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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 />

© 1988 Dataquest Incorporated February—Reproduction Prohibited<br />

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