Nokia introduced plans on Sunday to vary its model identification for the primary time in practically 60 years, full with a brand new brand, because the telecom tools maker focuses on aggressive progress.
The new brand includes 5 totally different shapes forming the phrase NOKIA. The iconic blue colour of the outdated brand has been dropped for a spread of colors relying on the use.
“There was the association to smartphones and nowadays we are a business technology company,” Chief Executive Pekka Lundmark instructed Reuters in an interview.
He was talking forward of a enterprise replace by the corporate on the eve of the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) which opens in Barcelona on Monday and runs till March 2.
After taking excessive job on the struggling Finnish firm in 2020, Lundmark set out a method with three phases: reset, speed up and scale. With the reset stage now full, Lundmark mentioned the second stage is starting.
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While Nokia nonetheless goals to develop its service supplier enterprise, the place it sells tools to telecom firms, its essential focus is now to promote gear to different companies.
“We had very good 21% growth last year in enterprise, which is currently about 8% of our sales, (or) 2 billion euros ($2.11 billion) roughly,” Lundmark mentioned. “We want to take that to double digits as quickly as possible.”
Major expertise corporations have been partnering with telecom gear makers corresponding to Nokia to promote personal 5G networks and gears for automated factories to prospects, largely within the manufacturing sector.
Nokia plans to evaluate the expansion path of its totally different companies and contemplate alternate options, together with divestment.
“The signal is very clear. We only want to be in businesses where we can see global leadership,” Lundmark mentioned.
Nokia’s transfer towards manufacturing unit automation and datacentres may even see them locking horns with huge tech firms, corresponding to Microsoft and Amazon.
“There will be multiple different types of cases, sometimes they will be our partners … sometimes they can be our customers… and I am sure that there will also be situations where they will be competitors.”
The market to promote telecom gear is beneath strain with macro atmosphere denting demand from high-margin markets corresponding to North America, being changed by progress in low-margin India, pushing rival Ericsson to put off 8,500 staff.
“India is our fastest growing market that has lower margins – this is a structural change,” Lundmark mentioned, including that Nokia expects North America to be stronger within the second half of the yr.