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Philips

February 05, 2023

For other uses, see Philips (disambiguation).

Koninklijke Philips N.V. (lit. 'Royal Philips'), commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, it has been mostly headquartered in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarters is still in Eindhoven. Philips was formerly one of the largest electronics companies in the world, but is currently focused on the area of health technology, having divested its other divisions.

Koninklijke Philips N.V.
Headquarters in Amsterdam, 2009
Formerly
  • Firma Philips & Co (1891–1912)
  • N.V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken (1912–1994)
  • Philips Electronics N.V. (1994–1998)
  • Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (1998–2013)
TypePublic (N.V.)
IndustryConglomerate
Founded15 May 1891; 131 years ago (1891-05-15)
Eindhoven, Netherlands
FoundersGerard and Anton Philips
HeadquartersAmsterdam, Netherlands
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Products
Revenue€19.535 billion (2020)[1]
€1.542 billion (2020)[1]
€1.195 billion (2020)[1]
Total assets€27.713 billion (2020)[1]
Total equity€11.901 billion (2020)[1]
Number of employees
81,592 (2020)[1]
Websitephilips.com

The company was founded in 1891 by Gerard Philips and his father Frederik, with their first products being light bulbs. It currently employs around 80,000 people across 100 countries.[2] The company gained its royal honorary title (hence the Koninklijke) in 1998 and dropped the "Electronics" in its name in 2013,[3] due to its refocusing from consumer electronics to healthcare technology.

Philips is organized into three main divisions: Personal Health (formerly Philips Consumer Electronics and Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal Care), Connected Care, and Diagnosis & Treatment (formerly Philips Medical Systems).[4] The lighting division was spun off as a separate company, Signify N.V.

The company started making electric shavers in 1939 under the Philishave and Norelco brands, and post-war they developed the Compact Cassette format and co-developed the Compact Disc format with Sony, as well as numerous other technologies. As of 2012, Philips was the largest manufacturer of lighting in the world as measured by applicable revenues.

Philips has a primary listing on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange and is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.[5] It has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Acquisitions include that of Signetics and Magnavox. It also founded a multidisciplinary sports club called PSV Eindhoven in 1913.

History

See also: Philips (family)
 
Gerard Philips (1858–1942), founder

The Philips Company was founded in 1891, by Dutch-Jewish entrepreneur Gerard Philips and his father Frederik Philips. Frederik, a banker based in Zaltbommel, financed the purchase and setup of an empty factory building in Eindhoven, where the company started the production of carbon-filament lamps and other electro-technical products in 1892. This first factory has since been adapted and is used as a museum.[6]

 
The very first Philips factory in Eindhoven, now a public museum

In 1895, after a difficult first few years and near-bankruptcy, the Philipses brought in Anton, Gerard's younger brother by sixteen years. Though he had earned a degree in engineering, Anton started work as a sales representative; soon, however, he began to contribute many important business ideas. With Anton's arrival, the family business began to expand rapidly, resulting in the founding of Philips Metaalgloeilampfabriek N.V. (Philips Metal Filament Lamp Factory Ltd.) in Eindhoven in 1908, followed in 1912, by the foundation of Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken N.V. (Philips Lightbulb Factories Ltd.). After Gerard and Anton Philips changed their family business by founding the Philips corporation, they laid the foundations for the later multinational.

In the 1920s, the company started to manufacture other products, such as vacuum tubes.

Radio

 
Share of the Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken, issued 14 December 1928

On 11 March 1927, Philips went on the air, inaugurating the shortwave radio station PCJJ (later PCJ) which was joined in 1929 by a sister station (Philips Omroep Holland-Indië, later PHI). PHOHI broadcast in Dutch to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), and later PHI broadcast in English and other languages to the Eastern hemisphere, while PCJJ broadcast in English, Spanish and German to the rest of the world.[citation needed]

The international program Sundays commenced in 1928, with host Eddie Startz hosting the Happy Station show, which became the world's longest-running shortwave program. Broadcasts from the Netherlands were interrupted by the German invasion in May 1940. The Germans commandeered the transmitters in Huizen to use for pro-Nazi broadcasts, some originating from Germany, others concerts from Dutch broadcasters under German control.

 
Philips 'Chapel' radio model 930A, 1931

In the early 1930s, Philips introduced the "Chapel", a radio with a built-in loudspeaker.

Philips Radio was absorbed shortly after liberation when its two shortwave stations were nationalised in 1947 and renamed Radio Netherlands Worldwide, the Dutch International Service. Some PCJ programs, such as Happy Station, continued on the new station.

Stirling engine

Philips was instrumental in the revival of the Stirling engine when, in the early 1930s, the management decided that offering a low-power portable generator would assist in expanding sales of its radios into parts of the world where mains electricity was unavailable and the supply of batteries uncertain. Engineers at the company's research lab carried out a systematic comparison of various power sources and determined that the almost forgotten Stirling engine would be most suitable, citing its quiet operation (both audibly and in terms of radio interference) and ability to run on a variety of heat sources (common lamp oil – "cheap and available everywhere" – was favoured).[7] They were also aware that, unlike steam and internal combustion engines, virtually no serious development work had been carried out on the Stirling engine for many years and asserted that modern materials and know-how should enable great improvements.[8]

Encouraged by their first experimental engine, which produced 16 W of shaft power from a bore and stroke of 30 mm × 25 mm,[9] various development models were produced in a program which continued throughout World War II. By the late 1940s, the 'Type 10' was ready to be handed over to Philips's subsidiary Johan de Witt in Dordrecht to be produced and incorporated into a generator set as originally planned. The result, rated at 180/200 W electrical output from a bore and stroke of 55 mm × 27 mm, was designated MP1002CA (known as the "Bungalow set"). Production of an initial batch of 250 began in 1951, but it became clear that they could not be made at a competitive price, besides the advent of transistor radios with their much lower power requirements meant that the original rationale for the set was disappearing. Approximately 150 of these sets were eventually produced.[10]

In parallel with the generator set, Philips developed experimental Stirling engines for a wide variety of applications and continued to work in the field until the late 1970s, though the only commercial success was the 'reversed Stirling engine' cryocooler. However, they filed a large number of patents and amassed a wealth of information, which they later licensed to other companies.[11]

Shavers

The first Philips shaver was introduced in 1939, and was simply called Philishave. In the US, it was called Norelco. The Philishave has remained part of the Philips product line-up until the present.

World War II

On 9 May 1940, the Philips directors learned that the German invasion of the Netherlands was to take place the following day. Having prepared for this, Anton Philips and his son-in-law Frans Otten, as well as other Philips family members, fled to the United States, taking a large amount of the company capital with them. Operating from the US as the North American Philips Company, they managed to run the company throughout the war. At the same time, the company was moved (on paper) to the Netherlands Antilles to keep it out of German hands.[12]

On 6 December 1942, the British No. 2 Group RAF undertook Operation Oyster, which heavily damaged the Philips Radio factory in Eindhoven with few casualties among the Dutch workers and civilians.[13] The Philips works in Eindhoven was bombed again by the RAF on 30 March 1943.[14][15]

Frits Philips, the son of Anton, was the only Philips family member to stay in the Netherlands. He saved the lives of 382 Jews by convincing the Nazis that they were indispensable for the production process at Philips.[16] In 1943, he was held at the internment camp for political prisoners at Vught for several months because a strike at his factory reduced production. For his actions in saving the hundreds of Jews, he was recognized by Yad Vashem in 1995 as a "Righteous Among the Nations".[17]

1945–1999

After the war, the company was moved back to the Netherlands, with their headquarters in Eindhoven.

 
The Philips Light Tower in Eindhoven, originally a light bulb factory and later the company headquarters[18]
 
The Evoluon in Eindhoven, opened in 1966

In 1949, the company began selling television sets.[19] In 1950, it formed Philips Records, which eventually formed part of PolyGram in 1962.

Philips introduced the Compact Cassette audio tape format in 1963, and it was wildly successful. Cassettes were initially used for dictation machines for office typing stenographers and professional journalists. As their sound quality improved, cassettes would also be used to record sound and became the second mass media alongside vinyl records used to sell recorded music.

 
An early portable Compact Cassette recorder by Philips (model D6350)

Philips introduced the first combination portable radio and cassette recorder, which was marketed as the "radio recorder", and is now better known as the boom box. Later, the cassette was used in telephone answering machines, including a special form of cassette where the tape was wound on an endless loop. The C-cassette was used as the first mass storage device for early personal computers in the 1970s and 1980s. Philips reduced the cassette size for professional needs with the Mini-Cassette, although it would not be as successful as the Olympus Microcassette. This became the predominant dictation medium up to the advent of fully digital dictation machines.[citation needed] Philips continued with computers through the early 1990s (see separate article: Philips Computers).

In 1972, Philips launched the world's first home video cassette recorder, in the UK, the N1500. Its relatively bulky video cassettes could record 30 minutes or 45 minutes. Later one-hour tapes were also offered. As the competition came from Sony's Betamax and the VHS group of manufacturers, Philips introduced the N1700 system which allowed double-length recording. For the first time, a 2-hour movie could fit onto one video cassette. In 1977, the company unveiled a special promotional film for this system in the UK, featuring comedy writer and presenter Denis Norden.[20] The concept was quickly copied by the Japanese makers, whose tapes were significantly cheaper. Philips made one last attempt at a new standard for video recorders with the Video 2000 system, with tapes that could be used on both sides and had 8 hours of total recording time. As Philips only sold its systems on the PAL standard and in Europe, and the Japanese makers sold globally, the scale advantages of the Japanese proved insurmountable and Philips withdrew the V2000 system and joined the VHS Coalition.[citation needed]

 
Philips CD-100, the second ever commercially released CD player (after partner Sony's CDP-101)

Philips had developed a LaserDisc early on for selling movies, but delayed its commercial launch for fear of cannibalizing its video recorder sales. Later Philips joined with MCA to launch the first commercial LaserDisc standard and players. In 1982, Philips teamed with Sony to launch the Compact Disc; this format evolved into the CD-R, CD-RW, DVD and later Blu-ray, which Philips launched with Sony in 1997[21] and 2006 respectively.

 
Kees Schouhamer Immink (with his Emmy award), Philips' greatest inventor in consumer electronics in the late 20th century, invented the coding technologies for CD, DVD, Blu-ray, and DCC.

In 1984, the Dutch Philips Group bought out nearly a one-third share and took over the management of the German company Grundig.

In 1984, Philips split off its activities on the field of photolithographic integrated circuit production equipment, the so-called wafer steppers, into a joint venture with ASM International, located in Veldhoven under the name ASML. Over the years, this new company has evolved into the world's leading manufacturer of chip production machines at the expense of competitors like Nikon and Canon.

Philips partnered with Sony again later to develop a new "interactive" disc format called CD-i, described by them as a "new way of interacting with a television set".[22] Philips created the majority of CD-i compatible players. After low sales, Philips repositioned the format as a video game console, but it was soon discontinued after being heavily criticized amongst the gaming community.[23][24]

In the 1980s, Philips's profit margin dropped below 1 percent, and in 1990 the company lost more than US$2 billion (biggest corporate loss in Dutch history). Troubles for the company continued into the 1990s as its status as a leading electronics company was swiftly lost.[25]

In 1985, Philips was the largest founding investor in TSMC[26] which was established as a joint venture between Philips, the Taiwan government and other private investors.

In 1991, the company's name was changed from N.V. Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken to Philips Electronics N.V.[27] At the same time, North American Philips was formally dissolved, and a new corporate division was formed in the US with the name Philips Electronics North America Corp.[citation needed]

In 1997, the company officers decided to move the headquarters from Eindhoven to Amsterdam along with the corporate name change to Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., the latter of which was finalized on 16 March 1998.[28]

In 1998, looking to spur innovation, Philips created an Emerging Businesses group for its Semiconductors unit, based in Silicon Valley. The group was designed to be an incubator where promising technologies and products could be developed.[29][30]

2000s

The move of the headquarters to Amsterdam was completed in 2001. Initially, the company was housed in the Rembrandt Tower. In 2002, it moved again, this time to the Breitner Tower. Philips Lighting, Philips Research, Philips Semiconductors (spun off as NXP in September 2006), and Philips Design, are still based in Eindhoven. Philips Healthcare is headquartered in both Best, Netherlands (near Eindhoven) and Andover, Massachusetts, United States (near Boston).

In 2000, Philips bought Optiva Corporation, the maker of Sonicare electric toothbrushes. The company was renamed Philips Oral Healthcare and made a subsidiary of Philips DAP. In 2001, Philips acquired Agilent Technologies' Healthcare Solutions Group (HSG) for EUR 2 billion.[31] Philips created a computer monitors joint venture with LG called LG.Philips Displays in 2001.

In 2001, after growing the unit's Emerging Businesses group to nearly $1 billion in revenue, Scott A. McGregor was named the new president and CEO of Philips Semiconductors. McGregor's appointment completed the company's shift to having dedicated CEOs for all five of the company's product divisions, which would in turn leave the Board of Management to concentrate on issues confronting the Philips Group as a whole.[29]

In February 2001 Philips sold its remaining interest in battery manufacturing to its then partner Matsushita (which itself became Panasonic in 2008).[32][33]

 
Philips's 2004 slogan

In 2004, Philips abandoned the slogan "Let's make things better" in favour of a new one: "Sense and Simplicity".[34]

In December 2005, Philips announced its intention to sell or demerge its semiconductor division. On 1 September 2006, it was announced in Berlin that the name of the new company formed by the division would be NXP Semiconductors. On 2 August 2006, Philips completed an agreement to sell a controlling 80.1% stake in NXP Semiconductors to a consortium of private equity investors consisting of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), Silver Lake Partners and AlpInvest Partners. On 21 August 2006, Bain Capital and Apax Partners announced that they had signed definitive commitments to join the acquiring consortium, a process which was completed on 1 October 2006.[citation needed]

In 2006, Philips bought out the company Lifeline Systems headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts, in a deal valued at $750 million, its biggest move yet to expand its consumer-health business (M).[35] In August 2007, Philips acquired the company Ximis, Inc. headquartered in El Paso, Texas, for their Medical Informatics Division.[36] In October 2007, it purchased a Moore Microprocessor Patent (MPP) Portfolio license from The TPL Group.

On 21 December 2007, Philips and Respironics, Inc. announced a definitive agreement pursuant to which Philips acquired all of the outstanding shares of Respironics for US$66 per share, or a total purchase price of approximately €3.6  billion (US$5.1 billion) in cash.[37]

On 21 February 2008, Philips completed the acquisition of VISICU in Baltimore, Maryland, through the merger of its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary into VISICU. As a result of that merger, VISICU has become an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Philips. VISICU was the creator of the eICU concept of the use of Telemedicine from a centralized facility to monitor and care for ICU patients.[38]

The Philips physics laboratory was scaled down in the early 21st century, as the company ceased trying to be innovative in consumer electronics through fundamental research.[39]

2010s

Philips made several acquisitions during 2011, announcing on 5 January 2011 that it had acquired Optimum Lighting,[40] a manufacturer of LED based luminaires. In January 2011, Philips agreed to acquire the assets of Preethi, a leading India-based kitchen appliances company.[41] On 27 June 2011, Philips acquired Sectra Mamea AB, the mammography division of Sectra AB.[42]

Because net profit slumped 85 percent in Q3 2011, Philips announced a cut of 4,500 jobs to match part of an €800 million ($1.1 billion) cost-cutting scheme to boost profits and meet its financial target.[43] In 2011, the company posted a loss of €1.3 billion, but earned a net profit in Q1 and Q2 2012, however the management wanted €1.1 billion cost-cutting which was an increase from €800 million and may cut another 2,200 jobs until end of 2014.[44] In March 2012, Philips announced its intention to sell, or demerge its television manufacturing operations to TPV Technology.[45]

Following two decades in decline, Philips went through a major restructuring, shifting its focus from electronics to healthcare. Particularly from 2011 when a new CEO was appointed, Frans van Houten. The new health and medical strategy have helped Philips to thrive again in the 2010s.[25]

On 5 December 2012, the antitrust regulators of the European Union fined Philips and several other major companies for fixing prices of TV cathode-ray tubes in two cartels lasting nearly a decade.[46]

On 29 January 2013, it was announced that Philips had agreed to sell its audio and video operations to the Japan-based Funai Electric for €150 million, with the audio business planned to transfer to Funai in the latter half of 2013, and the video business in 2017.[47][48][49] As part of the transaction, Funai was to pay a regular licensing fee to Philips for the use of the Philips brand.[48] The purchase agreement was terminated by Philips in October because of breach of contract[50] and the consumer electronics operations remain under Philips. Philips said it would seek damages for breach of contract in the US$200-million sale.[51] In April 2016, the International Court of Arbitration ruled in favour of Philips, awarding compensation of €135 million in the process.[52]

In April 2013, Philips announced a collaboration with Paradox Engineering for the realization and implementation of a "pilot project" on network-connected street-lighting management solutions. This project was endorsed by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC).[53]

In 2013, Philips removed the word "Electronics" from its name – becoming Royal Philips N.V.[54] On 13 November 2013, Philips unveiled its new brand line "Innovation and You" and a new design of its shield mark. The new brand positioning is cited by Philips to signify company's evolution and emphasize that innovation is only meaningful if it is based on an understanding of people's needs and desires.[55]

On 28 April 2014, Philips agreed to sell their Woox Innovations subsidiary (consumer electronics) to Gibson Brands for $US135 million. On 23 September 2014, Philips announced a plan to split the company into two, separating the lighting business from the healthcare and consumer lifestyle divisions.[56] It moved to complete this in March 2015 to an investment group for $3.3 billion.[57]

In February 2015, Philips acquired Volcano Corporation to strengthen its position in non-invasive surgery and imaging.[58] In June 2016, Philips spun off its lighting division to focus on the healthcare division.[59] In June 2017, Philips announced it would acquire US-based Spectranetics Corp, a manufacturer of devices to treat heart disease, for €1.9 billion (£1.68 billion) expanding its current image-guided therapy business.

In May 2016, Philips' lighting division Philips Lighting went through a spin-off process, and became an independent public company named Philips Lighting N.V.[60]

In 2017, Philips launched Philips Ventures, with a health technology venture fund as its main focus. Philips Ventures invested in companies including Mytonomy (2017) and DEARhealth (2019).[61][62]

In 2018, the independent Philips Lighting N.V. was renamed Signify N.V. However, it continues to produce and market Philips-branded products such as Philips Hue color-changing LED light bulbs.[63]

2020s

In 2022, Philips announced that Frans Van Houten, who had served as CEO for 12 years will be stepping down and is to be replaced by Philips's EVP and Chief Business Leader of Connected Care, Roy Jakobs, effective October 15, 2022.[64][65]

In 2023, the company announced that it would be cutting 6,000 jobs from the company worldwide over the next two years after reporting 1.6 billion euros in losses during the 2022 financial year. The cuts came in addition to a 4,000 staff reduction being announced in October 2022.[66]

Corporate affairs

CEOs

Past and present CEOs:

CEOs lighting:

  • 2003–2008: Theo van Deursen
  • 2012–present: Eric Rondolat

CFOs

Past and present CFOs (chief financial officer)

Current Executive Committee

[67]

  • CEO: Roy Jakobs
  • CFO: Abhijit Bhattacharya
  • COO: Willem Appelo & Sophie Bechu
  • Chief ESG & Legal Officer: Marnix van Ginneken
  • Chief Business Leader (Connected Care): Roy Jakobs
  • Chief Business Leader (Personal Health): Deeptha Khanna
  • Chief Business Leader (Image Guided Therapy): Bert van Meurs
  • Chief Business Leader (Precision Diagnosis): Kees Wesdorp
  • CEO Philips Domestic Appliances: Henk Siebren de Jong
  • Chief of International Markets: Edwin Paalvast
  • Chief Medical, Innovation & Strategy Officer: Shez Partovi
  • Chief Market Leader (China): Andy Ho
  • Chief Market Leader (North America): Vitor Rocha
  • Chief Human Resources Officer: Daniela Seabrook

Acquisitions

Companies acquired by Philips through the years include ADAC Laboratories, Agilent Healthcare Solutions Group, Amperex, ATL Ultrasound, EKCO, Lifeline Systems, Magnavox, Marconi Medical Systems, Philips Medical purchased Intermagnetics based out of Latham, New York for 1.3 billion in 2006, Optiva, Preethi, Pye, Respironics, Inc., Sectra Mamea AB, Signetics, VISICU, Volcano, VLSI, Ximis, portions of Westinghouse and the consumer electronics operations of Philco and Sylvania. Philips abandoned the Sylvania trademark which is now owned by Havells Sylvania except in Australia, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Puerto Rico and the US where it is owned by Osram. Formed in November 1999 as an equal joint venture between Philips and Agilent Technologies, the light-emitting diode manufacturer Lumileds became a subsidiary of Philips Lighting in August 2005 and a fully owned subsidiary in December 2006.[68][69] An 80.1 percent stake in Lumileds was sold to Apollo Global Management in 2017.[70]

On 19 September 2018, Philips reported that it had acquired US-based Blue Willow Systems, a developer of a cloud-based senior living community resident safety platform.

On 7 March 2019, Philips announced that was acquiring the Healthcare Information Systems business of Carestream Health Inc., a US-based provider of medical imaging and healthcare IT solutions for hospitals, imaging centers, and specialty medical clinics.[71]

On 18 July 2019, Philips announced that it has expanded its patient management solutions in the US with the acquisition of Boston-based start-up company Medumo.[72]

On 27 August 2020, Philips announced the acquisition of Intact Vascular, Inc., a U.S.-based developer of medical devices for minimally invasive peripheral vascular procedures.[73]

On 18 December 2020, Philips and BioTelemetry, Inc., a leading U.S.-based provider of remote cardiac diagnostics and monitoring, announced that they had entered into a definitive merger agreement.[74]

On 19 January 2021, Philips announced the acquisition of Capsule Technologies, Inc., a provider of medical device integration and data technologies for hospitals and healthcare organizations.[75]

On 9 November 2021, Philips announced the acquisition of Cardiologs, an AI-powered cardiac diagnostic technology developer, to expand its cardiac diagnostics and monitoring portfolio.[76]

Operations

Philips is registered in the Netherlands as a naamloze vennootschap (public corporation) and has its global headquarters in Amsterdam.[77] At the end of 2013, Philips had 111 manufacturing facilities, 59 R&D facilities across 26 countries and sales and service operations in around 100 countries.[78]

Philips is organized into three main divisions: Philips Consumer Lifestyle (formerly Philips Consumer Electronics and Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal Care), Philips Healthcare (formerly Philips Medical Systems), and Philips Lighting (Former).[77] Philips achieved total revenues of €22.579 billion in 2011, of which €8.852 billion were generated by Philips Healthcare, €7.638 billion by Philips Lighting, €5.823 billion by Philips Consumer Lifestyle and €266 million from group activities.[77] At the end of 2011, Philips had a total of 121,888 employees, of whom around 44% were employed in Philips Lighting, 31% in Philips Healthcare and 15% in Philips Consumer Lifestyle.[77] The lighting division was spun out as a new company called Signify, which uses the Philips brand under license.

Philips invested a total of €1.61 billion in research and development in 2011, equivalent to 7.10% of sales.[77] Philips Intellectual Property and Standards is the group-wide division responsible for licensing, trademark protection and patenting.[79] Philips currently holds around 54,000 patent rights, 39,000 trademarks, 70,000 design rights and 4,400 domain name registrations.[77] In the 2021 review of WIPO's annual World Intellectual Property Indicators Philips ranked 5th in the world for its 95 industrial design registrations being published under the Hague System during 2020.[80] This position is down on their previous 4th-place ranking for 85 industrial design registrations being published in 2019.[81][third-party source needed]

Asia

Thailand

Philips Thailand was established in 1952. It is a subsidiary that produces healthcare, lifestyle, and lighting products. Philips started manufacturing in Thailand in 1960 with an incandescent lamp factory. Philips has diversified its production facilities to include a fluorescent lamp factory and a luminaries factory, serving Thai and worldwide markets.[82]

Hong Kong

 
The Philips building in the Hong Kong Science Park

Philips Hong Kong began operations in 1948. Philips Hong Kong houses the global headquarters of Philips' Audio Business Unit. It also house Philips' Asia Pacific regional office and headquarters for its Design Division, Domestic Appliances & Personal Care Products Division, Lighting Products Division and Medical System Products Division.[83]

In 1974, Philips opened a lamp factory in Hong Kong. This has a capacity of 200 million pieces a year and is certified with ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001. Its product portfolio includes prefocus, lensend and E10 miniature light bulbs.[83]

China

Philips established its first Chinese factory in Zhuhai, Guangdong, in 1990. The site mainly manufactures Philishaves and healthcare products.[84] In early 2008, Philips Lighting, a division of Royal Philips Electronics, opened a small engineering center in Shanghai to adapt the company's products to vehicles in Asia.[85] Today Philips has 27 WOFE/JVs in China, employing >17,500 people. China is its second largest market.[86]

India

Philips began operations in India in 1930, with the establishment of Philips Electrical Co. (India) Pvt Ltd in Kolkata as a sales outlet for imported Philips lamps. In 1938, Philips established its first Indian lamp manufacturing factory in Kolkata. In 1948, Philips started manufacturing radios in Kolkata. In 1959, a second radio factory was established near Pune. This was closed and sold around 2006. In 1957, the company converted into a public limited company, renamed "Philips India Ltd". In 1970, a new consumer electronics factory began operations in Pimpri near Pune. This is now called the 'Philips Healthcare Innovation Centre'. Also, a manufacturing facility 'Philips Centre for Manufacturing Excellence' was set up in Chakan, Pune in 2012. In 1996, the Philips Software Centre was established in Bangalore, later renamed the Philips Innovation Campus.[87] In 2008, Philips India entered the water purifier market. In 2014, Philips was ranked 12th among India's most trusted brands according to the Brand Trust Report, a study conducted by Trust Research Advisory.[88] Now Philips India is one of the most diversified health care company & broadly focusing on Imaging, Utlrasound, MA & TC products & Sleep & respiratory care products. Philips is aspiring to touch life of 40 Million patients in India by next 2 years. In 2020, Philips introduced mobile ICUs in order to support clinicians to meet the rising demand of ICU beds due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Israel

Philips has been active in Israel since 1948 and in 1998, set up a wholly owned subsidiary, Philips Electronics (Israel) Ltd. The company has over 700 employees in Israel and generated sales of over $300 million in 2007.[89]

Philips Medical Systems Technologies Ltd. (Haifa) is a developer and manufacturer of Computerized Tomography (CT), diagnostic and Medical Imaging systems. The company was founded in 1969 as Elscint by Elron Electronic Industries and was acquired by Marconi Medical Systems in 1998, which was itself acquired by Philips in 2001.

Philips Semiconductors formerly had major operations in Israel; these now form part of NXP Semiconductors.

On 1 August 2019, Philips acquired Carestream HCIS division from Onex Corporation. As part of the acquisition, Algotec Systems LTD (Carestream HCIS R&D) located in Raanana Israel changed ownership in a share deal. In addition to that, Algotec changed its name to Philips Algotec and is part of Philips HCIS. Philips HCIS is a provider of medical imaging systems.[citation needed]

Pakistan

Philips has been active in Pakistan since 1948 and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Philips Pakistan Limited (Formerly Philips Electrical Industries of Pakistan Limited).[90]

The head office is in Karachi with regional sales offices in Lahore and Rawalpindi.

Singapore

 
A part of the former Philips Singapore HQ complex at Toa Payoh in September 2006. The new Philips APAC HQ was opened on the site of this particular building in June 2016

Philips began operations in Singapore in 1951, initially as a local distributor of imported Philips products.[91] Philips later established manufacturing sites at Boon Keng Road and Jurong Industrial Estate in 1968 and 1970 respectively.[92] Since 1972, its regional headquarters has been based in the central HDB town of Toa Payoh, which from the 1990s until the early 2010s consisted of four interconnected buildings housing offices and factory spaces. In 2016, a new Philips APAC HQ building was opened on the site of one of the former 1972 buildings.[93][94]

Europe

Denmark

Philips Denmark was founded in Copenhagen in 1927, and is now headquartered in Frederiksberg.[95]

In 1963, Philips established the Philips TV & Test Equipment laboratory in Brøndby Municipality which was where engineers Erik Helmer Nielsen and Finn Hendil (da; 1939–2011) created and developed some of Philips' most iconic television test cards, such as the monochrome PM5540 and the colour PM5544 and TVE test cards.[96][97][98][99] Between 2000 and 2012, Philips TV & Test Equipment gradually became independent from Philips and renamed itself as ProTelevision Technologies,[100] now under the umbrella of the Italian company Elenos Group.

France

 
The headquarters of Philips France in Suresnes

Philips France has its headquarters in Suresnes. The company employs over 3600 people nationwide.

Philips Lighting has manufacturing facilities in Chalon-sur-Saône (fluorescent lamps), Chartres (automotive lighting), Lamotte-Beuvron (architectural lighting by LEDs and professional indoor lighting), Longvic (lamps), Miribel (outdoor lighting), Nevers (professional indoor lighting).

Germany

Philips Germany was founded in 1926 in Berlin. Now its headquarters is located in Hamburg. Over 4900 people are employed in Germany.[101]

  • Hamburg
    • Distribution center of the divisions Healthcare, Consumer Lifestyle, and Lighting.
    • Philips Medical Systems DMC.
    • Philips Innovative Technologies, Research Laboratories.
  • Aachen
    • Philips Innovative Technologies.
    • Philips Innovation Services.
  • Böblingen
    • Philips Medical Systems, patient monitoring systems.
  • Herrsching
    • Philips Respironics.
  • Ulm
    • Philips Photonics, development and manufacture of vertical laser diodes (VCSELs) and photodiodes for sensing and data communication.

Greece

Philips' Greece is headquartered in Halandri, Attica. As of 2012, Philips has no manufacturing plants in Greece, although previously there have been audio, lighting and telecommunications factories.

Italy

Philips founded its Italian headquarters in 1918, basing it in Monza (Milan) where it still operates, for commercial activities only.

Hungary

Philips founded PACH (Philips Assembly Centre Hungary) in 1992, producing televisions and consumer electronics in Székesfehérvár. After TPV entering the Philips TV business, the factory was moved under TP Vision, the new joint-venture company in 2011. Products have been transferred to Poland and China and factory was closed in 2013.

By Philips acquiring PLI in 2007 another Hungarian Philips factory emerged in Tamási, producing lamps under the name of Philips IPSC Tamási, later Philips Lighting. The factory was renamed to Signify in 2017, still producing Philips lighting products.

Poland

Philips' operations in Poland include: a European financial and accounting centre in Łódź; Philips Lighting facilities in Bielsko-Biała, Piła, and Kętrzyn; and a Philips Domestic Appliances facility in Białystok.

Portugal

Philips started business in Portugal in 1927, as "Philips Portuguesa S.A.R.L.".[102] Currently, Philips Portuguesa S.A. is headquartered in Oeiras near Lisbon.[103] There were three Philips factories in Portugal: the FAPAE lamp factory in Lisbon;[102][104][105] the Carnaxide magnetic-core memory factory near Lisbon, where the Philips Service organization was also based; and the Ovar factory in northern Portugal making camera components and remote control devices.[104] The company still operates in Portugal with divisions for commercial lighting, medical systems and domestic appliances.[106]

Sweden

Philips Sweden has two main sites, Kista, Stockholm County, with regional sales, marketing and a customer support organization and Solna, Stockholm County, with the main office of the mammography division.

United Kingdom

Philips UK has its headquarters[107] in Guildford. The company employs over 2,500 people nationwide.

  • Philips Healthcare Informatics, Belfast develops healthcare software products.
  • Philips Consumer Products, Guildford provides sales and marketing for televisions, including High Definition televisions, DVD recorders, hi-fi and portable audio, CD recorders, PC peripherals, cordless telephones, home and kitchen appliances, personal care (shavers, hair dryers, body beauty and oral hygiene ).
  • Philips Dictation Systems, Colchester.
  • Philips Lighting: sales from Guildford and manufacture in Hamilton.
  • Philips Healthcare, Guildford. Sales and technical support for X-ray, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, patient monitoring, magnetic resonance, computed tomography, and resuscitation products.
  • Philips Research Laboratories, Cambridge (Until 2008 based in Redhill, Surrey. Originally these were the Mullard Research Laboratories.)

In the past, Philips UK also included:

  • Consumer product manufacturing in Croydon
  • Television Tube Manufacturing Mullard Simonstone
  • Philips Business Communications, Cambridge: offered voice and data communications products, specialising in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications, IP Telephony, data networking, voice processing, command and control systems and cordless and mobile telephony. In 2006 the business was placed into a 60/40 joint venture with NEC. NEC later acquired 100 per cent ownership and the business was renamed NEC Unified Solutions.
  • Philips Electronics Blackburn; vacuum tubes, capacitors, delay-lines, Laserdiscs, CDs.
  • Philips Domestic Appliances Hastings: Design and Production of Electric kettles, Fan Heaters plus former EKCO brand "Thermotube" Tubular Heaters and "Hostess" Domestic Food Warming Trolleys.
  • Mullard Southampton and Hazel Grove, Stockport. Originally brought together as a joint venture between Mullard and GEC as Associated Semiconductor Manufacturers. They developed and manufactured rectifiers, diodes, transistors, integrated circuits and electro-optical devices. These became Philips Semiconductors before becoming part of NXP.
  • London Carriers, logistics and transport division.
  • Mullard Equipment Limited (MEL) which produced products for the military
  • Ada (Halifax) Ltd, maker of washing machines and spin driers, refrigerators
  • Pye TVT Ltd of Cambridge
  • Pye Telecommunications Ltd of Cambridge
  • TMC Limited of Malmesbury

North America

Canada

 
Philips headquarters in Markham

Philips Canada was founded in 1941 when it acquired Small Electric Motors Limited. It is well known in medical systems for diagnosis and therapy, lighting technologies, shavers, and consumer electronics.

The Canadian headquarters are located in Markham, Ontario.

For several years, Philips manufactured lighting products in two Canadian factories. The London, Ontario, plant opened in 1971. It produced A19 lamps (including the "Royale" long life bulbs), PAR38 lamps and T19 lamps (originally a Westinghouse lamp shape). Philips closed the factory in May 2003. The Trois-Rivières, Quebec plant was a Westinghouse facility which Philips continued to run it after buying Westinghouse's lamp division in 1983. Philips closed this factory a few years later, in the late 1980s.

Mexico

Philips Mexico Commercial SA de CV is headquartered in Mexico City. This entity was incorporated in FY2016 to sales consumer lifestyle and healthcare portfolios in the market.

United States

 
Previous Philips' North American headquarters in Andover, Massachusetts

Philips' Electronics North American headquarters is in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[108] Philips Lighting has its corporate office in Somerset, New Jersey; with manufacturing plants in Danville, Kentucky; Salina, Kansas; Dallas and Paris, Texas and distribution centers in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania; El Paso, Texas; Ontario, California; and Memphis, Tennessee. Philips Healthcare is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and operates a health-tech hub in Nashville, Tennessee, with over 1,000 jobs. The North American sales organization is based in Bothell, Washington. There are also manufacturing facilities in Bothell, Washington; Baltimore, Maryland; Cleveland, Ohio; Foster City, California; Gainesville, Florida; Milpitas, California; and Reedsville, Pennsylvania. Philips Healthcare also formerly had a factory in Knoxville, Tennessee. Philips Consumer Lifestyle has its corporate office in Stamford, Connecticut. Philips Lighting has a Color Kinetics office in Burlington, Massachusetts. Philips Research North American headquarters is in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In 2007, Philips entered into a definitive merger agreement with North American luminaires company Genlyte Group Incorporated, which provides the company with a leading position in the North American luminaires (also known as "lighting fixtures"), controls and related products for a wide variety of applications, including solid state lighting. The company also acquired Respironics, which was a significant gain for its healthcare sector. On 21 February 2008, Philips completed the acquisition of Baltimore, Maryland-based VISICU. VISICU was the creator of the eICU concept of the use of Telemedicine from a centralized facility to monitor and care for ICU patients.

In April 2020, the United States Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) entered into a contract with Philips Respironics for 43,000 bundled Trilogy Evo Universal ventilator (EV300) hospital ventilators.[109] This included the production and delivery of ventilators to the Strategic National Stockpile—about 156,000 by the end of August 2020 and 187,000 more by the end of 2020.[110] During the COVID-19 pandemic, beginning in March 2020, in response to an international demand, Philips increased production of the ventilators fourfold within five months. Production lines were added in the United States with employees working around the clock in factories producing ventilators, in Western Pennsylvania and California, for example.[110]

In March 2020, ProPublica published a series of articles on the Philips ventilator contract as negotiated by trade adviser Peter Navarro. In response to the ProPublica series, in August, the United States House of Representatives undertook a "congressional investigation" into the acquisition of the Philips ventilators. The lawmakers investigation found "evidence of fraud, waste and abuse".[111]—the deal negotiated by Navarro had resulted in an over-payment to Philips by the US government of "hundreds of millions".[111]

Oceania

Australia and New Zealand

Philips Australia was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in North Ryde, New South Wales, and also manages the New Zealand operation from there. The company currently employs around 800 people. Regional sales and support offices are located in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Auckland.

Current activities include: Philips Healthcare (also responsible for New Zealand operations); Philips Lighting (also responsible for New Zealand operations); Philips Oral Healthcare, Philips Professional Dictation Solutions, Philips Professional Display Solutions, Philips AVENT Professional, Philips Consumer Lifestyle (also responsible for New Zealand operations); Philips Sleep & Respiratory Care (formerly Respironics), with its ever-increasing national network of Sleepeasy Centres; Philips Dynalite (Lighting Control systems, acquired in 2009, global design and manufacturing centre) and Philips Selecon NZ (Lighting Entertainment product design and manufacture).

South America

Brazil

Philips do Brasil was founded in 1924 in Rio de Janeiro.[112] In 1929, Philips started to sell radio receivers. In the 1930s, Philips was making its light bulbs and radio receivers in Brazil. From 1939 to 1945, World War II forced Brazilian branch of Philips to sell bicycles, refrigerators and insecticides. After the war, Philips had a great industrial expansion in Brazil, and was among the first groups to establish in Manaus Free Zone. In the 1970s, Philips Records was a major player in Brazil recording industry. Nowadays, Philips do Brasil is one of the largest foreign-owned companies in Brazil. Philips uses the brand Walita for domestic appliances in Brazil.

Colour television

Colour television was introduced in South America by then CEO, Cor Dillen.[citation needed]

Former operations

Philips subsidiary Philips-Duphar [nl] manufactured pharmaceuticals for human and veterinary use and products for crop protection. Duphar was sold to Solvay in 1990. In subsequent years, Solvay sold off all divisions to other companies (crop protection to UniRoyal, now Chemtura, the veterinary division to Fort Dodge, a division of Wyeth, and the pharmaceutical division to Abbott Laboratories).

PolyGram, Philips' music television and movies division, was sold to Seagram in 1998; merged into Universal Music Group. Philips Records continues to operate as record label of UMG, its name licensed from its former parent.

In 1980, Philips acquired Marantz, a company renowned for high-end audio and video products, based at Kanagawa, Japan. In 2002, Marantz Japan merged with Denon to form D&M Holdings and Philips sold its remaining stake in D&M Holdings in 2008.

Origin, now part of Atos Origin, is a former division of Philips.

ASM Lithography is a spin-off from a division of Philips.

Hollandse Signaalapparaten was a manufacturer of military electronics. The business was sold to Thomson-CSF in 1990 and is now Thales Nederland.

NXP Semiconductors, formerly known as Philips Semiconductors, was sold a consortium of private equity investors in 2006. On 6 August 2010, NXP completed its IPO, with shares trading on NASDAQ.

Ignis,[citation needed] of Comerio, in the province of Varese, Italy, produced washing machines, dishwashers and microwave ovens, was one of the leading companies in the domestic appliance market, holding a 38% share in 1960. In 1970, 50% of the company's capital was taken over by Philips, which acquired full control in 1972. Ignis was in those years, after Zanussi, the second largest domestic appliance manufacturer, and in 1973 its factories numbered over 10,000 employees only in Italy. With the transfer of ownership to the Dutch multinational, the corporate name of the company was changed, which became "IRE SpA" (Industrie Riunite Eurodomestici). Thereafter Philips used to sell major household appliances (whitegoods) under the name Philips. After selling the Major Domestic Appliances division to Whirlpool Corporation it changed from Philips Whirlpool to Whirlpool Philips and finally to just Whirlpool. Whirlpool bought a 53% stake in Philips' major appliance operations to form Whirlpool International. Whirlpool bought Philips' remaining interest in Whirlpool International in 1991.

Philips Cryogenics was split off in 1990 to form the Stirling Cryogenics BV, Netherlands. This company is still active in the development and manufacturing of Stirling cryocoolers and cryogenic cooling systems.

North American Philips distributed AKG Acoustics products under the AKG of America, Philips Audio/Video, Norelco and AKG Acoustics Inc. branding until AKG set up its North American division in San Leandro, California, in 1985. (AKG's North American division has since moved to Northridge, California.)

Polymer Vision was a Philips spin-off that manufactured a flexible e-ink display screen. The company was acquired by Taiwanese contract electronics manufacturer Wistron in 2009 and it was shut down in 2012, after repeated failed attempts to find a potential buyer.[113][114][115]

Products

 
Old Philips x-ray tube

Philips' core products are consumer electronics and electrical products (including small domestic appliances, shavers, beauty appliances, mother and childcare appliances, electric toothbrushes and coffee makers (products like Smart Phones, audio equipment, Blu-ray players, computer accessories and televisions are sold under license); and healthcare products (including CT scanners, ECG equipment, mammography equipment, monitoring equipment, MRI scanners, radiography equipment, resuscitation equipment, ultrasound equipment and X-ray equipment);[116]

In January 2020 Philips announced that it is looking to sell its domestic appliances division, which includes products like coffee machines, air purifiers and airfryers.[117]

Lighting products

 
LED bulbs made by Philips.[118]
  • Professional indoor luminaires[119]
  • Professional outdoor luminaires[120]
  • Professional lamps[121]
  • Lighting controls and control systems[122]
  • Digital projection lights[123]
  • Horticulture lighting[124]
  • Solar LED lights[125]
  • Smart office lighting systems[126]
  • Smart retail lighting systems[127]
  • Smart city lighting systems[128]
  • Home lamps[129]
  • Home fixtures[130]
  • Home systems (branded as Philips Hue)[131]
  • Automotive Lighting[132]

Audio products

 
The Philips A5-PRO headphones

Healthcare products

 
Sonicare electric toothbrush

Philips healthcare products include:

Clinical informatics

  • Cardiology informatics (IntelliSpace Cardiovascular, Xcelera)
  • Enterprise Imaging Informatics (IntelliSpace PACS, XIRIS)
  • IntelliSpace family of solutions

Imaging systems

Diagnostic monitoring

  • Diagnostic ECG

Defibrillators

  • Accessories
  • Equipment
  • Software

Consumer

 
Philips Semiconductors schmitt trigger
  • Philips AVENTil

Patient care and clinical informatics

 
64-slice CT scanner originally developed by Elscint, now a Philips product[133]
  • Anesthetic gas monitoring
  • Blood pressure
  • Capnography
  • D.M.E.
  • Diagnostic sleep testing
  • ECG
  • Enterprise patient informatics solutions
    OB TraceVue
    Compurecord
    ICIP
    eICU program
    Emergin
  • Hemodynamic
  • IntelliSpace Cardiovascular
  • IntelliSpace PACS
  • IntelliSpace portal
  • Multi-measurement servers
  • Neurophedeoiles
  • Pulse oximetry
  • Tasy[134]
  • Temperature
  • Transcutaneous gases
  • Ventilation
  • ViewForum
  • Xcelera
  • XIRIS
  • Xper Information Management

Logo evolution

The famous Philips logo with the stars and waves was designed by Dutch architect Louis Kalff (1897–1976), who stated that the emblem had been created as a coincidence so he did not know how a radio system worked.[135]

  •  

    1938–68

  •  

    1968–2008[136]

  •  

    2008–13

  •  

    2013–present

  •  

    Wordmark (1968–2008)

  •  

    Wordmark (2008–present)

Slogans

  • Untuk Hiburan Jang Bermutu (Indonesia only)
  • Pilihan Tepat! (Indonesia only)
  • Untuk Anda Yang Terbaik (Indonesia only)
  • Trust In Philips Is Worldwide (1960-1974)
  • Simply Years Ahead (1974-1981)
  • We Want You To Have The Best (1981-1985)
  • Take a Closer Look (1985-1995)
  • Let's Make Things Better (1995–2004)
  • Sense & Simplicity (2004–2013)
  • Innovation & You (2013–present)

Sponsorships

 
PSV's Philips Stadium

In 1913, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands, Philips founded Philips Sports Vereniging (Philips Sports Club, now commonly known as PSV). The club is active in numerous sports but is now best known for its football team, PSV Eindhoven, and swimming team. Philips owns the naming rights to Philips Stadium in Eindhoven, which is the home ground of PSV Eindhoven.

Outside of the Netherlands, Philips sponsors and has sponsored numerous sports clubs, sports facilities and events. In November 2008, Philips renewed and extended its F1 partnership with AT&T Williams. Philips owns the naming rights to the Philips Championship, the premier basketball league in Australia, traditionally known as the National Basketball League. From 1988 to 1993, Philips was the principal sponsor of the Australian rugby league team The Balmain Tigers and Indonesian football club side Persiba Balikpapan. From 1998 to 2000, Philips sponsored the Winston Cup No. 7 entry for Geoff Bodine Racing, later Ultra Motorsports, for drivers Geoff Bodine and Michael Waltrip. From 1999 to 2018, Philips held the naming rights to Philips Arena in Atlanta, home of the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association and former home of the defunct Atlanta Thrashers of the National Hockey League.

Outside of sports, Philips sponsors the international Philips Monsters of Rock festival.

Environmental record

Circular economy

Philips and its CEO, Frans van Houten, hold several global leadership positions in advancing the circular economy, including as a founding member and co-chair of the board of directors for the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE),[137] applying circular approaches in its capital equipment business,[138] and as a global partner of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.[139]

Planned obsolescence

Philips was a member of the Phoebus cartel along with Osram, Tungsram, Associated Electrical Industries, ELIN [de], Compagnie des Lampes, International General Electric, and the GE Overseas Group,[140] holding shares in the Swiss corporation proportional to their lamp sales. The cartel lowered operational costs and worked to standardize the life expectancy of light bulbs at 1,000 hours[141] (down from 2,500 hours),[141] and raised prices without fear of competition. The cartel tested their bulbs and fined manufacturers for bulbs that lasted more than 1,000 hours.

Green initiatives

Philips also runs the EcoVision initiative, which commits to a number of environmentally positive improvements, focusing on energy efficiency.[142]

Also, Philips marks its "green" products with the Philips Green Logo, identifying them as products that have a significantly better environmental performance than their competitors or predecessors.[143]

L-Prize competition

In 2011, Philips won a $10 million cash prize from the US Department of Energy for winning its L-Prize competition, to produce a high-efficiency, long operating life replacement for a standard 60-W incandescent lightbulb.[144] The winning LED lightbulb, which was made available to consumers in April 2012, produces slightly more than 900 lumens at an input power of 10 W.[145]

Greenpeace ranking

In Greenpeace's 2012 Guide to Greener Electronics that ranks electronics manufacturers on sustainability, climate and energy and how green their products are, Philips ranks 10th place with a score of 3.8/10.[146] The company was the top scorer in the Energy section due to its energy advocacy work calling upon the EU to adopt a 30% reduction for greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. It is also praised for its new products which are free from PVC plastic and BFRs. However, the guide criticizes Philips' sourcing of fibres for paper, arguing it must develop a paper procurement policy which excludes suppliers involved in deforestation and illegal logging.[147]

Philips have made some considerable progress since 2007 (when it was first ranked in this guide), in particular by supporting the Individual Producer Responsibility principle, which means that the company is accepting the responsibility for the toxic impacts of its products on e-waste dumps around the world.[148]

Publications

  • A. Heerding: The origin of the Dutch incandescent lamp industry. (Vol. 1 of The history of N.V. Philips gloeilampenfabriek). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-521-32169-7
  • A. Heerding: A company of many parts. (Vol. 2 of The history of N.V. Philips' gloeilampenfabrieken). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-521-32170-0
  • I.J. Blanken: The development of N.V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken into a major electrical group. Zaltbommel, European Library, 1999. (Vol. 3 of The history of Philips Electronics N.V.). ISBN 90-288-1439-6
  • I.J. Blanken: Under German rule. Zaltbommel, European Library, 1999. (Vol. 4 of The history of Philips Electronics N.V). ISBN 90-288-1440-X

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philips, other, uses, disambiguation, koninklijke, royal, commonly, shortened, dutch, multinational, conglomerate, corporation, that, founded, eindhoven, 1891, since, 1997, been, mostly, headquartered, amsterdam, though, benelux, headquarters, still, eindhoven. For other uses see Philips disambiguation Koninklijke Philips N V lit Royal Philips commonly shortened to Philips is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891 Since 1997 it has been mostly headquartered in Amsterdam though the Benelux headquarters is still in Eindhoven Philips was formerly one of the largest electronics companies in the world but is currently focused on the area of health technology having divested its other divisions Koninklijke Philips N V Headquarters in Amsterdam 2009FormerlyFirma Philips amp Co 1891 1912 N V Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken 1912 1994 Philips Electronics N V 1994 1998 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N V 1998 2013 TypePublic N V Traded asEuronext Amsterdam PHIANYSE PHG AEX componentIndustryConglomerateFounded15 May 1891 131 years ago 1891 05 15 Eindhoven NetherlandsFoundersGerard and Anton PhilipsHeadquartersAmsterdam NetherlandsArea servedWorldwideKey peopleJeroen van der Veer wbr Chairman Roy Jakobs CEO Abhijit Bhattacharya CFO Hugo Barbosa Vazquez wbr vice president ProductsMedical equipmentHome appliancesIntellectual property management and licensing for divested businesses of Philips such as audiovisual equipment and lighting Revenue 19 535 billion 2020 1 Operating income 1 542 billion 2020 1 Net income 1 195 billion 2020 1 Total assets 27 713 billion 2020 1 Total equity 11 901 billion 2020 1 Number of employees81 592 2020 1 Websitephilips comThe company was founded in 1891 by Gerard Philips and his father Frederik with their first products being light bulbs It currently employs around 80 000 people across 100 countries 2 The company gained its royal honorary title hence the Koninklijke in 1998 and dropped the Electronics in its name in 2013 3 due to its refocusing from consumer electronics to healthcare technology Philips is organized into three main divisions Personal Health formerly Philips Consumer Electronics and Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal Care Connected Care and Diagnosis amp Treatment formerly Philips Medical Systems 4 The lighting division was spun off as a separate company Signify N V The company started making electric shavers in 1939 under the Philishave and Norelco brands and post war they developed the Compact Cassette format and co developed the Compact Disc format with Sony as well as numerous other technologies As of 2012 Philips was the largest manufacturer of lighting in the world as measured by applicable revenues Philips has a primary listing on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange and is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index 5 It has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange Acquisitions include that of Signetics and Magnavox It also founded a multidisciplinary sports club called PSV Eindhoven in 1913 Contents 1 History 1 1 Radio 1 2 Stirling engine 1 3 Shavers 1 4 World War II 1 5 1945 1999 1 6 2000s 1 7 2010s 1 8 2020s 2 Corporate affairs 2 1 CEOs 2 2 CFOs 2 3 Current Executive Committee 2 4 Acquisitions 3 Operations 3 1 Asia 3 1 1 Thailand 3 1 2 Hong Kong 3 1 3 China 3 1 4 India 3 1 5 Israel 3 1 6 Pakistan 3 1 7 Singapore 3 2 Europe 3 2 1 Denmark 3 2 2 France 3 2 3 Germany 3 2 4 Greece 3 2 5 Italy 3 2 6 Hungary 3 2 7 Poland 3 2 8 Portugal 3 2 9 Sweden 3 2 10 United Kingdom 3 3 North America 3 3 1 Canada 3 3 2 Mexico 3 3 3 United States 3 4 Oceania 3 4 1 Australia and New Zealand 3 5 South America 3 5 1 Brazil 3 5 2 Colour television 3 6 Former operations 4 Products 4 1 Lighting products 4 2 Audio products 4 3 Healthcare products 4 3 1 Clinical informatics 4 3 2 Imaging systems 4 3 3 Diagnostic monitoring 4 3 4 Defibrillators 4 3 5 Consumer 4 3 6 Patient care and clinical informatics 5 Logo evolution 6 Slogans 7 Sponsorships 8 Environmental record 8 1 Circular economy 8 2 Planned obsolescence 8 3 Green initiatives 8 4 L Prize competition 8 5 Greenpeace ranking 9 Publications 10 References 11 External linksHistory EditSee also Philips family Gerard Philips 1858 1942 founder The Philips Company was founded in 1891 by Dutch Jewish entrepreneur Gerard Philips and his father Frederik Philips Frederik a banker based in Zaltbommel financed the purchase and setup of an empty factory building in Eindhoven where the company started the production of carbon filament lamps and other electro technical products in 1892 This first factory has since been adapted and is used as a museum 6 The very first Philips factory in Eindhoven now a public museum In 1895 after a difficult first few years and near bankruptcy the Philipses brought in Anton Gerard s younger brother by sixteen years Though he had earned a degree in engineering Anton started work as a sales representative soon however he began to contribute many important business ideas With Anton s arrival the family business began to expand rapidly resulting in the founding of Philips Metaalgloeilampfabriek N V Philips Metal Filament Lamp Factory Ltd in Eindhoven in 1908 followed in 1912 by the foundation of Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken N V Philips Lightbulb Factories Ltd After Gerard and Anton Philips changed their family business by founding the Philips corporation they laid the foundations for the later multinational In the 1920s the company started to manufacture other products such as vacuum tubes Radio Edit Share of the Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken issued 14 December 1928 On 11 March 1927 Philips went on the air inaugurating the shortwave radio station PCJJ later PCJ which was joined in 1929 by a sister station Philips Omroep Holland Indie later PHI PHOHI broadcast in Dutch to the Dutch East Indies now Indonesia and later PHI broadcast in English and other languages to the Eastern hemisphere while PCJJ broadcast in English Spanish and German to the rest of the world citation needed The international program Sundays commenced in 1928 with host Eddie Startz hosting the Happy Station show which became the world s longest running shortwave program Broadcasts from the Netherlands were interrupted by the German invasion in May 1940 The Germans commandeered the transmitters in Huizen to use for pro Nazi broadcasts some originating from Germany others concerts from Dutch broadcasters under German control Philips Chapel radio model 930A 1931 In the early 1930s Philips introduced the Chapel a radio with a built in loudspeaker Philips Radio was absorbed shortly after liberation when its two shortwave stations were nationalised in 1947 and renamed Radio Netherlands Worldwide the Dutch International Service Some PCJ programs such as Happy Station continued on the new station Stirling engine Edit Philips was instrumental in the revival of the Stirling engine when in the early 1930s the management decided that offering a low power portable generator would assist in expanding sales of its radios into parts of the world where mains electricity was unavailable and the supply of batteries uncertain Engineers at the company s research lab carried out a systematic comparison of various power sources and determined that the almost forgotten Stirling engine would be most suitable citing its quiet operation both audibly and in terms of radio interference and ability to run on a variety of heat sources common lamp oil cheap and available everywhere was favoured 7 They were also aware that unlike steam and internal combustion engines virtually no serious development work had been carried out on the Stirling engine for many years and asserted that modern materials and know how should enable great improvements 8 Encouraged by their first experimental engine which produced 16 W of shaft power from a bore and stroke of 30 mm 25 mm 9 various development models were produced in a program which continued throughout World War II By the late 1940s the Type 10 was ready to be handed over to Philips s subsidiary Johan de Witt in Dordrecht to be produced and incorporated into a generator set as originally planned The result rated at 180 200 W electrical output from a bore and stroke of 55 mm 27 mm was designated MP1002CA known as the Bungalow set Production of an initial batch of 250 began in 1951 but it became clear that they could not be made at a competitive price besides the advent of transistor radios with their much lower power requirements meant that the original rationale for the set was disappearing Approximately 150 of these sets were eventually produced 10 In parallel with the generator set Philips developed experimental Stirling engines for a wide variety of applications and continued to work in the field until the late 1970s though the only commercial success was the reversed Stirling engine cryocooler However they filed a large number of patents and amassed a wealth of information which they later licensed to other companies 11 Shavers Edit The first Philips shaver was introduced in 1939 and was simply called Philishave In the US it was called Norelco The Philishave has remained part of the Philips product line up until the present World War II Edit On 9 May 1940 the Philips directors learned that the German invasion of the Netherlands was to take place the following day Having prepared for this Anton Philips and his son in law Frans Otten as well as other Philips family members fled to the United States taking a large amount of the company capital with them Operating from the US as the North American Philips Company they managed to run the company throughout the war At the same time the company was moved on paper to the Netherlands Antilles to keep it out of German hands 12 On 6 December 1942 the British No 2 Group RAF undertook Operation Oyster which heavily damaged the Philips Radio factory in Eindhoven with few casualties among the Dutch workers and civilians 13 The Philips works in Eindhoven was bombed again by the RAF on 30 March 1943 14 15 Frits Philips the son of Anton was the only Philips family member to stay in the Netherlands He saved the lives of 382 Jews by convincing the Nazis that they were indispensable for the production process at Philips 16 In 1943 he was held at the internment camp for political prisoners at Vught for several months because a strike at his factory reduced production For his actions in saving the hundreds of Jews he was recognized by Yad Vashem in 1995 as a Righteous Among the Nations 17 1945 1999 Edit After the war the company was moved back to the Netherlands with their headquarters in Eindhoven The Philips Light Tower in Eindhoven originally a light bulb factory and later the company headquarters 18 The Evoluon in Eindhoven opened in 1966 In 1949 the company began selling television sets 19 In 1950 it formed Philips Records which eventually formed part of PolyGram in 1962 Philips introduced the Compact Cassette audio tape format in 1963 and it was wildly successful Cassettes were initially used for dictation machines for office typing stenographers and professional journalists As their sound quality improved cassettes would also be used to record sound and became the second mass media alongside vinyl records used to sell recorded music An early portable Compact Cassette recorder by Philips model D6350 Philips introduced the first combination portable radio and cassette recorder which was marketed as the radio recorder and is now better known as the boom box Later the cassette was used in telephone answering machines including a special form of cassette where the tape was wound on an endless loop The C cassette was used as the first mass storage device for early personal computers in the 1970s and 1980s Philips reduced the cassette size for professional needs with the Mini Cassette although it would not be as successful as the Olympus Microcassette This became the predominant dictation medium up to the advent of fully digital dictation machines citation needed Philips continued with computers through the early 1990s see separate article Philips Computers In 1972 Philips launched the world s first home video cassette recorder in the UK the N1500 Its relatively bulky video cassettes could record 30 minutes or 45 minutes Later one hour tapes were also offered As the competition came from Sony s Betamax and the VHS group of manufacturers Philips introduced the N1700 system which allowed double length recording For the first time a 2 hour movie could fit onto one video cassette In 1977 the company unveiled a special promotional film for this system in the UK featuring comedy writer and presenter Denis Norden 20 The concept was quickly copied by the Japanese makers whose tapes were significantly cheaper Philips made one last attempt at a new standard for video recorders with the Video 2000 system with tapes that could be used on both sides and had 8 hours of total recording time As Philips only sold its systems on the PAL standard and in Europe and the Japanese makers sold globally the scale advantages of the Japanese proved insurmountable and Philips withdrew the V2000 system and joined the VHS Coalition citation needed Philips CD 100 the second ever commercially released CD player after partner Sony s CDP 101 Philips had developed a LaserDisc early on for selling movies but delayed its commercial launch for fear of cannibalizing its video recorder sales Later Philips joined with MCA to launch the first commercial LaserDisc standard and players In 1982 Philips teamed with Sony to launch the Compact Disc this format evolved into the CD R CD RW DVD and later Blu ray which Philips launched with Sony in 1997 21 and 2006 respectively Kees Schouhamer Immink with his Emmy award Philips greatest inventor in consumer electronics in the late 20th century invented the coding technologies for CD DVD Blu ray and DCC In 1984 the Dutch Philips Group bought out nearly a one third share and took over the management of the German company Grundig In 1984 Philips split off its activities on the field of photolithographic integrated circuit production equipment the so called wafer steppers into a joint venture with ASM International located in Veldhoven under the name ASML Over the years this new company has evolved into the world s leading manufacturer of chip production machines at the expense of competitors like Nikon and Canon Philips partnered with Sony again later to develop a new interactive disc format called CD i described by them as a new way of interacting with a television set 22 Philips created the majority of CD i compatible players After low sales Philips repositioned the format as a video game console but it was soon discontinued after being heavily criticized amongst the gaming community 23 24 In the 1980s Philips s profit margin dropped below 1 percent and in 1990 the company lost more than US 2 billion biggest corporate loss in Dutch history Troubles for the company continued into the 1990s as its status as a leading electronics company was swiftly lost 25 In 1985 Philips was the largest founding investor in TSMC 26 which was established as a joint venture between Philips the Taiwan government and other private investors In 1991 the company s name was changed from N V Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken to Philips Electronics N V 27 At the same time North American Philips was formally dissolved and a new corporate division was formed in the US with the name Philips Electronics North America Corp citation needed In 1997 the company officers decided to move the headquarters from Eindhoven to Amsterdam along with the corporate name change to Koninklijke Philips Electronics N V the latter of which was finalized on 16 March 1998 28 In 1998 looking to spur innovation Philips created an Emerging Businesses group for its Semiconductors unit based in Silicon Valley The group was designed to be an incubator where promising technologies and products could be developed 29 30 2000s Edit The move of the headquarters to Amsterdam was completed in 2001 Initially the company was housed in the Rembrandt Tower In 2002 it moved again this time to the Breitner Tower Philips Lighting Philips Research Philips Semiconductors spun off as NXP in September 2006 and Philips Design are still based in Eindhoven Philips Healthcare is headquartered in both Best Netherlands near Eindhoven and Andover Massachusetts United States near Boston In 2000 Philips bought Optiva Corporation the maker of Sonicare electric toothbrushes The company was renamed Philips Oral Healthcare and made a subsidiary of Philips DAP In 2001 Philips acquired Agilent Technologies Healthcare Solutions Group HSG for EUR 2 billion 31 Philips created a computer monitors joint venture with LG called LG Philips Displays in 2001 In 2001 after growing the unit s Emerging Businesses group to nearly 1 billion in revenue Scott A McGregor was named the new president and CEO of Philips Semiconductors McGregor s appointment completed the company s shift to having dedicated CEOs for all five of the company s product divisions which would in turn leave the Board of Management to concentrate on issues confronting the Philips Group as a whole 29 In February 2001 Philips sold its remaining interest in battery manufacturing to its then partner Matsushita which itself became Panasonic in 2008 32 33 Philips s 2004 slogan In 2004 Philips abandoned the slogan Let s make things better in favour of a new one Sense and Simplicity 34 In December 2005 Philips announced its intention to sell or demerge its semiconductor division On 1 September 2006 it was announced in Berlin that the name of the new company formed by the division would be NXP Semiconductors On 2 August 2006 Philips completed an agreement to sell a controlling 80 1 stake in NXP Semiconductors to a consortium of private equity investors consisting of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts amp Co KKR Silver Lake Partners and AlpInvest Partners On 21 August 2006 Bain Capital and Apax Partners announced that they had signed definitive commitments to join the acquiring consortium a process which was completed on 1 October 2006 citation needed In 2006 Philips bought out the company Lifeline Systems headquartered in Framingham Massachusetts in a deal valued at 750 million its biggest move yet to expand its consumer health business M 35 In August 2007 Philips acquired the company Ximis Inc headquartered in El Paso Texas for their Medical Informatics Division 36 In October 2007 it purchased a Moore Microprocessor Patent MPP Portfolio license from The TPL Group On 21 December 2007 Philips and Respironics Inc announced a definitive agreement pursuant to which Philips acquired all of the outstanding shares of Respironics for US 66 per share or a total purchase price of approximately 3 6 billion US 5 1 billion in cash 37 On 21 February 2008 Philips completed the acquisition of VISICU in Baltimore Maryland through the merger of its indirect wholly owned subsidiary into VISICU As a result of that merger VISICU has become an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Philips VISICU was the creator of the eICU concept of the use of Telemedicine from a centralized facility to monitor and care for ICU patients 38 The Philips physics laboratory was scaled down in the early 21st century as the company ceased trying to be innovative in consumer electronics through fundamental research 39 2010s Edit Philips made several acquisitions during 2011 announcing on 5 January 2011 that it had acquired Optimum Lighting 40 a manufacturer of LED based luminaires In January 2011 Philips agreed to acquire the assets of Preethi a leading India based kitchen appliances company 41 On 27 June 2011 Philips acquired Sectra Mamea AB the mammography division of Sectra AB 42 Because net profit slumped 85 percent in Q3 2011 Philips announced a cut of 4 500 jobs to match part of an 800 million 1 1 billion cost cutting scheme to boost profits and meet its financial target 43 In 2011 the company posted a loss of 1 3 billion but earned a net profit in Q1 and Q2 2012 however the management wanted 1 1 billion cost cutting which was an increase from 800 million and may cut another 2 200 jobs until end of 2014 44 In March 2012 Philips announced its intention to sell or demerge its television manufacturing operations to TPV Technology 45 Following two decades in decline Philips went through a major restructuring shifting its focus from electronics to healthcare Particularly from 2011 when a new CEO was appointed Frans van Houten The new health and medical strategy have helped Philips to thrive again in the 2010s 25 On 5 December 2012 the antitrust regulators of the European Union fined Philips and several other major companies for fixing prices of TV cathode ray tubes in two cartels lasting nearly a decade 46 On 29 January 2013 it was announced that Philips had agreed to sell its audio and video operations to the Japan based Funai Electric for 150 million with the audio business planned to transfer to Funai in the latter half of 2013 and the video business in 2017 47 48 49 As part of the transaction Funai was to pay a regular licensing fee to Philips for the use of the Philips brand 48 The purchase agreement was terminated by Philips in October because of breach of contract 50 and the consumer electronics operations remain under Philips Philips said it would seek damages for breach of contract in the US 200 million sale 51 In April 2016 the International Court of Arbitration ruled in favour of Philips awarding compensation of 135 million in the process 52 In April 2013 Philips announced a collaboration with Paradox Engineering for the realization and implementation of a pilot project on network connected street lighting management solutions This project was endorsed by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission SFPUC 53 In 2013 Philips removed the word Electronics from its name becoming Royal Philips N V 54 On 13 November 2013 Philips unveiled its new brand line Innovation and You and a new design of its shield mark The new brand positioning is cited by Philips to signify company s evolution and emphasize that innovation is only meaningful if it is based on an understanding of people s needs and desires 55 On 28 April 2014 Philips agreed to sell their Woox Innovations subsidiary consumer electronics to Gibson Brands for US135 million On 23 September 2014 Philips announced a plan to split the company into two separating the lighting business from the healthcare and consumer lifestyle divisions 56 It moved to complete this in March 2015 to an investment group for 3 3 billion 57 In February 2015 Philips acquired Volcano Corporation to strengthen its position in non invasive surgery and imaging 58 In June 2016 Philips spun off its lighting division to focus on the healthcare division 59 In June 2017 Philips announced it would acquire US based Spectranetics Corp a manufacturer of devices to treat heart disease for 1 9 billion 1 68 billion expanding its current image guided therapy business In May 2016 Philips lighting division Philips Lighting went through a spin off process and became an independent public company named Philips Lighting N V 60 In 2017 Philips launched Philips Ventures with a health technology venture fund as its main focus Philips Ventures invested in companies including Mytonomy 2017 and DEARhealth 2019 61 62 In 2018 the independent Philips Lighting N V was renamed Signify N V However it continues to produce and market Philips branded products such as Philips Hue color changing LED light bulbs 63 2020s Edit In 2022 Philips announced that Frans Van Houten who had served as CEO for 12 years will be stepping down and is to be replaced by Philips s EVP and Chief Business Leader of Connected Care Roy Jakobs effective October 15 2022 64 65 In 2023 the company announced that it would be cutting 6 000 jobs from the company worldwide over the next two years after reporting 1 6 billion euros in losses during the 2022 financial year The cuts came in addition to a 4 000 staff reduction being announced in October 2022 66 Corporate affairs EditCEOs Edit Past and present CEOs 1891 1922 Gerard Philips 1922 1939 Anton Philips 1939 1961 Frans Otten 1961 1971 Frits Philips 1971 1977 Henk van Riemsdijk nl 1977 1981 Nico Rodenburg 1981 1982 Cor Dillen 1982 1986 Wisse Dekker 1986 1990 Cor van der Klugt 1990 1996 Jan Timmer 1996 2001 Cor Boonstra 2001 2011 Gerard Kleisterlee 2011 2022 Frans van Houten 2022 present Roy JakobsCEOs lighting 2003 2008 Theo van Deursen 2012 present Eric RondolatCFOs Edit Past and present CFOs chief financial officer 1960 1968 Cor Dillen 1997 Dudley Eustace 1997 2005 Jan Hommen citation needed 2015 present Abhijit BhattacharyaCurrent Executive Committee Edit 67 CEO Roy Jakobs CFO Abhijit Bhattacharya COO Willem Appelo amp Sophie Bechu Chief ESG amp Legal Officer Marnix van Ginneken Chief Business Leader Connected Care Roy Jakobs Chief Business Leader Personal Health Deeptha Khanna Chief Business Leader Image Guided Therapy Bert van Meurs Chief Business Leader Precision Diagnosis Kees Wesdorp CEO Philips Domestic Appliances Henk Siebren de Jong Chief of International Markets Edwin Paalvast Chief Medical Innovation amp Strategy Officer Shez Partovi Chief Market Leader China Andy Ho Chief Market Leader North America Vitor Rocha Chief Human Resources Officer Daniela SeabrookAcquisitions Edit Companies acquired by Philips through the years include ADAC Laboratories Agilent Healthcare Solutions Group Amperex ATL Ultrasound EKCO Lifeline Systems Magnavox Marconi Medical Systems Philips Medical purchased Intermagnetics based out of Latham New York for 1 3 billion in 2006 Optiva Preethi Pye Respironics Inc Sectra Mamea AB Signetics VISICU Volcano VLSI Ximis portions of Westinghouse and the consumer electronics operations of Philco and Sylvania Philips abandoned the Sylvania trademark which is now owned by Havells Sylvania except in Australia Canada Mexico New Zealand Puerto Rico and the US where it is owned by Osram Formed in November 1999 as an equal joint venture between Philips and Agilent Technologies the light emitting diode manufacturer Lumileds became a subsidiary of Philips Lighting in August 2005 and a fully owned subsidiary in December 2006 68 69 An 80 1 percent stake in Lumileds was sold to Apollo Global Management in 2017 70 On 19 September 2018 Philips reported that it had acquired US based Blue Willow Systems a developer of a cloud based senior living community resident safety platform On 7 March 2019 Philips announced that was acquiring the Healthcare Information Systems business of Carestream Health Inc a US based provider of medical imaging and healthcare IT solutions for hospitals imaging centers and specialty medical clinics 71 On 18 July 2019 Philips announced that it has expanded its patient management solutions in the US with the acquisition of Boston based start up company Medumo 72 On 27 August 2020 Philips announced the acquisition of Intact Vascular Inc a U S based developer of medical devices for minimally invasive peripheral vascular procedures 73 On 18 December 2020 Philips and BioTelemetry Inc a leading U S based provider of remote cardiac diagnostics and monitoring announced that they had entered into a definitive merger agreement 74 On 19 January 2021 Philips announced the acquisition of Capsule Technologies Inc a provider of medical device integration and data technologies for hospitals and healthcare organizations 75 On 9 November 2021 Philips announced the acquisition of Cardiologs an AI powered cardiac diagnostic technology developer to expand its cardiac diagnostics and monitoring portfolio 76 Operations EditPhilips is registered in the Netherlands as a naamloze vennootschap public corporation and has its global headquarters in Amsterdam 77 At the end of 2013 Philips had 111 manufacturing facilities 59 R amp D facilities across 26 countries and sales and service operations in around 100 countries 78 Philips is organized into three main divisions Philips Consumer Lifestyle formerly Philips Consumer Electronics and Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal Care Philips Healthcare formerly Philips Medical Systems and Philips Lighting Former 77 Philips achieved total revenues of 22 579 billion in 2011 of which 8 852 billion were generated by Philips Healthcare 7 638 billion by Philips Lighting 5 823 billion by Philips Consumer Lifestyle and 266 million from group activities 77 At the end of 2011 Philips had a total of 121 888 employees of whom around 44 were employed in Philips Lighting 31 in Philips Healthcare and 15 in Philips Consumer Lifestyle 77 The lighting division was spun out as a new company called Signify which uses the Philips brand under license Philips invested a total of 1 61 billion in research and development in 2011 equivalent to 7 10 of sales 77 Philips Intellectual Property and Standards is the group wide division responsible for licensing trademark protection and patenting 79 Philips currently holds around 54 000 patent rights 39 000 trademarks 70 000 design rights and 4 400 domain name registrations 77 In the 2021 review of WIPO s annual World Intellectual Property Indicators Philips ranked 5th in the world for its 95 industrial design registrations being published under the Hague System during 2020 80 This position is down on their previous 4th place ranking for 85 industrial design registrations being published in 2019 81 third party source needed Asia Edit Thailand Edit Philips Thailand was established in 1952 It is a subsidiary that produces healthcare lifestyle and lighting products Philips started manufacturing in Thailand in 1960 with an incandescent lamp factory Philips has diversified its production facilities to include a fluorescent lamp factory and a luminaries factory serving Thai and worldwide markets 82 Hong Kong Edit The Philips building in the Hong Kong Science Park Philips Hong Kong began operations in 1948 Philips Hong Kong houses the global headquarters of Philips Audio Business Unit It also house Philips Asia Pacific regional office and headquarters for its Design Division Domestic Appliances amp Personal Care Products Division Lighting Products Division and Medical System Products Division 83 In 1974 Philips opened a lamp factory in Hong Kong This has a capacity of 200 million pieces a year and is certified with ISO 9001 2000 and ISO 14001 Its product portfolio includes prefocus lensend and E10 miniature light bulbs 83 China Edit Philips established its first Chinese factory in Zhuhai Guangdong in 1990 The site mainly manufactures Philishaves and healthcare products 84 In early 2008 Philips Lighting a division of Royal Philips Electronics opened a small engineering center in Shanghai to adapt the company s products to vehicles in Asia 85 Today Philips has 27 WOFE JVs in China employing gt 17 500 people China is its second largest market 86 India Edit Philips began operations in India in 1930 with the establishment of Philips Electrical Co India Pvt Ltd in Kolkata as a sales outlet for imported Philips lamps In 1938 Philips established its first Indian lamp manufacturing factory in Kolkata In 1948 Philips started manufacturing radios in Kolkata In 1959 a second radio factory was established near Pune This was closed and sold around 2006 In 1957 the company converted into a public limited company renamed Philips India Ltd In 1970 a new consumer electronics factory began operations in Pimpri near Pune This is now called the Philips Healthcare Innovation Centre Also a manufacturing facility Philips Centre for Manufacturing Excellence was set up in Chakan Pune in 2012 In 1996 the Philips Software Centre was established in Bangalore later renamed the Philips Innovation Campus 87 In 2008 Philips India entered the water purifier market In 2014 Philips was ranked 12th among India s most trusted brands according to the Brand Trust Report a study conducted by Trust Research Advisory 88 Now Philips India is one of the most diversified health care company amp broadly focusing on Imaging Utlrasound MA amp TC products amp Sleep amp respiratory care products Philips is aspiring to touch life of 40 Million patients in India by next 2 years In 2020 Philips introduced mobile ICUs in order to support clinicians to meet the rising demand of ICU beds due to the COVID 19 pandemic Israel Edit Philips has been active in Israel since 1948 and in 1998 set up a wholly owned subsidiary Philips Electronics Israel Ltd The company has over 700 employees in Israel and generated sales of over 300 million in 2007 89 Philips Medical Systems Technologies Ltd Haifa is a developer and manufacturer of Computerized Tomography CT diagnostic and Medical Imaging systems The company was founded in 1969 as Elscint by Elron Electronic Industries and was acquired by Marconi Medical Systems in 1998 which was itself acquired by Philips in 2001 Philips Semiconductors formerly had major operations in Israel these now form part of NXP Semiconductors On 1 August 2019 Philips acquired Carestream HCIS division from Onex Corporation As part of the acquisition Algotec Systems LTD Carestream HCIS R amp D located in Raanana Israel changed ownership in a share deal In addition to that Algotec changed its name to Philips Algotec and is part of Philips HCIS Philips HCIS is a provider of medical imaging systems citation needed Pakistan Edit Philips has been active in Pakistan since 1948 and has a wholly owned subsidiary Philips Pakistan Limited Formerly Philips Electrical Industries of Pakistan Limited 90 The head office is in Karachi with regional sales offices in Lahore and Rawalpindi Singapore Edit A part of the former Philips Singapore HQ complex at Toa Payoh in September 2006 The new Philips APAC HQ was opened on the site of this particular building in June 2016 Philips began operations in Singapore in 1951 initially as a local distributor of imported Philips products 91 Philips later established manufacturing sites at Boon Keng Road and Jurong Industrial Estate in 1968 and 1970 respectively 92 Since 1972 its regional headquarters has been based in the central HDB town of Toa Payoh which from the 1990s until the early 2010s consisted of four interconnected buildings housing offices and factory spaces In 2016 a new Philips APAC HQ building was opened on the site of one of the former 1972 buildings 93 94 Europe Edit Denmark Edit Philips Denmark was founded in Copenhagen in 1927 and is now headquartered in Frederiksberg 95 In 1963 Philips established the Philips TV amp Test Equipment laboratory in Brondby Municipality which was where engineers Erik Helmer Nielsen and Finn Hendil da 1939 2011 created and developed some of Philips most iconic television test cards such as the monochrome PM5540 and the colour PM5544 and TVE test cards 96 97 98 99 Between 2000 and 2012 Philips TV amp Test Equipment gradually became independent from Philips and renamed itself as ProTelevision Technologies 100 now under the umbrella of the Italian company Elenos Group France Edit The headquarters of Philips France in Suresnes Philips France has its headquarters in Suresnes The company employs over 3600 people nationwide Philips Lighting has manufacturing facilities in Chalon sur Saone fluorescent lamps Chartres automotive lighting Lamotte Beuvron architectural lighting by LEDs and professional indoor lighting Longvic lamps Miribel outdoor lighting Nevers professional indoor lighting Germany Edit Philips Germany was founded in 1926 in Berlin Now its headquarters is located in Hamburg Over 4900 people are employed in Germany 101 Hamburg Distribution center of the divisions Healthcare Consumer Lifestyle and Lighting Philips Medical Systems DMC Philips Innovative Technologies Research Laboratories Aachen Philips Innovative Technologies Philips Innovation Services Boblingen Philips Medical Systems patient monitoring systems Herrsching Philips Respironics Ulm Philips Photonics development and manufacture of vertical laser diodes VCSELs and photodiodes for sensing and data communication Greece Edit Philips Greece is headquartered in Halandri Attica As of 2012 Philips has no manufacturing plants in Greece although previously there have been audio lighting and telecommunications factories Italy Edit Philips founded its Italian headquarters in 1918 basing it in Monza Milan where it still operates for commercial activities only Hungary Edit Philips founded PACH Philips Assembly Centre Hungary in 1992 producing televisions and consumer electronics in Szekesfehervar After TPV entering the Philips TV business the factory was moved under TP Vision the new joint venture company in 2011 Products have been transferred to Poland and China and factory was closed in 2013 By Philips acquiring PLI in 2007 another Hungarian Philips factory emerged in Tamasi producing lamps under the name of Philips IPSC Tamasi later Philips Lighting The factory was renamed to Signify in 2017 still producing Philips lighting products Poland Edit Philips operations in Poland include a European financial and accounting centre in Lodz Philips Lighting facilities in Bielsko Biala Pila and Ketrzyn and a Philips Domestic Appliances facility in Bialystok Portugal Edit Philips started business in Portugal in 1927 as Philips Portuguesa S A R L 102 Currently Philips Portuguesa S A is headquartered in Oeiras near Lisbon 103 There were three Philips factories in Portugal the FAPAE lamp factory in Lisbon 102 104 105 the Carnaxide magnetic core memory factory near Lisbon where the Philips Service organization was also based and the Ovar factory in northern Portugal making camera components and remote control devices 104 The company still operates in Portugal with divisions for commercial lighting medical systems and domestic appliances 106 Sweden Edit Philips Sweden has two main sites Kista Stockholm County with regional sales marketing and a customer support organization and Solna Stockholm County with the main office of the mammography division United Kingdom Edit Philips UK has its headquarters 107 in Guildford The company employs over 2 500 people nationwide Philips Healthcare Informatics Belfast develops healthcare software products Philips Consumer Products Guildford provides sales and marketing for televisions including High Definition televisions DVD recorders hi fi and portable audio CD recorders PC peripherals cordless telephones home and kitchen appliances personal care shavers hair dryers body beauty and oral hygiene Philips Dictation Systems Colchester Philips Lighting sales from Guildford and manufacture in Hamilton Philips Healthcare Guildford Sales and technical support for X ray ultrasound nuclear medicine patient monitoring magnetic resonance computed tomography and resuscitation products Philips Research Laboratories Cambridge Until 2008 based in Redhill Surrey Originally these were the Mullard Research Laboratories In the past Philips UK also included Consumer product manufacturing in Croydon Television Tube Manufacturing Mullard Simonstone Philips Business Communications Cambridge offered voice and data communications products specialising in Customer Relationship Management CRM applications IP Telephony data networking voice processing command and control systems and cordless and mobile telephony In 2006 the business was placed into a 60 40 joint venture with NEC NEC later acquired 100 per cent ownership and the business was renamed NEC Unified Solutions Philips Electronics Blackburn vacuum tubes capacitors delay lines Laserdiscs CDs Philips Domestic Appliances Hastings Design and Production of Electric kettles Fan Heaters plus former EKCO brand Thermotube Tubular Heaters and Hostess Domestic Food Warming Trolleys Mullard Southampton and Hazel Grove Stockport Originally brought together as a joint venture between Mullard and GEC as Associated Semiconductor Manufacturers They developed and manufactured rectifiers diodes transistors integrated circuits and electro optical devices These became Philips Semiconductors before becoming part of NXP London Carriers logistics and transport division Mullard Equipment Limited MEL which produced products for the military Ada Halifax Ltd maker of washing machines and spin driers refrigerators Pye TVT Ltd of Cambridge Pye Telecommunications Ltd of Cambridge TMC Limited of MalmesburyNorth America Edit Canada Edit Philips headquarters in Markham Philips Canada was founded in 1941 when it acquired Small Electric Motors Limited It is well known in medical systems for diagnosis and therapy lighting technologies shavers and consumer electronics The Canadian headquarters are located in Markham Ontario For several years Philips manufactured lighting products in two Canadian factories The London Ontario plant opened in 1971 It produced A19 lamps including the Royale long life bulbs PAR38 lamps and T19 lamps originally a Westinghouse lamp shape Philips closed the factory in May 2003 The Trois Rivieres Quebec plant was a Westinghouse facility which Philips continued to run it after buying Westinghouse s lamp division in 1983 Philips closed this factory a few years later in the late 1980s Mexico Edit Philips Mexico Commercial SA de CV is headquartered in Mexico City This entity was incorporated in FY2016 to sales consumer lifestyle and healthcare portfolios in the market United States Edit Previous Philips North American headquarters in Andover Massachusetts Philips Electronics North American headquarters is in Cambridge Massachusetts 108 Philips Lighting has its corporate office in Somerset New Jersey with manufacturing plants in Danville Kentucky Salina Kansas Dallas and Paris Texas and distribution centers in Mountain Top Pennsylvania El Paso Texas Ontario California and Memphis Tennessee Philips Healthcare is headquartered in Cambridge Massachusetts and operates a health tech hub in Nashville Tennessee with over 1 000 jobs The North American sales organization is based in Bothell Washington There are also manufacturing facilities in Bothell Washington Baltimore Maryland Cleveland Ohio Foster City California Gainesville Florida Milpitas California and Reedsville Pennsylvania Philips Healthcare also formerly had a factory in Knoxville Tennessee Philips Consumer Lifestyle has its corporate office in Stamford Connecticut Philips Lighting has a Color Kinetics office in Burlington Massachusetts Philips Research North American headquarters is in Cambridge Massachusetts In 2007 Philips entered into a definitive merger agreement with North American luminaires company Genlyte Group Incorporated which provides the company with a leading position in the North American luminaires also known as lighting fixtures controls and related products for a wide variety of applications including solid state lighting The company also acquired Respironics which was a significant gain for its healthcare sector On 21 February 2008 Philips completed the acquisition of Baltimore Maryland based VISICU VISICU was the creator of the eICU concept of the use of Telemedicine from a centralized facility to monitor and care for ICU patients In April 2020 the United States Department of Health amp Human Services HHS entered into a contract with Philips Respironics for 43 000 bundled Trilogy Evo Universal ventilator EV300 hospital ventilators 109 This included the production and delivery of ventilators to the Strategic National Stockpile about 156 000 by the end of August 2020 and 187 000 more by the end of 2020 110 During the COVID 19 pandemic beginning in March 2020 in response to an international demand Philips increased production of the ventilators fourfold within five months Production lines were added in the United States with employees working around the clock in factories producing ventilators in Western Pennsylvania and California for example 110 In March 2020 ProPublica published a series of articles on the Philips ventilator contract as negotiated by trade adviser Peter Navarro In response to the ProPublica series in August the United States House of Representatives undertook a congressional investigation into the acquisition of the Philips ventilators The lawmakers investigation found evidence of fraud waste and abuse 111 the deal negotiated by Navarro had resulted in an over payment to Philips by the US government of hundreds of millions 111 Oceania Edit Australia and New Zealand Edit Philips Australia was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in North Ryde New South Wales and also manages the New Zealand operation from there The company currently employs around 800 people Regional sales and support offices are located in Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth and Auckland Current activities include Philips Healthcare also responsible for New Zealand operations Philips Lighting also responsible for New Zealand operations Philips Oral Healthcare Philips Professional Dictation Solutions Philips Professional Display Solutions Philips AVENT Professional Philips Consumer Lifestyle also responsible for New Zealand operations Philips Sleep amp Respiratory Care formerly Respironics with its ever increasing national network of Sleepeasy Centres Philips Dynalite Lighting Control systems acquired in 2009 global design and manufacturing centre and Philips Selecon NZ Lighting Entertainment product design and manufacture South America Edit Brazil Edit Philips do Brasil was founded in 1924 in Rio de Janeiro 112 In 1929 Philips started to sell radio receivers In the 1930s Philips was making its light bulbs and radio receivers in Brazil From 1939 to 1945 World War II forced Brazilian branch of Philips to sell bicycles refrigerators and insecticides After the war Philips had a great industrial expansion in Brazil and was among the first groups to establish in Manaus Free Zone In the 1970s Philips Records was a major player in Brazil recording industry Nowadays Philips do Brasil is one of the largest foreign owned companies in Brazil Philips uses the brand Walita for domestic appliances in Brazil Colour television Edit Colour television was introduced in South America by then CEO Cor Dillen citation needed Former operations Edit Philips subsidiary Philips Duphar nl manufactured pharmaceuticals for human and veterinary use and products for crop protection Duphar was sold to Solvay in 1990 In subsequent years Solvay sold off all divisions to other companies crop protection to UniRoyal now Chemtura the veterinary division to Fort Dodge a division of Wyeth and the pharmaceutical division to Abbott Laboratories PolyGram Philips music television and movies division was sold to Seagram in 1998 merged into Universal Music Group Philips Records continues to operate as record label of UMG its name licensed from its former parent In 1980 Philips acquired Marantz a company renowned for high end audio and video products based at Kanagawa Japan In 2002 Marantz Japan merged with Denon to form D amp M Holdings and Philips sold its remaining stake in D amp M Holdings in 2008 Origin now part of Atos Origin is a former division of Philips ASM Lithography is a spin off from a division of Philips Hollandse Signaalapparaten was a manufacturer of military electronics The business was sold to Thomson CSF in 1990 and is now Thales Nederland NXP Semiconductors formerly known as Philips Semiconductors was sold a consortium of private equity investors in 2006 On 6 August 2010 NXP completed its IPO with shares trading on NASDAQ Ignis citation needed of Comerio in the province of Varese Italy produced washing machines dishwashers and microwave ovens was one of the leading companies in the domestic appliance market holding a 38 share in 1960 In 1970 50 of the company s capital was taken over by Philips which acquired full control in 1972 Ignis was in those years after Zanussi the second largest domestic appliance manufacturer and in 1973 its factories numbered over 10 000 employees only in Italy With the transfer of ownership to the Dutch multinational the corporate name of the company was changed which became IRE SpA Industrie Riunite Eurodomestici Thereafter Philips used to sell major household appliances whitegoods under the name Philips After selling the Major Domestic Appliances division to Whirlpool Corporation it changed from Philips Whirlpool to Whirlpool Philips and finally to just Whirlpool Whirlpool bought a 53 stake in Philips major appliance operations to form Whirlpool International Whirlpool bought Philips remaining interest in Whirlpool International in 1991 Philips Cryogenics was split off in 1990 to form the Stirling Cryogenics BV Netherlands This company is still active in the development and manufacturing of Stirling cryocoolers and cryogenic cooling systems North American Philips distributed AKG Acoustics products under the AKG of America Philips Audio Video Norelco and AKG Acoustics Inc branding until AKG set up its North American division in San Leandro California in 1985 AKG s North American division has since moved to Northridge California Polymer Vision was a Philips spin off that manufactured a flexible e ink display screen The company was acquired by Taiwanese contract electronics manufacturer Wistron in 2009 and it was shut down in 2012 after repeated failed attempts to find a potential buyer 113 114 115 Products Edit Old Philips x ray tube Philips core products are consumer electronics and electrical products including small domestic appliances shavers beauty appliances mother and childcare appliances electric toothbrushes and coffee makers products like Smart Phones audio equipment Blu ray players computer accessories and televisions are sold under license and healthcare products including CT scanners ECG equipment mammography equipment monitoring equipment MRI scanners radiography equipment resuscitation equipment ultrasound equipment and X ray equipment 116 In January 2020 Philips announced that it is looking to sell its domestic appliances division which includes products like coffee machines air purifiers and airfryers 117 Lighting products Edit LED bulbs made by Philips 118 Professional indoor luminaires 119 Professional outdoor luminaires 120 Professional lamps 121 Lighting controls and control systems 122 Digital projection lights 123 Horticulture lighting 124 Solar LED lights 125 Smart office lighting systems 126 Smart retail lighting systems 127 Smart city lighting systems 128 Home lamps 129 Home fixtures 130 Home systems branded as Philips Hue 131 Automotive Lighting 132 Audio products Edit The Philips A5 PRO headphones Hi fi systems Wireless speakers Radio systems Docking stations Headphones DJ mixers Alarm clocksHealthcare products Edit Sonicare electric toothbrush Philips healthcare products include Clinical informatics Edit Cardiology informatics IntelliSpace Cardiovascular Xcelera Enterprise Imaging Informatics IntelliSpace PACS XIRIS IntelliSpace family of solutionsImaging systems Edit Cardio Vascular X Ray Wires and Catheters Verrata Computed tomography CT Fluoroscopy Magnetic resonance imaging MRI Mammography Mobile C Arms Nuclear medicine PET Positron emission tomography PET CT Radiography Radiation oncology Systemsroots UltrasoundDiagnostic monitoring Edit Diagnostic ECGDefibrillators Edit Accessories Equipment SoftwareConsumer Edit Philips Semiconductors schmitt trigger Philips AVENTilPatient care and clinical informatics Edit 64 slice CT scanner originally developed by Elscint now a Philips product 133 Anesthetic gas monitoring Blood pressure Capnography D M E Diagnostic sleep testing ECG Enterprise patient informatics solutions OB TraceVue Compurecord ICIP eICU program Emergin Hemodynamic IntelliSpace Cardiovascular IntelliSpace PACS IntelliSpace portal Multi measurement servers Neurophedeoiles Pulse oximetry Tasy 134 Temperature Transcutaneous gases Ventilation ViewForum Xcelera XIRIS Xper Information ManagementLogo evolution EditThe famous Philips logo with the stars and waves was designed by Dutch architect Louis Kalff 1897 1976 who stated that the emblem had been created as a coincidence so he did not know how a radio system worked 135 1938 68 1968 2008 136 2008 13 2013 present Wordmark 1968 2008 Wordmark 2008 present Slogans EditUntuk Hiburan Jang Bermutu Indonesia only Pilihan Tepat Indonesia only Untuk Anda Yang Terbaik Indonesia only Trust In Philips Is Worldwide 1960 1974 Simply Years Ahead 1974 1981 We Want You To Have The Best 1981 1985 Take a Closer Look 1985 1995 Let s Make Things Better 1995 2004 Sense amp Simplicity 2004 2013 Innovation amp You 2013 present Sponsorships Edit PSV s Philips Stadium In 1913 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands Philips founded Philips Sports Vereniging Philips Sports Club now commonly known as PSV The club is active in numerous sports but is now best known for its football team PSV Eindhoven and swimming team Philips owns the naming rights to Philips Stadium in Eindhoven which is the home ground of PSV Eindhoven Outside of the Netherlands Philips sponsors and has sponsored numerous sports clubs sports facilities and events In November 2008 Philips renewed and extended its F1 partnership with AT amp T Williams Philips owns the naming rights to the Philips Championship the premier basketball league in Australia traditionally known as the National Basketball League From 1988 to 1993 Philips was the principal sponsor of the Australian rugby league team The Balmain Tigers and Indonesian football club side Persiba Balikpapan From 1998 to 2000 Philips sponsored the Winston Cup No 7 entry for Geoff Bodine Racing later Ultra Motorsports for drivers Geoff Bodine and Michael Waltrip From 1999 to 2018 Philips held the naming rights to Philips Arena in Atlanta home of the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association and former home of the defunct Atlanta Thrashers of the National Hockey League Outside of sports Philips sponsors the international Philips Monsters of Rock festival Environmental record EditCircular economy Edit Philips and its CEO Frans van Houten hold several global leadership positions in advancing the circular economy including as a founding member and co chair of the board of directors for the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy PACE 137 applying circular approaches in its capital equipment business 138 and as a global partner of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation 139 Planned obsolescence Edit Philips was a member of the Phoebus cartel along with Osram Tungsram Associated Electrical Industries ELIN de Compagnie des Lampes International General Electric and the GE Overseas Group 140 holding shares in the Swiss corporation proportional to their lamp sales The cartel lowered operational costs and worked to standardize the life expectancy of light bulbs at 1 000 hours 141 down from 2 500 hours 141 and raised prices without fear of competition The cartel tested their bulbs and fined manufacturers for bulbs that lasted more than 1 000 hours Green initiatives Edit Philips also runs the EcoVision initiative which commits to a number of environmentally positive improvements focusing on energy efficiency 142 Also Philips marks its green products with the Philips Green Logo identifying them as products that have a significantly better environmental performance than their competitors or predecessors 143 L Prize competition Edit In 2011 Philips won a 10 million cash prize from the US Department of Energy for winning its L Prize competition to produce a high efficiency long operating life replacement for a standard 60 W incandescent lightbulb 144 The winning LED lightbulb which was made available to consumers in April 2012 produces slightly more than 900 lumens at an input power of 10 W 145 Greenpeace ranking Edit In Greenpeace s 2012 Guide to Greener Electronics that ranks electronics manufacturers on sustainability climate and energy and how green their products are Philips ranks 10th place with a score of 3 8 10 146 The company was the top scorer in the Energy section due to its energy advocacy work calling upon the EU to adopt a 30 reduction for greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 It is also praised for its new products which are free from PVC plastic and BFRs However the guide criticizes Philips sourcing of fibres for paper arguing it must develop a paper procurement policy which excludes suppliers involved in deforestation and illegal logging 147 Philips have made some considerable progress since 2007 when it was first ranked in this guide in particular by supporting the Individual Producer Responsibility principle which means that the company is accepting the responsibility for the toxic impacts of its products on e waste dumps around the world 148 Publications EditA Heerding The origin of the Dutch incandescent lamp industry Vol 1 of The history of N V Philips gloeilampenfabriek Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1986 ISBN 0 521 32169 7 A Heerding A company of many parts Vol 2 of The history of N V Philips gloeilampenfabrieken Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1988 ISBN 0 521 32170 0 I J Blanken The 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