HP merges printer, PC business to boost growthMarch 21, 2012 - 19:25 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Hewlett Packard Co said it was merging its printer and PC business in a major reorganization to save costs and boost growth. The unit will be headed by HP PC chief Todd Bradley, the company said in a statement on Wednesday, March 1, Reuters reported. The company is also planning to unify other functions such as marketing across the business to promote a stronger brand and improve efficiency. HP, the largest U.S. technology company by revenue, is struggling to keep its core personal computing business in the black as mobile devices from tablets to smartphones eat into sales. The company is trying to reinvent itself as a major enterprise computing provider. The decades-old corporation, often mentioned in accounts of the founding of Silicon Valley, has been through its share of turmoil in past years. HP considered for months last year a proposal to sell or spin off its PC arm, known as the personal systems group. That emerged as the company announced it would get out of the business of making tablets with the failure of its TouchPad. But after Chief Executive Meg Whitman's predecessor and former CEO Leo Apotheker was ousted in September for failing to revive a moribund stock, the company abandoned the idea and deemed personal computers core to its overall strategy. HP's moves evoked a mixed response from analysts. While they felt Whitman was moving at an impressive speed to fix issues at the company and jumpstart growth, the advantages of the integration were unclear. "It's too early to tell what this is going to do," Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu said. "The risk I think is that both (divisions) have very different business models."
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