Xerox, admits Connecticut, the USA by the production of photocopiers is a technology enterprise with seat in Stamford.

Xerox developed, produces and markets a comprehensive pallet of products, services and solutions approximately around the document. In addition the sales of devices belongs such as printers, faxes and copiers; the selling from software to the document administration and - archiving as well as outsourcing solutions for printering.

In the year 2005 Xerox gained a conversion of 15,7 billion US-$ and employed approximately 58,100 coworkers world-wide. The share of the enterprise is acted at the New Yorker stock exchange (NYSE).

History and achievements

• 1906 were created the "Haloid company" to manufacture and sell with the goal photographic paper. The name Haloid in Haloid Xerox Inc. became later. and then in Xerox Corp. changed.
• The first copy of a writing collecting main succeeds to 1938 Chester Carlson by means of the Xerografie (also admits as electrical photography).
• 1947 the license for the xerografische procedure to the company Haloid is sold.
• 1949 Model A, the first photocopier of the world, comes on the market.
• 1956 from a fusion develop in Europe climb Xerox.
• 1959 introduction of the first automatic copier Xerox 914.
• 1961 stock exchange course of the Haloid Xerox Inc. under the name Xerox corporation.
• 1962 Fuji Xerox CO. Ltd. becomes as joint undertakings of climbs Xerox Ltd. and Fuji photo film CO. based.
• 1970 Xerox Palo Alto Research center (PARC) are created.
• 1973 development first personnel of the computer of the world in the PARC.
• 1977 the first laser printer, Xerox 9700, one introduces to the public.
• 1981 Xerox star, one of the first PCs with GUI (graphic user surface) comes on the market. It was supplied with to inventions of Xerox with a computer mouse and a Ethernet interface, both also.
• 1982 copier of Xerox are equipped for the first time with Microcomputern and Ethernet.
• 1989 Xerox stop the production of PCs.
• 1993 partnership with Microsoft with the goal of networking PCs and document processing devices.
• 1997 climb Xerox Ltd. completely becomes from Xerox Corp. bought up and from now on Xerox is called Ltd.
• 1999 in the context of restructuring measures world-wide 9,000 jobs are diminished, which a reduction of approximately 10% the coworker equals.
• In the same year Xerox share falls into soil lots and loses within fewer months two thirds at value.
• 2000 in one period from only one year broke in the market prices of Xerox around 90%. Drastic measures are introduced - the expenditures are shortened around 1,2 billion $ and sold active ones in the value of 2,4 billion $. From once over 93.000 coworkers in the year 1999 still 61.100 remains until in the year 2003.
• And it stabilizes 2002 the financial situation of Xerox profit is gained, this positive message however by a financial scandal clouded.
• In April 2002 the American supervision by the stock exchange committee (Securities and Exchange Commission) introduces an investigation against Xerox, with which it shows up that between 1997 and 1999 the balances had been substantially falsified and proven in these three years so altogether almost 1.6 billion $ profit too much. Thereupon Xerox and the revision place, agree KPMG, on the payment of a penalty in two digit million height. The balances of the past years must thereupon to be substantially corrected.
• Within only one year 17 new products are presented.
• 2003 Xerox celebrate the sales of the hunderdsten iGen3 of high speed production printer with Xerox for the first time into the market the offset colour print to penetrate can - planned were already at this time over 500 systems.
• 2004 Xerox change its world-wide company names: from The document company XEROX becomes Xerox - Technology. Document management. Consulting services.
• 2005 the disputed employment of so-called ID codes with laser printers as water-marks for the fight of illegal counterfeit money pressure according to data the Washington post office was integrated due to recommendations of the US-American secret service.

Related links

• http://www.xerox.com
• http://www.xerox.de
• http://www.parc.com
• Xerox devices

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