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Agilent Technologies The Company Agilent helps its customers in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis make vital progress in their markets. Agilent's technologies, solutions and services span research and development through installation and maintenance. We help customers get to market more quickly with their own quality, competitive products and services. Given the nature of today's economy, we have put special emphasis on providing innovative new technologies and services that will help our customers pursue new opportunities and get the most out of their current investments. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is a global, diversified technology company focusing on high-growth markets in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company operates four businesses: test and measurement, automated test, semiconductor products, and life sciences and chemical analysis, all supported by a central research group -- Agilent Laboratories. Its businesses excel in applying measurement technologies to develop products that sense, analyze, display and communicate data. Agilent's customers include many of the world's leading high-technology firms. These customers rely on Agilent's products and services to make them more profitable and competitive, from research and development through manufacturing, installation and maintenance. Agilent enables its customers to speed their time to market and to achieve volume production and high-quality precision manufacturing. Agilent's 30,000 employees serve market-leading customers in more than 110 countries. More than half of the company's net revenue is generated from outside the United States. Agilent maintains facilities in more than 30 countries with worldwide headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Our global presence offers a distinct competitive advantage, with R&D, manufacturing, sales and support capabilities serving customers around the world. Agilent Technologies focuses on high-growth market opportunities in the communications, electronics and life sciences industries. Continuing a legacy of technological innovation, Agilent leverages the benefits of scale and global presence to capture and create business opportunities. Underpinning Agilent's tradition of innovation is Agilent Laboratories. As one of the world's leading industrial research centers, Agilent Laboratories' mission is to create value through technological innovations that drive growth and profitability for Agilent's businesses. Research at Agilent Labs focuses on creating new businesses and helping current businesses meet the changing needs of our customers. One of Labs' fundamental strengths is its ability to find synergistic opportunities among all of Agilent's businesses. Agilent Labs is a world leader in an ever-expanding range of scientific fields from biology to photonics to computer science. Agilent scientists profoundly impact the world through their inventions and contributions in fiber optic instrumentation and components, optical navigation, DNA micro array technology, bioinformatics, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and wireless devices and high-performance integrated circuits. In 2002, 72 patents were granted to scientists working at Agilent Labs. Total R&D spending for Agilent overall in 2002 was $1.17 billion, 19.5 percent of Agilent's net revenue. Agilent spun off from Hewlett-Packard Company in 1999 as part of a corporate realignment that created two separate companies. Its roots date back to 1939 when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started a company that helped shape Silicon Valley and the technology industry. The two founders are renowned for their visionary approach (known as the 'HP Way') to management and for their commitment to making products that contribute to advances in science and technology. Agilent's headquarters is located at 395 Page Mill Road in Palo Alto, Calif., the site of HP's first laboratory and headquarters. Agilent has continued to support the values that have made Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett's company a success: a dedication to innovation; trust, respect and teamwork; and uncompromising integrity. Added to these are speed, focus and accountability to meet customer needs and create a culture of performance that draws on the full range of people's skill and aspirations. Further details [hyperlink_newwindow;http://www.agilent.com;www.agilent.com] |
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