| Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. provides products, systems, and services in the fields of medical systems, domestic appliances and personal care, consumer electronics, lighting, and semiconductors worldwide. The company's medical systems portfolio includes X-ray, ultrasound, magnetic resonance, computed tomography, medical information technology, nuclear medicine and positron emission tomography, patient monitoring, information management, and resuscitation products, as well as asset management, training and education, business consultancy, finance, leasing, and e-care business services. Its domestic appliances and personal care products consists of shaving and beauty electric shavers, beard trimmers and hair clippers, female epilators and shavers, and hair care products; electric toothbrushes; food and beverage kitchen appliances; and home environment care irons, vacuum cleaners, and tanning products. The companys consumer electronics products include televisions, audio and video players, liquid crystal display monitors, and telecommunication products. Its lighting products comprise incandescent and halogen lamps, compact and normal fluorescent lamps, gas-discharge and special lamps, fixtures, lighting electronics, ballasts, light-emitting diode-based lighting, and automotive lamps. The companys semiconductors products are used in flat-screen liquid crystal display monitors and televisions, large screen plasma displays, and small mobile displays. Koninklijke Philips Electronics was incorporated in 1891 as Philips & Co and changed its name to N.V. Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken in 1912. Further, it changed its name to Philips Electronics N.V. in 1994 and to Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. in 1998. The company is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. |
