verb (used with object), provided, providing. 1. to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits. 2. to supply or equip: to provide the army with new fighter planes. 3. to afford or yield.
ABB is a Swedish-Swiss multinational corporation headquartered in ZÃ¼rich, Switzerland, operating mainly in robotics, power, heavy electrical equipments, and automation technology areas. It is ranked 286th in The World's Most Admired companies in the Fortune 500 global list of 2016. ABB has been a global Fortune 500 company for 23 years. ABB is one of the largest engineering companies as well as one of the largest conglomerates in the world. ABB has operations in around 100 countries, with ...
For a company that operates in more than 100 countries, ABB Inc. keeps a low profile in Wisconsin. That may have ended in January, when ABB announced plans to develop a new regional headquarters at Innovation Campus, the new technology park being developed by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. ABB employs over 29,000 people in Canada, Mexico and the United States and over 145,000 people worldwide. Its North American headquarters is in Cary, N.C., but its headquarters is Zurich, Switzerland.