Dell Inc.

Founded
Austin, Texas (1984) (as "PC's Limited")
Headquarters
Round Rock, Texas, USA
Key people
Michael Dell, Founder & ChairmanKevin Rollins, President & CEODon Carty, CFO
Industry
Computer hardware
Products
DesktopsServersNotebooksPeripheralsPrinters
Revenue
$55.908 Billion USD (2006)
Net income
$3.572 Billion USD (2006)(6.39% profit margin)
Employees
65,200
Subsidiaries
Alienware
Slogan
Purely YouUniquely You (Australia)

Website
www.dell.com

Dell Inc. an American computer-hardware company based in Round Rock, Texas, develops, manufactures, sells and supports a wide range of personal computers, servers, data storage devices, network switches, personal digital assistants (PDAs), software, computer peripherals, and more. As of 2006 Dell employs more than 63,700 people worldwide and manufactures more computers than any other organization in the world. According to the Fortune 500 2006 list, Dell ranks as the 25th-largest company in the United States by revenue. In 2006, Fortune magazine ranked Dell as No. 8 on its annual list of the most-admired companies in the United States. One publication has identified Dell as one of 38 high-performance companies in the S&P 500 which consistently out-performed the market over the previous 15 years.