Siemens is an integrated technology company that is active in about 190 countries. We are among the global leaders in a number of industries and offer a wide range of groundbreaking products for efficient power supply, industrial productivity, affordable healthcare and intelligent infrastructures – with an ever-growing focus on sustainability. Our environmental portfolio is already the most comprehensive worldwide.

Siemens has a very comprehensive product range. It includes innovative products and solutions for production, transportation and building technology as well as systems and services for power generation, transmission and distribution and technologies for high-quality and integrated healthcare. Our Financial Services division makes capital available for Siemens and business-to-business customers.

Our business activities are organized in the four sectors Industry, Infrastructure & Cities, Energy and Healthcare. Our portfolio is rounded out with the cross-sector activities Siemens Financial Services and Siemens Real Estate functioning as service providers for all Siemens business units. In 2012, our businesses also included, among others, the equity investments Nokia Siemens Networks B.V., BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH as well as Enterprise Networks Holding B.V.

Siemens is a global powerhouse with activities in about 190 countries. Our roughly 370,000 employees work in 295 major production facilities and at 190 research and development locations.

370,000 people work at Siemens in about 190 countries worldwide. In the 2012 fiscal year, 32 percent of them worked in Germany, 28 percent in Europe, the CIS, Africa and the Near and Middle East, 23 percent in the Americas and 17 percent in Asia and Australia.

Siemens is a stock corporation led by a managing board, to which eight people belong with the following areas of responsibility:

Our values – responsible, excellent and innovative – are the basis for Siemens’ success. They provide us with orientation and guide our decision-making processes. With our daily actions, we express them and make them come alive. In the future, our values will continue to form the enduring and stable basis for our vision, our strategy and our goals.

In the last few years, we have transformed our organization and continuously strengthened our global competitiveness through our company programs. Our portfolio is geared to attractive growth markets. In terms of profitability, we have closed the gap to our competitors or overtaken them. As an integrated technology company, we are the market leader in many of our businesses. It is from this position of strength that we are approaching the future. With a financial target system and the goal of continuous improvement relative to the market and our competitors, One Siemens is providing the framework.

For us, sustainability means acting responsibly on behalf of future generations to achieve economic, environmental and social progress. A keen sense of entrepreneurial responsibility that’s intensely focused on sustainability is a key pillar of our company strategy. Profitable long-term growth is our aim, and responsible value creation is paving the way for our success.

Siemens was founded in 1847 by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske as the “Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske” (Telegraph Construction Company of Siemens & Halske). The basis for this was the invention of the electrical pointer telegraph by Werner von Siemens, which ushered in the modern era of telecommunication.

In addition to the invention of the electric pointer telegraph, on which the founding of Siemens was based, examples of pioneering inventions include the dynamo (1866), the metal filament light bulb (1905), the E44 electric locomotive (1930), the electron microscope (1939), the pacemaker (1958), the digital telephone exchange (1980) and the PET/CT scanner (2002). As of the 2012 business year, Siemens holds a total of roughly 53,300 patents. Of these are 20.200 “green” patents which secure our Environmental Portfolio.

At Siemens, innovations have always been the key to success. They ensure that the company maintains its position as a market leader and that it continually builds on this position, allowing it to take a leading role and be a driving force in the shaping of future developments. That is why Siemens invested 4.2 billion euros in research and development in the 2012 business year, which corresponds to 5.4 percent of total revenue.