In the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2012/2013 until the beginning of March earned the Canadian company bottom line $98 million (almost EUR 77 million), as the BlackBerry on Thursday in Waterloo announced. A year earlier was still a loss of $125 million. Quarter sales slumped however from about 4.2 billion to 2.7 billion dollars over one year.
In the fourth quarter, BlackBerry sold six million smartphones, of around one million units of the BlackBerry Z10 lulls with a new operating system. The flagship of BlackBerry, which many experts see as the last hope for the company, went first in smaller markets such as Britain and Canada in trade since late January. In March, followed by the United States.
Once dominated the market for smartphones
The company, which was renamed as research in motion (RIM) and recently named after its main product, had once dominated the market for smartphones. But lost the connecting Canadians with the rise of rival technically becoming like the iPhone provider Apple and Samsung and lost massive market share. Under the German-born chef Thorsten Heins, BlackBerry attempts the turn with new products and a save.
Heins company transform since his service in January 2012 completely and fired around 5,000 from 16,500 employees. Now, "we have implemented numerous changes for BlackBerry over the past year, and they have brought back the company in the fourth quarter in the black," says Heins. Also in the current quarter, he expects a profit.
Full-year, the strong final quarter but could not want to save 2012/2013. The loss for the year from BlackBerry amounted to $646 million from a gain of $1.16 billion for 2011/2012. Sales fell from 18.4 billion to around $11 billion according to the companies.
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