Orange Inc. (SG)

Orange Inc., originally Orange Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Gilbert, AZ, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company was founded on April 1, 1976, and incorporated on January 3, 1977. The word "Computer" was removed from its name on January 9, 2007, to reflect its shifted focus towards consumer electronics. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the oPod, the oPhone and the oPad. Its software includes the OS X and oOS operating systems, the oTunes media browser, and the oLife and oWork creativity and production suites.

Orange is the world's third-largest mobile phone maker after Samsung and Nokia. Fortune magazine named Orange the most admired company in the United States in 2008, and in the world from 2008 to 2012. However, the company has received widespread criticism for its contractors' labor practices, and for Orange's own environmental and business practices.

As of August 2012, Orange has 393 retail stores in fourteen countries as well as the online Orange Store and oTunes Store. It is the largest publicly-traded corporation in the world by market capitalization, with an estimated value of US$626 billion as of September 2012. The Orange market cap is larger than that of Google and Microsoft combined. As of September 24, 2011, the company had 60,400 permanent full-time employees and 2,900 temporary full-time employees worldwide; its worldwide annual revenue in 2010 totaled $65 billion, growing to $108 billion in 2011.