The Ericsson company history

Follow Ericsson’s dramatic journey as the company copes with the world’s economic ups and downs. We will also learn about the Ericsson spirit, export success and subsidiaries and the events that occurred during the Russian revolution and the Great Depression and how those events affected Ericsson.

From birth to merger

Lars Magnus Ericsson’s mechanical engineering workshop

Lars Magnus Ericsson goes into business

Henric Öller launches pioneering enterprise

Telephone lines to every home

Telephones catch on in Stockholm

The path to merger with SAT

Consequences of the merger with SAT

L M Ericsson 100 years

Breakthrough in Gävle

The operation of telephone networks requires capital

Mexeric in the firing line

Early developments in telephony

An emerging global company

Aggressive expansion in Europe

The Comeback Kid – Ericsson conquers the US

A new market situation

Ericsson Radio Systems and the Kista spirit

The legacy of Ericsson HotLine

Internationalization in the 1960s

Production companies move west

The Buffalo plant 1907-1923

Major order to Saudi Arabia

Ericsson and the Russian Revolution

The consequences of expansion

Ericsson acquired Telcordia

Redback became a subsidiary of Ericsson

The international engineering company

The demise of the concession company

The industrial worker disappears

Ericsson and the great depression

The fall of the Kreuger empire

Kreuger’s entrance at Ericsson

Untying the knots

A different company

A volunteer initiative deploying emergency communication

Ericsson and the changed market

Ericsson and 9/11

WWI food committee

Contact established

Unique expansion

Ericsson as Business

Active environmental adaptation

Ericsson and ownership control 1990-2011

Ownership over the years

Business ethics essential

Profitability over 100 years

The Ericsson spirit

A distinctive corporate culture

With size comes responsibility

Midsommargården

SAT’s pension and gratuity fund

The L.M.E. Society

The S. T. Society

SAT workers celebrate anniversary

Competition and cooperation

Incorporation of the company

Revolution in technology

Ellemtel develops the AXE system

Ericsson and Swedish PTT: Partners in development

Mexican madness

Status quo on the Mexican market

Focus on telephony

From crisis to war

The informal contact networks

Partnering in Saudi Arabia

Brand names and marketing

From CVI to CVL

Creating a brand

Ericsson’s three sausages – creating a graphic profile

Ericsson and 9/11

Ericsson and 9/11

In the days after the attacks Ericsson helped with setting up extra mobile antennas around the ruins of the World Trade Center to increase coverage.

The Ericsson spirit

The Ericsson spirit

The recreation center of Ericsson, Midsommargården was a unique initiative that paved the way for cultural encounters between different people.

From crisis to war

From crisis to war

Diversification and focus on the domestic market was Ericsson's way of surviving the crises of the 1930s. The same trends were to apply even more during the Second World War from 1939-1945.

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