The Hewlett-Packard Company, referred to as HP, is a multinational information technology . Its products include computers, printers, scanners, cameras, mobile phones and televisions. The company was in 1939 by Stanford University classmates Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in a garage in Palo Alto, California. One of their first was Walt Disney Studios, which bought HP to test an sound system for the movie ‘Fantasia’. The two men a coin to decide the name of the company – Hewlett–Packard or Packard-Hewlett. Dave Packard won the toss but chose to put his friend’s name first. HP its products to individual consumers, small- to medium-sized businesses and office-supply . It has over 300,000 staff worldwide and generates an annual in excess of $100 billion.