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Siemens AG is the largest engineering conglomerate in Europe and the largest electronics company in the world. The company is a conglomerate of three main business sectors: Industry, Energy and Healthcare. This is a $ 110 billion company, employing almost 480,000 people globally.

Founded by Ernst Werner von Siemens, a German inventor and industrialist, also hailed as the founding father of electrical Engineering in Germany, in 1847, what began as a telegraph company, soon developed into a massive organization, that diversified into power, transportation and illumination sectors by 1890. In 1881, the world's first electrically lit street came into being at Goldaming, UK, powered by a Siemens system. By the 1920s and 1930s, the company began manufacturing radios, television sets, and electron microscopes.

Post the Second World War, Siemens AG started manufacturing computers, semiconductor devices, washing machines and even pacemakers from the Bavaria base. By 1980, Siemens introduced world's first digital telephone exchange, and by 1997, it produced the first GSM cellular phone with colour display.

Between 2001 to 2006, the organization acquired 33 companies, with names like Bayer, Alstom and Huntsville Electrionics Corporation (belonging to Chrysler group) included in them.

As of 2008, the company manufactures a wide range of products in industrial, telecommunications, transportation, control systems, healthcare and other miscellaneous fields like fire detection and hematology systems.