SHPE - Fall 2007 - (Page 66) I P C U P D AT E Also included among SHPE’s top employers: Headquartered in Armonk, New York, IBM ranks among the largest information technology companies in the world. The company offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. Measured by revenue, IBM is the biggest provider of IT services, hardware and financing and second in software. Revenues for 2006 were $91.4 billion. IBM has more than 355,700 employees serving customers in 170 countries. IBM is 15th among Fortune’s 500 and ranks second in the computer and office equipment industry; also, it is ranked 11th among the World’s 50 Most Admired Companies, especially with regard to quality of management and global positioning. Boeing is the world’s leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft. It has additional capabilities in rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles, satellites, launch vehicles and advanced information and communication systems. The company’s reach extends to customers in more than 90 countries, making it the largest U.S. exporter in terms of sales. Headquartered in Chicago, Boeing employs more than 150,000 people in 70 countries, with major operations in the Puget Sound area of Washington State, Southern California and St. Louis. With 2006 revenues at $61.5 billion, Boeing ranks 28th among Fortune’s 500, and 19 among the World’s 50 Most Admired Companies 2007. Since 1837, Procter & Gamble has grown into the world’s largest consumer goods product company. With more than 135,000 employees worldwide, the Cincinnati, Ohio-based company reported sales of more than $68 billion in 2006. P&G markets more than 300 brands in over 160 countries; and since 2000, its billion-dollar brand line grew from 10 to 23 brands. The company’s focus on diversity is based on a philosophy that its employee base should reflect the consumers it serves. A commitment to employee development has contributed to P&G ranking among the 100 Best Companies to Work For by Fortune, as well as third among the World’s 50 and 10th among America’s 20 Most Admired Companies. 66 Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog technologies to meet its customers’ real world signal processing requirements. In addition to the semiconductor business, the company also includes the Education Technology business. Texas Instruments is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries. Texas Instruments employs 31,000 worldwide, including 16,000 in the United States, and in 2006 it posted $14.3 billion in revenues. Second in the semiconductor industry, Texas Instruments also ranks among Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For. Intel is the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue, and a leading innovator of advanced digital technology platforms and components, primarily integrated circuits, for the computing and communications industries. Its products include chips, boards and other semiconductor products that are the building blocks integral to computers, servers, handheld devices and networking and communications products. A common mission directs its efforts: to delight customers, employees and stockholders by relentlessly delivering the platform and technology advancements that become essential to the way people work and live. At Intel, it's not just about making technology faster, smarter and cheaper—it's about using that technology to make life better. Based in Dearborn, Michigan, the Ford Motor Company manufactures and distributes automobiles in 200 markets across six continents. With about 260,000 employees and 100 plants worldwide, the company’s core and affiliated automotive brands include Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, Lincoln, Mazda, Mercury and Volvo. In 2006, the company reported revenues of more than $160 billion. Number seven on Fortune’s 500, Ford is second in the motor vehicle and parts industry. Additionally, Ford was named among Diversity Inc.’s Top 50 Companies for Diversity, Working Mother’s Top 100 Places to Work and Latina Style’s Top 50 Companies for Hispanic Women to Work. A Dow 30 company, Verizon Communications is a leader in delivering broadband and other wire-line and wireless communication innovations to mass market, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless serves over 60 million customers nationwide. Verizon Business delivers innovative and seamless business solutions to customers around the world. Verizon Telecom brings customers the benefits of converged communications, information and entertainment services over one of the nation’s most advanced fiber-optic networks. In 2006, the New York City-based company reported revenues of $93.2 billion. Verizon ranks 13th on Fortune’s 500 and is first in the telecommunications industry. The Employer Preference Survey continues to serve as a valuable tool for SHPE as well as a method for companies to learn about members’ priorities in assessing potential employers. Survey organizers will continue working with the IPC to incorporate feedback and ensure that survey data is increasingly relevant to the needs of its member companies. For more information on the survey, contact Maritza Martinez, Maritza.Martinez@shpe.org. I Industrial PartnerSHPE Council T ogether the IPC and SHPE share a commitment to enhance student and professional abilities for ultimate success in the workplace. The Council members are: 3M T Accenture T American Airlines T Anheuser-Busch Companies T Applied Materials T BAE Systems T The Boeing Company T BP T Caterpillar Inc. T Chevron T The Clorox Company T Cisco Systems Inc. T Cummins Inc. T DaimlerChrysler T Dell T Delta Air Lines Inc. T Dow Chemical T DuPont T Ford Motor Company T GE T General Mills T General Motors T Goldman, Sachs & Co. T Guidant Corporation T Hewlett-Packard Company T IBM T Intel Corporation T John Deere T Johnson & Johnson T Kimberly-Clark T Lockheed Martin T Medtronic Inc. T Merck & Co., Inc T Microsoft Corporation T Northrop Grumman T Procter & Gamble T Raytheon T Texas Instruments T Toyota T U.S Intelligence Community T U.S. Army RDECOM T U.S. Navy T United States Steel Corporation T United Technologies Corporation T Verizon T Wal-Mart Stores T The Walt Disney Company T Westinghouse T Weyerhaeuser SHPE R Fall 2007
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