New $8 Billion HP Measurement Company Named Agilent
About Agilent
New Name And Logo
Business Units And Managers
HP Realignment Details
About Agilent (Back to Top)
Hewlett-Packard Co. announced that it was realigning into two independent companies on March 2, 1999. (See HP To Split Into Two Companies Through Strategic Realignment.) The $40-billion computing and imaging businesses retained the Hewlett-Packard Co. name, while the $8-billion measurement and components businesses formed a new company that is now called Agilent Technologies.
Agilent designs, develops, manufactures, and provides communications components as well as electronic and optical test, measurement, and monitoring instruments, systems, and solutions. The company's customers span industries including chemistry, electronics, communications, semiconductors, healthcare, and life sciences. Agilent has approximately 43,000 employees in more than 40 countries, and will offer its products and services in more than 100 countries.
Agilent will be headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, and will be housed (starting in the spring of 2000) in a new building at 395 Page Mill Road, the site of HP's first manufacturing building, constructed in 1943.
New Name And Logo (Back to Top)
The process for selecting a new name for the company followed interviews and research conducted among the company's scientists, engineers, and managers, as well as consultations with experts in Agilent's key businesses. Landor Associates (San Francisco) helped develop and design Agilent's corporate identity and logo.
According to an HP spokesperson, the Agilent logo (above) was chosen to represent a spark of insight. Agilent's company color is the blue that HP used before it entered the computer and printing businesses. A tag line, "Innovating the HP Way," links Agilent to its origins in HP.
Business Units And Managers (Back to Top)
Edward (Ned) Barnholt is the CEO of Agilent, while William Hahn is the VP of Strategic Programs and Jean Halloran is the VP of Human Resources. Supported by Agilent Technologies Labs, formerly part of the world-renowned Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Agilent is being formed from the following HP business units:
Automated Test Group—designs, manufactures, and services systems that test semiconductors and electronic printed-circuit boards. These systems are used to verify quality in manufacturing processes and ensure the performance and reliability of end products. John Scruggs is the VP and general manager of this group.
Chemical Analysis Group—a leading provider of analytical instrument systems that identify, quantify, analyze, and test the atomic, molecular, physical, and biological properties of thousands of substances and products. Richard Kniss is the VP and general manager of Agilent Technologies.
Communications Solutions Group—products, systems, and services that enable customers to design, build, install, manage, and maintain global communications networks. Thomas White is the VP and general manager of this group.
Electronic Products and Solutions Group—a leading supplier of test-and-measurement instrumentation for the electronics industry, including manufacturers of equipment for wireless networks. This group markets general-purpose test instruments for R&D laboratories and creates tools for measuring voltage, current, frequency, pulse width, and other standard electronics variables. Byron Anderson is the VP and general manager of this group.
Healthcare Solutions Group—products and systems that enable medical professionals to gather data and analyze information in hospital intensive-care units, outpatient clinics, doctors' offices, and patients' homes. Cynthia Danaher is the VP and general manager of this group.
Semiconductor Products Group—a leading supplier of semiconductor components, modules, and assemblies for high-performance communications infrastructure, computing devices, and mobile information appliances. William Sullivan is the VP and general manager of this group.
HP Realignment Details (Back to Top)
For more information about why HP decided to realign, read HP To Split Into Two Companies Through Strategic Realignment.
Hewlett-Packard Co. is a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services for businesses and homes. The company is focused on capitalizing on the opportunities of the Internet and the proliferation of electronic services.
HP had 123,000 employees and computer-related revenue of $39.5 billion in its 1998 fiscal year.
For more information, call Michael Fournell at Agilent Technologies at 650-857-4752.