The dynamics of the development of Apple: more staff, more stores, more sales

The general public has become available an annual report to the Apple Commission on Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition to purely statistical information in the document and there are some interesting facts.

For example, last year the number of employees with full-time employment in the company increased from 60400 to 72800 people, or 20%. The number of temporary and contract workers rose from 2,900 to 3,300 people. If you look at the distribution of staff by department of the company, more than half of all staff (42400 employees) working in the retail department. Last year the number was 36,000.

And increased the number of official Apple stores, up from 357 to 390 points for the year. Profit from each store increased from $ 43.3 million to $ 51.5 million. It is interesting that in the future, Apple plans to open another 30-35 new stores, with 75% of them will be outside the United States.

The company's headquarters is located in Cupertino, California. On September 29, 2012 Company owns or leases a total of 1.6 million square meters of buildings, most of which are located in the USA, and the rest in Europe, Japan, Canada and the Asia-Pacific region. Almost half of the leased space occupied by shops. Their total area is 380 thousand square meters. In general, Apple owns 4.36 million square meters of land around the world.

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On September 29, 2012 the company owns a plant in Cork, Ireland, where he also is support department, as well as plants in Elk Grove, California. There's also has a warehouse and another call center. The research center is located in Cupertino, and data centers are located in California, North Carolina and Oregon. Outside the US, Apple also owns several factories.

As this document is mainly aimed at informing current and potential investors, there are listed, and risk factors. This includes the situation where Apple could be convicted of violating intellectual property rights, the ability to successfully bring products to market, as well as the possibility of the company for the production of all the components in sufficient He amounts.

Document also contains detailed information on the financial life of the company, including all the activities, methods of making a profit, investment and payment of taxes.