ZDNet Asia Top Tech 50 NCR www.ncr.com

The next time you visit an automated teller machine (ATM) to withdraw some cash, you might be able to spot a three-letter acronym NCR, engraved somewhere on the system.

When John H. Patterson founded the National Cash Register Company (NCR) in 1884, he probably didn't dream the maker of mechanical cash registers would grow to become a US$6 billion entity, famed for a technology that is now used in many ATMs across the globe.

Through its various business divisions and acquisitions such as Teradata, Kinetics and Innovasys, NCR offers an extensive array of hardware and software products and services that currently include data warehousing, customer relationship management (CRM), RFID (radio frequency identification), self-service kiosks, and IT infrastructure management.

Based in Ohio, United States, the company has over 28,000 employees worldwide servicing customers such as Japan's Fukui Bank which deployed NCR's Teradata CRM application, and South Korea's Hyundai Department Stores which implemented NCR's data warehousing solution across its 11 stores.

In 2002, NCR went on a hiring spree in the Asia-Pacific region to expand its workforce across offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, China, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan and Korea.

This company is listed in Systems, Storage Management, Business Applications, Networking & Communications, Services.

Financials

Fiscal year-end Dec	FY05	FY04	FY03	FY02	FY01
Global full-year revenue (US$millions)	—	5,984.0	5,598.0	5,585.0	5,917.0
Global full-year net income (US$millions)	—	290.0	58.0	-220.0	142.0

Average year-on-year revenue growth over 4 years	0.5 %
Average year-on-year net income growth over 4 years	90.5 %
Percentage of revenue from Asia	—
Percentage of Asian revenues from channel	—

Operations:

Founded	United States/1884
First Asian office	Since 1880s
Global employees	28,300
Employees in Asia	6,000
Asian countries: Total 7	China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore
Notes	* Employees in Asia inculde Japan and Australia., Data correct as at September 2005. Information was compiled by ZDNet Asia from sources such as official reports, corporate Web sites, and Hoover's. ZDNet Asia strived to get the latest information but does not guarantee the correctness or completeness of the data. The information provided on this site is for general informational purposes only and is not an offer to buy or sell any securities.

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