ABB

Brand description

ABB (Asea Brown Boveri Group Ltd.) is an international corporation headquartered in Zurich. It operates in industries such as automation, robotics and power engineering; it is a manufacturer of power stations and power systems, electrical equipment, and high, medium and low voltage switchgear. The company is listed on the stock exchanges in Zurich, Stockholm, New York, London and Frankfurt. It operates in more than 100 countries, employing over 140,000 employees. The ABB Group was formed in 1988 as a result of the merger of two large companies in the power engineering industry, whose roots go back to the 19th century: ASEA (Allemana Svenska Elektriska Aktienbolaget), a Swedish company existing since 1883, and BBC (Brown Boveri Company, originally Brown Boveri & Cie), a Swiss company existing since 1891.