![]() ![]() It was a publicly traded company ( NASDAQ: DELL), as well as a component of the NASDAQ-100and S&P 500, until it was taken private in a leveraged buyout which closed on October 30, 2013.ĭell traces its origins to 1984, when Michael Dell created Dell Computer Corporation, which at the time did business as PC’s Limited, while a student of the University of Texas at Austin. ![]() It is the second largest non-oil company in Texas – behind AT&T – and the largest company in the Greater Austin area. ![]() Dell is the sixth largest company in Texas by total revenue, according to Fortune magazine. Dell is currently the #1 shipper of PC monitors in the world. In 2015, it was the third largest PC vendor in the world after Lenovo and HP. After going private in 2013, the newly confidential nature of its financial information prevents the company from being ranked by Fortune. ĭell was listed at number 51 in the Fortune 500 list, until 2014. The company has since made additional acquisitions in storage and networking systems, with the aim of expanding their portfolio from offering computers only to delivering complete solutions for enterprise customers. Dell was a pure hardware vendor for much of its existence, but with the acquisition in 2009 of Perot Systems, Dell entered the market for IT services. The company is well known for its innovations in supply chain management and electronic commerce, particularly its direct-sales model and its “build-to-order” or “configure to order” approach to manufacturing-delivering individual PCs configured to customer specifications. Dell sells personal computers (PCs), servers, data storage devices, network switches, software, computer peripherals, HDTVs, cameras, printers, MP3 players, and electronics built by other manufacturers. ![]()
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