Asea Brown Boveri
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Asea Brown Boveri, or ABB, is a multinational corporation headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, operating mainly in the power and automation business areas. It operates in around 100 countries, with about 103,000 employees.
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CEO
Fred Kindle assumed the role of President and CEO on Janurary 1, 2005. Kindle's most recently served as CEO of Sulzer Ltd. in 2004. Kindle received an engineering degree from ETH Zurich, and completed an MBA at Northwestern University in Illinois, U.S.
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History
- ABB resulted from the 1987 merger of Swedish and Swiss corporations ASEA and BBC Brown Boveri.
- In 1987 the corporation had 170,000 employees.
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Former CEOs
- 2002-2004: Jürgen Dormann
- 1997-2002: Göran Lindahl
- 1987-1996: Percy Barnevik
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External links
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See also
fr:Asea Brown Boveri sv:ABB zh:ABB
