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Royal Philips Electronics is one of the world's largest electronics companies, long ranked among the world's top 500 companies, and tops the list in Europe, with sales of 31.8 billion euros in 2002. It is the world leader in color TV, lighting, electric shavers, medical diagnostic imaging, patient monitors, and single-chip TV products. It employs 170,000 people in more than 60 countries and is active in the fields of lighting, consumer electronics, home appliances, electronic components, semiconductors and medical systems.
Philips is a world leader in digital technologies such as televisions, monitors, wireless communications, voice recognition, video compression, optical storage products, and the semiconductor technologies that underpin these breakthroughs. Our technologies in lighting, medical systems (especially scanning and other diagnostic systems) and small household appliances and personal care products are world-class, and our investment in design and new materials is the key to Philips' long-term success.
By the numbers, Philips produces 2.4 billion incandescent lamps and 300 million color picture tubes each year, and about 2.5 million cardiac procedures (including scans and interventional procedures) using X-ray equipment in the world each year utilize Philips technology. Every seven television sets in the world has a color picture tube with Philips, and 60% of the world's telephones contain Philips products. Philips lighting is used in 30% of the world's offices, while Philips also provides lighting for 65% of the world's major airports, 55% of soccer stadiums and 30% of hospitals.