Equity Investments:
Home appliances, telecommunications and communication networks are the core businesses of our Equity Investments
Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of telecommunications services.
Nokia Siemens Networks
We’re a leading global enabler of telecommunications services. With our focus on innovation and sustainability, we provide a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged network technology as well as professional services including consultancy and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services. We’re one of the largest telecommunications hardware, software and professional services companies in the world. Headquartered in Espoo, Finland, we’re active in 150 countries.
In June 2008, we joined the World Wildlife Fund’s Climate Savers campaign and committed ourselves to improving the efficiency of our GSM/EDGE and WCDMA/HSPA base stations 40 percent by 2012, reducing energy consumption in our buildings six percent and increasing the use of renewable energies to 50 percent in company operations by the end of 2010. These steps will enable us to cut our CO2 emissions by some two million tons annually, compared to the 2007 level. With our environmental strategy, we intend to benefit the environment by networking the world. To achieve this goal, we’re minimizing our environmental footprint, combining business interests and environmental protection and expanding the advantages of telecommunications to other industries.
The demand for end-to-end solutions is growing – and will continue to do so in the future. As a strong partner to our customers, we help them increase their profitability and master current and future market challenges by tailoring our offerings to their precise requirements, supporting them in the introduction of new business models and collaborating with them to develop innovations.
We not only offer the benefits of scale and international reach; we also have an in-depth understanding of communications service providers’ problems, an industry-leading research and development organization and a wide-ranging portfolio. But we know that size alone is not enough to ensure success in the rapidly changing communications industry. That’s why we’ve developed a continually evolving company structure and culture that enables us to meet the challenges faced by our customers on a day-to-day basis and to continue to play a key role in shaping the changes in our industry.
The explosive growth of network and internet traffic – in terms of both bandwidth and subscribers – is a major opportunity for communications service providers and equipment providers alike. However, it also brings problems – for example, previously installed complex and partially overlapping networks and network architectures that pose a technological challenge for both our customers and us. To master this challenge, we’re focusing on developing innovative and ecofriendly solutions that simplify network architectures and help ensure that ongoing growth processes are as smooth as possible.
BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH develop and produce innovative, energy-efficient home appliances.
BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
We develop and produce innovative, energy-efficient home appliances. As the third-largest appliance manufaturer in the world, we market our products through a comprehensive sales and customer service network.
BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH is committed to honoring its responsibilities to the environment and society. In fact, we’ve long been the sector’s pioneer in environmental stewardship and good corporate citizenship. Our power of innovation is reflected by the fact that many of the products we’ve launched have set international standards. Examples include our Zeolith® dishwashers, which utilize a new method of energy recovery; our new, highly efficient tumble dryers, which use heat pump technology and consume significantly less electricity than other appliances in Europe’s Energy Efficiency Class A; and a large number of refrigerators with A+ and A++ efficiency ratings.
We at BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH were quick to grasp environmental protection as a business opportunity. Besides conserving natural resources, our innovative, highly efficient products provide us with a unique advantage in the international competitive arena. For us, environmental protection and business success are two sides of the same coin. In recognition of our efforts, we received the first German Sustainability Award in 2008.
Siemens and Bosch, the main brands in our extensive portfolio, are Europe’s best-selling appliance brands. Our product range encompasses large and small home appliances as well as floorcare and hot water appliances. With our six special brands Gaggenau, Neff, Thermador, Constructa, Viva and Ufesa, we cater to a wide range of consumer needs, while our four regional brands Balay, Pitsos, Profilo and Coldex, which occupy leading market positions in their home countries, enhance our market profile. We operate 41 production facilities in 13 countries in Europe, the US, Latin America and Asia. And we’re represented by over 60 companies with nearly 40,000 employees in more than 40 countries around the world.
Ecofriendly and globally active, we’re excellently positioned to become the world's largest supplier of energy-efficient home appliances. To achieve this goal, we’re pursuing intensive research and development at the highest level. The strength of our brands and the commitment of our employees are the twin bases on which we’re actively shaping the future.
Siemens Enterprise Communications is a leading provider of end-to-end enterprise communications.
Siemens Enterprise Communications
Siemens Enterprise Communications is a leading provider of end-to-end enterprise communications, encompassing voice, network infrastructure, service and security solutions creating a seamless collaboration experience.
Our prestigious Open Communications approach enables organizations to improve productivity and reduce costs through easy-to-deploy solutions that work within existing IT environments, delivering operational efficiencies. Siemens Enterprise Communications is owned by a joint venture of The Gores Group and Siemens AG. The joint venture also encompasses Enterasys Networks, which provides network infrastructure and security systems, delivering a perfect basis for joint communications solutions.
Our global network incorporates 12,000 professionals in more than 20 countries, enabling us to deliver a complete range of enterprise solutions. These key solutions work on a number of levels, from bringing complex networks and IT environments together, to ideas for simple, everyday devices that allow communication across the board.
Our vision, in part, is to create seamless collaboration across wireless, fixed and enterprise networks. All with rich and intuitive content that makes our solutions so easy to use, they revolutionize the way in which people share information. The end result is a way of working that we call Open Communications, which helps to deliver the efficiency and effectiveness that defines the world's most successful enterprises.
We employ a long-term view, something which our award-winning solutions achieve by combining the very latest technology, with practical, effortless ways to embrace Open Communications. By employing our OpenPath migration concepts, customers are provided with a seamless transition from their current infrastructure to a unified, open communications environment.
At Siemens Enterprise Communications we realize that not everyone is aware of the latest technology and associated know-how. However, our open IT based approach to unified communications is designed to bring out the best in your business communications, whatever technology or business processes you currently employ.
Our systems allow on-demand access to people and information, permitting prompt decisions and speeding up the time it takes to perform processes and tasks. This allows a pure advantage of being able to be the first to respond to customers, launch products in the market and to act on opportunities.