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SWOT ANALYSIS ON Agilent Technologies : Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A), or Agilent, is a company which designs and manufactures electronic and bio-analytical measurement instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation. The company's headquarters are in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley region.

Many of Agilent's predecessor product lines were developed by Hewlett-Packard, the American computing company founded in 1939. In 1999, the product lines not directly connected with computers, storage, and imaging were grouped into a separate company (Agilent), the stock of which was offered to the public in an initial public offering. The Agilent IPO may have been the largest in the history of Silicon Valley.

The company thus created in 1999 was an $8 billion company with about 47,000 employees, manufacturing scientific instruments, semiconductors, optical networking devices, and electronic test equipment for telecom and wireless R&D and production.


Strengths

* Strong brand equity and recognition in Europe and the US
* Well established 3G network base in Europe; growing in the US
* Steadily growing customer base
* Alliances with industry leading corporations in mobile services & technologies


Weaknesses

* Steady decline in average revenue per user (ARPU)
* No presence in key emerging markets


Opportunities

* Increasing 3G network coverage in the US
* First to introduce Google-based phone in the US (Android)
* Mobile internet expansion
* FreeMove alliance


Threats

* Intensifying competition & consolidation in the US market (AT&T, Sprint)
* Economic slowdown in the European Union, US
* European Union regulation on cross-border cell phone usage by customers
 
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