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Headquarters: 295 Philip St. Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3W8 Employees: 12,800 Co CEOs: Jim Balsillie and Mike Laziridis Stock Symbol: RIMM Website: http://www.rim.com Career Site Research In Motion (RIM) is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. It is best known for the Blackberry family of devices. RIM provides platforms and solutions to business users and consumers for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, phone, text messaging (SMS and MMS), Internet and intranet-based applications. The Blackberry has become very popular with business professionals to access e-mail almost anywhere. It is so addictive the device has received the nickname "Crackberry." The company has seen huge growth over the past few years. RIM says the total BlackBerry subscriber account base was approximately 28.5 million at the end of May. Blackberry introduced the Tour smartphone in June. Other phones include the Curve, Pearl, Bold and Storm. In 2009, RIM announced the BlackBerry App World storefront to offer BlackBerry smartphone users a wide variety of quality applications that can be installed on their phones. This official BlackBerry branded application store will offer applications to meet the needs of a wide variety of BlackBerry smartphone users. RIM was founded in 1984. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company has offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. The Blackberry was launched in 1999. In fiscal 2009, the company reported revenues of $11.06 billion and net income of $1.92 billion. As of February 28, 2009, RIM had approximately 12,800 full-time employees: approximately 5,100 in the advanced research, product development, standards and licensing areas; approximately 1,600 in sales, marketing and business development; approximately 1,600 in customer care and technical support; approximately 1,900 in manufacturing and approximately 2,600 in administration, which includes information technology, BlackBerry network operations and service development, finance, legal, facilities and corporate administration. The Company's corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility are located in Waterloo, Ontario. The campus-type layout of 24 buildings, 13 of which are owned and 11 of which are leased, currently houses the corporate, administration, finance, engineering, research and development, sales and marketing and manufacturing operations. Benefits Benefits available to all employees around the globe include: - Employee Assistance Plan which provides confidential short-term counseling, referrals and information on a variety of issues (i.e. personal well being, parenting, financial issues, work issues, legal issues, bereavement/grief, addiction and recovery, and other topics). - RIM offers a gym/fitness center membership subsidy for all full-time employees. - Worldwide Travel and Medical Emergency Assistance Program (Global Travel Program). The Global Travel Program is provided to all full-time RIM employees for both business and personal travel and their eligible dependents for pleasure travel only. Whether you are traveling for business or pleasure, the assistance provided includes: immunization recommendations, local medical clinics, on-line country guides, medical referrals, foreign language assistance and legal assistance. As a RIM employee, you will receive a Free BlackBerry device for your use while you are employed with the company. RIM is proud to offer the Healthy@RIM program, which helps create an environment that supports employees in their efforts to live and maintain a healthy lifestyle. As part of the Healthy@ RIM program, full-time employees are offered: * on-site massage * blood pressure/cholesterol clinics and flu shot clinics * health fairs * gym memberships * on-site weight management and smoking cessation programs * ergonomic assessments * keynote speakers on topics such as parenting, finance, nutrition, travel and stress management * many other wellness activities and contests Updated June 19, 2009