Company Profile

Building the Leading Brand in Health and Well-Being

We seek to improve the quality of people’s lives through focusing on their health and well-being. Quite simply, we want to help people live a healthy, fulfilled life.

By “health” we mean not only medical-related aspects of health, but also keeping fit, eating a healthy diet, and generally living a healthy lifestyle.

By “well-being” we mean general sense of fulfillment, feeling good and at ease. “Well-being” also refers to a sense of comfort, safety and security people feel in their environment – at home, at work, when shopping or on the road. Our focus on Health and Well-being automatically implies that we contribute to building a sustainable society.

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Business Highlights in Q3

As the global leader in patient monitoring, Philips introduced the benefits of mobility to hospitals with the global launch of a compact, wearable patient monitor, the IntelliVue MX40. The monitor enables remote mobile monitoring of patients in a supervised recovery environment, giving clinicians the freedom and flexibility to spend more time with patients.

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Philips introduced the PerfectCare, a revolutionary iron that uses a new steam technology, allowing the user to iron all of their clothes at one low temperature setting. Philips is the no. 1 brand in ironing worldwide.

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Combining its expertise in healthcare and lighting, Philips is developing a blanket that wraps babies in healing light, to make significant advances in the treatment of bilirubinemia – or neonatal jaundice. Bilirubinemia affects 60% of full-term newborns and 90% of premature babies.

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