In 1871, Idestam, with the help of his close friend statesman Leo Mechelin, renamed and transformed his firm into a share company, thereby founding the Nokia Company, the name it is still known by today.


Nokia Company logo. Founded in Tampere in 1865, incorporated in Nokia in 1871.




The brand logo of Finnish Rubber Works, founded in Helsinki in 1898.
Logo from 1965–1966.





The Nokia Corporation "arrows" logo, used before the "Connecting People" logo.


Nokia introduced its "Connecting People" advertising slogan, coined by Ove Strandberg.This earlier version of the slogan used Times Roman SC (Small Caps) font.


Nokia's current logo with the redesigned "Connecting People" slogan. This slogan uses Nokia's proprietary 'Nokia' font.

Nokia Siemens Networks logo. Founded in 2007.



Navteq logo. Founded in 1985, acquired by Nokia in 2007.


The Nokia brand, valued at $35.9 billion, is listed as the fifth most valuable global brand in Interbrand/Businessweek's Best Global Brands list of 2008 (first non-US company). It is the number one brand in Asia (as of 2007) and Europe (as of 2008), the 42nd most admirable company worldwide in Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies list of 2009 (third in Network Communications, seventh non-US company), and the world's 88th largest company as measured by revenue in Fortune Global 500 list of 2008, up from 119th the previous year.

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