HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. The company applies new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology, continuously improving the way its customers live and work.

HP offers one of the world's most complete technology product portfolios. It provides infrastructure and business offerings that span from handheld devices to some of the world's most powerful supercomputer installations. It offers consumers a wide range of products and services from digital photography to digital entertainment and from computing to home printing. This comprehensive portfolio helps HP match the right products, services and solutions to its customers' specific needs.

HP's business is divided into three groups:

• The Personal Systems Group: business and consumer PCs, mobile computing devices and workstations
• The Imaging and Printing Group: inkjet, LaserJet and commercial printing, printing supplies, digital photography and entertainment
• The Technology Solutions Group: business products including storage and servers, managed services and software.

Direct presence: Asia-Pac; EMEA; N&CA; LatAmChannel partner presence: Asia-Pac; EMEA; N&CA; LatAm.

HP works with manufacturing and distribution industry customers to deliver a tailored approach to synchronising their unique business and IT requirements; expert application of industry and HP-developed business and IT best practices; large, standards-based portfolios of products, services, and solutions; and deep partnerships with other organisations that understand the manufacturing and distribution industries’ business and technology requirements.

HP provides retailers with both in-store and enterprise-wide business performance improvements and IT expertise. HP helps retail companies synchronise business and IT to capitalise on change in order to improve operational excellence and establish experienced-based differentiation.
HP’s portfolio of capabilities enables retailers not only to improve their operations and differentiation but it also creates a virtuous cycle whereby the retailer can use the cost savings achieved through operational excellence to further invest in experienced-based differentiation activities. This portfolio spans all the operational components of a retailer’s business including:
1. In-store – ranging from POS to informational kiosks to signage printing to handheld devices for on-floor associate selling
2. Headquarters – ranging from extensive data mining of consolidated business and consumer intelligence to merchandising and category management to e-commerce/e-retailing to refunds management to extended enterprise resource planning and supply chain
3. Supply chain – ranging from forecasting and replenishment to radio frequency identification to warehouse and inventory management to supply chain visibility
4. Integration and management – ranging from in-store devices to the store network to the systems and applications that house massive amounts of data.