From the papers and car tires to the world of technology .. NOKIA Empire did not start with phones!Palestine weather

Are you thinking about something other than phones when we talk about Nokia?Perhaps, for example, paper, electrical power generation, or the manufacture of plastic and aluminum, or even shoes and car tires, all this and more within the empire of the famous Nokia company with mobile phones.

The Finnish company did not start its empire with the manufacture of phones, nor technological activity in any degree, as it started as a tree pill in Finland to manufacture the leaves, then competed with electrical energy generation projects, and after this it was launched to compete in the mobile phone market, and despite the great success achieved in this market, it isIt continued to expand in other areas.

So I quickly moved to competition in the car industry markets, communications cables, and even shoes, plastic and aluminum, and although all of these markets were far from the field of technology, they also entered the technical field in the manufacture of computers, and then focused their efforts in the field of communications.After creating iPhone phones, and the intense competition that Nokia witnessed in the phone market, it went to the manufacture of computer or software programs.

Come learn more about the emergence of the NOKIA Empire, which pays 30% of the total Finland's taxes now, after more than 155 years of competition in the various markets.

NOKIA Empire started from the leaves factories and then generate electricity

Nokia began a modest start in 1865 as a paper plant in southwest Finland, where she was making paper from the pulp of trees and her wood.

The company did not originate in the Finnish city of Nokia, which took its name after that, but it grew up with the slopes of Tamirkoski in the town of Tambiri- that was then within the Russian Empire- and 3 years after the establishment of the Finnish mining engineer, Frederick Edistam, the small factory, decided to create another branch of its factory near the cityNokia (15 kilometers west of Tambiri), specifically near the Nuknvierta River, which was a water resource for the factory better than those in Tampery.

The years have passed since the modest papers manufacturers, and by 1871 Aidestam decided with a friend named Leo Michelin, to establish a limited company called Nokia AB.In the end of the nineteenth century, Michelin thought to expand the company and enter the field of electricity, but his founding friend Aidestam did not like the idea, but Michaeline did not forget it, and as soon as Idistam retired (in 1896) he decided to implement his idea.

Michelin became Chairman of the company (he remained Chairman of the Board of Directors from 1898 to 1914), and he persuaded the shareholders to allow the company to enter the field of electricity generation, and Nokia had already started in 1902.

Expansion and entering the rubber and cable industry

In 1898, a Finnish Rubber Works was founded by Edinish Rubber Works to manufacture rubber near Nokia. At this time, the situation of the Nokia AB company was getting worse, and after the First World War, Idestam was about to bankruptcy, and Bolon's rubber company acquired it.

The Finnish rubber company has managed its business in more than one field, and by 1932 it was about to win another deal by acquiring the Finnish Cable Cable, and because this cable company provided the Soviet Union with cables as part of World War II compensation, the company has a share of trade.

With the integration of the three companies operating in areas that started from the paper and paper napkins, to the tires of cars, bicycles and shoes by producing them from rubber, then expanding the manufacture of communications cables and electronic devices to some military equipment such as the M61 gas mask used by the Finnish army.

Moving to the world of technology

In 1979, Nokia entered a joint venture with the Scandinavian Company, the leading manufacture of SALORA colored TVs;To create Mobira Oy for wireless phones, and after a few years, Nokia launched the first international cellular system in the world called the Scandinavian mobile network, and connected Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland, after that the company launched the first car phone in the world called Mobira Senator, whichIts weight was about 10 kilograms, according to the historical story that GSMARNA.com has reviewed for phones.

At this time, Nokia launched the "Nokia Data" computer department for the manufacture of personal computers called Mikromikko (1981), and CRT and liquid crystal screens (TFT LCD) for personal computers and other applications.

Then in 1984, Nokia acquired Salora and changed the name of its communication unit to Nokia-Mobira Oy.This year also witnessed the launch of the Mobira Talkman, which was announced as one of the first mobile phones in the world, which can be used inside and outside the car, although its weight was 5 kilograms.

Three years later, the company provided the first small phone called Mobira Cityman 900, which was also the first mobile phone in the world, although its weight was about 800 grams.

In the nineties, Nokia focused on the telecommunications market only, and as a result, the units of the other company were sold in subsequent years.At this time (1991), the Finnish Prime Minister, Harry Holkiri, made the first GSM call to the world to be manufactured using Nokia devices, followed by the launch of the first GSM hand phone for the company Nokia 1011, then its phone series 2100 (selling 20 million phones).

In the subsequent years, the company launched its most famous phones;Nokia 9000 Communicator, Nokia 8110, and the Nokia 6100 series, from which the company sold more than 41 million phones in 1998, to exceed Motorola, and Nokia becomes the largest mobile phone maker that year that year.

The net sales of Nokia increased by more than 50% annually, operating profits increased by approximately 75%, and stock prices increased by 220%, which led to an increase in the market value from about 21 billion dollars to about 70 billion dollars.

The company continued to record successes until the first decade of the twenty -first century.At the beginning of this contract, the company was only profit and achievements. In 2002 it launched the first 3G phone in the world (Nokia 6650), and the first phone containing a video recorder (Nokia 3650), then in 2003, the company launched the Nokia 1100 phone, which was soldIt is about 250 million units, which makes it the best -selling phone, but rather the best -selling electronic product in the world.By the way, by 2005, sales of this phone had reached one billion copies.

The appearance of the iPhone and the future of Nokia in the world of mobile phones

Apple's launch was considered its first generation of iPhone in 2007 and the growing popularity of touch phones as a warning bell with a strong new competitor's arrival in the mobile phone square.Initially, Nokia tried to keep up with the new competitor, and launched the first touch phone from its production the following year, which is the 5800 Xpress Music phone, and sold 8 million copies of it.

But in 2008, another competitor appeared, as version 1.0 was launched, and Nokia recorded a decrease in its profits this year, reaching 30%, and sales decreased by 3.1%, while the profits of competitors increased, as iPhone sales increased by 330%During the same period.

The following year, Nokia was 2,700 employees from its companies around the world, and later this year, the troubled Finnish company acknowledged that it was slow to respond to the change in the market, which was now slowly controlled by companies such as Apple and BlackBerry, then the new arrivals such as Samsung,HTC, and LG.

But she tried to continue to compete with the laptop market, as this year (2009) witnessed Nokia Booklet 3G, which lasted for a short period, just like phones.

When Nokia realized that it would not be able to compete in the phone market as well as computers, she partnered with Microsoft in early 2011, which adopted Nokia Windows Phone as an operating system on its smartphones, and the main search engine for its devices, and from that time focused on the software industry, despite its attemptsEach time and another restore its previous luster in the phone market and computers.