Philips is organized into three main divisions: Philips Consumer Lifestyle ( formerly Philips Consumer Electronics and Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal Care ), Philips Healthcare ( formerly Philips Medical Systems ) and Philips Lighting.

* Philips Domestic Appliances: Białystok

In October 2000, Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal Care, a division of Philips, acquired Optiva Corporation.

Philishave was the brand name for the electric shavers manufactured by the Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal Care unit of Philips ( in the U. S. A., the Norelco name is used instead ).

Before commencing work, he returned to the Netherlands to make Industrial Symphony for Philips Electric which is considered to be a film of great technical beauty.

The use of OLEDs may be subject to patents held by Eastman Kodak, DuPont, General Electric, Royal Philips Electronics, numerous universities and others.

First Danish implementers were Storno ( then owned by General Electric, later taken over by Motorola ) and AP ( later taken over by Philips ).

While still a part of the Philips empire, the company purchased EEV's ( English Electric Valve ) lead oxide camera tube business, and gained a monopoly in lead oxide tube production.

Oxford Instruments was not able to capitalise on these inventions itself, granting royalty-free license to Philips and General Electric whilst developing a joint venture with Siemens in 1989: this was dissolved in 2004.

The Phoebus cartel was a cartel of, among others, Osram, Philips and General Electric from December 23, 1924 until 1939 that existed to control the manufacture and sale of light bulbs.

Osram, Philips, Tungsram, Associated Electrical Industries, ELIN, Compagnie des Lampes, International General Electric, and the GE Overseas Group were members of the Phoebus cartel.

When Philips and other manufacturers were entering the American market, General Electric reacted by setting up the " International General Electric Company " in Paris.

Acer, Agilent, Alcatel-Lucent, AMD, APC by Schneider Electric, Apple, Bang & Olufsen, Bose, Brother, Canon, Cassidian, Cisco, Corning, Dell, Epson, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, Ingram Micro, Intel, JVC, Kodak, Konica Minolta, Lexmark, LG, Loewe, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Motorola Mobility, Motorola Solutions, NEC, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Océ, Oki, Optoma, Oracle, Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, Qualcomm, Ricoh, Research In Motion, Samsung, Sanyo, SAP, Sharp, Siemens, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Smart technologies, Technicolor, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Xerox.

* Elbit Medical Imaging-During 1999 to 2000 Elscint ( Another affiliate of Elron ) and Elbit Medical Imaging sold their imaging activities to General Electric Medical Systems and to Picker ( now part of Philips Medical Systems ) for approximately $ 600 million.

He has consulted with hundreds of multinational corporations including, Philips, General Electric, Gulf, IBM, Sterling and Westinghouse.

The Mobile Manufacturers Forum is an international non-profit organization founded in 1998 by a number of leading manufacturers of mobile radio equipment, including Alcatel, Ericsson, Mitsubishi Electric, Motorola, Nokia, Karbonn Mobiles, Panasonic, Philips, Sagem, Samsung, Siemens, Sony Ericsson and TCL & Alcatel Mobile Phones.

In the first production runs of the Magnavox Odyssey and the Philips 7000, these were permanently attached to the console ; in later models, they were removable and replaceable.

Frederik Philips, being a banker in Zaltbommel, financed the purchase and setup of a modest, empty factory building in Eindhoven, where Philips started the production of carbon-filament lamps and other electro-technical products in 1892.

He saved the lives of 382 Jews by convincing the Nazis that they were indispensable for the production process at Philips.

After recording Rocket 88, Turner became a session musician and production assistant for Sam Philips and the Bihari Brothers, commuting to Memphis from Clarksdale.

Not long before the end of production Philips introduced a half-speed mode, the V2000 XL or eXtra Long, doubling capacity and making it possible to store 16 hours ( eight hours per side ) on one single tape.

From 1990-1995, he directed the * FunHouse * production group for Philips Media, and from 1996-2001, he consulted with Mattel, Warner Bros. and Disney for online puzzles and treasure hunts.

The score made available by Bärenreiter from its Critical Edition, first published in 1969, was used by Colin Davis in his 1969 Covent Garden production, recorded by Philips.

Despite a successful production history, Philips decided to sell PFE to the beverage ( liquor ) conglomerate Seagram in 1999.

It was however, similar enough for Atari to sue Philips and force them to cease production of Munchkin.

Miles came to Woodley and joined forces with Philips and Powis in the production of the Miles Hawk aeroplane, leading to the foundation of Miles Aircraft Ltd which continued producing aircraft in Woodley until after World War II.

Philips reissued a group of Mercury Living Presence titles as " Mercury Golden Imports ", with manufacture in Holland and masters cut from 2-track production tapes, as opposed to the original-issue method of mixing stereo LPs directly from the edited 3-track master tapes and films.

* Jean Cocteau ( Narrator ), Jean-Marie Fertey ( Soldier ), Peter Ustinov ( Devil ), Anne Tonietti ( Princess ), studio ensemble, conducted by Igor Markevitch, Philips Records, 1962 production, recorded at Vevey, Switzerland.

The Dynatron brand name replaced " Roberts Video " for production of modern and retro styled televisions, though the electronics within both were from Philips TV chassis of the day.

The production of LLDPE is initiated by transition metal catalysts, particularly Ziegler or Philips type of catalyst.

Philips currently has two production centres for shavers: Drachten and Zhuhai, China.

Having left Jazz FM in 1991, Nelson joined Kiss 100 and, along with former colleagues Sonita Alleyne and Chris Philips, founded the media production company Somethin ' Else.

Production bases of such foreign brands as ADS and Boston operate in Xiaolan while Philips, Toshiba, JBL, Onkyo and Jamo also run their OEM production there.

Dusty Springfield recorded " I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself " in a session at Olympic Studios in Westminster with production credited to Philips Records owner Johnny Franz-although Springfield later stated her solo Philips tracks were self-produced-and arranged by Ivor Raymonde who conducted his orchestra ; personnel on the session included Big Jim Sullivan on guitar and Bobby Graham on drums.

In the early 1980s, Philips Research labs at Redhill, Surrey did a brief study into small, cheap keyboards for entering text on a telephone.

Just before that, on March 8, 1979 Philips publicly demonstrated a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference called " Philips Introduce Compact Disc " in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

This research at Philips established the technical standard for digital optical recording systems.

By 1992 the cost of typical recorders was down to $ 10 – 12, 000, and in September 1995 Hewlett-Packard introduced its model 4020i manufactured by Philips, which at $ 995 was the first recorder to cost less than $ 1000.

The concept was similar in principle to the bucket-brigade device ( BBD ), which was developed at Philips Research Labs during the late 1960s.

Dutch physicists Hendrik B. G. Casimir and Dirk Polder at Philips Research Labs proposed the existence of a force between two polarizable atoms and between such an atom and a conducting plate in 1947, and, after a conversation with Niels Bohr who suggested it had something to do with zero-point energy, Casimir alone formulated the theory predicting a force between neutral conducting plates in 1948 ; the former is called the Casimir-Polder force while the latter is the Casimir effect in the narrow sense.

On April 3, 1928, he married Mary Philips at her mother's apartment in Hartford, Connecticut.

Around 1999, Philips Lumileds introduced power LEDs capable of continuous use at one watt.

Matam ( short for Merkaz Ta ' asiyot Mada-Scientific Industries Center ), the largest and oldest business park in Israel, is at the southern entrance to the city, hosting manufacturing and R & D facilities for a large number of Israeli and international hi-tech companies, such as Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, Google, Yahoo !, Elbit, CSR, Philips, and Amdocs.

In 1962 Philips invented the compact audio cassette medium for audio storage, introducing it in Europe in August 1963 ( at the Berlin Radio Show ), and in the United States ( under the Norelco brand ) in November 1964, with the trademark name Compact Cassette.

In 1977 Dr. J. F. Mansfeld ( N. V. Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken ) presented the PD-R process ( Physical Development by Reduction ) in a speech at the Hotel International Zurich.

The Thrashers take the puck into the offensive zone against the St. Louis Blues at Philips Arena on September 22, 2007.

They were members of the Southeast Division of the NHL's Eastern Conference, and played their home games at Philips Arena in downtown Atlanta.

On January 27, 2008, the Thrashers hosted the NHL All-Star Game at Philips Arena, matching the Eastern Conference All-Stars vs. the Western Conference All-Stars.

The Hawks won all three games at Philips Arena, which hosted its first playoff games and earned its first sellout.

PSV's home stadium, the Philips Stadion, then known as Philips Sportpark, was built at the same time as the inauguration of the club, although its current capacity was achieved by renovations and improvements over the years.

They drew 1 – 1 at the Philips Stadion, which meant that Valencia advanced to the quarter-final 3 – 5 on aggregate.

The SOAS Library, housed in Philips Building ( designed at the beginning of the 1970s by Sir Denys Lasdun, and named after the then SOAS Director, Professor Cyril Philips ), is the UK's national resource for materials relating to Asia and Africa and is the largest of its kind in Europe.

On New Year's Day, the Ebenezer Baptist Church held an extended service including a roll call of the members, a song service led by Mary Philips, a student at the Philadelphia Bible Institute, and a temperance address for the children.

The libretto of the musical play Pompey by Mrs. Philips, performed at Smock Alley in 1663, credits him as the composer of the tunes.