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Carly Fiorina says HP
printing products are dreamed up and designed in Vancouver
Carly Fiorina today told
one of Vancouver’s largest business audiences that
Hewlett-Packard, celebrating its first 25 years in Vancouver,
will stay on to celebrate a second 25 years.
HP’s imaging and printing
products have “dreamed up and designed in Vancouver” stamped all
over them, Fiorina, chair and CEO of the 11th largest company in
the U.S., said at a Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce,
Columbia River Economic Development Council, Identity Clark
County luncheon at the Red Lion Hotel at the Quay.
The Vancouver HP
operations is Clark County’s largest private employer with over
2,000 employees. These are the people who invent the company’s
imaging and printing products.
Fiorina told her audience
that the true age of technology is just beginning. “The dotcom
boom and dotcom bust were the end of the beginning. Technology
is moving from the physical and the analog to the digital, the
mobile and the virtual.”
HP, an $80 billion
company, will grow by $7 billion this year. Of that, $2 billion
in growth will come from the products that get their start in
Vancouver.
“One million HP printers
are sold every week,” Fiorina said. “Every second worldwide
someone buys an HP printer.
She clearly has bragging
rights, but Fiorina came not praise HP but to remind southern
Washington’s business community that, in addition to entering a
new era of technology, “this is a new era of business
leadership.”
“Community development is
not separate from business planning but is an objective,”
Fiorina declared. “Social values have to be enhanced.”
Fiorina said that today
only 10 percent of the world’s population can afford the
products that HP produces. “We have to work to make it possible
for the other 90 percent to buy our products in the future,” she
said.
According to Fiorina,
business people have to have the capability, the character, and
the ability to collaborate so that technology can bring about
the transformation to a better life.
“HP products are the
sales leaders in every category that we make,” Fiorina said. “We
believe if we aren’t leading, we are losing.”
Life-saving awards
being presented by Vancouver Fire Department this evening
Six citizens will be
honored by the Vancouver Fire Department in an awards ceremony
at 6:30 p.m. this evening in the Water Resources Education
Center. In addition, several firefighters and fire companies
will be given awards.
Being presented
life-saving awards are John
Hallman and Mike Spence,
tow truck operators, and Jani
Chaney, Dawn Floyd,
Kelly Sharp, and
Rita Fisher, members of
the Clark County Emergency Services 9-1-1 staff, all of six of
whom helped prevent loss of life when a bridge on the Evergreen
Highway collapsed earlier this year.
Survey showing support
for community arts center will be detailed Wednesday
A status report to the
community by the Center for the Arts at 4 p.m. Wednesday, June
23, in City Hall will show public support for a Southwest
Washington Center for the Arts, according to Center for the Arts
co-chair Val Ogden.
A recent public survey,
as well as information collected from arts providers that are
part of the feasibility study being sponsored by the Center for
the Arts and the Vancouver Cultural Commission, will be
discussed at the meeting.
European bicycle
transportation is subject of display in the Public Service
Center Friday
A display of European
bicycle transportation design will be shown 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Friday, June 25, on the sixth floor of the Public Service
Center, 1300 Franklin Street.
The display is sponsored
by Vancouver Transportation Services and is part of the
Vancouver-Portland Pedal Palooza, which encourages bicycle
transportation.
Call
Todd Boulanger,
696-8290, today to
register for the free event.
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