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全球经济热点英语听力报道67:诺基亚当道(中英)

Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland’s capital Helsinki. Nokia is engaged in the manufacturing of mobile devices and in converging Internet and communications industries, with 128,445 employees in 120 countries, sales in more than 150 countries and global annual revenue of EUR 50.7 billion and operating profit of 5.0 billion as of 2008. It is the world’s Latest manufacturer of mobile telephones: its global device market share was about 38% in Q2 2009, down from 40% in Q2 2008 and up from 37% in Q1 2009. Nokia produces mobile devices for every major market segment and protocol, including GSM, CDMA, and W-CDMA (UMTS). Nokia offers Internet services that enable people to experience music, maps, media, messaging and games. Nokia’s subsidiary Nokia Siemens Networks produces telecommunications network equipment, solutions and services. The company is also engaged in providing digital map information through its wholly-owned subsidiary Navteq.

诺基亚是一家芬兰的跨国通讯企业,总部设在 邻近首都赫尔辛基的艾斯堡,卡拉涅米市。诺基亚 生产领域主要涉及移动手机、联合网络及通信工 业。在120多个国家内拥有员工12.8445万人。2008 年在全球150多个国家的年销售收入达到507亿欧 元,并且创造出的财富价值高达50亿。诺基亚是全球最大的手机制造商。2009年第二季度 在全球手机市场占 有份额约38%,比2008年第二季度下降了2%,比2009年一季度上涨 了 1%。诺基亚生产的手机适用于各主要市场部门和协议通讯网络, 包括GSM、CDMA和W-CDMA (通用移动电话服务)。诺基亚的手 机提供上网服务使人们可以用来听歌、査地图.发短信和玩游戏。诺 基亚的分公司诺基亚西门子网络公司提供远程通讯网络设备、解决 方案和服务。该公司的生产领域还涉及通过旗下独资的Navteq公 司提供电子地图信息服务。

Nokia has sites for research and development, manufacture and sales in many countries throughout the world. As of December 2008,Nokia had R&D presence in 16 countries and employed 39,350 people in research and development, representing approximately 31% of the group’s total workforce. The Nokia Research Center, founded in 1986, is Nokia's industrial research unit consisting of about 500 researchers, engineers and scientists. It has sites in seven countries: Finland, China, India, Kenya, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Besides its research centers, in 2001 Nokia founded (and owns) INdT-Nokia Institute of Technology, a R&D institute located in Brazil. Nokia op? erates a total of 15 manufacturing facilities located at Espoo, Oulu and Salo, Finland; Manaus, Brazil; Beijing, Dongguan and Suzhou, China; Famborough, England; Komarom, Hungary; Chennai, India; Reynosa, Mexico; Jucu, Romania and Masan, South Korea. Nokia’s Design Department remains in Salo, Finland.

诺基亚在全球很多地区都设有研发、制造和销售部门。到2008 年12月为止,诺基亚已经在16个国家设有研发部门,拥有员工3.935 万名员工,约占全球员工总数的31%。诺基亚研发中心始建于1986 年,是一个工业研发部门。它拥有500名研发人员、工程师和科学家。 诺基亚在7个国家设有研发中心,分别为:芬兰、中国、印度、肯尼亚、 瑞士.英国和美国。除了研发中心以外,在2001年诺基亚在巴西设立 (并拥有)INdT——诺基亚的技术和研发部门。诺基亚在芬兰的艾 斯堡、奥卢和萨罗,巴西的马瑙斯,中国的北京.东莞、深圳,英国的 范堡罗,匈牙利的科莫诺,印度的钦奈,墨西哥的雷诺萨,罗马尼亚 的如库和韩国的马山,共设有15个制造工厂。诺基亚的设计部依旧 设在芬兰的萨罗。

Nokia is a public limited liability company listed on the Helsinki, Frankfurt, and New York stock exchanges. Nokia plays a very large role in the economy of Finland; it is by far the largest Finnish company, accounting for about a third of the market capitalization of the Helsinki Stock Exchange as of 2007,a unique situation for an industrialized country. It is an important employer in Finland and several small companies have grown into large ones as its partners and subcontractors. Nokia increased Finland’s GDP by more than 1.5% in 1999 alone. In 2004 Nokia’s share of the Finnish GDP was 3.5% and accounted for almost a quarter of Finland’s exports in 2003.

诺基亚是一家公共有限责任公司,分别在赫尔辛基.法兰克福 和纽约证券交易所注册。诺基亚在芬兰经济中扮演着重要的角色。 它是迄今为止最大的芬兰企业。2007年赫尔辛基证交所1/3的市场资本都来自诺基亚,这对一个工业化国家来说是个特例。诺基亚也是芬兰最大的雇主,并且很多与 之合作的小企业和承包商也由于同诺基亚合作而成长为大公司。光1999年一年,诺基亚就使芬兰 的GDP增长了 1.5个百分点还要多。2004年诺基亚占据芬兰GDP的3.5%, 2003年其出口也几乎占 到芬兰出口的1/4。

Finns have consistently ranked Nokia as both the best Finnish brand and the best employer. The Nokia brand, valued at $35.9 billion, is listed as the fifth most valuable global brand in the Interbrand/ Business Week Best Global Brands list of 2008 (first non-US company). It is the number one brand in Asia (as of 2007) and Europe (as of 2008),the 42nd most admirable company worldwide in Fortune s World’s Most Admired Companies list of 2009 (third in Network Communications, seventh non-US company), and the world’s 85th largest company as measured by revenue in Fortune Global 500 list of 2009,up from 88th the previous year. As of 2009, AMR Research ranks Nokia,s global supply chain number six in the world.

芬兰人一直将诺基亚列为最佳芬兰品牌和最佳雇主。诺基亚的品牌价值估计在359亿美元。诺 基亚还是2008年因特品牌《商务周刊》评出的全球最佳品牌中的最有价值品牌第五名(第一个非美 籍企业),是亚洲(截止到2007年)和欧洲(截止到2008年)的第一品牌,2009年财富杂志评出的全球 最佳企业榜的第42名(网络通讯领域的第三名,非美籍企业中的第七名),在2009年《财富》杂志收 人500强企业榜位列第85,比前一年的第88名上升了3个名次。截止到2009年,根据AMR研究的排 名诺基亚的全球供应链位列第六。