Bangkok--20 Aug--Hill & Knowlton
Some quick facts highlighted in the article:
In the past decade RIM has sold 65 million BlackBerry smartphones to its 28.5 million subscribers.
RIM has a 56% share of the $12 billion U.S. smartphone market.
A report released earlier this year ranked the BlackBerry Curve smartphone as the bestselling consumer smartphone in the U.S. Three of the five top-selling mobile phones in the U.S. are now BlackBerry smartphones.
RIM's three-year average earnings-per-share growth is 84%; annualized revenue growth in that time is 77%; and its shares have a three-year annualized total return of 45%.
The smartphone market is expected to nearly double in the next five years.
To view the full ranking of the Fastest Growing Company, visit
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortunefastestgrowing/2009/full_list/
To read about the full story on the contributing factors to RIM’s success, visit
http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/12/technology/blackberry_research_in_motion.fortune/index.htm
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