Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
Some companies have at least nine lives, it would seem. Nokia wasfounded in southwestern Finland, in 1865, by a mining engineer, one,Frederik Idestam, as a wood-pulp mill. An eponymous town formedaround it. Independently, the Finnish Rubber Works took on the townname in the 1920s, having been established there in 1898.
The Nokia rubber company acquired Finnish Cable Works - anotherenterprise located in Nokia since 1912. In 1967, the three becamethe Nokia Group. In the 1980s, Nokia took over Mobira, Salora,Televa and Luxor of Sweden and became a consumer electronics group -manufacturing televisions and such.
Nokia continued with its acquisitions spree and, in 1987, bought theconsumer electronics operations and part of the component businessof the German Standard Elektrik Lorenz, the French consumerelectronics company Oceanic, and the Swiss cable machinery companyMaillefer. It proceeded to become the largest Scandinavianinformation technology company by digesting Ericsson's data systemsdivision. In 1989, Nokia emerged as a leader in the cable industryin Continental Europe by purchasing the Dutch cable company NKF.
During the 1990s the consolidated group refocused on the mobilephone market and divested all its other businesses.
Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of MalignantSelf Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the WestLost the East. He served as a columnist for Global Politician,Central Europe Review, PopMatters, Bellaonline, and eBookWeb, aUnited Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent, andthe editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories inThe Open Directory and Suite101.
Until recently, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Governmentof Macedonia.
Visit Sam's Web site at http://samvak.tripod.com
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Some companies have at least nine lives, it would seem. Nokia wasfounded in southwestern Finland, in 1865, by a mining engineer, one,Frederik Idestam, as a wood-pulp mill. An eponymous town formedaround it. Independently, the Finnish Rubber Works took on the townname in the 1920s, having been established there in 1898.
The Nokia rubber company acquired Finnish Cable Works - anotherenterprise located in Nokia since 1912. In 1967, the three becamethe Nokia Group. In the 1980s, Nokia took over Mobira, Salora,Televa and Luxor of Sweden and became a consumer electronics group -manufacturing televisions and such.
Nokia continued with its acquisitions spree and, in 1987, bought theconsumer electronics operations and part of the component businessof the German Standard Elektrik Lorenz, the French consumerelectronics company Oceanic, and the Swiss cable machinery companyMaillefer. It proceeded to become the largest Scandinavianinformation technology company by digesting Ericsson's data systemsdivision. In 1989, Nokia emerged as a leader in the cable industryin Continental Europe by purchasing the Dutch cable company NKF.
During the 1990s the consolidated group refocused on the mobilephone market and divested all its other businesses.
Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of MalignantSelf Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the WestLost the East. He served as a columnist for Global Politician,Central Europe Review, PopMatters, Bellaonline, and eBookWeb, aUnited Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent, andthe editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories inThe Open Directory and Suite101.
Until recently, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Governmentof Macedonia.
Visit Sam's Web site at http://samvak.tripod.com
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