Wallenberg Sphere: Saab, Ericsson, Skf, Astrazeneca, Sas Group, Abb Group, Wallenberg Family, Stockholms Enskilda Bank, Electrolux, Atlas Copco - Tapa blanda

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 125. Not illustrated. Chapters: Saab, Ericsson, Skf, Astrazeneca, Sas Group, Abb Group, Wallenberg Family, Stockholms Enskilda Bank, Electrolux, Atlas Copco, Stora Enso, Investor Ab, Ibx Group, Husqvarna Ab, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, Saab-Scania, Grand Hôtel, Foundation Asset Management Ab, Investor Growth Capital, Biovitrum, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Eqt Partners, Gambro. Excerpt: Ericsson (Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson) (OMX: ERIC B, NASDAQ: ERIC), one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies, including especially mobile networks. Directly and through subsidiaries, it also has a major role in mobile devices and cable TV and IPTV systems. Ericsson was also the inventor of bluetooth. Founded in 1876 as a telegraph equipment repair shop by Lars Magnus Ericsson, it was incorporated on August 18, 1918. Headquartered in Kista, Stockholm Municipality, since 2003, Ericsson is considered part of the so-called "Wireless Valley". Since the mid-1990s, Ericsson's extensive presence in Stockholm has helped transform the city into one of Europe's hubs of information technology (IT) research. Ericsson has offices and operations in more than 150 countries, with more than 20,000 staff in Sweden, and also significant presences in, for example, the UK, India, Ireland, the USA, Finland, China, and Brazil. In the early 20th century, Ericsson dominated the world market for manual telephone exchanges but was late to introduce automatic equipment. The world's largest ever manual telephone exchange, serving 60,000 lines, was installed by Ericsson in Moscow in 1916. Throughout the 1990s, Ericsson held a 35-40% market share of installed cellular telephone systems. Like most of the telecommunications industry, Ericsson suffe...