Apple Computer Incorporated

Apple Computer Incorporated

  • Submitted By: venosis
  • Date Submitted: 01/02/2009 9:51 AM
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Apple Computer Incorporated

Thank you everybody for being here.
I will present you the internationaly known company : Apple Computer Incorporated

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I will first take some time to make a brief history of the company.
Then I will give you all the financial results of the year 2005.
And finally I will explain the organisation chart of the company.
I will be happy to answer any of the questions you might have at the end of my presentations.

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First of all the history :

Steven Wozniak and Steven Jobs, the two kids from the silicon valley founded their company the 1st of april 1976.
Basicly, Wozniak was the designer and Jobs the seller.
With the introduction of the Apple II a few years later, Apple began to sell abroad and to hire a few thousand of employees.
Apple Computer was born.
In 1981, Wozniak was injured in a plane crash and Jobs became chairman of Apple computer in March.
He is today still in charge of the company which sells millions of computers every year as we will see.

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Results

For the first quarter of 2005, Apple announced a net profit of 295 Million dollars.
These results compare to a net profit of 63 Million dollars in the year-ago quarter.
So the net profit was 28 percent up in just a few month.

The turn over for the quarter was 3,49 billions dollars, up 74 percent from the year-ago quarter.

And Steeve Jobs expect revenue of about $ 2,9 billion for the second quarter of 2005.

We can also say that the international sales accounted for 41 percent of the quarter’s revenue. That shows how much Apple is an international company.

Apple shipped 1 milllion Macintosh units and 4 millions Five hundred thousand iPods during the quarter, representing a 26 percent increase in CPU units and an impressive 525 percent...

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