2. Financial Performance over the last years

Income from operations 1,275 997 1,220

Diluted earnings per share 3.44 13.16 4.44

For the year 2000 the expected net sales are 27 millions of euros.

There are mainly three fields Alcatel concentrates on. The first sector contains the service-providers and net operators, the second one comprises companies using networks and the last one consists of private persons using cellular phones produced by Alcatel. It is planned to develop new cellular phones-but only for corporate customers.

Alcatel achieves more than 60% of its net sales in Europe and it is also an important investor and employer in Germany. Alcatel Germany consists of Alcatel SEL in Stuttgart and Alcatel Kabel in Hannover where 14% of all Alcatel employees work.

Alcatel will concentrate on mainly three sectors showing great potential for growth:

systems. For those, Alcatel has an own distribution GmbH which is called Enterprise and

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