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Hewlett Packard

            
             Hewlett Packard is a company that offers new technologies and research to businesses and homes around the world by providing the best in service, products and sales. Hewlett Packard offers some of the best in customer service and puts forth full effort in helping their consumers. They are focused on providing their customers not only with the best products but the best quality in helping their customers. Customer service is a top priority in Hewlett Packard's mission, and they put forth the fullest effort in fulfilling that service. .
             History of Hewlett Packard.
             The company of Hewlett Packard was founded in the year of 1939, and now has over 88,500 employees worldwide that fill more than 540 sales and support offices, and distributors in more than 120 countries. The corporate headquarters are located in Palo Alto, California. In the year of 1934 college graduates from Stanford university Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett take the advice of their college professor to start a business and to try to make it on their own. .
             In the 1940's The Company Hewlett Packard gets growing interest from scientist and engineers, and around the start of WWII U.S government has high demand for electronic devices. (About Hp) Around this time Hewlett Packard built its first building and adds a .
             Couple more products into the mix. As their small dream grows Hewlett and Packard create HP's famous open corporate atmosphere, which will influence how other companies are run in the future. HP establishes the open door policy, which involve no closed-door offices open cubicles, which enables a feeling of trust and mutual involvement. The way that they managed their company is half the reason they are the way they are today, they provide their employees with good service so that they will give good service to their customers. Around the 1950's is when Hewlett Packard had major growth and learned about the new technologies, and electronics.


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