Annual Report 2008

Annual Report highlights

President's message

Gerard Kleisterlee looks back on 2008, as well as to the challenges and opportunities ahead.

Who we are

What we stand for, where we are going, and how we intend to get there.

Global challenges

Find out how we turn global challenges into business opportunities.

MD&A Management summary

Key facts and figures on our 2008 performance

Our leadership

Meet the members of our Board of Management, Group Management Committee and Supervisory Board.

People, planet, partners

Improving the quality of life of people inside and outside our company, as well as the quality of the world we live in, is vital to our ambitions.

Our sectors

Read how our Healthcare, Consumer Lifestyle and Lighting sectors performed in 2008.

Customer needs

Understanding our customers’ needs is central to everything we do.

Environment

Care for the environment is a cornerstone of our sustainability endeavors.

Liquidity and capital resources

Effective cash management was a major performance driver in 2008.

Emerging markets

We are strengthening our position in emerging markets.

Employees

Find out how our workforce evolved in 2008.

Innovation and design

We integrate technology and design into people-centric solutions based on fundamental end-user insights and our brand promise of “sense and simplicity”.

Outlook

Philips looks ahead to 2009.

Sustainability performance

We continued to drive sustainability throughout our operations in 2008.
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This is an interactive electronic version of the Philips Annual Report 2008 and also contains certain information in summarized form. The contents of this version are qualified in their entirety by reference to the printed version of the Philips Annual Report 2008. The printed version is available as a PDF file on this website. Information about: forward-looking statements, third-party market share data, fair value information, US GAAP basis of presentation, use of non-US GAAP information, statutory financial statements and management report, revision and reclassifications and analysis of 2007 compared to 2006.
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