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Top 25 IT Hardware and Infrastructure Companies | March 18, 2008
The Top 25 IT Hardware and Infrastructure list suffered a loss this year, as one the category’s central players (ATI Technologies, with 2006 revenues of $2.84 billion) was acquired by AMD, primarily a microprocessor development firm from the United States. In addition, the category lost an additional two of its Top 25 to the Professional Services Category.
Combined 2007 fiscal year-end revenues for the Top 25 Hardware and Infrastructure firms were just more than $27 billion. Although this category is still the highest in terms of revenue generation of all the Branham300 categories, the combined revenues of the companies in the Top 25 decreased by 16.02 per cent compared to the combined revenues of last year’s group. The combined revenue growth year over year for this year’s group alone, however, went up 2.15 per cent.
Although many of the players in this year’s Top 25 Hardware and Infrastructure category remain constant, there was significant movement in the rankings. Unlike the Top 25 Professional Services list, high growth in this category translated into greater performance in the ranking. Sandvine achieved the highest growth of the Top 25 companies at 155.22 per cent, claiming a space in the Top 25 for the first time. Mitel was able to climb two spaces with 118.35 per cent growth, while Sierra Wireless ascended four spots to number seven with 94.01 per cent growth. The biggest jump in the ranking is attributed to Vecima Networks, climbing five spots with just 17.17 per cent growth, highlighting the difference in revenue disparity between the higher and lower ranking firms. Nortel and Celestica reprise the number one and two spots in the category, despite both firms suffering year-over-year decreases of 4.58 per cent and 9.1 per cent respectively.
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