Nokia manufactures 30-40 percent of cell phones
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Nokia to cooperate with Israeli companies
Representatives of Finnish cell phone giant scheduled to arrive in country; 13 Israeli companies began operating in Finland last year
Nokia is interested in cooperating with Israeli companies in fields of data and wireless communications, Israel’s leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
Nokia representatives are scheduled to arrive in Israel on Tuesday as part of an official delegation of 19 leading Finnish businessmen. This is the first such visit from Finland in 10 years.
The visit is sponsored by the Israeli embassy and the Israeli financial delegate in Finland, Moti Ish-Shalom.
Nokia is the largest company in Finland, producing 30-40 percent of all cellular phones in the world. It employs 60,000 people and sales last year totaled 34 million euros.
Boaz Hirsh, director of economic affairs at the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, said that the arrival of a top-level delegation from Finland indicates relations with the Scandinavian country may be warming up.
Israel's export to Finland totaled last year USD 121 million, and according the data 13 Israeli companies began operating in Finland last year.
