15 Amazing Stats and Facts of HP

1. What does HP do:
   Hewlett-Packard (HP) is a provider of wide variety of hardware and software services in computers and printers to individual consumers, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including government, health and education sectors.

2. HP Founder(s): Bill Hewlett and David Packard
3. HP founded year: January 01, 1939
4. Company Name: Hewlett-Packard, HP inc.
5. HP Headquarters: Palo Alto, California, United States
6. Number of HP employees: 56,000 (as of 2019)
7. HP annual revenue: $56.8 Billion
8. HP net earnings: $3.152 Billion (as of 2019)
9. Top 5 products similar to HP: Lenovo, Dell, Acer, Asus and Epson
10. HP Product ranges: Printers, Software, cloud products, Digital camera, Scanner, Computer products (Tablet, Pocket computer, Desktop, notebooks), mobile phone, servers.
11. Number of Hewlett-Packard patents: 37,000 worldwide patents
12. HP acquisitions: 104 organizations have been acquired by HP and its latest acquisition was Bromium, Inc. in September 2019
13. Interesting fact about HP: Most of the HP products are recycled from waste plastics. They are currently focused on ocean plastics and they sourced more than 1.7M pounds of ocean-bound plastic material as of June 2020.
14. History of HP: Bill Hewlett and David Packard started their research in a garage nearby Palo Alto and developed an audio oscillator Model 200A and it was purchased by Walt Disney. The company name was finalized with a coin toss whether it should call as Hewlett-Packard (HP) or Packard-Hewlett. The garage they worked earlier is now called as “Birthplace of Silicon Valley”.

+ One interesting news:Scientists from Texas A&M University, Hewlett Packard Labs and Stanford University have described a new nanodevice that acts almost identically to a brain cell.

PS: All facts updated on October 19, 2020