Presented By:Shrenik Shah

Type

Publicly-traded limited company (SIX: ABBN, NYSE: ABB, OMX: ABB)

IndustryPower technology, Industrial automation

Founded

1988 through merger of ASEA (1883) of Sweden and Brown, Boveri & Cie (1891) of Switzerland

Headquarters Zürich, Switzerland

Area served Worldwide

Key peopleJoe Hogan (CEO), Hubertus von Grünberg (Chairman)

RevenueUS $31.59 billion (2010)[1]

Operating incomeUS $3.818 billion (2010)[1]

ProfitUS $2.561 billion (2010)[1]

Total assetsUS $36.30 billion (2010)[1]

Total equityUS $15.46 billion (2010)[1]

Employees 124,000 (2011)[2]

Website www.abb.com

ABB is a Swiss-Swedish multinational corporation headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, operating mainly in the power and automation technology areas.It ranked 143rd in Forbes Ranking (2010).

ABB is one of the largest engineering companies as well as one of the largest conglomerates in the world. ABB has operations in around 100 countries, with approximately 124,000 employees,[2] and reported global revenue of $31.6 billion for 2010.

ABB is traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange in Zürich and the Stockholm Stock Exchange in Sweden since 1999, and the New York Stock Exchange in the United States since 2001

ABB resulted from the 1988 merger of the corporations ASEA Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget (Sweden) and Brown, Boveri & Cie (Switzerland); the latter had absorbed the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon in 1967. CEO at the time of the merger was the former CEO of ASEA, Percy Barnevik, who ran the company until 1996.

ABB's history goes back to the late nineteenth century. ASEA was incorporated by Ludwig Fredholm in 1883 and Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC) was formed in 1891 in Baden, Switzerland, by Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown and Walter Boveri as a Swiss group of electrical companies producing AC and DC motors, generators, steam turbines and transformers

On July 17, 2008, the Board of Directors of ABB Ltd. announced the appointment of Joe Hogan as Chief Executive Officer of the ABB Group beginning on September first.

Mr. Hogan is the former head of GE Healthcare.Mr. Hogan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Geneva College and an MBA from Robert Morris University, both located in Pennsylvania

September 2008–present: Joe Hogan

February 2008 - September 2008: Michel Demaré - ad interim

January 2005 - February 2008: Fred Kindle

September 2002 - December 2004: Jürgen Dormann

January 2001 - September 2002: Jörgen Centerman

January 1997 - December 2000: Göran Lindahl

1987-1996: Percy Barnevik

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ABB is a global leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. We are present in around 100 countries.

We leverage our technology leadership, global presence, application knowledge and local expertise to offer products and services that allow our customers to optimize their operations. Our integration platform, Industrial IT, enables our customers to manage their installations better and link up in real time with their own suppliers and customers. The result is a leap in efficiency, quality and competitiveness. We focus on our core businesses in power and automation technologies and have simplified our organization. This ensures that our customers have quick and easy access to ABB's offerings, when and where they need us--whether they buy from us directly or through distributors, wholesalers, system integrators or other partners. Our businesses work together with one simple and seamless set of values for customers.