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HEWLETT-PACKARD SAID it would split into two separate, listed companies by separating its computer and printer businesses from its corporate hardware and services operations.
The move follows a trend of technology firms and other corporations, including eBay last week, splitting their businesses into separate companies, based on the belief that tightly focused firms perform better.
The split “will provide each new company with the independence, focus, financial resources, and flexibility they need to adapt quickly to market and customer dynamics, while generating long-term value for shareholders,” said HP chief executive Meg Whitman in a statement.
“In short, by transitioning now from one HP to two new companies, created out of our successful turnaround efforts, we will be in an even better position to compete in the market, support our customers and partners, and deliver maximum value to our shareholders,” she said.
The project, set to be completed by the end of fiscal year 2015, will take place as a tax-free distribution of shares to HP’s stockholders.
Whitman will serve as chairman of the PC and printer business, dubbed HP Inc., and chief-executive of the separate Hewlett-Packard Enterprise company, the statement said.
Dion Weisler, an executive in the PC and printer operation, is to be chief executive of that streamlined business, the report said.
HP has been undergoing a massive reorganisation to cope with the move away from traditional personal computers to mobile devices.
The California company said in May that it was cutting an additional 11,000 to 16,000 jobs on top of 34,000 reductions planned under a program begun in 2012.
US online retail giant eBay unveiled plans to spin off PayPal in a move designed to help the unit compete better in the fast-moving online payments segment.
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They missed the smartphone and tablet boat big time. I’d say they’re only splitting them in the hope that someone will buy the pc business from them like Lenovo and IBM back in the day. I think at one stage Lenovo made an offer for the pc arm when one of HPs more shortlived chairmen announced they were gone cease production shortly after releasing their new tablet OS a few years ago. It was a shame because those tablets were supposed to be good.
I cant belie that will happen .
Maybe on Hewlett an another company Packard :)
If one part of company start doing businesses only on printing there will be no big businesses I suppose
Printers are to expensive and there are get faulty relay fast
I’m using non original – compatibile cartridges from http://corink.ie because are so expensive ….
Better start from lowering prices to get customers back
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