Osram
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| Type | Corporation |
| Founded | 1906 |
| Headquarters |  Munich, Germany |
| Industry | Lighting |
| Revenue | €4.3 billion (2005) |
| Employees | 38,000 |
| Parent | Siemens AG |
| Subsidiaries | Osram Sylvania |
| Website | www.osram.com |
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OSRAM is one of the two largest lighting manufacturers in the world and is a subsidiary of Siemens AG. The name is derived from osmium and Wolfram (German for tungsten), as both these elements were commonly used for lighting filaments at the time the company was founded. The company was founded in year 1906.
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[edit] Company profile
This international company, with its headquarters in Munich (Germany), employs more than 38,000 people throughout the world. World sales in the 2005 fiscal year totalled €4.3 billion. OSRAM supplies customers in about 150 countries and manufactures at 49 sites in 19 countries. They own the brand Sylvania for use in the United States, United States Territories, Canada and Mexico. The company's North American operation is Osram Sylvania, headquartered in Danvers, Massachusetts.
[edit] Subsidiaries
Osram has a wholly owned subsidiary OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH that designs and manufactures opto-semiconductor products. One of the main products of this subsidiary is light emitting diodes (LED).As the world’s second largest manufacturer of optoelectronic semiconductor for the illumination, sensing and visualization sectors, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH combines extensive know-how in semiconductors, converter materials and packages under one roof. At its headquarters in Regensburg, Germany, a further production site in Penang, Malaysia and a global network of sales and marketing centers, the company employs more than 3500 people. In the 2006 fiscal year, it achieved sales of around 500 million euros. This means that the optoelectronic semiconductor accounts for twelve percent of overall Osram GmbH sales.[1]
OSRAM SYLVANIA INC. is the North American business of OSRAM GmbH of Germany, one of the world's largest lighting manufacturers and part of the Siemens family of companies. OSRAM SYLVANIA INC manufactures and markets a wide range of lighting products for homes, business and vehicles and holds a leading share of the commercial lighting market. [2] In fiscal year 2006, the company achieved sales of about 2 billion euros, which comprises 43% of total OSRAM sales. [3] It employs about 11,200 people in North America and is headquartered in Danvers, MA, north of Boston.
OSRAM SYLVANIA has 17 manufacturing plants, one equipment assembly operation and eleven research and development laboratories, along with a network of sales offices and distribution centers serving all of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Mexico. Most of the company's products are marketed in North and South America under the SYLVANIA or OSRAM brand name.
[edit] History
In 1906, the OSRAM light bulb was developed; its name was formed from the German words OSmium, for the element osmium, and WolfRAM, for the element tungsten. The British company General Electric Company imported Osram filaments for their own production of light bulbs. In 1920, Auergesellschaft, Siemens & Halske, and Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) combined their electric lamp production with the formation of the company Osram.
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[edit] External links
- OSRAM official website
- OSRAM SYLVANIA official website
- OSRAM Opto Semiconductor official website
- OSRAM distributor
