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Nokia Corporation [5] [a] is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, in the Helsinki metropolitan area, [3] but the company's actual roots are in the Tampere region of Pirkanmaa. [6]
Nokia operated in the building from 1997 to 2014, with around 5000 employees working in the premises. [3] They owned the building up until December 2012, when it was announced that it had been sold to Finland-based Exilion for €170 million. Nokia continued using the building as its head office, leasing it on a long-term basis. [3]
The name "Nokia" is derived from the town of Nokia, Finland and the nearby Nokianvirta River, which was located next to the company’s original factory. The commercial entities that preceded the modern-day Nokia company included Nokia Ab (Nokia company); Suomen Gummitehdas Oy (Finnish Rubber Works Ltd); and Suomen Kaapelitehdas Oy (Finnish Cable Works Ltd).
Nokia (Finnish pronunciation:) is a town in the Pirkanmaa region of Finland. It lies on the banks of the Nokianvirta , a river of the Kokemäki River watershed, and is situated in the Tampere metropolitan area , about 15 kilometres (9 mi) west of Tampere proper.
Finland's state investment arm has spent about 844 million euros ($1.04 billion) on building a 3.3 percent stake in Nokia (NOKIA.HE), strengthening national influence over the telecom network gear ...
Nokia Siemens Networks then began full operations on 1 April 2007 [9] and has its headquarters in Espoo, Greater Helsinki, Finland. In January 2008 Nokia Siemens Networks acquired Israeli company Atrica , a company that builds carrier-class Ethernet transport systems for metro networks.
Nokia Bell Labs will move its headquarters from Murray Hill to the new Helix project in New Brunswick. Nobel glory: Arthur Ashkin of Rumson, oldest to win Nobel Prize for work at Bell Labs, dies at 98
The latest numbers from IDC show Samsung took the top smartphone-shipping spot in Finland -- leaving Nokia in second place. It seems that Nokia, at least for now, is being beat on its own.