<Tr> <Th> Subsidiaries </Th> <Td> List of subsidiaries </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.hp.com </Td> </Tr> <P> The Hewlett - Packard Company (commonly referred to as HP) or shortened to Hewlett - Packard (/ ˈhjuːlɪt ˈpækərd / HEW - lit PAK - ərd) was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California . It developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components as well as software and related services to consumers, small - and medium - sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors . </P> <P> The company was founded in a one - car garage in Palo Alto by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, and initially produced a line of electronic test equipment . HP was the world's leading PC manufacturer from 2007 to Q2 2013, after which Lenovo came to rank ahead of HP . It specialized in developing and manufacturing computing, data storage, and networking hardware, designing software and delivering services . Major product lines included personal computing devices, enterprise and industry standard servers, related storage devices, networking products, software and a diverse range of printers and other imaging products . HP marketed its products to households, small - to medium - sized businesses and enterprises directly as well as via online distribution, consumer - electronics and office - supply retailers, software partners and major technology vendors . HP also had services and consulting business around its products and partner products . </P>

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