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Hewlett-Packard
     
        (HP) Hewlett-Packard designs, manufactures and services
        electronic products and systems for measurement, computation
        and communications.  The company's products and services are
        used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and
        education in approximately 110 countries.
     
        HP was founded in 1939 and employs 96600 people, 58900 in the
        USA.  They have manufacturing and R&D establishments in 54
        cities in 16 countries and approximately 600 sales and service
        offices in 110 countries.  Their revenue (in 1992/1993?) was
        $20.3 billion.  The Chief Executive Officer is Lewis E. Platt.
        HP's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the
        Pacific, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris exchanges.
     
        Quarterly sales $6053M, profits $347M (Aug 1994).
     
        {(http://www.hp.com/home.html)}.
     
        (1994-09-26)