HP UK & I Dress code...

Message just sent to Managers of UK & Ireland Employees... :

As part of our site consolidation programme we have reviewed our office related policies such as dress code. As a manager within HP you are responsible for ensuring your team complies with the dress code outlined below and intervening where individuals are not complying to the appropriate standards. The dress code will be communicated to all employees following this communication.

In summary, the UK&I region has a dress appropriately code, meaning we trust our employees to dress appropriately for the business situation they are managing.
HP has a high quality brand image and we want to reflect this in all aspects of our work, including dress. We will no longer have "dress down Friday" as this is unnecessary with our updated dress appropriately code.

We simply ask you to ensure trousers/jeans, shirts/t-shirts and footwear are smart and presentable. If a reminder is needed about what is considered inappropriate this includes :
- Halter, vest, spaghetti strap or strapless tops
- Shorts, ripped jeans or leggings
- Excessively short skirts
- Athletic or sports clothing
- Plastic flip flops or other beach footwear
- T-shirts with offensive logos
- Clothing that is ripped, torn or revealing

For those employees based on customer facing sites such as Wood Street and Bracknell please remember that our appearance contributes to the customers and visitors impression of HP. It is particularly key on customer facing sites that every employee fully adheres to the dress code regardless of role to create a professional image to our customers.

By dressing appropriately we can maintain a flexible, creative environment at HP and present a professional image to our customers.

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HP wins EU approval to buy Mercury

BRUSSELS, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co. won permission from the European Commission on Friday to buy Mercury Interactive Corp. for about $4.5 billion in stock, or $52 per share.

"The Commission concluded that the proposed transaction would not significantly impede effective competition in the European Economic Area," the European Union's executive arm said in a statement. The deal is aimed at expanding the computer maker's business software operations. The purchase of the former star Israeli technology company also puts HP in closer competition with other systems management software providers, including IBM's Tivoli unit, CA Inc.'s UniCenter and BMC Software.

It is the biggest acquisition by HP since its controversial $19 billion purchase of Compaq in May 2002. Since last year, a number of top Mercury executives have left the company amid a regulatory probe into its stock option granting practices. The financial scandal drove Mercury, once a top performing stock, to delist from the Nasdaq market.

HP is paying a premium of about a third for Mercury shares in the $4.5 billion deal, which is net of Mercury's existing cash and debt, and ranks as one of the largest prices ever paid to acquire a company with Israeli roots. The deal will nearly double HP's software business to more than $2 billion in annual revenue and deliver growth rates of 10 percent to 15 percent by 2008, the company said when the deal was announced.

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