3. Blackberry at a Glance
• Led by Co-CEO Jim
Co- Balsillie and President Mike Lazaridis
• 1987 Research in Motion founded in Waterloo, Canada
• 1997 IPO Toronto Stock Market
• 1999 launch 1st Blackberry smartphone
• 1999 IPO Nasdaq
• 2001 Introduced in Europe
• 03/08/2010 Unleashes Blackberry OS 6
• 27/09/2010 Unveils Blackberry Playbook
• 12/2010 – over 120mio Smartphone shipped
4. Key Milestone
30X growth in 8 years ~ 15bio$ (2010)
Subscriber from 500.000 to 50mio (2010)
1st in 100 Fastest-Growing Companies 2009 (Fortune)
2nd Smartphone Sales Q1.2010 (Worldwide)
3 rd Top 500 Superbrands 2010 (The Centre for Brand Analysis)
4th Mobile Terminal Sales Q1.2010
11th Coolest Brand 2010
….
16. Discriminators
… Blackberry is focused on the Task
at hand. It know It can deliver
everything you want…
in Work & Life
17. Values, Belief & Personality
We SHOULD use Blackberry
… to describe our company, our
product and our brand
… as a filter or a standard
against which to measure our communications
and behavior