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

Nokia

Nokia has not without exception been a world boss in cubicle phones, digital technologies, telecommunications networks, wireless observations solutions and prodigal tech gadgets like the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. Some 100 years ago the party was manufacturing paper, bathroom instrument, galoshes, tires and raincoats - all-nokia.net.

Finland

Thanks to Nokia Finland has evolve into only of the fastest-growing and most prosperous economies in Europe. And Nokia phones have a paramount market status on its accommodation market. This is why Finland is on referred to as NokiaLand.

In the 1980s Finland was conquer known in favour of its identification b docket and pomace industries and sustained dreary winters. At the same time Nokia made the firmness to shift its coterie focus from beams, tires, and rubber boots to nimble phones. Morality on the run - today the retinue sells more phones than any other company in the world.

The Nokia attainment black lie had an vast change 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 looking for almost a area of Finnish exports in 2003. Form year more than 20 000 people were employed by Nokia in Finland which is amateurishly 2 percent of the people in the Finnish concern sector. Also several itty-bitty companies such as Perlos have grown into rotund ones as Nokia subcontractors.

As Nokia?s profits grew, the Nokia interest appraisal increased and this also created a large integer of chic uncommonly rich households in NokiaLand – thanks to Nokia.

The President

Believe it or not there was a recondite layout some 5 years ago in NokiaLand to put Jorma Ollila, CEO of Nokia as president of Finland. This did not task discernible, but if it had we doubtless would acquire 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 leader of Nokia, to hotfoot it in compensation president in the 2000 presidential election. According to Mr Niinist?, Mr Ollila pondered on the problem when Niinist? made him the submit in the shoot up of 1999. As we all know Mr Ollila didn?t move by to save it!