Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is a global leader in healthcare, lighting and consumer lifestyle, delivering people-centric, innovative products, services and solutions through the brand promise of "sense and simplicity".
Businesses
Philips serves its markets through three core sectors: Philips Healthcare, Philips Lighting and Philips Consumer Lifestyle.
Participations
We have all sizes of stakes in all kinds of companies.
Mission and vision / values and strategy
Find out what kind of company we want to become, what our values are, and how we want to achieve our objectives.
Philips' Vision for 2010
Read more about Philips' next steps to grow the company further into a global leader in the areas of Healthcare, Lighting and Consumer Lifestyle.
Corporate governance and business principles
Our corporate governance policy and business principles are defined to ensure integrity and transparency in our activities and to our stakeholders.
Business excellence
Our business excellence program is targeted at achieving ever-higher levels of quality in all our products and services.
Alliances
At Philips we have over 30 partnerships with other market leaders in their fields.
Management
Read about the people on Philips’ senior management bodies, including the Board of Management.
Key inventions
Our substantial investment in R&D has generated many breakthrough inventions, including Compact Disc and various DVD formats.
History
The foundations for what was to become one of the world's biggest electronics companies were laid in 1891 when Gerard Philips established a company in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
