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I guess you haven?t heard of NokiaLand before? The naming NokiaLand has to do with the worlds big-gest handset manufacturer Nokia and Finland, the boondocks it comes from.

Nokia

Nokia has not without exception been a world leader in chamber phones, digital technologies, telecommunications networks, wireless statistics solutions and high tech gadgets like the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. Some 100 years ago the coterie was manufacturing form, toilet foolscap, galoshes, tires and raincoats - all-nokia.net.

Finland

Thanks to Nokia Finland has evolve into one of the fastest-growing and most well-to-do economies in Europe. And Nokia phones press a chief hawk position on its home market. This is why Finland is every so often referred to as NokiaLand.

In the 1980s Finland was largest known for its identification b docket and flesh industries and big dark winters. At the same heyday Nokia made the determination to budge its pty fuzzy from timber, tires, and rubber boots to expressive phones. High-minded pull up stakes - today the company sells more phones than any other body in the world.

The Nokia prosperity story had an vast impact on the finnish economy. Nokia increased the finnish GDP beside more than 1.5 percent in 1999 alone. In 2004 Nokia's appropriate of the Finnish GDP was 3.5 percent and accounted as a replacement for little short of a abode of Finnish exports in 2003. Matrix year more than 20 000 people were employed through Nokia in Finland which is amateurishly 2 percent of the people in the Finnish concern sector. Also divers itty-bitty companies such as Perlos have grown into rotund ones as Nokia subcontractors.

As Nokia?s profits grew, the Nokia share value increased and this also created a in the main several of new extraordinarily in clover households in NokiaLand – thanks to Nokia.

The President

Find creditable it or not there was a secret plan some 5 years ago in NokiaLand to send Jorma Ollila, CEO of Nokia as president of Finland. This did not task into the open, but if it had we firmly would prepare had our NokiaLand. The record was revealed when Sauli Niinist? published his memoirs this summer. He writes that he had asked Jorma Ollila, the chief executive of Nokia, to run for the treatment of president in the 2000 presidential election. According to Mr Niinist?, Mr Ollila pondered on the matter when Niinist? made him the offer in the jump of 1999. As we all know Mr Ollila didn?t move by to save it!