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Research Newsletter<br />
SUMMARY<br />
ESAM Code: Vol. II, Newsletters<br />
1988-1<br />
ERICSSON GETS LEANER WHILE NOKIA CONTINUES ACQUISITIONS<br />
Ericsson's pending sale of its Data System Division to Nokia will put Nokia in a<br />
commanding position as the number two European supplier of computer terminals after<br />
Olivetti.<br />
This event is of major significance in the European telecommunications market, as<br />
it reverses the trend of the early 1980s when telecommunications companies created<br />
and/or acquired computer companies due to the pending fusion of communication and<br />
information technologies. In the majority of these cases, the ventures have been major<br />
drains in financial and management resources.<br />
ERICSSON<br />
The newly acquired Data System Division manufactures terminals, personal<br />
computers, minicomputers, and banking and business systems, and has a turnover of<br />
SKr 4 billion (US$631 million.) It will be merged with Nokia's existing Information<br />
Division, Nokia Data. The merged division will have a turnover of SKr 7 billion<br />
(US$1.1 billion).<br />
Ericsson's strategy has been to offload business units that do not form part of its<br />
core business, i.e., telecommunications. In October 1987, Ericsson sold off its Office<br />
Equipment Division, which manufactures typewriters and office furniture, to Design<br />
Funktion of Norway.<br />
Ericsson's sale of its Data System Division and its Office Equipment Division will<br />
stem the flow of red ink that has plagued its Information Division since its inception.<br />
This division reported a loss of SKr 284 million (US$45 million) on a turnover of<br />
SKr 10 billion (US$1.6 billion) in 1986.<br />
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