ABB (Selskap)

ABB Ltd. is a Swedish-Swiss multinational corporation headquartered in Västerås, Sweden, and Zürich, Switzerland. It is traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange in Zürich, the Nasdaq Nordic exchange in Sweden and the OTC Markets Group's pink sheets in the United States. It was ranked 340th in the Fortune Global 500 list of 2020 and has been a global Fortune 500 company for 24 years.

ABB was formed in 1988 when Sweden's Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget (ASEA) and Switzerland's Brown, Boveri & Cie merged to create Asea Brown Boveri, later simplified to the initials ABB. Both companies were established in the late 1800s and grew into major electrical equipment manufacturers, a business in which ABB remains active. Its traditional core activities include power generation, transmission and distribution; industrial automation, and robotics. Between 1989 and 1999, the company was also active in the rolling stock manufacturing sector. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, ABB acquired hundreds of other companies, often in central and eastern Europe, as well as in Asia and North America.

On occasion, the company's operations have encountered controversy. During 2001, an ABB entity plead guilty for bid rigging; the firm has also had three US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act bribing resolutions against it; in 2004, 2010, and 2022. In early 2002, ABB announced its first-ever annual loss, which was attributed to asbestos-related litigation. Within three years, the company had successfully restructured its operations. During the 2010s, ABB has largely focused its growth strategy on the robotics and industrial automation sectors. Prior to the sale of its Power Grids division to Hitachi in 2020, ABB was Switzerland's largest industrial employer.

ABB Ltd. (varem ABB Asea Brown Boveri) on rahvusvaheline tööstuskontsern, mille peakorter asub Šveitsi linnas Zürichis. Ettevõte toodab peamiselt energeetikaseadmeid elektrijaamadele, energiaülekandesüsteeme, automaattehnikat ja robotisüsteeme.

ABB tegutseb üle 100 riigis ja neil on umbes 112 000 töötajat (2008). Käive oli 2007. aastal umbes 30 miljardit USA dollarit.

ABB on börsil Šveitsis, Stockholmis ja New Yorgis. Aastal 2007 oli suurim osanik (umbes 7%) Rootsi ettevõte Investor AB, mida kontrollivad Wallenbergid.

Septembrist 2008 juhib kontserni ameeriklane Joseph M. Hogan.

ABB (aik. Asea Brown Boveri) on sveitsiläinen teollisuuskonserni, jonka pääkonttori on Zürichin Oerlikonissa Sveitsissä. ABB:n toiminta keskittyy automaatiotekniikan ja sähkövoimatekniikan alueille. Konserni toimii yli 100 maassa. ABB syntyi vuonna 1988, kun ruotsalainen ASEA (aik. Allmänna Svenska Elektriska AB) ja sveitsiläinen Brown, Boveri & Cie. (BBC) yhdistyivät.

BNFL (British Nuclear Fuels Ltd) osti ABB:n ydinvoimaliiketoiminnot vuonna 2000 (ABB Atom ja ABB Combustion Engineering) ja ne liitettiin osaksi Westinghousea.

ABB:n sähköverkkoyksikkö (Division Power Grids) on sähköverkkojen toimittaja, jolla on noin 36 000 työtekijää. ABB myi 80,1 % sähköverkkoyksiköstään joulukuussa 2018 japanilaiselle Hitachille.

The ABB Group (tidl. Asea Brown Boveri) er eit multinasjonalt selskap med hovudkontor i Zürich i Sveits. Selskapet vart danna ved samanslåinga av det svenske selskapet ASEA og det sveitsiske Brown Boweri i 1987. Selskapet driv i dag hovudsakleg med teknologiutvikling innan elkraftteknikk og industrielle elektro- og automatiseringsprodukt.

ABB har verksemder i over 100 land og totalt 108 000 tilsette (2006). I Noreg har selskapet om lag 2 000 tilsette og ein omsetnad på om lag 6,2 milliardar kroner (2006).

ABB Ltd (ursprungligen Asea Brown Boveri) är ett globalt teknikbolag som skapar produkter, lösningar och tjänster inom bland annat automation, elektrifiering och digitalisering. ABB-koncernens bolag verkar i omkring 100 länder och har ungefär 105 000 medarbetare.