As every year, Apple publishes on its website (so that everyone can see it) the annual report with data on the year in which we are, in this case, 2014. This report is delivered to the National Securities Commission of the United States, with which they can check the growth of the company during this year. In addition to all the basic information that the Big Apple has had to include in its annual report, we can find interesting data on the growth of physical stores, number of workers… After the jump we take a look at the results of this annual report:
iTunes Store: $ 10,2 billion in net sales
All the stores that make up the iTunes Store (App Store, iBooks Store, Mac App Store and iTunes Store) add up to a total of $ 10,2 billion in net sales, which, compared to 9,3 billion the previous year, there has been an increase in sales. The Big Apple has stated that this growth is mainly due to the sale of applications and that, as expected, the sale of digital music is in decline.
Almost 100.000 employees work at Apple
As Apple's annual (and official) report points out, 92.600 full-time employees work at the company (80.300 employees in 2013). As the company itself comments, the growth came about primarily because the retail division grew and grew by more than 40.000 full-time employees.
Physical Apple Store: a slight increase in revenue
A lighter rise occurs in the revenues of physical Apple Stores, which during this 2014 stood at 50.6 million dollars, compared to the 50.2 million that entered in 2013. The company led by Tim Cook intends to open more than 20 new stores in 2015, and remodel at least 5 of the existing ones.
6 billion dollars invested in R + D + i
6 billion is the figure invested in Research, Development and Innovation of the big apple in this fiscal year that ends, compared to the 4,5 billion dollars spent in 2013. As they say, this investment has contributed to efforts to:
Develop new technologies to improve existing products and to expand the range of our product offering
Land: Data centers, shops, Campus ...
Another of the data that we can consult in the report is the amount of available land the Big Apple currently has: 19,7 million square feet compared to the 19,1 million that Apple had last year. This is due to the creation of Campus 2, new stores, new Data centers where users' information can be stored ...
Estimates for 2015
Apple expects to spend $ 13 billion in 2015. In 2014, the capital invested in Apple was 11 billion dollars. Of the estimated price for 2015, 600 million dollars will go to store facilities while 12,4 billion will go to other expenses: manufacturing process equipment, product tools ...
You can consult this report on the Apple website freely.