Nokia History In 1865, an engineer named Fredrik Idestam established a wood-pulp mill and started manufacturing paper in southern

Finland near the banks of a river. hose were the da!s when there was a strong demand for paper in the industr!, the compan!"s sales acheived its high-stakes and Nokia grew faster and faster. he #okia e$ported paper to %ussia first and then to the &nited 'ingdom and France. he #okia factor! emplo!ed a fairl! large workforce and a small communit! grew around it. In southern Finland a communit! called #okia still e$ists on the riverbank of (m)koski. Finnish Rubber Works, a manufacturer a %ubber goods, impressed with the h!dro-electrcit! produced b! the #okia wood-pulp *from river Emkoski+, merged up and started selling goods under the brand name on #okia. ,fter -orld -ar II, it ac.uired a ma/or part of the Finnish Cable Works shares. he Finnish 0able -orks had grown .uickl! due to the increasing need for power transmission and telegraph and telephone networks in the -orld -ar II. 1raduall! the ownership of the %ubber -orks and the 0able -orks companies consolidated. In 1263, all the 4 companies merged-up to form the Nokia Group. he (lectronics 5epartment generated 4 6 of the 1roup"s net sales and provided work for 768 people in 1263, when the Nokia Group was formed. In the beginning of 1238, the telephone e$changes consisted of electro-mechanical analog switches. 9oon #okia successfull! developed the digital switch *Nokia DX 2 + thereb! replacing the prior electro mechanical analog switch. he Nokia DX 2 was embedded with high-level computer language as well as Intel microprocessors which in turn allowed computer-controlled telephone e$changes to be on the top and which is till date the basis for #okia"s network infrastructure. Introduction of mobile network began enabling the Nokia produ!tion to invent the #ordic :obile elephon!*#: +, the world"s ver! first multinational cellular network in 1281. he #: was later on introduced in other countries. ;er! soon 1lobal 9!stem for :obile 0ommunication *19:+, a digital mobile telephon!, was launched and Nokia started the development of G"# phones. <eginning of the 1228 brought about an economic recession in Finland. *%umour has it that #okia was offered to the 9wedish telecom compan! (ricsson during this time which was refused+ 5ue to this Nokia increased its sale of 19: phones that was enormous. his was the main reason for #okia to not onl! be one of the largest but also the most important companies in Finland. ,s per the sources, in ,ugust 1223, Nokia supplied 19: s!stems to 52 operators in 41 countries. 9lowl! and steadil!, Nokia became a large television manufacturer and also the largest information technolog! compan! in the #ordic countries. 5uring the economic recession the Nokia was committed to telecommunications. he =188 series of the production was so successful that inspite of its goal to sell 588,888 units, it marvellousl! sold =8 million. >resentl!, Nokia is the number $ produ!tion in di%ital te!hnolo%ies, it invests 8.56 of net sales in research and development. ,lso has its annual #okia 1ame.