ABB (www.abb.com) is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 110.000 people.
ABB is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. ABB Ltd shares are traded on the stock exchanges in London/Zurich, Stockholm, Frankfurt and New York.
More than half of ABB’s revenues come from European markets, nearly a fifth from Asia, the Middle East and Africa, while about a quarter of the revenues come from North and South American markets.
The ABB Group was formed in 1988, when the Swedish Asea and the Swiss BBC Brown Boveri merged under the name ABB. Asea’s history dates back to 1883. BBC Brown Boveri was founded in 1891.