# IBM Organization...

To conduct its business throughout the world, IBM is organized into the following groups, divisions and wholly owned subsidiaries:

## DP Marketing Group
Data Processing Division... Has marketing responsibility within the U.S. and its territories for IBM's information-handling systems, equipment, computer programming, systems engineering, education and other related services to customers who require larger centralized systems as well as distributed processing systems.

## Federal Systems Division...
Provides information-handling and control systems to the Federal government for seaborne, spaceborne, airborne and ground-based environments. Also participates in applied research and exploratory development.

## Field Engineering Division...
Provides maintenance and related services for the information-handling systems and equipment and support for programming systems developed and manufactured by or for the DP Product Group and marketed by the Data Processing Division, and central programming service for assigned products.

## DP Product Group
Data Systems Division... Has worldwide development responsibility for large, complex systems, with primary emphasis on high-performance products and associated programming, plus U.S. manufacturing responsibility for those systems. The division supplies computer components, including logic and selected memory technologies, used in products that it and other IBM divisions manufacture in the U.S.

## General Products Division...
Has worldwide development and U.S. manufacturing responsibility for high-performance storage systems, including tape units, disk products and mass storage systems, as well as system printers, program products, programming languages and related programming.

## System Communications Division...
Has worldwide development and U.S. manufacturing responsibility for systems and products that prepare and process information for communication. These include distributed systems, industry systems, display terminals, line switching and related technologies and programming.

## System Products Division...
Has worldwide development responsibility for IBM's intermediate range processors and related programming and for impact printer products and semiconductor packaging, plus U.S. manufacturing responsibility for those hardware products.

## General Business Group
General Systems Division... Has worldwide product management and development responsibility, and U.S. manufacturing, marketing and service responsibility, for low-to-moderate-price information-handling systems, including systems-related programming. Also has U.S. manufacturing responsibility for selected office products.

## Office Products Division...
Has worldwide product management and development responsibility, and U.S. manufacturing, marketing and service responsibility for electric and electronic typewriters, copiers and related supplies. The division also has worldwide product management and development, U.S. marketing and service responsibility for magnetic media typewriters, information processors, dictation equipment and direct-impression composing products.

## General Business Group/International Division...
Has marketing, service, manufacturing and overall performance responsibility for General Systems and Office Products operations in 21 countries in Europe, the Americas, and the Far East.

## General Technology Division...
Has worldwide development and U.S. manufacturing responsibility for the component technology requirements of the low-to-moderate-price computers made by the General Systems Division, and products of the Office Products Division. Also supplies selected components to other IBM operating units.

## Information Records Division...
Has U.S. marketing responsibility for magnetic tape, diskettes, data modules, and disk packs, as well as U.S. manufacturing and marketing responsibility for data processing cards, business forms, ribbons, and other consumable products used in information-handling systems. Also develops, manufactures and markets biomedical devices and supplies.

## Other Divisions
Real Estate and Construction Division...
Manages the selection and acquisition of sites, the design and construction of buildings, and the purchase or lease of facilities for all IBM operations in the U.S. It also has responsibility for assessing real estate projects outside the U.S., as well as IBM's worldwide energy and environmental programs, and provides facility services to selected headquarters locations.

Research Division... Brings scientific understanding to bear on areas of company interest through basic research and the development of technologies of potential long-range importance.

## Subsidiaries
Science Research Associates, Inc... Has worldwide development, production, and marketing responsibility for a wide range of educational materials and services for elementary and secondary schools, colleges, and the health-science industry, as well as testing and training materials for industry, and educational and leisure-time products for home use by adults and children.

IBM World Trade Americas/Far East Corporation... With a territory extending across four continents, this subsidiary is responsible for IBM operations in 45 countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada and Japan.

IBM World Trade Europe/Middle East/Africa Corporation... Through its subsidiary, IBM Europe, located in Paris, it is responsible for IBM operations in 80 countries, including the USSR and the Eastern European countries.

IBM World Trade Corporation... Provides designated support to IBM World Trade organizational units.