Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Philips) operates as a health technology company worldwide.
Strategy
To deliver on its strategy, the company makes clear business choices. The company is concentrating its resources on 70% of the company’s businesses where it has strong positions and can accelerate growth and expand margins more quickly – Image Guided Therapy, Monitoring, Ultrasound, and Personal Health. In doing so, the company focuses on supporting clinical workflows in areas where it has domain lea...
Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Philips) operates as a health technology company worldwide.
Strategy
To deliver on its strategy, the company makes clear business choices. The company is concentrating its resources on 70% of the company’s businesses where it has strong positions and can accelerate growth and expand margins more quickly – Image Guided Therapy, Monitoring, Ultrasound, and Personal Health. In doing so, the company focuses on supporting clinical workflows in areas where it has domain leadership, such as cardiology, and that build on its deep strength in the intensive care unit and cath lab.
The focus for the remaining 30% of the businesses, such as Diagnostic Imaging and Enterprise Informatics, is achieving margin expansion by increasing productivity and scale.
Segments
The company operates through Diagnosis & Treatment, Connected Care, and Personal Health segments.
Diagnosis & Treatment segment
Diagnosis & Treatment businesses create value through their portfolio of innovative AI-enabled solutions that support precision diagnosis and minimally invasive treatment in therapeutic areas such as cardiology, peripheral vascular, neurology, surgery, and oncology. With these solutions, the company enables its customers to enhance care delivery, optimize workflow to improve productivity, and work toward their sustainability goals.
Serving diagnostic imaging markets globally, the company’s strategy is to focus on more precise and predictive diagnoses, integrating its intelligent imaging systems with its industry-leading informatics solutions to optimize workflow efficiency, improve productivity and maximize lifetime value. The company does this through smart diagnostic systems, connected workflow solutions, and integrated AI-supported diagnostics and pathway informatics that enable clinicians to select tailored care pathways with predictable outcomes for every patient, both inside and outside the hospital.
The company also provides integrated solutions that combine imaging systems and advanced clinical software, as well as diagnostic and therapeutic devices and services to optimize minimally invasive interventional procedures with more effective treatment, better outcomes and higher productivity. Building upon the company’s leading-edge Azurion platform, it addresses a range of interventional clinical segments with high procedural growth rates, such as coronary artery disease, peripheral artery and venous disease, electrophysiology, structural heart disease, interventional neuroradiology, and interventional oncology. The company is driving further innovation to treat new and more complex patient pools, using clinical and economic evidence to foster the adoption of these solutions, and that translates into guidelines and reimbursement.
In 2024, the company took action to address key optimization and expansion challenges faced by its Diagnosis & Treatment Business Units. In Diagnostic Imaging, with renewed leadership, the company embarked on a clear strategy with a focus on those customers who are looking to optimize care delivery in the mid- and high-end segments. Significant progress was made in the execution of the company’s plans to drive margin expansion in line with the company's strategy. The company also streamlined and focused its portfolio with one cloud-enabled hardware stack.
In Image Guided Therapy (IGT), the company continued to take actions to deliver on its ambition to accelerate growth and expand margins more quickly. The IGT Business Units focused on creating customer preference for the company’s integrated interventional platform, with Systems, Devices and Software seamlessly joined in one simple workflow to innovate the procedure.
The Diagnosis & Treatment segment consists of the following businesses.
Precision Diagnosis: This Business offers a range of diagnostic imaging products and solutions to address some of providers’ biggest challenges, from staff shortages and burnout to workflow, and ultimately delivering better care for their patients.
Diagnostic X-ray business unit – X-ray and fluoroscopy systems with associated software to optimize diagnostic imaging quality and improve efficiency and productivity for the hospital.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Business Unit – comprehensive BlueSeal portfolio with helium-free-for-life operations, bundled with AI-enabled software to streamline workflows, optimize diagnostic quality, and improve patient experience.
Computed Tomography (CT) Business Unit – advanced and efficient systems and software, including detector-based Spectral CT and systems equipped with advanced AI capabilities, for diagnosis, interventional procedures and screening, to help expand the standard of care.
Ultrasound Business Unit – imaging solutions focused on supporting diagnosis, treatment planning and guidance for cardiac, general imaging, obstetrics/gynecology, and point-of-care applications enabled by proprietary AI software, advanced imaging technology and tele-ultrasound to efficiently and confidently deliver diagnostic images for even the most complex conditions.
Image Guided Therapy – This Business includes a market-leading portfolio of integrated interventional imaging systems, smart devices, and disease-specific software, as well as services and consulting.
Image Guided Therapy Systems Business Unit – integrated interventional X-ray systems (fixed and mobile surgery) and software solutions, supported by AI, to perform a wide range of routine and complex interventional procedures, easily and confidently.
Image Guided Therapy Devices Business Unit – interventional specialty devices and software to aid in the diagnosis, navigation, treatment and confirmation in minimally invasive interventional coronary, peripheral vascular and hearth rhythm management procedures. Complemented by seamless integration with Image Guided Therapy Systems.
Revenue is predominantly earned through the sale of products, leasing, customer services fees, recurring per-procedure fees for disposable devices, and software license fees. For certain offerings, per-study fees or outcome-based fees are earned over the contract term.
Sales channels are a mix of direct sales, especially in the larger markets, third-party distributors and online sales. The company’s sales organizations have an intimate knowledge of technologies and clinical applications, as well as the solutions necessary to meet the needs of its customers.
Sales in the Diagnosis & Treatment Businesses are generally higher in the second half of the year (year ended December 2024), largely due to the timing of customer spending patterns.
2024 highlights
Philips introduced helium-free operations in MRI, and since its launch in 2018, the company has installed more than 1,500 BlueSeal systems globally in wide-ranging settings, including the world’s first helium-free mobile MRI units.
The next-generation AI-enabled cardiovascular ultrasound platform helps speed up cardiac ultrasound analysis with proven AI technology and reduces the burden on echocardiography labs, integrated into EPIQ CVx and Affiniti CVx ultrasound systems. With the latest transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) transducer, it is designed to serve more patients with improved overall comfort, with FDA 510(k) clearance. Philips has developed the smaller X11- 4t Mini 3D TEE transducer to serve more patients with this valuable imaging tool, helping physicians serve a wider range of patients, from small children to fragile adults.
In General Imaging Ultrasound the company launched the Elevate Release featuring the EPIQ Elite Elevate and Affiniti Elevate. More than 100 optimized pre-sets across multiple clinical applications deliver greater precision imaging and intuitive workflows to help boost clinical confidence. These innovative features also help to deliver an improved user and patient experience by automating image brightness and uniformity, and reducing button pushes by up to 54% with Next Gen Auto Scan.
Philips launched a series of leading AI-driven innovations across the diagnostic imaging portfolio.
MR SmartSpeed is AI-based imaging technology that can increase imaging speed by up to a factor of three while providing up to 65% greater resolution to deliver outstanding image quality. It is compatible with 97% of clinical protocols to address the needs of a broad range of patients in various conditions.
AI-powered quantitative reporting software from the company’s partner icometrix was seamlessly integrated into the latest BlueSeal MR scanners through new Smart Reading capability, providing consistent and more accurate diagnoses.
Fully AI-enabled CT 5300 with Precise Image reconstruction software results in reduced reading time and 80% lower radiation while delivering better image quality. Philips collaborates with Annalise.ai to evaluate streamlining workflows to prioritize time-sensitive cases.
Powered with Smart Workflow, AI-enabled productivity features of DXR 7300 C reduce X-ray retakes with the Eleva Tube Head and enhance confident diagnosis with Philips UNIQUE 2 image processing.
Image Guided Therapy
Major enhancements to Azurion, the company’s Image Guided Therapy System, were designed to speed up and improve minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment of neurovascular patients. The new Azurion neuro biplane system features enhanced 2D and 3D imaging and X-ray detector positioning flexibility, building on the system’s capabilities to streamline neurovascular procedures to help care teams make the right decisions faster, treat more patients, and achieve better outcomes
The company’s real-time 3D Intracardiac Echocardiography (ICE) Catheter – VeriSight Pro – is designed to give physicians more confidence and control during a variety of minimally invasive procedures in structural heart disease and electrophysiology.
Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) technologies received top-level recognition in new European Society of Cardiology guidelines, reinforcing their role in optimizing coronary interventions and patient outcomes.
Philips secured FDA approval for its new LumiGuide Navigation Wire, which uses fiber optic technology to reduce radiation for both patients and physicians during minimally invasive surgery. The company’s breakthrough Fiber Optic RealShape (FORS) technology marked the milestone of more than 1,000 patients treated using FORS technology since the first clinical use in 2020.
The Zenition 90 Motorized, designed to deliver image quality for complex vascular needs and clinical procedures, was launched. It has intuitive motorization for greater control and high power, as well as automated workflows for greater clinical efficiency.
Diagnosis & Treatment Partnerships
Philips continues to work with health systems to adopt solutions that can improve workflow and ease the technology burden on staff, as well as improve patients’ experiences and outcomes and advance sustainability.
Carilion Clinic’s Cardiovascular Institute in the U.S. committed to adopt 11 specialized Philips interventional suites, allowing physicians to treat patients with complex conditions closer to where they live. Equipped with these new Philips solutions, the highly skilled medical staff will be able to continue handling complex cases or procedures that may not be available at surrounding healthcare facilities.
A 2024 analysis confirmed that the collaboration with Champalimaud Foundation (Portugal) achieved a 24% emissions reduction in its first year. This is equivalent to 40 tonnes CO2e, a strong start to a strategic partnership aimed at halving the carbon footprint of Champalimaud’s diagnostic and interventional imaging equipment use by 2028.
For the Japanese market, where cerebrovascular diseases are on the rise and place a heavy social burden on society, Philips has launched SmartCT 3.0, an application powered by AI and specialized for endovascular treatment with high image quality. Additionally, the first MR 7700 with clinical 3.0T scanner has been installed at Hamamatsu University Hospital. With high image quality and reduced scan time, it provides high accuracy, power, and endurance to support confident diagnosis for every patient.
Connected Care segment
With technology constantly advancing and becoming increasingly pervasive in healthcare, the Connected Care businesses aim to connect and elevate care for all. Philips connects patients and caregivers across care settings, delivering clinical, operational and therapeutic solutions that help the company’s customers deliver better health outcomes, improve the patient and staff experience, and lower the cost of care.
With clinical depth and discovery, Philips Connected Care technologies help to cultivate a more accurate and complete view of the patient that drives better care for more people. The combination of advanced technological solutions and a co-creation approach allows Philips to be the clinical technology partner to its customers in their digital transformation, across the enterprise and at the level of the individual clinician, nurse and patient. As a clinical technology partner, the company helps its customers to unlock actionable insights from pools of medical imaging and patient monitoring data, through the use of advanced AI, to improve outcomes and drive productivity.
Philips’ open, interoperable platforms aggregate and leverage information from clinical devices, patient and historical data, to support care providers in patient engagement, diagnostics, and patient monitoring in diverse settings.
The Connected Care segment consists of the following businesses:
Monitoring – This Business spans in-hospital, ambulatory and home-based monitoring and diagnosis solutions and services supporting the patient journey, as well as continuous monitoring and workflow solutions fueled by advanced interoperability and patient insights.
Hospital Patient Monitoring Business Unit – delivers acute patient management solutions to improve clinical and patient outcomes and achieve operational and economic efficiencies. Leveraging a strong presence in the operating theater and intensive care unit, Hospital Patient Monitoring offers vendor-neutral solutions to enhance customers’ experiences and improve patient outcomes with seamless patient data – generated from admission to discharge – that is turned into clinical insights, actionable at the right time and specific to targeted care settings.
Ambulatory Monitoring & Diagnostics Business Unit – provides patient care management in ambulatory and home care settings through a suite of cardiac diagnostic and monitoring solutions to identify heart rhythm disorders, plus other disease states, supported by AI algorithms that orchestrate workflows and services across care settings to provide care virtually anywhere.
Emergency Care Business Unit – plays a critical role in connected acute care management, both inside and outside the hospital, including cardiac resuscitation (e.g., automated external defibrillators) and emergency care solutions (devices, services, and digital/data solutions) for professional and consumer applications. On January 28, 2025, Philips announced an agreement to sell the Emergency Care Business Unit.
Enterprise Informatics – By combining the company’s informatics propositions into one end-to-end Business, the company can scale its software business, providing vendor-agnostic, integrated workflow solutions that convert data from its imaging and monitoring systems into clinical and operational insights.
Radiology Informatics Business Unit – enables enterprise imaging across sites, specialties and technologies to simplify medical image management, facilitate effective collaboration and enhance patient care.
Clinical Integration & Insights Business Unit – offers solutions that are seamlessly integrated into the customer workflow. These solutions enable vendor-neutral data capture from more than 1,000 device models and make sense of disparate data, providing insights at scale across the care pathway.
Clinical Informatics Business Unit – delivers solutions for productivity, diagnostic confidence, and clinical decision support in the domains of digital pathology, advanced visualization and disease management solutions, specifically in radiology, cardiology, pathology and urology.
Patient Care Informatics – aims to extend the reach of virtual care, support evidence-based practices, and provide actionable insights for continuous improvement, ensuring better health outcomes for patients globally. In 2024, the company brought together EMR & Care Management and Cardiovascular Informatics to reflect shifts in the industry to drive not only data, but also to manage the entire patient journey. This combined portfolio consists of cardiovascular care, virtual care, electronic medical records, and acute care solutions.
Sleep & Respiratory Care - Working closely with clinical partners and Durable/Home Medical Equipment providers, Philips Respironics provides sleep and respiratory solutions to customers, clinicians and patients. This extends from ambulatory patient care solutions for obstructive sleep apnea, to solutions encompassing diagnostics, people-centric therapy, cloud-based connected propositions and care management services for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and respiratory conditions. Hospital Respiratory Care provides invasive and non-invasive ventilators for acute and sub-acute hospital environments; Home Respiratory Care supports chronic care management in the home.
In most of the Connected Care Businesses, revenue is earned through the sale of products and solutions, as well as services and software licenses. Where bundled offerings result in solutions for the company’s customers, or offerings are based on the number of people being monitored, it sees more usage-based earnings models. In the area of patient care management (Ambulatory Monitoring & Diagnostics Business Unit and Sleep & Respiratory Care Business), revenue is generated through clinical services, product sales and through rental models, whereby revenue is generated over time.
Sales channels include a mix of direct sales, partly paired with an online sales portal and distributors (varying by product, market and price segment). The company’s sales organizations have an intimate knowledge of clinical settings and patient-specific diagnosis and treatment. Philips collaborates with customers and partners to co-create solutions, drive commercial innovation and adapt to new models, such as monitoring-as-a-service and software-as-a-service.
Sales in the Connected Care Businesses are generally higher in the second half of the year, largely due to customer spending patterns.
2024 Highlights
Monitoring
Philips and Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH), one of the largest Catholic health systems in the U.S., announced a multi-year strategic collaboration for patient monitoring. Putting BSMH clinicians in control, the collaboration aims to reduce the digital burden on staff and give them more time to spend with patients. This 10-year journey is designed to bring innovations that will transform care delivery. BSMH provides patients care more than 11 million times annually through its network of more than 1,200 care sites, 60,000 associates and 49 hospitals serving communities in Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia, as well as Ireland.
Philips signed multi-year partnerships for monitoring with several university hospitals in the Netherlands and will provide patient monitors for the new Grand HÔpital de Charleroi in Belgium, as well as roll out its ePatch and AI-driven analytics platform across 14 hospitals in Spain.
Jackson Health System, one of the largest public health systems in the U.S., announced results of a collaborative Life Cycle Assessment measuring the sustainability impact of transitioning to Philips’ next-generation monitoring solutions, which can help reduce carbon emissions by 685 tons of CO2e, or 47%, compared with previous systems.
Enterprise Informatics
In 2024, the company expanded its strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer Philips’ integrated diagnostics portfolio in the cloud, improving access to critical insights and driving better outcomes across clinical specialties. With more than 150 sites across North America and Latin America successfully transitioned to Philips HealthSuite Imaging on AWS, Philips and AWS are accelerating the migration of health systems to the cloud and expanding customer cloud migrations in Europe.
Also powered by AWS in 2024, Philips announced the launch of the Tasy EMR AI Virtual Assistant, designed to improve the efficiency and quality of healthcare delivery in Latin America by simplifying administrative tasks and improving the EMR experience so healthcare professionals can focus on what really matters – their patients. As part of a five-year partnership with ABC Medical Center in Mexico, Philips Tasy EMR software is being deployed as part of an interoperability solution, integrating more than 45 functionalities and 700 licenses and establishing a standardized, unified point between clinical and enterprise information systems.
Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, one of the largest integrated care providers in the United Kingdom, advanced its radiology and cardiology care with Philips PACS. This technology will provide a single view of patient records, providing more connected and coordinated care across not just the hospital sites but the entire North East and Cumbria region. This commitment marks yet another milestone in the 14-year partnership with the Trust, just one year after Durham became the first NHS Trust to co-develop a sustainability blueprint with Philips.
NYU Langone Health in the U.S. launched a digital pathology program, offering unprecedented clarity for viewing tissue samples, enhancing collaboration and reducing diagnosis time while laying the foundation for advanced AI algorithms. This integrated, collaborative approach will serve as part of a drive to further enhance the patient experience through faster diagnosis and treatment, and improved outcomes.
Patient care and collaboration have been significantly improved in Vienna, Austria, as part of a renewed IT service agreement with Philips that includes solutions that centralize data and deliver insights. The ICCA patient data management system, which integrates patient data from monitors, laboratory data and other sources, has led to significant improvement in workflows and patient care in anesthesia, intensive care and general patient care at General Hospital of Vienna (Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien). At Vienna Health Group (Wiener Gesundheitsverbund), Philips Cardiovascular Workspace, a vendor-neutral system implemented in the adult and pediatric departments, helped improve patient care and internal operations.
Personal Health segment
The company’s Personal Health Business plays an important role in enabling healthy individual care routines with technology and solutions that support people’s long-term health and well-being. Through its Personal Health Business, it offers a broad range of solutions in various consumer price segments. Depending on the market, the company offers an additional portfolio of locally relevant innovations and adjust its range to increase accessibility.
A notable aspect of the company’s commercial strategy is driving direct-to-consumer relationships and sales through consumer communities and its online store. The company is also leveraging connectivity to enable new business models, and partnering with key players in the health ecosystem, such as insurance companies and healthcare professionals, to create more opportunities to support the health and well-being of consumers across the world. Through social media and digital innovation, the company is engaging consumers in their health journey in new and impactful ways.
In Personal Health, improving lives also means caring for the planet, with a key focus on environmental sustainability. In 2024, the company expanded its Philips Refurb Editions across select European markets to give products a second life, complete with the same two-year guarantee as new products. A flagship activation of this initiative took place during Black Friday in the Benelux region, where the team flipped the Philips.com online storefront to prioritize Refurb Editions products, only offering new product supply after refurbished items sold out. This effort reflects Personal Health’s commitment to driving a circular economy and exploring innovative ways to provide consumers with greater choices to live sustainably.
The company offers mobile solutions to support parents and parents-to-be on a more informed, connected, and healthier journey to parenthood. The Philips Avent Pregnancy+ and Baby+ apps provide parents with supportive content through the critical first 1,000 days of their child’s life. Pregnancy+ features photo-realistic, interactive 3D fetal models and personalized daily content to enhance the pregnancy experience. It is the worldwide pregnancy app, with more than 6.5 million monthly active users, available in 22 languages, and offering premium subscription options.
In 2024, the company took action to address the key challenges faced by the Personal Health Business Units, including the external context of a volatile macro environment, especially in China. The Personal Health strategy focused on driving innovation at the core; improving agility in responding to market, retail customer and consumer needs; and more integrated planning with its top customers and in-demand items. In China in particular, Personal Health is not a typical mass consumer business, as the company’s products offer a more personalized experience for customers, and the company is also impacted by cautious spending behavior. Consumer sentiment in China is unlikely to change in the near-term. The company intends to address the challenging macro-economic environment by building on the company’s brands that have a strong position with locally relevant accelerators and customer partnerships, and the company intends to complement this effort by expanding its growth outside of China.
The Personal Health segment consists of the following units.
Personal Health - To help people take greater control of their personal health and well-being it delivers sustainable, meaningful solutions that help them to take care of themselves and their families, for happier, healthier lives, today and tomorrow.
Oral Healthcare business unit – power toothbrushes for a range of price segments, from entry-level, battery-operated toothbrushes for a young audience to premium power toothbrushes connected to the Sonicare app with in-app coaching; brush heads, which are also available as a subscription service; and products for interdental cleaning and for in-office and take-home teeth whitening.
Mother and Child Care business unit – products to support parents and babies in the first 1,000 days, including infant feeding (breast pumps, baby bottles and sterilizers), connected baby monitors, and digital parental and women’s health solutions (Pregnancy+ and Baby+ apps).
Personal Care Business Unit – grooming and beauty products ranging from entry-level to premium. The grooming portfolio includes shavers, OneBlade, groomers, trimmers and hair clippers, as well as premium solutions with SkinIQ technology, in-app coaching for a personalized shave, and blade subscriptions. The beauty portfolio includes devices to support skin care, hair care and hair removal, including Lumea premium intense pulsed light hair removal devices and solutions with the latest SenseIQ technology that sense and adapt for personalized care; these are also available through subscription models.
The revenue model is mainly based on product sale at the point in time the products are delivered to retailers and online platforms. The company continues to increase revenue model diversity by expanding its business models, including direct-to-consumer, subscriptions, and try-and-buy offerings and services.
The Personal Health Business experiences seasonality, with higher sales around key events and holidays.
2024 Highlights
Further expanding the successful OneBlade product range, Philips launched OneBlade Intimate – the first shaving product designed for everyone, to protect the most sensitive skin. Philips also launched its newest On-The-Go Compact Shaver in Greater China, designed to combine portability and ease of use without compromising quality. Highlighting the quality of the innovation, the On-The-Go shaver is accompanying the China Antarctic expedition team on their journey to the South Pole.
In North America, the company launched the Philips Sonicare brand’s first at-home teeth whitening kit, a clinically proven solution developed by dentists, and debuted the new Philips One for Kids rechargeable toothbrush, helping children between 3 and 12 years old with healthier oral care routines.
The AI-powered Avent Premium Connected Baby Monitor – which offers scientifically proven cry translation as well as SenseIQ technology to track sleep, breathing and movements to support parents and give them peace of mind – had its global debut. And, in an effort to support parents in North America, the company partnered with March of Dimes on Mom & Baby Mobile Health Centers, bringing care to underserved communities, and It Starts with Mom, an educational platform providing families with pregnancy resources.
Regions
Geographically, the company’s business is organized in three Regions: North America, Greater China and International Region (the latter consisting of Europe and Growth areas). Within its Regions, the company further organizes by Zones and Countries. The Regions' primary accountability is to manage customer intimacy, build and maintain relationships, and cultivate an understanding of customer needs, as well as carry out (strategic) account management, service delivery, and indirect partner management. They are also accountable for government relations and for providing local infrastructure needed to support Philips’ presence in a country (license to operate).
The company recognizes four geographic areas: Western Europe, North America, Other mature geographies, and Growth geographies. Western Europe, North America and Other mature geographies are collectively recognized as Mature geographies in reporting on sales.
2024 Highlights from the company’s Regions
North America
In the biggest healthcare market in the world, the company’s North America team focuses on developing strategic relationships with major health systems that provide care to hundreds of millions of people across the Region. The company is working with customers to solve some of the biggest challenges in healthcare, including the crisis around clinician burnout and improving access to care in rural and underserved communities. Bon Secours Mercy Health, NYU Langone Health, Northwell Health and Nicklaus Children’s Hospital are among the customers using solutions from across the company’s industry-leading portfolio in 2024 to bring better care to more people in the Region.
The company’s work in 2024 built on its more than 50-year innovation relationship with the U.S. Veteran’s Administration (VA), which serves 16 million veterans and leads the largest integrated healthcare delivery network in the country. More than 9 million veterans receive its healthcare services – and almost one-third of them live in rural areas with limited access to care. The company’s focus with the VA expanded the largest tele-critical care network in the U.S. and accelerated the adoption of digital pathology to speed cancer care. The company also continued its longstanding support of healthcare provided by the Department of Defense, deploying the Rapid Analysis of Threat Exposure algorithm (RATE), an early detector of pre-symptomatic infection, part of an effort to improve the readiness monitoring of active-duty military personnel.
Philips brings innovative business models and partnerships to solve specific challenges for customers, including programs to improve access to maternal care in partnership with federal and state government agencies and philanthropic organizations, such as the March of Dimes. Philips North America is consistently recognized in third-party surveys as a great place to work.
Greater China
In Greater China Region, the company is committed to the strategy ‘in China, for China’, putting the focus on local innovation, manufacturing, services and partnership. This enables the company to continue to deliver industry-leading innovations in the company’s home and hospital portfolio. While demand from hospitals and consumers in China deteriorated in 2024 due to a challenging economic environment, China is a fundamentally attractive growth market for Philips with strong underlying demand. While in the long run China is expected to remain an important market and growth driver, the company expects the level of sales in China to take time to recover. With this in mind, new leadership in the Region is putting emphasis on the strategy to create value to the local healthcare system while also empowering consumers to manage their health and well-being with locally relevant solutions.
In health systems, Philips advanced efforts in 2024 to deliver benefits to providers and patients, aligning with the national agenda of improving access and quality of care. With the company’s latest innovations, the company serves the needs identified by the Chinese government to further develop local hospitals and clinics. Among the offerings introduced in the China market: Spectral CT Plus, which provides physiology insights for precise diagnosis in cardiology and oncology, and the MR Elition AI, which triples patient throughput through AI-powered workflow optimization.
Leveraging the company’s clinical insights and research capability in cardiology and neurology, the company cemented partnerships with several hospitals – including Beijing Fuwai (China’s top cardiology hospital) and Zhangzhou Jiulongjiang Hospital (a top-tier private hospital) – with cross-modality solutions.
International
In 2024, the company continued to pursue its global vision while addressing the distinct local needs and circumstances of the company’s diverse customer base across International Region. The company put renewed emphasis on building sustainable partnerships as the company develops value propositions that attract more partners whose capacity can help better serve the company’s customers. These strategic partnerships drive value creation and efficiency, as well as enable the company to expand its reach into previously untouched customer territories, ensuring the company delivers better care for more people across the company’s Region.
For example, Philips signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Siloam Hospitals Group in Indonesia to advance AI capabilities and development in the healthcare sector in Indonesia. The strategic collaboration, in partnership with the Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH) Medical Sciences Group, will focus on capacity building, knowledge sharing, and implementing advanced AI solutions. Leveraging Philips’ AI innovations, the collaboration will help transform clinical care and digital health, enhance healthcare delivery and make the healthcare infrastructure more sustainable.
The company is advancing its go-to-market strategy for health systems by identifying and seizing new opportunities, strengthening the company’s competitive positions, and providing improved support for customers and patients. The Personal Health Business remains vital in empowering individuals to adopt healthier care routines, providing innovative technologies and solutions that promote long-term health.
Research and Development
The company’s research and development costs were EUR 1,747 million in 2024.
History
The company was founded in Eindhoven (the Netherlands) in 1891. It was formerly known as Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. and changed its name to Koninklijke Philips N.V. in 2013.
