Business Strategy – India – November 2008 How is HP dealing with a challenging economy? Leading tech companies (including Intel and Cisco) believe that given the constraints of the economy today and the likely global recession, customer spending on technology will decline rapidly impacting both consumer and corporate purchases. Declining sales figures in October and [...]
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Hewlett-Packard’s retail channel advantage over Dell
February 21, 2008 – Business Management Article HP’s retail channel strategy is working Hewlett-Packard (HP), the world’s largest personal-computer maker (based in the Palo Alto, California), beat Dell in PC sales for the sixth straight quarter and posted a fiscal first-quarter profit (February, 2008). The results which topped analysts’ estimates on orders for PCs, servers [...]
HP and Compaq Merger
HP and Compaq Merger The failure of the merger between two leading competitors in the global computer industry, Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) and Compaq Computer Corporation (Compaq) failed as the synergies identified prior to the merger did not materialize. HP bought Compaq for US$ 24 billion in stock. This was the largest ever deal in the [...]