Company Profile - Adobe

Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. For 25 years, the company’s award-winning software and technologies have redefined business, entertainment, and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people virtually anywhere at anytime. From rich images in print, video, and film to dynamic digital content for a variety of media, the impact of Adobe solutions is evident across industries and felt by anyone who creates, views, and interacts with information. With a reputation for excellence and a portfolio of many of the most respected and recognizable software brands, Adobe is one of the world’s largest and most diversified software companies.

History of Innovation
Adobe founders Chuck Geschke and John Warnock shared a vision for publishing and graphic arts that would forever change how people create and engage with information. The two men met in the late 1970s while working at the renowned Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where they researched device-independent graphic systems and printing. Excited by the potential of their work to reshape computing, Geschke and Warnock eventually realized that the only way to take their ideas from the lab to the burgeoning technology market would be to create their own company.

In 1982, they founded Adobe Systems Incorporated on a simple premise: how could text and images on a computer screen translate beautifully and accurately into print? A year later, they helped launch the desktop publishing revolution by introducing Adobe® PostScript® technology, providing a radical new approach to printing text and images on paper. For the first time, a computer file could be printed exactly as it appeared on screen, with all formatting, graphics and fonts intact. Adobe PostScript was licensed to printer manufacturers worldwide and delivered unprecedented cost savings and productivity enhancements. It continues to be a core technology on printers today.In September 1999 Adobe reported record revenues of $260.9 million for the third quarter.

Founded

December 1982 by Charles Geschke and John Warnock

Statistics:

Public Company
Incorporated: 1983
Employees:    2,800
Sales:             $1.02 billion (1999)
Stock Exchanges: NASDAQ
Ticker Symbol: ADBE
NAIC: 51121 Software Publishers; 334611 Software Reproducing; 541511 Custom Computer Programming Services

Corporate headquarters

Adobe Systems Incorporated
345 Park Avenue
San Jose, CA 95110-2704

India offices

Research and Development Pvt. Ltd.
Salarpuria Infinity, 3rd Floor
#5, Bannerghatta Road
Bangalore-560029
India

518/519, Midas, Sahar
Plaza Complex,
Andheri(E), Mumbai-
400059
India

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