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Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) is a global, diversified technology company focusing on high-growth markets in the communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare industries. Agilent Technologies' separation from Hewlett-Packard Company is the result of a corporate realignment. On November 18, 1999, Agilent listed as a public company on the New York Stock Exchange. At the time, Agilent's US$2.1 billion initial public offering of stock was the largest in Silicon Valley history. Agilent operates four businesses: test and measurement, semiconductor products, healthcare solutions and chemical analysis, supported by a central laboratory. Its businesses excel in applying measurement technologies to develop products that sense, analyze, display and communicate data. Agilent's customers include many of the world's leading high-technology firms, which rely on Agilent's products and services to make them more profitable and competitive, from research and development through manufacturing, installation and maintenance. Agilent enables its customers to speed their time to market, and to achieve volume production and high-quality, precision manufacturing. Agilent's 42,000 employees and facilities located in more than 40 countries serve market-leading customers in over 120 countries. Major product development and manufacturing sites are located in the United States, China, Germany, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and the United Kingdom. More than half of the company's net revenue is derived from outside the United States. The company's worldwide headquarters are in Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. |
