ZGEN ZymoGenetics, Inc. focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of therapeutic proteins for the treatment of human disease. Two of the Company's advanced internal product candidates, rhThrombin and rFactor XIII, are recombinant versions of proteins that are marketed in forms derived from human or cow blood. ZymoGenetics has also participated in the discovery or development of five recombinant protein products marketed by other companies for the treatment of various diseases, including diabetes, hemophilia, diabetic ulcer, gastrointestinal motility and severe hypoglycemia in diabetic patients treated with insulin and myocardial infarction or heart attacks. During the year ended December 31, 2003, insulin royalties represented 59% of total royalty revenues.
ZIGO Zygo Corporation manufactures, designs and markets yield enhancement solutions that utilize optical metrology and automation for high-performance manufacturers. The Company also manufactures macro-optical components, such as flats, spheres, waveplates, mirrors and optical assemblies for the semiconductor and industrial markets. Several of Zygo's customers purchase multiple product family types and multiple technology platforms and employ the Company's solutions at their facilities worldwide. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), its customers included Applied Materials, AU Optronics, Canon, DuPont, Electro Scientific, IBM, KLA-Tencor, Nikon, Samsung and Zeiss.
ZNCM.OB Zunicom, Inc. operates through its subsidiaries Universal Power Group, Inc. and AlphaNet Hospitality Systems Inc. Zunicom's operations through Universal encompass the sale of portable power and related synergistic products, third party fulfillment and logistics services, custom battery pack assembly and kitting services made available to a range of industries. In May 2003, Universal Battery Corporation changed its name to Universal Power Group, Inc. to reflect its business diversification to include the sale of batteries, battery-related and battery-powered products, specifically in the security, medical and consumer markets and its enhanced third-party fulfillment and logistics services. AlphaNet is a provider of guest communication services to the hospitality market. Through licensing agreements, AlphaNet provides in-room facsimile and business center services to the hotel industry for their business travelers.
ZRAN Zoran Corporation develops and markets integrated circuits (ICs), integrated circuit cores and embedded software used by original equipment manufacturers in digital video and audio products for commercial and consumer markets. The Company also provides complete, copy-ready system reference designs based on its technology that help its customers produce commercial and consumer products more quickly and cost-effectively. The Company's ICs are used in a variety of products, including digital versatile disc (DVD) players and recorders and digital cameras. As a result of the acquisition of Oak Technology, Inc. in August 2003, the Company also offers ICs and related software used in digital televisions (DTVs) and set-top boxes, as well as multi-function digital print devices. The Company's product offerings consist of four principal product families: DVD, DTV, Digital Camera Products and Digital Imaging Print Products.
ZOOM Zoom Technologies, Inc. designs and produces voice-over Internet protocol (IP) gateways, direct subscriber line (DSL) modems, cable modems, dial-up modems, Bluetooth products and other communications products under the Zoom, Hayes and Global Village brands. The Company is headquartered in Boston, and its European sales and support center is in the United Kingdom. Zoom markets its products in over 40 countries, and provides multi-lingual support from its offices in Boston, Florida and the United Kingdom.
ZONS Zones, Inc. is a single-source direct marketing reseller of name-brand information technology products to the small to medium-sized business market, large and public sector accounts, while supporting their legacy Mac customers through an inbound call center promoted by circulation of the Mac Zone catalog and a dedicated Website. The Company offers customers access to over 150,000 hardware, software, peripheral and accessory products and services for users of personal computers (PCs) and Mac computers from over 2,000 manufacturers, which include 3COM, Adobe, Apple, Cisco, Epson, HP, IBM, Kingston, Microsoft, Sony and Toshiba. Zones sells these products through outbound and inbound account executives, specialty print and e-catalogs and the Internet.
ZONA Zonagen, Inc. is a development-stage company engaged in the development of pharmaceutical products that address diseases and conditions associated with the treatment of hormonal and reproductive system disorders. The Company's two product candidates are Progenta, a compound licensed to Zonagen and being evaluated in several female health indications, and Androxal for the testosterone deficiency market. In addition, Zonagen intends to out-license its other product candidates if the appropriate opportunity is available. These product candidates include VASOMAX for the treatment of male erectile dysfunction (MED) and its other phentolamine-based sexual dysfunction product candidates and several vaccine related product candidates.
ZOMX Zomax Incorporated markets and sells outsourced supply chain services to industry customers in a variety of markets. The majority of the Company's revenue is derived from customers in the computer hardware manufacturing and software publishing industries. Its outsourcing solutions enhance the process of sourcing, production and fulfillment through a modular suite of supply chain services that enables customers to select the combination of services that best meet their needs. Its services are delivered from a network of 12 facilities across the United States, Mexico, Canada and Ireland. Zomax is also an authorized replicator of Microsoft, which allows it to replicate Microsoft products for any authorized distributor or original equipment manufacturer (OEM). The Company is also authorized to perform fulfillment services for Microsoft licensed OEMs.
ZOLT Zoltek Companies, Inc. is an applied technology and advanced materials company. The Company's primary focus is the commercialization of carbon fibers, a reinforcement for composites used as the primary building material in everyday commercial products. The Company sells its carbon fibers under the PANEX trade name. The Company manufactures, markets and develops applications for carbon fibers. The Company has three carbon fiber and technical fiber manufacturing plants. The Abilene, Texas facility is the Company's carbon fiber manufacturing facility with five installed continuous carbonization lines and auxiliary processing capabilities. The plant in Hungary includes two continuous carbonization lines and produces intermediate oxidized fibers, carbon fiber textile products and acrylic precursor. Zoltek's St. Charles, Missouri facility is into production of technical fibers for aircraft brake and other friction applications.
ZOLL ZOLL Medical Corporation develops technologies that help advance the practice of resuscitation. The Company markets products for pacing, defibrillation, circulation, fluid replacement and a resuscitation product that incorporates technologies to provide or aid ventilation. It also designs and markets software that automates the documentation and management of both clinical and non-clinical data. In March 2004, the Company acquired Infusion Dynamics, Inc., based in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. Infusion Dynamics manufactures a fluid resuscitation product called the Power Infuser, a small, light-weight, easy-to-use device that provides highly controlled, rapid delivery of intravenous fluids to trauma victims.
ZIXI Zix Corporation (ZixCorp) is a global provider of e-messaging protection and transaction services. The Company offers a range of solutions to protect organizations from viruses, spam and electronic attack, as well as enabling secure electronic communications, such as e-mail encryption, e-prescribing, online doctor visits and electronic viewing of medical laboratory test results. ZixCorp helps organizations of any size to streamline operations, mitigate risks and leverage their investment in electronic communications. The Company offers its services as a portfolio of advisory, managed, self-managed and fully hosted solutions that enforce corporate security policies. ZixCorp solutions enable organizations to enhance and optimize communication technology investments and increase productivity. The Company's business operations are supported by the ZixSecure Center, a fully redundant network operations center dedicated to secure e-message processing.
ZION Zions Bancorporation is a financial holding company that provides a range of banking and related services through its subsidiaries operating primarily in Utah, Idaho, California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado and Washington. The Company focuses on maintaining community-minded banking services by continuously strengthening its core business lines of retail banking, small and medium-sized business lending, residential mortgage and investment activities. Zions operates six commercial banks: Zions First National Bank, California Bank &amp; Trust, Nevada State Bank, National Bank of Arizona, Vectra Bank Colorado and The Commerce Bank of Washington. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Zions and its subsidiaries operated 412 domestic branches, of which 157 were owned and 255 were on leased premises.
ZNDT Zindart Limited operates in two business segments: Manufacturing of die-cast and injection-molded plastic products under original equipment manufacturing (OEM) arrangements and Corgi segment, which engages in the design, marketing and distribution of die-cast products under its brand names owned by Corgi United Kingdom. Zindart operates in two principle markets: the United States and the United Kingdom, which accounted for 57.9% and 40.8% of the total net sales during the fiscal year ended March 31,2004 (fiscal 2004). The Company has a wholly owned subsidiary, Lledo Collectibles Ltd. (Lledo) and sold its another subsidiary, Hua Yang in May 2004.
ZMH Zimmer Holdings, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets reconstructive orthopedic implants, including joint, dental and spinal implants, trauma products and related orthopedic surgical products. The Company's related orthopedic surgical products include surgical supplies and instruments designed to aid in orthopedic surgical procedures. Zimmer also has a limited array of sports medicine products. The Company's primary customers include musculoskeletal surgeons, neurosurgeons, oral surgeons, dentists, hospitals, distributors, healthcare dealers and, in their capacity as agents, healthcare purchasing organizations or buying groups. These customers range from large multinational enterprises to independent surgeons.
ZILG ZiLOG, Inc. is a worldwide supplier of semiconductor products. The Company designs, develops, manufactures and markets a portfolio of micrologic semiconductor devices for embedded control and communication applications used in consumer electronics, home appliances, security systems, point of sale terminals and personal computer peripherals, as well as industrial and automotive applications. In addition, ZiLOG manufactures other semiconductor devices, such as serial communications controllers, on-screen television display controllers, violence blocking microcontrollers, modems and infrared data association transceivers (IrDA). The Company sells its devices, either directly or through distributors, to a customer base of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in its target end markets. These OEMs include Echostar (Dish Satellite TV brand), Emerson, Hypercom, Philips, Samsung, Thomson Consumer Electronics and Tyco. ZiLOG also performs wafer fabrication foundry services for third parties.
ZILA Zila, Inc. is engaged in developing preventative healthcare technologies and products, focusing on enhanced body defense and the detection of pre-disease states. The Company reorganized its business into three operating segments: Zila Nutraceuticals, Zila Pharmaceuticals and Zila Biotechnology. Zila Nutraceuticals manufactures and markets Ester-C, a branded form of vitamin C sold in 46 countries worldwide, and distributes the Palmettx line of botanical products. Zila Pharmaceuticals manufactures and markets the Zilactin family of over-the-counter (OTC) products, Peridex prescription mouth rinse, the ViziLite chemiluminescent disposable light product for the illumination of oral mucosal abnormalities and the plastic-molded products of Zila Swab Technologies, Inc., which does business as Innovative Swab Technologies (IST). Zila Biotechnology is a research and development business specializing in pre-cancer/cancer detection through its Zila Tolonium Chloride and OraTest technologies.
ZICA Zi Corporation develops software designed to enhance the usability of mobile and consumer electronic devices. The Company's principal business unit is the Zi Technology business unit, in which its core eZiText business is conducted. Zi's core technology product, eZiText, and its companion application, eZiTap, are predictive text input solutions that predict words and/or phrases for use in messaging and other text applications in over 40 languages and dialects. In addition, the Company holds two separate investments in e-Learning. Zi holds a 45% interest in Magic Lantern Group, Inc., which owns and operates the business of the Magic Lantern Group of Companies in the e-Learning field in North America. The Company also holds a 100% equity interest in Oztime, which includes EnglishPractice. Oztime conducts business activities in the e-Learning field in Asia and integrates the business activities of EnglishPractice in North America.
ZHNE Zhone Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and markets a complete line of telecommunications equipment for the local access network. The Company's products allow network service providers to offer voice, data and video services while optimizing bandwidth, reducing costs and speeding up provisioning. Its products enable network service providers to migrate from traditional circuit-based technology to packet-based networks while substantially reducing operating costs. Its products also allow service providers to add new subscriber services more quickly than is possible with conventional copper access solutions. The Company's products provide the framework around which it is designing and developing high-speed, communications software and equipment for the access network. Its products span three distinct areas: Single Line Multi Service (SLMS) Products, Digital Loop Carrier (DLC) Products and Multiplexer (MUX) Products.
ZVXI ZEVEX International, Inc., through its divisions and subsidiaries, engages in the business of designing, manufacturing and distributing medical devices. The Company focuses on its core market offerings of ambulatory enteral feeding (Therapeutics division) and contract manufacturing services (Applied Technology division). During the year ended December 31, 2003, ZEVEX sold its Physical Evaluation business that marketed precision instruments and software in the physical and industrial medicine markets. The Company's enteral nutrition delivery market includes feeding pumps, disposable sets and feeding tubes that are used by patients who require direct gastrointestinal nutrition therapy, also called enteral feeding. The Applied Technology division manufactures medical systems either for private labeling or incorporation into the products of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
ZNT Zenith National Insurance Corp. is a holding company that, through its wholly owned insurance subsidiaries, Zenith Insurance Company, ZNAT Insurance Company and Zenith Star Insurance Company, is engaged in the property-casualty insurance business. The Company manages insurance risk and investment risk. Its business activity is workers' compensation insurance and it also operates a small assumed reinsurance business. In addition, Zenith maintains a portfolio of investments, principally in fixed maturity securities, funded by the cash flows from insurance operations and capital. Its business is classified into the following segments: workers' compensation, reinsurance, investment and parent.
ZBRA Zebra Technologies Corporation is in the business of making products that enable companies and organizations to improve productivity, deliver better customer service and provide more effective security. It designs, manufactures and supports a range of direct thermal and thermal transfer bar code label and receipt printers, radio frequency (RF) identification printer/encoders, card imaging printers and digital photo printers. The Company also sells related specialty bar code labeling materials, ink ribbons for bar code and card printers and bar code label design software. These products are used principally in automatic identification, data collection and personal identification applications, and are distributed worldwide through a network of resellers, distributors and end users representing a wide cross-section of industrial, service and government organizations.
ZL Zarlink Semiconductor Inc. designs, manufactures and markets semiconductors for the communications and healthcare industries. The Company's operations consist of three business segments: Network Communications, Consumer Communications and Ultra Low-Power Communications. Zarlink's Network Communications segment specializes in voice and data network products; the Consumer Communications segment offers semiconductor solutions for wireless handsets and digital set-top boxes (STBs), and the Ultra Low-Power Communications business provides solutions for applications such as pacemakers, hearing aids, portable instruments and personal area communication devices. Zarlink sells its products through both direct and indirect channels of distribution.
ZAP Zapata Corporation is a holding company that has two operating companies, Safety Components International, Inc. and Omega Protein Corporation. As of March 31, 2004, Zapata had an 80% ownership interest in Safety and a 59% ownership interest in Omega. In addition, Zapata owns 98% of Zap.Com Corporation, a public shell company. Safety Components is a low-cost, independent supplier of automotive airbag fabric and cushions and technical fabrics with operations in North America and Europe. Omega Protein produces and markets a variety of products produced from menhaden (a herring-like species of fish found in commercial quantities in the United States coastal waters of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico), including regular-grade and value-added specialty fish meals, crude and refined fish oils and regular and value-added fish solubles. Zap.Com is a public shell company that does not have any existing business operations.
ZAPZ.OB ZAP distributes electric vehicles, including electric automobiles, electric scooters, electric bicycle power kits, electric bicycles, electric motorcycles and electric water scooters, and other personal electric and non-electric transportation vehicles. The Company's product line includes the ZAPCAR, ZAP LIGHT UTILITY VEHICLE, ZAPPY TURBO and ZAP SeaScooter vehicles. ZAP sells its electric vehicles to retail customers, international distributors, law enforcement agencies, electric utility companies, bicycle dealerships, motorsport dealers, its dealers and mail order catalogs. Products are also available for purchase on its Internet site, ZapWorld.com. During 2003, the Company established a rental program to rent neighborhood electric cars in tourist locations, primarily through agencies.
ZANE Zanett, Inc. is an information technology (IT) holding company that provides specialized IT solutions through its operating subsidiaries. The Company has two business segments: Commercial Solutions and Government Solutions. The Commercial Solutions segment consists of its wholly owned subsidiaries: Back Bay Technologies, Inc., a technology consulting firm; Brandywine Computer Group, Inc., which provides technology consulting services related enterprise resource planning, supply chain management and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, and Delta Communications Group, Inc., a voice and data communications network integrator. The Government Solutions segment consists of a wholly owned subsidiary, Paragon Dynamics, Inc., which provides advanced software and satellite engineering services.
ZLC Zale Corporation operates as a specialty retailer of fine jewelry in North America. As of July 31, 2004, the Company operated 2,234 specialty retail jewelry stores and kiosks located primarily in shopping malls throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Zale primarily operates under seven brands, each targeted to reach a distinct customer. Zales Jewelers has extended the reach of its brand to the Internet shopper through its e-commerce site, Zales.com. Its specialty retail jewelry stores operate under brand names, including Zales Jewelers (including Zale.com), Zales Fine Jewelry Outlet, Gordon's Jewelers, Bailey Banks &amp; Biddle Fine Jewelers, Peoples Jewellers Canada and Mappins Jewelers. Zale operates mall-based kiosks under the brand name Piercing Pagoda. The Company, through Zale Indemnity Company, Zale Life Insurance Company and Jewel Re-Insurance Ltd., provides insurance and reinsurance facilities for various types of insurance coverage.
ZXIS.OB Z-Axis Corporation is in the business of providing video graphic presentation services in the litigation services industry for commercial and government customers. These services include product leasing and support for various presentation software systems used in trials, markman hearings and other related court proceedings. The Company's products may consist of a combination of computer-generated graphics, live action video, photographs, graphic artwork, document presentation, special effects and presentation exhibit boards. Litigation services customers are primarily law firms and corporations located throughout the United States.
YUM YUM! Brands, Inc. (YUM) is a quick service restaurant company with over 33,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries and territories. The Company is made up of six operating companies organized around the five restaurant concepts of KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver's (LJS) and A&amp;W All-American Food Restaurants (A&amp;W) (the Concepts). The six operating companies are KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, LJS, A&amp;W and YUM Restaurants International (YRI). Through its five Concepts, the Company develops, operates, franchises and licenses a worldwide system of restaurants that prepare, package and sell a menu of food items. These restaurants are operated by the Company or, under the terms of franchise or license agreements, by franchisees or licensees that are independent third parties, or by affiliates in which the Company owns a non-controlling equity interest. The international operations of the five Concepts are consolidated into a separate operating company, YRI.
YSTM.OB YouthStream Media Networks, Inc. (YouthStream) had two segments: media and retail. The media segment represented the Company's media, marketing and promotional services provided to advertisers by Network Event Theater, Inc. and American Passage Media, Inc. In August 2002, it sold substantially all of the assets and certain liabilities from this segment to Cass Communications, Inc., a subsidiary of Alloy, Inc., and discontinued media operations. The retail segment consisted of on-campus, online and retail store poster sales provided by the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Beyond the Wall, Inc. (BTW). In February 2004, BTW sold substantially all of its assets and operations to a group unaffiliated with the Company (which included certain former management of BTW). In July 2004, YouthStream entered into a letter of intent to acquire a steel mini-mill located in Ashland, Kentucky. As of September 30, 2004, the Company did not have any revenue-generating business operations.
YDNT Young Innovations, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets supplies and equipment used to facilitate the practice of dentistry and to promote oral health. The Company's product offering includes disposable and metal prophylaxis (prophy) angles, prophy cups and brushes, panoramic X-ray machines, dental handpieces (drills) and related components, orthodontic toothbrushes, flavored examination gloves, children's toothbrushes, children's toothpastes, moisture control products, infection control products, and ultrasonic systems and obturation products used in endodontic surgery (root canal procedures). Young Innovations' two operating segments, Professional Dental and Retail, serve two segments of the market for oral healthcare. The Professional Dental segment develops and manufactures products marketed to dental professionals, principally dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants. The Retail segment develops and markets products sold to a variety of retail outlets.
YBTVA Young Broadcasting, Inc. owns and operates 11 television stations in geographically diverse markets and a national television sales representation firm, Adam Young Inc. The six stations are affiliated with American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. (ABC), three are affiliated with CBS Inc. (CBS), one is affiliated with National Broadcasting Company, Inc. (NBC) and one station, KRON-TV (KRON), is an independent very high frequency (VHF) television broadcasting station operating in the San Francisco market. The other stations are located in the midwest, southeast and northeast regions of the United States. Each of Young Broadcasting's stations is owned and operated by a direct or indirect subsidiary. On February 17, 2004, the Company adopted a policy that network affiliation agreements will be amortized over a period of 25 years.
UBET Youbet.com, Inc. is an online, live event, sports entertainment and wagering. The Company has focused on the United States horse race wagering market through its main product, Youbet Express, which features online wagering, simulcast and information on horse racing. The Company is working to expand the Youbet.com brand, its products and its services throughout the United States and select international markets. It provides its customers with the ability to receive interactive, real-time audio/video broadcasts directly into their computers, access a comprehensive database of handicapping information, and, in most states, wager on a selection of United States, Canadian, Australian and South African horse races.
YORW The York Water Company impounds, purifies and distributes water. The Company operates entirely within its franchised territory located in York County, Pennsylvania. It is regulated by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PPUC). Operating revenue is derived from the following sources and in the following percentages: residential, 60%; commercial and industrial, 27%, and other, 13%. Its service territory has an estimated population of 156,000. Territory expansion during 2003 included the commencement of main extensions for two new water districts in Conewago and Springfield Townships. The main extensions are expected to be completed in 2004. As an update to the Susquehanna River pipeline project, the Company received approval from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Environmental Protection to reclassify Lake Redman from a cold-water fishery to a warm water fishery.
YRK York International Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries are providers of heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC&amp;R) products and services. Its air conditioning systems range from a one-ton unit for a small residence to large systems installed in high-rise residential and commercial buildings. Effective January 1, 2003, the Company consolidated its former York Refrigeration Group and Engineered Systems Group segments and reorganized management of the combined business. It consists of three groups: Global Applied, Unitary Products Group (UPG) and Bristol Compressors.
YOCM YoCream International, Inc. makes, markets and sells frozen yogurt in premium, low-fat, non-fat and sugar-free flavors, as well as smoothies in a variety of flavors, non-dairy sorbet in a variety of flavors, organic frozen yogurt, organic ice cream, gourmet ice cream, frozen custard, frozen cultured soy and other frozen desserts and snacks. These frozen products are available in liquid mix form, and some are available in hard pack form. All of the YoCream and Yogurt Stand products are certified kosher. YoCream also has the ability to produce bottled smoothie or juice products. The Company's primary brand is YoCream. YoCream branded products include YoCream Frozen Yogurt, Dannon/YoCream Frozen Yogurt, YoCream Frozen Custard, YoCream Blender Smoothies, YoCream Dispenser Smoothies, YoCream Coffee Latte Freeze, YoCream Soy Cultured Frozen Dessert, Soft Scoop by YoCream and Yogurt Stand Frozen Yogurt. YoCream also does custom manufacturing for other companies under certain private labels.
YMI YM BioSciences Inc. (YM) is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of drugs primarily for the treatment of cancer. YM in-licenses substances designed for use in anti-cancer therapy in order to advance them along the regulatory and clinical pathways towards commercial approval. YM concentrates on drug development and does not engage in drug discovery, avoiding the significant investment of time and capital that is generally required before a compound is identified and brought to clinical trials. YM, both, conducts and out-sources clinical trials and out-sources the manufacture of clinical materials to third parties. The Company also has two therapeutic cancer vaccines in the pre-clinical stage of development, namely TGFa Cancer Vaccine and HER-1 Cancer Vaccine. The Company and CIMYM (Barbados) entered into the second out-licensing agreement with Tarcanta and CIMAB relating to Tarcanta licensing TGFa and HER-1 from the Company.
YIWA.OB Yi Wan Group, Inc. (YWG) has ongoing business operations in the hotel and communications industries in China through its subsidiaries. Jiaozuo Yi Wan Hotel Co., Ltd. is the Company's 90%-owned hotel subsidiary that manages and operates a conference hotel and entertainment facility in Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, China. In March 2001, YWG entered into a joint venture agreement with the Qinyang Hotel. This agreement provides for the establishment of a joint venture limited liability company, the Qinyang Yi Wan Hotel Co., Ltd., which operates the Quinyang Yi Wan Hotel in Qing Yang City, Henan Province, China. The joint venture company is 80% owned by YWG. Shun de Yi Wan Communication Equipment Plant Co. Ltd. is the Company's wholly owned telecommunications subsidiary. Shun is engaged in the manufacture of exchange distribution frames equipment.
YELL Yellow Roadway Corporation offers its customers a range of asset-based and non-asset-based transportation services through wholly owned operating subsidiaries. Yellow Technologies, Inc., a captive corporate resource, offers technology solutions and services exclusively for Yellow Roadway companies. Its subsidiaries are Yellow Transportation, Inc., Roadway Express, Inc., New Penn and Meridian IQ, Inc., all of which are Yellow Roadway Corporation's subsidiaries, as well. Yellow Transportation offers services for the movement of industrial, commercial and retail goods. Roadway Express offers long-haul, interregional and regional less-than-truckload (LTL) freight services on two-day and beyond lanes. New Penn is a regional, next-day, ground LTL carrier of general commodities. Meridian IQ is a non-asset global transportation management company that plans and coordinates the movement of goods worldwide to provide customers a single source for transportation management solutions.
YDIW YDI Wireless, Inc. provides broadband, or high-speed, wireless access products and access cards both in the United States and internationally. Its systems enable service providers, enterprises and governmental organizations to deliver high-speed data connectivity enabling a broad range of applications. The Company was a result of a merger consummated, on April 1, 2003, between Telaxis Communications Corporation (Telaxis) and Young Design, Inc. (Young Design). Telaxis was a company that focused on developing high-capacity millimeter wave wireless products. Young Design was a company that developed, produced and sold wireless data products, primarily in microwave frequencies. Subsequent to the merger, the company changed its name to YDI Wireless, Inc. YDI has two primary product lines: point-to-point products and point-to-multipoint products, which contributed approximately 20% and 80% of YDI's revenues during the year ended December 31, 2003.
YANB Yardville National Bancorp is a financial holding company that conducts a general commercial and retail banking business through its principal operating subsidiary, The Yardville National Bank (the Bank). The Company provides a range of lending, deposit and other financial products and services with an emphasis on commercial real estate and commercial and industrial lending to small to mid-sized businesses and individuals. Its existing and target markets are located in the corridor between New York City and Philadelphia. The Company operates 22 full-service branches, including 14 branches in its primary market of Mercer County. Over the past several years, as part of its retail strategy, Yardville has expanded into the markets of Hunterdon, Somerset and Middlesex Counties in New Jersey, and, in 2003, completed the branch acquisition in Mercer County.
YZC Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited (Yanzhou) is engaged in underground mining, preparation and sale of coal, and providing railway coal transportation services. The Company's coal production in Eastern China totaled 43.3 million tons in 2003. As of December 31, 2003, the in-place proven and probable reserves of its six coal mines totaled an estimated 2,038.2 million tons. Yanzhou's domestic customers include Shandong Power and Fuel Company, Shanghai Power Company, Shanghai Baoshan Iron &amp; Steel Company, Dongguan Shijie Fuel Company and Zhejiang Electric Power Bureau.
YAKC Yak Communications, Inc., formerly Yak Communications (USA), Inc. provides discount long distance telecommunication services in Canada and the United States to residential and small to medium business enterprises. The Company primarily concentrates its marketing efforts towards consumers that make significant amounts of international calls directly targeting ethnic markets and communities in major urban centers. Yak began operations in Toronto during July 1999, in Montreal during October 1999, and in Vancouver during June 2001. During the fiscal year ended June 2003, it began providing services in Saskatoon and Regina. In the United States, the Company has operations in 12 states, including Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Virginia, as well as the District of Columbia. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004, the Company expanded its services to include major centers in the east coast of Canada.
YHOO Yahoo! Inc. is a provider of Internet products and services to consumers and businesses through the Yahoo! Network, its worldwide network of online properties. The Company's properties and services for consumers and businesses reside in four areas: Search and Marketplace, Information and Content, Communications and Consumer Services and Affiliate Services. Its basic products and service offerings are available without charge to its users. It also offers a variety of fee-based services that provide users access to value-added content or services. The Company also sells marketing and advertising services to businesses across its properties and services. During 2003, Yahoo! completed the acquisitions of Inktomi Corporation and Overture Services, Inc. in March and October, respectively. Inktomi is a provider of Web search and paid inclusion services on the Internet. Overture is a provider of commercial search services on the Internet, including pay-for-performance search services.
YAVL.OB Yadkin Valley Company serves as the parent holding company of Yadkin Valley Life Insurance Company. The primary activity of the Company is managing the operations of Yadkin Valley, which is in the business of reinsuring credit life insurance policies. Yadkin Valley Life's reinsurance activities are limited to assuming risks associated with credit life insurance policies (credit life policies), up to a maximum risk of $25,000 on any one insured, issued only by Triangle Life Insurance Company (TLIC), which is an affiliate through common ownership. TLIC issues credit life insurance policies on loans made by three banks located in North Carolina: Southern Bank and Trust Company (Southern), The Heritage Bank (Heritage) and The Fidelity Bank (Fidelity). The Company and the three aforementioned banks are also related through certain common ownership.
YPF YPF Sociedad Anonima is an integrated oil and gas company engaged in the exploration, development and production of oil and gas, the refining, marketing, transportation and distribution of oil and a range of petroleum products, petroleum derivatives, petrochemicals and liquid petroleum gas, and natural gas and electricity-generation activities. In Argentina, YPF produced 157 million barrels of crude oil, condensate and natural gas liquids and 643 billion cubic feet of natural gas during the year ended December 31, 2003. The Company's domestic refining operations are conducted at three refineries with combined annual refining capacity of 116 million barrels. Its retail distribution network for automotive petroleum products comprised approximately 1,877 YPF-branded service stations. YPF's international operations are conducted through its subsidiaries, YPF International and YPF Holdings. At December 31, 2003, Repsol YPF, S.A., which held 99.04% of YPF's shares, controlled YPF.
XRTX Xyratex Group Limited is a provider of modular, enterprise-class data storage subsystems and storage process technology. It designs, develops and manufactures enabling technology that provides its customers with data storage products to support high-performance storage and data communication networks. The Company operates in two business segments: storage and network systems, and storage infrastructure. Its storage and network systems products address the external network storage market, and include redundant arrays of independent/inexpensive disks technology, commonly referred to as RAID, and less-complex storage subsystems. Its storage infrastructure products include disk drive production test systems, process automation and servo track writers. In February 2004, it acquired the business of ZT Automation LLC, a company located in Fremont, California, which develops and sells magnetic-disk, media-handling automation technology for use in the disk drive production process.
XYBR Xybernaut Corporation is engaged in the research, development, manufacture, marketing and sale of mobile/ wearable computing and communication systems and software and service solutions designed to enhance productivity and improve product management, asset management and the accuracy, timeliness and utilization of critical enterprise data. The Company offers solutions with software and services through its wholly owned subsidiary, Xybernaut Solutions, Inc. It offers solutions with hardware through its United States operations and through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Xybernaut K.K. (Japan) and Xybernaut GmbH (Germany). During the year ended December 31, 2003, it began marketing its mobile/ wearable hardware solutions in the People's Republic of China through its 60% ownership in Xybernaut China Limited, a joint venture with Softbank Investment International (Strategic) Ltd.
XTRN.OB Xtrana, Inc. develops and commercializes technologies to simplify the analysis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleci acid (RNA) in order that nucleic acid-based detection systems can be utilized in point-of-care, point-of-service applications. The proprietary assays developed by Xtrana are designed to be easy to use outside of a traditional molecular biology laboratory at a cost per test that is competitive with existing rapid test technologies. These diagnostic tests are intended for use in drug discovery, detection of environmental and food contaminants, forensics and identity testing, human and animal diseases, genetic predisposition to disease and other applications. On August 10, 2000, the Company completed a merger with the former Xtrana, Inc. a developer of nucleic acid testing technology. The name of the Company was changed from Biopool International, Inc., to Xtrana, Inc., in June 2001.
XTO XTO Energy Inc. and its subsidiaries are engaged in the acquisition, development, exploitation and exploration of producing oil and gas properties, and in the production, processing, marketing and transportation of oil and natural gas. Its production and exploration are concentrated in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Alaska and Louisiana. It also gathers, processes and markets gas, transports and markets oil and conducts other activities directly related to its oil and gas producing activities.
XRIT X-Rite, Incorporated, organized in 1958, develops, manufactures, markets and supports a range of hardware, software and services that measure, communicate and simulate color. The Company's principal products are proprietary, end-to-end solutions that utilize advanced optical and electronic sensing instruments and complimentary software. X-Rite serves three main markets: Graphic Arts, Retail and Industrial. The Company also serves other markets, including Light Measurement and Dental.
XPDR.PK Xpedior, Inc. provides comprehensive solutions to Global 2000 companies and emerging Internet companies that conduct eBusiness. The Company uses its Xpedior Process and reusable solutions to deliver abroad range of services designed to help clients succeed in the emerging networked economy. The Company combines extensive technical expertise with strategic consulting and creative services to build eBusiness solutions that enable its clients to capitalize on the communications power and transaction efficiency of the Internet. Xpedior 's eBusiness solutions include one or more of the following services, customized to fit its clients' needs: Digital Business Strategy, Electronic Commerce, Digital Branding and User Experience Design, eBusiness Applications and Integration, eBusiness Technology Management, eBusiness Networks, eBusiness Intelligence, and Knowledge Management.
XOMA XOMA Ltd. is a biopharmaceutical company that develops and manufactures products to treat immunologic and inflammatory disorders, cancer and infectious diseases. The Company's products are in various stages of development, and most are subject to regulatory approval before XOMA or its collaborators can commercially introduce any products. The Company has one United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved product, RAPTIVA, which has been commercially introduced under a collaboration agreement with Genentech, Inc.
XOCM.OB XO Communications Inc., through its subsidiaries, owns and operates an integrated metropolitan and nationwide fiber optic network that provides broadband communication services, local and long distance voice communication services and an array of data and integrated data services to business customers in many United States markets. Voice services include local and long distance services, calling card systems and interactive voice response systems. Data services include Internet access, private data networking and hosting services. The Company, through its subsidiaries, also offers integrated combined voice and data services in flat rate bundled packages. On June 17, 2002, the Company filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. On January 16, 2003, it emerged from the Bankruptcy Court proceedings pursuant to the terms of its third amended plan of reorganization.
XMSR XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. is a radio service company. As of December 31, 2003, the Company was providing music, entertainment and information programming for reception by vehicle, home and portable radios nationwide to over 1.3 million subscribers. The Company's channel offering includes channels designed to appeal to different groups of listeners, including urban and rural listeners of different ages, and to specific groups that its research has shown are most likely to subscribe to its service. During the year, its digital audio XM Radio service offered 100 channels of music, news, talk, sports and children's programming for a monthly subscription fee and one premium channel for an additional fee.
XL XL Capital Ltd is a provider of insurance and reinsurance coverages and financial products and services to industrial, commercial and professional service firms, insurance companies and other enterprises on a worldwide basis. The Company provides commercial property and casualty insurance products on a global basis. Products generally provide tailored coverages for complex corporate risks and are divided into two categories: risk management products and specialty lines products. Reinsurance general business written by XL includes treaty and facultative reinsurance to primary insurers of casualty and property risk. The Company's financial products and services businesses include insurance, reinsurance and derivative solutions for complex financial risks.
XLNX Xilinx, Inc. designs, develops and markets complete programmable logic solutions, including advanced integrated circuits (ICs), software design tools, predefined system functions delivered as intellectual property (IP) cores, design services, customer training, field engineering and technical support. The programmable logic devices (PLDs) include field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and programmable logic devices (CPLDs). These devices are standard products that the Company's customers program to perform desired logic functions. The products are designed to provide integration and quick time-to-market for electronic equipment manufacturers in the communications, storage, server, consumer, industrial and other markets. The Company sells its products globally through independent domestic and foreign distributors, through direct sales to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) by a network of independent sales representative firms and through a direct sales management organization.
XFMY.OB XFormity Technologies, Inc., formerly XML Global Technologies, Inc., is engaged in in the business of developing software applications using XML (eXtensible markup language). XML is an abbreviated version of SGML (standard general markup language), the international standard for defining the description of the structure and content of electronic documents. Effective November 17, 2003, the Company sold all its business assets to Xenos Group Inc. (Xenos), which acquired the Company's intellectual property, customer relationships and operating assets, and hired the Company's employees. Effective June 24, 2004, the Company merged XML-Global Research, Inc. and XML-Technologies into the parent Company. In August 2004, the Company signed a definitive agreement and plan of merger with software architecture and engineering company XFormity, Inc (Xformity). The combined company intends to focus on the development of quick serve restaurant (QSR) business intelligence and technology solutions.
XFNE.OB Xfone, Inc. provides long-distance voice and data communications services solely through its subsidiary, Swiftnet, Ltd., which provides communications service operations in the United Kingdom. Swiftnet's business consists of selling various telecommunication-related services, including indirect telephone service, personal identification number (PIN) and mobile access using 0800 free numbers, e-mail and print to facsimile service, facsimile to e-mail or cyber number, facsimile broadcast, nodal service, Auracall, international toll-free calling card service and carrier pre select service. The Company's customers are located in 75 countries in Europe, Australia, North America, South America, Asia and Africa. At least 85% of Xfone's revenues are derived from customers located in the United Kingdom.
XETA XETA Technologies, Inc. (XETA) is a provider of converged communications solutions for voice and data applications, such as Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP), wireless, contact centers and messaging. The Company sells a broad range of communications systems and applications for the general commercial market, including government agencies. These products include Internet Protocol (IP) systems that converge voice and data over a single network, wireless systems, traditional communications systems, call center systems and messaging systems. XETA sells these systems under dealer agreements with Avaya and Nortel. The Company also sells Hitachi product line to the lodging market under nationwide, non-exclusive dealer agreements with the manufacturers. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company purchased substantially all of the assets of Bluejack Systems, LLC (Bluejack), a Nortel dealer, based in Seattle.
XRX Xerox Corporation is a technology and services enterprise engaged in developing, manufacturing, marketing, servicing and financing a portfolio of document equipment, software, solutions and services. It manages its business in four segments: Production, Office, Developing Markets Operations (DMO) and Other. The Production segment includes black and white products, which operate at speeds over 90 pages per minute and color products over 40 pages per minute. The Office segment includes black and white products, which operate at speeds up to 90 pages per minute and color devices, which operate at speeds up to 40 pages per minute. The DMO segment includes the Company's operations in Latin America, the Middle East, India, Eurasia, Russia and Africa. This segment includes sales of products that are typical to the Production and Office segments. The segment classified as Other includes revenue from the provision of paper and other substrates, wide format systems and consulting services.
XNVA Xenova Group plc is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel commercially attractive drugs, primarily for the treatment of cancer and addiction with a secondary focus on immunology. Its pipeline of prioritized programs includes TransMID, a potential treatment for glioblastoma multiforme and a modified diphtheria toxin conjugated to human transferring; Tariquidar, which is in Phase I/II and Phase II studies in combination with various cytotoxic drugs; XR5944/XR11576, which is being developed for the treatment of a range of solid cancer tumors and is in Phase I trials; XR303, a radioimunotherapy product targeted at late-stage pancreatic cancer; TA-CD, a therapeutic vaccine for the treatment of cocaine dependence; TA-NIC, a therapeutic vaccine for the treatment of nicotine addiction, and OX40/OX40L, a platform for the creation of product candidates targeting cancer and autoimmune disease.
XGEN Xenogen Corporation creates, develops and sells technology that accelerates pharmaceutical research and development programs by providing more predictive data. This data helps scientists overcome barriers in research and enables them to make more timely and cost-effective decisions at every step in the drug development process. Xenogen's technologies allow researchers to visualize and track biological processes in living animals, non-invasively and in real time, including gene function, the spread of disease and the effects of a drug throughout the system. Combining systems biology and low-light optical imaging, the Company creates technical synergy with its products: imaging technology, biophotonic imaging reagents and genetic and physiological assays. These technologies are used by academic institutions, including Harvard, UCLA and Yale, and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, including Biogen Idec, GlaxoSmithKline, Millennium, Novartis and Pfizer.
XKEM.OB Xechem International, Inc. (Xechem) is a holding company for Xechem, Inc, a development-stage biopharmaceutical company engaged in the research, development and limited production of niche generic drugs from natural sources. Its particular focus is the development of therapeutic agents based on traditional plant medicines, especially based on the folklore of India and the People's Republic of China. It has selected over 2,000 natural products, extracts, semi-synthetic and synthetic compounds for further research and development in the areas of anticancer, antiviral (including acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)) and anti-inflammatory, anti-infective, cholesterol-lowering, and anti-aging/anti-senescence agents. All of these extracts and pure compounds are undergoing early stages of laboratory screening for activity against cancer, AIDS and infections or other conditions.
XDGI.OB XDOGS, Inc. has no business operations, no revenues and has generated a loss in each year of its operations. Previously, the Company was the North America distributors of high-end European outdoor apparel and equipment for the outdoor enthusiast. It sought to build and market its distribution rights and these products initially through the Internet and then later through a traditional wholesale to retail business model.
XCYT Xcyte Therapies, Inc. is a biotechnology company developing a class of therapeutic products designed to enhance the body's natural immune responses to treat cancer, infectious diseases and other medical conditions associated with weakened immune systems. The Company derives its therapeutic products from a patient's own T cells, which are cells of the immune system that orchestrate immune responses and can detect and eliminate cancer cells and infected cells in the body. Xcyte uses its Xcellerate Technology to generate activated T cells, which the Company calls Xcellerated T Cells, from blood that is collected from the patient. Activated T cells are T cells that have been stimulated to carry out immune functions. Xcyte's Xcellerate Technology is designed to rapidly activate and expand the patient's T cells outside of the body. These Xcellerated T Cells are then administered to the patient.
XEL Xcel Energy Inc. is a holding corporation that directly owns five utility subsidiaries that serve electric and natural gas customers in 11 states. These utility subsidiaries are Northern States Power Co., a Minnesota corporation; Northern States Power Co., a Wisconsin corporation; Public Service Company of Colorado; Southwestern Public Service Co., and Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power Co. These utilities serve customers in portions of Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Along with WestGas InterState Inc., an interstate natural gas pipeline, these companies comprise Xcel's continuing regulated utility operations. In January 2005, the Company sold its Cheyenne Light, Fuel &amp; Power electricity and natural gas operations to Black Hills Corporation.
XATA XATA Corporation is a provider of onboard fleet management systems for the private fleet trucking market. Its products combine global positioning, wireless communications and fleet management software to provide an enterprise fleet management system for many of North America's trucking fleets. The Company's product offerings consist of OpCenter, a Windows-based fleet management system; XATANET, XATA's next-generation,Web-based fleet management system, and XATA Application Module, XATA's latest generation mobile computing and communication platform for both the OpCenter and XATANET systems. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Trident Capital invested in the Company. Trident Capital, a private equity firm, owns approximately 19% of the Company. The Company got the orders from two truck manufacturers as part of the United States Postal Service (USPS) 2004 cargo van purchase during fiscal 2004.
XNR Xanser Corporation provides technology-based and technical services worldwide. Its operations consist of an information technology (IT) services company, Xtria, and an international technical services firm, Furmanite. Xtria provides IT services to the healthcare, financial and insurance, and government markets. In the healthcare market, it provides managed service solutions for the implementation and management of Picture Archiving Communications Systems (PACS). In the financial and insurance market, it provides risk management information systems (RMIS). For government markets, it provides IT services. Furmanite delivers a portfolio of engineering solutions that keep facilities operating. Its customers include offshore and land-based drilling operations, pipelines, refineries and power generation facilities, steel mills, automotive manufacturers, pulp and paper mills, food and beverage processing plants, semiconductor manufacturers and pharmaceutical manufacturers.
WYNN Wynn Resorts, Limited is constructing and plans to operate Wynn Las Vegas as part of a destination casino resort which, together with the new golf course located behind the hotel, will occupy approximately 192 acres of a 212-acre parcel of land on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. Construction of Wynn Las Vegas began with groundbreaking in October 2002 and the Company expects Wynn Las Vegas to commence operations in April 2005. On June 24, 2002, the Company, through its majority-owned indirect subsidiary, Wynn Macau, S.A., entered into a 20-year concession agreement with the government of Macau granting Wynn Macau, S.A. the right to construct and operate one or more casinos in Macau. As of December 31, 2003, Wynn Macau was owned 82.5% by the Company through a series of wholly owned and partially owned domestic and foreign subsidiaries.
WBR Wyndham International, Inc. is a multi-branded hotel enterprise operating primarily in the upper-upscale and luxury segments of the hotel and resorts industry. As a United States-based hotel owner/operator, its portfolio consisted of 190 hotels with over 50,900 guest rooms, as of December 31, 2003. The Company classifies its business into two groups, proprietary branded hotels and non-proprietary branded hotels. The proprietary branded hotels are Wyndham Hotels &amp; Resorts, Wyndham Luxury Resorts, Wyndham Garden Hotels, and Summerfield Suites by Wyndham, consisting of 152 owned, leased, managed or franchised hotels. Wyndham Hotels &amp; Resorts is the Company's principal proprietary branded group of assets. Through both the Wyndham Hotels &amp; Resorts brand and the Wyndham Garden Hotels brand, the Company offers upper-upscale, full-service accommodations to business and leisure travelers.
WYE Wyeth is engaged in the discovery, development, manufacture, distribution and sale of a diversified line of products in three primary businesses: Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Wyeth Consumer Healthcare and Fort Dodge Animal Health. Wyeth Pharmaceuticals manufactures, distributes, and sells branded human ethical pharmaceuticals, biologicals and nutritionals. Wyeth Consumer Healthcare products include analgesics, cough/cold/allergy remedies, nutritional supplements, and hemorrhoidal, asthma and other relief items sold over-the-counter. Principal Animal Health products include vaccines, pharmaceuticals, parasite control and growth implants. The Company sells its diversified line of products to wholesalers, pharmacies, hospitals, physicians, retailers and other health care institutions located in various markets in more than 140 countries throughout the world.
WWAG.OB WWA Group, Inc. was engaged in the medical device business. On August 8, 2003, the Company acquired World Wide Auctioneers Ltd., an international equipment auction company based in the United Arab Emirates that holds unreserved auctions for the sale of construction, industrial and transportation equipment on a consignment basis. The name of the Company was subsequently changed from NovaMed, Inc. to WWA Group, Inc. to reflect the acquisition and the new business focus. The Company operates in Jebel Ali, Dubai, United Arab Emirates under a trade license from the Jebel Ali Free Zone Authority. Its operations primarily consist of the auctioning of used and new heavy construction equipment, transportation equipment and marine equipment, the majority of which is on a consignment basis.
WVFC WVS Financial Corp. is the parent holding company of West View Savings Bank, a Pennsylvania-chartered stock savings bank, which conducts business from six offices in the North Hills suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Company's principal source of funds for use in lending and for other general business purposes has traditionally come from deposits obtained through its home and branch offices. Funding is also derived from Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) advances, short-term borrowings, amortization and prepayments of outstanding loans and mortgage-backed securities (MBS), and from maturing investment securities. The principal categories of loans in the Company's portfolio are single-family and multi-family residential real estate loans, commercial real estate loans, construction loans, consumer loans and land acquisition and development loans.
WSCI WSI Industries, Inc. performs precision contract machining for the aerospace, communication and industrial markets. The major portion of Company revenues are derived from machining work for the aerospace/avionics industry and recreational vehicles (all terrain vehicle (ATV) and motorcycle) markets. Contract manufacturing constitutes the Company's entire business. WSI Industries manufactures metal components in medium to high-volumes requiring tolerances as close as one ten-thousandth (.0001) of an inch. These components are manufactured in accordance with customer specifications using materials generally purchased by the Company, but occasionally supplied by the customer.
WSFS WSFS Financial Corporation is a thrift holding company with substantially all of its assets held by its principal wholly owned subsidiary, Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB (WSFS). WSFS is a federal savings bank that primarily provides residential and commercial real estate, commercial and consumer lending services and deposit and cash management services. Lending activities are funded primarily with retail deposits and borrowings. WSFS serves customers primarily from its main office and 23 retail banking offices, located in Delaware and southeastern Pennsylvania. Nineteen banking offices are located in northern Delaware's New Castle County, its primary market. In addition to WSFS, the Company has another consolidated subsidiary, Montchanin Capital Management, Inc., which was formed to provide asset management services in the Company's primary market area.
WMGI Wright Medical Group, Inc. (WMGI), through Wright Medical Technology, Inc. and other operating subsidiaries, is a global orthopaedic medical device company specializing in the design, manufacture and marketing of reconstructive joint devices and biologics products. Reconstructive joint devices are used to replace knee, hip and other joints that have deteriorated through disease or injury. Biologics are used to replace damaged or diseased bone, to stimulate bone growth and to provide other biological solutions for surgeons and their patients. Within these markets, WMGI focuses on the higher-growth sectors of advanced knee implants, bone-conserving hip implants, revision replacement implants and extremity implants, as well as on the integration of its biologics products into reconstructive joint procedures and other orthopaedic applications.
GRA W. R. Grace &amp; Co. (Grace), through its subsidiaries, provides specialty chemicals and materials. Grace operates in two business segments: Davison Chemicals and Performance Chemicals. Davison Chemicals manufactures catalysts and silica-based products. Performance Chemicals produces specialty construction chemicals, including performance-enhancing concrete admixtures, cement additives and additives for masonry products; specialty building materials, including fireproofing and waterproofing materials and systems, and sealants and coatings for packaging that protect food and beverages from bacteria and other contaminants, extend shelf life and preserve flavor.
BER W. R. Berkley Corporation is an insurance holding company that, through its subsidiaries, operates in five segments of the property casualty insurance business: specialty lines of insurance, including excess and surplus lines and commercial transportation; alternative markets, including workers compensation and the management of self-insurance programs; reinsurance; regional commercial property casualty insurance, and international. The Company's specialty insurance and reinsurance operations are conducted in the United States and the United Kingdom. Alternative markets operations are conducted throughout the United States while regional insurance operations are conducted primarily in the Midwest, New England, Southern (excluding Florida) and Mid Atlantic regions. International operations are conducted in Argentina and Asia. In addition, W. R. Berkley owns a majority interest in Peyton Street Independent Financial Services, a unitary thrift holding company.
WPTE WPT Enterprises, Inc. is a media and entertainment company engaged in the development, production and marketing of gaming-themed, televised programming; the licensing and sale of branded consumer products, and sale of corporate sponsorships. Based on the popularity of the World Poker Tour television series, the Company is developing and marketing the World Poker Tour brand in order to generate revenue from its three business units: WPT Studios, a televised entertainment division, generating revenue through the domestic and international licensing of broadcast rights, membership fees from casinos and cardrooms that host the televised World Poker Tour events; WPT Consumer Products, a branded consumer products division, generating revenue through the licensing and direct-sale of merchandise featuring the Company's World Poker Tour brand, and WPT Corporate Alliances, a sponsorship and event management division, generating revenue through sales of corporate sponsorships.
WPS WPS Resources Corporation is a holding company for regulated utility and non-regulated business units, predominantly in the United States. The Company trades through its four principal operating subsidiaries: Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, a regulated electric and gas utility serving Northeast and Central Wisconsin and an adjacent portion of Upper Michigan; Upper Peninsula Power Company, a regulated electric utility that serves customers in two-thirds of Michigan's Upper Peninsula; WPS Energy Services, Inc., a diversified non-regulated energy company that targets retail energy sales and related services in Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin, and WPS Power Development, Inc., which owns and develops non-regulated electric generation projects and provides services to the electric power generation industry. WPS Resources Capital Corporation is an intermediate holding company for the non-regulated subsidiaries of the Company.
WPPGY WPP Group plc (WPP) is a communications services organization. It operates through a number of established global, multinational and national advertising and marketing services companies. The Company has four business segments: Advertising and Media investment management; Information, insight and consultancy; Public relations and public affairs, and Branding and identity, Healthcare and Specialist communications. On 1 August 2003, the company acquired Cordiant Communications Group plc. It reinforced relationships with a number of major multinational clients, strong agencies in Europe to develop Red Cell, Bates Asia, a number of ex-Zenith media planning and buying operations, effective healthcare and retail-rooted branding and identity operations, and a number of specialist public relations and event management capabilities.
WPL W.P. Stewart &amp; Co., Ltd. is an asset management company that provides research-intensive equity investment management services to clients throughout the world. Assets under management were approximately $8.6 billion as of December 31, 2003, an increase of approximately $0.9 billion, or 11.7%, from approximately $7.7 billion as of December 31, 2002. Stewart's client accounts are primarily for high-net-worth individuals and trusts, partnerships, private corporations and other entities in which high-net-worth individuals have a substantial interest, as well as for institutions. Its client base is geographically diverse, with 30% of its assets under management from non-United States clients as of December 31, 2003. During the year, the Company also served as investment adviser to 40 collective investment funds and other pooled vehicles organized to meet the fiscal and regulatory requirements of certain United States and non-United States clients.
WPC W. P. Carey and Co. LLC (WPC) is a real estate investment and advisory company that acquires and owns commercial properties leased to companies, primarily on a triple-net basis. The Company earns fees as the advisor to five affiliated REITs (real estate investment trusts) that operate under the CPA (Corporate Property Associates) name. Under the advisory agreements with the CPA REITs, the Company performs services related to the day-to-day management of the CPA REITs and transaction-related services. WPC both owns and manages commercial and industrial properties located in 41 states and Europe, net leased to more than 260 tenants. As of December 31, 2003, its portfolio consisted of 171 properties in the United States and 15 properties in Europe, and totaled more than 18.4 million square feet. In addition, it manages over 500 additional net leased properties on behalf of CPA REITs.
WOR Worthington Industries, Inc. is a diversified metal processing company that focuses on steel processing and manufactured metal products, such as metal framing, pressure cylinders and automotive part stampings. The Company through its joint ventures processes and manufactures metal ceiling grid systems and laser welded blanks. Worthington operates 44 manufacturing facilities worldwide and holds equity positions in eight joint ventures, which operate an additional 17 manufacturing facilities worldwide. The Company's three principal business segments are Processed Steel Products, Metal Framing and Pressure Cylinders. The Processed Steel Products segment includes The Worthington Steel Company business unit (Worthington Steel) and The Gerstenslager Company business unit (Gerstenslager).
WRO Woronoco Bancorp, Inc. (the Corporation) has no significant assets other than all of the outstanding shares of Woronoco Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank's business consists of the acceptance of retail deposits from the general public and the investment of those deposits, together with funds generated from borrowings, retail operations, investment management and insurance services into a line of lending products, including one- to four-family, multi-family, commercial real estate, commercial business, construction and development and other types of consumer loans, including home equity lines of credit and automobile loans. Its revenues are derived from the generation of interest and fees on loans, interest and dividends on investment securities and fees from its retail banking operation, investment management and insurance services. Its sources of funds are deposits, principal and interest payments on loans and investments, advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank and from loan sales.
SZ Worldwide Restaurant Concepts, Inc. (WRC) is engaged in the operation, development and franchising of the Sizzler concept, the operation and development of the Pat &amp; Oscar's concept and the operation of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) franchises in Australia. During the fiscal year ended April 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company operated and franchised 445 locations in 17 states and 10 countries and territories, including the United States. The Company's revenues are generated from four primary segments: Company-operated Sizzler restaurant sales and franchise revenues, including franchise fees, royalties and rental income; WRC-operated Sizzler restaurant sales and franchise revenues; revenues from international KFC franchises operated by WRC, and Company-operated Pat &amp; Oscar's restaurant sales.
WMFG.OB Worldwide Manufacturing USA, Inc. is an engineering firm specializing in manufacturing and contract manufacturing. Its products are manufactured in factories in China. A contract manufacturer locates factories capable of producing customer parts according to desired specifications and quality standards imposed by the customer. The contract manufacturer hires subcontractors (factories) that provide the plant, equipment, manufacturing working capital and factory labor. Worldwide provides sales, management, production control and technical support. As a contract manufacturer, Worldwide does not manufacture customer parts, but subcontracts to factories that produce these parts. Worldwide has operations in the state of California and the Peoples Republic of China. It provides its services to several companies in the United States in the aerospace, automotive and electronics industries. In November 2003, it changed its name from Tabatha III Inc. to Worldwide Manufacturing USA, Inc.
WWAT.OB WorldWater Corp. designs, develops and markets technology relating to solar energy and water engineering, including solar power projects and international water management consulting. The Company offers a wide range of water resource services driven by its solar-powered pumping systems for worldwide application for irrigation, refrigeration and water utility pumping systems. The Company's focus in the United States has been California and New Jersey, because of energy shortages, high-energy costs and rebates available to customers from the local utilities, along with tax credits from federal and state governments. The Company is looking to broaden its focus to other states to increase revenues, as well as to continue to submit proposals to various foreign governments, particularly the Philippines and Iraq, in need of solving critical water supply and energy problems using the Company's high-powered solar technology.
WTEQ.OB WorldTeq Group International, Inc. (WorldTeq) is engaged in the business of providing Payroll solutions to small- to medium-sized companies, as well as Long Distance Service and related products and services to both business and residential customers alike. It is a switch-less and facilities-based provider of Internet protocol (IP) and traditional fiber-based communications services, including voice and data, along with toll free and related services. The Company's principal products and services are Long Distance Service, Toll Free Products, Financial Services / Corporate Payroll Solutions, Billing Services, Website creation and design and Website hosting.
WQNI WorldQuest Networks, Inc. is an international Internet telephony and money transfer company. The Company's customers utilize its networks of Internet gateways and other traditional networks to place long distance calls, online, at discounted rates. The Company also sells virtual calling cards processed through other companies' platforms and, from time to time, it sells its excess capacity to other long distance carriers. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, buyindiaonline.com, Inc. (known as Cash2India), it also provides a Web service that enables customers to send money and a personalized message from the United States to friends, family or others in India, Sri Lanka, Russia and the Philippines over the Company's Web and telephony network.
WGAT WorldGate Communications, Inc. (WorldGate) is in the business of developing, manufacturing and distributing video phones for personal and business use to be marketed with the Ojo brand name. The Ojo video phone is designed to conform to industry standard protocols and utilizes proprietary enhancements to the latest technology for voice and video compression. Ojo video phones are designed to operate on the high-speed data infrastructures provided by cable and digital subscriber line (DSL) providers. WorldGate has applied for patent protection for its technology and techno-futuristic design that contribute to the functionality and consumer appeal offered by the Ojo video phone.
WWE World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) is an integrated media and entertainment company engaged in the development, production and marketing of television and pay-per-view event programming and live events, and the licensing and sale of branded consumer products featuring its World Wrestling Entertainment brands. The Company's continuing operations are organized around two principal activities: live and televised entertainment, and branded merchandise. The live and televised entertainment segment consists of live event and television programming. Revenues consist of ticket sales to live events, sale of television advertising and sponsorships, television rights fees and pay-per-view buys. The branded merchandise segment includes consumer products sold through third-party licensees and the marketing and sale of merchandise, magazines and home videos. Revenues consist of sale of merchandise at live events, magazines and home videos, and royalties from products sold by licensees.
WDWT.OB World Waste Technologies, Inc. is a development-stage company with a license in the United States for patented technology capable of converting more than 75% to 80% of municipal solid waste (MSW) into valuable commodities. This process, developed at the University of Alabama, Huntsville over a 20-year period, converts waste into separated components of sterilized organic and inorganic materials with limited discharge (below Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-detectable levels) into the air, water or soil, and extracts a sanitized cellulose material containing paper-making fiber that can be sold after a conventional screening and cleaning process for use in making paperboard and packaging. In addition to processing MSW, the Company plans to reduce costs for waste haulers by significantly reducing landfill inflows, thereby extending landfill life; reducing hauling costs, and complying with state laws mandating that 50% of MSW be recovered.
WHRT World Heart Corporation (WorldHeart) is a medical devices firm focused on the sales, production, support and development of pulsatile ventricular assist devices (VADs) intended for long-term patient care, where the patient is not eligible for the transplant of a natural heart or for shorter-term patient care as a bridge-to-transplant therapy. VADs are mechanical assist devices that can provide an effective treatment for end-stage heart failure by supplementing the circulatory function of the heart by re-routing blood flow through a mechanical pump. Heart-assist devices, such as WorldHeart's products provide end-stage heart failure patients with the opportunity to live more normal and active lives during bridge-to-transplant and destination therapy. The Company has three subsidiaries, World Heart Inc., World Heart B.V. and 2007262 Ontario Inc. Its business is based on two generations of implantable pulsatile VADs, commercially available Novacor LVAS and another in-development VAD.
WHAI.OB World Health Alternatives, Inc. is a provider of healthcare staffing services to hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Operating under the name MedTech Medical Staffing, the Company provides clients with staffing solutions through either temporary or permanent placements of healthcare personnel. Its integrated staffing services are designed to meet all of the clients' staffing requirements and include interviewing, screening and selecting the clients' prospective personnel. In December 2003, world Health acquired all of the assets of Superior Staffing Solutions, Inc. (Superior Staffing), a privately held nurse staffing company located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
WGMGY.OB World Gaming Plc is a developer and provider of Internet gaming software systems. Its gaming systems have been designed to offer customers a user-friendly interface and a selection of gaming options; provide licensees with the tools to generate financial returns, easy site maintenance and limited administration, and protect gaming customers and licensees through its own technology. The Company is a successor to the business of Starnet Communications International Inc. (Starnet), which now functions as one of the Company's subsidiaries. As a holding company, the Company conducts its business through its operating subsidiaries WG International Ltd., Starnet Systems International Inc., EFS USA Inc., EFS Caribbean Inc., EFS NV, Inphinity Interactive Inc., World Gaming Services Inc., EFS St. Kitts Inc. and Starnet Communications Canada Inc.
INT World Fuel Services Corporation markets marine and aviation fuel services. In its marine fuel services business, the Company markets marine fuel and related services to a base of international shipping companies and to the United States and foreign militaries. World Fuel offers around-the-clock worldwide service, credit terms and competitively priced fuel. In its aviation fuel services business, the Company extends credit and provides worldwide single-supplier convenience, around-the-clock service and competitively priced aviation fuel and other aviation-related services, including fuel management and price risk management services, to passenger, cargo and charter airlines, as well as to the United States and foreign militaries. World Fuel also offers flight plans and weather reports to its corporate customers.
WLDA World Air Holdings Inc. formerly World Airways, Inc. provides long-range passenger and cargo charter and wet lease air transportation, serving the United States Government, international passenger and cargo air carriers, tour operators, international freight forwarders and cruise ship companies. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company operated 11 MD-11 and seven DC-10-30 aircraft. The United States Air Force accounted for 74.7% of total revenues in 2003. Other customers include Menlo Worldwide, accounted for 5.8% and Sonair Service Aereo, accounted for 5.8% in 2003 of total revenues. Naluri Berhad, a Malaysian aviation company, owned 10.7% of the outstanding Common Stock of World Airways in 2003.
WRLD World Acceptance Corporation is engaged in the small-loan consumer finance business, offering short term small-loans, medium-term larger loans, related to credit insurance and ancillary products and services to individuals. The Company offers standardized installment loans ranging from $130 to $3,000, through 526 offices in South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, Kentucky and Alabama during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004). World Acceptance serves individuals with limited access to other sources of consumer credit from banks, savings and loans, other consumer finance businesses and credit card lenders. The Company also offers income tax return preparation services and refund anticipation loans to its customers and others.
WSTM Workstream Inc. changed its business focus from the job board business to providing on line recruitment services. It expanded its focus to provide a full range of services and Web-based software for human capital management (HCM). The software provides a range of solutions for their needs, including creating and managing job requisitions, advertising job opportunities, tracking candidates, screening applicants, searching resumes, operating customized career Web sites, processing hiring information, creating internal and external reports to evaluate the staffing process, evaluating employee's job performance, managing the compensation process and offering benefits that promote employee retention. It also offers software that enable companies to survey their employees regarding their corporate environment and corporate compliance. In addition, it offers recruitment services and career marketing and outplacement services.
WF Woori Finance Holdings Co., Ltd. manages certain banks and other companies acquired by the Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation. At December 31, 2003, the Company controlled: three commercial banks, which include Woori Bank, Kyongnam Bank and Kwangju Bank; one credit card company, Woori Credit Card Co., Ltd.; Woori Finance Information System Co., Ltd.; Woori Securities Co., Ltd.; Woori F&amp;I Co., Ltd.; Woori Capital Advisors Asset Management Co., Ltd.; Woori Investment Trust Management Co., Ltd., and two special purpose entities, Woori Second Asset Securitization Specialty Co., Ltd. and Woori Third Asset Securitization Specialty Co., Ltd. Several of the Woori Subsidiaries also have other subsidiaries of which the Company is the ultimate financial holding company. The Company's subsidiaries collectively engage in a range of businesses, including commercial banking, credit cards, capital markets activities, international banking, asset management and bancassurance.
WGOV Woodward Governor Company designs, manufactures and services energy control systems and components for aircraft and industrial engines, turbines and other power equipment. The Company's operations are organized based on the nature of products and related services provided and consist of two business segments: Industrial Controls and Aircraft Engine Systems. Industrial Controls provides energy control systems and components primarily to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of industrial engines, turbines and other power equipment. Aircraft Engine Systems provides energy control systems and components primarily to OEMs of aircraft turbines. The OEMs throughout the world use its products and services in the power generation, process industries, transportation and aerospace markets.
WDHD Woodhead Industries, Inc. is engaged in two business segments serving a diverse group of customers and industries worldwide. The Company develops, manufactures and markets network and electrical infrastructure products engineered for performance in harsh, demanding and hazardous industrial environments. Woodhead is known in the global industrial market by its brands that include Brad Harrison, SST, Daniel Woodhead, mPm, applicom, Aero-Motive and RJ-Lnxx. The expertise ranges from mechanical, electrical and electronics to communication software products and technologies. It operates from 21 locations in 10 countries spanning North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. Woodhead sell its products to stocking distributors, original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and system integrators. Its direct sales force, as well as manufacturers' agencies, service customers and promote the products to end customers.
WWW Wolverine World Wide, Inc. is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad line of casual shoes, outdoor and work footwear and constructed slippers and moccasins. The Company's footwear products are organized under five operating units: the Wolverine Footwear Group, the Outdoor Group, Caterpillar Footwear, The Hush Puppies Company and Other Branded Footwear. Wolverine also licenses its brands for use on non-footwear products including apparel, eyewear, watches, socks, gloves, handbags and plush toys. The products are marketed throughout the world under brand names that include Bates, CAT, Harley-Davidson, Hush Puppies, HyTest, Merrell, Sebago, Stanley and Wolverine. The Company's Branded Footwear segment is engaged in manufacturing, sourcing, marketing and distributing branded footwear. Its Other Business units consist of its retail stores, apparel and accessory licensing and tannery and pigskin procurement operations.
WLV Wolverine Tube, Inc. is a manufacturer of copper and copper alloy tube, fabricated and metal joining products, copper and copper alloy rod and bar products. It focuses on value-added tubular, fabricated and metal joining products that enhance performance and energy efficiency in many applications, including commercial and residential heating, ventilation and air conditioning, refrigeration, home appliances, automotive, industrial equipment, power generation, petrochemicals and chemical processing. In North America, the Company provides copper and copper alloy tube, which allows it to offer packaged solutions and pursue cross-selling opportunities. It classifies its products as commercial products, wholesale products and rod, bar and other products.
WOS Wolseley PLC (wolseley) and its subsidiaries form an international group of companies, engaged primarily in the distribution and supply of plumbing and heating products and building materials as well as industrial pipes, valves and fittings with operations principally in the United States, Canada and Europe. Wolseley's principal operating businesses are organized into three segments: North American plumbing and heating distribution, United States building materials distribution and European distribution, including, following the acquisition of PBM and the Brooks Group, the distribution of building materials in France and Ireland.
WMS WMS Industries Inc. designs, manufactures and markets gaming machines and video lottery terminals (VLTs). Its machines feature advanced graphics, digital sound and engaging game themes and most incorporate secondary bonus rounds. Some of its games use licensed brands, such as Monopoly, Hollywood Squares and Pac-Man. The Company's gaming machines are installed in all of the major regulated gaming jurisdictions in the United States, as well as in 50 foreign gaming jurisdictions. WMS generates revenue in two principal ways: through sales of gaming machines, conversion kits, parts, used equipment and original manufactured equipment to casinos and other licensed gaming machine operators and leasing of participation games and royalties it receives from third parties under license agreements to use its games. The products it offers for sale consist of multi-coin, multi-line video gaming machines and some mechanical reel-spinning slot machines.
WMC WMC Resources Ltd. and its controlled entities (the WMC Resources Group) are principally engaged in the discovery, development, production, processing and marketing of minerals and metals. WMC Resources produces nickel, copper, phosphate fertilizers, uranium oxide, gold and other minor by-products. The principal operating companies within the WMC Resources Group are WMC Resources Ltd., WMC (Olympic Dam Corporation) Pty Ltd. and WMC Fertilizers Pty Ltd., WMC Resources Ltd. is the parent holding company, as well as an operating entity that owns the nickel mining, processing and marketing operations. WMC (Olympic Dam Corporation) Pty Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of WMC Resources, owns the Olympic Dam Operations that produces refined copper and uranium oxide and gold and silver as co-products. The Company categorizes its on-going operations: Nickel, Copper-Uranium, Fertilizers and Regional Exploration and New Business.
WWY Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company is primarily engaged in manufacturing and marketing chewing gum and other confectionery products, both in the United States and abroad. Chewing gum and other confectionery products are manufactured in four factories in the United States and 11 factories in other countries. Two domestic wholly owned associated companies, L. A. Dreyfus Company and Northwestern Flavors, LLC, manufacture products other than chewing gum or confectionery products. The principal business of the L. A. Dreyfus Company is the production of chewing gum base for the Company's domestic and international production facilities, and for other manufacturers of chewing gum and specialty gum products in the United States and abroad. Northwestern Flavors, LLC processes flavorings and rectifies mint oil for Wrigley's domestic and international production facilities.
WJCI WJ Communications, Inc., formerly known as Watkins-Johnson Company, is engaged in the design, development and marketing of high-performance radio frequency (RF) semiconductor products that target the wireless communications, broadband cable, RF identification (RFID) and defense and homeland security markets. The Company sold its wireless repeater and thin-film product lines and exited the fiber-optic and fixed wireless assemblies markets. It is also in the process of implementing a fully outsourced manufacturing model utilizing outside foundries for the Company's manufacturing needs. The Company sells its products principally to original equipment manufacturers, including their manufacturing subcontractors such as Alcatel, China Kejian Co., Ltd., Ericsson, Huawei Technologies, LG Electronics, Inc., Lucent Technologies, Inc., Motorola, Nokia Networks, Nortel Networks, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Siemens.
WIZD.OB Wizzard Software Corporation, formerly known as Balance Living, Inc., is an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) licensee of certain speech to text and text to speech software engines. It also develops, sells and service of custom and packaged speech recognition computer software products. It derives its revenue from the sale of desktop speech technology (speech recognition and text-to-speech) programming tools, distributable engines and speech related consulting services and support. In April 2004, the Company acquired MedivoxRx Technologies, a provider of special prescription medication bottles, along with its Talking Bottle product line. The patent pending, disposable, prescription bottle assists medical patients with verbal instructions on the correct method of taking prescription medication, assisting patients in complying with their physician's instructions.
WITM.OB Wits Basin Precious Minerals, Inc. is a precious minerals exploration company. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company held interests in two mineral exploration projects, one in South Africa and one in Canada. Wits Basin's primary holding is a right to earn up to a 50% passive interest in Kwagga, which holds the rights and interests in the FSC Project, an exploration project covering 140,000 hectares adjacent to the Witwatersrand goldfields in South Africa. The Company also owns the exploration rights of the Holdsworth Project, a property consisting of 19 contiguous mining claims covering approximately 304 hectares, located in the Wawa area near the village of Hawk Junction, Ontario. On February 6, 2004, Wits Basin completed the acquisition of Brazmin Ltda, a precious minerals company located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In August 2004, the Company sold Brazmin back to its prior owner, Argyle Securities Limited.
WITS Witness Systems provides an integrated performance optimization software suite that enables organizations to capture customer intelligence and optimize workforce performance. Its browser-based eQuality software, used in multimedia customer interaction center, Internet protocol telephony and back office environments, is comprised of compliance, high-volume and business-driven recording solutions, as well as performance analysis and e-learning applications. The closed-loop suite enables companies to capture and retrieve, learn and train, and report and analyze customer interactions and back office transactions to develop staff, increase revenue, reduce costs and achieve greater customer retention and loyalty. eQuality's enterprise collaboration architecture also allows management to share captured interactions/transactions with other departments that impact the customer, as well as executives in the organization. In December 2004, the Company purchased Blue Pumpkin Software, Inc.
WEC Wisconsin Energy Corporation (WEC) is a holding company that operates through its subsidiaries in three segments: a utility energy segment, a non-utility energy segment and a manufacturing segment. The utility energy segment, consisting of Wisconsin Electric Power Company, Wisconsin Gas Company and Edison Sault Electric Company, generates electricity and distributes electricity and natural gas in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The non-utility energy segment primarily consists of W.E. Power, LLC and Wisvest Corporation. W.E. Power is engaged in the engineering, construction and development of electric power generating facilities for long-term lease to Wisconsin Electric and other utilities. Wisvest owns and has investments in electric generating facilities and other energy-related entities and assets. The manufacturing segment, which WEC sold in August 2004, consisted of companies that manufacture pumps, as well as fluid processing and water filtration equipment.
WIRX.OB Wireless Xcessories Group, Inc. designs and distributes a range of accessories for cellular phones throughout the United States and Canada. The Company offers in excess of 2,000 items that include rechargeable batteries, personal and vehicle hands-free kits, portable and vehicle antennas, in-car and travel chargers, plain and colored carrying cases, fashionable accessory faceplates and colored housings. The Company sells to dealers, distributors, communication carriers and mass merchandisers through an in-house sales force and directly from its Website, www.wirexgroup.com. Wireless Xcessories also creates customized e-commerce Websites for its dealers and produces three product line catalogs that are circulated nationally and internationally. Wireless Xcessories Group is located in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, in a 70,000-square-foot office and warehouse.
WTT Wireless Telecom Group, develops, manufactures and markets electronic noise sources, passive microwave components and electronic testing and measuring instruments, including power meters, voltmeters and modulation meters. The Company's products have been used to test the performance and capability of cellular/ personal communications service (PCS) and satellite communications systems and to measure the power of radio frequency (RF) and microwave systems. Other applications include radio, radar, wireless local area network (WLAN) and digital television. The Company's operations are conducted through the Company d/b/a Noise Com, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries Boonton Electronics Corp. (Boonton) and Microlab/FXR.
WFII Wireless Facilities, Inc. is an independent provider of outsourced communications and security systems engineering and integration services and other technical services for the wireless communications industry, the United States government and enterprise customers. The principal services the Company provides include the design, deployment, integration and the overall management of wireless communications networks. It also provides communications systems engineering, systems integration and the outsourcing of technical services, such as operational test and evaluation and program management for the federal government and the design, deployment and integration of security and other in-building systems including access control and intrusion detection for enterprise customers.
WIT Wipro Limited is a global information technology (IT) services company. The Company has three principal business segments. The Global IT Services and Products segment provides research and development services for hardware and software design to technology and telecommunication companies, software application development services to corporate enterprises and business process outsourcing (BPO) services to global corporations. The India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products segment focuses primarily on addressing the IT and electronic commerce requirements of companies in India, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. The Consumer Care and Lighting segment manufactures, distributes and sells soaps, toiletries, lighting products and hydrogenated cooking oils for the Indian market.
WNWN.OB WinWin Gaming, Inc. is a full-service lottery and gaming operations company. The Company offers a complete turnkey service providing sources for funding, equipment, training, management and marketing. The Company and/or its affiliate partners have been offered licenses from governments around the world to develop, operate and market lotteries, land-based casinos and Internet lottery and gaming sites. The principals of WinWin Gaming have extensive experience in establishing lottery and casino operations and have developed strong government affiliations in various locations around the world. As a result, the Company has the opportunity to operate lotteries and/or gaming operations in several countries around the world.
WTFC Wintrust Financial Corporation is engaged in the business of providing banking services, such as trust and investment services, commercial insurance premium financing and short-term accounts receivable financing and certain administrative services, such as data processing of payrolls, billing and cash management services. It provides community-oriented, personal and commercial banking services to customers located predominantly in affluent suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, through its nine wholly owned banking subsidiaries. In addition, it also provides financing for the payment of commercial insurance premiums on a national basis and short-term accounts receivable financing and out-sourced administrative services, such as data processing of payrolls, billing and cash management services. The Company acquired Advantage Bank and Village Bank on October 1, 2003 and December 5, 2003, respectively. In October 2004, the Company acquired 100% of Town Bankshares, Ltd.
WXH Winston Hotels, Inc. owns hotel properties and interests in hotel properties through joint ventures, provides loans, hotel development and asset management services to the hotel industry. The Company's primary source of revenue is room revenue generated from its hotel ownership interests. It conducts substantially all of its operations through its operating partnership, WINN Limited Partnership. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned or was invested in 50 hotel properties in 16 states having an aggregate of 7,028 rooms. This included 44 wholly owned properties, a 49% ownership in two joint venture hotels, a 57.65% ownership in one joint venture hotel and an indirect 13.05% ownership interest in three joint venture hotels. Winston Hotels also had issued mezzanine loans to owners of three hotels and held a 48.78% ownership interest in another joint venture that is constructing a 147-room courtyard by Marriott hotel, scheduled to open in 2004.
WGO Winnebago Industries, Inc. is a United States manufacturer of motor homes, which are self-contained recreation vehicles used primarily in leisure travel and outdoor recreation activities. The Company's motor homes are sold under the Winnebago, Itasca and Rialta brand names. Other products manufactured by the Company consist of extruded aluminum, commercial vehicles and a variety of component products for other manufacturers. The Company's products are manufactured against orders from dealers and from time to time to build inventory to satisfy the peak selling season.
WIN Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. is a major food and drug retailer operating in 12 states in the southeastern United States and the Bahama Islands. As of June 30, 2004, the Company, directly or through subsidiaries, operated 1,049 supermarkets, 32 fuel centers and 59 liquor stores. Supermarkets are generally operated under one of Winn-Dixie's two formats, combination food and drug stores or grocery warehouse stores. The Company operates stores under several banners that have strong local ties and brand recognition. The Winn-Dixie, Marketplace, Thriftway and City Markets banners are utilized in the combination food and drug store format. The Save Rite and Sack &amp; Save banners represent the grocery warehouse format.
WINA Winmark Corporation is a franchisor of retail store concepts that buy, sell, trade and consign merchandise. Each of its retail store brands offers used merchandise, as well as new merchandise to customers. The Company's four store brands involve Play It Again Sports, Once Upon A Child, Plato's Closet and Music Go Round.
WEX Winland Electronics, Inc. designs and manufactures custom electronic controls and assemblies primarily for original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers, from early concept through product realization. The Company provides a range of customer services, including conceptual design; custom enclosures and three-dimensional modeling; board level, subsystem and high-level assembly; printed circuit board layout; analog and digital design, embedded systems and software; sensors, power and motor controls, and low power radio frequency design. Winland continues to maintain a presence in the security/industrial markets with the sales of its own line of proprietary environmental security products. In addition, the Company has developed a proprietary line of customizable motor controls.
WCAP.OB Winfield Capital Corp. is a small-business investment company (SBIC). The Company is a non-diversified investment company that has elected to be regulated as a business development Company, a type of closed-end investment company. The Company uses funds borrowed from the small business administration (SBA), together with its own capital, to provide loans to, and make, equity investments.
WEGI.OB Windswept Environmental Group, Inc. (Windswept) provides a full array of emergency response, remediation and disaster restoration services to a broad range of clients through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Trade-Winds Environmental Restoration, Inc. (Trade-Winds) and North Atlantic Laboratories, Inc. (NAL). The Company has expertise in areas of hazardous materials remediation, testing, toxicology, training, wetlands restoration, wildlife and natural resources rehabilitation, technical advisory, restoration and site renovation services.
WSRT.OB WindsorTech, Inc., through its brand extension QSGI, manages the information technology (IT) products of Fortune 1000 and government customers, specializing in data security and regulatory compliance. QSGI aims to turn its clients' IT liabilities into IT assets by maintaining, refurbishing and/or reselling equipment. Prior to resale, the Company utilizes its proprietary Department of Defense (DOD)-level-certified data sweep, eliminating otherwise recoverable data. QSGI reduces its customers' potential liability, by ensuring regulatory and environmental compliance for IT products.
WRS Windrose Medical Properties Trust is a self-managed real estate company, operating as a real estate investment trust (REIT) for federal income tax purposes. The Company invests in specialty medical properties and selectively owns, acquires, develops and manages medical facilities. At December 31, 2003, the Company's real estate investment portfolio consisted of 16 multi-tenant medical office buildings, four outpatient treatment and diagnostic centers and two physician group practice clinics/ambulatory surgery centers. Windrose Medical Properties Trust owns 96.5% interest in an operating partnership with Windrose Medical Properties, L.P.
WIND Wind River Systems, Inc. provides integrated software platforms targeted to specific markets, as well as off-the-shelf device software, programming tools and hardware. The Wind River Platforms integrate the Company's operating systems software with tools and middleware to meet the requirements of specific industries. Its off-the-shelf software includes operating systems and middleware applications, such as networking and security protocols that offer additional capabilities beyond those in the operating systems. Software programming tools help customers design, develop and test their own applications for these devices. Wind River also offers a range of hardware reference designs that customers can incorporate into their products or use as a development environment. To complement its software products and hardware reference designs, the Company provides design engineering services and technical support. It also provides training and worldwide maintenance and support for its products.
WBD Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods OJSC is a Russian manufacturer of dairy and juice products. During the year ended December 31, 2003, 71% of the Company's net revenues were derived from the sale of dairy products and 29% from the sale of juice products. It has 25 manufacturing operations in over 20 locations in Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), as well as distribution centers in 27 cities throughout Russia and the CIS. The Company's dairy products include traditional products, such as sterilized and pasteurized milk, butter, cream and cheese; Yogurts and dairy desserts, such as traditional and drinking yogurt, mousse, fruit-flavored milk and kefir, puddings and flavored cottage cheese; Enriched dairy products, such as sterilized milk, yogurt and sour-milk products; Dairy products for infants under the age of three, and Cheese products, including hard and processed cheese.
WLSN Wilsons The Leather Experts Inc. is a specialty retailer of leather outerwear, accessories and apparel in the United States. The Company's multi-channel store locations are designed to target a broad customer base. Through its worldwide leather sourcing network and in-house design capabilities, Wilsons is able to consistently provide customers with merchandise at attractive prices. Its business structure results in shorter lead times, allowing the Company to react quickly to emerging fashion trends and customer preferences, rapidly replenishing fast-selling merchandise and minimize fashion risk. At January 31, 2004, the Company operated a total of 460 stores located in 45 states and the District of Columbia, including 334 mall stores, 107 outlet stores and 19 airport locations.
GB Wilson Greatbatch Technologies, Inc. is a developer and manufacturer of batteries, capacitors, feedthroughs, enclosures and other components used in implantable medical devices (IMDs). The Company also leverages its core competencies in technology and manufacturing through its Electrochem Power Solutions (EPS) business to develop and produce batteries and battery packs for commercial applications that demand high-performance and reliability including oil and gas exploration, oceanographic equipment and aerospace.
WOC Wilshire Enterprises, Inc. is engaged primarily in the acquisition, ownership and management of real estate investments in the United States including Arizona, Florida, New Jersey and Texas. Its investments include multi-family housing, commercial properties, property leases and land suitable for development. The Company was previously known as Wilshire Oil Company of Texas and it divested of its oil and gas operations in 2004. In April 2004, Wilshire sold its Canadian oil and gas business to Addison Energy Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Exco Resources, Inc. Also in April 2004, the Company sold its United States oil and gas business to Crow Creek Energy LLC, a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based privately held portfolio company of Natural Gas Partners of Dallas, Texas.
WIBC Wilshire Bancorp, Inc., formerly, Wilshire State Bank (the Bank) serves the financial needs of small businesses and multi-ethnic communities. The Bank has 9 branch offices in southern California. It also has three loan production offices utilized primarily in connection with origination of loans under its Small Business Administration (SBA) lending program in Seattle, Washington; Dallas, Texas, and the San Jose, California, area. The bank offers personal and money market checking accounts, individual retirement accounts (IRAs), Super Negotiable Order of Withdrawal (NOW) accounts, installment savings accounts and time certificates of deposit (CDs). The Bank also originates loans to individuals, including auto loans and personal lines of credit. For businesses, the bank offers rainbow lines of credit, SBA-guaranteed loans, commercial loans and import/export financing. Additional services offered include safe deposit boxes, travelers' checks, wire transfers and international money orders.
WL Wilmington Trust Corporation is a financial holding company that owns Wilmington Trust Company (WTC), a 43-branch bank in Delaware. Wilmington Trust also owns two other depository institutions: Wilmington Trust of Pennsylvania (WTPA), a Pennsylvania-chartered bank and trust company with four branches, and Wilmington Trust FSB (WTFSB), a federally chartered savings bank with one branch in Maryland, one branch and three sales offices in Florida and trust agency offices in California, Georgia, Nevada and New York. Wilmington Trust also owns Rodney Square Management Corporation, a registered investment adviser; WT Investments, Inc., an investment holding company with interests in six asset management firms; Balentine Holdings, Inc., an investment holding company with interests in three asset management firms, and Wilmington Trust (UK) Limited, an investment holding firm with interests in six international firms providing entity management services.
WGBC Willow Grove Bancorp, Inc. provides a range of banking services through its wholly owned subsidiary, Willow Grove Bank (the Bank), which has 14 branches in Dresher, Willow Grove, Maple Glen, Warminster, Hatboro, Huntington Valley, Roslyn, Philadelphia, North Wales, Southampton and Holland, Pennsylvania. All of the branches are full-service and offer commercial and retail banking products and services. These products include checking accounts (interest and non-interest bearing), savings accounts, certificates of deposit, business loans, real estate loans and home equity loans. The primary market areas that the Company serves are Montgomery County, Bucks County and the northeast section of Philadelphia that borders these counties. To a lesser extent, the Bank provides services to areas of Chester and Delaware counties, the remainder of the City of Philadelphia and central and southern New Jersey.
WLFC Willis Lease Finance Corporation (Willis) is a provider of aviation services focusing on leasing commercial aircraft engines and other aircraft-related equipment. It provides this service to passenger airlines, air cargo carriers and maintenance and repair organizations (MROs). During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company had a total lease portfolio (including net investments in direct finance leases) consisting of 119 engines and related equipment, seven aircraft and four spare parts packages and 50 lessees in 25 countries. Its leasing business focuses on Stage III commercial jet aircraft engines manufactured by CFM International, General Electric, Pratt &amp; Whitney, Rolls Royce and International Aero Engines.
WSH Willis Group Holdings is the ultimate holding company for a group of companies that provide risk management consulting and insurance brokerage services to over 50,000 clients worldwide in various industries, including the aerospace, marine, construction and energy industries. In its capacity as an advisor and insurance broker, the Company acts as an intermediary between its clients and insurance carriers by advising clients on their risk management requirements, helping clients determine the best means of managing risk and negotiating and placing insurance risk with insurance carriers through its distribution network.
WSM Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is a specialty retailer of products for the home. The Company has two segments, retail and direct-to-customer. The retail segment sells products for the home through its five retail concepts, while the direct-to-customer segment sells similar products through eight direct-mail catalogs and five e-commerce Websites. Williams-Sonoma's stores offer a selection of culinary and serving equipment, including cookware, cookbooks, cutlery, informal dinnerware, glassware, table linens, specialty foods and cooking ingredients. Based on their contribution to its net revenues in the fiscal year ended February 1, 2004 (fiscal 2003), the core brands in both retail and direct-to-customer are Pottery Barn, which sells contemporary tableware and home furnishings; Williams-Sonoma, which sells cookware essentials, and Pottery Barn Kids, which sells stylish children's furnishings.
WMSI Williams Industries, Incorporated is engaged in the construction services market, providing specialized services to customers in the commercial, industrial, institutional and governmental markets. These services are provided by the Company and its subsidiaries in two segments: manufacturing and construction.
WMCO.OB Williams Controls, Inc. operates solely in the vehicle components business segment. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004, its product lines consisted of electronic throttle control systems for the heavy truck, transit bus and off-highway markets and pneumatic and hydraulic controls, which are used primarily in trucks, utility and off-highway equipment, transit busses and underground mining machines. The Company sold its passenger car and light truck product lines to Teleflex on September 30, 2003. Its wholly owned subsidiaries are Williams Controls Industries, Inc.; Aptek Williams, Inc.; Premier Plastic Technologies, Inc.; ProActive Acquisition Corporation; WMCO-Geo, Inc.; NESC Williams, Inc.; Williams Technologies, Inc.; Williams World Trade, Inc.; Techwood Williams, Inc.; Agrotec Williams, Inc., and its 80%-owned subsidiaries Hardee Williams, Inc. and Waccamaw Wheel Williams, Inc.
WMB The Williams Companies, Inc. (Williams) is a natural gas company that primarily finds, produces, gathers, processes and transports natural gas. Its operations stretch across the United States and serve the Northwest, California, Rocky Mountains, Gulf Coast and Eastern Seaboard markets. The Company's business segments include power, gas pipeline, exploration and production, midstream and other. Williams' activities are primarily operated through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Williams Power Company; Williams Gas Pipeline Company, LLC; Williams Production Company LLC, and Williams Production RMT Company, as well as Williams Field Services Group, Inc. and Williams Natural Gas Liquids, Inc. Its petroleum services and international operations form a part of the other segment.
WTU Williams Coal Seam Gas Royalty Trust (the Trust) was formed, under an agreement with Williams Production Company (WPC), to acquire and hold certain net profits interests (royalty interests) in proved natural gas properties located in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Colorado (Underlying Properties). All of the production from the underlying properties is from the Fruitland coal formation in the San Juan Basin, which encompasses approximately 12,000 square miles in Northwest New Mexico and Southwest Colorado. It covers parts of La Plata and Archuleta counties in Colorado, as well as parts of San Juan, Rio Arriba, McKinley and Sandoval counties in New Mexico.
WLS William Lyon Homes and its subsidiaries are primarily engaged in the design, construction and sale of single-family detached and attached homes in California, Arizona and Nevada. As of December 31, 2003, the Company and its joint ventures had sold over 59,000 homes. It conducts its homebuilding operations through five geographic divisions (Southern California, San Diego, Northern California, Arizona and Nevada), including both consolidated projects and projects being developed in unconsolidated joint ventures. In 2003, William Lyon Homes and its joint ventures delivered 2,804 homes. The Company designs, constructs and sells a range of homes designed to meet the specific needs of each of its markets, although it primarily emphasizes sales to the entry-level and move-up homebuyer markets. As of December 31, 2003, the Company marketed its homes through 42 sales locations in both its consolidated projects and projects being developed in unconsolidated joint ventures.
WG Willbros Group, Inc. is an independent contractor that primarily provides construction, engineering and specialty services to the oil, gas and power industries and government entities worldwide. The Company specializes in pipelines and associated facilities for onshore, coastal and offshore locations. Its construction capabilities include the expertise to construct and replace large-diameter, cross-country and offshore pipelines; to construct oil and gas production facilities, pump stations, flow stations, gas compressor stations, gas processing facilities and other related facilities, and to construct offshore platforms, piers, docks and bridges. The Specialty service provides a range of support and ancillary services related to the construction, operation, repair and rehabilitation of pipelines. The engineering services include feasibility studies, conceptual and detailed design services, field services, material procurement and overall project management
WVVI Willamette Valley Vineyards, Inc. owns and operates vineyards and a winery located in the state of Oregon. The Company produces and distributes premium and super premium wines to Pinot noir, Pinot gris, Chardonnay and Riesling. The Company's wines are made from grapes grown at its vineyard and some grapes are purchased from other nearby vineyards. The grapes are crushed, fermented and made into wine at its winery, and the wines are sold under the Willamette Valley Vineyards label. Willamette's vineyard and winery are located on 75 acres of company-owned land adjacent to Interstate 5, approximately two miles south of Salem, Oregon. The majority of the Company's wine is sold to grocery stores and restaurants in the state of Oregon.
OATS Wild Oats Markets, Inc. owns and operates natural foods supermarkets in North America. As of March 1, 2004, it operated 102 natural foods stores in 24 states and British Columbia. In Canada, it operates under several names, including Wild Oats Natural Marketplace, Henry's Marketplace, Sun Harvest Farms and Capers Community Market. The Company offers a selection of natural, organic and gourmet foods, environmentally friendly household products and an assortment of natural vitamins, supplements, herbal and homeopathic remedies and body care products. Wild Oats provides its customers with a one-stop, full-service shopping alternative to both conventional supermarkets and traditional health food stores, with an emphasis on fresh foods, education and information on wellness issues.
GIW The Wilber Corporation is a bank holding company whose business consists primarily of the ownership, supervision and control of its sole subsidiary, Wilber National Bank (the Bank). The Company, through the Bank and its subsidiaries, offers a range of commercial and consumer financial products, including business, municipal, mortgage and consumer loans, deposits, trust and investment services and insurance. Wilber serves its customers through 19 full-service branch banking offices located in Otsego, Delaware, Schoharie, Chenango, Ulster and Broome counties, New York; an automated teller machine network, and electronic/Internet banking services. In addition, the Company operates an insurance sales office located in Walton, New York (Delaware County) and a representative loan production banking office in Kingston, New York (Ulster County).
WDPT.OB WidePoint Corporation is a consulting services firm specializing in planning, managing and implementing information technology (IT) solutions. Its staff consists of business and computer specialists that help customers augment and expand their resident technologic skills and competencies, drive technical innovation and help develop and maintain a competitive edge in the rapidly changing technological environment in business. Architecture and planning services offered by the Company include IT strategic planning, software selection, program management and project management. The Company also offers IT outsource solutions, including infrastructure management, applications management and architecture and design. In October 2004, the Company acquired Operational Research Consultants, Inc.
WHX WHX Corporation is a holding company that has been structured to acquire and manage a diverse group of businesses on a decentralized basis. WHX's primary business is Handy &amp; Harman (H&amp;H), a diversified manufacturing company. H&amp;H's business segments encompass the manufacturing and selling of stainless steel wire and cable, and tubing products fabricated from stainless steel, carbon steel and specialty alloys; precious metal brazing products and precision electroplated materials; stamped parts, and other engineered materials supplied to the roofing, construction, natural gas, electric and appliance industries.
WFMI Whole Foods Market, Inc. (WFMI) owns and operates a chain of natural and organic foods supermarkets in the United States. WFMI is based in Austin, Texas, and conducts business through various wholly owned subsidiaries. The Company opened its first store in Austin, Texas in 1980. During the fiscal year ended September 26, 2004 (fiscal 2004), it operated 163 stores, of which 154 stores in 28 states and the District of Columbia; two stores in Canada, and seven stores in the United Kingdom. The Company has a broad product selection of perishable foods designed to appeal to both natural foods and gourmet shoppers. Most of its products are from natural food vendors. The product categories include, but are not limited to produce, seafood, grocery, meat and poultry, bakery, prepared foods and catering, specialty (beer, wine and cheese), whole body (nutritional supplements, vitamins, body care and educational products, such as books, floral, pet products and household products.
WHI W Holding Company, Inc., incorporated in 1999, is a financial holding company offering a range of financial services. The Company through its wholly owned commercial bank subsidiary, Westernbank, which is a commercial bank operating in the western and southwestern regions of Puerto Rico. The Company focuses on retail banking and emphasizes long-term, fixed-rate residential mortgage loans on one- to four-family residential properties. It also offers a range of business and consumer financial services including banking, trust and brokerage services. Westernbank operates through a network of 51 bank branches including 19 Expresso of Westernbank branches located throughout Puerto Rico. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company had total assets of $11.52 billion, a net loans portfolio of $4.68 billion, an investment portfolio of $6.51 billion, deposits of $5.39 billion and borrowings of $5.23 billion.
WHIT.OB Whittier Energy Corporation is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company primarily engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of oil and gas properties in the continental United States. Whittier's assets consist of operated and non-operated working interests, royalty interests, partnership interests and mineral acreage in various oil and gas properties principally located in Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and California, with additional property interests in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming and Pennsylvania. As of December 31, 2003, Whittier had three wholly owned subsidiaries, including Whittier Energy Company (Whittier Energy), a Nevada corporation; Whittier Operating, Inc. (Whittier Operating), a Texas corporation, and Olympic Resources (Arizona) Ltd. (Olympic Arizona), an Arizona corporation. Whittier Operating is a direct subsidiary of Whittier Energy.
RUSS.OB Whitney Information Network, Inc. is engaged in the business of providing post-secondary educational and training courses for students throughout the United States, Canada and United Kingdom. The Company's courses provide instruction in: real estate investing, business strategies, stock market investment techniques, entering international business markets, cash management, asset protection and other financially-oriented subjects. Whitney Information Network offers approximately 175 educational courses and training programs per month covering more than 25 financially oriented subjects. The Company also develops and sells educational resource materials which it prepares to support its course offerings and for sale to the general public. United States-based real estate training programs represented approximately 53% of the Company's 2003 revenue, whereas in 2002 it represented 80% of its revenue.
WTNY Whitney Holding Corporation is a Louisiana bank holding company functioning as the parent of Whitney National Bank (the Bank), which serves the greater New Orleans area. The Company also owns Whitney Community Development Corporation, which is authorized to make equity and debt investments in corporations or projects whose activities promote community welfare. Such activities could include providing housing, services or jobs for residents of areas with mainly low or moderate incomes and supporting small businesses that service such areas. Whitney Securities, L.L.C., a broker-dealer in securities, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank. Through the Bank, Whitney engages in community banking, serving a market area that covers the five-state Gulf Coast region stretching from Houston, Texas, across southern Louisiana and the coastal region of Mississippi, to central and south Alabama and into the western panhandle of Florida.
PAS PepsiAmericas, Inc. manufactures, distributes and markets a portfolio of beverage products in the United States, Central Europe and the Caribbean. The Company sells brands that it bottles under franchise agreements with various brand owners, including PepsiCo, Inc. (PepsiCo), or PepsiCo joint ventures. It manufactures, packages, sells and distributes its own brands, such as Toma brands in Central Europe. Its territories in the United States include a portion of an 18-state region, primarily in the Midwest. In Central Europe, PepsiAmericas serves Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Republic of Slovakia. In the Caribbean, its territories include Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas and Trinidad and Tobago. The beverages are available in different package types such as two-liter bottles, multi-pack and single serve offerings of one-liter, half-liter, 20-ounce and 24-ounce bottles, and multi-packs of six, 12, 18 and 24 cans.
WLL Whiting Petroleum Corporation is engaged in oil and natural gas exploitation, acquisition and production activities in the Gulf Coast/Permian Basin, Rocky Mountains, Michigan and Mid-Continent regions of the United States. The Company is engaged in drilling activities on properties owned and intends to drill or develop other properties acquired in the future. Its drilling activity from exploratory wells include one productive gross well in 2001, in the Gulf Coast/Permian Basin region, one dry gross well in 2002, in the Gulf Coast/ Permian Basin region, three dry gross wells in during the year ended December 31, 2003, two of which were located in the Rocky Mountain region and one in the Gulf Coast/Permian Basin region. In July 2004, the Company acquired Equity Oil Company, an energy company engaged in oil and natural gas exploration, production and acquisition activities.
WTMK.OB Whitemark Homes, Inc., was organized primarily to acquire and hold royalties on oil and gas properties. In 1996 the Company's name was changed to Golden Triangle Industries, Inc. It was determined that, after the acquisition, the Company's business would be strictly that of Whitemark and that the oil, gas and other extractive businesses would be sold. Therefore, in June 2001 the name of the Company was changed to Whitemark Homes, Inc. to reflect the new business direction. Whitemark has been in the business of developing and constructing residential communities for the past 20 years. Its business includes the purchase and development of lots through the construction and sale of single-family homes, including designing, building and marketing. The target market is first time and middle income buyers.
JWL Whitehall Jewellers, Inc. is a specialty retailer of fine jewelry offering a selection in diamond, gold, precious and semi-precious jewelry and watches. Its target customers include middle- to upper middle-income men and women above 25 years. At April 1, 2004, Whitehall Jewellers operated 384 mall-based stores in 38 states under the established brand names of Whitehall Co. Jewellers (325 stores), Lundstrom Jewelers (57 stores) and Marks Bros. Jewelers (two stores). The Company's two brand names include Whitehall Co. Jewellers, its primary trademark, and Lundstrom Jewelers. On an average, the Company's stores each offer approximately 2,700 individual items, including approximately 1,450 core jewelry items. These core items accounted for approximately 63% of net sales during the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004 (fiscal 2003).
WTM White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. is engaged in the businesses of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance through its subsidiaries and affiliates. The Company's operating segments are OneBeacon, Reinsurance and Other Operations. The OneBeacon Insurance Group LLC family of companies consists of several United States-based property and casualty insurance writers, substantially all of which operate in a multi-company pool. White Mountains' reinsurance operations were conducted primarily through Folksamerica Holding Company Inc. The Company's reinsurance operations also included its wholly owned subsidiaries, White Mountains Underwriting Limited, White Mountains Underwriting (Bermuda) Limited and Fund American Reinsurance Company Ltd. (Fund American Re), as well as its unconsolidated investment in Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. In April 2004, the Company formed White Mountains Re Group, Ltd. to form a cohesive, global reinsurance organization.
WEDC White Electronic Designs Corporation (WEDC), designs, develops and manufactures microelectronic and display components and systems for high-technology products for military, industrial and commercial markets. The Company's microelectronic solution includes semiconductor and multi-chip packaging, as well as a process for applying anti-tamper protection to mission-critical semiconductor components in military applications. Display solutions include enhanced flat-panel display products, interface devices and electromechanical assemblies. The Company's customers, which include military prime contractors in the United States and Europe, as well as commercial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), outsource many of their microelectronic and display components and systems to WEDC as a result of the combination of the Company's design, development and manufacturing expertise.
WHR Whirlpool Corporation is a worldwide manufacturer and marketer of home appliances. The Company manufactures in 13 countries under nine brand names and markets products to distributors and retailers in more than 170 countries. It manufactures and markets a line of appliances and related products, primarily for home use. Its principal products are home laundry appliances, home refrigerators and freezers, home cooking appliances, home dishwashers, room air-conditioning equipment and mixers and other small household appliances. Approximately 10% of its unit sales volume is purchased from other manufacturers for resale by the Company. Whirlpool also produces hermetic compressors and plastic components, primarily for the home appliance and electronics industries.
WHT Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and operation of precious metal properties. The Company's principal products and sources of cash flow are gold, silver and copper. Its primary operating properties consist of an indirect 37.5% interest in the Bajo de la Alumbrera gold-copper mine in Argentina (the Alumbrera Mine), an indirect 100% interest in the San Dimas, San Martin and Nukay gold-silver mines in Mexico and an indirect 100% interest in the Peak gold mine in Australia (the Peak Mine). The Company also holds an indirect 100% interests in the Los Filos gold project in Mexico (the Los Filos Project) and the Amapari gold project in Brazil (the Amapari Project), both of which are in the advanced stage of development. During 2002, Wheaton also carried on exploration activities in Canada. The Company is in the process of reclaiming the Golden Bear Mine in Canada, which ceased commercial production in 2001.
WHQ W-H Energy Services, Inc. (WH-Energy) is a diversified oilfield service company that provides products and services used for the drilling, completion and production of oil and natural gas wells. The Company has segments: Drilling Related Products and Services, Completion and Workover Related Products and Services and Maintenance and Safety Related Products and Services. W-H Energy's principal customers include major and independent oil and natural gas companies, other oilfield service companies and refining and petrochemical companies. The Company has onshore operations in the North America, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East and offshore operations in the Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Suez and Mediterranean Sea and off the coast of Brazil. In April 2004, the Company sold Well Safe, Inc. to H.I.G. Capital, a private equity firm.
WGNB WGNB Corp. is a bank holding company that conducts operations in western Georgia through its wholly owned subsidiary, West Georgia National Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a full service commercial bank offering a variety of services customary for community banks of similar size, which are designed to meet the banking needs of individuals and small- to medium-sized businesses. West Georgia National Bank attracts its deposits and conducts its lending transactions from and within its primary service area encompassing Carroll County, Georgia and the western portion of Douglas County, Georgia. Its main office is located in Carrollton, Georgia. The Bank operates a total of seven branches and six additional 24-hour automated teller machine (ATM) sites, located in Carroll and Douglas Counties in Georgia. The Bank operates two additional branches in the city of Carrollton, two branches in Villa Rica, one branch in Bowdon, and one branch in Douglasville, Georgia.
WGL WGL Holdings, Inc. is a holding company, which owns Washington Gas, a regulated natural gas utility, and Crab Run Gas Company (Crab Run), Hampshire Gas Company (Hampshire) and Washington Gas Resources Corporation (Washington Gas Resources). WGL Holdings, through its subsidiaries, sells and delivers natural gas, and provides a variety of energy-related products and services to customers primarily in Washington, D.C., and the surrounding metropolitan areas in Maryland and Virginia. The Company's core subsidiary, Washington Gas, is engaged in the delivery and sale of natural gas. Through wholly owned subsidiaries of Washington Gas Resources, the Company offers energy-related products and services that are closely related to its core business. WGL Holdings has three operating segments: regulated utility, retail energy marketing and commercial HVAC products and services.
WFSI WFS Financial Inc. is an automobile finance company operating in the United States. The Company originates new and pre-owned automobile installment contracts through approximately 8,000 franchised and independent automobile dealers nationwide. During the year ended December 31, 2003, it originated $6 billion of contracts and a portfolio of $10.6 billion contracts. In 2003, approximately 32% of the Company's contract originations were from purchase of new automobiles and approximately 68% of contract originations were from purchase of pre-owned automobiles. The Company originates contracts nationwide through its 39 offices. It has two national service centers located in California and Texas with functions including data verification, records management, remittance processing, customer service call centers, automated dialers and asset recovery.
WY Weyerhaeuser Company is principally engaged in the growing and harvesting of timber; the manufacture, distribution and sale of forest products, and real estate development and construction. Its principal business segments are Timberlands, Wood Products, Pulp and Paper, Containerboard, Packaging and Recycling and Real Estate and Related Assets. Weyerhaeuser is engaged in the management of approximately 6.5 million acres of timberland in the United States. Its wood products businesses produce and sell softwood lumber, plywood and veneer, oriented strand board and composite panels, hardwood lumber and engineered lumber products. The Real Estate and Related Assets segment includes Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Company (WRECO), a wholly owned subsidiary, and the Company's other real estate-related activities.
WEYS Weyco Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries engage in one line of business, the distribution of men's footwear. The principal brands of shoes sold by the Company are Florsheim, Nunn Bush, Nunn Bush NXXT, Brass Boot, Stacy Adams and SAO by Stacy Adams. Its products consist of both mid-priced leather dress shoes which would be worn as a part of formal and traditional attire, and casual footwear of man-made materials or leather which would be appropriate for leisure or less formal occasions. The Company's business is separated into two segments: wholesale and retail. Wholesale sales constituted approximately 88% of total sales in 2003, 91% in 2002 and 96% in 2001. Retail sales constituted approximately 12% of total sales in 2003, 9% in 2002 and 4% in 2001.
WTSLA The Wet Seal, Inc. is a specialty retailer operating stores selling fashionable and contemporary apparel and accessory items designed for female customers. It operates two mall-based chains of retail stores under the names Wet Seal (including the Contempo Casuals stores) and Arden B. As of January 31, 2004, the Company operated 604 retail stores in 47 states, Puerto Rico and Washington DC. Of the 604 stores, there were 474 locations within the Wet Seal chain, 99 were Arden B. locations and 31 were Zutopia locations.
WHG Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. manages investment assets and provides services for clients through its two subsidiaries, Westwood Management Corp. and Westwood Trust. Westwood Management provides investment advisory services to corporate pension funds, public retirement plans, endowments and foundations, mutual funds and clients of Westwood Trust. Westwood Trust provides to institutions and high-net-worth individuals, trust and custodial services and participation in common trust funds that it sponsors. The Company's revenues are generally derived from fees based on a percentage of assets under management.
WON Westwood One, Inc. supplies radio and television stations with information services and programming. The Company provides traffic reporting services, as well as produces and distributes national news, sports, talk, music and special event programs, in addition to local news, sports, weather, video news and other information programming. Westwood One obtains the commercial airtime it sells to advertisers from radio and television affiliates in exchange for the programming it provides to them and in some cases, for cash compensation. The Company provides local traffic and information broadcast reports in over 95 Metro Survey Area markets in the United States. Westwood One also offers radio stations traditional news services such as CBS Radio news and CNN Radio news, seven 24-hour satellite-delivered continuous play music formats (24/7 Formats) and news/entertainment features and programs.
WSHA.OB Westsphere Asset Corporation, Inc. is engaged primary in the sale and operation of cash vending and point-of-sale (PoS) machines in Canada. The Company's business focus has been on opportunities afforded in the non-conventional banking industry and sought out opportunities available to the Company and through acquisitions of equity positions within operating corporations or the establishment of wholly owned subsidiary companies. Non-conventional banking business is described as business related activities that would normally be associated in Canada with a registered chartered bank or bank affiliated financial institution but is privately owned and operated and not affiliated with a Canadian Chartered Bank.
WSPTQ.OB WestPoint Stevens Inc. is a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of a range of bed, bath and basic bedding products. It operates its business directly and through its consolidated subsidiaries. Bed and bath products include bath accessories, bath rugs, bath towels, beach towels, bedskirts, bedspreads, comforters and duvet covers, decorative throw pillows, drapes and valances, quilts, scatter rugs, sheets and pillowcases, shower curtains and table covers. Basic bedding products include bed pillows, flocked blankets, mattress pads, natural fill pillows, comforters and featherbeds and woven blankets and throws. Home Fashions products are manufactured and sold pursuant to licensing agreements under designer names that include, among others, Ralph Lauren Home, Sanderson, Glynda Turley and Disney Home. In January 2005, the Company filed its proposed Plan of Reorganization and related Disclosure Statement with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
WBK Westpac Banking Corporation is a banking organization primarily operating in Australia and New Zealand. It provides a range of banking and financial services in retail, commercial and institutional banking and wealth management activities. The Company has branches, affiliates and controlled entities throughout Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific region and maintains offices in key financial centers worldwide. Its operations are comprised of four key areas of business, through which it serves approximately 8.2 million customers.
WLB Westmoreland Coal Company is an energy and independent coal company in the United States. The coal it mines is used to produce electric power, and the Company owns interests in power-generating plants. Beginning in 2004, it also will receive royalties from the production of coalbed methane gas. In 2003, the Company increased its coal production to 27.7 million tons, about 3% of all the coal produced in the United States. Westmoreland owns five mines: the Absaloka Mine, the Rosebud Mine, the Jewett Mine, the Beulah Mine and the Savage Mine. All except the Jewett Mine are located in the northern tier, a niche coal market extending from Montana through Minnesota and other upper Midwestern states. As part of the Company's 2001 acquisitions, it obtained the stock of North Central Energy Company. North Central owns property and mineral rights in southern Colorado.
WLK Westlake Chemical Corporation is a vertically integrated manufacturer and marketer of basic chemicals, vinyls, polymers and fabricated products. The Company's products include some of the most widely used chemicals in the world, which are fundamental to many diverse consumer and industrial markets, including flexible and rigid packaging, automotive products, coatings, residential and commercial construction, as well as other durable and non-durable goods. Westlake Chemical operates in two principal business segments, olefins and vinyls, and is a North American integrated producer of vinyls with substantial downstream integration into polyvinyl chloride (PVC) fabricated products.
WFD Westfield Financial, Inc. (Westfield Financial) serves as the bank holding company for Westfield Bank (the Bank), a state-chartered stock savings bank. Westfield Bank is a community-oriented provider of banking products and services to businesses and individuals including traditional products, such as residential and commercial real estate loans, consumer loans and a variety of deposit products. The Bank operates through 10 banking offices in Agawam, East Longmeadow, Holyoke, Southwick, Springfield, West Springfield and Westfield, Massachusetts. It also has four freestanding automated teller machine (ATM) locations in Agawam, Feeding Hills and Springfield, Massachusetts. Westfield Bank derives its revenues principally from interest on its loans and interest and dividends on its investment securities.
WWCA Western Wireless Corporation is a provider of rural wireless communications services in the United States. It provides wireless services, under the CellularONE and Western Wireless brand names, to approximately 1.3 million subscribers in the western United States using multiple digital and analog technologies. It operates in 88 rural service areas and 19 metropolitan service areas with a combined population of approximately 11 million people. In addition, it owns 10-megahertz (MHz) personal communication services (PCS) licenses for five basic trading areas (BTA). During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company acquired five MHz PCS licenses covering portions of 30 BTAs and 11 major trading areas. Through its subsidiary, Western Wireless International Holding Corporation, the Company is licensed to provide wireless communications services to over 72 million people in eight countries.
WSZZ.OB Western Sizzlin Corp. is an operator and franchisor of restaurants in the United States. It operates and/or franchises WesterN SizzliN, WesterN SizzliN Wood Grill, Great American Steak &amp; Buffet, Quincy Steakhouses and Market Street Buffet and Bakery concepts. As of December 31, 2002, the Company operated seven Great American Steak &amp; Buffet restaurants. In addition, approximately 118 franchisees operated 186 WesterN SizzliN, WesterN SizzliN Wood Grill, Great American Steak and Buffet, Quincy Steakhouses and Market Street Buffet and Bakery restaurants. The Company's restaurants are located in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
WTZ Western Silver Corporation, formerly known as Western Copper Holdings Limited, is engaged, directly and through joint ventures and subsidiaries, in exploring and the future development of mineral properties in Mexico and Canada. The Company's primary projects are the Penasquito Project, the El Salvador Project and the San Nicolas Deposit area in the State of Zacatecas, Mexico, and the Carmacks Property in Yukon Territory, Canada. The Penasquito Project, Western's primary property, is a silver, gold, lead and zinc property located in the Concepcion del Oro district in the northeast corner of the State of Zacatecas. The San Nicolas massive sulfide deposit, along with the adjoining El Salvador and Tamara properties, was on care and maintenance status during 2002 and 2003. The Carmacks Property consists of 232 contiguous and partial unpatented mineral claims at Williams Creek in the Whitehorse Mining district of the Yukon Territory.
WSBA Western Sierra Bancorp is a bank holding company with four wholly owned subsidiaries: Western Sierra National Bank, Lake Community Bank, Central California Bank and Auburn Community Bank. The Company provides a range of commercial banking services to businesses and individuals in El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, Lake, Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Calaveras, Amador, Tuolumne and Contra Costa counties. Western Sierra Bancorp established the subsidiaries for the purpose of issuing trust preferred securities to investors and holding floating rate junior subordinated deferrable interest debentures issued and guaranteed by the Company, Western Sierra Statutory Trust I, Western Sierra Statutory Trust II, Western Sierra Statutory Trust III and Western Sierra Statutory Trust IV. The Company provides a full-line of consumer services and also offers specialized services, such as courier services to small businesses, middle market companies and professional firms.
WPEC.OB Western Power &amp; Equipment Corp. is engaged in the sale, rental and servicing of light, medium-sized and heavy construction, agricultural and industrial equipment, parts and related products which are manufactured by Case Corporation and certain other manufacturers. Products sold, rented and serviced by the Company include backhoes, excavators, crawler dozers, skid steer loaders, forklifts, compactors, log loaders, trenchers, street sweepers, sewer vacuums and mobile highway signs. It operates out of facilities located in the states of Washington, Oregon, Nevada, California and Alaska. The equipment distributed by it is furnished to contractors, governmental agencies and other customers, primarily for use in the construction of residential and commercial buildings, roads, levees, dams, underground power projects, forestry projects, municipal construction and other projects. In September 2004, it acquired Arizona Pacific Materials LLC, a basalt and cinder-mining company.
WMGC.OB Western Media Group Corporation is a development stage company whose business is carried out by three wholly owned subsidiaries, Med-Link USA, Inc., MedLink VPN, Inc. and K-Rad Konsulting, LLC. Med-Link USA, Inc. and MedLink VPN, Inc. (together Med-Link) provide a service communication network to physicians and hospitals and can provide its services to labs and other businesses that require a service for communication of emergencies. Some of the services and products that Med-Link provides are answering services, voice mail, a virtual private network (VPN) and an Internet message center. K-Rad provides computer network and software systems, consulting, installation and maintenance services. The Company also has two inactive subsidiaries, Western Media Acquisition Corp. and Western Media Publishing Corp.
WGR Western Gas Resources, Inc. explores, develops, produces, processes, markets and distributes of natural gas and natural gas liquids. The Company's operations are conducted through four business segments: Upstream, Midstream, Transportation and Marketing. Its upstream operations involve the development and production of natural gas reserves, primarily in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States. Midstream operations, consisting of three segments, involve the design, construction and operation of natural gas gathering, processing and treating facilities. The Company provides transportation services to producers and energy marketers under fee schedules regulated by state or federal agencies. It also offers marketing services, providing customers with a range of services from the wellhead to the sales delivery point. During 2003, approximately 85.7% of Western's revenue was derived from the sale of gas, and approximately 12.0% was from the sale of natural gas liquids.
WDC Western Digital Corporation (WDC) designs, develops, manufactures and markets hard drives. A hard drive is a device that stores data on one or more rotating magnetic disks to allow fast access to non-volatile data for computing needs. Its hard drives are used in desktop personal computers (PCs), servers, network-attached storage (NAS) devices, video game consoles, digital video recording devices and satellite and cable set-top boxes. The Company's hard drive products include one-inch high, 3.5-inch, form-factor drives with capacities ranging from eight gigabytes (GB) to 250 GB, rotation speeds of 5,400, 7,200 and 10,000 revolutions per minute (RPM) and offer interfaces including enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE), serial advanced technology attachment (SATA), 1394/FireWire/i.Link and universal serial bus (USB). WDC sells its products worldwide to computer manufacturers for inclusion in their computer systems or subsystems and to distributors, resellers and retailers.
WSTL Westell Technologies, Inc. is a provider of telecommunications network transmission products that enable telecommunications services over copper telephone wires. The Company has two segments: equipment sales and teleconference services. In the equipment segment, it designs, manufactures, markets and services a range of digital and legacy analog products used by telephone companies and other telecommunications service providers to deliver broadband services, primarily over existing copper telephone wires that connect end users to a telephone company's central office. The service segment consists of a 91.5% owned subsidiary, Conference Plus, Inc., which provides audio, video and Web conferencing services. Businesses and individuals use these services to hold voice, video or Web conferences with many people at the same time.
WES Westcorp is a financial services holding company that provides automobile lending services through its second-tier subsidiary, WFS Financial Inc. (WFS), as well as retail and commercial banking services through its wholly owned subsidiary, Western Financial Bank, which it refers to as the Bank. The Bank owns 84% of the capital stock of WFS. The Company primarily earns income by originating assets, including automobile contracts that generate a yield in excess of the cost of the liabilities including deposits that fund these assets. Westcorp has grown substantially since December 31, 2000. As of December 31, 2003, it had a three-year compounded annual growth rate of 22.9%, 15.8% and 33.2% respectively.
WEH WestCoast Hospitality Corporation is a hospitality and leisure company primarily engaged in the ownership, management, development and franchising of mid-scale hotels under the WestCoast and Red Lion brands. In addition to its hotel operations, it is engaged in entertainment and real estate operations. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's hotel system contained 71 hotels located in 12 states and one Canadian province, with more than 12,300 rooms and 579,000 square feet of meeting space. It manages 48 of these hotels, consisting of 27 owned hotels, 15 leased hotels and six third-party-owned hotels. The remaining 23 hotels were owned and operated by third-party franchisees. The Company's operations, therefore, have four business segments: hotels and restaurants; franchise, central service and development; entertainment, and real estate.
WBKC Westbank Corporation is a one-bank holding company organized to facilitate the expansion and diversification of the business of Westbank (the Bank). The Company also has a wholly owned subsidiary, Westbank Capital Trust 1, which was organized for the purpose of facilitating the issuance of the mandatorily redeemable preferred stock that was issued on September 30, 1999. The primary sources of its revenue are net interest income from loans and deposits and fee income from customers, predominantly located in western and central Massachusetts and northeastern Connecticut.
WR Westar Energy, Inc is an electric utility providing electric generation, transmission and distribution services in Kansas. Westar Energy provides these services in northeastern Kansas, including the Topeka, Lawrence, Manhattan, Salina and Hutchinson metropolitan areas. Kansas Gas and Electric Company (KGE), Westar Energy's wholly owned subsidiary, provides these services in south-central and southeastern Kansas, including the Wichita metropolitan area. Westar Energy has two reportable segments, Electric Utility and Other. Electric Utility consists of the Company's integrated electric utility operations, as well as the Company's energy marketing activities. Other includes Westar Energy's former ownership interests in ONEOK Inc., a diversified energy company; Protection One and Protection One Europe, and other investments. In 2003, Westar Energy classified its interests in monitored security businesses as discontinued operations.
WABC Westamerica Bancorporation (WAB) is a bank holding company that provides a range of banking services to individual and corporate customers, primarily through its subsidiary regional community bank, Westamerica Bank. The Company is focused particularly on the banking needs of small businesses. WAB maintains a securities portfolio comprised of United States Treasury, United States Government agencies, corporations, state and political subdivisions, asset-backed and other securities, and a loan portfolio composed of commercial and commercial real estate, real estate construction and residential and consumer loans. Its customer base, serviced through its 88 offices, consists of communities primarily in Northern and Central California. The Company also owns 100% of the capital stock of Community Banker Services Corporation, a company engaged in providing WAB and its subsidiaries data processing services and other support functions.
WEDX The Westaim Corporation develops, commercializes and launches flat-panel displays and anti-microbial wound care products and pharmaceuticals. The Company operates through its subsidiaries, iFire Technology Inc. (iFire) and Nucryst Pharmaceuticals Corp. (Nucryst). iFire has developed a flat-panel display with solid state, thick-film dielectric electroluminescent (TDEL) technology. Nucryst has developed a nanocrystalline form of silver that is also applicable to other metals, such as gold and platinum. In January 2004, Westaim sold its Ambeon business segment, including the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Neomet Limited. The Ethylene Coatings business, Surface Engineered Products, which produced anti-coking coatings for furnaces used in the production of ethylene, was discontinued during the year ended December 31, 2003.
WSTF Westaff, Inc. provides temporary staffing services primarily in suburban and rural markets (secondary markets), as well as in the downtown areas of certain major urban centers (primary markets) in the United States and selected international markets. Through its network of Company-owned, franchise agent and licensed offices, it offers a range of temporary staffing solutions, including replacement, supplemental and on-site programs to businesses and government agencies. Its primary focus is on recruiting and placing temporary light industrial and clerical/administrative personnel. Westaff also provides other services within the light industrial and clerical/administrative staffing market such as direct placement and temp-to-hire services, payrolling, on-site and on-location services, as well as other professional services, including skills and behavioral assessments and coordination of drug testing and background checking.
WST West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. provides closure systems and components for use with parenterally administered drugs. The Company also conducts research and development of proprietary drug formulation and delivery technology for nasal and targeted oral delivery of drugs. The Company's offerings include ChiSys and pectin-based nasal technologies and TARGIT oral technologies. West Pharmaceutical is organized into two reportable segments, Pharmaceutical Systems and Drug Delivery Systems. The Pharmaceutical Systems segment consists of three operating segments: the Americas, Europe/Asia and Devices. It designs, manufactures and sells stoppers, closures, medical device components and assemblies made from elastomers, metals and plastics, and provides contract laboratory services for testing drug packaging. Drug Delivery Systems uses the Company's proprietary drug delivery technologies to improve the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical drug's therapeutic performance.
WMAR West Marine, Inc. is a specialty retailer of boating supplies and apparel. The Company has three divisions, Stores, Port Supply (wholesale) and Direct Sales (catalog and Internet), which all sell aftermarket recreational boating supplies directly to customers. During the fiscal ended January 1, 2005, West Marine offered its products through 375 stores in 38 states, Puerto Rico and Canada, through its catalog and on the Internet. The Company is also engaged, through its Port Supply division and its stores, in the wholesale distribution of products to commercial customers and other retailers.
WSTC West Corporation is an independent provider of outsourced communication services and conferencing services. The Company provides its products and services through two segments, Communication Services and Conferencing Services. West's Communication Services business includes both agent-based and automated solutions. Agent-based solutions provide clients with a portfolio of services driven by both customer-initiated and Company-initiated transactions. West's automated services provide large-volume, automated voice response services including secure automated credit card activation, prepaid calling card services, automated product information requests and call routing and call transfer services. The Company's Conferencing Services business include an integrated suite of audio, video and Web conferencing services that range from basic automated solutions to international operator-assisted and event driven solutions.
WCBO West Coast Bancorp is a bank holding company that conducts its principal business activities through its commercial bank subsidiary, West Coast Bank (the Bank). As of December 31, 2003, the Bank had facilities in 36 cities and towns in western Oregon and western Washington, operating a total of 44 full-service and three limited-service branches and a mortgage office in Bend, Oregon. The primary business strategy of the Bank is to provide comprehensive banking and related financial services tailored to individuals, professionals and small to medium-sized businesses. Bancorp also owns West Coast Trust Company, Inc., a trust company that provides trust, investment, agency and fiduciary services, and Totten, Inc.
WTBA West Bancorporation, Inc. is a bank holding company that owns 100% of the stock of West Bank, a state-chartered commercial bank, and WB Capital Management Inc., a registered investment advisory firm. West Bank provides full-service banking to businesses and residents primarily in the Des Moines and Iowa City metropolitan areas, as well as correspondent services to banking organizations primarily located in Iowa. It provides a variety of products and services designed to meet the needs of the markets it serves. West Bank conducts business out of eight full-service offices within the Des Moines metropolitan area and two full-service offices in the Iowa City metropolitan area. WB Capital Management, operating as VMF Capital, is a registered investment advisor regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission that provides portfolio management services to individual investors, retirement plans, corporations, foundations and endowments.
WCC WESCO International, Inc. is a North American provider of electrical construction products and electrical and industrial maintenance, repair and operating supplies. Representative products that it sells include electrical supplies, industrial supplies, power distribution, lighting, wire and conduit, control, automation and motors and data communications. The Company also offers customers a range of services and procurement solutions. These services include national accounts programs, integrated supply programs and project programs.
WSC Wesco Financial Corporation engages in three principal businesses: insurance, furniture rental and industrial. Wesco operates through its wholly owned subsidiaries: Wesco-Financial Insurance Company (Wes-FIC), CORT Business Services Corporation, Precision Steel Warehouse, Inc. and MS Property Company. Wes-FIC engages in the property and casualty insurance business. CORT operates the Company's furniture rental business. Precision Steel operates the Company's steel service center business. MS Property operates Wesco's other business, which is the management of its owned commercial real estate in Pasadena, California.
WCST Wescast Industries Inc. is engaged in the design, casting, machining and assembly of engineered iron products for the automotive industry. The Company's revenues are generated through the sale of exhaust manifolds and brake and suspension components. Its resources are strategically aligned to meet the customer-specific requirements within two product segments, powertrain and chassis components. The Powertrain Segment, operated through the Company's subsidiary Weslin Industries Inc., is focused on the design and manufacturing of exhaust systems. The Chassis Segment is focused on the design and manufacture of brake and suspension components, including front and rear ductile iron knuckles, as well as ductile iron brake calipers, brake anchors and brake adaptors. The Company sells its products primarily to car manufacturers, as well as to customers for car and light truck markets in North America and Europe.
WSBC Wesbanco, Inc. is a bank holding company that offers a range of financial services including retail banking, corporate banking, personal and corporate trust services, brokerage services, mortgage banking and insurance. It offers these services through two reportable segments, community banking and trust and investment services. As of December 31, 2003, WesBanco operated a commercial bank, WesBanco Bank, Inc., through 72 offices and 105 automated teller machines (ATMs) located in West Virginia, Central and Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. Total assets of WesBanco Bank, Inc. as of December 31, 2003 were approximately $3.4 billion. The Bank also offers trust and investment services as well as various alternative investment products including mutual funds and annuities. The market value of assets under management of the trust and investment services segment was approximately $2.8 billion.
WERN Werner Enterprises, Inc. is a transportation company engaged primarily in hauling truckload shipments of general commodities in both interstate and intrastate commerce, as well as providing logistics services. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had a fleet of 8,350 trucks. Werner operates throughout the 48 contiguous states pursuant to operating authority, both common and contract, granted by the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) and pursuant to intrastate authority granted by various states. The Company also has authority to operate in the 10 provinces of Canada and provides through trailer service in and out of Mexico. The principal types of freight transported by Werner include retail store merchandise, consumer products, manufactured products and grocery products. The Company's emphasis is to transport consumer non-durable products that ship more consistently throughout the year.
WEN Wendy's International, Inc. is primarily engaged in the business of operating, developing and franchising a system of distinctive quick-service and fast-casual restaurants. As of December 28, 2003, there were 6,481 Wendy's restaurants (Wendy's) in operation in the United States and in 21 other countries and territories. Of these restaurants, 1,465 were operated by the Company and 5,016 by its franchisees. As of December 28, 2003, the Company and its franchisees operated 2,527 Tim Hortons (Hortons) restaurants with 2,343 restaurants in Canada and 184 restaurants in the United States. Of these restaurants open, for the fiscal year ended December 28, 2003, only 57 were Company operated. In addition, the Company and its franchisees operated 283 Baja Fresh restaurants in 25 states, of which 132 were company-operated restaurants and 151 franchise restaurants.
WLSF.OB Wellstone Filters, Inc. (Wellstone) is engaged in the research and development, medical testing and initial marketing in the cigarette industry. The Company has not received any revenues or income since inception. It is dependent on its domestic tobacco contracting business. In connection with its research on diabetes, Cerami Consulting investigated the impact of smoking on diabetes and then decided to investigate the possibility of developing a filter technology that would remove carcinogens without impacting flavor. As a result of their research, Cerami Consulting had filed for the United States and international patents on the technology, and licensed it and related patents to Wellstone LLC for potential commercialization. On May 25, 2001, Wellstone LLC was acquired by Farallon Corporation, which subsequently changed its name to Wellstone Filters, Inc. In January 2005, the Company acquired and distributed Silverton brand cigarettes.
WRP Wellsford Real Properties, Inc. is a real estate merchant banking firm that acquires, develops, finances and operates real properties and organizes and invests in private and public real estate companies. The Company's operations are organized into three Strategic Business Units (SBUs): Commercial Property Operations (Wellsford/Whitehall Group, L.L.C.); Debt and Equity Activities (Wellsford Capital), and Commercial Property Operations (Wellsford/Whitehall). In December 2004, the Company sold its 51.09% interest in Second Holding Company, LLC (Second Holding). WRP sold this interest to an affiliate of The Liberty Hampshire Company, L.L.C.
WGA Wells-Gardner Electronics Corporation (Wells-Gardner) is engaged in the distribution, design, manufacture, assembly, service and marketing of electronic components, which consist of video color monitors and liquid crystal displays, gaming supplies and components and the bonding of touch sensors to video monitors. These products are offered to a variety of markets including, but not limited to, gaming machine manufacturers, casinos, coin-operated video game manufacturers and other display integrators. The Company offers a line of video monitors, with cathode ray tube sizes ranging from 13 inches to 39 inches with horizontal scan frequencies from 15 kilohertz (kHz) to 80kHz. In addition to providing standardized products, Wells-Gardner also customizes electrical and mechanical applications to meet specific customer requirements and optically bonds touch screen sensors to video displays, to allow interaction with a computer program by touching a video screen.
WEFC Wells Financial Corp. is a unitary savings and loan holding company. It was established for the purpose of acquiring all of the issued and outstanding common stock of Wells Federal Bank, fsb (the Bank). The primary activity of the Company is directing and planning the activities of the Bank, its primary asset. The Bank is a federally chartered stock savings bank serving the local banking needs of Southern Minnesota and Northern Iowa. The Bank has eight full-service offices located in Faribault, Martin, Blue Earth, Nicollet, Freeborn and Steele Counties, Minnesota, and a loan origination office in Dakota County, Minnesota. The Bank attracts deposits from the general public and uses the deposits to invest in owner-occupied residential loans, commercial and agricultural related loans, consumer loans, and to purchase mortgage-backed and investment securities.
WFC Wells Fargo &amp; Company is a diversified financial services company providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage banking and consumer finance to consumers, businesses and institutions in all 50 states of the United States and in other countries. Retail, commercial and corporate banking services are provided through banking stores in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Other financial services are provided by subsidiaries engaged in various businesses, principally wholesale banking, mortgage banking, consumer finance, equipment leasing, agricultural finance, commercial finance, securities brokerage and investment banking, insurance agency services, computer and data processing services, trust services, mortgage-backed securities servicing and venture capital investment.
WLP Wellpoint, Inc., formerly Anthem, Inc., is a health benefits company operating in the United States serving more than 11.9 million members (customers), primarily in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Colorado, Nevada and Virginia, excluding the immediate suburbs of Washington, D.C. It owns the exclusive right to market its products and services using the Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) names, and marks in all nine states under license agreements with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, an association of independent BCBS plans. Wellpoint's product portfolio includes a diversified mix of managed care products, including preferred provider organizations, health maintenance organizations and point-of-service (POS) plans, and indemnity products. It also offers a range of administrative and managed care services and partially insured products for employer self-funded plans. In November 2004, the Company and WellPoint Health Networks Inc. completed their merger.
WLM Wellman, Inc. is principally engaged in the manufacture and marketing of high-quality PermaClear and EcoClear brand PET (polyethylene terephthalate) packaging resins, Fortrel brand polyester staple fibers and Wellamid engineering resins. Welman is also a PET plastics recycler, utilizing a significant amount of recycled raw materials in its manufacturing operations. The Company's operations are classified into two segments: the Packaging Products Group (PPG) and the Fibers and Recycled Products Group (FRPG), which accounted for 57% and 43% of its net sales respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2003.
WLC Wellco Enterprises, Inc. sells military and other rugged footwear, as well as specialized machinery and materials for the manufacture of this type of footwear. The Company also provides technical assistance and other services to licensees for the manufacture of this type of footwear. The majority of revenues in the fiscal, year ended July 3, 2004 (fiscal 2004), and fiscal year ended June 28, 2003 (fiscal 2003), were from sales to the United States Government, primarily the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP), under contracts for the supply of boots used by the United States Armed Forces. The Company has manufacturing, warehousing and office facilities in Waynesville, North Carolina and Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
WC WellChoice, Inc. offers managed care and insurance products primarily to private and public employers through a variety of funding arrangements, including insured and self-funded or administrative services only (ASO). The Company's managed care product offerings include health maintenance organizations (HMOs), preferred provider organizations (PPOs), exclusive provider organizations (EPOs), point-of-service (POS) products and dental-only coverage. At December 31, 2003, WellChoice served approximately 4.8 million members through its service areas, which include 10 downstate New York counties. Among the Company's customers are groups of more than 500 employees, which include employees of New York State and New York City, as well as labor unions, middle-market groups ranging from 51 to 500 employees, small groups ranging from two to 50 employees and individuals. It also serves approximately 1.1 million members through its national accounts.
WCG WellCare Health Plans, Inc. provides managed care services targeted exclusively to government-sponsored healthcare programs, focusing on Medicaid and Medicare. The Company has centralized core functions, such as claims processing and medical management, combined with targeted marketing and provider services tailored to the local markets where it operates. Through this approach, the Company aims to provide high-quality, affordable healthcare services to its members and offer cost saving opportunities to the states it serves, while maintaining mutually beneficial relationships with its providers and regulators. The Company operates health plans in Florida, New York and Connecticut. In Florida, it serves more than 475,000 members, and operates two of the largest Medicaid managed care plans. In New York and Connecticut, the Company serves approximately 56,000 and 24,000 members, respectively.
WMK Weis Markets, Inc. is engaged principally in the retail sale of food and pet supplies in Pennsylvania and surrounding states. The Company's retail food stores sell groceries, dairy products, frozen foods, meats, seafood, fresh produce, floral, prescriptions, deli/bakery products, prepared foods, fuel and general merchandise items, such as health and beauty care and household products. Weis also offers services such as Company-operated photo labs and third parties providing in-store banks, laundry services and take-out restaurants. Weis advertises through various media, including circulars, newspapers, radio and television. Printed circulars are used on a weekly basis to advertise featured items. The Company utilizes a loyalty card program, Weis Club Preferred Shopper, which provides shoppers with an opportunity to receive discounts, promotions and rewards. The Company owns and operates 158 retail food stores and a chain of 33 SuperPetz, LLC. pet supply stores.
WRI Weingarten Realty Investors (WRI), a real estate investment trust organized under the Texas Real Estate Investment Trust Act, and its predecessor entity began the ownership and development of shopping centers and other commercial real estate in 1948. As of December 31, 2003, it owned or operated under leases, either directly or through its interest in joint ventures or partnerships, interests in 327 developed income-producing real estate projects. The Company owned 266 shopping centers located in the Houston metropolitan area and in other parts of Texas and in California, Louisiana, Arizona, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Mississippi, Georgia and Maine. It also owned 61 industrial projects located in Tennessee, Nevada, Georgia, Florida, California and Houston, Austin and Dallas, Texas. In December 2004, WRI acquired five shopping centers and one industrial property.
WTW Weight Watchers International Inc. operates and franchises territories offering weight loss and control programs through the operation of classroom type meetings to the general public in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Brazil. Weight Watchers' programs help people lose weight and maintain their weight loss and, as a result, improve their health, enhance their lifestyles and build self-confidence. At the core of its business are weekly meetings, which promote weight loss through education and group support in conjunction with a flexible, healthy diet and exercise method. Each week, over 1.5 million people attend approximately 46,000 Weight Watchers meetings around the world. The Company's approach towards weight loss and control is based on four core elements: group support, behavior modification, healthful eating and exercise.
WNI Weider Nutrition International, Inc. (Weider) develops, manufactures, markets, distributes and sells branded and private-label vitamins, nutritional supplements and sports nutrition products in the United States and worldwide. Weider's portfolio of brands, including Schiff, Weider, Tiger's Milk, Multipower and Multaben, are primarily marketed through mass market, health food store and health club and gym distribution channels. Weider markets its products, both domestically and internationally, in five principal categories: specialty supplements, vitamins and minerals, sports nutrition, weight management and nutrition bars. The business is organized into three business units: the Schiff Specialty Unit, the Active Nutrition Unit (ANU) and the Haleko Unit. On August 18, 2004, Weider announced its agreement with Weider Health and Fitness for the sale of certain assets of ANU.
WDAC.OB Weida Communications, Inc. (Weida (USA)) is a United States-managed company that participates in the China telecommunications market through its majority-ownership interest in Guangzhou Weida Communications Technology Co. Ltd. and its wholly owned subsidiary PRC citizens (Weida PRC). Weida PRC designs, engineers, integrates and installs satellite-based ground segment systems and network solutions for the business-to-business market segment in China. The Company's satellite operations in China provide ground-based equipment and related services to support government and corporate applications, including broadband Internet access, remote meter monitoring and mission-critical data back-up systems. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, SCL Ventures, Ltd., is engaging in the telecommunications business in China, and entered into a master agreement with Weida PRC.
WGNR Wegener Corporation (WGNR) conducts its business through Wegener Communications, Inc. (WCI), a wholly owned subsidiary. WCI is a provider of digital solutions for video, audio and Internet protocol (IP) data networks, primarily via satellite delivery. Applications include broadcast and cable television, business television, IP data delivery, distance education, business music and radio networks. COMPEL, WGNR's network control system, provides network flexibility to regionalize programming, commercials and file transfers. The primary markets served by the Company are business and private networks, cable television, broadcast television and broadcast radio. The Company's products include iPump Media Servers, MediaPlan Content Management and Ingest, Compel Network Control System, UNITY Satellite Receivers, DTV Digital Stream Processors, analog audio products and uplink products, such as encoders.
WZEN Webzen Inc. is engaged in developing and distributing online games principally in the Republic of Korea and in other countries within Asia. The Company's principal game product MU is a three-dimensional, multi-player online role-playing game first introduced in May 2001. MU can be accessed from any location with a high-bandwidth Internet connection. Registered subscribers may enter the Company's network with a password and a user-ID (identification), after downloading Webzen's basic installation software. MU players select a specific character to compete within the game with which they develop experience and enhanced game capabilities, which can be carried over into sequential gaming sessions.
WBS Webster Financial Corporation (Webster) is the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A. and Webster Insurance. With $17 billion in assets, Webster provides business and consumer banking, mortgage, insurance, financial planning, trust and investment services through 147 banking offices, 268 automated teller machines (ATMs), telephone banking and the Internet. Webster Bank owns the asset-based lending firm, Webster Business Credit Corporation; the insurance premium finance company, Budget Installment Corp., and Center Capital Corporation, an equipment finance company headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut. In May 2004, the Company acquired FIRSTFED America Bancorp Inc., headquartered in Swansea, Massachusetts, the holding company for First Federal Savings Bank of America. In December 2004, the Company completed the acquisition of First City Bank.
WSSI WebSideStory, Inc. is a provider of on-demand Web analytics services. Web analytics refers to the collection, analysis and reporting of information about Internet user activity. The Company's services collect data from Web browsers, process that data and deliver reports of online behavior to its customers on demand. Customers subscribe to WebSideStory's services, including its primary service, HBX, to understand how Internet users respond to Website design and content, online marketing campaigns and e-commerce offerings. The Company delivers services over the Internet using a secure, scalable application and system architecture, which allows WebSideStory to serve a large number of customers and to efficiently distribute the workload across its network of servers.
WBSN Websense, Inc. provides employee Internet management (EIM) products that enable organizations to analyze, report and manage how their employees use computing resources, including Internet access, instant messaging (IM), peer-to-peer file sharing, network bandwidth and desktop applications. The Company's primary product offering is the Websense Enterprise software application, its central policy engine and management console. Websense Enterprise also serves as a platform for related Websense add-on modules such as Client Application Manager, Bandwidth Optimizer, instant message (IM) Attachment Manager and Client Policy Manager, and supports a variety of reporting options that allow organizations to document patterns of employees' use of computing resources.
HLTH WebMD Corporation conducts its business in four segments: Portal Services (WebMD Health), Transaction Services (WebMD Envoy), Physician Services (WebMD Practice Services) and Plastic Technologies (Porex). WebMD Health, WebMD Envoy and WebMD Practice Services provide various types of healthcare information services and technology solutions. In January 2004, the Company acquired the Internet portal resources of Physicians' Online, LLC, a subsidiary of Andrx Corporation. Physicians' Online is a portal of authenticated physicians providing professional communications, peer-to-peer discussions, up-to-date medical information and other resources. In December 2003, the Company acquired Medifax-EDI, Inc., a provider of real-time medical eligibility transaction services and other claims management solutions. In August 2003, the Company completed the sale of two operating units of Plastic Technologies segment.
WEFN WebFinancial Corporation, formerly Rose's Holdings, Inc. through WebBank, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, provides commercial and consumer specialty finance transactions. WebBank is authorized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to charge interest, including periodic rates, late fees and prepayment fees allowed by Utah law on loans made to borrowers who reside in most states of the country. WebBank is a small, business oriented institution insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and examined and regulated by the FDIC and the State of Utah Department of Financial Institutions.
WEBX WebEx Communications, Inc. develops and markets services that allow end users to conduct meetings and share software applications, documents, presentations and other content on the Internet using a standard Web browser. Integrated telephony and Web-based audio and video services are also available using standard devices such as telephones, computer Web cameras and microphones. The Company's Web communications services provide a range of features that build on the real-time functionality and capabilities of the WebEx MediaTone Network. The WebEx MediaTone Network is a private, global-switched, redundant network that is designed to deliver scalable, secure, real-time communications services to its customers by capturing screen data from a meeting presenter's computer, translating that information into a proprietary format and routing that information through WebEx switching clusters to the meeting session participants.
WEBB.OB Webb Interactive Services, Inc. owns securities of Jabber, Inc., a commercial developer of real-time communications software and instant messaging (IM) solutions offering proprietary, scalable extensible IM software solutions for carriers, service providers for original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and independent software vendor (ISV) partners and for large enterprises. The Company formed Jabber, Inc. in February 2000, to commercialize the Jabber.org instant messaging system. Webb became the commercial sponsor of the Jabber.org open-source movement in September 1999. Jabber commenced operations in May 2000, and released its initial proprietary IM software product in March 2001. During the years ended December 31, 2003 and 2002, Jabber earned revenue from licensing its software, fees from support and maintenance agreements and fees from professional service contracts. At December 31, 2003, on an as-if converted basis, Webb owned 43.6% of Jabber's common stock.
WFT Weatherford International Ltd. is a provider of equipment and services used for the drilling, completion and production of oil and natural gas wells. The Company conducts operations in approximately 100 countries and has approximately 500 service and sales locations worldwide. During 2003, Weatherford realigned its divisions into two principal operating divisions as part of an ongoing productivity initiative. The Drilling Services division provides drilling methods, well construction, drilling tools and intervention services. The Production Systems division provides completion systems, artificial lift systems and production optimization.
WDFC WD-40 Company markets WD-40; 3-IN-ONE Oil; two heavy-duty hand cleaner brands, known as Lava and Solvol; four household product brands, known as X-14 hard surface cleaners and automatic toilet bowl cleaners; 2000 Flushes automatic toilet bowl cleaner; Carpet Fresh rug and room deodorizer, and Spot Shot aerosol carpet spot stain remover. The Company's brands are sold in various global locations. Lubricant brands are sold worldwide in markets, such as North, Central and South America, Asia, Australia and the Pacific Rim, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Household cleaner brands are sold primarily in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and the Pacific Rim. Heavy-duty hand cleaner brands are sold primarily in the United States and Australia. In 2004, the Company purchased the 1001 line of carpet and household cleaners, and introduced Spot Shot and Carpet Fresh formulas through the use of a brand recognized by market consumers.
WCI WCI Communities, Inc. is a fully integrated homebuilding and real estate services company with experience in the design, construction and operation of leisure-oriented, amenity-rich, master-planned communities. WCI designs, sells and builds single- and multi-family homes serving move-up, pre-retirement and retirement home buyers. The Company also designs, sells and builds luxury residential towers targeting affluent, leisure-oriented home purchasers. It has developed master-planned communities where residents enjoy lifestyle amenities such as golf courses, country clubs, deep-water marinas, tennis and recreational facilities, luxury hotels, upscale shopping and a variety of restaurants. WCI's master-planned communities offer a range of residential products from moderately priced homes to higher-priced, semi-custom, single- and multi-family homes and luxury residential towers.
WCAA WCA Waste Corporation is a vertically integrated, non-hazardous solid waste management company. It provides non-hazardous construction/demolition, industrial and municipal solid waste collection, transfer and disposal services in the south and central regions of the United States, serving approximately 87,000 commercial, industrial and residential customers in Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. The Company owns 15 collection operations, eight transfer stations, six municipal solid waste landfills and seven construction and demolition debris landfills. In addition, the Company operates, but does not own, two additional transfer stations, and holds certain prepaid disposal rights at landfills in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. In December 2004, the Company acquired Trash-Away, Inc., a collection company located in Piedmont, South Carolina.
WAYN Wayne Savings Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company of Wayne Savings Community Bank (the Bank). The Bank's principal business activity consists of originating one- to four-family residential real estate loans in its market area. It also originates multi-family residential and non-residential real estate loans. Wayne Savings Community Bank also originates consumer loans and, to a lesser extent, construction loans. The Bank also invests in mortgage-backed securities and maintains a significant portion of its assets in liquid investments, such as United States Government securities, federal funds and deposits in other financial institutions. In June 2004, the Company acquired Stebbins Bancshares, Inc. and its national bank subsidiary, Stebbins National Bank of Creston, Ohio. Following the acquisition, Stebbins National Bank will continue its operations as a branch of the Bank.
WAVR.OB WaveRider Communications Inc. is a wireless technology company that develops, manufactures and markets a suite of products and services that enable all types of users to conduct business, access services and enhance communication. It has developed a family of fixed wireless access products capable of providing wireless high-speed Internet access to businesses, organizations and consumers. The Company's wireless network products are designed to operate in the license-free industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) radio spectrum, which facilitates a more rapid and low-cost market introduction for service providers than for licensed or hardwire solutions. The products utilize direct sequence spectrum (DSS) communications, which ensures high speed, reliable, secure, low-interference communications. On July 2, 2003, it acquired Avendo Wireless Inc, a privately held wireless development company.
WVCM Wavecom S.A. is a supplier of technological solutions for wireless digital voice and data applications. The Company develops and sells a range of integrated solutions, including all the software and hardware elements required for designing wireless devices, as well as the development tools and services required for faster, easier market launches of its customers' end products. Wavecom offers an array of market-specific solutions under its development labs banner. The Company has four families of development labs, each dedicated to a specific market, one development lab dedicated to mobile telephones and connected personal digital assistants, including voice, data and multimedia features, and three development labs for vertical applications, automotive, machine-to-machine systems and wireless local loop.
WAVX Wave Systems Corp. (Wave) is a development-stage company that develops, produces and markets products for hardware-based digital security, including security applications and services that are complementary to and compliant with the specifications of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG). TCG is an industry standards body, comprised of computer and device manufacturers, software vendors and others, whose purpose is to develop, define and promote open industry standard specifications for embedded hardware-enabled computing products, including security technologies across multiple platforms, peripherals and devices. The TCG specification recommends a hardware-based trusted computing platform, which is a platform that uses a semiconductor device, known as a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) that performs protected activities, including protected storage, platform authentication, protected cryptographic processes and attestable state capabilities.
WPP Wausau-Mosinee Paper Corporation manufactures, converts and sells paper and paper products within three principal operating groups: the Printing &amp; Writing Group, the Specialty Paper Group and the Towel &amp; Tissue Group. The Printing &amp; Writing Group manufactures and converts a line of uncoated printing, writing and imaging papers in various weights, colors, sizes and finishes. The Specialty Paper Group's three facilities produce a variety of technical specialty papers and is a producer of liner papers used for peel-and-stick, pressure-sensitive labels, and a domestic producer of unsaturated masking tap base paper. The Towel &amp; Tissue Group produces a line of paper towel and tissue products that are marketed along with soap and dispensing system products for the industrial and commercial away-from-home market. In October 2004, the Company acquired the assets of Missota Paper Company, LLC, a specialty manufacturer of high-quality uncoated freesheet paper.
WTS Watts Water Technologies, Inc. is a global manufacturer of safety and flow control products for residential and commercial plumbing, heating and water quality markets. Its business is reported in North America, Europe and China. The Company's principal product lines include backflow preventers for preventing contamination of potable water caused by reverse flow within water supply lines and fire protection systems; a range of water pressure regulators for both commercial and residential applications; water supply and drainage products for commercial and residential applications; temperature and pressure relief valves for water heaters, boilers and associated systems; point-of-use water filtration and reverse osmosis systems for both commercial and residential applications; thermostatic mixing valves for tempering water in commercial and residential applications, and pumping systems for under-floor radiant applications. In January 2005, acquired HF Scientific, Inc.
WW Watson Wyatt &amp; Company Holdings, including its subsidiaries is a global human capital consulting firm. The Company helps clients enhance business performance by improving their ability to attract, retain and motivate qualified employees. It has approximately 3,925 associates in 61 offices located in 18 countries. Watson Wayatt combines the expertise in human capital management with consulting and technology to improve the design and implementation of various human resources (HR) programs, including compensation, retirement and healthcare plans. The Company designs, develops and implements HR strategies and programs through the closely interrelated practice areas, such as Benefits Group, Technology Solutions Group and Human Capital Group. The clients include emerging growth companies, public institutions and non-profit organizations.
WPI Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is engaged in the development, manufacture, marketing, sale and distribution of branded and off-patent (generic) pharmaceutical products. At December 31, 2003, the Company marketed more than 35 branded pharmaceutical products and more than 120 generic pharmaceutical products. Watson also develops advanced drug delivery systems designed to enhance the therapeutic benefits of existing drug forms. The Company sells its branded and generic pharmaceutical products primarily to drug wholesalers, retailers and distributors, including chain drug stores, hospitals, clinics, government agencies and managed healthcare providers, such as health maintenance organizations and other institutions. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Watson's four largest customers were AmeriSourceBergen Corp. McKesson HBOC, Cardinal Health, Inc. and Walgreen Co.
WSO Watsco, Inc. is an independent distributor of air conditioning, heating and refrigeration equipment and related parts and supplies (HVAC) in the United States. The Company has two business segments, the HVAC distribution (Distribution) segment, which accounted for 98% of 2003 revenue and presently operates from 318 locations in 31 states, and a temporary staffing and permanent placement services (Staffing) segment, which accounted for 2% of 2003 revenue. The Company seeks to provide products generally required by a contractor when installing or repairing a central air conditioner, furnace or refrigeration system. Watsco also owns Dunhill Staffing Systems, Inc., which is a staffing service network. Through franchised, licensed and company-owned offices in 30 states and Canada, Dunhill provides temporary staffing and permanent placement services to businesses, professional and service organizations, government agencies, health care providers and other employers.
WSCC Waterside Capital Corporation is a closed-end investment company licensed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) as a Small Business Investment Corporation (SBIC). The Company makes equity investments in, and provides loans to, small business concerns to finance the growth, expansion and modernization of small private businesses, primarily in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Under applicable SBA regulations, Waterside is restricted to investing only in qualified small business concerns as contemplated by the Small Business Investment Act of 1958. The Company made its first loan to a small business concern in October 1996, and its first equity investment in November 1996.
WTRS Waters Instruments, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets electric fence systems and medical products. The Company operates two principal business units: Zareba Systems and Waters Medical Systems (WMS). Zareba designs, manufactures and markets electric fence controllers, high-tensile fence systems, insulators, poly wire, tape and rope, as well as accessories for animal control and containment to agricultural cooperatives, mass merchandisers focusing on the retailer market and hardware stores. WMS designs, manufactures and markets organ preservation devices and cardiovascular analytical instruments used in hospitals, organ procurement organizations and laboratories. In March 2004, the Company sold certain assets of Waters Network Systems (WNS).
WAT Waters Corporation, an analytical instrument manufacturer, designs, manufactures and sells, through its Waters Division, high-performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry instrument systems and associated service and support products, including chromatography columns and other consumable products. Through its TA Instruments Division (TAI), the Company designs, manufactures services and sells thermal analysis and rheology instruments. Waters is also a developer and supplier of software-based products, which interface with its instruments and are typically purchased by customers as part of the instrument system. The Company's products are used by pharmaceutical, life science, biochemical, industrial, academic and government customers working in research and development, quality assurance and other laboratory applications. Waters conducts its business through Waters Technologies Corporation, its operating subsidiary.
WATFZ Waterford Wedgwood plc designs, manufactures and markets branded luxury lifestyle products, including high-quality crystal, ceramics (including fine bone china, fine porcelain and earthenware) and premium cookware. Its portfolio of established luxury lifestyle brands includes Waterford crystal, Wedgwood fine bone china, Rosenthal porcelain and All-Clad premium cookware, among others. In addition, the Company has stable co-branding relationships with a range of designers and celebrities. The Company operates in four principal product categories: crystal, ceramics, premium cookware and other products. In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004, crystal accounted for 32% of net sales, ceramics accounted for 44%, premium cookware accounted for 12% and other products accounted for the remaining 12% of net sales.
PIK Water Pik Technologies together with its consolidated subsidiaries, is engaged in designing, manufacturing and marketing a broad range of personal health care products, swimming pool products and water-heating systems. The Company manufactures and distributes its products principally through seven facilities located in the United States and Canada. Water Pik operates in two business segments: the Personal Health Care segment, which designs, manufactures and markets showerheads, oral health products, water filtration products and personal stress relief products that are sold primarily under the Water Pik brand name, and the Pool Products and Heating Systems segment, which designs, manufactures and markets swimming pool and spa heaters, heat pumps, electronic controls, valves, pumps, filters, automatic salt chlorine generators and water features, as well as residential and commercial water-heating systems.
WGRD WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. provides Internet security solutions designed to protect small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that use the Internet for e-commerce and secure communications. The Company provides SMEs worldwide with integrated and expandable Internet security solutions employing multi-layered defenses that protect against known and future threats backed by an intuitive user interface and the guidance and support of its LiveSecurity Service. Watchguard sells its Internet security solutions, indirectly to end users, through a network that includes thousands of distributors and resellers and it has customers located in over 125 countries. The Company also sells directly and indirectly to service providers that implement its managed security solution. As of December 31, 2003, Watchguard had shipped over 200,000 of its security appliances.
WTEK.OB Waste Technology Corp. (Waste Tech) is a holding company that, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, is engaged in the manufacture and sale of balers. Balers are machines used to compress and compact a variety of waste materials into bales for easier and low cost handling, shipping, disposal, storage and/or bulk sales for recycling. Materials commonly baled include scrap metal, corrugated boxes, newsprint, cans, plastic bottles and other solid waste. More sophisticated applications include baling of textile waste and rubber. Waste Tech offers a variety of balers, certain ones that are standardized and others that are designed to specific customer requirements. Its products include general purpose horizontal and vertical balers, specialty balers, such as those used for low level radioactive waste, 55-gallon drums, aluminum can, rubber and textile waste and accessory equipment such as conveyors, rufflers, bale tying machines and plastic bottle piercers.
WSII Waste Services, Inc., formerly, Capital Environmental Resource Inc. provides collection, transfer, recycling, landfill &amp; specialized services in several geographic regions in Canada &amp; the United States. In Canada, the Company operates in two geographic regions: Eastern and Western Canada. In the United States, it has two geographic regions: Florida &amp; the Southwest region, which includes the Phoenix, Arizona, &amp; Houston, Texas operations. The Company provides its services to commercial, industrial and residential customers that are generally performed under service agreements or pursuant to contracts with municipalities. It owns nine properties in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, including three landfills that occupy approximately 720 acres of land, of which approximately 260 acres are permitted. The Company owns nine properties in Arizona, Florida and Texas, including five landfills and one facility operated as a transfer station.
WMI Waste Management, Inc. (WMI) is a provider of integrated waste services in North America. Through its subsidiaries, the Company provides collection, transfer, recycling and resource recovery and disposal services. WMI is also a developer, operator and owner of waste-to-energy facilities in the United States. The Company's customers include commercial, industrial, municipal and residential customers, other waste management companies, electric utilities and governmental entities throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada. The Company manages its operations through seven operating groups, five of which are organized by geographic area and the other two of which are organized by function. The geographic groups include the Eastern, Midwest, Southern, Western and Canadian Groups, and the two functional groups are the Recycling and Wheelabrator Groups.
WWIN Waste Industries USA, Inc. is a vertically integrated solid waste services company. The Company provides solid waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services to commercial, industrial and residential customer locations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida. Its principal operations consists of 36 collection operations, 28 transfer stations, approximately 90 county convenience drop-off centers, five recycling facilities and 11 landfills, serving more than 500,000 municipal, residential, commercial and industrial service locations. In February 2004, the Company acquired L &amp; M Sanitation, which provides private residential subscription services to eastern North Carolina, and All American Waste Management, Inc., which is a private subscription, residential and recycling services provider in the Northern Metro Atlanta market. In December 2004, the Company closed an asset swap transaction with Waste Connections, Inc.
WCN Waste Connections, Inc. is an integrated solid waste services company that provides solid waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services in mostly secondary markets in the Western and Southern United States. As of the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company served more than one million commercial, residential and industrial customers from operations in 23 states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming, and also owned or operated a network of 101 collection operations, 33 transfer stations, 34 municipal solid waste landfills, one construction and demolition landfill and 26 recycling operations.
TWH The Washtenaw Group, Inc. (Washtenaw) is engaged primarily in the mortgage banking business. The Company operates in one segment, mortgage banking, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Washtenaw Mortgage Company. Washtenaw's mortgage banking office is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. From this office, Washtenaw operates its national wholesale lending and its retail mortgage origination businesses. The Company does business with 2,000 mortgage brokers and correspondent lenders in 40 states. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the top five states in terms of number of loan purchases were Michigan, which accounted for 28% of total loan purchases, Ohio, which accounted for 12%, California, which accounted for 11%, Illinois, which accounted for 11% and Pennsylvania, which accounted for 4% of total loan purchases.
WASH Washington Trust Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company that provides a range of banking and financial services through its wholly owned subsidiary, The Washington Trust Company (the Bank). The Bank, a state chartered commercial bank, offers a range of retail and commercial deposit products through its 17 banking offices located in Rhode Island and southeastern Connecticut. Its lending business includes commercial, residential mortgage and consumer loans. The Bank's loan portfolio is concentrated among borrowers in southern New England, primarily Rhode Island, and, to a lesser extent, in Connecticut and Massachusetts. It generally underwrites its residential mortgages based upon secondary market standards. Loans are originated both for sale in the secondary market as well as for retention in the Bank's loan portfolio. The Bank sells loans with servicing both released and retained.
WSB The Washington Savings Bank, F.S.B. (WSB) is a federally chartered, federally insured stock savings bank. WSB is a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) system and its deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The Company is engaged primarily in the business of attracting deposit accounts from the general public and using such funds, together with other funds, to make first and second mortgage loans, land acquisition and development loans, construction loans, consumer loans and non-residential mortgage loans, with an emphasis on residential lending. WSB has five savings branches in Maryland. They are located in Bowie, Waldorf, Crofton, Millersville and Odenton, all of which are adjacent to the Baltimore-Washington corridor. WSB also has 11 mortgage loan origination offices, with four Virginia offices, one Pennsylvania office and six Maryland offices.
WRE Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (WRIT) is a self-administered, self-managed, equity real estate investment trust. Its business consists of the ownership, operation and development of income-producing real properties. As of December 31, 2003, The Company owned a portfolio consisting of 11 retail centers, 29 office buildings, nine multifamily buildings and 17 industrial/flex properties. The Company invests in properties in prime locations, then manages, leases and develops ongoing capital improvement programs to improve their economic performance. The percentage of total real estate rental revenue by property group, for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, and the percentage leased, calculated as the percentage of physical net rentable area leased, as of December 31, 2003 were as follows: Office buildings (89%), Retail centers (96%), Multifamily (91%) and Industrial (90%).
WPO The Washington Post Company's principal business activities consist of newspaper publishing (principally The Washington Post), television broadcasting (through the ownership and operation of six television broadcast stations), the ownership and operation of cable television systems, magazine publishing (principally Newsweek magazine), and (through its Kaplan subsidiary) the provision of educational services. During each of the last three years, the Company's operations in geographic areas outside the United States (consisting primarily of Kaplan's foreign operations and the publication of the international editions of Newsweek) accounted for less than 5% of its consolidated revenues, and the identifiable assets attributable to such operations represented approximately 6% of its consolidated assets, as of December 28, 2003 (fiscal year-end 2003), and less than 2% of its consolidated assets as of December 29, 2002 and December 30, 2001.
WM Washington Mutual, Inc. is a financial services company that serves consumers and small to mid-sized businesses. The Company operates in two business segments: the Consumer Group and the Commercial Group. Washington Mutual owns two federal savings associations and one Washington state-chartered savings bank, as well as numerous non-bank subsidiaries. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insures the deposits of each of the Company's banking subsidiaries to the applicable maximum in each institution. The Company completed the sale of Washington Mutual Finance Corporation, its consumer finance subsidiary, which was formerly part of the Commercial Group, on January 9, 2004.
WGII Washington Group International, Inc. is an international provider of design, engineering, construction, construction management, facilities and operations management, environmental remediation and mining services. The Company offers its various services separately or as part of an integrated package throughout the life cycle of a customer's project. In providing engineering and design services, Washington participates in the conceptualization and planning stages of projects that are part of its customers' overall capital programs. It also devises project configurations to maximize both construction and operating efficiency. As a contractor, Washington is responsible for the construction and completion of each contract in accordance with its specifications and contracting terms (primarily schedule and total cost). Washington operates its business through six business units: Power, Infrastructure, Mining, Industrial/Process, Defense and Energy and Environment.
WFSL Washington Federal, Inc. (Washington Federal) is a non-diversified unitary savings and loan holding company within the meaning of the Home Owners' Loan Act that conducts its operations through a federally insured savings and loan association subsidiary, Washington Federal Savings and Loan Association (the Association). The business of Washington Federal consists primarily of attracting savings deposits from the general public and investing these funds in loans secured by first mortgage liens on single-family dwellings, including loans for the construction of such dwellings, and loans on multi-family dwellings. It also originates other types of loans for its portfolio and invests in certain United States Government and agency obligations and other investments permitted by applicable laws and regulations.
WBCO Washington Banking Company (WBCO) is the holding company for Whidbey Island Bank (the Bank). The Bank provides a full range of commercial banking services to small and medium-sized businesses, professionals and other individuals through 17 branch offices in Island, Skagit, Whatcom and Snohomish counties in northwestern Washington, and provides a loan-funding source for brokers of mortgage loans through four offices in Washington and Oregon. The Bank also offers non-deposit investment products for sale through the investment advisory company, Elliot Cove Capital Management, LLC, and through sweep investment options available from a brokerage account. At December 31, 2003, WBCO had total assets of $581.7 million. In May 2004, the Company announced plans to close its WFG subsidiary, which provided a loan-funding source for mortgage loan brokers, primarily in Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
WWVY Warwick Valley Telephone Company provides telephone and online services to customers (29,602 access lines) in the contiguous towns of Warwick, Goshen and Wallkill, New York, and the townships of West Milford and Vernon, New Jersey. The telephone segment provides landline telecommunications services including local, network access, long distance services, messaging and directory services. The Warwick Online (Online) segment provides high speed and dial-up Internet services, help desk operations and Video over very high bit-rate digital subscriber line (VDSL). The Company's service area is rural and has an estimated population of 50,000.
WTEC.OB Warrantech Corporation through it's wholly owned subsidiaries, designs, develops, markets and acts as a third-party administrator for programs (Programs) for service contracts, limited warranties and replacement plans (Plans). On a Program-by-Program basis, the Company contracts with independent insurance companies or risk retention groups available to provide coverage for the Plans sold or issued under the Programs. This coverage obligates the insurer to pay the cost of repairs or replacements of the products covered by the Plans. The Company operates in three business segments: Automotive, Consumer Products and International.
WRNC The Warnaco Group, Inc. (Warnaco) designs, sources, manufactures and markets a line of intimate apparel, sportswear and swimwear worldwide. Warnaco sells its products under several brand names, including Warner's, Olga, Calvin Klein, Speedo, Chaps, Nautica and Lejaby. Warnaco's products are distributed domestically and internationally, primarily to wholesale customers through multiple distribution channels, including major department stores, independent retailers, chain stores, membership clubs, specialty and other stores and mass merchandisers, including such retailers as Macy's and other units of Federated Department Stores, The May Department Stores, J.C. Penney, Kohl's, Sears, Target and Wal-Mart. The Company also operates over 30 retail stores worldwide. During the fiscal year ended January 3, 2004, the Company operated in three business segments: Intimate Apparel Group, Sportswear Group and Swimwear Group.
WLT Walter Industries, Inc. is a diversified company with operations in five segments: Homebuilding, Financing, Industrial Products, Natural Resources, and Other. The Company markets and supervises the construction of detached, single-family residential homes, primarily in the southern United States, through the Homebuilding segment. The Financing segment provides mortgage financing on such homes. Ductile iron pressure pipe, fittings, valves and hydrants are manufactured and marketed through the Industrial Products segment. This segment also includes manufacturing and marketing of cast iron products, such as municipal castings and fireplace tools and accessories. The Natural Resources segment consists of coal mining and methane gas operations. The Other segment includes the manufacturing of foundry and furnace coke, slag fiber and specialty chemicals, as well as the Company's land division.
WAG Walgreen Company's primary business is the operation of retail drugstores. The Company is a drugstore chain in the United States with stores located in 44 states and Puerto Rico. During the fiscal year ended August 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company opened 436 stores. In fiscal 2004, Walgreen had 4,579 stores and three mail service facilities. To support store expansion, the Company opened four distribution centers in the past three years, the most recent in Moreno Valley, California, in fiscal 2004. In November 2003, Walgreen's pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) introduced Advantage90, a 90-day retail prescription option to mandatory mail programs.
WMT Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. operates retail stores in various formats around the world. It organizes its business into three segments: Wal-Mart Stores, SAM'S CLUB and International. The Wal-Mart Stores segment consists of three different retail formats, Discount Stores, Supercenters and Neighborhood Markets, all of which operate in the United States. The SAM'S CLUB segment consists of membership warehouse clubs. As of January 31, 2004, the Company operated 1,478 Discount Stores, 1,471 Supercenters, 538 SAM'S CLUBs and 64 Neighborhood Markets in the United States. The International segment consists of retail operations in eight countries and Puerto Rico. The International segment includes several different formats of retail stores and restaurants, including Discount Stores, Supercenters and SAM'S CLUBs that operate outside the United States. Additionally, the Company owns an unconsolidated 37.8% minority interest in The Seiyu, Ltd., a retailer in Japan.
WAKE.OB Wake Forest Bancshares, Inc. serves as the holding company for Wake Forest Federal Savings &amp; Loan Association (the Association). The Association is primarily engaged in the business of attracting retail deposits from the general public in its marketing area, and investing those deposits, together with other sources of funds, primarily in loans secured by one- to four-family residential real estate for retention in its loan portfolio. The Association's market area for deposit gathering and lending is concentrated in northern Wake County and southern Franklin County, North Carolina. The Association also invests its excess funds primarily in Federal Home Loan Bank stock, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation stock, United States Treasury and Agency obligations and other short-term interest-bearing deposits.
WAIN Wainwright Bank &amp; Trust (the Bank) is a state-chartered commercial bank with offices in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Bank has branches in Boston's Downtown Crossing, Davis Square, Kendall Square, Harvard Square, Back Bay/South End Station, Fresh Pond Mall, Jamaica Plain, Watertown and Central Square. It provides consumer and commercial mortgages, loans and deposit services to individuals, families, businesses and non-profit organizations. The Bank's progressive agenda includes a commitment to affordable housing, community development, women's rights and the gay and lesbian community. The Bank's acquisition of a 30% equity interest in Trillium Asset Management provides an affiliation specializing in socially responsible investing.
WDR Waddell and Reed Financial, Inc. provides investment advisory, distribution and administrative services to mutual funds and institutional and separately managed accounts through its subsidiaries. The Company derives revenues primarily from investment management, investment product underwriting and distribution and shareholder services administration provided to the Waddell and Reed Advisors Group of Mutual Funds, W and R Target Funds, Inc., the Ivy Funds, Inc., the Ivy Fund portfolios and Waddell and Reed InvestEd Portfolios, Inc. Investment management fees, the Company's most substantial source of revenues, are based on the amount of average assets under management and are affected by sales levels, financial market conditions, redemptions and composition of assets. Underwriting and distribution revenues primarily consists of sales charges and commissions derived from sales of investment products, insurance products, distribution fees on certain variable products and advisory services.
WACLY Wacoal Corporation designs, manufacturer and markets women's intimate apparel for foundation garments and lingerie. The Company also designs, manufactures and sells nightwear, children's underwear, outerwear, sportswear, hosiery and other apparel and textile products, and is engaged in several business lines that are ancillary to its core apparel business. The Company conducts its business and operations principally in Japan. In addition, the Company's overseas operations are carried out by its subsidiaries, the United States operations are carried out by its subsidiary, Wacoal America, Inc., operations in France are carried out by Wacoal France S.A., operation in China are carried out by Guangdong Wacoal Inc. and Wacoal China Co., Ltd. Vietnam Wacoal Corp., operates as the Company's subsidiary in Vietnam and Wacoal (UK) Limited operates in United Kingdom.
WB Wachovia Corporation is registered as a financial holding company and a bank holding company. The Company provides commercial and retail banking and trust services through banking offices in Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Wachovia also provides various other financial services, including mortgage banking, investment banking, investment advisory, home equity lending, asset-based lending, leasing, insurance, international and securities brokerage services, through other subsidiaries. The Company's retail securities brokerage business is conducted through Wachovia Securities, LLC, and operates in 49 states. The Company organizes its businesses into four segments: Capital Management, the General Bank, Wealth Management, and the Corporate and Investment Bank.
WBNK Waccamaw Bankshares, Inc. is a financial holding company that owns all the outstanding shares of Waccamaw Bank (the Bank). The only business activities of the Company consist of the activities of the Bank. Waccamaw Bank is a state-chartered bank that serves Columbus County, North Carolina and surrounding areas through three banking offices and Brunswick County through two banking offices. The Bank's principal business of the Company is to provide individual and corporate banking services through its main service area. These services include demand and time deposits, as well as commercial, installment, mortgage and other consumer lending services that are traditionally available from community banks.
WAB Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation, doing business as Wabtec Corporation, primarily serves the worldwide freight and passenger transit rail industries and provides products and services through two principal business segments: the Freight Group and the Transit Group. The Freight Group manufactures and services components for new and existing freight cars and locomotives, while the Transit Group does the same for passenger transit vehicles, typically subways and buses. Both business segments serve original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and provide aftermarket services with the aftermarket accounting for about 56% of net sales. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Freight Group accounted for 73% of the Company's total net sales and the Transit Group accounted for the remaining 27%.
WNC Wabash National Corporation designs, manufactures and markets standard and customized truck trailers and intermodal equipment under the Wabash, FreightPro, Articlite and RoadRailer trademarks. Its transportation equipment products include DuraPlatetTrailers, DuraPlateDomestic containers, smooth aluminum trailers, refrigerated trailers, aluminum plate trailers and RoadRailer equipment. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Wabash National Trailer Centers, Inc., sells new and used trailers through its retail network and provides aftermarket parts and maintenance service for the Company's and competitors' trailers and related equipment. Wabash markets its transportation equipment to truckload common carriers, leasing companies, private fleet carriers, less-than-truckload common carriers and package carriers.
VYYO Vyyo Inc. supplies wireless broadband end-to-end solutions used by telecommunications providers to deliver both wireless telephony and high-speed data connections to business and residential subscribers. The technology uses point-to-multipoint architecture to deliver circuit switched (telephony), as well as voice and data, over Internet protocol (IP). The Company sells its systems directly to service providers and system integrators that provide network planning and integration services; integrates its systems with other components in the network, and provides their customers with end-to-end network solutions. In 2001, Vyyo also provided system integration services to some of its service provider customers to more effectively implement its systems.
VYRX.OB Vyrex Corporation is a research and development stage company seeking to discover and develop pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals for the treatment and prevention of respiratory, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases and conditions associated with aging. The Company's pharmaceutical technology is focused on three formulations: Propofol Phosphate, Vantox and Panavir. Propofol Phosphate is a water-soluble pro-drug of propofol, a general anesthetic agent. Vantox is the Company's lead drug candidate. Vantox is an inhaled antioxidant, intended to be used in vapor form. Panavir is the Company's antioxidant drug candidate that may inhibit human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) proliferation and may target the events leading to the slow, progressive deterioration of the immune system
VIP Vimpel-Communications (VimpelCom) is a provider of wireless telecommunications services in Russia, operating under the Bee Line GSM brand name. The Company offers wireless services, such as voice telephony service, value-added services using short message system, unstructured supplementary services data, wireless application protocol, general packet radio service, maintenance management system technologies, interconnections with other networks and access to both national and international roaming service. VimpelCom offers services to subscribers under two types of payment plans: contract plans and prepaid plans. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had approximately 11.4 million subscribers on its wireless networks, compared to approximately 5.2 million as of December 31, 2002.
VMC Vulcan Materials Company and its subsidiaries are principally engaged in the production, distribution and sale of construction materials (Construction Materials) and chloralkali and other industrial chemicals (Chemicals). Construction Materials and Chemicals are both reported as segments. Vulcan is a producer of construction aggregates, asphalt and ready-mixed concrete, and a chemicals producer, producing chloralkali and other industrial chemicals. Its Construction Materials business consists of the production, distribution and sale of construction aggregates and other construction materials and related services. In 2003, the Chemicals segment was organized into two business units: Chloralkali, operating under the Vulcan Chemicals name, managed its line of chloralkali products and related businesses and Performance Chemicals, operating under the Vulcan Performance Chemicals name, managed its specialty chemicals and services business.
VUL Vulcan International Corporation is a holding company that wholly owns the common stock of Vulcan Corporation, a manufacturer of the products, including rubber, plastics, foam products, bowling pins. It manufactures rubber and foam products in a 272,000-square-foot building located in Clarksville, Tennessee. Approximately 57% of sales of those products in 2003 were for use by shoe manufacturers in the United States. The Company entered into an agreement with Brunswick Bowling and Billiards Corporation to form a joint venture for the manufacture of bowling pins using its Surlyn coating process. It also has a majority interest in the upper seven floors of the 10-story Cincinnati Club Building in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio.
VXEN.OB VTEX Energy, Inc. is engaged in the exploration, production, acquisition, and development of oil and gas properties, along with its subsidiary, Vector Exploration. These operations are conducted in the United States. The Company holds interests in the Lisbon Properties in the states of Texas and Louisiana; East Westbrook Properties in Mitchell County, Texas; Old Vector Properties in Oklahoma and Kansas; Texas Energy &amp; Environmental, Inc. Properties in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, and a block located in the offshore Texas, Mustang Island Area. As of April 30, 2004, the Company had $72 million in proved reserves, which reserves are primarily located in two fields: Bateman Lake, located in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, and Mustang Island 818-L, located in state waters offshore, Texas.
VSCE.OB Vsource, Inc. is a provider of business process outsourcing (BPO) services to companies operating into and across the Asia-Pacific region, as well as human capital management services to small and medium-sized businesses in the United States. The Company's BPO is the outsourcing by a company of certain business and operational functions by hiring third-party vendors, such as Vsource, to perform those functions on their behalf, while in human capital management services, Vsource is the co-employer, taking responsibility for managing the payroll, benefits, employee claims processing and administrative functions. If such functions were not outsourced, then a company would need to perform those functions internally, using its own personnel, infrastructure and resources. It began offering human capital management services in October 2003. Components of its BPO solutions are customer relationship management; financial and payroll administration; supply chain management, and sales management.
VSEC VSE Corporation is engaged in providing diversified engineering, logistics, management and technical services, performed on a contract basis, through its wholly owned subsidiaries and unincorporated divisions. Substantially all of the Company's contracts are with agencies of the United States Government and other government prime contractors. Its customers also include non-government organizations and commercial entities. Active subsidiaries, during the year ended December 31, 2003, include Energetics Incorporated and Human Resource Systems, Inc. (HRSI). Active divisions include BAV division, coast guard division (VCG), communications and engineering division (CED), fleet maintenance division (FMD), management sciences division (MSD), systems engineering division (SED), telecommunications technologies division (TTD) and value systems services division (VSS). In February 2003, the Company began phasing out the operations of TTD.
VPGI.OB VPGI Corporation discontinued normal operations in December 2002. The Company is continuing to evaluate various options and may consider a merger candidate, an acquisition of a viable business or positioning the Company for a buyer of the corporate entity. VPGI did not own manufacturing facilities, but contracted all manufacturing to third parties. The Company was primarily engaged in hightechnology product sales, and consulting and support services. The product sales segment consisted of set-top boxes, network equipment, computer cabling, computer telephony integration (CTI) and personal computer equipment and peripherals. The consulting and support services segment consisted of services for the implementation of e-business solutions, software support maintenance, and network development and support.
VOXW.OB Voxware, Inc. is a provider of voice-based technology that optimizes the front-line logistics and distribution center workforce. Its primary product, VoiceLogistics, enables warehouse workers to perform an array of logistics tasks, such as picking, receiving, put away, replenishment, loading, returns processing, cycle counting, cross-docking and order entry. VoiceLogistics also gives distribution center management a tool for reducing logistics costs and optimizing complex materials handling processes. The VoiceLogistics solution is a combination of software, hardware and professional services. VoiceLogistics is primarily sold to large companies that operate warehouses and distribution centers. The Company has customers from a variety of industry sectors, including food service, grocery, retail, consumer packaged goods, third-party logistics providers and wholesale distribution.
VCP Votorantim Celulose e Papel S.A. (Votorantim Pulp and Paper Inc. (VCP)) produces a variety of pulp and paper products. VCP produces pulp both for sale (market pulp) and for use in its paper production. The Company sells hardwood bleached market pulp, both to the Brazilian domestic market and to the export market outside Brazil. VCP produces coated and uncoated printing and writing paper, carbonless, thermal and other specialty papers. Within the printing and writing paper category, the Company produces cut-size, folio-size and rolled products. VCP also has forestry operations, which produce the pulp wood required for its production. It has forests in the State of Sao Paulo and a forest reserve in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, which was acquired during the three months ended March 31, 2004. VCP is a member of the Votorantim Group, which has other interests in Brazil and abroad, principally in cement, metallurgy, agribusiness, chemicals and financial services.
VNO Vornado Realty Trust is a fully integrated real estate investment trust conducting its business through Vornado Realty L.P. (the Operating Partnership). The Company owns all or portions of 83 office properties aggregating approximately 27.3 million square feet in the New York City metropolitan area (primarily Manhattan) and in the Washington D.C. and Northern Virginia area. Vornado also owns 60 retail properties in six states and Puerto Rico aggregating approximately 12.9 million square feet and 8.6 million square feet of showroom and office space, including the 3.4 million-square-foot Merchandise Mart in Chicago, Illinois. In addition, the Company owns a 60% interest in the Vornado Crescent Portland Partnership, which owns 87 cold storage warehouses nationwide with an aggregate of approximately 440.7 million cubic feet of refrigerated space leased to AmeriCold Logistics.
VOLVY Volvo Corporation (Aktibolaget Volvo) is an international transport equipment group with a worldwide marketing organization and production. Volvo operates in two main areas: cars and vehicles for commercial use, including trucks, buses, and construction equipment and marine and industrial engines. Operations also include production and maintenance of aircraft engines and financial services. In March 1999, Volvo sold Volvo Cars to Ford Motor Company. As a result of this sale, Volvo focuses on the commercial transport products segment. Through the acquisition of Mack Trucks Inc. and Renault V.I. in 2001, the Company strengthened its position as a producer of heavy trucks. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Volvo's operations were organized in eight business areas: Volvo Trucks, Renault Trucks and Mack Trucks, Buses, Construction Equipment, Volvo Penta, Volvo Aero and Financial Services. The Volvo Trucks, Renault Trucks and Mack Trucks business areas are reported as one segment.
VLTR Volterra Semiconductor Corp. is engaged in the design, development and marketing of high-performance analog and mixed-signal power management semiconductors for the computing, storage, networking and consumer markets. The Company's core products are integrated-voltage regulator semiconductors and scalable-voltage regulator semiconductor chipsets that transform, regulate, deliver and monitor the power consumed by digital semiconductors. The Company has integrated power, analog and digital circuits onto a single complementary metal-oxide silicon semiconductor, eliminating the need for a large number of discrete components required by conventional power management solutions. Volterra sells its products primarily to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, contract equipment manufacturers and power supply manufacturers, directly through its internal sales force or indirectly through distributors and outsourced suppliers.
VOL Volt Information Sciences, Inc. operates in two major businesses, Staffing Services and Telecommunications and Information Solutions, consisting of four operating segments: Staffing Services, Telephone Directory, Telecommunications Services and Computer Systems. The Staffing Services segment provides a range of employee staffing services to customers throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. The Telephone Directory segment publishes independent telephone directories in the United States and Uruguay. It also provides telephone directory production, commercial printing, database management, sales and marketing services. The Telecommunications Services segment primarily provides telecommunications services, including design, engineering, construction, installation, maintenance and removals services. The Computer Systems segment provides directory assistance services, and designs, develops, sells, leases and maintains computer-based directory assistance services.
VMII.OB Voice Mobility International, Inc. is a voice service and related messaging company that operates through its four wholly owned subsidiaries: Voice Mobility Inc., Voice Mobility (US) Inc., Voice Mobility Canada Limited and VM Sub Limited. The Company markets and deploys next-generation messaging solutions that provide enhanced messaging features and functionality while ensuring integration with or replacement of first-generation voicemail messaging systems. Voice Mobility markets an enhanced messaging software suite that allows telecommunications companies to replace their aging legacy voicemail systems and incorporate incremental offerings, such as real-time call connect, voicemail-to-e-mail, fax-to-e-mail and unified mailbox services. The software suite can also serve as a first-generation voicemail and messaging system for telecommunications companies that do not have an existing voicemail system.
VTEK Vodavi Technology, Inc. designs, develops, markets and supports a range of business telecommunications solutions, including traditional and Internet protocol (IP) telephony products, voice processing products, as well as computer telephony products, that address a variety of business applications. The Company's telecommunications solutions incorporate features, such as automatic call distribution, scalable networking, IP, as well as wireless solutions. Its voice processing products include Internet messaging, automated attendant and voice and fax mail. Vodavi's computer-telephony products enable users to integrate the functionality of their telephone systems with their computer systems. The Company markets its products primarily in the United States, as well as in foreign countries through a distribution model consisting primarily of wholesale distributors and direct dealers.
VOD Vodafone Group Plc (The Group) provides a range of mobile telecommunications services, including voice and data communications. The Group was formed as a subsidiary of Racal Electronics Plc., known as Racal Telecom Limited. The Company changed its name to Vodafone AirTouch Plc in June 1999, and then to Vodafone Group Plc, on July 28, 2000. The Company is a mobile telecommunications company in Europe, the United States and the Asia Pacific region through the Company's subsidiary undertakings, associated undertakings and investments. The Group also has controlling interests in certain non-mobile telecommunications businesses. On January 21 2003, the Company announced that its subsidiary, Vodafone Holding GmbH, completed the acquisition of SBC's 15% interest in Cegetel Group for a cash consideration of $2.27 billion.
VOCL VocalTec Communications Ltd. is a supplier of packet-based voice solutions for next-generation telecommunication networks suitable for the telecommunications and enterprise markets. The Company's solutions incorporate carrier-class switching equipment and software that enables voice to be delivered over packet-based networks, including the Internet. VocalTec's solutions enable telecommunications carriers and service providers to reduce both capital and operating expenses by utilizing a more efficient network infrastructure to establish and operate voice networks. In addition, its solutions provide a platform for telecommunications carriers and service providers to increase their revenues through the delivery of Internet protocol (IP)-based voice and data services, such as voice virtual private networks (VPNs), helping them to retain and expand their customer base.
VNUS VNUS Medical Technologies, Inc. (VNUS) is a provider of medical devices for the minimally invasive treatment of venous reflux disease. Venous reflux disease, a progressive condition caused by incompetent vein valves, is characterized by the poor return of blood from the legs to the heart. This results in symptoms that significantly impact quality of life such as leg pain, swelling, fatigue, skin ulcers and painful varicose veins. The Company sells the Closure system, which consists of a radio-frequency (RF) generator and disposable endovenous catheters to close diseased veins through the application of temperature-controlled RF energy. The Company also sells accessory products such as sterile supply kits used to conduct its Closure procedure. Its Closure system provides the benefits of a minimally invasive procedure and in a randomized clinical trial was established to be as effective as vein stripping, with fewer side effects and faster recovery.
VVUS VIVUS, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the research, development and commercialization of products to restore sexual function in men and women. In addition to its marketed therapies, the Company has a pipeline that includes, both, new chemical entities and existing compounds that are being developed to address unmet medical needs. In the United States, it markets MUSE (alprostadil) and ACTIS, two products for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. The Company has four research and development programs in progress, targeting male and female sexual function: ALISTA, Estradiol MDTS, Testosterone MDTS and Avanafil. The first two programs are in Phase III clinical development, and the second two are in Phase II clinical development.
V Vivendi Universal is a media and telecommunications company. Vivendi Universal has two main businesses with different segments: Media, with Canal+ Group, Universal Music Group, Vivendi Universal Games and Vivendi Universal Entertainment, and Telecom, with SFR Cegetel Group and Maroc Telecom. In the media sector, Vivendi Universal is carrying out internal management and other restructuring changes designed to strengthen the competitive position and profitability of each of its business units. Vivendi Universal's telecommunications strategy is focused on penetrating growing markets and building on the market positions of both SFR Cegetel Group and Maroc Telecom.
VTO Vitro, S.A. de C.V. is a holding company that conducts all of its operations through its subsidiaries. Its operations are organized into three operating business units: the Flat Glass business unit, which focuses on the manufacturing, processing and distribution of flat glass for the construction and automotive industries; the Glass Containers business unit, which manufactures and distributes soda lime glass containers for the soft drink, beer, food, liquor and wine, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, as well as raw materials, machinery and molds for the glass industry, and the Glassware business unit, which focuses on the manufacturing and distribution of glassware, flatware, stemware, bakeware and home decor products for the consumer segment, glassware and flatware for the food service segment and coffee carafes, blender jars, lids, meter covers, candle holders and lighting products for the industrial segment, in each case, of the glassware industry.
VITR Vitria Technology, Inc. provides business process integration software and services for corporations in healthcare, telecommunications, finance, manufacturing and other markets. The Company's software automates business processes across multiple existing systems, people and trading partners in order to reduce operating costs, enhance revenues and improve customer service. Vitria develops and delivers the Vitria:BusinessWare business process integration software platform together with packaged applications and best practices content. These applications and content are designed to solve business problems, such as healthcare claims lifecycle management, straight-through processing in capital markets and order management for telecommunications and manufacturing.
VVN Vitran Corporation Inc. is a provider of surface transportation and related logistics services throughout Canada and in 18 states in the central and southern United States. Its business, carried on through its subsidiaries, consists of less-than-truckload services (LTL), which consists of two main business units, Canadian LTL and United States LTL; logistics services, which consists of two principal lines of businesses, supply chain solutions in Canada and the United States and freight brokerage, and truckload services. As of December 31, 2003, Vitran was primarily engaged in providing a range of freight services composed of the subsidiaries and operating units, such as Vitran Express Canada, Vitran Express, Vitran Logistics and Frontier Transport.
VTSS Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation is a supplier of high-performance integrated circuits (ICs) principally targeted at systems manufacturers in the communications and storage industries. Within the communications industry, the Company's products address the enterprise, metro and core segments of the communications network, where they enable data to be transmitted at high-speeds and to be processed and switched under a variety of protocols. In the storage industry, its products enable storage devices to be networked efficiently. The customers include communications and storage original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), such as Alcatel, Cisco, EMC, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, Huawei, IBM, LSI Logic, Lucent, Nortel, Siemens, Sun Microsystems and Tellabs. In February 2004, the Company acquired Cicada Semiconductor Corporation, a supplier of DSP-based IC solutions to developers of high-speed communications systems used in local area networks (LANs).
VSTH.OB VitalStream Holdings, Inc. through its subsidiaries, VitralStream, Inc. and VitalStream Broadcasting Corporation, provides products and services that allow companies to broadcast video, audio and other related digital media over the Internet. Specifically, VitalStream provides content delivery network services, such as streaming, hosting and related products and services that allow clients to outsource their digital broadcasting needs. The Company provides streaming, hosting and other related services to companies in a variety of industries. VitalStream focuses its marketing efforts toward media and entertainment companies, advertising agencies, radio stations, Internet gaming companies, companies needing online training or Webcasting, as well as other businesses that create and have a need to electronically distribute their digital media.
VITL Vital Signs, Inc., designs, manufactures and markets medical products for the anesthesia, respiratory, critical care, neonatal, sleep therapy and emergency markets. The Company acquired Breas Medical AB (Breas) and National Sleep Technologies, Inc., and since the merger of HSI Medical Services Corporation, it has expanded the focus into the sleep therapy and personal ventilation markets. The Company developed and introduced a variety of single-patient use products. The Company developed a general anesthesia kit, which can combine over 20 disposable items in one convenient, cost-effective package. It operates a number of sleep diagnosis centers, which test for the presence of sleep apnea, and tailor specific products for individual patients.
VTLV.OB Vital Living, Inc. develops or licenses nutraceuticals and markets them for distribution through physicians, medical groups, chiropractic offices and retail outlets. Vital Living develops and tests its nutraceuticals in collaboration with medical experts in the nutraceuticals field and has designed them to be incorporated by physicians into a standard physician-patient program in which patients supplement doctor-prescribed pharmaceuticals with its nutraceuticals. Vital Living is developing safe and naturally derived nutritional products, utilizing advanced drug-delivery technologies, including the Geomatrix technology through its affiliation with SkyePharma PLC. The Geomatrix technology has been provided exclusively for Vital Living's pharmaceutical development in China, and the development of nutraceuticals on a global basis.
VTAL Vital Images, Inc. develops, markets and supports three-dimensional (3D) medical imaging software for use primarily in clinical diagnosis, disease screening and therapy planning. The Company's software applies computer graphics and image-processing technologies to a variety of data supplied by computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance scanners. Vital Images' products allow clinicians to create two-dimensional (2D), 3D and four-dimensional (4D) views of human anatomy, and to non-invasively navigate within these images to better visualize and understand internal structures and pathologies. In February 2004, the Company acquired HInnovation, Inc., a private Milwaukee-based provider of software solutions that allow physicians to use personal computers or notebooks to access 2D, 3D and 4D medical imaging applications over the Internet.
VSF Vita Food Products, Inc. (Vita Food) is a processor of herring products and cured and smoked salmon products in the United States. The Company's products include a variety of cuts of pickled herring in cream and wine based sauces and lox and nova salmon. It also markets other complementary specialty food products, such as cream cheese with salmon, shrimp cocktail, horseradish, cocktail, tartar sauces and salad dressings. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Vita Specialty Foods, Inc., Vita Food manufactures and distributes salad dressings, gourmet sauces, honey, jams and jellies. The Company's customers include regional supermarket chains, wholesale clubs and gourmet shops throughout the United States and in Canada and Mexico.
EYE VISX, Incorporated is engaged in the design and development of proprietary technologies and systems for laser vision correction. The Company's principal product, the VISX STAR Excimer Laser System, is designed to correct the shape of a person's eyes to reduce or eliminate their need for eyeglasses or contact lenses. The United States Food and Drug Administration has approved the VISX System for use in the treatment of most types of vision problems, including nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. VISX sells VisionKey cards to control the use of the VISX System and to collect license fees for the use of its patents. The Company also offers the VISX WaveScan System. The WaveScan System is a diagnostic device that uses laser beam technology to measure refractive errors of the eye and complex mathematical algorithms to derive comprehensive refractive information about the patient's individual optical system, and then displays this information in the form of an aberration map.
VNWK Visual Networks, Inc. designs, manufactures, sells and supports performance management platforms for communications networks. The Company's products, Visual UpTime Select and Visual IP InSight, allow businesses and organizations and their providers of network services to measure the performance of their networks, to determine whether a network is performing consistent with the requirements of the software applications running on that network and to determine whether the level of service being provided is meeting those standards agreed upon by the service provider and its enterprise customer. These platforms also help enterprises to understand how their software applications and users are using the network, the performance those applications and users are experiencing and the required network capacity. The Company markets its products to enterprises, service providers and systems integrators.
VBIB.OB Visual Bible International, Inc. is a faith-based media company that has secured the worldwide rights to develop, produce and market film adaptations on a word-for-word basis from popular versions of the Bible, including both Books of the Old and New Testaments. The Company has concluded a license agreement with the American Bible Society for the rights to produce, distribute, market and sell, in visual format, its copyrighted Good News and Contemporary English Versions of the Bible. In January 2003, the Company commenced principal photography of the three-hour film adaptation of The Gospel of John based on the American Bible Society's Good News Translation Bible. The film was completed in early September 2003. The direct marketing has been augmented to include Web-marketing and sales to church groups. A program to sell to retail chains and rental stores was subsequently developed for Easter 2004 delivery.
VC Visteon Corporation is a global supplier of automotive systems, modules and components to vehicle manufacturers and the automotive aftermarket. The Company operates in two business segments: Automotive Operations and Glass Operations. The Automotive Operations segment provides automotive systems, modules and components in the following product areas: climate control, interior, exterior, powertrain, chassis and electronics. Its products are featured on vehicles built by many automotive manufacturers, including Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Toyota, DaimlerChrysler, Volkswagen, Honda, Renault, Nissan, Hyundai, Peugeot, Mazda and BMW. The Automotive Operations segment accounted for 97% of the Company's 2003 total sales. The Glass Operations segment designs, produces and distributes automotive glass products for Ford and aftermarket customers, and float glass for commercial architectural and automotive applications. Glass Operations accounted for 3% of 2003 total sales.
VSTA VistaCare, Inc. provides hospice services in the United States through interdisciplinary teams of physicians, nurses, home healthcare aides, social workers, spiritual and other counselors and volunteers. The Company provides care primarily designed to reduce pain and enhance the quality of life of terminally ill patients, most commonly in their home or other residence of choice. As of December 31, 2003, VistaCare had 40 hospice programs serving patients in 14 states with a census of approximately 5,140 patients. The Company's services are available around the clock and can be provided in a patient's home or other residence of choice, such as a nursing home or assisted living facility, or in a hospital or other inpatient facility. VistaCare operates two inpatient facilities, a 12-bed, standalone facility in Cincinnati, Ohio, and an eight-bed skilled nursing-based facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
VMTI Vista Medical Technologies, Inc. (VMTI) is a disease state management company focused on the treatment of morbid obesity. VMTI operates two business units: Obesity Surgical and Medical Management Services and Visualization Technology. The Obesity Surgical and Medical Management Services business, operated by the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, VOW Solutions, Inc., provides services to physicians and hospitals involved in the surgical treatment of morbid obesity. Its services include management of the Company's original product offering, the Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery Preceptorship, an introduction to starting a minimally invasive gastric bypass surgical program. In addition, the business offers consulting and program management services, which enable the efficient operation of obesity surgery programs.
VGZ Vista Gold Corp. is engaged in the evaluation, acquisition and exploration of gold exploration and potential development projects. The Company's subsidiaries include Hycroft Resources &amp; Development, Inc., Hycroft Lewis Mine, Inc., Vista Gold Holdings Inc., Vista Gold U.S. Inc., Vista Nevada Corp., Granges Inc., Vista Gold (Antigua) Corp., Minera Paredones Amarillos S.A. de C.V., Compania Inversora Vista S.A., Minera Nueva Vista S.A., Compania Exploradora Vistex S.A., Idaho Gold Resources LLC and Mineral Ridge Resources Inc. The Company owns or controls 11 gold properties: the Maverick Springs, Mountain View, Hasbrouck, Three Hills, Wildcat projects and the Hycroft mine, all in Nevada; the Long Valley project in California; the Yellow Pine project in Idaho; the Paredones Amarillos and Guadalupe de los Reyes projects in Mexico, and the Amayapampa project in Bolivia. It also owns several exploration claims in Canada and approximately 25% of a company exploring for gold in Ecuador.
VSCI Vision-Sciences, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets products for endoscopy, known as an endoscope, to provide minimally invasive access to areas not readily visible to the human eye. The Company operates in three segments: medical, industrial and corporate. The medical segment designs, manufactures and sells EndoSheath System, a single-use device that slides on to the insertion tube of a flexible endoscope, and also a sterile device that provides patients with a contaminant-free insertion tube for each procedure. Through industrial segment, it manufactures and sells borescopes, endoscope devices for industrial applications and related products. The industrial segment manufactures and repairs flexible endoscopes, which include conventional nasopharyngolaryngo (ENT) endoscopes and video enabled endoscopes for the ENT market. It also manufactures and repairs trans-nasal diagnostic esophagoscope (TNE D scope), sigmoidoscope, bronchoscope and other endoscopes.
VSH Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. is an international manufacturer and supplier of passive and discrete active electronic components. Passive components include resistors, capacitors, transducers and inductors. Active components include diodes, transistors, rectifiers, power integrated circuits, infrared transceivers, infrared sensors and optocouplers. The Company offers its customers one-stop access to an electronic component line of any manufacturer in the United States, Europe and Asia in both the newer surface mount configuration and the traditional leaded form. Its components are used in virtually every type of product that contains electronic circuitry, including computer-related products, automotive applications, power management products, process control systems, telecommunications equipment, military and aerospace applications, measuring instruments, consumer electronics and appliances, industrial equipment, medical instruments and electronic scales.
VSNI.OB Viseon, Inc. has historically been a developer of group videoconferencing systems primarily sold to corporate and government-related end users and original equipment manufacturers (OEM) customers. The Company recognized the need to modify its business model and in January 2003, changed its focus from being a group videoconferencing manufacturer and reseller to a desktop and consumer video communications manufacturer and reseller. The only measurable revenue the Company receives result from sales of the VisiFone, a personal broadband video communication device marketed to businesses and consumers.
VRYA ViryaNet Ltd. is a provider of integrated mobile and Web-based software applications for workforce management and the automation of field service delivery. In addition, the Company provides additional software applications for spare parts logistics, contract management and depot repair operations. Its principal product, the ViryaNet Service Hub, supports a range of work order needs, including from short-duration tasks to complex, multi-day and multi-resource projects. ViryaNet Service Hub manages the lifecycle of a work order, including high-volume and project-based scheduling and dispatching mobile technology, field-level reporting, tracking materials, managing assets and ensuring support for entitlements and compliance with service level agreements.
VGTI.OB VirtGame Corp. is a provider of gaming software to the regulated gaming and lottery industries, and offers licensed casinos, sports wagering and lottery operations, a comprehensive suite of software products. VirtGame's solution is based on an open architecture, supporting multiple operating system platforms and databases that requires no special hardware, and provides distribution of server-based casino games, sports wagering and lotteries through various distribution channels, including local networks with a casino, such as over-the-counter, stand alone kiosks and in-room wagering, and wide area networks, such as online closed loop Intranets or the Internet. The Company's software products are based on the VirtGameSP, a server platform, from which all other members of the software suite operate. VirtGame's casino, sports wagering and lottery products include PrimeLine Sports Book, PrimeLine Race Book, VirtLottery, VirtCasino and VirtBorder Control.
VPHM ViroPharma Incorporated is a pharmaceutical company engaged the development and commercialization of products that address serious diseases treated by physician specialists and in hospital settings. The Company is focusing product development activities on viral diseases, including cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections related to hematopoietic stem cell (bone marrow) transplantation and hepatitis C (HCV). Its CMV product candidate, maribavir (VP41263) entered Phase I clinical studies in January 2004. ViroPharma expects to initiate Phase II studies with maribavir in mid-2004. ViroPharma and Wyeth initiated Phase I clinical trials of the Company's lead product candidate for the treatment of HCV in February 2004.
VLGC ViroLogic, Inc. is a biotechnology company developing, marketing and selling products to guide and improve treatment of viral diseases. The Company developed a way of measuring the impact of genetic mutations on drug resistance and using this information to guide therapy. Its products are used by physicians in selecting optimal treatments for their HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) patients and by industry, academia and government for clinical studies, drug screening and characterization and basic research. The Company markets products, including PhenoSense HIV, GeneSeq HIV, PhenoSense GT, Replication Capacity HIV, PhenoScreen, PhenoSense HIV Entry, GeneSeq HIV Entry, PhenoSense HIV Co-Receptor Tropism, PhenoSense HIV Antibody Neutralization for Vaccine Development, GeneSeq HCV and GeneSeq HBV. It is also developing additional products: PhenoSense and GeneSeq HIV Integrase, PhenoSense HCV and PhenoSense HBV.
VFGI Virginia Financial Group, Inc. (VFG) is a bank holding company. The Company's trust affiliate, Virginia Commonwealth Trust Company, manages fee-based assets of approximately $391 million and brokerage assets of approximately $99 million. VFG's affiliates include: Planters Bank &amp; Trust Company of Virginia, in Staunton; Second Bank &amp; Trust, in Culpeper; Virginia Heartland Bank, in Fredericksburg, and Virginia Commonwealth Trust Company, in Culpeper. The Company has a network of 37 branches serving a market throughout central, south central and southwest Virginia. Virginia Commonwealth Trust Company has offices in Culpeper, Fredericksburg, Harrisonburg and Staunton. During the year ended December 31, 2003, VFG opened loan production offices in the Cities of Charlottesville and Lynchburg. In September 2003, the Company acquired eight branches from three First Virginia member banks: First Virginia Bank-Southwest, First Virginia Bank-Blue Ridge and First Virginia Bank-Colonial.
VCBI Virginia Commerce Bancorp, Inc. serves as the bank holding company for Virginia Commerce Bank (the Bank). The Bank pursues a traditional community banking strategy, offering a range of business and consumer banking services through thirteen branch offices, two residential mortgage offices and one investment services office. The Bank's customer base includes small-to-medium size businesses including firms that have contracts with the United States government, associations, retailers and industrial businesses, professionals and their firms, business executives, investors and consumers. In addition, the Bank engages in commercial real estate, construction and residential mortgage lending.
VIRGY.OB Virgin Express Holdings PLC (Virgin Express), known as Eurobelgian Airlines S.A./N.V., operates as a low-fare, scheduled airline that provides short to medium-haul jet service to markets within continental Europe from the Company's base in Brussels. Virgin Express provides services between 15 European cities, including eight European capitals, such as Amsterdam, Athens, Brussels, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Madrid, Rome and Stockholm-Bromma, as well as nine other European cities being Barcelona, Bordeaux, Faro, Geneva, Gothenburg, Malaga, Milan-Linate, Nice and Palma de Mallorca.
VIR Virco Manufacturing Corp. designs, produces and distributes high-value furniture or moveable educational furniture and equipment. The markets the Company serves include the education market that includes public and private schools (preschool through 12th grade), junior and community colleges, four-year colleges and universities and trade, technical and vocational schools; convention centers and arenas; the hospitality industry, with respect to their banquet and meeting facilities requirements; government facilities at the federal, state, county and municipal levels, and places of worship. In addition, it sells to wholesalers, distributors, retailers and catalog retailers that serve these same markets. Virco's primary furniture lines are constructed of tubular metal legs and frames, combined with wood and plastic tops, plastic seats and backs, upholstered seats and backs and upholstered rigid polyethylene and polypropylene shells.
VRAL.OB Viral Genetics, Inc. is engaged in the discovery and development of a series of diagnostic and/or therapeutic applications of its Thymus Nuclear Protein technology aimed primarily at the treatment of infectious disease, autoimmune diseases and immunological deficiency. The Company's lead drug candidate VGV-1 is a treatment for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). VGV-1 is a purified extract of mammalian thymus tissue. Viral Genetics acquired the intellectual property rights underlying VGV-1 from Therapeutic Genetics, Inc. The Company's studies of VGV-1 suggest that patients receiving no additional anti-HIV therapy had sustained decreases in viral load up to nine months after treatment with VGV-1.
VGNI.OB Viragen International, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the research, development, manufacture and sale of a natural human alpha interferon product indicated for treatment of a range of viral and malignant diseases. It produces a natural human alpha interferon product under the trade name of Multiferon from human white blood cells (leukocytes). In July 2004, the Company was granted a patent from the United States Patent &amp; Trademark Office for a process relating to the manufacture of Multiferon. In March 2004, the Company filed a patent application in the United States covering the use of the Company's natural human alpha interferon for the treatment and prevention of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). In February 2004, Viragen filed a patent application with the British Patent Office covering the use of natural, multi-subtype alpha interferon for human treatment and prevention of avian influenza virus commonly known as avian flu.
VRA Viragen, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the research, development, manufacture and sale of a natural human alpha-interferon product indicated for the treatment of a range of viral and malignant diseases. The Company is also developing technologies aimed at improving the manufacturing processes used to manufacture certain medical therapies. Specifically, Viragen is primarily focused on three fields of research and development: human leukocyte-derived interferon, which are derived from human white blood cells for the treatment of a range of viral and malignant diseases; avian transgenics technologies, designed to produce protein-based drugs inside the egg whites of transgenic developed chickens, and oncological therapies for the treatment of targeted cancers.
VIRL Virage Logic Corporation provides application-optimized semiconductor intellectual property (semiconductor Internet protocol, or semiconductor IP) platforms based on memory, logic and design tools that are silicon proven and production ready. The Company's semiconductor IP consists of embedded memories; compilers that allow chip designers to configure its memories into different sizes and shapes on a single silicon chip; memory test processor and fuse box components for embedded test and repair of defective memory cells, software development tools that can be used to build memory compilers and logic elements. The Company also provides custom design services to the semiconductor industry. Its customers include Altera, AMCC, ATI Technologies, Broadcom, PMC-Sierra, Sandisk, TranSwitch, Vitesse Semiconductor, Agere, Agilent, AMI Semiconductor, Conexant, Freescale, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Kawasaki, LSI Logic, NEC, Philips Electronics, Sharp, Sony, STMicroelectronics and Toshiba.
VION Vion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a development stage company engaged in the development of therapeutics and technologies for the treatment of cancer. The Company's portfolio of potential products consists of two distinct small molecule anticancer agents in clinical development, Triapine and CLORETAZINE (VNP40101M). Additional small molecules, heterocyclic hydrazones and KS119, and a drug delivery system, TAPET (Tumor Amplified Protein Expression Therapy), are in preclinical development. In addition, the Company licenses the patent and technology for MELASYN, a synthetic form of melanin, and also licenses applications related to B-L-Fd4C, an antiviral drug capable of inhibiting the replication of the hepatitis B virus (HBV).
VPI Vintage Petroleum, Inc. is an independent energy company engaged in the acquisition, exploitation and exploration of oil and natural gas properties, as well as in the marketing of natural gas and crude oil. Vintage's acquisition strategy is to acquire producing properties with significant upside potential at competitive costs. Through development activities, the Vintage staff unlocks the upside potential of acquired properties, increasing production and adding reserves. The Company also explores for oil and gas through a balanced risk program designed to grow reserves and production in North America in the near term and through a potentially high-impact program targeting areas outside the Company's core operations with a longer-term time frame.
VNBC Vineyard National Bancorp serves as a holding company for Vineyard Bank and for other banking or banking-related subsidiaries that the Company may establish or acquire. Vineyard Bank is a community bank that operates nine full-service banking centers located in each of the communities of Rancho Cucamonga, Chino, Diamond Bar, La Verne, Crestline, Blue Jay, Irwindale, Manhattan Beach and Corona, all of which are located in Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties in California. The Bank is primarily involved in attracting deposits from individuals and businesses and using those deposits, together with borrowed funds, to originate commercial business and commercial real estate loans, primarily to small businesses, churches and private schools, single-family construction loans, small business administration (SBA) loans, income property loans and, to a lesser extent, single-family permanent loans and various types of consumer loans.
VCO Vina Concha y Toro is a corporation that owns and operates vineyards that grow grapes for use in the Company's wine-making operations, vinification plants, which convert grapes into wine, bottling plants and its wine distribution network. Within Chile, the Company owns 20 vineyards and leases three other vineyards, located in Chile's six principal wine growing regions. In addition to its properties in Chile, the Company owns 662 hectares of land near Mendoza, Argentina. In domestic and export markets, the Company's bottled wines are sold in the premium, varietal, varietal blend and sparkling wine segments. In the domestic market, the Company sells wines packaged primarily in one liter, 1.5 and two-liter tetra brik packages. The total wine sales during the year ended December 31, 2003, amounted to 142.8 million liters.
VLGEA Village Super Market, Inc. operates a chain of 23 ShopRite supermarkets, 16 of which are located in northern New Jersey, one of which is in northeastern Pennsylvania and six of which are in the southern shore area of New Jersey. Village Super Market is a member of Wakefern Food Corporation, retailer-owned food cooperative and owner of the ShopRite name. This relationship provides the Company many of the economies of scale in purchasing, distribution, advanced retail technology and advertising associated with chains of greater size and geographic coverage.
VGCP.OB Viking Capital Group, Inc. is a diversified international holding company engaged in acquisitions and fee income. To achieve its mission, the Company identifies businesses for acquisition that are not optimizing opportunities that are available. These businesses include, but are not limited to, the food and beverage industry, the gas and oil pipeline supply industry and life insurance.
VISG Viisage Technology, Inc. delivers technology identity solutions for governments, law enforcement agencies and businesses concerned with enhancing security, reducing identity theft, providing access control and protecting personal privacy. The Company's business involves two related segments: secure credentials and biometrics. The secure credentials solutions segment involves the design, development, marketing and implementation of integrated software and hardware solutions that produce identification credentials utilizing face recognition and other biometric technologies. The focus of the biometric technology solutions segment is primarily on applications designed to deter criminal and terrorist activities, including government research and development contracts. On January 23, 2004, it acquired ZN Vision Technologies AG, now known as Viisage Technology AG. On February 14, 2004, the Company acquired Trans Digital Technologies Corporation (TDT).
VIGN Vignette Corporation provides software and expertise to help organizations harness the power of information and the Web to deliver measurable improvements in business efficiency. The Company's intranet, extranet and Internet solutions incorporate portal, integration, enterprise content management and collaboration capabilities that can deliver advantages through an open, scalable and adaptable architecture that integrates with legacy systems. Vignette's products and capabilities are supported by a professional services organization, Vignette Professional Services (VPS), which offers pre-packaged and custom services, along with documented best practices, to help organizations define their online business objectives and deploy their content management, portal, process, collaboration, integration and analysis applications. It provides support for industry standard platforms, including both Java 2 Platform-Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Microsoft .NET.
VWPT Viewpoint Corporation is a provider of interactive media technologies and services. The Company's graphics operating platform, the Viewpoint Media Player, has been licensed by companies for use in online, offline and embedded applications serving a variety of needs, including marketing campaigns, rich media online advertising, product presentations and business process visualizations. Viewpoint also offers an online advertising campaign management and deployment product, known as Creative Innovator. On March 17, 2004, Viewpoint entered the Internet search business by launching a toolbar search product, called the Viewpoint Toolbar. The Viewpoint Toolbar attaches to the Internet explorer browser, enabling Web surfers to conduct Internet searches without leaving the Web page they are viewing. In addition, the Company provides its customers fee-based professional services for implementing visualization solutions. In January 2005, the Company acquired Unicast Communications Corporation.
VCST.OB ViewCast.com, Inc., doing business as ViewCast Corporation, incorporated in 1994, is a global provider of enterprise-wide, video communication products for both real-time and on-demand applications. ViewCast operates in two distinct business segments: Video Communications Products and Services and Information Technology (IT) Services and Products. The Video Communications Products and Services segment is engaged in designing, developing and marketing video communications products and services. The products enable video processing and communications and include the Osprey line of video capture and video compression-decompression cards; the ViewCast Interactive Video Network (IVN) and Viewpoint VBX video distribution systems; the Niagara line of video encoding systems and servers, and related application software such as SimulStream and SCX. The IT Services and Products segment includes the operations of the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Delta Computec Inc. (DCi).
VYST.OB View Systems, Inc. designs and develops computer software and hardware used in conjunction with weapons detection and surveillance capabilities. Among its products are the ViewMax and MiniMax digital video surveillance systems and SecureScan, a concealed weapons detection system. Other products include FirstView, a hazardous material first response video transmitting system, and various interfaces for biometrics, access control and telecommunications. The Company also offers other products that can be integrated with SecureScan or ViewMaxx. In addition, it offers support services for its products. The Company's family of products offers government and law enforcement agencies, commercial security professionals, private businesses and residential consumers an enhanced surveillance capacity. It also offers an efficient and economical method to store, search and retrieve historically stored data.
VSL Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) provides public international telecommunication services in India, directly and indirectly linking the Indian domestic telecommunications network to approximately 237 international destinations. The Company's primary business is the provision of public international switched telecommunication services (telephone, telex and telegraph). The Company also provides a variety of specialized and value-added services, such as international leased lines, Internet telephony, satellite mobile telecommunications, Internet dial-up access, Internet leased line access throughout India, electronic data interchange, managed data network services, video conferencing, the transmission of television signals, packet switched data transmission and e-mail services. VSNL also offers national long distance (NLD) and Internet telephony services and has also begun offering broadband services.
VCTY.OB Videolocity International, Inc. is a development stage company engaged in the business of engineering, marketing and deployment of the Videolocity Digital Entertainment System (DES), and other digital information and entertainment systems. DES delivers video-on-demand in near Digital Video Disc quality. It also delivers application specific information, games, music, educational material, and wireless high-speed Internet access to individuals, residents, hotel guests, and patients/attendants in the healthcare industry. During fiscal 2003, the Company focused on the acquisition and development of its technology and preliminary marketing activities. Videolocity has marketed its products to the hospitality and healthcare industries as well as some telecommunications companies and cable television companies. Marketing efforts have been limited to North America.
VIDE Video Display Corporation designs, manufactures and supplies a range of display devices and component parts for military, medical, industrial and consumer display applications. The Company's product line encompasses both cathode ray tube (CRT) displays and flat-panel displays (FPD) with emphasis on market displays for specialty applications. Video Display Corporation also acts as a facilitator and wholesale distributor of parts and accessories for various original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of consumer products. The Company markets its products worldwide from facilities located in the United States, and one subsidiary operation in the United Kingdom. During the fiscal year ended February 29, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Video Display Corporation's Monitor division accounted for 75% and the Data Display CRT division accounted for 13% of Company's total revenues. In August 2004, the Company acquired ESCP and TargetView CRT projector product lines.
MICU Vicuron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a transatlantic biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceutical products. The Company's lead antifungal product candidate, Anidulafungin, is intended for the intravenous treatment of fungal infections. Its lead antibiotic product candidate, Dalbavancin, is a next-generation antibiotic belonging to the same class as vancomycin, one of the most widely used injectable antibiotics for Staphylococcal infections. Dalbavancin is intended for the treatment of serious infections, particularly those caused by Staphylococci. Vicuron's third product candidate, Ramoplanin, is a type of antibiotic called a lipopeptide that has a novel mechanism of action. The Company's fourth product candidate, VIC-Acne, is a novel antibiotic that the Company is developing as a topical cream.
VICI.OB Victor Industries, Inc. was originally organized to purchase and develop mining properties. In December 1988, the Company sold its assets and net of liabilities, and became inactive. During the year ended December 31, 1993, the Company began zeolite mining and marketing operations. Zeolite is an ammonia absorbent, air purifier and hazardous waste absorbent. The Company is developing a product using zeolite, which can be used in fertilizer to reduce pollution of streams and rivers. Zeolite is extracted by utilizing independent contractors at a property in Owhyee County, Idaho. Private contractors do the milling, manufacturing and packaging. The Company does not own any mining or manufacturing equipment or facilities and has realized no revenues from zeolite products during the year ended December 31, 2003. It owns mineral claims in Pershing County, Nevada, and two zeolite claims in Owhyee County, Idaho.
VICR Vicor Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets modular power components and complete power systems, many of which use high-frequency electronic power conversion technologies, called zero current and zero voltage switching. In addition to component-level power converters, which serve as modular power system building blocks, the Company also manufactures and sells configurable power systems, accessory products and custom power solutions. The Company operates in one industry segment: the development, manufacture and sale of power conversion components and systems.
VII Vicon Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures, assembles and markets a wide range of video systems and system components used for security, surveillance, safety and control purposes by end users. Vicon's primary business focus is the design of digital video systems and components that it produces and sells worldwide to installing dealers, system integrators, government entities and distributors. It operates within the electronic protection segment of the security industry, including fire and burglar alarm systems, access control, video systems and asset protection. The United States security industry consists of individuals and businesses that provides products and services for the protection and monitoring of life, property and information. The security industry includes fire and burglar alarm systems, access control, video systems, asset protection, guard services and equipment, locks, safes, armored vehicles, security fencing, private investigations, biometric systems and others.
VICL Vical Incorporated is engaged in the research and development of biopharmaceutical products based on its deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) delivery technologies for the prevention and treatment of serious or life-threatening diseases. The Company's independent development focus is on novel DNA vaccines for cytomegalovirus (CMV) and anthrax, as well as cancer immunotherapeutic (Allovectin-7). The Company is able to enhance technologies through licensing and collaborative agreements. Vical's areas of research and product development efforts include vaccines for use in high-risk populations for infectious disease targets for which there are significant United States needs; vaccines for general pediatric or adult populations for infectious disease applications for which a challenge model or accepted surrogate marker are available, and Cancer vaccines or immunotherapy, which complement existing programs and core expertise.
VAS Viasys Healthcare Inc. is a healthcare technology company engaged in developing, manufacturing, marketing and servicing a variety of medical devices, instruments and medical and surgical products for use in the respiratory, critical care, neurocare and medical and surgical product markets. The Company's businesses are combined into four segments through which it operates: Respiratory Technologies, Critical Care, NeuroCare and Medical and Surgical Products. Viasys markets its products in over 100 countries and its customers include hospitals, alternate care sites, clinical laboratories, private physicians and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The Company derives 43% of its revenues from sales outside the United States.
VSAT ViaSat, Inc. is a provider of digital satellite communications and other wireless networking and signal processing equipment and services to the government and commercial markets. ViaSat develops and manufactures satellite ground network systems and other related defense and commercial digital communications equipment. Generally, the Company's sales consist of either project contracts to study, research, develop, test, deploy, support and/or manufacture customized communication systems and/or products for either commercial or government customers, or selling, deploying and/or supporting standard off-the-shelf products to either commercial or government customers. Usually, off-the-shelf products are developed through a combination of customer and discretionary internal research and development funding.
VVI Viad Corp. provides services that address the needs of trade show organizers and exhibitors, as well as travel and recreation services in the United States and Canada. GES Exposition Services, Inc. (GES) provides various convention and trade show services throughout North America, such as freight handling, transportation, installation, dismantling and management services to trade show associations, trade show management companies and exhibitors. Exhibitgroup/Giltspur (Exhibitgroup) designs, constructs, installs and warehouses convention and trade show exhibits and displays, primarily for corporate customers in North America, and, to a lesser extent, in Europe. Brewster Tours, Inc. (Brewster) provides a variety of tourism services in the Rocky Mountains of southern Alberta, Canada. Glacier Park, Inc. (Glacier Park) is a concessionaire in Glacier National Park in Montana.
VIAb Viacom Inc. is an entertainment company with operations in cable networks, television, radio, outdoor, entertainment and video. In the Cable Networks segment, the Company owns and operates advertiser-supported basic cable television program services through MTV Networks and Black Entertainment Television and subscription television program services through Showtime Networks Inc. The Television segment consists of the CBS and UPN television networks, the Company's broadcast television stations and its television production and syndication businesses. The Radio segment owns and operates 185 radio stations through Infinity Radio. The Outdoor segment, through Viacom Outdoor, displays advertising on various media. The Entertainment segment includes the operations of Paramount Pictures, Simon &amp; Schuster and Paramount Parks. The Video segment consists of the Company's equity interest in Blockbuster Inc. In December 2004,Viacom Inc. acquired SportsLine.com.
VNWI VIA Net.Work, Inc. is a provider of Internet protocol-based business communication solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises in Europe and the United States. It offers six types of services: Hosting, which are complemented by Website authoring, development and management services; Security, which allows customers to protect their data and intellectual and commercial assets; Connectivity, which provides Internet access through dial-up, dedicated line and other technologies, including integrated services digital network and digital subscriber line; Networking, which includes a portfolio of Internet protocol-based virtual private network; Voice, which includes dedicated account management, and Professional Services, which include network and system design, Web design, Website development and maintenance, virtual private networks and Internet security design and implementation and other Internet-related services.
VITX V.I. Technologies, Inc. is a development-stage biotechnology company developing products designed to improve the safety of the world's blood supply. The Company's INACTINE Pathogen Reduction System for red cells (the INACTINE system) is designed to inactivate a range of viruses, bacteria, parasites and lymphocytes from red blood cells. The INACTINE system has also demonstrated in non-clinical trials high efficiency in removing prion proteins. Prion proteins in their pathogenic forms are the agents that cause Mad Cow Disease, or in humans, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, which is 100% fatal, and for which no diagnostic or therapy exists. The technology works by binding to the RNA (ribonucleic acid) or DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) of the pathogen. Once bound, the compound forms an irreversible bond to the pathogenic nucleic acid, preventing replication and thereby "killing" the pathogens. The Company's lead product candidate, the INACTINE system, is in a Phase III clinical trial.
VFIN.OB vFinance, Inc. is a holding company engaged in the financial services business and focuses on servicing the needs of high-net-worth and institutional investors and high-growth companies. The Company, through its Website, www.vfinance.com, provides financial information services to entrepreneurs and venture investors. Through its principal operating subsidiary, vFinance Investments, Inc., a licensed broker-dealer, vFinance provides investment banking, retail and institutional securities brokerage services in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. vFinance has a joint venture agreement with JSM Capital Holding Corp. (JSM). In May 2003, vFinance merged its company-owned retail branches into JSM, which became an independent contractor of vFinance. In November 2004, the Company's subsidiary, vFinance Investments Holdings, Inc., acquired selected assets of Global Partners Securities, Inc., including its subsidiary, EquityStation.
VFC V.F. Corporation, through its operating subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, sources and markets branded apparel products in the United States and in several international markets. The Company's business is managed through over 25 consumer-focused marketing units, which are organized into four main segments: Consumer Apparel, Outdoor Apparel and Equipment, Occupational Apparel and All Other. Consumer Apparel consists of jeanswear and related products, sportswear, women's intimate apparel and children's apparel. Outdoor Apparel and Equipment consists of VF's outerwear and adventure apparel, plus daypacks and technical equipment. Occupational Apparel is distinguished from the other segments because of a different class of customers. All Other consists primarily of V.F.'s licensed sports apparel and distributor knitwear operations. The Company has a broad customer base with products distributed through department, chain, specialty and discount stores.
VSTN Vestin Group, Inc. is primarily engaged in the commercial mortgage brokerage business. The Company arranges loans to owners and developers of real property whose financing needs are not being met by traditional mortgage lenders. It conducts its operations primarily through Vestin Mortgage, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, which operates as a mortgage broker and is engaged in the brokerage and placement of commercial loans secured by real property. Its primary operations consist of the brokerage and placement of commercial, construction, acquisition and development, land and residential mortgage loans secured by real property, as well as managing three publicly held funds, Vestin Fund I, LLC (Fund I), Vestin Fund II, LLC (Fund II) and Vestin Fund III, LLC (Fund III, collectively referred to as the Funds), as well as Vestin Nevada, Inc. The Funds and in Vestin Nevada invest in mortgage loans. Fund III also intends to invest in real property.
VTA Vesta Insurance Group, Inc. is a holding company whose principal assets are investments in the capital stock of a group of insurance companies that constitute the Vesta Insurance Group. It conducts business in three areas of the personal insurance industry: standard property and casualty, non-standard automobile and life. The Company operates in five business segments: standard property-casualty insurance; non-standard agency; non-standard underwriting; life insurance, and corporate and other. It conducts its principal operations through Vesta Fire Insurance Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary. As a holding company for 12 insurance subsidiaries, Vesta writes various types of personal insurance in all 50 of the United States and the District of Columbia.
VERT Verticalnet, Inc. is a provider of supply management solutions to Global 2000 companies. The Company provides supply management software, services and domain expertise in areas that include spend analysis, advanced esourcing, eprocurement, contract management and supplier scorecards. Its solutions are bundled into four process steps of supply management: Supply Strategy, Supply Selection, Supply Execution and Supply Performance. In addition, Verticalnet's professional services and consulting groups provide customers with project management, architecture and design, custom development services and training.
VHSL.OB Vertical Health Solutions, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary, LabelClick, Inc., develops, markets and distributes customized private label supplements and health products to veterinarians in the companion animal sector, which consists of canine, feline, equine and numerous other household pets and, to a lesser extent, other veterinary distributors. The Company's LabelClick subsidiary offers private labeling solutions that allow its customers to customize private label vitamins and nutritional supplements in small quantities. The custom supplement labels typically include its customer's business name, contact information and logo. In addition to its customized private label operations, Vertical Health Solutions sells certain nutriceutical products specifically formulated for companion animal usage that are marketed under its Vitality Systems brand name. In November 2004, the Company's subsidiary Drug Depot, Inc., acquired certain assets of T &amp; L Pharmacies, Inc.
VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated is a biotechnology company in the business of discovering, developing and commercializing small molecule drugs for serious diseases, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, inflammatory and autoimmune disorders and cancer, independently and with collaborators. The Company's principal focus is on the development and commercialization of new treatments for viral and inflammatory diseases. There are two Vertex-discovered products on the market now for the treatment of HIV and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), Agenerase and Lexiva. Vertex' pipeline of potential products includes several drug candidates targeting chronic HCV infection, drug candidates targeting inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, acute coronary syndromes and psoriasis and compounds directed at cancer therapy.
VETX.OB Vertex Interactive, Inc. is a provider of supply chain management technologies, including enterprise software systems and applications and software integration solutions, which enable its customers to manage their order, inventory and warehouse management needs, consultative services, and software and hardware service and maintenance. The Company serves its clients through three general product and service lines: Enterprise solutions; Point solution, and Service and maintenance for its products and services, including service and maintenance of software and hardware it resells for third parties. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), two customers accounted for more than 10% of the Company's total revenues.
VRSO Verso Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets products and solutions that enable carrier, enterprise and government entities to lower telecom costs, reduce network complexity and optimize network resources. The Company focuses on areas within the communications market, with specific emphasis on application-based, turnkey solutions that leverage legacy circuit-based network investments towards converged, packet-based networks. Verso Technologies has two primary business units: the Carrier Solutions Group and Enterprise Solutions Group. Each unit includes a range of products and services designed to meet the specific needs of a particular customer segment. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company acquired substantially all of the operating assets of Clarent Corporation (Clarent), which specializes in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology.
VITC.OB VersaTech, Inc. announced, in February 2003, that all operations consisting of manufacturing, marketing and distribution of its product, Unitropin (hGH Formula Plus), would be discontinued. Its rights, inventory and Website operations are in the process of being valued for divestiture. The Company is seeking out new business opportunities. In May 2001, the Company discontinued all operations of its wholly owned subsidiary, Universal Network of America, Inc. (Universal). It transferred the trademark name of its product, Unitropin, from Universal to VersaTech, and engaged in limited sales and marketing of the product. The Company has marketed its Unitropin product directly to customers via its Website, www.unitropin.com, and via wholesale distributors and retail outlets. Unitropin is manufactured for the Company by Garden State Nutritionals. It is a label-mix of herbs, vitamins and adaptogens that increase the body's own production of human growth hormone.
VATA Versata, Inc. provides a business logic management system that enables the creation, execution, change and re-use of business logic for companies to build large, distributed applications in the Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) infrastructure. The Company provides a declarative approach for transaction and process logic, which enables companies to deliver business logic as a key strategic asset of their enterprise architecture. For organizations building large-scale, transaction-intensive J2EE applications, the Company provides the Versata Logic Suite, which includes the Versata Logic Studio and the Versata Logic Server. Supporting products offered by the Company are Rational Rose Design Adaptor, Versata Presentation Designer and Versata JSP Integration Toolkit. Versata also offers professional services from training, mentoring, return-on-investment analysis, staff augmentation and project management to complete turnkey solution services, as well as customer support.
VSR Versar, Inc. is a professional services firm that provides the government and the private sector with solutions for their infrastructure, facilities management, environmental quality and security needs. Versar operates three primary business segments: Environmental Services, Architecture and Engineering and Defense Systems. Versar operates a wholly owned subsidiary, GEOMET Technologies LLC (GEOMET). GEOMET operates in the Company's Defense Systems segment and provides a range of services, including test and evaluation, systems integration, science and technology and field support services in the chemical/biological domain.
VSNT Versant Corporation's principal product is the Versant Developer Suite (VDS), a sixth-generation object database management system. Its other products include Versant enJin, a database management product suite that accelerates transactions for application servers; Versant Real-Time Framework (VRTF), a comprehensive framework for delivering real-time solutions, and Versant JDO, a data access tool that enables enterprise applications to efficiently access data from a versant object database. Versant licenses VDS, Versant enJin and peripheral products, and sells associated maintenance, training and consulting services to end users. In addition to these products, Versant also offers other internally developed peripheral software products and resells related software developed by third parties. Following the acquisition of Mokume Software in November 2002, the Company commenced its real-time solutions business.
VNLS Vernalis plc is engaged in pharmaceutical research and development undertaken by Vernalis Research Ltd, Vernalis Development Ltd and Vernalis (R&amp;D) Ltd, all of which are wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company. These companies are conducting research and development of pharmaceutical products with a focus on cancer and diseases and disorders of the central nervous system. Vernalis has one marketed product, frovatriptan, which is approved as an acute treatment for migraine, four products, including frovatriptan with respect of maintenance and modifications in clinical development and three main programs of drug discovery.
BEAR The Vermont Teddy Bear Co. Inc. (Vermont Teddy Bear) is a direct marketer in the gift delivery industry. Its principal product line is the Bear-Gram gift, a Vermont Teddy Bear customized to suit a special occasion or a life event, personalized with a greeting card and optional embroidery and delivered in a colorful gift box with a candy treat. The Company extended its product offering in the gift delivery business under the service marks PajamaGram and TastyGram. The PajamaGram gift delivery service offers a variety of pajamas and related sleepwear and spa products, packaged with lavender tub tea and a personalized card in a keepsake hat-box, and delivered in a colorful gift box. The TastyGram gift delivery service focuses on food related gift products, including regional food specialties, such as New York Carnegie Deli Cheesecake and Gino's Chicago Deep Dish Pizza.
VPS Vermont Pure Holdings, Ltd. has been a bottler, marketer and distributor of natural spring water under the Vermont Pure and Hidden Spring brands, as well as purified water with minerals added under the Crystal Rock brand, to the retail consumer and home and office markets. The Company sold its products primarily in New England, New York and New Jersey, as well as the Mid-Atlantic and the Midwestern United States. Vermont has operated through two main operating subsidiaries, Crystal Rock Spring Water Company, Inc. and Vermont Pure Springs, Inc. In March 2004, Micropack Bottled Water, a manufacturer and seller of value-tier, single-serve bottled water products, acquired of the assets of Vermont Pure Springs, Inc. Micropack also acquired the Hidden Spring trademark and will continue to market spring water in single-serve packages under the Vermont Pure brand name. In November 2004, the Company acquired the assets of Mayer Brothers Home &amp; Office distribution division in Buffalo, New York.
VZ Verizon Communications Inc. is a provider of communications services with four operating segments: Domestic Telecom, Domestic Wireless, Information Services and International. Domestic Telecom services principally represent Verizon's telephone operations that provide local telephone services in 29 states and the District of Columbia. Domestic Wireless products and services include wireless voice and data services and equipment sales across the United States. The Information Services segment encompasses the Company's domestic and international publishing businesses, including print SuperPages and electronic SuperPages.com directories, as well as Website creation and other electronic commerce services. The International segment has wireline and wireless communications operations and investments primarily in the Americas, as well as investments in Europe. In November 2004, the Company sold its directory operations SuperPages Canada to Bain Capital.
VRTY Verity, Inc. provides intellectual capital management software that enables its customers to maximize their return on their information assets. Verity develops, markets and supports two product families: intelligent content services (ICS), and content capture and process automation. Intelligent content services are search, classification, recommendation, monitoring/alerting and question and answer infrastructure products for corporate intranets, extranets, Websites, corporate portals, business applications, online publishers and e-commerce providers and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) toolkits for independent software vendor's independent software vendors. Verity's content capture and process automation products include capabilities for forms design, scanning, optical character recognition, forms recognition, validation, verification, workflow and routing. In March 2004, the Company completed the acquisitions of NativeMinds Inc. and Cardiff Software Inc.
VRTS VERITAS Software Corporation (VERITAS) is an independent supplier of storage and infrastructure software products and services. Its software products operate across a variety of computing environments, from personal computers (PCs) and workgroup servers to enterprise servers and networking platforms in corporate data centers to protect, archive and recover business-critical data, provide levels of application availability, enhance and tune system and application performance and enable recovery from disasters. The Company offers software products such as Data Protection, Storage Management and Utility Computing Infrastructure. It develops and sells software products that support a variety of servers, storage devices, databases, applications and network equipment. During the year ended December 31, 2003, it completed the acquisitions of Precise Software Solutions Ltd. and Jareva Technologies, Inc. In January 2004, it acquired Ejasent, Inc.
VTS Veritas DGC Inc. provides integrated geophysical services to the petroleum industry worldwide. Its customers include national and independent oil and gas companies that utilize geophysical technologies to identify new areas where subsurface conditions are favorable for the production of hydrocarbons, determine the size and structure of previously identified oil and gas fields and optimize development and production of hydrocarbon reserves. The Company acquires, processes and interprets geophysical data and produces geophysical surveys that are either two-dimensional (2-D) or three-dimensional (3-D) images of the subsurface geology in the survey area. Veritas also produces four-dimensional (4-D) surveys that record fluid movement in the reservoir by repeating specific 3-D surveys over time. In addition, it uses geophysical data for reservoir characterization to enable its customers to maximize their recovery of oil and natural gas.
VRST Verisity Ltd. provides proprietary technologies and software products used to verify designs of electronic systems and complex integrated circuits. The Company's functional verification products automate critical steps in the process of determining whether systems and integrated circuits (ICs) conform to their design specifications. By facilitating the identification of design flaws, Verisity enables its customers to deliver products to market in less time, while helping them to reduce product development costs. The Company's wholly owned subsidiaries are Verisity Design, Inc., Verisity Design EURL, Verisity Design GMBH, Verisity Design Canada and Axis Systems. In February 2004, the Company acquired Axis Systems, Inc., a privately held company that offers a third-generation simulation technology that combines all languages and required engines for hardware, embedded software and system-level verification.
VRSN VeriSign, Inc. is a provider of critical infrastructure services. The Company is organized into two service-based lines of business: the Internet Services Group and the Communications Services Group. The Internet Services Group consists of the Security Services business and the Naming and Directory Services business. The Security Services business provides products and services that enable enterprises and organizations to establish and deliver secure Internet-based services to customers and business partners, and the Naming and Directory Services business acts as the exclusive registry of domain names in the .com and .net generic top-level domains and certain country code top-level domains. The Communications Services Group provides Signaling System 7 network services, intelligent database and directory services, application services, and billing and payment services to wireline and wireless telecommunications carriers.
VRNT Verint Systems Inc. is a provider of analytic software-based solutions for the security and business intelligence markets. The Company's solutions for the security market consist primarily of communications interception solutions used by law enforcement agencies, government agencies and telecommunications carriers, and networked video solutions used by government agencies and public and private organizations for use in airports, public buildings, financial institutions, retail stores, correctional facilities and corporate sites. Verint's solutions for the business intelligence market consist primarily of solutions for enterprises that rely on contact centers for voice, e-mail and Internet interactions with their customers. The business intelligence utilizes networked video information to allow enterprises and institutions to enhance their operations, processes and performance.
VRLK Verilink Corporation is a provider of next-generation broadband access products and services. The Company's products support the delivery of voice, video and data services over converged access networks and enable the smooth migration from present time-division multiplexing (TDM)-based networks to I protocol-based networking. The Company develops, manufactures and markets integrated access devices (IADs), Optical Ethernet access products, high-speed, multi-link routers and bandwidth aggregation solutions. On February 5, 2004, the Company acquired XEL Communications, Inc. (XEL), a privately held provider of a full suite of broadband access solutions and professional services that address the RBOC and ILEC market. On July 28, 2004, the Company completed its acquisition of Larscom Incorporated (Larscom), a provider of high-speed broadband and optical Ethernet access products.
VRDM.OB Veridium Corporation is an environmental services provider that uses green technologies to minimize and eliminate the need for disposal and reduce the burden on natural resources by recycling and mining industrial hazardous wastes. Its business model is to develop the United States hazardous waste management market organically and acquisitively, leveraging the operational efficiencies made possible by its green technologies to recycle, reuse and mine all reusable resources from industrial hazardous wastes in a safe, compliant and profitable manner. Veridium was formed in September 2003, upon the completion of a series of acquisitions and the consolidation of the environmental services division of R.M. Jones &amp; Co., Inc., Enviro-Safe, Corp., KBF Pollution Management, Inc. (KPMI), American Metals Recovery, Corp., New World Recycling, Inc., and Metal Recovery Transportation, Corp., with Veridium Environmental Corporation and into the Company through a merger with KPMI.
VRDI.OB Veridicom International, Inc. is engaged in the development of commercial products in the area of Internet collaboration. The Company's products and services include the silicon sensors FPS200, FPS250 and FPS300; desktop peripherals G2, G2-CRFID and G2-CSMART, G2-CMAG; recognition systems Matchboard-wired and Matchboard-wireless; authentication servers, including Personal Authentication Device, Veridicom Authentication Server (VAS), VAS Hosted Service, VAS and SDK. Digital applications of the products include Signature Biometric signature attached to transactions or events. This provides secure signing capabilities than personal identification number-based certificates. Veridicom Personal Authentication System (VPAS) application is a bundled solution that allows personal computer (PC) or network logon and secure logon to Website or Web applications. The Company officially changed its name from Alpha Virtual, Inc. to Veridicom International, Inc. on February 23, 2004.
VERA.OB Veramark Technologies, Inc. is a producer of a range of communications cost management systems for users of Interner protocol (IP)-based and circuit-switched private branch exchange (PBX) networks. These products use industry standard databases and reports to reduce telephone usage costs, identify equipment locations and status, eliminate telecom fraud and deliver online corporate directory information. The Company's enterprise telemanagement systems provide cable management, invoice and asset management, flexible directory applications and work order management. Veramark's products consist of Web-based software applications that run on personal computers or servers that use Microsoft Windows operating systems and Microsoft SQL Server database management. The Company sold approximately 100,000 call accounting systems and related products to customers in more than 80 countries through manufacturers and resellers of telephone systems.
VE Veolia Environnement is a global provider of environmental management services, including water and wastewater services, waste management services, energy services (excluding the production, trading and sale of electricity) and transportation services. The Company's clients include a wide range of public authorities, industrial and commercial customers and individuals around the world. Veolia has a presence in nearly 80 countries on all continents, providing water to approximately 110 million people, treating more than 50 million tons of waste, satisfying the energy requirements of thousands of buildings for its industrial, municipal and individual customers, and transporting 1.5 billion passengers per year. In May 2003, the Company changed its name from Vivendi Environnement to Veolia Environnement.
VCAT.OB Venture Catalyst Inc. (VCAT) is a provider of consulting services and technology in the gaming and hospitality industry. The Company operates in two business divisions: consulting services and software. VCAT's consulting services division offers gaming and hospitality consulting services, financial advisory services, public and governmental relations, strategic planning, technology solutions and professional and technical expertise. The Company has developed a fully-integrated customer relationship management (CRM), marketing and business intelligence software system for the gaming and hospitality industry, which is known as Mariposa. Mariposa consists of a suite of applications that operate in conjunction with existing player tracking and other data systems.
VTIV Ventiv Health, Inc. is a provider of outsourced sales and marketing solutions for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and life sciences industries. The Company offers a range of integrated and standalone services, in a context of consultative partnership that identifies strategic goals and applies targeted, tailored solutions. The portfolio of offerings includes integrated sales force recruitment, training and management; standalone sales force recruitment and regulatory compliance services; product, sample and literature fulfillment; product/brand management; brand/portfolio analytics and forecasting, and strategic and tactical planning. Ventiv serves its clients primarily through two business units: Planning and Analytics (as provided by the Company's Health Products Research (HPR) subsidiary) and Ventiv Health Sales and Marketing (VHSM). These units address various aspects of the marketing process for pharmaceutical and other life sciences products.
VTR Ventas, Inc. is a healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns a geographically diverse portfolio of healthcare and senior housing facilities located in the United States. As of December 31, 2003, this portfolio consisted of 42 hospitals, 194 nursing facilities and nine other healthcare and senior housing facilities in 37 states. The Company leases these facilities to healthcare operating companies under triple-net leases. As of December 31, 2003, Kindred Healthcare, Inc. and its subsidiaries leased 186 of the Company's nursing facilities and all but one of its hospitals. Ventas also has investments relating to 25 healthcare and senior housing facilities located in Ohio and Maryland. The Company conducts substantially all of its business through a wholly owned operating partnership, Ventas Realty, Limited Partnership, and an indirect, wholly owned limited liability company, Ventas Finance I, LLC.
VMSI Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets instrument-reagent systems that automate slide staining in anatomical pathology and drug discovery laboratories worldwide. Ventana Medical Systems historically had five subsidiaries: Ventana Medical Systems, GmbH; Ventana Medical Systems, Japan K.K.; Ventana Medical Systems, Pty. Ltd.; Ventana Medical Systems, S.A., and BioTechnology Tools, Inc. BioTechnology Tools, Inc. was dissolved on April 2, 2003. The Company's products are designed to provide users with automated results with high throughput and labor savings. Ventana's drug discovery systems are used by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to accelerate the discovery of new drug targets and to evaluate the safety of new drug compounds. The consumable products the Company markets include reagents and other accessories required to operate its instruments.
VNX VendingData Corporation develop, manufacture, sell and lease products related to the gaming industry. The Company's principal products are electronic card shuffling devices, an electronically identified coin collection bucket and collection cart for use with coin operated gaming and vending devices and a softcount collection system for control over soft currency from gaming and vending devices. The Company operates principally in the United States of America. The Company's products are categorized as casino revenue control system products and table game support products.
VELCF Velcro Industries, N.V. is the holding company for the Velcro companies, which are primarily involved in the manufacturing and marketing of hook and loop fasteners. The Company, through its worldwide subsidiaries, offers hundreds of different hook and loop products and fastening systems. Offerings range from standard fastening tapes of woven and knit construction, through custom-designed specialty fasteners featuring a range of performance characteristics, materials, sizes and shapes. Recent technical developments have included the development of a patented molded hook fastener called Ultra-Mate brand HTH (High Technology Hook), which can be manufactured from a number of resins and engineered to achieve specific performance characteristics. The Company's products have applications in the automotive, industrial and consumer industries.
VECO Veeco Instruments Inc. designs, manufactures, markets and services a line of equipment primarily used by manufacturers in the data storage, semiconductor, compound semiconductor/wireless and high-brightness light emitting diode industries. Veeco's line of products allows customers to improve time-to-market of their products. The Company offers two principal product lines: process equipment and metrology. Veeco's process equipment products deposit or remove (etch) various materials in the manufacturing of advanced thin film magnetic heads (TFMHs) for the data storage industry, semiconductor deposition of mask reticles and compound semiconductor/wireless and light emitting diode devices. Its metrology equipment is used to provide critical surface measurements on semiconductor devices and TFMHs. In November 2003, the Company acquired the TurboDisc Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) business of Emcore Corporation and Advanced Imaging, Inc.
VVC Vectren Corporation is an energy and applied technology holding company. Its wholly owned subsidiary, Vectren Utility Holdings, Inc., serves as the intermediate holding company for its three operating public utilities: Indiana Gas Company, Inc., Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company (SIGECO) and the Ohio operations. Indiana Gas provides natural gas distribution and transportation services in 49 counties in Indiana. SIGECO provides electric generation, transmission and distribution services to eight counties in southwestern Indiana and participates in the wholesale power market. SIGECO also provides natural gas distribution and transportation services in 10 counties in Indiana. The Ohio operations provide natural gas distribution and transportation services to 17 counties in west central Ohio. The Company is also involved in non-regulated activities in four primary business areas: Energy Marketing and Services, Coal Mining, Utility Infrastructure Services and Broadband.
VGR Vector Group Ltd. is a holding company for a number of businesses. It holds these businesses through its wholly owned subsidiary, VGR Holding Inc. The Company is engaged principally in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes in the United States through its subsidiary, Liggett Group Inc. In addition, it is also engaged in the development and marketing of low-nicotine and nicotine-free cigarette products, such as Quest, as well as reduced risk-cigarette products through its subsidiary, Vector Tobacco Inc. The Mebane, North Carolina, facility produces in excess of nine billion units per year and has a capacity to produce approximately 16 billion units per year. The Company's majority-owned subsidiary, New Valley Corporation, is engaged in the real estate business.
PTT VCG Holding Corp. is engaged in the business of acquiring, owning and operating nightclubs, which provide live adult entertainment, as well as upscale restaurant and beverage services to affluent patrons. The Company owns four nightclubs, including PT's Showclub in Indianapolis, Indiana (the Indianapolis Club), PT's Showclub in Memphis, Tennessee (the Memphis Club), the Platinum Club in Brooklyn, Illinois, (also known as the Saint Louis Club (the St. Louis Club)) and VCG Restaurant Denver, Inc. (Centerfold Showclub). The St. Louis Club was purchased from a third party. The Indianapolis Club and the Memphis Club were owned in part and operated by affiliates of VCG Holding. Centerfold Showclub was purchased in July 2004. In October 2004, the Company acquired CCCG, Inc., a Colorado corporation, d/b/a Diamond Cabaret.
VCMP VCampus Corporation is a provider of outsourced e-learning services. The Company manages and hosts Internet-based learning environments for corporations, government agencies, institutions of higher education and associations. Its services cover a range of e-learning programs, from enrollment and payment to course development and delivery, as well as tracking of students' progress and reporting of results. VCampus offers approximately 5,400 real-time courses on its e-learning system. The 4,500 publicly available courses are marketed under the name ContentMatters. The Company's courseware strategy involves the provision the three components: strategically developed courses from VCampus; COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) courses from a variety of third-party course vendors, and custom courseware development for the proprietary training needs of its customers. During the year ended December 31, 2003, VCampus had delivered more than 2.8 million courses to more than 835,000 desktops/users.
WOOF VCA Antech, Inc. is an animal health care services company and operates networks of veterinary diagnostic laboratories and freestanding, full-service animal hospitals in the United States. The Company's network of veterinary diagnostic laboratories provides sophisticated testing and consulting services used by veterinarians in the detection, diagnosis, evaluation, monitoring, treatment and prevention of diseases and other conditions affecting animals. Serving all 50 states, VCA Antech provides diagnostic testing for an estimated 14,000 clients, which include animal hospitals, large animal practices, universities and other government organizations. The Company's animal hospitals offer a range of general medical and surgical services for companion animals, as well as specialized treatments. It also provides advanced diagnostic services, internal medicine, oncology, ophthalmology, dermatology and cardiology.
VAST Vastera, Inc. provides solutions for Global Trade Management and to clients that manage the information flows associated with the cross border components of importing and exporting goods. The Company has three principal solution offerings for Global Trade Management: TradeSphere Solutions, Trade Management Consulting and Managed Services. Clients utilize Company solutions to manage their trade worldwide. The solutions enable clients to manage the complexities and inefficiencies inherent in global trading in a manner that allows them to capitalize on the fragmented and growing opportunity that exist in the international market. The Company serves an international client base, including companies such as Alcatel, Dell, Ford Motor Company, GE, Lucent, Fonterra, Goodyear, Nortel Networks and Seagate.
VASO Vasomedical, Inc. is primarily engaged in designing, manufacturing, marketing and supporting external counterpulsation systems (EECP) based on its technology indicated for use in cases of stable or unstable angina (chest pain), cardiogenic shock, acute myocardial infarction (MI) and congestive heart failure (CHF). EECP is marketed worldwide to hospitals, clinics and other cardiac healthcare providers. The Company is also actively engaged in research to determine the potential benefits of EECP therapy in the setting of acute coronary syndromes, as well as in the management of other major vascular disease states, including congestive heart failure. The Company has the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to market the EECP therapy for use in the treatment of angina pectoris (angina), cardiogenic shock, acute myocardial infarction and CHF.
VSGN Vasogen Inc. is focused on the research and commercial development of immune modulation therapies for the treatment of cardiovascular, neurological and other chronic inflammatory diseases. The Company's lead product, Celacade, is in phase III clinical trials for the treatment of chronic heart failure and peripheral arterial disease. It is also developing a new class of phospholipid-based drugs, with VP025 as the lead product candidate, optimized for neuro-inflammatory disorders. The VP025 is in preclinical development. Vasogen manages the development and manufacture of its products for use in preclinical and clinical research and it continues to advance its product development program to support future commercial scale production. Its phase III clinical trials are designed to support regulatory approvals and market introduction in North America and Europe. The Company intends to commercialize its technology through licensing agreements with heart companies.
VASC Vascular Solutions, Inc. is a medical device company focused on bringing clinically advanced solutions to interventional cardiologists and interventional radiologists worldwide. As of December 31, 2003, the Company's product line consisted of the Duett sealing device, used to seal the puncture site following catheterization procedures; D-Stat Flowable hemostat, a thick and flowable mixture used to control bleeding; D-Stat Dry hemostatic bandage, a topical pad with a bandage used to control surface bleeding; D-Stat Radial hemostat band, a topical pad with a compression strap to control bleeding at the wrist; Vari-Lase endovenous laser system, a laser and procedure kit used for the treatment of varicose veins; Pronto extraction catheter, a mechanical system for the removal of soft thrombus from arteries, and Acolysis ultrasound, a treatment for peripheral occlusive arterial disease.
VDSI VASCO Data Security International, Inc. designs, develops, markets and supports open standards-based hardware and software security systems that manage and secure access to information assets. The Company's Identity Authentication software is delivered via its Digipass security products, small calculator hardware devices carried by an end user, or in a software format on mobile phones, other portable devices and personal computers (PCs). The Digipass devices, most of which incorporate an electronic digital signature capability, guarantee the integrity of electronic transactions and data transmissions. For user access control, the Company's VACMAN Server products limit application access to designated Digipass users. Digipass Pack is a bundling of VASCO Digipass Go 1 or Go 3 tokens and VACMAN Radius Middleware, offering strong identity authentication to small and medium-sized enterprises.
VSTY Varsity Group Inc. is an online retailer of textbooks and educational materials targeting private middle and high schools, small colleges, distance and continuing education markets through its eduPartners program. As an Internet-based retailer of textbooks, the Company uses its Website, www.varsitybooks.com, to sell textbooks and other learning materials to students. Through eduPartners, its program serving schools directly, Varsity Group offers educational institutions an e-commerce solution that allows them to outsource their retail bookstore operation and focus their resources on the education process, while offering their students the speed and convenience of purchasing their textbooks and other learning materials online. As of February 2004, the Company was the exclusive new textbook supplier for over 240 educational institutions.
VSEA Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. designs and manufactures ion implantation systems required to build the transistors, or switches, at the heart of every integrated circuit. Ion implanters are used because of their ability to implant selected elements, called dopants, into the silicon wafers by bombarding them with a precisely controlled beam of electrically charged ions of specific atomic weight and energy. Its VIISta product line leverages single wafer processing technology pioneered on its E220 and E500 lines of medium current implanters, to the entire spectrum of energies and implant applications. As of October 3, 2003 (fiscal year-end 2003), Varian Semiconductor had shipped over 3,200 systems worldwide. The Company also provides support, training and after-market products and services that help its customers to obtain high utilization and productivity, reduced operating costs and extend capital productivity of customer investment through multiple product generations.
VAR Varian Medical Systems, Inc. is engaged in designing and manufacturing advanced equipment and software solutions for treating cancer with radiation, as well as cost-effective x-ray tubes for original equipment manufacturers, replacement x-ray tubes and flat-panel digital subsystems for imaging in medical, scientific and industrial applications. The Oncology Systems business segment produces and sells advanced products for treating cancer with radiation, including linear accelerators, treatment simulation and verification products, information management and treatment planning software, and other sophisticated accessory products and services. These products enable and allow doctors to offer advanced cancer treatment processes, such as intensity-modulated radiation treatment and image-guided radiation therapy.
VARI Varian, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, is a technology company engaged in the design, development, manufacture, sale, and service of scientific instruments and vacuum products, and in contract electronics manufacturing. The Company operates in three segments: scientific instruments, vacuum technologies, and electronics manufacturing. The scientific instruments business designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and services chromatography, optical spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy, dissolution testing and nuclear magnetic resonance equipment among others. Its vacuum technologies business designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and services a range of products used to create, control, measure, and test vacuum environments in life science, industrial, research, semiconductor, and scientific applications. The electronics manufacturing business is a contract manufacturer of electronic assemblies and subsystems such as printed circuit boards for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
VRC Varco International, Inc. is a provider of highly engineered drilling and well servicing equipment, products and services to the world's oil and gas industry. With operations in over 350 locations in over 40 countries across six continents, the Company manufactures and supplies drilling systems and rig instrumentation; performs inspection and internal coating of oilfield tubulars; provides drill cuttings separation, management and disposal systems and services, and manufactures coiled tubing, wireline, and pressure control equipment for land and offshore drilling and well stimulation operations. Varco also manufactures coiled tubing, provides in-service pipeline inspections, manufactures high-pressure fiberglass and composite tubing and sells and rents advanced in-line inspection equipment to makers of oil country tubular goods. The Company operates in four groups: Drilling Equipment, Tubular Services, Drilling Services and Coiled Tubing and Wireline Products.
VMDC.OB VantageMed Corporation is a national provider of healthcare information systems and services distributed to over 12,000 customer sites through a network of offices throughout the United States. The Company's suite of software products and services automates administrative, financial, clinical and management functions for physicians, behavioral health professionals and other healthcare providers. The Company supports 14 legacy technology systems that generally lack the technology of its Windows-based products, but provide similar functionality. The Company is in the process of migrating customers from its legacy systems to its Windows-based products. Revenues derived from software maintenance and hardware support contracts and from billing and electronic services accounted for 69% of total revenues in 2003 and 70% of revenues in 2002.
VDM Van der Moolen Holdings N.V. is a securities trading firm that principally engages in the trading of equities, equity options, equity index options and bonds on the securities exchanges in the United States and Europe. The Company operates in four business segments: VDM Specialists, U.S. Option Business, European Trading and Holding and Unallocated business, which are comprised of six principal subsidiaries. The Company functions as a low-cost liquidity provider, providing liquidity in different time zones on exchange floors and electronic trading systems through its role as a specialist trader/market-maker. Acting as a counterparty to market professionals, such as banks and brokerage firms, the Company transacts an average of over 75,000 transactions in a day.
VVTV ValueVision Media, Inc. is an integrated direct marketing company that markets its products directly to consumers through various forms of electronic media. The Company incorporates television home shopping, Internet e-commerce, vendor programming sales and fulfillment services and outsourced e-commerce and fulfillment solutions. The electronic media activity is its television home shopping business, which sells brand name merchandise and private-label consumer products at competitive prices. The Company's live around-the-clock-television home shopping programming is distributed through long-term cable and satellite affiliation agreements and the purchase of month-to-month, full and part-time lease agreements of cable and broadcast television time. The products sold include jewelry, electronics, giftware, collectibles, apparel, health and beauty aids, housewares, fitness products, seasonal items and other merchandise. It also sells merchandise through its Internet shopping Website.
VCLK ValueClick, Inc., and its subsidiaries offer a suite of products and services that enable marketers to advertise and sell their products through the following online marketing channels: display/Web advertising, search marketing, e-mail marketing and affiliate marketing. Additionally, the Company provides software that assists advertising agencies with information management regarding their financial, workflow and offline media buying and planning processes. The products and services that the Company provides enable its customers to address all aspects of the marketing process, from strategic planning through execution, including results measurement and campaign refinements. By combining its media, affiliate marketing and technology offerings with its experience in both online and offline marketing, the Company helps its customers around the world optimize their marketing campaigns both on the Internet and through offline media.
VALU Value Line, Inc. is engaged in producing investment-related periodical publications through its wholly owned subsidiary, Value Line Publishing, Inc. (VLP). The Company also provides investment advisory services to mutual funds, institutions and individual clients. In addition to publishing investment related periodicals both in print and electronic formats, VLP also provides current and historical financial databases in standard computer formats, and markets investment analysis software. As of April 30, 2004, the Company is the investment adviser for the Value Line Family of Mutual Funds, which included 14 open-end investment companies. The Company's operations are categorized into: Investment Information and Publications; Investment Management, and Other Businesses.
VUSAQ.PK Value America, Inc. is an Internet-based destination retailer that offers a wide selection of technology, office and consumer products for sale at its Internet site, www.valueamerica.com. Consumers visit the the Company's online store as a result of its traditional advertising, direct response marketing, online promotions, affinity marketing and Internet browsing. The Company derives its revenues from three sources: sales of products through the Company's online store; fees collected from manufacturers for the preparation and hosting of product presentations and listing of manufacturers' products available for purchase on the online store; and advertising on the online store. In August 2000, the Company announced that it has filed and will reorganize its business under the protection of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding.
VPF Valpey Fisher Corporation (Valpey) is involved in the design, production, import, and sale of frequency control devices and ultrasonic transducer devices. The frequency control devices include quartz crystals and oscillators incorporating these crystals and are used as integral components in electronic circuitry to assure precise timing and frequency reference. Valpey provides a range of frequency control devices, including standard and custom-designed product. Capabilities include high-reliability, precision crystals and oscillators used in industrial, military and aerospace applications, ultra high-frequency crystals used in crystal filters and oscillators for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) telecommunications and microwave applications, high volume, low cost crystals and oscillators for consumer and commercial applications.
VMI Valmont Industries, Inc. is an international manufacturing company engaged in the engineered support structures, coatings, irrigation and tubing businesses. The Engineered Support Structures business segment consists of the manufacture of engineered metal structures and components for the lighting and traffic, utility and wireless communication industries, and for other specialty applications. The Coatings segment consists of galvanizing, anodizing, powder coating and e-coating services. The Irrigation segment consists of the manufacture of agricultural irrigation equipment and related parts and services. The Tubing segment consists of the manufacture of tubular products for industrial customers. On February 23, 2004, the Company signed a definitive agreement to acquire Newmark International, Inc., a manufacturer of concrete and steel poles primarily for the utility industry.
VLG Valley National Gases, Incorporated, a Pennsylvania-based packager and distributor of cylinder and bulk industrial, medical and specialty gases, welding equipment and supplies, propane and fire protection equipment in 11 states in the eastern United States. Its gas operations consist primarily of packaging and mixing industrial, medical and specialty gases, such as oxygen, nitrogen and argon, in pressurized cylinders and transporting these cylinders to customers from one of the Company's 64 distribution or retail locations. The Company also distributes propane to industrial and residential customers. Most customers pay a rental fee for use its cylinders. Valley National selectively participates in the small bulk gas market through the supply of gases in cryogenic transports and the storage of gases in cryogenic and propane tanks that are also rented to customers.
VLY Valley National Bancorp is a regional bank holding company, headquartered in Wayne, New Jersey. Its principal subsidiary, Valley National Bank, operates 129 offices in 83 communities serving 11 counties throughout northern New Jersey and Manhattan.
VLFG Valley Forge Scientific Corp. (VFSC) is a medical device company that develops, manufactures and sells medical devices for use in surgery and other healthcare applications. The Company's core business is the sale of bipolar electro surgical generators and other bipolar generators, based on its DualWave technology and complementary instrumentation and disposable products.
VLLY Valley Bancorp is a Nevada state-chartered bank holding company, operating through Valley Bank, a Nevada state-chartered bank that commenced operations in October 1998. The Bank provides banking and other financial services throughout its primary market area to small and medium-sized businesses. The Company also provides a broad range of banking services and products, including personal checking and savings accounts, commercial construction and commercial real estate loans, and other consumer banking products, including electronic banking to its consumers. Valley Bank has three branches, including one in Las Vegas, one in Henderson, Nevada, and one in Pahrump, Nevada. The Bank focuses its banking business in two counties, Clark County, which includes Las Vegas and Henderson, and Nye County. At March 31, 2004, Valley Bancorp had consolidated assets of $212.9 million, net loans of $159.9 million and deposits of $194.9 million.
VHI Valhi, Inc. operates in the chemicals, component products, waste management and titanium metals industries primarily through its majority-owned subsidiaries and affiliates. The Company's four principal operating subsidiaries are Kronos Worldwide Inc., CompX International Inc., Waste Control Specialists LLC and Titanium Metals Corporation (TIMET). Kronos is a producer of titanium dioxide pigments, which are used for imparting whiteness, brightness and opacity to a range of products including paints, plastics and cosmetics. CompX manufactures precision ball bearing slides, security products and ergonomic computer support systems. Waste Control Specialists owns and operates a facility in west Texas for the processing, treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous, toxic and certain types of low-level radioactive wastes. TIMET produces titanium sponge, melted products (ingot and slab) and mill products. The Company has production facilities in Europe, North America and Asia.
VLI Valero L.P. owns and operates crude oil and refined product pipeline and terminalling assets through its subsidiary entity, Valero Logistics Operations, L.P. The Company serves Valero Energy Corporation's McKee, Three Rivers, Corpus Christi East and Corpus Christi West refineries located in Texas, the Paulsboro refinery located in New Jersey and the Ardmore refinery located in Oklahoma. Valero Logistics also owns and operates crude oil storage tanks that serve Valero Energy's Corpus Christi West and Texas City refineries located in Texas and the Benicia refinery located in California. The pipeline, terminalling and storage tank assets provide for the transportation of crude oil and other feedstocks to the refineries and the transportation of refined products from the refineries to terminals or third-party pipelines for further distribution. The Company has four business segments: refined product pipelines, crude oil pipelines, crude oil storage tanks and refined product terminals.
VLO Valero Energy Corporation is an independent refining and marketing company that owns and operates 15 refineries having a combined throughput capacity of approximately 2.4 million barrels per day. Valero produces premium, environmentally clean products, such as reformulated gasoline, gasoline meeting the specifications of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), CARB diesel fuel, low-sulfur diesel fuel and oxygenates (liquid hydrocarbon compounds containing oxygen). Valero also produces a substantial slate of conventional gasoline, distillates, jet fuel, asphalt and petrochemicals. Valero is also a marketer of refined products. It markets branded and unbranded refined products on a wholesale basis in the United States and Canada through a bulk and rack marketing network. Valero also sells refined products through a network of more than 4,500 retail and wholesale branded outlets in the United States, Canada and Aruba.
VLTS Valentis, Inc. creates cardiovascular therapeutics. The Company begins the product development at the stage of a gene or protein with known activity and applies the expertise in formulation, manufacturing, clinical development and regulatory affairs to create products that fill unmet medical needs. Valentis has a series of technologies ranging from gene delivery and expression technologies to formulation and manufacturing technologies that allow the Company to generate novel therapeutics to treat a wide range of diseases. While Valentis is focusing its efforts on the development of cardiovascular therapeutics, its technologies are being applied by its collaborators for the development of therapeutics to treat a variety of indications, including infectious diseases and cancer. The merger of Megabios Corp. and GeneMedicine, Inc. in March 1999, formed Valentis Inc. In August 1999, Valentis acquired United Kingdom-based PolyMASC Pharmaceuticals plc.
VLNC Valence Technology, Inc. is focused on the development and commercialization of its phosphate-based, lithium-ion technology and a number of products utilizing this technology. The Company's Saphion technology, a phosphate-based cathode material, addresses the need for a safe lithium-ion solution especially in large-format applications. Valence's first product based on the Saphion technology is the N-Charge Power System. This product is sold and distributed primarily through retailers, tier-one computer manufacturers and national resellers. Other products utilizing the Saphion technology is the Company's first large format energy storage system, the K-Charge Power System and the U-Charge Power System family of products.
VRX Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, formerly ICN Pharmaceuticals, Inc., is a global, research-based specialty pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets a range of pharmaceutical products. Its products are sold in 128 markets around the world and encompass a range of therapeutic areas, with a primary focus upon the three-targeted areas of infectious disease, neurology and dermatology. Its research and development efforts focus on hepatitis C, hepatitis B, HIV/AIDS and cancer. As of December 31, 2003, its product portfolio consisted of more than 575 branded products, with approximately 2,500 stock-keeping units. The Company markets its products globally through a sales force of approximately 1,200 representatives. The products are sold globally, through four reportable pharmaceutical segments: North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia, Africa and Australia.
VCI Valassis Communications, Inc. provides a range of marketing products and services to a variety of manufacturers, direct marketers, retailers and franchisees. The marketing solutions that the Company provides are mass products that reach large markets; cluster targeted products that reach neighborhoods based on geographic and demographic characteristics; one-to-one products, which are products and services that target individuals or households, and international and services. As on December 31, 2003, approximately 50% of the revenue came from consumer packaged goods manufacturers, 15% from specialty retailers, 10% from franchise food restaurants, 9% from direct response marketers, 7% from consumer services (i.e. financial, telecommunications), 5% from grocery retailers (including drug, wholesale and mass merchants) and 4% from other types of customers (automotive, hardware/software, Internet, newspapers).
MTN Vail Resorts, Inc. is a holding company that operates, through various subsidiaries in three business segments: Mountain, Lodging and Real Estate, which represented approximately 69%, 25% and 6% respectively, of the Company's revenues for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004). The Company's Mountain segment owns and operates five premier ski resort properties that provide a comprehensive resort experience throughout the year to a diverse clientele with an attractive demographic profile. The Lodging segment owns and/or manages a collection of luxury hotels, a destination resort at Grand Teton National Park, and a series of strategic lodging properties located in proximity to the Company's mountain operations. The Real Estate segment holds, develops, buys and sells real estate in and around the Company's resort communities.
VAIL Vail Banks, Inc. is a bank holding company for its three wholly owned subsidiaries: WestStar Bank (WestStar), Vail Banks Statutory Trust I and Vail Banks Statutory Trust II. WestStar serves the banking needs of its business and consumer customers by providing a range of commercial and consumer banking products and services in all of its communities. At December 31, 2003, its gross loans were $312.5 million. Lending activities include commercial, industrial and land loans; real estate construction loans; real estate mortgage loans, and consumer loans to individuals. At December 31, 2003, the carrying value of its investment securities was $81.3 million. WestStar offers a range of depository products, including checking, savings and money market accounts and certificates of deposit. Total deposits were $448.5 million at December 31, 2003.
EGY VAALCO Energy, Inc. is an independent energy company principally engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of crude oil and natural gas. VAALCO owns producing properties and conducts exploration activities as an operator of consortiums internationally in the Philippines and Gabon. The Company also has minor interests in the Texas Gulf Coast area. VAALCO's Philippine subsidiaries include Alcorn (Philippines) Inc., Alcorn (Production) Philippines Inc. and Altisima Energy, Inc. VAALCO's Gabon subsidiaries are VAALCO Gabon (Etame), Inc., VAALCO Production (Gabon), Inc. and VAALCO Energy (USA), Inc. At December 31, 2003, VAALCO's crude oil proved reserves totaled 9.011 million barrels and natural gas proved reserves totaled 140 million cubic feet.
LNUX VA Software Corporation develops, markets and supports of a software application know as SourceForge enterprise edition (SourceForge) and also owns and operates OSTG, Inc. (OSTG) and its wholly owned subsidiaries, a network of Internet Website, offering advertising, retail and animation services and products. The Company views its business in four operating segments: SourceForge, Online Media, e-commerce and Online Images. SourceForge segment focuses on SourceForge Enterprise Edition software products and services, Online Media segment consists of a network of Internet Web sites serving the IT professional and software development communities, e-commerce segment provides online sales of a variety of retail products of interest to the software development and IT communities and Online Images segment provides online sales of three-dimensional art, animations and presentations.
UTSI UTStarcom, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells telecommunications equipment and products, and provides services associated with their operation. Its products and technologies, which are based on global communications standards, fall into three major categories: Wireless, a technology that enables end users, or subscribers, to send and receive voice and data while mobile and using wireless devices; Wireline, a technology that satisfies customer demand for high-speed, cost-effective data, voice and media transport and carriage, and Switching, a diverse assembly of software- and hardware-based networking elements designed to replace central office telephone switches. The Company's products are deployed and installed exclusively by telecommunications wireless and wireline service providers. In November 2004, the Company acquired Audiovox Communications Corp., a cellular subsidiary of Audiovox Corporation.
UTIW UTi Worldwide Inc. (UTi) is an international, non-asset-based global integrated logistics company that provides services to its customers through a network of branch offices, including agents and contract logistics center. The Company operates a global network of branch offices in 263 cities along with 93 logistics centers in 49 countries. In addition, UTi services its customers through another 180 independent agent-owned offices, of which 162 offices are exclusive agents and 18 are non-exclusive agents that are located in 85 additional countries. The Company provides air and ocean freight forwarding, contract logistics, distribution, customs brokerage and other supply chain management services, including consulting, coordination of purchase orders and customized management services.
UTK UTEK Corporation is a technology transfer company that assists companies in acquiring technologies from universities and federal research laboratories. The Company's business model generally involves forming a strategic alliance and learning about the technologies that its client companies need and then finding, acquiring and financing technologies for its client companies from the universities and research centers worldwide. The Company then transfers the technologies to its client companies in exchange for unregistered stock or cash. UTEK call this process U2B. UTEK, along with its TechEx, UVentures and Techno-L online services and PAX European subsidiary, identifies and transfers technologies from universities and research centers to the marketplace. It also provides research-outsourcing services to companies and technology-transfer services to research institutions. In December 2004, the Company acquired the business and assets of Pharma-Transfer, Ltd.
USPI United Surgical Partners International, Inc. (USPI) owns and operates short-stay surgical facilities including surgery centers and private surgical hospitals in the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom. The Company focuses on providing surgical facilities that meet the needs of patients, physicians and payors better than hospital-based and other outpatient surgical facilities. USPI acquires and develops its facilities through the formation of strategic relationships with physicians and healthcare systems to better access and serve the communities in its markets. At December 31, 2003, the Company operated 74 facilities, consisting of 62 in the United States, nine in Spain and three in the United Kingdom. Of the 62 United States facilities, 35 are jointly owned with 16 not-for-profit healthcare systems. USPI holds ownership interests in 72 of the facilities and operates the remaining two facilities under management contracts.
UTMD Utah Medical Products, Inc. is in the business of producing cost-effective healthcare industry devices that are predominantly proprietary, disposable and for hospital use. The Company markets a range of medical devices used in critical care areas, especially the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and the labor and delivery department in hospitals, as well as products sold to outpatient clinics and physician's offices.
USUR.OB USURF America, Inc. operates as a provider of video (cable television) and data (Internet) services to business and residential customers. It also markets and sells telecommunications-related hardware and software. In addition to the Denver and Colorado Springs operations, USURF has entered into agreements with developers to provide video, voice and data services to properties in northern Colorado. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company began deployment of high-speed data access to high-end, recreational vehicle, resort communities in the Phoenix, Arizona, area. In April 2004, the Company acquired Get-A-Phone (GAP), an operating competitive local exchange carrier providing telecommunications services in Texas. Also, in April 2004, the Company acquired Waveramp, LLC, a Colorado-based wireless broadband provider for the consumer, corporate and government sectors.
YSI U-Store-It Trust is a self-administered and self-managed real estate company focused on the ownership, operation, acquisition and development of self-storage facilities in the United States. The Company's self-storage facilities are designed to offer affordable, easily accessible and secure storage space for residential and commercial customers. Customers rent storage units for their exclusive use, typically on a month-to-month basis. The Company's facilities are specifically designed to accommodate both residential and commercial customers with features, such as security systems and wide aisles, and load-bearing capabilities for large truck access. Customers can access their storage units during business hours and some of the facilities provide customers with 24-hour access through computer-controlled access systems. As of June 30, 2004, the Company's facilities were approximately 85% leased to a total of approximately 95,000 tenants.
USTX.OB UST Liquidating Corporation has no business operations. On September 21, 2000, the Company sold substantially all of its assets, net of certain liabilities, to Veeder-Root Service Company (Veeder-Root). Upon the closing of the sale, the Company ceased day-to-day operations, all of which were assumed by Veeder-Root. Prior to the sale to Veeder-Root, the Company was engaged in statistical inventory reconciliation leak detection for underground storage tanks and product piping. Statistical inventory reconciliation provides owners and operators of underground storage tank systems with compliance for monthly monitoring leak detection requirements, as well as management of fuel inventory.
UST UST Inc. is engaged in the manufacture and marketing of consumer products in three business segments: Smokeless Tobacco Products, Wine and All Other Operations. The Company's primary activities are manufacturing and marketing smokeless tobacco. UST also produces and markets premium varietal and blended wines. The All Other Operations segment is composed of the Company's international operation, which markets moist smokeless tobacco, and its cigar operation, which manufactures and markets premium cigars.
USIH U.S.I. Holdings Corporation is a distributor of insurance and financial products and services to small and mid-sized businesses in the United States. It provides employee health and welfare products and related consulting and administration services. The Company has approximately 60,000 small and mid-sized business clients. U.S.I has two operating segments: insurance brokerage and specialized benefits services, and an administrative segment, corporate. In April 2004, it acquired Bertholon-Rowland Corp. (BR). BR is an association-sponsored professional liability and life/health insurance marketer, administrator and program manager, providing a range of personal and business plans to professionals and alumni associations in the United States. BR also provides travel insurance services to these associations. In November 2004, the Company acquired Tennessee-based Benefit Partners of America. In January 2005, the Company sold its Ocala, Florida office to Brown &amp; Brown, Inc.
USG USG Corporation is engaged in the manufacture and distribution of building materials. Its operations are organized into three operating segments: North American Gypsum, Worldwide Ceilings and Building Products Distribution. North American Gypsum manufactures and markets SHEETROCK brand gypsum wallboard and related products in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Worldwide Ceilings manufactures and markets ceiling tile in the United States and ceiling grid in the United States, Canada, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Building Products Distribution distributes gypsum wallboard, drywall metal, ceilings products, joint compound and other building products throughout the United States. USG's products are also distributed through building materials dealers, home improvement centers and other retailers, specialty wallboard distributors and contractors. In June 2001, the Company filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.
USFC USF Corporation provides supply chain management services in four business segments through its operating subsidiaries. In the less-than-truckload (LTL) segment, carriers provide regional and inter-regional delivery throughout the United States and Mexico and in certain areas of Canada. Its truckload (TL) segment offers regional and national truckload services. The logistics segment provides dedicated carriage, cross-dock operations, supply chain management, contractual warehousing, domestic ocean freight forwarding and reverse logistics services. Principal subsidiaries in the LTL segment are USF Holland Inc. (Holland), USF Bestway Inc. (Bestway), USF Red Star Inc. (Red Star), USF Reddaway Inc. (Reddaway) and USF Dugan Inc. (Dugan). USF Glen Moore Inc. (Glen Moore) is the Company's TL carrier. Logistics consists of USF Logistics Services Inc. and USF Processors Inc.
USU USEC Inc. is a global energy company that supplies low enriched uranium (LEU) for commercial nuclear power plants. USEC's customers are domestic and international utilities that operate nuclear power plants. USEC is the executive agent for the United States Government under a government-to-government agreement to purchase the Separate Work Unit (SWU) component of LEU derived from highly enriched uranium contained in decommissioned nuclear warheads in Russia. In addition, USEC performs contract work for the Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE contractors. USEC wholly owns United States Enrichment Corporation. Revenue is derived from sales of the SWU component of LEU, from sales of both the SWU and uranium components of LEU and from sales of uranium.
USCS.OB USCorp is a development-stage company whose operations, as of September 30, 2003 (fiscal year-end 2003), were centered on the development of the mining property known as the Twin Peaks Mine, owned by its subsidiary, USMetals, Inc. USMetals was acquired by USCorp on April 2, 2002. As a result of the acquisition, the Company owns 141 unpatented contiguous mining claims totaling approximately 2,820 acres in Township 13, Yavapai County, Arizona. Gold, silver, copper and other minerals have been recovered in these mines in important quantities. The previous owners started acquisition of this claim group in the early 1940s and by the mid-1980s, the claims group totaled 134 claims. Exploration, drilling and assessment work was done and several geological reports were completed indicating the presence of economically viable deposits of precious metals and complex ores. During fiscal 2003, the Company did not commence commercially viable operations.
UBH U.S.B. Holding Co., Inc. is a bank holding company that provides financial services through its wholly owned subsidiaries. The Company and its subsidiaries derive substantially all of their revenue and income from providing banking and related services primarily to customers in Rockland and Westchester counties, New York City and Long Island, New York, northern New Jersey and southern Connecticut, as well as Orange, Putnam and Dutchess counties, New York. Union State Bank (the Bank), the Company's wholly owned banking subsidiary, is a state-chartered, full-service commercial bank. The Bank's services include checking accounts, NOW accounts, money market accounts, savings accounts (passbook and statement), certificates of deposit, retirement accounts, commercial loans, personal loans, residential, construction, home equity (second mortgage) and condominium mortgage loans, consumer loans, credit cards, safe deposit facilities and other consumer oriented financial services.
USNA USANA Health Sciences, Inc. develops and manufactures nutritional and personal care products. The Company distributes its products through a network marketing system using independent distributors that it refers to as Associates. The Company also sells products directly to Preferred Customers who purchase products for personal use and are not permitted to resell or distribute the products. Sales to Preferred Customers accounted for approximately 15% of net sales during fiscal year 2003, which ended January 3, 2004. USANA's primary product lines consist of USANA Nutritionals, a line of supplements and food products, and Sense - beautiful science (Sense), its line of skin and personal care products.
USVO.OB USA Video Interactive Corp. designs and markets to business customers streaming video and video-on-demand systems, services and source-to-destination digital media delivery solutions that allow live or recorded digitized and compressed video to be transmitted through Internet, intranet, satellite or wireless connectivity. USA Video's systems, services and delivery solutions include video content production, content encoding, media asset management, media and application hosting, multi-mode content distribution, transaction data capture and reporting, e-commerce, specialized engineering services and Internet streaming hardware. The Company's principal products and services are its media delivery infrastructure and software and its store and forward video-on-demand (VOD). USA Video has developed products and services based on these technologies.
USAK USA Truck, Inc. is a dry van truckload carrier transporting general commodities throughout the continental United States and between locations in the United States and Quebec and Ontario, Canada. The Company also transports freight into Mexico by transferring its trailers to tractors operated by Mexican trucking companies, with which the Company has contracts, at its facility in Laredo, Texas. USA Truck's operations within the United States produce more than 93% of its revenues. The Company transports freight over irregular routes, with a medium length of haul, which is defined as between 800 and 1,200 miles per trip. USA Truck also offers regional service, with a length of haul of less than 500 miles. The Company provides these services as a common carrier and under contracts. In addition, the Company provides services that do not involve transporting freight in its trucks, including third-party logistics services and freight brokerage.
USTT.OB USA Technologies, Inc. (USAT) offers a suite of networked devices and associated wireless non-cash payment, control/access management, remote monitoring and data reporting services, as well as energy management products. Its customers are principally located in the United States and consist of hotels, chains, consumer package goods companies, information technology (IT) and vending operators. The Company's networked devices and associated services enable the owners and operators of everyday, stand-alone, distributed assets, such as vending machines, personal computers and many more, the ability to remotely monitor, control and report on the results of these distributed assets, as well as the ability to offer their customers alternative cashless payment options.
XPRSA U.S. Xpress Enterprises, Inc. provides transportation services in the continental United States, Canada and Mexico. It has two operating segments: U.S. Xpress, Inc. and Xpress Global Systems, Inc. U.S. Xpress, Inc. provides three principal truckload transportation services: over-the-road or long-haul services, regional services and dedicated contract carriage services. Xpress Global Systems, Inc., formerly known as CSI/Crown, Inc., provides logistics services to the floorcovering industry. The Company also offers logistics services through its approximately 12.0% equity ownership interest in Transplace, Inc., an Internet-based global transportation logistics company.
USWCQ.PK U.S. Wireless Corporation owns a network-based proprietary technology that locates mobile telephone subscribers by recognizing the pattern of the radio waves radiating from the subscribers' handsets. The Company's location technology has been deemed to meet or exceed the Phase II requirements of the FCC's wireless E-911 mandate. U.S. Wireless plans to deploy a location network based on its proprietary technology and operate it as a service bureau, enabling the Company to enjoy substantial operating leverage by providing wireless location information to multiple wireless carriers and other customers for multiple applications. In August 2001, the Company and its subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. In December 2001, the Company sold substantially all of its assets to Trafficmaster USA, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Trafficmaster Plc.
UNWR.OB US Unwired Inc. provides wireless personal communication services (PCS) through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Louisiana Unwired, LLC and IWO Holdings, Inc., in eastern Texas, southern Oklahoma, southern Arkansas, the Florida panhandle, southern Tennessee, upstate New York, New Hampshire (other than the Nashua market), Vermont and portions of Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. The Company is a network partner of Sprint PCS, the personal communications services group of Sprint Corporation. US Unwired has the exclusive right to provide PCS services under the Sprint and Sprint PCS brand names in service areas that had approximately 17.6 million residents as of December 31, 2003. At year-end 2003, US Unwired was providing PCS services to approximately 617,800 subscribers and network coverage to approximately 12.8 million residents or 73%.
USV U.S. Restaurant Properties, Inc. (USRP), through its subsidiaries, including Fuel Supply, Inc., is a fully integrated, self-administered real estate investment trust. The Company acquires, owns and leases restaurant, service station and other service retail properties. In addition, USRP, from time to time, makes opportunistic investments in mortgage notes secured by restaurant or service station and convenience store properties, which provide attractive risk-adjusted rates of return. In 2001, USRP began operating various retail businesses on its properties in order to transition the operations from one tenant to another. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's portfolio consisted of 795 properties located in 48 states and leased to over 270 tenants. In addition, USRP owned eight billboard properties, one office building and one-half interest in a fuel terminal facility, which the Company began utilizing in 2002 to store fuel sold at its Hawaii service stations.
USPH U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc. operates outpatient physical and occupational therapy clinics through subsidiaries. The Company is organized as a Nevada corporation with operating subsidiaries organized in the form of limited partnerships and wholly owned corporations. At December 31, 2003, it operated 242 outpatient physical and occupational therapy clinics in 35 states, especially in Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, Virginia, Oklahoma, Maine and New Jersey. Its clinics provide pre- and post-operative treatment for orthopedic-related disorders, sports-related injuries, preventative care, rehabilitation of injured workers and neurological-related injuries. The clinics initially perform a tailored and comprehensive evaluation of each patient, which is then followed by a treatment plan specific to the injury.
USOO.OB US 1 Industries, Inc. through its subsidiaries (collectively the Company), is an interstate trucking company operating in 48 states. The Company's business consists principally of a truckload operation for which it obtains a significant percentage of its business through independent agents, who then arrange with independent truckers to haul the freight to the desired destination. It carries virtually all forms of freight transported by truck, including specialized trucking services, such as containerized, refrigerated and flatbed transportation. It is primarily a non-asset based business, contracting with independent truckers who generally own the trucks they drive and independent agents.
USNU.OB U.S. Neurosurgical, Inc. (USN) owns and operates stereotactic radiosurgery centers, utilizing the Leksell Gamma Knife technology (Gamma Knife). The Company owns and operates two Gamma Knife centers, one on the premises of Research Medical Center (RMC) in Kansas City, Missouri, and one on the premises of New York University Medical Center (NYU) in New York, New York. USN provides the Gamma Knife to medical facilities on a cost per treatment basis. The Company owns the Gamma Knife units, and is reimbursed by the facility where it is housed, based on utilization. USN's target market is medical centers in healthcare catchment areas that have physicians experienced with and dedicated to the use of the Gamma Knife. As it has with its RMC and NYU Gamma Knife centers, the Company would seek cooperative ventures with these facilities if it were to explore opening additional centers.
UMSY.OB U.S. MedSys Corp. (USMS) is a development stage company that focuses on becoming a network marketing and distribution organization, which provides medical technology and support services to the healthcare industry. In addition, the Company focuses on network development and marketing in areas that are synergistic, such as disease management (diabetes) and podiatry. In March 2004, the Company changed its name to U.S. MedSys Corp. As part of the reorganization, ownership of the Company's former subsidiary, Pride, Inc., which operated a real estate investment business, was transferred. It plans to introduce a series of new medical devices to existing markets in the medical industry.
CLEC US LEC Corp. is a telecommunications carrier providing integrated voice, data and Internet services to medium and large businesses and enterprise organizations throughout 15 Eastern states and the District of Columbia. US LEC services include local and long distance calling services, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service, advanced data services such as Frame Relay, Multi-Link Frame Relay and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), dedicated and dial-up Internet services, managed data solutions, data center services and Web hosting. US LEC also provides selected voice services in 25 additional states and selected data services nationwide. In November 2004, the Company acquired majority of the assets of StarNet, Inc.
USHS U.S. Home Systems, Inc. is engaged in the manufacture, design, sale and installation of custom quality, specialty home improvement products, and the Company is a provider of financing services to customers of residential remodeling contractors throughout the United States. It is engaged in two business segments, the home improvement business and the consumer finance business. The Company's kitchen, bath and window product lines include replacement kitchen and bathroom cabinetry and cabinet refacing products, countertops, other related products utilized in kitchen and bathroom remodeling and replacement windows. Its wood deck product lines include wood decks and related accessories.
USGL.OB U.S. Gold Corporation is engaged in the precious metals and base metals mining business in the continental United States and through an equity investment in an affiliate company, in Mexico. It may also evaluate and develop properties outside the United States. The Company owns a 45% interest in the Tonkin Springs gold mine located in Nevada, and a 40% equity investment in an affiliated company, Gold Resources Corporation. It has not had revenues from mining operations since 1990. As a mining company, its activities include, at various times and to various degrees, exploration, land acquisition, geological evaluation and feasibility studies of properties and, where warranted, development and construction of mining and processing facilities, mining and processing and the sale of gold and other metals and by-products. It may also enter into joint ventures, partnerships or other arrangements to accomplish these activities.
USGA.OB US Global Nanospace, Inc., formerly US Global Aerospace, Inc., is a nanotechnology company that specializes in identifying, developing and commercializing advanced products, the core technologies of which are primarily nanoscience derived. These products include complex polymer materials, polymer nanofiber materials, nanofiber filter materials, biological and chemical decontaminants, blast mitigation materials and nano and micro-sound generating devices for breach barriers and non-lethal weapon applications. The Company is focusing its efforts on developing a broad range of defense and law enforcement applications for the materials it creates, including products suitable for homeland security and force protection applications. Most of its products are developed for use by the military and homeland security. In August 2003, the Company changed its name to US Global Nanospace, Inc.
GROW U.S. Global Investors, Inc. serves as investment adviser and transfer agent to U.S. Global Investors Funds (USGIF) and U.S. Global Accolade Funds (USGAF), both Massachusetts business trusts that are no-load, open-end investment companies offering shares in numerous mutual funds to the investing public. U.S. Global formed companies to provide supplementary services to USGIF and USGAF, such as United Shareholder Services, Inc. (USSI), A&amp;B Mailers, Inc. (A&amp;B) and U.S. Global Brokerage, Inc. (USGB). The Company formed a limited liability company, U.S. Global Investors (Guernsey) Limited (USGG), which is utilized in conducting the Company's cash management activities. In addition, to managing USGIF and USGAF, the Company is actively engaged in trading for its account.
USEY U.S. Energy Systems, Inc. is a provider of thermal and electrical energy and energy outsourcing. Its energy services involve the management, development, operation and ownership of small to medium-sized energy facilities, typically located in close proximity to its customers. At December 31, 2003, the Company owned and/or financed 34 green energy, district energy and cogeneration projects in North America and Europe, with a total of 262 megawatts of thermal and electric generation capacity. U.S. Energy's principal operations include the US Energy Biogas Corporation, USE Canada Energy Corp. and U.S. Energy Geothermal, LLC.
USEG U.S. Energy Corp. (USE) is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, holding, sale and/or development of mineral and coalbed methane gas properties, the production of petroleum properties and marketing of minerals and methane gas. The mineral interests are in coalbed methane, uranium, gold and molybdenum. The Company's uranium and gold properties are all in a shut down status. USE holds various real and personal properties used in commercial activities. During the year ended December 31, 2003, it's business activity was devoted to the coalbed methane (CBM) business, which is conducted through its subsidiary, Rocky Mountain Gas, Inc. USE owns and controls 90.1% of RMG. The Company is engaged in the maintenance of two uranium properties, one in southern Utah and the second in Wyoming, known as Sheep Mountain Partners (SMP). Sutter Gold Mining Company (SGMC), a corporation owned 78.5% by USE in 2003, manages it's interest in gold properties. USE owns 100% of the Plateau Resources Limited.
UDW US Dataworks, Inc. is a developer of payment processing software, serving banking institutions, credit card issuers and the United States Government. The Company generates revenue from the licensing, system integration and maintenance of its core products: MICRworks, Returnworks, Remitworks and Remitworks-Daemon for the financial services industry. The software designed to enable organizations to transition from traditional paper-based payment and billing processes to electronic payment solutions. The Company's products include check processing, point-of-purchase transactions and turnkey Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments. ACH payments are electronic fund transfers among participating depository financial institutions, including the Federal Reserve and the Central Bank of the United States. Its products are designed to provide organizations with an in-house solution that will complement and enhance such organizations' existing technologies, systems and operational workflow.
RMIX U.S. Concrete, Inc. is a producer of ready-mixed concrete and related concrete products in select markets in the United States. Its operations consist principally of formulating, preparing and delivering ready-mixed concrete to the job sites of customers. It also manufactures and delivers various precast and concrete masonry products to the construction industry. Ready-mixed concrete products consist of proportioned mixes that the Company prepares and delivers in unhardened plastic states for placement and shaping into their designed forms. The precast concrete products consist of concrete, which are then pour into molds at plant sites. Building materials operations supply various materials, products and tools for concrete the construction industry. The Company also produces crushed stone aggregates and manufactures various shapes and sizes of concrete masonry, commonly known as concrete block.
USB U.S. Bancorp is a multi-state financial services holding company. Through U.S. Bank and other subsidiaries, the Company provides Consumer Banking, Payment Services, Private Client, Trust and Asset Management and Wholesale Banking. It serves 11.6 million customers, primarily through 2,243 full-service branch offices in 24 states. Customers also access their accounts and conduct all or part of their banking transactions through 4,425 U.S. Bank automated teller machines (ATMs), U.S. Bank Internet Banking and telephone banking. In addition, a network of specialized U.S. Bancorp offices and representatives across the United States serves customers inside and outside the Company's 24-state footprint through product sets that meet the financial needs of customers beyond basic core banking.
UAIRQ.OB US Airways Group, Inc. is primarily engaged in the operation of a network air carrier through its ownership of the common stock of US Airways, Inc., Allegheny Airlines, Inc., Piedmont Airlines, Inc., PSA Airlines, Inc., MidAtlantic Airways, Inc., US Airways Leasing and Sales, Inc., Material Services Company, Inc. and Airways Assurance Limited, LLC. As of December 31, 2003, the subsidiary operated 282 jet aircraft and provided regularly scheduled service at 90 airports in the continental United States, Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ireland, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the Caribbean. In August 2002, US Airways Group and its seven subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. The Filing Entities emerged from bankruptcy protection in March 2003. In September 2004, the Company sought protection from its creditors in bankruptcy court for the second time in 25 months.
UBA Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc. is a real estate investment trust engaged in the acquisition, ownership and management of commercial real estate, primarily on properties in the northeastern part of the United States with a concentration in Fairfield County, Connecticut and Westchester and Putnam Counties, New York. The Company's core properties consist principally of neighborhood and community shopping centers. The remaining properties include office and retail buildings and industrial properties. The Company seeks to identify desirable properties for acquisition, which it acquires in the normal course of business. In addition, the Company regularly reviews its portfolio and from time to time may sell certain of its properties.
URS URS Corporation is an engineering design services firm that executes large and complex engineering projects. The Company provides planning and design, systems engineering and technical assistance, program and construction management, and operations and maintenance services to local, state and federal government agencies, as well as private industry and foreign clients. Its expertise is focused on eight key markets: surface transportation, air transportation, rail transportation, industrial process, facilities and logistics support, water/wastewater treatment, hazardous waste management and military platforms support. URS provides its services through a network of offices and contract-specific job sites. In addition, the Company provides some of its services either as subcontractors or through joint ventures or other partnerships with other service providers.
ULGX Urologix, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets minimally invasive medical products for the treatment of urological disorders. The Company develops non-surgical, catheter-based therapies, which uses a cooled microwave technology for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a disease affecting men, which causes adverse changes in urinary voiding patterns. The Company markets its products under the Targis and Prostatron names. Cooled ThermoTherapy can be performed without anesthesia or intravenous sedation and can be performed in a physician's office or an outpatient clinic. The geographical segments of the Company are the United States, Europe and Asia. Sales of single-use treatment catheters accounted for 93% of Company's revenue for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004). As on June 30, 2004, the Company had a domestic-installed base of 427 Cooled ThermoTherapy systems, including the units being used by its customers.
URBN Urban Outfitters, Inc. is a lifestyle merchandising company that operates specialty retail stores under the Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie and Free People brands, as well as a wholesale division under the Free People brand. The Company offers differentiated collections of fashion apparel, accessories and home goods in inviting and dynamic store settings. In addition to its retail stores, Urban Outfitters offers its products and markets its brands directly to the consumer through its e-commerce Websites, and the Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie catalogs.
URIX.OB Uranium Resources, Inc. is primarily engaged in the business of acquiring, exploring, developing and mining uranium properties, using the in situ leach (ISL) or solution mining process. Historically, the primary customers of the Company have been utilities who utilize nuclear power to generate electricity. It has been involved in a number of ISL uranium mining joint venture arrangements and has also provided consulting, plant design and construction expertise to other companies. Uranium Resources owns development properties in South Texas and in New Mexico.
UPM UPM-Kymmene Corporation is a global producer of magazine papers, with annual production capacity of 12 million tons. The Company was created as a result of the merger between two Finnish companies, Kymmene and Repola. UPM-Kymmene's core businesses are the production, sales and marketing of magazine papers, newsprint, fine papers and specialty papers, supplemented by converted and wood products. The main markets for its products are the member states of the European Union and North America. Magazines and newspapers, sales catalogs, direct mailings, copying, computer printouts and other business communication areas are the primary uses for the Company's paper products. UPM-Kymmene's operations are organized into three core business areas: the paper division, which is comprised of the magazine papers division, newsprint division and fine and specialty papers division; converting division, and wood products division.
UNM UnumProvident Corporation offers group and individual income protection products in the United States and the United Kingdom. The Income Protection segment includes group long-term and short-term income protection insurance, individual income protection insurance, group and individual long-term care insurance and disability management services. The Life and Accident segment includes insurance for life, accidental death and dismemberment, cancer and critical illness. The Colonial segment includes insurance for life, income protection, accident and sickness, cancer and critical illness marketed by its subsidiary Colonial Life &amp; Accident Insurance Company. The Other operating segment includes results from products no longer actively marketed, including individual life and corporate-owned life insurance, reinsurance pools and management operations, group pension, health insurance and individual annuities. In May 2004, RBC Insurance acquired the Canadian operations of Accident.
UNA UNOVA, Inc. is a global technology company providing customers with integrated solutions for improving their efficiency and productivity. The Company's two business segments are the Automated Data Systems (ADS) and the Industrial Automation Systems (IAS). The ADS segment consists of the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Intermec Technologies Corporation, which offers products and services such as rugged mobile computing solutions, wireless and automated data collection systems for field, on-premises and site-based workers, as well as wireless network systems for untethered enablement of an enterprise and barcode label and printing solutions. The IAS segment consists of the Cincinnati Lamb division and the Landis Grinding Systems division, is a producer of value-added manufacturing products and services spanning the production cycle from process engineering and design to systems integration including life cycle support.
UCL Unocal Corporation operates as the parent of Union Oil Company of California. Virtually all operations are conducted by Union Oil and its subsidiaries. The Company is an independent oil and gas exploration and production companies, with principal operations in North America and Asia. Unocal is a producer of geothermal energy and a provider of electrical power in Asia. Other activities include ownership in proprietary and common carrier pipelines, natural gas storage facilities and the marketing and trading of hydrocarbon commodities.
UNIZ Unizan Financial Corp. is a financial services holding company that conducts a full-service commercial and retail banking business through its wholly owned subsidiary, Unizan Bank, National Association (the Bank). Unizan Financial Corp.'s main affiliate, Unizan Bank, National Association, is a full-service banking organization with 45 banking offices offering a range of commercial, retail and fiduciary banking services, primarily to customers in Stark, Summit, Wayne, Muskingum, Licking, Franklin, Greene, Miami and Montgomery Counties of Ohio. The Aircraft Finance Group of the Bank maintains a local sales office in Franklin County as well as two regional offices in Sacramento, California, and Orlando, Florida, which generate loans nationally. The Bank also has small business lending centers to serve small businesses and specializes in loans guaranteed by the United States Department of Commerce, Small Business Administration.
UVN Univision Communications Inc. is a Spanish-language media company in the United States. The Company operates in four business segments: television, radio, music and Internet. The Company's principal business segment is television broadcasting, which consists primarily of the Univision, TeleFutura and Galavision television networks, the Univision Television Group owned-and-operated broadcast television stations and the TeleFutura Television Group owned-and-operated broadcast television stations. Univision Radio, Inc. operates Univision's radio business, which includes its radio network and owned and operated radio stations. The Company completed the acquisition of Univision Radio, then known as Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation, in September 2003. The Company's music operations include the Univision Records label, Fonovisa Records label and a 50%-interest in Disa Records, S.A. de C.V. Univision Online, Inc. operates Univision's Internet portal.
UVSP Univest Corporation of Pennsylvania, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Univest National Bank and Trust Co. (Univest National Bank), is engaged in domestic commercial and retail banking services and provides a full range of banking and trust services. The wholly owned subsidiaries include Univest National Bank and Trust Co., Univest Realty Corporation, Univest Delaware, Inc. and Univest Reinsurance Corporation. Univest National Bank provides banking and trust services to the residents and employees of 12 retirement communities, a work site office at Moyer Packing Company that performs a payroll check cashing service and an express banking center located in the Montgomery Mall. Univest Realty Corporation holds and operates properties for the holding company and its subsidiaries. Univest Reinsurance Corporation, as a reinsurer, offers life and disability insurance. Univest National Bank acquired First County Bank on May 17, 2003, and Suburban Community Bank on October 4, 2003.
UNIB University Bancorp, Inc. operates as a bank holding company for its wholly owned subsidiary, University Bank (the Bank), which is a state-chartered community bank whose primary market area is the City of Ann Arbor and surrounding areas in greater Washtenaw County in Michigan. Through Midwest Loan Services, the Company provides origination, servicing and subservicing of mortgage loans for various credit unions, financial institutions and mortgage brokers. University Insurance &amp; Investment Services, another subsidiary, is licensed by the State of Michigan to sell insurance as agent for licensed insurance companies. Through University Insurance Center, it also offers insurance for homes, autos, apartments and businesses. In addition, its offers include life and healthcare insurance, annuities and mutual fund sales. Business and Industrial Development Company, Inc. (BIDCO) invests in businesses in Michigan with the objective of fostering job growth and economic development.
UTI Universal Technical Institute, Inc. is a provider of post-secondary education for students seeking careers as professional automotive, diesel, collision repair, motorcycle and marine technicians, as measured by total undergraduate enrollment and number of graduates. The Company offers undergraduate degree, diploma and certificate programs at eight campuses across the United States, and manufacturer-sponsored advanced programs at 22 dedicated training centers. Through its campus-based undergraduate programs, it offers specialized technical education under the banner of several brands, including Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Motorcycle Mechanics Institute and Marine Mechanics Institute (collectively, MMI) and NASCAR Technical Institute (NTI). The majority of the Company's undergraduate programs are designed to be completed in 12 to 18 months, and culminate in an occupational associate's degree, diploma or certificate, depending on the program and campus.
USAP Universal Stainless &amp; Alloy Products, Inc. manufactures and markets semi-finished and finished specialty steel products, including stainless steel, tool steel and certain other alloyed steels. The Company's manufacturing process involves melting, remelting, treating, hot and cold rolling, machining and cold drawing of semi-finished and finished specialty steels. Its products are sold to rerollers, forgers, service centers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and wire redrawers. Universal's customers further process its products for use in a variety of industries, including the power generation, aerospace, petrochemical and heavy equipment manufacturing industries. The Company also performs conversion services on materials supplied by customers that lack certain of its production facilities or that are subject to their own capacity constraints.
UUU Universal Security Instruments, Inc. designs and markets a variety of safety products, consisting of smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms and related products. Most of the Company's products require minimal installation, and are designed for easy installation by the consumer without professional assistance. Universal Security markets its products to retailers, including wholesale distributors, chain, discount and home center stores, catalog and mail order companies and to other distributors. Its products have been retailed to do-it-yourself consumers by these retailers. It also distributes its products through specialty markets, such as premium/incentive and direct mail companies. In addition, it markets its products to the electrical distribution trade through its wholly owned subsidiary, USI Electric, Inc. (USI). The electrical distribution trade includes electrical and lighting distributors, as well as manufactured housing companies.
UVIH.OB Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc. is an insurance holding company performing various aspects of insurance underwriting, distribution and claims processing. The Company's primary product is homeowners insurance. The Company's subsidiary, Universal Property &amp; Casualty Insurance Company (UPCIC) was organized to participate in the transfer of homeowner insurance policies from the Florida Residential Property and Casualty Joint Underwriting Association (JUA). The subsidiary's initial business and operations consisted of providing property and casualty coverage through homeowners' insurance policies acquired from the JUA. The insurance business acquired from the JUA provided a base for renewal premiums. UPCIC is also servicing approximately 40,000 homeowners' insurance policies covering homes and condominium units. UPCIC's portfolio during the year ended December 31, 2003 includes approximately 34,000 policies with coverage for wind risks and 6,000 policies without wind risks.
UHS Universal Health Services, Inc. owns and operates acute care hospitals, behavioral health centers, ambulatory surgery centers and radiation oncology centers. As of March 1, 2004, the Company operated 48 acute care hospitals and 44 behavioral health centers located in 22 states, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico and France. As part of its ambulatory treatment centers division, Universal Health owns outright, or in partnership with physicians, and operates or manages, 16 surgery and radiation oncology centers located in nine states and Puerto Rico. Services provided by its hospitals include general surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics, emergency room care, radiology, oncology, diagnostic care, coronary care, pediatric services and behavioral health services.
UHT Universal Health Realty Income Trust is a real estate investment trust primarily engaged in investing in healthcare and human service-related facilities, including acute care hospitals, behavioral healthcare facilities, rehabilitation hospitals, sub-acute facilities, surgery centers, childcare centers and medical office buildings. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had 44 real estate investments located in 15 states consisting of eight hospital facilities, 32 medical office buildings and four preschool and childcare centers. UHS of Delaware, Inc. (the Advisor), a wholly owned subsidiary of Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS), serves as Advisor to the Company under an Advisory Agreement dated December 24, 1986. Under the Advisory Agreement, the Advisor is obligated to present an investment program to Universal, to use its best efforts to obtain investments suitable for such program, to provide administrative services to Universal and to conduct its day-to-day affairs.
UGHO.OB Universal Guardian Holdings, Inc. (UGHO) and its subsidiary companies provide a comprehensive range of security products, systems and services designed to mitigate terrorist and security threats to corporate and government assets. From strategic and tactical security services, business risk solutions, interoperable security systems, to non-lethal defense products, UGHO companies cover a broad spectrum of security applications for government and industry from operations on every continent.
UFPI Universal Forest Products, Inc. engineers, manufactures, treats, distributes and installs lumber, composite, plastic and other building products to the do-it-yourself (DIY)/retail, site-built construction, manufactured housing and industrial and other markets. The Company operates more than 95 facilities throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. The customers comprising the DIY/retail market are primarily national home center retailers, retail-oriented regional lumberyards and contractor-oriented lumberyards. The site-built construction market's customers are primarily large-volume, multi-tract builders and smaller volume custom builders, while customers in the manufactured housing market include producers of mobile, modular and prefabricated homes and recreational vehicles. The industrial and other markets are comprised of industrial manufacturers and agricultural customers.
USXP.OB Universal Express, Inc. (USXP) is an integrated business-to-business services company centered on the private postal and international shipping industries. The Company's principal subsidiaries and divisions are UniversalPost Private Postal Network, UniversalPost International Courier Service, Virtual Bellhop, Luggage Express, Universal Express Capital Corp. and Universal Cash Express. Virtual Bellhop is a door-to-door luggage transportation service. Luggage Express enables consumers to have their baggage picked up at their home by a local UniversalPost member store and delivered to the consumers' destination. Universal Express Capital Corp. is an asset-based transportation/equipment leasing company. Its Universal Cash Express division provides stored value cards of all types to consumers. On March 30, 2004, the Company sold Bags to Go, Inc., a diversified logistics provider. In January 2005, the Company entered into the airlines business with the purchase of Universal Jet Aviation.
UEIC Universal Electronics Inc. develops software, firmware and turnkey solutions designed to enable consumers to wirelessly connect, control and interact with a complex home environment. It has developed a line of easy-to-use, pre-programmed universal wireless control products that are marketed principally for home video and audio entertainment equipment through various channels of distribution, including international retail, private label, original equipment manufacturers and cable and satellite service providers, and to companies in the computing industry. The Company's products are capable of controlling audio and video devices, including, but not limited to, infrared remote (IR) controlled televisions, videocassette recorders, digital video disc players, cable converters, compact disc players, satellite receivers, laser disc players, amplifiers, tuners, turntables, cassette players, digital audio tape players, surround sound systems and most home automation control modules.
PANL Universal Display Corporation is engaged in the research and development and commercialization of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technologies and materials for potential flat-panel display and other applications. OLEDs are thin, lightweight and power-efficient solid state devices highly suitable for use in portable, full-color display applications. Phosphorescent OLEDs (PHOLEDs), the Company's key technology, can be used to produce OLED displays that are up to four times as power efficient as current liquid crystal displays (LCDs) or fluorescent OLED displays. Additional OLED technologies being developed by Universal are transparent OLEDs and flexible OLEDs.
UDTT.OB Universal Detection Technology is primarily engaged in the research and development of bio-terrorism detection devices. In August 2002, Universal Detection entered into a technology affiliates agreement with National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to develop technology for the Company's bio-terrorism detection equipment. The agreement provides that JPL will develop bacterial spore detection technology for integration into the Company's existing aerosol monitoring system, resulting in a product referred to as the Anthrax Smoke Detector. Universal Detection's goal with JPL is to develop a product that provides continuous unattended monitoring of airborne bacterial spores in large public places, with real-time automated alert functionality. On August 8, 2003, the Company changed its name from Pollution Research and Control Corp. to Universal Detection Technology.
UVV Universal Corporation (Universal) is leaf tobacco merchant and has operations in agri-products, as well as in the distribution of lumber and building products. The Company is a holding company that operates through numerous directly and indirectly owned subsidiaries. Its two primary subsidiaries are Universal Leaf Tobacco Company, Incorporated (Universal Leaf) and Deli Universal, Inc. (Deli). Universal's tobacco business is conducted through Universal Leaf, and its non-tobacco business is conducted through Deli, although Deli also owns some minor tobacco business interests and 10% of Universal Leaf's major tobacco operations in Brazil. Universal conducts its operations in numerous foreign countries.
UCO Universal Compression Holdings, Inc. (Universal Compression) is a natural gas compression services company, operating through its wholly owned subsidiary, Universal. As of March 31, 2004, the Company had a fleet of approximately 7,100 compressor units comprising approximately 2.3 million horsepower. Universal Compression provides a full range of natural gas compression services, sales, operations, maintenance and fabrication services and products to the natural gas industry, both domestically and internationally. These services and products are essential to the natural gas industry as gas must be compressed to be delivered from the wellhead to end users. The Company operates in four primary business segments: domestic contract compression, international contract compression, fabrication and aftermarket services.
UCSY.OB Universal Communication Systems, Inc. is actively engaged in developing and marketing solar energy systems and systems for the extraction of drinkable water from the air. The Company holds the exclusive global patent and licensing rights to four air-to-water patents relating to atmospheric extraction of water and its purification process. In addition, Universal owns 21 international patents in the photovoltaic solar power and energy system area. The Company's consolidated subsidiaries are AirWater Corp, AirWater Patents Corp, Millennium Electric T.O.U. Ltd.,Solar One Inc. and Solar Style Ltd. Early in calendar year 2003, the Company formed a wholly owned subsidiary, AirWater Corporation, whose purpose and mission is to design, build and market machines that produce drinkable water from the air. The first step in the endeavor was to obtain licensing rights to the technology. To that end, the Company acquired four patents relating to this technology.
UVSL Universal Automotive Industries, Inc. is engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of brake and undercar parts, including brake rotors, brake drums, disc brake pads, remanufactured brake shoes, remanufactured calipers, new clutch kits, suspension and hydraulic parts for the North American Automotive aftermarket. Universal manufactures over 90% of its friction products, 40% of brake rotors, remanufactures 100% of brake calipers and purchases for resale the balance of brake and undercar products from manufacturers throughout the world. An estimated 50% of its sales are marketed under customers' private labels and the balance of its sales under its brands. During the year ended December 31, 2003, 20% of Company's total revenues were from its wholesale products business in which the Company buys and sells fast moving automotive parts, such as spark plugs, headlights and motor oils.
UHCO Universal American Financial Corp. is a life and accident and health insurance holding company. Collectively, the Company's insurance subsidiaries are licensed to sell life and accident and health insurance and annuities in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and all the provinces of Canada. Its principal insurance products are Medicare Supplement, senior life insurance, long term care insurance and fixed annuities offered to the senior market, and fixed benefit accident and sickness disability insurance sold to the self-employed market. Universal distributes these products through both a career agency system and an independent general agency system. The Company's administrative services company acts as a service provider for both affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies and other entities for senior market insurance and non-insurance programs.
UVCL.OB UniverCell Holdings, Inc. offered wireless phone, fax, data and Internet communication services to business travelers, leisure travelers and students traveling to over 140 foreign countries through its wholly owned subsidiary, UniverCell Global Phone Rental, Inc. Its services included mobile phone rentals and service, whereby the Company offered a single wireless phone and phone number that works in more than 140 countries; security identity module cards, offered in various pre-paid denominations and in a post-paid format, as well as on a contractual basis, and global system for mobile communications (GSM) phone sales, wherein the Company offered GSM telephone equipment for sale to customers. In September 2004, UniverCell Global Phone Rental decided to discontinue its rental program, which was its only remaining operation. The Company has not yet determined whether to cease all operations.
UNVC.OB Univec, Inc. produces and markets medical products, primarily syringes, on a global basis. Physician and Pharmaceutical Services, Inc., a subsidiary, provides group purchasing services of pharmaceutical products. Thermal Waste Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary, markets a medical waste disposal unit. Univec manufactures and markets patented sliding sheath syringes designed to protect patients and healthcare workers from needle stick injuries, in compliance with the Federal Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act of the United States government, as well as the requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The Company has the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for an extendible barrel sleeve syringe, used in the sliding sheath syringes based on technology licensed by Univec.
UTYW.OB Unity Wireless Corporation is engaged in the principal activity of making high-power radio frequency amplifiers. It has developed over 30 models of its products, which are used in cellular, personal communication services (PCS), paging, wireless local loop (WLL) and third-generation (3G) networks. Most of the Company's amplifiers are used in signal repeaters that are used to extend coverage in cellular telephone networks. Some are also used in base station equipment and some are multi-channel power amplifiers. The Company's markets are Israel, Korea, Sweden, the United States, China, Canada and others, and contributed 4.8%, 3.9%, 6.9%, 53.2%, 21.8%, 9.1% and 0.3%, respectively, of the Company's total sales, during the year ended December 31, 2003.
UNTY Unity Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company for Unity Bank (the Bank) and thus its primary business is its ownership and supervision. It also owns 100% of Unity (NJ) Statutory Trust I, which has issued $9.3 million of preferred securities to investors. The bank is a service commercial bank, providing a range of business and consumer financial services through its main office in Clinton, New Jersey, and 13 New Jersey branches located in Clinton, Colonia, Edison, Flemington, Highland Park, Linden, North Plainfield, Scotch Plains, South Plainfield, Springfield, Union, Bridgewater and Whitehouse. The bank's primary service area encompasses the Route 22/Route 78 corridor between the Bank's Clinton, New Jersey, main office and its Linden, New Jersey, branch.
UTR Unitrin Inc. is engaged in providing property and casualty insurance, life and health insurance, and consumer finance services primarily to individuals, families and small businesses. The Company conducts its operations through six operating segments: Multi Lines Insurance, Specialty Lines Insurance, Kemper Auto and Home, Unitrin Direct, Life and Health Insurance and Consumer Finance. The Unitrin companies operating in these segments provide automobile, homeowners, commercial multi-peril, motorcycle, boat and watercraft, fire, casualty, workers compensation and other types of property and casualty insurance to individuals and businesses. Automobile insurance accounted for 56% of Unitrin's consolidated insurance premiums earned for 2003.
UTL Unitil Corporation is a public utility holding company that conducts its operations through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Unitil Energy Systems, Inc. (UES), Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company (FG&amp;E), Unitil Power Corp., Unitil Service Corp., Unitil Realty Corp., Unitil Resources, Inc., Usource Inc. and Usource L.L.C. The Company's principal business is the retail distribution of electricity in the southeastern seacoast and capital city areas of New Hampshire and the retail distribution of both electricity and natural gas in the greater Fitchburg area of north central Massachusetts, through its two utility subsidiaries, UES and FG&amp;E. Unitil Power was formerly the wholesale power supply provider for UES. Unitil Resources provides an energy brokering service, through Usource, as well as various energy consulting activities. Unitil Realty and Unitil Service provide centralized facilities, operations and administrative services to support the affiliated Unitil companies.
UNH UnitedHealth Group Incorporated is a diversified health and well-being services company, serving approximately 52 million Americans. The Company provides individuals with access to cost-effective healthcare services and resources through more than 400,000 physicians and 3,600 hospitals across the United States. It manages approximately $50 billion in aggregate healthcare spending on behalf of more than 170,000 employer-customers and the consumers it serves. The Company's primary focus is on improving the American healthcare system by simplifying the administrative components of healthcare delivery, promoting evidence-based medicine as the standard for care and providing relevant, actionable data that physicians, healthcare providers, consumers, employers and other participants in healthcare can use to make better, more informed decisions. In July 2004, the Company acquired Oxford Health Plans, Inc.
UG United-Guardian, Inc. conducts research, product development, manufacturing and marketing of cosmetic ingredients, personal and healthcare products, pharmaceuticals and specialty industrial products through its Guardian Laboratories Division. The Company also distributes an extensive line of fine organic chemicals, research chemicals, test solutions, indicators, dyes and reagents through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Eastern Chemical Corporation. Paragon Organic Chemicals, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, has no assets or sales of its own. Its sole function is to act as the purchasing arm of the Company.
UCOMA UnitedGlobalCom, Inc. is an international broadband communications provider of video, voice and Internet services with operations in 15 countries outside the United States. The Company's networks reach 12.7 million homes and serve 7.5 million video subscribers, 733,000 voice subscribers and 924,200 Internet access subscribers. UGC Europe, Inc., the Company's largest consolidated operation, is a pan-European broadband communications company. UGC Europe's operations are organized into two principal divisions: UPC Broadband and chellomedia. The Company's Latin American operation, VTR GlobalCom S.A., (VTR) is Chile's multi-channel television and Internet access provider in terms of homes passed and number of subscribers. The Company also has a 19% interest in SBS Broadcasting S.A. (SBS) and a 34% interest in Austar United Communications Ltd. (Austar United). In January 2004, the Company was acquired by Liberty Media Corp.
UU United Utilities PLC provides wastewater and water services in northwest England through its wholly owned subsidiary, United Utilities Water. United Utilities Water and United Utilities Electricity are the regulated companies, which own and operate the networks and associated infrastructure assets that are used to collect and treat wastewater; collect, treat, store and distribute water, and distribute electricity for homes and businesses in northwest England. The Company is the holding company of United Utilities Water PLC and United Utilities Electricity PLC. The group's operations are concentrated in the United Kingdom, as well as in other markets, including central and Eastern Europe, the Philippines, Canada and Australia. United Utilities also owns Your Communications, a telecommunications business. The Company's four business segments include licensed multi-utility operations, infrastructure management, business process outsourcing and telecommunications.
UTGI.OB United Trust Group, Inc. (UTG) is a life insurance holding company that focuses on the acquisition of other companies in similar lines of business and management of the insurance subsidiaries. UTG has no activities outside the life insurance focus. The Company's dominant business is individual life insurance, including the servicing of existing insurance business in force, the solicitation of new individual life insurance, the acquisition of other companies in the insurance business and the administration processing of life insurance business for other entities. The Company's significant majority-owned subsidiaries include Universal Guaranty Life Insurance Company, Roosevelt Equity Corporation, North Plaza of Somerset, Inc., Hampshire Plaza, LLC and Hampshire Plaza Garage, LLC.
UTHR United Therapeutics Corporation is a biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutic products to treat patients with chronic and life-threatening cardiovascular, infectious and oncological diseases. The Company's lead product is Remodulin. The United States Food and Drug Administration approved Remodulin (treprostinil sodium) injection for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension in patients with New York Heart Association class II-IV symptoms to diminish symptoms associated with exercise. Remodulin is also approved for use in Canada and Israel. In December 2003, Switzerland and Australia announced that they would approve Remodulin pending final labeling and a commitment to perform a drug interaction study in Switzerland. A marketing authorization application for the approval of Remodulin in France is under review.
UTBI United Tennessee Bankshares, Inc. serves as the holding company for Newport Federal Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a stock savings bank engaged in attracting deposits from the general public and investing those funds in loans secured by first mortgages on owner-occupied, single-family residences in its market area, and, to a lesser extent, commercial real estate loans and consumer loans. It also maintains a substantial investment portfolio, primarily of mortgage-backed securities issued by the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC) and Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA), obligations of the federal government and agencies and investment-grade obligations of states and political subdivisions. The Bank operates through three full-service banking offices located in Newport, Tennessee.
UTX United Technologies Corporation provides high-technology products and services to the building systems and aerospace industries worldwide. Its operations are classified into five principal segments: Otis, Carrier, Chubb, Pratt &amp; Whitney and Flight Systems. Otis is an elevator and escalator manufacturing, installation and service company. Carrier is a manufacturer and distributor of commercial and residential heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems and refrigeration and equipment. Chubb is a global provider of security and fire protection products and services that was acquired by the Company on July 28, 2003. Pratt &amp; Whitney and the Flight Systems segments comprise United's aerospace businesses, and produce and service commercial and government aerospace and defense products. They also serve customers in the industrial markets.
USTI.OB United Systems Technology, Inc. is engaged in the business of developing, supporting and marketing computer software products to county and local government entities. The software applications of the Company operate on IBM mid-range computers and on network computer systems both in DOS and Windows environments. The products are offered to customers in four product application groups: financial, public works, general administration and public safety. Its wholly owned subsidiaries are United Systems Technology East, Inc. (USTEI) and USTI Canada, Inc. The Company derives its revenue from licensing of its software packages, installation, training and customer support, maintenance agreements and equipment and supplies sales. The Company markets its products on a nationwide basis in the United States and Canada. Approximately 25% of its customers are located in Texas and Minnesota and the remaining customers are located in various states and provinces in the United States and Canada.
USTR United Stationers Inc. (United) is a broad line wholesale distributor of business products and a provider of marketing and logistics services to resellers. United markets its products and services in the United States, Canada and Mexico through its United Stationers, Azerty and Lagasse divisions and subsidiaries. The Company distributes more than 40,000 stockkeeping units that are classified into five categories: computer consumables, traditional office products, office furniture, janitorial/sanitation supplies and business machines and presentation products. Its customers include independent office products dealers and contract stationers, national mega-dealers, office products superstores, computer products resellers, office furniture dealers, mass merchandisers, mail order companies, sanitary supply distributors, drug and grocery store chains and e-commerce merchants. Independent resellers contributed about 80% of United's revenues during the year ended December 31, 2003.
X United States Steel Corporation (U. S. Steel) is an integrated steel producer with major production operations in the United States and central Europe. An integrated producer uses iron ore and coke as primary raw materials for steel production. The Company has domestic annual raw steel production capability of 19.4 million tons, and central European annual raw steel production capability of 7.4 million tons. U. S. Steel is also engaged in several other business activities, most of which are related to steel manufacturing. These include the production of iron-bearing taconite pellets in the United States and coke in both the United States and central Europe; transportation services (railroad and barge operations); real estate operations, and engineering and consulting services. During 2003, the Company had five principal operating segments: Flat-Rolled Products, U. S. Steel Europe, Tubular Products, Real Estate and Straightline.
USLM United States Lime &amp; Minerals, Inc. is involved in the production and sale of lime and limestone products. The Company extracts high-quality limestone from its quarries and processes it for sale as pulverized limestone, quicklime and hydrated lime. These operations were conducted throughout 2003 by three wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company: Arkansas Lime Company, Colorado Lime Company and Texas Lime Company. Pulverized limestone (also referred to as ground calcium carbonate) is a dried product ground to granular and finer sizes. Quicklime (calcium oxide) is produced by heating limestone to very-high temperatures in kilns in a process called calcination. Hydrated lime (calcium hydroxide) is produced by reacting quicklime with water in a controlled process to produce a dry, white powder.
USM United States Cellular Corporation (U.S. Cellular) provides wireless telephone service to 4,409,000 customers through the operations of 182 majority-owned wireless licenses throughout the United States. It has expanded its wireless networks and customer service operations to cover seven market areas in 28 states as of December 31, 2003. Through a 2003 exchange transaction, the Company has rights to wireless licenses covering territories in two additional states and has the rights to commence service in those licensed areas in the future. The wireless licenses that U.S. Cellular includes in its consolidated operations cover a total population of more than one million in each market area. U.S. Cellular's ownership interests in wireless licenses include interests in licenses covering 165 cellular metropolitan statistical areas or rural service areas and 70 personal communication service basic trading areas.
UAMY.OB United States Antimony Corporation produces and sells antimony and zeolite products. The Company's antimony mining properties, mill and metallurgical plant are located in the Burns Mining District of Sanders County, Montana 15 miles west of Thompson Falls. It also owns 100% of Bear River Zeolite Company (BRZ). BRZ has a lease with Webster Farm, LLC. The Company owns 50% of the common stock of United States Antimony, Mexico S.A. de C.V. (USAMSA). It produces antimony oxide products of different particle sizes using proprietary furnace technology, several grades of sodium antimonate using hydro metallurgical techniques and antimony metal. The Company's lease with BRZ entitles the latter to surface mine and process zeolite on property located near Preston, Idaho in exchange for a royalty payment.
UBFO United Security Bancshares is the bank holding company for United Security Bank (the Bank). As a state-chartered commercial bank, United Security Bank offers a range of commercial banking services, primarily to the business and professional community and individuals located in Fresno and Madera Counties, California. At December 31, 2003, the Bank operated seven banking branches and one construction lending office to provide financial services in its primary service area. United Security Bancshares Capital Trust I is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, which was formed as a business trust for the sole purpose of issuing trust preferred securities. In April 2004, the Company acquired Taft National Bank, which operates branch offices in Taft and Bakersfield, serving small business and retail banking clients. The two branches of Taft National Bank will operate as branches of the Bank, raising the number of owned branches of the Bank to 10.
USBI United Security Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company that operates one commercial banking subsidiary, First United Security Bank (the Bank). The Bank conducts a general commercial banking business and offers banking services such as the receipt of demand, savings and time deposits, personal and commercial loans, credit card and safe deposit box services and the purchase and sale of government securities. It has 18 banking offices located in Thomasville, Coffeeville, Fulton, Gilbertown, Grove Hill, Butler, Jackson, Brent, Centreville, Woodstock, Harpersville, Calera, Bucksville and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Its market area includes Clarke, Choctaw, Bibb, Shelby, Tuscaloosa and portions of Marengo, Sumter, Washington, Wilcox, Chilton, Hale, Monroe, Perry and Jefferson Counties in Alabama, as well as Clarke, Lauderdale and Wayne counties in Mississippi.
URGI United Retail Group, Inc. is a specialty retailer featuring fashionable large size women's apparel, which consist of AVENUE brand wearing apparel and AVENUE BODY brand large size undergarments and lingerie, as well as CLOUDWALKERS brand women's footwear, AVENUE brand large size women's hosiery and AVENUE brand accessories and gifts. The Company's sales in the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004 (fiscal 2003), accounted approximately 90% of apparel and other product categories accounted 10%. The Company exclusively promotes merchandise with its own brands. It offers selections of AVENUE brand casual wear, career apparel, specialty items and accessories. The casual wear assortment includes skirts, pants, jeans, active wear, shirts, T-shirts, jackets and sweaters. The career assortment includes slacks, skirts, jackets, soft blouses and dresses. The accessories include earrings, pins, scarves, necklaces, watches and bags.
URI United Rentals, Inc. is an equipment rental company in North America with a network of more than 730 rental locations in the United States, Canada and Mexico. In addition to renting equipment, the Company sells used rental equipment; acts as a dealer for new equipment, and sells related merchandise and contractor supplies, parts and service. Its customers include construction and industrial companies, manufacturers, utilities, municipalities, homeowners and others. Rentalman Software, a subsidiary of United Rentals, develops and markets software for equipment rental companies.
UPS United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) concentrates its operations in the field of transportation services, primarily domestic and international letter and package delivery. The Company delivers packages and documents throughout the United States and in over 200 other countries and territories. It delivers packages each business day for 1.8 million shipping customers to 6.1 million consignees. In 2003, UPS delivered an average of more than 13 million pieces per day worldwide. The Company has established a global transportation infrastructure consisting of a ground fleet of more than 88,000 vehicles, ranging from custom-built delivery vehicles to large tractors and trailers and almost 600 airplanes. Through its non-package subsidiaries, UPS is also a global provider of specialized transportation, logistics and financial services. In December 2004, the Company acquired CNF, Inc.'s Menlo Worldwide Forwarding.
UPFC United PanAm Financial Corp. (UPFC) is a specialty finance company engaged in non-prime automobile finance and insurance premium finance. The Company provides financing to borrowers who have limited or impaired credit histories that restrict their ability to obtain loans through traditional sources. UPFC funds its finance businesses mainly with retail and wholesale bank deposits held by a wholly owned subsidiary, Pan American Bank, FSB (the Bank), a federally chartered savings association. The Company's automobile finance business is conducted through United Auto Credit Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank, which purchases and holds for investment, non-prime automobile installment sales contracts, originated by independent and franchised dealers of used automobiles. The Company's insurance premium finance business is conducted through a joint venture agreement with BPN Corporation.
UNTD United Online, Inc. is an Internet service provider (ISP) offering consumers free and value-priced Internet access and e-mail. The Company's services, which are offered through the NetZero, Juno and BlueLight Internet brands, are available in more than 6,500 cities across the United States and Canada. United Online also offers marketers numerous online advertising products, as well as online market research and measurement services. As of June 30, 2003, United Online had over 2.5 million subscribers to its pay services and approximately 5.2 million active users, including pay subscribers. The NetZero and Juno pay services differ from their respective free services in that the hourly and certain other limitations set for the free services do not apply. In addition, the free services incorporate a number of advertising initiatives, including a persistent on-screen advertising banner, which are not included on the pay services.
UNFI United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) is a national distributor of natural and organic foods and related products in the United States. The Company carries more than 35,000 natural and organic products, consisting of national brand, regional brand, private-label and master distribution products in six product categories consisting of grocery and general merchandise, produce, perishables and frozen foods, nutritional supplements, bulk and foodservice products and personal care items. UNFI serves more than 18,000 customers, including independently owned natural products retailers, supernatural chains (which are comprised of small and large chains of natural foods supermarkets) and conventional supermarkets located across the United States. Through its subsidiary, the Natural Retail Group, the Company also owns and operates 12 natural product retail stores located in Florida, Maryland and Massachusetts. In December 2004, the Company acquired Select Nutrition Distributors, Inc.
UNGL United National Group, Ltd. is a specialty property and casualty insurer. The Company's United States Insurance subsidiaries, led by United National Insurance Company, are either licensed or eligible to write on a surplus lines basis in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. Its Non-United States operations that consist of Barbados-based and Bermuda-based insurance companies are expected to begin offering insurance and reinsurance products to third parties and reinsurance to the Company's United States Operations in the near future. The Company writes specialty insurance products that are designed to meet the needs of targeted niche insurance markets. The products that it writes for these markets include property and casualty insurance for social service agencies, insurance for equine mortality risks and insurance for vacant property risks.
UMH United Mobile Homes, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns and operates 26 manufactured home communities containing 6,129 sites. The communities are located in New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. The Company operates as part of a group of three public companies (all REITs) that includes United Mobile Homes, Inc., Monmouth Capital Corporation and Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corporation (the affiliated companies). Its primary business is the ownership and operation of manufactured home communities. It leases manufactured home spaces on a month-to-month basis to private manufactured home owners, and also leases homes to residents, and through its wholly owned taxable REIT subsidiary, sells homes to residents and prospective residents of its communities.
UMC United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) is an independent semiconductor foundries and a provider of semiconductor manufacturing process technologies. The Company's primary business is the manufacture or fabrication of semiconductors, also called as chips or integrated circuits, for others. UMC derives its revenues from the sale of its products for communication (41.6%), consumer electronics (28.1%), computer (25.4%), memory (3.3%) and other applications (1.6%). In February 2004, UMC signed a merger agreement with SiS Microelectronics Corporation (SiS Microelectronics) for the Company's proposed acquisition of SiS Microelectronics through a share swap. SiS Microelectronics is a foundry company that operates an 8-inch wafer fab, and was spun-off from Silicon Integrated System Corp., an integrated circuit design and product company, in December 2003.
UMCI.OB United Medicorp, Inc. provides medical insurance claims coding and processing, electronic medical records storage and accounts receivable management services to healthcare providers. The Company employs and purchases software to provide claims coding and processing, billing and collection and medical records storage services to its customers. The Company's customers are hospitals, medical clinics and physician practices. Its wholly owned subsidiary is United MoneyCorp, Inc. (UMY), which is the legal entity, which operates as a collection agency and Allied Health Options, Inc. (AHO).
UIC United Industrial Corporation is an advanced technology company applying its resources to the research, development and production of aerospace and military systems, electronics and components under defense contracts, and, to a lesser extent, to energy systems for industry and utilities. Its principal business segments are defense and related products, and energy generating systems. These operations are conducted principally through two wholly owned subsidiaries, AAI Corporation and Detroit Stoker Company. During 2003, the Company decided to discontinue its third business segment, the transportation segment.
UHCP United Heritage Corporation is an independent producer of natural gas and crude oil based in Cleburne, Texas. It operates its business through its wholly owned subsidiaries: UHC Petroleum Corporation (Petroleum), UHC Petroleum Services Corporation (Services) and UHC New Mexico Corporation (New Mexico). During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company operates in two business segments: the sale of processed meat products and oil and gas producing activities. On May 24, 2004, Petroleum received an engineering study of its South Texas oil field, which showed proved reserves of 26,935,668 net barrels. The study indicated in excess of 168 million barrels of oil remaining in place. Monthly oil production from Petroleum in fiscal 2004, was 61 barrels (BBL) of oil.
UFCS United Fire &amp; Casualty Company is engaged in the business of writing property and casualty insurance and life insurance in the United States through its subsidiaries. The property and casualty insurance segment markets most forms of commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products, including fidelity and surety bonds and reinsurance. The business is generated through approximately 1,030 independent agencies and brokers in 41 states. In 2003, Texas, Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, Illinois and Colorado provided more than 60% of the direct premium volume in this segment. The life insurance segment underwrites and markets ordinary life (primarily universal life), annuities (primarily single premium) and credit life products to individuals and groups through approximately 1,390 independent agencies in 27 states. In 2003, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Nebraska and Wisconsin provided more than 70% of the direct premium volume in this segment.
UFM United Financial Mortgage Corporation (UFMC) is engaged in the mortgage banking business in 36 states. The business of the Company is primarily focused on the origination of mortgage loans secured by residential real estate (single family residences and one-to four-family residential properties). The Company originates these mortgage loans through its Wholesale origination division, Retail origination division and UFMC's relationships with Internet Websites. The Company also services mortgage loans for others through its Mortgage loan servicing division. During the fiscal year ended April 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Wholesale origination division accounted for approximately 73.2% of the mortgage loan origination volume.
UBMT United Financial Corp. (United) is a bank holding company with operations in 15 locations in 13 Montana communities. United's banking business in Montana is conducted through its wholly owned subsidiary, Heritage Bank. Heritage Bank is a state-chartered commercial bank engaged in the community banking business of attracting deposits from the general public through its branches and using those deposits, together with other available funds, to originate commercial, including lease financing, commercial real estate, residential, agricultural and consumer loans in its market areas. Heritage Bank also invests in mortgage-backed securities, United States Treasury obligations, other United States Government agency obligations and other interest-earning assets. United completed the sale of Valley to Marquette Financial Companies (Marquette) in July 2003.
UFBC.OB United Financial Banking Companies, Inc. is the holding company of The Business Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a state banking association engaged in a general commercial banking business and specializing in offering banking services to business and professional customers. These services include the usual deposit functions of commercial banks, including business and personal checking accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts and savings accounts; business and commercial loans; and processing of collections. The Bank markets its services to professionals and small and medium-sized businesses in its service area of Northern Virginia and surrounding communities. The Company also wholly owns Business Venture Capital, Inc., a subsidiary that conducts limited lending and other investment activities, and United Facilities LLC, which holds the Bank's premises.
UDR United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc. is a self-administered equity real estate investment trust that owns, acquires, renovates, develops and manages middle-market apartment communities in the United States. The Company's target market generally consists of renters-by-necessity, which includes young professionals, blue-collar families, single-parent households, older singles, immigrants, non-related parties and families renting while waiting to purchase a home. Substantially all of United Dominion's leases are for a term of one year or less. As of December 31, 2003, the apartment portfolio, spread across 19 states, included 264 communities located in 55 markets with a total of 76,244 completed apartment homes, and three apartment communities under development. The Company's subsidiaries include two operating partnerships, Heritage Communities L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, and United Dominion Realty L.P., a limited partnership.
UDI United Defense Industries, Inc. is engaged in the design, development and production of combat vehicles, artillery systems, naval guns and missile launchers used primarily by the United States Department of Defense, as well as foreign allied militaries. The Company also provides non-nuclear ship repair, modernization and conversion services to the United States Navy and related agencies, primarily through its subsidiary, United States Marine Repair, Inc (USMR). United Defense's business is comprised of two business segments: defense systems and ship repair and maintenance. The defense systems program portfolio consists of a mix of weapon systems development, production, upgrades and life cycle support programs. The ship repair and maintenance business portfolio consists of ship repair, maintenance and modernization service programs. In March 2004, the Company acquired Cercom, Inc., an advanced ceramic materials producer and supplier of lightweight ceramic armor.
UCFC United Community Financial Corp. serves as the holding company for The Home Savings and Loan Company (the Bank). The business of Home Savings is providing consumer and business banking service to its market area in Ohio and western Pennsylvania. As of December 31, 2003, Home Savings was doing business through 35 full-service banking branches and six loan production offices. In addition to the Bank, the Company wholly owns Butler Wick Corp., the parent company for two wholly owned subsidiaries: Butler Wick &amp; Co., Inc. and Butler Wick Trust Company. Butler Wick has 13 office locations located in northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania providing a range of investment alternatives for individuals, companies and not-for-profit organizations throughout Ohio and western Pennsylvania.
UCBI United Community Banks, Inc. (United) is the holding company for United Community Bank, Blairsville, Georgia; United Community Bank, Brevard, North Carolina, and United Community Bank Tennessee, Lenoir City, Tennessee (the Banks), which United acquired in 2003. The Banks are community-oriented, offering a full range of retail and corporate banking services, including checking, savings and time deposit accounts, secured and unsecured loans, wire transfers, brokerage services and rental of safe deposit boxes. As of December 31, 2003, the Banks operated through 72 locations, opening a de novo bank in Savannah, Georgia, two de novo banking offices in western North Carolina and a de novo banking office in north Georgia. In December 2004, the Company acquired Liberty National Bancshares, Inc., which operates three full-service banking offices on the east side of metropolitan Atlanta. Two of its offices are in Conyers and one is in Covington, located in Rockdale and Newton counties.
AFP United Capital Corp. operates in two business segments: Real Estate Investment and Management and Engineered Products. United Capital is engaged in the business of investing in and managing real estate properties and the making of high-yield, short-term loans secured by desirable properties. As of February 27, 2004, United Capital owned 171 properties across the United States, consisting mainly of shopping centers and retail outlets, commercial properties, day-care centers and offices and hotel properties. The Company's engineered products are manufactured through wholly owned subsidiaries: Metex Mfg. Corporation (Metex) and AFP Transformers, LLC. The knitted wire products and components manufactured by Metex are used in applications such as high temperature gaskets, seals, components for use in airbags, shock and vibration isolators, noise reduction elements and air, liquid and solid filtering devices.
UNEWY United Business Media plc (UBM) is a market information company that provides professional media and market information solutions to customers. It operates in three business areas: Professional Media (CMP Media), News Distribution (PR Newswire) and Market Research (NOP World). The Company operates in the United States and the United Kingdom, but also has business interests in the rest of Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. It also has consumer and business-to-business publishing interests, including classified advertising periodicals, and retains a number of broadcast investments, including a 35.37% stake in Channel 5 Television Group Limited, a United Kingdom television broadcaster; 20% in Independent Television News Limited; 33.05% in SDN Limited, and 20% in Satellite Information Systems.
UBSI United Bankshares, Inc. is a bank holding company. As of December 31, 2003, United Bankshares had two banking subsidiaries (the Banking Subsidiaries) doing business under the name of United Bank, one operating under the laws of West Virginia and the other operating under the laws of Virginia. United Bankshares also owns nonbank subsidiaries, which engage in mortgage banking and other community banking services, such as asset management, investment banking, financial planning and brokerage services. United Bankshares operates 91 full-service offices, of which 52 offices are located throughout West Virginia; 36 offices throughout the Northern Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. areas, and three offices in Ohio.
UBOH United Bancshares, Inc. is a one-bank holding company created as a result of the collapse of the charters of Citizens Bank of Delphos and the Bank of Leipsic. The Company later merged the two collapsed banks into the charter of The Union Bank Company (the Bank). The Bank acquired branches from RFC Banking Company effective March 28, 2003. The Bank is engaged in the business of commercial banking. It serves Allen, Putnam, Sandusky, Van Wert and Wood counties, with office locations in Bowling Green, Columbus Grove, Delphos, Gibsonburg, Kalida, Leipsic, Lima, Ottawa and Pemberville. The Bank offers a range of commercial banking services, including checking and negotiable order of withdrawal (NOW) accounts; savings and money market accounts; time certificates of deposit, automatic teller machines (ATMs); commercial, consumer, agricultural, residential mortgage loans and home equity loans; credit card services; safe deposit box rentals, and other personalized banking services.
UBCP United Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for The Citizens Savings Bank (Citizens) and The Community Bank (Community). The Banks are located in northeastern, eastern, southeastern and south central Ohio and are engaged in the business of commercial and retail banking in Belmont, Harrison, Tuscarawas, Carroll, Athens, Hocking and Fairfield counties and the surrounding localities. The Banks provide a range of banking and financial services, which include accepting demand, savings and time deposits and granting commercial, real estate and consumer loans. Citizens conducts its business through its office in Martins Ferry, Ohio and nine branches located in Bridgeport, Colerain, Dellroy, Dover, Jewett, New Philadelphia, St. Clairsville, Sherrodsville and Strasburg, Ohio. Community conducts its business through its seven offices in Amesville, Glouster, Lancaster and Nelsonsville, Ohio.
UAG United Auto Group, Inc. is an automotive retailer in the United States. It offers a full range of 40 vehicle brands including foreign and luxury brands such as BMW, Honda, Volvo, Suzuki, Rolls Royce, Lexus, Mercedes, Acura, Cadillac, Genuine Chevrolet, Ferrari, Ford, Hyundai, Jaguar and Toyota. In addition to selling new and used vehicles, it also sells higher-margin products such as finance, insurance and vehicle service contracts, maintenance repair services, replacement parts and aftermarket automotive products through dealers. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company owned and operated 137 franchises in the United States and 83 franchises internationally, primarily in the United Kingdom. In 2003, luxury brands represented 46% of its revenues. The Company's service, the UnitedAuto Care, offers a range of protection options when purchasing a new or used vehicle, along with the extended service contracts, maximized protection plans and the vehicle enhancements.
UAHC United American Healthcare Corporation (UAHC) provides comprehensive management and consulting services to a managed care organization in Tennessee. The Company also arranges for the financing of healthcare services and delivery of these services by primary care physicians and specialists, hospitals, pharmacies and other ancillary providers to commercial employer groups and government-sponsored populations in Tennessee, Michigan. Management and consulting services provided by the Company include feasibility studies for licensure, strategic planning, corporate governance, management information systems, human resources, marketing, pre-certification, utilization review programs, individual case management, budgeting, provider network services, accreditation preparation, enrollment processing, claims processing, member services and cost containment programs.
UNT Unit Corporation through its two principal wholly owned subsidiaries, Unit Drilling Company and Unit Petroleum Company, contracts to drill onshore oil and natural gas wells for others and explores, develops, acquires and produces oil and natural gas properties for its own account. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Unit Drilling Company, drills onshore natural gas and oil wells for a range of customers using its 88 drilling rigs. Its drilling operations are mainly in the Oklahoma and Texas areas of the Anadarko and Arkoma Basins, the Texas Gulf Coast and in the East Texas and Rocky Mountain regions. Its oil-producing and natural gas properties, undeveloped leaseholds and related assets are mainly in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico and, to a lesser extent, in Arkansas, North Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Alabama, Mississippi, Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska and Canada. On March 1, 2004, the Company participated in the drilling of 14 gross wells in the United States.
UIS Unisys Corporation is a worldwide information technology (IT) services and solutions company that combines expertise in systems integration and consulting, outsourcing, infrastructure and high-end server technology to help clients achieve competitive advantage. The primary vertical markets the Company serves worldwide include financial services, communications, transportation, commercial and public sector, including the United States federal government. Unisys has two business segments, Services and Technology. In the Services segment, the Company provides end-to-end services and solutions designed to help clients improve their competitiveness and efficiency in the global marketplace. In the Technology segment, Unisys develops servers and related products that operate in transaction-intensive, mission-critical environments.
UNS UniSource Energy Corp. (UNS), through its two regulated subsidiaries, Tucson Electric Power Company (TEP) and UniSource Energy Services (UES), serves approximately 550,000 utility customers throughout Arizona. TEP provides electric service to over 367,000 customers in the Tucson metropolitan area, while UES serves 77,500 electric customers and 126,000 gas customers in other regions of Arizona. UNS' other subsidiaries include Millennium Energy Holdings, Inc. (MEH) and UniSource Energy Development Company (UED). MEH's two primary investments include a developer and manufacturer of photovoltaic material and a developer of thin-film batteries. UED is the project manager for the expansion of TEP's Springerville Generating Station.
UQM UQM Technologies, Inc. develops and manufactures energy-efficient, power-dense, electric motors, generators and power electronic controllers. UQM's primary focus is incorporating its technology into products aimed at existing commercial markets for electrically propelled vehicles, such as wheelchairs, golf carts, industrial utility vehicles, propulsion systems for clean electric, hybrid electric and fuel cell electric on-road and off-road vehicles and vehicle auxiliaries. Through January 22, 2004, the Company operated its business in three segments: technology, mechanical products and electronic products. On May 18, 2004, UQM completed the sale of the assets of its contract electronics manufacturing business. UQM's revenue from continuing operations is derived from two principal sources: funded contract research and development services performed for strategic partners, customers and the United States government, and the manufacture and sale of products engineered by the Company.
UB UnionBanCal Corporation is a commercial bank holding company and has, as its major subsidiary, Union Bank of California, N.A. (the Bank). The Bank is a commercial bank that derives most of its revenues from lending, deposit taking and trust services to customers primarily in California. The Company also services customers in the western United States nationally and internationally. As of December 31, 2003, UnionBanCal operated 280 full-service branches in California, four full-service branches in Oregon and Washington and 21 international offices. In addition, it has another 45 limited-service branches, including five Cash &amp; Save facilities and three Private Bank offices. The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group, Inc., owned approximately 63% of the Company's outstanding common stock at December 31, 2003.
UNP Union Pacific Corporation operates primarily as a rail transportation provider through Union Pacific Railroad Company (the Railroad), its principal operating company. The Railroad is a Class I railroad that operates in the United States, covering 23 states across the western two-thirds of the country. The Railroad has approximately 33,000 route miles linking Pacific Coast and Gulf Coast ports with the Midwest and eastern United States gateways and providing several north/south corridors to key Mexican gateways. It serves the western two-thirds of the country and maintains coordinated schedules with other rail carriers for the handling of freight to and from the Atlantic Coast, the Pacific Coast, the Southeast, the Southwest, Canada and Mexico. The Railroad's commodity revenue is comprised of the following six commodity groups: agricultural products, automotive products, chemicals, energy products, industrial products and intermodal.
UFBS Union Financial Bancshares, Inc. serves as the holding company for Provident Community Bank, N.A. (the Bank). The Bank's business consists primarily of attracting deposits from the general public and originating loans to consumers and businesses. It also maintains a portfolio of investment securities. The principal sources of funds for its lending activities include deposits received from the general public, interest and principal repayments on loans, and, to a lesser extent, borrowings from the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) of Atlanta. The Bank's operations are conducted through its main office and six full-service banking centers, all of which are located in the upstate area of South Carolina. The Bank, through its subsidiary, Provident Financial Services, Inc., is also engaged in securities brokerage activities for the benefit of its customers.
UCBC Union Community Bancorp serves as a loan and holding company for Union Federal Savings and Loan Association (Union Federal). Union Federal offers a variety of lending, deposit and other financial services to its retail and commercial customers. Union Federal's principal business consists of attracting deposits from the general public, and originating fixed-rate and adjustable-rate loans secured primarily by first mortgage liens on one- to four-family residential real estate. Union Federal's deposit accounts are insured up to applicable limits by the Savings Association Insurance Fund of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. On January 2, 2002, the Company acquired Montgomery Financial Corporation (Montgomery), the holding company of Montgomery Savings, a Federal Association (Montgomery Savings), a federally chartered thrift. Union Federal conducts its business from its main office located in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
UNB Union Bankshares, Inc. serves as a bank holding company for Union Bank (Union). Union is a community bank that provides a range of commercial and retail banking services. The Company provides a variety of financial services to individuals, municipalities and corporate customers through its branches, automated teller machines, telebanking, and Internet banking systems in northern Vermont and New Hampshire that encompasses primarily retail consumers, small businesses, municipal, agriculture and the tourism industry. Union Bankshares' primary deposit products are checking, savings, money market accounts and certificates of deposit. Its primary lending products are commercial, real estate, municipal and consumer loans. Union also offers a full-line of personal trust services to its customers.
UBSH Union Bankshares Corporation is a multi-bank holding company that delivers financial services through its four community bank subsidiaries and three non-bank financial services affiliates. The community banks are Union Bank &amp; Trust Company, Northern Neck State Bank, Rappahannock National Bank and Bank of Williamsburg. The non-bank financial services affiliates are Mortgage Capital Investors, Inc., Union Investment Services, Inc. and Union Insurance Group, LLC. The Company is organized into two segments, traditional full service community banks and a mortgage loan origination business.
UBCD UnionBancorp, Inc. is the holding company for three banks: UnionBank, UnionBank/West and UnionBank/Northwest. The Banks serve customers in 20 bank locations from the far Western suburbs of the Chicago metropolitan area across Central and Northern Illinois to the Mississippi River in Western Illinois, with banking, trust, insurance, investment and electronic offerings. The Company provides a full range of services, including demand, time and savings deposits, lending, mortgage banking, insurance products, brokerage services, asset management and trust services. At December 31, 2003, UnionBancorp had total assets of $793,422, a 0.2% increase from year-end 2002.
UL Unilever plc is the parent company of a group of companies primarily engaged in the business of supplying fast-moving consumer goods in foods, household care and personal product categories. The Company's operations are organized into two global divisions: Foods and Home and Personal Care (HPC). These divisions' operations are organized into businesses on a regional basis, with the exception of the global businesses of Prestige, the Company's fragrance business within HPC, and, within Foods, ice cream and frozen foods, Slim-Fast Worldwide and UBF Foodsolutions, which provides solutions for professional chefs and caterers. To support its consumer brands, the Company owns tea plantations in India, Kenya and Tanzania, and palm oil plantations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana. Unilever N.V. and Unilever plc operate as a single entity.
UN Unilever N.V. is the parent company of a group of companies primarily engaged in the business of supplying fast-moving consumer goods in foods, household care and personal product categories. The Company's operations are organized into two global divisions: Foods and Home and Personal Care (HPC). These divisions' operations are organized into businesses on a regional basis, with the exception of the global businesses of Prestige, the Company's fragrance business within HPC, and, within Foods, ice cream and frozen foods, Slim-Fast Worldwide and UBF Foodsolutions, which provides solutions for professional chefs and caterers. To support its consumer brands, the Company owns tea plantations in India, Kenya and Tanzania, and palm oil plantations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana. Unilever N.V. and Unilever plc operate as a single entity.
UGNE.OB Unigene Laboratories, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the research, production and delivery of small proteins, referred to as peptides that have demonstrated or may have potential medical use. It has a patented manufacturing technology for producing many peptides and patented oral and nasal delivery technologies that have been shown to deliver medically useful amounts of various peptides into the bloodstream. The Company's primary focus is the development of calcitonin and other peptide products for the treatment of osteoporosis and other indications. The Company has licensed worldwide rights to manufacturing and delivery technologies for oral parathyroid hormone, which it refers to as PTH, to GlaxoSmithKline. It has also licensed in the United States its nasal calcitonin product, which it has trademarked as Fortical, to Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc.
UNFY.OB Unify Corporation is a global provider of enterprise software solutions to mid-size and large organizations. The Company's flagship product, Unify NXJ, is a standards-based application platform that enables organizations to automate processes within and between organizations and consolidates multiple-legacy systems into unified applications. Unify NXJ also provides collaborative information systems for employees, suppliers and partners. The Company's relational database management and application development solutions for host-based and client/server applications help companies build and deploy scalable, mission-critical applications that integrate into existing systems and use industry-standard technologies, such as Windows, UNIX and Linux. Unify also has customer support and professional services organizations that facilitate license sales and enable customers to architect, design, develop, deploy and manage business and Web applications.
UNF UniFirst Corporation is a provider of workplace uniforms and protective clothing in the United States. The Company designs, manufactures, rents, cleans, delivers and sells a range of uniforms and protective clothing, including shirts, pants, jackets, coveralls, jumpsuits, lab coats, smocks and aprons, and also rents industrial wiping products, floor mats and other non-garment items, and provides first aid cabinet services and other safety supplies to a variety of manufacturers, retailers and service companies. UniFirst serves businesses of all sizes in various industry categories. The customers include automobile service centers and dealers, delivery services, food and general merchandise retailers, food processors and service operations, light manufacturers, maintenance facilities, restaurants, service companies, soft and durable goods wholesalers, transportation companies and others, who require employee clothing for image, identification, protection or utility purposes.
UFI Unifi, Inc. is a diversified producer and processor of textile yarns with manufacturing operations in the United States, Ireland, the United Kingdom and South America. The Company is primarily engaged in the processing of synthetic yarns in two business segments: polyester and nylon. The polyester segment is comprised of textured, dyed, twisted and beamed yarns with sales to knitters and weavers that produce fabrics for the apparel, automotive and furniture upholstery, home furnishings, industrial and other end use markets. The nylon segment is comprised of textured nylon and covered spandex products with sales to knitters and weavers that produce fabrics for the apparel, hosiery, sock and other end use markets.
UNAM Unico American Corporation is an insurance holding company that underwrites property and casualty insurance; provides property, casualty, health and life insurance, and provides claim administration services, insurance premium financing and membership association services. The Company receives its revenue primarily from earned premium derived from the insurance company operations, commission and fee income generated from the insurance agency operations, finance charges and fee income from the premium finance operations and investment income from cash generated primarily from the insurance operation. The insurance company operation generates approximately 82% of the Company's total revenue. Unico's remaining operations constitute a variety of specialty insurance services.
UBB Uniao de Bancos Brasileiros S.A. - Unibanco is a large private sector bank in Brazil. It provides a wide range of financial products and services to a diversified individual and corporate customer base. Unibanco's activities are comprised of retail, wholesale, insurance and wealth management. At September 30, 2004, the Company had R$ (Brazilian Real) 84 billion in total assets; R$30 billion in total lending, leasing and other credits, and R$32 billion in total deposits. In March 2004, Unibanco announced the acquisition of HiperCard Administradora de Cartao de Credito Ltda. (Hipercard) from Koninklijke Ahold N.V. (Royal Ahold), which is an independent credit card company in northeastern Brazil. In May 2004, it acquired Creditec - Credito Financiamento e Investimento S/A (Creditec) from Grupo BBM, which provides personal loans and consumer finance. In August 2004, it and Sonae (company present in the supermarket segment) signed a partnership for the establishment of a new credit company.
UMPQ Umpqua Holdings Corporation is a financial holding company that is engaged primarily in the business of commercial and retail banking and the delivery of retail brokerage services. It provides a range of banking, asset management, mortgage banking, as well as other financial services to corporate, institutional and individual customers through its wholly owned subsidiary, Umpqua Bank. It is also engaged in the retail brokerage business through its wholly owned subsidiary, Strand, Atkinson, Williams &amp; York, Inc. The Company's credit services include commercial real estate, construction and term loans, commercial lines of credit, secured and unsecured commercial loans, secured and unsecured loans and lines to individuals, as well as residential construction and term real estate loans. In July 2004, the Company acquired Humboldt Bancorp and its principal operating subsidiary Humboldt Bank, including Humboldt Bank's Capitol Valley Bank, Feather River State Bank and Tehama Bank divisions.
UMBF UMB Financial Corporation is a financial holding company. The Company owns all of the outstanding stock of five commercial banks, a credit card bank, a reinsurance company, a community development corporation, a consulting company and a mutual fund servicing company. The Company's five commercial banks, UMB Bank, n.a., UMB Bank, Warsaw, n.a., UMB Bank Colorado, n.a., UMB National Bank of America and UMB Bank Omaha, n.a., are engaged in general commercial banking business entirely in domestic United States markets. Two of the banks are in Missouri, and the three remaining banks are in Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska. The principal affiliate, UMB Bank, n.a., whose charter is in Missouri, also has locations in Illinois, Kansas and Oklahoma. The Banks offer a range of banking services to commercial, retail, government and correspondent bank customers. As of December 31, 2003, the Company's affiliate banks operated a total of five main banking houses and 148 detached facilities.
UTRO.OB Ultronics Corporation is a development stage company organized to engage in the acquisition of assets, properties or a business without regard to any specific industry or type of business. Since inception, the Company has never had operations and has not generated revenue and it is unlikely that any revenue will be generated until it locates a business opportunity with which to acquire or merge. Ultronics' former management who was associated with Capital General Corporation resigned in 1997 and its new management took control of the Company. Ultronics intends to take advantage of any reasonable business proposal presented that will provide the Company and its stockholders with a viable business opportunity.
UTEK Ultratech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets photolithography and laser processing equipment for manufacturers of integrated circuits and nanotechnology components located throughout North America, Europe, Japan and the rest of Asia. The Company supplies step-and-repeat photolithography systems based on one-to-one imaging technology. Markets for its photolithography products include advanced packaging and the manufacture of various nanotechnology components, including thin film head magnetic recording devices, optical networking devices, laser diodes and light-emitting diodes.
UGP Ultrapar Participacoes SA is a holding company, which, through its ownership of various operating subsidiaries, is engaged in the distribution of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in Brazil, the production and sales of chemicals and the provision of chemical products and fuel logistics. Through Ultragaz Participacoes Ltda., the Company sells LPG throughout Brazil except in the Amazon Region. Through Oxiteno S.A. Industria e Comercio, Ultrapar manufactures ethylene oxide and its derivatives. Oxiteno supplies more than 30 market segments, particularly agricultural chemicals, food, cosmetics, leather, detergents, packaging for beverages, thread and polyester filaments, brake fluids, petroleum, paints and varnishes. Through Ultracargo Operacoes Logisticas e Participacoes Ltda., the Company is a logistics operator in the chemical and fuel products segments in Brazil. Ultracargo offers integrated multimodal transportation, loading and unloading services and the management of third-party fleets.
ULBI Ultralife Batteries, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets a range of standard and customized lithium primary (non-rechargeable), lithium ion and lithium polymer rechargeable batteries for use in an array of applications. The Company has focused on manufacturing a family of lithium primary batteries for military, industrial and consumer applications. Ultralife also supplies rechargeable lithium ion and lithium polymer batteries for use in portable electronic applications. The Company organizes its business under three segments: Primary Batteries, Rechargeable Batteries and Technology Contracts. The Primary Batteries segment includes nine-volt, cylindrical and various other non-rechargeable specialty batteries. The Rechargeable Batteries segment includes its lithium polymer and lithium ion rechargeable batteries. The Technology Contracts segment includes revenues and related costs associated with various government and military development contracts.
UGRD.OB UltraGuard Water Systems Corp. is engaged in the development and commercialization of ultraviolet-based water treatment products and systems. The Company was the manufacturer and marketer of ultraviolet disinfection systems for wastewater disinfection with additional application possibilities in potable water. During 2002, the Company's business changed from a focus on wastewater disinfection to the purification of potable water using ultraviolet (UV) treatment and filtration. The emphasis of UltraGuard's business remained in ultraviolet disinfection, although it now targets drinking water with systems developed for low-flow drinking water application. The products developed and under development are used to disinfect and filter water. The systems identified are point-of-entry (POE) purification systems and point-of-use (POU) purification systems.
ULTR.OB Ultradata Systems, Incorporated is engaged in the business of manufacturing and marketing handheld computers that provide travel information. The products are based upon a data compression technology that the Company developed. Most of the products contain travel information, customized to specific markets and so the flagship products have carried variations of the trademark Road Whiz. The service information provided by a Road Whiz product includes directions and mileage to gas stations, hotels, motels, hospitals and 24- hour restaurants, as well as highway patrol emergency numbers. The Company has also developed portable navigation unit for the automotive after-market, which it markets as the Travel*Star 24 global positioning system (GPS) Auto Navigational System. Testing of the Travel*Star 24 has been ongoing and has uncovered several software issues. Market introduction will occur when the product has been adequately tested and has passed the requisite test.
UPL Ultra Petroleum Corp. is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the development, production, operation, exploration and acquisition of oil and gas properties. The Company's operations are focused primarily in the Green River Basin of southwest Wyoming and Bohai Bay, offshore China. As of the year ended December 31, 2003, Ultra owns interests in approximately 175,345 gross (97,990 net) acres in Wyoming covering approximately 300 square miles. The Company owns working interests in approximately 156 gross productive wells in this area and is the operator of 51% of those wells. Ultra also holds working interests in Block 04/36 and Block 05/36 in China, as well as interests in Texas and Pennsylvania.
UCTT Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. is a developer and supplier of critical subsystems for the semiconductor capital equipment industry, focusing on gas delivery systems. The Company's gas delivery systems enable the precise delivery of specialty gases used in a majority of the key steps in the semiconductor manufacturing process. Ultra Clean's customers are primarily original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of semiconductor capital equipment. These OEMs outsource the manufacturing of their gas delivery systems in order to improve the efficiency and reduce the costs of their design and manufacturing processes. The Company provides its customers with a full range of services for the development, design, prototyping, engineering, manufacturing and testing of gas delivery systems. For the year ended December 31, 2003, Ultra Clean's three largest customers were Applied Materials, Inc., Novellus Systems, Inc. and Lam Research Corporation.
ULTI The Ultimate Software Group, Inc. designs, markets, implements and supports payroll and workforce management solutions in the United States. The Company's UltiPro Workforce Management Software is a Web-based solution designed to deliver the functionality businesses need to manage the employee life cycle, whether their processes are centralized at headquarters or distributed across multiple divisions or branch offices. UltiPro is also marketed by Ultimate Software through alliances with business service providers (BSPs) that market co-branded UltiPro to their customer bases (the Powered by UltiPro BSP Solution). The Company's BSP alliances typically sell an Internet solution, which includes UltiPro, priced on a monthly/service basis. In addition, Ultimate Software markets UltiPro as an in-house payroll and workforce management solution and alternatively as a hosted offering branded Intersourcing.
UFSY.OB Ultimate Franchise Systems, Inc. is a franchise management and venture company with minority interests in numerous restaurant concepts located throughout the United States. The Company has equity interest in companies controlling approximately 585 franchised restaurant locations and 40 weight loss clinics throughout the United States. The Company has equity interests in Central Park of America, Inc., Obee's Franchise Systems, Inc., Franchise Management Company, LLC., Fransaction, Inc., Concept Acquisitions II, LLC, Jreck Subs, Inc., Li'l Dino Corporation, Quality Restaurant Ventures, Inc., Concept Acquisitions, Inc., Bevery Hills Weight Loss and Wellness, Inc., Famous Food Group, Inc.,
ULCM Ulticom, Inc. is a provider of service enabling signaling software for wireline, wireless and Internet communications. The Company's signalware family of products is used by equipment manufacturers, application developers and communication service providers to deploy infrastructure and services within the mobility, messaging, payment and location markets. Signalware products are also embedded in a range of packet softswitching products to interoperate or converge voice and data networks and facilitate voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP), hosted Internet Protocol (IP) telephony and virtual private networks. Ulticom also provides training and professional services, as well as customer support. The Company is a subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc., which holds approximately 70% of its outstanding common stock.
UTMC.OB Uintah Mountain Copper Company has been developing mining claims, known as, the Sunshine Quartz/Hematite Claims located in the Ashley National Forest of Duchesne County, Utah. The mining claims consist of 30 unpatented load claims. Principal ore found on the 30 unpatented load claims is a high-grade hematite (iron oxide) ore. The Company has not generated any revenue and all activities have been focused on obtaining of claims, developing the claims and in preparing the claims to commence mining operations. Uintah Mountain Copper intends to market the ore in the specialty natural pigments market. Pigments can be used in cosmetics, artist paints, electronics, magnetic storage products and multiple other uses including steel coating materials. To this end, the Company began to focus on markets that would desire its product for its natural characteristics and uniqueness of color. Uintah Mountain Copper is marketing its iron oxide pigments under the product name Uintah Red.
UIL UIL Holdings Corporation is an exempt public utility holding company. Through its various subsidiaries, UIL Holdings operates in two principal lines of business, utility and non-utility. The utility business consists of the electric transmission and distribution operations of The United Illuminating Company (UI) in the southwestern part of the State of Connecticut. The non-utility businesses consisted of the operations of American Payment Systems, Inc. (APS) and Xcelecom, Inc., as well as passive investments in United Capital Investments, Inc. (UCI) and United Bridgeport Energy, Inc. (UBE). In June 2004, the Company sold APS to CheckFree Corporation. Xcelecom is an electrical and mechanical contractor and voice-data-video design company. UCI was established to make passive or minority interest investments. UBE holds a 33.3% ownership interest in Bridgeport Energy LLC, owner of a merchant wholesale electric generating facility located in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
UCI UICI offers insurance, primarily health and life insurance, to niche consumer and institutional markets. Through its subsidiaries, the Company issues primarily health insurance policies, covering individuals and families, to the self-employed, association group, voluntary employer group and student markets. UICI conducts its insurance businesses through the following wholly owned insurance company subsidiaries: The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company, located in Oklahoma and licensed to issue health, life and annuity insurance policies in all states except New York; Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of Tennessee, located in Tennessee and licensed to issue health, life and annuity insurance policies in Puerto Rico and all states except Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont, and The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company, located in Oklahoma and licensed to issue health and life insurance policies in all states except New Jersey, New York and Vermont.
UGI UGI Corporation (UGI) is a holding company that distributes and markets energy products and related services through subsidiaries and joint venture affiliates. The Company is a domestic and international distributor of propane and butane (liquid petroleum gas) (LPG). UGI is a provider of natural gas and electricity service through regulated local distribution utilities, and also a generator of electricity through its ownership interests in electric generation facilities. It is a regional marketer of energy commodities, and a provider of heating and cooling services. The Company's subsidiaries operate in five business segments: AmeriGas Propane, International Propane, Gas Utility, Electric Utility, Energy Services and Propane Business.
UFPT UFP Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures interior protective packaging solutions, utilizing molded fiber, vacuum formed plastics and molded and fabricated foam plastic products for the computer, electronics, medical/pharmaceutical, military, automotive and general industrial markets. The Company also designs and manufactures engineered component solutions using laminating, molding and fabrication technologies for the automotive, beauty, medical, industrial and sports and leisure markets. The Company markets and sells its packaging and specialty products in the United States, principally through direct regional sales forces comprising skilled engineers. UFPT also markets its products through attendance by in-house market specialists at trade shows and expositions. It markets a line of products to the health and beauty industry, primarily through distributors. In January 2002, the Company acquired selected assets from Excel Acquisition Group, a fabricator of custom foam packaging.
UCNN.OB UCN, Inc, formerly Buyers United, Inc., is an aggregator and provider of telecommunications services. As an aggregator, the Company contracts with a number of third-party providers for the right to resell the various telecommunication services and products they provide and then offers all of these various services to its customers. UCN also operates a dedicated voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) network and advanced customer contact handling/management software applications that enable it to offer enhanced services to customers. The variety of services and products the Company offer enables the customer to buy only those telecommunications services it needs from one source, combine those services in a customized package, receive one bill for those services and make one call to UCN if a service problem or billing issue arises.
UCIA.OB UCI Medical Affiliates, Inc. (UCI), operating through its wholly owned subsidiary, UCI Medical Affiliates of South Carolina, Inc. (UCI-SC), provides non-medical management and administrative services for a network of 43 freestanding medical centers, 42 of which are located throughout South Carolina and one is located in Knoxville, Tennessee. All medical services at the centers are provided by or under the supervision of Doctors Care, P.A. or Doctors Care of Tennessee, P.C. (collectively the P.A.), each of which has contracted with UCI-SC to be the sole provider of all non-medical direction and supervision of the centers operating in its respective state of organization. UCI centers offer out-patient medical care for treatment of acute, episodic, and some chronic medical problems. The centers provide a broad range of medical services that would generally be classified as within the scope of family practice, primary care, and occupational medicine.
UCBH UCBH Holdings, Inc. is a bank holding company whose principal business is conducted primarily through its wholly owned banking subsidiary, United Commercial Bank (the Bank). UCB is a California state-chartered commercial bank that provides a range of personal and commercial banking services to small- and medium-sized businesses, business executives, professionals and other individuals. The Bank offers multilingual services to all of its customers in English, Cantonese and Mandarin. Its operations are concentrated in the San Francisco Bay area, which includes the City of San Francisco, the South Bay and the East Bay; the Sacramento/Stockton metropolitan area, and the Los Angeles metropolitan area, focusing on areas with a high concentration of ethnic Chinese. The Bank operates through a branch network consisting of 41 offices in the State of California (26 in the north and 15 in the south); one office in Brooklyn, New York, and one office in Hong Kong, China.
UBS UBS AG is a financial firm, serving a discerning global client base. As an organization, the Company combines financial strength with a global culture that embraces change. As an integrated firm, UBS creates added value for clients by drawing on the combined resources and expertise of all its businesses. The Company's businesses include wealth management, investment banking and securities, asset management and Swiss corporate and individual clients. At December 31, 2003, UBS' invested assets totaled CHF (Swiss francs) 2.2 trillion.
UPCS UbiquiTel Inc. has the exclusive right under its management agreement with Sprint Spectrum L.P., WirelessCo, L.P., Sprint Telephony PCS, L.P., Sprint PCS License, L.L.C. and Sprint Communications Company L.P. (collectively, Sprint PCS) to provide digital wireless personal communications services (PCS) under the Sprint brand name to market in the western and Midwestern United States. The Company's territory includes a total population of approximately 10.0 million residents (points of presence), covering portions of California, Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Indiana and Kentucky. Sprint Corporation (Sprint) has PCS licenses to cover more than 280 million people across all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. The Company does not own any PCS licenses in its markets or elsewhere, so generally it can only operate its business so long as it remains a PCS affiliate of Sprint, and related entities continue to own the PCS licenses in its markets.
UALAQ.OB UAL Corporation is a holding company whose principal, wholly owned subsidiary is United Air Lines, Inc. United's operations, which consist primarily of the transportation of persons, property and mail throughout the United States and abroad, accounted for most of UAL's revenues and expenses in 2003. United is a scheduled passenger airline with over 1,600 daily departures to more than 110 destinations in 23 countries and two United States territories. Through its global route network, United serves virtually every major market worldwide, either directly or through the Star Alliance, a global integrated airline network co-founded by United in 1997. In addition to the Star Alliance, United provides regional service into its domestic hubs through partnerships with United Express carriers. Through United Cargo, it offers both domestic and international shipping. In 2004, United added a new low-fare carrier, called Ted, designed to serve select leisure markets.
TSN Tyson Foods, Inc. and its subsidiaries produce, distribute and market chicken, beef, pork, prepared foods and related allied products. The Company operates a totally integrated poultry production process. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Cobb-Vantress, Tyson supplies breeding stock. Tyson invests in breeding stock research and development that allows the Company to breed into its flocks the natural characteristics found to be most desirable. The Company is also involved in the processing of live-fed cattle and hogs, and fabrication of dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, case-ready products and fully cooked beef and pork products. In addition, the Company derives value from allied products, such as hides and variety meats for sale to further processors. During the fiscal year ended October 2, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. accounted for approximately 12% of the Company's sales.
TYL Tyler Technologies, Inc. is a provider of integrated information management solutions and services for local governments. The Company develops and markets a line of software products and services to address the information technology (IT) needs of cities, counties, schools and other local government entities. In addition, the Company provides professional IT services to its customers, including software and hardware installation, data conversion, training and, for certain customers, product modifications, along with continuing maintenance and support for customers using its systems. Tyler also provides property appraisal outsourcing services for taxing jurisdictions. Its software products and services are generally grouped into four major areas: financial and city solutions; justice and courts; property appraisal and tax, and document management. Tyler derives its revenues from four primary sources: software licensing; software services; appraisal services, and maintenance and support.
TYC Tyco International Ltd. (Tyco) is a diversified manufacturing and service company that, through its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, installs, monitors and services electronic security and fire protection systems; designs, manufactures and distributes electrical and electronic components; designs, manufactures and distributes medical devices and supplies, imaging agents, pharmaceuticals and adult incontinence and infant care products; designs, manufactures, distributes and services engineered products, including industrial valves and controls, as well as steel tubular goods and provides environmental and other industrial consulting services, and designs, manufactures and distributes plastic products, adhesives and films. In November 2004, the Company sold its National Alarm Computer Center, Inc. (NACC), a unit of Tyco International Ltd.'s Fire and Security segment to Integrated Alarm Services Group, Inc.
TXU TXU Corp. is a holding company that through its subsidiaries has engaged in power production, retail and wholesales sales of electricity and natural gas, and the transmission and distribution of electricity and natural gas. The Company has provided energy services in the United States and Australia. It owns or leases over 20,400 megawatts of power generation and for 2003, sold 128 terawatt hours of electricity and 206 billion cubic feet of natural gas. The Company's principal United States operations have been conducted through its subsidiaries, TXU US Holdings Company (US Holdings) and TXU Gas Company. US Holdings' operations are conducted through TXU Energy Company LLC and Oncor Electric Delivery Company. TXU Corp.'s principal international operations were conducted through TXU Australia Group Pty. Ltd., which was sold to Singapore Power in July 2004. In October 2004, the Company sold TXU Gas Company to Atmos Energy Corporation.
TFSM 24/7 Real Media, Inc. offers a suite of media and technology products for the online advertising needs of Web publishers and advertisers, including Web representation, advertisement serving, analytics and search paid inclusion. The Company generates revenue in two business segments: Integrated Media Solutions and Technology Solutions. The Integrated Media Solutions segment consists of the 24/7 Web Alliance and 24/7 Search. 24/7 Web Alliance is a global alliance of Websites represented by the Company, where advertisers can run campaign orders directly with 24/7 Real Media. 24/7 Search is an Internet search marketing service designed to connect advertisers with consumers using search engines to find product information. 24/7 Real Media's Technology Solutions consist of Open AdStream Local, Open AdStream Central, and Open Advertiser.
TFHD.OB 24Holdings Inc. is the holding company for 24STORE (Europe) Limited (24STORE), a company operating in the United Kingdom (24STORE). The Company's primary products are computer and electronics products, and the provision, customization, installation and training on software products from business software vendors. The products are sourced either directly from the manufacturers or purchased from national distributors. In both value and volume terms, the Company's largest product line is the supply of mobile computers, although it also supplies shrink-wrapped computer software and other computer hardware, including desktop PCs (personal computers) and file servers. 24STORE's business operations are held in two wholly owned subsidiaries, 24 STORE Limited and Mobile Planet Limited. 24STORE also holds wholly owns Cyberia (UK) Limited, whose sole purpose is to hold title to the real property on which its headquarters are located.
TFAC.OB Twin Faces East Entertainment Corporation is in the development stage as a producer and developer of entertainment properties. Its products include documentary film footage of Dr. Albert Einstein and feature film and television scripts. These include Einstein Properties, Pages From A Rabbit Journal, The Town That Arrested Santa Claus, Hidden Treasures of the World and A Real Man. In September 2003, the Company entered into a Development Financing Agreement to produce episodes of Jack London's Call of the Wild, with O'Dea &amp; Company LLC. In October 2003, it entered into a Music Duplication and Distribution Agreement with Pro Image, Inc., relating to the duplication and distribution of music, narrated compact disc titled The Town That Arrested Santa Claus.
TWIN Twin Disc, Incorporated designs, manufactures and sells heavy-duty, off-highway power transmission equipment. Products offered include marine transmissions and surface drives, power-shift transmissions, power take-offs and reduction gears, industrial clutches and control systems. The Company sells its products to both domestic and foreign customers in a variety of market areas, principally construction, industrial, energy and natural resources and marine and agricultural. Most of the Company's products are machined from cast iron, forgings, cast aluminum and bar steel, which generally are available from multiple sources. Twin Disc owns manufacturing, assembly and office facilities in Racine, Wisconsin, and one in Nivelles, Belgium and one in Decima, Italy.
TWTR Tweeter Home Entertainment Group, Inc. is a specialty consumer electronics retailer providing audio and video solutions for the home and mobile environment. As of September 30, 2004, the Company operated 176 stores in 21 states under the Tweeter, HiFi Buys, Sound Advice, Bang &amp; Olufsen, Electronic Interiors, Showcase Home Entertainment and Hillcrest names in New England, the Mid-Atlantic, the southeast, Texas, California, greater Chicago, Florida and Arizona. Tweeter operates in a single business segment of retailing audio and video consumer electronics products.
TVIA TVIA, Inc. is focused on designing, developing and marketing its display processors for the interactive-television market, as well as a family of flexible display processors tailored to the Asia Pacific television manufacturers. The five product families it offers include TrueView 5700 family; CyberPro 5600 family; CyberPro 5202 family; CyberPro 5300 family, and CyberPro 5000 family.
TVIN TVI Corporation (TVI) is a global supplier of equipment for first responders, military and public health agencies. The Company designs, fabricates and markets final products and systems both through distributors and directly to end users. TVI's principal products are rapidly deployable first responder systems designed to serve counter-terrorism, military, public safety, fire service and hospital markets. The Company's core systems are fabric shelter structures that employ the Company's articulating frame. The Company also sells a line of thermal products that include targets, Identification Panels (IFF) devices, beacons and markers and decoys. TVI's products have expanded to include chemical and biological isolation systems for hospitals and first responders, trailerized first responder products and crime scene investigation systems for police and mobile hospitals.
TTG Tutogen Medical, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets sterile biological implant products made from human (allograft) and animal (xenograft) tissue. Tutogen utilizes its Tutoplast Process of tissue preservation and viral inactivation to manufacture and deliver sterile bio-implants used in spinal/trauma, urology, dental, ophthalmology, head and neck and general surgery procedures. Tutogen Medical GmbH, a subsidiary of the Company designs, develops, processes, manufactures, markets, and distributes specialty surgical products and services to over 30 countries through a worldwide distribution network. Another subsidiary, Tutogen Medical (United States), Inc., was formed to process, market and distribute allografts for the United States market.
TUTS Tut Systems, Inc. designs, develops and sells video content processing systems that optimize the provisioning of broadcast digital television services across telephone company networks. The Company's Astria video content processing platform is typically used by carriers at a digital television headend location to process hundreds of television channels for delivery over any broadband access network. It also designs, develops and sells digital video trunking systems for applications across television broadcast, government and education networks and private broadband network systems that enable the delivery of broadband data services over existing copper networks within hotels and private campus facilities. Historically, the Company derived most of its sales from its private broadband network systems. In November 2002, Tut acquired VideoTele.com from Tektronix, Inc. to extend its product offerings to include video content processing and video trunking systems.
TKC Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S. provides mobile voice and data services to subscribers throughout Turkey and neighboring states. Subscribers can choose between the Company's postpaid and prepaid services. Postpaid voice services include network access, call forwarding, call holding, call waiting, call barring, caller identification (ID) presentation and caller ID restriction, dual numbering, twin card, high-memory subscriber identification module card options, international roaming, mobile virtual private network and services, such as teleconferencing, voice mail, call alert, collect call service, unified messaging, short message service (SMS), multimedia message service, wireless application protocol-over general packet radio service, high-speed circuit switched data and circuit switched data, mobile Internet, directory service, a financial information line, fleet management, m-commerce, m-payment and mobile-marketing services. The Company also provides prepaid mobile service.
TSTA.OB TurboSonic Technologies, Inc. directly and through subsidiaries, designs and markets integrated pollution control and industrial gas cooling/conditioning systems, including liquid atomization technology and dust suppression systems to ameliorate or abate industrial environmental problems. The Company's technology is designed to control a wide variety of air pollution control problems for industries, including pulp and paper, wood/forest products, metallurgical (non-ferrous and iron and steel), chemical and mineral processing (including cement), grain processing, hazardous and municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration, and power generation. Certain of the Company's products and systems employ nozzles to atomize liquids passing through the nozzles, resulting in the liquid being converted into fine droplets. Controlling the liquid and gas pressures applied to the nozzle can modulate droplet sizes and liquid flow rates.
TRBD.OB Turbodyne Technologies, Inc. is an engineering company engaged in the design and development of air-charging technology that enhances the performance of internal combustion engines. The Company's technology is based on direct current/alternating current (DC/AC), high-speed, high-powered, electronically commutated electric motors and high-performance power electronics. Turbodyne initially incorporated its technology into two primary products: the Dynacharger and the Turbopac. The Company suspended its business operations during the year ended December 31, 2003, pending resolution of certain of its outstanding legal proceedings with Honeywell International Inc. and due to a lack of financing. Following its entry into the settlement agreement with Honeywell, Turbodyne resumed its business operations on February 1, 2004.
TUP Tupperware Corporation is a multinational consumer products company engaged in the direct selling of food storage, preparation and serving items to consumers in more than 100 countries through its Tupperware brand, and beauty and skin care products through its BeautiControl brand in North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. The core of Tupperware's product line consists of food storage, serving and preparation products. The Company also has a line of kitchen gadgets, children's educational toys, microwave products and gifts. BeautiControl manufactures and distributes skin care products, cosmetics, bath and body care, toiletries, fragrances and related products. BeautiControl also has a health and beauty supplements line that includes hair and nail supplements, skin condition supplements and supplements.
TMWD Tumbleweed Communications Corp. provides secure Internet messaging software products for enterprises and the government. Companies use the solutions when e-mail, file transfer or Web communications are mission-critical. Tumbleweed has more than 700 enterprise customers that use its products to connect with over 10,000 corporations. Tumbleweed's market focus is in the financial services, healthcare and insurance, government and enterprise markets. The Company's customers include ABN Amro Bank, Catholic Healthcare West, Bank of America Securities, JP Morgan Chase &amp; Co., The Regence Group (Blue Cross/Blue Shield), Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), St. Luke's Episcopal Healthcare System, the United States Food and Drug Administration and the United States Navy and Marine Corps. On June 23, 2003, Tumbleweed completed the acquisition of Valicert. In March 2004, the Company acquired anti-spam appliance vendor Corvigo, Inc.
TFCO Tufco Technologies, Inc. provides integrated production services including wide Web flexographic printing, wet and dry wipe converting, hot melt adhesive laminating, folding, integrated downstream packaging and onsite quality and microbiological process management, and manufactures and distributes business imaging paper products. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary Tufco Tech, Inc. was merged with and into Tufco LLC, a newly formed wholly owned subsidiary, with Tufco LLC as the surviving entity. Tufco also manufactures a wide range of printed and unprinted business imaging paper products for a variety of business needs. The Company markets its products and services through two market segments: Contract Manufacturing services and Business Imaging paper products. In June 2004, the Company sold its equipment used for calendaring and thermal bond lamination to Atlanta Nisseki CLAF, Inc.
TUES Tuesday Morning Corporation is a closeout retailer of upscale home furnishings, gifts and related items in the United States. The Company operated 577 stores in 42 states as of December 31, 2003. Tuesday Morning's stores operate during periodic sales events, each of which lasts from three to five weeks. The Company is generally closed for the months of January and July, which are traditionally weak months for retailers, and during short intervals between sales events to stock merchandise for the next sales event. Tuesday Morning purchases first-quality, brand name merchandise at closeout and sell it at prices 50% to 80% below those generally charged by department stores and specialty and catalog retailers. The Company does not sell seconds, irregulars or factory rejects.
TCOW.OB Tucows Inc. provides Internet services and digital software content to end users worldwide through a global Internet-based distribution network of more than 6,000 resellers in over 100 countries. Tucows generates revenue primarily through the provision of domain name registration and other Internet services to resellers that offer such services to their own customers. These resellers are a heterogeneous group of companies, including Internet service providers, Web hosting providers and telecommunications and cable companies that typically provide a critical component of an end user's Internet presence and have a high level of interaction with the end user. In addition to domain name registration services, Tucows provides security and identity services (through digital certificates), e-mail services and managed domain name system.
TTMI TTM Technologies, Inc. is a one-stop provider of time-critical and technologically complex printed circuit boards (PCBs) that serve as the foundation of sophisticated electronic products. It delivers highly complex PCBs to customers in significantly compressed lead times. This rapid delivery service enables its customers to develop sophisticated electronic products quickly and reduce time to market. In addition, its quick-turn services provide the Company with an opportunity to cross sell its other services, including high-mix and volume production in its targeted end markets. TTM serves high-end commercial markets, including networking/communications infrastructure, high-end computing and industrial/medical, which are characterized by high levels of complexity, short product lifecycles and moderate production volumes. Its customers include original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and electronic manufacturing services companies.
TTIL TTI Team Telecom International Ltd. is a global provider of network management systems (NMS), operations support system (OSS) and business support system (BSS) solutions for the communications industry. The Company's software solutions enable communications service providers to maximize and leverage their investments in network infrastructure and to automate, simplify and manage the complex process of delivering multiple communications services over diverse networks. The Company's Netrac suite of products supports multi-vendor voice and data architectures over wireline, wireless and optical networks, allowing customers to streamline operations and roll out new services. The Company is developing its next-generation operations support system (NGOSS) family of products under its Netrac platform to address next-generation architectures and managed Internet protocol (IP) services.
TSRI TSR, Inc. is primarily engaged in the business of providing contract computer programming services to its clients. The Company provides its clients with technical computer personnel to supplement their in-house information technology (IT) capabilities. The Company's clients for its contract computer programming services consist primarily of Fortune 1000 companies and state and local government agencies with significant technology budgets. During the fiscal year ended May 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company provided IT staffing services to approximately 95 clients.
TNP Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited is a provider of international seaborne crude oil and petroleum product transportation services. The Company owns a fleet of modern tankers providing worldwide marine transportation services for national, major and other independent oil companies and refiners under long, medium and short-term charters. Its fleet consists of 27 tankers, including three chartered-in vessels, of which two are very large crude carrier (VLCC) tankers, four are Suezmax tankers, 10 are Aframax tankers, seven are Panamax tankers and four are Handysize product carriers. The fleet totals 2.9 million dwt (dead-weight tons) and is less than 10% single-hulled as measured by dwt. In addition to the vessels operating in its fleet, the Company has contracted for the building of additional 13 vessels and has signed a letter of intent for two further vessels.
TSBI.OB TS&amp;B Holdings, Inc. (TSBB), provides equity and long-term debt financing to small and medium-sized private companies in a variety of industries throughout the United States. The Company investment in private companies consists of capital in the form of debt with or without equity features, such as warrants or options, offered referred to as mezzanine financing. In certain situations the Company may choose to take a controlling equity position in a company. The Company's private financing is generally used to fund growth, buyouts, and acquisitions and bridge financing. As of June 30, 2004, the Company had investments in eight controlled (portfolio) companies, including Cummings Financial Services, Inc, Home Savings Plan, Inc., Buehler Earth &amp; Waterworks, LLC, Sports Nation, Inc., TSB Financial Services, Inc., Wellstone Acquisition Corporation, TS&amp;B Gaming and Entertainment Corporation and TS&amp;B Ventures, Inc.
TRW TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. is a United States-based international business providing advanced technology products and services for the automotive markets. The Company designs, manufactures and sells a range of steering, suspension and braking products, seat belts, airbags, steering wheels, safety electronics, engine valves, engineered fastening body control systems and other components and systems. These products are primarily used in the manufacture of light vehicles, consisting of passenger cars and light trucks. The principal customers for the Company's automotive products are the North and South American, European and Asian vehicle manufacturers (VMs). Among its largest customers are Ford Motor Company, DaimlerChrysler AG, Volkswagen AG, General Motors Corporation and Renault-Nissan BV. TRW conducts substantially all of its operations through its subsidiaries and along three operating segments: Chassis Systems, Occupant Safety Systems and Automotive Components.
TRMK Trustmark Corp. operates as a financial services organization providing banking and financial solutions to corporate, institutional and individual customers predominantly within the states of Mississippi, Tennessee and Florida. Trustmark National Bank, Trustmark's wholly owned subsidiary, accounts for substantially all of the assets and revenues of Trustmark. Trustmark engages in four business segments: Consumer, Commercial, Wealth Management and Operations. The Consumer division delivers banking, investment and risk management products and services to individuals and small businesses through Trustmark's branch network. The Commercial division provides financial products and services to corporate and middle market clients. The Wealth Management division includes trust and fiduciary services, brokerage services and services for private banking clients. The Operations division consists of asset/liability management activities. In December 2004, the Company acquired Fisher-Brown, Inc.
TRST TrustCo Bank Corp NY is a savings and loan holding company for Trustco Bank. Trustco Bank is a federal savings bank engaged in providing general banking services to individuals, partnerships and corporations. The Bank operates 64 automatic teller machines and 69 banking offices in New York, Florida and Vermont. The Bank's business consists primarily of accepting deposits and making loans and investments, and it provides a range of both personal and business banking services. The Bank established an operating subsidiary, Trustco Vermont Investment Company, in September 2003, for the purposes of holding all of the shares of the capital stock of the Bank's existing subsidiary, Trustco Realty Corp., that were held by the Bank, and of acquiring and managing other investments. Trustco Realty Corp. holds certain mortgage assets, which are serviced by the Bank.
TRHL.OB True Health, Inc. acts as a total procurement solution that creates savings for its customers through procurement efficiencies, allowing more funds to be redirected into the delivery of superior care for the patient. The Company specializes in providing medical equipment and medical professionals to some of the largest healthcare customers in the United Kingdom, including the National Health Services (NHS), the United Kingdom's government healthcare provider. The Company is also a provider of pressure-relief systems and healthcare recruitment services in the United Kingdom. It is aiming to expand into the United States healthcare market.
TROY TROY Group, Inc. offers a range of products to its customers in two primary product lines, Secure Payment Systems and Wireless and Connectivity Solutions. Secure Payment Systems include Security Printing Solutions, which enable the secure printing and management of checks, and Financial Service Solutions, which enable secure electronic payments. Wireless and Connectivity Solutions includes hardware and software solutions that enable enterprises to share intelligent devices, such as printers, either wirelessly or using traditional networks. TROY serves a variety of industries, including financial services, insurance, telecommunications, computer hardware, automotive, personnel, government and others. The Company's products are represented internationally, primarily through a distributor network.
TROW T. Rowe Price Group is a financial services holding company whose subsidiaries provide investment advisory services to individual and institutional investors in the sponsored T. Rowe Price mutual funds and other investment portfolios. The Company operates its investment advisory business through subsidiary companies, primarily T. Rowe Price Associates, T. Rowe Price International, T. Rowe Price Stable Asset Management and T. Rowe Price Global Investment Services. Revenues and net income are derived primarily from investment advisory services provided to United States individual and institutional investors in its sponsored mutual funds and other managed investment portfolios.
TRMM TRM Corporation and its subsidiaries (TRM) deliver convenience services to consumers in retail environments. The Company delivers self-service cash delivery and account balance inquiry through automated teller machines (ATMs) and photocopy services through TRM photocopy locations. Digital facsimile services are also delivered at select locations within the United Kingdom using digital photocopiers. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company began leveraging its service organization by providing installation, repair and maintenance services for others. In June 2004, the Company acquired Mighty Cash Financial, a Canadian ATM network operator. This acquisition marked TRM's entry into the Canadian ATM market. Through the purchase, TRM's Canadian network consists of 72 ATM locations comprised primarily of merchant-owned programs.
TRZ Trizec Properties Inc. (Trizec) is a real estate investment trust engaged in the ownership and management of office properties. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned interests in and managed 64 office properties in the United States containing approximately 42.5 million square feet, with its pro rata ownership interest totaling approximately 39.6 million square feet. These office properties are concentrated in seven markets in the United States, located in the following metropolitan areas: Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas and Houston, Texas; Los Angeles, California; New York, New York, and Washington, District of Columbia.
TIV Tri-Valley Corporation is in the business of exploring, acquiring and developing prospective and producing petroleum and precious metals properties and interests therein. The Company has two wholly owned subsidiaries, Tri-Valley Oil &amp; Gas Company (TVOG), which operates the oil and gas activities, and Tri-Valley Power Corporation, which is inactive at present. TVOG derives the majority of its revenue from sale of oil and gas properties. The precious metals activity is operated directly by Tri-Valley Corporation. Substantially, all of the Company's oil and gas reserves are located in northern California. TVOG generates its own exploration prospects from its internal database, and also screens prospect submittals from other geologists and companies. TVOG generates these geological plays within a certain geographic area of mutual interest. The prospect is then presented to potential co-venturers.
TMIGF.OB Trivalence Mining Corp is engaged in the location, acquisition, exploration and, if warranted, development, of natural resource properties. The Company has an interest in three properties located in Africa: Aredor Alluvial Diamond Mine in Guinea, West Africa; Palmietgat Kimberlite Mine in South Africa, and Kokong Kimberlite Fields in Botswana. Since January 2003, Company has sold most of its diamonds in Antwerp, Belgium, on the same terms. Diamonds produced from the Palmietgat Mine in South Africa are sold through the Johannesburg Diamond Exchange, through which both domestic and foreign buyers bid.
TGI Triumph Group, Inc. designs, engineers, manufactures, repairs, overhauls and distributes aircraft components, such as hydraulic, mechanical and electromechanical control systems, aircraft and engine accessories, structural components and assemblies, non-structural composite components, auxiliary power units (APUs), avionics and aircraft instruments. The Company serves the aerospace industry, including commercial and regional airlines, air cargo carriers, as well as original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of commercial, regional, business and military aircraft and components and operators of industrial gas turbine engines. It offers products and services to the aerospace industry, which were previously offered through three groups, the Aerospace Systems Group, the Aftermarket Services Group and the Components Group. As of April 2004, it consolidated the three groups into two groups. In January 2004, the Company acquired Rolls-Royce Gear Systems, Inc.
TPC Triton PCS Holdings, Inc. is a provider of wireless communications services in the southeastern United States. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's wireless communications licenses covered approximately 13.6 million customers encompassing portions of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky. In February 1998, it entered into a joint venture with AT&amp;T Wireless and as part of the agreement, AT&amp;T Wireless contributed personal communications services licenses for 20 megahertz (MHz) of authorized frequencies covering 11.3 million customers within defined areas of Triton's region. In 2003, the net subscribers were 64,500 and the roaming minutes generated by non-Triton subscribers increased were104.1 million minutes in 2003. On June 20, 2003, Lafayette Communications Company L.L.C. sold 12 personal communication service licenses to Triton.
TSAR.PK Tristar Corporation is engaged in developing, manufacturing, marketing and distributing value-oriented designer alternative fragrances, complementary products to those fragrances, and cosmetic pencils in North and South America. The Company also manufactures and markets its own original fragrances in the form of contemporary botanical scents and lifestyle fragrances. The Company's fragrances are sold under the Fragrance Impressions Ltd., Euro Collections, Euro Garden Collections, Royal Selections, Regal Collections, Club Exclusif, Premiere Editions and American Dreams brands. The Company also markets eye and lip liner cosmetic pencils, mascara and other value-oriented complementary cosmetic products, including lipsticks that are alternatives to major prestige brands sold in department stores, priced at levels significantly lower than original designer brands. In July 2001, the Company announced that it plans to seek protection under Federal Bankruptcy laws as soon as practicable.
TQNT TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. is a supplier of high-performance components and modules for communications applications. The Company offers a array of radio frequency, analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, lasers, detectors, optical transceivers, transponders and surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter products to address the needs of its target markets. The Company provides customers with standard and custom product solutions, as well as foundry services. Its products are based on advanced process technologies, including gallium arsenide, indium phosphide and SAW. The Company sells its products worldwide to such customers as Boeing, Celestica, Ericsson, Kyocera, LG Group, Lucent, Motorola, Inc., Nokia Corporation, Nortel, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Company and Samsung Microelectronics. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Motorola accounted for approximately 14% of its revenues.
TRPS Tripos, Inc. is a provider of products and services, designed to support early-stage research activities, to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and life science industries. The Company's discovery informatics and discovery research products and services enable life science companies to enhance their drug-discovery capabilities. The principal areas of its business are Discovery Informatics Products, Discovery Informatics Services and Discovery Research Products and Services. Through its own chemistry laboratories, Tripos makes compounds for its clients and, through strategic partnerships, it also tests compounds for its clients. The Company primarily derives recurring revenues from its discovery informatics and discovery research businesses, as well as contributions from therapeutic collaborations if, and when, new therapeutics are developed. Tripos also sells computer systems to its customers upon request.
TPPP Triple P N.V. provides information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure enterprise solutions to medium and large businesses in the Netherlands. These solutions include ICT-consultancy, ICT-infrastructure systems delivery, project management and implementation services, as well as operational ICT-infrastructure management and maintenance services. The Company's solutions are compatible with the products of hardware manufacturers, including Hewlett Packard, Toshiba, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Citrix, Cisco, Mitel, Microsoft, Novell and Oracle. Triple P's systems business consists of reselling system and network products. Its services business consists of ICT-infrastructure management consulting, including system and network integration consulting, project management and implementation services, as well as operational ICT-infrastructure management and maintenance services.
TRPH Tripath Technology Inc. develops and supplies digital amplifiers for three markets based on proprietary technology, called Digital Power Processing (DPP). These markets include Consumer Electronics, DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) and Wireless. Within the Consumer Electronics market, the Company targets the consumer audio and automotive audio market segments. Within the DSL market, Tripath Technology has begun offering single and dual channel line driver products. Within the Wireless market, the Company has a research and development program aimed at developing a family of amplifier products for use in wireless handsets, also known as Radio Frequency (RF) Power Amplifiers.
TPTH TriPath Imaging, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets and sells products for cancer detection, diagnosis, staging and treatment selection. TriPath is using its technologies and expertise to create an array of products designed to improve the clinical management of cancer. The Company has developed and marketed an integrated solution for cervical cancer screening and other products that deliver image management, data handling and prognostic tools for cell diagnosis, cytopathology and histopathology. The Company is organized into two operating units: Commercial Operations and TriPath Oncology. The Commercial Operations unit manages the market introduction, sales, service, manufacturing and ongoing development of the Company's products, and the TriPath Oncology unit manages the development of molecular diagnostic and pharmacogenomic products and services for cancer.
TRT Trio-Tech International provides third-party semiconductor testing and burn-in services primarily through its laboratories in Southeast Asia. The Company operates five testing facilities, one in the United States, one in Europe and three in Southeast Asia. The Company also designs, manufactures and markets equipment and systems used in the testing and production of semiconductors at its facilities in California and Southeast Asia, and distributes semiconductor processing and testing equipment manufactured by others. It operates in three business segments: Testing Services, Manufacturing and Distribution.
TTPA Trintech Group PLC operates in two market segments: electronic point-of-sale (PoS) systems that securely process card-payment transactions in a physical PoS environment and e-payment software products that enable the secure processing, accounting and reconciliation and settlement of online card-payment transactions over private and public networks, including the Internet. The Company's products can be deployed on a stand-alone basis, combined with each other to provide an end-to-end secure solution or integrated with third party products. These products support multiple currencies, languages and payment protocols. Trintech also provides a range of support services to customers, including preventative maintenance, compliance, upgrades, site inspections and 24-hour telephone and online support. The Company has a customer base of over 1,265 banks, financial transaction processors, card associations, card companies, payment service providers, merchants and technology companies.
TRN Trinity Industries, Inc. is a diversified industrial company that provides a variety of products and services for the transportation, industrial and construction sectors. The Company operates in five distinct business groups. The rail group manufactures and sells railcars and component parts. The construction products group manufactures and sells highway guardrail and safety products, concrete and aggregates, and girders and beams used in the construction of highway and railway bridges, and weld fittings used in pressure piping systems. The inland barge group manufactures and sells barges and related products for inland waterway services. The industrial products group manufactures and sells tank heads, and pressure and non-pressure containers for the storage and transportation of liquefied gases, and other liquid and dry products. The railcar leasing and management services group provides fleet management, maintenance and leasing services.
TRIB Trinity Biotech plc develops, manufactures and markets diagnostic test kits used for the clinical laboratory and point-of-care segments of the diagnostic market. These test kits are used to detect infectious diseases, sexually transmitted diseases, blood coagulation disorders and autoimmune disorders. The Company markets over 500 different diagnostic products in 80 countries. Trinity Biotech's product areas can be broken down under the headings of the six key technologies: Enzyme Immunoassays, Haemostasis, Fluorescence Assays, Rapid Assays, Western Blot Assays and Clinical Chemistry.
TMOL.OB Trimol Group, Inc., incorporated in May 1953, has undergone several name changes and has been engaged in several different businesses since inception. Since 1998 that Company has operated its wholly owned subsidiary, Intercomsoft Limited, which provides technology and auxiliary consumable materials used in the production of secure essential government identification documents, such as passports, drivers' licenses, car licenses and identification cards, in the Republic of Moldova. On February 16, 2001, the Company consummated a transaction under a Technology Acquisition Agreement and a License Agreement between Aluminum-Power Inc. dated January 11, 2001. The Company began to pursue the development of a mechanically rechargeable aluminum-air fuel cell for use with portable consumer electronic devices.
TRMS Trimeris, Inc. is engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of a new class of antiviral drug treatments called fusion inhibitors. Fuzeon is the Company's human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) fusion inhibitor, developed in collaboration with F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. (Roche). The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of Fuzeon in combination with other anti-HIV drugs for the treatment of HIV-1 infection. In March 2003, the FDA granted accelerated approval for the commercial sale of Fuzeon. In May 2003, the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products granted marketing authorization for Fuzeon in Europe. T-1249 is the Company's second-generation HIV fusion inhibitor being co-developed with Roche. In January 2004, the Company announced that the clinical development of T-1249 was put on hold due to challenges in achieving the desired technical profile of the formulation.
TMED.OB Trimedyne, Inc. is engaged in the development, manufacturing and marketing of Holmium cold-pulsed Lasers for use in surgical procedures. The Company develops, manufactures and markets a variety of disposable and reusable fiber-optic laser energy delivery devices for use with its lasers in orthopedics (diskectomy, disc decompression and endoscopic foraminoplasty procedures to treat herniated and ruptured lumbar, thoracic and cervical discs), arthroscopy (to treat damage in joints), urology (for ablation and resection of the prostrate and for fragmentation of stones in the kidney, ureter, and bladder), ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgery (sinus surgery), and other procedures in gynecology, gastrointestinal (GI) surgery, general surgery and other medical specialties. The Company is engaged in the development of new, reusable and disposable laser devices for use in minimally invasive procedures in urology, gynecology, GI surgery and other surgical applications.
TRMB Trimble Navigation Limited provides positioning product solutions to commercial and government users in a large number of markets. These markets include surveying, construction, agriculture, urban and resource management, military, transportation and telecommunications. Examples of its products include earthmoving equipment guidance systems, surveying instruments, fleet management systems, components for in-vehicle navigation and telematics systems, farm equipment guidance systems, field data collection handhelds and timing modules used in the synchronization of wireless networks. The Company is organized into four segments encompassing its various applications and product lines: Engineering and Construction, Field Solutions, Component Technologies and Mobile Solutions. Trimble also operates in other business areas, primarily focused on military and inertial integration technologies, which aggregate into the Portfolio Technologies segment.
TRKN Trikon Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets and sells production equipment used to process semiconductor wafers for the manufacture of integrated circuits. Its products are used in processes to create the integrated circuit, which includes basic operations to create interconnect layers, such as deposition or adding material to a substrate, typically a silicon wafer; patterning or printing a circuit outline on the substrate, and etching or removing layers, of material from the substrate. The Company supplies production equipment for two of the typical deposition techniques, chemical vapor deposition and physical vapor deposition and plasma etching equipment for selective material removal.
TRID Trident Microsystems, Inc. (Trident) is a designer, developer and marketer of integrated circuits (ICs) for digital media applications, such as digital television, liquid crystal display (LCD) television and digital set-top boxes (STB). The Company has designed, developed and marketed very large-scale ICs for graphics applications for the personal computer (PC) market and since 1999 for digitally processed televisions (DPTV) for the consumer television market. The DPTV business is operated primarily through the majority-owned subsidiary, Trident Technologies, Inc. (TTI). It is focused on the operations of the subsidiary in China in which Trident conducts the Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) operations.
TY Tri-Continental Corporation is a diversified closed-end investment company that is managed by the Seligman Core Investment Team and invests primarily to produce future growth of both capital and income, while providing reasonable current income. Tri-Continental's largest weightings, as of December 31, 2003, were in financials, information technology, consumer discretionary and healthcare.
TCBK TriCo Bancshares is the bank holding company for Tri Counties Bank (the Bank). The Bank conducts a commercial banking business including accepting demand, savings and time deposits and making commercial, real estate, and consumer loans. It also offers installment note collection, issues cashier's checks and money orders, sells travelers checks and provides safe deposit boxes and other customary banking services. Brokerage services are provided at its offices by its association with Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. The Bank does not offer trust services or international banking services. On July 31, 2003, the Company formed a subsidiary business trust, TriCo Capital Trust I, to issue trust preferred securities. Tri Counties Bank and TriCo Capital Trust I are the only subsidiaries of the Company.
TRB Tribune Company is a media and entertainment company. Through its subsidiaries, the Company is engaged in newspaper publishing, television and radio broadcasting and entertainment. The publishing segment operates 13 daily newspapers, distributes entertainment listings and syndicated content, operates a 24-hour cable news channel and manages the Websites of Tribune's daily newspapers and television stations, along with other branded sites targeting specific communities of interest. The broadcasting and entertainment segment consists of 26 television stations, one radio station, the Chicago Cubs and Tribune Entertainment, a company that develops and distributes first-run television programming. These segments operate primarily in the United States.
TRBW.OB Tribeworks, Inc. provides tools for creating and delivering multimedia applications. The Company sells its software and generates revenues through two main distribution channels: the graphics software Tools Business and the Enterprise application development business. Tools customers license its iShell branded multimedia application authoring tools, iShell 3 or iShell Mobile. iShell is a cross-platform software product that allows developers to create multimedia applications in a variety of categories, including sales and business presentations, informational/catalog titles, training courses and modules for corporations and/or educational institutions, games, learning aids, enhanced compact discs, video yearbooks and recruitment presentations. Enterprise customers are entities that require development of customized multimedia authoring tools or multimedia applications that the Company provides though specialized enhancements to its iShell software.
TRYb Triarc Companies, Inc. is a holding company, and, through its subsidiaries, the franchisor of the Arby's restaurant system. Arby's, Inc. (Arby's), which does business, as Triarc Restaurant Group, through its subsidiaries, is the franchisor of the Arby's restaurant system. Arby's is a restaurant franchising system specializing in the roast beef sandwich segment of the quick service restaurant industry. The Company-owned Arby's restaurants are operated through its subsidiary Sybra, Inc., which the Company acquired in December 2002. There are over 3,400 Arby's restaurants in the United States and Canada, and, as of December 28, 2003, there were 236 Company-owned Arby's restaurants. In addition, there were 3,214 Arby's restaurants owned and operated by 475 franchisees, of which 3,067 were being operated within the United States and the remaining 147 outside of the United States.
TRI Triad Hospitals, Inc., through its affiliates, owns and manages hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers in small cities and selected larger urban markets. The Company has 52 hospitals (including one under construction) and 14 ambulatory surgery centers in 15 states with approximately 8,340 licensed beds. In addition, through its QHR subsidiary, the Company provides hospital management, consulting and advisory services to more than 200 independent community hospitals and health systems throughout the United States.
TGIC Triad Guaranty Inc. is a holding company that, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Triad Guaranty Insurance Corporation, provides private mortgage insurance coverage in the United States to residential mortgage lenders and investors. The Company offers mortgage insurance arrangements designed to allow lenders to share in the risks of mortgage insurance in exchange for a portion of the insurance premium. The Company provides fee-based contract underwriting services that enable customers to improve the efficiency of their operations by outsourcing all or part of their mortgage loan underwriting. It also participates in structured bulk transactions.
TWP Trex Company, Inc. is a manufacturer of non-wood decking alternative products that are marketed under the brand name Trex. Trex Wood-Polymer lumber is a wood/plastic composite that offers an attractive appearance and the workability of wood without wood's on-going maintenance requirements and functional disadvantages. The Company manufactures Trex Wood-Polymer lumber in a proprietary process that combines wood fibers and polyethylene. Trex Wood-Polymer is produced in popular lumber sizes and is sold in five colors: Natural, Winchester Grey, Madeira, Woodland Brown and Saddle. In 2003, Trex extended its offering of decking products with the launch of the Trex Accents line of products, which feature a wood grain on the board surface for a rich, natural look. These new products join the Trex Origins line, which features a smooth, refined surface. The Company also expanded distribution of a pyramid-style post cap product and began offering post skirts and a new shaped handrail.
TLHO.OB Trestle Holdings, Inc. together with it's wholly owned subsidiary, Trestle Acquisition Corp., develops and sells digital imaging and telemedicine applications and linking dispersed users and data in the healthcare and pharmaceutical markets. Trestle's digital imaging products, MedMicro and MedScan, provide a digital platform to share, store and analyze tissue images. Trestle's MedReach product provides healthcare organizations with a platform for remote examination, diagnosis and treatment of patients. On May 20, 2003, following approval of the Bankruptcy Court of the Eastern District of New York, the Company through its wholly owned subsidiary, TRAC, purchased assets of Trestle Corporation (Old Trestle). The Company's customers include pharmaceutical, research and healthcare organizations.
TMIC Trend Micro Incorporated develops, markets and supports antivirus and Internet content security software and services worldwide. Trend focuses on providing customers with an approach to managing the impact of mixed threats brought upon by multiple protocols, such as NIMDA and Code Red viruses. The Company's solutions operate across a range of computer operating system platforms, including Windows 2003, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Linux, NetWare, Sun Solaris and several versions of UNIX. Its products protect all entry points in the network. Trend offers a range of services, backed by timely knowledge and expertise from TrendLabs, including Trend Micro Vulnerability Assessment, Trend Micro Outbreak Prevention Services, Virus Response Services and Trend Micro Damage Cleanup Services to help customers manage all phases of the virus outbreak lifecycle.
TRNDQ.PK Trend-Lines, Inc., doing business as Woodworkers Warehouse, is a specialty retailer of power and hand tools and accessories. It also produces four versions each of the Trend-Lines and Golf Day catalogs annually, as well as operates the Woodworkers Warehouse and Trend-Lines Websites. The Company designs its retail stores to be destination stores and strives to maximize convenience to its customers by providing ample parking and fast in-and-out service. The stores are generally located either in strip malls or in freestanding buildings. The Company promotes retail store sales primarily through special store promotions, direct mail circulars, geographically concentrated newspaper and limited radio advertising, as well as point of sale materials posted and distributed in the stores. In October 2001, the Company emerged from bankruptcy and merged with and into its wholly owned subsidiary, Woodworkers Warehouse, Inc., which became the surviving entity.
TG Tredegar Corporation is engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the manufacture of plastic films and aluminum extrusions. Through Tredegar Film Products Corporation and its subsidiaries (together, Film Products), the Company manufactures plastic films, non-wovens and laminate materials primarily for personal and household care products and packaging and surface protection applications. These products are produced at various locations throughout the United States and at plants in the Netherlands, Hungary, Italy, China, Brazil and Argentina. The Aluminum Extrusions segment is comprised of The William L. Bonnell Company, Inc. and its subsidiaries, which produce soft-alloy aluminum extrusions primarily for building and construction, distribution, transportation, electrical, consumer durables and machinery and equipment markets. Tredegar also operates Therics Inc., which has developed and launched an initial family of products used in bone grafting procedures.
TRR TRC Companies, Inc. is a customer-focused company that creates and implements solutions to the challenges facing America's environmental, energy and infrastructure markets. Environmental services provided by the Company include pollution control, waste management, auditing and assessment, permitting and compliance, design and engineering and natural and cultural resource management. For the energy/power sector, the Company offers services supporting the licensing of large electric generating facilities and re-powering older plants in areas of the United States with the highest demand for additional power. In addition, the Company is providing a variety of technical services in support of large-scale wind-powered electric generating projects and hydroelectric facilities. The Company's infrastructure market focus areas include transportation, land development, water/wastewater treatment, building systems, security and information management.
TZOO Travelzoo Inc. is an Internet publisher of travel offers available directly from hundreds of travel companies. The Company provides airlines, hotels, cruise lines, vacation packagers and other travel suppliers with a way to advertise their sales and specials to millions of users. Its media properties include the Travelzoo Website (www.travelzoo.com), the Top 20 e-mail newsletter, the Newsflash e-mail alert service and SuperSearch, a pay-per-click search engine.
TXCC TranSwitch Corporation designs, develops and markets highly integrated semiconductor devices, also known as very large scale integration devices, which provide core functionality in voice and data communications network equipment deployed in the global communications network infrastructure. In addition, the Company's products incorporate digital and mixed-signal processing capabilities, providing comprehensive system-on-a-chip solutions to customers. The Company's products are compliant with relevant communications network standards including Asynchronous/Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (Asynchronous/PDH), Synchronous Optical Network/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET/SDH), Ethernet and Asynchronous Transfer Mode/Internet Protocol (ATM/IP). These products provide functionality in three key areas: SONET/SDH, including Ethernet over SONET/SDH, used in high-speed networks; Asynchronous/PDH for lower speed networks, and ATM and IP data networking protocols.
TRTI.OB Transtech Industries, Inc. directly and through its subsidiaries, supervises and performs landfill monitoring and closure procedures, manages methane gas recovery operations and generates electricity utilizing methane gas. The Company consists of the parent company, Transtech, two operating subsidiaries and 19 inactive subsidiaries. It is a public holding company, which manages its investments and subsidiaries. The operations of the subsidiaries include an electricity generation segment and an environmental services segment. The other subsidiaries of the Company hold assets consisting of cash and marketable securities, real property and contract rights.
TPR Transpro, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets radiators, radiator cores, heater cores, air conditioning parts including condensers, compressors, accumulators and evaporators and other heat transfer products for the automotive and light truck aftermarket. The Company designs, manufactures and distributes radiators, radiator cores, charge air coolers, oil coolers and other specialty heat exchangers for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of heavy trucks and industrial and off-highway equipment and the heavy duty heat exchanger aftermarket.
TGS Transportadora De Gas Del Sur S.A. (TGS) is a transporter of natural gas in Argentina, delivering approximately 61% of the country's total gas consumption through 7,419 kilometers (4,610 miles) of pipelines with a delivery capacity of approximately 62.5 million cubic meters a day (MMm3/d). It also processes natural gas and markets natural gas liquids (NGL) in Argentina. The Company operates the General Cerri gas processing complex and the associated Galvan loading and storage facility in Bahia Blanca in the Buenos Aires Province (the Cerri Complex), where natural gas liquids are separated from gas transported through its pipeline system and stored for delivery. TGS holds a 35-year license, extendible for an additional 10-year period, giving the Company the rights to operate the existing southern Argentine gas transportation pipeline system. The Other Services segment covers basically activities midstream of its mainline gas transportation and telecommunication services.
TCAM Transport Corporation of America, Inc. (Transport America) provides a range of truckload carriage and logistics services, in various lengths of haul, in the United States and parts of Canada. The principal categories of freight hauled by the Company are department-store merchandise, grocery, industrial, consumer, paper products and expedited services. Transport America operates a modern fleet of tractors and trailers. The Company completed acquisitions of two private truckload carriers, North Star Transport, Inc. (North Star) and Robert Hansen Trucking, Inc. (RHT) in 1998 and 1999, respectively. In 1999, the Company formed TA Logistics, Inc. (TA Logistics), a wholly owned subsidiary. TA Logistics provides services related to transportation procurement and logistics processes.
TOPLF.OB Trans-Orient Petroleum Ltd. is engaged in identifying, financing and providing business development services for early-stage resource and technology businesses (Associated Companies). Its operating strategy is to acquire a significant equity interest in Associated Companies and to provide financial, managerial and technical support to accelerate the achievement of the Associated Companies' business goals and objectives. As of July 31, 2003, the Company held interests in three Associated Companies: Austral Pacific Energy Ltd., AMG Oil Ltd. and Gondwana Energy, Ltd. Austral, AMG and Gondwana are junior oil and gas exploration companies. Trans-Orient was previously engaged in petroleum exploration in the Austral-Pacific region, often together with one or more associated companies, in particular Austral.
RIG Transocean Inc. provides offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells, related equipment and work crews, primarily on a dayrate basis, to drill oil and gas wells. The Company operates with a particular focus on deepwater and harsh environment drilling services. The Company also provides additional services, including management of third-party well service activities. Transocean has two business segments: the Transocean Drilling segment (formerly the International and U.S. Floater Contract Drilling Services business segment) and the TODCO segment (formerly called the Gulf of Mexico Shallow and Inland Water business segment).
TRNT.OB TransNet Corporation is a single-source provider of information technology (IT) products and technology management services designed to enhance the productivity of the information systems of its customers. Through its own sales and service departments, TransNet provides IT and network solutions for its customers by combining value-added professional technical services with the sale of computer hardware, network products, Internet protocol (IP) telephony products, computer peripherals and software. The Company also provides a variety of outsourced network services, personal computer (PC) support, repair and standard equipment maintenance to assist customers in obtaining technology that enhances the customers' productivity.
TRSN.OB Transnational Industries, Inc. is a holding company that specializes through its subsidiary, Spitz, Inc., in the design, manufacture and integration of computer-controlled immersive visualization systems and domed projection screens. The Company's products include the projection system called ElectricSky, the planetarium system, known as SciDome and the digital system, ImmersaVision Theater.
TFN Transnational Financial Network, Inc. (TFN) is a wholesale and retail mortgage banker that originates, funds and sells mortgage loans secured by one- to four-family residential properties principally in the San Francisco Bay Area, Southern California and Arizona. It has been engaged in the retail origination of mortgage loans and maintains retail offices in San Francisco and Campbell. The Company originated mortgage loans, together with the mortgage loan servicing rights, are subsequently sold to investors in the secondary mortgage market. TFN's total mortgage loan production volume for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), was $1.24 billion. In the fiscal 2003, wholesale originations constituted approximately 49% of all originations with retail originations making up the remainder.
TMG TransMontaigne Inc. is a refined petroleum products distribution and supply company, based in Denver, Colorado, with operations in the United States, primarily in the Gulf Coast, Midwest and East Coast regions. The Company provides integrated terminal, transportation, storage, supply, distribution and marketing services to refiners, wholesalers, distributors, marketers and industrial and commercial end users of refined petroleum products. Its principal activities consist of terminal, pipeline and tug and barge operations, supply and distribution and marketing and supply management services. TransMontaigne predominantly handles refined petroleum products, with the balance being fertilizer, chemicals and other commercial liquids. The refined petroleum products it handles include gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil, jet fuel and kerosene.
TMTA Transmeta Corporation designs, develops and sells x86-compatible software-based microprocessors. The Company's microprocessors have applications in a range of computing platforms, especially battery-operated mobile devices and applications that need high performance, low power consumption and low heat generation. Such platforms include notebook computers, ultra-personal computers (UPCs), tablet personal computers (PCs), thin clients, blade servers and embedded computers. In 2003, its top four customers were Sharp, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard and one of its distributors, Uniquest, acting as the distributor of its product for the Hewlett Packard Tablet PC program. Transmeta's primary products include the Efficeon TM8000 family of microprocessors and the TM5000 family of Crusoe microprocessors.
TMXN.OB Transmeridian Exploration, Inc. is engaged in the development and production of oil and gas properties. The Company's activities are primarily focused on the Caspian Sea region of the former Soviet Union, and its primary oil and gas property and the related exploration contract for the development of the South Alibek Field is in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Transmeridian conducts its operations in Kazakhstan through a wholly owned subsidiary, Caspi Neft TME. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's estimated proved reserves were 45.74 million barrels of oil. All of these reserves are attributable to the South Alibek Field. At year-end 2003, 7.81 million barrels (17% of the estimated proved reserves) were classified as proved developed reserves. The balance of the estimated reserves are classified as proved undeveloped and will require the drilling of future wells to produce these reserves.
TLX Trans-Lux Corporation is a provider of integrated multimedia systems for communications environments. It manufactures, distributes and services real-time, programmable electronic information displays, which are used to communicate messages and information in a variety of indoor and outdoor applications. These display systems use light-emitting diodes (LED), plasma screens and light bulb technologies. The Company's electronic information display market has two distinct segments: the Indoor division and the Outdoor division. In addition to its core display business, Trans-Lux also owns and operates a chain of motion picture theatres in the western Mountain States and income-producing real estate properties.
TKTX Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc. (TKT) is a biopharmaceutical company researching, developing and commercializing therapeutics primarily for the treatment of genetic diseases caused by protein deficiencies. TKT has received approval to market and sell Replagal (agalsidase alfa), an enzyme replacement therapy for the long-term treatment of patients with Fabry disease, in 28 countries outside of the United States. Two of the products TKT is developing include iduronate-2-sulfatase (I2S), an enzyme replacement therapy for the treatment of Hunter syndrome, and gene-activated glucocerebrosidase (GA-GCB) for the treatment of Gaucher disease. The Company is conducting a clinical trial of I2S, and anticipates starting a Phase I/II clinical trial of GA-GCB in mid-2004. TKT is evaluating out-licensing opportunities for GA-GCB, as well as a number of other gene-activated and gene therapy products.
TRNI Trans-Industries, Inc. produced mechanical signage for the mass transit market, but its efforts are concentrated on electronic systems for the display of information, bus lighting products and source extraction systems for the environmental market. These products are sold to virtually all segments of the transportation industry and to commercial and industrial markets. It acquired Transign, Inc. to manufacture mechanical bus signs. The Company has two major customers Gillig Corporation and New Flyer Industries, which each accounted for over 10% of consolidated annual sales. The customer base for most of Trans-Industries products include: state departments of transportation, bus manufacturers, city and local governments and private commercial enterprises.
TGA TransGlobe Energy Corporation is primarily engaged in exploration for, development and production of, oil and gas in Canada and the Republic of Yemen through its wholly owned subsidiaries. The Company is an independent, Canada-based, international upstream oil and gas company whose main business activities include exploration, development and production of crude oil, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and natural gas. TransGlobe has developed its business interests through a combination of exploration and development, and, to a lesser extent, acquisitions and dispositions primarily focused on two production sharing agreements in Yemen (a 13.81087% working interest in Block 32 and a 25% working interest in Block S-1) and central Alberta in Western Canada.
TBIO Transgenomic, Inc. provides products and services for the synthesis, purification and analysis of nucleic acids. The Company's products and services include automated instrument systems, associated consumables, nucleic acid chemical building blocks, nucleic acid synthesis products, novel chemistry development for nucleic acids, process development services and genetic variation discovery services. Transgenomic develops, assembles, manufactures and markets it's products and services to the life sciences industry to be used in research focused on molecular genetics of humans and other organisms. The Company's operations fall into two principal business units BioSystems and Nucleic Acids. Transgenomic's BioSystems products include its WAVE automated instrument systems, WAVE associated consumable products and other related consumable products. The Company's Nucleic Acids products include chemical building blocks for nucleic acid synthesis and synthesized nucleic acids.
TRGNY Transgene is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of products and delivery technologies for the treatment of diseases, for which there is no cure or adequate treatment. The Company's primary focus is the development of gene therapy product candidates for the treatment of cancer. It is developing five products for the treatment of cancer, four of which are in clinical trials. The Company is also developing Myodys, a product candidate for the treatment of Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy, which has completed a Phase I clinical trial, in partnership with the Association Francaise contre les Myopathies.
TCI Transcontinental Realty Investors, Inc. (TCI) invests in real estate through direct ownership, leases and partnerships and it also invests in mortgage loans on real estate. Its real estate at December 31, 2003, consisted of 120 properties held for investment, one partnership property and 13 properties held for sale. In 2003, the Company purchased 10 properties held for investment. Its mortgage notes receivable portfolio at year end, consisted of 12 mortgage loans.
TRCR Transcend Services, Inc. provides medical transcription services to the healthcare industry. Transcription services encompass receiving, typing, formatting and distributing electronic copies of physician-dictated medical documents. Transcend creates text files from voice files without regard to how the dictation was captured. Voice recordings can be captured on either the Company's proprietary systems or on other third-party systems. Transcend also has expertise in designing, building and managing data centers specifically designed to support transcription services, and offers this expertise on a consulting or package basis as a service to its market. As of December 31, 2003, the Company delivered dictation and transcription services to 55 hospitals and clinics in the United States
TRNS Transcat, Inc. is a global distributor of professional grade test, measurement and calibration instruments, and a provider of calibration and repair services primarily throughout the process, life science and manufacturing industries. It conducts its business through two segments: distribution products, through which the Company markets and distributes national and its own brand instruments to approximately 12,000 global customers, and calibration services, through which it offers precise, reliable, fast calibration services through its 10 Calibration Centers of Excellence located across the United States and Canada to approximately 9,000 customers. Transcat's top 200 customers, representing approximately 34% of its consolidated sales, are Fortune 500/Global 500 companies, including Wyeth, Merck, DuPont, Exxon Mobil, AK Steel Holding, ConocoPhillips, Dow Chemical and Duke Energy.
TRP TransCanada Corporation is engaged in the transmission and distribution of natural gas and power in the United States and Canada. The Company's subsidiaries include TransCanada PipeLines Limited, NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd, TransCanada PipeLine USA Ltd, 701671 Alberta Ltd and TransCanada Energy Ltd. The Company has natural gas pipeline holdings in the United States and Canada. TransCanada owns and/or operates or has under construction or development a number of power plants, and purchases power under a number of power purchase arrangements. At December 31, 2003, TransCanada's power plants and power purchase arrangements represented approximately 4,667 megawatts of power generation capacity. In November 2004, the Company acquired Gas Transmission Northwest Corporation (GTNC) from National Energy &amp; Gas Transmission, Inc. The principal assets of GTNC are the Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) and North Baja pipeline systems.
TNSB.OB Transbotics Corporation is a supplier of automatic guided vehicle systems (AGV systems) and automation solutions in the material handling industry. AGVs are driverless, computer-controlled vehicles that are programmed to transport materials through designated pickup and delivery routines within a particular facility (usually a manufacturing or distribution facility), and to transmit information concerning system status, inventory tracking and system controls to a system controller. The Company also sells vehicle controls hardware, software, engineering services and other components that are incorporated by original equipment manufacturers into AGVs and AGV systems. The Company's AGV system products and services have been used in a variety of industries, including textiles, automotive, entertainment, newspaper publishing and electronics.
TRH Transatlantic Holdings, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Transatlantic Reinsurance Company (TRC), Trans Re Zurich (TRZ) and Putnam, offers reinsurance capacity for a range of property and casualty products on a treaty and facultative basis, directly and through brokers, to insurance and reinsurance companies in both the domestic and international markets. Treaty reinsurance accounted for approximately $3,397.2 million of gross premiums written and $3,219.2 million of net premiums written during the year ended December 31, 2003, approximately 75% of which resulted from casualty lines treaties, with the remainder from property lines treaties. During 2003, TRH wrote approximately $240.7 million of gross premiums written and $121.9 million of net premiums written of facultative reinsurance, approximately 48% of which represented casualty risks with the balance consisting of property risks.
TAC TransAlta Corporation is a non-regulated power generation and wholesale marketing company that has coal-fired, gas-fired, hydro and renewable generation assets in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Australia. The Company has approximately 10,000 megawatts of capacity in operation, under construction or in development. TransAlta operates in two business segments: generation and energy marketing. The Company has strategic alliances with EPCOR Utilities Inc., ENMAX Corporation and MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company. The ENMAX partnership in the McBride Lake wind project provides the economic support to expand TransAlta's renewable energy business. In December 2004, the Company sold its 50% interest in the 220-megawatt gas-fired Meridian Cogeneration Facility to TransAlta Cogeneration, L.P., a partnership owned 50.01% by TransAlta and 49.99% by TransAlta Power, L.P.
TSAI Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. (TSA) and its subsidiaries develop market, install and support a line of software products and services primarily focused on facilitating electronic payments (e-payments) and electronic commerce (e-commerce). In addition, to its own products, TSA distributes or acts as a sales agent for software developed by third parties. These products and services are used principally by financial institutions, retailers and e-payment processors, both in domestic and international markets. Most of the Company's products are sold and supported through distribution networks covering the geographic regions of the Americas, Europe/Middle East/Africa and Asia/Pacific. Each distribution network has its own sales force and supplements this with independent reseller and/or distributor networks.
TACT TransAct Technologies Incorporated designs, develops, manufactures and markets transaction-based printers under the Ithaca and Magnetec brand names. In addition, the Company markets related consumables, spare parts and service. Its printers are used worldwide to provide transaction records, such as receipts, tickets, coupons, register journals and other documents. TransAct focuses on two core markets: point-of-sale (POS) and banking and gaming and lottery. TransAct designs, develops, manufactures and markets an array of transaction-based printers utilizing inkjet, thermal and impact printing technology for applications requiring up to 60 character columns, primarily in the POS and gaming and lottery markets. Its printers are configurable and offer customers the ability to choose from a variety of features and functions. Options typically include personal computer (PC) board configuration, paper cutting devices, paper handling capacities and cabinetry color.
TWMC Trans World Entertainment Corporation owns 100% of the outstanding common stock of Record Town, Inc., through which its principal operations are conducted. The Company operates retail stores and two e-commerce sites, and is a specialty retailer of entertainment software, including music, video, home video games and related products in the United States. In total, the entertainment software categories represented 91% of Trans World's total sales in the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004 (fiscal 2003). The balance of categories, items relating to the use, care and storage of entertainment software, along with boutique and electronic products, represented 9% of the Company's total sales in fiscal 2003. As of January 31, 2004 Trans World operated 881 stores totaling approximately 5.5 million square feet in 47 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands.
TWOC.OB Trans World Corporation owns and operates three casinos, which are located in Ceska Kubice, Rozvadov and Hate (near Znojmo) in the Czech Republic, and a casino slot bar and restaurant, Hollywood Spin, which is also located in Hate, Czech Republic. The casinos, which operate under the brand name American Chance Casinos and showcase themes portraying recognizable eras of American history, are located at border locations and draw the majority of their clients from Germany and Austria.
TSRG.OB Trans Energy, Inc. is engaged in the transportation, marketing and production of natural gas and oil, and certain exploration and development activities. The Company owns interests in seven oil and gas wells in West Virginia and an interest in seven oil wells in Wyoming that it does not operate. It also owns and operates an aggregate of over 100 miles of three-inch, four-inch and six-inch gas transmission lines located within West Virginia in the counties of Ritchie, Tyler and Pleasants. The Company also has approximately 14,000 gross acres under lease in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. Natural gas delivered through the Company's pipeline network is sold through the Sancho Oil and Gas Corporation contract to the industrial facilities near Sistersville, West Virginia, or to Hope Gas, a local utility. In November 2004, Trans Energy completed the purchase from Texas Energy Trust Company of certain oil and gas leases.
TCC Trammell Crow Company is a diversified commercial real estate service company in the United States that delivers a range of services to multinational corporations, institutional investors and other users of real estate services. The Company's primary business is the development, ownership and management of industrial, office and retail projects. Trammell Crow provides commercial property and facilities management services, commercial property brokerage and transaction management services, commercial property development and construction services and project management services. The Company also delivers brokerage services outside the United States through alliances with providers such as Savills plc in Europe and Asia, and in Canada, through JJ Barnicke, a Canadian real estate services provider. The Company's business is organized under two separate national leadership structures: the Global Services Group and the Development and Investment segments.
TRFDF Tramford International Limited is focused on the network security and related software development. The Company is a provider of system integration services, network security and network management solutions. Tramford has developed an Intranet/Internet physical separation security solution (IPSSS), a product which is recognized and certified by the relevant government agencies and accounts for a majority of the Company's sales. Based on the technology backbone of the IPSSS, the Company further developed the BHL information security gate system (Security Gate). The Security Gate enhances the safe exchange of information between two networks, which are completely physically separated. The Company's other products focus on two areas of Internet application: network management and e-business software development.
TRBR Trailer Bridge, Inc. is an integrated trucking and marine freight carrier that provides truckload freight transportation primarily between the continental United States and Puerto Rico. At December 31, 2003, the Company operated a fleet of 113 tractors, 500 high-cube trailers, 2,796 53-feet, high-cube containers and 2,165, 53-feet chassis that transport truckload freight between its San Juan, Puerto Rico port facility, its Jacksonville port facility and inland points in the United States and Puerto Rico. The Company also provides full-truckload service between interior points within the continental United States to increase equipment utilization, minimize empty miles and maximize revenue while repositioning equipment to carry Puerto Rico bound freight. Trailer Bridge maintains a centralized dispatch and customer service center at its Jacksonville headquarters to coordinate the movement of customer freight throughout its system.
TRFX Traffix, Inc. is an online database marketing company that uses its online media network to generate leads, customers and sales for itself and its clients. The Company provides complete end-to-end marketing solutions for companies seeking to increase sales and customers through online marketing programs, and database development and enhancement programs. The services it offers include the development of a complete creative promotion to be used to market the client's product to consumers, broadcasting a promotion online in order to generate new customers for the client, delivery of data files from the results of campaigns, creating and hosting the customized Websites or Web pages necessary to effect the consumer transaction that drives the client's sales and generating comprehensive reporting in order for the client to analyze the effectiveness of a promotion.
TRAD TradeStation Group, Inc. is an Internet-based securities brokerage company offering its products and services primarily to institutional, professional and active individual traders. The Company has two operating subsidiaries: TradeStation Securities, Inc., which principally provides brokerage services, and TradeStation Technologies, Inc., which operates the Company's software products and services business. TradeStation Securities, the principal operating subsidiary, is a direct-access brokerage firm, whose core brokerage service is the TradeStation electronic trading platform. TradeStation Technologies develops and offers strategy trading software tools that generate real-time buy and sell alerts based upon the subscriber's programmed strategies and subscription services.
TQST.OB Tradequest International, Inc., incorporated in 1966, formerly known as Ethika Corporation, is engaged in the business of providing barter exchange services for consumers and businesses. Under its new President and Chairman, the Company never began operations of the barter exchange services after reorganization. In September 2002, the Company entered into a settlement agreement with its former management. As a result of this settlement agreement, the Company's new management took the actions necessary to obtain audited financial statements, of the registrant for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2001 and December 31, 2002, and the filing of the registrant's delinquent reports with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
TSCO Tractor Supply Company is an operator of retail farm and ranch stores in the United States, focused on supplying the lifestyle needs of recreational farmers and ranchers and serving the maintenance needs of those who enjoy the rural lifestyle, as well as tradesmen and small businesses. The Company's merchandise are equine, pet and animal products including items necessary for their healthcare, growth and containment; maintenance products for agricultural and rural use; hardware and tool products; seasonal products including lawn and garden power equipment; truck, trailer and towing products, and work clothing for the entire family. Tractor Supply's stores are located in towns, outlying metropolitan markets and rural communities that typically range in size from 12,500 to 18,000 square feet of inside selling space and utilize outside selling space.
TRAC Track Data Corporation is a financial services company that provides real-time financial market data, fundamental research, charting and analytical services to institutional and individual investors through dedicated telecommunication lines and the Internet. It also disseminates news and third-party database information from more than 100 sources worldwide. The Company's operations are classified in two business segments: the Professional Market segment, which refers to Internet-based online trading, market data services and Electronic Communications Network (ECN) services to the institutional professional investment community and the Non-Professional Market Segment, which refers to online trading and market data services to the non-professional individual investor community. Track Data also engages in arbitrage trading.
TP TPG N.V. is a holding company having three divisions: the mail division, the express division and the logistics division. The Company, formerly known as the TNT Post Group N.V., provides mail, express and logistics services worldwide. These services involve the collection, storage, sorting, transport and distribution for its customers within specific time frames and related data and documentation management services. The Company has evolved from being a public postal company in the Netherlands into an international group providing mail, express and logistics services. As a result, it has broadened the range of its activities from mainly postal operations in the Netherlands to include worldwide express and logistics services.
TOY Toys R Us, Inc. is a specialty retailer of toys, baby products and children's apparel. As of January 31, 2004, the Company operated 1,501 retail stores worldwide. These consisted of 927 locations in the United States, 685 toy stores (including four Geoffrey stores), 198 specialty baby-juvenile stores under the name Babies R Us, and 44 children's clothing stores under the name Kids R Us. Toys R Us also sells merchandise through its Internet sites at www.toysrus.com, www.babiesrus.com, www.imaginarium.com, www.sportsrus.com and www.personalizedbyrus.com. All of the Kids R Us stores will close during 2004.
TM Toyota Motor Corporation is engaged in the design, manufacture, assembly and sale of passenger cars, recreational and sport-utility vehicles (SUVs), minivans, trucks and related parts and accessories worldwide. Toyota provides retail and wholesale financing, retail leasing and certain other financial services to its dealers and their customers related to vehicles manufactured by the Company. The major portions of Toyota's operations on a worldwide basis are derived from the automotive and financial services business segments. The Company also has an all other segment, which includes its non-automotive business activities. Toyota's other operations are its information technology (IT)-related businesses and pre-fabricated housing. The Company operates through 554 consolidated subsidiaries and 228 affiliated companies. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Toyota sold 6.71 million vehicles.
TCT The Town and Country Trust (TCT) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on the ownership and operation of middle income, multi-family apartment communities in selected markets in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions of the United States. At December 31, 2003, TCT owned 38 apartment communities with 13,065 apartment units located in selected markets in the Mid-Atlantic and Florida that were held for investment. In addition, the Company also owned two apartment communities with 580 units in Charlotte, North Carolina that were sold in mid-2004. TCT conducts substantially all of its operations through its operating partnership, The TC Operating Limited Partnership, in which it holds an 88% general partnership interest. The remaining 12% limited partnership interest in the Operating Partnership is held by certain of the indirect predecessor owners of the Company's original 26 properties.
TSEM Tower Semiconductor Ltd. is a pure-play independent wafer foundry dedicated to the manufacture of semiconductors. Pure-play foundries do not offer any products of their own, but focus on producing integrated circuits based on the design specifications of their customers. The Company manufactures semiconductors using advanced production processes for its customers primarily based on third-party designs and its own designs. Tower manufactures ICs, with geometries ranging from 1.0 to 0.18 microns. Its target specialized markets are complementary metal oxide semiconductor image sensors, embedded flash and mixed-signal ICs. ICs manufactured by the Company are incorporated into a range of products in diverse markets, including consumer electronics, personal computer and office equipment, communications, automotive, professional photography and medical device products. In December 2004, the Company sold its holdings in Saifun Semiconductor to a United States based private equity investor.
TWGP Tower Group, Inc. provides specialized property and casualty insurance products and services to small to mid-sized businesses, and to individuals in New York City and the adjacent areas of New York State. Through its subsidiaries, Tower Insurance Company of New York (TICNY) and Tower Risk Management Corporation (TRM), the Company offers a broad range of products and services in its chosen niche markets. TICNY is a licensed property and casualty insurance company in New York. TRM is a non-risk bearing insurance service company and acts as a managing general agency to bind risks, adjust claims and negotiate reinsurance terms on behalf of other insurance companies. The Company operates in three business segments: insurance, reinsurance and insurance services.
TOFC Tower Financial Corporation is a financial holding company that owns Tower Bank &amp; Trust Company (the Bank). The Bank provides a range of commercial and consumer banking services primarily in Allen County, Indiana, including Fort Wayne and its suburbs. The Bank's lending strategy is focused on commercial loans, and to a lesser extent, on consumer and residential mortgage loans. Tower Bank offers an array of deposit products, including checking, savings and money market accounts, certificates of deposits and direct deposit services. The Bank also provides personal trust services through its investment management and trust services department. Its trust services include estate planning and money management. At December 31, 2003, the Bank had approximately $312.3 million of trust assets under management.
TOBC.OB Tower Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding whose primary activity consists of owning and supervising its subsidiary, The First National Bank of Greencastle (First). First is engaged in providing banking and bank-related services in South Central Pennsylvania, principally Franklin County. Its nine offices are located in Quincy, Shady Grove, Waynesboro, Mercersburg, Chambersburg and Laurich, Pennsylvania, and Hagerstown, Maryland, as well as its main office in Greencastle, Pennsylvania. During the third quarter of 2003 the ninth branch office was opened in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The Company derives the majority of its income from First. As of December 31, 2003, First had total assets of approximately $ 300.7 million, total shareholders' equity of approximately $ 40 million and total deposits of approximately $207 million.
TWR Tower Automotive, Inc. is a global designer and producer of structural components and assemblies used by automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM), including Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Renault/Nissan, Volkswagen Group, General Motors, Toyota, Honda, BMW, Fiat, Hyundai/Kia, Mazda and Isuzu. Its current products include automotive body structural stampings and assemblies, including exposed sheet metal (Class A) components, lower vehicle structural stampings and assemblies, suspension components, modules and systems. The Company has over 60 manufacturing, product development and administrative facilities located in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Slovakia, Italy, France, Spain, Japan, China, Korea, Brazil and India.
TTMC.OB TouchTunes Music Corporation is involved in the digital distribution of music content to music-on-demand applications. The first such music-on-demand application developed by the Company was its floor model digital jukebox, the Genesis. In November 2001, TouchTunes commenced commercial sale of its wall-mounted digital jukebox, the Maestro. During 2003, the Company began selling the Rhapsody, a floor model digital jukebox that is an updated version of the Genesis. It no longer manufactures the Genesis jukebox. As of December 31, 2003, TouchTunes had delivered a total of approximately 7,723 Digital Jukeboxes (the Rhapsody and Maestro models) to jukebox operators, of which approximately 7,655 units had been installed in various locations in the United States. TouchTunes' Digital Jukeboxes ars capable of storing and reproducing, in digital format, any music selection at its original level of quality.
TSSW.OB TouchStone Software Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries is a provider of system management software, which includes BIOS upgrades, PC diagnostics for PCs and embedded systems. The Company has been providing BIOS Upgrades for over 14 years and is the authorized BIOS upgrade company and support center for Phoenix Technologies, Inc. AwardBIOS. In January 2000, Touchstone formed eSupport.com, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary. Company revenue is derived from two principal sources: software products and engineering services. For the years ending December 31, 2003 and 2002, respectively, engineering services accounted for 1% and 5% of total revenue; royalties accounted for 7% of total revenue; CardWare accounted for 1% and 2%; third party products accounted for 3%, and diagnostic cards accounted for 8% an 11% of total revenue.
TASA.OB Touchstone Applied Science Associates, Inc. develops, publishes and distributes a proprietary line of tests specifically to meet clients' measurement specifications to elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada. The Company's proprietary assessment products relate directly to the teaching and measurement of progress of literacy skills. Its Degrees of Reading Power tests and related products enable a school, district or other entity to assess an individual's reading comprehension ability. TASA offers Signposts, a language arts early-childhood test, and the MAC II, an English language proficiency test. Both of these tests focus on fundamental literacy skills. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Beck Evaluation and Testing Associates, Inc., the Company performs custom services for other test publishers, as well as for state education agencies directly.
TSS Total System Services, Inc. (TSYS) provides electronic payment processing and related services, primarily to financial and non-financial institutions throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Honduras, the Caribbean and Europe. The Company's services include processing consumer, debit, commercial, stored value and retail cards, as well as student loan processing. TSYS also offers value-added products and services to support its core processing services, including risk management tools and techniques, revenue enhancement tools and customer retention programs, such as loyalty programs and bonus rewards. The Company operates principally through subsidiaries and joint ventures. As of January 1, 2004, TSYS had eight wholly owned subsidiaries operating in the United States and overseas. Synovus Financial Corp., a diverse financial services company, owns 81.1% of TSYS.
TOT TOTAL S.A., together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is an integrated oil and gas company with operations in more than 130 countries. The Company, formerly known as TOTAL Fina Elf S.A., engages in all aspects of the petroleum industry, including upstream operations, such as oil and gas exploration, development and production, liquefied natural gas, and downstream operations, such as refining, marketing and the trading and shipping of crude oil and petroleum products. TOTAL also produces base chemicals and polymers, intermediates and performance polymers and specialty chemicals for industrial and consumer use. In addition, TOTAL has interests in coal mining and in the cogeneration and electricity. TOTAL's worldwide operations are conducted through three business segments, including the upstream segment, the downstream segment and the chemicals segment.
TLCX Total Logistics, Inc., formerly known as C2, Inc., is principally engaged in providing a range of integrated logistic and facility management services and manufacturing of frozen and refrigerated display cases and refrigeration systems and controls for customers throughout the United States. The Company's operating segments include Logistic Services, consisting of refrigerated and non-refrigerated third-party integrated logistic and facility management services, and Product Sales, consisting of the distribution of food products and the manufacture and sale of refrigerated and freezer display cases and refrigeration and control systems used in grocery, convenience and drug store chains for retail merchandising of food, beverage and floral products and industrial applications. The Company owns 100% of two operating subsidiaries, Total Logistic Control, LLC and Zero Zone, Inc., which together operate its principal business activities.
TENT Total Entertainment Restaurant Corp. owns and operates 66 restaurants under the Fox and Hound and Bailey's brand names that each provides a social gathering place offering food, drinks and entertainment in an upscale, casual environment. Its restaurants offer a single menu for lunch, dinner and late-night dining. The menu features a selection of appetizers, soups and salads ranging in price from $3.29 to $6.99. Each location features a bar and offers domestic, imported and specialty beers. Each restaurant emphasizes an environment with satellite and cable coverage of sporting events and music videos and most of the restaurants offer billiards tables. The Fox and Hound and Bailey's restaurants share identical design and operational principles and menus. The restaurants are open from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m., seven days a week, depending upon local law.
TOVC.OB Torvec, Inc. has developed a full terrain vehicle (FTV) by merging the speed and handling of a truck with the full terrain capability of a tracked vehicle. Through the ongoing creation, development and improvement of its FTV, the Company developed inventions relating to seven distinct fields of automotive and related technology. The Company utilized facilities, space, manpower and services of a major shareholder to install and test its infinitely variable transmission in its Dodge-Ram truck. In November 2000, the Company acquired Ice Surface Development, Inc. from UTEK Corporation. As a result of the merger, the Company acquired a 20-year, exclusive worldwide license granted by the Trustees of Dartmouth College for land-based motorized applications to a novel ice adhesion modification system.
TREN.OB Torrent Energy Corporation (Torrent) is an exploration-stage company, formed by the merger of Scarab Systems, Inc., a Nevada corporation into iRV, Inc., a Colorado corporation. On April 30, 2004, Torrent incorporated an Oregon subsidiary company, named Methane Energy Corp. (Methane) in anticipation of acquiring oil and gas properties in the State of Oregon. On May 11, 2004, Methane entered into a lease purchase and sale agreement (the Agreement) with GeoTrends-Hampton International LLC (GHI) to purchase GHI's undivided working interest in certain oil and gas leases for the Coos Bay Basin prospect located onshore in the Coos Bay Basin of Oregon. Pursuant to the GHI Agreement, the Company acquired leases of certain properties in the Coos Bay area of Oregon that are prospective for oil and gas exploration. As of June 30, 2004, the Company has no properties with proven reserves. The Company changed its name from Scarab System, Inc. on July 13, 2004.
TD The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD Bank) offers a range of financial products and services. The Company is organized into three key businesses: personal and commercial banking, wealth management (including the global operations of TD Waterhouse) and wholesale banking. Personal and Commercial Banking comprises the Bank's retail, commercial banking and insurance operations. Wealth Management offers investors an array of investment products and services. Wealth Management is comprised of a number of advisory, distribution and asset management businesses, including TD Waterhouse and TD Mutual Funds. Under the TD Securities brand, Wholesale Banking serves a diverse base of corporate, government and institutional clients in key financial markets around the world. On August 26, 2004, the Bank announced a definitive agreement to acquire a 51% interest in Banknorth Group, Inc.
TTC The Toro Company designs, manufactures and markets professional turf maintenance equipments and services, turf and agricultural irrigation systems, landscaping equipment and residential yard products. The Company operates in three segments: Professional, Residential and Distribution. A fourth segment called Other, consists of corporate functions and Toro Credit Company, a wholly owned financing subsidiary. Net sales of the segments accounted for approximate 62%, 34% and 4% (including Distribution and Other), respectively, during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004). The products of the Company are sold at the retail level under the primary trademarks of Toro, Toro Wheel Horse, Lawn-Boy, Irritrol Systems, Exmark, Toro Dingo, Aqua-TraXX, Pope and Lawn Genie. In fiscal 2004, the Company introduced a new line of Toro 400 Series compact zero-turning radius riding mowers.
TRGL Toreador Resources Corporation is an independent international energy company engaged in the exploration, acquisition, production and development of oil and natural gas reserves. It holds interests in developed and undeveloped oil and natural gas properties in the Paris Basin, France; the Cendere and Zeynel fields in Turkey, and the Bonasse Field and Southwest Cedros Peninsula License in Trinidad, West Indies. The Company has been awarded concessions for the Viperesti, Moinesti and Fauresti blocks in Romania. It also owns various working-interest properties in Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Louisiana and Oklahoma. In January 2004, the Company sold its United States mineral and royalty assets to Black Stone Acquisitions Partners I, L.P., but retained all of its working-interest properties.
TMK Torchmark Corporation is an insurance holding company that provides life and health insurance products and annuities through its subsidiaries. Its primary subsidiaries are American Income Life Insurance Company, Liberty National Life Insurance Company, Globe Life and Accident Insurance Company, United American Insurance Company and United Investors Life Insurance Company. American Income provides individual life and supplemental health insurance marketed to union and credit union members. Liberty provides individual life insurance marketed to active and retired military officers. Globe writes individual life and supplemental health insurance marketed to middle-income Americans. United American offers senior life and supplemental health insurance, including Medicare Supplement coverage, other supplemental health insurance and life products marketed to individuals over age 50. United Investors provides individual life insurance and annuities to middle-income Americans.
TRU Torch Energy Royalty Trust through its subsidiaries Wilmington Trust Company, (Trustee), Torch Royalty Company (TRC), Torch Energy Advisors (Torch) and Velasco Gas Company Ltd. (Velasco) is contracted to sell the oil and gas production from the Underlying Properties to Torch Energy Marketing Inc. (TEMI), a subsidiary of Torch, under a purchase contract. TRC and Velasco receive payments reflecting the proceeds of oil and gas sold and aggregate these payments deduct applicable costs and make payments to the Trustee each quarter for the amounts due to the Trust. The Underlying Properties constitute working interests in the Chalked Field in Louisiana (Chalkley Field), the Robinson's Bend Field in the Black Warrior Basin in Alabama (Robinson's Bend Field), fields that produce from the Cotton Valley formations in Texas (Cotton Valley Fields) and fields that produce from the Austin Chalk formation in Texas (Austin Chalk Fields).
TORM TOR Minerals International, Inc. is a global specialty chemical company engaged in the business of manufacturing and marketing mineral products for use as pigments, pigment extenders and flame retardants used in the manufacture of paints, industrial coatings, plastics and solid surface applications. The Company and its subsidiaries operate in the business of pigment manufacturing and related products in three geographic segments. All United States manufacturing is done at the facility located in Corpus Christi, Texas. Foreign manufacturing is done by its wholly owned subsidiaries, TMM, located in Malaysia and TP&amp;T, located in the Netherlands. TOR Minerals' products are marketed in the United States and in more than 60 other countries.
TOPSQ.PK Tops Appliance City, Inc. is one of the leading retailers of home appliances and consumer electronics, serving a customer base within the Greater New York Metropolitan Area. The Company operates nine retail megastores in heavily populated locations within New Jersey and New York. The Company also operates a commercial division, selling to small independent retailers, builders and landlords, corporate buying groups, major corporations and municipalities. Additionally, Tops offers a full selection of its products and services over the Internet. The Company's primary products include major appliances, such as refrigerators, washers and dryers, electronics including televisions, VCRs, DVDs, camcorders, room air conditioners, personal electronics, home and car audio equipment, home office products, small electronic appliances, and other related products such as vacuum cleaners, seasonal goods, housewares, related accessories and extended service plans.
TOPP The Topps Company, Inc. markets confectionery products throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and parts of Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Its line of confectionery products includes lollipops, such as Ring Pop, Push Pop and Baby Bottle Pop, chewy products, specifically Juicy Drop Chews and Juicy Bugs, Bazooka brand bubble gum and certain licensed candy items. The Company also markets collectible entertainment products, including trading cards and sticker album collections featuring professional athletes and popular television, movie and other licensed characters and collectible strategy games. In July 2003, Topps acquired WizKids, LLC, a designer and marketer of collectible strategy games.
TOPT TOP Tankers Inc. is engaged in the worldwide transportation of petroleum cargo through the ownership and operation of a fleet of 16 tankers, consisting of four Suezmax double-hull tankers (for crude oil), 10 Handymax double-hull tankers (for petroleum products) and two Handysize tankers (for largely edible oils), with a total cargo carrying capacity of over 1.1 million dead weight tons (dwt). Ninety-five percent of its fleet by dwt is double hull. In early November 2004, TOP Tankers agreed to purchase five additional Double Hull Suezmax Tankers. Upon completion of the acquisition, the Company's fleet size will increase to 21 tankers, representing approx 1.9 million dwt.
TISA Top Image Systems Ltd. develops and markets automated data capture solutions for managing and validating content gathered from customers, trading partners and employees. Whether originating from electronic, paper, mobile or other sources, the Company's solutions deliver digital content to the applications that drive an enterprise by using advanced technologies including wireless communications, servers, form processing and information recognition systems. Its software improves business processes by integrating different types of data from multiple sources. The Company's signature solution is the eFLOW unified content platform, which provides the common architectural infrastructure for the Company's solutions.
TR Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries are engaged in the manufacture and sale of candy. The majority of its products are sold under the trademarks Tootsie Roll, Tootsie Roll Pops, Child's Play, Caramel Apple Pops, Charms, Blow Pops, Blue Razz, Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Da-Pops, Cella's, Mason Dots, Mason Crow, Junior Mint, Charleston Chew, Sugar Daddy, Sugar Babies, Andes and Fluffy Stuff. Products are distributed through approximately 100 candy and grocery brokers and by the Company to approximately 15,000 customers throughout the United States. These customers include wholesale distributors of candy and groceries, supermarkets, variety stores, dollar stores, chain grocers, drug chains, discount chains, cooperative grocery associations, warehouse and membership club stores, vending machine operators, the United States military and fundraising charitable organizations.
TOO Too, Inc. is a specialty retailer, operating two divisions that cater to "tween" (ages seven to 14) girls, Limited Too and Justice. Limited Too sells apparel, underwear, sleepwear, swimwear, lifestyle and personal care products. Justice, launched by the Company in late January 2004, sells fashionable, value-priced sportswear. Justice also has key accessories, such as hats, belts and socks, as well as jewelry and lifestyle items. Justice is intended to be located principally in non-mall locations such as power, strip and specialty centers. The Company designs, sources and markets products under the proprietary "Limited Too" and "Justice" brand names. As of January 31, 2004, the Company operated 553 Limited Too and five Justice stores in 46 states and Puerto Rico.
TMP Tompkins Trustco, Inc. (Tompkins) is the corporate parent to three community banks, Tompkins Trust Company, The Bank of Castile and The Mahopac National Bank, which together operate 34 banking offices in local market areas throughout New York State. Through its community banking subsidiaries, the Company provides traditional banking services, and offers a range of money management services through Tompkins Investment Services, a division of Tompkins Trust Company. Tompkins also offers insurance services through its Tompkins Insurance Agencies, Inc. subsidiary, an independent agency focused on serving individual and business clients throughout Western New York. On February 1, 2003, Tompkins Insurance acquired the assets of the Powers Agency, Inc. On November 1, 2003, Tompkins Insurance acquired 100% of the stock of Youngs &amp; Linfoot, Inc., an insurance agency in Geneseo, New York.
TOM Tommy Hilfiger Corporation (THC), through its subsidiaries, designs, sources and markets men's and women's sportswear, jeanswear and childrenswear under the Tommy Hilfiger trademarks. Through a range of strategic licensing agreements, the Company also offers related apparel, accessories, footwear, fragrance and home furnishings. Its products can be found in department and specialty stores throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, Central and South America, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and other countries in the Far East, as well as the Company's own network of specialty and outlet stores in the United States, Canada and Europe. The Company positions its apparel collections under three primary labels: H Hilfiger, Tommy Hilfiger and Tommy. THC is engaged in three segments: Wholesale, Retail and Licensing.
TKS Tomkins plc is a global engineering and manufacturing group that operates in three business segments: Industrial and Automotive; Air Systems Components, and Engineered and Construction Products. The Industrial and Automotive group manufactures a wide range of systems and components for the industrial and automotive markets through four business areas: Powertrain (which consists of Power Transmission and Stackpole), Fluid Power, Wiper Systems and Fluid Systems, selling to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and the replacement markets throughout the world. The Air Systems Components group is a manufacturer of air-handling components in North America, supplying the heating, ventilation and air conditioning market. The Engineered and Construction Products group manufactures a range of engineered products for a variety of end markets, primarily related to the building, construction, truck and trailer, and automotive industries.
TOMO Tom Online Inc. is an Internet company in China providing value-added multimedia products and services. The Company delivers its products and services from its Internet portal to its users through their mobile phones and through Tom's Websites. Its primary business activities include wireless value-added services, online advertising and commercial enterprise solutions. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had approximately 27 million cumulative registered users of its wireless data services, and, during 2003, sent an average of approximately seven million daily wireless data messages. Tom recorded an average of approximately 148 million daily Website page views during 2003. On November 19, 2003, the Company acquired from Cranwood its 100% interest in Puccini, which provides wireless interactive voice response (IVR) services through the Wu Ji Network.
TLGD Tollgrade Communications, Inc. is a provider of hardware and software network assurance testing solutions for the telecommunications and cable broadband industries. The Company designs, engineers, markets and supports test systems and test access and status monitoring products that enable telephone and cable operators to manage their networks. It provides equipment that enables telephone companies to repair their wire telephone lines when they are not functioning properly. The Company's products can assess whether the lines are suitable for Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) service. Tollgrade also provides products to cable companies that monitor the status of their power supplies. The Company's services include software maintenance as well as its professional services. The services business was expanded upon the acquisition of software maintenance relationships related to the LoopCare and CheetahNet software product lines.
TOL Toll Brothers, Inc. (Toll) designs, builds, markets and arranges financing for single-family detached and attached homes in luxury residential communities. The Company caters to move-up, empty-nester, active-adult age-qualified and second home buyers in 20 states in six regions of the United States. Its communities are generally located on land that the Company has either developed, or acquired, fully approved and in some cases improved. In the five years ended October 31, 2004, the Company delivered 24,271 homes from 456 communities, including 6,627 homes from 273 communities during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004. The Company operates its own land development, architectural, engineering, mortgage, title, security monitoring, landscape, cable television, broadband Internet access, lumber distribution, house component assembly and manufacturing operations. It also owns and operates golf courses and country clubs in conjunction with several of its master planned communities.
TOF Tofutti Brands Inc. is engaged in the development, production and marketing of TOFUTTI brand nondairy frozen desserts and other food products. TOFUTTI products are nondairy, soy-based products, which contain no butterfat, cholesterol or lactose. The Company's products are 100% milk free, yet offer the same texture and taste as their dairy counterparts. Its products are also free of cholesterol and derive their fat from soy and corn, both naturally lower in saturated fat than dairy products. TOFUTTI products are sold and distributed across the United States and internationally and can be found in gourmet specialty shops, kosher supermarkets, natural/health food stores and national and regional supermarket chains.
THT Todhunter International, Inc. is a producer and supplier of rum, brandy, wine and spirits to other beverage alcohol manufacturers; produces, imports and markets premium branded spirits; bottles beverage alcohol and other beverages on a contract basis and under its own labels, and produces vinegar and cooking wine. The Company operates four production facilities in the United States and one in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands, and purchases certain products for resale. The Company sells its bulk alcohol products to over 40 producers of beverage alcohol in the United States and exports bulk alcohol products to approximately 20 foreign countries. Its contract bottling services and private label products are sold to a limited number of customers. The Company's vinegar and cooking wine are sold to over 700 condiment manufacturers, foodservice distributors and retailers.
TOD Todd Shipyards Corporation is engaged in the repair/overhaul, conversion and construction of commercial and military ships. The Federal Government contracts accounted for 84% of total revenues for the fiscal year ended March 28, 2004 (fiscal 2004). The commercial contracts accounted for 16% of total revenues for the fiscal 2004. Todd Shipyards operates in segments, such as Repair and Overhaul Operations and Construction Operations. Todd Shipyards' repair and overhaul work ranges from minor repairs to major overhauls and often involves the dry-docking of the vessel under repair. The commercial repair and overhaul contracts are obtained by bidding, awarded by negotiation or assigned by customers who have a preference for a specific shipyard. Todd Shipyards also performs repair and overhaul work for the Navy and the Coast Guard on a fixed-price basis through a formal bidding process.
THE TODCO is a provider of contract oil and gas drilling services, primarily in the United States, Gulf of Mexico shallow water and inland marine region (an area referred to as the United States Gulf Coast). TODCO is a majority owned subsidiary of Transocean Inc.(Transocean). The Company operates a fleet of 70 drilling rigs consisting of 30 inland barge rigs, 24 jackup rigs, three submersible rigs, one platform rig, nine land rigs and three lake barge rigs. Fifty-two of these rigs operate in shallow and inland waters of the United States with the remainder operating in Mexico, Trinidad and Venezuela. The core business is to contract the Company's drilling rigs, related equipment and work crews on a day rate basis to customers who are drilling oil and gas wells. These services are mainly provided to independent oil and gas companies, but TODCO also services major international and government-controlled oil and gas companies.
TNS TNS, Inc. is a provider of business-critical data communications services to processors of credit card, debit card and automated teller machine (ATM) transactions. It also provides secure data and voice network services to the global financial services industry. The Company operates one of four unaffiliated Signaling System No. 7 networks in the United States capable of providing services nationwide. It utilizes this network to provide call signaling and database access services to the domestic telecommunications industry. Its data communications services enable secure transmission of time-sensitive, transaction-related information critical to customers' operations. TNS provides services to customers in the United States and increasingly to international customers in 12 countries, including Canada and countries in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. TNS provides services through four divisions: POS Services, International Services, Telecommunications Services and Financial Services.
TNRK.OB TNR Technical, Inc. designs, assembles and markets primary and secondary batteries to a variety of industrial markets. It is an authorized distributor of nickel-cadmium, Ni-MH, alkaline, lithium and sealed lead acid batteries manufactured by Saft America, Power-Sonic Battery, Varta Battery, Enersys, Duracell, Renata, GP Battery, Eveready Battery and Sanyo Energy. As an authorized distributor, the Company purchases cells, assembles them into battery packs and maintains inventory for resale. TNR sells its battery cells and/or battery packs to the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and wholesalers without geographical limitation and on a non-exclusive basis. It also designs and assembles battery packs to customers' specifications. Its batteries have applications in electric mobility, instruments, pay phones, cordless phones, laptops, surveying equipment, radio control hobby, alarms, cameras, uninterruptible power supply, door locks, medical equipment and lighting.
TMFZ.OB TMSF Holdings, Inc. is a financial holding company that, through its wholly owned subsidiary, The Mortgage Store Financial, Inc. (The Mortgage Store), is engaged in nationwide mortgage banking to originate, finance and sell conforming and non-conforming mortgage loans secured by single-family residences. Upon origination, the Company sells its loans on a whole-loan basis for cash to investors that either retain these mortgages for their own portfolio or pool them into mortgage-backed securities offered in the financial markets. Since 1996, TMSF Holdings has been engaged in the origination of Alt-A mortgages for residential borrowers. It expanded its loan programs to include Type-A loans, as well as sub-prime mortgages for borrowers with lower credit ratings. The Company previously operated as Little Creek, Inc. In November 2002, it acquired The Mortgage Store and changed its name to TMSF Holdings, Inc.
TMSS.OB TMS, Inc. (TMS), incorporated in 1990, is engaged in the computer software business. The Company licenses computer software products to enable businesses to use document imaging to solve critical business problems. The Company has two operating segments, Component Product Technology and Assessment Scoring Technology. Component product technology includes software toolkits and applications for image viewing, enhancement, forms processing, color image processing, Web-based imaging viewing, image enhancement for black and white, color and grayscale images. Assessment scoring products comprises of virtual scoring center and digital mark recognition (DMR).
TLCV TLC Vision Corporation is a healthcare service company focused on working with eye doctors to help them provide quality patient care in the eye care segment. The majority of the Company's revenues come from refractive surgery, which involves using an excimer laser to treat common refractive vision disorders such as myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism. In addition to refractive surgery, the Company has diversified into other eye care businesses. Through its Midwest Surgical Services, Inc. subsidiary, the Company furnishes hospitals and independent surgeons with mobile or fixed site access to cataract surgery equipment and services. Through its OR Partners, Aspen Healthcare and Michigan subsidiaries, TLC Vision develops, manages and has equity participation in single-specialty eye care ambulatory surgery centers and multi-specialty ambulatory surgery centers. The Company also owns a 51% majority interest in Vision Source, which provides franchise opportunities to independent optometrists.
TJX TJX Companies, Inc. is an off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions in the United States and worldwide. It has seven off-price chains that are synergistic in their philosophies and operating platforms. The Company offers off-price family apparel and home fashions through its T.J. Maxx, Marshalls and A.J. Wright chains in the United States, its Winners chain in Canada and its T.K. Maxx chain in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The Company offers off-price home fashions through its HomeGoods chain in the United States and its Canadian HomeSense chain operated by Winners.
AXLE.OB T.J.T., Inc. has two core businesses: repairing and reconditioning axles and tires for the manufactured housing industry, and distribution of after-market accessory products to manufactured housing dealers and set-up contractors, as well as siding to on-site house builders. The Company has recycling and distribution locations in Emmett, Idaho; Woodland, California; Chehalis, Washington, and Platteville, Colorado. The Company also manufactures hanger parts in Eugene, Oregon, which are used by the manufactured housing producers to attach axles to homes. The Company operates in Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas and southern California through NewCo Tire and Axle, L.L.C. (NewCo), a joint venture established in June 2003.
TIVO TiVo Inc. is a provider of technology and services for digital video recorders (DVRs). The Company's subscription-based TiVo service is designed to improve home entertainment by providing consumers with an easy way to record, watch and control television. The TiVo service also offers the television industry a platform for advertising, content delivery and audience research. The TiVo service requires a TiVo-enabled DVR. As of January 31, 2004, there were over 1.3 million subscriptions to the TiVo service.
TIE Titanium Metals Corporation is a vertically integrated titanium manufacturer whose products include titanium sponge, the basic form of titanium metal used in processed titanium products; melted products (ingot and slab), the result of melting sponge and titanium scrap, either alone or with various other alloying elements; mill products that are forged and rolled from ingot or slab, including long products (billet and bar), flat products (plate, sheet and strip) and pipe; and fabrications that are cut, formed, welded and assembled from titanium mill products (spools, pipefittings, manifolds and vessels,). The Company's production facilities are located in the United States, United Kingdom, France and Italy, and its products are sold throughout the world. Approximately 68% of its sales revenue was generated by sales to the aerospace industry in year ended December 31, 2003.
TITT.OB Titan Technologies, Inc. is an international licensor of proprietary technologies. The Company focuses its efforts on the development of several recycling technologies, particularly in the area of tires and electronic scrap. Historically, much of Titan's business was performed through Tire Recycling Technologies Corporation (TRTC), formerly a wholly owned subsidiary that was merged into Titan in 1999. TRTC was directly involved in licensing the Company's proprietary technology, as well as construction of two plants in South Korea. Both Korean plants have reportedly been shut down because of the economic downturn in South Korea and the insolvency of the owners. A third plant utilizing the Company's tire recycling technology was in operation, in Taiwan, until the Taiwanese government cut the supply of tires to Forest All to approximately 10 days per month, which made their operation impractical.
TTP Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company developing proprietary therapeutics for the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, cancer and cardiovascular disease. The Company's internal resources are focused primarily on clinical development of the following five products: Spheramine, for the treatment of late-stage Parkinson's disease; Pivanex, for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer; gallium maltolate, for the treatment of several cancers and bone-related disease associated with cancer; Probuphine, for the treatment of opiate addiction, and DITPA for the treatment of congestive heart failure.
TWI Titan International, Inc. is a global manufacturer of off-highway wheels and tires for agricultural, earthmoving/construction and consumer equipment. It manufactures both wheels and tires for the majority of these applications, allowing the Company to provide the value-added service of delivering complete wheel and tire assemblies. Titan offers a range of products that are manufactured in relatively short production runs to meet the specifications of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and/or the requirements of aftermarket customers. Titan distributes wheels and tires directly to OEMs. The distribution of aftermarket tires occurs primarily through a network of independent and OEM-affiliated dealers. The Company also has its own distribution network consisting of eight facilities throughout the United States and Europe.
TTGH.OB Titan General Holdings, Inc. (Titan) is a manufacturer of time sensitive, high-tech, prototype and pre-production printed circuit boards with the equipment capability for expansion to include backplane assembly. Titan provides time-critical printed circuit board manufacturing services to original equipment manufacturers and electronic manufacturing services providers. Titan's prototype printed circuit boards serve as the foundation in many electronic products used in telecommunications, medical devices, automotive, military applications, aviation components, networking and computer equipment. Titan's time-to-market manufacturing services enable its customers to shorten their cycle time throughout the development, introduction and ramp-up phases of bringing their products to the market.
TPTI TippingPoint Technologies, Inc. is a provider of network-based intrusion prevention systems that deliver in-depth Application Protection, Infrastructure Protection, and Performance Protection for corporate enterprises, government agencies, service providers and academic institutions. In January 2002 the Company announced an Intrusion Prevention System, represented by its UnityOne line of products and management system, announced its general availability in September 2002 and has continued to add to the product line since. The UnityOne line of intrusion prevention systems is hardware-based products utilizing high-speed, security-optimized processors and custom Application Specific Integrated Circuits that can operate at multi-gigabit speeds. The solutions protect applications and operating systems, and protects infrastructure, such as firewalls, servers, routers and voice-over Internet Protocol gateways. In December 2004, the Company was acquired by 3Com Corporation.
TPY Tipperary Corporation and its subsidiaries are engaged in the exploration for, and development and production of natural gas. The Company is focused on coalseam gas properties, with its major producing property located in Queensland, Australia. It also holds exploration permits in Queensland and is involved in coalseam gas and conventional exploration in the United States with three projects in Colorado and one project in Nebraska. The Company seeks to increase its reserves through exploration and development projects, but occasionally may do so through the acquisition of producing properties as well.
TKR The Timken Company is a global manufacturer of highly engineered bearings, alloy and specialty steel and related components. The Company operates under three segments: Automotive Group, Industrial Group and Steel Group. The Automotive and Industrial Group designs, manufactures and distributes a range of bearings and related products and services. Automotive Group customers include original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of passenger cars and trucks, ranging from light- and medium-duty to heavy-duty trucks and their suppliers. Industrial Group customers include both OEMs and distributors for agriculture, construction, mining, energy, mill, machine tooling, aerospace and rail applications. The Steel Group designs, manufactures and distributes different alloys in both solid and tubular sections, as well as custom-made steel products all for both automotive and industrial applications, including bearings.
TMLN.OB Timeline, Inc. develops, markets, licenses and supports financial reporting, budgeting and consolidations software, and event-based notification, application integration and process automation software applications that streamline key business activities for workplace efficiency. The Company's software products enable customers to access and distribute business and accounting information in a secure environment and with accounting controls that allow validation by going back to the detail transactions, integrate software programs developed at different times and automate notification messages pertaining to specific events and business processes. Its reporting products allow customers to gather and distribute business information throughout their companies while maintaining flexibility in determining the types of transaction processing systems they will use. Timeline's services consist of consulting and software maintenance.
TWTC Time Warner Telecom Inc. is a provider of managed network solutions to a range of business customers throughout the United States. The Company delivers data, dedicated Internet access, as well as local and long distance voice services in 44 metropolitan markets in the United States. Time Warner Telecom's customers are telecommunications-intensive businesses, long distance carriers, incumbent local exchange carriers, competitive local exchange carriers, wireless communications companies, Internet service providers, educational institutions and governmental entities.
TWX Time Warner Inc., formerly known as AOL Time Warner Inc., is a media and entertainment company. It classifies its business interests into five fundamental areas: America Online, Inc., consisting principally of interactive services; Cable, consisting principally of interests in cable systems providing video and high-speed data services; Filmed Entertainment, consisting principally of feature film, television and home video production and distribution; Networks, consisting principally of cable television and broadcast networks, and Publishing, consisting principally of magazine and book publishing.
TMAM.OB Time America, Inc., formerly Vitrix, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets a line of time and labor management hardware and software products targeting small, mid-sized and enterprise level companies. The Company's products are designed to improve productivity by automating time and attendance, workforce scheduling and management of labor resources. Its solutions are offered in a 100% Web-based licensed and application service provider model, client/server configuration and in a personal computer (PC)-based application. The Company's products are internally developed. It provides software applications that maintain and automate the process of collecting time sheet information, provide automated interfaces to payroll software solutions and enable users to generate a variety of reports that help track and analyze how employees spend their time. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004, the Company's direct sales efforts accounted for approximately 40% of total revenues.
TMAS.OB TIMCO Aviation Services, Inc. (TIMCO), incorporated in 1996, is a provider of integrated aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MR&amp;O) services for commercial airlines, regional air carriers, aircraft leasing companies, government and military units and air cargo carriers. TIMCO provides MR&amp;O services, such as heavy aircraft maintenance services, the refurbishment of aircraft interior components and the manufacture and sale of aftermarket parts and new aircraft seats, which are provided through Brice Manufacturing Co. (Brice) and Aircraft Interior Design Inc. (AID); engineering services to both MR&amp;O operations and customers, provided through TIMCO Engineered Systems, and the refurbishment of JT8D engines and conducting on-wing repairs for both JT8D and CFM-56 series engines, through TIMCO Engine Center. TIMCO's customer base consists of airlines, air cargo carriers, leasing companies and government and military units.
TBL The Timberland Company designs, develops, engineers, markets and distributes, under the Timberland and Timberland PRO brands, footwear, apparel and accessories products for men, women and children. The Company's products are sold primarily through independent retailers, better-grade department stores, athletic stores and other national retailers. In addition, its products are sold through Timberland specialty stores, Timberland factory outlet stores, timberland.com and franchisees in Europe. The products are sold throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. The Company's products fall into two primary groups: footwear and apparel and accessories (including product care and licensed products).
TSBK Timberland Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for Timberland Savings Bank, SSB (the Bank) upon the Bank's conversion from a Washington-chartered mutual to a Washington-chartered stock savings bank. The Company's business activities generally are limited to passive investment activities and oversight of its investment in the Bank. The Bank's deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation up to applicable legal limits under the Savings Association Insurance Fund. The Bank is a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank. The Bank is regulated by the Washington Department of Financial Institutions, Division of Banks and the FDIC. On June 22, 2004, the Bank entered into a branch purchase and assumption agreement to purchase seven branches from Venture Bank, a subsidiary of Venture Financial Group. The branches are located in Grays Harbor County, Lewis County and Thurston County, Washington, and acquired these branches on October 9, 2004.
TSU TIM Participacoes SA, formerly Tele Celular Sul Participacoes SA, provides cellular telecommunications services in Brazil. The Company's digital cellular telecommunications service is based on the time division/demand multiple access (TDMA) and global system for mobile communications (GSM) technologies. At December 31, 2003, the Company had 2.05 million active cellular lines. In August 2003, TIM expanded its services to include national and international long-distance services. The Company offers TDMA and GSM customers, automatic roaming services throughout Brazil, allowing customers to obtain cellular telecommunications services while outside the region. GSM customers benefit from international roaming services in more than 70 countries and TDMA customers in more than 170 countries.
TKCRF.OB Tikcro Technologies Ltd. (Tikcro) is engaged in the design, development and marketing of digital subscriber line chips used by manufacturers of telecommunications equipment. In January 2003, STMicroelectronics NV, with whom the Company entered into three strategic agreements, exercised its option to acquire Tikcro's business. This acquisition was consummated in April 2003. Upon the sale of the business to STMicroelectronics, the Company ceased its business operations as conducted prior thereto. In September 2003, Tikcro changed its name from Tioga Technologies Ltd.
TIII TII Network Technologies, Inc. designs, produces and markets lightning and surge protection products primarily for use on the subscribers' home or business telephone lines. Its overvoltage surge protectors differ in power capacity, application and configuration to meet varying needs. The Company also markets a line of network interface devices and station electronic and other products. TII sells these products principally to United States telephone operating companies, including the Regional Bell Operating Companies, Independent Operating Companies and competitive local exchange carriers. TII also sells to original equipment manufacturers and multi-system operators of communications services.
TIF Tiffany &amp; Co. is the parent corporation of Tiffany and Company (Tiffany). Tiffany retails and distributes a selection of Tiffany &amp; Co. brand jewelry at a range of prices. In addition to jewelry, it sells Tiffany &amp; Co. brand merchandise in the following categories: timepieces and clocks; sterling silver merchandise, including flatware, hollowware (tea and coffee services, bowls, cups and trays), trophies, key holders, picture frames and desk accessories; stainless steel flatware; crystal, glassware, china and other tableware; custom engraved stationery; writing instruments, and fashion accessories. Fragrance products are sold under the trademarks Tiffany, Pure Tiffany and Tiffany for Men. Tiffany also sells other brands of timepieces and tableware in its United States stores.
TONE TierOne Corporation (TierOne) serves as a holding company for TierOne Bank (the Bank). The Company's principal business is gathering deposits from the general public in the market areas surrounding its banking offices and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, in loans, investment securities and mortgage-backed securities. TierOne's loan portfolio consists of one- to four-family residential loans, construction, second mortgage residential, consumer, commercial real estate and land, business and multi-family residential loans, as well as warehouse mortgage lines of credit. The Company has invested in United States Government and agency securities, corporate commercial paper, mutual funds, mortgage-backed securities and collateralized mortgage obligations. Deposits, loan repayments and prepayments, proceeds from sales of loans, cash flows from operations and Federal Home Loan Bank advances are the Company's sources of the funds.
TIER Tier Technologies, Inc. is a provider of transaction and online payment processing, and packaged software and systems implementation services to federal, state and local government and other public sector clients. Tier's core services are categorized into transaction and payment processing, systems design and integration, and maintenance and support services. The Company's transaction processing services primarily consist of child support payment processing and related services for state government clients, and electronic payment processing services for federal, state and local government clients, which allow those clients to offer their constituents the option of paying governmental obligations, such as taxes and other fees, using credit or debit cards or electronic checks. Tier's software and systems integration services primarily involve integrating its software products and licensed third-party software products into its clients' business operations.
TBGU.OB Tiens Biotech Group is primarily engaged in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of healthcare products, including herbal products, vitamin and mineral supplements and personal care. The Company has developed six major product series and produced 27 types of healthcare products.
TDW Tidewater Inc. provides offshore supply vessels and marine support services to the offshore energy industry through the operation of its fleet of 575 offshore marine service vessels. Tidewater also provides services supporting all phases of offshore exploration, development and production, including towing of, and anchor handling of mobile drilling rigs and equipment; transporting supplies and personnel necessary to sustain drilling, workover and production activities; assisting in offshore construction activities, and a variety of specialized services including pipe laying, cable laying and three-dimensional seismic work. The principal areas of the Company's operations include the United States, Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea and areas offshore Australia, Brazil, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Trinidad, Venezuela and West Africa. The Company conducts its operations through its wholly-owned subsidiaries and joint ventures.
TIRTZ.OB Tidelands Royalty Trust B is a royalty trust that was created for the sole purpose of providing an efficient, orderly and practical means for the administration and liquidation of rights to interests in any oil, natural gas or other mineral leases obtained by Gulf Oil Corporation in a designated area of the Gulf of Mexico. These rights are evidenced by a contract between Tidelands' predecessors and Gulf, dated April 30, 1951 (the 1951 Contract), which is binding upon the assignees of Gulf. As a result of various transactions that have occurred since 1951, the Gulf interests that were subject to the 1951 Contract are held by Chevron Corporation, Elf Acquitane, Inc. and their assignees. Tidelands' subsidiary, Tidelands Royalty B Corporation, holds title to interests in properties subject to the 1951 Contract that are situated offshore of Louisiana. Ninety-five percent of all oil, natural gas and other mineral royalties collected by this subsidiary are paid to Tidelands.
TIDE.OB Tidelands Oil &amp; Gas Corporation focuses its business on international pipeline crossings, gas storage facilities and gas processing plants. Through its seven subsidiaries, it offers a suite of services for petroleum products and has the capability to satisfy a variety of international and domestic customers' needs. The Company is in the final stages of contractual negotiations with PEMEX, Mexico's state-owned oil and gas company, to build an underground storage facility in the Brasil Field of the Burgos Basin near Reyonosa, Mexico. On November 10, 2003, the Company announced that it began flowing gas from its first international pipeline at the Piedras Negras, Mexico/Eagle Pass, Texas border.
TIBX TIBCO Software, Inc. is engaged in the development and marketing of a suite of software products that enables businesses to link internal operations, business partners and customer channels through the real-time distribution of information. The Company's products are marketed and sold as part of the TIBCO ActiveEnterprise standards-based platform for real-time business. TIBCO ActiveEnterprise is a comprehensive set of solutions comprised of three categories of software: business optimization software, business integration software and enterprise backbone software. All of the Company's products can be sold individually to solve specific technical challenges, but the emphasis of its product development and sales efforts is the creation of products that interoperate seamlessly and can be sold together as a complete solution to business problems. TIBCO also provides its customers implementation services, on-site support, consulting and training.
TIBB TIB Financial Corp. is a financial holding company whose business is conducted primarily through its wholly owned subsidiary, TIB Bank. The Company operates 14 banking offices and 17 automated teller machines (ATMs) throughout Key Largo, Florida. Through subsidiaries, it offers a range of commercial and retail banking and financial services to businesses and individuals. Its account services include checking, interest-bearing checking, money market, savings, certificates of deposit and individual retirement accounts. It offers commercial loans, such as owner-occupied commercial real estate; acquisition, development and construction; income-producing properties; short-term working capital; inventory and receivable facilities, and equipment loans. It also offers consumer loan products to include residential real estate, installment loans, home equity, home equity lines and indirect auto dealer loans.
THMG.OB Thunder Mountain Gold, Inc., incorporated in November 1935 as Montgomery Mines, Inc., is an exploration stage company and there is no assurance that a commercially viable mineral deposit exists on any of its properties. Further exploration efforts will likely be required by the Company or lessor before a final evaluation as to the economic and legal feasibility of conducting further operations is determined. Its primary property at Thunder Mountain was placed into operation by Coeur'd Alene Mines (CDA) under a net profits arrangement. Gold and silver production totaled 180,000 ounces gold by CDA from the sunnyside deposit by open pit mining and heap leaching. Coeur'd Alene ceased production in the early 1990s and relinquished the claims back to the Company.
TSIH.OB 3Si Holdings, Inc (TSIH) wholly owns KEWi.net, Inc. (iKEW). 3Si, Inc. (3Si) is a wholly owned subsidiary of TSIH. TSIH was previously known as Tyrex Oil Company. The Company's principal services provided during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004) were Website development using the iKEW products, and the licensing of the iKEW Internet-based customer support system. iKEW is a family of collaboration, content management and business process management tools. iKEW is provided as a series of solution sets of services. The Company's principal markets are large corporations located in Colorado. Portal management, content management, request tracking and workflow processing are all integrated and presented through the customer's look and feel. TSIH has 10 projects in the sales process.
MMM 3M Company is a diversified technology company with a global presence in the following markets: healthcare, industrial, display and graphics, consumer and office, safety, security and protection services, electronics, telecommunications and electrical and transportation. 3M is a global enterprise characterized by substantial intercompany cooperation in research, manufacturing and marketing of products. 3M products are sold through numerous distribution channels. Products are sold directly to users and through numerous wholesalers, retailers, jobbers, distributors and dealers in a wide variety of trades in many countries worldwide. The Company has 197 sales offices worldwide, with 12 in the United States and 185 internationally.
TFS Three-Five Systems, Inc. is a global provider of electronics manufacturing services (EMS). The Company designs and/or manufactures printed circuit board assemblies, radio frequency (RF), modules, display modules and systems, and complete systems for customers in the automotive, computing, consumer, industrial, medical and telecommunications industries. It provides advanced engineering and design, new product introduction and prototyping, global supply chain management, printed circuit board assembly, display module assembly, RF module assembly, box build, testing, logistics and distribution and aftermarket services. Three-Five Systems also provides a range of aftermarket support, such as repairs, refurbishment, systems upgrades and spare part manufacturing. Its design and manufacturing services include a competence in display modules and systems and the integration of display modules and systems into other products.
TDSC 3D Systems Corporation, operating through its subsidiaries in the United States, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, designs, develops, manufactures, markets and services solid imaging systems and related products and materials that allow complex three-dimensional objects to be manufactured directly from computer data without tooling. The Company's solid imaging systems produce physical objects from digital data using computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) software utilities and related computer applications. It markets its systems as an integrated package that combines equipment and related software, materials and service. The Company operates in North America and in seven other countries in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
COMS 3Com Corporation provides data and voice networking products and solutions, as well as support and maintenance services, for enterprises and public sector organizations of all sizes. The products and solutions are based on open-technology standards that are designed and engineered to reduce reliance on systems, complexity and total cost of ownership, and enable the customers to manage business-critical information efficiently, enhance the productivity of their employees and improve the effectiveness of their business relationships. The portfolio of enterprise networking products and solutions includes local area network (LAN) switches, Internet protocol (IP) telephony, network security, routers and gateways, wireless LAN network, Jack and IntelliJack switches, connectivity products, network management software and customer services. In December 2004, the Company acquired publicly held TippingPoint Technologies, Inc.
TCCC.OB 3CI Complete Compliance Corporation is a regional medical waste management service provider in North America. The Company's primary medical waste management service includes, but is not limited to, regulatory compliant containment, onsite collection, transportation and documentation of the disposal of regulated medical waste as defined by federal, state and local rules, regulations and guidelines. The Company utilizes a bar-code identification and tracking system for all containers of regulated medical waste. 3CI collects provides services to approximately 8,500 customers. The Company's customer base consists of two basic categories: medical centers, hospitals, teaching institutions involved in medicine and research, surgery centers, outpatient clinics, blood banks, and smaller healthcare providers and medical-related businesses, such as physician and dental offices, nursing and convalescent homes and veterinarians.
THQI THQ Inc. is a developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software that is playable on the platforms, including home video game consoles, such as Sony PlayStation and Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox and Nintendo GameCube, handheld platforms, such as Nintendo Game Boy Advance, personal computers (PCs) and wireless devices. The Company's titles span entertainment software genres, including action, adventure, children's, driving, fighting, puzzle, role-playing, simulation, sports and strategy. THQ's software is based on intellectual property licensed or assigned from third parties or created internally. THQ's portfolio of licensed properties includes the Disney/Pixar properties, such as Disney/Pixar's Finding Nemo; The Incredibles and Cars; Nickelodeon properties, such as The Fairly OddParents and SpongeBob SquarePants; Hot Wheels; Power Rangers; Scooby-Doo; Sonic the Hedgehog, and World Wrestling Entertainment.
TMA Thornburg Mortgage, Inc. is a single-family residential mortgage lender that originates, acquires and retains investments in adjustable and variable-rate mortgage (ARM) assets, thereby providing capital to the single-family residential housing market. The Company's ARM assets consist of traditional ARM securities and loans, which have interest rates that reprice in a year or less, and hybrid ARM securities and loans, which have a fixed interest rate for an initial period of three to 10 years before converting to Traditional ARMs for their remaining terms to maturity. ARM securities represent interests in pools of ARM loans, which are publicly rated and include guarantees or other third-party credit enhancements against losses from loan defaults. Thornburg is an externally advised real estate investment trust and is managed by Thornburg Mortgage Advisory Corporation.
THOR Thoratec Corporation manufactures circulatory support products for use by patients with congestive heart failure. The Company's three major product groups are: circulatory support products, vascular graft products and point-of-care diagnostics. The circulatory support products include ventricular assist devices for the short-term and long-term treatment of congestive heart failure. Thoratec has also developed small diameter grafts using its proprietary materials to address the vascular access and coronary bypass surgery markets. The Company's grafts are sold in the United States and internationally for use in hemodialysis patients and are in clinical trials for coronary artery bypass applications. In addition, Thoratec supplies point-of-care blood diagnostics test systems that provide fast, accurate blood test results to improve patient management, reduce healthcare costs and improve patient outcomes.
THO Thor Industries, Inc. produces and sells a range of recreation vehicles and small and mid-sized buses in the United States and Canada through its subsidiaries. The principal types of recreation vehicles that it produces include conventional travel trailers, fifth wheels, Class A and Class C motorhomes and park models. Thor also manufactures and sells related parts and accessories. Thor's principal recreation vehicle operating subsidiaries are Airstream, Inc., Dutchmen Manufacturing, Inc., Four Winds International, Inc., Keystone RV Company, Komfort Corp., Thor America, Inc., Citair, Inc., Thor California, Inc. and Damon Corporation. The Company's line of small and mid-sized buses consists of airport shuttle buses, intra-urban and inter-urban mass transportation buses and buses for tourist uses. Its principal small and mid-sized bus operating subsidiaries are Champion Bus, Inc., ElDorado National California, Inc. and ElDorado National Kansas, Inc.
TMS Thomson provides a range of video and enabling technologies, systems, finished products and services to customers and professionals in the entertainment and media industries. The Company distributes its products under the THOMSON, RCA, TECHNICOLOR and Grass Valley brand names. Thomson organizes its businesses into four divisions: Content and Networks, Components, Consumer Products and Licensing. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Content and Networks division, which provides technological solutions and services for integrated media and entertainment companies, broadcasters and network operators, generated 44% of the Company's total revenues. The manufacturing and assembling of consumer electronics products was undertaken in the Consumer Products and Components divisions, generating 38% and 13% of Thompson's total revenues in 2003, respectively. In December 2004, the Company acquired The Moving Picture Company (MPC) from British broadcaster ITV.
TPGI Thomas Properties Group, Inc. is a full-service real estate operating company that owns, acquires, develops and manages office, retail and multi-family properties on a nationwide basis. The Company has four primary areas of focus: property operations, property acquisitions, property development and redevelopment, and investment management. Property operations comprise the primary source of revenue based on ownership or management of 7.4 million net rentable square feet of space located in the West Coast and Mid-Atlantic regions. Thomas Properties Group acquires properties for its own account, as well on behalf of institutional investors. The Company also earns fees for advising institutional investors on property portfolios.
TNM Thomas Nelson, Inc. is a publisher, producer and distributor of books emphasizing Christian, inspirational and family value themes. The Company's book publishing division publishes and distributes hardcover and trade paperback books emphasizing Christian, inspirational and family value themes. Books are published by the Company under several imprints, including Thomas Nelson, W Publishing, J. Countryman, Tommy Nelson, Rutledge Hill Press, Cool Springs Press, WestBow Press, Caribe-Betania Editores, Nelson Electronic and Reference, WND Books and World Publishing and consist of inspirational, trade, gift, children's and reference books emphasizing Christian and family values themes. The Company distributes books through Christian bookstores, general bookstores, mass merchandisers and direct sales to consumers, churches and ministries.
TII Thomas Industries Inc. supplies pumps and compressors to the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) market. The Company also manufactures lighting fixtures for different applications. It operates in two segments: the pump and compressor segment, which designs, manufactures, markets, sells and services pump and compressor products through worldwide operations, and the lighting segment, which designs, manufacturers, markets and sells lighting fixtures for a variety of applications in the commercial, industrial and residential markets for both indoor and outdoor fixtures. In July 2003, the Company acquired Aldax AB. Aldax has served as the distributor for Thomas pumps and compressors in Scandinavia. Aldax, which will be renamed Rietschle Thomas, will be responsible for selling the full range of Rietschle Thomas products into Sweden, Finland and the Baltic States, and will be operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of Thomas Industries.
TGIS.OB Thomas Group, Inc. is an international professional services firm focusing on improving operations, competitiveness and financial performance of major corporate clients, through process improvement and strategically aligning operations with technology. The Company creates and implements custom improvement strategies for sustained performance improvement. Thomas Group's clients are typically large companies, many of which are included in the Fortune or Global 1000. The Company has been developing and improving its Process Value Management (PVM) methodology for achieving operational efficiency. PVM is based on Thomas Group's Total Cycle Time (TCT) methods, and supplements TCT with numerous process improvement tools that the Company has developed over the last 25 years. For the year ended December 31, 2003, two clients, CACI and the United States Navy, accounted for 39% and 32% of Thomas Group's revenue, respectively.
TNB Thomas &amp; Betts Corporation is a designer and manufacturer of connectors and components for electrical and communication markets. The Company also produces steel structures used primarily for utility power lines and industrial heating units. It classifies its products into four business segments: electrical, steel structures, communications and heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC). Thomas &amp; Betts sells its products through three channels: through electrical, telephone, cable, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning distributors; directly to original equipment manufacturers and certain end users, and through mass merchandisers, catalog merchandisers and home improvement centers. It operates approximately 130 manufacturing, distribution and office facilities in 20 countries.
TWTI Third Wave Technologies, Inc. develops and markets molecular diagnostics for a variety of DNA/RNA (deoxyribonucleic acid/ribonucleic acid) analysis applications, providing physicians and researchers with solutions for the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Third Wave's Invader technology platform aims to provide the Company's customers with accuracy, flexibility, scalability and ease of use, when compared to other nucleic acid testing (NAT) technologies. The Company, which has leveraged its Invader technology to build a robust product pipeline and commercialize a number of high-value products, is focused on five major clinical molecular diagnostic market segments: genetic testing related to multiple disease areas, pharmacogenetics, chromosomal analysis, infectious disease and human papilloma virus (HPV)/women's health.
THTHF.OB Thinkpath Inc. is an engineering services company which, along with its wholly owned subsidiaries Thinkpath US Inc., Thinkpath Michigan Inc. and Thinkpath Technical Services Inc., provides engineering and design services, technical publishing and documentation and on-site engineering support to enhance the resource performance of clients. . The Company's target customers are defense contractors, aerospace, automotive, manufacturing and health care corporations located primarily in the Eastern states and Great Lakes region of North America. Thinkpath has established long-term relationships with the clients, such as General Motors Corporation, Cummins, Inc., General Electric Aircraft Engines, Heidelberg Web Systems, Hill-Rom, Inc., General Dynamics Corporation, Curtiss-Wright Flight Systems, Johnson &amp; Johnson (Ethicon and Depuy Groups) and B/E Aerospace (SPG and AMP Groups).
TSCM TheStreet.com, Inc., together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, operates its businesses in two segments, electronic publishing and securities research and brokerage. The Company's electronic publishing segment provides investment commentary, analysis and news to both retail and professional customers that are distributed through its production of Websites, e-mail reports and newsletters, syndicated radio programming and conferences. TheStreet.com's electronic publishing segment receives revenue from subscription sales, advertising and sponsorship sales, as well as content syndication and conference attendees. The Company's securities research and brokerage segment provides equity research and brokerage services to institutional clients and, as a broker-dealer, receives revenue from trading commissions, a standard payment method in the professional markets. For the year ended December 31, 2003, advertising revenue represented approximately 21% of TheStreet.com's total net revenue.
THV ThermoView Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures, sells and installs custom vinyl replacement windows for residential and retail commercial customers. The Company also sells and installs replacement doors, textured coatings, vinyl siding, patio decks, patio enclosures, cabinet refacings and bathroom and kitchen remodeling products, as well as residential roofing. The Company has facilities in 11 states, primarily in the Midwest and southern California, and conducts business in 21 states.
KOOL ThermoGenesis Corp. designs, manufactures and distributes blood processing systems, CryoSeal, Fibrin Sealant (FS) System, and BioArchive System and their companion products that enable the manufacture of surgical sealants or cell therapy drugs from donor blood. These enabling technologies are sold into two distinct markets: blood processing and hospital/wound care centers. Both the CryoSeal and BioArchive systems consist of an automated blood processing device and dedicated sterile single-use disposables that customers use to manufacture surgical sealant and cell therapy products sourced from single units of blood. These products include hematopoietic stem cells from placental/cord blood for bone marrow rescue transplants and blood-derived proteins and wound healing growth factors that provide surgeons with a means of arresting bleeding and/or bonding excised tissue together thereby initiating cellularFrepair of the excised tissues.
TDYN.OB Thermodynetics, Inc. is engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of specialty metal tubing and related assemblies for heat transfer, automotive, furniture, appliance and heating, cooling and refrigeration applications, using its technology. Its subsidiaries include Turbotec Products, Inc.; Vulcan Industries, Inc., acquired in August 2003; TPI Systems, Inc., and National Energy Systems, Inc. The Company's machinery transforms smooth metal tubing using its technology into surface enhanced tubing or into specialty formed tubing. Its surface enhanced tubing is used in applications involving laminar or turbulent flow of fluids for efficient transfer of heat. The enhanced tubing products have greater surface area, which improves heat transfer efficiency and reduces the amount of metal tubing required. Its' other formed tubing is used in the automotive, furniture, appliance, heating and cooling, and refrigeration applications, engine exhaust assemblies or framing for furniture.
TMO Thermo Electron Corporation operates three principal business segments: Life and Laboratory Sciences, Measurement and Control, and Optical Technologies. The Life and Laboratory Sciences segment primarily serves the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other research and industrial laboratory markets, as well as scientists in government and academia, with advanced instrument systems and software that enable discovery, research and development and quality assurance. The Measurement and Control segment provides analytical tools, online process instruments and precision temperature-control systems that are used to increase quality, improve productivity and meet environmental and other regulatory standards. The Optical Technologies segment provides high-power semiconductor and solid-state lasers, as well as other photonic components and devices used in applications ranging from industrial and microelectronic manufacturing to scientific research to medical diagnostics.
THMD.OB Thermadyne Holdings Corporation is a global designer and manufacturer of cutting and welding products, including equipment, accessories and consumables. The Company also designs, manufactures and sells products in categories: gas apparatus and related consumables, which represented 36.6%; arc welding equipment, which represented 18.1%; arc welding accessories and consumables, which represented 29.6%, and plasma and automated cutting equipment and related consumables, which represented 14.4% of total sales for the year ended December 31, 2003. Its products are used by manufacturing, construction and foundry operations to cut, join and reinforce steel, aluminum and other metals. The applications of products are shipbuilding, railcar manufacturing, offshore oil and gas rig construction, fabrication and repair and maintenance of manufacturing equipment and facilities. On May 23, 2003, the Company consummated a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.
TWAV Therma-Wave, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets and services process control metrology systems, which are used in monitoring process parameters to enable semiconductor manufacturers to maintain overall manufacturing yield, reduce the size of the circuit features imprinted on the semiconductor and increase their equipment productivity. The Company's product families include Therma-Probe, Opti-Probe, Opti-Probe critical dimensions (CD) and RT/CD (real-time critical dimensions) and Integra integrated metrology products. These product families use the Company's technology to provide non-contact, non-destructive measurements for the basic building blocks, or process modules, in the manufacture of integrated circuits (ICs), such as ion implantation, dielectric film deposition and etching, conductor film deposition and etching, chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) and wafer patterning.
THRX Theravance, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company with a pipeline of product candidates. The Company has discovered products on its own, as well as intends to develop products in collaboration with partners. Theravance's four product candidates have advanced into clinical trials, one of which is in Phase III, and one of which is in Phase II. The Company has seven additional product candidates in preclinical studies. Theravance is focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of small-molecule medicines for unmet medical needs across a number of therapeutic areas, including respiratory disease, bacterial infections, overactive bladder and gastrointestinal disorders. None of the Company's products have been approved for marketing and sale to patients, and Theravance has not yet received any product revenue.
TGX Theragenics Corporation is the manufacturer of TheraSeed, a rice-sized, Federal Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared device used to treat solid localized tumors, primarily prostate cancer, with a one-time, minimally invasive procedure. Theragenics is a producer of palladium-103, the radioactive isotope that supplies the therapeutic radiation for its TheraSeed device. Physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers, primarily located in the United States, utilize the TheraSeed device. It has also been approved for marketing throughout the member countries of the European Union by obtaining its CE Mark. Sales of the device in Europe have not been significant. The majority of sales are channeled through third-party distributors. The Company also sells its TheraSeed devices directly to physicians.
TGLO.OB theglobe.com, inc. manages two primary lines of business. One line consists of the Company's historical network of three wholly owned businesses, each of which specializes in the games business by delivering games information and selling games in the United States and abroad. These businesses are Computer Games Magazine, the Company's print publication; the Computer Games Online Website (www.cgonline.com), the online counterpart to Computer Games Magazine, and Chips &amp; Bits, Inc. (www.chipsbits.com), a games distribution company. The second line of business, voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephony services, includes voiceglo Holdings, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of theglobe.com that offers VoIP-based phone service to anyone with an Internet connection anywhere in the world.
YCC The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. is a designer, manufacturer and branded marketer of scented candles. The Company's products are available in approximately 180 fragrances and include a variety of jar candles, Samplers votive candles, Tarts wax potpourri, pillars and other candle products, all marketed under the Yankee Candle brand. Yankee Candle also sells a range of coordinated candle and home decor accessories and branded fragranced non-candle products including, Yankee Candle Car Jars air fresheners and Yankee Candle Bath personal care products. The Company has also extended its brand into the home fragrance market with products such as Housewarmer electric home fragrancers and Yankee Candle branded potpourri, sachets, room sprays and linen sprays.
XCHC.OB The X-Change Corporation had no products or services as of December 31, 2003. On February 9, 2004, the Company formed a wholly owned subsidiary, Air Gate Technologies, Inc., for the purpose of engaging in the development and acquisition of leading-edge wireless Internet/networking technologies, principally radio frequency identification. It was Air Gate's intent to create a core matrix analytic engine that could be customized for the requirements of various vertical industries, retail, manufacturing, health, etc. Air Gate was to rely upon its database and telecommunication competencies, plus its offshore capability to provide services and capabilities to analyze, interpret and manage complex data. In October 2004, the Company sold AirGATE Technologies, Inc. to certain employees of the subsidiary.
DIS The Walt Disney Company, along with its subsidiaries, is a diversified worldwide entertainment company with operations in four business segments: Media Networks, Parks and Resorts, Studio Entertainment and Consumer Products. The Media Networks segment is comprised of television broadcast, radio and cable operations.The businesses in the Parks and Resorts segment generate revenues predominately from the sale of admissions to the theme parks, room nights at the hotel and rentals at the resort properties. The Studio Entertainment segment produces and acquires live-action and animated motion pictures, animated direct-to-video programming, musical recordings and live stage plays. The Consumer Products segment partners with licensees, manufacturers, publishers and retailers throughout the world to design, promote and sell a wide variety of products based on existing and new Disney characters and other intellectual property.
VAL The Valspar Corporation manufacturers and distributes paints and coatings. It operates its business in two segments: Paints and Coatings. The Paints segment includes interior and exterior decorative paints, primers, varnishes and specialty decorative products, such as enamels, aerosols and faux finishes for the do-it-yourself and professional markets, as well as automotive refinish and high-performance floor coatings. Within the Coatings segment, the Industrial coatings product line includes decorative and protective coatings for wood, metal, plastic and glass, and the Packaging coatings product line includes coatings and inks for rigid packaging containers. During the fiscal year ended October 29, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company acquired De Beer Lakfabrieken B.V., a manufacturer and distributor of automotive refinish coatings, and selected assets of the Forest Products business of Associated Chemists, Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of wood coatings and chemicals.
TZIX The TriZetto Group, Inc., offers a portfolio of healthcare information technology (IT) products and services that can be provided individually or combined to create a comprehensive solution. Focused exclusively on healthcare, the Company offers proprietary enterprise software, including Facets and QicLink; outsourced business services, including software hosting, business process outsourcing and IT outsourcing, and consulting services. TriZetto provides products and services for three healthcare markets: health plans (payers), benefits administrators and physician groups (providers). The Company markets and sells its software and services to customers primarily in the United States. As of December 31, 2003, it served approximately 433 customers.
TTN The Titan Corporation is a technology developer and systems integrator that provides a range of systems solutions and services primarily for the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, intelligence and other government agencies of the United States. These solutions and services include development, installation, maintenance and training. The Company also services government agencies with sophisticated information systems. Other products include digital imaging products, sensors, lasers and complex military-specific systems. Titan's business is focused on four principal market areas: C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance), Transformational Programs, Enterprise Information Technology and the War on Terrorism/Homeland Security. In addition, the Company owns and operates commercial businesses, including Titan Scan Technologies, which supplies medical equipment sterilization systems and services.
TOC The Thomson Corporation (Thomson) is a global provider integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. The Company generates revenues by supplying its customers with business-critical information from multiple Thomson and third-party databases, and further enhances the value of that information with analysis, insight and commentary. To enhance the speed and accessibility of information, Thomson increasingly delivers information and services electronically. The Company serves customers principally in the sectors including law, tax, accounting, higher education, reference information, corporate training and assessment, financial services, scientific research and healthcare.
STA The St. Paul Travelers Companies, Inc. is engaged, through its subsidiaries, in providing commercial property-liability insurance products and services. Its property-liability insurance operations underwrite insurance and provide insurance-related products and services to commercial and professional customers throughout the United States and in selected international markets. The St. Paul also has a presence in the asset management industry through its majority ownership of Nuveen Investments, Inc. In March 2004, the Company was merged with Travelers Property Casualty Corp., a property casualty insurance holding company engaged, through its subsidiaries, in two business segments: Commercial Lines and Personal Lines. The new company, St. Paul Travelers Companies, is a provider of commercial property-liability insurance and asset management services. Under the Travelers brand, the Company is also an underwriter of homeowners and auto insurance through independent agents.
JOE The St. Joe Company is a real estate operating company and a private landowner in the State of Florida. The majority of its land is located in Northwest Florida. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned approximately 850,000 acres. Its acreage includes hundreds of miles of frontage on the Gulf of Mexico, bays, rivers and waterways, with nearly 40 miles of Gulf of Mexico coastline, including five miles of beachfront. Approximately 387,000 acres of its land is within ten miles of the coast. The Company is engaged in community and resort development, commercial and industrial land sales and commercial real estate services. In addition, it also has interests in timber. Its four operating segments are Community Development, Commercial Real Estate Development and Services, Land Sales and Forestry.
TSA The Sports Authority, Inc. (TSA) is a sporting goods retailer in the United States, with 384 stores in 45 states as of January 31, 2004. TSA operates its stores under four brand names: Sports Authority, Gart Sports, Oshman's and Sportmart. Its stores offer customers over 125,000 active stock-keeping units of brand name sporting goods and apparel. Its merchandise is broadly classified into one of two major categories, hardlines or softlines. Hardlines include items such as skis, golf equipment, bicycles, exercise equipment and outdoor gear, including camping, hunting and fishing. Softlines consist primarily of apparel, footwear and outerwear. On August 4, 2003, The Sports Authority, Inc. completed a merger with a wholly owned subsidiary of Gart Sports Company. The Sports Authority, Inc. became a wholly owned subsidiary of Gart Sports Company. Gart Sports Company was then renamed The Sports Authority, Inc. and the former The Sports Authority, Inc. was renamed TSA Stores, Inc.
SC Shell Transport &amp; Trading Company, PLC (Shell Transport), incorporated on October 18, 1897, is a holding company that, in conjunction with Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (Royal Dutch), owns, directly or indirectly, investments in the companies constituting the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies (the Group). The Company is engaged in the business of producing, refining, storing, transporting, supplying and distributing petroleum and petroleum products. The operating companies of the Group are engaged in various activities related to oil and natural gas, chemicals, power generation, renewable resources and other businesses in over 135 countries. The Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies has grown out of an alliance made in 1907 between Royal Dutch and Shell Transport, by which the two companies agreed to merge their interests on a 60-40 basis, while remaining separate and distinct entities. In January 2005, the Company sold Shell Gas Transmission, LLC.
SVM ServiceMaster Company is a national service company serving both residential and commercial customers. The Company's services include lawn care and landscape maintenance; termite and pest control; home warranty and home inspection services; plumbing, drain cleaning, heating, ventilation, air conditioning and electrical services; and cleaning, disaster restoration and furniture repair. These services are provided through a network of over 5,400 Company-owned and franchised locations operating under the following brands: TruGreen ChemLawn, TruGreen LandCare, Terminix, American Home Shield, AmeriSpec, ARS Service Express, Rescue Rooter, American Mechanical Services, Merry Maids, ServiceMaster Clean and Furniture Medic. ServiceMaster is organized into five principal operating segments: TruGreen, Terminix, American Home Shield, American Residential Services and American Mechanical Services, and Other Operations.
SMG The Scotts Company is engaged in provision of products and services to the consumer lawn and garden market. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company divided its business into three segments: North America, Scotts LawnService and International. The Company's product brands include Turf Builder, Miracle-Gro, Ortho, Growing Media, Roundup and Edge Guard among others. Effective October 2, 2004, Scotts acquired Smith &amp; Hawken, an outdoor living and gardening lifestyle company. Smith &amp; Hawken products, which include high-end outdoor furniture, pottery, garden tools, gardening containers and live goods, are sold in the United States through its 58 retail stores, as well as through catalog and Internet sales.
SKCO.OB The Sagemark Companies Ltd. is engaged in acquiring, organizing and operating its Positron Emission Tomography (P.E.T.) centers. The Company's P.E.T. centers perform diagnostics to detect cancer in the human body. Sagemark owns and operates P.E.T. centers in Wichita, Kansas and Parsippany, New Jersey and manages PET centers in Rockville, New York and Hialeah, Florida. The Company established a fifth P.E.T. center in Queens, New York.
ROW The Rowe Companies operates two subsidiaries in the home furnishings industry, Rowe Furniture, Inc. and Storehouse, Inc. Rowe Furniture is a manufacturer of upholstered furniture serving the middle and upper-middle market primarily throughout the United States through home furnishings retailers. Storehouse is a multi-channel, lifestyle home furnishings business that operates retail home furnishings stores in the United States. Storehouse makes good design accessible by selling an edited assortment of casual, contemporary home furnishings through its stores located from Texas through the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic markets and its catalog.
RANKY The Rank Group plc (Rank) is a gaming and leisure company and through its Deluxe division is also a provider of services to the film industry. Rank has a market position in the United Kingdom Gaming with Mecca Bingo, Grosvenor Casinos and Blue Square, its online and telephone betting business. In 2003, the gaming division also included Rank Leisure Machine Services, an amusement machine supply business that was sold in February 2004. Rank's leisure businesses include Hard Rock, which owns and franchises cafes worldwide and controls the rights to the Hard Rock brand internationally. Rank's film processing, video duplication and distribution and digital video disc (DVD) replication businesses operate under the Deluxe name across North America and in Europe. Rank also owns a vacation business in America, Resorts USA, a 25% interest in Universal Hotels and has a 10% investment in Universal Studios Japan.
PNC The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. is a diversified financial services company primarily operating in the United States. It operates businesses engaged in regional community banking, wholesale banking, wealth management, asset management and global fund processing services. The Company conducts its businesses directly and through numerous subsidiaries, providing certain products and services nationally, and others in its primary geographic markets in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Ohio and Kentucky. PNC also provides certain banking, asset management and global fund processing services internationally. The Company's corporate legal structure consists of two subsidiary banks, including their subsidiaries, and over 60 active, non-bank subsidiaries. PNC Bank, N.A. is PNC's principal bank subsidiary.
PBG The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. (PBG) manufactures, sells and distributes Pepsi-Cola beverages. The beverages sold by the Company include Pepsi-Cola, Diet Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Aquafina, Sierra Mist, Lipton Brisk, Diet Mountain Dew, Sobe, Dole and Pepsi Vanilla, and, outside the United States, Pepsi-Cola, Kas, Aqua Minerale, Manzanita Sol and Mirinda. The Company has the right to manufacture, sell and distribute soft drink products of companies other than PepsiCo, including Dr Pepper, Squirt and, through October 2003, All Sport. The Company also has the right to manufacture, sell and distribute beverages under trademarks that PBG owns, including Electropura and Garci Crespo. PBG has the exclusive right to manufacture, sell and distribute Pepsi-Cola beverages in all or a portion of 41 states and the District of Columbia in the United States, nine Canadian provinces, Spain, Greece, Russia, Turkey and all or a portion of 21 states in Mexico.
PHC The Peoples Holding Company is a one-bank holding company, offering a diversified range of financial services to retail and commercial customers, primarily in North Mississippi, through The Peoples Bank &amp; Trust Company (the Bank) and Peoples Insurance Agency, a subsidiary of the Bank. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had 23 community banks (franchises) with 39 banking offices located throughout Mississippi. In addition, Peoples Insurance Agency has offices located in Corinth, Louisville and Tupelo, Mississippi. The Company offers checking and savings accounts, business and personal loans, interim construction and residential mortgage loans, student loans and equipment leasing, as well as safe deposit and night depository facilities. It also offers a variety of fiduciary services and administers qualified retirement plans, profit sharing and other employee benefit plans, personal trusts and estates.
PTRY The Pantry, Inc. operates an independently operated convenience store chain in the United States. As of September 30, 2004, it operated 1,361 stores in 10 states under several banners, including The Pantry, Kangaroo Express, Golden Gallon and Lil Champ Food Store. The Company's stores offer a selection of merchandise, gasoline and ancillary products and services designed to appeal to the convenience needs of its customers. As of September 30, 2004 (fiscal year-end 2004), Pantry operated 211 quick-service restaurants within 188 of its locations. In 119 of these stores, it offers products from nationally branded food franchises, including Subway, Hardee's, TCBY, Church's, Dairy Queen, Bojangles and Krystal. The Company also offers a variety of foodservice programs featuring breakfast biscuits, fried chicken, deli, pizza, tacos and other hot food offerings in 92 of the Company's locations.
NWS The News Corporation is a diversified international media and entertainment company with operations in eight industry segments, including filmed entertainment, television, cable network programming, direct broadcast satellite television, magazines and inserts, newspapers, book publishing and other. The Company activities are conducted principally in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Latin America, Asia, Australia and the Pacific Basin. News Corporation is a holding company that conducts all of its activities through subsidiaries and affiliates. Its principal subsidiaries are Fox Entertainment Group, Inc., Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Fox Television Holdings, Inc., Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Sports Networks, Inc., NDS Group plc, News America Marketing In-Store Services, Inc., News America Marketing FSI, Inc., News International Limited, News Limited, HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., HarperCollins Publishers Limited and STAR Group Limited.
NYT The New York Times Company is a diversified media company. The Company classifies its businesses into the following segments: Newspaper Group, Broadcast Group, New York Times Digital (NYTD) and Other Businesses. The Newspaper Group consists of The New York Times Newspaper Group, which includes The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune; the New England Newspaper Group, which includes The Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram &amp; Gazette; 15 regional newspapers; newspaper distributors, and certain related businesses. The Broadcast Group consists of eight network-affiliated television stations and two radio stations. NYTD consists of NYTimes.com, Boston.com and Digital Archive Distribution, which licenses archive databases of The Times and the Globe to electronic information providers. The Other Businesses segment includes interests in one newsprint mill and one mill producing supercalendered paper, as well as in Discovery Times Channel and New England Sports Ventures, LLC.
MLAN The Midland Company is a provider of specialty insurance products and services through its American Modern Insurance Group (American Modern) subsidiary, which contributes 96% of the Company's revenues. Midland also maintains an investment in a river transportation business, M/G Transport Services, Inc. (M/G). Midland's wholly owned subsidiary, American Modern Insurance Group, receives significant revenues from one customer, GreenTree Insurance Agency, Inc. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the revenues related to GreenTree were less than 10% of Midland's consolidated revenues.
TMR The Meridian Resource Corporation (Meridian), incorporated in 1990, is an independent oil and natural gas company that explores for, acquires and develops oil and natural gas properties utilizing 3-D seismic technology. The Company's operations are focused on the onshore oil and gas regions in south Louisiana, the Texas Gulf Coast and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. At the year ended December 31, 2003, Meridian had proved reserves of 146 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent (Bcfe), approximately 68% of which were natural gas.
MDCO The Medicines Company is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in acute care hospital products. It acquires, develops and commercializes pharmaceutical products in late stages of their development. The Company's Angiomax (bivalirudin) is a direct thrombin inhibitor used as an anticoagulant in patients undergoing coronary angioplasty. It is developing two additional late development stage pharmaceutical products. The first of these, Clevelox (clevidipine), is an intravenous drug intended for the short-term control of blood pressure in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. The second potential product, Cangrelor, is an anticoagulant that prevents platelet clotting factors from activating, and may have potential uses in coronary angioplasty and cardiac surgery. The Company focuses commercial sales and marketing resources on the United States hospital market, and its revenues to date have been generated almost entirely from sales of Angiomax in the United States.
MNI The McClatchy Company is engaged primarily in the publication of newspapers in the United States. During the calendar year 2003, the Company published 24 newspapers in four regions of the country: Minnesota, California, the Carolinas and the Northwest (Alaska and Washington). Its newspapers range from large dailies serving metropolitan areas to non-daily newspapers serving small communities. For 2003, McClatchy had an average paid daily circulation of 1,398,589, Sunday circulation of 1,864,685 and non-daily circulation of 61,077. The Company supplements its newspaper publishing with an array of niche products and direct marketing initiatives, including direct mail. It also operates local Websites in each of its daily newspaper markets, offering users information, comprehensive news, advertising, e-commerce and other services. McClatchy also owns and operates Nando Media, an interactive media operation that provides newspapers with content, publishing tools and software development.
MCS The Marcus Corporation (Marcus) is engaged primarily in three business segments: movie theatres, limited-service lodging and hotels and resorts. The theatre operations includes 46 movie theatres with 492 screens throughout Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois and Minnesota, including four movie theatres with 40 screens in Illinois and Wisconsin. It operates a family entertainment center, Funset Boulevard. The limited-service lodging operations include a chain of 178 Baymont Inns and suites limited-service facilities in 32 states, seven Woodfield Suites all-suite hotels in five states and one Budgetel Inn in Wisconsin. 84 of the Baymont Inns &amp; Suites were owned and operated . The hotels and resorts operations are six owned and operated hotels and resorts in Wisconsin, California and Missouri. It manages five hotels for third parties and a vacation ownership development in Wisconsin. In September 2004, the Company sold its limited-service lodging division to La Quinta Corporation.
LC The Liberty Corporation is a holding company with operations primarily in the television broadcasting industry. The Company's television broadcasting subsidiary, Cosmos Broadcasting, consists of 15 network-affiliated television stations, principally located in the South and Midwest United States. Eight of the Company's television stations are affiliated with NBC, five with ABC and two with CBS. In addition, Cosmos owns Cable Vantage, a cable advertising sales subsidiary, and Broadcast Merchandising Corporation, a professional broadcast equipment dealership.
TLF The Leather Factory, Inc. is a retailer and wholesale distributor of a line of leather and related products, including leather, leatherworking tools, buckles and adornments for belts, leather dyes and finishes, saddle and tack hardware and do-it-yourself kits. The Company also manufactures leather lacing and kits. Leather services its customers primarily through the operation of three segments. The Leather Factory centers segment consists of 30 Leather Factory centers of which 27 are located in the United States and three are located in Canada. The Tandy Leather segment consisted of 29 retail stores at March 15, 2004. Both of these segments sell leather and leathercraft-related products. Roberts, Cushman and Company, Inc., a manufacturer of custom hat trims, is its third business segment. In December 2004, the Company purchased 1124055, Ltd. and its subsidiary, Heritan Leather &amp; Crafts, headquartered in Barrie, Ontario.
KNOT.OB The Knot, Inc. is a wedding media and services company providing online and offline products and services to couples planning their weddings and future lives together. The Company's Website, www.theknot.com, is an online wedding destination that offers content, wedding-related shopping, an online wedding gift registry and an active community. The Knot is also a wedding content provider to America Online and MSN. The Company publishes The Knot Magazine, which features editorial content covering every major wedding planning decision and is distributed to newsstands and bookstores across the United States. Through its subsidiary, Weddingpages, Inc., The Knot publishes regional wedding magazines in 18 markets in the United States. The Company also authors books on wedding related topics.
TKCI The Keith Companies, Inc. is an engineering and consulting services firm providing professional services on a range of projects to the real estate development and public works/infrastructure industry, as well as to the energy/industrial industry. The Company benefits from a public and private client base, including real estate developers, residential and commercial builders, architects, cities, counties, water districts, state and federal agencies, landowners, commercial retailers, energy providers and manufacturers. Its staff and project workers provide a menu of services that are needed to manage, engineer and design infrastructure and facilities. These services include civil engineering, surveying and mapping, land planning, environmental services, cultural resources services, construction management, site acquisition, water resource engineering, as well as other services needed by the industrial, process and manufacturing industry.
THX The Houston Exploration Company (Houston Exploration) is an independent natural gas and oil company engaged in the exploration, development, exploitation and acquisition of natural gas and oil reserves in North America. Natural gas is the Company's primary focus. Its core areas of operations are in South Texas, offshore in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Arkoma Basin of Oklahoma and Arkansas, and the Rocky Mountains. During 2003, Houston Exploration began operations in the Rocky Mountain Region with an initial focus in the Uinta Basin of northeastern Utah. As of December 31, 2003, the Company's net proved reserves were 755 billion cubic feet equivalent. Approximately 94% of its net proved reserves were natural gas, approximately 68% of which were classified as proved developed. In October 2004, the Company acquired producing assets in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico from Orca Energy, L.P. and from BP Exploration &amp; Production Inc.
HIG Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (The Hartford) is a diversified insurance and financial services company. Through its subsidiaries, the Company provides investment products and life and property and casualty insurance to both individual and business customers in the United States and internationally. The Hartford is organized into two major operations: Life and Property and Casualty. Life provides investment and retirement products such as variable and fixed annuities, mutual funds and retirement plan services and other institutional products; individual and corporate owned life insurance, and group benefit products such as group life and group disability insurance. Property and Casualty provides a number of coverages to businesses throughout the United States, including workers' compensation, property, automobile, liability, umbrella, specialty casualty, marine, agriculture, bond, professional liability and directors and officer's liability coverage.
GT The Goodyear Tire &amp; Rubber Company is engaged in the development, manufacture, distribution and sale of tires and related products and services worldwide. The Company manufactures and markets numerous lines of rubber tires for automobiles, trucks, buses, aircraft, motorcycles, farm implements, earthmoving equipment, industrial equipment and various other applications. In certain markets, the Company also retreads truck, aircraft and heavy-equipment tires; manufactures and sells tread rubber and other tire-retreading materials, and manufactures and sells flaps for truck tires and other types of tires. In addition, it provides automotive repair services and miscellaneous other products and services. Goodyear's operating segments are North American Tire; European Union Tire; Eastern Europe, Africa and Middle East Tire (EEAME Tire); Latin American Tire and Asia Tire (collectively, the Tire segments); engineered products, and chemical products.
GS The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (Goldman Sachs) is a global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. As of November 28, 2003, it operated offices in over 20 countries. The Company's activities are divided into three segments: Investment Banking, through which Goldman Sachs provides a range of investment banking services to a diverse group of corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals; Trading and Principal Investments, through which the Company facilitates customer transactions with a diverse group of corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals, and Asset Management and Securities Services, through which Goldman Sachs provides investment advisory and financial planning services to a diverse client base of institutions and individuals.
GGI The GEO Group, Inc. is a provider of government-outsourced services specializing in the management of correctional, detention and mental health facilities with operations located in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada. It also provides correctional services to the United States Marshals Service, the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Homeland Security Bureau of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Its correctional and detention management services involve security, administrative, rehabilitation, education, health and food services, primarily at adult male correctional and detention facilities. GEO's mental health facilities management services primarily involve the provision of acute mental health and related administrative services to mentally ill patients who have been placed under public sector supervision and care. On November 25, 2003, the Company changed its name from Wackenhut Corrections Corporation to The GEO Group, Inc.
FXGP.OB The Finx Group, Inc. has solely focused on the marketing and sale of the Company's two primary security products: the GIL 2001 Portal Control System and the Secured Card Solutions Software Program, since September 30, 2002. The GIL 2001 Portal Control System is for security processing and human flow management and is built on step-by-step security processor logic using automated, structural, portal barriers for executing positive/authorized or negative/unauthorized access commands. The Secured Card Solutions Software Program enables colleges and universities to link access control of their recreation facilities with the university identification (ID) card, process memberships, issue recreation equipment and obtain utilization reports for multiple recreation facilities.
FHCO.OB The Female Health Company (FHC) manufactures, markets and sells the female condom, a United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved product under a woman's control that can prevent unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV/AIDS (Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). The female condom has undergone extensive testing for efficacy, safety and acceptability, not only in the United States but also in many countries worldwide. Certain of these studies show that having the female condom available allows women to have more options, resulting in an increase in protected sex acts and a decrease in STDs, including HIV/AIDS. The product is sold or available in various venues. It is commercially marketed in 21 countries by various FHC country specific partners, including the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Holland, France, and Brazil.
TXCO Exploration Company of Delaware, Inc. is an oil and gas enterprise with interests in the Maverick Basin in Southwest Texas. It has three drilling rigs under operation on its 480,000-acre block in the Maverick Basin, targeting seven separate formations for the production of oil and natural gas, and has seven rigs operating, targeting 11 separate formations during the year ended December 31, 2003. The Company's products are natural gas and crude oil. Prior to 2003, it sold all of its oil and gas under short-term contracts that can be terminated with 30 days notice or less. In January 2003, the Company entered into a fixed-price contract for approximately 30% of its net gas production rate. The Company is selling all of its production to the highest bidder each month and may enter into a forward sales contract in the future, as warranted of fluctuations in gas prices. It operates and directs the drilling of oil and gas wells and participates in non-operated wells.
DNB The Dun &amp; Bradstreet Corporation (D&amp;B) provides the information, tools and expertise to help its customers in their decision making process. D&amp;B has four customer solution sets: Risk Management Solutions, Sales and Marketing Solutions, Supply Management Solutions and E-Business Solutions. Risk Management Solutions help customers manage credit exposure and cash. Sales and Marketing Solutions help customers find profitable clients and grow. Supply Management Solutions help customers manage suppliers effectively and save money. E-Business Solutions help customers convert prospects to clients. The Company's principal customers are manufacturers and wholesalers, insurance companies, telecommunication companies, banks and other credit and financial institutions. Its E-business's principal customers are sales, marketing and business development professionals (and executives with similar needs) in small to mid-sized businesses.
DXYN The Dixie Group, Inc.'s business consists principally of marketing, manufacturing and selling carpet and rugs to high-end residential and commercial customers through the Fabrica International, Masland Carpets and the Dixie Home brands. In addition, its Candlewick carpet yarn processing business primarily produces yarn for carpet businesses and sells to independent carpet manufacturers. Its businesses are segmented between floorcovering products (carpet manufacturing) and carpet yarns (floorcovering base materials). In early 2004, the Company sold a carpet yarn facility located in Ringgold, Georgia, which was a supplier of spun yarns to its North Georgia carpet operations.
DTV The DIRECTV Group, Inc. provides communication services and develops a range of entertainment, information and communication services for home and business use, including video, data, voice, multimedia and Internet services. Its principal operations are carried out through four businesses organized in three segments, which are direct-to-home broadcast, satellite service and network systems. The Direct-To-Home Broadcast segment consists of the DIRECTV digital multi-channel entertainment businesses located in the United States and Latin America. PanAmSat Corporation constitutes the Satellite Services segment, and Hughes Network Systems, Inc. constitutes the Network Systems segment. In August 2004, the Company's subsidiary, DIRECTV, Inc., acquired the primary direct broadcast satellite assets of Pegasus Satellite Television, Inc., which includes the rights to all DIRECTV subscribers activated through Pegasus.
DAIEY The Daiei, Inc. is primarily engaged in the retail business, as well as finance and other businesses. The Company is organized into four business segments. The retail business segment is engaged in the operation of general merchandise stores, supermarkets, discount stores, convenience stores, department stores and specialty stores for clothing and sundry goods. The finance business segment is engaged in the sale of financial instruments and other finance and lease businesses. The development business segment is engaged in store development, operation and management and real estate services. The other business segment is involved in foodservice and the hotel and leisure business.
CLX The Clorox Company operates in three business segments: Household Products-North America, Specialty Products and Household Products-Latin America/Other. The Company's business operations include the production and marketing of consumer products sold primarily through grocery, mass merchandise, club and other retail stores. Most non-durable household consumer products are nationally advertised and sold within the United States to grocery stores and grocery wholesalers, primarily through a network of brokers, and to mass merchandisers, warehouse clubs, military and other retail stores primarily through a direct sales force. Within the United States, the Company also sells institutional versions of many of its products. Outside the United States, the Company sells consumer products to the retail trade through subsidiaries, licensees, distributors and joint-venture arrangements with local partners.
BCO The Brink's Company has three primary operating segments within its Business and Security Services businesses: Brink's, Incorporated (Brink's), Brink's Home Security, Inc. (BHS) and BAX Global Inc. (BAX Global). The major services offered by the Company include armored car transportation, automated teller machine servicing, currency and deposit processing, coin sorting and wrapping, arranging the secure air transportation of valuables and the deploying and servicing of safes and safe control devices, including its CompuSafe service. BHS is primarily engaged in the business of marketing, selling, installing, monitoring and servicing electronic security systems in owner-occupied, single-family residences. BAX Global provides heavy freight transportation and supply chain management services on a global basis. The Company sold its natural gas and timber operations in 2003, and sold its gold operations in 2004, and changed its name to The Brink's Company in May 2003.
FOB The Boyds Collection, Ltd. is a designer, importer and distributor of handcrafted collectibles, gift and other specialty products. It operates in two segments that consist of its wholesale gift business and retail gift/entertainment business. It sells over 300 additional items ranging from miniature furniture, wooden accessories and glasses, through cast iron products, resin accessories, to home d&eacute;cor. Various printed and promotional materials are also sold to support its product lines. The Company's non-dressed plush animal lines include the Huggle-Fluffs, the Artisan Series, The Mohair Bears, J.B. Bean &amp; Associates, the Archive Collection and Angels and Friends ornaments. Resin figurine category consists of the main collection, Bearstones, and sub-collections, Dollstones, Charming Angels, Shoebox Bears and Faeri&eacute;ssence. Introductions during 2003 included Razz-bearries and Bears &amp; Friends.
BA The Boeing Company, together with its subsidiaries, is an aerospace company that operates in six principal segments: Commercial Airplanes, Aircraft and Weapon Systems, Network Systems, Support Systems and Launch and Orbital Systems (collectively, Integrated Defense Systems (IDS)) and Boeing Capital Corporation (BCC). The Commercial Airplanes operations principally involve development, production and marketing of commercial jet aircraft and providing related support services, principally to the commercial airline industry worldwide. IDS' operations principally involve research, development, production, modification and support of products and related systems, including military aircraft, helicopters and missiles, space systems, missile defense systems, satellites and satellite launching vehicles, rocket engines and information and battle management systems. BCC is primarily engaged in the financing of commercial and private aircraft and commercial equipment.
TBHS The Bank Holdings is a bank holding company, which conducts its operations through its sole subsidiary, Nevada Security Bank (the Bank), a Nevada state-chartered commercial bank. The Company's principal sources of income are from interest earning assets held in portfolio, as well as dividends from the Bank, which are restricted. At December 31, 2003, the Company had consolidated assets of $166.1 million, deposits of $148.7 million and shareholder's equity of $10.9 million. The Bank offers a wide range of deposit instruments, including personal and business checking accounts and savings accounts, interest-bearing negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, money market accounts and time certificates of deposit. In November 2004, CNA merged into the Company's Nevada Security Bank of Reno, Nevada. As a result, Nevada Security has acquired a branch office in the State of California.
TBNC The Banc Corporation (Banc) is a bank holding company for its principal subsidiary, The Bank, which operates 26 banking offices in Alabama and the eastern panhandle of Florida. Other wholly owned subsidiaries include TBC Capital Statutory Trust II (TBC Capital II), TBC Capital Statutory Trust III (TBC Capital III) and Morris Avenue Management Group, Inc. (MAMG). TBC Capital II and TBC Capital III are unconsolidated special purpose entities formed solely to issue cumulative trust preferred securities. MAMG is a real estate management company that manages the Company's headquarters, its branch facilities and certain other real estate owned by The Bank. Banc has branches in Albertville, Andalusia, Boaz, Childersburg, Decatur, Frisco City, Gadsden, Guntersville, Huntsville, Kinston, Madison, Monroeville, Mt. Olive, Opp, Rainbow City, Samson, Sylacauga and Warrior, Alabama.
ANDE The Andersons, Inc. is a diversified corporation organized into four operating groups, the Agricultural Group, the Rail Group, the Processing Group and the Retail Group. The Agriculture Group purchases and merchandises grain, operates grain elevator facilities located in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, manufactures and sells dry and liquid agricultural nutrients, distributes agricultural inputs (nutrients, chemicals, seed and supplies) to dealers and farmers and formulates anti-icers for road and runway use. The Rail Group sells, repairs, reconfigures, manages and leases railcars and locomotives. The Processing Group manufactures turf and ornamental plant fertilizer and control products for lawn and garden use, professional golf and landscaping industries and corncob-based products for use in various industries. The Retail Group operates six large retail stores, and a distribution center in Ohio.
AEDU.OB The American Education Corporation (AEDU) develops and markets educational software to elementary, middle and secondary schools, adult literacy centers, as well as vocational, junior and community colleges. The Company develops software for Windows, Macintosh, UNIX and Linux operating systems. Its principal product family includes the A+dvanced Learning System Version 2.15, a courseware offering developed by the Company, and the A+nyWhere Learning System (A+LS) V 3.0, a Java-based program designed to be the delivery platform for its grade level one to 12 educational content and assessment tools. AEDU is also actively pursuing and is pursued by third-party publishing and marketing companies, which have curriculum content that is complementary to the publications of the Company or access to specialized segments of the market.
AES The AES Corporation, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a global power company primarily engaged in owning and operating electric power generation and distribution businesses in many countries around the world. It operates in four segments: contract generation, competitive supply, large utilities and growth distribution. Its generating assets include interests in 114 facilities in 24 countries totaling over 38 gigawatts of capacity. Its electricity distribution networks sell approximately 86,500 gigawatt hours per year.
TACX The A Consulting Team, Inc. (TACT) provides a range of information technology (IT) consulting, custom application development and solutions to Fortune 1000 companies and other organizations. It supports all computer technology platforms and supports client IT projects by using a range of third-party software applications. The Company's IT consulting services includes technology infrastructure advisory services and systems architecture design. Its solutions are based on an understanding of each client's enterprise model. TACT's knowledge may be applied to new projects, such as planning, designing and implementing enterprise-wide information systems, database management services, performance optimization, migrations and conversions, strategic sourcing, outsourcing and systems integration. The Company also markets and distributes a number of software products developed by independent software developers.
THKY.OB Thackeray Corporation is engaged in managing its real estate investments. In 1996, the Company and affiliates of Belz Enterprises (Belz) entered into an Agreement of Limited Partnership of BT Orlando Limited Partnership (Partnership). As a result, the Company agreed to contribute approximately 140 acres of its Orlando, Florida property to the Joint Venture (JV) Partnership. The JV is in the process of developing, constructing and leasing an approximately 925,000 square-foot retail and entertainment shopping center complex, Festival Bay, on the property, which is to consist of 655,000 square feet of anchor and other perimeter tenants and 270,000 square feet of interior small stores. Thackeray has a 35% general partner interest in the Partnership and will also participate in the cash flow, sales proceeds and refinancing proceeds from the operation, financing and disposition of such project.
TGCI.OB TGC Industries, Inc. (TGC) is engaged in the geophysical service business, primarily conducting three-dimensional (3-D) surveys for clients in the oil and gas business. To a lesser extent, the Company sells gravity information from its Data Bank to companies engaged in the exploration for oil and gas in the United States. The two survey techniques used by the Company in acquiring geophysical data are seismic and gravity. Land seismic surveys are the Company's principal method of data acquisition and are by far the most widely used geophysical technique. TGC's seismic crews use dynamite and vibroseis as energy sources for such surveys. The processing and interpretation of seismic data acquired by TGC are transmitted by the Company to data processing centers (not owned or operated by the Company) designated by the clients for processing.
THRD TF Financial Corporation is a holding company for its principal subsidiary, Third Federal Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a community-oriented savings institution that offers a variety of financial services primarily through its 14 branch offices, five of which are located in Bucks County, six in Philadelphia and the remaining three branches in Mercer County in New Jersey. The Bank attracts deposits from the general public and uses the deposits, together with borrowings and other funds, primarily to originate or purchase loans secured by first mortgages on owner-occupied, one- to four-family residences in its market area and to invest in mortgage-backed and investment securities. To a lesser extent, the Bank also originates commercial real estate and multi-family, construction and consumer loans.
TXT Textron Inc. is a multi-industry company with operations in five business segments. The Bell segment manufactures military helicopters and tiltrotor aircraft for the United States Government and commercial helicopters for corporate, offshore, utility, charter, police, fire, rescue and emergency medical customers. It also supplies advanced weapon systems and piston aircraft engines to the defense and aerospace markets. The Cessna segment is primarily engaged in the manufacture of light- and mid-size business jets. Textron Fastening Systems is a provider of integrated fastening systems solutions. The Industrial segment designs, manufactures and sells golf carts and turf-care equipment, plastic fuel systems, wire and cable installation equipment, and industrial pumps and gears. Textron Financial Corporation is a diversified commercial finance business with core operations in aircraft finance, asset-based lending, distribution finance, golf finance, resort finance and structured capital.
TXUI Texas United Bancshares, Inc. is a financial holding company that derives substantially all of its income from its wholly owned subsidiary, State Bank. The Bank offers a variety of traditional loan and deposit products to its customers that consist primarily of consumers and small to medium-sized businesses. The Bank is an active mortgage lender, with one- to four-family residential (including loans held for sale) and commercial mortgage loans comprising 67.4% of total loans outstanding as of December 31, 2003. For consumer customers, State Bank offers loans for automobiles and other consumer durables, home equity loans, debit and credit cards, personal computer banking, and other cash flow management services and telebanking. By offering certificates of deposit, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, savings and money market accounts, and overdraft protection at competitive rates, the Bank gives its depositors a range of traditional deposit products.
TXRH Texas Roadhouse, Inc. operates a moderately priced, full-service restaurant chain. It offers an assortment of specially seasoned and aged steaks hand-cut daily on the premises and cooked to order over open gas-fired grills. The Company also offers its guests a selection of ribs, fish, chicken and vegetable plates, and an assortment of hamburgers, salads and sandwiches. The majority of its entrees include two made-from-scratch side items, and it offers all its guests a free unlimited supply of roasted in-shell peanuts and made-from-scratch yeast rolls. As of June 29, 2004, 173 Texas Roadhouse restaurants were operating in 33 states. The Company owned and operated 94 restaurants in 25 states, and franchised and licensed an additional 79 restaurants in 18 states.
TRBS Texas Regional Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company operating through its principal subsidiary, Texas State Bank, which offers an array of financial products. The Company provides full-service banking and personal trust services to individuals, businesses and municipalities including commercial and consumer loans, checking, savings and time deposit accounts and trust services. Texas Regional operates in 34 banking locations, of which 28 are in the Rio Grande Valley. In addition, the Company has one banking location in Bishop, Corpus Christi, Eagle Pass and Sugar Land, and two banking locations in Houston. In November 2004, the Company acquired Valley Mortgage Company, Inc., a full-service mortgage banking firm.
TPL Texas Pacific Land Trust (the Trust) is primarily engaged on managing land in Texas conveyed to the Trust. The Trust holds title to tracts of land in Texas, previously the property of the Texas and Pacific Railway Company. Managing the land includes sales and leases of such land and the retention of oil and gas royalties. The Trust's income is derived primarily from land sales, oil and gas royalties, grazing leases, and interest on investments. In the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004, land sales accounted for 16% of the Company's consolidated revenue while oil and gas royalties accounted for 54%.
TXN Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) manufactures, markets and sells high-technology components and systems used in the commercial electronic and electrical equipment industry, primarily for industrial and consumer markets. TI has three principal businesses: Semiconductor, Sensors and Controls, and Educational and Productivity Solutions. Semiconductor designs, manufactures and sells integrated circuits. Its core products include analog integrated circuits and digital signal processors. Sensors and Controls sells custom-designed sensors, controls and radio frequency identification systems. Educational and Productivity Solutions is a supplier of graphing handheld calculators and other calculators. The Company's largest geographic markets are in Asia, Europe, the United States and Japan.
TXI Texas Industries, Inc. and subsidiaries (TXI) is a supplier of construction materials through two business segments: cement, aggregate and concrete products (the CAC segment) and structural steel and steel bar products (the Steel segment). Through the CAC segment TXI produces and sells cement, stone, sand and gravel, ready-mix concrete and other products. Through the Steel segment TXI produces and sells structural steel and special bar quality and other products. Demand for structural steel, cement, aggregate and concrete products are driven primarily by construction activity, while special bar quality products supply original equipment manufacturers and oil-related markets.
TCBI Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc. serves as the holding company for an independent bank that was formed through the acquisition of Resource Bank, N.A. Texas Capital offers a variety of loan, deposit account and other financial products and services to its customers. At December 31, 2003, the Company maintained approximately 16,200 deposit accounts and 2,900 loan accounts. Texas Capital offers a range of products and services oriented to the needs of business customers, including commercial loans for working capital and to finance internal growth, acquisitions and leveraged buyouts; permanent real estate and construction loans; equipment leasing; cash management services; trust and escrow services; letters of credit, and business insurance products.
TEVA Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited is a global pharmaceutical company engaged in development, production, marketing and distribution of products in two operating segments, Pharmaceuticals and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients. The Pharmaceutical segment develops, produces, markets and distributes medicines in various dosages and forms, in most areas of medicinal treatment and disposable hospital supplies. Teva has utilized its production and research capabilities to establish a global pharmaceutical operation focused on supplying the growing demand for generic drugs and on the opportunities for proprietary branded products for specific niche categories, with its branded drug being Copaxone for multiple sclerosis. The Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) segment develops, produces, markets and distributes API for the pharmaceutical industry, including the Company's pharmaceutical segment.
TTI TETRA Technologies, Inc. is an oil and gas services company with an integrated calcium chloride and brominated products manufacturing operation that supplies feedstocks to energy markets and other markets. The Company consists of three divisions: Fluids Division, manufactures and markets clear brine fluids (CBFs) to the oil and gas industry for use in well drilling, completion and workover operations in both domestic and international markets; Well Abandonment and Decommissioning Division, provides services required for the abandonment of depleted oil and gas wells and the decommissioning of platforms, pipelines and other associated equipment, and Testing and Services Division, provides the technology and services required for the separation and recycling of oily residuals generated from petroleum refining operations.
TTEK Tetra Tech, Inc. is a provider of consulting, engineering and technical services in the areas of resource management, infrastructure and communications. Tetra Tech provides consulting, engineering and technical services that assist clients in identifying industry specific problems, defining appropriate solutions and implementing those solutions. These services span the lifecycle of a project and include research and development, applied science and technology, engineering design, program management, construction, construction management, and operations and maintenance. The business operates in three reportable segments, which include resource management, infrastructure and communications.
TPE Teton Petroleum Company is engaged in oil and gas exploration, development and production in Western Siberia, Russia. The Company was formed as a result of the merger between EQ Resources Ltd. and American Tyumen Exploration Company in November 1998, with EQ as the survivor, which was renamed Teton Petroleum Company. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Goltech Petroleum LLC, Teton owns 35.29% of the Russian joint stock company Goloil. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Goloil drilled seven wells, and has a total of 21 wells that are capable of producing. Of the 21 wells, one is awaiting completion and four are off-line pending upgrades to the gathering system. At December 2003, there were 16 producing wells.
TSRA Tessera Technologies, Inc. has no material assets other than its shares of Tessera, Inc., and conducts all of its business and operations through Tessera, Inc. The Company develops semiconductor-packaging technology that meets the demand for miniaturization and increased performance of electronic products. It licenses its technology to customers, enabling them to produce semiconductors that are smaller and faster and incorporate more features. These semiconductors are utilized in electronics products, including digital cameras, MP3 players, personal computers, personal digital assistants, video game consoles and wireless phones. The Company's technology enables multiple chips to be stacked vertically in a single three-dimensional, multi-chip package that occupies almost the same circuit board area as a chip-scale package (CSP).
TESS TESSCO Technologies, Inc. (TESSCO) is a provider of integrated products and supply chain solutions to professionals that design, build, run, maintain and use wireless voice, data, messaging, location tracking and Internet systems. TESSCO links customers with integrated products and supply chain solutions configured from product choices made by manufacturers. While creating Your Total Source opportunity for the Company's customers to improve the way business is done, TESSCO presents, markets, sells, supplies and supports manufacturers' products as a part of a total customer solution. TESSCO's operational platform, which it refers to as its Knowledge, Configuration, Delivery and Control System (KCDC), provides availability and delivery to the point of use.
TSO Tesoro Corporation formerly, Tesoro Petroleum Corporation is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products with two major operating segments, Refining and Retail. Through its refining segment, the Company manufactures products, primarily gasoline and gasoline blendstocks, jet fuel, diesel fuel and heavy fuel oils, for sale to a variety of commercial customers principally in the mid-continental and western United States. It operates six refineries in the United States with a combined rated crude oil capacity of 558,000 barrels per day. In 2003, approximately 58% of the Company's total refining throughput was heavy crude oil. Its retail segment distributes motor fuels through a network of branded gas stations, primarily trading under the Tesoro and Mirastar brands. The Company markets its products to wholesale and retail customers, as well as commercial end users.
TSMA Tesma International Inc. designs, engineers, tests and manufactures technologically advanced engine, transmission and fuel components, modules and systems for the global automotive industry. As of January 2, 2004, the Company had 28 manufacturing facilities in Canada (Ontario and Nova Scotia), the United States (Michigan), Germany, Austria, Italy, South Korea, China and Brazil, and five focused tooling, design and research and development centers supporting its three product technologies groups: Tesma Engine Technologies, Tesma Transmission Technologies and Tesma Fuel Technologies. In January 2004, the Company acquired Davis Industries, Inc., an automotive supplier. The Davis product line includes driveplate assemblies, transmission shells and oil pan assemblies, engine valve covers, other powertrain stampings and assemblies, heat shields, body and chassis stampings and fuel filler door assemblies.
TESOF Tesco Corporation is an international oilfield technology and service company operating in over 20 countries. The Company designs, manufactures, sells, operates and services oilfield equipment used in drilling oil, gas and geothermal wells. Tesco also conducts an in-house product development program targeted at the practical application of new technology for the drilling and casing of wells. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Tesco generated revenues primarily through the activities of two divisions: the Wellsite Services Division and the Products Division. Tesco's Wellsite Services Division provides specialized drilling and casing equipment and services on a fee-for-service basis to drilling contractors and operating companies throughout the world. The Products Division designs and manufactures specialized drilling equipment for sale to customers throughout the world, and provides after-sales maintenance and repair services for these products.
TWW Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (Terremark) operates Internet exchange point facilities at locations in Miami, Florida; Santa Clara, California, and Sao Paulo, Brazil, from which it assists users of the Internet and communications networks in communicating with other users and networks. The Company generates revenue by providing its core services to carriers, Internet service providers, network service providers, government entities, multi-national enterprises and other end users. Core services include exchange point service, colocation services and managed services. Terremark customers include telecommunications carriers, enterprises, content providers and government agencies. The United States Federal government and Latin American Nautilus USA Inc. accounted for approximately 14% and 10%, of total data center services revenues, respectively, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004.
TNH Terra Nitrogen Company, L.P. (TNCLP) is a limited partnership that conducts its operations through an operating partnership subsidiary, Terra Nitrogen, Limited Partnership (Partnership). Terra Nitrogen Corporation (TNC) is the general partner of TNCLP and the Partnership, and owns a consolidated two percent interest in the partnership. TNC is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Terra Industries Inc., a North American producer of nitrogen products and methanol, anhydrous ammonia and nitrogen solutions, and of ammonia and ammonium nitrate in the United Kingdom. The Company is a producer and distributor of nitrogen fertilizer products, which are used by farmers to improve the yield and quality of their crops. The Partnership's products include ammonia, urea and urea ammonium nitrate solution (UAN). It has two facilities in Blytheville, Arkansas and Verdigris, Oklahoma that produce nitrogen fertilizer products.
TRA Terra Industries Inc. is a producer and marketer of nitrogen products, serving both agricultural and industrial end use markets. Terra produces ammonia, the basic building block of nitrogen fertilizers, and upgrades a significant portion of the ammonia into higher-value products, which are easier for agricultural end users to transport, store and apply to crops than ammonia. In addition, Terra produces merchant methanol, which is used as a feedstock to produce chemical products such as formaldehyde, acetic acid and a variety of chemical intermediates. Another major market for methanol is as a feedstock in the production of Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether, an oxygenate used as an additive in reformulated gasoline and as an octane enhancer in non-reformulated gasoline.
TEX Terex Corporation is a manufacturer of equipment for the construction, infrastructure and surface mining industries. The Company is building a franchise under the Terex brand name. Its products are manufactured at plants in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Asia and South America, and sold through a distribution network serving the global construction, infrastructure and surface mining markets. Terex operates in five business segments: Terex Construction, Terex Cranes, Terex Aerial Work Platforms, Terex Mining and Terex Roadbuilding, Utility Products and Other. In January 2005, the Company acquired the Reedrill division from Metso Corporation.
TRCA Tercica, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of rhIGF-1 for the treatment of short stature, diabetes and other endocrine system disorders. The Company licensed Genentech's rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize rhIGF-1 for a broad range of indications, including for short stature worldwide and diabetes in the United States. Tercica has Phase III clinical trial data for rhIGF-1 for its first short stature indication, Severe Pediatric IGFD (IGF-1 deficiency). The Company intends to submit a New Drug Application (NDA) to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by early 2005, after completing the transfer and validation of its rhIGF-1 manufacturing process to its contract manufacturer.
TERN Terayon Communication Systems, Inc., develops, markets and sells proprietary-based modems and cable modem termination systems, customer premise equipment, embedded multimedia terminal adapters and digital video equipment. As of December 31, 2003, Terayon completed the transition from selling proprietary-based products to selling standards-based products using the DOCSIS 2.0 specification. Due primarily to the adoption of Data Over Cable System Interface Specification (DOCSIS) and the Company's position as the vendor of a DOCSIS 2.0 CMTS, qualified by Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., the Company now generates DOCSIS CMTS and cable modem sales to United States cable operators, as well as to its legacy global customers. DOCSIS 2.0 increases the upstream throughput of cable networks up to three times the capacity of DOCSIS 1.0 or 1.1.
TERA.OB TeraForce Technology Corporation designs, develops, produces and sells high-density, high-capacity embedded computing platforms and systems through its wholly owned subsidiary, DNA Computing Solutions, Inc. Embedded computing generally refers to the physical integration of computing nodes (microprocessor and memory) into a host system or application that are applied in various industries, including communications, medical imaging, seismic processing, industrial control, homeland security and defense electronics. The Company sells its products internationally and it focuses on the defense electronics and homeland security business. TeraForce's products are organized in these categories: DSP Products, Embedded Sub-Systems and WingSpan Software Suite. As of December 31, 2003, four customers, Pentek Inc., L-3 Communications, Progeny Systems and an agency of a foreign government, each accounted for more than 10% of the Company's consolidated net revenues.
TER Teradyne, Inc. is a supplier of automatic test equipment and interconnection systems. Its automatic test equipment products include systems that test semiconductors (semiconductor test systems), circuit boards (assembly test systems), automotive electronics systems (diagnostic solutions) and voice and broadband access networks (broadband test systems). The interconnection system's products and services (connection systems) include high-bandwidth backplane assemblies and associated connectors used in electronic systems, and backplane assemblies that include Teradyne backplanes and connectors.
TPP TEPPCO Partners, L.P. (TEPPCO) is a master limited partnership that operates through TE Products Pipeline Company, Limited Partnership, TCTM, L.P. and TEPPCO Midstream Companies, L.P. Texas Eastern Products Pipeline Company, LLC (the General Partner) owns a 2% general partner interest in the Company. The General Partner is a wholly owned subsidiary of Duke Energy Field Services, LLC (DEFS), a joint venture between Duke Energy Corporation and ConocoPhillips. The General Partner performs all management and operating functions required for the Company, except for the management and operations of certain of the TEPPCO Midstream assets that are managed by DEFS on TEPPCO's behalf. TEPPCO GP, Inc., the Company's subsidiary, is the general partner of the Operating Partnerships. TEPPCO holds a 99.999% limited partner interest in the Operating Partnerships and TEPPCO GP holds a 0.001% general partner interest.
TEN Tenneco Automotive Inc. is a producer of automotive emission control and ride control systems and products. The Company serves both original equipment vehicle manufacturers (OEMs) and replacement markets throughout the world. Its brands include Monroe, Rancho, Clevite Elastomers and Fric Rot for the ride control products, and Walker, Fonos and Gillet for the emission control products. As an automotive parts supplier, it designs, engineers, manufactures, markets and sells individual component parts for vehicles, as well as groups of components that are combined as modules or systems within vehicles. These parts, modules and systems are sold globally to OEMs and throughout all aftermarket distribution channels. For the year ended December 31, 2003, General Motors accounted for approximately 18.9% of Tenneco's net sales; Ford, approximately 13.9%; DaimlerChrysler, approximately 8.8%, and Volkswagen, approximately 11.0%.
TNC Tennant Company is engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of products used primarily in the maintenance of non-residential surfaces. Its floor maintenance equipment, outdoor cleaning equipment, coatings and related products are used to clean factories, office buildings, parking lots and streets, airports, hospitals, schools, warehouses, shopping centers and other places. Customers include the building service contract cleaners to whom organizations now outsource facilities maintenance, as well as user corporations, health care facilities, schools and federal, state and local governments who handle facilities maintenance themselves. Geographically, the Company's customers are primarily located in North America, Europe and other international markets, including the Middle East, Asia, Japan, Latin America and Australia.
TGC Tengasco Inc. is engaged in the business of exploring for, producing and transporting oil and natural gas in Tennessee and Kansas. The Company leases producing and non-producing properties with a view toward exploration and development. Emphasis is also placed on pipeline and other infrastructure facilities to provide transportation services. Tengasco uses seismic technology to improve the recovery of reserves. Its lease position in these areas in Tennessee is approximately 28,338 acres.
TENF.OB TenFold Corporation is the provider of EnterpriseTenFold, a software applications platform that reduces enterprise applications design, development, deployment and maintenance timeframes and costs. EnterpriseTenFold automates most of what applications programmers typically do, and empowers small teams of business people and information technology professionals to design, build, test, deploy and maintain complex, transaction-intensive applications. The Company also offers services for developing and implementing applications, training and customer and technical support. TenFold sells its products and services primarily to customers in the United States, but it also has a small number of customers outside the United States. Customers using TenFold-powered applications in production include Abbey National Bank, Allstate Insurance, Barclays Global Investors, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank, Franklin Templeton and JP Morgan Chase.
THC Tenet Healthcare Corporation, through subsidiaries, provides healthcare through the operation of general acute care hospitals in the United States. During 2003, Tenet's subsidiaries owned or operated 101 domestic general hospitals with 25,116 licensed beds, serving urban and rural communities in 15 states. Of those domestic general hospitals, 82 were owned by Tenet subsidiaries and 19 were owned by third parties and leased by Tenet subsidiaries. In 2003, Tenet subsidiaries also owned various related domestic healthcare facilities, including a small number of rehabilitation hospitals, specialty hospitals, long-term care facilities, a psychiatric facility and medical office buildings, and a general hospital in Barcelona, Spain. In January 2004, Tenet announced its intention to divest 27 hospitals, including 19 in California and eight in Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri and Texas. As of January 2005, the Company had divested 18 of these 27 locations.
TCAR.OB TenderCare International, Inc. is in the business of marketing, distributing and selling disposable baby diapers, natural formula wipes and related products under its own branded labels. The Company markets and distributes its products under the Tushies, TenderCare, TenderCare Plus and Mother Nature brand. Its products are marketed through independent commissioned brokers and sold through health product stores, mail order catalogs, its 800 direct sale number and via the Internet.
TS Tenaris S.A. is a global manufacturer and supplier of seamless steel pipe products and associated services to the oil and gas, energy and other industries, with production, distribution and service capabilities in key markets worldwide. Its principal products include casing, tubing, line pipe and mechanical and structural pipes. The Company operates a worldwide network of seamless steel pipe operations with manufacturing and finishing facilities in South America, North America, Europe and Asia, and an annual production capacity of over three million tons of seamless steel pipe products. In addition to its investments in seamless steel pipe operations worldwide, the Company controls 100% of the voting rights of Siat S.A.I.C. (Siat), and holds 99% of the voting stock of Confab. Tenaris also beneficially own 99% of the capital stock of Dalmine Energie, S.p.A. (Dalmine Energie), a supplier of electricity and natural gas to many industrial companies in Italy.
TPX Tempur-Pedic International Inc. is a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of visco-elastic foam mattresses and pillows that its sells globally in 54 countries under the Tempur and Tempur-Pedic brands. Tempur-Pedic sells its products through four distribution channels: retail, which include furniture and specialty stores, as well as department stores internationally; direct, such as direct response and Internet; healthcare through chiropractors, medical retailers, hospitals and other healthcare channels, and third party distributors. The Company's core product offerings, during the year ended December 31 2003, are distributed in three divisions: Mattresses, Pillows and Other. The Company's visco-elastic foam mattresses and pillows contour to the body more naturally and enable better spinal alignment, reduced pressure points, greater relief of lower back and neck pain and better quality sleep compared to standard innerspring products and traditional pillows.
GIM Templeton Global Income Fund, Inc. is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as a closed-end, non-diversified investment company. The Fund seeks high-income, with a secondary objective of capital appreciation. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in income-producing securities, including debt securities of United States and foreign issuers, including emerging markets. Franklin Advisers, Inc. and Franklin Templeton Services, LLC serve as the Fund's investment manager and administrative manager, respectively.
TEI Templeton Emerging Markets Income Fund, Inc. (the Fund) incorporated in 2004, is a closed-end, non-diversified investment company. The Fund seeks high-current income, with a secondary goal of capital appreciation by investing approximately 80% of its total net assets in income-producing securities of sovereign or sovereign-related entities and private-sector companies in emerging market countries. The Fund invests selectively in bonds around the world to generate income, while at the same time monitoring interest rate, exchange rate and credit risks.
EMF Templeton Emerging Markets Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as a closed-end, diversified investment company. The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its net assets in emerging country equity securities. Templeton Asset Management Ltd. and Franklin Templeton Services, LLC serve as the Fund's investment manager and administrative manager, respectively. As of August 31, 2003, the top 10 countries where the Fund had its largest investments were South Africa (13.3%), South Korea (13.2%), Taiwan (11.2%), Brazil (7.6%), Singapore (6.8%), Hong Kong (6.6%), Mexico (6.3%), China (5.4%), Turkey (4.7%) and India (3.6%). Its top 10 equity holdings were Anglo American PLC, SABMiller PLC, Hyundai Motor Co. Ltd., Lukoil Holdings, Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Kimberly Clark de Mexico SA de CV, Telefonos de Mexico SA de CV, Banco Bradesco SA, Tupras-Turkiye Petrol Rafineleri AS and Polski Koncern Naftowy Orlen SA.
TIN Temple-Inland, Inc. is a holding company that, through its subsidiaries, operates three business segments: corrugated packaging, forest products and financial services. Corrugated packaging is a vertically integrated corrugated packaging operation that consists of five linerboard mills, one corrugating medium mill and 79 converting and other facilities. Forest products manages the Company's forest resources of approximately two million acres of timberland in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia and Alabama, and manufactures a range of building products, including lumber, particleboard, medium-density fiberboard, gypsum wallboard and fiberboard. Financial services provides financial services in the areas of consumer and commercial banking, mortgage banking, real estate development and insurance brokerage.
TEVE.OB TelVue Corporation operates two business segments. One segment is a marketing and service company that sells automatic number identification (ANI) telecommunications services to the cable television industry for the automated ordering of pay-per-view features and events (the ANI Service). The other business segment operates under the name, Source Communications Group and functions as a communications solution provider and network integrator serving clients mainly in the Mid-Atlantic states. TelVue has developed a new product and service called the TelVue Virtual Television Networks (TVTN) and has applied for a patent.
TLVT Telvent Git, S.A is an information technology (IT) company that provides value-added, real-time products and services solutions to customers in targeted industrial sectors (Energy, Traffic, Transport and Environment) primarily in Spain, North America, Latin America (including Mexico) and China. The Company's products and services solutions include systems integration, consulting services, design and engineering services and software that enable its customers to more efficiently manage their operations and business processes. The Company's mission-critical, real-time products and services solutions collect raw data at the field level, transform that data into operational information, and convert the operational information into business intelligence. The Company's business is organized in three primary ways: across sectors, IT solutions and geographies.
TU TELUS Corporation is a Canadian telecommunications provider whose subsidiaries provide a range of communication products and services. The subsidiaries of the Company include TELUS Communications Inc. (TCI) and TELE-MOBILE COMPANY (TELUS Mobility). TCI is an incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) in western Canada and eastern Quebec offering local, long-distance, data, Internet and other services to consumers and businesses. TCI is also a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), offering services primarily in central Canada through its non-incumbent or non-ILEC operations. TELUS Mobility is a national facilities-based wireless provider with more than 3.4 million subscribers. The business of TELUS Mobility includes the provision of digital personal communications services (PCS), enhanced specialized mobile radio (ESMR) services, wireless Internet and analogue cellular services.
WRLS Telular Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets products based on its interface technologies. These products provide the capability to connect standard telecommunications equipment, including standard telephones, fax machines, data modems and alarm panels with wireless communication networks in the cellular and PCS frequency bands (collectively cellular). It refers to this concept as Fixed Cellular. The Company backs the needs of basic voice, fax, data and security. Telular's business segments are divided across two primary product lines: PHONECELL, a line of Fixed Cellular Terminals and Fixed Cellular Phones (collectively Fixed Cellular Terminals or FCTs), and TELGUARD, a line of Wireless Security Products.
TELT.OB Teltronics, Inc. designs, installs, develops, manufactures and markets electronic hardware and application software products and engages in electronic manufacturing services primarily in the telecommunication industry. The Company's operations are classified into three segments: Teltronics, Inc., ISI and Mexico. Its primary customers are the New York City Department of Education, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and Nielsen Media Research, which accounted for 17%, 14% and 13%, respectively, of net sales during the year ended December 31, 2003. In June 2003, the Company acquired the Vortex Technology and related assets from Tri-Link Technologies, a developer of multimedia office communications products.
TLS Telstra Corporation Ltd. is an Australian telecommunications and information services company. The Company offers a full range of services throughout Australia, providing more than 10.3 million Australian fixed line and more than 7.6 million mobile services. Its main activities include the provision of basic access services to homes and businesses in Australia; local and long-distance telephone calls in Australia and international calls to and from Australia; mobile telecommunications services; a comprehensive range of data and Internet services (including through Telstra BigPond, an Australian Internet service provider (ISP)); management of business customers' information technology (IT) and/or telecommunications services; wholesale services to other carriers and carriage service providers; advertising, directories and information services, and cable distribution services for FOXTEL's cable subscription television services.
TLAB Tellabs, Inc. designs and markets communications equipment to telecommunications service providers worldwide. The Company also provides installation and professional services that support its product offerings. Tellabs' products include solutions for next-generation optical networking, managed access, carrier-class data, voice-quality enhancement and cable telephony. The Company's customer base includes incumbent local exchange carriers, independent telephone companies, interexchange carriers, local telephone administrations, other local exchange carriers, original equipment manufacturers, cellular and other wireless service companies, cable operators, alternate service providers, competitive local exchange carriers, Internet service providers and system integrators. In 2003, sales to Verizon (including Verizon Wireless) accounted for 21.3% of consolidated net sales.
TKO Telkonet, Inc. develops products for use in the powerline communications (PLC) industry. PLC products use existing electrical wiring in commercial buildings and residences to carry data communications signals including the Internet. Since the Company's formation, it has worked on the development and marketing of its PLC technology. Telkonet's PLC technology, the PlugPlus product suite, consists of three separate components: the Gateway, the Coupler and the iBridge. The Gateway, the hub of the PlugPlus product suite, is a modular self-contained unit that accepts data from an existing network on one port and distributes it via a second port. The signal generated by the Gateway can be directly coupled into low voltage wiring via the Coupler, which interfaces directly between the Gateway and the building's electrical panel. The iBridge serves as the user's network access device and connects to a user's personal computer through a standard Ethernet cable.
TKG Telkom SA Limited is a communications services provider in Africa. It offers business, residential and payphone customers a wide range of services and products, including fixed-line voice services (subscriptions and connections services; local, long-distance, fixed-to-mobile and international voice services; interconnection and transit communications services; international voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) services, and subscription-based, value-added voice services); fixed-line data services (domestic and international data transmission services, such as leased lines, asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) services and packet-based services; managed data networking services, and Internet access and related information technology services); directory and wireless data services through its subsidiaries, Telkom Directory Services and Swiftnet, and mobile communications services (voice and data services, value-added services and handset sales through Vodacom).
TIK Tel-Instrument Electronics Corp. (Tel) is a designer and manufacturer of avionics test and measurement solutions for the global commercial air transport, general aviation and government/military aerospace and defense markets. The Company provides instruments to test, measure, calibrate and repair a wide range of airborne navigation and communication equipment. In January 2004, the Company acquired privately held Innerspace Technology, Inc. (ITI). ITI is a designing, manufacturing and distributing a variety of shipboard and underwater instruments to support hydrographers, oceanographers, researchers, engineers, geophysicists and surveyors worldwide.
TELK Telik, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes small molecule drugs to treat serious diseases. The Company discovered all of its product candidates using its proprietary technology, Target-Related Affinity Profiling (TRAP). The technology exploits a fundamental property of all drugs, which is their selective interactions with proteins. By developing a profile of how small molecule chemicals interact with a reference panel of proteins, the Company may identify compounds active against disease-related protein targets much faster than by alternative technologies. The Company concentrates its efforts on three therapeutic areas: cancer, diabetes and inflammatory diseases.
TLWT Telewest Global, Inc. is a broadband communications and media group in the United Kingdom. Its business is divided into two main segments: cable and content. The cable segment is further subdivided into a consumer sales division and a business sales division. The consumer sales division provides cable television, cable telephony and Internet access services to residential customers. The business sales division focuses on a wide range of voice, data and managed solutions services for businesses. The content segment supplies basic television channels and related services to the United Kingdom pay-television broadcasting market.
TZA TV Azteca, S.A. de C.V. (TV Azteca) is a producer of Spanish-language television programming and a television broadcasting company in Mexico. TV Azteca has six principal wholly owned subsidiaries comprised of one Delaware corporation, Azteca International and five Mexican corporations: Television Azteca, S.A. de C.V. (Television Azteca), Azteca Digital, S.A. de C.V. (Azteca Digital), Grupo TV Azteca, S.A. de C.V. (Grupo TV Azteca), TV Azteca Comercializadora, S.A. de C.V. and Red Azteca Internacional, S.A. de C.V. Azteca International is a United States company that operates the Azteca America Network, a Spanish-language television broadcasting network focused on the rapidly growing United States Hispanic market. In addition to its television broadcast operations, TV Azteca owns a 50% interest in Todito, a Mexican company that operates a Spanish-language Internet portal, Internet connection service and e-commerce marketplace.
TLL Teletouch Communications, Inc (Teletouch), incorporated in July 1994, is a provider of telecommunications services, primarily paging services in non-major metropolitan areas and communities in the Southeast United States. The Company provides services in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Tennessee and Florida. It has 20 service centers and six two-way radio shops in those states. Through inter-carrier arrangements, Teletouch also provides nationwide and expanded regional coverage. During the fiscal year ended May 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company had approximately 168,000 pagers in service as compared to approximately 217,700 and 271,100 during the fiscal year ended May 31, 2003 (fiscal 2003) and fiscal year ended May 31, 2002 (fiscal 2002), respectively. In May 2004, Teletouch created a wholly owned subsidiary, Visao Systems, Inc. (Visao) for the purpose of developing and distributing its telemetry products.
TTEC TeleTech Holdings, Inc. serves its clients through two primary businesses, Customer Management Services and Database Marketing and Consulting. The Customer Management Services business provides outsourced customer support and marketing services for a variety of industries via call centers (customer management centers) throughout the world. The Database Marketing and Consulting business provides outsourced database management, direct marketing and related customer retention services for automotive dealerships and manufacturers in North America.
TIWI Telesystem International Wireless Inc. provides wireless voice and data services in Central and Eastern Europe. The Company conducts substantially all of its operations through its indirectly held operating companies, MobiFon and Cesky Mobil. Telesystem's networks provide subscribers with voice and high-speed packet data services, including mobile access to the Internet and Internet-based, time-sensitive information such as e-mail, digital image transmission and two-way short messaging service (SMS). Telesystem has operations in Romania and the Czech Republic, representing over five million subscribers.
TCP Telesp Celular Participacoes S.A. (TCP) owns Telesp Celular S.A. (TC) and Global Telecom S.A. (GT), which provide, through authorizations or concessions, wireless communication services in the States of Sao Paulo, Parana and Santa Catarina, including related services. TCO, together with its subsidiaries, provides cellular services in the states of Acre, Amazonas, Amapa, Distrito Federal, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Paro, Rondonia, Roraima and Tocantins. TCO also owns TCO IP S.A. (TCO IP), which provides telecommunications services, Internet access, solutions and other services. TCP uses a frequency range, known as A Band, that covers 77% of the municipalities in the state of Sao Paulo and 98% of the population of the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo. At December 31, 2003, it had 7.5 million cellular lines in service.
TDS Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (TDS) is a diversified telecommunications service company with wireless telephone and wireline telephone operations. As of December 31, 2003, TDS served approximately 5.5 million customers in 36 states, including 4,409,000 wireless telephone customers and 1,087,000 wireline telephone equivalent access lines. United States Cellular Corporation (U.S. Cellular) provided 74.8% of TDS' consolidated revenues and 52.8% of consolidated operating income in 2003. TDS Telecom provided 25.2% of consolidated revenues and 47.2% of consolidated operating income in 2003. TDS conducts substantially all of its wireless operations through U.S. Cellular.
TELN Telenor ASA is a telecommunications company in Norway that has substantial international operations, particularly in the areas of mobile telephony, satellite operations and pay-television services. EDB Business Partner, the Company's 51.8%-owned subsidiary, provides information technology in Norway. Telenor's wholly owned subsidiary, Satellite Networks, offers satellite-based communications networks and services to a variety of governmental, intergovernmental and commercial organizations, while its wholly owned subsidiary, Satellite Services, provides global mobile communications services directed at the maritime, land mobile and aeronautical markets. Effective January 1, 2004, the Company is organized in four business areas: Telenor Mobile (comprised of all of the mobile communication operations in and outside Norway), Telenor Fixed, Telenor Broadcast and Other activities.
TLNT.OB Telenetics Corporation designs, produces and distributes wired and wireless data transmission and network access products and industrial grade modem products for customers worldwide. The Company's data transmission products are Wireless Products, which are products that facilitate the wireless transportation of data over existing public cellular networks or the wireless transportation of data and video over microwave radio links; Network Access Products, which are a range of commercial grade analog and digital products used for transmitting data and accessing public and private communications networks, and Industrial Grade Modem Products, which are industrial grade analog and digital data transmission and network access products, including a range of dial-up, leased line and private wire modems and accessories, that are designed to operate in extended temperatures and harsh environments.
TMB Telemig Celular Participacoes S.A. is a provider of cellular telecommunications services in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The Company operates on a frequency referred to as A Band. During the year ended December 31, 2002, the Company offered a series of new services to prepaid and contract subscribers, as well as new business solutions to corporate users. In September 2002, it launched a tariff plan branded as Plano Controle (Control Plan). The Company identified a market niche, which included some of its contract and prepaid subscribers that would pay a set fee as long as the fee was at a low and controlled rate. As a result, the Plano Controle plan was implemented, mixing the features of the prepaid and contract plans.
TLK Perusahaan Perseroan (Persero) P.T. Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk. (TELKOM) provides local and domestic telecommunications services in Indonesia, as well as mobile cellular services through its majority owned subsidiary, PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel). TELKOM also provides a range of other telecommunication services, including telephone network interconnection services, multimedia, data and Internet communication-related services, satellite transponder leasing, leased line, intelligent network and related services, cable television and voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) services. The Company's service offerings are categorized in eight groups: fixed-line (which consists of fixed wireline and fixed wireless), cellular, joint operation scheme (KSO), interconnection, network, data and Internet, revenue-sharing arrangements and other telecommunications-related services (including revenues from telephone directory services).
TKA Telekom Austria AG provides a range of wireline and wireless communications services. The wireline segment includes switched voice telephony; pay phones and value-added services; data and information technology (IT)-solutions; Internet access and media; wholesale voice and Internet; wholesale data, and other customer premises equipment and directory services. The wireless segment is represented by mobilkom austria group, which consists of mobilkom austria AG &amp; Co KG and its subsidiaries. In addition to providing mobile communications services in Austria, it also provides mobile communications services through VIPnet in Croatia, Si.mobil in Slovenia and mobilkom (liechtenstein) in Liechtenstein, representing 20.9% of the Company's mobile communications revenues during the year ended December 31, 2003. In July 2003, Telekom Austria sold its 26% stake in Herold to an investor group led by the two funds, Veronis Suhler Stevenson and 3i. Herold.
TLGB Teleglobe International Holdings Ltd. is an integrated communications carrier. Its network provides a global reach to more than 240 countries and territories, and it maintains 207 direct links and 272 bilateral relationships and ownership interests in over 100 submarine and terrestrial fiber systems. The Company is also a provider of satellite capacity connecting to the Internet. Teleglobe owns, leases or manages the plant, property and equipment necessary to provide a full range of global communications services. The Company's global network is designed to deliver integrated voice, data and mobile services by combining multiple international terrestrial, submarine cable and satellite systems. Its service offering consists of transport services and value-added services for fully integrated voice and data services.
TMX Telefonos de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. owns and operates a telecommunications system in Mexico, providing fixed-line telephony services and fixed local and long-distance telephone services, as well as Internet access. The Company also provides other telecommunications and telecommunications-related services, such as connectivity, Internet services, directory and interconnection services to other carriers and paging service. It operates in two primary segments: local and long distance, and several smaller segments. These other segments include connectivity, Internet, public and rural telephones, directories and other services.
TEF Telefonica, S.A. provides a range of telecommunications services in Spain and Latin America. The Company provides fixed-line public voice telephone services, wireless communications services, Internet access services and data transmission services in Spain. Telefonica operates through its subsidiaries, including Telefonica de Espana, Telefonica Moviles, Telefonica Latinoamerica, Telefonica Empresas, Terra Lycos and Telefonica de Contenidos. Through Telefonica Publicidad e Informacion publishes, the Company develops and sells advertising in telephone directories. At December 31, 2003, Telefonica had approximately 43.7 million access lines in service and 54.7 million wireless subscribers. In addition, the Company has 0.4 million pay television subscribers. It had a total of approximately 98.7 million clients at December 31, 2003.
TEM Telefonica Mobiles S.A. provides wireless telecommunications services through subsidiaries and investments in Spain, Morocco and Latin America. The Company manages all of the wireless assets of the Telefonica Group. Telefonica Mobiles' principal services and products are wireless voice services, value-added services, wireless data and Internet services, corporate services, roaming, trunking and paging, M-payment and other services. At December 31, 2003, Telefonica Mobiles provided wireless services to approximately 52 million managed customers. Telefonica Mobiles manages operations in Puerto Rico and on behalf of Telefonica S.A., the Company's controlling shareholder, its wireless operation in Chile. In October 2004, the Company acquired 100% of BellSouth's mobile operators in Ecuador, Guatemala and Panama and completed the transfer of BellSouth's ownership interest in five wireless operations in Latin America: Colombia, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
TAR Telefonica de Argentina Inc. has a non-expiring license to provide telecommunications services in Argentina. The Company also provides other telephone-related services, such as international long-distance service, data transmission and Internet service and, through a subsidiary, publishes telephone directories. As of December 31, 2003, Telefonica's telephone system had approximately 4.2 million lines in service, or approximately 24.4 lines in service per 100 inhabitants of the southern region. At year-end 2003, approximately 52% of the Company's lines in service were in the greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area, including 23% of its lines in service that were located within the City of Buenos Aires. Approximately 86% of Telefonica's lines in service at year-end 2003, were residential, with the remainder being professional, commercial and governmental customers.
ERICY LM Ericsson Telephone Company (Ericsson) is engaged in the development and supply of end-to-end solutions to network operators for mobile and fixed-line communications. The company offers mobile platform technology for handset manufacturers and a variety of technology, equipment and services for private-enterprise networks, as well as for special applications, such as radar, cables and mobile devices. It divides its operations into three business segments: Systems, which consists of a three-pronged business approaches, such as Mobile Networks, Fixed Networks and Professional Services; Phones, a 50:50 joint venture with Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, offers a range of mobile handsets, including supporting multimedia applications and other personal communication devices, and Other Operations, which consists of a number of small operations, including Defense Systems, known as Microwave Systems, Network Technologies, Enterprise Systems and Mobile Platforms and Technology Licensing.
TFX Teleflex Incorporated is a diversified manufacturing company that consists of three principal operating business segments: Commercial, Medical and Aerospace. The Commercial segment designs and manufactures various products focused primarily on the automotive, marine and industrial markets. The Medical segment manufactures and distributes two principal product lines, health care supply and surgical devices, to various medical markets worldwide. The Aerospace segment manufactures products for the commercial aerospace, power generation and industrial turbo machinery markets and, to a lesser extent, the military market. Products in the Commercial segment are generally produced in higher unit volume than that of the Company's other two segments. During the fiscal year ended December 28, 2003, the Commercial segment represented 53% of the Company's consolidated net sales, while Medical and Aerospace represented 24% and 23%, respectively.
TDY Teledyne Technologies Incorporated is a provider of electronic components, instruments and communications products, including defense electronics, data acquisition and communications equipment for airlines and business aircraft, monitoring and control instruments for industrial and environmental applications and components, and subsystems for wireless and satellite communications. It also provides systems engineering solutions and information technology services for space, defense and industrial applications. It manufactures general aviation and missile engines and components, as well as on-site gas and power generation systems. The Company serves niche market segments where performance, precision and reliability are critical. Its customers include industrial and communications companies, government agencies, aerospace prime contractors and general aviation companies.
TSP Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo S.A. - Telesp provides fixed-line telecommunications services in the state of Sao Paulo. The Company's services consist of local services; intra-regional, inter-regional and international long-distance services; network services, including interconnection and the leasing of facilities, and other services. Telesp provides interconnection services to cellular service providers and other fixed-telecommunications companies through the use of its network. In April 1999, the Company also began to sell handsets and other telephone equipment through Assist Telefonica S.A., its wholly owned subsidiary. Until January 2001, Telesp provided data transmission services, but spun-off its data transmission operations into Data Brasil. At December 31, 2003, Telesp's regional telephone network included approximately 14.2 million installed lines, including public telephone lines, of which 12.3 million lines were in service.
TBH Telecom Brasileiras S.A.-TELEBRAS does not engage in any business operations. The Company was the primary supplier of public telecommunications services in Brazil. The Company's principal activity is that of a controlling shareholder of 27 state telecommunication companies and one long distance telecommunication company, Embratel. Through its operating subsidiaries, the Company offered national and international communication services in the areas of voice, text, data, sound and image transmission in Brazil. In May 1998, TELEBRAS was split up in anticipation of its privatization to form, in addition to TELEBRAS, 12 new holding companies by means of a procedure under Brazilian corporation law called cisao (split-up). TELEBRAS has ceased to engage in any operations, and the Brazilian government, TELEBRAS' controlling shareholder, has announced its intention to cause the liquidation and dissolution of the Company.
TSYS Telecommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) provides location and text messaging software to wireless carriers, enhanced 911 public safety services for wireless carriers and secure network integration services and communications systems for government customers. On January 13, 2004, TCS consummated the purchase, with an effective date of January 1, 2004, of the Enterprise Mobility Solutions business unit of Aether Systems, Inc. Prior to the January 2004 acquisition of the Enterprise Mobility Solutions Division, the Company managed its business in three operating segments: Network Software, Service Bureau and Network Solutions. Subsequent to the acquisition, TCS realigned its segments to better manage the business it operates. Its operating segments include the Wireless Carrier Segment (the previous Network Software and Service Bureau segments), the Government segment (the previous Network Solutions segment) and the Enterprise segment (the operations TCS acquired from Aether Systems, Inc.).
TI Telecom Italia S.p.A. is an international fixed telecommunications operator with approximately 26.6 million subscriber fixed lines installed, including integrated services digital network (ISDN) equivalent lines, at December 31, 2003. Through its subsidiary, Telecom Italia Mobile S.p.A. (TIM), the Company is also an international mobile telecommunications operator with more than 44.5 million mobile lines that include 26.1 million lines in Italy, as well as more than 18.4 million outside Italy, through controlled and associated companies of TIM. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Telecom Italia had 6.6 million mobile lines (2.2 million proportionate lines) through companies indirectly owned through Telecom Italia International. The Company also provides leased lines and data communications services and Internet services, including broadband and information technology (IT) software and services.
NZT Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Limited (Telecom) provides a full range of telecommunications products and services in New Zealand, including local, national, international and value-added telephone services, cellular and other mobile services, data and Internet services, equipment sales and installation services, leased services and directories. The Company also operates in Australia through its subsidiary, AAPT Limited, which is a telecommunications carrier offering a wide variety of fixed-line, data, Internet and mobile services. Telecom's other major Australian subsidiary, TCNZ Australia Pty Limited (TCNZA), offers online and telecommunication services to its target market, which is major Australian corporate organizations. Telecom also has other offshore interests, including a major interest in the Southern Cross Cables Network and a 19.9% interest in Hutchison 3G Australia Limited.
TCOM.OB Telecom Communications, Inc. (Telecom) is a total solutions provider that offers integrated communications network solutions and is an Internet and telecommunications value-added service provider doing business through two major wholly owned subsidiaries, Arran Services Limited (Arran) and Alpha Century Holdings Limited (Alpha). On September 30, 2003, Telecom discontinued its operations in the United States. Arran, through Panyu No. 6 Construction Company Limited (Panyu), is engaged in the construction of communication infrastructure, and residential and commercial buildings. Arran, through IC Star, is also a content provider focused on design and development of entertainment content. On April 16, 2004, Telecom sold its 60% beneficial share ownership in Panyu. Alpha offers integrated communications network solutions and Internet content service in universal voice, video and data Web and mobile communication for various applications.
TEO Telecom Argentina S.A. provides fixed-line public telecommunications services and basic telephone services in Argentina. The Company also provides other telephone-related services, such as international long-distance service and data transmission and Internet service, and through its subsidiaries, it also provides wireless telecommunications services, telephone directory publishing and data transmission. As of December 31, 2003, Telecom's telephone system included approximately 3.6 million lines in service. The Company operates through its subsidiaries, Telecom Personal and Publicom.
TLTOB Tele2 AB is an alternative pan-European telecommunications company offering fixed and mobile telephony, as well as data network and Internet services under the brands Tele2, Tango and Comviq to over 22.3 million customers in 23 countries at December 31, 2003. The Company also operates Datametrix, which specializes in systems integration; 3C Communications, which operates Internet payment and credit card transactions, as well as public pay phones; Transac, which offers data processing of credit card transactions and billing; C3, which is active in prepaid cards for fixed telephony, and Optimal Telecom, which offers households low-price guarantees for fixed-telephony services. In addition, Tele2 offers cable television services and jointly owns the Internet portal, Everyday.com, with Modern Times Group.
TSD Tele Sudeste Celular Participacoes S.A. is a provider of cellular telecommunications services in Brazil through its subsidiaries, Telerj Celular S.A. and Telest Celular S.A. in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Esp&iacute;rito Santo (collectively, the Region). The Company provides cellular telecommunications services using both digital and analog technologies. It generates revenue from usage charges, which include measured service charges for calls and other similar charges; network usage charges, which are amounts the Company's charge other cellular and fixed-line service providers for the use of its network; monthly subscription charges, which are not charged to prepaid customers; sale of cellular handsets and accessories, and other charges, including charges for call forwarding, call waiting, call blocking and data services, such as short message service (SMS), wireless application protocol (WAP), downloads and multimedia message services (MMS).
TNE Tele Norte Leste Participacoes SA (Tele Norte Leste Holding Company (TNL)) is a provider of fixed-line telecommunications services in South America. The Company markets its services under its Telemar brand name. TNL's subsidiaries include Telemar Norte Leste S.A., TNL PCS S.A-Oi, TNL Contax S.A., TNL Net Participacoes S.A., Digital Networks Investments Ltd., TNL Acesso S.A. and Pegasus Telecom S.A. The Company provides services, such as fixed-line services, local services, intraregional long-distance services, inter-regional and international long-distance services, fixed-to-mobile services, public telephone services, data transmission, wireless services and network usage.
TCN Tele Norte Celular Participacoes S.A. provides cellular telecommunications services in a region covering the states of Para, Amazonas, Maranhao, Amapa and Roraima in the north and northeast of Brazil. Its digital service is based upon time division multiple-access (TDMA) technology. The Company's analog service uses a technology standard called advanced mobile-phone service (AMPS). The Company offers digital service to subscribers in all the cities in its area, covering 203 locations. At December 2003, 99.7% of the subscribers received digital service and 98% of its traffic was digital.
TBE Tele Leste Celular Participacoes S.A. is a provider of cellular telecommunications services in Brazil through its subsidiaries, Telebahia Celular S.A. and Telergipe Celular S.A., in the Brazilian states of Bahia and Sergipe, respectively. Its network provides both code-division multiple access digital service and analog services. The Company provides voice service and ancillary services, including voicemail and voicemail notification, call forwarding, three-way calling, caller identification, short messaging, cellular chat room and data service, such as wireless application protocol service, through which clients can access wireless application protocol sites and portals. It offers direct access to the Internet through either personal computer memory card international association cards designed to connect compatible personal digital assistants and laptops or cellular phones by cable connection that offers corporate subscribers access to their intranet and office resources.
TRO Tele Centro Oeste Celular Participacoes S.A. (TCO) provides cellular telecommunications services in Brazil's Federal District and in 11 Brazilian states, including Acre, Amazonas, Amapa, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Para, Rondonia, Roraima and Tocantins. The Company's subsidiaries include Telegoias Celular S/A, Telems Celular S/A, Telemat Celular S/A, Teleron Celular S/A, Teleacre Celular S/A, Norte Brasil Telecon S/A and TCO IP S/A. The Company provides cellular telecommunications services in the frequency of 850 megahertz using digital technology, time division multiple access and analog technology, advanced mobile phone system. TCO provides voice service and ancillary services, including voicemail and voice mail notification, call forwarding, three-way calling, caller identification, short text messaging, limitation on the number of used minutes, cellular chat room and data service, such as wireless application protocol service to access sites and portals.
TELOZ TEL Offshore Trust is a trust whose principal asset consists of a 99.99% interest in the TEL Offshore Trust Partnership (Partnership). Chevron U.S.A., Inc. (Chevron) owns the remaining .01% interest in the Partnership. The Partnership owns an overriding royalty interest equivalent to a 25% net profits interest in certain oil and gas properties or the Royalty Properties, located offshore Louisiana. Chevron remains the Managing General Partner of the Partnership. The Royalty Properties continue to be subject to the Royalty, and the Trust and Partnership, in general, continue to operate as if the above-described sales of the Royalty Properties had not occurred. All of Chevron's natural gas and natural gas liquids relative to the Trust's Royalty Properties have been committed and sold to Dynegy Inc. or its subsidiaries.
TEK Tektronix, Inc. manufactures, markets and services test, measurement and monitoring solutions to a wide variety of customers in many industries, including computing, communications, semiconductors, broadcast, education, government, military/aerospace, research, automotive and consumer electronics. The Company enables its customers to design, manufacture, deploy, monitor and service next-generation global communications networks, computing and advanced technologies. The revenue is derived through the development and marketing of a range of products, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, signal sources, communication test equipment, including mobile protocol test, wireless field test and spectrum analysis equipment, video test equipment and related components, support services and accessories.
TEKC Teknowledge Corporation provides financial account aggregation software. It is a United States government contractor for research and development in Internet security, Web-based training, distributed systems and knowledge processing. The Company operates five operating units within two segments, commercial and government. The commercial segment includes Financial Solutions, patent and technology licensing and the commercial business applications of Security Systems. The government segment includes these business units, Security Systems, Training Systems, Distributed Systems and Knowledge Systems. Teknowledge's direct revenue mix from operations for the year ended December 31, 2003, was approximately 36% commercial and 64% government compared to 26% commercial and 74% government in 2002.
TKLC TEKELEC designs, manufactures, markets and supports network signaling products, switching solutions and selected service applications for telecommunications networks and contact centers. The Company's network signaling products help direct and control voice and data communications. TEKELEC's contact center products provide workforce management and intelligent call routing systems for single- and multiple-site contact centers. The Company sells its contact center products primarily to customers in industries with significant contact center operations, such as financial services, telecommunications and retail. TEKELEC's switching products are focused primarily on creating and enhancing next-generation switching solutions for traditional (TDM-based) and new (Packet-based) Class 4, Class 5 and wireless applications. In April 2004, the Company acquired Taqua, Inc., a privately held provider of Class 5 packet switching systems. In October 2004, the Company acquired Steleus Group Inc.
TRC Tejon Ranch Co. is a diversified land development and agribusiness company. Its operations consist primarily of land planning and entitlement, land development, commercial sales and leasing, income portfolio management and farming. Tejon's prime asset is approximately 270,000 acres of contiguous, largely undeveloped land that is 60 miles north of Los Angeles and 15 miles east of Bakersfield. The Company's real estate operations consist of four principal activities: land planning and entitlement, real estate development, commercial sales and leasing and income portfolio management. In the San Joaquin Valley, Tejon grows permanent crops including grapevines (1,252 acres), almonds (1,687 acres), pistachios (985 acres) and walnuts (295 acres).
TGAL Tegal Corporation designs, manufactures, markets and services plasma etch and deposition systems that enable the production of integrated circuits (ICs), memory and related microelectronics devices used in personal computers, wireless voice and data telecommunications, contactless transaction devices, radio frequency identification devices, smart cards, data storage and micro-level actuators. The Company's products include 6500 Series Critical Etch, which comes in several models configured to address film types and applications desired by the customers; 900 Series Non-Critical Etch, which was enhanced as non-critical etch systems capable of performing the etch steps required in the production of silicon-based IC devices, and Endeavor Series Critical Deposition Products, which comes in several models configured to address film types and applications desired by the customer. In June 2004, it acquired First Derivative Systems, Inc.
TFR Tefron Ltd. manufactures intimate apparel, active-wear and swimwear sold worldwide by such brand name marketers as Victoria's Secret, Target, Warnaco/Calvin Klein The Gap, Banana Republic, Nike and Mervin's, as well as other American retailers and designer labels. Through the utilization of its own manufacturing technologies and techniques, the Company is able to mass-produce garments featuring designs tailored to the customers' individual specifications. Tefron's product line includes knitted briefs, bras, tank tops, boxers, leggings, crop, T-shirts, nightwear, bodysuits, swim wear, beach wear and active-wear. AlbaHealth, the Company's Healthcare Division, manufactures and sells a range of textile healthcare products.
TK Teekay Shipping Corporation provides international crude oil and petroleum product transportation services through its spot tanker fleet, including its fleet of aframax-size oil tankers and its fixed-rate fleet, including its fleet of shuttle tankers. Teekay's tankers provide transportation services to oil companies, oil traders and government agencies worldwide. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company derived 27% of its total net voyage revenues from its operations in the Indo-Pacific Basin, compared to 43% during the year ended December 31, 2002. It is divided into four key areas: Teekay Tanker Services, Teekay Navion Shuttle Tankers, Teekay Gas &amp; Offshore and Teekay Marine Services. In April 2004, the Company acquired Naviera F. Tapias S.A. (Tapias), an independent owner and operator of liquefied natural gas carriers and crude oil tankers in Spain. It also established a 50/50 joint venture with Tapias that will pursue new business in the oil and gas shipping sectors.
TECUA Tecumseh Products Company is an independent, global manufacturer of hermetic compressors for air conditioning and refrigeration products, gasoline engines and power train components for lawn and garden applications and a variety of pump products. In addition, as of December 30, 2002, due to the acquisition of the FASCO Motors Group, the Company also manufactures fractional horsepower electric motors and related products for a range of residential and commercial applications. Its products are sold in countries worldwide. With the acquisition of FASCO, Tecumseh groups its products into four principal market segments: Compressor Products, Electrical Components, Engine and Power Train Products and Pump Products.
TE TECO Energy, Inc. is a holding company for regulated utilities and other unregulated businesses. It owns no operating assets but holds all of the common stock of Tampa Electric Company and directly, or through its subsidiary TECO Diversified, Inc., other subsidiaries. Tampa Electric Company, the Company's principal subsidiary, through its Tampa Electric division, provides retail electric service to more than 612,000 customers in West Central Florida with a net system generating capability of 3,256 megawatts. Other subsidiaries of the Company include TECO Transport Corporation, TECO Coal Corporation, TECO Wholesale Generation, Inc. and other unregulated companies.
TCNO Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd. develops and markets software solutions for manufacturing process management. The Company's eMPower solutions enable collaboration between manufacturers and their production plants, external suppliers and other members of their extended enterprise and supply chain, throughout the world, with respect to the development, execution and management of their manufacturing processes. eMPower enterprise solutions and the suite of eMPower products comprise Web-based applications, as well as some of the Company's historical stand-alone computer-aided production engineering (CAPE) products. CAPE tools are used to model and simulate a computerized representation of a complete manufacturing plant, its production lines and processes.
TEAM TechTeam Global, Inc. (TechTeam) is a global provider of information technology (IT) and business process outsourcing (BPO) support services to multinational companies, product providers and governments. The Company's services are provided with a single point of contact (SPOC) delivery vehicle centralized on its help desk support services, as well as providing complementary services, including technology deployment, migration and consulting services, systems integration, training and technical staffing. The Company operates in segments, such as corporate help desk services, technical staffing, systems integration and training programs, known as corporate services and leasing operations. The leasing segment wrote leases for various types of capital equipment. In January 2005, the Company purchased Sytel, Inc. Sytel is a diversified IT services and solutions company headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, providing managed network services and advanced enterprise solutions.
TNOLF.OB Technoprises Ltd., formerly, BVR Technologies Limited is engaged in the fields of wireless communication, fully integrated broadcast and Webcast graphics solutions, broadband access technology, integrated silicon &amp; software solutions for smart networking appliances &amp; online fair &amp; exhibition solutions. As of December 31, 2002, the Company held a 32.42% interest in BrightCom Technologies Ltd., which develops &amp; markets silicon solutions for personal area networking over the Bluetooth wireless standards, &amp; 41.33% of Unisfair Inc., which develops &amp; markets a platform to support virtual fairs, exhibitions &amp; conference activities. Through E.V.R. Entertainment Application of Virtual Reality (1994) Ltd., the Company holds 37.27% of Coresma Ltd, which develops, manufactures &amp; markets programmable solutions for the broadband industry. In July 2003, BrightCom sold substantially all of its assets.
TSCC Technology Solutions Company (TSC) is a consulting company that helps clients select, install, upgrade and optimize the software systems that run their business operations. The Company focuses on manufacturing and distribution, supply chain, financial, human resources and customer service systems. Its range of services include project planning, software selection, re-engineering, implementation, upgrades, training and outsourcing, with specialized expertise in product configuration solutions, forensic technology consulting and project turnarounds, as well as new service offerings such as Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and Use Tax technology. The Company's clients are primarily located throughout the United States, but it also performs some international work. TSC has performed over 2,300 successful projects, including more than 150 international projects, with more than 840 clients. In December 2004, the Company acquired ZAMBA, a customer relationship management (CRM) services company.
TRCI Technology Research Corporation designs and manufactures products for the military engine generator set controls market. After establishing a military product base, the Company turned its efforts early on to developing commercial markets for its ground fault sensing technology led to the development of products that sense dangerous power leakage from appliances, tools and other electrical devices and cut-off power, electrocutions or serious injuries from electrical shock. The Company's commercial business was developed the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) classifications of ground fault protective devices: Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters (GFCI); Appliance Leakage Circuit Interrupters (ALCI); Leakage Current Detectors and Interrupters (LCDI), and Equipment Leakage Current Interrupters (ELCI). Ground fault protective devices help protect against the hazards of fire and electrical shock.
TFF Technology Flavors &amp; Fragrances, Inc. (TFF) creates, develops, manufactures and markets flavors and fragrances that are incorporated by its customers into a variety of consumer and institutional products, including natural and artificially flavored beverages, confections, foods, pharmaceuticals, aromatherapy essential oils, perfumes and health and beauty products. The Company's principal product categories include natural flavors, artificial flavors and fragrances. The five largest end user categories of its products are beverages, baked goods, confections, cosmetics and soaps and detergents.
TNL Technitrol, Inc. is a global producer of precision-engineered passive magnetics-based electronic components and electrical contact products and materials. The Company operates its business in two distinct segments: the electronic components segment, which operates under the name Pulse, and the electrical contact products segment, which operates globally under the name AMI Doduco. Pulse designs and manufactures a variety of highly customized passive magnetics-based electronic components. These components manage and regulate electronic signals and power for use in a variety of devices by filtering out radio frequency interference and adjusting and ensuring proper current and voltage. AMI Doduco is a global manufacturer of electrical contact products, from contact materials to completed contact subassemblies. Contact products complete or interrupt electrical circuits in virtually every electrical device.
TKP Technip is a provider of engineering, technologies and construction services for the oil and gas, petrochemical and other industries. The Company's core business activity is in the hydrocarbon/petrochemical industry and covers offshore and onshore field development, gas processing and liquefaction, refining, onshore pipelines and petrochemicals. It is an integrated group providing engineering, technologies and construction services to the hydrocarbon/petrochemical industry worldwide and is well positioned in the offshore/deepwater area. The Company is also developing activities in non-hydrocarbon/petrochemical sectors, such as fertilizers, chemicals, life sciences, power generation and other growth-market industries.
TCCO.OB Technical Communications Corporation (TCC) is engaged in the design, development, manufacture, distribution, marketing and sale of communications security devices and systems. The secure communications solutions provided by TCC protect vital information transmitted over a wide range of data, fax and voice networks. TCC's products have been sold into over 100 countries and are in service with governments, military agencies, telecommunications carriers, financial institutions and multinational corporations. The Company's products consist of sophisticated electronic devices that enable users to transmit information in an encrypted format and permit receivers to reconstitute the information in a deciphered format. The Company's products can be used to protect confidentiality in communications between radios, telephones, facsimile machines and data processing equipment over wires, fiber optic cables, radio waves and microwave and satellite links.
TECH Techne Corporation is a holding company that, through its two wholly owned operating subsidiaries, Research and Diagnostic Systems, Inc. (R&amp;D Systems) and R&amp;D Systems Europe Ltd. (R&amp;D Europe), manufactures and sells products for the clinical diagnostics market and the biotechnology research and clinical diagnostics market. R&amp;D Systems is a specialty manufacturer of biological products with two operating segments: Biotechnology and Hematology. The Biotechnology Division develops and manufactures purified cytokines (proteins), antibodies and assay kits that are sold to biomedical researchers and clinical research laboratories. The Hematology Division develops and manufactures whole blood hematology controls and calibrators that are sold to hospitals and clinical laboratories to check the performance of hematology instruments to assure the accuracy of hematology test results.
THLT.OB TechLite, Inc. is a national energy service company. TechLite entered its 12th year in the design and installation of energy efficient and EPA-compliant (environmental protection agency's-compliant) lighting upgrades less heat is generated from the lighting retrofit components and fewer replacement parts will be required after the retrofit is installed. The Company's customers include the power utility energy companies (ESCOs) and the education, health care, commercial, retail, industrial, municipal and federal markets. Its marketing efforts emphasize lighting projects as sub-contractors for ESCOs, as well as negotiated lighting retrofit contracts direct with end users. It offers private business, schools, government entities and ESCOs a one-stop turnkey energy services and energy efficient lighting package.
TEDG.OB Techedge, Inc. develops and provides advanced wireless voice, data and multimedia services to commercial and residential users in the United States and China. The Company focuses on the development and deployment of Internet protocol (IP)-based personal communications service (IP-PCS), a regional wireless voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) service delivered on unlicensed low-power PCS frequency through an IP-enabled local transceiver and IP centric soft-switched networks, operating on an advanced proprietary software-centric, multi-service global communication service platform and management system. Through wholly owned subsidiaries, including Quantum Communications operating in United States and in China, the Company has established operational infrastructure and operations support centers in both countries, offering wireless local access, VoIP and wireless broadband Internet services.
TSH Teche Holding Company was formed to acquire Teche Federal Bank (the Bank/ Teche Federal). The Bank is a community-oriented federal savings bank offering financial services to meet the local banking needs of St. Mary, Lafayette, Iberia, St. Martin, Terrebonne, upper Lafourche, East Baton Rouge and St. Landry Parishes, Louisiana. On July 2, 2004, the Company acquired St. Landry Financial Corporation and its subsidiary, First Federal Savings &amp; Loans Association of Opelousas.
TVGR.OB Technology Visions Group, Inc., incorporated as Orbit Technologies, Inc., operates as an applied research and development company and technology portal that employs and retains independent engineers, research consultants, research institutes, universities and other consultants as needed to develop and analyze technologies. The Company has developed or acquired technologies that have potential to yield commercially viable products. These technologies include Polymer Encapsulation Technology (PET) and GMENT treatment and stabilization systems, designed for the treatment of low-level radioactive waste. None of the technologies are in commercial use.
TO Tech/Ops Sevcon, Inc. was organized to carry on the electronic controls business previously performed by Tech/Ops, Inc. Through its wholly owned subsidiaries located in the United States, England, France and South Korea, the Company designs, manufactures, sells and services, under the Sevcon name, solid-state products, which control motor speed and acceleration for battery-powered electric vehicles in a number of applications, primarily electric fork lift trucks, aerial lifts and underground coal-mining equipment. Through another subsidiary located in the United Kingdom, it manufactures special metallized film capacitors for electronics applications. These capacitors are used as components in the power electronics, signaling and audio equipment markets. Approximately 93% of its revenues are derived from the controls business, with the remainder derived from the capacitor business. The largest customer accounted for 11% of sales during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004.
TCHL.OB Tech Laboratories, Inc. manufactures and sells electrical and electronic components. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company marketed and continued to develop DynaTraX high-speed digital switch matrix system, an electronic switching unit for network management and security. This equipment manages video and data transmissions on a network. It also manufactures and sells standard and customized transformers and rotary switches, the latter of which products permits an electrical signal to be diverted from point A to point B. Approximately 10% of the Company's products are manufactured for military applications. It sells its switch and transformer products in the electronics and electrical industries, as a contract manufacturer for other companies or for inclusion in original equipment manufacturer (OEM) products.
TECD Tech Data Corporation is a distributor of information technology products, logistics management and other value-added services worldwide. It distributes microcomputer hardware and software products to value-added resellers, corporate resellers, retailers, direct marketers and Internet resellers. The Company and its subsidiaries distribute to approximately 80 countries, and serve resellers in the United States, Europe, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East. In addition to a strong product offering, Tech Data provides resellers with pre- and post-sale technical support, a suite of electronic commerce tools (including Web order entry and electronic data interchange services), customized shipping documents, product configuration/integration services and flexible financing programs.
TSTF TeamStaff, Inc. provides a variety of employment-related services through two business units: TeamStaff Rx unit, which provides medical allied health professionals and nurses to doctors' offices and medical facilities throughout the United States on a temporary and permanent basis, and the Payroll services division, which provides customized payroll management and tax-filing services to select industries, such as construction. Effective November 17, 2003, TeamStaff sold certain of the assets of its subsidiaries through which it operated its professional employer organization (PEO) business to Gevity HR, Inc. In addition, effective May 2, 2004, TeamStaff sold certain of the assets of TeamStaff Solutions, Inc., the subsidiary through which it operated its temporary technical staffing business to Metro Tech Consulting Services, Inc.
TMI Team, Inc. is a full-service provider of specialized industrial services including leak repair, hot tapping, emissions control monitoring, field machining, technical bolting and non-destructive testing/examination (NDT-NDE) inspection services. These services are provided throughout the United States in approximately 40 locations. The Company also conducts operations through international locations in Singapore, Aruba, Canada and Trinidad. In addition, Team licenses its proprietary leak repair and hot tapping techniques and materials to various companies outside the United States and receives a royalty based upon revenues earned by the licensee. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Climax Portable Machine Tools, Inc., the Company is engaged in a separate business segment, equipment sales and rental. Climax is a designer-manufacturer of portable, metal cutting machine tools used for on-site industrial maintenance.
TFIN Team Financial, Inc. is a financial holding company that offers full-service community banking and financial services through 18 locations in the Kansas City metropolitan area; southeastern Kansas; western Missouri; the Omaha, Nebraska, metropolitan area; the Tulsa, Oklahoma, metropolitan area, and in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Company's full complement of lending services includes an array of residential mortgage products, both fixed and adjustable rate; consumer loans, including home equity lines of credit, auto loans, recreational vehicle and other secured and unsecured loans; specialized financing programs to support community development; mortgages for multi-family real estate; commercial real estate loans; commercial loans to businesses, including revolving lines of credit and term loans, real estate development, construction lending and agricultural lending.
TDK TDK Corporation is a global manufacturer of magnetic recording media, ferrite products and recording device products. It is also a producer of inductor, ceramic and other components. The Company's sales are generated by two business segments, electronic materials and components and recording media and systems. The Company's electronic materials and components are divided into four principal categories: electronic materials, electronic devices, recording devices and semiconductors and others. Recording media and systems include tapes and recorders.
TLD TDC A/S is a full-service provider of communications solutions throughout Europe. The Company provides communication services in Denmark and Switzerland and it holds significant interests in a range of communications companies elsewhere across Northern and Continental Europe. In total, international activities accounted for approximately 55% of TDC's net revenues in the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001. By year-end 2003, the Company had more than 15.5 million customers on a total pro-rata basis across Europe, 4.5 million landline customers, 8.3 million mobile customers, 1.9 million Internet customers and 924,000 cable television customers. In 2003, TDC was structured along six principal business lines, each operating as a separate legal entity: TDC Solutions, TDC Mobile International, TDC Switzerland, TDC Directories, TDC Cable TV and TDC Services.
TCB TCF Financial Corporation is a holding company which conducts its business principally through its direct and indirect subsidiaries. The Company's principal subsidiary, TCF National Bank, operates in Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado and Indiana. TCF's products include commercial, small business, consumer and residential mortgage loans and deposit products; leasing and equipment finance; securities brokerage and investment, and insurance services. Some of the Company's products, such as its commercial equipment loans and leases, are offered in markets outside areas served by TCF National Bank. The Company's primary focus is on the delivery of retail and commercial banking products in markets served by TCF National Bank.
TCLP TC PipeLines, LP acquires, owns and participates in the management of United States-based pipeline assets. The Company owns a 30% general partner interest in Northern Border Pipeline Company. TC PipeLines also owns a 49% general partner interest in Tuscarora Gas Transmission Company. TC PipeLines GP, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of TransCanada PipeLines Limited, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of TransCanada Corporation, is the general partner of the Partnership. The Partnership consists of TC PipeLines, LP and its subsidiary limited partnerships, TC PipeLines Intermediate Limited Partnership and TC Tuscarora Intermediate Limited Partnership.
TBCC TBC Corporation is engaged in the marketing and distribution of tires in the automotive replacement market, through both wholesale and retail channels. The Company's wholesale customers include retailers and other wholesalers, primarily in the United States, Canada and Mexico. TBC operates retail tire and automotive service centers primarily in the eastern two-thirds of the United States, under its Tire Kingdom, Merchant's Tire and Auto Centers and National Tire and Battery business units. Through its subsidiary, Big O Tires, Inc., TBC also acts as a franchisor of independent retail tire and automotive service stores, located primarily in the western and midwestern United States. Sales of tires accounted for approximately 79% of the Company's total sales in 2003. Tire and mechanical services performed by Company-operated retail stores represented approximately 19% of total sales in 2003. The remainder of the Company's sales includes tubes, wheels and other products.
TBWC TB Wood's Corporation is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of electronic and mechanical industrial power transmission products. It classifies its industrial power transmission business into two segments: mechanical, which includes belted drives, couplings and gearboxes and electronics, which include electronic drives and electronic drive systems. Products of these segments are sold to distributors, original equipment manufacturers and end users for manufacturing and commercial applications.
TAYD Taylor Devices, Inc. is primarily engaged in the manufacture and sale of tension control, energy storage and shock absorption devices for use in various types of machinery, equipment and structures, primarily to customers located throughout the United States and several foreign countries. The Company has six major product lines: Seismic Dampers, Fluidicshoks, Crane and Industrial Buffers, Self-Adjusting Shock Absorbers, Liquid Die Springs and Vibration Dampers. In addition to manufacturing and selling existing product lines, the Company continues to develop new and advanced technology products.
TAYC Taylor Capital Group, Inc. (Taylor) is a bank holding company that derives virtually all of its revenue from its wholly owned subsidiary, Cole Taylor Bank. Taylor provides a range of products and services to both commercial customers and consumers. The Company's primary business is commercial banking, which represented 81% of its loan portfolio at December 31, 2003. Taylor also offers wealth management, community banking and certain trust products and services. The Company operates 10 bank branches throughout the Chicago metropolitan area. Taylor also owns all of the stock of TAYC Capital Trust I, which was formed solely to issue trust preferred securities. At December 31, 2003, the Company had deposits of approximately $2 billion and stockholders' equity of $176.5 million, and gross loans portfolio totaled $1.96 billion, including $1.60 billion of commercial loans, $87 million of residential mortgages, $253 million of home equity loans and $25 million of consumer installment loans.
TCO Taubman Centers, Inc. is a real estate investment company that owns a 61% managing general partner's interest in The Taubman Realty Group Limited Partnership (the Operating Partnership), through which it conducts all of its operations. As managing general partner, the Company owns, leases, acquires, develops, operates and manages regional shopping centers throughout the United States. As of December 31, 2003, Taubman Centers' portfolio includes 21 urban and suburban centers located in nine states. One new center is under construction in North Carolina and is scheduled to open on September 15, 2005. The Operating Partnership also owns certain regional retail shopping center development projects and more than 99% of The Taubman Company LLC, which manages the shopping centers and provides other services to the Operating Partnership and to the Company.
TNT OAO Tatneft (Tatneft) is a producer of crude oil in Russia. Substantially all of its production and other operations are located in Tatarstan, a republic of Russia situated between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains and located approximately 750 kilometers southeast of Moscow. The Company holds most of the exploration and production licenses and produces substantially all the crude oil in Tatarstan. As of January 1, 2003, its total proved reserves of crude oil were approximately 5,972 million barrels. In addition to crude oil production, Tatneft is engaged in refining and has been developing a network of retail service stations. It also created a petrochemicals holding division centered on a tire producer, OAO Nizhnekamskshina, and provides banking services through its subsidiaries, OAO Bank Zenit and Commercial Bank Devon-Credit. Its operations are conducted through four segments: exploration and production, refining and marketing, petrochemicals and banking.
TTM Tata Motors Limited is an integrated automobile manufacturer in India, with a portfolio that is comprised of trucks, buses, utility vehicles and passenger cars. The Company has more than 130 models spanning a range of commercial vehicles, passenger cars and multi-utility vehicles (MUV). It has manufacturing facilities at Jamshedpur, Pune and Lucknow, coupled with a nationwide customer support, sales and service network. The Company exports its products to Europe, Australia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The Company's passenger car division manufactures and markets its cars primarily under the Indica V2 and Indigo brand names. Its utility vehicles are marketed under the Tata Sumo and Tata Safari brand names. Its commercial vehicles include two-ton, light-commercial vehicles; 40-ton, tractor-trailers and buses; tippers, specialty vehicles and off-road and defense vehicles.
TATTF T.A.T. Technologies Ltd. (TAT) is engaged in the manufacture and sale of heat transfer equipment used in mechanical and electronic systems on-board commercial and military aircraft and in other electronic equipment. These systems that include environmental control, avionics cooling and other mechanical and electronic systems, generate heat during operation that must be removed and dissipated in order to function properly. The Company is also engaged in the remanufacture, overhaul and repair of heat transfer equipment and other aircraft components manufactured by TAT and other companies. It also manufactures, sells and services certain related products for use in aircraft and electronic systems. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Elta Electronics Industries Ltd., a subsidiary of I.A.I. Ltd. accounted for 11.9% of TAT's revenues. Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse Ltd. accounted for 12.8% of the revenues.
TFRY.OB Tasty Fries, Inc. has developed a French fries vending machine (the machine) designed to produce freshly made French fries, utilizing a method that automatically converts a dehydrated potato product into rehydrated potato mix, delivers this mix into a forming-and-cooking cycle and finally, into freshly made French fries. The Company has also developed a related potato product for the production of French fries in the Machine (the potato product). The Company's basic business strategy is to market the machines and the ancillary products that are required to prepare each serving of French fries. These ancillary products include the potato product, cooking oil, serving cups and condiments. The Company has historically marketed the machines and the products exclusively through territorial distributorships.
TBC Tasty Baking Company is an independent baking company. The Company's Tastykake Division manufactures and sells a variety of single portion cakes, pies, cookies, pretzels, brownies, pastries, donuts, miniature donuts and snack bars under the trademark, Tastykake. These products comprise approximately 100 varieties. The Company's best-known products with the widest sales acceptance are various sponge cakes marketed under the trademarks, Juniors and Krimpets, and chocolate enrobed cakes under Kandy Kakes. Tastykake products are sold principally by independent sales distributors through distribution routes to approximately 15,000 retail outlets in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, which make up the Company's principal market. During the fiscal year ended December 27, 2003 (fiscal 2003), the core route regions were expanded to include the eastern shore of Maryland, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Cleveland, Ohio.
TASR TASER International, Inc. develops and manufactures less-lethal self-defense devices. From its inception until the introduction in 1994 of its first product, the AIR TASER, the Company was in the developmental stage and focused its efforts on product development, raising capital, hiring key employees and developing marketing materials to promote its product line. The Company's primary product lines include the ADVANCED TASER and the TASER X26. The TASER X26 weapon system introduced to the market a new "shaped pulse" technology, and a new smaller form factor. At the close of 2003, TASER had more than 4,300 United States law enforcement agencies deploying one of its TASER brand weapon platforms, with 506 agencies either completed or in the process of implementing a full deployment of one weapon for each patrol or line officer.
TGB Taseko Mines Limited is a mining company based in Canada. The Company is focused on acquiring ownership of and advancing exploration and related activities on known mineral deposits that have large tonnage mineralization, which are potentially capable of supporting a mine for 10 years and longer. Taseko's Prosperity Project, Gibraltar Mine Project and Harmony Gold Project are all such large tonnage mineral resources. The Prosperity Project consists of 196 mineral claims covering mineral rights and has estimated measured and indicated mineral resources of one billion tones and an inferred resource of 0.2 billion tonnes. The Harmony Gold Project comprises of 50 four-post mineral claims, 37 two-post mineral claims and one fractional claim, totaling 970 claim units and has estimated the measured and indicated resources in the deposit to be 64 million tonnes, containing approximately three million ounces of gold. The Gibraltar Mine area consists of 251 mineral claims and 30 mining leases.
TAGS Tarrant Apparel Group is a provider of casual apparel, serving mass merchandisers, department stores, branded wholesalers and specialty chains located in the United States by designing, merchandising, contracting for the manufacture of, manufacturing directly and selling casual apparel for women, men and children. Tarrant's customers include specialty retailers, such as Express, Lane Bryant, Lerner New York, J.C. Penney, K-Mart, Kohl's, Mervyn's and Wal-Mart. The Company's products are manufactured in a variety of woven and knit fabrications and include jeans wear, casual pants, T-shirts, shorts, blouses, shirts and other tops, dresses and jackets. During the year ended December 31, 2003, approximately 72% of net sales were derived from the sales of pants and jeans. In December 2004, the Company sold all of its assets and real property in Mexico to affiliates of Mr. Kamel Nacif.
TARR Tarragon Corporation, formerly Tarragon Realty Investors, Inc., is a real estate owner, developer and builder of homes engaged in developing, renovating and operating and selling properties. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company delivered 282 homes with an average price of $187,000 per home and 29 single-family lots with an average price of $43,000 per lot. In 2003, Tarragon had 18 residential communities with 2,257 homes or home sites under development in four states and a backlog of signed contracts for 774 homes valued in excess of $200 million, and it also had interests in 14,345 rental apartment units in 62 residential communities and 1.2 million square feet of office and retail space located in 14 states, primarily in Florida, Connecticut and Texas.
TCBA.OB Tarpon Coast Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for Tarpon Coast National Bank (the Bank). The Company serves as a mechanism to enhance the Bank's ability to serve its customers' requirements for financial services. The Bank operates under a national bank charter and provides a range of commercial banking services from three full-service banking facilities and a residential mortgage center located in Charlotte and Sarasota Counties, Florida. Its primary deposit products are checking, savings and term certificate accounts, and its primary lending products are residential mortgage, commercial and installment loans. The Company organized Tarpon Coast Financial Services, Inc. (TCFS) as a subsidiary of the Bank. TCFS is engaged in the sale of insurance and investment products, and provides such products as life and disability insurance, annuities, retirement plans, mutual funds, as well as stocks and bonds.
TARO Taro Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Taro) is a multinational, science-based pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and markets prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) pharmaceutical products, as well as active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in the United States, Canada and Israel. Its primary areas of focus include topical creams and ointments, liquids, capsules and tablets mainly in the dermatological, cardiovascular and central nervous system therapeutic categories. The Company operates through three entities: Taro Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Taro Israel), and two of its subsidiaries, Taro Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Taro Canada) and Taro U.S.A. On April 29, 2004, 31 of Taro's abbreviated new drug applications and one new drug application are being reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In addition, there are products for which either development or internal regulatory work is in process.
TGEN Targeted Genetics Corporation develops gene therapy products and technologies for treating, both, acquired and inherited diseases. Its gene therapy product candidates are designed to treat disease by regulating cellular function at a genetic level, which involves introducing genetic material into target cells and activating the inserted gene. Gene therapy products involve the use of delivery vehicles, called vectors, to place genetic material into target cells. Targeted Genetics' vector technologies include, both, viral and synthetic vectors. Viral vector development activities, which use modified viruses to deliver genes into cells, focus primarily on adeno-associated virus (AAV). Synthetic vectors deliver genes into cells using lipids, which are fatty, water-insoluble organic substances that can promote gene uptake through cell membranes.
TARG.OB Target Logistics, Inc. provides freight forwarding services and logistics services through its subsidiary in 33 cities throughout the United States. The freight forwarding services involve arranging for the total transport of customers' freight from the shipper's location to the recipients, preparation of shipping documents and handling, packing and containerization services. The Company handles cargo shipments weighing more than 50 pounds and requiring time-definite delivery, and its average shipment weighs approximately 1,100 pounds. It also has international freight forwarding operations with an agent network providing coverage in over 70 countries. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the international freight forwarding accounted for 29.7% of Company's operating revenue.
TGT Target Corporation operates Target-brand general merchandise discount stores and an online business, Target.com. As of November 11, 2004, the Company operated 1,313 stores in 47 states. The Company also has 22 distribution centers in 19 states. The Company's discontinued operations include Mervyn's, a middle-market promotional department store located in 14 states in the West, South and Midwest, which was sold in September 2004, and Marshall Field's, a traditional department store located in eight states in the upper Midwest, which was sold in July 2004.
TTLA.OB Tarantella, Inc. is a provider of Internet infrastructure software that enables web-based access to enterprise applications. Tarantella enables organizations to access and manage information, data and applications across all platforms, networks and devices. Tarantella bridges the gap between vendors and customers, ensuring that customers have complete access to business-critical information. The Company's products provide managed and secure Web access to enterprise mainframe, Windows, AS/400, Linux, and UNIX applications. The products allow businesses to leverage their existing information technology assets. In March 2004,Tarantella acquired Caststream, Inc. and added its cast: stream product to the list of offerings. Cast: stream is an integrated suite of applications that enable live and on-demand presentations, including video and audio synchronized graphics and animation.
TPPH Tapestry Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company that focuses on research and development of anti-cancer agents and genomic technologies in the area of gene editing for applications in human therapeutics and diagnostics. The Company was engaged in the business of manufacturing bulk paclitaxel with its two principal marketing partners, Abbott and Mayne Pharma during the year ended December 31, 2003. On December 12, 2003, Tapestry sold its generic injectable paclitaxel business to Mayne Pharma. The assets sold to Mayne Pharma included the Company's paclitaxel manufacturing assets, yew plantations, domestic and international issued and pending paclitaxel patents, a worldwide registration dossier, worldwide development and supply agreements, inventories and settlement of accounts receivable.
TNOX Tanox, Inc. discovers and develops therapeutic monoclonal antibodies to address unmet medical needs in the areas of asthma, allergy, inflammation, diseases affecting the human immune system and infectious diseases. The Company's products are genetically engineered antibodies that target a specific molecule or antigen. In November 2003, the Company entered into cross license agreements with Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Division, a division of Wyeth, with respect to patent rights covering a new class of drugs for the treatment of osteoporosis. Under the agreements, Wyeth received a license under Tanox patents to develop a small molecule-based drug and Tanox received a license under Wyeth's patent applications to develop an antibody-based drug.
SKT Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc. (Tanger) is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) that focuses exclusively on developing, acquiring, owning, operating and managing factory outlet shopping centers. At December 31, 2003, the Company owned interests in 36 factory outlet centers, with a total gross leasable area (GLA) of approximately 8.9 million square feet, which were 96% occupied. In addition, as of December 31, 2003, Tanger managed for a fee four centers, with a total GLA of approximately 434,000 square feet, bringing the total number of centers the Company operated to 40 with a total GLA of approximately 9.3 million square feet containing over 2,000 stores and representing over 400 store brands. Tanger's factory outlet centers and other assets are held by, and all of its operations are conducted by Tanger Properties Limited Partnership, its Operating Partnership.
TBAC Tandy Brands Accessories, Inc. (TBAC) is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of branded men's, women's and children's accessories, including belts and small leather goods such as wallets. Its product line also includes handbags, socks, scarves, gloves, hats, hair accessories, suspenders, cold weather accessories and sporting goods accessories. The Company markets its merchandise under a portfolio of licensed and proprietary brand names, including Dockers, Levi's, Levi Strauss Signature, Jones New York, Perry Ellis Portfolio, Perry Ellis America, Rolfs, Haggar, Woolrich, Jordache, Bugle Boy, Canterbury, Prince Gardner, Princess Gardner, Coletta, Stagg, Amity, Accessory Design Group and Tiger, as well as private brands for major retail customers.
TALX TALX Corporation is a provider of automated employment and income verification, and unemployment cost management services and a provider of human resources/payroll business process outsourcing. The Company's services use Web access, interactive voice response, fax, document imaging and other technologies to enable mortgage lenders, pre-employment screening companies, employees, employers and other authorized users to obtain employee human resources and payroll information and allow employees and their managers to review and modify information in the human resources and payroll management information systems on a self-service basis. TALX provides unemployment insurance claims processing and unemployment tax planning and management services to employers. It serves organizations, including two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies and a number of federal, state and local government agencies.
TALK Talk America Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, offers local and long-distance phone services to residential and small-business customers in the United States. It has developed integrated order processing, provisioning, billing, payment, collection, customer service and information systems that enable it to provide services to customers. The Company operates its own sales and customer service centers. It markets its bundled services within targeted markets through telemarketing, direct rail, referrals, online marketing, direct sales and broadcast media. The Company's bundled service includes unlimited local usage dependent upon the service plan, free member-to-member calling, long-distance service and calling cards, one convenient invoice available both in paper and electronically and choices of features. The Company provides 1+ long-distance telecommunication services, both on a stand-alone basis and bundled with local services.
TLM Talisman Energy Inc. is an independent international upstream oil and gas company whose main business activities include exploration, development, production, transporting and marketing of crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids. The Company's operations are conducted principally in four geographic segments: North America, the North Sea, Southeast Asia and Algeria. The Company is also participating in a significant development project in Trinidad. Exploration is being conducted in other areas outside the principal geographic segments, including Colombia and Qatar. The Company's Sudan operations were sold, in March 2003, to ONGC Videsh Limited, a subsidiary of India's national oil company.
TLB The Talbots, Inc. is a national specialty retailer and cataloger of women's, children's and men's apparel, accessories and shoes. In addition to its core Misses business, the Company's other business concepts are Talbots Petites, Talbots Kids, Talbots Accessories &amp; Shoes, Talbots Woman, Talbots Woman Petites, Talbots Collection and Talbots Mens. The Company offers a collection of classic sportswear, casual wear, dresses, coats, sweaters, accessories and shoes, consisting almost exclusively of Talbots' own branded merchandise in misses, petites, woman's and woman's petite sizes. Talbots Kids offers an assortment of clothing and accessories for infants, toddlers, boys and girls, while Talbots Mens offers a line of men's sportswear and dress furnishings. At December 31, 2003, the Company operated 977 stores, opening net of 91 new stores and issued 26 separate catalogs. Talbots also offers online merchandise at www.talbots.com.
TTWO Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is a global publisher of interactive software games designed for personal computers, and video game consoles and handheld platforms manufactured by Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. Through its Rockstar publishing subsidiary, it continues to successfully create new, brands and sequels to existing brands with broad consumer appeal. The Company also distribute its products, as well as third-party software, hardware and accessories to retail outlets in North America through Jack of All Games subsidiary. The Company customers in North America include Best Buy, Blockbuster, Circuit City, Electronics Boutique, GameStop, Target, Toys R Us, Wal-Mart, and other national and regional drug store, supermarket and discount store chains and specialty retailers. In April 2004, Rockstar Games announced the formation of Rockstar Leeds through the acquisition of Mobius Entertainment Ltd., a Leeds, England based developer of handheld video games.
TSM Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) is a semiconductor foundry. TSMC manufactures semiconductors using its production processes for customers based on their own or third parties' integrated circuit (IC) designs. The Company offers a range of wafer fabrication processes, including processes to manufacture complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) logic, mixed-signal, radio frequency (RF) and embedded memory and bipolar complementary metal oxide semiconductor (BiCMOS) mixed-signal and other semiconductors. It also offers design, mask making, probing, testing and assembly services. The Company's e-foundry customer service program features real-time, online information exchange during manufacturing and logistical support, which is subcontracted out to third parties before the products are shipped to customers, for the processes of handling, assembly and final testing.
TFC The Taiwan Greater China Fund (the Trust) is a diversified, closed-end business trust, organized under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The Trust concentrates its investments in publicly traded equity and debt securities issued by corporations in the Republic of China. The Trust changed its name from The R.O.C. Taiwan Fund to the Taiwan Greater China Fund, on December 29, 2003, and became self-managed in February 2004.
TAIT Taitron Components Incorporated is a discrete components superstore, which distributes a variety of discrete semiconductors, including rectifiers (or power diodes), diodes, transistors, opto-electronic devices and passive components, to other electronic distributors, contract electronic manufacturers and original equipment manufacturers, who incorporate these devices into their products. The Company's superstore strategy consists of carrying a large quantity and variety of components in inventory to meet the rapid delivery requirements of its customers. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Taitron's inventory contained over 1.4 billion separate components and over 14,000 distinct products. In 2003, the Company purchased products from over 50 suppliers, including Everlight Electronics Co, Ltd., Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, KEC America Corporation, General Semiconductor Inc., Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Vishay Americas Inc. and Zowie Technology Corporation.
TAGOF.OB TAG Oil Ltd., incorporated in 1990, is an independent oil and gas acquisition and exploration company with all its interests in hydrocarbon exploration prospects in New Zealand. The Company is involved in the exploration for hydrocarbons. All of its property holdings, as of March 31, 2004, were in the grassroots or primary exploration stage. TAG holds an interest in the following New Zealand exploration permits, which includes Petroleum Exploration Permit (PEP) 38256, PEP 38741, PEP 38480, PEP 38761. The Company also has interests in New Zealand prospecting permit PEP 38258 and is part of a New Zealand study group that will study Block M located in the Taranaki Basin next to the Company's property PEP 38741. TAG's operations are conducted in part through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Durum Energy (New Zealand) Limited, Durum (Australia) Pty. Ltd. and Durum Energy (PNG) Limited.
TAG Tag-It Pacific, Inc. is an apparel company specializes in the distribution of a range of trim items to manufacturers of fashion apparel, specialty retailers and mass merchandisers. The Company acts as a full-service, outsourced trim management department for manufacturers of fashion apparel, such as Abercrombie &amp; Fitch, Tarrant Apparel Group, Kentucky Apparel and Azteca Production International. Tag-It also serves as a specified supplier of trim items to owners of specific brands, brand licensees and retailers, including Abercrombie &amp; Fitch, Levi Strauss &amp; Co., Express, The Limited, Lerner and Miller's Outpost, among others. In addition, the Company distributes zippers under the Talon brand name to manufacturers for apparel brands and retailers. During the year ended December 31, 2002, Tag-It created a division under the TekFit brand name. This division develops and sells apparel components that utilize its Pro-Fit technology, including a stretch waistband.
TTES T-3 Energy Services, Inc. manufactures, remanufactures and distributes oilfield products and services to the upstream and downstream oil and gas industry primarily in the Gulf Coast region. T-3's customers include companies engaged in exploration, production, completion, transportation and processing of oil and gas and drilling and well servicing contractors. The Company's operations are organized into three business segments: the Pressure Control segment, the Products segment and the Distribution segment. In June 2004, the Company sold certain net assets of its Products Group of companies, consisting of TPS Total Power Systems Inc. and the Moores Machine Shop operating division of Moores Pump &amp; Services Inc. In August 2004, the Company sold additional net assets of its former Products Group reporting segment, consisting of the remaining assets of Moores Pump &amp; Services, Inc., a pump distribution and remanufacturing business.
STEK.OB SystemOne Technologies Inc. designs, manufactures and sells a line of patented, self-contained, recycling industrial parts washers (the SystemOne Washers) for use in the automotive, aviation, marine and general industrial repair markets. The Company has been awarded 11 patents for its products which incorporate innovative, proprietary resource recovery and waste minimization technologies to distill contaminated solvents and yield pure solvent allowing cleaning solvents to be used, recycled and re-used perpetually, eliminating the need for storage, transportation and offsite processing of hazardous waste. Its engineering team is working on four projects: enhancing its Spray Gun Washer, developing a new industrial washer for the printing industry (the Printing Washer), developing an automated version of its General Parts Washer (the Agitation Washer) and implementing the ISO 9001:2000 quality process.
SYX Systemax Inc. is a direct marketer of brand name and private-label products, including personal desktop computers (PCs), notebook computers, computer related products and industrial products, in North America and Europe. The Company assembles its own PCs and sells them under the trademarks Systemax, Tiger and Ultra. Systemax also markets a number of integrated computer software products for general commercial use through Profit Center Software Inc., a subsidiary that was formed in September 2003. Offered as Profit Center Software, it is a suite of Web-based business software applications, including sales force automation, order processing and product management applications, which assist companies in automating their business in order to improve efficiencies and maximize profitability. In addition, Systemax markets and sells computers manufactured by other companies. The Company offers its customers a selection of products, prompt order fulfillment and extensive customer service.
SYY SYSCO Corporation (SYSCO) is an American distributor of food and related products primarily to the foodservice or food-prepared-away-from-home industry. SYSCO provides its products and services to approximately 400,000 customers, including restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other foodservice customers. Products distributed by the company include a full line of frozen foods, such as meats, fully prepared entrees, fruits, vegetables and desserts, and a full line of canned and dry foods, fresh meats, imported specialties and fresh produce. The company also supplies a wide variety of non-food items, including paper products, such as disposable napkins, plates and cups; tableware, such as china and silverware; restaurant and kitchen equipment and supplies, and cleaning supplies. In April 2004, SYSCO acquired Overton Distributors, Inc., in May 2004, it acquired International Food Group, Inc. and in December 2004, it acquired Robert's Foods.
SYPR Sypris Solutions, Inc. is a diversified provider of outsourced services and specialty products. The Company performs a range of manufacturing, engineering, design, testing and other technical services, typically under multi-year, sole-source contracts with corporations and government agencies in the markets for aerospace and defense electronics, truck components and assemblies, and for users of test and measurement equipment. In addition to its outsourced services, Sypris provides some of its customers with specialized products, including digital and analog data systems and encryption devices used in military applications, magnetic meters and sensors used in commercial and laboratory environments and high-pressure closures and joints used in pipeline and chemical systems.
SYNM Syntroleum Corporation is engaged in the research and development of the syntroleum process, a process designed to convert natural gas or synthesis gas into synthetic liquid hydrocarbons, and activities related to commercialization of the syntroleum process. Synthetic liquid hydrocarbons produced by the syntroleum process can be further processed, using the syntroleum synfining process, into liquid fuels such as diesel, kerosene and naphtha, as well as specialty products such as synthetic lubricants, synthetic drilling fluid, waxes, liquid normal paraffins and certain chemical feedstocks. The Company's focus is to commercialize the syntroleum process and synfining process through licensing and constructing commercial plants. The Company has sold license agreements to seven oil companies and the Commonwealth of Australia.
SYBD.OB Synthetic Blood International Inc. (Synthetic Blood) is engaged in the business of developing biotechnology products. Synthetic Blood is focusing on developing Oxycyte, an alternative to transfused blood for use in surgical and similar medical situations. In addition, it is also developing Fluorovent, an oxygen exchange fluid for facilitating the treatment of lung conditions and a biosensor implant product that uses an enzyme process for measuring the glucose level in the blood stream. The Company received approval for investigational new drug application for Oxycyte filed with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and began Phase I clinical studies in October 2003, which were completed in December 2003. Fluorovent and its biosensor implant are still in the animal testing stage and the Company has not filed any applications with the FDA for human testing of these products.
NZYM Synthetech, Inc. is a fine chemicals company specializing in organic synthesis, biocatalysis and chiral technologies. It develops and manufactures amino acid derivatives, specialty amino acids, peptide fragments and custom chiral intermediates for the pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical industries. The Company also supplies catalog quantities of specialty amino acids to research institutions, universities and drug discovery firms. Synthetech's products are amino acids that have been chemically modified through organic chemistry and biocatalysis techniques to enable them to link with other amino acids or chemicals in a particular defined sequence. The Company's products are used in peptide, peptidomimetic small-molecule and other drugs under development or on the market for the treatment of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), cancer and cardiovascular and other diseases.
SYNT Syntel, Inc. is a worldwide provider of information technology (IT) services to Global 2000 companies, as well as to government entities. The Company's service offerings are grouped into three segments e-business, Applications Outsourcing and TeamSourcing. e-business consists of practice areas in Web solutions, customer relationship management (CRM), data warehousing/business intelligence and enterprise applications integration (EAI) services. Applications Outsourcing consists of outsourcing services for ongoing management, development and maintenance of business applications. TeamSourcing consists of professional IT consulting services.
SYNP Synplicity, Inc. is a provider of software products that enable the design and verification of large, complex semiconductors used in networking and communications, computer and peripheral, consumer, automotive, military/aerospace and other electronics systems. Its software products perform steps in the process of designing and verifying semiconductors that are tailored to perform a specific function, including field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), which include an emerging class of ASICs called Structured or Platform ASICs (Structured ASICs). The Company operates in one segment, the development and licensing of software products that are used in the design and verification of semiconductors.
SNV Synovus Financial Corp. is a diverse financial services company that provides integrated financial services, including banking, financial management, insurance, mortgage and leasing services, through affiliate banks and other offices in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida and Tennessee. Through its 81%-owned subsidiary, Total Systems Services, Inc., the Company also offers electronic payment processing services. The Company is engaged in two business segments: financial services, which primarily involves commercial banking activities and also involves the provision of retail banking, financial management, mortgage banking, leasing and insurance services; and transaction processing services, which primarily provides electronic payment processing services, including consumer, debit, commercial, retail and stored value card processing and related services, as well as student loan processing.
SYNO Synovis Life Technologies, Inc. is a diversified medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets products for the surgical and interventional treatment of disease. The Company's business is conducted in two segments, the surgical business and the interventional business. The surgical business develops, manufactures and markets implantable biomaterial products, devices for microsurgery and surgical tools, which are all designed to reduce risk and/or facilitate critical surgeries. The interventional business provides development, engineering, rapid prototyping and manufacturing of coils, helices, stylets, guidewires and other complex micro-wire, polymer and machined components used in interventional devices for cardiac rhythm management, neurostimulation and vascular procedures.
SNPS Synopsys, Inc. provides electronic design automation (EDA) software for semiconductor design. It delivers semiconductor design and verification software platforms, and integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing software products, enabling the development and production of complex systems-on-chips (SoCs). It also provides intellectual property (IP) and design services to simplify the design process and accelerate time-to-market for its customers. It is organized into four groups: Implementation (Galaxy Design Platform); Verification (Discovery Verification Platform); Silicon Engineering (Design for manufacturing), and Solutions (DesignWare portfolio). During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Synopsys acquired Accelerant Networks, Inc., Cascade Semiconductors, Inc. and the technology assets of Analog Design Automation, Inc. In fiscal 2004, the Company also delivered Galaxy 2004 platform and Discovery Verification platform.
SNX SYNNEX Corporation is a global information technology (IT) supply chain services company. The Company offers a range of services to IT original equipment manufacturers and software publishers (collectively OEMs) and reseller customers worldwide. The supply chain services that SYNNEX offers include product distribution related logistics and contract assembly. In its distribution operations, the Company purchases IT systems, peripherals, system components, packaged software and networking equipment from OEM suppliers, such as Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Seagate and sell them to the Company's reseller customers. Its reseller customers include value-added resellers, corporate resellers, government resellers, system integrators, direct marketers and retailers. The Company's contract assembly operations are generally related to building IT systems, such as personal computers, workstations and servers.
SYT Syngenta AG is an agribusiness that is involved in the in the Crop Protection and Seeds businesses. The Company's Crop Protection chemicals include herbicides, insecticides and fungicides to control weeds, insect pests and diseases in crops, and are essential inputs enabling growers around the world to improve agricultural productivity and food quality. Many of these products also have application in the professional products sector in areas such as seed treatment and turf and ornamental markets. The Seeds business operates in two high-value commercial sectors: seeds for field crops including corn, oilseeds and sugar beets; and vegetable and flower seeds. Syngenta is also developing a Plant Science business applying biotechnology to improve growers' yield and food quality.
ELOS Syneron Medical Ltd. designs, develops and markets aesthetic medical products based on electro-optical synergy (ELOS) technology that uses the synergy between electrical energy and optical energy to provide effective, safe and affordable aesthetic medical treatments. The ELOS technology combines optical energy, which is derived from light waves, with electrical energy, in particular radio frequency energy that results from the flow of electric charge through a conductor. This enhances the user's ability to target accurately the tissue to be treated and enables real-time measurement of skin temperature, resulting in increased patient safety and comfort and improved treatment results. The Company's products are sold primarily to physicians and other practitioners, target a wide array of non-invasive aesthetic medical procedures, including hair removal, wrinkle reduction and rejuvenating the skin's appearance through the treatment of superficial benign vascular and pigmented lesions.
SYNF Synergy Financial Group, Inc. is the parent company of Synergy Bank (the Bank). The Company conducts no significant business or operations of its own other than holding 100% of the stock of the Bank. Synergy Bank has 18 office locations, including its main office and provides a range of financial services to individuals and corporate customers through its branch network located throughout Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris and Union counties in New Jersey. The Bank offers a range of deposit products, one- to four-family residential mortgage loans, home equity loans, multi-family and non-residential loans and consumer loan products, including automobile and personal loans. It attracts deposits from the general public and borrows money from the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York (FHLB) and uses these deposits and FHLB borrowings primarily to originate loans and to purchase investment securities.
SYBR Synergy Brands Inc. (SYBR) is a holding company that operates in wholesale distribution of consumer goods, as well as retail distribution of premium cigars and salon products. The Company focuses on the sale of branded consumer products manufactured by United States manufacturers. The consumer products are concentrated within the Grocery and Health &amp; Beauty Aids (HBA) industries, as well as the premium cigar business. SYBR distributes and sells these products through wholly owned subsidiaries in two distinct manners: business-to-business (B2B), defined as sales to non-retail customers, and business to customer (B2C), defined as sales to retail customers. The Company's B2B operations consist of two operating businesses. In July 2003, Synergy Brands acquired Cigars Around the World, a supplier of handmade cigars to hotels, restaurants, casinos and golf clubs in the United States.
SYNX Synergx Systems Inc. (Synergx) designs, manufactures, markets and sells its own life safety and communication systems and also engineers, distributes, markets and sells systems and products manufactured by other parties. The Company's product line features the COMTRAK 1720 and 2000 Life Safety Systems and the TELTRAK Communications System. Synergx conducts its business in New York principally through Casey Systems Inc. (Casey), its wholly owned subsidiary located in Long Island, New York, and in Texas through General Sound (Texas) Company (General Sound), its wholly owned subsidiary in Dallas, Texas.
SYNA Synaptics Incorporated is a worldwide developer and supplier of custom-designed user interface solutions for notebook computers. The Company's original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers include 10 large personal computer (PC) OEMs. Synaptics generally supplies its OEM customers through its contract manufacturers, which take delivery of its products and pay the Company directly for the OEMs. These contract manufacturers include Arima, Compal, Elitegroup Computers, Foxconn, Inventec and Shanghai Yi Hsin. Synaptics family of product solutions include TouchPad, TouchPad Under Plastic, TouchStyk, dual pointing solutions, ClearPad, Spiral, QuickStroke, TouchPad with embedded Chinese character recognition, Fingerprint TouchPad, TouchRing and TouchScreen.
SYNL Synalloy Corporation conducts its businesses through two operating segments: Metals and Chemicals. The Chemicals segment operates through the Colors segment and Specialty Chemicals segment. The metals segment is composed of Synalloy Metals, Inc., which owns 100% of Bristol Metals, L.P. (Bristol). Bristol manufactures welded pipe, primarily from stainless steel, but also from other corrosion-resistant metals. The Chemicals Group includes Blackman Uhler Chemical Company; Manufacturers Soap and Chemical Company, which own 100% of Manufacturers Chemicals, L.P.; Organic-Pigments Corporation, and Blackman Uhler, LLC. The Colors segment's principal business is the manufacture and sale of dyes and pigments to the paper, textile, carpet, flexographic printing, graphic arts and coatings industries. Specialty Chemicals produces specialty chemicals for the textile, carpet, chemical, paper, metals, photographic, pharmaceutical, agricultural and fiber industries.
SYGR Synagro Technologies, Inc. is a water and wastewater residuals management company, serving municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment accounts, with operations in 37 states and the District of Columbia. The Company offers many services that focus on the beneficial reuse of organic non-hazardous residuals resulting from the wastewater treatment process. It provides its customers with vertically integrated services and capabilities, including facility operations, facility cleanout services, regulatory compliance, dewatering, collection and transportation, composting, drying and pelletization, product marketing, incineration, alkaline stabilization and land application. Synagro operates five heat-drying facilities, five composting facilities, three incineration facilities and 26 permanent and 44 mobile dewatering units. It also services over 200 small wastewater treatment plants.
SMMX Symyx Technologies, Inc. develops and applies high-throughput experimentation to the discovery of materials for chemical, life science, electronics, consumer goods and automotive industries. The Company works together with companies seeking to transform their search for better products and processes through research collaborations and Discovery Tools sales, as well as the license of materials, intellectual property and software. Symyx performs research for client in its Industry Collaborations business. Its Discovery Tools business focuses on providing instruments and software to automate processes in pharmaceutical pre-clinical testing and in chemical research. The Company's Intellectual Property Licensing business reflects revenue from license fees and royalties received from license of its discovered materials, its patents and technology and its software.
SYM Syms Corp operates a chain of 40 off-price retail stores located throughout the United States in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions and in the Midwest, Southeast and Southwest. Each Syms store offers a range of in-season merchandise bearing nationally recognized designer or brand name labels at prices substantially lower than those generally found in department and specialty stores. The Company directs its merchandising efforts at predominantly middle-income, fashion-minded and price conscious customers.
SMA Symmetry Medical Inc. is an independent provider of implants, related instruments and cases to orthopedic device manufacturers. The Company also designs, develops and produces these products for companies in other segments of the medical device market, including the dental, osteobiologic and endoscopy sectors, and also provides limited specialized products and services to non-healthcare markets, such as the aerospace market. Symmetry Medical's key products are implants, instruments and cases. In June 2003, the Company acquired Mettis, a manufacturer of forged, cast and machined implants for the global orthopedic device market. During the fiscal year ended January 03, 2004, the Company sold its products and services to over 500 customers. The Company's customer base includes Biomet Inc., DePuy Inc., Kyocera Corporation, Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Smith &amp; Nephew plc, Stryker Corporation, Synthes, Inc. and Zimmer Holdings, Inc.
SYMM Symmetricom, Inc. is a supplier of synchronization and timing products to industry, government, utilities, research centers and aerospace markets. It supplies solutions for customers who demand reliable products and engineering expertise in a variety of applications, including network synchronization, timing, frequency generation and distribution, testing, verification and/or the measurement of a time and frequency-based signal. It designs and manufactures rubidium clocks, crystal oscillators, cesium clocks and hydrogen maser clocks. Products include synchronization network elements, timing elements and business broadband access devices for wireline and wireless networks, as well as the provision of professional services. Its products play an essential role in network operations, bandwidth optimization, and quality of service of wireline, wireless and broadband communications networks, enabling customers to increase performance and efficiency in their communications infrastructures.
SYMBA.OB Symbollon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Symbollon) is engaged in development and commercialization of proprietary iodine-based pharmaceutical agents and antimicrobials. Iodine has been shown to be a rapid acting, broad-spectrum antimicrobial and an effective therapeutic for certain pharmaceutical applications. The Company has developed proprietary iodine technology that has potential use in a number of product application areas, including women's healthcare and infection control. During 1994, Symbollon co-developed a bovine teat sanitizer, marketed as IodoZyme, with West Agro, Inc., a subsidiary of the Tetra Laval Group and a manufacturer and distributor of iodophor-based products for dairy use. In January 1995, Symbollon and West Agro signed a marketing and supply agreement covering IodoZyme and the Company began shipping IodoZyme to West Agro in 1995.
SBL Symbol Technologies, Inc. (Symbol) is engaged in enterprise mobility, delivering products and solutions that capture, move and manage information in real-time to and from the point of business activity. Symbol enterprise mobility solutions integrate data capture technology, mobile computing platforms, wireless infrastructure, mobility software and services programs under the Symbol Enterprise Mobility Services brand. Symbol enterprise mobility products and solutions are designed to increase workforce productivity, reduce operating costs, drive operational efficiencies and realize competitive advantages for retailers, transportation and logistics companies, manufacturers, warehouse and distribution centers, government agencies and healthcare.
SMBI Symbion, Inc. through its wholly owned subsidiaries, owns interests in limited partnerships and limited liability companies that own and operate surgery centers in joint-ownership with physicians and physician groups, hospitals and hospital networks. The Company's surgery centers provide non-emergency surgical procedures across many specialties. At March 15, 2004, Symbion owned and operated 36 surgery centers and managed eight additional surgery centers located in 19 states. The Company's surgery centers include three facilities that are licensed as hospitals, two of which Symbion owns and one of which it manages. In addition to surgery centers, the Company also operates a diagnostic center and manages three physician networks, including two physician networks in markets in which it operates surgery centers.
SYMC Symantec Corporation is a provider of software, appliances and services designed to help individuals, small and mid-sized businesses and large enterprises secure and manage their information technology (IT) infrastructure. The Company's segments: Consumer Products segment focuses on delivering Internet security and problem-solving products to individual users, home offices and small businesses; Enterprise Security segment provides security solutions for all tiers of a network, at the gateways between the network, at the servers that act as the network's vital organs and at end user devices, including desktop personal computer (PCs), laptops and handhelds; Enterprise Administration segment offers open and modular products and services that enable companies to manage their IT infrastructures; Services segment provides information security solution with advanced technology, security practices and expertise and global resources, and Other segment consists of sunset products.
SYKE Sykes Enterprises, Inc. is engaged primarily in the provision of outsourced customer-contact management solutions and services in the business process outsourcing (BPO) arena. The Company provides an array of customer-contact management solutions to companies primarily in the communications, technology/consumer, financial services, healthcare and transportation and leisure industries. Sykes Enterprises serves its clients through two principal geographic operating regions: the Americas, comprised of the United States, Canada, Latin America, India and the Asia Pacific Rim, and EMEA, which includes Europe, Middle East and Africa. The Americas and EMEA groups primarily provide customer-contact outsourcing services with an emphasis on inbound technical support and customer service delivered through multiple communications channels.
SCMR Sycamore Networks, Inc. develops and markets intelligent optical networking products that are designed to enable telecommunications service providers to cost-effectively and easily transition their existing fiber-optic network into an infrastructure that can manage and deliver economic, high-bandwidth services to their customers. Its intelligent optical networking product portfolio includes fully integrated edge and core optical switching products, network management products and network design and planning tools. The Company also offers engineering, furnishing, installation and testing services, as well as customer support from multiple locations worldwide.
SYD Sybron Dental Specialties, Inc. is a global manufacturer and marketer of consumable dental products and related small equipment and a manufacturer and distributor of products for use in infection prevention in both the medical and dental markets. Its subsidiaries operate in two business segments: professional dental and specialty products. The professional dental segment develops and manufactures dental consumable products and consumable infection prevention products sold through independent distributors. The specialty products segment develop, manufacture, and market an array of consumable orthodontic products, endodontic products and implants to orthodontists, endodontic specialists, oral surgeons, prosthodontists, and periodontists worldwide. This segment was previously referred to as the Orthodontics segment. The Company markets its products in the United States and abroad under brand names such as Kerr, Ormco, Metrex, Pinnacle, Demetron, KerrHawe, AOA, SybronEndo and Innova.
SY Sybase, Inc. enables the unwired enterprise through enterprise and mobile software solutions for information management, development and data integration in commerce, communications, finance, government and healthcare. Its solutions integrate platforms, databases and applications, and extend those applications to mobile workers through mobile and Wi-Fi technologies. The Company's business is organized around one principal product group, the Infrastructure Platform Group (IPG), and two majority-owned subsidiaries, iAnywhere Solutions, Inc. (iAS) and Financial Fusion, Inc. (FFI). Its products are available on hardware platforms manufactured by Hewlett-Packard, International Business Machines (IBM), Sun Microsystems and others. The Company also makes products that connect these platforms to other hardware platforms with large installed bases. The products are also available for a range of operating systems including various UNIX environments, Windows, Windows NT and Linux.
SYI S.Y. Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for its wholly owned banking subsidiary Stock Yards Bank &amp; Trust Company (the Bank). The Bank is a state-chartered bank that principally provides a range of financial services to individuals, corporations and others through its 21 full service banking offices in Louisville and southern Indiana. In addition, the Bank has a loan production office in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Bank provides traditional commercial and personal banking services and products including lending, receiving deposits, cash management services and safe deposit box rental. In addition to these, the Bank has an investment management and trust department that offers a range of trust and investment services. The Bank also originates and sells single-family residential mortgages through its operating division, Stock Yards Mortgage Company.
SWS WS Group, Inc., incorporated in 1972, is a full-service securities and banking firm delivering a broad range of investment, commercial banking and related financial services to individual, corporate and institutional investors, broker/dealers, governmental entities and financial intermediaries. The Company operates through three business segments: Brokerage Group, Banking Group and Asset Management Group. The Brokerage Group consists of the operations of the Company's principal subsidiary, Southwest Securities, Inc. The Banking Group's activities are conducted by the Company's subsidiary, First Savings Bank, FSB (the Bank). The Asset Management Group consists of the operations of the Company's subsidiary, SWS Capital Corporation.
SCM Swisscom AG is a telecommunications provider in Switzerland, offering a range of products and services to residential and business customers. The Company offers analog and digital access services. It also offers broadband services over the existing subscriber lines using a technology commonly referred to as asymmetric digital subscriber line. In 2003, Swisscom operated in the following business segments: Fixnet, Mobile, Enterprise Solutions, debitel, Other (which covers mainly the sale of corporate voice communications equipment through Swisscom Systems) and Corporate (which management of Swisscom real estate properties by Swisscom Immobilien AG). On April 29, 2004, the Company entered into an agreement to sell its 95% stake in debitel AG, including the 2% it acquired from ElectronicPartner in connection with this transaction, in a leveraged buyout by funds advised by the private equity firm Permira (Permira Funds).
SWME.OB Swiss Medica, Inc. markets and distributes bioscience products designed to enhance the well being and health of consumers. Bioscience products are natural compounds that have health-promoting, disease-preventing or medicinal properties. On May 16, 2003, the Company acquired certain assets of General Cosmetics Corporation, based in Munich, Germany. The assets acquired included nine patented essential oil bioscience products that have been developed for pain relief, cold sores, menstrual cramps and other ailments. All of these products comply with United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations and can be sold in the United States. After the acquisition of the General Cosmetics Corporation assets, the Company changed its name, in July 2003, from Global Path Incorporated (GPI) to Swiss Medica, Inc.
SWFT Swift Transportation Co. Inc. is a truckload motor carrier that transports primarily retail and discount department store merchandise, manufactured goods, paper products, non-perishable and perishable food, beverages and beverage containers and building materials. Swift operates principally within short- to medium-haul traffic lanes and transport in an average length of haul of less than 600 miles. In addition to operations in the continental United States, Swift has a cross-border operation into Mexico that primarily ships through commercial border crossings from Laredo, Texas, westward to California.
SFY Swift Energy Company is engaged in developing, exploring, acquiring and operating oil and gas properties, with a focus on onshore and inland waters oil and natural gas reserves in Texas and Louisiana, and onshore oil and natural gas reserves in New Zealand. At December 31, 2003, the Company had interests in 998 wells located domestically in four states, in federal offshore waters and in New Zealand. The Company operated 870 of these wells representing 95% of its proved reserves. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Swift Energy had estimated proved reserves of 820.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent (Bcfe), of which approximately 47% was crude oil, 41% natural gas and 12% natural gas liquids, and overall 59% was proved developed. The Company's proved reserves are concentrated 40% in Louisiana, 37% in Texas and 21% in New Zealand. Swift Energy has increased its production to 53.2 Bcfe at year-end 2003 from 39 Bcfe at year-end 1998.
SVBF SVB Financial Services, Inc. is a business and bank holding company that acquired Somerset Valley Bank (the Bank). The Company also owns SVB Bald Eagle Statutory Trust I and SVB Bald Eagle Statutory Trust II. The Bank is a New Jersey commercial bank and was granted a charter by the New Jersey Department of Banking in February 1990. The Bank has two subsidiaries, Somerset Valley Investment Company, Inc. and Somerset Valley Investment Company, Inc. The Bank provides a range of commercial and consumer banking services. Deposit services include business and personal checking accounts, interest-bearing negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, money market deposit accounts, savings accounts and certificates of deposit. In order to compete with the larger banks for deposit accounts, the Bank gives favorable terms, such as interest rates, minimum balances and service charges. At December 31, 2003, the Bank had $379 million in deposits and approximately 21,000 deposit accounts.
SRHI.OB Sutter Holding Company, Inc. is a holding company comprised primarily of two operating subsidiaries, Easton Mortgage Corporation and Progressive Lending LLC. Both subsidiaries are mortgage banks that derive a majority of their revenues from originating residential mortgages in the states, such as Arizona, California and Washington. Easton and Progressive originate mortgage loans that generally fall into one of the three categories: prime mortgage loans, prime home equity loans and sub-prime mortgage loans. The majority of loan production consists of prime mortgage loans. Prime mortgage loans include conventional mortgage loans, Federal Housing Administration-insured mortgage loans and Veterans Administration-guaranteed mortgage loans. Sutter acquired the mortgage banks of Easton and Progressive during the year ended December 31, 2003.
STRN.OB Sutron Corporation designs, manufactures and markets products and solutions that enable government and commercial entities to monitor and collect hydrological and meteorological data for the management of critical water resources, for early warning of potentially disastrous floods or storms and for the optimization of hydropower plants. The Company is focused on providing real-time solutions and services to its customers in three areas of the hydrological and meteorological markets. Sutron's customers include a diversified base of federal, state, local and foreign governments, engineering companies, universities and hydropower companies. In 2003, approximately 45% of the Company's products and services were sold to the Federal Government. Sutron's strategic business units consist of the Hydromet Products Division, the Integrated Systems Division, the Hydrological Services Division and the Airport Weather Systems Division.
SBB Sussex Bancorp is a one-bank holding company for Sussex Bank (the Bank). Its primary business is ownership and supervision of the Bank and its subsidiary, Tri-State Insurance Agency, Inc., a full service insurance agency offering both commercial and personal lines of insurance. The Company, through the Bank, conducts a traditional commercial banking business and offers services, including personal and business checking accounts and time deposits, money market accounts and regular savings accounts. Sussex Bancorp engages in a range of lending activities and offers commercial, consumer, mortgage, home equity and personal loans.
SUSQ Susquehanna Bancshares, Inc. is a financial holding company that provides a range of retail and commercial banking and financial services through its subsidiaries in the mid-Atlantic region. The Company has eight commercial banks: Farmers First Bank, First Susquehanna Bank and Trust, WNB Bank, Equity Bank, Susquehanna Bank, Farmers and Merchants Bank and Trust, Citizens Bank of Southern Pennsylvania and First American Bank of Pennsylvania. In addition to eight commercial banks, Susquehanna Bancshares operates a trust and investment company, an asset management company, a property and casualty insurance brokerage company and a vehicle leasing company. In June 2004, the Company acquired Patriot Bank Corp., a bank holding company for Patriot Bank with 20 offices in the Greater Delaware Valley region of Pennsylvania.
SRDX SurModics, Inc. is a provider of surface-modification and drug delivery technologies to the medical device industry. The Company's technologies modify and enhance the surface characteristics of medical devices and biomedical applications, improving performance, and, in some cases, enabling development of new products. Its surface modification and drug delivery coatings are based upon versatile underlying technology platforms including drug delivery matrix technology and PhotoLink coating technology. Coatings developed from the drug delivery matrix technology allow for the controlled, site-specific release of drugs from the surface of medical devices. Therapeutic drugs can be entrapped within the polymer matrix coating to provide controlled, site-specific release of the drug into the surrounding tissue. PhotoLink coating technology is a versatile, easily applied, light-activated coating technology that modifies medical device surfaces.
SRGL.OB SurgiLight, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells ophthalmic lasers and related products and services based on its own and licensed intellectual property for use in refractive and presbyopia procedures. SurgiLight's wholly owned subsidiaries, Plantation Laser Eye Center (Plantation) and American Medical Laser Services, Inc. (AMLSI) provided medical laser services in the state of Florida. In October 2002, the Company entered into a formal plan to dispose of both Plantation and AMLSI. The AMLSI operations were discontinued in December 2002 and all of its assets were written off except for the escrowed cash account. Accordingly, the Plantation subsidiary has been disposed as of June 2003.
SURW SureWest Communications is a holding company whose operating subsidiaries provide a range of telecommunications, digital video and other facilities-based communication services in northern California, primarily in the greater Sacramento region. As of December 31, 2003, the Company's wholly owned subsidiaries included SureWest Telephone, SureWest Directories, SureWest Long Distance, SureWest Wireless, SureWest Broadband, SureWest TeleVideo and SureWest Televideo of Roseville (SureWest Broadband/Residential Services), SureWest Internet and SureWest Custom Data Services. Until October 27, 2003, SureWest Telephone was named Roseville Telephone Company, and SureWest Long Distance was named Roseville Long Distance Company.
STS Supreme Industries, Inc. manufactures specialized truck bodies that are mounted on new truck chassis produced by others. The Company's truck body products include cut-away and dry freight van bodies, refrigerated units, stake bodies and other specialized trucks. Supreme's truck bodies are offered in aluminum or fiberglass reinforced plywood panel construction and are available in lengths of nine to 45 feet and heights up to 13 feet, six inches. Examples of optional equipment offered by Supreme include lift gates, cargo-handling equipment, customized doors, special bumpers, ladder racks and refrigeration equipment, which are configured with the truck bodies to meet the end user's needs. The Company also manufactures fiberglass wind deflectors, cargo vans, armored trucks, shuttle buses and trolleys. Its customers are located principally in the United States.
SPRT SupportSoft, Inc. is a provider of support and service management software (referred to as real-time service management software) designed to accelerate and automate enterprise technical support, customer service and end-point management. The Company's software solutions are utilized by enterprises to service customers, partners or employees either directly or as part of an outsourced solution from managed service providers and by consumers and businesses through digital service providers. SupportSoft's real-time service management software, including its self-healing and mass-healing capabilities that preemptively diagnose and resolve software problems, allows organizations to keep up with the complexity and cost of information technology (IT) infrastructure and related support and service problems.
SVU SUPERVALU Inc. operates within two complementary businesses in the United States grocery food industry: grocery retail and food distribution. The Company conducts its retail operations under three retail food stores: extreme value store under the retail banner Save-A-Lot; price superstores under the regional retail banners of Cub Foods, Shop 'n Save, Shoppers Food Warehouse and bigg's, and supermarkets under the regional retail banners of Farm Fresh, Scott's and Hornbacher's. During the fiscal year ended February 28, 2004 (fiscal 2003), SUPERVALU conducted its retail operations through 1,483 stores, including 821 licensed extreme value stores. It also provides food distribution and related logistics support services across the United States retail grocery channel. In fiscal 2003, SUPERVALU served as a grocery supplier to approximately 2,470 retail food stores in 48 states, in addition to its own regional banner store network and as a secondary supplier to approximately 660 stores.
SUPX Supertex, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets high-voltage analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) utilizing high-voltage diffusion metal oxide semiconductor (DMOS), high-voltage complementary metal oxide semiconductor (HVCMOS) and high-voltage bipolar complementary metal oxide semiconductor (HVBiCMOS) analog and mixed-signal technologies. The Company supplies standard and custom interface products for the use in the telecommunications, imaging and medical electronics markets. Supertex also provides wafer foundry services for the manufacture of ICs for customers using customer-owned designs and mask toolings. The Company markets and distributes its products in the United States, Europe and Asia to electronic original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) through direct sales personnel, independent sales representatives and distributors.
SGC Superior Uniform Group, Inc. (Superior), incorporated in 1922, manufactures and sells a range of apparel and accessories for the medical and health fields, as well as for the industrial, commercial, leisure and public safety markets. Superior's principal products include: uniforms and service apparel, miscellaneous products related to uniforms and service apparels, linen suppliers and industrial launderers and corporate and resort embroidered sportswear. Effective February 27, 2004, Superior acquired substantially all of the assets of UniVogue, Inc., a uniform manufacturer catering to customers in various markets, particularly in the hospitality, lodging, food service and culinary markets.
SIOR.OB Superior Oil &amp; Gas Co. was previously engaged in the oil and gas exploration and development business. The Company's principal properties were two wells in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, the Selby-Hooper 1-5 Well and the Selby-Hooper 2-4 Well. Superior devoted most of its resources to placing these two wells into production, but the Company was hampered by the need for a pipeline connection for its gas reserves and by litigation that extended for several years. On February 28, 2000, Superior surrendered its interest in the wells to an affiliated company, McCoy Energy Co., from whom the Company had acquired such interest but had never been able to pay for the interest. As of December 31, 2003, Superior had no commercial operations, and owns no oil and gas interests or other property. The Company's sole asset is its shareholder base, which may have value for some other company that seeks to create a public market for its securities.
SUP Superior Industries International Inc. designs and manufactures motor vehicle parts for sale to original equipment manufacturers (OEM) on an integrated one-segment basis. It is a supplier of cast and forged aluminum wheels to automobile and light truck manufacturers with wheel manufacturing operations in the United States, Mexico and Hungary. Customers in North America represent the principal market for its products with approximately 10% of products being exported to international customers or delivered to their assembly operations in the United States. The Company is also involved in the market for aluminum suspension and related underbody components to complement its OEM aluminum wheel business.
SPN Superior Energy Services, Inc. is a provider of specialized oilfield services and equipment focused on serving the production-related needs of oil and gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico. The Company provides a full range of products and services for its customers, including well intervention services, marine services, rental tools and other oilfield services. Superior Energy's customers are oil and gas companies operating on the United States continental shelf. As of December 31, 2003, sales to ChevronTexaco accounted for approximately 11% of its total revenue primarily in the well intervention and other oilfield services segment.
SUPC Superior Consultant Holdings Corporation is a provider of Digital Business Transformation services to the healthcare industry. The Company is organized into the two business segments of consulting and outsourcing. The consulting segment provides information technology, as well as strategic and operations management consulting and solutions, and application support to a broad cross-section of healthcare industry participants and information systems vendors. The outsourcing segment helps healthcare providers simplify their management agendas, improve their return on information systems investment and strengthen their technology management by taking on responsibility for managing and operating all or part of the client's information technology functions.
SUPG SuperGen, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to the development and commercialization of therapies for solid tumors, hematological malignancies and blood disorders. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had three key compounds that were the primary focus of its efforts: Orathecin (rubitecan) capsules, Dacogen (decitabine) injection and Nipent (pentostatin for injection). On January 26, 2004, SuperGen submitted a new drug application (NDA) under accelerated approval procedures with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Orathecin for the treatment of refractory pancreatic cancer patients. The Company is compiling and validating the results from its Phase III study of Dacogen for the treatment of myelodysplastic syndrome and if the study results are positive, anticipate commencing submission of the initial modules of a "rolling" NDA in 2004. Nipent is approved by the FDA for the treatment of hairy cell leukemia and is marketed by the Company in the United States.
SCON Superconductor Technologies Inc., incorporated in 1987, develops, manufactures and markets performance products to service providers, systems integrators and original equipment manufacturers in the commercial wireless telecommunications industry. The Company's products are known commercially as SuperLink Solutions, and cater to wireless networks uplink signals from subscriber terminals, including wireless handsets or mobile wireless devices, to network base stations, and of downlink signals from network base stations to subscriber terminals. These products are built around the Company's flagship product, SuperLink Rx, and work in concert to provide total link enhancement. SuperLink Solutions consist of two product families: SuperLink Rx and SuperPlex.
SUPVA Super Vision International, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets and sells light-emitting diode (LED) and fiber-optic lighting products, as well as signs and displays for applications in the signage, swimming pool, architectural and retail industries. The Company derives its revenues from sales of Side-Glow and End Glow fiber-optic lighting cables; fiber-optic lighting sources, accessories, endpoint signs and displays, and LED lighting systems. It also designs, manufactures, markets and sells fiber-optically lit waterfalls and water features.
STI SunTrust Banks, Inc. is a financial holding company that through its flagship subsidiary, SunTrust Bank, offers deposit, credit and trust and investment services. Other subsidiaries provide mortgage banking, insurance, asset management, brokerage and capital market services. Its base includes a range of individuals and families, high-net-worth clients, businesses and institutions. Its 1,201 retail and specialized service branches and 2,225 automated teller machines (ATMs) are located primarily in Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Tennessee, Virginia and the District of Columbia. It offers customers with a range of technology-based banking channels, including Internet, personal computer (PC) and telephone banking. It has six business segments: Retail, Commercial, Corporate and Investment Banking, Private Client Services, Mortgage and Other.
SUNN Suntron Corporation delivers manufacturing services and solutions to support the entire life cycle of complex products in the semiconductor capital equipment, aerospace and defense, medical and industrial markets. It provides a variety of manufacturing services, including printed circuit board assembly and testing, electronic interconnect assemblies, subassemblies, sheet metal fabrication and powder paint, plastic injection molding and full systems integration (known as box build), after-market repair and warranty services, and engineering and design services. Suntron focuses on serving original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in industries that have high-mix requirements. Sales to Honeywell International, Inc. and Applied Materials, Inc. represented approximately 29% and 18%, respectively, of net sales for 2003.
SNRR Sunterra Corporation is a vacation ownership company. At September 30, 2004, the Company had over 300,000 owner families vacationing at 92 resorts in 12 countries located in North America, Europe and the Caribbean. Its operations include acquiring, developing and operating vacation ownership resorts; marketing and selling vacation points, which may be redeemed for occupancy rights for varying lengths of stay at participating resort locations, referred to as vacation points; marketing and selling vacation ownership interests that entitle the buyer to use a fully-furnished vacation residence, referred to as vacation intervals, and together with vacation points, vacation interests; leasing vacation intervals and selling vacation points at certain Caribbean locations; providing consumer financing to individual purchasers of vacation interests; providing collection services and resort rental, management and maintenance services, and operating membership and exchange programs.
SHO Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. is a hospitality company that primarily owns upper-upscale and upscale hotels in the United States. Its hotels are operated under brand names franchised or licensed from others, such as Marriott, Hilton, InterContinental, Hyatt, Starwood, Carlson and Wyndham. As of June 30, 2004, on a pro forma basis, the Company owned 54 hotels, comprised of 13,183 rooms, located in 17 states in the United States, with a concentration of hotels in the western United States. The Company's portfolio also includes midscale hotels.
SFO Sunset Financial Resources, Inc. is a self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) that was formed to acquire a portfolio of residential mortgage loans and commercial mortgage bridge loans in the United States. The Company's initial portfolio will be, and future portfolios are expected to be, approximately 75% residential mortgage loans and approximately 25% commercial mortgage bridge loans. Sunset's principal business objective is to generate net income for distribution to its stockholders from the spread between interest income on its mortgage assets and the costs of financing the acquisition of these assets.
SRTI Sunrise Telecom Incorporated is engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of service verification equipment that enables service providers to pre-qualify facilities for services, verify newly installed services and diagnose problems relating to telecommunications, cable broadband and Internet networks. Its products include wireline access services, fiber optics, cable broadband networks and signaling networks. The Company designs its products to maximize technicians' effectiveness in the field and to provide realistic network simulations for equipment manufacturers to test their products. Its customers include local exchange carriers, cable companies, as well as other service providers, network infrastructure suppliers and installers throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Asia/Pacific region.
SRZ Sunrise Senior Living, Inc. is a provider of senior living services in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. As of December 31, 2003, Sunrise operated 373 open communities, including 361 communities in the United States, nine communities in Canada and three communities in the United Kingdom, with a total resident capacity of approximately 43,000. Sunrise communities offer a range of personalized senior living services, including independent living, assisted living, care for individuals with Alzheimer's and other forms of memory loss and nursing and rehabilitative care. Sunrise also develops senior living communities for itself, for joint ventures in which it retains an ownership interest and for third parties.
STKL SunOpta Inc. owns and operates high-growth ethical businesses, focused on environmental responsibility and the health and well-being of its communities. Formerly operating as Stake Technology Ltd., the Company changed its name to SunOpta Inc. on October 31, 2003. The Company has three business units, the largest being the SunOpta Food Group, accounting for approximately 87% of revenues. The Food Group processes, packages and distributes a range of natural and organic food products via its vertically integrated operations, with a focus on soy, oat fiber and other natural and organic food products. In addition to the Food Group, Opta Minerals produces, distributes and recycles industrial materials. The StakeTech Steam Explosion Group markets proprietary non-wood processing technology with significant licensing and application potential in the pulp, food processing and bio-fuel industries.
SXL Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. is a limited partnership that owns, operates and acquires a geographically diversified portfolio of complementary energy assets. The Company is principally engaged in the transport, terminalling and storage of refined products and crude oil and the purchase and sale of crude oil. Sunoco, Inc. (R&amp;M), a wholly owned refining and marketing subsidiary of Sunoco (Sunoco R&amp;M), accounted for approximately 52% of the Partnership's total revenues for the year ended December 31, 2003. The business consists of three segments: the Eastern Pipeline System, Terminal Facilities and the Western Pipeline System. The Company and its equity interests operate in 17 states.
SUN Sunoco, Inc. operates through its subsidiaries as a petroleum refiner and marketer and chemicals manufacturer with interests in logistics and cokemaking. Sunoco's petroleum refining and marketing operations include the manufacturing and marketing of a range of petroleum products, including fuels, lubricants and some petrochemicals. Sunoco's chemical operations consist of the manufacturing, distribution and marketing of commodity and intermediate petrochemicals. The Company's operations are organized into five business segments: refining and supply, retail marketing, chemicals, logistics and coke.
SSY SunLink Health Systems, Inc. operates a total of seven community hospitals in four states. The Company owns six of the hospitals and leases one, as well as certain related businesses, consisting primarily of nursing homes located adjacent to or in close proximity with some of its hospitals and home health agencies servicing areas around some of its hospitals. SunLink's hospitals are general acute care hospitals and have a total of 402 licensed beds. The Company's healthcare operations are conducted through its direct and indirect subsidiaries, including SunLink Healthcare Corp.
SGIHF.OB Sungold International Holdings Corp. along with its wholly owned subsidiaries, SafeSpending Inc., Horsepower Broadcasting Network (HBN) International Ltd and Racing Unified Network Inc. is in the business of developing and operating entertainment facilities and online virtual horse racing and prepayment systems. The Company's business operations consist of the projects to develop entertainment, racing and pari-mutuel wagering operations. The Company controls the international rights, title and interest in the Horsepower World Pool, random, virtual horserace and pari-mutuel-based wagering system. The Horsepower World Pool Wagering System (Horsepower) operates on the Internet and through licensed, racetrack operators by HBN, a subsidiary, which is 100% owned and controlled by the Company. Horsepower is a computer generated horse racing jackpot system, which is viewed in real time worldwide. Players can win small prizes or multimillion-dollar jackpots.
SDS SunGard Data Systems Inc. is a provider of integrated software and processing solutions and information availability services. It operates its business in three segments, including investment support systems, which serve financial services institutions through a range of complementary software solutions that are grouped into business areas, such as brokerage and trading systems, wealth management systems, treasury and risk management systems, investment management systems and benefit, insurance and investor accounting systems; availability services, which helps information-dependent enterprises to ensure the continuity of their business by providing a variety of solutions that help them maintain access to their critical data and systems, and higher education and public sector systems, which provide enterprise resource planning and administrative solutions to institutions of higher education, schools and other nonprofit organizations, as well as local, state and federal governments.
SDAY SUNDAY Communications Limited is a developer and provider of wireless communications and data services in Hong Kong. The Company operates in the mobile communications business. It operates a GSM 1800 network, which is also GPRS ready, and offers wireless communications and data services targeted to specific market segments in Hong Kong. For the years ended December 2001, 2002 and 2003, the Company's total subscribers grew at rates of 34%, 9% and 9%, respectively. Its subsidiaries include SUNDAY Holdings (Hong Kong) Corporation, Mandarin Communications Limited, SUNDAY 3G Holdings (Hong Kong) Corporation, SUNDAY 3G (Hong Kong) Limited, SUNDAY Holdings (China) Corporation, SUNDAY Communications Services (Shenzhen) Limited, SUNDAY IP Holdings Corporation and SUNDAY IP Limited.
SU Suncor Energy Inc. is an integrated energy company. Suncor explores for, acquires, develops, produces and markets, crude oil and natural gas, transports and refines crude oil and markets petroleum and petrochemical products. Periodically, the Company also markets third-party petroleum products. Suncor also carries on energy trading activities focused principally on buying and selling futures contracts and other derivative instruments based on the commodities it produces. The Company has two principal subsidiaries: Suncor Energy Products Inc. (SEPI) and Suncor Energy Marketing Inc. (SEMI). SEPI, a wholly owned subsidiary of Suncor, refines and markets petroleum products and petrochemicals directly and indirectly through subsidiaries and joint ventures. SEMI, wholly owned by SEPI, markets, mainly to customers in Canada and the United States, crude oil, diesel fuel and by-products, such as petroleum coke, sulphur and gypsum, produced by the Company.
SBAQ.OB Sunburst Acquisitions IV, Inc. (Sunburst) was formed to seek out and acquire business opportunities. It has engaged in two separate acquisition transactions, neither of which has resulted in the acquisition of a viable operating business. The Company has focused on the development of a business related to the marketing, distribution and sale of digital electronic ballasts, through its wholly owned Canadian subsidiary, Sunburst Digital, Inc. It has also sought other opportunities, and as a result, the Company remains in the development stage. In May 2004, Sunburst completed a share exchange transaction with Sierra Minerals and Mining, Inc. (Sierra), pursuant to which Sierra became its wholly owned subsidiary. Through this subsidiary, the Company intends to seek to develop several mining properties in Mexico. Sierra explores and develops properties that are located in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico.
SNR Sunair Electronics, Inc. is engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of high-frequency single sideband communications equipment and the software development, design, integration testing and documentation of C4ISR systems utilized for long range voice and data communications in fixed station, mobile and marine for military and governmental applications. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary Percipia, Inc., installs and maintenances telephony systems, and develops and customizes software for telephony systems to various industries, most notably hospitality. The Company's another wholly owned subsidiary Telecom FM Limited (Telecom), distributes and installs telecommunication devices providing fixed wireless access to network and data service providers.
SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc. is singularly focused on providing products and services for network computing. Network computing is based on the premise that the power of a single computer can be increased when interconnected with other computer systems for the purposes of communication and sharing of computing power. Together with its partners, Sun provides network computing infrastructure solutions comprised of computer systems, network storage systems (hardware and software), support services and professional and educational services. The Company's network computing infrastructure solutions are used in a wide range of technical/scientific, business and engineering applications in industries, such as telecommunications, government, financial services, manufacturing, education, retail, life sciences, media and entertainment and healthcare. In April 2004, the Company acquired Kealia, Inc., a privately held company based in Palo Alto, California, co-founded and led by Andy Bechtolsheim.
SLF Sun Life Financial Inc. is an international financial services organization providing a diverse range of wealth accumulation and protection products and services to individuals and corporate customers. Sun Life Financial and its partners have operations in markets worldwide, including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China and Bermuda. The Company's operations are divided into six business segments: Sun Life Financial Canada (SLF Canada), Sun Life Financial United States (SLF U.S.), MFS Investment Management, Sun Life Financial United Kingdom (SLF U.K.), Sun Life Financial Asia (SLF Asia) and Corporate Capital. Effective December 31, 2003, the Company amalgamated its United States subsidiaries, Keyport Life Insurance Company (Keyport) and Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.) (Sun Life (U.S.)).The Company generally classifies its products into two principal categories: wealth management and protection.
SNHY Sun Hydraulics Corporation is a designer and manufacturer of high-performance, screw-in hydraulic cartridge valves and manifolds, which control force, speed and motion as integral components in fluid power systems. The Company sells its products through a global network of independent fluid power distributors to a diverse range of end users for use in various mobile applications, such as construction, agricultural and utility equipment, and an array of industrial applications, such as machine tools and material handling equipment. Sun Hydraulics has 63 distributors, 41 of which are located outside the United States. During the fiscal year ended December 27, 2003, sales to its major distributor represented approximately 6% of net sales, and, outside of the United States, represented approximately 52% of total net sales.
SUNH Sun HealthCare Group, Inc. is a provider of long-term, subacute and related specialty healthcare services in the United States. It operates through various direct and indirect subsidiaries that engage in the following five principal business segments: inpatient services, rehabilitation therapy services, medical staffing services, home health services and laboratory and radiology services. The Company's long-term and subacute care facilities provide inpatient skilled nursing and custodial services, as well as rehabilitative, restorative and transitional medical services. Its specialty acute rehabilitation hospitals provide a range of inpatient and outpatient services for people with traumatic brain injuries, strokes, arthritis and other disabling conditions. Through SunDance Rehabilitation Corporation, it provides an array of rehabilitation therapy services, including speech pathology, physical therapy and occupational therapy.
SUI Sun Communities, Inc. (SUI) is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. The Company owns, operates, develops and finances manufactured housing communities concentrated in the midwestern and southeastern United States. As of December 31, 2003, SUI owned and operated a portfolio of 127 properties located in 17 states, including 115 manufactured housing communities, five recreational vehicle communities and seven properties containing both manufactured housing and recreational vehicle sites. As of December 31, 2003, the properties contained an aggregate of 43,875 developed sites, consisting of 38,797 developed manufactured home sites and 5,078 recreational vehicle sites, as well as an additional 6,756 manufactured home sites suitable for development. In order to enhance property performance and cash flow, the Company, through Sun Home Services, Inc., actively markets, sells and leases new and pre-owned manufactured homes for placement in the properties.
SNBC Sun Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for Sun National Bank (the Bank). Through the Bank, the Company provides consumer and business banking services through five regional banking groups and 78 community banking centers as of December 31, 2003 in Southern and Central New Jersey, in the contiguous New Castle County market in Delaware, and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Bank offers comprehensive lending, domestic letters of credit, depository and financial services to its customers and marketplace. Through a third- party arrangement, the Bank also offers mutual funds, securities brokerage, annuities and investment advisory services. The Bank also offers equipment leasing and SBA loans and is a designated Preferred Lender with the New Jersey Economic Development Authority.
SUMT SumTotal Systems, Inc. is a provider of online learning solutions designed to enable customers to create, distribute and manage learning applications throughout an enterprise. Its solutions assist organizations in creating, delivering and analyzing learning and information systems in order to enhance workforce performance and build strategic relationships with their customers and partners. Its services help companies launch new products and services, improve channel partner effectiveness, accelerate sales force readiness, increase customer satisfaction, educate a distributed workforce and ensure regulatory compliance. Customers include Microsoft, Cingular Wireless, Vodafone, United Airlines, Lucent, Albertsons, Accenture, Cendant, Harley-Davidson, Wyeth, AT&amp;T, Wachovia and D &amp; B. The Company operates in the United States and also has offices in London, Paris, Heidelberg, Sydney, Tokyo and India. SumTotal Systems was formed through the merger of Docent and Click2Learn in March 2004.
SUMU.OB Summus, Inc. (USA) has designed, developed and deployed a suite of end user applications built on its BlueFuel platform. The BlueFuel platform enables information mobility, management and exchange tasks on low-, mid- and high-tier, data-enabled cellular handsets, smart phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other handheld wireless devices. The Company's business development activities continue to expand with major content brands, such as Sports Illustrated, The Associated Press and Fuji Film. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Summus has executed contracts with a variety of content providers to build applications utilizing its BlueFuel Platform. Up to 11 wireless carriers in the United States and eight international carriers deploy at least one or a combination of the 25 wireless applications that have been completed by the Company.
SMT Summit Properties Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that focuses on the development, construction, acquisition and operation of luxury apartment communities. As of December 31, 2003, Summit owned 46 completed communities consisting of 14,098 apartment homes, with an additional 1,687 apartment homes under construction in five new communities. It also owns a 25% interest in a joint venture consisting of four completed communities with 1,203 apartment homes. The Company focuses its efforts on five markets: Washington, District of Columbia; southeast Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Raleigh, North Carolina, and Charlotte, North Carolina.
SUMM Summit Financial Corporation is the parent holding company for Summit National Bank (the Bank), a chartered bank, and Freedom Finance, Inc., a consumer finance company. Through its primary subsidiary, the Bank, the Company offers a range of financial products and services, including business and consumer loans, commercial and residential mortgage lending and brokerage, asset-based financing, corporate and consumer deposit services and investment management services. Summit Investment Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank, provides financial management services and non-deposit product sales. Freedom Finance primarily makes and services installment loans to individuals. The principal role of the Company is to supervise and coordinate the activities of its subsidiaries and to provide them with capital and services of various kinds.
SMMF.OB Summit Financial Group, Inc (Summit) is a financial holding company that operates two business segments: community banking and mortgage banking. The community-banking segment provides commercial and retail banking services in the Eastern Panhandle and South Central regions of West Virginia and the Northern region of Virginia. The Company provides these services through three community bank subsidiaries: Summit Community Bank (Summit Community), Capital State Bank, Inc. (Capital State) and Shenandoah Valley National Bank (Shenandoah). Summit Financial, LLC (SFLLC), Summit's mortgage banking segment, originates loans to customers throughout the United States from its headquarters in Herndon, Virginia.
SEVT.OB Summit Environmental Corporation, Inc. distributes and markets proprietary products, such as FirePower and FlameOut. The Company markets fire suppression materials, environmentally safe cleaning chemicals and natural, botanical cosmetic products (through Pannache Cosmetics). Its products are proprietary or are under exclusive license. The Company's marketing efforts include infomercials and other television and radio promotion, videotapes and personal demonstrations. Products are marketed domestically and internationally. FirePower and FlameOut are fire suppressants and fire retardants. FlameOut was developed to be a replacement for Halon 1211, a fire suppression and explosion protection agent applied primarily as a wetting agent and used in applications such as fire extinguishers.
SBIT Summit Bancshares, Inc. is a bank and financial holding company for its wholly owned subsidiaries, Summit Delaware Financial Corporation, Summit Bank, National Association (the Bank) and SIA Insurance Agency, Inc. (SIA). The Company provides advice and services to the Bank, and coordinates its activities in the areas of financial accounting controls and reports, internal audit programs, regulatory compliance, financial planning and employee benefit programs, although the Bank operates under the day-to-day management of its own officers and directors. The products and services offered by Summit through its subsidiaries include Commercial Banking Services, Consumer Banking Services, Securities Services and Insurance Products and Service.
SBGA Summit Bank Corporation serves as the holding company for The Summit National Bank (the Bank). The Bank engages in commercial banking from its main office and five branch offices, three of which are located in its primary service area of northern metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. The Bank offers deposit services, including checking accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, savings accounts and other time deposits of various types, ranging from daily money market accounts to longer-term certificates of deposits. It also offers a range of short to medium-term commercial and personal loans. In addition to deposit and loan services, the Bank's other domestic services include 24-hour multi-lingual telephone banking, Internet banking, cash management services, investment sweep accounts, safe deposit boxes, travelers checks, direct deposit of payroll and social security checks, as well as automatic drafts for various accounts.
SUMX Summa Industries develops and manufactures plastic products for diverse commercial and industrial markets. Through its four reportable segments, Summa designs and manufactures injection-molded and formed plastic optical components for original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers in the lighting industry; molded plastic modular conveyor belt and chain for the food processing industry; plastic fittings, valves, filters and tubing for the agricultural irrigation industry; molded plastic coil forms (bobbins) for use in transformers, motors, relays and switches, and other molded and extruded plastic components for diverse industries. In January 2004, Summa acquired certain assets from R.M. Wade &amp; Company, including the product brand Pepco and product lines sold to commercial and agricultural irrigation markets.
SUBK Suffolk Bancorp is a one-bank holding company engaged in the commercial banking business through Suffolk County National Bank (SCNB). SCNB is a full-service bank serving the needs of the local residents of Suffolk County, New York. Among the services offered by SCNB are checking accounts, savings accounts, time and savings certificates, money market accounts, negotiable-order-of-withdrawal accounts, holiday club accounts and individual retirement accounts; secured and unsecured loans, including commercial loans to individuals, partnerships and corporations, agricultural loans to farmers, installment loans to finance small businesses, mobile home loans and automobile loans; home equity and real estate mortgage loans; safe deposit boxes; trust and estate services; the sale of mutual funds and annuities, and the maintenance of a master pension plan for self-employed individuals' participation.
SZE Suez SA is a global industrial group promoting sustainable development and offering a comprehensive range of solutions in the energy and environment sector, water and waste services, for companies, individuals and municipalities. It develops, designs, implements and operates systems and networks in each of these areas to meet the needs of its customers. It operates in two main business areas: energy and environment. The Company has three Energy divisions: Electricity &amp; Gas Europe (EGE), which provides electricity and gas in Europe; Electricity &amp; Gas International (EGI), which provides electricity and gas outside Europe, and Industrial &amp; Energy Services (IES), which provides industrial and energy services. The SUEZ Environnement division mainly provides water, waste services and industrial services. Its other interests include communications (television media and high-throughput distribution) and finance (fund management).
SPH Suburban Propane Partners, L.P., a limited partnership, is a nationwide marketer and distributor of a diverse array of products to meet the energy needs specializing in propane, fuel oil and other refined fuels, as well as the marketing of natural gas and electricity in deregulated markets. As of September 25, 2004, the Company was serving the energy needs of more than one million active residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural customers through approximately 370 customer service centers in 30 states located primarily in the east and west coast regions of the United States. The Company conducts its business principally through Suburban Propane, L.P. (the Operating Partnership), a Delaware limited partnership, which operates a propane business and assets, and its direct and indirect subsidiaries. Subsidiaries of the Operating Partnership include Suburban Sales and Service, Inc., which conducts the Operating Partnership's service work and appliance and parts businesses.
SRR The Stride Rite Corporation is a designer and marketer of children's footwear in the United States. The Company is also a designer and marketer of athletic and casual footwear for children and adults. The business was founded on the strength of the Stride Rite children's brand, but, as of November 28, 2003, it included a portfolio of several American brands addressing different market segments within the footwear industry. In addition to the Stride Rite brand, the Company designs and markets footwear under several owned or licensed brands: Keds, PRO-Keds, Grasshoppers, Sperry Top-Sider, Sperry, Munchkin, Tommy Hilfiger, Kid Smart and Baby Smart. During the fiscal year ending November 2004, Stride Rite will begin marketing a line of children's footwear under the Born name through a licensing agreement.
FUEL Streicher Mobile Fueling, Inc. is a provider of mobile fueling and fuel management out-sourced services to businesses that operate fleets of vehicles and equipment of various sizes, including governmental agencies, utilities, trucking companies, bus lines, hauling and delivery services, courier services, construction companies and others. The Company's specialized truck fleet delivers fuel to customers' locations on a regularly scheduled or as needed basis, refueling vehicles and equipment and/or re-supplying fixed-site storage facilities. The Company's electronic fuel tracking control system is used to measure, record and track fuel dispensed to each vehicle and tank fueled at a customer location, allowing verification of the amount and type of fuel delivered and providing customers with customized fleet fuel data for management analysis and tax reporting.
STRA Strayer Education, Inc. is a for-profit, post-secondary education services corporation. The Company offers a variety of academic programs through Strayer University, both in traditional classroom courses and through Strayer University Online. Founded in 1892, Strayer University is an institution of higher learning that offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, accounting, information technology (IT), education and public administration at 27 physical campuses in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had more than 20,000 students enrolled in its programs. Strayer University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, one of the six regional collegiate accrediting agencies recognized by the United States Secretary of Education. The Company also offers classes via the Internet through Strayer University Online.
SSVG.OB Stratus Services Group, Inc. is a business services company engaged in providing outsourced labor and operational resources on a long-term, contractual basis in the United States. The Company offers different groups of staffing services comprised of Staffing Services, SMARTSolutions and Information Technology Services. The Staffing Services offering provides temporary workers for short-term needs, extended-term temporary employees, temporary-to-permanent placements, recruiting, permanent placements, payroll processing, onsite supervising and human resource consulting. The SMARTSolutions technology, available through the Company's Staffing Services branch offices, provides a customized staffing program designed to reduce labor and management costs and increase workforce efficiency. Through its affiliate, Stratus Technology Services, the Company provides information technology (IT) staffing solutions to Fortune 1000, middle-market and emerging companies.
STRS Stratus Properties Inc. is engaged in the acquisition, development, management and sale of commercial, multi-family and residential real estate properties located primarily in the Austin, Texas, area. The Company conducts real estate operations on properties it owns and, until February 27, 2002, through unconsolidated affiliates it jointly owned with Olympus Real Estate Corporation pursuant to a strategic alliance formed in May 1998. Stratus' most significant holding is the 2,034 acres of undeveloped residential, multi-family and commercial property and 43 developed residential estate lots located within the Barton Creek community in Austin, Texas. The Company's remaining holdings include 282 acres of undeveloped commercial property within the Lantana project and 1,000 acres of undeveloped residential, commercial and multi-family property within the Circle C Ranch community.
STRT Strattec Security Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets mechanical locks, electro-mechanical locks, latches and related security/access control products for major North American and global automotive manufacturers. The Company supplies keys and lock repair components to the aftermarket through the distributor network and through relationships with organizations supporting the dealerships and retail (hardware) channels. Through an alliance with WITTE-Velbert GmbH in Germany, both companies' security/access control products are manufactured and marketed globally. Another new and growing product line is ignition lock housings. These housings are zinc or magnesium die castings and can include electronic components for theft deterrent systems. Strattec is developing expertise in additional access control products, including trunk latches, liftgate latches, tailgate latches, hood latches, side door latches and related hardware for this product category.
STLW Stratos International, Inc. designs, develops, manufacturers and sells active and passive optical, optoelectronic and radio frequency (RF) and microwave components, subsystems and interconnect products used in telecom, enterprise, military and video markets. The products are used in a variety of applications, including Ethernet, synchronous optical network (SONET) and fiber channel applications for telecom/enterprise, tactical field communications for military and high-definition transport for video.
STFA.OB Stratford American Corporation (Stratford) is engaged principally in the businesses of real estate management and natural resource exploration and development through its subsidiaries. Aside from several wholly owned subsidiaries, the Company also owns 80% of Scottsdale Thompson Peak, LLC. Stratford has three operating segments: Real Estate Activities, Oil and Gas Activities and Other, with other primarily being general and administrative expense and interest income. Stratford owns working and/or royalty interests in oil and gas properties that are primarily located in Oklahoma and Texas. In November 2004, Scottsdale Thompson Peak, LLC, a subsidiary in which Stratford American Corp. owns 80% of the membership interest, sold the property located at 20225 N, Scottsdale, Arizona.
STXN Stratex Networks, Inc. provides wireless transmission solutions to mobile wireless carriers and data access providers worldwide. Stratex designs, manufactures and markets a range of products that offer a range of transmission frequencies, ranging from 0.3 GigaHertz (GHz) to 38 GHz, and a range of transmission capacities, ranging from 64 Kilobits (Kb) to 2XOC-3 or 311 Megabits per second (Mbps). In addition to its product offerings, the Company provides network planning, design and installation services and works closely with its customers to optimize transmission networks. Stratex has sold over 270,000 microwave radios, which have been installed in over 150 countries. The revenues from sales of equipment and services outside the United States were 98% in fiscal 2004. Stratex acquired net assets of Plessey Broadband Wireless, a division of Tellumat (Pty) Ltd. located in Cape Town, South Africa in fiscal 2004.
SIII.OB Strategic Internet Investments is in the development stage and is devoting its efforts to developing the planned Dream Island Resort project in the Kingdom of Bahrain. By a letter of agreement, the Company agreed to purchase 80% of the outstanding shares of Gulf Star World Development W.L.L. from Star Leisure &amp; Entertainment Inc. Gulf Star is the owner and developer of the residential and tourist project, known as the Dream Island Resort, located on the north coast of Bahrain at Manama City. The Dream Island Resort project will be an integrated resort, entertainment, hotel and real estate facility to be built on a 41-acre, man-made island off the northeastern coast of Manama, Bahrain.
SLH Strategic Hotel Capital, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns and asset manages upper-upscale and luxury hotels in North America and Europe. The Company's hotels are operated on its behalf by internationally known hotel management companies. Strategic Hotel Capital's existing hotels are operated under brands including Embassy Suites, Four Seasons, Hilton, Hyatt, Inter.Continental, Loews and Marriott. The Company's acquisition strategy focuses on the acquisition of upper-upscale and luxury hotels in attractive markets with barriers to entry. It targets hotels with existing management contracts or hotels where there is an opportunity to put in place a management contract with one of the Company's preferred operators that would enhance asset value. It also strives to gain access to acquisition opportunities through its relationships with its preferred operators.
STRD Strategic Distribution, Inc. provides maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) supply procurement, handling, data management solutions and related services to industrial and institutional customers through its In-Plant Store program. The In-Plant Store program is an outsourcing service through which the Company manages all aspects of MRO supply procurement and handling at a customer's site. The Company also manages customers' MRO inventory using its information system. Strategic Distribution conducts its United States operations through its wholly owned subsidiary, Industrial Systems Associates, Inc. (ISA). ISA changed its name to SDI, Inc., effective January 26, 2004. The Company sells a range of MRO supplies, replacement parts and selected classes of production materials, collectively called MRO supplies. MRO supplies are frequently inexpensive but critical items, with high-associated procurement costs due to inherent inefficiencies in traditional MRO supply distribution methods.
SDIX Strategic Diagnostics Inc. develops, manufactures and markets immunoassay and bioluminescence-based test kits for detection of a variety of substances in the food safety and water quality markets. It also provides antibody and immunoreagent research, development and production services to medical diagnostic and pharmaceutical companies, as well as research institutions. The Company sells products in the food safety, water quality and antibody market categories through its direct sales force; a network of over 50 distributors in Canada, Mexico, Latin America, Europe and Asia, and its corporate partners.
SSYS Stratasys, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets and services a family of three-dimensional (3D) printers and other rapid prototyping (RP) systems that enable engineers and designers to create physical models, tooling and prototypes out of plastic and other materials, directly from a computer-aided design (CAD) workstation. The Company's computerized modeling systems use its technology to make models and prototypes from a designer's 3D CAD in a matter of hours. Stratasys' offerings include Dimension, Prodigy Plus, FDM Titan and Vantage.
STGN Stratagene Corporation develops and manufactures biological products and instruments for life sciences research. Formerly known as Stratagene Holding Corporation, the Company changed its name in September 2003. Its products incorporate a diverse range of molecular biology technologies used for gene transfer, gene and protein expression, gene cloning, protein and gene functional analysis, nucleic acid and protein purification and analysis, microarrays, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) replication and nucleic acid quantification. Stratagene offers a broad portfolio of products in three market categories: genetic technologies; nucleic acid and protein purification and analysis, and genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics. On July 24, 2003, Stratagene announced the execution of a merger agreement with Hycor, pursuant to which Hycor will continue as a wholly owned subsidiary of Stratagene.
SBASF.OB Stratabase is a provider of Knowledge Worker Automation (KWA) software, designed to enable corporations to save time and money by improving the efficiency of knowledge workers. The Company's software tools allow enterprises to manage relationships and contacts, administer and organize time allocations, collaborate with others, manage data, automate communications and productivity reporting and conduct data synchronization. Stratabase has historically derived its revenue from sales of databases of sales leads and mailing lists and the provision of technical services aimed to customize and improve the quality of the databases it sold. During 2002, the Company began redefining its product line by developing its proprietary software.
STK Storage Technology Corporation designs, manufactures and distributes a range of data storage solutions for the management, retrieval and protection of business critical information. The Company's range of products can be integrated with existing infrastructures. In addition, its products allow universal access to data across servers, media types and storage networks in both the mainframe and open-systems environments. It offers solutions in tape, disk and network products. The Company also provides support and maintenance services for its products. Its customer base, consisting of both private and public organizations, encompasses diverse industry sectors, including financial services, retail sales, healthcare, broadcasting, telecommunications, transportation and a variety of manufacturing industries. Products are marketed through the Company's direct sales force and its indirect channel partners throughout the United States and overseas.
SEO Stora Enso OYJ is a paper and board manufacturer with 15.6 million metric tons of annual paper and board production capacity. The operations of Stora Enso are organized into core product areas and supporting areas. The core product areas include paper, incorporating publication paper, fine paper and merchants; packaging boards, and forest products, incorporating wood products and wood supply in Europe. The principal markets for the Company's products are Western Europe and North America. The Company's subsidiaries conduct the substantial majority of the operations. The Company's subsidiaries include Stora Enso North America Corp., Stora Enso AB and Stora Enso Beteiligungen GmbH. In December 2004, the Company acquired 66% ownership of the Polish packaging producer Intercell S.A. from private shareholders and the International Finance Corporation.
SRI Stoneridge, Inc. is an independent designer and manufacturer of engineered electrical and electronic components, modules and systems for the automotive, medium- and heavy-duty truck, agricultural and off-highway vehicle markets. The Company's custom-engineered products are predominantly sold on a sole-source basis and consist of application-specific control devices, sensors, vehicle management electronics and power and signal distribution systems. Stoneridge conducts its business in two operating segments: Vehicle Management and Power Distribution and Control Devices. The core products of the Vehicle Management and Power Distribution operating segment include vehicle electrical power and distribution systems and electronic instrumentation and information display products. The core products of the Control Devices operating segment include electronic and electrical switch products, actuator products and sensor products.
STG Stonepath Group, Inc. is a non-asset based third-party logistics services company providing supply chain solutions on a global basis. The Company offers a range of time-definite transportation and distribution solutions through its Domestic Services platform that manages and arranges the movement of raw materials, supplies, components and finished goods for customers. These services are offered through Stonepath's domestic air and ground freight forwarding business. The Company also offers a range of international logistics services, including international air and ocean transportation, as well as customs house brokerage services through its International Services platform. In addition to these core services, Stonepath provides a range of value added supply chain management services, including warehousing, order fulfillment and inventory management solutions.
STON StoneMor Partners L.P. is an owner and operator of cemeteries in the United States. As of June 30, 2004, it operated 132 cemeteries in 12 states, located primarily in the eastern United States. The cemetery products and services that the Company sells include burial lots; lawn crypts; mausoleum crypts; cremation niches; perpetual care rights; burial vaults; caskets; grave markers and grave market cases; memorials; installation of burial vaults; installation of caskets, and installation of other cemetery merchandise.
SGY Stone Energy Corporation is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, exploitation, development and operation of oil and gas properties in the waters and onshore regions of the Gulf of Mexico and in several basins in the Rocky Mountains. As of March 1, 2004, the Company's property portfolio consisted of 60 active properties and 28 primary term leases in the Gulf Coast Basin and 33 active properties in the Rocky Mountains. As of December 31, 2003, Stone Energy had estimated proved reserves of approximately 816.3 billion cubic feet of gas equivalent, 75% of which were classified as proved developed and 57% of which were natural gas. For the year 2003, the Company produced an average of 265.5 million cubic feet of gas equivalent per day.
SOSA Stolt Offshore S.A. offers a range of offshore development and construction services on a global basis. The Company designs, procures, builds, installs and services a range of offshore surface and subsurface infrastructure for the global oil and gas industry. It specializes in creating and applying solutions in response to the technical complexities faced by offshore oil and gas companies as they explore and develop production fields in deep-water and offshore environments. Stolt classifies its service capabilities into various areas, which include subsea construction, umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF); conventional, inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR); trunklines, and corporate. The Company also provides field decommissioning services at the end of the working life of an offshore oilfield. Stolt has operated in more than 70 countries worldwide, and for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2003 (fiscal 2003), it operated in 21 countries.
SNSA Stolt-Nielsen S.A. (SNSA) is engaged in three businesses, such as transportation, offshore construction and seafood production, farming and processing. The transportation business is conducted through Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group Ltd. (SNTG) and its subsidiaries; the offshore construction business is carried out through Stolt Offshore S.A. (SOSA) and its subsidiaries, and the seafood business is carried out through Stolt Sea Farm Holdings plc (SSF) and its subsidiaries. SNTG and SSF are wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company. SNSA owned a 63.5% economic interest and a 69.2% voting interest in SOSA during the fiscal year ended November 30, 2003 (fiscal 2003). In May 2004, the Company reduced its economic and voting interest in SOSA to 41.7%. SeaSupplier Ltd. and its subsidiaries provide a total marine service whereby it can select, purchase and arrange delivery for a ship's needs for consumables, spare parts and other services.
SWEB.OB Stockgroup Information Systems Inc. is a financial media and technology company that licenses financial market data and tools that its customers use on their Websites. The Company also operates Stockhouse.com and Stockhouse.ca. Stockgroup's services are delivered via the Internet. Using a common technology infrastructure, the Company has developed two main revenue sources: Financial Software and Content Systems and Public Company Disclosure &amp; Awareness Products.
STKR StockerYale, Inc. is an independent designer and manufacturer of structured light lasers, specialized fiber-optic and fluorescent illumination products used in a range of markets and industries, including machine vision, telecommunications, aerospace, defense and security, utilities, industrial inspection and medical markets. The Company operates within two segments: illumination and optical components. Illumination products include structured light lasers, specialized fiber-optic, fluorescent and light-emitting diode products for the machine vision, industrial inspection, and defense and security industries. Illumination products are sold both through distributors, as well as directly to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The optical components segment develops and manufactures specialty optical fibers and phase masks used primarily in sensor, gyroscope and telecommunication equipment. Optical component products are sold primarily to OEMs.
STM STMicroelectronics N.V. is a semiconductor company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets a range of semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs) used in a wide variety of microelectronic applications, including automotive products, computer peripherals, telecommunications systems, consumer products, industrial automation and control systems. Products include differentiated ICs and analog ICs the majority of which are also differentiated ICs, as well as certain flash products sold for specific applications and to particular customers. The Company's products are organized into the principal groups, such as telecommunications, peripherals and automotive, consumer and microcontroller, memory products and discrete and standard ICs.
SWC Stillwater Mining Company is engaged in the development, extraction, processing and refining of palladium, platinum and associated metals (PGMs) from a geological formation in southern Montana known as the J-M Reef, the only known significant source of platinum group metals inside the United States. The J-M Reef is a narrow but extensive mineralized zone containing PGMs, which has been traced over a strike length of approximately 28 miles. The Company conducts its mining operations at the Stillwater Mine near Nye, Montana, and at the East Boulder Mine near Big Timber, Montana. Both mines are located on the J-M Reef. In addition, it operates a smelter and refinery at Columbus, Montana. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had proven and probable ore reserves of approximately 40.4 million tons with an average grade of 0.58 ounce of PGMs per ton containing approximately 23.6 million ounces of palladium and platinum at a ratio of approximately 3.6 parts palladium to one part platinum.
SF Stifel Financial Corp., incorporated in 1981, is a corporation and a holding company primarily offering securities-related financial services through its wholly owned operating subsidiaries, Stifel, Nicolaus &amp; Company, Incorporated (Stifel Nicolaus) and Century Securities Associates, Inc. (CSA). These subsidiaries provide brokerage, trading, investment banking, investment advisory and related financial services primarily to customers throughout the United States from 129 locations. The Company's customers include individuals, corporations, municipalities and institutions. Although the Company has customers throughout the United States, its major geographic area of concentration is in the Midwest and to a lesser extent, the Rocky Mountain Region. It operates four business segments: Private Client Group, Equity Capital Markets, Fixed Income Capital Markets and Other.
SVC Stewart &amp; Stevenson Services, Inc. is engaged in the custom fabrication of engine-driven products. The Company's segments are The Tactical Vehicle Systems segment, assembles the family of medium-tactical vehicles (FMTV) under contracts with the United States Army; The Power Products segment sells and rents industrial equipment and components, replacement parts, accessories and other materials, and provides in-shop and onsite repair services for industrial, transportation, marine, construction, power generation and material handling equipment for independent manufacturers; The Engineered Products segment provides an array of equipment and services used in various industries; The Distributed Energy Solutions segment packages reciprocating diesel and natural gas engine generator sets and markets power-generation solutions in domestic and international markets, and The Airline Products segment manufactures internal combustion and electric propulsion-aircraft ground support equipment.
STC Stewart Information Services Corporation is a technology driven, strategically competitive real estate information and transaction management company, providing title insurance and related services through more than 7,200 issuing locations in the United States and several international markets. The Company delivers, via e-commerce, the services required for settlement by the real estate and mortgage industries, including title reports, flood determinations, credit reports, appraisals and automated valuation models, document preparation, property reports and background checks. Stewart also provides post-closing services to lenders, automated county clerk land records, property ownership mapping, geographic information services for governmental entities and expertise in tax-deferred exchanges.
STEI Stewart Enterprises, Inc. is a provider of funeral and cemetery products and services in the death care industry in the United States. Through its subsidiaries, the Company provides a range of funeral merchandise and services, along with cemetery property, merchandise and services, both at the time of need and on a preneed basis. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), its operations included 242 funeral homes and 147 cemeteries in 27 states within the United States and in Puerto Rico. The funeral homes offer a wide range of services and products, including funeral services, cremation, transportation services, removal and preparation of remains, caskets and flowers. The cemetery operations sell cemetery property, merchandise and services. Cemetery property includes lots, lawn crypts and family and community mausoleums. Cemetery merchandise includes vaults, monuments and markers. Cemetery services include burial site openings and closings and inscriptions.
SHOO Steven Madden, Ltd. is engaged primarily in the business of designing, sourcing, marketing and sales of fashion-forward footwear brands for women, men and children. The Company's business is comprised of three distinct segments: wholesale, retail and private label. It distributes products through retail stores, e-commerce Website, department and specialty stores throughout the United States and Canada, and through special distribution arrangements in Europe and in Central and South America. Its product line includes core products, which are sold year-round, complemented by a range of updated styles that are designed to establish or capitalize on market trends. As of the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company operated 83 retail stores, including its Website as a store.
SSUG.OB Sterling Sugars, Inc. is a grower and processor of sugarcane, from which it produces raw sugar and blackstrap molasses. Cane residue (bagasse), also a by-product, is used as the primary fuel for the Company's steam boilers. For the fiscal year ended July 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company processed 901,639 tons of sugarcane and produced 95,237 tons of sugar. All sugar produced by Sterling is sold to a few major sugar refiners and candy manufacturers under sales contracts. Molasses is sold to a major molasses distributor under sales contracts. The raw sugar factory operated by the Company is situated on 65 acres of land outside the city of Franklin, Louisiana on Bayou Teche.
STSA Sterling Financial Corporation is a unitary savings and loan holding company, the significant operating subsidiary of which is Sterling Savings Bank. The principal operating subsidiaries of Sterling Savings Bank are Action Mortgage Company, INTERVEST-Mortgage Investment Company and Harbor Financial Services, Inc. Sterling Savings Bank is a federally insured stock savings and loan association. The Company provides personalized financial services to its customers as exemplified by its Hometown Helpful philosophy.
SLFI Sterling Financial Corporation is a financial holding company that provides a range of banking and financial services to individuals and businesses through its banking and non-banking subsidiaries. Sterling operates five business segments. The Community Banking and Related Services segment provides financial services to consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governmental units in southern Pennsylvania and northern Maryland. The Leasing Segment provides vehicle and equipment financing alternatives to commercial businesses. The Commercial Finance segment specializes in financing forestry and land-clearing equipment through approximately 150 equipment dealer locations ranging from Maine to Florida. The Trust and Investment Services segment includes both corporate asset and personal wealth management services. The Insurance and Related Services segment offers insurance products and related services to customers.
STV Sterling Construction Company, Inc. is engaged in the construction and distribution businesses as represented by its subsidiaries, Sterling Houston Holdings, Inc. (SHH) and Steel City Products, Inc. (SCPI). The construction segment comprises SHH, a heavy civil construction company that specializes in municipal and state contracts for highway paving, bridge, water and sewer and light rail and its subsidiaries. The distribution segment comprises SCPI, a wholesale distributor operating under the trade name Steel City Products, which principally sells automotive accessories, primarily to drug and supermarket retailers, discount retail chains, hardware and automotive stores, based mainly in the Northeastern United States. SCPI also distributes non-food pet supplies and lawn and garden products.
SPR Sterling Capital Corporation is a diversified, closed-end investment company. The Company operates exclusively as an internally managed investment company whereby its own officers and employees, under the general supervision of its Board of Directors, conduct its operations. The primary investment objective is long-term capital growth. Sterling generally invests directly or indirectly in equity securities, which it believes to offer attractive investment opportunities. It may invest available funds or sell portfolio securities and invest all or part of the proceeds, in investment grade corporate bonds, debentures or preferred stock, governmental obligations, bankers' acceptances, commercial paper, registered investment companies or certificates of deposit or funds may be retained in cash. Sterling may engage in transactions in commodity futures or futures options contracts for hedging purposes.
SBIB Sterling Bancshares, Inc. is the holding company for Sterling Bank (the Bank). The Bank provides an array of financial services to Texas small to mid-sized businesses and consumers through 37 banking offices in the greater metropolitan areas of Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, Texas. It provides a range of commercial and consumer banking services, including demand, savings and time deposits; commercial, real estate and consumer loans; merchant credit card services; letters of credit, and cash and asset management services. In addition, the Bank facilitates sales of brokerage, mutual fund, alternative financing and insurance products through third-party vendors.
STL Sterling Bancorp is a bank holding company and a financial holding company that provides a range of financial products and services, including business and consumer loans, commercial and residential mortgage lending and brokerage, asset-based financing, factoring/accounts receivable management services, trade financing, equipment leasing, deposit services, trust and estate administration and investment management services. The Company has operations in New York, New Jersey and North Carolina, and conducts business throughout the United States. The Company owns all of the outstanding shares of Sterling National Bank, its principal subsidiary, and all of the outstanding shares of Sterling Banking Corporation, Sterling Financial Services Company, Inc., Sterling Real Estate Abstract Holding Company, Inc. and Sterling Bancorp Trust I.
STE STERIS Corporation develops, manufactures and markets infection prevention, contamination control, microbial reduction and surgical and critical care support products and services for healthcare, scientific, research, industrial and government customers throughout the world. The Company is focused on helping customers address needs in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. STERIS realigned its single operating segment into three market-focused business segments to capture growth opportunities. These segments include: Healthcare, Life Sciences and STERIS Isomedix Services. In January 2005, the Company acquired certain assets of Cosmed Group, Inc., a privately-held contract sterilization services provider with corporate offices in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
STEN Sterion Incorporated.,formerly known as Oxboro Medical, Inc., is a diversified business. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Sterion's business was divided into four areas the Medical Products Group, LifeSafe, Burger Time and Contract Manufacturing. On July 1, 2004, the Burger Time Acquisition Corporation (BTAC) subsidiary completed the purchase of the assets and business operations of Burger Time. BTAC operates Burger Time, an 11-unit chain of drive-through quick-service restaurants that focus on hamburgers.
SRCL Stericycle, Inc. is a regulated medical waste management company whose services and operations are comprised of collection, transportation, treatment, disposal and recycling, together with related training and education programs, consulting services and product sales. The Company has 41 treatment/collection facilities located in 25 states, Puerto Rico, Canada and Mexico that serve approximately 301,000 customers, consisting of approximately 295,000 small account customers and over 5,500 large account customers. The Company develops programs to help its customers handle, separate and contain medical waste. In addition, the Company offers training and consulting services to its healthcare customers to assist them in reducing the amount of medical waste they generate and to improve safety and Occupational Safety &amp; Health Administration regulatory compliance in their workplace.
STXS Stereotaxis, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets an advanced cardiology instrument control system for use in the cath lab. The company's Stereotaxis System is designed to allow physicians to more effectively navigate catheters, guidewires and stent delivery devices, both the company's and those it is co-developing with strategic partners, through the blood vessels and chambers of the heart to treatment sites and then to effect treatment. This is achieved using computer controlled externally applied magnetic fields that precisely and directly govern the motion of the working tip of the catheter, guidewire or stent delivery device. Stereotaxis began commercial shipments, during the year ended December 31, 2003, following the United States and European regulatory approval of the core components of the Stereotaxis System.
TSC The Stephan Co. is engaged in the manufacture, sale and distribution of hair care and personal care products at both the wholesale and retail level. Its eight wholly owned subsidiaries includes Foxy Products, Inc., Old 97 Company, Williamsport Barber and Beauty Corp., Stephan &amp; Co., Scientific Research Products, Inc. of Delaware, Trevor Sorbie of America, Inc., Stephan Distributing, Inc. and Morris Flamingo-Stephan, Inc. It is organized into three business segments: Professional Hair Care Products and Distribution, Retail Personal Care Products and Manufacturing. The Professional segment consists of a customer base of distributors that purchase its hair care products and beauty and barber supplies for sale to salons and barbershops. The customer base for the Retail segment is comprised of mass merchandisers, chain drug stores and supermarkets. The Manufacturing segment manufactures products for subsidiaries of the Company, and manufactures private label brands for certain customers.
SCL Stepan Company produces specialty and intermediate chemicals, which are sold to other manufacturers and then made into a variety of end products. Principal markets for all products are manufacturers of cleaning and washing compounds (including detergents, shampoos, fabric softeners, toothpastes and household cleaners), paints, cosmetics, food and beverages, agricultural products, plastics, furniture, automotive equipment, insulation and refrigeration. Stepan does not sell directly to the retail market, but sells to a range of manufacturers in many industries. The Company has three segments: surfactants, polymers and specialty products. Surfactants refer to chemical agents that affect the interaction between two surfaces. Commercial and industrial applications for polymers include emulsifiers for agricultural products, emulsion polymers. Specialty products sell chemicals used in food, flavoring and pharmaceutical applications.
STEM StemCells, Inc. is engaged in research aimed at the development of therapies that would use stem and progenitor cells to treat and possibly cure human diseases and injuries, such as neurodegenerative diseases, including Batten's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's diseases and other metabolic genetic disorders; demyelinating disorders, such as Multiple Sclerosis; spinal cord injuries, stroke, hepatitis, chronic liver failure and diabetes. The Company uses cells derived from fetal or adult tissue sources, and are not developing embryonic stem cells for therapeutic use. It is not involved in any activity directed toward human cloning. The Company's programs are all directed toward the use of tissue-derived cells for treating or curing diseases and injuries.
STEL Stellent, Inc. is a global provider of content management software solutions that enable fast implementations and generate quick, broad user adoption. It has a product set consisting of two main categories: Universal Content Management Software and Content Components Software. Universal Content Management software addresses the key elements of content management, Web content management, document management, collaboration, digital asset management and records management from one platform, enabling customers to use their content management investment across the organization. Content Components software makes information created in more than 225 common office software applications more accessible to the business users that need it. In August 2003, the Company acquired select assets of privately held Ancept, Inc. Ancept is a provider of digital asset management solutions. In May 2004, Stellent merged with Optika Inc.
LVB Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc. through its operating subsidiaries, designs, manufactures and markets musical instruments. Through a worldwide network of dealers, the Company's products are sold to professional, amateur and student musicians, as well as orchestras and educational institutions. Steinway Musical Instruments operates 11 manufacturing facilities in the United States and Europe. The Steinway division offers grand pianos under the Steinway &amp; Sons name, as well as a line of mid-priced pianos available under the Boston and Essex brand names. The Conn-Selmer division manufactures band and orchestral instruments and related accessories. It manufactures a full line of musical instruments, ranging from trumpets, trombones, saxophones, tubas and French horns to clarinets, flutes, violins and percussion instruments. The Company's brands include Bach, Selmer, C.G. Conn, King, Armstrong, Ludwig, Musser and Glaesel.
STNR Steiner Leisure Limited is a worldwide provider of spa services. In its facilities, the Company strives to create a relaxing and therapeutic environment where guests can receive beauty and body treatments. Steiner Leisure sells its services and products to cruise passengers and at luxury resort and day spas primarily in the United States, the Caribbean, the Pacific, Asia and Mexico. The Company also develops and markets beauty products, which are sold at its facilities and at third-party retail outlets. As of February 26, 2004, Steiner Leisure served 109 cruise ships representing 17 cruise lines, and operated 63 resort spas and two day spas. Steiner Leisure also owns and operates three post-secondary schools located in Florida, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Offering degrees in massage therapy and skin care, these schools train and qualify spa professionals for health and beauty positions within the Steiner family of companies or other industry entities.
SMRT Stein Mart, Inc. is an off-price retailer operating in 28 states and the District of Columbia. The Company's focused assortment of merchandise features moderate to designer brand-name apparel, as well as accessories, gifts, linens, shoes and fragrances. Stein Mart aims to offer the fashion merchandise, service and presentation of traditional department and specialty stores at prices typically 25% to 60% less than department stores. The Company's target customers are well-educated 35- to 60-year-old females who typically occupy households with above-average income. As of January 31, 2004, Stein Mart, Inc. operated a chain of 261 retail stores, located primarily in the southern half of the United States from California to the eastern seaboard. In recent years, the Company has also entered into the upper midwest and Great Lakes states.
SCLD SteelCloud, Inc. is principally engaged in the design, development and manufacturing of network appliances and infrastructure server products, as well as consulting services. The Company's custom computer servers are designed to meet the precise needs of volume customers to reduce the customer's investments in logistics, integration capacity and support. SteelCloud's network security appliances are developed in collaboration with other software companies. In addition, SteelCloud develops proprietary software to optimize the performance of its security appliances. Its branded and co-branded appliances are specially designed and optimized to deliver a dedicated network service such as antivirus gateway protection, intrusion detection and secure content management. Its consulting services organization provides clients with a seamless extension of their information technology organizations. Technical services include network analysis, security, design, troubleshooting and implementation.
SCS Steelcase Inc. designs and manufactures office furniture. The Company has manufacturing facilities in over 35 locations and distributes its products in more than 900 locations around the world. Steelcase operates in three segments: North America, the Steelcase Design Partnership and International, plus an Other category. The Company's three segments offer similar products that are categorized into three: furniture systems, architecture and technology.
STTX Steel Technologies Inc. is a steel processor engaged in the business of processing flat-rolled steel processors in North America. The company purchase commercial tolerance steel in coils from major integrated steel mills and mini-mills. It processes these coils to precise tolerances that are unavailable from primary steel producers. The North American platform of 20 facilities, including its joint ventures is positioned in steel producing and consuming markets near customers and suppliers to ensure efficient just-in-time delivery of products throughout the United States and Mexico. Steel Technologies utilizes the most advanced equipment to produce high-quality steel products and specializes in meeting exact specifications for customers in a variety of industries and end markets.
STLD Steel Dynamics, Inc. is a steel manufacturing company. The Company owns and operates electric arc furnace mini-mills. Its steel operations include the Flat Roll Division, the Structural and Rail Division and the Bar Products Division. The Company produces hot- and cold-rolled steel products, galvanized sheet products, light gauge steel products, structural steel and rails and joists and deck materials. Steel Dynamics has broadened its offering of painted and coated products with the commencement of production at its coil coating and galvanizing facilities. It has also entered the merchant bar (MBQ) market with an array of angles, flats, rounds, reinforcing bar and other shapes, as well as various special bar quality (SBQ) markets. Steel Dynamics, with its subsidiary, developed a process for the production of a virgin form of iron that serves as a lower-cost substitute for the alternative iron units utilized in its electric arc furnaces for melting into new steel.
SNS The Steak n Shake Company (Steak n Shake) is engaged primarily in the ownership, operation and franchising of Steak n Shake restaurants. As of September 29, 2004, it had 365 Company-owned restaurants and 60 franchised restaurants, located in 19 Midwestern and Southern states. Steak n Shake restaurants are open around the clock and in addition to the core menu, offers a breakfast menu during breakfast hours. During the fiscal year ended September 29, 2004 (fiscal 2004), lunch and dinner sales accounted for approximately 36.4% and 45.1% of sales, respectively, while breakfast and late night sales accounted for 6.9% and 11.6% of sales, respectively. The Company offers full-service dining with counter and dining room seating, as well as drive-thru and carryout service. Counter and dining room sales represent approximately two-thirds of the sales mix, while sales for off-premises dining represent approximately one-third of the sales mix during fiscal 2004.
STTS STATS ChipPAC Ltd. formerly ST Assembly Test Services Ltd., provides a range of semiconductor test and assembly services. The Company organized its business into three main areas: Test Services, Assembly Services and Pre-Production and Post-Production Services. Test Services include final testing and wafer probe on a diverse selection of test platforms, as well as test-related services such as burn-in process support, reliability testing, thermal and electrical characterization, dry pack and tape and reel. Assembly Services provide leaded and array packages and assembly related services such as package design and leadframe and substrate design. Pre-Production and Post-Production Services provide package, test software and related hardware development and drop shipment services. In August 2004, the Company was merged with ChipPAC, Inc., a provider of semiconductor packaging, test and distribution services.
STO Statoil ASA is engaged primarily in the exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas from the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The Company's proved reserves, as of December 31, 2003, consisted of 1,789 million barrels of oil and 393 billion cubic meters of natural gas, which represents an aggregate of 4,264 million barrels of oil equivalent. Statoil divides its operations into four business segments: Exploration and Production Norway includes exploration, development and production operations on the NCS; International Exploration and Production includes all of Statoil's exploration, development and production operations outside Norway; the Natural Gas segment transports, processes and sells natural gas from Statoil's upstream positions on the NCS and certain assets abroad, and the Manufacturing and Marketing segment consists of downstream activities through the Company's 50%-owned joint venture, Borealis.
STN Station Casinos, Inc. is a gaming and entertainment company that owns and operates eight major hotel/casino properties (one of which is 50% owned) and three smaller casino properties (one of which is 50% owned) in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, and also manages a casino for a Native American tribe. It owns and operates Palace Station Hotel &amp; Casino, Boulder Station Hotel &amp; Casino, Texas Station Gambling Hall &amp; Hotel, Sunset Station Hotel &amp; Casino, Santa Fe Station Hotel &amp; Casino, Fiesta Rancho Casino Hotel, Fiesta Henderson Casino Hotel, Wild Wild West Gambling Hall &amp; Hotel and Wildfire Casino. The Company also owns a 50% interest in Green Valley Ranch Station Casino and Barley's Casino &amp; Brewing Company. In addition, Station Casinos manage Thunder Valley Casino in Sacramento, California on behalf of the United Auburn Indian Community.
STT State Street Corporation is a financial holding company that provides a range of products and services for sophisticated global investors. The Company has two lines of business, Investment Servicing and Investment Management. Investment Servicing provides services for United States mutual funds, collective funds worldwide, corporate and public retirement plans, insurance companies, foundations, endowments and other investment pools. Investment Management offers an array of services for managing financial assets, including investment management and investment research services, primarily for institutional investors worldwide. As of December 31, 2003, assets under custody totaled $9.4 trillion and assets under management totaled $1.1 trillion. The Company's clients include mutual funds and other collective investment funds, corporate and public pension funds, investment managers and others.
SFSW State Financial Services Corporation (SFSC) is a bank holding company for State Financial Bank, National Association (the Bank). Its services include accepting demand, savings and time deposits, including regular checking accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal (NOW) and money market accounts, certificates of deposit and individual retirement accounts. It also offers a variety of investment brokerage and annuity products through the Bank's in-house securities representatives. The Bank's lending products include secured and unsecured commercial, commercial real estate, residential mortgage, construction and consumer term loans. It provides lines of credit to commercial accounts and individuals, through home equity products. SFSC also originates residential real estate loans in the form of adjustable and long-term, fixed-rate first mortgages, selling most of these originations in the secondary mortgage market with servicing released.
STB State Bancorp, Inc. is a one bank holding company for the State Bank of Long Island (the Bank). The Bank, formed in 1966, is the Company's sole operating subsidiary and principal asset. The Bank is a New York state chartered commercial bank conducting a general banking business focused on the small to mid-sized business, municipal and consumer markets in Long Island and Queens, New York. In October 2002, the Company formed the State Bancorp Capital Trust I (Trust I) to accommodate the private placement of $10 million in capital securities, and in 2003, the Company formed the State Bancorp Capital Trust II (Trust II) in connection with the private placement of an additional $10 million in capital securities. Trust I and Trust II are the Company's only other direct subsidiaries. As of December 31, 2003, the Company, on a consolidated basis, had total assets of approximately $1.4 billion, total deposits of approximately $1.2 billion and stockholders' equity of approximately $94.7 million.
STFC State Auto Financial Corporation (STFC) provides personal and commercial insurance to the standard insurance market through the following principal wholly owned insurance subsidiaries, collectively referred to as the STFC Pooled Companies: State Auto Property and Casualty Insurance Company (State Auto P&amp;C), Milbank Insurance Company (Milbank), Farmers Casualty Insurance Company (Farmers) and State Auto Insurance Company of Ohio (SA Ohio). The Company is a member of the State Auto Group that writes personal and commercial insurance through approximately 22,400 independent insurance agents associated with approximately 3,400 agencies in 26 states and the District of Columbia. The State Auto Group operates primarily in the central and eastern United States, excluding New York, New Jersey and the New England states.
HOT Starwood Hotels &amp; Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is a hotel and leisure company. The Company conducts its hotel and leisure business both directly and through its subsidiaries. Starwood's brand names include St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, Sheraton, Westin, W and Four Points by Sheraton. Through these brands, the Company is well represented in most major markets around the world. Its operations are grouped into two business segments, hotels and vacation ownership operations. The Company's hotel business emphasizes the global operation of hotels and resorts, primarily in the luxury and upscale segment of the lodging industry. Starwood seeks to acquire interests in, or management or franchise rights with respect to, properties in this segment. At December 31, 2003, the Company's hotel portfolio included owned, leased, managed and franchised hotels totaling 738 hotels with approximately 229,000 rooms in 82 countries.
SRT StarTek, Inc. is a provider of business process outsourced services, which consist of business process management and supply chain management services. Its business process management services include provisioning management, wireless telephone number porting, receivables management, wireless telephone activations and high-end technical support and customer care services. The Company's supply chain management services include packaging, fulfillment, marketing support and logistics services. In addition, Startek owns a portfolio of branded vertical market Internet web sites, and manages or leases to third parties, a number of these sites. The Company also provides business process management services, on an international basis, from Canada and the United Kingdom. Its clients are primarily in the telecommunications, computer software, computer hardware, consumer products, cable, entertainment, Internet and e-commerce industries.
STHK.OB Startech Environmental Corporation is an environmental technology company commercializing its proprietary plasma processing technology, known as the Plasma Converter, which achieves closed-loop elemental recycling that irreversibly destroys hazardous and non-hazardous waste and industrial by-products while converting them into useful commercial products. These products include a rich synthesis gas called PCG (Plasma Converted Gas) surplus energy for power, hydrogen, metals and silicates for use and for sale. The Company's core plasma technology addresses waste and resource issues by offering remediation solutions that are integrated with a range of equipment solutions and services. The technology has the potential to add value to customers' businesses so they can realize revenue streams from disposal or processing fees and a reduction in material disposal costs, as well as from the sale of resulting commodity products and services.
SCX The L.S. Starrett Company is engaged in the business of manufacturing industrial, professional, and consumer products. The total number of different items made and sold by the Company exceeds 5,000. Among the items produced are precision tools, electronic gages, dial indicators, gage blocks, granite surface plates, vision systems, optical measuring projectors, tape measures, levels, chalk products, squares, band saw blades, hole saws, hacksaw blades, jig saw blades, reciprocating saw blades, vises, M1r lubricant, and precision ground flat stock and drill rod. Much of the Company's production is concentrated on hand measuring tools (such as micrometers, steel rules, combination squares and many other items for the individual craftsman) and precision instruments (such as vernier calipers, height gages, depth gages and measuring instruments that manufacturing companies buy for the use of their employees).
STCR Starcraft Corporation is a second-stage manufacturer of motor vehicles, primarily pick-up trucks and sport utility vehicles. The business also has engineering and design capabilities for concept vehicles, and distributes automotive accessories through a dealer network. The Company supplies after-market automotive parts and products (automotive parts and products) to wholesale and retail customers, and provides engineering development services to customers in the automotive industry. In January 2004, the Company acquired Wheel to Wheel, its partner in Tecstar and Tarxien. On November 23, 2004, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger whereby Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc. (Quantum) will acquire Starcraft Corporation.
SBUX Starbucks Corporation purchases and roasts whole bean coffees and sells them along with brewed coffees, Italian-style espresso beverages, cold blended beverages, a variety of food items, coffee-related accessories and equipment, a selection of teas and a line of compact discs, primarily through Company-operated retail stores. Starbucks also sells coffee and tea products through other channels. Through certain of its equity investees, Starbucks produces and sells bottled Frappuccino and Starbucks DoubleShot coffee drinks and a line of ice creams. The Company has two operating segments: United States and International, each of which includes Company-operated retail stores and Specialty operations. During the fiscal year ended October 10, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company had approximately 700 Company-operated, drive-thru locations. In fiscal 2004, the Company introduced the Starbucks Hear Music Coffeehouse, a music store in Santa Monica, California.
STSI Star Scientific, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Star Tobacco, Inc., is engaged in the development, implementation and licensing of scientific technology for the curing of tobacco, so as to prevent the formation of carcinogenic toxins present in tobacco and tobacco smoke, the tobacco-specific nitrosamines. It is also engaged in the manufacturing, sales, marketing and development of low-nitrosamine smokeless tobacco products that also carry enhanced warnings beyond those required by the Surgeon General, including Stonewall moist and dry snuffs, ARIVA compressed powdered tobacco cigalett pieces and STONEWALL Hard Snuff. The Company also manufactures low-nitrosamine smokeless tobacco product (Interval) for Brown &amp; Williamson Tobacco Corporation, which is in test market.
SGU Star Gas Partners, L.P. (the Partnership) is a diversified home energy distributor and services provider, specializing in heating oil and propane. Star Gas Propane, L.P. (Star Gas Propane) is the Partnership's operating subsidiary and, together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries, accounts for substantially all of the Partnership's assets, sales and earnings. The general partner of both the Partnership and Star Gas Propane is Star Gas LLC, which owns an approximate 1% general partner interest in the Partnership and also owns an approximate 0.01% general partner interest in Star Gas Propane. The Partnership's propane operations are conducted through Star Gas Propane and its direct subsidiaries. It primarily markets and distributes propane gas, heating oil and other petroleum fuels and related products to approximately 334,000 customers located in the Midwest and northeast regions of Florida and Georgia.
STRZ Star Buffet, Inc. is a restaurant chain operator conducting business in the buffet segment of the restaurant industry. It has five reporting segments: HomeTown Buffet, Casa Bonita, North's Star, Florida Buffets Division and JB's Restaurants. The Company's restaurants are located in nine western states, Oklahoma and Florida. The HomeTown Buffet segment includes the Company's 16 franchised HomeTown Buffet restaurants. The Casa Bonita segment includes two Casa Bonita restaurants. The North's Star segment includes five JJ North's Country Buffet restaurants and one North's Star Buffet Restaurants. The Florida Buffets Division includes two BuddyFreddys restaurants, three BuddyFreddys Country Buffet restaurants and two Holiday House restaurants. The Florida Buffet Division also includes four non-operating units. The JB's Restaurants segment includes the Company's eight JB's Restaurants. This segment also includes one non-operating JB's Restaurant.
SPLS Staples, Inc. is an office supplies retailer that sells its products through a superstore concept. The Company operates three business segments: North American Retail, North American Delivery and European Operations. Staples' North American Retail segment consists of United States and Canadian business units that, as of January 31, 2004, sold office products and services through 1,358 retail stores. Its North American Delivery segment consists of United States and Canadian business units that sell and deliver office products and services directly to customers. Staples' European Operations business units sold office products and services through 201 retail stores in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal and Belgium, and sold and delivered office products and services directly to customers throughout the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Sweden.
SWK The Stanley Works is a worldwide producer of tool products and security solutions for professional, industrial and consumer use. Its security solutions products and services permeate commercial and institutional organizations, such as airports, prisons, educational institutions and retail establishments. Its operations are classified into three segments. Its Consumer Products segment manufactures and markets hand tools, consumer mechanics tools and storage, hardware and home decor products. The Industrial Tools segment is comprised of Mac Tools, the Proto mechanics tools business, fastening systems, storage systems (Vidmar), specialty tools, assembly technologies, hydraulic tools and tech measuring tools. The Security Solutions segment includes Blick plc. and Frisco Bay, along with Best Access and Stanley Access Technologies. In December 2004, the Company sold its Charlotte, North Carolina-based Home Decor to Wellspring Capital Management LLC.
STLY Stanley Furniture Company, Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of residential wood furniture exclusively targeted at the upper-medium price range. The Company's product lines cover all major design categories, including European traditional, contemporary/transitional, American traditional and country/casual designs, and consist of dining room, bedroom, home office, home entertainment, accent tables and youth furniture (Young America). Stanley expanded its Young America offerings to include playroom, accent pieces for the bath and infant furniture (Young America Baby). The Company provides its products in a variety of woods, veneers and finishes. The Company has developed a domestic and international customer base and sells its furniture through approximately 60 independent sales representatives to independent furniture retailers, department stores and regional furniture chains.
SXI Standex International Corporation is a diversified manufacturer that produces a variety of products, and provides services for selected market segments. It has 17 operating units organized into five business segments: Food Service Equipment, Air Distribution Products, Engraving Products, Engineered Products and Consumer. As of June 30, 2004, the Company operated a total of 88 principal plants, stores and warehouses located throughout the United States, Western Europe, Canada, Australia, Singapore, China, Brazil and Mexico. In December 2003, the Company acquired Magnetico, Inc. and its affiliate, Trans American Transformer, Inc. The affiliated companies custom design and manufacture high-reliability, flight-critical magnetic components for the United States military and the aerospace and avionics industries. In September 2004, the Company sold its entire James Burn International mechanical binding systems and punching and binding equipment businesses.
SR The Standard Register Company (SR) is a provider of information solutions for the healthcare, financial services, insurance, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and transportation industries. Its products and services include the design, production, management and distribution of printed and electronic documents; label solutions; data capture systems; document security; fulfillment and other outsourcing services; e-business solutions, and consulting services. In January 2003, SR realigned certain operating segments to gain operational synergies. As a result, it had three segments during the fiscal year ended December 28, 2003: Document and Label Solutions, Fulfillment Services and InSystems. In January 2005, the Company sold its equipment services business to Pitney Bowes.
STAN Standard Parking Corporation is a national provider of parking facility management services. The Company provides on-site management services at multi-level and surface parking facilities for all major markets of the parking industry. It manages approximately 1,870 parking facilities, containing over one million parking spaces, in over 275 cities across the United States and Canada. The Company's clientbase includes private and public owners, managers and developers of major office buildings, residential properties, commercial properties, shopping centers and other retail properties, sports and special event complexes, hotels and hospitals and medical centers, including properties such as the Arco Tower in Los Angeles, the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago, the Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, the Nationwide Arena in Columbus and Westfield Shoppingtown Century City in Los Angeles. In addition, the Company manages 124 parking-related and shuttle bus operations serving 66 airports.
SPF Standard Pacific Corp. is a geographically diversified builder of single-family homes. The Company constructs homes within a wide range of prices and sizes targeting a broad range of homebuyers. It has operations in major metropolitan areas in California, Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Florida and the Carolinas. Standard Pacific builds homes through a total of 18 operating divisions. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had 285 projects under development, of which, 151 were actively selling. It also holds or controls 63 projects for future development. In 2003, approximately 90% of the Company's home deliveries (excluding Colorado and the Carolinas) were single-family detached dwellings. In addition to its core homebuilding operations, the Company also provides mortgage financing and title services to its homebuyers, primarily through subsidiaries and joint ventures including Family Lending Services, WRT Financial, Westfield Home Mortgage and SPH Title.
SMP Standard Motor Products, Inc. (SMP) is a manufacturer and distributor of replacement parts for motor vehicles in the automotive aftermarket industry. The Company's segments focuses on a specific line of replacement parts. SMP's Engine Management segment manufactures ignition and emission parts, on-board computers, ignition wires, battery cables and fuel system parts. Its Temperature Control segment manufactures and remanufactures air conditioning compressors, and other air conditioning and heating parts. It sells its products to warehouse distributors and retail chains in the United States, Canada, Latin America and Europe. The Company distributes under its own brand names, including Standard, Blue Streak, Echlin, Niehoff and Four Seasons and through private labels, such as Carquest and NAPA Auto Parts. On June 30, 2003, SMP completed the acquisition of Dana Corporation's Engine Management Group (DEM) and on February 3, 2004, acquired the Canadian distribution of DEM.
SMSC Standard Microsystems Corporation (SMSC) is a worldwide supplier of semiconductor systems solutions for high-speed communication and computing applications. Through the integration of its digital, mixed-signal and analog design capabilities and software expertise, SMSC delivers complete solutions that monitor and manage computing systems and connect peripherals to computers and to one another. The Company supplies semiconductor devices in three product platforms: Connectivity Solutions, Networking Products and Computing Platform Solutions. SMSC is a fabless-semiconductor supplier, whose products are manufactured by third-party semiconductor foundries and assemblers. During the fiscal year ended February 29, 2004 (fiscal 2003), SMSC purchased the minority interest in SMSC Japan from Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. Prior to this purchase, Sumitomo owned 20% of the issued and outstanding common stock and all of the non-cumulative, non-voting 6% preferred stock of SMSC, Japan.
SMAN Standard Management Corporation is a holding company that conducts its businesses through two distinct segments: financial services and health services. The financial services segment is primarily involved in the asset accumulation business, targeting the retirement-age market. The Company is engaged in the development, marketing and administration of annuity and life insurance products, principally through its wholly owned life insurance subsidiary, Standard Life Insurance Company of Indiana. The health services segment is operated through the Company's subsidiary, U.S. Health Services Corporation, which distributes pharmaceutical products and services to institutions, point of care programs, contract repackaging services and consumers. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company acquired Medical Care &amp; Outcomes, LLC, as well as the business assets of MyDoc.com from Roche Diagnostics Corporation.
STW Standard Commercial Corporation is an independent leaf tobacco merchant. It has developed an international network through which it purchases, processes, stores, sells and ships tobacco grown in over 30 countries, servicing cigarette manufacturers from 22 processing facilities strategically located throughout the world, including the export markets for flue-cured, burley and oriental tobacco, such as the United States, Brazil, Malawi and Turkey. Its revenues primarily consist of sales of processed tobacco and fees charged for processing and related services to manufacturers of tobacco products. The Company has operating agreements or access to processing facilities in Brazil, Canada, China and Kenya. It also owns and operates cut-rolled expanded stem processing facilities in the United States and Russia.
SFG StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. provides selected insurance and retirement plan products in the United States through its subsidiaries, Standard Insurance Company (Standard), The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York, StanCorp Mortgage Investors, LLC and StanCorp Investment Advisers, Inc. Standard offers group life, income protection insurance, and investment products and services. The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York is licensed to provide long-term and short-term disability, life, accidental death and dismemberment, and dental insurance for groups in New York. StanCorp Mortgage Investors originates and services small fixed-rate commercial mortgage loans for the investment portfolios of the Company's insurance subsidiaries. StanCorp Investment Advisers, Inc. is an investment adviser providing performance analysis, fund selection support and model portfolios to the Company's retirement plans clients and subsidiaries of StanCorp.
STMP Stamps.com Inc. is a provider of Internet-based postage solutions. Its service allows customers to buy and print United States Postal Service (USPS)-approved, information-based indicia (electronic stamps) directly onto envelopes or labels using a personal computer (PC), an ordinary inkjet or laser printer and an Internet connection. Customers use the Company's service to mail and ship a variety of mail pieces including postcards, envelopes, flats and packages using a wide range of mail classes, including First-Class Mail, Priority Mail, Express Mail, Parcel Post, Media Mail and Bound Printed Matter. Customers can also add USPS Special Services such as Delivery Confirmation, Signature Confirmation, Registered Mail, Certified Mail, Insured Mail, Return Receipt, Collect on Delivery (COD) and Restricted Delivery to their mail pieces. Stamps.com's customers include home businesses, small businesses, corporations, shippers and individuals.
STAK Staktek Holdings, Inc. provides high-density packaged memory stacking solutions for systems and applications such as servers, workstations, high-end computing platforms and networking equipment. The Company's flagship Performance Stakpak solution utilizes a patented interconnect system to stack high-density memory circuits contained in industry-standard thin small outline packages (TSOPs), which are the most commonly used plastic packages for high-density memory. The Performance Stakpak units fit within the same standard physical footprint on a circuit board as a monolithic memory chip packaged in a TSOP. The Value Stakpak solution is a low-cost stacked high-density memory solution for devices and systems with lower thermal management requirements. The High Performance Stakpak solution for stacking non-leaded packages, such as fine pitch ball grid array (fBGA), offers similar benefits to those of the Performance Stakpak.
STGS Stage Stores, Inc. is a specialty department store retailer offering brand name and private label apparel, accessories, cosmetics and footwear for the entire family. As of January 31, 2004, the Company operated 518 stores located in 27 states. The Company operates under the Stage, Bealls and Palais Royal brand names throughout the South Central states, and under the Peebles brand name throughout the mid-Atlantic, southeastern and Midwestern states. With an average size store of approximately 19,100 selling square feet, the Company's principal focus is on consumers in small and mid-size markets. Approximately 57% of the Company's stores are located in small towns and communities with populations below 50,000 people, while an additional 23% of its stores are located in mid-sized communities with populations between 50,000 and 150,000 people. The remaining 20% of the Company's stores are located in metropolitan areas, such as Houston and San Antonio, Texas.
STAA Staar Surgical Company develops, manufactures and distributes worldwide products used by ophthalmologists and other eye care professionals to improve or correct vision in patients with cataracts, refractive conditions and glaucoma. In the area of cataract surgery, the Company's main products are foldable silicone and Collamer intraocular lenses (IOLs) used after minimally invasive small incision cataract extraction. In the area of refractive surgery, the Company has used its biocompatible Collamer material to develop and manufacture the Visian ICL (ICL) and the Visian TICL (TICL) to treat refractive disorders such as myopia (near-sightedness), hyperopia (far-sightedness) and astigmatism. In the area of glaucoma surgery, the Company has developed the AquaFlow Collagen Glaucoma Drainage Device (the Aqua Flow Device) as an alternative to methods of treating open-angle glaucoma.
SM St. Mary Land &amp; Exploration Company is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the exploration, exploitation, development, acquisition and production of natural gas and crude oil. The Company's exploration, development and acquisition activities are focused in the following five core operating areas in the United States: the Mid-Continent region; the Gulf Coast region; the ArkLaTex region; the Rocky Mountain region in Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming, and the Permian Basin region in West Texas and New Mexico. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had estimated proved reserves of approximately 47.8 million barrels of oil (MMBbl) of oil and 307.0 billion cubic feet of natural gas, or a total of 593.7 billion cubic feet of gas equivalent (BCFE), 89% of which were proved developed and 52% of which were natural gas. For the year ended December 31, 2003, St. Mary produced 76.9 BCFE, representing average daily production of 210.7 million cubic feet of gas equivalent per day.
STLS.OB The St. Lawrence Seaway Corporation is engaged in farming, timber, harvesting and other traditional agricultural activities. The Company is engaged in investing in drug development programs and in evaluating other alternatives to its former business, including continuing its evaluation of operating companies for acquisition, merger or investment. Pending any such transaction, it will continue its practice of maintaining any cash assets in liquid interest/dividend bearing money market investments. Eventually such assets may be used for an acquisition or for a partial payment of an acquisition or for the commencement of a new business.
STJ St. Jude Medical, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures and distributes cardiovascular medical devices for the global cardiac rhythm management (CRM), cardiac surgery (CS) and cardiology and vascular access (C/VA) therapy areas. The Company's principal CRM products are bradycardia pacemaker systems (pacemakers), tachycardia implantable cardioverter defibrillator systems and electrophysiology catheters. Its principal CS products are mechanical and tissue heart valves, and valve repair products. C/VA products offered include vascular closure devices, angiography catheters, guidewires and hemostasis introducers. The principal geographic markets for St. Jude Medical's products are the United States, Europe and Japan. The Company also sells its products in Canada, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region.
SJOE St. Joseph Capital Corporation is a bank holding company that owns St. Joseph Capital Bank (the Bank), a full-service commercial banking institution. The Bank provides a range of banking products and services, including credit, cash management and deposits to its targeted client base of executive and professionals and small to medium-sized businesses. St. Joseph's market area encompasses a substantial portion of the Indiana communities of Mishawaka, South Bend, Notre Dame, Granger, Osceola and Elkhart, as well as certain Michigan communities, including Niles, Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The delivery of banking services is accomplished through the Bank's headquarters facility, a courier service program, an automated teller machine/debit card product, the postage paid bank-by-mail program, telephone banking and computer banking.
SJKI.OB St. John Knits International, Incorporated designs, manufactures and markets fine women's clothing and accessories. The Company's products are organized primarily into seven separate product lines: knitwear, sport, shoes, jewelry, accessories, fragrance and home accessories. Its core knitwear product line consists of a collection of lifestyle clothing for women's business, evening and casual needs. St. John manufactures its products primarily to order and distributes them on a highly selective basis through a group of upscale retailers with whom it has long-term relationships, as well as through Company-owned boutiques and outlet stores. As of November 2, 2003, it owned and 30 boutiques and 13 outlet stores. The boutiques showcase the Company's entire line of apparel products and have expanded the distribution and enhanced the brand awareness. The outlet stores primarily sell seconds, design samples and slow-moving inventory from the full-price boutiques.
STBA S&amp;T Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company and have two wholly owned subsidiaries, S&amp;T Bank and S&amp;T Investment Company, Inc. The Company owns a one-half interest in Commonwealth Trust Credit Life Insurance Company. S&amp;T is engaged in non-banking activities through its entities: S&amp;T Investment Company, Inc., was formed to hold and manage a group of investments previously owned by S&amp;T Bank, and to give S&amp;T additional latitude to purchase other investments; Commonwealth Trust Credit Life Insurance Company (CTCLIC), a joint venture with another financial institution, acts as a reinsurer of credit life, accident and health insurance policies sold by S&amp;T Bank and the other institution, and S&amp;T Insurance Group, LLC, which distributes high-quality life insurance and long-term disability income insurance products. S&amp;T Insurance Group, LLC expanded into the property and casualty insurance business with the acquisition of Evergreen Insurance, LLC.
RGR Sturm, Ruger &amp; Company, Inc. is principally engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of firearms and precision investment castings. The Company offers products in all four industry product categories: rifles, shotguns, pistols and revolvers. Its firearms are sold through a select number of independent wholesale distributors principally to the commercial sporting market. Investment castings manufactured are of titanium and steel alloys. Investment castings are sold either directly to or through manufacturers' representatives to companies in a variety of industries.
STBI Sturgis Bancorp, Inc. serves as a financial holding company for Sturgis Bank &amp; Trust Company (the Bank), a state-chartered bank whose principal business is to accept savings deposit from the general public and make single family mortgage loans and to a lesser extent, consumer and commercial loans. The Bank's market area covers all of St. Joseph County and parts of Cass, Branch, Calhoun, Van Buren, Allegan, Hillsdale and Kalamazoo Counties. Loans and loans held for sale for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001 amounted to $216,849,239, $219,480,856 and $223,528,846, respectively. Cash and investment securities for the years 2003, 2002 and 2001 totaled $29,079,322, $39,767,645 and $28,801,672, respectively. Total deposits for the years 2003, 2002 and 2001 amounted to $199,920,213, $202,563,796 and $179,129,827, respectively.
STU The Student Loan Corporation originates, manages and services student loans through a trust agreement with Citibank, N.A. (CBNA), which are guaranteed under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program, authorized by the United States Department of Education under the Federal Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended. The Company also holds student loans that are not insured under the Act, primarily CitiAssist Loans. CBNA is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Citigroup Inc. Its assets at year end consisted primarily of student loans, which in turn included a portfolio of FFEL Program loans held, a portfolio of CitiAssist and other alternative loans held and an inventory of FFEL Program loans available for sale.
SYK Stryker Corporation develops, manufactures and markets specialty surgical and medical products that are sold primarily to hospitals throughout the world. The Company segregates its operations into two business segments: Orthopaedic Implants and MedSurg Equipment. The Orthopaedic Implants segment consists of such products as hip, knee, shoulder and spinal implants, associated implant instrumentation, trauma-related products, bone cement and the bone growth factor osteogenic protein-1. MedSurg Equipment products include powered surgical instruments, endoscopic products, hospital beds and stretchers and micro implant and surgical navigation systems. In addition, the Company provides outpatient physical therapy services in the United States.
SGSI.OB SSI Surgical Services, Inc. is a healthcare services Company focused on providing surgical support services to hospitals and surgery centers throughout the United States. The Company focuses on the operating room and the central sterile processing department. During the fiscal year ended December 28, 2003 (fiscal 2003), the Company's endoscopic services, instrument and linen sterilization services and management of sterile processing departments within hospitals accounted for approximately 61%, 27% and 12%, respectively, of the Company's revenues, compared to 51%, 39% and 10% during the fiscal year ended December 29, 2002 (fiscal 2002). Surgical Services is approximately 84.5% owned by TFX Equities Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of Teleflex Incorporated.
SSNC SS&amp;C Technologies, Inc. provides software, business process outsourcing services and application service provider solutions to the financial services industry primarily in the United States. The Company delivers a range of specialized software products and services that provide mission-critical processing for information management, analysis, trading, accounting, reporting and compliance. SS&amp;C provides its products and related services in seven vertical markets in the financial services industry: insurance entities and pension funds; institutional asset management; hedge funds and family offices; financial institutions, such as retail banks and credit unions; commercial lending; real estate property management, and municipal finance. Its product offerings include the CAMRA, SS&amp;C Direct and SS&amp;C Fund Services, Antares, AnalyticsExpress, LMS and SKYLINE II. The Company has operations in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Malaysia, the Netherlands Antilles, Japan and Singapore.
SRSL SRS Labs, Inc. is a developer and provider of application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), standard integrated circuits (ICs) and audio and voice technology solutions for the home theater, portable audio, wireless, computer, game, automotive, broadcast, Internet and telecommunications markets. In 2003, the Company reported its revenues in five segments: licensing, semiconductors, component distribution, product sales, and Internet and broadcast. In 2004, the Company decided to reduce its segments because of the materiality of the revenues attributable to the other three segments. The Company operates in two business segments, semiconductor and licensing.
STRC SRI/Surgical Express, Inc. provides central processing and supply chain management services to hospitals and surgery centers throughout the United States. The Company helps healthcare providers balance their needs by providing a combination of outsourced instrument supply and processing services, reusable products (including gowns, towels, drapes, and basins), disposable surgical products and a case cart management system. The Company's integrated closed-loop process starts with daily delivery of surgical supplies to the health care provider. At the same time, it picks up used reusable textiles and surgical instruments for return to the processing facility. After the used products return to the processing facility, the products are sorted, cleaned, inspected, packaged, sterilized and shipped back to the healthcare providers for use. This closed-loop system eliminates the need for healthcare providers to stock on-hand inventory and simplifies customers' surgical supply chain process.
SRX SRA International, Inc. provides information technology (IT) services and solutions in national security, civil government, and health-care and public health. The National security market includes the Department of Defense, the National Guard, the intelligence agencies and other federal organizations with homeland security missions. Its services span the IT lifecycle: strategic consulting; systems design, development and integration, and outsourcing and operations management. The Company develops business solutions for text and data mining, contingency and disaster response planning, information assurance, environmental strategies, conflict management and dispute resolution, enterprise architecture, network operations and management, enterprise systems management, and wireless integration services. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), no single engagement accounted for more than 9%, of Company's revenue, and it completed the acquisition of ORION Scientific Systems.
SRXA SR Telecom Inc. provides fixed wireless access solutions for voice, data and Internet access applications. The Company designs, markets and sells fixed wireless access products to telecommunications service providers that, in turn, use the products to provide their subscribers with telecommunications services. It also provides turnkey services to customers. Most of the Company's sales are international, with its fixed wireless access systems being used by telecommunications service providers in over 120 countries worldwide. These customers include incumbent local exchange carriers in the countries they serve, as well as competitive local exchange carriers and private operators of telecommunications systems. In addition, through its majority-owned subsidiary, Communication Telefonia Rural (CTR), the Company provides local telephone service and Internet access to residential, commercial and institutional customers, and it operates a network of payphones in a rural area of Chile.
SPW SPX Corporation provides technical products and systems, industrial products and services, flow technology, cooling technologies and services and service solutions. The Company offers fire detection and building life-safety products, television and radio broadcast antennas and towers, life science products and services, power transformers, compaction equipment, high-tech die castings, dock products and systems, cooling towers, air filtration products, valves, back-flow prevention and fluid handling equipment and metering and mixing solutions. SPX's products and services also include specialty service tools, diagnostic systems, service equipment and technical information services. In January 2005, the Company sold its BOMAG compaction equipment business to Fayat.
SPSS SPSS Inc. is a provider of predictive analytics technology and services. The Company's offerings use predictive analytics to connect data to effective action by drawing reliable conclusions about current conditions and future events. SPSS provides two classes of software and service offerings to two distinct audiences. For researchers proficient in the use of analytical methods, the Company offers statistical and data mining software tools to examine and predict from a broad range of enterprise data. For business users acquainted with but not expert in data analysis techniques, SPSS delivers easy-to-use applications that bring the power of predictive analytics to address particular business problems. The Company's primary targeted vertical industries include financial services, telecommunications, market research, government and education.
FON Sprint Corporation is a global communications company and an integrator of long-distance, local service and wireless communications. The Company is also a carrier of Internet traffic using its tier-one (T1) Internet protocol (IP) network, which provides connectivity to any point on the Internet either through its own network or via direct connections with other backbone providers. Sprint operates nationwide, all-digital, long-distance and T1 IP networks using fiber-optic and electronic technology. The Company also operates a 100% digital personal communications service (PCS) wireless network with licenses to provide service to the entire United States population. The Company operates its business through two groups: The FON Group, which is comprised of the global markets division, the local division and other businesses consisting primarily of wholesale distribution of telecommunications products, and The PCS Group, which includes Sprint's wireless PCS operations.
SPCI.OB SportsNuts, Inc. is a sports management and marketing company, with a focus on community-based amateur athletics, providing solutions to the challenges faced by athletes and the organizations in which they participate. The Company helps organize and manage a variety of sports events, providing online registration and merchandise sales, event sponsorship, event coordination, and targeted promotion using technology and strategic media relationships. SportsNuts endeavors to make events more profitable and efficient by promoting such events through various media channels, attracting corporate sponsorships, and providing technology tools to decrease administrative and personnel costs. The Company also provides additional avenues for revenue generation, such as merchandise sales through its online sports mall.
SGDE The Sportsman's Guide, Inc. is a marketer of outdoor gear and general merchandise, with a special emphasis on outdoor clothing, equipment and footwear. The Company markets and sells its merchandise through two primary channels: catalogs and e-commerce Websites. The Company's catalogs and its Websites offer products at low prices. Its catalogs are advertised as the fun-to-read Catalog, and its primary Website is advertised as the fun-to-browse Website. The Websites include its online retail store modeled on its print catalogs, featuring e-commerce and content, and www.bargainoutfitters.com, the Company's online liquidation outlet.
SPRI Sports Resorts International, Inc. is a holding company with three active wholly owned subsidiaries. The Company has no independent operations of its own, but it provides various administrative functions for its operating subsidiaries, which are Rugged Liner, Inc. (RL) (formerly The Colonel's Truck Accessories, Inc.), Brainerd International Raceway &amp; Resort, Inc. (BIR) (formerly the Colonel's Brainerd International Raceway, Inc.) and Raceway 66, Inc. The Colonel's, Inc. is an inactive subsidiary, having sold all of its assets except for certain land in December 1998. Its active subsidiaries operate in two segments, truck accessories and sports and entertainment.
SPEA.OB Sports Entertainment Enterprises, Inc. (SPEA) has disposed of all of its operating businesses during the year ended December 31, 2002. The Company will continue to incur costs that are necessary for it to remain an active public company. These ongoing costs are expected to be funded by a related party and will accrue interest at 10% per annum until repaid. Its primary objective is to seek out and pursue a transaction with a business enterprise that might have a desire to take advantage of its status as a public corporation. There is no assurance that the Company will acquire a favorable business opportunity through such a transaction. The Company is marketing itself to investment bankers and others who may be able to facilitate a public shell merger transaction. Several private companies with the desire to become public have been presented to SPEA, none of which were deemed acceptable opportunities for the Company's shareholders.
SCY The Sports Club Company, Inc. (Sports Club) owns and operates eight clubs under The Sports Club/LA (the Clubs) name in Los Angeles, Orange County, Washington DC, Boston, San Francisco, at Rockefeller Center and the Upper East Side in New York City. It also operates and owns a majority interest in Reebok Sports Club/NY, and operates The Sports Club/LA in Miami, which was opened in November 2003. It opened The Sports Club/LA-Beverly Hills in October 2003. The Company's subsidiary, The SportsMed Company, Inc. (SportsMed), operates physical therapy facilities in some Clubs and at other locations.
SPOR Sport-Haley, Inc. designs, purchases, contracts for the manufacture of, markets and distributes men's and women's fashion golf apparel and outerwear under the HALEY label and men's golf apparel under the Ben Hogan label. HALEY fashion golf apparel is primarily marketed in the premium and mid-price markets, through a network of independent sales representatives and distributors, to golf professional shops at country clubs and resorts throughout the United States and internationally. Sport-Haley also markets HALEY apparel to corporate, collegiate and other markets. Ben Hogan apparel is marketed to elite golf professional shops, upscale resorts and exclusive department stores. Other services offered by Sport-Haley include optional custom embroidering of its apparel with a personalized club, resort or corporate logo.
SPCH Sport Chalet, Inc. operates 31 full-service, specialty sporting goods superstores, primarily in California and Nevada in the United States. As of March 31, 2004, the Company had 27 locations in Southern California, two in Northern California and two in Nevada. These stores average 38,800 square feet in size. Sport Chalet also operates a retail e-commerce store through GSI Commerce, Inc. at www.sportchalet.com. The Company's stores feature a number of distinct, specialty sporting goods divisions that offer an assortment of brand name merchandise. These stores include traditional sporting goods merchandise, such as footwear, apparel and other general athletic products, and non-traditional merchandise, such as downhill skiing, mountaineering and SCUBA. Sports Chalet's stores also offer over 40 services for the serious sports enthusiast, including canyoneering and kayaking instruction, custom golf club fitting and repair, ski rental and repair, and SCUBA training and certification.
SPM Spirent plc is a communications technology company focused on delivering systems and services to meet the needs of customers worldwide. The Company is a global provider of performance analysis and service assurance solutions that enable the development and deployment of next-generation networking technologies, such as broadband services, Internet telephony, next-generation (3G) wireless and Web applications and security testing. Its Network Products business is a developer and manufacturer of solutions for fastening, identification, protection and connectivity in electrical and communications networks marketed under the global brand HellermannTyton. The Systems group is comprised of PG Drives Technology, which develops power control systems for specialty electrical vehicles in the mobility and industrial markets.
SPIR Spire Corporation develops, manufactures and markets highly engineered products and services in four principal business areas: biomedical, solar equipment, solar systems and optoelectronics, generally bringing to bear expertise in materials technologies, surface science and thin films across all four business areas. The Company's Spire Biomedical is both a manufacturer of medical devices and a provider of advanced medical device surface treatment processes. Spire Solar Chicago is the principal business unit of Spire's solar systems business segment. It provides clients in the Chicago metropolitan area with grid-connected distributed photovoltaic systems to meet their demand for solar electricity. Bandwidth Semiconductor, the principal business unit of the Company's optoelectronics business segment, operates in a new semiconductor foundry and fabrication facility in Hudson, New Hampshire.
SKE Spinnaker Exploration Company is an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, development and production of oil and gas in the United States Gulf of Mexico. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had license rights to approximately 17,700 blocks of mostly contiguous 3-D seismic data in the Gulf of Mexico. This database covers an area of approximately 45 million acres. The Company also had 294 leasehold interests located in federal and Texas state waters of the Gulf of Mexico covering approximately 1.4 million gross and 819,000 net acres at that same date. Within its current inventory of leasehold interests, the Company has identified and captured approximately 140 exploratory prospects. Net proved reserve at the end of 2003 were approximately 332.6 billion cubic feet equivalent (Bcfe), and total production was 49.0 Bcfe, from 70 natural gas- and 20 oil-producing wells.
SPEX Spherix Incorporated consists of a biotechnology division, BioSpherix, and an information services division, InfoSpherix. InfoSpherix consists of Commercial Information Services (CIS), Government Information Services (GIS) and Information Technology Services (ITS). The BioSpherix division serves as the biotechnology research and development arm, dedicated to developing proprietary products and services with a view toward economic commercial applications. CIS focuses on health, pharmaceutical, medical data and clinical trials management services. GIS's information professionals design and operate information centers providing information management and materials to the public on various socially beneficial subjects, as well as other information services, such as reservation and tourism. ITS provides internal and external technical services, including software engineering, telecommunications, network infrastructure and Web development, among others.
SFN Spherion Corporation provides temporary staffing services, managed services and permanent placement services. It operates in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Panama, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. Temporary staffing services include personnel in the following skill categories: clerical, light industrial, information technology, finance and accounting, legal and administrative. Managed services include services where the Company assumes the operation and management of a customer function, such as a call center, recruitment process, help desk, administrative services and data center or network operations. Permanent placement is a service where its employees locate talent on behalf of its customers, screen the candidates and assist in the recruitment efforts. As of December 26, 2003, Spherion operated a network of over 800 locations, 606 company-owned offices, 114 licensed locations and 91 franchised locations.
SPCO.OB Spescom Software Inc., formerly Altris Software, Inc., develops, markets and supports eB, its integrated suite of collaborative document, configuration and records management software solutions. The eB suite enables organizations in a broad range of industries to create, capture, store, manage, share and distribute critical business information regarding their customers, products, assets and processes in an efficient manner. The eB suite also enables them to maintain complete, up-to-date information about the configuration of their products, assets and infrastructures so that they can achieve compliance with regulatory requirements. eB provides the capabilities of an enterprise content management (ECM)/electronic document management (EDM) system, but extends these capabilities by also managing the things that the content/documents relate to, such as products, assets, functions, processes, requirements, projects, organizations, locations, work orders, among others.
TRK Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI) owns and operates Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Infineon Raceway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Lowe's Motor Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway, and is a promoter, marketer and sponsor of motorsports activities in the United States. The Company also provides event souvenir merchandising services and food, beverage and hospitality catering services through its SMI Properties subsidiaries; provides radio programming, production and distribution through its Performance Racing Network subsidiary; develops electronic media promotional programming and distribute wholesale and retail racing and other sports related souvenir merchandise and apparel through its The Source International subsidiary, and manufactures and distributes smaller-scale, modified racing cars and parts through its 600 Racing subsidiary. In July 2004, the Company acquired the assets of North Carolina Speedway from International Speedway Corporation.
SPDE Speedus Corp. is a holding company that owns equity interests in diverse businesses located primarily in the United States. The Company has co-invested with Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., a subsidiary of Siemens Corporation, in Zargis Medical Corp. to develop non-invasive, medical diagnostic support service solutions that automatically analyze acoustical data from a patient to determine physiological significant features useful in medical diagnosis. The Company owns 80% of F&amp;B Gudtfood Holding Corp., the creator and operator of the Eurocentric chic and quick cafe, which is operating its first store in Manhattan and is planning expansion to other locations. Speedus owns a portfolio of patents that allow for high-speed wireless communications. It also owns fixed wireless spectrum in the New York City metropolitan area that it may commercialize in the future to support high-speed Internet access service. Additionally, the Company invests in a portfolio of marketable securities.
SPWC.OB SPEEDCOM Wireless Corporation has no operating business and is focusing its efforts on exploring opportunities to effect an acquisition of the Company by merger, exchange or issuance of securities or similar business combination. The Board of Directors of the Company has determined to maintain SPEEDCOM as a public "shell" corporation, which will seek suitable business combination opportunities. On December 10, 2003, the Company sold its operating assets and transferred substantially all of its operating liabilities to P-Com, Inc. Prior to the asset sale, SPEEDCOM manufactured, configured and delivered custom broadband wireless networking equipment, including the SPEEDLAN family of wireless ethernet bridges and routers, for business and residential customers internationally.
SPRX.OB SpectRx, Inc. is a medical technology company focused on insulin delivery and glucose monitoring products for the diabetes management market and biophotonic devices and technology for the non-invasive cancer diagnostics market. Historically, the Company's technology has been primarily based upon biophotonic technology, which it defines as the use of light and other forms of energy to access the human body to diagnose and monitor disease. SpectRx added insulin delivery to its technology base with the purchase of Sterling Medivations, Inc., now doing business as SimpleChoice. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's technology, including products in development, includes methods of delivering insulin to people with diabetes with the SimpleChoice product line. It also includes methods of sampling interstitial fluid using laser energy to create micropores for improved glucose and alcohol monitoring and biophotonics technology for the non-invasive detection of cancers.
SSPI Spectrum Signal Processing Inc. is a technology company that designs, develops and markets a portfolio of high-density digital signal processing (DSP) products primarily for use in the defense and commercial wireless infrastructure markets. The Company's hardware, software and Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) technology work together to collect, compress and convert voice and data signals. Spectrum earns revenue from both government and commercial customers. It enters into contracts both directly and indirectly with the United States Government and foreign governments. Its commercial customers include original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that integrate the Company's products into commercially available end products. The Company has two wholly owned subsidiaries, Spectrum Signal Processing (UK) Limited and Spectrum Signal Processing (USA) Inc.
SPSC.OB Spectrum Sciences &amp; Software Holdings provides engineering, scientific and technological support services, as well as the production of specialized and standard ground support equipment for the United States Department of Defense and other governmental and commercial contractors. Spectrum provides its customers with the capabilities of a large business in a number of advanced technologies. Its professional competencies include all the disciplines and technology applications encompassed in its three operating divisions: Management Services, Manufacturing Division and Engineering and Information Technology Services.
SPPI Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is engaged in the business of acquiring, developing and commercializing generic drug products that have a primary focus on the treatment of cancer and related disorders. The Company has two strategies: the Oncology Strategy and the Generic Drug Strategy. The Oncology Strategy focuses on the acquisition, or in-licensing, and continued development of clinical-stage drugs for the treatment and supportive care of cancer patients. Spectrum has three drug candidates in clinical development: satraplatin, EOquin and elsamitrucin. The Company's Generic Drug Strategy is to identify and acquire distribution rights for selected generic drugs, both, directly and through alliances with third-party companies; apply the Company's expertise and experience to further develop and pursue regulatory approval for those drugs, either directly or through third-party alliances, and market and distribute those generic drugs into retail and institutional channels.
SPOP.OB Spectrum Organic Products, Inc. operates in three business segments: natural and organic foods under the Spectrum Naturals brand, essential fatty acid nutritional supplements under the Spectrum Essentials brand, and the Company's private label industrial ingredients for use by other manufacturers sold under the Spectrum Ingredients name. The majority of Spectrum's products are oil-based. Spectrum products are offered in over 6,000 health food stores nationwide and 2,000 grocery stores located throughout the United States and Canada. In 2003, United Natural Foods, Inc. accounted for approximately 36% of the Company's net sales, versus 50% in 2002 and 39% in 2001.
SPEC Spectrum Control, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets a range of control panels and systems used to condition, regulate, transmit, receive or govern electronic performance. The Company's Signal Integrity Products group designs and manufactures a range of low-pass electromagnetic interference (EMI) filters, surface mount EMI filters, filtered arrays, filtered connectors, gaskets, specialty ceramic capacitors and motor line feed-thru filters. It's Power Integrity Products and Management Systems Group designs and manufactures numerous power integrity products and power management systems. It's Frequency Control Products Group designs and manufactures ceramic resonators and bandpass filters, ceramic patch antennas, duplexers, lumped element filters, cavity filters, waveguide filters, and related products and systems. In October 2004, the company acquired RF and microwave Components Business Unit of REMEC, Inc.
SSI SpectraSite, Inc. is a wireless tower operator in the United States. Its primary business is owning, leasing and licensing antenna sites on wireless and broadcast towers, owning and licensing in-building shared infrastructure systems and managing rooftop telecommunications access on commercial real estate. The Company owned or operated 7,577 towers and in-building systems in the United States as of December 31, 2003. It has metropolitan market clusters in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Detroit and Dallas. SpectraSite's principal business is the leasing of space on its antenna sites to wireless carriers, which represents more than 94% of its monthly revenues. As of December 31, 2003, the Company discontinued the operations of its broadcast services division. In November 2002, SpectraSite filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court, and emerged from bankruptcy in February 2003.
SPNC Spectranetics Corporation develops, manufactures, markets and distributes single-use medical devices used in invasive surgical procedures within the cardiovascular system in conjunction with the Company's excimer laser system. Excimer laser technology delivers cool ultraviolet energy in short, controlled energy pulses to ablate or remove tissue. The Company's excimer laser system includes the CVX-300 laser unit and fiber-optic delivery devices, including disposable catheters and sheaths. Product applications include coronary excimer laser atherectomy, cardiac lead removal systems, peripheral vascular disease therapy and restenosed stents.
SLNK SpectraLink Corporation designs, manufactures and sells workplace wireless telephone systems for businesses predominantly in North America, Australia and the United Kingdom. The Company's product portfolio consists of two product categories: Link Wireless Telephone System (Link WTS) and NetLink Wireless Telephones. Link WTS targets organizations that require a dedicated wireless voice solution for their on-premises mobile workforce. NetLink Wireless Telephones target organizations that want both a wireless voice and wireless data solution on a single network. SpectraLink also offers Open Application Interface that enables standard-based, third-party software applications to be integrated with SpectraLink Wireless Handsets. The Company's primary sales efforts are focused on home improvement, grocery and other retail store chains, hospitals, nursing homes, distribution centers, manufacturing and service facilities, corporate offices, government and education facilities.
DIAGF.PK Spectral Diagnostics Inc. operates in the overall in-vitro diagnostic testing market. Spectral researches, develops and commercializes in-vitro cardiac rapid diagnostic tests, which provide physicians and emergency departments with critical diagnostic information in less than 15 minutes. The Company has expanded its activities to infection diagnostic testing and other rapid testing fields. Spectral's main products include cardiac point-of-care diagnostics; sepsis rapid diagnostics, and technology exploitation.
SGMG.OB Spectre Gaming, Inc. is a provider of interactive electronic games to the native American Class II and charitable gaming markets. The Company designs and develops networks, software and content that provide customers with a gaming system. It also provides telecommunications-based business-intelligence services via the Internet. The services enable the production of business-intelligence reports based on caller data of business customers available from telecommunications companies. The reports include summaries and detail of the data about the location of the businesses' incoming callers, frequency of calls, number of unanswered calls, busy calls and similar information. The incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) provide the data, which the Company uses to generate the business-intelligence reports.
SP Specialty Laboratories, Inc. is a hospital-focused clinical reference laboratory, performing advanced, clinically useful testing services for hospitals, laboratories and physician specialist communities nationwide. The Company educates physicians on the clinical value of its assays through its information-oriented marketing campaigns. The Company has implemented an automation system known as the Total Accessioning Re-Organization system (TARO), for its pre- and post-analytical specimen management. This automated sorting system reduces the potential for human error, increases the productivity of laboratory staff and decreases overall turnaround time within the laboratory. Specifically, TARO automates specimen sorting to the appropriate assay batch, enhances specimen-tracking applications and reduces manual set up procedures at the analytical workbench.
SHPI.OB Specialized Health Products International, Inc. (SHPI) designs, develops, manufactures and licenses cost-effective, safety healthcare products that minimize the risk of accidental needle sticks. Accidental needle sticks can cause the spread of blood-borne diseases, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and autoimmunodeficiency syndrome, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV). The Company has 20 highly differentiated, patented safety needle technologies. These technologies apply to virtually all medical needles used, including syringe, pre-filled syringe, IV catheter, guidewire introducer, PICC introducer, blood collection, epidural, spinal, Huber, biopsy and other specialty needles. SHPI enters into licensing, original equipment manufacturing supply or distribution agreements for its products, rather than engage in direct sales of products to end users on its own.
SPAZ.OB Spatializer Audio Laboratories, Inc. is a developer, licensor and marketer of next-generation technologies for the consumer electronics, personal computing, enterprise computing and entertainment industries. Spatializer conducts its audio business through its parent company and wholly owned subsidiary, Desper Products, Inc. (DPI). DPI has developed a complement of three-dimensional (3-D) or virtual audio signal processing technologies, directed to the consumer electronics and multimedia personal computer (PC) markets. Spatializer's technology product applications are directed to speaker enhancement, stereo surround sound enhancement, mobile entertainment enhancement and noise reduction. The Company offers Spatializer 3D Stereo, Spatializer N-2-2 Ultra Digital Virtual Surround, Spatializer Vi.B.E, Spatializer VSP-11, Spatializer Natural Headphone, Spatializer PCE, Spatializer enCompass AV, Spatializer VirtuaLFE and Spatializer Audio Alchemy.
HDTV SpatiaLight, Inc. manufactures microdisplays that provide high-resolution images suitable for applications, including high-definition television, rear projection computer monitors and video projectors, and potential applications, such as those used in wireless communication devices, portable games and digital assistants. The Company's microdisplays are designed for use in end products of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). It also leases clean room space, where the Company manufactures its SpatiaLight imagEngine microdisplays. In addition, in January 2004, it leased an additional clean room, at the same location as the existing clean room, to address current and anticipated increased manufacturing demand. The Company has patents covering parts of its designs, however, the key designs of the circuitry in the silicon, drive electronics and liquid crystal assembly techniques are it's own and not covered by patents.
SPA Sparton Corporation is engaged in one line of business, electronic contract manufacturing services (EMS). The Company provides design and electronic manufacturing services, which include a complete range of engineering, pre-manufacturing and post-manufacturing services. Products and services include complete Box Build products for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), microprocessor-based systems, transducers, printed circuit boards and assemblies, sensors and electromechanical devices for the telecommunications, medical/scientific instrumentation, electronics, aerospace and other industries, as well as engineering services relating to these products. The Company also develops and manufactures sonobuoys, anti-submarine warfare (ASW) devices, used by the United States Navy and other free-world countries.
SEH Spartech Corporation is an intermediary processor of thermoplastics organized into three segments: Custom Sheet and Rollstock, Color and Specialty Compounds and Molded and Profile Products. The Custom Sheet and Rollstock segment processes a variety of materials into single/multilayer sheets or rollstock, cell cast acrylic and specialty film laminates or acetates on a custom basis for end product manufacturers. The Color and Specialty Compounds segment manufactures custom-designed plastic alloys, compounds, color concentrates and calendered film for utilization in numerous applications. The Molded and Profile Products segment manufactures a number of proprietary items, including injection molded products, complete thermoplastic wheels and tires and profile extruded products.
SPTN Spartan Stores, Inc. is a regional grocery distributor and grocery retailer, operating principally in Michigan and Ohio, in two primary business segments: Grocery Distribution and Retail. Spartan's Grocery Distribution segment provides approximately 400 stores with a selection of approximately 40,000 products, including dry groceries, produce, dairy products, meat, frozen food, seafood, floral products, general merchandise, pharmacy and health and beauty care items. The Company's Retail segment operates 54 retail supermarkets and 21 deep-discount food and drug stores predominantly in mid-size metropolitan, tourist and rural areas.
SPAR Spartan Motors, Inc. is a niche market engineer and manufacturer in the heavy duty, custom vehicles marketplace. During 2003, the Company had four wholly owned subsidiaries: Spartan Motors Chassis, Inc., Crimson Fire, Inc., Crimson Fire Aerials, Inc. and Road Rescue, Inc. The Company is organized into two principal groups, the Chassis Group and the Emergency Vehicle Team (EVTeam). The Chassis Group has engineering experience in creating chassis for vehicles that perform specialized tasks. The Chassis Group engineers, manufactures and markets chassis for fire trucks, motorhomes and specialty applications such as trolleys, utility trucks and crash-rescue vehicles. The EVTeam consists of Crimson, Crimson Aerials and Road Rescue. Crimson and Road Rescue engineer and manufacture emergency vehicles built on chassis platforms purchased from either the Chassis Group or outside sources. Crimson Aerials engineers and manufactures aerial ladder components for fire trucks.
SGRP SPAR Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, is a supplier of merchandising and other marketing services both throughout the United States and internationally. The Company's operations are divided into two divisions: the Merchandising Services Division and the International Division. The Merchandising Services Division provides merchandising services, product demonstrations, product sampling, database marketing, teleservices and marketing research to manufacturers and retailers with product distribution primarily in mass merchandisers, drug chains and grocery stores in the United States. The International Division, established in July 2000, provides merchandising services in Japan, Canada and Turkey.
SBSA Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. is a Hispanic-controlled radio broadcasting company operating in the United States and Puerto Rico. The Company owns and operates 24 radio stations in markets that reach approximately 45% of the United States Hispanic population. Its stations are located in five Hispanic markets: Los Angeles, California; New York, New York; Puerto Rico; Chicago, Illinois, and Miami, Florida. The Company formats the programming of each of its stations to capture a substantial share of the United States Hispanic audience in its respective market. Its programming formats include Spanish Tropical, Regional Mexican, Spanish Adult Contemporary, Spanish Oldies, Spanish Hot Adult Contemporary, Mexican Adult Contemporary, Central American Tropical, American Adult Contemporary 80's &amp; 90's Hits and American Top 40. The Company also operates LaMusica.com, a bilingual Spanish-English Internet Website providing content related to Latin music, entertainment, news and culture.
SPAN Span-America Medical Systems, Inc. manufactures and distributes a variety of polyurethane foam products for the medical and custom products markets. Initially, Span-America was a manufacturer of polyurethane foam patient positioners. The Company expanded its product lines to produce lapidus (flat foam) and convoluted foam mattress overlays for the wound care market. Wound care products aid in the treatment or prevention of pressure ulcers, known as bedsores or decubitus ulcers. The Company is marketing the PressureGuard line of replacement mattresses directly and through distributors to hospitals, long-term care facilities and home healthcare dealers. The Company's products are distributed primarily in the United States and several foreign countries. During the fiscal year ended October 2, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the total export sales were approximately $3 million or 6% of total net sales. The majority of the Company's export sales occurred in Canada.
SPAB SPACEHAB, Incorporated commercially develops, owns and operates pressurized space habitat modules. Serving the international community, SPACEHAB has experience supporting both manned and unmanned missions to space. SPACEHAB offers access to space through the use of research and logistics modules and carriers; expertise on the habitability and occupational challenges of space; facility operations and spacecraft processing services; engineering, analysis and space payload transportation services; program integration and control; product design and development, and space media, education and retail goods. Through its SPACEHAB Flight Services business unit, its habitat modules and unpressurized cargo carriers provide space-based research facilities and cargo services for use aboard the United States space shuttle system. A SPACEHAB single module, when installed in the payload bay of a space shuttle, more than doubles the space available to astronauts for research, habitation and storage.
SPDV.OB SpaceDev, Inc. is engaged in the conception, design, development, manufacture, integration and operations of space technology subsystems, systems, products and services. It is focused on the commercial and military development of low-cost micro-satellites, nano-satellites and related subsystems, hybrid rocket propulsion for space and launch vehicles, as well as the associated engineering technical services to government, aerospace and other commercial enterprises. The Company's products and solutions are sold directly to these customers and include micro- and nano-satellites, hybrid rocket-based launch vehicles, orbital Maneuvering and orbital Transfer Vehicles (MoTV), as well as safe sub-orbital and orbital hybrid rocket-based propulsion systems. SpaceDev is also developing commercial hybrid rocket motors for possible use in small launch vehicles, targets and sounding rockets, and small high-performance space vehicles and subsystems.
SSS Sovran Self Storage, Inc. is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust that acquires, owns and manages self-storage properties. As of March 1, 2004, it had 265 owned and/or managed self-storage properties consisting of approximately 15.5 million net rentable square feet, situated in 21 states in the eastern and midwestern United States, Arizona and Texas. Sovran Self Storage manages 11 of these properties for Locke Sovran I, LLC, an unconsolidated joint venture that is 45% owned by the Company. As of March 1, 2004, all but two of its properties conducted business under the trade name Uncle Bob's Self-Storage. The Company's self-storage facilities offer inexpensive, easily accessible, enclosed storage space to residential and commercial users on a month-to-month basis. All properties have a property manager on-site during business hours. Customers have access to their storage areas during business hours, and some commercial customers are provided 24-hour access.
SOV Sovereign Bancorp, Inc. is the parent company of Sovereign Bank, which after taking into account its completed acquisition of First Essex Bancorp on February 6, 2004, is a $45 billion financial institution with 535 community banking offices and approximately 950 ATMs. Its primary business consists of attracting deposits from its network of community banking offices, and originating small business and middle market commercial and asset-based loans, residential mortgage loans, home equity lines of credit, and auto and other consumer loans in the communities served by those offices. Sovereign also purchases portfolios of residential mortgage loans and other consumer loans originated throughout the United States. The Company's has three segments: the Consumer Bank, which provides a range of services to consumers; the Corporate Bank, which originates small business and middle market commercial loans, and Treasury &amp; Other, which includes expense on the Company's borrowings and debt.
SWN Southwestern Energy Company is an integrated energy company primarily focused on natural gas. Through its wholly owned subsidiaries, the Company is engaged in natural gas and oil exploration and production, natural gas gathering, transmission and marketing and natural gas distribution. Southwestern's exploration and production activities are concentrated in Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Oklahoma. The gas distribution segment operates in northern Arkansas and, depending upon weather conditions and current supply contracts, can obtain greater than 50% of its gas supply from one of the Company's exploration and production subsidiaries. The customers of the gas distribution segment consist of residential, commercial and industrial users of natural gas. As a complement to its other businesses, Southwestern provides marketing and transportation services in its core areas of operation.
SWWC Southwest Water Company provides a range of services including water production and distribution, wastewater collection and treatment, public works services, utility billing and service and infrastructure construction management. The Company provides its services to more than two million people in 36 states. Its business is operated by its subsidiaries and is segmented into two operating groups: the Services Group and the Utility Group. The Services Group provides water and wastewater facility operations and maintenance services, equipment maintenance and repair, sewer pipeline cleaning, billing and collection services and state-certified water and wastewater laboratory analysis on a contract basis. Within the Utility Group, the Company owns and manages the operations of rate-regulated public water and wastewater utilities in California, New Mexico and Texas.
SGB Southwest Georgia Financial Corporation is a bank holding company. All of the Company's activities are conducted by Southwest Georgia Bank (the Bank) and Empire Financial Services, Inc. The Bank provides financial services to individuals and businesses principally in Colquitt County, Baker County, Thomas County, Worth County and the surrounding counties of Southwest Georgia. It offers customary banking services, such as consumer and commercial checking accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, savings accounts, certificates of deposit, lines of credit, MasterCard and VISA accounts and money transfers. The Bank finances commercial and consumer transactions, makes secured and unsecured loans and provides a variety of other banking services. In March 2004, the Company acquired, by merger, 100% of the outstanding shares of First Bank Holding Company and its sole subsidiary, Sylvester Banking Company.
SWX Southwest Gas Corporation consists of two business segments: natural gas operations (Southwest or the natural gas operations segment) and construction services. Southwest is engaged in the business of purchasing, transporting and distributing natural gas in portions of Arizona, Nevada and California. Northern Pipeline Construction Co. (NPL or the construction services segment), a wholly owned subsidiary, is a full-service underground piping contractor that provides utility companies with trenching and installation, replacement and maintenance services for energy distribution systems.
SWBT Southwest Bancorporation of Texas, Inc., incorporated in 1996, is the holding company for Southwest Bank of Texas National Association (the Bank). The Company provides banking services to middle market businesses, private banking individuals and retail consumers in the Houston metropolitan area through 44 full service banking facilities. Southwest has two operating segments: the Bank and the mortgage company. Each segment is managed separately because each business requires different marketing strategies and offers different products and services. The Company provides mortgage services through Mitchell Mortgage Company L.L.C. (Mitchell), a 100% owned subsidiary of the Bank.
OKSB Southwest Bancorp, Inc. is a financial holding company that provides commercial and consumer banking services through its banking subsidiaries, Stillwater National Bank &amp; Trust Company and SNB Bank of Wichita (SNB Wichita), and management consulting services through Business Consulting Group, Inc. and Healthcare Strategic Support, Inc. The Company's business operations are conducted through four operating segments: Oklahoma banking; other states banking; secondary market segment consisting of student lending and residential mortgage lending services, and another segment that includes support, control and funding.
LUV Southwest Airlines Co. is a domestic airline that provides predominantly shorthaul, high-frequency, point-to-point, low-fare service in the United States. The Company focuses principally on point-to-point, rather than hub-and-spoke, service in markets with frequent, conveniently timed flights and low fares. As of December 31, 2003, Southwest served 337 nonstop city pairs. Southwest's average aircraft trip stage length in 2003 was 558 miles, with an average duration of approximately 1.5 hours. Examples of markets offering frequent daily flights are Dallas to Houston, 35 weekday roundtrips; Phoenix to Las Vegas, 19 weekday roundtrips, and Los Angeles International to Oakland, 22 weekday roundtrips. Southwest complements these high-frequency shorthaul routes with longhaul nonstop service between markets such as Baltimore and Los Angeles; Phoenix and Tampa Bay; Seattle and Nashville, and Houston and Oakland.
SWTX.OB Southwall Technologies Inc. is a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of thin film coatings for the automotive glass, electronic display and architectural markets. Southwall has developed a variety of products that control sunlight in automotive glass, reduce light reflection, reduce potentially harmful electromagnetic emissions and improve image quality in electronic display products, and conserve energy in architectural products. The Company's products consist of transparent solar-control films for automotive glass, anti-reflective films for computer screens, reflective films for back-lighting in liquid crystal displays, transparent conductive films for use in touch screen and plasma panel displays, energy control films for architectural glass and various other coatings. Southwall sells its automobile and electronic display products primarily to original equipment manufacturers in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
SBSI Southside Bancshares, Inc. is a holding company for Southside Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a community-focused financial institution that offers a full range of financial services to individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations in the communities it serves. These services include consumer and commercial loans, deposit accounts, trust services, safe deposit services and brokerage services. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Bank has a deposit base in the Tyler metropolitan area and total assets of $1.45 billion, total loans of $589.1 million and deposits of $872.5 million.
SZB SouthFirst Bancshares, Inc. is a thrift holding company primarily engaged in directing, planning and coordinating the business activities of its wholly owned bank subsidiary, First Federal of the South (the Bank), along with First Federal's two wholly owned operating subsidiaries, Pension &amp; Benefit Financial Services, Inc. and SouthFirst Mortgage, Inc. As of September 30, 2004, First Federal conducted business from three full-service locations in Alabama. These locations included its main office in Sylacauga and branches in Talladega and Clanton. In addition, SouthFirst Mortgage, the wholly owned subsidiary of First Federal, operates loan production offices in the Alabama cities of Hoover and Chelsea, suburbs of metropolitan Birmingham, primarily to enhance First Federal's construction-lending activities in the growing residential markets of metropolitan Birmingham.
SUG Southern Union Company is primarily engaged in the transportation, storage and distribution of natural gas in the United States. The transportation and storage segment is primarily engaged in the interstate transportation and storage of natural gas in the Midwest and Southwest, and also provides liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminaling and regasification services. The distribution segment is primarily engaged in the local distribution of natural gas in Missouri, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Southern Union's operations also include certain subsidiaries established to support and expand natural gas sales and other energy sales that are not included in the transportation and storage segment or the distribution segment. In addition, Southern Union also maintains a venture capital investment portfolio. It has venture capital investments in PointServe, Inc. and Advent Networks, Inc.
SSLI Southern Security Life Insurance Company is a legal reserve life insurance company authorized to transact business in the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. During the year ended December 31, 2003, approximately 43% of the premium income of the Company was from business in Florida. Its industry segment is the ordinary life, accident, health and annuity business. The Company has primarily issued three types of insurance products: 10-Pay Whole Life with an Annuity Rider, final expense products and universal life. The 10-Pay Whole Life with an Annuity Rider product is designed for the higher education market. Final expense products are traditional endowment type insurance policies written for the senior market. Universal life provides insurance coverage with flexible premiums, within limits, which allow policyholders to accumulate cash values.
PCU Southern Peru Copper Corporation (SPCC) is an integrated producer of copper that operates mining, smelting and refining facilities in the southern part of Peru. The copper operations of the Company involve mining, milling and flotation of copper ore to produce copper concentrates, the smelting of copper concentrates to produce blister copper and the refining of blister copper to produce copper cathodes. SPCC also produces refined copper using the solvent extraction/electrowinning (SX/EW) technology. Silver, molybdenum and small amounts of other metals are contained in copper ore as by-products. Silver sold is recovered in the refining process or as an element of blister copper. Molybdenum is recovered from copper concentrate in a molybdenum by-product plant. SPCC operates the Toquepala and Cuajone mines, high in the Andes, approximately 984 kilometers southeast of Lima. It also operates a smelter and refinery west of the mines at the Pacific Ocean Coast City of Ilo, Peru.
SMBC Southern Missouri Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for Southern Missouri Savings Bank, upon completion of Southern Missouri Savings Bank's conversion from a state-chartered mutual savings and loan association to a state-chartered stock savings bank. On June 25, 2004, Southern Missouri Bank &amp; Trust Co. (Bank) converted from a Missouri-chartered stock savings bank to a Missouri state-chartered trust company with banking powers. Bank's deposits are insured up to applicable limits by the Savings Association Insurance Fund of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. After the Bank's conversion, it is a bank holding company regulated by the Federal Reserve Board. The Bank's business consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public and using them, along with wholesale funding from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines to invest in one- to four-family residential mortgage loans, commercial non-mortgage business loans, commercial real estate and consumer loans.
SOMC.OB Southern Michigan Bancorp, Inc. serves as the bank holding company for Southern Michigan Bank &amp; Trust (the Bank). The Company owns and leases certain real estate to the Bank and third parties. SMB&amp;T Financial Services, Inc., a subsidiary of the Bank, has been established to provide insurance and investment services that consist of the sale of certain insurance products to the Bank and limited sales of insurance products to the public. All residential mortgage loans held by the Bank and all residential mortgage loan applications in the pipeline were transferred to SMB Mortgage Company, after SMB Mortgage was established as a subsidiary of the Bank. The Bank offers a full range of banking services to individuals, businesses, governmental entities and other institutions. These services include checking, savings and negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, time deposits, safe deposit facilities and money transfers.
SSE Southern Connecticut Bancorp, Inc. (Bancorp) serves as a bank holding company. Bancorp owns 100% of the capital stock of The Bank of Southern Connecticut (the Bank), a state chartered bank in New Haven, Connecticut. Bancorp entered into a lease on January 14, 2004, with the City of New London for a facility located at 15 Mason Street, New London, Connecticut. This facility is intended to be the main office of the proposed wholly owned state chartered subsidiary bank to be named The Bank of Southeastern Connecticut. Bancorp's total assets were $56.4 million as of December 31, 2003, an increase of $20.9 million over December 31, 2002.
SO The Southern Company (Southern) is the holding company for Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, Mississippi Power and Savannah Electric, each of which is an operating public utility company. The retail operating companies supply electric service in the states of Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Georgia, respectively. In addition, the Company owns Southern Power, which is also an operating public utility company.
SCMF Southern Community Financial Corporation is the holding company for Southern Community Bank and Trust (the Bank). The Bank is engaged in general commercial and retail banking, serving individuals, businesses and nonprofit organizations in the Piedmont area of North Carolina, principally Forsyth, Guilford and Yadkin Counties. Its banking services include checking and savings accounts; commercial, installment, mortgage and personal loans; trust and investment services; safe deposit boxes, and other associated services to satisfy the financial needs of customers. At December 31, 2003, Southern Community Bank and Trust operated out of eight banking offices, which all have automated teller machines (ATMs). In addition, it has four offsite ATMs. In February 2004, the Bank opened a loan production office in Mooresville, North Carolina.
SRNN.OB The Southern Banc Company, Inc. serves as the holding company for The Southern Bank Company (the Bank). The Bank qualifies as a unitary savings institution holding company and is subject to regulation by the Office of Thrift Supervision. It's principal business is the business of the Bank, which is engaged in the business of obtaining funds in the form of various savings deposit products and investing those funds in mortgage loans or single-family real estate and, to a lesser extent, in consumer loans. It is an independent community-oriented savings institution dedicated to providing customer service. The Bank was formed as a federally chartered mutual savings and loan association, and a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank System.
SOCB Southcoast Financial Corporation is a holding company for Southcoast Community Bank (the Bank). The Company engages in no business other than that of owning the Bank and has no employees. The Bank is a South Carolina state bank incorporated in June 1998, which commenced operations as a commercial bank in July 1998. The Bank operates from its offices in Mt. Pleasant, Charleston, Moncks Corner, Johns Island and Summerville, South Carolina. It offers an array of commercial bank services. Deposit services include business and personal checking accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts and other deposit services. Most of the Bank's deposits are attracted from individuals and small businesses. It does not offer trust services.
SSFC South Street Financial Corporation serves as the holding company for Home Savings Bank of Albemarle, Inc. (the Bank). The Company has no operations and conducts no business of its own other than owning the Bank, managing its investment portfolio and holding the indebtedness outstanding from the Bank's SSB Employee Stock Ownership Plan. The principal business of the Bank is accepting deposits from the general public and using those deposits and other sources of funds to make loans secured by real estate and other forms of collateral located in its primary market area of Stanly County, North Carolina. The Bank's principal office is in Albemarle, North Carolina and it has one branch in Locust, North Carolina.
SJI South Jersey Industries, Inc. (SJI) owns South Jersey Gas Company (SJG), a public utility, and acquires and develops non-utility lines of business. SJI provides a variety of energy-related products and services through its wholly owned subsidiaries South Jersey Gas Company, South Jersey Energy Company, South Jersey Resources Group LLC, Marina Energy LLC and Energy &amp; Minerals, Inc. SJI also has a joint venture investment with Conectiv Solutions LLC in Millennium Account Services LLC (Millennium). Millennium provides meter-reading services to SJG and Conectiv Power Delivery in Southern New Jersey.
TSFG The South Financial Group, Inc. (TSFG) operates principally through Carolina First Bank, a South Carolina-chartered commercial bank, and Mercantile Bank, a Florida-chartered commercial bank. The Company's subsidiaries provide a range of financial services, including cash management, insurance, investments, mortgage and trust services. TSFG conducts business through 76 branch offices in South Carolina, 24 in North Carolina, 34 in northern and central Florida and one in Virginia. As of December 31, 2003, TSFG had $10.7 billion in assets, $5.8 billion in loans, $6.0 billion in deposits, $979.9 million in shareholders' equity and $1.6 billion in market capitalization.
SORC Source Interlink Companies, Inc. provides fulfillment and marketing services to retail companies, magazine publishers and consumer product manufacturers of confections and general merchandise in both the specialty and mainstream retail markets, predominantly in the United States. The Company also provides design, manufacture and management services to the front-end of supermarkets, discount stores, drug stores, convenience stores, terminals and newsstands in the United States. Source Interlink's business consists of three synergistic operating groups: Magazine Fulfillment, In-Store Services and Wood Manufacturing. The Magazine Fulfillment group manages the distribution of magazines to specialty retailers. The In-Store Services group assists retailers in the mainstream retail market with the design and implementation of their front-end merchandising programs. The Wood Manufacturing group designs and manufactures wood displays and store fixtures for specialty retailers.
SOR Source Capital, Inc. is an investment company whose investment portfolio includes a range of securities with primary emphasis on common stock and convertible debentures. The Company emphasizes primarily on equity and equity-related investments. Equity investments have been directed toward companies with highly liquid, relatively unleveraged balance sheets, as well as a demonstrated long-term ability to earn above average returns on invested capital. The Company's equity investment portfolio is based on fundamental judgments of long-term returns attainable from income and appreciation in the securities of such companies, and is not derived from overall economic forecasts or stock market predictions.
SFFS Sound Federal Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company of Sound Federal Savings (the Bank). The Bank is a community-oriented financial institution that offers a variety of financial products and services from its main office and branch offices. Most of the Bank's deposit customers are residents of Westchester County, New York. The Bank also obtains deposits from persons in Rockland County and Fairfield County, New York. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Bank operated from 11 locations in New York and Connecticut.
BID Sotheby Holdings, Inc. auctions a variety of property, including fine art, antiques and decorative art, jewelry and collectibles. Its principal role as an auctioneer is to identify, evaluate and appraise works of art through its international staff of specialists; to stimulate purchaser interest through professional marketing techniques, and to match sellers and buyers through the auction process. It sells property as an agent of the consignor, billing the buyer for property purchased, receiving payment from the buyer and remitting to the consignor the consignor's portion of the buyer's payment after deducting its commissions, expenses and applicable taxes. On February 17, 2004, the Company consummated the sale of Sotheby's International Realty, Inc. to Cendant Corporation. In December 2004, NRT Incorporated, a subsidiary of Cendant Corporation, acquired the Company's Sotheby's International Realty Limited in England.
SAUP.OB Sorl Auto Parts, Inc.'s (formerly known as The Enchanted Village, Inc.) manufactures and distributes automotive air brake valves and hydraulic brake valves in China and internationally for use primarily in vehicles weighing over three tons, such as trucks, vans and buses. There are 36 categories of valves with over 800 different specifications. The Company sells its products to 42 vehicle manufacturers, including all of the truck manufacturers in China. Its valves are also widely used in buses. Typically, bus manufacturers purchase chasses from truck manufacturers, which already have the Company's air brake valves incorporated. The Company formerly operated as a retailer of educational toys and related goods and services until in entered into a share exchange agreement, on April 2, 2004, with Fairford Holdings Limited.
SNE Sony Corporation is the parent company of the Sony Group and is engaged in business through its six operating segments: electronics, music, games, pictures, financial services and other. The Company's wholly owned subsidiaries include Sony EMCS Corporation, Sony Marketing (Japan) Inc., Sony Life Insurance Co., Ltd., Sony Americas Holding Inc., Sony Corporation of America, Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Music Entertainment Inc., Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Sony Europe Holding B.V., Sony Europe G.m.b.H., Sony Global Treasury Services Plc, Sony Holding (Asia) B.V., Sony Electronics Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd., Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. The Company is also engaged in Internet-related businesses and an advertising agency business in Japan.
SNUS Sonus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a drug reformulation company focused on the optimization of therapeutic drugs to treat cancer and other serious diseases. The Company is developing a number of potential product candidates utilizing its TOCOSOL drug delivery technology. The TOCOSOL technology platform, designed to address the formulation challenges of therapeutic drugs, uses vitamin E oil (tocopherol) and tocopherol derivatives to solubilize and stabilize drugs for formulation enhancement, and is particularly suited to injectable drugs that are poorly soluble in water. The Company's lead product, TOCOSOL Paclitaxel, is a formulation of paclitaxel, a prescribed anti-cancer drugs. TOCOSOL Paclitaxel is a ready-to-use injectable paclitaxel emulsion.
SONS Sonus Networks, Inc. develops, markets and sells a suite of voice infrastructure products purpose-built for the deployment and management of voice and data services over carrier packet networks. The Sonus solution consists of the carrier-class products such as GSX9000 Open Services Switch, Insignus Softswitch and Sonus Insight Management System. The Company's target customers include new and established communications service providers, including long distance carriers, local exchange carriers, Internet service providers, wireless operators, cable operators, international telephone companies and carriers that provide services to other carriers.
SONT Sontra Medical Corporation is the founder of SonoPrep, a non-invasive ultrasonic skin permeation technology for medical and therapeutic applications, including transdermal diagnostics and the enhanced delivery of drugs through the skin. Sontra Medical's ultrasound mediated skin permeation technology is a non-invasive and painless method of enhancing the flow of fluids and molecules across the protective membrane of the stratum corneum, the outer layer of the skin. In February 2004, Sontra received 510(k) marketing clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its SonoPrep device for use in electrophysiology applications.
SONO SonoSite, Inc. is worldwide developer of high-performance, hand-carried ultrasound imaging systems for use in a variety of clinical applications and settings. The Company's products include the SonoSite TITAN system, for general imaging and cardiology applications, the SonoSite 180PLUS system, for general ultrasound imaging, and the SonoHeart ELITE, specifically configured for cardiovascular applications. The iLook 25 imaging tool is designed to provide visual guidance for physicians and nurses while performing vascular access procedures and the iLook 15 imaging tool is designed to provide visual imaging of the chest and abdomen for physicians and nurses while performing other procedures and examinations. The TITAN, SonoSite 180PLUS and SonoHeart ELITE products are used together with any of the Company's transducers that are designed for specific clinical applications. The iLook products each have a single transducer for specific clinical applications.
SNRN.OB Sonoran Energy, Inc. is an independent oil and gas company, developing and producing crude oil and natural gas. During the fiscal year ended April 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Sonoran's portfolio consisted of assets located in Louisiana and California. The Company's operational focus is on property enhancement through developmental drilling, operating cost reduction, low-to-moderate risk exploration, asset redeployment and acquisitions of properties. During fiscal 2004, Sonoran has been transformed from a small, the United States-focused oil and gas entity into an independent oil and gas company with both international and domestic interests through its expansion internationally, which includes pursuing opportunities in the Middle East, North Africa and the Caspian. The Company sold certain small properties within the United States and acquired 100% working interests in six producing fields located in Rapides, Livingstone, Vernon and Beauregard Parishes in Louisiana.
SWHI SonomaWest Holdings, Inc. formerly Vacu-dry Company, operates as a real estate management and rental company. The Company also holds an investment in MetroPCS, Inc., a privately held telecommunications company. Its rental operations include industrial/agricultural property, some of which was formerly used by the Company in its discontinued businesses. This commercial property is now being rented to third parties. Prior to June 30, 2000, the Company operated in three business segments: organic packaged goods, real estate and ingredients. In July 1999, it consummated an asset purchase agreement to sell the majority of its ingredients business. In the fiscal year ended fiscal June 2000 (fiscal 2000), SonomaWest discontinued its organic packaged goods business, operated through a subsidiary, Made In Nature Company, Inc. (MINCO), and sold the assets related to this segment.
SON Sonoco Products Company is a manufacturer of industrial and consumer packaging products and a provider of packaging services, with 295 locations in 32 countries. The Company's Industrial Packaging, which represented approximately 55% of net sales in 2003, includes the following products and services: high-performance paper, plastic and composite engineered carriers; paperboard; wooden, metal and composite reels for wire and cable packaging; fiber-based construction tubes and forms; custom designed protective packaging, and supply chain management capabilities. Its Consumer Packaging segment, which represented approximately 45% of net sales in 2003, includes the following products and services: rigid paper and plastic packaging (both round and shaped), printed flexible packaging, metal and plastic ends and closures, specialty packaging and packaging services. During 2003, Sonoco divested itself of the High Density Film business.
SOTK.OB Sono-Tek Corporation develops, manufactures and sells ultrasonic liquid atomizing nozzles. Ultrasonic nozzle systems atomize low- to medium-viscosity liquids by converting electrical energy into mechanical motion in the form of high-frequency ultrasonic vibrations that break liquids into minute drops that can be applied to surfaces at low-velocity. Sono-Tek operates in one business segment, spraying systems. The Company provides coating systems to medical device manufacturers, spray drying systems for nanotechnology applications, components used in systems for the manufacture of solder paste and wide area industrial precision coating equipment. During the fiscal year ended February 29, 2004 (fiscal 2004), sales to foreign customers accounted for approximately 25% of total revenues.
SNWL SonicWALL, Inc. provides security, productivity and mobility solutions for businesses of all sizes. The Company's access security products are typically deployed at the edges of smaller local area networks. These networks are often aggregated into broader distributed deployments to support companies that do business in multiple physical locations, interconnect their networks with trading partners or support a mobile or remote workforce. SonicWALL's products are sold in over 50 countries worldwide. The Company generates revenues from the sale of products, including the SonicWALL platform, the license of software applications that provide additional functionality to these products, the sale of ancillary services delivered through its products and support and maintenance agreements for its products and software.
SNIC Sonic Solutions develops and markets computer-based tools for creating digital audio and video titles in the compact disc (CD), audio and digital video disc (DVD), video formats and in related formats; for recording data files on CD recordable or DVD recordable discs in the CD-read only memory (ROM) and DVD-ROM formats, and for backing up the information contained on hard discs attached to computers. The Company divides its business into three categories: professional audio and video products and services, which include DVD creator (Macintosh-based), sonic scenarist (Windows-based), DVD producer (Windows-based), DVD fusion (Macintosh-based) and ReelDVD (Windows-based); desktop products, which are offered under a variety of trade names, including RecordNow!, Backup My PC, CinePlayer, PrimeTime, DVDit and MyDVD, and technology products, which are marketed under the trade names of AuthorScript and Primo SDK. In February 2004, the Company acquired InterActual Technologies.
SNCI Sonic Innovations, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets advanced digital hearing aids designed to provide satisfaction for hearing impaired consumers. The Company has developed patented digital signal processing (DSP) technologies and embedded them in a small single-chip DSP platform installed in a hearing aid. In the United States, Canada, Denmark, England, Switzerland, Austria and the Netherlands, Sonic sells finished hearing aids principally to hearing care professionals. In Germany and Australia, it sells hearing aids directly to hearing impaired consumers. In other parts of the world where the Company does not have a direct presence, it sells finished hearing aids and hearing aid kits principally to distributors. In May 2003, Sonic acquired Sanomed Handelsgesellschaft mbH, a hearing aid retailer in Germany.
SOFO Sonic Foundry, Inc., is in the business of developing economical, timesaving and easy-to-use rich media products for one-to-many communications. The Company develops automated rich-media applications and scalable solutions that allow media owners, including entertainment companies, educational institutions, corporations and government organizations, to deploy, manage, index and distribute video content on Internet protocol (IP)-based networks. Sonic's internally developed software code, coupled with its acquired systems technology, includes advanced publishing tools and media access technologies operating across multiple digital delivery platforms to significantly enhance a host of enterprise-based media applications. The Company's core products include MediaSite Live (MSL), a Web presentation and Web casting system, and Publisher, a software product for creating accessible and searchable rich-media presentations.
SONC Sonic Corp. operates and franchises a chain of drive-in restaurants (Sonic Drive-Ins) in the United States. During the fiscal year ended August 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company had 2,885 Sonic Drive-Ins in operation, consisting of 539 Partner Drive-Ins and 2,346 Franchise Drive-Ins, principally in the southern two-thirds of the United States. Partner Drive-Ins are those Sonic Drive-Ins owned and operated by either a limited liability company or a general partnership. It owns a majority interest, typically at least 60%, and the supervisor and manager of the drive-in own a minority interest in each Partner Drive-In limited liability company or general partnership. Franchise Drive-Ins are owned and operated by its franchisees.
SAH Sonic Automotive, Inc. is an automotive retailer operating mainly in the United States. As of March 1, 2004, the Company operated 189 dealership franchises, representing 37 different brands of cars and light trucks, at 151 locations and 40 collision repair centers in 15 states. These dealerships provide comprehensive services, including sales of both new and used cars and light trucks; sales of replacement parts; performance of vehicle maintenance; warranty; paint and collision repair services, and arrangement of extended warranty contracts, financing and insurance for the Company's customers. In 2003, 61.8% of Sonic Automotive's revenue was sourced from new vehicle sales; 15.9% was from the sales of used vehicles; 13.4% was from parts, service and collision repair; 6.1% was from sales of wholesale vehicles, and 3% was from finance and insurance.
SONX.OB Sonex Research, Inc. is an engineering, research and development firm that is seeking to commercialize its patented proprietary technology for in-cylinder control of ignition and combustion in engines of various types. These include the Sonex Combustion System (SCS) or Ultra Clean Burn technology. The SCS technology for in-cylinder control of ignition and combustion is designed to reduce emissions of diesel engines, increase fuel mileage of a new generation of gasoline engines and permit gasoline engines to run on safer, kerosene-based heavy fuels.
SNSTA Sonesta International Hotels Corporation is engaged in the operation of hotels that it owns or leases in Boston (Cambridge), Massachusetts, Key Biscayne, Florida and New Orleans, Louisiana. It also operates, under management agreements, hotels in Southampton, Bermuda, New Orleans, Louisiana, Coconut Grove, Florida, Sunny Isles Beach, Florida and Cairo, Luxor, Port Said and Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt and three Nile River cruise vessels. The Company has also entered into management agreements to operate new hotels being created in Ras Sudr and Hurghada, Egypt. In addition, it has master franchise agreements for hotels in Brazil, Peru and Italy, and licenses seven hotels in Peru, and four hotels, including a 10th century castle, in Tuscany, Italy. A licensed property in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is expected to open in 2004. It uses the name Sonesta for all of its hotels.
SOMH Somerset Hills Bancorp serves as the holding company for Somerset Hills Bank (the Bank), which is its primary asset and only operating subsidiary. The Bank conducts a traditional banking business, making commercial loans, consumer loans, and residential and commercial real estate loans. In addition, the Bank offers various non-deposit products through a non-proprietary basis with third parties. The service area of Somerset Hills Bank primarily consists of Somerset and Morris Counties, New Jersey, although it makes loans throughout New Jersey. The Bank operates through its main office in Bernardsville, New Jersey, and its branch offices located in Mendham and Morristown, New Jersey. Somerset Hills Bank also operates a licensed mortgage company subsidiary, Sullivan Financial Services, Inc. Sullivan operates out of its main office in West Orange, New Jersey.
SMRA Somera Communications, Inc. provides new and re-used telecommunications wireless, wireline and data equipment manufactured by a variety of original equipment manufacturers. It offers operators with multiple categories of telecommunications infrastructure equipment to address their specific and changing equipment requirements primarily for network maintenance and incremental network expansions. The Company supports analog, T1/E1, T3/E3, synchronous optical networking, synchronous digital hierarchy, time division/demand multiple access, code division multiple access and global system for mobile communications for voice communications and wide area network, local area network, international access servers and various other data products for data communications. In 2003, Somera had a database of over 16,127 different items from over 350 different manufacturers.
SMTS Somanetics Corporation develops, manufactures and markets the INVOS Cerebral Oximeter, the only non-invasive patient monitoring system commercially available in the United States that continuously measures changes in the blood oxygen level in the brain. The Cerebral Oximeter is based on the Company's proprietary In Vivo Optical Spectroscopy (INVOS) technology. Like other applications of optical spectroscopy, INVOS analyzes various characteristics of human blood and tissue by measuring and analyzing low-intensity visible and near-infrared light transmitted into portions of the body. The Company also develops and markets the CorRestore System for use in cardiac repair and reconstruction, including heart surgeries called surgical ventricular restoration.
SOLUQ.OB Solutia, Inc. makes and sells a variety of chemical-based materials that are used in a range of consumer and industrial applications. Under Chapter 11, the Company is operating its businesses as debtor-in-possession under court protection from creditors and claimants. Its business has two segments: Performance Products and Services and Integrated Nylon. Performance Products and Services segment consists of Performance Films product line, which includes plastic interlayer for laminated safety glass and custom-coated films for after-market automotive and architectural applications and Specialties consists of Industrial Products and Pharmaceutical Services. Integrated Nylon segment consists of an integrated family of nylon products. In December 2003, the Company and 14 of its United States subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.
SOLM.OB Solomon Technologies, Inc. installs and supports worldwide marine installation of its proprietary electric motor drive systems. The Company provides propulsion systems for new and retrofit marine applications, as well as motors for high-growth, high-volume land-based vehicle and machinery applications. Solomon, through its proprietary propulsion systems and Electric Wheel technology, offers an electric motor design with the ability to regenerate electricity. The Company is also active in the recreational boating industry's adoption of the fundamental new technology.
SODI.OB Solitron Devices, Inc. (Solitron) designs, develops, manufactures and markets solid-state semiconductor components and related devices for the military and aerospace markets. The Company manufactures a variety of bipolar and metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) power transistors, power and control hybrids, junction and power MOS field effect transistors (Power MOSFETS) and other related products. Most of the products are custom made pursuant to contracts with customers and are sold to the United States Government. Other products, such as Joint Army/Navy (JAN) transistors, diodes and Standard Military Drawings (SMD) voltage regulators are sold as standard or catalog items. During the fiscal year ended February 29, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Solitron sold products to approximately 163 customers, of these 163 customers, 59 had not purchased any products. Raytheon accounted for approximately 41% and the United States Government accounted for approximately 11% of total net sales in fiscal 2004.
SLR Solectron Corporation provides electronics supply chain services to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) around the world. These companies contract with Solectron to build their products or to obtain services related to product design, manufacturing and post-manufacturing requirements. The Company primarily designs, builds and services products that carry the brand names of its customers. The customers include technology companies, such as Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, NEC, Nortel Networks and Sun Microsystems.
SOL SOLA International Inc. is a designer, manufacturer and distributor of spectacle lenses. The Company offers lens designs and plastic materials. In particular, it is focused on four product segments: progressive Lenses, which are lenses with a continuous gradient of differentiated corrective power; photochromic lenses, which are lenses that have a built-in adjustable tint that changes with the amount of available natural light; coated lenses, which include lenses with anti-reflective coatings and anti-scratch coatings, and high-index specialty plastic lenses, which are made from thin and lightweight materials, such as polycarbonate. The Company operates in three geographies: North America, Europe and the rest of the world, consisting of Australia, Japan, China and South America. Its customers include several North American and European retail chains and some managed care organizations.
SOHU Sohu.com Inc. is a holding company with no operating assets other than investments in Chinese operating entities, including its intermediate holding company, Sohu.com Limited; its indirect wholly owned subsidiaries, Sohu ITC Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Beijing Sohu New Era Information Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing Sohu Interactive Software Co., Ltd., Kylie Enterprises Limited and All Honest International Limited, and its variable interest entities, Beijing Sohu Internet Information Service Co., Ltd. and Beijing Sohu Online Network Information Services, Ltd. The Company and its variable interest entities offer content, advertising, e-subscription and e-commerce services through the Internet portal sites, Sohu.com, Chinaren.com, focus.cn and 17173.com. Sohu.com markets its products and services to clients primarily in the People's Republic of China.
SOFT.OB SofTech, Inc. is engaged in the development, marketing, distribution and support of computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) and product data management (PDM) computer solutions. The Company's primary product offerings include Cadra, ProductCenter and AMT (advanced manufacturing technology). SofTech markets and distributes its products and services primarily through a direct sales force and through its service organization in North America and Europe. The majority of the Company's sales in Asia are in Japan.
SDX Sodexho Alliance, SA, is a global provider of services in two primary business areas, Food and Management Services and Service Vouchers and Cards. In the Food and Management Services business, the Company provides outsourced food and multiservices to businesses, public agencies and institutions, long-term and short-term healthcare facilities, universities and primary and secondary schools. Within the Food and Management Services business, Sodexho also provides many of the foregoing services to temporary and remote sites of its clients' operations, specifically those affiliated with oil and gas recovery, major construction projects and mining. The Service Vouchers and Cards business primarily issues and manages the provision of paper and debit-card vouchers to the Company's clients' employees for food, products and services, and the provision of various welfare benefits from government clients to their constituents.
SCKT Socket Communications, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells products that connect handheld and notebook computers to the Internet, computer networks and peripherals through both wireless and cable connections. It also designs, manufactures and sells products designed to collect data on handheld and notebook computers. The Company's products have been designed specifically for handheld computers and other battery-powered devices with standard expansion slots for plug-in cards. The expansion slots it supports include CompactFlash, PC Card and Secure Digital. It has also developed standalone network connection and data collection products that connect wirelessly to a handheld or notebook computer. Socket Communications' products may be classified into four product families: Network connection products, Bar code scanning products, Serial products and Embedded products and services.
SQM Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM) is an integrated producer of specialty fertilizers, iodine, lithium carbonate and a producer of certain industrial chemicals, including industrial nitrates. The Company's products are derived from mineral deposits found in the first and second regions of northern Chile, where SQM mines and processes caliche ore and brine deposits. From its caliche ore deposits, SQM produces a range of nitrate-based products, used for specialty fertilizers and industrial applications, as well as iodine and iodine derivatives. At the Atacama Salar project in the north of Chile, the Company extracts brines rich in potassium, lithium and boron and produces potassium chloride, potassium sulfate, lithium solutions, boric acid and bischofite. The Company produces lithium carbonate at a plant near the city of Antofagasta from the solutions brought from the Atacama Salar.
SNBT SNB Bancshares, Inc. and its subsidiary, Southern National Bank of Texas (the Bank), provide retail and commercial banking services. The Company derives substantially all of its income from the operation of wholly owned bank subsidiary, Southern National Bank of Texas. The Bank is a full-service commercial/community bank offering real estate lending, consumer lending and commercial lending primarily to small businesses, families and individuals. The Bank accepts deposits, which include non-interest-bearing checking, savings, money market and certificates of deposit. In 1990, SNB Bancshares established a branch location in Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital, the not-for-profit, multi-hospital system in Houston.
SNA Snap-on Incorporated is a manufacturer and marketer of tool, diagnostic and equipment solutions for professional tool and equipment users. Product lines include a range of hand and power tools, tool storage, saws and cutting tools, pruning tools, vehicle service diagnostics equipment, vehicle service equipment (including wheel service, safety testing and collision repair equipment), vehicle service information, business management systems, equipment repair services, and other tool and equipment solutions. Its customers include automotive technicians, vehicle service centers, manufacturers, industrial tool and equipment users and those involved in commercial applications such as construction, electrical and agriculture. The Company markets its products and brands through multiple distribution sales channels in more than 100 countries, including the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
SSCC Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation (SSCC) is an integrated producer of paperboard and paper-based packaging. It operates in two industry segments, Containerboard and Corrugated Containers and Consumer Packaging. The Containerboard and Corrugated Containers segment includes a system of mills and plants that produces a line of containerboard that is converted into corrugated containers. Corrugated containers are used to transport such diverse products as home appliances, electric motors, small machinery, grocery products, produce, books, tobacco and furniture. The Consumer Packaging segment includes a system of mills and plants that produce a range of coated recycled boxboard that is converted into folding cartons and packaging labels. In addition, the Consumer Packaging segment converts kraft and specialty paper into multiwall bags, consumer bags and intermediate bulk containers. SSCC also has another segment that includes its reclamation and international operations.
SMTI SMTEK International, Inc. is an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the medical, industrial instrumentation, telecommunications, security, financial services automation and aerospace, and defense industries, including integrated solutions across the entire product life cycle, from design to manufacturing to end-of life service, for the worldwide high-criticality, high-reliability, high-complexity segment of the EMS industry. SMTEK has four wholly owned operating subsidiaries: SMTEK, Inc. (aka SMTEK Moorpark), SMTEK New England, SMTEK Santa Clara and SMTEK International Thailand Limited. As of March 31, 2003, the Company consolidated its San Diego facility into its other California operations in Moorpark and Santa Clara. In April 2003, SMTEK sold its facility in Northern Ireland. In January 2004, the Company sold its subsidiary, Jolt Technology, Inc. (aka SMTEK Fort Lauderdale).
SMXC Smithway Motor Xpress Corp. is a truckload carrier that provides transportation of diversified freight. The Company focuses on the flatbed segment of the truckload market. The Company operates over short-to-medium traffic routes and serves shippers located in the central United States, particularly between the Rocky Mountains in the West and the Appalachian Mountains in the East. It also operates in eight southern provinces of Canada. It uses its Smithway Network of 17 computer-connected field offices, commission agencies and Company-owned terminals to offer its truckload transportation services. Smithway integrates its sales and dispatch functions throughout the Smithway Network. The Company's 10 largest customers accounted for approximately 29 % of its total operating revenues during the year ended December 31, 2003. Smithway's customers are in the steel and building materials industries, which together accounted for approximately 51 % of it's total operating revenues in 2003.
SMTB Smithtown Bancorp, Inc. is a holding company whose income is derived primarily from the operations of its subsidiary, Bank of Smithtown. The Bank operates 10 banking offices in the north central region of Suffolk County and offers a line of consumer and commercial products, including a Trust and Investment Management Division. During the year ended December 31, 2003, total assets were $565,085,400, an increase of $113,282,163, or 25.07%. The major area of growth was in the loan portfolio, which increased from $358,171,477 to $459,677,553, or a 28.34% increase in 2003. Within the loan portfolio, commercial real estate loans grew by $80,036,246, representing a 44.69% increase. The commercial and industrial loans also increased $12,397,610, or 46.21%. The bank premises and equipment increased from $8,780,182 to $10,287,727 in 2003. The investment securities in 2003 totaled $59,277,948 as compared to $58,209,577 in 2002, an increase of 1.84%.
SFD Smithfield Foods, Inc. is in the meat processing and hog production business. The Company conducts its business through four segments: Pork, Beef, Hog Production Group (HPG) and Other, each of which is comprised of a number of subsidiaries. The Pork segment consists primarily of eight wholly or majority-owned United States fresh pork and processed meats subsidiaries. The Beef segment is composed primarily of two United States beef processing subsidiaries and the Other segment is comprised of the remaining international meat processing operations, primarily Poland and France, together with the Company's turkey production operations and its interests in turkey processing operations. The HPG segment consists primarily of hog production operations located in the United States and Poland. The Company had an International segment, which, following the sale of Schneider Corporation, was replaced by the Other segment.
SWRG The Smith &amp; Wollensky Restaurant Group, Inc. is a developer, owner and operator of high-end, high-volume restaurants in the United States. Its core concept is Smith &amp; Wollensky, a classic American restaurant targeting the upscale segment of the restaurant industry. During the fiscal year ended December 29, 2003 (fiscal 2003), the Company operated 16 restaurants, 11 of which were owned and five of which were managed, which seating capacities range between 290 to 675 seats. It owns eight of the nine Smith &amp; Wollensky restaurants it operates. The Smith &amp; Wollensky concept involves serving entrees in an upscale environment, extensive wine selection, distinctive design and decor and has been described as the uintessential New York steakhouse.
SWB Smith &amp; Wesson Holding Corporation manufactures handguns, which includes revolvers and pistols, and related products and accessories for sale primarily through its distribution network, and to public safety and military agencies in the United States and throughout the world. The Company has manufacturing facilities in Springfield, Massachusetts, and Houlton, Maine, both of which are used primarily to manufacture its products. Smith &amp; Wesson uses its manufacturing capabilities at the Springfield facility to manufacture and process component parts for a select group of companies in different industries. The Company also operates the Smith &amp; Wesson Academy and a retail store, including a commercial shooting range, in Springfield, Massachusetts. The store sells Smith &amp; Wesson licensed accessories, branded products, apparel and handguns, ammunition and related shooting supplies. In addition, the Company pursues opportunities to license its name and trademarks to third parties.
SNN Smith &amp; Nephew plc is engaged in the development and marketing of medical devices in the sectors of orthopaedics, endoscopy and advanced wound management. The Company's orthopaedic products include reconstructive joint implants, trauma products and associated clinical therapies. Its endoscopy business develops and commercializes a range of endoscopic (minimally invasive surgery) techniques, educational programs and value-added services for surgeons to treat and repair soft tissues, articulating joints, spinal discs and vascular structures. The business focuses principally on the arthroscopy sector of the endoscopy market. Arthroscopy is the minimally invasive surgery of joints, in particular, the knee, hip and shoulder. The Company's advanced wound management business supplies a range of products and clinical support services for the treatment of chronic and acute skin wounds.
SMID.OB Smith-Midland Corporation invents, develops, manufactures, markets, leases, licenses, sells and installs an array of precast concrete products for use primarily in the construction, utilities and farming industries. It also produces generic highway sound barriers, utility vaults, farm products, such as cattleguards and water and feed troughs and custom-order, precast concrete products with various architectural surfaces. Precast concrete products are cast at a manufacturing facility and delivered to a site for installation. The products are used primarily as parts of buildings or highway structures, and may be used architecturally, as in a decorative wall of a building, or structurally. The Company's products include Easi-Set Slenderwall lightweight construction panels, Easi-Set Sierra Wall, Easi-Set J-J Hooks highway safety barrier, Easi-Set precast building and Easi-Span and Easi-Set utility vault.
SMSI Smith Micro Software, Inc. is a diversified developer and marketer of wireless communication and eBusiness software products and services. The Company manufactures, markets and sells value-added wireless telephony products targeted to the original equipment manufacturers (OEM) market, particularly mobile phone manufacturers and wireless service providers, as well as direct to the consumer. Smith Micro offers software products for Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows CE, Pocket personal computer (PC), Mac, Palm, Unix and Linux operating systems. The Company also offers services, such as consulting, hosting and fulfillment. Smith Micro's eBusiness products enable Websites to be created with standard HTML text and provide fully automated payment processing and order accounting. The Company's three OEM customers, Verizon Wireless, Cingular Wireless and Apple and their respective affiliates accounted for 47.9% of its net revenues during the year ended December 31, 2003.
SII Smith International, Inc. is a worldwide supplier of products and services to the oil and gas exploration and production industry, the petrochemical industry and other industrial markets. The Company provides a line of products and engineering services, including drilling and completion fluid systems, solids-control equipment, waste-management services, production chemicals, three-cone and diamond drill bits, turbines, fishing services, drilling tools, underreamers, casing exit and multilateral systems, packers and liner hangers. Smith International also offers supply-chain management solutions through an extensive North American branch network providing pipe, valves, fittings, mill, safety and other maintenance products. The Company operates in two segments: Oilfield Products and Services, comprised of M-I SWACO, Smith Technologies and Smith Services, and Distribution, consisting of Wilson, which markets pipe, valves and fittings to energy and industrial markets.
SMVa Smedvig ASA is an offshore drilling contractor that owns and operates a fleet of drilling units designed for offshore oil and gas exploration and development and equipped for operations in harsh environments. The activities are located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea and in Southeast Asia, offshore Thailand, Brunei and Malaysia. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Smedvig's mobile drilling rig fleet consisted of two semi-submersible drilling rigs, West Alpha and West Venture; one deepwater drillship, West Navigator, and one ultra-large jack-up rig, West Epsilon. It also provides platform drilling services, well services and well maintenance services on fixed platforms in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. It operates self-erecting tender rigs in Southeast Asia, and its tender rig fleet consists of 12 units owned by Smedvig, including four semi-submersible tender rigs. Subsidiaries are Smedvig Rig AS, Smedvig Offshore AS, AS Smedvig Prodrill and Smedvig Asia Ltd.
SMVD.OB SmartVideo Technologies, Inc. has developed a video compression and processing technology enabling the delivery of Internet multimedia broadcast content. The Company provides, among other things, live, scheduled and on-demand multimedia broadcast over the Internet and to wireless appliances and devices at speeds as low as 23 kilobits per second (Kbps) and at an average 15 frames per second. It manages the video stream for viewers to maximize the number of frames per second displayed even if the bandwidth connection is low, such as dial-up connection or if the connections are unstable, such as those that may occur when using broadband, digital subscriber line or cellular connections. SmartVideo supplements such Webcasts with multimedia and administrative tools to enhance the broadcast experience to the end users. In January 2003, the Company changed its name from Armagh Group, Inc. to SmartVideo Technologies, Inc.
SSRV.OB SmartServe Online, Inc. designs, develops and distributes software and services that enable the delivery to wireless devices of content with special emphasis on cellphones. The content the Company provides include premium content, such as ringtones, images and games and dynamic changing content, such as horoscopes, lottery results and weather reports. It also delivered financial market data, proprietary internal documents and other information to mobile workers. The Company's only subsidiary is nReach, Inc. that is a wireless content distribution company that offers a portfolio of mass-market cell phone content. nReach, Inc. was acquired during February 2004.
SMTR.OB SmarTire Systems, Inc. is engaged in the development and marketing of tire monitoring systems (TMS) designed for improved vehicle safety, performance, reliability and fuel efficiency. During the fiscal year ended July 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), SmarTire earned revenues primarily from the sale of TMS for passenger cars. The Company has three wholly owned subsidiaries: SmarTire Technologies Inc., SmarTire USA Inc. and SmarTire Europe Limited. SmarTire Technologies was the original developer of the Company's technology. SmarTire USA is its exclusive marketing agency for SmarTire in North America. SmarTire Europe is the Company's exclusive sales and distribution operation for Europe.
SMF Smart &amp; Final Inc. sells food, foodservice products and professional-quality culinary equipment through non-membership warehouse stores and wholesale stores. It operated 219 non-membership warehouse grocery stores, as of December 28, 2003, through its principal subsidiary, Smart &amp; Final Stores Corporation. These stores operate under the banners Smart &amp; Final and United Grocers Cash &amp; Carry. Stores under the Smart &amp; Final banner include 173 stores, primarily located in California, with others in Arizona and Nevada. The Cash &amp; Carry stores operate 46 stores in Washington, Oregon, northern California and Idaho. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Smart &amp; Final de Mexico S.A. de C.V., is a Mexican holding company that owns 50% of a joint venture with the operators of the Calimax store chain. The joint venture operates 10 stores in Mexico as a Mexican domestic corporation under the name Smart &amp; Final del Noroeste, S.A. de C.V.
WINS SM&amp;A is a provider of business capture and high-value program support services. The Company provides program management, systems engineering, and expert support to industrial customers in the defense, homeland security, aerospace, information technology and architect and engineering sectors. It also provides systems engineering, program planning and other high-value technical support services to such high-priority national programs as the Joint Strike Fighter program and America's missile defense efforts. The Company provides proposal management services through proprietary proposal management strategies and processes. In conjunction with these processes, it typically assumes a leadership role and place dedicated teams at client facilities to manage all aspects of the competitive proposal development effort. In 2003, SM&amp;A supported 125 proposals for its clients. The Company conducts substantially all of its business in the United States.
SITI.OB SLS International, Inc. is engaged in the manufacture of premium-quality loudspeakers and sells them through its dealer networks. The speakers use the Company's ribbon-driver technology. The Company sells a professional line of loudspeakers, a commercial line of loudspeakers, home theatre systems, a line for recording and broadcast studios, a line for contractor installations and touring companies and a line of in-wall, in-ceiling and outdoor loudspeakers.
SLM SLM Corporation (Sallie Mae) is a private source of funding, delivery and servicing support for education loans in the United States primarily through its participation in the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP). The Company's primary business is to originate, acquire and hold student loans. Sallie Mae also provides a range of financial services, processing capabilities and information technology to meet the needs of educational institutions, lenders, students and their families, and guarantee agencies. The Company earns fees for student loan servicing, guarantee processing, student loan default management and loan collections. Sallie Mae is a holding company that operates through a number of subsidiaries, including the Student Loan Marketing Association, a federally chartered government-sponsored enterprise (GSE). In December 2004, the Company purchased Student Loan Finance Association.
SFBC Slade's Ferry Bancorp serves as the holding company for Slade's Ferry Trust Company (the Bank). The Bank is a state-chartered bank that operates its business from 11 banking offices located in Massachusetts and a loan production office in Rhode Island. The Bank is engaged principally in the business of attracting deposits from the general public and investing those deposits in residential and commercial real estate loans, as well as in commercial, consumer and small business loans. In addition, a portion of the funds is used in purchasing investment securities. The investment portfolio of the Bank consists of United States government and agency securities, mortgage-backed securities, obligations of state and political subdivisions, corporate bonds and a small portion of marketable equity securities.
SLI SL Industries, Inc. through its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures and markets power electronics, power motion, power protection equipment, teleprotection and specialized communication equipment that is used in a variety of medical, aerospace, computer, datacom, industrial, telecom, transportation and electric power utility equipment applications. Its products are generally incorporated into larger systems to increase operating safety, reliability and efficiency. The products are largely sold to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), the electric power utility industry, and to a lesser extent, to commercial distributors. The Company operates under four business segments: Condor DC Power Supplies, Inc., Teal Electronics Corp., SL Montevideo Technology, Inc. and RFL Electronics Inc.
SLG SL Green Realty Corp. is a self-managed real estate investment trust with in-house capabilities in property management, acquisitions, financing, development, construction and leasing. As of December 31, 2003, the Company's portfolio, which included interests in 26 properties aggregating 15.2 million square feet, consisted of 20 wholly owned commercial properties and six partially owned commercial properties encompassing approximately 8.2 million and 7.0 million rentable square feet, respectively, located primarily in Manhattan. In 2003, the weighted average occupancy (total leased square feet divided by total available square feet) of the Company's wholly owned properties was 95.8%. Its six partially owned properties, which the Company owns through unconsolidated joint ventures, were 95.8% occupied as of December 31, 2003. In addition, the Company manages three office properties owned by third parties and affiliated companies encompassing approximately one million rentable square feet.
SWKS Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is a wireless semiconductor company focused on radio frequency (RF) and cellular system solutions for mobile communications applications. The Company offers front-end modules, RF subsystems and cellular systems to wireless handset and infrastructure customers. From the power amplifier through the radio and to the baseband, Skyworks has developed a product portfolio including leadership switches and power amplifier modules. It offers an integrated direct conversion transceiver and had launched a cellular system for next-generation handsets. Skyworks was formed through the merger of the wireless business of Conexant Systems, Inc. and Alpha Industries, Inc. on June 25, 2002. Immediately following the merger, Skyworks purchased Conexant's semiconductor assembly and test facility located in Mexicali, Mexico, and certain related operations. Shortly thereafter, Alpha changed its corporate name to Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
SKYW SkyWest Inc. operates an independent regional airline in the United States through its wholly owned subsidiary, SkyWest Airlines Inc. SkyWest Airlines offers scheduled passenger and air freight service with approximately 1,100 daily departures to 105 cities in 26 states and three Canadian provinces. Additionally, it provides customer handling services for approximately nine other airlines throughout its system. SkyWest Airlines has agreements with Delta Air Lines, Inc. to provide service in Salt Lake City and Dallas/Fort Worth; with United Airlines Inc. to provide service in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle/Tacoma and San Francisco; and with Continental Airlines, Inc. to supply regional airline feed into its Houston hub. SkyWest Airlines also operates as a United Express carrier in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago and the Pacific Northwest. SkyWest Airlines operates a fleet of 76 Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia turboprops and 109 Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets.
SKYT.OB SkyTerra Communications, Inc. operates its business through a group of complementary companies in the telecommunications industry. These companies include the Mobile Satellite Venture, L.P. joint venture, a joint venture that provides mobile digital voice and data communications services via satellite; Electronic System Products, Inc., a product development and engineering services firm; IQStat, Inc., does business as Navigauge, Inc., a market research firm that tracks the in-car radio usage and driving habits of consumers, and Miraxis, LLC, a development stage company that intends to provide satellite based multi-channel, broadband data and video services.
SKY Skyline Corporation designs, produces and distributes manufactured housing (mobile homes and multi-sectional homes) and towable recreational vehicles (travel trailers, including park models and fifth wheels). During the fiscal year ended May 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company produced 7,723 manufactured homes in the United States. The manufactured homes are marketed under trademarks, such as Nomad, Layton, Aljo and Weekender and are available in lengths ranging from 34 feet to 80 feet and in singlewide widths from 12 feet to 18 feet, doublewide widths from 20 feet to 32 feet and triplewide widths from 36 feet to 42 feet. During fiscal 2004, manufactured homes represented 72% of total sales, while recreational vehicles accounted for the remaining 28%.
SKYE SkyePharma PLC is a specialty pharmaceutical company using its multiple drug delivery technologies to create a product pipeline for out-licensing to marketing partners. The Company develops therapeutic drugs based on its five technology platforms for delivering drugs to the human body: oral, injectable, inhalation, topical and enhanced solubilization.
SKYF Sky Financial Group, Inc. is a financial holding company that owns and operates Sky Bank, which is primarily engaged in the commercial and consumer banking business in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan and West Virginia. Sky Bank provides its services through over 260 banking centers and 280 automated teller machines. Sky Financial's bank subsidiary concentrates on client service and business development, while relying upon the support of Sky Financial for operational functions. The Company also operates businesses relating to commercial finance lending, insurance, brokerage, trust and other financial-related services. The Company has historically been managed along three primary business lines: community banking, financial service affiliates and Sky Financial Solutions, Inc. (SFS). In March 2004, the Company sold SFS to MBNA Corporation, a bank holding company and parent of MBNA America Bank, N.A., a national bank.
SKIL SkillSoft plc is a global provider of e-learning content and technology products for business and information technology (IT) professionals. The Company's SkillChoice multi-modal learning solutions support and enhance both formal and informal learning processes and integrate SkillSoft's in-depth courseware-learning content, learning management platform technology and support services. Content offerings include its SkillChoice Multi-Modal Learning Solutions, Business Skills Library and IT Skills and Certification Library; ITPro Collection, BusinessPro Collection, FinancePro Collection and OfficeEssentials Referenceware Collections by Books24x7, and health and safety compliance courseware by GoTrain.
SKX Skechers U.S.A., Inc. designs and markets branded contemporary footwear for men, women and children under seven individual brand names, namely Skechers USA, Skechers Sport, Skechers Collection, Skechers Kids, Somethin' Else from Skechers, Wheelers by Skechers and Skechers Work. Its core consumers are 12- to 24-year-old men and women. To broaden its customer base, Skechers introduced new footwear lines, including Michelle K. Mark Nason, Somethin' Else from Skechers for Girls, 310 Motoring Footwear and Marc Ecko/Rhino Red footwear for men, women and children. The Company's shoes are sold through department stores, specialty stores, athletic retailers and independents, as well as its own retail stores and its e-commerce Website. At December 31, 2003, the Company operated 40 concept stores, 42 factory outlet stores and 32 warehouse outlet stores in the United States.
SKM SK Telecom Co., Ltd. provides wireless telecommunications services and high-speed wireless data and Internet services. It provides its services principally through networks using code division multiple access (CDMA) technology. In October 2000, the Company commercially launched CDMA 1xRTT, a CDMA-based advanced radio-transmission technology for high-speed wireless data and wireless Internet services. CDMA 1xRTT allows transmission of data at speeds of up to 144 kilobytes per second (Kbps). The CDMA 1xRTT technology uses packet-based data transmission.
SKFB S&amp;K Famous Brands, Inc. is engaged in the retail sale of men's apparel, including a line of men's suits, sportcoats, slacks, shirts, ties, sportswear, outerwear, shoes and related accessories, through stores trading as S&amp;K Famous Brand Menswear. The Company sells in-season, first-quality, men's apparel, 20% to 40% less than regular, full-priced department and specialty store prices. Additionally, the tuxedo rental business was expanded to approximately 65% of the stores in the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), and will be fully expanded to substantially all stores in fiscal 2005. As of April 2, 2004, there the Company had 240 stores in 27 states: Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
SJW SJW Corp. is a holding company with three subsidiaries that operates in one segment. San Jose Water Company, a wholly owned subsidiary, is a public utility in the business of providing water service to a population of approximately one million people in an area comprising about 138 square miles in the metropolitan San Jose, California. SJW Land Company, a wholly owned subsidiary, owns and operates parking facilities. It also owns commercial buildings, other undeveloped land primarily in the San Jose Metropolitan area, some properties in the states of Florida and Connecticut. SJW Land also owns a 70% limited partnership interest in 444 West Santa Clara Street, L.P. Crystal Choice Water Service LLC, a 75% majority owned limited liability subsidiary, engages in the sale and rental of water conditioning and purification equipment.
SIZ Sizeler Property Investors, Inc. is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT), which focuses on income producing retail shopping centers and apartment communities in the southeastern United States. It is engaged in two operating segments, the ownership and rental of retail shopping center properties and apartment properties in the United States. These reportable segments offer different products or services and are managed separately. During the year ended December 31, 2003, its investment portfolio included interests in three enclosed shopping malls, 13 retail shopping centers and 16 apartment communities, two of which are under construction.
SIXX.OB Sixx Holdings, Incorporated's primary business is operating full service restaurants under the name Patrizio that offer moderately priced Italian-style cuisine and alcoholic beverages. The restaurants are open daily for lunch and dinner and offer entrees that generally range from $5.37 to $9.95. Alcoholic beverages, which are served primarily with meals (as opposed to bar service), generated approximately 28% in 2003 of all restaurant revenues. Patrizio I seats approximately 235 people, including approximately 75 people outdoors, weather permitting and is approximately 4,268 square feet. Patrizio II seats approximately 320 people, including approximately 120 people outdoors.
PKS Six Flags, Inc. owns and operates regional theme amusement and water parks. As of December 31, 2003, it owned or operated 39 parks, including 29 domestic parks, one park in Mexico, eight parks in Europe and one in Canada. During 2003, the Company's parks had attendance of approximately 42.8 million. The theme parks offer a family-oriented entertainment experience, generally including a selection of new and traditional thrill rides, water attractions, themed areas, concerts and shows, restaurants, game venues and merchandise outlets. In the aggregate, during 2003, the Company's theme parks offered more than 1,455 rides, including over 190 roller coasters.
SVTL.OB SiVault Systems, Inc. (SiVault) is a services company. The Company's services offering enable businesses to migrate from a paper-based transaction platform to a fully electronic, biometrically authenticated and cryptographically secured transaction platform. The technology is designed as a financially insured hosted service that provides a paperless captured, authenticated, private and secured access to transactions, documents, data files and content streams. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Lightec Communications, Inc., SiVault also provides design, installation and technical support services for information technology systems. In July 2004, SiVault completed the acquisition of SiVault Analytics Inc. Following the acquisition, SiVault merged SiVault Analytics into the Company and changed the name of the Company to SiVault Systems, Inc. from Security Biometrics Inc.
SWW SITEL Corporation is a global provider of outsourced customer support services. The Company specializes in the design, implementation and operation of complex, multi-channel contact centers to assist its clients to acquire, serve, grow and increase the value of their customers. By leveraging operations across the Company's global platform of people, processes and technology, SITEL provides customer acquisition, customer care, technical support and risk management services on an outsourced basis, to help clients serve their customers and build brand loyalty. It also provides operational and information technology (IT) professional services for both outsourced and in-house contact centers.
SIR SIRVA, Inc. is in the global relocation industry, providing its solutions to a diverse customer base, including transferring corporate and government employees and moving individual consumers. The Company operates in more than 40 countries under brand names, including Allied, northAmerican, Global and SIRVA Relocation in North America, Pickfords in the United Kingdom, Maison Huet in France, Kungsholms in Sweden, ADAM in Denmark, Majortrans Flytteservice in Norway and Allied Pickfords in the Asia Pacific region. In addition, it offers services targeted at meeting the needs of truck drivers, fleet owners and agents, both inside and outside the Company's agent network. Its business operates in three segments: Relocation Solutions (North America, Relocation Solutions, Europe and Asia Pacific segments), Network Services and Transportation Solutions. In May 2004, the Company acquired the German moving services and relocation businesses of Rettenmayer Internationale Umzugslogistik GmbH.
RNAI Sirna Therapeutics, Inc. is involved in the field of nucleic acid technology. The Company focuses on engineering ribonucleic acid (RNA)-based molecules for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes. The Company uses the technology and expertise in nucleic acids to develop a new class of nucleic acid-based therapeutics involving RNA interference. The Company is in research and/or preclinical development with product candidates in the areas, such as Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD), in which it is developing chemically stabilized siRNAs that target the Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) pathway to treat AMD; Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection, in which it is developing chemically stabilized siRNAs that target the HCV viral RNA to treat HCV infection, and Oncology, in which it announced a collaboration with Eli Lilly &amp; Company (Lilly) to jointly investigate its chemically modified siRNAs against specific oncology targets provided by Lilly.
SIRI Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. is a provider of satellite radio service, offering over 100 Streams to subscribers throughout the continental United States, including 61 streams of commercial-free music and over 40 streams of news, sports, talk, entertainment, traffic, weather and children's programming. The Company's 61 original streams of commercial-free music are produced at its national broadcast studio in New York City, and cover most genres of music. Its non-music streams include programming from CNN, ESPN, NPR, FOX News, The Weather Channel and traffic for America's top 20 markets from Westwood One, a provider of traffic reports. Sirius is also a satellite radio provider of live sports programming, featuring up to 40 National Hockey League and National Basketball Association games each week, and has agreed to broadcast all National Football League (NFL) games and become the Official Satellite Radio Partner of NFL.
SIRC.OB SiriCOMM, Inc. is engaged in the development of broadband wireless software and network infrastructure solutions for the commercial transportation industry and government market. The Company has a vertically integrated technology platform incorporating both software applications and broadband network infrastructure and access. The vertical-specific, enterprise-grade software solutions are designed to help businesses of any size and the government to significantly increase profitability, reduce operating costs, improve productivity and operational efficiencies, enhance safety and strengthen security. The Company's commercial-grade private network solution is built for enterprises and integrates multiple technologies to enable an ultra-high-speed, open-architecture wireless data network for its software applications and Internet access. SiriCOMM's solutions are expected to become commercially available during the second quarter of calendar year 2004.
SIRF SiRF Technology Holdings Inc. is a supplier of global positioning system (GPS) semiconductor solutions designed to provide location awareness capabilities in high-volume mobile consumer and commercial applications. The Company develops semiconductor solutions designed to utilize GPS to enable location awareness in high-volume mobile consumer devices and commercial systems. It markets and sells its products in four target platforms: wireless handheld, automotive, portable computing devices and dedicated or embedded consumer and commercial devices. The Company's products have been integrated into such mobile consumer devices as mobile phones, automobile navigation systems, personal digital assistants, handheld navigation devices and GPS-based peripheral devices, as well as into commercial systems, such as fleet management and road-tolling systems. Its product lines are available to original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers in four forms: chipsets, modules, IP cores and software.
SMDI Sirenza Microdevices (Sirenza) Inc. is a designer and supplier of high performance radio frequency (RF) components for commercial communications and aerospace and defense (A&amp;D) equipment manufacturers. Its products optimize the reception and transmission of voice and data signals in communications networks and in other wireless and wireline applications. These include commercial systems, such as mobile wireless voice and data applications; fixed wireless applications, such as local and wide-area, site-to-site and point-to-point networks, and broadband wireline applications, such as coaxial cable and fiber optic networks. The Company's products are also used in applications such as cable television set-top boxes, remote meter readers, RF identification readers and wireless video transmitters.
SIPX Sipex Corporation designs, manufactures and markets high-performance, analog integrated circuits (ICs) that are used by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) operating in the computing, consumer electronics, communications and networking infrastructure markets. Some of the end product applications that contain its ICs are cellular phones, base stations, computers, DVD players and digital cameras. Its portfolio of analog ICs is organized into three product families: power management, serial interface and optical storage. Its wafer fabrication facility in Milpitas, California, along with a number of third-party contractors, fabricate, package and test its ICs. The products are sold either directly or through a global network of manufacturers' representatives and distributors.
SHI Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company Limited is primarily engaged in the processing of crude oil into petrochemical products for sale predominantly in the domestic market of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The Company has an integrated petrochemical complex that processes crude oil into a range of synthetic fibers, resins and plastics, intermediate petrochemicals, and petroleum products. All of these products are produced through intermediate steps from the principal raw material of crude oil. During the year ended December 31, 2003, 35.69% of Sinopec Shanghai's net sales were represented by petroleum products, 30.63% by resins and plastics, 14.14% by synthetic fibers, 13.31% by intermediate petrochemicals and 6.23% by trading and others. The Company derives a substantial portion of its revenues from customers in Eastern China, particularly in Shanghai and its six nearby provinces.
BYH Sinopec Beijing Yanhua Petrochemical Company Limited is a producer of resins and plastics in China. The vast majority of the Company's products fall within three principal product groups: resins and plastics; synthetic rubber, and basic organic chemical products. Sinopec is also a producer of ethylene. It uses substantially all of the ethylene it produces to manufacture a range of downstream petrochemical products, including low-density polyethylene (LDPE), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), cis-polybutadiene rubber, butyl rubber, phenol, acetone, SBS, polypropylene, polystyrene and ethylene glycol. During the year ended December 31, 2003, 98.7% of the Company's sales were derived from sales in China. Of its 2003 sales, 55.2% consisted of resins and plastics, 23.5% consisted of basic organic chemical products, 16.8% consisted of synthetic rubber and the remaining 4.5% consisted of other petrochemical products and sales of other goods.
SMD The Singing Machine Company, Inc. (Singing Machine) is engaged in the development, production, distribution, marketing and sale of consumer karaoke audio equipment, accessories and music. The Company contracts for the manufacture of all electronic equipment products with factories located in Asia. It also produces and markets karaoke music, including compact disks plus graphics (CD+G's), and audiocassette tapes containing music and lyrics of popular songs for use with karaoke recording equipment. All of its recordings include two versions of each song: one track offers music and vocals for practice, and the other track is instrumental, only for performance by the participant. Virtually all of the cassettes sold by the Company are accompanied by printed lyrics and its karaoke CD+G's contain lyrics, which appear on the video screen.
SBGI Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is a diversified television broadcasting company that owns, provides programming and operating services (pursuant to local marketing agreements (LMAs)) or provides sales services (pursuant to outsourcing agreements) to television stations. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned, provided programming and operating services pursuant to LMAs or provided sales services to 62 television stations in 39 markets. Its television station group is diverse in network affiliation, with 20 stations affiliated with FOX, 19 with The WB, eight with ABC, six with UPN, four with NBC and three with CBS. Two stations are not affiliated with any network. The programming that Sinclair provides consists of network-provided programs, locally and centrally produced news, syndicated local sporting events and syndicated entertainment programs.
SINA SINA Corporation is an online media company and value-added information services provider in China and for Chinese communities worldwide. The Company provides an array of services to its users including region-focused online portals, mobile value-added services, search and directory, interest-based and community-building channels, free and premium e-mail, online games, virtual Internet service provider (ISP), classified listings, fee-based services, e-commerce and enterprise e-solutions. SINA provides its services through five major business lines including SINA.com (online news and content), SINA Mobile (mobile value-added services), SINA Online (community-based services and games), SINA.net (search and enterprise services) and SINA E-Commerce (online shopping and travel). In March 2004, the Company acquired Crillion Corp., a mobile valued-added service provider in China.
SLP Simulations Plus, Inc. (Simulations Plus) develops and produces modeling and simulation software for use in pharmaceutical research and education. The Company also provides contract research services to the pharmaceutical industry. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Words+, Inc., (Words+), the Company produces computer software and specialized hardware for use by persons with disabilities. It also produces a personal productivity software program called Abbreviate! for the retail market.
SMRL.OB Simtrol, Inc. designs, develops and markets Windows-based software solutions that enable the command, control and monitoring of otherwise incompatible electronic devices, particularly corporate audiovisual (AV) assets. The Company focuses on the design, production, and sale of its ONGOER device control software and OnGuard monitoring software. ONGOER allows end users to operate, as a single system, a range of electronic equipment such as projectors, video cassette recorders, computers, sound systems, lighting and temperature controls and other audio and video devices in a variety of settings. ONGOER can be operated from any PC with the Windows 2000 or Windows XP operating system. OnGuard is server-based management and monitoring software. The OnGuard Server connects via standard TCP/IP networking to a set of ONGOER controllers to monitor and control devices at remote locations.
SRAM.OB SIMTEK Corporation provides integrated circuits to the electronics market for use in systems such as computers, copiers, factory controllers, electric meters and military systems. The Company designs, markets and sells non-volatile static random access memory (SRAM) products, but it subcontracts the majority of its manufacturing requirements. SIMTEK concentrates on the design and development of the four-, 16-, 64- and 256-kilobit and one-megabit non-volatile SRAM product families and technologies, distribution channels and sources of supply. The Company's non-volatile SRAM product family consists of non-volatile memories that combine fast SRAM and non-volatile elements within each memory cell on a single silicon chip. Due to adverse market conditions, the Company decided to stop offering its programmed semiconductor logic products after December 31, 2003.
SSD Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc., through its subsidiary, Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc. (SST), designs, engineers and manufactures wood-to-wood, wood-to-concrete and wood-to-masonry connectors and pre-fabricated shearwalls. Through its Anchor Systems product line, SST offers a line of adhesives, mechanical anchors and powder-actuated tools for concrete, masonry and steel. Its other subsidiary, Simpson Dura-Vent Company, Inc., designs, engineers and manufactures venting systems for gas, wood, oil and pellet burning appliances. Its products are marketed in all 50 states of the United States and in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and several countries in Central and South America. In October 2004, SST acquired Quik Drive, U.S.A., Inc., Quik Drive Canada, Inc. and Quik Drive Australia Pty. Limited (collectively, Quik Drive). Quik Drive manufactures collated fasteners and fastener delivery systems, which are marketed in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
STEC SimpleTech, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets a line of memory and storage products as well as connectivity products that connect memory cards and hard drive upgrade kits to personal computers. The Company's memory and storage products are based on dynamic random access memory, static random access memory and Flash memory technologies. These products are used in consumer electronics, high-performance computing, defense and aerospace, networking and communications and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) applications. SimpleTech offers its products through its OEM Division and Consumer Division. The Company's 10 largest customers accounted for an aggregate of 51.9% of its total revenues in 2003. CDW Computer Centers accounted for 19.2% of its total revenues in 2003 and 21.1% of its total revenues in 2002.
SMPLF.PK SimPlayer.com Ltd., formerly known as LOGAL Educational Software &amp; Systems Ltd., is an early-stage venture based on proprietary technology that transforms raw data into visual, dynamic and interactive sticky Web applications. On July 15, 1999, the Company sold the LOGAL name and substantially all of its assets relating to the LOGAL educational business to Riverdeep Interactive Learning Ltd., a privately held Irish company. Since completion of that sale, the Company has focused its efforts on developing and implementing a business plan and initial product prototypes to apply its SimPlayer technology to sports on the Internet. In April 2001, the Company announced it had commenced the winding down of its operations, and would pursue the potential disposition of its remaining assets.
SPG Simon Property Group, Inc. (SPG) operates as a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust engaged primarily in the ownership, operation, leasing, management, acquisition, expansion and development of real estate properties. Its real estate properties consist primarily of regional malls and community shopping centers. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned or held an interest in 246 income-producing properties in North America, which consisted of 175 regional malls, 67 community shopping centers and four office and mixed-use properties in 37 states and Canada. In addition, the Company also owns interests in three parcels of land held for future development. Finally, SPG has ownership interests in 47 assets in Europe. In June 2004, the Company and Chelsea Property Group, Inc. signed a definitive merger agreement, whereby the Company will acquire all of the outstanding common stock and operating partnership units of Chelsea.
SFNC Simmons First National Corporation is a financial holding company primarily engaged in providing a range of banking services to individual and corporate customers through its subsidiaries and their branch banks in Arkansas. As of December 31, 2003, SFNC owned seven community banks in Arkansas: Simmons First National Bank, Simmons First Bank of Jonesboro, Simmons First Bank of South Arkansas, Simmons First Bank of Northwest Arkansas, Simmons First Bank of Russellville, Simmons First Bank of Searcy and Simmons First Bank of El Dorado, N.A. The Company's subsidiaries provide banking services to individuals and businesses throughout the market areas they serve. Services include consumer, real estate and commercial loans, checking, savings and time deposits, trust and investment management services, and securities and investment services.
SIMC Simclar, Inc. is a contract manufacturer of electronic and electro-mechanical products. The Company's products are manufactured to customer specifications and designed for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and distributors in the data processing, telecommunications, instrumentation and food preparation equipment industries. Simclar's principal custom-designed products include complex printed circuit boards (PCBs), conventional and molded cables, wire harnesses and electro-mechanical assemblies. In addition, the Company provides OEMs with value-added, turnkey contract manufacturing services and total systems assembly and integration. It also delivers manufacturing and test engineering services and materials management, with flexible and service-oriented manufacturing and assembly services for its customers' high-tech and rapidly changing products.
SSTR Silverstar Holdings, Ltd. is the parent company of Fantasy Sports, Inc., which operates the Fantasycup.com, fantasycup.org, fantasycup.net, fantasystockcar.com and fantasynhra.com Websites and specializes in subscription-based NASCAR, college football and basketball and other fantasy sports games. The Company is also a shareholder in Magnolia Broadband Wireless, a start-up company that is developing mobile wireless broadband products. On June 14, 2003, the Company entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with SS Founders, Inc., pursuant to which it sold substantially all of the assets and liabilities of Student Sports, Inc. Student Sports offers access to the high school athletic market across multimedia platforms.
SVLF.OB Silverleaf Resorts, Inc. is engaged in the development, marketing and operation of drive-to and destination timeshare resorts. The Company owns eight drive-to resorts in Texas, Missouri, Illinois and Georgia (the Drive-to Resorts) and four destination resorts in Texas, Missouri and Massachusetts (the Destination Resorts). The Drive-to Resorts are designed to appeal to vacationers seeking comfortable and affordable accommodations in locations convenient to their residences and are located near major metropolitan areas. The Drive-to Resorts are located close to principal market areas to facilitate more frequent short-stay getaways. Destination Resorts are located in or near areas with national tourist appeal and offer customers the opportunity to upgrade into a more upscale resort area as their lifestyles and travel budgets permit. Both the Drive-to Resorts and the Destination Resorts aim to provide a quiet, relaxing vacation environment.
SLGLF.OB Silverado Gold Mines Ltd. is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral properties in the State of Alaska. It holds interests in four groups of mineral properties in Alaska: the Nolan Gold Project, the Ester Dome Gold properties, the Hammond properties and the Eagle Creek properties. During the fiscal year ended November 30, 2003, the Company was actively engaged in development, mining and exploration activities at its Nolan Gold Project. Its exploration and development activities are managed and conducted by affiliated companies, Tri-Con Mining Ltd., Tri-Con Mining Inc. and Tri-Con Mining Alaska Inc. In addition, the Company entered the low-rank, coal-water fuel business in the fiscal year ended November 30, 2000. The Company's fuel product is called low-rank, coal-water fuel, which is a low-cost, non-toxic, non-hazardous alternative to oil fuels used in commercial boilers for the production of electricity and industrial heat.
SLVO.OB Silverado Financial Inc. is a mortgage banking company focused on providing non-prime borrowers, individuals who generally do not satisfy the credit, documentation or other underwriting standards set by more traditional sources of mortgage credit, with access to capital for the purchase and refinancing of one- to four-family residential properties. The Company originates mortgage loans, which include fixed and adjustable-rate loans, for purposes, such as debt consolidation, refinancing, education, home improvement and real estate purchase. Silverado originates loans through large retail hubs. The Company has two retail hubs in California, one of which is dedicated to the Hispanic/Latino community in the Western United States, and one retail hub in Arizona. Silverado plans to create a total of eight retail hubs across the United States by the end of 2006.
SVSE.OB Silver Star Energy, Inc. was engaged in the service and management of automated teller machines (ATMs) in the retail and high-traffic area sectors. The Company conducted this business through its wholly owned subsidiary 657333 BC Ltd. The Company's plan of business, commencing April 2003, was to secure two additional ATM service and management contracts per month, with retail location(s) operators in the Vancouver area during the year ending December 31, 2003. Pursuant to two agreements, dated October 29, 2003, with 1048136 Alberta Ltd., the Company has acquired the right to participate and earn an interest in two oil and gas exploration and development projects located in the province of Alberta known respectively as the Evi prospect and the Verdigris prospect.
SSRI Silver Standard Resources Inc. is engaged in the exploration of silver properties in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Mexico, Peru and the United States. The Company is also engaged in the acquisition of silver properties throughout the world. Silver Standard is an exploration-stage company and none of its properties are beyond the advanced exploration stage. Its five principal mineral properties are the Manantial Espejo Project in Santa Cruz, Argentina; Bowdens Silver Project in the Mudgee District of Australia; the Pirquitas Project in Jujuy, Argentina; La Pitarrilla in Durango State, Mexico, and the Shafter Silver Project in Texas, United States.
SSSU.OB Silver Screen Studios, Inc. is a multimedia entertainment company that focuses on the development, production, financing and distribution of entertainment related products, such as music and motion picture. The Company is the result of a reverse holding company merger formed by Group Management and SSSG Acquisition Corp. on August 23, 2003. During 2003, Silver Screens concentrated on restructuring its business model. Silver Screen's operations did not generate any revenue in 2003. However, it has several projects in development, such as, Murder by Deception (MBD). MBD will be distributed by Silver Screen Distributions, Inc. MBD will be a direct to digital videodisc (DVD) production with an expected release in 2004. The Company's publishing division, Millennium Publishing, has two novels completed and ready for publication. The first novel, Heirs to Murder will be produced as an E-Book, in which multi-media contents, such as audio and video materials will be included.
SPIL Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd. is an independent provider of semiconductor packaging and testing services. The Company offers a range of both standard and customized packaging and testing solutions, including advanced lead frame packages and substrate packages, such as the flip chip package, as well as testing for logic, mixed-signal and embedded memory devices. Siliconware also offers its customers turnkey solutions from packaging and testing to direct shipment of semiconductor devices to end users designated by its customers. The Company provides packaging and testing services to more than 100 customers worldwide.
SILI Siliconix Incorporated designs, markets, and manufactures power and analog semiconductor products. The Company focuses on technologies and products for the communications, computer and automotive markets. Additionally, many of its products are used in instrumentation, industrial and consumer applications. Siliconix's power and analog semiconductor products can be divided into two general classes: discrete devices and integrated circuits (ICs). Discrete devices are active components that generate, control, regulate and amplify or switch electronic signals or energy. ICs consist of a number of active and passive components, interconnected on a single chip, that are intended to perform a specific function. The Company's discrete power MOSFETs (metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor) and power ICs are designed for similar applications and can often be used together as chip sets with complementary performance characteristics optimized for a specific application.
SIVB Silicon Valley Bancshares (Bancshares) and its subsidiaries offer financial products and services, including commercial, investment, merchant and private banking and private equity services, as well as value-added services. Bancshares is a bank holding company and a financial holding company, whose principal subsidiary is Silicon Valley Bank (the Bank). The Bank serves more than 9,500 clients across the United States through its 26 regional offices. It has 13 offices throughout California, and operates regional offices in Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington. The Bank focuses on serving emerging growth and mature companies in the technology and life sciences markets, as well as the premium wine industry. The Company is organized into four lines of banking and financial services: commercial banking, merchant banking, investment banking and private banking.
SSTI Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. (SSTI) is a supplier of flash memory semiconductor devices for the digital consumer, networking, wireless communications and Internet computing markets. The Company divides its products into three distinct segments: the Standard Memory Product Group (SMPG), the Application Specific Product Group (ASPG) and the Special Product Group (SPG). SMPG includes the Multi-Purpose Flash family, the Multi-Purpose Flash Plus family and the Many-Time Programmable family. These product families allow SSTI to produce products optimized for cost and functionality to support a range of mainstream applications that use nonvolatile memory products. ASPG includes the Concurrent SuperFlash, Serial Flash, Firmware Hub and Low Pin Count flash products. These products are designed to address specific applications, such as cellular phones, hard disk drives and PCs. SPG includes ComboMemory, ROM/RAM Combos, SSF, MTP, FlashFlex51 microcontroller and other special flash products.
SLAB Silicon Laboratories Inc. designs and develops proprietary, analog-intensive, mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) for use in a range of applications. The Company groups its products into two categories: mobile handset products and broad-based, mixed-signal products. Its mobile handset products include the Aero transceivers and radio frequency (RF) synthesizers. Its broad-based, mixed-signal products include silicon Direct Access Arrangement, ISOmodem, ProSLIC (subscriber line interface circuits), digital subscriber line analog front end, clock chips, SiPHY, optical transceivers and clock and data recovery ICs, general purpose RF Synthesizers for non-handset applications, as well as the Cygnal eight-bit microcontroller family of products.
SIMG Silicon Image, Inc. produces multi-gigabit semiconductor solutions for the transmission, storage and display of digital media. The Company broadens market adoption of the digital visual interface (DVI), high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) and serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) interfaces by licensing its Internet protocol (IP) cores to companies providing advanced system-on-a-chip solutions incorporating these interfaces. Silicon Image's PanelLink digital interconnect technology enables an all-digital connection between personal computer (PC) host systems and digital displays, such as liquid crystal display (LCD) monitors, plasma displays and projectors. Silicon Image markets products to the PC/display, consumer electronics (CE) and storage markets. The Company introduced 11 products during the year ended December 31, 2003, and expects to introduce 12 to 15 products in 2004.
SGI Silicon Graphics, Inc (SGI) is a provider of products, services and solutions for use in high-performance computing, visualization and the management of large-scale complex data. The Company sells highly scalable servers, advanced visualization systems, desktop workstations, storage solutions and a range of software products that enable its customers in the scientific, technical and creative communities to solve their most challenging problems and provide them with strategic and competitive advantages in their marketplace. SGI also offers a range of technical solutions, including professional services, Reality Center immersive visualization centers, customer support and education. These products and services are targeted primarily towards five market segments: Defense and Security, Science and Research, Manufacturing, Energy and Media.
SILCF Silicom Ltd. is engaged in the design, manufacture, marketing and support of connectivity solutions for a broad range of computer users. The Company's first products were integrated circuits (ICs) for information technology (IT) manufacturers. Its traditional line of products serves as a communication gateway to enable portable computers to access information and resources found on local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs). In 2002, it developed a line of high-end, multi-port server/storage networking cards. In April 2004, the Company announced new TCP/IP (transmission control protocol/Internet protocol) offload engine/small computer system interface (SCSI) protocol over TCP/IP storage (TOE/iSCSI)/server network adapters.
SLGN Silgan Holdings Inc. is a manufacturer of metal and plastic consumer goods packaging products, operating 63 manufacturing plants throughout the United States and Canada. The Company's products include steel and aluminum containers for human and pet food and metal, composite and plastic closures for food and beverage products. Its products also include custom-designed plastic containers, tubes and closures for personal care, healthcare, pharmaceutical, household and industrial chemical, food, pet care, agricultural chemical, automotive and marine chemical products. Silgan conducts its business through two wholly owned operating subsidiaries, Silgan Containers Corporation and Silgan Plastics Corporation. Silgan Containers includes the Company's metal food container operations and its metal, composite and plastic food and beverage closure operations, and Silgan Plastics includes Silgan's plastic container, tube and closure operations.
SEYE.PK Signature Eyewear, Inc. designs, markets and distributes prescription eyeglass frames and sunglasses, primarily under exclusive licenses for Laura Ashley Eyewear, Eddie Bauer Eyewear, Hart Schaffner &amp; Marx Eyewear, Nicole Miller Eyewear, bebe eyes and Dakota Smith, as well as its proprietary Signature line. The Company's best-selling product lines are Laura Ashley Eyewear and Eddie Bauer Eyewear. Frames in the Laura Ashley Eyewear line are feminine and classic, and are positioned in the medium to mid-high price range. The Eddie Bauer Eyewear collection offers men's and women's styles, and is positioned in the medium-price segment of the brand name prescription eyewear market. Net sales of Laura Ashley Eyewear and Eddie Bauer Eyewear together accounted for 57% of the Company's net sales during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2003.
SBNY Signature Bank (the Bank) is a New York-based full-service commercial bank with 12 locations throughout the New York metropolitan area serving the needs of privately owned business clients, their owners and senior managers through various private client and investment groups. It offers a variety of business and personal banking products and services, as well as investment, brokerage, asset management and insurance products and services through its subsidiary, Signature Securities Group Corporation (Signature Securities), a licensed broker-dealer and investment adviser. Through Signature Securities, it also purchases, securitizes and sells the guaranteed portions of United States Small Business Administration loans. It generally targets closely held commercial clients with revenues of less than $50 million and that employ fewer than 1,000 employees. The Bank also targets owners and senior managers of those businesses, who typically have a net worth between $500,000 and $20 million.
SGMA SigmaTron International, Inc. is an independent provider of electronic manufacturing services (EMS), which range from the assembly of individual components to the assembly and testing of box-build electronic products. SigmaTron has the ability to produce assemblies requiring mechanical, as well as electronic, capabilities. The products assembled by the Company are then incorporated into finished products sold in various market places, particularly appliance, consumer electronics, gaming, fitness, industrial electronics, telecommunications and automotive. In connection with the production of assembled products, SigmaTron also provides services to its customers, including automatic and manual assembly and testing of products, material sourcing and procurement, design, manufacturing and test engineering support, warehousing and shipment services, and assistance in obtaining product approval from governmental and other regulatory bodies.
SGTL Sigmatel, Inc. is a fables semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets analog-intensive, mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) for products in the consumer electronics and computing markets, including portable compressed audio players, such as MP3 players, notebook and desktop personal computers (PCs), digital video disc (DVD) players, digital televisions, set-top boxes and Universal Serial Bus (USB) storage devices. The Company provides its customers solutions that include integrated ICs, customizable firmware and software, software development tools, reference designs and applications support.
SIGM Sigma Designs, Inc. specializes in silicon-based digital media processing solutions for consumer products. Its solutions, based on its REALmagic Video Technology, provide decoding of MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MPEG-1 and Windows Media Video 9 (WMV9) content. The Company has developed system solutions for convergence products, including DVD playback, digital television (DTV) reception, video over Internet protocol (IP), personal video recording (PVR) and video-on-demand (VOD). Its business operates in one segment, consumer electronic devices and products. Product categories include IP Video Solutions, Connected Media Players and High Definition Television.
SIAL Sigma-Aldrich Corporation develops, manufactures and distributes a range of biochemicals and organic chemicals. These chemical products and kits are used in scientific and genomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, the diagnosis of disease and chemical manufacturing. The Company operates in 34 countries, offers 85,000 products and distributes these products in over 150 countries. Sigma-Aldrich has chemical production facilities in Milwaukee and Sheboygan, Wisconsin; St. Louis, Missouri; Houston, Texas; Bellefonte, Pennsylvania; Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The Company consists of three business units: Scientific Research, Biotechnology and Fine Chemicals.
SIGA SIGA Technologies, Inc. is engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of vaccines, antibiotics and novel anti-infectives for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. The Company is developing technology for the mucosal delivery of its vaccines to activate the immune system at the mucus-lined surfaces of the body, the mouth, the nose, the lungs and the gastrointestinal and urogenital tracts. Its anti-infectives programs are aimed at the increasingly serious problem of drug resistance, and they are designed to block the ability of infectious agents to attach to human tissue. In May 2003, the Company acquired substantially all of the assets of Plexus Vaccine Inc. (Plexus), which is a structure-based rational vaccine design and development company directed towards the convergence of structural biology, pharmacogenomics and molecular immunology. Plexus is employing its technologies to formulate and test a vaccine candidate for severe acute respiratory syndrome.
SIFY Sify Limited is an Internet, network and electronic commerce services company in India, offering end-to-end solutions with services delivered over a common Internet backbone infrastructure. The Company's services enable its business and consumer customers to communicate, transmit and share information, access online content and conduct business remotely using a private data network or the Internet. The Company conducts all of its business in India. Its subsidiaries include Sify eLearning Limited, Safescrypt Limited, Satyam Webexchange Limited, Sify Plasticscommerce Limited, Indiaworld Communications Limited, Sify International Inc. and E Alcatraz Consulting Private Limited. In July 2004, the Company acquired EAP Global, a global provider of information assurance consulting solutions based on an information assurance framework developed on industry standards and guidelines.
SIF SIFCO Industries, Inc. is engaged in the production and sale of a variety of metalworking processes, services and products produced primarily to the specific design requirements of its customers. The processes and services include forging, heat-treating, coating, welding, machining and selective electro-chemical finishing. The products include forged parts, machined forgings and other machined metal parts, remanufactured component parts for aerospace and industrial turbine engines, as well as selective electro-chemical finishing solutions and equipment. The Company's operations are conducted in three business segments: Turbine Component Services and Repair Group, Aerospace Component Manufacturing (ACM) Group and Metal Finishing Group.
SWIR Sierra Wireless, Inc. develops and markets a range of products, including wireless data modems for portable computers, embedded modules for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), rugged vehicle-mounted modems and mobile phones. In addition, the Company has a number of products under development, including its Voq Smartphone product line. Sierra Wireless' products permit users to access wireless data and voice networks using notebook computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), vehicle-based systems and mobile phones. The Company sells its products primarily through indirect channels, including wireless operators, resellers and OEMs worldwide, with emphasis on the North American, European and Asian markets.
SRP Sierra Pacific Resources (SPR) has nine wholly owned subsidiaries: Nevada Power Company (NPC), Sierra Pacific Power Company (SPPC), Tuscarora Gas Pipeline Company (TGPC), Sierra Pacific Communications (SPC), Sierra Pacific Energy Company (SPE), Lands of Sierra (LOS), Sierra Energy Company (SEC), Independent Energy Consulting, Inc. (IEC) and e-three Custom Energy Solutions LLC (CES). SEC, IEC and CES, collectively known as e-three, were sold on September 26, 2003. NPC and SPPC are referred to collectively as the Utilities. SPR's Utilities operate three regulated businesses, which are Nevada Power electric, Sierra Pacific Power electric and Sierra Pacific Power natural gas service. Electric service is provided to Las Vegas and surrounding Clark County, Northern Nevada and the Lake Tahoe area of California. Natural gas services are provided in the Reno-Sparks area of Nevada.
SRMC.OB Sierra Monitor Corporation (SMC) is engaged in designing and developing hazardous gas monitoring devices for the protection of personnel and facilities in industrial work places. The Company has also developed, and continues to develop, various industrial instruments used to monitor and control environments and to enable communication between industrial devices, such as gas detection systems, building automation systems, programmable logic controllers and various analytical systems and sensing devices. Products manufactured by SMC are sold primarily to oil and gas drilling and refining companies, chemical plants, wastewater treatment plants, telecommunications companies, parking garages, landfill rehabilitation projects and building automation projects. All of the Company's products are marketed to all such industries.
SIE Sierra Health Services, Inc. is a managed healthcare organization that provides and administers the delivery of healthcare programs. Its managed healthcare services are provided through a federally qualified health maintenance organization (HMO); managed indemnity plans; a subsidiary that administers a managed care federal contract for the Department of Defense's TRICARE program; ancillary products and services that complement Sierra's managed healthcare product lines, and a third-party administrative service program for employer-funded health benefit plans and self-insured workers' compensation plans. In March 2004, the Company sold its worker's compensation subsidiary to Folksamerica Holdings Company, Inc. Folksamerica is a subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd., a Bermuda-based insurance holding company.
BSRR Sierra Bancorp is a bank holding company having the Bank of the Sierra (the Bank) as its principal subsidiary. The Company's only other direct subsidiaries are Sierra Capital Trust I and Sierra Statutory Trust II, which were formed to facilitate the issuance of capital trust pass-through securities. Sierra Bancorp's principal source of income is dividends from the Bank. Bank of the Sierra is a multi-community independent bank that offers a range of banking services to individuals and businesses, primarily in the central and southern sections of California's San Joaquin Valley. It operates 17 full-service branch offices throughout this geographic footprint, and has received regulatory approval for an 18th branch in the City of Clovis.
SI Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (Siemens) is a multinational corporation offering products, solutions and services in the field of electronics and electrical engineering. Siemens' operations are divided into six business areas: Information and communications, Automation and Control, Power, Transportation, Medical and Lighting. Other Siemens businesses include: Financing and Real Estate Affiliates. The Company's groups can be divided in to four categories. Automation and drives, medical solutions, power generation, Osram, Siemens VDO automotive, Siemens financial services, and power transmission and distribution comprise the first category. The second category comprises of Siemens Building Technologies, Industrial Solutions and Services, and Logistics and Assembly Systems. Information and Communications business area forms the third category. Transportation Systems is in the fourth category.
SIEB Siebert Financial Corp. is a holding company that conducts its retail discount brokerage and investment banking business through its wholly owned subsidiary, Muriel Siebert &amp; Co., Inc. (Siebert). The Company's principal activity is providing Internet and traditional discount brokerage and related services to retail investors. Through its Capital Markets division, it also offers institutional clients equity execution services on an agency basis, as well as equity and fixed income underwriting and investment banking services. In addition, Siebert, Brandford, Shank &amp; Co., LLC (SBS), a company in which Siebert holds a 49% ownership interest, is a minority and women's business enterprise involved in the tax-exempt underwriting business.
SEBL Siebel Systems, Inc. is principally engaged in the design, development, marketing and support of Siebel eBusiness Applications, a family of enterprise applications that help organizations manage their relationships, including their interactions with customers, partners and employees. A substantial portion of its business applications is focused on the Customer Relationship Management market. The Company also provides professional services and technical support organizations, through its Global Services Organization. Services include a range of implementation services, training and technical support to its customers and implementation partners.
SISI SI Technologies, Inc. and subsidiaries (SI) designs, manufactures and markets high-performance industrial sensors, weighing and factory automation systems, and related products. The Company operates two business segments: industrial measurement and industrial automation. The industrial automation segment consists of load cells, transducers, force translators and custom-designed sensors. SI's industrial automation products consist of load handling, moving and positioning equipment and systems. SI products are used around the world in a wide variety of industries, including aerospace, agriculture, aviation, food processing and packaging, forestry, manufacturing, mining, transportation/distribution and waste management.
SINT SI International, Inc. provides information technology and network solutions, primarily to the United States Federal Government. SI provides information technology and network solutions in eight practice areas to supplement its clients needs in defense transformation, homeland defense, mission critical outsourcing and federal information technology modernization. The Company provides its services primarily to the United States Air Force Space Command, United States Army, the Department of State, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Department of Homeland Security), as well as the intelligence community. In January 2004, SI completed the purchase of Matcom International Corporation, a provider of information technology, systems engineering, logistics and training.
SIFI SI Financial Group, Inc. is a mutual bank holding company. The Company was formed in connection with the conversion of SI Bancorp, Inc. and Savings Institute from state-chartered to federally chartered institutions. SI Financial Group's business activity is the ownership of the outstanding capital stock of Savings Institute. The Company operates as a community-oriented financial institution offering a full range of financial services to consumers and businesses in its market area, including insurance, trust and investment services. It attracts deposits from the general public and uses those funds to originate one- to four-family residential, multi-family and commercial real estate, commercial business and consumer loans, which the Company holds primarily for investment.
SHU Shurgard Storage Centers, Inc. is a large owner and operator in the worldwide self-storage industry, with over 620 properties under management in 22 states, as well as Belgium, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. Of these storage centers, the Company owns, either directly or through joint ventures, 496 properties, representing approximately 32.4 million net rentable square feet. Shurgard is organized as a real estate investment trust (REIT) that acquires, owns and manages its own storage centers. The Company first entered the storage business in 1972 through a predecessor company.
SHFL Shuffle Master, Inc. is a gaming supply company that specializes in providing its casino and other gaming customers with automatic card shufflers and other Utility Products to improve their profitability, productivity and security, as well as Entertainment Products, including poker, blackjack, baccarat and pai gow poker-based table games. As of October 31, 2004, the Company had an installed unit base of approximately 15,289 shufflers and approximately 3,233 table games. Installed base is the sum of the product units under lease, or license agreements and inception-to-date sold units. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company acquired CARD Casinos Austria Research &amp; Development GmbH &amp; Co KG and its wholly owned subsidiaries, and certain assets of BET Technology, Inc.
SHBK Shore Financial Corporation is the holding company for Shore Bank (the Bank). The Bank offers a full menu of banking products and services in the communities it serves. For business customers, the Bank offers checking, cash management, credit card merchant services, and a variety of loan options, including operating lines of credit, equipment loans and real estate loans. For consumers, the Bank offers a totally free checking account, along with telephone and Internet banking services, check cards, free use of automated teller machines (ATMs) and the full compliment of retail banking products. The Company also offers other services that complement the core financial services offered by the Bank. The Bank operates seven banking offices on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland, including the counties of Accomack and Northampton in Virginia and Salisbury/Wicomico County area in Maryland. At December 31, 2003, the Company had consolidated assets of $196.6 million.
SHBI Shore Bancshares, Inc. engages in the business of acting as the parent company to two bank subsidiaries, The Centreville National Bank of Maryland and The Talbot Bank of Easton, Maryland (the Banks). The Banks provide commercial banking services from its locations in the Maryland counties of Talbot, Queen Anne's, Kent, Caroline and Dorchester. The Bank's primary source of revenue is from providing commercial, real estate and consumer loans to customers located on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Shore Bancshares also serves as parent company to two insurance producers, The Avon-Dixon Agency, LLC and Elliott Wilson Insurance, LLC, one insurance premium finance company, Mubell Finance, LLC and an investment adviser firm, Wye Financial Services, LLC. In April 2004, the Company acquired Midstate Bancorp, Inc., headquartered in Felton, Delaware. As a result of the merger, The Felton Bank, a Delaware bank, became a wholly owned subsidiary of Shore Bancshares.
SHPS.OB Shopsmith, Inc. is engaged in the production and marketing of power woodworking tools designed for the home workshop. The Company's principal line of power tools is marketed under the Shopsmith name. The line is built around the Shopsmith MARK V, a multi-purpose tool, which includes separate function special purpose tools that may be mounted on the MARK V or used independently. It distributes these tools directly to consumers through demonstration programs, telephone sales solicitation, Internet and mail order. During the fiscal year ended April 3, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Shopsmith branded products accounted for all of the Company's net sales.
SHOP Shopping.com Ltd. is an online comparison-shopping service. It helps consumers make informed purchase decisions by enabling them to find the items they are looking for, compare products, prices and stores and buy from among thousands of online merchants. The Company gathers product and merchant data from across the Internet, organizes and structures it into a comprehensive catalog and presents the resulting information to consumers in a user-friendly interface at its flagship destination, www.shopping.com, and its consumer reviews Website, www.epinions.com. The service is free for consumers. Merchants and other listings providers pay lead referral fees, when consumers click through to merchant Websites from the Company's service. Its categories include clothing, computers and software, electronics, gifts, health and beauty, home and garden, jewelry and watches, kids and family, movies, music, office, sports and outdoors, travel and video games.
SKO ShopKo Stores, Inc. provides general merchandise and retail health services through two business segments: ShopKo Retail and Pamida Retail. The ShopKo Retail segment consists of a multi-department retailer operating under the "ShopKo" name, located primarily in mid-size and larger communities. The ShopKo retail stores are committed to offering merchandise, services and value to meet customers' needs for home, family basics, casual apparel and seasonal products, along with a special emphasis on retail health through its in-store pharmacies and optical centers. As of January 31, 2004, the Company had 141 ShopKo retail stores operating in 15 Midwest, Pacific Northwest and Western Mountain states. The Pamida Retail segment is a general merchandise retailer, which serves smaller and more rural communities, offering a convenient, one-stop shopping format. As of January 31, 2004, the Company had 218 Pamida retail stores operating in 16 Midwest, North Central and Rocky Mountain states.
SHOE Shoe Pavilion, Inc. is an independent off-price footwear retailer that offers a selection of women's, men's and children's designer label and name brand merchandise. The Company operates 85 retail stores, including an Internet store, under the trade name Shoe Pavilion. Shoe Pavilion offers designer and name brand footwear such as Converse, Anne Klein 2, Steve Madden, Reebok, Skechers and Nine West, typically at 20% to 60% below regular department store prices. The Company is able to offer lower prices by purchasing at discounts, directly from factories in Italy, Brazil and China, and negotiating favorable prices with manufacturers by ordering merchandise during off-peak production periods and taking delivery. The Company purchases footwear merchandise from over 100 domestic and international vendors, independent resellers and manufacturers with excess inventory.
SCVL Shoe Carnival, Inc. is a family footwear retailer offering customers an assortment of moderately priced items. The Company's product assortment includes dress and casual shoes, sandals, boots and an assortment of athletic shoes for men, women and children with emphasis on national and regional name brands. Shoe Carnival's marketing effort targets middle-income, value-conscious consumers seeking name brand footwear for all age groups. As of January 31, 2004, the Company operated 237 stores in 24 states in the Midwest, South and Southeast regions of the United States.
SHPGY Shire Pharmaceuticals Group plc is a global pharmaceutical company with a strategic focus on meeting the needs of the specialist physician. The Company has a particular interest in therapies that are prescribed by specialist doctors as opposed to primary care physicians. Shire is focusing on the development of late stage projects and marketing products in the areas of central nervous system, gastrointestinal and renal. During the year ended December 31, 2003, ADDERALL XR for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder made a major contribution to the Company's total revenues. In addition to product sales, Shire generates revenues from royalties received on products that have been out-licensed to third parties. Geographically, the Company has operations in North America and Europe.
SFL Ship Finance International Ltd. operates through its vessel-owning subsidiaries located in the Bahamas, the Isle of Man, Liberia, Panama and Singapore. The Company purchased a fleet of 46 crude oil tankers from Frontline Ltd., its parent company, which it has chartered under long-term, fixed-rate charters to Frontline Shipping Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Frontline (the Charterer). The Company also acquired from Frontline an option to purchase one additional very large crude carrier tanker, which it expects to exercise before the end of 2004. Ship Finance also entered into fixed-rate management and administrative services agreements with Frontline Management (Bermuda) Ltd., also a wholly owned subsidiary of Frontline, to provide for the operation and maintenance of its vessels and administrative support services.
SHG Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd. serves as the holding company for Shinhan Bank and related financial services companies. On August 19, 2003, the Company acquired 80.04% of Chohung Bank from Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation and plans to merge its operations with those of Shinhan Bank after a three-year transition period. From this expanded platform, Shinhan serves all major components of Korea's corporate and retail banking and financial services markets. In the corporate sector, the Company serves the large corporate community, established and developing small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as certain small unincorporated businesses. In the retail sector, Shinhan provides mortgages and home equity finance, as well as general unsecured consumer lending to retail customers ranging from high-net-worth customers to the mass retail market.
SHLO Shiloh Industries, Inc. is primarily engaged in the manufacture of first operation blanks, engineered welded blanks, complex stampings and modular assemblies for the automotive, heavy truck and other industrial markets. In addition, Shiloh is a designer and engineer of tools and dies, and welding and assembly equipment for use in its blanking and stamping operations and for sale to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), Tier I automotive suppliers and other industrial customers. Shiloh's blanks, which are engineered two-dimensional shapes cut from flat-rolled steel, are principally sold to automotive and truck OEMs and are used for exterior steel components, such as fenders, hoods and doors. These blanks include first operation exposed and unexposed blanks, and more advanced engineered welded blanks, which are manufactured from two or more blanks of different steels or gauges that are welded together utilizing both mash seam resistance and laser welding.
SHD Sherwood Brands, Inc. is engaged in the manufacture, marketing and distribution of brand name candies, cookies, chocolates and gifts. It manufactures lollipops and biscuits and assembles seasonal gift items, including gift baskets for Christmas, Valentine's Day and Easter. The Company's principal branded products include COWS butter toffee candies, Demitasse biscuits, Ruger wafers, Smile Pops lollipops, Strip-O-Pops lollipops, ELANA chocolates, Sour Fruit Burst hard candies and Pirate's Gold Coins milk chocolates. These offerings are categorized into three product groups: Manufactured Candy and Cookies, Purchased Candy and Cookies and Purchased Gift Items. Sherwood sells its products primarily to mass merchandisers, other retail customers, grocery and drug store chains, club stores, convenience stores, specialty shops and wholesalers. Its mass merchandise customers include Family Dollar, Target, Dollar General, K-Mart and Wal-Mart.
SHW Sherwin-Williams Company is primarily engaged in the manufacture, distribution and sale of coatings and related products predominantly in North and South America. The Company's business is organized into four principal segments: Paint Stores, consisting of company-operated specialty paint stores; Consumer, which develops, manufactures and distributes a variety of paints, coatings and related products such as stains and varnishes; Automotive Finishes, which specializes in the supply of a variety of motor vehicle finish, refinish and touch-up products; and International Coatings, which supplies paints and related products worldwide. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Paint Stores accounted for 64.1% of the Company's sales. Major trademarks and trade names used and sold by the Company include Sherwin-Williams, Dutch Boy, Western, Krylon and Kem-Tone.
STLOF.OB SHEP Technologies Inc. is a development stage company with Stored Hydraulic Energy Propulsion (SHEP) intellectual property. The SHEP System is designed for a range of applications in the global transportation sector. The SHEP System uses electronics, a patented hydraulic pump/motor and an accumulator to capture kinetic energy otherwise lost during vehicle braking. It utilizes the recovered energy for vehicle acceleration during the low-speed acceleration phase. This use of stored and recovered energy results in decreased fuel consumption and harmful emissions, added acceleration and reduced noise and maintenance costs in transportation applications. In May 2004, the Company signed a letter of intent to acquire Marshalsea Hydraulics Ltd. Marshalsea is a designer and manufacturer of specialized fluid power systems, pumps, valves and related equipment.
SHEN Shenandoah Telecommunications Company is a diversified telecommunications holding company providing both regulated and unregulated telecommunications services through its nine wholly owned subsidiaries. It provides local exchange telephone services, wireless personal communications services (PCS), as well as cable television, paging, Internet access, long distance, fiber optics facilities and leased tower facilities. The Company's Quad State markets include Hagerstown, Maryland, Martinsburg, West Virginia, and Harrisonburg and Winchester, Virginia markets. The Company's Central Penn markets include Altoona, Harrisburg and York, Pennsylvania markets. The local exchange carrier (CLEC) services were established on a limited basis during the year ended December 31, 2002. In addition, it sells and leases equipment, mainly related to services it provides and also participates in emerging services and technologies by direct investment in non-affiliated companies.
SHLL.OB Shells Seafood Restaurants, Inc. is a full-service, neighborhood concept, designed to appeal to a range of customers. Shells restaurants feature a selection of seafood items, including shrimp, oysters, clams, scallops, lobster, crab and daily fresh fish specials, cooked to order in a variety of ways, such as steamed, sauteed, grilled, blackened and fried. In addition, the Company's restaurants offer a selection of signature pasta dishes, appetizers, salads and desserts and full bar service. All Shells restaurants are located in Florida and are open for dinner and 19 restaurant locations are also open for lunch. The Company's managed and operated restaurants are located in Tampa/Sarasota, Orlando, South Florida, West Palm Beach and Fort Myers.
SGR The Shaw Group Inc. is a global provider of comprehensive services to the environmental and infrastructure, power, process industries. The Company provides services to the environmental, infrastructure and homeland security markets, including consulting, engineering, construction, remediation and facilities management services to governmental and commercial customers. It is also a vertically integrated provider of engineering, procurement, pipe fabrication, construction and maintenance services to the power and process industries. The Company segregates its business activities into three operating segments: Environmental and Infrastructure segment, Engineering, Construction and Maintenance segment and Fabrication, Manufacturing and Distribution segment. In January 2005, the Company sold substantially all of the assets of its Shaw Power Technologies, Inc. and Shaw Power Technologies International, Ltd. units to Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution Inc., a unit of Siemens AG.
SJR Shaw Communications Inc. is a diversified Canadian communications company whose core operating business is providing cable television services, high-speed Internet access and Internet infrastructure services, as well as direct-to-home (DTH) services to over three million customers. The Company also provides customers with high-quality entertainment, information and communications services, utilizing a variety of distribution technologies. Shaw is organized into three major divisions: Cable, DTH and Satellite Services.
SCOM.OB Sharps Compliance Corp. (Sharps) is a developer of solutions for disposal of medical waste by industry and consumers. The solutions include Sharps Disposal by Mail System, Pitch-It IV Poles, Trip LesSystem, Sharps Pump Return Box, Sharps Enteral Pump Return Box, Sharps Secure, Sharps SureTemp Tote, IsoWash Linen Recovery System, Sharps e-Tools, Sharps Environmental Services and Sharps Consulting. Some products and services facilitate compliance with educational and training requirements required by federal, state and local regulatory agencies. The Company's wholly owned subsidiaries include, Sharps Compliance, Inc., Texas (dba Sharps Compliance, Inc.), Sharps e-Tools.com, Inc. (Sharps e-Tools), Sharps Manufacturing, Inc., Sharps Environmental Services, Inc. (dba Sharps Environmental Services, Texas Inc.) and Sharps Safety, Inc.
SHRP Sharper Image Corporation (The Sharper Image) is a specialty retailer of products in the electronics, recreation and fitness, personal care, houseware, travel, toy, gifts and other categories. The Sharper Image designs and develops its Sharper Image Design products, while Sharper Image branded products are generally designed by the Company with third parties. It markets and sells its merchandise primarily through three integrated sales channels: The Sharper Image stores; The Sharper Image catalog, which includes revenue from all direct marketing activities and television infomercials, and the Internet.
SHAR.OB Sharp Holding Corporation (Sharp) together with its wholly owned subsidiary, Sharp Technology, Inc., develops and markets Internet-related software products and provides marketing and e-finance solutions to strategic partners. The Company's specific product offerings include the Desktop Mall e-commerce software program and Your Net desktop software filter. Desktop Mall is an e-commerce software program that is anchored to the computer desktop. Once installed, Desktop Mall can securely alert shoppers to sales, promotions and offerings without the use of cookies or spam e-mail. Desktop Mall aggregates and facilitates online purchasing from a variety of vendors. Its Your Net is a desktop software filter that can provide a safe and focused Internet environment for users of all ages. This product allows a parent or administrator to establish and enforce customized Internet access privileges on a user-by-user basis.
SNDA Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited (Shanda) is an operator of online games in China. It offers a portfolio of online games that users play over the Internet. The games, licensed from third parties, as well as developed in-house by the Company, include The Legend of Mir II and The World of Legend. Shanda's commercially launched games have approximately 1.4 million peak concurrent users and 931,570 average concurrent users. The Company operates massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), including massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) and casual online games. MMORPGs allow thousands of users to interact in a virtual world by assuming ongoing roles or characters with different features. The games are continuous, and players accumulate features and communicate with one another through instant messaging. Casual games, which include BNB, are less complex and time consuming than MMORPGs, but attract a broader range of users, including more home users.
SGG SGL CARBON Group is a global producer of carbon and graphite products. SGL organizes its operations into four business areas: Carbon and Graphite, Graphite Specialties, Corrosion Protection and SGL Technologies (SGLT). Carbon and Graphite manufactures and markets graphite electrodes and certain carbon and graphite products. Graphite Specialties manufactures and markets graphite products with a variety of applications. Corrosion Protection produces heat exchangers, columns, pumps and synthesis units for the treatment of aggressive or corrosive media, as well as engineered plastics. It also manufactures and applies rubber linings and other anti-corrosive materials such as acid-proof bricks, coatings and flakes. Corrosion Protection also offers complete engineered systems to customers in the chemical and environmental protection industries. SGLT manufactures carbon fibers, aerospace and industrial composites, expanded graphite, carbon ceramic brake discs and fuel cell components.
SFCC SFBC International, Inc. is a contract research organization that provides a range of specialized drug development services to branded pharmaceutical, biotechnology and generic drug companies. The Company provides early clinical development services, specializing primarily in the areas of Phase I and Phase II clinical trials and bioanalytical laboratory services. It also provides a range of complementary services including early clinical pharmacology research, biostatistics and data management, and regulatory and drug submission, as well as Phase III and Phase IV clinical trial management services in select therapeutic areas. SFBC has developed and maintains databases of available individuals who have indicated an interest in participating in its future trials.
SVBI Severn Bancorp, Inc. (Bancorp) is a savings and loan holding company that conducts business through three subsidiaries: Severn Savings Bank, FSB (the Bank); Louis Hyatt, Inc., and SBI Mortgage Company. The Bank operates as a federally charted savings bank whose principal business is attracting deposits from the general public and investing those funds in mortgage loans. The Bank also uses advances, or loans from the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) of Atlanta, to fund its mortgage activities. The Bank's revenues are derived principally from interest earned on mortgage loans, fees charged in connection with the loans and banking services and gains realized from the sale of mortgage loans. The Bank's primary sources of funds are deposits, advances from the FHLB of Atlanta, principal amortization and prepayment of its loans. The Bank also offers title insurance and real estate settlement services through its wholly owned subsidiary, Homeowner's Title and Escrow Corporation.
SVNX 724 Solutions Inc. delivers reliable technology and solutions that allow mobile network operators to deploy next-generation Internet protocol based network and data services. Its X-treme Mobility Suite (XMS) of products is designed to facilitate the addition of new applications, devices, content and services, which provide tools and application services to simplify development and assist mobile network operators in bringing mobile applications to market. The infrastructure products within XMS enable mobile network operators to implement solutions based upon open standards technologies, such as wireless application protocol, maximum message size, short message service, Java 2 micro edition and others. All of the products within the XMS suite are designed to operate independently. The Company's mobile network operator solutions include X-treme mobility gateways, X-treme MMS accelerator, X-treme service activity manager, X-treme alerts platform and X-treme mobile data applications.
SE 7-Eleven, Inc. is a worldwide convenience store chain that operates, franchises or licenses approximately 26,000 stores worldwide. The majority of its stores in the United States and Canada provide more than six million daily customers with 24-hour convenience, seven days a week. 7-Eleven stores generally range in size from 2,400 to 3,000 square feet and carry approximately 2,300 to 2,800 items. The Company's principal product categories are tobacco, beverages, beer/wine, candy/snacks, non-foods, fresh foods, dairy and other products. Its merchandise assortment also includes a number of items specifically identified with 7-Eleven, including Slurpee semi-frozen carbonated beverages, Cafe Select coffee, Big Gulp fountain beverages and Big Bite hot dogs. The Company also sells gasoline at more than 2,400 of its stores.
SETO.OB Seto Holdings, Inc. principally distributes and fabricates industrial ceramic products on a value-added basis. The Company is managed in three principal operating segments: custom cut and fabricated ceramic parts for the aircraft, aerospace, defense, detection/protection industries; the manufacture of disposable precision diamond cutting tools for the semiconductor and electronics industries, and contract manufacture of personal safety devices. Seto also distributes small-precision tools, such as tweezers, pliers, vacuum pickups and scribes, core drills and sintered blades for ceramic applications, as well as cleaning chemicals, inspection gloves and other items used to preserve a contamination-free environment, which the Company markets primarily to semiconductor manufacturers. During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004 (fiscal 2003), the Company exited the businesses of manufacturing consumer electronic products and rechargeable and other batteries.
SVT Servotronics, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets advanced technology products consisting primarily of control components and consumer products consisting of knives and various types of cutlery together with its subsidiaries. Advanced Technology Products involves a variety of servo-control components, which convert an electrical current into a mechanical force or movement and other related products. Some such products are torque motors, electromagnetic actuators, proportional solenoids, hydraulic valves, pneumatic valves and similar devices, all of which perform the same general function. Consumer Products involve a variety of cutlery products such as a range of kitchen knives such as steak, carving, bread, butcher and paring knives for household use and for use in restaurants, institutions and private industry, and pocket and other types of knives for hunting, fishing and camping.
SVCW.OB ServiceWare Technologies, Inc. is a provider of knowledge-powered support solutions that enable organizations to deliver superior service for customers, employees and partners by transforming information into knowledge. The Company's solutions allow customers to capture enterprise knowledge, solve customer problems, reuse solutions and share captured knowledge throughout the extended enterprise. The ServiceWare Enterprise suite comprises the following software products: ServiceWare Self-Service, ServiceWare Agent, ServiceWare Professional and ServiceWare Architect. In addition to ServiceWare Enterprise, ServiceWare has created a solution for mid-market companies called ServiceWare Express. The Company also provides a variety of services, particularly professional services and customer support. In 2003, Cingular Wireless accounted for 12% of its revenues.
SCI Service Corporation International is a provider of funeral and cemetery services. As of December 31, 2003, it operated 2,225 funeral service locations, 417 cemeteries and 183 crematoria located in eight countries. The Company also has a minority interest equity investment in funeral and cemetery operations in the United Kingdom and Australia. Its French operations consist of 963 funeral service locations and 39 crematoria. The funeral service and cemetery operations consist of funeral service locations, cemeteries, crematoria and related businesses. Personnel at the funeral service locations provide all professional services relating to funerals, including the use of funeral facilities, motor vehicles, and preparation and embalming services. Funeral related merchandise is sold at funeral service locations. Certain funeral service locations contain crematoria. The Company also sells prearranged funeral services.
SERC.OB Service Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for Strata Bank (the Bank), and its principal business is overseeing and directing the business of the Bank and investing the net stock offering proceeds retained by it. The Bank is a community-oriented savings bank engaged primarily in the business of offering Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-insured deposits to customers through its branch offices and using those deposits, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, to make one- to four-family residential mortgage loans, commercial real estate loans, commercial business loans, construction loans and consumer loans, and to invest in mortgage-backed and other securities.
SRA Serono S.A. is a biotechnology company that focuses on the highly specialized markets of neurology, reproductive health and growth and metabolism. The Company's neurology products are Rebif for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) and Novantrone, a MS and chemotherapy drug. In the reproductive health area, Serono markets three recombinant products: Gonal-F, Luveris and Ovidrel. It also markets Crinone, Cetrotide and a urine-derived reproductive health product line, which includes Metrodin HP, Pergonal and Profasi. Its products for growth and metabolism are Saizen, a recombinant human growth hormone; Serostim, a high-dose recombinant human growth hormone formulation approved for the treatment of AIDS wasting, and Zorbtive, a high-dose recombinant human growth hormone indicated for short bowel syndrome. Serono is also embarking on a fourth therapeutic area, dermatology, with the expected launch of Raptiva as a treatment for psoriasis.
SERO Serologicals Corporation is a global provider of products and enabling technologies that are essential for the research, development and manufacture of biologically based life science products. The Company's products and technologies are used in a wide variety of applications within the areas of oncology, hematology, immunology, cardiology and infectious diseases, as well as in the study of molecular biology. The Company's customers include many life science companies, academic research organizations and research institutions worldwide who use products to advance their initiatives from research and development to manufacturing, and, ultimately, to improve the health of people worldwide. In April 2003, the Company acquired Chemicon International, Inc. During the fiscal year ended December 28, 2003 (fiscal 2003), the Company exited the therapeutic plasma business. In September 2004, the Company entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Upstate Group, Inc.
SRNA SERENA Software, Inc. is a provider of infrastructure software to manage change to enterprise applications. The Company has developed a full suite of mainframe products, including its flagship product ChangeMan ZMF, which was introduced in 1988. In June 1999, it introduced ChangeMan DS, a distributed systems product providing an end-to-end solution to software change management (SCM) across the enterprise from the mainframe to the desktop to the Web. In June 2003, the Company introduced TeamTrack, a distributed systems product. In September 2003, it announced the next-generation advanced framework for Application Life Cycle Management (ALM), the SAFE Framework (Serena Application Framework for Enterprises) that is designed to revolutionize enterprise operations by facilitating cross-process integration. In November 2003, the Company introduced TeamTrack version 6, its first product to deliver on the Next-Generation SAFE Framework.
SFXC.OB Serefex Corporation formerly known as Spectrafax, was primarily engaged in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of high-quality facsimile processing systems to large corporations and government agencies until December 2001. Customers, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Duracell, Bristol-Meyers, the United States Treasury Department and the Executive Office of the United States President used the Company's patented Fax Liaison system to deliver internal information to fax machine users worldwide. The Company's fax services consisted primarily of its Fax Information Dissemination Services, including Fax Broadcast and Fax-on-Demand Services. Following the acquisition of 2AlertMe.com, Inc. in May 2000, it distributed real-time alert system. After the sale of substantially all of its assets to DataCom, LLC., the Company reported no operations or revenue throughout the year 2002.
SRLS SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc. is a manufacturer and provider of biological products and services for diagnostic, therapeutic, drug discovery and research organizations. It is a vendor-approved supplier to over 500 pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. Through strategic alliances with Biomat USA, Inc., the Company has access to a nationwide network of donor centers. Through its alliance with Proliant, Inc., the Company has access to bovine serum albumin, which has provided the basis for development of its bovine serum-based products. It also provides antibody-based products, which are used as active ingredients in therapeutic products (generally, drugs used to treat and manage diseases) and in diagnostic products (generally, diagnostic tests and test kits). In September 2004, the Company acquired BBI Diagnostics and BBI Biotechnology Research Laboratories divisions of Boston Biomedica, Inc. It also acquired substantially all of the assets of Genomics Collaborative, Inc.
SQUM.OB Sequiam Corporation is primarily focused on developing a portfolio of Internet and print enterprise-wide software products. In addition, the Company developed custom software, databases and websites for businesses. It operated as an Internet service provider (ISP) and provided Internet access and Website hosting for its customers who require those services. The business was operated under one operating segment through its subsidiaries, Sequiam Software, Inc. and Sequiam Communications, Inc. Sequiam Software tools consist primarily of document management and Internet Remote Print (IRP) software.
SQNM SEQUENOM, Inc. is a genetics company organized into two distinct business units: SEQUENOM Genetic Systems and SEQUENOM Pharmaceuticals. The Company has created a deoxyribonucleic (DNA) analysis technology and a platform that measures genetic variation. Both business units capitalize on this platform together with Sequenom's detailed knowledge of specific genetic variations in humans. SEQUENOM Genetic Systems is dedicated to the sales and support of the Company's platform, called the MassARRAY system and to the continued expansion of DNA analysis applications for use with the Company's MassARRAY system. SEQUENOM Pharmaceuticals uses MassARRAY technology and its collections of DNA samples from diseased and healthy individuals to conduct large-scale human genetics studies to systematically identify disease-related genes that affect the health of significant portions of the population.
SQAa Sequa Corporation is a diversified industrial company that manufactures a range of products through operating units in five business segments: Aerospace, Automotive, Metal Coating, Specialty Chemicals and Other Products. The Aerospace segment consists solely of Sequa's largest operating unit, Chromalloy Gas Turbine Corporation. The Automotive segment consists of two businesses: Atlantic Research Corporation's Automotive Products operation (ARC Automotive) and Casco Products. The Metal Coating segment consists solely of Precoat Metals, which applies protective and decorative coatings to continuous steel and aluminum coil. The Specialty Chemicals segment is composed solely of Warwick International Group Limited, which is a producer and supplier of TAED. The Other Products' segment consists of three businesses: MEGTEC Systems, Inc., Sequa Can Machinery, Inc. and After Six, Inc. In November 2004, the Company divested its Sequa Can Machinery operation to Stolle Machinery Company, LLC.
SEPR Sepracor Inc. is a research-based pharmaceutical company dedicated to treating and preventing human disease through the discovery, development and commercialization of pharmaceutical products that are directed toward serving unmet medical needs. The Company's drug development program has yielded an extensive portfolio of pharmaceutical compounds including candidates for the treatment of respiratory and central nervous system disorders. Sepracor selects for development compounds with the potential to offer improvements over existing therapies with respect to efficacy, side-effect profile, dosage forms, or, in some cases, the opportunity for additional indications. Its pharmaceutical products will be commercialized directly through its primary care sales force, through co-promotion agreements or through out-licensing partnerships.
SKVY.OB Sentry Technology Corporation is the parent corporation of two wholly owned subsidiaries: Knogo North America Inc. (Knogo) and Video Sentry Corporation (Video). Knogo is engaged in the design, manufacture, sale, installation and servicing of a complete line of electronic article surveillance equipment. Video designs, manufactures, markets, installs and services a programmable traveling closed circuit television surveillance system that delivers a high quality video picture, which is used in applications. Video also acts as a system integrator for CCTV products that it markets, installs and services. SentryVision's line of systems includes Conventional CCTV systems, EAS systems, Radio Frequency and Ranger Detection systems, as well as Magnetic Detection systems.
SNTO Sento Corporation designs, implements and manages high-tech solutions for customer acquisition, customer care, technical support and help-desk functions. The Company delivers Web solutions through its own Customer Choice Platform technology suite. This software suite is designed to enable the Company's clients, partners and other service providers serving the same client to work from a unified software platform regardless of whether they are in the United States or in an offshore location. This technology suite, developed and hosted by the Company, provides a single repository for data entered from disparate locations and systems. The technology suite facilitates seamless tracking of customer interactions throughout all touch points. Its customer relationship management software gathers information from every phone call, chat, e-mail and self-help transaction connected to the Company's technology suite, regardless of the service provider.
SGHL Sentigen Holding Corp. is a holding company that conducts its business through two wholly owned operating subsidiaries, Cell and Molecular Technologies, Inc. (CMT) and Sentigen Biosciences, Inc. (Sentigen Biosciences). CMT provides contract research and development services and manufactures specialty cell culture media, reagents and other research products for companies engaged in the drug discovery process. Sentigen Biosciences is primarily engaged in the development and commercialization of novel bioassay systems that interpret the underlying biology of protein-protein interactions.
SENS.OB Sentex Sensing Technology, Inc. is the owner of Regency Technologies LLC, which specializes in the buying, selling and trading of information technology (IT) equipment, such as computer equipment. The primary focus of the Company's business revolves around acquiring unneeded, older computer equipment and reselling that equipment to certain consumers on a global basis.
STST ARGON ST, Inc. is a broadly diversified provider of high-performance sensor systems, designed to meet the needs of defense, homeland security, intelligence and environmental users. The Company develops and manufactures communications intelligence software systems and a broad line of acoustic, communications, radar, electronic warfare, infra-red and optical sensor products. The Company's systems and products collect and process signals and other information used in its customers' intelligence gathering, reconnaissance and surveillance activities. The Company's primary customer is the United States Department of Defense. The Company also provides systems and products to other United States federal government agencies and major domestic prime contractors, as well as to foreign governments, agencies and defense contractors. Many of its products are used in national defense programs for the United States federal government intelligence community and approved international customers.
SXT Sensient Technologies Corporation is a manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors and fragrances. It employs technologies at facilities around the world to develop specialty chemicals for inkjet inks, display imaging systems and other applications. The Company's customers include international manufacturers representing some of the brands throughout the world. The Company's principal products include flavors, flavor enhancers and bionutrients; fragrances and aroma chemicals; dehydrated vegetables and other food ingredients; natural and synthetic food colors; cosmetic and pharmaceutical additives; inkjet inks, technical colors and specialty dyes and pigments, and chemicals for laser printing and flat screen displays.
SNSG.OB Sense Technologies Inc. develops and markets sensing devices for the automotive industry. The Company's core product is the Guardian Alert Doppler Awareness System, which uses radar technology to warn vehicle drivers of the presence of people or obstacles in blind spots that exist behind their vehicles when backing up. It began manufacturing the Guardian Alert Doppler Awareness System for the passenger car market during the fiscal year ended February 29, 2004, (fiscal 2004). Sense's backing awareness products include loud beeping alerts that sound when a vehicle is placed in reverse gear. A beeping alert is limited in effectiveness, as it does not notify the driver of obstacles behind the vehicle. Other awareness products include large round convex mirrors placed at the rear of a vehicle, which provide the driver with a line of vision across the rear area of their vehicle.
SEHO.OB Sense Holdings, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and sells fingerprint-based identification products and systems that incorporate biometric technology to verify a person's identity. The Company has also owned, licensed or has optioned for purchase additional security-related technologies: Micro Electro Mechanical Sensors technology is used in the field of explosive detection and Biometric technology relating to keyless motor vehicle operation; Sense Holdings, which has also developed and is marketing CheckPrint SDK, a software development kit for biometrics that enables purchasers and licensees to create custom applications for software and hardware; CheckPrint DTU, which provides users with the ability to secure a computer terminal and files and folders, via fingerprint identification, and CheckPrint SDTU, which provides users the ability to secure a computer terminal with fingerprint biometric and a smart card.
SNMX Senomyx, Inc., incorporated in 1998, is a biotechnology company using taste receptor-based assays and screening technologies to discover and develop flavors and flavor enhancers for the packaged food and beverage industry. The flavor ingredients will enable packaged food and beverage companies to improve the nutritional profile of their products and generate cost of goods savings, while maintaining or enhancing taste. Senomyx is pursuing savory, sweet and salt flavor and flavor enhancer programs. The savory program has identified two product candidates that enhance the taste of naturally occurring glutamate and enable the reduction or elimination of added monosodium glutamate (MSG). The focus of its sweet program is to enhance the taste of natural and artificial sweeteners and enable a significant reduction in added sweeteners. The salt program has identified and developed compounds that enhance the taste of salt and enable a significant reduction in added salt.
SNH Senior Housing Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that was organized to continue the senior housing real estate business of HRPT Properties Trust, the Company's former parent. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned 150 properties located in 31 states, and its portfolio of properties included 35 independent living communities, 48 assisted living facilities, 65 skilled nursing facilities and two hospitals. Its day-to-day operations are conducted by Reit Management &amp; Research LLC (RMR), its investment manager. RMR originates and presents investment opportunities to the Company's board of trustees. In November 2004, the Company purchased 31 senior living properties from Five Star Quality Care, Inc.
SNT Senesco Technologies, Inc. is a development-stage functional genomics company whose mission is to enhance the quality and productivity of fruits, flowers, vegetables and agronomic crops through the control of aging in plants (senescence). The Company's technology goals for agricultural applications are to extend the shelf life of perishable plant products; produce larger and leafier crops; increase yield in horticultural and agronomic crops, and reduce the harmful effects of environmental stress. In March 2004, the Company entered into an exclusive development and license agreement with The Scotts Company to commercialize its technology in turfgrass and certain species of bedding plants.
SENEB Seneca Foods Corporation is engaged in packed, canned and frozen vegetables carrying General Mills Operations, Inc.'s (GMOI), Green Giant brand name under the Alliance Agreement, with the Pillsbury Company, which was acquired by GMOI. Its only non-vegetable food products are a line of fruit products as a result of its fruit juice business and applesauce and industrial flavors business divestitures. The Company's business activities are conducted in food and non-food operations. The principal products of food processing segment include canned vegetables, frozen vegetables and fruit products. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Seneca's food operation constitutes 99% of total sales, of which approximately 98% is vegetable processing and 2% is fruit processing. The non-food operation is mostly from trade sales of cans and ends, which represents 1% of total sales.
SMTC Semtech Corporation designs, produces and markets a range of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors that are sold principally to customers in the computer, communications and industrial markets. Its products are designed into a variety of end applications, including notebook and desktop computers, computer gaming systems, personal digital assistants (PDAs), cellular phones, wireline networks, wireless base stations and automated test equipment (ATE). Products within the communications market include products for local area networks, metro and wide area networks, cellular phones and base stations. Industrial applications include ATE, medical devices and factory automation systems. The Company's end customers are primarily original equipment manufacturers and their suppliers, including Agilent, Cisco, Compal Electronics, Dell, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, Lucky Goldstar, Microsoft, Motorola, Quanta Computer, Samsung, Sony and Unisys.
SRE Sempra Energy is an energy services holding company engaged in the provision of value-added electric and natural gas products and services to a diverse range of customers through two of its subsidiaries: Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) and San Diego Gas &amp; Electric (SDG&amp;E) (collectively, the California Utilities). SoCalGas is a natural gas distribution utility, serving customers throughout most of Southern California and part of central California. SDG&amp;E provides electric service to San Diego and southern Orange counties and natural gas service to San Diego County. Sempra Energy Global Enterprises is a holding company for most of the Company's subsidiaries that are not subject to California utility regulation. These subsidiaries are engaged in providing energy-related products and services. Sempra Energy Financial, another subsidiary, is in the business of investing, as a limited partner, in affordable-housing properties.
DLK Semotus Solutions, Inc. is a provider of software for wireless enterprise applications. The Company's software connects employees to business systems, information and processes. Its two lines of business consist of wireless financial services with the Global Market Pro, Equity Market Pro and Futures Market Pro software and services, and enterprise wireless messaging and communications with the HipLinkXS family of software and services. Its services and applications are device agnostic and protocol independent, integrating into every enterprise infrastructure and working with every wireless carrier and all text messaging devices. The Company provides two different types of wireless solutions: application service provider (ASP)-based, where it hosts and manages the information on its servers, and premise-based, where it installs and engineers the software and information on its customers' servers.
SMTL Semitool, Inc. designs, manufactures, installs and services highly engineered equipment for use in the fabrication of semiconductor devices. The Company's products are focused on the wet-chemical process steps in integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing, and include systems for wafer surface preparation and electrochemical deposition (ECD) applications. The surface preparation systems are designed for wet cleaning, stripping and etching processes, including photo resist, polymer removal and metal etching. The ECD systems are used for copper and gold plating for the IC's internal wiring, or interconnects; solder and gold bumps for wafer level packaging applications, and other metals for various semiconductor and related applications. Its products address critical applications within the semiconductor manufacturing process, and help enable its customers to manufacture more advanced semiconductor devices that feature higher levels of performance.
SEN SEMCO Energy, Inc. is a diversified energy and infrastructure services company headquartered in southeastern Michigan. The Company and its subsidiaries have operated in four business segments: gas distribution, which distributes and transports gas to residential, commercial and industrial customers; information technology (IT) services, which provides IT infrastructure outsourcing services and other IT services; propane, pipelines and storage, which consists of three pipelines and a gas storage facility, all of which are located in Michigan, and construction services, which was engaged in the installation and replacement of underground natural gas main and service lines. In September 2004, the Company sold its construction services business to InfraSource Services, Inc.
SIGI Selective Insurance Group, Inc. offers property and casualty insurance products services. It offers commercial and personal insurance products through Selective Insurance Company of America (SICA), Selective Way Insurance Company, Selective Insurance Company of the Southeast, Selective Insurance Company of South Carolina and Selective Insurance Company of New York. Diversified Insurance Services' products are sold by Alta Services, LLC, (Alta), a managed care company; Consumer Health Network Plus, LLC (CHN), a preferred provider organization (PPO); Northeast Health Direct, LLC, another PPO; SelecTech, LLC, a third-party administrator; Selective HR Solutions, Inc., a human resources administration outsourcing organization, and a division of SICA that provides flood insurance and claim administration service. In January 2004, CHN and Alta merged to become CHN Solutions, which offers a mix of PPO, managed care and behavioral health services.
SLTC Selectica, Inc. is a provider of software that enables enterprises to develop and deploy an Internet sales channel that interactively assists their customers, partners and employees through the selection, configuration, pricing, quoting and fulfillment processes. Its software allows companies to use the Internet platform to deploy a selling application to points of contact, including personal computers, in-store kiosks and mobile devices, such as personal digital assistants and cellular phones, while offering customers, partners and employees an interface customized to meet their specific needs. Selectica's products are also used by enterprises to bridge the opportunity-to-order gap between customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning solutions. Its software enables sales professionals to suggest solutions based on identified prospects' needs, to configure proposed solutions based on customer requests and provide quotes for complex products and services.
SEM Select Medical Corporation provides long-term acute care hospital services and inpatient acute rehabilitative hospital care through its Select Specialty Hospital division and provides physical, occupational and speech rehabilitation services through its outpatient divisions. The Company's specialty hospital segment consists of hospitals designed to serve the needs of acute patients and patients that require intensive medical rehabilitation care. The Company's outpatient rehabilitation business consists of clinics and contract services that provide physical, occupational and speech rehabilitation services. As of the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company operated 79 long-term acute care hospitals in 24 states, four acute medical rehabilitation hospitals in New Jersey and 790 outpatient rehabilitation clinics in 29 states, the District of Columbia and seven Canadian provinces.
SCSS Select Comfort Corp. is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of adjustable-firmness beds that have the air-chamber technology, which provides better support, reduced pressure points and greater relief of back pain. The Company sells its products through four distribution channels: retail, direct marketing, e-commerce and wholesale. The products are made to order and are sold directly to consumers through Company-controlled distribution channels. The consumer-driven and service-oriented business model enables the Company to understand and respond quickly to consumer trends and preferences. Select Comfort sells a proprietary line of beds under the Sleep Number brand that features an adjustable air chamber mattress. A Sleep Number is a number from 0 to 100 representing an individual's ideal level of comfort, firmness and support.
SLS Selas Corporation of America has been engaged in the design, development, engineering and manufacturing of micro- miniature components, systems and molded plastic parts primarily for the hearing instrument, electronics, telecommunications, computer and medical equipment industries. The Company has had two segments: the precision miniature medical and electronics products segment and the heat technology segment. As of December 31, 2003, Selas initiated its plan to sell the remainder of its Heat Technology segment. The Company plans to sell the segment during 2004 and has classified the segment as a discontinued operation. Selas had also previously operated the tire holders, lifts and related products segment, which it classified as a discontinued operation beginning December 2002 and successfully exited in 2003. In June 2004, the Company sold its Dresher, Pennsylvania, facility. It will lease back the facility while seeking a strategic buyer for its remaining Heat Technology business.
SELA.OB Seitel, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries, provide seismic data and related geophysical services to the oil and gas industry. Its products and services are used by oil and gas companies to assist in the exploration, development and management of oil and gas reserves. The Company has ownership in a library of onshore and offshore seismic data accumulated since 1982 and which it offers for license to a range of oil and gas companies. Customers utilize this data, in part, to assist in their identification of new geographical areas where subsurface conditions are favorable for oil and gas exploration, to determine the size, depth and geophysical structure of previously identified oil and gas fields and to optimize the development and production of oil and gas reserves. It maintains warehouse and electronic storage facilities at its Houston, Texas headquarters and its Calgary, Alberta location.
SEIC SEI Investments Company is a global provider of outsourcing business solutions for investment processing, mutual fund processing and investment management for the financial services industry. The Company conducts its business through five segments. Private Banking and Trust provides investment processing, fund processing and investment management solutions to banks and other trust institutions. Investment Advisors provides investment management and investment processing solutions. The Enterprises segment provides retirement and treasury solutions, as well as an endowment solution for the not-for-profit market. Money Managers provides mutual and pooled fund processing and investment processing solutions. The Investments in New Businesses segment provides investment management and fund processing solutions to investment advisors, corporations, and money managers located outside the United States.
SEGU Segue Software, Inc. delivers software and services that optimize the quality and reliability of enterprise applications. The Company's suite of products, known as the Silk product line, provides comprehensive scalability, performance monitoring and verification solutions. The Silk product line includes SilkTest, SilkTest International, SilkPerformer, SilkPerformer Lite, SilkPerformer Component Test Edition, SilkVision, SilkPlan Pro and SilkRadar Web. In addition, Segue continues to support its client/server-automated testing tools. The Company complements its product offerings with training, consulting, customer service and technical support services.
SZI Segmentz, Inc. is a provider of transportation and logistics services, specializing in time definite delivery in support of specific supply chain requirements. Services include expedited transportation, deferred airfreight transportation, local cartage, aircraft charters, dedicated delivery, consolidation, warehouse management and fulfillment. The Company has expanded its network, with operating service stations in over 20 cities, five located at international gateways, in the Midwest and Southeast United States providing scheduled airport-to-airport line haul movements. Segmentz offers around-the-clock call center allowing customers immediate communication and status of time sensitive shipments in transit. The Company also provides its customers remote order entry capability, shipment tracking, proof of delivery reconciliation, billing status and performance reports via a custom designed Website.
SBYN SeeBeyond Technology Corporation (SeeBeyond) is a provider of business integration software that enables the seamless flow of information within the enterprise and among customers, suppliers and partners in real-time on a global basis. The Company's business integration solution is architected from a single, internally developed software code base, encompassing application-to-application (A2A) integration, business-to-business integration (B2B), business process management (BPM) along with integrated human work flow, portal, extract, transform and load (ETL) and business activity monitoring capabilities. Its SeeBeyond ICAN Suite 5.0 provides organizations with a flexible and easily configurable software platform to connect applications and systems within an organization and among geographically dispersed enterprises, allowing for continuous and reliable information exchange to meet fast-paced business demands.
SDNA.OB SEDONA Corporation is a software application and services provider that develops and markets Web-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions to small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs). The Company's CRM application solution is called Intarsia. Intarsia, is a vertical CRM application solution specifically designed and priced to meet the needs of SMBs with multiple lines-of-business across several vertical industries. Intarsia provides small to mid-sized financial services organizations with a view of their customers' relationships and interactions and helps them to gain knowledge about their customers' preferences, needs and characteristics and build the appropriate strategies to more effectively target the right products to the right people at the right time.
SNFCA Security National Financial Corporation operates in three main business segments: life insurance, cemetery and mortuary and mortgage loans. The life insurance segment is engaged in the business of selling and servicing selected lines of life insurance, annuity products and accident and health insurance. The cemetery and mortuary segment of the Company consists of five cemeteries in the state of Utah and one in the state of California and eight mortuaries in the state of Utah and five in the state of Arizona. The mortgage loan segment operates through 17 offices in seven states.
SONE S1 Corporation is a global provider of enterprise software solutions for more than 4,000 financial organizations including banks, credit unions, investment firms and insurance companies. The Company operates in two business segments: financial institutions, which is S1's core business segment, and the Edify business. S1 financial institution solutions automate transactions and integrate the channels by which financial institutions interact with their customers. In the Edify business segment, the Company delivers voice and speech solutions for the enterprise. Edify's solutions help companies automate their customer service facilities, improve customer satisfaction and create new revenue generating opportunities, while reducing operational costs. S1 generates revenues from its principal product groups: Banking Solutions, Insurance Solutions, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Solutions, Website Solutions, Financial Reporting Solutions (FRS) and Account Aggregation.
SCC Security Capital Corporation operates as a holding company that participates in the management of its subsidiaries: WC Holdings, Primrose Holdings, Inc. and Pumpkin Masters Holdings, Inc. WC is an 80%-owned subsidiary that provides cost-containment services relative to direct and indirect costs of corporations and their employees primarily relating to industrial health and safety, industrial medical care and workers' compensation insurance. WC's activities are primarily centered in California, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and, to a lesser extent, in other Middle Atlantic states, Indiana and Washington. Primrose is a 98.5%-owned subsidiary involved in the franchising of educational childcare centers. Primrose schools are located throughout the United States, except in the Northeast and Northwest. Pumpkin is a wholly owned subsidiary engaged in the business of designing and distributing Halloween-oriented pumpkin carving kits and related accessories.
SBKC Security Bank Corporation, formerly known as SNB Bancshares, Inc., is a multi-bank holding company that provides a variety of community banking services through 23 banking and mortgage production offices, with the majority of its business being drawn from Bibb, Houston and Jones Counties in the State of Georgia. Substantially all of the Company's business is conducted through its three subsidiary banks: Security Bank of Bibb County, Security Bank of Houston County and Security Bank of Jones County. Security Bank also operates Fairfield Financial Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Security Bank of Bibb County. Fairfield Financial is a traditional residential mortgage originator and interim real estate development lender with a number of production locations throughout Georgia
SSVC.OB Secured Services, Inc. provides security software solutions that manage identities and their access to enterprise information assets. Its products help companies ensure that only those people or business processes that are entitled to access corporate resources and applications can access them. The Company enables its customers to manage their user population that need to access those resources and applications. In addition, its products provide an automated way to grant, modify or revoke account access to applications and resources. Its revenue is derived primarily from its core product, Identiprise, which provides identity and access management to a range of technology environments. The Company also offers various levels of consulting and support services that enable its customers to identify and manage security issues and practices. Its software products are generally sold on a perpetual license basis.
SDGL.OB Secured Digital Applications, Inc. is a system solution provider involved in application development, broadband network operation, delivery of value-added applications and services; sale of devices that utilize broadband networks, and the sale of biometric security devices. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company expanded its business to include the development, integration and provisioning of secured shipping and supply chain management services. Its principal operations include the development and operation of a wireless broadband network in Malaysia; the development of interactive, multimedia content for the Internet, and the development, licensing and/or sale of specific products and applications that utilize the capacities of a broadband network. These include the EyStar SmartHome Console, broadband modems, biometric systems and Internet-based cameras.
SCUR Secure Computing Corporation develops network security solutions that create connections between organizations and their customers, partners and employees. The Company's products are designed to allow these users to exchange critical information safely, helping them confidently build their businesses. The Company's products provide solutions separately, and they also work well together for a more comprehensive, unified and centrally managed solution to meet the goals and needs of its customers. Its solutions consist of products that integrate well with each other and that are easy to use, administer and manage across different systems as they grow. Its architecture allows security functions to be easily embedded into other platforms. The Company's solutions run on a variety of platforms and integrate well with other enterprise solutions, making its products a safe and economical choice for organizations worldwide.
SGEN Seattle Genetics, Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on the development of monoclonal antibody-based therapeutic products for the treatment of cancer and immunologic diseases. The Company has two product candidates in phase II clinical development, SGN-30 and SGN-15, and one product candidate for which it recently opened a phase I clinical trial, SGN-40. In addition, Seattle Genetics has three product candidates in preclinical development: SGN-35, SGN-75 and SGN-17/19. Its pipeline of product candidates is based upon three technologies: genetically engineered monoclonal antibodies, monoclonal antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) and antibody-directed enzyme pro-drug therapy (ADEPT). These technologies enable Seattle Genetics to develop monoclonal antibodies that can kill target cells on their own, as well as to increase the potency of monoclonal antibodies by enhancing their cell-killing ability.
S Sears, Roebuck and Co. is a multiline retailer that offers an array of merchandise and related services. The Company operates principally in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada. During the fiscal year ended January 3, 2004 (fiscal 2003), Sears was organized into three domestic segments: Retail and Related Services, Credit and Financial Products and Corporate and Other; and one international segment: Sears Canada. The Retail and Related Services segment consists of merchandise sales and related services, including service contracts, delivery and product installation and repair services. The Credit and Financial Products segment managed the Company's domestic portfolio of Sears Card and MasterCard receivables. This business was sold on November 3, 2003. The Corporate and Other segment includes the operations of Sears Home Improvement Services. The Sears Canada segment includes similar retail, credit and corporate operations conducted by Sears Canada, a 54.4%-owned subsidiary.
SEE Sealed Air Corporation, operating through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells a range of food, protective and specialty packaging products. The Company operates in the United States and in 49 other countries, with products distributed in those countries and in other parts of the world. The Company operates its business in two segments: food packaging, with primary products including flexible materials and related systems for packaging perishable foods, and protective and specialty packaging, providing cushioning, surface protection and void fill. It sells its food packaging products to food processors, distributors and foodservice businesses and its protective and specialty packaging products and systems to distributors and manufacturers in a variety of industries. The Company conducts substantially all of its business through two direct wholly owned subsidiaries, Cryovac, Inc. and Sealed Air Corporation (US).
STX Seagate Technology designs, manufactures and markets rigid disc drives (hard drives), which are used as the primary medium for storing electronic information in systems ranging from desktop computers and consumer electronics to data centers delivering information over corporate networks and the Internet. The Company produces a broad range of rigid disc drive products that are used in enterprise servers, mainframes and workstations, desktop applications, personal computers (PCs), mobile computing applications and many more. The Company's principal products are Barracuda 7200.7, Cheetah 15K3, Cheetah 10K6 Cheetah 10K.1 (Savvio) U-9 Series, U Series X, Momentus. The Company sells its rigid disc drives primarily to major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun Microsystems.
CKH Seacor Holdings, Inc., formerly known as Seacor Smit Inc., is engaged in owning, operating, investing in, marketing and remarketing equipment, primarily in the offshore oil and gas and inland transportation industries. It also provides oil spill response and environmental remediation services. The Company's principal subsidiaries are divided among three business segments: Offshore Marine Services, Environmental Services and Other (which includes its inland river services and aviation services businesses). The primary assets used in these businesses include marine vessels (workboats), environmental spill response equipment, inland river barges and towboats and helicopters. In January 2005, the Company purchased 100% of the common stock of Era Aviation, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Rowan Companies, Inc.
SBCF Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida is a bank holding company whose principal subsidiary is First National Bank and Trust Company of the Treasure Coast (the Bank). Through the Bank, the Company offers deposit accounts and retail banking services, engages in consumer and commercial lending and provides a variety of trust and asset management services, as well as securities and annuity products. Seacoast's primary service area is the Treasure Coast, which, as defined by Seacoast, consists of the counties of Martin, St. Lucie and Indian River on Florida's southeastern coast. The Bank operates banking offices in the following cities: five in Stuart, two in Palm City, two in Jensen Beach, one on Hutchinson Island, one in Hobe Sound, five in Vero Beach, two in Sebastian, five in Port St. Lucie and two in Ft. Pierce. The Bank opened a loan production office in northern Palm Beach County in August 2002, and acquired two additional offices in northern Palm Beach County in January 2003.
SEAC SeaChange International, Inc. is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of video storage systems that automate the management and distribution of long-form video streams, such as movies or other feature presentations, and short-form video streams, such as advertisements. The Company's digital video systems provide storage and retrieval capabilities, multichannel content delivery and highly-automated information and order processing. These technologies provide a foundation for products that can be deployed in next generation systems capable of increased levels of subscriber interactivity. The Company's technologies and systems mitigate the effects of electronic signal dispersion and offer higher image quality and greater reliability than analog tape based systems. It sells its products and services to cable system operators, telecommunications companies and broadcast television companies.
SBLK Seabulk International, Inc. operates three main lines of businesses: offshore energy support, marine transportation and marine towing. The Company's offshore energy services fleet, numbering 117 vessels, provides services to operators of offshore oil and gas exploration, development and production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico, the Arabian Gulf, offshore West Africa, South America and Southeast Asia. Seabulk's marine transportation fleet, numbering 10 tankers, carries petroleum products, crude oil and specialty chemicals in the United States domestic trade and includes five double-hull petroleum product and chemical carriers. The Company's marine towing fleet numbers 26 vessels, which are used to provide commercial tug services at Port Canaveral, Florida, and also provides these services in Port Everglades, Florida; Tampa, Florida; Mobile, Alabama; Lake Charles, Louisiana, and Port Arthur, Texas. Seabulk also provides offshore towing services primarily in the Gulf of Mexico.
SA Seabridge Gold Inc. is a Canadian company engaged in acquiring, exploring and developing gold and mineral properties in North America. It has nine projects: the Courageous Lake Project, which includes an unexplored gold deposit with gold resources of 3,200,000 ounces in the measured and indicated categories and 4,300,000 ounces in the inferred category; the Sulphurets Project, with a gold resource of 3,400,000 ounces; the Grassy Mountain Project, which has the potential for 90,000-ounce annual gold production; the Red Mountain Project, which includes a 500,000-ounce high-grade gold deposit; the Kerr Project, with a gold resource of 3,400,000 ounces; the Quartz Mountain Project, which contains a 2,700,000-ounce gold deposit; the Castle-Black Rock Project, with a gold resource of 300,000 ounces; the Hog Ranch Project, which has potential for a high-grade gold underground deposit, and the Thunder Mountain Project, which includes a bonanza-style epithermal gold and silver deposit.
SEB Seaboard Corporation is a diversified international agribusiness and transportation company. The Company's Pork segment produces and sells fresh and frozen pork to further processors, foodservice outlets, grocery stores and distributors in the United States and foreign markets. The Commodity Trading and Milling segment markets wheat, corn, soybean meal and other commodities in bulk to third-party customers internationally and to non-consolidated foreign affiliates, and operates foreign flour, maize and feed mills. The Marine segment provides containerized cargo shipping services between the United States, the Caribbean basin, and Central and South America. The Sugar and Citrus segment produces and processes sugar and citrus in Argentina. The Power segment is engaged in the production of power in the Dominican Republic. The Other Businesses segment is engaged in the processing of jalapeno peppers, truck transportation and the production of wine.
SCRa Sea Containers Ltd. (SCL) is engaged in four main businesses. The first is ferry operations mainly involving passenger and vehicle ferry services in the northern Baltic Sea, English Channel and Irish Sea. The second is passenger rail services in Britain between London and Scotland. The third is the leasing of cargo containers, principally through the Company's GE SeaCo SRL joint venture (GE SeaCo) with General Electric Capital Corporation (GE Capital), to a customer base of liner ship operators and others throughout the world, and the manufacture and repair of container equipment. The fourth business is ownership and/or part ownership and management of hotels, restaurants, tourist trains and river cruiseships located throughout the world, through Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. (OEH), an unconsolidated company in which SCL owns a 42% equity interest. In addition, the Company engages in property development, perishable commodity production and trading, and publishing.
SEGB.OB SE Global Equities Corp. provides direct access trading software and financial resources for international investors. The Company operates through its subsidiaries and affiliates and has offices in Dana Point and Diamond Bar, California and Vancouver, British Columbia. SE Global provides customers with access to its global alliance network of 28 brokerage firms, 24 hours a day, covering 29 stock exchanges spanning five continents. The Company provides direct access trading software products, SE Global Trade and SEG Lite, and market data through a formal licensing and worldwide distribution agreement with Direct Access Financial Corporation. Users of the products open trading accounts directly with SE Global's subsidiary, Global-American Investments, Inc.
SCST SCS Transportation, Inc. (SCST) provides a variety of trucking transportation and supply chain solutions to a range of industries, including the retail, chemical and manufacturing industries. Through its operating subsidiaries, Saia Motor Freight Line, Inc. and Jevic Transportation, Inc., SCST offers regional, interregional and national less-than-truckload (LTL) services and selected truckload (TL) services across the United States.
SKP SCPIE Holdings Inc. is a holding company owning subsidiaries engaged in providing insurance and reinsurance products. The Company is primarily a provider of medical malpractice insurance and related liability insurance products to physicians, oral surgeons, healthcare facilities and others engaged in the healthcare industry in California and Delaware. Previously, it had also been actively engaged in the medical malpractice insurance business and related products in other states and the assumed reinsurance business. During the years ended December 31, 2002 and 2003, the Company largely completed its withdrawal from the assumed reinsurance market and medical malpractice insurance outside of California and Delaware.
POOL SCP Pool Corporation is a wholesale distributor of swimming pool supplies, equipment and related leisure products. The Company offers more than 91,000 national brand and private label products. The products it sells can be categorized as follows: maintenance products such as chemicals, supplies and pool accessories; repair and replacement parts for cleaners, filters, heaters, pumps and lights; packaged pool kits, including walls, liners, bracing, filters, heaters, pumps and lights for in-ground and above-ground pools, and pool equipment and materials for new pool construction and the remodeling of existing pools. Maintenance products and repair and replacement parts are non-discretionary in nature, meaning that these items must be purchased by pool owners to maintain existing swimming pools. The Company conducts its operations through 198 service centers in North America and Europe. Its primary markets are California, Florida, Texas and Arizona.
SCT Scottish Re Group Limited, formerly known as Scottish Annuity &amp; Life Holdings, Ltd., is a holding company that, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in two core businesses: Life Insurance and Wealth Management. The Life Insurance business is engaged in the reinsurance of life insurance, annuities and annuity-type products. These products are written by life insurance companies and other financial institutions located in the United States and in many other countries around the world. The Wealth Management business directly issues variable life insurance and variable annuities and similar products to high-net-worth individuals and families for insurance, investment and estate planning purposes. The Company has operating companies in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Its flagship subsidiaries are Scottish Annuity &amp; Life Insurance Company (Cayman) Ltd., Scottish Re (U.S.), Inc. and Scottish Re Limited.
SPI Scottish Power UK plc is a public limited company registered in Scotland. Through its operating subsidiaries, the Company provides in excess of 5.8 million electricity or gas services to homes and businesses in the western United States and across the United Kingdom. It provides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply services in both countries. Its United States activities extend to coal mining and gas storage, including gas facilities in western Canada and in Texas. The Company's subsidiaries include Arlington Wind LLC; Aspen 1 Limited; Beaufort Energy Limited; Birmingham Syn Fuel I, Inc.; Brentwood Gas Storage LLC; Caledonian Communications Limited; Caledonian Gas Limited; Camjar plc.; Canopy Botanicals, SRL; City Gate Gas Storage LLC; Cityscape Limited; Clubcall Telephone Services Limited; Clubline Services Limited; Colorado Green Holdings, LLC; Colorado Wind Ventures, LLC; Columbia Gas Storage LLC; Copperteam Limited, and Core Utility Solutions Limited.
SLGD.OB Scott's Liquid Gold Inc. manufactures and markets household and skin care products and acts as a distributor, in the United States, of beauty care products manufactured by Montagne Jeunesse. The Company's business consists of two segments: household products and skin care products. Household products consist of Scott's Liquid Gold for wood, a wood preservative and cleaner sold throughout the United States for over 30 years and Touch of Scent, an aerosol room air freshener. The skin care line consists primarily of products with alpha hydroxyl acids, other products manufactured by the Company and sachets of Montagne Jeunesse. Primary customers include K-Mart Corporation and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Wal-Mart accounted for approximately 34.5% of sales of both household products and skin care products during the year ended December 31, 2003. The Company's primary subsidiary is Neoteric Cosmetics, Inc.
SCO SCOR provides treaty and facultative reinsurance on a worldwide basis to property casualty and life insurers. SCOR operates in 19 countries through its subsidiaries, branches and representative offices. The Company's operations are organized in four business segments: non-life; life/accident and health; alternative reinsurance, and credit, surety and political risks. The Company's reinsurance operations are conducted directly by the Company, as well as through 10 European, North American and Asian subsidiaries. The life, accident, disability, health, unemployment and long-term care operations of SCOR are conducted mainly through SCOR Vie, which was made a subsidiary on December 1, 2003. SCOR Vie operates mainly through its branches in Italy and Germany, as well as through SCOR Life U.S. Re, which also provides support in these segments of reinsurance to the Company's subsidiaries. In June 2003, SCOR G acquired an additional 6.67% stake in IRP Holdings.
DDD SCOLR Pharma, Inc., formerly, SCOLR, Inc. has two principal businesses, the formulation and manufacture of nutraceutical-based health and dietary supplements for both the animal and human nutrition markets (the Probiotics business), and the formulation and in-vitro development of controlled delivery over-the-counter (OTC) products, prescription drugs and nutraceutical products (the Drug Delivery business). SCOLR uses its controlled delivery technology (CDT) to develop products and license technology to pharmaceutical and nutritional product companies. On January 15, 2004, SCOLR completed the sale of its probiotics development and manufacturing division to Nutraceutix, Inc. Following the sale of its probiotics division, the Company's business is centered around the development and licensing of CDT.
SCOX The SCO Group, Inc., formerly known as Caldera International, Inc., owns the UNIX operating system and is a provider of UNIX-based products and services. It generates revenue from two sources: sales of UNIX-based products and services, and licenses of the UNIX technology through SCOsource initiatives. The Company's core business is to sell and service its UNIX operating system and related software products to small- to medium-sized businesses, and branch offices and franchisees of Fortune 1000 businesses. Its main products that drive the majority of its UNIX revenue are OpenServer and UnixWare. In January 2003, The SCO Group established its SCOsource division to review and enforce its intellectual property surrounding the UNIX operating system. In July 2003, it acquired the assets, engineering personnel and technology of Vultus Inc.
SCMM SCM Microsystems, Inc. designs, develops and sells hardware, software and silicon solutions that enable people to access digital content and services, including content and services that have been protected through digital encryption. It sells its secure digital access products into three markets segments: digital television, personal computer (PC) security and flash media interface. For the digital television market, The Company offers conditional access modules that provide secure, removable decryption for digital pay-television broadcasts. For the PC security market, it offers smart card reader technology that enables secure access to PCs, networks and physical facilities. For the flash media interface market, it offers digital media readers and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) that are used to transfer digital content to and from various flash media.
SCIX Scitex Corporation Ltd. designs, develops, manufactures, markets and supports products for the industrial inkjet digital printing market through its operating subsidiaries, Scitex Vision Ltd. and Jemtex InkJet Printing Ltd. (Jemtex). It is also engaged in the field of Internet imagery. The Company operates in fields, such as wide-format systems, super-wide-format systems and flatbed printing systems for the graphic arts, packaging, displays and textile printing applications. The products in the wide-format printing systems category include TURBOjet and Superjet. The products in the super-wide-format printing systems category include the Scitex Grandjet S+ and the Scitex XLjet+ line of systems. Flatbed printing systems include the Scitex VEEjet. The products for industrial inkjet presses include CORJet and DreAm.
STIZ Scientific Technologies Incorporated designs, manufactures and distributes electrical and electronic industrial controls, such as machine safety and automation sensing products. The Company's product lines include safety light curtains, safety interlock switches, safety relays, profiling scanners, factory automation sensors, controls, fiber optics, power monitoring, safety mats, safety contact strips, non-contact ultrasonic sensors and controllers, pressure transducers and other electronic equipment supplied to industrial automation, commercial and defense customers. It is organized into two product groups: Safety Products and Automation Products, within two business segments. The two units maintain separate operating facilities, engineering and support organizations, which help provide more customer-centralized sales, product knowledge and application expertise directed at the needs of these focused markets.
SCND.OB Scientific Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets a variety of laboratory equipment. The Company's products are generally used for research purposes in research laboratories in or used by universities, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, clinics, medical device manufacturers and other related industries. The Company's products principally consist of mixers and shakers, rotators/ rockers, refrigerated incubators and magnetic stirrers. The Company's primary product is the Vortex-Genie 2 Mixer and related accessories. The vortex mixer is used to mix the contents of test tubes, beakers and other various containers by placing such containers on a rotating cup or other attachments that cause the contents to be mixed at varying speeds. Sales of the Vortex-Genie 2 Mixer represented approximately 83% of revenues for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004).
SGMS Scientific Games Corp. is a provider of services, systems and products to both the instant ticket lottery industry and the pari-mutuel wagering industry based on revenues. The Company operates in four business segments: Lottery Group, Pari-mutuel Group, Venue Management Group and Telecommunications Products Group. Its wholly owned subsidiaries include Autotote Enterprises, Inc. in Connecticut and Autotote Nederland B.V. in the Netherlands.
SFA Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. is a manufacturer of electronic test equipment for antennas and electronics to one of the providers of end-to-end networks used by programmers and cable operators, and a provider of worldwide customer service and support for the cable television industry. The Company operates in one reportable segment, Broadband. In November 2002, it acquired from Arris International, Inc. certain transmission product lines, including analog optics, nodes and radio frequency electronics products used in broadband cable networks. Also in November 2002, the Company acquired from ChanneLogics, Inc., a software developer, software, technology and other assets that can provide cable operators visibility to their high-speed data traffic and bandwidth consumption and allow them to identify potential bottlenecks and efficiently plan capacity expansion. In January 2002, acquired BarcoNet NV, a provider of multimedia distribution solutions for broadband cable and broadcast applications.
SIDY.OB Science Dynamics Corporation (SciDyn) is a supplier of call control technology to service providers offering collect-only calling to inmates of correctional institutions. It also has been a supplier to a local exchange carrier and, in recent years, has expanded its customer base to include the emerging cadre of unregulated companies offering the services in the competitive telecom environment. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company has continued efforts in the development of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) technology. IP technology is being deployed within its Commander system at specific installations. SciDyn is also in the process of adding direct IP trunking capability to the MinuteMan platform. In addition, SciDyn will be enhancing the MinuteMan with a complete Radius interface to allow any VoIP gateway that supports this common protocol to use the MinuteMan as a centralized platform to create and manage pre- and post-paid services.
SCLN SciClone Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development and commercialization of therapeutics to treat life-threatening diseases. The Company is evaluating its product, ZADAXIN, in several late-stage clinical trials for the treatment of patients with the hepatitis C virus (HCV), the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and certain types of cancer. These include Phase III HCV clinical trials in the United States, a completed Phase III HBV clinical trial in Japan, an ongoing Phase II malignant melanoma clinical trial in Europe, two ongoing Phase II pilot studies in the United States for the treatment of liver cancer and an ongoing HCV pilot study in Mexico. ZADAXIN has been approved for sale by the ministries of health in over 30 countries and is marketed in China and selected other countries outside the Untied States. SciClone's other principal drug development candidate is SCV-07, a potentially orally available therapeutic to treat viral and infectious diseases.
SWM Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc. (SWM) manufactures and sells paper and reconstituted tobacco products to the tobacco industry, as well as specialized paper products for use in other applications. The Company's tobacco industry products include cigarette, tipping and plug wrap papers used to wrap various parts of a cigarette, reconstituted tobacco leaf for use as filler in cigarettes, reconstituted tobacco wrappers and binders for cigars and paper products used in cigarette packaging. Its non-tobacco industry products are a diverse mix of products, certain of which represent commodity paper grades produced to maximize machine utilization. SWM is operated and managed based on the geographical location of its manufacturing operations: the United States, France and Brazil. While the products are similar in each segment, they vary based on customer requirements and the manufacturing capabilities of each of the operations.
SCHS School Specialty Inc. provides products, services and ideas that enhance student achievement and development. The Company markets two categories of supplemental education products: general classroom products and specialty products, including publishing materials, geared towards specific educational disciplines. Its specialty businesses generally offer supplemental educational products for specific disciplines. School Specialty primarily serves the pre-kindergarten through 12th grade education market in the United States and Canada. School Specialty offers more than 85,000 items, many of which are its own, mails over 40 million catalogs annually, operates a national distribution network and has developed e-commerce Websites. The Company provides over 85,000 items ranging from classroom essentials, manipulatives and furniture to playground equipment.
SCHL Scholastic Corporation (Scholastic) together with its subsidiaries, is a global children's publishing and media company. Scholastic creates educational and entertaining materials and products for use in school and at home, including children's books, textbooks, magazines, technology-based products, teacher materials, television programming, film, videos and toys. The Company's Website, scholastic.com, is a site for teachers, classrooms and parents, and a destination for the children. With the acquisition of Grolier Incorporated (Grolier), in June 2000 the Company became an operator in the United States of direct-to-home book clubs primarily serving children aged five and under, and the print and on line publisher of children's reference and non-fiction products sold primarily to United States school libraries. It has operations in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, and newer operations in Argentina, Hong Kong, India, Ireland and Mexico.
SCHN Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. operates in three vertically integrated business segments that include the wholly owned and joint venture metals recycling businesses, the auto parts business and the steel manufacturing business. The wholly owned metals recycling business and certain joint venture businesses collect, process and recycle metals. The auto parts business operates as Pick-N-Pull in the United States and as Pick-Your-Part in Canada. Additionally, Pick-N-Pull is a supplier of autobodies to the metals recycling business, which processes the autobodies into sellable recycled metal. The steel manufacturing business purchases recycled metals from the metals recycling business and use its mini-mill to process the recycled metals into finished steel products.
SMIT Schmitt Industries, Inc. designs, assembles, markets and distributes electronic and mechanical components for machine tool products and laser-measurement systems worldwide. The Company operates principally in two segments of business: The Balancer segment for designs and assembly of dynamic balancing systems and components for the machine tool industry, and the Measurement segment, which through its wholly owned subsidiary namely Schmitt Measurement Systems, Inc. designs and assemble laser-measurement systems. Schmitt Industries also sells and markets its products in Europe through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Schmitt Europe Ltd. and Schmitt Europa GmbH.
SLB Schlumberger Limited is a global oilfield and information services company with principal activities in the energy industry. During 2003, Schlumberger consisted of three primary business segments: Schlumberger Oilfield Services, WesternGeco and SchlumbergerSema. Schlumberger Oilfield Services is an oilfield services company providing technology, project management and information solutions to the international petroleum industry. WesternGeco, jointly owned with Baker Hughes, is a surface seismic company. SchlumbergerSema is a supplier of information technology consulting, systems integration and network and infrastructure services to the energy industry, as well as to the public sector, telecommunications and finance markets. On September 22, 2003, the Company announced its intention to sell the SchlumbergerSema business to Atos Origin. The sale closed on January 29, 2004.
SCHK.OB Schick Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and manufactures digital radiographic imaging systems and devices, which are based on digital imaging technologies, for the dental and medical markets. In the field of dentistry, the Company offers an integrated filmless solution for the dental professional. The Company's major products include: the computed dental radiography (CDR) imaging system; dental imaging software; CDR Wireless; USBCam (universal serial bus camera); CDRPan, and CDRPanX. The Company operates in two segments: the dental products segments and the bone mineral density (BMD)/fracture risk assessment products segment. The Company is also developing other products and devices for the dental field, as well as updated versions of its products. In the field of medical radiography, the Company manufactures and sells the accuDEXA bone densitometer, a low-cost and easy-to-operate device for the assessment of bone mineral density and fracture risk.
SGP Schering-Plough Corporation is a worldwide pharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development, manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceutical products. The Company has three business segments. The Prescription Pharmaceuticals segment discovers, develops, manufactures and markets human ethical pharmaceutical products. The Consumer Health Care segment develops, manufactures and markets over-the-counter (OTC), foot care and sun care products. The Animal Health segment discovers, develops, manufactures and markets animal health products. Prescription drugs are introduced to physicians, pharmacists, hospitals, managed care organizations and buying groups, and are sold to hospitals, certain managed care organizations, wholesale distributors and retail pharmacists. Animal health products are promoted to veterinarians, distributors and animal producers. Foot care, OTC and sun care products are sold through wholesale and retail drug, food chain and mass merchandiser outlets.
SHR Schering AG is a global research-based company engaged in the discovery, development, manufacture, marketing and sale of pharmaceutical products. The Company has four core business areas: gynecology and andrology, specialized therapeutics, diagnostics and radiopharmaceuticals and dermatology. In its gynecology and andrology business, Schering offers products for fertility control in women and men, hormone replacement therapy in menopausal women, testosterone therapy in men and the treatment of selected gynecological and andrological diseases. The specialized therapeutics segment offers pharmaceuticals for selected disabling and life-threatening conditions. The diagnostics and radiopharmaceuticals segment offers contrast media for x-ray, magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound, as well as radiopharmaceuticals for use in nuclear medicine. The dermatology segment provides treatment for severe skin disorders, such as eczema, mycoses, acne, psoriasis and hemorrhoids.
SVIN Scheid Vineyards Inc. (SVI) is an independent producer of premium varietal wine grapes. Its business is conducted through a wholly owned subsidiary, Scheid Vineyards California Inc. During the year ended December 31, 2003, SVI operated approximately 5,600 acres of wine grape vineyards on the Central Coast of California. Of this total, approximately 4,100 acres are operated for the Company's own account and 1,500 acres are operated under management contracts for others. All of the properties operated by the Company are located in Monterey and San Benito Counties, California. SVI produces 17 varieties of premium wine grapes, primarily Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc and Syrah. The majority of its wine grapes are sold under short and long-term grape purchase agreements to a variety of winery clients. In 2003, the Company sold approximately 81% of its wine grapes under such supply agreements to over 30 different wineries.
SGK Schawk, Inc. is a provider of digital imaging graphic services for the consumer products industry in North America and Asia. The Company's facilities produce conventional, electronic and desktop color separations, electronic production design, film preparation, plate making and press proofs for lithography, flexography and gravure. Schawk's services also include both digital and analog image database archival and management, as well as creative design, 3-D imaging, art production, large format printing and various related outsourcing and graphics arts consulting services. The Company's service offerings are organized into three core competencies: Brand Strategy and Creative Design, Graphic Services and Enterprise Products. Schawk has also expanded its services into a number of new areas that assist the client with the overall management of their art processes. In January 2005, the Company acquired the assets of Weir Holdings Limited and its subsidiary companies.
SCBT SCBT Financial Corporation owns 100% of three subsidiaries, South Carolina Bank and Trust, N.A., a national bank; South Carolina Bank and Trust of the Piedmont, N.A., a national bank, and CreditSouth Financial Services Corporation, a consumer finance company. In February 2004, the Bank purchased the Denmark, South Carolina branch of Security Federal Bank and in March 2004, it sold its Cameron, South Carolina branch to Farmers and Merchants Bank of South Carolina. The services offered include checking, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, savings and other time deposits of various types, investment products such as annuities and mutual funds, loans for businesses, agriculture, real estate, personal use, home improvement and automobiles, credit cards, letters of credit, home equity lines of credit, safe deposit boxes, bank money orders, wire transfer services, trust services, discount brokerage services, correspondent banking services and automated teller machine (ATMs) facilities.
SCSC ScanSource, Inc. is a wholesale distributor of specialty technology products, providing both value-added distribution sales to technology resellers and e-logistics services to specialty technology markets. The business consists of two operating segments: North American Distribution and International Distribution. The North American Distribution segment markets automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) and point-of-sale (POS) products through its ScanSource sales unit; voice, data and converged communications equipment through its CatalystTelecom sales unit, and converged communications products through its Paracon sales unit. The International Distribution segment markets AIDC and POS products in Latin America (including Mexico) and Europe.
SSFT ScanSoft, Inc. is a provider of software that allows users to incorporate speech, images and documents in digital applications, systems and devices. The Company's products and technologies enable the capture and conversion of information, automating manual processes and enabling enterprises, professionals and consumers to increase productivity, reduce costs and save time. These products are built upon speech and digital capture technologies, and are sold as solutions into the financial, legal, healthcare, government, telecommunications and automotive industries. ScanSoft's speech technologies enable voice-activated services over a telephone, transform speech into text and text into speech and permit voice control of devices and applications. Its digital capture technologies transform text, images and files into various digital formats. The Company markets and distributes its products and solutions predominantly in North America.
SCNI.OB Scanner Technologies Corporation (Scanner), formerly known as Southwest Capital Corporation, sells machine-vision inspection devices used in the semiconductor industry for the inspection of integrated circuits. The devices include machine-vision modules sold to original equipment manufacturers that use the modules as a component of inspection systems they sell to end users, as well as complete machine-vision inspection systems that the Company sells to end users. Integrated circuits are designed to be assembled to circuit substrates or printed circuit boards, which are key components of familiar products, such as personal computers, cell phones, televisions, automotive electronics, games, toys, digital versatile disc (DVD) and compact disc (CD) players, satellites and avionics, among others.
SCG SCANA Corporation is a public utility holding company that has 12 direct wholly owned subsidiaries, including South Carolina Electric &amp; Gas Company (SCE&amp;G), SCANA Communications, Inc. (SCI), South Carolina Generating Company, Inc. (GENCO), SCANA Energy Marketing, Inc. (SEMI), South Carolina Fuel Company, Inc. (Fuel Company), ServiceCare, Inc., Public Service Company of North Carolina, Incorporated (PSNC Energy), PrimeSouth, Inc., South Carolina Pipeline Corporation (SCPC), SCANA Resources, Inc., SCG Pipeline, Inc. (SCG Pipeline) and SCANA Services, Inc.
SOCR.OB Scan-Optics, Inc. provides information captures hardware and software products combined with lifecycle support and maintenance services. These constitute the platform for its systems integration and professional services organization to create information management solutions in response to a customer's business needs. It is involved in developing, applying and supporting technology to solve information capture and customer service problems for government agencies and commercial businesses. The Company has three distinct divisions: Solutions and Products, develops solutions for applications in the government, insurance, assessment, transportation, order fulfillment and financial markets; Access Services, provides third party and proprietary product maintenance services nationwide, as well as in the United Kingdom and Canada, and Manufacturing Services, manufactures high performance proprietary scanning platforms.
SBSE SBS Technologies, Inc. (SBS) designs and builds open-architecture embedded computer products that enable original equipment manufacturers (OEM) to serve the government, commercial and communications end markets. Embedded computer products are put inside or made part of larger systems to process information, control machines, move computer data between machines and interact with people. The Company offers components like input/output (I/O) modules, bus adapters, carrier cards, system enclosures, field programmable gate-array (FPGA) boards and single board computers, as well as network switches, blades and fully integrated systems. SBS subsidiaries include SBS Technologies, Inc., Commercial Group (SBS Commercial); SBS Technologies, Inc., Government Group (SBS Government); SBS Technologies, Inc., Communications and Enterprise Group (SBS Communications), SBS Technologies, Inc. Foreign Holding Company (Foreign Holding), and SBS Technologies, Inc., German Holdings, LLC (German Holdings).
SBTV SBS Broadcasting S.A. is a European television and radio broadcasting company with complimentary print operations. The Company acquires, packages and distributes programming and other content via television channels, radio stations and the Internet in Europe. On December 31, 2003, SBS owned interests in 10 television stations and 22 radio networks operating a total of 53 radio stations overall across nine countries in Europe, together with various related destination and promotional Websites. The Company operates all of these television and radio stations with the exception of prima TV in Romania. In addition, SBS owns and operates the company that publishes the weekly television and radio guide, Veronica Magazine, a weekly publication in the Netherlands, with a circulation of approximately 1.1 million. The Company derives revenue primarily through sales of advertising to multi-national, national, regional and local advertisers and sales of magazine subscriptions.
SBEI SBE, Inc. develops and provides network communications solutions for original equipment manufacturers in both the embedded and enterprise-level information technology computing markets. The Company designs and provides network interface cards and communication controllers serving the embedded and enterprise markets. They are designed to provide developers of networking and data communications equipment a way to integrate wide area networking (WAN), local area networking (LAN), Small Computer System Interface and/or Fiber Channel interfaces into their systems. All of the Company's products are supported by communications software developed by SBE and a select group of third party partners. Although SBE continues to sell and manufacture products such as multibus, VMEbus (VersaModule) and ISA (Industry Standard Architecture), it emphasizes four principal lines of products: WAN adapters, LAN/Ethernet adapters, storage network interface cards and intelligent communications controllers.
SBC SBC Communications Inc. is a holding company that, through its subsidiaries, provides communications services and products in the United States and has investments in more than 25 countries. The services and products that the Company offers vary by market, and include local exchange services, wireless communications, long-distance services, Internet services, telecommunications equipment and directory advertising and publishing. In the first quarter of 2004, SBC began offering satellite television services through its agreement with EchoStar Communications Corp. The Company offers its services and products to businesses and consumers, as well as other providers of telecommunications services. Its services and products are marketed under several brands including SBC, through Cingular Wireless, its joint venture with BellSouth Corporation, and SBC Yahoo!, its alliance with Yahoo!. In October 2004, Cingular Wireless merged with AT&amp;T Wireless Services Inc.
SBAC SBA Communications Corporation is an independent owner and operator of over 3,000 wireless communications towers in the eastern United States. The Company generates revenues from its two primary businesses, site leasing and site development. In SBA's site leasing business, it leases antenna space to wireless service providers on towers and other structures that the Company owns or manages for or leases from others. The towers that SBA owns have been constructed at the request of a carrier, built or constructed based on the Company's own initiative, or acquired. SBA has built approximately 60% of its owned towers. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned 3,093 towers, of which 3,032 are in continuing operations. In SBA's site development business, the Company offers wireless service providers, assistance in developing and maintaining their own wireless service networks.
SAXN Saxon Capital, Inc., formerly Saxon REIT, Inc., originates, purchases and services non-conforming residential mortgage loans, including sub-prime residential mortgage loans. The Company's primary business strategy is to manage and grow on its balance sheet its portfolio of non-conforming mortgage loans to produce stable net interest and fee income. Its primary means of growing its portfolio is through three loan production business channels: wholesale, retail and correspondent business channels. Saxon refers to its wholesale, retail and correspondent channels, collectively, as its production channels. The Company's fourth business channel is its servicing business channel, through which its services the loans in the portfolio, as well as loans owned by third parties. The Company generates earnings and cash flows primarily from the net interest income and fees that it earns from the mortgage loans it originates, purchases and services.
SVVS SAVVIS Communications Corporation is a global managed services provider delivering integrated business solutions and mission-critical Internet protocol (IP) applications for a diverse mix of industries. SAVVIS can offer its customers cutting-edge technology at an affordable price because its virtualized network and hosting infrastructure was built to support real-time IP applications worldwide. The Company's Core Utility Services portfolio includes managed network and hosting solutions. On top of its infrastructure platform, SAVVIS is delivering a series of application services designed to enhance industry workflows. In 2003, SAVVIS launched application services for the media and financial services industries. The Company's customer base include other industries with mission-critical applications such as legal, media, retail, professional services, healthcare and manufacturing.
SVNT Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is engaged in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of pharmaceutical products. It distributes its products on a worldwide basis primarily through a direct sales force in the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel and primarily through third-party license and distribution relationships elsewhere. Savient has assembled a portfolio of therapeutic products, many of which are being marketed, several of which are in registration or clinical trials and one of which is in pre-clinical development. Pre-clinical studies, research and development activities and manufacturing of its biotechnology-derived products are primarily carried out through Bio-Technology General (Israel) Ltd. (BTG-Israel), its wholly owned subsidiary in Israel. Development, manufacture, distribution and sale of its oral liquid products are principally carried out through Rosemont in the United Kingdom.
SAVB Savannah Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for The Savannah Bank, N.A. and Bryan Bank &amp; Trust (Subsidiary Banks) and was formed for the purpose of becoming a holding company to own 100% of the stock of its Subsidiary Banks. The Savannah Bank, N.A. and Bryan Bank &amp; Trust are the sole operating subsidiaries of the Company. It has no plans to engage actively in any non-banking business activities, but is studying the feasibility of establishing or acquiring subsidiaries to engage in other business activities to the extent permitted by law. The Subsidiary Banks offer a range of deposit services, including checking accounts, savings accounts and various time deposits ranging from daily money market accounts to long-term certificates of deposit and also a range of short-term and medium-term commercial, real estate, residential mortgage and personal loans.
BFS Saul Centers, Inc. is a real estate investment trust engaged in the ownership, management and development of income-producing properties. The Company is the owner and operator of a real estate portfolio composed of 36 properties, as of December 31, 2003, totaling approximately 6,500,000 square feet of gross leasable area (GLA) and located primarily in the Washington, DC/Baltimore metropolitan area. The portfolio is comprised of 31 neighborhood and community shopping centers and five predominantly office properties totaling approximately 5,300,000 and 1,200,000 square feet of GLA, respectively. Only the United States Government (4.1%), a tenant of six properties, and Giant Food (5.7%), a tenant of eight shopping centers, individually accounted for more than 2.4% of the Company's total revenues for the year ending December 31, 2003.
SHS Sauer-Danfoss Inc. is a global manufacturer of components and integrated hydraulic, electric and electronic systems that generate, transmit and control power in mobile equipment. Principal products are hydrostatic transmissions, gear pumps and motors, orbital motors, hydrostatic steering units, proportional load-sensing valves, microprocessor controls, electric drives and electrohydraulics. The Company sells its products to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) who use Sauer-Danfoss products to provide the hydraulic and electronic power for the propel, work and control functions of their vehicles. Its products are sold primarily to the construction, road building, agriculture, turf care and specialty vehicle markets. Sauer-Danfoss conducts its business globally under the Sauer-Danfoss name.
SCNYA Saucony, Inc. designs, develops and markets performance-oriented athletic footwear, athletic apparel and casual leather footwear. The Company's products are technical running, walking and outdoor trail shoes and athletic apparel, which are sold under the Saucony brand name. The technical running shoe model is from the 1980s, which was reintroduced in 1998 as Saucony Originals, the Company's classic footwear line. The Company also produces athletic apparel, which is sold under the Hind brand name, and shoes for coaches and officials, football and soccer cleats and casual leather walking, as well as workplace footwear, which is sold under the Spot-bilt brand name. The Company's two operating segments are the Saucony segment, which consists of Saucony technical and Originals footwear, and Saucony apparel and the Other Products segment, which consists of Hind athletic apparel and Spot-bilt shoes.
SAY Satyam Computer Services Limited is a global professional information technology (IT) services company. The Company offers services, including software development, system maintenance, packaged software integration and engineering design services. It uses the Company's global infrastructure to deliver value-added services to its customers to address IT needs in specific industries and to facilitate e-business initiatives. In addition to the Company's core business of providing IT services, it has also invested in related businesses. These IT services include software development, system maintenance, packaged software integration and engineering design services. Satyam offers customers delivery alternatives through its offshore centers located in India, through offsite centers that have been established in markets and through onsite teams operating at the customers' premises.
SATC SatCon Technology Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets key enabling technologies and systems for high-performance, high-efficiency power conversion and control applications in markets, including defense, distributed power generation, power quality, transportation, semiconductor capital equipment and wireless communications. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company continued to focus its efforts on combining the high-power electronics and control systems into enabling components of power control systems, such as Rotary Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) and Power Quality System, its Power Conditioning Systems for distributed power generation and Power Control Modules for use in the United States Navy's all-electric ships. On June 16, 2004, SatCon filed a universal shelf registration statement on Form S-3 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
SSL Sasol Limited is an integrated oil and gas group with substantial chemical interests, based in South Africa and operating in 23 other countries throughout the world. The Company is a provider of liquid fuels in South Africa and a major international producer of chemicals. Sasol uses a technology for the commercial production of synfuels and chemicals from coal. It also operates coalmines to provide feedstock for its synfuels and chemical plants, manufactures and markets synthesis gas (syngas) and operates an inland crude oil refinery in South Africa. The Company divides its operations into segments, such as Sasol Mining, Sasol Synfuels, Sasol Olefins and Surfactants, Sasol Polymers, Sasol Solvents, Sasol's Liquid Fuels Business, Sasol Gas, Sasol Synfuels International and Other.
SLE Sara Lee Corporation is a global manufacturer and marketer of consumers' products throughout the world. Sara Lee has operations in 58 countries and markets products in nearly 200 nations. The Company is organized in to five business segments: Sara Lee Meats, Sara Lee Bakery, Beverage, Household Products and Brand Apparel. Its products and services include fresh and frozen baked goods, processed meats, coffee and tea, beverage systems, intimate apparel, underwear, sportswear, legwear and other apparel, and personal, household and shoe care products.
SPP Sappi Limited is worldwide coated fine paper and chemical cellulose (dissolving pulp) producer. Sappi also has significant businesses in coated specialty paper, packaging grades and uncoated fine paper. It has manufacturing operations on three continents and customers in over 100 countries. The Company has a paper production capacity of approximately 5.1 million metric tons per annum, dissolving pulp production capacity of 600,000 metric tons per annum and paper pulp production capacity of 3.5 million metric tons per annum. Sappi is composed of its Sappi Fine Paper and Sappi Forest Products business units. Sappi Trading operates a trading network for the international marketing and distribution of the Company's products. The group is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
SAPE Sapient Corporation is a business consulting and technology services firm that plans, designs, implements and manages information technology to improve business performance for Global 2000 clients. The Company's Global Distributed Delivery (GDD) model enables it to deliver complex technology solutions across multiple geographies. Some distributed development models involve simply building software applications from a remote location or augmenting domestic project teams with resources that travel from overseas. These models have limited ability to deliver dynamic, business critical solutions, which require ongoing business involvement and user input. The GDD model involves a single, coordinated effort between development teams in a remote location (typically highly skilled technology specialists in the Company's New Delhi office) and development and client teams in North America or Europe. In 2003, 54% of the Company's total service revenues came from projects utilizing its GDD model.
SPNS Sapiens International Corporation N.V. is a global provider of information technology solutions that modernize business processes to enable insurance and other companies to adapt to change. Its solutions are supplemented by its technology, methodology and consulting services, which address the issues related to the life cycle of enterprise business applications. By creating interdisciplinary teams and working with insurance companies, Sapiens has formulated INSIGHT, a suite of business software solutions that make use of existing assets to modernize business processes and is designed for the general (property and casualty) and life insurance markets. These solutions can be used independently or together and include Policy INSIGHT, Life&amp;Pensions INSIGHT, MediRisk INSIGHT, Reinsurance INSIGHT, Claims INSIGHT and Closed Books INSIGHT.
SAP SAP Aktiengesellschaft Systems is a developer and provider of business software solutions. The Company's activities are the development, marketing, sales and support of a variety of software solutions, primarily enterprise application software products for organizations including corporations, governmental agencies and educational institutions. The SAP NetWeaver open integration and application platform for a customer's information technology landscape business process change and evolution. SAP Business Suite solutions helps enterprises improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies. More than 21,600 customers in over 120 countries run more than 69,700 installations of SAP software. In the services area, SAP Customer Services Network (SAP CSN) offers consulting, education, active global support, hosting and custom development services. The Company has subsidiaries in more than 50 countries.
SANYY SANYO Electric Co., Ltd manufactures a broad range of electronic products grouped into six segments AV/Information and Communication Equipment, Home Appliances, Industrial and Commercial Equipment, Electronic Devices, Batteries, Air Conditioners and others. Sanyo's net sales for the year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), amounted to $23,661 million. Sanyo's strategic business foci are on the digital and devices, and energy and ecology fields. . In the digital and devices field, the Company seeks to develop pioneering to help drive the digital revolution. Sanyo offers digital cameras, liquid crystal display (LCD) projectors and cellular and personal handyphone system (PHS) phones.
STOSY Santos Limited is an energy company engaged in oil and gas exploration and production with interests in Australian petroleum provinces. The Company's base business is a majority working interest in the Cooper/Eromanga Basins oil and gas fields located in central Australia. Santos produces gas, ethane and oil and gas liquids from the basins and is the operator of production and exploration operations. It also has exploration and production interests in the Surat, Bowen and Amadeus Basins (onshore Australia); the Carnarvon Basin, Timor Sea and Timor Gap (offshore Australia); Otway and Gippsland Basins (onshore and offshore Australia); the Papuan Basin (onshore Papua New Guinea), and the United States (Gulf of Mexico). Additional exploration acreage is held in the Houtman, Browse, Bonaparte, Sorell and Duntroon Basins (offshore Australia), the Sampang, Madura Offshore, North Bali 1, Popodi and Papalang PSC's (Indonesia) the Warim PSC, (West Papua) and in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt.
SNTS Santarus, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on acquiring, developing and commercializing proprietary products for the prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases and disorders. The Company's products are immediate-release formulations of omeprazole, a widely prescribed proton pump inhibitor (PPI). In October 2004, the Company announced the commercial launch of its first product, ZEGERID Powder for Oral Suspension 20 milligram (mg), following receipt of marketing approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in June 2004. The Company has a new drug application (NDA) under review by the FDA for ZEGERID Powder for Oral Suspension 40 mg. The Company also is developing capsule and chewable tablet formulations.
SBP Santander BanCorp is a financial holding company registered under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956. The Company provides a range of financial products and services to a diverse customer base that includes small and medium-sized businesses, large corporations and individuals through a network of 66 branches and 141 automated teller machines (ATMs). It also provides mortgage-banking services through its wholly owned subsidiary, Santander Mortgage Corporation, which has nine offices in Puerto Rico. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Bank had total deposits of $4.1 billion. Santander BanCorp owns Santander Insurance Agency (SIA) and Santander International Bank, an international banking entity. In 2003, Santander BanCorp acquired Santander Securities Corporation and its subsidiary, Santander Asset Management Corporation. After acquisition, the Company provides of a range of financial services under the Santander Group umbrella.
SFEF.OB Santa Fe Financial Corporation (Santa Fe), formerly Tri Financial Corporation, manages the subsidiary Portsmouth Square, Inc. (Portsmouth). Portsmouth has a limited partnership interest in Justice Investors (Justice/ the Partnership). The Company owns an interest in Intergroup Woodland Village, Inc. (Woodland Village), which owns a 27-unit multi-family apartment complex located in Los Angeles, California. It owns a two-unit apartment building located in Los Angeles, California, through its subsidiary, 614 Acanto Properties, Inc. (Acanto). The Company's principal business is to purchase and manage real estate operations. The Company's primary real estate operation is conducted through Portsmouth, as a general and limited partner in Justice. The Partnership owns the land, improvements and leaseholds at San Francisco, California commonly known as the Holiday Inn Select Downtown and Spa (the Hotel).
SFF Santa Fe Energy Trust (Trust) was formed pursuant to an organizational trust agreement (the Trust Agreement) between Devon Energy Production Company, L.P. (Devon) and JPMorgan Chase Bank. Under the terms of the Trust Agreement, Devon conveyed royalty interests in certain oil and gas properties to the Trust. The Trust is a grantor trust formed by Devon to hold royalty interests in certain oil and gas properties owned by Devon. The assets of the Trust consists of two term royalty interests, the Wasson ODC Royalty and the Wasson Willard Royalty, conveyed to the Trust out of Devon's royalty interests in two production units, the Wasson ODC Unit and the Wasson Willard Unit, in the Wasson Field, and a net profits royalty interest conveyed to the Trust, out of Devon's royalty interests and working interests, in a portfolio of oil and gas properties located in 11 states.
SNY Sanofi-Aventis is an international pharmaceutical group engaged in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of pharmaceutical products for sale principally in the prescription market. Sanofi-Avenits specializes in seven therapeutic areas: cardiovascular, thrombosis, oncology, diabetes, central nervous system, internal medicine and vaccines. The Company's five strategic products Aprovel, Eloxatin, Plavix, Stilnox and Xatral, together, accounted for 54.7% of total consolidated net sales during the year ended December 31, 2003. In addition, Sanofi-Avenits has 56 compounds in development in the four therapeutic areas, 25 of which were in Phase II or Phase III clinical trials. The Company also manufactures and markets a variety of generics in France, Germany and the United Kingdom. On August 20, 2004, Sanofi-Synthelabo merged with Aventis, and changed its name from Sanofi-Synthelabo to Sanofi-Aventis.
SANM Sanmina-SCI Corporation is an independent global provider of customized, integrated electronics manufacturing services (EMS). The Company provides these comprehensive services primarily to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), in the communications, personal and business computing, enterprise computing and storage, multimedia, industrial and semiconductor capital equipment, defense and aerospace, medical and automotive industries. The Company's volume manufacturing services are vertically integrated, allowing it to manufacture key system components and subassemblies for the customers. System components and subassemblies that the Company manufactures include volume and high-end printed circuit boards, printed circuit board assemblies, backplanes and backplane assemblies, enclosures, cable assemblies, precision machine components, optical modules and memory modules.
SGNC.OB Sanguine Corporation is engaged in the development of a synthetic red blood cell product called PHER-O2 and 15 extensions of the product. The development of this product comprises the Company's sole business operations. PHER-O2 is made up of perfluoro-decalin molecules or synthetic red blood cells, purified water and a synthetic, fluorinated surfactant or wetting agent, to hold the emulsion together. The Company is concentrating its research and development efforts on completing the emulsion of perfluoro-decalin and the synthetic surfactants that make up PHER-O2. It has completed the compounding of PHER-O2 and is performing initial gross animal tests.
SGMO Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. is focused on the development and commercialization of novel transcription factors for the regulation of gene expression. Its technology platform is based on the engineering of a naturally occurring class of proteins referred to as zinc finger DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) binding proteins (ZFPs). The Company uses engineered ZFPs to make ZFP transcription factors (ZFP TFs) that are able to turn genes on or off. Alternatively, ZFPs may be modified with nuclease functional domains to create zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs). These engineered ZFNs can precisely cut genomic DNA at a preselected location, facilitating the transfer of corrected or donor genetic information into the site and thus allowing the repair or correction of specific genes carrying disease-causing mutations. Potential applications of Sangamo's technology include pharmaceutical discovery, development of human therapeutics and plant agriculture.
SASR Sandy Spring Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for Sandy Spring Bank and its principal subsidiaries, Sandy Spring Insurance Corporation and The Equipment Leasing Company. Sandy Spring is a community banking organization that focuses its lending and other services on businesses and consumers in the local market area. Sandy Spring Bank offers a range of commercial banking, retail banking and trust services through 30 community offices and 45 automated teller machines located in Anne Arundel, Frederick, Howard, Montgomery and Prince George's counties in Maryland.
SDON.OB Sandston Corporation designs, manufactures and markets factory automation products, including computer hardware and software products. The Company's industrial computers and terminals are called Industrial Control Computers (ICCs) and Industrial Workstations (IWSs), which are ruggedized computers with built-in displays, keyboards or other forms of operator interface. ICCs and IWSs are used by operators in industrial processing and in factory floor environments to monitor and control machine and cell-level operations. Sandston's software products are sold to industrial users for direct machine control, supervisory control, operator interface and data acquisition and transmission. The Company also provides application engineering support to customers of its own and third parties' products. It has five primary locations: four in the United States and one in Europe. In January 2004, the Company changed its name from Nematron Corporation to Sandston Corporation.
SNDS The Sands Regent operates casino/tourist-based facilities through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Zante, Inc., which owns and operates the Sands Regency Casino Hotel (the Sands) in downtown Reno, Nevada, and Last Chance, Inc., which operates the Gold Ranch Casino and RV Resort located in Verdi, Nevada. In addition, the Company owns several smaller properties in Reno, consisting of a combined area of approximately .7 acres, and operates a slot route, which places 89 gaming devices in 15 locations in the Reno area. In May 2004, the Company acquired Rail City Casino, in Sparks, Nevada. Rail City has approximately 16,600 square feet of gaming space housing 634 slots, 6 table games, keno, a sportsbook operated by Cal Neva, around the clock family-style restaurant and a bar. Substantially all of Rail City's customer base comes from northern Nevada and a majority of its customers reside in close proximity to the casino.
SNDK SanDisk Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets flash storage card products used in a variety of electronic systems. The Company's storage products are high capacity, solid-state, non-volatile flash memory devices that comply with industry standards, including the PC Card ATA and/or IDE, MultiMediaCard, SD cards, miniSD cards and Memory Stick standards. SanDisk's product families include removable CompactFlash cards, Ultra CompactFlash cards, Wi-Fi CompactFlash cards, Secure Digital (SD) cards, SD Ultra cards, Wi-Fi SD cards, the Memory Stick product line, SmartMedia cards, xD-Picture cards, FlashDisk cards, the Cruzer USB Flash Drive product line, MultiMediaCards and embedded Flash ChipSets, embedded TriFlash and the semi-removable T-Flash module that SanDisk announced in late February 2004.
SAFM Sanderson Farms, Inc. is a fully integrated poultry processing company engaged in the production, processing, marketing and distribution of fresh and frozen chicken products. The Company sells ice pack, chill pack and frozen chicken, in whole, cut-up and boneless form, primarily under the Sanderson Farms brand name to retailers, distributors and casual dining operators principally in the southeastern, southwestern and western United States. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Sanderson processed 273.8 million chickens, or approximately 1.5 billion dressed pounds. In addition, the Company operates in the processing, marketing and distribution of processed and prepared food items through its wholly owned subsidiary, Sanderson Farms, Inc. The Company sells over 100 processed and prepared food items, including further processed chicken products and frozen entrees, such as chicken and dumplings, lasagna, seafood gumbo and shrimp creole and other specialty products.
SMHG Sanders Morris Harris Group Inc. (SMHG) provides a range of financial services through its wholly owned operating subsidiaries, Sanders Morris Harris Inc., Salient Capital Management and SMH Capital Advisors. The Company's financial services include institutional, prime and retail brokerage, investment banking, merchant banking, financial advisory, trust related services, asset management and financial planning. SMHG serves a diverse group of institutional, corporate and individual clients. Total securities are valued at $35,478,000, $20,059,000 and $13,844,000 for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively.
SNDT Sand Technology Inc. is focused on the design, development, marketing and support of software products that enable users to retrieve information from large amounts of data and providing specialized systems integration services related to those products. The Company's software products, collectively marketed as the SAND Analytic Server, are designed to provide an efficient and cost-effective way for business users to make fast, easy inquiries of large databases without the intervention by specialized information technology (IT) professionals. The SAND Analytic Server, which incorporates the Nucleus database engine and other Nucleus-derived products, facilitates the use of data mining, query, reporting and other classes of online analytical applications, thereby enabling more effective management of customer relationships, supply chains and other critical business processes. In September 2003, Sand announced the availability of Release 3.1 of the SAND Analytic Server.
IMI Sanpaolo IMI S.p.A. is a full-service banking group that provides a range of credit and financial products and services to its customers in Italy and abroad. The Company's business consists of banking, asset management and capital markets activities, as well as certain other banking-related services. Its principal banking operations are retail banking, corporate banking (including advisory and project finance), investment banking, merchant banking, asset management (including private banking services and insurance), mortgage banking and medium- and long-term lending. In addition, Sanpaolo IMI has an active treasury and trading operation. The Company's capital markets activities include acting as a specialist in the Italian government bond market, as an underwriter and trader in the Italian domestic equity market, and as a lead manager in Eurobond issues and warrants.
SJT San Juan Basin Royalty Trust (the Trust) is an express trust created by the San Juan Basin Royalty Trust Indenture, known as the Original Indenture between Southland Royalty Company, known as Southland Royalty and the Fort Worth National Bank. In September 2002, the Original Indenture was amended and restated the Trust Indenture. The Trustee of the Trust is TexasBank. The function of the Trustee is to collect the income attributable to the Royalty, to pay all expenses and charges of the Trust, and then distribute the remaining available income to the Unit Holders.
SANZ.OB SAN Holdings, Inc. (SANZ), incorporated in 1983, provides enterprise-level data storage and data management solutions to commercial and government clients. The Company focuses on the design, delivery and management of data storage systems, especially those that are built using a network architecture. SANZ's products and services include storage solutions that it designs and delivers as a customized project to meet a client's specific needs; storage-related consulting services; maintenance services on storage hardware and software, and storage-related software product that facilitates data access and management for geospatial imagery users. The Company's products can be broken into two categories, Storage Solutions and Services and EarthWhere Software and Geospatial Information Services (GIS)-related Services.
SAMC.OB Samsonite Corporation designs, manufacturers and distributes luggage, and is a distributor of related consumer products. The Company sells its products using a number of brand names, including Samsonite, American Tourister, Hedgren, Lacoste and Trunk &amp; Co. Its product lines include suitcases, garment bags, business/computer cases, casual bags and backpacks. It also manufactures and/or sells luggage, casual bags, clothing, shoes and accessories in the luxury segment of the market under the Samsonite, Samsonite black label, Hedgren and Lacoste brands. Samsonite also licenses its luggage brand names to third parties for use on products including travel accessories, leather goods, handbags, clothing and furniture. It also licenses several apparel brand names that it owns to third parties through its Global Licensing division.
SMXMF.OB Samex Mining Corp. is a junior resource company engaged in the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties in South America. The Company owns or has interests in mineral exploration properties in southwestern Bolivia and in central Chile. It focuses its exploration activities on the search for precious metal deposits. The Company holds an interest in six mineral exploration properties in Bolivia; El Desierto, Eskapa, Santa Isabel, Walter, Wara Wara and Yaretani, and the Los Zorros district gold, copper, silver prospects in Chile. Samex is an exploration stage company and has no mineral producing properties at this time. During the fiscal year ended November 30, 2003, Samex was principally involved in preliminary exploration work on its Los Zorros property in Chile.
LIV Samaritan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a development stage biotechnology Company engaged in the research and development of novel therapeutic and diagnostic products to treat chronic debilitating diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Cancer, central nervous system (CNS) disorders, cardiovascular disease and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
SFP Salton, Inc. is a designer, marketer and distributor of branded small appliances, home decor and personal care products. The Company's product divisions include small appliances and electronics for the home, home decor, and personal care and wellness. Its product mix includes a range of small kitchen and home appliances, electronics for the home, tabletop products, time products, lighting products, picture frames and personal care and wellness products. The Company sells its products under brand names, such as Salton, George Foreman, Westinghouse, Toastmaster, Melitta, Russell Hobbs, Farberware, Ingraham and Stiffel. The Company markets and sells its products in North America, South Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, South America and the Middle East. The Company predominantly sells its products to mass merchandisers, department stores, specialty stores and mail order catalogs.
SALN.OB Salon Media Group, Inc. is an Internet media company offering journalism from news and in-depth analysis to commentary on politics, technology, culture and entertainment. The Company also offers an audio-streaming Website and hosts two online communities: Table Talk and The Well. The Well is a member-only discussion community, in which members use their real names to post and only members can view the postings. Table Talk is available for all Internet users to read, but only subscribers can post. Salon's revenue sources are from advertising and subscriptions to Salon Premium and The Well/Table Talk. The Company's content provides an array of news, features, interviews and regular columnists and include news and politics, opinion, technology, arts, life, books, comics and Salon Audio (free recordings of short stories, novel excerpts, poems, essays and interviews).
SBF The Salomon Brothers Fund Inc is registered as a diversified, closed-end, management investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Fund's primary investment objectives are growth and conservation of capital. Income receives secondary consideration. Salomon Brothers Asset Management Inc (SBAM), an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Citigroup Inc., acts as investment manager to the Fund. The Fund's investment policy has been to concentrate a large portion of its investments in common stocks. Companies whose stocks are selected generally have strong positions in industries with the potential to grow faster than the economy as a whole. The Fund's top ten holdings, at December 31, 2003, were Pfizer Inc., General Electric Co., Microsoft Corp., Exxon Mobil Corp., Best Buy Co., Inc., Intel Corp., American International Group, Inc., Alcoa Inc., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and TotalFinaElf S.A.
SLXP Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. is a specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in acquiring, developing and commercializing prescription drugs used in the treatment of a variety of gastrointestinal diseases that affect the digestive tract. The Company's four products are balsalazide disodium, which it sells in the United States under the brand name Colazal; three dosage strengths of azathioprine, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved product licensed by the Company, launched in the United States in February 2004 under the brand name Azasan; rifaximin, if approved by the FDA, is intended to be sold in the United States for the treatment of travelers' diarrhea, and a granulated formulation of mesalamine, if approved by the FDA, is intended to be sold in the United States to expand the range of treatment options for ulcerative colitis. In February 2004, Salix launched the 75-milligram and 100-milligram dosage strengths of Azasan in the United States.
SAL Salisbury Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company for its sole subsidiary, the Salisbury Bank and Trust Company (the Bank). The Bank is a commercial bank, whose activities include a menu of deposit services, mortgage products and various other types of loans for both business and personal needs. Full trust services are also available. The Bank owns and operates one subsidiary, SBT Realty, Inc., which holds and manages bank-owned real estate situated in New York State. The Bank also provides trust, investment and financial planning services to its customers. It has a full-service trust department that offers custody and agency accounts, as well as estate planning and estate settlement. Another service is that of serving as guardian or conservator of estates and managing the financial position of guardianship or conservatorship. Self-directed individual retirement accounts and pension plans are also offered. The Bank serves its customers from its four offices located in Connecticut.
STCX.OB SalesTactix, Inc., formerly Age Research, Inc., has discontinued its business activities and operations and has had no revenues or earnings from operations as of January 1, 2004. The Company has no significant assets, paid employees, or financial resources and has no prospects of resuming its prior business operations. The Company had produced and sold a line of premium skin care products to physicians and mail order. The Company developed its own line of dermatologist-formulated skin care products including moisturizers, cleaners, sunscreens and anti-aging emollients with glycolic acid. The Company's products used to be sold under the name of RejuvenAge, which is trademarked in United States and United Kingdom, and under the name of Bladium, which is trademarked in United States. The trademark in United Kingdom will expire in September 2006. The Company's business purpose is to hold itself out as a candidate for a potential merger or acquisition.
CRM salesforce.com, inc. is engaged in the provision of on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The Company delivers integrated and scalable enterprise applications for companies of all sizes. The Company's clients include AOL Time Warner, Autodesk, Avis, Cigna, Daiwa Securities, Dow Jones Newswires, First Union National Bank, Fujitsu, Nokia, Siemens PT&amp;D, Textron Fastening Systems and USA Today. salesforce.com has many business partners dedicated to providing complementary products and services to its customers. These partners include PricewaterhouseCoopers, Informatica, Miller Heiman, Data Junction, Alexander Group, TIBCO and a nationwide network of Certified Partners.
SALM Salem Communications Corporation is a radio broadcasting company, providing programming targeted at audiences interested in religious and family theme radio programming. The Company owns and operates 92 radio stations. Salem Communications also owns Salem Radio Network, a developer, producer and syndicator of religious- and family issues-oriented talk, news and music programming (but not of general broadcast programming), with over 1,600 affiliated radio stations. In addition, the Company owns complementary Internet and publishing businesses.
SKS Saks Incorporated is a retailer operating through two business segments: Saks Department Store Group (SDSG) and Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises (SFAE). SDSG consists of stores operated under the nameplates: Proffitt's, McRae's, Younkers, Parisian, Herberger's, Carson Pirie Scott (Carson's), Bergner's and Boston Store and Club Libby Lu specialty stores. SFAE includes Saks Fifth Avenue (SFA) luxury department stores and Off 5th Saks Fifth Avenue Outlets (Off 5th).
SRYS.OB Sagient Research Systems, Inc. (SRS) is a publisher of independent investment research and operates with its wholly owned subsidiaries, DP Securities, Inc. and PCS Securities, Inc. SRS develops, produces and sells proprietary research products to mutual funds, hedge funds and investment banks. Research products marketed by the Company are generally sold on a subscription basis, with subscription periods ranging from three months to one year and some contain automatic renewal provisions. On April 30, 2003, SRS closed PCS Securities, Inc. as part of a restructuring of its operations. The decision to close PCS Securities was reached after the automatic termination of the marketing agreement between the Company and Institutional Research Services, Inc. In January 2004, SRS announced that it is changing its name to Sagient Research Systems.
SGA Saga Communications, Inc. is a broadcasting company whose business is devoted to acquiring, developing and operating broadcast properties. As of February 29, 2004, the Company owned and/or operated five television stations and three low-power television stations serving three markets, three state radio networks and 49 FM (frequency modulation) and 27 AM (amplitude modulation) radio stations serving 21 markets, including Columbus, Ohio; Norfolk, Virginia; Manchester, New Hampshire, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
SFLK SAFLINK Corporation offers software solutions that protect intellectual property, secure information assets, control access to physical facilities and eliminate passwords. The Company's Secure Authentication Framework (SAF) software provides identity assurance management, allowing administrators to verify the identity of users and control their access to computer networks, physical facilities, applications, event tracking systems and time and attendance systems. SAFLINK develops application software, and resells hardware and device control software from manufacturers of biometric hardware devices. Its products may be used to protect business and personal assets and to replace passwords, keys and personal identification numbers (PINs). SAFLINK's products can be divided into two groups: computer access products and physical access products.
SWY Safeway Inc. operates as a food and drug retailer in North America, with 1,817 stores as of January 3, 2004. Its United States retail operations are located principally in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, the Chicago metropolitan area and the Mid-Atlantic region. The Canadian retail operations are located principally in British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba/Saskatchewan. In support of its retail operations, it has a network of distribution, manufacturing and food processing facilities.
SAFT Safety Insurance Group, Inc. provides private passenger automobile insurance in Massachusetts. The Company also offers a portfolio of property and casualty insurance products, including commercial automobile, homeowners, dwelling fire, umbrella and business owner policies. Operating in Massachusetts through its insurance subsidiaries, Safety Insurance Company and Safety Indemnity Insurance Company, Safety Insurance Group has established relationships with 548 independent insurance agents in 758 locations throughout Massachusetts.
SAFY.OB Safety Components International, Inc. is a low-cost, independent supplier of automotive airbag fabric and cushions and technical fabrics with operations in North America and Europe. The Company's automotive products include passenger, driver and side (thorax) impact airbag cushions, side protection curtains and knee protection cushions manufactured for installation in over 200 car and truck models sold worldwide and airbag fabric for sale to airbag manufacturers. It is also a manufacturer of value-added technical fabrics used in a variety of niche industrial and commercial applications, such as fire service apparel, ballistics material for luggage, filtration and military tents.
SFNT Safenet, Inc. develops, markets, sells and supports a portfolio of hardware and software network security products and services that provide secure communications and data services over WANs and the Internet. The Company has two business divisions: Enterprise Security, through which it sells security solutions to address the needs of its government, financial institution and other security-sensitive commercial customers and Embedded Security, through which it provides a range of network security products including silicon chips, accelerator cards, licensed intellectual property and software products, to original equipment manufacturers that embed them in their own network infrastructure and wireless products. In March 2004, the Company merged with Rainbow Technologies, Inc., a provider of information security solutions for mission-critical data and applications used in business, organization and government computing environments.
SFE Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. is a strategic growth partner for companies in the time-to-volume stage of development. Time-to-volume companies are those that are generating revenues from a commercially viable product or service, but are facing new challenges as they scale their businesses to meet market opportunities. Focused primarily on the information technology (IT) and life sciences sectors, Safeguard generally acquires majority ownership interests in companies at this stage of growth. In addition to expansion capital, the Company provides its companies a wide range of operating and managerial experience to drive growth in their market. In October 2004, Safeguard sold its 51% interest in CompuCom Systems, Inc. to an affiliate of Platinum Equity, LLC.
SAFC Safeco Corporation is an insurance and investment company that has operated in the United States on a nationwide basis in two principal businesses: property and casualty insurance (P&amp;C), including surety, and life insurance and asset management (L&amp;I). P&amp;C provides auto and homeowners insurance to individuals, commercial insurance for small- and medium-sized businesses and surety bonds. L&amp;I provided individual life and group medical insurance, retirement services, annuities, mutual funds and investment advisory services. In an ongoing effort to position the Company for future profitability and growth, Safeco announced a strategic decision in September 2003 to focus more fully on its P&amp;C businesses and pursue the sale of its L&amp;I operations. The sale of the Company's L&amp;I operations was completed in August 2004 with the sale of its life and investments operations to a group of investors led by White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. and Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
SDA Sadia S.A. is concentrated in the agro industrial and food processing segments. The Company is a slaughterer and distributor of poultry and pork products, as well as a domestic exporter of poultry. The Company is also a distributor of frozen and refrigerated meat-based products. Its activities are concentrated in the agro industrial and food processing segments. Sadia's operations include breeding farms for poultry and hog grandparent and parent stock, hatcheries, pork breeding centers, slaughterhouses, processing units, animal feed production plants, representative offices and distribution centers. The Company introduced the vertical integration of poultry and hog breeding, which was adopted in the west of Santa Catarina State. Its has 11 plants within Brazil and distributes its product line of 684 items through distribution and sales centers spread over Brazil, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and Europe.
TSG Sabre Holdings Corp. markets travel offerings and provides distribution and technology solutions for the travel industry. It operates in multiple travel distribution channels: the travel agency channel, the consumer-direct channel and the business-direct channel. Through the Sabre global distribution system (Sabre GDS) subscribers can access information about, and can book reservations for, among other things, airline trips, hotel stays, car rentals, cruises and tour packages. The Travel Network business operates the Sabre GDS, and markets and distributes travel-related products and services through the travel agency channel. Sabre is also engaged in consumer-direct and business-direct travel marketing and distribution through its Travelocity business. The Sabre Airline Solutions business is a provider of technology and services, including development and consulting services. Sabre Inc. is the principal operating subsidiary and sole direct subsidiary of the Company.
SBR Sabine Royalty Trust is an express trust formed by the Sabine Corporation Royalty Trust Agreement (the Trust Agreement) made and entered into effective as of December 31, 1982, between Sabine Corporation, as trustor and InterFirst Bank Dallas, N.A., as trustee. Under the Trust Agreement, Sabine Corporation transferred royalty and mineral interests, including landowner's royalties, overriding royalty interests, minerals (other than executive rights, bonuses and delay rentals), production payments and any other similar, nonparticipatory interest, in certain producing and proved undeveloped oil and gas properties located in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas (the Royalty Properties) to the Trust. The Royalty Properties are the only assets of the Trust, other than cash being held for the payment of expenses and liabilities and for distribution to its Unit holders. On December 31, 2001, Bank of America, N.A. assumed the duties as Trustee of the Trust.
SABA Saba Software, Inc. is a provider of human capital development and management solutions, which are designed to increase organizational performance through the implementation of a management system for aligning, developing and managing people. The Company's solutions can help large enterprises to efficiently manage regulatory compliance, increase sales and channel readiness, accelerate time-to-competency of people across the extended enterprise, increase speed of customer acquisition, shorten time-to-market of new products and increase visibility into organizational performance. These solutions include the Saba Enterprise Learning Suite, Saba Enterprise Performance Suite and Saba Services. Customers include global organizations in the automotive, communications, computer software and hardware, electronics, consumer package goods, energy, financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, medical equipment, pharmaceutical, professional services and transportation industries.
RYL The Ryland Group, Inc. (Ryland) is a homebuilder and a mortgage-finance company. The Company consists of two business segments, homebuilding and financial services. It builds homes primarily for first-time buyers, as well as for move-up buyers. As of December 31, 2003, Ryland homes were available in over 330 communities in 27 markets across the United States. The Company's prices range from $90,000 to $500,000, with the average price of a Ryland home being $224,000. The Company's operations span all aspects of the home buying process, from design, construction and sale to mortgage origination, title insurance, settlement, escrow and homeowners insurance brokerage services. In addition, through its subsidiary Ryland Mortgage Company, the Company provides mortgage financing and related services for its homebuyers.
RT Ryerson Tull, Inc. distributes and processes metals and other materials throughout the United States. The Company has two operating subsidiaries, Joseph T. Ryerson and Son, Inc. (Ryerson) and J. M. Tull Metals Company, Inc. (Tull), in the United States. Ryerson and Tull are steel service, distribution and materials processing organization. Ryerson Tull mainly provides carbon flat rolled, stainless and aluminum, fabrication and carbon plate and bars, tubings and structurals. In addition, the Company conducts operations in Canada through Ryerson Tull Canada, Inc., formerly known as Washington Specialty Metals, Inc.; in Mexico through Collado Ryerson, S.A. de C.V. a joint venture with G. Collado S.A. de C.V., and in India through Tata Ryerson Limited, a joint venture with the Tata Iron &amp; Steel Corporation, an integrated steel manufacturer in India. In January 2005, the Company acquired Integris Metals, Inc., from the shareholders, Alcoa Inc. and BHP Billiton.
R Ryder System, Inc. is a provider of transportation and supply chain management solutions. Its business is divided into three business segments: Fleet Management Solutions (FMS), Supply Chain Solutions (SCS) and Dedicated Contract Carriage (DCC). The FMS business segment provides leasing, commercial rental and programmed maintenance of commercial trucks, tractors and trailers to customers, principally in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The SCS business segment provides comprehensive supply chain consulting and lead logistics management solutions throughout North America and in Latin America, Europe and Asia. The DCC business segment provides vehicles and drivers as part of a dedicated transportation solution, principally in North America.
RYAAY Ryanair Holdings plc, operates a low-fare scheduled passenger airline serving short-haul, point-to-point routes in Europe from its bases at Dublin, London (Stansted), Shannon, London (Luton), Glasgow (Prestwick), Brussels (Charleroi), Frankfurt (Hahn), Milan (Bergamo) and Stockholm (Skavsta) airports. The Company offers approximately 500 scheduled short-haul flights per day serving 24 locations in United Kingdom and Ireland, and 64 locations in continental Europe with an operating fleet of 76 aircraft flying a total 161 routes. As of September 1, 2004, Ryanair had 13 Boeing 737-200A jet aircraft, 57 new Boeing 737-800 aircraft and six Boeing 737-300 aircraft. In the fiscal year ended September 29, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company served more than 21 million passengers.
RYAN Ryan's Restaurant Group, Inc., formerly, Ryan's Family Steak Houses, Inc. owns and operates restaurants located principally in the southern and midwestern United States. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned and operated 312 Ryan's restaurants. It also owned and operated 22 Fire Mountain restaurants. A Fire Mountain restaurant offers a selection of foods similar to a Ryan's restaurant with display cooking, and also features updated interior furnishings, an upscale food presentation and a lodge-look exterior. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned and operated 334 restaurants. In addition, 18 Ryan's restaurants were owned and operated by an unrelated third party, under a franchise agreement with the Company. The Company's restaurants are family-oriented restaurants serving a variety of foods from centrally located scatter bars known collectively as the Mega Bar buffet, as well as grilled entrees such as charbroiled steaks, hamburgers, chicken and seafood.
RML Russell Corporation is a branded athletic, active wear and outdoor company. It markets athletic uniforms, apparel, sporting goods, athletic equipment and accessories for a variety of sports, outdoor and fitness activities. The Company's brands include Russell Athletic, Jerzees, Mossy Oak, Cross Creek, Moving Comfort, Discus, Bike, Spalding, Dudley and Sherrin. Russell designs, markets and manufactures or sources a variety of apparel products including fleece, t-shirts, casual shirts, jackets, athletic shorts, socks and camouflage attire for men, women, boys and girls. The Company operates in two segments: the domestic segment, which includes the United States, and the international segment. It markets and distributes its products through mass merchandisers, sporting goods dealers, department and sports specialty stores, college stores, online retailers, mail-order houses, artwear distributors, screen printers and embroiderers. In December 2004, the Company acquired Brooks Sports, Inc.
RUS Russ Berrie &amp; Company, Inc., designs, imports, markets and distributes gift, home decor, infant and functional consumer products. The Company operates in two segments: its core gift business and its non-core business. Its core business designs, manufactures through third parties and markets a variety of gift and home decor products to retail stores throughout the United States and throughout the world via its international wholly owned subsidiaries and distributors. The Company's non-core businesses design and market functional consumer products, and consist of Sassy, Inc., since its acquisition on July 26, 2002, and the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Bright of America, Inc. These products are sold to consumers primarily in the United States through mass marketers. In March 2003, the Company merged its wholly owned subsidiary, Russ Home, Inc., which sells home accessory items, into Russ Berrie &amp; Company, Inc. In December 2004, the Company acquired Kids Line, LLC.
RSHF.OB Rush Financial Technologies Inc., d/b/a RushTrade Group, is a holding company that operates through two primary subsidiaries. RushGroup Technologies, Inc. (RushGroup) and RushTrade Securities, Inc. (RushTrade). Its products include RushTrade Direct Pro, a Level II software-based product; RushTrade Direct Plus, a Level I software-based product, and RushTrade Direct, a Level I browser-based product. The products provide customers and licensees of the RushGroup software with real-time quotes and charts, access to various markets and other advanced decision support and portfolio management tools. In March 2004, the Company acquired LostView Development Corporation, a financial technology and Web-development company that provides professional software contract development services for online trading and document management systems.
RUSHB Rush Enterprises, Inc. is a full-service, integrated retailer of transportation and construction equipment and related services. Through its network of Rush Truck Centers and the Rush Equipment Center, the Company provides one-stop service for the needs of its customers, including retail sales of new and used transportation and construction equipment, aftermarket parts sales, service and repair facilities and financing, leasing and rental and insurance services. The Company provides leasing and rental services through the Rush Leasing and Rental Division at its Rush Truck Centers and Rush Equipment Center. Retail financing of trucks and construction equipment, as well as a line of insurance products, is arranged through the Rush Financial and Insurance Division. In April 2003, the Company acquired Peterbilt of Mobile, Inc., which consisted of a Peterbilt dealership in Mobile, Alabama.
RBNF Rurban Financial Corp. is a bank holding company whose principal activity is the ownership and management of its wholly owned subsidiaries, The State Bank and Trust Company (State Bank), RFC Banking Company (RFCBC), Rurbanc Data Services, Inc. (RDSI), Rurban Life Insurance Company (Rurban Life) and Rurban Statutory Trust 1 (RST). In addition, State Bank owns all of the outstanding stock of Reliance Financial Services, N.A. (RFS) and Rurban Mortgage Company (RMC). The Company is engaged in a variety of activities, including commercial banking, data processing, life and disability reinsurance and trust and financial services, through its direct and indirect subsidiaries.
RCCC Rural Cellular Corporation (RCC) is a wireless communications service provider focusing primarily on rural markets in the United States. The Company's operating regions include portions of five states in the Northeast, two states in the Northwest, four states in the Midwest and three states in the South. As of December 31, 2003, RCC provided wireless voice services to approximately 678,000 customers, excluding wholesale customers. The Company has preferred roaming relationships with AT&amp;T Wireless Services, Inc. (AWE), Cingular Wireless, LLC, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless in its various regions. Its marketed personal communication services (PCS) networks, which RCC operates through Wireless Alliance, a 70%-owned joint venture with T-Mobile, covers a total population of approximately 754,000, and served approximately 16,000 voice customers as of December 31, 2003.
RTEC Rudolph Technologies, Inc. is engaged in the design, development and manufacture of high-performance process control metrology and defect inspection systems used by semiconductor device manufacturers. The Company provides its customers with full-fab metrology solutions by offering families of systems that meet their metrology needs. Its systems are designed for high-volume semiconductor manufacturing facilities and offer automated wafer handling and 200- and 300-millimeter configurations to satisfy customers' manufacturing needs. The Company's MetaPULSE, MetaPULSE-II, ultra-II and S-series products are all built on the production-worthy VANGUARD automation platform that provides a common software system, user interface and hardware base.
RDK Ruddick Corporation is a holding company which, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, is engaged in two primary businesses: Harris Teeter, Inc. (Harris Teeter) operates a regional chain of supermarkets in six southeastern states, and American &amp; Efird, Inc. (A&amp;E) manufactures and distributes industrial and consumer sewing thread on a global basis. Ruddick has no material independent operations, nor material assets, other than the investments in its operating subsidiaries, as well as investments in certain fixed assets, short term cash equivalents and life insurance contracts to support corporate-wide operations and benefit programs. Ruddick provides a variety of services to its subsidiaries and is dependent upon income and upstream dividends from its subsidiaries.
RI Ruby Tuesday, Inc. owns and operates Ruby Tuesday casual dining restaurants and franchises the Ruby Tuesday concept in selected domestic and international markets. The Company owns and operates the Ruby Tuesday concept in the bar and grill segment of casual dining. It also offers franchises for the Ruby Tuesday concept in domestic and international markets. As of he fiscal year ended June 1, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company owned and operated 484 casual dining restaurants located in 26 states and the District of Columbia. During fiscal 2004, the franchise partnerships operated 209 restaurants located in 18 states and traditional franchisees operated seven domestic and 36 international restaurants. As of June 1, 2004, there were 252 franchise restaurants, including 209 operated by franchise partnerships.
RUBO Rubio's Restaurants, Inc. owns and operates 145 quick-casual Mexican restaurants, four concessions and five franchised restaurants that offer traditional Mexican cuisine. Its fresh Mexican grill concept offers prepared food with tastes and flavors using regional Baja Mexican recipes; casual, fun dining experience by creating a fun and relaxed setting in each of its restaurants, and dining value, typically associated with sit-down, casual dining restaurants at low-prices. All of Rubio's Restaurants units include a HealthMex section on their menu and Kid Pesky meals designed for children. It also offers a self-serve salsa bar where guests can choose from four different salsas made every day at each restaurant. Its restaurant's are located in California, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Oregon and Utah. The Company has a wholly owned subsidiary, Rubio's Restaurants of Nevada, Inc.
RBY Rubicon Minerals Corp. is a British Columbia-registered junior resource company engaged in the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties. The Company, directly and through joint ventures, is in the process of exploring its mineral properties and has not yet determined whether these properties contain ore reserves that are economically recoverable. All of its properties are at the exploration stage and there is no assurance that a commercially viable mineral deposit exists on any of the Company's properties. Further exploration will be required on all properties before a final evaluation as to the economic and legal feasibility is determined. Where management determines that it is in the best interest of the Company, partners will be sought to further explore certain properties. The Company's principal properties are the McFinley Gold Project and its other Red Lake holdings, both located in the Province of Ontario.
RTWI RTW, Inc. and its wholly owned insurance subsidiary, American Compensation Insurance Company (ACIC), provide disability management products and services to insured and self-insured employers for their workers' compensation programs. The Company's management approach to workers' compensation aims to reduce wage-replacement costs and medical expenses resulting from workplace injuries. It focuses on controlling costs by safely returning injured employees to work as soon as possible and by actively managing all participants in the workers' compensation system, including employers, employees, medical care providers and the legal and judicial participants in the workers' compensation system. The elements of RTW's management approach include thorough evaluation of potential customers; active training of customers' management and employees in the Company's procedures, and rapid intervention in, and intensive management of, potentially high-cost injuries.
RTI RTI International Metals, Inc. manufactures titanium mill products and fabricated metal parts for the global market. The Company conducts business in two segments, the Titanium Group and the Fabrication and Distribution Group (F&amp;D). The Titanium Group melts and produces a range of titanium mill products, which are further processed by its customers for use in a variety of aerospace and industrial applications. The F&amp;D Group consists of companies that fabricate and distribute titanium and other specialty metal parts and components. Its products, many of which are engineered parts and assemblies, serve aerospace, oil and gas, power generation and chemical process industries, as well as a number of other industrial and consumer markets.
RSII.OB RSI Holdings, Inc. operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Employment Solutions, and is in the business of locating and providing labor to industrial companies from its facility in Greenwood, South Carolina. The Company makes arrangements with its client companies to provide the client companies with manual labor. The Company's client companies request workers according to their needs and the Company fills the vacancies from a pool of available labor. The client companies pay the Company for the hours worked at a negotiated hourly rate and the Company is responsible for paying the workers for the hours worked plus the related payroll taxes, insurance and other payroll costs. The workers work at the client company's job site under the direction of the client company's personnel.
RSAS RSA Security Inc. helps organizations protect private information and manage the identities of the people and applications accessing and exchanging that information. The Company's portfolio of solutions, including identity and access management, secure mobile and remote access, secure enterprise access and secure transactions, are all designed to provide a seamless e-security experience. In addition to its portfolio of solutions, the Company operates RSA Laboratories, its research center that provides cryptography and security technology services. RSA Security has more than 14,000 customers worldwide, and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachussetts.
RPM RPM International Inc. (RPM) manufactures and markets specialty paints, protective coatings and roofing systems, sealants and adhesives, focusing on the maintenance and improvement needs of both the industrial and consumer markets. The Company's family of products includes those marketed under brand names, such as Carboline, DAP, Day-Glo, Flecto, Rust-Oleum, Stonhard, Tremco and Zinsser. In fiscal year ended May 31, 2004, RPM marketed its products in over 140 countries and territories and operated manufacturing facilities in 74 locations in the United States, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. The Company has two operating segments: Industrial and Consumer.
RES RPC, Inc. provides a range of specialized oilfield services and equipment primarily to various oil and gas companies engaged in the exploration, production and development of oil and gas properties throughout the United States and selected international markets. The Company's service lines have been aggregated into two oil and gas services business segments, Technical Services and Support Services. The services and equipment provided include, among other things, pressure pumping services, snubbing services, coiled tubing services, nitrogen services, the rental of drill pipe and other specialized oilfield equipment, firefighting and well control and marine services. RPC acts as a holding company for its operating business units, Cudd Pressure Control, Patterson Services, Bronco Oilfield Services (acquired in April 2003), Thru-Tubing Solutions, Well Control School, International Hammer and others.
RVT Royce Value Trust, Inc. (the Fund) is a small-cap value closed-end fund managed by Royce &amp; Associates, LLC. A closed-end fund raises cash for investment by issuing a fixed number of shares through initial and other public offerings, which may include periodic rights offerings. Proceeds from the offerings are invested in an actively managed portfolio of securities. A closed-end fund may invest more freely in less liquid portfolio securities because it is not subject to potential stockholder redemption demands. This is particularly beneficial for Royce-managed closed-end funds, which invest in small and micro-cap securities.
ROYL Royale Energy, Inc. is an independent oil and natural gas producer. The Company's principal lines of business are the production and sale of natural gas, acquisition of oil and gas lease interests and proved reserves, drilling of both exploratory and development wells and sales of fractional working interests in wells to be drilled by Royale Energy. The Company owns wells and leases located mainly in the Sacramento Basin and San Joaquin Basin in California. It also owns proved developed producing reserves of oil and natural gas in Texas and Louisiana. The Company generally operates the wells it completes.
RYG Royal Group Technologies Limited is a vertically integrated manufacturer of polymer-based home improvement, consumer and construction products. Royal's operations are located primarily in Canada and the United States, with international locations in Mexico, South America, Europe and Asia. The Company's operations are arranged into two segments, Products and Support. The Products segment consists of 58 wholly owned or joint ventured business units engaged in the manufacture of the following product lines: home improvement products, consumer products and construction products. The Support segment consists of 17 wholly or joint ventured business units. It is tasked with a series of activities primarily supplied to the Products segment to facilitate customer service, rapid product development and a low cost structure.
RGLD Royal Gold, Inc. together with its subsidiaries, is engaged in the acquisition and management of precious metals royalty interests. The Company seeks to acquire existing royalties or to finance projects that are in production or near production in exchange for royalty interests. Royalties are passive (non-operating) interests in mining projects that provide the right to revenue from the project after deducting specified costs, if any. It also explores and develops properties thought to contain precious metals, and seeks to obtain royalty interests and other carried ownership interests in these properties through the subsequent transfer of interests to other mining companies. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Royal did not conduct mining operations.
RD Royal Dutch Petroleum Company owns a 60% interest in Royal Dutch/Shell Group. The Shell Transport and Trading Company, p.l.c. owns the remaining 40%. The companies of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group are engaged worldwide in all the principal aspects of the oil and natural gas industry. They also have interests in chemicals and additional interests in power generation, renewable energy (chiefly in wind and solar energy) and other businesses. As Parent Companies, Royal Dutch and Shell Transport do not directly engage in operational activities. The Parent Companies own the shares in the Group Holding Companies but are not part of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies. They appoint Directors to the Boards of the Group Holding Companies, from which they receive income in the form of dividends. The Parent Companies receive most of their income in this way.
RCL Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is a global cruise vacation company operating Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises, with a combined total of 29 ships in service and two under construction. The Company also offers cruisetour vacations in Alaska, Canada and Europe. The Company's brands offer an array of onboard activities, services and amenities, including swimming pools, sun decks, beauty salons, exercise and spa facilities, ice skating rinks, inline skating, basketball courts, rock climbing walls, miniature golf courses, gaming facilities, lounges, bars, Las Vegas-style entertainment, cinemas and Royal Promenades, which include interior shopping, dining and an entertainment boulevard.
ROBE.OB Royal BodyCare, Inc. (RBC) is engaged in marketing products through an international network of independent distributors. The Company's core product line is marketed under the Royal BodyCare brand name in three broad categories: wellness products, weight-loss products and sports and fitness products (collectively, nutritional products). Its products include herbal formulas, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and personal care products. RBC markets these products in countries outside of the United States, Canada and Japan through exclusive licensing arrangements. In addition to the Royal BodyCare products, the Company also markets a line of wound care and oncology products (medical products) in the United States under the MPM Medical trade name. These products are distributed by RBC to hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and pharmacies through medical/surgical supply dealers and pharmaceutical distributors.
RY Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) operates under the master brand RBC Financial Group and has five major business platforms or segments: RBC Banking (personal and commercial banking), RBC Insurance (insurance), RBC Investments (wealth management), RBC Capital Markets (corporate and investment banking) and RBC Global Services (securities custody and transaction processing). The Company serves more than 12 million personal, business and public sector clients worldwide from offices in more than 30 countries. The Company has approximately 1,416 branches and 4,372 automated banking machines.
RBPAA Royal Bancshares of Pennsylvania, Inc. is a bank holding company that owns all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Royal Bank of Pennsylvania. The principal activities of Royal Bancshares are owning and supervising Royal Bank, which engages in a general banking business principally in Montgomery, Philadelphia and Berks counties in Pennsylvania, and southern New Jersey. Royal Bank serves this area from 16 branches. The Bank also considers the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Delaware as a part of its service area for certain products and services. Frequently, Royal Bank will do business with clients located outside of its service area. Royal Bank has loans in 29 states via participations with other lenders who have experience in those respective markets.
RSA Royal &amp; Sun Alliance Insurance Group plc is a multinational insurer conducting operations in over 30 countries and covers risks in over 130 countries. The Company offers a broad range of property and casualty insurance products primarily in Latin America, as well as in a limited number of countries. It also offers a range of life insurance, savings and pension products. In addition, it conducts complementary businesses in support of the insurance operations, such as risk management services, including claims management and loss control services in the major markets around the globe. Royal &amp; Sun is engaged in both general (property and casualty) and long-term (life insurance) insurance. The general insurance subsidiaries are multiple line companies writing substantially all lines of general insurance. The Company's life insurance subsidiaries offer traditional insurance and financial and investment products.
RDC Rowan Companies, Inc. is a provider of international and domestic contract drilling and aviation services. It also operates a mini-steel mill, a manufacturing facility that produces heavy equipment for the mining, timber and transportation industries and a drilling products group that has designed or built about one-third of all mobile offshore jack-up drilling rigs. Rowan provides contract drilling services utilizing a fleet of 23 self-elevating mobile offshore drilling platforms (jack-up rigs), one mobile offshore floating platform (semi-submersible rig) and 18 land drilling rigs. The Company also produces transportation, mining and timber equipment. Rowan's wholly owned subsidiary, Era Aviation, Inc., provides contract and charter helicopter and fixed-wing aviation services principally in Alaska, the coastal areas of Louisiana and Texas and the western United States. In January 2005, the Company sold 100% of the common stock of Era Aviation, Inc. to SEACOR Holdings Inc.,
RMI Rotonics Manufacturing Inc. is in the business of manufacturing and marketing of plastic products for commercial, agricultural, refuse, pharmaceutical, marine, recreation, medical waste, healthcare, retail, recreation and residential use, as well as an array of custom-molded plastic products to customers in a variety of industries, located in diverse geographic markets. Its products include various types of storage tanks, bin lids, refuse containers for automated removal, medical waste containers, agricultural/livestock products, kayaks, outdoor polysteel lamp posts, furniture, planters and other rotonically molded items. The Company has 10 manufacturing locations in the United States.
ROS Rostelecom is Russia's national long-distance telecommunications operator. The Company owns and operates an up-to-date nationwide digital trunk network. In every region of Russia, Rostelecom acts as a carriers' carrier, interconnecting all local public operators' networks into a single transnational network. In Moscow, Rostelecom provides fixed-line domestic long-distance (DLD) and international (ILD) services to end customers through the last-mile infrastructure of a local operator, and bills customers directly. The Company has direct international connections with more than 100 operators in 72 countries, participates in 30 international cable systems and cooperates with 400 international operators.
ROST Ross Stores, Inc. operates a chain of off-price retail apparel and home accessories stores that target value-conscious men and women between the ages of 25 and 54, primarily in middle-income households. The Company offers brand-name and designer merchandise at low everyday prices. As of January 31, 2004, Ross operated 568 stores, located predominantly in community and neighborhood strip shopping centers in populated urban and suburban areas. During the year, Ross opened 66 new Ross Dress For Less stores and closed five locations. The Company's stores are located in 25 states.
ROP Roper Industries, Inc. is an industrial company that designs, manufactures and distributes energy systems and controls, scientific and industrial imaging products and software, industrial technology products and instrumentation products and services. The Company markets these products and services to markets, including water and wastewater, oil and gas, research, power generation, medical, semiconductor, refrigeration, automotive and general industry. Roper's segments, Instrumentation and Industrial Technology segment offers equipment and consumables for materials analysis, fluid properties testing and industrial leak testing; Energy Systems and Controls segment's products include control systems, machinery vibration and other non-destructive inspection and measurement products and solutions, and Scientific and Industrial Imaging segment offers high-performance digital imaging products and software. In December 2004, the Company acquired TransCore Holdings, Inc.
RMLX.OB RoomLinX, Inc., formerly ARC Communications Inc., is an interactive multimedia design firm specializing in the healthcare, technology and pharmaceutical industries. Services include marketing, consulting, Website development, e-commerce, interactive multimedia and graphics design. RoomLinX's graphic design and interactive multimedia products use advanced technologies to create media for corporate communications. The Company earns revenues from the interactive programs from billing for the creative development. In June 2004, the Company merged with a privately held provider of wireless fidelity high-speed Internet network solutions to the hospitality industry.
ROOG.OB ROO Group, Inc. (formerly Virilitec Industries, Inc.) is a development-stage digital media company in the business of providing products and solutions that enable the broadcast of video content from their Internet Websites. The Company specializes in providing the technology and content required for video to be played on computers via the Internet, as well as emerging broadcasting platforms, such as set top boxes and wireless devices (mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs)). Its core activities include the aggregation of video content, media management, traditional and online advertising, hosting and content delivery. ROO Group also operates a global network of individual destination portals under the brand ROO TV, which enables end users in different regions around the world to view video content over the Internet that is topical, informative, up to date and specific to the region in which they live.
RONC Ronson Corporation is engaged principally in two business segments: Consumer Products, and Aviation-Fixed Wing Operations and Services and Helicopter Services. Consumer packaged products, which are manufactured in Woodbridge, New Jersey, and distributed in the United States by its wholly owned subsidiary, Ronson Consumer Products Corporation (RCPC), include Ronsonol lighter fluid, Multi-Fill butane fuel injectors, flints, wicks for lighters, a multi-use penetrant spray lubricant product under the trade name Multi-Lube, and a spot remover under the product trade name, Kleenol. Ronson Aviation, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, provides a range of general aviation services to the general public and to government agencies. Services include air charter, air cargo, cargo handling, avionics, management aviation services, new and used aircraft sales, aircraft repairs, aircraft fueling, storage and office rental.
ROME Rome Bancorp, Inc. is the stock holding company for The Rome Savings Bank (the Bank). The Company's principal business is to hold the capital stock of Rome Savings. The Bank is a community and customer oriented retail savings bank that offers traditional deposit products, residential real estate mortgage loans and consumer, commercial and commercial real estate loans. In addition, Rome Savings also purchases securities issued by the United States Government and government agencies, municipal securities, mortgage-backed securities and other investments permitted by applicable laws and regulations. Operations are conducted out of its executive office in Rome, New York and three branch offices located in Oneida County, New York, two of which are located in Rome and one in New Hartford, New York.
ROL Rollins, Inc. is a national service company, providing pest and termite control services to both residential and commercial customers in North America. Orkin, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, provides customized services from over 400 locations to approximately 1.6 million customers. Orkin serves customers in the United States, Canada and Mexico, providing pest control services and protection against termite damage, rodents and insects to homes and businesses, including hotels, food service establishments, food manufacturers, retailers and transportation companies. Orkin operates under the Orkin and PCO Services, Inc. trademarks and the AcuridSM service mark.
ROH Rohm and Haas Company is a global specialty materials company that designs materials and processes that enable its customers' products to work. Its products are sold primarily for use in the construction and building, electronics, household products and personal care, packaging, food and retail and automotive markets. The Company operates six business segments: Coatings, Adhesives and Sealants, Electronic Materials, Performance Chemicals, Salt and Monomers. To serve these markets, Rohm and Haas operates over 100 manufacturing and 30 research facilities in 27 countries. Its geographic reach continues to expand with 53% of sales in North America, 27% in Europe, 17% in Asia-Pacific and 3% in Latin America.
ROG Rogers Corporation manufactures and sells specialty polymer composite materials and components that it develops for markets and applications around the world. The Company has three business segments: High Performance Foams, Printed Circuit Materials and Polymer Materials and Components. Its products are based on its core technologies in polymers, fillers and adhesion. The products are sold under its brand names.
RG Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI) is a diversified communications company engaged in cable television, broadband Internet (Internet) access and video retailing through its wholly owned subsidiary, Rogers Cable; in wireless voice, data and messaging services through its 55.8%-owned subsidiary, Rogers Wireless, and in radio and television broadcasting, televised shopping, consumer magazines and trade and professional publications through its wholly owned subsidiary, Rogers Media. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the sharing of call center and information technology (IT) infrastructure enabled the Company to form an integrated cable and wireless customer service group, serving the needs of customers subscribing to both cable and wireless services. On October 12, 2004, Rogers Communications completed of its previously announced purchase, through its wholly owned subsidiary, RWCI Acquisition Inc., which increases it's stake in Rogers Wireless to approximately 89.3%.
RSTI Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc. (RSTI) designs, develops, engineers, manufactures and markets laser-based products, primarily used for cutting, welding and marking a range of materials. The Company's lasers all deliver a beam at guaranteed power outputs and feature compact design, high-processing speed, flexibility, low operating and maintenance costs and easy integration into the customer's production process. The Company offers its customers carbon dioxide (CO2), solid state and diode laser sources and solutions in a variety of configurations and options. Its lasers all deliver a beam at guaranteed power outputs and feature compact design, high processing speed, flexibility, low operating and maintenance costs and easy integration into the customer's production process.
RBLG.OB Roebling Financial Corp, Inc. serves as the holding company for Roebling Bank (the Bank). The Bank offers of a selection of deposit instruments, including checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts and term certificate accounts in its primary market area. It also offers various types of loans, including mortgage loans, construction loans, commercial real estate loans and commercial business loans. The Bank has three retail offices, two located in Roebling and one located in New Egypt, New Jersey. In addition, a loan center office is located in Roebling. From these locations, the Bank primarily serves the towns of Roebling, Florence Township and New Egypt. The Bank's secondary market includes Burlington City, Cream Ridge, Wrightstown, Bordentown City and Springfield, Mansfield, Bordentown, Plumsted, New Hanover and North Hanover Townships.
RCKY Rocky Shoes &amp; Boots, Inc. has three subsidiaries: Five Star Enterprises Ltd. (Five Star), a Cayman Islands corporation, which operates a manufacturing facility in La Vega, Dominican Republic; Lifestyle Footwear, Inc. (Lifestyle), a Delaware corporation, which operates a manufacturing facility in Moca, Puerto Rico, and Rocky Canada, Inc, an Ontario corporation, which operates a sales and distribution operation in Waterloo, Ontario. The Company operates in one segment, footwear and related apparel and accessories. Rocky and Gates are its federally registered trademarks. Its product lines consist of rugged outdoor, occupational, military and casual footwear and outdoor apparel and Gates. In January 2005, the Company acquired EJ Footwear Group.
RMCF Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc. is an international franchiser and confectionery manufacturer that produces a line of premium chocolate candies and other confectionery products. During the year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), there were eight Company-owned and 252-franchised Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory stores operating in 40 states, Canada, Guam and the United Arab Emirates. Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory sells its products in a number of distribution channel programs, including wholesaling, fundraising, corporate sales, mail order and Internet sales. During fiscal 2004, there were Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory stores in approximately 75 of factory outlet malls in over 30 states and approximately 70 Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory stores in locations and tourist areas, including Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, California, and the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas.
RMTI Rockwell Medical Technologies, Inc. manufactures, sells, distributes and delivers hemodialysis concentrates, as well as a line of ancillary hemodialysis products to hemodialysis providers and distributors located in more than 33 states, as well as several foreign countries, primarily in the Far East, eastern Europe and Latin America. Hemodialysis concentrates consist of two primary product types, which are generally described as acidified dialysate concentrate, also known as, acid concentrate and bicarbonate. The Company has also licensed the exclusive right to manufacture and sell iron-supplemented dialysate that has the potential to improve the treatment of dialysis patients with iron deficiency. To realize a commercial benefit from this therapy, Rockwell must complete clinical trials and obtain United States Food and Drug Administration approval to market iron supplemented dialysate.
COL Rockwell Collins, Inc., incorporated in March 2001, provides design, production and support of communications and aviation electronics for military and commercial customers worldwide. The Company has two operating segments consisting of the commercial systems and government systems businesses. Commercial systems business supplies air transport aviation electronics systems and products as well as business and regional aviation electronics systems and products. The Company's government systems business supplies defense communications systems and products as well as defense electronics systems and products, which include subsystems, navigation and displays, to the United States Department of Defense, other government agencies, civil agencies, defense contractors and foreign ministries of defense.
ROK Rockwell Automation, Inc. is a global provider of industrial automation power, control and information products and services. The Company has two operating segments: Control Systems and Power Systems. Control Systems supplies industrial automation products, systems, software and services focused on helping customers control and improve manufacturing processes and is divided into three business groups: the Components and Packaged Applications Group (CPAG), the Automation Control and Information Group (ACIG) and Global Manufacturing Solutions (GMS). Power Systems is divided into two businesses: Dodge mechanical (Mechanical) and Reliance electrical (Electrical). The Control Systems segment contributed approximately 83% and the Power Systems segment contributed approximately 17% of the Company's revenues during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004). In September 2004, the Company sold its FirstPoint Contact business.
ROFO Rockford Corporation designs, manufactures and distributes high-performance audio systems for the mobile, professional and home theater audio markets. The Company's mobile audio products are sold primarily in the worldwide mobile audio aftermarket to consumers who want to improve the audio systems in their cars, trucks, boats and airplanes. Rockford markets its mobile audio products under the Rockford Fosgate, Lightning Audio, MB Quart, Q-Logic, InstallEdge.com and Omnifi brand names, selling products that include digital and analog amplifiers, speakers, source units, CD changers, digital media players and accessories. The Company sells home theater products under the NHT, Fosgate Audionics, MB Quart and Omnifi brands. Rockford also sells professional audio products under the MB Quart, NHT and Hafler brands. In addition, the Company sells mobile and home products incorporating the SimpleDevices technology under the Omnifi brand name.
RKT Rock-Tenn Company is a manufacturer of packaging, merchandising displays and 100% recycled clay-coated and specialty paperboard and corrugating medium. The Company's packaging operations manufacture folding cartons, solid fiber interior packaging, corrugated packaging and corrugated sheet stock. It produces laminated paperboard products and collect and sell recycled fiber. The Company operates at a total of 84 locations, which include 41 paperboard converting operations, 11 recycled paperboard mills, 12 paper recovery facilities, 19 facilities at which it conducts contract packaging, sales and design, engineering, marketing and brokerage, or fulfillment operations, and the principal executive offices. The Company operates in three industry segments: the Packaging Products segment, the Merchandising Displays and Corrugated Packaging segment, and the Paperboard segment.
ROAC Rock of Ages Corporation is an integrated granite quarrier, manufacturer and retailer, whose principal product is granite memorials used primarily in cemeteries. The Company's principal products are classified into three general product lines: granite quarry products, manufactured granite products and non-granite memorials and cemetery products. Rock of Ages owns and operates 10 active quarry properties and six manufacturing and sawing facilities in North America, principally in Vermont and the Province of Quebec. It markets its memorials under four separate brand names: Signature, Sealmark, Golden Rule by Rock of Ages and Stone Eternal by Rock of Ages. The Company also sells non-branded memorials. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company had four business segments: quarrying, manufacturing, retail and cemeteries. On December 17, 2003, the Company sold all of the Company's cemetery properties and assets to Saber Management, LLC, thereby exiting the cemetery business.
ROCM Rochester Medical Corporation develops, manufactures and markets a broad line of technologically enhanced latex-free and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) free urinary continence and urine drainage care products for the extended care and acute care markets. The Company's extended care products include a line of male external catheters for managing male urinary incontinence and a line of intermittent catheters for managing both male and female urinary retention. The extended care products also include the FemSoft Insert, a soft, liquid-filled conformable urethral insert for managing female stress urinary incontinence in adult females. The Company's acute care products include a line of standard Foley catheters and its RELEASE-NF Catheter, an antibacterial Foley catheter that reduces the incidence of hospital acquired urinary tract infection (UTI).
ROBO RoboGroup T.E.K. Ltd. operates in three segments: sales to educational institutions, motion control products and development. Sales to educational institutions segment includes sale of robotic products, automation products, computerized numerical control (CNC) machining and software for computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) and other products for educational institutions in Israel and abroad. The Motion control products segment, which consists of the Company's subsidiary, YET, includes the development and sale of industrial technologies in the motion control industry. These products are developed and marketed by a consolidated company. Business development segment includes research and development and other expenses in MemCall.
RIMS.OB Robocom Systems International Inc. (RSI) develops, markets and supports advanced warehouse management software solutions that enable companies to atomize their warehouse operations and have inventory visibility throughout the supply chain. The Company's primary product, RIMS, is a client-configurable software solution. RIMS operate in an open-system environment and interfaces with an organization's information systems. The Company also provides installation, training, implementation support and maintenance services and resells related hardware. RSI targets its marketing efforts primarily on manufacturers, distributors, retailers and wholesalers in the consumer products, industrial supplies, petrochemical products, government, food processing, public utilities and medical/pharmaceutical sectors, as well as other high-volume wholesalers and distributors.
RPI Roberts Realty Investors, Inc. (Roberts Realty) owns and operates multi-family residential properties as a self-administered, self-managed equity real estate investment trust. It conducts its business through Roberts Properties Residential, L.P., which it refers to as the operating partnership. The operating partnership owns all of the Company's properties. As of March 8, 2004, Roberts Realty owns seven existing multi-family apartment communities that were stabilized containing a total of 1,694 apartment homes; one community containing 319 apartment homes under construction; a 10.9-acre site in the planning and design phase; a 42,090-square-foot retail center under construction, and a 39,907-square-foot office building under construction. In January 2005, the Company purchased an 82% undivided interest in 23.5 acres in North Atlanta from Roberts Properties Peachtree Parkway, L.P.
RHI Robert Half International Inc. is a specialized staffing and risk consulting services company. The Company operates through the following divisions: Accountemps, Robert Half Finance &amp; Accounting, OfficeTeam, Robert Half Technology, Robert Half Management Resources, Robert Half Legal, The Creative Group and Protiviti. Accountemps, Robert Half Finance &amp; Accounting and Robert Half Management Resources provide temporary, full-time, and project professionals in the fields of accounting and finance. OfficeTeam provides temporary administrative support personnel. Robert Half Technology provides information technology professionals. Robert Half Legal provides temporary, project and full-time staffing of attorneys and specialized support personnel within law firms and corporate legal departments. The Creative Group provides project staffing in the advertising, marketing and Web design fields. Protiviti provides business and technology risk consulting and internal audit services.
RBN Robbins &amp; Myers, Inc., is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of highly engineered, application-critical equipment and systems for the pharmaceutical, energy and industrial markets worldwide. Its principal brand names include Pfaudler, Moyno, Chemineer, Laetus, FrymaKoruma, Siebler, Hapa and Hercules. The Company's business consists of three market-focused segments: Pharmaceutical, Energy and Industrial. The pharmaceutical business segment includes the Reactor Systems and Romaco businesses, and is focused primarily on the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. The energy business segment designs, manufactures and markets equipment and systems used in oil and gas exploration and recovery. The Industrial business segment is comprised of the Company's Moyno, Tarby, Chemineer and Edlon businesses, which design, manufacture and market products that are used in specialty chemical, wastewater treatment and a variety of other industrial applications.
RESC Roanoke Electric Steel Corporation, together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, extracts scrap metal from discarded automobiles to manufacture, fabricate and market merchant steel products, specialty steel sections, billets, open-web steel joists and reinforcing bars. Each subsidiary is either a supplier to the Company or a purchaser of its finished product and billets. The main plant of Roanoke is a steel mini-mill located in Roanoke, Virginia, which comprises of 82 acres, 25 of which are used to provide 364,500 square feet of manufacturing space with an annual billet capacity of approximately 650,000 tons and rolling mill capacity of 400,000 tons. This facility melts scrap steel in electric furnaces and continuously casts the molten steel into billets. These billets are rolled into merchant steel products consisting of angles, plain rounds, flats, channels and reinforcing bars of various lengths and sizes. Excess steel billet production is sold to mills without melting facilities.
RLI RLI Corp. is a holding company that underwrites selected property and casualty insurance through its insurance subsidiaries. The Company conducts operations principally through three insurance companies. RLI Insurance Company, its principal subsidiary, writes multiple lines insurance on an admitted basis in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Mt. Hawley Insurance Company, a subsidiary of RLI Insurance Company, writes surplus lines insurance in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam. RLI Indemnity Company, a subsidiary of Mt. Hawley, has authority to write multiple lines insurance on an admitted basis in 48 states and the District of Columbia. Other companies in RLI's group include Replacement Lens Inc., RLI Insurance Agency, Ltd., RLI Insurance Ltd., Underwriters Indemnity General Agency, Inc. and Safe Fleet Insurance Services, Inc.
RTC Riviera Tool Company is a designer and manufacturer of large-scale, complex stamping die systems used to form sheet metal parts. Most of the stamping die systems sold by the Company are used in the production of automobile and truck body parts such as roofs, hoods, fenders, doors, door frames, structural components and bumpers. For the fiscal year ended August 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), DaimlerChrysler, Ford, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz and BMW and their respective tier one suppliers accounted for approximately 92%, in the aggregate, of the Company's revenues.
RIV Riviera Holdings Corporation through its wholly owned subsidiary, Riviera Operating Corporation, owns and operates the Riviera Hotel &amp; Casino (Riviera Las Vegas). The Riviera Las Vegas delivers traditional Las Vegas-style gaming, entertainment and other amenities. The Company through its wholly owned subsidiary, Riviera Black Hawk, Inc., also owns and operates the Riviera Black Hawk Casino (Riviera Black Hawk). The Company has two segments: the Las Vegas, Nevada, market and the Black Hawk, Colorado, market.
RVSB Riverview Bancorp, Inc. is a community-oriented, financial institution engaged primarily in the business of attracting deposits from the general public and using such funds in its primary market area to originate mortgage loans secured by one- to four-family residential real estate, multi-family, commercial construction, commercial real estate and non-mortgage loans providing financing for business commercial and consumer purposes. The Company is the holding company for Riverview Community Bank (formerly Riverview Savings Bank FSB). At March 31, 2004, the Company's total net loans receivable, including loans held for sale accounted for 73.3% of total assets. Its principal lending activity is the origination of mortgage loans, including residential, residential construction loans and loans collateralized by commercial properties. Deposits, loan repayments and loan sales are the major sources of the Company's funds for lending and other investment purposes.
RIVR River Valley Bancorp, incorporated in 1996, is a thrift holding company whose principal activity is the ownership and management of River Valley Financial Bank (the Bank). The Company owns all of the issued and outstanding common stock of the Bank. River Valley Financial Bank operates under a federal thrift charter and provides full banking services to consumer and commercial customers in Jefferson County, Indiana and adjoining counties. The Bank generates commercial, mortgage and consumer loans and receives deposits from customers located in its market area. The Bank's loans are generally secured by specific items of collateral including real property, consumer assets and business assets. On March 13, 2003, the Company formed the RIVR Statutory Trust I, to issue and sell certain securities representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust and to invest the proceeds thereof in certain debentures of the Company.
RVTIF.OB Rival Technologies, Inc. is a development stage company. On April 1, 2003, the Company acquired a new technology for reducing diesel emissions, and focuses on developing and marketing this technology. Historically, it was a manufacturer and distributor of fire extinguishants and fire retardant products worldwide. These products were used in commercial applications where water or solid chemicals would cause damage to expensive equipment, such as computers. Due to lack of market demand for the product, it has ceased sales of the product. The Company does not expect any further sales of these products and has abandoned this business effective the three-month period beginning April 1, 2003. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Rival changed its business and no longer generates revenues from operations. The Company operates in one reportable segment, being the diesel technology industry, in Canada and the United States of America.
RAD Rite Aid Corporation operates a retail drugstore chain in the United States. During the fiscal year ended February 28, 2004 (fiscal 2003), the Company operated 3,382 stores located in 28 states across the country and in the District of Columbia. Rite Aid sells prescription drugs and an assortment of other merchandise front-end products in its stores. In fiscal 2003, Rite Aid offered over 24,000 front-end products, which accounted for the 36.4% of the Company's total sales. The front end products include over-the-counter (OTC) medications, health and beauty aids, personal care items, cosmetics, household items, beverages, convenience foods, greeting cards, seasonal merchandise, photo processing and other everyday and convenience products.
RBA Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated is an auctioneer of industrial equipment in over 90 locations, including 29 auction sites, in more than 20 countries around the world. The Company sells, through unreserved public auctions, a range of equipment, including equipment used in the construction, transportation, mining, forestry, petroleum, marine and agricultural industries. The Company's customers are primarily end users of equipment, such as contractors, and they also include equipment manufacturers, dealers, brokers and finance companies. The Company's core target market includes both mobile and stationary equipment.
RITA RITA Medical Systems, Inc. (RITA) is a medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets minimally invasive products to treat patients with solid cancerous or benign tumors. It is focused on addressing the liver cancer market and the bone cancer market. The Company's product offerings are disposable devices, which consist of needle-shaped electrodes and contain several thermocouples or temperature sensors and generators, which employ an internal computer and have a display to convey information to the physician while using the system. The Company's proprietary system is designed to use radiofrequency energy to provide an invasive approach to ablating solid cancerous or benign tumors. In July 2004, the Company merged with Horizon Medical Products, Inc., a company engaged in the design, development, manufacture and sale of technologically advanced, high-value-added, percutaneous vascular and spinal access systems.
RITT RiT Technologies Ltd. develops intelligent physical layer solutions for improved control, utilization and maintenance of networks. The Company's products include PatchView, SMART Patch Panel technology, PatchView, SMART Cabling System, PanView, SmartPatch and PairView. During the year ended December 31, 2003, RiT introduced PairQ, a product line that addresses the requirements of the market of digital subscriber line (DSL) services, which enable transfer of high-bandwidth communication on plain old telephony lines. The Company markets its products in more than 50 countries, including through its wholly owned subsidiary in the United States, RiT Inc., as well as representative offices in Germany and Russia. End users include global telecommunications companies and enterprises, including Deutsche Telekom, Alcatel, TELMEX, TELENOR, the New York Mercantile Exchange, ING Barings, DIAGEO, Daewoo and Reuters.
RVEP Rio Vista Energy Partners LP is a limited partnership that, through its wholly owned subsidiary Rio Vista Operating GP LLC, is engaged in the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) distribution, transportation, terminal and marketing business through its interest in Rio Vista Operating Partnership L.P., which will own the operating assets of such business facilities directly or through its wholly owned subsidiaries. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Rio Vista Operating GP LLC owns the general partner interest in Rio Vista Operating Partnership L.P., and the Company owns all of the outstanding limited partnership interests of Rio Vista Operating Partnership L.P.
RTP Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited (collectively, Rio Tinto) operate as a single business organization engaged in finding, mining and processing the Earth's mineral resources. Its major products include aluminum, copper, diamonds, energy products (coal and uranium), gold, industrial minerals (borax, titanium dioxide, salt, talc and zircon) and iron ore. Its activities span the world but are strongly represented in Australia and North America, with significant businesses in South America, Asia, Europe and southern Africa.
RNO Rio Narcea Gold Mines, Ltd. is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of precious and base metals properties in Spain and Portugal. The Company has five wholly owned subsidiaries: Rio Narcea Gold Mines, S.A., Rio Narcea Recursos, S.A., Naraval Gold, S.L. and Rio Narcea Nickel, S.A., all of which are Spanish corporations, and Rio Narcea Recursos, Ltd., a Canadian corporation. The El Valle and the Carles gold mines, located in northern Spain, are the Company's main operating assets. The Company is also constructing and developing the Aguablanca nickel-copper-platinum group metals (PGM) project in Spain, scheduled for commissioning in 2004. The Company acquired the advanced-stage Salave gold project in early 2004 and is proceeding to undertake a bankable feasibility study. Through its subsidiaries, the Company controls 6,221 square kilometers of mineral rights, investigation and exploration permits, and exploration licenses in Spain and Portugal.
RIN Rinker Group Limited (Rinker) is a manufacturer and supplier of heavy-building materials in the United States and Australia. In the United States, Rinker's subsidiary, Rinker Materials, is a producer of heavy-building materials, with its principal operations in Florida and Arizona, and additional operations in 29 other states. Its products include aggregate, cement, concrete, concrete block, asphalt, concrete pipe, pre-stressed concrete products and polyethylene pipe. Rinker Materials also has a gypsum wallboard distribution business in Florida. In Australia, Rinker's subsidiary, Readymix, is a producer of aggregate, concrete, concrete pipe and other concrete products. The business segments for Rinker Materials are Aggregate; Cement; Concrete, concrete block and asphalt; Concrete pipe and products, and Other. Readymix is one segment. On March 28, 2003, the Federal Court of Australia approved the demerger of Rinker from CSR Limited.
RIMG Rimage Corporation is a provider of compact disc (CD) recordable (CD-R) and digital video disc (DVD) recordable (DVD-R) publishing systems required for producing discs with customized digital content on an on-demand basis. The Company focuses its CD-R and DVD-R publishing solutions on a set of vertical markets with special needs for customized, on-demand digital information, including digital photography, medical imaging, banking and finance, government and business offices. Since the acquisition of Cedar, Rimage's CD-R and DVD-R products have been divided into two product lines: the Producer line of higher volume equipment for CD-R and DVD-R production, and the Desktop line of lower-cost products for office and other desktop applications.
RNOW RightNow Technologies, Inc. is a provider of on-demand software solutions designed to optimize customer service operations for businesses of all sizes. Its customer service solution features a self-learning knowledgebase that is designed to seamlessly support multiple communications channels, including Web, interactive voice, e-mail, chat, telephone and proactive outbound e-mail communications. The Company offers its solutions through a multi-tenant, hosted on-demand model to reduce the cost and risk associated with deploying traditional enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) software. It also provides business process optimization and product tune-ups throughout the lifecycle of its client relationships. The Company is headquartered in Bozeman, Montana, with offices in Europe and Asia.
RIGS Riggs National Corporation is engaged in banking-related activities through its bank and non-bank subsidiaries. The Company has banking operations or subsidiaries in the Washington, District of Columbia, New Haven, Connecticut, Miami, Florida, London, England, the United Kingdom, Berlin, Germany, Jersey, Channel Islands, and Nassau, Bahamas. It is a bank holding company engaged in a variety of banking and financial services, including community, commercial and international banking, trust and investment management services and venture capital investing. The Company's business segments are Banking, International Banking, Riggs &amp; Co. for wealth management and Treasury, Riggs Capital Partners for venture capital and Others.
RIGL Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is engaged in the discovery and development of a range of small molecule product candidates for unmet medical needs. The Company develops a portfolio of product candidates and takes these product candidates through Phase II clinical trials, after which, it seeks partners for completion of clinical trials, regulatory approval and marketing. As of December 31, 2003, Rigel has three initial development programs: allergy/asthma, hepatitis C and rheumatoid arthritis. The Company has begun clinical testing of its first two product candidates, R112 for allergic rhinitis and R803 for hepatitis C, and plans to begin clinical trials of two additional product candidates for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and asthma by the end of 2004. Rigel owns the economic and commercial rights to these product candidates. The Company is conducting research efforts that are focused primarily in the areas of immunology/inflammation, virology and oncology.
RDGA.OB Ridgefield Acquisition Corp. (RAC) historically was in the depaneling and routing business, which is considered to be a discontinued operation following the sale of substantially all of its assets to JOT Automation, Inc. (the JOT Transaction). Following the JOT Transaction, the Company devoted its efforts to the development of a prototype micro-robotic device (the micro-robotic device) to manipulate organic tissues on a small scale. Due to the inability to complete the micro-robotic device, the Company determined that it would cease the development of the micro-robotic device. RAC has never derived any revenues from the micro-robotic device.
RICOY.OB Ricoh Company, Ltd. is a global manufacturer of office equipment and conducts business on a global scale. The Company is engaged in the development, manufacturing and sales and servicing of office automation equipment, as well as digital cameras, advanced electronic devices and measuring equipment. Ricoh supports its office equipment business by offering customers various solution systems that work with personal computers and servers, and related product support and after-purchase services to assist customers in fully utilizing the Ricoh product that they purchase. Ricoh's support services include assisting customers in setting up their information technology environment or network administration. Ricoh also offers various supplies and peripheral products to be used with its products and systems. The Company's products include copiers, printers, facsimile machines, optical drives and discs and related supplies and services.
RICK Rick's Cabaret International, Inc. owns and operates seven adult nightclubs under the names Rick's Cabaret and XTC that offer live adult entertainment, restaurant and bar operations. The Company's nightclubs are in Houston, Austin; San Antonio, Texas, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. In June 2004, the Company converted its original Rick's Cabaret nightclub in Houston's Galleria District into Club Onyx, an upscale venue that welcomes all customers but caters especially to urban professionals, businessmen and professional athletes. The Company also owns and operates a sports bar under the name Hummers in Houston and owns or operates premiere adult entertainment Internet Websites, such as xxxPassword.com, CouplesTouch.com, M4Mcouples.com and NaughtyBids.com.
RIC Richmont Mines Inc. is principally engaged in the business of acquisition, exploration, financing, development and operation of mineral properties. The Company's principal properties are the Beaufor Mine in Quebec, and the Hammerdown Mine in Newfoundland, Canada. Richmont also owns or holds interests in certain other mining properties at different stage of exploration in Quebec, Newfoundland and Ontario. In December 2003, the Company acquired a 100% interest in the East Amphi property in Quebec. Richmont Mines' gold sales were slightly lower than anticipated, declining from 102,690 ounces in 2002 to 92,892 ounces in 2003.
RELL Richardson Electronics, Ltd. is a global provider of engineered solutions and a distributor of electronic components to the radio frequency (RF) and wireless communications, industrial power conversion, security and display systems markets. The Company's products include RF and microwave components, power semiconductors, electron tubes, microwave generators, data display monitors and electronic security products and systems along with the technical services and products support to its customers and vendors. Richardson Electronics serves its customers through four strategic business units: RF and Wireless Communications Group, Industrial Power Group, Security Systems Division and Display Systems Group. The strategic business units operate globally, serving North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, and Latin America. During period ended May 29, 2004, the Company sales were made to approximately 37,000 customers.
RCF Rica Foods, Inc. operates through two wholly owned Costa Rican corporations, Corporacion Pipasa, S.A. and Corporacion As de Oros, S.A. and their respective subsidiaries. The primary business of its subsidiaries is derived from the production and sale of broiler chickens, processed chicken, beef and pork by-products, commercial eggs and premixed feed and concentrate for livestock and domestic animals. These subsidiaries own 80 urban and rural outlets throughout Costa Rica, three processing plants and four animal feed plants. As de Oros also owns and operates two chains of 28 quick-service restaurants in Costa Rica called Restaurantes As de Oros and Kokoroko. Pipasa and As de Oros export its products to all countries in Central America, Colombia, Dominican Republic and Hong Kong.
RHA Rhodia is a manufacturer of specialty chemicals, with sales in over 130 countries. The Company provides a range of products and services to the consumer care, food, industrial care, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, automotive, electronics and fibers markets. The Company's products include hydroquinone, vanillin, guar gum, aspirin, precipitated silica and separated rare earths products. Rhodia has four market-oriented divisions: Consumer Care and Food; Automotive, Electronics and Fibers; Industrial Care and Services, and Pharmaceuticals and Agrochemicals. On March 11, 2004, the Company announced the sale to Danisco (Denmark) of part of its food ingredients business that includes its food cultures, hydrocolloids and a portion of its food safety products activities. The divestment of its North American Specialty Phosphates enterprise (located primarily in the United States) to Bain Capital was completed in August 2004.
RHD R.H. Donnelley Corporation (RHD) is a directory publisher operating in the United States. RHD publishes 260 Sprint-branded, revenue-generating yellow pages directories in 18 states and has a total circulation of approximately 18 million, serving approximately 160,000 local and 4,000 national advertisers. Through The DonTech II Partnership, the Company's partnership with an affiliate of SBC Communications Inc., RHD sells advertising for an additional 129 SBC-branded directories in Illinois and northwest Indiana with a total circulation of approximately 10 million, serving approximately 100,000 local advertisers. On January 3, 2003, the Company acquired various entities comprising Sprint Publishing and Advertising (SPA), Sprint Corporation's directory publishing business. The acquisition transformed RHD from a sales agent and pre-press vendor into a publisher of yellow pages directories.
RGCO RGC Resources Inc. (Resources), incorporated in 1998, provides energy products and services to customers in Virginia and West Virginia through its operating subsidiaries, including Roanoke Gas Company, Bluefield Gas Company, Diversified Energy Company (Diversified) and RGC Ventures of Virginia, Inc. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company sold the propane assets of its subsidiary, Diversified Energy Company to Inergy Propane, L.L.C., the operating subsidiary of Inergy, L.P. In September 2003, the Company completed the merger of RGC Ventures, Inc. into Diversified.
RGF R&amp;G Financial Corporation is a Puerto Rico-chartered, financial holding company that operates R&amp;G Mortgage Corp., a mortgage company in Puerto Rico; R-G Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, a Puerto Rico commercial bank, and R-G Crown Bank (Crown Bank), a federal savings bank. Through R&amp;G Mortgage, the Company also operates The Mortgage Store of Puerto Rico, Inc., a Puerto Rico mortgage company. Through Crown Bank, it operates Continental Capital Corp., a mortgage banking company that operates in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida and North Carolina. The Company also operates Home &amp; Property Insurance Corp., a Puerto Rico insurance agency, and R-G Investments Corporation, a Puerto Rico-licensed broker-dealer registered with the National Association of Securities Dealers. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had total assets of $8.2 billion, total deposits of $3.6 billion and stockholders' equity of $750.4 million.
RGBC.OB R. G. Barry Corporation (R. G. Barry) and its subsidiaries, The Dearfoams Company, R. G. B., Inc., Barry de Mexico, S. A. de C.V., Barry de Acuna, S. A. de C.V., Barry de Zacatecas, S. A. de C.V., Procesadora de Nuevo Laredo, S. A. de C.V., Barry Comfort de Mexico, S. A. de C.V., Barry Distribution Center de Mexico, S. A. de C.V., ThermaStor Technologies, Ltd., R. G. Barry (Texas), LP, R. G. Barry International, Inc., R. G. Barry Holdings, Inc., R. G. Barry (France) Holdings, Inc., Escapade, S.A., Fargeot et Compagnie, S.A. and RGB Technology, Inc., manufacture and market comfort footwear. The Company has two operating segments: the Barry Comfort North America group and the Barry Comfort Europe group. R.G. Barry discontinued operations of a third operating segment, the Thermal group in June 2003. The customers, which accounted for more than 10% of the Company's consolidated net sales in 2003, 2002 and 2001, were Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and J.C. Penney Company, Inc.
RGMA.OB RG, America, Inc., formerly Invvision Capital, Inc., provides a broad array of fee-based services that address clients' risk management needs for their real estate assets. The Company has two direct wholly owned non-operating subsidiaries, Restoration Group America 2003, Inc., and Invvision Funding, Inc., three indirect wholly owned primary operating subsidiaries: RG Insurance Services, Inc., RG Risk Management, Inc. and RG Restoration, Inc. and one indirect wholly owned non-operating subsidiary, Restoration Group America, Inc.
RFMI RF Monolithics, Inc. (RFMI) designs, develops, manufactures and markets a range of radio frequency (RF) component and module products in two groups: Low-Power Products Group, which includes low-power components and Virtual Wire short-range radio products, and Communications Products Group, which includes frequency control modules and filters. Most of the Company's products are based on surface acoustic wave (SAW) technology and are manufactured as discrete devices to perform specific functions and as integrated modules to meet system performance requirements. The Company focuses its product development in the frequency range of 50 megahertz (MHz) to 2.4 gigahertz (GHz). It markets its line of more than 350 active resonators, filters, clocks, oscillators, transmitters and receivers to distributors, electronic manufacturing service companies and original equipment manufacturers worldwide.
RFMD RF Micro Devices, Inc. (RFMD) designs, develops, manufactures and markets radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) primarily for wireless communications products and applications. The Company offers a range of standard and custom-designed RFICs. It supplies power amplifiers (PAs) and manufactures gallium arsenide heterojunction bipolar transistors (GaAs HBT). RFMD's products are included primarily in cellular phones, base stations, wireless local area networks, cable television modems and global positioning systems. In addition to power amplifiers, the Company offers other products in categories, such as gain blocks, low-noise amplifiers/mixers, quadrature modulators/demodulators, single-chip transmitters, receivers and transceivers, global positioning system receiver/chipset and intermediate frequency components. RFMD's largest product class is PAs. At March 31, 2004, the Company offered over 320 products.
RFIL RF Industries, Ltd. is a provider of interconnect products and systems for radio frequency (RF) communications products and wireless digital transmission systems. The Company also manufactures and sells specialized electrical cabling and interconnect products to the medical monitoring market. RF Industries operates through two divisions: the RF Connector Division and the Neulink Division. The RF Connector Division is engaged in the design, manufacture and distribution of coaxial connector solutions for companies that design, build, operate, maintain and use wireless voice, data, messaging and location tracking systems. The RF Neulink Division designs and manufactures, through outside contractors, wireless data products commonly known as RF data links and wireless modems.
REY Reynolds and Reynolds Company is a provider of integrated solutions to automotive retailers. The Company's software and services solutions include a full range of retail and enterprise management systems. Anchored by the Company's dealer management system, ERA, Reynolds also offers Web and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions; support, training and professional services; documents; data management and integration services; networking, and financial services. Reynolds customers comprise most automotive retailers and a majority of car companies doing business in North America. In October 2003, the Company expanded its international operations through the acquisition of Incadea GmbH, a provider of automotive retailing solutions. The Company is organized into four segments: Software Solutions, Services, Documents and Financial Services.
RAI Reynolds American, Inc., formerly R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, Inc., is a holding company that has operated through its subsidiaries R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR Tobacco) and Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc. (Santa Fe). RJR Tobacco is a cigarette manufacturer that primarily operates in the United States. RJR Tobacco's largest selling cigarette brands are Camel, Winston, Salem and Doral. Those brands, and its other brands, including Vantage, More and Now, are manufactured in a variety of styles and marketed in the United States to meet a range of adult smoker preferences. Santa Fe, which was acquired by the Company in January 2002, manufactures and markets cigarettes and other tobacco products under the Natural American Spirit brand, primarily in the United States. In July 2004, the Company and Brown &amp; Williamson Tobacco Corporation (B&amp;W) combined RJR Tobacco and the United States assets, liabilities and operations of B&amp;W to form Reynolds American Inc.
REXMY Rexam PLC is a global supplier of consumer packaging solutions for international and regional customers in the beverages, beauty, pharmaceutical and food markets. The Company supplies aluminum and steel cans for global soft drinks and beer brands. It produces glass and plastic bottles for global and regional beverage, food and pharmaceutical companies. Rexam also manufactures plastic containers for dairy and food products, as well as plastic pharmaceutical packaging. In addition, the Company is a global supplier to the beauty packaging industry. Rexam's customers are principally international consumer products companies, most of whom are growing their businesses on a global scale through consolidation or geographic expansion.
RSC REX Stores Corporation is a specialty retailer in the consumer electronics/appliance industry, serving over 200 small to medium-sized towns and communities. As of January 31, 2004, the Company operated 248 stores in 37 states under the REX trade name. REX stores average approximately 11,300 square feet and offer a selection of brand name products within selected major product categories, including big screen and standard-sized televisions, video and audio equipment, camcorders and major household appliances.
IRN Rewards Network Inc. markets and administers loyalty rewards programs that bring its participating merchants and members together. It does this by offering rewards in the form of savings and benefits to its members who patronize its participating merchants, principally restaurants and hotels. Rewards attracts participating restaurants by purchasing credits for food and beverages in advance and by providing yield management tools such as variable promotions, dining incentives and off-peak pricing to fill empty tables and generate incremental business. It attracts participating hotels by providing yield management tools to fill empty hotel rooms and generate incremental business. The Company offers rewards in the form of cash, airline frequent flyer miles and other currencies to its members who patronize its participating merchants and pay using a credit card they have registered with Rewards.
REV Revlon, Inc. manufactures and sells an array of cosmetics and skin care, fragrances and personal care products. The Company's products are sold worldwide and marketed under such brand names as Revlon, ColorStay, Revlon Age Defying and Skinlights, as well as Almay in cosmetics; Almay Kinetin, Vitamin C Absolutes, Eterna 27, Ultima II and Jeanne Gatineau in skin care; Charlie in fragrances, and High Dimension, Flex, Mitchum, Colorsilk, Jean Nate and Bozzano in personal care products. The Company conducts its business exclusively through its direct subsidiary, Revlon Consumer Products Corporation and its subsidiaries. Its principal customers include large mass volume retailers and chain drug stores, as well as certain department stores and other specialty stores, such as perfumeries. The Company also sells consumer products to United States military exchanges and commissaries, and has a licensing group. Revlon is a majority-owned subsidiary of MacAndrews &amp; Forbes Holdings Inc.
RTRSY Reuters Group PLC has two core businesses: Reuters Information Business (Reuters) and Instinet Group Incorporated. Reuters is a global information company that provides information and related services tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. Instinet, a 63%-owned subsidiary of the Company, operates a global electronic agency securities brokerage. Reuters' four customer segments, based on the shared needs and requirements of the customers that Reuters serves, are Institutional Sales &amp; Trading, Asset Management &amp; Research, Enterprise and Media. Instinet Group is a global electronic agency securities broker that has been providing investors with electronic trading solutions and execution services for more than 30 years. Instinet Group provides sophisticated electronic trading solutions and execution services to enable buyers and sellers worldwide to trade securities directly and anonymously with each other.
RUN Reunion Industries, Inc. owns and operates industrial manufacturing operations that design and manufacture engineered products for specific customer requirements. The Company's business units are organized into two major product categories, Metals and Plastics. The Metals unit manufactures and markets fabricated and machined industrial metal parts and products, including large-diameter seamless pressure vessels, hydraulic and pneumatic cylinders and leaf springs. The Plastics manufactures precision molded plastic parts and provides engineered plastics services. The Company's customers include original equipment manufacturers and end users in a variety of industries such as transportation, power generation, chemicals, metals, home electronics, office equipment and consumer goods.
ROIE.OB Return On Investment Corp doing business as ROI Corporation, markets payment processing software for a variety of computer systems. ROI's operations are conducted through two subsidiaries, Tectonic Solutions, Inc., which develops and markets building product information solutions for the construction industry, including printed directories, a searchable online building product information database, an online studio for the search, visualization and selection of carpet, paint and other textiles and customized Web-based solutions for organizing building product manufacturer databases for easier search and selection, and GO Software, Inc., which develops and markets software and services for credit card, debit card and check transactions processing with offerings, including payment processing software for virtually any computing platform, including Windows, Unix and Linux.
RVP Retractable Technologies, Inc. (RTI) designs, develops, manufactures and markets patented safety needle devices for the healthcare industry. RTI's VanishPoint products utilize a friction ring mechanism, which permits the automated retraction of the syringe needle into the barrel of the syringe, directly from the patient, after delivery of the medication is completed. The VanishPoint blood collection tube holder utilizes the same mechanism to retract the needle after blood has been drawn from the patient. VanishPoint products are designed specifically to prevent needlestick injuries and to prevent reuse. The Company distributes its products throughout the United States and its territories through general line and specialty distributors. It also utilizes international distributors. RTI has developed a national direct marketing network in order to market its products to health care customers and their purchaser representatives.
RETK Retek Inc. develops and sells software solutions that support the operational activities of a retailer. Its products can be deployed individually to meet specific business needs or as part of a scalable and fully integrated, end-to-end solution. Retek's primary software solutions consist of five integrated, but independently deployable groups of products, which are accessed via an Internet browser and can be hosted by a customer or by an outside application service provider. The five product groups are advanced replenishment, planning and optimization, merchandise operations management, supply chain management, integrated store operations and enterprise infrastructure. The Company markets its products across all sectors of retailing, including fashion, department stores, catalog and consumer direct, specialty retailers, mass merchandise retailers and food, drug and convenience stores.
RTLX Retalix Ltd. is an independent provider of integrated enterprise-wide software solutions for the global retail food and fuel industries. Spanning the retail supply chain from the warehouse to the point of sale (POS), the Company's suite of software solutions integrates retail information flow across a retailer's entire operations, encompassing its stores, headquarters and warehouses. The Company's integrated solution suite enables food and fuel retailers to manage their retail operations more efficiently, reduce infrastructure costs and closely collaborate with suppliers. These software solutions also enable retailers to capture and analyze consumer behavior data, and to use that data to more effectively devise and implement targeted promotions to stimulate demand. Through January 2004, acquisition of OMI International, Retalix has further extended the scope of its software suite to include supply chain execution and warehouse management.
RVI Retail Ventures, Inc. is a diversified retailer. The Company is managed in three operating segments: Value City Department Stores (Value City), DSW Shoe Warehouse, Inc. (DSW) and Filene's Basement, Inc. (Filene's Basement). Value City is a full-line, off-price retailer carrying men's, women's and children's apparel, housewares, giftware, home furnishings, toys, jewelry, shoes, health, beauty care items and commodities. The DSW stores are upscale shoe stores offering a wide selection of branded dress and casual footwear below traditional retail prices. Filene's Basement focuses on providing the top-tier brand names at everyday-low prices for men's and women's apparel, jewelry, shoes, accessories and home goods.
RSTO Restoration Hardware, Inc. and subsidiaries is a specialty retailer of home furnishings, functional and decorative hardware, bath ware and bath fixtures and related merchandise that reflects the authentic American point of view. The Company also operates a direct-to-customer sales channel, which includes both catalog and Internet and a wholly owned furniture manufacturer.
RESP Respironics, Inc. is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices used primarily for the treatment of patients suffering from respiratory disorders. The Company's products are designed to reduce costs, while improving the effectiveness of patient care and are used primarily in the home and in hospitals, along with alternative care facilities and in emergency medical settings. Its primary product lines are Homecare products, such as sleep apnea products, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices and bi-level positive airway pressure devices used in the home for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea, a serious disorder characterized by the repeated cessation of breathing during sleep; Hospital products, such as therapeutic devices assist or control a patient's ventilation, such as bi-level, non-invasive ventilation products and critical care ventilation products, which deliver both non-invasive and invasive ventilation and cardio-respiratory monitoring products.
RECN Resources Connection, Inc. is an international professional services firm that provides accounting and finance, risk management and internal audit, information technology, human resources and supply chain management professionals to clients on a project basis. The Company assists its clients with discrete projects requiring specialized expertise in accounting and finance, such as mergers and acquisitions due diligence, financial analyses, corporate reorganizations and tax-related projects. In addition, Resources Connection provides human resources management services, such as compensation program design and implementation, information technology services, such as transitions of management information systems and internal audit services, such as documenting internal controls. The Company also assists its clients with periodic needs, such as budgeting and forecasting, audit preparation, public reporting and with their compliance efforts under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
REXI Resource America, Inc., is a specialized asset management company that invests in the structured finance, equipment leasing, real estate and energy sectors. As a specialized asset manager, the Company seeks to develop investment funds in which outside investors invest along with the Company and for which it manages the assets acquired pursuant to long-term management and operating agreements. In the fiscal year ended September 30,2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company determined to reorganize the company into two independent companies, with the Company continuing its asset management business in structured finance, equipment leasing and real estate and the subsidiary, Atlas America, Inc. separately continuing the energy business. In June 2004, it formed a wholly owned subsidiary, Ischus Capital Management, LLC. Ischus focuses on selecting, managing and investing in asset-backed securities (ABS).
RMD ResMed Inc. is a developer, manufacturer and distributor of medical equipment for treating, diagnosing and managing sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). SDB includes obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and other respiratory disorders that occur during sleep. The primary purpose the Company was formed to commercialize a treatment for OSA. This treatment, nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) was a successful noninvasive treatment for OSA. Since the development of CPAP, the Company has developed a number of products for SDB, including airflow generators, diagnostic products, mask systems, headgear and other accessories. It employs 1,520 people and sells the products in over 60 countries through a combination of wholly owned subsidiaries and independent distributors.
RSSYF.OB Resin Systems Inc. is primarily engaged in the development, engineering, production and sale of its proprietary line of polyurethane-based, thermosetting resin systems, marketed under the Version brand name. The Company also focuses on the development, engineering, manufacturing and sale of composite material products to the industrial and consumer marketplace that employs its Version resins. Its utility products are sold under the RStandarda brand and its recreational consumer products are sold under the NVSa (New Version Sport) brand. In addition, the Company has rebranded its Uni-Seal line of industrial coatings to become Rseala and is re-establishing the presence of these coatings in the marketplace.
RIMM Research In Motion Limited (RIM) designs, manufactures and markets wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. The Company provides platforms and solutions for access to time-sensitive information, including e-mail, phone, short messaging service, organizers, Internet and intranet-based corporate data applications. RIM also licenses its technology to handset and software vendors to enable these companies to offer wireless data services using the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) and BlackBerry Web Client. RIM's products, services and embedded technologies include the BlackBerry wireless platform and the RIM Wireless Handheld product line, and its additional products and services include software development tools, software licensing agreements, technical support contracts and professional services.
REFR Research Frontiers Incorporated develops and licenses its suspended particle technology for controlling the amount of light passing through a device. Such suspended particle devices are often referred to as SPDs, light valves or SPD-Smart products. SPDs use microscopic light-absorbing particles that are either in a liquid suspension or a film. The microscopic particles align when an electrical voltage is applied. This permits light to pass through the device, and allows the amount of light to be controlled. Research Frontiers' 29 licensees are categorized into three main areas: materials for making films (solutions and emulsions), film and end-products. Its emulsion and solution makers produce the basic chemicals, which are the SPD particles and the various special polymers that work in conjunction with such particles and from which SPD films are made.
RSCR Res-Care, Inc. (ResCare) is a human service company that provides residential, therapeutic and educational support to people with developmental or other disabilities. It also provides services to youth with special needs and to adults who are experiencing barriers to employment. The Company's programs include an array of services provided in residential and non-residential settings for adults and youths with mental retardation or other developmental disabilities (MR/DD), and disabilities caused by acquired brain injury (ABI). ResCare provides programs to youths who have special educational or support needs; are from disadvantaged backgrounds, and have severe emotional disorders, including some who have entered the juvenile justice system. ResCare has provided services to welfare recipients, young people and people who have been laid off, or have special barriers to employment. The Company has three segments: Disabilities Services, Youth Services and Training Services.
RSG Republic Services, Inc. is a provider of services in the non-hazardous solid waste industry throughout the United States. The Company provides non-hazardous solid waste collection services for commercial, industrial, municipal and residential customers through 142 collection companies in 22 states. It owns and operates 93 transfer stations, 58 solid waste landfills and 35 recycling facilities. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Republic's operations include Eastern, Central, Southern, Southwestern and Western. Each region has several operating areas and locations. Each of its regions provides collection, transfer and recycling and disposal services.
RBNC Republic Bancorp Inc. is a bank holding company that provides commercial, retail and mortgage banking products and services through its wholly owned subsidiary, Republic Bank. Republic Bank exercises the power of a full-service commercial bank, and operates 93 offices and 93 automated teller machines in seven market areas in Michigan, the greater Cleveland, Ohio, area and Indianapolis, Indiana. In addition, Republic Bank operates a loan production office in Massachusetts. Republic Bank has three wholly owned subsidiaries: Quincy Investment Services, Inc., a licensed insurance agency that could provide investment and insurance services, and Republic Bank Real Estate Finance, LLC and Republic Management Company, Inc., which were formed to hold certain commercial real estate loans. Quincy Investment Services, Inc. is inactive.
RBCAA Republic Bancorp, Inc. has 33 banking centers and is the holding company for Republic Bank &amp; Trust Company, which serves Louisville, Lexington, and other central Kentucky communities through 31 banking offices, and Republic Bank &amp; Trust Company of Indiana with offices in Jeffersonville and New Albany, Indiana. Bank deposit products include savings, checking, NOW and money market accounts; individual retirement accounts (IRAs), and certificates of deposit (CDs). The Company originates residential mortgage loans (almost 50% of its loan portfolio), as well as commercial real estate loans (30%) and construction, business and consumer loans (including home equity, auto and home improvement loans).
RJET Republic Airways Holdings Inc. is a holding company that operates Chautauqua Airlines, Inc. and Republic Airline Inc. Chautauqua is a regional airline that offers scheduled passenger service on 525 flights daily to 64 cities in 27 states, Canada and the Bahamas pursuant to code-share agreements with AMR Corp. All of Chautauqua's flights are operated as US Airways Express, AmericanConnection or Delta Connection. For the year ended December 31, 2003, US Airways accounted for approximately 40% of the Company's operating revenues, Delta accounted for 29%, American accounted for 23% and America West accounted for 8%. The Company's employees perform all routine airframe and engine maintenance and periodic inspection of equipment. In addition, the Company leases maintenance and training facilities, as well as ticket counters, check-in, boarding and other facilities in the passenger terminal areas of the airports, and staffs these facilities with personnel.
FRBK Republic First Bancorp, Inc. is a two-bank holding company. Its wholly owned subsidiaries, Republic First Bank (the PA Bank) and First Bank of Delaware (the DE Bank), offer a variety of credit and depository banking services. The Banks offer a range of commercial and other banking services, including secured and unsecured commercial loans, real estate loans, construction and land development loans, automobile loans, home improvement loans, mortgages, home equity and overdraft lines of credit and others terms. The Banks offer, both, commercial and consumer deposit accounts, including checking accounts, interest-bearing demand accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, savings accounts, sweep accounts, lockbox services, individual retirement accounts and other traditional banking services.
REP Repsol YPF, S.A. is an integrated oil and gas company engaged in all aspects of the petroleum business, including exploration, development and production of crude oil and natural gas, transportation of petroleum products, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and natural gas (LNG), petroleum refining, production of a wide range of petrochemicals and marketing of petroleum products, petroleum derivatives, petrochemicals, LPG and LNG. Repsol YPF organizes its business along three areas of activities: upstream, which includes exploration and production; downstream, which includes refining and marketing, chemicals, LPG and trading, and gas and electricity, which includes LNG. Repsol YPF has operations in 29 countries, the most significant of which are Spain and Argentina. Repsol YPF has a unified global corporate structure with headquarters in Madrid, Spain, and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
REPR.OB Repro-Med Systems, Inc. designs and manufactures medical devices directing resources to the global markets for emergency medical products and infusion therapy. It maintains a presence in the United States markets for impotency treatments and gynecological instruments regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Company's products include FREEDOM60 Syringe Infusion System, Emergency Medical Products, Impotency Treatments and Gynecological Instruments. Repro-Med is transitioning away from contract manufacturing in order to concentrate on its own devices. Its presence in male infertility and impotency treatments market has decreased due to a shift in focus towards the RES-Q-VAC and FREEDOM60. It is seeking outside funding to introduce additional products into this market.
RGEN Repligen Corporation is into developing novel biological products for profound neuropsychiatric disorders and autoimmune diseases. Its therapeutic product candidates are secretin for schizophrenia and anxiety disorders; uridine for bipolar disorder, and CTLA4-Ig and Protein A for autoimmune diseases. These products are synthetic forms of naturally occurring substances, which may correct improperly regulated biological processes with minimal toxicity or side effects. The Company's product candidates have the potential to produce clinical benefits not attainable with any existing drug in diseases for which there are few alternative therapies or treatments. Repligen also manufactures and markets several products based on recombinant Protein A for antibody manufacturing. In addition, the Company markets SecreFlo to aid in the diagnosis of pancreatic exocrine dysfunction or chronic pancreatitis and diagnosis of gastrinoma.
RENT Rentrak Corporation is engaged in the collection, processing, analysis and presentation of rental and sales information regarding videocassettes, digital video discs (DVDs) and video games, collectively known as Units, leased/licensed to home video specialty stores and other retailers by way of its Pay Per Transaction system (the PPT System). Under the PPT System, home video specialty stores and other retailers that rent Units to consumers (Retailers), including grocery stores and convenience stores, lease Units and other media from Rentrak for a low-initial fee and share a portion of each retail rental transaction with the Company. The PPT System generated 84% of the Company's total revenues during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004). Rentrak also provides direct revenue sharing (DRS) services to various suppliers. The DRS services collect, track, audit and report the results to the Company's suppliers under established agreements on a fee for service basis.
RTK Rentech, inc. has developed and is engaged in marketing and licensing technology that converts synthesis gas, a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide derived from coal and other solid and liquid carbon-bearing materials, as well as from industrial gas and natural gas, into clean-burning, liquid hydrocarbon products. The products include fuels and chemicals. The Company's technology Rentech Process is an advanced derivative of the Fischer-Tropsch process. Its technology is capable of using as feedstock, a variety of naturally occurring hydrocarbons, as well as gaseous, liquid and solid hydrocarbons produced as byproducts or wastes in various industrial processes. Rentech is focused on research and development of Fisher-Tropsch (F-T) technology and licensing it to third parties.
RWY Rent-Way, Inc. operates 754 rental-purchase stores located in 33 states. The Company offers durable household products, such as home entertainment equipment, furniture, major appliances and jewelry to consumers under full-service, rental-purchase agreements that allow the customer to obtain ownership of the merchandise at the conclusion of an agreed upon rental period. The Company also provides prepaid local telephone service to consumers on a monthly basis through dPi Teleconnect LLC (DPI), its 83.5%-owned subsidiary. DPI is a non-facilities-based provider of local telephone service.
RCII Rent-A-Center, Inc. is engaged in the operation of rent-to-own stores, primarily in the United States. As of March 8, 2004, the Company operated 2,659 Company-owned stores nationwide and in Puerto Rico, including 22 stores in Wisconsin operated by its subsidiary, Get It Now, LLC. ColorTyme, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary, is a national franchisor of rent-to-own stores. As of December 31, 2003, ColorTyme had 329 franchised stores, 317 of which operated under the ColorTyme name, and 12 of which operated under the Rent-A-Center name. The Company's stores generally offer merchandise from four basic product categories: home electronics, appliances, computers and furniture and accessories. These products are offered on a rent-to-own basis under flexible rental purchase agreements. In Wisconsin, Get It Now offers merchandise on an installment sales basis. ColorTyme's primary source of revenues is the sale of rental merchandise to its franchisees.
RNVS Renovis, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company developing drugs to treat neurological diseases and disorders. The Company's research and development programs focus on major medical needs in the areas of pain, trauma and stroke and neurodegenerative diseases. Within these areas, Renovis is pursuing eight distinct programs, including three product candidates in clinical development. The Company's most advanced product candidate is Cerovive, an intravenous drug for acute ischemic stroke. Cerovive is being evaluated in a Phase III clinical trial program that is planned to involve approximately 4,000 patients by the Company's exclusive licensee, AstraZeneca. Renovis is independently developing two clinical candidates for the treatment of pain: REN-1654, an oral drug for neuropathic pain in Phase II clinical trials, and REN-213, an intravenous drug for acute post-operative pain also in Phase II clinical trials.
RCI Renal Care Group, Inc. provides dialysis services to patients with chronic kidney failure, also known as end-stage renal disease. As of December 31, 2003, it provided dialysis and ancillary services to over 21,400 patients through 284 outpatient dialysis centers in 27 states. In addition to its outpatient dialysis center operations, as of December 31, 2003, RCI provided acute dialysis services through contractual relationships with more than 130 hospitals. In April 2004, the Company acquired National Nephrology Associates, Inc., a Nashville-based dialysis services provider, which will add approximately 5,600 patients and 87 outpatient dialysis facilities in 15 states, as well as acute care contracts with approximately 55 hospitals.
RNR RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. provides reinsurance and insurance through its subsidiaries. The Company's subsidiary, Reinsurance Ltd., provides property catastrophe reinsurance coverage to insurers and reinsurers. Reinsurance also writes specialty reinsurance in certain lines including catastrophe-exposed workers' compensation coverage, surety and property per risk, terrorism, aviation and finite reinsurance. Within the reinsurance segment, the Company also manages property catastrophe reinsurance written on behalf of joint ventures including Top Layer Reinsurance Ltd. and Advance Reinsurance Ltd. The Company has an individual risk segment that provides insurance for commercial and homeowners' catastrophe-exposed property business; the segment's operations include Glencoe Insurance Ltd., Stonington Insurance Company and Lantana Insurance Ltd.
RLRN Renaissance Learning, Inc. is a provider of learning information systems software and school improvement programs to pre-kindergarten through senior high schools in the United States and Canada. Its flagship product, Accelerated Reader, is software that provides information for motivating and monitoring increased literature-based reading practice and to support instruction. The Company publishes several other learning information system products including STAR Reading, Accelerated Math, STAR Math, STAR Early Literacy, Fluent Reader, StandardsMaster, Accelerated Writer, AccelTest, MathFacts in a Flash and Accelerated Vocabulary. In addition to its learning information system products, the Company provides professional development opportunities for educators through on- and off-site seminars, consulting services, Web-based training and educator support materials.
REDI Remote Dynamics, Inc., formerly Minorplanet Systems USA, Inc., markets, sells, supports automatic vehicle location (AVL) and mobile resource management solutions targeting companies that operate private-vehicle fleets. The Company develops and implements mobile communications solutions for service vehicle fleets, long-haul truck fleets and other mobile-asset fleets, including integrated voice, data and position location services. The Company markets and sells products and services in the AVL market in the United States. The Company's AVL products are designed to maximize the productivity of a mobile workforce, as well as reduce vehicle mileage and fuel-related expenses. In February 2004, the Company and two of its wholly owned subsidiaries, Caren (292) Limited (Caren) and Minorplanet Systems USA Limited (Limited) filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.
REM Remington Oil and Gas Corporation is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company. The Company has working interest ownership rights in properties in the offshore Gulf of Mexico and onshore Gulf Coast. Remington's offshore Gulf of Mexico properties accounted for approximately 81% of the its oil production and approximately 96% of its gas production. Remington operates the majority of its offshore properties. The Company's onshore Gulf Coast area properties are principally located in the State of Mississippi and along the Texas Gulf Coast. In 2003, these properties accounted for approximately 19% of its oil production and approximately 4% of its gas production. Remington's primary operating subsidiary, CKB Petroleum, Inc., owns an undivided interest in a pipeline that transports the Company's oil from the South Pass blocks in the offshore Gulf of Mexico to Venice, Louisiana.
REMX RemedyTemp, Inc. (Remedy) is a provider of clerical, light industrial, information technology (IT) and financial temporary staffing services to industrial, service and technology companies, professional organizations and governmental agencies. The Company provides its services in 35 states, Puerto Rico and Canada through a network of 238 offices, of which 130 are Company-owned and 108 are independently managed franchises. During the fiscal year ended October 4, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company placed approximately 124,000 temporary workers (associates) and provided approximately 39 million hours of staffing services to over 10,000 clients. In addition, the Company provides master vendor and onsite management programs to its clients in an effort to streamline the management of the temporary workforce and reduce the overall costs. As a master vendor, Remedy provides clients with centralized order processing, sub-contractor management and regular business reviews to track performance.
REMC REMEC, Inc. designs and manufactures microwave and millimeter wave subsystems used in the transmission of voice, video and data traffic over wireless communications networks, and also provides advanced integrated microwave subsystem solutions for defense and space electronics applications. The Company produces these products primarily through its two main business segments: Commercial and Defense &amp; Space. REMEC sells its commercial products to original equipment manufacturers, which in turn integrate the Company's products into wireless infrastructure equipment solutions that are sold to network service providers. It sells its radio frequency and microwave equipment to United States defense prime contractors for integration into larger systems, primarily radar electronic warfare, communications and navigation. REMEC has facilities in the United States, Costa Rica, the Philippines, China, Mexico and Canada. In October 2004, the Company sold its RF and microwave Components Business Unit.
RELM.OB RELM Wireless Corporation designs, manufactures and markets wireless communications equipment consisting of two-way land mobile radios, repeaters, base stations, and related components and subsystems. The Company employs both analog and digital technologies in its products. Its digital products are compliant with Project 25 specifications. RELM sells its products under the BK Radio, Uniden and RELM brand names. BK Radio branded products consist of higher-specification land-mobile radios whose primary market focus is professional radio users in the government and public safety sectors. The BK Radio products have extensive features and capabilities than the products offered in the RELM and Uniden product lines. RELM and Uniden branded products provide basic, inexpensive, yet feature rich and reliable, two-way communications for business and industrial users, such as hotels, construction companies, schools, taxicab and limousine companies and airports.
RELV Reliv' International, Inc. is a distributor of nutritional supplements, weight management products, functional foods, sports nutrition and a line of skincare products. Nutritional supplements include vitamins, minerals, dietary supplements, herbs and compounds. Functional foods are products designed to influence specific functions of the body. The Company and its subsidiaries sell products to distributors throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore. It has two wholly owned subsidiaries, Reliv', Inc. (Reliv') and Reliv' World Corporation (Reliv' World). Reliv' World has nine subsidiaries: Reliv' Australia Pty. Ltd, Reliv' Canada Company, Reliv' New Zealand Ltd., Reliv' NOW de Mexico S.A. de R.L. de C.V., Reliv' Europe, Inc., Reliv' U.K. Limited Corporation (owned by Reliv' Europe, Inc.), Reliv' Philippines, Inc., Reliv International Sdn Bhd (Malaysia) and Reliv Singapore Pte. Ltd.
RRI Reliant Resources, Inc. has two principal business segments: Retail Energy and Wholesale Energy. Its Retail Energy business involves the provision of electricity and related services to retail customers, primarily in Texas, and acquires and manages the electric energy, capacity and ancillary services associated with supplying these retail customers. This segment had approximately 1.6 million residential customers and 210,000 small commercial accounts in Texas as of December 31, 2003. Its Wholesale Energy business involves the provision of electric energy, capacity and ancillary services in the competitive segments of the United States' wholesale energy markets. this business owned or leased electric power generation facilities with an aggregate net operating generating capacity of 19,442 MW (exclusive of units retired or mothballed) as of December 31, 2003. During 2003, the Company sold its non-core business operations and assets, including its European energy operations.
RS Reliance Steel &amp; Aluminum Co. is a metals service center company. The Company, through its network of 24 divisions, 19 operating subsidiaries and one 50.5%-owned company, operates 106 processing and distribution facilities in 30 states, Belgium, France and South Korea. Through this network, the Company provides metals processing services and distributes a line of more than 90,000 metal products, including alloy, aluminum, brass, copper, carbon steel, titanium, stainless steel and specialty steel products, to more than 95,000 customers in a range of industries. Many of its metals service centers provide processing services for specialty metals only.
REAL Reliability Incorporated is engaged in the design, manufacture, market and support of high-performance equipment used to test and condition integrated circuits (IC). It has three business segments: test and conditioning products, power sources and automotive. The Company also designs, manufactures and markets a line of direct current-to-direct current (DC-DC) power converters and operates a service facility in Singapore that conditions and tests IC as a service for others. In July 2003, it entered a new line of business by acquiring the rights to manufacture and market an aftermarket hydraulic lifting device that is installed in the bed of pickup trucks. Reliability has one wholly owned subsidiary namely Reliability Singapore.
RGA Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA) is an insurance holding company that was formed on December 31, 1992 and is primarily engaged in traditional life, asset-intensive and financial reinsurance. Its principal assets consist of the common stock of Reinsurance Company of Missouri, Incorporated (RCM), RGA Reinsurance Company (Barbados) Ltd. (RGA Barbados), RGA Life Reinsurance Company of Canada (RGA Canada) and RGA Americas Reinsurance Company, Ltd. (RGA Americas), as well as investments in several other wholly-owned subsidiaries. RGA has subsidiaries, branch operations or representative offices in Australia, Barbados, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.
RNHDA Reinhold Industries, Inc. is a manufacturer of advanced custom composite components, sheet molding compounds and rubber rollers for a variety of applications in the United States and Europe. Reinhold derives revenues from the defense, aerospace, printing and other commercial industries. The Company generates revenues from five operating segments: Aerospace, CompositAir, Commercial, NP Aerospace and Bingham. Aerospace produces a variety of products for the United States military and space programs. CompositAir produces components for the commercial aircraft seating industry. The Commercial segment produces lighting housings and pool filter tanks. NP Aerospace produces products for law enforcement, lighting, military, automotive and commercial aircraft. Bingham manufactures rubber rollers for graphic arts and industrial applications.
RHB RehabCare Group, Inc. is a provider of therapy program management for hospitals and skilled nursing facilities. The Company manages hospital-based inpatient acute rehabilitation and skilled nursing units, hospital-based and satellite outpatient therapy programs, as well as therapy programs in freestanding skilled nursing, long-term care and assisted living facilities. RehabCare operates in one business segment, program management services, which consists of two business units, hospital rehabilitation services and contract therapy. The Company offers its portfolio of program management services to a highly diversified customer base. In all, RehabCare has relationships with more than 700 hospitals and skilled nursing facilities located in 39 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
RCOM Register.com, Inc. provides global domain name registration, Website, e-mail and other Internet services for businesses and consumers seeking to have a unique address and branded identity on the Internet. Register.com registers, renews and transfers domain names in gTLDs, such as .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info and .name and in over 400 country code top-level domains (ccTLDs), including .de for Germany and .jp for Japan and sub domains, such as .co.uk and .org.uk for the United Kingdom. The Company offers key products and services, such as Domain Name Registration Services, Renewal Services, Domain Name Registrant and Registrar Transfers , Website and E-mail, Value-Added Services and Corporate Services.
RGS Regis Corporation owns, operates and franchises hairstyling and hair care salons. Its facilities are located in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Puerto Rico and several other countries. The Company's worldwide operations included 10,162 Company-owned and franchise salons as of June 30, 2004. The Company's North American operations include 8,148 salons, including six beauty career schools and 2,330 franchise salons operating in North America. The Company's international operations include 2,014 salons, including four beauty career schools and 1,594 franchise salons operating throughout Europe, primarily in the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Spain. The Company's worldwide operations utilize key hair salon concepts such as: Supercuts, Jean Louis David, Vidal Sassoon, Regis Salons, MasterCuts, Trade Secret, SmartStyle and Cost Cutters.
RF Regions Financial Corporation is a financial holding company that primarily provides traditional commercial and retail banking services to customers throughout the southeastern United States. The Company's operations consist of banking, brokerage and investment services, mortgage banking, insurance brokerage, credit life insurance, commercial accounts receivable factoring and specialty financing. The Company conducts its banking operations through Regions Bank, a state-chartered commercial bank. As of December 31, 2003, Regions Bank operated 681 banking offices in nine states. The Company provides its other financial services through its banking-related subsidiaries or divisions, including Morgan Keegan &amp; Company, Inc., Regions Mortgage, EquiFirst Corporation, Rebsamen Insurance, Inc., Regions Agency, Inc., Regions Life Insurance Company and Regions Interstate Billing Service, Inc. In July 2004, Regions merged with Union Planters Corporation, a bank holding company.
RGUS.OB REGI U.S., Inc. is engaged in the business of developing and building an improved axial vane type rotary engine, known as the Rand Cam/Direct Charge engine (RC/DC engine), which is a variation of the Rand Cam Rotary engine, an axial vane rotary engine (Original engine). The products and the projects of the Company include Rand Cam cold turbine engine, gasoline and diesel engine, compressor, hydrogen separator and Ceramic Rand Cam engine. The Company is controlled by Rand Energy Group Inc. (RAND). Fifty-one percent of RAND is controlled by Reg Technologies Inc. (Reg Tech). REGI U.S. hold the rights to develop, build and market the RC/DC engine design in the United States.
RGCI Regent Communications, Inc. (Regent) is a radio broadcasting company focused on acquiring, developing and operating radio stations in mid-sized and small markets. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned 54 FM (frequency modulation) and 20 AM (amplitude modulation) radio stations in 16 markets in the United States including California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas. The Company's portfolio of radio stations is diversified in terms of geographic location, target demographics and format. Among its stations' programming formats are rock, 80's, country, sports, news/talk, classic rock, adult contemporary (AC), hot AC, alternative, classic rock, oldies, nostalgia, classic hits, new rock, soft AC, gospel and classical. Its demographic targets range from the ages of 18 to 64. Majority of the Company's revenue is generated from the sale of local, regional and national advertising for broadcast on its radio stations.
RGRX.OB RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. is a pharmaceutical research and development company focusing on the development of products to treat a variety of human diseases. The Company's business focus is the commercialization of Thymosin beta 4 (TB4), a 43 amino acid peptide. RegeneRx is concentrating its efforts on the use of TB4 for the treatment of injured tissue and non-healing wounds to enable more rapid repair and/or tissue regeneration.
REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and intends to commercialize pharmaceutical products for the treatment of serious medical conditions. The Company's clinical and pre-clinical pipeline includes product candidates for the treatment of cancer, diseases of the eye, rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory conditions, allergies, asthma, obesity and other diseases and disorders. Its clinical programs are focused on the following products: VEGF Trap, Interleukin-1 Trap, Interleukin-4/ Interleukin-13 Trap and Axokine. Since inception, Regeneron has not generated any sales or profits from the commercialization of any of its product candidates.
RTIX Regeneration Technologies, Inc. (RTI) is engaged in the production of allografts that repair and promote the natural healing of human bone and other human tissues. The Company processes human musculoskeletal and other tissue, including bone, cartilage, tendon, ligament, dermal and cardiovascular tissue in producing its allograft implants. These allografts are distributed throughout the United States and in 10 countries, for use in spinal vertebrae repair, musculoskeletal reconstruction, fracture repair, repairs to the jaw and related tissues, and heart valve disorders, among other conditions. The Company separates its allografts into four primary product lines: spinal, sports medicine, cardiovascular and other general orthopedic applications. These allografts range from material that is precision tooled for specific surgical applications to grafts conventionally processed for general surgical uses.
REG Regency Centers Corporation is a real estate investment trust that owns and operates grocery-anchored shopping centers in the United States. As of December 31, 2003, the Company's portfolio of real estate investments included 265 shopping centers in 22 states with 30.3 million square feet of gross leasable area (GLA), and was 92.2% leased. Geographically, 19.6% of its GLA is located in Florida, 19.5% in California, 16.8% in Texas, 6.6% in Georgia, 6.3% in Ohio and 31.2% spread throughout 17 other states. Regency owns and operates its shopping centers through its operating partnership, Regency Centers, L.P. (RCLP), in which the Company owns 98% of the operating partnership units. Regency's operating, investing and financing activities are generally performed by RCLP.
RAFI.OB Regency Affiliates, Inc. (Regency) seeks to enhance the value of the Company's Common Stock by pursuing opportunities to monetize its existing assets and through new business opportunities. Regency has not entered into any binding agreements regarding any such transaction. The Company does not propose to restrict its search for business opportunities to any particular geographical area or industry, and may, therefore, acquire any business, to the extent of its resources. Regency's discretion in the selection of business opportunities is unrestricted, subject to the availability of such opportunities, economic conditions and other factors. The Company's wholly owned subsidiaries are National Resource Development Corporation and Rustic Crafts International, Inc. Regency also owns interests in Security Land and Development Company Limited Partnership. In May 2004, the Company acquired a 50% equity interest in MESC Capital, LLC, a special-purpose investment vehicle.
RGBI.OB ReGen Biologics, Inc. is an orthopedic products company that develops and manufactures tissue repair products for unmet markets in both the United States and globally. The Company's flagship product, the Collagen Meniscus Implant (CMI), is an implant designed to regenerate meniscus tissue in the human knee. CMI is cleared for sale in Europe, Australia and Chile, and is distributed outside the United States by the Centerpulse unit of Zimmer Holdings, Inc. The Company also sells the SharpShooter Tissue Repair System, a suturing device used to facilitate the surgical implantation of the CMI, as well as to perform other similar arthroscopic meniscal repair procedures. The SharpShooter is marketed through a worldwide distribution agreement with Linvatec Corporation, a subsidiary of ConMed. The SharpShooter is cleared for sale in the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia, Chile and Japan.
RGC Regal Entertainment Group is engaged in theatre exhibition operations in the United States. Regal operates a theatre circuit, consisting of 6,242 screens in 560 theatres in 40 states. The Company primarily operates multi-screen theatres and has an average of 11 screens per location. Regal develops, acquires and operates multi-screen theatres primarily in mid-sized metropolitan markets and suburban areas of metropolitan markets throughout the United States.
RBC REGAL-BELOIT CORPORATION manufactures and markets industrial electric motors, electric power generation components and controls, mechanical motion control products and cutting tools in the United States, as well as throughout the world. Its products are used in industrial applications. The Company's business is organized into two segments: Electrical Group, which represented 71% of its net sales for the year ended December 31, 2003, and the Mechanical Group, which represented 29% of the net sales in 2003. The Electrical Group manufactures and markets a line of alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) industrial electric motors, electric power generation components and controls and electrical connecting devices. The Mechanical Group manufactures and markets mechanical products, including gears and gearboxes, marine transmissions, automotive transmissions and ring and pinions, manual valve actuators and cutting tools.
RONE.OB Regal One Corporation has no business operations. The Company has been involved in a variety of industries including automobile mufflers, real estate and the pharmaceutical and health field. The Company is actively seeking a merger candidate and acquisitions. Regal One has not generated any revenue during the years ended December 31, 2003 and 2002 and has funded its operation primarily through the issuance of equity and through loans. In the later part of 2003, the Company signed a letter of intent to acquire O2 Technology, Inc. This acquisition was ultimately concluded on February 10, 2004. The Company also entered into a Letter of Intent to acquire Bentax of North America. At of March 31, 2004, that acquisition was still pending. In addition, the Company signed an additional Letter of Intent to acquire a 49% interest in Bentax GMBH of Switzerland for cash and stock.
RFCG.OB Refocus Group, Inc. is a medical device company engaged in the research and development of treatments for eye disorders. The Company's principal products are the PresVIEW Scleral Implant (the PSI) and the PresVIEW Incision System, which consists of the surgical instruments used to implant the PSI in the surface of the white of the human eye. The PSI and PresVIEW Incision System are utilized in the Company's surgical procedure, the Scleral Spacing Procedure, for the treatment of presbyopia, ocular hypertension and primary open angle glaucoma in the human eye. As of December 31, 2003, sale of this medical device is restricted while Refocus seeks approval for the device in the United States from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and in other international markets. In February 2003, the Company changed its name from VeryBestoftheInternet.com to Refocus Group, Inc.
REF Refac, for most of its history was engaged in intellectual property licensing activities. During the period from 1997 to 2002, it was also engaged in the business of product development and graphic design and had invested these resources together with its licensing capabilities, in certain product development ventures. On March 22, 2002, the Company announced plans to reposition itself for sale or liquidation and by the end of 2002, it had disposed of all of its operating segments with the exception of its licensing business and it has limited the operations of that segment to managing certain existing license agreements and related contracts. Current licensing business is conducted entirely in the United States.
RUK Reed Elsevier plc operates publishing and information businesses through its 50% interest in Reed Elsevier Group plc. Reed Elsevier Group plc is a global publisher of information and solutions for professional users operating in four core markets, including science and medical, legal, education and business. The Company also holds a 39% interest in Elsevier Reed Finance BV, the parent company of the Elsevier Reed Finance BV group (ERF). ERF provides treasury, finance and insurance services to the Reed Elsevier Group plc businesses through its subsidiaries, Elsevier Finance SA, Elsevier Properties SA and Elsevier Risks SA.
ENL Reed Elsevier NV and Reed Elsevier PLC conduct their business through two jointly owned companies, Reed Elsevier Group plc and Elsevier Reed Finance BV. Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV have retained their separate legal and national identities. Reed Elsevier is not a legal entity but a collective reference to the separate legal entities of Reed Elsevier PLC, Reed Elsevier NV, Reed Elsevier Group plc and Elsevier Reed Finance BV and their respective subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures. The Company is a publisher and information provider whose businesses provide products and services organized to serve four business segments: Science and Medical (Elsevier); Legal (LexisNexis); Education (Harcourt Education), and Business (Reed Business). Its principal operations are in North America and Europe.
RBK Reebok International Ltd. is a global company that designs and markets sports and fitness products, including footwear, apparel and accessories. It also designs and markets casual footwear, apparel and accessories for non-athletic use. The Company designs, markets and sells its products under four principle brands: The Reebok Brand, which encompasses its Reebok-branded products and its sports licensing business; The Rockport brand, which is owned by its subsidiary The Rockport Company, LLC; The Ralph Lauren and Polo footwear brands, which are licensed by its subsidiary Ralph Lauren Footwear Co., Inc.; and The Greg Norman brand, which is licensed by its Greg Norman Division for use in its Greg Norman Collection. The Company also pursues opportunities to license its trademarks and other intellectual property to third parties for use on equipment, apparel, accessories, sporting goods, health clubs and related products and services.
RWT Redwood Trust, Inc. is a financial institution that invests in real estate loans. The Company invests in residential real estate loans in the United States. It also invests in real estate loan securities created from these loans. The Company's investments consist of residential real estate loans, securities backed by residential real estate loans and various other diverse residential and commercial real estate loan securities such as commercial real estate loans. The Company's four real estate loan investments are the residential real estate loans, the residential real estate loan credit-enhancement securities and the commercial real estate loans and securities portfolio (consisting of diverse residential and commercial real estate securities).
REBC Redwood Empire Bancorp is a bank holding company operating in Northern California with three wholly owned subsidiaries: National Bank of the Redwoods (NBR), Redwood Statutory Trust I and Redwood Statutory Trust II. A previously owned subsidiary of the Company, Allied Bank, F.S.B., a federal savings bank (Allied), merged with its sister subsidiary, NBR. The Company operates in two principal industry segments: core community banking and merchant card services. Its core community banking industry segment includes commercial, commercial real estate, construction and permanent residential lending along with all depository activities. The Company's merchant card services industry group provided credit card settlement services for 35,000 merchants located throughout the United States.
REDF Rediff.com India Limited is a worldwide online provider of news, information, communication, entertainment and shopping services in India. The Company provides a platform for Indians worldwide to connect with one another online. Rediff.com offers a personalized secure surfing and shopping environment. The Company also offers the Indian weekly newspaper, India Abroad. India Abroad is an ethnic newspaper targeting the affluent Indian-American community in the United States. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Rediff.com and Yahoo! India, the two Internet portals in India, announced a strategic alliance to jointly promote online shopping and mobile content across both the portals. The Company also announced the launch of Rediff Radio, a subscription-based online service with a free seven days, no-risk, no-obligation trial, offering the Indian music.
HOOK Redhook Ale Brewery, Incorporated is a brewer of craft beers in the United States. The Company produces its specialty bottled and draft products in two breweries, one in the Seattle suburb of Woodinville, Washington, and the other in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Redhook produces nine styles of beer, marketed under distinct brand names. The Company's flagship brand is Redhook E.S.B. and its other products include Redhook India Pale Ale, Redhook Blonde Ale, Blackhook Porter, Chinook Copper Ale, and its seasonal offerings include Winterhook, Redhook Sunrye Ale and Redhook Nut Brown Ale. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Redhook began producing and selling Widmer Hefeweizen in the Eastern United States under a licensing agreement with Widmer Brothers Brewing Company. Redhook distributed its products through a network of third-party wholesale distributors and a distribution alliance with Anheuser-Busch, Incorporated in 48 states in 2003.
REDE RedEnvelope, Inc. is an online and catalog retailer of upscale gifts. The Company offers an assortment of products in 14 categories, ranging from new baby to jewelry to men's accessories to home and garden. Through its Website, www.redenvelope.com, customers can search for gifts by occasion, recipient, product category and price point. The Website generally features approximately 650 products, increasing to approximately 800 products during the holiday shopping season. In addition, through the Website, the customers can register for the Company's gift reminder service, sign-up to receive e-mail promotions, view their order history, and request a catalog. During the fiscal year ended March 28, 2004 (fiscal 2003), approximately 72% of customer orders were placed through the Website with the remainder placed through telephone orders.
RDDI.OB Reddi Brake Supply Corporation had a sole subsidiary RBSC, Inc. The subsidiary filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on March 17, 1997. Since the divestiture of the Company's subsidiary, the Company has not engaged in any operations. The Company continues to seek, investigate, and if warranted, acquire an interest in a business opportunity. The Company does not propose to restrict its search for a business opportunity to any particular industry or geographical area and may, therefore, engage in essentially any business in any industry.
RBAK Redback Networks Inc. (Redback) is a provider of telecommunications networking equipment that enable carriers and service providers to deploy high-speed access and services to the Internet and corporate networks. Its product lines consist of the short messaging service (SMS) family of subscriber management systems and the SmartEdge router and service gateway systems. The SMS family includes the SMS 10000, the SMS 10000 SL, the SMS 1800, the SMS 1800 SL and the SMS 500 products. The SmartEdge 800 router was built for the service provider network's edge and has a smaller version, SmartEdge 400. The NetOp Policy Manager is a software platform that allows policy management and control across the entire SMS and SmartEdge product families. In November 2003, Redback filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court and filed a prepackaged plan of reorganization. In January 2004, Redback emerged from bankruptcy.
RRGB Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. together with its subsidiaries is a casual dining restaurant chain focused on serving a selection of gourmet burgers in a family-friendly ambiance. As of year end 2003, the Company owns and operates 118 casual dining restaurants under the name Red Robin America's Gourmet Burgers &amp; Spirits in 14 states of the United States, with an additional 107 restaurants operating under franchise or license agreements in 22 states and two Canadian provinces. Red Robin has 23 franchisees, and has 17 exclusive franchise development arrangements with these franchisees. The Company's two largest franchisees are Red Robin Restaurants of Canada, Ltd., with 20 restaurants throughout Alberta and British Columbia, Canada; and Top Robin Ventures, Inc., with 15 restaurants in Southern California.
RHAT Red Hat, Inc. provides an enterprise operating system and related systems management services based on open source technology for the information technology infrastructure requirements of large enterprises. The Company developed an enterprise operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, which it introduced in May 2002. In March 2003, the Company launched three additional technology solutions in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux line: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES, Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS and Red Hat Network. Red Hat also offers a range of professional services relating to the development, deployment, and use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and related technology-based systems management services. These professional services include information technology architecture consulting, Red Hat Enterprise technology deployment services, training and education and hardware certification.
GARM.OB RecycleNet Corporation operates a Secondary Commodity Exchange making inefficient recyclable markets more efficient. The Company provides Global Access to Recycling Markets (GARM) by providing an exchange system that facilitates the trade of secondary commodities. It pioneered online trading for the recycling industry by developing a Web-based marketplace in which buyers and sellers are brought together in an intuitive, easy-to-use environment.
RECM.OB Recom Managed Systems, Inc. is a development stage medical device company focused on researching, developing and marketing heart (cardiac) monitors and other diagnostic medical devices that monitor and measure the body's physiological signals in order to detect and prevent medical complications and diseases that impact an individual's health. Its products operate using amplification technology that enable them to more accurately discriminate physiological signals from ambient electromagnetic background noise than existing amplification technologies. An amplification technology is one that enlarges or amplifies the body's signals of interest for diagnostic purposes, while removing unwanted electromagnetic noise from other sources.
RA Reckson Associates Realty Corp. is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust engaged in the business of owning, developing, acquiring, leasing, financing, operating and managing office and, to a lesser extent, industrial/research and development properties in the New York City tri-state area. It also owns land for future development and one retail property in New York. The Company owns all of its interests in its real properties, directly or indirectly, through Reckson Operating Partnership, L.P. The Company's portfolio consists of Class A office properties located within the New York City metropolitan area and Class A suburban office and industrial/research and development properties predominantly located and operated within the Tri-State Area. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned 89 properties including 10 joint venture properties encompassing approximately 14.7 million rentable square feet, all of which are managed by the Company.
O Realty Income Corporation is an integrated, self-administered, real estate company with in-house acquisition, leasing, legal, retail and real estate research, portfolio management and capital markets expertise. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned a diversified portfolio of 1,404 retail properties located in 48 states with over 11.3 million square feet of leasable space. Its properties were leased to 85 different retail chains doing business in 28 separate retail industries and had an occupancy rate of 98.1%. Of the 1,404 properties in the portfolio, 1,399, or 99.6%, were single-tenant retail properties and the remaining five were multi-tenant properties. In addition to its real estate portfolio, the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Crest Net Lease, Inc., had investments in a portfolio of 37 retail properties located in 13 states. These properties are held for sale.
RNWK RealNetworks, Inc. is a creator of digital media services and software. Consumers use the Company's services and software to find, play, purchase and manage free digital content, including music, video and games. Broadcasters, network operators, media companies and enterprises use its products and services to create and deliver digital media to personal computers (PCs), mobile phones and consumer electronics devices. Sales to customers outside the United States, primarily in Asia and Europe, were approximately 27%, 28% and 29% of total net revenues during the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively.
RDI Reading International, Inc. (RII) is engaged in the ownership and management of real estate assets, and offers various real estate consulting services to its affiliates. The Company is primarily engaged in the development, ownership and operation of multiplex cinemas in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Puerto Rico; the development, ownership and operation of cinema-based entertainment-themed retail centers (ETRC) in Australia and New Zealand; the ownership and operation of Off-Broadway style live theaters in Manhattan and Chicago, and the development, ownership and operation of commercial real estate in Australia, New Zealand and the United States as a business ancillary to its development and operation of cinemas, cinema-based ETRC and live theaters. The Company is the corporate successor to the Reading Railroad, which now owns the consolidated businesses and assets of Reading Entertainment, Inc., Craig Corporation and Citadel Holding Corporation.
RDA The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. is globally engaged in publishing and direct marketing, and creates and delivers products that inform, enrich, entertain and inspire, including magazines, books, recorded music collections and home videos. The Company is best-known for publishing its flagship magazine, Reader's Digest. Reader's Digest has a worldwide circulation of about 19 million and over 85 million readers each month. Reader's Digest is published in 49 editions and 20 languages. The Company conducts business through three operating segments: Reader's Digest North America, Consumer Business Services and International Businesses. The Company's Books and Home Entertainment products consist of Reader's Digest Select Editions, series books, general books, recorded music collections and series, and home video products and series. It markets these products principally by direct mail through its Reader's Digest North America and Reader's Digest International reportable segments.
RCMT RCM Technologies, Inc. is a provider of business and technology solutions designed to enhance and maximize the operational performance of its customers through the adaptation and deployment of advanced information technology (IT) and engineering services. The Company provides a diversified range of service offerings and deliverables. Its portfolio of Information Technology services includes e-Business, enterprise management and enterprise application integration. RCM's portfolio of Professional Engineering services focuses on engineering design, technical support and project management and implementation. The Company's Commercial Services business unit provides healthcare contract professionals, as well as clerical and light industrial temporary personnel. RCM provides its services to clients in the banking and finance, healthcare, insurance, aerospace, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, utility, technology, manufacturing, distribution and government sectors.
RCG RCG Companies Incorporated, formerly eResource Capital Group, Inc. is a network of travel and entertainment and technology services companies. RCG is engaged in the operation of aviation travel services, home technology and technology solutions businesses. Logisoft Corp., the Company's technology solutions business, provides integrated products and services to assist customers in meeting their strategic technology initiatives. The Company's products and services include distribution of third-party published software titles for the educational market and corporate customers, full-service Internet development, Internet Website hosting and co-location, and Internet business development services encompassing partner-site management and marketing. In RCG's Internet business development and marketing services business, it generally participates in the development and implementation of the business plan in exchange for revenue sharing and/or equity-based arrangements.
RCRC RC2 Corporation is a designer, producer and marketer of collectibles and toys targeted at adult collectors and children. The Company's product offerings include automotive, high-performance and racing vehicle replicas; agricultural, construction and outdoor sports vehicle replicas; traditional children's toys; sports trading cards, apparel and souvenirs, and collectible figures. These products are sold under brand names, including Racing Champions, Ertl Collectibles, Learning Curve, American Muscle, Feltkids, JoyRide and JoyRide Studios. RC2 supports its brands with licensed properties from companies such as John Deere, Harley-Davidson, HIT Entertainment, Lamaze, Honda, Caterpillar, Ford, GM, DaimlerChrysler, Texaco, Universal Studios, Warner Brothers, DIC Entertainment, Discovery Channel and Microsoft.
RBIN R&amp;B, Inc. is a supplier of original equipment dealer exclusive automotive products primarily for the automotive aftermarket. The Company designs, packages and markets over 70,000 different automotive replacement parts, fasteners and service line products manufactured to its specifications, with approximately 35% consisting of original equipment dealer exclusive parts and fasteners. Original equipment dealer exclusive parts are those which were traditionally available to consumers only from original equipment manufacturers or salvage yards, and include, among other parts, intake manifolds, exhaust manifolds, oil cooler lines, window regulators, radiator fan assemblies, power steering pulleys and harmonic balancers. Fasteners include such items as oil drain plugs and wheel lug nuts.
RTN Raytheon Company is engaged in the defense and government electronics, space, information technology (IT), technical services and business and special mission aircraft industry. The Company's government and defense business is aligned in six business segments: Integrated Defense Systems (IDS); Intelligence and Information Systems (IIS); Missile Systems (MS); Network Centric Systems (NCS); Space and Airborne Systems (SAS), and Technical Services. Raytheon Aircraft is one of the providers of business and special mission aircraft and delivers a line of jet, turboprop and piston-powered airplanes to individual, corporate and government customers worldwide. In November 2004, the Company sold its Raytheon Commercial Infrared (RCI) business to L-3 Communications Corporation.
RAY Raytech Corporation (Raytech) develops, manufactures and supplies specialty engineered friction and energy absorption components used in oil immersed (wet) and dry transmission and brake systems for on- and off-road vehicles. The Company also makes and markets specialty engineered products for heat resistant, inertia control and energy absorption applications. Its operations are categorized into three business segments: Wet Friction, Dry Friction and Aftermarket, which accounted for 57%, 21% and 22% respectively, of the consolidated net sales in the fiscal year ended December 28, 2003. The products are typically found in passenger cars, heavy duty construction and agricultural equipment, trucks, buses and in logging, mining and military vehicles. These are sold around the world, through export from its United States plants, through its wholly owned manufacturing subsidiaries in Germany, the United Kingdom and China and through distributors.
ROV Rayovac Corporation is a global branded consumer products company with market positions in two product categories, consumer batteries and electric personal care products. The Company manufactures and markets general batteries, including alkaline batteries, zinc carbon, rechargeable batteries and chargers, hearing aid batteries, other specialty batteries and battery-powered lighting products. It also designs and markets electric shavers and accessories, electric grooming products and hair care appliances. The Company's products are sold on a global basis in over 120 countries through a variety of channels, including mass merchandisers, home centers and hardware stores, consumer electronics stores, warehouse clubs, food, drug and convenience stores, department stores, hearing aid professionals, industrial distributors and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
RYN Rayonier Inc. is an international forest products company engaged primarily in activities associated with timberland management, including the sale of timber and timberlands, and in the production and sale of high- value-added performance cellulose fibers. The Company's operations are organized into three principal segments: Timber and Land, Performance Fibers and Wood Products. Its revenues, operating income and cash flows are primarily derived from its core business segments, Timber and Land and Performance Fibers. Rayonier manufactures wood products through its lumber manufacturing facilities in the United States and a medium-density fiberboard plant in New Zealand. It also owns and operates two performance fibers mills in the United States. Other business includes log trading in the United States and overseas. Effective January 1, 2004, Rayonier will be converted into a Real Estate Investment Trust.
RJF Raymond James Financial, Inc. (RJF) is a Florida-based holding company whose subsidiaries are engaged in various financial services businesses. Its principal subsidiaries include Raymond James &amp; Associates, Inc. (RJA), Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. (RJFS), Raymond James Ltd. (RJ Ltd.), Eagle Asset Management, Inc. (Eagle), Heritage Asset Management, Inc. (Heritage) and Raymond James Bank, FSB (RJBank). All of these subsidiaries are wholly owned by RJF. The Company's business has five segments: Private Client Group, Capital Markets, Asset Management, RJBank and several operations combined in the Other segment.
RAVN Raven Industries, Inc. is an industrial manufacturer providing a variety of products to customers throughout North America. The Company began operations as a manufacturer of high-altitude research balloons before diversifying into the industrial, agricultural, construction and military/aerospace markets. It has four business segments consisting of three Raven divisions and one subsidiary, Electronic Systems Division, Flow Controls Division, Engineered Films Division and Aerostar International, Inc. (Aerostar). Beta Raven, a wholly owned subsidiary, was partially merged into the Electronic Systems Division and the remaining liquidated into Raven Industries, Inc. The Company's product lines are grouped in segments based on common technologies, production methods and raw materials. The Company's product categories are electronics manufacturing services, flow control devices and accessories, reinforced plastic sheeting, cargo parachutes, uniforms and protective wear and others.
RARE RARE Hospitality International, Inc. and its subsidiaries operate and franchise restaurants. As of March 3, 2004, it operated 239 restaurants, including 194 LongHorn Steakhouse restaurants, 17 The Capital Grille restaurants and 26 Bugaboo Creek Steak House restaurants, as well as two additional restaurants (the specialty restaurants), Hemenway's Seafood Grille &amp; Oyster Bar (Hemenway's) and The Old Grist Mill Tavern. LongHorn Steakhouse restaurants are casual dining, full-service establishments serving both lunch and dinner. The Capital Grille serves classic steak house offerings such as chops, large North Atlantic lobsters and fresh seafood. Bugaboo Creek Steak House restaurants are designed as family-friendly establishments featuring liquor service.
RRC Range Resources Corporation (RRC), incorporated in 1980, is engaged in the exploration, development and acquisition of oil and gas properties, primarily in the Southwestern, Gulf Coast and Appalachian regions of the United States. As of December 31, 2003, the Company's properties included working interests in 11,714 (6,080 net) productive oil and gas wells, royalty interests in an additional 227 wells and 834,000 (376,000 net) undeveloped acres. Also as of that date, RRC had 685 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent (Bcfe) of proved reserves, which are are 71% natural gas by volume, 72% developed and 93% operated. The Company had a reserve life index of 11 years and owned 834,000 (376,000 net) acres of undeveloped leasehold at year-end.
GOLD Randgold Resources Ltd. (Randgold) is engaged in the exploration and development of gold deposits in sub-Saharan Africa. The Company is engaged in surface gold mining, exploration and related activities. In Mali, the Company owns one half of Morila Limited, a joint venture with AngloGold. Morila Limited, in turn, owns 80% of Morila SA, the owner of the Morila mine. As of December 31, 2003, Randgold had declared proven and probable reserves of approximately 2.37 million ounces. The Company actively manages both its portfolio of exploration and development properties, as well as risk exposure to any particular geographical area.
RANGY Randgold and Exploration Co. Ltd., through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the mining and exploration business in Africa. The Company is engaged in the exploration and development of prospective mineral rights properties owned by it, as well as through joint ventures, in which the Company participates and acquires additional mineral rights in the Randblock. In addition, through its associated company, RRL, the Company actively pursues growth opportunities, to acquire gold mining operations and to explore and develop prospective mineral properties in Africa.
RAND Rand Capital Corporation is engaged in making venture capital investments in early-stage and/or developing enterprises engaged in the development or exploitation of inventions, technological improvements and new or unique products, and services in New York and its surrounding states. The Company seeks to achieve long-term capital appreciation while maintaining a current cash flow from its debenture instruments. It invests in a mixture of debenture and equity instruments. The debt securities often have an equity piece attached to the debenture in the form of stock, warrants or options to acquire stock or the right to convert the debt securities into stock.
RMTR Ramtron International Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets specialized semiconductor memory and integrated products used by its customers for a range of applications. Ramtron provides non-volatile ferroelectric random access memory devices (FRAM), analog and mixed signal products and high-performance dynamic random access memory (DRAM) modules. The Company's FRAM product portfolio includes serial and parallel non-volatile memories and analog and mixed signal integrated semiconductor products, which are developed and marketed by the Company. Its DRAM products are developed and marketed through its wholly owned subsidiary, Mushkin Inc., and formerly by its 80% owned subsidiary, Enhanced Memory Systems, Inc.
RCO Ramp Corporation together with its wholly owned HealthRamp subsidiary is engaged in developing and marketing healthcare connectivity software centered around its CarePoint Suite of application service providers (ASP)-based Internet technologies. These technologies provide Internet-based communication, data integration and transaction processing technologies, electronic prescribing of drugs, laboratory orders and results, connectivity of medical related information between patient point-of-care providers (POCs) and specific healthcare value chain intermediaries. Frontline is a telephone answering service for physicians' practices, focused on call overflow during office and after hours answering services. Its technology is designed to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the processes of drug prescribing and ordering of laboratory tests, receiving of laboratory results and to enable POCs to raise the level of patient care through technologies that access critical medical information.
RPT Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust (RPT) is an equity real estate investment trust engaged in the business of owning, developing, acquiring, managing and leasing community shopping centers in the midwestern, southeastern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. As of December 31, 2003, RPT had a portfolio of 64 shopping centers, with more than 13,200,000 square feet of gross leasable area, located in 12 states. Its properties consist of 63 community shopping centers, 10 of which are power centers and two of which are single tenant facilities. The Company also owns one enclosed regional mall. RPT conducts substantially all of its business, and holds substantially all of its interests in its properties, through the operating partnership, Ramco-Gershenson Properties, L.P. The Company has the exclusive power to manage and conduct the business of the operating partnership.
RMBS Rambus Inc. creates a range of chip-to-chip interface technologies that enhance the performance and cost-effectiveness of its customers' semiconductor and system products. The Company's interface solutions can be grouped into two major categories, memory interfaces and logic interfaces. Memory interface solutions provide an interface between memory chips and logic chips. Logic interface solutions provide an interface between two logic chips. These advanced chip-to-chip interface solutions increase the data transfer rate between semiconductor chips, improving performance and reducing systems costs. Rambus' interface solutions are RDRAM (Rambus dynamic random access memory) Interface, XDR (extended dynamic range) DRAM Interface, RaSer Interface and Redwood Logic Interface. They are used in a range of computing, consumer electronics and communications applications.
RVHC.OB RAM Venture Holdings Corp. was organized for the purpose of developing and marketing a house arrest program to relieve the need for incarceration in a jail or similar facility. Formerly known as Correction Services, Inc., the Company was commercially active in that area until mid-1998. In August 1998, it sold its electronic monitoring business and had no commercial operations since then. Early in March 2004, RAM entered into an agreement to acquire American Apparel and Accessories, Inc. (A3), following which the Company would be the surviving entity with its name subsequently changed to American Apparel and Accessories, Inc. On April 23, 2004, American Apparel and Accessories, Inc. merged with and into RAM. A3 is engaged, by and through prior acquisitions, in the outdoor-activities industry with camouflage patterns, for which the Company's subsidiary, Natural Gear, holds copyrights on several open-faced patterns.
RAH Ralcorp Holdings, Inc. engaged in the manufacturing, distribution and marketing of store brand (private label) food in the grocery, mass merchandise, drug and foodservice channels. The products include: ready-to-eat and hot cereal products; store brand and branded crackers and cookies; store brand and value branded snack nuts and chocolate candy; store brand wet-filled products, such as salad dressings, mayonnaise, peanut butter, syrups, jams and jellies, and specialty sauces; foodservice and branded frozen griddle products and biscuits, and foodservice and store brand breads, rolls and muffins. The business is comprised of four reportable business segments: Cereals, Crackers and Cookies (consisting of Ralston Foods and Bremner, Inc.); Dressings, Syrups, Jellies and Sauces (The Carriage House Companies, Inc.); Snack Nuts and Candy (Nutcracker Brands, Inc.), and Frozen Pancakes, Biscuits and Breads (Bakery Chef). On March 1, 2004, it announced the purchase of Concept 2 Bakers.
RAS RAIT Investment Trust is a real estate investment trust engaged in investing in real estate primarily by making and acquiring real estate loans and acquiring interests in real estate. The Company acquires interests through its wholly owned subsidiaries or by acquiring controlling or non-controlling equity interests in entities that own real estate. RAIT makes investments in situations that, generally, do not conform to the underwriting standards of institutional lenders or sources that provide financing through securitization. The Company emphasizes subordinated financing. The Company also provides short-term bridge financing in excess of the targeted size range where the borrower has committed to obtain take-out financing to reduce its investment to an amount within the targeted size range. The Company also arranges for conduit loans.
RMKR Rainmaker Systems, Inc. (Rainmaker) is an outsourced provider of sales and marketing programs. Core services include professional telesales, direct marketing and hosted e-commerce. Additional services include customer database enhancement, customer relationship management technology integration and order management, including invoicing and collecting from clients' customers. These services are available individually or as an integrated solution. The Company's clients consist of hardware and software companies with customer bases and products that benefit from focused sales and marketing programs for support contracts or maintenance agreements. Rainmaker generates a significant portion of its net revenues from sales to the customers of a limited number of clients. During the year ended December 31, 2003, sales to customers of Hewlett-Packard Company, Sybase, Inc. and Nortel Networks, Inc. accounted for more than 10% of the Company's net revenues.
RDTA Raining Data Corporation (Raining) designs, develops, sells and supports software infrastructure. The Company's software is categorized into four product lines: Multi-Dimensional Database Management Systems (MDMS); Rapid Application Development (RAD) software tools; eXtensible mark-up language (XML) Data Management Servers (XDMS) and Pick Data Provider (PDP) for the Microsoft .NET development environment. The Pick Universal Data Model (Pick UDM) is a component across the MDMS, XDMS and PDP product lines. The products include RAD software tools for computer application development. It also offers training programs to its customers and prospective customers, which include classes on basic and advanced skills, as well as classes designed to assist customers in the implementation and use of products. The customers are classified into two categories: independent software vendors and software developers and corporate information technology departments.
RPFG Rainier Pacific Financial Group, Inc. is a holding company for Rainier Pacific Savings Bank (the Bank) upon the Bank's conversion from a Washington-chartered mutual to a Washington-chartered stock savings bank (Conversion). The Company's business activities are limited to passive investment activities and oversight of its investment in the Bank. The Bank is a financial institution meeting the financial needs of its customers that are located in its local market of Pierce County, Washington. It offers consumers deposit and loan services through the Bank and offer automobile and homeowner's insurance, financial planning and non-federally insured mutual fund and investment services through its wholly owned subsidiary, Support Systems, Inc. The Bank also provides a limited offering of deposit and loan services to small businesses within its local community to accommodate existing customers.
RNDC Raindance Communications, Inc. provides tools for remote meetings and events. The Company's business-to-business communication services are based on proprietary architecture that integrates traditional telephony technology with real-time interactive Web tools. From a simple audio conference call to a fully collaborative online event, the Company's customers can choose the best solution to meet their communication needs. With these services, users initiate, control and monitor live and recorded one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many communication events, including everyday business meetings, sales presentations, employee training sessions and product demonstrations using only a telephone and a standard Web browser.
RRA RailAmerica, Inc. owns and operates short-line freight railroads in North America. The Company owned, leased or operated a diversified portfolio of 50 railroads, with approximately 17,700 miles of track (including track access arrangements) located in the United States, Canada and Argentina, as of December 31, 2003. Through its diversified portfolio of rail lines, RailAmerica operates in numerous geographic regions with varying concentrations of commodities hauled. The International Rail Transportation was comprised of the Company's operations in Chile and Australia, and included Freight Australia and Ferronor. RailAmerica sold Freight Australia to Pacific National in August 2004. It sold its equity interest in Ferronor in February 2004. In December 2004, the Company RailAmerica, Inc. sold its Arizona Eastern Railway Company and West Texas and Lubbock Railroad Company, Inc. subsidiaries to Permian Basin Railways, Inc.
RAE RAE Systems Inc. is a global developer and manufacturer of rapidly deployable, multi-sensor chemical detection monitors, networks for homeland security and industrial applications. In addition, RAE offers a line of portable single-sensor chemical and radiation detection products. The Company's products are based on technology and include portable, wireless and fixed atmospheric monitors and photo-ionization detectors and gamma and neutron detectors. These products enable the military and first responders, such as firefighters, law enforcement and other emergency management personnel to detect and provide early warning of weapons of mass destruction and other hazardous materials. Industrial applications include the detection of toxic industrial chemicals, volatile organic compounds and petrochemicals.
RADN Radyne ComStream Inc. designs, manufactures, integrates, installs and sells capital equipment used in the ground-based portion of satellite communication systems and cable communications networks to receive and transmit data, telephone, television, video and telephone-over-Internet. The Company's products are used in applications for telephone, data, video and audio broadcast communications, private and corporate data networks, Internet applications and digital television for cable and network broadcast. It designs, manufactures, integrates, installs and sells capital equipment used for upgrading existing analog point-to-point microwave radios to handle digital signals. The Company designs, manufactures, integrates, installs and sells capital equipment for High Definition Television (HDTV) and other digital encoding and transmission, and its Armer subsidiary provides solutions for the integration and installation of turnkey communications systems.
RDWR Radware Ltd. develops, manufactures and markets intelligent application switching (IAS) solutions that enable continuous application availability, optimize application performance and provide site-wide security. Radware offers a range of solutions to service providers, e-commerce businesses and corporate enterprises to optimize operations of Web and application servers, firewalls, virtual private networks (VPN), intrusion detection systems (IDS), Internet service providers (ISP) links, anti-virus gateways and cache servers. The application switching solutions enable customers to manage their network infrastructure, bypass systems failures and scale their network infrastructure to accommodate increasing Internet protocol (IP) traffic. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company released Application Switch III, its next-generation hardware platform.
RVSN RADVISION Ltd. is engaged in the design, development and supply of products and technology that enable real-time voice, video and data communication over packet networks, including the Internet and other Internet protocol (IP) networks. The Company has two business units: the Networking Business Unit, which provides a set of multimedia communication and videoconferencing network solutions, and the Technology Business Unit, which provides protocol development tools and platforms, as well as testing platforms and IP phone toolkits. RADVISION generates revenues from sales of its networking products to original equipment manufacturers, systems integrators and value- added resellers; technology products that are sold to developers of IP communication products, systems and applications, and related maintenance and support services. The Company markets and sells its products through multiple channels in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and the Far East.
RDVA.OB RADVA Corporation is engaged in the production of molded and fabricated products from expandable polystyrene that are used in businesses such as consumer electronics, seafood and furniture. The Company has developed a composite building panel produced from expanded polystyrene and steel sold under Thermastructure. In 1998, RADVA sold 95% of its assets and interest in the composite building panel system that were then transferred to ThermaSteel Corporation. During the year ended December 31, 2002, the Company reacquired an additional 5% interest from ThermaSteel. RADVA also has a subsidiary, Triter Corporation that was formed for the purpose of making triterine. In March 2003, the Company sold 20% interest in Triter Corporation for the purpose of obtaining funds necessary for the continued development of the product. RADVA has more than 400 customers wherein one accounted for approximately 37.8%.
RDXM.OB Radix Marine, Inc. (RDXM), formerly known as Modern MFG Services, Inc., is a development-stage company that focuses, through the wholly owned subsidiary, Integrated Maritime Platforms International, Inc. (Integrated), on the research, design, engineering and construction of maritime craft for port and homeland security, as well as recreational purposes. The Company offers manned patrol and recreational craft, and is a part of a consortium that is developing an unmanned surface vehicle for the United Stated Navy.
RSYS RadiSys Corporation is a provider of advanced embedded systems for the service provider, commercial and enterprise markets. Through close customer collaboration, and combining technologies and architecture, the Company helps its customers bring better products to market faster and more economically. Its products include embedded software, boards, platforms and systems, which are used in complex computing, processing and network-intensive applications. RadiSys provides advanced embedded solutions to three distinct markets: service provider systems, commercial systems and enterprise systems.
RSH RadioShack Corporation is primarily engaged in the retail sale of consumer electronic goods and services through its RadioShack store chain. As of December 31, 2003, the Company operated 5,121 company stores located throughout the United States, as well as in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. These stores sell electronic parts, batteries and accessories; wireless and conventional telephones; audio and video equipment; direct-to-home (DTH) satellite systems; personal computers; personal electronics, such as home air cleaners, and toys. RadioShack also provides consumers access to third-party services, such as cellular and personal communication service phone and DTH satellite activation, long distance telephone service, prepaid wireless airtime and extended service plans. The Company has a network of 1,921 dealer/franchise outlets. These outlets provide private label and third-party branded products and services to smaller communities.
RGX Radiologix, Inc. provides diagnostic imaging services through its ownership and operation of free standing, outpatient diagnostic imaging centers. The Company utilizes technology and technical expertise to perform a range of imaging procedures, such as magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, positron emission tomography, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, mammography, bone densitometry, general radiology and fluoroscopy. As of December 31, 2003, Radiologix operated 107 diagnostic imaging centers located in 15 states. The Company offers multi-modality imaging services at 64 of its diagnostic imaging centers.
ROIAK Radio One, Inc. is a radio broadcasting company in the United States that primarily targets African-Americans. The Company owns and/or operates 67 radio stations, of which, 53 are FM and 14 are AM, in 22 markets, including Washington, D.C; Atlanta, Georgia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Louisville, Kentucky; Dallas, Texas; Los Angeles, California; Miami, Florida; Richmond, Virginia; Detroit, Michigan, and Dayton, Ohio. Radio One programs five channels on the XM Satellite Radio system and owns approximately 40% of TV One LLC, an African-American-targeted cable channel, which is a joint venture with an affiliate of Comcast Corporation and other investors. The Company's primary programming format is urban format, targeting the 18-and-above age group. Other programming formats include Gospel, Jazz, Alternative Rock, Urban Talk, Ethnic, Rhythmic, R&amp;B/Oldies, Country, Modern Rock and News/Sports/Talk. The Company's national platform of radio stations reaches over 12.8 million listeners weekly.
RADA Radica Games Limited is engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of a line of electronic entertainment products covering multiple product lines, including electronic games carrying the Radica and Play TV brand names, Gamester-branded video game controllers and accessories, girls' lifestyle electronics carrying the Girl Tech and Barbie brand names and two new categories. The Company also manufactures for other companies in the electronic game industry and provides sourcing services for retail customers. Radica markets its products through subsidiaries in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Hong Kong. The Company's major retail customers include Wal-Mart, Target, Toys`R'Us, Kmart, Kohl's, Argos and Best Buy. Its major manufacturing customer is Hasbro Games Group.
RTSX Radiation Therapy Services, Inc. is a provider of radiation therapy services to cancer patients. The Commpany owns, operates and manages treatment centers, focused exclusively on providing comprehensive radiation treatment alternatives ranging from conventional external beam radiation to newer, technologically advanced options. The Company provides radiation therapy in 41 freestanding and 11 hospital-based treatment centers, of which 19 were internally developed, 22 were acquired and 11 are hospital-based. Its treatment centers are clustered into 17 regional networks in eight states, including Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, New York and North Carolina. The Company offers a full spectrum of radiation therapy alternatives, including conventional external beam radiation therapy and advanced services, such as intensity modulated radiation therapy, three-dimensional conformal treatment planning, patient targeting systems, brachytherapy and stereotactic radiosurgery.
RADS Radiant Systems, Inc. builds and delivers technology solutions for the retail and hospitality industries. The Company provides an array of solutions, including site management and enterprise management technology. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company restructured its business units into two operating segments: Store Systems and Enterprise Software Systems. The Store Systems segment focuses on delivering site management systems, including point-of-sale, self-service kiosk and back-office systems designed for the Company's markets of Petroleum and Convenience Store, Food Service and Entertainment. The Enterprise Software Systems segment is focused on delivering its Web-based Radiant 6e Enterprise Productivity Software Suite, including functionality, such as workforce and supply chain management to the broader retail markets, both within, and outside the Company's markets.
RDN Radian Group Inc. provides, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, insurance and financial services to financial institutions in the United States of America and globally. The principal business segments of the Company are mortgage insurance, financial guaranty and financial services. Its subsidiaries include Radian Guaranty Inc., Amerin Guaranty Corporation, Radian Insurance Inc., RadianExpress.com Inc., Radian Asset Assurance Inc. and Radian Reinsurance Inc. In June 2004, Radian Group Inc. announced the merger of its financial guaranty subsidiaries, Radian Asset Assurance Inc. and Radian Reinsurance Inc. The merged company will continue to use the Radian Asset Assurance name.
RDCM RADCOM Ltd. develops, manufactures, markets and supports high-performance internetworking test and analysis equipment and quality management for data communications and telecommunications networks. The Company's products are used in the development and manufacturing of network equipment, the installation of networks, and the ongoing maintenance of operational networks to facilitate real-time identification, diagnosis, isolation and resolution of network problems. RADCOM categorizes its products into three primary lines: the Performer series of performance analyzers, the Prism series of multitechnology analyzers, and the Omni-Q voice quality management solution. The Company sells its products in North America through its wholly owned United States subsidiary, RADCOM Equipment, Inc., which sells its products to end users. Outside North America, RADCOM sells its products through a global network of distributors who market data communications-related hardware and software products.
Q Qwest Communications International Inc.provides local telecommunications and related services, Intra-LATA (Intra-local access and transport area) and InterLATA long distance services and wireless, data and video services within the Company's local service area, which consists of the 14-state region of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Qwest also provides long distance services and scalable and secure broadband data, voice and video communications outside its local service area, as well as globally. The Company also provided, until September 2003, directory publishing services in its local service area. Qwest operates in three segments: wireline services, wireless services and other services, which primarily involved the subleasing of unused real estate assets.
QVDX Quovadx, Inc. is a global software and services firm that helps enterprise customers worldwide develop, extend and integrate applications based on open standards. The Company's software and service offerings include an integrated suite of application development tools and vertical enterprise applications for companies in healthcare, financial services, software, telecommunications, public sector, manufacturing and life sciences. Quovadx is comprised of two primary divisions: the Rogue Wave Software division, which provides reusable software components and integrated software tools that facilitate application development; and the Enterprise Application Software division, which offers vertical specific solutions to improve business processes and create value from existing systems. Quovadx also offers a range of services to support its customers in the implementation, support, maintenance and extension of the Quovadx software solutions.
QUOT Quotesmith.com, Inc. is an insurance agency and brokerage that owns and operates an online consumer insurance information service at www.Insure.com. It develops an insurance price comparison and order-entry system, providing instant quotes from over 200 insurance companies for life and health insurance products. This database provides customers with comparative life and health insurance quotes, online, over the phone or by mail, and allows the customer to purchase insurance from the company. Quotesmith.com's Website also provides insurance information and decision-making tools, along with access to other forms of personal insurance. The Company's product offerings include individual term life; private passenger automobile; homeowner's; dental; individual and family medical; international travel medical; small group medical; no-exam life, and renters insurance. In May 2004, the Company acquired privately held Life Quotes, Inc., an Evergreen, Colorado-based life insurance agency.
QUIX Quixote Corporation (Quixote) develops, manufactures and markets highway and transportation safety products to protect, direct and inform motorists and highway workers in both domestic and international markets. These products include energy-absorbing highway crash cushions, flexible post delineators, electronic wireless measuring and sensing devices, weather information systems and forecasting services, variable message signs, highway advisory radios, intelligent intersection control devices, automated enforcement systems, video detection equipment and other highway and transportation safety devices. The Company operates in two segments within the highway and transportation safety industry, concentrating on safety problems and designing products to provide solutions for the highways. The Protect and Direct segment and the Inform segment.
QUIP Quipp, Inc. (Quipp) designs, manufactures, sells and installs material handling equipment and systems that automate the post press production process for newspaper publishers through its wholly owned subsidiary, Quipp Systems, Inc. The Company's equipment and control systems facilitate the automated movement of newspapers from the printing press to the delivery truck. Quipp also sells original equipment manufacturer products to compliment its product line and provide its customers a single source for integrated post-press material handling systems. The Company's market includes newspaper publishers with circulation exceeding 50,000 copies daily.
QUIN Quinton Cardiology Systems, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets and services a family of cardiology products used in the diagnosis, monitoring and management of patients with heart disease. The Company's products include electrocardiographs (ECGs), stress test systems, Holter monitoring systems, cardiac rehabilitation telemetry systems, ECG management systems, medical treadmills and electrodes. Quinton also sells a variety of ancillary cardiology products and consumables related to its principal products. At December 31, 2003, the Company's two principal operating subsidiaries were Quinton Cardiology, Inc. and Burdick, Inc., which were acquired in January 2003. Quinton's products are marketed under the Quinton and Burdick brand names. The Company also provides product installation, repair and scheduled maintenance services, as well as software and hardware upgrades.
LQU Quilmes Industrial (Quinsa), Societe Anonyme produces beer in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia and Chile and soft drinks and mineral water in Argentina and Uruguay. The Company sells 31 different brands of beer in 11 different presentations through all major channels of distribution throughout all of its markets. The majority of Quinsa's beer sales in the southern cone markets are made in glass containers of various sizes. The most important packaging is the one-liter returnable bottle, which represented more than 90% of the Company total beer sales volume in Argentina in 2003. In 2003, aluminum cans sales accounted for about 2% of total sales volume in Argentina. Quinsa's volume of aluminum cans sold represented 5% in Bolivia, 13% in Chile, 13% in Paraguay and 1% in Uruguay. The Company sells 30-liter kegs in all of its markets and 50-liter kegs in all of its markets except for Paraguay.
LQ Qui&ntilde;enco S.A. is a diversified company engaged in the industrial and services sectors in Chile. As of December 31, 2003, the Company provided banking and other financial services through Banco de Chile. Qui&ntilde;enco also provides beer, wine, soft drinks and other beverage production, bottling and distribution through Compania Cervecerias Unidas SA (CCU). The Company is also engaged in food production and distribution through Lucchetti; fixed-line telephony and other telecommunications services through Telefonica del Sur (Telsur). Qui&ntilde;enco also produces copper and aluminum products and flexible packaging products through Madeco; provides hotel services through Hoteles Carrera, and is engaged in residential real estate through Habitaria.
ZQK Quiksilver, Inc. is a globally integrated company that designs, produces and distributes branded clothing, accessories and related products for young-minded people. The Company's primary focus is apparel for young men and young women under the Quiksilver, Roxy, Raisins, Radio Fiji and Gotcha (Europe) labels. It also manufactures apparel for boys (Quiksilver Boys and Hawk Clothing), girls (Roxy Girl, Teenie Wahine and Raisins Girls), men (Quiksilveredition and Fidra, the Company's golf line) and women (Leilani swimwear), as well as snowboards, snowboard boots and bindings under the Lib Technologies, Gnu and Bent Metal labels. Quiksilver generates revenues primarily in the United States, Europe and, since its acquisition of Ug Manufacturing Co. Pty Ltd. (Australia) and Quiksilver Japan KK in December 2002, the Asia/Pacific markets. The Company's products are sold primarily in surf shops, specialty stores and its proprietary retail concept Boardriders Club stores.
QGLY The Quigley Corporation is primarily engaged in the manufacture and distribution of cold-remedy products to the consumer through over-the-counter market place together with the sale of proprietary health and wellness products through its direct selling subsidiary. The Company's key product Cold-Eeze, a zinc gluconate glycine lozenge, is proven in two double-blind clinical studies to reduce the duration and severity of the common cold symptoms by nearly half. Darius International Inc. (Darius), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, was formed to introduce new products to the marketplace through a network of independent distributors. Darius is a direct selling organization specializing in health and wellness products. In January 2001, the Company formed an Ethical Pharmaceutical Unit, Pharma. Pharma was formed for the purpose of developing naturally derived prescription drugs, cosmeceuticals and dietary supplements.
QDEL Quidel Corporation develops, manufactures and markets point-of-care (POC) rapid diagnostic tests for the detection and management of a variety of medical conditions and illnesses. The Company's product areas include pregnancy, infectious diseases, osteoporosis and urinalysis. Quidel focuses its products substantially on women's and family health in areas, such as reproduction, infectious diseases, general health screening and diseases associated with the elderly. The Company markets its products in the United States through a network of national and regional distributors, supported by a direct sales force. In the rest of the world, it sells and markets through distributors in Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America and in other international locations. Quidel provides rapid POC diagnostic tests under the brand names QuickVue, QuickVue+, QuickVue Advance, RapidVue, BlueTest, Metra, QUS-2, UrinQuick and Semi-Q.
KWK Quicksilver Resources Inc. is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the acquisition, development, exploration, production and sale of natural gas, crude oil and natural gas liquids, as well as the marketing, processing and transmission of natural gas. Substantial portions of Quicksilver's reserves are located in Michigan, Indiana, the Rocky Mountains and the Canadian province of Alberta. At December 31, 2003, the Company had estimated proved reserves of 881 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent. Approximately 90% of its reserves were natural gas, 81% were classified as proved developed and the Company operated approximately 73% of its reserves. Quicksilver sells natural gas and crude oil to a variety of customers, including utilities, oil and gas companies or their affiliates, industrial companies, large trading and energy marketing companies, refineries and other users of petroleum products.
QUIK QuickLogic Corporation designs and sells field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), embedded standard products (ESPs), associated software and programming hardware. The Company also licenses QuickWorks and QuickTools design software and sells its programming hardware. The ESP and FPGA products target complex, high-performance systems in rapidly changing markets where system manufacturers seek to minimize time-to-market and maximize product differentiation and functionality. The key components of the ESP and FPGA product families are its ViaLink programmable metal technology, its user-programmable platform and the associated software tools used for system design. The ViaLink technology allows it to create smaller devices with low electrical resistance and capacitance and, consequently, supports higher signal-speed and low power consumption.
QSC Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Questcor) is a specialty pharmaceutical company that acquires, markets and sells brand name prescription drugs. The Company markets the pharmaceutical and related healthcare products in the United States such as HP Acthar Gel, Nascobal, Ethamolin, Glofil-125 and VSL#3. HP Acthar Gel is an injectable drug approved for the treatment of certain CNS disorders with an inflammatory component and is also commonly used in treating patients with infantile spasm. Nascobal is a prescription nasal gel used for the treatment of Vitamin B-12 deficiencies. Ethamolin is an injectable drug used to treat enlarged weakened blood vessels at the entrance to the stomach that have recently bled, known as esophageal varices. Glofil-125 is an injectable agent that assesses how well the kidney is working by measuring glomerular filtration rate, or kidney function. VSL#3 is a patented probiotic marketed as a dietary supplement to promote normal gastrointestinal function.
STR Questar Corporation is a natural gas-focused energy company that is involved in natural gas activities through two groups: Market Resources and Regulated Services. Market Resources engages in gas and oil development and production; cost-of-service gas development; gas gathering and processing, and wholesale gas and hydrocarbon liquids marketing, risk management and gas storage. Regulated Services, through two primary subsidiaries, Questar Pipeline Company and Questar Gas Company, conducts interstate gas transmission and storage activities and retail gas distribution services.
QSFT Quest Software, Inc. develops, sells and supports software products that improve its customers' ability to develop, deploy and manage their packaged and custom software applications and associated software infrastructure components, such as databases, application servers and operating systems. The Company markets over 50 products, which it has grouped into three main categories: Database Management, Application Performance Management and Microsoft Infrastructure Management. Quest Software also provides consulting, training and support services to its customers. The Company has wholly owned research and development subsidiaries in Russia, Israel and Canada, and sales subsidiaries in Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan and Latin America for marketing, distribution and support of its products and services.
DGX Quest Diagnostics Incorporated is a provider of diagnostic testing, information and related services, providing insights that enable physicians, hospitals, managed care organizations and other healthcare professionals to make decisions to improve health. It offers patients and physicians access to diagnostic laboratory services through its national network of laboratories and patient service centers. Quest provides interpretive consultation through its medical and scientific staff, with over 300 physicians and Ph.D.'s (Doctorate of Philosophy) across the country. The Company also provides esoteric testing, including gene-based testing and testing for abuse of drugs. Quest offers healthcare organizations and clinicians with information technology solutions that can improve practice management and patient care. The Company performs routine testing through its network of major laboratories, rapid response laboratories and patient service centers.
QPSA.OB Quepasa Corporation is a media company focused on the national and international Hispanic marketplace. It operates a bilingual (Spanish/English) Internet portal and online community primarily aimed at the United States Hispanic market. Its quepasa.com Website provides users with information and content centered around the Spanish language and offers performance based marketing capabilities in addition to traditional portal services, including e-mail and news in Spanish and English. The quepasa.com Website is operated and managed by the Company's wholly owned Mexico-based subsidiary, Quepasa.com de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.
IQW Quebecor World Inc. is a diversified global commercial printing company. The Corporation has rotogravure, Web offset and sheetfed printing capacity for a wide variety of printed materials, such as magazines, retail inserts, catalogs, specialty printing and direct mail, books, directories, pre-media, logistics and other value-added services. Printing services, including design, production and distribution, are offered from more than 160 plants and related facilities located throughout the United States, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Mexico and India.
QTWW Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. (Quantum) designs, manufactures and supplies packed fuel systems to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for use in alternative fuel vehicles and fuel cell applications. For automotive OEMs, the Company provides hydrogen systems for both internal combustion engine and fuel cell vehicles, and natural gas and propane fuel systems for internal combustion engine vehicles. In the area of hydrogen refueling infrastructure, it offers several hydrogen refueling systems focused on early infrastructure development.
DSS Quantum Corporation is engaged in the storing and the delivery of backup, recovery and archive solutions that meet requirements for data integrity and availability with service and support. The Company is also a supplier of half-inch cartridge tape drives. Quantum offers a portfolio of tape autoloaders and libraries, providing solutions that emulate a tape library but are optimized for backup and recovery. Previously, it was also in the hard-disk drive business and operated as Quantum's Hard Disk Drive group (HDD). This business was acquired by Maxtor Corporation (Maxtor) in April 2001. The Company has two data storage business segments: the DLTtape business and the storage systems business. The DLTtape business consists of tape drive and tape media cartridge product lines. The storage systems business consists of tape automation systems and service and includes disk-based backup systems. In January 2005, the Company acquired Certance.
PWR Quanta Services, Inc. is a provider of specialized contracting services, offering end-to-end network solutions to the electric power, gas, telecommunications and cable television industries. The Company also provides a variety of comprehensive ancillary services to commercial, industrial and governmental entities. These services include designing, installing, repairing and maintaining network infrastructure. The Company has established a subsidiary, Quanta Government Solutions (QGS), which will leverage its core expertise to pursue additional opportunities in the government arena. QGS was formed to respond, as prime contractor, to requests for proposals from the United States government for power and communications infrastructure projects in the United States and overseas.
QNTA Quanta Capital Holdings is a holding company formed to provide specialty insurance, reinsurance and consulting products and services on a global basis through its subsidiaries. The Company focuses on writing coverage for specialized classes of risk. The Company also provides risk assessment and consulting services to its clients. Quanta operates three business units consisting of insurance, reinsurance and consulting services. Its insurance business unit focuses on product lines that include professional liability; marine, technical risk and aviation, and environmental liability. Quantum's reinsurance operations focus on specialty products that include casualty, property and marine, technical risk and aviation. It provides environmental consulting services through its subsidiary, Environmental Strategies Consulting LLC (ESC).
NX Quanex Corporation (Quanex) is engaged in the production of engineered carbon and alloy steel bars, aluminum flat-rolled products, flexible insulating glass spacer systems and precision-formed metal and wood products, which primarily serve the vehicular products and building products markets. The Vehicular Products segment includes engineered steel bar manufacturing, impact-extrusion operations, steel bar and tube heat-treating services, steel bar and tube corrosion and wear resistant finishing services, and aluminum extrusion and metal products fabricating. The Building Products segment is comprised of five fabricated metal components operations, two wood fenestration operations, an aluminum sheet casting operation, three stand-alone aluminum-finishing operations and a flexible insulating glass spacer operation. In December 2004, the Company acquired the privately held Mikron Industries.
QBAK Qualstar Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and sells automated magnetic tape libraries used to store, retrieve and manage electronic data primarily in network computing environments. Tape libraries consist of cartridge tape drives, tape cartridges and robotics to move the cartridges from their storage locations to the tape drives under software control. Tape libraries provides data storage solutions for organizations requiring backup, recovery and archival storage of critical electronic information. The products are compatible with commonly used operating systems, including UNIX, Windows, NetWare, MAC and Linux and with storage management software packages provided by Computer Associates, EMC/ Legato, Tivoli, Veritas, CommVault and BakBone Software. The Company offers tape libraries for multiple tape drive technologies, including Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT), Super AIT, SuperDigital Linear Tape (DLT) and Linear Tape-Open (LTO).
QMRK.OB QualMark Corporation designs, manufactures and markets equipment that exposes product design and manufacturing-related defects for the purpose of improving product quality and reliability. The Company's physical-stress-equipment supports improvements in the process of Design Verification Testing (DVT), a process by which electronic product manufacturers ensure their products perform within the determined operating ranges and Environmental Stress Screening (ESS), a testing process used by these same manufacturers to expose production-related defects. It operates a network of test centers, such as Accelerated Reliability Test Centers (ARTC), which provides comprehensive Highly Accelerated Life Test (HALT) and Highly Accelerated Stress Screen (HASS) test to support services for the industry. The services include accelerated reliability improvement test services using Omni-axial Vibration System (OVS) physical stress equipment performed in the ARTC test centers and at customer's site.
QSII Quality Systems, Inc. comprised of the QSI Division (QSI Division) and a wholly owned subsidiary, NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc. (NextGen Division), develops and markets healthcare information systems that automate medical and dental practices, networks of practices, such as physician hospital organizations (PHO's) and management service organizations (MSO's), ambulatory care centers, community health centers and medical and dental schools. Its solutions include Practice Management Systems, Clinical Systems, Connectivity Services and Internet Applications.
QPDC.OB Quality Products, Inc. is a holding company that operates through three wholly owned operating subsidiaries: QPI Multipress, Inc., Columbus Jack Corporation (CJC) and A-1 Specialty &amp; Gov't. Packaging, Inc (A1). QPI is a manufacturer of hydraulic presses and accessories. CJC, which was acquired by the Company in 2001, is a manufacturer of hydraulic jacks and other ground support equipment for aircraft. A1, established by the Company on September 29, 2003, provides packaging services for external customers, as well as for QPI and CJC. In November 2004, the management decided to discontinue the operations of A1 due to unacceptable performance in 2004, and an unsatisfactory outlook for 2005.
QLTY Quality Distribution, Inc. operates a dedicated bulk tank truck network in North America. The bulk tank truck network in North America includes all items shipped by bulk tank truck carriers and consists of the shipping of chemicals, gasoline and food-grade products. The Company transports chemical products and provide its customers with value-added services, including intermodal, transportation management, transloading, tank cleaning, dry-bulk hauling, leasing and other logistic services. It utilizes third party affiliate terminals and owner-operator drivers in the Company's core bulk service network. It is a core carrier for many of the Fortune 500 companies that are engaged in chemical processing, including Dow Chemical Company, Procter &amp; Gamble Company, E.I. DuPont and PPG Industries.
QDIN Quality Dining, Inc. operates four distinct restaurant concepts in the United States. It owns the Grady's American Grill concept and an Italian Dining concept. The Company's Italian dining restaurants operate under the trade names of Spageddies Italian Kitchen and Papa Vino's Italian Kitchen. Quality Dining also operates Burger King restaurants and Chili's Grill &amp; Bar as a franchisee of Burger King Corporation and Brinker International, Inc., respectively. As of October 26, 2003, the Company operated 176 restaurants, including 118 Burger King restaurants, 37 Chili's, 12 Grady's American Grill restaurants, three Spageddies and six Papa Vino's.
QCOM QUALCOMM, Inc. develops, designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services based on its code division multiple access (CDMA) technology. The Company develops and supplies CDMA-based integrated circuits (ICs) and system software for wireless voice and data communications and global positioning system (GPS) products to wireless device and infrastructure manufacturers. It grants licenses to use its intellectual property portfolio, which includes certain rights essential to and/or useful in the manufacture and sale of CDMA products, and receives license fees, as well as ongoing royalties based on sales by licensees of wireless telecommunications equipment products incorporating its CDMA technologies. The Company's business is organized into four operating segments: QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies, QUALCOMM Technology Licensing, QUALCOMM Wireless &amp; Internet and QUALCOMM Strategic Initiatives.
QFAB Quaker Fabric Corporation is a designer, manufacturer and worldwide marketer of woven upholstery fabrics primarily for residential furniture, and is a producer of Jacquard upholstery fabrics. The Company is also a developer and manufacturer of specialty yarns, including a variety of chenille, taslan and spun products, which Quaker, both, sells and uses in the production of its fabrics. The product line is focused on fabrics with woven designs, referred to in the industry as Jacquards because of the special Jacquard equipment, or heads, required to produce them, and also includes an assortment of striped, plaid and plain fabrics. Quaker is a full-service supplier of Jacquard and plain-woven upholstery fabric to the furniture industry. Its product line consists of over 5,000 traditional, contemporary, transitional and country fabric patterns.
KWR Quaker Chemical Corporation develops, produces and markets a range of formulated chemical specialty products for various heavy industrial and manufacturing applications and, in addition, offers and markets chemical management services (CMS). Quaker's principal products and services include rolling lubricants, corrosion preventives, metal finishing compounds, machining and grinding compounds, hydraulic fluids, technology for the removal of hydrogen sulfide in various industrial applications, chemical milling maskants for the aerospace industry and temporary and permanent coatings for metal and concrete products, construction products such as flexible sealants and protective coatings for various applications and programs to provide chemical management services.
QD QuadraMed Corporation provides software and service solutions. A significant portion of its software license arrangements are generated from providing product maintenance and implementation services to customers. These services include installations, maintenance, consulting and training. Affinity integrated enterprise information systems enable the customer to manage patient registration, clinical and financial information, and Quantim health information management software provides acute care hospitals, Veterans Health Administration facilities and physicians with the tools to manage coding, compliance, abstracting and record management processes. In addition, QuadraMed has standalone solutions that fulfill niche needs including Identity Manager, Decision Support, EDI and Pharmacy. The Company's Financial Services Solutions identify and collect accounts receivable, recover underpayments from managed care contracts and provide educational services for hospitals and medical groups.
QSND QSound Labs, Inc. operates in three business segments: audio, e-commerce and Internet protocol (IP) telephony. The audio segment, which has been the main focus of the Company's business since 1988, operates within the parent company. QSound is engaged in the development, licensing and distribution of multimedia software solutions and audio enhancement algorithms based on its family of patented and proprietary sound technologies. The e-commerce segment operates within the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, QCommerce Inc. QCommerce is a provider of electronic commerce services that enable electronic commerce for small businesses. The IP telephony segment operates within the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, QTelNet Inc. QSound acquired this business, which develops and distributes Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) hardware and software solutions, in April 2003.
QRSM.OB QRS Music Technologies, Inc. (QRS) is engaged in the manufacture and sale of Pianomation Music Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI), Story &amp; Clark pianos, music rolls for player pianos, Gulbransen Digital Hymnal and music rolls for player pianos. The Company also distributes Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) compact discs (CD), floppy disks and piano supply parts. QRS sells its products to dealers and end users, predominantly in the United States. The Company has a warehouse, teaching facility and showroom facility in Las Vegas, Nevada; piano manufacturing and Pianomation assembly and showroom facilities in Seneca, Pennsylvania, and a piano roll manufacturing and warehouse facility and software development facility in Buffalo, New York. Total piano sales for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004) and 2003 (fiscal 2003), represented 36.25% and 40.95%, of total overall sales, respectively.
QRUS.OB Qorus.com, Inc. has no business operations. The Company provided intelligent message communications services to enterprises in the travel and hospitality sectors prior to November 2001. The Company's services enabled users to improve their customer relationships and their supply and demand chain management while reducing expenses. However, the Company sold substantially all of its assets to Avery Communications, Inc. in November 2001. As a result, Qorus no longer has any meaningful business assets, operations or sources of revenue. Qorus is considering the possible sale of the Company for its value as a public shell entity, but have not identified any specific prospective buyers meeting its criteria.
QLTI QLT Inc. is a global bio-pharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development and commercialization of therapies to treat eye diseases, cancer and dermatological conditions. The Company's primary focus is in the field of photodynamic therapy (PDT), a field of medicine that uses photosensitizers (light-activated drugs) in the treatment of disease. Visudyne, QLT's commercial product, is a photosensitizer used to treat choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in patients with the wet form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of severe vision loss in people over the age of 50 in North America and Europe, as well as other ocular conditions. In June 2004, the Company combined with Atrix Laboratories Inc. In November 2004, the Company acquired Atrix.
QLGC QLogic Corporation designs and develops storage networking infrastructure components sold to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), distributors, resellers and system integrators. The Company produces the controller chips, management enclosure chips, host bus adapters (HBAs), fabric switches and management software that provide the connectivity infrastructure for every size of storage network. It serves customers with solutions based on various storage area network (SAN), technologies, including small computer systems interface (SCSI), Internet SCSI (iSCSI) and fibre channel.
XING Qiao Xing Universal Telephone, Inc. is engaged in the manufacturing and sales of telecommunication terminals and equipment, including corded and cordless telephone sets in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The Company classifies its products into two core business segments: mobile phones and indoor phones. The Company is engaged through its Hui Zhou Qiao Xing Communication Industry Co., Ltd. subsidiary in manufacturing global system for mobile communications (GSM) mobile phones for CEC Telecom, as well as developing and marketing wire and wireless telephones (indoor phones), especially telephones with special functions. It has ceased the manufacturing of indoor telephones. Instead, the Company subcontracts its indoor telephone manufacturing orders to designated manufacturers.
QGENF QIAGEN N.V. develops, produces and distributes biotechnology products and services, primarily for the separation and purification of nucleic acids (DNA/RNA). Its products are used in biological research by universities and research institutions, and in genome sequencing, diagnostic and therapeutic industries. The Company's technologies for solid-phase anion-exchange purification and selective adsorption to silica particles or membranes enhance nucleic acid purification. Its nucleic acid separation and purification technologies are solid-phase anion-exchange technology, selective adsorption to silica particles or membranes, cationic detergent technology, rapid filtration technology, magnetic particle technologies, technology for hybrid capture on polystyrene, latex beads and endotoxin removal technology. The Company also has technologies covering the use of certain cationic detergents for stabilizing and purifying nucleic acids from certain samples.
QEPC Q.E.P. Co., Inc. manufactures, markets and distributes a line of specialty tools and flooring-related products for the home improvement market in the United States and 49 countries throughout the world. Under brand names, including Q.E.P., O'TOOL, ROBERTS, Qset and Fresh, the Company markets over 3,000 specialty tools and flooring-related products used primarily for surface preparation and installation of ceramic tile, carpet, vinyl and wood flooring. Q.E.P.'s products include trowels, floats, tile cutters, wet saws, spacers, nippers, pliers, carpet trimmers and cutters, flooring adhesives, seaming tape, tack strip, knives, dryset powders and grouts. Q.E.P.'s products are sold to home improvement retailers and international chain stores. During the fiscal year ended February 29, 2004 (fiscal 2003), the Company established a product line called Fresh to sell painting tools in coordinated fashion colors.
QCRH QCR Holdings, Inc. is a multi-bank holding company providing bank and bank related services through its subsidiaries, Quad City Bank and Trust Company, Cedar Rapids Bank and Trust Company, Quad City Bancard, Inc. (Bancard), QCR Holdings Capital Trust I, QCR Holdings Statutory Trust II and QCR Holdings Statutory Trust III, collectively called the Banks. The Banks provide full-service commercial and consumer banking and trust and asset management services. Bancard conducts the Company's credit card operation. QCR Holdings Capital Trust I was capitalized, in June 1999, for the purpose of issuing company-obligated, mandatorily redeemable preferred securities. QCR Holdings Statutory Trust II and QCR Holdings Statutory Trust III were established by the Company for the purpose of issuing trust-preferred securities. In addition, the Company invests its capital in stocks of financial institutions and mutual funds, as well as participates in loans with the subsidiary banks.
QCCO QC Holdings, Inc. is a provider of payday loans in the United States. The Company operates 295 stores in 21 states. During the year ended December 31, 2003, payday loan revenues constituted approximately 87% of the Company's total revenue. QC Holdings' customers are typically middle-income, working individuals who use the Company's services as a convenient source for small, short-term loans. The Company also offers additional services, such as check cashing, title loans, money orders and money transfers.
QADI QAD Inc. is a provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software applications for global manufacturing companies. The Company's enterprise applications leverage advances in Internet and enabling technologies to provide critical functionality for managing manufacturing resources and operations within and beyond the enterprise, enabling global manufacturers to collaborate with the customers, suppliers and partners to make and deliver the right product, at the right cost and at the right time. During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2003, QAD's software was licensed at approximately 5,200 sites in over 80 countries. The Company's clients include those involved in the automotive, consumer products, electronics, food and beverage, industrial and medical industries.
QMED QMed, Inc. operates in two industry segments: disease-management services and medical equipment sales. The majority of the Company's operations consist of the operations of Interactive Heart Management Corp. (IHMC), the Company's wholly owned subsidiary. The Company and IHMC provide disease management services to health plans nationwide. IHMC also developed and is co-marketing with QMed, health care information and communication services to health plans, governments and private companies. The services include ohms|cvd (Online Health Management System for Cardiovascular Disease) which is an integrated cardiovascular disease management system. As of November 30, 2003, the Company had contracts to provide these services to 12 health plans in 11 states covering approximately 1.2 million health plan members. QMed also produces, sells and supports a line of ischemic heart monitors and a system that analyzes heart rate variability under the name Monitor One nDx.
QMM Q Comm International, Inc. is engaged in the business of purchasing and reselling prepaid telecommunication products over a proprietary electronic point-of-sale system. Introduced in September 2002, the Company's proprietary Qxpress system is an integrated electronic point-of-sale activation and management information system that addresses the challenges to the prepaid products distribution system. The Qxpress system provides retailers, brokers and suppliers with a system that facilitates and processes transactions for multiple prepaid products, collections and custom reporting. It includes the Company's proprietary point-of-sale terminal, a data center, the software to run the terminals and the data center, transactional communications/protocols that enable the terminals and the data center to communicate with each other and professional services, which include customer and technical support.
PYOL.OB Pyramid Oil Company is engaged in the business of exploration, development and production of crude oil and natural gas. The Company acquires interests in land and producing properties through acquisition and lease on which it drills and/or operates crude oil or natural gas wells in efforts to discover and/or to produce oil and gas. Crude oil and natural gas produced from these properties are sold to various refineries and pipeline companies. It also participates in specific joint ventures with other companies in the development of oil and gas properties. Its interests in these properties will vary depending on the availability of said interests and their locations. The Company owns and operates 27 oil and gas leases (properties) located within Kern and Santa Barbara Counties in the State of California. During the year ended December 31, 2003, it operated 20 leases within California, with total annual gross oil production exceeding 500 barrels per lease.
PMID Pyramid Breweries Inc. is engaged in the brewing and sale of specialty beers and sodas and in restaurant operations. The Company has two main breweries, one in Seattle, Washington, and one in Berkeley, California. Its third and fourth breweries, which are located in Walnut Creek and Sacramento, California, produce products primarily for onsite consumption. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company sold approximately 159,000 barrels of its beer and soda products. The Company's beverage operations (sales to third party distributors) contributed 64% of net sales in 2003, with beer comprising 48% and soda 16%. Alehouse operations contributed 36% and 31% of total net sales in 2003, and during the year ended December 31, 2002, respectively.
PYR PYR Energy Corporation (PYR) is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company, engaged in the exploration, development and acquisition of crude oil and natural gas reserves. Its exploration activities are focused in select areas of the Rocky Mountains, Texas and Gulf Coast, Southeast Alberta, and in the San Joaquin Basin of California. In November 2003, PYR signed an agreement with industry partners to test its projects in the Wyoming Overthrust. The Mallard Prospect commenced drilling in mid-July 2004. The Cumberland Prospect commenced drilling in early November 2004. In May 2004, PYR acquired interests from Venus Exploration, Inc. (Venus) in certain producing properties and undeveloped Acreage. The Venus assets acquired include interests in 80 non-operated wells in Utah, Oklahoma and Texas. On February 18, 2004, PYR Cumberland LLC, PYR Mallard LLC, and PYR Pintail LLC were formed as wholly owned subsidiaries of PYR Energy Corporation.
PXT PXRE Group Ltd. is an insurance holding company that provides reinsurance products and services to a worldwide marketplace through its wholly owned subsidiary operations located in Bermuda, Barbados, Europe and the United States. Its primary business is catastrophe and risk excess reinsurance, which accounted for 93% of net premiums written and substantially all of its underwriting income for 2003. The Company's principal operating subsidiaries are PXRE Reinsurance Company, PXRE Reinsurance Ltd., PXRE Reinsurance (Barbados) Ltd., PXRE Solutions Inc. and PXRE Solutions, S.A. As of December 31, 2003, PXRE had 413 clients, including insurance and reinsurance companies. In 2003, approximately 67% of the Company's clients were based outside of the United States.
PWEI PW Eagle, Inc. manufactures and distributes polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe and fittings, and polyethylene (PE) pipe and tubing products used for potable water and sewage transmission, turf and agricultural irrigation, natural gas transmission, water wells, fiber optic lines, electronic and telephone lines and commercial and industrial plumbing. The Company distributes its products throughout the United States, including Hawaii and Alaska, and a minimal amount of shipments to selected foreign countries. Its customers consist of wholesalers and distributors.
PVCC.OB PVC Container Corporation (PVCC) is engaged in the manufacture and sale of plastic bottles and containers made primarily from high-density polyethylene (HDPE), polypropylene (PP), polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins. Some of the HDPE bottles are fluorinated to improve the chemical resistance and barrier properties of the containers. The Company's plastic bottle business also produces for small-volume, high-tolerance technical blow-molded containers. The Company sells and markets its plastic bottles utilizing two wholly owned subsidiaries, Novapak Corporation and Airopak Corporation. Novapak sells a general line of plastic bottles to the personal care, food, toner copier containers, medical diagnostic equipment and household chemical markets. Airopak sells a line of fluorinated containers primarily to the lawn and garden and industrial chemical markets.
PIM Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust (the Fund) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is to seek, with equal emphasis, high current income and relative stability of net asset value, by investing in limited-maturity bonds in the United States investment-grade and high-yield sectors, as well as non-United States bond markets. The Fund is designed for investors seeking high current income, asset class diversification, or both. Putnam Investment Management, LLC serves as the Fund's investment manager. Custodial functions for the Fund's assets are provided by Putnam Fiduciary Trust Company (PFTC), a subsidiary of Putnam, LLC. Investor servicing agent functions are provided by Putnam Investor Services, a division of PFTC. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2003, Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust had a total return at net asset value of 20.42%.
PMT Putnam Master Income Trust (the Fund) seeks high current income, consistent with preservation of capital, by investing in a portfolio diversified among United States investment-grade, corporate high-yield and international fixed-income securities. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2003, the Fund's top holdings in the high-yield sector were HMH Properties, Inc., PSF Group Holdings, Inc. and Qwest Services Corp.; United Kingdom Treasury bonds and Canadian Government bonds in the international sector, and United States Treasury bonds and United States Treasury notes in the United States investment-grade sector. As of October 31, 2003, the fund had a total return at net asset value of 21.84%. Putnam Investment Management, LLC serves as the Investment Manager of the Fund.
PURW Pure World, Inc. develops, manufactures and sells natural ingredients that are principally derived from plant materials using the Company's extraction technology. The Company had produced more than 1,000 botanical extracts that are used by the cosmetic, food and flavor, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical industries. Pure World operated through its wholly owned subsidiary, Pure World Botanicals, Inc. The Company leases four facilities purposely for manufacturing and warehousing of raw materials in North America, Teterboro, New Jersey, Hackensack, New Jersey and Carlstadt, New Jersey. On January 14, 2004, the Company announced that it had retained the investment-banking firm of Adams, Harkness &amp; Hill to review possible strategic alternatives, including but not necessarily limited to sale, merger or other extraordinary corporate transactions.
PCYO Pure Cycle Corporation owns or has rights to use significant water assets, which the Company utilizes to provide water and wastewater services to customers located in the Denver, Colorado, metropolitan area near the principal water assets. The Company's primary business activities include the design, construction, operation and maintenance of water and wastewater systems, which treat and deliver water and wastewater to the customers. The Company owns water-recycling technologies, which are capable of processing wastewater into potable drinking water.
PUCIF.OB Pure Capital Inc., formerly Universal Domains. Inc., has ceased all operations. The Company continues to reduce its in an effort to obtain additional financing and explore the possibilities of starting a new operating business and/or merge with or become acquired by another company or entity. There is a likelihood that the Company will engage in a reverse-split of its common stock in order to reduce the number of shares issued and outstanding. The company operated as an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, development, production and acquisition of crude oil and natural gas. The acquisition of Hawkeye Drilling Company was abandoned and the Company sold its interest in Puckett Field to a third party in January 2004.
PURE.OB PURE Bioscience (formerly known as Innovative Medical Services), incorporated in August 1992, began as a provider of pharmaceutical water purification products. Although its revenues are primarily from the pharmacy industry, the Company has expanded from its niche pharmacy market into other bioscience products based upon the Company's silver ion antimicrobial technologies and boric acid based pesticide technologies. The Company's business activities are divided, managed and conducted in two basic business segments, the Water Treatment segment, which is a discontinued operation and the Bioscience segment. The Water Treatment segment includes commercial water and residential retail products and the Nutripure Water Dealer program. Bioscience includes Axenohl (silver ion technology) and the Innovex line of pest control products.
PFT Puradyn Filter Technologies Inc. manufactures, markets and distributes worldwide the Puradyn by-pass oil filtration system (Puradyn) for use with substantially all internal combustion engines and hydraulic equipment that use lubricating oil. The Puradyn cleans oil by continually removing solid and liquid contaminants from the oil through a sophisticated filtration and evaporation process. The Puradyn has been used successfully to substantially extend oil-drain intervals and to extend the time between engine overhauls. The Company is the only manufacturer and distributor of disposable replacement filter elements (Element) for the Puradyn.
PHM Pulte Homes, Inc. is a holding company whose subsidiaries engage in the homebuilding and financial services businesses. The Homebuilding segment consists of two business units: Domestic Homebuilding and International Homebuilding. Domestic Homebuilding, the Company's core business, is engaged in the acquisition and development of land principally for residential purposes within the continental United States, and the construction of housing on such land targeted for the first-time, first and second move-up and active adult home buyers. International Homebuilding is primarily engaged in the acquisition and development of land principally for residential purposes, and the construction of housing on such land in Mexico, Puerto Rico and Argentina. The Financial Services segment consists principally of mortgage banking and title operations conducted through Pulte Mortgage LLC and other subsidiaries. In January 2005, the Company sold all of its Argentina operations to Grupo Farallon, S.A.
PTZ Pulitzer Inc. is a newspaper publishing company with integrated Internet operations in 14 United States markets. During the fiscal year ended December 28, 2003, the Company's St. Louis operations contributed approximately 72% of its reported revenue. Pulitzer's newspaper holdings include operations in St. Louis, Missouri, where its subsidiary, St. Louis Post-Dispatch LLC, publishes the Post-Dispatch, the daily newspaper serving the greater St. Louis metropolitan area. In Tucson, Arizona, its Star Publishing Company subsidiary publishes the Arizona Daily Star (the Star). Star Publishing shares, on an equal basis, the combined results of the Star and the Tucson Citizen, published by the Gannett Co., Inc. Pulitzer's wholly owned subsidiary, Pulitzer Newspapers, Inc. and its subsidiaries publish 12 dailies that serve markets in the Midwest, Southwest and West, as well as more than 65 weekly newspapers, shoppers and niche publications.
PULB Pulaski Financial Corp. is the holding company for Pulaski Bank (the Bank). The Company's primary asset is its investment in the Bank, but also maintains an investment securities portfolio for liquidity. The Company has both subordinated debt in the form of trust-preferred securities and other borrowings, the proceeds from which are injected in the Bank as capital. The Bank is regulated by the Office of Thrift Supervision, its primary regulator, and by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the insurer of its deposits. The Bank's deposits are insured by the FDIC up to applicable legal limits under the Savings Association Insurance Fund, and a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank System. The Bank is a community-oriented financial institution offering traditional financial services. Its business consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public and using it to originate mortgage loans secured by one- to four-family residences, home equity loans and commercial mortgages.
PSD Puget Energy, Inc. is an energy services holding company that principally operates through its subsidiaries, Puget Sound Energy, Inc. and InfrastruX Group, Inc. Puget Sound Energy is a utility company engaged primarily in the transmission and distribution of electric and natural gas mainly to residential and commercial customers within Washington State. InfrastruX Group is a construction services company that provides infrastructure construction services to the electric and gas utility industries in the United States. InfrastruX operates a fleet of vehicles and equipment that it uses in its utility construction business. In 2003, Puget Sound Energy represented 86% of the Company's revenues and 98.2% of its net income. InfrastruX accounts for the remaining revenue and net income percentages. The Company operates mainly in the United States.
PUSH.OB Publix Super Markets, Inc. operates retail food supermarkets in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee. The Company's supermarkets sell groceries, dairy, produce, deli, bakery, meat, seafood, housewares and health and beauty care items. Many supermarkets also have pharmacy and floral departments. In addition, Publix has agreements with commercial banks to operate in many of its supermarkets. The Company's lines of merchandise include a variety of nationally advertised and private label brands, as well as unbranded merchandise such as produce, meat and seafood. Private label items are produced in its manufacturing facilities or are manufactured for Publix by outside suppliers.
PUB Publicis Groupe S.A. is a provider of a range of advertising and communication services, custom designed to meet each of its client's particular needs. The Company's services are traditional advertising, specialized agencies and marketing services (SAMS), and media services. Publicis conducts its operations primarily through over 1,000 direct and indirect subsidiaries with operations worldwide. The Company serves clients predominantly in North America, including the United States and Europe. In September 2002, the Company acquired Bcom3 Group, Inc., an advertising and communications group, comprised of a number of agencies, including Leo Burnett, Manning Selvage &amp; Lee, Medicus and Bartle Bogle Hegarty.
CARD.OB PubliCARD, Inc., through its subsidiary, Infineer Ltd., is a smart card technology company that designs and develops smart card software and hardware solutions for campus environments. The Company's products and solutions are ChipNet, a single smart card that facilitates smart card-based payments for services found on both corporate and educational site; ChipNet QuickStart, a smart card payment system aimed at libraries and Internet cafes to simplify administration and payment for personal computer (PC) log-on, networked printing and photocopying; SmartPrint CENTRAL, a combination of a print release software package and a card reader that provides a dedicated print release station, and EasyCard, which delivers a solution to the problem of vending prints, copies and faxes. These card-based solutions are installed in over 350 sites, primarily in educational and corporate sites in the United Kingdom.
PSA Public Storage, Inc. is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) that acquires, develops, owns and operates storage facilities. The Company is an owner and operator of storage space in the United States, with direct and indirect equity investments in 1,410 storage facilities containing approximately 85.2 million square feet of net rentable space, as of December 31, 2003. The Company also has a 44% ownership interest in PS Business Parks, Inc., a public REIT that, as of December 31, 2003, owned and operated commercial properties containing approximately 18.3 million net rentable square feet of space located in eight states. The Company's investments primarily consist of direct ownership of self-storage properties, as well as partial interests in entities that own self-storage properties, which are located in the United States. Its investments are acquired both for income and for capital gain.
PEG Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated (PSEG) is a public utility holding company that operates through its four direct wholly owned subsidiaries: Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&amp;G), PSEG Power LLC (Power), PSEG Energy Holdings LLC (Energy Holdings) and PSEG Services Corporation (Services). The operating subsidiaries of Power are PSEG Fossil LLC (Fossil), PSEG Nuclear LLC (Nuclear) and PSEG Energy Resources &amp; Trade LLC (ER&amp;T). The operating subsidiaries of Energy Holdings are PSEG Global LLC (Global) and PSEG Resources LLC (Resources). Power, PSE&amp;G and Energy Holdings represented 27%, 46% and 27%, respectively, of PSEG's consolidated assets and contributed 53%, 28% and 19%, respectively, of the Company's income from operations for the year ended December 31, 2003.
PTSN.OB PTS, Inc. holds a non-exclusive United States patent rights to manufacture, sell and distribute, under private label, an apparatus trademarked Glove Box through PTS Products International, Inc., which was acquired in November 2003. It has also acquired the exclusive right in China and the right of first refusal for other countries to manufacture, sell and distribute, under private label, the Glove Box. The development of this product has not yet reached the point of manufacture. In June 2004, the Company acquired PTS Technologies Inc. as a wholly owned subsidiary. In November 2004, PTS, Inc. acquired American Fire Retardant Corp.'s subsidiary, Glove Box, Inc., a Nevada corporation. The Glove Box system is a freestanding dispenser of disposable latex gloves. In December 2004., the Company acquired Global Links Card Services Inc. (GLCS) from Global Links Corp.
PSYS Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. provides in-patient behavioral health care services in the United States. Through its in-patient division, the Company operates 34 owned or leased in-patient behavioral health care facilities with approximately 4,000 beds. Through its in-patient management contract division, Psychiatric Solutions manages 43 in-patient behavioral health care units for third parties and 11 in-patient behavioral health care facilities for government agencies. The Company primarily operates in underserved markets with limited competition and favorable demographic trends. Its local and regional marketing is led by clinical and business development representatives at each of the in-patient facilities. Both families and agencies seeking placement for children receive confidential service through Psychiatric Solutions' call center.
PMD Psychemedics Corporation provides testing services for the detection of abused substances through the analysis of hair samples. The Company's testing methods utilize a patented technology for performing immunoassays on enzymatically dissolved hair samples with confirmation testing by mass spectrometry. Its markets are workplace, schools/academic institutions, parents and research institutes. The Company's patented technology is a testing service that screens for the presence of certain drugs of abuse in hair. The application of radioimmunoassay procedures using hair differs from the application of immunoassay procedures using urine samples. It provides commercial testing and confirmation by mass spectrometry, using industry-accepted practices for cocaine, marijuana, Phencyclidine (PCP), also known as Angel Dust, methamphetamine, including Ecstasy which is difficult to detect in urine due to sporadic use patterns and rapid clearance from the body and opiates, such as heroin.
PSSI PSS World Medical, Inc. is a specialty marketer and distributor of medical products, equipment and pharmaceutical-related products to alternate-site healthcare providers, including physician offices, long-term care facilities and home care providers through 43 full-service distribution centers that serve all 50 states throughout the United States of America. The Company is focused on improving business operations and management processes, maximizing its core distribution capability and efficiency and developing and implementing new marketing strategies. In addition, it may make acquisitions to broaden its reach and leverage its infrastructure. It conducts business through two operating segments, the Physician Business and the Elder Care Business.
PSIT PSi Technologies Holdings, Inc. (PSi Technologies) provides power semiconductor assembly, test and drop shipment services to its customers. The Company provides assembly, test and special process services for standard non-power semiconductors. It also offers semiconductor packages for both power semiconductor and standard non-power semiconductor applications.
PSBQ.OB PSB Holdings, Inc. is a federally chartered mid-tier stock holding company of Putnam Savings Bank (the Bank). The principal business of the Bank consists of attracting deposits from the general public and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations, primarily in one- to four-family residential mortgage loans and, to a lesser extent, commercial real estate loans, commercial loans, construction mortgage loans and consumer loans, and in investment securities. The Bank also operates a loan center in Putnam. In addition, it maintains a Limited Service (Mobile) Branch, as well as a Special Needs Limited Branch at a retirement facility in Brooklyn, Connecticut, at which the Bank offers limited banking services, such as deposit taking, check cashing, notary services and certificate of deposit renewals, for approximately three hours each week. Primary sources of funds are deposits, and principal and interest payments on loans and securities.
PSBI PSB Bancorp, Inc. is a holding company for First Penn Bank (the Bank). The Bank is primarily engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the general public in its market area and investing the deposits in loans secured by residential mortgage loans, commercial real estate loans, commercial business loans, construction loans, student loans and mortgage-backed securities. PSB has three subsidiaries: First Penn Bank, Jade Abstract Company and Jade Insurance Company. Jade Abstract Company is engaged in the business of issuing title insurance for residential and commercial real estate properties. Jade Insurance Company is an inactive corporation that was formed by Jade to act as an insurance agency.
PSB PS Business Parks, Inc. (PSB) is a real estate investment trust that acquires, develops, owns and operates commercial properties, primarily multi-tenant flex, office and industrial space. As of December 31, 2003, PSB owned and operated approximately 18.3 million net rentable square feet of commercial space located in eight states: Arizona, California, Florida, Maryland, Oregon, Texas, Virginia and Washington. This represented a 27% increase in commercial square footage from December 31, 2002. It also managed approximately 1.3 million net rentable square feet on behalf of Public Storage, Inc., its affiliated entities and third-party owners. The Company's commercial properties typically consist of low-rise buildings, ranging from one to over 50 buildings per property, located on up to 216 acres and containing from approximately 20,000 to 3,400,000 square feet of rentable space in the aggregate.
PUK Prudential plc, together with its subsidiaries, is an international financial services group with its principal operations in the United Kingdom, the United States and Asia. The Company operates in the United Kingdom through its subsidiaries, The Prudential Assurance Company Limited, Prudential Annuities Limited, Prudential Retirement Income Limited, M&amp;G Group plc and Egg plc. In the United States, Prudential's principal subsidiary is Jackson National Life Insurance Company. Prudential Corporation Asia was established in 1994 to develop a material and profitable Asian business. The Company also has operations in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan and other Asian countries. Prudential offers a range of retail financial products and services and fund management services throughout these territories. The retail financial products and services principally include life insurance, pensions and annuities, as well as collective investments and deposit and mortgage banking services.
PRU Prudential Financial, Inc. and its subsidiaries provide insurance, investment management and other financial products and services to both retail and institutional customers throughout the United States and in over 30 other countries. Principal products and services provided include life insurance, annuities, mutual funds, pension- and retirement-related investments and administration and asset management. In addition, the Company provides securities brokerage services indirectly through a minority ownership in a joint venture. It has organized its principal operations into the Financial Services Businesses and the Closed Block Business. In April 2004, the Company acquired the retirement business of CIGNA Corporation.
PILL ProxyMed, Inc. is an electronic healthcare transaction processing services company providing connectivity services and related value-added products to physician offices, payers, medical laboratories, pharmacies and other healthcare institutions. The Company maintains an open electronic network for electronic transactions with no equity ownership in businesses engaged in the front end (physician practice management software system vendors and other physician desk top vendors) or in the back end (payers, laboratories and pharmacies). Its electronic transaction processing services support a range of financial, clinical and administrative transactions. To facilitate these services, the Company operates Phoenix, its secure national electronic information network, which provides physicians and other healthcare providers with direct connectivity to payers, chain and independent pharmacies and clinical laboratories.
FNT Provo International, Inc. (Provo) operates in two segments: Internet business in the United States and sale and distribution of prepaid phone cards in Mexico. The Company is organized into three distinct divisions: Provo International, which is responsible for overseeing mergers, acquisitions, financing transactions and regulatory compliance activities; Provo US, a division of Provo International that is responsible for the continued management of the Internet service business, and Provo Mexico, a wholly owned subsidiary of Provo International, which distributes prepaid calling cards and cellular phone airtime in Mexico. In December 2003, the Company changed its name from Frontline Communications Corporation to Provo International, Inc.
PRV Province Healthcare Company is engaged in the business of owning, leasing and managing hospitals in non-urban communities throughout the United States. The Company owns or leases 20 general acute care hospitals in 13 states with a total of 2,273 licensed beds. Its general acute care hospitals typically provide a range of services commonly available in acute care hospitals, such as internal medicine, general surgery, cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, obstetrics, rehabilitation, subacute care and diagnostic and emergency services. Its hospitals also generally provide outpatient and ancillary healthcare services, such as outpatient surgery, laboratory, radiology, respiratory therapy, home healthcare and physical therapy. Certain of its general acute care hospitals have a limited number of licensed psychiatric beds. In addition, the Company provides management services to 36 primarily non-urban hospitals that it does not own or lease in 14 states with a total of 2,985 licensed beds.
PVN Providian Financial Corporation provides credit card and deposit products to customers throughout the United States. The Company's lending and deposit taking activities are conducted through Providian National Bank (PNB), a wholly-owned subsidiary. Providian Bank, another wholly-owned subsidiary, was merged into PNB on December 31, 2003. The Company's primary line of business is generating consumer loans through Visa and MasterCard credit cards. Providian targets credit-worthy customers across the broad-middle to prime-market segments, with a particular focus on middle-market customers that are underserved by prime-oriented card issuers. In addition, it markets a variety of cardholder service products to its customer base. These products, which Providian may originate itself or distribute for others, include debt suspension, auto- and health-related services, credit-related services and selected insurance products.
PFS Provident Financial Services, Inc. serves as a holding company for The Provident Bank (the Bank), a stock-chartered savings bank operating 54 full-service branch offices in New Jersey, as of December 31, 2003. The Bank attracts deposits from the general public in the areas surrounding its banking offices, and uses those funds, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, to originate commercial real estate loans, residential mortgage loans, commercial business loans and consumer loans. The Bank also invests in mortgage-backed securities and other permissible investments. It offers a range of trust and financial management services primarily to individuals, including wealth management services, such as investment management and investment advisory accounts, as well as custody accounts. It also serves as trustee for living and testamentary trusts. In July 2004, the Company acquired First Sentinel Bancorp, Inc., which operates 22 branch offices in central New Jersey.
PROV Provident Financial Holdings, Inc. serves as the holding company for Provident Savings Bank, F.S.B. The Bank's operations primarily consist of accepting deposits from customers within the communities surrounding its full-service offices and investing those funds in single-family, multi-family, commercial real estate, construction, commercial business, consumer and other loans. Mortgage banking activity of the Bank consists of origination and sale of mortgage loans secured by single-family residences and consumer loans. Through its subsidiary, Provident Financial Corp, the Bank conducts real estate operations, and investment and insurance services. Effective September 1, 2003, the Bank began offering investment and insurance services directly, instead of through its subsidiary. The Bank's revenues are derived principally from interest earned on its loan and investment portfolios, and fees generated through its community banking and mortgage banking activities.
PVX Provident Energy Trust (the Trust) is an open-end unincorporated trust that indirectly holds interests in petroleum and natural gas properties and midstream natural gas liquids (NGLs) assets. The midstream NGLs assets are the assets acquired pursuant to the Redwater acquisition consisting of a natural gas gathering system and processing plant, as well as an NGL extraction plant, fractionation facilities, transportation systems and storage assets previously owned by Williams Canada. The Trust owns Provident Energy Ltd. (Provident). The principal business of Provident is to manage and administer the operating activities associated with the oil and gas properties and the midstream NGLs assets. Provident is also engaged in the acquisition, exploitation, development and production of crude oil and natural gas in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
PBKS Provident Bankshares Corporation is the bank holding company for Provident Bank, a state chartered stock commercial bank. The Bank serves individuals and businesses through a network of 118 banking offices in Maryland, Virginia and southern York County, Pennsylvania. Provident offers consumer and commercial banking products and services through the Retail Banking group and the Commercial Banking group. Retail banking services include an array of consumer and small business loan, lease, deposit and investment products, offered to retail and commercial customers through Provident's banking office network, and ProvidentDirect, the Bank's direct channel sales center that serves consumers via the Internet and telephone operations. Commercial Banking provides an array of commercial financial services to middle-market commercial customers. Provident has a team of loan officers with knowledge in real estate and business lending to companies in various industries in the region.
PBCP Provident Bancorp, Inc. is a federally chartered corporation that owns all of the outstanding common stock of Provident Bank (the Bank), a community-oriented savings bank. Provident Bank is a full-service, community-oriented savings bank that provides financial services to individuals, families and businesses through 27 branch offices and 50 automated teller machine (ATMs) throughout Rockland, Orange, Ulster and Sullivan counties, New York. The Bank's business consists primarily of accepting deposits from the general public and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, in one- to four-family residential, multi-family residential and commercial real estate loans, commercial business loans and leases, consumer loans and investment securities and mortgage-backed securities.
PWX Providence and Worcester Railroad Company (P&amp;W) is a class II regional freight railroad operating in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York. The Company transports commodities for its customers including construction aggregate, iron and steel products, chemicals, lumber, scrap metals, plastic resins, cement, coal, construction and demolition debris, processed foods and edible food stuffs, such as frozen foods, corn syrup and animal and vegetable oils. Its customers include Cargill, Inc., The Dow Chemical Company, Exxon- Mobil Corporation, Frito-Lay, Inc., International Paper Company, Northeast Utilities, Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation and Tilcon Connecticut, Inc. P&amp;W also generates income through sales of properties, grants of easements and licenses and leases of land and tracks.
PRSC The Providence Service Corporation provides and manages government-sponsored social services. The Company's counselors, social workers and mental health professionals work with clients that are eligible for government assistance due to income level, emotional/educational disabilities or court order. The state and local government agencies that fund the services it provides are required by law to provide counseling, case management, foster care and other support services to eligible individuals and families. The Company does not own or operate any hospitals, residential treatment centers or group homes. Instead, it provides care in the client's home or community, reducing the cost to the government of such services while affording the client a better quality of life. It also manages social services provider networks.
PRVD Provide Commerce, Inc. operates an e-commerce marketplace of Websites for perishable goods that delivers fresh products direct from the supplier to the customer. The Company combines an online storefront, supply chain management technology, established supplier relationships and an integrated logistical relationship with FedEx to create a market platform that bypasses traditional supply chains of wholesalers, distributors and retailers. It sells flowers and plants on the proflowers.com Website and from gourmet foods from the Uptown Prime and Cherry Moon Farms branded Website. The Company's marketplace is a collection of its own branded Websites and Websites that it operates for other retailers, each offering perishable products shipped directly from the supplier to the customer.
PZA Provena Foods Inc. is a specialty food processor engaged in the supply of food products to other food processors, distributors and canners. Its primary products are pepperoni and Italian-style sausage sold to frozen pizza processors, pizza restaurant chains and food distributors and dry pasta sold to food processors and canners, private-label producers and food distributors. Provena's products are sold throughout the United States but primarily in the western United States. The Company's meat processing business is conducted through the Swiss American Sausage Co. division and its pasta business is conducted through the Royal-Angelus Macaroni Company division.
PVLS Provalis plc is a healthcare group with businesses in the sale of prescription pharmaceuticals in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as in the development and sale of medical diagnostics for chronic disease management worldwide. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004, the Group had two businesses, medical diagnostics and pharmaceuticals. Medical diagnostics develop products for chronic disease management with principal products being in2it A1c and Glycosal, both diabetes diagnostic tests, and Osteosal, a diagnostic test for osteoporosis. Pharmaceuticals sells and markets it's own and third party, branded prescription medicines in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Its primary product is Diclomax, used for treating musculo-skeletal disorders. Other products sold are in the areas of gastroenterology, osteoporosis, migraine and dermatology.
PSCO.OB ProtoSource Corporation is engaged in the business of mining, management and databasing of print content for the publishing industry, and for distribution via the Internet through its merger with P2i Newspaper, Inc. (P2i Newspaper). P2i Newspaper, which became its wholly owned subsidiary in January 2004, is engaged in the conversion of print content into Web content. On February 13, 2003, the Company announced an agreement and plan of merger to acquire P2i, a wholly owned subsidiary of P2i, Inc. The transaction closed on January 1, 2004. After the acquisition, P2i became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. P2i has established itself in the conversion of print content into Web content. In addition to its headquarters in Pennsylvania, P2i has a West Coast Sales office and its data conversion center is located in the Multimedia Super Corridor in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
PCLI.OB Protocall Technologies Inc. was formed through a reverse merger of Quality Exchange, Inc. (QEI) in which it caused PTCL Acquisition Corp., a New York corporation and newly-created, wholly owned subsidiary of QEI, to be merged with and into Protocall Technologies Incorporated, a New York corporation engaged in the business of developing and marketing a system that enables retailers to produce fully packaged digital media, on demand, at their stores and at their website fulfillment centers on July 22, 2004. As a result of the merger, Protocall will continue as a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Exchange. QEI, was a development stage company, through the wholly owned subsidiary Orion Publishing, Inc., planned to provide an Internet-based vehicle for the comic-book world to purchase and exchange collectible and new-issue comic books.
PPTI.OB Protein Polymer Technologies, Inc. is a development-stage biotechnology company engaged in the research, development, production and clinical testing of medical products based on materials created from the Company's patented technology to produce proteins of unique design. Since 1992, it has focused primarily on developing materials technology and products to be used for soft tissue augmentation; tissue adhesives and sealants; wound healing support, and drug delivery devices. Protein Polymer Technologies has also developed a coating technology that can efficiently modify and improve the surface properties of traditional biomedical devices.
PDLI Protein Design Labs, Inc. discovers and develops humanized monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of disease, particularly inflammatory bowel disease and cancer. The Company has four antibodies in clinical development: Zenapax (daclizumab, anti-IL-2 receptor), Nuvion (visilizumab, anti-CD3), HuZAF (fontolizumab, anti-gamma-interferon) and M200 (anti-a5b1 integrin), of which the most advanced are Nuvion for potential treatment of severe steroid-refractory ulcerative colitis, and Zenapax for potential treatment of moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis. All of the Company's revenues are derived from licensing, humanization and royalty arrangements. As of December 31, 2003, it received royalties on five marketed products, with approximately 90% of its royalty revenues derived from the Herceptin antibody product marketed by Genentech and the Synagis antibody product marketed by MedImmune. The Company's facilities are located primarily within the United States.
PL Protective Life Corporation is a holding company whose subsidiaries provide financial services through the production, distribution and administration of insurance and investment products. The Company's operating segments are Life Marketing, Acquisitions, Annuities, Stable Value Products and Asset Protection. Protective Life markets individual life insurance, credit life and disability insurance, guaranteed investment contracts, guaranteed funding agreements, fixed and variable annuities and extended service contracts throughout the United States. The Company also maintains a separate division devoted to the acquisition of insurance policies from other companies.
POIX.OB Protection One, Inc. is a provider of property monitoring services, providing electronic monitoring and maintenance of alarm systems to approximately one million customers as of December 31, 2003. The Company's revenues are generated from recurring monthly payments for monitoring and maintaining the alarm systems that are installed in its customers' homes and businesses. Protection One provides its services to single-family residential, commercial, wholesale and multi-family residential customers. The Company is divided into two business segments: Protection One North America and Network Multifamily. Protection One North America is comprised of the retail alarm monitoring business, which serves residential and commercial customers directly, and the wholesale monitoring business, which provides alarm-monitoring services to independent alarm companies. Network Multifamily is comprised of the alarm monitoring business servicing apartments, condominiums and other multifamily dwellings.
PRSP Prosperity Bancshares, Inc. is a financial holding company that derives substantially all of its revenues and income from the operation of its bank subsidiary, Prosperity Bank (the Bank), which provides financial products and services to small and medium-sized businesses and consumers. The Bank operates 51 full-service banking locations, with 29 in the Greater Houston Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA), 11 in eight contiguous counties situated south and southwest of Houston and extending into South Texas and 11 in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The Greater Houston CMSA includes Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery and Waller counties. Total assets, as of December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, were $2.399 billion, $1.822 billion and $1.262 billion, respectively. Total deposits, as of December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, were $2.084 billion, $1.587 billion and $1.123 billion, respectively. Total loans, as of December 31, 2003, were $770.1 million.
PHY Prospect Street High Income Portfolio, Inc. (the Fund) is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as a diversified, closed-end, management investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The Fund commenced operations on December 5, 1988. The Fund invests primarily in securities of fixed-maturity, corporate debt securities and redeemable preferred stocks that are rated less than investment grade. As of October 31, 2003, the Fund invested in 55 fixed income issuers representing 26 industry groups. Cash and short-term investments represented approximately 9.66% of its holdings. In 2003, the Fund's largest investment holdings were Uniforet, Inc., Neighborcare Inc., Herbst Gaming, Huntsman International LLC, La Petite Academy, Incorporated, Northwest Airlines Corporation, Mission Energy Holdings, Huntsman Advanced Materials, Icon Health &amp; Fitness and North Atlantic Trading Company, Inc.
PQE ProQuest Company is a publisher of information solutions for the education, automotive and power equipment markets. The Company provides products and services to its customers through two business segments: ProQuest Information and Learning (PQIL) and ProQuest Business Solutions (PQBS). PQIL is a provider of content to schools, academic institutions and public libraries. PQIL converts information to microfilm and electronic form and adds value to this information through its professionally prepared proprietary abstracts and indices. PQBS develops and deploys parts and service information products and dealer performance applications for the automotive market. PQBS also provided dealer management systems (DMS) to the power equipment markets, which enabled dealers in those markets to better manage inventory, customer service and other aspects of their businesses. In June 2004, the Company's DMS business was sold to the Dealer Services Group of Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
PRW Pro-Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a development-stage company engaged in research and development of drug technologies to enable targeted delivery of chemotherapy drugs. It seeks to reformulate existing cancer chemotherapy drugs with non-toxic carbohydrate-based compounds that are recognized and adhere to specific binding sites, known as lectins, on the surface of cancer cells. The Company is in the process of developing technology that is intended to reduce toxicity and improve the efficacy of chemotherapy drugs by combining the drugs with a number of carbohydrate compounds. The carbohydrate-based drug delivery system may also have applications for drugs to treat other diseases and chronic health conditions. The Company is devoting substantially all of its efforts toward product research and development and raising capital. Its first product candidate began Phase I clinical trials in February 2003. This same product candidate began concurrent Phase II clinical trials in January 2004.
PRL Prolong International Corporation (PIC) is engaged in the manufacture, sale and worldwide distribution of a line of high-performance lubrication, fuel additive and automotive appearance products, several of which are based on an extreme-pressure lubricant additive for use in metal lubrication, commonly referred to as anti-friction metal treatment (AFMT). AFMT is an extreme-pressure lubricant formula that can be blended with many other lubricants and formulations to create a variety of individual lubricant products with extreme-pressure, friction-fighting characteristics. AFMT can also be blended with other constituents to create additional products, which may be added to Prolong's product line. AFMT bonds to the metal surfaces with which it comes into contact, resulting in reduced friction and heat buildup when subjected to pressure. PIC conducts its business through Prolong Super Lubricants, Inc., Prolong International Holdings Ltd. and Prolong International Ltd.
PLD ProLogis is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that operates a global network of industrial distribution properties. The Company's business is organized into two operating segments, property operations and the corporate distribution facilities services (CDFS) business. The property operations segment represents the long-term ownership, management and leasing of industrial distribution properties. ProLogis' property operations segment, as of December 31, 2003, consisted of 1,737 operating properties, aggregating 230.4 million square feet. The Company develops distribution properties in its other operating segment, the CDFS business segment, with the intent to contribute the property to a property fund or to sell the property to a third party. As of December 31, 2003, ProLogis had 27 distribution properties, aggregating 9.8 million square feet under development.
PRLO.OB Prologic Management Systems, Inc. operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, BASIS, Inc., a commercial systems integration and professional services firm specializing in high-availability, fully integrated systems, providing systems integration services, networking services, security and database software for the commercial market. In February 2004, the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Basis, Inc., each filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. Prior to the foreclosure action in February 2004, the Company provided systems integration services, technology products and related services. The majority of the Company's revenues were generated from systems integration and related product sales.
PJTG.OB The Project Group, Inc. provides project management consulting services with a focus on activities that include, but are not limited to, project management and business strategy, project management systems and network architecture, computer software design, and value and segmentation analysis. The Company's consulting work includes the development of project management services for various companies, the review of a client's project management strategy and its consistency with the business strategy of that firm, the project management of a client's supply chain process, and a project management assessment of a client's computer network, system architecture and operations management capabilities. It also provides technology consulting services, meaning that it reviews a client company's computer systems, internal networks, file servers and their capabilities to support a proposed project desired by the client company.
PGR The Progressive Corp. is an insurance holding company with 68 subsidiaries, one mutual insurance company affiliate and one reciprocal insurance company affiliate. The Company's insurance subsidiaries and affiliates provide personal automobile insurance and other specialty property-casualty insurance and related services throughout the United States. Its property-casualty insurance products protect its customers against collision and physical damage to their motor vehicles and liability to others for personal injury or property damage arising out of the use of those vehicles. The Company's non-insurance subsidiaries generally support the Company's insurance and investment operations. The Progressive Corp. offers a number of personal and commercial property-casualty insurance products primarily related to motor vehicles.
PRGS Progress Software Corporation (PSC) develops, markets and distributes software to simplify and accelerate the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications. Its products include development tools, databases, application servers, messaging servers, application management tools, data connectivity products and integration products for distributed and Web-based applications, as well as for client/server applications. The Company's product lines are designed to continually integrate open standards while delivering high levels of performance and scalability. PSC also provides consulting, education and technical support services to its customers through its worldwide professional services organization. The Company develops, markets and distributes its products to business, industry and governments worldwide.
PGN Progress Energy, Inc. is an energy company located in the southeast region of the United States. Through its wholly owned regulated subsidiaries, Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc. (PEC) and Progress Energy Florida, Inc., (PEF), the Company is engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity in portions of North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. Through its Competitive Commercial Operations (CCO) business segment, Progress Energy is involved in non-regulated electricity generation operations. Through its Fuels business segment, the Company is involved in natural gas drilling and production, coal terminal services, coal mining, synthetic fuel production, fuel transportation and delivery. Through its Rail Services business segment, Progress Energy is engaged in various rail and railcar-related services. The Other Businesses segment includes telecommunication services, miscellaneous non-regulated activities and holding company operations.
PROG Programmer's Paradise, Inc. is a marketer of software in the United States and Canada targeting software development and information technology (IT) professionals within enterprise organizations. The Company operates in one primary business segment: the marketing of technical software for microcomputers, servers and networks in the United States and Canada. It offers a variety of technical and general business application software from a range of publishers and manufacturers. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Lifeboat Distribution Inc., it distributes products to dealers and resellers in the United States and Canada. The Company's catalogs are full color magalogs. It offers collection of microcomputer technical software, including programming languages, tools, utilities, libraries, development systems, interfaces and communication products. It also offers a variety of products from publishers and manufacturers, including Microsoft Computer Associates, IBM, VMware, Borland and Adobe.
PRGF.OB Proginet Corporation is a global enterprise software company. Proginet's software solutions allows its customers to effectively and securely manage their security passwords and data within their information technology (IT) systems, which span most business sectors of the economy. The Company's products can be used on all major hardware platforms, operating systems and application development environments for enterprise computing. The Company sells its products in the United States through its direct sales force and internationally through distributors. The Company also sells its products through original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners in the United States, Europe, South America, Asia and Australia.
PGNX Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focusing on the development and commercialization of therapeutic products to treat the unmet medical needs of patients with debilitating conditions and life-threatening diseases. The Company's programs are directed towards symptom management and supportive care, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and cancer. The three indications that the Company uses for treatment of constipation in patients with advanced medical illness who are receiving opioids are the treatment of post-operative ileus, a paralysis of the gastrointestinal tract that frequently occurs in patients after abdominal and other major surgeries and treatment of gastrointestinal dysfunction and other opioid-induced side effects in patients with chronic pain, including those suffering from headaches, joint pain, lower-back pain, sickle-cell disease, muscle pain and other disorders.
PGLAF Progen Industries Limited (Progen) is an Australian-based, globally focused biotechnology company committed to the discovery, development and commercialization of small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and other serious diseases. It's lead product candidate, PI-88, belongs to a class of multi-functional, multi-targeted cancer therapeutics inhibiting both angiogenesis, or tumor promoting factors, such as Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor, Fibroblast Growth Factor 1, Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 and heparanase, an enzyme implicated in metastasis (tumor spread). PI-88 completed two Phase I trials in January and February 2004, and is being studied in three Phase II clinical trials in the United States, Australia and Taiwan, under an active Investigational New Drug application (IND), with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In May 2004, PI-88 was designated an orphan drug by the FDA for the treatment of high risk Stage II, Stage III and Stage IV melanoma.
PRTK.OB Profile Technologies, Inc. is engaged in the business of researching, developing and commercializing a high-speed scanning process that is non-destructive and non-invasive to test remotely buried, encased and insulated pipelines for corrosion. Its electromagnetic wave inspection process, referred to as Inspection EMW (EMW), is a process of analyzing the waveforms of electrical impulses in a way that extracts point-to-point information along a segment of pipeline to illustrate the integrity of the entire pipeline. This process involves sending electrical pulses along the pipe being tested from either one (single-pulse) or two (dual-pulse) directions toward a varying intersecting point between the two pulser locations.
TRUC.PK Professional Transportation Group Ltd., Inc is a transportation services company that provides ground transportation and logistics services for the airfreight and floorcovering industries throughout the continental United States. The Company serves as a holding company for its two operating subsidiaries, Timely Transportation, Inc. and Truck-Net, Inc.
PRAC.OB Productivity Technologies Corp. is a manufacturer of automated industrial systems, machinery, equipment and custom electrical control panels. It is also a provider of engineering services. The Company operates its business through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Atlas Technologies, Inc. (Atlas) and Westland Control Systems, Inc. (Westland). Atlas manufactures and supplies quick die change, flexible transfer and stacking/destacking equipment used to automate automotive and other metal stamping operations. Atlas primarily sells its products to automobile and automotive parts manufacturers and appliance manufacturers. Westland designs, manufactures and field installs custom electrical control panels primarily for use in production machinery and machine tools utilized in automotive, adhesive and sealant, food processing and other industrial applications. In March 2004, Atlas formed a German subsidiary, Atlas Technologies, GmbH, in order to facilitate its operations in Europe.
PRCY.OB ProCyte Corporation is a medical skin care company that develops, manufactures and markets products for skin health, hair care and wound care. Many of the Company's products incorporate its patented copper peptide technologies. such as copper peptide technologies to selected markets. The Company sells its products directly to the dermatology, plastic and cosmetic surgery and spa markets. It has also expanded the use of its novel copper peptide technologies into the mass retail market for skin and hair care through specifically targeted technology licensing and supply agreements. To augment its technology portfolio it obtained the rights to market and sell current and future products containing the patent-pending Quadrinone technology from Cutanix Corporation in June 2003.
PG The Procter &amp; Gamble Co. manufactures and markets a range of consumer products in various countries throughout the world. The Company markets over 300 branded products in more than160 countries. The Company manages its business in five product segments: Fabric and Home Care, Baby and Family Care, Beauty Care, Health Care and Snacks and Beverages. In March 2003, the Company entered into an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Wella from the majority shareholders. In September 2003, it completed this purchase of the shares of Wella AG. In June 2004, the Company and Wella entered into a Domination and Profit Transfer Agreement (the Domination Agreement). Under the Domination Agreement, they are entitled to exercise full-operating control and receive 100% of the future earnings of Wella. In June 2004, it purchased the remaining 20% stake of its China venture from its partner, Hutchison Whampoa China Ltd. (Hutchison), giving the Company full ownership of its operations in China.
PCRG.OB ProCoreGroup, Inc. conducts business as a merger and acquisition oriented holding company that focuses on undervalued assets. Prior to November 2003, the Company was known as Call Solutions, Inc. and was inactive. With the change of management and Company name, ProCoreGroup's new mission is to open call centers throughout the world in locations that have business atmospheres that are encouraging to labor-intensive business operations. Its goal is to be the first choice of corporate business customers who wish to outsource their teleservice needs. The Company will design its call centers to be multimedia contact centers to facilitate computer telephony integration technology enabling all Internet, cable and telephony commerce. ProCoreGroup also plans to become involved in the distribution of goods and services by using its call center operation.
PRNW.OB Procera Networks, Inc. is a hardware and software development company that has developed the first hardware-based, scalable, Layer 7 switching and network management system that operates at full-wire speed, enabling the full-Layer 7 packet processing to be integrated with switching and routing without materially degrading network speed or latency. The Company's products enable the computer network to manage information in a sophisticated manner thereby increasing employee and computer network efficiency and substantially reducing the costs of network expansion.
PROS ProCentury Corporation is a specialty property and casualty insurance holding company. The Company markets and underwrites general liability, commercial property and multi-peril insurance for small and medium-sized businesses. The Company primarily writes specialty excess and surplus lines insurance through a select group of general agents. The excess and surplus lines market provides an alternative market for customers with hard-to-place risks that insurance companies licensed by the state in which the insurance policy is sold typically do not cover. The Company's goal is to be selective in the classes of business and the coverages it writes within the excess and surplus lines market. The insurance needs of this market are serviced by retail insurance brokers who maintain relationships with the general agents with whom the Company does business.
PRA ProAssurance Corporation is a holding company for specialty property and casualty insurance companies focused on the professional liability and the personal lines insurance markets. The Company has a regional orientation, applying a focused underwriting strategy to local markets. Its professional liability business is concentrated in the southeast and midwest regions of the United States, and serves physicians, dentists, other healthcare providers and healthcare facilities. Its personal lines segment focuses on educators and their families in Michigan. The Company's principal operating subsidiaries are The Medical Assurance Company, Inc., ProNational Insurance Company, Red Mountain Casualty Insurance Company, Inc. and MEEMIC Insurance Company. It also writes professional liability insurance through Medical Assurance of West Virginia.
PCTU.OB Pro Tech Communications, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets lightweight telecommunications headsets. The Company's headsets employ new concepts in advanced lightweight design. Pro Tech sells to the commercial headset market comprised of fast food companies and other large quantity users of headset systems. The Company's products include the ProCom Headset, the Apollo Headset, the Apollo Freedom Series Headset, the Gemini Amplifier (telephone), the universal serial bus (USB) Adapter, the DSP Intelligent Microphone, the Manager's Headset, the A-10 Amplifier (telephone), the A-27 Amplifier, the Active Series Headset and the Trinity Headset. Pro Tech is in the process of developing several designs for the telephone user market, which includes telephone operating companies, government agencies and business offices.
PDEX Pro-Dex, Inc. is engaged in designing, developing and manufacturing electric, air and battery powered rotary drive systems for the medical device and dental industries, and motion control software and hardware for industrial and scientific applications. In the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company eliminated its holding company structure and terminated the separate legal status of the Company's operating subsidiaries Micro Motors, Inc. headquartered in Santa Ana, California, and Oregon Micro Systems, Inc. (OMS) headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, through the merger of each such subsidiary into the Company. As a result, the Company no longer operates as a holding company but as one unified business operating in two locations in Santa Ana and Beaverton. The remaining two reportable segments within Pro-Dex include Rotary Drives (formerly Micro Motors) and Motion Control (formerly Oregon Micro Systems).
PVTB PrivateBancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for The PrivateBank and Trust Company and The PrivateBank. Through the banks, the Company provides personalized financial services primarily to affluent individuals, professionals, entrepreneurs and its business interests in the Chicago and St. Louis metropolitan areas. PrivateBancorp offers traditional individual and corporate banking services, including a variety of loan and deposit products and wealth management services. While the Company encourages its clients to contact it directly, PrivateBancorp also utilizes technology to complement and enhance client service. The Company offers products such as Private NetBanking and Business NetBanking, Master Money debit cards and Private Line Access, a voice-response communication system, which allows clients the convenience of accessing the Company's services from remote locations around the clock.
PRVT Private Media Group, Inc., along with its subsidiaries, is an international provider of adult media content for a range of media platforms. It distributes adult media content directly through a network of local affiliates, as well as through independent distributors and multiple channels, including newsstands, video rental stores, travel retail and adult bookstores; mail order catalogues; cable, satellite and hotel television programming; over the Internet via Websites and broadband delivery services, and wireless telephony. The Company also markets and distributes leisure and novelty products oriented to the adult entertainment lifestyle and generate additional sales through the licensing of the private trademark to third parties. Its subsidiaries are Milcap Media Group S.L. in Spain and Milcap Media Limited in Cyprus.
PBIZ Private Business, Inc. is a provider of two services directed at small businesses: a solution that helps banks market and manage accounts receivable financing and a forecast and tracking service allowing retail chains to better manage their inventories. Business Manager, its principal service, is offered through a nationwide network of client banks, and helps these banks provide cash flow and financing to thousands of small businesses across the United States. Business Manager provides targeted marketing, software, and transaction processing services, linking Private Business to its client banks and small business customers. The Company's retail division, RMSA, offers retail inventory management and forecasting services to smaller retail stores and regional chains throughout the United States and Canada.
PHCC Priority Healthcare Corporation is a national specialty pharmacy and distributor that provides biopharmaceuticals, complex therapies and related disease treatment services. The Company provides programs for patients, payors, physicians and pharmaceutical manufacturers for a growing number of disease states, including cancer, hepatitis C, respiratory and pulmonary conditions, infertility, rheumatoid arthritis, hemophilia, multiple sclerosis, sinusitis and age-related macular degeneration. Priority provides a range of services and supplies to meet the needs of the specialty distribution market, including the office-based oncology market, outpatient renal care market, other physician office specialty markets that are high-users of vaccines and ambulatory surgery centers.
PTNX Printronix, Inc. is in multi-technology supply chain printing solutions, which provide remotely managed printers that produce labels, transaction documents and information reports in the supply chain for businesses around the world. The Company manufactures three types of applications-compatible printers, including line matrix, thermal and fanfold laser, as well as software that manages these printers in an enterprise network. Its integrated network solutions enable the printing of bar codes, labels, forms and reports, verify their accuracy and offer diagnostic technology. The solutions and printers have an open systems architecture that enables them to be integrated into enterprise networks and operate with legacy applications written for other printers. In addition, Printronix invests in new technology to meet the user's need to transition to information technology (IT) infrastructures.
PFG Principal Financial Group, Inc. (PFG) is a provider of retirement savings, investment and insurance products and services with $144.9 billion in assets under management and approximately 15 million customers worldwide as of December 31, 2003. The Company's United States and international operations concentrate primarily on asset management and accumulation. In addition, it offers a range of individual and group life insurance, group health insurance, individual and group disability insurance and residential mortgage loan origination and servicing. PFG organizes its businesses into the following operating segments: U.S. Asset Management and Accumulation; International Asset Management and Accumulation; Life and Health Insurance; and Mortgage Banking.
REVU The Princeton Review, Inc. (Princeton) develops, markets and sells integrated classroom-based, print and online products and services to students, parents, educators and educational institutions. The Company operates its businesses through three divisions. Its Test Preparation Services division provides classroom-based and Princeton Review Online test preparation courses, as well as tutoring and admissions counseling services, and receives royalties from independent franchisees that provide classroom-based courses under the Princeton Review brand. Princeton's kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12) division provides a number of services to K-12 schools and school districts, including assessment, professional development and face-to-face instruction. The Company's Admissions Services division sells Web-based admissions and application management products to educational institutions, and operates its Princetonreview.com Website.
PNBC Princeton National Bancorp, Inc. is a single-bank holding company that operates in one business segment and conducts a commercial banking and trust business through its subsidiary bank, Citizens First National Bank (Citizens Bank). Citizens Bank has 14 offices in 11 different communities in north central Illinois: Princeton, DePue, Genoa, Hampshire, Henry, Huntley, Minooka, Oglesby, Peru, Sandwich and Spring Valley. The Bank serves individuals, businesses and governmental bodies in Bureau, DeKalb, Grundy, Kane, Kendall, LaSalle, Marshall, McHenry and contiguous counties. The Bank operates a community commercial bank and trust business that offers a range of financial services to customers. Its services consist primarily of commercial, real estate and agricultural lending, consumer deposit and financial services and trust and farm management services.
PRTL Primus Telecommunications Group, Incorporated is a global facilities-based telecommunications services provider offering an integrated portfolio of international and domestic voice, Internet, voice-over-Internet protocol (VOIP), data and hosting services to business and residential retail customers and other carriers located primarily in the United States, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and Europe. The Company's focus is to service the demand for competitively priced international communications services that is being driven by the globalization of the world's economies, the worldwide trend toward telecommunications deregulation and the growth of Internet, VOIP and data traffic. Primus targets customers with significant telecommunications needs, including small- and medium-sized enterprises, multinational corporations, residential customers and other telecommunications carriers and resellers.
PRS Primus Guaranty, Ltd. is principally engaged in selling credit protection under which it assumes the risk of default on investment-grade credit obligations. The protection the Company sells takes the form of a credit swap. In exchange for a fixed quarterly premium, Primus Guaranty agrees, upon a default or other credit event affecting a reference entity, to pay a counterparty a notional amount against delivery of the reference entity's debt obligation. The Company primarily operates through three subsidiaries: Primus Financial, a provider of credit protection with respect to investment-grade reference entities; Primus Asset Management, a provider of credit risk investment advisory and asset management services, and Primus Re, which provides financial guaranty insurance products.
PWI PrimeWest Energy Trust (the Trust) is an open-end investment trust. The undertaking of the Trust is to issue Trust Units to the public and to invest the Trust's funds, directly or indirectly, in petroleum and natural gas properties and assets related thereto. The sole beneficiaries of the Trust are the holders of Trust Units. Computershare Trust Company of Canada is the Trustee of the Trust. The principal undertaking of the Trust is to acquire and hold, directly and indirectly, interests in petroleum and natural gas properties. PrimeWest Energy Inc. (PrimeWest), wholly owned by the Trust, was amalgamated with PrimeWest Oil and Gas Corp., PrimeWest Royalty Corp. and PrimeWest Resources Ltd. in January 2002, and continued as PrimeWest Energy Inc.
PNRG PrimeEnergy Corporation is engaged in the oil and gas business through the acquisition, exploration, development and production of crude oil and natural gas. The Company's properties are located in Texas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, the Gulf of Mexico, New Mexico and Louisiana. The Company, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Prime Operating Company, Southwest Oilfield Construction Company, Eastern Oil Well Service (EOWS) Company and EOWS Midland Company, acts as operator and provides well servicing support operations for many of the onshore oil and gas wells in which it has an interest. The Company owns and operates properties in the Gulf of Mexico through its 60%-owned subsidiary, F-W Oil Exploration L.L.C. (FW). Its wholly owned subsidiary, PrimeEnergy Management Corporation (PEMC), acts as the managing general partner in 18 oil and gas limited partnerships, of which two are publicly held, and acts as the managing trustee of two asset and income business trusts.
PRM PRIMEDIA is a targeted media company. Its properties deliver content via print, the Internet, live events and video, and offer advertising and marketing solutions in many niche markets. In February 2004, the Company announced a new strategic operating structure that aligns its businesses into four new segments. PRIMEDIA Enthusiast Media includes more than 120 consumer magazines, their Websites and About.com, and is a special interest magazine publisher with brands such as Motor Trend, Automobile, Creating Keepsakes, In-Fisherman, Power &amp; Motoryacht, Hot Rod, Snowboarder, Stereophile and Surfer. PRIMEDIA Consumer Guides is a publisher and distributor of free consumer guides, including Apartment Guide, Auto Guide and New Homes Guide. PRIMEDIA Business Information is active in 20 market sectors such as agribusiness, communications, entertainment, marketing and transportation, among others. PRIMEDIA Education and Training includes Channel One and other educational and training products.
PMDX.OB Primedex Health Systems, Inc. provides diagnostic imaging services in California. It operates a group of regional networks comprised of 55 fixed-site, freestanding outpatient diagnostic imaging facilities, 25 of which are multi-modality sites, offering various combinations of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography, positron emission tomography, nuclear medicine, mammography, ultrasound, diagnostic radiology (x-ray) and fluoroscopy. Thirty of its facilities are single-modality sites, offering either x-ray or MRI. The Company locates its single-modality facilities near multi-modality sites to help accommodate overflow. Primedex provides all of the equipment, as well as all non-medical operational, management, financial and administrative services needed to provide diagnostic imaging services. In September 2003, Primedex filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. In October 2003, the Company emerged from bankruptcy.
PGE Prime Group Realty Trust is a self-administered, self-managed real estate investment trust that owns, manages, leases, develops and redevelops office and industrial real estate primarily in the Chicago metropolitan area. Its portfolio of properties consists of 13 office properties containing an aggregate of 5.5 million net rentable square feet, and 30 industrial properties containing an aggregate of 3.9 million net rentable square feet. All of its properties are located in the Chicago metropolitan area in prime business locations within established business communities. In addition, the Company owns 217.4 acres of developable land, and has the rights to acquire an additional 1.3 acres. It also has joint venture interests in three office properties containing an aggregate of 2.8 million net rentable square feet.
PCAGY.OB PrimaCom AG owns, operates and acquires cable television networks in Germany and The Netherlands. As of December 31, 2003, it owned and operated cable television and broadband networks passing 1,956,871 homes and available to approximately 1,405,862 revenue-generating customers. It has subscribers in four primary operating regions in Germany and in one operating region in The Netherlands. In Germany, the Company offers broadband services to subscribers in Leipzig and in those areas of the Sachsen/Sachsen-Anhalt/Th&uuml;ringen region that are connected to its upgraded networks, such as Digital television, Pay-per-view, primaspeed Internet access and Data Communications. In the Netherlands, its broadband product offering includes Analog Television, Digital Television, Internet Access, Data communications, Telephony and QuickNet Digital Subscriber Line services.
PDE Pride International Inc. provides contract drilling services to oil and gas exploration and production companies through the use of mobile offshore and land-based drilling rigs in both United States offshore and international land and offshore markets. As of March 1, 2004, Pride operated a global fleet of 327 rigs, including two ultra-deepwater drillships, 11 semisubmersible rigs, 35 jackup rigs, 30 tender-assisted barge and platform rigs and 249 land-based drilling and workover rigs. The Company's operations are conducted in more than 30 countries and marine provinces in many of the most active oil and gas basins of the world, including South America, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, West and North Africa, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, Russia and Kazahkstan. Pride has five principal operating segments: Gulf of Mexico, International Offshore, International Land, E and P Services and Technical Services.
PSMT PriceSmart, Inc., incorporated in December 1994, owns and operates United States-style membership shopping warehouse clubs through majority-owned or wholly owned ventures operating in Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia using the trade name PriceSmart. PriceSmart's business consists primarily of international membership shopping warehouse clubs similar to, but smaller in size than, warehouse clubs in the United States. During the fiscal year ended August 31, 2004, the Company opened a new the United States style membership shopping warehouse club in the Philippines and closed its warehouse club in Guam. The total number of consolidated warehouse clubs in operation was 26, operating in 12 countries and one United States territory. The average life of the 26 warehouse clubs in operation as of August 31, 2004 was 47 months.
PCLN priceline.com Incorporated is the provider of an e-commerce pricing system, known as a demand collection system, which enables consumers to use the Internet to save money on a range of products and services, while enabling sellers to generate incremental revenue. Using its consumer proposition, Name Your Own Price, the Company collects consumer demand, in the form of individual customer offers, for a particular product or service at a price set by the customer. The Company then either communicates that demand directly to participating sellers or accesses a proprietary database of inventory available to priceline.com for purchase and, based upon the customer's offer price, elects whether or not to accept that customer's offer. Consumers agree to hold their offers open for a specified period of time and, once fulfilled, offers generally cannot be canceled.
PR Price Communications Corp. (PCC) has no business operations. It was engaged in the construction, development, management and operation of cellular telephone systems in the Southeastern United States. Effective August 15, 2002, the Company contributed substantially all of the assets and liabilities of its operating subsidiary, Price Communications Wireless Inc. (PCW), to Verizon Wireless of the East (the Verizon Partnership). The business of the Verizon Partnership consists of the ownership and operation of all the assets contributed by PCW and Cellco Partnership and its subsidiaries to the Verizon Partnership. Cellco Partnership and its subsidiaries have contributed an aggregate 85% partnership interest in Orange County-Poughkeepsie Limited Partnership (OCP). The operations of the Verizon Partnership are closely integrated with Cellco Partnership's other wireless telecommunications assets.
PRGX PRG-Schultz International, Inc. is a worldwide provider of recovery audit services to large and mid-size businesses having numerous payment transactions with many vendors. These businesses include, but are not limited to, retailers, such as discount, department, specialty, grocery and drug stores; manufacturers of high-tech components, pharmaceuticals, consumer electronics, chemicals and aerospace and medical products; wholesale distributors of computer components, food products and pharmaceuticals; healthcare providers such as hospitals and health maintenance organizations, and service providers such as communications providers, transportation providers and financial institutions. As of December 31, 2003, PRG provided services to clients in over 40 countries. In 2003, the Company had two operating segments, the Accounts Payable Services segment (including the Channel Revenue business) and the Meridian VAT Reclaim segment.
PRVOZ.PK Previo, Inc. had been focused on the development and marketing of software products that supported business continuity. The Company's products were designed to provide personal computer (PC) recovery from software virus or hacker attacks, software failures or glitches, thefts, losses and broken equipment. On September 24, 2002, Previo sold all its non-cash assets to Altiris, Inc., and, on September 25, 2002, filed a Certificate of Dissolution with the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware. Previo is in the process of winding up its affairs.
PBIO Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (PBI), formerly Boston Biomedica, Inc. (BBI), provides products and services for the detection and treatment of infectious diseases, such as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and Viral Hepatitis. It has operated in four business units. PBI Diagnostics manufactured quality control and other diagnostic products used to ensure the accuracy of in vitro diagnostic tests. PBI Biotech Research Laboratories was the research and development arm of the Company that supplemented its support for the other PBI business units with research contracts and repository services. BBI Source Scientific developed and manufactured laboratory and medical instruments. Pressure Cycling Technology is in the research, development and commercialization of products utilizing the Company's pressure cycling technology to provide solutions for healthcare issues. In June 2004, the Company sold BBI Source Scientific.
PRST Presstek, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets digital laser imaging and chemistry-free plate technologies for the printing and graphic arts industries. Its products and applications incorporate its patented Direct Imaging (DI) technologies and consumables for direct-to-press and computer-to-plate (CTP) applications. DI technology enables direct-to-press imaging, whereby the printing plates are imaged on the press directly from digital files, bypassing numerous prepress procedures and chemical processes in preparing jobs for presswork. The Company's imaging technology also enables computer-to-plate or off-press imaging, whereby operators of conventional printing presses image plates directly from digital files to a CTP device. Through its subsidiary, Lasertel, Presstek also develops and manufactures high-powered laser diodes. In November 2004, the Company acquired A.B.Dick Company through a United States Bankruptcy Code section 363 asset sale.
PLFE Presidential Life Corporation is an insurance holding company that, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Presidential Life Insurance Company (the Insurance Company), is engaged in the sale of insurance products with two primary lines of business, individual annuities and individual life insurance. The Company emphasizes the sale of a variety of single premium and flexible premium annuity products as well as annual and single premium life insurance products. Each of these products is designed to meet the needs of consumers for supplemental retirement income, estate planning and protection from unexpected death. Presidential Life, through the Insurance Company, is licensed to market its products in 49 states and in the District of Columbia. Approximately 40.3% of the Company's annuity and life insurance products in 2003 were sold to individuals residing in the state of New York.
PREZQ.OB President Casinos, Inc. (PCI) owns, operates and develops dockside gaming casinos through its subsidiaries. Its gaming facilities and operations are in Biloxi, Mississippi, with The President Riverboat Casino-Mississippi, Inc. as the operating entity, which maintains 860 slots and 41 gaming tables, and in St. Louis, Missouri, with President Riverboat Casino-Missouri, Inc. as its operating entity, which maintains 1,354 slots and 33 gaming tables. In addition to its gaming operations, the Company owns and manages certain hotel and ancillary facilities associated with its casino operations in Biloxi, Mississippi. PCI's other hotel, the 333-room President Broadwater Resort, was not included in this transaction. Its operations are conducted in three operating segments: Biloxi Operations, St. Louis Operations, and, to a much lesser extent, Corporate Leasing Operations.
PPD Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc. designs, underwrites and markets legal expense plans. The Company is also engaged in the marketing of legal expense and other complimentary plans through a multi-level marketing force to individuals. The memberships sold by Pre-Paid Legal allow members to access legal services through a network of independent law firms, such as provider law firms under contract with the Company. Pre-Paid Legal's revenues are derived from membership fees, and to a much lesser extent, revenues from marketing associates. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company had 1,418,997 memberships in force with members in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the Canadian provinces of Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba.
PP Prentiss Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that acquires, owns, manages, leases, develops and builds office properties throughout the United States. The Company provides administrative services that include accounting and tax and legal. It also provides management and maintenance services. Prentiss' operating partners are Prentiss Properties Acquisition Partners, L.P. and its subsidiaries, and two management service companies, Prentiss Properties Resources, Inc. and its subsidiaries and Prentiss Properties Management, L.P. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Prentiss owned interests in 137 properties totaling 17.8 million net rentable square feet. In 2003, the Company's properties were 91% leased to approximately 1,000 tenants.
PFBI Premier Financial Bancorp, Inc. is a multi-bank holding company that operated 14 banking offices in Kentucky, three banking offices in Ohio and six banking offices in West Virginia as of March 16, 2003. Its subsidiaries consist of Citizens Deposit Bank &amp; Trust, Bank of Germantown, Citizens Bank (Kentucky), Inc., Farmers Deposit Bank, Ohio River Bank, First Central Bank, Inc. and Boone County Bank, Inc. (collectively, the Banks). Each of the Banks provide a range of retail and commercial banking services, including commercial, real estate, agricultural and consumer lending; depository and funds transfer services; collections; safe deposit boxes; cash management services, and other services tailored for both individuals and businesses. The Banks' range of deposit services includes checking accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, club accounts, individual retirement accounts, certificates of deposit and overdraft protection.
PFP Premier Farnell plc is a marketer and distributor of electronic, electrical, electromechanical and industrial components principally in the United States, the United Kingdom and mainland Europe. It offers a range of products, including semiconductors, connectors, electromechanical products and passive components, as well as other products used in the electronics industry, such as consumable spares, soldering equipment and supplies, hand tools, test equipment and health and safety equipment for the industrial maintenance and repair market. The Company also produces and distributes high-performance fire fighting components for the original equipment manufacturer, industrial and replacement markets. In July 2003, the Company sold Maintenance Inc., a distributor of asphalt resurfacing products. In February 2004, the Company acquired GFE Manufacturing, a United States manufacturer and distributor of lighting, water flow testing and measurement equipment for the fire fighting industry.
PXHB.OB Premier Exhibitions Inc., formerly RMS Titanic, Inc. (RMS), was formed for the purposes of exploring the wreck and surrounding oceanic areas of the TITANIC, which sank in 1912, and lies more than 12,500 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. It has obtained oceanic material and scientific data available in various forms that include still and moving photography and artifacts from the wreck site and is using this data and artifacts for historical verification, scientific education and public awareness. All these activities are directed toward producing income for the Company, resulting in touring exhibitions, television programs and the sale of still photographs. RMS is presenting its own TITANIC exhibitions in Omaha, Nebraska, and Salt Lake City, Utah. An exhibition is also being presented in association with the Maryland Science Center at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, Oregon.
PREM Premier Community Bankshares, Inc. (Premier) is the holding company for The Marathon Bank and Rockingham Heritage Bank. The Company is not directly engaged in the operation of any other business. The Banks offer checking accounts, savings and time deposits, and commercial, real estate, personal, home improvement, automobile and other installment and term loans. The Banks also offer travelers checks, safe deposit, collection, notary public, discount brokerage service and other customary bank services (other than trust services). Marathon serves customers in the counties of Frederick, Clarke, Shenandoah, Warren and the city of Winchester, Virginia while Rockingham Heritage serves customers in Rockingham and Augusta counties and the cities of Harrisonburg, Waynesboro, and Staunton, Virginia. Premier also owns Rockingham Heritage's subsidiary, RHB Services, Inc., Premier Statutory Trust I and Premier Statutory Trust II.
PCO Premcor Inc. is an independent petroleum refiner and supplier of unbranded transportation fuels, heating oil, petrochemical feedstocks, petroleum coke and other petroleum products in the United States. The Company owns and operates four refineries, which are located in Port Arthur, Texas; Memphis, Tennessee; Delaware City, Delaware, and Lima, Ohio, with a combined crude oil volume processing capacity, known as throughput capacity, of approximately 790,000 barrels per day (bpd). Premcor sells petroleum products in the Midwest, the Gulf Coast, Eastern and Southeastern United States. The Company sells its products on an unbranded basis to approximately 1,200 distributors and chain retailers through its own product distribution system and a third-party owned product distribution system, as well as in the spot market. The Company also sells its products to end users in the transportation and commercial sectors, including airlines, railroads and utilities.
PLPC Preformed Line Products Company (PLPC) is an international designer and manufacturer of products and systems employed in the construction and maintenance of overhead and underground networks for the energy, communications, cable operators, information (data communication) and other similar industries. The Company's primary products support, protect, connect, terminate and secure cables and wires. PLPC also manufactures a line of products serving the voice and data transmission markets. The Company's offerings can be categorized into five product groups: Formed Wire Products, Protective Closures, Plastic Products, Data Communication Interconnection Devices and Other Products. Its customers include public and private energy utilities and communication companies, cable operators, financial institutions, governmental agencies, original equipment manufacturers, contractors and subcontractors, distributors and value-added resellers.
PFVI.OB Preferred Voice, Inc. provides voice recognition services to the telecommunications industry throughout the United States. The Company's key product, the Voice Integrated Platform (VIP system), integrates speech recognition and non-speech recognition applications within the same platform. The system is designed to utilize standard industry hardware and a microprocessor-based computing system, with a Windows 2000-series server operating system that fits into a standard rack, which can be placed in the phone company's switch room or can be remotely accessed through a telephony network. With the VIP system, a subscriber can use natural conversational speech to access a variety of enhanced service applications. Preferred Voice's speech-interactive software, a part of the VIP system, is able to provide the local telephone companies and cell phone companies with a host of enhanced services and applications to help them offer services to their subscribers and increase their revenues.
POCI Precision Optics Corporation, Inc. is developer and manufacturer of advanced optical instruments. The Company designs and produces high-quality medical instruments, optical thin-film coatings and other advanced optical systems. Precision's medical instrumentation line includes laparoscopes, arthroscopes and endocouplers, and a line of world-class, three-dimensional (3-D) endoscopes for use in minimally invasive surgical procedures. It is certified to the ISO 9001 Quality Standard, and complies with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Good Manufacturing Practices and the European Union Medical Device Directive for CE Marking of its medical products. The Company's medical products include endoscopes, as well as image couplers, beamsplitters and adapters, all of which are used as accessories to endoscopes.
PDS Precision Drilling Corporation operates in three segments: contract drilling, technology services and rental and production. Contract drilling includes drilling rigs; service rigs; hydraulic well assist snubbing units; camp and catering services; the procurement and distribution of oilfield supplies, and the manufacture, sale and repair of drilling equipment. Technology services include wireline logging services, slickline services, directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling/logging-while-drilling (MWD/LWD) services, controlled pressure drilling (CPD), well testing and the design and manufacture of PDC drill bits. Rental and production includes oilfield equipment rental services and industrial maintenance.
PCP Precision Castparts Corp. manufactures metal components and products, provides investment castings, forgings and fasteners/fastener systems for aerospace and industrial gas turbine applications. The Company provides investment castings and forgings for automotive, armament, medical and other applications; fasteners for automotive and industrial markets; specialty alloys, waxes and metal processing solutions for the investment casting industry; engineered fluid-handling industrial pumps and valves for markets; refiner plates, screen cylinders, refiner rebuilds and other products for the pulp and paper industry; metal-injection-molded and ThixoFormed parts for automotive and other markets; metal-matrix-composite components for the electronics, transportation and communications industries, and metalworking tools for the fastener market. In November 2004, the Company sold its PCC Flow Technologies segment to Cooper Cameron Corporation.
PACI.OB Precision Auto Care, Inc. (PACI) is a franchiser of automotive service centers located in the United States and in certain foreign countries. The Company provides services to automobile owners and focuses on high-frequency items, which are required on a periodic basis to maintain the vehicle properly. PACI operates through one segment: Automotive Care Franchising, which is comprised of Precision Tune Auto Care (PTAC) and Precision Lube Express. Through its franchisees, PTAC provides automotive maintenance and repair services, such as engine performance, oil change and lubrication and brake services, which require relatively short-service times. Precision Lube Express franchisees and licensees provide fast-oil change and lube services. At June 30, 2004, the Company owned 413 Precision Tune Auto Care centers and one Precision Lube Express center, owned and operated by a franchisee. The Company will not be selling Precision Lube Express franchises in future.
PCIS Precis, Inc. primarily offers memberships in programs that offer savings on a wide range of healthcare services. Substantially all of the Company's revenue is derived from its healthcare membership savings programs, its primary business segment. For 2003, 93.4% of Precis' consolidated revenue was from its healthcare membership savings programs. The remaining 6.6% is derived from its wholesale club membership programs, as well as ancillary revenue related to the Company's healthcare membership savings programs.
PX Praxair, Inc. is an industrial gases company with operations in North and South America, Asia and southern Europe. The primary products for its industrial gases business are atmospheric gases (oxygen, nitrogen, argon and rare gases) and process gases (carbon dioxide, helium, hydrogen, electronic gases, specialty gases and acetylene). The Company also designs, engineers and builds equipment that produces industrial gases for internal use and external sale. Praxair's surface technology segment, operated through Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc., supplies wear-resistant and high-temperature corrosion-resistant metallic and ceramic coatings and powders. Praxair serves approximately 25 industries as diverse as healthcare, petroleum refining, computer-chip manufacture, beverage carbonation, fiber-optics, steel-making, aerospace, chemicals and water treatment.
PRAN Prana Biotechnology Limited develops therapeutic drugs designed to treat the underlying causes of brain and eye degeneration as a result of the aging process. The Company develops therapies for a broad spectrum of age-related diseases initially focused on Alzheimer's disease. The Company's initial product, PBT-1, is a therapeutic treatment for Alzheimer's disease. In August 2003, the Company announced a new lead metal protein attenuating compound (MPAC) molecule for Alzheimer's disease designated as PBT-2 that had been selected to enter development. PBT-2 has undergone preclinical in-vitro and in-vivo testing and has been designed to have an improved safety and efficacy profile compared to PBT-1.
PRCS Praecis Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (formerly Pharmaceutical Peptides, Inc.) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of therapies to address unmet medical needs. The Company's first United States Food and Drug Administration approved product is Plenaxis (abarelix for injectable suspension), which is a treatment for advanced symptomatic prostate cancer in men. The Company has initiated the regulatory review process for the product in the European Union with a submission in Germany. Praecis is also in discussions with potential partners for the commercialization of Plenaxis in Japan and other parts of the world. The Company is also developing Apan, an investigational drug candidate for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
PXPT.OB PracticeXpert, Inc. (formerly Thaon Communications, Inc.), a healthcare services and technology company, is in the business of providing turn-key administrative services to, as well as developing and deploying systems, technologies and services designed to improve operational efficiencies, reduce billing errors and enhance cash flow for medical practitioners. The Company's services revolve around its flagship Revenue Management System, PXPERT and include medical billing and accounts receivable management, practice management, transcription and consulting. Where applicable, PracticeXpert bundles its technology applications with its billing and other practice management services to provide an integrated solution to its physician customers. The PXPERT system provides for data capture in the physician's office, utilizing a hand-held pocket PC, or other remote data capture device. . In January 2005, the Company acquired Physicians Informatics, Inc. t/a PracticeOne (PracticeOne).
PPTV PPT Vision, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets and integrates two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional machine vision-based automated inspection systems for manufacturing applications. Machine vision-based inspection systems enable manufacturers to realize economic paybacks by increasing the quality of manufactured parts and improving the productivity of manufacturing processes. The Company's 2-D machine vision product line is sold on a global basis to end users, system integrators, distributors and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), primarily in the electronic and semiconductor component, automotive, medical device and packaged goods industries. PPT also markets the SpeedScan 3D sensor. The sensor incorporates the Company's high-speed Scanning Moire Interferometry technology, and is sold to system integrators and OEMs for specific applications.
PPL PPL Corporation is an energy and utility holding company that conducts its business through its significant subsidiaries, PPL Energy Supply, LLC, PPL Electric Utilities Corporation and PPL Montana, LLC. PPL Energy Supply, LLC is an energy company engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the generation and marketing of power, primarily in the northeastern and western power markets of the United States and in the delivery of electricity in the United Kingdom and Latin America. PPL Electric Utilities Corporation is a regulated public utility that provides electricity delivery service in its service territory in Pennsylvania, and electricity supply to retail customers in that territory as a Provider of Last Resort under the Customer Choice Act. PPL Montana, LLC operates interests in 13 electric generating facilities, which it owns or leases, with an aggregate capacity of 1,157 megawatts. Its primary regional market for wholesale customers is the northwest United States.
PPG PPG Industries, Inc. is a multinational manufacturer with three business segments: coatings, glass and chemicals. The coatings segment supplies a variety of protective and decorative coatings and finishes along with adhesives, sealants and metal pretreatment products for aerospace, industrial, packaging, architectural, automotive original equipment and aftermarket refinish applications. The glass segment supplies flat glass, fabricated glass and continuous-strand fiber glass for residential and commercial construction, automotive original and replacement markets and industrial applications. The chemicals segment supplies chlor-alkali and specialty chemicals products.
POZN POZEN Inc. is a pharmaceutical company whose product development efforts are focused on diseases with unmet medical needs where it can improve efficacy, safety and/or patient convenience. The Company has developed a product pipeline in the field of migraine. POZEN is also exploring the development of product candidates in other pain-related therapeutic areas. The Company has three product candidates in the migraine area. MT 100, a combination of metoclopramide hydrochloride and naproxen sodium, is being developed as an oral, first-line treatment for migraine pain and associated symptoms. POZEN's MT 400 is being developed as a co-active acute migraine therapy, combining the activity of a triptan with that of a long-lasting non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. MT 300, a formulation of injectable dihydroergotamine mesylate in a pre-filled syringe, is being developed to provide long-lasting pain relief for patients needing a convenient injectable therapy for severe migraine attacks.
PWAV Powerwave Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets ultra-linear radio frequency power amplifiers for use in the wireless communications market. The Company offers both single and multi-carrier radio frequency power amplifiers for use in cellular networks, including ultra-linear multi-carrier radio frequency power amplifiers for CDMA, cdma2000, TDMA and GSM digital cellular systems, as well as analog systems utilizing AMPS and TACS protocols. Powerwave also offers both single- and multi-carrier radio frequency power amplifiers for use in PCS networks that operate in the international DCS-1800 frequency (1800 megahertz) and the United States PCS band at 1900 megahertz (MHz) and multi-carrier radio frequency power amplifiers for 3G UMTS networks operating at 2100 MHz. Typical system applications include CDMA, cdma 2000, W-CDMA, TDMA, and GSM protocols with output power ranging from 10 to 180 Watts.
PWLX.OB Powerlinx, Inc. (formerly known as Seaview Video Technology, Inc.) develops, manufactures and markets products and applications developed to transmit voice, video, audio and data either individually or any and all combinations over power lines, twisted pair wires and coax in alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) power environments, on any and all power grids. The Company has also developed manufactured and marketed different kinds of underwater video cameras, lights and accessories for the marine, commercial and consumer retail markets. Powerlinx is also engaged in powerline communications products (PLC). Its proprietary analog and digital powerline technology is at the core of its value proposition. These two transmission technology schemes allow Powerlinx to take advantage of a number of market segments. These market segments consist of vehicle viewing systems: entertainment, networking and security products.
PDSN PowerDsine Ltd. designs, develops and supplies integrated circuits, modules and systems that enable the implementation of power-over Ethernet in local area networks (LANs). Its products provide the capability to transmit and manage electrical power-over data network cables to power end-devices, such as Voice-over Internet protocol phones (VoIP phones), wireless LAN access points and advanced security devices that are connected to an Ethernet network. The Company offers primarily power-over Ethernet products consisting of its midspans and integrated products. PowerDsine also offers telecommunications products consisting of digital subscriber line (DSL), power modules, telephone ring signal generators and application-specific integrated circuit or chip controllers.
PWTC.OB Power Technology, Inc. is a research and development company that is engaged in research and development activities regarding batteries for the automotive and electric car industries, electronic sensors and pipeline connection technology. The battery it is being developed is an electrochemical battery having a positive plate, a negative plate, an electrolyte contacting and bridging the plates and a transducer in contact with the plate(s) to apply electronic energy to the plate(s). The Company is conducting research and development operations regarding its patented pipeline connection technology, equipment of which is designed to join large diameter pipe using magnetic pulse methods. It is also conducting research and development operations regarding its patented alloy sensor technology as a permanently installed water detection device to check for the presence of water in storage tanks, fuel tanks and other systems.
POWI Power Integrations, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets proprietary, high-voltage, analog integrated circuits for use primarily in alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) power and DC to DC power supplies. The Company has targeted high-volume power supply markets including the communications, consumer, computer and industrial electronics markets. Its product lines include TOPSwitch, TOPSwitch II, TinySwitch, TopSwitch-FX, TopSwitch-GX, TinySwitch-II, LinkSwitch and DPA-Switch. The high-voltage analog integrated circuit (IC) products are able to meet the power conversion needs of a range of applications within high-volume markets.
PWRM.OB Power3 Medical Products, Inc., formerly known as Surgical Safety Products, Inc., is a biotechnology company that uses its proprietary technology to discover protein footprints, pathways and mechanisms of diseases in patients. These discoveries are being used to develop screening and diagnostic tests for the early detection and treatment of disease. The protein biomarkers, drug targets and diagnostic tests are targeted toward markets with critical unmet needs in such areas as breast cancer and neurodegenerative disease. The Company has over 190 validated biomarkers. It operates a proteomics laboratory in The Woodlands, Texas. In September 2003, the Company changed its name from Surgical Safety Products, Inc. to Power3 Medical Products, Inc.
PWER Power-One, Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of power conversion products, most of which are sold into the communications infrastructure market. Its products are designed to convert and process electrical energy to the high levels of quality and reliability and the precise levels of direct current (DC) voltage required by the digital economy. Power-One designs its products primarily for the higher-end communications infrastructure market, rather than for use in personal computers, mobile phones or other consumer products. Alternating current/direct current (AC/DC) power supplies are used for communications and networking equipment, as well as industrial, automatic/semiconductor test, transportation, medical and other electronic equipment. DC/DC Converters are generally mounted directly on the printed circuit boards. DC Power Systems can be either stand-alone units that are external to the equipment or sub-systems that are integrated into an original equipment manufacturer's system.
POWL Powell Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets electrical power management systems designed to monitor and control the flow of electrical energy and to provide protection to motors, transformers and other electrically powered equipment. Its principal products include power control modules, power control rooms, switchgear, motor control centers and bus duct systems. The Company designs and manufactures systems ranging from 480 volts to in excess of 36,000 volts to serve the transportation, industrial and utility industries. Powell also designs and manufactures process control systems, which are customized management systems designed to monitor and control a complex sequence of critical events. Its systems are an integration of instrumentation, computer controls, communications equipment and data management systems.
PCH Potlatch Corporation is a vertically integrated and diversified forest products company. The Company owns and manages approximately 1.5 million acres of timberlands and operates 15 manufacturing facilities. Its timberlands and all of its manufacturing facilities are located within the continental United States, primarily in Arkansas, Idaho and Minnesota. The Company is engaged principally in growing and harvesting timber and converting wood fiber into two broad product lines: commodity and specialty wood products and bleached pulp products. Its business is organized into four operating segments: Resource, Wood Products, Pulp and Paperboard, and Consumer Products.
POT Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. is an integrated fertilizer and related industrial and feed products company. In 2003, its potash operations represented an estimated 16% of global production, 23% of global potash capacity and 69% of global potash excess capacity. In 2003, its phosphate operations represented an estimated 6% of world phosphoric acid production. It is also a producer of nitrogen products worldwide. The phosphate operations include the manufacture and sale of solid and liquid phosphate fertilizers, animal feed supplements and purified phosphoric acid. The nitrogen operations involve the production of nitrogen fertilizers and nitrogen feed and industrial products, including ammonia, urea, nitrogen solutions, ammonium nitrate and nitric acid. The Company manufactures, processes and distributes fertilizer and other agricultural supplies from plants located in Florida, Alabama and Georgia.
PPS Post Properties, Inc. and its subsidiaries develop, own and manage upscale multi-family apartment communities in selected markets in the United States. The Company, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, is the partner and owns a majority interest in the Operating Partnership (Post Apartment Homes, L.P.), which conducts all of the on-going operations of the Company. The major operating divisions of the Company include Post Apartment Management, Post Investment Group and Post Corporate Services. The Company's primary operating segments are fully stabilized communities; communities stabilized during the year ended December 31, 2002; development and lease-up communities, and sold communities.
POSS Possis Medical, Inc. is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices. Its primary product is the AngioJet Rheolytic Thrombectomy System, a non-surgical, minimally invasive catheter system designed to rapidly remove blood clots with minimal vascular trauma. The AngioJet System consists of three major components: a reusable drive unit to power a pump and monitor device performance, a disposable single-use pump set that delivers pressurized saline to the catheter, and a family of disposable, single-use catheters. The AngioJet System has demonstrated the ability to safely and effectively remove blood clots within seconds to minutes without surgical intervention or the risk of uncontrolled bleeding.
POSC.OB Positron Corporation designs, manufactures, markets and services medical imaging devices, utilizing positron emission tomography (PET) technology, under the name POSICAM systems. These systems utilize the Company's technology, an imaging technique that assesses the biochemistry, cellular metabolism and physiology of organs and tissues, as well as producing anatomical and structural images. Targeted markets include medical facilities and diagnostic centers located throughout the world. POSICAM systems are used by physicians as diagnostic and treatment evaluation tools in the areas of cardiology, neurology and oncology. At December 31, 2003, the Company had sold 27 POSICAM systems, 13 of which are in medical facilities in the United States and seven are installed in international medical institutions.
PKX POSCO manufactures and sells a line of steel products, including hot rolled and cold rolled products, plates, wire rods, silicon steel sheets and stainless steel products. The Company produces over 28.9 million tons of crude steel. In Korea, POSCO produces all of its steel at Pohang Works that has 12.87 million tons of annual crude steel and stainless steel production capacity, and Gwangyang Works that has an annual crude steel production capacity of 15.83 million tons. The Company sells primarily to the Korean market, with Korean sales accounting for 68.9% of its total sales volume of steel products during the year ended December 31, 2003. POSCO's exports in 2003 accounted for 31.1% of its total sales volume of steel products. The Company's major export market is Asia, with China accounting for 36.8%, Japan 18% and the rest of Asia 23.7% of its total export volumes in 2003. Other products include lower value-added, semi-finished products, such as pig iron, billets, blooms and slabs.
PT Portugal Telecom, SGPS, S.A. provides telecommunications and multimedia services in Portugal and Brazil. The Company's wireline services include fixed-line telephone services for retail and wholesale customers, leased lines, interconnection, distribution of programming for television and radio broadcasters, Internet access, data and business solutions, portal and e-commerce services. Its mobile telecommunications services include voice, data and Internet-related services. Portugal Telecom's multimedia services include cable and satellite television services and television programming, film distribution and screening, newspaper publishing and distribution, radio programming, cable Internet and sales of telecommunications equipment. The Company also has international investments in Brazil, Africa and Asia. During the year ended December 31, 2003, approximately 63% of consolidated revenues were derived from businesses other than Portugal Telecom's wireline business in Portugal.
PRAA Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc. is a provider of outsourced receivables management. The Company purchases, collects and manages portfolios of defaulted consumer receivables. Defaulted consumer receivables are the unpaid obligations of individuals to credit originators, including banks, credit unions, consumer and auto finance companies, retail merchants and other providers of goods and services. The defaulted consumer receivables the Company collects are generally either purchased from sellers of defaulted consumer debt (Debt Sellers) or are collected on behalf of debt owners on a commission fee basis. Portfolio Recovery specializes in receivables that have been charged-off by the credit originator. Since the Debt Seller has unsuccessfully attempted to collect these receivables, the Company is able to purchase them at a substantial discount to their face value.
PRPX Portec Rail Products, Inc. is a manufacturer, supplier and distributor of a range of rail products, including rail joints, rail anchors, rail spikes, railway friction management systems and products and securement devices in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. End users of its rail products include Class I railroads, short line and regional railroads and transit systems. The Company's three North American business segments along with the rail division of its United Kingdom business segment serve these end users. In addition, Portec's United Kingdom business segment also manufactures and supplies material handling products primarily to end users within the United Kingdom. These products include overhead and floor conveyor systems, racking systems and mezzanine flooring systems. The Company operates through four global business units consisting of Railway Maintenance Products division, Shipping Systems division, Portec Rail Products Ltd. and Portec Rail Products (UK) Ltd.
PYTM.OB Porta Systems Corp. develops, designs, manufactures and markets a range of standard and telecommunications equipment and integrated software applications for the connection, protection, testing and administration of public and private telecommunications lines and networks domestically and internationally. The Company's core products fall into three categories: Telecommunications connection and protection equipment, which are used to connect copper-wired telecommunications networks and to protect telecommunications equipment from voltage surges; Signal processing equipment, which support copper wire-based communications systems for use principally in defense and aerospace applications, and computer-based operation support systems (OSS) systems, which focus on the access loop and are components of telephone companies' service assurance and service delivery initiatives.
BPOP Popular, Inc. is a publicly owned bank holding company. Its subsidiary, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico (the Bank) is a consumer-oriented bank operating 193 branches and over 550 automated teller machines (ATMs) in Puerto Rico. The Bank also operates seven branches in the United States Virgin Islands, one branch in the British Virgin Islands and one branch in New York. It has three subsidiaries: Popular Auto, Inc., a vehicle financing, leasing and daily rental company; Popular Finance, Inc., a small-loan and second-mortgage company with 36 offices and seven mortgage centers in Puerto Rico, and Popular Mortgage, Inc., a mortgage loan company with 32 offices in Puerto Rico. The Company has three other principal subsidiaries: Popular Securities, Inc., GM Group, Inc. and Popular International Bank, Inc. In January 2005, the Company acquired Kislak Financial Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary, Kislak National Bank, a Miami, Florida based commercial bank.
POP Pope &amp; Talbot, Inc. classifies its business into two operating segments: pulp and wood products. Pulp manufactures a broad range of pulp utilizing both wood chips and sawdust as fiber sources and is sold primarily to end users in the United States, Europe, Canada and Asia. Wood products manufactures standardized and specialty lumber and sells residual wood chips. Lumber products are sold mainly in the United States and Canada to wholesalers and wood chips are sold to manufacturers of pulp. Its primary operations are located in Oregon, South Dakota, British Columbia and Canada. The Company developed as a lumber business based on timberland and facilities in the United States Pacific Northwest, British Columbia, Canada and the Black Hills region of South Dakota and Wyoming.
POPEZ Pope Resources, L. P. as a result of a spin-off by Pope &amp; Talbot, Inc. (P&amp;T), Pope &amp; Talbot Development, Inc. and other P&amp;T affiliates, of certain of the timberland and real estate development assets. Pope Resources operates in three business segments: Fee Timber, Timberland Management and Consulting and Real Estate. The Fee Timber operations consist of the growing and harvesting of timber from the Company's tree farms. The Timberland Management and Consulting provides timberland management and forestry consulting services to third-party owners of timberlands and is conducted through the Company's wholly owned indirect subsidiary, Olympic Resource Management LLC (ORMLLC). The Real Estate operations enhance the value of the Company's land investments by obtaining the entitlements necessary to make further development possible. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Pope Resources owned nearly 112,000 acres of timberland and 2,600 acres of real estate held for development.
SNAK Poore Brothers, Inc. is engaged in the development, production, marketing and distribution of salted snack food products that are sold primarily through grocery retailers, mass merchandisers, club stores, convenience stores and vend distributors across the United States. The Company manufactures and sells, throughout the United States, T.G.I. Friday's brand salted snacks under license from TGI Friday's Inc. Poore also manufactures and sells its own brands of salted snack food products, including Poore Brothers, Bob's Texas Style and Boulder Potato Company brand batch-fried potato chips and Tato Skins brand potato snacks. In addition, it manufactures private label potato chips for grocery retail chains in the southwest and distributes in Arizona snack food products that are manufactured by others. In June 2004, the Company decided to discontinue its Crunch Toons brand product line of salted snacks and amended its license agreements with Warner Bros. Consumer Products.
PMRY Pomeroy IT Solutions, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides enterprise-wide information technology solutions (IT) that leverage its portfolio of professional services. The Company operates in three industry segments: products, services and leasing. Its product business is composed of the sale of a broad range of desktop computer equipment, including servers, infrastructure and peripherals. Its services business entails providing IT services that support such computer products. The services segment can be classified into three components: enterprise consulting, infrastructure solutions and lifecycle services. The Company also offers leasing solutions to its clients. In July 2004, the Company acquired Alternative Resources Corporation, a provider of information technology solutions and staffing services.
POL PolyOne Corporation is an international polymer services company with continuing operations in thermoplastic compounds, specialty polymer formulations, color and additive systems and thermoplastic resin distribution and equity investments in resin and intermediates. The Company operates within three business segments: Performance Plastics, Distribution and Resin and Intermediates. For the year ended December 31, 2003, approximately 24% of total sales were from markets outside of North America. PolyOne's Elastomers &amp; Performance Additives business was sold in August 2004. Its Specialty Resins and Engineered Films businesses are also expected to be sold in 2004.
POMGF.OB PolyMet Mining Corp. is an investor-owned Canadian junior mining company whose principal asset is a large non-ferrous deposit located near Babbitt, Minnesota. The 4,000-acre NorthMet resource contains valuable quantities of copper, nickel, cobalt and platinum group metals.
POLGA.OB Polymer Group, Inc. is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of an array of nonwoven and oriented polyolefin products that operates in two market segments, the Consumer segment and the Industrial and Specialty segment. The Company produces spunmelt and spunlace products, and employs a range of nonwoven technologies. Nonwovens provide certain qualities similar to those of textiles at a significantly lower cost. Chemical polyolefin products include woven, slit-film fabrics, and are characterized by high strength-to-weight ratios, and also include twisted slit film or monofilament strands. Polymer Group's product offerings are sold principally to converters that manufacture a range of end use products. It operates 20 manufacturing facilities located in 10 countries. The Company sells to customers in the United States and the international marketplace.
PLMD PolyMedica Corporation is engaged in the business of acquiring and growing medical product and pharmaceutical businesses. The Company, through its segments, Liberty Diabetes, is a provider of direct-to-consumer diabetes testing supplies to Medicare-eligible seniors, and also provides a simple and reliable way for its customers to obtain their supplies and medications, Liberty Respiratory segment, it provides direct-to-consumer respiratory medications to Medicare-eligible seniors, and through its Pharmaceuticals segment, sells prescription medications directly to its Liberty Diabetes and Liberty Respiratory customers, and also manufactures and sells to distributors prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) urology products. The Company's diabetes and respiratory platforms enable it to collect and process required documents from physicians and customers and to bill and collect amounts due from Medicare, other third-party payers and directly from customers.
POLXF Polydex Pharmaceuticals Limited is engaged in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of biotechnology-based products for the human pharmaceutical market. Polydex also manufactures bulk pharmaceutical intermediates for the worldwide veterinary pharmaceutical industry. The Company focuses on the manufacture and sale of Dextran and derivative products, including Iron Dextran and Dextran Sulphate, and other specialty chemicals. It conducts its business operations through its subsidiaries. The Company conducts its business operations through its subsidiaries, which operate as strategic business units: Dextran Products Ltd and Chemdex Inc.
PLCM Polycom, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets and supports a line of communications equipment that enables enterprise users to effectively conduct video, voice, data and Web communications. The Company's business operates in two segments, Communications, which is comprised of video and voice communication products, and Network Systems, which supplies products and services that provide a range of video, voice, data and Web communication capabilities. Polycom's enterprise video and voice communications products enable businesses and other organizations to easily communicate with employees, customers and partners, regardless of location. Its network infrastructure and management products include bridges, network management software and call processing servers that enable communications across and between different types of networks and end-points. These products are unified under the Polycom Accelerated Communications Architecture.
PPK Polyair Inter Pack Inc. manufactures and markets packaging and pool products, which are sold to approximately 3,000 distributors in North America. The Company's packaging products include air bubble products, such as Durabubble wrap, EcoLite mailing bags, Star Foam and FlexFoil insulation products, and its pool products include Aquacover air bubble solar blankets, safety covers, above ground pools, solar blanket reel systems, water tubes, vinyl liners, vinyl floats and winter covers, as well as Sercura-A-Pool, Secur&amp;Clean safety cover systems and Atlantic above ground pools and Jacuzzi pumps and filters. The Company operates its business in the United States through its wholly owned Delaware subsidiary, Cantar/Polyair Corporation, and in Canada through Cantar/Polyair Canada Limited, a wholly owned Ontario subsidiary of Cantar/Polyair Corporation.
RL Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation designs, markets and distributes lifestyle products. The Company's brand names include Polo, Polo by Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Sport, Ralph Lauren, Blue Label, Lauren, Polo Jeans, RL, Chaps and Club Monaco. It offers, along with its licensing partners, broad lifestyle product collections in four categories: apparel, which includes collections of men's, women's and children's clothing; home, which includes coordinated products for the home, such as bedding and bath products, furniture, fabric and wallpaper, paints, broadloom, tabletop and giftware; accessories, which encompass products such as footwear, eyewear, jewelry and leather goods, including handbags and luggage, and fragrance and skin care, of which products are sold under the Glamorous, Romance, Polo, Lauren, Safari and Polo Sport brands. The Company operates in three integrated business segments: wholesale, retail and licensing.
PII Polaris Industries Inc. designs, engineers, manufactures and markets all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles and motorcycles, as well as related replacement parts, garments and accessories. In 2003, approximately 65% of the Company's sales were sourced from ATVs. Polaris also markets a full line of recreational apparel including helmets, jackets, bibs and pants, personal flotation devices, leathers and hats for its product lines. The apparel is designed to Polaris' specifications, purchased from independent vendors and sold by the Company, along with its principal products, through its dealers and distributors principally located in the United States, Canada and Europe. It also markets these products through its e-commerce subsidiary under the Polaris brand name. The Company's manufacturing facilities are located in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. In September 2004, the Company announced that it has ceased to manufacture marine products, encompassing its personal watercraft product line.
PNTE Pointe Financial Corporation is a bank holding company, whose principal business is operating its commercial bank subsidiary, Pointe Bank (the Bank). The Bank makes commercial, consumer and real estate loans. It attracts both short-term and long-term deposits from the Company's primary market area by offering an assortment of accounts and rates. It offers checking accounts (both interest bearing and non-interest bearing), money market accounts, savings accounts, fixed interest rate certificates of deposits with varying maturities and individual retirement accounts. Pointe derives revenues principally from interest income earned on loans and securities, fee income associated with loans serviced and originated, service charges on depository accounts and the sale of assets designated as available for sale.
PTSX Point.360 is an integrated media management services company providing film, video and audio post production, archival, duplication and distribution services to motion picture studios and television networks, advertising agencies, independent production companies and multinational companies. The Company provides electronic and physical distribution using fiber optics, satellite, Internet and air and ground transportation. It delivers commercials, movie trailers, electronic press kits, infomercials and syndicated programming, by physical and electronic means to broadcast outlets worldwide. Point.360's value-added post-production services are Film-To-Tape Transfer, Video Editing, Standards Conversion, Broadcast Encoding, Audio Post-Production, Audio Layback, Foreign Language Mastering, Syndication and Archival Services. It also services national television networks, local television stations, corporate/instructional video providers, infomercial advertisers and educational institutions.
PPP Pogo Producing Company is engaged in oil and gas exploration, development, acquisition and production activities on its properties located offshore in the Gulf of Mexico; onshore in selected areas, including Texas, New Mexico, Wyoming and Louisiana, and internationally, primarily in the Gulf of Thailand and in Hungary. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had interests in 78 lease blocks offshore Louisiana and Texas, approximately 484,000 gross acres onshore in the United States, approximately 734,000 gross acres offshore in the Kingdom of Thailand, approximately 81,000 gross acres in the Danish sector of the North Sea and approximately 764,000 gross acres in Hungary. On February 4, 2004, the Company acquired interests in approximately 1,014,000 gross acres in New Zealand. As of December 31, 2003, reserves topped 1,701 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent and production for 2003 averaged more than 115,000 barrel of oil equivalent per day.
PFSL Pocahontas Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for First Community Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a community-oriented savings institution that operates 18 full-service offices in its market area consisting of Northeast Arkansas. The Bank is primarily engaged in the business of originating single-family residential mortgage loans, commercial real estate loans and commercial business loans funded with deposits and Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) advances. The Bank has three wholly owned subsidiaries, Sun Realty, Inc., P.F. Service, Inc. and Southern Mortgage Corporation. Sun Realty, Inc. and P.F. Services, Inc. are Arkansas corporations and both are substantially inactive. Southern Mortgage Corporation is a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based lending company that primarily originates single-family loans to sell into the secondary market.
PNM PNM Resources, Inc. is an investor-owned holding company of energy and energy-related companies. The Company's subsidiary is the Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM), a public utility engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale and marketing of electricity and the transmission, distribution and sale of natural gas within the State of New Mexico. The business of PNM constitutes all of the businesses of the Company and its subsidiaries. The Company's business segments are Utility Operations (Utility) and Wholesale Operations (Wholesale). Utility includes electric services, gas services and transmission services. Wholesale consists of the generation and sale of electricity into the wholesale market based on three product lines that include long-term contracts, forward sales and short-term sales.
PMI The PMI Group, Inc. is an international provider of credit enhancement, as well as other products that promote homeownership and facilitate mortgage transactions in the capital markets. The Company organizes its business into three segments: United States Mortgage Insurance Operations, International Operations and Financial Guaranty. In its United States Mortgage Insurance Operations, the Company offers mortgage insurance products that enable borrowers to buy homes with low down payment mortgages. The International Operations segment encompasses PMI Group's activities in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. The Financial Guaranty segment includes the equity in earnings of FGIC Corporation, a financial guaranty insurance company and RAM Re, a financial guaranty reinsurance company.
PMCS PMC-Sierra, Inc. designs, develops, markets and supports high-speed broadband communications and storage semiconductors and MIPS-based processors for service provider, enterprise, storage, and wireless networking equipment. The Company has more than 180 different semiconductor devices that are sold to equipment manufacturers, who in turn supply their equipment principally to communications network service providers and enterprises. PMC-Sierra sells its networking products primarily into four areas of the worldwide network infrastructure, which the Company calls the Access, Metro, Enterprise/Storage, and Consumer-related markets. PMC-Sierra provides superior semiconductor solutions for its customers by leveraging its intellectual property, design expertise and systems knowledge across a range of applications.
PCC PMC Commercial Trust (PMC) is a real estate investment trust that primarily originates loans to small businesses collateralized by first liens on the real estate of the related business. Its investments include the ownership of commercial properties in the hospitality industry. The Company also originate loans for commercial real estate primarily in the service, retail, multi-family and manufacturing industries. It generates revenue from the yield earned on its investments, rental income from property ownership and other fee income from lending activities. The Company's operations are centralized in Dallas, Texas, and include originating, servicing and selling commercial loans. PMC operates in two reportable segments: the lending division, which originates loans receivable to small businesses, primarily in the hospitality industry, and the property division, which owns hotel properties.
PMACA PMA Capital Corporation is an insurance holding company, whose operating subsidiaries provide workers' compensation, integrated disability and other commercial property and casualty lines of insurance, primarily in the eastern part of the United States, underwritten and marketed under the trade name, The PMA Insurance Group. On November 6, 2003, The Company announced its decision to withdraw from the reinsurance business. The results of this business, which had been offered through the PMA Re business segment, will be included in Run-off Operations effective in 2004. Run-off Operations, formerly known as Caliber One, comprise the assets and liabilities relating to the inforce policies of PMA Capital's former excess and surplus lines business written prior to January 2, 2003.
PLXT PLX Technology, Inc. develops and supplies semiconductor devices that accelerate and manage the transfer of data in networking and telecommunications, enterprise storage, servers, personal computers (PCs), imaging and industrial equipment. It offers a solution consisting of three related types of products: semiconductor devices, software development kits and hardware design kits. Development tools provided by third parties support these three related products. The Company's semiconductor devices simplify the development of data transfer circuits in high-performance embedded systems and computers and are compatible with microprocessors such as Motorola's PowerPC, Intel's i960 and StrongArm, Broadcom's MIPS, PMC-Sierra's MIPS and digital signal processors (DSPs) from companies such as Texas Instruments.
PLRS.OB Pluristem Life Systems, Inc. (Pluristem) is engaged in software development. The Company's business plan was premised on the use of artificial intelligence in computer programming technology and in many areas of the computer, Internet, robotics and games industries. On May 5, 2003, the Company entered into a license agreement (the License Agreement) with the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to acquire a license for a stem cell expansion technology. This technology will offer solutions to make bone marrow transplants and other methods of cell therapy more accessible to patients suffering from leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and a broad range of complicated diseases and disorders. On June 10, 2003, the Company purchased 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of a research and development company based in Israel called Pluristem, Ltd. On June 25, 2003, the Company changed its name from A.I. Software, Inc. to Pluristem Life Systems, Inc.
PLUM Plumtree Software, Inc. (Plumtree) develops, markets and sells corporate portal, collaboration, content management and search software, as well as related services for enterprises. These technologies work together in an online work environment that Plumtree calls the Enterprise Web. Plumtree's Enterprise Web solution allows an enterprise's employees, customers and partners to interact with different types of information and applications in one Web environment and enables users to create information and services. The Company's software also supports a range of online business processes so users can complete tasks efficiently. Plumtree's Web services architecture allow its Enterprise Web solution to span rival platforms and systems, maximizing customers' return on their existing technology investments.
PCL Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc. is a private timberland owner in the United States, with 8.1 million acres of timberlands located in 21 states. The Company has timberlands in Idaho, Maine, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania, western Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and eastern Virginia. The Company also has natural resource businesses that focus on opportunities resulting from its property ownership including opportunities relating to mineral extraction, natural gas production and communication and transportation rights of way. In addition, it has a Real Estate segment, which consists of sales of higher and better use timberlands and sales of non-strategic timberlands, and a Manufactured Products segment that convert logs to lumber, plywood and other wood products, and convert chips, sawdust and wood shavings to medium density fiberboard.
PLUG Plug Power Inc., designs, develops and manufactures onsite electric power generation systems utilizing proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells for stationary applications. The Company is focused on fuel-cell systems with electrical output of approximately one to 100 kilowatts (kW), fueled by natural gas, liquid petroleum gas (LPG) and hydrogen gas, for a variety of stationary applications. It is developing an architected technology platform from which it can offer multiple point products, ranging from direct current (DC) back-up power for telecom applications, to alternating prime power for residential and light commercial applications. The platform approach is expected to improve return on investment and leverage the volume of several products into cost reduction of common platform components and modules. During the year ended December 31, 2003, GenSite, was introduced to provide reliable onsite generation of compressed hydrogen gas for industrial applications.
PLXS Plexus Corp. (Plexus) provides product realization services to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and other technology companies in the networking/data communications/telecom, medical, industrial/commercial, computer and transportation/other industries. It provides advanced electronics design, manufacturing and testing services to its customers with a focus on complex, high-technology and high-reliability products. Plexus offers customers the ability to outsource all stages of product realization, including development and design, materials procurement and management, prototyping and new product introduction, testing, manufacturing, product configuration, logistics and test/repair. The Company has 19 active facilities in 15 locations.
PLC PLC Systems Inc. is a medical device company that specializes in the design, development and manufacture of a patented carbon dioxide (CO2) laser and disposable handpieces, known as the Heart Laser System that is used to treat patients with severe angina in a surgical procedure, known as transmyocardial revascularization (TMR). In the United States, the Company sells its TMR products to Edwards Lifesciences LLC. The Company markets one principal product line, which consists of two patented high-powered carbon dioxide laser systems, known as the Heart Laser Systems. It has a standing agreement with Edwards to continue the ongoing product development and manufacturing of the Edwards Optimaze surgical ablation system.
PYX Playtex Products, Inc. is a manufacturer and distributor of branded consumer and personal care products including Playtex Infant Care products, Playtex Diaper Genie, Wet Ones pre-moistened towelettes, Baby Magic baby toiletries, Playtex Feminine Care products, Banana Boat Sun Care products, Woolite rug and upholstery cleaning products, Playtex Gloves, Ogilvie at-home permanent products and Binaca breath freshener products. The Company is organized into three principal divisions: Personal Products, Consumer Products and International/Corporate Sales. Playtex's two divisions, the Personal Products and Consumer Products divisions, constituted approximately 81% of its consolidated net sales at the fiscal year ended December 27, 2003. Its principal manufacturing and distribution facilities are in Dover, Delaware, Sidney and Streetsboro, Ohio, and Arnprior and Malton, Canada. In November 2004, the Company sold its Woolite rug and upholstery cleaning business to BISSELL Homecare Inc.
PLA Playboy Enterprises, Inc. publishes Playboy magazine and develops and distributes multimedia entertainment for adult audiences. The Company's businesses are classified into four segments: Entertainment, Publishing, Online and Licensing. The Entertainment Group operations include the production and marketing of adult television programming for Playboy's domestic and international television networks and worldwide digital video disc (DVD)/home video products. The Publishing Group operations include the publication of Playboy magazine, other domestic publishing businesses and the licensing of international editions of Playboy magazine. The Licensing Group includes the licensing of consumer products carrying one or more of Playboy's trademarks and images, as well as Playboy-branded retail stores and marketing activities.
TUTR PLATO Learning, Inc. is a provider of computer and Web-based instruction, curriculum planning and management, assessment and related professional development and support services to schools encompassing kindergarten through grade 12. The Company also provides these products and services to two- and four-year colleges, job training programs, correctional institutions, military education programs, corporations and individuals. Its courseware and Web-based accountability and assessment software are designed to help educators meet the demands of the No Child Left Behind and Reading First federal legislation. PLATO also offers online and onsite staff development, alignment and correlation services to ensure optimal classroom integration of its products and to help schools meet their accountability requirements and school improvement plans. The Company's service offerings complement and/or supplement classroom instruction to help close the achievement gap for all learners.
PTP Platinum Underwriters Holdings, Ltd. holds subsidiaries that provide property and marine, casualty and finite reinsurance coverages to a diverse clientele of insurers and select reinsurers on a worldwide basis. The Company's Property and Marine operating segment includes principally property per-risk, excess-of-loss treaties, property proportional treaties and catastrophe excess-of-loss reinsurance treaties that are written both in the United States and international markets. The Casualty operating segment includes principally reinsurance treaties that cover umbrella liability, general and products liability, professional liability, directors and officers liability, workers' compensation, casualty clash and automobile liability. The Finite Risk operating segment includes principally structured reinsurance contracts with ceding companies whose needs may not be met efficiently through traditional reinsurance products.
PLT Plantronics, Inc. is a worldwide designer, manufacturer and marketer of lightweight communications headsets for phones and cellphones, telephone headset systems, accessories and related services for business and personal use. In addition, the Company manufactures and markets specialty products, such as telephones for the hearing-impaired and other related products for people with special communications needs and headset solutions for the aviation market. Plantronics' Special Products group manufactures custom headsets and other equipment for special applications that are not served by its standard headset product lines. Plantronics sells its range of communications products in more than 70 countries through a network of distributors, original equipment manufacturers, retailers and telephony service providers.
LGBT PlanetOut Inc. is a global online media company serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. The Company's network of Websites, including Gay.com and PlanetOut.com, allows members to connect with other members of the LGBT community around the world. PlanetOut generates its revenue from subscription fees for premium membership services that are offered in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish in more than 100 countries. The Company also generates revenue from online advertising and e-commerce targeted to the LGBT community. PlanetOut also offers access to specialized shopping and travel products and services through its transaction-based Websites that generate revenue through sales of the products and services of interest to the LGBT community. Through Kleptomaniac.com, the Company offers fashion, video and music products. Through OutandAbout.com, PlanetOut provides access to premium content targeted at gay and lesbian travelers.
PLNR Planar Systems, Inc. is a provider of flat-panel display solutions. These display products and systems are primarily electroluminescent displays (EL), active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCD) and plasma display panels (PDP). The products include several flat-panel display technologies and range from stand-alone solutions consisting of a display, computer hardware and software, to display components sold to manufacturers for incorporation into their products. The Company has a global reach with sales offices in North America, Europe and Asia. Planar is organized around three business segments-Medical, Industrial and Commercial.
LANPF.OB Plaintree Systems Inc. (Plaintree) designs, develops, manufactures, markets and supports infrared optical wireless transmission links and support switching equipment to its customers. The Company is involved in the field of free space optics (FSO), which is accepted as the terminology for optical wireless. This is based on the combined attributes of the Company's optical wireless engineering expertise with its specialization in light emitting diode (LED) technology, and the solution that the optical wireless links provide to the broadband access bottleneck or the last mile connection problem. The Company's WAVEBRIDGE links send information (voice, video and data) on a beam of infrared light. These links act as a replacement for cable or fiber, thus avoiding the delay and expense of the planning and installation of wireline connections. The Company has two wholly owned subsidiaries Plaintree Systems Corporation, an inactive subsidiary and 4178611 Canada Inc.
PXP Plains Exploration &amp; Production Company (PXP) is an independent oil and gas company primarily engaged in acquiring, developing, exploiting and producing oil and gas in the United States. PXP owns oil and gas properties in 10 states with principal operations in the Los Angeles and San Joaquin Basins in California; the Santa Maria Basin offshore California; the Gulf Coast Basin onshore and offshore Louisiana, and the East Texas Basin in east Texas and north Louisiana. Proved reserves at December 31, 2003, totaled 280.9 million barrels of oil equivalent. In June 2003, the Company acquired 3TEC Energy Corporation, which was engaged in acquiring, exploiting, developing and producing oil and gas in East Texas and the Gulf Coast region and in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico. In May 2004, the Company acquired Nuevo Energy Company. In December 2004, the Company completed the sale of various non-core properties located offshore California and onshore South Texas.
PAA Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (PAA) is engaged in interstate and intrastate crude oil transportation, and crude oil gathering, marketing, terminaling and storage, as well as the marketing and storage of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and other petroleum products, primarily in Texas, California, Oklahoma, Louisiana and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The Company owns and operates approximately 7,000 miles of gathering and mainline crude oil pipelines located throughout the United States and Canada. Its activities from pipeline operations generally consist of transporting crude oil for a fee, third-party leases of pipeline capacity, barrel exchanges and buy/sell arrangements. PAA's gathering, marketing, terminaling and storage operations consists of the purchase and resale of crude oil and LPG, as well as other petroleum products (LPG) at various points along the distribution chain and the operation of certain terminaling and storage assets.
PLSB Placer Sierra Bancshares is a California-based bank holding company for Placer Sierra Bank (the Bank), which is a California state-chartered commercial bank. It provides a broad array of financial services to small to medium-sized businesses, their owners and employees, and to consumers. Through its 23 Northern California branches, the Bank serves a five-county area including Placer, Sacramento and El Dorado counties (the greater Sacramento metropolitan region) and the adjacent counties of Sierra and Nevada. Through its nine Southern California branches, the Bank serves both Los Angeles and Orange counties.
PDG Placer Dome is principally engaged in the exploration for, and the acquisition, development and operation of, gold mineral properties. Its major mining operations are located in Canada, the United States, Australia, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Tanzania and Chile. Exploration work is carried out in these countries and many others worldwide. Placer Dome's principal product and source of earnings is gold, although significant quantities of silver and copper are also produced. In 2003, the Company's share of gold production was derived from mines in Australia (28%), the United States (27%), Papua New Guinea (19%), Canada (15%), South Africa (6%), Chile (3%) and Tanzania (2%). The Zaldivar Mine in Chile and Osborne Mine in Australia contributed 78% and 22%, respectively, to the Company's share of copper production in 2003.
PZZI Pizza Inn, Inc. is the franchiser and food and supply distributor to a system of restaurants operating under the trade name Pizza Inn. On September 20, 2004, the Pizza Inn system consisted of 407 units, including two Company-owned and Company-operated units and 405 franchised units. The Company-operated units are used for product testing and franchisee training, in addition, to serving customers. The domestic franchised units are comprised of 211 Buffet units, 53 delivery/carry-out units (Delcos) and 73 Express Serve units. The international franchised units are comprised of 16 buffet units, 37 delivery/carry-out units and 15 Express units. Pizza Inn units are located in 18 states and 11 foreign countries. Norco Restaurant Services (Norco), a division of the Company, distributes food products, equipment and other supplies to units in the United States and, to the extent feasible, in other countries.
PXLW Pixelworks, Inc. designs, develops and markets semiconductors and software products for the advanced display industry, including advanced televisions, multimedia projectors and flat-panel monitors. The Company's system-on-chip semiconductors provide the intelligence for displays by processing and optimizing video and computer graphic signals to produce images. Its product line uses technologies and advanced designs to address the requirements of the industry it serves. Pixelworks' products range from integrated circuits (ICs) to system-on-chip ICs, integrating a microprocessor, memory and image processing circuits that function as a computer on a single chip. During the year ended December 31, 2003, sales to distributors represented 69% of the total revenues and sales outside the United States accounted for approximately 99%.
PIXR Pixar is a digital animation studio that uses its creative, technical and production capabilities to create animated feature films and related products, such as video products, toys, interactive games and other merchandise. As of January 3, 2004, the Company has created and produced five full-length animated feature films: Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo, which were marketed and distributed by The Walt Disney Company. Pixar also produces short films, which allows the Company to develop creative talent and computer animation technology. In addition, the Company markets and sells its RenderMan software to other visual effects studios.
PW Pittsburgh &amp; West Virginia Railroad is a real estate investment trust (REIT) for the purpose of acquiring the business and property of a small leased railroad. The railroad was leased in 1964 to Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC) by the Company's predecessor for 99 years with the right of unlimited renewal. The properties leased to NSC consist of 112 miles of main-line road extending from Pittsburgh Junction, Ohio, through parts of West Virginia to Connellsville, Pennsylvania approximately 20 miles of branch lines and other assets used in the operation of the railroad, such as real estate, machinery and equipment and supplies.
PBI Pitney Bowes Inc. is a provider of global, integrated mail and document management solutions for organizations of all sizes. The Company and its subsidiaries operate in three business segments: Global Mailstream Solutions, Global Enterprise Solutions and Capital Services. The Global Mailstream Solutions segment includes worldwide revenue and related expenses from the rental of postage meters and the sale, rental and financing of mailing equipment, including mail finishing and software-based mail creation equipment. The Global Enterprise Solutions segment includes Pitney Bowes Management Services and Document Messaging Technologies. The Capital Services segment consists of financing for non-Pitney Bowes equipment. The Company maintains field service organizations in the United States and some other countries to provide support services to customers who have rented, leased or purchased equipment. In December 2004, the Company acquired Groupe MAG.
PJC Piper Jaffray Companies is a securities firm dedicated to delivering financial advice, investment products and transaction execution within targeted sectors of the financial services marketplace. The Company is engaged in providing securities brokerage, investment banking and related financial services to individuals, corporations, public sector and non-profit entities in the United States. It operates through three segments: Capital Markets, Private Client Services and Corporate Support and Other.
PPDA.OB Pipeline Data Inc. is an integrated provider of merchant credit card transaction processing services, gateway services, related software application products and value-added services. The Company delivers transaction processing systems to over 7,000 small to medium-sized merchants that operate either in the physical brick-and-mortar world, the virtual world of the Internet or the mobile or wireless realm via cellular-based wireless devices. Pipeline Data focuses on internal growth by utilizing its contractual relationships with over 500 bank branch locations that serve as exclusive referral sources for the Company's products and services. In addition, the Company has reseller agreements with credit card acquirers, including Concord EFS, Nova Information Systems, Bridgeview Bank and over 40 major independent sales organization (ISOs).
PIOL.OB Pioneer Oil and Gas has primarily been engaged in the acquisition and exploration of oil and gas properties in Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and Nevada. The Company has focused its efforts over the years in acquiring oil and gas properties from other companies, selling producing wells and acquiring new oil and gas leases for the purpose of exploring for oil and gas. Leases have also been acquired over the years for the purpose of reselling them at a profit to other oil and gas companies. As of fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company operated nine producing oil and gas wells in Utah and Wyoming. The Company also owns an interest in several non-operated oil and gas wells and overriding royalty interests in oil and gas wells located in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. Primary among these overriding royalty interests is the Hunter Mesa Unit and Grass Mesa Unit in Garfield County, Colorado.
PXD Pioneer Natural Resources Company is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company. Its purpose is to competitively and profitably explore for, develop and produce oil, natural gas liquid (NGL) and gas reserves. The Company's asset base is anchored by the Spraberry oil field located in West Texas, the Hugoton gas field located in Southwest Kansas and the West Panhandle gas field located in the Texas Panhandle. Complementing these areas, Pioneer has exploration and development opportunities and/or oil and gas production activities in the Gulf of Mexico, the onshore Gulf Coast area and in Alaska and internationally in Argentina, Canada, Gabon, South Africa and Tunisia. The Company's proved reserves, as of December 31, 2003, included proved undeveloped reserves and proved developed reserves that are behind pipe of 188.9 million barrels of oil and NGLs and 670.8 billion cubic feet of gas.
PDC Pioneer Drilling Company provides contract land drilling services to independent and major oil and gas exploration and production companies. In addition to its drilling rigs, the Company provides the drilling crews and most of the ancillary equipment needed to operate its drilling rigs. It has focused its operations in the natural gas production regions of South Texas, East Texas and North Texas. In March 2004, the Company acquired the drilling assets of Sawyer Drilling &amp; Services, Inc., based in Shreveport, Louisiana. The fleet consists of seven mechanical 700- to 1,200-horsepower rigs capable of drilling to depths of 8,000 to 14,000 feet. In addition, Pioneer Drilling announced the purchase of the assets of A&amp;R Trejo Trucking, consisting of 23 trucks and related rig-moving assets.
PIO Pioneer Corporation (Pioneer Kabushiki Kaisha) is provider of advanced electronics products worldwide for consumer and business use. The Company is engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of consumer and commercial-use electronics, such as audio, video and car electronics, on a global scale. Pioneer's principal production activities are carried out in Asia, including Japan. The Company's products are sold under its own brand names, principally Pioneer. The markets are Japan, North America, the United States, Europe and Asia. It sells its products to customers in consumer and commercial markets through its sales offices in Japan and its sales subsidiaries and independent distributors overseas. On an original equipment manufacturer basis, Pioneer markets certain products, such as car electronics products, digital versatile discs recorder/rewritable drives, digital broadcast set-top boxes and organic electro luminescent displays to other companies.
PONR.OB Pioneer Companies, Inc. is engaged in the production, marketing and selling of chlorine, caustic soda and related products in North America. Chlorine and caustic soda are commodity chemicals that are used in a variety of applications and chemical processes. The Company conducts its primary business through two operating subsidiaries: PCI Chemicals Canada Company and Pioneer Americas LLC. In March 2004, the Company decided not to resume chlor-alkali production at this chlor-alkali plant. It will continue to use the Tacoma plant site as a terminal to serve its customers in the Pacific Northwest. Approximately 15% of the Company's revenues during the year ended December 31, 2003, was derived from sales of products for use in the water treatment industry; approximately 27% resulted from sales for use in the pulp and paper industry, and approximately 9% was derived from sales for use by urethane producers.
PNW Pinnacle West Capital Corporation owns all of the outstanding equity securities of Arizona Public Service Company (APS), its major subsidiary. APS is a vertically-integrated electric utility that provides either retail or wholesale electric service to substantially all of the state of Arizona, with the major exceptions of the Tucson metropolitan area and about one-half of the Phoenix metropolitan area. Through its marketing and trading division, APS also generates, sells and delivers electricity to wholesale customers in the western United States. The Company's other significant subsidiaries are Pinnacle West Energy, which owns and operates generating plants; APS Energy Services, which provides energy services and products in the western United States; and SunCor, which is engaged in real estate development activities.
PCLE Pinnacle Systems, Inc., incorporated in 1986, is a supplier of digital video products that provide customers, ranging from individuals with little video experience to broadcasters with simple or advanced products depending on their needs. The Company's digital video products include capture, editing, storage, play-out, graphics, compact disc (CD) and digital versatile disc (DVD) burning, audio editing and television viewing features for customers, whether they are at home, at work or on the air. Its products are used to create, store and distribute video content for television programs, television commercials, pay-per-view, sports videos, corporate communications and personal home movies. The Company is organized into two operating segments: broadcast and professional, and business and consumer.
PNFP Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. serves as the holding company for Pinnacle National, a community bank serving individuals and businesses located within the Nashville metropolitan statistical area. The Company owns 100% of the capital stock of Pinnacle National, which offers a range of lending products, including commercial, real estate and consumer loans to individuals and small to medium-sized businesses and professional entities. In addition to loans, the Company has other investments primarily in obligations of the United States government, obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States government and other securities. Pinnacle National provides a variety of deposit products, including savings, checking, interest-bearing checking, money market and certificate of deposit accounts. It contracts with Raymond James Financial Service, Inc. to offer and sell various securities and other financial products.
PNK Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. owns and operates gaming entertainment facilities in several gaming markets. These include five properties in the United States: the Belterra Casino Resort in southeastern Indiana; Boomtown Reno in Reno, Nevada; Boomtown Bossier City in Bossier City, Louisiana; Boomtown New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Casino Magic Biloxi in Biloxi, Mississippi. The Company also operates casinos in Argentina, the Casino Magic Argentina, and receives lease income from two card clubs and owns vacant land in southern California. Pinnacle is building a major casino resort in Lake Charles, Louisiana. In addition, representative authorities of the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County chose the Company's proposals for the development of a casino in downtown St. Louis and another casino in south St. Louis County, respectively.
PNS Pinnacle Data Systems, Inc. provides products and technical services, encompassing the development and production of embedded (built-in) computer systems and components, as well as the testing and repair of computer systems, components and peripherals, to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in the computer, computer peripheral, data storage, digital-imaging, medical diagnostic, process-control and telecommunications equipment industries. The Company offers a range of services to increase product speed-to- market and engineered product life, as well as services and support to units in the field through product lifecycle management programs, including depot repair, advanced exchange, contact center support and end-of-life control.
PLE Pinnacle Bancshares, Inc. serves as a bank holding company for Pinnacle Bank (the Bank). The Bank is an Alabama-chartered commercial bank with six offices located in Central and Northwest Alabama. It has a branch office in Jasper, Alabama, with other branch offices in Sumiton, Haleyville, Vestavia and Trussville, Alabama. The Bank is primarily engaged in the business of obtaining funds in the form of savings deposits and investing such funds in mortgage loans on single-family residential real estate. To a lesser extent, the Bank is engaged in making consumer loans, commercial real estate loans and other commercial loans. The principal sources of funds for the Bank's lending activities are savings deposits, Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta advances, principal repayments of loans, sales of loans, and maturities and sales of available-for-sale securities. Its principal sources of income are interest on loans, servicing and commitment fees and interest and dividends on securities.
PNCL Pinnacle Airlines Corp. operates an all-regional jet fleet providing regional airline capacity to Northwest Airlines Corporation (Northwest). The Company provides Northwest with regional airline capacity as a Northwest Airlink carrier at its domestic hub airports in Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul and Memphis. Pinnacle Airlines operates a jet fleet of 76 Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) aircraft and offers scheduled passenger service with approximately 490 daily departures to 81 cities in 29 states and two Canadian provinces. Pinnacle Airlines completed its first full year of operations under the Airline Services Agreement (ASA) with Northwest.
PPC Pilgrim's Pride Corporation is a producer of poultry in both the United States and Mexico. In the United States, the Company produces both prepared and fresh chicken and turkey, while in Mexico it produces fresh chicken. Through vertical integration, the Company controls the breeding, hatching and growing of chickens and turkeys and the processing and preparation, packaging and sale of its product lines. During fiscal year ended October 2, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company sold 5.3 billion pounds of dressed chicken and 310.2 million pounds of dressed turkey and generated net sales of $5.4 billion. In fiscal 2004, its United States operations, including Puerto Rico accounted for 92.8% of net sales, with the remaining 7.2% arising from Mexico operations. On November 23, 2003, it acquired the chicken division of ConAgra Foods, Inc.
PIR Pier 1 Imports, Inc. is a specialty retailer that operates three chains of retail stores operating under the names Pier 1 Imports, The Pier and Cargokids. The Company sells a variety of furniture, decorative home furnishings, dining and kitchen goods, bath and bedding accessories and other specialty items for the home. During the fiscal year ended February 28, 2004 (fiscal 2003), it operated 1,015 Pier 1 stores in the United States and 68 Pier 1 stores in Canada, and also supported eight franchised stores in the United States. In addition, it operated 29 stores located in the United Kingdom under the name The Pier and 40 Cargokids stores located in the United States. Pier 1 also supplies merchandise, and licenses the Pier 1 Imports name to Sears Mexico and Sears Puerto Rico, which sells Pier 1 merchandise in a store within a store format in 20 Sears Mexico stores and in seven Sears Puerto Rico stores.
PNY Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Inc. is an energy services company primarily engaged in the distribution of natural gas to 940,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, including 60,000 customers served by municipalities who are the Company's wholesale customers. Regulated utility activities are conducted by Piedmont and by Eastern North Carolina Natural Gas Company, a subsidiary, and are conducted within the United States of America. The Company also operates a non-utility segment, which consists of all of its other ventures. In addition, Piedmont, through its direct and indirect subsidiaries, has investments in other energy-related businesses, including unregulated retail natural gas and propane marketing, interstate natural gas storage, intrastate natural gas transportation and regulated natural gas distribution. The Company also sells residential and commercial gas appliances in Tennessee.
PICO PICO Holdings, Inc. is a holding company that seeks to acquire businesses and interests in businesses that it identifies as undervalued. The Company is also interested in acquiring businesses and interests in businesses where there is significant unrecognized value in land and other tangible assets. Its major operating businesses are Vidler Water Company, Inc., which develops and owns water rights and water storage operations in the southwestern United States, primarily in Nevada and Arizona; Nevada Land &amp; Resource Company, LLC, which owns 1.1 million acres of land in Nevada; Citation Insurance Company, which is running off its historical property and casualty and workers' compensation loss reserves; Physicians Insurance Company of Ohio, which is running off its medical professional liability loss reserves, and HyperFeed Technologies, Inc., a developer and provider of software, ticker plant technologies and managed services to the financial markets industry.
PUPS.OB Pick-Ups Plus, Inc. is a retail store for trucks and sports utility vehicle accessories. At December 2002, the Company had seven operating franchised locations operated by independent franchisees and had four Company-owned stores in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, which serve as prototype stores for its franchise system. In 2001, Pick-Ups Plus added an additional franchise in Kentucky and Texas and executed a franchise agreement for a location in Springfield, Illinois. In 1999 and 2000, the Company added franchises in California, Idaho, Ohio and Indiana. Popular product categories include grille accessories, running boards, chrome light bars, fiberglass fender flares, ladder racks, bug guards, heavy-duty floor mats, oversized visors, headlight covers, toolboxes, bed liners, caps and step bars. Products installed at the stores include running boards, bug shields, tonnue tops and fiberglass caps.
PYTO.OB PhytoMedical Technologies, Inc., formerly Enterprise Technologies, Inc., provides the MedCare program, a non-invasive, non-pharmaceutical treatment program for patients suffering from urinary incontinence and other pelvic disorders, including pelvic pain, chronic constipation, fecal incontinence and disordered defecation. The Company has had limited revenues since inception. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company had zero revenues. Even if the Company becomes profitable in the future, the Company may not accurately predict the level of, or its ability to sustain, profitability.
PHYX Physiometrix, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets noninvasive, advanced medical products incorporating its materials, electronics technology and software for use in neurological monitoring applications during surgical and diagnostic procedures. The Company sells its products for use in hospitals, clinics and physicians' offices domestically and internationally. The patient state analyzer (PSA 4000), a system for monitoring brain activity during anesthesia and disposable PSArray2 are its primary products. The Company's initial products, which were commercially introduced in 1994, are the e-Net headpiece and disposable HydroDot biosensors, which are based upon the HydroGel technology and its custom electronics. These products are packaged as the HydroDot NeuroMonitoring System, which was developed and is sold for brain monitoring applications, such as clinical electroencephalograph (EEG) procedures.
PFIT.OB Physical Spa &amp; Fitness Inc., incorporated in September 1988, operates fitness and spa centers in Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China. As of year ended December 31, December 31, 2003, the Company operated 17 facilities, of which 13 are in Hong Kong and four are in China (including one in Macau) under the name Physical, with the exception of Renaissance Beauty Center. Physical Spa offers to its customers, at each location, access to a range of United States-styled fitness and spa services. The Renaissance Beauty Center is the Company's first upscale market spa treatment center. The center is situated in an upper income residential area in Central, Hong Kong and provides spa treatment services. All of Physical Spa's operations, including the operating of the fitness and spa centers, property holding, investment holding and other corporate activities are conducted through its wholly owned or majority-owned subsidiaries or joint ventures.
PHSB PHSB Financial Corporation serves as the holding company for Peoples Home Savings Bank (the Bank). The Company conducts no significant business of its own other than holding all the outstanding stock of the Bank. The Bank is primarily engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the general public and offering traditional mortgage loan products, commercial loans and consumer loans, which primarily consist of automobile loans. It conducts business through 10 full-service offices and an administrative office located throughout Beaver and Lawrence counties, Pennsylvania.
PLAB Photronics, Inc. is primarily engaged in the manufacture of photomasks, which are high precision photographic quartz plates containing microscopic images of electronic circuits. Photomasks are a key element in the manufacture of semiconductors and are used as masters to transfer circuit patterns onto semiconductor wafers during the fabrication of integrated circuits and, to a lesser extent, other types of electrical components. The Company's photomasks are manufactured in accordance with circuit designs provided on a confidential basis by its customers. Photronics Inc. primarily operates from nine manufacturing facilities, three of which are located in the United States, three in Europe and one each in Korea, Singapore and Taiwan.
FOTO.OB PhotoWorks, Inc. is an online photography services company. PhotoWorks offers processing and printing services to both digital and traditional camera users, primarily in the United States. It provides customers with the ability to store and organize photos online, share them with friends and family and order prints, reprints, photo albums, and photo related products. In addition, customers can create Custom Photo Books and Signature Photo Cards using PhotoWorks' Website. In October 2004, the Company launched a new Website and product offering to inspire new ways for people to stay connected and share their photographs. While online, customers may use the PhotoWorks service to privately upload, view, store, share, manage or e-mail their photos to friends and family, and order PhotoWorks' Custom Photo Books and Signature Photo Cards, as well as keepsakes, prints and reprints.
PHOX.OB Photonics Corporation (doing business as DTC Data Technology), incorporated in 1979, designed, developed and marketed integrated device electronics and small computer systems interface disk controller cards and input/output products for personal computers. However, as a result of recurring significant operating losses, in June 1999, the board of directors voted to shut down business operations and attempt to sell the Company or its assets.
PHTN Photon Dynamics, Inc. is a provider of yield management solutions to the flat-panel display industry. The Company's solutions are used to collect data, analyze product quality and identify and repair product defects at critical steps in the manufacturing processes. The Company's test, repair and inspection systems increase manufacturing yields of high-performance flat panel displays used in a number of products, including notebook and desktop computers, televisions and advanced mobile electronic devices, such as cellular phones, personal digital assistants and portable video games.
PHMD PhotoMedex, Inc. is a medical device company that focuses on facilitating the cost effective use of technologies for doctors, hospitals and surgery centers. It is engaged in the business of marketing the XTRAC laser system domestically and internationally. The Company is also engaged in the business of marketing surgical products and surgical services using a variety of lasers over a range of specialties. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company had four business segments: Domestic XTRAC, International XTRAC, Surgical Services and Surgical Products. PhotoMedex markets surgical lasers through its wholly owned subsidiary, SLT. It also offers a range of laser services, including urology, gynecology, orthopedics and general surgery, under the trade name PhotoMedex Surgical Services. In 2003, it acquired two revenue streams from SLT: one from surgical services and the other from surgical products, which supplemented its own product lines, XTRAC Domestic and XTRAC International.
PTEC Phoenix Technologies Ltd. (Phoenix) is involved in the development, deployment, and support of core system software (CSS). CSS, the evolution of basic input output system (BIOS), is used to enable, activate, protect, connect and recover personal computers (PCs), industrial computers (IPCs), point-of-sale computers (POS), printers, copiers, medical devices, automotive controls, gaming systems and other X86 based digital consumer devices. The Company develops and provides software applications that enable independent software vendors (ISVs), OEMs, system builders and integrators, and information technology departments to authenticate, asset-manage, enable, protect and recover their computer systems and data. In addition to key products, it provides support services, such as training, maintenance and engineering services to the customers.
PXG Phoenix Footwear Group, Inc. is engaged primarily in the import and sale of men's and women's leisure footwear and apparel. The Company designs, develops and markets dress and casual footwear and apparel with an emphasis on traditional style, quality and fit. Phoenix Footwear sells over 80 different styles of footwear and over 250 different styles of apparel products. The Company targets the moderate to premium-priced categories of the footwear and apparel markets. Phoenix Footwear's brands include Trotters, Soft-Walk, SoftWalk, H.S. Trask, Strol and Royal Robbins. The Company also designs and markets a line of men's casual footwear through a licensing agreement with Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Phoenix Footwear sells its footwear products to department stores, national and regional chain stores, independent retailers and third party catalog companies and its apparel products to specialty retailers and to consumers at its retail outlet stores in Berkeley and Modesto, California.
PNX The Phoenix Companies, Inc. is a manufacturer of insurance, annuity and asset management products for the accumulation, preservation and transfer of wealth. The Company provides products and services to affluent and high-net-worth individuals through their advisors and to institutions directly or through consultants. Phoenix offers a range of life insurance, annuity and asset management products, and services through a variety of distributors. The Company has two operating segments, Life and Annuity and Asset Management, which include three product lines: life insurance, annuities and asset management. In addition to managing third-party assets, Asset Management manages both the general accounts of the Life Companies and many of the separate account portfolios available through variable life and annuity products.
PVH Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation (PVH) is an apparel company engaged in the design and marketing of branded dress shirts, sportswear and, to a lesser degree, footwear and other related products. The Company's portfolio of brands includes its own brands: Van Heusen, G.H. Bass &amp; Co., Bass, IZOD, Calvin Klein Collection, Calvin Klein, ck and ck Calvin Klein, and its licensed brands: Arrow, Geoffrey Beene, Kenneth Cole New York, Reaction by Kenneth Cole and, beginning in 2004, BCBG Max Azria and MICHAEL Michael Kors. The wholesale business represents the Company's core business. Its products are distributed at wholesale through more than 10,000 doors in national and regional department, mid-tier department, mass market, specialty and independent stores in the United States. As a profitable complement to its wholesale business, the Company also markets its products directly to consumers through the Van Heusen, IZOD, Geoffrey Beene, Bass and Calvin Klein stores.
PHIR.OB Philips International Realty Corp. is a real estate investment trust originally formed to continue and expand the shopping center business of certain affiliated companies owned or controlled by the Philips Group. The Philips Group had been engaged in the ownership, development and acquisition for redevelopment of neighborhood and community shopping centers predominantly concentrated in the greater New York and Miami metropolitan areas. During 2003, Philips was engaged in the process of orderly liquidation of its remaining assets, the wind down of its business and the dissolution of the Company. The wind down of operations is being strategically directed by its Board of Directors with the considered advice and counsel of professional consultants. Philips completed the disposition of the last of its real estate properties on December 12, 2003. With the completion of such sale, Philips ceased all active business operations, and exists solely to complete its liquidation.
PHI Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) is a telecommunications service provider in the Philippines. Through the Company's three principal business groups, wireless, fixed line and information and communications technology, it offers telecommunications services to over 15 million wireless and fixed-line subscribers in the Philippines across the Philippines fiber-optic backbone and fixed line, cellular and satellite networks. The Company's subsidiaries include Smart and subsidiaries; Telesat, ACeS Philippines, Mabuhay Satellite and Piltel and subsidiaries in the wireless business; Clark Telecom, Subic Telecom, Smart-NTT Multimedia, Inc., PLDT Global and subsidiaries; PLDT-Maratel and BCC in the fixed-line business, and ePLDT and subsidiaries in the information and communications technology business.
PHLY Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corp. designs, markets, and underwrites specialty commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products for select target industries or niches. The Company's operations are classified into three business segments which are organized around its three underwriting divisions: The Commercial Lines Underwriting Group has underwriting responsibility for commercial automobile and commercial property and commercial multi-peril package insurance products. The Specialty Lines Underwriting Group has underwriting responsibility for the professional liability insurance products. The Personal Lines Group has responsibility for personal property and casualty insurance products for the manufactured housing and homeowners markets. The Company operates solely within the United States through its 12 regional and 24 field offices.
PD Phelps Dodge Corporation is engaged in the production of copper, carbon black, magnet wire and continuous-cast copper rod. The Company is also a producer/processor of molybdenum and molybdenum products. The Company consists of two major divisions: Phelps Dodge Mining Company (PDMC) and Phelps Dodge Industries (PDI). PDMC is the Company's international business division, comprising its vertically integrated copper operations, from mining through rod production, primary molybdenum operations through conversion, marketing and sales and worldwide mineral exploration, technology and development programs. PDI is Phelps Dodge's manufacturing division, comprising two business segments that produce engineered products principally for the global energy, telecommunications, transportation and specialty chemicals sectors.
PIHC.OB PHC, Inc. is a national healthcare company, which through wholly owned subsidiaries, provides psychiatric services primarily to individuals, who have behavioral health disorders, including alcohol and drug dependency-related disorders and to individuals in the gaming and transportation industries. PHC's subsidiaries operate substance abuse treatment facilities in Utah and Virginia; three outpatient psychiatric facilities in Michigan; two outpatient psychiatric facilities in Nevada, and an inpatient psychiatric facility in Michigan. It provides management, administrative and help line services through contracts with major railroads, a smoking cessation contract with the State of Kansas and a call center contract with Wayne County, Michigan. Through another subsidiary, PHC conducts studies of the effects of psychiatric pharmaceuticals on a controlled population through contracts with manufacturers of these pharmaceuticals.
ANTP PHAZAR CORP. operates as a holding Company with Antenna Products Corporation (APC), a manufacturer of antennas, Tumche Corp. (fka Phazar Aerocorp, Inc.), which was sold in May, 2003; Phazar Antenna Corp. (PAC), a marketing, research and development unit, and Thirco, Inc. as its subsidiaries. APC and PAC are operating subsidiaries with Thirco, Inc. serving as an equipment leasing Company to PHAZAR CORP's operating units. PHAZAR CORP has no other business activity.
PHSM.OB Phase III Medical, Inc., formerly known as Corniche Group Incorporated, provides capital and guidance to companies, within the medical sector, in exchange for revenues, royalties and other contractual rights, known as royalty interests, that entitle it to receive a portion of revenue from the sale of pharmaceuticals, medical devices and biotechnology products. Previously, the Company was a provider of extended warranties and service contracts via the Internet at warrantysuperstore.com through June 30, 2002. As of December 31, 2003, the business of Phase III comprises the run off of its sale of extended warranties and service contracts via the Internet and the new business opportunity it is pursuing in the medical/bio-tech sector.
PFWD Phase Forward Incorporated, along with its subsidiaries, is a provider of integrated enterprise-level software products, services and hosted solutions for use in the clinical trial component of global research and development initiatives. The Company's customers include pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies, as well as academic institutions, clinical research organizations and other entities engaged in clinical trials. The Company's product line is comprised of three software solutions, including InForm, an Internet-based electronic data capture solution for collection and transmission of patient information in clinical trials; Clintrial, a clinical data management solution, and Clintrace, a solution for monitoring drug safety and reporting adverse events that occur during the clinical trial process.
PHST.OB Pharsight Corporation develops and markets software and provides strategic services that help pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies improve their efficiency and decision making, while reducing the costs and time requirements of their drug discovery, development and commercialization efforts. Strategic services consist of consulting, training and process redesign conducted by the Company's clinical and decision scientists in the application and implementation of its core decision methodology. Software products and software deployment and integration services provide the analytical tools and conceptual framework to help clinical researchers optimize the decision-making required to perform clinical testing needed to bring drugs to market. Software products include WinNonLin and WinNonMix, Pharsight Knowledgebase Server, Trial Simulator and Drug Model Explorer.
PARS Pharmos Corporation is a bio-pharmaceutical company that discovers and develops new drugs to treat a range of neuro-inflammatory disorders. The Company has a portfolio of drug candidates under development, as well as discovery, preclinical and clinical capabilities. In October 2001, it sold its ophthalmic product line that included Lotemax and Alrex, two products that were being marketed, and future extensions of loteprednol etabonate. As a result of the sale, Pharmos is exclusively in the drug candidate development stage. Its main product, dexanabinol, is a synthetic non-psychotropic cannabinoid in late-stage clinical development for the treatment of severe traumatic brain injury.
PHRM Pharmion Corporation is creating a pharmaceutical company focused on acquiring, developing and commercializing products for the treatment of hematology and oncology patients. The Company has established its own regulatory, development and sales and marketing organizations covering the United States, Europe and Australia. It has also developed a distributor network to serve the hematology and oncology markets in 20 additional countries throughout the Middle East and Asia. The Company has acquired rights to two marketed products, Innohep and Refludan. It also has two products, Thalidomide Pharmion 50mg and Vidaza, in registration.
PHAR.OB PharmaNetics, Inc. was incorporated as the parent company of Cardiovascular Diagnostics, Inc. (CVDI), which was the sole operating subsidiary of PharmaNetics, until PharmaNetics ceased substantially all of its operations in March 2004. Prior to ceasing substantially all of its operations, PharmaNetics developed, manufactured and marketed rapid diagnostics to dose, manage and screen patients on drugs affecting coagulation. The Company's products are an analyzer and dry chemistry tests and controls, known as the Thrombolytic Assessment System (TAS) that provide a physician, at the point-of-patient care, information that can affect therapy. The Company's tests can be used in the treatment of a variety of adverse conditions caused by abnormal blood clotting in different areas of the body, including angina, heart attack, stroke, deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary and arterial emboli.
PFTR.OB PharmaFrontiers Corporation is a commercialization-driven biotechnology company that develops autologous cellular therapies for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, congestive heart failure and diabetes. The Company is focused on autologous cellular therapy applications based on its proprietary stem cell therapies and T-cell vaccination technologies. The Company is in Phase I/II clinical trials of its novel therapeutic vaccine Tovaxin, and is in preclinical development of its autologous stem cell therapy for the indication of congestive heart failure.
PCYC Pharmacyclics, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company developing a new class of drugs to treat cancer and atherosclerosis. All of the resources have been dedicated to the research and development of the products, and have not generated any commercial revenues from the sale of products. The Company's pharmaceutical agents, known as texaphyrins, are synthetic small molecules designed to possess a variety of biological and chemical properties. These ring-shaped molecules have a central core that is capable of bonding with various metal ions. The properties of these molecules may be modified by substitution of different metal ions into the central cavity or by modifying the structure of the texaphyrin ring. This approach enables it to synthesize a number of agents, each possessing unique properties. The Company has two primary drug products, or research and development programs, for which it is focusing its efforts: Xcytrin and Antrin.
PCOP Pharmacopeia Drug Discovery, Inc. is a chemistry-based collaborative drug discovery company, focused on the creation of small molecule therapeutics. Small molecule drug candidates typically are orally available (may be taken in capsule or tablet form) and offer manufacturing and delivery advantages over other types of therapeutics. Using proprietary technologies and processes, the Company's scientists identify and optimize novel drug candidates through research collaborations with major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and through Pharmacopeia's own internally funded drug discovery programs. The Company's collection of approximately 7.5 million proprietary compounds is available for use in its collaborative and internal research programs and forms the basis of its growing pipeline of potential drug candidates. Three of its proprietary compounds commenced clinical trials in the second half of 2003, and a fourth compound commenced clinical trials in the first quarter of 2004.
PPDI Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc. provides a range of research and development and consulting services in the development and discovery sciences segments. In the development segment, the Company provides services that include preclinical programs and Phase I to Phase IV clinical development. The Company's discovery sciences services include preclinical evaluations of anti-cancer therapies and preclinical biology services, as well as compound partnering arrangements associated with the development and commercialization of potential drug products. In May 2004, the Company announced the launch of PPD Medical Device, a division its Development Group that provides services to the medical device industry with experience in developing stents, devices and therapies in the areas of interventional cardiology, endovascular, neurology and orthopedic disorders, as well as wound care.
PHFR.OB Pharmaceutical Formulations, Inc. is a manufacturer and distributor of nonprescription (over-the-counter (OTC)) solid-dose pharmaceutical products, as well as powdered, dietary natural fiber supplements, which are sold in the United States and several foreign countries. Such products, which are made in tablet, caplet, capsule or powdered form, are primarily sold under customers' store brands or other private labels, manufactured under contract for national brand pharmaceutical companies or sold in bulk to others. The Company markets more than 95 different types of generic OTC products, including analgesics such as ibuprofen, acetaminophen and naproxen sodium; cough-cold preparations; sinus/allergy products, and gastrointestinal relief products and fiber colon health products. It also sells generic products under its own brand names, including Konsyl, Health+Cross and Health Pharm.
PCG PG&amp;E Corporation is an energy-based holding company that conducts its business principally through Pacific Gas and Electric Company (the Utility), a public utility operating in northern and central California. The Utility engages primarily in the businesses of electricity and natural gas distribution, electricity generation, electricity transmission and natural gas transportation and storage. The Utility served approximately 4.9 million electricity distribution customers and approximately 3.9 million natural gas distribution customers, as of December 31, 2003. PG&amp;E also owns National Energy &amp; Gas Transmission, Inc. (NEGT), which engages in electricity generation and natural gas transportation in the United States through its subsidiaries. In July 2003, NEGT and some of its subsidiaries filed voluntary petition for relief under the provisions of Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.
PFSW PFSweb, Inc. provides outsourcing services including Website development and hosting, order management, call center, product kitting and assembly, order fulfillment, warehousing, credit and collections, technology solutions and more. Collectively, the Company defines this group of services as Business Process Outsourcing because it offers infrastructure and technology capabilities that can address an entire business transaction cycle, from demand generation to product delivery. PFSweb serves as the brand behind the brand for companies seeking to increase their supply chain efficiencies. As a business process outsourcer, the Company offers scalable and cost-effective solutions for manufacturers, distributors, retailers and direct marketing organizations.
PBNC PFS Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for Peoples Federal Savings Bank (Peoples Federal). Peoples Federal's business consists primarily of attracting deposits from the general public and using those funds to make loans. The Bank offers one- to four-family residential loans, multi-family residential loans, construction loans, non-residential and land loans, commercial loans and consumer loans. The Bank's primary market area consists of the three southeastern Indiana counties in which it has offices, Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland counties, as well as surrounding areas. On occasion, Peoples Federal originates loans to borrowers outside of its primary market area.
PFE Pfizer Inc. is a research-based, global pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets prescription medicines for humans and animals, as well as consumer healthcare products. Pfizer operates in three business segments. The pharmaceutical segment includes treatments for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, central nervous system disorders, arthritis and pain, infectious and respiratory diseases, urogenital conditions, cancer, eye disease, endocrine disorders and allergies. The consumer healthcare segment includes self medications for oral care, upper respiratory health, tobacco dependence, gastrointestinal health, skin care, eye care and hair growth. The animal health segment includes treatments for diseases in livestock and companion animals. The Company also operates several other businesses, including the manufacture of empty soft-gelatin capsules, contract manufacturing, bulk pharmaceutical chemicals and diagnostics.
PFB PFF Bancorp, Inc. is a financial services company that conducts its business through its wholly owned subsidiary, PFF Bank &amp; Trust (the Bank), an institution with 26 full service banking branches located throughout California. The Company is a unitary savings and loan holding company while the Bank is a federal savings bank subject to regulation by the Office of Thrift Supervision (the OTS), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the FDIC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC). The Company's business also includes Glencrest Investment Advisors (Glencrest), a registered investment advisor that provides wealth management and advisory services to high-networth individuals and businesses, and Diversified Builder Services, Inc. (DBS), a provider of financing services to home builders and land developers, which include real estate consulting services, property entitlement, loan and equity placement and opportunity and mezzanine lending.
PV Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG develops, manufactures, sells and services a range of turbomolecular pumps, backing pumps (such as rotary vane, roots and dry pumps), complete pumping stations, as well as customized vacuum systems. Its product portfolio includes digital pressure gauges, complementary vacuum components and instruments, components and systems for the production of prerecorded and rewritable digital video discs (DVDs). The Company's primary markets are Europe, the United States of America and Asia. Its customers include manufacturers of analytical instruments, manufacturers of vacuum process equipment, research and development institutions and companies that employ vacuum processes in their production operations.
PFIN P &amp; F Industries, Inc. conducts its business operations through its four wholly owned subsidiaries: Florida Pneumatic Manufacturing Corporation, Countrywide Hardware, Inc., Green Manufacturing, Inc. and Embassy Industries, Inc. Florida Pneumatic is engaged in the importation, manufacture and sale of pneumatic hand tools, primarily for the industrial and retail markets, and the importation and sale of compressor air filters. Countrywide conducts its business operations through Nationwide Industries, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, and through its Franklin Manufacturing division. Nationwide is an importer and manufacturer of door, window and fencing hardware. Franklin imports a line of door and window hardware. Green is engaged primarily in the manufacture, development and sale of heavy-duty welded custom designed hydraulic cylinders. Embassy is engaged in the manufacture and sale of baseboard heating products and the importation and sale of radiant heating systems.
PFCB P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc. operates restaurants in the United States through its subsidiaries, Bistro and Pei Wei Asian Diner. During the fiscal year ended December 28, 2003 (fiscal 2003), P.F. Chang's owned and operated 97 full-service Bistro restaurants that feature a blend of traditional Chinese cuisine and American hospitality in a sophisticated, contemporary bistro setting. The Company also owned and operated 33 limited service Pei Wei restaurants that cater to quicker and casual dining.
PETM PETsMART, Inc. is a provider of products, services and solutions for the lifetime needs of pets in North America. It operates 643 retail stores in North America. During the fiscal year ended February 1, 2004 (fiscal 2003), the Company opened a total of 60 new stores. PETsMART's stores, typically ranging in size from 19,000 to 27,000 square feet, are generally located in sites co-anchored by strong destination superstores and typically are in or near regional shopping centers. The Company also reaches customers through its direct marketing channels, including PETsMART.com, a pet e-commerce site, a separate Website dedicated to equine products, as well as through two branded catalogs. PETsMART offers more than 12,000 distinct items, including national brand names, as well as a selection of private brands across a range of product categories. The Company complements its product assortment with a selection of value-added pet services, including grooming and pet training.
PQUE PetroQuest Energy, Inc. is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the generation, exploration, development, acquisition and operation of oil and gas properties onshore and offshore, in the Gulf Coast Basin and East Texas area. It focuses on the generation, exploration, development and acquisition of properties located in the Gulf Coast Region, as well as finding additional opportunities in areas with longer reserve lives. During the year ended December 31, 2003, its estimated proved reserves totaled 4,245 thousand barrels (mbbl) of oil and 57,793 million cubic feet of natural gas (mmcf). Approximately 67% of its reserves are proved developed reserves, and approximately 33% of estimated proved reserves are undeveloped. During 2003, the Company completed an acquisition in the Southeast Carthage Field in East Texas. In October 2004, the Company acquired from a private company its interest in natural gas properties located in the Arkoma Basin of Oklahoma.
PEO Petroleum &amp; Resources Corporation (the Fund) is a close-end fund that emphasizes conservative equity investment in energy and natural resources companies. The Fund is suitable for investors, who seek a broadly diversified exposure to the energy sector and is the only close-end fund with this focus. The Fund's investment objectives are preservation of capital, attainment of reasonable income, and an opportunity for capital appreciation. Petroleum &amp; Resources is internally managed, which means that additional expenses are not incurred to pay an outside investment adviser. During the year ended December 31, 2003, its 10 largest holdings were Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., BP plc, ChevronTexaco Corp., ConocoPhillips, Schlumberger Ltd., BJ Services Co., Total S.A., Devon Energy Corp. and Equitable Resources Inc.
PHEL Petroleum Helicopters, Inc. (PHI) is a provider of helicopter transportation services in the Gulf of Mexico. The Company provides helicopter services to the oil and gas industry internationally and to non-oil and gas customers, such as healthcare providers and United States governmental agencies, such as the National Science Foundation. It also provides helicopter maintenance and repair services to certain customers. In December 2003, PHI owned or operated 225 aircraft domestically and internationally. The Company operates in four business segments: Domestic Oil and Gas, Air Medical, International and Technical Services.
PETD Petroleum Development Corporation is an independent energy company engaged primarily in the development, production and marketing of natural gas and oil. The Company has grown primarily through drilling and development activities, the acquisition of natural gas and oil producing wells and the expansion of its natural gas marketing activities. As of December 31, 2003, it operated over 2,500 wells located in the Appalachian basin, Michigan, and the Rocky Mountain Region, with gross proved reserves of 468 billion cubic feet equivalent of natural gas (Bcfe), of which its share is 199 Bcfe. The Company's share of production for the fourth quarter of 2003 averaged 34,000 thousand cubic feet equivalent of natural gas (Mcfe) per day, compared to 21,000 Mcfe per day during the fourth quarter of 2002. The Company owns Riley Natural Gas, a natural gas marketing company, which aggregates and resells natural gas developed by the Company and other producers.
PBR Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. is Brazil's national oil company, and, directly or through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the exploration, exploitation and production of oil from reservoir wells, shale and other rocks, as well as in the refining, processing, trade and transport of oil and oil derivatives, natural gas and other fluid hydrocarbons, and other energy-related activities. The Company also has oil and gas operations in international locations, with the significant international operations being in other Latin American countries. In addition, Petroleo Brasileiro promotes the research, development, production, transport, distribution and marketing of all sectors of energy, as well as other related or similar activities. The Company operates under segments including exploration and production, refining, transportation and marketing, distribution, natural gas and power and international.
PTLD.OB Petrol Industries, Inc. is engaged in a single industry segment that includes drilling for and producing oil and gas on leased property located in the Caddo Pine Island Field and the Shreveport Field, both in Caddo Parish, Louisiana. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's leases contain eight completed gas wells, 18 completed wells producing oil and gas and 157 completed oil wells in the Annona Chalk zone. The Company operates an aggregate of 130 wells producing oil or oil and gas. Its oil production comes from property characterized as stripper well property that is located thereon produced an average of 10 barrels or less per day. In 2003, its interests in oil wells and gas wells taken together with oil wells owned by the limited partnerships organized in connection with its 1979 drilling program had a gross production of 26,766 barrels of oil and 4,910 thousand cubic feet (MCF) of gas and production of 26,695 barrels of oil and 4,910 MCF of gas.
PKZ Petrokazakhstan Inc. is an international energy company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of oil and gas, and the refining and sale of oil and refined products in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The Company's oil and gas exploration and production operations are located in the South Turgai Basin. At January 1, 2004, it had estimated total proved reserves of 348.5 million barrels of oil (mmbbls), estimated total proved and risked probable reserves of 490.0 mmbbls of oil and 32.6 billion cubic feet of gas. PetroKazakhstan has interests in 11 fields, of which, seven are on continuous production and four are for test and approval. The Company's average daily production of oil during the period was 151,349 barrels of oil per day. It owns and operates the Shymkent refinery, which refines most of its production. PetroKazakhstan sells a range of petroleum fuel including diesel and gasoline. The Company was formerly known as Hurricane Hydrocarbons Ltd.
HAWK Petrohawk Energy Corporation, formerly Beta Oil &amp; Gas, Inc., is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the exploration, exploitation, development, production and acquisition of natural gas and crude oil. The Company's operations are focused on the exploration and development of oil and gas producing trends situated in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana and Kansas. The Company owned interests in 218 gross (181 net) producing wells in the Mid-Continent, Texas and Louisiana regions and participated in the drilling and completion of 28 gross (7 net) wells during the year. In addition, it owns interests in 57,099 net acres in Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, and Offshore Louisiana State and Federal Waters. The Company's properties consisted of developed and undeveloped oil and gas leases and the reserves associated with these leases. In November 2004, the Company acquired Wynn-Crosby Energy, Inc. and affiliated limited partnerships.
PTF Petrofund Energy Trust (formerly NCE Petrofund) is an open-ended investment trust whose primary source of income is from 99% net royalty interests granted by PC, its wholly owned subsidiary. PC acquires, manages and disposes of petroleum and natural gas rights and royalties and related property rights and interests located primarily in western Canada. PC primarily produces light and medium oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs). As of December 31, 2003, PC's asset base included proved plus probable reserves (before deduction of royalties) of 53.4 thousand barrels (mbbls) of oil, 248.7 billion cubic feet (bcf) of natural gas and 7.2 mbbls of natural gas liquids, and an inventory of undeveloped land totaling 534,589 gross acres and 250,509 net acres.
PTR PetroChina Company Limited is engaged in a broad range of petroleum and natural gas related activities, including the exploration, development, production and sale of crude oil and natural gas; the refining, transportation, storage and marketing of crude oil and petroleum products; the production and sale of basic petrochemical products, derivative chemical products and other chemical products, and the transmission of crude oil, refined products and natural gas, as well as the sale of natural gas. In April 2003, PetroChina acquired a 50% equity interest in Amerada Hess Indonesia Holdings Limited, which holds a 30% interest in the oil and gas production sharing contract relating to the Jabung block, for a price of $82 million. It used loans and cash generated by the operations to fund these acquisitions. In connection with these acquisitions, it entered into several take-or-pay agreements with a number of Singaporean customers to supply them with natural gas produced in Indonesia.
PZE Petrobras Energia Participaciones S.A. is an energy company engaged in oil and gas exploration and production, refining, petrochemicals, electricity generation, transmission and distribution, and hydrocarbons marketing and transportation. The Company conducts operations in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. It is engaged in a broad range of oil and gas activities, including crude oil and natural gas exploration and production, refining, transportation, marketing and distribution of oil products, petrochemicals, natural gas and power. Petrobas is a mixed-capital company with a majority of its voting capital owned by the Brazilian federal government.
PCZ Petro-Canada is an integrated oil and gas company with a portfolio of businesses spanning both the Upstream and Downstream sectors of the industry. In the Upstream sector, Petro-Canada explores, develops, produces and markets crude oil and natural gas. Petro-Canada conducts its Upstream operations through four business segments: North American Gas, East Coast Oil, Oil Sands and International. In the Downstream sector, the Company refines crude oil and other feedstocks, and markets and distributes petroleum products and related goods and services.
PETS PetMed Express, Inc. (d/b/a 1-800-PetMeds), along with its subsidiaries, is a nationwide pet pharmacy. The Company markets prescription and non-prescription pet medications, as well as health and nutritional supplements for dogs and cats, direct to the consumer. PetMed Express markets its products through national television, online and direct-mail advertising campaigns. The Company offers a broad selection of products for dogs and cats, including brands, such as Frontline, Advantage, Heartguard, Sentinel, Interceptor, Program, Revolution and Rimadyl. Its products include non-prescription medications, such as flea and tick control products, bone and joint care products and vitamins, and prescription medications, such as heartworm treatments, thyroid and arthritis medications and antibiotics. PetMed Express offers its products through three sales channels, including catalog and postcards, customer service representatives and the Internet, through its Website.
PETC PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc. is a specialty retailer of premium pet food, supplies and services with 654 stores in 43 states and the District of Columbia. The Company's products include pet food, supplies, grooming products, toys, novelty items, vitamins and veterinary supplies. It also offers small pets such as fish, birds and other small animals (excluding cats and dogs). PETCO stores combine a merchandise selection and everyday low prices of a pet supply warehouse store with the location and customer service of a neighborhood pet supply store. The Company also offers obedience training in most of its stores, grooming in the majority of its stores and limited veterinary services, such as routine vaccinations, at a number of stores.
PTQMF.OB Petaquilla Minerals Ltd, formerly Adrian Resources Ltd. is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, exploration management, development and sale of mineral properties. The Company's subsidiaries include Adrian Resources (BVI) Ltd., a direct wholly owned subsidiary, which owns all of the issued shares of Adrian Resources, S.A., a Panamanian corporation that holds title to certain of the Company's exploration concessions in the Republic of Panama, and Georecursos Internacional, S.A., a Panamanian corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Adrian S.A., which holds a 52% interest in the Petaquilla Property through its shareholding in Minera Petaquilla, S.A. and also holds certain other exploration concessions in the Republic of Panama.
PVSW Pervasive Software Inc. provides data infrastructure software. The Company's solutions helps its customers manage, integrate, analyze and secure their data. The data management and integration product lines are designed specifically for small to mid-sized businesses and departments of large enterprises. Significant portions of the Company's product line are embeddable into commercial applications for sale, predominantly, to small to mid-size enterprises (SME) through channels of independent software vendors (ISV), value-added resellers (VAR) and systems integrators. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company derived 35% of its revenues outside North America, and licenses of the Company's software, operating on Windows NT (New Technology) or other Microsoft operating systems, represented approximately 80% to 90% of Company's database product license revenues. The Company also acquired Data Junction Corporation, a data and application integrator in fiscal 2004.
PSTI Per-Se Technologies, Inc. is focused on providing services and solutions that improve the administrative functions of the healthcare industry. Specifically, Per-Se provides connective healthcare solutions that help physicians and hospitals achieve their income potential. Connective healthcare solutions support and unite healthcare providers, payers and patients with technology processes that improve and accelerate reimbursement and reduce the administrative cost of care. The Company serves the healthcare industry through two divisions: Physician Services and Hospital Services. The Physician Services division provides connective healthcare solutions to hospital-affiliated physician practice groups, physicians groups in academic settings and other large physician practices. The Hospital Services division provides connective healthcare solutions that improve revenue cycle and resource management for hospitals.
PERY Perry Ellis International, Inc. is an apparel company in the United States, whose portfolio includes men's and women's brands. It designs, sources, markets and licenses its products nationally and internationally at multiple price points, and across all major levels of retail distribution at more than 20,000 doors. During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004, approximately 91% of the Company's net sales were from branded products. The Company owns 13 and licenses five brands, which are sourced and sold through many levels of retail distribution. Company-owned brands include Perry Ellis, Perry Ellis America, Axis, Tricots St. Raphael, Jantzen, John Henry, Cubavera, the Havanera Co., Natural Issue, Munsingwear, Grand Slam, Original Penguin and Manhattan. The Company has developed over 42 sub-brands, including Perry Ellis Portfolio, Southpoint, Penguin Sport and Axist. It also distributes the PING, Nike, Tommy Hilfiger, NAUTICA and Ocean Pacific brands under license arrangements.
PRGO Perrigo Company is a manufacturer of store brand over-the-counter (OTC) pharmaceutical and nutritional products, which gets sold under a retailer's label in the United States. In addition, the Company manufactures OTC pharmaceutical and nutritional products in the United Kingdom and OTC pharmaceutical and prescription drug products in Mexico. The Company sells over 1,200 store-brand products under brand names like Good Sense and Dr. Rosenblat, and are categorized as analgesics, cough/cold/allergy/sinus, gastrointestinal and vitamins/nutritional supplements/diet aids. Additionally, Perrigo manufactures products, under contract, for marketers of national brand products. The Company's customers are national and regional retail drug, supermarket and mass merchandise chains, such as Wal-Mart, CVS, Walgreens, Albertson's, Kroger, Safeway, and Dollar General and wholesalers such as McKesson and Supervalu. The Company acquired Peter Black in December 2003.
PER Perot Systems Corporation is a worldwide provider of information technology (IT) services and business solutions to a range of customers. The Company offers its customers integrated solutions designed around their specific business objectives, chosen from a breadth of services, including technology outsourcing, business process outsourcing, development and integration of systems and applications, and business and technology consulting services. It offers its services under three primary lines of business: IT Solutions, Government Services and Consulting.
PBT Permian Basin Royalty Trust (the Trust) is an express trust created by the Permian Basin Royalty Trust Indenture (the Trust Indenture), entered into on November 3, 1980, between Southland Royalty Company and The First National Bank of Fort Worth as trustee. Bank of America, N.A., as the successor of The First National Bank of Fort Worth, is the trustee of the Trust. The Trust's principal assets are comprised of a 75% net overriding royalty interest carved out by Southland from its fee mineral interest in the Waddell Ranch properties in Crane County, Texas (Waddell Ranch properties), and a 95% net overriding royalty interest carved out by Southland from its major producing royalty properties in Texas (Texas Royalty properties). The Trust's net overriding royalty interests represent burdens against the properties in favor of the Trust without regard to ownership of the properties from which the overriding royalty interests were carved.
PESI Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. is an environmental and technology know-how company engaged through its subsidiaries, in industrial waste management services, which includes treatment, storage, processing and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste and wastewater management services, including the collection, treatment, processing and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous wastewater; Nuclear Waste Management Services, which includes treatment, storage, processing and disposal of mixed waste including onsite and offsite waste remediation and processing, nuclear and low-level radioactive waste treatment, processing and disposal and research and development of ways to process low-level radioactive and mixed waste, and Consulting Engineering Services, which includes environmental issues, including environmental management programs, regulatory permitting, compliance and auditing, landfill design, field testing and characterization.
PKI PerkinElmer, Inc. is a provider of scientific instruments, consumables and services to the pharmaceutical, biomedical, environmental testing, chemical and general industrial markets. The Company designs, manufactures, markets and services products and systems within three business segments: Life and Analytical Sciences, Optoelectronics and Fluid Sciences. In the Life and Analytical Sciences segment, the Company is a provider of drug discovery, genetic screening and environmental and chemical analysis tools, including instruments, reagents, consumables and services. In the Optoelectronics segment, it provides digital imaging, sensor and specialty lighting components used in the biomedical, consumer products and other specialty end markets. In the Fluid Sciences segment, it provides critical fluid control and containment systems for demanding environments such as turbine engines and semiconductor fabrication facilities.
PCR Perini Corporation provides general contracting, construction management and design-build services to private clients and public agencies worldwide. The Company offers general contracting, preconstruction planning and comprehensive project management services, including the planning and scheduling of the manpower, equipment, materials and subcontractors required for a project. The Company also offers self-performed construction services, including site work, concrete forming and placement and steel erection. During 2003, Perini performed work on over 100 construction projects for over 75 federal, state and local governmental agencies or authorities and private customers. The Company's business is conducted through three primary segments: building, civil and management services.
PSEM Pericom Semiconductor Corporation designs, develops and markets high-performance interface integrated circuits (ICs) and frequency control products (FCPs), used in electronic systems. It designs and sells products for specific high-volume applications within these target markets, including notebook computers, telecommunications equipment, personal computer (PC) servers, network equipment, wireless devices, including cellular telephones, wireless modems and their supporting infrastructure, and multi-function office peripherals, such as printers and copiers. The Company's product line includes SiliconSwitch, SiliconInterface Logic, SiliconClock, SiliconConnect and SaRonix Frequency Control Products. These product lines are aimed at providing an increasing breadth of interface IC solutions to the Company's existing and target customer. Its worldwide customers include original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers and distributors.
PTIX Performance Technologies, Incorporated is a supplier of platforms, components and software solutions for the embedded systems marketplace that can be used in a range of applications and end markets, including telecommunications, data communications, industrial, military and commercial. The Company markets its products under a variety of brand names, including IPnexus, Advanced Managed Platforms, Intelligent Shelf Manager, NexusWare and SEGway Products. Performance Technologies has more than 50 active customers worldwide, primarily in the server, telecommunications and embedded systems markets. At December 31, 2003, approximately 75% of the Company's customers were in the telecommunications industry and its products were generally integrated into products for wireless and next-generation Internet protocol network infrastructure. In January 2004, Performance Technologies completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Mapletree Networks, Inc.
PFGC Performance Food Group, founded in 1987, is a foodservice distributor that markets and distributes over 64,000 national and proprietary brand food and non-food products to approximately 48,000 customers. Its product line and distribution system allows it to service both of the major customer types in the foodservice or food-away-from-home industry: street foodservice customers, which include independent restaurants, hotels, cafeterias, schools, healthcare facilities and other institutional customers, and multi-unit, or chain, customers, which include regional and national family and casual dining and quick-service restaurants. In addition, the Company is a processor of fresh-cut produce that it markets and distributes to retail and foodservice customers. Performance Food Group serves customers through three operating segments: Broadline, Customized and Fresh-cut.
PRFT Perficient, Inc. is an e-business solutions services provider to large and major mid-size companies. It uses a solutions delivery approach called the Enabled Enterprise, which is designed to help clients reach new markets and increase revenues, acquire and strengthen customer relationships, reduce costs and increase productivity and empower employees. The Enabled Enterprise is an Internet-based infrastructure with integrated business applications that extend enterprise technology assets to customers, suppliers, partners and employees. Perficient's primary eBusiness solutions services offerings are e-business Infrastructure, e-commerce Platforms, e-CRM, Supply Chain Web Enablement and Enterprise Portals.
PERF.OB PerfectData Corporation designs and manufactures a line of magnetic media maintenance equipment, disk pack cleaners and inspectors. Its principal selling product is the PerfectDuster EcoDuster line of compressed gas dusters. Other products that the Company sells are compact disc (CD) and tape drive cleaners, CD player cleaners, static control products, laser and inkjet printer cleaners, fax and copy machine cleaners, and a variety of premoistened cleaning wipes for specific equipment. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), approximately 94% of the Company's net sales were accounted for by its 10 largest customers. Two customers accounted for 71% and 13%, respectively, of total sales. No other customer accounted for more than 10% of net sales in fiscal 2004. In December 2004, the Company sold its operating division.
PPHM Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company primarily engaged in the research, development, manufacture and commercialization of cancer therapeutics and cancer diagnostics through a series of platform technologies using monoclonal antibodies. The Company is primarily focused on developing therapeutic agents that affect blood vessels and blood flow in cancer and other diseases. The Company's vascular research programs fall under several different platforms, including anti-phospholipid therapy (APT), vascular targeting agents, anti-angiogenesis and vasopermeation enhancement agents. These therapeutic agents may have applications in the treatment of cancer and other diseases, such as viral infections, diabetes, arthritis, skin disorders and eye diseases. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Avid Bioservices, Inc., produces clinical trial material for monoclonal antibodies and recombinant proteins for Peregrine and other biotechnology.
PDA Perdigao S.A. is engaged in the production of poultry and pork products through its wholly owned subsidiaries. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's wholly owned subsidiaries included Perdigao Agroindustrial S.A., Perdigao Export Ltd., Perdigao UK Ltd., Perdigao Holland BV, Perdigao Overseas S.A., PDA Participacoes Ltda, Crossban Holding GMBH, Perdix International Foods Comercio Internacional Ltd., and PRGA Participacoes Ltda. The Companies PDA Distribuidora de Alimentos Ltda, Highline International Ltda., Perdigao Trading S.A. (formerly BFF Trading S.A.) and BFF International Ltd. that do not have operating activities.
PRCP Perceptron, Inc. is involved in the design, development, manufacture and marketing of information-based measurement and inspection solutions for process improvements primarily for the automotive industry. Perceptron's product offerings are designed to improve quality, increase productivity and decrease costs in manufacturing and product development. Among the solutions offered by the Company are laser-based gauging systems that provide 100% inline measurement for reduction of process variation, systems that guide robots in a variety of automated assembly applications, systems that inspect the quality of painted surfaces and technology components and software for the Coordinant Measurement Machine (CMM), portable CMM, wheel alignment, reverse engineering, digitizing, inspection and forest products industry. The Company also provides additional services, which include training, field service and repair, launch support, upgrades, spare part sales and consulting.
PEP PepsiCo, Inc. is a global snack and beverage company. The Company manufactures, markets and sells a variety of salty, convenient, sweet and grain-based snacks, carbonated and non-carbonated beverages and foods. It is organized in four divisions: Frito-Lay North America, PepsiCo Beverages North America, PepsiCo International and Quaker Foods North America. Its North American divisions operate in the United States and Canada. Its international divisions operate in nearly 200 countries, with its largest operations in Mexico and the United Kingdom.
POM Pepco Holdings, Inc. (PHI) is a diversified energy company that, through its operating subsidiaries, is engaged in three principal areas of business operations: regulated power delivery, non-regulated competitive energy generation, marketing and supply, and other non-regulated activities, consisting primarily of investments in energy-related assets. The principal component of PHI's business is power delivery, which consists of the transmission and distribution of electricity and the distribution of natural gas. PHI's power delivery business is conducted by its subsidiaries Potomac Electric Power Com, Delmarva Power &amp; Light Company and Atlantic City Electric Company. PHI's competitive energy business provides non-regulated generation, marketing and supply of electricity and gas, and related energy management services in the mid-Atlantic region. The non-regulated business component is conducted through its subsidiaries Potomac Capital Investment Corporation and Pepco Communications, Inc.
PBY The Pep Boys - Manny, Moe &amp; Jack is an automotive retail and service chain engaged principally in the retail sale of automotive parts, tires and accessories, automotive repairs and maintenance and the installation of parts. The Company's primary operating unit is its Supercenter format. As of the close of the fiscal year ending January 31, 2004 (fiscal 2003), Pep Boys operated 595 stores in 36 states and Puerto Rico. The stores consist of 584 Supercenters and one Service &amp; Tire Center with an aggregate of 6,181 service bays, as well as 10 non-service/non-tire format Pep Boys Express stores. The Company operates approximately 12,207,000 gross square feet of retail space, including service bays. The Supercenters average approximately 20,700 square feet, and the 10 Pep Boys Express stores average approximately 9,700 square feet.
PSPT PeopleSupport, Inc. provides business process outsourcing services from its facilities in the Philippines. It provides customer management services for United States-based clients that wish to outsource this function. PeopleSupport services 32 United States-based clients in a variety of industries, including travel and hospitality, technology, telecommunications, retail, consumer products and financial services. The Company primarily provides inbound customer management services, which includes handling calls and e-mails from its clients' customers to order goods and services, make and change travel reservations, address billing questions, submit warranty claims and obtain technical support. It manages over a million customer communications per month, including inbound calls, e-mails and Web chats. In July 2003, it began providing accounts receivable management services in which it uses Philippine personnel to collect overdue consumer receivables from United States debtors.
PSFC Peoples-Sidney Financial Corporation is a holding company that owns all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Peoples Federal Savings and Loan Association of Sydney (the Association), a savings and loan association. The Company owns all of the capital stock of the Association, its only subsidiary. The Association is primarily engaged in the business of attracting savings deposits from the general public and investing such funds in permanent mortgage loans secured by one- to four-family residential real estate located primarily in Shelby County, Ohio, and the contiguous counties of Logan, Auglaize, Miami, Darke and Champaign. The Association has its full-service branches in Sidney, Anna, and Jackson Center, Ohio.
PFBX Peoples Financial Corporation is a one-bank holding company that operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, The Peoples Bank, Biloxi, Mississippi. The Bank is its principal asset and primary source of revenue. The purpose of PFC, the Company's second wholly owned subsidiary, was to lease automobiles and equipment. PFC is no more active. The Bank offers loan and deposit services to individuals and small to middle market businesses within its trade area. The Bank also offers other functions including collection services, asset management and trust services, wire services, safe deposit box facilities, night drop facilities, cash management, automated teller machines and Internet or home banking. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Bank also had 15 branches located throughout Harrison, Hancock, Jackson and Stone Counties.
PGL Peoples Energy Corporation is a holding company and does not engage directly in any business of its own, but does provide administrative services that support the business activities of its subsidiaries. Income is derived principally from the Company's regulated utility subsidiaries, The Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company and North Shore Gas Company. The Company also derives income from its other subsidiaries, Peoples Energy Resources Company, LLC (Peoples Energy Resources), Peoples Energy Services Corporation (Peoples Energy Services), Peoples Energy Production Company (Peoples Energy Production) and Peoples District Energy Corporation (Peoples District Energy). The Company has six business segments: Gas distribution, Oil and gas production, Power generation, Midstream services, Retail energy services, and Corporate and other. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Gas distribution segment accounted for 66% of Company's revenues.
PCBI Peoples Community Bancorp, Inc. (Peoples) is a unitary savings and loan holding company whose assets consist primarily of the outstanding shares of common stock of Peoples Community Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a federally chartered stock savings bank, primarily engaged in attracting deposits from the general public and using those funds to originate loans and invest in securities. The Bank's primary lending emphasis has been, and continues to be, loans secured by first liens on single-family (one- to-four units) residential properties located in Hamilton, Warren and Butler counties in Ohio. The Bank conducts its business from 13 offices in Hamilton, Warren and Butler counties in Ohio.
PBTC The Peoples BancTrust Company, Inc. (BancTrust) is the holding company for The Peoples Bank and Trust Company (Peoples Bank). Peoples Bank conducts a commercial and full-service retail banking business in Dallas, Autauga, Butler, Bibb, Shelby, Tallapoosa, Elmore, Lee and Tuscaloosa counties and surrounding areas of Alabama. In addition, Peoples Bank offers trust and financial management services to include a full-service brokerage operation through PrimeVest Financial Services, Inc. Some of the services offered by Peoples Bank are business and personal checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, overdraft protection, personal loans, business loans, real estate mortgage loans, Internet banking, automated teller machine banking, travelers' checks, retail repurchase agreements, letters of credit, safe deposit box rental, credit card opportunities and, both, foreign and domestic funds transfer via wire transfer or automated clearing house.
PEBK Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina, Inc. serves as the holding company for Peoples Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a state-chartered commercial bank serving the citizens and business interests of the Catawba Valley and surrounding communities through 15 offices located in Lincolnton, Newton, Denver, Catawba, Conover, Maiden, Claremont, Hiddenite and Hickory, North Carolina. The Bank had a diversified loan portfolio, with no foreign loans and few agricultural loans. Real estate loans are predominately variable-rate commercial property loans. Commercial loans are spread throughout a variety of industries with no one particular industry or group of related industries accounting for a significant portion of the commercial loan portfolio. The majority of the Bank's deposit and loan customers are individuals and small to medium-sized businesses located in the Bank's market area. At December 31, 2003, Peoples Bancorp had total assets of $674 million.
PFDC Peoples Bancorp serves as the holding company for Peoples Federal Savings Bank of DeKalb County and First Savings Bank (the Banks). The Company has no other business activity other than being the holding company for Peoples Federal and First Savings. The Banks offer a range of consumer and commercial financial services. The services include consumer demand deposit accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal (NOW) accounts, regular and term savings accounts and savings certificates, residential and commercial real estate loans and secured and unsecured consumer loans. Peoples Federal serves the market of northeastern Indiana, which spans the counties of DeKalb, Whitley, Noble and LaGrange, while First Savings serves St. Joseph, southern Kalamazoo and Cass counties in Michigan and LaGrange and eastern Elkhart counties in Indiana.
PBCT People's Bank is a state-chartered bank operating in Connecticut, with more than 150 branches and 230 automated teller machines (ATMs). It also offers a seven-day-a-week service with 64 of its branches located in Super Stop &amp; Shop stores. People's offers diversified consumer and commercial financial services, as well as brokerage and advisory services, asset management, insurance services and equipment leasing and financing through its subsidiaries: People's Securities, Inc., Olson Mobeck Investment Advisors, Inc., RC Knox &amp; Company and People's Capital and Leasing Corp., respectively. The Company is also an issuer of MasterCard and Visa cards.
PEBO Peoples Bancorp Inc. is the holding company for Peoples Bank, National Association (the Bank), a full service community bank that provides an array of financial products and services to its customers. The Company conducts its primary business activities through the Bank. The Company's market area encompasses 17 counties in southeastern Ohio and neighboring areas of Kentucky and West Virginia, focusing on non-major urban areas. In addition, the Company has other wholly owned subsidiaries, including Peoples Investment Company, PEBO Capital Trust I and PEBO Capital Trust II. The Bank also owns an insurance agency subsidiary and an asset management subsidiary. Peoples Investment Company also owns a capital management subsidiary. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had total loans of $915.0 million and total deposits of $1.0 billion.
PPCO Penwest Pharmaceuticals Co. develops pharmaceutical products based on oral drug delivery technologies. The foundation of Penwest's technology platform is TIMERx, an extended release delivery system that is adaptable to soluble and insoluble drugs, and which is flexible for a variety of controlled release profiles. The Company has also developed two additional oral drug delivery systems, Geminex and SyncroDose. Geminex is a dual drug delivery system that is designed to provide independent release of different active ingredients contained in a drug. SyncroDose is a drug delivery system that is designed to release the active ingredient of a drug at the desired site and time in the digestive tract.
PTON.OB Penton Media, Inc. is a diversified business-to-business media company. It provides media products that deliver proprietary business information to owners, operators, managers and professionals in the industries it serves. It publishes 48 specialized trade magazines; produces 49 trade shows and conferences, and provides Websites, electronic newsletters and other online media products. It also provides ancillary information services that complement its principal business media platforms. These services include marketing services, custom communications and specialized advertising. During 2003, its integrated media portfolios served four segments: Industry, with design/engineering, government/compliance, manufacturing, mechanical systems/construction, supply chain and aviation; Technology, with Internet technologies, enterprise information technology and electronics; Lifestyle, with natural products, and Retail, with food/retail and leisure/hospitality.
PNR Pentair, Inc. is a focused diversified industrial manufacturer that has operated in three segments: Water, Enclosures and Tools. The Company's Water segment manufactures and markets essential products and systems used in the movement, treatment, storage and enjoyment of water. The Enclosures segment designs, manufactures and markets standard, modified and custom enclosures that protect sensitive controls and components for industrial machinery, data communications, networking, telecommunications, test and measurement, automotive, medical, security, defense and general electronics. The Tools segment designed, manufactured and marketed power tool products at the mid- to upper-end of the market, and targets non-professional do-it-yourself, upscale hobbyists and professional end users. In October 2004, the Company sold its Tools segment to The Black &amp; Decker Corporation.
PEI Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust has a primary investment focus on retail shopping malls and power centers located in the eastern United States. The retail properties have a total of approximately 33.4 million square feet, of which the Company and its joint venture partners own approximately 26.5 million square feet. As of January 2004, its portfolio consisted of 58 properties in 14 states and includes 40 shopping malls, 14 strip and power centers and four industrial properties. In addition to owning, managing and developing its own properties, Pennsylvania Real Estate also provides management, leasing and development services to affiliated and third-party property owners with respect to 13 retail properties containing approximately 3.8 million square feet and four office buildings containing approximately 0.9 million square feet.
COBH Pennsylvania Commerce Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for Commerce Bank/Harrisburg, National Association (the Bank). The Bank is a national banking association that serves primarily the Harrisburg, York and Reading markets of South Central Pennsylvania. The Bank provides a range of retail banking services and products, including free, personal checking accounts and business checking accounts, regular savings accounts, money market accounts, interest checking accounts, fixed-rate certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts (IRAs), club accounts, debit card services and safe deposit facilities. Its services also include commercial construction and real estate loans, land development and business loans, business lines of credit, consumer loan programs, home equity and Visa Gold card revolving lines of credit, overdraft checking protection and student loans.
PWOD Penns Woods Bancorp, Inc. serves as a bank holding company for its wholly owned subsidiary, Jersey Shore State Bank (the Bank). The Bank is engaged in commercial and retail banking, as well as time and regular savings and demand deposits, the making of commercial and consumer loans and mortgage loans and safe deposit services. Auxiliary services, such as cash management, are provided to commercial customers. The Bank operates full banking services with 11 branch offices and a mortgage/loan center in north-central Pennsylvania. The Company's two other wholly owned subsidiaries are Woods Real Estate Development Co, Inc. and Woods Investment Co., Inc. The Bank's 11 full-service offices are in Lycoming, Clinton and Centre counties, Pennsylvania, and a mortgage/loan center is in Centre County, Pennsylvania.
PRFS PennRock Financial Services Corp. is a financial holding company that operates through its subsidiaries to deliver financial and related services to its customers. PennRock directly owns 100% of the stock of one community bank, Blue Ball National Bank (the Bank). The Bank provides a range of general commercial and retail banking services to its customers through 17 full-service community offices in Lancaster, Berks and Chester Counties in southeastern and southcentral Pennsylvania. The Company also owns three non-bank entities, The National Advisory Group, Inc., Pension Consulting Services, Inc. and 1906 Founders, Inc. PennRock's primary function is to direct the policies and coordinate the financial resources of its subsidiaries, as well as provide various advisory services.
PNNW Pennichuck Corporation is a holding company with operating subsidiaries engaged primarily in the collection, storage, treatment, distribution and sale of potable water throughout Southern and Central New Hampshire. The Company's subsidiary corporations, Pennichuck Water Works, Inc. (Pennichuck), Pennichuck East Utility, Inc. and Pittsfield Aqueduct Company, Inc., are, each, engaged in business as a regulated public utility, subject to the jurisdiction of the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission (NHPUC). They collectively serve approximately 29,400 residential and commercial and industrial customers. The Southwood Corporation, the Company's real estate subsidiary, is involved in the development of commercial and residential real estate. The Company also conducts non-regulated, water-related management services and contract operations through another subsidiary, Pennichuck Water Service Corporation (the Service Corporation).
PFSB PennFed Financial Service Inc. (PennFed) along with its subsidiaries was organized for the purpose of becoming the savings and loan holding company for Penn Federal Savings Bank (Penn Federal or Bank) in connection with the Bank's conversion from a federally chartered mutual savings bank to a federally chartered stock savings bank (the Conversion). The Company attracts deposits from the general public and uses these deposits, together with borrowings and other funds to originate and purchase one- to four-family residential mortgage loans, and to originate commercial and multi-family real estate and consumer loans. The Company offers many types of deposit accounts having a wide range of interest rates and terms, which generally include savings, money market and many types of checking accounts, as well as certificate accounts. The Company generally solicits deposits in its primary market areas.
PVR Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P. is a limited partnership primarily engaged in the business of managing coal properties and related assets in the United States. The Company, which was formed by Penn Virginia Corporation, enters into long-term leases with third-party mine operators for the right to mine its coal reserves in exchange for royalty payments. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's properties contained approximately 588 million tons of proven and probable coal reserves located on 241,000 acres in Virginia, West Virginia, New Mexico and eastern Kentucky. In 2003, the lessees produced 26.5 million tons of coal from its properties. As of December 31, 2003, the Company leased an aggregate of approximately 90% of its reserves under 53 leases to 29 different operators that mine coal at 54 mines. The Company does not operate any mines.
PVA Penn Virginia Corporation is engaged in the exploration, development and production of crude oil and natural gas, primarily in the eastern and Gulf Coast onshore areas of the United States. The Company also collects royalties on various oil and gas properties in which it owns a mineral fee interest. As of December 31, 2003, Penn Virginia had proved reserves of approximately 6.6 million barrels of oil and condensate and 283 billion cubic feet of natural gas, or 323 billion cubic feet equivalent. Penn Virginia operates in two primary business segments, the crude oil and natural gas exploration and production business and, through its interests in Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P., the coal royalty and land management business.
PTA Penn Treaty American Corporation is a holding company under the Pennsylvania Insurance Code. Its primary business is the sale of long-term care insurance, which it conducts through its subsidiaries: Penn Treaty Network America Insurance Company, an insurance company; American Network Insurance Company, also an insurance company, and American Independent Network Insurance Company of New York, a New York-based insurance company. The Company also conducts insurance agency operations through its subsidiaries: Senior Financial Consultants Company, a Pennsylvania-based insurance agency brokerage company; United Insurance Group Agency, Inc., a Michigan-based consortium of long-term care insurance agencies, and Network Insurance Senior Health Division, a Florida-based insurance agency brokerage company.
POCC Penn Octane Corporation is principally engaged in the purchase, transportation and sale of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). The Company owns and operates a terminal facility in Brownsville, Texas, (the Brownsville Terminal Facility) and owns a LPG terminal facility in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, (the Matamoros Terminal Facility) and approximately 23 miles of pipelines (the United States - Mexico Pipelines), which connect the Brownsville Terminal Facility to the Matamoros Terminal Facility. The Company has a long-term lease agreement for approximately 132 miles of pipeline (the Leased Pipeline), which connects ExxonMobil Corporation's (Exxon) King Ranch Gas Plant in Kleberg County, Texas, and Duke Energy's La Gloria Gas Plant in Jim Wells County, Texas, to the Company's Brownsville Terminal Facility.
PENN Penn National Gaming, Inc. is a diversified, multi-jurisdictional owner and operator of gaming properties, as well as horse racetracks and associated off-track wagering (OTW) facilities. The Company owns or operates nine gaming properties located in Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ontario and West Virginia that are focused primarily on serving customers within driving distance of the properties. The Company also owns two racetracks and 11 OTWs in Pennsylvania, one racetrack in West Virginia, and, through a joint venture, owns and operates a racetrack in New Jersey.
PNN Penn Engineering &amp; Manufacturing Corp. conducts its businesses through two divisions, PennEngineering Fastening Technologies and PennEngineering Motion Technologies. Through Fastening Technologies, the Company develops, manufactures and sells PEM self-clinching and broaching fasteners; automatic insertion equipment for such fasteners, inserts for plastics, small screw insertion systems, and blind-threaded inserts. Through Motion Technologies, it develops, manufactures and sells permanent magnet brush-commutated direct current motors, electronically commutated brushless dc servomotors and stepper, brush and brushless dc motors. In addition, the Company distributes fasteners and other components utilized by original equipment manufacturers and provides logistical and inventory management services through Arconix Group, Inc.
PGH Pengrowth Energy Trust, headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, is an energy royalty trust in North America. Trust units trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. Through the purchase of trust units, unitholders participate in the ownership of a large portfolio of crude oil and natural gas properties, receiving the net cash flow (after expenses), paid monthly, as the oil and gas reserves are produced. Continuing acquisitions and development of existing properties replenish and add to the reserve base. Pengrowth does not engage in high-risk exploration and seeks to acquire long-life assets with low decline rates and high development potential to achieve more stable production.
PENX Penford Corporation (Penford) is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of specialty natural-based ingredient systems for industrial and food applications. The Company uses its carbohydrate chemistry expertise to develop ingredients with starch as a base for value-added applications in several markets including papermaking and food products. The Company manages its business in three segments. The first two, industrial ingredients and food ingredients are broad categories of end-market users, primarily served by the United States operations. The third segment is the geographically separate operations in Australia and New Zealand. The Australian and New Zealand operations are engaged primarily in the food ingredients business.
PAGI Pemco Aviation Group, Inc. is a diversified aerospace and defense company. The Company provides services for government and military customers primarily through its Government Services Segment, which specializes in providing Programmed Depot Maintenance (PDM) on large transport aircraft. Its Commercial Services Segment provides commercial aircraft maintenance and modification services on a contract basis to the owners and operators of large commercial aircraft. Pemco's Manufacturing and Components Segment designs and manufactures a wide array of proprietary aerospace products, including various space systems, such as guidance control systems and launch vehicles; aircraft cargo-handling systems, and precision parts and components for aircraft.
PFI Pelican Financial, Inc. is the financial holding company for Pelican National Bank and Washtenaw Mortgage Company. In August 2003, The Washtenaw Group, Inc. was incorporated in Michigan to own and control all of the outstanding capital stock of Washtenaw Mortgage Company. In an internal reorganization, Pelican Financial transferred all the shares of Washtenaw Mortgage Company to The Washtenaw Group in exchange for all the outstanding shares of The Washtenaw Group. Pelican Financial operates in retail banking through its wholly owned subsidiary. However, for the year ended December 31, 2003, Pelican Financial's revenues and earnings before income taxes are attributable to Pelican National and Washtenaw Mortgage, the discontinued operation.
PEGA Pegasystems Inc. develops, markets, licenses and supports software that enables transaction-intensive organizations to manage an array of business processes. Its rules-based business process management (BPM) software is used by companies to automate decision making and the processes implementing those decisions. The Company provides two rules-based BPM platforms, PegaRULES Process Commander and PegaWORKS. These platforms help solve a range of business process management problems and provide customers an opportunity to leverage previous technology investments by integrating software applications across a common platform. The Company's customer process management and exceptions management applications products are based on these platforms. Pegasystems provides implementation, consulting, training and technical support services to facilitate the use of its software. The Company also maintains alliances with systems integrators and independent software vendors to support its customers.
PEGS Pegasus Solutions, Inc. is a provider of hotel reservations-related services and technology. Its customers include travel agencies and more than 50,000 hotel properties around the globe. The Company's services include central reservation systems (CRS), electronic distribution services, commission processing and payment services, property management systems and marketing representation services. On December 1, 2003, Pegasus completed the acquisition of all of the outstanding securities of Unirez, Inc., a hotel reservations services company. Unirez serves independent properties and small hotel groups by providing central reservation services that enable distribution of room inventory through global distribution systems (GDSs) and Internet channels. Unirez's primary assets include its software and intangible assets such as customer service agreements.
PEET Peet's Coffee &amp; Tea, Inc. is a specialty coffee roaster and marketer of branded fresh roasted whole bean coffee. The Company operates in two segments: retail and specialty sales. Retail store operations consist of sales of whole bean coffee, beverages, tea and related products primarily through Company-operated retail stores. Specialty sales consist of whole bean coffee sales through multiple distribution channels, including grocery stores, online and mail order, wholesale and office coffee accounts. The Company sells approximately 32 types of coffee as regular menu items. Included in this figure are approximately 21 blends including Major Dickason's Blend, with the balance being single origin coffees from countries, such as Colombia, Guatemala and Kenya. Peet also offers a line of high-end reserve coffees, such as Kona, Jamaica Blue Mountain, Aged Moka Java, and JR Reserve Blend. The Company offers four to six such coffees every year, including its Anniversary Blend and Holiday Blend.
PRLS Peerless Systems Corporation licenses software-based imaging and networking technology for controllers in embedded, attached and stand-alone digital document products and integrates software into the printers, copiers and multi-function products of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The digital document products include monochrome, such as black-and-white and color printers, copiers, fax machines and scanners, as well as multi-function products that perform a combination of these imaging functions. It has Peerless Systems Imaging Products, Inc. as its wholly owned subsidiary. Peerless' products support a range of digital printing devices for both direct connect and networked configurations, including desktop color printers, digital black-and-white copiers, digital black-and-white laser printers, digital color copiers and language-enabled products, such as PostScript, PeerlessPrint5C and PeerlessPrint6, as well as raster-based desktop inkjet printers.
PMFG Peerless Mfg. Co. is engaged in providing environmental, and separation and filtration products for the abatement of air pollution and the removal of contaminants from gases and liquids. The Company has two operating business segments, Environmental Systems, and Separation and Filtration Systems. In the Environmental Systems segment, Peerless designs, engineers, manufactures and sells specialized environmental control systems for air pollution abatement. In the Separation and Filtration Systems segment, the Company designs, engineers, manufactures and sells specialized products and systems known as separators or filters, which are used in cleaning and conditioning gases and liquids as they move through a piping system. The Company's products are sold worldwide with the principal markets located in North America and Europe. Primary customers are equipment manufacturers, engineering contractors and operators of power plants.
PDX Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc. is a healthcare services company focused on physician services for newborn, maternal-fetal and other pediatric subspecialty care. Its network of affiliated physician practices consists of approximately 690 affiliated physicians, including 540 neonatal physician specialists who provide clinical care in 30 states and Puerto Rico, primarily within hospital-based neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) to babies born prematurely or with medical complications. The Company's affiliated neonatal physician specialists staff and manage clinical activities at more than 200 hospitals and its 81 affiliated maternal-fetal medicine subspecialists provide care to expectant mothers experiencing complicated pregnancies in many areas where its affiliated neonatal physicians practice. Pediatrix's network includes other pediatric subspecialists, including 33 pediatric intensivists, 20 pediatric cardiologists and 16 pediatric hospitalists.
PSAI Pediatric Services of America, Inc. is a provider of home healthcare and related services for medically fragile and chronically ill infants and children. The Company provides children's healthcare services through a network of over 120 branch offices, including satellite offices and new branch offices, located in 21 states through three reportable segments: Private Duty Nursing and Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care (PPEC) services, Specialty Pharmacy and Infusion Therapy Services, and Respiratory Therapy and Home Medical Equipment and Services (RTES).
PIII PECO II, Inc. provides engineering and installation (E&amp;I) onsite services; designs, manufactures and markets communications power systems, and offers systems integration, installation and maintenance products to the telecommunications industry. The products include power systems, power distribution equipment and systems integration products. PECO II's power systems provide a primary supply of power to support the infrastructure of communications service providers, including local exchange carriers, long-distance carriers, wireless service providers, Internet service providers and broadband access providers. The Company's power distribution equipment directs power to specific customer communications equipment. PECO II's systems integration business provides complete built-to-order communications systems assembled pursuant to customer specifications. The Company's operations are organized within two segments: products and services.
PECS PEC Solutions, Inc. is a professional services firm providing solutions that help government organizations capitalize on the Internet and other advanced technologies to improve mission performance. The Company specializes in Web-Enabling Government by providing secure, interoperable technology solutions for clients in homeland security, law enforcement, intelligence, defense and civilian agencies within the federal government and at state and local levels throughout the United States. PEC possesses a range of specialized skills needed for government technology engagements including strategic technology consulting, program management, system architectural design, network engineering, applications development and systems integration, deployment and operational support. PEC's mission-critical solutions integrate an organization's back-office processes and legacy systems with customized applications and enhance the interoperability and accessibility of critical enterprise data.
PSO Pearson PLC is a global publishing company with its principal operations in the education, business information and consumer publishing markets. The Company has operations in the United States, where it generates over 65% of its revenues, and in the United Kingdom and continental Europe. Pearson creates and manages intellectual property, which the Company promotes and sells to its customers under brand names, to inform, educate and entertain. Pearson delivers its content in a variety of forms and through a variety of channels, including books, newspapers and Internet services. The Company increasingly offers services as well as content, from test processing to training. Although the Company's businesses increasingly share markets, brands, processes and facilities, they break down into three core operations: Pearson Education, the FT (Financial Times) Group and the Penguin Group.
PGC Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation is a bank holding company for the Peapack-Gladstone Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a state chartered commercial bank founded in 1921 under the laws of the State of New Jersey, and is a member of the Federal Reserve System. The Bank offers financial services through 16 full-service banking offices and one mini-branch. It maintains eight branches and one auxiliary office in Somerset County, two in Hunterdon County and six in Morris County. The Bank is primarily dedicated to providing financial, trust and investment services to individuals and small businesses.
PEAK Peak International Limited is a supplier of precision-engineered packaging products for the storage, transportation and automated handling of semiconductor devices and other electronic components. The Company's products are designed to interface with automated handling equipment used in the production and testing of semiconductor and electronic products. Peak International principally produces matrix and disk drive trays, carrier tapes, reels and shipping tubes. It also produces leadframe boxes and interleaves used in the storage and transportation of leadframes. In addition, the Company collects and sells recycled matrix trays using the name SemiCycle.
PAE Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc. is a fully integrated company that creates, develops, produces and distributes film, television and video programming for worldwide markets. The Company manages its operations in two business segments, production services for projects in which it does not hold an ultimate financial interest in a film or video program, and proprietary programming, which is programming it owns or in which it holds a continuing and long-term financial interest. The Company operates primarily in Canada and has a sales office in the United Kingdom, although its programs are distributed throughout the world. In the fiscal year ended August 31, 2003, a new subsidiary in London, England, Peace Arch Films Ltd., was formed for the purpose of selling worldwide, excluding Canada, distribution rights to feature film products. Canadian distribution rights will continue to be sold through the Company.
BTU Peabody Energy Corporation is a private-sector coal company that owns, through its subsidiaries, majority interests in 29 coal operations located throughout the coal-producing regions in the United States and in Australia. During 2003, 74% of the Company's United States mining operations' coal sales were shipped from the western United States and the remaining 26% from the eastern part. Most of its production in the western United States is low-sulfur coal from the Powder River Basin. The Company's overall western United States coal production increased from 37.0 million tons in 1990 to 129.6 million tons in 2003, representing a compounded annual growth rate of 10%. In the West, the Company owns and operates mines in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming. In the East, it owns and operates mines in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia. In addition, it owns one mine in Australia.
PDII PDI, Inc. is a healthcare sales and marketing company serving the biopharmaceutical and medical devices and diagnostics (MD&amp;D) industries. The Company creates and executes sales and marketing campaigns intended to improve the profitability of pharmaceutical and MD&amp;D products. It does this by partnering with companies that own the intellectual property rights to these products and recognize the Company's ability to commercialize these products and maximize their sales performance. PDI has a variety of agreement types that it enters into with its partner companies, from fee-for-service arrangements to equity investments in a product or company. In these agreements, PDI leverages its experience in sales, brand management and product marketing, marketing research, medical education, medical affairs and managed markets and, to a limited extent, trade relations to help its partners meet strategic and financial objectives and to provide incremental value for product sales.
PDGE.OB PDG Environmental, Inc. (PDG) is a holding company that provides environmental and specialty contracting services, including asbestos and lead abatement, insulation, microbial remediation, demolition and related services throughout the United States through its wholly owned operating subsidiaries. Its three operating subsidiaries are Project Development Group, Inc., PDG, Inc. and Enviro-Tech Abatement Services Co. During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), approximately 75% of its operating subsidiaries' revenues were derived from private sector clients, 14% from government contracts and 11% from public institutions.
PDFS PDF Solutions, Inc. is a provider of infrastructure technologies and services that enable semiconductor companies to improve yield and optimize performance of integrated circuits (ICs). The Company's solutions combine manufacturing process simulation software, yield and performance modeling software, design-for-manufacturability (DFM) software, test chips, a proprietary electrical wafer test system, yield and performance enhancement methodologies, yield management systems, and professional services. PDF analyzes yield loss mechanisms to identify, quantify and correct the issues that cause yield loss as an integral part of the IC design process. The Company sells its technologies and services to various semiconductor companies, including integrated device manufacturers, fabless semiconductor companies and foundries.
PCMC.OB P-Com, Inc. is engaged in the design, manufacture and marketing of millimeter network access wave radio systems for use in the wireless telecommunications market. Cellular and personal communications service providers employ the Company's point-to-point systems to transmit data between remote tower sites and switching centers. Network service providers and Internet service providers (ISPs) are able, through the deployment of P-Com's equipment and systems, to respond to the demands for high-speed wireless access services such as Internet access associated with business-to-business and e-commerce business processes. Through deployment of P-Com's systems, network providers can establish integrated Internet, data, voice and video communications for their customers, and then expand and grow those services as demand increases. On December 10, 2003, the Company acquired the Wave Wireless Networking division of SPEEDCOM Wireless Corporation (SPEEDCOM).
PCW PCCW Ltd. is a telecommunications service provider in Hong Kong. The Company is engaged in the marketing, sale and provision of technical support for telecommunications and data communications products. The Company is comprised of segments such as Telecommunications Services (TSS), which is a provider of fixed-line telecommunications services, including Internet access, pay television and multimedia content; Business eSolutions, which offers systems integration, applications development, network integration and application-management services, information technology (IT) solutions, business broadband Internet access, hosting and facilities management services and Internet data centers within Hong Kong, the Peoples' Republic of China (the PRC) and Taiwan; Infrastructure, which covers a property portfolio in Hong Kong, such as the Cyberport development, and Others, which includes overseas and other investments.
PCTI PCTEL, Inc. provides wireless connectivity products and test tools to cellular carriers, wireless Internet providers, personal computer original equipment manufacturers (PC OEMs) and wireless equipment manufacturers. The Company's product lines include a line of Wi-Fi and cellular mobility software, a line of software defined radios that measure and monitor cellular networks and a line of wireless communications antennas. PCTEL has an intellectual property portfolio consisting of over 130 United States patents and applications, primarily in analog modem technology. It also has digital signal processing-based embedded modem technology. The Company has a licensing program designed to monetize its intellectual property. Companies under license at the end of 2003 include Intel, Conexant, Broadcom, Silicon Laboratories, Texas Instruments, Smartlink and ESS Technologies.
PCSSQ.PK PC Service Source, Inc. provides service logistics outsourcing and support services to the personal computer (PC) industry, through its OEM, Service Provider and iService divisions. The Company's OEM division provides OEMs and Original Development Manufacturers with parts logistics, materials management and rapid turnaround desktop and notebook repair and component repair services. The Company's Service Provider division provides spare parts distribution, order logistics, parts exchange logistics, parts lifecycle management and inventory risk management to PC service providers such as independent service organizations, OEMs' service operations and PC resellers. PC Service Source's iService division is focused on leveraging the investments it has made in its PC Parts Net and PC Warranty Information Network proprietary technology by developing various Internet service solutions. In July of 2000 PC ServiceSource Inc. decided to discontinue its parts sales business.
MALL PC Mall, Inc. is a rapid response direct marketer of computer hardware, software, peripheral, electronics and other consumer products. The Company offers products to business, government and educational institutions, as well as individual consumers through dedicated outbound and inbound telemarketing sales executives, the Internet, direct marketing techniques, direct response catalogs, a direct sales force and three retail showrooms located in Santa Monica and Torrance, California, and Memphis, Tennessee. PC Mall offers a selection of products through its full-color catalogs under the PC Mall, MacMall, ClubMac, PC Mall Gov and eCOST.com brands, its worldwide Websites, pcmall.com, macmall.com, clubmac.com, pcmallgov.com and ecost.com and other promotional materials. The Company also operates OnSale.com, an online marketplace and auction, which was formally launched in October 2003.
PCCC PC Connection, Inc. operates as a direct marketer of information technology products and solutions through its three primary sales subsidiaries, PC Connection Sales Corporation, GovConnection, Inc. and MoreDirect, Inc. The Company offers customers approximately 100,000 information technology products designed for business applications from more than 1,000 manufacturers, including hardware and peripherals, accessories, networking products and software. PC Connection selects the products it sells based upon their technology and effectiveness, market demand, product features, quality, price, margins and warranties. As part of its merchandising strategy, the Company also offers products related to personal computers, such as digital cameras. Its principal customers are small and medium-sized businesses, comprised of 20 to 1,000 employees, governmental agencies and educational organizations, as well as medium-to-large corporate accounts.
PYDS.OB Payment Data Systems, Inc. (PDS) provides integrated electronic payment processing services to merchants and businesses, including all types of Automated Clearinghouse (ACH) processing and credit and debit card-based processing services. This processing takes place in a variety of forms and channels. Its capabilities allow for point of sale check truncation/conversion or card authorization, customer service representatives to take e-check or card payments from consumers by telephone and consumers to make e-check or card payments directly through the use of an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system or Website. The Company also operates an Internet electronic bill payment processing service for consumers under the domain name www.bills.com.
PSS Payless ShoeSource, Inc. is a family footwear retailer that, as of January 31, 2004, operated 5,042 retail stores in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Central America and South America. The Company's 4,862 Payless ShoeSource stores offer fashionable, private and branded label footwear and accessories for women, men and children in a self-selection shopping format, while its 180 Parade stores offer fashionable and private label women's shoes in a self-selection shopping format. Its stores sell a variety of footwear, including athletic, casual, dress shoes, sandals, work and fashion boots, slippers and accessories, such as handbags and hosiery. The Company operates its stores in a variety of real estate formats, including shopping malls, central business districts, freestanding buildings, strip centers, grocery stores and leased departments in other retailers.
PAYX Paychex, Inc. is a provider of payroll and integrated human resource and employee benefits outsourcing solutions for small to medium-sized businesses in the United States. These include payroll processing, tax filing and payment, employee payment, time and attendance solutions, regulatory compliance (new-hire reporting and garnishment processing), retirement services administration, employee benefits administration, workers' compensation insurance, as well as comprehensive bundled human resource administrative services. By offering ancillary services that leverage the information gathered in the base payroll processing service, Paychex is able to provide comprehensive outsourcing services that allow employers to expand their employee benefits offerings at an affordable cost. The Company also provides a start-up payroll sales and operations facility in Germany. At May 31, 2004, Paychex serviced approximately 505,000 clients.
PAX Paxson Communications Corp. is a network television broadcasting company that owns and operates a broadcast television station group in the United States. The Company owns and operates 60 broadcast television stations, including three stations operated under time brokerage agreements, all of which carry PAX TV. Paxson operates PAX TV, a network that provides programming around the clock, and reaches approximately 96 million homes through its broadcast television station group. PAX TV's entertainment programming principally consists of shows originally developed by Paxson and shows that have appeared previously on other broadcast networks, which the Company has purchased the right to air. The balance of PAX TV's programming consists of long-form paid programming (principally infomercials) and public interest programming. Paxson derives its revenues from the sale of network spot advertising time, network long-form paid programming and station advertising.
PXR Paxar Corporation provides merchandising solutions to retailers and apparel manufacturers. Its business includes the design, manufacture and distribution of a variety of tags and labels including labels with bar codes, as well as printers and associated supplies. Organizationally, it manages its operations across three major geographies: North, Central and South America (Americas); Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and the Asia Pacific region (Asia Pacific). In September 2003, the Company acquired the business and assets of Alkahn Labels, Inc., including all of the equity of Alkahn-Hong Kong Limited. Alkahn produces woven labels. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company opened new operations in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Portugal, Morocco, Mauritius, Peru and Vietnam. In 2003, Paxar had 74 manufacturing facilities and sales offices located in 35 countries.
PLCC Paulson Capital Corp. is a holding company whose only operating subsidiary is Paulson Investment Company, Inc. (PIC), which is a full-service brokerage firm engaged in the purchase and sale of securities from and to the public and for its own account and in investment banking activities. The Company operates in one industry segment, which is the financial services industry. During the year ended December 31, 2003, PIC had independent contractor arrangements with 69 brokers registered with the NASDAQ and 30 branch offices throughout the United States. PIC is involved in the purchase and sale of investment securities. The four broad categories of securities activities of PIC are retail brokerage, corporate finance/investment banking, trading and market making or wholesale. It also receives revenues from gains and losses in investment accounts from underwriter warrant received in connection with its corporate finance activities and from other sources.
PFCO PAULA Financial is a specialty distributor of commercial insurance products and services. The Company's subsidiaries, Pan American Underwriters, Inc. in California and Pan American Underwriters Insurance Agents and Brokers, Inc. in Arizona (collectively Pan Am), place an array of commercial insurance products on behalf of its customers. In the past several years, the Company has affiliated with insurance agencies of similar size and operating histories to Pan Am through the PAULA Trading Company (PTC), a wholly owned subsidiary of PAULA Financial. In addition, it owns Pan Pacific Benefit Administrators, a third party administration operation with minimal operating activity. The Company's agency business has operated in California for more than 56 years and in Arizona for more than 46 years. In 2003, approximately 96% of its agency commission income was generated in the state of California, compared to 93% in 2002 and 89% in 2001.
PTEN Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. operates a contract drilling business primarily in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Western Canada (Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan). As of December 31, 2003, the Company had a drilling fleet of 343 drilling rigs. Patterson-UTI also provides pressure-pumping services to oil and natural gas operators primarily in the Appalachian Basin. In addition, it provides drilling fluids, completion fluids and related services to oil and natural gas operators in West Texas, Southeast New Mexico, South Texas, East Texas, Oklahoma, the Gulf Coast regions of Texas and Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico. The Company is also engaged in the development, exploration, acquisition and production of oil and natural gas. Its oil and natural gas operations are focused primarily in producing regions in West Texas, Southeast New Mexico, South Texas and Mississippi.
PDCO Patterson Companies, Inc. (Patterson) is a value-added distributor serving three markets, such as North American dental supply; United States companion-pet veterinary supply, including dogs, cats and other common household pets, and the worldwide rehabilitative and non-wheelchair assistive products supply market. Patterson's operating units will continue as Patterson Dental Supply, Inc., provides consumable products; advanced technology dental equipment; practice management and clinical software; patient education systems, and office forms and stationery; Webster Veterinary Supply, Inc. distributes a range of consumable supplies, equipment, diagnostic supplies, biological vaccines and pharmaceuticals, and AbilityOne Products Corp.'s product include aids to daily living, orthopedic soft goods/splints, clinical products, mobility products, pediatric seating and positioning, and modalities. In June 2004, the Company changed its corporate name to Patterson Companies, Inc.
PATR Patriot Transportation Holding, Inc. is engaged in the transportation and real estate businesses. The Company's transportation business is conducted through two wholly owned subsidiaries, Florida Rock &amp; Tank Lines, Inc. and SunBelt Transport, Inc. Tank Lines is a transportation company concentrating in the hauling of primarily petroleum-related liquids and other liquids and dry bulk commodities by tank trucks. SunBelt serves the flatbed portion of the trucking industry in the Southeast, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states, hauling primarily construction materials. The Company's real estate activities are conducted through several wholly owned subsidiaries. Florida Rock Properties, Inc. owns real estate of which a substantial portion is under mining royalty agreements or leased to Florida Rock Industries, Inc. (FRI), a related party. FRP Development Corp. owns, manages and develops commercial warehouse/office rental properties near Baltimore, Maryland.
PTSC.OB Patriot Scientific Corporation (PSC) develops, markets, and sells microprocessors and the complementary products, which enables computers and other data-processing devices to communicate. These products can be used to connect to the Internet or other telecommunication networks. PSC is the successor by merger to Patriot Financial Corporation, a Colorado corporation. The Company's business involves two technologies: ignite microprocessor technology and high-speed data communications technology. The Microprocessor technology product line accounted for approximately 18% of the Company's revenue during the fiscal year ended May 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004). The balanced revenue was generated from Communications product line. The Company is developing a radar technology and sold off its gas plasma antenna technology in August 1999.
PNBK Patriot National Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for Patriot National Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a commercial bank that provides a range of banking services to commercial and consumer customers through its main office in Stamford, Connecticut and six branch offices in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The Bank's customers are concentrated in Fairfield County, Connecticut and Westchester County, New York. The Bank also conducts mortgage brokerage operations in Connecticut and New York through its mortgage brokerage division, Pinnacle Financial Corp. On March 11, 2003, the Company formed Patriot National Statutory Trust I for the purpose of issuing trust preferred securities and investing the proceeds in subordinated debentures issued by the Company, and on March 26, 2003, the first series of trust preferred securities were issued.
PATK Patrick Industries, Inc. is a manufacturer and supplier of building products and materials to the Manufactured Housing and Recreational Vehicle industries. In addition, the Company is a supplier to certain other industrial markets, such as furniture manufacturing, marine, architectural and the automotive aftermarket. It manufactures decorative vinyl and paper panels, wrapped mouldings, cabinet doors, electronic desks, kitchen cabinets, countertops, aluminum extrusions, drawer sides, adhesives and laminating machines. Patrick Industries is also an independent wholesale distributor of pre-finished wall and ceiling panels, drywall and drywall finishing products, particleboard, vinyl and cement siding, interior passage doors, roofing products, high-pressure laminates, decorative mirrors and glass, insulation and other related products.
POG Patina Oil &amp; Gas Corporation is an independent energy company that acquires, develops and exploits oil and natural gas properties within the continental United States. The Company's properties are concentrated in the Wattenberg Field of Colorado's Denver-Julesburg Basin, the Mid Continent region of southern Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, and the San Juan Basin. The Company operates over 75% of the 7,750 producing wells in which it holds a working interest. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had over 4,000 proven development projects in inventory, including 1,400 drilling or deepening locations, 850 recompletions, 1,300 restimulation (refrac or trifrac) projects and over 600 production enhancement projects. During the year ended December 31, 2003, average daily production totaled 274.0 million cubic feet equivalent, comprised of 15,720 barrels of oil and 179.6 million cubic feet of gas.
PATY.OB Patient Infosystems, Inc., incorporated in 1995, is a health management solutions company that integrates clinical expertise with advanced Internet, call center and data management capabilities. These products are marketed under the label Care Team Connect for Health. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company expanded its product mix to include services in support of providers and their clinical improvement efforts. These services include support for development, training and maintenance of clinical registry software, consultative services in improvement methodologies and support of Web-based informational and reporting resources. On December 31, 2003, Patient Infosystems acquired the assets of American Caresource Corporation (ACS). ACS provides ancillary benefits management services, including a network of ancillary specialty providers and value-added services that assist clients control the cost of a range of ancillary medical services.
PTMK Pathmark Stores, Inc., incorporated in 1987, is a supermarket chain operating in the New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia metropolitan areas. As of the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004, the Company operates a chain of 143 supermarkets and its stores average approximately 52,300 square feet in size. The Company designs its stores to provide customers with onestop shopping with an assortment of foods and general merchandise, as well as a host of additional conveniences, including 130 in-store, full-service pharmacies and an array of financial services offered by 83 in-store banks through its agreements with Fleet Bank and New York Community Bank. In addition, the Company offers over 3,500 private label products under the Pathmark name.
PBHC Pathfinder Bancorp, Inc. is a mutual holding company and a federally chartered mid-tier holding company. The primary business of the Company is its investment in Pathfinder Bank (the Bank) and Pathfinder Statutory Trust I. The Bank is a state chartered savings bank primarily engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the general public and investing such deposits, together with other sources of funds, in loans secured by one- to four-family residential real estate, commercial real estate, business assets and investment securities. The Bank conducts its business through its main office located in Oswego, New York, and five full-service branch offices located in Oswego County. Pathfinder Statutory Trust I is a business trust formed for the purpose of issuing mandatorily redeemable convertible securities.
PNO Path 1 Network Technologies Inc. is a developer and supplier of products that enable the transportation and distribution of video over Internet protocol (VoIP) or packet-based networks. The Company's products are used in two different segments of the video market. Its products are used by cable companies to supply video-on-demand services. Its products are also used by providers to transmit video to one or more locations throughout the United States or the world (long-haul transmission). Customers include cable, broadcast and satellite companies, movie studios, carriers and government and educational institutions. The Company's products perform three primary functions: process and prepare multiple video feeds for delivery over an IP network, combine video streams arriving over the IP network into single streams for delivery to the end-viewer and condition the video data to avoid impairments or disruptions that would deteriorate the quality of the video signal.
PATD.OB Patapsco Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for The Patapsco Bank (the Bank). The Company has no significant assets other than its investment in the Bank. It is primarily engaged in the business of directing, planning and coordinating the business activities of the Bank. The Patapsco Bank is a commercial bank operating through three full-service offices located in Dundalk, Parkville and Carney, Maryland, and serving eastern Baltimore County. The primary business of the Bank is to attract deposits from individual and corporate customers and to originate residential and commercial mortgage loans, commercial loans and consumer loans, primarily in the greater-Baltimore metropolitan area. As on June 30, 2004, the Bank had $21.9 million, $6.5 million, $16.5 million, $14.5 million and $21.2 million in small business loans, construction loans, commercial real estate loans, home equity and other consumer loans, and equipment leases, respectively.
PASW.OB PASW, Inc. is a developer and licensor of Internet and Web-related software and software development tools. Its software products were embedded into systems and developed or manufactured by others. In August 2000, the Company and NetSilicon, Inc. (NSI) entered into an agreement where PASW sold the assets of its Internet and Web software technology to NSI. NSI agreed to grant a non-exclusive, royalty-free license for the acquired technology, to PASW and its affiliates, subject to certain limitations.
PCTY Party City Corporation is a specialty retailer of party supplies that, as of August 30, 2004, owned and operated 249 stores in the United States. Its franchisees operated an additional 258 stores in the United States, including five stores in Puerto Rico. The Company's stores offer a broad selection of brand name and private-label merchandise for a wide variety of celebratory occasions, including birthday parties, weddings and baby showers, as well as holiday and seasonal events, such as Halloween, Christmas, New Year's Eve, Graduation, Easter, Valentine's Day, and many other. The Company reports in two segments: retail and franchising. The retail segment generates revenue primarily through the sale of third-party branded party goods through Company-owned stores. The franchising segment generates revenue through the imposition of an initial one-time franchise fee and ongoing royalty payments based on retail sales.
PRTR Partners Trust Financial Group, Inc. operates through its wholly owned subsidiary SBU Bank (the Bank), which offers a variety of business and retail banking products, as well as a full range of trust, investment and municipal banking services. The Bank's customers, primarily in 16 central New York locations in Oneida, Onondaga and Herkimer counties, are served 24 hours a day through a network of automated teller machines, automated telephone banking and Internet banking at its Website www.sbu.com. Municipal banking services are provided by the Bank's subsidiary, SBU Municipal Bank. The Trust Department offers a full range of services, including living trusts, executor services, testamentary trusts, employee benefit plan management, custody services and investment management, primarily to individuals, corporations and other institutions. In July 2004, the Company acquired BSB Bancorp, Inc., the holding company of BSB Bank &amp; Trust Company, headquartered in Binghamton, New York.
PRE PartnerRe Ltd. provides specialized service and risk management solutions for its clients in over 120 countries around the world. Offices are located in Bermuda, Greenwich (Connecticut), Hong Kong, Mexico City, Paris, Santiago, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, Toronto and Zurich. The Company's reinsurance operations are carried out through three main subsidiaries: Partner Reinsurance Company in Bermuda (which also operates branches in Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong and Labuan), PartnerRe SA in Paris (which also operates a branch in Canada) and PartnerRe U.S. in Greenwich, Connecticut. Through these subsidiaries, the Company provides reinsurance of non-life (or property-casualty) and life risks of ceding companies (or primary insurers) through treaties or on a facultative basis, on either a proportional or non-proportional basis.
PTNR Partner Communications Company Ltd. is a mobile telephone network operator that offers tariff plans, international roaming services, value-added services and handsets, marketed under the Orange brand. The Company offers high-speed data transmission with its use of High Speed Circuit Switched Data (HSCSD) and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technologies. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had approximately 2,103,000 subscribers. Its network covered approximately 97% of the Israeli population. The Company has 2,138 base transceiver stations (including microsites).
PARL Parlux Fragrances, Inc. is engaged in the creation, design and manufacture, distribution and sale of prestige fragrances and beauty-related products marketed primarily through specialty stores, national department stores and perfumeries on a worldwide basis. The Company distributes certain brands through Perfumania Inc. (Perfumania), a wholly owned subsidiary of E Com Ventures, Inc. Parlux's products are fragrances, which are distributed in a variety of sizes and packaging; beauty-related products such as soaps, shower gels, deodorants, body lotions, creams and dusting powders complement the fragrance line. The fragrance products range from $20 to $65 per item. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company was engaged in the manufacture, distribution and sale of Perry Ellis, Ocean Pacific, Fred Hayman Beverly Hills, 273 Indigo and Jockey fragrances, as well as grooming items on an exclusive basis as a licensee through sub-contractors.
PRLX Parlex Corporation is a provider of flexible interconnect solutions to the automotive, telecommunications and networking, diversified electronics, military, home appliance, electronic identification and computer markets. Its product offerings include flexible and rigid-flexible circuits from one to 24 layers, laminated cable, flexible interconnect hybrid circuits and flexible interconnect assemblies. The Company offers its products using a variety of materials, including adhesiveless and adhesive-based polymide, polyester and polymer thick film technologies. Parlex manufactures its products according to the customers' application-specific requirements. The Company provides flexible interconnect solutions to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in its target markets, including Hewlett-Packard, Raytheon, Motorola, Dell Computer, Siemens and Whirlpool. Parlex also supplies its products to electronic manufacturing services companies, such as Flextronics, Solectron, Sanmina and JABIL.
PKY Parkway Properties, Inc. is a real estate investment trust specializing in the operations, acquisition, ownership, management and leasing of office properties. The Company is self-administered, in that it provides its own investment and administrative services internally through its own employees. The Company is also self-managed, in that it internally provides the management, maintenance and other real estate services that its properties require, through its own employees, such as property managers and engineers, and in some cases, leasing professionals. The Company is geographically focused on the southeastern and southwestern United States and Chicago. On March 1, 2004, Parkway owned or had an interest in 59 office properties located in 11 states, with an aggregate of approximately 10.7 million square feet of leasable space. In addition, the Company has an investment in the Toyota Center, a historic renovation adjacent to the Triple-A baseball stadium complex in downtown Memphis.
PVSA Parkvale Financial Corporation (PFC) is a unitary savings and loan holding company. PFC maintains two subsidiaries: Parkvale Statutory Trust I (PSTI) is a Connecticut-chartered investment company, and Parkvale Savings Bank (the Bank) is a Pennsylvania-chartered permanent reserve fund stock savings bank. PFC and its subsidiaries are collectively referred as Parkvale. Parkvale is also involved in lending in the greater Washington, D.C. and Columbus, Ohio areas through its wholly owned subsidiary, Parkvale Mortgage Corporation (PMC). The primary assets of PFC consist of the stock of Parkvale, equity securities and cash. In December 2004, Parkvale Financial Corporation and Advance Financial Bancorp merged.
PRKR ParkerVision, Inc. has two operating segments: the Wireless Division and the Video Division. The Wireless Division is engaged in the design, development and marketing of products based on its own Direct2Data (D2D) technology. The D2D technology is a wireless direct conversion radio frequency technology that may be applied to all areas of wireless communications. The Video Division is engaged in the design, development and marketing of automated live television production systems, marketed under the tradename PVTV and automated video camera control systems, marketed under the tradename CameraMan. This division also provides training, support and other services related to these products. The Company sold the video division in May 2004.
PH Parker-Hannifin Corporation is a full-line manufacture of motion control products, including fluid power systems, electrochanical control and related components. Fluid power involves the transfer and control of power through the medium of liquid, gas or air, in hydraulic, pneumatic and vacuum applications. Fluid power systems move and position materials, control machines, vehicles and equipment, and improve industrial efficiency and productivity. The Company's manufacturing, service, distribution and administrative facilities are located in 37 states and in 46 foreign countries. Its motion control technology is used in products of its four business segments: Industrial, Aerospace, Climate and Industrial Controls, and Other. In December 2004, the Company acquired the operations of Houston-based Trilogy Systems.
PKD Parker Drilling Company provides land and offshore contract drilling services and rental tools on a worldwide basis to United States-owned and foreign-owned oil and gas companies. The Company is organized into three primary business segments: United States drilling operations, international drilling operations and rental tools. As of December 31, 2003, its marketable rig fleet consisted of 26 barge drilling and workover rigs, six offshore jackup rigs, four offshore platform rigs and 38 land rigs. Parker Drilling specializes in the drilling of deep and difficult wells, drilling in remote and harsh environments, drilling in transition zones and offshore waters and in providing specialized rental tools. The Company also provides a range of services that are ancillary to its principal drilling services, including engineering and logistics, as well as project management activities.
PKBK Parke Bank (the Bank) is a New Jersey state-chartered commercial bank. The Bank is a full-service commercial bank with an emphasis on providing personal and business financial services to individuals and small to mid-sized businesses in Gloucester, Atlantic and Cape May counties in New Jersey and the Philadelphia area in Pennsylvania. The Bank is an independent, locally owned and managed bank. It has designed its services and structured its fees in a manner designed to attract and maintain customers.
PVFC PVF Capital Corp. (PVF) is the holding company for Park View Federal Savings Bank (Park View Federal or the Bank). PVF owns and operates Park View Federal Savings Bank, PVF Service Corporation (PVFSC), a real estate subsidiary, and Mid Pines Land Company (MPLC), a real estate subsidiary. In addition, PVF owns PVF Holdings, Inc., a financial services subsidiary, which is inactive. Park View Federal is a federal stock savings bank operating through 16 offices located in Cleveland and surrounding communities. PVF created PVF Capital Trust I for issuing trust preferred securities. The business of PVF consists primarily of the business of the Bank. The Bank's principal business consists of attracting deposits from the general public and investing these funds primarily in loans secured by first mortgages on real estate located in the Bank's market area, which consists of Portage, Lake, Geauga, Cuyahoga, Summit, Stark, Medina and Lorain Counties in Ohio.
PKOH Park-Ohio Holdings Corp. through the subsidiaries owned by its direct subsidiary, Park-Ohio Industries, Inc. (Park-Ohio), is a provider of supply chain logistics services and a manufacturer of engineered products. The Company operates through three segments, Integrated Logistics Solutions (ILS), is a supply chain logistics provider of production components to large, multinational manufacturers; Aluminum Products, manufactures cast aluminum components for automotive, agricultural equipment, heavy-duty truck and construction equipment manufacturers. It also provides value-added services, such as design and engineering, machining and assembly, and Manufactured Products, operates a group of manufacturing businesses that design and manufacture quality products engineered for specific customer applications.
PRK Park National Corporation is a bank holding company that provides general commercial banking, trust and cash management services, as well as specialized financial services, including aircraft leasing, municipal finance and consumer lending, primarily through its subsidiaries. The Company's principal banking subsidiaries are The Park National Bank, The Richland Trust Company, Century National Bank, The First-Knox National Bank of Mount Vernon, United Bank N.A., Second National Bank, The Security National Bank and Trust Co. and The Citizens National Bank. The Company generally serves small to medium-population Ohio communities. Guardian Financial Services Company, an Ohio consumer finance company, also operates as a separate subsidiary of the Company. Guardian Financial provides consumer finance services in the central Ohio area. In December 2004, the Company and First Federal Bancorp, Inc. merged.
PKE Park Electrochemical Corp. is engaged in the design, production and marketing of advanced electronic materials used to fabricate complex multilayer printed circuit boards and other electronic interconnection systems. Park specializes in advanced materials for high-layer count circuit boards and high-speed and radio frequency (RF) microwave electronic systems and digital broadband telecommunications, Internet and networking applications. The Company's electronic materials business operates under the Nelco name through fully integrated business units in Asia, Europe and North America. The Company is also engaged in the design, production and marketing of advanced composite materials through its FiberCote Industries subsidiary. In February 2004, the Company discontinued its financial support of Dielektra GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary.
PKCY.OB Park City Group, Inc. (PCG) has no other business operations other than in connection with its subsidiary, PCG. PCG develops and licenses its software applications identified as Fresh Market Manager and ActionManager. These software products are designed to be used in retail and grocery businesses, having multiple locations, by assisting individual store locations and corporate management with managing daily business operations and communicating results of those operations in a timely manner. PCG also provides implementation and profit optimization consulting services for its application products. The Company offers an alternative licensing method other than direct licensing of the software to its customer companies. A monthly subscription deployment option was introduced during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004).
PFED Park Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company engaged in the business of banking through its wholly owned subsidiary, Park Federal Savings Bank (the Bank), and real estate development through its wholly owned subsidiary, PBI Development Corporation (PBI). The Bank is engaged in the business of retail banking, with operations conducted through its main office and two branch offices located in Chicago and Westmont, Illinois. Its primary deposit gathering area is concentrated in the communities surrounding its offices, while its lending activities primarily include areas throughout Cook, DuPage, and Will Counties in Illinois. The Bank also has two wholly owned subsidiaries: GPS Development Corp. (GPS) and GPS Corporation. GPS participates in residential real estate development projects. GPS Corporation conducts limited insurance activities.
PRXL PAREXEL International Corp. (PAREXEL) is a biopharmaceutical services company providing a broad range of expertise in clinical research, medical marketing, consulting and informatics and advanced technology products and services to the worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. The Company's primary objective is to provide solutions for managing the biopharmaceutical product lifecycle with the goal of reducing the time, risk and cost associated with the development and commercialization of new therapies. Since its inception, PAREXEL has developed significant expertise in processes and technologies supporting this strategy.
PMTC Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) develops, markets and supports product lifecycle management (PLM) software solutions and related services that help manufacturers improve the competitiveness of their products and product development processes. PTC's software solutions, which include a suite of mechanical CAD tools (its design solutions) and a range of Internet-based collaboration technologies (its collaboration and control solutions), enable manufacturing companies to create virtual computer-based products (digital products), collaborate on designs within the enterprise and throughout the extended supply chain, and control the digital product information throughout the product lifecycle. In April 2004, the Company expanded its offerings to the electronics industry through the acquisition of OHIO Design Automation, Inc.
PLLL Parallel Petroleum Corporation is engaged in the acquisition, development, exploitation and production of oil and natural gas and, to a lesser extent, the domestic exploration for oil and natural gas. These activities are concentrated in three core areas: the Permian Basin of west Texas and New Mexico, Liberty County in east Texas and the onshore Gulf coast area of south Texas. At December 31, 2003, the Company's total proved reserves attributable to all of its oil and gas properties was estimated to be 12.1 million barrels of oil and 16.3 billion cubic feet of natural gas. Approximately 82% of its proved reserves are oil and approximately 74% are categorized as proved developed reserves. On an equivalent barrel basis, 2003 production totaled 1.2 million barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) compared with 576,000 BOE in 2002, approximately a 612,000 BOE increase.
PTG Paragon Technologies, Inc. provides a variety of material handling solutions, including systems, technologies, products and services for material flow applications. The Company has gone to market with a multiple brand, multiple channel strategy under the SI Systems and Ermanco brands. The Company's capabilities include horizontal transportation, rapid dispensing, order fulfillment, computer software, sortation, integrating conveyors and conveyor systems and aftermarket services. The Company's Easton, Pennsylvania, operation (SI Systems) is a specialized systems integrator supplying branded automated material handling systems to manufacturing, assembly, order selection and distribution operations customers located primarily in North America. The Company's Spring Lake, Michigan, operation (Ermanco) is a manufacturer of Ermanco branded light- to medium-duty unit handling conveyor products.
PRG Paragon Real Estate Equity and Investment Trust, formerly known as Stonehaven Realty Trust, is a real estate company, with its primary focus on acquiring, owning and operating multi-family residential real estate. At December 31, 2003, the Company owned a 1% interest in Paragon Real Estate, LP (the operating partnership) that owns Richton Trail Apartments (Richton Trail). Richton Trail is a residential apartment complex containing 72 units located near Chicago, Illinois. The complex was acquired by the operating partnership on July 1, 2003. Hampton Court Associates owns the remaining 99% interest in Paragon Real Estate, LP. The Company is the sole general partner of Paragon Real Estate, LP and Hampton Court is the limited partner. In June 2003, the Company changed its name from Stonehaven Realty Trust to Paragon Real Estate Equity and Investment Trust.
PDYN Paradyne Networks, Inc. (Paradyne) is a developer, manufacturer and distributor of broadband network access products for network service providers (NSPs) and business customers. It operates in a single-business segment through its wholly owned subsidiary, Paradyne Corporation. The Company's broadband products enable NSPs to provide network access services by allowing a level of management, monitoring and control over network access equipment and circuits. Business customers use its broadband products for high-speed connection of voice and data communications to connect their employees to corporate wide-area networks (WAN) and to the Internet, using both public and private services provided by NSPs.
PARF.OB Paradise, Inc. is engaged in the production of candied fruit and molded plastics. The Company's Candied Fruit segment produces candied fruit, a basic fruitcake ingredient that are sold to manufacturing bakers, institutional users and retailers for use in home baking. The segment also includes processing of frozen strawberry products for sale to commercial and institutional users such as preservers, dairies and drink manufacturers. The Molded Plastics segment produces plastic containers for the Company's products and other molded plastics for sale to unaffiliated customers. In May 2004, the Company acquired Mastercraft Products Corporation, a plastics manufacturing company located in DeLeon Springs, Florida. The principal raw materials used by the Company in its candied fruit are fruits, fruit peels, corn syrups and plastic resins.
PMED.OB Paradigm Medical Industries, Inc. develops, manufactures, sources, markets and sells ophthalmic surgical and diagnostic instrumentation and related accessories, including disposable products. The Company's surgical equipment is designed for minimally invasive cataract treatment. It markets two cataract surgery systems with related accessories and disposable products: the Photon laser system, a laser cataract surgery system marketed as the next generation of cataract removal, and the Precisionist Thirty Thousand, which has been reserved due to the estimated lack of recoverability. The Company's diagnostic products include a pachymeter, a P55 pachymetric analyzer, a P37 Ultrasonic A/B Scan, a P40 ultrasound biomicroscope, a perimeter, a corneal topographer and a blood flow analyzer.
PTC PAR Technology Corporation is the parent company of wholly owned subsidiary businesses. PAR's subsidiary, ParTech, Inc., is a provider of management technology solutions, including hardware, software and professional services to businesses in the restaurant, hospitality and retail industries. The Company is a supplier of hospitality technology systems with over 35,000 systems installed in 95 countries. PAR's hospitality management software technology assists in the operation of hospitality and restaurant businesses by managing data from end-to-end and improving profitability through more efficient operations. It is a provider of professional services and enterprise business intelligence applications to industry's corporations, such as McDonald's Corporation and Yum! Brands Inc., as well as Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut. Other chains of vendors are Boston Market, Chic-fil-A, CKE Restaurants, Carnival Cruise Lines and Loews Cineplex.
PRX Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc., formerly, Pharmaceutical Resources, Inc. (PRX) is a holding company together with its wholly owned subsidiary, Par Pharmaceutical, Inc. (Par), is in the business of manufacturing and distributing generic drugs in the United States. The Company also develops and manufactures, in small quantities, complex synthetic-active pharmaceutical ingredients through its wholly owned subsidiary, FineTech Laboratories, Ltd. (FineTech) based in Haifa, Israel. It also sells a limited number of mature-brand name drugs through an agreement between Par and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMS).
PCLP.OB PaperClip Software, Inc. is engaged in the development and distribution of computer software for document management and transport of electronic document packages across the Internet or intranet. The Company's systems allow users of personal computers (PCs) and PC networks to scan, file, retrieve, display, print and route documents and other software objects, while continuing to use their existing application software. These systems can be integrated with many PC applications with little or no programming, and can file and retrieve documents without manually labeling or indexing each document, or manually searching for documents. The Company develops and markets a line of software consisting of professional, workgroup and enterprise editions (the Systems). PaperClip also markets PaperClip Computer Output to Laser Disk (COLD), which captures batch file information before it goes to paper, and allows access, retrieval, full-text searching and printing of COLD documents.
PZZA Papa John's International, Inc. operates and franchises pizza delivery and carry-out restaurants under the Papa John's trademark. As of December 28, 2003, the Company and its franchisees operated domestically in 49 states, the District of Columbia and 15 international markets, and under the Perfect Pizza trademark in the United Kingdom. It has 2,790 Papa John's restaurants in operation, consisting of 570 Company-owned and 2,220 franchised restaurants. In addition, the Company has 135 franchised Perfect Pizza restaurants in operation. A total of 103 Papa John's restaurants were opened during the fiscal year ended December 28, 2003, while 105 Papa John's restaurants closed. Two franchised Perfect Pizza restaurants were opened and 11 franchised restaurants were closed. A total of 60 (11 Company-owned and 49 franchised) Perfect Pizza restaurants have been converted to Papa John's restaurants.
PHX Panhandle Royalty Company is involved in the acquisition and management of mineral interests and the exploration for, and development of, oil and gas properties, principally involving wells located on its mineral interests. Panhandle's mineral properties and other oil and gas interests are located primarily in Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas. The Company's properties are also located in 19 other states of United Sates. The majority of its oil and gas production is from wells located in Oklahoma and New Mexico. The Company does not act as operator for any of the properties, in which it owns an interest, thus it relies on the operating expertise of numerous companies that operate in the area where it owns mineral interests. Panhandle's crude oil and natural gas are sold to various purchasers, including pipeline and marketing companies, which are generally located in and service the areas where its producing wells are located.
PNRA Panera Bread Company operates a retail bakery-cafe business and franchising business under the concept names Panera Bread Company and Saint Louis Bread Company. As of December 27, 2003, the Company's retail operations consisted of 173 Company-owned bakery-cafes and 429 franchise-operated bakery-cafes. The Company's bakery-cafes offer a range of products, including fresh baked goods, made-to-order sandwiches on freshly baked breads, soups, salads, custom roasted coffees and other cafe beverages. Panera Bread targets suburban dwellers and workers by offering a specialty bakery and cafe experience with a neighborhood emphasis. Bakery-cafes are principally located in suburban, strip mall and regional mall locations, and operate in 35 states.
PVIS.OB Panavision Inc. is a designer, manufacturer and supplier of precision camera systems, comprised of cameras, lenses and accessories for the motion picture, television series and television commercial markets in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. In addition to manufacturing and renting camera systems, the Company also has rental operations providing lighting, lighting grip, power distribution, generation and related transportation equipment, cranes and remote camera heads. These operations include Lee Lighting, a lighting rental company in the United Kingdom, as well as other owned-and-operated facilities in New York; Orlando, Florida, Dallas, Texas, Toronto, Canada and Australia. Panavision also manufactures and sells lighting filters and other color-correction and diffusion filters through its Lee Filters operation.
PNB PanAmerican Bancorp is a single-bank holding company. PanAmerican Bank (the Bank), which is the sole subsidiary of the PanAmerican Bancorp, is a state-chartered, federal member bank engaged in a general commercial and consumer banking business. Its primary market area for loans and deposits are Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties in southeast Florida, where it operates six full-service banking offices. The Bank is engaged in general commercial banking, providing a wide range of loan and deposit services. The Bank's customers are predominantly small to medium-sized businesses, individual investors and consumers. During the year ended December 31, 2003, collateralized loans included commercial and industrial loans, which represented 34% of the Company's lending portfolio; commercial real estate loans, which represented 56%; residential real estate loans, which represented 4%, and consumer and installment loans, which represented 6%.
PNP Pan Pacific Retail Properties, Inc. is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust that owns, leases and manages neighborhood and community shopping centers in the United States. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned and operated 130 neighborhood and community shopping centers containing 20.8 million square feet, of which 18.4 million square feet is owned by Pan Pacific with the balance owned by certain retailers. These properties are primarily situated in five key Western United States markets including Northern California, Southern California, Oregon, Washington and Nevada. The largest concentration of properties, consisting of 30% of the Company's owned gross leasable area, is located in Southern California. The Company's properties were 95.4% leased during 2003.
PAAS Pan American Silver Corp. is principally engaged in the exploration for, and the acquisition, development and operation of, silver properties primarily in Peru, Mexico, Bolivia and Argentina, with a secondary focus on the United States and the Americas. For the year ended December 31, 2003, Pan American's silver production increased by 11% to 8.6 million ounces. Pan American's principal products and sources of revenue are silver-rich zinc, lead and copper concentrates. It transports and sells silver-rich pyrite stockpiles at a small-scale operation in central Peru. The stockpiles were accumulated over several years by Volcan, a mining company in the Cerro de Pasco mining district in central Peru. Production from the stockpiles in 2003 totaled 68,388 tons of ore containing 810,829 ounces of silver. In 2003, the Quiruvilca, Huaron and La Colorada mines and stockpiles accounted for all of Pan American's production of concentrates.
PBCI Pamrapo Bancorp, Inc. is a savings and loan holding company that does not transact any material business other than through its sole subsidiary, Pamrapo Savings Bank, S.L.A. (the Bank). As of December 31, 2003, the Bank had total assets of $636.9 million and deposits of $496.4 million. The Bank is principally engaged in attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing those funds in fixed-rate one- to four-family residential mortgage loans and, to a lesser extent, in multi-family residential mortgage loans, commercial real estate loans, home equity and second mortgage loans, consumer loans and mortgage-backed securities. The Bank's revenues are derived principally from interest on loans and mortgage-backed securities, interest and dividends on investment securities and short-term investments and other fees and service charges. Its primary sources of funds are deposits and, to a lesser extent, Federal Home Loan Bank of New York advances and other borrowings.
PTSI P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc. is a truckload dry van carrier transporting general commodities throughout the continental United States and in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The Company also provides transportation services in Mexico under agreements with Mexican carriers. Its freight consists of automotive parts, consumer goods, such as general retail store merchandise, and manufactured goods that include heating and air conditioning units. During the year ended December 31, 2003, it entered the logistics market with the acquisition of a company that provides only logistics services. Its logistics business consists of services such as transportation scheduling, routing, mode selection, transloading and other value-added services related to the transportation of freight.
PMTI Palomar Medical Technologies, Inc. is a researcher and developer of light-based systems for hair removal and other cosmetic procedures. The Company researches, develops, manufactures, markets, sells and services light-based products used to perform procedures addressing medical and cosmetic concerns. Palomar offers a range of products based on its technologies that include hair removal; non-invasive treatment of facial and leg veins and other benign vascular lesions, such as rosacea, spider veins, port wine stains and hemangiomas; removal of benign pigmented lesions, such as age and sun spots; tattoo removal; acne treatment; pseudofolliculitis barbae (PFB), and other skin treatments. Palomar's systems include the StarLux, MediLux, EsteLux and NeoLux, which are cosmetic, light-based systems. One of the Company's developments includes an agreement with The Gillette Company to complete development and potentially commercialize a home-use, light-based hair removal device for women.
PSRC PalmSource, Inc. is a developer and licensor of a software platform that enables mobile information devices. The Company's software platform consists of the Palm operating system and software development tools that mobile information device manufacturers use to develop products from PalmSource's platform. It has also extended its platform with applications, such as personal information management software, Web browsers and e-mail. PalmSource licenses Palm OS to mobile information device manufacturers, including Garmin, Handspring, GSPDA, Kyocera, palmOne, Samsung and Sony.
PLMO palmOne, Inc. is a global provider of handheld computing and communications devices. The Company targets consumer, business, education and government users around the world. palmOne shipped over 26.4 million handheld devices worldwide during the fiscal year ended May 31, 2004. palmOne sells products under three sub-brands: the Zire, Tungsten and Treo. The Zire family is primarily designed for, and targeted at, consumers such as entry-level and digital media enthusiasts. The Treo and Tungsten lines are primarily designed for and targeted at business professionals and enterprise users. These product families span the handheld computing and communications device market. The products are differentiated in terms of price, functionality and software applications that are delivered with the device. Standard software in all of its products includes an address book, date book, clock, to-do list, memo pad, note pad and calculator.
PHHM Palm Harbor Homes, Inc. manufactures and markets factory-built homes in the United States. The Company markets through vertically integrated operations, encompassing manufactured and modular housing, chattel and mortgage bank financing, as well as insurance. Through the Company's 80%-owned subsidiary, CountryPlace Mortgage, Ltd., it offers chattel and non-conforming land/home mortgages to purchasers of manufactured homes. The Company provides property and casualty insurance for owners of manufactured and modular homes through its subsidiary, Standard Casualty Company. Palm Harbor operates principally in two segments: factory-built housing, which includes manufactured housing, modular housing and retail operations, and financial services, which includes finance and insurance.
PLL Pall Corporation is a supplier of fine filters, principally made by the Company using its own filter media, and other fluid clarification and separations equipment for the removal of solid, liquid and gaseous contaminants from a variety of liquids and gases. Metal and plastic housings for its filters and a variety of appurtenant devices are also offered. Pall's products are used to discover, develop and produce pharmaceuticals, produce safe drinking water, protect hospital patients, remove white blood cells from blood, enhance the quality and efficiency of manufacturing processes, keep equipment running efficiently and protect the environment. The Company serves customers in two principal markets: life sciences and industrial. The two principal markets are further divided into five segments: Medical and BioPharmaceuticals (life sciences) and General Industrial, Aerospace and Microelectronics (industrial).
PGNT.OB Paligent Inc. is engaged in seeking business opportunities. It has evaluated various strategic alternatives, including acquisitions of new operating businesses and technologies, as well as potential merger opportunities. From inception through, December 31, 2003, it has generated no revenues from product sales or services, has not been profitable and has an accumulated deficit. It was dependent upon corporate collaborations, equity financing, interest on invested funds and borrowings to provide the working capital necessary for its operations and research and development activities. The Company's two out-licensed biotechnology compounds, PRO 2000 Gel and O6-Benzylguanine, had been under development for several years. Under the terms of the respective out-licensing agreements, Paligent retains certain future rights, including the right to receive certain agreed-upon payments upon the achievement of certain milestones, as well as royalties from commercial sales, if any.
PTN Palatin Technologies, Inc. (Palatin) is primarily focused on discovering and developing melanocortin (MC)-based therapeutics. The MC family of receptors has been identified with a variety of conditions and diseases, including sexual dysfunction, obesity, cachexia, which is extreme wasting, generally secondary to a chronic disease, and inflammation. In July 2004, the Company announced the receipt of full approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market NeutroSpec, its radiolabeled monoclonal antibody product, for imaging of patients with equivocal signs and symptoms of appendicitis who are five years of age or older. In August 2004, the Company entered into a collaboration agreement with King Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, to jointly develop and commercialize PT-141, Palatin's lead therapeutic drug candidate for the treatment of both male and female sexual dysfunction.
PRZ PainCare Holdings, Inc. provides health care services through its wholly owned medical practice subsidiaries (Owned Practices), medical practices that prohibit the corporate practice of medicine (Managed Practices), as well as medical practices where the Company provides certain equipment and services pursuant to specific or limited engagements (Limited Management Practices). These services include pain management, minimally invasive spine surgery (MIS) and orthopedic rehabilitation services to patients of PainCare's Owned Practices, Managed Practices and Limited Management Practices seeking pain relief. The Company has developed its business approach to provide an integrated combination of products and services to patients.
PTIE Pain Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of drugs that target severe chronic pain, such as pain associated with advanced osteoarthritis, low-back pain or irritable bowel syndrome. The Company has three proprietary drug candidates in clinical development: Oxytrex, Remoxy and PTI-901. Its two most advanced drugs, Oxytrex and PTI-901, are in Phase III clinical trials. Remoxy is in Phase I clinical trials in the United Kingdom.
PACW Pac-West Telecomm, Inc. is an independent broadband provider of integrated business communications solutions. The Company's customers include Internet service providers and enhanced communications service providers, collectively referred to as service providers (SPs), and the enterprise market, also referred to as small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME). The Company provides its SP market core network technologies as well as overlaying applications such as its first overlay product, Dial Broadband solution. Its facilities-based network enables it to provide SME business customers with local and long distance voice services, Internet access and high-speed data transport, giving them the ability to send and receive e-mail, exchange data between branch offices and download information from the Internet. Pac-West's products and services fall primarily into two categories, SPs, to which it provides wholesale services, and SME business enterprises, to which it provides retail services.
PTV Pactiv Corporation is a supplier of specialty packaging and consumer products. Pactiv has three operating segments: Consumer Products, Foodservice/Food Packaging and Protective and Flexible Packaging. The Company's consumer products include plastic, aluminum and paper-based products, such as waste bags, food storage bags and disposable tableware and cookware. Its foodservice/food packaging products include foam, clear plastic, aluminum, pressedpaperboard and molded-fiber packaging for customers in the food distribution channel, including wholesalers, supermarkets and packer processors that prepare and process food for consumption. The Company's protective packaging products are generally used to protect and cushion various commercial and industrial products from the point of manufacture to the point of delivery or pick-up.
PKPT.OB PacketPort.com, Inc. provides commercialized global-hosted telephony solutions (GHTS) using VoicePak Soft Central Office (SCO), Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP), service access point and service access transfer point (SATP). GHTS is an Internet centric business partnership program, depending exclusively for access on either dial-up or broadband connectivity for the delivery of services. The GHTS Alliance Program is a multi-tiered partnership program designed to drive awareness in the broadband telephony services market using the VoicePak family of products. It creates integrated and interoperable voice solutions, which enable high-value and high-margin services to be delivered to existing subscribers through the VoicePak family of products and the PacketPort.com's SCO. PacketPort.com's product suites include VoicePak Gateway, VoicePak Database, VoicePak Call Agent, VoicePak Integrated Access Device (IAD) and the VoicePak Universal Serial Bus (USB) Phone.
PKTR Packeteer, Inc. is a provider of application traffic management systems designed to deliver a set of visibility, control and compression capabilities to enterprise customers and service providers. The Packeteer application traffic management system consists of a family of appliances with performance capabilities that make them capable of deployment within large data centers as well as smaller remote sites throughout a distributed enterprise. Each appliance can be configured to deliver a range of application traffic management solutions, from visibility with PacketSeeker, to control with PacketShaper, to compression with PacketShaper Xpress. In addition, each appliance can be managed individually or in context of a completely integrated policy-based application traffic management system distributed across multiple locations, using the ReportCenter or PolicyCenter software products. Packeteer's products are deployed at more than 5,000 enterprises and service providers worldwide.
PKDY Packaging Dynamics Corporation converts paper, foil and film into products that serve a variety of end-use markets and operates six converting plants in Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Mississippi and Kansas. The Company owns all of the interest in Packaging Dynamics Operating Company. It serves various markets, including foodservice, distribution, retail, supermarket, prepared food and several industrial markets. It supplies printed bags, fast food foil and paper sandwich wrap sheets, can liner, label stock, blister pack, pouch stock and insulation facing. Packaging Dynamics has developed a number of innovations, including the Dubl-Wax bag serving the retail bakery industry, as well as the fog-free window bag for hot item carry-outs. These products include togo packaging, coffee bags, coated foil, wax laminations and lidding products. The products are sold through distributors, as well as directly to the end user, primarily in North America.
PKG Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) consists of mills and corrugated products operations. The mill operations consist of two kraft linerboard mills located in Counce, Tennessee, and Valdosta, Georgia, and two medium mills located in Filer City, Michigan, and Tomahawk, Wisconsin. The Company leases the cutting rights to approximately 115,000 acres of timberland as of December 31, 2003. PCA's corrugated manufacturing operations consist of 66 corrugated products plants, with 40 operating as combining operations or corrugated plants and 26 as sheet plants; a technical and development center; five graphic design centers; a rotogravure printing operation, and a complement of packaging supplies and distribution centers. Corrugated plants combine linerboard and medium (primarily from PCA's mills) into sheets that are converted into corrugated shipping containers, point-of-sale graphics packaging, point-of-purchase displays and other specialized packaging.
PACT PacificNet Inc. through its subsidiaries, invests in and operates companies that provide outsourcing and value-added services (VAS) and solutions in China, such as call centers, telemarketing, customer relationship management (CRM), business process outsourcing (BPO) and software development outsourcing, interactive voice response (IVR), mobile applications, and sales and distribution of telecom products and services. PacificNet's clients include telecom operators, banks, insurance, travel, marketing and service companies, as well as telecom consumers, in Greater China. Clients include China Telecom, China Netcom, China Mobile, China Unicom, PCCW, Hutchison Telecom, CSL, SmarTone, Sunday, Swire Travel, Coca-Cola, A.S. Watson Group, SONY, Samsung, TNT Express, Huawei, TCL, Dun &amp; Bradstreet, Altruist Financial, American Express, Bank of China, DBS, Hong Kong Government and Hongkong Post.
PHLI.OB PacificHealth Laboratories, Inc. (PHLI) is a nutrition technology company committed to research and development of dietary and nutritional supplements that can enhance health and well-being. The Company researches, develops and commercializes products for sports performance, weight loss and Type 2 diabetes that can be marketed without prior approval of the United States Food and Drug Administration, under current regulatory guidelines. The Company's sports performance products are Endurox, Endurox Excel, Endurox R4 Performance/Recovery Drink and Accelerade Sports Drink. Its weight loss products are Satietrol and Satietrol Complete. The Company has yet to launch a product for Type II diabetes. PHLI utilizes third-party contractors to manufacture all its products. During the year ended December 31, 2003, PHLI acquired Strong Research Corp., a research-based, educational sports nutrition company.
PHS Pacificare Health Systems, Inc. offers managed care and other health insurance products to employer groups and Medicare beneficiaries, primarily in eight western states and Guam. These programs include health maintenance organizations (HMOs), preferred provider organizations (PPOs) and Medicare Supplement products. Pacificare also offers specialty managed care products and services that employees can purchase as a supplement to its basic commercial and senior medical plans or as stand-alone products. These products include pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services, behavioral health services, group life and health insurance and dental and vision benefit plans. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had approximately 2.9 million HMO and other commercial and senior product members and approximately 9.4 million members in its PBM, dental and behavioral plans. In December 2004, the Company acquired American Medical Security Group, Inc.
PWEB.OB Pacific WebWorks, Inc. is an application service provider and software development firm that develops business software technologies and services for business merchants and organizations using Internet and other technologies. It assists small businesses through Visual WebTools software, the Intellipay payment systems and education and hosting services. The Company's product family provides tools for Website creation, management and maintenance, as well as electronic business storefront hosting and Internet payment systems. Pacific WebWorks's four wholly owned subsidiaries include Intellipay, Inc., which specializes in providing online, secure and real-time payment processing services, referred to as the Intellipay payment system; TradeWorks Marketing, Inc., which markets the Company's products and services; FundWorks, Inc., which provides operating lease arrangements for certain TradeWorks' customers, and World Commerce Network, LLC., a non-operating, discontinued operation.
PSUN Pacific Sunwear of California, Inc. is a specialty retailer of everyday casual apparel, accessories and footwear designed to meet the needs of active teens and young adults in the United States. The Company operates three primarily mall-based chains of retail stores under the names Pacific Sunwear (PacSun), Pacific Sunwear (PacSun) Outlet and d.e.m.o. PacSun and PacSun Outlet stores specialize in board-sport inspired casual apparel, footwear and related accessories catering to teenagers and young adults. d.e.m.o. specializes in hip-hop inspired casual apparel and related accessories catering to teenagers and young adults. In addition, the Company operates a Website that sells PacSun merchandise online, provides content and community for its target customers and provides information about the Company. As of November 27, 2004, the Company operated 743 PacSun stores, 84 PacSun Outlet stores and 162 d.e.m.o. stores, for a total of 989 stores in 50 states and Puerto Rico.
PFSD.OB Pacific Sands, Inc. manufactures, markets and sells non-toxic cleaning and water treatment products with applications ranging from spa and swimming pool treatment to cleaning and pet care. The Company has a mature, actively marketed product line in the Eco One Spa Treatment system. Eco One Spa treatment system includes Eco One Spa Treatment, Eco One Spa Filter Boost, Eco One Spa Cleanser and Eco One Cover Cleaner.
PMU Pacific Rim Mining Corp. (Pacific Rim) is a mineral resource corporation engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the acquisition, exploration and, if warranted, development of precious metals properties. The Company's exploration activities are focused in El Salvador. Pacific Rim continues to explore for projects in the Americas, which warrant drilling. The Company will primarily be exploring for gold and silver on any newly acquired projects. The Company was formed by the amalgamation of Dayton Mining Corporation (Dayton) and Pacific Rim Mining Corp. (PacRim). The Company's principal properties are the El Dorado gold property (El Dorado Property) and the La Calera gold project (La Calera Project) located in El Salvador. The Eldorado Property and the La Calera Project are collectively referred to as the Company's El Salvador Project.
PPBI Pacific Premier Bancorp, Inc. is a community banking institution focused on full service banking to small businesses and consumers. Through its operating subsidiary, Pacific Premier Bank (the Bank), it emphasizes the delivery of depository products and services to customers through its three branches in Orange and San Bernardino Counties in Southern California. The Company's lending is focused on income property loans. At December 31, 2003, the Bank's net loans receivable held for investment totaled $246.8 million and net loans receivable held for sale totaled $804,000. Its investment securities portfolio amounted to $48.3 million at December 31, 2003 as compared to $63.1 million at December 31, 2002. The Bank's deposits consist of passbook savings, checking accounts, money market savings accounts and certificates of deposit. Total deposits at December 31, 2003 were $221.4 million.
PMBC Pacific Mercantile Bancorp is a bank holding company that owns all of the stock of Pacific Mercantile Bank (the Bank). The Bank conducts a commercial banking business in Orange, Los Angeles and San Diego counties. The Company also offers retail securities brokerage service and investment products, such as tax-free income, fixed income and equity securities and mutual fund investments. As of December 31, 2003, Pacific Mercantile Bancorp was serving a total of approximately 7,600 deposit accounts, of which approximately 52% were business customers. The Company operates six full-service commercial banking offices and an Internet branch banking at www.pmbank.com. Due to the Bank's Internet presence, it has customers located in 49 states and the District of Columbia.
PMIC.OB Pacific Magtron International Corp. is engaged in the distribution of computer peripheral products through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Pacific Magtron, Inc. (PMI), Pacific Magtron (GA), Inc. (PMIGA) and LiveWarehouse, Inc. (LW). PMI fulfills the multimedia hardware needs of system integrators, value-added resellers, retailers, original equipment manufacturers, software vendors and Internet resellers through the wholesale distribution of computer-related multimedia hardware components and software. PMIGA was formed for the distribution of PMI's products in the eastern United States. LW provides consumers a convenient way to purchase computer products via the Internet.
PCNTF Pacific Internet Limited (PacNet) is a pan-Asian telco-independent Internet communications service provider. PacNet provides a suite of Internet solutions to meet the varying needs of consumers and corporate customers of every size from small office home office (SOHO), start-ups, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to regional and multinational corporations with multi-site presence. The Company has operations in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, the Philippines, India, Thailand and Malaysia. Its major Internet access products include dial-up access, integrated services digital network access, leased line access, consumer broadband and corporate broadband, wireless broadband @ home, and wireless broadband @ work. PacNet also operates a travel business, branded Safe2Travel. Safe2Travel is a corporate travel agency in Singapore. Its core business is business travel management for corporate customers.
PPX Pacific Energy Partners, L.P. is engaged in the business of gathering, transporting, storing and distributing crude oil and other dark products in California and the Rocky Mountain region. The Company also buys, blends and sells crude oil, which are activities complementary to its pipeline transportation business. Pacific Energy holds 100% ownership interest in Pacific Energy Group LLC, whose subsidiaries include Pacific Pipeline System LLC, which owns Line 2000 and the Line 63 system; Pacific Terminals LLC that owns the Pacific Terminals storage and distribution system; Pacific Marketing and Transportation LLC, owner of the PMT gathering and blending system; Rocky Mountain Pipeline System LLC, which owns the Western Corridor system, the Salt Lake City Core system and Anschutz ranch east pipeline, and Ranch Pipeline LLC that owns a partnership interest in Frontier Pipeline Company. The Company's two regional operating units include West Coast operations and Rocky Mountain operations.
PCBK Pacific Continental Corporation is a one-bank holding company that conducts its principal business activities through its full-service commercial bank subsidiary, Pacific Continental Bank (Pacific or the Bank). At December 31, 2003, the Bank had facilities in seven Oregon cities and towns and operated 10 full-service offices and two-consumer finance lending offices. The Bank's markets consist of Lane, Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas Counties in the State of Oregon and Southwest Washington State. It specializes in meeting the deposit and lending needs of community-based businesses, professional service groups and not-for-profit organizations. The Bank also provides other traditional commercial and consumer banking services, including safe deposit services, debit and automated teller machine cards, ACH transactions, savings bonds, cashier's checks, travelers checks, notary services and others.
PAM Pacific CMA, Inc. is a global, non-asset-based logistics/freight forwarder providing supply chain logistics services. The Company coordinates the shipping and the storage of raw materials, supplies, components and finished goods by air, sea, river, rail and road. Pacific is capable of handling all types of cargo, including garments on hangers, refrigerated cargo, hazardous materials, as well as perishable goods. Most of its revenue is derived from airfreight and ocean freight forwarding services for which it is paid on a transactional basis. As of December 31, 2003, the Company has operations in 68 countries and 161 cities serving major gateways worldwide. In April 2004, the Company acquired Paradigm International, a Miami, Florida-based, privately held logistic services provider.
PCBC Pacific Capital Bancorp is a bank holding company engaged in the provision of support services to its principal subsidiary bank, Pacific Capital Bank, N.A. (PCBNA). PCBNA offers a full range of commercial banking services, including various commercial, real estate and consumer loan, leasing and deposit products. PCBNA also offers other services, such as electronic fund transfers and safe deposit boxes, lockbox payment servicing, foreign currency exchange, letters of credit, cash management and a range of trust and investment services. PCBNA also provides investment management and advisory services as well as products related to income tax returns filed electronically. As of December 31, 2003, PCBNA had 41 banking offices in California, from the Thousand Oaks/Westlake area of Ventura County in the south to Morgan Hill in the north. PCBNA uses the brand names Santa Barbara Bank &amp; Trust, First National Bank of Central California, South Valley National Bank and San Benito Bank.
PBME.OB Pacific Biometrics, Inc. (PBI) provides specialty central laboratory services to support pharmaceutical and diagnostic manufacturers in the conduct of human clinical research for use in their drug discovery and development efforts. The Company's specialty areas include cardiovascular disease, such as dyslipidemia, atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, and diabetes, obesity and bone and joint diseases, such as osteoporosis and arthritis. PBI also has central laboratory capability and provides full-service central laboratory support for multi-center clinical trials, including routine safety lab tests, such as general chemistry, hematology and urinalysis. The Company provides specialty reference and central laboratory services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. It also acts as a subcontractor for large central laboratories for its specialty reference laboratory services. During fiscal 2004, the Company formed a new wholly owned subsidiary, PBI Technology, Inc.
PACR Pacer International, Inc. is a non-asset-based North American logistics provider. The Company provides its logistics services from two segments, wholesale services and retail services. The wholesale segment provides services principally to transportation intermediaries and international shipping companies, while its retail segment provides services principally to end user customers. Pacer offers intermodal services and local trucking through the wholesale services segment. The retail segment provides truck brokerage and truck services, intermodal marketing services, warehousing and distribution, international freight forwarding and supply chain management services primarily to shippers.
PMDL.OB Ace Medical, Inc. is engaged in the designing, manufacturing and selling of single and dual-chamber temporary cardiac pacemakers, a dual-chamber pacing analyzer, percutaneous lead introducers, surgical and temporary pacemaker extension cables and related accessories. The Company's operations include that of APC Medical Ltd. (APC Medical), which was acquired from American Pacemaker Corporation, a subsidiary of Intermedics, Inc. APC Medical is a United Kingdom limited company with facilities located in Welwyn Garden City, Herts, England. Pace Medical has several products being marketed in the United States that have received marketing approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Company's Model 4570 MICRO-PACE, dual-chamber, temporary cardiac pacemaker, is a programmable 11 mode, single and dual-chamber temporary cardiac pacemaker consisting of three trial modes, four ventricular modes and four dual modes.
PCES.OB PACE Health Management Systems, Inc. was in the business of developing, marketing and supporting advanced clinical software that automates the recording, storage and management of patient care information. On October 7, 1998, the Company completed the sale of substantially all of its assets to, and the assumption of certain of its liabilities by, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (the Transaction). Following the Transaction, PACE has no ongoing operations and no revenues and has minimal operating expenses. The Company has been seeking a business combination with another entity, before considering possible liquidation and distribution of its assets. As of March 29, 2004, no definitive agreement has been signed for a follow-on transaction. If no suitable business combination is identified, the Company may elect to liquidate and distribute the remaining net proceeds to shareholders.
PCAR PACCAR Inc is a multinational company whose principal businesses include the design, manufacture and distribution of light-, medium- and heavy-duty commercial trucks and related aftermarket distribution of parts. The Company distributes trucks and parts primarily through its independent dealer network. In North America, trucks are sold under the Kenworth and Peterbilt nameplates and, in Europe, under the DAF and Foden nameplates. A portion of the Company's revenues and income is also derived from the financing and leasing of its trucks and related equipment. Financing and leasing operations are conducted by PACCAR subsidiaries in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia and Europe. The Company also manufactures industrial winches and markets them under the Braden, Carco and Gearmatic nameplates.
PAB PAB Bankshares, Inc. is the holding company for The Park Avenue Bank (the Bank). The Company has acquired five other Georgia financial institutions and one Florida financial institution. The Bank offers traditional banking products and services to commercial and individual customers in the Company's markets. Its product line includes loans to small- and medium-sized businesses; residential and commercial construction and development loans; commercial real estate loans; farmland and agricultural production loans; residential mortgage loans; home equity loans; consumer loans, and a variety of commercial and consumer demand, savings and time deposit products. It also offers Internet banking, on-line cash management, electronic bill payment services, safe deposit box rentals, telephone banking, credit and debit card services and the availability of a network of automated teller machines (ATMs) to its customers.
OYOG OYO Geospace Corporation designs, manufactures and distributes instruments and equipment used primarily in the acquisition and processing of seismic data for the oil and gas industry. The Company also designs and manufactures thermal imaging equipment and distributes dry thermal film products to the commercial graphics industry. On September 30, 2004, the Company acquired the thermal printhead production assets of Graphtec Corporation. On September 12, 2003, the Company purchased an additional 12% ownership interest in OYO-GEO Impulse from Geophyspribor, thereby increasing its ownership interest to 97%.
OXIS.OB OXIS International, Inc. (OXIS) is a biopharmaceutical/nutraceutical company engaged in the development of research diagnostics, nutraceutical and therapeutic products, which include technologies applicable to conditions and/or diseases associated with oxidative stress. The Company is structured into two wholly owned subsidiaries: OXIS Health Products, Inc., which carries out the Company's commercial health products business that markets research and commercial diagnostic assays and fine chemicals to research and clinical laboratories and other customers, and OXIS Therapeutics, Inc., which carries out the Company's pharmaceutical and nutraceutical discovery and research business that is focused on new drugs and compounds to treat diseases associated with tissue damage from free radicals and reactive oxygen species.
OXGN OxiGene, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in research into and the development of products for use in the treatment of cancer and certain ocular diseases. The Company's efforts in oncology are focused on developing products for application as direct cancer treatment agents, particularly vascular targeting agents (VTAs). These agents attack a tumor's network of existing and emerging blood vessels, which are its main life support system. It is also investigating the use of certain products for other applications in the field of ophthalmology, in particular age-related macular degeneration and myopic macular degeneration. Certain Company activities are conducted with third parties, either through licensing arrangements or collaborations. OxiGene has, in various stages of clinical and pre-clinical development, multiple therapeutic product candidates that were derived from its principal vascular targeting platform.
OXM Oxford Industries, Inc. is a designer, manufacturer, marketer and wholesaler of consumer apparel products in the United States. The Company's business is operated through the Oxford Shirt Group, Lanier Clothes, Oxford Slacks and the Oxford Womenswear Group. The Oxford Shirt Group operations encompass branded and private-label dress and sport shirts and branded golf apparel. Lanier Clothes produces branded and private-label suits, sportscoats, suit separates and dress slacks. Oxford Slacks is a producer of private-label dress slacks, casual slacks and walkshorts. The Oxford Womenswear Group is a producer of private-label women's sportswear.
OMI Owens &amp; Minor, Inc. (O&amp;M) is a distributor of national brand name medical and surgical supplies in the United States, and a healthcare supply chain management company, distributing approximately 120,000 finished medical and surgical products produced by over 1,000 suppliers to approximately 4,000 customers from 41 distribution centers nationwide. The Company's customers are primarily acute care hospitals and integrated healthcare networks, which account for more than 90% of O&amp;M's net sales. Other customers include alternate care providers such as clinics, home healthcare organizations, nursing homes, physicians' offices, rehabilitation facilities and surgery centers. Most of O&amp;M's sales consist of consumable goods such as disposable gloves, dressings, endoscopic products, intravenous products, needles and syringes, sterile procedure trays, surgical products and gowns, urological products and wound closure products.
OI Owens-Illinois, Inc. through its subsidiaries, is an international manufacturer of packaging products and is a manufacturer of glass containers in North America, South America, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. It is also a manufacturer of plastics packaging with operations in North America, South America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Plastics packaging products it manufactures include consumer products (injection-molded containers and closures and dispensing systems) and prescription containers. The Company has two product segments: Glass Containers and Plastics Packaging. In October 2004, the Company sold its blow-molded plastic container operations in North America, South America and Europe to Graham Packaging Company, a portfolio company of The Blackstone Group.
OWENQ.OB Owens Corning serves consumers and industrial customers with building materials systems and composites systems. The Company's Building Materials Systems segment is engaged in the production and sale of glass wool fibers formed into thermal and acoustical insulation and air ducts; foam insulation; roofing shingles; glass fiber mat and asphalt materials; vinyl siding and accessories; windows and doors; cast stone building products, and branded housewrap. The Composite Solutions segment produces and sells glass fiber used in a variety of composites material systems in the transportation, building construction, telecommunications and electronics markets. Many of Owens Corning's products are marketed under registered trademarks, including Propink, Advantex and/or the color PINK. In 2003, the Building Materials Systems segment accounted for approximately 80% of the Company's total sales while Composite Solutions accounted for the remainder.
OSTK Overstock.com, Inc. is an online closeout retailer offering discount, brand-name merchandise for sale primarily over the Internet. Its merchandise offerings include bed-and-bath goods, kitchenware, watches, jewelry, electronics, sporting goods and designer accessories. The Company also sells books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, videocassettes and video games (BMV). Overstock offers its customers an opportunity to shop for bargains conveniently, while offering its suppliers an alternative inventory liquidation distribution channel. It typically offers approximately 12,000 non-BMV products and approximately 500,000 BMV products in up to 12 departments on its Websites, www.overstock.com, www.overstockb2b.com and www.worldstock.com. The Company also offers travel services, including airline tickets, hotel reservations and car rentals. Overstock.com has a direct business in which it buys and takes possession of excess inventory for resale.
OSG Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (OSG) is an independent bulk shipping company engaged primarily in the ocean transportation of crude oil and petroleum products. As of December 31, 2003, the Company's modern fleet consisted of 52 oceangoing vessels that aggregate 9.0 million deadweight tons, of which 43 vessels operated in the international market and nine vessels operated in the United States Flag market. Of the 52 vessels in OSG's fleet, 47 are tankers engaged in the oil transportation business. Its five other vessels are engaged in the transportation of dry bulk cargo. OSG charters its vessels either for specific voyages (voyage charters) at spot rates or for specific periods of time at fixed monthly amounts. From time to time, the Company also charters out its vessels on bareboat charters. Under such bareboat charters, the ships are chartered out for specific periods of time (generally medium- or long-term), during which they are manned and operated by the Company's customers.
OVNT Overnite Corporation conducts its business through Overnite Transportation Company (Overnite Transportation) and Motor Cargo Industries, Inc. (Motor Cargo). Overnite Transportation and Motor Cargo are indirect wholly owned subsidiaries of Overnite Holding, Inc. (Overnite Holding). Prior to November 2003, Overnite Holding was a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Union Pacific Corporation (Union Pacific) and is now a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Overnite Corporation. The Company is a provider of less than truckload (LTL) transportation services offering regional, inter-regional and long-haul LTL services nationwide. In addition to its core LTL service, Overnite also provides customers with additional value-added LTL services, including expedited and guaranteed delivery, cross-border, assembly and distribution, trade show, government and third-party logistics services.
OVRL Overland Storage, Inc. is primarily engaged in the design, development, manufacture, marketing and support of magnetic tape data automation solutions. Historically, the Company focused on delivering a portfolio of automation solutions, including tape loader and library systems designed for small business and mid-range computing environments. In June 2003, it acquired Okapi Software, Inc., a privately owned company, based in San Diego, California. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), approximately 65% of the Company's sales were generated through private-label arrangements with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and the remaining were generated from sales made through commercial distributors, catalogers and value-added resellers (VARs).
OFI Overhill Farms, Inc. is a value-added manufacturer of frozen food products. The Company produces entrees, plated meals, meal components, soups, sauces and poultry, meat and fish specialties. Overhill Farms provides custom prepared foods to such customers as Panda Restaurant Group and Jenny Craig Products, as well as several domestic airlines. The Company manufactures products in the retail and foodservice areas with branded and private label entrees and components. Historically, it has served four industries: airlines, weight loss, foodservice and retail. The Company's manufacturing operations are located in two facilities in Vernon, California.
OUTL Outlook Group Corp. is a printing, packaging and direct marketing company offering a variety of related services to clients in markets such as specialty print, project management, label and packaging materials and direct mail. The Company has two business segments, Outlook Graphics and Outlook Web. Outlook Graphics produces custom printed products on media such as newsprint, coated paper and heavy board, including paperboard packaging. Outlook Graphics also provides finishing services, contract packaging, direct marketing and collateral information management and distribution services. Outlook Web manufactures items such as coupons, pressure-sensitive specialty labels, printed vinyl cards cartons sweepstakes and specialty game pieces. It provides flexographic printing, slitting and laminating of flexible packaging films. In July 2004, the Company sold its selected assets of Paragon Direct to A. B. Data, Ltd., a direct marketing services firm based in Milwaukee.
OUTD Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc. owns a majority interest in The Outdoor Channel, Inc., a national television network devoted to traditional outdoor activities, such as hunting, fishing, shooting sports, rodeo, motor sports, gold prospecting and related life style programming. The Company also owns and operates related businesses, which serve the interests of viewers of The Outdoor Channel and other outdoor enthusiasts. These related businesses include LDMA-AU, Inc. (Lost Dutchman's), is a national gold prospecting campground club with approximately 6,300 members and properties in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon and South Carolina. Gold Prospectors' Association of America, Inc. (GPAA), is an international gold prospecting club with approximately 32,900 active members. It is the publisher of the Gold Prospector magazine and owner of a 2,300-acre property near Nome, Alaska, used to provide outings for a fee to its members.
OSI Outback Steakhouse, Inc., formerly Multi-Venture Partners, Inc., is an international casual dining restaurant company with seven restaurant concepts and over 1,000 system-wide restaurants. The seven restaurant concepts are Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba's Italian Grill, Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar, Lee Roy Selmon's, Roy's, Bonefish Grill and Cheeseburger in Paradise. The Company operates in all 50 states in the United States and in 21 countries internationally, predominantly through Company-owned stores, but also operates under a variety of partnerships and franchises.
OTTR Otter Tail Corporation operates in five business segments: Electric, Plastics, Manufacturing, Health Services and Other Business Operations. Electric includes the production, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy. Plastics consists of businesses producing polyvinyl chloride and polyethylene pipe. Manufacturing includes the production of waterfront equipment, wind towers, frame-straightening equipment and accessories for the auto repair industry, custom plastic pallets, material and handling trays and horticultural containers; fabrication of steel products; contract machining, and metal parts stamping and fabrication. Health Services includes the sale of diagnostic medical equipment, patient monitoring equipment and related supplies and accessories. Other Business Operations consists of businesses including electrical and telephone construction contracting, specialty contracting, transportation, telecommunications, energy services and natural gas marketing.
OTIV On Track Innovations Ltd. (OTI) is principally engaged in the field of design and development of contactless microprocessor-based smart card systems. Because its cards contain a microprocessor, they can store and process information and run multiple applications. The Company's cards are referred to as contactless because they do not require physical contact with a card reader, as power and data are transferred to a card through a magnetic field generated by a card reader. Its products combine the benefits of both microprocessors and contactless cards. OTI offers four lines of products, each of which constitutes a complete system, as well as components (such as smart cards and readers) that it sells to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for incorporation into their own products.
ONET.OB Othnet, Inc. was engaged in the business of development, production and marketing of private-label prepared foods prior to January 1, 1994. The Company has no business operations other than to locate and consummate a merger or acquisition with a private entity. In December 2003, the Company entered into a letter of intent with Pro Sports &amp; Entertainment, Inc. (Pro Sports) to acquire all of the outstanding capital stock of Pro Sports. In April 2004, the Company and Pro Sports ceased their negotiations in connection with such proposed transaction. On June 29, 2004, the Company signed a merger agreement, pursuant to which, at closing the Company will acquire all of the capital stock of Association of Volleyball Professionals, Inc. (AVP). No assurance can be given that the Company will be able to consummate such transaction or, if consummated, that such business opportunity will be successful.
OSTE Osteotech, Inc. provides services and products primarily focused on the repair and healing of the musculoskeletal system. These products and services are marketed primarily to the orthopaedic, spinal, neurological, oral/maxillofacial, dental and general surgery markets in the United States and Europe. The allograft bone tissue processed by the Company is procured by independent tissue banks or other Tissue Recovery Organizations, primarily through the donation of tissue from deceased human donors and is used for transplantation. Osteotech has two primary operating segments: Demineralized Bone Matrix Segment and Base Allograft Tissue Segment. The Company also markets and distributes primarily in the United States, metal spinal implant products. Osteotech expects to discontinue its marketing and distribution efforts related to metal spinal implant products in 2004. The Company also processes, markets and distributes bovine bone tissue products.
OSIS OSI Systems, Inc. provides security and inspection systems, medical monitoring and imaging systems, and opto-electronic devices and value-added subsystems under the trade names, such as Rapiscan, Ancore, PFNA, Eagle, Metor and Secure. These systems are used to inspect people, baggage, cargo, vehicles and other objects for weapons, explosives, drugs and other contraband. These systems are also used for verification of cargo manifests for the purpose of assessing duties and monitoring export and import of controlled materials. In March 2004, the Company acquired Spacelabs Medical, Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of patient monitoring and clinical information systems. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), revenues from the sale of security and inspection systems, medical imaging and monitoring systems, and opto-electronic devices and value-added subsystems amounted to approximately 48%, 24% and 28%, respectively, of the Company's revenue.
OSIP OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biotechnology company primarily focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of oncology products that both extend life and improve the quality-of-life for cancer patients worldwide. Its flagship product, Tarceva, is an oral, once-a-day, small molecule inhibitor of the epidermal growth factor receptor (HER1/EGFR). On November 18, 2004, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Company's new drug application (NDA) for monotherapy Tarceva use in the treatment of all non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients who have failed at least one prior chemotherapy regimen. The Company launched Tarceva on November 22, 2004. Beyond Tarceva, the Company has a balanced pipeline of oncology drug candidates that includes signal transduction inhibitors, apoptosis inducers and a next-generation cytotoxic chemotherapy agent.
OSK Oshkosh Truck Corporation is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad range of specialty commercial, fire and emergency, and military trucks under the Oshkosh and Pierce trademarks; truck bodies under the McNeilus, MTM, Revolution, Medtec, Jerr-Dan, BAI, Geesink and Norba trademarks, and mobile and stationary compactors under the Geesink Kiggen trademark. The Company has developed comprehensive product and service portfolios for many of its markets for its customers, including third-party customer lease financing for fire and emergency products through its wholly owned subsidiary, Oshkosh Equipment Finance, L.L.C., doing business as Oshkosh Capital, and for certain commercial products through the Company's interest in Oshkosh/McNeilus Financial Services Partnership (OMFSP). The Company manufactures vehicles that perform a variety of demanding tasks, such as hauling tanks, missile systems, ammunition, fuel and cargo for combat units.
GOSHA OshKosh B'Gosh, Inc. designs, sources and markets a range of children's clothing as well as lines of youth wear under the OshKosh, OshKosh B'Gosh, Genuine Girl and Genuine Blues labels. The Company's product line includes OshKosh B'Gosh branded product in sizes from newborn to girls 6X and boys 7, and youth wear for girls and boys under the trade names Genuine Girl (girls sizes 7-16) and Genuine Blues (boys sizes 8-20). Its product offering also includes an assortment of men's and women's products, which are only sold through Company-owned retail stores and its Internet site. All other products are distributed primarily through department and specialty stores, Company-owned retail stores, the Internet and foreign retailers.
OSEE.OB OSE USA, Inc. has two operating segments, manufacturing and distribution. Through the manufacturing segment, the Company assembles and packages integrated circuits (IC) from wafers consigned by its customers. Through the distribution segment, it does sales for North American and marketing organization for Orient Semiconductor Electronics, Ltd. (OSE Ltd.) of Taiwan, a public Taiwanese company and the Company's controlling stockholder. The Company is also the exclusive North American sales and marketing organization for affiliated company Orient Semiconductor Electronics Philippines, Inc. (OSEP). OSE USA was formerly known as Integrated Packaging Assembly Corporation.
OSCI Oscient Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company committed to the clinical development and commercialization of new therapeutics to serve unmet medical needs. Oscient's product portfolio is now led by the Food and Drug Administration-approved fluoroquinolone antibiotic FACTIVE (gemifloxacin mesylate) tablets, indicated for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia of mild-to-moderate severity and acute bacterial exacerbations of chronic bronchitis. The Company's Ramoplanin is in clinical trials for the prevention and treatment of serious hospital-acquired infections. Ramoplanin is in a Phase III trial for the prevention of bloodstream infections caused by vancomycin-resistant enterococci and in a Phase II trial for the treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea.
ORYX.OB Oryx Technology Corporation is a technology licensing and investment and management services company that designed, manufactured and marketed specialized components, analytical equipment and instrumentation products for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the information technology (IT) industry. The Company operated three majority-owned subsidiaries focusing on three distinct market segments: power conversion products (Oryx Power Products Corporation), electrical surge protection products (SurgX Corporation) and materials analysis and test equipment and specialized materials products (Oryx Instruments and Materials Corporation). Oryx focuses on collecting royalties for its SurgX technology from its SurgX licensees, Cooper Electronics Technologies, Inc. and IRISO Electronics, Ltd., and maintaining its investments and providing management services primarily to one portfolio company, S2 Technologies, through its investment and management services company, Oryx Ventures, LLC.
VITA Orthovita, Inc. develops products for use in spine surgery and in the repair of osteoporotic fractures. The Company has developed or launched several product platforms: Vitoss Scaffold Synthetic Cancellous Bone Void Filler; Imbibe Bone Marrow Aspirate Syringe used with Vitoss; Endoskeleton TA Device; Cortoss Synthetic Cortical Bone Void Filler, and Aliquot Microdelivery System used with Cortoss. Vitoss has characteristics resembling those of cancellous bone with a lattice-like or spongy, porous structure. Cortoss has characteristics resembling those of cortical bone, which is dense, structural and subject to bending, load bearing and twisting forces. In surgical procedures, Imbibe or the Vitoss Canister may be used to deliver Vitoss to the bone graft site, and Aliquot may be used to deliver Cortoss to the surgical site. Endoskeleton TA is a structural device, based on a proprietary Orthovita design, to replace damaged vertebral bodies.
OMRX.OB Orthometrix, Inc. markets, sells and services several musculoskeletal product lines used in pharmaceutical research, diagnosis and monitoring of bone and muscle disorders, sports medicine, rehabilitative medicine, physical therapy and pain management. The Company offers six product types: six models of peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography (pQCT) systems for bone and muscle research application (XCT Research SA, XCT Research SA+, XCT Research M. XCT Research M+, XCT Microscope and XCT 3000 Research), two models of pOCT systems for clinical application related to bone and muscle disorders (XCT 2000 and XCT 3000), one model of lithotripter (Genestone 190), four models of patented powered exercise systems for rehabilitation and physical therapy (Galileo 100, Galileo XS, Galileo Home Plus, Galileo Kipptisch and Galileo 2000), one model of human performance measurement system (Leonardo) and two models of VibraFlex for sports and fitness (Mini VibraFlex and VibraFlex 500).
OLGC Orthologic Corporation is a drug development company in the process of developing and testing its Chrysalin product platform to promote repair of different types of musculoskeletal tissues. Chrysalin, or TP508, is a 23-amino acid synthetic peptide representing a receptor-binding domain of the human thrombin molecule, a naturally occurring molecule in the body responsible for, both, blood clotting and initiating many of the cellular events responsible for tissue repair in bone and cartilage. By mimicking specific attributes of the thrombin molecule, Chrysalin stimulates the body's natural healing processes, resulting in accelerated tissue repair. The Company is enrolling patients into two Chrysalin product human clinical trials and has one potential product in late-stage, pre-clinical development and is planning the development for two additional areas of research.
OFIX Orthofix International N.V. is an orthopedic products company offering minimally invasive surgical products and non-surgical products for the spine, reconstruction and trauma market sectors. The Company designs, develops, manufactures, markets and distributes medical equipment used by musculoskeletal medical specialists for orthopedic applications. Its main products are external and internal fixation devices used in fracture treatment, limb lengthening and bone reconstruction; non-invasive stimulation products used to enhance the success rate of spinal fusions and to treat non-union fractures, and bracing products used for ligament injury prevention, pain management and protection of surgical repair to promote faster healing. Its products also include a device for enhancing venous circulation, cold therapy, other pain management products, bone cement and devices for removal of the bone cement used to fix artificial implants, a bone substitute compound and airway management products.
OTIX.OB Orthodontix, Inc. was engaged in providing practice management services to 26 orthodontic practices (the Practices) that was acquired in a merger with an orthodontic practice management company in April 1998. The Company has ceased providing practice management services to all the Practices and had terminated its affiliation with all the Practices. In connection with the termination of its affiliations and the cessation of its practice management business, the Company sold certain practice assets back to the Practices and assumed certain liabilities. Orthodontix does not expect to generate operating revenue until such time, as the Company consummates a business combination with an operating company.
ORTN.OB Ortec International, Inc. is a development stage tissue engineering company that has developed a technology, called OrCel, which is used to stimulate the repair and regeneration of human skin. OrCel is a two layered tissue engineered dressing that consists of human derived skin cells, both dermal and epidermal, supported within a porous collagen matrix. The composite matrix is seeded with keratinocytes for epidermal growth and fibroblasts for dermal growth. When OrCel is applied to the wound site, it produces a mix of growth factors that stimulates wound closure. In 2001, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted its application for the commercial sale of OrCel for the treatment of donor site wounds. Also in 2001, the FDA granted the application for the commercial sale of OrCel for use on patients with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa undergoing hand reconstruction, as well as to treat the donor site wounds created during the surgery.
ORPH Orphan Medical, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on sleep disorders, pain and other central nervous system (CNS) disorders. The Company's lead product, Xyrem (sodium oxybate) solution, is approved for the treatment of cataplexy, a debilitating symptom of narcolepsy, a sleep disorder. Xyrem has an effect on sleep architecture, and may treat other indications as well. It induces and maintains sleep without suppressing REM, and increases sleep continuity and non-REM sleep, particularly Stage III and IV (slow-wave) sleep. Other products provided by the Company include Antizol, an antidote for ethylene glycol and methanol poisoning; Cystadane, a drug for the treatment of homocystinuria, and Antizol-Vet, an antidote for ethylene glycol poisoning in dogs. Orphan Medical is assessing another product, butamben (butyl-p-amino benzoate), as a treatment for intractable cancer pain and other chronic pain conditions.
OHB Orleans Homebuilders, Inc. (OHB) primarily develops, builds and markets single-family homes, townhouses and condominiums. The Company also operates as a land developer, primarily for its own use. The Company serves a broad customer base, including first time, move-up, luxury, empty nester and active adult homebuyers. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company operated in nine markets: Southeastern Pennsylvania; Central New Jersey; Southern New Jersey; Charlotte, Raleigh and Greensboro, North Carolina; Richmond and Tidewater, Virginia, and Orlando, Florida. During fiscal 2004, the Company delivered 1,753 homes, as compared to 1,243 homes in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2003 (fiscal 2003). In December 2004, the Company acquired the real estate assets of Peachtree Residential Properties in Charlotte, North Carolina.
IX ORIX Corporation operates in five areas: corporate financial services, rental operations, real estate-related finance, real estate and life insurance. Corporate financial services include originating direct financing leases and installment loans to corporate customers, and sales of financial products and other fee businesses; rental operations include the rental of precision measuring equipment and personal computers to corporate customers, as well as automobile rental operations; real estate-related finance includes real estate loans to corporate customers and housing loans to individuals; real estate includes the development and sale of real estate, as well as the management, operation and maintenance of real estate properties, and life insurance includes direct and agency life insurance sales and related activities. It also has consumer card loan operations and venture capital operations, and offers securities transactions, corporate rehabilitation and private finance initiatives.
ORGN Origen Financial, Inc., (Origen) incorporated in July 2003, originates and services home loans, as well as acquires and services manufactured home loans originated by others. In October 2003 the Company acquired all of the equity interests of Origen Financial LLC (Origen Financial) and most of its operations are conducted through this subsidiary. The rest of the business operations are conducted through the other wholly owned subsidiaries, including taxable Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) subsidiaries. It conducted operations in 41 states. Together with Origen Financial LLC and its predecessors, the Company has originated over dollar two billion of manufactured home loans since 1996, of which $188.4 million was originated during the year ended December 31, 2003, $191.4 million was originated in 2002 and $194.6 million was originated in 2001.
OFG Oriental Financial Group Inc. (OFG) is a diversified financial holding company that provides a complete range of consumer and commercial banking-financial solutions, including consumer, commercial and mortgage lending; checking and savings accounts; financial planning, insurance, money management, and investment brokerage, and corporate and individual trust and retirement services. The Company operates through three business segments: Banking, Treasury and Financial Services, based on quality service and marketing, focusing on professionals and owners of small and mid-sized businesses, primarily in Puerto Rico. OFG has 23 financial centers in Puerto Rico and a subsidiary, Caribbean Pension Consultants Inc. (CPC), based in Boca Raton, Florida.
OEH Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. (OEH) is a hotel and leisure group focused on the luxury end of the leisure market. The Company owns and/or part owns and manages 39 properties consisting of 30 individual deluxe hotels worldwide, three restaurants, five tourist trains and a river cruise ship. OEH acquires or manages only distinctive properties in areas of cultural, historic or recreational interest in order to provide luxury lifestyle experiences for the elite traveler. The Company's portfolio of hotels consists of 2,965 individual guestrooms and multiple-room suites, each known as a key. Approximately two-thirds of OEH's customers are leisure travelers. During the year ended December 31, 2003, approximately 51% of guests originated from the United States, 34% from Europe and the remaining 15% from elsewhere in the world. Hotels and restaurants represent the major segment of OEH's business, contributing to 85% of revenue and tourist trains and cruises accounted for the remaining 15%.
OZN Orezone Resources Inc. is engaged in the investigation, acquisition, exploration, development and operation of mineral properties. The Company commits its own resources to the initial evaluation of mineral properties, as well as enters into joint ventures with other businesses to continue the development of such properties. It may enter into purchase agreements, option agreements to purchase mining properties and/or joint venture agreements. Orezone is the operator of all of its option agreements and properties optioned to other parties. The Company's principal exploration activities are focused on the country of Burkina Faso, in West Africa, where it holds the right to explore nine properties that cover a total of 3,790 square miles. Orezone also has a number of exploration properties in Canada and elsewhere, which are not operationally advanced. The Company's focus has been on gold properties in Burkina Faso, as well as on diamonds, base metals and precious metals in Canada.
ORLY O'Reilly Automotive, Inc. is a specialty retailer of automotive aftermarket parts, tools, supplies, equipment and accessories in the United States, selling its products to both do-it-yourself customers and professional installers. As of December 31, 2003, the Company operated 1,109 stores in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. O'Reilly stores carry a product line consisting of new and remanufactured automotive hard parts, such as alternators, starters, fuel pumps, water pumps, brake shoes and pads, chassis parts and engine parts; maintenance items, such as oil, antifreeze, fluids, engine additives and appearance products; accessories, such as floor mats and seat covers, and a line of autobody paint and related materials, automotive tools and professional service equipment.
OS Oregon Steel Mills, Inc. together with its subsidiaries operated two steel mills and nine finishing facilities in the western United States and Canada. The Company manufactures and markets specialty and commodity steel products of any domestic steel mill company. Its steel products are targeted at a customer base located west of the Mississippi River and in western Canada. The Company's two business units are Oregon Steel Division, is centered on the Company's steel plate minimill in Portland, Oregon (Portland Mill), which supplies steel for its steel plate, structural tubing and large-diameter pipe finishing facilities. It also produces large-diameter pipe and electric resistance welded (ERW) pipe at its 60%-owned pipe mill in Camrose, Alberta, Canada (Camrose Pipe Mill) and Rocky Mountain Steel Mills (RMSM) Division, consists of steelmaking and finishing facilities of CF&amp;I Steel, LP (CF&amp;I) located in Pueblo, Colorado (Pueblo Mill).
ORCT Orckit Communications Ltd. funds the development and marketing efforts of the technology and products of Corrigent Systems, addressing the need for solutions capable of supporting high-bandwidth services, such as video over Internet protocol. Corrigent has developed telecommunication equipment supporting high-bandwidth services over fiber networks in metropolitan areas. During 2004, the operations of Spediant Systems were halted.
ORCH Orchid Biosciences, Inc., incorporated in 1995, develops and delivers genetic testing, services that generate information related to genetic susceptibility and uniqueness or the genetic variability that distinguishes one organism from another. After the realignment, during the year ended 31, 2003, the Company now focuses on providing genotyping services in three distinct markets: forensics, paternity and public health. Through the brand Orchid GeneScreen, the Company conducts paternity genotyping determinations for government agencies and private individuals in North America. Through the brand Orchid Cellmark, the Company provides forensic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing in the United States. Through Orchid Europe, the Company provides paternity, forensics and animal susceptibility testing under the Cellmark brand. Orchid has six accredited laboratories in the United States and United Kingdom.
ORBK Orbotech Ltd. is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing and marketing of yield-enhancing, production support solutions for specialized applications in the supply chain of the electronics industry. The Company's products include automated optical inspection (AOI) and process control systems for bare and assembled printed circuit boards (PCBs) and for flat panel displays (FPDs) and imaging solutions for PCB production. In addition, Orbotech markets computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) solutions for PCB production. Through its subsidiary, Orbograph Ltd., the Company also develops and markets automatic check reading software to banks and other check processing organizations. Orbotech is continuing to develop its proprietary technologies for use in other applications both within and outside the electronics industry. The Company has two operating segments: Production Support Solutions and Automatic Check Reading.
ORB Orbital Sciences Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and operates small space and rocket systems for the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and other United States government agencies and for global commercial and scientific customers. The Company defines small space and rocket systems to include the following major product lines: suborbital rockets that are used as target and interceptor vehicles for missile defense systems; small-class launch vehicles that place satellites weighing up to 4,000 pounds into low-Earth orbit; geosynchronous Earth orbit communications satellites weighing up to 5,000 pounds, and low-Earth orbit satellites weighing up to 5,000 lbs., which are used for communications, remote sensing, scientific and military missions. In 2003, customers that accounted for 10% or more of the Company's consolidated revenues were The Boeing Company, DoD and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
OBTLY.OB Orbital Corporation Ltd., formerly Orbital Engine Corporation Limited's principal activities are providing engineering services and the development of engine and related technologies, providing research, design and development services for the world's producers of power trains and engine management systems for application in motorcycles, marine and recreational vehicles, automobiles and trucks. The Company's business is divided into business segments, such as engineering services, royalties and licenses and system sales segments.
ORBT Orbit International Corp. conducts its operations through its Orbit Instrument Division and its wholly owned subsidiary, Behlman Electronics, Inc. Through its Orbit Instrument Division, which includes its wholly owned subsidiary, Orbit Instrument of California, Inc., the Company is engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of customized electronic components and subsystems. Behlman Electronics, Inc. is engaged in the design and manufacture of commercial power units, alternating current (AC) power sources, frequency converters, uninterruptible power supplies and associated analytical equipment.
ORFR.OB ORBIT/FR, Inc. offers a range of standard and custom microwave test and measurement solutions for specialized aerospace/defense-related testing, cellular/personal communications system handset testing, cellular base-station testing, satellite testing and automotive testing. The Company's products include test and measurement systems and software, positioner subsystems, as well as other microwave products, all of which are typically incorporated into its systems. ORBIT/FR markets and sells its systems to customers in the United States and throughout the world. Within its targeted industries, its customers include manufacturers of wireless systems and products, aerospace/defense systems integrators and product manufacturers that incorporate microwave technology, telecommunications service providers that rely on microwave technology and automobile and automotive subassembly manufacturers. The Company's customers also include the United States government and several foreign governments.
OECI.OB Orbit E-Commerce, Inc. (Orbit) owns a 49% interest in Phoenix TelNet, LLC, a limited liability company formed by the Company and GAN &amp; Associates, Inc. in October 2002 to offer voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and other data and long distance services in the United States and Canada. GAN holds a 51% ownership interest in Phoenix. In conjunction with an operating agreement, the Company entered into a contribution agreement with Phoenix as of October 1, 2002. Pursuant to the agreement, and in consideration of the receipt by the Company of its 49% ownership interest, Orbit transferred to Phoenix all of its rights, title and interest in, and to certain software and associated patents and copyrights, materials, processes, methods, know-how, expertise and systems necessary and proper for, the provision of Internet access and long distance VoIP services.
OSUR OraSure Technologies, Inc. is principally involved in the development, manufacture, marketing and sale of oral fluid specimen collection devices using its proprietary oral fluid technologies. The Company also offers other diagnostic products, including immunoassays and other in vitro diagnostic tests that are used on other specimen types, and other medical devices. The Company's diagnostic products include tests that are processed in a laboratory and tests that are performed on a rapid basis at the point of care. These products are sold in the United States and internationally to various clinical laboratories, hospitals, clinics, community-based organizations and other public health organizations, distributors, government agencies, physicians' offices and commercial and industrial entities.
OLAB Oralabs Holding Corp. is engaged in the production and sale of consumer products relating to oral care and lip care, as well as in the distribution of nutritional supplements. The Company's products are sold in the United States nationally, as well as in numerous foreign countries. The products are sold through wholesale distributors and by direct sale to mass retailers, grocery stores, convenience stores and drug stores. The principal products produced by the Company can be categorized into three groups: breath fresheners, including liquid drops and sprays under the brand names Ice Drops and Sour Zone; lip balm products under the names Lip Rageous, Chap Ice, Lip Naturals, Lip Rageous Glitters, Essential Lip Moisture and Soothe &amp; Shine, and nutritional supplement and related products consisting of 5-HTP and Cheat &amp; Lean.
ONI Oragenics, Inc. is a biotechnology company aimed at adding value to novel technologies and products sourced from research performed at the University of Florida and other academic centers. The Company's aim is to in-license and develop products through human proof-of-concept prior to partnering with major pharmaceutical, biotechnology or healthcare product firms for advanced clinical development and commercialization. The Company is developing products in the areas of replacement therapy, antibiotics, probiotic technology and other technologies.
ORCL Oracle Corporation is an enterprise software company that develops, manufactures, markets, distributes and services database software and infrastructure software, including application server, collaborative software and development tools that help its customers manage and grow their businesses and operations. The Company also offers a suite of business applications software. It is organized into two businesses, which are further organized into five operating segments. The software business consists of two operating segments: new software licenses and software license and product support. Oracle's services business consists of three operating segments: consulting, advanced product services and education.
OPTN Option Care, Inc. provides home infusion pharmacy services and specialty pharmacy services to patients with acute and/or chronic conditions that can be treated at home, at one of the Company's local ambulatory infusion centers or in a physician's office. These services are provided to patients on behalf of managed care organizations, government healthcare programs and biopharmaceutical manufacturers through Option Care's network of 124 owned and franchised pharmacies. The Company's services include the distribution of infused and injected medications, patient care coordination, compliance management and reimbursement support. For the year ended December 31, 2003, 58.7% of total revenue was generated from specialty pharmacy services and 38.3% was from infusion and related healthcare services provided by Option Care's company-owned pharmacies.
OPTO.OB Optio Software, Inc. provides infrastructure software and services that enhance the form, content, distribution and availability of business critical information. Its software allows information stored within or created by an organization's range of enterprise systems, applications or databases to be captured, transformed and customized in formats according to the business needs of an organization's customers, suppliers and partners. The Company's software is divided into two suites: the Optio Enterprise Suite, which includes Optio e.ComIntegrate, OptioDCS, Optio e.ComPresent, Optio DesignStudio, OptioFax, PptioReprint, Optio Print Manager and Optio Enterprise ProcessPACKS, and the Optio Healthcare Suite, which includes Optio MedForms; Optio MedEx; Optio e.ComPresent, Optio e.ComIntegrate, OptioFax, OptioReprint, Optio Print Manager and Optio Healthcare ProcessPACKS.
OPHC OptimumBank Holdings, Inc. is a one-bank holding company that owns 100% of OptimumBank.com, doing business as OptimumBank (the Bank), a Florida state-chartered commercial bank. The Company's only business is the operation of the Bank. The Bank offers a variety of community banking services to individual and corporate customers through its three banking offices located in Broward County, Florida.
OPMR Optimal Group, Inc. provides payment services, focusing on credit and debit card processing for mail-order, telephone-order and Internet-based businesses, and also provides depot and field services to retail, financial services and other third-party accounts. The Company has three subsidiaries: Optimal Robotics Inc., a wholly owned Delaware corporation; Optimal Services Group Inc. (OSG) (formerly Optimal Robotics (Canada) Corp.), a wholly owned Canadian corporation, and Optimal Robotics Plc, a majority-owned United Kingdom corporation. The Company operates in two segments: the payment processing business, through Optimal Payments (formerly Terra Payments), and the service business, through OSG. The Company previously assembled and sold U-Scan systems and other self-checkout systems to customers, primarily supermarkets and supercenters, in North America and the United Kingdom. In April 2004, the Company sold its U-Scan self-checkout business to Fujitsu Transaction Solutions, Inc.
OPT OptiCare Health Systems, Inc. is an integrated eye care services company focused on providing managed vision and professional eye care products and services. The Company conducts business within both sectors of this market, by providing eye care services and selling optical products, and also conducts business across both sectors, by providing managed vision services with respect to both eye care services and optical products. OptiCare operates in three distinct segments of the eye care market: Managed Vision, Consumer Vision and Distribution and Technology.
OPTL.OB Optical Sensors, Inc. is a technology development company specializing in low-cost sensors and instruments for non-invasive assessment of critical hemodynamic parameters. The Company's CapnoProbe Sensor System is a non-invasive sublingual tissue carbon dioxide (CO2) system for the early detection of shock. CapnoProbe uses the Company's CO2 technology in a probe that is slipped under the tongue like a thermometer. Optical Sensors received 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the configuration of the CapnoProbe Sensor System. In October 2002, the Company acquired Vasamedics LLC, a laser Doppler flow technology company dedicated to the diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease.
OCPI Optical Communications Products, Inc designs, manufactures and sells a line of fiber-optic subsystems and modules for the metropolitan area network (MAN), local area network (LAN) and storage area network (SAN) markets. Subsystems and modules are pre-assembled components that are used to build network equipment. The Company's subsystems and modules are integrated into systems that address the bandwidth limitations in MANs, LANs and SANs. Its products include optical transmitters, receivers, transceivers and transponders that convert electronic signals into optical signals and back to electronic signals, enabling high-speed communication of voice and data traffic over public and private fiber-optic networks. The Company's products support a range of network applications, transmission speeds, distances and standards, including international transmission standards.
OCCF Optical Cable Corporation manufactures a range of tight-buffered fiber optic cables for high-bandwidth transmission of data, video and audio communications, primarily sold into the local area network and premises markets (the enterprise market). The Company's fiber optic cables are suited for use in short- to moderate-distance applications. The major construction types of fiber optic cables the Company produces are A-Series Assembly Fiber Optic Cables, B-Series Breakout Fiber Optic Cables, D-Series Distribution Fiber Optic Cables and G-Series Subgrouping Fiber Optic Cables. Optical Cable also produces many variations on the basic fiber optic cable styles for more specialized installations, as well as various hybrid cables. The Company had a global customer base selling in over 50 countries in the fiscal year ended October 31, 2003. Its customers include distributors, original equipment manufacturers, system integrators, electrical contractors, value-added resellers and end users.
OBAS Optibase Ltd. provides networked systems that enable the preparation of digital video, based on video compression, using the moving picture experts group (MPEG) standards and the Windows Media standards, and its delivery over Internet protocol (IP), asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), which is a network technology based on transferring data in cells or packets of a fixed-size digital video broadcast (DVB) and other packet-based networks. The Company has created a suite of products used in applications, such as delivery of video-over broadband networks, digital video archiving, distance learning, business television and content creation. It has developed products that allow for real-time compressed video uploading to video servers and live multicasting over networks.
OPTI.OB OPTi Inc. is an independent supplier of semiconductor products to the personal computer and embedded marketplaces. In September 2002, it sold its product fabrication, distribution and sales operations to Opti Technologies, Inc., an unrelated third party, and the Company ceased manufacturing, marketing and sales operations. During the fiscal year ended March 31 2004 (fiscal 2004), it received only additional royalty revenue due from the sale of its operations to Opti Technology and those payments are expected to be completed in fiscal 2005. OPTi expects that all other future revenues, if any, will arise only through the pursuit of its patent infringement cases and associated licensing efforts.
OPTC Optelecom, Inc. is an industry provider of copper and fiber optic based communications products for commercial and government customers. It provides integrated multimedia products for communicating video, audio and other data over both copper wire and optical network systems. The Company manages its operations under two business segments: the Electro-optics technology unit (EO) and the Communication products division (CPD). The Electro-optics technology unit develops and manufactures optical devices under contract to government and defense industry customers. The Communication products division is focused on the development, manufacture and sale of optical fiber-based data communication equipment to both commercial and Government clients. The Company has established a business unit called Integrated Systems, which focuses on delivering video content management solutions to both new and existing customers.
OPSW Opsware Inc. provides data center automation software for enterprises, government agencies and service providers seeking to reduce costs and increase the quality and security of data center operations. The Company's software, called the Opsware System, automates key server and software operations in data centers, including provisioning, changing, patching, reporting, configuring, scaling, securing, recovering, auditing and reallocating servers and business applications across geographically disparate locations and heterogeneous data center environments. The Company released Opsware System 4.0 in September 2003. In addition, in December 2003, Opsware announced the limited release of the Company's first product that runs on the Linux platform, Opsware System 4.0: Linux Edition. In February 2004, the Company announced the limited release of its first product for the Japanese market, Opsware System 4.0: Japanese Edition
OMS Oppenheimer Multi-Sector Income Trust (the Fund) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as a closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is to seek high current income consistent with preservation of capital. Its secondary objective is capital appreciation. The sectors in which Oppenheimer invests includes United States Government, Corporate, International, Asset-Backed (including Mortgage-Backed), Municipal, and Money Market sectors. As of October 31, 2003, the Fund had 38% of its investments in the international sector. The Fund's investment advisor is OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
OPY Oppenheimer Holdings Inc., formerly called Fahnestock Viner Holdings Inc., is a holding company engaged in the securities brokerage and trading business, and offers investment advisory and other related financial services through its operating subsidiaries. The Company directly or through intermediate subsidiaries, Oppenheimer &amp; Co. Inc. (Oppenheimer), Freedom Investments, Inc. and Oppenheimer Asset Management Inc. (OAM). Oppenheimer is engaged in the securities brokerage business in the United States and in Toronto, Canada, as an international dealer, and through the agency of local-licensed, broker-dealers, operates offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Caracas, Venezuela. In addition, it conducts investment advisory business under the name Fahnestock Asset Management. OAM is engaged in the investment advisory business in the United States. Oppenheimer is conducting the private-client business and OAM is conducting the asset management business acquired from CIBC World Markets Inc.
OPNT OPNET Technologies, Inc. (OPNET) is a provider of management software for networks and applications. Its solutions address application performance troubleshooting; network configuration and security auditing; network capacity and resiliency planning; application deployment planning, and network technology research and development. The Company sells both off-the-shelf and customized products that offer interfaces to third-party network management solutions, including those from Concord, Infovista, Network Associates and Netscout. The Company's products include OPNET IT Guru, OPNET SP Guru, OPNET Modeler, OPNET Netbiz and ODK, OPNET WDM Guru, OPNET VNE Server, OPNET Modules and OPNET Model Libraries.
OPLK Oplink Communications, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets fiber-optic subsystems, integrated modules and components that expand optical bandwidth, amplify optical signals, monitor and protect wavelength performance and redirect light signals, reshape light profile to enable extended signal reach, and provide signal transmission and reception within an optical network. Its product portfolio includes solutions for all-optical dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) optical amplification, switching and routing, as well as monitoring and conditioning applications. The Company's line of products and services increases the performance of optical networks and enables optical system manufacturers to provide flexible and scalable bandwidth to support the increase of data traffic on the Internet and other public and private networks. Oplink markets its products and services to telecommunications equipment manufacturers worldwide.
ORCI Opinion Research Corporation provides social and market research, information and marketing services and telemarketing. It identifies its segments based on three primary service offerings: market research, which is further divided into United States market research and United Kingdom market research; social research, and teleservices. In the social research segment, Opinion Research performs public sector primary research and provides information technology, communications and other consulting services, primarily to agencies of the United States federal government and state and local governments. In the market research business, it assists its commercial clients in the evaluation, monitoring and optimization of their marketing and sales efforts. In the teleservices business, the Company provides telemarketing services, which principally consist of outbound customer acquisition services.
OISI.OB Ophthalmic Imaging Systems is engaged in the business of designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing digital imaging systems and image enhancement and analysis software for use by practitioners in the ocular health field. The Company's products are used for a variety of standard diagnostic test procedures performed in eye care practices. OIS has developed products that have addressed the needs of the ophthalmic angiography markets, both fluorescein and indocyanine green. The flagship products in the Company's angiography line are its Winstation digital imaging systems. These WinStation products are targeted at retinal specialists and general ophthalmologists in the diagnosis and treatment of retinal diseases and other ocular pathologies. OIS has also entered into the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and the Enterprise Practice Management (EPM) markets.
OPWV Openwave Systems Inc., is an independent provider of open standards software products and services for the telecommunications industry. The Company provides software and services to mobile and wireline carriers, Internet service providers (ISP's), broadband providers and handset manufactures. The Company's product development is focused on client software, mobile infrastructure software anchored by wireless application protocol (WAP) and open mobile alliance (OMA) standards, and messaging applications software built around a flexible Internet protocol (IP) messaging core. In February 2004, the Company acquired Nombas, Inc., a provider of platform-independent script engine technologies and tools. On July 30, 2004, the Company completed the acquisition of Magic4 Ltd. (Magic4), a provider of messaging software for mass-market mobile phones.
OPTV OpenTV Corp. is a provider of software, content and applications and professional services for interactive and enhanced television. The Company's core software products enable network operators to manage the creation and delivery of interactive and enhanced television services to their subscribers. It develops and manages branded television channels that allow viewers to play interactive games, and it offers applications that enable viewers to engage in commerce transactions, retrieve information and engage in other interactive services such as fixed-odds gaming through their televisions. OpenTV also offers a suite of professional engineering and consulting services. Its product and service categories include software and related technologies, content and applications, interactive network and professional services and support. In August 2003, the Company acquired BettingCorp Limited, a London-based developer and operator of betting and gaming technology and consumer services.
OPLM.OB OPENLiMiT Inc. is a developer of Internet-enabled credit cards (smart cards) that are sold as part of a package to Internet users through a specialized network-marketing program that directs customers to an OPENLiMiT Internet portal, where subscribers purchase goods and services. The OPENLiMiT package consists of an Internet credit card (OPENLiMiT Card) with an integrated chip that utilizes a digital signature, the OPENLiMiT card reader and the OPENLiMiT SignCubes software. On April 25, 2003, the Company effected a reverse acquisition with OPENLiMiT Holding AG and changed its name from Jure Holdings, Inc. At the time of the reverse acquisition, the Company had no operating business. The Company is the holding corporation for OPENLiMiT Holding AG that operates through a number of wholly owned subsidiaries. OPENLiMiT Access Marketing AG and its German subsidiary facilitate the distribution of the Company's products.
OTEX Open Text Corporation (Open Text) is an enterprise content management (ECM) vendor licensing Web-based software that provides a collaborative work environment and an integrated knowledge management system to enable organizations to capitalize on their collective knowledge. Open Text develops, markets, licenses and supports its software for use by global organizations on intranets, extranets and the Internet. The Company's principal product line is Livelink, which combines collaboration and content management, transforming information into knowledge and providing the foundation for innovation, compliance and accelerated growth. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company acquired IXOS Software AG (IXOS), and has added a second primary product line focused on enabling document archiving and retrieval from enterprise applications, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems.
OPEN Open Solutions Inc. is a provider of software and services that allow financial institutions to compete and service their customers more effectively. The Company develops, markets, licenses and supports an enterprise-wide suite of software and services that perform a financial institution's data processing and information management functions, including account, transaction, lending, operations, back office, client information and reporting. Open Solutions' complementary products and services supplement its core software to provide clients with integrated business intelligence, customer relationship management, check imaging, Internet banking and cash management, general ledger and profitability, loan origination, interactive voice solutions and check and item processing functions. In February 2004, the Company acquired Wixom, which specializes in interactive voice information solutions. In October 2004, the Company acquired Canadian-based Datawest Solutions Inc.
ONXS Onyx Software Corporation is a provider of enterprise-wide customer relationship management (CRM) solutions designed to promote strategic business improvement and revenue growth. The Company CRM solutions consist of a core e-Business Engine and three audience-specific portals: the Onyx Employee Portal, the Onyx Partner Portal and the Onyx Customer Portal. It also offers a number of complementary products that work in combination with the portals. In addition to the products it offers, it also provides consulting, customer support and training and go-to-market strategy consulting services.
ONXX Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company developing therapies that target the molecular mechanisms that cause cancer. With its collaborators, the Company is developing small-molecule, orally available drugs with the goal of changing the way cancer is treated. By exploiting the genetic differences between cancer cells and normal cells, the Company aims to create anti-cancer agents that minimize damage to healthy tissue. Its lead drug candidate, BAY 43-9006, is in Phase III clinical development with the Company's collaborator, Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corporation.
ONVI Onvia, Inc., formerly Onvia.com, Inc., is a provider of notification and information services for government agency buyers and business suppliers. Onvia also alerts its customers of private sector opportunities across the United States. The Company's DemandStar procurement solution helps government agencies inform and update suppliers electronically about government procurement opportunities. Its service also makes it more efficient for companies of all sizes and industries to access and compete for new business opportunities. Customers are automatically notified of and updated on government opportunities that match their business profile. Onvia also has a variety of products that keep businesses informed of private sector opportunities, including news clipping service and a lead notification service. These private sector products are focused on the architecture, engineering and construction industries.
ONSP.OB Onspan Networking, Inc. a holding company that, through its wholly owned subsidiary, InterLAN Communications, Inc., developed data communications and networking infrastructure solutions for business, government and education. On August 5, 2002, the Company announced a change in its strategy of business and subsequently sold its operating division InterLAN. In April 2003, the Company created a new subsidiary, Coventry 1 Inc. and sold the same on May 27, 2004.
ONSC.OB OnScreen Technologies, Inc., formerly New Millennium Media International Inc., is a technology company that specializes in communications equipment. OnScreen's RediAlert (www.redialert.com) and RediAd product line provides portable light-emitting diode (LED) signs for emergency response and outdoor advertising using the OnScreen technology. Powered and transported by any vehicle, this product line gives highly visible emergency information or advertising messages in three minutes of set up time. Single-person deployable, the signs may be controlled remotely or a variety of encrypted wireless technologies. The Company is developing next-generation LED video displays to provide communication solutions for the Department of Transportation, Homeland Security, law enforcement, emergency responders and outdoor advertising.
ORCC Online Resources Corporation is an outsourced provider of Internet banking and payment services to over 600 financial institutions in the United States. The Company owns and operates the banking, payments and marketing infrastructure that enable its clients to provide their customers with end-to-end Internet channel functionality and user experience. Online Resources' services, branded to the Company's financial institution clients, power approximately 100 million transactions. Its clients are primarily regional and community-based depository financial institutions. In December 2004, the Company acquired privately held Incurrent Solutions, Inc.
ONIN.OB Online Innovation, Inc. is a Web asset development company. It has created a Website that is designed to facilitate social interaction between single adults, with an emphasis on entertainment and matchmaking. The Website enables site visitors to interact socially in a variety of contexts. The flagship Website, located on the Web at www.VirtuallyDating.com, provides real-time communication, entertainment and matchmaking between single adults. The target market for VirtuallyDating is single North American men and women over the age of 18 that have exhausted the traditional ways of meeting new people. The services offered by the Company include AutoMatch function, searching member profile, internal messaging service, chat rooms, multi-player games, gifts, Dear bridgette and horoscopes. As of September 24, 2004, the Website had 76,161 registered members, including members on a 10-day trial.
OKE ONEOK, Inc. is a diversified energy company that manages its business in six segments: Production, Gathering and Processing, Transportation and Storage, Distribution, Marketing and Trading and Other. The Production segment produces natural gas and oil and owns natural gas and oil reserves in Oklahoma and Texas. The Company owns and operates gas processing plants, as well as gathering pipelines in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas through its Gathering and Processing segment. The Transportation and Storage segment owns and leases natural gas storage facilities and transports gas in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. The Distribution segment provides natural gas distribution services in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. The Marketing and Trading segment markets natural gas to wholesale and retail customers and markets electricity to wholesale customers. The Other segment operates and leases the Company's headquarters building and parking facility.
ONEI.OB Oneida Ltd. manufactures and markets tableware silverplated and sterling and stainless steel flatware. During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), it operated in three segments: Foodservice, Consumer and International. The Consumer segment sells directly to a base of retail outlets, including department stores, mass merchandisers, Oneida Home stores and chain stores. The Foodservice segment sells directly or through distributors to foodservice operations worldwide, including hotels, restaurants, airlines, cruise lines, schools and healthcare facilities. The International segment sells to a variety of distributors, foodservice operations and retail outlets. Oneida divides its tableware products into four principal product categories: metalware, dinnerware, glassware and other tabletop accessories.
ONFC Oneida Financial Corp. was organized for the purpose of acquiring The Oneida Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a community bank engaged primarily in the business of accepting deposits from customers and using those deposits, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, to make one- to four-family residential and commercial real estate loans, commercial business loans, consumer loans and to invest in mortgage-backed and other securities. It also sells insurance and other commercial services and products through Bailey &amp; Haskell Associates, Inc. (B&amp;H), an insurance agency subsidiary. The Company is majority-owned by Oneida Financial, MHC, a federally chartered mutual holding company. In October 2003, the Bank completed its acquisition of MacDonald/Yando Agency, Inc., an insurance agency. The MacDonald/Yando Agency has been merged into B&amp;H.
ONEV.OB One Voice Technologies, Inc. is a voice recognition technology company that has more than 20 million products distributed worldwide in seven languages by Warner Home Video. The Company's customers include Warner Brothers with technology and business partnerships with Philips Electronics and IBM. Based on its patented technology, One Voice offers voice solutions for the Telecom, Motion Picture digital video disc (DVD) Entertainment and personal computer markets. The Company's solutions allow mobile and residential phone users to voice dial, group conference call, read and send e-mail and instant messages all by voice. The Company also offers voice interactive DVD movies.
OLP One Liberty Properties, Inc. is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. It acquires, owns and manages a geographically diversified portfolio of retail, industrial, office, movie theater and other properties, a substantial portion of which are under long-term leases. Substantially, all of its leases are net leases under which the tenant is typically responsible for real estate taxes, insurance and ordinary maintenance and repairs. As of the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company owned 36 properties, participated in four joint ventures that owned a total of 12 properties and held a 50% tenancy in common interest in one property. Its properties are located in 17 states and have an aggregate of approximately 3.7 million square feet of rentable space, including all rentable space for properties in which it has a joint venture participation and its tenancy in common interest.
FLWS 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. is a gift retailer, providing a range of thoughtful gift products, including flowers, plants, gourmet foods, candies, gift baskets and other gifts to its customers worldwide. The Company has extended its product offerings through several of its subsidiaries, including The Plow &amp; Hearth, Inc., a direct marketer of home decor and garden merchandise; GreatFood.com, Inc., a source for gourmet products; The Popcorn Factory, Inc., a manufacturer and direct marketer of popcorn and specialty food gifts, and the Children's Group, Inc., a direct marketer of children's toys and games operating under the HearthSong and Magic Cabin Dolls brand names. The Company has one business, providing its customers with convenient, multi-channel access via the Internet, telephone, catalogs and Company-owned and franchised retail stores.
CTAC 1-800 CONTACTS, INC. is a direct marketer of replacement contact lenses. The Company sells contact lenses primarily through its toll-free telephone number, 1-800 CONTACTS (1-800-266-8228), as well as its Website. It sells several brands of contact lenses, including those manufactured by Johnson &amp; Johnson Vision Care, CIBA Vision, Bausch &amp; Lomb, Ocular Sciences and Cooper Vision. 1-800 CONTACTS has access to all product types in the industry, including spherical, toric, multifocal and colored lenses, either directly from the manufacturer or through distributors. It also offers certain products related to contact lenses, including solutions and lens cases for storing contact lenses. The Company offers solutions produced by CIBA Vision and purchased directly from CIBA Vision. The lens cases are produced by and purchased from an outside party on a contract basis.
ONCY Oncolytics Biotech Inc. is a development stage company that focuses on the discovery and development of oncolytic viruses for the treatment of cancers. The lead product being developed by the Company may represent a treatment for certain tumor types and some cellular proliferative disorders. The product is a virus that is able to replicate specifically in, and hence kill, certain tumor cells both in tissue culture, as well as in a number of animal models. Oncolytics Biotech is also assessing the potential opportunities for product candidates resulting from issued patents received for Ras targeted adenovirus and herpes virus. On October 29, 2003, the Company announced the approval by the Drug Development Group of the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, United States National Cancer Institute for multiple clinical trials to evaluate the efficacy of REOLYSIN in a range of cancers.
ONT On2 Technologies, Inc. is a video compression technology firm that has developed a technology platform and video compression/decompression software (codec) to deliver video at the lowest possible data rates to devices, such as set-top boxes, personal computers (PCs) and wireless and other devices. It offers a suite of products and services, centered around the VPx family of products, which incorporate its compression technology. The Company's service offerings include customized engineering, consulting and encoding services and technical support. It also licenses its software products, which include video and audio codecs and encoding, player and server software, for use with video delivery platforms. On2's technology and products include TrueMotion 2X (TM2X), TrueMotion VP3 Series, Open Source VP3.2, VP4 Codec, VP5 Codec, VP6 Codec, audio for video codec technology (AVC), On2'S Encoder Product, Truecast Server Software and digital signal processor (DSP) and server integrations.
ONNN ON Semiconductor Corporation designs, manufactures and markets a portfolio of power and data management semiconductors and standard semiconductor components that addresses the design needs of electronic systems and products. The Company has four main product lines: power management and standard analog devices, metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) power devices, high -frequency clock and data management devices and standard components. On Semiconductor's power management semiconductor components distribute and monitor the supply of power to the different elements within a variety of electronic devices. Its data management semiconductor components provide high-performance clock management and data flow management for precision computing and communications systems. Its standard semiconductor components serve as building block components within electronic devices. The Company's product portfolio consists of approximately 17,000 products .
ASGN On Assignment, Inc. is a provider of skilled temporary professionals to clients in the healthcare and science industries. It provides clients in these markets with short-term or long-term assignments of temporary professionals and temporary-to-permanent placement of these professionals. The Company's business consists of two operating segments: Healthcare Staffing and Lab Support. The Healthcare Staffing segment includes Nurse Travel, Allied Travel and Local Healthcare Staffing (offering Healthcare Financial, Clinical Lab and Diagnostic Imaging staffing services) lines of business. The Lab Support segment includes domestic and international operations offering scientific staffing services. It also operates Nurse Travel and Allied Travel lines of business.
OMTL Omtool, Ltd. is a provider of electronic document delivery and management software that enables efficient, secure, confirmed and cost-efficient document exchange between businesses. Its products, licensed on a combination server/seat basis or on a server only or seat only basis, provide users with flexible feature set that converts, transmits, receives and automatically archives documents in electronic formats. Included in its products is a suite of utility and control functions that enables the conversion of paper documents to standard electronic formats and integrates with industry recognized document and records management systems. Omtool's products also enable the integration of business processes that include the exchange of hard copy and electronic documents, such as legal contracts, financial transactions, medical records and purchase order processing.
OMN OMNOVA Solutions Inc. is a producer of emulsion polymers and specialty chemicals, decorative and functional surfaces and single-ply roofing systems for a variety of commercial, industrial and residential end uses. It operates in three business segments: Performance Chemicals, Decorative Products and Building Products. The Performance Chemicals segment produces a range of emulsion polymers and specialty chemicals based primarily on styrene butadiene, styrene butadiene acrylonitrile, vinyl acetate, acrylic, styrene acrylic, vinyl acrylic, glyoxal and fluorochemical chemistries. The Decorative Products segment develops, designs, produces and markets a line of decorative and functional surfacing products, including commercial wallcoverings, coated and performance fabrics, printed and solid color surface laminates and industrial films. The Building Products segment provides single-ply roofing systems for the replacement and new commercial roofing markets.
OVTI OmniVision Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and markets integrated semiconductor image sensor devices. The Company's main product, an image sensing device called the CameraChip, is used to capture an image in a variety of consumer and commercial mass market applications, including digital still cameras, cell phones, security and surveillance cameras and video game consoles. CameraChips are manufactured using the complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication process, a method of producing integrated circuits. The CameraChip integrates a number of distinct functions, including image capture, image processing, color processing, signal conversion and output of a fully processed image or video stream. OmniVision also provides companion chips used to connect its CameraChips to various interfaces, including the universal serial bus. In addition, the Company provides companion chips that perform compression in standardized still photo and digital video formats.
OMNY.PK OmniSky Corporation provides wireless data applications and services for use on mobile devices. The Company offers a suite of wireless data applications and services to wireless carriers, hardware manufacturers, content providers and other third parties, enabling those companies to offer branded or customized versions of the Company's wireless applications and services to their own end users. Omnisky also offers its wireless services directly to individuals and enterprises under the OmniSky brand through more than 1,500 retail locations and other direct sales and marketing channels, including the Company's Website. With the Company's applications and services, users can wirelessly send and receive corporate and personal e-mail messages, instant message, navigate the Internet, access Internet content optimized for mobile devices and securely conduct mobile commerce transactions.
OMCT.OB OmniCorder Technologies, Inc. acquires, develops and commercializes advanced medical imaging technology for the diagnosis and management of a large variety of diseases, including cancer and vascular disease. The Company's lead product, the BioScanIR system, detects diseases that affect the perfusion or reperfusion (movement or flow) of blood in tissues and organs. OmniCorder also continues to develop more advanced sensors through collaboration with aerospace and defense laboratories. The Company is developing next generation sensor technology with funding from the United States Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency and continuing collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Army Research Laboratory and Goddard Space Flight Center.
OMCM.OB OmniComm Systems, Inc. is an Internet-based healthcare technology company that provides Web-based electronic data capture solutions and related value-added services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, clinical research organizations, academic research institutions and other clinical trial sponsors. TrialMaster, the Company's Internet-based software, allows clinical trial sponsors and investigative sites to securely collect, validate, transmit and analyze clinical study data including patient histories, patient dosing, adverse events and other clinical trial information. TrialMaster Archive presents the data collected during the clinical trial in the same browser format used during the live clinical trial, TrialMaster's tree configuration. TrialMaster Phase I was designed during 2003 in order to address the data capture requirements of Phase I clinical trials.
OMC Omnicom Group Inc. is a holding company that owns advertising, marketing and corporate communications companies that span more than 30 marketing disciplines, 100 countries, 1,500 subsidiary agencies and 5,000 clients. On a global, pan-regional and local basis, the Company's agencies provide traditional media advertising services, as well as marketing services including customer relationship management, public relations and specialty communications. In 2003, traditional media advertising represented approximately 44% of the total revenue. Marketing services represented approximately 56% of total revenue for the year.
OMCL Omnicell, Inc. provides automation solutions that enable healthcare facilities to acquire, manage, dispense and deliver pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. The Company's automation solutions include medication and supply dispensing systems, a central pharmacy storage, retrieval and packaging solution, a bedside automation solution, a physician order management solution, a decision support application and a Web-based procurement application. Omnicell PharmacyCentral and SafetyPak bring automation to the central pharmacy, improving the storage and retrieval of medications. SafetyMed is a bar code-based bedside automation solution. OmniLinkRx improves communication between nursing and pharmacy staff when transmitting and filling medication orders. DecisionCenter provides trend analysis and decision support based on data gathered by its medication and supply dispensing systems. OmniBuyer automates the healthcare facility's requisition process.
OCR Omnicare, Inc. is a provider of pharmaceuticals and related pharmacy services to long-term care institutions such as skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities and retirement centers, as well as hospitals and other institutional healthcare facilities in the United States. The Company provided pharmacy services to long-term care facilities consisting of approximately 1,003,000 beds in 47 states and the District of Columbia as of December 31, 2003. Omnicare also provides contract research organization services (CRO). The Company is an international provider of comprehensive product development and research services to client companies in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and diagnostics industries. As of December 31, 2003, Omnicare provided CRO services to clients in 29 countries around the world. In December 2004, the Company acquired Clinimetrics Research Associates, Inc., a privately held clinical research organization headquartered in San Jose, California.
OUSA.OB Omni U.S.A., Inc. is engaged in the design, development, manufacture and distribution of power transmissions (also known as gearboxes or enclosed geardrives) for agricultural, industrial, off-highway and construction equipment. The Company operates via its wholly owned subsidiary, Omni U.S.A., Inc. (Omni-Washington), a Washington corporation, and Omni-Washington's wholly owned subsidiary, Omni Resources, Ltd. (Omni Resources), a Hong Kong firm, via its wholly owned manufacturing facility, Shanghai Omni Gear Co., Ltd. (Shanghai Omni Gear). The Company, via another wholly owned subsidiary, Butler Products Corporation, designs, develops, manufactures and distributes trailer and implement jacks and couplers. Its products are distributed to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and distributors in North America, as well as in some foreign countries, such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa and Thailand.
ONMH.OB Omni Medical Holdings Inc. (Omni) is in the business of providing medical services to doctors, clinics and hospitals. The Company also provides medical transcription, billing and collection services. Omni is acquiring companies in these industries, as well as other medical services-related areas. It also provides medical transcription services to hospitals and healthcare facilities in seven states. Whenever a healthcare provider makes a diagnosis or provides a patient treatment, those actions must be documented. Government and insurance regulations are such that these medical records, which affect patient health, must be in readable form. This results in the healthcare provider dictating the patient treatment in some form and someone else typing that dictation. In July 2003, the Company, then Mastel Precision, Inc., changed its name to Omni Medical Holdings Inc.
OMNI OMNI Energy Services Corp. is an oilfield service company specializing in providing a range of onshore seismic drilling, permitting, survey and helicopter support services to geophysical companies operating in logistically difficult and environmentally sensitive terrain. The principal market of the Company's Seismic Drilling division is the marsh, swamp, shallow water and contiguous dry land areas along the United States Gulf Coast (the Transition Zone). During the year ended December 31, 2003, OMNI initiated seismic drilling activities in various Transition Zone regions of Mexico. The Company also provides helicopter transportation services to oil and gas companies operating in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It operates a fleet of 29 Company-owned, leased and customer-owned helicopters, as well as one fixed-wing aircraft. In November 2003, the Company acquired American Helicopters, Inc., a provider of helicopter transportation services in the Gulf of Mexico.
OMM OMI Corporation is a sea-borne transporter of crude oil and refined petroleum products operating in the international shipping markets. The Company concentrates its vessels into two core categories: Suezmax tankers and petroleum product carriers. At December 31, 2003, OMI's fleet consists of 21 product carriers, which primarily transport refined petroleum products from refinery locations to consuming locations, and 16 crude oil tankers, including 10 Suezmax tankers, which transport oil from production and storage locations to refinery locations. The Company's product carriers are smaller- to mid-sized tankers, namely, handysizes, handymaxes and Panamaxes. OMI's customers include commercial and government owned oil companies and oil trading companies. There are two central aspects to the operation of its fleet: Commercial Operations, which involves chartering a vessel and Technical Operations, which involves maintaining, crewing and insuring a vessel.
OME Omega Protein Corporation is a processor, marketer and distributor of fish meal and fish oil products in the United States and internationally. The Company produces and sells a variety of protein and oil products derived from menhaden, a species of wild herring-like fish found along the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coasts. The fish is not genetically modified or genetically enhanced. Omega processes several grades of fish meal, regular or FAQ (fair average quality) meal and specialty meals, as well as fish oil and fish solubles. Its fish meal products are primarily used as a protein ingredient in animal feed for swine, cattle, aquaculture and household pets. Fish oil is utilized for animal and aquaculture feeds, industrial applications and additives to human food products. Its fish solubles are sold primarily to livestock feed manufacturers, aquaculture feed manufacturers and for use as an organic fertilizer.
OHI Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. (OHI) is a self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests in income-producing healthcare facilities, principally long-term care facilities located in the United States. The Company provides lease or mortgage financing to qualified operators of skilled nursing facilities, and, to a lesser extent, assisted living and acute care facilities. As of December 31, 2003, the Company's portfolio of investments consisted of 211 healthcare facilities located in 28 states and operated by 39 third-party operators. This portfolio is made up of 151 long-term healthcare facilities and two rehabilitation hospitals owned and leased to third parties; fixed rate mortgages on 51 long-term healthcare facilities; one long-term healthcare facility that was recovered from customers and is operated through third-party management contracts for the Company's own account, and six long-term healthcare facilities that were recovered from customers and are closed.
OMEF Omega Financial Corporation serves as the holding company for its only banking subsidiary, Omega Bank (the Bank). The Bank provides retail and commercial banking services through 44 offices in Centre, Clinton, Mifflin, Juniata, Blair, Huntingdon and Bedford Counties. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Omega Bank also operated an aggregate of 38 automated teller machines (ATMs) at various locations. In addition to the Bank, Omega has four direct and indirect subsidiaries, through which, it provides a variety of trust and asset management services, insurance and investment services, underwriting services and leasing of personal property and real estate. Most of the Company's commercial customers are small and mid-sized businesses in central Pennsylvania.
OMG OM Group, Inc. is a vertically integrated international producer and marketer of value-added, metal-based specialty materials. The Company leverages its vertical integration in cobalt and nickel with its metal separation technologies to offer its customers various product formulations. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, OM Group operates manufacturing facilities in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.
ZEUS Olympic Steel, Inc. is a North American steel service center with 49 years of experience in specialized processing and distribution of large volumes of carbon, coated carbon and stainless steel, flat-rolled sheet and coil and plate products from 12 facilities in eight midwestern and eastern states. The Company operates as an intermediary between steel producers and manufacturers that require processed steel for their operations. Olympic Steel purchases flat-rolled steel typically from steel producers and responds to its customers' needs by processing steel to customer specifications and by providing critical inventory and just-in-time delivery services. The Company's services include, both, traditional service center processes of cutting-to-length, slitting and shearing and higher value-added processes of blanking, tempering, plate burning, laser welding and precision machining of steel parts.
OLN Olin Corporation is a manufacturing company that operates three principal business units: Chlor Alkali Products, Metals and Winchester. The Chlor Alkali Products business manufactures chlorine and caustic soda, sodium hydrosulfite, hydrochloric acid and bleach products that have various applications in the household, industrial, paper, textile and other manufacturing industries. The Metals business manufactures copper and copper alloy sheet, strip, plate, foil, brass rod and other metal products, including aluminum and stainless steel products. The Winchester business develops, manufactures and distributes small caliber ammunition and related products to domestic and international retailers, law enforcement agencies and domestic and international militaries. The Company operates predominantly in the United States. It has sales offices and subsidiaries in various countries, including Japan and Australia, which support the worldwide export of its products.
ORI Old Republic International Corporation is an insurance holding company with subsidiaries operating in four business segments: General Insurance, which provides property and liability insurance primarily to commercial clients; Mortgage Guaranty, which provides private mortgage insurance to protect mortgage lenders and investors from default related losses on residential mortgage loans; Title Insurance which involves the issuance of policies to real estate purchasers and investors based upon searches of the public records that contain information concerning interests in real property, and Life Insurance, which markets and writes consumer credit life and disability insurance. Each of these segments underwrites and services only those insurance coverages that may be written by it. The Company sells and distributes its products primary through independent insurance agents and brokers located across the United States and Canada.
OPOF Old Point Financial Corporation is a two-bank holding company that conducts all of its operations through its subsidiaries, The Old Point National Bank of Phoebus (the Bank) and Old Point Trust and Financial Services, N.A. (Trust). The Bank services individual and commercial customers in Hampton Roads. The Bank has 16 branch offices that offer a range of deposit and loan products to its retail and commercial customers. All of the Bank's deposits are interest bearing. The majority of the Bank's loan portfolio is secured by real estate. Trust offers a range of services for individuals and businesses. Products and services include retirement planning, estate planning, financial planning, trust accounts, tax services and investment management services.
ONB Old National Bancorp is the holding company for Old National Bank, which has financial services operations in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri. The Company, through its wholly owned banking subsidiary, provides a range of services, including commercial and consumer banking, depository services, lease financing and other traditional banking services. Through its non-bank affiliates, Old National provides services to supplement the banking business, including fiduciary and trust services, investment and brokerage services, asset management, insurance and other financial services. The Company has three segments: community banking, non-bank services and treasury.
OLBK Old Line Bancshares, Inc. does not engage in any other business activity except through its wholly owned subsidiary, Old Line Bank (the Bank), which is a Maryland commercial bank. The Bank engages in a general commercial banking business, making various types of loans and accepting deposits. It markets its financial services to small to medium-sized businesses, entrepreneurs, professionals, consumers and high-net-worth clients. The Banks primary market area is the suburban Maryland (Washington, District of Columbia suburbs) counties of Prince George's and Charles. It also targets customers throughout the greater Washington, District of Columbia metropolitan area. The Bank's primary source of revenue is interest income and fees generated by lending and investing funds on deposit. It balances the loan and investment portfolio towards loans.
ODFL Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. is a less-than-truckload (LTL) multi-regional motor carrier providing one- to five-day service among five regions in the United States and next-day and second-day service within these regions. Through its four branded product groups, OD-Domestic, OD-Expedited, OD-Global and OD-Technology, the Company offers an array of products and services. As of December 31, 2003, it provided full-state coverage to 27 of the 38 states that it serves directly within the Southeast, South Central, Northeast, Midwest and West regions of the country. Through marketing and carrier relationships, it also provides service to and from the remaining 12 states as well as international services worldwide.
OSBC Old Second Bancorp Inc. is a holding company that conducts a full service community banking and trust business through its wholly owned subsidiaries, The Old Second National Bank of Aurora, Old Second Bank-Yorkville, Old Second Bank-Kane County and Old Second Financial Inc., as well as through Old Second Mortgage Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Old Second Bank. The Company provides financial services through its 23 banking locations and four mortgage banking offices in Illinois. Its primary deposit products are checking, savings and certificates of deposit, and its primary lending products are residential and commercial mortgages, construction lending, commercial and installment loans. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company formed Old Second Trust I for the exclusive purpose of issuing trust preferred securities in a transaction completed in July 2003.
OLGR The Oilgear Company is engaged in the manufacturing and distribution of value-engineered fluid power components and electronic controls for a range of industrial machinery and industrial processes, along with its subsidiaries. The Company manages its operations in three segments based upon geographic area, which include the Domestic segment, the European segment and the International segment. Its products involve the flow, pressure and condition control and measurement of liquids, which it referred as Fluid Power. It provides advanced technology in the design and production of Fluid Power components, systems and electronic controls. Its product line includes hydraulic pumps, high-pressure intensifier pumps, valves, controls, cylinders, motors and fluid meters. It manufactures both radial and axial piston type hydraulic pumps in sizes delivering from approximately four gallons per minute to approximately 230 gallons per minute at pressures ranging up to 15,000 pounds per square inch.
OIS Oil States International, Inc. is a provider of specialty products and services to oil and gas drilling and production companies throughout the world. The Company operates in a substantial number of the world's active oil and gas producing regions, including the Gulf of Mexico, United States onshore, Canada, West Africa, the Middle East, South America and Southeast Asia. Its customers include independent oil and gas companies and other oilfield service companies. The Company operates in three principal business segments, offshore products, tubular services and well site services. In January 2004, the Company completed the acquisition of several related rental tool companies. The companies, based in South Texas, are providers of thru-tubing services and ancillary equipment rentals. These companies have been combined with Oil States' rental tool subsidiary, and will report through the well site services segment.
ODC Oil-Dri Corporation of America is involved in developing, manufacturing and marketing sorbent products and related services for the consumer, specialty, crop production and horticultural, and industrial and automotive markets. Oil-Dri's sorbent products are principally produced from clay minerals and, to a lesser extent, other sorbent materials. Consumer products, consisting primarily of cat-litter, are sold through the grocery products industry, mass merchandisers, warehouse clubs and pet retail outlets. Oil-Dri had manufactured and sold dog treats as part of its Consumer Products Group. In February 2004, however, Oil-Dri sold this business.
OICO O.I. Corporation designs, manufactures, markets and services products primarily for specialized applications in the analytical instruments markets, including sample preparation, detection, measurement and monitoring instruments used to analyze chemical compounds. The Company's products include Gas Chromatography Instruments and Systems, Total Organic Carbon Analyzer Systems, Ion Analysis Systems, Sample Preparation Products and Systems and Filtometers.
OVBC Ohio Valley Banc Corp. serves as a financial holding company for its wholly owned subsidiary, The Ohio Valley Bank Company. The Bank is a full-service financial institution offering a blend of commercial, consumer and agricultural banking services. Loans of all types and checking, savings and time deposits are offered, along with such services as safe deposit boxes, issuance of travelers' checks and administration of trusts. In addition to originating loans, the Bank invests in United States Government agency obligations, interest-bearing deposits in other financial institutions and other investments permitted by applicable law. The Bank has 17 offices, all of which offer automatic teller machines. Seven of these offices also offer drive-up services. The Bank accounted for substantially all of Ohio Valley's consolidated assets during the year ended December 31, 2003.
OLCB Ohio Legacy Corp is a bank holding company with one wholly owned subsidiary, Ohio Legacy Bank, N.A (the Bank). The Bank provides financial services through its full-service offices in Wooster, Millersburg and Canton, Ohio. It provides retail and commercial banking services to its customers, who are located primarily in Holmes, Stark and Wayne Counties in north east-central Ohio. The Bank's primary deposit products are checking, savings and certificate of deposit accounts, and its primary lending products are residential mortgage, commercial and installment loans. Substantially all loans are secured by specific items of collateral, including business assets, consumer assets and real estate.
OCAS Ohio Casualty Corporation is engaged in the property and casualty insurance business. The Company has six direct and indirect subsidiaries (the Ohio Casualty Group): The Ohio Casualty Insurance Company; West American Insurance Company; Ohio Security Insurance Company; American Fire and Casualty Company; Avomark Insurance Company; and Ohio Casualty of New Jersey, Inc. The Ohio Casualty Group writes both commercial and personal lines business and is actively writing business in over 40 states. It is organized under three segments: Commercial Lines, which includes multi-peril, commercial auto, general liability and workers compensation insurance; Specialty Lines, which includes commercial umbrella and fidelity and surety insurance, and Personal Lines, which includes personal automobile and homeowners' insurance sold to individuals.
OGE Oge Energy Corp. is an energy and energy services provider offering physical delivery and management of both electricity and natural gas in the south central United States. The Company conducts these activities primarily through two principal business segments: Electric Utility, which generates, transmits, distributes and sells electric energy, and Natural Gas Pipeline, which transports, stores, gathers, processes, markets and trades natural gas. Electric Utility is operated through Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company, which services retail and wholesale customers in Oklahoma and Arkansas, covering approximately 30,000 square miles of service area, including Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Fort Smith, Arkansas. The Natural Gas Pipeline business is operated through Enogex and its subsidiaries, Enogex Gas Gathering L.L.C., Enogex Products Corporation and OGE Energy Resources, Inc.
OLG Offshore Logistics, Inc. is a provider of helicopter transportation services to the worldwide offshore oil and gas industry with operations in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea. The Company also has operations, both directly and indirectly, in other offshore oil and gas producing regions of the world, including Australia, Brazil, China, Mexico, Nigeria and Trinidad. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), it operated 332 aircrafts and its unconsolidated affiliates operated an additional 96 aircrafts throughout the world. The Company is also a provider of production management services for oil and gas production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. The Company operates its business in two segments: Helicopter Activities and Production Management Services.
ODP Office Depot, Inc. is a global supplier of office products and services, with sales in 21 countries outside the United States and Canada under the Office Depot, Viking Office Products, Viking Direct, 4Sure.com, Guilbert and NiceDay brand names. The Company's office products assortment includes general office supply, computers, software, computer supplies, business machines and related supplies and office furniture. Its domestic office supply superstores and customer service centers stock approximately 8,100 and 10,500 stock keeping units (SKUs), respectively, including variations in color and size. Office Depot buys substantially all of its merchandise directly from manufacturers and other primary suppliers. It also obtains certain merchandise from offshore locations, including its private label brands. Products and services are offered through wholly owned retail stores, contract business-to-business sales relationships, commercial catalogs and multiple Websites.
ORH Odyssey Re Holdings Corp. (OdysseyRe) provides property and casualty products on a worldwide basis through its operating subsidiaries, principally Odyssey America Reinsurance Corporation. The Company offers a range of both treaty and facultative reinsurance to property and casualty insurers and reinsurers. It also writes specialty and non-traditional lines of reinsurance, including professional liability, marine and aerospace. Effective January 1, 2003, the Company commenced, on a new and renewal basis, underwriting medical malpractice and hospital professional liability insurance through a Healthcare unit located in Napa, California. OdysseyRe also underwrites insurance business through Newline Underwriting Management Ltd., Newline Syndicate 1218 and Hudson Insurance Company. The Company's global presence is established through 17 offices, with principal locations in the United States, London, Paris, Singapore and Latin America.
OMR Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. is engaged in the archaeologically sensitive exploration and recovery of deep-water shipwrecks throughout the world. Odyssey employs technology, including side-scan sonar, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and other technology, which enables the Company to locate and recover shipwrecks at depths that were previously unreachable in an economically feasible manner. During the fiscal year ended February 29, 2004 (fiscal 2003), Odyssey elected to purchase the 113-foot search and survey vessel RV Odyssey and to equip it with search and identification equipment. The Company has also upgraded its search system and uses a compressed, high-intensity radar pulse (CHIRP) side-scan system integrated with a geometrics magnetometer that provides an extended search swathe to depths of 2,000 meters. Odyssey also purchased a MaxROVER ROV system, which is an upgrade to its target inspection capability.
ODSY Odyssey HealthCare, Inc. provides hospice care, with a goal of improving the quality of life of terminally ill patients and their families. Hospice services focus on palliative care for patients with life-limiting illnesses, which is care directed at managing pain and other discomforting symptoms and addressing the psychosocial and spiritual needs of patients and their families. The Company provides for all medical, psychosocial care and certain other support services associated with the patient's terminal illness. As of December 31, 2003, Odyssey HealthCare had 68 Medicare-certified hospice programs to serve patients and their families in 29 states.
OCN Ocwen Financial Corporation (OCN) is a financial services company that is engaged in the servicing and resolution of non-conforming, sub-performing and non-performing residential and commercial mortgage loans. OCN also specializes in the related development of loan servicing technology and software for the mortgage and real estate industries. The Company owns directly and indirectly all of the outstanding common and preferred stock of its primary subsidiaries, Ocwen Federal Bank FSB, Investors Mortgage Insurance Holding Company, Ocwen Technology Xchange, Inc., Ocwen Asset Investment Corp. and Ocwen Financial Solutions Pvt. Ltd. In 2002, OCN formed Global Servicing Solutions, LLC (GSS). GSS is a joint servicing venture the Company formed with Merrill Lynch for the servicing of assets in various countries. The Company owns 70% of GSS with the remaining 30% owned by Merrill Lynch.
OTL Octel Corp. is an international chemical company specializing in the manufacture, distribution and marketing of fuel additives and specialty chemicals. Its primary manufacturing operation is located at Ellesmere Port, South Wirral, United Kingdom. The Company's products are sold globally, primarily to oil refineries. Principal product lines are tetraethyl lead (TEL), other petroleum additives and performance chemicals. Octel is organized into two business units: TEL and Specialty Chemicals. The principal product of the TEL business is lead alkyl antiknock compound. The Specialty Chemicals Business Unit comprised of two developing business areas: Petroleum Specialties and Performance Chemicals. The Petroleum Specialties business develops, produces and markets a range of specialty products, used as additives to fuels. The Refinery Specialties unit supplies a growing list of products and services that improve operational efficiencies and product performance at the refinery.
CHUX O'Charley's Inc. is a casual dining restaurant company that owns and operates three restaurant concepts under the O'Charley's, Ninety Nine Restaurant and Pub and Stoney River Legendary Steaks trade names. Its two primary concepts, O'Charley's and Ninety Nine, are casual dining concepts. Stoney River restaurants are upscale steakhouses that are intended to appeal to both upscale casual dining and fine dining customers. As of December 28, 2003, the Company operated 206 O'Charley's restaurants in 16 states in the southeast and midwest regions, 87 Ninety Nine restaurants in seven northeastern states and six Stoney River restaurants in the southeast and midwest.
OCGT.OB OCG Technology, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, PrimeCare Systems, Inc. (PSI) creates, owns, maintains and markets the PrimeCare Patient Management System, Version 9 (PrimeCare Version 9), which includes the CodeComplier; creates, owns, maintains and markets Websites containing secure Internet enhanced and targeted components of PrimeCare known as PrimeCareOnTheWeb.com, YourOwnDoctor.com and YourOwnHealth.com, and creates, maintains and markets a shopping cart on a fitness Website known as www.DeniseAustin.com.
OCEX.OB Oceanic Exploration Company is engaged in the business of acquiring oil and gas concessions covering selected locations around the world. The Company provides management, administrative and bookkeeping services to San Miguel Valley Corporation (San Miguel); Management, administrative and professional services to Cordillera Corporation (Cordillera), and consulting services, including monitoring exploration and production activities on a worldwide basis to identify potential investment opportunities for Harvard International Resources Ltd. (HIRL). Oceanic's subsidiaries include Oceanic International Properties Company (OIPC) and Petro Timor Companhia de Petroleos, SA (Petrotimor). Oceanic operates in two business segments: oil and gas exploration and employment operations. On June 30, 2003, Oceanic sold the assets, which is comprised of the Alliance Staffing Division, d/b/a Alliance Employment Solutions (Alliance) to Cordillera.
OCFC OceanFirst Financial Corp. is a savings and loan holding company that owns all of the capital stock of OceanFirst Bank (the Bank). The Bank conducts its business through an administrative and branch office located in Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey, as well as 16 additional branch offices. The Bank's principal business is attracting retail deposits from the general public in the communities surrounding its branch offices and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, primarily in single-family, owner-occupied residential mortgage loans within its market area. The Bank also invests in commercial real estate, multi-family, construction, consumer and commercial loans, as well as mortgage-backed securities, securities issued by the United States Government and agencies thereof, and corporate securities and other investments permitted by applicable law and regulations.
OII Oceaneering International, Inc. is an advanced applied technology company that provides a range of integrated technical services and hardware to customers who operate in harsh environments, such as underwater, space and other hazardous areas. Since its establishment, the Company has concentrated on the development and marketing of underwater services and products requiring the use of advanced deepwater technology. Oceaneering provides most of its services and products to the oil and gas industry. These services include drilling support, subsea construction, design, lease and operation of production systems, facilities maintenance and repair, specialty subsea hardware and specialized onshore and offshore engineering and inspection. The Company has locations in the United States and 18 other countries.
OBCI Ocean Bio-Chem, Inc. is principally engaged in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of a line of appearance and maintenance products for boats, recreational vehicles, automobile and aircraft under the Star brite name within the United States and Canada. In addition, the Company produces private-label formulations of some of its products for various customers, as well as provides custom blending and packaging services of these and other products to customer specifications. Ocean Bio-Chem's marine products and recreational vehicle products are sold through national mass merchandisers, such as Wal-mart and Home Depot, and through specialized marine retailers, such as West Marine and Boater's World. The Company also sells to national and regional distributors that, in turn, sell its products to specialized retail outlets for that specific market.
OCENY Oce N.V. is a supplier of products, services and complete solutions for use by professionals in print and document management environments, primarily in environments where large numbers of documents are processed. Oce has two business units: digital document systems and wide-format printing systems. The Company's research and manufacturing facilities are located in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, the Czech Republic, the United States and Japan. It operates in a total of 80 countries and has its own sales force in 30 countries. The Company's revenue has been generated from two types of business activities: commercial activities (selling and renting machines and providing services) and providing financial services (financing the lease of Oce machines by its customers). In the United States, Oce has established a captive lease company, Oce Financial Services, Inc., which is responsible for all leasing activities in the United States.
OHRI.OB Occupational Health + Rehabilitation Inc. is an occupational healthcare provider that specializes in the prevention, treatment and management of work-related injuries and illnesses, as well as regulatory compliance services. As of March 1, 2004, the Company operated 36 occupational health centers serving over 15,000 employer clients in 10 states and also delivered workplace health services at employer locations throughout the United States. The Company has developed a system of clinical and operating protocols, as well as its own information systems to track the resulting patient outcomes (the OH+R System), all focused on reducing the cost of work-related injuries. The OH+R System includes an array of protocols designed to reduce the frequency and severity of work-related injuries, to return injured employees to full duty in the shortest possible time and to assure regulatory compliance. Many of these services may also be delivered onsite at the workplace.
OXY Occidental Petroleum Corporation is a multinational organization whose principal business segments are oil and gas and chemical. The oil and gas segment explores for, develops, produces and markets crude oil and natural gas. The Company's domestic oil and gas operations are Elk Hills and other smaller locations in California, the Hugoton field in Kansas and Oklahoma, the Permian field in West Texas and New Mexico, and the Gulf of Mexico. International operations are located in Colombia, Ecuador, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. Occidental also has exploration interests in several other countries. The chemical segment manufactures and markets basic chemicals, vinyls and performance chemicals.
OCCM.OB Occam Networks, Inc. designs, develops and markets a suite of broadband loop carriers (BLCs). Occam's BLC's are Ethernet- and Internet protocol (IP)-based loop carrier platforms that enable telecommunications service providers to offer a variety of traditional, as well as packetized voice, broadband and IP services from a single, converged, all-packet access network. In addition, the Company markets a line of remote terminal cabinets to house its products in remote locations. Occam supplies its products to local and regional telecommunications carriers, independent telephone companies and international telecommunications carriers that deliver or wish to deliver voice, data, Internet access and video services to the residential, small and medium business and large enterprise markets over existing copper telephone lines.
OCA OCA, Inc., formerly Orthodontic Centers of America, Inc. (OCA), is a provider of business services and systems to orthodontic and pediatric dental practices located throughout the United States and in parts of Japan, Spain, Puerto Rico and Mexico. The Company provides its affiliated practices with a range of business, operational and marketing services, as well as complementary Internet-based information systems and capital for growth. To complement its existing focus on orthodontic and pediatric dental practices, The Company initiated a new division called OCA Outsource, through which OCA intends to provide business services to general dental practices and other dental and medical practices. As of December 31, 2003, the Company was affiliated with 362 practices, of which 334 were orthodontic practices and 28 were pediatric dental practices.
OO Oakley, Inc. is a consumer products company that is engaged in the design and development of sunglasses, prescription eyewear, apparel, footwear, watches, goggles and accessories. The Company's products are sold in the United States through a carefully selected account base that fluctuates between 8,400 and 9,200 accounts, with approximately 14,500 to 15,600 locations depending on seasonality of summer and winter products. The store base is comprised of optical stores, sunglass retailers and specialty sports stores, including bike, surf, snow and golf shops, as well as motorcycle, athletic footwear and sporting goods stores and limited department store distribution. The Company also operates 27 Oakley retail stores in the United States. In addition, the Company owns Iacon, Inc., a sunglass retailing chain with 76 sunglass specialty retail stores as of December 31, 2003. Internationally, the Company sells its products in over 100 countries outside the United States.
OKME.OB Oak Ridge Micro-Energy, Inc. is a development stage company engaged in developing a thin-film lithium battery technology for commercial, consumer, industrial, security and military use. The battery is lithium-based and is manufactured to be thinner than common plastic wrap. Like the larger, traditional lithium batteries that power laptops and cell phones, this lithium battery is also rechargeable. Unlike traditional lithium batteries, the thin-film battery is intended for small, hi-technology, low power applications, some of which have not yet been developed or brought to market. Anticipated uses include smart credit cards, security cards, wireless sensors, radio frequency identification tags, chip memory backup and advanced drug delivery devices.
OAKF Oak Hill Financial, Inc., is a financial holding company that is engaged indirectly in the business of commercial banking and other permissible activities, closely related to banking and consumer finance lending through its four wholly owned subsidiaries: Oak Hill Banks (Oak Hill), Action Finance Company (Action), Oak Hill Financial Insurance Agency, Inc. and Oak Hill Capital Trust I (the Trust). The Company also owns Oak Hill Title Agency (Oak Hill Title). Oak Hill provides management and similar services for its subsidiaries. The range of services provided by the Company's subsidiaries to their customers include commercial lending, real estate lending, consumer credit, credit card, other personal loan financing, deposits, group health insurance and other employee benefits, as well as title services for commercial and residential real estate transactions.
OIIM O2Micro International Limited designs, develops and markets integrated circuits for power management, power saving applications and computer security applications. The Company's integrated circuits use mixed signal designs, which combine analog and digital circuits on a single chip, reducing the number of semiconductors needed and decreasing the size, weight, power requirements and cost of the end product. It focuses its product design efforts on integrated circuits for the markets of computer, consumer electronics, industrial and communications products, which require both digital and analog circuits. Products in these markets include notebook computers, liquid crystal displays (LCD), mobile phones, portable intelligent devices, global positioning systems and portable digital versatile disc (DVD) players. The Company's products are used in electronic devices sold by computer and consumer electronics companies.
NYMX Nymox Pharmaceutical Corporation is engaged in the research and development of therapeutics and diagnostics for the aging population with an emphasis on Alzheimer's disease. Nymox has two subsidiaries: majority-owned Serex, Inc. and wholly owned Nymox Corporation. Nymox Corporation operates the Company's clinical reference laboratory where its AlzheimAlert, a diagnostic test for Alzheimer's disease is performed. It also conducts some research and development. Serex conducts research and development, as well as some of the manufacturing for NicAlert and TobacAlert, which are used to detect a person's usage or exposure to tobacco products and second hand smoke.
NYM NYMAGIC, INC. is a holding company that owns and operates insurance companies, risk-bearing entities and insurance underwriters and managers. The Company operates insurance companies and Lloyd's Corporate Capital Vehicle, which include New York Marine and General Insurance Company, Gotham Insurance Company, MMO UK, Ltd. and MMO EU, Ltd. The Company also operates insurance underwriters and managers, which include Mutual Marine Office, Inc. (MMO), Pacific Mutual Marine Office, Inc. (PMMO) and Mutual Marine Office of the Midwest, Inc. (Midwest). The Company has specialized in underwriting ocean marine, inland marine, aircraft and other liability insurance through insurance pools managed by MMO, PMMO and Midwest.
NYFX NYFIX, Inc. provides trading technology, industry network connectivity and execution services, offering certain underlying, universally applicable network inter-connectivity products, systems, facilities and supporting operations to the Company's two business segments: Technology Services segment and Transaction Services segment. The Company's Technology Services segment is comprised of four subsidiaries: NYFIX USA, NYFIX Overseas, Javelin and Renaissance. These businesses work together as technology providers, offering trade-management systems, a centralized industry order-routing network, order-routing software, exchange-floor automation systems, exchange and market access technology and post-trade processing systems. NYFIX's Transaction Services segment is comprised of six subsidiaries: NYFIX Millennium, NYFIX Transaction Services, NYFIX Clearing, NYFIX Partners, NYFIX International and EuroLink. In September 2003, the Company acquired Renaissance Trading Technologies LLC.
NYER Nyer Medical Group, Inc. is a holding company with operations in segments, including, pharmacies, medical and surgical equipment and supplies, and corporate. Through D.A.W., Inc., an 80%-owned subsidiary of the Company, it operates a chain of pharmacy drug stores in the suburban Boston, Massachusetts area. The Company's three wholly owned subsidiaries, ADCO Surgical Supply, Inc. (ADCO), ADCO South Medical Supplies, Inc. (ADCO South) and Nyer Internet Companies, Inc. (Internet) are engaged in the wholesale and retail sale of medical and surgical equipment and supplies throughout New England, Florida, Nevada and worldwide through the Internet sales. The corporate segment includes discontinued operations of Anton Investments, Inc. and Conway Associates, Inc. In February 2004, the Company announced the complete closure of Anton Investments, Inc.
NWIR NWH, Inc. is an electronic commerce and communications company. The Company owns substantially all of Electronic Network Systems Inc. (ENS), a payer services organization that connects healthcare payers (insurance companies and third-party administrators) and providers (doctors, group practices and other healthcare providers) using proprietary software and telecommunications services for most healthcare payment and insurance validation transactions. ENS provides a technology platform for Web-based graphical user interfaces on a national basis, which enables its clients, both payers and providers, to comply fully with applicable regulatory requirements such as those imposed by Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. NWH manages ENS and owns 94% of ENS' outstanding stock. The Company focuses its efforts on the development of ENS' business and continues its business of acquiring and disposing of interests in healthcare and other business areas.
NVR NVR, Inc. operates in two business segments, homebuilding and mortgage banking. NVR conducts its homebuilding activities directly and its mortgage banking operations primarily through a wholly owned subsidiary, NVR Mortgage Finance, Inc. (NVRM). Its homebuilding operations include the construction and sale of single-family detached homes, townhomes and condominium buildings under three tradenames: Ryan Homes, NVHomes and Fox Ridge Homes. Homes built by NVR combine traditional or colonial exterior designs with contemporary interior designs and amenities and generally include two to four bedrooms. In addition to building and selling homes, the Company provides a number of mortgage-related services through its mortgage banking operations, which operate in 11 states. Through office locations in each of NVR's homebuilding markets, NVRM originates mortgage loans predominantly for the Company's homebuyers. NVRM sells substantially all of the mortgage loans it closes in the secondary markets.
NVIC.OB N-Viro International Corporation (N-Viro) owns and licenses the N-Viro Process, a technology to treat and recycle wastewater sludges and other bio-organic wastes using certain alkaline and mineral by-products produced by the cement, lime, electric utilities and other industries. It is also a distributor of alkaline admixture and is responsible for its quality control. The N-Viro Process involves mixing the wastewater sludge with an alkaline admixture and then subjecting the mixture to a controlled period of storage, mechanical turning and accelerated drying in which a blending of the sludge and the alkaline admixture occurs. It stabilizes and pasteurizes the wastewater sludge, reduces odors to acceptable levels, neutralizes or immobilizes various toxic components and generates N-Viro Soil, a product that has a granular appearance similar to soil and has multiple commercial uses.
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation designs, develops and markets graphic processing units, media and communications processors, ultra-low-power media processors and related software that are an integral part of a wide variety of visual computing platforms, including enterprise personal computers (PCs), consumer PCs, professional workstations, notebook PCs, personal digital assistants, cellular phones, game consoles and digital media centers. The original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), original design manufacturers (ODMs), add-in-card manufacturers, system builders and consumer electronics companies utilize NVIDIA digital media processors as a core component of the entertainment and business solutions. The Company's three major product groups are Graphic Processing Units, Media and Communications Processors and Ultra-Low Power Media Processors. In addition, it also sells a two-chip platform processor for use in Microsoft's Xbox video game console.
NVEC NVE Corporation develops and sells devices using spintronics, a nanotechnology the Company helped pioneer, which utilizes electron spin rather than electron charge to acquire, store and transmit information. NVE is a licensor of spintronic magnetic random access memory technology (MRAM). It also manufactures spintronic products, including sensors and couplers that are used to acquire and transmit data in automated factories. NVE has licensed its MRAM intellectual property to others, including Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, Honeywell International and Motorola, Inc. The Company also has an agreement with Agilent Technologies, Inc. to distribute its couplers under their brand. NVE's customers include Agilent Technologies, Inc., St. Jude Medical, Inc. and the United States Government.
NUWV.OB NUWAVE Technologies Inc. is a technology company focused on the development and marketing of technology and technology products related to enhancing image and video output. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company formed subsidiaries for the purpose of acquiring and holding real estate and other assets. As of March 31, 2004, the Company held only one real estate property, a parcel of undeveloped acreage. It has not yet identified any other properties, markets or investments, and has made no commitments to purchase any such assets. NUWAVE continues to search for companies and investments, as well as products that use its technology. In 2003, NUWAVE made changes to its product lines and business strategy. It is no longer marketing the retail and security/surveillance products. In January and February 2004, the Company formed NuWave Acquisition Corp., Harwood Acquisition Corp., WH Acquisition Corp. and JK Acquisition Corp.
NUVO Nuvelo, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel products for acute cardiovascular indications and cancer. The Company has two drug candidates in clinical trials. Its lead drug candidate, alfimeprase, is a thrombolytic agent or blood clot dissolver. Alfimeprase is in two separate Phase II clinical trials for the treatment of acute peripheral arterial occlusion (PAO) and catheter occlusion. If the results of the Phase II trial are positive, the Company anticipates initiating a Phase III trial in this indication during 2004. Nuvelo has obtained orphan drug status for alfimeprase in the United States for use in treating acute PAO. The Company is also conducting a Phase II multi-center, double blind, randomized study in patients with occluded catheters. Nuvelo has a 50/50 cost/profit sharing collaboration in place with Amgen Inc. for the worldwide development and commercialization of alfimeprase.
NNY Nuveen New York Municipal Value Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a closed-end, diversified management investment company. The Fund's primary objective is current income exempt from Federal, as well as New York State and New York City income tax, and its secondary objective is the enhancement of portfolio value through selection of tax-exempt New York bonds and municipal market sectors. The Fund invests primarily in a diversified portfolio of tax-exempt New York municipal obligations. Nuveen Advisory Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, Inc., serves as the adviser of the Fund. As of September 30, 2003, the Fund's investments were concentrated in the following industries: tax obligation/limited (21%), long-term care (15%), healthcare (12%), utilities (9%) and education and civic organizations (8%).
NMI Nuveen Municipal Income Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a closed-end, diversified management investment company. The Fund seeks to provide current income exempt from regular federal income tax by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of municipal obligations issued by state and local government authorities. Nuveen Advisory Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, Inc., serves as the Fund's adviser. Nuveen Advisory provides the Fund with overall investment advisory and administrative services and general office facilities. During the fiscal year ended October 30, 2003, the Fund continued to find value in healthcare and utilities, its two principal sector weightings. The Fund also continued to work through distressed holdings and enhance its positioning through the addition of bonds with the potential to improve diversification and credit quality, consistent with maintaining its income stream.
JNC Nuveen Investments, Inc.'s principal businesses are asset management and related research, as well as the development, marketing and distribution of investment products and services for the affluent, high net worth and the institutional market segments. The Company and its subsidiaries offer core investment capabilities through four branded investment teams: Rittenhouse growth, NWQ value, Nuveen fixed income and Symphony alternative investments. It distributes investment products and services, including closed-end exchange-traded funds, mutual funds and individually managed accounts, to affluent and high-net-worth market segments through unaffiliated intermediary firms including broker/dealers, commercial banks, affiliates of insurance providers, financial planners, accountants, consultants and investment advisors. It also provides managed account services to several institutional market segments and channels.
NCA Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund, Inc. (the Fund) registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and is a closed-end, diversified management investment company. The Fund seeks to provide income exempt from both regular Federal and California state income taxes by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of municipal obligations issued by State and local government authorities within the state of California. Nuveen Advisory Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, Inc., serves as the Fund's investment manager. Under its investment management agreement with Nuveen Advisory Corp., the Fund pays an annual management fee based on the average daily net assets, including net assets attributable to preferred shares of the Fund.
NUVA NuVasive, Inc. is a medical device company that designs, develops and markets products for the surgical treatment of spine disorders. The Company's product offering includes a minimally invasive surgical platform, called maximum access surgery (MAS), as well as classic fusion products. MAS combines three of the Company's product offerings: NeuroVision, a software-driven nerve avoidance system; MaXcess, a split-blade design, minimally invasive surgical system, and specialized implants. These product offerings, collectively, minimize soft tissue disruption during spine surgery. NuVasive's classic fusion portfolio is comprised of a range of products, including spine allografts, which are human bones that have been processed and precision-shaped for transplant, and spine implants such as rods, plates and screws that are necessary for a variety of spine surgery procedures. NeuroVision has been used in over 15, 000 spine surgeries and the implants have been used in over 10,000 fusions.
NXXI Nutrition 21, Inc. is a biosciences company engaged in the research, development and commercialization of chromium-based nutrition products for use in improving the structure or function of the body, and in the prevention and treatment of metabolic diseases, such as diabetes, insulin resistance, obesity, depression and cardiovascular disease. Nutrition 21's Chromax chromium picolinate is a form of the essential mineral chromium developed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and licensed to the Company. It is used as an ingredient in many nutritional supplements. In August 2003, the Company discontinued its investment in the Lite Bites product line.
NSI NutriSystem Inc. and its subsidiaries (NutriSystem) provides weight-loss programs and distributes pre-packaged foods. The NutriSystem diet program was developed by the Company's predecessor businesses, which operated through Company-owned and franchised weight-loss centers. There are 24 independent center-based distributors that operate without franchise agreements (case distributors). In 2001, the Company began selling foods through QVC, a television-shopping network. Its pre-packaged foods are now sold to weight-loss program participants directly via the Internet and telephone and through independent commissioned representatives, case distributors and QVC. In December 2002, a new management team took control of the Company and immediately implemented a strategy to revitalize and leverage the NutriSystem brand. Early in 2004, it re-launched featuring NutriSystem, a complete line of good carb products backed by marketing support for its direct-to-consumer strategy.
NUTR Neutraceutical International Corporation is an integrated marketer, distributor, retailer and manufacturer of branded nutritional supplements and other natural products sold primarily to and through domestic health and natural food stores. The Company sells its branded products under the trademarks Solaray, KAL, Nature's Life, Natural Balance, NaturalMax, VegLife, Premier One, Sunny Green, Natural Sport, FunFresh Foods, ActiPet, Action Labs, Thompson, Montana Big Sky and Body Gold. It also sells branded bulk products and custom blends under the trademark Monarch Nutritional Laboratories. Under the name Woodland Publishing, it publishes and markets a line of books and booklets. Its neighborhood natural food markets operate under the trade names The Real Food Company, Thom's Natural Foods and Cornucopia Community Market and its health food stores operate under the trade names Arizona Health Foods and Granola's. It also distributes the branded products of certain third parties.
NPHC.OB Nutra Pharma Corp. is a biotechnology holding company that owns non-exclusive license rights to patents and intellectual property related to the development of drugs for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Multiple Sclerosis (MS). These technologies are being developed by ReceptoPharm, Inc. The Company's majority-owned subsidiary, Infectech, Inc., (Infectech), is engaged in the research and development of diagnostic test kits designed to be used for the rapid identification of infectious human diseases, such as Tuberculosis (TB) and Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare (MAI).
NUSL.OB Nurescell Inc. is a development stage company that develops and commercializes a radiation shielding technology (the Nurescell Technology) for use by the nuclear power industry and others for producing, handling or storing radioactive materials. The Nurescell Technology material consists of a composite of materials that was designed for incorporation into the structural components of nuclear reactors and other facilities in order to provide safeguard from the lethal effect of radiation, while achieving a minimal disruption to existing facilities. The technology is also expected to provide a shielding material for various other purposes, including nuclear accelerator and defense research applications. On January 21, 2004, Nurescell completed certain transactions under a Restructure Agreement with Triton Private Equities Fund, L.P. (Triton), Advanced Technology Industries, Inc. (ATI) and ATI's subsidiary, ATI Nuklear AG.
NURM NUR Macroprinters Ltd. is a supplier of wide format and super-wide format digital printing systems. The Company develops, manufactures, sells and services digital color printers for the printing of large images such as billboards, posters and banners, point of purchase displays, exhibition and trade show displays, as well as decorations and backdrops for construction scaffolding covers, showrooms, television and film studios, museums and exhibits. These printers are categorized as Super Wide Format Digital Printers, Wide Format Digital Printers and Flatbed Digital Printers. The Company also supplies its customers with consumables, including inks and solvents for use with its printers. The NUR Printers can be operated in a stand-alone mode or in conjunction with pre-press and desktop publishing systems.
NMRX Numerex Corp. is a communications technology business comprised of operating subsidiaries that primarily utilize existing wireless or cellular, Internet and cable infrastructure to enable network access and information management through the deployment of proprietary software and technology that provides an entrance to and exit from a communications network. Such technology is referred to as a gateway. The Company primarily markets and sells products and services in wireless data communications through Cellemetry, Uplink, MobileGuardian and VendView, and digital multimedia through PowerPlay and IPContact. These products and services enable customers around the globe to monitor and move information for a variety of applications from home and business security to distance learning. In addition, the Company offers wireline alarm security products and services, as well as telecommunications network support.
NUE Nucor Corporation is engaged in the manufacture and sale of steel and steel products. The Company organizes its business into two segments: steel mills and steel products. Principal products from the steel mills segment are hot-rolled steel (angles, rounds, flats, channels, sheet, wide-flange beams, pilings, billets, blooms, beam blanks and plate) and cold-rolled steel. Hot-rolled and cold-rolled sheet steel are produced to customer orders. In addition, other hot-rolled and cold-rolled steel are manufactured in standard sizes and inventories are maintained. Principal products from the steel products segment are steel joists and joist girders, steel deck, cold finished steel, steel fasteners, metal building systems and light gauge steel framing. Steel products are sold to general contractors and fabricators throughout the United States. Substantially all work is to order and no unsold inventories of finished products are maintained.
NUCO NuCo2, Inc. is the supplier in the United States of bulk carbon di oxide (CO2) systems and bulk CO2 for carbonating fountain beverages based on the number of bulk CO2 systems leased to customers. Bulk CO2 involves the use of a cryogenic vessel delivered to a customer's site, which preserves CO2 in its liquid form and then converts the liquid product to gaseous CO2, the necessary ingredient for beverage carbonation. The customers are national and regional restaurant and convenience store chains (based on United States systemwide foodservice sales), movie theater operators, theme parks, resorts and sports venues. Through a combination of internal growth and over 30 asset acquisitions, NuCo2 has expanded the service area in Florida to 108 service locations (97 stationary depots and 11 mobile depots) located throughout the 45 state service area and operated 173 specialized bulk CO2 trucks and 83 technical service vehicles during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004).
NUAN Nuance Communications, Inc. is engaged in the development, marketing and support of voice automation solutions for conducting interactions over the telephone for a range of industries and applications. Its product line consists of speech recognition, voice authentication and text-to-speech engines; a voice platform, and pre-packaged applications. The Company also offers a range of consulting, support and education services that enable its customers and third-party resellers and channel partners to develop voice automation applications that use its software products.
NUS Nu Skin Enterprises is a global direct selling company. The Company develops and distributes personal care products and nutritional supplements that are sold worldwide under the Nu Skin and Pharmanex brands. It also markets technology products and services and a line of home care products under the Big Planet brand. Nu Skin operates in more than 30 countries throughout Asia, the Americas and Europe, and it recognizes approximately 89% of its revenue in markets outside the United States, with its Japanese operations accounting for approximately 57% of its revenue. The Company has three product divisions: Nu Skin, which offers personal care products; Pharmanex, which offers nutritional products, and Big Planet, which offers high-technology products and services.
NUHC Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiaries are engaged in the distribution of and supply chain services for high-technology active and passive electronic components, principally to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Active components distributed by the Company, principally to OEMs in the United States, include mainly commercial semiconductor products such as memory chips, microprocessors, digital and linear circuits, microwave, radio frequency (RF) and fiber-optic components, transistors and diodes. Passive components, distributed principally to OEMs and other distributors nationally, consist of a line of chip and leaded components, including capacitors, resistors and related networks.
DCM NTT DoCoMo, Inc. is a provider of cellular services in Japan with an aggregate subscriber base of approximately 45.9 million at March 31, 2004. The Company offers a range of high-mobility telecommunications services, such as third-generation (3G) and second-generation (2G) cellular services, personal handyphone system (PHS) services and other specialized wireless telecommunications services, including Quickcast services (paging services) and satellite mobile communications services. Although its basic services continue to be voice services, NTT is increasingly focusing on the development of wireless data transmission and mobile multimedia services, such as its i-mode Internet service and 3G services. At March 31, 2004, 41.1 million cellular subscribers had signed up for i-mode services.
NTN NTN Communications, Inc. develops and distributes interactive communications and entertainment products for the home and the hospitality industry. The Company operated through four business segments: NTN Interactive Television Network, NTN Wireless Communications, NTN Software Solutions and its wholly owned subsidiary, Buzztime Entertainment, Inc. The NTN iTV Network transmits interactive games, advertisements and informational programming. NTN Wireless provides onsite wireless paging products to restaurants and other hospitality locations. Software Solutions offers seating management systems, reservation systems, point of sale systems and enterprise management systems. Buzztime specializes in real-time, mass-participation games and entertainment. In August 2003, the Company acquired Breakaway International, Inc., a provider of restaurant industry hardware and software enterprise solutions. In December 2003, the Company acquired NTN Interactive Network, Inc., its licensee in Canada.
NTLI NTL Incorporated is a broadband and communications services company in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. The Company provides its services through five segments: ntl: home, ntl: business, ntl: broadcast, ntl: carriers and ntl: Ireland. On January 10, 2003, the Company emerged from reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. As part of the plan of reorganization (the Plan), NTL substantially reduced its indebtedness. Pursuant to the Plan, the Company's former parent NTL Europe, Inc., formerly known as NTL Incorporated, and its subsidiaries and affiliates were split into two separate groups, with the Company and NTL Europe, Inc., each emerging as independent public companies. The Company was renamed NTL Incorporated and became the holding company for the former NTL group's principal United Kingdom and Ireland assets.
NTHH.OB NT Holding Corp, formerly ABSS, Corp. is associated with the sale and administration of cooperative direct mail advertising franchises. The Company operated and owned a subsidiary, Cal-Central Marketing Corporation, which is involved in cooperative advertising distributed through supermarkets, pharmacies and restaurants. The franchising activities were conducted through United Marketing, which the Company had acquired. On September 2, 2003, the Company hired three consultants for management consulting, strategic planning, and Web development. The Company seeks to locate and negotiate a business entity with a combination in the biotechnology, nutraceutical, nanotechnology and communications industries.
NSO nStor Technologies, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary, nStor Corporation, Inc., is a supplier of data storage solutions (storage solutions). The Company's product family includes application-driven storage platforms, redundant array of independent disks (RAID) controllers and storage management software. Since its June 2002, acquisition of Stonehouse Technologies, Inc., it is also a provider of telecommunications software and outsourcing solutions (Telemanagement Solutions) that help large enterprises, state and municipal governments, and other large organizations manage their telecommunications expenses, assets and processes.
NST NSTAR is an energy delivery company primarily engaged in the transmission and distribution of energy. The Company serves approximately 1.4 million customers in Massachusetts, including approximately 1.1 million electricity customers in 81 communities and 0.3 million gas customers in 51 communities. NSTAR's retail utility subsidiaries are Boston Edison Company, Commonwealth Electric Company (ComElectric), Cambridge Electric Light Company and NSTAR Gas Company. Its wholesale electric subsidiary is Canal Electric Company. NSTAR's three retail electric companies, Boston Edison, ComElectric and Cambridge Electric, operate under the brand name NSTAR Electric. NSTAR's non-utility, unregulated operations include district energy operations (Advanced Energy Systems, Inc. and NSTAR Steam Corporation), telecommunications operations (NSTAR Communications, Inc.) and a liquefied natural gas service company (Hopkinton LNG Corp.).
NSDB NSD Bancorp, Inc. is a registered bank holding company that owns all of the outstanding shares of NorthSide Bank (the Bank). The Company derives substantially all of its income from banking and bank-related services provided by the Bank, a state-chartered bank that operates 12 branch offices serving Pittsburgh and its northern suburbs. In addition to providing traditional lending and depository products and related banking services, the Bank offers investment advisory, brokerage and insurance services. The Bank also provides title searches and other real estate settlement services through its wholly owned subsidiary, NSB Financial Services, LLC, a limited liability corporation, which operates as a licensed title insurance agency.
NSS NS Group, Inc. operates the four wholly owned subsidiaries Newport Steel Corporation (Newport or Welded), Koppel Steel Corporation (Koppel or Seamless), Erlanger Tubular Corporation (Erlanger) and Northern Kentucky Management, Inc. The Company conducts its business within a single reportable segment, which it refers to as the Energy Products segment. The Energy Products segment includes welded and seamless tubular goods, primarily used in oil and natural gas drilling and production operations, referred to as oil country tubular goods (OCTG). It also produces welded and seamless line pipe products used in the transmission of oil and natural gas, as well as a limited amount of other tubular products.
NRG NRG Energy, Inc. is a wholesale power generation company, primarily engaged in the ownership and operation of power generation facilities and the sale of energy, capacity and related products in the United States and internationally. The Company has a diverse portfolio of electric generation facilities in terms of geography, fuel type and dispatch levels. It seeks to maximize operating income through the efficient procurement and management of fuel supplies and maintenance services, and the sale of energy, capacity and ancillary services into attractive spot, intermediate and long-term markets. On May 14, 2003, the Company and 25 of its direct and indirect wholly owned subsidiaries commenced voluntary petitions under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the Court). On November 24, 2003, the Court entered an order confirming the Company's plan of reorganization. The plan became effective on December 5, 2003.
NPSP NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing small molecule drugs and recombinant proteins. Its product candidates, which are in various stages of clinical and preclinical development, are primarily for the treatment of bone and mineral disorders, gastrointestinal disorders and central nervous system disorders. One of its product candidates, cinacalcet HCl, is an orally active, small molecule compound for the treatment of hyperparathyroidism. Cinacalcet HCl is the subject of a new drug application that has been filed with the United Stated Food and Drug Administration and the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products. NPS also completed a pivotal Phase III clinical trial with another product candidate, PREOS, a recombinant, full-length parathyroid hormone that it is developing for the treatment of osteoporosis. Additional product candidates, teduglutide and isovaleramide, are in Phase II clinical trials.
NOVT Novoste Corporation is a medical device company that is engaged in developing economically beneficial therapeutic solutions for the prevention and treatment of vascular disease. A major activity is commercializing its Beta-Cath System, an intraluminal beta radiation catheter delivery system designed to reduce restenosis subsequent to percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. In 1998, the Company received CE mark approval to sell the Beta-Cath System in Europe, and recorded its first sale of commercial product in December 1998. In November 2000, Novoste received United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to sell the Beta-Cath System (30-millimeter source train) for use in patients suffering from in-stent restenosis. Novoste received additional approvals from the FDA for the Beta-Cath System with a 40-millimeter source train during 2001 and the 60-millimeter source train and smaller, next generation 3.5 F catheter and source train in early 2002.
NVGN Novogen Limited is a pharmaceutical company involved in the discovery, development, manufacture and marketing of products based on the emerging field of phenolic technology. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company was marketing three products: Promensil, Trinovin and Rimostil. All three products are classified as dietary supplements for people whose intake of isoflavones is inadequate. These products deliver standardized levels of all four isoflavones: daidzein, genistein, formononetin and biochanin.
NVO Novo Nordisk A/S is engaged in the discovery, development, manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceutical products. It has two business segments, diabetes care and biopharmaceuticals. The diabetes care segment covers Novo Nordisk's insulin franchise, including insulin analogues, human insulin and insulin-related products and oral antidiabetic products. The biopharmaceuticals segment consists of haemostasis management (NovoSeven), growth hormone therapy (Norditropin and Norditropin SimpleXx) and other products, including hormone replacement therapy (HRT), GlucaGen and other products. The Company had manufacturing operations in 69 countries and marketed its products in 179 countries as of December 31, 2003.
NVNW.OB Novo Networks, Inc. was a holding company engaged in providing telecommunications services through its operating subsidiaries. During 2002, the principal telecommunications operating subsidiaries, including AxisTel Communications, Inc., e. Volve Technology Group, Inc. and Novo Networks Operating Corp. filed voluntary petitions under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code. The Company has no operations or revenues and provides no products or services of any kind, including telecommunications services to any customers. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company was engaged in discussions with Paciugo, a gelato manufacturing, retailing and catering business, that resulted in the Company entering into a sales agreement on January 13, 2004, with Ad Astra, PMLLC and the equity owners.
NOVN Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is engaged in the development and manufacture of advanced transdermal drug delivery technologies and prescription transdermal products. The Company's principal commercialized products are prescription transdermal drug delivery systems for use in menopausal hormone therapy (HT). Its first product was an estrogen patch for the treatment of menopausal symptoms marketed under the brand name Vivelle in the United States and Canada and under the brand name Menorest in Europe and certain other markets. In May 1999, Noven's second-generation estrogen patch was launched in the United States under the brand name Vivelle-Dot. This product has been launched in several foreign countries under the brand name Estradot. Noven also developed a combination estrogen/progestin transdermal patch for the treatment of menopausal symptoms, which is marketed under the brand name CombiPatch in the United States and under the brand name Estalis in Europe and certain other markets.
NVLS Novellus Systems, Inc. is a supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. The Company is focused on delivering interconnect products and technologies that meet the increasingly complex and demanding needs of semiconductor manufacturers. The Company's advanced deposition systems use chemical vapor deposition (CVD), physical vapor deposition (PVD) and electrochemical deposition processes to form the interconnects in the device structure. Its High-Density Plasma CVD and Plasma-Enhanced CVD systems employ a chemical plasma to deposit all of the dielectric or insulating layers and some of the metal or conductive layers on the surface of a semiconductor wafer. Novellus' PVD systems use direct-current power to deposit conductive metal layers by sputtering metallic atoms from the surface of a target source. The Company's Electrofill systems are used for depositing conductive layers of copper on wafers in a damascene manufacturing process.
NOVL Novell, Inc., incorporated in January 1983, provides identity management and web services solutions and cross-platform solutions on several operating systems, including Linux, NetWare, Windows and Unix. All of the Company's solutions are supported by its worldwide services, including consulting, training and technical services. Through these solutions, customers can deliver information or system resources from diverse sources, regardless of how they are implemented and regardless of how they connect, in a secure and personalized way. Through its training services, the Company offers skills assessments, advanced technical training courses and customized training directly and through authorized training service partners. It also offers testing and certification programs to systems administrators, engineers, salespeople and instructors on a variety of technologies, including Linux.
NVLD Novel Denim Holdings Ltd. is a vertically integrated supplier of denim and chino garments and fabric printed and dyed fabrics to the European Community (EC) and the United States. The Company offers an array of basic and value-added garments and fabric in accordance with customer specifications. Novel Denim produces a wide variation of garments, including jeans, chinos, shirts, skirts, shorts and jackets in a variety of styles, colors and finishes, such as overdyed, stonewashed, sandblasted and stretch. Novel also produces a range of different kinds of denim and chino fabrics, including lighter weight fabrics, fabrics made with alternative weaves and treatments and specialty colors and finishes. On January 26, 2004, the Company announced its intention to scale down its South African garment operation. On May 28, 2004, the Company announced its plan to wind down all operations in Mauritius.
NVAX Novavax, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the research, development and commercialization of products focused on drug delivery and vaccine development. Novavax sells, markets and distributes women's health prescription pharmaceuticals. Products include Nestabs, NovaNatal and NovaStart, a line of prescription prenatal vitamins, Gynodiol (estradiol tablets, USP), an oral form of estrogen therapy, AVC Cream for vaginal infections and Analpram HC, a prescription corticosteroid and antipruritic product for hemorrhoids. Novavax's micellar nanoparticle technology involves the use of oil and water emulsions that it believes can be used as vehicles for the topical delivery of drugs and other therapeutic products, including hormones. In addition to ESTRASORB, its topical emulsion for estrogen therapy, Novavax has several product candidates utilizing this technology in human clinical trials or in pre-clinical development, including ANDROSORB, a topical testosterone emulsion.
NVTL Novatel Wireless, Inc. is a provider of wireless broadband access solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. The Company's range of products includes wireless data modems and software for laptop personal computers (PCs), embedded wireless modules for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and ruggedized wireless data modems for public safety and telemetry applications. Through the integration of its hardware and software, Novatel's products are designed to operate on most global wireless networks, and provide mobile subscribers with secure access to data, including corporate, public and personal information through the Internet and enterprise networks.
NGPS NovAtel Inc. designs, markets and sells high-precision global positioning systems (GPS) and other positioning components and sub-systems used in a variety of commercial applications principally in the aviation, geomatics (surveying and mapping), mining, precision agriculture, marine and defense industries. NovAtel's solutions combine hardware, such as receivers and antennas, with software to enable its customers to fully integrate the Company's high-precision GPS technology into their respective products and systems. NovAtel is focused on supplying high-precision positioning technology to original equipment manufacturers and system integrators who build systems for various end-market applications. NovAtel divides its customers into three primary categories, special applications, geomatics and aerospace and defense.
NFI NovaStar Financial Inc. is a specialty finance company that originates, invests in and services residential nonconforming loans. The Company operates through three separate but inter-related units: mortgage lending and loan servicing, mortgage portfolio management and branch operations. The Company offers a range of mortgage loan products to borrowers (nonconforming borrowers) that generally do not satisfy the credit, collateral, documentation or other underwriting standards prescribed by conventional mortgage lenders and loan buyers, including government-sponsored entities such as Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac). NovaStar retains interests in the nonconforming loans it originates through its mortgage securities investment portfolio. Through its servicing platform, the Company then services all of the loans it retain interests in, in order to better manage the credit performance of those loans.
NVS Novartis AG is the holding company for a multinational group of companies specializing in research, development, manufacture, marketing and sales of healthcare products. Novartis is divided operationally on a worldwide basis into two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Health. The Pharmaceuticals Division researches, develops, manufactures, distributes and sells branded pharmaceuticals in therapeutic areas, such as cardiovascular, oncology and hematology; metabolism and endocrinology; central nervous system; dermatology; ophthalmics; respiratory; rheumatology; bone and hormone replacement therapy, and transplantation and infectious diseases. The Consumer Health Division researches, develops, manufactures, distributes and sells generics, over-the-counter (OTC) self-medication, animal health products, medical nutrition, infant and baby foods and products and eyecare products.
TONS Novamerican Steel Inc. processes and distributes carbon steel, stainless steel and aluminum products, and operates as an intermediary between primary metal producers and manufacturers. In addition to flat-rolled processing, including pickling, slitting, blanking, cutting-to-length and roll forming to customer specifications, the Company produces steel tubing used for a variety of markets such as the structural and automotive markets, and also manufactures steel components for heavy equipment. The Company is the holding company for two main operating groups. The Canadian affiliates consist of Nova Steel Ltd., Metco Steel Inc., Nova Tube Inc., Cresswell Roll Forming Inc., Argo Steel Ltd., Nova Tube Ontario Inc., Nova Steel Processing Centre Ltd. and Delta Tube and Company, Limited. The United States affiliates consist of Integrated Steel Industries, Inc. (a United States holding company), American Steel, Nova Tube and Steel, Inc. and Nova Tube Indiana, LLC.
NOVA NovaMed, Inc. (formerly NovaMed Eyecare, Inc.) is a healthcare services company and an owner and operator of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). The Company's owns and operates ASCs located in 14 states. Most of its ASCs are single-specialty ophthalmic surgical facilities, where ophthalmologists perform surgical procedures, such as cataract and laser vision correction (LVC) surgery. In addition to having surgical equipment in its ASCs, NovaMed also provides excimer lasers to ophthalmologists for their use in performing laser vision correction surgery in their offices. The Company also owns and operates optical laboratories, an optical products purchasing organization and a marketing products and services business. In December 2004, the Company acquired a 51% interest in the Madison Laser Eye Center, an ambulatory surgery center located in Madison, Wisconsin.
NG NovaGold Resources Inc. is a natural resource company engaged in the exploration and development of gold properties in North America. Since 1998, the Company has assembled a portfolio of mineral properties in Alaska, British Columbia and the Yukon Territory. Five of these properties, the Donlin Creek, Rock Creek, Nome Gold, Shotgun and Galore Creek properties, are advanced-stage exploration projects with defined gold resources undergoing plans for development. The remaining properties are earlier-stage exploration projects that have not yet advanced to the resource definition stage. The Company is also engaged in the sale of construction aggregates and land, and receives royalties from placer gold production, largely from its holdings around Nome, Alaska.
NVD Novadel Pharma Inc. is a development-stage biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of novel application drug delivery systems for presently marketed prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs. The Company's delivery systems are lingual sprays enabling drug absorption through the oral mucosa and more rapid absorption into the bloodstream than presently available oral delivery systems. Its proprietary, novel delivery system is designed to provide patients with the therapeutic effects of a given drug within minutes of such drug's administration to the patient thereby enhancing and greatly accelerating the onset of the intended therapeutic benefits of the drug.
NVMI Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. is a designer, developer and producer of integrated process control metrology systems used in the manufacture of semiconductors and a designer, manufacturer and producer of stand-alone process control metrology systems. The Company supplies its metrology systems to semiconductor manufacturers worldwide, either directly or through process equipment manufacturers: TSMC, UMC, AMD, Micron Technology, Elpida, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Motorola, Phillips, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Samsung, Process equipment manufacturers that purchase the Company's metrology systems include Applied Materials, Ebara, Novellus and Lam Research. Nova has four wholly owned subsidiaries in the United States, Japan, Taiwan and Netherlands. These subsidiaries are engaged in marketing activities and provide technical support to customers.
NVAC.OB Nova Communications Ltd. (Nova) is in the business of acquiring ownership interests in developing companies in a range of industries and providing financing and managerial assistance to those companies. It seeks to invest in companies that have the reasonable potential for growth. Since December 2001, the Company's only operating business has been Kadfield, Inc., which engages primarily in the Internet sale of computing equipment and accessories and telecommunications and telephony equipment and accessories. Kadfield conducts its business under the trade name of BuyMicro and maintains an Internet Website at www. BuyMicro.com. In October 2003, Nova entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with PowerSki International Corporation pursuant to which it would merge with PowerSki. PowerSki is in the business of designing, manufacturing, marketing and distribution of PowerSki Jetboard and SuperTorque XT and plans to develop and market a range of ancillary products.
NCX NOVA Chemicals Corporation is engaged in the production and marketing of petrochemicals. It operates two commodity chemical businesses: olefins/polyolefins and styrenics. The olefins/polyolefins business produces ethylene, polyethylene and a variety of chemical and energy products (commonly known as co-products). The styrenics business produces styrene monomer and styrenic polymers. The Company's subsidiaries, as of February 12, 2004, include NOVA Chemicals (Canada) Ltd./NOVA Chimie (Canada) Ltee., NOVA Chemicals Holdings Inc., NOVA Chemicals Inc., NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A., Novacor Chemicals Investments B.V., NOVA Investments (U.S. ) Inc. and NOVA Petrochemicals Ltd.
NTFY.OB Notify Technology Corporation, incorporated in August 1994, is a software developer of enterprise mobility solutions for wireless and wireline handheld devices supporting a variety of email platforms, including Novell GroupWise, Microsoft Exchange and various IMAP4 email solutions. The Company's product links a company email server with employees away from their office, using various handheld wireless devices to manage their email, calendar appointments and address book. Its product allows devices from different manufacturers to operate on the same system and the use of different network carriers if required. The Company is also been a supplier of traditional landline or wireline call and message notification products and services. Notify Technology is also a provider of secure real time wireless synchronization of email and calendar, contacts and tasks for the Novell GroupWise and IMAP4 markets.
NWFL Norwood Financial Corp. serves as the holding company for Wayne Bank. Wayne Bank is a state chartered commercial bank that offers a variety of personal, business credit services and trust and investment products to the consumers, businesses, nonprofit organizations and municipalities in each of the communities that it serves. Wayne Bank primarily serves the Pennsylvania counties of Wayne, Pike and Monroe, and to a much lesser extent, the counties of Lackawanna and Susquehanna. At December 31, 2003, it had six offices in Wayne County, three offices in Pike County and one office in Monroe County. In addition, the Bank operates 12 automated teller machines with 10 in branch locations and two remote service facilities. Wayne Bank also operates a Trust Department that provides estate planning, investment management and financial planning to customers. At December 31, 2003, the Bank acted as trustee for $74 million of assets.
NWPX Northwest Pipe Company manufactures welded steel pipe in two business segments. In the Company's Water Transmission business, it is a supplier in the United States and Canada of large diameter, high-pressure steel pipe used primarily for water transmission. In its Tubular Products business, the Company manufactures smaller diameter, electric resistance welded steel pipe for use in a range of construction, agricultural, energy and industrial applications. In addition, Northwest produces propane tanks from its manufacturing facility in Monterrey, Mexico. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Water Transmission and Tubular Products revenues represented approximately 60% and 40% of the Company's net sales, respectively.
NWN Northwest Natural Gas Company (NW Natural) is principally engaged in the distribution of natural gas. The Public Utility Commission of Oregon (OPUC) has allocated to NW Natural as its exclusive service area a major portion of western Oregon, including the Portland metropolitan area, most of the Willamette Valley and the coastal area from Astoria to Coos Bay. NW Natural also holds certificates from the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (WUTC) granting it exclusive rights to serve portions of three southern Washington counties bordering the Columbia River. Gas service is provided in 98 cities, together with neighboring communities, in 15 Oregon counties, and in nine cities, together with neighboring communities, in three Washington counties. NW Natural also is engaged in providing natural gas storage and transportation services to interstate customers using storage capacity that has been developed in advance of core utility customers' requirements.
NWIN.OB NorthWest Indiana Bancorp is the holding company for Peoples Bank SB, an Indiana savings bank. The Company has no business activity other than being the holding company for the Bank, which is primarily engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the general public and the origination of consumer, commercial and construction loans within its primary market area of Lake County in northwest Indiana. The Bank's trust department also provides estate administration, estate planning, guardianships, land trusts, retirement planning, self-directed individual retirement accounts (IRAS), Keogh accounts and investment agency accounts. It also serves as personal representative of estates and acts as trustee for revocable and irrevocable trusts.
NWBT.OB Northwest Biotherapeutics, Inc. is a development stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of immunotherapy products that safely generate and enhance immune system responses to treat cancer. The Company utilizes its expertise in the biology of dendritic cells, which are a type of white blood cells that activate the immune system, in developing cancer therapies. Northwest has two basic technology platforms applicable to cancer therapeutics: dendritic cell-based cancer vaccines (DCVax) and monoclonal antibodies (HuRx). The DCVax platform uses its process to efficiently produce and activate dendritic cells outside of a patient's body. The HuRx platform is based on combining Northwest's expertise in monoclonal antibodies, immunology and antigen discovery with potential partners that have expertise in humanized and human monoclonal antibody development.
NWSB Northwest Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company of Northwest Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a Pennsylvania-chartered stock savings bank headquartered in Warren, which is located in northwestern Pennsylvania. As of the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the primary activity of the Company was the ownership of all of the issued and outstanding common stock of the Bank and of Jamestown Savings Bank (Jamestown). Jamestown was formed in November of 1995, as a de novo New York-chartered savings bank headquartered in Jamestown, New York. In fiscal 2004, the Company, through the Bank and Jamestown, operated 147 community-banking offices throughout its market area in northwest, southwest and central Pennsylvania, western New York, and eastern Ohio. The Company, through the Bank and its wholly owned subsidiaries, also operates 47 consumer lending offices throughout Pennsylvania and two consumer lending offices in New York.
NWAC Northwest Airlines Corporation is the indirect parent corporation of Northwest Airlines, Inc. (Northwest). Northwest is engaged in the business of transporting passengers and cargo. Its business focuses on the development of a global airline network through its strategic assets, which include domestic hubs at Detroit, Michigan; Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, and Memphis, Tennessee; a Pacific route system with a hub in Tokyo, Japan; a trans-Atlantic alliance with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, which operates through a hub in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; a domestic and international alliance with Continental Airlines, Inc. and Delta Air Lines, Inc.; exclusive marketing agreements with Pinnacle Airlines, Inc. and Mesaba Aviation, Inc., both of which operate as Northwest Airlink, and a cargo business that operates through hubs in Anchorage, Alaska and Tokyo, Japan. NWA Corp also provides other travel-related services through its Frequent Flyer Program and interests in MLT Inc. and Orbitz Inc.
NWFI Northway Financial, Inc. is a bank holding company whose only business activity has been to own all of the shares of, and provide management, capital and operational support to, The Berlin City Bank (BCB) and The Pemigewasset National Bank of Plymouth, New Hampshire (PNB), and its statutory business trusts, Northway Capital Trust I and Northway Capital Trust II. The Company derives substantially all of its revenue and income from the furnishing of bank and bank-related services, principally to individuals and small and medium sized companies in New Hampshire. BCB and PNB operate as typical community banking institutions and do not engage in any specialized finance or capital market activities. The banking subsidiaries are engaged principally in the business of attracting deposits from the general public and investing those deposits in securities, commercial loans, real estate loans and consumer loans.
NRF Northstar Realty Finance Corp. is an internally-managed commercial real estate company that makes fixed income, structured finance and net lease investments in real estate assets. The Company invests in those areas of commercial real estate finance that enable it to leverage its real estate investment expertise, utilize its capital markets knowledge and capitalize on its ability to employ financing structures. It is focused on three core businesses: subordinate real estate debt, real estate securities and net lease properties. In the subordinate real estate debt business, it acquires, originates and structures subordinate and other high-yielding debt investments secured by income-producing real estate properties. In the real estate securities business, the Company creates, manages and issues collateralized debt obligations backed by commercial real estate debt securities. In the net lease properties business, it acquires properties that are primarily net leased to corporate tenants.
NOC Northrop Grumman Corporation provides products, services and solutions in defense and commercial electronics, nuclear and non-nuclear shipbuilding, information technology, mission systems, systems integration and space technology. As prime contractor, principal subcontractor, partner or preferred supplier, Northrop Grumman participates in many defense and commercial technology programs in the United States and abroad. The majority of the Company's products and services are ultimately sold to the United States Government, which accounted for 86.7% of total revenue in 2003. Northrop Grumman operates in seven business sectors: Electronic Systems, Newport News, Ship Systems, Information Technology, Mission Systems, Integrated Systems and Space Technology. In January 2005, the Company sold its Canadian navigation systems and space sensors system business to L-3 Communications.
NRIM Northrim BanCorp, Inc. is a bank holding company with three wholly owned subsidiaries: Northrim Bank (the Bank), a state chartered, full-service commercial bank; Northrim Investment Services Company (NISC), which the Company formed in November 2002 to hold its 43% equity interest in Elliott Cove Capital Management LLC, and Northrim Capital Trust 1, an entity that Northrim formed in May of 2003 to facilitate a trust preferred security offering by the Company. Northrim also holds a 30% interest in the profits and losses of a residential mortgage company, Residential Mortgage LLC, through the Bank's wholly owned subsidiary, Northrim Capital Investment Corporation. The Company offers an array of commercial and consumer loan and deposit products, investment products and electronic banking services over the Internet in south central and interior Alaska to businesses, professionals and individuals with high service expectations.
NRCNA.OB Northland Cranberries, Inc. is a vertically integrated grower, handler and marketer of cranberries, value-added cranberry products, and branded cranberry and other fruit beverages. As of November 29, 2004, the Company owned or operated 17 cranberry producing marshes with 1,831 planted acres in Wisconsin. The Company's products include Northland brand 100% juice cranberry blends (containing 27% cranberry juice); Seneca and TreeSweet bottled and canned fruit beverages, including apple, grape, cranberry and orange juice products and frozen juice concentrate products, including apple, grape and cranberry juice products; Northland brand fresh cranberries, which the Company sells to retail and wholesale customers; Awake frozen orange-flavored concentrate, and Northland brand sweetened dried cranberries and chocolate-coated cranberries. In September 2004, the Company sold its processing plant, storage facility and certain offices located in Wisconsin Rapids to Ocean Spray.
NXG Northgate Minerals Corporation, formerly Northgate Exploration Limited, is a gold and copper mining company focused on operations and opportunities in North and South America. The Company's principal assets are the Kemess South mine in north-central British Columbia, which produces approximately 300,000 ounces of gold and 75 million pounds of copper per year and the adjacent Kemess North project, which is the subject of a feasibility study. Northgate is also focusing its activities on properties surrounding the Kemess camp, including the Brenda property, the Hyland Gold property, the Nugget Zone and the Duncan Ridge.
NFLD Northfield Laboratories Inc. is involved in the development of a safe and effective alternative to transfused blood for use in the treatment of acute blood loss. The PolyHeme blood substitute product is a solution of chemically modified hemoglobin derived from human blood. PolyHeme simultaneously restores lost blood volume and hemoglobin levels and is designed for rapid, massive infusion. PolyHeme requires no cross matching, and is therefore immediately available and compatible with all blood types. PolyHeme has an extended shelf life compared to blood. The Company is enrolling patients in a Pivotal Phase III Prehospital Trial in which PolyHeme is being used for the first time in civilian, urban trauma settings to treat severely injured patients in hemorrhagic shock before they reach the hospital.
NTRS Northern Trust Corporation is a bank holding company that holds all of the outstanding capital stock of its principal subsidiary, The Northern Trust Company (the Bank), an Illinois banking corporation headquartered in the Chicago financial district. The Corporation also owns national bank subsidiaries with offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida and Texas; a federal savings bank subsidiary with offices in Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Washington and Wisconsin; trust companies in New York and Connecticut, and various other non-bank subsidiaries, including an investment management company owned through the Bank, a securities brokerage firm and an institutional investment management company. Through other subsidiaries, the Bank also conducts business in the United Kingdom, Ireland, continental Europe, Hong Kong, Canada and other regions.
NTI Northern Instruments, Inc. (NTIC) offers expert technical service in corrosion management and technically superior products that prevent corrosion. The products and services primarily include volatile corrosion inhibiting products and packaging, sold under the brand name ZERUST. NTIC provides rust and corrosion protection products and custom-packaging systems for avionics, automotive, electronics, electrical, mechanical and military applications. In addition, NTIC offers direct onsite technical support on rust and corrosion issues in 49 countries, and operates a marketing, distribution and technical network through joint ventures in Asia, Europe and South America. Additionally, the Company engages in scientific research and development programs in the areas of material science and corrosion protection in new applications.
NSFC Northern States Financial Corporation is the parent bank holding company of the Bank of Waukegan. On January 5, 2004, the Company completed the acquisition of the common stock of Round Lake Bankcorp, Inc. (Bankcorp) and its wholly owned subsidiary, First State Bank of Round Lake (Round Lake), for cash. Bankcorp was immediately merged into Northern States. It is contemplated that the Round Lake will be merged into Northern State's subsidiary, Bank of Waukegan, at some point in the future. The principal business of the Company, operating through the Bank of Waukegan and Round Lake (the Banks), consists of attracting deposits and securities sold under repurchase agreements from the general public, making commercial loans, loans secured by residential and commercial real estate and consumer loans and operating mortgage banking and trust businesses. The Banks provide services to individuals, businesses and local governmental units in northeastern Illinois and southeastern Wisconsin.
NTO Northern Orion Resources Inc. is engaged in the exploration and the development of, precious and base metals through direct and indirect foreign subsidiaries and branches. Its principal asset is its 12.5% interest in the Bajo de la Alumbrera gold/copper mine in the Catamarca Province, Argentina (the Alumbrera Mine). The Company also owns the Agua Rica copper project in the Catamarca Province, Argentina (the Agua Rica Project), and has an undivided 50% interest in the Mantua Project, which has been optioned to a third party.
NBP Northern Border Partners, L.P. is a transporter of natural gas imported from Canada to the United States. Its business operations consist of, Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines, Natural Gas Gathering and Processing, and Coal Slurry Pipeline. The Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines segment provides natural gas transmission services in the midwestern United States. The Gas Gathering and Processing segment provides services for the gathering, treating, processing and compression of natural gas and the fractionation of natural gas liquids for third parties and related field services. The Coal Slurry Pipeline segment consists of the operations of the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Black Mesa Pipeline, Inc. Black Mesa owns a coal slurry pipeline in operation in the United States.
NU Northeast Utilities (NU) is the parent company of the Northeast Utilities system (the NU system). The NU system furnishes franchised retail electric service to over 1.8 million customers in 420 cities and towns in Connecticut, New Hampshire and western Massachusetts through three of the Company's wholly owned subsidiaries: The Connecticut Light and Power Company (CL&amp;P), Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH) and Western Massachusetts Electric Company (WMECO).
NEPF Northeast Pennsylvania Financial Corp. is a thrift holding company for First Federal Bank (the Bank), a federally chartered capital stock savings bank regulated by the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS); Abstractors, Inc., which is a title insurance agency; Northeast Pennsylvania Trust Co., which offers trust, estate and asset management services and products, and Higgins Insurance Associates, Inc., which provides insurance and investment products to individuals and businesses. The Company's operations are primarily conducted through the Bank. These operations have been and continue to be attracting retail deposits from the general public in the areas surrounding its 16 full-service community offices and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, primarily in one-to-four family mortgage loans, consumer loans, commercial loans and multi-family and commercial real estate loans.
NEIB Northeast Indiana Bancorp, Inc. is the holding firm for First Federal Savings Bank and its subsidiary, Northeast Indiana Financial Inc. The Company's business consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing those funds in first mortgage loans on owner-occupied, single-family residential real estate. It also originates commercial real estate, construction, consumer and commercial business loans. It also invests in obligations of states and political subdivisions, mutual funds and other permissible investments. First Federal is a federally chartered, stock savings association headquartered in Huntington, Indiana. Northeast Financial, an Indiana corporation, was established as a subsidiary of First Federal to provide brokerage services through an affiliation with Multi-Financial Securities Corporation.
NBN Northeast Bancorp is a bank holding company for Northeast Bank (the Bank). The Bank provides a broad range of financial services to individuals and companies in western and south-central Maine. It has branches located in Auburn, Augusta, Bethel, Brunswick, Buckfield, Harrison, Lewiston, Lisbon Falls, Mechanic Falls, Portland and South Paris, Maine. The Bank's investment brokerage division has an office in Falmouth, Maine, from which loan applications are accepted, and investment, insurance and financial planning products and services are offered. The Bank's wholly owned Subsidiary Northeast Financial Services, Inc. (NFS) has an office in Bethel, Maine, branch where its insurance division offers casualty and property insurance products. As of June 30, 2004, the Company, on a consolidated basis, had total assets of approximately $539 million and total deposits of approximately $378 million.
NOVB North Valley Bancorp serves as a bank holding company for North Valley Bank, which conducts a commercial and retail banking business. On January 1, 2004, Six Rivers Bank (SRB) was merged with and into North Valley Bank with North Valley Bank as the surviving institution. Former branches of Six Rivers Bank will continue to operate as Six Rivers Bank, a division of North Valley Bank. The Company wholly owns its principal subsidiaries, North Valley Bank (NVB), North Valley Trading Company, Bank Processing, Inc., North Valley Capital Trust 1, North Valley Capital Trust II and Yolo Community Bank. NVB's services include accepting demand, savings, money market rate deposit accounts, and time deposits, and making commercial, real estate and consumer loans. It also offers installment note collections, issues cashier's checks and money orders, sells travelers' checks and provides safe deposit boxes and other customary banking services.
NPSI North Pittsburgh Systems, Inc is a holding company that provides telecommunication services and equipment to its customers generally located in western Pennsylvania through its subsidiaries, North Pittsburgh Telephone Company (NPTC), Penn Telecom, Inc. (PTI) and Pinnatech, Inc. NPTC is the Company's incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC). Penn Telecom is certificated as a competitive access provider (CAP), a local exchange carrier (CLEC) and an inter-exchange carrier (IXC) and has entered into these businesses. Pinnatech is an Internet service provider. Principal services offered by these subsidiaries include local network services, network access services, long distance toll service, Internet access service, and directory advertising, billing and other services. The Company also sells, rents and services telecommunications equipment to customers generally in the Western Pennsylvania area.
NFB North Fork Bancorporation, Inc. is a bank holding company operating 177 branches in the New York Metropolitan area, substantially all of which are branches of North Fork Bank (the bank), a New York-chartered bank and the Company's primary subsidiary. North Fork Bank provides a variety of banking and financial services to middle-market and small business organizations, local government units and retail banking customers in the greater New York Metropolitan area. Its non-bank subsidiaries offer financial services and related products such as asset management, securities brokerage and sales of alternative investment products. The Company's other subsidiary bank, Superior Savings of New England, N.A., is a two-branch national bank that focuses on gathering deposits principally in the northeast.
NRT North European Oil Royalty Trust (the Trust) is a grantor trust that, on behalf of the owners of beneficial interest in the Trust (the unit owners), holds overriding royalty rights covering gas and oil production in certain concessions or leases in the Federal Republic of Germany. The rights are held under contracts with local German exploration and development subsidiaries of ExxonMobil Corp. and the Royal Dutch Group. Under these contracts, the Trust receives various percentage royalties on the proceeds of the sales of certain products from the areas involved. Royalties are received for sales of gas well gas, oil well gas, crude oil, distillate and sulfur. The royalty rights were received by the Trust from North European Oil Company (the Company) upon dissolution of the Company in September 1975. The Trust is administered by trustees under an agreement of trust amended pursuant to the Delaware Court of Chancery order dated February 26, 1996.
FFFD North Central Bancshares, Inc. is the holding company for First Federal Savings Bank of Iowa (the Bank), a federally chartered savings bank. The Company is an independent savings and loan holding company serving its primary market area of Webster, Story, Dallas, Polk, Henry and Des Moines Counties, which are located in the central and north central and southeastern parts of the State of Iowa. The Bank is primarily engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the general public in the Bank's market areas and investing such deposits in one- to four-family residential real estate mortgages, multifamily and commercial mortgages and, to a lesser extent, secured and unsecured consumer loans, with emphasis on second mortgage loans.
NBAN North Bay Bancorp serves as the holding company for The Vintage Bank and Solano Bank (the Banks). The Company does not engage in any material business activities other than the ownership of the Banks. The Vintage Bank and Solano Bank are both state chartered banks that offer a range of commercial banking services to individuals and the business and agricultural communities. Most of the Banks' customers are retail customers and small to medium-sized businesses. The Banks operate five offices in the California county of Napa and four offices in the California county of Solano. The Company also wholly owns North Bay Statutory Trust I, which was formed, in June 2002, for the purpose of issuing trust preferred securities.
NATK North American Technologies Group, Inc. is engaged in the manufacture and marketing of TieTek products through its TieTek subsidiary, which is a provider of composite railroad crossties to the railroad industry. Its main product is a railroad crosstie that is a direct substitute for wood crossties. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company has sold over 102,000 TieTek crossties to Union Pacific Railroad (UPR) under a new agreement and a predecessor agreement. In August 2003, it purchased an 185,000-square-foot facility on 40 acres of land near Marshall, Texas, which in the process of constructing two manufacturing lines capable of producing up to 24,000 TieTek crossties per month. The Company entered into a financing agreement with Tie Investors, LLC, which is affiliated with Sponsor Investments, LLC. In February 2004, NATK, TieTek and TieTek LLC entered into a loan agreement with Tie Investors to be used to finance the operations of TieTek LLC.
NASI North American Scientific, Inc. manufactures, markets and sells products for the radiation oncology community, including brachytherapy seeds used in the treatment of prostate cancer, as well as intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) products and services. On May 4, 2004, the Company acquired privately held NOMOS Corporation, a developer, manufacturer and marketer of IMRT products and services, significantly expanding its product offerings to radiation oncologists. Other North American Scientific radioistopic products are used in various medical, environmental, research and industrial applications. In addition, the Company has been developing a nuclear medicine imaging agent intended to image cell death in patients with cancer or other medical conditions.
PAL North American Palladium Ltd. owns and operates an open-pit mine known as the Lac des Iles Mine and processing plant with a design capacity of 15,000 tons per day. The Lac des Iles Mine and surrounding property are located approximately 85 kilometers northwest of the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario. The mining and processing operation produces, by flotation, a palladium-rich concentrate that also contains platinum, gold, copper and nickel. During the year ended December 31, 2003, total mine production amounted to 14.6 million tons, or 39,895 tons per day, containing 4.4 million tons of ore grading 2.48 grams of palladium per ton. Ore processed in 2003 totaled 5,159,730 tons, or 14,136 tons per day, at an average palladium head grade of 2.3 grams per ton. Other metal production included 23,742 ounces of platinum, 23,536 ounces of gold, 7.14 million pounds of copper and 4.07 million pounds of nickel. Open-pit reserves at the Lac des Iles Mine, as at December 31, 2003, were 36,203 tons.
NAGM.OB North American Gaming and Entertainment Corporation was engaged in the video gaming business through its partial ownership of three operating companies until August 2001. The companies, which operate video poker machines located in truck stops in Louisiana, are O.M. Operating, LLC (Operator), River Port Truck Stop, LLC (River Port) and Ozdon Investments, Inc. (Ozdon). The operations and ownership interests of the Company ceased with the August 2001, settlement and it is no longer pursuing any business in the gaming industry. It has no sources of revenue. Its current principal business is to locate and consummate a merger or acquisition with or investment with a private entity.
NGA North American Galvanizing &amp; Coatings, Inc., incorporated in 1955, is a manufacturing services holding company conducting business in galvanizing and coatings through its wholly owned subsidiary, North American Galvanizing Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries (NAG). NAG is principally engaged in hot dip galvanizing of metal products and components fabricated by its customers. NAG galvanizes iron and steel products by immersing them in molten zinc. This bonding process produces an alloyed metal surface that provides an effective barrier against oxidation and corrosion from exposure to the elements for upto 50 years. Additional, coating services provided by NAG include sandblasting, quenching, metalizing (flame sprayed), centrifuge spinner galvanizing, Corrocote Classic II painting and Infrashield Coating. Effective July 1, 2003, the Company changed its name from Kinark Corporation to North American Galvanizing &amp; Coatings, Inc.
NT Nortel Networks Corporation (Nortel Networks) is engaged in the design, development, manufacture, assembly, marketing, sale, licensing, installation, servicing and support of communications technology, infrastructure and related professional services (collectively networking solutions). The Company's networking solutions enable its service provider and enterprise customers to provide their own customers or employees with services to communicate locally, regionally or globally through the use of data, voice and multimedia communications. The Company's service provider customers include local and long-distance communications companies, wireless service providers and cable operators. Enterprise customers include large and small businesses, governments and institutions. During the year ended December 31, 2003, and up to September 30, 2004, Nortel Networks conducted its business through four segments: Wireless Networks, Enterprise Networks, Wireline Networks and Optical Networks.
NTL Nortel Inversora S.A. is a holding company whose principal asset is its 55% equity interest in Telecom Argentina STET-France Telecom S.A. (Telecom), a telecommunications service provider in Argentina. Telecom is a private sector corporation in Argentina that has a non-expiring license to provide fixed-line public telecommunications services and basic telephone services in Argentina. The Company also provides other telephone-related services, such as international long-distance service and data transmission and Internet services, and, through its subsidiaries, wireless telecommunications services, telephone directory publishing and data transmission. Telecom provides domestic and international telephony services in the Northern Region on an exclusive basis. At December 31, 2003, the Company's telephone system included approximately 3.6 million lines in service.
NSYS Nortech Systems Incorporated is a full-service electronics manufacturing services provider of wire and cable assemblies, printed circuit board assemblies, high-level assemblies and box-builds for a range of industries. The Company also provides repair service on circuit boards used in machines in the medical industry. In June 2002, the Company acquired Manufacturing Assembly Solutions of Monterrey, Inc. (MAS), a Mexican corporation, located in Monterrey, Mexico. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's operations consisted of the contract-manufacturing segment.
NRRD Norstan, Inc. is a communications solutions and services company delivering voice and data technologies and services, and remanufactured equipment to corporate end users and public sector companies. Norstan offers a range of technologies for customer-contact solutions and converged solutions, including applications, such as messaging, conferencing and enterprise mobility. In addition, the Company provides a host of communications services, including protectnet life cycle services, project management, implementation, field delivery, voice and data network monitoring, and managed and professional services. Norstan operates principally through its subsidiaries, Norstan Communications, Inc., Norstan Canada, Ltd., Vibes Technologies, Inc. and Norstan Financial Services, Inc.
NHY Norsk Hydro ASA (Hydro) is a producer of hydroelectric energy for the industrial production of nitrogen fertilizers. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company consisted of three segments: Hydro Oil and Energy, Hydro Aluminum and Hydro Agri. The Hydro Oil and Energy segment is comprised of the Company's exploration and production, energy and oil marketing businesses. The Hydro Aluminum segment is engaged in the production of metals, rolled products and extrusion and automotive products. In March 2004, the Company spun-off its Hydro Agri segment, which produced and sold ammonia and mineral fertilizer products, into a separate company renamed Yara International ASA.
NSATF.OB Norsat International Inc. designs, manufactures and markets microwave and portable satellite products engineered for high-speed data transmission. Norsat OmniLink portable satellite terminals meet the needs of broadband video or data users located in remote regions, where broadband data communications is unreliable or non-existent. Field-tested in Iraq, the Norsat NewsLink portable satellite newsgathering terminal and the Norsat SecureLink portable data transmission satellite terminal offer complete satellite solutions. Norsat Microwave products and accessories cover a range of satellite receivers, transmitters, transceivers, Internet protocol encapsulators and customized products to meet customers' needs. The Company's customer base includes all levels of government, educational and financial institutions, resource companies, broadcasters and private companies.
NSC Norfolk Southern Corporation (Norfolk Southern) is a holding company engaged principally in the rail transportation business, operating approximately 21,500 route miles primarily in the East and Midwest. Its major subsidiary is Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NSR). Through a jointly owned entity, NS and CSX Corporation own the stock of Conrail Inc., which owns the major Northeast freight railroad. NS has a 58% economic and 50% voting interest in the jointly owned entity. Norfolk Southern and its subsidiaries are referred to collectively as NS. The NS railroad system extends across 22 states, the District of Columbia and portions of Canada. The railroad transports raw materials, intermediate products and finished goods classified in the following market groups: coal, intermodal, automotive, chemicals, metals/construction, agriculture/consumer products/government and paper/clay/forest products.
JWN Nordstrom, Inc. is a fashion specialty retailer, with 150 United States stores located in 27 states. The Company operates 94 full-line stores, 49 Nordstrom Racks, five Faconnable boutiques, one freestanding shoe store and one clearance store. Nordstrom also operates 31 international Faconnable boutiques, primarily in Europe. In addition, Nordstrom serves customers through its online presence at www.nordstrom.com and through its direct-mail catalogs. Nordstrom offers a large selection of fashion apparel, shoes and accessories for men, women and children. Merchandise ranges from classic to contemporary, as well as exclusive couture designs. There are Nordstrom stores in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington.
NDSN Nordson Corporation designs, manufactures and markets precision dispensing systems that apply adhesives, sealants and coatings to a range of consumer and industrial products during manufacturing operations, helping customers meet quality, productivity and environmental targets. The Company also manufactures technology-based systems for curing and surface treatment processes. Equipment ranges from manual, stand-alone units for low-volume operations to microprocessor-based automated systems for high-speed, high-volume production lines. Nordson products are used in a diverse range of industries, including appliance, automotive, bookbinding, container, converting, electronics, food and beverage, furniture, medical, metal finishing, non-wovens, packaging, semiconductor and other diverse industries.
NAT Nordic American Tanker Shipping Limited (Nordic) is engaged in acquiring, disposing, owning, leasing and chartering three double hull Suezmax oil tankers (the Vessels). Each of the Company's Vessels is a 1997 built, 151,459 deadweight ton double hull Suezmax oil tanker, which were delivered in the last half of 1997. The Vessels were built at Samsung Heavy Industries Ltd. in South Korea. Each Vessel is registered in the Isle of Man and flies the British flag. Pursuant to an agreement (the Management Agreement) between Nordic and its Manager, Scandic American Shipping Ltd. (the Manager), the Manager provides certain management, administrative and advisory services to the Company.
NRD Noranda Inc. is an integrated mining and metals company. Its principal business is the ownership and operation of mining and metallurgical assets and the addition of value through the development and operation of these assets. The Company's principal products are copper, nickel, zinc and aluminum. These metals accounted for approximately 72% of Noranda's consolidated revenues, for the year ended December 31, 2003, with the balance coming from by-products and co-products that include silver, gold, platinum group metals, lead, selenium, tellurium, cadmium, indium, cobalt, nickel sulphate and sulphuric acid. The principal markets for Noranda's products include the steel, refinery and foundry, construction, telecommunications, automotive, agricultural and chemical industries.
NIMU.OB Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems, Inc. (NIMS) is engaged in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of a non-invasive, therapeutic, periodic acceleration, powered exercise device, which has been designated as the AT-101. In addition, the Company developed computer-assisted, non-invasive diagnostic monitoring devices and related software designed to detect abnormal respiratory, cardiac and other medical conditions from sensors placed externally on the body's surface. These devices provided diagnostic information regarding cardiorespiratory and sleep disorders in infants, children and adults, in addition, alarms are sounded for adverse cardiac and respiratory events in critically ill patients. These diagnostic devices have been sold to SensorMedics Division of Via Sys and to VivoMetrics. The Company has ceased manufacturing, marketing and sales of the diagnostic devices and is engaged solely with marketing and sales of the AT-101 powered exercise device.
NMR Nomura Holdings, Inc. is a securities and investment banking firm in Japan and has worldwide operations. Nomura is a holding company that operates offices in more than 20 countries and regions, including Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Hong Kong through its subsidiaries. The Company's customers include individuals, corporations, financial institutions, governments and governmental agencies. Nomura's businesses consist of three business segments: Domestic Retail, Global Wholesale and Asset Management. In the Domestic Retail business, the Company provides principally investment consultation services mainly to individual customers in Japan. In the Global Wholesale business, Nomura provides principally fixed income and equity trading services and investment banking services mainly to institutions on a global basis. Also, Nomura conducts merchant banking business.
NOLD Noland Company is a wholesale distributor of plumbing, air conditioning and electrical/industrial supplies, with branch facilities in a 13-state territory that ranges from Pennsylvania to Florida. It handles products of over 2,000 vendors and sells to thousands of customers in the commercial construction, residential construction and industrial markets of the southeastern United States. The Company also sells air conditioning equipment to customers in Panama and several South American countries. The main properties of the Company consist of 102 facilities including warehouses, offices and showrooms, paved outside storage areas and covered pipe storage sheds. These are located in states that include Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, of which 18 are leased and the remaining 84 are Company owned.
NOK Nokia Corporation is a mobile communications company primarily offering voice-centric mobile telephones, enhanced communicators, entertainment and gaming devices and media and imaging telephones. Effective January 1, 2004, the Company reorganized its structure and now includes four business groups: Mobile Phones, Multimedia, Networks and Enterprise Solutions. Mobile Phones develops mobile telephones for all major standards and customer segments in over 130 countries. Multimedia focuses on bringing mobile multimedia to consumers in the form of advanced mobile devices. Networks is a provider of network infrastructure, service delivery platforms and related services to mobile operators and service providers. Enterprise Solutions offers businesses a range of devices and mobile connectivity solutions based on end-to-end mobility architecture.
NFTI.OB NoFire Technologies, Inc. is a development-stage company engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of fire-retardant intumescent products and related consulting services. The Company manufactures a liquid fire retardant for use as a coating material, such as paint, on many different kinds of substances to render them fire and heat resistant. The product can be manufactured in various liquid forms, specifically adapted for the particular substrate, application and degree of protection required, or as a coated textile product, typically a woven fiberglass material, coated with the NoFire liquid product. The Company under a Chapter 11 proceeding, the Bankruptcy Court confirmed a plan of reorganization for the Company, which became effective on August 11, 1995.
NNUP.OB Nocopi Technologies, Inc. exploits a technology developed by its founders for impeding the reproduction of documents on office copiers. In its early stages of development, the Company's business consisted of selling copy resistant paper to protect corporate documents and information. It has increasingly focused on developing and marketing technologies for document and product authentication that can reduce losses caused by fraudulent document reproduction and by product counterfeiting and/or diversion. Nocopi derives revenues by licensing its technologies, both to end users and to value-added resellers and by selling products incorporating its technologies and technical support services.
NROM.OB Noble Roman's, Inc. sells and services franchises for non-traditional and co-branded foodservice operations under the trade names Noble Roman's Pizza, Noble Roman's Express and Noble Roman's Pizza &amp; Subs. The concept's hallmarks include pizza products, simple operating systems, labor-minimizing operations, attractive food costs and overall affordability. Since 1997, the Company has awarded more than 1,250 non-traditional and co-branded franchises in 44 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, Italy and Canada. Noble Roman's locate its operations in hospitals, military bases, universities, recreational facilities, hotels, office buildings, convenience stores, travel plazas and other types of locations with pre-existing customer traffic. In addition, Noble Roman's has co-branding relationships with other restaurant chains for both traditional and non-traditional locations.
NOBL Noble International Ltd. is a provider of tailored, laser-welded blanks for the automotive industry. Noble's laser-welded blanks are manufactured from two or more blanks of varying thickness and sizes, welded together utilizing automated laser assemblies. They are used by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) or their suppliers in automobile body components, such as doors, fenders, bodyside panels and pillars. The principal markets for its products and services are the United States and Canada. The Company, as a Tier I and Tier II supplier, provides prototype design, engineering, laser welding of tailored blanks, tailor-welded tubes and other laser welding and cutting services of automotive components. During the year ended December 31, 2002, the Company decided to focus on its core automotive business and exit its logistics segment. On January 28, 2004, it completed the sale of the distribution business.
NBL Noble Energy, Inc. is an independent energy company engaged, directly or through its subsidiaries or various arrangements with other companies, in the exploration, development, production and marketing of crude oil and natural gas. The Company has exploration, exploitation and production operations in the United States and internationally. The domestic areas consist of offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and California, the Gulf Coast Region (Louisiana and Texas), the Mid-Continent Region (Oklahoma and Kansas) and the Rocky Mountain Region (Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Wyoming and California). The international areas of operations include Argentina, China, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, the Mediterranean Sea (Israel), the North Sea (Denmark, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) and Vietnam. The Company also markets domestic crude oil and natural gas production through a wholly owned subsidiary, Noble Energy Marketing, Inc.
NE Noble Corporation is a provider of diversified services for the oil and gas industry. It performs contract drilling services with its fleet of 57 offshore drilling units located in key markets worldwide. This fleet consists of 13 semisubmersibles), three dynamically positioned drillships, 38 jackup rigs and three submersibles. Eight of the Company's jackup rigs and one of its semisubmersibles are capable of operating in harsh environments. Approximately 75% of the fleet was deployed, as of December 31, 2003, in international markets, principally including the Middle East, Mexico, the North Sea, Brazil, West Africa, India and the Mediterranean Sea. Noble also provides labor contract drilling services, well site and project management services and engineering services.
NOBH Nobility Homes, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells a line of manufactured homes through a network of its own retail sales centers throughout Florida. The Company also sells its manufactured homes on a wholesale basis to independent manufactured home retail dealers and manufactured home communities. Nobility's homes are available in approximately 100 active models sold under the trade names Kingswood, Richwood, Springwood, Springwood Special, Tropic Isle Special, Regency Manor Special and Special Edition. The homes, range in size from 672 to 2,259 square feet and contain from one to five bedrooms. Nobility's homes are sold primarily as unfurnished dwellings ready for permanent occupancy. Interiors are designed and color coordinated in a range of decors.
NLCI Nobel Learning Communities, Inc. (NLCI) is a for-profit provider of education and educational services products for the pre-elementary through twelfth-grade (pre-K to 12) market. The Company's programs are offered through a network of general education schools, schools and programs for learning-challenged students and special-purpose high schools. Its schools also provide enrichment, summer and before- and after-school programs. NLCI's schools are located in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington. The schools operate under various names, including Chesterbrook Academy (East, South and Midwest), Merryhill School (West), Evergreen Academy (Northwest), Paladin Academy (learning challenged) and Houston Learning Academy and Saber Academy (special-purpose high schools).
NNBR NN, Inc. manufactures and supplies high-precision bearing components consisting of balls, cylindrical rollers, tapered rollers, seals and plastic and metal retainers, for bearing manufacturers for the North American and European markets. Its bearing customers use its components in fully assembled ball and roller bearings, which serve a variety of industrial applications in the transportation, electrical, agricultural, construction, machinery, mining and aerospace markets. On May 2, 2003 it acquired the manufacturing operation of SKF in Veenendaal, the Netherlands. The Veenendaal operation manufactures rollers for tapered roller bearings and metal cages for both tapered roller and spherical roller bearings. On October 9, 2003, NN also acquired certain assets comprised of land, building and machinery and equipment of the precision ball operations of KLF-Gulickaren (KLF).
NMXS.OB NMXS.Com, Inc. is a provider of next-generation digital lifecycle management solutions. Its two major products are 100% Web-enabled and focus on the management, organization, retrieval, storage, viewing and distribution of digital files. The Company also offers professional services to clients that include setting up a digital infrastructure, scanning, cybrarian services, knowledge base development, system integration, e-commerce and site design. The Company's products carry the names of New Mexico cities. Roswell is its flagship product, marketed as both a hosted model using servers and/or as a custom application running on customers' hardware. The second product line, the Digital Filing Cabinet, is sold as a hardware/software package through dealers and distributors. The newest product, Taos, is the Company's first retail product for PC desktops, providing an image database solution for organizing, cataloging and searching images based on their colors and shapes.
NMTI NMT Medical, Inc. (NMT) designs, develops and markets implant technologies that allow interventional cardiologists to treat cardiac sources of stroke through minimally invasive, catheter-based procedures. Aside from cardiac septal repair devices, it also manufactures a line of aneurysm clips used for the management of intracranial aneurysms, marketed worldwide through a distribution agreement with Integra LifeSciences Holding Corporation (Integra). In November 2001, NMT sold its former vena cava filter product line, including the Recovery Filter (RNF) and Simon Nitinol Filter (SNF) products, to C.R. Bard, Inc. (Bard). In November 1994, the Company licensed to Boston Scientific Corporation (BSC) the exclusive worldwide rights to develop, manufacture, market and distribute its stent technology.
NMSS NMS Communications Corporation is a provider of enabling technologies, platforms and systems to wireless and wireline telecommunications operators and network equipment and application providers. The Company offers its products through three business segments: Platform Solutions (PS), Voice Quality Systems (VQS) and Network Infrastructure (NI). The PS business unit consists of products and services, which the Company refers to as systems building blocks, which provide connectivity to communications networks, call processing, real-time media processing, application programming interfaces and other application development software tools. Also included in this business unit are a multi-application enhanced services delivery system and a wireless entertainment offering. The VQS business unit consists of voice quality enhancement and echo cancellation products, systems and services. The NI business unit consists of the wireless access gateway product, AccessGate.
NL NL Industries, Inc, organized in 1891, is a producer and marketer of titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigments. TiO2 is distributed by rail, truck and ocean carrier in either dry or slurry form. NL Industries conducts its primary operations through its majority-owned subsidiary, Kronos Worldwide, Inc. (formerly known as Kronos, Inc.). The Company produces over 40 different TiO2 grades sold under the Kronos trademark, which provide a variety of performance properties to meet customers' specific requirements. Its customers include domestic and international paint, plastics and paper manufacturers. It is also engaged in the mining and sale of ilmenite ore, a raw material used directly as a feedstock by some sulfate-process TiO2 plants, and the manufacture and sale of iron-based water treatment chemicals, which are derived co-products of the pigment production processes.
NTMD NitroMed, Inc. is an emerging pharmaceutical company with substantial expertise and intellectual property in nitric oxide-based drug development. The Company is applying its nitric oxide technology to develop new pharmaceuticals, as well as safer and more effective versions of existing pharmaceuticals to target diseases and commercial markets. Its lead nitric oxide-enhancing medicine, BiDil, which is being developed to reduce mortality and hospitalization and to improve the quality of life of African Americans diagnosed with heart failure is the subject of a Phase III confirmatory clinical trial.
NICH Nitches, Inc. imports finished garments manufactured to its specifications from approximately 10 foreign countries. The Company sells all-cotton and cotton-blend knit and woven clothing for female and male consumers. Retail customers include Belk, Coopers, Gottschalks, Kohl's, Mervyn's, Sears, Sheplers, Stein Mart, TJ Maxx, Tractor Supply, and Wal-Mart (Sam's Club). The Company sells garments to these and other retailers through its own sales force and through independent sales representatives. Nitches provides fashionable clothing to the priced market segment that generally retails between $10 and $35 per item. The Company owns 100% of the outstanding capital stock of Nitches Far East Ltd., a Hong Kong corporation that performs production coordination, quality control and sample production services for the Company. Furthermore, the Company works with agents specializing in sourcing and production control in Cambodia, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
NIS Nissin Co., Ltd. is a finance company that primarily engages in unsecured lending to individuals in Japan, including consumers and small business owners. The Company also services distressed loans purchased from third parties. The Company has two operating segments: integrated financial services and loan servicing. As part of its integrated financial services segment, Nissin provides loans to individuals, primarily consumers and small business owners, in niche markets of the consumer finance industry. As part of its loan-servicing segment, Nissin mainly services distressed loans purchased from financial institutions. In November 2003, Nissin established NIS Lease Co., Ltd (NIS Lease). In July 2004, it established Matsuyama Nissin Investment Consulting (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. in Shanghai to expand businesses into the Chinese market. In December 2004, the Company acquired from Japan Asia Holdings (Japan) Limited 100% of the issued shares of YAMAGEN Securities Co., Ltd.
NSANY Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. is engaged in the automotive industry worldwide. The Company, including its associated brands, designs, produces and sells more than 2.5 million passenger cars and commercial vehicles in more than 190 countries. The Company was established in 1933 to manufacture and sell small Datsun passenger cars and auto parts. The Company's major production sites are located in Japan, with additional facilities located in the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom and Spain. In 1999, the Company established an alliance with Renault SA, a French automobile manufacturer. The alliance is designed to achieve profitable and balanced growth for the two partners through the creation of a bi-national group.
NI NiSource Inc. is an energy holding company whose subsidiaries provide natural gas, electricity and other products and services to approximately 3.7 million customers located within a corridor that runs from the Gulf Coast through the Midwest to New England. The Company's principal subsidiaries include Columbia Energy Group, a vertically integrated natural gas distribution, transmission and storage holding company whose subsidiaries provide service to customers in the Midwest, the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast; Northern Indiana Public Service Company, a vertically integrated gas and electric company providing service to customers in northern Indiana, and Bay State Gas Company, a natural gas distribution company serving customers in New England. The Company's business segments are Gas Distribution Operations, Gas Transmission and Storage Operations, Electric Operations and Other Operations.
NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) is a provider of fixed and mobile voice transmission, data transmission, leased circuit, telecommunications equipment sales, systems integration and other telecommunications services in Japan. NTT operates primarily as a holding company with 422 subsidiaries and 97 affiliated companies as of March 31, 2004. Its predominant businesses are regional communications, long distance and international communications, mobile communications and data communications services. NTT provides telephone subscriber services and ISDN services to approximately 60.07 million subscribers as of March 31, 2004. The Company provides cellular services and PHS services through NTT DoCoMo Group. NTT DoCoMo Group has 45.93 million subscribers as of year end. NTT offers data communications services through NTT Data Corporation.
NIKU Niku Corporation provides an information technology management and governance (IT-MG) solution for large enterprises. This solution is comprised of the Company's flagship software product, Clarity, and related services. Clarity is an integrated suite that spans the full IT lifecycle, from investment selection, to execution and delivery of initiatives, to results assessment. Clarity has eight modules, including modules for management of portfolios, projects, resources, processes and finances.
NKE NIKE, Inc. is engaged in the design, development and worldwide marketing of footwear, apparel, equipment and accessory products. The Company sells its products to retail accounts and through a mix of independent distributors, licensees and subsidiaries in over 120 countries around the world. NIKE's athletic footwear products are designed primarily for specific athletic use, although some of its products are worn for casual or leisure purposes. The Company creates designs for men, women and children. Running, basketball, children's, cross-training and women's shoes are the Company's top-selling product categories. NIKE also markets shoes designed for outdoor activities, tennis, golf, soccer, baseball, football, bicycling, volleyball, wrestling, cheerleading, aquatic activities, hiking and other athletic and recreational uses.
NIHD NII Holdings, Inc. provides digital wireless communication services targeted at meeting the needs of business customers located in selected Latin American markets. The Company's principal operations are in major business centers and related transportation corridors of Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Peru. Its digital mobile networks support multiple digital wireless services including digital mobile telephone service, including advanced calling features such as speakerphone, conference calling, voice-mail, call forwarding and additional line service; Nextel Direct Connect service, which allows subscribers anywhere on its network in the same country to talk to each other instantly, on a push-to-talk basis, on a private one-to-one call or on a group call; Internet services, mobile messaging services, e-mail and advanced Java enabled business applications, which are marketed as Nextel Online services, and international roaming capabilities that are marketed as Nextel Worldwide.
NJ Nidec Corporation is a manufacturer of spindle motors for computer hard disk drives and also produces a variety of other small precision brushless direct current (DC) motors. The Company ships its spindle motors to hard disk drive manufacturers throughout the world. In addition to spindle motors, the Company focuses on the production of small precision brushless DC motors used in high-speed, continuous-duty applications, such as compact disc-read only memory drives, CD-read/write, digital video disc drives, high-capacity floppy disk drives, as well as in office equipment, such as facsimile machines, laser printers and photocopy machines; brushless DC fans, which are incorporated in computers, game consoles and other electronic equipment to disperse heat and lower the temperature of critical components; mid-size brushless DC motors used in household appliances, automobiles and industrial equipment; machinery, and other products.
GAS Nicor Inc. is a holding company with two principal subsidiaries, Northern Illinois Gas Company, doing business as Nicor Gas Company, and Tropical Shipping. Nicor Gas operates as a distributor of natural gas in the United States. Tropical Shipping is a containerized shipping business serving the Bahamas and the Caribbean region. Gas distribution is Nicor's primary business, typically representing approximately 85% of consolidated operating income and approximately 90% of consolidated assets. Nicor also owns several energy-related ventures, including Nicor Services and Nicor Solutions, providing energy-related products and services for retail markets, and Nicor Enerchange, a wholesale natural gas marketing company.
NICK Nicholas Financial, Inc. is a holding company whose businesses are conducted through its two wholly owned subsidiaries, Nicholas Financial, Inc. (Nicholas Financial) and Nicholas Data Services, Inc. (NDS). Nicholas Financial is a specialized consumer finance company engaged primarily in acquiring and servicing retail installment sales contracts for purchases of new and used automobiles and light trucks. To a lesser extent, Nicholas Financial also makes direct loans and sells consumer finance-related products. NDS is engaged in supporting and updating industry-specific computer application software for small businesses located primarily in the Southeast United States. Nicholas Financial's financing activities accounted for approximately 99% of consolidated revenues for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004.
NICE NICE-Systems Ltd. together with its subsidiaries, develops, markets and supports integrated, scalable multimedia digital recording platforms, enhanced software applications and related professional services. These solutions capture and analyze unstructured, non-transaction data and convert it for business and security performance management applications. NICE's solutions capture multiple forms of interaction, including voice, fax, e-mail, Web chat, radio and video transmissions over wire line, wireless, packet telephony, terrestrial trunk radio and data networks. NICE's products are based on two types of recording platforms, audio and video, which are used in contact centers, public safety organizations, transportation, corporate security, gaming and correctional facilities, government and intelligence agencies in North America, Europe and the Far East. On March 31, 2004, NICE sold the net assets of COMINT/DF military-related business to ELTA Systems Ltd for $4 million in cash.
EGOV NIC, Inc. provides federal, state and local governments with a range of e-government services, including software and applications. NIC helps governments use the Internet by building Websites and applications that allow businesses and citizens to access government information and complete the government-based transactions online. Some examples of applications include professional license renewals, Internet tax filings, driver's license and motor vehicle record searches, automated uniform commercial code file searches and automobile registration renewals. The Company's primary business activity is to design, build and operate Internet-based portals on behalf of state and local governments that desire to provide access to government information and to complete the government-based transactions online. In addition, NIC enters into service contracts to provide consulting, development and management services to government portals in exchange for a negotiated fee.
NGAS NGAS Resources, Inc., fomerly Daugherty Resources, Inc., is an independent energy and natural resources company focused on natural gas development and production in the Appalachian Basin, primarily in eastern Kentucky. It acquires and develops natural gas interests in its core operating areas through its wholly owned subsidiary, Daugherty Petroleum, Inc. (DPI) and DPI's interests in sponsored drilling partnerships (the Drilling Programs). All of NGAS Resources' wells are drilled under turnkey drilling contracts between DPI and the Company's Drilling Programs. DPI also constructs and maintains gas gathering systems for the Compawells, owns and operates natural gas distribution facilities in Kentucky through its wholly owned subsidiary, Sentra Corporation and owns inactive gold and silver prospects in Alaska.
NXTP Nextel Partners, Inc. provides integrated, wireless digital communications services using the Nextel brand name in mid-sized and rural markets throughout the United States. The Company's operations are primarily conducted by Nextel Partners Operating Corporation (OPCO), a wholly owned subsidiary. Nextel Partners offers four services: digital cellular, including advanced calling features such as speakerphone, conference calling, voicemail, call forwarding and additional line service; Direct Connect, the digital walkie-talkie service that allows customers to instantly connect to others without placing a phone call; short messaging, the service that utilizes the Internet to keep customers connected to others with text, numeric and two-way messaging, and Nextel Online services, which provide customers with Internet-ready handsets access to the World Wide Web and Web-based applications such as e-mail, address books, calendars and advanced Java-enabled business applications.
NXTL Nextel Communications, Inc. is a provider of wireless communications services in the United States. It provides a suite of advanced wireless services that include digital wireless mobile telephone service; Nextel Nationwide Direct Connect walkie-talkie service; and a number of wireless data applications, including e-mail, mobile messaging and Nextel Online services, which provide wireless access to the Internet, an organization's internal databases and other applications. As of December 31, 2003, the Company provided service to approximately 12.9 million subscribers, excluding subscribers who purchase pre-paid services under its Boost Mobile brand. Nextel, together with its subsidiary, Nextel Partners, Inc., utilizes the Digital Enhanced Network technology to serve 293 of the top 300 United States markets. Nextel Partners provides digital wireless communications services under the Nextel brand name in mid-sized and tertiary United States markets.
NXTI.OB Next, Inc. designs, develops, markets and distributes licensed and branded promotional products and imprinted sportswear, primarily through key licensing agreements and its own proprietary designs. Its licensed products include approximately 200 licenses and agreements to distribute its College Wear USA line for colleges and universities in the United States; licensing agreements with Chevrolet, Pontiac, Hummer, Cadillac, Dodge, GMC and Ford for their respective branded logos for the RPM Sports USA motor sports line; the exclusive license for distribution of Walter Payton products, and major licenses through a teaming agreement with Corona, Miller and Mike's Hard Lemonade for their branded logos for the Beer Wear USA product line. Next's proprietary designs cover a spectrum of themes such as American Wildlife (outdoor activities), American Classic (golf and automotive), American Biker (motorcycles) and Cadre Athletic (college and athletics), among others.
NXST Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc. is a television broadcasting company focused exclusively on the acquisition, development and operation of television stations in medium-sized markets in the United States. Nexstar owns and operates 27 stations, and provides management, sales or other services to additional 15 stations that are owned by Mission Broadcasting, Inc. and other entities. Most of the stations that the Company owns and operates or provides services to are clustered in the Northeast, Midwest, and Southwest regions of the United States. These stations are diverse in their network affiliations, 38 have primary affiliation agreements with one of the four major networks, 12 with NBC, 12 with Fox, seven with ABC and seven with CBS. Three of the remaining four stations have agreements with UPN and one is an independent.
NXPS.OB NexPrise, Inc. is a seller of business process automation and management applications. It develops and markets software solutions that can enable manufacturers to automate key business processes. Its principal applications are Document Manager, Engineering Change Manager, Supplier Non-Conformance and Corrective Action Manager, Cost Estimation and Quote Manager, Contract Data Manager, Supplier Materials Manager, Action Item Manager and Management of Change. The Company's nProcess Platform and a set of configurable process applications offer improved workflow, integration into multiple data sources, configuration and reconfiguration and a development studio that customers can use to automate their processes. NexPrise also licenses the nProcess Platform to customers who prefer to do their own development and modifications.
NEXM NexMed, Inc. is a pharmaceutical and medical technology company focusing its efforts on new and patented pharmaceutical products based on a penetration enhancement drug delivery technology known as NexACT. NexACT is designed to enhance the absorption of an active drug through the skin, overcoming the skin's natural barrier properties and enabling high concentrations of the active drug to rapidly penetrate the desired site of the skin or extremity. The Company is focusing the application of the NexACT technology to Alprox-TD cream for the treatment of male erectile dysfunction. NexMed has explored the application of the NexACT technology to other drug compounds and delivery systems, and is in various stages of developing new treatments for female sexual arousal disorder, nail fungus, premature ejaculation, urinary incontinence, wound healing, pain and the prevention of nausea and vomiting associated with post-operative surgical procedures and cancer chemotherapy.
NXY Nexen Inc. is an independent, Canadian-based global energy and chemicals company primarily engaged in the exploration, development, production and marketing of crude oil and natural gas. The Company is positioned for growth by exploring for, developing and producing, crude oil and natural gas primarily in western Canada, the Athabasca oil sands of Alberta, the United States Gulf of Mexico, the Middle East, the North Sea and offshore West Africa. In addition, the Company manages a growing crude oil, natural gas and electricity marketing business, and manufactures, markets and distributes sodium chlorate, caustic soda and chlorine in North and South America. Nexen's offering is supported by full-cycle oil and gas exploration and development, as well as an industrial bleaching chemicals business.
NKBS Newtek Business Services, Inc. is a holding company for several wholly and majority-owned operating subsidiaries and certified capital companies, referred to as capcos, which provide a variety of complementary financial products and business services to small and medium-sized businesses. Newtek operates in three principal lines of business: certified capital companies, small business loans through participation in the Small Business Administration (SBA) program and payment processing solutions. In 2003, Newtek Tax, LLC was formed to provide tax filing, preparation and advisory services to small and medium-sized businesses. Newtek Tax provides tax services that are customized to fit the needs of each client. The Newtek Insurance Agency, LLC, was also to serve as a retail agency and to market its products to customers of all the Company's affiliated companies. Income from tax credits accounted for 74.3%, 88.2% and 90% for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively.
NWPO.OB Newport International Group, Inc. sells Web-based conferencing services to business professionals, small office and home office (SOHO) companies and small to medium-sized businesses (SMB). The Company's products are centered around Web-based collaborative tools for small-business professionals and feature document and application sharing in a collaborative environment, including the Web-conferencing, which is the ability to communicate with participants, using voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) and video viewing. The products also include the ability to collaborate via a whiteboard application to annotate drawings and pictures. The products include its live, point-to-point or group conferencing video services, as well as a number of collaboration tools. It also offers an array of fee-based optional features, which provide support to individuals and businesses.
NEWP Newport Corporation supplies advanced technology products and systems to the semiconductor manufacturing and advanced packaging equipment, scientific research, aerospace and defense, life and health sciences and fiber optic communications industries.It provides components and integrated subsystems to manufacturers of semiconductor front-end processing equipment; automated systems for semiconductor back-end packaging applications to integrated device manufacturers; high-precision components and instruments to commercial, academic and government customers worldwide, and automated and manually operated assembly equipment to manufacturers of fiber optic components. Its products leverage its expertise in precision robotics and automation, high-precision positioning systems, vibration isolation technology, precision optics, opto-mechanics and photonics instrumentation to enhance the capabilities and productivity of its customers' manufacturing, engineering and research applications.
NR Newpark Resources, Inc. is a service company whose principal market is the oil and gas exploration and production industry. It principally operates in the Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coast, the United States mid-continent, United States Rocky Mountain, Canada and the Mediterranean regions. The Company provides, either individually or as part of a package, the following products and services: drilling fluids, associated engineering and technical services; installing, renting and selling patented hardwood and composite interlocking mats used for temporary access roads and work sites in oilfield and other construction applications; processing and disposing of oilfield exploration and production waste; on-site environmental and oilfield construction services; lumber, timber and wood by-product sales, and processing and disposing of non-hazardous industrial wastes for the refining, petrochemical and manufacturing industry in the United States Gulf Coast market.
NEM Newmont Mining Corporation and its affiliates and subsidiaries predominantly operate in a single industry, engaged in worldwide gold production, exploration for gold and acquisition of gold properties. Newmont also has base metal operations engaged in copper and zinc production. The Company has mining operations in the United States, Australia, Peru, Indonesia, Canada, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Bolivia, New Zealand and Mexico. As of December 31, 2003, it had gold reserves of 91.3 million equity ounces and an aggregate land position of approximately 60,000 square miles (155,840 square kilometers). In 2003, Newmont obtained more than 65% of its equity gold production from the United States, Australia and Canada. The Company also has merchant banking unit that is engaged in portfolio management (providing in-house investment banking and advisory services), and management of Newmont's equity portfolio, royalty portfolio and downstream gold refining and distribution business.
NMIL NewMil Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company for NewMil Bank (the Bank), a wholly owned subsidiary. The Bank is a Connecticut chartered and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insured savings bank. The Bank's principal business consists of attracting deposits from the public and using such deposits, with other funds to make various types of loans and investments. It offers both consumer and commercial deposit accounts including checking accounts, interest bearing (NOW) accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, savings accounts, individual retirement accounts and sweep accounts. It provides around the clock access to banking through automated teller machines (ATMs) in 16 branches. NewMil has two subsidiaries, NewMil Bank and NewMil Statutory Trust I, is a trust formed under the laws of the state of Delaware. The Bank has three wholly owned subsidiaries, NewMil Mortgage Company, Asset Recovery Management Company and New Mil Asset.
NMKT.OB IPVoice Communications, Inc. is a development stage company focused on developing and producing its proprietary software solutions for use in Internet Telephony (IP Telephony). Its revenues have come primarily in the following product areas: Software Licensing; Long Distance Telephone Services, both domestic and international; Technical Independent Consulting, and Security. The Company has three types of customers: large and small national corporations, such as Comp USA, Cisco Systems and Siemens; service providers (domestic and foreign), such as Internet Service Providers, Application Service Providers, Local Exchange Carriers and Competitive Local Exchange Carriers, and governments (domestic and foreign).
NEU NewMarket Corporation, formerly Ethyl Corporation, is a specialty chemicals company that provides highly formulated packages of lubricant and fuel additives. The Company develops, manufactures and blends fuel and lubricant additive products and markets and sells the products worldwide. NewMarket provides a full line of products and services to its customers through its portfolio of approximately 1,000 products. The Company operates two distinct segments: petroleum additives and tetraethyl lead (TEL). The petroleum additives business operates in a market that NewMarket actively reviews for opportunities, while TEL is a mature product with declining demand, marketed primarily through third-party agreements. The Company has developed long-term relationships with its customers in every major region of the world through its five manufacturing facilities in North America and Europe. In June 2004, the Company changed its name to NewMarket Corporation.
NFX Newfield Exploration Company is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the exploration, development and acquisition of crude oil and natural gas properties. The Company's areas of operations include the Gulf of Mexico, the United States onshore Gulf Coast, the Anadarko and Arkoma Basins, China's Bohai Bay and the North Sea. As of December 31, 2003, Newfield had proved reserves of 1.32 trillion cubic feet of crude oil or condensate equivalent. Of those reserves, 83% were natural gas and 87% were proved developed. More than half of the Company's reserves are located onshore in the United States.
NWL Newell Rubbermaid is a global manufacturer and marketer of branded consumer products and their commercial extensions, serving an array of retail channels including department stores, discount stores, warehouse clubs, home centers, hardware stores, commercial distributors, office superstores, contract stationers, automotive stores and pet superstores. The Company markets a multi-product offering of consumer products along with customer service and new product development. The Company conducts businesses in five operating segments: Cleaning and Organization, Office Products, Home Fashions, Tools and Hardware and Other Businesses.
NCT Newcastle Investment Corp. is a real estate investment and finance company. The Company conducts its business by investing in four primary investment categories: real estate securities, real estate related loans, operating real estate and residential mortgage loans. The operating real estate segment is primarily credit-leased operating real estate, including a portfolio of properties located in Canada, which is referred to as the Bell Canada portfolio, and a portfolio of properties located in Belgium, which is referred to as the LIV portfolio. Newcastle is organized and conducts its operations to qualify as a real estate investment trust (REIT) for federal income tax purposes.
NTR New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that originates, acquires and manages a portfolio of adjustable-rate residential mortgage assets. The Company was formed to acquire The New York Mortgage Company, LLC (NYMC), a residential mortgage banking company. New York Mortgage Trust intends to build a leveraged portfolio of residential mortgage loans comprised largely of prime adjustable-rate mortgage loans that it originates, including adjustable-rate loans that have an initial fixed-rate period (hybrid mortgage loans). In addition, in the short term and from time to time in the future, the Company intends to invest in mortgage-backed securities on a leveraged basis.
NWY New York &amp; Company, Inc. is a specialty retailer of fashion-oriented, moderately priced women's apparel. The Company designs and sources branded New York &amp; Company merchandise sold through the national network of 474 retail stores in 43 states of approximately 6,946 selling square footage per store, as of July 31, 2004. The store operations are organized into five regions and 47 districts. It offers a merchandise assortment consisting of casual and wear-to-work apparel and accessories, including pants, jackets, knit tops, blouses, sweaters, denim, t-shirts, activewear, handbags and jewelry. The stores are concentrated in large population centers of the United States and are primarily located in malls, which attract middle-income shoppers.
NYB New York Community Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for New York Community Bank (the Bank). The Bank's principal business consists of accepting retail deposits from the general public in the areas surrounding its branch offices and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, into multi-family, commercial real estate, and construction loans. The Bank also invests its cash flows into mortgage-backed and -related securities and, to a lesser extent, into various debt and equity securities. To reduce its exposure to credit and interest rate risk, it originates one- to four-family and other loans on a pass-through basis, selling such loans to a third-party conduit upon the loans being closed. The Bank serves its customers through a network of 142 banking offices in New York City, Long Island, Westchester County and New Jersey.
NVEI.OB New Visual Corporation is developing advanced transmission technology designed to enable data to be transmitted across copper telephone wire at speeds and over distances that exceed those offered by digital subscriber line (DSL) technology providers. The Company intends to market this technology to equipment makers in the telecommunications industry. New Visual technology is designed to increase the capacity of the copper telephone network, allowing telephone companies to provide enhanced video, data and voice services over the existing copper telecommunications infrastructure. Through its NV Entertainment, Inc. subsidiary, the Company is recognizing gross profit from the revenues from the feature-length documentary, Step into Liquid. Distributed by Artisan Pictures, the film was released in theaters in the United States in August 2003.
NVAL New Valley Corporation is engaged in the real estate business and is seeking to acquire additional operating companies. It owns, through its New Valley Realty Division, two commercial office buildings in Princeton, New Jersey, and a 50% interest in the former Kona Surf Hotel in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. The Company also holds a 50% interest in Douglas Elliman Realty, LLC, which operates the residential real estate brokerage company in the New York City metropolitan area.
NRPH New River Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing safer and improved versions of widely prescribed drugs in large and growing markets. Utilizing the Company's Carrierwav technology, it is developing novel pharmaceuticals to address the significant drawbacks and adverse side effects of marketed drugs. The Company is focused on developing compounds that would improve upon existing amphetamine and opioid analgesic drugs that pose problems of overdose, abuse and addiction. New River's Carrierwave compound is also known as prodrugs. NRP104, New River's advanced product candidate, is a prodrug of amphetamine. The Company initiated pharmacokinetic (PK) clinical trials on adults for NRP104 in April 2004. NRP290, the Company's second product candidate, is a prodrug of hydrocodone, an opioid widely used to treat acute pain. It is conducting preclinical animal studies on NRP290. NRP369 is the Company's third pipeline program.
NXL New Plan Excel Realty Trust, Inc. is a self-administered and self-managed equity real estate investment trust (REIT), which owns and manages community and neighborhood shopping centers. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company owned 379 properties in 35 states. Its properties include 352 community and neighborhood shopping centers with approximately 49.5 million square feet of gross leasable area, and 27 other related retail assets with approximately 2.2 million square feet of gross leasable area. It also owned, through co-investments with unconsolidated joint venture partners, 22 community and neighborhood shopping centers with approximately 3.9 million square feet of gross leasable area. The occupancy rate of the Company's total portfolio (excluding joint venture properties) was approximately 90% as of December 31, 2003.
NJR New Jersey Resources Corporation (NJR) is an energy services holding company providing retail and wholesale energy services to customers in New Jersey and in states from the Gulf Coast to New England, and Canada. The Company manages its business through operating subsidiaries, which are combined into three business segments: Natural Gas Distribution, Energy Services and Retail and Other Operations. The Natural Gas Distribution segment is conducted through New Jersey Natural Gas (NJNG), a local natural gas distribution company that provides regulated energy service in central and northern New Jersey and participates in the off-system sales and capacity release markets. Activities of the Energy Services segment are conducted by NJR Energy Services (NJRES), a provider of unregulated fuel and capacity management and wholesale marketing services. The Retail and Other Operations segment include the activities of its subsidiaries: NJR Retail Holdings, NJR Capital Services and NJR Service.
NJMC.OB New Jersey Mining Company is involved in exploring for and developing gold, silver and base metal ore resources in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The Company has a portfolio of seven mineral properties: the New Jersey mine, the Silver Strand mine, the Golden Chest mine, the CAMP project, the Lost Eagle project, the Wisconsin-Teddy project and the Roughwater Project. The New Jersey mine and the Silver Strand mine are the Company's development stage properties while the other five properties are exploration stage properties.
NEWH New Horizons Worldwide, Inc. owns and franchises computer-training centers and has two units: Company-owned training centers and franchising operations. The Company-owned training centers unit operates wholly owned computer training centers in 15 metropolitan cities within the continental United States and generates revenue through the sale and delivery of personal computer (PC) applications, technical software training courses and business skills courses. The franchising operations unit earns revenue through the sale of New Horizons master and unit franchises within the United States and abroad, on-going royalties in return for providing franchises systems of instruction, sales and management concepts concerning computer training and the sale of courseware materials and e-earning products to franchises. The franchising operations have places of business in Anaheim, California, as well as in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Singapore.
NHTB New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares, Inc. is the parent company of Lake Sunapee Bank, fsb (the Bank), and a federal-stock savings bank providing financial services throughout central and western New Hampshire. The Bank's earnings are generated from the difference between the yield on its loans and investments and the cost of its deposit accounts and borrowings. The loan origination fees, retail-banking service fees, gains on security and loan transactions supplement these core earnings.
NOOF New Frontier Media, Inc. is a provider of adult programming to low-powered (C-Band) direct-to-home (DTH) households through its networks TEN*Xtsy and TEN*Max. The Company also operates five networks targeted at cable television system operators and high-powered DTH satellite service providers called the direct broadcast satellite (DBS): TEN, Pleasure, TEN*Clips, TEN*Blue and TEN*Blox. New Frontier Media is organized into two segments: Pay TV Group, which distributes branded adult entertainment programming via pay-per-view networks and video-on-demand content through electronic distribution platforms, including cable television, DBS, hotels and C-Band, and the Internet Group, which aggregates and resells adult content via the Internet. The Internet Group sells content to monthly subscribers through its broadband Website, www.TEN.com; partners with third-party gatekeepers for the distribution of www.TEN.com, and wholesales pre-packaged content to various web masters.
NEN New England Realty Associates Limited Partnership (NERA) is engaged in the business of acquiring, developing, holding for investment, operating and selling real estate. NERA directly or through 23 subsidiary limited partnerships or limited liability companies (collectively known as Subsidiary Partnerships), owns and operates residential-apartment buildings, condominium units and commercial properties located in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
NWD New Dragon Asia Corp. produces and markets a range of wheat flour for use in bread, dumplings, noodles and confectionery products. The Company also provides a range of instant noodle products categorized into two: packet noodles for home preparation and for snacks. New Dragon's flour products are marketed under the Long Feng brand name and sold throughout China at both wholesale and retail levels. At the end of 2003, the Company's product breakdown was approximately 60% for flour products and 40% for instant noodles. New Dragon's manufacturing plants have an annual aggregate production capacity of approximately 110,000 tons of flour products and in excess of 110 million packets of instant noodles.
NEW New Century Financial Corporation is a mortgage finance company operating in the United States. Through its operating subsidiaries, it provides first and second mortgage products to borrowers nationwide. The Company offers mortgage products designed for borrowers that generally do not satisfy the credit, documentation or other underwriting standards prescribed by conventional mortgage lenders and loan buyers, such as Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac). It originates and purchases loans on the basis of the borrower's ability to repay the mortgage loan. Its borrowers generally have considerable equity in the property securing the loan, but have impaired or limited credit profiles or higher debt-to-income ratios than traditional mortgage lenders allow. The Company originates and purchases loans through wholesale and retail channels.
NCEH.OB New Century Equity Holdings Corp focuses on high-growth companies. The Company has an equity interest in Princeton eCom Corporation (Princeton), which offers electronic bill presentment and payment services via the Internet and telephone. It also has an equity interest in Sharps Compliance Corp. (Sharps), which provides cost-effective medical-related disposal solutions for the healthcare, retail, and residential and hospitality industries. New Century purchased an interest in Tanisys Technology, Inc. (Tanisys), which designs, manufactures and markets production level automated test equipment for a variety of memory technologies. It sold its interest in Tanisys in February 2003. Through its former wholly owned subsidiary FIData, Inc. (FIData), and it provides Internet-based automated loan approval products to the financial services industries. On March 25, 2004, the Company entered into an agreement to sell all of its holdings in Princeton to existing and new investors of Princeton.
NCNC.OB New Century Companies, Inc. has been engaged in acquiring, re-manufacturing and selling pre owned computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine tools to manufacturing customers across the United States. The Company provides rebuilt, retrofit and remanufacturing services for numerous brands of machine tools. The remanufacturing of a machine tool typically consists of replacing all components, realigning the machine, adding of updated CNC capability and electrical and mechanical enhancements. New Century manufactures original equipment, CNC large turning lathes and attachments under the trade name Century Turn.
NBSC New Brunswick Scientific Co., Inc. (NBS) designs, manufactures and markets, together with its subsidiaries, equipment used in biotechnology to create, maintain, measure and control the physical and biochemical conditions required for the growth, detection and storage of biological cultures. The equipment is used in medical, biological, chemical and environmental research, and for the commercial development of antibiotics, proteins, hormones, enzymes, monoclonal antibodies, agricultural products, fuels, vitamins, vaccines and other substances. The equipment sold by NBS includes fermentation equipment, bioreactors, biological shakers, ultra-low temperature freezers, carbon dioxide (CO2) incubators, nutrient sterilizing and dispensing equipment, tissue culture apparatus and air samplers.
UWN Nevada Gold &amp; Casinos, Inc. is primarily a developer of gaming facilities and related lodging and entertainment facilities (gaming projects). The Company also has real estate interests in Colorado, California and Nevada. Its operations are conducted in two segments: gaming projects and other assets. Gaming projects include Colorado gaming projects, River Rock gaming project, Route 66 gaming project and Muscogee (Creek) Nation gaming project. Other business activities include the Company's real estate and mineral development projects, restaurants and gold field projects.
NCEM Nevada Chemicals, Inc. supplies chemicals to the gold mining industry in the western United States, primarily through its ownership in Cyanco Company, a non-corporate joint venture engaged in the manufacture and sale of liquid sodium cyanide. Winnemucca Chemicals, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, has a 50% interest in Cyanco. The other 50% interest in Cyanco is held by Degussa Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Degussa A.G. Cyanco produces and markets liquid sodium cyanide from its Winnemucca, Nevada plant. With the 1998 addition of a second production unit, Cyanco has an annual liquid sodium cyanide production capacity of approximately 85 million pounds.
NURO NeuroMetrix, Inc. is a medical device company that designs, develops and sells proprietary products used to diagnose neuropathies. Neuropathies are diseases of the peripheral nerves and parts of the spine that frequently are caused by or associated with diabetes, low back pain and carpal tunnel syndrome, as well as other clinical disorders. The Company's neuropathy diagnostic system, the NC-stat System, provides primary care and specialist physicians with objective information that aids in the rapid and accurate diagnosis of neuropathies at the point of service (the physician's office at the time the patient is examined). The NC-stat System has been on the market since May 1999 and is used in over 1,800 physician's offices, clinics and other healthcare facilities in the United States. The Company holds issued utility patents covering a number of important aspects of its NC-stat System. NeuroMetrix derives all of its revenues from sales of the products that comprise the NC-stat System.
NRGX.OB Neurologix, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary Neurologix Research, Inc. (NRI), is involved in developing treatments for disorders of the brain and central nervous system using gene therapy and other therapies. These treatments are designed as alternatives to conventional surgical and pharmacological treatments. NRI's initial development efforts are focused on gene therapy products for treating Parkinson's disease and epilepsy. NRI's core gene therapy technology, which it refers to as NLX, is being tested in a Phase I human clinical trial, sponsored by NRI, to treat Parkinson's disease. A Phase I clinical trial tests the safety, as opposed to efficacy, of a proposed treatment.
NRGN Neurogen Corporation is a drug discovery and development company, targeting new small molecule drugs to improve the lives of patients suffering from disorders with significant unmet medical needs, including inflammation, pain, insomnia, depression and obesity. Neutrogena has generated a portfolio of compelling new drug programs through its fully integrated drug discovery and development processes. Neurogen's accelerated intelligent drug discovery (AIDD) process and its cellular functional assays help in identifying small molecule drug candidates. The small molecule drugs are suitable for oral administration as a pill and the large molecule drugs are administered by injection. The Company conducts its research and development independently and collaborates with other pharmaceutical companies during the drug research and development process to obtain additional resources and to access complementary expertise.
NBIX Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. discovers, develops and intends to commercialize drugs for the treatment of neurological and endocrine-related diseases and disorders. Neurocrine has 13 programs in various stages of research and development, including eight programs in clinical development. Its products under clinical development are indiplon for the treatment of insomnia; Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist for the treatment of endometriosis and fibroids; altered peptide ligand for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and Type 1 diabetes; D2 receptor agonist for the treatment of male and female sexual dysfunction; Corticotropin-Releasing Factor (CRF) R1 antagonist for the treatment of anxiety, depression, gastrointestinal disorders; CRF R2 peptide agonist (Urocortin II) for the treatment of cardiovascular disoders, and Interleukin 4 (IL-4) fusion toxin for the treatment of solid tumors and malignant glioma.
NRMX Neurochem Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutics for neurological disorders. The Company has three orally administered product candidates in clinical trials and one product candidate in preclinical development. The Company's product candidates are designed to inhibit both the formation of amyloid fibrils and the resulting toxic deposits by mimicking proteins, which promote amyloid fibril formation. Neurochem calls these molecules GAG mimetics. Fibrillex, Alzhemed and Cerebril, its product candidates in clinical trials, are based on the GAG mimetics technology. The Company's focus on neurology has also led to the development of dual-action compounds to treat epileptic seizures induced by traumatic brain injury (TBI). Neurochem is conducting preclinical testing on a compound, NC-1461, for the treatment of epileptic seizures induced by TBI.
NTII Neurobiological Technologies, Inc. (NTI) is a drug development company focused on the clinical evaluation and regulatory approval of neuroscience drugs. The Company develops neuroprotective and neuromodulatory agents to treat progressive neurological impairments characteristic of various nervous system disorders, including diabetic neuropathy and brain cancer. It has one approved product and two product candidates in clinical development. The approved product, Memantine, is an orally dosed compound that is approved for the treatment of moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease and is marketed in the United States and Europe. Memantine is being developed for the treatment of neuropathic pain. The product candidates are XERECPT, a compound for the treatment of peritumoral brain edema, or swelling around brain tumors and Viprinex, a compound for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke.
NWKI.OB Network Installation Corporation is a project engineering company that designs and installs specialty communication systems for data, voice, video and telecom. The Company earns revenue for services rendered, including the installation of data, voice, video and telecom networks; the sale of networking products that are installed, and consulting services in the assessment of existing networks. The Company has two wholly owned subsidiaries, Network Installation Corp. and Del Mar Systems International, Inc. Network Installation Corp. is the name of both the parent company incorporated in the state of Nevada and the subsidiary incorporated in the state of California. In March 2004, the Company acquired Del Mar Systems International, Inc., a telecommunications solutions provider. The Company conducts operations through its subsidiary. In January 2005, the Company acquired Costa Mesa, California-based networking services firm Com Services, Inc.
NWK Network Equipment Technologies, Inc., doing business as net.com since 2000, is a global provider of networking technology platforms that are used for mission-critical communications solutions. Its products include Promina (narrowband multi-service access platforms), which integrates voice, data, image and video traffic across a single network infrastructure; SCREAM (broadband services delivery platform), which enables service providers to define, deliver and manage new broadband services; netMS (integrated element management), an element management system for managing both Promina and SCREAM devices and networks in one platform, and SHOUTIP (Internet protocol (IP) telephony gateway), a flexible IP telephony platform that supports a variety of voice services, such as long-distance voice over IP, hosted IP telephony, calling card services and interactive voice response solutions, such as call centers and help desks.
NENG Network Engines develops, manufactures and distributes server appliance solutions that enable network equipment providers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to deliver data storage and security networking applications on server appliances. The Company previously also distributed third-party data storage networking connectivity products for the Fiber Channel host bus adapter (HBA), and storage switch manufacturers in the data storage industry to a customer base of value-added resellers (VARs) and systems integrators. Server appliances are pre-configured network infrastructure devices designed to optimally deliver specific software application functionality and facilitate ease of deployment and support of a software application in a customer's network. The Company offers its server appliance partners a comprehensive suite of services, including development, manufacturing, fulfillment, distribution and post-sale support.
NTAP Network Appliance, Inc. provides enterprise network storage and data management solutions. Its system products consist of fabric-attached storage appliances, also known as filers, NearStore systems, NetCache content delivery appliances, the Data ONTAP operating system, Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL) file management system, data management and content delivery software and NetApp Global Services. The Company also sells appliance- and server-based software and develops software support for a number of industry-standard protocols. The NetCache product line includes support for proxy and caching of standard Web protocols, including domain name service, file transfer protocol and hypertext transfer protocol. Under Netapp Global Services, options include Global Advisor and Global Advisor Plus, and System Availability Management and System Availability Management Plus.
NSSI.OB Network-1 Security Solutions, Inc. acquires, develops, licenses and protects its intellectual property. The Company presently owns six patents covering telecommunications and data networking technologies. It is pursuing licensing and strategic business alliances with companies in industries that manufacture and sell products, which make use of the technologies underlying its patents, as well as with other users of the technology who benefit directly from the technology, including corporate, educational and governmental entities.
WOLV NetWolves Corporation (NetWolves) is a network continuity and security provider that offers high-performance network security solutions coupled with robust network management and communication services. The Company designs, develops, assembles and sells Internet infrastructure security platforms, coupled with network-based management services. Its system technology enables organizations to achieve corporate information technology (IT) and e-business initiatives through the deployment of easily installable perimeter office security platforms, coupled with secure remote monitoring and management (SRM2) system.
NTWK NetSol Technologies, Inc., designs, develops, markets and exports software products to customers in the automobile finance and leasing industry worldwide. NetSol has developed LeaseSoft, a suite of four software applications for the lease and finance industry. The four applications under LeaseSoft have been designed and developed for a highly flexible setting and are capable of dealing with multi-national, multi-company, multi-asset, multi-lingual, multi-distributor and multi-manufacturer environments. The Company also provides professional services in exchange for fees from customers. NetSol provides its services primarily to clients in global commercial industries. In the global commercial area, its service offerings are marketed to clients in a wide array of industries, including automotive, chemical, tiles/ceramics, Internet marketing, software, banks, higher education, telecommunication associations and financial services.
NTST Netsmart Technologies, Inc. develops, markets and supports application software products designed for providers of services in the health and human services market, including mental health clinics, substance abuse clinics, psychiatric hospitals, public health agencies and managed care organizations. The Company's software products perform various functions, such as patient management, billing, scheduling and electronic medical records solutions for all modalities of care. Netsmart sells its software products through its wholly owned subsidiary, Creative Socio-Medics Corporation, on a license or a subscription basis to healthcare providers. It also offers clients software support under maintenance agreements. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Netsmart had over 500 contracts in place, representing approximately 50,000 clinicians, including 24 state agencies and installations in 43 states. On June 25, 2003, it acquired CareNet segment of Shuttle Data Systems Corporation.
NTCT NetScout Systems, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, markets, sells and supports a family of integrated products that enable performance and optimization of complex, high-speed networks, including the ability to deliver critical business applications and content to end users. It manufactures and markets these products in an integrated hardware and software solution that has been used by enterprises, governmental agencies and service providers worldwide. NetScout develops, manufactures, sells and supports network performance management solutions under the nGenius brand. The nGenius Performance Management System, based on its common data model (CDM) technology, is a solution consisting of integrated hardware and software components that monitor, measure and report on the network's ability to fulfill its performance, cost and service-level objectives.
NTRT NetRatings, Inc. is a provider of Internet audience measurement and analysis in the United States and around the world. The Company's primary products and services include NetView, AdRelevance/LemonAd, @Plan, MegaPanel and SiteCensus, all of which are designed to assist companies in making critical business decisions regarding their Internet strategies and initiatives. It also offers custom and analytical services to help clients better utilize and leverage its products and services to meet their specific media and market research goals and objectives. During the year ended December 31, 2003, NetRatings announced the launch of two new services to strengthen its Internet market research capabilities: WebIntercept and Homescan Online. The Company's products and services are sold directly in the United States and in numerous countries throughout Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
NETM NetManage, Inc. develops and markets software and service solutions that allow its customers to access and leverage their investment in host-based business applications, processes and data. The Company's business is primarily focused on providing specific personal computer and network or application server-based software and tools. Its range of solutions for the Host Access and Host Integration markets under the Host Access Platform include the RUMBA and OnWeb families. Its products include RUMBA for the desktop, OnWeb Web-to-Host, OnWeb Presentation Services, OnWeb Integration Services and ViewNow X Server and ViewNow Interdrive NFS.
NETL NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. is a semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets high-performance, knowledge-based processors for a variety of advanced Internet, corporate and other networking systems, such as routers, switches, network access equipment and networked storage devices. Knowledge-based processors are integrated circuits that employ advanced processor architecture and a large knowledge database containing network and network user information to make complex decisions about individual packets of information traveling through the network. The Company's knowledge-based processors significantly enhance the ability of networking original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to supply network service providers with systems offering more advanced functionality for the Internet, such as voice transmission over the Internet, virtual private networks (VPNs) and streaming video and audio.
NTIQ NetIQ Corporation provides cross-platform systems and security management solutions enabling organizations to monitor and proactively manage their information technology (IT) infrastructure to assure the performance, availability, security and more-efficient utilization of their IT environments. While the Company's business initially focused on management of systems and applications running on the Microsoft Windows operating system, it has expanded its business to include cross-platform systems management solutions and security management solutions for the Windows, UNIX, Linux and IBM iSeries operating systems, as well as Web analytics software and services. The Company also offers software to test, migrate and administer Microsoft Windows and active directory systems, as well as voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) systems.
NGRU Netguru, Inc. develops and markets structural and civil engineering and collaborative software products and services; embedded information technology (IT) services, including engineering business process outsourcing, and Web-based telecommunications services. The Company's engineering software is primarily used for the specific calculations required for the design of civil and structural engineering projects. Netguru's IT services division has provided IT services and software solutions to a variety of vertical industry markets, with an emphasis on engineering, aerospace, e-commerce, semiconductors, finance, education, insurance, manufacturing, distribution, retail, government, pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Netguru's Web-based telecommunications services consists of long-distance communication services that include call termination services and prepaid phone cards targeted towards certain niche markets.
NTGR NetGear, Inc. designs, develops and markets branded networking products that address the specific needs of small business and home users. The Company supplies networking products that meet the ease-of-use, quality, reliability, performance and affordability requirements of these users. Its suite of approximately 100 products enables users to share Internet access, peripherals, files, digital multimedia content and applications among multiple personal computers (PCs) and other Internet-enabled devices. Its products are grouped into three major segments within the small business and home markets: Ethernet networking products, broadband products and wireless networking products, with each product group, including a combination of switches, adapters, and wired and wireless routers and gateways. NetGear sells its products through traditional retailers with over 7,100 locations worldwide, online retailers, direct market resellers, value added resellers and broadband service providers.
NFLX Netflix, Inc. is an online movie rental subscription service in the United States, providing more than 1,487,000 subscribers access to a library of more than 18,000 movies, television and other filmed entertainment titles. For the standard subscription plan, subscribers can rent as many DVDs as they want, with three movies out at a time, and keep them for as long as they like. There are no due dates and no late fees. Subscribers select titles at Netflix's Website, www.netflix.com, aided by the Company's recommendation service, receive them on DVD by first-class mail and return them to Netflix at their convenience using the Company's prepaid mailers. Once a title has been returned, the Company mails the next available title in a subscriber's queue. Netflix also provides information on DVD movies, including critic reviews, member reviews, online trailers, ratings and personalized movie recommendations.
NTES NetEase.com, Inc. through its subsidiaries and contracts with the Company's affiliates, Guangzhou NetEase, Guangyitong Advertising, Ling Yi and their respective shareholders, operates an interactive online and wireless community in China and is a provider of Chinese language content and services through its online games, wireless value-added services and Internet portal businesses. The Company generates revenues from fees it charges users of the online games and wireless value-added and other fee-based premium services, as well as from selling advertisements on the NetEase Websites. Its basic service offerings on the sites are available without charge to users. The Company's wholly owned subsidiaries are NetEase Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., NetEase Information Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., NetEase Interactive Entertainment Ltd, NetEase (U.S.) Inc., Guangzhou Boguan Telecommunication Technology Limited and Guangzhou NetEase Interactive Entertainment Limited.
NTBK NetBank, Inc. is a holding company that wholly owns the outstanding stock of NetBank, (the Bank), a federal savings bank; Meritage Mortgage Corporation, a wholesale non-conforming mortgage provider; MG Reinsurance Company, a captive reinsurance company; NetInsurance, Inc., a licensed insurance agency, and NB Partners, Inc., a corporation formed to be involved in strategic partnering opportunities. NetBank's principal activities include retail banking and mortgage lending. The retail banking segment primarily consists of offering consumer banking products such as checking, money market and certificates of deposit. The mortgage banking segment either originates mortgage loans or acquires mortgage loans from correspondents and/or brokers, and packages pools of such loans either inclusive of or exclusive of servicing rights for sale into the secondary market.
NTOP Net2Phone, Inc. is a provider of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), communication services. The Company operates through two wholly owned subsidiaries, Net2Phone Global Services and Net2Phone Cable Telephony. Net2Phone Global Services delivers VoIP telephone services to businesses and consumers directly and through its global distribution network of over 500 resellers in over 130 countries, capitalizing on the growth, quality, flexibility and cost advantages of VoIP technologies. Net2Phone Cable Telephony offers cable operators a suite of services enabling them to deliver to their customers residential phone service having comparable quality, features and functionality to that offered by traditional telephone companies. The Company is actively marketing cable telephony services to cable operators in the United States, Europe and Latin America.
NETC Net Servicos De Comunicacao S.A. is a cable television operator in Brazil that offers its customers traditional cable television services and programming, as well as new and advanced high-bandwidth services such as high-speed Internet access and corporate data transmission. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company had over 1.3 million connected subscribers in 44 cities in Brazil, including Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The Company also provides high-speed cable modem Internet access through the Virtua service, which had over 91,400 subscribers as of December 31, 2003. Its coaxial and fiber-optic cable covers over 35,000 kilometers and passes more than 6.6 million homes.
NESO.OB Nestor, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary Nestor Traffic Systems, Inc. (NTS) (together the Company), provides traffic safety solutions and services to states and municipalities. The Company's products combine digital and analog video technologies with image processing to detect and interpret a range of traffic-related elements and conditions. Using the captured video images, Nestor applies proprietary neural network predictive models and other algorithms to convert existing data into meaningful recommendations and actions. This technology, which effectively sees and interprets objects captured in video images, is at the core of each product solution. These products are a combination of Nestor-developed software and modular hardware components that provide monitoring for traffic-data collection, control of traffic flows, enforcement and emergency response.
NSTC Ness Technologies, Inc. is a global provider of information technology (IT) services and end-to-end business solutions designed to help clients improve their competitiveness and effectiveness. End-to-end business solutions encompass all stages of a client's business process and incorporate all technologies and IT services related to that process. The Company's portfolio of solutions and services include outsourcing, system integration and application development, software and consulting, and quality assurance and training. The Company has operations in 14 countries across North America, Europe and Asia. Ness Technologies provides services to a significant number of clients in the commercial, industrial and government sectors. The primary industries, or verticals, the Company serves include government and defense, financial services, life sciences and healthcare, telecommunications and utilities, and independent software vendors (ISVs).
NESS.OB Ness Energy International, Inc. is primarily engaged in the development and execution of oil and gas exploration pursuits in the State of Texas, and also in the Middle East, specifically Israel. The Company's oil and gas lease interests include a 69.83% working interest in 581 acres Parker County, Texas, a 50% working interest in 334 acres Parker County, Texas, a 100% working interest in 5791 acres Parker County, Texas, and a 100% working interest in 429 acres Palo Pinto County, Texas. Ness does not own the land on which it has the working interests. The Company has the rights to the minerals contained in the land, primarily potential oil and gas. Ness had proved producing reserves of 129,309 thousand cubic feet at December 31, 2003.
NPTI.OB The Neptune Society, Inc. is engaged in marketing and administering Pre-Need and At-Need cremation services in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, New York, Oregon and Washington. Pre-Need programs allow clients to pre-plan and pre-pay for cremation services while At-Need programs arrange cremation services at the time of need. The Company also operates three crematories and licensed holding facilities in Los Angeles, California; one licensed holding facility in Ventura, California, one crematory and licensed holding facility in Ankeny, Iowa and one crematory and a licensed holding facility in Spokane, Washington. Neptune provides cremation services in the areas where it owns crematories. The Company uses the services of qualified and licensed third-party crematories and holding facilities in locations where it does not own crematories. In addition, Neptune provides registration services and other services and products.
NEP Nephros, Inc. is a development-stage medical device and technology company that develops advanced end-stage renal disease (ESRD) therapy technology and products addressing, both, patient treatment needs and the clinical and financial needs of the treatment provider. ESRD is the stage of advanced chronic kidney disease characterized by the irreversible loss of kidney function. The Company's products incorporate its mid-dilution diafiltration technologies (MDF). It has three products in various stages of development in the hemodiafiltration (HDF) modality to deliver therapy to ESRD patients: OLpur MD190, OLpur H2H and OLpur NS2000 system. MDF is a fluid management system that optimizes the removal of, both, small toxins and middle molecules, offering the advantages of pre-dilution HDF and post-dilution HDF combined in a single dialyzer cartridge.
NWRE Neoware Systems, Inc., provides software, services and solutions to enable appliance computing, an Internet-based computing architecture. These solutions are targeted at business customers that are designed to be easier to manage and more cost effective than traditional personal computer (PC)-based computing. Neoware was formed as the result of a merger between Human Designed Systems, Inc. (HDS), a privately held technology company, and Information Systems Acquisition Corporation (ISAC). The Company's software and management tools secure, power and manage a smart thin-client appliances that utilize the benefits of open, industry-standard technologies to create new alternatives to full-function PCs used in business and business devices, including green-screen terminals. In April 2004, the Company acquired Cedar Systems, Inc., a firm headquartered in the Seattle area.
NTEC Neose Technologies, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on improving protein therapeutics using its proprietary technologies. Its core technologies, GlycoAdvance and GlycoPEGylation, enable the Company to manipulate, enzymatically, the carbohydrate structures of glycoproteins, and thereby pursue the objective of improving the therapeutic profiles of proteins that have already been marketed or substantially developed by other companies. The Company's primary business strategy is to develop next-generation protein drugs through three focused programs: its own proprietary drug program, a partnering and licensing program and an exploratory research program.
NERX NeoRx Corporation is engaged in the development and commercialization of oncology products. The Company has two clinical-stage product candidates in development: STR (Skeletal Targeted Radiotherapy) and NX 473. STR is a bone-targeting radiopharmaceutical that delivers radiation directly to cancer cells in the bone and marrow. STR is being developed to treat patients with multiple myeloma and other cancers that arise in or spread to the bone marrow.
NEOP.OB Neoprobe Corporation is engaged in the development and commercialization of surgical and diagnostic products. The Company manufactures two lines of medical devices: a line of gamma radiation detection equipment used in the application of intraoperative lymphatic mapping (ILM) and a line of blood flow monitoring devices for a variety of diagnostic and surgical applications. Neoprobe's gamma detection device products are marketed through a distribution arrangement with Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. (EES), a Johnson and Johnson company. The Company's blood flow measurement device product line is in the early stages of commercialization. RIGScan CR49, a drug used in connection with gamma detection devices in cancer surgeries, is used to help surgeons locate cancerous tissue during colorectal cancer surgeries. Another drug, Lymphoseek, is used in tracing the spread of certain solid tumor cancers.
NEOL NeoPharm, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the research, development and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of various cancers. The Company has built its drug portfolio based on its technology platforms, which include the NeoLipid liposomal drug delivery system and a tumor-targeting toxin platform. Neopharm has four cancer product candidates in various stages of clinical development. Its most advanced product candidate is IL13-PE38QQR, a tumor-targeting toxin being developed as a treatment for a deadly form of brain cancer, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). The Company's Phase I NeoLipid-drug product candidates include LE-SN38 (liposomal SN38), for the treatment of colorectal and other cancers; LEP-ETU, its new NeoLipid formulation of liposomal paclitaxel, and LErafAON (liposomal craf antisense oligonucleotide), for the treatment of radiation and/or chemotherapy resistant tumors.
NEON NEON Systems, Inc. is a provider of enterprise-class mainframe integration software. The Company develops, markets and supports a unified mainframe integration platform that supports requirements for modern service-oriented architectures (SOA) and emerging event-driven architectures. Its Shadow technology provides interfaces to enable mainframe integration. In July 2004, the Company acquired InnerAccess Technologies, Inc., a privately held mainframe integration software vendor based in Toronto. InnerAccess Technologies provides one-step configuration solution for mainframe Web Services, a key enabling technology for the reuse of mainframe resources in modern service-oriented architectures.
NMTX.OB Neometrix Technology Group, Inc. is a holding company that, through its subsidiary, AMS Systems, Inc., is engaged in marketing information technology (IT) products and services to commercial accounts, federal, state and local government entities and educational institutions, as well as entities in the healthcare industry located primarily in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. The Company sells a range of microcomputer products, including hardware and peripherals, software, networking/communication products and accessories. AMS offers over 100,000 products pulling from hardware and software distributors in the United States. AMS is an authorized provider of sales and services of IBM, Compaq, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Cisco, 3Com, Dell and Microsoft. In addition, AMS provides a range of value-added programs, such as asset tagging, software license order fulfillment, custom tracking and network management, as well as IT staffing.
NEOM.OB NeoMedia Technologies Inc. develops technologies that link physical information and objects to the Internet, which is marketed under the PaperClick brand name. The Company focuses on developing and commercializing such technologies. It has also developed a patent portfolio covering convergence of the physical world and the Internet. It operates two business units that include NeoMedia Internet Switching Software (NISS) and NeoMedia Consulting and Integration Services (NCIS). NeoMedia's wholly owned subsidiaries are NeoMedia Migration, Inc., Distribuidora Vallarta, S.A., NeoMedia Technologies of Canada, Inc., NeoMedia Tech, Inc., NeoMedia EDV GMBH, NeoMedia Technologies Holding Company B.V., NeoMedia Technologies de Mexico S.A. de C.V., NeoMedia Migration de Mexico S.A. de C.V., NeoMedia Technologies do Brazil Ltd. and NeoMedia Technologies UK Limited. On January 2004, it established NeoMedia Micro Paint Repair, Inc and on February 2004, it acquired CSI International, Inc., of Calgary.
NMGC NeoMagic Corporation (NeoMagic) designs, develops and markets high-performance semiconductor solutions, known as applications processors (APs) which are sold to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs) of handheld systems. APs are semiconductors or system-on-Chips (SOCs) used to enable multimedia applications and sophisticated operating systems on handheld systems. NeoMagic's APs are focused on enabling high performance multimedia on handheld systems within a low power consumption environment. The Company's APs are sold under the MiMagic brand name. NeoMagic is targeting customers in three consumer end markets: mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and handheld entertainment devices.
NEOG Neogen Corporation (Neogen) develops, manufactures and markets a diverse line of products dedicated to food and animal safety. The Company's food safety segment consists of diagnostic test kits and complementary products, such as dehydrated culture media marketed by company sales personnel in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and parts of Europe. Neogen's animal safety segment is engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of pharmaceuticals rodenticides, disinfectants, vaccines, veterinary instruments, topicals and diagnostic products for the worldwide animal safety market. Neogen operates in two primary business areas: the Food Safety segment, which includes products for the detection of pathogens, natural toxins and other unwanted substances in food and feed products, and the Animal Safety segment, which includes products dedicated to animal health.
NEOF Neoforma, Inc. is a provider of supply chain management solutions for the healthcare industry. The Company's Web-based supply chain management solutions are designed to enable collaboration among hospitals and suppliers, helping them to reduce operational inefficiencies and lower costs. The healthcare supply chain has a number of characteristics including its size, degree of fragmentation, reliance on disparate technologies, dependence on manual processes and complex pricing structure. The Company's solutions address the needs of its customers in four primary areas: order management, contract management, data management and materials management. Neoforma serves over 1,600 customers including many hospitals and suppliers. The Company offers Neoforma order management solution, Neoforma contract management solution, Neoforma data management solution and Neoforma materials management solution.
NNI Nelnet, Inc. is a vertically integrated education finance company. The Company is focused on providing products and services to participants in the education finance process. It originates, holds and services student loans originated under the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP). Nelnet offers financial services and technology-based products, including student loan origination and lending, student loan and guarantee servicing and a suite of software solutions. Its products are designed to simplify the student loan process by automating financial aid delivery, loan processing and funds disbursement. The Company's infrastructure, technological expertise and breadth of product and service offerings connect the key constituents of the student loan process, including lenders, financial aid officers, guaranty agencies, governmental agencies, student and parent borrowers, servicers and the capital markets.
NKTR Nektar Therapeutics is a drug delivery products based company that provides a portfolio of technologies that will enable it and its pharmaceutical partners to improve drug performance throughout the drug development process. The Company is focused on three main technologies: Nektar Advanced PEGylation Technology, Nektar Pulmonary Technology and Nektar Supercritical Fluids Technology. These technologies are designed to improve either the performance of a drug molecule (such as improving bioavailability, safety, efficacy, stability or targeting) or how the drug is delivered (such as enabling a new dosage form or delivery profile that improves how the therapeutic can treat patients). As of December 31, 2003, Nektar had ongoing collaborations with more than 25 biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, of which 21 were announced.
NMGa The Neiman Marcus Group, Inc. is a high-end specialty retailer operating principally through specialty retail stores (Specialty Retail Stores), consisting of 35 Neiman Marcus stores, two Bergdorf Goodman stores and 14 clearance centers and through Neiman Marcus Direct, the Company's direct marketing operation. The Neiman Marcus stores are located in retail locations in major markets nationwide and the Bergdorf Goodman stores are in New York City. Both Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman stores offer high-end fashion apparel and accessories, primarily from designers. The Company owns a 51% interest in Gurwitch Products, LLC, which distributes and markets the Laura Mercier cosmetic line, and a 56% interest in Kate Spade LLC, a manufacturer and retailer of high-end designer handbags and accessories. In November 2004, the Company sold its Chef's Catalog direct marketing business to Pikes Peak Direct Marketing Inc.
NCRX NeighborCare, Inc., incorporated in 1985, is a provider of institutional pharmacy services in the United States. As of September 30, 2004, it provided pharmacy services for approximately 263,000 beds in long-term care facilities in 32 states and the District of Columbia. The Company's pharmacy operations consist of 66 institutional pharmacies, of which five are jointly owned, 32 community-based professional retail pharmacies, including two jointly owned and 19 onsite pharmacies that are located in customers' facilities and serve only customers of that facility. In addition, it operates 17 home infusions, respiratory and medical equipment distribution centers (four are jointly owned). On December 1, 2003, the Company spun-off Genesis HealthCare Corporation (GHC) and changed its name from Genesis Health Ventures, Inc. to NeighborCare, Inc. In December 2004, the Company acquired Belville Pharmacy Services, Inc. In January 2005, the Company acquired UniScripts, Inc.
NIPNY NEC Corporation is a provider of systems, components, services and integrated solutions for computing and communications applications. The Company's understanding of its customers' needs, together with its industry expertise, technical capabilities and broad product portfolio, enable it to offer computing, communications and devices solutions that address their core operational requirements. The Company's business is divided into the three segments: the IT Solutions business, the Network Solutions business and the Electron Devices business.
NNDS NDS Group plc is engaged in the supply of open end-to-end digital technology and services to digital pay television platform operators and content providers. The Company's technologies include conditional access and microprocessor security, broadcast stream management, set-top box (STB) middleware, electronic program guides (EPG), personal video recorder (PVR) technologies and interactive applications. Its software systems, consultancy and systems integration services are focused on providing platform operators and content providers with technology to help them profit from the secure distribution of digital information and entertainment. On December 16, 2003, NDS acquired the MediaHighway middleware business from a subsidiary of Thomson SA and licensed certain related patents from Thomson SA.
NDC NDCHealth Corporation is a provider of health information services that add value to the pharmacy, hospital, physician, pharmaceutical and payer businesses. The Company operates its business as two fundamental segments: Network Services and Systems, which it offers to healthcare providers and payers, and Information Management, which it offers primarily to pharmaceutical manufacturers. Network Services and Systems provides electronic connectivity to the NDCHealth intelligent network and system solutions throughout the healthcare industry. Information Management provides management information, research and consulting services to pharmaceutical manufacturers, pharmacy chains and hospitals.
NCTI.OB NCT Group, Inc. is an intellectual property development company that, as of February 29, 2004, held approximately 595 patents and related rights and a library of know-how and non-patented technology. NCT operates in three segments: communications, media and technology. Products in the Communications segment include: Pro Tech communications headsets and other products; NoiseBuster consumer headsets; ProActive industrial headsets; ClearSpeech microphones, speakers, suite of noise and echo cancellation algorithms and other products; an aircraft cabin quieting system, and Artera Turbo Internet speed enhancement service. The Company's Media Segment includes Sight &amp; Sound place-based audio and billboard media and Gekko flat speakers, frames, prints and subwoofers. Its Technology Segment includes Java, a language-based microprocessor core.
NCRI NCRIC Group, Inc. is a healthcare financial services organization that provides individual physicians and groups of physicians and other healthcare providers with economical, medical professional liability insurance and practice management and financial services. NCRIC Group owns NCRIC, Inc., a medical professional liability insurance company, and NCRIC MSO, Inc., a physician practice management and financial services company. The Company has two segments: insurance and practice management services. The insurance segment provides medical professional liability and other insurance. The practice management services segment provides medical practice management services to private-practicing physicians. The Company offers medical professional liability insurance and practice management services to physicians, other healthcare providers and medical practice corporations in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.
NCR NCR Corporation is a global technology company that provides solutions designed specifically to enable its customers to build, expand and enhance their relationships with their customers by facilitating transactions and transforming data from transactions into useful business information. NCR provides specific solutions for the retail and financial industries, and through its data warehousing and customer services businesses, the Company provides solutions for additional industries, such as telecommunications, transportation, insurance, utilities and electronic commerce, as well as consumer goods manufacturers and government entities. NCR's solutions are built on a foundation of industry knowledge and consulting expertise, software and hardware technology, global customer support services and a line of business consumables and specialty media products.
NCOG NCO Group, Inc. is a provider of outsourced accounts receivable management and collection services, serving a range of clients in North America and abroad. The Company delivers customized solutions that improve clients' accounts receivable recovery rates, and its services are provided through the utilization of technologies including advanced workstations, client interface systems and call management systems comprised of predictive dialers, automated call distribution systems, digital switching and customized computer software. The Company is comprised of three operating divisions: United States Operations, Portfolio Management and International Operations. In March 2004, NCO Portfolio Management, Inc., a purchaser and manager of delinquent accounts receivable, was merged with a wholly owned subsidiary of NCO Group. In April 2004, it acquired RMH Teleservices, Inc., a provider of customer relations management services.
NCS NCI Building Systems, Inc. is an integrated manufacturer of metal products for the building industry. The Company has divided its operations into three segments: engineered building systems, metal building components and metal coil coaters. The engineered building systems segment designs manufactures and markets engineered building systems, self-storage building systems and light-gauge framing systems for commercial, industrial, agricultural, governmental, community and residential uses. The metal building components segment designs, manufactures, sells and distributes components for a variety of new construction applications, as well as repair and retrofit uses. The metal coil coaters segment provides hot-roll and light-gauge metal coil coating and slitting services.
NTY NBTY, Inc. is a vertically integrated manufacturer, marketer and retailer of nutritional supplements in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands and worldwide. Under a number of its own and third-party brands, the Company offers over 19,000 products, including vitamins, minerals, herbs, sports nutrition products, diet aids and other nutritional supplements. NBTY is vertically integrated in that it purchases raw materials, formulates and manufactures its products, and then markets its products. During the fiscal year ended September 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the segments of the Company were Wholesale, Direct Response and Retail (including the United States and Europe), and contributed 44%, 13%, 13% and 30%, respectively, of the net sales.
NBTB NBT Bancorp Inc. is a financial holding company. The Company is the parent holding company of NBT Bank, N.A., NBT Financial Services, Inc. and CNBF Capital Trust I. Through these subsidiaries, NBT Bancorp operates as one segment focused on community banking operations. Its principal business is attracting deposits from customers within its market area and investing those funds primarily in loans and leases, and, to a lesser extent, in marketable securities. The Company offers its financial products and services to individuals, corporations and municipalities throughout the central and upstate New York and northeastern Pennsylvania market area.
NBY NBC Capital Corporation is a financial holding company. The Company's primary asset is its investment in its subsidiary bank, National Bank of Commerce (NBC). NBC provides full financial services, including banking, trust services, mortgage services, insurance and investment products. The areas served by NBC are the North Central region of Mississippi with locations in 10 communities and the Tuscaloosa, Alabama area. The Bank's customer base is diversified and consists of business, industry, agriculture, government, education and individual accounts. In addition to the Bank, the Company also wholly owns First National Finance Company, a finance company. During the year ended December 31, 2003, all the assets of Finance were sold and all operations were ceased. In March 2004, the Company acquired Enterprise Bancshares, Inc., the holding company for Enterprise National Bank, a commercial bank operating three financial centers in Memphis, Tennessee.
NBTF NB&amp;T Financial Group, Inc. is a bank holding company, which owns The National Bank and Trust Company (the Bank). The Bank is engaged in the commercial banking business in southwestern Ohio, providing a variety of consumer and commercial financial services. The primary business of the Bank consists of accepting deposits through various consumer and commercial deposit products, and using such deposits to fund consumer loans, including automobile loans, loans secured by residential and non-residential real estate, as well as commercial and agricultural loans. The Bank has also installed cash dispensers in convenience stores in three states. In addition, the Bank has a trust department, which administers 673 accounts having combined assets of approximately $213.1 million. The Bank also operates its wholly owned subsidiary, NB&amp;T Insurance Agency, Inc. that has four locations and sells a full line of insurance products, including property and casualty, life, health and annuities.
NVT NAVTEQ Corporation is a provider of digital map information and related software and services used in a variety of navigation, mapping and geographic-related applications, including products and services that provide maps, driving directions, turn-by-turn route guidance, fleet management and tracking and geographic information systems. These products and services are provided to end users by its customers on various platforms, including self-contained hardware and software systems installed in vehicles; personal computing devices, such as personal digital assistants and cell phones; server-based systems, including Internet and wireless services, and paper media. The Company's database is a digital representation of road transportation networks in the United States, Canada, numerous European countries and various other countries. The database includes extensive road, route and related travel information, including attributes collected by the road segment, and voice data.
NAVH.OB Navtech, Inc., develops, markets and supports flight management systems for the commercial aviation industry. The Company's systems are designed to assist commercial passenger and cargo air carriers in the dynamic environment of their daily flight operations. It focuses on air carriers that operate modern aircraft with fleet sizes greater than five aircraft. The primary geographical markets are North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific. Navtech products include Flight plan services (real-time decision support), Aircraft performance system (engineered subscription service), Outsourced services (dispatch and crew management services), Crew management systems (a bidding system), and Ancillary products and services (customer support). The Company has a customer-base of 120 airlines worldwide. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company had 36 airlines, based in Europe, Africa and the Middle East using its products and services.
NAV Navistar International Corporation is a holding company that, through its principal operating subsidiary, International Truck and Engine Corporation, operates in three principal industry segments: truck, engine and financial services. The truck segment is engaged in the manufacture and marketing of Class Five through Eight trucks, including school buses, and operates primarily in the United States, Canada, Mexico and other selected export markets. The engine segment is engaged in the design and manufacture of mid-range diesel engines and primarily operates in the United States and Brazil. The financial services segment, which includes Navistar Financial Corporation (NFC) and the Company's foreign finance subsidiaries, provides wholesale, retail and lease financing for sales of trucks sold by the Company and its dealers in the United States and Mexico. The financial services segment operates in the United States, Mexico and Bermuda.
NAVI NaviSite, Inc. provides managed application services and a range of outsourced hosting services for middle-market organizations that include mid-sized companies, divisions of large multi-national companies and government agencies. The Company's services include managed application services (A-Services), managed infrastructure services (I-Services) and managed messaging services (M-Services). These services allow NaviSite's customers to outsource the hosting and management of their information technology infrastructure and applications, such as commerce systems, enterprise software applications and e-mail. The Company's service offerings are facilitated by its Collaborative Application Management platform (CAM). Comprised of a suite of third-party and its own products, CAM provides tools designed specifically to meet the needs of customers who outsource or want to provide on-demand application services.
NAVG The Navigators Group, Inc. is primarily engaged in the writing and management of property and casualty insurance. The Company's segments include the Insurance Companies, the Navigators Agencies and the Lloyd's Operations, each of which is managed separately. The Insurance Companies consist of Navigators Insurance Company and NIC Insurance Company, which are primarily engaged in underwriting marine insurance and related lines of business, contractors' general liability insurance and professional liability insurance. The Navigators Agencies are underwriting management companies that produce, manage and underwrite insurance and reinsurance for both affiliated and unaffiliated companies. The Lloyd's Operations underwrite marine and related lines of business at Lloyd's of London.
FLYR Navigant International, Inc. is a provider of corporate travel management services. Through Scheduled Airlines Traffic Offices, Inc., it provides airline travel reservation services to the United States government and its employees as well as a number of private sector organizations. It also provides specific group, leisure and special event management travel services. It provides travel management services to corporations, government agencies, the military and other travel services. It has operations throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Greece, Ireland, Norway, Iceland, Turkey, Kuwait, Qatar, Japan, Singapore, Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Brazil. Navigant International has 116 regional and branch offices and approximately 540 on-site locations. It serves its corporate clients through a Website, Navigant.com, and its Internet products and services: BusinessFLYR, ReportFLYR, RescueFLYR, AlertFLYR and WebFLYR.
NCI Navigant Consulting, Inc. is a specialized, independent consulting firm that provides litigation, financial services, healthcare, energy and operational consulting services to government agencies, legal counsel and large companies facing the challenges of uncertainty, risk, distress and significant change. The Company focuses on industries undergoing substantial regulatory or structural change and on the issues driving these transformations. It markets its services directly to senior and mid-level executives. A variety of business development and marketing channels are used to communicate directly with current and prospective clients, including on-site presentations, industry seminars and industry-specific articles. The Company's business structure consists of two business segments, Financial and Claims Consulting and Energy Consulting.
NVDC.OB Navidec, Inc. is organized into three divisions: Financial Services that include consulting and personnel services to emerging growth micro- and small-capitalization companies to help them structure transactions to attract public and private capital; Mortgage Services, which is focused on providing end-to-end mortgage services from back office processing to mortgage banking services, and Technology, which, during the year ended December 31, 2003, provided solutions that enabled organizations to manage secure access to Web applications within the enterprise and across the business value chain. In September 2004, the Company merged with BPZ Energy, an oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Houston, Texas. BPZ Energy has exclusive ownership interests in over 2.7 million acres in Northwest Peru, besides other interests in Ecuador and elsewhere, covering both on shore and off shore concessions.
NAVR Navarre Corporation publishes and distributes a range of home entertainment and multimedia products, including personal computer software, audio and video titles and interactive games. The Company's business is divided into two business segments: Distribution, which it operates, and Publishing, which is operated through Encore Software, Inc. and BCI Eclipse, LLC entities. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Navarre continued to expand the number of electronic commerce customers for whom it performs fulfillment and distribution. These services include sales of PC software, prerecorded music and digital video disc/video home system videos and video games. The Company's business-to-business Website integrates online ordering and deployment of text and visual product information. In fiscal 2004, sales to three customers, Best Buy, CompUSA and Sam's Clubs, represented approximately 17%, 12% and 11% of total sales, respectively.
NLS The Nautilus Group, Inc. is a marketer, developer and manufacturer of branded health and fitness products sold under the names of Nautilus, Bowflex, Schwinn, StairMaster, TreadClimber and Trimline. The Company's products are distributed through diversified direct, retail and commercial sales channels. Nautilus Group markets and sells its Bowflex, TreadClimber and Nautilus sleep systems products through its direct-marketing channel, utilizing an effective combination of television commercials, infomercials, response mailings, the Internet and inbound/outbound call centers. The Company markets and sells its commercial fitness equipment to health clubs, government agencies, hotels, corporate fitness centers, colleges, universities and assisted living facilities worldwide. Nautilus Group also markets a line of consumer fitness equipment through a network of specialty and sporting goods dealers, distributors and retailers worldwide.
NVSL Naugatuck Valley Financial Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Naugatuck Valley Financial. The Company operate as a community-oriented financial institution offering traditional financial services to consumers and businesses in its market area. The Company attract deposits from the general public and use those funds to originate one-to four-family, multi-family and commercial real estate, construction, commercial business and consumer loans, which it primarily hold for investment. The Company's loan portfolio consists primarily of one- to four-family residential mortgage loans. To a lesser extent, its loan portfolio includes multi-family and commercial real-estate loans, construction loans commercial business loans and consumer loans.
NTZ Natuzzi S.p.A. is engaged in the design, manufacture and marketing of contemporary and traditional leather- and fabric-upholstered furniture, principally sofas, loveseats, armchairs, sectional furniture, motion furniture and sofa beds and living room accessories. The Company manufactures leather- and fabric-upholstered furniture products, which are produced in four different styles: traditional, transitional, contemporary and modern. These styles fall within five categories: stationary furniture, which include sofas, loveseats and armchairs; sectional furniture; motion furniture; sofa beds, and occasional chairs, which include recliners and body massage chairs. The Company offers its products in 346 different models, nine leather grades, 27 leather finishes and 177 colors. Each of its models is offered in various forms. Each model is offered at prices that vary depending on the quality and finish of the leather and the quality of the cushions.
BABY Natus Medical Inc. develops, manufactures and market products for the detection, treatment, monitoring and tracking of common medical disorders in newborns. The Company's principal product lines consist of the ALGO Newborn Hearing Screener products for hearing screening, neoBLUE LED Phototherapy device for the treatment of jaundice, Neometrics software products and MiniMuffs Neonatal Noise Attenuators. Natus markets and sells its products directly in the United States, through its wholly owned subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and Japan and through distributors in approximately 25 other countries. In July 2003, the Company acquired Neometrics Inc., a supplier of data systems used in 18 state health departments for various newborn screenings, including hearing screening data collection and management.
NAWL.OB Naturewell, Inc. is engaged primarily in the research and development of healthcare products intended for a variety of conditions and has completed development of a homeopathic over-the-counter (OTC) drug used for the treatment and prevention of migraine headaches. The Company's primary focus is on the distribution and sale of its migraine medication, MIGRASPRAY, a homeopathic over-the-counter drug used for the treatment and prevention of migraine headaches. The Company outsources its manufacturing, warehousing and major distribution activities to third-party vendors. Customer service, sales and administration are handled at the Company's headquarters in San Diego, California.
NRVN Nature Vision, Inc., formerly Photo Control Corporation, designs, manufactures and markets professional Camerz film and digital cameras, photographic accessories, Norman electronic flash equipment and Lindahl photographic accessories. There are three photographic product lines: long-roll film and digital cameras, electronic flash equipment and lens shades. For the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, three customers comprised 34.9%, 37.4% and 45.8%, respectively, of the Company's sales. It has two subsidiaries: Norman Enterprises, Inc. and Nord Photo Engineering, Inc. In August 2004, the Company merged with Nature Vision, Inc., which designs, develops and sells video imaging systems for outdoor recreational use.
NATR Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. together with its subsidiaries, collectively known as the Company is engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of nutritional and personal care products. The Company sells its products worldwide to a sales force of independent distributors who use the products themselves or resell them to other distributors or consumers. It also sells its products through a separate division, Synergy Worldwide. Synergy Worldwide sells products in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and the United States. The Company's line of over 700 products includes herbal products, vitamins, mineral supplements and miscellaneous other products. It also manufactures or contracts with independent manufacturers to supply a variety of other products, including different drinks, homeopathic products and powders.
NATWQ.PK Natural Wonders, Inc. is a specialty gift retailer of unique and affordable family gifts inspired by the wonders of science and nature. The Company's merchandise assortment includes telescopes, mineral carvings, globes, home and garden items, ceramics, wind chimes, hats and shirts, books, tapes, CDs, videos and a variety of interactive toys and games. The Company's merchandise categories are Kids &amp; Discovery, Gifts, Garden, Apparel, Optics, Music, Video and Book, Jewelry, Stationary and Relaxation. On December 17, 2000, the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, World of Science, filed for Chapter 11 protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of California, Oakland Division. On February 28, 2001, the Bankruptcy Court authorized the Company to liquidate its inventory and other assets, free and clear of liens, pursuant to going out of business sales.
NRP Natural Resource Partners L.P. is a limited partnership company principally engaged in the business of owning and managing coal properties in three coal-producing regions in the United States: Appalachia, the Illinois Basin and the Western United States. At December 31, 2003, Natural Resource controlled approximately 1.6 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves in eight states, which were subject to 109 leases with 48 lessees. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's lessees produced 44.3 million tons of coal from its properties. Natural Resource does not operate any mines. The Company leases coal reserves to mine operators under long-term leases that grant the operators the right to mine its coal reserves in exchange for royalty payments. Natural Resource's oil and gas and timber ownership primarily consists of properties in Kentucky and Virginia.
NHLC.OB Natural Health Trends Corp. (NHTC) is an international network marketing organization. The Company controls subsidiaries that distribute products through three separate direct selling networks that promote health, wellness and vitality. Lexxus International, Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary and other Lexxus subsidiaries (Lexxus) sells certain cosmetic products and quality of life products that constituted approximately 96% of consolidated revenues for the year ended December 31, 2003. eKaire.com, Inc. (eKaire), a wholly owned subsidiary, distributes nutritional supplements aimed at general health and wellness. In 2003, NHTC commenced the operations of I Luv My Pet, Inc., (ILMP), a wholly owned subsidiary that distributes nutritional supplements for dogs and cats.
NAX Natural Golf Corporation is a golf instruction and equipment company focused on delivering a total system for improving the play of golfers of all abilities. The Company produces and sells instructional video tapes explaining its Natural Golf swing system, offers golf schools through a network of certified instructors and manufactures and sells golf equipment developed for the golfer using the Natural Golf swing system. The Natural Golf swing system involves placing the grip in the palm of the hands, not in the fingers, and extending the arms to create a "single-plane swing." This reduces club head and body rotation, and is designed to create a simpler, easier to learn, more "natural" motion. The stance is wider, which tends to minimize the turning of the hips. Natural Golf markets and sells directly to consumers, including the new golfer, the high handicapper, the good golfer wanting to improve, the occasional golfer, the woman golfer and the golfer with bad back or arthritis.
NGSY.OB Natural Gas Systems, Inc. (NGS), formerly known as Reality Interactive, Inc. (Reality) is a development stage petroleum company engaged primarily in the acquisition, exploitation and development of properties for the production of crude oil and natural gas from underground reservoirs. NGS acquires established oil and gas properties and exploits them through the application of conventional and specialized technology to increase production, ultimate recoveries, or both. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), NGS conducted operations through its 100% working interest in the Delhi Field. The Company operates its properties in the State of Louisiana. NGS focuses on established fields with long-lived production from shallow reservoirs, particularly those reservoirs with low permeability. On May 26, 2004, NGS was merged into a wholly owned subsidiary of Reality and was renamed Natural Gas Systems, Inc.
NGS Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. provides equipment and services to the natural gas and oil industry, primarily in Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming. Natural Gas manufactures, fabricates, sells and leases natural gas compressors that enhance the production of oil and gas wells, as well as provides maintenance services for those compressors. The Company also manufactures and sells flare stacks and related ignition and control devices for onshore and offshore burning of gas compounds. Natural Gas markets its products through frequent direct contact with its existing customers and potential customers, technical assistance, print literature, direct mail and referrals.
NAII Natural Alternatives International, Inc. (NAI) provides private-label contract manufacturing services to companies that market and distribute vitamins, minerals, herbs and other nutritional supplements, as well as other healthcare products to consumers, both within and outside the United States. In addition, under its direct-to-consumer marketing program, NAI develops, manufactures and markets its own products. Under the direct-to-consumer marketing program, the Company works with nationally recognized physicians and other personalities to develop brand-name products that reflect their individual approaches to restoring, maintaining or improving health. In March 2004, NAI introduced its Chopra Center Essentials product line.
NTOL Natrol, Inc. manufactures and markets branded dietary supplements, herbal teas, nutraceutical ingredients and sports nutrition products under three labels: the Natrol brand, the Laci Le Beau brand of herbal teas and the Prolab sports nutrition brand. The Natrol brand focuses on supplements, including vitamins, minerals, hormonal supplements, herbal products and specialty combination formulas that contribute to an individual's physical well being. Laci Le Beau teas are flavored herbal teas, with Laci Le Beau Dieter's tea as its primary tea category. The Prolab sports nutrition line of products is targeted to body builders and health minded individuals seeking a high degree of physical fitness. The Company also sells nutraceutical grade ingredients, garlic, vegetable powders, kava kava, melatonin and arabinogalactan to other manufacturers through its EPI division.
NHP Nationwide Health Properties, Inc. (NHP) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that generates income and revenues primarily through investments in healthcare-related facilities located across the United States. It also provides financing to healthcare providers. As of December 31, 2003, NHP had investments in 374 facilities, of which, it directly owned 154 skilled nursing facilities, 129 assisted and independent living facilities, 11 continuing care retirement communities, one rehabilitation hospital, one long-term acute care hospital and one building held for sale. The Company also holds 21 mortgage loans secured by skilled nursing facilities, assisted and independent living facilities and a care retirement community. In addition, NHP holds a 25% interest in an unconsolidated joint venture that owns 49 assisted living facilities. All of the Company's facilities are operated by 68 different operators, including Alterra Healthcare Corporation and American Retirement Corporation.
NFS Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. (NFS) is a provider of long-term savings and retirement products in the United States. NFS develops and sells a range of products that includes individual annuities, private and public sector pension plans and other investment products sold to institutions, life insurance and advisory services. The Company sells its products through a diverse distribution network. Unaffiliated entities that sell its products to their own customer base include independent broker/dealers, wirehouse and regional firms, financial institutions, pension plan administrators, life insurance specialists and certified public accounting firms. Representatives of NFS that market products directly to a customer base include Nationwide Retirement Solutions, The 401(k) Company, TBG Financial and Nationwide Provident agents. NFS also distributes retirement savings products through the agency distribution force of its ultimate parent company, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company.
NHRX NationsHealth Inc. is a supplier of prescription drug discount cards with approximately 1.5 million enrolled members. The Company expands its card member base by offering a free prescription discount drug card that provides savings off the usual retail price of prescriptions. Approximately two-thirds of NationsHealth card members are Medicare beneficiaries. NationsHealth improves the quality of life of Medicare beneficiaries through its Medicare Part B services. The Company is a fully participating Medicare provider. As such, NationsHealth offers benefits to persons requiring diabetes, respiratory and ostomy supplies. NationsHealth's services provide Medicare Part B beneficiaries with no up-front costs and free home delivery. As of May 2004, Medicare beneficiaries will be able to enroll in Medicare-approved prescription drug discount programs. NationsHealth has applied with Medicare to be a provider of a Medicare-approved prescription drug discount program.
NWLIA National Western Life Insurance Company is a stock life insurance company doing business in 49 states, the District of Columbia and four United States territories or possessions. National Western is also licensed in Haiti, and although not otherwise licensed, accepts applications from and issues policies to residents of various countries in Central and South America, the Caribbean, the Pacific Rim and Eastern Europe. Such policies are underwritten, accepted and issued in the United States upon applications submitted by independent contractor broker-agents. The Company offers a portfolio of individual whole life, universal life and term insurance plans, and annuities, including supplementary riders. As of December 31, 2003, National Western provided life insurance products for the savings and protection needs of approximately 155,000 policyholders and for the asset accumulation and retirement needs of over 115,000 annuity contractholders.
NVI National Vision, Inc. is a retail optical company. The Company operates 468 vision centers in the United States and Mexico. The Company's vision centers are located inside 396 Wal-Mart stores, including 37 in Mexico, 47 Fred Meyer stores and on 25 military bases located within the United States. During the fiscal year ended January 3, 2004 (fiscal 2003), these locations generated approximately 89% of the Company's revenue. The Company's vision centers sell a range of optical products including eyeglasses, contact lenses and sunglasses. Independent optometrists operate their own practices within all of its vision centers, providing its customers with convenient access to eye examinations and contact lens fittings. National Vision also operates two manufacturing and distribution centers to support its retail operations.
NTSC National Technical Systems, Inc. (NTS) is a diversified services company that supplies technical services and solutions to a variety of industries, including aerospace, defense, transportation, electronics, power, computers and telecommunications. The Company, using its various testing facilities, staffing solutions and certification services, helps its customers sell their products in world markets. It operates in two segments, Engineering and Evaluation, an independent conformity assessment and management system registration organization in the United States, and Technical Solutions, a national provider of professional and specialty staffing services. NTS' business is conducted by a number of operating units, each with its own organization.
NSTLQ.OB National Steel Corporation is an integrated steel producer in the United States and is engaged in the manufacture and sale of a variety of flat-rolled carbon steel products, including hot-rolled, cold-rolled, galvanized, tin- and chrome-plated steels. The Company targets high-value-added applications of flat-rolled carbon steel for sale primarily to the automotive, construction and container markets. On March 6, 2002, National Steel and 41 of its domestic subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. The Company filed for protection under Chapter 11 in order to obtain the necessary time to stabilize its finances and to attempt to develop a plan of reorganization. On November 5, 2002, the Bankruptcy Court entered an order that extended the exclusive period within which only the debtor can file a plan of reorganization through April 7, 2003.
NSM National Semiconductor Corporation is a supplier of analog and mixed-signal products. The Company serves both broad-based markets, such as the industrial, communications, computing, consumer and automotive markets, and more narrowly defined markets, such as wireless handsets, liquid crystal display monitors, personal computers (PC) and high-definition televisions. The Company's analog and mixed-signal devices include operational and audio amplifiers, communication interface circuits, power monitors, converters and regulators, radio frequency integrated circuits, analog-to-digital converters and flat panel display drivers and signal processors. National Semiconductor's operations were organized in six groups: the Analog Group, the Displays and Wireless Group, the PC and Networking Group, the Custom Solutions Group, the Imaging Group and the Information Appliance Group, which was disbanded in fiscal year ended May 30, 2004. In September 2004, the Company sold its Imaging business.
NSEC The National Security Group, Inc. is an insurance holding company. The Company, through its property and casualty subsidiaries, writes primarily dwelling fire and windstorm, homeowners, mobile homeowners and personal non-standard automobile lines of insurance. National Security's property and casualty subsidiaries are National Security Fire &amp; Casualty Company and Omega One Insurance Company. The National Security Group, through its life insurance subsidiary National Security Insurance Company, offers a basic line of life and health and accident insurance products. Property-casualty insurance is the most significant segment, accounting for 88% of total premium revenues.
NSCT.OB National Scientific Corporation (NSC) is engaged in the research, development and sale of devices and designs commonly used in the electronics industry. The majority of its products are electronic location-determining devices (location-tracking products or location tools). These devices are typically very small portable radios, intended to help establish the physical location of people and objects to which these devices are attached. Some of its location technologies use global positioning system (GPS) technology to determine position. NSC also has other products that use non-GPS technology to establish and then report position. The Company's primary focus for these location-tracking products is the safety market, related in many cases to the safety of children. NSC has also developed products that are electronic components, some of which are used in radio equipment, and some of which have other applications in the electronics field, such as in the memory systems of personal computers.
NVH National R.V. Holdings, Inc. is engaged in the production of motorized and towable recreation vehicles through its two wholly owned subsidiaries, National RV, Inc. (NRV) and Country Coach, Inc. (CCI). The Company's product line has consisted of 44 models of motorhomes and 11 models of towable units (fifth wheel trailers and travel trailers) across numerous price ranges. NRV has designed, manufactured and marketed Class A gas and diesel motorhomes under model names Dolphin, Islander, Sea Breeze, Tradewinds and Tropi-Cal, and travel trailers under model names, including Blaze'n, Rage'n and Splash. CCI designs, manufactures and markets high-end (Highline) Class A diesel motorhomes under the model names Affinity, Allure, Inspire, Intrigue, Lexa and Magna and bus conversions under the Country Coach Prevost brand. In September 2004, the Company sold its National RV travel trailer business assets to Weekend Warrior, a privately owned, California-based ramp trailer manufacturer.
NRCI National Research Corporation (NRC) is a provider of ongoing survey-based performance measurement, analysis, tracking and improvement services to the healthcare industry. The Company addresses the growing needs of healthcare providers and payers to measure the care outcomes and health status of patients and/or members. It also provides market research services to hospitals and insurance companies on an unsecured credit basis. NRC has also focused on the information needs of the healthcare industry. Its primary types of information services are performance tracking services, custom research, educational services and its Market Guide. The Company's 10 largest clients accounted for 45%, 51% and 50% of its total revenues in 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively.
NAPE.OB National Properties Corporation is engaged in the development of commercial real estate for lease to tenants under net lease arrangements. It owns commercial real estate in Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas. The Company seeks to acquire or develop improved real estate properties suitable for lease to commercial tenants. It invests in properties that are fully leased to a single tenant that is responsible for payment of real estate taxes, insurance, utilities and repairs. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company owned 41 leased properties. In August 2003, National Properties completed the purchase and leaseback of a Jack in the Box property, and, in November 2003, the Company completed a multiple property exchange by surrendering three properties in exchange for a Walgreen store property.
NPK National Presto Industries, Inc. consists of three business segments: Housewares/Small Appliance, Defense Products and Absorbent Products. The Housewares/Small Appliance segment designs, manufactures and distributes housewares and small electrical appliances, including pressure cookers and canners, kitchen electrics and comfort appliances. The Defense Products segment manufactures precision mechanical and electro-mechanical assemblies and performs Load, Assemble and Pack (LAP) operations on ordnance related products for the United States government and prime contractors. The Absorbent Products segment manufactures and sells private label diapers, adult incontinent products and puppy pads.
NPBC National Penn Bancshares, Inc is a bank holding company that provides a diversified range of financial services, principally through its banking subsidiary, National Penn Bank. The Company also conducts business through various direct or indirect non-bank subsidiaries, which are engaged in activities related to the business of banking. National Penn Bank is a commercial bank that operates 66 community banking offices throughout nine counties in southeastern Pennsylvania. It also owns or leases 64 automated teller machines, all of which are located at bank office locations, except for nine that are free-standing. National Penn Bank provides a range of deposit products, and commercial real estate, business and consumer loan products to a variety of customers, including real estate owners and developers, commercial businesses and corporations and individual consumers. The Company engages in investment activities through National Penn Bank and the National Penn Investment Company.
NOI National-Oilwell, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells systems, components and products used in oil and gas drilling and production, as well as distributes products and provides services to the exploration and production segment of the oil and gas industry. The Company's Products and Technology segment designs and manufactures complete land drilling and workover rigs, as well as drilling-related systems on offshore rigs. National Oilwell's Distribution Services segment provides maintenance, repair and operating supplies and spare parts to drill site and production locations throughout North America and to offshore contractors worldwide. Increasingly, this business also is expanding to locations outside North America, including the Middle East, Southeast Asia and South America. Using its information technology (IT) platforms and processes, the Company can provide complete procurement, inventory management and logistics services to its customers.
MBLA National Mercantile Bancorp is a bank holding company whose principal assets are two bank subsidiaries, Mercantile National Bank (Mercantile) and South Bay Bank, N.A. (South Bay). National Mercantile was authorized by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco to engage in lending activities. The Company's lending products include revolving lines of credit, term loans, commercial real estate loans, construction loans and consumer and home equity loans, which contain terms and conditions tailored to meet the demands of the market in which the borrower operates. It also provides an array of deposit and investment products that are designed to meet customer needs. The Company operates throughout the west side of Los Angeles County. The Company's targeted markets for businesses include entertainment industry, healthcare industry, professional services providers, real estate escrow industry, property managers and community-based, non-profit organizations.
NMHC National Medical Health Card Systems, Inc. (Health Card) provides pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services under the name NMHCRX through its network of licensed pharmacies. Its PBM services include electronic point-of-sale pharmacy claims management, retail pharmacy network management, mail-order pharmacy claims management, specialty pharmacy claims management, benefit design consultation, preferred drug management programs, drug review and analysis, consulting services, disease information services, data access, reporting and information analysis and physician profiling. The Company operates a health information company through its wholly owned subsidiary, Integrail, Inc.; a mail service pharmacy through its wholly owned subsidiary, NMHCRX Mail Order, Inc., and a specialty pharmacy through its wholly owned subsidiary, Ascend Specialty Pharmacy Services, Inc. On April 1, 2004, Health Card entered into an asset purchase agreement with Inteq PBM, LP, a Texas limited partnership.
NLPN.OB National Lampoon, Inc. is active in a broad array of entertainment segments, including feature films, television programming, interactive entertainment, home video, audio CDs and book publishing. The Company also owns interests in all major National Lampoon properties, including National Lampoon's Animal House, the National Lampoon Vacation series and National Lampoon's Van Wilder. The National Lampoon Network serves over 600 colleges and universities throughout the United States. The network reaches as many as 4.8 million students. In addition, the Company operates a humor Website, www.nationallampoon.com, on the Internet. The Company has four operating divisions: National Lampoon Network, Entertainment Division, Publishing Division and Licensing Division.
NATI National Instruments Corporation is a supplier of measurement and automation products. Its products consist of application software, and hardware components together with related driver software that users combine with industry-standard computers, networks and the Internet to create measurement and automation systems. The Company's application software products include LabVIEW, LabVIEW Real-Time, LabVIEW FPGA, Measurement Studio, LabWindows/CVI, DIAdem, TestStand and MATRIXx. The Company's application software products are integrated with its hardware/driver software. Its hardware and related driver software products include data acquisition, peripheral component interconnect extensions for instrumentation, image acquisition, motion control, FieldPoint distributed input/output and embedded control hardware/software, industrial communications interfaces, general purpose interface bus interfaces and virtual machine environment extensions for instrumentation controllers.
NHHC National Home Health Care Corp. is a provider of home healthcare and staffing services in the Northeast region. The Company provides its services in four broad categories: home health nursing services, infusion therapy, respiratory therapy and home medical equipment. The Company operates 30 offices consisting of one parent corporate office, 19 offices that coordinate home healthcare services and 10 satellite offices. The Company has two Medicare provider numbers and is a Medicaid provider in each of the four states in which it operates. The Company operates through five principal operating subsidiaries: Health Acquisition Corp.; New England Home Care, Inc. (New England); Accredited Health Services, Inc. (Accredited); Connecticut Staffing Works Corp. (Connecticut Staffing), and Medical Resources Home Health Corp. (Medical Resources). During the fiscal year ended July 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company terminated its healthcare staffing operations in both New York and New Jersey.
NHC National HealthCare Corporation (NHC) reports its principal business as the operation of long-term healthcare centers with associated assisted living and independent living centers. Its business activities include providing subacute skilled and intermediate nursing and rehabilitative care, senior living services, home healthcare services, management services, accounting and financial services and insurance services. The Company operates in 13 states and its owned and leased properties are located primarily in the southeastern United States. All its operating entities are separately organized businesses, capitalized initially by the Company and maintained as independent subsidiaries. Patient revenues from health care centers and homecare services for the period ended December 31, 2003 include medicare at 32%, private at 27%, medicaid/intermediate at 26%, medicaid/skilled at 13% and others two percent.
NHR National Health Realty, Inc. (NHR) is a real estate investment trust that owns 16 licensed skilled nursing facilities, six assisted living facilities and one independent living center (the Health Care Facilities) through its subsidiary NHR/OP, L.P. (the Operating Partnership). The Company additionally owns first mortgage secured promissory notes with an outstanding balance of $44.6 million (the Notes). The Health Care Facilities and the Notes were originally acquired on December 31, 1997 from the Company's then sole owner, National HealthCare Corporation (NHC). NHR leases the Healthcare Facilities (the Leases), 14 properties to NHC and nine properties to nine separate Florida corporations. The Leases covering the Healthcare Facilities are triple net leases. NHR's revenues are derived primarily from the interest and principal payments on the Notes and from rent payments, primarily from NHC, under the Leases.
NHI National Health Investors, Inc. (NHI) is a real estate investment trust that invests in income-producing healthcare properties primarily in the long-term care industry. As of December 31, 2003, the Company was diversified with investments in 167 healthcare facilities located in 20 states, consisting of 121 long-term care facilities, one acute care hospital, four medical office buildings, 18 assisted living facilities, six retirement centers and 17 residential projects for the developmentally disabled. Of these facilities, 18 were acquired through foreclosure, and are owned and operated by the Company, and 40 are leased to National HealthCare Corporation (NHC). The 18 owned and operated facilities are managed by subsidiaries of NHC. NHC is the Company's investment advisor.
NGG National Grid Transco plc is an international network utility company with electricity and gas transmission and distribution interests in the United Kingdom and the United States. The Company has also transferred its network skills to related markets in the United Kingdom and the United States, including communications infrastructure, metering and liquefied natural gas, and has interests in electricity interconnectors in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. In October 2002, National Grid Group plc merged with Lattice Group plc and was re-named National Grid Transco plc, bringing together substantial gas and electricity businesses. On 15 March 2004, National Grid Transco agreed to sell its 42.5% stake in Citelec, the holding company of Transener, which owns and operates a transmission system in Argentina.
NFG National Fuel Gas Company is a diversified energy company with six business segments: Utility, Pipeline and Storage, Exploration and Production, International, Energy Marketing and Timber. Utility sells natural gas to retail customers and provides natural gas transportation services in New York and Pennsylvania. Pipeline and Storage transports and stores natural gas for utilities, natural gas marketers and pipeline companies in the United States. Exploration and Production is engaged in exploration for, and development and purchase of, natural gas and oil reserves in California, in the Appalachian region of the United States, in the Gulf Coast region of Texas and Louisiana and in Canada. International engages in foreign energy projects through the investment of its indirect subsidiaries. Energy Marketing markets natural gas to end users in New York and Pennsylvania. Timber has timber holdings in the northeastern United States and several sawmills and kilns in Pennsylvania.
NFP National Financial Partners Corp. (NFP) is an independent distributor of financial services products primarily to high net worth individuals and entrepreneurial companies. As of December 31, 2003, NFP operates a distribution network with over 1,400 producers in 40 states and Puerto Rico, consisting of 130 owned firms and 181 affiliated third-party distributors. NFP provides a range of products and services that enable its high net worth clients to meet their financial management and planning needs and its corporate clients to create, implement and fund benefit plans for their employees and executives. The Company's firms, including NFP Securities, Inc., its principal broker-dealer subsidiary, serves customers, both directly and indirectly, by providing products and services in one or more of the primary areas, such as life insurance and wealth transfer, corporate and executive benefits, and financial planning and investment advisory services.
NEGI.OB National Energy Group, Inc. is engaged in the business of managing the exploration, development, production and operations of natural gas and oil properties primarily located in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana (both onshore and in the Gulf of Mexico). In 2001, the Company contributed all of its operating assets and oil and natural gas properties to NEG Holding LLC (Holding LLC) in exchange for an initial 50% membership interest (LLC Contribution). Due to the LLC Contribution, the Company had no direct ownership of oil and natural gas properties for the three years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively. The Company received revenue and incurred expenses from oil and natural gas properties until September 1, 2001. Effective with the LLC Contribution, all ownership interests are held by Holding LLC, including its single-member limited liability company, Operating LLC.
NADX National Dentex Corporation owns and operates 40 dental laboratories consisting of 38 full-service dental laboratories and two branch laboratories throughout the United States. The Company's dental laboratories custom-design and fabricate dentures, crowns and fixed bridges and other dental prosthetic appliances. Its business consists of only one segment, which is the design, fabrication, marketing and sale of custom dental prosthetic appliances for and to dentists. In 2003, National Dentex acquired several dental laboratories, including Salem Dental, Top Quality Partials, Midtown Dental and Thoele Dental. National Dentex's marketing and sales program, entitled the NDX Reliance Program, is specifically designed to make choosing a dental laboratory a risk-free decision for dentists. The program's five components are Practice Support, Laboratory Systems, Quality Assurance, Reliance Restorations and a Continuing Education Series.
IDCP.OB National Datacomputer, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, markets and services a line of hand-held battery-powered microprocessor-based data collection products and computers and associated peripherals for use in mobile operations. The Company focuses on two markets for sales of its Datacomputers, the route accounting system market and the inventory services market. National Datacomputer also implements software solutions, such as the RouteRider Software System, for people who need portable solutions in the field rather than at a desk, and software solutions specific to the inventory service market. Additionally, the Company provides customers associated education and support services for its hardware and software products.
NCC National City Corporation is a financial holding company headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. National City operates through an extensive branch bank network in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois, and also conducts selected consumer lending businesses and other financial services on a nationwide basis. Primary businesses include commercial and retail banking, consumer finance, asset management, mortgage financing and servicing and payment processing. Operations are primarily conducted through more than 1,100 branch banking offices located within a six-state footprint and over 330 retail mortgage offices located throughout the United States. National City's principal banking subsidiaries are National City Bank, National City Bank of Michigan/Illinois, National City Bank of Pennsylvania, National City Bank of Kentucky and National City Bank of Indiana.
FIZ National Beverage Corp. (NBC) develops, manufactures, markets and distributes non-alcoholic beverage products, such as multi-flavored soft drinks, juice drinks, and water and specialty beverages throughout the United States. The Company is a holding Company for various operating subsidiaries and acts as a single operating segment. Substantially all of the Company's brands are produced in 14 manufacturing facilities that are located in major metropolitan markets throughout the continental United States. To a lesser extent, NBC develops and produces soft drinks for retail grocery chains, warehouse clubs, mass-merchandisers and wholesalers, as well as soft drinks for other beverage companies.
NKSH National Bankshares, Inc is a financial holding bank that conducts its business through its two wholly owned subsidiaries: The National Bank of Blacksburg (NBB) and Bank of Tazewell County (BTC), and through National Bankshares Financial Services, Inc. (NBFS), doing business as National Bankshares Investment Services and National Bankshares Insurance Services. NBB offers general retail and commercial banking services to individuals, businesses, local government units and institutional customers. BTC provides general retail and commercial banking services to individuals, businesses and local government units. These services include commercial, real estate and consumer loans. BTC also conducts a general trust business.
NBG National Bank of Greece S.A. (the Bank) offers integrated financial services, including commercial and retail banking services; mortgage lending; investment banking, capital markets, venture capital and advisory services; asset management, and insurance. While the Bank conducts most of the banking activities, it is supported by seven overseas banking subsidiaries, including Atlantic Bank of New York, South African Bank of Athens, NBG Canada, NBG Cyprus Ltd., Stopanska Banka ad Skopje, United Bulgarian Bank AD and Banca Romaneasca SA.
NAKD.OB National Auto Credit, Inc. (NAC) is a multi-dimensional corporate communications and entertainment company. NAC specializes in the design, creative development, production, post production editing and transmission via broadcast satellite videoconferencing, Webcasting and traditional onsite presentations of corporate communication, education and training video and other services for use at corporate events. NAC, through its investment in the Angelika Film Center LLC (AFC), operates in the movie exhibition industry. AFC is the owner and operator of the Angelika Film Center, which is a multiplex cinema and cafe complex in the Soho District of Manhattan in New York City.
NAB National Australia Bank Limited is an international financial services organization that provides an integrated range of financial products and services. The Company has five lines of business: Financial Services Australia, Financial Services Europe, Financial Services New Zealand, Corporate and Institutional Banking and Wealth Management. Financial Services Australia provides personal, business and agribusiness financial solutions in Australia. Financial Services Europe is the retail banking arm of the Company in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Financial Services New Zealand provides financial solutions to meet the needs of customers in New Zealand. Corporate and Institutional Banking manages the Company's relationships with large corporations, financial institutions, supranationals and government bodies. Wealth Management partners with financial advisers to provide financial planning services and a range of wealth creation, wealth protection and succession solutions.
NEGY.OB Nation Energy, Inc. is an oil and gas exploration-stage company with interests in properties located in the province of Alberta, Canada. The Company holds interests in 28 oil and gas leases covering approximately 22,000 acres and located in the Great Trona Area prospect in and around Sweetwater County, Wyoming. On November 21, 2001, Nation Energy entered into a farm-in agreement with Olympia Energy Inc., under which the Company will share the development costs and revenues for a natural gas project in the Smoky area near Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada (the Bolton Prospect). Under the terms of the agreement, the Company will fund 25% of the cost to drill and complete a 4,800-meter well in the Bolton Prospect and earn a 15% interest after payout in the Bolton Prospect.
NATH Nathan's Famous, Inc. and its subsidiaries have operated and franchised fast food units featuring Nathan's all beef frankfurters, crinkle-cut, French-fried potatoes and other menu offerings. Since 1998, the Company supplemented its Nathan's franchise program with the branded product program that enables foodservice retailers to sell some of Nathan's products outside of the realm of a traditional franchise relationship. During the year ended December 31, 2000, Nathan's acquired the intellectual property rights, including trademarks, recipes and franchise agreements of Roasters Corp. and Roasters Franchise Corp., as well as completed a merger with Miami Subs Corporation whereby the Company acquired the remaining 70% of Miami Subs common stock it did not already own.
NECX.OB Nathaniel Energy Corporation is a renewable energy company that provides industry with an alternative energy comparable to that of fossil fuels. Its proprietary patented technology, the Thermal Combustor, is a two-stage gasification system designed to convert waste, biomass, tires and any other solid, carbon-based materials into inexpensive electrical and thermal energy, while exceeding Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and European Union regulations. The Company focuses its patented technology in three main areas: licensing, creating energy infrastructures and building mini power plants.
NTG NATCO Group Inc. provides equipment, systems and services used in the production of crude oil and natural gas to separate oil, gas and water within a production stream and to remove contaminants. The Company's products and services are used in onshore and offshore fields in major oil and gas producing regions in the world. Separation and decontamination of a production stream is needed at almost every producing well in order to meet the specifications of transporters and end users. NATCO offers its products and services as either integrated systems or individual components primarily through three business lines: traditional production equipment and services, engineered systems and automation and control systems. Customers for the year ended December 31, 2003 include ChevronTexaco Corp. and affiliates, ExxonMobil Corporation and affiliates and BP and affiliates.
NSTK Nastech Pharmaceutical Company Inc. is a pharmaceutical company developing products based on applying drug delivery technologies, with approximately 195 patents and applications filed. The Company is developing molecular biology-based technologies for delivering both small and large molecule drugs by nasal administration, along with an extended release oral delivery technology. It is also developing a diverse product portfolio across multiple therapeutic areas, including products targeted for the treatment of sexual dysfunction, obesity, pain management, osteoporosis and multiple sclerosis. The Company operates a drug manufacturing facility in New York. It has research laboratories in Hauppauge, New York and in Bothell, Washington. Nastech's core technical competency in molecular-biology based drug delivery involves the research, development and manufacture of nasally administered prescription pharmaceuticals.
NSDA Nassda Corporation is a provider of full-chip circuit simulation and analysis software for the design and verification of complex nanometer-scale semiconductors. The Company's software provides its customers with an improved ability to achieve first silicon success, reduced chip production costs, accelerated time to market through shortened design cycles and enhanced chip performance. The Company's product line includes HSIM, LEXSIM, CRITIC and HANEX. In April 2004, the Company released the HSIMplus platform for the comprehensive simulation and analysis of high-performance analog, mixed-signal, memory and system-on-chip designs, including important post-layout effects. The Company entered into an agreement of merger with Synopsys Inc. (Synopsys) and North Acquisition Sub, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Synopsys, dated as of November 30, 2004, pursuant to which it agreed to be acquired by Synopsys.
NPSN Naspers conducts its operations primarily through its subsidiaries and other affiliates. Naspers is a multinational media company with operation in three core segments Subscription Platforms, Print Media and Book Publishing and Private Education. Naspers' most significant operations are located in South Africa, with other significant operations located elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Greece, Cyprus, Netherlands, the United States, Thailand and China. Naspers creates media content, builds brand names around it, and manages the platforms distributing the content. Naspers delivers its content in a variety of forms and through a variety of channels, including television platforms, Internet services, newspapers, magazines and books.
NSH Nashua Corporation is a manufacturer, converter and marketer of labels, specialty papers and imaging products. Its primary products include thermal and other coated papers, wide format papers, pressure-sensitive labels and tags, transaction and financial receipts, and toners and developers for use in photocopiers. Its three operating segments are Label Products, which converts, prints and sells pressure-sensitive labels and tags to distributors and end users; Specialty Paper Products, which coats, converts and sells papers and films, and Imaging Supplies, which manufactures and sells consumable products used in producing hard copy images. The Company's one group of customers under common control represents more than 10% of its consolidated revenues. Sales to Wal-Mart and Sam's Club totaled approximately 11% of total sales during the year ended December 31, 2003.
NAFC Nash Finch Company is a food distribution and retail company. Its business consists of three primary operating segments: food distribution, military food distribution and food retailing. The food distribution segment sells and distributes a variety of nationally branded and private label grocery products from 15 distribution centers. The Company's customers are comprised of more than 1,800 grocery stores and institutions located in 25 states, primarily in the Midwest and Southeast. The military food distribution segment contracts with vendors to distribute a variety of grocery products to military commissaries and military distribution centers supporting over 100 military commissaries. These are located primarily in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, and in Europe, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Iceland. The retail segment operates 110 Company-owned stores, primarily in the Upper Midwest.
NDAQ.OB Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. operates The Nasdaq Stock Market, an electronic screen-based equity securities market in the United States. At December 31, 2003, there were 3,333 companies listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market, consisting of 2,648 companies listed on The Nasdaq National Market tier and 685 on The Nasdaq SmallCap Market tier. The Nasdaq Stock Market is home to United States companies in a number of industries, including approximately 77% of computer hardware and peripherals companies, 77% of thrift and mortgage finance companies, 85% of semiconductor companies, 42% of automobile and component companies, 60% of broadcasting and cable television companies, 41% of telecommunications companies, 90% of biotechnology companies, 62% of pharmaceutical companies and 68% of healthcare companies. There were 337 foreign companies listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market, consisting of 251 foreign companies listed on The Nasdaq National Market tier and 86 on The Nasdaq SmallCap Market tier.
NASB NASB Financial, Inc. was formed as a unitary thrift holding company of North American Savings Bank, F.S.B. (North American or the Bank). The Bank is a federally chartered stock savings bank. The Bank's primary market area includes the counties of Jackson, Cass, Clay, Buchanan, Andrew, Platte, and Ray in Missouri, and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. The Bank has eight customer deposit offices. The Bank's principal business is to attract deposits from the general public and to originate real estate loans, other loans and short-term investments. The Bank obtains funds mainly from deposits received from the general public, sales of loans and loan participations, advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) and principal repayments on loans and mortgage-backed securities (MBS).
NARA Nara Bancorp, Inc. (Nara Bancorp) is a holding company for its principal wholly owned subsidiary, Nara Bank, N.A. (the Bank), and other bank-related subsidiaries, which it may establish or acquire. Nara Bank is a national banking association that offers a full range of commercial banking and consumer financial services through its network of 15 branches and five loan production offices. The Bank accepts deposits and originates a variety of loans, including commercial loans, commercial real estate loans, trade finance, small business administration (SBA) loans, automobile and various consumer loans. The bank earns interest on loans and investment securities that are funded by customer deposits and other borrowings. The difference between interest received and interest paid comprises the majority of the Company's operating earnings. The Bank primarily focuses its business in Korean communities in California and in the greater New York City metropolitan area.
NPTU.OB Naptau Gold Corporation historically was engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral properties. The operation of the mineral properties was unsuccessful and as of December 1999 the Company entered into a recession and release agreement whereby all assets acquired, including staked placer leases and related production equipment located on the properties were conveyed back in consideration for the release from all related debts and obligations. It also transferred all exploration account balances for Canadian tax purposes relating to the operation of the mineral properties. Naptau holds no interest in any mineral properties; and as of September 2003, it is undergoing reorganization. The Company also presently does not own property.
NSSC NAPCO Security Systems, Inc. (NAPCO) is engaged in the development, manufacture, distribution and sale of security alarm products and door security devices for commercial and residential installations. The Company's products include access control system, alarm systems, such as automatic communicators, control panels, combination control panels/digital communicators and digital keypad systems, door security devices, fire alarm control panels and area detectors, and peripheral equipment.
NANX Nanophase Technologies Corporation is a nanomaterials (also referred to as nanocrystalline materials or nanoparticles) developer and commercial manufacturer. Nanophase employs its technology to create nanomaterials, typically in the range of five to 100 nanometers, which may be singular or multi-element oxides, including rare earth materials. Nanophase applies its technologies to modify the nanoparticle and nanoparticle surface to manipulate electrical, mechanical, optical and other properties, while controlling the particle size and other physical parameters. The Company also uses its technologies to create materials, normally not found naturally, that offer special performance attributes. Nanophase's technologies consist of two distinct nanoparticle or nanomaterial manufacturing processes (physical vapor synthesis (PVS) and NanoArc synthesis): nanoparticle surface treatment technologies and dispersion technologies.
NANO Nanometrics Incorporated is engaged in the design, manufacture and marketing of high-performance process control metrology systems used in the manufacture of semiconductors/integrated circuits and flat-panel displays. The Company's metrology systems measure various thin-film properties, critical circuit dimensions and layer-to-layer circuit alignment (overlay), and inspect for surface defects during various steps of the manufacturing process, enabling semiconductor and integrated circuit manufacturers to improve yields, increase productivity and lower their manufacturing costs. The relative alignment of sequentially patterned thin-film layers is critical to device production. The Company offers a complete line of metrology systems to address the broad range of metrology requirements of its customers. Its metrology systems can be classified as stand-alone, integrated and tabletop.
NGEN Nanogen, Inc. develops and commercializes molecular diagnostics products and tests for the gene-based testing market for sale, primarily in the United States, Europe and the Pacific Rim. By integrating microelectronics and molecular biology into a core technology platform, the Company seeks to establish the open-architecture design of its primary products, the NanoChip Molecular Biology Workstation and the NanoChip Cartridge (collectively, the NanoChip System) as the standard platform for molecular identification and analysis. The Company's other products include NanoChip System's Components, NanoChip Analysis Process, Applications Manager Software and Analyte Specific Reagent, as well as the Assay ToolBox and Beta Thalassemia Research Reagents. In April 2004, the Company acquired SYN X Pharma, Inc. In December 2004, the Company and Epoch Biosciences, Inc. completed their merger transaction.
NNPP.OB Nano-Proprietary, Inc. is engaged in the development of products and services based on applications of carbon nanotube technology through its subsidiaries. Previously known as SI Diamond Technology, Inc., the Company also conducts contract research and development for United States governmental agencies and other companies, but has no intent to establish manufacturing facilities for any products under development. It intends to license its technology to others, to use in their manufacturing operations. The Company's active subsidiaries are Applied Nanotech Inc. (ANI) and Electronic Billboard Technology Inc. (EBT). ANI develops carbon nanotube technology, while EBT develops sun-readable display products for outdoor use.
NTE Nam Tai Electronics, Inc. is an electronics manufacturing and design services provider to a select group of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of telecommunications and consumer electronic products. Through the Company's electronics manufacturing services operations, Nam Tai manufactures electronic components and subassemblies, including liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, LCD and RF modules, FPC subassemblies and image sensors. These components are used in various electronic products including cellular phones, digital cameras, handheld video game devices and microwave ovens. The Company also manufactures finished products including cellular phones and digital camera accessories for cellular phones, electronic dictionaries and calculators. Its operations are generally organized into two principal business segments, Consumer Electronics Products and LCD panels and Transformers. Nam Tai provides full turnkey manufacturing services, as well as original design manufacturing services.
NC NACCO Industries, Inc. (NACCO) is a holding company whose principal operating subsidiaries function in three distinct industries: lignite mining, lift trucks and housewares. In lignite mining, the Company's wholly owned subsidiary is The North American Coal Corporation (with its affiliated coal companies, NACoal). NACCO Materials Handling Group consists of the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, NMHG Holding Co., and its wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively, NMHG), including NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc. (NMHG Wholesale) and NMHG Distribution Co. (NMHG Retail). NACCO Housewares Group (Housewares) consists of two of the Company's wholly owned subsidiaries, Hamilton BeachoProctor-Silex, Inc. (HB-PS) and The Kitchen Collection, Inc. (KCI).
NBR Nabors Industries Ltd. is a land drilling contractor with almost 600 land drilling rigs. The Company conducts oil, gas and geothermal land drilling operations in the continental United States, Alaska, Canada, South and Central America, the Middle East, the Far East and Africa. Nabors is also a land well servicing and workover contractor in the United States and Canada. It owns approximately 750 land workover and well-servicing rigs in the United States, primarily in the southwestern and western United States, and approximately 200 land workover and well-servicing rigs in Canada. In addition, Nabors is a provider of offshore platform workover and drilling rigs, and owns 45 platform, 16 jack-up and three barge rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and international markets. These rigs provide well servicing, workover and drilling services. The Company also has a 50% ownership interest in a joint venture in Saudi Arabia, which owns 17 rigs.
NABI Nabi Biopharmaceuticals commercializes and develops medical products focusing on the areas of infectious, autoimmune and addictive diseases. It markets five biopharmaceutical products: PhosLo (calcium acetate), Nabi-HB [Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (Human)], WinRho SDF [Rho(D) Immune Globulin Intravenous (Human)], Aloprim (Allopurinol sodium) and Autoplex T (Anti-Inhibitor Coagulant Complex, Heat Treated). Nabi's clinical product pipeline is composed of novel vaccines and antibody-based biopharmaceutical products that are designed to prevent and treat infectious and addictive diseases, such as Staphylococcus aureus infections, hepatitis B and hepatitis C and nicotine addiction. The Company has exclusive rights to commercialize all of its clinical development candidates. Nabi also collects specialty and non-specific antibodies for use in its products, and sells its excess production to pharmaceutical and diagnostic customers for the subsequent manufacture of their products.
MYGN Myriad Genetics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapeutic products and the development and marketing of predictive medicine products. The Company's researchers have made important discoveries in the fields of cancer, Alzheimer's disease and infectious disease, such as acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Flurizan, the Company's lead therapeutic candidate for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, completed a Phase I human clinical trial. The Company also has a number of drug candidates in late-stage preclinical development in the areas of cancer, emesis and AIDS. The Company also has developed and commercialized a number of predictive medicine products, including BRACAnalysis, which assesses a woman's risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer, COLARIS and COLARIS AP, which determine a person's risk of developing colon cancer, and MELARIS, which assesses a person's risk of developing malignant melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer.
MYOG Myogen, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of cardiovascular disorders. The Company has three product candidates in late-stage clinical development: enoximone capsules for the treatment of chronic heart failure, ambrisentan for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension and darusentan for the treatment of resistant hypertension. All of Myogen's product candidates are orally administered small molecules that offer advantages over available therapies. In addition, the Company markets an intravenous formulation of enoximone, Perfan I.V., for the treatment of acute decompensated heart failure in eight countries in Europe.
MYMX.OB Mymetics Corporation is a development stage company engaged in the research and development of human health products. The Company conducts its business through its subsidiaries, 6543 Luxembourg S.A. (LuxCo) and Mymetics S.A., a wholly owned subsidiary of LuxCo. Its research efforts have been concentrated in the prevention and treatment of the AIDS virus. The Company has established a network that enables it to work with education centers, research centers, pharmaceutical laboratories and biotechnology companies. As of December 31, 2003, it had not performed any clinical testing, and a commercially viable product is not expected for several more years. As such, the Company has not generated significant revenues. Revenues reported by Mymetics consist of incidental serum by-products of its research and development activities and interest income.
MYL Mylan Laboratories Inc. conducts business through its Generic Segment and Brand Segment that are pharmaceutical operating segments. Prescription pharmaceutical products in the United States are marketed as either brand or generic drugs. Brand products are marketed under brand names through marketing programs that are designed to generate physician and consumer loyalty. Generic pharmaceutical products are the chemical and therapeutic equivalents of reference brand drugs. Brand products are patent protected which provides a period of market exclusivity during which they are sold with little or no competition. Generic drugs are bioequivalent to their brand name counterparts. Accordingly, generic products provide a safe, effective and cost efficient alternative to users of these brand products. During the year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Generic Segment represented 80% of net revenues and the Brand Segment represented 20% of net revenues.
MYK Mykrolis Corporation is a developer, manufacturer and supplier of liquid and gas delivery systems, components and consumables used to measure, deliver, control and purify the process liquids, gases and chemicals that are used in the semiconductor manufacturing process. In addition, the Company's products are used to manufacture flat-panel displays, high-purity chemicals, photoresists, solar cells, gas lasers, optical and magnetic storage devices and fiber-optic cables. Mykrolis offers a diverse product line, grouped in 250 product categories, including both consumable products and equipment products. The Company also integrates consumable products and equipment components into subsystems that provide solutions to meet the liquid and gas delivery needs of its customers.
MYE Myers Industries, Inc. conducts its business activities in two segments, manufacturing and distribution. In 2003, the manufacturing segment generated approximately 77% of the Company's sales, while the distribution segment contributed approximately 23% of sales. The Company's manufacturing segment designs, manufactures and markets a variety of plastic and rubber products, ranging from plastic material handling containers and storage boxes to rubber original equipment manufacturer (OEM) parts and tire repair materials. Myers' distribution segment is engaged in the distribution of tools, equipment and supplies used for tire and wheel service and automotive underbody repair. The distribution segment operates through 40 branches located in cities throughout the United States, and in foreign countries through export and businesses in which the Company holds an equity interest.
MWAV M-Wave, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary Poly Circuits, Inc., is a provider of printed circuit boards used in a variety of digital and high frequency applications for telecommunications and industrial electronics applications. The Company outsources and coordinates the manufacture of printed circuit boards through a global base of suppliers located primarily in the Far East (Virtual Manufacturing). Virtual Manufacturing contractually supplies a majority of the printed circuit needs of the Company's customers by managing the complete procurement process. M-Wave delivers products when the customer needs them through either consignment inventory control or just-in-time programs.
MFSF MutualFirst Financial, Inc. is a savings and loan holding company that has Mutual Federal Savings Bank as its wholly owned subsidiary. The Company's principal business consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing those funds in permanent loans secured by first mortgages on owner-occupied, one- to four-family residences, consumer loans, loans secured by commercial and multi-family real estate and commercial business loans. Its revenues are derived from interest on loans and interest on investments and mortgage-backed securities. The Company offers deposit accounts with interest rates and terms which include passbook and statement savings accounts, money market deposit accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal and non-interest bearing, checking accounts and certificates of deposit with terms ranging from seven days to 71 months.
MRAY.OB Murray United Development Corp. is a developmental-stage company. The Company's primary business is the development and commercial exploitation of technologies to produce hydrogen using a photogalvanic process, to remove contaminants from coal burning flue gases and building air and to develop an internal combustion engine that would run on alternative fuels. In October 1987, the Company acquired Rotorcam Technology Corp., an assignment of license to exploit all existing technology relating to the Rotorcam Engine. The Company is engaged in research, design and development relating solely to the Rotorcam Engine technology.
MUR Murphy Oil Corporation is an international oil and gas company that conducts its business through various operating subsidiaries. The Company produces oil and natural gas in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Malaysia and Ecuador, and conducts oil and natural gas exploration activities worldwide. The Company has an interest in a Canadian synthetic oil operation, owns two petroleum refineries in the United States and has an interest in a refinery in the United Kingdom. Murphy markets petroleum products under various brand names and to unbranded wholesale customers in North America and the United Kingdom..
MMA Municipal Mortgage &amp; Equity, LLC (MuniMae) provides debt and equity financing to developers of multi-family housing and other real estate investments. MuniMae invests in tax-exempt bonds or interests in bonds issued by state and local governments or their agencies or authorities to finance multi-family housing developments. The Company also invests in other housing-related debt and equity investments, including equity investments in real estate operating partnerships; tax-exempt bonds or interests in bonds secured by student housing or assisted living developments, and tax-exempt bonds issued by community development districts to finance the development of community infrastructure supporting single-family housing or commercial developments and secured by specific payments or assessments pledged by the local improvement district that issues the bonds. MuniMae is also a tax credit syndicator and a mortgage banker.
MGAM Multimedia Games, Inc. is a technology supplier to the gaming industry. The Company designs and develops interactive Class II and Class III electronic gaming systems and related player stations and equipment that are marketed to Native American tribal gaming facilities located throughout the United States, primarily in Oklahoma. Class II player stations are typically provided to customers under revenue-sharing arrangements, while Class III player stations are typically sold for an up-front purchase price. Multimedia operates its games on behalf of its tribal customers through a nationwide, broadband telecommunications network.
MUCL.OB Exten Industries, Inc. is a medical products holding company whose focus is on the production and application of immortalized human liver cells in the treatment of liver disease. The Company operates two subsidiary companies, MultiCell Technologies, Inc. and Xenogenics Corporation. MultiCell develops, sells and licenses hepatic or liver cells, cell lines and associated products to be used in drug development, diagnostic and therapeutic applications. MultiCell has developed proprietary immortalized human hepatocytes (liver cells) that have been genetically manipulated to allow them to replicate while retaining liver function. This allows for the continuous growth, and therefore supply, of human liver cells. Xenogenics is a majority-owned subsidiary that is developing a proprietary bio-artificial liver support device that utilizes MultiCell's immortalized cells.
MBND Multiband Corporation, formerly, Vicom provides voice, data &amp; video services to business, government &amp; multi-dwelling customers. The Company's products &amp; services are sold to customers located throughout the United States. Vicom has two operating divisions, Multiband Business Services (MBS), legally known as Corporate Technologies, USA, Inc. and doing business as Multiband, &amp; Multiband Consumer Services (MCS), which encompasses the wholly owned subsidiary corporations, Multiband USA, Inc. &amp; URON, Inc. MBS provides voice, data &amp; video systems &amp; services to business and government customers, while MCS provides voice, data &amp; video services to multiple dwelling units (MDUs), including apartment buildings &amp; time share resorts. The Company announced that it has signed a purchase agreement with Rainbow Satellite LLC, a private cable operator. Rainbow, with locations throughout the United States, has subscriber concentrations in California, Colorado, Illinois, Texas, Florida and New York.
AUFI.OB Australian Forest Industries, formerly Multi-Tech International, Corp. is a developmental company that hoped to develop a genetically engineered Pima cotton seed, with a virus fatal to the bollworm. The Company's was formed to market consumer products through an Interactive Website and to promote this Website through commercial radio promotions and Internet search engines utilizing the talent and skills of a famous radio/television personality. However, this was unsuccessful and the Company began a search for new opportunities. The Company has not achieved revenues or profitability to date and it anticipates that it will continue to incur net losses for the foreseeable future.
MFLX Multi-Fineline Electronix, Inc. is a global provider of flexible printed circuit and value-added component assembly solutions to the electronics industry. The Company is one of a limited number of manufacturers that provides a seamless, integrated end-to-end flexible printed circuit solution for its customers, ranging from design and application engineering, prototyping and high-volume manufacturing to turnkey component assembly and testing. The Company targets its solutions within the electronics market and, in particular, focuses on applications where flexible printed circuits are the enabling technology in achieving a desired size, shape, weight or functionality of an electronic device. Current applications for its products include mobile telephones and smart mobile devices, portable bar code scanners, personal digital assistants (PDAs), power supplies and consumable medical sensors.
LABL Multi-Color Corporation is a supplier of decorative label solutions and packaging services to consumer product and food and beverage companies, national retailers and container manufacturers worldwide. The Company provides a range of products and services for the packaging needs of customers through two segments: Decorating Solutions and Packaging Services. The Decorating Solutions Segment produces in-mold labels (IMLs) and heat transfer labels (HTLs) and manufactures pressure-sensitive and shrink sleeve labels. It also provides digital, graphic and pre-press services, and produces printing cylinders and plates. The Packaging Services Segment provides promotional packaging, assembly and fulfillment services. The Company's customers include manufacturers of household, fabric and personal care, automotive and lawn care, and food and beverage products representing over 330 brands. It provides services to customers in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America and Asia.
MLI Mueller Industries, Inc. is a manufacturer of copper, brass, plastic and aluminum products. Its businesses are organized into two segments, Standard Products Division (SPD) and Industrial Products Division (IPD). SPD manufactures and sells copper tube, copper and plastic fittings and valves. Outside of the United States, SPD manufactures and sells copper tube in Europe. SPD sells these products to wholesalers in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), plumbing and refrigeration markets, to distributors to the manufactured housing and recreational vehicle industries and to building material retailers. IPD manufactures and sells brass and copper alloy rod, bar and shapes; aluminum and brass forgings; aluminum and copper impact extrusions; refrigeration valves and fittings; fabricated tubular products, and gas valves and assemblies. IPD sells its products primarily to original equipment manufacturers, many of which are in the HVAC, plumbing and refrigeration markets.
MTSC MTS Systems Corporation (MTS) is a global supplier of testing products that help customers accelerate and improve their design, development and manufacturing processes. MTS products are used for determining the mechanical behavior of materials, products and structures, and include computer-based testing and simulation systems, modeling and testing software, and consulting services. The Company is also a manufacturer of industrial position sensors. The Company's helps its customer's design, develop and produce their products. The Company's operations are organized into two business segments the Test segment and the Industrial segment. MTS specializes in the control and measurement of forces and motion.
MPP MTS Medication Technologies, Inc., formerly Medical Technology Systems, Inc., is a holding company that operates through its subsidiaries, MTS Packaging Systems, Inc. (MTS Packaging) and MTS Packaging Systems International, Ltd. (MTSPI). MTS Packaging primarily manufactures and sells disposable medication punch cards, packaging equipment and ancillary products throughout the United States. The disposable medication punch cards and packaging equipment are designed to provide a cost-effective method for pharmacies to dispense medications. The medication dispensing systems and products provide methods for dispensing medications in disposable packages. MTS Packaging customers are predominantly pharmacies that supply nursing homes, assisted living and correctional facilities with prescription medications for their patients. It serves more than 3,000 institutional pharmacies in the long term care and correctional facility markets, both domestically and internationally.
MNTG MTR Gaming Group, Inc. owns and operates, primarily through its subsidiaries, the Mountaineer Racetrack &amp; Gaming Resort in Chester, West Virginia, and the Ramada Inn and Speedway Casino in North Las Vegas, Nevada. The Company also owns and operates a harness horse racing facility with parimutuel wagering in Columbus, Ohio, through its acquisition of Scioto Downs during the year ended December 31, 2003. MTR has a license from the Pennsylvania State Horse Racing Commission to build a thoroughbred racetrack and operate parimutuel wagering in Erie, Pennsylvania. Through its newly formed wholly owned subsidiary, Speakeasy Gaming of Fremont, Inc. (Speakeasy Fremont), the Company purchased the assets of Binion's Horseshoe Hotel &amp; Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, and entered a joint operating license agreement with an affiliate of Harrah's Entertainment.
MTMC Micros-to-Mainframes, Inc. (MTM) is a computer and communications technology management company that provides information technology networking and data center services. The Company's business services include managed services, and consulting and outsourced support solutions. Under managed services, MTM provides automated remote network, system and security management solutions and related consulting and engineering services. Under consulting and outsourced support solutions, it provides systems design, installation, consulting, maintenance and integration of network computer products, including network analysis, design and implementation for wide area networks, local area networks and wireless networks and network service management, systems configuration, physical installation, software loading, application training, continuing education, maintenance and repair services. In July 2004, the Company acquired DataVox Technologies, Inc.
MTIC MTI Technology Corporation is a system integrator providing storage solutions for the mid-range enterprise market. MTI services select third-party hardware and software, and its professional services organization provides planning, consulting and implementation support for storage products from other vendors. On March 31, 2003, the Company entered into a reseller agreement with EMC Corporation, and has become a reseller and service provider of EMC Automated Networked Storage systems and software. Although MTI intends to focus primarily on EMC products, it will continue to support and service its customers that continue to use its MTI-branded RAID controller technology and its partnered independent storage technology.
MTCT MTC Technologies, Inc. provides systems engineering, information technology, intelligence and program management services, primarily to United States defense, intelligence and civilian federal government agencies. Its services encompass the system life cycle from requirements definition, design, development and integration to upgrade, sustainment and support for mission critical information and weapons systems. The Company develops and implements practical solutions to complex engineering, technical and management problems. In 2003 and 2002, approximately 95% and 87%, respectively, of its revenue was derived from customers in the Department of Defense and the intelligence community, including the United States Air Force, United States Army and joint military commands.
MTB M&amp;T Bank Corporation is the holding company for Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company and M&amp;T Bank, National Association (the Banks). The Banks collectively offer a range of commercial banking, trust and investment services to their customers. For 2003, M&amp;T Bank represented 99% of consolidated assets of the Company. In addition, the Company wholly owns M&amp;T Life Insurance Company, a captive credit reinsurer, which reinsures credit life and accident and health insurance purchased by the Company's consumer loan customers. During 2003, the Company had consolidated total deposits of $33.1 billion.
FLSH M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. designs, develops and markets flash data storage solutions for digital consumer electronics markets. The Company primarily targets two fast-growing digital consumer electronics markets: the universal serial bus (USB) flash drive market with its DiskOnKey product and the multimedia mobile handset market with its Mobile DiskOnChip product. DiskOnKey is a personal, portable, thumb-sized flash disk drive for the storage and transfer of digital data files, including media files, such as pictures and audio files. The DiskOnChip product jointly developed with Toshiba Corporation is a monolithic flash disk product that combines flash memory and a controller on a single die. M-Systems also sells flash data storage products targeted at the embedded systems and industrial applications markets, including its DiskOnChip and Fast Flash Disk products.
MNS MSC.Software Corp. is engaged in the development, marketing and support of virtual product development tools, including simulation software, professional services and information technology (IT) systems. The Company's products and services help customers optimize product designs, increase quality and reliability, reduce product development costs and speed time to market. MSC.Software also provides strategic consulting services to help its customers improve the integration and performance of their product development process and lower the total cost of ownership of their technology investments. The Company serves customers in multiple industries, including aerospace, automotive, machinery, electronics, consumer products, biomedical, shipbuilding and rail. In May 2002, MSC.Software acquired Mechanical Dynamics, Inc., a provider of functional virtual prototyping products and services.
MSM MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. is a direct marketer of a broad range of industrial products to industrial customers throughout the United States. The Company distributes a full line of industrial products intended to satisfy its customers' maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) supplies requirements. MSC offers over 500,000 stock-keeping units (SKUs), representing a range of MRO through its catalogs, weekly, monthly and quarterly specialty and promotional catalogs, newspapers and brochures and the Internet, including its website MSCDirect.com, and services its customers from approximately 90 branch offices and four distribution centers.
MRVC MRV Communications, Inc. designs, manufactures, sells, distributes, integrates and supports network infrastructure equipment and services, and optical components. It conducts its business along three principal segments: the networking group, optical components group and the development stage enterprise group. The networking group provides equipment used by commercial customers, governments and telecommunications service providers, including switches, routers, network physical infrastructure equipment and remote device management equipment. The optical components group designs, manufactures and sells optical communications components, primarily through MRV's wholly owned subsidiary, Luminent, Inc. These components include fiber optic transceivers, discrete lasers and light-emitting diodes. The development stage enterprise group seeks to develop new optical components, subsystems and networks and other products for the infrastructure of the Internet.
MHOI.OB MRU Holdings, Inc. is a specialty finance company that provides students with funds for higher education and facilitates for the same. Through the use of a method of estimating the income potential of students, the Company is able to profile and provide customized financial products to students. MRU receives financing requests from students, which it then refers to lenders. The Company is in the process of becoming a loan originator and lender of federal loans that are student loans and are guaranteed by the federal government, as well as private loans. On July 8, 2004, MRU acquired 100% of Iempower, Inc., a privately held Delaware corporation doing business as MyRichUncle. On October 25, 2004, it announced financing for its wholly owned subsidiary MRU Universal Guaranty Agency, Inc. (MRUG) from Universal Finanz Holding AG, a European consumer finance company.
MROI MRO Software, Inc. is a global provider of strategic asset management solutions, software and related services. Its strategic asset management is the management and optimization of the business processes required to keep its customers' critical assets productive. The Company's strategic asset management software products and services include MAXIMO for the Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) market and MAXIMO MainControl for the Information Technology Asset Management (ITAM) market. MRO also offers Online Commerce Services (OCS) that enables the asset-centric procurement capabilities of the Company's EAM software products through the MRO Operations Center. MRO offers professional and educational services designed to assist customers in meeting the challenges of successfully implementing its business solutions.
MPWG MPW Industrial Services Group, Inc. is a provider of integrated, technically based industrial cleaning and related facilities support services to an array of industries, including automotive, utility, manufacturing, pulp and paper, steel and chemical, primarily throughout the United States and Canada. The Company has over 35 branch locations in 13 states and Canada, and it operates under three separate segments: Industrial cleaning and facility maintenance, Industrial container cleaning and Industrial process water purification and chemical cleaning. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company had sales to approximately 760 customers with the 10 largest customers representing approximately 45% of its revenues.
MPS MPS Group, Inc. is a global provider of business services with over 170 offices throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and continental Europe. MPS delivers a mix of consulting, solutions and staffing services to various industries in disciplines such as information technology (IT) services, finance and accounting, legal, engineering, IT solutions, health care, executive search and human capital automation. These services are marketed under the following brands: Badenoch &amp; Clark, Accounting Principals, Special Counsel, Entegee, Soliant Health, Diversified Search, Modis, Beeline and Idea Integration. MPS operates these brands under three divisions: professional services, IT services and IT solutions.
MPE Mpower Holding Corporation is a local and long distance voice services, as well as high-speed Internet access by way of a variety of broadband product and service offerings. The Company's services are offered primarily to small and medium-sized business customers and residential customers (primarily in the Las Vegas market) through its wholly owned subsidiary, Mpower Communications Corp. (Communications) in Los Angeles, California, San Diego, California, Northern California (the San Francisco Bay area and Sacramento), Las Vegas, Nevada and Chicago, Illinois. As of March 2004, Mpower Holding has approximately 51,000 business customers and approximately 21,000 residential customers. In March 2003, Mpower sold its Detroit, Cleveland and Columbus assets and customer bases to LDMI Telecommunications.
MPML.OB MPM Technologies, Inc. operates through its wholly owned subsidiaries Huntington Environmental Systems, Inc. (HES), which designs, engineers, supplies and services air pollution control systems by utilizing heat and chemicals to control air pollution; AirPol, Inc. (AirPol), which designs, engineers, supplies and services air pollution control systems by utilizing wet and dry scrubbers, wet electrostatic precipitators and venturi absorbers to control air pollution; Nupower, Inc. (Nupower), which is engaged in the research and development of an electrothermal gasification process, known as Skygas, which will be utilized in the waste-to-energy field, and MPM Mining (Mining), which develops the waste-to-energy process of Skygas. On March 9, 2004, a petition was filed by MPM for HES in court under Chapter 7 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.
XDSL.OB mPhase Technologies, Inc. (mPhase) is a development stage technology company. The Company is a developer of broadband communications products, specifically, digital subscriber line (DSL) products for telecommunications service providers worldwide. The Company shares common office space and common management with Microphase Corporation, a privately held company. Microphase is a seller of radio frequency (RF) and filtering technologies to the defense and telecommunication industries. Microphase supports mPhase with engineering, administrative and financial resources. Since its inception, mPhase has been a development stage company. The Company's primary activities have consisted of designing, manufacturing and testing its flagship products designed to deliver digital broadcast television over DSL.
MSI Movie Star, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets and sells a line of ladies' sleepwear, robes, leisurewear, loungewear, panties and daywear. Its products consist of ladies' pajamas, nightgowns, baby dolls, nightshirts, dusters, shifts, caftans, sundresses, rompers, short sets, beachwear, peignoir ensembles, robes, leisurewear, panties and daywear consisting of bodysuits, soft bras, slips, half-slips, teddies, camisoles and cami top sets. These products are manufactured in various fabrics, designs, colors and styles depending upon seasonal requirements, changes in fashion and customer demand. On August 3, 2004, the Company completed its acquisition of certain assets of Sidney Bernstein &amp; Son Lingerie, Inc., a company engaged in the design, marketing and sale of women's lingerie and related apparel and accessories.
MOVI Movie Gallery, Inc. s a home video specialty retailer primarily focused on rural and secondary markets. The Company owns and operates approximately 2,200 retail stores, located throughout North America, which rent and sell digital video discs (DVDs), videocassettes and video games. Movie Gallery's target markets are small towns and suburban areas of cities with populations generally between 3,000 and 20,000. Substantially all of its operations are conducted through its wholly owned subsidiaries, M.G.A., Inc., M. G. Midwest, Inc. and Movie Gallery Canada, Inc.
MOV Movado Group, Inc. designs, manufactures and distributes watches, with brands sold in almost every price category comprising the watch industry. During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004, it marketed five brands of watches: Movado, Concord, ESQ, Coach and Tommy Hilfiger. MGI designs, manufactures and contracts for the assembly of Movado and Concord watches, primarily in Switzerland. ESQ and Tommy Hilfiger watches are manufactured to the Company's specifications by independent contractors located in Asia. Coach watches are assembled in Switzerland by independent contractors. The Company's line of watches have a variety of features, including Swiss movements made with solid 18 karat or 14 karat gold, stainless steel, titanium, 18 karat gold finish and quartz, digital or analog-digital movements. The Company operates internationally through its wholly owned subsidiaries. MGI conducts its business primarily in two operating segments: Domestic and International Wholesale, and Retail.
MPVI.OB Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. (MPDI) is a natural resource property exploration Company. The Company has interests in several natural resource properties, the most significant and principal property being a 44.1% interest in the AK Property located in the Northwest Territories. MPDI, as yet, does not have any commercially viable resource properties. Bulk sampling and exploration drilling continues on the AK Property.
MVAC.PK MotorVac Technologies, Inc. designs, develops, assembles, markets and sells the MotorVac CarbonClean System, one of its primary product lines, for the diagnosis, maintenance and repair of internal combustion engine fuel systems primarily for the automotive after-market repair and service industry. The MotorVac CarbonClean System is comprised of a fuel system cleaning machine and a proprietary cleaning detergent. The Company markets diesel engine cleaning systems under the trade name Industrial Diesel Tune System. Carbon Tune, another product of the Company, is a three-part kit that cleans the air intake system, fuel system, combustion chambers and exhaust system of the vehicle. The Company also designs, assembles, markets and sells the TRANSTECH Transmission Service System. This product allows the vehicle's transmission pump to flush out the old fluid and pump in new fluid, allowing for essentially all of the old fluid to be replaced.
MOT Motorola, Inc. is a global provider of wireless, broadband, automotive communications technologies and embedded electronic products. It provides software-enhanced wireless telephone and messaging, two-way radio products and systems, as well as networking and Internet-access products, for consumers, network operators and commercial, government and industrial customers. The Company also provides end-to-end systems for the delivery of interactive digital video, voice and high-speed data solutions for broadband operators, and embedded semiconductor solutions for customers in wireless communications, networking and transportation markets. In addition, Motorola offers integrated electronic systems for the automotive, telematics, industrial, telecommunications, computing and portable energy systems markets.
MOTV Motive, Inc. is a provider of service management software that enables companies to build management and service directly into their customer-facing products and services. The Company's software optimizes its client's processes by embedding self-management services directly into their technology products. Motive's product suite includes three distinct types of service management products, including Self-Management products, Service Operations Management products and Policy Management products. The Company's services include Professional Services, Hosting and Managed Services and Account Services. Motive's customers license and use Motive products individually and in combination to address their specific business requirements.
MWRK Mothers Work, Inc. is a designer and retailer of maternity apparel in the United States. It operates in 1,115 retail locations, including 883 stores in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Canada, and 232 leased departments. It designs and contract manufactures approximately 90% of the merchandise it sells in its retail locations. The Company operates stores under the Motherhood Maternity, Mimi Maternity and A Pea in the Pod brands and also sells its merchandise on the Internet at its MaternityMall.com and its brand-specific Websites. Its three retail brands collectively target all of the price points in maternity apparel, ranging from Motherhood at value prices to A Pea in the Pod at luxury prices. The Company's maternity stores offer a range of casual and career wear, formal attire, lingerie and outerwear for multiple seasons. As of September 30, 2004, the Company operated 131 Motherhood leased departments in department and specialty stores, such as Macy's, Babies R Us, Lazarus and Rich's.
MOSS Mossimo, Inc. designs and licenses apparel and related products. A substantial amount of the Company's operations relate to an agreement with Target Corporation, which has the exclusive license for production and distribution of all Mossimo branded products sold in the United States. Mossimo operates in one principal business segment across domestic and international markets. The international sales are primarily made through the Company's licensees in their respective territories. The revenues from Target were 88% of the Company's total revenue during the year ended December 31, 2003. In January 2004, Mossimo acquired all the assets of Modern Amusement LLC through a wholly owned subsidiary, Modern Amusement, Inc. Modern Amusement will design, merchandise, source, market, sell and distribute wholesale apparel and related accessories for young men and women. The Modern Amusement is a registered brand that focuses on premium west coast lifestyle apparel and related accessories.
MOCC Moscow CableCom Corp is in the business of delivering cable television, high-speed data transmission and Internet access services in Moscow, Russia through its last-mile access to the Moscow Fiber Optic Network (MFON) through ComCor-TV (CCTV). The Company changed its name from Andersen Group, Inc. in February 2004. In May 2003, it entered into agreements with COMCOR pursuant to which it committed to issue 4,220,879 shares of Common Stock to COMCOR in exchange for the equity of CCTV to be held by COMCOR, including the equity of CCTV to be acquired by COMCOR in exchange for the extinguishment of approximately $1,380, 000 of amounts owed to COMCOR by CCTV. In February 2004, it acquired CCTV, the Moscow, Russia-based provider of cable television and broadband Internet access services. CCTV is a start-up provider of cable television, high-speed data transmission and Internet access services, as well as Internet protocol telephony.
MOS The Mosaic Company (Mosaic), formed on January 23, 2004 under the name Global Nutrition Solutions, Inc., was created for the purpose of effecting the combination of the IMC Global Inc. (IMI) businesses with the Cargill Fertilizer, LLC (Cargill) businesses. The Company is 66.5% owned by Cargill and 33.5% owned by IMC. During the fiscal year ended May 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Mosaic did not conduct any activities other than those incident to its formation. The Company is a producer and distributor of crop nutrients to the domestic and international agricultural communities, and a manufacturer and distributor of animal feed ingredients worldwide. In addition, it operates mines and processing plants, and markets fertilizer products and services.
MGRP.OB Morton Industrial Group, Inc. is a contract manufacturer of highly engineered metal components and subassemblies for industrial, construction, agricultural and recreational vehicle original equipment manufacturers. Its metal products include cabs, engine enclosures, panels, platforms, frames and complex weldments used in backhoes, excavators, tractors, motor homes, beverage coolers and similar industrial equipment. The Company's sheet metal fabrication capabilities include laser and plasma cutting, forming, punching, welding, painting and assembly processes. Morton also offer its customers a number of services, including product design and development, prototyping/ tooling, part decorating and exterior finishing, just-in-time delivery and engineering and design. The Company operated an injection molding business in Iowa until that operation was sold in June 2003. These sales allowed Morton to focus on its core competency, manufacturing fabricated sheet metal components.
MHL MortgageIT Holdings, Inc. is a real estate investment trust formed to act as the holding company of MortgageIT, Inc., which focuses on residential mortgage lending. MortgageIT is a full-service residential mortgage banking company that is licensed to originate loans throughout the United States. MortgageIT originates single-family mortgage loans of all types, with a particular focus on prime adjustable-rate (ARM) and fixed-rate, first-lien residential mortgage loans. During the year ended December 31, 2003, MortgageIT originated loans with an aggregate value of $11.9 billion and a weighted average loan size of $200,544, as compared to an average loan size of $167,800 nationally during 2003.
MRFD.OB Morgan's Foods, Inc. operates through wholly owned subsidiaries KFC restaurants under franchises from KFC Corporation; Taco Bell restaurants under franchises from Taco Bell Corporation; Pizza Hut Express restaurants under licenses from Pizza Hut Corporation, and an A&amp;W restaurant under a license from A&amp;W Restaurants, Inc. On May 28, 2004, the Company operated 75 KFC restaurants, seven Taco Bell restaurants, 15 KFC/Taco Bell 2n1, three Taco Bell/Pizza Hut Express 2n1, one KFC/Pizza Hut Express 2n1 and one KFC/A&amp;W 2n1.
ICB Morgan Stanley Income Securities Inc. is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's primary investment objective is to provide as high a level of current income as is consistent with prudent investment and, as a secondary objective, capital appreciation. As of September 30, 2003, the Funds' portfolio of investments consisted of corporate bonds, foreign government bonds and short-term investments. In 2003, majority of its investments was in the following industries: aerospace and defense, cable/satellite television, casino/gaming&cedil; department stores, electric utilities, environmental services, finance/rental/leasing, financial conglomerates, hospital/nursing management, hotels/resorts/cruiselines, major telecommunications, media conglomerates and pulp and paper. Morgan Stanley Investment Advisors Inc. acts as the Fund's Investment Manager.
GVT Morgan Stanley Government Income Trust (the Trust) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Trust's primary investment objective is to provide as high a level of current income as is consistent with prudent investment and as a secondary objective, capital appreciation. As of September 30, 2003, the Trust's portfolio of investments consisted of United States Government obligations (39.2%), short-term Investments (22.1%), mortgage-backed securities (MBS) of the Federal National Mortgage Association (18%). MBS of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (15%), and MBS of the Government National Mortgage Association (5.7%). Morgan Stanley Investment Advisors Inc. serves as the Investment Manager of the Trust.
RNE Morgan Stanley Eastern Europe Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is registered as a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Fund's investment objective is long-term capital appreciation through investments primarily in equity securities. For the year ended December 31, 2003, the Fund had a total return, based on net asset value per share of 71.84%, compared to 56.71% for the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Emerging Markets Eastern Europe Index (the Index), which is a composite index comprised of the market capitalization weighted MSCI local indices for Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary.
MWD Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm that operates in four business segments: Institutional Securities, Individual Investor Group, Investment Management and Credit Services. The Institutional Securities business provides worldwide financial advisory and capital-raising services to a diverse group of corporate and other institutional clients. The Individual Investor Group provides financial planning and investment advisory services designed to accommodate individual investment goals and risk profiles. The Investment Management business provides global asset management products and services for individual and institutional investors. The private equity activities also are included within the Investment Management business segment. The Credit Services business offers Discover-branded cards and other consumer finance products and services and includes the operation of Discover Business Services, a network of merchant and cash access locations primarily in the United States.
MOGa Moog Inc. is a worldwide designer and manufacturer of precision motion and fluid controls and control systems. It operates in four principal business segments: aircraft controls, space and defense controls, industrial controls and components. The components segment (Moog Components Group) is the result of the acquisition of the Poly-Scientific division of Litton Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation. The aircraft controls segment designs, manufactures and integrates primary and secondary flight controls for military and commercial aircraft. The space and defense controls segment manufactures and integrates chemical and electric propulsion systems and space flight motion controls. The industrial controls segment designs, manufactures and integrates systems for all axes of injection and blow-molding machines using both hydraulic and electric technology. The components segment has three product categories: slip rings, fiber-optic rotary joints and motors.
MCO Moody's Corporation is a provider of credit ratings, research and analysis covering debt instruments and securities in the global capital markets and a provider of quantitative credit assessment services, credit training services and credit process software to banks and other financial institutions. The Company operates in two business segments, Moody's Investors Service and Moody's KMV. Moody's Investors Service publishes rating opinions on a range of credit obligations issued in domestic and international markets, including various corporate and governmental obligations, structured finance securities and commercial paper programs. It also publishes investor-oriented credit research, including in-depth research on debt issuers, industry studies, special comments and credit opinion handbooks. Moody's KMV is a provider of credit risk management products for banks and investors in credit-sensitive assets.
MRH Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. (Montpelier) through its wholly owned operating subsidiary Montpelier Reinsurance Ltd. (Montpelier Re), provides global property and casualty reinsurance and insurance products. For the year ended December 31, 2003, Montpelier underwrote $809.7 million in gross premiums, which was spread between various classes of business and geographic areas. The Company has market relationships with insurance and reinsurance affiliates of insurance brokers, including Marsh &amp; McLennan Companies Inc., Aon Corporation, Benfield plc and Willis Group Holdings Ltd., among others. Montpelier writes the four lines of business, including property specialty, property catastrophe, other specialty and qualifying quota share (QQS). United States and Canada accounted for 47.1 % of gross premiums during 2003.
PSTA Monterey Gourmet Foods, formerly Monterey Pasta Company began as a producer and distributor of refrigerated gourmet pasta and sauces to restaurants and grocery stores in the Monterey, California area. The Company has since expanded its operations to include a range of gourmet refrigerated food products that it provides to grocery and club stores throughout the United States, as well as selected regions in Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. It produces and markets refrigerated gourmet pastas, gnocchi, pasta sauces, stuffed pizzas and calzones, prepared foods, salsas, dips, hummus and polenta.
MNST Monster Worldwide, Inc. is the parent company of Monster (www.monster.com), a global online careers property. As of February 2004, the Monster global network, which includes complementary job search Websites such as www.flipdog.com and www.jobs.com, consisted of 22 local content and language sites in countries throughout North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific Region. The Company also owns TMP Worldwide, a Yellow Pages advertising agency and recruitment advertising agency. Revenue is primarily earned from job postings placed on the Websites with the Monster network, resume and other database access, selling and placing recruitment advertising, resume screening services, and selling and placing Yellow Pages advertising. These services are provided to customers in a variety of industries throughout North America, Europe and the Asia/Pacific Region. The Company operates under three business segments: Monster, Advertising and Communications, and Directional Marketing.
MON Monsanto Company with its subsidiaries, is a global provider of agricultural products and integrated solutions for farmers. The Company produces seed brands, including DEKALB and Asgrow, and develops biotechnology traits that assist farmers in controlling insects and weeds. It provides other seed companies with genetic material and biotechnology traits for their seed brands. Monsanto makes Roundup herbicide and other herbicides. The seeds, related biotechnology trait products and herbicides can be combined to provide growers with integrated solutions that improve productivity and reduce the costs of farming. The Company provides lawn-and-garden herbicide products for the residential market and animal agricultural products that improve dairy cow productivity and swine genetics. Monsanto reports its business in two segments: Seeds and Genomics, and Agricultural Productivity.
MROE Monroe Bancorp is the holding company of Monroe Bank (the Bank). The Bank, with its primary office located in Bloomington, Indiana, conducts business from 16 locations in Monroe, Hendricks, Jackson and Lawrence counties in Indiana. The Bank is a traditional community bank that provides financial services to its customers, including accepting deposits; making commercial, mortgage and installment loans; originating fixed-rate residential mortgage loans for sale into the secondary market; providing personal and corporate trust services; providing investment advisory and brokerage services, and providing fixed and variable annuities. The majority of the Bank's revenue is derived from interest and fees on loans and investments.
MNRO Monro Muffler Brake, Inc. is a chain of 595 Company-operated stores, 10 kiosk locations and 18 dealer-operated stores providing automotive undercar repair and tire services in the United States. During the fiscal year ended March 27, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company operated stores in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Connecticut, Massachusetts, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Indiana, Rhode Island, Delaware and Maine under the names Monro Muffler Brake &amp; Service, Speedy Auto Service by Monro, Kimmel Tires-Auto Service, Tread Quarters Discount Tire and Mr. Tire. Monro's stores are situated in suburban areas and small towns, as well as in metropolitan areas. The Company-operated stores serviced 2,664,000 vehicles in fiscal 2004. Monro- and Speedy-branded stores are included in the Service Division, while the Kimmel-, Tread Quarters- and Mr. Tire-branded stores are included in the Tire Division.
MOSY Monolithic System Technology, Inc. (MoSys) designs, develops, licenses and markets memory technologies used by the semiconductor industry and electronic product manufacturers. The Company has developed a series of semiconductor memory technologies called 1T- SRAM technologies, which offer a combination of high-density, low-power consumption and high-speed performance. MoSys also sells memory chips based on its 1T-SRAM technologies. The Company licenses its technologies primarily to semiconductor companies and electronic product manufacturers, who incorporate or embed memory on integrated circuits (ICs), on a non-exclusive and worldwide basis. MoSys generates a major part of its revenues from intellectual property licensing consisting of licensing and royalty revenues. On February 23, 2004, the Company got into an agreement with Synopsys, Inc. (Synopsys), wherein Synopsys will acquire MoSys through Mountain Acquisition Sub, Inc. (Acquisition Sub), a wholly owned subsidiary of Synopsys.
MNRTA Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corporation is a corporation operating as a qualified real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company's primary business is the ownership of real estate. Its investment focus is to own net leased industrial properties, which are leased to credit tenants on long-term leases. In addition, the Company holds a portfolio of REIT securities. The Company owns 33 industrial properties and one shopping. The Company has approximately 3,734,000 square feet of property, of which approximately 1,223,000 square feet, or 33%, is leased to Federal Express Corporation (FDX) and subsidiaries and approximately 274,000 square feet (7%) is leased to Keebler Company, a subsidiary of the Kellogg Company.
MONM Monmouth Capital Corporation operates as a diversified real estate investment trust (REIT) investing in real estate equities, mortgages, mortgage-backed securities and other REIT securities. It derives its income primarily through real estate rental operations and from dividend and interest income and the sales of manufactured homes, which it has repossessed and returned to inventory. The Company operates as part of public companies, which includes United Mobile Homes, Inc. and Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corporation (MREIC). United Mobile Homes specializes in investments in manufactured home communities and MREIC specializes in net-leased industrial properties to credit rated tenants on long-term leases. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company has approximately 289,000 square feet of property, of which approximately 230,000 square feet, or 80%, is leased to Federal Express Corporation and subsidiaries.
MGI MoneyGram International, Inc. provides consumers and businesses with global payment services through a network of agents and financial institution customers. The Company operates through two groups: Global Funds Transfer (serving retail businesses) and Payment Services (serving financial institutions). Global Funds Transfer products include money transfers, retail money orders and urgent bill payments, and Payment Services products include the PrimeLink Suite, financial money orders and rebates, gift certificates and other products. In June 2004, the Company was formed through a spin-off by Viad Corp. Previously, MoneyGram International was a wholly owned subsidiary of Viad and conducted Viad's global payment services business until it was spun-off into a separate, independent company.
MAHI Monarch Services, Inc. is engaged in the publication of Girls' Life magazine, operation of Adam Leaf and Bean tobacco shop, and Peerce's Plantation restaurant, catering facility and bar during the fiscal year ended April 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004). During fiscal 2002, the Company invested some resources and management effort in developing and marketing Adam Magazine and Girls Life Living restaurant. The Company terminated the publication of Adam Magazine in June 2002 and closed the Girls Life Living restaurant in July 2002. The properties that were acquired for the cigarette and liquor stores were sold during fiscal 2003.
MCBF Monarch Community Bancorp, Inc. serves as the bank holding company for Monarch Community Bank (the Bank), which owns Community Services Group, Inc. and First Insurance Agency. The Bank originates loans secured by commercial and multi-family real estate, commercial business loans and construction loans secured primarily by residential real estate. The Company's revenues are derived from interest on loans, investment securities and overnight deposits, as well as from sales of loans and fees and charges on deposit accounts. The Bank offers a variety of deposit accounts, including passbook and statement savings accounts, money market deposit accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal and non-interest bearing checking accounts and certificates of deposit with varied terms ranging from six months to 60 months. In April 2004, the Company completed a merger with MSB Financial, Inc. The combined banking operations now consist of eight offices and one drive-through facility located in Michigan.
MCEM.OB The Monarch Cement Company (Monarch) owns and operates quarries located near its Humboldt, Kansas plant, which contain all raw materials it uses. It did not introduce any new products nor begin to do business in a new industry segment during 2003. All of the Company's operations and sales are in one geographic area consisting primarily of the State of Kansas, the State of Iowa, southeast Nebraska, western Missouri, northwest Arkansas and northern Oklahoma.
MCRI Monarch Casino &amp; Resort, Inc. owns and operates the tropically-themed Atlantis Casino Resort (the Atlantis), a hotel/casino facility in Reno, Nevada, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Golden Road Motor Inn, Inc. The Atlantis features approximately 51,000 square feet of casino space interspersed with waterfalls, giant artificial palm trees, thatched-roof huts and other tropical decor; a hotel and a motor lodge with 980 guest rooms; nine food outlets; an enclosed pool with waterfall; an outdoor pool; a health spa; two retail outlets offering clothing and traditional gift-shop merchandise; a full-service salon for men and women; an 8,000-square-foot, family entertainment center, and approximately 25,000 square feet of banquet, convention and meeting room space. The Atlantis casino offers approximately 1,450 slot and video poker machines; 37 table games, including blackjack, craps, roulette and others; a sports book; Keno; and a poker room.
MNC Monaco Coach Corporation is a manufacturer of recreational vehicles, including Class A motor coaches, Class C motor coaches and towable recreational vehicles. The Company's product line consists of 29 models of motor coaches and 13 models of towables (fifth wheel trailers and travel trailers) under the Monaco, Holiday Rambler, Royale Coach, Beaver, Safari and McKenzie brand names. The products, which are typically priced at the high end of their respective product categories, range in suggested retail price from $70,000 to $1.4 million for motor coaches and from $25,000 to $60,000 for towables. As of January 3, 2004, its products were sold through an extensive network of 332 dealerships located primarily in the United States and Canada.
MNTA Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biotechnology company specializing in the sequencing and engineering of complex sugars for the development of improved versions of existing drugs, the development of novel drugs and the discovery of new biological processes. Momenta's advanced product candidate, M-Enoxaparin, is designed to be a technology-enabled generic version of Lovenox, a low-molecular weight heparin (LMWH) used to prevent and treat deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and acute coronary syndromes (ACS). It has formed a collaboration with Sandoz to jointly develop, manufacture and commercialize M-Enoxaparin. In addition, it intends to develop a technology-enabled generic version of Fragmin, another LMWH. Momenta's drug discovery program, which is focused initially in oncology, is designed to leverage its understanding of sugar biology to develop sugar-based drugs and identify specific biological processes and pathways that can be targeted with small-molecule or antibody drugs.
MOH Molina Healthcare, Inc. is a multi-state managed care organization that arranges for the delivery of healthcare services to persons eligible for Medicaid and other programs for low-income families and individuals. The Company's health plans are located in California, Washington, Michigan and Utah. Contracts with state and local governments determine the type and scope of healthcare services that the Company arranges for its members. Generally, contracts require Molina Healthcare to arrange for preventive care, office visits, inpatient and outpatient hospital and medical services and limited pharmacy benefits. The Company arranges healthcare services for its members through contracts with providers that include its own clinics, independent physicians and groups, hospitals and ancillary providers. The Company's operations include Molina Healthcare of California, Molina Healthcare of Utah, Inc., Molina Healthcare of Washington, Inc. and Molina Healthcare of Michigan, Inc.
MLRI.OB Molecular Imaging Corporation provides molecular imaging (MI) systems and services to the healthcare industry. MI is a diagnostic imaging procedure used to diagnose, monitor and assess disease severity for many cancers, cardiovascular disease and neurological disorders. MI procedures display metabolic and functional characteristics of disease, which typically are the first indications of disease. The combined imaging system offers physicians un-paralleled diagnostic information, which includes both metabolic, and anatomical information in one co-registered image. The new combined MI/CT technology improves the time to diagnosis, staging of many cancers, cardiovascular disease and neurological disorders and is also used to observe patient response to treatment. The Company provides its services to hospitals, physician groups, diagnostic imaging centers and other healthcare providers in selected marketplaces in the United States.
MCDG.OB Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. is focused on the design, development and marketing of the InPath System and related image analysis systems. The component products of the InPath System are intended to screen for, at the earliest possible stage, cancer and cancer related diseases and may be used in a laboratory, clinic or doctor's office. The Company has designed and manufactured the AcCell computer aided automated microscopy instrument and the AcCell Savant, an instrument that includes an AcCell and software, which collects quantitative cellular information used in support of a diagnostic process. These instruments are sold to laboratories and medical diagnostic companies for use in the customers' proprietary applications. The instruments are also placed in the customers' facility on a fee-for-use basis.
MDCC Molecular Devices Corporation is engaged in the design, development, manufacture, sales and service of bioanalytical measurement systems, including specialized screening solutions and a variety of general-purpose research instruments, primarily for life sciences and drug discovery applications. A majority of the Company's products use optical technologies to detect the results of biological tests that occur in microplates. Molecular's products are organized into two major categories: Drug Discovery and Life Sciences. The Drug Discovery systems are used to screen large numbers of chemical compounds to assess their effects on disease targets. The Life Sciences product family is comprised of single-purpose instruments that include bench-top detection and liquid handling products. In July 2004, the Company acquired Axon Instruments, Inc., which is engaged in the field of electrophysiology, a method for studying ion channels.
MFLO Moldflow Corporation is a provider of software products and hardware solutions for the optimization and automation of plastics-focused manufacturing. The Company develops, markets and supports a broad range of computer-aided engineering software applications, manufacturing execution software with hardware solutions and hot runner process controllers to help manufacturers around the world improve their design-to-manufacture process. The Company's solutions enables its customers to speed their products to market, decrease manufacturing costs, improve production through greater reliability and quality, and reduce costly design and manufacturing errors. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 ( fiscal 2004), the Company reorganized its operations into two business units, the Design Analysis Solutions business unit and the Manufacturing Solutions business unit.
MHK Mohawk Industries, Inc. is engaged in the production of floorcovering products for residential and commercial applications in the United States through its three primary operating subsidiaries: Mohawk Carpet Corporation, Aladdin Manufacturing Corporation and Dal-Tile International Inc. The Company has two operating segments, the Mohawk segment and the Dal-Tile segment. The Mohawk segment sells and distributes its product lines, which include broadloom carpet, rugs, pad, ceramic tile, hardwood, vinyl and laminate through independent floor covering retailers, home centers, mass merchandisers, department stores, commercial dealers and commercial end users. The Dal-Tile segment product lines include ceramic tile, porcelain tile and stone products sold through Company-operated sales service centers, independent distributors and home center retailers.
MODT Modtech Holdings, Inc. is a provider of modular classrooms in California and a provider of commercial and light industrial modular buildings in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Texas, Florida and neighboring states. The Company manufactures and installs standard, largely pre-fabricated modular re-locatable classrooms, as well as customized classrooms, which are modular in design, but assembled onsite. The Company is also a designer, manufacturer and wholesaler of commercial and light industrial modular buildings. It designs and builds modular buildings to customer specifications for an array of uses, including governmental, healthcare, educational, airport and correctional facilities; office and retail space; daycare centers; libraries; churches; construction trailers; golf clubhouses; police stations; convenience stores; fast food restaurants; classrooms, and sales offices.
MOD Modine Manufacturing Company is an independent worldwide provider of thermal management technology, serving vehicular, industrial, commercial, and electronic and building heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) markets. The Company develops, manufactures and markets thermal management products, components and systems for use in original equipment manufacturer (OEM) applications and for sale to the automotive aftermarket, as well as to building and other commercial markets. The Company's primary markets consist of automobile, truck and bus manufacturers; agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers; heating and cooling equipment manufacturers; construction contractors; wholesalers of plumbing and heating equipment; radiator repair shops; wholesalers and installers of auto repair parts; computer and server manufacturers; telecommunications equipment manufacturers, and industrial electronic equipment manufacturers.
MPAC MOD-PAC CORP. is a specialized short-run printer and a designer and manufacturer of paperboard packaging. The Company provides products in two primary categories: folding cartons and full color print-on-demand. On March 14, 2003, MOD-PAC was spun-off from Astronics Corporation. The spin-off was accomplished by means of a distribution of all of the outstanding shares of the Company's common stock and Class B stock. The shares of MOD-PAC were distributed on a pro rata basis to the shareowners of Astronics in a tax-free distribution. At the time of the distribution, MOD-PAC became a separately traded, publicly held company.
MOCO MOCON, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets and services products, and provides consulting and analytical services in the measurement and analytical instrument and services markets. Its products include instruments that detect, measure and monitor gases and chemical compounds and products that prepare samples of various substances for laboratory analysis. The Company also provides service related to absorption or diffusion of various compounds, harsh environment applications, shelf-life concerns, flavor or odor detection and other special permeation applications. In January 2004, the Company acquired its primary distributor of products in Europe, Paul Lippke Handels-GmbH Prozess-und Laborsysteme, which provides the Company with a direct presence in Europe. The market for the consulting and analytical services consists of manufacturers of foods, beverages, pharmaceuticals, plastics, chemicals and personal care products.
MOBI Mobius Management Systems, Inc. is a provider of integrated solutions for total content management (TCM). Its ViewDirect TCM is a comprehensive suite of solutions that meet a broad and diverse range of enterprise requirements for managing and delivering content. ViewDirect TCM supports both human-created content, which is generated by desktop applications, and the application-created content, which is generated by production systems, needed to fuel its Web-based applications. ViewDirect TCM includes facilities for integrated access to disparate content repositories, as well as products that support content-intensive applications, including Website, digital asset and document management; business process management; imaging; Internet presentment and payment; records management; enterprise report distribution; check image archive, and an audit and balancing facility that monitors the accuracy and consistency of enterprise data.
MOBE Mobility Electronics, Inc. is a provider of products and solutions for the mobile electronics industry. The Company's key product categories are power, handheld solutions and expansion and docking. It primarily sells its products through OEM (original equipment manufacturing) by such producers as International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Dell Inc., Symbol Technologies, Inc., Gateway, Inc. and Apple Computer, Inc.; private-label resellers such as Kensington Technology Group and Targus Group International; a distributor, Ingram Micro Inc.; retailers such as RadioShack Corporation; resellers such as CDW Corporation and Insight Enterprises, Inc., and directly to end users through its iGo brand Website, www.igo.com. In addition to its other products, the Company markets a number of mobile device accessories such as port replicators, monitor stands, mobile phone accessories and portable computer stands.
MOBL.OB Mobilepro Corp. is a wireless technology and broadband telecommunications company. The Company focuses on developing wireless technologies, acquiring and growing profitable broadband telecommunications service providers and creating strategic alliances with companies in complementary product lines and industries. The wireless technology development efforts are conducted by its wholly owned subsidiary NeoReach, Inc. It also provides broadband telecommunications services through its subsidiary DFW Internet Services and its Internet services divisions.
MBT Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MBT) is a provider of mobile cellular communications services in the Russian Federation and Ukraine, employing technology based primarily on Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). In addition to standard voice services, the Company offers its subscribers value-added services, including voice mail, short message service (SMS), general packet radio service (GPRS), various SMS- and GPRS-based information and entertainment services (including multimedia messaging service), and data and fax transmission. It also offers its subscribers the ability to roam automatically throughout Europe and in much of the rest of the world. MBT operates in the Russian Federation, its principal market, under the commercial names Mobile TeleSystems, MTS and Jeans. It operates in Ukraine through its subsidiary, Ukrainian Mobile Communications. Through joint venture Mobile TeleSystems LLC, MBT operates in Belarus. At year-end 2003, the Company's subscriber base was 16.7 million.
MINI Mobile Mini, Inc. is a provider of portable storage solutions through its lease fleet of approximately 89,500 portable storage and portable office units. The Company offers portable storage products in varying lengths and widths with an assortment of differentiated features, such as proprietary security systems, multiple doors, electrical wiring and shelving. These portable units provide secure, accessible temporary storage for a client base of approximately 67,400 customers, including large and small retailers, construction companies, medical centers, schools, utilities, distributors, the United States military, hotels, restaurants, entertainment complexes and households. The Company's customers use its products in a variety of storage applications including retail and manufacturing inventory, construction materials and equipment, documents and records and household goods.
OOM mmO2 plc is a provider of mobile communications services in Europe, with wholly owned businesses in the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland and the Isle of Man. The Company's operations have been divided into three classes of business: the supply of mobile telecommunications services and products; the provision of mobile Internet services, and other businesses, comprised of O2 Airwave, a terrestrial trunked radio business, and Manx Telecom Limited, the fixed and mobile telecommunications business in the Isle of Man. In September 2001, mmO2 announced a new brand, O2. This was introduced in May 2002, and, in support of that introduction, each of the principal country company operating names, except for Manx Telecom Limited in the Isle of Man, were changed to include the brand in their names.
MMCO.OB MM Companies, Inc. is seeking to acquire one or more potential acquisitions of other publicly traded or privately held companies or significant interests in such companies, with a view to refocusing its strategic direction. Itceased its operations as a provider of customized music compact disc (CD) compilations and music digital downloads in January 2001. The Company MM concluded at that time that this business no longer represented a viable alternative to provide maximum value to its stockholders. MM had sold its products primarily over the Internet through its Website and through marketing partners, strategic alliances and direct mail-order promotions. In connection with the cessation of its Internet-based custom CD-marketing business, it sold all of its remaining furniture and equipment. In June 2002, the Company changed its name from musicmaker.com.
NUT ML Macadamia Orchards, L.P. is engaged in the business of growing and farming macadamia nuts in Hawaii. It owns or leases approximately 4,169 tree acres of macadamia nut orchards in three locations within a 50-mile radius on the island of Hawaii. The Company sells all of its macadamia nut production to Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corporation under long-term nut purchase contracts. ML Macadamia farms its own orchards and approximately 2,645 additional acres of macadamia orchards for other orchard owners. The Company is managed by its general partner, ML Resources, Inc.
MKSI MKS Instruments, Inc. (MKSI) is a worldwide provider of instruments, components, subsystems and process control solutions that measure, control, power and monitor critical parameters of semiconductor and other advanced manufacturing processes. The Company is managed as one operating segment, organized around three product groups: Instruments and Control Systems, Power and Reactive Gas Products and Vacuum Products. MKSI also provides application-specific integrated subsystems, made by each product group, depending upon its application. These products are used in diverse markets and applications including semiconductor manufacturing, thin-film manufacturing, and other non-semiconductor manufacturing applications. MKSI's products are derived from its core competencies in pressure measurement and control, materials delivery, gas and thin-film composition analysis, control and information management, power and reactive gas generation and vacuum technology.
MKRR.OB MK Resources Company, formerly MK Gold Company, is in the business of exploring for, acquiring, developing and mining mineral properties. Its principal asset is the Las Cruces copper project located in Spain. It is also a joint venture partner in the Castle Mountain gold mine in California, which is in its reclamation phase. The Company has grassroots, or early stage, exploration programs in Nevada and Spain. It conducted field examinations on 57 properties during 2003, primarily in North and South America. MK Resources operates primarily in two industry segments, gold sales and copper project. Its third industry segment, mining services, was active through the second quarter of 2001, when mining operations ceased at the Castle Mountain Mine.
MIVT.OB MIV Therapeutics Inc. is engaged in the development of medical devices for use in cardiovascular and other medical procedures. The Company, along with its wholly owned subsidiary, MIVI Technologies Inc., has developed a coronary stent for use in angioplasty procedures. MIV Therapeutics is also developing a ceramic coating technology that will be used to manufacture a range of biocompatible coatings for stent and medical devices. The Company's laser-cut stents are balloon-expandable; have flexible slotted tube design, and are made of biocompatible 316 low-vacuum melted stainless steel. The stents are mounted on balloons, and the resulting stent and delivery system are sterilized and packaged as a single unit. MIV Therapeutics' laser-cut stent and stent delivery system, is specifically designed and engineered to be used as a drug and/or therapeutics delivery platform to combat cardiovascular disease, including restenosis.
MITY MITY Enterprises, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets institutional furniture created to meet the efficiency needs of its customers. The Company's product lines include multipurpose room furniture and healthcare seating. Its line of multipurpose room furniture is sold both domestically and internationally in educational, recreational, hotel and hospitality, government, office, healthcare, church and other public assembly markets. Its healthcare seating is sold mainly in Canada and the United States in the long-term healthcare market. For the fiscal years ended March 31, 2002 (fiscal 2002), 2003 (fiscal 2003) and 2004 (fiscal 2004), international sales accounted for 12.6%, 11.1% and 13.4%, respectively, of the Company's total sales.
MITSY Mitsui &amp; Co., Ltd. is a general trading company engaged in a range of global business activities, including general worldwide trading of various commodities, arranging financing for customers and suppliers in connection with its trading activities, organizing and coordinating industrial projects, participating in financing and investing arrangements, assisting in the procurement of raw materials and equipment, providing new technologies and processes for manufacturing, and coordinating transportation and marketing of finished goods. The Company's trading activities include the sale, distribution, purchase, marketing and supply of wide variety of products, including iron and steel, non-ferrous metals, machinery, electronics, chemicals, energy-related commodity and products, food products, textiles, general merchandise and real estate.
MTF Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group, Inc. is a joint stock company. The Company operates through its two directly held subsidiary banks, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and Mitsubishi Trust Bank, and their subsidiaries. On April 1, 2004, the Company introduced an integrated business group system comprising three core business areas, which include retail, corporate and trust assets. The bank provides a full range of domestic and international financial services, including commercial banking, investment banking, trust services and asset management services to individuals and corporate customers. The Company aims to reduce overlapping of functions within the group, thereby increasing efficiency and realizing the benefits of group resources and scale of operations. Through greater integration of its shared expertise in the banking, trust and securities businesses, the Company aims to deliver a more diverse but integrated lineup of products and services to its customers.
MITK.OB Mitek Systems, Inc. is primarily engaged in the development and sale of software products with particular focus on intelligent character recognition and forms processing technology, products and services for the document imaging markets. The Company develops, markets and supports automated document recognition (ADR) products, which enable the automation of costly, labor-intensive business functions, such as check and remittance processing, forms processing and order entry. The Company's ADR products incorporate proprietary neural network software technology for the recognition and conversion of hand printed and machine generated characters into digital data. Mitek's family of ADR products is made up of the three distinct product lines: recognition toolkits, document and image processing solutions and check imaging solutions.
MLB Mitchells &amp; Butlers plc (M and B), formerly known as Hackplimco (No. 111) plc, is an operator of managed pubs, bars and restaurants. The Company has two main retail operating segments: Pubs and Bars and Restaurants. The Pubs and Bars division consists of M and B's drinking-out and entertainment-led sites. As of September 30, 2003, it had 649 branded sites and 738 unbranded sites, all of which are managed. The Restaurants division consists of the Company's eating-out and accommodation-led sites, and includes 443 branded pub-restaurants such as Vintage Inns, Harvester and Toby Carvery, 86 unbranded pub-restaurants in residential areas and 64 brasserie restaurants in United Kingdom city centers under the brands of All Bar One and Browns. There are also 43 sites in Germany. The Company is also involved in property development, which is undertaken by its subsidiary, Standard Commercial Property Developments Limited.
MIND Mitcham Industries, Inc. leases and sells geophysical and other equipment used primarily by seismic data acquisition contractors to perform seismic data acquisition surveys on land and in transition zones (marsh and shallow water areas) worldwide. The Company consists of the operations of Mitcham Industries, Inc. and its two wholly owned subsidiaries, Mitcham Canada Ltd. and Seismic Asia Pacific Pty Ltd. (SAP). For the fiscal years ended January 31, 2002 (fiscal 2001), 2003 (fiscal 2002) and 2004 (fiscal 2003), revenues from foreign customers accounted for 80%, 85% and 74% of consolidated revenues in those fiscal years, respectively. The majority of transactions with foreign customers are denominated in United States, Australian and Canadian dollars.
MSW Mission West Properties acquires, markets, leases and manages research and development (R&amp;D) properties, primarily located in the Silicon Valley portion of the San Francisco Bay Area. At December 31, 2003, the Company owned and managed 109 properties totaling approximately 7.9 million rentable square feet of R&amp;D properties through four limited partnerships (operating partnerships), for which Mission West is the sole general partner. R&amp;D property is designed for research and development and office uses, and, in some cases, includes space for light-manufacturing operations with loading docks. There are six tenants that individually lease in excess of 300,000 rentable square feet from the Company, including Microsoft Corporation, Fujitsu America, JDS Uniphase Corporation, NEC Electronics America, Inc., Ciena Corporation and Apple Computer, Inc.
MSSN Mission Resources Corporation is an oil and gas exploration and production company. The Company drills, acquires, develops and produces natural gas and crude oil in the Permian Basin, West Texas and Southeast New Mexico, along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast and in both the state and federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. During the year ended December 31, 2003, its estimated net proved reserves were 85.1 billion cubic feet of natural gas, 10.4 billion cubic feet equivalents of natural gas liquids and 13.7 million barrels of oil, for total reserves of approximately 178 billion cubic feet equivalents. Approximately 54% of the estimated net proved reserves were natural gas and approximately 75% of the reserves were developed in 2003. On January 30, 2004, the Company closed the acquisition of the Jalmat field in the Permian Basin. This acquisition added approximately 26 billion cubic feet equivalent of proved reserves.
MSON Misonix, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets ultrasonic medical devices. The Company also develops and markets ultrasonic equipment for use in the scientific and industrial markets, ductless fume enclosures for filtration of gaseous contaminates and environmental control products for the abatement of air pollution. The Company's operations outside the United States consist of a 100% ownership in Labcaire Systems, Ltd. (Labcaire), which is based in North Somerset, England. This business consists of designing, manufacturing, servicing and marketing air-handling systems for the protection of personnel, products and the environment from airborne hazards.
MRVT.OB Miravant Medical Technologies is a pharmaceutical research and development company specializing in photodynamic therapy (PDT). PDT is a treatment modality based on light-activated, or photoselective drugs, to locally treat diseased cells and abnormal blood vessels. The drug and light procedures involve three components: photoselective drugs, light producing devices and light delivery devices. The Company is developing a family of medical procedures, trademarked PhotoPoint, that are based on synthetic photoselective drugs. These drugs have the ability to transform light energy into chemical energy, in a manner similar to that of chlorophyll in green plants. When administered to the body, either systemically by intraveneous injection or locally at the treatment site, the Company's PhotoPoint drugs are designed to preferentially accumulate in rapidly reproducing or hyperproliferating cells and blood vessels, based on the metabolic characteristics of these tissues.
MNG Miramar Mining Corporation is engaged in the mining and processing of gold ore and the exploration for, and the acquisition and development of, gold-bearing mineral properties. Miramar's business is focused in northern Canada in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. The Company's principal properties are the Con Mine, the Giant Mine and the Hope Bay Project. The Con and Giant Mines produced and shipped approximately 84,269 ounces of gold during the year ended December 31, 2003. Through Miramar Bathurst Resources Ltd., Miramar has an option from Kinross Gold Corporation to earn a 60% joint venture interest in the Back River Project, including George and Goose Lakes, located in Nunavut, Canada. The Company owns 40.21% of Sherwood Mining Corporation, which owns mineral rights in the territory of Nunavut, Canada. Miramar has granted to Sherwood an option to earn a 60% interest in the Chicago and Hecla properties located in Nunavut, Canada.
MRAE Mirae Corporation designs and manufactures mechatronics machines, including the robotic parts and software that control the robotic parts, for sale to the semiconductor manufacturing and printed circuit board (PCB) assembly industries. The Company's product lines consist of semiconductor test handlers and their components, as well as surface mount device (SMD) placement systems. In addition, it provides information technology (IT)-related services in Korea through the Company's subsidiaries and joint ventures and other strategic alliances that are strategic investments in IT-related companies. The Company's core competencies are concentrated in three mechatronics disciplines of precision mechanism, intelligent control and machine vision.
MRDG.OB Miracor Diagnostics, Inc. is a medical-based company focused on medical diagnostic imaging services and emerged as an operating company through the acquisition of medical diagnostic imaging centers. The Company owns 15 diagnostic centers in Florida, Illinois, Ohio, California and Oregon. In January 2004, Miracor opened a start-up diagnostic imaging center located in Orange Park, Florida and financed MRI equipment and tenant improvements pledged under a note payable with a finance company.
MIPS MIPS Technologies, Inc. develops embedded processors and related intellectual property for use in performance-oriented markets, such as digital entertainment, wired and wireless communications, office automation, security and automotive markets. The Company's industry-standard designs are based on 32-bit and 64-bit reduced instruction set computing architectures. The Company licenses its industry-standard MIPS32 and MIPS64 instruction-set architectures, application-specific extensions (ASEs), core designs and other related intellectual property to semiconductor companies and system original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Together with its architecture and core licensees, MIPS offers a variety of performance-oriented embedded processors that scale across multiple markets in standard, custom and application-specific products. The Company has more than 125 license agreements with more than 85 companies around the world offering more than 250 processor-based chips for the embedded market.
MGN Mines Management, Inc. acquires, explores and develops mineral properties, primarily those containing silver and associated base and precious metals. The Company's properties are in the exploration stage except for the Montanore property, which is in the stage of determining feasibility for development. The Company's principal mineral property interest, the Montanore Project, is held by its wholly owned subsidiary, Newhi, Inc. The Montanore Project is located in northwestern Montana. The Company also has a small royalty income from a working interest royalty, acquired more than 40 years ago, for several producing oil wells located in Kansas. The Company continues to hold its Iroquois and Advance zinc-lead properties in Washington on a care and maintenance basis.
MTX Minerals Technologies Inc. is a resource- and technology-based company that develops, produces and markets a range of specialty mineral, mineral-based and synthetic mineral products and related systems and services. The Company has two operating segments: Specialty Minerals, which principally produces and sells the synthetic mineral product precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) and the processed mineral product quicklime (lime), used mainly in the paper, building materials, paint and coatings, glass, ceramic, polymer, food and pharmaceutical industries; and Refractories, which produces and markets monolithic and shaped refractory materials and specialty products, services and application equipment used primarily by the steel, non-ferrous metal and glass industries. The Specialty minerals segment is also engaged in the mining, processing and distribution of other natural mineral products, primarily limestone and talc. The Company operates in the international market.
MNEAF.OB Minera Andes Inc. (Minera) is engaged in the exploration and development of mineral properties located in the Republic of Argentina. The Company's properties and projects consist of mineral rights and applications for mineral rights covering approximately 199,875 hectares in three Argentine provinces. Through its subsidiaries and joint ventures, Minera owns a 49% equity interest in Minera Santa Cruz S.A. Argentina (MSC), which owns the San Jose gold/silver property in Southern Argentina, and a 100% interest in over 10 mineral properties in Argentina. San Jose is in advanced exploration and underground development with an expected production decision. The Company's interests in the Argentinean Claims are held through Minera Andes S.A. Argentina (MASA) and MSC. Its properties are early stage exploration prospects except for the San Jose project. No proven or probable reserves have yet been identified.
MFN Minefinders Corporation Ltd. is a mining exploration and development company. The Company's principal mineral property interests are the Dolores Property located in Chihuahua, Mexico, and the Northern Sonora Properties located in Sonora, Mexico, which include the La Bolsa gold deposit, Real Viejo silver prospect, Planchas de Plata silver prospect and the La Dura prospect. All of these properties are without a known body of commercial ore. The Company's activities on these properties have been exploratory in nature. There is no surface plant or equipment on any of these properties. Minefinders also has interests in a number of secondary properties, including the San Antonio Property in Zacatecas, Mexico, the Gutsy/Buckskin Mountain Properties, the Clear Property and the Dottie Property in Nevada, the Oro Blanco Property in Arizona and the Dubuisson Property in Val d'Or, Quebec.
MSA Mine Safety Appliances Company manufactures and sells products designed to protect the safety and health of people throughout the world. The Company's principal products include respiratory protective equipment that is air-purifying, air-supplied and self-contained in design; instruments that monitor and analyze workplace environments and control industrial processes; thermal imaging cameras that enable firefighters and rescue workers to see through smoke and darkness, and personal protective products including head, eye, face and hearing protectors and fall protection equipment. Many of these products have applications for workers in industries such as manufacturing, municipal and volunteer fire departments, public utilities, mining, petroleum, construction, transportation, the military and hazardous materials clean-up. Consumer products target the do-it-yourself market and are available through select home center retail outlets under the MSA Safety Works brand.
MSPD Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and sells semiconductor networking solutions for communications applications in enterprise, access, metropolitan and wide area networks. The Company's products, ranging from physical-layer transceivers and framers to higher-layer network processors, are classified into four focused product families: high-performance analog products, multiservice access products, T / E carrier products and asynchronous transfer mode/multi-protocol label switching network processor products. These products are sold to original equipment manufacturers for use in a variety of network infrastructure equipment, including voice and media gateways, high-speed routers, switches, access multiplexers, cross-connect systems, add-drop multiplexers and digital loop carrier equipment. Prior to June 30, 2003, Mindspeed operated as a business segment of Conexant Systems, Inc., a communications semiconductor company.
MNDO Mind C.T.I Ltd. develops, manufactures and markets real-time mediation, rating, billing and customer care software for multiple services, including voice, data and content services. In addition to the Company's billing and customer care software, it offers two call management systems used by organizations for call accounting, traffic analysis and fraud detection. The Company also provides professional services to billing and customer care customers consisting of installation, customer support, training and maintenance services, customization and project management. Its professional services also include turnkey project implementation services. The Company's wholly owned subsidiaries include MIND C.T.I. Inc. in the State of New Jersey, and MIND Software SRL and DIROT COMP SRL in Romania.
MIMS MIM Corporation is a pharmaceutical healthcare organization, which provides pharmacy benefit management, specialty pharmaceutical management and distribution and other pharmacy-related healthcare solutions. It provides an array of pharmacy related products and services to individual patients or enrollees (members) receiving health benefits, principally through health insurers, including health maintenance organizations, managed care organizations, other insurance companies and, to a lesser extent, labor unions, self-funded employer groups and other self-funded plan sponsors (collectively, plan sponsors). These services are organized under two segments: pharmacy benefit management and mail services (collectively, PBM services) and specialty pharmacy distribution and clinical management services (specialty management and delivery services). On February 2, 2004, MIM announced its acquisition of Natural Living, Inc., d/b/a Fair Pharmacy, a specialty pharmaceutical provider.
MLS The Mills Corporation is a fully integrated, self-managed real estate investment trust that develops, redevelops, acquires, operates and manages three types of retail and entertainment real estate properties. These three types of retail and entertainment real estate properties are Mills Landmark Centers, which are retail and entertainment super-regional shopping centers; 21st Century Retail and Entertainment Centers, which include conventional regional shopping centers anchored by traditional department stores and open-air retail and entertainment centers, and International Retail and Entertainment Centers, which are internationally located super-regional, full-priced retail and entertainment centers. The Company also owns 100% of the entities that provide leasing, management, development and financing services for both joint venture and wholly owned properties.
MIL Millipore Corporation is a multinational bioscience company that provides technologies, tools and services to customers in the worldwide biotechnology, life science research and other bioscience markets, particularly in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. The Company has three principal operating segments: BioPharmaceutical, Laboratory Water and Life Sciences. Its products and services are used primarily in the purification, separation and analysis of fluids for the discovery, development and production of therapeutic drugs as well as other purposes. Millipore's products are based on a variety of enabling technologies, including its membrane filtration and chromatography technologies.
MLDS.OB Million Dollar Saloon, Inc. provides management support and conducts its business operations through its four, wholly owned operating subsidiaries: Furrh, Inc. (Furrh), which provides management services to Tempo; Tempo Tamers, Inc. (Tempo), which operates the Company's adult entertainment lounge and restaurant facility; Don, Inc. (Don) and Corporation Lex (Lex), which own and manage commercial rental property. The Company owns and operates an adult cabaret in Dallas, Texas, and owns and manages two other commercial properties located in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
MICC Millicom International Cellular S.A. is a global telecommunications operator focusing on prepaid services through mass distribution methods. The Company has interests in 16 cellular systems in 15 countries. As of December 31, 2003, its cellular operations had a combined population under license of approximately 387 million people. Millicom operates in three major geographic regions of the world: Asia (MIC Asia), Latin America (MIC Latin America) and Africa (MIC Africa).
MLR Miller Industries, Inc. is a manufacturer of vehicle towing and recovery equipment, with executive offices in Ooltewah, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia, and manufacturing operations in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, France and England. The Company has developed or acquired several brands in the towing and recovery equipment manufacturing industry. The Company offers a range of towing and recovery equipment products that meet customer design, capacity and cost requirements. It also manufactures the bodies of wreckers and car carriers that are installed on truck chassis manufactured by third parties. The products are marketed under the Century, Vulcan, Challenger, Holmes, Champion, Chevron, Eagle, Titan, Jige and Boniface brand names.
MLNM Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing breakthrough products in the disease areas of cancer, cardiovascular disease and inflammatory disease. The Company operates in one business segment, which focuses on the development and commercialization of proprietary therapeutic products. It has two products on the market, Velcade (bortezomib) for Injection, a cancer product for patients with multiple myeloma, and Integrilin (eptifibatide) Injection, a cardiovascular product that prevents platelet aggregation.
MCEL Millennium Cell Inc. is an emerging technology company engaged in the business of developing fuel systems for the safe storage, transportation and generation of hydrogen for use as an energy source. The Company has developed and patented a system called Hydrogen on Demand, which safely generates hydrogen from environmentally friendly raw materials. In the process, the energy potential of hydrogen is carried in the chemical bonds of sodium borohydride, which in the presence of a catalyst releases hydrogen or produces electricity. The primary input components of the reaction are water and sodium borohydride, a derivative of borax, which is found in substantial natural reserves globally. The technology can be used to generate hydrogen for use by fuel cells in the production of electricity, generate hydrogen for use by modified internal combustion engines and provide hydrogen for other industrial purposes.
MBVA Millennium Bankshares Corporation is a financial holding company that provides commercial and consumer banking services through Millennium Bank. Millennium Bank is a community bank that provides a range of commercial and retail banking services designed to meet the needs of businesses and consumers in the communities it serves. At December 31, 2003, net loans were $215 million, a decrease of 10.1% from December 31, 2002. During the period, commercial business, commercial real estate and construction loans totaled $127.8 million, or 58.6%, of total loans receivable, residential mortgage loans were $85.2 million, which represented 39.1% of total loans receivable. Also at December 31, 2003, the Company had $89.4 million in total available for sale securities, an increase of 63.7% from $54.6 million at December 31, 2002. At December 31, 2003, deposits were $272.1 million, an increase of 5.26% from $258.5 million at December 31, 2002.
MBTG.OB Millennium Biotechnologies Group, Inc. is a holding company for its subsidiary, Millennium Biotechnologies, Inc. (Millennium). Millennium is a research-based, bio-nutraceutical corporation involved in the field of nutritional science. Its principal source of revenue is from sales of its RESURGEX and RESURGEX Plus nutraceutical supplements, which provide nutritional support for immuno-compromised individuals undergoing medical treatment for chronic debilitating diseases. Millennium developed two novel enteral nutritional formulas, RESURGEX and RESURGEX Plus, that play an important role as a nutritional adjunct to the medical treatment for certain chronic immuno-compromising debilitating diseases, such as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), hepatitis and cancer.
MNHG.OB Millenium Holding Group, Inc. is a financial services company in early-stage development. Millenium Holding intends to operate and is actively pursuing the creation of an Internet National Bank. It is also exploring the possibility of forming or acquiring a broker-dealer in order to service the securities market. It intends to offer checking and savings accounts and electronic bill paying services. The customers will make deposits through direct deposit, wire transfers or mail. It plans on the customers using automated teller machines (ATM)/debit cards and existing ATM networks. The customers will also be able to transfer funds between accounts, check their balances, determine which checks have cleared and pay bills through the utilization of their personal computers (PCs).
MLEA Millea Holdings, Inc. was established as an insurance holding company on April 2, 2002. It has two wholly owned operating subsidiaries: Tokio Marine and Fire Insurance Company, Limited and The Nichido Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Limited. The Company, through its subsidiaries, writes property and casualty (P&amp;C), life and overseas insurance. It is also promoting other businesses that have significant synergies with insurance operations, comprised of asset management, healthcare and senior-citizen-related services, risk consulting and staffing services.
MS Milestone Scientific Inc. has developed a computer-controlled anesthetic delivery system through the use of the Wand, a single-use disposable handpiece. The system is marketed in dentistry under the trademark CompuDent and Wand Plus and in medicine under the trademark CompuMed. CompuDent is suitable for all dental procedures that require local anesthetic. CompuMed and Wand Plus are suitable for many medical procedures regularly performed in plastic surgery, hair restoration surgery, podiatry, colorectal surgery, dermatology, orthopedics and a number of other disciplines. The systems are sold in the United States and in over 25 countries abroad. The Company's products are manufactured by a third-party contract manufacturer.
MMRK.OB Mile Marker International, Inc., through its wholly owned operating subsidiary, Mile Marker Inc., is a distributor of specialized vehicle parts primarily for the four-wheel drive recreational, utility and military vehicles market. The Company's hydraulic winches are used by the United States military, owners of sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) and light trucks, and its hubs are used as components in the four-wheel drive automobile transmission systems. In addition, the Company markets and distributes electric winches to its commercial customers. Its product lines are available through a wholesaler supply network in North America and worldwide through warehouse distributors, jobbers, retail stores and mail-order catalogues. The Company's customers are located throughout the United States and certain foreign countries.
MILAA.OB Milastar Corporation sells special metallurgical services to a diversified list of manufacturers primarily located in the greater Midwest industrial market through its wholly owned subsidiary, Flame Metals Processing Corporation. These special services include metallurgical-related processing involving the heating and cooling of metal products under controlled conditions in order to restructure the molecular property of such products to achieve specified characteristics.
MZ Milacron Inc. is a global company focused primarily on manufacturing and selling plastics processing equipment and supplies, as well as blends and sells industrial fluids for metalworking applications on a worldwide basis. It operates four business segments: machinery technologies in North America, machinery technologies in Europe, mold technologies and industrial fluids. The first three segments provide plastics processors with a range of technologically advanced products and services such as machinery, tooling, parts and applications expertise required for plastics processing techniques. The fourth segment supplies industrial fluids with formulations that meet various stringent performance, health and safety requirements in a variety of metalworking applications.
MKRS.OB Mikros Systems Corporation exploits the microprocessor technology developed at the General Electric Research and Development Center for the military defense industry. The Company has supplied technology and products to the Department of Defense for military applications through March 1998. The knowledge base and technology developed were recognized as applicable to the expanding commercial wireless business. In 1995, the Company decided to also pursue a business plan, which would employ these advanced techniques in order to enhance the data transmission rates in the amplitude modulation (AM) and frequency modulation (FM) radio spectrum. In April 1998, the Company sold its military contracts to an unrelated third party, who entered into a royalty agreement with Mikros, and was required to pay a 2% royalty on all data terminal sets sold over a four-year period that expired in April 2002.
MIKR Mikron Infrared, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets and services equipment and instruments for non-contact temperature measurement. Its products are typically used to measure the temperature of moving objects, or stationary objects in environments or situations where contact temperature measurement would be difficult, hazardous or impracticable, and wherever rapid temperature changes must be accurately tracked instantaneously. The predominant market for the Company's hand-held infrared thermometers is industrial quality control applications and maintenance. Mikron also markets its products to laboratories and original equipment manufacturers. In addition, the Company manufactures high-resolution thermal imaging products, and manufactures and/or markets contact temperature measurement devices, black body calibration sources and a variety of accessories and optional equipment for its infrared thermometers.
OSKY MidWestOne Financial Group, Inc., formerly known as Mahaska Investment Company, is a bank holding company that owns 100% of the stock of four bank subsidiaries, MidWestOne Bank &amp; Trust, Central Valley Bank, Pella State Bank and MidWestOne Bank. The Company also owns 100% of the stock of a commercial finance company MIC Financial, Inc. The bank subsidiaries engage in retail and commercial banking and related financial services, providing the usual products and services such as deposits, commercial, real estate and consumer loans and trust services. The banks serve customers in Benton, Black Hawk, Des Moines, Iowa, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa, Mahaska, Marion and Wapello counties in south central and eastern Iowa. MIC Financial has provided factoring, equipment leasing and accounts receivable financing to small business clients. The Company is no longer offering these services and is in the process of collecting the remaining assets of MIC Financial.
MBHI Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. is a community-based bank holding company. The Company, through its wholly owned banking subsidiaries, provides a range of services, including traditional banking services, personal and corporate trust services, residential mortgage services, insurance brokerage and retail securities brokerage services. Its principal operating subsidiaries are two Illinois community banks, Midwest Bank and Trust Company and Midwest Bank of Western Illinois (collectively the Banks). Porter Insurance Agency, Inc., a subsidiary of Midwest Bank of Western Illinois, acts as an insurance agency for individuals and corporations. Midwest Financial and Investment Services, Inc., a subsidiary of the Company, provides securities brokerage services. Midwest Bank Insurance Services, L.L.C., a subsidiary of Midwest Bank and Trust Company, acts as an insurance agency for individuals and corporations.
MEH Midwest Air Group, Inc. is a holding company for its principal subsidiary is Midwest Airlines, Inc. (Midwest Airlines), formerly known as Midwest Express Airlines, Inc. Midwest Airlines operates a passenger jet airline that serves major destinations throughout the United States from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Kansas City, Missouri. Skyway Airlines, Inc., doing business as Midwest Connect, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Midwest Airlines and serves as the regional airline for the Company. Midwest Airlines and Midwest Connect constitute the Company's segments.
MWY Midway Games Inc. develops and publishes interactive entertainment software. The Company's games are available for play in all the generation home videogame consoles and handheld game platforms, including Sony's PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, Microsoft's Xbox, Nintendo's GameCube and Game Boy Advance. The Company's games also include game genres such as action, adventure, driving, extreme sports, fighting, horror, role-playing, sports and strategy. Midway Games has released many videogames including Mortal Kombat, a line of games that has sold over 20 million copies, MLB SlugFest, SpyHunter, NHL Hitz, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing, Hydro Thunder, San Francisco Rush Extreme Racing, NFL Blitz, Area 51, Cruis'n USA, NBA Jam, Rampage, Gauntlet, Joust, Defender, Centipede, Asteroids and Pong. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Midway Games released 28 videogames and developed four M-rated titles for this generation of home consoles.
MSL MidSouth Bancorp, Inc. is a one-bank holding company that conducts substantially all of its business through its wholly owned subsidiary, MidSouth Bank, N. A. (the Bank). The Bank is a national banking association domiciled in Lafayette, Louisiana. The Bank provides a range of commercial and retail banking services primarily to professional, commercial and industrial customers in its market area. These services include, but are not limited to, interest bearing and non-interest bearing checking accounts, investment accounts, credit card services and loan products. The Bank is an United States government depository and is also a member of the Pulse network that provides its customers with automatic teller machine services through the GulfNet, Cirrus and Plus networks. A second subsidiary, Financial Services of the South, Inc., is in the process of liquidating its loan portfolio by accepting payments on existing loans with no new loans being made.
MCPH.OB Midland Capital Holdings Corporation is a bank holding company engaged in the business of commercial and retail banking through its wholly owned subsidiary, Midland Federal Savings and Loan Association (the Bank). The Bank has been principally engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the general public and using such deposits to originate residential mortgage, and, to a lesser extent, multi-family, consumer and other loans in its primary market area. It also has substantial investments in liquid assets, mortgage-backed securities and investment securities. The Bank's primary market area consists of southwest Chicago and the southwest suburban communities of Bridgeview, Oak Lawn, Palos Hills, Hickory Hills, Burbank, Chicago Ridge, Homer Glen, Lockport, Orland Park and Lemont, which it serves through its main office in Bridgeview and three branch offices in southwest Chicago.
DOLL.OB The Middleton Doll Company provides long-term collateralized loans to small businesses. The Company consists of two business segments: the Financial Services Business and the Consumer Products Business. The Financial Services Business segment consists of The Middleton Doll Company and its wholly owned subsidiary Bando McGlocklin Small Business Lending Corporation. The principal business of the segment is making loans and leasing buildings to small businesses. The Consumer Products Business segment consists of a 99% interest in Lee Middleton Original Dolls, Inc. (LMOD) which is a manufacturer of vinyl collectible dolls and a distributor of vinyl play dolls. LMOD has a wholly owned subsidiary, License Products, Inc. which designs, develops and markets a line of proprietary timepieces.
MSEX Middlesex Water Company owns and operates regulated water utility systems in central and southern New Jersey, Delaware and a regulated wastewater utility in southern New Jersey. The Company operates water and wastewater systems. The Company implemented a franchise agreement with the City of South Amboy to provide water service and install water system facilities in South Amboy. The Board of Public Utilities (BPU) approved the South Amboy franchise and its implementation impacted two agreements, the first agreement was for the sale of water to South Amboy on a wholesale basis and the second was for the provision of management services for a fixed-fee. Middlesex and Utility Service Affiliates, Inc. have jointly entered into a venture with an entity that offers meter installation and related services and the venture seeks to obtain bid service contracts with municipalities in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions, to offer service line maintenance program to residential customers.
MIDD The Middleby Corporation, through its subsidiary, Middleby Marshall Inc., is engaged in the design, manufacture, marketing, distribution and service of a line of cooking and warming equipment. The Company's products are used in all types of foodservice operations, including quick-service restaurants, full-service restaurants, retail outlets, hotels and other institutions. It conducts business through its business divisions, which include the Cooking Systems Group, which is the manufacturing division, and the International Distribution Division, which operates through Middleby Philippines Corporation (MPC). Its customers include fast-food or quick-service restaurants, full-service restaurants that include casual-theme restaurants, retail outlets such as convenience stores, supermarkets, department stores and public and private institutions, such as hotels, resorts, schools, hospitals, long-term care facilities, correctional facilities, stadiums, airports and government agencies.
MBRG Middleburg Financial Corporation is a bank holding company that conducts its primary operations through three wholly owned subsidiaries, Middleburg Bank (the Bank), Tredegar Trust Company and Gilkison Patterson Investment Advisors, Inc. (GPIA). The Company, through its subsidiaries, offers a range of banking, fiduciary and investment management services to individuals and small businesses. The Bank also offers automated teller machines, as well as Internet banking, travelers' checks, money orders, safe deposit rentals, collections, notary public, wire services and other traditional bank services to its customers. Tredegar provides a variety of investment management and fiduciary services. It can also serve as escrow agent, attorney-in-fact, guardian of property or trustee of an individual retirement account (IRA). GPIA is an investment advisor registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which provides fee-based investment management services to its clients.
MDS Midas, Inc. operates in a single vertically integrated business segment with retail, supply chain and real estate operations in support of automotive repair shops. The retail operations consist of franchised and company-operated Midas shops in North America and licensed Midas shops in 17 other countries. The supply chain activities include the manufacture and distribution of exhaust products, the operation of a warehouse network that distributed automotive parts and accessories to Midas and non-Midas automotive repair shops, and value-added merchandising services under which the Company establishes relationships with vendors who distribute products directly to Midas shops. The real estate activities include the development, ownership and leasing of Midas shops in North America.
MDST Mid-State Bancshares is the parent company to Mid-State Bank &amp; Trust (the Bank), its 100%-owned principal subsidiary. The Company, through the Bank, derives its income primarily from interest received on loans, and to a lesser extent, from interest on investment securities, fees received in connection with loans and other services offered, including loan servicing and deposit services. The Bank is a full-service community bank offering a broad range of banking products and services, including accepting time and demand deposits, originating loans and leases, providing trust services and making other investments. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had total assets of $2.2 billion, total deposits of $1.9 billion and total shareholders' equity of $273 million.
MBP Mid Penn Bancorp, Inc. (MPB or the Company) is a one-bank holding company. The Company's wholly owned subsidiaries include Mid Penn Bank (the Bank), which was acquired in December 1991; Mid Penn Insurance Services, LLC, which provides personal and investment insurance products, and Mid Penn Investment Corporation, which is engaged in investing activities. MPB's primary business consists of attracting deposits from its network of community banking offices operated by the Bank. The Bank engages in full-service commercial banking and trust business, making available to the community a range of financial services, including installment loans, personal loans, mortgage and home equity loans, secured and unsecured commercial and consumer loans, lines of credit, construction financing, farm loans, community development and local government loans and time and demand deposits. In addition, the Bank provides trust services through its Trust Department.
MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. is a self-administered and self-managed umbrella partnership real estate investment trust (REIT) that focuses on acquiring, owning and operating apartment communities. Between 1994 and December 31, 2003, the Company increased the number of properties of which it is the sole owner from 22 to 124 properties with 34,686 apartment units, representing an increase of 29,106 apartment units. The Company is also a participant in a joint venture with Crow Holdings, Mid-America CH/Realty LP (CH/Realty). CH/Realty owned three properties with 1,048 apartment units at December 31, 2003. The Company's business is conducted principally through Mid-America Apartments, L.P. (the Operating Partnership).
MFCO Microwave Filter Company, Inc. (MFC) designs, develops, manufactures and sells electronic filters, both for radio and microwave frequencies. Markets served include cable television, television and radio broadcast, satellite broadcast, mobile radio, commercial and defense electronics. MFC manufactures RF (radio frequency) filters and related components for eliminating interference and signal processing for markets, such as Cable Television, Broadcast, Mobile Communications, Avionics, Radar, Navigation and Defense Electronics. The Company designs waveguide, stripline/microstrip, transmission line, miniature/subminiature and lumped constant filters in filter styles, such as bandpass, highpass, lowpass, bandstop, multiplexers, tunable notch, tunable bandpass, high power filters, filter networks, amplitude equalized and delay equalized.
MVIS Microvision, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiary, Lumera Corporation, design and market information display and image capture products and products utilizing its optical and related materials technology. The Company is developing and seeks to commercialize technologies and products in two business segments relating to the display, capture and transmission of information: the Microvision segment, which develops and commercializes scanned beam technology for information displays and image capture products, and the Lumera segment, which develops and commercializes a class of organic, non-linear optical materials that can be used to change the properties of light waves used to transmit information.
TUNE Microtune, Inc. designs and markets radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits (IC) and subsystem module solutions for the worldwide broadband communications and transportation electronics markets. The Company's products are used for the delivery of broadband video, audio and data to consumers and businesses. Its products, which include tuners, amplifiers and upconverters, are used in a range of applications, including high-speed cable Internet access; analog, digital and high-definition television; television on a personal computer; in-car audio and video, and cable-based digital phone service. Microtune's products principally are marketed to original equipment manufacturers in the following two markets: Cable and Terrestrial Broadband Communications and Transportation Electronics.
MTMD Microtek Medical Holdings, Inc. conducts its business through its two primary operating units: Microtek Medical, Inc. (Microtek) and OREX Technologies International (OTI). Microtek, a subsidiary through which the Company conducts all of its operations, manufactures and sells infection control products, fluid control products, safety products and other products to healthcare professionals for use in environments such as operating rooms and ambulatory surgical centers. OTI is a division of the Company that focuses on the commercialization of its OREX degradable products and disposal technologies to the nuclear power generating industry. Microtek Medical Holdings sells its infection control products domestically through two channels or customer categories: hospital branded and contract manufacturing. It sells its products, bearing the Microtek brand, directly to hospitals and through large distributors.
MSTR MicroStrategy Incorporated is a worldwide provider of business intelligence software that enables companies to analyze the raw data stored across their enterprise to reveal the trends and insights needed to develop solutions to manage their business effectively. The Company's software delivers this information to workgroups and the enterprise and extranet communities via e-mail, Web, fax, wireless and voice communication channels. MicroStrategy 7i integrates a range of reporting, analysis, report delivery and alerting capabilities into a single platform, providing central management of security, administration, development and deployment. Businesses can use Microstrategy's software platform to develop user-friendly solutions, proactively refine revenue-generating strategies, enhance cost-efficiency and productivity and improve customer relationships.
MSFT Microsoft Corporation develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of software products for various computing devices. The Company's software products include scalable operating systems for servers, personal computers (PCs) and intelligent devices; server applications for client/server environments; information worker productivity applications; business solutions applications; software development tools, and mobile and embedded devices. Microsoft provides consulting services and product support services and trains and certifies system integrators and developers. The Company sells the Xbox video game console, along with games and peripherals. Its online businesses include the MSN subscription and the MSN network of Internet products and services. The Company's seven product segments are: Client, Server and Tools, Information Worker, Microsoft Business Solutions, MSN, Mobile and Embedded Devices and Home and Entertainment.
MSCC Microsemi Corporation (Microsemi) is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of high-performance analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits and high-reliability discrete semiconductors. The Company's semiconductors manage and control or regulate power, protect against transient voltage spikes and transmit, receive and amplify signals. Its products include individual components, as well as integrated circuit solutions that enhance customer designs by improving performance and reliability, battery optimization, reducing size or protecting circuits. The principal markets served include implanted medical, defense/aerospace and satellite, notebook computers and monitors, automotive and mobile connectivity applications.
MCRS MICROS Systems, Inc. is a worldwide designer, manufacturer, marketer and servicer of enterprise information solutions for the global hospitality and specialty retail industries. The information solutions consist of application-specific software and hardware systems, supplemented by a wide range of services. The hospitality industry includes numerous defined market segments, such as lodging (including individual hotel sites, hotel central reservation systems and customer information systems), table service restaurants, quick service restaurants, entertainment venues such as stadiums and arenas, business foodservice operations, casinos, transportation foodservice, government operations and cruise ships. The specialty retail industry consists of retail operations selling to consumers both general and specific products, such as clothing, shoes, supermarkets, hardware, jewelry and other specialty items. In January 2005, the Company acquired JTECH Communications.
MPAD.OB Micropac Industries, Inc. manufactures and distributes various types of hybrid microelectronic circuits, solid-state relays, power operational amplifiers, and optoelectronic components and assemblies. Its products are either custom, being application specific circuits designed and manufactured to meet the particular requirements of a single customer, or standard, proprietary components such as catalog items. The Company's products are used as components in a range of military, space and industrial systems, including aircraft instrumentation and navigation systems, power supplies, electronic controls, computers, medical devices and high-temperature products. Micropac's major customers include contractors to the United States government.
NOIZ Micronetics, Inc. manufactures microwave and radio frequency (RF) components and integrated sub-assemblies used in a variety of commercial wireless, defense and aerospace products, including satellite communications, electronic warfare and electronic counter-measures. The Company also manufactures and designs test equipment, sub-assemblies and components that are used to test the strength, durability and integrity of signals in communications equipment. Micronetics operates in two business groups: Defense Electronics and Commercial Products. Of the Company's consolidated sales, during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Raytheon accounted for 13.8% and Aerosat accounted for 10.1%. Other customers of Micronetics include Alcatel, Boeing, BAE Systems, Credence, Ericsson, L-3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, NEC, QualComm, Southwest Research, Tektronix, Teradyne and Thales. Direct government customers include Hill AFB, NAVICP and CECOM.
MU Micron Technology, Inc. is a global manufacturer and marketer of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Flash memory and complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors. The Company's products are offered in a variety of package and configuration options, architectures, and performance characteristics tailored to meet application and customer needs. The Company's products are used in a broad range of electronic devices, including personal computers, workstations, servers, cell phones, digital still cameras, and other consumer and industrial products. The Company's DRAM products are classified as Core DRAM or Specialty memory. The Company's Core DRAM products consist of double data rate synchronous DRAM (DDR) and DDR2. The Company's Specialty memory products include the Company's legacy DRAM, pseudo-static RAM (PSRAM), mobile SDRAM and reduced latency DRAM (RLDRAM) products.
MSEV.OB Micron Enviro Systems, Inc. originally manufactured low cost housing in Argentina and developed waste oil recycling technology in Canada and the United States. The Company later decided to shift its focus of business to the recycling of hydraulic oil. It then completed the research and development of technology designed to recycle hydraulic oil. It also completed a market analysis and feasibility study regarding the recycling of hydraulic oil. It then determined that it was not in its best interests or its shareholders' to conduct this type of business. At present, the Company is an exploration stage oil and gas company.
MUSE Micromuse, Inc. develops, markets and supports a family of scalable, highly configurable, rapidly deployable software solutions that enable service and business assurance; the effective monitoring of the status of multiple devices and elements underlying an information technology (IT) service delivery infrastructure to help provide the continuous availability of IT-based services and businesses. The Micromuse Netcool product suite collects, normalizes and consolidates high volumes of event information from heterogeneous network management environments into an active database that de-duplicates and correlates the resulting data in real time. It then rapidly distributes graphical views of the information to operators and administrators responsible for monitoring service levels. Netcool's architecture allows for the rapid, programmer less association of devices and specific attributes of those devices to the business services they impact.
MMTIF.OB Micromem Technologies Inc. is engaged in the development of memory technologies having the characteristic of non-volatility, which is the ability to retain information after power has been shut off. The Company's technology is based on ferromagnetism, which consists of microscopic magnetic elements and Hall effect sensors deposited on a substrate of silicon or glass. Micromem's horizontal element magnetic memory technology, HEMRAM, involves producing hybrid memories based on an in-plane magnetization mechanism of horizontally oriented micron-scale ferromagnetic thin films that act as storage elements. Its vertical element magnetic memory technology, VEMRAM, uses a novel hybrid Hall effect MRAM scheme, which utilizes out-of-plane magnetization induced by vertically oriented high-aspect-ratio ferromagnetic posts.
MII MicroIslet, Inc. is a biotechnology company engaged in the research, development and commercialization of technologies in the field of transplantation therapy for people with insulin-dependent diabetes. The Company's islet transplantation technology, exclusively licensed from Duke University, includes methods for isolating, culturing, cryopreservation and immuno-protection (microencapsulation) of islet cells. MicroIslet intends to seek United States Food and Drug Administration approval for, and bring to market, a product, MicroIslet-P. MicroIslet-P will be an injectable suspension of microencapsulated porcine islet cells for the treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes. MicroIslet-P is intended to be administered into the patient's abdominal cavity, where the transplanted islet cells will produce insulin in response to increases in blood glucose, much like the patient's original pancreatic islet cells that have been destroyed by disease.
MFI MicroFinancial Incorporated is a specialized commercial finance company that leases and rents "microticket" equipment and provides other financing services in amounts generally ranging from $400 to $15,000, with an average amount financed of approximately $1,900 and an average lease term of 44 months. The Company operates primarily through its wholly owned subsidiary, Leasecomm Corporation. MicroFinancial provides financing to lessees that may have few other sources of credit. The Company primarily leases and rents low-priced commercial equipment, which is used by these lessees in their daily operations. MicroFinancial does not market its services directly to lessees, but sources leasing transactions through a nationwide network of independent sales organizations and other dealer-based origination networks.
MICG.OB Microfield Group, Inc. specializes in the installation of electrical products and services. The Company provides electrical and technology products and services for a range of end use customers in the western United States. During the fiscal year ended January 03, 2004 (fiscal 2003), the Company completed two additional acquisitions. In September 2003, the Company acquired privately held Velagio, Inc. (Velagio) and Christenson Technology Services, Inc. (CTS). In December 2003, the service and technology teams of Velagio and CTS were consolidated into one subsidiary under the name Christenson Velagio, Inc. (CVI). The newly formed organization conducts business in the electrical services and technology infrastructure sectors. During fiscal 2003, the Company made the decision to discontinue the operations of IST and Velagio. As of fiscal year-end January 3, 2004, Microfield has one wholly owned subsidiary, Christenson Velagio, Inc.
MCHP Microchip Technology Inc. develops and manufactures specialized semiconductor products used by its customers for embedded control applications. The Company's product portfolio consists of the PIC micro field-reprogrammable (Flash) reduced instruction set computer (RISC) microcontrollers that serve eight- and 16-bit embedded control applications, and linear and mixed-signal, power management and thermal management devices. It also offers microperipheral products, including interface devices, serial electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) and its application-specific standard products (ASSPs). This product portfolio targets thousands of applications and a growing demand for high-performance designs in the automotive, communications, computing, consumer and industrial control markets.
MTIX Micro Therapeutics, Inc. (MTI) manufactures and markets minimally invasive medical devices for the diagnosis and treatment of vascular disease. The Company focuses its efforts in two target markets: the treatment of neuro vascular disorders of the brain associated with stroke, and the treatment of peripheral vascular disease, including blood clot therapy in hemodialysis access grafts, arteries and veins. Mite's products and products under development for the neuro vascular market are focused on treating disorders such as aneurysms and arterial-venous malformations (AVMs). The portfolio consists of Sapphire and Sapphire NXT Detachable Coils; Onyx, and access and delivery products that include guide wires, balloon catheters and micro catheters. The Company's products in the peripheral vascular market, designed for less invasive treatment of blood clots, include an offering of infusion catheters, micro catheters and infusion wires and the Castaneda Over-The-Wire Brush.
MLIN Micro Linear Corporation develops integrated circuits that are designed to enable digital wireless communications and connectivity for a broad range of applications and markets. Consumer applications that incorporate its integrated circuits include digital cordless phones, wireless headsets and audio headphones, home theatre speakers, digital baby monitors, video game controllers and computer peripherals. Industrial applications that incorporate its products include lighting controls, home automation products, heating and cooling controls, vending machine controls, automatic meter reading devices, environmental monitoring devices and mesh networking nodes. The Company's products are intended to replace designs that require wires to transfer information.
MLAR.OB Micro Laboratories, Inc. (Micro) produces, markets and distributes a line of oral Spray vitamins, trade name Micro SprayT. Micro intends to produce, market and distribute an additional product line of, minerals, herbs and other oral absorption products in the United States and the international market. The Company has six different nutritional health products. All natural ingredients are used in each product. The price of the products ranges from retail pricing of approximately $7 to $40 and wholesale prices of $5 to $20. Its products are Adult Multiple Vitamin, Children's Multiple Vitamin, Vitamin B-12, Adult B-Complex with C, Children's B-Complex with C and Zinc plus Vitamin C.
MCTI.OB Micro Component Technology, Inc. is a supplier of integrated automation solutions for the global semiconductor test and assembly industry. The Company offers equipment automation solutions for the test, laser mark, mark inspect, singulation, sort and packaging for shipment portions of the back-end of the semiconductor manufacturing process. The Company's solutions include a series of integrated Smart Solutions, automated test handlers, factory automation software and equipment integration services. Its customers include semiconductor companies such as Microchip Technologies, Analog Devices, National Semiconductor, Phillips Semiconductor, Cypress Semiconductor and ST Microelectronics. It also offers its products to back-end contract test and assembly companies, including Amkor and NS Electronics Bangkok.
MCRL Micrel, Incorporated designs, develops, manufactures and markets a range of analog power integrated circuits (ICs), mixed-signal and digital ICs. The Company ships over 2,000 standard products, and derived the majority of its product revenue for 2003 from sales of standard analog and high speed communications ICs. These products serve a range of end markets including cellular handsets, portable computing, enterprise and home networking, wide area and metropolitan area networks and industrial equipment. The Company also provides custom and foundry services, which include silicon wafer fabrication, IC assembly and testing. Its custom circuits and wafer foundry services are provided to a range of customers that produce electronic systems for communications, consumer, automotive and military applications.
MIK Michaels Stores, Inc. is an art and crafts specialty retailer providing materials, ideas and education for creative activities. During the year ended January 31, 2004 (fiscal 2003), the Company operated 812 retail stores in 48 states in Canada and its offerings are art and craft supplies and products for the do-it-yourself home decorator. It also operates 158 Aaron Brothers stores in nine states that offer photo frames, a line of ready-made frames, custom framing services and art supplies. The Company's scarpbooking/paper crafting retail, ReCollections, operate two stores in Texas, which provides merchandise, accessories and scrapbooking and paper crafting support services. The Company also owns and operates Artistree, a vertically integrated frame and moulding manufacturing operation and two Star Wholesale stores that offer merchandise to interior decorators/designers, wedding/events planners, florists, hotels, restaurants and commercial display companies.
BKR Michael Baker Corporation provides engineering and energy expertise for public and private sector clients worldwide through its subsidiaries. The Company's three reportable segments are Engineering, Energy and Non-Core. The Engineering segment provides a variety of design and related consulting services. The Energy segment provides a range of total asset management services for operating energy production facilities worldwide including outsourcing solutions to specific services such as training, personnel recruitment and pre-operations engineering. The Non-Core segment includes activity associated with the former buildings and transportation construction operations that are being wound down and the former subsidiary, Baker Support Services, Inc.
MHO M/I Homes, Inc. and its subsidiaries sell and construct single-family homes to the first-time, move-up, empty-nester and luxury buyers under the M/I Homes and Showcase Homes trade names. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company delivered 4,148 homes. The Company's homes are sold in nine geographic markets: Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio; Tampa, Orlando and West Palm Beach, Florida; Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; Indianapolis, Indiana, and the Virginia and Maryland suburbs of Washington, District of Columbia. The Company is divided into two segments, homebuilding and financial services. The homebuilding segment generates the majority of its revenue from the sale of completed homes, with a lesser amount from the sale of land and lots. The financial services segment generates its revenue from originating and selling mortgages and collecting fees for title insurance and closing services.
MIM MI Developments Inc. (MID) is a real estate operating company engaged in the ownership, management, leasing, development and acquisition of income-producing industrial and commercial real estate properties in North America and Europe. In addition to its real estate business operation, it has other operations held through a controlling interest in Magna Entertainment Corp. (MEC). The Company is the successor corporation to four companies that amalgamated, on August 29, 2003, under the Business Corporations Act (Ontario): 1305291 Ontario Inc., 1305272 Ontario Inc., 1276073 Ontario Inc. and MI Developments Inc. MEC represented 51% of MID's consolidated assets, at December 31, 2003, and 86% of its consolidated revenue during the year ended December 31, 2003.
MGPI MGP Ingredients, Inc. is a fully integrated producer of certain ingredients and distillery products operating in two reportable segments, ingredients and distillery products. Ingredients consist of specialty ingredients, consisting primarily of specialty wheat starches and specialty wheat proteins, commodity ingredients, including commodity wheat starches and vital wheat gluten, and mill feeds. Distillery products consist of food-grade alcohol, including beverage alcohol and industrial alcohol, fuel alcohol, commonly known as ethanol, and distillers grain and carbon dioxide, which are by-products of the Company's distillery operations. The Company processes its products at plants located in Atchison, Kansas, and Pekin, Illinois. It also operates a facility in Kansas City, Kansas, for the further processing and extrusion of wheat proteins and starches.
MGG MGM MIRAGE acts largely as a holding company and, through wholly owned subsidiaries, operates hotel, casino and entertainment resorts. The Company's operations consist of 12 wholly owned casino resorts and 50% investments in two other casino resorts, including the Bellagio, MGM Grand Las Vegas, The Mirage, Treasure Island, New York-New York Hotel and Casino, Boardwalk Hotel and Casino and Monte Carlo Resort &amp; Casino (50% owned) in Las Vegas, Nevada; The Primm Valley Resorts in Primm, Nevada; Beau Rivage in Biloxi, Mississippi; MGM Grand Detroit; Borgata (50%-owned) in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and MGM Grand Australia in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. MGM generates a majority of its net revenues and operating income from the Las Vegas Strip resorts. In 2003, over 75% of its net revenues and operating income was generated by wholly owned Las Vegas Strip resorts.
MTG MGIC Investment Corporation is a holding company that, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC), provides private mortgage insurance in the United States to the home mortgage lending industry. Its principal products are primary mortgage insurance and pool mortgage insurance. Primary mortgage insurance may be written on a flow basis, in which loans are insured in individual, loan-by-loan transactions, or may be written on a bulk basis, in which a portfolio of loans is individually insured in a single, bulk transaction. It is licensed in all 50 states of the United States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. In addition to mortgage insurance on first liens, the Company provides lenders with various underwriting and other services and products related to home mortgage lending through other subsidiaries.
MOGN MGI PHARMA, Inc. is an oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company that acquires, develops and commercializes proprietary pharmaceutical products that meet cancer patient needs. The Company's marketed products include Aloxi (palonosetron hydrochloride) injection, Salagen Tablets (pilocarpine hydrochloride) and Hexalen (altretamine) capsules. MGI began promotion of Aloxi (palonosetron hydrochloride) injection, in September 2003, in the United States for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. It markets Salagen Tablets (pilocarpine hydrochloride) in the United States to oncologists as a treatment for the symptoms of radiation-induced dry mouth in head and neck cancer patients and to rheumatologists as a treatment for dry mouth associated with the autoimmune disease Sjogren's syndrome. Hexalen capsules are an orally administered chemotherapeutic agent approved in the United States for treatment of refractory ovarian cancer patients.
MGEE Madison Gas and Electric Company (MGE) is a regulated electric and gas utility. MGE generates and distributes electricity to nearly 132,000 customers in Dane County, Wisconsin, including the city of Madison. Of the total number of customers, approximately 114,500 were residential and 17,500 were commercial and industrial. The Company also purchases and distributes natural gas to more than 129,000 customers in 1,375 square miles of service territory in seven south-central Wisconsin counties. MGE is a wholly owned subsidiary of MGE Energy, Inc., and represents a substantial portion of its assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses and operations.
MFRI MFRI, Inc. is a holding company that has subsidiaries engaged in the manufacture and sale of products in three business segments: filtration products, piping systems and industrial process cooling equipment. In the Filtration Products Business, which is conducted by Midwesco Filter Resources, Inc., the Company manufactures and sells a variety of filter elements for cartridge collectors and baghouse air filtration and particulate collection systems. In the Piping Systems Business, which is conducted by Perma-Pipe, Inc., it engineers, designs and manufactures specialty piping systems and leak detection and location systems. In the industrial process cooling equipment business, which is conducted by Thermal Care, Inc., MFRI engineers, designs and manufactures coolers for industrial purposes.
MFIC.OB MFIC Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Microfluidics Corporation, specializes in manufacturing and marketing a line of Microfluidizer high shear fluid materials processing systems used in numerous applications in the coatings, pharmaceutical, biotech, food and cosmetics industries. Microfluidizer high shear fluid processor systems are produced at the Microfluidics Division. Until its sale on February 9, 2004, the Company operated its Morehouse-COWLES Division, which manufactured and sold a line of mechanical fluid materials processing systems used for a variety of grinding, dispersing, milling and blending applications across a variety of industries. The Morehouse-COWLES Division, which was sold to NuSil, manufactured and distributed high shear dispersers, dissolvers, colloid mills, horizontal media mills and vertical media mills, and sold grinding media for such equipment.
MXBIF MFC Bancorp Ltd. is an international merchant banking company that provides specialized banking and corporate finance services and advice to its subsidiaries and its clients on corporate strategy and structure, including mergers and acquisitions and capital raising. The Company also engages in trading of commodities, natural resources and securities, as well as in investing of its own capital in enterprises to realize long-term or trading gains. It generally invests in businesses or assets whose intrinsic value is not properly reflected in their share or other price, often as a result of financial or other distress affecting them. MFC Bancorp generally seeks investments where its financial and management expertise can add or unlock value. The Company makes its investments as part of its overall merchant banking activities and is realized upon over time.
MFBC MFB Corp. is an Indiana unitary savings and loan holding company and is a parent company of its wholly owned savings bank subsidiary, MFB Financial (the Bank). The Bank offers a variety of lending, deposit, trust and other financial services to its retail and business customers. The Bank's wholly owned subsidiary, Mishawaka Financial Services, Inc., offers general property, casualty, life and health insurance to customers in the Bank's market area. The Bank's wholly owned subsidiaries, MFB Investments I, Inc., MFB Investments II, Inc. and MFB Investments, LP are Nevada corporations and a Nevada limited partnership that manage a portion of the Bank's investment portfolio.
MFA MFA Mortgage Investments, Inc. is a self-advised real estate investment trust (REIT) primarily engaged in the business of investing, on a leveraged basis, in mortgage-backed securities (MBS), which include adjustable-rate MBS and hybrid MBS (collectively, ARM-MBS). The Company's ARM-MBS consist primarily of MBS issued or guaranteed by an agency of the United States government, such as the Government National Mortgage Association, or a federally chartered corporation, such as Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, and, to a lesser extent, high-quality ARM-MBS rated in one of the two highest rating categories by at least one nationally recognized rating agency, such as Moody's Investors Services, Inc., Standard &amp; Poor's Corporation or Fitch, Inc. The Company also invests in multi-family apartment properties; limited partnerships, REITs or preferred stock of real estate-related corporations, or other fixed-income instruments.
MFW M &amp; F Worldwide Corp. is a holding company that conducts its operations primarily through its indirect wholly owned subsidiary, Pneumo Abex Corporation. The Company produces a variety of licorice flavors from licorice root, intermediary licorice flavors produced by others and certain other ingredients at its facilities in the United States, France and in the People's Republic of China. Over 70% of M &amp; F Wordwide's licorice sales are to the worldwide tobacco industry for use as flavoring and moistening agents in the manufacture of American blend cigarettes, moist snuff, chewing tobacco and pipe tobacco. The Company also sells licorice to worldwide confectioners, food processors and pharmaceutical manufacturers for use as flavoring or masking agents. In addition, it sells licorice root residue as garden mulch under the name Right Dress.
CASA Mexican Restaurants, Inc. operates and franchises Mexican-theme restaurants featuring various elements associated with the casual dining experience under the names Casa Ole, Monterey's Tex-Mex Cafe, Monterey's Little Mexico, Tortuga Coastal Cantina, La Senorita and Crazy Jose. Mexican operates 64 restaurants, franchises 22 restaurants and licenses one restaurant in various communities across Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Michigan. The Casa Ole, Monterey, La Senorita and Crazy Jose restaurants are located primarily in small and medium-sized communities, and middle-income areas of larger markets. The Tortuga Coastal Cantina restaurants are located primarily in Houston suburban markets. Menus feature a variety of traditional Mexican and Tex-Mex selections, complemented by the Company's own Mexican-based recipes.
MXC Mexco Energy Corporation is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of oil and gas properties located in the United States. The Company primarily focuses on the exploration for, and development of, natural gas resources. While it owns oil and gas properties in other states, the majority of its activities are centered in west Texas. Mexco acquires interests in producing and non-producing oil and gas leases from landowners and leaseholders in areas considered favorable for oil and gas exploration, development and production. In addition, it may acquire oil and gas interests by joining in oil and gas drilling prospects generated by third parties.
MTD Mettler-Toledo International Inc. is a global supplier of precision instruments and services. The Company manufactures weighing instruments for use in laboratory, industrial, packaging, logistics, food retailing applications and several related analytical instruments. It also provides automated chemistry solutions used in drug and chemical compound discovery and development. In addition, it manufactures metal detection and other end-of-line inspection systems used in production and packaging, and provides solutions for use in certain process analytics applications. The Company's customers are in the life science industry, pharmaceutical and biotech companies and independent research organizations; food producers, food retailers, the beverage industry, specialty chemicals and cosmetics companies, and the transportation and logistics industry, the metals industry, the electronics industry and the academic market.
MX Metso Corporation is a global engineering company serving customers in selected areas within the process industry. The Company's operations are organized into four business areas: Metso Paper, Metso Minerals, Metso Automation and Metso Ventures. Metso Paper designs, develops and manufactures pulp and paper machinery and equipment, and complete production lines for the pulp and paper industry. Metso Minerals designs, develops and manufactures equipment and total solutions, as well as aftermarket solutions for rock and minerals processing industries. Metso Automation designs, develops and supplies both process automation and field solutions for automation and information management in selected process industries through its two business lines: Process Automation Systems and Field Systems. Metso Ventures is comprised of Metso Panelboard, Metso Drives, Foundries, Metso Powdermet and Valmet Automotive. In January 2005, Terex Corporation acquired the Company's Reedrill division.
MTCH Nortem N.V., formerly Metron Technology N.V., is a global provider of outsource solutions to the semiconductor industry. The Company is focused on delivering outsourcing alternatives to semiconductor device manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers (OEM's) and suppliers of production materials. The Company provides semiconductor device manufacturers with an alternative for outsourcing non-core, critical functions of the wafer fabrication facility (fab). It provides OEMs with an outsourcing alternative for manufacturing, marketing, sales and service of previous generation equipment. Metron provides semiconductor industry suppliers with comprehensive marketing, sales, service and support solutions. During the fiscal year ended May 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company reorganized into two new worldwide operating groups: Fab Solutions Group and Equipment Solutions Group.
MTRM.OB Metromedia International Group, Inc. (MIG) is a holding company owning interests in business ventures through its wholly owned subsidiary, Metromedia International Telecommunications, Inc., which principally provides telecommunication services to customers in Northwestern Russia and the Republic of Georgia. MIG's interests in the business ventures are managed and operated in three business segments: fixed telephony, wireless telephony and cable television. In September 2004, the Company disposed its wholly owned radio business unit, Metromedia International Inc., which consisted of 17 of the MIG's 18 radio businesses operating in Finland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Estonia and the Czech Republic.
MTLG Metrologic Instruments, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets market bar code scanning and high-speed automated data capture solutions using laser, holographic and vision-based technologies. The Company offers expertise in 1D and 2D bar code reading, optical character recognition, image lift and parcel dimensioning and singulation detection for customers in retail, commercial, manufacturing, transportation and logistics and postal and parcel delivery industries. In addition, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Adaptive Optics Associates, Inc., the Company produces adaptive optical systems that include precision laser beam delivery, high speed imaging control and data processing, industrial inspection and scanning and dimensioning systems for the aerospace and defense industry in the United States and Canada. The Company's business is divided into two major segments: Point-of-Sale/Original Equipment Manufacturers (POS/OEM) and Industrial Scanning and Optical.
MGS Metrogas S.A. is a natural gas distribution company operating in Argentina. The Company has over 1.9 million customers in its service area, which includes the City of Buenos Aires and southern and eastern greater metropolitan Buenos Aires. During the year ended December 31, 2003, sales to residential customers accounted for approximately 59% of net sales, while sales of gas and of transportation and distribution services to industrial and commercial customers and governmental entities accounted for approximately 20.6% of the Company's net sales. The remainder of Metrogas' sales of natural gas and of transportation and distribution services was to power plants and suppliers of, and dealers in, compressed natural gas used as vehicle fuel. The Company's distribution system consists of approximately 15,780 kilometers of principal and service-distribution mains and service pipelines. Metrogas purchases natural gas primarily from producers in southern and western Argentina.
MCBI MetroCorp Bancshares, Inc. serves as a holding company for MetroBank, National Association (the Bank). The Company, through the Bank, generates earnings from several sources. The Bank attracts customer deposits through its 14 branches located in Houston and Dallas, Texas. The types of deposits vary from noninterest-bearing demand deposit transaction accounts to interest-bearing negotiable order of withdrawal and money market transaction accounts, savings accounts, as well as various termed time deposits such as certificates of deposit and individual retirement accounts. With the funds attracted from the communities surrounding the branches, the Bank originates loans to individuals and small businesses to finance business operations, purchases of real estate or other business opportunities.
MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM) is a global entertainment content company. Through its subsidiaries, including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., MGM is actively engaged in the development and worldwide production and distribution of entertainment products, including theatrical motion pictures, television programming, home video, interactive media, music and licensed merchandise. The Company's principal subsidiaries are Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., United Artists Corporation, United Artists Films Inc. and Orion Pictures Corporation. Its library contains approximately 4,000 theatrically released feature film titles and over 10,400 television episodes. In addition, through MGM Networks, the Company has ownership interests in television channels that are distributed to subscribers in over 100 countries and territories around the globe.
INFO Metro One Telecommunications, Inc. (Metro One) is a developer and provider of Enhanced Directory Assistance and other information services. It contracts primarily with wireless carriers to provide these services to its subscribers. The Company offers a variety of information and services, including directory listings information, which may be retrieved by methods that include reverse and category searches; contacts and calendar management and other personal assistant services; movie, local event and venue information; TeleConcierge services, including hotel and restaurant information and reservations; turn-by-turn driving instructions, and weather conditions and roadside assistance. Enhanced Directory Assistance also includes a number of connectivity features, such as StarBack, AutoBack, NumberBack and QuickSend.
MXT Metris Companies Inc. (MCI) provides financial products and services throughout the United States. Its primary line of business is the credit card business. The Company's credit card products are primarily unsecured credit cards issued through a subsidiary, Direct Merchants Credit Card Bank, National Association. These credit cards generate consumer loans, which, in turn, generate income and cash flow from principal, interest and fee payments. The sales of the Company's other consumer financial products, such as credit protection products, generate additional cash flow. MCI targets primarily middle-market customers. Direct Merchants Bank obtains information about prospective customers in the middle market from credit bureau information as well as from other third-party sources including other companies' customer lists and databases.
MTEK.OB Metretek Technologies, Inc. is a diversified provider of energy technology measurement products, services and data management systems to industrial and commercial users and suppliers of natural gas and electricity. The Company conducts its operations through three subsidiaries: Southern Flow Companies, Inc., PowerSecure, Inc. and Metretek, Incorporated. Southern Flow provides natural gas measurement services principally to producers and operators of natural gas production facilities. PowerSecure designs, engineers, sells and manages distributed generation systems that are marketed to industrial and commercial users of electricity. Metretek, Incorporated provides data collection, telemetry and other types of machine-to-machine connectivity solutions. In January 2004, the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Metretek, Incorporated (Metretek Florida), sold its contract manufacturing operation to Instrutech Florida, LLC.
MPR Met-Pro Corporation (Met-Pro) manufactures and sells product recovery/pollution control equipment for purification of air and liquids and fluid handling equipment for corrosive, abrasive and high-temperature liquids. It operates in two business segments: the Product Recovery/Pollution Control Equipment Segment and the Fluid Handling Equipment Segment. The Company, which operates through 10 divisions and five wholly owned subsidiaries, markets and sells its products through its own personnel, distributors, representatives and agents based on the division or subsidiary involved. Its products are sold worldwide primarily in industrial markets.
MET MetLife, Inc., through its affiliates and subsidiaries, is a provider of insurance and other financial services to a spectrum of individual and institutional customers. The Company offers life insurance, annuities, automobile and homeowners insurance and mutual funds to individuals, as well as group insurance, reinsurance, and retirement and savings products and services to corporations and other institutions. The MetLife companies serve approximately 13 million households in the United States and provide benefits to approximately 37 million employees and family members through their plan sponsors. MetLife, Inc. also has direct international insurance operations in 10 countries serving approximately eight million customers.
METH Methode Electronics, Inc. is a global manufacturer of component and subsystem devices with manufacturing, design and testing facilities in the United States, Mexico, Malta, United Kingdom, Germany, Czech Republic, Singapore and China. The Company designs, manufactures and markets devices employing electrical, electronic, wireless, sensing and optical technologies. Methode's components are found in the primary end markets of the automotive, communications, including information processing and storage, networking equipment, wireless and terrestrial voice/data systems, aerospace, rail and other transportation industries, and the consumer and industrial equipment markets. Its business is managed on three product based-segments: Electronic, employs electronic processes to control and convey signals; Optical employs light to control and convey signals, and Other manufactures bus systems to provide services for qualification testing and certification of electronic and optical components.
MEOH Methanex Corporation is a producer and marketer of methanol, a liquid commodity chemical produced primarily from natural gas, and typically used as a chemical feedstock in the manufacture of other products. Roughly 80% of all methanol is used in the production of formaldehyde, acetic acid and a variety of other chemicals that form the basis of a large number of chemical derivatives. The remainder of methanol demand comes from the fuel sector, principally as a component in the production of methyl tertiary butyl ether, which is blended with gasoline as a source of octane, and as an oxygenate to reduce the amount of tailpipe emissions from motor vehicles. The Company operates methanol production facilities located in Chile, Trinidad, New Zealand and Canada. In addition, it sources additional methanol produced by others throughout the world in order to meet customer needs and support its marketing efforts.
MSLV MetaSolv, Inc. designs, develops, markets and supports a portfolio of software solutions that automate and streamline service fulfillment processes for communications service providers through its wholly owned subsidiary MetaSolv Software, Inc., MetaSolv's capabilities include order management, inventory management, and service activation solutions that automate the order-to-activate service provisioning process for all types of traditional and next-generation services, including voice, data, digital subscriber line (DSL), Internet protocol virtual private networks (IP VPN), voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and others. MetaSolv's solutions help simplify service introduction, accelerate service delivery time, and reduce operating costs and capital expenditures. The Company sells its software directly through its worldwide sales force that has direct representation in North America, South America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.
MUSA Metals USA, Inc. is a provider of value-added processed steel, aluminum and specialty metals, as well as manufactured metal components. The Company's operations are organized into three product group segments, such as Flat Rolled and Plates and Shapes and Building Product Group, which manufactures and distributes aluminum products related to the residential and commercial construction and improvement industry. The Flat Rolled Group customers are in businesses such as machining, furniture, transportation equipment, power and process equipment, industrial/commercial, construction/fabrication, consumer durables and electrical equipment industries and machinery and equipment manufacturers. The Building Products Group customers are distributors and contractors engaged in residential and commercial building products.
MRB Metallica Resources Inc. is engaged in the business of exploring for precious and base metals in North and South America, principally Mexico and Chile. Through its subsidiaries, the Company has held interests in mineral exploration projects in Mexico, Chile and Brazil. Metallica's mineral development and exploration activities are focused on the Cerro San Pedro gold/silver project in Mexico, the El Morro copper/gold project in Chile and the MIMK copper/gold project in Chile and other preliminary stage gold projects in Chile. In November 2003, the Company entered into an option agreement to sell its 100% interest in the Mara Rosa project in Brazil.
MTLK Metalink Ltd. designs, develops and markets digital subscriber line (DSL) chipsets used by manufacturers of telecommunication equipment. The Company's chipsets enable the digital transmission of voice, video and data over copper wire communications lines at speeds that are faster than transmission rates provided by conventional analog modems. Its chipsets include two individual integrated circuits (chips) and include an analog front-end (AFE) for line interfacing with analog signals and a digital signal processor (DSP)/framer for signal and data processing of the messages being transmitted. Metalink is also engage in the research and development of high-throughput-wireless local area network (HT-WLAN) chipsets. Solutions under this category enable transport of digital broadband media, including video, voice and data at higher rates than conventional wireless local area networking (WLAN) solutions.
MTSX Metal Storm Limited is a defense technology company that owns an electronic ballistics technology. The Company's technology has no known conventional equivalent. It is working with government agencies and companies in the defense industry to develop a variety of military and civilian applications for the technology. The Company has not completed developing its technology and has not yet begun to market or generate revenue from the commercialization of the technology. Metal Storm is focusing its product development and working towards the commercialization of its technology. The Company's internal product development is focused on five applications across two platforms. Its technology may be used across a wide range of calibers, including the 40-millimeter and nine-millimeter calibers. Metal Storm is seeking external funding from the military and government agencies to develop products in collaboration with other parties.
MTLM Metal Management, Inc. is a full-service metals recycler in the United States, with recycling facilities located in 13 states. The Company is engaged in the business of collecting and processing ferrous and non-ferrous metals in the United States. The Company collects industrial scrap and obsolete scrap metal, processes it into reusable forms and supplies the recycled metals to its customers, including electric arc furnace mills, integrated steel mills, foundries, secondary smelters and metals brokers. The Company's ferrous products include shredded, sheared, cold briquetted, bundled scrap, turnings and broken furnace iron. Metal Management also processes non-ferrous metals, including aluminum, stainless steel, copper, brass, titanium and high-temperature alloys, using similar techniques and through application of certain of its technologies.
MBRX Metabasis Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of small-molecule drugs to treat liver diseases and metabolic diseases linked to pathways in the liver. It has three product candidates: CS-917, a product candidate for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, which is in Phase II clinical trial; Hepavir B, a product candidate for the treatment of hepatitis B, which is in Phase I/II clinical trials, and MB07133, a product candidate for the treatment of primary liver cancer, which is in Phase I/II clinical trials. In addition to its clinical stage programs, the Company has research programs focused on metabolic diseases linked to pathways in the liver, such as type 2 diabetes, hyperlipidemia and obesity, as well as liver diseases, such as hepatitis C and liver fibrosis. It has developed two technologies: NuMimetic and HepDirect.
METG META Group, Inc. is a provider of information technology (IT) research, advisory services and strategic consulting. The Company's services and products come in a range of interaction models ranging from written content to in-depth customized consulting. Its product lines provide flexible access to market assessment and analytical expertise in three categories: Advisory Services, Strategic Consulting and Published Research Products. META Group targets as its clients' commercial and governmental users of IT and IT vendors. IT user organizations utilize the Company's research, analysis and recommendations to develop and employ cost-effective and revenue-enhancing strategies for selecting and implementing timely IT solutions and also for aligning these solutions with business priorities. IT vendors use META Group's services for help in product positioning, marketing and market planning, as well as for internal IT decision making.
MCC Mestek, Inc. is composed of two distinct businesses or operating segments: the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) Segment, and the Metal Forming Segment, which manufactures metal-forming equipment. The HVAC segment sells its products to independent wholesale supply distributors, mechanical, sheet metal and other contractors, in some cases to other HVAC manufacturers under original equipment manufacture (OEM) agreements. The Metal Forming Segment operates under the umbrella name Formtek and is composed of several closely related entities, all manufacturers, remanufacturers or distributors of equipment used in the Metal Forming industry and sells its products through factory direct sales and independent dealers, in most cases to end-users and in some cases to other original equipment manufacturers.
MSB Mesabi Trust (the Trust Estate) was incorporated upon the liquidation of Mesabi Iron Company. The sole purpose of the Trust, as set forth in the agreement of trust, is to conserve and protect the Trust Estate and to collect and distribute the income and proceeds therefrom to the Trust's certificate holders after the payment of, or provision for, expenses and liabilities. The agreement of trust prohibits the Trust from engaging in any business. The lessee/operator of Mesabi Trust's mineral interests is Northshore Mining Corporation (NMC), a subsidiary of Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (CCI). CCI is a producer of iron ore products.
MTR Mesa Royalty Trust (the Trust) is a trust company with JPMorgan Chase Bank as the Trustee. The Trust was created when Mesa Petroleum Co. conveyed to the Trust a 90% net profits overriding royalty interest in certain producing oil and gas properties located in the Hugoton field of Kansas, the San Juan Basin field of New Mexico and Colorado and the Yellow Creek field of Wyoming. The Hugoton Royalty Properties are operated by Pioneer Natural Resources Company (PNR). The San Juan Basin Royalty Properties, located in New Mexico, are operated by Conoco Inc. Substantially all of the San Juan Basin Royalty Properties located in Colorado are operated by Amoco Production Company.
MLAB Mesa Laboratories, Inc. (Mesa) designs, develops, acquires, manufactures and markets instruments and systems used in connection with industrial applications and hemodialysis therapy. It markets the DATATRACE and ELOGG recording systems; NUSONICS Concentration Analyzers, Pipeline Interface Detectors and Flow Meter products, and two product lines used in kidney dialysis, such as Dialysate Meters and the ECHO Reprocessing Products. The Company also performs research and development to expand the application of its technology. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), one customer represented approximately 12% of Mesa's revenues.
MESA Mesa Air Group, Inc. (Mesa) is a holding company whose principle subsidiaries operate as regional air carriers providing scheduled passenger and airfreight service. The Company serves 181 cities in 43 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, Mexico and the Bahamas. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company operated a fleet of 180 aircraft and had approximately 1,000 daily departures. In addition to carrying passengers, the Company carries freight and express packages on the passenger flights and has interline small cargo freight agreements with many other carriers. It has contracts with the United States Postal Service for carriage of mail to the cities the Company serves and occasionally operates charter flights when the aircraft are not otherwise used for scheduled service.
MRM Merrimac Industries, Inc. is engaged in the design and manufacture of passive radio frequency (RF) and microwave components for industry, government and science. Merrimac components are found in applications as diverse as satellites, military and commercial aircraft, radar, cellular radio systems, medical and dental diagnostic instruments, personal communications systems (PCS) and wireless Internet connectivity. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Filtran Microcircuits Inc., the Company is also engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of microstrip, bonded stripline and thick metal-backed Teflon and mixed dielectric multilayer circuits for communications, defense and aerospace applications.
MERB Merrill Merchants Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company for Merrill Merchants Bank and holds 100% of the bank's outstanding common stock. Through the bank, the Company is engaged in general commercial and retail banking business, along with trust and investment services. The bank maintains 11 banking offices in nine area communities, as well as 17 automated teller machines (ATMs) locations in its primary market area, Greater Bangor. It conducts general commercial and retail banking business that includes the acceptance of deposits from the general public, and the application of those funds to the origination of a variety of commercial loans, commercial and residential real estate loans and consumer loans. The Company's investment portfolio is composed of 16% United States treasury notes and United States government agencies and corporations, 68% mortgage-backed securities and collateralized mortgage obligations and 16% other securities.
MER Merrill Lynch &amp; Co., Inc. is a holding company that, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides broker-dealer, investment banking, financing, wealth management, advisory, asset management, insurance, lending and related products and services on a global basis. Merrill Lynch provides these products and services to an array of clients, including individual investors, small businesses, corporations, financial institutions, governments and government agencies. The Company's business activities are grouped into three business segments, Global Markets and Investment Banking group (GMI), Global Private Client (GPC), and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), and are conducted through numerous United States and non-United States subsidiaries and affiliates. In November 2004, the Company acquired the energy trading businesses of Entergy-Koch, LP, a venture of Entergy Corporation and Koch Energy, Inc., a subsidiary of privately owned Koch Industries, Inc.
MERX Merix Corporation is a manufacturer of technologically advanced printed circuit boards for use in sophisticated electronic equipment. The company's principal products are complex multi-layer printed circuit boards, which are the platforms used to interconnect microprocessors, integrated circuits and other components that are essential to the operation of electronic products and systems. The products and services Merix provides include design assistance and engineering services; quick-turn and premium services; volume production; RF (Radio Frequency)/Microwave application products; thermal management solutions, and backplanes. Merix provides its products to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and their electronic manufacturing service providers, that use them primarily in high-end commercial equipment in the communications, computing, and test and measurement markets.
MHG Meritage Hospitality Group Inc. (MHG) is primarily engaged in the franchised retail foodservice business through its Wendy's of Michigan business segment and its O'Charley's of Michigan business segment. MHG operates 47 Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers quick-service restaurants in western and southern Michigan. All restaurants are operated pursuant to franchise agreements with Wendy's International, Inc., the franchisor of the quick-service restaurant system that operates under the Wendy's brand name. The Company's Wendy's restaurants are operated by Wendy's of Michigan, a limited partnership that is owned by a wholly owned subsidiary of MHG. On December 29, 2003, MHG executed an exclusive multi-unit development agreement with a casual service restaurant franchisor, O'Charley's Inc., to develop O'Charley's restaurants throughout the State of Michigan. MHG's O'Charley's restaurants will be operated by O'Charley's of Michigan, a limited liability company that is owned by MHG.
MTH Meritage Homes Corporation, formerly Meritage Corporation, is a designer and builder of single-family homes in the Sunbelt states of Texas, Arizona, California and Nevada. It focuses on providing a range of first-time, move-up, active adult and luxury homes to its targeted customer base. The Company operates in Texas as Legacy Homes, Monterey Homes and Hammonds Homes; in Arizona as Monterey Homes, Meritage Homes and Hancock Communities; in Northern California as Meritage Homes; in Southern California as Citation Homes of Southern California, and in Nevada as Perma-Bilt Homes. It classifies the four states in which it operates as its principal business segments. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had sold its homes in 123 communities, with base prices ranging from $98,000 to $730,000. In addition, it entered the Inland Empire market of Southern California, in January 2004, with its acquisition of Citation Homes of Southern California, a privately held builder of single-family homes.
MMSI Merit Medical Systems, Inc. produces single-use medical products for use in diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. The Company's products are designed to provide physicians and other healthcare professionals with devices that enable them to perform interventional and diagnostic procedures safely and effectively. It subsequently combined its plastics molding capability with the application of electronics and sensor-based technologies to develop a line of angioplasty inflation products with electronic sensing and display features. These devices are now included in a group of sensor-based products designed to address a range of needs related to diagnostic and interventional catheterization procedures performed in hospitals. It has expanded its product offerings to include angiographic catheters, guide wires, needles, safety products, therapeutic infusion catheters and accessories, drainage catheters and accessories and a number of line extensions to core products.
MHX MeriStar Hospitality Corporation is a real estate investment trust that owns a portfolio of primarily upscale, full-service hotels and resorts. For the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company owned 92 hotels with an aggregate of 24,733 rooms, all of which are managed by Interstate Hotels &amp; Resorts, Inc (Interstate Hotels). These hotels are located in metropolitan areas, growing secondary markets or resort locations in the United States and Canada. Majority of the hotels are operated under brand names such as Hilton, Sheraton, Marriott, Westin, Doubletree, Holiday Inn, Embassy Suites and Radisson. Substantially all of the Company's assets are held by its subsidiary operating partnership, MeriStar Hospitality Operating Partnership, L.P. The Company has sold nine hotels with an aggregate of 2,197 rooms since January 1, 2004. Ten of the remaining 83 hotels are planned for disposition.
MDG Meridian Gold Inc. is engaged in the mining and exploration of gold and other precious metals. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Meridian's principal revenue-producing properties were its El Penon Mine in Chile, and the Jerritt Canyon mine (30% ownership) located near Elko, Nevada. The Company sold its 30% interest in the Jerritt Canyon Joint Venture (JCJV) property to Queenstake Resources USA Inc. (Queenstake) on June 30, 2003. The Company's Beartrack Mine, located near Salmon, Idaho, wound down operations during the year ended December 31, 2000, and is undergoing reclamation. The Company also has advanced-stage exploration programs in Chile, Nevada and the Esquel project in Argentina. Early-stage exploration programs are being conducted primarily in Chile, Mexico, Peru and Argentina.
VIVO Meridian Bioscience, Inc. is a fully integrated life science company engaged in the development, manufacture, sale and distribution of diagnostic test kits, primarily for certain respiratory, gastrointestinal, viral and parasitic infectious diseases. The Company also manufactures and distributes bulk antigens and reagents used by researchers and other diagnostic manufacturers. In addition, it operates in the contract manufacture of proteins and other biologicals for use by biopharmaceutical and biotechnology companies engaged in research for new drugs and vaccines. As a result of changes that occurred in February 2003 in the organization and management of Meridian's businesses, effective with the quarter beginning January 1, 2003, Meridian changed its operating segments to US Diagnostics, European Diagnostics and Life Science.
MRGN.OB Mergence Corporation is in the process of a transition and is undergoing a series of transactions intended to transform the Company and to strategically move forward with new market opportunities. Its primary activities consisted of developing and marketing media rights management solutions, encryption and key-clearing services, video-on-demand services and video streaming through the Internet, software sales through the Internet, video encoding, compression and authoring, raising capital and acquiring businesses. It also developed personal computer utility products, primarily for the Internet user. The Company changed its name from Esynch Corporation in February 2004. In April 2004, the Company acquired eMOD Systems, Inc., a digital solutions company concentrating on the distribution of digital video content to the hotel industry.
MRGE Merge Technologies Incorporated is a global healthcare software and services business focused on accelerating the productivity of imaging centers, hospitals and clinics. The Company's products fall into three distinct categories: radiology workflow software applications, connectivity and component solutions and professional services. Merge's radiology workflow applications are commonly categorized as picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) and radiology information systems (RIS).
MPQ Meredith Enterprises, Inc. is a self-managed and self-administered real estate company engaged in acquiring, owning and managing suburban offices, retail shopping centers and light industrial properties in the United States. At December 31, 2003, the Company had a real estate portfolio of 12 properties, including three light industrial properties totaling 151,225 square feet, one shopping center of 321,621 square feet, one restaurant facility of 5,133 square feet, three suburban office properties representing 94,806 square feet and four properties held for sale totaling 53,715 square feet. All of the Company's properties are located in California and Georgia. In addition, Meredith Enterprises owns a 2.5-acre parcel of undeveloped land in Garden Grove, California. The land was acquired in March 2003. The Company intends to construct a multi-tenant shopping center comprising approximately 30,000 square feet on this parcel.
MDP Meredith Corporation is a media and marketing company that is engaged in magazine and book publishing, television broadcasting, integrated marketing and interactive media. Meredith's two business segments are publishing and broadcasting. Publishing segment focuses on the home and family market. It consists of 17 magazine brands, including Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies' Home Journal and Country Home, as well as approximately 160 special interest publications; book publishing with 300 books in print; integrated marketing relationships; a consumer database; an Internet presence, including 24 Websites and strategic alliances with Internet destinations; brand licensing relationships, and other related operations. Broadcasting segment includes the operations of 12 network-affiliated television stations located across the continental United States and one AM Radio station. The television stations consist of six CBS affiliates, four FOX affiliates, one NBC affiliate and one UPN affiliate.
MERQ Mercury Interactive Corporation is a provider of software and services for the business technology optimization (BTO) marketplace. The Company has introduced a variety of BTO software and service offerings, including offerings in application delivery (pre-production quality and performance testing), application management (in-production application performance management) and, following the acquisition of Kintana, Inc. in August 2003, information technology (IT) governance. The Company's BTO offerings for application delivery, application management and IT governance help customers maximize the business value of IT by optimizing application quality and performance, as well as managing IT costs, risks and compliance. Mercury also provides a range of customer support and professional service offerings that enable its global partners and customers to implement, customize, manage and extend its offerings.
MCY Mercury General Corporation and its subsidiaries are engaged primarily in writing all risk classifications of automobile insurance. The Company underwrites personal automobile insurance in nine states: California, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia, Illinois, New York, Virginia and, beginning in August 2003, New Jersey. During 2003, private passenger automobile insurance and commercial automobile insurance accounted for 87.4% and 4.0%, respectively, of the Company's total gross premiums written. The percentage of gross automobile insurance premiums written during 2003 by state was 84.0% in California, 7.2% in Florida, 4.5% in Texas, 1.2% in Oklahoma, 0.9% in Illinois, 0.8% in Georgia and 1.4% in all other states. Mercury General also writes homeowners insurance, mechanical breakdown insurance, commercial and dwelling fire insurance and commercial property insurance. The non-automobile lines of insurance accounted for 8.6% of gross written premiums in 2003.
MRCY Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (Mercury) provides products and services for real-time digital signal and image processing applications. The Company designs, manufactures and markets a family of high-performance computer products utilizing system architecture, designed to meet the demands of digital signal processing (DSP) and image processing applications. Digital signal and image processing applications are typically computation intensive and require input/output (I/O) capacity and interprocessor communication bandwidth, which is not available on a general purpose personal computer, workstation or server. The Company operates through three business groups: the Defense Electronics Group (DEG), Imaging and Visualization Solutions Group, and the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) Solutions Group. In May 2004, the Company acquired TGS Group, a supplier of three-dimensional image processing and visualization software. In December 2004, the Company purchased Momentum Computer, Inc.
MAX Mercury Air Group, Inc. provides a range of services to the aviation industry through four principal operating units: Mercury Air Centers, Inc. (Air Centers), Mercury Air Cargo, Inc. (Air Cargo), MercFuel, Inc. (MercFuel) and Maytag Aircraft Corporation (Maytag). MercFuel's operations consist of the sale and delivery of fuel, primarily aviation fuel to domestic and international commercial airlines, fractional jet ownership companies, corporate aviation fleets and air cargo companies. Air Cargo's operations consist of cargo handling, the sale of cargo capacity on other airlines (Cargo Space Logistics) and general cargo sales agent services. Maytag is a provider of governmental contract services performing aircraft refueling and fuel storage operations, base operations support (BOS) services, air terminal and ground handling services and weather observation and forecasting services primarily for agencies of the government of the United States of America.
MRK Merck &amp; Co., Inc. is a global research-driven pharmaceutical products company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets a range of products to improve human and animal health, directly and through its joint ventures. The Company's products include therapeutic and preventive agents, generally sold by prescription, for the treatment of human disorders and animal health supplies. During 2003, products that contributed to the year's sales growth were Singulair for asthma and seasonal allergic rhinitis, Fosamax for osteoporosis, Cozaar/Hyzaar for high blood pressure, Vioxx and Arcoxia for arthritis and pain, Cancidas for infections, Cosopt for glaucoma, Proscar for benign prostate enlargement, and Maxalt for migraines. Merck &amp; Co. sells its products primarily to drug wholesalers and retailers, hospitals, clinics, government agencies and managed healthcare providers such as health maintenance organizations and other institutions.
MMBI.OB Merchants &amp; Manufacturers Bancorporation, Inc. is a bank holding company. The Company is engaged in the community banking business through its Community BancGroup, which includes its eight bank subsidiaries. The Company operates six bank subsidiaries in Wisconsin, including Lincoln State Bank, Grafton State Bank, Franklin State Bank, Community Bank of Oconto County, Fortress Bank of Westby and the Reedsburg Bank. The Company also operates two additional bank subsidiaries, Fortress Bank of Cresco and Fortress Bank, N.A., which operate in Iowa and Minnesota, respectively. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had consolidated loans of $857.1 million and consolidated deposits of $911.9 million.
MGP Merchants Group, Inc. is a holding company that offers property and casualty insurance generally to preferred risk individuals and small to medium-sized businesses in the northeastern United States through its wholly owned subsidiary, Merchants Insurance Company of New Hampshire, Inc. (MNH). The Company and MNH operate and manage their business in conjunction with Merchants Mutual Insurance Company (Mutual), a New York-domiciled mutual property and casualty insurance company, under a services agreement (the Services Agreement) that became effective January 1, 2003. As of December 31, 2003, Mutual owned 12.1% of the Company's issued and outstanding common stock. Under the Services Agreement, Mutual provides the Company and MNH with the facilities, management and personnel required to operate their day-to-day business.
MBVT Merchants Bancshares, Inc. owns all of the outstanding capital stock of Merchants Bank, which has 35 full-service banking offices. As of December 31, 2003, Merchants operated commercial banking operations in Vermont, with deposits totaling $808 million, loans of $569 million and total assets of $970 million. Merchants Trust Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Merchants Bank, is chartered for the purpose of offering fiduciary services including trust management and administration, investment management and estate settlement services.
MERCS Mercer International Inc. operates in the pulp and paper business. Its operations are located primarily in Germany. The Company owns and operates a pulp mill that produces northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) pulp. It has an annual production capacity of approximately 300,000 tonnes. Its existing pulp operations are conducted through Zellstoff-und Papierfabrik Rosenthal GmbH &amp; Co., KG and its affiliates (Rosenthal), which are the Company's wholly owned subsidiaries. The Company's 63.6%-owned project subsidiary, Zellstoff Stendal GmbH (Stendal), is implementing a greenfield project to construct a single-line NBSK kraft pulp mill, which is designed to have an annual production capacity of approximately 552,000 tonnes, and is under construction near the town of Stendal, Germany. The Company also owns and operates two paper mills located at Heidenau and Fahrbrucke, Germany, which produce specialty papers and printing and writing papers.
MIGP Mercer Insurance Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides of property and casualty insurance products designed to meet the insurance needs of consumers and small and medium-sized businesses throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The Company three segments are commercial lines insurance, personal lines insurance and the investment function. Its insurance products include homeowners, commercial multi-peril, other liability, personal automobile, workers compensation, fire and inland marine and commercial automobile coverage. The Company markets its products through a network of over 300 independent producers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The majority of its producers market both commercial and personal lines products.
MRBK Mercantile Bankshares Corporation (Bankshares) is a regional multi-bank holding company. Bankshares consists of Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Company (MSD&amp;T), 19 community banks and a mortgage banking company. The Company has 16 banks located in Maryland, three in Virginia and one in Southern Delaware. Bankshares' largest bank, MSD&amp;T, operates 24 offices in Maryland, one office in Washington D.C. and one commercial office in Pennsylvania. Nearly all of Bankshares' substantial trust operations and specialized corporate banking services are provided by MSD&amp;T. On August 12, 2003, Bankshares acquired F&amp;M Bancorp (F&amp;M).
MBWM Mercantile Bank Corporation is a registered bank holding company that holds all of the stock of Mercantile Bank of West Michigan (the Bank) and that of other subsidiaries the Company has acquired or has established: MBWM Capital Trust I (the Trust), Mercantile Bank Mortgage Company, LLC (the Mortgage Company), Mercantile BIDCO, Inc. (the BIDCO), Mercantile Insurance Center, Inc. (the Insurance Company) and Mercantile Bank Real Estate Co., L.L.C. (the Real Estate Company). The Bank's lending strategy focuses on commercial lending, residential mortgage and consumer lending. The Bank also offers an array of deposit products, including checking, savings, money market and certificates of deposit, as well as security repurchase agreements. The Bank's market area is the Kent and Ottawa County areas of West Michigan, which includes the City of Grand Rapids, the second largest city in the State of Michigan.
MTSL Mer Telemanagement Solutions Ltd. (MTS) is a global provider of operations support systems (OSS) for telecommunication management and customer care and billing solutions. MTS' OSS is a solution for telecommunications management and customer care and billing. Its telecommunications enterprise resource planning application suite is used by corporations and organizations to improve the efficiency and performance of telecommunication and information technology operations. Its customer care and billing solutions are used by service providers and operators to support sophisticated billing, Web-based self provisioning and other revenue-generating applications. MTS markets through wholly owned subsidiaries in the United States, Hong Kong, Holland and Brazil, and through partnerships with Siemens, Phillips and other private automatic branch exchange vendors. In December 2004, the Company acquired privately owned TeleKnowledge Group Ltd.
MENT Mentor Graphics Corporation provides software- and hardware-based design and verification tools that enable companies to deliver better electronic products to market faster and more cost-effectively. The Company develops, manufactures, markets, sells and supports electronic design automation products and provides related services that together are used by engineers to design, analyze, simulate, model, implement and verify the components of electronic systems. Mentor markets its products and services worldwide, primarily to large companies in the military/aerospace, communications, computer, consumer electronics, semiconductor, networking, multimedia and transportation industries. Customers use its products in the design of semiconductors, such as microprocessors, field programmable gate arrays, printed circuit boards and memory and application-specific integrated circuits
MNT Mentor Corporation develops, manufactures and markets products serving the medical specialties market. The Company's products are utilized by three segments: aesthetic and general surgery, which includes plastic and reconstructive surgery; surgical urology, and clinical and consumer healthcare. Aesthetic and general surgery products include surgically implantable prostheses for plastic and reconstructive surgery, as well as capital equipment and consumables used for soft tissue aspiration or body contouring, such as liposuction. Surgical urology products include surgically implantable prostheses for the treatment of impotence, surgically implantable incontinence products, urinary care products and brachytherapy seeds for the treatment of prostate cancer. Clinical and consumer healthcare products include catheters and other products for the management of urinary incontinence and retention.
MW The Men's Wearhouse, Inc. is a specialty retailer of men's suits in the United States and Canada. The Company's stores offer a selection of designer, brand name and private label men's business attire, including a consistent stock of core items, such as navy blazers, tuxedos and basic suits. As of January 31, 2004, its United States operations included 579 retail apparel stores in 44 states and the District of Columbia, primarily operating under the brand names of Men's Wearhouse and K&amp;G, with approximately 25% of its locations in Texas and California. The Canadian operations included 114 retail apparel stores in 10 provinces operating under the brand name of Moores Clothing for Men.
MRY Memry Corporation provides design, engineering, development and manufacturing services to the medical device and other industries using the Company's shape memory alloy technologies. Medical device products include stent components, catheter components, guidewires, laparoscopic surgical sub-assemblies and orthopedic instruments. Memry's commercial and industrial businesses produce semi-finished materials and components. The Company provides engineering services to assist customers in the development of products based on the properties of shape memory alloys. The Company conducts its operations from its two operating facilities located in Bethel, Connecticut, and Menlo Park, California. Memry is engaged in research, including co-operative university programs, to further map the properties of the new the nickel-free titanium alloy, Beta-Titanium Alloy. In November 2004, the Company acquired all the assets and selected liabilities of Putnam Plastics Corporation.
MEMY Memory Pharmaceuticals Corp. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of drug candidates for the treatment of a broad range of central nervous system (CNS) conditions that exhibit significant impairment of memory and other cognitive functions. These conditions include neurological diseases associated with aging, such as Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), as well as certain psychiatric disorders, such as depression and schizophrenia.
WFR MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. is engaged in the production of wafers for the semiconductor industry. The Company provides wafers in sizes ranging from 100 millimeters to 300 millimeters and in three categories: prime polished, a highly refined, pure wafer with an ultra-flat and ultra-clean surface; epitaxial, a thin, silicon layer grown on the polished surface of the wafer and test/monitor, which is substantially the same as a prime polished wafer, but with some less rigorous specifications. The Company's wafers are used as a starting material for the manufacture of various types of semiconductor devices, including microprocessor, memory, logic and power devices. In turn, these semiconductor devices are used in computers, cellular phones and other mobile electronic devices, automobiles and other products. Its principal customers are semiconductor device manufacturers, including memory, microprocessor and applications specific integrated circuit manufacturers, as well as foundries.
VTRU Vertrue, Inc., formerly MemberWorks Inc., is engaged in designing membership programs that offer its members easy access to variety of discounted products and services provided by the Company's participating vendors. The Company's programs fall into three categories: healthcare, security and discount. It also provides Web-based, interactive voice response (IVR)-based personals services. The geographic segments of the Company are the United States, Canada and other foreign countries. In April 2004, the Company acquired Lavalife Inc., a personals service. With the acquisition of Lavalife, The Company operates in two segments: membership and personal. Membership programs sponsored by the Company's two largest clients, West Corporation and Citibank, N.A. accounted for 18% and 12%, respectively, of its revenue during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004).
MEL Mellon Financial Corporation is a global financial services company providing institutional asset management, mutual funds, private wealth management, asset servicing, human resources and investor solutions and treasury services to a distinct set of clients that includes corporations and institutions and high-net-worth individuals. In 2003, the Company had approximately $3.5 trillion in assets under management, administration or custody, including more than $650 billion under management. Its businesses are divided into two overall groups: Asset Management and Corporate and Institutional Services. The Asset Management group consists of the Institutional Asset Management, Mutual Funds and Private Wealth Management sectors. The Corporate and Institutional Services group consists of the Asset Servicing, Human Resources and Investor Solutions and Treasury Services sectors.
MDTA.OB Megadata Corporation is a supplier of information and decision support software serving the needs of the aviation industry, primarily airlines, airports and other aviation related companies. Its principal business is the delivery of information and decision support software by subscription from a database of flight and travel-related information, of which a primary data component is its PASSUR (Passive Secondary Surveillance Radar) Network of flight tracking systems. As of the fiscal year ended October 31, 2003, PASSUR flight track coverage was available in 30 airports in the United States. In addition, more than 10 airlines and 40 airports utilize the information, data and software information products derived from the Megadata PASSUR Network. There are over 50 PASSUR system installations worldwide. The Company also offers a suite of information and decision support software products, including AirportMonitor, Pulse Operations, Pulse Financial, OpsNet, FlightPerform and FlightSure.
MDWV Medwave, Inc. is engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of non-invasive, blood pressure measurement and monitoring systems and of related technologies. Utilizing its own technology, the Company developed the Vasotrac APM205A system, which monitors blood pressure, providing new readings approximately every 15 heartbeats. In February 1995, the Company received initial clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the Vasotrac system. The Company has also developed a hand-held blood pressure monitor called the Vasotrax. This hand-held monitor is based on the technology used in the Vasotrac system. In connection with its supplier agreement with Nihon Kohden of Japan, the Company has developed a module of its Vasotrac continual non-invasive blood pressure monitor called the MJ23. The MJ23 module is designed to be integrated into Nihon Kohden's larger and more comprehensive systems.
MDT Medtronic is a medical technology company that provides lifelong solutions for people with chronic disease. Its five operating segments manufacture and sell device-based medical therapies. The therapies are Cardiac Rhythm Management supplies medical devices designed to treat a range of heart conditions, such as bradycardia, tachyarrhythmia and heart failure; Spinal, Ear, Nose and Throat and Surgical Navigation Technologies offers products for the treatment of the conditions, such as spinal disorders and ear, nose and throat disorders; Neurological and Diabetes offers products for the treatment of the conditions, such as neurological disorders, diabetes and gastroenterology and urology disorders; Vascular offers minimally invasive products for the treatment of the conditions, such as coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease and abdominal/thoracic aortic aneurysm, and Cardiac Surgery offers products for the treatment coronary artery disease and heart valve disorders.
TOX MEDTOX Scientific, Inc. (MEDTOX) is engaged in two distinct businesses through its subsidiaries, MEDTOX Laboratories, Inc., MEDTOX Diagnostics, Inc. and New Brighton Business Center, LLC. Its two segments are Laboratory Services conducted by its wholly owned subsidiaries, MEDTOX Laboratories and New Brighton Business Center, and Product Sales conducted by its wholly owned subsidiary MEDTOX Diagnostics. The business of forensic and clinical laboratory services is conducted by MEDTOX Laboratories at its facility in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the business of manufacturing and distribution of diagnostic devices is executed by MEDTOX Diagnostics from its facility in Burlington, North Carolina. During the year ended December 31, 2003, sales from the forensic and clinical laboratory services conducted by MEDTOX Laboratories accounted for 77% of the Company's revenues.
MSRG.OB MedStrong International Corporation (MedStrong) is a development stage company. It has developed an information repository to store and transfer patients' vital health information in a secure environment and the software necessary to transfer the information over the Internet allowing for data retrieval and modification. The Company has acquired an interest in proceeds from the marketing of Notox, a natural herbal formulation, which protects against intoxicating effects of alcohol. Effective April 2004, MedStrong licensed, on an exclusive basis, the medical information field applications of its proprietary software. It has retained all other applications of its software (the Retained Field) and it intends to develop and commercialize applications in the Retained Field areas.
MDJT.OB Medjet Inc. is engaged in research and development of medical technology utilizing small-diameter, liquid microjets moving at various speeds above supersonic, depending on the specific application. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company concentrated its research and development efforts on the waterjet's dental applications. Through 2002, its research and development efforts focused on technology and equipment for ophthalmic surgery, particularly microkeratomes, which are medical instruments used to remove thin layers of tissue from the cornea. Medjet consequently entered into a research and development agreement with VISX, Inc., a provider of equipment for the vision correction procedure known as the Laser Ablation System for In-situ Keratomileusis (LASIK). In 2002, as the number of LASIK procedures fell well below the anticipated rates, the Company discontinued its microkeratome development efforts.
MEDW Mediware Information Systems, Inc. (Mediware) develops, implements and supports clinical management information systems marketed to the healthcare industry. The Company's systems are designed to automate three clinical departments within the hospital environment including the blood bank, the pharmacy and the surgical suite, along with stand-alone blood centers. The business is organized into three operating divisions marketing three distinct product lines: Pharmacy systems, Blood bank systems and Operating room systems. The blood bank and operating room divisions operate primarily in the United States. The pharmacy division operates both in the United States and in the United Kingdom. Mediware systems are installed in over 1,100 hospital departments and blood centers.
MDSC.OB Mediscience Technology Corp. is engaged in the design and development of medical diagnostic instruments that detect cancer in vivo in humans by using light to excite the molecules contained in tissue and measuring the differences in the resulting natural fluorescence between cancerous and normal tissue. Mediscience possesses the foundations for Optical Biopsy by developing technology based on ultraviolet (UV)-visible fluorescence, excitation, Raman, time-resolved, diffuse reflectance and Stokes shift spectroscopies. The Company is developing three products in the areas of cervical, full spectrum gastrointestinal (GI) and oral that employ its technology for cancer screening and diagnosis, and are based upon its Cancer Detection (CD) Scan, CD Ratiometer and CD Map. These devices use lamplight to provide a broad spectrum of scanning excitation light wavelengths to insure that the appropriate target tissue molecules are sufficiently fluoresced to provide maximum diagnostic sensitivity.
MDTL Medis Technologies Ltd. is focused primarily on the development, manufacturing, marketing and distribution of direct liquid fuel cell products to power and charge portable electronic devices. It is also working to develop and commercialize other technologies it owns or owns the rights to, including the CellScan, inherently conductive polymers (ICPs), stirling cycle system, toroidal technologies and Rankin cycle linear compressor. Medis's first two fuel cell products are its disposable Power Pack for the consumer market and its refuelable Power Pack for military use. Central to Medis' fuel cell products is its patented liquid fuel, of which the Company achieved advances in power density and energy capacity without the side effect of generating heat. Medis' fuel cell technology enables it to use a safer alcohol in its fuel instead of methanol or hydrogen gas, which avoids problems such as toxicity and flammability, associated with the storage and use of these compounds.
MEDI MedImmune, Inc. is a biotechnology company that uses advances in biological sciences to discover, develop, manufacture and commercialize products that treat or prevent infectious diseases, immune system disorders and cancer. MedImmune's core competencies are in the areas of monoclonal antibodies and vaccines. The Company promotes three main products: Synagis (palivizumab) and FluMist (Influenza Virus Vaccine Live, Intranasal), used to prevent two common respiratory infectious diseases, and Ethyol (amifostine), used to reduce undesired side-effects of certain anti-cancer chemo- and radiotherapies. MedImmune also markets three additional products: CytoGam, NeuTrexin and RespiGam.
MED Medifast, Inc. is engaged in the production, distribution, and sale of weight and disease management products and other consumable health and diet products. The Company conducts its operations through five of its wholly owned subsidiaries, Jason Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Take Shape for Life, Inc., Jason Enterprises, Inc., Jason Properties, LLC and Seven Crondall, LLC. The Company's product lines include weight and disease management, meal replacement and sports nutrition products manufactured in a modern, Food &amp; Drug Administration (FDA) approved facility in Owings Mills, Maryland. On June 11, 2003 Medifast's wholly owned subsidiary Jason Enterprises, Inc. completed the acquisition of the assets of Consumer Choice Systems, Inc. (CCS). On September 12, 2003 the Company also acquired the assets and expertise of Dunst and Associates, Inc. On November 7, 2003 Medifast's wholly owned subsidiary Jason Properties, LLC purchased the assets of Hi-Energy Weight Control Centers.
MCU Medicure Inc. is a development-stage company engaged in the discovery and development of pharmaceuticals. The Company intends to license the sale and distribution of commercialized products to international companies. Medicure intends to derive its revenue primarily through milestone payments and product royalties. The Company has not yet entered into any licensing agreements or other arrangements regarding the sale or distribution of any of its products. The Company's focus is on the discovery and development of therapeutics for various large-market, unmet cardiovascular needs. Its research and development program is designed to address these market needs with the clinical development of the Company's lead product, MC-1, and with the potential discovery and development of other drug candidates. MC-1 is a natural compound that has demonstrated effectiveness in treating various forms of cardiovascular disease in initial research.
MSHT.OB Medicsight, Inc. is a developer of software technology for medical diagnostic applications and provides medical diagnostic services in differing business models. The Company has four principal operating subsidiaries: Medicsight PLC (MS-PLC), Medicsight Asset Management Limited (MAM), Lifesyne UK Limited (Lifesyne UK) and Medicsight US, Inc (MS-US). HTTP Insights Ltd and HTTP Software PLC, formerly subsidiaries of the Company, were sold to independent third parties during the year ended December 31, 2002. The Company's products target three therapeutic areas: the colon, the lungs and the heart. In terms of clinical practice and market segmentation, the products are split between diagnostic treatment and screening.
MDKI Medicore, Inc. distributes medical products, provides medical services related to dialysis treatments and makes investments in technology companies. The Company's business segments are the medical products division that distributes medical products; the operation of kidney dialysis centers and other dialysis services through its 59% owned public subsidiary, Dialysis Corporation of America, and the investment in technology companies through its approximately 14% interest in Linux Global Partners, Inc., a private speculative company that invests in developing Linux software companies that includes Xandros, Inc., a 95% owned subsidiary of Linux Global Partners, which has developed and commenced marketing of a Linux desktop operating system. The Company's medical products division develops and distributes medical products, primarily disposables, both domestically and internationally, to hospitals, blood banks, laboratories and retail pharmacies.
MRX Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation (Medicis) is an independent specialty pharmaceutical company focusing primarily on helping patients attain a healthy and youthful appearance and self-image through the development and marketing of products in the United States for the treatment of dermatologic, aesthetic and podiatric conditions in the United States and Canada. The Company offers a broad range of products addressing various conditions, including acne, fungal infections, rosacea, hyperpigmentation, photoaging, psoriasis, eczema, skin and skin-structure infections, seborrheic dermatitis and cosmesis (improvement in the texture and appearance of skin). Medicis offers 13 branded products, including DYNACIN, LOPROX, OMNICEF, PLEXION, RESTYLANE and TRIAZ. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), core brands, including ORAPRED, accounted for approximately 87% of its total net revenues.
MRN Medical Staffing Network Holdings, Inc. provides hospitals and other healthcare facilities with a range of staffing services, including per diem nurses, allied professionals and travel nurses. While the Company has a national presence, it operates on a local basis through an integrated network, which consisted of over 140 per diem branches in 43 states at the close of the fiscal year ended December 28, 2003. Its client base includes over 7,000 healthcare facilities, including for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals, teaching hospitals and regional healthcare providers. The Company's per diem staffing assignments place its professionals, predominately nurses, at hospitals and other healthcare facilities to solve its clients' temporary staffing needs. It also provides specialized radiology and diagnostic imaging specialists and clinical laboratory technicians, or allied health professionals.
MLSC.OB Medical Discoveries, Inc. is a development-stage bio-pharmaceutical company engaged in the research, validation, development and ultimate commercialization of an anti-infective technology. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's research and development efforts consisted primarily of pre-clinical development of, and preparing applications for regulatory approvals of, its product candidate, MDI-P. Medical Discoveries is committed to the development of MDI-P as an anti-infective therapeutic product for in-vitro and in-vivo applications. The Company's priority is to develop and commercialize MDI-P as a pharmaceutical for the treatment of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). Medical Discoveries is in the process of completing pre-clinical development and plans to file an Investigative New Drug application (IND) with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for MDI-P as an HIV treatment.
MDCI Medical Action Industries Inc. develops, manufactures, markets and supplies a variety of disposable medical products. The Company's products are divided into four categories: Collection Systems for the Containment of Medical Waste, Minor Procedure Kits and Trays, Operating Room Disposables and Sterilization Products, and Dressings and Surgical Sponges. Its products are marketed to acute care facilities in domestic and certain international markets. Its end user markets include physician, dental and veterinary offices, outpatient surgery centers and long-term care facilities.
MDLK Medialink Worldwide Incorporated is a global provider of creative and distribution services to corporations and other organizations seeking to communicate with the public through the news media. It blends its creative and production expertise with news media credibility, databases, an electronic distribution infrastructure and global electronic video tracking solution to provide its clients with the ability to create, distribute and measure their communications. The Company offers its range of services through Media Communications Services, which include video news releases, live event broadcasts, audio news releases and radio media tours, in formats that are suitable for all broadcast news media; Media Research Services, which include analysis of public relations and corporate communications activities on behalf of corporate and other clients, and Video Watermarking Services that use Teletrax as an electronic video watermarking and tracking solution.
MCCC Mediacom Communications Corporation is a cable television company focusing on serving the smaller cities and towns in the United States. The Company offers its customers an array of traditional analog video services, also referred to as its core cable television services. In addition, Mediacom offers advanced broadband products and services, including digital cable television, video-on-demand, high-definition television and high-speed Internet access. At December 31, 2003, its cable systems passed approximately 2.76 million homes and served approximately 1.54 million basic subscribers in 23 states. The Company also held 1,484 cable television franchises.
MBAY MediaBay, Inc. is a media, marketing and publishing company specializing in spoken audio content, whose businesses include direct response and interactive marketing, retail product distribution, media publishing and broadcasting. Its operations consists of four subsidiaries: Audio Book Club, Inc., a club for audiobooks; Radio Spirits, Inc., a seller of classic radio programs; MediaBay.com, Inc., a digital audio download service, and RadioClassics, Inc., a distributor of classic radio content across broadcast platforms including Sirius, XM Satellite and traditional broadcast radio. The Company's content libraries include over 60,000 classic radio programs, 3,500 film and television programs and a number of audiobooks, much of which are Company owned.
MSGI Media Services Group, Inc. (MSGI) is a proprietary solutions provider developing a global combination of innovative emerging businesses that leverage information and technology. MSGI is principally focused on the homeland security, safety and surveillance industries. In January 2004, the Company changed its name from MKTG Services Inc. to MSGI. In March 2004, the Company completed its sale of substantially all the assets relating to its telemarketing and telesales services business held by its wholly owned subsidiary, MKTG Teleservices, Inc. to SD&amp;A Teleservices, Inc. (SD&amp;A). In April 2004, MSGI acquired 51% of Future Developments America, Inc. (FDA), a provider of technology-based products and services specializing in application- specific and custom-tailored, restricted-access intelligence products, systems and proprietary solutions. In August 2004, it acquired 51% of Innalogic, LLC, which designs and deploys content-rich software products for a wide range of wireless mobile devices.
GFX Media Sciences International, Inc. (Media Sciences), is a manufacturer of supplies for digital workgroup color printers. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Media Sciences, Inc., manufactures and distributes color printer supplies, including solid ink sticks and color toner cartridges for use in Tektronix, Xerox, QMS-Minolta, Epson, Ricoh and other color printers. Media Sciences distributes these products internationally through a network of dealers and distributors. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Cadapult Graphic Systems, Inc., sells supplies directly to certain end users through its No-Cap Color program and to those with whom the Company has an historical relationship.
MEG Media General, Inc. is a communications company with interests in newspapers, television stations and interactive media, predominantly in the United States. The Company operates in three principal industry segments: Publishing, Broadcast and Interactive Media. As of December 28, 2003, Media General owned 25 daily newspapers and nearly 100 other publications, as well as 26 television stations. It also operates approximately 50 online enterprises. In recent years, the Company has placed emphasis on convergence, combining the strengths of newspapers, television and the Internet. These efforts were initiated in the Tampa market, where The Tampa Tribune, WFLA-TV and TBO.com share the Company's News Center facility and work side by side to provide comprehensive news, information and entertainment in that market. The results of this initial venture led Media General to introduce convergence to five additional markets in the Southeast.
EMED.OB Medcom USA, Inc. provides technology-based solutions for the healthcare industry that enable users to efficiently collect, use, analyze and disseminate data from payers, healthcare providers and patients. The Company operates the MedCard System that is deployed through a point-of-sale (POS) terminal or personal computer (PC). The POS terminals are purchased from Hypercom Corporation (Hypercom). The MedCard System also operates in a PC version and an online version. The Company is in the process of assessing the feasibility of offering a service bundled package that would have the capability of processing unlimited claims and eligibility verification for monthly service fees.
MHS Medco Health Solutions, Inc. provides prescription benefit management (PBM) services through its national networks of retail pharmacies and its own mail-order pharmacies. Medco has a number of clients in various industry categories, including Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans; managed care organizations; insurance carriers; third-party benefit plan administrators; employers; federal, state and local government agencies, and union-sponsored benefit plans. UnitedHealth Group represented approximately 18% of total net revenues for the year ended December 31, 2003.
MDTH MedCath Corporation is a healthcare provider focused primarily on the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. It owns and operates hospitals in partnership with physicians, as well as with community hospital systems. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company had ownership interests in and operated 12 hospitals. Each of its majority-owned hospitals is a freestanding, licensed general acute care hospital that provides a wide range of health services. The medical staff at each of its hospitals includes qualified physicians in various specialties. The Company's hospitals are located in eight states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Louisiana, New Mexico, Ohio, South Dakota, and Texas. MedCath Corporation also owns and/or manages cardiac diagnostic and therapeutic facilities. In fiscal 2004, it owned and/or managed 27 cardiac diagnostic and therapeutic facilities. On December 1, 2004, it sold the Heart Hospital of Milwaukee.
MEDX Medarex, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of fully human antibody-based therapeutics to treat life-threatening and debilitating diseases, including cancer, inflammation, autoimmune and infectious diseases. Medarex applies its UltiMAb technology and product development and clinical manufacturing experience to generate, support and potentially commercialize a broad range of fully human antibody products for itself and its partners. Medarex is developing a diverse pipeline of antibody products to address the world's unmet healthcare needs.
TAXI Medallion Financial Corp. is a specialty finance company engaged in originating and servicing loans that finance taxicab medallions and various types of commercial businesses. Its total assets under management that includes assets serviced for third-party investors were approximately $631,382,000 as of December 31, 2003. The Company conducts its business through various wholly owned subsidiaries including its primary operating company, Medallion Funding Corp. The Company also conducts business through Business Lenders, LLC; Medallion Business Credit, LLC; Medallion Capital, Inc.; Freshstart Venture Capital Corp., and Medallion Bank. As an adjunct to the Company's taxicab medallion finance business, the Company operates a taxicab rooftop advertising business, Medallion Taxi Media, Inc., a taxicab rooftop advertising businesses in the United States, providing advertising space in 18 metropolitan areas in the United States and in two cities in Japan.
MDER.OB Med-Emerg International Inc. (MEII) is a provider of a range of healthcare management services. The Company specializes in the coordination and contract staffing of emergency physicians, nurses and related healthcare professionals for hospitals, government agencies and corporate clients in Canada. Though emergency-related services are still an important component of its business, MEII's growth has been largely attributable to the recruitment of various healthcare professionals to fulfill a contract with the Department of National Defense (DND), and a contract with Schering Plough Canada Inc., a pharmaceutical company, to provide infusion services to patients. The Company's operations were divided into five units during 2003, but it subsequently sold its Medical Clinics business. The four remaining business units are Hospital Staffing, Government Healthcare Services, Pharmaceutical Support and Long-Term Care.
MEDC Med-Design Corporation is engaged in the design, development and licensing of safety medical devices intended to reduce the incidence of accidental needle sticks. Each safety medical device is designed and developed by the Company's needle retraction technology. Med-Design technology enables healthcare professionals to retract a needle into the body of the medical device for safe disposal without any substantial change in operating technique. The Company's product technology can be categorized as: hypodermic syringes, injectors, fluid collection devices, venous and arterial access devices and arteries and specialty safety devices. In February 2004, Med-Design entered into a development agreement with Atrix Laboratories to develop a dual chamber pharmaceutical mixing device for the packaging of certain pre-filled liquid pharmaceutical products.
MKTY Mechanical Technology Incorporated (MTI) is primarily engaged in the development and commercialization of direct methanol micro fuel cells (DMFCs) through its subsidiary, MTI MicroFuel Cells Inc. (MTI Micro) and in the design, manufacture and sale of high-performance test and measurement instruments and systems through its subsidiary, MTI Instruments, Inc. MTI also co-founded and retains an interest in Plug Power Inc., a designer and developer of onsite energy systems based on proton exchange membrane fuel cells. MTI's operations are conducted through MTI Micro, a majority-owned subsidiary and MTI Instruments, a wholly owned subsidiary. The Company owns approximately 90% of the outstanding common stock of MTI Micro.
MSS Measurement Specialties, Inc. designs and manufactures sensors and sensor-based consumer products. The Company produces a variety of sensors that use technologies to measure ranges of physical characteristics, including pressure, motion, force, displacement, tilt/angle, flow and distance. Measurement Specialties' businesses are Sensor and Consumer Products. On January 30, 2004, it sold certain assets associated with its Thinner branded bathroom and kitchen scale business to Conair Corporation. Measurement Specialties sells its products in North America and Western Europe. The international sales accounted for 31.3% of net sales for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004). In January 2005, the Company acquired MWS Sensorik GmbH.
MWV MeadWestvaco Corporation is a global company with four principal operating business segments: packaging, paper, consumer and office products and specialty chemicals. The Packaging segment primarily produces bleached paperboard, coated natural kraft paperboard, linerboard and saturating kraft and packaging for consumer products in the media, beverage and dairy, cosmetics, tobacco, pharmaceuticals and healthcare markets. The Paper segment is engaged in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of coated, carbonless and specialty papers. The Consumer and Office Products segment manufactures, markets and distributes school, office, envelopes and time management products to retailers and commercial distributors. The Specialty Chemicals segment manufactures, markets and distributes products at four domestic locations. Major product groups are activated carbon products; printing ink resins and lignin-based surfactants, and tall oil fatty acid, rosin and derivative products.
MIG Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc. (Meadowbrook) serves as a holding company for Meadowbrook, Inc., Star Insurance Company (Star), Savers Property and Casualty Insurance Company (Savers) and American Indemnity Insurance Company, Ltd. (American Indemnity). Meadowbrook's four wholly owned domestic insurance company subsidiaries, Star, Savers, Ameritrust, and Williamsburg (collectively referred to as the Insurance Company Subsidiaries), issue insurance policies. Through the Insurance Company Subsidiaries, the Company engages in specialty risk management programs, where it takes underwriting risks in exchange for premiums. The Insurance Company Subsidiaries primarily focus on specialty programs designed specifically for trade groups and associations, whose members are homogeneous in nature. Member insureds are typically small to medium-sized businesses. Meadowbrook's programs focus on select classes of property/casualty business.
MVCO Meadow Valley Corporation is engaged in the construction industry as both a provider of construction services and a supplier of construction materials, primarily through its two wholly owned subsidiaries, Meadow Valley Contractors, Inc. (MVCI) and Ready Mix, Inc. The Company's Construction Services Segment (CSS), operated through MVCI, specializes in structural concrete construction of highway bridges and overpasses and the paving of highways and airport runways. The Construction Materials Segment (CMS), operated through RMI, provides ready mix concrete, sand and gravel products to the Company and to other contractors. The CSS provides its services for various governmental authorities and municipalities in the states of Nevada, Arizona and Utah. The CMS operates in the Las Vegas, Nevada, and Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan areas. The Company's projects are obtained primarily through the process of competitive bidding.
MEAD Meade Instruments Corp. is a multi-national consumer optics company that designs, manufactures, imports and distributes telescopes, telescope accessories, binoculars, riflescopes, spotting scopes, microscopes, night vision and other consumer optical products. Meade's product brands are CaptureView, a binocular with an integrated digital camera; NightView, a compact, night vision monocular that is built on the Company's digital imaging technology, and the Bresser brand of binoculars and smaller aperture telescopes. Meade acquired Simmons Outdoor Corp., which offers binocular and riflescope product lines under the Simmons, Weaver and Redfield brand names. The Company's customers include Discovery Channel Stores, Aldi (Germany), Wal-Mart, Jerry's Sport Center and the Eastman Kodak Company's Scientific Imaging Systems group. Revenues from customers outside North America accounted for approximately 26% of total net sales during the fiscal year ended February 29, 2004 (fiscal 2004).
MDU MDU Resources Group, Inc. is a diversified natural resource company that operates in six segments: electric; natural gas distribution; utility services; pipeline and energy services; natural gas and oil production, and construction materials and mining. The electric and natural gas distribution segments include the electric and natural gas distribution operations of Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. and the natural gas distribution operations of Great Plains Natural Gas Co. The utility services segment includes all the operations of Utility Services, Inc. The pipeline and energy services segment includes WBI Holdings, Inc.'s natural gas transportation, underground storage, gathering services and energy-related management services. The natural gas and oil production segment includes the natural gas and oil acquisition, exploration and production operations of WBI Holdings. The construction materials and mining segment includes the results of Knife River Corporation's operations.
MDTV.OB MDU Communications International, Inc. concentrates exclusively on installing and delivering digital satellite television and high-speed Internet solutions to the United States multi-dwelling unit (MDU) residential market. MDUs include apartment buildings, condominiums, gated communities, universities, nursing homes, hospitals, hotels, motels and other properties having multiple units located within a defined area. The Company seeks to provide services through balancing the information and communication needs of today's MDU residents with the technology concerns of property managers and owners. To accomplish this objective, it has partnered with DIRECTV, Inc. and has been working with large property owners and real estate investment trusts (REITs), such as AvalonBay Communities, Trammell Crow Residential, Roseland Property Company, KSI Services, as well as many others, to understand and meet the technology needs of these groups.
MDSI MDSI Mobile Data Solutions Inc. develops, markets, implements and supports mobile workforce management and wireless connectivity software for use by a variety of companies that have substantial mobile workforces, such as utilities, telecommunications and cable/broadband companies. Its products are used by such companies in conjunction with public and private wireless data communications networks to provide comprehensive solutions for the automation of business processes associated with the scheduling, dispatching and management of a mobile workforce. To effectively address a customer's mobile workforce management requirements, MDSI combines its products with professional services, such as systems implementation and integration, training and documentation, workforce management assessments, consulting, ongoing technical support and software maintenance. Where appropriate, MDSI also provides third-party products and services as part of a complete mobile workforce management solution.
MDZ MDS Inc. is an international health and life sciences company that operates in three segments: Life Sciences, Health and Proteomics. The Life Sciences segment helps pharmaceutical and biotech companies and manufacturers of medical products by providing drug discovery and development services, highly sensitive analytical instrumentation, medical isotopes used in diagnostic and radiotherapeutic applications, radiation treatment and information management for oncology and sterilization technology for medical and consumer products. The Health segment provides clinical, anatomical, esoteric and genetic laboratory information, and is engaged in the transformation and management of hospital laboratories under contract and through joint ventures, development of automated laboratories and distribution of medical products to hospitals and other healthcare institutions. MDS Proteomics Inc. is focused on providing functional proteomics services to pharmaceutical and biotech companies.
MDII MDI, Inc., formerly American Building Control, Inc., is an electronic security technology company. During the year ended December 31, 2003, following the sale of its closed-circuit television business to Honeywell International, Inc., it reorganized its business activities of designing, marketing, selling and servicing niche security products for use in industrial, governmental and consumer surveillance markets into two separate operating segments: Professional Security Group (PSG) and Diversified Sales Group (DSG). PSG is comprised of MDI Security Systems, Inc., involved in the access control business, and ABM Data Systems, Inc., a provider of alarm management software. DSG is comprised of three operating units: SecurityandMore, which sells surveillance monitoring kits and accessories; the Industrial Vision Source, which distributes video products to manufacturing, research facilities, and Mobile Video Products, which sells monitoring and recording devices to public transit vehicles.
MDCA MDC Partners Inc. is a provider of marketing communications services and transaction products and services to customers in more than 60 countries. MDC carries on business through two operating divisions: the Marketing Communications Division and Secure Products International Division. The Marketing Communications Division provides a range of communications services that include advertising, direct marketing, database management, sales promotion, corporate communications, marketing research, corporate identity and branding and interactive marketing. The Secure Products International Division provides security products and services in three primary areas: electronic transaction products, such as credit, debit, telephone and smart cards; secure ticketing products, such as airline, transit and event tickets, and stamps, both postal and excise.
MDC M.D.C. Holdings, Inc. (MDC) is primarily engaged in owning and managing subsidiary companies that build and sell homes in the United States under the name Richmond American Homes. The Company conducts its homebuilding operations in Colorado, Northern Virginia, suburban Maryland, Arizona, Nevada, Northern and Southern California. MDC also has a growing presence in Dallas/Fort Worth and has entered the Houston, San Antonio, Philadelphia/Delaware Valley, West Florida, Jacksonville and Chicago markets. The Company also owns and manages HomeAmerican Mortgage Corporation, which originates mortgage loans primarily for MDC's homebuyers. In addition, MDC provides title agency services through American Home Title and Escrow Company to MDC homebuyers in Virginia, Maryland and Colorado, and offers third-party insurance products through American Home Insurance Agency, Inc. to its homebuyers.
MMR McMoRan Exploration Co. is engaged in the exploration, development and production of oil and gas, offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and onshore in the Gulf Coast region, focusing on its reserve potential. The Company is also pursuing the establishment of an energy hub at its former sulphur facilities at Main Pass Block 299 (Main Pass) in the Gulf of Mexico, which includes transforming the existing Main Pass facilities into a liquefied natural gas terminal. McMoRan has two wholly owned subsidiaries, McMoRan Oil &amp; Gas LLC, which conducts all of its oil and gas operations, and Freeport-McMoRan Energy LLC, which changed its name from Freeport-McMoRan Sulphur LLC during 2003. During 2002, the Company exited the sulphur business.
MCLD McLeodUSA, Inc. is a facilities-based telecommunications services provider offering integrated communications services to homes and businesses in 25 Midwest, Southwest, Northwest and Rocky Mountain states in the United States. The Company, operating through its subsidiaries, derives revenue from its core telecommunications and related communications services. These include local and long-distance services, dial-up Internet access services, wireless services, high-speed/broadband Internet access services using digital subscriber line (DSL), cable modems and T-carrier 1 (T1) access, bandwidth, sales and services including access services, advanced communications services for larger businesses such as frame relay, private line and integrated services digital network (ISDN), and value-added services such as virtual private networks and Web hosting. The Company's service offerings are categorized into retail services and wholesale/carrier services.
MCK McKesson Corporation provides and supplies information and care management products and services designed to reduce costs and improve quality across the healthcare industry. The Company's three business segments: the Pharmaceutical Solutions segment, distributes ethical drugs and health and beauty care products, and manufactures and sells automated pharmaceutical dispensing systems for hospitals and retail pharmacies, medical management and specialty pharmaceutical solutions for biotech and pharmaceutical manufacturers in the United States; the Medical-Surgical Solutions segment, distributes medical-surgical supplies and equipments, and provides logistics and related services in the United States, and the Information Solutions segment, delivers enterprise-wide patient care, clinical, financial, supply chain, managed care and management software solutions, as well as outsourcing and other services, to healthcare organizations in North America, the United Kingdom and European countries.
MCIP MCI, Inc., whose predecessor was WorldCom, Inc., is a global communication company, providing a range of communication services in over 200 countries on six continents. It operates a communications network that is composed of approximately 100,000 route miles of network connections linking metropolitan centers and various regions across North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Australia. It owns an Internet protocol backbone and is a carrier of international voice traffic. Since April 2003, its business has been conducted using the brand name MCI. The Company operates primarily through three business units: Business Markets, Mass Markets and International. On April 20, 2004, WorldCom merged with and into MCI, as a part of transactions contemplated by a Plan of Reorganization of WorldCom and certain of its subsidiaries under chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.
MHP The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. is a global information services provider serving the financial services, education and business information markets with information products and services. The Company has three operating segments: Education, Financial Services and Information and Media Services. The Education segment is an educational publisher serving the elementary and high school, college and university, professional and international markets. The Financial Services segment operates under the Standard &amp; Poor's brand as one reporting unit and provides credit ratings, evaluation services and analyses globally on corporations, financial institutions, securitized and project financings and local, state and sovereign governments. The Information and Media Services segment consists of two operating groups, which include business and professional media offering information, insight and analysis.
MGRC McGrath RentCorp is comprised of three business segments: Mobile Modular Management Corporation (MMMC), the Company's modular building rental division; RenTelco, its electronic test equipment rental division, and Enviroplex, Inc., its majority-owned subsidiary classroom manufacturing business. A significant portion of the Company's total revenues is derived from the educational market. Within the educational market, the rental (by MMMC) and sale (by Enviroplex and MMMC) of relocatable modular buildings (modulars) to California public school districts for use as portable classrooms, restroom buildings and administrative offices for kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) comprised approximately 41%, 40% and 34%, of the Company's consolidated rental and sales revenues for 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively.
MCGC MCG Capital Corporation, organized in 1998, is a solutions-focused financial services company providing financing and advisory services to a variety of small and medium-sized companies throughout the United States. MCG's primary business is lending to and investing in growth oriented private businesses, through investments in senior debt, subordinated debt and equity-based investments, including warrants and equity appreciation rights. The Company's portfolio consists mostly of companies in the communications, information services, media and technology, including software and technology-enabled business services industry sectors. In March 2004, the Company acquired Kagan World Media, a media, communications and entertainment research firm based in Carmel, California.
MEM MCF Corporation is a financial services holding company that provides institutional sales and trading, research, investment banking, corporate services and asset management through its operating subsidiaries, Merriman Curhan Ford &amp; Co. and MCF Asset Management, LLC. Merriman Curhan Ford &amp; Co. is a securities broker-dealer and investment bank focused on emerging growth companies and growth-oriented institutional investors. Institutional Cash Distributors (ICD) was formed during 2003 as a division of Merriman Curhan Ford &amp; Co. ICD is a broker of money market funds serving the short-term investing needs of corporate finance departments at companies throughout the United States. In January 2004, the Company formed MCF Asset Management, LLC as a wholly owned subsidiary. MCF Asset Management, LLC is engaged in fixed income asset management for corporate clients and manages alternative investment vehicles through a fund of funds.
MCD McDonald's Corporation, with its subsidiaries, primarily operates and franchises McDonald's restaurants in the food service industry. These restaurants serve a varied, yet limited, value-priced menu in more than 100 countries around the world. Its menu includes hamburgers and cheeseburgers, Big Mac, Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Big N' Tasty, Filet-O-Fish, several chicken sandwiches, Chicken McNuggets, French fries, Premium Salads, milk shakes, McFlurry desserts, sundaes and soft serve cones, pies, cookies and soft drinks and other beverages. In addition, the restaurants sell a variety of other products during limited-time promotions. The Company also operates Boston Market and Chipotle Mexican Grill in the United States, and has a minority ownership interest in Pret A Manger. On the year ended December 31, 2003, Mc Donald's sold its Donatos Pizzeria business.
MDR McDermott International, Inc. (MII) is the parent company of the McDermott group of companies, which includes J.Ray McDermott, S.A., a Panamanian subsidiary of MII (JRM), and its consolidated subsidiaries; McDermott Incorporated, a Delaware subsidiary of MII (MI), and its consolidated subsidiaries; Babcock &amp; Wilcox Investment Company, a Delaware subsidiary of MI (BWICO); BWX Technologies, Inc., a Delaware subsidiary of BWICO (BWXT), and its consolidated subsidiaries; and The Babcock &amp; Wilcox Company, an unconsolidated Delaware subsidiary of BWICO (B&amp;W), and its consolidated subsidiaries. Excluding B&amp;W and its subsidiaries, the Company's operations consist of Marine Construction Services and Government Operations.
MCDTA McDATA Corporation provides multi-capable storage network solutions (integrating multiple platforms, networks, protocols and locations) that enable end customers worldwide to better consolidate and utilize their storage infrastructure, manage the storage network and implement business continuance solutions. McDATA provides storage area networking (SAN) solutions, including hardware and software, for connecting servers and storage devices from the core to the edge of an enterprise's data infrastructure, and heterogenous SANs via the Company's SAN Routing capabilities. Its solutions include hardware and software products, professional services and education that enable businesses to scale their operations globally.
MSSR McCormick &amp; Schmick's Seafood Restaurants, Inc. is a national seafood restaurant operator in the upscale dining segment. The Company operated 49 restaurants in 20 states, as of April 29, 2004, including two restaurants operated under management contracts. Approximately 30% of the Company's revenues in the fiscal year ended December 27, 2003 were generated from its bar operations, where value-priced items are offered from its full restaurant menu. The Company's daily-printed menu typically contains between 85 and 110 made-to-order dishes, including an extensive selection of international, national, regional and local species of seafood. The Company's non-seafood offerings include prime aged beef, creative salads and fresh pasta dishes. McCormick &amp; Schmick's also operates three restaurants under the name M&amp;S Grill and one under the name Jake's Grill, each of which offers an alternative menu to that of its seafood restaurants.
MKC McCormick &amp; Company, Incorporated is a diversified specialty food company engaged in the manufacture, marketing and distribution of spices, herbs, seasonings and other flavors to the entire food industry. The Company operates in two business segments, consumer and industrial. The consumer and industrial segments manufacture, market and distribute spices, herbs, seasonings, flavorings and other specialty food products throughout the world. The consumer segment sells to the consumer food market under a variety of brands, including McCormick, Zatarain's in the United States, Ducros in continental Europe, Club House in Canada and Schwartz in the United Kingdom. The industrial segment sells to food processors, restaurant chains, distributors, warehouse clubs and institutional operations.
MFE McAfee, Inc., formerly Networks Associates, Inc., supplies computer security solutions designed to prevent intrusions on networks and protect computer systems from the next generation of blended attacks and threats. The Company offers two principal families of products: McAfee System Protection Solutions, which delivers anti-virus and security products and services, designed to protect systems such as desktops and servers; and McAfee Network Protection Solutions, which offers products designed to maximize the performance and security of networks. These products are offered to large enterprises, governments, small and medium sized business and consumer users. McAfee has established Expert Services and Technical Support to provide professional assistance in the design, installation, configuration and implementation of its customers' networks and acquired products. McAfee operates its business in North America; Europe, Middle East and Africa; Japan; Asia-Pacific, and Latin America.
MCX MC Shipping Inc. is engaged in the business of investing in, owning and operating second-hand vessels. At December 31, 2003, the Company's fleet included seven liquid petroleum gas (LPG) carriers, four containerships and two multi-purpose seariver vessels. A LPG carrier is designed to carry petroleum gases used primarily as low pollution fuels and as feedstock in the petrochemical and fertilizer industries. A containership is a vessel designed exclusively to carry containers. A multi-purpose seariver vessel is a small vessel capable of carrying general cargo and/or bulk cargo both on rivers and at sea. The Company generally employs its vessels on time charter, bareboat charter or spot charter. MC Shipping had 17 charters covering the year 2003, 11 of which were commenced in 2003 and four charterers provided revenues exceeding 10% of the Company's total revenues. The Company's multi-purpose seariver vessels and some of its LPG carriers were engaged on voyage charters in 2003.
KRB MBNA Corporation (MBNA) is the parent company of MBNA America Bank, N.A. (the Bank). Through the Bank, the Company operates as an independent credit card lender and issuer of endorsed credit cards, marketed primarily to members of associations and customers of financial institutions and other organizations. In addition to its credit card lending, MBNA makes other consumer loans, including installment and revolving unsecured loan products, and offers insurance and deposit products. The Bank has two wholly owned foreign bank subsidiaries, MBNA Europe Bank Limited and MBNA Canada Bank, through which the Company conducts its business in Europe and Canada, respectively. MBNA is also the parent company of MBNA America (Delaware), N.A., a national bank that offers mortgage loans, aircraft loans and business loan products.
MBI MBIA Inc. is a provider of financial guarantee products and specialized financial services. The Company provides products and services that meet the credit enhancement, financial and investment needs of its public- and private-sector clients, domestically and internationally. MBIA manages its activities primarily through three principal business operations: insurance, investment management services and municipal services. The insurance operations provide an unconditional and irrevocable guarantee of the payment of principal and interest on insured obligations when due. The Company's investment management services operations provide an array of products and services to the public, not-for-profit and corporate sectors. MBIA's municipal services operations provide revenue enhancement services and products to public-sector clients nationwide, consisting of discovery, audit, collections/recovery, enforcement and information services.
MBFI MB Financial, Inc. (MBFI) is a bank holding company providing a range of financial services to individuals and corporate customers through its banking subsidiaries principally in metropolitan Chicago, Illinois and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Company's primary market is the Chicago metropolitan area, in which it operates 36 banking offices through its lead bank subsidiary, MB Financial Bank, N.A. MBFI also operates five banking offices in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area through its other bank subsidiary, Union Bank, N.A. The Company's primary lines of business include commercial banking, retail banking and wealth management.
MYG Maytag Corporation is a producer of home and commercial appliances. Its home appliance segment manufactures and sells laundry products, dishwashers, refrigerators, cooking appliances and floor care products. These products are sold primarily to major national retailers and independent retail dealers in North America and targeted international markets. The Company's home appliances are sold primarily under the Maytag, Amana, Hoover, Jenn-Air and Magic Chef brand names. Maytag also sells in-home appliance services. Maytag commercial appliances segment manufactures and sells commercial cooking and vending equipment. These products are sold primarily to distributors, soft drink bottlers, restaurant chains and dealers in North America and targeted international markets.
MYR Mayor's Jewelers, Inc. (Mayor's) is a luxury jeweler of fine-quality jewelry, watches and giftware. As a luxury jeweler, the Company does not sell costume or gold-filled jewelry, rather, all of its jewelry products are constructed of 18-karat gold, platinum or sterling silver with or without precious gemstones with emphasis on quality craftsmanship and design. As of March 27, 2004, Mayor's operated 27 stores in South and Central Florida and metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. The Company offers a selection of quality merchandise at many different price points. This merchandise includes designer jewelry, diamond, gemstone and precious metal jewelry, rings, wedding bands, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, charms, baby jewelry, timepieces and giftware.
MAYNY.OB Mayne Group Limited is a commercial operator of healthcare businesses in Australia focused on international specialty pharmaceuticals business and Australian diagnostic services and pharmacy operations. The Company operates in three broad business categories: pharmaceuticals, diagnostic services and pharmacy. Pharmaceuticals comprise of the Mayne Pharma and consumer products business segments; diagnostic services include the pathology (including medical centres) and diagnostic imaging business segments, and pharmacy comprises of the pharmacy business segment.
MFLR Mayflower Co-op Bank (the Bank) is a Massachusetts state-chartered cooperative bank. The primary business of the Bank is to acquire funds in the form of deposits from the general public and to make loans for the construction, purchase and refinancing of residential and commercial real estate, and, to a lesser extent, to make commercial business and consumer loans in its primary market area, which the Bank considers to be southeastern Massachusetts, including Plymouth County, Bristol County and Barnstable County on Cape Cod. The Bank's operations are conducted through five full-service offices in Middleboro, Plymouth, Wareham, Rochester and Bridgewater.
MAY The May Department Stores Company operates six regional department store divisions in the United States. The department store divisions are Lord &amp; Taylor; Filene's and Kaufmann's; Robinsons-May and Meier &amp; Frank; Hecht's and Strawbridge's; Foley's, and Famous-Barr, L.S. Ayres and The Jones Store. As of January 31, 2004, May operated 444 department stores in 36 states and the District of Columbia. May National Bank of Ohio, an indirect subsidiary, extends credit to customers of May's six department store divisions. May Merchandising Company, an indirect subsidiary, works closely with its six department store divisions and merchandise vendors to communicate emerging fashion trends and to develop merchandise assortments. In addition to its department stores, May's Bridal Group operates 210 David's Bridal stores, 460 After Hours Formalwear stores and 10 Priscilla of Boston stores. In July 2004, the Company acquired the Marshall Field's department store group from Target Corporation.
MAXY Maxygen, Inc. is a biotechnology company using its protein optimization and modification technologies to create and develop novel therapeutic and industrial products. It develops and applies directed molecular evolution technologies, also known as its Molecular Breeding directed evolution platform, and other complementary technologies to evolve new or improved properties into single genes, multigene pathways, vectors and genomes. Maxygen has four next-generation protein therapeutic leads in pre-clinical development. The four leads address opportunities and deficiencies in first-generation marketed protein products, and the four product candidates are an optimized alpha interferon for the treatment of hepatitis C.; an optimized gamma interferon for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and other indications, and two leads to which the Company retains all rights: an optimized beta interferon for multiple sclerosis and an optimized protein for the treatment of myelosuppression.
MXM MAXXAM Inc. conducts its operations through its subsidiaries that operate in three industries: Forest products, through MAXXAM Group Inc. (MGI) and MGI's wholly owned subsidiary, The Pacific Lumber Company (PALCO) and Palco's wholly owned subsidiaries, Scotia Pacific Company LLC (SCOTIA LLC) and Britt Lumber Co., Inc. (BRITT); Real estate investment and development, through MAXXAM Property Company (MPC) and other wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company, and Racing operations, through Sam Houston Race Park, Ltd. (SHRP, LTD.), a Texas limited partnership, wholly owned by the Company. In addition, the Company owns 62% of Kaiser Aluminum Corporation (KAISER), an integrated aluminum producer.
MXWL Maxwell Technologies Inc. is a developer and manufacturer of cost-effective energy storage and power delivery solutions. Its Boostcap ultracapacitor cells and multi-cell modules and Powercache back-up power systems aim to provide safe and reliable power solutions for applications in consumer and industrial electronics, transportation and telecommunications. Its Condis high-voltage grading and coupling capacitors help to ensure the safety and reliability of electric utility infrastructure and other applications involving transport, distribution and measurement of high-voltage electrical energy. The Company's radiation-mitigated microelectronic products include power modules, memory modules and single-board computers that incorporate powerful commercial silicon in an effort to provide superior performance and high reliability in aerospace applications.
MXUS.OB Medinex Systems, Inc. distributes new and used telecommunications and information technology equipment and recycling eWaste through its operating subsidiaries Maxus Technology Inc. and Triple-Too Communications Inc. The Company provides electronic asset recovery and eWaste recycling solutions. It offers a worldwide exchange for quality information technology (IT) and telecom equipment, surplus computer systems and cellular technologies. Maxus buys and sells surplus telecom and IT equipment with customers and suppliers. Its buyer network primarily consists of telephone companies, Internet service providers, original equipment manufacturers and equipment resellers. It also procures computer and telecom equipment from government, institutional and corporate clients for resale purposes. In July 2004, the Company acquired UDT Korea Corporation, a provider of specialty eWaste Solutions in the Asian marketplace.
MRTI Maxus Realty Trust, Inc. makes equity investments in income-producing real properties, primarily commercial and light-industrial properties. The Trust's equity investments in income-producing real properties are multi-family housing properties. The Company's acquired properties are King's Court Apartments, Chalet I and Chalet II Apartments, The Landings at Rock Creek Apartments and Barrington Hills Apartments. Each of these acquisitions, other than King's Court Apartments, was acquired by limited liability companies wholly owned by the Trust. In May 2003, the Atrium at Alpha Business Center was sold. Maxus Properties, Inc., (Maxus) a Missouri corporation, provides property management services for the Trust.
MXO Maxtor Corporation designs, develops and manufactures a line of hard disk drives for desktop computers, storage systems and Intel-based servers. The Company's desktop products are marketed under the DiamondMax, MaXLine and Fireball brand names, consisting of 3.5-inch disk drives with storage capacities that range from 40 to 300 gigabytes (GB). It also provides a line of high-capacity ATA and Serial ATA drives for use in mid-line and near-line storage applications. In addition, it offers a line of high-end 3.5-inch hard disk drives for use in storage-intensive applications such as workstations and storage subsystems, which are marketed under the Atlas brand and provide storage capacities of 18.4 to 147.1 GB at speeds of 10,000 revolutions per minute (RPM) and 15,000 RPM. In 2003, the Company introduced the Maxtor OneTouch, which provides backup and restore capability with the push of a button. The Company operates in the international market.
MMS MAXIMUS, Inc. is a provider of consulting, systems solutions and operations program management primarily to the government sector. The Company delivers valued-added services to government agencies by providing consulting, systems and operations program management that help governments operate more efficiently and effectively. The Company's primary customers are state and local government agencies, but a small portion of its business also comes from a variety of federal agencies and commercial customers. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), approximately 83% of the Company's total revenue was derived from state and local government agencies, 7% from federal government agencies and 10% from other sources. MAXIMUS conducts its operations through three business segments: Consulting, Systems and Operations. The Company operates predominantly in the United States and has had contracts with government agencies in all 50 states.
MAXM Maxim Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Maxim) is a global biopharmaceutical company with a diverse pipeline of therapeutic candidates for life-threatening cancers and liver diseases. The Company's research and development programs are designed to offer hope to patients by developing safe and effective therapeutic candidates that have the potential to extend survival while maintaining quality of life. Ceplene (histamine dihydrochloride), its lead drug candidate, is an immune-modulator based on the naturally occurring molecule histamine, which reverses immune suppression and protects critical immune cells. More than 2,000 patients have participated in the 17 completed and ongoing clinical trials of Ceplene, conducted in 20 countries. In addition, Maxim is developing small-molecule apoptosis modulators for cancer, cardiovascular disease and degenerative diseases.
MXIM Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (Maxim) designs, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of linear and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs), commonly referred to as analog circuits. The Company also provides a range of high-frequency design processes and capabilities that can be used in custom designs. In 2001, the Company acquired Dallas Semiconductor Corporation. At the time of the acquisition, Dallas Semiconductor's product line consisted of 390 proprietary base products sold to over 15,000 customers worldwide. Applications for those products include battery management, broadband telecommunications, wireless handsets, cellular base stations, networking, servers, data storage and a wide variety of industrial equipment. The Company offers products to the automotive, communications, consumer, data processing, industrial control, instrumentation and medical industries.
MAXIQ.OB Maxicare Health Plans, Inc. has not been engaged in any active business and has no reasonable prospects of obtaining or generating any ongoing business since March 2002. At December 31, 2003, the Company had a substantial capital deficiency. Maxicare is in the process of exploring possible strategies to realize any possible value remaining in the Company.
MAXF Maxcor Financial Group Inc. is a financial services holding company. Through its various Euro Brokers businesses, the Company conducts its core business as an inter-dealer brokerage firm. Maxcor Financial Inc. also conducts institutional sales and trading operations in municipal bonds, corporate bonds, convertible securities and equities, as well as institutional securities financing operations. Maxcor also maintains certain specialty subsidiaries. Tradesoft Technologies, Inc. is a software developer and technology provider that specializes in designing trading systems and broker platforms. Maxcor Financial Asset Management Inc., an investment adviser registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, is engaged in securities lending through its Euro Brokers Securities Lending division. Maxcor Information Inc. is charged with packaging and exploiting the data and other information generated by the Company's inter-dealer brokerage businesses.
MAXC Maxco, Inc. operates in the heat-treating business segment through Atmosphere Annealing Inc., a production metal heat-treating service company. Maxco also has investments in real estate and investments representing less than majority interests in a registered broker-dealer of securities that is primarily focused on the trading of fixed-income investments; a developer, manufacturer and marketer of microprocessor-based process monitoring and inspection systems for use in industrial manufacturing environments, and an energy-related business. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004, Atmosphere Annealing reached an agreement with a new financial institution to repay a lender with which the Company and Atmosphere Annealing had previously been in default.
MXRE Max Re Capital Ltd. is a holding company that provides multiline reinsurance and insurance products through its subsidiaries, Max Re Ltd. (Max Re), Max Re Europe Limited and Max Insurance Europe Limited. Through its subsidiary, Max Re Managers Ltd., the Company provides reinsurance underwriting and administrative services on a fee basis. Max Re Diversified Strategies Ltd., another subsidiary, holds all of the Company's alternative investments other than reinsurance private equity investments that are held by Max Re. Max Europe Holdings Limited is the holding company for the Company's European operating subsidiaries and was formed in June 2003.
MAXE Max &amp; Erma's Restaurants, Inc. (Max &amp; Erma's) owned and operated a chain of 98 Max &amp; Erma's restaurants, of which 20 were franchised as of October 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004). Max &amp; Erma's restaurants serve gourmet burgers, overstuffed sandwiches, homemade pasta dishes, chargrilled steak and chicken specialties, super salads and munchies. Unique to the Max &amp; Erma's concept is the Build-Your-Own-Sundae Bar, a bathtub filled with vanilla ice cream, special sauces and an assortment of toppings, along with baked-while-you-eat chocolate chip cookies. Additionally, the restaurants serve alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. The Company's restaurants are principally located in the Midwestern United States.
MVK Maverick Tube Corporation is a North American producer of welded tubular steel products used in energy and industrial applications. The Company produces oil country tubular goods (OCTG) and line pipe products for use in newly drilled oil and gas wells and for transporting oil and natural gas. It primarily sells these products to distributors in the United States and Canada. As of January 1, 2003, the Company reclassified its business into two new segments: Energy Products and Industrial Products. Energy products consist of OCTG, line pipe and coiled pipe products. Industrial products consist of structural tubing, standard pipe, pipe piling and steel electrical conduit products. Maverick's operating subsidiaries include Prudential Steel Ltd., Precision Tube Holding Corporation, the tubular division of the former LTV Corporation (Republic Conduit) and SeaCAT Corporation.
MVRM.OB Maverick Minerals Corporation is a start-up, exploration stage company engaged in the acquisition of resource properties. As of December 31, 2003, the Company is involved in the surface reclamation of a closed coal mining operation, by way of a lease on the property. No mining or underground exploration or workings are being undertaken at the property. Maverick, either individually or through its subsidiary corporations, does not own interests in any mining properties.
MLP Maui Land &amp; Pineapple Company, Inc. consists of a landholding and operating parent company and its principal subsidiaries, including Maui Pineapple Company, Ltd. and Kapalua Land Company, Ltd. The industry segments of the Company during the year ended December 31, 2003, were Pineapple that includes growing pineapple, canning pineapple in tinplated steel containers, production of pineapple juice and fresh cut pineapple products (discontinued in October 2003) and marketing of canned pineapple products, pineapple juice products and fresh whole pineapple; Resort that includes the development and sale of resort real estate, property management and the operation of recreational and retail facilities and utility companies at Kapalua, Maui, and Commercial &amp; Property, which includes its investment in Kaahumanu Center Associates, the Napili Plaza shopping center and non-resort real estate development, rentals and sales as well the land entitlement and land and water asset management activities.
MTSN Mattson Technology, Inc. is a supplier of semiconductor wafer processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits (ICs). The Company's products include dry strip, rapid thermal processing (RTP), isotropic etch systems and plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) equipment. Mattson's manufacturing equipment is used for transistor level, front-end-of-line manufacturing and in specialized applications for processing the interconnect layer or back-end-of-line processing. Its manufacturing equipment utilizes a technology to deliver advanced-processing capability and high productivity to semiconductor manufacturers for both 200- and 300-millimeter wafer production at technology nodes of below 130 nanometers. The Company's customers are foundries and logic and memory device manufacturers. The Company distributes its products through global sales and support organization and has offices in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and China.
MATW Matthews International Corporation is a designer, manufacturer and marketer principally of memorialization products and brand solutions. Memorialization products consist primarily of bronze memorials and memorialization products, caskets and cremation equipment for the cemetery and funeral home industries. Brand solutions include graphics imaging products and services, merchandising solutions and marking products. The Company's products and operations are comprised of six business segments: Bronze, York Casket, Cremation, Graphics Imaging, Marking Products and Merchandising Solutions.
MAT Mattel, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets a variety of toy products worldwide, through sales to retailers and directly to consumers. Mattel's portfolio of brands and products are grouped in the following categories: Mattel, Fisher-Price and American Girl. Mattel brands include Barbie, which includes Barbie fashion dolls and accessories; Other Girls Brands, which includes Polly Pocket! and ello; Wheels, which includes Hot Wheels, Matchbox and Tyco R/C vehicles and playsets, and Entertainment, which includes Nickelodeon, Harry Potter, Yu-Gi-Oh!, He-Man and Masters of the Universe, Batman, Justice League, and games and puzzles. Fisher-Price brands include Fisher-Price, Power Wheels, Sesame Street, Little People, Disney preschool and plush, Winnie the Pooh, Rescue Heroes, Barney, See 'N Say, Dora the Explorer, PowerTouch and View-Master. American Girl brands include American Girl Today, The American Girls Collection and Bitty Baby.
MC Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. offers a comprehensive range of electronic and electric products, systems and components for consumer, business and industrial use. It operates in five segments: Audio-visual Connection (AVC) Networks, Home Appliances, Components and Devices, JVC and Others. Matsushita's principal products in the AVC Networks category include video and audio equipment and information and communications equipment. The Company's principal products in the Home Appliances category include home appliances, household equipment and healthcare systems. Major products included in the Components and Devices category are semiconductors, display devices, electric components, compressors and batteries. JVC consists of products like videocassette recorders, camcorders, color televisions, stereo high-fidelity and related equipment, car audio, digital video disc players and compact disc radio cassette recorders. The Others segment includes factory automation.
MTXX Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. develops, produces, markets and sells over-the-counter pharmaceutical products with an emphasis on those that utilize unique or novel delivery systems. Through its subsidiary, Zicam, LLC, the Company produces, markets and sells seven different products under the Zicam brand. These products are Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel, remedy that significantly reduces the duration and severity of the common cold; Zicam Cold Remedy Swabs and Zicam Cold Remedy Swabs-Kids Size, two related nasal swab cold remedy products; Zicam Allergy Relief, a homeopathic nasal gel formula designed to control allergy symptoms; Zicam Extreme Congestion Relief, a nasal gel formula designed to provide fast-acting, long-lasting relief of nasal congestion; Zicam Sinus Relief, a nasal gel formula that enhances the benefits of Extreme Congestion Relief with menthol and eucalyptus for improved feeling of sinus pressure relief, and Zicam Nasal Moisturizer, a non-medicated nasal moisturizer.
MONE MatrixOne, Inc. is a provider of collaborative product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions. The Company's solutions enable companies from a broad range of industries to accelerate product innovation and time-to-market and drive efficiencies into the product development processes by allowing for the collaborative development, building and management of its products. MatrixOne's collaborative PLM solutions are based on its suite of software products, collectively referred to as Matrix10. The Matrix10 solution is a comprehensive and flexible PLM environment that consists of three components: the Matrix PLM Platform, Business Process Applications and Enterprise Integration offerings. In August 2004, the Company acquired Synchronicity Software, Inc., a provider in electronic design management; team collaboration and intellectual property reuse solutions for the global electronics industry.
MTRX Matrix Service Company and its subsidiaries provide construction services and repair and maintenance services principally to the power and petroleum related industries, which includes facilities for the generation (fossil, hydro, and nuclear) and transmission of power, petroleum refineries and petroleum and natural gas products storage, terminals and pipelines. The construction services include turnkey projects, plant expansions/relocations, terminals/bulk storage facilities, new tank construction, heavy hauling, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) code work/welding, rigging and millwrighting. The repair and maintenance services include plant maintenance, turnaround services, outages, industrial cleaning, hydroblasting, substation and aboveground storage tank (AST) repair and maintenance.
MXES.OB Matrix Energy Services Corporation is engaged in the exploration of oil and natural gas. It did not refine or process the oil and natural gas that it produced. The Company has focused its exploration efforts on its holdings in Texas. Matrix Energy Services Corporation is redeveloping existing fields in and around Corsicana, Texas, and other areas of the region. The primary asset of the Company, the Corsicana leases, is comprised of approximately 8,000 leasehold acres and 900 wells, of which 200 were producing. On November 27, 2003, the Company executed a farm-out agreement with Jerry Witte, a geologist, (Witte) granting him the right to drill a test well on its leasehold in Corsicana. The Company retained a 10% carried working interest in the well and has granted an additional area of mutual interest to Witte for 1,000 acres or 25 additional wells. Drilling commenced in April 2004, and three wells have been drilled.
MTXC Matrix Bancorp, Inc. is a unitary thrift holding company that focuses on banking, trust and clearing activities, lending activities, mortgage banking and other fee-based services. The Company's business operations are conducted through its subsidiaries and an investment in a settlement and clearing operation. Its traditional banking activities include originating and servicing residential, commercial and consumer loans and providing a range of depository services. Its mortgage banking activities consist of purchasing and selling residential mortgage loans, offering brokerage, consulting and analytical services to financial services companies and financial institutions, servicing residential mortgage portfolios for investors and providing real estate management and disposition services. It's trust and clearing activities focus on offering specialized custody and clearing services to banks, trust companies, broker-dealers, third-party administrators and investment professionals.
MZT Matritech, Inc. is a biotechnology company principally engaged in the development, manufacture, marketing, distribution and licensing of cancer diagnostic technologies, products and services. The products the Company has developed are based on its nuclear matrix protein (NMP) technology. Matritech manufactures products for detecting bladder cancer utilizing its NMP221 technology and sells them in the United States and Germany and through distributors in other countries. In Europe, Matritech also sells diagnostic products manufactured by Hitachi Chemical Diagnostics and others to laboratories and physicians, principally in Germany. Sysmex Corporation, a manufacturer of automated laboratory instruments based in Kobe, Japan, has licensed the Company's NMP179 technology for detecting cervical cancer and is proceeding to develop a cellular analysis system to detect cervical cancer and other cervical cell abnormalities.
MATR Matria Healthcare, Inc. provides comprehensive, integrated disease management services and related products. It provides services to self-insured employers, private and government-sponsored health plans, pharmaceutical companies and patients. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Matria's operations consisted of two business segments: Health Enhancement and Women's Health. The Company announced an initiative to provide services for infants and children through neonatal intensive-care case management and delivery of specialty pharmaceuticals. In connection with this initiative, in 2004, Matria changed the name of the Women's Health segment to Women's and Children's Health. Effective October 1, 2003, the Company purchased certain assets of Options Unlimited Comprehensive Rehabilitative Services, Inc., a healthcare and disability management firm specializing in case and utilization management for health plans, third-party administrators and employers.
MSC Material Sciences Corporation (MSC) designs, manufactures and markets material-based solutions. The Company is organized under two business segments, MSC Engineered Materials and Solutions Group (EMS) and MSC Electronic Materials and Devices Group (EMD). EMS, which represented 99.8% of the Company's net sales for the fiscal year ended February 29, 2004 (fiscal 2004), focuses on providing material-based solutions for electronic, acoustical/thermal and coated metal applications. EMD's primary focus is designing, developing and commercializing the technology licensed from TouchSensor Technologies, LLC (TST), which includes touch sensor technology for sensors, switches and interface solutions. The Company, through its subsidiaries, operates six manufacturing plants in the United States and Europe.
MATV Matav-Cable Systems Media Ltd. operates and provides broadband cable television services in Israel. The Company markets its cable television services and engages in content-related activities, together with two other Israeli cable television operators, Tevel Israel International Communications Ltd. Group and Golden Channels &amp; Co. Group, under the brand name HOT. The total number of Matav's cable television subscribers was approximately 266,700 as of December 31, 2003. In April 2002, the Company started to offer a commercial service of access to high-speed, Internet-over cable. It also provides various data transmission services and network services at different bit rates, services to the business sector and other ancillary services.
MTZ MasTec, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, is a Florida corporation, which serves providers of telecommunications, broadband, including cable, satellite and high-speed Internet, energy services, traffic control and homeland security systems throughout many parts of North America. The Company's offerings are separated into the construction, design and installation or the maintenance and upgrade of infrastructure. During the year ended December 31, 2003, MasTec provided services to more than 600 clients. The Company addresses the full range of its clients' infrastructure needs, ranging from basic installation and construction to sophisticated engineering, design and integration. MasTec's clients include companies in the telecommunications, broadband and energy fields, as well as a number of state departments of transportation and the federal government.
MEE Massey Energy Company produces, processes and sells bituminous, low sulfur coal of steam and metallurgical grades through its 19 processing and shipping centers, called resource groups, many of which receive coal from multiple coal mines. The Company's resource groups or mining complexes blend, process and ship coal that is produced from one or more mines, with a single complex handling the coal production of as many as eight distinct underground or surface mines. These mines have been developed at strategic locations in close proximity to the Massey preparation plants and rail shipping facilities. Coal is transported from its mining complexes to customers by means of railroad cars or trucks. Massey operates 30 underground mines and 13 surface mines in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia. The Company's steam coal is primarily purchased by utilities and industrial clients as fuel for power plants.
MASB MASSBANK Corp. was organized for the purpose of becoming the holding company for MASSBANK and is classified as a securities corporation for tax purposes, which restricts its business to buying, selling, dealing in or holding securities on its own behalf. The principal sources of revenues for MASSBANK Corp. are dividends from the Bank and interest income received from its interest-bearing bank deposits. MASSBANK Corp.'s assets, at December 31, 2003, are represented by its investment in the Bank of $107 million, interest-bearing bank deposits of $3.7 million and other assets of $0.2 million. The Bank is primarily engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the general public through its 15 full-service banking offices in Reading, Chelmsford, Dracut, Everett, Lowell, Medford, Melrose, Stoneham, Tewksbury, Westford and Wilmington, as well as originating residential and commercial real estate mortgages, construction loans, commercial loans and a variety of consumer loans.
MHM Masonite International Corporation is a manufacturer of doors, door components and door entry systems for new residential construction, home repair, renovation and remodelling, and commercial use. It manufactures a line of interior doors, including standard residential flush, molded-facing, stile and rail, louvre and specially ordered commercial and architectural doors. Masonite also manufactures door components for internal use and sale to other door manufacturers. In addition, it manufactures exterior residential steel and fiberglass doors and entry systems. These door products are manufactured, merchandised and sold to distributors, jobbers, home centre chains and wholesale and retail building supply dealers across North America, South America, France, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries in the Middle East and Asia.
MAS Masco Corporation is engaged principally in the manufacture and sale of home improvement and building products. These products are sold to the home improvement and home construction markets through mass merchandisers, hardware stores, home centers, builders, distributors and other outlets for consumers and contractors. The Company also supplies and installs insulation and other building products for builders in the new construction market. Approximately 80% of Masco's sales are generated by operations in North America, primarily in the United States. International operations comprise the balance and are located principally in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. The Company's operations consist of five business segments: Cabinets and Related Products, Plumbing Products, Installation and Other Services, Decorative Architectural Products and Other Specialty Products.
MRXT.OB Marx Toys and Entertainment Corp. sells products that include play sets, such as Fort Apache, Battleground, Cape Canaveral, Castle of the Noble Knights and Remember the Alamo! The Company also sells action figures, which include the Noble Knights, Vikings, and Johnny West series, Warriors of the World, and General Custer and is engaged in licensing the vintage Marx train line. Toontz Toyz, Inc., which the Company acquired in July 2001, is involved in the development of intellectual properties and is still in the developmental stage. Marx changed its name from stereoscape.com, inc. in March 2003.
MRVL Marvell Technology Group Ltd. is a global semiconductor provider of high-performance analog, mixed signal and digital signal processing integrated circuits. Marvell Technology offers its customers a range of integrated circuit solutions using its communications mixed-signal processing (CMSP) and digital signal processing technologies. The Company applies its analog, mixed signal, digital signal processing and complex digital design technologies in a variety of applications. Its product portfolio consists of storage, switching, transceivers, wireless, personal computers (PC) connectivity, gateways, communications controllers and power management products. In June 2003, the Company acquired RADLAN Computer Communications Ltd., a provider of embedded networking software. On November 24, 2003, the Company acquired Asica, Inc., a designer and developer of digital signal processors used in consumer and other applications.
MVL Marvel Enterprises, Inc. is a character-based entertainment company operating in both domestic and international markets, with a proprietary library of over 4,700 characters. The Company's library of characters includes Spider-Man, X-Men, The Incredible Hulk, Blade, Man-Thing, Daredevil, Elektra, The Punisher, Captain America, The Fantastic Four (including Mr. Fantastic, Human Torch, Invisible Woman and The Thing), Namor, Luke Cage, Black Widow, DeathLok, Thor, Silver Surfer, Iron Man, Dr. Strange and Ghost Rider. Marvel's business is divided into three operating segments. The licensing segment (Marvel Licensing) licenses the Company's characters for use in a variety of products, including toys, electronic games, apparel, accessories, footwear, collectibles and novelties. The publishing segment (Marvel Publishing) is engaged in the publication of Marvel comic books. Toy Biz designs, develops, markets and distributes a limited line of toys to the worldwide marketplace.
MMLP Martin Midstream Partners L.P. (MMLP) provides marine transportation, terminalling, distribution and midstream logistical services for producers and suppliers of hydrocarbon products and by-products, lubricants and other liquids. MMLP also manufactures and markets sulfur-based fertilizers and related products and owns an unconsolidated non-controlling 49.5% limited partnership interest in CF Martin Sulphur L.P., which operates sulfur storage and transportation business. In addition to oil and gas companies, the Company's primary customers include independent refiners, large chemical companies, fertilizer manufacturers and other wholesale purchasers of hydrocarbon products and by-products. MMLP operates primarily in the Gulf Coast region of the United States.
MLM Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. is a producer of aggregates for the construction industry, including highway, infrastructure, commercial and residential construction. The Company also manufactures and markets magnesia-based chemical products used in industrial, agricultural and environmental applications, and dolomitic lime sold primarily to the steel industry, and is developing structural composite products for use in a variety of industries. In 2003, the Company's aggregates segment accounted for 94% of its total net sales, and the specialty products segment accounted for 6% of total net sales.
MSO Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. (MSO) is an integrated content and commerce company that creates how-to content and domestic merchandise for homemakers and other consumers. The Company's business segments are publishing, television, merchandising and Internet/direct commerce. The publishing segment primarily consists of its magazine, book, radio and newspaper operations. The television segment consists of the Company's television production operations that produce television programming. The merchandising segment consists of operations related to the design and licensing of certain MSO trademarks in connection with merchandise and related promotional and packaging materials that are distributed by its retail and manufacturing partners in exchange for royalty income. The Internet/direct commerce segment is comprised of the operations relating to Martha Stewart: The Catalog for Living and its Website, marthastewart.com.
MRTN Marten Transport, Ltd. is a long-haul truckload carrier providing protective service transportation of time- and temperature-sensitive materials and general commodities to customers in the United States and Canada. The Company specializes in transporting food and other consumer packaged goods that require a temperature-controlled or insulated environment. In 2003, approximately 79% of its revenue resulted from hauling temperature-sensitive products, with the other 21% coming from hauling dry freight. Marten operates throughout the United States and in parts of Canada, with substantially all of its revenue generated from within the United States. Its primary traffic lanes are between the midwest and the west coast, southwest, southeast and the east coast, as well as from California to the Pacific northwest. In 2003, the Company's average length of haul was approximately 1,000 miles.
MATK Martek Biosciences Corporation (Martek) develops and sells products derived from microalgae and other microbes. The Company has developed production methods and intellectual property for two fatty acids. These fatty acids are docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and arachidonic acid (ARA). Martek sells oils, containing these fatty acids, as DHASCO and ARASCO. It has also developed fluorescent detection products from microalgae that connects fluorescent algal proteins to antibodies. The Company provides certain contract manufacturing services at its Kingstree, South Carolina facility. Martek has entered into licensing agreements with 16 infant formula manufacturers, including Mead Johnson Nutritionals, Wyeth, Abbott Laboratories, Nestle, Royal Numico N.V., Novartis, Maabarot, Heinz-Wattie's, Laboratorios Ordesa, American St. George Biological Corporation, International Nutrition Company, PT Sanghiang Perkasa, Takaso Rubber and other three companies.
MI Marshall &amp; Ilsley Corporation (M&amp;I) is a registered bank holding company, and is certified as a financial holding company. M&amp;I's principal assets are the stock of its bank and nonbank subsidiaries, including Metavante Corporation, five bank and trust subsidiaries and a number of other companies. The Company has two reportable segments: Banking and Data Services (or Metavante). Banking consists of accepting deposits, making loans and providing other services such as cash management, foreign exchange and correspondent banking to a variety of commercial and retail customers. Data Services consists of providing data processing services, developing and selling software and providing consulting services to financial services companies, including M&amp;I affiliates, as well as providing credit card merchant services. M&amp;I's primary other business segments include Trust Services, Mortgage Banking, Capital Market Group, Brokerage and Insurance Services and Commercial Leasing.
MSHL Marshall Edwards, Inc., incorporated in 2000, is a development-stage pharmaceutical company involved in the development and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of cancer. The Company is engaged in the clinical development of a drug candidate called phenoxodiol, which may have broad application against a wide range of cancers. Phenoxodiol appears to target a number of key components involved in cancer cell survival and proliferation based on the emerging field of signal transduction regulation, with little or no effect on normal cells.
MARSB Marsh Supermarkets, Inc. operated 114 supermarkets and 164 Village Pantry convenience stores in central Indiana and western Ohio. The Company owns and operates a food services division, which provides upscale catering, vending, office coffee, coffee roasting, concession and business cafeteria management services, and a floral division that operates six upscale retail floral shops under the name of McNamara and one business florist under the name Enflora.
MMC Marsh &amp; McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC) is a global professional services firm. The Company is the parent company of subsidiaries and affiliates that provide clients with analysis, advice and transactional capabilities in the fields of risk and insurance services, investment management and consulting. MMC's risk and insurance services are provided by its subsidiaries and their affiliates as broker, agent or consultant for insureds, insurance underwriters and other brokers on a worldwide basis in the areas of risk management and insurance broking, reinsurance broking and services and related insurance services. Investment management and related services are provided by Putnam Investments Trust and its subsidiaries, and consulting services through Mercer, Inc. In June 2004, the Company formed a new organization merging the administration business of Putnam Investments and Mercer HR Outsourcing to create a unified, full-service global company engaged in human resources outsourcing.
MAR Marriott International, Inc. is a worldwide operator and franchisor of hotels and related lodging facilities. The Company's operations are grouped into five business segments: Full-Service Lodging, Select-Service Lodging, Extended-Stay Lodging, Timeshare and Synthetic Fuel. In the Lodging business, which includes the Full-Service, Select-Service, Extended-Stay and Timeshare segments, the Company develops, operates and franchises hotels and corporate housing properties under 14 separate brand names, and it develops, operates and markets Marriott timeshare properties under four separate brand names. Marriott operates or franchises 2,718 lodging properties worldwide, with 490,564 rooms as of January 2, 2004. It also provides 2,978 furnished corporate housing rental units. The Company's Synthetic Fuel operation consists of its minority interest in four coal-based synthetic fuel production facilities whose operations qualify for tax credits based on Section 29 of the Internal Revenue Code.
MTY Marlton Technologies is engaged in the custom design, production and sale of exhibits and environments for trade shows, museums, theme parks, themed interiors, arenas, corporate lobbies and retail stores for clients in industry, government, entertainment and commercial establishments. The Company's subsidiaries do business under the name, Sparks Exhibits &amp; Environments (Sparks), which supplies custom made fixtures and displays to national retailers, department stores and consumer products manufacturers. Marlton Technologies' operating revenues are derived from Sparks and DMS. JCPenney accounted for 15% of the Company's net sales in the year ended December 31, 2003. The Company acquired Exhibit Crafts, Inc., a designer and builder of trade show exhibits, retail displays and interior environments in 2003 and also acquired a minority equity interest in International Expo Services, Inc., which was affiliated with Exhibit Crafts.
MRLN Marlin Business Services Corp. is a provider of equipment financing solutions primarily to small businesses. The Company finances over 60 categories of commercial equipment important to its end user customers, including copiers, telephone systems, computers, and certain commercial and industrial equipment. This segment of the equipment leasing market is known as the small-ticket segment. The Company accesses its end user customers through origination sources consisting of its existing network of over 7,700 independent commercial equipment dealers and through relationships with lease brokers and direct solicitation of end user customers. It uses a telephonic direct sales model to market to its origination sources. Through these origination sources, the Company is able to deliver equipment financing to end user customers.
MWP MarkWest Hydrocarbon, Inc. is an energy company primarily focused on growing MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P. (the Partnership), a limited partnership engaged in the gathering, processing and transmission of natural gas; transportation, fractionation and storage of natural gas liquids, and gathering and transportation of crude oil. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company discontinued its exploration and production business. The Company sold its San Juan Basin oil and gas producing properties in two separate sales in 2003. The San Juan Basin properties represented substantially all of the Company's exploration and production business located in the United States. In December 2003, MarkWest Hydrocarbon sold its entire Canadian exploration and production business in two separate transactions. In addition, in 2003, the Company sold two of its three natural gas liquids (NGL) terminals.
MWE MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P. is a limited partnership engaged in the gathering, processing and transmission of natural gas, as well as the transportation, fractionation and storage of natural gas liquids (NGLs) and the gathering and transportation of crude oil in the northeastern and the southwest United States. MarkWest processes gas from the Appalachian Basin and from Michigan. The Company provides midstream services to customers under four types of contracts. For the year ended December 31, 2003, MarkWest generated approximately 29% of its revenues from contracts. Propane throughput at MarkWest's Siloam fractionators is 64%, normal butane throughput is 18%, isobutane throughput is 6% and natural gasoline throughput is 12%. The Company was formed by MarkWest Hydrocarbon, Inc. to acquire its natural gas gathering, processing and transmission, as well as NGL transportation, fractionation and storage assets.
MRKL.OB Markland Technologies, Inc. (Markland) is an integrated homeland security and defense company. The Company has four business segments, including Sensor systems for military and intelligence applications, Chemical detectors, Border security systems and Advanced technologies. The Company is focused on providing certain emerging technology services to address the United States' need to protect borders, infrastructure assets and personnel. The Company also provides to the Department of Homeland Security (Homeland Security); products, services and emerging technologies to protect its country's borders, infrastructure assets and personnel. On June 29, 2004, the Company acquired all of the outstanding stock of E-OIR Technologies, Inc. (EOIR), EOIR is a provider of technology and services to the United States Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate, as well as other United States Department of Defense (DOD) and Intelligence Agencies.
MKTE.OB Market Central, Inc. is a knowledge management company specializing in solutions that enable businesses to efficiently store, categorize and retrieve information. It has developed a suite of solutions that include software for next-generation search, intelligent document recognition IDR), data capture, cleansing, mining and integration. It also operates one wholly owned subsidiary, ecommerce support centers, inc. (ECOM). ECOM provides outsourced contact center solutions and customer relationship management (CRM) services. ECOM also provides inbound technical support, sales and customer service; outbound pre-sales and sales; data mining; campaign management, and CRM Integration (contact center systems design, sales, integration and life-cycle support). Its SourceWare technology (acquired with the assets of Pliant Technologies) is a suite of Knowledge Management software comprising Intelligent Document Recognition (IDR), Deductive Search Engine (DSE) and Integrated Content Manager (ICM).
MKL Markel Corporation sells specialty insurance products and programs to a variety of niche markets. The Company operates in three segments of the specialty insurance marketplace: the Excess and Surplus Lines, the Specialty Admitted and the London markets. Markel has five underwriting units that operate in the Excess and Surplus Market, two that operate in the Specialty Admitted Market and one that operates in the London Market. The Excess and Surplus Market focuses on hard-to-place risks and risks that admitted insurers specifically refuse to write. The Company also writes business in the Specialty Admitted Market. Most of these risks are unique and hard-to-place in the standard market, but for marketing and regulatory reasons, must remain with an admitted insurance company. The London Market provides tailored coverage and capacity for unique and hard-to-place risks. It is primarily a broker market, which means that insurance brokers bring most of the business to the market.
TUG Maritrans Inc., together with its predecessor Maritrans Partners L.P., provides marine transportation services primarily to integrated oil companies, independent oil companies, petroleum trading companies, petroleum marketers and petroleum distributors in the southern and eastern United States. The Company monitors the supply and distribution patterns of its actual and prospective customers and focuses its efforts on providing services that are responsive to the current and future needs of these customers. Business is done on both a term-contract basis and a spot-market basis. It has, together with its subsidiaries and its predecessor, historically served the petroleum and petroleum product industry by using tank barges, tugboats and oil tankers to provide marine transportation services primarily along the East and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
HZO MarineMax, Inc. is a recreational boat dealer in the United States. Through 62 retail locations in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas and Utah, the Company sells new and used recreational boats, including pleasure boats, such as sport boats, sport cruisers, sport yachts and yachts; ski boats, and fishing boats. It also sells related marine products, including engines, trailers, parts and accessories. In addition, the Company arranges related boat financing, insurance and extended service contracts; provides repair and maintenance services, and offers boat and yacht brokerage services.
MPX Marine Products Corporation is engaged in the design, manufacture and commercialization of recreational fiberglass powerboats in the sportboat, deckboat, cruiser and sport fishing markets. The Company sells its products to a network of 161 domestic and 19 international independent authorized dealers, who in turn sells the products to retail customers. Marine Products offers a range of motorized recreational boats. It offers a range of products to the family recreational market and cruiser market through its Chaparral brand and to the sport fishing market through its Robalo brand.
MARPS Marine Petroleum Trust (the Trust)is a royalty trust that was created for the sole purpose of providing an efficient, orderly and practical means for the administration and liquidation of rights to payments from certain oil and natural gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico, pursuant to license agreements and amendments thereto between the Trust's predecessors and Gulf Oil Corporation. As a result of various transactions that have occurred since 1956, the Gulf interests are now held by Chevron Corporation, Elf Exploration, Inc. and their assignees. Marine Petroleum's wholly owned subsidiary, Marine Petroleum Corporation (MPC), holds title to interests in properties subject to its interests that are situated offshore of Louisiana. MPC, like the Trust, is prohibited from engaging in a trade or business and does only those things necessary for the administration and liquidation of its properties. Marine's only industry segment or purpose is the administration and collection of royalties.
MRGO Margo Caribe, Inc. is in the business of growing, distributing and installing tropical plants and trees. The Company is also engaged in the manufacturing and distribution of its own line (Rain Forest) of planting media and aggregates, the distribution of lawn and garden products and also provides landscaping design and installation services. In addition, Margo Caribe acts as sales representative for several consumer goods brands in Puerto Rico and Mexico. The Company's real estate development division is seeking the required permits for an affordable housing project in the Municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. The principal customers of Margo Caribe are wholesalers, mass merchandisers, chain stores, retailers, garden centers, hotels, landscapers, government projects and commercial businesses located in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
MRCIY Marconi Corporation plc is a multi-regional provider of telecommunications equipment and services, which it supplies to major telecommunications network operators, government agencies and selected large enterprises worldwide. The Company has divided its core activities into two main business types: Network Equipment, comprised of optical networks, broadband routing and switching (BBRS), access networks and other network equipment, and Network Services, comprised of installation, commissioning and maintenance and valued-added services. Marconi supports customers in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Central and Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region. Its customer base mainly consists of telecommunications companies and providers of Internet services for their public networks.
MCHX Marchex, Inc. provides technology-based services to merchants engaged in online transactions. The Company aims to anticipate achieving its objectives through a combination of consolidation opportunities, growing the businesses it acquires, internal development initiatives and strategic relationships. The Company plans to offer online transactions, as well as services that support online transactions, by building a diversified global company that provides a wide range of technology-based services to merchants, including Website infrastructure and development services, online payment and commerce infrastructure, promotional tools to market and sell products and services and automated tools to manage and track online transactions.
MRO Marathon Oil Corporation is engaged in worldwide exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas. Principal exploration activities are in the United States, Norway, Equatorial Guinea, Angola and Canada. Principal development activities are in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Russia. Marathon is also pursuing opportunities in north and west Africa and the Middle East. Through its 62%-owned consolidated subsidiary, Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC, the Company also refines, markets and transports crude oil and petroleum products, primarily in the Midwest, the upper Great Plains and southeastern United States. In addition, Marathon operates other businesses that market and transport its own and third-party natural gas, crude oil and products manufactured from natural gas, such as liquefied natural gas and methanol, primarily in the United States, Europe and West Africa.
MAPS MapInfo Corporation is a provider of location-based business intelligence solutions that help organizations make more insightful decisions. The Company's integrated offering of software, data sets and services helps organizations in vertical markets, including telecommunications, the public sector, retail and financial services solve complex business problems where location is a critical consideration. In the private sector, businesses use MapInfo's products and services for marketing, customer service, risk analysis, network optimization and planning, asset management and site selection. In the public sector, government agencies use the Company's products and services to improve public safety and for crime analysis, homeland security-related applications, asset management, and network optimization and planning, and emergency preparedness and response.
MAPX MAPICS, Inc. is a global developer of collaborative business application software solutions designed specifically for use by manufacturers. The Company targets the manufacturers, who operate using either a discrete, or batch-process production workflow. Generally, these companies produce finished goods by machining raw materials or assembling a set of component parts, or subassemblies into finished products, or use a consistent process to make a batch of product. It serves customers in industries: fabricated metal products; industrial/commercial machinery and computer equipment; electrical equipment and components; transportation equipment, and measurement, analyzing and control instruments and related products. The majority of its customers are discrete manufacturers consisting of independent companies, divisions, sites and subsidiaries. None of its customers accounted for more than 5% of its total revenues during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004).
MFC Manulife Financial Corporation is a life insurance company and the holding company of The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, a Canadian life insurance company. Manulife Financial provides a wide range of financial products and services, including individual life insurance, group life and health insurance, pension products, annuities and mutual funds to individual and group customers in the United States, Canada, Asia and Japan. Manulife Financial also offers reinsurance services, primarily life and accident reinsurance, and provides investment management services with respect to the Company's general fund assets, segregated fund assets and mutual funds, and, in Canada and Asia, provides institutional investment services. The Company's five divisions include the United States, Canadian, Asian, Japan and Reinsurance divisions.
MANU Manugistics Group, Inc. is a global provider of demand and supply chain management software. The Company's supply chain management software helps companies plan, optimize and execute their supply chain processes. These processes include manufacturing, distribution and service operations and collaboration with a company's extended trading network of suppliers and customers. Its demand and revenue management software helps optimize a company's demand chain, including pricing and promotions to all customers through all channels, with the aim of balancing the trade-offs between profitability and other strategic objectives, such as market share. The Manugistics product suite (called Manugistics NetWORKS Applications) consists of planning applications, collaborative applications, execution applications and foundation and platform applications. Manugistics also provides strategic consulting, implementation and customer support services to its clients as part of its overall solution.
MANT ManTech International Corporation is a provider of technologies and solutions for mission-critical national security programs for the intelligence community, the Department of Defense and other United States federal government customers. The Company provides software development, enterprise security architecture, information assurance, intelligence operations support, network and critical infrastructure protection, information technology, communications integration and engineering support. It delivers these through three principal areas of service solutions, Secure Systems and Infrastructure Solutions, Information Technology Solutions and Systems Engineering Solutions, which are offered separately or in combination to the Company's customers.
MAN Manpower Inc. is in the employment services industry, offering a continuum of services to meet customer needs throughout the employment and business cycle. The Company's worldwide network of over 4,000 offices in 66 countries service customers in a variety of industry segments. Manpower provides a range of human resource services, including permanent, temporary and contract recruitment; employee assessment; training; internal audit, accounting, technology and tax services, and organizational consulting services. The Company has a comprehensive system of assessment/selection, training and quality assurance used by its temporary staffing operations throughout the world. The system has been developed through a combination of internally designed and produced materials, as well as materials purchased from external companies through exclusive contracts. In January 2004, The Company acquired Right Management Consultants, Inc., which is a career transition and organizational consulting firm.
HCR Manor Care, Inc. provides a range of healthcare services, including skilled nursing care, assisted living, subacute medical and rehabilitation care, rehabilitation therapy, hospice care, home healthcare and management services for subacute care and rehabilitation therapy. The most significant portion of its business relates to long-term care, including skilled nursing care and assisted living. The Company's other segment is hospice and home healthcare.
MNKD MannKind Corporation is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of therapeutic products for diseases, such as diabetes, cancer, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Its lead product, the Technosphere Insulin System, is in late Phase II clinical trials for the treatment of diabetes, and consists of the Company's dry-powder Technosphere formulation of insulin and its MedTone inhaler, through which the powder is inhaled into the deep lung. The Company's Technosphere Insulin System utilizes its Technosphere formulation technology, which is based on a class of organic molecules that are designed to self-assemble into small particles onto which drug molecules can be loaded. MannKind is in the process of developing additional Technosphere-based products for the delivery of other drugs. It also has research programs focused on the development of therapies for cancer, inflammation and autoimmune disorders.
MTEX Mannatech, Inc. develops and sells nutritional supplements, topical products and weight management products, primarily through a global network marketing system operating in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan and New Zealand. Based on certain scientific advances in the emerging field of phytochemistry, Mannatech has formulated naturally occurring, plant-derived, carbohydrate-based products that work through the body's normal physiology rather than developing synthetic-based products that are easily duplicated and considered less effective. The Company offers 24 different nutritional products, three topical products and a weight management system consisting of five different products. Mannatech also offers sales aids for its associates.
MTW The Manitowoc Company, Inc. is a diversified industrial manufacturer with three operating segments: Cranes and Related Products, Foodservice Equipment and Marine. The Crane business is a global provider of engineered lift solutions, including crawler cranes, mobile telescopic cranes, tower cranes and boom trucks. Crane products are used in a variety of applications, including energy, petrochemical and industrial projects and infrastructure development. The Foodservice business designs, manufactures and markets ice making machines, walk-in and reach-in refrigerators/freezers, fountain beverage delivery systems and other foodservice refrigeration products for the lodging, restaurant, healthcare, convenience store, soft-drink bottling and institutional foodservice markets. The Marine segment provides new construction, ship repair and maintenance services for freshwater and saltwater vessels from four shipyards on the United States Great Lakes.
MHTX.OB Manhattan Scientifics Inc. is a development-stage technology incubator company that seeks to acquire, develop and commercialize life-enhancing technologies in various fields, with emphasis in the areas of alternative energy, consumer and commercial electronics. The Company identifies emerging technologies through strategic alliances with scientific laboratories, educational institutions, as well as scientists and leaders in industry and government. Manhattan Scientifics has been working to develop and commercialize three technologies: micro fuel cell technology, mid-range fuel cell technology and haptics touch-and-feel computer applications. The Company is also working to identify potential new technologies for possible acquisition, licensing and development, as well as to develop other corporate opportunities.
MHTT.OB Manhattan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is engaged in the business of developing and commercializing biomedical and pharmaceutical technologies. The Company does not have any drugs or other products available for sale, but is researching and developing two biomedical technologies: Oleoyl-estrone, an orally administered hormone attached to a fatty acid that has been shown to cause significant weight loss in preclinical animal studies regardless of dietary modifications, and Propofol, a lingual spray technology to deliver Propofol for pre-procedural sedation prior to diagnostic, therapeutic or endoscopic procedures. The Company resulted from a reverse merger between Atlantic Technology Ventures, Inc. and privately held Manhattan Research Development, Inc. on February 21, 2003. Upon completion of the merger, Atlantic changed its name to Manhattan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and thereafter adopted the business of Manhattan Research Development.
MANH Manhattan Associates, Inc. is a global provider of technology-based solutions to improve the effectiveness of, and the efficiencies within and across, the supply chain. The Company's solutions, which consist of software, services and hardware, work for distribution and transportation efficiencies through the real-time integration of supply chain constituents, including manufacturers, distributors, retailers, suppliers, transportation providers and consumers. Its software consists of three principal product groups within supply chain execution (SCE) systems: warehouse management, transportation management and trading partner management. In addition, it provides additional products that support or enhance the functionality of the product groups, such as performance management and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).
MGOF.OB Mangosoft, Inc. markets, sells and supports Internet business software and services that improve the utility and effectiveness of Internet-based business applications. The Company's software solutions address the networking needs of small businesses, workgroups and large enterprises. It has leveraged its patented technology known as Pooling to develop Mangosoft's suite of software solutions. Pooling is a peer-to-peer clustering technology that utilizes the network and resources of client personal computers (PCs) and workstations to deliver easy-to-use advanced software services. The Company helps businesses gain a competitive advantage by improving collaboration with customers, partners and colleagues through Internet communications. Mangosoft has applied for 10 patents on its technology, five of which have been granted.
MBG Mandalay Resort Group is a hotel-casino operator consisting of 12 wholly owned resorts in Nevada and Mississippi, as well as investments in four joint ventures with operating resorts in Nevada, Illinois and Michigan. The Company's resorts cater to a variety of customers, from value-oriented to high-end. Mandalay's core market is Las Vegas, Nevada. Mandalay's core market is Las Vegas, Nevada. The Company's properties in Las Vegas are Mandalay Bay, Luxor, Excalibur, Circus Circus, Monte Carlo (50% owned) and Slots-A-Fun, which is situated on a 30,000-square-foot parcel that the Company owns on the Las Vegas Strip. Mandalay also has properties in other areas in Nevada, Mississippi, Michigan and Illinois.
MANC Manchester Technologies, Inc. is a distributor of display technology solutions and plasma display monitors through its wholly owned subsidiary, Electrograph Systems, Inc. The Company also distributes computer hardware, primarily to dealers and system integrators. Manchester offers customers solutions, customized to their display technology needs by offering a complete line of products and peripherals for the Company's customers' display technology requirements. On May 28, 2004, the Company sold its end-user information technology fulfillment and professional services business (IT Business) to ePlus, Inc. The Company offers a wide variety of display technology solutions and peripherals, including cathode ray tube (CRT) display monitors, liquid crystal display (LCD) flat panel monitors, LCD projectors, plasma display monitors, and supplies and accessories. Manchester also provides extensive technical and installation support to both resellers and end users.
MANA Manatron, Inc., designs, develops, markets and supports a family of Web-based and client/server application software products for county, city and municipal governments. Manatron's products support back-office processes for government agencies, facilitates broader business processes via eGovernment and Internet features, such as Internet payments and mortgage lender integration, targeted at the needs of taxpayers and industry professionals. The Company also provides mass appraisal services, assessing residential, commercial and other types of properties to ensure updated and equitable property valuations.
TMNG The Management Network Group, Inc. (TMNG) provides strategy, management, marketing, operational and technology consulting services primarily to communications service providers, technology companies and financial services firms located principally in North America and Western Europe. TMNG has provided consulting services to clients in almost all other major international markets. The Company has consulting experience with almost all major aspects of managing a global communications company. TMNG also provides marketing consulting services to clients outside of the communications industry, primarily in the Eastern Region of the United States. TMNG operates in one segment, management consulting services, which includes business strategy and planning, product/service definition and launch, customer acquisition and retention, business model transformation and technical and process modeling for billing support system and office support system environments.
MSHI.OB Man Sang Holdings, Inc. is principally engaged in the purchasing, processing, assembling, merchandising and wholesale distribution of pearls, pearl jewelry products and jewelry products. In addition, the Company owns and operates a commercial real estate complex, the Man Sang Industrial Complex, in Shenzhen, People's Republic of China (PRC). Man Sang offers seven product lines, including freshwater pearls, Chinese cultured pearls, Japanese cultured pearls, South Sea pearls and Tahitian pearls, as well as pearl jewelry and other jewelry products. The Company owns the land use rights of the constructed industrial complex, Man Sang Industrial City, located in Gong Ming Zhen, Shenzhen special economic zone, PRC.
MAMA Mamma.com Inc. provides information retrieval on the Internet through its metasearch engine, www.mamma.com. The Company is focused on being a provider of online marketing solutions to advertisers. Mamma.com Inc. maintains a publisher network, on which it distributes search and graphic advertising units for its advertisers. The Company derives its revenues from two sources, including search services and banner advertising services, with customers located in the United States and Canada. Mamma.com Inc. also holds minority interests in companies that develop and market analog integrated circuit products, as well as in the media and telecommunication sectors through LTRIM Technologies Inc., Tri-Link Technologies Inc. and TECE, Inc. Approximately 65% of Mamma.com Inc.'s revenues come from its search base business, and the remaining 35% comes from its advertising network business. In January 2004, the Company changed its name from Intasys Corporation to Mamma.com Inc.
MKTAY Makita Corporation manufactures power tools in seven countries globally including the United States, Canada, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, China and Japan. The Company's power tools consist of portable woodworking tools, primarily saws and planers and portable general-purpose tools, primarily drills, grinders and sanders. In addition, Makita produces a line of stationary woodworking machines. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), approximately 21.3% of Makita's sales were made in Japan. The majority of its sales in Japan were made to commercial and professional users, such as those engaged in timber and metal processing, carpentry, and concrete and masonry works.
MMUS MakeMusic! Inc. develops and markets proprietary music technology products that are designed to enhance music learning and composition, increase productivity and make practicing and performing music fun. The Company provides Finale, a music notation software, and SmartMusic, a complete music practice system that features Intelligent Accompaniment and an interactive accompaniment library. SmartMusic is a complete, interactive, computer-based practice system for woodwinds, brass players, vocalists and strings. In addition, MakeMusic! provides Intonation Trainer, an educational product that is an easy program that actually teaches woodwind and brass students how to play in tune by listening for and eliminating intonation beats within intervals and chords.
MAIR MAIR Holdings, Inc., formerly Mesaba Holdings, Inc., is the holding company for its wholly owned subsidiaries: Mesaba Aviation, Inc. (Mesaba), a regional air carrier based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Big Sky Transportation Co. (Big Sky), a regional air carrier based in Billings, Montana. Mesaba provides scheduled passenger service as Mesaba Airlines/Northwest Airlink and Mesaba Airlines/Northwest Jet Airlink to 106 cities in the United States and Canada, under two separate agreements with Northwest Airlines, Inc., a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Northwest Airlines Corporation (Northwest). Big Sky provides scheduled passenger, airfreight, express package and charter services to 19 communities in Montana, North Dakota, Washington and Idaho via its Billings hub. It operates daily scheduled flights that provide interline and online connecting services, as well as local market services.
MSFG MainSource Financial Group, Inc. is a multi-bank holding company that operates through its subsidiaries. It operates 58 branch banking offices in Indiana and Illinois, as well as five insurance offices in Indiana and one in Kentucky. Through its Banks, the Company offers a range of financial services, including accepting time and transaction deposits, making consumer, commercial, agribusiness and real estate mortgage loans, renting safe deposit facilities, providing general agency personal and business insurance services, providing personal and corporate trust services and providing other corporate services, such as letters of credit and repurchase agreements. It owns four banking subsidiaries: MainSource Bank, Regional Bank, Capstone Bank and First Community Bank &amp; Trust (the Banks). In November, 2004, the Company's MainSource Bank of Greensburg, Indiana, and First Community Bank and Trust of Bargersville, Indiana, consolidated operations into one bank.
MAM Maine &amp; Maritimes Corporation is the parent holding company for MPS, Energy Atlantic, LLC (EA) and Maine &amp; Maritimes Energy Services Company (MAMES). The Company became a holding company, in June 2003, following the decision by Maine Public Service Company (MPS) to convert to a holding company structure. Maine &amp; New Brunswick Electrical Power Company, Ltd (Me&amp;NB), is a wholly owned Canadian subsidiary of MPS. MAMES (doing business as The Maricor Group) is the parent company of Maricor Ltd (Maricor), also a wholly owned Canadian subsidiary.
MAIN Main Street Restaurant Group Inc., formerly, Main Street and Main Incorporated owns and operates 54 TGI Friday's restaurants, 12 Bamboo Club Asian Bistro restaurants and four Redfish Seafood Grill and Bar restaurants. The Company also operates an Alice Cooper'stown restaurant in Cleveland, Ohio, under a license agreement with Celebrity Restaurants, L.L.C., the owner of the exclusive rights to operate Alice Cooper'stown restaurants. Revenue from alcoholic beverages accounted for 25.1% of revenue, during the fiscal year ended December 29, 2003 (fiscal 2003), and 24.4% during the fiscal year ended December 30, 2002 (fiscal 2002).
MSBK Main Street Banks, Inc. is a financial holding company with operating subsidiaries engaged in providing a range of banking, mortgage banking, investment and insurance services to retail and commercial customers located primarily in Barrow, Clarke, Cobb, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Newton, Rockdale and Walton counties in Georgia. The Company's primary subsidiaries are Main Street Bank (the Bank), a state chartered commercial bank, and Main Street Insurance Services, Inc., an insurance agency. Piedmont is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. It is a third-party provider of mortgage loan related services. In 2003, the Company also established a payroll services company, MSB Payroll Solutions, LLC.
MAIY.OB MAI Systems Corporation designs, sells, installs and supports enterprise information management solutions for use by the hotel, motel, government and resort destinations industry. The solutions provided include applications software, computer hardware, peripherals and wide and local area network design, implementation, installation and support. The software applications are generally the Company's software licensed on an exclusive basis. The hardware, peripherals and networking systems are generally third-party products, which the Company distributes. Directly and through arrangements with third parties, MAI provides onsite and offsite service and support to users of its solutions. The Company changed its name from MAI Basic Four, Inc. in November 1990.
MTE Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) is in the business of providing telecommunications services, including basic fixed-line access, public call offices; value-added telephone in global system for mobile communications (GSM) cellular services, such as call-waiting, call-forwarding, wake-up calls, absent subscriber service and caller identification and wireless application protocol; phone plus facilities in basic fixed-line, such as abbreviated dialing, call transfer, hotline facility, three party conferencing, absentee facility, calling line identity presentation facility, call hunting, call alert, morning alarm; mobile and fixed-wireless services based on code division multiple access (CDMA) technology; high-speed data transmission; interconnection with domestic international long distance carriers and with basic and cellular operators; leased line services; telex, and intelligent network services. MTNL also provides GSM cellular services, Internet access and broadband services.
MTA MATAV, Hungarian Telecommunications Co. Ltd. is comprised of the MATAV Group and its subsidiaries. MATAV is primarily engaged in providing telecommunications services in Hungary and in Macedonia. The Company is a provider of fixed line telecommunications services in Hungary, with approximately 2.8 million fixed access lines at December 31, 2003. It is also a mobile telecommunications service provider, with more than 3,766,000 mobile subscribers (including users of prepaid cards) at year-end 2003. In addition, MATAV provides leased lines, data transmission, corporate networks, cable television, Internet and sells and leases telecommunications equipment. The Company is part of the Deutsche Telekom group. MagyarCom, which is fully owned by Deutsche Telekom, owns 59.49% of MATAV. The Company is a full-service telecommunications provider operating in three business segments: fixed line telecommunications, mobile telecommunications and international activities.
MPG Maguire Properties, Inc. is a real estate company that owns, manages, leases, acquires and develops real estate located in the greater Los Angeles area of Southern California. Through Maguire Properties, L.P., the Company's operating partnership, Maguire owns a portfolio of 13 commercial real estate properties as of December 31, 2003. The portfolio consists of nine office properties with approximately 7.1 million net rentable square feet, one 350-room hotel with 266,000 square feet, and three offsite parking garages totaling 2,749 spaces and approximately 1million square feet. In addition, the Company's office portfolio contains approximately 2.3 million square feet of onsite parking totaling 7,932 spaces. Maguire also owns an undeveloped two-acre land parcel adjacent to an existing office property that can support 300,000 net rentable square feet of office development.
MGST.OB MagStar Technologies, Inc. is a prototype developer and manufacturer of centrifuges, conveyors, medical devices, spindles and sub assemblies. In early 2001, the Company changed its name from Reuter Manufacturing, Inc. to MagStar Technologies, Inc. The Company's Quickdraw Conveyor product line is marketed to automation integrators, process upgrades and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). It manufactures and designs spindles that rotate from 1,000 up to 40,000 rotations per minute. The Company supplies its products and services to OEMs in the markets, such as medical, combustion engines, filtration/high tech separation, high tech manufacturing and motion control.
MHR Magnum Hunter Resources, Inc. is an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, exploitation and development, acquisition and operation of oil and gas properties. The Company's major properties are located in four core areas: the Mid-Continent region, the Permian Basin, the Gulf Coast region and the Gulf of Mexico. Additionally, Magnum Hunter owns and operates three gas gathering systems covering over 480 miles and a 50% or greater ownership interest in four natural gas processing plants. At December 31, 2003, Magnum Hunter had an interest in 5,591 wells and had estimated proved reserves of 838.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent (Bcfe). Approximately 75% of these reserves were proved developed reserves with a geographic breakdown as follows: 35% attributable to the Mid-Continent Region, 46% attributable to the Permian Basin Region, 8% attributable to the Gulf Coast Region and 11% attributable to the Gulf of Mexico.
MAGY.OB Magnitude Information Systems, Inc. operates in the ergonomic productivity software market. With its Anti-Injury software, represented by ErgoEnterprise, an interactive suite of Windows software products, Magnitude has developed and delivered the first integrated systems approach to computer ergonomics. The Company's primary product ErgoEnterprise is designed to help employers minimize preventable Repetitive Stress Injuries and enhance productivity. ErgoEnterprise consists of ERGOTUTOR, ERGOSURE, ERGOSURVEYOR, USERNOTES, ERGOSENTRY, EMSANALYZER, GUARDIAN, ERGOQUIZ and ERGOMAP. The Company's patented proprietary software products provide business and government employers with a system for the evaluation and management of ergonomic and productivity risk factors with respect to the use of computers in the office environment.
MAG Magnetek, Inc. supplies digital power electronic products used in information technology, industrial, communications, alternative energy, consumer and other markets. These products usually take the form of sub-systems. These products are used in data processing and data storage, telecom and datacom, medical and commercial imaging, semiconductor processing and testing, materials handling, people moving, smart appliances, distributed power generation and other applications requiring controllable, reliable, energy-efficient power. They are sold directly or through agents to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for incorporation into their products, to system integrators and value-added resellers for assembly and installation in end user systems, and to distributors for resale to OEMs, contractors and end users for repair and replacement purposes. The Company's offerings are categorized into two product lines, Components and Systems.
MAGLA.OB Magna-Lab Inc. had been focused on the development and commercialization of disposable medical devices designed to enhance the effectiveness of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in detection and diagnosis of coronary heart disease, including coronary artery disease (CAD). Due to the unavailability of additional funding, beginning in the fiscal year ended February 28, 2003 (fiscal 2003), the Company ceased all of its operations, including product development and commercialization activities. Its efforts since that time, which have been conducted by a limited number of remaining Board members and part-time management, have been focused on continuing the search for financing and/or entering into a strategic transaction or sale or license of Magna-Lab's business. Among the possibilities being considered is the merger with an unrelated enterprise in a reverse merger transaction.
MGA Magna International Inc. is a global supplier of technologically advanced automotive components, systems and modules. The Company designs, engineers and manufactures a range of exterior, interior and powertrain systems. Magna also provides vehicle design, engineering, assembly and program management services to its customers, which are primarily automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The Company's operations are conducted through its global automotive systems groups, which are segmented between public and wholly owned automotive systems groups. The public automotive systems groups consist of three publicly traded companies, in which Magna has controlling interests through voting securities that include Decoma International Inc., Intier Automotive Inc. and Tesma International Inc.
MECA Magna Entertainment Corp. owns and operates horse racetracks and supplies, via simulcasting, live racing content to the inter-track, off-track and account wagering markets. The Company operates or manages 11 thoroughbred racetracks, two standardbred (harness racing) racetracks, one racetrack, which runs both thoroughbred and standardbred meets and one greyhound racetrack, as well as the simulcast wagering venues at these tracks. It also operates off-track betting (OTB) facilities and a national account wagering business known as XpressBet, which permits customers to place wagers by telephone and over the Internet on horse races at over 100 North American racetracks and internationally on races in Australia, South Africa and Dubai. Magna Entertainment also owns and operates HorseRacing TV, a television network focused on horse racing. HorseRacing TV carries on cable systems in 10 states, with approximately 1.4 million subscribers.
LAVA Magma Design Automation, Inc. provides electronic design automation (EDA) software products and related services. The Company's software enables chip designers to reduce the time it takes to design and produce complex integrated circuits used in the communications, computing, consumer electronics, networking and semiconductor industries. Its products are used in all major phases of the chip development cycle, from initial design through physical implementation. Blast Create is a key component of Magma's register transfer level to graphic design system II (RTL-to-GDSII) integrated circuit (IC) design solution. It enables logic designers to synthesize, visualize and evaluate their RTL code, and design constraints, testability requirements and floor plan by building and analyzing a flat silicon virtual prototype that portrays the design in silicon. In April 2004, it acquired Mojave, Inc., a privately held developer of advanced technology for IC manufacturability and verification.
MGIC Magic Software Enterprises Ltd. develops, markets and supports software development, deployment and integration technologies and business solutions that enable enterprises to accelerate the process of building and deploying applications that can be customized and integrated with existing systems. The Company develops, markets and supports eDeveloper, a software development and deployment technology, and iBOLT technology, designed for business integration and process management. The applications include Magic eContact, which manages all aspects of a contact center, from sales and marketing to customer care and support; Magic eService, an Internet-based customer service management system, and Hermes (formerly Magic eCargo), a solution for cargo handling and inventory control. Magic Software also provides maintenance and technical support, as well as professional services to the Magic community.
GML Magic Lantern Group, Inc. is a global distributor of educational and learning content in video and other electronic formats. Magic Lantern has exclusive distribution rights to over 300 film producers representing over 13,000 titles, and its customers include over 9,000 out of 12,000 English speaking schools in Canada. Its library includes content from numerous producers, including Disney Educational, Annenberg/CPB and CTV Television. Tutorbuddy Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Magic Lantern, is an Internet-enabled provider of content and related educational services on demand to students, teachers and parents. Sonoptic Technologies Inc., a 75%-owned subsidiary of Magic Lantern, provides digital video encoding services and has developed a proprietary VideoBase indexing software that allows users to aggregate, bookmark, re-sort and add their own comment boxes to existing content.
MPET Magellan Petroleum Corporation (MPC) is engaged in the sale of oil and gas, as well as in the exploration for, and development of, oil and gas reserves. As of June 30, 2004, MPC's principal asset was a 55.06% equity interest in its subsidiary, Magellan Petroleum Australia Limited (MPAL). MPAL's major assets are two petroleum production leases covering the Mergence oil and gas field (35% working interest) and one petroleum production lease covering the Palm Valley gas field (52% working interest). Both fields are located in the Amadeus Basin in the Northern Territory of Australia. Santos Ltd. owns a 48% interest in the Palm Valley field, a 65% interest in the Mergence field and 18.2% of MPAL's outstanding stock. Origin Energy Limited owned 17.1% of MPAL's outstanding stock as of June 30, 2004. In July 2004, MPAL reached an agreement with Voyager Energy Limited for the purchase of its 40.97% working interest (38.7% net revenue interest) in its Nockatunga assets in southwest Queensland.
MMP Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (MMP), formerly Williams Energy Partners L.P., is a limited partnership formed to own, operate and acquire a portfolio of complementary energy assets. The Company is engaged in the transportation, storage and distribution of refined petroleum products and ammonia. It has three core businesses: Petroleum Products Pipeline System, Petroleum Products Terminals and Ammonia Pipeline System. As of December 31, 2003, MMP's asset portfolio consisted of a 6,700-mile refined petroleum products pipeline system with 39 petroleum products terminals serving the mid-continent region of the United States; five petroleum products terminal facilities located along the Gulf Coast and near the New York harbor, referred to as marine terminals; 29 petroleum products terminals located principally in the southeastern United States, referred to as inland terminals, and an ammonia pipeline system, which extends approximately 1,100 miles from Texas and Oklahoma to Minnesota.
MGLN Magellan Health Services, Inc. directly and through its subsidiaries (collectively, the Company) coordinates and manages the delivery of behavioral healthcare treatment services that are provided through its contracted network of third-party treatment providers, which includes psychiatrists, psychologists, other behavioral health professionals, psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers and other treatment facilities. The Company operates in four segments, based on the services it provides and/or the customers that it serves: Magellan Health Plan Solutions (Health Plan Solutions), Magellan Employer Solutions (Employer Solutions), Magellan Public Sector Solutions (Public Sector Solutions) and Corporate and Other. In January 2004, the Company emerged from bankruptcy.
MAGS Magal Security Systems Ltd. (Magal) develops, manufactures, markets and sells computerized security systems. These securities include a line of perimeter security systems and a video motion detection system, which automatically detect and locate intruders and identify the nature of intrusions; the DreamBox, which integrates number of closed circuit television-related applications into one box; security management and control systems, which integrate the management, control and display of various security systems into a single, real-time database and support real-time decision making and wide area command and control; PipeGuard, a pipeline security system, and personal emergency location systems. In July 2003, Perimeter Products Inc., the Company's subsidiary, acquired the business activity of Dominion Wireless, Inc., which develops, produces and manufactures a product that delivers personal portable duress alarm systems to protect personal in correctional facilities.
MAFB MAF Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for Mid America Bank, fsb (the Bank), which offers various financial services to its retail and business banking customers through a network of 67 branches in Illinois and Wisconsin. Historically, the Bank has principally been engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the retail consumer and using such deposits, along with other borrowings, to make loans secured by real estate, primarily one- to four-family residential mortgage loans. To a lesser extent, the Bank has made multi-family mortgage, commercial, residential construction, land acquisition and development, as well as consumer loans, primarily home equity loans and lines of credit. The Illinois franchise is comprised of 44 branches in suburban and urban communities in the Chicago metropolitan area. In Wisconsin, the Bank serves communities in Milwaukee and Waukesha counties and portions of Ozaukee, Washington and Walworth counties through 23 retail branches.
MAD Madeco S.A. operates in four operating segments or business units based on production processes: wire and cable, brass mills, flexible packaging and aluminum profiles. The Company's products include copper telecom cables, building wire, copper and aluminum power cables, magnetic wire and mining cables; pipes, sheets, coils, busbars, bars and coin blanks made from copper, aluminum and related alloys; flexible packaging containers, aluminum foil and plastic wrap, and profiles used as a raw material in buildings and in offices interior design. During year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's consolidated net revenues amounted to 46.5%, which was derived from Madeco's wire and cable unit, 23.6% from the brass mills unit, 17.6% from the flexible packaging unit and 12.3% from the aluminum profiles unit.
MCZ Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. is an interactive entertainment company that produces a variety of interactive video game control devices and accessories of all types, such as control pads, game enhancement software, steering wheels, joysticks, memory cards, video cables, light guns, dance pads and microphones. The Company's products have been designed, developed, manufactured (through third parties) and marketed for all major console-based video game platforms, such as Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP and Nintendo 64, and Sony PlayStation and PlayStation 2 and Nokia N-Gage QD.
MVSN Macrovision Corporation develops and licenses copy protection, electronic licensing and rights management technologies. The Company's customers include Hollywood studios, independent video producers, hardware and software vendors, music labels, consumer electronic, personal computer (PC) and digital set-top box manufacturers and digital pay-per-view (PPV) and video-on-demand (VOD) network operators. Macrovision provides content owners with the means to market, distribute, manage and protect video, software and audio content.
MXICY Macronix International Co., Ltd. is an independent semiconductor designer, producer and supplier. The Company's product portfolio includes Mask ROM (read-only memory), Flash, EPROM (erasable programmable read-only memory), strategic manufacturing services (SMS) and system logic center (SLC), products. Its clients include Nintendo and Hewlett-Packard. The Company operates through two business groups: the Microelectronics and Memory Solution Group, which offers Mask ROM, Flash and EPROM products, as well as strategic manufacturing services, and the Integrated Solution Group, which focuses largely on SLC products for the audio, video, communications and microcontroller markets. The Company generates its revenue from customers in the consumer electronics, computer and communications industries.
MACR Macromedia, Inc. is an independent software company providing software that empowers designers, developers and business users to create and deliver effective user experiences on the Internet, fixed media and wireless and digital devices. The Company's integrated family of technologies enables the development of Internet solutions, including Websites, rich media content and Internet applications across multiple platforms and devices. Macromedia serves three markets: the Designer and Developer, the Business User and the Consumer. In January 2003, the Company acquired Presedia, Inc., a provider of online presentation and e-learning solutions for sales, marketing, corporate communications and online training. In December 2003, the Company acquired eHelp Corporation, a company engaged in help authoring.
MCHM MacroChem Corporation develops transdermal drug delivery compounds and systems intended to promote the delivery of drugs from the surface of the skin into the skin or the bloodstream. The Company develops pharmaceutical products for commercialization by employing SEPA (Soft Enhancement of Percutaneous Absorption), its patented topical drug delivery technology. SEPA compounds, when properly combined with drugs, provide pharmaceutical formulations, such as creams, gels, lacquers and solutions, etc., which enhance the transdermal delivery of drugs into the skin or into the bloodstream. Transdermal delivery provides an alternative to other methods of drug administration, such as injection, oral dosage forms and inhalation. MacroChem is also evaluating potential applications of MacroDerm, its patented low molecular weight polymers that modulate dermal penetration.
CLI Mack-Cali Realty Corporation is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns and operates a real estate portfolio consisting predominantly of Class A office and office/flex properties located primarily in the Northeast United States. The Company performs substantially all commercial real estate leasing, management, acquisition, development and construction services on an in-house basis. As of December 31, 2003, Mack-Cali owned, or had interests in, 263 properties, aggregating approximately 28.3 million square feet, plus developable land. The properties consisted of 154 office buildings and 97 office/flex buildings, totaling approximately 27.8 million square feet, six industrial/warehouse buildings totaling approximately 387,400 square feet, three retail properties totaling approximately 118,040 square feet, one hotel and two parcels of land leased to others. The Properties are located in eight states and the District of Columbia.
MAC The Macerich Company is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust that is involved in the acquisition, ownership, development, redevelopment, management and leasing of regional and community shopping centers located throughout the United States. The Company conducts all of its operations through The Macerich Partnership, L.P. (the Operating Partnership). Macerich is the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership. As of December 31, 2003, the Operating Partnership owned or had an ownership interest in 58 regional shopping centers, 18 community shopping centers and two development properties aggregating approximately 58 million square feet of gross leasable area. The property management, leasing and redevelopment of the Macerich portfolio is provided by the Company's management companies, Macerich Property Management Company, LLC, Macerich Management Company, Westcor Partners, LLC, Macerich Westcor Management, LLC and Westcor Partners of Colorado, LLC.
MACE Mace Security International, Inc. (Mace) conducts its business in two segments: car and truck washes and security products. The Company, through its subsidiaries, owns and operates 51 car washes and five truck washes. Its security products segment produces consumer safety and personal defense products, as well as electronic surveillance and monitoring products, and consists of two operating divisions: the Consumer Products Division and the Electronic Surveillance Products Division. In addition, an expanded line of electronic security monitors was added to the security products segment, in September 2003, when it acquired the assets of Vernex, Inc., a manufacturer and retailer of electronic security monitors.
MRD MacDermid, Incorporated develops, produces and markets a line of specialty chemical products for two business segments: Advanced Surface Finishing and Printing Solutions. These products are supplied to the metal and plastic finishing markets for automotive and other industrial applications, markets within the electronics industry to imprint electrical patterns on circuit boards, the offshore oil and gas markets as lubricants and cleaning agents for oil drilling and exploration and also to the commercial printing and packaging industries for image transfer using offset or flexographic printing applications, photopolymer plates and digital printers. In December 2003, the Company sold its interest in Eurocir S.A., a printed circuit board manufacturer, back to the minority shareholders.
MACC MACC Private Equities Inc., incorporated in March 1994, is qualified as a business development company (BDC) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act). The Company has one direct wholly owned subsidiary, MorAmerica Capital Corporation (MorAmerica Capital). As of September 30, 2004, MorAmerica Capital comprised approximately 99% of the Company's assets. MorAmerica Capital is licensed as a small business investment company and has also elected treatment as a BDC under the 1940 Act.
MCBC Macatawa Bank Corporation is the holding company for its wholly owned subsidiaries, Macatawa Bank (the Bank), Macatawa Investment Services, Inc., Macatawa Statutory Trust I and Macatawa Bank Mortgage Company. The Bank is a Michigan chartered bank with depository accounts insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The bank operates 20 branch offices and a lending and operational service facility, offering commercial and personal banking services, including checking and savings accounts and certificates of deposit, safe deposit boxes, travelers checks, money orders, trust services, as well as commercial, mortgage and consumer loans in Michigan. Macatawa Investment Services is a broker/dealer that provides brokerage services, including discount brokerage, personal financial planning and consultation regarding mutual funds; Macatawa Statutory Trust I is a grantor trust, and Macatawa Bank Mortgage Company originates and sells residential mortgage loans into the secondary market.
TUC Mac-Gray Corporation generates the majority of its revenue from card- and coin-operated laundry rooms located in the Northeastern, Southeastern and Midwestern United States. A large portion of its revenue is also derived from the sale and lease of the MicroFridge product lines. The Company's principal customer base is the multi-housing market, which includes apartments, condominium units, colleges and universities and military bases. Mac-Gray also sells, services and leases commercial laundry equipment to commercial laundromats, multi-housing properties and institutions. The Company also generates revenue from card- and coin-operated reprographics equipment located in university and municipal libraries and other buildings. Mac-Gray organizes its business into three segments: Laundry Services, MicroFridge and Reprographics. On January 16, 2004, the Company purchased the eastern operations of Web Service Company, Inc., a privately owned laundry facilities contractor.
LYO Lyondell Chemical Company is a global chemical company. Lyondell manufactures and markets a variety of intermediate and performance chemicals, primarily propylene oxide (PO) and its derivatives, including propylene glycol (PG), propylene glycol ethers (PGE) and butanediol (BDO), co-products styrene monomer (SM) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) and its derivative, methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), as well as toluene diisocyanate (TDI). The Company owns 70.5% of Equistar Chemicals, LP, a limited partnership that operates petrochemicals and polymers businesses. Equistar's petrochemicals business manufactures and markets olefins, oxygenated products, aromatics and specialty products. Its performance polymers include enhanced grades of polyethylene, such as wire and cable insulating resins and polymeric powders. The Company operates in four segments: intermediate chemicals and derivatives, petrochemicals, polymers and refining.
LYNX Lynx Therapeutics, Inc. (Lynx) is engaged in the development and application of novel genomics analysis solutions. Lynx has developed a high-throughput DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) sequencing process, massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS) technology, which permits the characterization of up to two million targeted DNA molecules in a single assay. The capacity and the resulting economy enable a variety of biological analyses at precision and completeness. The MPSS technology provides digital data based on actual DNA sequence information for many biological processes, where imprecise analogue fluorescent readouts are the standard, such as expression profiling with DNA microarrays.
LIC Lynch Interactive Corporation is engaged in providing multimedia services. The Company's lone business segment, multimedia, consists of: telecommunications, broadcasting and other services, which include Internet, security, personal communications services (PCS), competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), cable television and other non-regulated revenues. Its majority-owned and wholly owned subsidiaries include Giant Communications (formerly CLR Video, L.L.C.), a 98% owned subsidiary of Interactive, which is a provider of cable television in northeast Kansas with 2,600 subscribers; DFT Security Systems, Inc. (which is 63.6% owned by Interactive), provides alarm services to western New York, including the Buffalo area, and serves 6,712 alarm customers; Lynch 3G Communication Corporation; station WOI-TV-Lynch Entertainment Corporation II, and station WHBF-TV- Lynch Entertainment, L.L.C.
LGL Lynch Corporation is a diversified holding company whose wholly owned subsidiaries, Lynch Systems, Inc. (LS) and M-tron Industries, Inc., are engaged in manufacturing. LS designs, develops, manufactures and markets a range of manufacturing equipment for the electronic display and consumer glass industries. LS also produces replacement parts for various types of packaging and glass container-making machines. M-tron is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of custom designed electronic components that are used primarily to control the frequency or timing of electronic signals in communications equipment. M-Tron's devices, which are commonly called frequency control devices, crystals or oscillators, support fixed and mobile wireless, copper wire, coaxial cable, wide area networks (WANs), local area networks (LANs) and fiber-optic systems. M-Tron sells its products to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), contract manufacturers and to distributors.
LDL Lydall, Inc. designs and manufactures specialty engineered air and liquid filtration media, automotive thermal and acoustical barriers, passive and active industrial thermal and insulating solutions and certain medical filtration and bioprocessing components for demanding thermal/acoustical and filtration/separation applications. The Company has organized its business into two segments, Thermal/Acoustical and Filtration/Separation. All other businesses are aggregated in Other Products and Services. The Company serves a number of market niches. Lydall's products are primarily sold directly to customers through an internal sales force and distributed by its distribution operation or via common carrier. The majority of the Company's products are sold to original equipment manufacturers and tier-one suppliers.
LUX Luxottica Group S.p.A. (Luxottica) operates in two industry segments: manufacturing and wholesale distribution and retail distribution. Through manufacturing and wholesale distribution segment, it is engaged in the design, manufacture, wholesale distribution and marketing of house and designer lines of mid- to premium-priced prescription frames and sunglasses, which are marketed under a variety of brand names. With respect to distribution activities, the Company operates its business through a worldwide wholesale and retail distribution network based primarily in North America and Australia.
LMNX Luminex Corporation is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing, servicing and support of molecular measurement and analysis systems (the xMAP System) that advances and simplifies biological testing for the life sciences industry. The Company's xMAP technology allows its Luminex 100 System to perform up to 100 bioassays on a single drop of fluid by reading biological tests taking place on the surface of microscopic polystyrene beads called microspheres. The xMAP technology combines this miniaturized liquid array bioassay capability with small lasers, digital signal processors and software to create a system offering better speed, precision, flexibility and cost. Luminex's xMAP technology is used in drug discovery and development, clinical diagnostics, genetic analysis, protein analysis and biomedical research. The Company generates revenues from royalties on bioassay kits and testing services, as well as from the sale of microspheres and other consumables.
LUM Luminent Mortgage Capital, Inc. is an investment company that invests primarily in the United States agency and other rated, single-family, adjustable-rate, hybrid adjustable-rate and fixed-rate, mortgage-backed securities, which the Company acquires in the secondary market. Luminent is externally managed and advised by Seneca Capital Management LLC, pursuant to a management agreement. The Company invests primarily in adjustable-rate and hybrid adjustable-rate, mortgage-backed securities. Adjustable-rate, mortgage-backed securities have interest rates that reset periodically, typically every six months or on an annual basis. Hybrid adjustable-rate, mortgage-backed securities have interest rates that are fixed for the first few years of the loan, typically three, five, seven or 10 years, and thereafter reset periodically in a manner similar to adjustable-rate, mortgage-backed securities.
LCC Lumina Copper Corp., along with its subsidiaries, is engaged in the acquisition of advanced-stage copper exploration properties. The Company owns or has the right to acquire, directly or indirectly, all or a portion of the rights, title and interest in 10 properties located in Canada, Peru, Argentina and Chile. The Company acquires and holds non-economic properties containing ore and waits for higher mineral prices to render those properties. Lumina Copper also explores its mining properties, as well as locates, evaluates and acquires other mineral properties to finance its exploration. The Company is an exploration-stage company and none of its mineral properties have known ore reserves. There is no assurance from Lumina Copper that a commercially viable mineral deposit exists on any of its properties.
LMRA Lumera Corporation develops polymer materials and products based on these materials for a broad range of applications. The Company designs and synthesizes polymer materials at the molecular level, using nanotechnology to optimize their electrical, optical and surface properties. Lumera uses these materials to improve the design, performance and functionality of products for use in wireless and optical communications networks and in biochemical analysis. The Company is developing products in areas, such as wireless antennas and systems, biotechnology disposables, electro-optic devices and polymer-based products for government applications. Lumera's products include AccuPath and NanoCapture.
LUFK Lufkin Industries, Inc. is divided into three operating segments: Oil Field, Power Transmission and Trailer. The Oil Field segment manufactures and services artificial reciprocating rod-lift equipment referred as pumping units and related products. The Power Transmission segment designs, manufactures and services speed-increasing and reducing gearboxes for industrial applications. The Trailer segment manufactures and services highway-trailers for the freight-hauling market.
LUCY Lucille Farms, Inc. is engaged in the manufacture, processing, shredding and marketing of low-moisture mozzarella cheese, reduced fat and non-fat, low-moisture mozzarella cheese and pizza cheese, and the shredding of other cheese and cheese blends. The Company's pizza cheese and reduced fat and non-fat, low-moisture mozzarella cheeses have been developed utilizing the Company's formulas and processes. Lucille Farms also sells whey for animal food, which is a by-product of its cheese-making operation. The Company's low-moisture mozzarella cheese, pizza cheese and reduced fat and non-fat mozzarella cheese products are manufactured in the Company's production facility in Swanton, Vermont, and are made of natural ingredients.
LU Lucent Technologies Inc. (Lucent) designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks. Lucent has three business segments organized around the products and services it sells: The Integrated Network Solutions (INS), Mobility services and Services segment. The INS segment provides a broad range of software and wireline equipment related to voice networking (primarily consisting of switching products and voice messaging products), data and network management (primarily consisting of access and related data networking equipment and operating support software) and optical networking. Mobility provides software and wireless equipment to support radio access and core networks. Services is a worldwide services organization that provides deployment, maintenance, professional and managed services in support of both product offerings, as well as multi-vendor networks.
LUB Luby's, Inc. (formerly, Luby's Cafeterias, Inc.), through its subsidiaries operates restaurants. All restaurant operations are conducted by the partnership. As of October 20, 2004, the Company operated 136 restaurants under the name Luby's. These establishments are located in close proximity to retail centers, business developments and residential areas throughout five states, Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. Of the 136 restaurants, 94 are at locations owned by the Company and 42 are on leased premises. Two of the restaurants primarily serve seafood, one is a steak buffet, three are full-time buffets, 11 are cafeteria-style restaurants with all-you-can-eat options and 119 are traditional cafeterias. During the fiscal year ended August 25, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company closed approximately 10 under performing units, of which approximately four were adopted into its business plan.
LZ Lubrizol Corporation is a global fluid technology company that develops, produces and sells chemicals, systems and services for transportation and industry. The Company creates these products by applying advanced chemical and mechanical technologies to enhance the performance, quality and value, and reduce the environmental impact of the customer products in which its products are used. Its additive customers primarily consist of oil refiners and independent oil blenders and are located in more than 100 countries. Beginning in 2002, Lubrizol reorganized its product lines into three principal reporting segments: fluid technologies for transportation, fluid technologies for industry and all other (which consist of the advanced fluid systems and emulsified products operating segments). In June 2004, the Company acquired Noveon International, Inc., a privately held Cleveland-based specialty chemical company.
LTXX LTX Corporation designs, manufactures, markets and services semiconductor test solutions. The Company offers its customers the LTX Fusion platform, a solution for testing the full spectrum of non-memory devices, consisting of system-on-a-chip (SOC), mixed signal and digital devices. The Fusion test platform is designed to provide customers with reliable test performance and cost-efficiency in their efforts to accelerate their time to market for these devices. The Fusion test platform combines the Company's test station hardware with its enVision++ software, and is available in Fusion HFi, Fusion HF and Fusion CX configurations. These configurations depend primarily on the digital complexity of the device to be tested. LTX focuses its marketing and sales on integrated device manufacturers (IDMs), subcontractors, which perform manufacturing services for the semiconductor industry, foundries, which provide wafer manufacturing capability.
LTC LTC Properties, Inc. is a health care real estate investment trust that invests primarily in long-term care and other healthcare-related properties through mortgage loans, property lease transactions and other investments. As part of its strategy of making long-term investments in properties used in the provision of long-term health care services, LTC provides mortgage financing on such properties. It has also provided construction loans that by their terms converted into purchase/lease transactions or permanent financing mortgage loans upon completion of construction. As of December 31, 2003, the Company's direct real estate investment portfolio (properties that LTC owns or on which it holds promissory notes secured by first mortgages) consisted of investments in 83 skilled nursing properties with 9,728 beds, 96 assisted living properties with 4,551 units and one school, across 30 states.
LSI LSI Logic Corporation is engaged in the design, development and manufacture, and marketing of complex, high-performance integrated circuits (ICs) and storage systems. The Company is focused on four markets: communications, consumer products, storage components and storage systems. Its ICs are used in a range of communication devices, including devices used for wireless and broadband data networking applications. LSI also provides other types of IC products and board-level products for use in consumer applications, high-performance storage controllers and systems for storage area networks. The Company operates in two segments: the Semiconductor segment and the Storage Systems segment, in which it offers products and services for a variety of electronic systems applications. Its products are marketed to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that sell products targeted for applications in its major markets.
LYTS LSI Industries Inc. is a provider of corporate visual image solutions through the combination of extensive screen and digital graphics capabilities, a variety of indoor and outdoor lighting products and related professional services. The company's provides corporate visual image solutions to the petroleum/convenience store industry, and a penetrate national retailers and multi-site retailers, including quick service and casual restaurants, video rental and eyewear chains, retail chain stores and automobile dealerships located primarily in the United States. It also provides graphics and lighting products and professional services on a standalone basis. LSI operates in two business segments: the Lighting Segment, which represented 66% of net sales for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004(fiscal 2004), and the Graphics Segment, which represented 34% net sales in fiscal 2004.
LXU LSB Industries, Inc. is a diversified holding company that engages through subsidiaries its in the manufacturing and selling of a range of hydronic fan coils and water source heat pumps, as well as other products including large custom air handlers used in commercial and residential air conditioning systems known as the Climate Control Business, and the manufacturing and selling of chemical products for the agricultural, mining and varied industrial markets known as the Chemical Business. The Chemical Business manufactures three principal product lines that are derived from natural gas, anhydrous ammonia and sulfur. The Climate Control Business has also developed the use of geothermal water source heat pumps in residential and commercial applications. Climate Control Business manufactures and sells a range of standard and custom designed hydronic fan coils and water source heat pumps.
LSBI LSB Financial Corp. serves as the holding company for Lafayette Savings Bank, FSB (the Bank). The Company has no separate operations and its business consists only of the business of the Bank. The Bank is a community-oriented financial institution. Its principal business consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing those funds primarily in permanent first mortgage loans secured by owner-occupied, one- to four-family residences and to a lesser extent, non-owner occupied one- to four-family residential, commercial real estate, multi-family, construction and development, consumer and commercial business loans. The Bank serves customers in Tippecanoe County, Indiana and its surrounding counties through five retail-banking offices.
LSBX LSB Corporation is a holding company principally conducting business through Lawrence Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank offers various financial products to the general public. These products include loans for residential real estate, commercial real estate, construction, consumer and commercial businesses. It offers various deposit accounts, including savings, checking, money market, certificates of deposit and individual retirement accounts. The Bank invests a portion of its funds in federal funds and investment securities. Its primary market area is the Merrimack Valley in Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. It has five banking offices in the communities of Andover, Lawrence, Methuen (two) and North Andover, Massachusetts. The Bank has a remote automated teller machine location in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
LXBK LSB Bancshares, Inc. (Bancshares) is a bank holding company whose principal business is providing banking and other financial services through its banking subsidiary, Lexington State Bank (LSB), a North Carolina-chartered commercial bank. The principal assets of Bancshares are all outstanding shares of LSB common stock. LSB offers a complete array of services in commercial banking, including accepting deposits, corporate cash management, discount brokerage, IRA plans, secured and unsecured loans and trust functions. LSB has two wholly owned non-bank subsidiaries: Peoples Finance Company of Lexington, Inc. (Peoples Finance) and LSB Investment Services, Inc. (LSB Investment Services).
LQCI.OB LQ Corporation, Inc. is not operating any business, and is exploring options for the use of its remaining assets as a result of the sale of its digital music fulfillment business and related assets to Geneva Media, LLC, an affiliate of Anderson Merchandisers, LP, in January 2003. As part of the sale, it transferred ownership of certain Liquid Audio related trademarks to Geneva and the Microsoft License. LQ provided an open platform that enabled the digital delivery of media over the Internet, through January 2003. Through the first quarter of 2002, it pursued a strategy of maintaining and extending its digital distribution business. The Company changed its name from Liquid Audio, Inc. in January 2004.
LYLP.OB LoyaltyPoint, Inc., formerly BarPoint.com, Inc. is a holding company for merchant, school and nonprofit loyalty marketing programs. The Company markets online, store and catalog-based loyalty programs that generate contributions to schools, nonprofits and other organizations, based upon parent and supporter purchases. The Company's vision is to provide a one-stop shop for schools, nonprofits and other organizations to enroll in year-round, merchant-supported fund-raising programs. In February 2004, the Company merged with Fundever, Inc., owner of SchoolPop, Inc., a provider of year-round school support and fund-raising solutions. The Company's principal programs cross four primary product lines: Scrip &amp; Earn, Shop &amp; Earn, Charge &amp; Earn and Earning Events (Learn &amp; Earn and Auction &amp; Earn).
LEIX Lowrance Electronics, Inc. is engaged in the design, manufacturing and marketing of a line of sound navigation and ranging (SONAR) and global positioning system (GPS) products. The Company markets and sells its products domestically and in 43 countries throughout the world, focusing on three primary product markets: marine; consumer, which includes outdoor recreational use and vehicular navigation systems, and aviation. Approximately 80% of Lowrance's total annual revenue is derived from sales of SONAR and SONAR/GPS combination products to the marine market, used as fishfinders and as navigational and safety devices by inland, coastal and offshore fisherman, as well as by recreational boaters. The Company also sells handheld and portable GPS products used in avionic and vehicular navigational applications and by outdoor enthusiasts for camping, hunting, hiking and other recreational uses, as well as accessories associated with all of the products.
LOW Lowe's Companies, Inc. is a home improvement retailer, with a specific emphasis on retail do-it-yourself (DIY) and commercial business customers. Lowe's specializes in offering products and services for home improvement, home decor, home maintenance, home repair and remodeling and maintenance of commercial buildings. As of the end of the fiscal year ended January 30, 2004, Lowe's operated 952 stores in 45 states, with approximately 108.8 million square feet of retail selling space. A typical Lowe's home improvement store stocks more than 40,000 items, with hundreds of thousands of items available through its special order system. Each store carries a selection of national brand name merchandise.
LPX Louisiana-Pacific Corporation is a manufacturer and distributor of building products used primarily in new home construction, repair and remodeling and manufactured housing. The Company delivers these products to the retail, wholesale, home building and industrial markets predominantly in North America. It also sells and distributes its products to the light industrial and commercial construction markets, and runs an export business for some of its specialty building products to Asia, Europe and South America. Louisiana-Pacific operates in four principal segments: Oriented Strand Board (OSB), Composite Wood Products, Plastic Building Products and Engineered Wood Products (EWP). In addition to its United States operations, the Company also maintains manufacturing facilities in Canada and Chile through foreign subsidiaries and joint ventures.
LOUD Loudeye Corporation is a business-to-business provider of services that facilitate the distribution and promotion of digital media content to media and entertainment, retail and enterprise customers. The Company's digital media products and services include private-branded digital music stores, such as the Digital MusicStore and iRadio Service; digital music encoding; metadata licensing; advanced fingerprint database generation; hosted music sample services; hosted music download services, including digital rights management license clearing; online radio solutions, and rich media advertisement insertion. Loudeye also provides enhanced enterprise communication services, which include scalable, live and on-demand audio and video Webcasting services, supported by proprietary applications such as synchronized streaming slide presentation capabilities.
LTEC.OB LOUD Technologies Inc., formerly known as Mackie Designs, Inc., engineers, manufactures and markets professional audio and video reproduction and recording equipment and software under the brand names Mackie, TAPCO, SIA, EAW and EAW Commercial. The Company's primary products include analog mixers, sound reinforcement speakers, professional loudspeaker systems, installed paging and music distribution systems, preamplifiers, power amplifiers, digital audio workstations and audio/video (A/V) software control surfaces, desktop peripheral component interconnect (PCI) cards, digital mixers, input/output (I/O) devices and acoustic test and measurement software. These products are used in a variety of applications, including home and commercial recording studios, live performances and fixed installations of all sizes.
LWSL.OB Lottery &amp; Wagering Solutions Inc. (LWSI) is primarily engaged in providing gaming services through the ownership and management of a casino in Suriname. LWSI is also pursuing the sale of property initially acquired by the Company for the development of a casino and hotel project in Sakhalin in the Russian Federation on an island north of Japan (the Sakhalin Project). In addition, in May 2001, LWSI entered into a contract under which, subject to significant pre-acquisition conditions, it was to acquire all of the stock of Emerging Market Solutions, Inc., (EMSI). EMSI's sole asset is a lottery gaming system contract that grants it the exclusive right to provide an online lottery and sports betting system in Ho Chi Minh City and the Southern Provinces of Vietnam.
LRP Lorus Therapeutics Inc. (Lorus) is a biopharmaceutical company specialising in the research, development and commercialisation of pharmaceutical products and technologies for the management of cancer. Lorus carries out basic drug discovery research and clinical development, but also seeks to reduce the risks associated with the drug development process by acquiring new technologies from research institutions and other companies. The focus of Lorus is on the development of well-tolerated cancer therapy drugs. The company focuses on three therapeutic areas, but has a number of pre-clinical technologies to expand the product pipeline, Immunotherapy, Antisense, Small molecule.
LRLSQ.OB Loral Space &amp; Communications Ltd. is a satellite communications company that owns and operates a fleet of telecommunications satellites and manages a global network that integrates its satellites with terrestrial facilities. It also has rights to orbital slots. The Company's Loral Skynet division manages the fleet that provides satellite capacity and platforms for use by television and cable networks to broadcast video programming, and by communication service providers, resellers, corporate and government customers for broadband data transmission, Internet services and other value-added communications services. It has two operating segments: Satellite Services and Satellite Manufacturing. In July 2003, Loral and certain of its subsidiaries (the Debtors) filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
LOOK LookSmart, Ltd. is a provider of products for advertisers who wish to pay to be included in relevant Web search results. The Company's LookListings suite of products provides businesses of all sizes the opportunity to have listings for their company and products included in distributed Web search results. LookSmart distribute products for advertisers on a network of portals, Internet service providers (ISPs), media companies and search engines. The Company develops custom search services for its distribution partners, in some cases providing full-Web search and in other cases providing search results only for a commercial segment of searches. It offers distribution partners a search solution with two important benefits: provides relevant search results for their users and shares a portion of the listings revenues that it generates from clicks on paid listings in those search results.
LFB Longview Fibre Company is a publicly held forest, paper and packaging products company engaged in three primary businesses: the ownership and management of timberlands in Oregon and Washington, which principally produce logs for sale; the ownership and operation of a pulp and paper mill, which produces kraft paper and paperboard, and the ownership and operation of converting plants, which produce finished products, such as corrugated containers. For the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), timber contributed to 23%, paper and paperboard to 27% and converted products to 50% of net sales of the Company. During fiscal 2004, the Company sold the equipment and working capital of its two paper bag plants.
LDG Longs Drug Stores Corporation operates in two business segments, retail drug stores and, through its RxAmerica subsidiary, pharmacy benefit management (PBM). Through the retail drug store segment, the Company operates a retail drug store chain on the West Coast of the United States and in Hawaii, with 470 stores in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Washington and Oregon, and one mail order pharmacy, as of January 29, 2004. Its retail drug stores sell prescription drugs and an assortment of nationally advertised brand name and private label general merchandise. Its core front-end categories include over-the-counter medications, health and beauty products, cosmetics, photo and photo processing, convenience food and beverage items and greeting cards. The PBM segment provides a range of services, including plan design and implementation, formulary management and claims administration to third-party health plans and other organizations.
LPTI.OB Longport, Inc. is a medical technology company that specializes in high-resolution ultrasound imaging. The Company has developed, patented and obtained, in June 1999, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permission to market a high-resolution ultrasound scanner (the Scanner) that produces an image of the skin and underlying tissue. Once visualized on-screen, scans can be printed, stored as bitmap files or e-mailed to an offsite diagnostic center for interpretation or archiving. The Scanner system is comprised of a desktop personal computer-like housing, which includes a proprietary board, a separate monitor, keyboard and interchangeable hand-held probes. The system can be integrated into a small cart or trolley, or used as a desktop machine. In February 2004, the Company entered into an agreement with U.S. Medical Systems Corp., pursuant to which it appointed U.S. Medical Systems as a non-exclusive distributor of its Scanners in the United States.
LICB Long Island Financial Corp. is a financial holding company that operates through its subsidiary, Long Island Commercial Bank (the Bank). The Bank offers a range of commercial and consumer banking services, including loans to and deposit accounts for small and medium-sized businesses, professionals, individuals and consumers. The Bank is an independent local bank, emphasizing personal attention and responsiveness to the needs of its customers. The Bank offers a variety of commercial loan services, including term loans, construction loans, demand loans, revolving credit loans and loans guaranteed in part by the Small Business Administration. At December 31, 2003, the Company had $232.5 million in investment securities consisting of United States Government and agency obligations, mortgage-backed securities, corporate debt and equity securities. Deposit accounts and borrowings are the Bank's primary sources of fund.
LSS Lone Star Technologies, Inc. is a management and holding company with six principal operating subsidiaries: Lone Star Steel Company (Steel), Fintube Technologies, Inc., Bellville Tube Company, L.P., Wheeling Machine Products, Inc., Delta Tubular Processing (Delta) and Delta Tubular International (Delta International). Steel manufactures and globally markets oilfield tubular products to the oil and gas drilling industry; mechanical tubing products to automotive, fluid power and other markets for various mechanical applications, and flat rolled steel and other tubular products to industrial markets. Fintube manufactures specialty finned tubular products used in a variety of heat recovery applications. Bellville manufactures oilfield tubular products. Wheeling manufactures couplings used to connect individual sections of oilfield casing and tubing. Delta and Delta International provide oil country tubular processing services, including threading and inspection services.
STAR Lone Star Steakhouse &amp; Saloon, Inc. owns and operates 250 mid-priced, casual dining restaurants located in the United States, which operate under the trade name Lone Star Steakhouse &amp; Saloon or Lone Star Cafe; 20 Texas Land &amp; Cattle Co. restaurants, and 20 upscale steakhouse restaurants, five operating as Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steak House restaurants and 15 operating as Sullivan's Steakhouse restaurants. The Company also operates a mid-priced restaurant operating as Frankie's Italian Grille. In addition, a licensee operates three Lone Star restaurants in California and a licensee operates a Del Frisco's restaurant in Orlando, Florida. Internationally, licensees operate 13 Lone Star Steakhouse &amp; Saloon restaurants in Australia and one in Guam.
LOJN LoJack Corporation is a worldwide marketer of wireless security and location products and services. The Company develops and markets the LoJack Stolen Vehicle Recovery System (LoJack System), a system designed to assist law enforcement personnel in locating, tracking and recovering stolen vehicles. During the year ended December 31, 2002, the Company introduced the LoJack Early Warning Recovery System (LoJack Early Warning), a product building on the Company's stolen vehicle recovery technology that provides early notification to a vehicle owner in the event of an unauthorized user operating the vehicle. In addition, LoJack develops and markets a product line of its LoJack System designated for use in international markets, where it may not be practicable or desirable to implement the fully integrated LoJack System. In October 2004, the Company acquired Boomerang Tracking Inc., Montreal, Canada. Boomerang will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of LoJack Corporation.
LOGI Logitech International S.A. is engaged in the design, manufacture and marketing of personal interface products for personal computers (PCs) and other digital platforms. The Company's product family includes input and pointing devices, interactive gaming devices, multimedia speakers, headsets, Web cameras and advanced remote controls. Its products are purchased as add-ons for enabling applications that require dedicated devices, including Webcams, PC headsets, steering wheels and joysticks for PC and console games. The products are also purchased to replace the basic peripherals that originally came with the applications. The Company's products are sold through consumer electronics retailers, mass merchandisers, value-added resellers, as well as specialty electronics, computer and telecom stores and online merchants and original equipment manufacturers. In May 2004, the Company acquired Intrigue Technologies, which offers a line of advanced remote controls.
LGTY Logility, Inc. provides collaborative supply chain solutions to streamline and optimize the management, production and distribution of products between manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, retailers, carriers and other organizations and their respective trading partners. The Company designed the Logility Voyager Solutions suite to synchronize demand opportunities with supply constraints, sourcing alternatives and logistics operations. The suite comprises a series of Internet and client/server based, integrated modules that provide advanced supply chain management, including collaborative planning, strategic network design, optimized supply sourcing, production management, warehouse management and collaborative logistics capabilities. Customers can implement these modules individually, as well as in combinations or as a full solution suite. Logility also provides its customers software implementation, training, consulting and customization services.
LGVN LogicVision, Inc. is a provider of technologies for embedded test that enable the design and manufacture of complex semiconductors. Its solution allows testing of integrated circuits after they have been assembled onto boards and systems that enables diagnostic test throughout the product's life cycle. The Company's technology enables semiconductor companies to embed self-testers into the chip design. LogicVision's embedded test is performed primarily using circuitry resident in the semiconductor design. LogicVision licenses its proprietary technologies and software products to companies in key markets within the diagnostics, semiconductor and systems industries. Its customers include application specific integrated circuit or system-on-a-chip designers in systems companies, fabless companies and integrated device manufacturers.
LOGC LOGIC Devices Incorporated develops and markets high-performance digital integrated circuits that address the requirements of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to provide high-speed electronic computation in digital signal processing (DSP), video image processing and telecommunications applications. The Company's products include high-speed DSP chips that are used in digital communications, broadcast and medical imaging processing applications, instrumentation and smart weapons systems. The Company markets its products worldwide through its own direct sales force, and through one domestic and 21 international distributors. In the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), approximately 34% of the Company's net revenues were derived from OEMs, while sales through foreign and domestic distributors accounted for approximately 66% of net revenues. Among the Company's customers are GE Medical, Lockheed Martin, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Sony, Teradyne, and Raytheon.
LTR Loews Corporation is a holding company whose subsidiaries are engaged in the following lines of business: property and casualty insurance (CNA Financial Corporation, a 90%-owned subsidiary); the production and sale of cigarettes (Lorillard, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary); the operation of hotels (Loews Hotels Holding Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary); the operation of offshore oil and gas drilling rigs (Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc., a 54%-owned subsidiary); the operation of an interstate natural gas transmission pipeline system (Texas Gas Transmission, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary), and the distribution and sale of watches and clocks (Bulova Corporation, a 97%-owned subsidiary). In December 2004, the Company's subsidiary, TGT Pipeline, LLC acquired Gulf South Pipeline, LP from Entergy-Koch, LP.
LGN Lodgian, Inc. is an independent owner and operator of hotels in the United States. It is considered an independent owner and operator because it does not operate its hotels under its own name. The Company operates substantially all of its hotels under such brands as Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and Marriott. As of March 1, 2004, it operated 92 hotels with an aggregate of 17,417 rooms, located in 30 states and Canada. Of the 92 hotels, 78 hotels, with an aggregate of 14,348 rooms, are part of its continuing operations, while 14 hotels, with an aggregate of 3,069 rooms, are held for sale. Its portfolio of 92 hotels consists of 87 hotels that it wholly owns and operates through subsidiaries, four hotels that it operates in joint ventures, in which it has a 50% or greater voting equity interest and exercise control, and one hotel that it operates in a joint venture, in which it has a 30% non-controlling equity interest.
LNET LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation is a provider of interactive television systems and broadband services to hotels, resorts and casinos throughout the United States, Canada and select international markets. As of December 31, 2003, the Company provided television services to approximately 5,800 hotel properties, serving nearly one million rooms. Its services are purchased by guests on a per-view, hourly or daily basis, and include on-demand movies, video games, music and music videos, Internet on television that does not require a laptop and television on-demand programming, which are referred to as Guest Pay Interactive Services and considered as the Company's primary source of revenue. The Company's service packages may also include satellite-delivered basic and premium television programming and other interactive entertainment and information services that are paid for by the hotel and provided to guests at no charge, and referred to as free-to-guest services.
LMT Lockheed Martin Corporation principally researches, designs, develops, manufactures, integrates, operates and supports advanced technology systems, products and services. The Company serves customers in domestic and international defense, civil and commercial markets, with its principal customers being agencies of the United States Government. In 2003, approximately 78% of its net sales were made to the United States Government, either as a prime contractor or as a subcontractor. Approximately 16% of its net sales in 2003 were made to foreign governments. As a lead systems integrator, the Company's products and services range from aircraft, spacecraft and launch vehicles to missiles, electronics and information systems, including integrated net-centric solutions. In December 2004, the Company acquired Sippican Holdings, Inc, a supplier of naval electronics systems. In January 2005, the Company sold its 42% stake in the joint venture company TUSAS Aerospace Industries, Inc.
LPLHA.OB Locateplus Holdings Corporation along with its wholly owned subsidiaries LocatePLUS Corporation, Worldwide Information, Inc., Certifion Corporation and Dataphant, Inc., is a provider of business-to-business, business-to-government and business-to-consumer providers of public information via the Company's proprietary data integration solutions. Since inception, it has sold a CD-ROM-based (compact disk, read only memory based) product referred to as worldwide information that enables users to search certain motor vehicle records and driver's license information in multiple states.
LNR LNR Property Corporation is a real estate investment, finance and management company. The Company is engaged primarily in acquiring, developing, repositioning, managing and selling commercial and multifamily residential real estate properties throughout the United States and Europe. The Company also invests in high-yielding real estate loans and acquires, at a discount, portfolios of loans backed by commercial or multifamily residential real estate. In addition, the Company invests in unrated and non-investment, grade-rated commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) as to which it has the right to be special servicer (to oversee workouts of under-performing and non-performing loans). These businesses are grouped into three segments: real estate properties, real estate loans and real estate securities.
LNBB LNB Bancorp, Inc. is a financial holding company established for the purpose of acquiring all of the outstanding common stock of The Lorain National Bank. LNB Bancorp, Inc. offers life insurance, term life, whole life, universal life and long-term care insurance and fixed annuity products through its wholly owned insurance subsidiary, Charleston Insurance Agency, Inc., and traditional title services through 49% owned subsidiary, Charleston Title Agency, LLC. Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. offers brokerage services, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, variable annuity investments and variable life insurance products to Lorain National Bank customers through the LNB Investment Center. As of December 31, 2004, the Lorain National Bank operated 20 retail branches and 23 automated teller machines (ATMs) in nine communities. In August 2004, the Company acquired Mortgage One Banc, a mortgage company headquartered in Lorain, Ohio.
LMLP LML Payment Systems, Inc. (LML) is a financial payment processor that primarily provides consumer financial payment processing solutions to retailers and other clients in the United States, including supermarket chains, grocery stores, convenience stores and other retailers. These solutions include electronic check authorization, primary and secondary check collections, electronic check re-presentment and electronic check conversion. The Company also provides retail clients with routing or switching services of credit, debit and electronic benefit transfer (EBT) transactions to third-party processors, banks and authorization networks/vendors for authorization and settlement. Under its LASR brand, LML develops and markets three electronic check services for the retail point of sale: LASR Data, LASR Direct and LASR Debit. The Company's business consists solely of activity in the financial payment processing segment.
LMII.OB LMIC, Inc., through its subsidiary, LMIC Manufacturing, Inc., provides engineering design, manufacturing and ongoing installation and maintenance services to established and emerging original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of complex electronic equipment. LMIC's customers are in the networking, telecommunications, industrial and medical instrumentation markets. Projects include design services; complex printed circuit board assembly utilizing, among other techniques, advanced surface mount technology, and electro-mechanical, sub-assembly and total electronic system assembly and integration. The Company's services range from simple assembly and creating a product with customer-supplied materials to a full life cycle of manufacturing services, from design and procurement of parts through assembly and to delivery and maintenance in the field.
LMIA LMI Aerospace, Inc. (LMI) is engaged in fabricating, machining, finishing and integrating formed, close-tolerance aluminum and specialty alloy components and sheet metal products for use by the aerospace, technology and commercial sheet metal industries. It manufactures more than 20,000 aerospace components for integration into a variety of civilian and military aircraft platforms manufactured by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and prime subcontractors (Primes). The Company produces components and assemblies for laser equipment used by semiconductor and medical equipment manufacturers in the technology industry. All components are fabricated from designs and specifications prepared and furnished by its customers. As a result of its acquisition of Tempco Engineering Inc. (Tempco), the Company's business is divided into two segments: the sheet metal segment and the machining and technology segment.
LYG Lloyds TSB Group plc is a financial services group providing a range of banking and financial services in the United Kingdom and overseas, principally through branches of Lloyds TSB Bank plc and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Cheltenham &amp; Gloucester plc and Lloyds TSB Scotland plc and Scottish Widows Investment Partnership Group Limited. The Company's has three businesses: UK Retail Banking and Mortgages, Insurance and Investments and Wholesale and International Banking. Services provided by UK Retail Banking and Mortgages encompass the provision of banking and other financial services, private banking, stockbrokerage and mortgages to personal customers. Insurance and Investments offers life assurance, pensions and savings products, general insurance and fund management services. Wholesale and International Banking provides banking and related services for United Kingdom and multinational companies, banks and financial institutions and small and medium-sized businesses.
LRT LL&amp;E Royalty Trust was created pursuant to a Trust Agreement between the Louisiana Land and Exploration Company and First City National Bank of Houston, with JPMorgan Chase Bank as its Trustee. Louisiana Land and Exploration, a wholly owned subsidiary of Burlington Resources Inc., is also referred to as the Working Interest Owner in its capacity as the owner of the working interests in its properties. The Trust is passive, with the Trustee having only such powers as are necessary for collection and distribution of the revenues resulting from the Royalties, the payment of Trust liabilities and the conservation and protection of the Trust estate. Louisiana Land and Exploration conveyed net overriding royalty interests in certain productive oil and gas properties located in Alabama, Florida and Texas and in federal waters offshore Louisiana and 3% royalty interests in certain of its then unleased, undeveloped south Louisiana fee lands.
LKQX LKQ Corporation provides automotive replacement parts needed to repair automobiles. The Company procures salvage vehicles at auctions using its locally based professionals and centralized procurement systems. In addition, as an alternative source of salvage vehicles, it obtains some vehicles directly from insurance companies, automobile manufacturers and other suppliers. Once it has received proper title, which assures LKQ that the vehicles have not been stolen, it dismantles them for recycled products. In January 2004, the Company acquired Metro East Salvage, Inc., a privately held company that operates a recycled OEM (original equipment manufacturer) automotive replacement parts facility. In February 2004, the Company acquired Global Trade Alliance, Inc. (GTA), a supplier of aftermarket collision automotive replacement parts in the Midwest. GTA operates primarily under the trade names Action Crash Parts and Midwest Fender.
JADE LJ International Inc. is a vertically integrated company that designs, brands, markets and distributes a complete range of fine jewelry. While the Company, specializes in the semi-precious jewelry segment, it also offers high-end pieces set in yellow gold, white gold, platinum or sterling silver and adorned with semi-precious stones, diamonds, pearls and precious stones. LJ distributes mainly to fine jewelers, department stores, national jewelry chains and electronic and specialty retailers throughout North America and Western Europe. The Company's product lines incorporate major categories sought by retailers, including earrings, necklaces, pendants, rings and bracelets. LJ's primary marketing focus has been in North America, where it has sold directly to certain high-volume customers that need specialized product development services, and through a marketing relationship with International Jewelry Connection, for those customers that need higher levels of service and training.
LIZ Liz Claiborne Inc. designs and markets branded women's and men's apparel, accessories and fragrance products. The Company operates the following business segments: Wholesale Apparel, Wholesale Non-Apparel and Retail. Its current portfolio of brands includes most apparel and non-apparel categories, reaching consumers of various age, gender, size, attitude, shopping or value preference. These products range from classic and traditional apparel to modern and contemporary wear. Under Liz Claiborne's multi-channel distribution strategy, the brands are available at over 30,000 different retail locations throughout the world, including the Company's own specialty retail and outlet stores, and on its Elisabeth, Lucky Brand and Mexx E-commerce sites.
LPSN LivePerson, Inc. is an online communication application service provider (ASP) that delivers real-time sales, marketing and customer service solutions for companies that conduct business online. The Company's products and services enable sales and customer service teams to interact with their customers online in a cost-effective and secure real-time environment. It offers solutions through ASP delivery, which allows clients to eliminate the hardware and software investment associated with enterprise software applications. Clients may also add additional services upon request. The Company's suite of products and services includes Service Edition, LivePerson's integrated call center application that enables chat, e-mail and self-service interaction; Sales Edition, a proactive online sales application, and LivePerson Pro for small businesses.
LTFD.OB Littlefield Corporation develops, owns and operates charitable bingo halls and owns and operates party rental and catering companies. The Company has two business segments: Littlefield Entertainment, whose main business is the management of charitable bingo halls and Littlefield Hospitality, which consists of Premiere Events and Rental that engages in the party rental business, catering and installation of tents for events, parties, weddings and festivals, as well as a small amount of event planning (music, flowers and catering). In January 2003, a third unit, Littlefield Amusements that operated amusement type gaming machines in Montgomery, Alabama, was discontinued. In March 2004, the Company acquired Bingo Barn in Midland, Texas. Bingo Barn is Littlefield's third charitable bingo hall in the Midland/Odessa market.
LFUS Littelfuse, Inc. provides circuit protection products to three product areas of the circuit protection market: electronic, automotive and electrical. Electronic circuit protection products are used to protect circuits in a multitude of electronic systems. The Company is a primary supplier of automotive fuses to United States, Asian and European automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), automotive component parts manufacturers and automotive parts distributors. Littelfuse also sells its fuses in the replacement parts market, with its products being sold through merchandisers, discount stores and service stations, as well as under private label by national firms. In addition, the Company manufactures and sells a range of low-voltage and medium-voltage circuit protection products to electrical distributors and their customers in the construction, OEM and industrial maintenance and repair operations markets.
LTHU.OB Lithium Technology Corporation (LTC) is engaged in the development and line production of lithium-ion rechargeable batteries to be used as a power source in emerging applications in the national security, transportation and stationary power markets. The Company combined the operations of Lithium Technology Corporation (LTC) with GAIA Akkumulatorenwerke GmbH (GAIA), a private lithium polymer battery company headquartered in Nordhausen, Germany. The LTC-GAIA combination has resulted in a merger of the Company's lithium-ion and lithium polymer technologies, product development, manufacturing processes, know-how, market positioning and sales efforts. Lithium Technology has two operating locations - GAIA USA in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, and GAIA Europe in Nordhausen, Germany. The Company's products are aimed at the national security systems, transportation and stationary power markets with a particular focus on the United States and European geographic market segments.
LAD Lithia Motors, Inc. (Lithia) is an operator of automotive franchises and retailer of new and used vehicles and services. At March 1, 2004, the Company offered new vehicles through 152 franchises in 79 stores in the Western United States and over the Internet. Lithia operated 16 stores in Oregon, 13 in California, 11 in Washington, eight in Texas, seven in Idaho, seven in Colorado, six in Nevada, four in Alaska, two in South Dakota, two in Nebraska, two in Montana and one in Oklahoma. The Company sells new and used cars and light trucks; sells replacement parts; provides vehicle maintenance, warranty, paint and repair services, and arranges related financing, service contracts, protective products and credit insurance for its automotive customers. Lithia operates 19 collision repair centers: four in Texas; three each in Oregon and Idaho; two in South Dakota, and one each in California, Washington, Montana, Colorado, Nevada, Alaska and Nebraska.
LTWV.OB LiteWave Corp. is an exploration stage oil and gas company whose primary business during 2003 is engaged in the exploration for and development of natural gas through the acquisition of leases and drilling of gas wells in the States of Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, in the United States. The Bourbon County, Kansas, project encompasses approximately 2,895 acres of prospective frontier natural gas lands on 11 leases. The Vernon County, Missouri project consists of leases for 974 acres. The Woods County, Oklahoma project covers 157 acres.
LPMA Lipman Electronic Engineering Ltd., incorporated in 1974, is a worldwide provider of electronic payment systems. Lipman's products include landline and wireless point-of-sale (PoS), terminals, personal identification number (PIN), pads, electronic cash registers, self-service systems that include automatic teller machines (ATMs) and related applications. The Company's electronic payment systems are generally sold under its NURIT brand name. Lipman has introduced NURIT Capture, NURIT Store Manager, Lipman ATM Management System, NURIT Terminal Control Center and Lipman Prepaid System. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Lipman had shipped more than 1,500,000 terminals to locations in 16 countries. Lipman's revenues consist primarily of sales of its electronic payment systems and, to a lesser extent, rentals of its electronic payment systems, warranty services and maintenance and support services.
LIPD Lipid Sciences, Inc. is a development-stage biotechnology company engaged in research and development of products and processes intended to treat major medical indications such as cardiovascular disease, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other viral infections, in which lipids or fat components play a key role. The Company's technologies are based on a process that selectively and rapidly removes lipids, such as cholesterol from lipoproteins or viruses circulating in blood plasma without disrupting protein function. This process of lipid removal, known as delipidation, potentially improves the condition while enhancing the body's natural ability to heal itself. Lipid Sciences is focused on applications for delipidation in two main areas: cardiovascular disease, using its HDL Therapy platform, and viral infections, using its Viral Immunotherapy platform.
LGF Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. is an integrated North American entertainment company. The Company is a producer and distributor of film and television entertainment content. The Company releases 15 motion pictures theatrically per year. Its theatrical releases include films produced in-house and films acquired from third parties. The Company has also produced 150 hours of television programming on average in each of the fiscal years ended March 31, 2004, 2003, 2002 and 2001. Its approach to production, acquisition and distribution is designed to maximize profit by balancing the Company's financial risks against the probability of commercial success of each project. It distributes its library of 6,200 motion picture titles and 1,800 television episodes directly to retailers, video rental stores, pay and free television channels and indirectly to international markets through third parties.
LIOX Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. provides a suite of globalization and testing outsourcing services to businesses in the technology, consumer, retail, industrial, financial services, manufacturing, life sciences and publishing industries. The Company's globalization services, including internationalization, software localization, application development and maintenance, translation and multilingual content management, enable worldwide release and ongoing maintenance of products and content in multiple languages. Its testing services enable clients to reduce downstream support costs, while its product certification and benchmark testing services confirm that the independent software vendors' applications meet industry-defined standards for quality and deliver measurable performance against competitive offerings. Lionbridge has operations in France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Brazil, China, Japan, South Korea, India and the United States.
LINN.OB LION, Inc. is a provider of advanced business solutions that streamline the mortgage fulfillment process for the mortgage industry. The Company's standalone products include LION Pro, Mortgage 101, Retail WebSites, LockPoint Xtra and Pipeline Tools. LION's acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Ignition from the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation represented an opportunity to acquire compatible products that will extend its customer base and add incremental technology and intellectual property. In October 2004, the Company acquired Tuttle Risk Management Services, Inc., a privately held provider of mortgage pipeline risk management services for mortgage companies and financial institutions.
LTON Linktone Ltd. provides entertainment-oriented wireless value-added services to mobile phone users in China. The Company specializes in the development, aggregation, marketing and distribution of consumer wireless content and applications for access by China's approximate 268.7 million mobile phone users through two mobile network operators, China Mobile and China Unicom. Linktone offers a diverse portfolio of fee-based short message service (SMS) services distributed on the second-generation (2G) mobile technology platform. The Company has grown its user base to approximately 5.6 million active users for December 2003, representing a 72.9% increase over the approximate 3.2 million active users for June 2003.
LIN Linens 'n Things, Inc. is a national large-format retailer of home textiles, housewares and home accessories operating 440 stores in 45 states and four Canadian provinces, as of the fiscal year ended January 3, 2004. The Company provides its guests with a one-stop shopping destination for their home furnishing needs by offering a selection of brand name linens such as bedding, towels, window treatments and table linens, and things such as housewares, home and decorative accessories. The Company offers a selection of brand-names as well as private label home furnishings merchandise. Its target customer is a woman between the ages of 25 and 55 who is fashion and brand conscious, has good to better income, and focuses on the home as a reflection of her individuality. The Company also sells merchandise under its own private label, LNT Home.
LLTC Linear Technology Corporation designs, manufactures and markets standard linear integrated circuits used in telecommunications, cellular telephones, networking products, notebook computers, computer peripherals, video/multimedia, industrial instrumentation, security monitoring devices, high-end consumer products, complex medical devices, automotive electronics, factory automation, process control, and military and space systems. Although the types and mix of linear products vary by application, the Company's principal product categories include amplifiers, high-speed amplifiers, voltage regulators, voltage references, interface circuits, data converters and radio frequency circuits. Linear Technology also markets other linear circuits such as buffers, battery monitors, motor controllers, hot swap circuits, comparators, sample-and-hold devices, drivers and filters, both switched capacitor and continuous time.
LNN Lindsay Manufacturing Co. is a designer and manufacturer of self-propelled center pivot and lateral move irrigation systems that are used principally in the agricultural industry to increase or stabilize crop production while conserving water, energy and labor. Lindsay markets its standard size center pivot and lateral move irrigation systems domestically and internationally under its Zimmatic brand. The Company also manufactures and markets separate lines of center pivot and lateral move irrigation equipment for use on smaller fields under its Greenfield and Stettyn brands, and hose reel travelers under the Perrot brand (Greenfield in the United States). It also produces irrigation controls and chemical injection systems, which it sells under its GrowSmart brand. In addition to whole systems, the Company manufactures and markets repair and replacement parts for its irrigation systems and controls.
LNC Lincoln National Corporation (LNC) is a holding company that operates multiple insurance and investment management businesses through subsidiary companies. The collective group of companies uses Lincoln Financial Group as its marketing identity. LNC's operations are divided into four business segments: Lincoln Retirement, Life Insurance, Investment Management and Lincoln UK. The Lincoln Retirement segment provides tax-deferred investment growth and lifetime income opportunities for its clients through the manufacture of fixed and variable annuities. The Life Insurance segment focuses on the creation and protection of wealth for its clients through the manufacture of life insurance products. The Investment Management segment provides investment products and services to both individual and institutional investors. Lincoln UK is primarily focused on retaining its existing customers and managing expenses for a closed-block of business in the United Kingdom.
LLOG.OB Lincoln Logs Ltd. is engaged in the business of designing, manufacturing and marketing a line of log and panelized homes to be erected by custom builders and do-it-yourself buyers. The Company planes cants are logs milled on four sides at its own manufacturing facilities in Chestertown, New York, and Maple Ridge, British Columbia. Lincoln delivers to its customers by truck trailer a weather-tight log home or panelized shell package, including logs or pre-engineered structural wall panels, prefabricated roof trusses, oriented strand board, dimensional lumber, windows, doors, roof shingles, nails, caulking, between-log sealant, blueprints and a construction guide. On August 29, 2003, Lincoln completed the acquisition of True Craft Log Structures, Ltd. and Hart and Son Industries, Ltd. On October 7, 2003, through its subsidiary AFI Acquisition Company LLC, purchased Adirondack Forest Industries, Inc. On November 17, 2003, it completed the acquisition of Snake River Log Homes LLC.
LECO Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. (Lincoln Electric) is the parent company of The Lincoln Electric Company and other Lincoln Electric subsidiaries. The Company, through its subsidiaries, is a full-line manufacturer and reseller of welding and cutting products. Welding products include arc welding power sources, wire feeding systems, robotic welding packages, fume extraction equipment, consumable electrodes and fluxes. Lincoln Electric's welding product offering also includes regulators and torches used in oxy-fuel welding and cutting. The arc welding power sources and wire feeding systems manufactured by the Company range in technology from basic units used for light manufacturing and maintenance to highly sophisticated machines for robotic applications, high-production welding and fabrication.
LNCB Lincoln Bancorp is a thrift holding company whose principal activity is the ownership and management of its wholly owned subsidiary, Lincoln Bank (the Bank). The Bank, formerly known as Lincoln Federal Savings Bank, operates under a federal thrift charter and provides banking services to customers located primarily in Central Indiana. As of December 31, 2003, the Bank conducted its business from nine offices located in Hendricks, Montgomery, Clinton, Johnson and Morgan Counties, Indiana, with its main office located in Plainfield. The Bank's principal business consists of attracting deposits from the general public and originating fixed-rate and adjustable-rate loans secured primarily by first mortgage liens on one- to four-family residential real estate and commercial property.
LNCR Lincare Holdings Inc., together with its subsidiaries (Lincare and the Company), is a provider of oxygen and other respiratory therapy services to patients in the home. The Company's customers suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), such as emphysema, chronic bronchitis or asthma and require supplemental oxygen or other respiratory therapy services in order to alleviate the symptoms and discomfort of respiratory dysfunction. Lincare serves over 480,000 customers in 47 states through 727 operating centers. The Company also supplies home medical equipment, such as hospital beds, wheelchairs and other supplies that may be required by its customers.
TVL LIN TV Corp. is a pure-play television company covering the United States and Puerto Rico. LIN TV's stations cover approximately 6.8% of United States television households and all of the 1.3 million television households in Puerto Rico. The Company operates eight very high frequency band (VHF) full-power television stations and 16 ultra high frequency band (UHF) full-power television stations, including two stations operated under local marketing agreements. LIN TV also owns and operates 27 low-power television stations, of which 21 have received Class A status. LIN TV has stations affiliated with eight networks: NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, the WB, UPN, Telefutura and Univision.
LTD Limited Brands, Inc. sells women's intimate apparel, personal care products and women's and men's apparel under various trade names through its specialty retail stores and direct response (catalog and e-commerce) businesses. Merchandise is targeted to appeal to customers in various market segments that have distinctive consumer characteristics. As of the close of fiscal year ending January 31, 2004 (fiscal 2003), the Company conducted its business in three primary segments: Victoria's Secret, Bath &amp; Body Works and the Apparel segment. In addition, Limited owns Henri Bendel, Inc., which operates a single specialty store in New York City that features fashions for sophisticated, higher-income women. The Company also owns Mast Industries, Inc., a contract manufacturer and apparel importer which purchases merchandise on behalf of the Company and certain third parties. During fiscal 2003, approximately 35% of its merchandise purchases was sourced through Mast.
LIHRY Lihir Gold Limited operates a single-mine company that produces gold dore (a mixture of gold and other metals) as its sole product. The gold is mined and processed on Lihir Island in Papua New Guinea. The ultimate pit shell contains approximately 740 million tons of material, of which approximately 130 million tons are proven and probable reserves and 610 million tons are waste, with an overall waste/ore stripping ratio of 4.7. After refining by AGR Matthey in Perth, Western Australia, the gold is sold on spot location in London through the international gold market or delivered into hedge contracts with selected hedge counter-parties, such as ABN-AMRO, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deutsche Bank, Macquarie Bank, SG Australia, Goldman Sachs, NM Rothschild and Sons (Australia) and Mitsui.
LPTH LightPath Technologies, Inc. (LightPath) manufactures optical components and higher level assemblies, including precision molded glass aspheric optics, isolators, fiber-optic collimators, GRADIUM glass lenses and other optical materials used to produce products that manipulate light. The Company designs, develops, manufactures and distributes optical components and assemblies utilizing advanced optical manufacturing processes. LightPath products are incorporated into a variety of applications in industries, such as defense products, medical devices, barcode scanners, optical data storage, hybrid fiber coax (datacom and telecom), machine vision and sensors. The Company introduced CircuLight lens technology and large-beam collimator during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004).
LTBG Lightbridge, Inc. develops, markets and supports a suite of products and services for communications providers and online businesses that supports the customer lifecycle. It offers its products and services in six broad solutions groups: customer qualification and acquisition, authentication services, risk management, consulting services, prepaid billing and mobile data management. Lightbridge's software-based solutions are delivered primarily on an outsourced or service bureau basis, which, together with its TeleServices offerings, comprise its transaction business. Its transaction-based solutions provide multiple remote systems access for workflow management, along with centrally managed client-specified business policies and links to client and third-party systems. The Company also derives revenues from software licensing, consulting and maintenance services and hardware sales. In addition, it provides solutions to wireline carriers and non-carrier clients.
LGND Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated discovers, develops and markets drugs that address patients' medical needs in the areas of cancer, pain, men's and women's health or hormone-related health issues, skin diseases, osteoporosis and metabolic, cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases. Its drug discovery and development programs are based on proprietary gene transcription technology, primarily related to Intracellular Receptors, also known as IRs, a type of sensor or switch inside cells that turns genes on and off, and Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription, also known as STATs, which are another type of gene switch. The Company's wholly owned subsidiaries are Glycomed Incorporated, Ligand Pharmaceuticals (Canada) Incorporated, Ligand Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. and Seragen, Inc. (Seragen).
LWAY Lifeway Foods, Inc. manufactures probiotic, cultured, functional dairy and non-dairy health food products. The Company's products are Kefir, a drinkable dairy beverage similar to, but distinct from, yogurt, in several flavors sold under the name Lifeway Kefir; a line of drinkable yogurts sold under the La Fruta and Tuscan brands, and BasicsPlus, a dairy based immune-supporting dietary supplement beverage. Lifeway also produces several soy-based kefir beverages under the SoyTreat trademark. In addition to the drinkable products, the Company manufactures Lifeway Farmer Cheese, a line of farmer cheese, and Sweet Kiss, a fruit sugar-flavored spreadable cheese similar in consistency to cream cheese. It also manufactures and markets a vegetable-based seasoning under the Golden Zesta brand.
LCUT Lifetime Hoan Corporation designs, markets and distributes a range of consumer products in the home, including kitchen tools and gadgets, household cutlery and cutting boards, bakeware and hostess accessories, pantryware and decorative bath accessory products. The Company promotes and markets products under both owned and licensed trade names. Owned trade names include Hoffritz, Roshco, Baker's Advantage, Kamenstein, Casa Moda, Hoan, Tristar, Gemco, :USE and Old Homestead. Licensed trade names include Farberware, KitchenAid, Cuisinart and various names under license from The Pillsbury Company. During the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. accounted for approximately 29%, 20% and 18% of net sales, respectively. The Company has over 600 items that were developed or remodeled in 2003. In November 2003, Lifetime Hoan acquired the assets of Gemco Ware, Inc., a distributor of functional glassware products for storing and dispensing food and condiments.
LFTC.OB Lifestream Technologies, Inc. markets an proprietary over-the-counter (OTC), total cholesterol monitoring device for at-home use by both health-conscious and at-risk consumers. Its consumer device enables an individual, through regular at-home monitoring of their total cholesterol level, to continually assess their susceptibility to developing cardiovascular disease, the single largest cause of premature death and permanent disability among adult men and women in the United States. The Company introduced its consumer device to the retail marketplace in October 2002. The Company's customers primarily consists of national and regional drug store chains and, to a lesser extent, pharmacy-featuring grocery store chains, specialty catalog and Internet-based direct marketers and independent pharmacies.
LFP LifePoint, Inc. is a medical technology company that develops, manufactures and markets the LifePoint IMPACT Test System, a rapid diagnostic testing and screening device for use in the workplace, home healthcare, ambulances, pharmacies and law enforcement. On February 26, 2002, the Company released the IMPACT Test System for sale to the international and domestic forensic markets. Since its release, there have been a number of engineering improvements and retrofitting of the products in the field. The IMPACT Test System is a proprietary system that generates almost immediate, diagnostic results for a broad variety of substances by non-invasively testing saliva. The first product tests for a variety of substances of abuse, specifically for the following five commonly used drugs of abuse: cocaine, opiates (such as heroin and morphine), phencyclidine, amphetamine (including methamphetamine) and tetrahydrocannabinol (marijuana), and/or alcohol.
LPNT LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. is engaged primarily in the operation and management of healthcare facilities, in particular, general, acute care hospitals in non-urban communities in the United States. Through its hospitals, the Company provides a range of healthcare services, including medical and surgical services, as well as outpatient and ancillary services such as rehabilitation, radiology, respiratory therapy. Its hospitals receive payment for patient services from the federal government primarily under the Medicare program, state governments under their respective Medicaid programs, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), preferred provider organizations (PPOs) and other private insurers, as well as directly from patients. In 2003, Outpatient revenues represented 49.7% of the Company's total revenues. As of December 31, 2003, LifePoint Hospitals operated 29 general, acute care hospitals with an aggregate of 2,737 licensed beds.
LIFE Lifeline Systems, Inc. provides 24-hour personal response monitoring services associated with its products to subscribers, primarily elderly individuals, with medical or age-related conditions, as well as physically challenged individuals. The Company's products consist principally of a communicator that connects to the telephone line in the subscriber's home and a personal help button that is worn or carried by the individual subscriber and, which, when activated, initiates a telephone call from the subscriber's communicator to its central monitoring facilities. In July 2003, the Company completed the acquisition of the assets of the Emergency Response Systems business unit of March Networks Corporation, a privately held developer of broadband Internet protocol (IP) applications and delivery platforms.
LCBM Lifecore Biomedical, Inc. manufactures biomaterials and medical devices for use in various surgical markets. The Company operates two divisions, the Hyaluronan Division and the Oral Restorative Division. The Company's Hyaluronan Division is principally involved in the development and manufacture of products utilizing hyaluronan, a naturally occurring polysaccharide that is widely distributed in the extracellar matrix of connective issues in both animals and humans. Its Oral Restorative Division develops and markets precision surgical and prosthetic devices for the restoration of damaged or deteriorating dentition and associated support tissues. Lifecore's dental implants are permanently implanted in the jaw for tooth replacement therapy as long-term support for crowns, bridges and dentures.
LIFC LifeCell Corporation develops and markets products made from human allograft tissue for use in reconstructive, urogynecologic and orthopedic surgical procedures. The Company markets a range of tissue-based products: AlloDerm, is a regenerative tissue matrix for plastic reconstructive, general surgical, burn and periodontal procedures; Cymetra, is a version of AlloDerm in particulate form; Repliform, is a regenerative tissue matrix for urogynecologic procedures; Graft Jacket, is a regenerative tissue matrix for orthopedic applications, and AlloCraft DBM, is a regenerative tissue matrix for bone grafting procedures. The Company also distributes cryopreserved allograft skin for use as a temporary wound dressing in the treatment of burns. LifeCell's development programs include the potential application of its tissue matrix technology to vascular and orthopedic tissue repair and for investigation of human tissues as carriers for therapeutics.
LTM Life Time Fitness, Inc. operates large sports, athletic, fitness and family recreation centers under the Life Time Fitness brand. The Company designs and develops its own centers, and focuses on providing its members and customers with products and services in the areas of exercise, education and nutrition. As of June 5, 2004, the Company operated 34 centers primarily in suburban locations across eight states. In addition to traditional health club offerings, most of its centers include an expansive selection of premium amenities and services, such as indoor swimming pools with water slides, basketball and racquet courts, interactive and entertaining child centers, full-service spas and dining services, and, in many cases, climbing walls and outdoor swimming pools.
LPHI Life Partners Holdings, Inc. is the parent company of Life Partners, Inc. (LPI). LPI is a viatical settlement company in the United States. To supplement LPI's viatical business, the Company has expanded its operations and services to include life settlement transactions. LPI conducts its business under the registered service mark of Life Partners. The Company's revenues are principally derived from fees for facilitating the purchase of viatical settlement contracts. A viatical settlement is the sale of a life insurance policy by a terminally ill person to another party. By selling the policy, the insured (a viator) receives an immediate cash payment to use as he or she wishes. The purchaser takes an ownership interest in the policy at a discount to its face value and receives the death benefit under the policy when the viator dies.
CHAI.OB Life Medical Sciences, Inc. is a biomaterials company engaged in the development and commercialization of medical products for therapeutic applications. The products it is developing, all of which are based on its bioresorbable polymer technology, are medical devices designed to prevent or reduce the formation of adhesions (scar tissue) following a broad range of surgical procedures. The Company's product development efforts are focused on its lead product, REPEL-CV, a bioresorbable adhesion barrier intended for use in cardiac surgery. The polymers, derived from the Company's polymer technology, are biocompatible and have potential medical applications such as resorbable sutures, stents, coatings for implantable devices and drug delivery systems. The post-operative adhesive products of the Company include REPEL-CV, REPEL, RESOLVE and RELIEVE.
LSSI.OB Liberty Self-Stor, Inc. is a self-managed real estate investment trust that manages, acquires, develops, expands and operates self-storage facilities. As of December 31, 2003, it owned and operated 19 self-storage facilities consisting of 875,968 square feet of inside rentable storage, situated in two states, Ohio and New York. The Company owns 100% fee interest in each of the self-storage facilities, some of which are in Avon, Canton, Catawba, Cleveland, Dayton, East Canton, East Liverpool, Perry, Ravenna, Westlake, Willoughby, Leuer Avenue, Louisville, Painesville, Southhold, Endicott, Riverhead, Mentor and Springfield. The average occupancy at the facilities increased to 74.10% and the average annual rental rate per occupied square foot increased 1.84%.
LRY Liberty Property Trust is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust with interests in the Mid-Atlantic, Southeastern, and Midwestern United States and in the United Kingdom. The Company provides leasing, property management, development and other tenant-related services for its properties in operation. As of December 31, 2003, its portfolio consists of 673 industrial and office properties totaling about 53.7 million square feet. In addition, it has 15 properties under development and owns 1,079 acres of land, substantially all zoned for commercial use. The Company also owns interests in five joint ventures that hold interests in 30 properties and 53 acres of developable land. Largely, these properties are located in business locations within established business communities. Substantially all of the Company's assets and operations are owned and conducted directly or indirectly by its principal subsidiary, Liberty Property Limited Partnership.
LBTYA Liberty Media International, Inc. is a holding company, which, through its ownership of interests in subsidiaries and affiliates, provides broadband distribution services and video programming services to subscribers in Europe, Japan, Australia and Latin America. The Company's business segments include broadband distribution services and video programming networks. The Company offers a variety of broadband distribution services over cable television systems, including analog video, digital video, Internet access and telephony. Its programming networks distribute services through a number of distribution technologies, principally cable television and DTH (direct-to-home).
L Liberty Media Corporation owns interests in companies that are primarily engaged in electronic retaining, international cable television distribution, telephony and programming, and the production, acquisition and distribution through all available formats and media of branded entertainment, educational and informational programming and software. Liberty also owns interests in companies that are engaged in ventures such as interactive commerce via the Internet, television and telephone; domestic cable and satellite broadband distribution services, and wireless domestic telephony. The Company's principal assets include interests in QVC, Inc., Starz Encore Group LLC, Ascent Media Group, Inc., Discovery Communications, Inc., UnitedGlobalCom, Inc., Jupiter Telecommunications Co., Ltd., Court Television Network, Game Show Network, InterActiveCorp and The News Corporation Limited. Through its affiliated companies, the Company operates in the United States, Europe, South America and Asia.
LBY Libbey Inc. supplies tableware products in the United States, Canada and the Netherlands, and exports its products to 75 other countries. Libbey designs and manufactures a line of machine-made glass beverageware, glass tableware, ceramic dinnerware and plastic items to a group of customers in the foodservice, retail, industrial and premium areas. The products are marketed primarily under the brand names LIBBEY, Royal Leerdam, Syracuse China and Traex. It also imports and distributes various products including flatware, holloware and ceramic dinnerware. Libbey conducts its business principally through its subsidiaries. The Company also has a 49% interest in Vitrocrisa Holding, S. de R.L. de C.V and related Mexican companies (Vitrocrisa). Libbey holds exclusive distribution rights for Vitrocrisa's glass tableware products under the Crisa brand name in the United States and Canada, while Vitrocrisa holds exclusive distribution rights for Libbey's glass tableware products in Latin America.
LPL LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd. (LG.Philips) is a merchant supplier of large-size, thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels. The Company manufactures TFT-LCD panels in a broad range of sizes and specifications, primarily for use in notebook computers, desktop monitors and televisions, and supplies high-definition television panels. It also manufactures TFT-LCDs for handheld consumer electronics products, such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), as well as for industrial and other applications, such as entertainment systems, automobile navigation systems, aircraft instrumentation and medical diagnostic equipment. During the year ended December 31, 2003, LG.Philips sold a total of 20.9 million large-size, TFT-LCD panels.
LXK Lexmark International, Inc. is a developer, manufacturer and supplier of printing solutions, including laser and inkjet printers, associated supplies and services. The Company offers home printing services, services for small and medium-sized business, as well as large enterprises, and services for the government and education sector. It operates two primary segments: the Consumer Printer Division and the Printing Solutions &amp; Services Division. The Consumer Printer Division is a developer and manufacturer of color inkjet printing solutions for photo enthusiasts, professionals and novice consumers. The Printing Solutions &amp; Services Division is a provider of printing and document workflow solutions for businesses and institutional customers, both small and large, addressing their paper and document-related challenges. The Company offers products and services in more than 150 countries.
LEXP.OB Lexington Precision Corporation manufactures rubber and metal components that are sold to other manufacturers. The Company operates in the United States through its two segments: the Rubber Group and the Metals Group. Lexington's principal raw materials are silicone and organic rubber compounds, aluminum ingots and aluminum, steel, and brass bars. Lexington's largest customer is Delphi Corporation. During the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, its net sales to Delphi represented 20.2%, 20.2% and 19.3%, respectively, of the Company's net sales. In 2003, net sales of the Rubber Group accounted for 84.9% of the Company's consolidated net sales. Metals Group accounted for 15.1% of the Company's total net sales.
LXP Lexington Corporate Properties Trust is a self-managed and self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) that acquires, owns and manages a geographically diverse portfolio of net leased office, industrial and retail properties and provides investment advisory and asset management services to institutional investors in the net lease area. As of December 31, 2003, the Company's real property portfolio consisted of 118 properties or interests therein located in 35 states, including warehousing, distribution and manufacturing facilities, office buildings and retail properties containing an aggregate 23.0 million net rentable square feet of space. In addition, Lexington Realty Advisors, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Lexington, manages two properties for a third party. As of December 31, 2003, 98.8% of net rentable square feet of the Company's properties were subject to a lease.
LEXG Lexicon Genetics Incorporated is focused on the discovery of treatment for human diseases. The Company is using gene knockout technology to discover the physiological functions of genes in living mammals (in vivo). Lexicon Genetics generates its discoveries using knockout mice, whose deoxyribonucleic acid has been altered to disrupt or knock out the function of the altered gene. In addition, the Company employs an integrated platform of advanced medical technologies, medicinal chemistry technology, as well as Omnibank Library and Lexvision Database for its drug discovery activities. Lexicon Genetics focuses its discovery efforts in six therapeutic areas: diabetes and obesity, cardiovascular disease, psychiatric and neurological disorders, cancer, immune system disorders and ophthalmic disease. The Company is working both independently and through strategic collaborations and alliances to commercialize its technology and turn its discoveries into drugs.
LEXR Lexar Media, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets high-performance digital media that the Company markets as digital film, as well as other flash-based storage products for consumer markets that utilize flash memory for the capture and retrieval of digital content for the digital photography, consumer electronics, industrial and communications markets. To address the market for compact digital data and media storage solutions, the Company also markets its JumpDrive products, which are high-speed, portable universal serial bus (USB) flash drives for consumer applications that serve a variety of uses, including floppy disk replacement. In addition, Lexar Media markets a variety of connectivity products that link its media products to personal computers (PCs) and other electronic host devices. Lexar also licenses its controller technology and sell controllers to other manufacturers of flash storage media.
LEV Levitt Corporation was a wholly owned subsidiary of BankAtlantic Bancorp, Inc, a financial services holding company, until it was spun-off in December 2003. The Company develops single-family home and master-planned communities, but it also develops commercial and industrial properties and multi-family complexes. Its principal real estate activities are conducted through Levitt and Sons, LLC (Levitt and Sons), the Company's wholly owned homebuilding subsidiary, and Core Communities, LLC (Core Communities), its wholly owned community development subsidiary. In addition, the Company owns 38% of publicly traded Bluegreen Corporation (Bluegreen) that acquires, develops, markets and sells vacation ownership interests in drive-to vacation resorts and residential home sites around golf courses or other amenities.
LVEL.OB Level 8 Systems, Inc. is a global provider of business integration software that enables organizations to integrate new and existing information and processes at the desktop. The Company's principal product, Cicero, maximizes end user productivity, streamlines business operations and integrates disparate systems and applications. The software product addresses the emerging need for a company's information systems to deliver enterprise-wide views of the company's business information processes. The Company's initial target markets for Cicero are the customer contact centers of large consumer oriented businesses such as in the financial services, insurance and telecommunications industries. In addition to its software product, Level 8 also provides technical support, training and consulting services, which are offered around its integration software products.
LVLT Level 3 Communications, Inc. is engaged primarily in the communications and information services businesses. The Company is a facilities-based provider of a range of integrated communications services, including voice, private line, wavelengths, colocation, Internet access, managed modem, data and dark fiber. It primarily provides services over its own facilities. In April 2004, the Company acquired the wholesale dial access business of ICG Communications, Inc., a Denver-based communications company. This business provides dial-up Internet access to America Online, EarthLink, MSN, United Online and other Internet service providers.
LUK Leucadia National Corporation is a diversified holding company that through its subsidiaries is engaged in a variety of businesses, including telecommunications, healthcare services, banking and lending, manufacturing, real estate activities, winery operations and property and casualty reinsurance, principally in markets in the United States, and development of a copper mine in Spain. The Company's assets principally consist of the stock of its direct subsidiaries, cash and cash equivalents and other non-controlling investments in debt and equity securities.
LSCO LESCO, Inc. is a provider of products for the professional turf care segment of the green industry. It manages the business through two business segments: Selling that includes its LESCO Service Centers, Stores-on-Wheels and direct sales representatives and other direct sales efforts and Support, which includes all corporate, manufacturing and warehousing activities. The Company sells an array of consumable turf care products to the green industry, including fertilizer and combination products, control products, equipment, parts and service, turfgrass seed and pest control products. These products are marketed under the LESCO name and LESCO branded names. In addition, it sells a diverse line of turf products under suppliers' brand names.
LII Lennox International Inc. (LII) is a global provider of climate control solutions. The Company designs, manufactures and markets a broad range of products for the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR) markets. LII's products and services are sold through multiple distribution channels under brand names, including Lennox, Armstrong Air, Ducane, Bohn, Larkin, Advanced Distributor Products, Service Experts and others. The Company operates in four segments: residential heating and cooling, commercial heating and cooling, total heating and cooling service experts, and refrigeration.
LEN Lennar Corporation operates as a homebuilder and a provider of financial services in the United States. Its homebuilding operations include the sale and construction of single-family attached and detached homes, as well as the purchase, development and sale of residential land directly and through unconsolidated partnerships. As of November 30, 2003, Lennar's market regions consisted of homebuilding divisions in Florida, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Illinois, Minnesota, California, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada. The Company's financial services subsidiaries provide mortgage financing, title insurance, closing services and insurance agency services for both buyers of Lennar's homes and other buyers. These subsidiaries also provide high-speed Internet access, cable television and alarm installation and monitoring services to residents of communities the Company develops and other communities.
LEH Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is a global investment bank, serving institutional, corporate, government and high-net-worth individual clients and customers. Its business includes capital raising for clients through securities underwriting and direct placements, corporate finance and strategic advisory services, securities sales and trading, research, the trading of foreign exchange and derivative products and certain commodities, asset management for high-net-worth and institutional clients and private equity investments. The Company acts as a market maker in all major equity and fixed-income products in both the United States and international markets. Lehman Brothers is a member of all principal securities and commodities exchanges in the United States, as well as NASD, Inc., and holds memberships or associate memberships on several principal international securities and commodities exchanges, including the London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Paris and Milan stock exchanges.
LEG Leggett &amp; Platt, Inc. is a diversified manufacturer that conceives, designs and produces a range of engineered components and products. Its business is organized into five segments. The Residential Furnishings segment supplies components for bedding, furniture and other furnishings, as well as related consumer products. The Commercial Fixturing and Components segment offers retail store fixtures, displays, storage, material handling systems, components for office and institutional furnishings and plastic components. The Aluminum Products segment revenues are derived from die castings, custom tooling, secondary machining and coating, and smelting of aluminum ingot. The Industrial Materials segment supplies drawn steel wire, specialty wire products and welded steel tubing. The Specialized Products segment offers machinery, manufacturing equipment, automotive seating suspensions, control cable systems and lumbar supports for automotive, office and residential applications.
LM Legg Mason, Inc. is a holding company, that is engaged in providing services to individuals, institutions, corporations, governments and government agencies. The services are asset management, securities brokerage, investment banking and other related financial services. The Company operates through three business segments: Asset Management segment provides investment advisory services to institutional and individual clients and company-sponsored investment funds; Private Clientbusiness segment distributes a wide range of financial products through its branch distribution network, including equity and fixed income securities, and non-affiliated mutual funds and annuities, and Capital Markets segment consists equity and fixed income institutional sales and trading; investment banking; syndicate; structured products, and research. The Corporate Business segment consists of unallocated corporate revenues and expenses.
LGMB.OB Legend Mobile, Inc. is a developer and marketer of branded mobile phone products including faceplates, phone accessories, short message service (SMS) services and mobile data applications. Legend Mobile is derives revenue from the sale of mobile phone products and services. In addition, though its subsidiary, Legend Studios, the Company operates eight radio stations in Virginia, West Virginia, Missouri and Mississippi. The stations are identified by the call letters KELE AM, KELE FM, KOZK FM, WIOQ FM, WKEY AM, WSLW AM, WKCJ FM and WQMS AM. Through its subsidiary, Legend Credit Inc., the Company develops and markets branded stored value cards including reloadable debit cards and single-use gift cards. Legend Mobile markets the Hello Kitty Reloadable Debit Mastercard.
LPLE.OB Legalplay Entertainment Inc. (formerly Poker.com, Inc) entered into an Asset Purchase &amp; Assignment Agreement with Blue Diamond International Capital Inc. of Switzerland for the acquisition of all inventions in connection with a patent application for a method of determining skill in a tournament setting and several Internet domain names in connection with the same in February 2003. In March 2003, the Company entered into a Master License Agreement with Pokersoft Corporation A.V.V. (Pokersoft) for the purpose of the development of the Skill Poker system based on the Company's patent pending technology. Accordingly, during the Company's year ended December 31, 2003, it entered a number of agreements for the development of its Skill Poker system and for acquisitions of inventions connected to the Company's business.
LBOH.OB The Legacy Bank is a banking company providing personal and business lending and deposit services. The Company offers banking services including business services, personal services, cash management, asset management and online services. It also operates The Legacy Trust Company, a wholly owned subsidiary, which offers a consultative approach to the delivery of trust, asset management and investment services for the business owner, their employees and the traditional fiduciary market.
FLPB Leesport Financial Corp. is a financial holding company that offers an array of financial services through its various subsidiaries. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's wholly owned subsidiaries are Leesport Bank, Essick &amp; Barr, LLC, Leesport Investment Group, LLC (LIG), Leesport Wealth Management, LLC (LWM), First Leesport Capital Trust I and Leesport Capital Trust II. The Bank provides full banking services to customers in Pennsylvania. Essick &amp; Barr provides risk management services and personal and commercial insurance coverage through several insurance companies. LIG and LWM provide investment advisory and brokerage services. First Leesport Capital Trust I and Leesport Capital Trust II are trusts formed for the purpose of issuing the mandatory redeemable debentures on behalf of the Company.
LPHM.OB Lee Pharmaceuticals develops, purchases, manufactures and markets consumer personal care products and dental products. The Company's business is directed to two main areas: the development and marketing of a range of consumer products, including over-the-counter items, health and beauty aids, cosmetics and prescription drug products, which accounted for 98% of the Company's revenue, during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), and the manufacture and sale of materials and supplies for use in the professional dental health field. Lee manufactures and sells lip balm, lip gloss, hair removal products, antacid tablets, nasal care products, artificial fingernail extenders and related fingernail products, among others. Its dental product line consists of restorative materials, Beta Quartz glass ceramic inserts, splints, orthodontic brackets, Maryland bridge adhesives, enamel and dentin bonding materials and related products.
LEE Lee Enterprises, Incorporated, directly, and through its ownership of associated companies, publishes 44 daily newspapers in 18 states and nearly 200 weekly, classified and specialty publications, along with associated online services. More than 70% of its revenue is derived from advertising. Lee has five major categories of advertising revenue: retail advertising, national advertising, classified advertising, niche publications and online advertising. After advertising, circulation is its largest source of revenue. For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), daily circulation of newspapers owned in both 2003 and 2002, as measured by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), decreased 0.1% and Sunday circulation increased 0.5%. Lee also offers commercial printing services. Lee also owns 81% of an Internet service company (Townnews.com), which provides Web infrastructure for more than 800 small daily and weekly newspapers and shoppers.
LECT.OB LecTec Corporation is a healthcare and consumer products company that develops, manufactures and markets products based on its skin interface technologies. The products include a line of over-the-counter (OTC) therapeutic patches and a line of skin care products. LecTec markets and sells its products to consumers through other healthcare consumer products companies and retail outlets, such as food, chain drug and mass merchandise stores, as well as directly from the Internet. The Company's focus is on a skin-interface hydrogel technology, which is beneficial to treating temporary aliments, including minor aches and pains, as well as coughs and sore throats, through the topical delivery of OTC pharmaceuticals on the skin. The adhesive characteristics, dimensions, drug stability, shelf life and manufacturability of the Company's products are consistent and reproducible from product to product.
LCRY LeCroy Corporation provides oscilloscopes, as well as a related test and measurement equipment, and operates as one business segment in the Test and Measurement market. The Company's oscilloscopes are tools used by designers and engineers to measure and analyze complex electronic signals in order to develop high-performance systems to validate electronic designs and to improve time to market. The Company offers four families of oscilloscopes, WaveMaster, WavePro, WaveRunner and WaveSurfer, which address different solutions to the markets it serve. Each oscilloscope model is capable of capturing and analyzing electronic signals at different bandwidth and performance points in the market. The Company sells its products into a broad range of end markets, including the computer and semiconductor; data storage devices; automotive and industrial, and military and aerospace markets. In October 2004, the Company acquired Computer Access Technology Corporation.
XPRT LECG Corporation is a provider of expert services. The Company's credentialed experts and professional staff conduct economic and financial analyses to provide objective opinions and advice that help resolve disputes and inform legislative, judicial, regulatory and business decision makers. It provides independent expert testimony, original authoritative studies and strategic advice to clients that include data collection, factual and statistical analyses and report preparation. The Company's experts are renowned academics, former senior government officials, experienced industry leaders and seasoned consultants. Its clients include Fortune Global 500 corporations, major law firms and local, state and federal governments and agencies in the United States and abroad.
LTRE Learning Tree International, Inc. is a worldwide vendor-independent provider of training to information technology (IT) professionals and managers working in business and government organizations. Learning Tree has provided high-quality training to over 1,500,000 IT professionals and managers. In the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Learning Tree provided training to over 87,000 course participants. Learning Tree offers a broad, library of intensive instructor-led courses from two to five days in length, comprising 146 different course titles representing over 3,600 hours of training at October 1, 2004. Learning Tree courses focus on Web development, operating systems, programming languages, databases, computer networks, computer and network security, object-oriented technology, project management, leadership and professional development, and other key business skills.
LCGI Learning Care Group, Inc., formerly Childtime Learning Centers, Inc., is a provider of early childhood care and educational services in the United States that conducts business through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Childtime Childcare, Inc. and Tutor Time Learning Centers, L.L.C. The Company provides center-based educational services and childcare to children between the ages of six weeks and 12 years under two distinct brand identities: Learning Care Group (Childtime) and Tutor Time Child Care/Learning Centers (Tutor Time). During the fiscal year ended April 2, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Childtime Learning operated or franchised a total of 470 centers system-wide under three major lines of business, and had system-wide licensed capacity capable of serving over 50,000 children.
LEA Lear Corporation is an automotive interior systems supplier. It has capabilities in all five principal segments of the automotive interior market: seat systems, flooring and acoustic systems, door panels, instrument panels and cockpit systems, and overhead systems. The Company is also a global supplier of automotive electronic and electrical distribution systems. As a result of these capabilities, Lear can offer its customers fully integrated automotive interiors, including electronic and electrical distribution systems. As a total interior integrator, the Company works closely with the customer on the design and is responsible for the engineering, component/module sourcing, manufacturing and delivery of automotive interiors. The Company's customers include automotive manufacturers such as General Motors, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, BMW, Fiat, PSA, Volkswagen, Renault/Nissan, Toyota and Subaru.
LF LeapFrog Enterprises Inc. is a designer, developer and marketer of technology-based educational products and related proprietary content. LeapFrog designs its products to help infants and toddlers through high school students learn age- and skill-appropriate subject matter, including phonics, reading, writing, math, spelling, science, geography, history and music. LeapFrog's product line includes learning platforms, which are portable, affordable hardware devices; educational software-based content, such as interactive books and cartridges, specifically designed for use with LeapFrog's learning platforms, and stand-alone educational products. The Company also has a SchoolHouse division, which focuses on developing supplemental curriculum and assessment programs for pre-kindergarten to eighth grade classrooms to schools, teacher supply stores and educational products catalogs in the United States.
LEAP.OB Leap Wireless International, Inc., headquartered in San Diego, is a customer-focused company providing mobile wireless services that are targeted to meet the needs of customers who are under served by traditional communications companies. Leap's Cricket service is a simple and affordable wireless alternative to traditional landline service. The Cricket service offers customers unlimited anytime minutes within the Cricket calling area over an all-digital code division multiple access (CDMA) network. Operating in 39 markets in 20 states stretching from New York to California, the Cricket service is available to customers in more than 840 different municipalities. In April 2003, Leap, Cricket and substantially all of their subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 in the United States Bankruptcy Court. The Company's plan of reorganization was confirmed by the Bankruptcy Court in October 2003. In August 2004, the Company emerged from Chapter 11.
LPTC.OB Le@p Technology, Inc. is engaged in investigating and consummating investment and acquisition opportunities. The Company may, from time to time, consider investment or acquisition opportunities. Le@p may also make acquisitions or investments outside of its normal business plan in order to achieve other objectives, including avoidance of regulation as an investment company.
LDIS Leadis Technology, Inc. designs, develops and markets mixed-signal semiconductors that enable and enhance the features and capabilities of small-panel displays. The Company's core products are color display drivers with integrated controllers, which are critical components of displays used in mobile consumer electronics devices. It sells display drivers, which are the critical semiconductor components that enable the display's functionality, to display module manufacturers serving the wireless handset market. The Company's customers are global wireless handset manufacturers, including LG Electronics Inc., Nokia Corporation and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Leadis' top two customers, Philips Mobile Display Systems and Samsung NEC Mobile Display, accounted for approximately 75.9% and 23.4% of its revenue, respectively.
LBIX Leading Brands, Inc. is engaged in beverage bottling, distribution, sales, merchandising, brand development, brand licensing and brand management of beverage and food products throughout most of North America. Originally a direct-to-store distributor of soft drinks, the Company evolved into an integrated bottling and distribution operation. In the fiscal year ended February 29, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Leading Brands of Canada, Inc. was the principal operating subsidiary engaged in the Company's food and beverage business, and Leading Brands of America, Inc. was the principal sales subsidiary in the United States. Substantially all of the Company's operations, assets and employees are located in Canada. In fiscal 2004, export sales were less than 15% of the Company's revenues.
LCNB.OB LCNB Corp. is a financial holding company engaged in the commercial banking and insurance agency businesses through its subsidiaries, Lebanon Citizens National Bank and Dakin Insurance Agency, Inc. Lebanon Citizens is a full-service community bank offering a range of commercial and personal banking services. It operates through 17 branch offices located in Warren, Butler, Clinton, Clermont, and Hamilton Counties, Ohio. In addition, Lebanon Citizens operates 29 automated teller machines (ATMs) in its market area. Dakin has been an independent insurance agency in Lebanon, Ohio, since 1876. Since being acquired by LCNB on April 11, 2000, Dakin has opened additional offices in Lebanon Citizens' Columbus Avenue, Waynesville, Springboro, Maineville, Goshen and Wilmington offices.
LCCI LCC International, Inc. is an independent provider of integrated end-to-end solutions for wireless voice and data communications networks, with offerings ranging from high level technical consulting, to system design and turnkey deployment, to ongoing operations and maintenance services. The Company has delivered wireless network solution services to more than 350 customers in over 50 countries. The Company offers to its wireless customers a range of wireless network services, including high level technical consulting, design services, deployment services and ongoing operations and maintenance services. In 2003, it derived 30.4% of its revenues from projects involving second generation (2G) technology, 20.5% of revenues from projects involving second and a half (2.5G) technology, 44.8% of revenues from projects involving third generation (3G) technology and 4.3% of revenues from projects involving other technologies.
LCAV LCA-Vision Inc. (LCA) is a developer and operator of fixed-site, laser vision correction centers under the brand name LasikPlus. The Company's vision centers provide the staff, facilities, equipment and support services for performing laser vision corrections that employ advanced laser technologies to help correct nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. LCA utilizes fixed-site excimer lasers manufactured by Bausch &amp; Lomb, VISX and Alcon. Its vision centers are supported mainly by full-time, board-certified ophthalmologists and optometrists, as well as other healthcare professionals. The ophthalmologists perform the laser vision correction procedures in the Company's vision centers, and either ophthalmologists or optometrists generally carry out the pre-procedure evaluations and post-procedure follow-ups in-center. LCA has performed over 300,000 laser vision correction procedures in its vision centers in the United States and Canada since 1991.
FSTR L. B. Foster Company (Foster) is engaged in the manufacture, fabrication and distribution of products for transportation infrastructure. The Company's activities are classified into three business segments: Rail products, Construction products and Tubular products. For rail markets, the Company provides a line of new and used rail, trackwork and accessories to railroads, mines and industry. For the construction industry, it sells steel sheet, H-bearing and pipe piling and rents steel-sheet piling for foundation and earth retention requirements. For tubular markets, Foster supplies pipe coatings for natural gas pipelines and utilities. Foster markets its rail, construction and tubular products directly in industrial areas of the United States. It maintains 16 sales offices and 14 plants or warehouses nationwide. During the year ended December 31, 2003, approximately 5% of the Company's total sales were of exports.
LZB La-Z-Boy Incorporated is a residential furniture manufacturer/producer in the United States and also a reclining-chair and upholstered furniture manufacturer. The Company also manufactures and imports casegoods, such as wood and furniture products from outside the United States for resale in North America. La-Z-Boy is also a producer of furniture for every room of the home, as well as for the office, hospitality, healthcare and assisted-living industries. The Company's two segments are the Upholstery Group, which manufactures and distributes upholstered furniture and the Casegoods Group, which manufactures and distributes mainly wood furniture. The La-Z-Boy Upholstery Group companies are Bauhaus, Clayton Marcus, England, La-Z-Boy, La-Z-Boy Contract, La-Z-Boy United Kingdom and Sam Moore. The La-Z-Boy Casegoods Group companies are American Drew, American of Martinsville, Hammary, Kincaid, Lea and Pennsylvania House.
LKI Lazare Kaplan International Inc. is engaged in the cutting, polishing and sales of ideally proportioned diamonds internationally under the brand name of Lazare Diamonds. Ideally proportioned diamonds are distinguished from non-ideal cut (commercial) diamonds by the symmetrical relationship of their facets, which optimize the balance of brilliance, sparkle and fire in a polished diamond. In addition, through a cooperative agreement with a Russian diamond mining company, the Company cuts and polishes commercial diamonds at diamond cutting facilities in Russia, which is marketed to wholesalers, distributors, as well as retail jewelers. Lazare Kaplan markets its diamonds throughout the United States, South America, the Far East and Europe. Lazare Kaplan also designs, manufactures (through independent contractors) and sells a line of high-quality jewelry, which features Lazare Diamonds.
LAYN Layne Christensen Company provides drilling services and related products and services in four principal markets: water resources, mineral exploration, geoconstruction and energy. The Company customers include municipalities, industrial companies, mining companies, consulting and engineering firms and oil and gas companies located principally in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Africa and South America. It operates on a decentralized basis, with approximately 80 sales and operations offices located in most regions of the United States, as well as in Australia, Africa, Mexico and Italy. In addition, the Company's foreign affiliates operate out of locations in South America and Mexico.
LWSN Lawson Software, Inc. (Lawson) provides business application software, services and support to specific service industries. The Company's software includes financials, human resources, procurement, healthcare supply chain, distribution, retail operations, service process optimization and enterprise performance management applications designed to help manage, analyze and improve its client's businesses. It's software applications automate and integrate critical business processes, facilitating collaboration among its clients and their partners, suppliers and employees. The Company has more than 2,000 clients, primarily in markets, such as healthcare, government and education, retail, financial services, including banking, insurance and other financial services, and professional services. The Company's software is comprised of core business applications; enterprise performance management applications, and software extension tools.
LAWS Lawson Products, Inc. is a seller and distributor of systems, services and products. The Company also manufactures and distributes production and specialized component parts to the original equipment manufacturer marketplace. The Company offers to customers over 900,000 expendable maintenance, repair and replacement products. These products may be divided into three broad categories: Fasteners, Fittings and Related Parts, such as screws, nuts, rivets and other fasteners; Industrial Supplies, such as hoses and hose fittings, lubricants, cleansers, adhesives and other chemicals, as well as files, drills, welding products and other shop supplies, and Automotive and Equipment Maintenance Parts, such as primary wiring, connectors and other electrical supplies, exhaust and other automotive parts.
LENF.OB Law Enforcement Associates Corporation (LEA), f/k/a Academy Resources Inc., is engaged in the mining and exploration. Through Law Enforcement Associates, Inc. (LEAI), the Company manufactures and distributes a complete line of audio surveillance equipment, including radio frequency transmitters, receivers and repeaters for use in surveillance and intelligence gathering operations by law enforcement agencies. In addition, it has an array of video surveillance products ranging from miniature cameras to video transmission and recording systems. It also manufactures and distributes the Bloodhound Global Positioning Tracking System and the Under Vehicle Inspection System (UVIS). The Company's products are used by military, law enforcement, security and corrections personnel throughout the world, as well as governmental agencies, multinational corporations and non-governmental organizations.
LARL Laurel Capital Group, Inc. is a bank holding company whose primary asset is its wholly owned subsidiary, Laurel Savings Bank (the Bank). The business and management of the Company primarily consists of the business and management of the Bank. The Bank is primarily engaged in attracting deposits from the general public and using these funds to originate permanent first mortgage loans on single-family residential properties, and, to a lesser extent, multi-family residential loans, construction and development loans, commercial real estate loans and consumer loans. The Bank's revenue is primarily derived from interest income on its loan portfolio. The Bank's principal expenses are interest expense on deposits and other operating expenses. The principal sources of funds for Laurel Savings' lending activities are its deposits and amortization and prepayments of outstanding loans and investment securities.
LAUR Laureate Education Inc., formerly Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc., is focused exclusively on providing a university experience to over 130,000 students through a global network of accredited campus-based and online universities. Addressing the rapidly growing global demand for higher education, Laureate offers a broad range of career-oriented undergraduate and graduate programs through campus-based universities located in Latin America and Europe. Through online universities, Laureate offers the growing population of non-traditional, working-adult students the convenience and flexibility of distance learning to pursue undergraduate, master's and doctorate degree programs in major career fields including engineering, education, business and healthcare.
LSCC Lattice Semiconductor Corporation designs, develops and markets programmable logic devices (PLDs) and related software. PLDs are semiconductor components that can be configured by end customers as specific logic circuits and thus enable shorter design cycle times and reduced development costs. The Company also offers programmable analog and mixed signal products, such as ispPAC products. Lattice's end customers are primarily original equipment manufacturers in the communications, computing, industrial, automotive, medical, consumer and military end markets.
BLX Banco Latinoamericano de Exportaciones, S. A. is engaged in providing short-term financing to selected commercial banks in Central and South America and the Caribbean (the Region), which in turn lends to businesses engaged in foreign trade and to state and private institutions. The Bank's lending activities are funded by inter-bank deposits from central banks and financial institutions in the Region, by short-term and medium-term borrowings and by floating- and fixed-rate placements made with financial institutions and investors in Japan, Europe and North America. It does not provide retail-banking services to the general public, such as retail savings accounts or checking accounts and does not take retail deposits. The Bank has two primary subsidiaries: Banco Latinoamericano de Exportaciones, Limited and BLADEX Representacao Ltda.
LSCP Laserscope designs, manufactures, sells and services, on a worldwide basis, a line of medical laser systems and related energy devices for the medical office, outpatient surgical center and hospital markets. The Company is in the development and commercialization of lasers and advanced fiber-optic devices for a variety of applications. Its product portfolio consists of more than 150 products, including KTP/532, Nd: YAG, Er: YAG and Dye medical laser systems and related energy delivery devices. Laserscope's primary medical markets include dermatology, aesthetic surgery and urology. Its secondary markets include ear, nose and throat surgery, general surgery, gynecology, photo-dynamic therapy and other surgical specialties.
LCRD LaserCard corporation, formerly Drexler Technology Corporation, is engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of optical data storage products and systems, featuring its LaserCard optical memory cards and chip-ready Smart/Optical cards. The Company's LaserCard optical memory cards are used for digital governance applications, such as immigration, border crossing visas, cargo manifests, motor vehicle registration, multi-biometric identification (ID) cards and other digital read/write card applications. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, LaserCard Systems Corporation (LSC), makes optical card read/write drives, develops optical card software and markets optical cards, read/write drives and related systems.
LHO LaSalle Hotel Properties is a self-managed and self-administered real estate investment trust that buys, owns and leases primarily upscale and luxury full-service hotels located in convention, resort and major urban business markets. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned interests in 17 hotels with approximately 5,600 rooms/suites located in 10 states and the District of Columbia. Independent hotel operators manage the hotels. Substantially all of the Company's assets are held by, and all of its operations are conducted through, LaSalle Hotel Operating Partnership, L.P. The Company is the sole general partner of the operating partnership with an approximate 98.3% ownership as of the fiscal year ended October 31, 2003. The remaining 1.7% is held by other limited partners.
LVFHF.OB Las Vegas from Home.com Entertainment Inc. (Las Vegas) is an Internet gaming and entertainment corporation. The Company's Antiguan subsidiary, Action Poker Gaming Inc. (Action) is in the business of developing, acquiring and marketing software for online multi-player interactive card games. During the year ended December 31, 2002, Action moved its operations from its location in Antigua to the facilities of Mohawk Internet Technologies Inc. (Mohawk), which acts as its hosting facility for its servers, located on the Kahnawakee Mohawk Reserve (Kahnawakee) in Canada. Kahnawakee has reserve status in Canada, which has its own regulations and laws concerning interactive gaming. These regulations allow the Kahnawakee Gaming Commission to issue a gaming license to a third party, authorizing the conduct of authorized games by means of a telecommunication device, including the Internet. The gaming and entertainment operations are carried on by the Company's Antiguan subsidiary.
LSBC Large Scale Biology Corporation (LSBC) develops therapeutic products using its GENEWARE system, BAMF technology and GRAMMR gene shuffling and molecular evolution technology. The product categories in which the Company has made the progress using its technologies include vaccines, complex proteins and follow-on, off-patent therapeutics. LSBC is also applying its technology to develop and commercialize diagnostic tests and a gene improvement tool. The Company's GENEWARE system makes use of natural genetic systems for encoding genetic information in plants to produce biologically active proteins. LSBC's BAMF technology combines bioinformatics and proteomics technologies. Its proteomics technology allows for the rapid determination of the protein composition (proteome) of cells, tissues and body fluids that are associated with disease or abnormal conditions.
LANV LanVision Systems, Inc. is a healthcare information technology company focused on solutions that improve document-centric information flows and complement and enhance existing transaction-centric healthcare information systems. The Company's workflow and document management solutions bridge the gap between current, predominantly paper-based processes and transaction-based healthcare information systems by electronically capturing document-centric information from disparate sources, electronically directing that information through vital business processes and providing access to the information to authenticated users (such as physicians, nurses, administrative and financial personnel and payers) across the continuum of care.
LTRX Lantronix, Inc., designs, develops and markets devices and software solutions that make it possible to access, manage, control and configure almost any electronic product over the Internet or other networks. The Company provides three categories of products: device networking solutions that enable ectronic product to be connected to a network; information technology (IT) management solutions that enable multiple pieces of hardware, usually IT-related network hardware, such as servers, routers, switches and similar pieces of equipment to be managed over a network, and non-core products and services that include visualization solutions, legacy print server's, software revenues, and other miscellaneous products.
LNOP LanOptics Ltd. designs and produces task-optimized network processors for high-speed networking equipment through its business unit, E.Z. Chip Technologies Ltd. (EZchip). The Company is a fabless semiconductor company, which means that it does not have its own semiconductor manufacturing plant but rather it utilizes outside fabrication facilities. The networking equipment vendors use EZchip's network processors to form the silicon core of next-generation networking equipment, such as switches and routers, for voice, video and data integration in a variety of applications. LanOptics offers toolkits that assist its customers in creating, verifying and implementing solutions based on its network processors in order to facilitate its customers' adaptation of its products.
LCI Lannett Company, Inc. (Lannett of the Company) develops, manufactures, packages, markets and distributes pharmaceutical products sold under generic chemical names. As of September 25, 2003, the Company manufactured and/or distributed 11 products: Butalbital, Aspirin and Caffeine capsules; Butalbital, Aspirin, Caffeine with Codeine capsules; Digoxin tablets; Primidone tablets; Dicyclomine tablets/capsules; Acetazolamide tablets; Prednisolone tablets; Diphenoxylate with Atropine Sulfate tablets; Levothyroxine Sodium tablets; Unithroid tablets and Methocarbamol tablets.
GAIT Langer, Inc. is an orthotics products company specializing in designing, manufacturing, distributing and marketing foot and gait-related biomechanical products. Since January 2002, the Company has been operating in two segments: custom orthotics devices ordered by healthcare professionals and distributed products that include pre-fabricated orthopedic rehabilitation and recovery devices. These products are designed to provide relief from symptoms and complications arising from ankle, knee, pelvis, hip and spinal pain caused by injuries and biomechanical misalignment; diabetes, stroke, nerve damage, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis and similar ailments, and post-operative recovery. In October 2004, Langer acquired Silipos, Inc. from SSL International plc (SSL).
LSTR Landstar System, Inc. is a non-asset-based transportation services company, providing transportation capacity and related transportation services to shippers throughout the United States and, to a lesser extent, in Canada and between the United States, Canada and Mexico. Landstar provides transportation services to industries, including iron and steel, automotive products, paper, lumber and building products, aluminum, chemicals, foodstuffs, heavy machinery, retail, ammunition and explosives and military hardware. Its transportation services include truckload transportation utilizing specialized equipment, including dry vans of various sizes, flatbeds, temperature-controlled vans and containers and dedicated contract and logistics solutions. It also provides truck brokerage and expedited land and air delivery of time-critical freight. The Company's three reportable business segments are the carrier, multimodal and insurance segments.
LNY Landry's Restaurants, Inc. is principally engaged in the ownership and operation of full-service, casual dining restaurants, primarily under the names of Joe's Crab Shack, Landry's Seafood House, The Crab House, Charley's Crab, The Chart House, Saltgrass Steak House and Rainforest Cafe. For the year ending December 31, 2003, the Company operated 286 full-service restaurants consisting of 138 Joe's Crab Shack restaurants, 41 Landry's Seafood House division restaurants, 26 Chart House restaurants, 29 Saltgrass Steak House division restaurants, 26 Rainforest Cafe restaurants, 15 Charley's Crab restaurants, 11 Crab House restaurants and a small number of limited menu restaurants.
LARK Landmark Bancorp, Inc. is a holding company engaged in the banking business through its wholly owned subsidiary, Landmark National Bank (the Bank). Landmark National Bank is engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the general public and using such deposits, together with Federal Home Loan Bank borrowings and funds from operations, to originate commercial real estate and non-real estate loans and one- to four-family residential mortgage loans. The Bank also originates consumer loans, small business loans, multi-family residential mortgage loans and home equity loans. In addition, it invests in certain investment and mortgage-related securities using deposits and other funds as funding sources. The Bank's primary market consists of Manhattan, Auburn, Dodge City, Garden City, Great Bend, Hoisington, LaCrosse, Topeka, Osage City and Wamego, Kansas and the surrounding communities in Riley, Barton, Finney, Ford, Pottawatomie, Rush, Shawnee and Osage Counties in Kansas.
LNDC Landec Corporation (Landec) designs, develops, manufactures and sells temperature-activated and other specialty polymer products for a variety of food products, agricultural products and licensed partner applications. The Company has two core businesses: Food Products Technology and Agricultural Seed Technology. Landec's Food Products Technology business, operated through its subsidiary Apio, Inc., combines Landec's food packaging technology with the capabilities of a large national food supplier and value-added produce processor. Landec's Agricultural Seed Technology business is operated through its subsidiary Landec Ag, Inc., which combines Landec's Intellicoat seed coating technology with its eDC e-commerce, direct marketing and consultative selling capabilities. In addition to these two core segments, Landec will license technology and conduct ongoing research and development and supply materials through its Technology Licensing/Research and Development Business.
LDR Landauer, Inc. offers a service for measuring, primarily through optically stimulated luminescent (OSL) badges worn by client personnel, the dose of x-ray, gamma radiation and other penetrating ionizing radiations to which the wearer has been exposed. This technology is marketed under the trade name Luxel. Through its majority-owned subsidiary, SAPRA-Landauer, Ltda., the Company also provides radiation dosimetry services in Brazil. In addition, Landauer provides radiation monitoring services in China through its 70% interest in Beijing Landauer Radiation Monitoring Technology Co., Ltd. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, HomeBuyer's Preferred, Inc., offers a radon monitoring service and, when necessary, remediation to purchasers of personal residences. The service is targeted to corporate employee relocation programs that have generally regarded radon as a serious environmental hazard.
LFG LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc. is a holding company, operating through its subsidiaries, and providing products and services used to facilitate the purchase, sale, transfer and financing of residential and commercial real estate. It also conducts business in Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America. In addition to its core business of providing title insurance, the Company provides a range of other services for residential and commercial real estate transactions, including title search, examination, document preparation, escrow and closing. For residential real estate transactions, LandAmerica also provides home inspections. In December 2004, the Company through its subsidiary LandAmerica Default Services Company, purchased 3 Arch Financial Services Corporation, which is based in Irvine, California with offices in New York. In December 2004, the Company through its subsidiary LandAmerica Credit Services, Inc. (LACR), purchased Mortgage Credit Services, Inc.
LAN Lancer Corporation designs, engineers, manufacture and markets fountain soft drink, beer and citrus beverage dispensing systems, and other equipment for use in the food service and beverage industry. Lancer also markets frozen beverage dispensers manufactured by a joint venture, which is 50% owned by the Company. The Company's products are sold to soft drink companies, bottlers, equipment distributors, beer breweries, restaurants and convenience stores for use in various food and beverage operations. Lancer is a vertically integrated manufacturer whose tooling, production, assembly and testing capabilities enable it to fabricate a substantial portion of the components used in its products. The Company's products is divided into four categories: fountain soft drink, citrus and frozen beverage dispensers; post-mix dispensing valves; beer dispensing systems, and other products and services.
LNCE Lance, Inc. manufactures, markets and distributes a variety of snack food products. Its manufactured products include sandwich crackers and cookies, crackers, cookies, potato chips, nuts, cakes and other salty snacks. In addition, the Company purchases for resale certain cakes, candy, meat snacks, bread basket items, salty snacks and cookies in order to broaden its product offerings. Lance also uses third-party manufacturers to produce certain products that are also manufactured by the Company based on production commitments and location of customers. Lance sells both branded and non-branded products. Its branded products are principally sold under the Lance and Cape Cod brand names and, during the fiscal year ended December 27, 2003 (fiscal 2003), represented 64% of total revenues. Non-branded product revenues represented 36% of fiscal 2003 revenues. Non-branded products consist of private label products, products sold to other manufacturers and products sold under third-party brands.
LANC Lancaster Colony Corporation is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of consumer products, including specialty foods for the retail and foodservice markets; glassware and candles for the retail, industrial, floral and foodservice markets, and Automotive accessories for the original equipment market and aftermarket. The Company has three business segments: Specialty Foods, Glassware and Candles and Automotive. The Specialty Foods segment produces and markets a family of pourable and refrigerated produce. Glass products include a broad range of machine pressed and machine blown consumer glassware and industrial glass products. Under Automative, the Company manufactures and sells a complete line of rubber, vinyl and carpeted floor mats to both original equipment manufacturers and aftermarket retailers.
LFL Lan Airlines S.A., formerly Lan Chile S.A., is a provider of domestic and international passenger and cargo air services in Chile and an airline business in Latin America. As of April 2004, the Company serviced 15 destinations in Chile (as well as two seasonal destinations), seven destinations in Peru (six serviced only by its subsidiary, Lan Peru S.A. (LanPeru)), 17 destinations (as well as two seasonal destinations) in other Latin American countries and the Caribbean, three destinations in the United States, two destinations in Europe and four destinations in the South Pacific. In addition, through the Company's code-share agreements, it offered service to 33 additional international destinations. It provides cargo service to all its passenger destinations and to 15 additional freighter destinations.
LMS The Lamson &amp; Sessions Co. is a diversified manufacturer and distributor of thermoplastic electrical, consumer, telecommunications and engineered sewer products. In addition, it distributes a variety of consumer electrical wiring devices, home security devices, wireless electrical and other wireless products. The markets Lamson serves include the construction, utility and telecommunications industries, municipalities, other government agencies and contractors, as well as do-it-yourself (DIY) home remodelers. All of the Company's thermoplastic electrical products compete with and serve as substitutes for similar metallic products. Its thermoplastic electrical products offer several advantages over these other products. Specifically, nonmetallic electrical and telecommunications conduit and related fittings and accessories are generally less expensive, lighter and easier to install than metallic products. They do not rust, corrode or conduct electricity.
LAMR Lamar Advertising Company is engaged in the outdoor advertising business. The Company offers customers a fully integrated service covering their billboard display requirements, from ad copy production to placement and maintenance. It operates two types of billboard advertising displays: bulletins and posters. The Company also provides logo sign services and transit advertising. As of December 31, 2003, Lamar Advertising owned and operated over 147,000 billboard advertising displays in 43 states, operated over 98,000 logo advertising displays in 20 states and the province of Ontario, Canada, and operated approximately 13,000 transit advertising displays in 14 states.
LRCX Lam Research Corporation designs, manufactures, markets and services semiconductor processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits (ICs) for the worldwide semiconductor industry. Semiconductor wafers are subjected to a complex series of process steps that result in the simultaneous creation of many individual ICs. The Company's etch and chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) products selectively remove portions of various films from the wafer to create semiconductors. Lam Research leverages its expertise in these areas to also develop intellectual property for integrated processing solutions. Etch processes, which are repeated numerous times during the wafer fabrication cycle, are required to manufacture every type of semiconductor device produced.
LAMP.OB L.A.M. Pharmaceutical, Corp. (L.A.M.) develops, markets and licenses wound healing and transdermally delivered drugs, both prescription and over-the-counter (OTC), using the patented L.A.M. Ionic Polymer Matrix technology. The Company is the owner of a wound healing and transdermal drug delivery technology that involves the use of an original L.A.M. Ionic Polymer Matrix (L.A.M. IPM) technology for the purpose of delivering, enhancing and sustaining the action of certain established therapeutic agents. L.A.M. intends to seek out corporate alliances and co-marketing partnerships where other drugs and topical products can be enhanced by L.A.M. IPM technology. All of the Company's other products are in various stages of development and testing.
LACO Lakes Entertainment, Inc. develops and manages Indian-owned casino properties that offer the opportunity for long-term development of related entertainment facilities, including hotels, theaters, recreational vehicle parks and other amenities designed to enhance the customers' total entertainment experience. Lakes provides corporate and casino management and develops and implements marketing programs. In conjunction with this part of its business, the Company has entered into development and management agreements relating to one casino project in Michigan, two casino projects in California and one casino project on the east coast, with development of each subject to regulatory approvals. In addition, Lakes owns options to purchase the patent rights for various new casino games and is actively marketing these new games to the casino industry. Through its subsidiary, World Poker Tour, LLC, the Company produces the world poker tour, a global series of televised poker tournaments.
LAKE Lakeland Industries, Inc. manufactures and sells a line of safety garments and accessories for the industrial protective clothing market. The Company's products are sold by its in-house sales force and independent sales representatives to a network of over 500 safety and mill supply distributors. These distributors in turn supply end user industrial customers such as chemical/petrochemical, automobile, steel, glass, construction, smelting, janitorial, pharmaceutical and high-technology electronics manufacturers, as well as hospitals and laboratories. In addition, the Company supplies federal, state and local governmental agencies and departments such as fire and police departments, airport crash rescue units, the Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Secret Service and the Centers for Disease Control.
LKFN Lakeland Financial Corporation is a bank holding company that owns all of the outstanding stock of Lake City Bank. The Bank's activities cover all phases of commercial banking, including checking accounts, savings accounts, time deposits, the sale of securities under agreements to repurchase, commercial and agricultural lending, direct and indirect consumer lending, real estate mortgage lending, safe deposit box service and trust and brokerage services. As of December 31, 2003, the Bank had 43 offices in 12 counties throughout northern Indiana. In trust, the Bank recognizes a wholly owned subsidiary, LCB Investments Limited, which manages a portion of its investment portfolio. The Company conducts no business except that incident to its ownership of the outstanding stock of the Bank and the operation of the Bank.
LBAI Lakeland Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company whose primary business consists of managing and supervising Lakeland Bank (Lakeland). Lakeland is a full-service commercial bank, offering a complete range of consumer and commercial services. Lakeland's 38 branch offices are located in five New Jersey counties: Morris, Passaic, Sussex, Essex and Bergen. Through Lakeland, the Company offers a range of lending, depository and related financial services to individuals and small to medium-sized businesses in its northern New Jersey market area. On August 25, 2003, Lakeland Bancorp acquired CSB Financial Corp. and its subsidiary, Community State Bank, by merging CSB Financial Corp. into the Company and Community State Bank into Lakeland, with Lakeland as the survivor.
LI Laidlaw International, Inc. provides transportation and healthcare services in the Unites States and Canada. It operates in five segments: education, public transit, Greyhound, healthcare and emergency management. The education services segment provides school bus transportation. Its public transit services segment provides municipal and paratransit bus transportation. The Company's Greyhound segment provides inter-city, tourism and small parcel bus transportation. The healthcare transportation services segment provides healthcare-related transportation services. The emergency management services segment provides emergency department physician services. In June 2001, the Company and five of its subsidiary holding companies filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. In June 2003, the Company emerged from Chapter 11 protection. As a result, the Company changed its name to Laidlaw International, Inc. from Laidlaw Investments Ltd.
LR Lafarge S.A. specializes in the production of materials for the construction industry. The Company's operations are organized into four divisions: Cement, Aggregates and Concrete, Roofing and Gypsum. The Cement segment produces and sells a range of cement and hydraulic binders adapted to the needs of the construction industry. The Aggregates and Concrete segment produces and sells construction aggregates, ready mix concrete and other concrete products. The Roofing segment produces and sells roof tiles, roofing accessories and chimney systems. The Gypsum segment mainly produces and sells drywall for the commercial and residential construction sectors. The Company has over 1,240 majority-owned subsidiaries and approximately 230 companies in which it has an equity participation.
LAF Lafarge North America Inc. is a diversified supplier of aggregate, concrete and concrete products, cement and cement-related products, gypsum drywall, and other construction materials in North America. The Company's products are used in the construction of such projects as roads, offices, factories, hospitals, department stores, sports stadiums, banks, museums, high-rise apartments, amusement parks, swimming pools and bridges. In 2003, Lafarge shipped 118.9 million tons of aggregate, 11 million cubic yards of ready-mixed concrete, 13.2 million tons of cement, 3.1 million tons of cement-related products and 2.1 billion square feet of gypsum drywall. The Company is part of the Lafarge Group, a global supplier of building materials, which includes Lafarge S.A. and its consolidated subsidiaries. Lafarge S.A. and its affiliates hold approximately 53% of the Company's common stock.
LDSH Ladish Co., Inc. engineers, produces and markets high-strength, high-technology forged and cast metal components for a variety of load-bearing and fatigue-resisting applications in the jet engine, aerospace and industrial markets. Approximately 94% of the Company's 2003 billings were derived from the sale of jet engine parts, missile components, landing gear, helicopter rotors and other aerospace products. Approximately 31% of its 2003 billings were derived from sales, directly or through prime contractors, under United States government contracts, primarily covering defense equipment. Ladish markets its products primarily to manufacturers of jet engines, commercial business and defense aircraft, helicopters, satellites, heavy-duty off-road vehicles and industrial and marine turbines. The principal markets served by the Company are jet engine, commercial aerospace (defined by Ladish as satellite, rocket and aircraft components other than jet engines) and general industrial products.
LTS Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. (LTS) is engaged in retail and institutional securities brokerage, investment banking services and investment activities through its principal operating subsidiary, Ladenburg Thalmann &amp; Co. Inc. (Ladenburg). Ladenburg is a full service broker dealer that provides its services principally for middle market and emerging growth companies and high net worth individuals through a coordinated effort among corporate finance, capital market, investment management, brokerage and trading professionals. The Company's other subsidiaries include, among others, Ladenburg Capital Management Inc., formerly known as GBI Capital Partners Inc. (Ladenburg Capital), and Ladenburg Thalmann Europe, Ltd. and Ladenburg Capital Fund Management Inc., formerly known as GBI Fund Management Corp. (LCFM).
BOOT LaCrosse Footwear, Inc. is engaged in the design, development, marketing and manufacturing of protective footwear and clothing for the sporting and outdoor, farm and agriculture, general utility and occupational markets. The Company markets its products primarily under the LaCrosse, Rainfair and Danner brands. Its brand product offering includes three major categories: rubber/vinyl footwear, leather footwear and rainwear and protective clothing. These products are sold directly to more than 4,100 accounts, including sporting goods/outdoor retailers, general merchandise and independent shoe stores, wholesalers, industrial distributors, catalog operations and the United States government.
LG The Laclede Group, Inc. (Laclede Group) is a public utility holding company, which provides natural gas service through its regulated core utility operations, while developing a presence in non-regulated activities that provide opportunities for sustainable growth. The Company's primary subsidiary is Laclede Gas Company, a natural gas distribution utility in Missouri, which serves more than 630,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in St. Louis and surrounding counties of eastern Missouri. SM&amp;P Utility Resources, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Laclede Group. Laclede Energy Resources, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary that is engaged in non-regulated efforts to market natural gas and related activities. Its non-regulated activities include the transportation of liquid propane, the sale of insurance-related products, real estate development, the compression of natural gas and financial investments in other enterprises.
LAB LaBranche &amp; Co Inc. operates principally as a specialist on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), American Stock Exchange (AMEX) and New York Board of Trade (NYBOT), and as a market-maker on the AMEX, NYBOT, Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX). It also provides execution and clearing services to retail and institutional clients and correspondents. It is a holding company that is the sole member of LaBranche &amp; Co. LLC, LaBranche Structured Products, LLC (LSP) and LaBranche Structured Products Specialists, LLC (LSPS); the sole stockholder of LaBranche Financial Services, Inc. (LFSI) and LABDR Services, Inc. (LABDR), and the sole owner of LaBranche &amp; Co. B.V. (BV). The Company views its business as operating principally in two separate segments, the Specialist segment and the Execution and Clearing segment.
LH Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, together with its subsidiaries, is an independent clinical laboratory company. Through a national network of laboratories, the Company offers more than 4,400 different clinical laboratory tests that are used by the medical profession in routine testing, patient diagnosis and the monitoring and treatment of disease. In addition, the Company has developed specialty and niche businesses based on certain types of specialized testing capabilities and client requirements, such as oncology testing, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) genotyping and phenotyping, diagnostic genetics and clinical research trials. The Company has expanded its routine and specialty testing businesses through the acquisitions of Dynacare Inc. and DIANON Systems, Inc. The Company has a national network of 31 primary laboratories and over 1,200 service sites, consisting of branches, patient service centers and STAT laboratories.
LRW Labor Ready, Inc. is an international provider of temporary employees for manual labor jobs. During the fiscal year ended January 2, 2003 (fiscal 2003), the Company served over 275,000 customers and put nearly 600,000 people to work through its 779 dispatch offices in all 50 of the United States, in Puerto Rico, in five provinces of Canada and in the United Kingdom. The Company's customers are primarily businesses in the transportation, warehousing, hospitality, landscaping, construction, light manufacturing, retail, wholesale, sanitation and printing industries. These businesses typically require workers for lifting, hauling, cleaning, assembling, digging, painting and other types of manual or unskilled work. Many customers use Labor Ready to screen prospective employees for future permanent hires.
LABS LabOne, Inc. is a diagnostic services provider that, together with its subsidiaries, provides services and information including risk assessment information services for the insurance industry; diagnostic healthcare testing, and drugs of abuse testing services and related employee qualification products. The Company has two segments, risk assessment services and clinical services. LabOne's risk assessment services comprise underwriting support services including teleunderwriting, specimen collection and paramedical examinations, laboratory testing, telephone inspections, motor vehicle reports and medical record retrieval to the insurance industry. LabOne's clinical services include laboratory testing services for the healthcare industry as an aid in the diagnosis and treatment of patients.
LB LaBarge, Inc. manufactures and designs electronics and interconnect systems for customers is diverse technology-driven markets. The Company's core competencies are to provide complete electronic systems solutions, including the design, engineering and manufacturing of interconnect systems, circuit card assemblies and high-level assemblies for its customers' specialized applications. On February 17, 2004, the Company acquired substantially all of the assets of Pinnacle Electronics LLC (Pinnacle). Pinnacle supplement the Company's electronics manufacturing services (EMS) business with a leased manufacturing location in metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, enhancing the Company's commercial/industrial sales mix. Pinnacle's commercial/industrial market expertise, supported by a strong management team, supplements the Company's historic strength in the government/defense marketplace.
LQI La Quinta Corporation (LQ Corporation) is an owner/operator of limited service hotels in the United States. The Company provides clean and comfortable guestrooms at affordable prices in convenient locations. It owns and operates hotels under the proprietary La Quinta brand. In addition, LQ Corporation franchises its brand to independent owner/operators. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's system of owned and franchised hotels contained 372 La Quinta Inns and La Quinta Inn &amp; Suites representing approximately 45,000 rooms in 33 states. In 2003, LQ Corporation owned and operated 201 La Quinta Inns, including six La Quinta Inns, which are located on land that the Company leases from third parties and 75 La Quinta Inn &amp; Suites representing approximately 36,000 rooms in 28 states. In December 2003, LQ Corporation completed the sale of TeleMatrix, a non-strategic business that provided telephone equipment and software to the lodging and telecommunications industries.
LJPC La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the research and development of highly specific therapeutic products for the treatment of certain antibody-mediated diseases. These diseases, including autoimmune conditions, such as lupus and antibody-mediated thrombosis, are caused by abnormal B-cell production of antibodies that attack healthy tissues. Therapies for these autoimmune disorders address only symptoms of the disease or non-specifically suppress the normal operation of the immune system, which often results in severe, negative side effects and hospitalization. The Company's drug candidates, called Toleragens, will treat the underlying cause of many antibody-mediated diseases. Its clinical drug candidates are Riquent, previously referred to as LJP 394, a drug for the treatment of lupus, and LJP 1082, a drug for the treatment of antibody-mediated thrombosis.
LLL L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. (L-3) is a supplier of a range of products used in a number of aerospace and defense platforms. It is also a supplier of subsystems on platforms, including those for secure communication networks; mobile satellite communications; information security systems; shipboard communications; naval power systems; fuses and safety and arming devices for missiles and munitions; microwave assemblies for radars and missiles; telemetry and instrumentation, and airport security systems. In addition, the Company is a prime system contractor for aircraft modernization and maintenance; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) collection platforms; simulation and training, and government systems support services. L-3's four operating segments include Secure Communications and ISR; Training, Simulation and Support Services; Aviation Products and Aircraft Modernization, and Specialized Products. In December 2004, the Company acquired Cincinnati Electronics.
KYPH Kyphon Inc. is a medical device company focused on the design, manufacture and marketing of instruments used in minimally invasive therapies for surgeons and their patients for the restoration of spinal anatomy. The Company is commercializing surgical tools that use its balloon technologies for the repair of spine fractures. Kyphon sells the instruments for use in spine fracture procedures such as bone access systems, inflatable bone tamp, inflation syringe, bone filler device, bone biopsy device, curette and bone fillers. In February 2003, Kyphon acquired Sanatis GmbH, a privately held developer and manufacturer of orthopedic biomaterials.
KYO Kyocera Corporation is engaged in various high-technology fields, including fine ceramics, electronics, telecommunications, automotive components, medical and dental implants, solar energy and information technology (IT) solution services and networks. As of March 31, 2003, it had 123 subsidiaries and nine affiliates outside Japan and 22 subsidiaries and seven affiliates in Japan. The Company's business is highly diversified, with its operations classified into four operating segments: Fine Ceramics, Electronic Devices, Equipment and Others.
KVHI KVH Industries, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets mobile satellite communications products for the automotive, recreational vehicle and marine markets, and navigation, guidance and stabilization products for the defense market. It has expertise in mobile satellite antenna, digital compass and fiber optic gyroscope technologies. The Company is a provider of mobile satellite communications products that enable customers to receive live digital television, telephone and Internet services in their automobiles, recreational vehicles and marine vessels while in motion. The Company's defense products include tactical navigation systems that provide uninterrupted navigation and pointing information in a range of military vehicles, including Humvees and light armored vehicles. It also offers precision fiber optic gyro-based systems that help stabilize platforms such as gun turrets and radar units and also provide guidance for munitions.
KVa K-V Pharmaceutical Company is an integrated specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, acquires, manufactures and markets technologically distinguished branded and generic-non-branded prescription pharmaceutical products. The Company has a range of dosage form capabilities, including tablets, capsules, creams, liquids and ointments. It conducts its branded pharmaceutical operations through Ther-Rx and its generic-non-branded pharmaceutical operations through ETHEX. Through Particle Dynamics, the Company also develops, manufactures and markets technologically advanced, value-added raw material products for the pharmaceutical, nutritional, personal care, food and other markets.
KPCG.OB Kupper Parker Communications, Incorporated is a marketing communications company that specializes in providing integrated marketing communications solutions for middle-market businesses. The Company's integrated service offerings include strategic and marketing consulting, branding and market research; planning, creation and execution of advertising campaigns; all media services, such as research, planning and placement; public relations and investor relations, and direct response and database marketing services. KPCG also offers sales promotion services; design, development and implementation of e-business Websites and interactive media; graphic design services, and communications management. In addition, it provides specialized marketing consultation services to television and radio stations. The Company's clients are in a variety of industries with needs that encompass business-to-consumer, business-to-business and business-to-stakeholder communications.
KLIC Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets capital equipment, packaging materials and test interconnect products, as well as service, maintain, repair and upgrade equipments, all used to assemble and/or test semiconductor devices. The Company's business is divided into three product segments: equipment, packaging materials and wafer and package test interconnect products. In February 2004, Kulicke completed the divestiture of its former advanced packaging technologies segment. Kulicke offer a range of wire bonding equipment and spare parts, packaging materials and test interconnect products. The Company's customers include semiconductor manufacturers, semiconductor subcontract assemblers and vertically integrated manufacturers of electronic systems.
KUB Kubota Corporation is a manufacturer of farm equipment and producer of pipes, principally ductile iron pipes and related equipment for water supply and other utilities. In addition, the Company manufactures and sells engines, construction machinery, industrial castings, industrial machinery, environmental control plants and building materials. Its manufacturing operations are conducted primarily at 19 plants in Japan and at five overseas plants located in the United States and certain other countries. The Company classifies its products into five product groups: internal combustion engine and machinery; pipes, valves and industrial castings; environmental engineering; building materials and housing, and other products.
KTII K-Tron International, Inc. (K-Tron) is engaged in the business of material handling equipment and systems. Its operations are conducted through subsidiary companies. The Company serves the bulk-solids material handling markets through three separate business groups that focus primarily on feeding equipment, pneumatic conveying equipment and size reduction equipment, respectively. K-Tron's material handling equipment, which it designs, engineers, produces, markets and services, is used in a variety of manufacturing and other industrial processes, particularly in the plastics, food, chemical, detergent, pharmaceutical, electric utility and pulp and paper industries. The Company has manufacturing facilities in the United States, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Canada and its equipments are sold and supported throughout the world.
KTC KT Corporation is a telecommunications service provider in Korea. The Company's principal services include fixed-line telephone services, including local, domestic long-distance and international long-distance telephone services; interconnection services to other telecommunications companies; business and data communications services, including broadband Internet access services, leased-line services and other Internet-related services, and mobile telecommunications services through KT Freetel, its 48.1%-owned consolidated subsidiary. It also offers personal communications services (PCS), resale services and other telecommunications services, including system and network integration services and satellite communications services.
KSWS K-Swiss Inc. designs, develops and markets an array of athletic footwear for high-performance sports use, fitness activities and casual wear under the K-Swiss brand. The Company's principal product line, through 1987, was primarily the Classic. The Classic was originally developed, in 1966, as a high-performance tennis shoe. Since that time, the Classic has evolved from a high-performance shoe into a casual, lifestyle shoe. It also designs and manufactures footwear under the Royal Elastics brand. Royal Elastics, a wholly owned subsidiary, is a manufacturer of slip-on, laceless footwear. The Company also markets a limited line of K-Swiss branded apparel and accessories. K-Swiss markets its products in the United States primarily to a limited number of specialty athletic footwear stores, pro shops, sporting good stores and department stores. It also sells through its Website and to a number of foreign distributors.
KSWW.OB KSW, Inc. furnishes and installs heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, as well as process piping systems for institutional, industrial, commercial, high-rise residential and public works projects, primarily in the State of New York. The Company also serves as a mechanical trade manager, performing project management services relating to the mechanical trades, and as a constructability consultant. KSW conducts operations through its wholly owned subsidiary, KSW Mechanical Services, Inc. At December 31, 2003, some of the Company's ongoing projects included new apartment buildings at 1930 Broadway and 10 Liberty Street, the conversion from offices to rental apartments at 63 Wall Street, and the new federal court house and the United States post office/courthouse in Brooklyn, New York.
KSP K-Sea Transportation Partners L.P. is a provider of refined petroleum product marine transportation, distribution and logistics services in the northeastern United States. Its fleet of 34 tank barges, two tankers and 19 tugboats serves a wide range of customers, including major oil companies, oil traders and refiners. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004, the Company's fleet transported approximately 100 million barrels of refined petroleum products for its customers, including BP, ChevronTexaco, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil. The Company provides marine transportation services primarily to major oil companies, oil traders and refiners in the northeastern United States and the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 68% of the Company's barrel-carrying capacity is double-hulled and, after the phase-out of two single-hull tank barges, on December 31, 2004, approximately 74% of its barrel-carrying capacity will be double-hulled. The Company operates 10 integrated tug-barge units (ITBs).
KSAV.OB KS Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for KS Bank, Inc. (the Bank). The Company has no operations and conducts no business of its own other than owning the Bank, holding the loan to the employee stock ownership plan and managing its investments. The Bank is engaged in the business of attracting retail deposits from the general public and using such deposits to make mortgage loans secured by real estate. It makes mortgage loans secured by owner-occupied and non-owner occupied residential real estate, loans secured by non-residential properties, construction loans and equity line of credit loans. The Bank also makes loans that are not secured by real property, such as loans secured by pledged deposit accounts and various types of secured and unsecured consumer loans. KS Bank conducts business through seven offices in Kenly, Goldsboro, Wilson, Garner, Clayton, Selma and Smithfield, North Carolina.
KRO Kronos Worldwide, Inc. is a producer of titanium dioxide pigments (TiO2). The Company produces over 40 different TiO2 grades, sold under the Kronos trademark that provides performance properties to meet customers' specific requirements. Its major customers include domestic and international paint, plastics and paper manufacturers. The Company and its distributors and agents sell and provide technical services for its products to over 4,000 customers with the majority of sales in Europe and North America. TiO2 is distributed by rail, truck and ocean carrier in either dry or slurry form. The Company's manufacturing facilities are located in Germany, Canada, Belgium and Norway, and it owns a one-half interest in a TiO2 manufacturing joint venture located in Louisiana, United States of America.
KRON Kronos Incorporated develops, manufactures and markets human resources, payroll, scheduling, and time and labor solutions. The Company's workforce management solution solutions are the Workforce Central Suite, Kronos iSeries Central Suite and Timekeeper Central System. Its workforce management solutions enable organizations to reduce costs and increase productivity, improve employee satisfaction, align employee performance with organizational objectives and put real-time information in the hands of decision makers. It also maintains a professional service and technical support organization that maintains systems and provides professional and educational services. These services can be delivered onsite or via the Web.
KR The Kroger Co. operates retail food and drug stores, multi-department stores, jewelry stores and convenience stores in the Midwest, South and West. The Company also manufactures and processes food for sale in its supermarkets. As of January 31, 2004, Kroger operated, either directly or through its subsidiaries, 2,532 supermarkets. Approximately 30% of these supermarkets operated in Company-owned facilities. During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004, 466 of these supermarkets had fuel centers. Supermarkets are generally operated under one of the following formats: combination food and drug stores (combo stores), multi-department stores or price impact warehouse stores.
KKD Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. is a specialty retailer of doughnuts. It owns and franchises Krispy Kreme doughnut stores where the Company makes and sells over 20 varieties of doughnuts, including its Hot Original Glazed variety. Each of its traditional stores is a doughnut factory with the capacity to produce from 4,000 dozen to over 10,000 dozen doughnuts daily. Its sales channels consist of on-premises sales and off-premises sales. The Company has two complementary business units: its company and franchised stores, which Krispy Kreme refers to, collectively, as Store Operations and Krispy Kreme Manufacturing and Distribution (KKM&amp;D). At February 1, 2004, there were 357 Krispy Kreme factory stores in operation, of which 338 are located in the United States. During the fiscal year ended February 1, 2004 (fiscal 2003), it acquired the remaining 33% interest in Golden Gate Doughnuts, LLC that it did not already own.
KRSL Kreisler Manufacturing Corporation manufactures precision metal components and assemblies at its facility in Elmwood Park, New Jersey, primarily for use in military and commercial aircraft engines and in industrial gas turbine engines. Its wholly owned subsidiary is Kreisler Industrial Corporation. Kreisler's products include tube assemblies of multiple sizes and configurations, vane inserts, fuel rings and baffles. Assemblies may be made of various materials, including titanium, inconel and stainless steel. These quality controlled and highly engineered manifold assemblies transfer fuel for combustion, oil for lubrication, hydraulic fluid to activate thrust reversers and impingement tubes or baffles to cool vanes in the combustion section of the engine. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), sales of products for commercial aircraft engines, military aircraft engines and industrial gas turbines accounted for 78% of the consolidated sales.
KRT Kramont Realty Trust (Kramont) is a self-administered, self-managed equity real estate investment trust (REIT) engaged in the ownership, acquisition, development, redevelopment, management and leasing primarily of community and neighborhood shopping centers. Kramont does not directly own any assets other than its interest in Kramont Operating Partnership, L.P. (Kramont OP), and conducts its business through Kramont OP and its affiliated entities, including Montgomery CV Realty L.P. (Montgomery OP), collectively referred to as the OPs, which together with Kramont are referred to as the Company. The OPs, directly or indirectly, own all of the Company's assets, including its interests in shopping centers. Accordingly, the Company conducts its operations through an Umbrella Partnership REIT structure. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Kramont owned 93.57% of Kramont OP and is its sole general partner.
KFT Kraft Foods Inc. is engaged in the manufacture and sale of branded foods and beverages in the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. The Company's brands span five consumer sectors: Snacks, primarily cookies, crackers, salted snacks and confectionery; Beverages, primarily coffee, aseptic juice drinks and powdered beverages; Cheese, primarily natural, process and cream cheeses; Grocery, primarily ready-to-eat cereals, enhancers and desserts, and Convenient Meals, primarily frozen pizza, packaged dinners, lunch combinations and processed meats. Kraft conducts its global business through its subsidiaries, Kraft Foods North America, Inc. and Kraft Foods International, Inc. The Company has operations in 68 countries and sells its products in more than 150 countries.
KOSS Koss Corporation designs, manufactures and sells stereo headphones and related accessory products. The Company's products are sold through audio specialty stores, the Internet, direct mail catalogs, regional department store chains, discount department stores, military exchanges, prisons and national retailers under the Koss name and dual label. Koss also sells products to distributors for resale to school systems, and directly to other manufactures for inclusion with their own products. The Company has more than 1,600 domestic dealers and its products are carried in approximately 16,000 domestic retail outlets.
KOSN Kosan Biosciences Incorporated is a biotechnology company developing drug candidates from a class of natural product compounds known as polyketides. The Company's primary programs are directed at discovery and development of polyketides for cancer, infectious disease and gastrointestinal motility disorders. It uses its platform technologies to develop product candidates that target large pharmaceutical markets. Kosan is co-developing epothilones, a class of polyketides, for the treatment of cancer with Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. and F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. (collectively Roche), and have United States co-promotion rights to any resulting epothilones that receive regulatory approval for marketing.
KOSP KOS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a fully integrated specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the development and commercialization of proprietary prescription products for the treatment of chronic cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. The Company manufactures and markets Niaspan and Advicor directly through its own specialty sales force and through a sales force provided by a contract sales organization through December 31, 2003. KOS' products under development directed to cardiovascular disease consist of controlled-release, once-a-day, oral dosage formulations. The Company's respiratory products under development consist of aerosolized inhalation formulations to be used primarily with its proprietary inhalation devices.
KFY Korn/Ferry International (KFY) is engaged in the business of providing executive recruitment and technology-enhanced middle-management recruitment through Futurestep, and consulting and related services globally on a retained basis. Executive search, the Company's core business, focuses on board level, chief executive and other senior executive positions for clients predominantly in the consumer, financial, industrial, life sciences and technology industries. Futurestep, KFY's middle-management recruitment business, draws from KFY's industry experience to create customized recruitment strategies based on clients' individual workforce needs. In addition to middle-management search, Futurestep offers project recruitment and managed services. The Company's clients include public and private companies, middle-market and emerging growth companies and governmental and not-for-profit organizations.
KEP Korea Electric Power Corporation (Korea Electric) is engaged in the transmission and distribution of electricity in Korea. Through its six consolidated generation subsidiaries, the Company also generates substantially all of the electricity consumed in Korea. Korea Electric's wholly owned generation subsidiaries are Korea Midland Power Co., Ltd. (KOMIPO), Korea South-East Power Co., Ltd (KOSEP), Korea Western Power Co., Ltd. (KOWEPO), Korea Southern Power Co., Ltd. (KOSPO) and Korea East-West Power Co., Ltd. (EWP) and Korea Hydro &amp; Nuclear Power Co., Ltd. (KHNP). In 2003, Korea Electric sold 294 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity. Of the 322 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity generated or purchased by Korea Electric in 2003, 41.3% was generated by its nuclear and hydroelectric power generation subsidiary, KHNP.
KOPN Kopin Corporation is a developer and manufacturer of Gallium Arsenide-based heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) wafers and other commercial semiconductor products that use Indium Phosphide-, Gallium Nitride- and Gallium Arsenide-based substrates. The Company has also been developing light emitting diodes (LEDs) grown on sapphire substrates, which are called CyberLites. Kopin collectively refers to its products based on compound semiconductor materials as its III-V products because the Company uses elements found on the III and V columns of the periodic table of elements. Kopin's primary III-V product is its HBT transistor wafers. The Company's HBT transistor wafers are customer-specific arrays of vertically oriented transistors that its customers use primarily to produce high-performance integrated circuits for wireless communications products.
KOR Koor Industries Ltd. is a diversified investment holding company. The Company is engaged in the fields of telecommunications, defense electronics, agro-chemicals and other chemicals and venture capital investments through its direct and indirect, wholly and partially owned subsidiaries and affiliates. Koor is also engaged in investment in new technologies in the telecom and life science fields. For the years ended December 31, 2003 and 2002, international sales represented approximately 86.7% and 78.2%, respectively, of the Company's consolidated net sales.
KB Kookmin Bank is a commercial bank in Korea. On the asset side, the Company provides credit and related financial services to individuals and small and medium-sized enterprises and to a lesser extent, to large corporate customers. On the deposit side, Kookmin Bank provides a range of deposit products and related services to both individuals and enterprises of all sizes. At December 31, 2003, the Company had a customer base of over 24 million retail customers and over 154,000 small and medium-sized enterprise customers. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Kookmin Bank had 1,136 branches and sub-branches in Korea.
PHG Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. is engaged in the delivery of products, systems and services in the fields of lighting, consumer electronics, domestic appliances and personal care, components, semiconductors and medical systems. The Lighting division consists of four lines of business: lamps, luminaires, lighting electronics and automotive and special lighting. The Consumer Electronics division focuses in the manufacture of connected displays, home entertainment hubs and networks and mobile infotainment. The Domestic Appliances and Personal Care division markets a range of products in shaving and beauty, oral healthcare, home environment care and food and beverage. Philips Semiconductors is a provider of silicon solutions to the consumer, communications, automotive and computing markets. Philips Medical Systems is a supplier of medical imaging modalities and patient monitoring systems.
KPN Royal KPN N.V. offers telecommunications services to both residential and business customers. Core activities of the Company include telephony and data services through its fixed network in the Netherlands, mobile telecommunications services in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, and data services in Western Europe. At the end of December 2003, the Company had 7.7 million fixed-line subscribers and 1.5 million Internet customers in the Netherlands and 14.7 million mobile customers in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. KPN was incorporated with two main subsidiaries: PTT Telecom B.V., offering telecommunications services, and PTT Post B.V., serving as the primary postal company in the Netherlands. In 2003, the Company's had three segments: Fixed and Mobile and Other activities.
AHO Koninklijke Ahold N.V. and its consolidated subsidiaries (Ahold) are engaged in the retail trade and foodservice businesses primarily in the United States and Europe. The Company's retail business consists of retail chain sales, sales to franchise stores and sales to associated stores. It operates through its subsidiaries, Ahold USA, Inc., Albert Heijn B.V., Gall &amp; B.V., Etos B.V., De Tuinen B.V., Schuitema N.V., Ahold Polska, Ahold Czech Republic A.S. and Ahold Retail Slovakia, k.s. Ahold's foodservice businesses operates primarily in the United States, the Netherlands and Belgium, through its subsidiaries, USF and Deli X. B.V. In August 2003, Ahold closed the sale of its 99.6% interest in Santa Isabel S.A. to Chilean retailer Cencosud S.A. In March 2004, the Company sold its stake in CRC.Ahold, operating in Thailand, to its partner, the Central Group. The divestment is the final step in the overall sale of Ahold's Asian operations.
KONG KongZhong Corporation is a provider of advanced second-generation (2.5G) wireless interactive entertainment, media and community services. In addition, the Company has begun to provide wireless value-added services on the networks of China United Telecommunications Corporation (China Unicom), China Telecommunications Corporation (China Telecom) and China Network Communications Group Corporation (China Netcom). Each of China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom and China Netcom is a state-owned enterprise, the majority of the equity interest of which is owned by the People's Republic of China. KongZhong provides services throughout China. KongZhong's services are organized in three major categories, consisting of: Interactive entertainment, Media and Community services. In March 2004, the Company changed its name from Communication Over The Air Inc. to KongZhong Corporation.
KNM Konami Corporation develops, publishes, markets and distributes video game software products globally. Konami also makes card games, character goods, toys, compact discs (CDs) and other merchandize products, many of which use characters seen in movies, television, comic books, video games, advertising or other media. In addition, it publishes, produces and services software and hardware for amusement arcade games. The Company also produces software for liquid crystal display (LCD) units used in pachinko machines, and produces video games and token-operated games installed in amusement arcades and other entertainment venues in Japan, as well as gaming machines for casinos in the United States, Australia and other overseas jurisdictions. The Company has steadily increased the number of titles published for home and handheld video game platforms from 55 titles in 1999 to 120 titles during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004).
KOMG Komag Incorporated is engaged principally in the development, production and marketing of thin-film media, or disks, primarily for use in hard disk drives. The Company primarily sells to original equipment manufacturers in the rigid disk drive market. Thin-film media are enabling components in disk drives. High-volume, high-growth applications for disk drives include personal computers, enterprise storage systems, communications infrastructure and consumer electronics appliances. The Company's most advanced longitudinal disks that feature synthetic anti-ferromagnetically coupled layers (SAF) to enhance thermal stability, is expected to support a recording density of up to 160 gigabytes (GB) per disk. In addition, it is continuing to develop its proprietary perpendicular recording media, which is expected to have storage capability of 240 to 300 GB per disk when fully developed.
KOLR.OB Kolorfusion International, Inc. develops and markets a system that allows the transfer of colors and patterns into coated metal, wood and glass and directly into a plastic surface that can be any shape or size. The Company owns the rights for this process for the United States, Canada, Japan, Russia and Brazil. The Company licenses its process and related know-how for 20 years to each original equipment manufacture (OEM).
KSS Kohl's Corporation operates family-oriented, specialty department stores that feature national brand merchandise. The Company's stores sell apparel, shoes, accessories and home products targeted to middle-income customers shopping for their families and homes. Its stores have fewer departments than traditional, full-line department stores, but offer customers assortments of merchandise displayed in selections of styles, colors and sizes. The merchandise mix emphasizes apparel and shoes for women, men and children; soft home products, such as towels, sheets and pillows, and housewares. As of March 2004, the Company operated 563 stores in 37 states.
KNUR.OB Knox Nursery, Inc. is a wholesale plant nursery specializing in sales of seedling annuals (plugs) to brokers and other nurseries located throughout the United States and Canada; and sales of potted annuals to wholesalers, landscapers and large final-use customers located primarily in Central Florida. Plug sales, which accounts for 81% of the Company's 2003 sales, involves sowing millions of seeds annually, then growing the seedlings for four to 10 weeks until the pre-finished plants are shipped to commercial growers throughout the country. These growers will transplant the plugs into larger pots and containers for resale to their customers. Potted annuals are transplanted from pre-finished plugs into the containers, and then carefully grown to a mature ready-to-sell condition. The target market for the finished plants includes mass merchandisers such as Lowe's, Home Depot and Wal-Mart, landscapers and local final-use customers such as Walt Disney World and Universal Studios.
KNOL Knology, Inc., incorporated in 1998, is a provider of video, voice, data and advanced communications services to residential and business customers in nine markets in the southeastern United States. The Company provides its services over its wholly owned 750 MHz (Megahertz) interactive broadband network. The Company offers video services over its network in the same way that traditional cable companies provide cable television service. Its network is designed for an analog and digital two-way interactive transmission with fiber-optic cable carrying signals from the headend to the distribution point within customers' neighborhoods where the signals are transferred to the Company's coaxial cable network for delivery to customers. Knology also offers telephone service over its broadband network in much the same way local phone companies provide service.
VLCCF Knightsbridge Tankers Limited is an international tanker company and its business activity is the international seaborne transportation of crude oil. The Company's fleet consists of five double-hull very large crude oil carriers (VLCCs). It was formed for the purpose of the acquisition, disposition, ownership, leasing and chartering of, through wholly owned subsidiaries (the Original Subsidiaries), five VLCCs that were on bareboat charters to Shell International Petroleum Company Limited and certain related activities. The Company's Original Subsidiaries include Cedarhurst Tankers LDC, Hewlett Tankers LDC, Inwood Tankers LDC, Lawrence Tankers LDC and Woodmere Tankers LDC. The New Subsidiaries include KTL Camden, Inc. and its flagship, Camden; KTL Chelsea, Inc. and its flagship, Chelsea; KTL Kensington, Inc. and its flagship, Kensington; KTL Hampstead, Inc. and its flagship, Hampstead, and KTL Mayfair, Inc. and its flagship, Mayfair.
NITE Knight Trading Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates in three business segments that include Equity Markets, Derivative Markets and Asset Management. In Equity Markets, the Company acts as an execution specialist providing comprehensive trade execution services to institutional and broker-dealer clients. It offers capital commitment and access to a deep pool of liquidity across the United States markets. In Derivative Markets, it operates as a specialist and market-maker in United States listed options on individual equities, equity indices and commodities. In Asset Management, the Company operates an asset management business for institutions and high-net-worth individuals. The Company managed $1.6 billion of assets during the year ended December 31, 2003.
KRI Knight-Ridder, Inc. is a newspaper publisher, with products in print and online. The Company publishes 31 daily newspapers in 28 United States markets, with a readership of 8.7 million daily and 12.6 million on Sunday. It also has investments in Internet and newsprint mill companies. Its Internet operation, Knight Ridder Digital (KRD), develops and manages its online properties. It is the founder and operator of Real Cities (www.Realcities.com), one of the largest national networks of city and regional Websites in more than 105 markets in the United States. The Company reports two operating business segments, Newspaper and Online. The Newspaper segment represented 97.3% of total operating revenue. Advertising revenue within this segment represented 75.0% of total operating revenue. Retail, Classified and National advertising revenue represented 48.7%, 36.5% and 14.8%, respectively, of total advertising revenue. Circulation revenue accounted for 19.0% of total operating revenue.
KNBT KNBT Bancorp, Inc. is a registered bank holding company. The Company's business consists of being the parent holding company for Keystone Nazareth Bank &amp; Trust Company (the Bank), a Pennsylvania-chartered savings bank. The Bank is the stock-form successor to Keystone Savings Bank upon the mutual-to-stock conversion of Keystone Savings Bank, which was completed in October 2003. Concurrent with the mutual-to-stock conversion, KNBT acquired, through a merger, First Colonial Group, Inc., the parent bank holding company for Nazareth National Bank and Trust Company. First Colonial Group was merged with and into KNBT and Nazareth National Bank was merged with and into the Bank.
KNAP Knape &amp; Vogt Manufacturing Company is engaged primarily in the design, manufacture, and marketing of functional hardware, storage-related components and ergonomic products that serve the consumer, contract builder, hardware and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) markets.The Company operates through two operating segments: home and commercial products and office products. Knape &amp; Vogt Manufacturing Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries (the Company) design, manufacture and distribute kitchen and bath storage solutions and office products for OMEs, specialty distributors, hardware chains and major home centers. The Office Products division was segregated into two market channels: OEM and dealer. The Home and Commercial Products division was segregated into two market channels: consumer and distribution/other. The consumer market is comprised of a broad base of retail outlets.
KMGB KMG Chemicals, Inc. manufactures and sells specialty chemicals in carefully focused markets. The Company sells three wood preserving chemicals, pentachlorophenol (penta), creosote and sodium pentachlorophenate (sodium penta). The wood treating chemicals are sold to industrial customers who use these preservatives to extend the useful life of wood products, principally in the railroad crossties, utility poles and construction industries. The Company also sells tetrachlorvinphos (Rabon) products, a pesticide line used by domestic livestock and poultry growers to protect animals from flies and other pests, and an herbicide product consisting of monosodium and disodium methanearsonic acids (MSMA). MSMA herbicides sold by the Company in the United States are Bueno 6 and Ansar 6.6. Bueno 6 is used primarily for weed control in cotton fields and Ansar 6.6 is used on weeds along highways.
KMRT Kmart Corporation is a discount retailer operating through 1,511 Kmart discount stores and Supercenters with locations in 49 states, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands and Guam, as of January 28, 2004, and through an e-commerce shopping site, www.kmart.com. The Company has one operating segment that consists of its retail business. Its general merchandise retail operations are located in 286 of the 331 metropolitan statistical areas in the United States. Its 60 Kmart Supercenters combine a full grocery, deli and bakery, along with the general merchandise selection of a Kmart discount store. The brands that the Company markets include Martha Stewart Everyday, JOE BOXER, Jaclyn Smith, Sesame Street and Thalia Sodi, among others. On January 22, 2002, Kmart and 37 of its United States subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. In May 2003, the Company emerged from Chapter 11 protection.
KLMK.OB Klever Marketing, Inc. was formed for the purpose of creating a vehicle to obtain capital, file and acquire patents and seek out, investigate, develop, manufacture and market electronic in-store advertising, directory and coupon services that have potential for profit. The Company is in the process of the development of its process, Klever-Kart. Its goal is to become a supplier of in-store promotions and advertising technology for grocery and other mass-merchandise retailers. From July 1996 to December 2003, the Company was in the development stage, except for an approximate two-month period in 2000, when it generated revenue from installations of its Klever-Kart system in stores. In February 2004, the Company signed a partnership contract with Fujitsu Transaction Solutions (Fujitsu). Under this contract, Fujitsu will manufacture the hardware of Klever-Kart System and provide the technical installations, information technology implementation and support for all retail locations.
KLAC KLA-Tencor Corporation is a supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related microelectronics industries. The Company's portfolio of products, software, analysis and services is designed to help integrated circuit manufacturers manage yield throughout the entire fabrication process, from research and development to final mass-production yield analysis. KLA-Tencor provides inline wafer defect monitoring; reticle and photomask defect inspection; critical dimension metrology; wafer overlay; film and surface measurement, and overall yield and fab-wide data analysis. The Company's product offerings are broadly categorized into four groups: Defect Inspection, Metrology, Yield Management Software Solutions, Data Storage and Customer Service and Support. In addition, the Company provides refurbished KLA-Tencor certified tools along with warranty and support.
KHK Kitty Hawk, Inc. provides air freight services utilizing its two operating subsidiaries: an expedited scheduled freight network, Kitty Hawk Cargo, Inc., and an all-cargo Boeing 727-200 cargo airline, Kitty Hawk Aircargo, Inc. Kitty Hawk Cargo operates an independent, city-to-city expedited scheduled freight network among 52 cities in the continental United States and selected cities in Canada, providing next-morning and two-day delivery service. In addition to the services provided to Kitty Hawk's expedited scheduled freight network, the cargo airline provides services like supplying the aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance for the customer (ACMI services) on short to medium-term contracts and ad-hoc charter services. Kitty Hawk Aircargo provides airfreight transportation services, in North America, using owned or leased Boeing 727-200 cargo aircraft. At February 29, 2004, the Company owned 11 Boeing 727-200 cargo aircraft, of which seven were operating in revenue service.
KRG Kite Realty Group Trust is a full-service, vertically integrated real estate company focused primarily on the development, construction, acquisition, ownership and operation of neighborhood and community shopping centers in selected growth markets in the United States. The Company owns interests in a portfolio of 25 operating retail properties totaling approximately 4.1 million square feet of gross leasable area (including non-owned anchor space) and 12 retail properties under development that are expected to contain approximately 1.4 million square feet of gross leasable area (including non-owned anchor space). Kite also owns interests in four operating commercial properties totaling approximately 545,000 square feet of net rentable area, a related parking garage and one commercial property under development. In addition, the Company owns interests in nine parcels of land at or near its properties that may be used for future development of retail or commercial properties.
KIRK Kirkland's, Inc. is a specialty retailer of home decor in the United States, operating primarily through 280 stores in 34 states as of January 31, 2004 (fiscal 2003). The Company's stores present a selection of merchandise, including framed art, mirrors, candles, lamps, picture frames, accent rugs, garden accessories and artificial floral products. These stores also offer an assortment of holiday merchandise, as well as items carried throughout the year suitable for giving as gifts. During fiscal 2003, Kirkland's opened 42 new stores and closed 11 stores. Of the 42 new stores, 25 are located in enclosed malls and 17 are located in non-mall venues. All of the 11 closings in fiscal 2003 were mall stores. As of January 31, 2004, the Company operated 35 of its 280 stores in a variety of non-mall venues including lifestyle strip centers, power centers and outlet centers.
KNBWY Kirin Brewery Company, Limited has three core businesses: alcohol beverages, soft drinks and food. Alcohol beverages are the core of the Kirin's operations, encompassing the low-alcohol (less than 10%) beverages of beer, happo-shu (low-malt beer) and chu-hi (distilled liquor with fruit juice) drinks, as well as spirits, wine and Chinese liquors. Kirin also has subsidiaries and strategic alliances with companies in China, Taiwan, Australia, the Philippines, the United States and Europe. Kirin's soft drink business is handled principally by Kirin Beverage Corporation. Its main products include tea drinks in polyethylene bottles, canned coffee and health drinks to provide amino acids, as well as lemon and other fruit drinks. The food business is comprised of dairy products such as yogurt, milk and butter; tomato-based foods and juice, and processed meats, such as ham and sausages. The Company is also engaged in diversified businesses, such as pharmaceuticals and other businesses.
KEX Kirby Corporation, through its subsidiaries, conducts operations in two business segments: marine transportation and diesel engine services. The Company's marine transportation segment is engaged in the inland transportation of petrochemicals, black oil products, refined petroleum products and agricultural chemicals by tank barges, and, to a lesser extent, the offshore transportation of dry-bulk cargoes by barge. Its diesel engine services segment is engaged in the overhaul and repair of diesel engines and reduction gears and related parts sales in three markets: the marine market, the power generation and industrial market and the railroad market.
KNTA Kintera, Inc. is a software as a service company that helps non-profit organizations increase donations, reduce fundraising costs and build awareness and affinity for their cause. The Company's Knowledge Interaction technology strengthens an organization's community by providing volunteers, members, donors and staff Web-based software tools to fulfill their tasks and share real-time data and information. Kintera's Internet innovations include the Friends Asking Friends solicitation program, an enterprise-grade software platform. A Web browser is all that is needed to access Kintera's easy-to-use system for fundraising and special events, membership and eCommerce, content-managed Websites (CMS), email and eNewsletters, activism and advocacy, contact relationship management and payment processing. In 2004, Kintera acquired Prospect Information Network (PIN), a provider of prospect screening solutions, and Carol/Trevelyan Strategy Group (CTSG), a provider of online advocacy solutions.
KGC Kinross Gold Corporation is engaged in the mining and processing of gold and as a by-product, silver ore, as well as the exploration, acquisition of gold bearing properties in the Americas and Russia. The principal products of Kinross are gold and silver produced in the form of dore that is shipped to refineries for final processing. The Company's share of proven and probable reserves, during the year ended December 31, 2003, was 14.1 million ounces of gold and 38.6 million ounces of silver. Kinross' share of production in 2003, was derived from the mines in Canada, which accounted for 23%, the United States, accounted 47%, Russia, accounted 10% and South America, accounted 20%. On January 31, 2003, the Company completed its combination with TVX Gold Inc. and Echo Bay Mines Ltd. In December 2004, the Company completed the purchase of the 51% of the Rio Paracatu Mineracao (RPM), the owner of the Morro do Ouro mine in Brazil from Rio Tinto Plc.
KFS Kingsway Financial Services Inc. (KFSI) is a holding company that operates through its wholly owned subsidiaries in the property and casualty insurance business. The Company's principal lines of business are non-standard automobile and trucking insurance. KFSI also provides standard automobile insurance, as well as insurance for commercial and public vehicles, including taxis. In addition, the Company provides motorcycle insurance, specialized commercial and personal property coverage, warranty insurance and other specialty coverages, such as customs and surety bonds. KFSI conducts its operations through wholly owned subsidiaries in Canada and the United States. The Company is licensed to offer a range of property and casualty insurance in all Canadian provinces and territories, as well as in all of the states and the District of Columbia in the United States.
KNGS.OB Kingsley Coach, Inc. is engaged in the business of manufacturing motorhomes, medical transport vehicles and emergency response vehicles under the tradename Kingsley Coach. The Kingsley Coach is a recreation vehicle (RV)-body mounted onto a stretched truck chassis. The Company opens the back of the cab and welds the living quarters to the open frame, creating a walk-through vehicle with the safety of uni-body construction. Every Kingsley Coach is custom-manufactured, often by conversion of a tractor previously owned and used by the customer
KG King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a vertically integrated pharmaceutical company that is engaged in the development, manufacturing, marketing and sales of branded prescription pharmaceutical products. The Company's products can be divided into the therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular, endocrinology/women's health, neuroscience, critical care, anti-infectives and respiratory. King markets its products to general/family practitioners, internal medicine physicians, cardiologists, endocrinologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, obstetricians/gynecologists, as well as to hospitals across the United States and Puerto Rico. The Company also receives royalties from the rights of certain products, including Adenocard and Adenoscan. In November 2004, Barr Pharmaceuticals' subsidiary, Duramed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. acquired from the Company's exclusive rights in the United States for Prefest (estradiol/norgestimate) Tablets.
KCI Kinetic Concepts, Inc. is a global medical technology company active in the areas of advanced wound care and therapeutic surfaces. The Company designs, manufactures, markets and services a wide range of proprietary products, which can significantly improve clinical outcomes while reducing the overall cost of patient care by accelerating the healing process or preventing complications. The Company's advanced wound care systems incorporate its proprietary Vacuum Assisted Closure (VAC) technology, which has been clinically demonstrated to promote wound healing and reduce the cost of treating patients with serious wounds. The Company's therapeutic surfaces, including specialty hospital beds, mattress replacement systems and overlays, are designed to address complications associated with immobility and obesity, such as pressure sores and pneumonia.
KND Kindred Healthcare, Inc. is a healthcare services company that primarily operates hospitals, nursing centers and institutional pharmacies. During 2003, the Company was organized into three operating divisions: the hospital division, the health services division and the pharmacy division. The hospital division primarily operates long-term acute care hospitals. As of June 30, 2004, the division operated 70 hospitals (5,474 licensed beds) in 24 states. Kindred's health services division operated 252 nursing centers (32,589 licensed beds) in 29 states and a rehabilitation therapy business. The pharmacy division provides institutional pharmacy services to nursing centers and other healthcare providers. As of June 30, 2004, the division operated 30 institutional pharmacies in 19 states. The Company also operated a contract rehabilitation services business that began operating as a separate division on January 1, 2004.
KMR Kinder Morgan Management, LLC is a limited partnership company that manages and controls the business and affairs of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (KMEP) pursuant to a delegation of control agreement. KMEP is a pipeline limited partnership in the United States in terms of market capitalization and the owner and operator of an independent refined petroleum products pipeline system in the United States in terms of volumes delivered. KMEP owns and/or operates a diverse group of assets used in the transportation, storage and processing of energy products, including refined petroleum products pipeline systems with more than 10,000 miles of products pipeline and 39 associated terminals.
KMI Kinder Morgan, Inc. is an energy and related services provider. Its principal business segments are Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America and certain affiliates, an interstate natural gas pipeline and storage system; TransColorado Gas Transmission Company, an interstate natural gas pipeline; Kinder Morgan Retail, the regulated sale of natural gas to residential, commercial and industrial customers and the sale of natural gas to certain utility customers under its Choice Gas Program, and Power, the operation of natural gas-fired electric generation facilities. The operations of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, a significant limited partnership equity method investee in which the Company also holds the general partner interest, include liquids and refined petroleum products pipelines; transportation and storage of natural gas; carbon dioxide production and transportation and production of oil, and bulk and liquids terminals.
KMP Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L. P., provides services through the following activities: transporting, storing and processing refined petroleum products; transporting, storing and selling natural gas; producing, transporting and selling carbon dioxide for use in, and selling crude oil produced from, enhanced oil recovery operations, and transloading, storing and delivering a variety of bulk, petroleum and petrochemical products at terminal facilities located across the United States. The portfolio of businesses it owns or operates is grouped into four reportable business segments: Products Pipelines, Natural Gas Pipelines, Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Terminals.
KIM Kimco Realty Corporation is an owner and operator of neighborhood and community shopping centers. The Company is a self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT). It manages its properties through present management, which owns and operates neighborhood and community shopping centers. As of February 5, 2004, its portfolio consisted of 699 property interests, including 620 neighborhood and community shopping center properties, including 26 property interests related to its Preferred Equity program, 36 retail store leases, 33 ground-up development projects and 10 parcels of undeveloped land totaling approximately 102.6 million square feet of leasable space, including 3.9 million square feet related to its Preferred Equity program and 4.9 million square feet projected for the ground-up development projects, located in 41 states, Canada and Mexico. In December 2004, PL Retail LLC, a joint venture between the Company and clients of DRA Advisors LLC, acquired Price Legacy Corporation.
KMB Kimberly-Clark Corporation manufactures and markets a range of health and hygiene products. The Company is organized into three global business segments: Personal Care, Consumer Tissue and Business-to-Business. The Personal Care segment manufactures and markets disposable diapers, training and youth pants and swimpants; feminine and incontinence care products, and related products. The Consumer Tissue segment manufactures and markets facial and bathroom tissue, paper towels and napkins for household use; wet wipes, and related products. The Business-to-Business segment manufactures and markets facial and bathroom tissue, paper towels, wipers and napkins; healthcare products, such as surgical gowns, drapes, infection control products, sterilization wraps, disposable face masks and exam gloves; printing, premium business and correspondence papers, and specialty and technical papers. In November 2004, the Company spun-off of its paper and Canadian pulp operations, Neenah Paper Inc.
KBALB Kimball International, Inc. (Kimball) provides a vast array of products from its two business segments: the Furniture and Cabinets segment, and the Electronic Contract Assemblies segment. The Furniture and Cabinets segment provides furniture for the office, residential and hospitality industries, all sold under the Company's family of brand names. The Furniture and Cabinets segment also provides engineering and manufacturing services, which utilize common production and support capabilities on a contract basis to customers in the residential furniture and cabinets, office furniture and retail infrastructure industries, as well as forest products. The Electronic Contract Assemblies segment provides engineering and manufacturing services, which utilize common production and support capabilities to a variety of industries globally. In the United States, the Company has facilities and showrooms in 13 states and the District of Columbia.
KRC Kilroy Realty Corporation is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns, operates, develops and acquires Class A suburban office and industrial real estate in suburban submarkets, primarily in Southern California. As of December 31, 2003, the Company's stabilized portfolio of operating properties consists of 82 office buildings and 50 industrial buildings, which encompassed an aggregate of approximately 7.3 million and 4.9 million rentable square feet, respectively. The Office Properties were approximately 87.6% leased to 282 tenants and the Industrial Properties were approximately 94.5% leased to 73 tenants. All but five of the Properties are located in Southern California.
KFX KFX Inc. is a clean energy technology company with a patented process, referred to as the K-Fuel technology, which uses heat and pressure to physically and chemically transform high-moisture, low-energy-value coal and other organic feed stocks into a low-moisture, high-energy solid clean fuel (K-Fuel). The technology adds value to coal producers and the electric power generation industry by improving the quality of low-grade coal and facilitating the industry's compliance with air emission standards. The Company operates a research development and demonstration facility near Gillette, Wyoming, that includes a Class A laboratory and pilot plants capable of processing all types of source coal into K-Fuel, using its technology. This facility provides information to the Company's potential customers and governmental agencies in assessing the benefits of the K-Fuel process.
KFRC Kforce Inc. is a provider of professional and technical specialty staffing services. The Company operates through 62 locations in 45 markets in the United States and serves clients from Fortune 1000, as well as local and regional small to mid-size companies. The Company is focused exclusively on the staffing business. Its staffing services include Flexible Staffing Services (Flex) that entails placing skilled workers on a temporary basis and Search Services (Search) that involve locating permanent workers. Kforce has three functional service offerings: information technology (IT), finance and accounting (FA) and health and life sciences (HLS). Kforce's IT services focus primarily on more sophisticated areas of information technologies such as networking. Its FA personnel provide both temporary staffing and search placement services to its clients in areas, such as taxation, financial reporting and general accounting. The HLS segment is organized and managed by specialties.
KFED K-Fed Bancorp is a federally chartered stock corporation that was formed, in July 2003, for the purpose of acquiring all of the capital stock of Kaiser Federal Bank issued upon its reorganization into a mutual holding company structure. K-Fed Bancorp has not engaged in any significant business since its formation. Kaiser Federal Bank is a federally chartered stock savings association that converted from a federal credit union in November 1999.
KEYS Keystone Automotive Industries, Inc. is a distributor of aftermarket collision replacement parts produced by independent manufacturers for automobiles and light trucks. The Company distributes products to collision repair shops throughout most of the United States and certain areas in Canada. In addition, Keystone recycles and produces chrome plated and plastic bumpers and remanufactures alloy and steel wheels. Its product lines consist of automotive body parts, bumpers and remanufactured alloy wheels, as well as paint and other materials used in repairing a damaged vehicle. It operates a hub and spoke distribution system consisting of 125 distribution centers, 22 of which serve as regional hubs and 15 depots, located in 38 states throughout the United States, as well as in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia in Canada. In addition, Keystone operates nine wheel-remanufacturing facilities and 42 plastic and steel bumper-recycling facilities.
KSE KeySpan Corporation is engaged, through its subsidiaries, in four operating segments. The Gas Distribution segment consists of six regulated gas distribution subsidiaries that operate in New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The Electric Services segment consists of subsidiaries that manage the electric transmission and distribution system owned by the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA); provide generating capacity and energy conversion services for LIPA from KeySpan's generating facilities located on Long Island, and manage fuel supplies for LIPA to fuel the Long Island generating facilities. The Energy Services segment provides energy-related services to customers in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. The Energy Investments segment includes gas exploration and production, domestic pipelines and gas storage facilities, midstream natural gas processing in Canada and natural gas pipeline activities in the United Kingdom.
KEYN Keynote Systems, Inc. (Keynote) offers e-business performance measurement services and performance management solutions that enable corporate enterprises to improve e-business performance by reducing costs, improving customer satisfaction and increasing profitability. The Company's services are comprised of three broad areas: customer experience management (CEM) and service level management (SLM), which represent performance management solutions, and Web monitoring and measurement, which represents performance measurement services. Its e-business performance measurement services and performance management solutions help customers manage their Web performance around the clock from an end user perspective. The Company had over 1,600 measurement computers deployed in over 56 cities and in 123 locations as of September 30, 2004.
KEY KeyCorp is a bank holding company and a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries provides a range of retail and commercial banking, commercial leasing, investment management, consumer finance and investment banking products and services to individual, corporate and institutional clients. The Company's three business groups are Consumer Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking and Investment Management Services. During the year ended December 31, 2003, these services were provided across the United States through subsidiaries operating 906 full-service retail banking branches, known as KeyCenters, a telephone banking call center services group and 2,167 automated teller machines (ATMs) in 17 states. KeyCorp is also an equity participant in a joint venture with Key Merchant Services, LLC, which provides merchant services to businesses. In December 2004, Key Equipment Finance (KEF), a unit of KeyCorp, acquired American Express Business Finance Corporation (AEBF).
KTCC Key Tronic Corporation (d/b/a KeyTronicEMS Co.) is principally engaged in electronic manufacturing services (EMS) and consumer related products manufacturing for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The Company also manufactures keyboards and other input devices for personal computers, terminals and workstations primarily in standard layouts that can be sold directly from inventory on hand. Operations are conducted in facilities in the United States, China, Mexico and Ireland.
KTEC Key Technology, Inc. and its operating subsidiaries design, manufacture, sell and service process automation systems that process product streams of discrete pieces to improve safety and quality. These systems integrate electro-optical automated inspection and sorting systems with process systems, which include specialized conveying and preparation systems. The Company provides parts and service for each of its product lines to customers throughout the world. Industries served include food processing, non-food and industrial applications.
KYGC.OB Key Gold Corporation formerly known as DDI International Inc., has changed the core business to financing the exploration of precious and non-precious metals and other mineral resources within a specified region in the south of Fengcheng, northeast extending, covers an area of 800 square kilometers, including Hongqi Town, Bianmen Town, Dongtang Town of Fengcheng City and Tangshancheng Town of Dandong City, People's Republic of China (PRC). The Company had an agreement to acquire JHP Resources Limited (JHP).
KEG Key Energy Services, Inc. operates as an onshore, rig-based well servicing contractor. It had approximately 1,489 well service rigs and 2,295 oilfield service vehicles as of December 31, 2002. Key provides a range of well services to oil companies and independent oil and natural gas companies, including rig-based well maintenance, workover, completion and recompletion services; well intervention services; oilfield trucking services, and ancillary oilfield services. Key conducts well servicing operations onshore the continental United States in the following regions: Gulf Coast, Permian Basin of West Texas and Eastern New Mexico, Mid-Continent, Four Corners, Rocky Mountains and California and internationally in Argentina, Egypt and Canada. The Company is also an onshore drilling contractor, with approximately 79 land drilling rigs at year end. Key conducts land drilling operations in a number of major domestic producing basins, as well as in Argentina and in Canada.
KEQU Kewaunee Scientific Corporation (Kewaunee) is engaged in the design, manufacture and installation of laboratory and technical furniture, including steel and wood laboratory cabinetry, fume hoods, network storage systems, worksurfaces, workstations, workbenches and computer enclosures. Sales are made through purchase orders and contracts submitted by customers, the Company's dealers and agents, a national stocking distributor, competitive bids submitted by Kewaunee and subsidiaries located in Singapore and Bangalore, India. Its products are sold to customers located in North America, primarily within the United States. Kewaunee's laboratory products are used in chemistry, physics, biology and other general science laboratories in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, industrial, chemical, commercial, educational, government and healthcare markets. Technical products are used in manufacturing facilities of computers and light electronics are used for computer and networking furniture.
KEST.OB Kestrel Energy, Inc. is primarily engaged in the acquisition, either alone or with others, of interests in proved developed producing oil and gas leases, and exploratory and developmental drilling. As of June 30, 2003, the Company owned oil and gas interests in the states of Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming. As of June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Kestrel had a royalty and/or working interest in 90 gross (3.4 net) wells that produce oil only, 44 gross (11.2 net) wells that produce gas only, and 19 (1.2 net) wells that produce both oil and gas. All wells that produced gas are connected to pipelines. The net production for the royalty interests for fiscal 2004, were 137 barrels (Bbls) and 19 thousand cubic feet (Mcf) of oil and gas, respectively.
KZL Kerzner International Limited develops and operates resort casinos and other properties throughout the world, and manages its business in three segments: destination resorts, gaming and One&amp;Only. The destination resorts segment is comprised of the Company's larger destination resorts, including its flagship property, Atlantis, Paradise Island, and its jointly owned timeshare, Harborside, at Atlantis, and its wholly owned tour operator, PIV, Inc. The gaming segment is comprised of the Company's interests in properties that are primarily casinos, such as its indirect interest in the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. Kerzner is also pursuing gaming opportunities in certain jurisdictions throughout the world, including the United Kingdom. The One&amp;Only segment consists of a collection of properties that primarily operate in the five-star, deluxe-end of the resort market in the Bahamas, Mauritius, Dubai, the Maldives and Mexico, under the One&amp;Only brand.
KERX Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the acquisition, development and commercialization of pharmaceutical products for the treatment of life-threatening diseases, including diabetes and cancer. Keryx has two product candidates in late-stage clinical development: Sulodexide or KRX-101, for the treatment of diabetic nephropathy, a life-threatening kidney disease caused by diabetes, and Perifosine or KRX-0401, for the treatment of multiple forms of cancer. Keryx announced that it has acquired ACCESS Oncology, Inc. and its subsidiaries or ACCESS Oncology, a cancer-focused biotechnology company. The acquired drug portfolio includes three clinical stage compounds, designated as KRX-0401, KRX-0402 and KRX-0403.
KMG Kerr-McGee Corporation is an energy and inorganic chemical holding company whose consolidated subsidiaries, joint venture partners and other affiliates (collectively, affiliates) have operations throughout the world. The Company's affiliates that are engaged in the energy business acquire leases and concessions and explore for, develop, produce and market crude oil and natural gas onshore in the United States and in the Gulf of Mexico, the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea and China. The Company also holds exploration licenses and concessions in Australia, Benin, Bahamas, Brazil, Gabon, Morocco, Western Sahara, Canada, the Danish and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea and Yemen. Kerr-McGee affiliates that are engaged in chemical businesses produce and market titanium dioxide pigment and certain other specialty chemicals, heavy minerals and forest products. In June 2004, the Company was merged with Westport Resources Corporation, an independent energy company.
KINV.OB Kentucky Investors, Inc. holds 100% of the outstanding common stock of a life insurance company and owns a printing company and an insurance marketing company, and the sole member of a Kentucky limited liability company. Kentucky Investors owns 100% of Investors Heritage Life Insurance Company, Investors Heritage Printing, Inc. and Investors Heritage Financial Services Group, Inc. Kentucky Investors is the sole member of Family Assignment Services, LLC, a Kentucky limited liability corporation. Investors Heritage Printing, Investors Heritage Financial and Family Assignment are referred as the Non-insurance subsidiaries. Investors Heritage Life owns 96% of Investors Underwriters, Inc., an investment holding company. While the Non-insurance Subsidiaries continue to expand, less than 2% of Kentucky Investors' total operations were generated by the Non-insurance Subsidiaries for the year ended December 31, 2003.
KTYB.OB Kentucky Bancshares, Inc. is a loan holding company that conducts business in the state of Kentucky through its subsidiary, Kentucky Bank. Kentucky Bank is a commercial bank and trust company engaged in general full-service commercial and consumer banking. Kentucky Bank makes commercial, agricultural and real estate loans to its commercial customers, with emphasis on small to medium-sized businesses. It makes residential mortgage, installment and other loans to its individual and other non-commercial customers. Kentucky Bank also offers a credit card. Kentucky Bank also offers checking, savings, money market accounts, certificates of deposits, safe deposit facilities and other consumer-oriented financial services. In addition, it offers Internet banking at, www.kybank.com. Through its wealth management department, Kentucky Bank provides brokerage services, annuities, life and long-term care insurance, personal trust and agency services, including management agency services.
KENT Kent Financial Services, Inc., until Jul 31, 2003, owned 100% of T. R. Winston &amp; Company, Inc. (Winston, Inc), a licensed securities broker-dealer and a wholly owned subsidiary. The Company also invests through its subsidiary, Asset Value Fund Limited Partnership (AVF), to provide investment advisory and management services. Effective July 2003, the Company sold 60% of Winston, Inc. to two executives of Winston, Inc. (Agreement). Subsequently Winston, Inc. was reorganized to form T. R. Winston &amp; Company, LLC (Winston). Subsequent to the Agreement, Kent has no management responsibility for Winston but is entitled to a 40% distributive share of Winston's profits as defined by the Agreement and is accounting for its investment in Winston by the equity method. At December 31, 2003, AVF held nine equity investments, of which four consisted of owning more than 5% of the investee's outstanding capital stock.
KNSY Kensey Nash Corporation is a medical technology company providing solutions, via novel technologies, for a wide range of medical procedures. The Company has expanded along with vascular puncture closure provides a range of products into multiple medical markets, primarily cardiovascular, sports medicine and spine, amongst others. The Company designs, develops, manufactures and processes absorbable biomaterials for medical applications. It has invented Angio-Seal Vascular Closure Device (Angio-Seal), a device designed to seal and close femoral artery punctures made during diagnostic and therapeutic cardiovascular catheterizations. The Company has advanced into the cardiovascular market, the TriActiv Balloon Protected Flush Extraction System (the TriActiv), a device designed to provide embolic protection during the treatment of diseased vessels.
KCP Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc. designs, sources and markets a range of fashion footwear and handbags and, through license agreements, designs and markets apparel and accessories under its Kenneth Cole New York, Reaction Kenneth Cole and Unlisted brand names. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Kenneth Cole added the Bongo trademark brand for footwear through a license agreement. The Company markets its products to more than 7,500 department and specialty store locations, as well as through its Consumer Direct business, which includes an expanding base of retail and outlet stores, consumer catalogs and interactive Websites, including online e-commerce.
KMT Kennametal Inc. is a global manufacturer, marketer and distributor of cutting tools, tooling systems, supplies and technical services, as well as wear-resistant parts. It specializes in developing and manufacturing metalworking tools and wear-resistant parts using a specialized type of powder metallurgy. The Company's metalworking tools are made of cemented tungsten carbides, ceramics, cermets, high-speed steel and other hard materials. The Company's customers include metalworking manufacturers and suppliers in the aerospace, automotive, machine tool and farm machinery industries, as well as manufacturers and suppliers in the highway construction, coal mining, quarrying and oil and gas exploration industries. In March 2004, the Company acquired Conforma Clad, Inc., a provider of engineered components that deliver wear solutions to industrial markets.
KNDL Kendle International Inc. is a contract research organization that provides a range of Phase I through IV clinical research and drug development services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The Company augments the research and development activities of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies by offering clinical research services and proprietary information technology designed to reduce drug development time and expense. The Company is managed in one segment, encompassing Phase I through IV contract services.
KEM KEMET Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, is a manufacturer of tantalum and multilayer ceramic capacitors and solid aluminum capacitors. It manufactures a line of capacitors, including tantalum, multilayer ceramic and solid aluminum. The Company manufactures these types of capacitors in many different sizes and configurations. It produces surface-mount capacitors, which are attached directly to the circuit board without lead wires, and leaded capacitors, which are attached to the circuit board using lead wires. The Company's products include KO-CAPs, AO-CAPs and MATs. Its customers include Alcatel, Arrow Electronics, Avnet, Celestica, Compaq, Dell, Delphi, Flextronics, Hewlett-Packard, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Intel, Jabil, Jaco, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nokia, Pioneer, Qualcomm, Sanmina-SCI, Siemens, Solectron, TTI and Visteon.
KELYA Kelly Services, Inc. is a global temporary staffing company operating in 26 countries worldwide. The Company's operations are divided into three principal business segments: U.S. Commercial Staffing, Professional, Technical and Staffing Alternatives (PTSA) and International. U.S. Commercial Staffing includes traditional office services, along with education, call center and light industrial staffing. PTSA includes various specialty staffing services ranging from finance and engineering to information, legal and healthcare. The staffing alternatives units include staff leasing, outsourcing, consulting, recruitment and vendor management services. International includes staffing services in the countries outside the United States.
KWD Kellwood Company and its subsidiaries are principally engaged in the apparel and related soft goods industry. These products are manufactured in Asia and Central America. The Company's business units are aggregated into three major market product groupings: Women's Sportswear, Men's Sportswear and Other Soft Goods. The Corporate group is its fourth segment. In 2003 the Company entered into several licensing agreements, including Calvin Klein for women's sportswear, IZOD for women's sportswear, Def Jam for men's and women's sportswear, Liz Claiborne for women's suits and XOXO for juniors sportswear, intimate apparel and dresses. On February 3, 2004, the Company acquired Phat Fashions, LLC and Phat Licensing, LLC (collectively, Phat). Part of the purchase was Phat's option to buyout the license from the menswear licensee, which the Company exercised in February 2004.
K Kellogg Company and its subsidiaries are engaged in the manufacture and marketing of ready-to-eat cereals and convenience foods, such as cookies, crackers, toaster pastries, cereal bars, frozen waffles and meat alternatives. In the fiscal year ended December 27, 2003 (fiscal 2003), these products were manufactured by the Company in 17 countries and marketed in more than 180 countries. Its cereal products are generally marketed under the Kellogg's name, and are sold principally to the grocery trade. It uses broker and distribution arrangements for certain products. It also generally uses these, or similar arrangements, in less-developed market areas or in those market areas outside of its focus. Kellogg also markets cookies, crackers and other convenience foods, under brands such as Kellogg's, Keebler, Cheez-It, Murray, Austin and Famous Amos, to supermarkets in the United States through a direct store-door delivery system, although other distribution methods are also used.
KEI Keithley Instruments, Inc., designs, develops, manufactures and markets complex electronic instruments and systems geared to the specialized needs of electronics manufacturers for high-performance production testing, process monitoring, product development and research. The Company's has approximately 500 products, which are integrated systems used to source, measure, connect, control or communicate electrical direct current (DC), radio frequency (RF) or optical signals. The Company's customers include engineers, technicians and scientists in manufacturing, product development and research functions. The Company develops new products for specific industry applications and for general purposes to serve a larger customer constituency.
KEA Keane, Inc. is a provider of information technology (IT) and business consulting services. It helps clients plan, build and manage applications software through its Business Consulting, Application Development and Integration (AD&amp;I) and Application Development and Management Outsourcing (Application Outsourcing) services. Keane focuses on three synergistic service offerings: Plan Services, which include business consulting and program management; Build Services, including AD&amp;I, and Manage Services, including application outsourcing and business process outsourcing (BPO). Services are delivered using its global delivery model, from operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and India. In March 2004, the Company acquired Nims Associates, Inc., an IT and consulting services company with offices in the Midwest and Advanced Development Centers in Indianapolis and Dallas.
KCS KCS Energy, Inc. is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of natural gas and crude oil. The Company's properties are primarily located in the Mid-Continent and onshore Gulf Coast regions of the United States. The Company also has interests in producing properties in Michigan, California and Wyoming. At December 31, 2003, the Company's oil and natural gas properties were estimated to have net proved reserves of 268.3 billion cubic feet equivalent. Approximately 85% of its net proved reserve base was natural gas and approximately 74% was classified as proved developed. KCS operates approximately 78% of its proved oil and natural gas reserve base. The Company holds interests in all of its oil and gas properties through two operating subsidiaries, KCS Resources, Inc. and Medallion California Properties Company.
KBH KB Home is a homebuilder based in the United States with operations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas. In addition, Kaufman &amp; Broad S.A., the Company's majority-owned subsidiary, is a homebuilder with operations primarily in France. During the fiscal year ended November 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), KB Home delivered 31,646 homes in the United States and France. KB Home also provides mortgage banking services to the majority of its domestic homebuyers through its wholly owned subsidiary, KB Home Mortgage Company.
KDN Kaydon Corporation designs and manufactures an array of proprietary custom-engineered, critical performance products to a diverse customer base throughout North America, Europe and Asia. The Company conducts its business through operating segments. The Company's principal products include bearing systems and components, and filters and filter housings as well as custom rings, shaft seals, linear deceleration products, slip-rings, video and data multiplexers, fiber optic rotary joints, printed circuit boards, specialty retaining rings, specialty balls, fuel cleansing systems, industrial presses and metal alloy products. These products are used by customers in a variety of medical, instrumentation, material handling, machine tool positioning, aerospace, defense, security, construction, electronic, marine and other industrial applications. Substantially all of the manufacturing is done in-house and subcontractors are utilized for occasional specialized services.
KT Katy Industries, Inc. carries on its business through two principal operating groups, Maintenance Products and Electrical Products. The Company's other operations include a 43% equity investment in a shrimp harvesting and farming operation, Sahlman Holding Company, Inc., and a 100% interest in Savannah Energy Systems Company, the limited partner in a waste-to-energy facility operator. The Maintenance Products Group's principal business is the manufacturing, distribution and sale of sanitary maintenance supplies, professional cleaning products, home and automotive storage products and abrasives. The Electrical Products Group's principal business is the distribution and sale of consumer electric corded products and electrical accessories.
KSU Kansas City Southern (KCS) is a holding company with principal operations in rail transportation. KCS, along with its subsidiaries and affiliates, owns and operates a North American rail network focused on the growing north/south freight corridor that connects commercial and industrial markets in the central United States with industrial cities in Mexico. The Company's rail network comprises approximately 6,000 miles of main and branch lines extending from the midwest portions of the United States south into Mexico. In addition, through an alliance with Canadian National Railway Company and Illinois Central Corporation, KCS has access to a contiguous rail network of approximately 25,000 miles of main and branch lines connecting Canada, the United States and Mexico. KCS's rail network is further expanded through marketing agreements with Norfolk Southern Railway Company, The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company and the Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad Corporation.
KCLI Kansas City Life Insurance Company (KCL) is a financial services company. KCL offers a line of traditional, interest sensitive and variable life and annuity insurance products, in addition to a variety of group life and group accident and health insurance products, and is licensed in 48 states and the District of Columbia. The Company's principal subsidiaries are Sunset Life Insurance Company of America and Old American Insurance Company. Sunset Life is a full line life insurance and annuity carrier, and is licensed in 43 states and the District of Columbia. Old American, which specializes in final expense insurance for seniors, is licensed in 46 states and the District of Columbia. KCL also offers investment products and broker dealer services through its subsidiary, Sunset Financial Services, Inc. The Company offers banking services such as deposit accounts, loans and Internet banking through its subsidiary, Generations Bank.
KSL Kaneb Services LLC (KSL) was formed as a limited liability company in 2001 from assets previously held by Kaneb Services, Inc. (now Xanser Corporation). Those assets include the KPP general partner interest and incentive, as well as 5.1 million partnership units, a wholesale petroleum product marketing company, and a wholly owned subsidiary, Kaneb Pipe Line Company LLC, which manages and operates the pipeline and terminaling assets of KPP. KSL is a limited liability company that owns the general partner interest of another master limited partnership.
KPP Kaneb Pipe Line Partners, L.P. (the Partnership), a master limited partnership, was formed in 1989 to own a 2,075-mile common carrier pipeline system from Kansas to North Dakota that has been managed by Kaneb Pipe Line Company LLC since 1953. Pipeline acquisitions in 1995 and 1998 added 725 miles of pipeline in Colorado, Iowa, South Dakota and Wyoming. In 2002, the Partnership acquired a 2,000-mile pipeline system that runs from the Louisiana Gulf Coast to the upper Midwest states. In December 2002, it acquired a 400-mile products pipeline and four terminals in North Dakota and Minnesota. In 2001, the Partnership completed an acquisition of seven West Coast, United States terminals. In 2002, it completed an acquisition of two terminaling facilities located in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, Canada and on the island of St. Eustatius in the Netherlands Antilles, and the acquisition of eight bulk liquid storage terminals in Australia and New Zealand.
KBAY Kanbay International, Inc. is a global provider of information technology (IT) services and solutions focused on the financial services industry. It offers a broad suite of services, including business process and technology advice, software package selection and integration, application development, maintenance and support, network and system security and specialized services, through its global delivery model. The Company focuses on the financial services industry and provides its services primarily to card issuers, commercial and retail lending institutions, securities and investment management firms and insurance companies. In providing its services, Kanbay utilizes a wide array of technologies to develop customized solutions that address its clients' specific needs. As of December 31, 2003, Household International (and its affiliates within the HSBC Group), Morgan Stanley, CitiFinancial, Development Bank of Singapore and Sun Life Financial were among the Company's top clients.
KANA KANA Software, Inc. is a provider of enterprise Customer Relationship Management (eCRM) software solutions, primarily knowledge-powered customer service solutions that provide information to answer customer inquiries more efficiently, accurately and consistently. The KANA iCARE suite is a flexible and scalable Web-architected solution, integrated on a single platform that supports multiple customer communication channels. KANA iCARE provides the critical link between contact centers and marketing departments, allowing organizations to have effective, efficient interactions with customers at all points of contact (including Web contact, telephone and e-mail) and throughout the enterprise. KANA iCARE employs analytic tools across its entire product family to allow companies to continually analyze and improve their customer and partner relationships.
KAMNA Kaman Corporation is engaged in three business segments: Aerospace, Industrial Distribution and Music. The Aerospace segment's programs are conducted through three principal businesses: Aircraft Structures and Components, Advanced Technology Products and Helicopter Programs. The Industrial Distribution segment services the bearing, electrical/mechanical power transmission, fluid power, motion control and materials handling markets in the United States. This segment offers more than 1.5 million items, as well as value-added services to a base of more than 50,000 customers from approximately 200 branches and regional distribution centers in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The Music segment is a distributor of musical instruments and accessories, and is involved in some combination of designing, manufacturing, marketing and distributing more than 15,000 products from four distribution facilities and one manufacturing facility located in the United States and Canada.
KLUCQ.OB Kaiser Aluminum Corporation is engaged in the mining of bauxite, the refining of bauxite into alumina, the production of primary aluminum from alumina, and the manufacture of fabricated and semi-fabricated aluminum products. Kaiser, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Kaiser Aluminum &amp; Chemical Corporation (KACC) and its subsidiaries, operates in business segments, such as Bauxite and alumina, Primary aluminum, Fabricated products and Commodities marketing. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Kaiser, KACC and 24 of KACC's subsidiaries have filed separate voluntary petitions in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. The Company seeks to emerge from the Chapter 11 proceedings primarily as a fabricated products company. In November 2004, Kaiser sold its interests in and related to Volta Aluminium Company Limited (VALCO) to the Government of Ghana.
KAI Kadant Inc. is a supplier of equipment used in the global papermaking and paper recycling industry and a manufacturer of composite building materials. The Company operates in two segments, Pulp and Papermaking Equipment and Systems and Composite and Fiber-Based Products. Kadant's Pulp and Papermaking Equipment and Systems segment consists of the following product lines: stock-preparation systems and equipment, paper machine accessory equipment and water management systems. Its Composite and Fiber-Based Products segment develops, manufactures and markets products in two product lines, composite building products and fiber-based granular products.
KTO K2 Inc. is a sporting goods company with a portfolio of sporting goods brands. It offers other recreational products, as well as certain niche industrial products. The Company's revenues are generated by products used in individual and team sports activities, including baseball, softball, fishing, water and outdoor sports activities, alpine skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, inline skating, mountain biking and paintball. Its sporting goods include a number of name brand lines such as Rawlings and Worth baseball and softball products, Shakespeare and Pflueger fishing rods and reels, Brass Eagle, JT and Viewloader paintball products. Its other recreational products include Planet Earth and Holden apparel, Adio and Hawk skateboard shoes and Hilton corporate casual apparel. K2's industrial products consist primarily of Shakespeare monofilament line used in weed trimmers, fish line, paper mills and industrial applications and Shakespeare fiberglass marine antennas and marine accessories.
KTWO.OB K2 Digital, Inc. has no business operations. It was formerly a digital professional services company that, until August 2001, provided consulting and development services, including analysis, planning, systems design, creative and implementation. In August 2001, the Company sold certain fixed and intangible assets to Integrated Information Systems, Inc. (IIS), including certain of its customer contracts, furniture, fixtures, equipment and intellectual property, and became a shell company, with no revenues and continuing general and administrative expenses. In January 2004, the Company signed a non-binding letter of intent with SunriseUSA, Inc. (Sunrise), whereby Sunrise will merge with the Company (the Merger).
MAYS J.W. Mays, Inc. operates a number of commercial real estate properties located in Brooklyn and Jamaica in New York City; Levittown and Massapequa, Long Island, New York; Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York, and in Circleville, Ohio. The major portion of these properties is owned and the balance is leased. A substantial percentage of these properties are leased to tenants while the remainder is available for lease. Properties leased are under long-term leases for varying periods, the longest of which extends to 2073, and in most instances renewal options are included.
JCWW.OB Jurak Corporation World Wide, Inc. is a herbal supplement company that manufactures and markets the Jurak Classic Whole Body Tonic. The tonic is a blend of medicinal herbs and other ingredients. There are 30 separate ingredients to the tonic, all of them readily available from suppliers in Canada, the United States and France. The Jurak Classic Whole Body Tonic is supplied in bottles of one fluid ounce and 42 fluid ounce. The bottles come in boxes of 35 bottles. The tonic is a herbal supplement. The ingredients of the tonic include chamomile, dandelion, licorice, passion flower, peppermint, saw palmetto and celery seed.
JUPM Jupitermedia Corporation is a global provider of original online information, images, research and events for information technology (IT), business and creative professionals. The Company operates four interrelated and complementary businesses. JupiterWeb, its online media business, operates four distinct online networks: internet.com and EarthWeb.com for IT and business professionals, DevX.com for software and Web developers and ClickZ.com for interactive marketers. JupiterImages, its online images business, is a paid subscription resource on the Web serving creative professionals with products like Photos.com and ClipArt.com. JupiterResearch, the Company's market research and consulting business, is an international market research and advisory business specializing in business and technology market research. JupiterEvents, its offline conference and trade show business, is a producer of conferences and trade shows focused on IT and business-specific topics.
JUNO Juno Lighting, Inc. is a designer, assembler and marketer of recessed and track lighting fixtures. Its products are used in commercial and residential remodeling and in new construction. The Company's principal products use a variety of light sources and are designed for reliable and flexible function, efficient operation, attractive appearance and simple installation and servicing. Juno is also engaged in the marketing, design and manufacture of other incandescent, fluorescent and high-intensity discharge lighting products with application in the commercial lighting market, primarily in department and chain stores. Approximately 91% of the Company's sales during the fiscal year ended November 30, 2003 were made in the United States, with a majority of the balance made in Canada. Sales are made primarily to electrical distributors and certain wholesale lighting outlets.
JNPR Juniper Networks, Inc. designs and sells products and services that together provide its customers with Internet protocol network infrastructure solutions. The Company's solutions are incorporated into the global web of interconnected public and private networks across which a variety of media, including voice, video and data, travel to and from end users around the world. The Company's network infrastructure solutions enable service providers and other network-intensive businesses to support and deliver services and applications on an integrated network. Its customers include service providers, government organizations, cable operators, mobile operators, research and education institutions and network-intensive businesses. In April 2004, the Company acquired NetScreen Technologies, Inc., a developer of network security and access solutions for enterprises and carriers worldwide.
JUNI.OB Juniper Group, Inc.'s businesses are composed of two segments: entertainment and technology services and healthcare. The Company and its subsidiaries operate their businesses from the Company's Great Neck location. The entertainment and technology operations are conducted through two wholly owned subsidiaries of Juniper Entertainment, Inc. (JEI), which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. The healthcare operations are conducted through three wholly owned subsidiaries of Juniper Medical Systems, Inc. (JMSI), which is also a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.
JPM JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co. (JPMorgan Chase), formerly J.P. Morgan Chase &amp; Co., is a financial services firm with four wholesale business segments: Investment Bank (IB), Treasury &amp; Securities Services (TSS), Investment Management &amp; Private Banking (IMPB) and JPMorgan Partners (JPMP). IB provides investment banking and commercial banking products and services. The businesses within TSS provide debt servicing, securities custody and related functions, and treasury and cash management services to corporations, financial institutions and governments. IMPB provides investment management services to institutional investors, high-net-worth individuals and retail customers. JPMP is the Company's private equity business. The Company's national consumer and middle market businesses, which provide lending and full-service banking to consumers and small and middle-market businesses, comprise Chase Financial Services. In July 2004, the Company and Bank One Corp. completed their merger.
JOYG Joy Global Inc. manufactures and services high-productivity mining equipment for the extraction of coal and other minerals and ores. The Company's equipment is used in major mining centers throughout the world to mine coal, copper, iron ore, oil sands and other minerals. The Company operates in two business segments: underground mining machinery (Joy Mining Machinery or Joy) and surface mining equipment (P&amp;H Mining Equipment or P&amp;H). Joy is a manufacturer of underground mining equipment for the extraction of coal and other bedded minerals and offers comprehensive service locations near major mining regions worldwide. P&amp;H is a producer of surface mining equipment for the extraction of ores and minerals and provides extensive operational support for many types of equipment used in surface mining.
JRC Journal Register Company owns and operates 23 daily newspapers and 237 non-daily publications clustered in six geographic areas: Greater Philadelphia, Connecticut, Greater Cleveland, Central New England and the Capital-Saratoga and Mid-Hudson regions of New York. Total paid daily circulation is approximately 534,000 and total non-daily distribution is approximately 3.7 million. The Company's newspapers are characterized by their coverage of local news and local sports, their graphic design and their colorful, reader-friendly packages. The Company seeks to expand its business through its Internet initiatives, and operates 152 Websites that are affiliated with its daily newspapers and non-daily publications.
JRN Journal Communications, Inc. is a media and communications company with operations in publishing, radio and television broadcasting, telecommunications and printing services. In newspaper publishing, the Company publishes the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that serves as the daily and Sunday newspaper for the Milwaukee metropolitan area, and the Company publishes more than 90 community newspapers in eight states. It owns and operates 38 radio stations and six television stations in 11 states. Norlight Telecommunications, Inc., the Company's subsidiary, provides telecommunications services through its fiber-optic network. It also provides commercial and publication printing services, such as magazines, professional journals and documentation material, as well as electronic publishing, kit assembly and fulfillment. Its business segments are publishing, broadcasting, telecommunications, printing services and other.
JOSB Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, Inc. is a designer, retailer and direct marketer, through stores, catalog and the Internet, of men's tailored and casual clothing and accessories. The Company sells substantially all of its products exclusively under the Jos. A. Bank label through its 214 retail stores, including seven outlet stores and 10 franchise stores, located throughout 35 states and the District of Columbia in the United States, as well as through the Company's nationwide catalog and Internet operations, www.josbank.com. Jos. A. Bank's products are targeted at the male career professional. The Company's products are offered at three Levels of Luxury, which include the opening Jos. A. Bank Collection, as well as the more luxurious Signature and Signature Gold Collections.
JSDA.OB Jones Soda Co. develops, produces, markets and distributes alternative or New Age beverages. New Age or alternative beverages are distinguishable from mainstream carbonated soft drinks, in that they tend to contain less sugar, less carbonation and natural ingredients. The Company's main product lines include brands, such as Jones Soda Co.; Jones Naturals, a non-carbonated juice and tea; Jones Energy, a citrus energy drink, and WhoopAss, a citrus energy drink. These products are sold in 39 states in the United States and seven provinces in Canada, primarily in convenience stores, delicatessens, sandwich shops and selected supermarkets, as well as through national accounts with several retailers.
JLL Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated provides real estate services and money management. The Company serves clients' real estate needs locally, regionally and globally from offices in over 100 markets in 34 countries on five continents. The Company services include outsourcing; space acquisition and disposition (tenant representation); facilities and property management; project and development management services; consulting; agency leasing; buying and selling properties; corporate finance; capital markets; hotel advisory, and valuations. The Company also provides real estate money management on a global basis for both public and private assets through LaSalle Investment Management. The Company has four business segments: Investment Management, which offers Real Estate Money Management services on a global basis, and three geographic regions of Investor and Occupier Services (IOS): Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.
JNY Jones Apparel Group, Inc. designs and markets branded apparel, footwear and accessories. Its brands include Jones New York, Evan-Picone, Norton McNaughton, Gloria Vanderbilt, Erika, l.e.i., Energie, Nine West, Easy Spirit, Enzo Angiolini, Bandolino, Napier, Judith Jack, Kasper, Anne Klein, Albert Nipon and Le Suit. The Company also markets apparel under the Polo Jeans Company brand licensed from Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation (Polo), costume jewelry under the Tommy Hilfiger brand licensed from Tommy Hilfiger Licensing, Inc. (Hilfiger) and the Givenchy brand licensed from Givenchy Corporation (Givenchy), and footwear and accessories under the ESPRIT brand licensed from Esprit Europe, B.V. (Esprit Europe). In December 2004, the Company completed its acquisition of Barneys New York, Inc.
JOUT Johnson Outdoors Inc. designs, manufactures and markets outdoor recreation products in four businesses: Diving, Watercraft, Outdoor Equipment and Marine Electronics (the Marine Electronics business was known as the Motors business prior to July 2, 2004). The Company manufactures and distributes technical underwater diving products, manufactures and markets kayaks, canoes, paddles, oars, recreational sailboats, personal flotation devices and small thermoformed recreational boats, Eureka! military, commercial and consumer tents and backpacks, and Silva field compasses. It also manufactures battery-powered motors used on fishing boats and other boats for quiet trolling power or primary propulsion. In May 2004, the Company acquired Techsonic Industries, Inc. In October 2004, the Company approved a definitive merger agreement with JO Acquisition Corp.
JNJ Johnson &amp; Johnson is engaged in the manufacture and sale of products related to human health and well-being. Through over 200 operating companies, it conducts business worldwide. The Company's business is divided into three segments: Consumer, Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices and Diagnostics. The Consumer segment manufactures and markets a range of products used in the baby and child care, skin care, oral and wound care and women's healthcare fields, as well as nutritional and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products. The Pharmaceutical segment's principal worldwide franchises are in the antifungal, anti-infective, cardiovascular, contraceptive, dermatology, gastrointestinal, hematology, immunology, neurology, oncology, pain management, psychotropic and urology fields. The Medical Devices and Diagnostics segment includes a range of products used by or under the direction of physicians, nurses, therapists, hospitals, diagnostic laboratories and clinics.
JELCY.PK Johnson Electric Holdings Limited is engaged in the local manufacturing of micromotors in Hong Kong. The Company manufactures a broad range of components, such as magnets, bearings, shafts, housings, laminations, commutators, die cast parts. Johnson also builds its own tools, assembly fixtures, plastic molds and armature winding machines. It produces more than 2.5 million motors each day and has a capacity of over three million motors a day (one billion annually). The Company is structured into three business unit groups: the Commercial Motor Group (CMG), Automotive Motors Group (AMG) and Components and Services Group (C&amp;S). All business groups are supported by corporate functional departments, including engineering, finance, supply chain services, quality assurance, human resources, sales and strategic marketing. In April 2003, Johnson acquired a 49% interest in Nihon Mini Motor (NMM), a motor supplier to the digital camera market.
JCI Johnson Controls, Inc. has two operating business segments, the automotive group and the controls group. The automotive group designs and manufactures products and systems for passenger cars and light trucks, including vans, pick-up trucks and sport/crossover utility vehicles. The controls group provides installed building control systems and, technical and facility management services, including comfort, energy and security management for the non-residential buildings market. The segment's installed systems integrate the management, operation and control of building control systems, such as temperature, ventilation, humidity, fire safety and security. The segment's technical and facility management services provide a suite of integrated solutions to improve building operations and maintenance.
JWa John Wiley &amp; Sons, Inc. (John Wiley) is a global publisher of print and electronic products, providing must-have content and services to customers worldwide. The Company's businesses include professional and consumer books and subscription services; scientific, technical and medical journals, encyclopedias, books, as well as online products and services, and educational materials, including course management and study guides for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers and lifelong learners. The Company has publishing, marketing and distribution centers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia. During the fiscal year ended April 30, 2004, (fiscal 2004), the sales outside the United States accounted for approximately 39% of the Company's revenue.
JH John H. Harland Company is a provider of printed products and software sold to financial institutions, including banks, credit unions, brokerage houses and financial software companies. The Company's subsidiary, Scantron Corporation (Scantron) is a provider of data collection, testing and assessment products and maintenance services sold primarily to the educational, financial institution and commercial markets. The Company serves its markets through three primary business segments: Printed Products, Software and Services and Scantron.
JBSS John B. Sanfilippo &amp; Son, Inc. is a processor, packager, marketer and distributor of shelled and inshell nuts. These nuts are sold under a variety of private labels and under its Fisher, Evon's, Flavor Tree, Sunshine Country, Texas Pride and Tom Scott brand names. The Company also markets and distributes, and in most cases manufactures or processes, a diverse product line of food and snack items, including peanut butter, candy and confections, natural snacks and trail mixes, sunflower seeds, corn snacks, sesame sticks and other sesame snack products. The Company has built a vertically integrated nut processing operation, including procurement from growers, shelling, processing, packing and marketing.
JAS Jo-Ann Stores, Inc. is a specialty retailer of fabrics and crafts, serving customers in their pursuit of apparel and craft sewing, crafting, home decorating and other creative endeavors. The Company's retail stores (operating as Jo-Ann Fabrics and Crafts traditional stores and Jo-Ann superstores) feature a variety of merchandise used in sewing, crafting and home decorating projects, including fabrics, notions, crafts, frames, scrapbooking material, artificial and dried flowers, home accents, finished seasonal and home decor merchandise. Jo-Ann sells its products under two principal product lines: softlines and hardlines and seasonal. As of January 31, 2004, Jo-Ann operated 892 stores in 47 states (806 traditional stores and 86 superstores).
JMAR JMAR Technologies, Inc. is engaged in the development of laser-based equipment for imaging, analysis and fabrication at the nano-scale. The Company is leveraging over a decade of laser and photonics research to develop a diverse portfolio of products with commercial applications in rapidly growing industries, while continuing to provide support for the United States Government's Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) semiconductor fabrication facility. JMAR is targeting the nanotech, bioscience and semiconductor industries with its Britelight laser; Compact X-ray Light Source; X-ray Microscope (for three-dimensional visualization of single cells and polymers), and its X-ray Nano Probe, enabling interaction, analysis and modification at the nano-scale. JMAR also maintains strategic alliances for the development of BioSentry and READ, biological and chemical sensors for homeland security, environmental and utility infrastructure industries.
SJM The J. M. Smucker Company (Smucker) is engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of branded food products on a worldwide basis, although the majority of the Company's sales are in the United States. The Company's operations outside the United States are in Canada, as well as other countries. The products of Smucker are sold in both its United States retail market segment and special markets segment. The products are peanut butter, shortening and oils, fruit spreads, fruit and vegetable juices, beverages, dessert toppings, syrups and frozen sandwiches. On June 16, 2004, the Company sold its Australian subsidiary, Henry Jones Foods, Pty. Ltd. On June 18, 2004, the Company completed the acquisition of International Multifoods Corporation. Smucker products also include flour and scratch baking ingredients, dessert and baking mixes, ready-to-spread frostings, potato mixes, dry breakfast mixes, syrups, pickles and condiments.
JLMC JLM Couture, Inc. is engaged in the design, manufacture and distribution of bridal gowns, veils and bridesmaid gowns. The Company's couture lines of bridal gowns, bridesmaid gowns, veils and related items (the Jim Hjelm, Lazaro and Alvina Valenta lines) emphasize contemporary and traditional styles characterized by ankle- or floor-length gowns, with or without trains, and are principally constructed in satin, silk and lace. JLM also produces a line of less expensive bridal gowns called Visions, which is styled similarly to its couture lines, but is constructed from less expensive fabrics. The Company utilizes bridal boutiques or bridal departments in women's clothing and department stores throughout the continental United States and England to market its gowns. The Company also markets its products through its five Internet sites and generates customer demand through distribution of its bridal and bridesmaids catalogs.
JLG JLG Industries, Inc., is a producer of access equipment (aerial work platforms and telehandlers) and highway-speed telescopic hydraulic excavators. The Company's business is organized in three business segments, Machinery, Equipment Services and Access Financial Solutions. Its product portfolio encompasses brands, such as JLG aerial work platforms; JLG, Sky Trak, Lull and Gradall telehandlers; Gradall excavators; Triple-L drop-deck trailers, and an array of complementary accessories that increase the versatility and efficiency of the products for the end users. The Company markets its products and services through a multi-channel approach that includes a sales force, marketing, the Internet, integrated supply programs and a network of distributors. In addition to designing and manufacturing its products, JLG Industries offers after-sales service and support, and financing and leasing solutions for its customers in the industrial, commercial, institutional and construction markets.
JLHY.OB J. L. Halsey Corporation (Halsey) has no business operations and is in transition. In response to substantial cuts in reimbursement under the Medicare program in the late 1990s, Halsey's predecessor, NAHC, Inc. (formerly NovaCare, Inc.), sold all four of its operating businesses to raise cash and succeeded in fully repaying all of its creditors. The Company has no operating units and is considering various asset redeployment strategies. Prior to 1999, it operated as a healthcare services company. Continuing operations consist of general and administrative expenses and interest income. General and administrative expenses consist primarily of compensation for personnel, professional services, which include consultants, legal fees and accounting, audit and tax fees, and administrative expenses associated with operating as a public company.
JILL The J. Jill Group, Inc. is a multi-channel specialty retailer of women's apparel, accessories and footwear in the United States. Its merchandising and design strategy is to offer trend relevant, sophisticated casual lifestyle clothing and complementary accessories and footwear that appeal to active, affluent women aged 35 to 55. The Company's apparel styles are offered in an assortment of sizes, including misses', petite, woman's and tall. J. Jill markets its products through retail stores, catalogs and its Website jjill.com. The Company organizes its business into two segments, direct and retail. The direct segment markets merchandise through catalogs and the Company's Website. The retail segment markets merchandise through retail stores. As of December 27, 2003, the Company had 122 retail stores open in 32 states.
JJSF J &amp; J Snack Foods Corp. (J &amp; J) manufactures nutritional snack foods and distributes frozen beverages, which it markets throughout the United States to the foodservice and retail supermarket industries. Its principal snack food products are soft pretzels marketed primarily under the brand name Superpretzel and frozen juice treats and desserts marketed primarily under the Luigi's, ICEE, Barq's, Chill and Minute Maid brand names. The Company's principal frozen beverage product is the ICEE brand frozen carbonated beverage. Other snack food products offered by J &amp; J include churros (a Hispanic pastry), funnel cakes, cookies and bakery products, as well as other snack foods and drinks. The four segments of the Company are foodservice, retail supermarkets, the restaurant group and frozen beverages. In January 2004, J &amp; J acquired Country Home Bakers, Inc., which manufactured cookies and other bakery products for both foodservice and in-store bakeries in supermarkets.
JST Jinpan International Ltd. owns 85% of Hainan Jinpan Special Transformer Works (Hainan Jinpan), which was established as a Sino-foreign cooperative joint venture between Haikou Jinpan and Jinpan International. The subsidiary is involved in the design, manufacture and sale of cast resin transformers. The cast resin transformers allow high-voltage transmissions of electricity to be distributed to various locations in lower, more usable voltages.
JCC Jilin Chemical Industrial Company Limited is a producer of basic chemicals and chemical raw materials and is a diversified chemical enterprise in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The Company is also one of the largest producers of ethylene in the PRC accounting for 11.18% of China's ethylene production during the year ended December 31, 2003. Its principal businesses consist of the production of petroleum products, petrochemical and organic chemical products, synthetic rubber, chemical fertilizers and inorganic chemical products and other chemical products. As a result of the Company's efforts to phase out technologically obsolete production facilities, it ceased production of dyestuff, certain dye intermediate products and some chemical fertilizer products in 2000. It consists of 11 operating units, six of which are major production units and the remaining five units perform ancillary functions.
JCTCF Jewett-Cameron Trading Company Ltd. that through its subsidiary, Jewett-Cameron Lumber Company (JCLC), operated as a small lumber wholesaler based in Portland, Oregon. The operations of JCLC include the processing/sale of industrial products to original equipment manufacturers; the sale of lumber/building materials to home improvement centers; the processing/sale of agricultural seeds/grains, and the sale of pneumatic air tools and industrial clamps. JCLC has three wholly owned subsidiaries: MSI-PRO Co., which is engaged in importing and distributing both pneumatic air tools and industrial clamps, Jewett-Cameron Seed Company (JCSC) brings raw, unmarketable seeds to its facility and processes them so that they become marketable products, and Greenwood Products Inc. (GPI), which is involved in the processing and distribution of industrial wood and other specialty building products.
JBLU JetBlue Airways Corporation is a low-fare, low-cost passenger airline that serves point-to-point routes between 22 destinations in 11 states and Puerto Rico. The Company focuses on serving underserved markets and/or large metropolitan areas that have high average fares. It has a geographically diversified flight schedule that includes both short-haul and long-haul routes. JetBlue commenced service in February 2000 and established its primary base of operations at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. On August 28, 2001, it began service at its West Coast base of operations, Los Angeles' Long Beach Municipal Airport. In early 2004, JetBlue launched service from Logan International Airport in Boston to five cities with a total of 11 daily departures. As of February 11, 2004, it operated 222 weekday flights, including 108 weekday flights between the Northeast and Florida, 66 weekday flights between the East Coast and western United States and 48 weekday short-haul flights.
JEN Jennifer Convertibles Inc. is the owner and licensor of sofabed specialty retail stores and leather specialty retail stores in the United States, with stores located throughout the Eastern seaboard, in the Midwest, on the West Coast and in the Southwest. As of August 28, 2004, its stores included 203 Jennifer Convertibles stores and 16 Jennifer Leather stores. Of these 219 stores, the Company owned 141 and licensed 78, including 27 owned or operated by a related private company and three owned by other third parties operated by the private company. Jennifer Convertibles stores specialize in the retail sale of a complete line of sofabeds. In addition, it sells sofas and companion pieces, such as loveseats, chairs and recliners, in both fabric and leather, designed and priced to appeal to a broad range of consumers. Jennifer Leather stores specialize in the retail sale of leather living room furniture.
JFBC Jeffersonville Bancorp is a bank holding company for First National Bank of Jeffersonville. The Company is engaged in the business of managing or controlling its subsidiary bank and such other business related to banking. The Bank is a full-service banking institution. Through the bank, the Company provides traditional banking related services. Banking services consist primarily of attracting deposits from the areas served by its banking offices and using those deposits to originate a variety of commercial, consumer and real estate loans. Its primary sources of liquidity are its deposit base; Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) borrowings; repayments and maturities on loans; short-term assets, such as federal funds and short-term, interest-bearing deposits in banks, and maturities and sales of securities available for sale. The Bank has one subsidiary, FNBJ Holding Corporation, which is a real estate investment trust (REIT) and is wholly owned by the Bank.
JP Jefferson-Pilot Corporation (JP) is a holding company whose financial services and broadcasting subsidiaries provide products and services in four major businesses: life insurance; annuities and investment products; group life, disability and dental insurance, and broadcasting and sports programming production. The Company's principal life insurance subsidiaries are Jefferson-Pilot Life Insurance Company, Jefferson Pilot Financial Insurance Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Jefferson Pilot LifeAmerica Insurance Company. Jefferson-Pilot Communications Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries conduct JP's broadcasting operations. Jefferson Pilot Securities Corporation is a registered non-clearing broker/dealer that sells affiliated and non-affiliated variable life and annuity products and other investment products.
JFBI Jefferson Bancshares, Inc. is the bank holding company for Jefferson Federal Bank (the Bank). It operates as a community-oriented financial institution offering traditional financial services to consumers and businesses. Jefferson Federal attracts deposits from the general public and uses those funds to originate loans, which it holds for investment. The Bank's loan portfolio consists of a variety of mortgage, commercial and consumer loans.
JEF Jefferies Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries operate as a full-service investment bank and institutional securities firm focused on the middle market. The Company offers financial advisory, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, and restructuring services to small and mid-cap companies and provides trade execution in equity, high yield, convertible and international securities, as well as research and asset management capabilities, to institutional investors. It also offers correspondent clearing, prime brokerage, private client services and securities lending services. The Company's principal operating subsidiaries are Jefferies &amp; Company, Inc., Jefferies International Limited, Jefferies Execution Services, Inc. (formerly Helfant Group, Inc.), Quarterdeck Investment Partners, LLC, Broadview International LLC and Bonds Direct Securities LLC.
JDO JED Oil Inc. is an oil and natural gas company that has commenced operations and plans to develop and operate oil and natural gas properties principally in western Canada. The Company does not anticipate direct property acquisitions, but rather intends to develop the oil and natural gas properties of others under farm-in arrangements in which it will finance the cost of development drilling in exchange for interests in the oil or natural gas revenue generated by the properties, generally ranging from a 50% to a 75% net interest.
JDSU JDS Uniphase Corporation is a technology company that designs, develops, manufactures and distributes a range of products for the fiber-optic communications market. The Company operates in two principal segments: communication products, and commercial and consumer products. The communications product group includes components, modules and subsystems used by communications equipment providers for telecommunications, data communications and cable television networks. The commercial and defense industries includes laser and optics products that are used in biotechnology, material processing, semiconductor, graphics and imaging, aerospace and defense applications. In the consumer industry, the Company provides optical solutions using light interference for document and currency authentication, as well as for product authentication and brand protection.
JDAS JDA Software Group, Inc. (JDA) is a provider of software solutions designed specifically to address the demand and supply chain management, business process, decision support, e-commerce, inventory optimization and collaborative planning and forecasting requirements of the retail industry and suppliers to the retail industry. JDA's software solutions business is supported by a range of retail and supplier-specific professional services, including project management, system planning, design and implementation, custom configurations and training and support services. The Company has organized its business segments around the requirements of retail enterprises, retail stores and suppliers to the retail industry, Retail Enterprise Systems, In-Store Systems and Collaborative Solutions. The Company operates in the Americas, which includes the United States, Canada and Latin America; Europe, which includes the Middle East and South Africa, and Asia/Pacific.
JCP J. C. Penney Company, Inc. serves as the holding company for J. C. Penney Corporation, Inc. (JCP). JCP, the wholly owned operating subsidiary of the Company, is a department store, catalog and e-commerce retailer. As of May 1, 2004, JCP operated 1,021 JCPenney department stores throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, and 59 Renner department stores in Brazil. JCPenney Catalog, including e-commerce, is a catalog merchant of general merchandise, and JCPenney.com is an apparel and home furnishings site on the Internet. J. C. Penney Corporation, Inc. is a contributor to JCPenney Afterschool Fund, a charitable organization committed to providing children with after school programs to help them reach their full potential.
JBOH JB Oxford Holdings, Inc. is engaged in the business of providing brokerage and related financial services to retail customers and broker-dealers nationwide together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, JB Oxford &amp; Company (JBOC) and National Clearing Corp (NCC). JBOC provides retail brokerage services and NCC provides clearing and execution services. The retail subsidiary, JBOC, is a registered broker-dealer offering discount and electronic brokerage services to the investing public. The clearing subsidiary, NCC, is also a registered broker-dealer, offering clearing services to independent broker-dealers. NCC's largest correspondent is JBOC and it acts as a market-maker in stocks traded on the NASDAQ National Market System and other national exchanges.
JBHT J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. is a truckload transportation and logistics company in North America. Together with its wholly owned subsidiaries and associated companies, J.B. Hunt provides transportation and logistics services to customers throughout the continental United States, Canada and Mexico. The Company's business operations are organized through three distinct, but complementary, business segments: full truckload, dry-van (JBT); intermodal (JBI), and dedicated contract services (DCS). In addition, the Company owns an interest in Transplace, Inc., and also provides transport services to and from Mexico through a variety of Mexican carriers. As of December 31, 2003, J.B. Hunt operated approximately 9,900 tractors. In addition, its contracted independent contractors own and operate their own tractors, although they transport freight in the Company's trailing equipment.
JAH Jarden Corporation is a provider of niche consumer products used in and around the home, under brand names including Ball, Bernardin, Crawford, Diamond, FoodSaver, Forster, Kerr, Lehigh and Leslie-Locke. In North America, it operates in several targeted consumer categories, including plastic cutlery, home canning, home vacuum packaging, kitchen matches, rope, cord and twine and toothpicks. The Company sells branded products through a variety of distribution channels, including club, department store, drug, grocery, mass merchant and specialty retailers as well as direct to consumers. Jarden operates three primary business segments: branded consumables, consumer solutions and plastic consumables, and one secondary business segment, consisting primarily of its zinc strip business.
JNS Janus Capital Group Inc. and consolidated subsidiaries sponsors, markets and provides investment advisory, distribution and administrative services primarily to mutual funds in both domestic and international markets. The majority of Janus' revenues are largely dependent on the total value and composition of assets under management, primarily consisting of domestic and international equity and debt securities. The diverse lineup of products in various investment disciplines offered by Janus includes growth, core/blend, international, value and risk-managed equity funds. Janus has three segments: Investment Management, representing businesses that derive the majority of their revenues from providing investment management services under investment advisory agreements; DST, composed of the Company's equity investment in DST Systems, Inc. (DST), and Printing and Fulfillment, composed of the graphics design, commercial printing and fulfillment operations.
JLWT.OB Janel World Trade, Ltd. (Janel) is a logistics services provider for importers and exporters worldwide. It is primarily engaged, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, in full-service cargo transportation logistics management, including freight forwarding, via air, ocean and land-based carriers, customs brokerage services, and warehousing and distribution services. In addition, Janel offers various related, value-added logistics services, such as freight consolidation, insurance, a direct client computer access interface, logistics planning, landed-cost calculations, in-house computer tracking, product repackaging, online shipment tracking and electronic billing. The value-added services and systems are intended to help its customers streamline operations, reduce inventories, increase the speed and reliability of worldwide deliveries and improve the overall management and efficiency of the customer's supply-chain activities.
JAMS Jameson Inns, Inc. develops and owns limited service hotel properties (the Inns). In addition, the Company owns inns in the Midwestern United States, operating under the trademark Signature Inn. During the year ended December 31, 2003, there were 95 Jameson Inn hotels and 24 Signature Inn hotels with a total of 8,135 rooms in 14 states, all of which were classified as being within the economy and mid-scale segments of the lodging industry. During 2003, all of the hotels were leased to Kitchin Hospitality LLC. Additionally, the Company also owns, operates and leases an inventory of billboards through its wholly owned subsidiary, Jameson Outdoor Advertising Co., Inc. The billboards were leased to Kitchin Hospitality LLC and to other parties.
JMBI James Monroe Bancorp serves as the holding company for James Monroe Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a state-chartered commercial bank that operates out of its main office and three full-service branch offices and one drive-up/walk through limited service branch in Northern Virginia. While James Monroe Bank offers a range of loan, deposit and other financial service products to an array of depositors and borrowers, it has chosen small to medium sized businesses, professionals and the individual retail customer as its primary target market. In addition, the Bank maintains correspondent banking relationships and transacts daily federal funds transactions on an unsecured basis, with regional correspondent banks.
JHX James Hardie Industries N.V. is an international building materials group that produces a wide range of fiber cement building products that are used in the exterior and interior of buildings, from exterior cladding and internal lining, to fencing, bracing and decorative finishes. Its operations span the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Chile. The Company is also establishing a presence in Europe. The Company uses its unique technology to create advanced building materials that offer improved performance over existing materials.
JMDT Jamdat Mobile Inc. is a global publisher of wireless entertainment applications, including games, ring tones, images and other entertainment content. The Company designs its applications to suit the multimedia capabilities of mobile phones, including high-resolution color displays and processing power. Jamdat Mobile has developed a diversified portfolio of more than 70 applications to a broad range of wireless subscribers. The Company also licenses branded applications from third parties. Jamdat Mobile's properties include JAMDAT Bowling, Lemonade Tycoon and Gladiator. The Company's licensed third-party brands include Bejeweled, The Lord of the Rings, Tony Hawk's Underground, Scrabble, Blue's Clues and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Jamdat Mobile also has license agreements with the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League. In January 2005, the Company acquired Downtown Wireless, L.L.C.
JAX J. Alexander's Corporation operated as a proprietary concept 27 J. Alexander's full-service, casual dining restaurants located in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas. J. Alexander's is a traditional restaurant with an American menu that features prime rib of beef; hardwood-grilled steaks, seafood and chicken; pasta; salads and soups; assorted sandwiches, appetizers and desserts, and a full-service bar. Each restaurant is generally open from 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight on Friday and Saturday and 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Sunday. Entrees available at lunch and dinner generally range in price from $6.95 to $25. Alcoholic beverage sales accounted for approximately 15.8% of J. Alexander's net sales during the fiscal year ended December 28, 2003 (fiscal 2003).
JAKK JAKKS Pacific, Inc. is a multi-line, multi-brand toy company that designs, develops, produces and markets toys and related products. The Company focuses its business on acquiring or licensing well-recognized trademarks and brand names with long product histories. Its products are toys and accessories that include action figures and accessories, craft, activity and stationery products, child guidance infant and pre-school products, seasonal toys and leisure products, toy candy, electronics products, junior sports products, fashion and mini dolls and related accessories. In addition to developing its proprietary brands and marks, JAKKS licenses brands such as World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Nickelodeon, Rugrats, Dora the Explorer, Blue's Clues, SpongeBob SquarePants, Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Kim Possible, Finding Nemo and Hello Kitty. It also licenses technology produced by unaffiliated inventors and product developers to improve the design and functionality of its products.
JJZ Jacuzzi Brands, Inc. through its subsidiaries is a global producer of branded bath and plumbing products for the residential, commercial and institutional markets. The Bath Products segment manufactures whirlpool baths, spas, showers, sanitary ware, including sinks and toilets, and bathtubs for the construction and remodeling markets. The Plumbing Products segment manufactures professional grade drainage, water control, commercial brass and PEX piping products for the commercial and institutional construction, renovation and facilities maintenance markets. The Rexair segment manufactures vacuum cleaner systems that are sold in the direct sales retail channel. The products are marketed through their brand names, including JACUZZI, SUNDANCE, ELJER, ZURN, WILKINS a Zurn company (WILKINS) and RAINBOW.
JEC Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Jacobs) is a professional services firm, focusing on providing a broad range of technical, professional and construction services to a large number of industrial, commercial and governmental clients around the world. The Company provides project services (which include engineering, design, architectural and similar services); process, scientific and systems consulting services; operations and maintenance services, and construction services (which include direct-hire construction and construction management services). Jacobs concentrates its services on selected industry groups and markets, including oil and gas exploration, production and refining; United States federal programs; pharmaceuticals and biotechnology; chemicals and polymers; buildings (which includes projects in the fields of healthcare and education, as well as civic, governmental and other buildings); infrastructure; technology and manufacturing, and pulp and paper, among others.
JACO Jaco Electronics, Inc. is a distributor of electronic components to industrial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and contract manufacturers. The Company distributes products, such as semiconductors, capacitors, resistors, electromechanical devices, flat panel displays and monitors and power supplies, which are used in the manufacture and assembly of electronic products, including telecommunications equipment, computers and office equipment, medical devices and instrumentation, industrial equipment and controls, military/aerospace systems and automotive and consumer electronics. Jaco also provides contract manufacturing services to its industrial OEM customers.
JLN Jaclyn, Inc. is primarily engaged in the design, manufacture, distribution and sale of women's and children's apparel, and vinyl, leather and fabric handbags, sport bags, backpacks, cosmetic bags and related products (collectively, handbag products). The Company's apparel lines include women's loungewear, sleepwear, dresses and sportswear and lingerie, as well as infants' and children's clothing. Jaclyn markets its apparel lines to department stores, retail chain stores, as well as to major mail order catalogs and other specialty retailers throughout the United States. The Company markets its handbag products in a variety of popularly priced fashions and designs, with an emphasis on casual, travel and sport styles. Handbag products are marketed primarily through general merchandise, retail chain stores and department stores. Jaclyn manufactures and markets apparel under the trade names Topsville, I. Appel, Smart Time and Emerson Road, each of which the Company owns.
JXSB Jacksonville Bancorp, Inc. is a savings and loan holding company and its sole business activity is the 100% ownership of Jacksonville Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank is engaged primarily in the business of attracting retail deposits from the general public in its market area and using such funds together with borrowings and funds from other sources to originate consumer loans and mortgage loans secured by one- to four-family residential real estate. The Bank also originates commercial real estate loans, multi-family real estate loans, commercial business loans, and agricultural loans. When possible, the Bank emphasizes the origination of mortgage loans with adjustable interest rates (ARM), as well as fixed-rate balloon loans with terms ranging from three to five years, consumer loans, which are primarily home equity loans secured by second mortgages, commercial business loans and agricultural loans.
JAXB Jacksonville Bancorp, Inc. is a one-bank holding company owning 100% of the outstanding shares of Jacksonville Bank (the Bank). The Company's only business is the ownership and operation of the Bank. Jacksonville Bank is a state-chartered commercial bank that provides a variety of community banking services to businesses and individuals through its three offices in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida. The Bank's product lines include personal and business online banking and sweep accounts tied to Goldman Sachs proprietary funds, in addition to traditional banking products. In 2002, Jacksonville Bank began offering standard mortgage products with various long-term fixed rate alternatives, pursuant to an agreement with PHH Mortgage Services.
JTX Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. is a tax preparation service company with more than 4,900 Jackson Hewitt Tax Service locations in storefront, mall and retail locations nationwide. Specializing in electronic filing (Internal Revenue Service (IRS) e-file), the Company provides full-service, individual federal and state income tax preparation and other bank-related services that provide fast, safe, economic and convenient options for the receipt of funds. Most Jackson Hewitt offices are independently owned and operated. The substantial majority of the Company's financial product revenues come from fees and other revenue related to refund anticipation loans and accelerated check refunds provided by financial institutions to its customers. These products enable customers to have access to funds more quickly than if they filed their tax returns on their own and waited to receive a tax refund directly from the IRS.
JBX Jack in the Box Inc. owns, operates and franchises Jack in the Box quick-service hamburger restaurants and Qdoba Mexican Grill fast-casual restaurants. The Jack in the Box menu features a variety of hamburgers, salads, specialty sandwiches, tacos, drinks and side items. During the fiscal year ended October 3, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Jack in the Box system included 2,006 restaurants, of which 1,558 were Company-operated and 448 were franchise-operated. Jack in the Box restaurants are located primarily in the western and southern United States. As of October 3, 2004, the Qdoba Mexican Grill system included 177 fast-casual restaurants in 31 states, of which 47 were Company-operated and 130 were franchise-operated.
JKHY Jack Henry &amp; Associates, Inc. provides integrated computer systems providing data processing and management information to banks, credit unions and other financial institutions in the United States. The Company offers a complete, integrated suite of data processing system solutions to improve its customers' management of their entire back-office and customer/member interaction processes. The Company also performs data conversion and software installation for the implementation of its systems and provides continuing customer support services after the systems are installed. For customers who prefer not to acquire hardware and software, the Company provides outsourcing services through seven data centers and 17 item-processing centers located across the United States. The Company derives its revenue primarily from three sources: sales of software products, support and service, which includes installation service and hardware sales. In January 2005, the Company acquired RPM Intelligence.
JCDA Jacada Ltd. develops, markets and supports software that enables businesses to Web-enable, modernize and integrate their existing host-centric software applications to better serve the needs of their users, customers and partners. The Company also provides related professional services including training, consulting, support and maintenance. Its products and services provide end users with eBusiness enabling solutions. The Company's professional services include training, consulting and support and maintenance services. Support and maintenance services are provided to its customers through agreements, under which Jacada provides technical support by telephone, fax, e-mail and the Internet and provide updates, upgrades and fixes to its software products.
JBL Jabil Circuit, Inc. is a worldwide independent provider of electronic manufacturing services (EMS). The Company designs and manufactures electronic circuit board assemblies and systems for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the aerospace, automotive, computing, consumer, defense, instrumentation, medical, networking, peripherals, storage and telecommunications industries. Jabil serves its OEM customers with work cell business units that combine high volume, highly automated, continuous flow manufacturing with advanced electronic design and design for manufacturability technologies. The Company's customers are Cisco Systems, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, International Business Machines Corporation, Lucent Technologies, Inc., Marconi Communications plc, NEC Corporation, Nokia Corporation, Quantum Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics and Valeo S.A.
JCOM j2 Global Communications, Inc. provides outsourced, value-added messaging and communications services to more than five million customers around the world. j2 Global's network spans more than 1,100 cities in 20 countries on five continents. The Company offers its services and software under the j2, eFax, jConnect, jFax, Consensus, Hotsend, PaperMaster, Protofax, M4 Internet, Electric Mail and Documagix brands.
SYXI IXYS Corporation is a multi-market integrated semiconductor company that specializes in the development, manufacture and marketing of power semiconductors and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs). The Company focuses on the market for power semiconductors that are capable of processing greater than 500 watts of power. Its power semiconductor products have been divided into two primary categories: power metal oxide silicon (MOS) and power bipolar products. The power semiconductors are sold as individual units and are also packaged in power modules that consist of multiple-semiconductor die. It also designs and sells radio frequency (RF) power devices that switch electricity at the rates required by circuitry that generates radio frequencies.
XXIA Ixia is a provider of multi-port traffic generation and performance analysis systems for the high-speed data communications market, including the Internet infrastructure and local, metropolitan and wide area networks. The Company's systems allow its customers to measure the performance of their Internet protocol (IP) data communications equipment and networks. The systems consist of interchangeable interface cards, multi-slot chassis, which are metal cases that incorporate a computer, a power supply and a backplane, which is a hardware component used to connect the interface cards to the computer. Ixia's systems meet the requirements of a variety of customers, including network equipment manufacturers, Internet and network service providers, communications chip manufacturers and network users. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Ethernet interface cards accounted for 65.6% of the Company's net revenues.
JEWLF.OB IWI Holding Limited (IWI) is engaged in the design, assembly, merchandising and wholesale distribution of jewelry through its wholly owned subsidiary, Imperial World, Inc. It is also a supplier of pearl products. Principal products are fine jewelry of rings, earrings, pendants, bracelets and necklaces made of 10, 14 and 18 karat gold, set with diamonds, precious or semi-precious stones. A range of jewelry is targeted at consumers who seek fine jewelry at moderate prices for everyday wear. For the majority of products, the average wholesale price is approximately $65, with the prices ranging from approximately $20 to $500. The majority of the United States sales are under the trade name of World Pacific Jewelry.
IVOC.OB iVoice, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets voice and computer telephony communications systems for businesses and corporate departments with as many as 20,000 telephones. The Company's speech recognition software products enable users to communicate by integrating their traditional office telephone systems with automated attendant, voicemail, unified messaging and interactive voice response (IVR) functions. Its products are designed to be people oriented, with features that can be used without special training or manuals. The Company's products include Speech Enabled Auto Attendant, Unified Messaging and iVoice IVR, incorporate this philosophy. It also sells a speech software developer Kit (SDK). The Company's Speech SDK is a tool that allows software application developers to incorporate its speech recognition engine into different applications other than those it has developed internally.
IVIL iVillage Inc. is the Internet for women and consists of several online and offline media-based properties, including the iVillage.com Website; Women.com Networks, Inc., operator of the Women.com Website; the gURL.com Website; Knowledgeweb, Inc., operator of the Astrology.com Website; Cooperative Beauty Ventures, LLC, operator of the Substance.com Website; iVillage Parenting Network, Inc. (IVPN); Public Affairs Group, Inc. (PAG); Promotions.com, Inc.; iVillage Consulting and iVillageSolutions. The Company organizes its online network to address multiple topics of high-importance to women at different age levels. At December 31, 2003, iVillage's Website had approximately 12 million members. The Company also offers research services to its sponsors, advertisers and other customers. This research can provide iVillage's sponsors and advertisers with important demographic information, marketing information and assistance with online promotional campaigns.
IVD IVAX Diagnostics, Inc. is engaged in developing, manufacturing and marketing diagnostic test kits or assays, and automated systems that are used to aid in the detection of disease markers primarily in the areas of autoimmune and infectious diseases. The Company conducts its business through three subsidiaries that are Delta Biologicals, S.r.l., Diamedix Corporation and ImmunoVision, Inc. Delta develops and manufactures scientific and laboratory instruments, including its proprietary Mago Plus and Aptus systems. Diamedix manufactures 49 assays that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared, which are available to be run in conjunction with the Mago Plus and Aptus systems. These assays are sold under the trade name immunosimplicity. ImmunoVision develops, manufactures and markets autoimmune reagents and research products for use by research laboratories and commercial diagnostic manufacturers.
IVX IVAX Corporation is a multinational company engaged in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of pharmaceutical products. The Company manufactures and/or markets several brand name pharmaceutical products and a variety of brand equivalent and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products, primarily in the United States, Europe and Latin America. It also has subsidiaries located throughout the world. The Company specializes in the development, manufacture and marketing of respiratory drugs, primarily for asthma, delivered by metered-dose and dry-powder inhalers. In March 2001, the Company's diagnostics group merged with b2bstores.com forming IVAX Diagnostics, Inc. IVAX owns approximately 72% of the equity of IVAX Diagnostics, Inc. IVAX Diagnostics, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets diagnostic test kits. In December 2004, the Company acquired 97.23% of the remaining shares of the Polish pharmaceutical company, Kutnowskie Zaklady Farmaceutyczne Polfa SA (Polfa Kutno).
IVAN Ivanhoe Energy Inc. is an energy company engaged in the exploration and production of oil and natural gas, enhanced oil recovery and natural gas projects, and the application of heavy-to-light oil upgrading and gas-to-liquids technologies. The Company's primary oil and gas properties are located in the San Joaquin Valley area of California, the Midland and East Texas Basins in Texas, United States, and the Hebei and Sichuan Provinces in China. Ivanhoe holds a 10% equity interest in Ensyn Group, Inc., and rights to use Ensyn's crude-oil upgrading process (the Ensyn RTPTM Process) in several international markets. Through a joint venture, the Company is developing the LAK Ranch field, a thermal recovery/horizontal well oil project in Weston County, Wyoming. Ivanhoe also holds a non-exclusive master license that entitles the Company to use Syntroleum's GTL process in an unlimited number of projects with no limit on production volume.
ITT ITT Industries, Inc. is a global multi-industry engaged in the design and manufacture of a range of engineered products, and in the provision of related services. Its four business segments are Fluid Technology, Defense Electronics and Services, Motion and Flow Control and Electronic Components. Fluid Technology is a global provider of fluid systems and solutions for the water, wastewater, treatment, building trades, industrial and process and BioPharm markets. Defense Electronics and Services develops, manufactures and supports electronic systems and components for worldwide defense and commercial markets, and provides communications systems and engineering and applied research. Motion and Flow Control consists of a group of units operating in the motion control and flow control market segments. Electronic Components designs and manufactures connectors, interconnects, cable assemblies, switches, keypads, multi-function grips, panel switch assemblies and related products.
ESI ITT Educational Services, Inc. (ITT/ESI) is a provider of technology-oriented postsecondary degree programs in the United States. It offers Associate's, Bachelor's and Master's degree programs and non-degree diploma programs to more than 37,000 students. As of December 31, 2003, the Company operated 77 institutes located in 30 states. Each of its institutes is authorized by the applicable education authorities of the states in which they operate and recruit and accredited by an accrediting commission recognized by the United States Department of Education. ITT/ESI designs its education programs, after consultation with employers, to help graduates prepare for careers in various fields involving their areas of study. As of December 31, 2003, more than 99% of its program offerings were degree programs, and it was seeking authorization to award a degree in the remaining programs. The Company's institutes have graduated over 175,000 students since 1976.
ITRO.OB Itronics Inc. is a process technology and photochemical recycling company. The Company also provides project planning and technical services to the mining industry. Itronics, through its subsidiary, Itronics Metallurgical, Inc., has the integrated technology to extract more than 99% of the silver and virtually all the other toxic heavy metals from used photoliquids and to use the Beneficial Use Photochemical, Silver and Water Recycling technology that produces GOLD'n GRO fertilizers and five troy ounces, 0.999 pure, Silver Nevada Miner numismatic bars. Itronics' other subsidiary, Whitney and Whitney, Inc., operates the Company's technical services to the mining industry segment.
ITRI Itron, Inc. is a technology provider and source of knowledge for collecting, analyzing and applying critical data about electric, gas and water usage to the global energy and water industries. The Company provides solutions for meter data collection, energy information management, demand side management and response, as well as load forecasting and analysis consulting services and software, transmission and distribution (T&amp;D) system design and optimization, Web-based workforce automation, commercial and industrial (C&amp;I) customer care and residential energy management. Itron's technology facilitates the automatic collection and delivery of meter usage data from over 33 million meters that have been automated in North America. The Company's handheld meter reading systems are used by over 2,000 utilities worldwide, including in Mexico, Japan, Australia and parts of Europe.
DMX I-trax, Inc. is a combination of two companies that merged in March 2004, I-trax, Inc. and Meridian Occupational Healthcare Associates, Inc., a private company which does business as CHD Meridian Healthcare. The Company offers two categories of services, which can be integrated or blended as necessary or appropriate based on each client's needs. The first category includes on-site services such as occupation health, primary care, corporate health and pharmacy, which were offered by CHD Meridian Healthcare. The second category includes personalized health management programs, which were offered by I-trax.
ITLA ITLA Capital Corporation is a financial services company that conducts and manages its business principally through Imperial Capital Bank (the Bank), its wholly owned subsidiary. The Bank is primarily engaged in originating real estate loans secured by income producing properties for retention in its loan portfolio; originating film finance loans, franchise loans, tax refund anticipation loans, private label small business revolving credit loans, and accepting customer deposits through certificates of deposits, money market, passbook and demand deposit accounts. Real estate loans, construction loans, film finance and internally originated franchise loans held by the Bank are serviced by the Bank's loan servicing department. ITLA had consolidated net loans of $1.4 billion and consolidated deposits of $1.1 billion as of December 31, 2003. In January 2003, the Bank converted from a California industrial bank to a California-chartered commercial bank and ITLA became a bank holding company.
ITHH.OB ITIS Holdings Inc. (ITIS) owns computer-related subsidiaries that operate pharmacies and provide technical support for operations. It is engaged in providing pharmacy operations through its subsidiary PharmHouse Inc. and technical support through its subsidiary OnPoint Solutions Inc. PharmHouse operates one pharmacy that focuses primarily on electronic prescription services. The Company provided automated litigation support through its subsidiary, ITIS, Inc., which conducts business as Litidex. The litigation support services of Litidex are temporarily suspended as ITIS attempts to renegotiate its service contracts. OnPoint Solutions provides technical support in the development and operation of PharmHouse pharmacies, and in software and hardware services for both PharmHouse and Litidex. It also provides the RightScript software used by PharmHouse.
ITEX.OB ITEX Corporation provides a business-to-business (B2B) payment system for retail, professional, media and other corporate members through its franchisees and Independent Licensed Broker (ILB) network in the United States and Canada. Its business services and payment systems enable over $170 million a year in trade transactions to be processed between approximately 13,000 members businesses, which, collectively, make up the ITEX trade exchange (ITEX Exchange). The Company administers the ITEX Exchange and acts as a third-party record-keeper for transactions entered into by the members.
ITAT.OB ITEC Attractions, Inc. is principally involved in the tourist entertainment industry. It owns and operates a giant screen entertainment facility in Branson, Missouri, known as the IMAX Entertainment Complex, which commenced operations in October 1993. The IMAX Entertainment Complex consists of the Ozarks Discovery IMAX theater, a giant screen motion picture theater, the Elite Cinema III theaters consisting of three 35mm motion picture theaters, which were opened in August 2001, the Remember When theater, which was renamed The Little Opry theater, which features live performances, McFarlain's, a full-service restaurant, the IMAX food court which operates franchises for Quizno's Subs, Breadeaux Pizza, and Baskin Robbins. The Company also operates several retail shops, various food concessions and related amenities.
ITCD ITC^DeltaCom, Inc. (ITC) is a provider of integrated communications services in the Southeastern United States. The Company delivers a suite of voice and data communications services, including local exchange, long-distance, enhanced data, Internet, colocation and managed services and sells customer premise equipment to its end user customers. ITC offers these services primarily over its owned network facilities and also uses leased network facilities to extend its market coverage. In addition, the Company owns, operates and manages a fiber-optic network with significant transmission capacity that it uses for its own voice and data traffic and selectively sells to other communications providers on a wholesale basis. It delivers bundled services and individual services tailored to the needs of its customers that include small, medium-sized, and large business enterprises, governmental agencies and other carriers. On October 6, 2003, ITC completed the acquisition of BTI Telecom Corp.
ITER.OB IT&amp;E International, Inc. is a lifesciences organization focused on providing its clients with solutions to complex needs in clinical research and regulatory compliance. It serves clients throughout various sectors, including private industry, public institutions, research facilities and government. The Company operates in two main divisions. The Regulatory Affairs Division provides services to pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare and other life science companies. It provides its clients the expertise to evaluate, structure, implement and maintain effective quality programs and processes that ensure compliance with applicable Food and Drug Administration regulations. The Clinical Services and Solutions Division offers a full suite of clinical trial support services. The services offerings include patient and investigator recruitment, biostatistical analysis, data management, data entry and verification and regulatory affairs services.
SFI iStar Financial Inc. is a finance company focused on the commercial real estate industry. The Company provides custom-tailored financing to private and corporate owners of real estate nationwide including senior and junior mortgage debt, senior and mezzanine corporate capital and corporate net lease financing. The Company's product lines are Structured Finance, Portfolio Finance, Corporate Finance, Loan Acquisition and Corporate Tenant Leasing. iStar focuses on its investment activity of lower-risk investments such as first mortgages and corporate tenant lease transactions that meet its risk-adjusted return standards during difficult economic and real estate market conditions.
ISTA ISTA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded to discover, develop and market new remedies for diseases and conditions of the eye. Vitrase (ovine hyaluronidase), is a drug the Company is developing for the treatment of vitreous hemorrhage, for use as a spreading agent to facilitate the dispersion and absorption of other drugs and for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy. The Company is also developing other late-stage products including Istalol (timolol) for the treatment of glaucoma, Xibrom (bromfenac) for the treatment of ocular inflammation, and Caprogel (aminocaproic acid) for the treatment of hyphema.
ISRL Isramco, Inc. (Isramco) explores oil and gas in Israel and in the United States. In Israel, it holds a participation interest in two long-term offshore leases and serves as an operator of one. In addition the Company holds a participation interest in an offshore license and also serves as the operator. In the United States, the Company, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Jay Petroleum LLC (Jay Petroleum) and Jay Management LLC, is involved in oil and gas exploration and production. Jay Petroleum owns working interests in oil and gas wells in Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Wyoming. Independent estimates of the reserves held by Jay Petroleum, as of December 31, 2003, were approximately 136,000 net barrels of proved developed producing oil and 2,785 million cubic feet of proved developed producing natural gas.
ISON Isonics Corporation is an advanced materials and technology company focusing on the supply of isotopes for life sciences and health care applications and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers to the semiconductor industry. In addition, the Company continues to develop additional products created from materials, whose natural isotopic ratios have been modified, as well as non-isotopic (natural) materials. An isotope is one of two or more species (or nuclides) of the same chemical element that differ from one another only in the number of neutrons in the atom's nucleus. Most of the Company's radioisotopes, however, are man-made. The Company buy's the isotopes from the manufacturers and resells them in the form of common chemical compounds. For example, oxygen-18 is sold as water and zinc-68 is sold as zinc oxide. In June 2004, it acquired the business and assets of Encompass Materials Group Ltd. (EMG), which was engaged in the business of manufacturing and reclamation of silicon wafers.
ILE Isolagen Technologies, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that specializes in the development and commercialization of autologous cellular therapy for hard and soft tissue regeneration. Isolagen's lead product candidate is in Phase III clinical development and has applications in cosmetic dermatology to correct and reduce the normal effects of aging, such as wrinkles, laugh lines, smokers' lines, fine lines and all types of depressed scars. The Company's second product candidate that is being developed to treat periodontal disease has completed a Phase I clinical trial. Autologous cellular therapy is the process, whereby a patient's own cells are extracted, processed and then reintroduced to the patient. The Isolagen process is an autologous cellular therapy designed to replenish deficiencies caused through the loss of fibroblast cells.
ISLE Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. (Isle of Capri) is a developer, owner and operator of branded gaming facilities and related lodging and entertainment facilities in markets in the United States and internationally. It wholly owns and operates 11 gaming facilities in the United States located in Lake Charles and Bossier City, Louisiana; Lula, Biloxi, Vicksburg and Natchez, Mississippi; Kansas City and Boonville, Missouri, and Bettendorf, Davenport and Marquette, Iowa. It also owns a 57% interest in, and receives management fees for operating, two gaming facilities in Black Hawk, Colorado, and a gaming facility in Cripple Creek, Colorado. All but three of these gaming facilities operate under the name Isle of Capri and feature the Company's tropical island theme.
IPI Island Pacific, Inc. provides software solutions and services to the retail industry. The Company provides solutions that help retailers understand, create, manage and fulfill consumer demand. It is organized in three strategic business units: retail management solutions, store solutions and multi-channel retail solutions. Island Pacific markets its software solutions through direct and indirect sales channels, primarily to retailers who sell to their customers through traditional retail stores, catalogs and/or Internet-enabled storefronts. The Company has licensed its solutions to more than 200 retailers across a variety of retail sectors. Island Pacific's operations are conducted principally in the United States and the United Kingdom. In February 2004, the Company acquired Page Digital Inc., a provider of open systems-based multi-channel commerce solutions. In June 2004, the Company acquired Retail Technologies International, Inc., which offers point-of-sale application, Retail Pro.
ISIS Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company exploiting ribonucleic acid- (RNA) based drug discovery technologies to identify and commercialize novel drugs to treat diseases. The Company's technology platforms consist of the antisense technology platform, which targets disease-causing proteins before the body produces them and the ibis technology platform that is designed to identify organisms in a single test. Isis used its antisense technology to commercialize its first product, Vitravene. Isis has 11 antisense products in its development pipeline with 10 in human clinical trials designed to assess safety and efficacy. The products in development address numerous therapeutic areas with major market potential, including inflammatory, viral, metabolic, dermatological and cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
ISRE.OB iSECUREtrac Corp. (iSt) provides tracking solutions for the monitoring of individuals and assets via a secure Web hosted application. The Company is an emerging technology company that has developed a Global Positioning Satellite based tracking and monitoring system for criminal offenders on parole, probation or pre-trial release, consisting of a personal tracking unit and a Web-based automated monitoring system. iSt continues to enhance its products by adding features requested by customers from time to time; reducing the cost of manufacturing through volume production, and improving response times of tracNET24 by continuing to streamline firmware, software and communications.
ISR I-Sector Corporation is a holding company that provides network infrastructure and Internet protocol (IP) telephony solutions including related implementation and support services for enterprises. The network and IP telephony solutions it offers are Cisco-centric, meaning they are based on the products and technology of Cisco Systems, Inc. These solutions include design, implementation and support of IP telephony, local area network/wide area network routing and switching, virtual private networks, voice-over Internet Protocol, network security and wireless networks. The Company also develops and markets its own computer telephony integration software and provides remote information technology services. I-Sector operates through its three subsidiaries: Internetwork Experts, Inc., Stratasoft, Inc. and Valerent, Inc.
ISO ISCO International, Inc. (ISCO) develops and sells solutions designed to optimize the reverse link of wireless networks. The Company's array of solutions include its adaptive notch filter (ANF) product line and the reverse link radio frequency fidelity (RF&sup2;) product line, as well as services and other solutions. The RF&sup2; product is a reverse link, low-noise, front-end solution designed and priced for network-wide deployment, improving base station coverage integrity and eliminating dead zones. Its ANF product substantially reduces or eliminates the effects of in-band interference. The Company provides professional services to customers in the form of interference audits and analytical tools.
IFC Irwin Financial Corporation is a diversified financial services company with operations throughout the United States and Canada. The Company is engaged in the mortgage banking, commercial banking, home equity lending, commercial finance and venture capital lines of business. The Company's direct and indirect major subsidiaries include Irwin Mortgage Corporation, a mortgage banking company; Irwin Union Bank and Trust Company, a commercial bank, which together with Irwin Union Bank, F.S.B., a federal savings bank, conduct the Company's commercial banking activities; Irwin Home Equity Corporation, a consumer home equity lending company; Irwin Commercial Finance Corporation, a commercial finance subsidiary, and Irwin Ventures LLC, a venture capital company.
IRSN Irvine Sensors Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and sells electronic products, including subsystems and semiconductors, and other products related to miniaturized electronics for defense, security and commercial applications. It also performs customer-funded contract research and development related to these technologies. The Company develops products in areas such as stacked chip assemblies, miniaturized infrared cameras, microchips and sensors, and software. Its core chip-stacking technology was originally conceived and developed as a means of addressing the demands of space-based surveillance. During the fiscal year ended October 3, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the stacked chip products accounted for 10% of the Company's total revenue.
IRM Iron Mountain Incorporated is an international provider of records and information management and related services to help customers manage risks associated with legal and regulatory compliance, protection of vital assets, and business continuity challenges. Its business records management segment offers records management, secure shredding, healthcare information services, vital records services, and service and courier operations in the United States and Canada. The Company's off-site data protection segment offers data backup and disaster recovery services, vital records services, service and courier operations, and intellectual property protection services in the United States. The international segment offers elements of all the product and services lines outside the United States and Canada. Its corporate and other segment includes fulfillment, consulting and digital archiving services. Some of the complementary services and products are offered within all of its segments.
IRIS IRIS International, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets in vitro diagnostic (IVD) equipment, including IVD imaging systems based on patented and proprietary automated intelligent microscopy (AIM) technology, as well as special purpose centrifuges and other small instruments for automating microscopic procedures performed in clinical laboratories. The Company consists of three operating units: Iris Diagnostics Division, StatSpin, Inc. and Advanced Digital Imaging and Research LLC (ADIR). Iris Diagnostics Division, designs, manufactures and markets IVD systems, consumables and supplies for urinalysis. StatSpin, Inc. markets small centrifuges and other processing equipment and accessories for rapid specimen processing, while ADIR assists in the advancement of imaging technology while conducting government-sponsored research and contract development in imaging and pattern recognition.
IRIDQ.PK Iridium World Communications Ltd. is a limited liability company that acquires, owns and manages the Iridium communications system. The Company's subsidiaries include Iridium Operating LLC, Iridium Capital Corporation, Iridium Roaming LLC, Iridium IP LLC, and Iridium Facilities Corporation. Iridium offers its customers the ability to make and receive phone calls and receive pages virtually anywhere in the world. Iridium accomplishes this by providing access to the Iridium satellite constellation as well as the world's cellular networks, all with one phone, one phone number and one customer bill. Iridium believes it will be the only wireless telecommunications company in operation well into the year 2000 that will be able to offer this comprehensive global communications service. As of February 29, 2000, the Company was in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy proceedings.
IRIX IRIDEX Corporation develops, manufactures, markets, sells and services semiconductor-based medical laser systems used to treat eye diseases in ophthalmology and skin conditions in dermatology. The Company treats serious eye diseases by ophthalmology products that include the causes of irreversible blindness, age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. Its dermatology products are used in the treatment of vascular and pigmented lesions and the removal of unwanted hair. Each ophthalmic and dermatology laser system includes a console, which generates the laser energy and a number of interchangeable peripheral delivery devices, including disposable delivery devices for use in specific clinical applications.
IPS IPSCO Inc. is a North American steel producer with facilities and process equipment located at 12 sites throughout Canada and the United States. IPSCO is engaged in the production of steel and sale of primary and secondary manufactured steel products, such as carbon steel slabs, discrete plate and coil, cut plate and finished tubular products. IPSCO also has several metal scrap collection sites located principally in Western Canada. The output of the steel facilities is either sold directly to third parties in the as-produced condition, or used in IPSCO operations, which further fabricate the steel for sale to third parties. The Company produces steel in three North American steelworks: Regina, Saskatchewan; Montpelier, Iowa, and Mobile, Alabama. All three steelworks use electric arc furnace technology to convert scrap steel into liquid steel. Each steelwork casts the liquid steel into slabs and hot-rolls the slabs into various grades of discrete plate or coil.
IPIX IPIX Corporation is a provider of technology solutions enabling public and private enterprises to use visual data efficiently. The Company is organized into three business units: IPIX Security, IPIX Ad Technologies and IPIX InfoMedia. IPIX Security provides security and surveillance products and services for commercial and governmental customers. IPIX Ad Technologies focuses on the sale of complete solutions to customers who rely on visual data to create effective directional advertising such as publishers of newspaper classifieds, yellow page directories, on-line auctions, real estate and autos classifieds. IPIX InfoMedia focuses on the sale of immersive still technology licenses for the on-line real estate, travel and hospitality and visual documentation markets.
IPEC.OB IPEC Holdings Inc. (IPEC) manufactures 28-millimeter and 38-millimeter tamper evident plastic closures. These closures are used in the bottling of non-carbonated beverages, including bottled water, milk, fruit, and sport drinks. IPEC also designs and fabricates capping equipment. The Company sells to two primary markets: bottled water and juice market, and dairy market. The manufacturing process consists principally of the high-speed injection molding of a given cap using a mold specifically engineered for that design. Resin, which is in the form of small pebble-sized pellets, is drawn to a particular injection-molding machine through the use of a vacuum delivery system. The resin is melted and introduced along with any coloring agent to the machine for forming.
IPCR IPC Holdings, Ltd. provides property catastrophe reinsurance, and, to a limited extent, property-per-risk excess, aviation (including satellite) and other short-tail reinsurance on a worldwide basis. During 2003, approximately 84% of the Company's gross premiums written covered property catastrophe risks. Property catastrophe reinsurance covers unpredictable events such as hurricanes, windstorms, hailstorms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, fires, industrial explosions, freezes, riots, floods and other man-made or natural disasters. The substantial majority of the reinsurance written by IPC Holdings' wholly owned subsidiary, IPCRe Limited, has been, and continues to be, written on an excess of loss basis for primary insurers rather than reinsurers, and is subject to aggregate limits on exposure to losses.
IPMT iPayment Inc. is a provider of card-based payment processing services to small business merchants located across the United States. The Company's payment processing services enable merchants to process both traditional card-present (swipe) transactions, as well as card-not-present transactions. A traditional card-present transaction occurs whenever a cardholder physically presents a credit or debit card to a merchant at the point of sale (POS). A card-not-present transaction occurs whenever the customer does not physically present a payment card at the POS and may occur over the Internet, mail, fax or telephone. iPayment's services include application evaluation underwriting, merchant set-up and training, card transaction processing, risk management/detection of fraudulent transactions, merchant service and support, chargeback service and merchant reporting.
IPAS iPass Inc. is a global provider of software-enabled enterprise connectivity services for mobile workers. The Company's primary service offering, iPass Corporate Access, is designed to enable enterprises to provide their employees with secure access from over 150 countries to the enterprise's internal networks through an easy-to-use interface. The virtual network is enabled by the Company's software, scalable network architecture and relationships with over 280 telecommunications carriers, Internet service providers and other network service providers around the globe. iPass provides its services predominantly over wired networks and it has begun providing its services over wireless networks. The Company has generated 99% of its revenues to date from the sale of enterprise connectivity services using narrowband access technologies, such as modem dialup, and seek to generate additional revenues from broadband access technologies, including Ethernet and wireless-fidelity (Wi-Fi).
IPT iParty Corp. is a party goods retail chain operating 38 stores. The Company also licenses the name iparty.com to a third party in exchange for royalties. iParty's retail stores are located predominantly in New England with 21 stores in Massachusetts, six in Connecticut, four in New Hampshire, three in Rhode Island and one in Maine. The Company also operates three stores in Florida. iParty's stores feature over 20,000 products ranging from greeting cards and balloons to merchandise such as pinatas, tiny toys, masquerade and Hawaiian Luau items. The Company subsequently opened an additional five stores through December 27, 2003.
ION Ionics, Incorporated is a supplier of water purification and wastewater treatment equipment and services. The Company's products and services are used by the Company or its customers to desalt brackish water and seawater, treat, recycle and reclaim process water and waste water, treat water for residential and commercial applications, manufacture and supply disinfection chemicals and process food products. Ionics also supplies zero liquid discharge systems and ultrapure water systems for the power and microelectronics industries as well as measures and analyzes water impurities. The Company's business activities are organized under four business group segments: Equipment Business Group, Ultrapure Water Group, Consumer Water Group and Instrument Business Group.
IONA IONA Technologies PLC (IONA) is in the integration software business. The Company's software products enable the customers to build, maintain and scale their disparate computing environments while preserving and extending existing information technology (IT) investments. The Company offers two product families, Artix and Orbix. It offers professional services, including ongoing customer support and maintenance, as well as high-level design consultation, education and product implementation. IONA has licensed products, directly and indirectly, to more than 4,500 enterprise or divisional customers worldwide. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary is IONA Technologies, Inc. and its principal place of business is in the United States. IONA acquired Netfish Technologies, Inc. (Netfish) in the year ending December 31, 2001.
IONN.OB ION Networks, Inc. (ION) designs, develops, manufactures and sells network and information security and management products to corporations, service providers and government agencies. The Company's hardware and software products are designed to form a secure auditable portal to protect information technology (IT) and network infrastructure from internal and external security threats. Its network and information security solution operates in the Internet protocol (IP), data center, telecommunications and transport and telephony environments. In addition, to hardware/software products the Company offers an array of repair and maintenance programs. Services revenue is typically generated from integration and maintenance services in conjunction with the sale of ION
IOM Iomega Corporation designs and markets products that help customers protect, secure, capture and share their valuable digital information. The Company's principal data management devices include magnetic drives and disks marketed under the Zip trademark and optical drives marketed under the Iomega CD-RW and Iomega DVD rewritable trademarks. The Company also markets portable and desktop hard disk drives, Iomega Mini and Micro Mini USB drives, an Iomega Floppy USB drive, Iomega Networked Attached Storage servers and various software titles. During 2003, the Company's research and development efforts were focused primarily on two new high-capacity removable storage devices, a removable hard disk storage system, REV, which is expected to have a native capacity of approximately 35 gigabytes (GB) and a compressed capacity of up to 90GB and a small-form factor removable flexible magnetic storage device, Digital Capture Technology, which is expected to have a capacity of 1.2 to 1.5GB.
IOX IOMED, Inc. is in the business of developing, manufacturing, and marketing products used in the site-specific, non-invasive administration of soluble salts or other drugs into the body for medical purposes. The Company's active drug delivery systems employ iontophoresis as a non-invasive method of enhancing and controlling the transport of water-soluble ionic drugs into and through the skin and other body tissues using a low-level electrical current. The Company has iontophoresis technology in various stages of research and product development primarily for transdermal drug delivery and for the treatment of ophthalmic disease. The Company markets iontophoretic products used to deliver various drug compounds.
IOMG.OB I/OMagic Corporation operates in the data storage and digital entertainment industries. The Company sells data storage and digital entertainment products in the United States, and to a lesser extent, in Canada. I/OMagic's data storage product offerings are focused on optical data storage media. Its digital entertainment product offerings are focused on products that complement its line of data storage products. I/OMagic has two subsidiaries: I/OMagic Corporation and IOM Holdings, Inc. The data storage products accounted for approximately 94% of Company net sales, during the year ended December 31, 2003, whereas the digital entertainment products accounted for approximately 6% of net sales for that period.
IRS IRSA Inversiones Reprsentaciones S.A. (IRSA) is a real estate company engaged directly, or indirectly, through subsidiaries and joint ventures in a range of real estate activities in Argentina. The Company's principal activities consist of the acquisition and development of residential properties primarily for sale; the acquisition, development and operation of office and other non-shopping center retail properties primarily for rental purposes; the acquisition, development and operation of shopping centers properties; the acquisition and operation of luxury hotels, and the acquisition of undeveloped land reserves for future developments or sale. As of June 30, 2004, the Company either directly, or through its subsidiaries and joint ventures, owned significant interests in a portfolio of 53 properties in Argentina, located principally in Buenos Aires.
IMA Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. primarily provides in-vitro diagnostic products for the over-the-counter pregnancy and fertility/ovulation test market, as well as the professional rapid diagnostic test market. Through its Consumer Products segment, the Company sells pregnancy and fertility/ovulation test products in the premium branded, value branded and the private label sectors. Through its Professional Diagnostics segment, the Company provides a range of rapid diagnostic test products and other in-vitro diagnostic tests to medical professionals and laboratories for detection of infectious diseases, drugs of abuse and pregnancy. Inverness' products are sold in about 90 countries. In June 2004, the Company acquired Viva Diagnostika, a closely held distributor of professional diagnostic products to the German marketplace, and Advantage Diagnostics Corporation, a closely held lateral flow diagnostic company that specializes in rapid test development and component manufacturing.
IVC Invacare Corporation designs, manufactures and distributes a line of healthcare products for the non-acute care environment, including the home healthcare, retail and extended care markets. The Company offers over two dozen product lines that are sold principally to over 25,000 home healthcare and medical equipment provider locations in the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe and New Zealand, with the remainder of its sales being primarily to government agencies and distributors. Invacare also distributes medical equipment and related supplies manufactured by others.
ISRG Intuitive Surgical, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets the da Vinci Surgical System. In addition, the Company designs, manufactures and markets a variety of smart disposable EndoWrist instruments. The Company's principal products are the da Vinci Surgical System, EndoWrist Instruments and products offered by Computer Motion Inc. Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci Surgical System consists of a surgeon's console, a patient-side cart, a high performance vision system and proprietary wristed instruments. The da Vinci Surgical System seamlessly translates the surgeon's natural hand movements on instrument controls at a console into corresponding micro-movements of instruments positioned inside the patient through small puncture incisions or ports. In June 2003, the Company acquired Computer Motion, Inc., a provider of proprietary robotic and computerized surgical systems.
INTU Intuit Inc. (Intuit) is a provider of business and financial management solutions for small businesses, accounting professionals and consumers. The Company's flagship products and services, including QuickBooks, TurboTax, ProSeries, Lacerte and Quicken simplify small business management, tax preparation and filing, and personal finance. The Company has three business portfolios: Small Business, Tax and Other. Its Small Business portfolio consists of two segments: QuickBooks-Related and Intuit-Branded Small Business. Its Tax portfolio consists of two segments: Consumer Tax and Professional Tax. The Other businesses segment consists of Quicken personal finance products and services, and its Canadian business.
INTZ Intrusion Inc. develops, markets and supports a family of network intrusion prevention and detection systems and regulated information compliance systems that address security issues facing organizations with mission-critical business applications or housing classified, confidential or customer information assets. The Company provides network security and regulated information compliance solutions under its SecureNet family of hardware and software solutions. The network intrusion prevention systems (NIPS) provide network monitoring and analysis functionality such as an intrusion detection system (IDS) with the added ability to block malicious network traffic. Regulated information compliance systems (RICS) provide protection against the loss and misuse of regulated, classified and commercially sensitive data.
INGN Introgen Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of targeted therapies for the treatment of cancer and other diseases. The Company develops product candidates to treat a range of cancers using non-integrating gene agents. These agents are designed to increase production of normal cancer-fighting proteins that act to overpower cancerous cells. The Company's lead product candidate, ADVEXIN therapy, combines the p53 (protein of 53 kilodaltons) gene with a non-replicating, non-integrating adenoviral gene-delivery system that it has developed and extensively tested. The p53 gene is one of the most potent members of a group of naturally occurring tumor suppressor genes. The Company is conducting two multinational, multisite Phase III clinical trials of ADVEXIN therapy, both by itself and in combination with chemotherapy, in recurrent squamous cell cancer of the head and neck.
ITPD.OB Intrepid Holdings, Inc., formerly AutoFund Servicing, Inc., provides third-party collection and recovery services to investors, auto loan companies, banks, buy-here-pay-here companies and auto finance-related companies that have bad debt accounts. After default has occurred against the original lender, the Company purchases the account and attempts to collect money on the account. The Company provides existing clients with all data on each individual account. This data is stored on paradata servicing platform and includes customer balance, daily transactions, collection history and collection notations. Client reports are provided monthly, weekly or daily depending upon the client requirements. It also provides data warehousing services for its clients on a long-term agreement. In July 2000, the Company was formed through a reverse acquisition between AutoFund Servicing and Sphinx Industries, Inc. In July 2004, it changed its name to Intrepid Holdings, Inc.
IDR Intrawest Corporation is a developer and operator of village-centered resorts. It operates a network of 10 mountain resorts and one warm-weather resort, which are geographically diversified across North America's major ski regions. It operates through two divisions: Leisure and Travel Group, which includes the resorts operations, golf, lodging and central reservations businesses, and Club Intrawest. Intrawest's Placemaking carries out the Company's real estate development business. Its resort operations revenue is derived from a wide variety of sources, including four season mountain operations including lift tickets and heli-skiing, retail and rental shops, food and beverage, ski school, golf and tennis and other, and accounted for approximately 46.4%, 18.7%, 15.1%, 7.7%, 5% and 7.1%, respectively, of the Company's revenue during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004). During fiscal 2004, the Company's network of resorts generated approximately eight million skier visits.
ITRA Intraware, Inc. provides global electronic software delivery and management (EDSM) services for the enterprise software industry. The Company's ESDM services help software publishers streamline manufacturing, distribution and support costs; develop business intelligence about their customers; strengthen customer retention and maintenance renewals; accelerate and document software delivery for revenue recognition purposes, and comply with United States export controls. The Company also offers complementary services, including enterprise software sales and marketing, digital rights management, as well as automatic desktop update management and deployment, through alliances with companies, such as Software Spectrum, Inc., Macrovision Corporation and InstallShield Software Corporation.
ILSE Intralase Corp. is a provider of Laser-Assisted In-Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK) surgery device, the means of surgical vision correction. The Company designs, develops and markets an ultra-fast laser, related software and disposable devices used in creating the corneal flap, the first step in LASIK surgery. Its advanced laser technology improves the safety, precision and visual acuity of LASIK surgery by providing a computer-controlled laser solution as an alternative to the hand-held mechanical, metal-bladed microkeratome traditionally used to create the corneal flap. The Company's product offering consists of three key elements: INTRALASE FS laser, IntraLASIK software and Per Procedure Disposable Patient Interface.
TRDO IIntrado Inc. provides 9-1-1 infrastructure, systems and services, as well as solutions for telecommunications providers and public safety organizations. Its core business is the support of the United States' 9-1-1 emergency response infrastructure for wireline, wireless and voice over Internet protocol networks. The data the Company manages enables a 9-1-1 call to be routed to the appropriate public safety answering point. Intrado provides callback data and the caller's location. This critical information enables public safety organizations to quickly respond to calls for assistance. In addition, this data allows the telecommunications carriers to meet state and federal regulatory mandates. The Company's customers include all major incumbent local exchange carriers, 41 competitive local exchange carriers, 38 wireless service providers and a variety of state, local and federal government agencies.
IBPI IntraBiotics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of an oral solution of iseganan hydrochloride (iseganan HCl), an antimicrobial drug, for the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). VAP is a bacterial pneumonia that can develop in patients receiving mechanical (artificial) ventilation and is common infection occurring in patients in intensive care units. One potential benefit of preventing VAP would be to reduce the need for antibiotics and subsequent emergence of antibiotic resistance. There are no products approved by health authorities for the prevention of VAP. In addition, the Company intends to pursue additional indications for iseganan HCl, including treatment of infections in patients with cystic fibrosis. IntraBiotics owns worldwide rights to iseganan HCl for all indications.
IAIA Intier Automotive Inc. is a full-service supplier of automotive interior and closure components, systems and modules. The Company generally sells its products and provides support services directly to automobile manufacturers, primarily through its offices in North America, Europe, Brazil and the Asia-Pacific region. Its operations consist of two segments: interiors and closures. The Company's interiors operations supply complete vehicle interior systems and components, such as complete seating systems, seating hardware, cockpit, sidewall and overhead systems and components, cargo management systems, overhead, floor and acoustic systems, instrument panels and related components. Intier's closures business supplies closing mechanisms and system module technologies. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company had 71 manufacturing facilities, 17 product development, engineering and testing centers and 17 sales/purchasing offices.
IVAC Intevac, Inc. is a provider of thin-film disk sputtering equipment for the thin-film disk industry and a developer of extreme low-light imaging sensors, cameras and systems. The Company operates in two business segments: Equipment and Imaging. Intevac's customers include Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), Komag, Maxtor and Seagate Technology. The Company's Equipment business designs, manufactures, markets and services complex capital equipment which deposits or sputters, highly engineered thin-films on to disks used in hard disk drives. Its systems represent half of the installed base of disk sputtering systems and produced half of all thin-film disks made worldwide during the year ended December 31, 2003. Its Imaging business develops and manufactures electro-optical sensors, cameras and systems that permit highly sensitive detection of photons in the visible and near infrared portions of the spectrum, allowing vision in extreme low-light situations.
INTT inTEST Corporation is an independent designer, manufacturer and marketer of manipulator and docking hardware products, temperature management systems and tester interface products that are used by semiconductor manufacturers in conjunction with automatic test equipment (ATE) in the testing of integrated circuits (ICs). The Company's products are designed to enable semiconductor manufacturers to improve the efficiency of their IC test processes, and, consequently, their profitability. inTEST custom-designs its products for each customer's particular combination of ATE. The Company has designed over 5,000 models, each of which is mechanically different. These models are designed to facilitate the use of one or more of over 175 different test heads with one or more of over 30 probers or 300 handlers. inTEST supplies its products worldwide to semiconductor manufacturers directly, as well as through ATE manufacturers.
IWOV Interwoven, Inc. provides enterprise content management (ECM) software and services that enable businesses to create, review, manage, distribute and archive critical business content such as documents, spreadsheets, emails and presentations, as well as Web images, graphics, content and applications code. Interwoven 6, the latest release of the Company's ECM product suite, integrates six software product offerings with a set platform of services enabling enterprises to manage, deliver and archive large volumes of content inside and outside the enterprise. The six software product offerings, providing end-to-end content lifecycle management, include collaboration, e-mail management, document management, Web content management, digital asset management and records management. In January 2004, the Company acquired Component Insights India Private Limited, a software development company based in Bangalore, India.
IWMC.OB InterWest Medical Corporation develops, operates and owns surgery centers. The Company did not, however, develop any surgery center. It owns and operates a 156-bed nursing home in Colton, California. Approximately 59%, and 53% of revenues, for the years ended December 31, 2003, and 2002, respectively, were derived from a contract with one health maintenance organization. The Company has also refinanced its mortgage on its healthcare facility. InterWest does not have any plans to develop other nursing homes.
INTV Intervoice, Inc. provides converged voice and data solutions for network and enterprise operators. The Intervoice Omvia Voice Framework is built on an open-standard, distributed architecture and provides a comprehensive platform that allows organizations to connect, develop, run, manage and report on voice-driven solutions. The Company offers a range of voice-driven technology, including messaging, payment and portal solutions with expertise in voice development, management and application solutions. It also offers solutions that include professional services, such as speech prototyping, remote monitoring, disaster recovery, system installation and integration, technical training and solutions tuning. Customers can access an Omvia Voice Framework solution or select specific modules that offer tools or services to meet their requirements.
IVII InterVideo, Inc. provides digital video disc (DVD) software, video editing and DVD burning software and television viewing and recording software. The Company has developed a technology platform from which it has created a suite of integrated multimedia software products. These products span the digital video cycle by allowing users to capture, edit, author, distribute, burn and play digital video. InterVideo's multimedia software products bring the functionality of consumer electronics (CE) products, such as the DVD player and the digital video recorder (DVR) to personal computers (PC). The software is also used to enhance the functionality of CE devices. The Company's products are sold in more than 2,200 United States retail stores.
IBCA Intervest Bancshares Corporation is a registered financial holding company that owns 100% of the outstanding capital stock of Intervest National Bank (the Bank), Intervest Mortgage Corporation, Intervest Securities Corporation, Intervest Statutory Trust I and Intervest Statutory Trust II. The Company's primary business is the operation of its subsidiaries. The Bank conducts a personalized commercial and consumer banking business in New York City and Florida. Intervest Mortgage Corporation is engaged in the real estate business, including the origination and purchase of real estate mortgage loans, consisting of first mortgage, junior mortgage and wraparound mortgage loans. Intervest Securities Corporation is a broker/dealer and a National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. and SIPC member firm, Intervest Statutory Trust I and Intervest Statutory Trust II were formed for the sole purpose of issuing and administering trust preferred securities.
INTL Inter-Tel, Incorporated is a single point-of-contact, full-service provider of converged voice and data business communications systems, voice-mail systems and networking applications. The Company's suite of applications includes unified communications, voice processing and unified messaging software, audio, video and Web conferencing applications, workgroup and call center management solutions, Internet protocol (IP) telephony software, computer telephony integration (CTI) applications and other communications services. Its communications platforms include Inter-Tel Axxess and EncoreCX business communication systems. Inter-Tel also provides managed services, such as local and long distance calling services, networking, maintenance, leasing and support services for its products. The Company categorizes its software and endpoints under four technology categories: Infrastructure, Presence, Collaboration and Messaging.
ITP Intertape Polymer Group Inc. (IPG) develops and manufactures specialized polyolefin films, paper and film pressure sensitive tapes and complementary packaging systems for industrial and retail use. Its product offerings include Intertape carton sealing tapes, Intertape masking tapes, Intertape reinforced filament tapes, acrylic-based adhesive tapes, Intertape duct tapes, Exlfilm shrink wraps, Strechflex stretch wraps and industrial electrical tapes. The Company also manufactures woven products and flexible intermediate bulk containers. IPG's performance products, including tapes and cloths, are designed for demanding aerospace, automotive and industrial applications and are sold to a range of industrial/specialty distributors, retail stores and end users in diverse industries.
IHR Interstate Hotels &amp; Resorts, Inc. (Interstate) is a United States hotel management company that generates revenues from managing a portfolio of hospitality properties. Interstate owns one hotel property and holds a non-controlling joint venture equity interests in 29 of its managed properties. It also generates revenue from providing ancillary services in the hotel, resort, conference center and golf markets. The Company's ancillary services include insurance and risk management services, purchasing and project management services, information technology and telecommunications services and centralized accounting services. Through BridgeStreet corporate housing division, the Company also generates revenues from the leasing of corporate long-term stay apartments. At December 31, 2003, Interstate managed 295 properties with 65,250 rooms in 41 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, Russia and Portugal.
ISIL Intersil Corporation is a global designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog integrated circuits, operating exclusively in the semiconductor industry. The Company's products are designed primarily to addresses applications in four principal end markets: High-End Consumer, which includes optical storage and video display products, handheld power management products and certain standard analog drivers; Computing, consisting of desktop, server and notebook power management, including core power devices and other peripheral applications; Communications, which includes line drivers, broadband and hot plug power management products and high speed converters, and Industrial, including the Company's Elantec family of operational amplifiers, bridge driver power management products, interface and analog switches and multiplexers and other standard analog products. The Company manufactures its products using its own fabrication facility as well as external foundry companies.
INTX Intersections Inc. provides identity theft protection and credit management services on a subscription basis. The Company's services principally are marketed to customers of its clients and branded and tailored to meet its clients' specifications. Intersections' clients are principally credit and charge card-issuing financial institutions. Its subscribers purchase its services either directly from the Company or through arrangements with its clients. Intersections' services include daily, monthly or quarterly monitoring of its subscribers' credit files at one or all three of the major credit reporting agencies: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. The Company delivers its services online or by mail to its subscribers in a user-friendly format. It also offers credit score analysis tools, credit education, a consumer fraud resource center and identity theft cost coverage.
IPG Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. is a group of advertising and specialized marketing and communication services companies that provide international advertising and marketing services. The Company provides clients with communications services in three broad areas: advertising and media management; marketing communications, which includes direct marketing and customer relationship management, public relations, sales promotion, event marketing, online marketing, corporate and brand identity and healthcare marketing; and specialized marketing services, which includes sports and entertainment marketing and corporate meetings and events.
IPLY.OB Interplay Entertainment Corp. is a developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software for core gamers and the mass market. The Company specializes in the development of titles in the action/arcade, adventure/role playing game (RPG) and strategy/puzzle categories. The Company's software is developed for use on various interactive entertainment software platforms, including personal computers (PCs) and video game consoles, such as the Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2), Microsoft Xbox and Nintendo GameCube. Interplay's planned product introductions include a sequel to the title Kingpin for the PC and Xbox platforms; a title based on the Fallout Universe for the PS2 and Xbox platforms, and an RPG for the PS2 and Xbox platforms. Interplay is also developing a casino game for the PS2, Xbox and PC platforms.
INPH Interphase Corporation enables platform design and integration for the global voice, video and data communications markets through custom and off-the-shelf communications equipment, embedded software development suites and systems integration and professional services for carrier and private networks. The Company offers a line of telecom communication controllers, a portfolio of specialized enterprise connectivity and storage adapters and resource modules for security acceleration. Its products provide communications computing and connectivity of telecommunications and computer systems to wide area networks (WANs), local area networks (LANs) and storage area networks (SANs) using asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), Ethernet, Internet protocol (IP), Fibre Channel, high-level data link control and multi-protocol interworking technologies.
IPA Interpharm Holdings, Inc. (formerly ATEC Group, Inc.), is a holding company that operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Interpharm, Inc., which is engaged in developing, manufacturing and marketing generic prescription strength and over-the-counter (OTC) pharmaceutical products in solid oral dosage form, consisting of tablets, caplets and capsules. On May 30, 2003, Interpharm, Inc. was acquired by ATEC Group, Inc. (ATEC), which then changed its name to Interpharm Holdings, Inc. The Company manufactures and markets various dosage strengths for 21 generic drug products. Fourteen of its products are produced pursuant to abbreviated new drug applications (ANDA). The remaining products are manufactured under an OTC monogram. In addition, it manufactures eight dosage strengths of three distinct products for United Research Laboratories, Inc. and Mutual Pharmaceutical Company, Inc. (URL/Mutual).
IOC InterOil Corporation is primarily focused on the development of an oil refinery in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The refinery site is on the western side of Port Moresby Harbour. The Company is also focused on the upstream sector, as well as developing long-term alliances with strategic partners in downstream distribution and sales. InterOil has formed a strategic alliance with Shell Overseas Holdings Limited (Shell) to purchase all of Shell's retail and commercial distribution assets in PNG, which are to be leased back to Shell in its continuing distribution operations. The Company has acquired a crude oil distillation unit, Nikiski, which was owned and operated by Chevron USA (Chevron) at Kenai, Alaska. InterOil also acquired a semi-regenerative catalytic reformer with matching hydro-desulphurizer from a refinery in Oklahoma, which was owned by Chevron. The name plate capacity of the refinery (32,500 barrels per day) is guaranteed by the construction contractor, Clough Niugini Limited.
ISSX Internet Security Systems, Inc. (ISS) is a provider of network and information security products and services that help to protect businesses from network and system risks. The Company offers a proactive line of security solutions that provide protection against a variety of ever-changing threats for gateways, networks, servers and desktops. It also offers security software and appliances, managed security services, consulting and training services and online security research, advisory and other knowledge services. This line of products and services are designed specifically for the enterprise, service providers, risk management, small business and consumer markets. ISS' threat protection solutions deliver multiple layers of defense that detect, prevent and respond to threats before those threats cause damage to its customers' business operations. In January 2004, the Company acquired Cobion AG, a global provider of content filtering and anti-spam technology.
IIJI Internet Initiative Japan, Inc. offers a range of Internet-access services and network solutions to its customers in Japan. Its services are based upon networking technology tailored to meet the specific needs and demands of customers. The Company's primary services are Internet-access services and value-added services, which includes Internet data center services and systems integration services. Its Internet-access services range from low-cost dial-up access to high-speed access through dedicated lines for individual and corporate customers. Internet Initiative's value-added services include a variety of data storage and management options for corporate customers as part of its Internet data center services, as well as network security and other services. The Company's systems integration services are tailored to its customers' requirements, which include consulting/project planning, systems design, construction of network systems and systems outsourcing.
IGLD Internet Gold - Golden Lines Ltd. is an Israeli Internet service provider with approximately 312,256 residential subscribers and 4,144 business subscribers. The Company provides an array of Internet services tailored to meet the needs of its residential and business subscribers, including Internet access and other value-added services, e-commerce and content services. The Company provides Internet services through a nationwide network providing dial-up, broadband, Web hosting, Web security and integration services, as well as related value-added Internet services, such as Web faxing, virtual magazines, anti-virus, anti-spam and hosting. The Company is also an operator in the portals and advertising market through MSN Israel and in the e-commerce market through Gold Trade. Its subsidiaries include Internet Gold International Ltd., Gold Mind Ltd., IG Vest Ltd., Internet Gold Tech-Holdings Ltd., MSN Israel Ltd. and Gold Trade Ltd.
ICCA Internet Commerce Corporation (ICC) is in the electronic commerce (e-commerce) business-to-business (B2B) communication services market, providing e-commerce solutions. The Company's business operates in two segments: ICC.NET Segment, Service Bureau Segment. These segments are complementary to each other and support the Company's ability to provide solutions to many different kinds of enterprises from sole proprietorships to large corporations, operating in a variety of industries and business model formats. The Company provides offerings that enable a long-term relationship, add value to ever-evolving supply chain structures and offer migration paths for business model evolutions. With its broad range of offerings, the Company offers solutions that power and optimize reliable, secure and real-time transaction workflows within and across trading communities.
ICGE Internet Capital Group, Inc. (ICG) is an information technology (IT) company actively engaged in delivering software solutions and services that are designed to enhance business operations by increasing efficiency, reducing costs and improving sales results. The Company operates through a network of partner companies that deliver those solutions to customers. To help drive partner- company progress, ICG provides operational assistance, capital support, industry expertise, access to operational best practices and a strategic network of business relationships.
GEEK.OB Internet America, Inc. is an Internet service provider (ISP) that provides a wide array of Internet services tailored to meet the needs of individual and business subscribers. The primary service offerings are broadband and dial-up Internet access, as well as related value-added services. For the business subscribers, the Company offers dedicated high-speed Internet access, Web hosting, co-location and other business related services. The services are offered in several different packages to provide subscribers a broad range of choices to satisfy their Internet needs. The majority of the consumer subscribers have month-to-month subscriptions and the majority of the business customers are under service contracts for a term. During fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), it served approximately 58,000 active subscribers.
ISG International Steel Group Inc. (ISG) is an integrated United States-based steel manufacturing company. ISG has an annual raw steel production capability of about 18 million net tons and ships a variety of steel products from 11 steel producing and finishing facilities in six states. The Company's principal products include a range of hot-rolled, cold-rolled and coated sheets, tin mill products, carbon and alloy plates, rail products and semi-finished shapes serving the automotive, construction, appliance, plate, rail, container, tin and machinery markets. ISG sells steel products directly to end users, third-party processors and service centers primarily located in the Midwest and along the eastern seaboard of the United States. In June 2004, the Company acquired Georgetown Steel, a manufacturer of high-carbon steel wire rod products. Georgetown Steel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October 2003 and ceased production.
ISCA International Speedway Corporation (ISCA) is a promoter of motorsports entertainment activities in the United States. It owns and/or operates 12 motorsports facilities: the Daytona International Speedway, Talladega Superspeedway, Michigan International Speedway, Richmond International Raceway, California Speedway, Kansas Speedway, Phoenix International Raceway, Homestead-Miami Speedway, North Carolina Speedway Carolina, Darlington Raceway, Watkins Glen International York and Nazareth Speedway. In addition, Raceway Associates, LLC, in which the Company holds a 37.5% indirect equity interest, owns and operates the Chicagoland Speedway and Route 66 Raceway in Illinois. The Company also owns and operates the Motor Racing Network, Inc. radio network, an independent motorsports radio network, and DAYTONA USA: The Ultimate Motorsports Attraction, a motorsports-themed entertainment complex and the Official Attraction of NASCAR.
ISSG.OB International Smart Sourcing, Inc. is the holding company for its three wholly owned subsidiaries: Electronic Hardware Corp. (EHC), International Plastic Technologies, Inc. (IPT), which does business as International Smart Sourcing, and Compact Disc Packaging Corp. (CDP). EHC is engaged in the design, marketing and manufacture of injection-molded plastic components used in industrial, consumer and military products. IPT specializes in assisting companies in reducing their cost of manufacturing by outsourcing manufacturing to China. CDP is inactive. It was previously engaged in the manufacturing, marketing and sale of a compact disc packaging system called Pull Pack.
ISH International Shipholding Corporation operates a diversified fleet of United States and foreign flag vessels that provide international and domestic maritime transportation services to commercial and governmental customers primarily under medium- to long-term charters or contracts through its subsidiaries. At December 31, 2003, its fleet, owned and/or operated, consisted of 35 ocean-going vessels, 917 lighter aboard ship (LASH) barges and related shoreside handling facilities, as well as 22 over-the-road haul-away car carrying trucks. The Company has five operating segments, Liner Services, Time Charter Contracts, Contracts of Affreightment (COA), Rail-Ferry Service and Other. In addition to the five operating segments, it also has investments in several unconsolidated entities that it owns 50% or less and over which it does not exercise significant influence regarding operating and financial activities.
IRF International Rectifier Corporation (IR) is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of power management products and a worldwide supplier of a type of power semiconductor called a MOSFET (a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor). Power semiconductors process electricity into a form more usable by electrical products. The technology advancements of power semiconductors increase system efficiency, allow more compact end products, improve features and functionality and extend battery life. The Company's products are used in a range of end markets, including information technology, automotive, consumer electronics, aerospace/defense and industrial. IR's products are divided among three broad product categories: Analog Integrated Circuits and Advanced Circuit Devices, Power Systems and Power Components.
IPR International Power plc (formerly known as National Power PLC) is an international wholesale power generator and developer. The Company operates in 12 countries across four continents: North America, Europe, the Middle East and Australia. Its operating power plants had a total capacity of 16,840 megawatts (MW) gross (one million watts equal one megawatt) or 11,087 MW net. It has further capacity of 6,060 MW gross or 1,655 MW net under construction in Australia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia and is in the process of developing power projects in the United States and Italy. The Company generates electricity from gas, oil and coal. It is also engaged in complementary activities, such as mining coal and transporting gas by pipeline in Australia, desalinating water in the Middle East and providing steam for district heating systems in Europe.
IP International Paper Company (IP) is a global forest products, paper and packaging company that is complemented by an extensive distribution system, with primary markets and manufacturing operations in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Pacific Rim and South America. At year-end 2003, the Company also owned or managed approximately 8.3 million acres of forestlands in the United States, mostly in the South, approximately 1.5 million acres in Brazil and had, through licenses and forest management agreements, harvesting rights on government-owned forestlands in Canada and Russia. Through Carter Holt Harvey, a company that is approximately 50.5% owned by IP, the Company operates five mills producing pulp, paper, packaging and tissue products, 23 converting and packaging plants and 72 wood products manufacturing and distribution facilities, primarily in New Zealand and Australia. In New Zealand, Carter Holt Harvey owns or leases approximately 795,000 acres of forestlands.
IMSI.OB International Microcomputer Software, Inc. (IMSI) develops and publishes software in the precision design, graphic design and other related business applications fields. The Company's products can be classified into three broad categories: precision design solutions; consumer and business software solutions, and business applications and others. In July 2004, IMSI sold its wholly owned subsidiary, Keynomics, Inc.
ITSI.OB International Lottery &amp; Totalizator Systems, Inc. (ILTS) designs, manufactures, sells, manages, supports and services computerized wagering systems and terminals for the online lottery and pari-mutuel racing industries worldwide. The Company's wagering systems include a central computer installation that is comprised of computer hardware and a commercially available operating system, used in conjunction with the DataTrak application software; the Datamark and Intelimark families of point-of-sale devices, and the communication network to interface the terminals to the central computer installation. As of April 30, 2004, ILTS' equipment has been delivered and installed in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, England, Finland, France, Hong Kong, India, Macau, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, the Ukraine and the United States.
INIS.OB International Isotopes Inc. (I3) is a manufacturer of calibration and reference standards for nuclear medicine and a provider of general radiological measurement capability for processed gemstones. The Company also offers a selection of radioisotopes and radiochemicals for various applications, such as clinical research or industrial applications and supplies cobalt-60 isotope for use in the Leksell Gamma Knife. I3 was initially formed to produce, market and distribute a range of products used in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine, research and industry.
IGT International Game Technology (IGT) is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and sales of computerized gaming machines and systems products in all jurisdictions where gaming is legal. In addition to its United States production facility in Reno, Nevada, IGT also manufactures products in the United Kingdom and through third-party manufacturers in Japan and Canada. The Company receives revenues in two ways: product sales and gaming operations. Product sales revenues are generated from the sale of gaming machines, systems, parts, conversion kits, licenses and royalties, equipment and services. Gaming operations revenues are generated from IGT's installed base of recurring revenue games.
IFF International Flavors &amp; Fragrances Inc. (IFF) is a creator and manufacturer of flavor and fragrance products used by other manufacturers to impart or improve flavor or fragrance in a variety of consumer products. Fragrance products are sold principally to manufacturers of perfumes, cosmetics, toiletries, hair care products, deodorants, soaps, detergents and air care products. Flavor products are sold principally to manufacturers of prepared foods, beverages, dairy foods, pharmaceuticals and confectionery products. IFF produces more than 35,000 unique compounds annually of which 60% are flavors and 40% fragrances. The Company's principal fragrance and flavor products consist of compounds of large numbers of ingredients blended under proprietary formulas created by its perfumers and flavorists. Most of these compounds contribute the total fragrance or flavor to the consumer products in which they are used.
IEIB International Electronics, Inc. (IEI) designs, manufactures, markets and sells electronic products for the security industry and other commercial applications. IEI manufactures and markets a line of access control and digital keypad products sold under the trade names Door-Gard and Secured Series. IEI also manufactures and markets a line of industrial access control products sold under the trade name of PowerKey used to control access to industrial machinery and vehicles. IEI also manufactures and markets electronic glassbreak detectors sold under the trade name Tri-Gard. IEI's products are sold principally in the United States to many of the leading distribution and installation companies servicing the security industry.
IDWK.OB International DisplayWorks, Inc. designs, manufactures and supplies liquid crystal display (LCD) products to several Fortune 500 companies, Japanese and other Asian and European corporations and smaller companies operating in a variety of discrete markets. The Company works as an outsourced manufacturer or provider of design, manufacturing and assembly services. It targets original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and emergency medical services (EMS) customers that operate in the telecommunications, automotive, medical, computing, office equipment, home appliance and consumer electronics industries. The Company's components and modules are used in various electronic products, including cellular telephones and other wireless communication devices. DisplayWorks is also targeting areas for new applications, including audio, point-of-sale systems, irrigation controls and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
ICTL.OB International Commercial Television Inc. (ICTV)produces long-form and short-form infomercials and sells its brands of advertised products directly to its viewing audience. ICTV's primary product categories are health and beauty, automotive aftermarket and diet and fitness. In addition to products that ICTV owns or have the exclusive marketing license, the Company acts as the international distributor for products owned by third parties. ICTV's international division has been its primary revenue source for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003.
IBM International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an information technology (IT) company. Its portfolio of capabilities ranges from services that include business transformation consulting to software, hardware, fundamental research, financing and the component technologies used to build larger systems. These capabilities are combined to provide business insight and solutions in the enterprise computing space. IBM's clients include many different kinds of enterprises, from sole proprietorships to large organizations, governments and companies, representing every major industry and endeavor. Organizationally, the Company's major operations consist of a Global Services segment; three hardware product segments: Systems Group, Personal Systems Group and Technology Group; a Software segment; a Global Financing segment, and an Enterprise Investments segment. In December 2004, the Company acquired Danish companies Maersk Data and DMdata. In January 2005, the Company acquired SRD.
IBOC International Bancshares Corporation is a financial holding company that operates through its four bank subsidiaries: International Bank of Commerce (IBC), Commerce Bank, International Bank of Commerce, Brownsville and International Bank of Commerce, Zapata. IBC is the flagship bank of the Company. International Bancshares, through its bank subsidiaries, is engaged in the business of banking, including the acceptance of checking and savings deposits and the making of commercial, real estate, personal, home improvement, automobile and other installment and term loans. Certain of the bank subsidiaries are active in facilitating international trade along the United States border with Mexico and elsewhere. The international banking business of the Company includes providing letters of credit, making commercial and industrial loans and a nominal amount of currency exchange. The banks have over 100 banking and branch facilities located in 35 communities in South, Central and Southeast Texas.
IAAC International Assets Holding Corporation operates with its subsidiaries as a financial services group focused on select international securities and commodities markets. The Company has four wholly owned subsidiaries: INTL Trading, Inc. (INTL Trading), a National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) member broker-dealer, INTL Global Currencies Limited (INTL Global Currencies), INTL Assets, Inc. (INTL Assets) and IAHC Bermuda, Ltd. (IAHC Bermuda). The Company also owns a 50.1% limited liability company interest in INTL Consilium LLC, an investment advisory firm (INTL Consilium).
IAL International Aluminum Corporation is an integrated building products manufacturer of diversified lines of quality aluminum and vinyl products. It operates in three segments of the building products industry: Commercial Products, Residential Products and Aluminum Extrusions. The Company's line of commercial products include curtainwalls, window walls, slope glazed systems, storefront framing, entrance doors and frames, commercial operable windows, interior officefronts, office partitions and interior doors and frames for the commercial building and tenant improvement markets. Its residential products include windows and patio doors manufactured from vinyl and aluminum, and aluminum wardrobe mirror doors for the residential building and remodeling markets. Its aluminum extrusion products include mill finish, anodized, painted and fabricated aluminum extrusions. Its operations are conducted through 12 North American subsidiaries.
IAX International Absorbents Inc. is a holding company engaged in developing, manufacturing and marketing a range of animal care, industrial absorbent and hydro mulch products made from reclaimed industrial waste cellulose fibers. Substantially all of the Company's operations are conducted through its wholly owned United States subsidiary, Absorption Corp. animal care products are sold through approximately 80 wholesale pet supply distributions and direct buying retailers throughout North America. Industrial products are sold in limited markets in the United States and through a master distributor agreement in Canada. Industrial products are also sold through distribution partners in Australia, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Denmark, Israel and China.
IIP InterNAP Network Services Corporation provides high-performance managed Internet connectivity solutions to business customers requiring guaranteed network availability and high-performance levels for business-critical applications such as e-commerce, video and audio streaming, voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP), virtual private networks and supply chain management. In addition to its connectivity solutions, the Company provides complementary managed Internet services, including content distribution, virtual private networking, managed security, managed storage and video conferencing. In October 2003, the Company acquired netVmg, a supplier of intelligent route control customer premise equipment. Also in October 2003, the Company acquired a second Internet route control firm, Sockeye Networks, a privately held company engaged in route control technology based in Waltham, Massachusetts. At December 31, 2003, it provided services to over 1,600 customers in the United States and abroad.
ITMN InterMune, Inc. is an independent biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products for the treatment of serious pulmonary and hepatic diseases. The Company has three marketed products and advanced-stage development programs addressing a range of diseases with attractive markets: Actimmune (interferon gamma-1b), Infergen (interferon alfacon-1) and Amphotec/Amphocil (amphotericin B cholesteryl sulfate complex for injection). It also has strategic assets that do not fit within its core focus areas of pulmonology and hepatology. These assets are Oritavancin, Amphotec and Actimmune for the treatment of ovarian cancer. InterMune's late-stage development pipeline includes programs focused on Actimmune for the treatment of ovarian cancer and Oritavancin for the treatment of serious hospital-based gram-positive infections.
IMOT.OB Intermost Corporation conducts business through its subsidiaries, ChinaE, Shanghai Newray and Shanghai Fortune. Through the subsidiary, ChinaE, the Company provides Internet services, through Shanghai Newray, the Company providers digital imaging system and through Shanghai Fortune, the Company provides trading and property rights exchange services.
IMGC Intermagnetics General Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and sells products in three segments: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Instrumentation and Energy Technology. The MRI segment consists primarily of the manufacture and sale of magnet systems by the IGC-Magnet Business Group and radio frequency coils by a wholly owned subsidiary, IGC-Medical Advances Inc. These products are used principally in the medical diagnostic imaging market. The Instrumentation segment consists of refrigeration equipment produced by a wholly owned subsidiary, IGC-Polycold Systems Inc. These systems are used primarily in ultra-high-vacuum applications, industrial coatings, analytical instrumentation, medical diagnostics and semiconductor processing and testing. The Energy Technology segment, operated through SuperPower, Inc., is developing second-generation, high-temperature superconducting materials.
LINK Interlink Electronics, Inc. designs, develops and sells intuitive interface technologies and solutions for a variety of business and home applications. Its products include interactive remote input devices, pen input pads and integrated cursor control devices. The remote input devices enable a user to control and communicate with electronic products such as computers, digital projection systems and digital televisions by providing an intuitive device on which the user can remotely input a variety of commands. The Company also designs and sells products that record and bind signatures to contracts or any legally executed document. The products incorporate sensor and wireless communication technologies and ergonomic designs.
ILGN.OB Interleukin Genetics, Inc. is a personalized healthcare company focused on the role that genetically determined variation in the inflammatory response has on health and disease. For the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company had commercially introduced a genetic susceptibility test, the PST. PST identifies patients at risk for rapid progression of periodontitis. PST is marketed in the United States and Europe. The Company uses third parties to market and distribute PST, and earns royalties based upon its sales. In December 2000, the Company entered into a seven-year license agreement with Hain Diagnostika/ADS GmbH for the marketing, distribution and processing of PST in all countries outside of North America and Japan. In May 2003, Interleukin amended the agreement with Hain to a non-exclusive license limited to the European Territory. Since December 2001, Kimball Genetics has been the Company's sole marketing partner within the United States.
INLD Interland, Inc. is a provider of online solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which enable them to design, sustain and modify a Website to facilitate the acquisition, maintenance and servicing of their customers. These products and services include online marketing services, electronic commerce services, Website creation and management, shared and dedicated hosting services, and application hosting management. Interland acquires customers directly primarily through advertising in print and electronic media and through distribution partners. On January 3, 2003, it acquired Trellix Corporation, a privately held developer of software-based Website solutions. Trellix is a provider of private-label Website publishing solutions, integrated business services and low-cost hosting technology. On June 13, 2003, it acquired Hostcentric, Inc., a privately held provider of a broad range of Web-hosting services to small business and enterprise customers.
INTG The InterGroup Corporation buys, develops, operates, rehabilitates and disposes of real property of various types and descriptions. The Company's principal sources of revenue have been, and continue to be, derived from the operations of its multi-family residential properties, from the sales and disposition of its real property assets, from the operations of its majority-owned subsidiary, Santa Fe Financial Corporation, and from the investment of its cash and securities assets. As of June 30, 2004, the Company's investment in real estate consisted of properties located throughout the United States, but which were concentrated in Texas and Southern California. These properties included 23 apartment complexes, a hotel, two commercial real estate properties, and two single-family houses as a strategic investment. Through its controlling interest in Santa Fe, the Company's business also includes a 565-room hotel located in the Financial District of San Francisco, California.
INGR Intergraph Corporation is a provider of computer graphics software and services in the commercial and government sectors. The Company's operations are divided into four business segments: Intergraph Process, Power and Offshore (PPO); Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions (IMGS); Intergraph Solutions Group (ISG), and Intergraph Public Safety, Inc. (IPS). These business segments offer software solutions, based on the Microsoft Corporation Windows operating systems, designed to satisfy engineering, design, modeling, analysis, mapping and information technology needs. This open technology foundation enables the Company's software products to interoperate with thousands of third-party Windows-based technical and business applications. Integraph also offers related professional services to satisfy these needs. The Company's products are sold worldwide, with the United States and Europe representing approximately 83% of total revenues for 2003.
IFSIA Interface, Inc. is engaged in the design, production and sale of modular carpet. The Company also manufactures and markets other products for the interiors market, with a presence in the broadloom carpet, floorcovering services, panel fabrics and upholstery fabrics market segments. Interface markets products in over 100 countries under such brand names as Interface, Heuga, Bentley, Prince Street and InterfaceFLOR in modular carpet; Bentley, Prince Street and Prince Street House and Home in broadloom carpet; Guilford of Maine, Toltec, Intek, Chatham and Camborne in interior fabrics and upholstery products, and Intersept in antimicrobials. The Company also provides specialized carpet replacement, installation, maintenance and reclamation services through its Re:Source service network. In addition, Interface has a Fabrics Group that manufactures panel fabrics for use in open plan office furniture systems and contract upholstery fabrics.
IREP.OB Interep National Radio Sales, Inc. is an independent national spot radio representation or rep firm in the United States. The Company is the rep firm for nearly 1,800 radio stations nationwide. Interep's 17 offices across the country enable the Company to serve its radio station clients and advertisers in all 50 states and portions of Mexico and Canada. The Company provides national sales representation for clients whose diverse formats include country, rock, sports, Hispanic, classical, urban, news, talk, oldies, adult contemporary, jazz, contemporary hits, etc. Interep derives a substantial majority of its revenues from commissions on sales of national spot radio advertising airtime for the radio stations the Company represents. The Company receives commissions from its client radio stations based on the national spot radio advertising billings of the station, net of standard agency commissions.
IDCC InterDigital Communications Corporation (IDCC) designs, develops and places into operation a variety of advanced wireless technologies, systems and products. IDCC, through its involvement in the standards bodies and incubation efforts, monitors emerging technologies being developed to deliver voice and data in a wireless environment. Since 1999, it has been focusing on its technology and product development on the air interface technology, referred as wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA), is comprised of two duplexing methods, frequency division duplex (FDD) and time division duplexing (TDD). With FDD, transmission, communications signals are transmitted in two separate radio bands of equal size. With TDD transmission, communications signals are sent in alternate directions, often asymmetrically, in a single-radio channel. In July 2003, it acquired Windshift Holdings, Inc. and added smart-antenna technology and capabilities and early product designs to its portfolio.
IHG InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG), formerly known as Bass, was a conglomerate operating as a brewer, soft drinks manufacturer, hotelier, leisure operator and restaurant, pub and bar owner. The Company became the top holding company for the former hotels and soft drinks businesses of Six Continents PLC, on April 15, 2003, when the demerger of these businesses from Six Continents was completed. The Company owns 100% of the ordinary shares of Six Continents. IHG operates in two business areas, hotels and resorts, with worldwide interests through ownership, leasing, management and franchising and soft drink manufacture in the United Kingdom.
IFCJ Interchange Financial Services Corporation is a bank holding company that owns all the outstanding stock of Interchange Bank (The Bank). The Bank is the Company's principal operating subsidiary. The Bank is a full-service state chartered commercial bank that offers banking services for individuals and businesses through 29 banking offices and one supermarket mini-branch in Bergen County, New Jersey. The Bank maintains 34 automated teller machines (ATMs) operating within the Star, Plus, Cirrus, Visatm, NYCE and MasterCard networks, which are located at 17 of the banking offices, a supermarket, a college and the Bank's operations center. In addition to the Bank, the Company owns all of the outstanding capital stock of Clover Leaf Mortgage Company, which is not engaged in any business activity. As a holding company, Interchange Financial Services provides support services to its direct and indirect subsidiaries.
INCX Interchange Corporation provides paid-search services that enable businesses to reach consumers through targeted online advertising. Interchange Corporation's services enable businesses to advertise their products and services by listing them in the Company's distributed Internet search results. By providing these sponsored listings to consumers, in response to their search requests, the Company offers businesses an effective method of accessing consumers during the purchasing process.
IICP.OB Intercell International Corporation has focused its efforts on exploring business acquisition opportunities. On October 20, 2003, the Company signed an acquisition agreement to acquire a controlling 60% membership interest in Brunetti DEC, LLC, a limited liability company. In February 2004, the Company acquired the remaining 40% of Brunetti DEC. Brunetti DEC provides consulting, design, engineering and construction services for the installation of new communication technology systems consisting of voice, video and data and fiber-optic network wiring and cabling and fixed wireless infrastructures. Specifically, Brunetti provides the last mile connectivity from the larger fiber-optic systems installed by the larger companies to rural areas, small municipalities and counties.
ISWI Interactive Systems Worldwide Inc. has designed, developed and patented an interactive hardware and proprietary software system, called the SportXction System, which enables users to wager at fixed prices during the course of a sporting event, such as soccer, football, baseball, basketball, golf, tennis, rugby and cricket, among many others. The SportXction System accepts bets not only on the outcome of a sporting event, but also on discrete parts of the event and on specific game situations. The SportXction System has been developed to allow wagers to be placed simultaneously through a variety of input devices, all interconnected to the Company's central system, such as interactive television set-top boxes, personal computers (PCs) communicating via the Internet and mobile telephones. The SportXction System is also being readied for use in conjunction with fixed odds betting terminals, a service, which was previously available with an earlier version of the SportXctionSystem.
ININ Interactive Intelligence, Inc. is a provider of software applications for contact centers and mission critical voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) applications to enterprises. The Company sells into four markets: Contact Centers, Enterprise IP Telephony, Unified Communications and Self-service Automation. Interactive offers a software solution based on Microsoft Windows that resides on a customer's network and uses an open communications protocol called Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for VoIP networking. The Company's software applications are also pre-integrated to many business applications, such as financial, customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, thereby automating and tracking business transactions to customer interactions.
IDC Interactive Data Corporation is a global provider of financial and business information to financial institutions and retail investors. The Company offers its services through four branded businesses: FT Interactive Data, CMS BondEdge, ComStock and eSignal. The FT Interactive Data collects, edits, generates, maintains and delivers data on a range of equity and fixed-income securities, commodities and derivative instruments in order to meet the information needs of its institutional customers. Its CMS BondEdge business is focused on providing sophisticated fixed-income portfolio analytics to fixed-income portfolio managers, quantitative research analysts and institutional brokers. Through its ComStock business, institutional and information media customers obtain real-time financial market information. Through its eSignal business, investors obtain real-time financial market information regarding securities traded on all major markets.
IPAR Inter Parfums, Inc. is a provider of prestige perfumes and mass market perfumes, cosmetics and health and beauty aids. The Company's two wholly owned limited liability companies are Jean Philippe Fragrances, LLC and Inter Parfums USA, LLC. Its consolidated wholly owned subsidiary is Inter Parfums Holdings, S.A. whose majority-owned subsidiary is Inter Parfums, S.A. and two wholly owned subsidiaries are Inter Parfums Grand Public, S.A. and Inter Parfums Trademark, S.A.
SYNC Intellisync Corporation, formerly Pumatech, Inc. develops, markets and supports desktop, enterprise and carrier-class software that enable consumers, business professionals and information technology professionals to extend the capabilities of enterprise groupware. It also provides vertical applications, handheld organizers/computers, Web-enabled mobile phones, pagers and other wireless or wireline personal communications platforms. The Company licenses its software products directly to corporations, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and business development organizations worldwide. In addition, it sells its retail products through several distribution channels both in the United States and internationally, including major distributors, resellers, computer dealers, retailers and mail-order companies.
INS Intelligent Systems Corporation's consolidated companies operate in two industry segments: Information Technology Products, which include the design, development and marketing of application software products that are used by business customers and government agencies and Services and Industrial Products, which include the design, assembly and sale of equipment and associated supplies that are used by commercial, industrial, military and government agencies. The Information Technology segment includes VISaer, Inc., QS Technologies, Inc. and CoreCard Software, Inc. subsidiaries and the Industrial Products segment includes ChemFree Corporation. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owns 100% of the ChemFree and QS Technologies subsidiaries, 65% of VISaer and 87% of CoreCard Software.
IDN Intelli-Check, Inc. has developed and is marketing an advanced document verification system to enable a user to detect altered and tampered identification cards and to address problems such as: commercial fraud, unauthorized access, underage access to age restricted products and services and inefficiencies associated with manual data entry. The Company's products include ID-Check, a document verification software; C-Link, a networkable data management software; ID-Check SDK, designed for software developers who wish to incorporate ID-Check technology into their applications, and IDC-1400, which is based on the ID-Check technology.
INTD InteliData Technologies Corporation provides electronic bill payment and presentment and online banking solutions. The Company's products provide financial institutions with the real-time financial processing infrastructure needed to provide their customers with payment and presentment services and online banking via the Internet and other online delivery channels. InteliData markets its products and services to banks, credit unions, brokerage firms, financial institution processors and credit card issuers. The Company's product suite consists of three complementary product offerings serving the core infrastructure needs of three distinct, but related markets: Payment Solutions, Card Services and Online Banking.
INTC Intel Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets computing and communications products at various levels of integration. It has three product line operating segments: the Intel Architecture business, which is composed of the Desktop Platforms Group, the Mobile Platforms Group and the Enterprise Platforms Group; the Intel Communications Group (ICG), and the Wireless Communications and Computing Group (WCCG). The Intel Architecture operating segment's products include microprocessors and related chipsets and motherboards. ICG's products include wired Ethernet and wireless connectivity products, network processing components and embedded computing products. WCCG's products include flash memory, application processors and cellular baseband chipsets for cellular handsets and hand-held devices. The Company's products are sold directly to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and through retail and industrial distributors, as well as reseller channels throughout the world.
IMFD.OB Integrity Mutual Funds, Inc. is a holding company engaged in providing investment management, distribution, shareholder services, fund accounting and other related administrative services to the open-end investment companies known as Integrity Mutual Funds, Integrity Managed Portfolios and The Integrity Funds (collectively referred to as the Funds). These services are offered through the following wholly owned subsidiary companies: Integrity Money Management, Inc., ND Capital, Inc., Integrity Funds Distributor, Inc. and Integrity Fund Services, Inc. As of December 31, 2003, total assets under management/service in the Funds were approximately $394.3 million, compared to approximately $296.0 million as of December 31, 2002 and approximately $318.3 million as of December 31, 2001. The Company also sells mutual funds and insurance products through another wholly owned subsidiary, Capital Financial Services, Inc.
IFCB Integrity Financial Corporation is a financial holding company for its two wholly owned subsidiaries: Catawba Valley Bank, which engages in general banking business in the City of Hickory and portions of eight North Carolina counties such as Alexander, Ashe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Iredell, Watauga and Wilkes, and First Gaston Bank of North Carolina, which engages in the general banking business in the City of Gastonia and the surrounding areas of Gaston County. The Company has four other wholly owned subsidiaries: Integrity Financial Services, Catawba Valley Trust I, Catawba Valley Trust II and Community Mortgage, which is inactive. In 2003, Valley Financial Services opened a brokerage securities office doing business as Integrity Securities. Catawba Valley Capital Trust I and Catawba Valley Capital Trust II were formed to facilitate the issuance of trust preferred securities.
ISSI Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and markets high-performance integrated circuits (ICs) for the key markets, such as digital consumer electronics, networking, mobile communications and automotive electronics. The Company's primary products are high-speed and low-power SRAM (static random access memory) and low- and medium-density DRAM (dynamic random access memory). It also designs and markets EEPROM (electrically erasable programmable ready only memory), Pseudo SRAM and multi-chip packages, and is developing selected non-memory products focused on its key markets. The Company's customers include Apex, ChangHong, D-Link, Samsung, Sony, 3Com, Ambit, Askey, Cisco, Yahoo! Japan, Bird, Ericsson, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, Bose, Delphi, Philips and Siemens. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), no single customer accounted for over 10% of its total net sales.
IZZI.OB Integrated Security Systems, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, distributes and services security and traffic control products used in the commercial, industrial and government sectors through two wholly owned subsidiaries, B&amp;B ARMR Corporation (B&amp;B ARMR) and Intelli-Site, Inc. (Intelli-Site). B&amp;B ARMR's products are used in thousands of locations across the country and overseas. The Company acquired ARMR Services Corporation (ARMR) in a merger transaction with the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, ISSI Merger Sub, Inc. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004, several new products were designed, tested and released by B&amp;B ARMR, such as a portable/tow-able anti-terrorist crash barrier, Model 850; a new anti-terrorist bollard product, Model B-40, and two new products in the XL product line of hydraulic gate operators, LXL and PXL, both tested to UL325 class one, two, three and four specifications. In December 2004, the Company acquired DoorTek Corporation of San Antonio.
IES Integrated Electrical Services, Inc. (IES) is a provider of electrical contracting services, including designing, building, maintaining and servicing electrical, data communications and utilities systems for commercial, industrial and residential customers in the United States. The Company's electrical contracting services include design of the electrical distribution systems within a building or complex, procurement and installation of wiring and connection to power sources, end use equipment and fixtures and long-term contract maintenance. IES services commercial, industrial and residential markets and have a diverse customer base, including general contractors, property managers and developers; corporations; government agencies and municipalities, and homeowners.
IDTI Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT) designs, develops, manufactures and markets semiconductor solutions that help accelerate packet processing for advanced network services. The target markets for its products include core, metro, access, enterprise, small office/home office (SOHO), data center, wireless and computing segments of the network. The Company markets its products on a worldwide basis to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) through channels, including its direct sales force, distributors, contract electronic manufacturers (CEMs) and independent sales representatives. It also provide a broad portfolio of communications-oriented integrated circuits (ICs), including ICs focused on accelerating intelligent packet processing in next-generation network equipment. IDT serves equipment vendors by applying its advanced hardware, software and memory technologies to create flexible, highly integrated products that enhance the functionality and processing of network services.
ITDD.OB Integrated Data Corp. (IDC), formerly Clariti Telecommunications International Ltd., is a non-operating United States holding company with interests in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Italy. IDC and its subsidiaries offer a wide range of communications, wireless, point-of-sale activation, financial transaction and other services. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the subsidiaries of the Company included C3 Technologies Inc. (C3), DataWave Systems Inc. (DataWave), DataWave International License, IDC Italia Srl (IDC Italia), Integrated Communications Services Ltd. (ICS) and Integrated Data Technologies Ltd. (IDT).
ICST Integrated Circuit Systems, Inc. designs and markets custom application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for industrial customers. The ASIC's design combined analog and digital, or mixed-signal, technology. The Company developed integrated circuits (ICs) to capitalize on the complex mixed-signal design technology and entered the market for frequency timing generators or silicon timing devices, which provide the timing signals or clocks necessary to synchronize electronic systems. Its clock products were used in video graphics applications in personal computers (PCs), but subsequently expanded to include motherboards, PC peripheral devices, such as disk drives, audio cards, laser printers and other digital consumer electronics, such as digital set-top boxes and games consoles. The Company further extended into communications. It offers surface acoustic wave (SAW) technology to develop products for telecommunications and wireless infrastructure markets.
IBSS.OB Integrated Business Systems and Services, Inc. (IBSS) originated as a systems integrator for automatic data collection systems used in manufacturing and for specialty online transaction processing in the credit card industry. The Company has enjoyed success in a number of different market segments and opportunities. IBSS has used its core technology, Synapse, its experience, along with its methodology to develop, market and sell custom solutions for customer needs in a number of vertical markets. The Synapse platform and framework is designed to be the glue in heterogeneous environments, easily interacting with and extending disparate and operating environments, database management systems and legacy applications.
INB Integrated Biopharma, Inc. (Biopharma), formerly known as Integrated Health Technologies, Inc., is engaged primarily in manufacturing, marketing and sales of vitamins, nutritional supplements and herbal products, including vitamins sold as single-entity supplements, in multi-vitamin combinations and in varying potency levels and in different packaging sizes. The Company's subsidiary, Manhattan Drug Company, Inc., manufactures the vitamins and nutritional supplements for sale to distributors, multilevel marketers and specialized healthcare providers. Biopharma also manufactures such products for sale under its own private brand, Vitamin Factory, through mail order. In September 2004, the Company acquired the Hauser Contract Research Organization (Hauser CRO), which is engaged in the extraction, isolation, purification and synthetic modification of natural products from plant, marine and microbial sources.
IASG Integrated Alarm Services Group, Inc. (IASG) provides an integrated solution to independent security alarm dealers (Dealers) to assist them in competing in the residential and commercial security alarm market. The Company's services include wholesale alarm monitoring and financing solutions, including purchasing Dealers' alarm monitoring contracts for its own portfolio and providing loans to Dealers collateralized by alarm monitoring contracts. IASG also provides support for its Dealers, including billing, collection, marketing and access to equipment discount programs. As of December 31, 2003, the Company monitors approximately 410,000 alarm systems on behalf of approximately 5,000 Dealers in the United States. In November 2004, the Company purchased substantially all of the assets of National Alarm Computer Center, Inc. (NACC), a unit of Tyco International Ltd's Fire and Security Segment.
INMD IntegraMed America, Inc. offers products and services to patients and providers in the fertility industry. The IntegraMed network is comprised of 23 fertility centers in markets across the United States, pharmaceutical products and services, a financing subsidiary, the Council of Physicians and Scientists and a fertility portal (www.integramed.com). IntegraMed America 's service packages are FertilityWeb, a Website development, hosting and marketing service; FertilityPurchase, a group purchasing program exclusively available to fertility centers participating in the IntegraMed Provider Network; FertilityMarKit, a service that includes access to the Company's marketing collateral material library of ads, brochures, fliers and announcements; ARTWorks, a clinical information system focused on the requirements of providing clinical care to patients seeking fertility treatment; ARTWorks Practice Management Information System, an information system, and FertilityPartners.
INVI.OB Integral Vision, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets microprocessor-based process monitoring and control systems for use in industrial manufacturing environments. The Company's products are applied in optical display inspection of machine vision product. Integral Vision's product offerings include LCI-Professional, SharpEye and ChromaSee. The Company markets its turnkey systems to the flat panel display (FPD) industry. The applications development software, such as its Industrial Vision Controller (IVC) technology, can be applied to an extensive array of applications in industries that run the gamut from aerospace to medical to textiles.
ITKG.OB Integral Technologies, Inc. is a development-stage company, is focusing substantially all of its resources on the researching, developing and commercializing of new antenna and electriplast technologies, directly and through its wholly owned subsidiary, Antek Wireless, Inc. The Company's technology will be marketed to manufacturers of wireless devices, such as cellular phones, portable phones, paging communicators, satellite communications, global positioning systems (GPS) and wireless-based networks. The Company's GPS/ low-earth orbit (LEO) antenna is used in mobile asset tracking and fleet management, which utilizes GPS satellite tracking and LEO satellite data communications to trucking fleets, heavy equipment, marine vessels, railway cars, shipping containers, transit vehicles, all via satellite interface communications. The Company is focusing all of its resources on the researching, developing and commercializing its Plastenna and Electriplast technologies.
ISYS Integral Systems, Inc. builds satellite ground systems and equipment for command and control, integration and test, data processing and simulation. Since its inception, the Company has provided ground systems for over 190 different satellite missions for communications, science, meteorology and earth resource applications. Through its wholly owned subsidiaries, SAT Corporation and Newpoint Technologies Inc., the Company offers complementary ground system components and systems. This includes turnkey systems, hardware and software for satellite and terrestrial communications signal monitoring, network and ground equipment monitoring, and control and satellite data processing. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Real Time Logic, Inc., the Company designs and builds satellite communications equipment and systems, principally for military applications. This equipment is used in satellite tracking stations, control centers, spacecraft factories and range facilities.
IART Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation develops, manufactures and markets medical devices for use in neurotrauma, neurosurgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery and general surgery. Its product lines include tissue repair products that incorporate its proprietary absorbable implant technology, such as the DuraGen Dural Graft Matrix, the DuraGen Plus Dural Graft Matrix, the NeuraGen Nerve Guide, the INTEGRA Dermal Regeneration Template and the INTEGRA Bi-Layer Matrix Wound Dressing as well as more traditional medical devices, such as monitoring and drainage systems, surgical instruments and fixation systems. Its product groups are Monitoring Products, Operating Room Products, Surgical Instrumentation and Private Label Products. Integra's distribution channels include two direct sales organizations, Integra NeuroSciences and Integra Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; one distributor network managed by a direct sales organization (JARIT), and strategic alliances.
IBNK Integra Bank Corporation is a bank holding company whose principal subsidiary is Integra Bank N.A. (the Bank), a national banking association. The Bank provides a range of financial services to the communities it serves in Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio. These services include personal and commercial banking services and products, investment and trust services and selected insurance services. These products and services include commercial, consumer and mortgage loans, lines of credit, credit cards, transaction accounts, time deposits, repurchase agreements, letters of credit, corporate cash management services, correspondent banking services, mortgage servicing, brokerage and annuity products and services, credit life and other selected insurance products, securities safekeeping, safe deposit boxes and complete personal and corporate trust services. Integra Bank also has a 29% ownership interest in Total Title Services, LLC, a provider of residential title insurance.
INTN Intac International, Inc. is a United States holding company focused on the exploitation of strategic business opportunities available in China and the Asia-Pacific Rim. The Company maintains offices in China (Hong Kong, Beijing and Tianjin), Germany (Frankfurt) and the United States (Dallas, Texas). The Company's principal operations involve the distribution of premium brand wireless handsets from manufacturers and other distributors to network operators, agents, resellers, dealers and retailers and, to a much lesser extent, automobile distribution from Europe into mainland China.
INSN.OB Insynq, Inc. is an application service provider (ASP) that delivers outsourced software application hosting and managed information technology services through its IQ Data Utility Service. The Company hosts software applications on its servers located at two data centers, rents computing services to its customers for a monthly fee and performs remote management and maintenance of its customers' servers from its network operations center. Insynq's customers connect to its facilities over the Internet, through a dedicated telecommunications line or by wireless connection. Similar to a utility company, the Company allows business customers to turn on, or access, their software applications and data instantly through any Web-enabled computer, regardless of operating system. Insynq has approximately 1,290 users, who can freely access their software and data in real-time from any computer worldwide.
INSW InsWeb Corporation operates an online insurance marketplace that enables consumers to comparison-shop online, and obtain insurance company-sponsored quotes for a variety of insurance products, including automobile and term life. Quotes obtained through the online marketplace are free to consumers, while participating insurance companies pay a transaction fee to the Company. Transaction fees are earned either from the delivery of a lead to a participating insurance company; from a fee paid by an insurance company for each closed policy, or from a commission earned by InsWeb's wholly owned insurance agencies, InsWeb Insurance Services, Inc. and Goldrush Insurance Services, Inc. During the year ended December 31, 2003, automobile insurance accounted for approximately 79% of transaction revenues.
IAAI Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc. provides insurance companies and other vehicle suppliers salvage processing solutions. In an accident, theft or other claims adjustment process, insurance companies take possession of a vehicle, based on economic and customer service considerations. Then the vehicle is classified as a total loss and the insured replacement value is paid rather than the cost of repair or a stolen vehicle is recovered after the insurance company is settled with the insured. Insurance Auto sells these salvage and theft-recovered vehicles at live or closed bid auctions on a competitive-bid basis at one of the Company's facilities. During the year ended December 31, 2003, it acquired branches in Buffalo and Rochester, New York, Wichita, Kansas, Salt Lake City, Utah, Wilmington, North Carolina, and Orlando, Florida, and opened new operations in Dothan, Alabama, and Little Rock, Arkansas. In January 2004, the Company opened a new operation in Tucson, Arizona.
INGP Instinet Group Incorporated provides electronic trading solutions and execution services to enable buyers and sellers worldwide to trade securities directly and anonymously with each other. The Company also gives its customers the opportunity to use its sales-trading expertise and sophisticated technology tools to interact with global securities markets, improve their trading and investment performance and lower their overall trading costs. Through its electronic platforms, its customers can access other United States trading venues, including NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), as well as nearly 30 securities markets worldwide, including stock exchanges in Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Paris, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto and Zurich. Since the fourth quarter of 2003, the Company has been implementing a business restructuring plan to establish two distinct business lines, Instinet, the Institutional Broker, and INET (formerly known as The Island ECN, Inc.).
IIIN Insteel Industries, Inc. is a manufacturer of wire products. Insteel is the parent holding company for a wholly owned operating subsidiary, Insteel Wire Products Company (IWP), which manufactures and markets concrete reinforcing products, including welded wire fabric (WWF) and prestressed concrete strand (PC strand), and industrial wire products, including tire bead wire and other industrial wire products for a broad range of construction and industrial applications. The Company sells its products to a broad range of customers including manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers.
IPYS.OB InstaPay Systems, Inc. has been a developmental stage company from its inception through 2003. Prior to initiating its entry into the transaction processing business in 2003, the Company went through several name changes and pursued several business plans. During these years, it generated no revenues. In January 2003, the Company entered into an agreement to acquire Kryptosima, a payment processing company. The acquisition was finalized in August 2003. Kryptosima now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of InstaPay, and represents the Company's primary focus and only active operations.
ISPH Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of prescription products in disease areas with significant commercial markets and unmet medical needs. The Company's primary focus is in the ophthalmic and respiratory therapeutic areas where it has significant expertise. Its ophthalmic products and product candidates are concentrated in the allergic conjunctivitis, dry eye disease and retinal disease indications. Inspire is working on respiratory product candidates for the treatment of cystic fibrosis and upper respiratory disorders. Inspire has acquired the rights to market Elestat and Restasis in the United States under co-promotion agreements with Allergan.
INSM Insmed Incorporated is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of drug products for the treatment of metabolic diseases and endocrine disorders associated with insulin resistance. The Company's approach is to correct metabolic defects in the human body by replacing key regulatory molecules in a physiologically relevant fashion. Insmed has two lead drug candidates, recombinant human insulin-like growth factor-I bound to recombinant human insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 (also known as SomatoKine) and rhIGFBP-3. The Company is developing these drugs to treat indications in the metabolic and oncology fields.
INSU Insituform Technologies, Inc. is a global provider of proprietary trenchless technologies for the rehabilitation and improvement of sewer, water, gas and industrial pipes. The Company's primary technology is the Insituform process, a proprietary cured-in-place pipeline rehabilitation process. Pipebursting is a non-proprietary trenchless method of dilating and replacing an old pipeline with a new high-density polyethylene pipe. The microtunneling process is a non-proprietary method of drilling a new tunnel from surface-operated equipment. Sliplining is a non-proprietary method used to push or pull a new pipeline into an old one. The Company's Tite Liner process is a proprietary method of lining new and existing pipe with a corrosion- and abrasion-resistant polyethylene pipe. Insituform also engages in tunneling used in the installation of new underground services.
ISV InSite Vision Incorporated is an ophthalmic products company focused on ocular infections, glaucoma and retinal diseases. The Company's lead product is AzaSite (formerly ISV-401), which targets infections of the eye. InSite Vision is conducting two simultaneous Phase III trials with AzaSite to demonstrate both safety and efficacy for treating acute bacterial conjunctivitis. AzaSite pairs the broad-spectrum antibiotic azithromycin, not used in ophthalmology, with DuraSite, InSite Vision's drug-delivery vehicle. In the area of glaucoma, the Company conducts genomic research using TIGR and other genes. A portion of this research has been incorporated into the Company's OcuGene glaucoma genetic test for disease management, as well as ISV-205, its novel glaucoma therapeutic. ISV-205 uses InSite Vision's DuraSite drug-delivery technology, which also is incorporated into the ocular infection product ISV-401, and InSite Vision's retinal disease program.
ISIG Insignia Systems, Inc. markets in-store advertising products, programs and services to retailers and consumer-packaged goods manufacturers. Since 1998, the Company has been focusing on providing in-store services through the Insignia point-of-purchase services (POPS) in-store advertising program. Insignia POPS includes both the Insignia POPSign and VALUStix programs. The Company directly markets the Insignia POPSign program to food and drug manufacturers and retailers. By utilizing the Insignia POPSign program, these manufacturers and retailers can easily tailor national in-store advertising programs to regional and local needs with minimal effort. In addition to the benefits provided to manufacturers and retailers, Insignia's POPSign program provides consumers more information and clearer messages to aid in purchasing decisions.
INSG Insignia Solutions plc develops, markets and supports software technologies that enable mobile operators and phone manufacturers to update the firmware of mobile devices using standard over-the-air data networks. Prior to, the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's principal product line was the Jeode platform, based on Java Virtual Machine (JVM) technology. This product line was sold in April 2003. During 2001, Insignia began development of secure system provisioning (SSP) products for the mobile phone and wireless operator industry. These SSP products build on the Company's position as a virtual machine supplier for manufacturers of mobile devices and allow wireless operators and phone manufacturers to reduce customer care and software recall costs, as well as increase subscriber revenue by deploying new mobile services based on dynamically provisional capabilities. With the sale of the JVM product line in 2003, the Company's sole product line consists of the SSP product.
IFUL Insightful Corporation provides enterprises with scalable data analysis solutions designed to facilitate decision making by revealing patterns, trends and relationships. The Company is a worldwide supplier of software and services for the statistical analysis, data mining and knowledge access industry segments, enabling customers to gain intelligence from numerical data and text. Its products include S-PLUS, StatServer, S-PLUS Analytic Server, Insightful Miner and InFact. Insightful's consulting services provide expertise and processes for the design, development and deployment of analytical solutions. The Company's customers include financial services, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, telecommunications and manufacturing companies, as well as government and research institutions.
NSIT Insight Enterprises, Inc. is a provider of information technology (IT) products and services, primarily to business customers in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Its offerings include brand name computing products, advanced IT services and outsourcing of business processes. The Company's business is organized in four operating segments: Insight North America, Insight UK, Direct Alliance and PlusNet. Insight North America is a single-source provider of IT products and services in the United States and Canada. Insight UK is a single-source provider of IT products and services in the United Kingdom. Direct Alliance is a business process outsourcing provider operating in the United States. PlusNet is an Internet service provider in the United Kingdom.
ICCI Insight Communications Company, Inc. owns a 50% interest in Insight Midwest, L.P. through its wholly owned subsidiary, Insight Communications Company, L.P. (Insight LP). Insight Midwest, which through its operating subsidiaries, Insight Communications Midwest, LLC, Insight Kentucky Partners II, L.P. and Insight Communications of Central Ohio, LLC, owns and operates cable television systems in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Illinois. Through Insight LP, the Company manages all of Insight Midwest's systems and also manages certain systems owned by an affiliate of Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC, which is an owner of the remaining 50% interest in Insight Midwest. As of December 31, 2003, the Company's cable television systems passed approximately 2.3 million homes and served approximately 1.3 million customers. Insight offers its customers an array of broadband products and services, including analog and digital video and high-speed Internet access, as well as telephone services.
PHPG.OB Photonic Products Group, Inc. (PPGI) develops, manufactures and markets products and services for use in diverse photonics industry sectors via its distinct business units. PPGI is a component, subassembly and sub-system supplier to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and researchers in the photonics industry. PPGI's product lines continue to fall into two categories: optical components (including standard and custom optical components and assemblies, crystals and crystal components) and laser accessories (including wavelength conversion and waveform metrology products that employ nonlinear crystals to perform the function of wavelength conversion or pulse-width measurement). In September 2003, the Company changed its name from Inrad, Inc.
IO Input/Output, Inc. (I/O) is a provider of seismic acquisition imaging technology for exploration, production and reservoir monitoring in land and marine, as well as shallow water and marsh environments. I/O offers a suite of related products and services for seismic data acquisition and processing, including products incorporating traditional analog technologies and products incorporating its VectorSeis and True Digital technology. The Company's principal customers are seismic contractors that operate seismic data acquisition systems and related equipment to collect data in accordance with their customers' specifications or for their own seismic data libraries. In addition, I/O markets and sells products directly to oil and gas companies, particularly for reservoir monitoring applications. In December 2004, Colibrys acquired the Applied MEMS subsidiary from the Company.
IHT InnSuites Hospitality Trust is engaged in the ownership and operation of hotel properties in the United States through its sole general partner interest of 51.54% in RRF Limited Partnership. During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company's system included eight moderate and full-service hotels with 1,231 hotel suites in Arizona, southern California and New Mexico. Certain of its hotels are branded through franchise agreements, which include four Best Western hotels and one Holiday Inn hotel. All eight Hotels are trademarked as InnSuites Hotels. The Company is also involved in various operations incidental to the operation of hotels, such as the operation of restaurants and meeting/banquet room rentals.
INNO Innovo Group Inc. designs, develops and markets consumer products for the apparel and accessory markets. The Company operates its consumer products business through three wholly owned, operating subsidiaries: Innovo, Inc. (Innovo), Joe's Jeans, Inc. and Innovo Azteca Apparel, Inc. (IAA). Innovo designs, develops and markets accessory consumer products such as fashion handbags, purses, wallets, backpacks, duffle bags, sports bags, belts, hats and scarves for department stores, mass merchandisers, specialty chain stores and private label customers. Joe's designs, develops and markets high-fashion apparel products under the Joe's and Joe's Jeans brand. Joe's products are typically part of a collection that includes pants, denim jeans, shirts, sweaters, jackets and other apparel products. IAA was formed to focus on marketing products to the private label apparel market. IAA's private label product lines primarily consist of knit tops and denim bottoms for both the men's and women's market.
INVX Innovex, Inc. is a worldwide provider of flexible circuit interconnect solutions to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the electronics industry. It offers a range of customized flexible circuit applications and services from initial design, development and prototype to fabrication, assembly and test on a global basis. The Company targets high-volume markets where miniaturization, form and weight are driving factors and flexible circuits are an enabling technology. Applications for flexible circuits addressed by Innovex include data storage devices such as hard disk drives (HDDs), flat panel displays (FPD) including liquid crystal displays (LCDs) for mobile communication devices and large format plasma screens, tape drives and printers. The Company's customers include 3M, Dell, Hitachi, HP, Maxtor, Medtronic, Philips, Quantum, SAE Magnetics, Samsung, Seagate, Staktek, StorageTek, Xerox and other electronic OEMs.
ISSC Innovative Solutions &amp; Support, Inc. (IS&amp;S) designs, manufactures and sells flight information computers, flat-panel displays and advanced monitoring systems to the Department of Defense (DoD), government agencies, defense contractors, commercial air transport carriers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and corporate/general aviation markets. Historically its focus has been on developing and marketing air data systems that measure, calculate and display critical flight information, such as airspeed and altitude, and instruments that measure engine and fuel data.
INOC Innotrac Corporation provides order processing, order fulfillment and call center services to corporations that outsource these functions, primarily in the telecommunications industry. Its core competencies include Fulfillment Services and Customer Support Services. Fulfillment Services include warehouse management technology, automated shipping solutions, real-time inventory tracking and order status, purchasing and inventory management, channel development, zone skipping for shipment cost reduction, product sourcing and procurement, packaging solutions, order management and returns management. Customer Support Services include inbound call center services, technical support and order status, returns and refunds processing, call centers integrated into fulfillment platform, cross-sell/up-sell services, chat and e-mail response.
INFN.OB Innofone.com Inc. operates as a holding company for companies that are involved in the technology and financial services. Innofone is actively seeking new investment opportunities in creating and/or acquiring assets involved in the broad technology and financial market. The Company has no operating subsidiary. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company had no operations.
INOD Innodata Isogen, Inc. offers solutions that help companies create, manage and distribute information. Its solutions encompass both the manufacture of content (for which it provides services such as digitization, imaging, data conversion and markup services, metadata creation, advanced classification services, editorial and knowledge services) as well as the design, implementation, integration and deployment of the systems used to manage content (for which it provides custom application development, consulting and training). The Company serves organizations in four content-based segments: publishing, media and information services, culture and education, government and global enterprise, including Global 2000 companies across various, such as aerospace, defense, engineering, financial services, e-commerce, healthcare, information technology, intelligence, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, retail and telecommunications.
KPA Innkeepers USA Trust (Innkeepers) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns 68 hotels with an aggregate of 8,579 rooms/suites. The hotels consist of 44 Residence Inn hotels, 11 Hampton Inn hotels, five Summerfield Suites by Wyndham hotels, one Sunrise Suites hotel, one TownePlace Suites hotel, one Courtyard hotel, one Holiday Inn Express hotel, one Four Points by Sheraton hotel, one Clarion hotel, one Homewood Suites by Hilton hotel and one Quality Inn. These hotels are located in 21 states, with 10 hotels located in California, six in Florida, five each in New Jersey, Washington, Texas and Michigan and four in Illinois. Innkeepers focuses primarily on upscale, extended-stay hotels with 51 of its 68 hotels in the upscale extended-stay segment.
IMDD.OB InMedica Development Corporation (InMedica) is engaged in the research, development and sale of medical technology and fund raising to support such activities. Its majority owned subsidiary, MicroCor, Inc. (MicroCor) developed and marketed a portable electrocardiograph (ECG) monitor and manufactured and sold about 450 units. In July 1989, MicroCor signed a research and development contract with Critikon (a predecessor to Johnson &amp; Johnson Medical, Inc.) to develop a medical instrument that would incorporate and enhance the technologies already developed in the MicroCor portable ECG monitor and combine them with technologies developed by Critikon. During the year ended December 31, 2003, InMedica and MircoCor received no revenues from operations.
IRC Inland Real Estate Corporation is a self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) based in Oak Brook, Illinois. The Company owns, acquires and manages neighborhood and community retail centers located primarily in the Midwest. Inland Real Estate owns and manages 138 retail properties in eight states, with more than 12 million square feet of real estate and more than $1.2 billion in assets. Its investment properties are located primarily within an approximate 400-mile radius of its headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois. In addition, Inland Real Estate owns and acquires single-user retail properties located throughout the United States. It is also permitted to construct or develop properties or render services in connection with such development or construction.
INKP InKine Pharmaceutical Company, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing pharmaceutical products to diagnose and treat gastrointestinal disorders. The Company markets and sells two pharmaceutical products, Visicol and IB-Stat. Visicol (brand of sodium phosphate tablets) is a United States Food and Drug Administration-approved tablet purgative preparation that is indicated for bowel cleansing prior to colonoscopy. IB-Stat is an antispasmodic product marketed to gastroenterologists and others for use as an acute care product available for absorption more rapidly than solid dose formulations that is used for a variety of indications. In addition to its marketed products, the Company has identified two product candidates, a microcrystalline cellulose-free new generation purgative tablet, INKP-102, and Colirest, which is being evaluated for treatment of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
INHX Inhibitex, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of antibody-based products for the prevention and treatment of bacterial and fungal infections in the hospital setting. It has two product candidates in late-stage clinical development: Veronate, in Phase III clinical trial, is for the prevention of hospital-associated infections in premature, very-low birth weight (VLBW) infants, and Aurexis, in Phase II clinical trial, is a first-line therapy, in combination with antibiotics, to treat staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) bloodstream infections in hospitalized patients. In addition, the Company has three preclinical product candidates that are being developed to prevent or treat serious infections: Enterococcal monoclonal antibodies for hospital-associated enterococcal infections; Candida monoclonal antibodies for hospital-associated candida infections, and Staphylococcal vaccine for prevention of staphylococcal infections.
IM Ingram Micro Inc. is a distributor of information technology (IT) products and services worldwide. It distributes and markets IT products from computer hardware suppliers, networking equipment suppliers and software publishers worldwide. The Company has four primary product categories: networking products, software, systems and peripherals. In addition, it offers a number of supply chain management services to its suppliers and resellers. Services related to its distribution business include sales and marketing, customer care, financial services, and logistics. Geographic areas in which the Company operated during the fiscal year ended January 3, 2004 include North America, Europe Asia-Pacific and Latin America. As of January 3, 2004, the Company had 48 distribution centers worldwide and sales offices and/or Ingram Micro sales representatives in 35 countries. The Company sells its products and services to resellers in more than 100 countries.
IR Ingersoll-Rand Company Limited is a provider of climate control, industrial solutions, infrastructure development and security and safety products. The Company's product portfolio encompasses industrial and commercial brands, such as Thermo King transport temperature control equipment, Hussmann commercial and refrigeration equipment, PowerWorks microturbines, Dresser-Rand turbomachinery, Ingersoll-Rand industrial and construction equipment, Bobcat compact equipment, Club Car golf cars and utility vehicles, Schlage locks and security solutions and Kryptonite portable security products. On February 19, 2004, the Company sold its Drilling Solutions business unit to Atlas Copco AB. The Drilling Solutions business manufactures drilling equipment and accessories for the worldwide construction, mining, quarrying and water-well drilling industries. In October 2004, the Company completed the sale of its Dresser-Rand business unit to a fund managed by First Reserve Corporation.
ING ING Groep N.V. (ING) is a global financial institution of Dutch origin that offers banking, insurance and asset management to more than 60 million clients in more than 50 countries. The clients are individuals, families, small businesses, large corporations, institutions and governments. The Company consists of a spectrum of businesses that serve their clients under the ING brand. Its segments, which are based on the management structure of the Company, are ING Europe, ING Americas and ING Asia/Pacific. It primarily offers retail and wholesale financial services. It primarily offers retail and wholesale financial services. On the retail side, the strategy focuses on retail wealth accumulation and financial protection, such as retail banking, asset management, asset gathering, life insurance and pensions and private banking, supported by the click-call-face, which is multi-product, multi-channel distribution approach.
IFS Infrasource Services, Inc. is a specialty contractor, which is engaged in the business of servicing the utility transmission and distribution infrastructure in the United States. The Company's broad range of services include the design, engineering, procurement, construction, testing, maintenance and leasing of utility infrastructure. Its customers include electric power utilities, natural gas utilities, government entities and heavy industrial companies, such as petrochemical, processing and refining businesses. In January 2004, Infrasource acquired Maslonka &amp; Associates, Inc., which specializes in the construction and installation of aerial transmission interconnection systems, primarily in the Western and Southwestern United States. Maslonka concentrates on projects that involve accelerated construction schedules, complex excavation, helicopter-assisted installation, environmental impact mitigation and difficult terrain.
IVTA InfoVista S.A. designs and develops software, which is designed to meet the emerging network and server performance reporting and service management requirements of organizations worldwide. The geographical segments of the Company are Europe (including France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Spain), the United States and Asia-Pacific. The Company has end users in business sectors, including telecommunications, Internet services, financial services, information technology (IT) services, outsourcing and consulting. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the five largest end users of the Company accounted for approximately 26.8% of its revenue. As of June 30, 2004, the Company had 286 active end users.
IUSA infoUSA Inc. is a provider of both business and consumer information that compiles and updates a proprietary database of 14 million businesses and over 200 million individuals in the United States and Canada. infoUSA creates products and services such as prospect lists, mailing labels, index cards, diskettes, printed directories, DVDs, business credit reports and many other products and services. It also offers its information on the Internet through various Websites, such as infoUSA.com, BusinessCreditUSA.com, CityDirectory.com, Drlists.com, referenceUSA.com, newleadsUSA.com, idEXEC.com and autolistsUSA.com. In 2003, it purchased DoubleClick's email deployment business, ClickAction, Yesmail and Markado. It also continued to consolidate the printed and online directory industry with its acquisition of Hill-Donnelly and City Publishing directory companies. In June 2004, it acquired OneSource Information Services, Inc., which delivers company, executive and industry intelligence.
IFTH.OB InfoTech USA, Inc. (InfoTech), incorporated in June 1997, through its two wholly-owned subsidiaries, Information Technology Services, Inc. and InfoTech USA, Inc., provides information technology (IT), services and products. The Company specializes in tailoring its approach to the individual customer needs. The Company operates principally in one segment, the IT segment, whereby, it provides IT consulting, networking, remote access, procurement, storage area networks, deployment, integration and migration services. The Company also provides on-going system and network maintenance services.
INFY Infosys Technologies Limited is a global information technology services company. Progeon Limited, Infosys Technologies (Australia) Pty. Limited (Infosys Australia), Infosys Technologies (Shanghai) Co. Limited (Infosys China) and Infosys Consulting, Inc. are the Company's majority-owned and -controlled subsidiaries. Infosys provides end-to-end business solutions that leverage technology for its clients across the entire software life cycle: consulting, design, development, re-engineering, maintenance, systems integration and package evaluation and implementation. The Company also provides software products to the banking industry, as well as business process management services firms through Progeon.
INSP Infospace, Inc. is a diversified technology and services company that consists of two principal businesses, Search and Directory and Mobile. Its Search and Directory properties are designed primarily to enable Internet users to locate information, merchants, individuals and products online. Its Mobile division develops applications, tools and infrastructure that enable wireless carriers and information, entertainment and media companies to develop and deliver mobile data services across multiple devices. It previously operated a third business, Payment Solutions, which offered products and services focused primarily on the e-commerce and mail order/telephone order segment of the United States credit card transaction processing market. In April 2004, the Company sold its Payment Solutions business to Lightbridge, Inc. Infospace has facilities in the United States, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. In December 2004, the Company acquired United Kingdom-based IOMO Limited.
IFO Infosonics Corporation and its subsidiary, Axcess Mobile, LLC, sell wireless telecommunication products and accessories to dealer agents and network operators. The Company also sells cellular phone subscriptions for a national cellular provider, as well as cellular phones and accessories from retail locations in Southern California. Infosonic's principal markets are the United States and Latin America. It has two business segments: wireless telecommunication products and services and cellular phone subscriptions. The wireless telecommunications products and services consist of Infosonics Corporation, and the cellular phone subscriptions sales consist of Axcess Mobile. The Company acquired Axcess Mobile, a California limited liability company, in December 2000. In October 2004, the Company closed or transferred to a third-party, its 10 mall-based retail locations, which were operated by its wholly owned subsidiary, Axcess Mobile, LLC.
INFT Inforte Corp. is a customer strategy and solutions consultancy that helps clients to improve performance by tying together customer and corporate strategy. It combines business and operational planning with software solutions to ensure its client base serves the right customers in the right ways. The Company's client base includes Argent Mortgage Company, AutoTrader.com, Avery Dennison, BP, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Diageo, Guardian Life Insurance, PerkinElmer, SouthStar Energy Services, Tribune Company, Unilever Best Foods, Uniprise and WesCorp. The Company's customer solutions help clients generate returns from all customer interactions, allowing them to maximize existing and future customer relationship management (CRM) investments, by extending CRM strategy from the front office throughout the enterprise.
IFMX.OB InforMedix, Inc. was formed for the purpose of developing the Med-e Monitor System. InforMedix Acquisition Corp. (Acquisition Corp) a holding company, incorporated with a wholly owned subsidiary IFAC, Inc. (IFAC) for the purpose of acquiring InforMedix, Inc. On August 14, 2002, InforMedix merged with IFAC, pursuant to a Plan and Agreement of Merger dated August 14, 2002. On May 8, 2003, InforMedix Acquisition Corp. merged with and into Hunapu Inc. pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization dated February 7, 2003. Hunapu Inc. was the surviving entity and changed its name to InforMedix Holdings, Inc.
IACH.OB Information Architects Corporation (iA) was formerly a developer of dynamic content delivery and interchange infrastructure software solutions for, both, corporations and individuals. Due to its inability to achieve profitable operations and the lack of capital to continue to develop its product line, the Company suspended its operations in December 2002. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company acquired Perceptre, LLC. The business of Perceptre, LLC involves the licensing to governmental and commercial sector customers of its online, pre-employment screening, background investigation software ordering system. The Perceptre software provides an online ordering system for use by employers, or any other inquiring entities, in their quests to review the records of anyone of interest in many personnel arenas, such as criminal records, civil court records, motor vehicle records and credit bureau records.
IAIC.OB Information Analysis Incorporated (IAI) is in the business of modernizing client information systems. IAI has performed software development and conversion projects for over 100 commercial and government clients, including Computer Sciences Corporation, IBM, Computer Associates, MCI, Sprint, Citibank, the United States Customs Service, the United States Department of Agriculture, the United States Department of Energy, the United States Army, the United States Air Force, the Veterans Administration and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. IAI primarily applies its technology, services and experience to legacy software migration and modernization and to developing Web-based solutions for agencies of the federal government.
INFA Informatica Corporation is a provider of data integration and business intelligence software. Using Informatica products and services, large to mid-size companies can integrate and transform enterprise data from any system into timely, accurate business insight for improving business performance, increasing customer lifetime value, streamlining supply chain operations and proactively managing regulatory compliance. The Company's products are designed to help its customers gain valuable insight into their business, which they can use to help improve business performance, increase customer satisfaction and enhance competitive advantage.
INOW InfoNow Corporation provides channel visibility and channel management solutions in the form of software and services to global corporations that sell their products through complex networks of distributors, dealers, resellers, retailers, agents or branches. The Company's channel visibility solution, Channel Insight, gives channel-focused companies visibility into who their resellers are, what they are selling and at what prices. The solution also gives them visibility into who their end customers are and what they are buying with very high levels of accuracy. InfoNow's channel management solutions are used for partner profiling, partner referrals and locators and lead generation and management. The Company also offers professional services, managed services, partner management services and system management services.
IN Infonet Services Corporation is a provider of cross-border managed data and communications services to over 2,600 multinational enterprises. The Company offers its services to clients directly through country representatives and indirectly through alternate sales channels consisting of international telecommunications carriers and value-added resellers. Infonet deploys an array of fully managed data communications services over its reliable and secure global network, referred to as The World Network. The World Network is an extensive and versatile network that can be accessed by clients from over 180 countries and territories. The Company's integrated service solutions can be categorized into four groups: Network Services, Consulting, Integration and Provisioning Services, Application Services and Other Communications Services.
INFD.OB Infodata Systems Inc. is a global provider of open, enterprise-class content management solutions. It designs, develops and implements solutions that help organizations solve problems around regulatory compliance mandates and the secure management of content across its lifecycle. The Company serves three markets with compliance-driven product and service offerings: Commercial, Government and the Intelligence Community. Within these markets, Infodata serves approximately 6,000 customers encompassing 500 of the global 1000, 50% of tier-one life science firms and Government and Intelligence agencies and organizations.
INFS InFocus Corporation is a provider of digital projection technology and services. The Company's products are used in business, education, government and home markets for training sessions, meetings, sales presentations, technical seminars, group collaboration, entertainment and other applications involving the sharing of computer-generated and/or video information with an audience. InFocus has established four product platforms, each supporting multiple individual products, intended to meet the diverse projection requirements of its customers. These platforms are mobile projectors, intended for mobile professionals who place a premium on reduced size and weight; meeting room projectors, intended for conference or training room environments; installation and integration projectors, intended for large venues and auditorium environments, and home entertainment projectors, intended for home theater, gaming and entertainment environments in the home.
IFOX Infocrossings, Inc. is a provider of information technology (IT) and business process outsourcing (BPO) services to enterprise clients. It offers IT outsourcing services across a range of IT functions, whereby it assumes responsibility for managing all or part of a client's information systems infrastructure and operations. Its IT outsourcing agreements center on data center operations and extend to the infrastructure that facilitates the transmission of information across a client's enterprise. Services are organized into six solution areas: Mainframe Outsourcing, BPO, Open Systems Management, AS/400 Management, Business Continuity and IT Consulting. In April 2004, the Company acquired ITO Acquisition Corp, a data center outsourcing company, doing business as Systems Management Specialists.
IPCC Infinity Property and Casualty Corp. is a holding company, which through subsidiaries, provides personal automobile insurance throughout the United States with emphasis on nonstandard auto insurance. The Company also provides nonstandard commercial automobile insurance, homeowners insurance and several other personal lines insurance products. Infinity holds licenses to write auto insurance in all 50 states. Infinity distributes its products primarily through a network of approximately 14,000 independent agencies and strategic partnerships. Independent agencies were responsible for approximately 94.5% of Infinity's gross written premiums for the year ended December 31, 2003.
IFNY Infinity, Inc. is an independent energy company engaged in the operation, development, production, exploration and acquisition of North American unconventional natural gas properties. The Company is also a provider of oil field services in eastern Kansas, northeastern Oklahoma and the Powder River Basin of Wyoming. Its operations have been classified into two industry segments: Oil Field Services and Oil and Gas Production. The Company's 100%-owned operating subsidiaries include Infinity Oil and Gas of Wyoming, Inc. (Infinity-Wyoming) and Infinity Oil and Gas of Kansas, Inc. (Infinity-Kansas) for oil and gas exploration and production, Consolidated Oil Well Services, Inc. (Consolidated) for oilfield services and CIS-Oklahoma, Inc. for corporate services.
IFX Infineon Technologies AG designs, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of semiconductors and complete systems solutions used in a wide variety of microelectronic applications, including computer systems, telecommunications systems, consumer goods, automotive products, industrial automation and control systems, and chip card applications. The products include standard commodity components, full-custom devices, semi-custom devices and application-specific components for memory, analog, digital and mixed-signal applications. The Company has operations, investments and customers located mainly in Europe, Asia and North America. The business is organized into four principal operating segments serving various markets in the semiconductor industry: Wireline Communications, Secure Mobile Solutions, Automotive &amp; Industrial and Memory Products.
IFCN INFICON Holding AG is a developer, manufacturer and supplier of vacuum instrumentation, critical sensor technologies and process control software for the semiconductor and related industries. The Company also provides instrumentation for gas leak detection and toxic chemical analysis to the air conditioning/refrigeration, emergency response, industrial hygiene markets, military and government markets. It has four product lines, which form two business segments: the semiconductor vacuum instrumentation group and the general vacuum instrumentation group. Its vacuum control products include gauges, valves and fittings. Gauges enable customers to monitor gas pressures during various stages of the manufacturing process.
NRGY Inergy, L.P. owns and operates, principally through its operating company, Inergy Propane, LLC, a retail and wholesale propane marketing and distribution business. Its retail business includes the retail marketing, sale and distribution of propane, including the sale and lease of propane supplies and equipment, to residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural customers. It also operates a wholesale supply, marketing and distribution business, providing propane procurement, transportation and supply and price risk management services to its customer service centers, as well as to independent dealers, multistate marketers, petrochemical companies, refinery and gas processors and a number of other NGL marketing and distribution companies in 37 states, primarily in the Midwest and Southeast. It also owns an NGL business in California, which includes natural gas processing, NGL fractionation, NGL rail and truck terminals, bulk storage, trucking and marketing operations.
INEY.OB INEI Corporation, formerly Insituform East, Inc., has no business operations. The Company and its subsidiaries were engaged in the business of rehabilitating underground sewers and other pipelines principally using cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) processes, with primary revenues generating from the Company's Insituform brand product line. On June 18, 2003, the Company entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (the agreement) with Insituform Technologies, Inc. (ITI), providing for the sale to ITI of substantially all of the Company's non-real estate assets and ongoing business. On December 23, 2003, the Company completed the sale of all of its real property in Landover, Maryland, to Bohrer's Nest, L.L.C., an affiliate of Atlantic Transportation Equipment, Ltd.
NDE IndyMac Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-insured savings and loan association. IndyMac is in the business of design, manufacturing and distribution of cost-efficient financing for the acquisition, development and improvement of single-family homes. IndyMac also provides financing secured by single-family homes to facilitate consumers' personal financial goals, and strategically invests in single-family-related assets. The Company facilitates the acquisition, development and improvement of single-family homes through electronic mortgage information and transaction system (e-MITS) platform that automates underwriting, risk-based pricing and ratelocking on a nationwide basis via the Internet. IndyMac's mortgage products and services are tailored to meet the needs of both consumers and businesses.
IBA Industrias Bachoco, S.A. De C.V. (Bachoco) is a poultry producer in Mexico. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company produced approximately 7 million chickens per week. As a vertically integrated producer, Bachoco controls virtually all aspects of the production and distribution process. With over 700 production and distribution facilities dispersed throughout Mexico, the Company's operations include preparing feed; breeding, hatching and growing chickens, and processing, packaging and distributing chicken products. Sales of chicken products accounted for 77.6% of the Company's net revenues in 2003. Bachoco is also a producer of commercial animal feed. In 2003, the Company sold approximately 6,000 tons of feed per week to external customers, which amounted to 7.1% of its total sales in 2003. Bachoco is also a producer of eggs with a weekly capacity of approximately 3.5 million dozen eggs. Egg sales accounted for 11.1% of the Company's net revenues in 2003.
IDSA Industrial Services of America, Inc. is a scrap recycling and management services company specializing in ferrous, non-ferrous and fiber recycling, as well as solid waste management, equipment sales and leasing and commercial real estate development with associated properties. Management services represent contracts with retail, commercial and industrial businesses to handle their waste disposal needs, primarily by subcontracting with commercial waste hauling and disposal companies. The Company's customers are located throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Mexico. ISA Indiana, Inc. provides services related to ferrous, non-ferrous and fiber scrap recycling in southern Indiana. ISA Recycling, LLC provides services related to ferrous, non-ferrous and fiber scrap recycling in Louisville, Kentucky. Computerized Waste Systems, Inc. specializes in offering solid waste management consultations for companies involved in the retail, restaurant and industrial sectors.
IDGR Industrial Distribution Group, Inc. (IDG) is a nationwide supplier of maintenance, repair, operating, and production (MROP) products and services to manufacturers and other industrial users. The Company provides value-added services and other arrangements, including Flexible Procurement Solutions, such as storeroom management. IDG specializes in cutting tools, abrasives, hand and power tools, coolants, lubricants, adhesives, safety products, and machine tools, supplying virtually any other MROP product that a customer may require. The Company's operations are organized into four regional divisions. IDG has sales coverage in 43 of the top 75 manufacturing markets in the United States and has an active presence in Mexico and China. IDG has approximately 20,000 active customers (customers that purchased at least one item in the last 12 months), including General Electric Company, Borg-Warner Inc., Ford Motor Company, Duracell Corporation and The Boeing Company.
IINT Indus International, Inc. develops, licenses, implements, supports and hosts service delivery management solutions, which help clients in an array of industries, optimize the management of their customers, assets, workforce, spare parts inventory, tools and documentation. Its software solutions consist of three primary solution suites: customer management, which includes Advantage CMS, CRM Essentials and EnerLink software applications; asset management, which includes PassPort and InSite EE software products, and field service management, which includes WorkCenter, WorkManager, WorkMobile, WorkExecutive and WorkOptimizer applications. In March 2003, Indus acquired Indus Utility Systems, Inc. from Systems and Computer Technology Corporation. In January 2004, it acquired Wishbone Systems, Inc.
IIT PT Indonesian Satellite Corporation Tbk. (Indosat) is an Indonesian telecommunications service provider. The Company provides GSM 900 and 1800 cellular services to approximately 5.9 million subscribers as of December 31, 2003. Indosat is also a provider of international switching telecommunications services, including international calls, telex, telegram, packet net, and store and forward facsimile service. The Company also provides a variety of non-switched international telecommunications services, such as low- and high-speed leased lines, video link, television link, Integrated Services Digital Network services, and other services that typically involve the transmission of data or video rather than voice traffic. In addition, Indosat provides multimedia, data communications and Internet services, including frame relay, voice- over Internet Protocol, leased circuits and Internet services through its subsidiaries PT Aplikanusa Lintasarta and PT Indosat Mega Media.
IDVB.OB Indian Village Bancorp, Inc. (IVB) is a unitary thrift holding company that owns Indian Village Community Bank (the Bank). Serving the Tuscarawas County, Ohio, area, the Bank conducts business from its main office in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, and a full-service branch office in New Philadelphia, Ohio. Its principal business is attracting deposits from the general public and originating loans secured by first mortgages on one- to four-family residential real estate properties located in its primary market area. The Bank also originates a limited number of loans for the construction of one- to four-family residences and permanent mortgage loans secured by multi-family and non-residential real estate in its primary market area. In addition to real estate lending, it originates commercial loans and various types of consumer credits, including home equity loans and lines of credit, home improvement loans, motor vehicle loans, loans secured by savings accounts, unsecured loans and other loans.
IDEV Indevus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the acquisition, development and commercialization of a diversified portfolio of pharmaceutical product candidates, including multiple compounds in late-stage clinical development. The Company markets SANCTURA for overactive bladder (OAB), and has four compounds in clinical development: pagoclone for anxiety disorders, IP 751 for pain and inflammatory disorders, PRO 2000 for the prevention of infection by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually-transmitted pathogens, and aminocandin for systemic fungal infections. The Company focuses on pharmaceutical products for urology, gynecology and infectious diseases.
IBCP Independent Bank Corporation serves as the holding company for its subsidiary banks (the Banks): Independent Bank, Independent Bank West Michigan, Independent Bank South Michigan and Independent Bank East Michigan. The activities of the Banks cover all phases of commercial banking, including checking and savings accounts, commercial lending, direct and indirect consumer financing, mortgage lending, insurance premium and automobile warranty financing and safe deposit box services. The Banks' principal markets are the rural and suburban communities across lower Michigan, served primarily through four main offices and a total of 77 branches, four drive-through facilities and 12 loan production offices. Most of the Banks' offices provide full-service lobby and drive-through services in the communities they serve. Automatic teller machines are also provided at most locations. The Company owns the outstanding stocks of these banks.
INDB Independent Bank Corp. is a one-bank holding company whose primary asset is its investment in Rockland Trust Company (the Bank). The community banking business, the Company's only operating segment, consists of commercial banking, retail banking and investment management services and is managed as a single strategic unit. The community banking business derives its revenues from a range of banking services, including lending activities, acceptance of demand, savings and time deposits, trust and investment management services and mortgage banking income. Rockland offers a range of community banking services through its network of 52 banking offices (including 49 full-service branches), seven commercial lending centers, three investment management offices and three residential lending centers, all of which are located in the Plymouth, Norfolk, Barnstable and Bristol Counties of southeastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod.
IHC Independence Holding Company (IHC) is a holding company principally engaged in the life and health insurance business through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Standard Security Life Insurance Company of New York (Standard Life), Madison National Life Insurance Company, Inc. (Madison Life) and their subsidiaries (collectively, the Insurance Group), and its affiliate, American Independence Corp. Standard Life is licensed as an insurance company in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Madison Life is domiciled in Wisconsin and licensed to sell insurance products in 46 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands, and is an accredited reinsurer in New York.
IFSB Independence Federal Savings Bank (the Bank) is a federally chartered stock savings bank located in Washington, D.C. The Bank's principal business is obtaining funds in the form of deposits and other borrowings and investing such funds in residential real estate loans, guaranteed student loans, mortgage-backed securities, government securities and, to a lesser extent, consumer loans and commercial loans. The principal sources of funds for the Bank's lending activities are consumer savings deposits, amortization and prepayment of outstanding loans and mortgage-backed securities, Federal Home Loan Bank advances, reverse-repurchase agreements and other borrowings and sales of loans and loan participations.
ICBC Independence Community Bank Corp (ICBC) operates as the parent savings and loan holding company of the Independence Community Bank (the Bank). The business and management of the Company consists primarily of that of the Bank. It is a community-oriented financial institution that offers a variety of loan and deposit products. The Bank's principal business is gathering deposits from customers and investing those deposits along with borrowed funds primarily in multi-family residential mortgage loans, commercial real estate loans, commercial business loans, lines of credit to mortgage bankers, consumer loans, mortgage-related securities, investment securities and interest-bearing bank balances. As of December 31, 2003, the Bank operated through a network of 85 branch offices in the United States. ICBC has two active subsidiaries, the Bank and Mitchamm Corp.
INCY Incyte Corporation is focused on the discovery and development of novel, small molecule drugs to treat major medical conditions, including infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) inflammatory disorders, cancer and diabetes. The Company's most advanced product candidate, Reverset, is a nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) that is being developed as a once-a day oral therapy for use in combination with other antiviral drugs for patients with HIV infections. In a Phase II trial of HIV infected patients who had never undergone previous treatment, Reverset demonstrated potent activity against HIV and was well tolerated during the 10-day trial period. Laboratory data also suggest that Reverset has the potential to treat viruses resistant to other NRTIs. Incyte intends to initiate a 180-patient Phase II trial for treatment-experienced, HIV-infected patients in 2004.
ICNT.PK Incomnet, Inc. is a reseller of long distance and other communications products to residential and small business customers through its independent sales representatives using a network marketing strategy. For residential customers, the Company provides state-to-state long distance and international service, 800-number service, and calling card services. Incomnet's portfolio business products encompass a new line of complementary telecommunications services designed to meet the telecommunication needs of a small to medium-sized business. The Company helps businesses in developing a telecommunications operation that makes sense for their business and personal needs. Portfolio services include long distance and Internet service. On February 11, 2000, Incomnet, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Incomnet Communications Corporation, filed voluntary petitions for protection under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court.
IOT Income Opportunity Realty Investors, Inc. (IORI) invests in equity interests in real estate through direct equity investments and partnerships and financing real estate and related activities through investments in mortgage loans. Prior to January 2003, the Company elected to be treated as a real estate investment trust (REIT). Due to the completion of the tender offer by American Realty Investors, Inc., an affiliate, in March 2003 IORI no longer met the requirement, as of January 2003, for tax treatment as a REIT. The Company cannot re-qualify for REIT tax status for at least five years. At December 31, 2003, IORI's real estate consisted of 15 properties held for investment, of which seven apartments were sold to partnerships controlled by Metra Capital, LLC. The Company has three operating segments: apartments, commercial properties and land ownership.
N Inco Limited is a mining and metals company primarily engaged in the production of nickel, copper, precious metals and cobalt. The Company's principal mines and processing operations are located in the Sudbury area of Ontario, the Thompson area of Manitoba and, through a subsidiary in which Inco has an equity interest of 61%, PT International Nickel Indonesia Tbk (PT Inco), on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Inco has additional wholly owned metals refineries at Port Colborne, Ontario, and in the United Kingdom at Clydach, Wales, and Acton, England. It also has interests in nickel refining capacity in Japan, through contractual arrangements with Inco TNC Limited,; in Taiwan, through Taiwan Nickel Refining Corporation, and in South Korea, through Korea Nickel Company. Inco also has a 65% equity interest in Jinco Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd., a company that produces nickel salts for plating and other applications at a plant near Shanghai in the People's Republic of China.
IMDC Inamed Corporation is a global healthcare company, which develops, manufactures and markets a diverse line of products that enhance the quality of people's lives. These products include breast implants for aesthetic augmentation and reconstructive surgery following a mastectomy, a range of dermal products to correct facial wrinkles, and the BioEnterics LAP-BAND System and BioEnterics Intragastric Balloon (BIB) systems used to treat severe and morbid obesity. The Company has three main product lines: breast aesthetics products and facial aesthetics products marketed under Inamed Aesthetics, and obesity intervention products marketed under Inamed Health. These three lines are considered one segment.
IVGN Invitrogen Corporation develops, manufactures and markets research tools in kit form and provide other research products, including informatics software to customers engaged in life sciences research and the commercial manufacture of genetically engineered products. The Company is a supplier of research kits and reagents that simplify and improve gene cloning, gene expression and gene analysis techniques. In addition it is a supplier of sera, cell and tissue culture media and reagents used in life sciences research, as well as in processes to grow cells in the laboratory and produce pharmaceuticals and other materials.
INSA.OB Invisa, Inc. manufactures and licenses a line of advanced electronic sensors incorporating the Company's patented presence-sensing design, InvisaShield, for safety and security applications. The Company's SmartGate product is used in life and property safety mechanisms for parking gates, slide gates and other powered closures. First generation security sensors using InvisaShield technology are in service at a major museum in New England. The Company revenue include the sale of additional presence-sensing products under development and those that are being designed to improve the safety of various products, which may include industrial doors, commercial overhead doors, powered slide and swing gates, as well as products designed to provide security sensing for various markets, including museums, retail, residential, commercial, governmental and defense.
ITIC Investors Title Company is a holding company that wholly owns Investors Title Insurance Company (ITIC), Northeast Investors Title Insurance Company (NE-ITIC), Investors Capital Management Company (ICMC), Investors Trust Company (Investors Trust), Investors Title Exchange Corporation (ITEC) and Investors Title Accommodation Corporation (ITAC). The Company's three lines of businesses are underwriting land title insurance for owners and mortgagees, as a primary insurer and as a reinsurer for other title insurance companies through ITIC and NE-ITIC; providing tax-free exchange services through ITEC and ITAC, and providing investment management and trust services to individuals, trusts and other entities through ICMC and Investors Trust.
IRETS Investors Real Estate Trust (IRET) is a self-advised equity real estate investment trust engaged in owning and operating income-producing real properties in the United States. IRET is structured as an umbrella partnership real estate investment trust, and conducts its day-to-day business operations though its operating partnership, IRET Properties. The Company's investments consist of multi-family residential properties and commercial properties. These properties are located primarily in the upper Midwest states of Minnesota and North Dakota. For the fiscal year ended April 30, 2004 (fiscal 2003), the Company's real estate investments in these two states accounted for 70.7% of its total gross revenue. At April 30, 2004, IRET's real estate portfolio consisted of 69 multi-family residential properties, containing 8,955 apartment units and 142 commercial properties, containing 7.4 million square feet of leasable space.
IFIN Investors Financial Services Corp. provides asset administration services for the financial services industry through its wholly owned subsidiary, Investors Bank &amp; Trust Company. It provides core services and value-added services to a variety of financial asset managers, including mutual fund complexes, investment advisors, family offices, banks and insurance companies. Core services include global custody, multicurrency accounting and mutual fund administration. Value-added services include securities lending, foreign exchange, cash management, performance measurement, institutional transfer agency, investment advisory services, lines of credit, middle-office outsourcing and brokerage and transition management services. Investors Financial has offices located in the United States, Ireland, Canada and the Cayman Islands, with a sub-custodian global network established to accommodate the international needs of its clients.
ICH Investors Capital Holdings, Ltd. (ICH) is a financial services holding company that operates through its subsidiaries in two segments of the financial services industry. These two segments provide for the offering of services related to corporate equity and debt securities, United States Government securities, municipal securities, mutual funds, variable annuities, variable life insurance, market information, Internet online trading and portfolio tracking and records management and financial planning services, investment advisory and asset management services and the management two retail mutual funds. In December 2003, the Eastern Point Advisors Twenty Fund acquired the assets of the Avalon Capital Appreciation Fund.
IED INVESTools Inc. offers a range of investor education products and services that provide lifelong learning and support to self-directed investors to help them improve their investment performance. INVESTools has more than 100,000 graduates, and 34,000 subscribers to its Websites, and has nearly 700,000 records in its student database. The Company teaches basic investing concepts in instructor-led classes, including workbooks and training manuals, investor conferences, one-on-one personal coaching and digital video disk home-study courses. The Company's operations consist of a single segment, Investor Education, which seeks to fulfill the lifelong education needs of self-directed investors. Products are offered under the BusinessWeek, CNBC, Success Magazine and INVESTools brands.
ITG Investment Technology Group, Inc. (ITG) provides equity trading and quantitative research services to institutional investors, brokers, money managers and alternative investment funds in the United States. ITG also has agency brokerage businesses in Europe, Australia, Canada and Hong Kong, as well as a research facility in Israel. Its principal subsidiaries include ITG Inc.; AlterNet Securities, Inc.; Hoenig Group Inc.; Hoenig &amp; Company, Inc.; Hoenig (Far East) Limited; Investment Technology Group Limited (ITG Europe); ITG Australia Limited; ITG Canada Corp. (ITG Canada); KTG Technologies Corp.; ITG Hoenig Limited (ITG Hong Kong), and ITG Software Solutions, Inc.
RX IMS Health Inc. is global provider of information solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. IMS's revenues are derived primarily from the sale of a market information, sales management and consulting services to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. IMS operates in more than 100 countries. IMS also owns a venture capital unit, Enterprise Associates, LLC, which is focused on investments in emerging businesses, and a 25.9% equity interest in The TriZetto Group, Inc. IMS's key information products include sales management information to optimize sales force productivity and marketing effectiveness research for prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products.
IMFN.OB IMPSAT Fiber Networks, Inc. (formerly IMPSAT Corporation) provides private telecommunications network and Internet services in Latin America. The Company offers integrated data, voice, data center and Internet solutions, with emphasis on broadband transmission, for national and multinational companies, financial institutions, governmental agencies and other business customers. IMPSAT has operations in Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Chile, Peru and the United States and also provides its services in other countries in Latin America. The Company provides telecommunications, data center and Internet services through its networks, which consist of owned fiber optic and wireless links, teleports, earth stations and leased fiber optic and satellite links. IMPSAT owns and operates 15 metropolitan area networks in some cities in Latin America, including Buenos Aires, Bogota, Caracas, Quito, Guayaquil, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
IMPV.OB ImproveNet, Inc. provides online home improvement services to homeowners, home improvement service providers and product manufacturers of building materials and home products. The Company has matched more than two million homeowners with screened home improvement service providers, generating more than $12 billion in renovation and remodeling business. ImproveNet's service provider network consists of over 30,000 active participants bidding on more than 1.2 million home improvement jobs. The Company has an online presence with over 70,000 pages of resourceful information for both homeowners and contractors, which include product information, free resource tools and design galleries, among others. ImproveNet offers its breadth of industry knowledge and technology platform within the homeowner and contractor market, and partnerships with industry leaders to leverage the opportunity within the $300 billion home improvement industry.
ZCOM Impreso, Inc. is the parent holding company of TST/Impreso, Inc. (TST), a manufacturer and distributor to dealers and other resellers of paper and film products for commercial and home use in domestic and international markets. TST operates in the hard copy supply market, which encompasses those products used with a hard copy output or imaging device. Approximately 98% of TST's total output is initially sold domestically. Another subsidiary, Hotsheet.com, Inc., owns and operates a Web portal, Hotsheet.com. Hotsheet is an Internet Website directory specializing in listing useful Web destinations utilized by a wide general audience. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Alexa Springs, Inc., produces bottled natural spring water from the Ouachita Mountains near Mt Ida, Arkansas. On December 1, 2004, International Business Machines, Inc (IBM) and TST agreed to terminate their trademark licensing agreement.
IMX Implant Sciences Corporation develops products for the medical device and explosives detection industry using ion implantation and thin film coatings of radioactive and non-radioactive materials. The Company has received the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance to market its I-Plant Iodine-125 radioactive seed for the treatment of prostate cancer. It also has under development interventional cardiology devices and temporary coronary brachytherapy systems for the prevention of restenosis (reclosure of the artery after balloon angioplasty). In addition, the Company modifies the surface characteristics of orthopedic joint implants to reduce polyethylene wear, thereby increasing the life of the implant, and provides ion implantation of electronic dopants for the semiconductor industry. The Company is developing an explosives detection device to be used in the detection of trace residues of explosives.
ITY Imperial Tobacco Group PLC is an international tobacco company that manufactures, markets and sells a comprehensive range of cigarettes, tobaccos, rolling papers and cigars. The brands of the Company include Golden Virginia, Van Nelle, Richmond, Cabinet, Peter Stuyvesant, R1, Route 66, Bastos, Excellence, Boss, Maxim, Horizon, Davidoff, Rizla, JPS, Lambert &amp; Butler, Drum and West. On 11 May 2004, the Company acquired CTC Tube Company of Canada, which is involved in rolling papers and tubes markets. The operations of the Company span markets across Western, Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australasia with the products sold in over 130 countries. The Company owns 21 cigarette factories, seven other tobacco products factories and five papers and tubes factories.
IPSU Imperial Sugar Company is one of the processors and marketers of refined sugar in the United States. Imperial produces, packages and distributes sugar at facilities located in California, Georgia and Louisiana. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004, it sold approximately 32 million hundredweight (cwt) of refined sugar. Imperial offers a broad product line and sells to a wide range of customers directly and through wholesalers and distributors. Customers are retail grocers, foodservice distributors and industrial customers, principally food manufacturers. Products include granulated, powdered, liquid and brown sugars marketed in a variety of packaging options, such as one-pound packages to 100-pound bags and in bulk, under various brands, including Dixie Crystals, Holly, Imperial, Pioneer and Spreckels or private labels. It produces specialty sugar products, including Savannah Gold, a premium-priced, free-flowing brown sugar and specialty sugars used in confections and icings.
IMO Imperial Oil Limited is a Canadian integrated oil company. It is active in all phases of the petroleum industry in Canada, including the exploration for, and production and sale of, crude oil and natural gas. In Canada, it is a producer of crude oil and a major producer of natural gas, as well as a refiner and marketer of petroleum products. It is also a major supplier of petrochemicals. Imperial's operations are conducted in three main segments: natural resources (upstream), petroleum products (downstream) and chemicals. Natural resources operations include the exploration for, and production of, crude oil and natural gas, including upgraded crude oil and crude bitumen. Petroleum products operations consist of the transportation, refining and blending of crude oil and refined products and the distribution and marketing thereof. The chemicals operations consist of the manufacturing and marketing of various petrochemicals.
IPII.OB Imperial Industries, Inc. manufactures and distributes building materials to building materials dealers and others located in Florida, Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama and, to a lesser extent, other states in the Southeastern part of the United States, as well as foreign countries. The Company's products are used by developers, general contractors and subcontractors in the construction or renovation of residential, multifamily and commercial buildings and swimming pools. Imperial Industries makes products through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Premix-Marbletite Manufacturing Co. and Acrocrete, Inc. The Company distributes its own and complementary products through its wholly owned subsidiary, Just-Rite Supply, Inc. The manufacturing facilities produce and distribute stucco, roof tile mortar and plaster products, while the distribution facilities expand its product line by distributing gypsum, roofing and insulation products as well as products made by the Company.
ICI Imperial Chemical Industries PLC (ICI) is a specialty products and paints company that develops products and ingredients for a range of consumer and industrial markets. The Company's specialty products and paints businesses (the International Businesses) consist of National Starch, Quest, Performance Specialties and Paints. These businesses serve diverse consumer and industrial markets through approximately 80 strategic business units, which make up approximately 180 operating units. In addition, ICI has a number of Regional and Industrial businesses in its portfolio, which consist of the Company's operations in India, Pakistan and Argentina.
IMCO IMPCO Technologies, Inc. is a designer, manufacturer and supplier of components and systems that store gaseous fuels, and monitor and control the pressure and flow of those fuels for use in primarily internal combustion engines. The Company's components and systems enable internal combustion engines to operate on natural gas or propane. These products improve efficiency, enhance power output and reduce emissions by electronically sensing and regulating the proper proportion of fuel and air required by the internal combustion engine. IMPCO generates additional revenue from providing value-added services, such as systems integration, testing and validation, and sub-system assembly. The Company provides gaseous fuel components, systems and services to the transportation market and the industrial market, which includes the material handling and stationary and portable power generation markets.
IPXL Impax Laboratories is a technology-based, specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of generic and brand name pharmaceuticals. At March 2004, the Company had 60 generic products approved or pending approval by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), or under development, 17 of which are abbreviated new drug applications approved by the FDA, which include generic versions of brand name pharmaceuticals. In the generic pharmaceuticals market, the Company focuses its efforts on controlled-release generic versions of selected brand name pharmaceuticals across a range of therapeutic areas. The Company markets 31 generic pharmaceuticals that represent dosage variations of 13 different pharmaceutical compounds. In the brand name pharmaceuticals market, the Company is focusing its efforts on the development of products for the treatment of central nervous system disorders.
IMH Impac Mortgage Holdings, Inc. (IMH), along with its wholly owned subsidiaries, IMH Assets Corp. (IMH Assets), Impac Warehouse Lending Group, Inc. (IWLG), Impac Multifamily Capital Corporation, (IMCC), Impac Funding Corporation (IFC), Impac Secured Assets Corp. (ISAC) and Novelle Financial Services, Inc. (Novelle), operates as a mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT) that is engaged in the acquisition, origination, sales and investments of non-conforming Alt-A mortgages, small-balance, multi-family mortgages and sub-prime (B/C) mortgages. The Company also provides warehouse and repurchase financing to originators of mortgages. IMH operates three core businesses, including the long-term investment operations that are conducted by IMH, IMH Assets and IMCC; the mortgage operations that are conducted by IFC, ISAC and Novelle, and the warehouse lending operations that is conducted by IWLG.
IMMU Immunomedics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of monoclonal antibody-based products for the targeted treatment of cancer, autoimmune and other serious diseases. The Company has developed a number of advanced technologies that allows it to create humanized antibodies that can be used either alone in unlabeled or naked form, or conjugated with radioactive isotopes, chemotherapeutics or toxins, in each case to create highly targeted agents. Using these technologies, Immunomedics has built a pipeline of therapeutic product candidates that utilize several different mechanisms of action. In addition to its potential therapeutic products, the Company's technologies have also enabled it to develop highly specific diagnostic imaging agents, one of which, CEA-Scan has been approved for use in the United States, Canada and the European Union, where it is being marketed for the detection of colorectal cancers.
IMGN ImmunoGen, Inc. is engaged in the discovery and development of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies and novel treatments in the field of oncology. The Company's lead technology, tumor-activated prodrug (TAP) technology, uses antibodies to deliver potent cell-killing agents specifically to cancer cells. ImmunoGen's TAP technology combines extremely potent, small molecule cytotoxic agents with monoclonal antibodies that recognize and bind specifically to tumor cells. This targeted delivery technology increases the anti-cancer activity of these antibodies and enables the Company and its partners to develop product candidates that kill cancer cells with the potential to cause only modest damage to healthy tissue.
IMMC Immunicon Corp. is developing and commercializing proprietary cell-based research and diagnostic products with an initial focus on cancer. The Company aims to provide products that offer significant clinical benefits by giving physicians better information to understand, diagnose, treat and monitor cancer. Its technologies, which it brands as CellTracks, can identify, count and characterize a small number of tumor cells present in a blood sample from a patient. The Company's collaborator, Veridex, LLC, a Johnson &amp; Johnson company, received 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in January 2004, for use of the CellSearch Epithelial Cell Kit, which incorporates Immunicon's technologies, in the management of metastatic breast cancer (breast cancer that has spread beyond the primary tumor).
IMNR The Immune Response Corporation is a biopharmaceutical company that develops immune-based therapies (IBT) for the prevention and treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and selected other disease states. All of its products are still in the development stage. The Company's lead product candidate, REMUNE, is an IBT designed to induce a specific immune response in individuals already infected by HIV and boost the body's natural defense mechanisms in order to slow HIV disease progression. Data from clinical studies suggest REMUNE may induce a specific immune response to HIV thereby increasing the immune system's own ability to defend against HIV, a virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition that slowly destroys the body's immune system and makes the body vulnerable to infections.
BLUD Immucor, Inc. develops, manufactures and sells a complete line of reagents and automated systems used primarily by hospitals, clinical laboratories and blood banks in a number of tests performed to detect and identify certain properties of the cell and serum components of human blood prior to blood transfusion. Immucor is part of the immunohematology industry. On April 26, 2004, the Company announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had cleared its Galileo instrument for marketing in the United States. On January 19, 2004, the Company entered into an instrument purchase agreement with Bio-Tek Instruments, Inc. for the development of a third-generation, automated assay instrument.
ICCC Immucell Corporation is a biotechnology company serving veterinarians and producers in the dairy and beef industry with proprietary products that improve animal health and productivity. From its inception, the Company has been engaged in the research and development, manufacture and sale of diagnostic tests and products for therapeutic and preventive use against certain infectious diseases in animals and humans. Prior to 1999, it invested funds in the development of products utilizing its core technologies for human health product applications. Since 1999, it has focused the majority of its product development efforts on products that improve animal health and productivity for the dairy and beef industry.
IMM Immtech International, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company advancing the development and commercialization of oral drugs to treat infectious diseases, as well as metabolic (diabetes) and neoplastic (cancer) disorders. The Company has drug development programs that include treatments for fungal infections, malaria, tuberculosis, diabetes, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) and tropical medicine diseases, including African sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis) and leishmaniasis. The Company has an agreement with CombinatoRX, Inc. to evaluate its first drug DB289 (in combination with other drugs on the market) for anticancer activity. In November 2003, the Company purchased 100% of Super Insight Limited and its wholly owned subsidiary, Immtech Life Science Limited, and from Lenton Fiber Optics Development Limited, a 100% interest in Immtech HK.
IMMR Immersion Corporation is a provider of haptic technology that brings the sense of feel/touch to markets. The Company develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a range of hardware and software technologies that let users interact with digital devices using their sense of touch. It focuses on four application areas: consumer, computing and entertainment; industrial and automotive; three-dimensional (3D) and professional products, and medical simulation. The Company manages these application areas under two operating segments: Immersion Computing, Entertainment and Industrial, and Immersion Medical.
IME IMI International Medical Innovations Inc. is a predictive medicine company that develops and commercializes rapid, non-invasive tests for the early detection of life-threatening diseases, particularly cardiovascular disease and cancer. As of December 31, 2003, the Company has developed and/or acquired several technologies, including a test to measure skin cholesterol (Cholesterol 1,2,3), as well as the technologies for tests to detect the presence of a carbohydrate marker intended for use in colorectal, lung and other cancers. In addition, IMI has patents pending for color measurement in biological reactions and has a right of first refusal on certain cancer-related technologies in the predictive medicine field.
IIG iMERGENT, Inc. is an e-services company that provides e-commerce technology, training and a variety of Web-based technology and resources to over 150,000 small businesses and entrepreneurs annually. Its e-services offerings leverage industry and client practices and help increase the predictability of success for Internet merchants. The Company's services also help decrease the risks associated with e-commerce implementation by providing low-cost, scalable solutions with minimal lead time, ongoing industry updates and support. Effective July 2, 2002, the Company changed its corporate name from Netgateway, Inc. to iMERGENT, Inc.
IMCL ImClone Systems Incorporated is a biopharmaceutical company involved in advance oncology care by developing a portfolio of targeted biologic treatments designed to address the medical needs of patients with cancer. It focuses on three strategies for treating cancer: growth factor blockers, angiogenesis inhibitors and cancer vaccines. The Company's lead product, ERBITUX (Cetuximab), is an antibody which has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in combination with irinotecan in the treatment of patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-expressing, metastatic colorectal cancer who are refractory to irinotecan-based chemotherapy, and for use as a single agent in the treatment of patients with EGFR-expressing, metastatic colorectal cancer who are intolerant to irinotecan-based chemotherapy.
IMAX IMAX Corporation is an entertainment technology company specializing in large-format and three-dimensional (3D) film presentations. The Company's principal business is the design, manufacture, sale and lease of projection systems based on technology for large-format, 15-perforation film frame, 70-milimeter (mm) format (15/70-format) theaters (including commercial theaters, museums and science centers) and destination entertainment sites. In addition, the Company designs and manufactures high-end sound systems and produces and distributes films for IMAX theaters. The majority of IMAX theaters are operated by third parties under lease agreements with the Company. Revenues are derived from the sale and lease of its theater systems to large-format theaters, the licensing of related film products to the IMAX theater network, post-production services for large-format films and through its owned and operated theater operations.
IMN Imation Corp. is a global technology company that derives revenue and profits primarily from the sale of removable data storage media products to both consumers and business. These products range from floppy diskettes and recordable CDs and DVDs, to tape cartridges used in small-medium businesses, to high-capacity tape cartridges used in large automated tape silos in a data center environment. These products are sold in over 100 countries outside the United States, and approximately 54% of the Company's total 2003 revenues came from outside the United States. Imation also has a specialty papers business, representing less than 5% of revenue, which manufactures and distributes carbonless paper for use in the creation of multi-part business forms.
IMNY I-Many, Inc. provides software and related services that allow its clients to effectively manage their contract-based, business-to-business relationships through the entirety of the contract management lifecycle. The Company operates in two segments: health and life sciences and other industries. The health and life sciences line of business markets and sells products and services to companies in the life sciences industries, including pharmaceutical and medical product companies, wholesale distributors and managed care organizations. The other industries line of business targets all other industries, with an emphasis on consumer products, foodservice, disposables, consumer durables, industrial products, chemicals, apparel and telecommunications. In April 2004, the Company acquired Pricing Analytics, Inc., a San Mateo, California based pricing optimization software company.
IGI Imagistics International, Inc. is a large direct sales, service and marketing organization offering document imaging solutions, including high-performance copier/multifunction products (MFPs) and facsimile machines to Fortune 1,000 companies and other organizations. The Company's direct sales and service network is located throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Imagistics International is headquartered in Trumbull, Connecticut.
IMTIF.OB Imagis Technologies Inc. develops and markets software that simplifies, accelerates and economizes the process of connecting existing, disparate databases, enhanced as appropriate with biometric facial recognition technology. The combination of these technologies enables information owners to share data securely with external stakeholders and software systems using any combination of text or imagery. Imagis offers a product suite that facilitates the rapid integration of dissimilar information systems, enabling comprehensive access to sources of critical data without compromising the originating data owner's security protocols or requiring modifications to legacy systems. The Briyante data integration technology consists of a development toolkit and server, such as the Briyante Design Studio and the Briyante Integration Server.
IMDS.OB Imaging Diagnostic Systems, Inc. (IDSI) is a development-stage medical technology company. Since inception, the Company has been engaged in the development and testing of a Computed Tomography (CT) Laser Breast Imaging System for detecting breast cancer in a non-invasive procedure (CTLM). The Company is in the process of commercializing the CTLM in certain international markets. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company installed a third CTLM system for Schering AG in Charite Hospital in Berlin, Germany, as part of its Phase I clinical studies of fluorescent imaging compounds, and announced shipment of a CTLM System to Dubai as a result of a purchase order from Axis Medical LLC from February 2004.
IW ImageWare Systems, Inc. utilizes its digital imaging technology to provide standalone, networked and Web-based software solutions for secure credentials, biometrics, law enforcement and professional photography. The Company's secure credential solutions enable the development of secure identifications (IDs) and credentials, driver's licenses, passports, national IDs, access control products and custom, biometric-based solutions for the aviation, transportation, government, education and private sectors. ImageWare's law enforcement/public safety solutions provide comprehensive digital mugshot, booking, facial recognition, data sharing, composite sketching and investigative technologies for federal, state and local government/law enforcement agencies. The Company's professional photography solutions provide standalone and Web-based technology to capture, enhance, manage and print digital images for professional photographers, photography studios and photo labs.
IAGX.OB Imagenetix, Inc. is a provider of scientifically tested, natural-based, bioceutical products developed to enhance human and animal health. The Company develops, formulates and private labels over-the-counter (OTC) topical creams, skin care products and nutritional supplements to be marketed globally through multiple channels of distribution. In addition, it develops compounds for the purpose of entering into licensing agreements with pharmaceutical partners. Historically, the Company has not marketed directly to consumers and has marketed to organizations, which, in turn, market the products to consumers through their own private labels. Imagenetix has developed a turnkey approach to assist these organizations with product distribution to consumers.
ISOL.OB 1mage Software, Inc. develops and markets computer-based document imaging systems that capture, store and display electronic files and paper documents as graphical images. The Company's flagship product is 1MAGE, an electronic image management system created to operate the same on Linux, Windows and Unix-based computer systems. The 1MAGE system captures entire documents from a variety of sources. Memos, letters, source documents, contracts, purchase orders, word processing files, e-mail, fax, industry and market studies, spreadsheets, databases, multimedia, maps and regulatory forms are examples of documents that are automatically converted into secure, permanent digital images that are indexed for instantaneous retrieval. Using an open, client/server architecture design, 1MAGE provides a comprehensive solution for scanning, indexing, storing and retrieving document images so that they may be viewed, printed, faxed, e-mailed or made available for eBusiness or eCommerce applications.
ISNS Image Sensing Systems, Inc. develops and markets video image processing products for use in traffic applications, such as intersection control, freeway and tunnel traffic management and traffic data collection. The Company uses a video image processing technology, also known as machine vision, which captures video images and analyzes the captured images through the use of algorithms and computer software resident on special-purpose hardware. Machine vision technology uses video cameras to emulate the function of the human eye, and is used in a variety of applications, such as industrial quality control, manufacturing automation, healthcare, robotic guidance and defense. The Company uses its own version of the machine vision technology, implemented on commercially available computer hardware and video cameras to create its core family of products, the Autoscope Wide Area Video Vehicle Detection Systems.
DISK Image Entertainment, Inc. is a home entertainment company engaged in the domestic acquisition and wholesale distribution of programming for release on digital versatile disc (DVD). The Company acquires and exploits exclusive distribution rights to an array of general and specialty programming, including music concerts, urban, youth culture/lifestyle, stand-up comedy, television and theatrical, foreign and silent films, in DVD, compact disc (CD) and other home entertainment formats. The Company has two business segments: Domestic, which primarily consists of acquisition, production and distribution of exclusive DVD programming, and International, which includes international sublicensing and worldwide broadcast rights exploitation. In September 2003, the Company sold all of the assets of its wholly owned subsidiary, DVDPlanet, Inc., which marked its departure from the direct-to-consumer retail distribution business.
IMXPF.OB IMA Exploration Inc. is a natural resource company engaged in the business of acquisition and exploration of mineral properties in South America, principally in Argentina and Peru. The Company's strategy and primary corporate objective is to acquire property for the purpose of mineral exploration and exploitation in known mining areas adjacent to, or in close proximity to, known major discoveries. The Company, therefore, expects these properties to command higher acquisition, maintenance and vendor participation fees, where these higher fees are deemed reasonable to attempt to reduce the overall risks associated with mineral exploration. In the event the Company discovers mineralization capable of economic production, it intends to seek a joint venture partner and/or to sell all or a portion of its interest in the subject property to finance the development of such property.
ILX ILX Resorts Incorporated is a developer, marketer and operator of timeshare resorts in the western United States. Its principal operations consist of acquiring, developing and operating timeshare resorts that are marketed as vacation ownership resorts, marketing and selling vacation ownership interests in the timeshare resorts, which typically have entitled the buyers thereof to ownership of a fully furnished unit for a one-week period on either an annual or an alternate-year basis (vacation ownership interests). It also provides purchase money financing to the buyers of vacation ownership interests at its resorts. The Company focuses on marketing vacation ownership interests in the Company's convenient access resorts (CARs) and also on affinity marketing of its Varsity Clubs.
ILOG ILOG S.A. is a worldwide provider of enterprise software and services. The Company develops, markets, sells and supports business rule management systems (BRMS), an optimization product, as well as optimization and visualization software components that help organizations optimize resources and automate their business policies, procedures and practices. BRMS products enable software architectures that empower business users to maintain business logic without involving software professionals by allowing portions of software code to be translated in the form of business rules, which can then be read and manipulated by business users. ILOG software provides functionality for an emerging software area business process management (BPM). The Company has business locations in seven countries. On July 2, 2004, ILOG bought the JLOOX product line from eNGENUITY Technologies Inc, which complements the ILOG JViews product line in the defense, transportation management and manufacturing markets.
ILMN Illumina, Inc. is a developer of next-generation tools for the large-scale analysis of genetic variation and function. The Company has developed a line of products that addresses the scale of experimentation and functional analysis required to help achieve the goals of molecular medicine. The Company's BeadArray technology uses microscopic beads randomly deposited in wells to achieve a level of miniaturization that allows for a new scale of experimentation. Oligator technology permits parallel synthesis of the millions of different pieces of DNA necessary to perform large-scale genetic analysis on arrays. The Company provides both products and services that utilize its proprietary technologies.
ITW Illinois Tool Works Inc. is a manufacturer of highly engineered products that include plastic and metal components and fasteners. The Company also designs and manufactures specialty systems, such as industrial packaging equipment, plastic and steel straps, welding equipment and metal consumables, and equipment and plastic consumables that multi-pack cans and bottles for the food and beverage industry. The Company is also involved in leasing and investments, which include mortgage-related activities, equipment leasing, property development, affordable housing, limited partnerships and a venture capital fund. The Company has approximately 600 operations in 44 countries.
ILC iLinc Communications, Inc. develops and sells software products that provide real-time collaboration and training using Web-based tools. The Company's four-product Suite, iLinc, which includes LearnLinc, MeetingLinc, ConferenceLinc and SupportLinc, is a virtual classroom, Web conferencing and collaboration suite of software that provides tools for remote presentations, meetings and online events. iLinc sells its software solutions to large and medium-sized corporations. The Company markets its products using a direct sales force and a distribution channel consisting of referral agents and international and national value-added resellers. Customers could choose between purchasing a perpetual license or subscribing to a periodic license of the products. iLinc also offers audio conferencing services and products, including audio on-demand, reserved automated, operator assisted and online seminars. In addition, the Company offers an array of e-Learning and training products and services.
IKNX IKONICS Corporation is engaged in the development, manufacturing and sales of light-sensitive liquid coatings and films, as well as ink jet receptive films for commercial and industrial applications in the United States and abroad. The Company also markets ancillary chemicals, equipment and other consumables to provide a full line of products and services to its customers. Its products serve the screen-printing and abrasive etching markets. These products are used by screen printers to create stencil images. These images produce basic designs for fabric decoration and product identification, as well as complex designs for compact discs and electronic circuits. The abrasive etching products are used by consumers to create architectural glass, art pieces and awards and in various industrial applications. IKONICS also sells a line of ink jet receptive films used for the creation of photopositives and photonegatives.
IKN IKON Office Solutions, Inc. (IKON) delivers integrated document management solutions and systems, enabling customers to improve document workflow and increase efficiency. As an independent channel for copier, printer and multifunction product (MFP) technologies, the Company delivers tailored, high-value solutions implemented and supported by its services organization, Enterprise Services. IKON also provides services, including professional services, a blend of onsite and offsite-managed services, customized workflow solutions and comprehensive support through its service force. The Company primarily distributes equipment made by Canon, Ricoh, Konica Minolta, EFI and Hewlett-Packard (HP). IKON integrates products and services to manage document workflow and increase functionality and efficiency for its customers. The Company's existing products and services portfolio includes digital copying and printing, enterprise services and lease financing.
IIVI II-VI, Incorporated develops, manufactures and markets high-technology materials and derivative products for precision use in industrial, medical, military, security and aerospace applications. The Company uses advanced material growth technologies coupled with high-precision fabrication, micro-assembly and thin-film coating production processes. The resulting optical and optoelectronic devices are supplied to manufacturers and users of a wide variety of laser, sensor and military components and systems. It focuses on providing critical components to its customers' assembly lines for products, such as high-power laser material processing systems, military fire control and missile guidance devices, and advanced medical and security scanning systems.
IHP IHOP Corp. develops, operates and franchises, with its subsidiaries, the International House of Pancakes restaurants. As of December 31, 2003, there were 1,165 IHOP restaurants. Franchisees operated 991 of these restaurants, area licensees operated 130 restaurants and IHOP operated 44 restaurants. Franchisees and area licensees are independent third parties who are licensed by IHOP to operate their restaurants using IHOP's trademarks, operating systems and methods. IHOP restaurants are located in 48 states and Canada. The restaurants offer pancakes, omelets and other breakfast specialties, as well as lunch, dinner and snack items. They are open throughout the day and evening hours, and many operate 24 hours a day. Franchisees and area licensees operate more than 95% of IHOP restaurants. IHOP's segments are recorded in four categories: Franchise Operations, Rental Operations, Company Restaurant Operations and Financing Operations.
IG IGI, Inc. is engaged in the production and marketing of cosmetics and skin care products. IGI's Consumer Products business is primarily focused on the continued commercialization of the Microencapsulation Technologies for skin care applications. These efforts have been directed toward the development of skin care products that the Company markets through collaborative arrangements with major cosmetic and consumer products companies. Because of their ability to encapsulate skin protective agents, oils, moisturizers, shampoos, conditioners, skin cleansers and fragrances and to provide both a controlled and a sustained release of the encapsulated materials, Novasome lipid vesicles are well suited to cosmetics and consumer product applications. The Company produces Novasome vesicles for various skin care products, including those marketed by Estee Lauder.
IGNE.OB IGENE Biotechnology, Inc. (Igene) is engaged in the business of developing, marketing and manufacturing specialty ingredients for human and animal nutrition. It is also a supplier of natural astaxanthin, an essential nutrient in different feed applications and as a source of pigment for coloring farmed salmon species, trout, prawns and certain types of fish and shellfish. Igene also supplies nutraceutical ingredients, including astaxanthin. It is focused on fermentation technology, nutrition and health in its marketing of products and applications worldwide.
IGTE iGATE Corporation through its operating subsidiaries, provides information technology (IT) and offshore outsourcing services primarily to large and medium-sized organizations. The Company's business is principally organized according to its service offerings: iGate Solutions, iGate Professional Services and iGate Corporate. These services include client/server design and development, conversion/migration services, offshore outsourcing, enterprise resource planning package implementation and integration services, software development and applications maintenance outsourcing. The Company also offers non-IT related services, including services as diverse as call centers, clinical trials management, mortgage and claims processing. iGATE Corporation primarily provides its IT services through its Offshore Delivery Centers, which can deliver both near shore and offshore services. The Company operates in various countries including the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, China and Australia.
IFLO I-Flow Corporation manufactures a line of compact, portable infusion pumps, catheters and pain kits that administer medication directly to the wound site, as well as administer local anesthetics, chemotherapies, antibiotics, diagnostic agents, nutritional supplements and other medications. I-Flow sells and distributes its products throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East. Through InfuSystem, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, I-Flow is also engaged in the rental of infusion pumps on a month-to-month basis for the treatment of cancer.
IEHC.OB IEH Corporation is engaged in the design, development, manufacture and distribution of electronic printed circuit connectors and interconnection devices. Electronic connectors and interconnection devices are used to provide connections between electronic component assemblies. IEH manufactures printed circuit board connectors that meet military or individual customer specifications. The Company serves both the commercial and military marketplace, manufacturing connectors for avionics, electronics, satellite, radar systems, test equipment, medical electronic and related industries. IEH is redesigning and adapting its connectors to keep pace with developments in the electronics industry, and has developed connectors for use with flex-circuits, which are used in aerospace programs, computers, air-borne communication systems, testing systems and other areas. It also provides engineering services to assist in the development and design of connectors to meet specific product requirements.
IECE.OB IEC Electronics Corp. is an independent electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider of complex printed circuit board (PCB) assemblies and electronic products and systems. The Company provides electronics manufacturing services with manufacturing capabilities and production capacity. Utilizing automated manufacturing and test machinery and equipment, IEC provides manufacturing services employing surface mount technology (SMT) and pin-through-hole (PTH) interconnection technologies. As an independent full-service EMS provider, the Company offers its customers a range of manufacturing and management services on either a turnkey or consignment basis. The services include product development, prototype assembly, material procurement, volume assembly, test engineering support, statistical quality assurance, order fulfillment and repair services.
IDXC IDX Systems Corporation is a provider of software, services and technologies for healthcare organizations. The Company provides information systems and services for physician group practices, hospitals and integrated delivery networks. IDX System's patient access, financial and business intelligence products for hospitals, integrated delivery networks and group practices are packaged as IDX Flowcast and IDX Groupcast. The clinical solutions are packaged as the IDX Carecast System. Its radiology and imaging products are marketed as IDX Imagecast. During the year ended December 31, 2003, IDX systems served approximately 138,000 physicians, and installed over 3,370 customer sites, including over 175 group practices, over 665 small- and mid-sized group practices with less than 200 physicians and over 380 integrated delivery networks serving more than 500 hospitals. In June 2003, IDX disposed of its wholly owned subsidiary, EDiX Corporation to Spheris, a medical transcription company.
IDTc IDT Corporation is a multinational telecommunications and entertainment company. Its primary telecommunications offerings are prepaid debit and rechargeable calling cards, wholesale carrier services and consumer local and long distance phone services. Its entertainment business is comprised of complementary operations and investments that enable the Company to acquire, develop, finance and produce animated entertainment programming and to distribute home entertainment content to the mass market. In addition, it operates various media-related businesses, including brochure distribution and radio operations. The Company conducts its business primarily through four operating divisions: IDT Telecom, IDT Entertainment, IDT Capital and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP).
IDXX IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. develops, manufactures and distributes products and provides services for the veterinary and the food and water testing markets. Its products and services include point-of-care veterinary diagnostic products; laboratory and consulting services used by veterinarians; veterinary pharmaceutical products; information products and services, including software, used in veterinary practice management; diagnostic and health-monitoring products and services for production animals; products that test water for certain microbiological contaminants, and products that test milk for antibiotic residues. Most of the Company's sales are derived from the sale of its veterinary diagnostic products and services.
IEX IDEX Corporation manufactures engineered industrial products. The Company consists of three business segments: the Pump Products Group, the Dispensing Equipment Group and Other Engineered Products Group. The Pump Products Group produces pumps, compressors, flow meters, injectors and valves and related controls for the movement of liquids and gases. The Dispensing Equipment Group produces engineered equipment for dispensing, metering and mixing colorants, paints, inks and dyes; refinishing equipment, and centralized lubrication systems. The Other Engineered Products Group produces firefighting pumps, rescue tools and other components and systems for the fire and rescue industry, and engineered stainless steel banding and clamping devices.
IDNX Identix Incorporated (Identix) provides fingerprint, facial and skin biometric technologies, as well as systems and critical system components that help the identification of individuals. The Company's offerings include live scan systems and services for biometric data capture, mobile systems for on-the-spot identification and backend standards-based modules and software components for biometric matching and data mining. Identix offerings are used for a number of security-related markets, such as to conduct background checks, speed travel and commerce via secure identification documents, prevent identity fraud in large-scale government and civil identification programs, and control access to secure areas and networks. Identix serves a broad range of domestic and international markets, including government, law enforcement, gaming, finance, travel, transportation, corporate enterprise and healthcare. In February 2004, it sold IPS to Alion Science and Technology Corporation.
IDIX Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Idenix) is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of drugs for the treatment of human viral and other infectious diseases. The Company focuses on the treatment of infections caused by hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The Company's drug candidates address substantial therapeutic limitations that exist with existing approved therapies. Such limitations include inadequate antiviral potency, the emergence of viral strains resistant to drug therapies and patient non-compliance resulting from drug-related adverse side effects and inconvenient dosing regimens. In May 2003, the Company was acquired by Novartis Pharma AG, an affiliate of Novartis AG.
IDA IDACORP, Inc. based in Boise, Idaho, is a utilities holding company. The Company is comprised of Idaho Power Company, a regulated electric utility; IDACORP Financial, an investment company with its primary activities in affordable housing projects; IdaTech, a developer and manufacturer of fuel cell systems, products and solutions; IDACOMM, a provider of telecommunication services; Velocitus, a provider of commercial and residential Internet services; Ida-West Energy, an operator of independent power projects, and IDACORP Energy, a marketer of electricity and natural gas that wound down its operations during 2003.
IDSY I.D. Systems, Inc. is a provider of advanced wireless solutions for tracking, managing and securing enterprise assets. Its radio frequency technology and proprietary software, Wireless Asset Net System, enables real-time, automated, cost-effective monitoring, control and analysis of a range of objects. The Company's solutions can benefit users by reducing operating costs, increasing security and revenues, improving safety, enhancing service and increasing profits. I.D. Systems is focused on companies that need to monitor, control and manage industrial vehicles and rental fleet vehicles.
IDBE ID Biomedical Corporation (IDB) is a biotechnology company focused on the development of subunit vaccines, including those based on its Proteosome protein intranasal adjuvant/delivery technology. The technology potentially serves as both a vaccine adjuvant (stimulant of immune responses) and mucosal delivery system that may enhance a vaccine's effectiveness and/or ease of use. The Company is developing subunit vaccines for the prevention of a number of different diseases. IDB's product candidates in clinical development are StreptAvax vaccine against group A streptococcus and FluINsure vaccine against influenza. In September 2004, the Company acquired the vaccines business of Shire Pharmaceuticals Group plc.
ICUI ICU Medical, Inc. is a developer and manufacturer of proprietary, disposable medical connection systems for use in intravenous (I.V.) therapy applications. The Company's devices are designed to protect healthcare workers and their patients from exposure to infectious diseases such as Hepatitis B and C and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) through accidental needlesticks. ICU Medical is also a provider of custom I.V. systems and low cost generic I.V. systems, and it incorporates its proprietary products on many of those custom I.V. systems. ICU Medical also manufactures and sells the Punctur-Guard line of blood collection needles. The Company sells substantially all of its products to I.V. product manufacturers and independent distributors. ICU Medical's largest customer is Abbott Laboratories, which accounted for 67% of its revenues in 2003.
ICTS ICTS International N.V. specializes in aviation security consulting and services and develops technological solutions to meet enhanced security needs. Products include advanced passenger processing systems that include biometric components, enhanced travel document verification and authentication, smart cards and matching against numerous databases. ICTS is also a provider of aviation security training courses. ICTS is also engaged in certain other activities, including constructing and developing entertainment-related projects. Its consolidated subsidiaries include Demco Consultants, Ltd., an Israeli affiliate; Procheck International B.V.; Ramasso Holdings B.V., and Huntleigh USA Corp.
ICTG ICT Group, Inc. provides sales, service, marketing and business services outsourcing solutions. Its mix of outsourced solutions includes customer care and retention, inbound and outbound sales and customer acquisition, cross-selling/up-selling and technical support/help desk services, as well as market research, database marketing and analysis. ICT delivers its customer management solutions through two business segments that are supported by its sales, marketing, IT (information technology) and corporate support units. The Domestic segment provides inbound and outbound telesales, marketing research services, database marketing services, technology hosting services and ongoing customer care management services on behalf of customers operating in the Company's target industries. The International segment provides the same services to Europe, Canada, Mexico, Barbados, the Philippines and Australia, and includes operations supporting the United States, Hispanic and Latin American markets.
IVIS ICOS Vision Systems Corporation NV is a worldwide developer and supplier of inspection equipment primarily for use by original equipment manufacturers (OEM) for integration at various stages of the semiconductor packaging process and in electronic assembly. The Company's products include a family of inspection products for the back-end semiconductor manufacturing and electronic assembly industries. ICOS offers board-level and system-level inspection systems for integration into semiconductor OEM manufacturing equipment and electronic assembly equipment, as well as stand-alone inspection machines mainly for the final inspection of semiconductor packages. The system-level products combine this inspection engine with such items as cameras, optics, illumination, a personal computer and interfacing software. The inspection machines combine the system-level products with mechanical handling, sorting and, in some cases, taping of the semiconductor devices.
ICOS ICOS Corporation is a biotechnology company bringing therapeutic products to patients. The Company is marketing its first product, Cialis (tadalafil), for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, through Lilly ICOS LLC. (Lilly ICOS), its joint venture with Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly). Cialis is an oral inhibitor of the phosphodiesterase type 5 enzyme (PDE5) and is being manufactured and marketed by Lilly ICOS, which has rights to commercialize Cialis in North America and Europe. Research and Development activities include studying and developing product candidates targeting a variety of serious diseases and medical conditions.
ICOR Icoria, Inc., formerly Paradigm Genetics, Inc., is a biotechnology company using its Gene to Cell To System approach to discover biomarkers to reduce the cost, risk and time of product development, as well as to discover inaccessible targets for small-molecule discovery. Icoria combines three major technology platforms, gene expression profiling (transcriptomics), biochemical profiling (metabolomics) and phenotypic analysis (phenomics) with the informatics and analytical infrastructure needed to integrate and understand these data in a coherent way. The Company uses these platforms to capture the responses of organisms to stress, such as disease, at the gene, cell and system levels leading to the discovery of biomarkers and targets. Paradigm's business model has been primarily based on collaborative partnerships.
ICLR ICON plc is a contract research organization (CRO) providing clinical research and development services on a global basis to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. The Company's focus is on supporting the conduct of clinical trials. It has historically done so by providing services such as Phase I through IV clinical trials management, study design, laboratory services and drug development support. During the fiscal year ended May 31, 2004, ICON commenced operations in Budapest, Hungary, Barcelona, Spain, Hong Kong and China. On July 3, 2003, the Company entered into a creditline facility jointly with Bank of Ireland plc and Ulster Bank Ireland Ltd., and replaced existing Allied Irish Banks plc and PNC facilities. On September 9, 2003, it completed the acquisition of Globomax LLC, a United States drug development company that provides a range of development and consulting services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries.
ICOC ICO, Inc. manufactures specialty resins and concentrates and provides specialized polymers processing services. The specialty resins manufactured by the Company are typically produced into a powder form. Concentrates produced by ICO generally are mixed by customers with polymer resins to give finished products desired characteristics, such as protection from ultraviolet light. The Company also provides toll processing services, including ambient grinding, jet milling, compounding and ancillary services for polymer resins produced in pellet form, as well as other material. These products and services are provided through 17 operating facilities located in 9 countries in the United States, Europe, Australasia and South America. The Company's customers include major chemical companies, polymer production affiliates of major oil exploration and production companies and manufacturers of plastic products.
IBN ICICI Bank Limited is a diversified financial services group offering a range of products and services to corporate and retail customers in India through a number of business operations, subsidiaries and affiliates. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004, the Company offered products and services in the area of commercial banking, both domestic and international, investment banking and other products, such as insurance. The Company operates both in India and internationally, with a subsidiary in the United Kingdom and Canada, branch locations in Singapore and Bahrain, and a representative office in the United States, China, the United Arab Emirates and Bangladesh. The Company has also received regulatory approval to set up a representative office in South Africa and proposes to establish a subsidiary in Russia. Customers are offered a choice of delivery channels, including physical branches, automated teller machines (ATMs), telephone banking call centers and Internet banking.
ICEW.OB IceWEB, Inc. enables government and organizations to independently manage, create, publish and deliver content easily and affordably using the Company's software and service products. Its suite of software products are scalable and can be implemented on any Website. IceWEB also provides consulting services and product support services on a project-by-project basis. The Company's software products and consulting services enable organizations to reduce time and effort by converging knowledge-based information with easy-to-manage Websites and e-learning portals. Its products and services are centered on knowledge-based support.
ICAD iCAD, Inc. develops, engineers, manufactures and markets computer-aided detection (CAD) products for the early detection of breast cancer, and other healthcare-related applications. Early detection of breast cancer can save lives and often permits less costly, less invasive and less disfiguring cancer treatment options than when the cancer is detected at a later stage. CAD from iCAD can detect up to 25% of breast cancers, an average of 14 months earlier than screening mammography alone. In July 2002, the Company, then Howtek, Inc., merged with Intelligent Systems Software, Inc., a privately held company, and changed its name to iCAD, Inc. On December 31, 2003, the Company merged with and acquired Qualia Computing, Inc., a privately held company based in Beavercreek Ohio, and its subsidiaries, including CADx Systems, Inc.
ICAB i-Cable Communications Limited is a pay-television (TV) programming operator and service provider in Hong Kong, as well as a residential broadband Internet access service provider. The Company offers the pay-TV services, including basic package, pay-per-view and premium services. Its Internet and multimedia services include broadband Internet access and dial-up Internet access. At December 31, 2003, the Company had 656,000 pay-TV subscribers; 258,000 broadband subscribers, and i-Cable's in-building coaxial network passed over 2.01 million homes. Approximately 1.9 million homes were connected to its fibre optic cable network, and a majority of the households were broadband-ready (these households were able to subscribe to its broadband service).
ISAC.OB I.C. Isaacs &amp; Company, Inc. is a designer and marketer of branded jeanswear and sportswear. The Company offers collections of men's and women's jeanswear and sportswear under the Marithe and Francois Girbaud designer brands (Girbaud brand) in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada. The Girbaud brand is a designer label with a distinct European influence. The Company has positioned its Girbaud branded line with an assortment of products, styles and fabrications reflecting a contemporary European look. I.C. Isaacs markets a collection of men's jeanswear and sportswear under the Girbaud brand, including an array of bottoms, tops and outerwear. In August 1998, the Company introduced a women's sportswear collection under the Girbaud brand, which also includes an assortment of bottoms, tops and outerwear. During the year ended December 31, 2003, sales of Girbaud branded products accounted for all of the Company's net sales.
IRW IBT Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company that provides a range of commercial and retail banking services through its wholly owned banking subsidiary, Irwin Bank &amp; Trust Co. (the Bank). The Bank engages in a full-service mortgage, commercial and consumer banking business, as well as trust and a variety of deposit services provided to its customers. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Irwin Bank &amp; Trust Co. operated through its main office, six branch offices, a loan center and a trust office, as well as through five supermarket branches under the name Irwin Bank Extra. The Bank's main office, full service branch offices, loan center, trust office and supermarket branches are located in the Pennsylvania counties of Westmoreland and Allegheny.
IBZT.OB iBIZ Technology Corp., through its wholly owned operating subsidiary iBIZ Inc., designs, manufactures and distributes personal digital assistant (PDA) accessories and other handheld computing devices. In March 2000, the Company introduced the Keysync Keyboard and a line of products specific to the PDA market. Through October 31, 2002, it expanded its product mix to more than 80 different individual PDA products manufactured to its specifications by various overseas manufacturers. The Company also provides third-party hardware, software and related supplies in an effort to provide its customers a wider range of products.
IBIS Ibis Technology Corporation develops, manufactures and markets SIMOX-SOI implantation equipment and wafers for the worldwide semiconductor industry. SIMOX, which stands for Separation by IMplantation of Oxygen, is a form of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology that creates an insulating barrier below the top surface of a silicon wafer. The Company's proprietary oxygen implanters produce SIMOX-SOI wafers by implanting oxygen atoms just below the surface of a silicon wafer to create a very thin layer of silicon dioxide between the thin operating region of the transistor at the surface and the underlying silicon wafer itself. The buried layer of silicon dioxide acts as an insulator for the devices fabricated on the surface of the silicon wafer and reduces the electrical current leakage, which otherwise slows integrated circuit performance and increases the loss of power during circuit operation. In July 2004, the Company decided to discontinue its wafer manufacturing business.
IBKC IBERIABANK Corporation is the bank holding company for IBERIABANK (the Bank), a wholly owned subsidiary. The principal business of the Company is conducted through the Bank, which is a Louisiana-chartered state commercial bank. The Bank operated 39 offices in its market areas located in south-central Louisiana, north Louisiana and the greater New Orleans area. Primary deposit products are checking, savings and certificate of deposit accounts and primary lending products are consumer, commercial and mortgage loans. The Bank also offers discount brokerage services through a wholly owned subsidiary and insurance service to its clients through a joint venture between the Bank and a Louisiana-based insurance agency. On February 29, 2004, the Company acquired Alliance Bank of Baton Rouge (Alliance). Alliance operates one branch office. The acquisition expands the Company's presence into Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
IBAS.OB iBasis, Inc. is an international telecommunications carrier that utilizes the Internet to provide economical international telecommunications services. Its continuing operations consist of its voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) business. The Company offers wholesale services through its worldwide network to carriers, telephony resellers and others worldwide by operating through various service agreements with local service providers in the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Australia. During 2003, iBasis introduced its retail prepaid calling card services in the United States, and has marketed such services primarily to ethnic communities within major domestic markets through distributors.
IASCA.OB IAS Communications, Inc. (IAS) was engaged in the commercialization of an antenna technology known as the Contrawound Toroidal Helical Antenna (CTHA) for wireless communications markets, including cellular, meter reading and global positioning services. The CTHA was developed in conjunction with researchers at West Virginia University, which can be incorporated into a variety of telecommunications applications. The Company has been granted worldwide sublicensing rights for commercial applications, excluding military and governmental applications pursuant to an agreement with Integral Concepts Inc. and West Virginia University Research Corporation. The commercialization of the CTHA technology is on hold due to unsuccessful attempts to complete a license agreement with potential customers. IAS is no longer engaged in the commercialization of the CTHA and does not have any plan of operations, however it plans to seek other projects, which are yet to be determined.
IAG IAMGOLD Corporationis engaged primarily in the exploration for and the development and production of mineral resource properties. The Company is also engaged in the creation and acquisition of royalty interests on mineral resource properties. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company held interests in four operating gold mines in West Africa, primarily through its interests in La Societe d'Exploitation des Mines d'Or de Sadiola S.A. (SEMOS), Sadiola Exploration Limited (SADEX), Gold Fields Ghana Limited (GFGL), and Abosso Goldfields Limited (Abosso). These include the Sadiola and Yatela gold mines in Mali, and the Yatela and Tarkwa gold mines in Ghana. IAMGold also holds a one percent royalty on the Diavik diamond property located in the Northwest Territories in Canada, and a 0.72% net smelter return royalty on the Williams mine in Ontario.
IACI InterActiveCorp (IAC) is a multi-brand interactive commerce company. IAC consists of the following segments: IAC Travel, which includes Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, Interval International, and TV Travel Shop; HSN, a home shopping service; Ticketmaster, which oversees ReserveAmerica; Match.com; LendingTree; Precision Response Corporation; IAC Local and Media Services, which includes Citysearch, Evite, Entertainment Publications, Inc. and TripAdvisor, Inc., and IAC Interactive Development, which includes ZeroDegrees.
IAO IA Global, Inc. is a public holding company focused on acquiring Japanese and United States companies that operate in the entertainment, media and technology areas. The Company holds a 60.5% equity interest in Rex Tokyo Ltd., a supplier and maintenance contractor of parts to the Pachinko and slot machine gaming industry in Japan. Through its 67% equity interest in Fan Club Entertainment Ltd., the Company is a creative design studio focused on Web and traditional print media, including providing services to the official Fan Club in Japan for Marvel Entertainment Inc. and Marvel Characters Inc. It holds a 95% equity interest in QuikCAT, a multimedia compression technology company that has developed several video, picture and audio compression algorithms (codecs).
ITUI.OB i2 Telecom International, Inc. operates as a wireless, passenger communication and advertising company. The Company was formerly known as Digital Data Networks, Inc. The Company is engaged in selling digital advertising space through the operation of a digital information network, utilizing digital radio transmission technology to display news, information and advertising to riders on-board public transit vehicles. On February 26, 2004, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company merged with i2 Telecom International, Inc. and sold its operating assets of The Transit Network to InTransit Media, Inc. After the merger and asset sale, the Company's operations consist of operations of i2 Delaware, a low-cost telecommunications service provider employing next-generation, voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) technology. On March 5, 2004, in connection with these transactions, the Company also changed its name from Digital Data Networks, Inc. to i2 Telecom International, Inc.
HTM Hythiam Inc. is a healthcare services management company formed for the purpose of researching, developing, licensing and commercializing technologies designed to improve the treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction. Its HANDS Treatment Protocol is designed for use by healthcare providers to treat addictions to alcohol, cocaine and other addictive stimulants, as well as combinations of these drugs. HANDS is a medically supervised treatment protocol for neurostabilization and detoxification from alcohol and/or addictive psychostimulants designed to simultaneously eliminate cravings, enhance cognitive function and facilitate a pain-free withdrawal, resulting in accelerated recovery.
HTEK.OB Hytek Microsystems, Inc. is engaged in advanced micro-electronic packaging. It designs, manufactures, markets and sells custom and standard micro-electronic circuits (hybrids or microcircuits). The Company's core micro-electronic circuit technology uses thick film and consists of conductive and non-conductive inks that are printed onto a substrate, which is then interconnected with various subminiature electronic components to form a micro-electronic circuit. Hytek also uses other technologies, such as low temperature co-fired ceramic substrates to produce hybrid circuits, as well as FR4 substrate materials in certain applications. In addition to custom micro-electronic circuits, it also manufactures standard products, such as delay lines, thermo-electric cooler controllers and laser diode driver.
HDII.OB Hypertension Diagnostics, Inc. is engaged in the design, development, manufacture and marketing of devices that non-invasively measure both large and small arterial elasticity. The products offered include CVProfilor DO-2020 CardioVascular Profiling System, HDI/PulseWaveCR-2000 Research CardioVascular Profiling System and CVProfilor MD-3000 CardioVascular Profiling System. The products painlessly and non-invasively collect 30 seconds of blood pressure waveform data from the patient. The products have four primary components a custom designed, non-invasive Arterial PulseWave Sensor which is positioned over the radial artery at the wrist by means of a special apparatus, an upper-arm blood pressure cuff connected via a hose to an oscillometric blood pressure module within the device, a device enclosure which contains a computer, a high resolution touch-screen display and other electronics and software programs and an external printer.
HYSL Hyperion Solutions Corporation is a provider of business performance management (BPM), software that enables companies to translate strategies into plans, monitor execution and provide insight to manage and improve financial and operational performance. Hyperion provides customers with solutions that include analysis and reporting tools, a business intelligence (BI) platform, packaged and tailored applications, and related services. Its solutions support the enterprise-wide processes for proactively managing any business toward optimal performance against goals and for anticipating and forecasting results.
HYPR.OB HyperFeed Technologies, Inc. is a provider of ticker plant technologies and managed services to exchanges, financial institutions, content providers, channel partners and value-added resellers. HyperFeed's software technology serves as a corporate-wide ticker plant, providing firms in the financial services industry with the flexibility and agility to control their own data sources and data content in a cost-effective manner. HyperFeed's Managed Exchange Platform Services (MEPS) and H!Box product are designed specifically to support real-time market data, data management, data reporting and value-added services for use in delivering and receiving financial content with a competitive edge. MEPS and H!Box have flexible licensing models that can fulfill the needs of financial institutions, exchanges, buy and sell side analysts, content providers, redistributors, channel partners and value-added resellers.
HYPD.OB Hyperdynamics Corporation is an oil and gas exploration company. Prior to this, Hyperdynamics provided integrated information technology (IT) product and services targeted specifically to the oil and gas industry, such as seismic data management services, customized geological workstations and data transcription services through SCS Corporation (SCS), the only operating subsidiary of the Company. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company completed its shift to a new corporate mission. In April 2004, the Company initiated a new company, HYD Resources Corporation (HYD). On August 27, 2004, Hyperdynamics entered into a contract with Texas Geophysical Company (TGC) relating to their data from Northern Alaska covering an offshore area of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.
HYC Hypercom Corporation manufactures, designs and sells end-to-end electronic payment solutions that include point-of-sale (POS)/point-of-transaction terminals, peripheral devices, transaction networking devices, transaction management systems and application software and provides related support and services. The Company's customers include financial institutions, electronic payment processors, independent sales organizations, distributors, resellers and merchants. It also provides electronic transaction solutions to vertical markets, such as government, education and healthcare that require reliable, secure, high-speed and high-volume information/data transfers. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Hypercom introduced products that include Optimum, S9, ICE 6000Plus, Enhanced Plus family and HFT 500 family of outdoor card payment terminals and technology for the quick service restaurant (QSR) market.
HTEC.OB Hydron Technologies, Inc. markets a range of consumer products and select products for healthcare professionals based on Hydron polymer technology, a topical delivery system for active ingredients including pharmaceuticals. Its super-oxygenation technology delivers pure oxygen through the skin to tissue depths considered therapeutic for wound healing and the maintenance of tissue viability. Hydron's technology utilizes micro-bubbles of pure oxygen, averaging one micron in diameter, to deliver oxygen deep into tissue. Hydron's process utilizes a technology that infuses liquid with oxygen at 20 plus times normal levels to create a super-oxygenated liquid filled with micro-bubbles of highly pressurized oxygen. Sales in Australia, Spain and Canada represented 1.2% and 1.7% of total sales for the years ended December 31, 2003 and 2002, respectively.
HYDI.OB Hydromer, Inc. is a polymer research and development company that develops polymer complexes for commercial markets in the medical and industrial fields, primarily in the United States. The Company owns several process and applications patents for Hydromer coatings, permanent anti-fog materials, hydrophilic polyurethane foams, hydrophilic polyurethane blends, hydrophilic polyvinylbutyral alloys, several biocompatible hydrogels and an anti-bacterial medical material. The Company also owns various trademarks, including AQUADAPT, a medical hydrogel; AQUATRIX, a cosmetic hydrogel; Sea-Slide, a coating for watercraft hulls; Dermaseal, a dermal barrier film product for the prevention of contact dermatitis; AQUAMERE, a water-resistant film former product with cosmetic applications, and T-HEXX, a barrier teat dip product for the prevention of mastitis in dairy animals.
HYGS Hydrogenics Corporation is a developer and manufacturer of fuel cell and related new energy technologies that produce clean electricity. The Company's principal business is the development and commercialization of proton exchange membrane (PEM), fuel cell test and diagnostic stations, PEM fuel cell stacks and PEM fuel cell power generation systems for portable, stationary and mobile applications. Hydrogenics is also beginning to develop and manufacture hydrogen generation products to complement its fuel cell product development initiatives, which include PEM electrolyzer stacks, PEM electrolyzer refueling systems and the balance of plant components for reformer-based hydrogen generation systems. The Company's business is divided into two segments: fuel cell test and diagnostic equipment and fuel cell power products.
HYDL Hydril Company is engaged worldwide in engineering, manufacturing and marketing premium connection and pressure control products used for oil and gas drilling and production. The Company's premium connections are used in drilling environments where extreme pressure, temperature, corrosion and mechanical stress are encountered, as well as in environmentally sensitive drilling. These harsh drilling conditions are typical for deep-formation, deepwater and horizontal or highly deviated wells. Hydril's pressure control products are primarily safety devices that control and contain fluid and gas pressure during drilling, completion and maintenance of oil and gas wells in the same environments. The Company also provides aftermarket replacement parts, repair and field services for the installed base of pressure control equipment.
HBY Hybridon, Inc. is engaged in the discovery and development of novel therapeutics and diagnostics using synthetic deoxyribonucleic (DNA). The Company's activities are primarily based on two technology platforms: immunomodulatory oligonucleotide (IMO) technology, which modulates responses of the immune system using synthetic DNA containing specific sequences that mimic bacterial DNA and antisense technology, which uses synthetic DNA to block the production of disease causing proteins at the cellular level. In the near term, the Company is focusing its internal drug development efforts on developing the two lead drug candidates in its pipeline, HYB2055 and GEM231. HYB2055 is the lead clinical drug candidate in the Company's IMO program. Hybridon is developing HYB2055 for oncology applications under the name IMOxine. GEM231 is a second-generation antisense compound for treating solid tumor cancers.
HBP Huttig Building Products, Inc. (HBP) is a United States distributor of millwork, building materials and wood products used principally in new residential construction and in home improvement, remodeling and repair work. HBP's line of millwork products includes exterior and interior doors, pre-hung door units, windows, patio doors, moldings, frames, stair parts and columns. General building products offered by HBP include roofing, siding, insulation, flashing, housewrap, connectors and fasteners, decking, drywall, kitchen and other miscellaneous building products. Wood products distributed by the Company include lumber, panels and engineered wood products. HBP distributes its products through 54 distribution centers serving 47 states. These wholesale distribution centers sell principally to building materials dealers, national buying groups and home centers, which, in turn, supply the end user. HBP'sBuilder Resource locations sell directly to professional builders and contractors.
HTX Hutchison Telecom International Limited is an international provider of mobile and fixed-line telecommunications services with operations in eight countries and territories. It operates mobile telecommunications networks in Hong Kong, India, Israel, Sri Lanka, Paraguay, Ghana and Macau. It also owns interests in companies that provide marketing and network services for a mobile telecommunications network in Thailand. In Hong Kong, the Company operates various digital mobile networks including a third-generation (3G) network. It also provides fixed-line telecommunications services to corporate and retail customers in Hong Kong. The Company offers a range of mobile and fixed-line telecommunications services, including voice services, broadband data services, multimedia services, enhanced calling features, mobile and fixed-line Internet services, bandwidth services, international direct dialing services, roaming services, data center services and mobile and fixed-line Intranet services.
HTCH Hutchinson Technology Incorporated (HTI) is a supplier of suspension assemblies for hard disk drives (disk drives), supplying products for all sizes and types of disk drives. Suspension assemblies are critical components of disk drives that hold the recording heads in position above the spinning magnetic disks. The Company manufactures its suspension assemblies with its own technology and processes to precise specifications with very low part-to-part variation. These specifications are critical to maintaining the necessary microscopic clearance between the head and disk and the electrical connectivity between the head and the drive circuitry. During the fiscal year ended September 26, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company shipped 538 million suspension assemblies of all types. HTI categorizes its products as either suspension assemblies or other products, which consist primarily of etched and stamped components used in connection with, or related to, suspension assemblies.
HURN Huron Consulting Group Inc. (Huron) is an independent provider of financial and operational consulting services. The Company provides services through two segments: Financial Consulting and Operational Consulting. Huron's Financial Consulting segment provides services that help clients effectively address complex challenges that arise from litigation, disputes, investigations, regulation, financial distress and other sources of significant conflict or change. The Company's Operational Consulting segment provides services that help clients improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of their operations, reduce costs, manage regulatory compliance and maximize procurement efficiency. For the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company derived 68.9% of its revenues from Financial Consulting and 31.1% from Operational Consulting.
HURC Hurco Companies, Inc. is an industrial technology company that designs and produces interactive, personal computer-based, computer control systems and software and computerized machine tools for sale to the metalworking industry. The Company's proprietary computer control systems and software products are sold primarily as integral components of its computerized machine tool products. Computerized metal cutting machine tools are manufactured to Hurco's specifications by manufacturing contractors in Taiwan including its wholly owned subsidiary, Hurco Manufacturing Limited. In addition, the Company produces and distributes software options, control upgrades, accessories and replacement parts for its products. It also provides operator training and support services to its customers.
HBAN Huntington Bancshares Incorporated provides commercial and consumer banking services, mortgage banking services, automobile financing, equipment leasing, investment management, trust services and discount brokerage services, as well as underwriting credit life and disability insurance. It also sells other insurance and financial products and services through its subsidiaries. The Huntington National Bank is Huntington's only bank subsidiary. As of December 31, 2003, Huntington Bank had 162 banking offices in Ohio, 114 banking offices in Michigan, 25 banking offices in West Virginia, 22 banking offices in Indiana, 12 banking offices in Kentucky, three private banking offices in Florida, one foreign office in the Cayman Islands and one foreign office in Hong Kong. Selected financial services, including those of Huntington Mortgage Group, a division of Huntington Bank, are also conducted in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
HTC Hungarian Telephone and Cable Corp. (HTCC), together with its consolidated subsidiary, provides basic telephone services in three defined regions within the Republic of Hungary, pursuant to five separate 25-year telecommunications concessions granted by the Hungarian government. The three regions are Bekes, Nograd and Papa/Sarvar (the Operating Areas). HTCC provides its services through its Hungarian operating subsidiary, Hungarotel Tavkozlesi Rt., in which HTCC has a 99.9% equity ownership stake. Hungarotel owns and operates virtually all existing public telephone exchanges and local loop telecommunications network facilities in its Operating Areas. The Company provides non-cellular local voice telephone services in its Operating Areas. In addition to local, domestic long distance and international voice services, the Company offers its subscribers data transmission and other value-added services. It is also an Internet Service Provider under the brand name Globonet.
HUMP Humphrey Hospitality Trust, Inc. (HHTI) is a self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT). HHTI, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Humphrey Hospitality REIT Trust and E&amp;P REIT Trust, owns a controlling interest in Humphrey Hospitality Limited Partnership (HHLP) and E&amp;P Financing Limited Partnership (collectively the Partnerships). HHLP owns a 99% general partnership interest and the Company owns a 1% limited partnership interest in Solomons Beacon Inn Limited Partnership (the Subsidiary Partnership). At December 31, 2003, HHTI, through the Partnerships and the Subsidiary Partnership, owned 74 limited service hotels in 16 states and one office building. The Hotels are leased to the Company's taxable REIT subsidiary, TRS Leasing, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, TRS Subsidiary, LLC, are managed by Humphrey Hospitality Management, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Supertel Hospitality Management, Inc.
HUMC Hummingbird Ltd. is a global provider of enterprise software solutions. Its enterprise content management solutions fall into two principal product families, Hummingbird Enterprise and Hummingbird Connectivity. The Company's flagship offering, Hummingbird Enterprise, is an integrated suite of software applications that allows users to extract both structured and unstructured data from disparate corporate locations to capture, create, access, share, find, analyze, protect and publish data, and efficiently manage all consent from a single point of access and administration. Hummingbird Connectivity is the Company's host access product suite that includes software applications for accessing mission-critical back-office applications and related data from the majority of systems, including mainframe, AS/400, Linux and UNIX platform environments. The Company's products are sold and supported in over 50 countries worldwide.
HUMT.OB HumaTech, Inc. is engaged in the business of the development, manufacture and sale of carbon-based animal feed supplements and fertilizer products. The Company acquired International Humate Fertilizer Co. It manufactures and distributes organic based fertilizer products to two primary groups: commercial growers of agricultural crops, and mass merchandisers and independent nurseries in the retail lawn and garden market. The Company manufactures and distributes organic based animal feed supplements to the animal feeding industry and manufactures a limited line of bio-remediation products that assist in the removal of contaminants from the soil.
HUM Humana Inc. offers coordinated health insurance coverage and related services through a variety of traditional and Internet-based plans for employer groups, government-sponsored programs and individuals. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had approximately 6.8 million members in its medical insurance programs, as well as approximately 1.7 million members in its specialty products programs. The Company has approximately 463,300 contracts with physicians, hospitals, dentists and other providers. In 2003, approximately 70% of its premiums and administrative services fees resulted from members in Florida, Illinois, Texas, Kentucky and Ohio. The Company has two business segments, commercial and government. The commercial segment consists of members enrolled in products marketed to employer groups and individuals. The government segment consists of members enrolled in government-sponsored programs and includes three lines of business: Medicare + Choice, Medicaid and TRICARE.
EROX.OB Human Pheromone Sciences, Inc. (HPS) is engaged in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of consumer products containing synthetic human pheromones as a component. Scientists and advisors engaged by the Company have studied the functions and characteristics of human pheromones. Pheromones are chemical substances known to stimulate species-specific biological responses in animals. The human pheromones included as a component of, and as a fixative for, the Company's fragrance products have been manufactured by Pherin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Pherin). The manufacturing process for human pheromones begins with hydrocarbon compounds commonly available from chemical supply houses and involves the use of a synthetic chemistry process originally performed for the Company by Pherin at its laboratories in Salt Lake City, Utah.
HGSI Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (HGSI) is a mid-stage development biopharmaceutical company with a significant product pipeline derived from proprietary genomic technology. The Company focuses its internal product development efforts on novel human protein and antibody drugs discovered through genomics-based research, and on new long-acting versions of existing protein drugs created using its albumin fusion technology. HGSI uses collaborations for the development of additional protein and antibody drugs, gene therapy products, small molecule drugs and diagnostic products discovered using its genomics-based technology. The Human Genome Sciences clinical development pipeline includes drugs to treat such diseases as cancer, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and hepatitis C. The Company's partners are conducting clinical trials of additional drugs to treat cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis.
HGT Hugoton Royalty Trust (the Trust), incorporated in 1998, is an express trust created pursuant to the Hugoton Royalty Trust Indenture entered into on December 1, 1998 between XTO Energy Inc., as grantor, and NationsBank, N.A., as trustee. Bank of America, N.A., successor to NationsBank, N.A., is the trustee of the Trust. Approximately 93% of the net profits income received by the Trust during 2003, as well as 96% of the estimated proved reserves of the net profits interests at December 31, 2003 (based on estimated future net cash flows using year-end oil and gas prices), is attributable to natural gas. The Trust has properties in the Hugoton Area, The Andarko Basin and the Green River Basin.
HUG Hughes Supply, Inc., founded in 1928, is a diversified wholesale distributor of construction, repair and maintenance related products. The Company distributes over 350,000 products to more than 100,000 customers through its 486 branches located in 38 states. Hughes Supply's customers include electrical, plumbing and mechanical contractors, public utilities, property management companies, municipalities and industrial companies. Hughes Supply is organized on a product line basis into six segments that are Water and Sewer; Plumbing/Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC); Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO); Utilities; Electrical, and Industrial Pipe, Valves and Fittings (PVF). The Company includes in an all other category its Building Materials, Fire Protection and Mechanical Industrial product lines. In November 2004, Hughes acquired Southwest Power, Inc. and Western States Electric, Inc. from a common private ownership group.
HU Hudson United Bancorp is a bank holding company organized by Hudson United Bank for the purpose of creating a bank holding company to take advantage of the additional powers provided to bank holding companies. The Company directly owns Hudson United plus six additional subsidiaries, HUBCO Capital Trust I, HUBCO Capital Trust II, JBI Capital Trust I, Hudson United Capital Trust I, Hudson United Capital Trust II and Jefferson Delaware, Inc. In March 1999, the former Lafayette American Bank and Bank of the Hudson were merged into Hudson United. Hudson United is a full-service commercial bank and offers the services generally provided by commercial banks of similar size and character, including imaged checking, savings and time deposit accounts; 24-hour telephone banking; Internet banking; trust services; cash management services, and others. In October 2003, the Company acquired Flatiron Credit Company, Inc., an insurance premium finance company.
HDSN Hudson Technologies, Inc. (Hudson) is a refrigerant services company, providing solutions to recurring problems within the refrigeration industry. The Company's products and services are primarily used in commercial air conditioning, industrial processing and refrigeration systems, including refrigerant sales; RefrigerantSide services performed at a customer's site, consisting of system decontamination to remove moisture, oils and other contaminants, and reclamation of refrigerants. Hudson operates through its wholly owned subsidiary Hudson Technologies Company.
HHGP Hudson Highland Group, Inc. provides professional staffing services on a permanent, contract and temporary basis and executive search and career management services to clients operating in a wide range of businesses. It is organized into two divisions and operates in nearly 30 countries. Highland Partners specializes in recruiting chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers, chief information officers and board directors. It is organized along both industry and geographic lines, allowing it to offer clients exclusive access to an international talent base. Hudson delivers specialized professional staffing, outsourcing and human capital solutions worldwide. The firm assesses, recruits and develops talent to meet the specific business needs of each client. Global practice areas include accounting and finance; engineering, operations and scientific; healthcare; human resources; information technology and telecommunications; legal, and sales and marketing.
HCBK Hudson City Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company of its only subsidiary, Hudson City Savings, in connection with the latter's conversion and reorganization from a New Jersey mutual savings bank into a two-tiered mutual savings bank holding company structure. The Company operates in three primary markets: northern New Jersey, the New Jersey shore and southwestern New Jersey, in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Deposits, borrowings, scheduled amortization and prepayments of loan principal and mortgage-backed securities, maturities and calls of investment securities and funds provided by operations are primary sources of funds for use in lending, investing and for other general purposes. The Company's activities include lending and investment.
HUBb Hubbell Incorporated manufactures and sells electrical and electronic products for a range of commercial, industrial, telecommunications, utility and residential applications. The Company's products are manufactured or assembled by subsidiaries in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Italy and the United Kingdom. Hubbell also participates in a joint venture in Taiwan, and maintains sales offices in Singapore, the People's Republic of China, Mexico, Hong Kong, South Korea and the Middle East. The Company's operations are classified into three segments: Electrical, Power and Industrial Technology.
HBG Hub International Limited is a North American insurance brokerage providing an array of property and casualty, life and health, employee benefits, investment and risk management products and services. The Company focuses primarily on middle-market commercial accounts in the United States and Canada, which it serves using a variety of retail and wholesale distribution channels. Hub International has 11 hub brokerages, six operating in the United States and five in Canada. Each hub brokerage has a significant market presence in a geographic region of the United States or Canada. Each hub provides insurance brokerage services and is responsible for integrating the fold-in acquisitions in its region.
HUBG Hub Group, Inc. is an intermodal marketing company and a full-service transportation provider, offering intermodal, truck brokerage and comprehensive logistics services. The Company's transportation services can be broadly placed into four categories: Intermodal, Highway Services, Logistics and Distribution Services. Under Highway Services, the Company transports freight by truck. Under the Intermodal Services, the Company moves freight in containers and trailers over long distances. Under Logistics, the Company offers customized services, such as comprehensive transportation management, arranging for delivery to multiple locations at the shipment's destination, third-party warehousing and less-than-truckload consolidation. Distribution Services involve the installation of point-of-sale merchandise displays, delivery of sample pharmaceuticals to sales representatives and other non-traditional logistics services.
HBC HSBC Holdings plc is a banking and financial services organization. The Company's international network is comprised of over 9,500 offices in 79 countries and territories in Europe; Hong Kong; the rest of Asia-Pacific, including the Middle East and Africa; North America, and South America. It offers a range of financial services to personal, commercial, corporate, institutional, investment and private banking clients. HSBC manages its business through the following customer groups: Personal Financial Services; Commercial Banking; Corporate, Investment Banking and Markets, and Private Banking. HSBC's largest subsidiaries and are The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited; Hang Seng Bank Limited; HSBC Bank plc; CCF S.A.; HSBC Bank USA; HSBC Bank Brasil S.A.-Banco Multiplo; HSBC Private Banking Holdings (Suisse) S.A., and Grupo Financiero Bital S.A. de C. V.
HRP HRPT Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust (REIT) engaged in the ownership and operation of real estate, including office buildings and leased industrial land. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company had investments in 238 properties. Its portfolio includes 11 parcels with 9.8 million square feet of developed industrial lands in Oahu, Hawaii, which the Company acquired in December 2003 and 227 buildings with approximately 26 million square feet of space. HRPT also owns minority equity positions in two former subsidiary REITs, Senior Housing Properties Trust and Hospitality Properties Trust. In 2003, Senior Housing owned 150 senior housing properties and Hospitality Properties owned 286 hotels. Reit Management &amp; Research LLC (RMR), its investment manager, conducts the day-to-day operations of HRPT. RMR also acts as the investment manager to Hospitality Properties and Senior Housing and has other business interests.
HRB H&amp;R Block, Inc. (HRB) is a diversified company delivering tax products and services and financial advice, investment and mortgage products and services, and business and consulting services. HRB tax services segments provide income tax return preparation services, electronic filing services and other services and products related to income tax return preparation to the general public in the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. It offers investment services and securitizies products through its subsidiary, H&amp;R Block Financial Advisors, Inc. HRB's mortgage services segment offers a range of home mortgage products and services through Option One Mortgage Corporation and H&amp;R Block Mortgage Corporation. RSM McGladrey Business Services, Inc. a subsidiary of HRB, is an accounting, tax and consulting firm serving mid-sized businesses. HRB five segments are U.S. Tax Operations, Mortgage Operations, Business Services, Investment Services and International Tax Operations.
HQSM.OB HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries, Inc., formerly Process Equipment, Inc., is a Sino-Canadian joint venture bringing technologies to the fishing and aquaculture industries. HQ is a Chinese producer of tilapia fish exports to the United States. The Company harvests, processes, sells and markets farm-bred and ocean-harvested products. It also has freezing storage facilities with a capacity of 3,000 metric tons and aquatic products processing bases in Hainan province, China. HQ operates an international-standard, Canadian-designed ocean fishing fleet and a modern aquatic products processing plant with a capacity of 200 tons per day. In March 2004, the Company acquired Jade Profit Investment Limited, a privately held British Virgin Islands limited liability company that operates a subsidiary in China under the name Hainan Quebec Ocean Fishing Co. Ltd. In May 2004, the Company was merged with and into a wholly owned Delaware company, HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries, Inc.
HQL H&amp;Q Life Sciences Investors (the Fund) is a Massachusetts business trust registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is long-term capital appreciation through investment in securities of companies in the healthcare industries. The Fund invests primarily in securities of public and private companies that are believed to have significant potential for above-average growth. As of September 30, 2003, the Fund's largest holdings were Gilead Sciences, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Impax Laboratories, Celgene, Telik, IDEXX Laboratories, MedImmune, Pfizer, CV Therapeutics and Vicuron Pharmaceuticals. As of the same date, the majority of its investments was in the following industries: biopharmaceuticals, drug delivery, drug discovery, emerging biopharmarceuticals, generics, healthcare services and devices and diagnostics. Hambrecht &amp; Quist Capital Management LLC serves as the Fund's investment adviser.
HQH H&amp;Q Healthcare Investors (the Fund) is a Massachusetts business trust registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is long-term capital appreciation through investment in securities of companies in the healthcare industries. The Fund invests primarily in securities of public and private companies that are believed to have significant potential for above-average growth. Hambrecht &amp; Quist Capital Management LLC serves as the adviser of the Fund. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2003, the Fund's 10 principal holdings were Gilead Sciences, MedImmune, Impax Laboratories, IDEXX Laboratories, Celgene, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Telik, Pfizer, Vicuron Pharmaceuticals and CV Therapeutics.
HOV Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. (Hovnanian) designs, constructs, markets and sells single-family detached homes, attached townhomes and condominiums, mid-rise and high-rise condominiums, urban infill and active adult homes in planned residential developments in the United States. The Company consists of two operating groups: homebuilding and financial services. Its financial services group provides mortgage loans and title services to its homebuilding customers. Hovnanian primarily markets and builds homes for first-time buyers, first-time and second-time move-up buyers, luxury buyers, active adult buyers and empty nesters. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company offered homes for sale in 275 communities in 24 markets in 13 states throughout the United States. Its financial services business provides competitive financing and coordinating and expediting the loan origination transaction through the steps of loan application, loan approval and closing.
HOTT Hot Topic, Inc. is a mall-based retailer operating the Hot Topic (Hot Topic stores and www.hottopic.com) and Torrid (Torrid stores and www.torrid.com) concepts. The Hot Topic concept offers a selection of music/pop culture-licensed and music/pop culture-influenced apparel, accessories and gift items for young men and women principally between the ages of 12 and 22. The Torrid concept offers a selection of apparel, lingerie, shoes and accessories centered around various lifestyles for plus-size young women between the ages of 15 and 29. As of January 31, 2004 (fiscal 2003), the Company operated 502 Hot Topic stores and 52 Torrid stores in 49 states throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, along with its complementary Websites, www.hottopic.com and www.torrid.com.
HMT Host Marriott Corporation, operating through an umbrella partnership structure, is primarily the owner of hotel properties. The Company operates as a self-managed and self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) with its operations conducted solely through an operating partnership, Host Marriott, L.P. and its subsidiaries. Host Marriott is the sole general partner of Host LP and as of December 31, 2003, owns approximately 93% of the partnership interests. As of February 15, 2004, the Company owned, or had controlling interests in, 113 upper-upscale and luxury, full-service hotel lodging properties generally located throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico operated primarily under the Marriott, Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons, Hyatt and Hilton brand names. In addition to its hotels, Host Marriott maintains investments in a joint venture and partnerships that in the aggregate own four full-service hotels, 120 limited-service hotels, the Tiburon Golf Club and other investments.
CAFE Host America Corporation (Host), consists of four principal operating divisions: Host Business Dining, Lindley Food Service, SelectForce and GlobalNet Energy Investors. Lindley Food Service, SelectForce and GlobalNet conduct their operations through entities, that are wholly owned subsidiaries of Host. Host Business Dining is a contract food management organization that specializes in providing full service corporate dining, and ancillary services, such as special event catering and office coffee products to business and industry accounts.
HPT Hospitality Properties Trust (HPT) is a real estate investment trust formed to buy and own hotels. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned 286 hotels with 38,577 rooms or suites located in 38 states in the United States. Its hotels are operated as Courtyard by Marriott, Residence Inn by Marriott, Staybridge Suites by Holiday Inn, Candlewood Suites, AmeriSuites, Prime Hotels and Resorts, Homestead Studio Suites, TownePlace Suites by Marriott, SpringHill Suites by Marriott or Marriott Hotels and Resorts. The average age of the Company's hotels was approximately 8.3 years at December 31, 2003. HPT's day-to-day operations are conducted by Reit Management &amp; Research LLC, the Company's investment manager.
HSP Hospira, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceuticals and medication delivery company that develops, manufactures and markets products that help improve the safety and effectiveness of patient care. Its three business groups are medication delivery systems and critical care devices; specialty injectable pharmaceuticals, and injectable pharmaceutical custom manufacturing services. Medication delivery systems include electronic drug delivery pumps for intravenous drug delivery and patient-controlled analgesia for pain management, and infusion therapy solutions and supplies. The Company's critical care devices are used in intensive care and critical care units to measure cardiac output and blood flow. Hospira's specialty injectable pharmaceuticals offer more than 100 injectable products in more than 600 dosages and formulations. Hospira's One 2 One Global Manufacturing Services group is engaged in custom manufacturing services for formulation development, filling and finishing of injectable drugs.
HOS Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. is a provider of technologically advanced, new-generation ocean station vessels (OSVs), serving the offshore oil and gas industry, primarily in the United States Gulf of Mexico and in select international markets. The focus of the Company's OSV business is on complex exploration and production activities, which include deepwater, deep well and other logistically demanding projects. Through its tug and tank barge segment, Hornbeck Offshore Services is also a transporter of petroleum products, serving the energy industry, primarily in the northeastern United States and Puerto Rico.
HRL Hormel Foods Corporation is primarily engaged in the production of a variety of meat and food products, and the marketing of those products throughout the United States. Hormel Foods Corporation's products primarily consist of meat and other food products. The meat products are sold fresh, frozen, cured, smoked, cooked and canned. The Poultry category is composed primarily of Jennie-O Turkey Store (JOTS) products. The Other category primarily consists of nutritional food products and supplements, sugar and sugar substitutes, salt and pepper products, dessert mixes and industrial gelatin products. During the fiscal year ended October 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company sold Vista International Packaging, Inc., acquired the assets of Concept Foods Inc. (Concept) in October 2004, and on December 29, 2004, the Company acquired Clougherty Packing Company (Clougherty). Clougherty is a privately held Southern California pork processor and creator of the Farmer John brand of pork products.
HOFF Horizon Offshore, Inc. (Horizon) provides marine construction services for the offshore oil and gas and other energy related industries in the United States Gulf of Mexico, Northeastern United States, Latin America, Southeast Asia, West Africa and the Middle East. Its marine fleet consists of 13 vessels, 11 of which are operational, including five pipelay and pipebury vessels, one dedicated pipebury vessel, two derrick barges, two support vessels and one combination pipelay and derrick vessel. The Company's primary services include installing pipelines; providing pipebury, hook-up and commissioning services; installing production platforms and other structures; disassembling and salvaging production platforms and other structures, and performing pipe spooling services. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Horizon laid 326-miles of pipe, pursuant to a total of 27 pipeline construction contracts. It also installed or removed 34 offshore platforms.
HORC Horizon Health Corporation is a diversified healthcare services provider. During the fiscal year ended August 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company had four business segments (service groups): Behavioral Health Services segment offers behavioral health contract management services, including psychiatric outcomes measurement services and clinical programs offered by the Company's owned or leased behavioral healthcare facilities; Physical Rehabilitation Services segment offers physical rehabilitation contract management services; Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) Behavioral Services segment offers employee assistance programs and managed care behavioral health services, and ProCare One Nurses segment offers specialized temporary nurse staffing services. In fiscal 2004, the revenues these business service groups constituted 50.2%, 10.4%, 29% and 10.4%, respectively, of the total revenues of the Company.
HZFS.OB Horizon Financial Services Corporation was formed as the holding company for Horizon Federal Savings Bank (Horizon Federal or the Bank) upon the Bank's conversion from the mutual to the stock form. Horizon Federal is a federally chartered stock savings bank. The principal business of the Bank consists of attracting deposits from the general public and using such deposits, together with borrowings and other funds, primarily to originate one-to-four family residential mortgage loans. The Bank originates consumer loans, commercial business loans, multi-family and commercial real estate loans and residential construction loans. The Bank invests in mortgage-backed and related securities, as well as investment securities. The Bank services its market area through its three full-service offices, two of which are located in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and one, which is located in Knoxville, Iowa. The Bank has a mortgage loan origination office in Pleasant Hill, Iowa.
HRZB Horizon Financial Corp. is the holding company for Horizon Bank (the Bank). The Company's business activities are limited to passive investment activities and oversight of its investment in the Bank. The Bank's operations are conducted through 16 full-service office facilities, three commercial loan centers and three real estate loan centers located in Whatcom, Skagit and Snohomish counties in Northwest Washington. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Bank opened commercial banking/loan centers in Bellingham, Snohomish and Everett, and expanded its operations in Burlington.
HBNC Horizon Bancorp is the holding company for Horizon Bank, N.A. (the Bank), a full-service commercial bank providing a range of banking services in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan. The Bank offers commercial and retail banking services, corporate and individual trust and agency services, personal property and casualty insurance services and other services incident to banking. In addition, the Bank has two wholly owned subsidiaries: Horizon Trust &amp; Investment Management, N.A. and Horizon Insurance Services, Inc. At December 31, 2003, the Bank had total assets of $754.9 million.
HMN Horace Mann Educators Corporation (HMEC) is an insurance holding company marketing and underwriting personal lines of property and casualty and life insurance and retirement annuities through its subsidiaries in the United States of America. HMEC's principal insurance subsidiaries are Horace Mann Insurance Company (HMIC), Teachers Insurance Company (TIC) and Horace Mann Life Insurance Company (HMLIC); Horace Mann Property &amp; Casualty Insurance Company (HMPCIC), and Horace Mann Lloyds (HM Lloyds). The Company markets its products primarily to educators and other employees of public schools and their families. Its one million customers typically have moderate annual incomes, with many belonging to two-income households. Their financial planning tends to focus on retirement, security, savings and primary insurance needs.
HFBC HopFed Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for Heritage Bank (the Bank). The Company's assets primarily consist of the outstanding capital stock of the Bank. Its principal business is overseeing the business of the Bank. The Bank, a federally chartered stock savings bank, is engaged in attracting deposits from the general public and investing such deposits in loans secured by single-family residential real estate and investment securities, including United States Government and agency securities and mortgage-backed securities. The Bank also originates single-family residential/construction loans and multifamily and commercial real estate loans, as well as loans secured by deposits, other consumer loans and commercial loans. The primary market area of the Bank consists of the adjacent counties of Calloway, Christian, Todd, Trigg, Fulton and Marshall, located in southwestern Kentucky, and Obion and Weakley counties, located in northwestern Tennessee.
HH Hooper Holmes, Inc. is a provider of outsourced risk assessment services to the life and health insurance industry and medical evaluation and claims management services to the automobile insurance industry and the workers' compensation industry. The Company's services include arranging and providing mobile paramedical and medical examinations, independent medical examinations, personal health interviews, record collection and laboratory testing, which help life insurance companies evaluate the risks associated with underwriting insurance policies and property and casualty insurers evaluate physical injuries. The Company operates through approximately 217 branch offices and 62 contractor affiliate offices located in 50 states, the United Kingdom, Guam and Puerto Rico.
HOFT Hooker Furniture Corporation is a manufacturer and importer of wood furniture products, primarily targeted at the upper-medium price range, and upholstered furniture products targeted at the upper-medium to high-end price niches. The Company's wood furniture consists of wall and entertainment systems, home office, occasional, dining and bedroom residential furniture. The Company, through a wholly owned subsidiary, acquired substantially all of the assets of leather seating specialist Bradington-Young, LLC, on January 2, 2003, expanding its product line to include residential upholstered furniture products. The Company conducts its upholstery operation under the Bradington-Young name and specializes in upscale leather reclining chairs, executive desk chairs and motion and stationary upholstery products.
HON Honeywell International Inc. is a diversified technology and manufacturing company, serving customers worldwide. The Company offers aerospace products and services; control, sensing and security technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; specialty chemicals; fibers, and electronic and advanced materials. The Company globally manages its business operations through strategic business units, which are aggregated under four reportable segments: Aerospace, Automation and Control Solutions, Specialty Materials and Transportation Systems.
HMC Honda Motor Co., Ltd develops, produces and manufactures a variety of motor products, ranging from small general-purpose engines to specialty sports cars that incorporate Honda's internal combustion engine technology. Honda's manufacturing operations are principally conducted in 31 separate factories, five of which are located in Japan. Honda produces a wide range of motorcycles, ranging from the 50-cc class to the 1,800-cc class, in-cylinder displacement. Honda's principal automobile products include passenger cars, multi-wagons and mini-vehicles. Honda offers a variety of financial services to its customers and dealers through financial subsidiaries in Japan and abroad. The Company manufactures a variety of power products, including power tillers, portable generators, general-purpose engines, grass cutters, outboard engines, water pumps, snow throwers, power carriers, power sprayers, lawn mowers and lawn tractors (riding lawn mowers).
HCAR.OB Hometown Auto Retailers, Inc. sells new and used cars and light trucks; provides maintenance and repair services; sells replacement parts, and provides related financing, insurance and service contracts through nine franchised dealerships located in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont. The Company's dealerships offer 10 American and Asian automotive brands, including Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Ford, Jeep, Lincoln, Mazda, Mercury, Oldsmobile and Toyota. Hometown is also active in a niche area of the automotive market, the sale of Lincoln town cars and limousines to livery car and livery fleet operators. Hometown's Lincoln Mercury Autocare center located in Connecticut was the pilot facility for Ford's authorized freestanding neighborhood service center concept for the maintenance and light repair of cars and trucks.
HMLF.OB HomeLife, Inc. provides consumer-oriented real estate brokerage and finance services through subsidiaries and franchises. The Company's wholly owned subsidiaries include HomeLife Realty Services, Inc., MaxAmerica Financial Services, Inc., HomeLife California Properties, Inc. (formerly named HomeLife Properties Inc.), and Real Estate School of Southern California. The Company's majority owned subsidiaries include The Keim Group Ltd., 93.33% of which is company-owned, and MaxAmerica Home Warranty Company, 82.72% of which is company-owned. In addition, the Company offers real estate services through its various subsidiaries, such as franchise services; mortgage financing through its subsidiary, MaxAmerica Financial Services, Inc.; retail real estate brokerage services through its subsidiary HomeLife California Properties Inc., and home warranty through its subsidiary, MaxAmerica Home Warranty Company.
HOFD.OB HomeFed Corporation is engaged, directly and through subsidiaries, in the investment in and development of residential real estate projects in the State of California. The Company also investigates the acquisition of new real estate projects, both residential and commercial and within and outside the State of California, although no assurance can be given that HomeFed will find new investments providing a satisfactory return or, if found, that the Company will have access to the capital necessary to make new real estate investments. HomeFed's development projects consist of two master-planned communities located in San Diego County, California: San Elijo Hills, and a portion of the larger Otay Ranch planning area.
HMB HomeBanc Corp. (HomeBanc) was formed to own HomeBanc Mortgage Corporation (HBMC), a residential mortgage banking company. HBMC is a taxable real estate investment trust (REIT) subsidiary that will continue to focus its origination activities primarily on prime one- to four-family residential mortgage loans. The Company focuses on select markets within the states of Georgia, Florida and North Carolina. The Company focuses on originating prime one- to four-family purchase money mortgage loans rather than mortgage refinancings. HomeBanc offers a wide variety of residential mortgage loan products to meet different market and customer needs, including adjustable-rate and fixed-rate, first-lien mortgage loans and home equity lines of credit and other second-lien mortgage loans (generally made in connection with first-lien mortgage loans). It also makes a limited number of construction-to-permanent mortgage loans.
HOM Home Solutions of America, Inc. (Home Solutions) is a provider of specialty residential services, particularly restoration and specialty interior services. The Company provides indoor air contaminate removal, carpet cleaning, air-duct cleaning, fabric protection and cabinet/countertop installation for residential properties to customers located throughout California, Texas and Florida. At December 31, 2003, Home Solutions had three branch offices in California, two branch offices in Dallas, Texas, and three branch offices in Florida. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Home Solutions operated only in the restoration services segment. In February 2004, Home Solutions acquired Southern Exposure Unlimited of Florida, Inc., SE Tops of Florida, Inc. and 50% of SouthernStone Cabinets, Inc. (together, SE). SE provides specialty installation services, including cabinets and countertops to homebuilders and homeowners throughout southwestern Florida.
HME Home Properties, Inc. is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust that owns, operates, acquires and rehabilitates apartment communities, particularly in the Northeastern, Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern United States. The Company conducts its business primarily through Home Properties, L.P. and two management companies: Home Properties Management, Inc. and Home Properties Resident Services, Inc. Home Properties, L.P. (the Operating Partnership) is a New York limited partnership in which the Company holds a 66.7% partnership interest as of December 31, 2003. As of December 31, 2003, Home Properties, through its affiliates, operated in 197 apartment communities with 48,080 units, of which, 147 communities consisting of 40,946 units that are owned outright; 44 communities consisting of 4,832 units are managed and partially owned by the Company as general partner, and six communities consisting of 2,302 units are fee managed for affiliates and third parties.
HLFC Home Loan Financial Corporation (HLFC) is an unitary thrift holding company that owns all of the issued and outstanding common shares of The Home Loan Savings Bank (the Bank). The principal business of the Bank is the origination of mortgage loans secured by one- to four-family residential and non-residential real estate in its primary market area. The Bank also originates commercial loans and various types of consumer credits. For liquidity and interest rate risk management purposes, the Bank invests in interest-bearing deposits in other financial institutions and United States Treasury and agency securities, mortgage-backed securities and other investments permitted by applicable law. Funds for lending and other investment activities are obtained primarily from savings deposits, principal repayments on loans, maturities of securities and borrowings from the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB).
HWEN Home Financial Bancorp is a savings and loan holding company, whose principal activity is the ownership and management of Owen Community Bank, s.b. (the Bank). The Bank's principal business consists of attracting deposits from the general public and originating long-term loans secured primarily by first-mortgage liens on one- to four-family residential real estate and by mobile homes or a combination of land and mobile homes. The Bank offers consumer and commercial financial services, such as residential real estate loans, indemnification mortgage loans, mobile home loans, combination land-mobile home loans, construction loans, share loans, non-residential real estate loans, multi-family loans, installment loans, home equity loans, Negotiable Order of Withdrawal (NOW) accounts, demand deposit accounts, passbook savings accounts, statement savings accounts, money market deposit accounts and certificates of deposit.
HOMF Home Federal Bancorp is a bank holding company whose principal asset consists of 100% of the issued and outstanding capital stock of HomeFederal Bank (the Bank). HomeFederal Bank provides community-banking services through its main office in Columbus, Indiana. It has 17 full-service branches located in south central Indiana and the STAR network of automated teller machines (ATMs) at 16 locations. The Bank, directly and through its service corporation subsidiary, indirectly offers a range of consumer and commercial community banking services, including residential and commercial real estate loans, negotiable order of withdrawal (NOW) checking accounts, regular and term savings accounts and savings certificates, full-service securities brokerage services, consumer loans, debit cards, business credit cards, annuity and life insurance products, individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and Keogh plans, commercial loans and trust services and commercial demand deposit accounts.
HD The Home Depot, Inc. operates Home Depot stores, which are warehouse-style stores selling building materials, home improvement supplies and lawn and garden products, primarily to do-it-yourselfers. In addition, the Company operates EXPO Design Center stores, which offer products and services primarily related to design and renovation projects; Home Depot Landscape Supply stores, which service landscape professionals and garden enthusiasts with lawn, landscape and garden products, and Home Depot Supply stores serving primarily professional customers. The Company also operates The Home Depot Floor Stores, which offer primarily flooring products and installation services. At the end of the fiscal year ended February 1, 2004 (fiscal 2003), the Company was operating 1,707 stores in total in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The Company's other businesses include The Home Depot Supply, which distributes products and sells installation services primarily to businesses and governments.
HCFC Home City Financial Corporation (HCFC) is the holding company for Home City Federal Savings Bank of Springfield. Home City is a savings association principally engaged in the business of making permanent first and second mortgage loans secured by one- to four-family residential real estate and non-residential real estate located in Home City's primary lending area. The Bank also invests in United States Government and federal agency obligations, interest-bearing deposits in other financial institutions, mortgage-backed securities and municipal securities. In addition, Home City originates loans for the construction of residential real estate and loans secured by multi-family real estate (over four units), commercial loans and consumer loans. Home City's primary lending area consists of Clark County, Ohio, and adjacent counties. HCFC's consolidated total assets amounted to $151.8 million during the year ended December 31, 2003.
HBBI.OB Home Building Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for Home Building Savings Bank, FSB. The principal business of the Company consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing those funds, together with borrowings and other funds, to originate primarily loans secured by first mortgages on owner-occupied one- to four-family residences. The Company also originates consumer loans, and to a significantly lesser extent, loans secured by commercial and multi-family real estate and commercial business loans. The Company also invests in United States Government securities and other investment securities.
HOLX Hologic, Inc. (Hologic) is a developer, manufacturer and supplier of diagnostic and medical imaging systems primarily serving the healthcare needs of women. Its core women's healthcare business units are focused on bone densitometry and mammography. In addition, Hologic develops, manufactures and supplies other x-ray based products, such as general-purpose, direct-to-digital radiography detectors and mini C-arm imaging products. The Company operates in four principal business segments: osteoporosis assessment products, mammography products, direct-to-digital DirectRay detectors and all others, which includes the mini C-arm imaging products and general radiography products.
HOOB.OB Holobeam, Inc. is engaged in the rental of real property located in New Jersey for retail use. The Company owns two office buildings, one of 62,000 square feet and another of 31,000 square feet located in Paramus, New Jersey. One of the buildings is rented to The Sports Authority, Inc., a retailer of sporting goods, and the other to Comp USA. Holobeam intends to investigate the potential for additional investments in rental properties in the Bergen County, New Jersey, area where it conducts its present activities. The Company was also engaged in the development of surgical staples and the technology used to apply the staples for use in internal surgery. The staple has been produced and animal testing took place during 2003, 2002 and 2001. Final test results indicated insufficient commercial value for the staple. As a result, the Company discontinued funding for the project during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2003.
HOLL Hollywood Media Corp. provides information, data and other content and ticketing to consumers and businesses covering the entertainment, Internet and media industries primarily in North America and the United Kingdom. The Company manages a number of business units including Data Business, consisting of the Source Business unit and Baseline/FilmTracker; Broadway Ticketing, consisting of Theatre Direct International, Broadway.com and 1-800-BROADWAY; Internet Divisions, including Hollywood.com and Broadway.com, and Intellectual Properties, which includes a book development and book licensing business. Hollywood Media derives a diverse stream of revenues from this array of business units, including revenue from individual and group Broadway ticket sales, data syndication, subscription fees, content licensing fees, Internet advertising and book development.
HLYW Hollywood Entertainment Corporation is a rental retailer of digital video discs (DVDs), videocassettes and video games in the United States. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company operated 1,920 Hollywood Video stores in 47 states and the District of Columbia. Hollywood Entertainment also operates 595 Game Crazy stores, which are game specialty stores where game enthusiasts can buy, sell and trade new and used video game hardware, software and accessories. Hollywood Video stores represented approximately 89%, and its Game Crazy stores represented approximately 11% of the Company's total revenue in 2003.
HEP Holly Energy Partners operates a system of refined product pipelines and distribution terminals primarily in West Texas, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona. The Company generates revenues by charging tariffs for transporting refined products through its pipelines; charging fees for terminalling refined products and other hydrocarbons, and storing and providing other services at its terminals. It operates approximately 780 miles of refined petroleum pipelines, nine distribution terminals, and two truck-loading facilities used to transport gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. The Company serves Holly Corporation's refineries in New Mexico and Utah under a 15-year pipelines and terminals agreement. The substantial majority of the Company's business is devoted to providing transportation and terminalling services to Holly Corporation. For the year ended December 31, 2003, Holly Corporation accounted for approximately 57.3% of the Company's revenues.
HOC Holly Corporation is an independent petroleum refiner that produces high-value light products such as gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel. The Company owns and operates three refineries consisting of a petroleum refinery in Artesia, New Mexico, which is operated in conjunction with crude oil and vacuum distillation, and other facilities and refineries in Woods Cross, Utah, and Great Falls, Montana. Holly also owns and operates nine refined product storage terminals in Artesia, Moriarty, Bloomfield and Lovington, New Mexico; El Paso, Texas; Woods Cross, Utah; Great Falls, Montana; Spokane, Washington, and Mountain Home, Idaho. In addition, the Company owns interests in four refined product storage terminals in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Tucson, Arizona, and Burley and Boise, Idaho, and owns or leases approximately 2,000 miles of pipeline located in west Texas and New Mexico. Holly's operations are organized into two business divisions, which are Refining and Pipeline Transportation.
HEPH Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of products for the treatment of diseases and disorders in which the body is unable to mount an appropriate immune response. The Company's initial development efforts target radiation and chemotherapy induced immune suppression and immune dysregulation caused by infectious diseases such ashuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV), malaria and tuberculosis. Its initial technology development efforts are focused on a series of potent hormones and hormone analogs. It is developing several compounds in this series. Neumune (HE2100) is a compound being developed with the United States military to protect against the acute effects of radiation injury. Immunitin (HE2000) is a Phase II clinical stage compound that has shown clinical activity in several infectious diseases and is also being evaluated by a number of United States government agencies as a countermeasure for bioterrorism.
HLR Hollinger International Inc. has been a publisher of English-language newspapers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel, with a smaller presence in Canada. The Company's 23 paid daily newspapers have had a worldwide combined circulation of approximately two million. In addition, the Company has owned, or had interests in, over 250 other publications, including non-daily newspapers and magazines, as of March 31, 2003. Included among the Company's 144 paid newspapers, as of March 31, 2003, were Chicago Group's Chicago Sun-Times, the U.K. Newspaper Group's The Daily Telegraph and the Community Group's Jerusalem Post. In July 2004, the Company sold Telegraph Group Limited to Press Acquisitions Limited.
HNI HNI Corporation, formerly known as HON Industries, Inc., is a provider of office furniture and hearth products. The office furniture segment manufactures and markets a line of metal and wood commercial and home office furniture, including storage products, desks, credenzas, chairs, tables, bookcases, freestanding office partitions and panel systems and other related products. The Company sells its office furniture products to dealers, wholesalers, warehouse clubs, retail superstores, end user customers and federal and state governments. The hearth products segment manufactures and markets a line of manufactured gas-, pellet- and wood-burning fireplaces and stoves, fireplace inserts, gas logs and chimney systems principally for the home, which are sold through a national system of dealers, wholesalers, large regional contractors and Company-owned retail outlets. In May 2004, the Company changed its name from HON Industries, Inc. to HNI Corporation.
HMSY HMS Holdings Corp. furnishes revenue recovery, cost containment and business office outsourcing services to healthcare providers and payors. It helps clients increase revenue, accelerate collections and reduce operating and administrative costs through its two wholly owned subsidiaries: Health Management Systems, Inc. and Accordis Inc. Health Management Systems works on behalf of government healthcare programs to contain costs by recovering expenditures that were the responsibility of a third party, or that were paid inappropriately. Accordis provides business office outsourcing services for hospitals, emergency medical transport agencies and other healthcare providers. Clients include state and county Medicaid programs and their managed care plans, child support enforcement agencies, state prescription drug programs and other public programs.
HMNF HMN Financial, Inc. is a stock savings bank holding company that owns 100% of Home Federal Savings Bank (the Bank). Its business involves attracting deposits from the general public and businesses and using such deposits to originate or purchase one- to four-family residential, commercial real estate and multi-family mortgage loans, in addition to consumer, construction, and commercial business loans. It also invests in mortgage-backed and related securities, investment securities and other permissible investments. The Bank operates retail banking and loan production facilities in Minnesota and Iowa, and provides personalized financial services to a select group of individuals and businesses, through Eagle Crest Capital Bank, in Edina and Rochester, Minnesota. The Bank has two wholly owned subsidiaries: Osterud Insurance Agency, Inc., which offers financial planning products and services, and Home Federal Holding, Inc., which invests in real estate loans acquired from the Bank.
HMG HMG/Courtland Properties, Inc. (HMG) owns and operates income-producing commercial properties, and considers other investments if such investments offer growth or profit potential. Properties owned by the Company include a hotel, private club and marina located in Coconut Grove, Florida; a shopping center in Jacksonville, Florida, and undeveloped land in Houston, Texas; Rhode Island, and Vermont. The Company acquires its real estate and other investments utilizing available cash, trading securities or borrowing funds. It has invested its available cash in income-producing debt and equity instruments, including but not limited to those in real estate related activities. Its primary source of recurring operating revenue is from rental and related properties.
HNZ H. J. Heinz Company manufactures and markets a line of processed food products. The Company's principal products include ketchup, condiments and sauces, frozen food, soups, beans and pasta meals, tuna and other seafood products, infant food and other processed food products. H. J. Heinz's business is organized and classified according to the geographic regions where it operates and distributes its products, including North America, comprising of North American consumer products and United States, comprising of foodservice, Europe, Asia/Pacific and other operating entities. The Company's products are sold through its own sales force and through independent brokers, agents and distributors to chain, wholesale, cooperative and independent grocery accounts, pharmacies, mass merchants, club stores, foodservice distributors and institutions, including hotels, restaurants and certain government agencies.
HITK Hi-Tech Pharmacal Co., Inc. is a specialty manufacturer and marketer of prescription, over-the-counter and nutritional products. The Company develops, manufactures and markets generic and branded products. A majority of its generic products are prescription items and include oral solutions and suspensions, as well as topical creams and ointments. Hi-Tech also specializes in the manufacture of liquid ophthalmic, otic and inhalation products. The health care products division markets the Company's line of branded products primarily for people with diabetes, including diabetic tussin, diabetiderm, diabetisweet, diabetitrim and multi-betic. The Company markets its products to chain drug stores, drug wholesalers, managed care purchasing organizations, certain federal government agencies, generic distributors, mass merchandisers and mail order pharmacies. Hi-Tech sells its generic products to over 100 active accounts located throughout the United States.
HIT Hitachi, Ltd. develops a diversified product mix ranging from electricity generation systems to consumer products and electronic devices. Hitachi divides its operations into seven segments, mainly on the basis of management units and the similarity of products and services in type, use, production method and marketing method. The seven segments are Information and Telecommunication Systems; Electronic Devices; Power and Industrial Systems; Digital Media and Consumer Products; High Functional Materials and Components; Logistics, Services and Others, and Financial Services. Hitachi distributes its products in Japan primarily through its own sales network. Hitachi also distributes some of its products through independent dealers.
HRSH Hirsch International Corp. is a single-source provider of electronic computer-controlled embroidery machinery and related value-added products and services. It offers a line of single- and multi-head embroidery machines, application software, a line of embroidery parts, supplies, accessories and embroidery products. It also provides a service program, as well as user training and support. Through the Company's Hometown Threads, LLC venture, it has moved from test marketing its retail embroidery services concept to implementation of a national franchise program. The Company is also a distributor in the United States of software developed by its former software subsidiary, Pulse Microsystems Ltd. In October 2004, the Company sold all the assets of its Hometown Threads retail franchises division to Embroidery Acquisition LLC, a subsidiary of Portrait Corporation of America, Inc. (PCA).
HIFS Hingham Institution for Savings (the Bank) is a state-chartered savings bank located in Hingham, Massachusetts. The Bank provides a variety of financial services to individuals and small businesses through its six offices in southeastern Massachusetts. Its primary deposit products are savings, checking and term certificate accounts. The Company offers a range of loans for individual clients, including personal loans, overdraft protection, auto, passbook and student loans. It also originates home equity lines, home equity loans, adjustable-rate mortgages and fixed-rate mortgages. For businesses, the Company offers flexible loan options, as well as real estate financing, commercial credit lines, equipment and installment loans and overdraft protection. Hingham's main offices are located on Main Street, Hingham, Massachusetts. It also maintains branch offices in South Hingham and the neighboring towns of Cohasset, Hull, Scituate and Weymouth.
HORT Hines Horticulture, Inc. produces and distributes horticultural products through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Hines Nurseries, Inc. and Enviro-Safe Laboratories, Inc. The Company is a supplier of ornamental shrubs, color plants and container-grown plants, with 13 commercial nursery facilities located in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas. Hines produces and markets approximately 4,300 varieties of ornamental, container-grown plants grown primarily for outdoor use, most of which are sold under its Hines Nurseries and Iverson trade names. The Company sells to more than 2,000 retail and commercial customers, representing more than 8,000 outlets throughout the United States and Canada. Its customer base includes independent garden centers, as well as home centers and mass merchandisers such as Home Depot, Lowe's, Wal-Mart and Target.
HPMOF.OB Hilton Resources Ltd., formerly Hilton Petroleum Ltd. is in the business of acquiring leasehold interests in petroleum and natural gas rights and the exploration for and development, production and sale of petroleum and natural gas in the continental United States. Its petroleum and natural gas activities were conducted by its wholly owned subsidiaries, Hilton Petroleum, Inc. and STB Energy, Inc. On March 2, 2004, the Company changed its name from Hilton Petroleum Ltd. to Hilton Resources Ltd.
HLT Hilton Hotels Corporation is engaged, together with its subsidiaries, in the ownership, management and development of hotels, resorts and timeshare properties and the franchising of lodging properties. As of December 31, 2003, its system contained 2,173 properties, totaling over 348,000 rooms. Of such properties, it owned an interest in and operated 122 hotels, leased seven hotels, managed 206 hotels owned by others and franchised 1,808 hotels owned and operated by third parties. Also included in the number of properties in the Company's system are 30 timeshare properties that it managed or franchised. All of these properties are located in the United States, with the exception of 15 hotels that it owns an interest in and/or manages and 50 hotels that it franchises. The Company's hotel brands include Hilton, Hilton Garden Inn, Doubletree, Embassy Suites, Hampton, Homewood Suites by Hilton and Conrad.
HB Hillenbrand Industries, Inc. is a public holding company for its two major operating businesses serving the health care and funeral services industries in the United States and abroad. Hill-Rom is a manufacturer of equipment for the health care industry, a provider of associated systems for wound, pulmonary and circulatory care and provides biomedical equipment rentals and other services to enhance the operational efficiency and asset utilization of health care facilities. Batesville Casket serves the funeral services industry and is a manufacturer of caskets and cremation-related products. In July 2004, Hillenbrand sold Forethought Financial Services, Inc., a provider of financial products and services designed to help people prefund anticipated funeral and cemetery costs to FFS Holdings, Inc., an acquisition vehicle formed by The Devlin Group.
HRH Hilb, Rogal &amp; Hamilton Company operates as a network of wholly owned subsidiary insurance brokerage operations located in 26 states in the United States. Its principal activity is the performance of retail insurance services, which involves placing various types of insurance, including property, casualty, employee and executive benefits and other areas of specialized exposure with insurance underwriters on behalf of its clients. In September 2003, the Company changed its name and began doing business under the new name of Hilb Rogal &amp; Hobbs Company. The Company's client base ranges from personal to large national accounts and primarily consists of middle-market and top-tier commercial and industrial accounts. Middle-market businesses are generally businesses that do not have internal risk management departments and outsource that function to an intermediary. In January 2005, the Company acquired True Benchmark Insurance Services, LLC, an excess and surplus lines broker.
HIW Highwoods Properties, Inc. is a fully integrated, self-administered real estate investment trust that provides leasing, management, development, construction and other customer-related services for its properties and for third parties. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned or had an interest in 530 in-service office, industrial and retail properties encompassing approximately 41.7 million square feet. At December 31, 2003, it also owned 1,305 acres of development land, which is suitable to develop approximately 14.0 million rentable square feet of office, industrial and retail space. The Company's properties and development land are located in Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Highwoods conducts substantially all of its activities through, and substantially all of its interests in the properties are held directly or indirectly by, Highwoods Realty Limited Partnership (the Operating Partnership).
HIHO Highway Holdings Limited is a manufacturer of parts and components; clocks and clock movements, and cameras for Japanese, German and United States original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and contract manufacturers. The Company also manufactures clocks for its own account under the Kienzle brand name. Highway commenced selling watches and other products in Europe under the Kienzle name in March 2002. In January 2003, the Company also entered into a supply and licensing agreement with a newly formed German distributor for the distribution of Kienzle branded watches, clocks and other products in Germany and other European countries.
HSVLY Highveld Steel and Vanadium Corporation Limited (Highveld) produces steel, vanadium products, ferroalloys, carbonaceous products and metal closures. Highveld is the holding company of Hochvanadium Holding AG, which is in the business of processing and selling vanadium products. The Company also has holdings of 2.9% in Acerinox, S.A. and 12% in Columbus Stainless (Proprietary) Limited. Acerinox is the controlling shareholder in Columbus and is a stainless steel producer based in Spain with facilities in the European Union, United States and South Africa. Highveld is a subsidiary of Anglo South Africa Capital (Proprietary) Limited, whose interest amounts to 80.01% of the total issued share capital of the Company.
HIH Highland Hospitality Corporation is a self-advised real estate investment trust (REIT) that was formed to own upscale, full-service, premium limited service and extended-stay properties located in major convention, business, resort and airport markets in the United States, as well as all-inclusive resort properties in certain beachfront destinations outside the United States. In January 2004, the Company acquired the 158-room Hilton Garden Inn Baltimore/Washington International (BWI) Airport hotel. Substantially, all of the Company's assets are held by, and all operations are conducted through, Highland Hospitality, L.P., the Company's operating partnership (the Operating Partnership). As of March 29, 2004, the Company owned seven hotel properties with 1,725 rooms.
HYP The High Yield Plus Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's primary objective is to provide a high-level of current income to shareholders. It seeks to achieve this objective through investment of at least 80% of its investable assets in publicly or privately offered high-yield debt securities rated in the medium to lower categories by recognized rating services or non-rated securities of comparable quality. At March 31, 2004, the Fund's 10 largest holdings were Accruride Corp., IMC Global, Inc., Host Marriot L.P., Charter Communications Holdings LLC, Insight Midwest L.P., Quebecor Media Inc., Georgia-Pacific Corp., Nextel Communications, Inc., Kansas City Southern Railway Co. and Williams Cos., Inc. The Fund has agreements with, among others, Wellington Management Company, LLP and Prudential Investments LLC.
HYI High Yield Income Fund, Inc. is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's primary investment objective is to maximize current income to shareholders, and the secondary investment objective is to seek capital appreciation, but only when consistent with its primary objective. The Fund seeks to achieve its objectives by investing primarily in corporate bonds rated below investment grade by independent rating agencies. Bonds rated below investment grade are known as junk bonds and are subject to greater risk of default and higher volatility than investment-grade bonds. Furthermore, these bonds tend to be less liquid than some other bonds. The Fund has a management agreement with Prudential Investments LLC (PI). Pursuant to this agreement, PI has responsibility for all investment advisory services and supervises the sub-adviser's performance of such services. PI has entered into a sub-advisory agreement with Prudential Investment Management, Inc. (PIM).
HTCO Hickory Tech Corporation is a diversified communications company that operates three business segments: Telecom Sector, Information Solutions Sector and Enterprise Solutions Sector. The Company's core business is its Telecom Sector, which consists of two businesses. One of the businesses is the operation of three incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs), which consists of connecting customers to the telephone network, providing switched service and private lines that connects customers to long distance service providers, and also provides many other services associated with ILECs. The second business of the Telecom Sector is competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) services, which were initiated in 1998, and its associated competitive businesses of long distance service and Internet access.
HICKA.OB Hickok Incorporated develops and manufactures products used by companies in the transportation industry. The Company serves automotive, aircraft, and locomotive with sales to both original equipment manufacturers (OEM's) and to the automotive aftermarket. The Company manufactures diagnostic equipment used by automotive technicians to test the various electronic systems in automobiles. Also within the automotive segment, Hickok manufactures equipment to control the nut-running process in assembly plants. The Company serves the automotive, locomotive and general aviation markets predominately in the United States. Sales are primarily to domestic customers, although Hickok also makes sales to international customers through domestically based distribution companies.
HIB Hibernia Corporation is a financial holding company that, through its bank and non-bank subsidiaries, provides an array of financial products and services throughout Louisiana and portions of Texas. In 2003, the Company operated 259 locations in 34 Louisiana parishes and 18 Texas counties, and two mortgage loan production and retail brokerage services offices in Southern Mississippi. The principal products and services offered include retail, small business, commercial, international, mortgage and private banking, leasing, investment banking, corporate finance, treasury management, insurance and trust and investment management. Hibernia National Bank, the Company's sole depository institution subsidiary, also acts as a retail broker, providing access to alternative investment products, including mutual funds and annuities.
HIBB Hibbett Sporting Goods, Inc. is an operator of athletic sporting goods stores in small to mid-sized markets predominantly in the southeast, mid-Atlantic and Midwest United States. The Company's stores offer an assortment of athletic equipment, footwear and apparel. Hibbett's merchandise assortment features a selection of brand name merchandise, emphasizing team sports complemented by localized apparel and accessories designed to appeal to a range of customers within each market. As of January 31, 2004, the Company operated 408 Hibbett Sports stores, as well as 16 smaller-format Sports Additions athletic shoe stores and four larger-format Sports &amp; Co. superstores in 21 states. In addition, it has a subsidiary that supplies customized athletic apparel, equipment and footwear to school, athletic and youth programs in Alabama.
HSR Hi-Shear Technology Corporation designs and manufactures high-reliability pyrotechnic, mechanical and electronic products for the aerospace industry, national defense and other applications where pyrotechnic power is desirable. The Company's products consist primarily of pyrotechnic power cartridges and various types of aerospace separation devices designed to meet the demand for high-performance devices with the strength to fasten two structures under rigorous conditions and then provide quick release upon command. Hi-Shear cartridges, cutters, pin pullers, separation nuts and separation bolts are used widely in the functioning of satellites and the vehicles, which launch them into space. In addition, the Company designs and manufactures electronic systems that sequentially fire the pyrotechnic devices according to pre-programmed parameters.
HIFN hi/fn, inc., together with its subsidiaries, Hifn Limited and Hifn Netherlands B.V., is a flow classification and network security specialty company supplying network equipment manufacturers with patented technology to improve network packet processing. It designs, develops and markets high-performance, multi-protocol packet processors, which include semiconductor devices and software that enable secure, high-bandwidth network connectivity and efficient storage of business information. Hifn's packet processor products perform the computation-intensive tasks of compression, encryption and authentication, providing customers with high-performance, interoperable implementations of a wide variety of industry-standard networking and storage protocols. The Company's products are used in networking and storage equipment, such as routers, remote access concentrators, switches, broadband access equipment, network interface cards, firewalls and back-up storage devices.
HFFC HF Financial Corp. (HFFC) is a unitary thrift holding company that owns Home Federal Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a federally chartered stock savings bank headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It provides full-service consumer and commercial business banking, including an array of financial products, to meet the needs of its market place. It has a total of 34 banking centers in South Dakota and an Internet branch located at www.homefederal.com. In addition to the Bank, the Company had six other wholly owned subsidiaries as of June 30, 2004: HomeFirst Mortgage Corp., HF Financial Group, Inc. (HF Group), HF Financial Capital Trust I, HF Financial Capital Trust II, HF Financial Capital Trust III and HF Financial Capital Trust IV (Trust IV).
HXL Hexcel Corporation is a producer of advanced structural materials. The Company develops, manufactures and markets lightweight, high-performance reinforcement products, composite materials and composite structures for use in the commercial aerospace, industrial, space and defense and electronics markets. The Company's products are used in a variety of end products, such as commercial and military aircraft, space launch vehicles and satellites, printed wiring boards for computers and cellular telephones, soft body armor, high-speed trains and ferries, cars and trucks, wind turbine blades, window blinds, bikes, skis and a wide variety of recreational equipment. Hexcel's advanced structural materials business is organized around three strategic business segments: Reinforcements, Composites and Structures.
HPQ Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The Company's offerings span information technology (IT) infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. Product and service categories include desktops and workstations; notebooks and tablet personal computers (PCs); printing and multifunction; handheld devices; monitors and projectors; fax, copiers and scanners; digital photography; entertainment; storage; servers; supplies and accessories; networking, and software products. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), HP organized its operations into seven business segments: the Imaging and Printing Group (IPG), the Personal Systems Group (PSG), Enterprise Storage and Servers (ESS), HP Services (HPS), HP Financial Services (HPFS), Software and Corporate Investments.
HEW Hewitt Associates, Inc. is a global provider of human resources outsourcing and consulting services. The Company's outsourcing business is comprised of three core benefits administration services, new payroll administration service and workforce management solution. In this segment, Hewitt applies its human resources expertise and employ its integrated technology systems to administer its clients' human resources programs: benefits, payroll and workforce management. Through its consulting business, Hewitt provides an array of consulting and actuarial services covering the design, implementation, communication and operation of health and welfare, compensation and retirement plans and broader human resources programs and processes. In addition, the Company uses the information and data it collects and analyzes through its outsourcing services to develop consulting approaches that are effective and provide value to its clients.
HSKA Heska Corporation discovers, develops, manufactures, markets, sells, distributes and supports veterinary products. The Company's core focus is on the canine and feline companion animal health markets. Heska is comprised of two segments: Companion Animal Health and Diamond Animal Health. The Companion Animal Health segment includes diagnostic and monitoring instruments and supplies, as well as single-use diagnostic and other tests, vaccines and pharmaceuticals, primarily for canine and feline use. These products are sold directly by the Company, as well as through independent third party distributors and other distribution relationships. The Diamond Animal Health segment includes private-label vaccine and pharmaceutical production, primarily for cattle but also for other animals, including small mammals, horses and fish. All Diamond products are sold by third parties under third-party labels.
HSY Hershey Foods Corporation is engaged in the manufacture, distribution and sale of confectionery and grocery products. It manufactures confectionery products in a variety of packaged forms and markets them under more than 50 brands. The different packaged forms include various arrangements of the same bar products, such as boxes, trays and bags, as well as a variety of different sizes and weights of the same bar products, such as snack-size, standard, king-size, large and giant bars. Hershey also manufactures and/or markets grocery products in the baking, beverage, peanut butter and toppings categories. The Company's principal operations and markets are located in the United States. It also manufactures, markets, sells and distributes confectionery and grocery products in Canada, Mexico and Brazil, imports and/or markets selected confectionery products in China, the Philippines, Japan and South Korea and markets confectionery products in over 60 countries worldwide.
HT Hersha Hospitality Trust is a self-advised real estate investment trust (REIT) focused primarily on owning and operating mid-scale limited service hotels in established markets in the Eastern United States. As of July 2004, the Company's portfolio consisted of 24 hotels with a total of 2,419 rooms located in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Georgia and Connecticut. The hotels operate under the brands Hampton Inn, Hilton Garden Inn, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, DoubleTree, Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Mainstay Suites, Marriot and Sleep Inn. Hersha is structured as an umbrella partnership REIT, and the Company owns its hotels through its operating partnership, Hersha Hospitality Limited Partnership. All of Hersha's hotels are leased or managed by Hersha Hospitality Management, L.P.
MLHR Herman Miller Inc. researches, designs, manufactures and distributes interior furnishings and provides related services that support companies all over the world. The Company's products are sold primarily to or through independent contract office furniture dealers. It designs and develops furniture and furniture systems. The Company offers end user customers related services, such as furniture asset management and office layout design. The Company has introduced many concepts in its modular systems, such as Action Office, Q System, Ethospace and Resolve. Through research, the Company defines and clarifies customer needs and problems existing in its markets, and designs through innovation, where appropriate and feasible, products, systems and services as solutions to problems. The primary domestic manufacturing operations are located in Michigan and Georgia.
HRLY Herley Industries, Inc. is a supplier of microwave products and systems to defense and aerospace entities for use in command and control systems, flight instrumentation, weapons sensors and electronic warfare systems worldwide. The Company designs and manufactures microwave devices for use in high-technology defense electronics applications. The Company's commercial technologies are comprised of scientific products and medical products. Herley's primary customers consist of defense prime contractors (including Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and Boeing), the United States government (including the Department of Defense, NASA and other United States government agencies) and international customers (including the Egyptian, German, Japanese and South Korean militaries and suppliers to international militaries). In September 2004, the Company acquired Reliable System Services Corporation (RSS).
HTG Heritage Property Investment Trust, Inc. is a real estate investment trust company that acquires, owns, manages, leases and redevelops primarily grocer-anchored neighborhood and community shopping centers located predominately in the Eastern and Midwestern United States. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Heritage expanded its operations to include the Southwestern United States with its Trademark Portfolio Acquisition. In 2003, the Company had a shopping center portfolio consisting of 162 shopping centers, located in 29 states and totaling approximately 32.7 million square feet of total gross leasable area (GLA), of which approximately 27.5 million square feet was Company-owned GLA. Heritage's shopping center portfolio was 92.0% leased in 2003
HEOP Heritage Oaks Bancorp acts as a holding company for Heritage Oaks Bank (Heritage) and Hacienda Bank. Heritage has a branch office is in Paso Robles, two branches in San Luis Obispo, one branch office in Cambria, one branch office in Arroyo Grande, one branch office in Santa Maria, one branch office in Atascadero and one branch office in Morro Bay. Hacienda has three branch offices in Santa Maria. Heritage and Hacienda (the Banks) conduct commercial banking business in San Luis Obispo County and Northern Santa Barbara County, including accepting demand, savings and time deposits and making commercial, real estate, small business administration, agricultural, credit card and consumer loans. They offer installment note collection, issue cashiers checks and money orders, sell travelers checks and provide bank-by-mail, night depository, safe deposit boxes and other customary banking services.
HFWA Heritage Financial Corporation is a bank holding company that is primarily engaged in the business of planning, directing and coordinating the business activities of its wholly owned subsidiaries, Heritage Savings Bank and Central Valley Bank, N.A. Heritage Bank is a Washington state-chartered savings bank whose deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation under the Savings Association Insurance Fund. The Company's business consists primarily of lending and deposit relationships with small businesses, including agribusinesses and their owners in its market area, and originating for sale or investment purposes first mortgage loans on residential properties located in western and central Washington State. It also makes residential construction, income property and consumer loans. The Company's primary sources of funds are deposits, loan repayments and borrowings. Heritage offers a variety of deposit accounts designed to attract both short-term and long-term deposits.
HTBK Heritage Commerce Corp serves as a bank holding company for Heritage Bank of Commerce. Heritage Commerce offers a range of loans, primarily commercial, including real estate, construction, small business administration, inventory and accounts receivable and equipment loans and leases. The Company also accepts checking, savings and time deposits; negotiable order of withdrawal and money market deposit accounts, and provides travelers' checks, safe deposit and other customary non-deposit banking services. Heritage Commerce does not have a trust department. Its customer base consists primarily of small to medium-sized businesses and their owners, managers, and employees residing in Santa Clara, Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Businesses served include manufacturers, distributors, contractors, professional corporations/partnerships and service businesses. The Company had approximately 15,000 deposit accounts at December 31, 2003.
HBKS.OB Heritage Bankshares, Inc. serves as the holding company for four wholly owned subsidiaries, including one bank, Heritage Bank &amp; Trust, with five full-service branches in Norfolk and Chesapeake, Virginia. The Bank is a full-service bank conducting a general commercial and consumer banking business. The Company's other subsidiaries are IBV Real Estate Holdings, Inc., Sentinel Financial Group, Inc. and Sentinel Trust Services, LLC. IBV Real Estate Holdings, Inc. was formed for the sole purpose of owning additional real estate assets acquired by the Company or the Bank. Sentinel Trust Services, LLC and Sentinel Financial Group, Inc. own an interest in providers of various insurance products, investment products and trust services. The strategic relationship with these entities provides the Bank with the ability to provide these services to its customers.
HPC Hercules Incorporated is a manufacturer and marketer of specialty chemicals and related services for a broad range of business, consumer and industrial applications. The Company's products are chemicals used by the paper industry to increase paper and paperboard performance and enhance the manufacturing process; water-soluble polymers; polypropylene and polypropylene/polyethylene bi-component fibers, and specialty resins. These products impart qualities, such as durability, water-resistance and improved aesthetics, for everyday consumer goods ranging from paper and packaging to toothpaste and diapers. The markets the Company serves include pulp and paper, paints and adhesives, construction materials, food, pharmaceutical and personal care and industrial specialties, including oilfield, textiles and general industrial. Hercules operates on a global scale with operations in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America.
HPLF.OB HepaLife Technologies, Inc. is a development stage biotechnology company focused on the research, development and commercialization of technologies and products to treat various forms of liver dysfunctions and diseases caused by chronic liver disease, alcohol abuse, drug overdoses, hepatitis and liver transplants. The Company's business includes a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to fund the research and development, involving optimizing the function of a patented cell line and applying this technology to the development of an artificial liver device.
HSIC Henry Schein, Inc. is a distributor of healthcare products and services primarily to office-based healthcare practitioners in the North American and European markets. The Company conducts its business through two segments, Healthcare Distribution and Technology, which offer different products and services to the same customer base. Through these businesses, Henry Schein serves over 425,000 customers worldwide in the dental and medical markets. Its dental and medical products are organized into five categories: consumable dental products and equipment, large dental equipment, dental laboratory products, medical products and veterinary products. Technology products are principally categorized as software and related products and other value-added products including Henry Schein's practice management software products. These products are offered under the Company's brand names including Henry Schein, ProRepair, AVImark, Dentrix and Easy Dental and Digital Dental Office.
HPTWF.OB Hemptown Clothing Inc. sells a of line of hemp/cotton active wear that includes T-shirts, sweatshirts and ball caps to wholesalers for imprinting and direct selling to consumers. In January 2004, the Company was dealing with 1,500 resellers and four distributors located in both Canada and the United States. The product line includes Hefty-Hemp T-shirt, Hemptown Hoodie, Hemptown Long Sleeve Oxford Button- Down Shirt, Hemptown Short Sleeve Oxford Button-Down Shirt, Hemptown Baseball Cap, Hemptown Golf Shirt and Hemptown Tote Shopping Bag. The Company processes retail orders through its Website and adds business-to-Business (B2B) functions and a vendor managed inventory (VMI) system. The Company's primary market segment is screen printers and embroidery companies throughout North America.
HMSL Hemosol Inc. is an integrated biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of a portfolio of products based on human hemoglobin. The Company's immediate focus is on the development and successful commercialization of Hemolink (hemoglobin raffimer). Hemolink is designed to sustain life by delivering oxygen immediately, effectively and safely, resulting in improved patient outcomes, and to eliminate the need for donor red blood cell (RBC) transfusions in patients suffering from acute anemia. Hemolink is being evaluated for use in cardiac surgery, high-blood-loss orthopedic surgery and life-threatening acute anemia in patients who cannot or will not accept red blood cell transfusions.
HEB Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. has focused the mechanism of nucleic acid technology to produce a new class of drugs for treating chronic viral diseases and disorders of the immune system. The Company uses its proprietary drug, Ampligen, to treat diseases for which adequate treatment is not available. It seeks the required regulatory approvals that will allow the progressive introduction of Ampligen for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), HIV, Hepatitis C (HCV) and Hepatitis B (HBV) in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan. Ampligen is in the open label portion of phase III clinical trials in the United States for use in treatment of ME/CFS and is in Phase IIb clinical development in the United States for the treatment of patients with HIV infection.
HMGN.OB Hemagen Diagnostics, Inc. is a biotechnology company that develops, manufactures and markets more than 150 the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared medical diagnostic test kits used to aid in the diagnosis of certain autoimmune and infectious diseases. Hemagen manufactures and markets a complete line of clinical chemistry reagents through its wholly owned subsidiary, Reagents Applications, Inc. (RAI or Raichem). In addition, the Company manufactures and sells the Analyst, a FDA-cleared clinical chemistry analyzer used to measure important constituents in human and animal blood, and the Endochek, a clinical chemistry analyzer used to measure important constituents in animal blood. It's three product lines includes a clinical chemistry analyzer line that markets the Analyst Benchtop Clinical Chemistry Analyzer and the Endocheck Chemistry Analyzer; a clinical chemistry division called RAI, and an autoimmune and infectious disease product line.
HEMA.OB HemaCare Corporation collects, processes and distributes blood products to hospitals in the United States. In addition, the Company provides blood related services principally therapeutic apheresis procedures, stem cell collection and other blood treatments to patients with a variety of disorders. Blood related services are usually provided on an in-patient basis under contract with the hospital as an outside purchased service. During the year ended December 31, 2003, HemaCare developed a restructuring plan to reduce overhead costs and the number of geographic areas it served and to improve its collection capability.
HP Helmerich &amp; Payne, Inc. is primarily engaged in contract drilling of oil and gas wells for others. It is also engaged in the ownership, development and operation of commercial real estate. The Company is organized into two separate operating entities: contract drilling and real estate. The Company's contract drilling business is composed of three business segments: United States land drilling, United States offshore platform drilling and international drilling. The Company's United States land drilling is conducted primarily in Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, and Louisiana, and offshore from platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and California. The Company also operated in eight international locations during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004: Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia, Equatorial Guinea, Chad and Hungary. In addition, the Company is providing drilling consulting services for one customer in Russia. Its real estate investments are located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
OTE Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A. (OTE) is the parent company of a group of subsidiaries active in all aspect of telecommunications and other related businesses, incorporated both in Greece and abroad. As a provider of fixed-line voice telephony in Greece, OTE provides local, long-distance and international fixed-line telecommunications services to Greek and foreign businesses, consumers and government agencies. In addition, the Company offers its customers a range of technologically advanced services, including mobile telephony, Internet access, integrated service digital network (ISDN), high-speed data communications, sales of equipment and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), as well as traditional services, such as leased lines, maritime and satellite communications, telex and telegraphy, audiotex, telecards and directory services.
HELX Helix Technology Corporation is a manufacturer of specialized vacuum pumping and measurement systems that meet the demanding process requirements of manufacturers in the semiconductor, data storage and flat panel display markets. The Company combines its vacuum pumping and measurement components with its proprietary On-Board diagnostic and control technology to provide comprehensive, high-performance vacuum solutions. Helix provides both the hardware and software elements that integrate process control, diagnostics and communication capabilities for all components within the vacuum system. This integration capability extends to vacuum system components manufactured by other suppliers and allows the Company's products to interoperate with their products. Helix also provides original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and end users of its systems a range of global support services, from vacuum systems design assistance to vacuum process performance monitoring.
HXBM.OB Helix Biomedix, Inc. is engaged in the research and development of bioactive peptides. The Company's primary commercial objective is to enter into royalty-bearing licenses that assign the rights to use specific proprietary peptides in distinct fields of application. These fields of use include pharmaceutical applications such as broad-spectrum topical anti-infectives with efficacy against bacterial, fungal, viral and parasitic pathogens; wound healing agents and the treatment and prevention of certain sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs); non-pharmaceutical applications such as anti-wrinkle/anti-aging additives for skin-care products; anti-bacterial adjuvants for oral care and personal hygiene products; agricultural applications involving plant protection and animal health, and dual-use applications, which are suitable for both prescription pharmaceuticals and consumer products.
HELE Helen of Troy Limited is a global designer, developer, importer and distributor of hair care appliances, hairbrushes, combs, hair accessories, hair and skin care liquids and powders and other personal care products. The Company has three operating segments: North America, International and Tactica International, Inc. The North American and International segments sell the same portfolio of products, through mass merchants, general retail and specialty retail outlets. Tactica sells personal care and other consumer products to retailers and uses direct response marketing to sell such products directly to consumers. During the fiscal year ended February 29, 2004 (fiscal 2003), Helen of Troy made the decision to sell its business activities with Tactica. On April 29, 2004 the Company completed the sale of its ownership interest in Tactica back to certain of its key operating manager-shareholders.
HSII Heidrick &amp; Struggles International, Inc. is a provider of executive search and leadership consulting services. The Company helps its clients build leadership teams by facilitating the recruitment, development and retention of personnel for their executive management positions. In addition to executive search, which includes interim executive placement, the Company provides other leadership services including executive assessment and, through an alliance, executive coaching. The executive assessment service provides senior-level executives with assessments of the individuals and teams reporting to them. Heidrick &amp; Struggles has an alliance with Lore International Institute, a global executive coaching and professional development firm. Together, they market executive coaching and professional development services to the Company's clients. Heidrick &amp; Struggles provides its services to a range of clients through a worldwide network of 311 consultants located around the world.
HEI HEICO Corporation through its subsidiaries (collectively, HEICO) is a manufacturer of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-approved jet engine and aircraft component replacement parts, other than the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and their subcontractors. HEICO is also a manufacturer of various types of electronic equipment for the aviation, defense, space, medical, telecommunications and electronics industries. HEICO's businesses are comprised of two operating segments, the Flight Support Group, consisting of HEICO Aerospace Holdings Corp. and its subsidiaries, and the Electronic Technologies Group, consisting of HEICO Electronic Technologies Corp. and its subsidiaries. The Company's customer base is primarily the commercial airline, defense, space and electronics industries.
HCT Hector Communications Corporation (HCC) is a telecommunications holding company that primarily provides local telephone, cable television and Internet access services through its wholly owned subsidiaries. It also participates in the ownership of other companies providing wireless telephone and other telecommunications-related services. The Company is organized into two business segments: Hector Communications Corporation and its subsidiaries, and Alliance Telecommunications Corporation (Alliance) and its subsidiaries. HCC operates five local exchange company subsidiaries (generally referred to as local exchange carriers (LECs)), which served 7,532 access lines in nine rural communities in Minnesota and Wisconsin at December 31, 2003. Its 100% owned subsidiary, Alliance, owns and operates four additional LEC subsidiaries which served 22,350 access lines in 19 rural communities in Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota.
HL Hecla Mining Company is a precious metals company engaged in the exploration, development, mining and processing of silver, gold, lead and zinc. The Company is organized and managed primarily on the basis of its products being produced from its operating units, which, during 2003, included three primary silver operations, the San Sebastian unit in Mexico, the Greens Creek unit in Alaska and the Lucky Friday unit in Idaho, and one gold operation, the La Camorra unit in Venezuela. Hecla produces both metal concentrates, which it sells to custom smelters on contract, and unrefined gold and silver bullion bars, which are further refined before sale to metals traders.
EAR HearUSA Inc. operates in three business segments, which include the operation and management of centers, the establishment, maintenance and support of an affiliated network and the operation of an e-commerce business. At December 27, 2003, the Company has a network of 156 company-owned hearing care centers in 11 states and the Province of Ontario, Canada. The centers offer people afflicted with hearing loss a range of services and products. The network, unlike the Company-owned centers, consisted of hearing care practices owned by independent audiologists. HearUSA sponsors a network of approximately 1,400 audiology providers that participate in selected hearing benefit programs contracted by the company with employer groups, health insurers and benefit sponsors in 49 states. E-commerce offers online product sales of hearing aid related products, such as batteries, hearing aid accessories and assistive listening devices.
HTL Heartland Partners, LP is engaged in selling its real estate holdings, pursuing recovery on claims it has against local government units in Wisconsin and foreclosing its Class-B partnership interest. The Company was originally organized to engage in the ownership, purchasing, development, leasing, marketing, construction and sale of real estate properties. HTI Interests, LLC, a limited liability company and sole general partner of Heartland (the General Partner or HTI), is owned 99.9% by Heartland Technology, Inc. (HTI) and 0.1% by HTI Principals, Inc., a corporation owned by two members and three former members of HTI's board of directors. CMC Heartland Partners, a general partnership (CMC), is an operating general partnership, 99.99% owned by Heartland and 0.01% by HTII.
HTLF Heartland Financial USA, Inc. is a holding company principally for its seven bank subsidiaries (the Bank Subsidiaries). The Bank Subsidiaries comprises of Dubuque Bank and Trust Company and First Community Bank in Iowa, Galena State Bank and Trust Company and Riverside Community Bank in Illinois, Wisconsin Community Bank in Wisconsin, New Mexico Bank &amp; Trust in New Mexico and Arizona Bank &amp; Trust in Arizona. These subsidiaries provide service retail banking through 37 banking locations in their respective markets. Heartland has eight non-bank subsidiaries: Citizens Finance Co., ULTEA, Inc., Heartland Capital Trust I, Heartland Statutory Trust II, Heartland Capital Trust II, Heartland Statutory Trust III, HTLF Capital Corp. and Heartland Community Development Corp. In June 2004, the Company acquired Rocky Mountain Bancorporation, the holding company for Rocky Mountain Bank, a financial institution providing retail and commercial banking services from eight locations throughout Montana.
HTLD Heartland Express Inc. is a short- to medium-haul truckload carrier of general commodities. Heartland provides nationwide transportation service to major shippers, using late-model equipment and a combined fleet of Company-owned and owner-operator tractors. The Company's primary traffic lanes are between customer locations east of the Rocky Mountains, with selected service to the West. Serving the short- to medium-haul market permits the Company to use primarily single, rather than team drivers and dispatch most trailers directly from origin to destination without an intermediate equipment change other than for driver scheduling purposes. Heartland also operates seven specialized regional distribution operations near Atlanta, Georgia; Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Columbus, Ohio; Jacksonville, Florida; Kingsport, Tennessee; Chester, Virginia, and Olive Branch, Mississippi.
HTV Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. is an independent, or non-network-owned, television station group operating in the United States. The Company owns or manages 27 television stations reaching approximately 17.8% of television households in the United States. In addition, Hearst manages three television stations (WMOR-TV in the Tampa, Florida, market; WPBF-TV in the West Palm Beach, Florida, market, and KCWE-TV in the Kansas City, Missouri, market) and two radio stations (WBAL-AM and WIYY-FM in Baltimore, Maryland), all of which are owned by Hearst, with the exception of KCWE-TV. Twenty-six of the Company's owned or managed television stations are affiliated with one of the following networks pursuant to a network affiliation agreement: ABC (12 stations), NBC (10 stations), CBS (two stations), UPN (one station) and WB (one station). WMOR-TV in Tampa, Florida, operates as an independent station.
HTRN HealthTronics Inc., formerly HealthTronics Surgical Services, Inc., provides healthcare services, primarily to the urology community, and manufactures various medical devices, as well as specialty vehicles used for the transport of high-technology medical, and broadcast and communications equipment. The Company is a provider of lithotripsy, a non-invasive therapy for treating kidney stone disease. Through 105 partnerships organized around nearly 3,000 local urologists in 47 states, the Company provides the personnel and operating infrastructure required to deliver lithotripsy treatments to hospitals and other healthcare settings. The Company's partnerships also provide treatments for benign and cancerous conditions of the prostate, as well as orthotripsy, a non-invasive procedure for treating orthopedic soft tissue disorders. The Company is the result of a merger, in November 2004, between HealthTronics Surgical Services and Prime Medical Services, Inc.
HSTM HealthStream, Inc. provides Internet-based solutions and services to meet the training and education needs of the healthcare industry. The Company's flagship product is the HealthStream Learning Center, its Internet-based learning platform. HealthStream also offers its Competency Compass, an online performance assessment and management solution, and HospitalDirect, a software application that delivers product training in hospitals. Services provided to and on behalf of pharmaceutical and medical device companies include live and online education and training activities for both healthcare professionals, as well as medical industry sales representatives. Medical device companies also provide commercial support for device training within hospitals through its HospitalDirect platform and along with pharmaceutical companies, provide commercial support for some of its continuing education activities.
HGAT.OB HealthGate Data Corp. provides evidence-based decision support and risk containment solutions that help healthcare providers and payors improve quality, reduce variability of care and reduce costs. In conjunction with its Academic Medical Center Consortium, the Company creates clinical guidelines, order sets and point-of-care tools that are based on clinical evidence. Additionally, HealthGate provides a suite of evidence-based patient education and consumer health content services that allow the patient to be an active participant in the delivery of their own care. These tools and content, when coupled with HealthGate's technology platform, can be integrated into a variety of healthcare information technology systems and accessed at the point of care.
HLEX HealthExtras, Inc. is a provider of pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services and supplemental benefit programs. The Company's PBM clients include managed-care organizations, self-insured employers and third-party administrators who contract with HealthExtras to cost-effectively administer the prescription drug component of their overall health benefit plans. The supplemental benefits segment generates revenue from the sale of membership programs that provide insurance and other benefits. Individual customers are the major purchasers of the Company's supplemental benefit programs. The PBM segment, which operates under the brand name Catalyst Rx, generates the significant majority of HealthExtras' revenues. The segment accounted for approximately 86% of the Company's revenues as of the year ended December 31, 2003.
HCTL Healthcare Technologies Ltd. develops, manufactures and markets clinical diagnostic test kits and provides services and tools to diagnostic and biotech research professionals in laboratory and point of care sites in Israel and worldwide. The Company also produces and markets molecular biology based gene screening tools for the detection of certain gene-associated disorders in humans, including prenatal testing for diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, gaucher and other diseases and testing for predisposition to diseases, such as breast, ovarian and colon cancer, thrombosis and certain cardiovascular diseases. In addition, through its investment in Procognia (Israel), Healthcare Technologies has been involved in the design of glycobiology-based tools for treatment discovery and development and bioinformatics. The manufacturing activities of the Company are primarily conducted by Savyon Diagnostics Ltd. (formerly Pronto Technologies Ltd.).
HCSG Healthcare Services Group, Inc. provides management, administrative and operating expertise and services to the housekeeping, laundry, linen, facility maintenance and foodservice departments of the healthcare industry. For fiscal year ending December 31, 2003, the Company rendered its services to approximately 1,500 facilities, including nursing homes, retirement complexes, rehabilitation centers and hospitals, in 43 states and Canada. One client, Beverly Enterprises, Inc., accounted for approximately 23% of its total consolidated revenues. In 2003, Healthcare Services derived from such client approximately 23% and 22% of the housekeeping, laundry, linen and other services and food services segments' revenues, respectively.
HR Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated is a self-managed and self-administered real estate investment trust that integrates owning, acquiring, managing and developing income-producing real estate properties and mortgages associated with the delivery of healthcare services throughout the United States. The Company has investments of approximately $1.7 billion in 218 income-producing real estate properties and mortgages associated with the delivery of healthcare services. As of December 31, 2003, its real estate portfolio, containing approximately 10 million square feet, was comprised of 10 facility types and was operated pursuant to contractual arrangements with 55 healthcare providers. The Company's mortgage portfolio, containing approximately 1.4 million square feet, was comprised of four major facility types and was operated by nine healthcare providers. As of December 31, 2003, Healthcare Realty provided property management services for 110 healthcare-related properties nationwide.
HAXS HealthAxis, Inc. is a provider of integrated solutions and services for health benefit administrators and health insurance claim processors. These solutions are composed of software products and related business process services, which are designed to assist health insurance payers and third-party administrators (TPA) to provide services to members, employees, employers and providers, which are provided through the application of its technology to legacy systems on a fully integrated or on an Application Service Provider (ASP) basis. These technology solutions are complemented by HealthAxis' Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services, which are offered to its technology clients on a stand-alone basis. BPO solutions include mailroom services and the automated capture, imaging, storage and retrieval of electronic claims, attachments and related correspondence. It products and services are Benefit Administration and Claims Processing Systems, Web Connectivity Products and BPO Services.
HESG.OB Health Sciences Group, Inc. is a provider of products and services to the nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical industries. Its subsidiaries include Quality Botanical Ingredients, Inc., a manufacturer and contract processor of bulk botanical materials and nutritional ingredients for the nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries; XCEL Healthcare, Inc., a licensed, specialty compounding pharmacy focused on delivering pharmacology solutions to customers with chronic ailments that require long-term therapy, and BioSelect Innovations, Inc., which develops and sells products based on technologies in the areas of topical and transdermal drug delivery, cosmeceuticals and integrative medicine to a global network of customers who manufacture and distribute compounded pharmaceuticals, functional foods skin care products and cosmetics. In October 2004, the Company acquired Polymann Technologies, Inc. and in November 2004, the Company acquired Apple Peel Technologies, Inc.
HNT Health Net, Inc. is an integrated managed care organization that delivers managed healthcare services. The health plans and government contracts subsidiaries provide health benefits through its health maintenance organizations (HMOs), insured preferred provider organizations (PPOs) and point-of-service (POS) plans to 5.3 million individuals in 14 states through group, individual, Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE programs. In addition, it owns health and life insurance companies licensed to sell exclusive provider organization (EPO), PPO, POS and indemnity products, as well as auxiliary non-health products, such as life and accidental death and disability insurance in 36 states and the District of Columbia. It operates within two segments: Health Plan Services and Government Contracts. In October 2003, it sold certain of its workers' compensation services subsidiaries organized under Health Net Employer Services, Inc. (HN Employer Services) to First Health Group Corp. (First Health).
HMA Health Management Associates, Inc. owns and operates general acute care hospitals and psychiatric hospitals in non-urban communities. As of September 30, 2004, it operated 52 hospitals, consisting of 50 acute care hospitals with a total of 7,286 licensed beds and two psychiatric hospitals with a total of 178 licensed beds. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company operated facilities located in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia.
HGRD.OB Health Grades, Inc. (HealthGrades) provides objective healthcare provider ratings and advisory services. It provides clients with healthcare information, including information relating to quality of service and detailed profile information on physicians that enables them to measure, assess, enhance and market healthcare quality. The Company's clients include hospitals, employers, benefits consulting firms, payers, insurance companies and consumers. HealthGrades provides ratings or profile information relating to the healthcare providers including over 4,700 hospitals with risk-adjusted ratings on twenty-six procedures and diagnoses and programmatic ratings for obstetrics and women's health; over 620,000 physicians in over 120 specialties, and over 16,000 nursing homes.
HFIT.OB Health Fitness Corporation provides fitness and wellness management services and programs. The Company's fitness-center-based services include the development, marketing and management of corporate-, hospital- and community-based fitness centers, health-related programming and on-site physical therapy and occupational health services. While consumers of these services are typically corporate employees and individuals interested in a healthy lifestyle, revenues are generated almost exclusively through business-to-business contractual relationships. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Health Fitness completed its purchase of the business assets of the Health &amp; Fitness Services Division of Johnson &amp; Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc.
HEXS.OB Health Express USA, Inc. owns and operates a restaurant in Boca Raton, Florida, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Healthy Bites Grill of Boca, Inc. The Company plans to expand through franchising, which will be conducted through its wholly owned subsidiary, Health Express Franchise Company. Health Express has selected to carry and use several products with national brand name recognition, including meal supplements, such as Met-Rx protein shakes, Myoplex protein shakes and numerous other supplements. Food distributors include US Foods for bulk service ingredients, J&amp;B Produce for greens and sprouts, Spiegel for buffalo and sirloin meats and Elite for various produce.
HDVY.OB Health Discovery Corporation (formerly Direct Wireless Communications, Inc.) is a development-stage company engaged in the acquisition of new technologies in the biotechnology industry. The Company develops a product line of newly discovered biomarkers and pathways, which will include human genes and genetic variations, as well as gene, protein and metabolite expression differences. Health Discovery Corporation provides pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies with all aspects of first-phase diagnostic and drug discovery, from expert assessment of the clinical dilemma through proper selection and procurement of high-quality specimens. It then applies its analytical evaluation methods and computational analysis to produce relevant and accurate clinical data, producing accurate biomarker and pathway discoveries, resulting in patent protection of its biomarker discoveries for future development.
HCN Health Care REIT, Inc. is an equity real estate investment trust (RIET) that invests in healthcare facilities, primarily skilled nursing and assisted living facilities in the United States. The Company also invests in specialty care facilities. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company had investments in 328 facilities located in 33 states and managed by 47 different operators. The portfolio included 219 assisted living facilities, 101 skilled nursing facilities and eight specialty care facilities. In October 2003, the Company sold its investment in Atlantic Healthcare Finance L.P.
HCP Health Care Property Investors Inc. (HCP) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests in healthcare-related real estate located throughout the United States, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, assisted and retirement living facilities, medical office buildings and other healthcare facilities. The Company leases the properties on a long-term basis to healthcare providers. HCP also leases medical office space to providers and physicians on a shorter-term basis and provides mortgage financing on healthcare facilities. During the fiscal year ended December 28, 2003, its portfolio of properties included those invested through joint ventures and mortgage loans and consisted of 554 facilities located in 44 states. The facilities are comprised of 31 hospitals, 173 long-term care facilities, 124 assisted living and retirement living facilities, 196 medical office buildings and 30 other healthcare facilities.
HDWR Headwaters Incorporated is a diversified company providing products, technologies and services to the energy, construction and home improvement industries. Headwaters conduct its business primarily through four business units, including Headwaters Resources, Headwaters Technology Innovation Group (HTI), Headwaters Construction Materials and Headwaters Technology Innovation Group. In September 2004, the Company acquired Tapco Holdings Inc., a manufacturer of building products and professional tools used in residential remodeling and construction. In June 2004, the Company acquired Eldorado Stone, LLC, a manufacturer of architectural manufactured stone based in San Marcos, California. Eldorado Stone is being purchased from Graham Partners, a middle-market private equity firm. Eldorado Stone will be integrated into Headwaters' coal-based construction materials operations.
HED Head N.V. is a global manufacturer and marketer of branded sporting goods serving the skiing, tennis and diving markets. The Company has created or acquired a portfolio of brands: Head, which include alpine skis, ski boots and snowboard products and tennis, racquetball and squash racquets; Penn, tennis balls and racquetball balls; Tyrolia, a ski bindings, and Mares and Dacor, which are diving equipment. The Company's intermediate holding company subsidiary is Head Holding Unternehmensbeteiligung GmbH. Its products are sold through over 32,000 customers in over 80 countries and target sports enthusiasts of varying levels of ability and interest ranging from the novice to the professional athlete.
HDB HDFC Bank Limited (the Bank) is a private sector bank in India engaged in retail banking, wholesale banking and treasury operations. The retail banking division provides loans against securities, auto loans, personal loans, two-wheeler loans and business banking loans to small businesses, bill payment services, credit cards, debit cards, third-party distribution, investment advisory services, card and automated teller machine (ATM) acquiring transactions and depositary services. Through its wholesale banking operations, the Bank provides loans, deposit products, documentary credits, guarantees, bullion trading and foreign exchange and derivative products. It also provides cash management services, clearing and settlement services for stock exchanges, tax and other collections for the government, custody services for mutual funds and correspondent banking services. The treasury group manages its balance sheet and provides foreign exchange and derivative products for its clients.
HCC HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc. provides group life, accident and health and property and casualty insurance coverages, underwriting agency operations and intermediary services both to commercial customers and individuals. The Company concentrates its activities in selected, narrowly defined, specialty lines of business. HCC operates primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain and Bermuda, although some of its operations have a broader international scope. The Company underwrites insurance both on a direct basis, where it insures a risk in exchange for a premium, and on a reinsurance basis, where it insures all or a portion of another insurance company's risk in exchange for all or a portion of the premium. HCC markets its insurance products both directly to customers and through independent or affiliated agents and brokers.
HCA HCA Inc. is a holding company whose affiliates own and operate hospitals and related healthcare entities. As of December 31, 2003, it operated 191 hospitals, consisting of 176 general, acute care hospitals; seven psychiatric hospitals; one rehabilitation hospital, and seven hospitals included in joint ventures. In addition, it operated 83 freestanding surgery centers. HCA's general, acute care hospitals typically provide a range of services to accommodate such medical specialties as internal medicine, general surgery, cardiology, oncology, neurosurgery, orthopedics and obstetrics, as well as diagnostic and emergency services. Outpatient and ancillary healthcare services are provided by HCA's general, acute care hospitals and through HCA's freestanding surgery centers, diagnostic centers and rehabilitation facilities. HCA's psychiatric hospitals provide mental health care services through inpatient, partial hospitalization and outpatient settings.
FUL H.B. Fuller Company and its subsidiaries manufacture and market adhesives and specialty chemical products globally, with sales operations in 33 countries in North America, Europe, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region. The largest business segment is industrial and performance adhesives products for applications in various markets, including assembly, packaging, converting, non-woven, automotive, graphic arts and footwear in 2003. The Company also produces and supplies other specialty chemical products for a variety of applications such as ceramic tile and HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) insulation installation, powder coatings applied to metal surfaces for office furniture, appliances and lawn and garden equipment, specialty hot melt products for packaging applications, consumer products and windows market applications, as well as liquid paint sold through retail outlets in Central America.
HAYZ Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc. (Hayes) is a supplier of wheels, wheel-end attachments, aluminum structural components and automotive brake components. The Company is a major manufacturer of automotive wheels. In addition, the Company also designs and manufactures wheels and brake components for commercial highway vehicles, and powertrain components and aluminum non-structural components for the automotive, commercial highway, heating and general equipment industries. Hayes has a global footprint with 44 facilities located in 14 countries around the world. It sells products to every major North American, Japanese and European manufacturer of passenger cars and light trucks, as well as more than 300 commercial highway vehicle customers throughout the world.
HWKN Hawkins, Inc. is engaged in the formulation, blending and distribution of bulk and specialty chemicals, which it conducts in two segments: Water Treatment and Industrial. The Water Treatment segment specializes in providing equipment, chemicals and solutions to problems for potable water, municipal and industrial wastewater, industrial process water and non-residential swimming pool water. The Industrial segment specializes in providing industrial chemicals and services to the energy, electronics, chemical processing, pulp and paper, medical device and plating industries.
HKRRF.OB Hawker Resources Inc. is engaged in the business of exploring and developing oil and natural gas reserves in Western Canada, as well as acquiring oil and natural gas properties. The Company's primary business is a full-cycle oil and gas operation with a dual focus on exploration and development activities and on an active acquisition strategy, with a particular emphasis on natural gas opportunities. Hawker employs a cheap deep approach to exploration by implementing a high-density drilling program with low-cost options to look at deeper horizons, while continuing to seek out additional opportunities to add to its land base. During the year ended December 31, 2003, approximately 98% and 2% of the Company's revenues were generated from Canadian and international customers, respectively.
HWK Hawk Corporation is a supplier of friction products and powder metal precision components for industrial, agricultural, powersports and aerospace applications. The Company focuses on designing, manufacturing and marketing products requiring sophisticated engineering and production techniques. Hawk operates in three reportable segments: friction products, precision components and performance racing. Its friction products include parts for brakes, clutches and transmissions used in construction vehicles, agricultural vehicles, trucks, motorcycles, as well as race cars and brake parts for landing systems used in commercial and general aviation. The precision components are used in pumps, motors, transmissions, anti-lock brake systems and other applications for industrial equipment, lawn and garden equipment, appliances, small hand tools and trucks. The performance racing products include clutch, transmissions and driveline systems.
HE Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. (HEI) is a holding company with its subsidiaries engaged in the electric utility, banking and other businesses operating in the State of Hawaii. HEI's predecessor, Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. (HECO), was incorporated in October 1891. As a result of a 1983, corporate reorganization, HECO became an HEI subsidiary and common shareholders of HECO became common shareholders of HEI. The Company and its operating subsidiaries, Maui Electric Company, Limited (MECO) and Hawaii Electric Light Company, Inc. (HELCO), are regulated electric public utilities providing the only electric public utility service on the islands of Oahu, Maui, Lanai, Molokai and Hawaii, which islands collectively include approximately 93% of Hawaii's electric public utility market.
HA Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. is a holding company that conducts its operations through its wholly owned subsidiary, Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. (Hawaiian). The Company is engaged primarily in the scheduled transportation of passengers, cargo and mail. It provides passenger and cargo service from Hawaii, principally Honolulu, to nine Western United States cities. It also provides daily service among the six major islands of the State of Hawaii and weekly service to each of Pago Pago, American Samoa and Papeete, Tahiti, in the South Pacific. Charter service is provided from Honolulu to Las Vegas and Anchorage, Alaska. Effective January 31, 2003, the Company discontinued its charter flight between Honolulu and Las Vegas, but will continue to operate a daily scheduled flight from Honolulu to Las Vegas. In March 2003, Hawaiian filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. The Company was not included in the filing.
HVT Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc. (Havertys), together with its subsidiaries, is a home furnishings retailer in the United States, operating 113 showrooms in 15 contiguous southern and central states as of December 31, 2003. The Company provides its customers with a selection of furniture and accessories primarily in the middle to upper-middle price ranges. It primarily sells living room furniture, bedroom furniture, dining room furniture, bedding and accessories. Havertys offers branded merchandise such as Broyhill, Lane, Bernhardt, La-Z-Boy, Sealy and Serta. It also carries merchandise that bears the Havertys brand. These items were developed primarily with manufacturers whose names do not carry the same level of customer awareness as Havertys. As an added convenience to its customers, Havertys offers financing through an internal revolving charge credit plan, as well as through a third-party finance company.
HAVS Havas is a global advertising and communications services company that operates through its three divisions: Euro RSCG Worldwide, Media Planning Group and Arnold Worldwide Partners. The Company offers a range of communications services, including integrated communications, traditional advertising, direct marketing, media planning and buying, corporate communications, internal communications, sales promotion, design, television sponsorship, human resources, multimedia interactive communications and public relations. Havas has operations in 88 countries through its agencies located in 45 countries throughout Europe, North America, the Asia-Pacific region and Latin America, as well as contractual affiliations with agencies in 43 additional countries.
HAUP Hauppauge Digital, Inc. engineers, develops, subcontracts for manufacture, market and sale of products for the personal computer (PC) market and the Apple Macintosh market. The Company offers products for the home entertainment market. It has four primary product categories analog television receiver products for personal computers, digital television receiver products, personal video recorders (PVR) and MediaMVP (multimedia video processor) digital media players for home networks. The subsidiaries of the Company include Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. and Hauppauge Digital Europe S.a.r.l.
HAST Hastings Entertainment, Inc. is a multimedia entertainment retailer operating entertainment superstores that sell and rent various home entertainment products, including books, music, software, periodicals, new and used compact discs (CDs), digital video discs (DVDs), video games and videocassettes, video game consoles and DVD players. During March 2004, the Company operated 148 superstores in small to medium-sized markets located in 20 states in the Western and Midwestern United States. It also operates a multimedia entertainment e-commerce Website offering a selection of books, music, software, videocassettes, video games and DVDs. The Company has two operating segments: retail stores and Internet operations. It also operates two wholly owned subsidiaries: Hastings Properties, Inc. and Hastings Internet, Inc. A third subsidiary, Hastings College Stores, Inc. ceased operations in 2001.
HAS Hasbro, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets games and toys ranging from traditional to high-tech. Its core brands include PLAYSKOOL, TONKA, SUPER SOAKER, MILTON BRADLEY, PARKER BROTHERS, TIGER and WIZARDS OF THE COAST. The Company's offerings encompass a variety of games, including traditional board and card, handheld electronic, trading card and roleplaying games, as well as electronic learning aids and puzzles. The toy offerings include boys' action figures, vehicles and playsets, girls' toys, electronic toys and plush products, preschool toys and infant products, children's consumer electronics, electronic interactive products, creative play and toy related specialty products. Hasbro also licenses to others certain of its trademarks, characters and other property rights for use in connection with consumer promotions and the sale of non-competing toys and non-toy products. The Company's segments are U.S. Toys, Games and International.
HRVE Harvey Electronics, Inc. is engaged in the retail sale, service and custom installation of audio, video and home theater equipment in the in the Metropolitan New York area. The equipment includes high-fidelity components and systems, digital versatile disc (DVD) players, high-definition television, direct view projection, plasma flat-screen, liquid crystal display (LCD) flat panel and digital light processing (DLP) television sets, audio/video furniture, digital satellite systems, conventional telephones, service contracts and related accessories. As of November 1, 2003, Harvey operated nine locations, consisting of seven Harvey specialty retail stores and two Bang &amp; Olufsen branded stores. The Company's stores are designed to offer a pleasing environment and to display its products and custom installation services in realistic home settings commonly known in the industry as lifestyle home vignettes.
HNR Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. is an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, development, production and management of oil and gas properties. The Company has acquired and developed significant interests in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and has undeveloped acreage offshore China. Its producing operations are conducted principally through its 80%-owned Venezuelan subsidiary, Harvest Vinccler, C.A., which operates the South Monagas Unit in Venezuela. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had total estimated proved reserves in the South Monagas Unit, net of minority interest, of 96.4 million barrels of oil equivalent. Until September 25, 2003, HNR had operations in the Russian Federation through its minority equity investment in LLC Geoilbent. On September 25, 2003, the Company sold its 34% minority equity investment in LLC Geoilbent to Yukos Operational Holding Limited.
HBIO Harvard Bioscience, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets a range of specialized products, primarily scientific instruments used by research scientists, to accelerate drug discovery research at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities and government laboratories. The Company's product range is generally targeted towards four major application areas: Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion and Toxicity (ADMET) screening, molecular biology, automation of genomics and proteomics experiments and high-throughput/high-content screening of potential drugs. Harvard sells its products to researchers in over 100 countries through its direct sales force, catalogs and through distributors. The Company has sales and manufacturing operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria and Belgium, and sales facilities in France and Canada.
HTVL.OB Hartville Group, Inc. (Hartville Group) is a holding company whose wholly owned subsidiaries include Hartville Insurance Company, Ltd. (Hartville) and Petsmarketing Insurance.com Agency, Inc. (the Agency). Hartville is a reinsurance company that is registered in the Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Hartville was formed to reinsure pet health insurance that is being marketed by the Agency. The Agency is primarily a marketing/administration company concentrating on the sale of its proprietary health insurance plans for domestic pets. Its business plan calls for introducing its product effectively and efficiently through a variety of distribution systems. The Company accepts applications, underwrites and issues policies electronically.
HMX Hartmarx Corporation and its subsidiaries operate exclusively in the apparel business. The Company's operations are comprised of the Men's Apparel Group and Women's Apparel Group. The Men's Apparel Group designs, manufactures and markets men's tailored clothing, slacks, sportswear (including golfwear) and dress furnishings (shirts and ties). Products are sold at luxury, premium and moderate price points under a variety of apparel brands, both owned and under license, to an extensive range of retail channels. The Women's Apparel Group markets women's career apparel, sportswear and accessories to department and specialty stores under owned and licensed brand names, as well as through a direct-to-consumer operation offering a range of apparel and accessories to business and professional women through catalogs and its e-commerce Website.
HHS Harte-Hanks, Inc. is a worldwide direct and targeted marketing company that provides direct marketing services and shopper advertising opportunities to a range of local, regional, national and international consumer and business-to-business marketers. The Company's direct marketing business operates in the United States and internationally, while its shopper business operates in selected local and regional markets in California and Florida. Direct marketing, which represented 62% of the Company's revenues in 2003, improves the return on its clients' marketing investment with a range of services organized around five solution points: construct and update the database, access the data, analyze the data, apply the knowledge and execute the programs. Harte-Hanks Shoppers is a North American owner, operator and distributor of shopper publications, with shoppers that are zoned into 877 separate editions reaching more than 10 million households in California and Florida each week.
HRCT.OB The Hartcourt Companies, Inc. is a growth oriented company in the China's information technology (IT) distribution and retail sectors. The Company's China distribution network includes 33 retail stores in the cities of Shanghai, Beijing, HangZhou and Wenzhou, primarily engaged in the sales of white box desktops, personal computer (PC) components, monitors, accessories, peripherals and branded notebooks. It has three regional sales offices and distribution centers to service commercial customers. The Company's commercial customers are mainly value-added resellers, systems integrators, retail outlets and enterprise end users. Harcourt provides warranty and repair services to further enhance customer experience and increase its overall competitiveness in the market place. In April 2004, the Company acquired 51% of the Beijing Challenger group of companies, whose five subsidiaries specialize in the full range of IBM products.
HSC Harsco Corporation is a diversified, multinational provider of industrial services and engineered products. The Company's operations fall into three reportable segments: Mill Services, Access Services, and Gas and Fluid Control. The Company reports all other operations under the category labeled Other Infrastructure Products and Services. The Mill Services Segment consists of the MultiServ Division, which is a global provider of outsourced, on-site mill services to the global steel and metals industries. The Access Services Segment includes the Company's SGB Group and Patent Construction Systems Divisions. The Gas and Fluid Control Segment offers gas containment products. The Other Infrastructure Products and Services Category includes the Harsco Track Technologies, Reed Minerals, IKG Industries and Patterson-Kelley Divisions. The Company has over 400 locations in 43 countries, including the United States.
HPOL Harris Interactive Inc. with its subsidiaries is a worldwide market research, polling and consulting firm. The Company uses both Internet-based and traditional methodologies to provide its worldwide customers with market knowledge in many industries. Its Internet-based and traditional market research and polling services include research studies, which may involve both data collection and data analysis, conducted on specific issues for specific customers; research studies, which involves Internet-based data collection, conducted for other market research firms. The Company operates in one business segment, and services its clients through multiple operating groups, based on industry, research methodology and/or geography. Its services are focused upon serving numerous vertical markets, which include, but are not limited to, pharmaceutical and healthcare, ecommerce, financial services, technology, education, media and advertising and many more.
TINY Harris &amp; Harris Group, Inc. is a venture capital company specializing in tiny technology that operates as a non-diversified business development company (BDC). The Company makes initial venture capital investments in tiny technology, which it defines as microsystems, microelectromechanical systems (which is referred to as MEMS) and nanotechnology. It considers a company to be a tiny technology company if the company employs or intends to employ technology that it considers to be at the microscale or smaller and that is material to its business plan. The Company's portfolio includes non-tiny technology investments made prior to the year ended December 31, 2001, and it may make follow-on investments in either tiny or non-tiny technology companies.
HRS Harris Corporation, along with its subsidiaries, is an international communications technology company focused on providing assured communications products, systems and services for government and commercial customers. The Company's operating divisions serve markets for government communications, secure tactical radio, microwave and broadcast systems. The Company structures its operations around four business segments: Government Communications Systems, RF Communications, Microwave Communications and Broadcast Communications. During the fiscal year ended July 02, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company sold its telecom tools and test systems (TTS) product line, formerly reported under the Network Support segment. The Company sells products in more than 150 countries. In November 2004, the Company acquired Encoda Systems Holdings, Inc., a global supplier of software and service solutions for the broadcast media industry, including television, radio, cable, satellite and advertising agency.
HWFG Harrington West Financial Group, Inc. is a diversified, community-based, financial institution holding company that conducts its operations primarily through its wholly owned subsidiary, Los Padres Bank, FSB, a federally chartered savings bank located in central California and Scottsdale, Arizona, and its division in the Kansas City metropolitan area, Harrington Bank. The Bank provides an array of financial products and services for businesses and retail customers through its 12 full-service offices. It is primarily engaged in attracting deposits from individuals and businesses and using these deposits, together with borrowed funds, to originate single-family and multi-family residential, commercial real estate, commercial business and consumer loans. The Bank also generates fee income from the brokering of mortgage loans, deposit services, early prepayments of loans and loan originations.
HET Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. is a casino entertainment provider. Its business is conducted through a wholly owned subsidiary, Harrah's Operating Company, Inc., which owns or manages, through various subsidiaries, 25 casinos in the United States. The Company's principal asset is the stock of Harrah's Operating Company, Inc., which, together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries, hold substantially all of the assets of Harrah's businesses. Harrah's casino business commenced operations in 1937. Its casino entertainment facilities typically include hotel and convention space, restaurants and non-gaming entertainment facilities. Two of its properties are racetracks at which the Company has installed slot machines. In September 2003, Harrah's entered into an agreement to acquire Horseshoe Gaming Holding Corp. In May 2003, the Company sold Harvey's Wagon Wheel Hotel &amp; Casino in Central City, Colorado, to Centaur Colorado, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Centaur, Inc.
HLD Harold's Stores, Inc. operates a chain of women's and men's specialty apparel stores in the United States. At January 31, 2004, the Company operated 42 stores in 19 states, comprised of 39 full-price retail stores and three outlet stores to clear markdowns and slow-moving merchandise, in addition to limited merchandise produced specifically for the outlets. The Company's stores offer classically inspired apparel to the upscale, quality-conscious consumer primarily in the 30- to 50-year old age group. The stores typically are located in shopping centers and malls with other upscale specialty retailers. More than 95% of sales consist of the Company's designs controlled by Harold's own designers and merchants and sourced by Harold's manufacturing staff from domestic, European and Asian manufacturers. The remainder consists of merchandise selected to complement Harold's merchandise presentation.
HMY Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited is an independent growth-oriented company in the gold production business. The Company and its subsidiaries conduct underground and surface gold mining and related activities, including exploration, processing, smelting and refining. During the fiscal year ended October 8, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company processed approximately 33.955 million tons of ore and sold 3,225,187 ounces of gold. Harmony conducts its mining operations through various subsidiaries. As of June 30, 2004, Harmony's principal subsidiaries were Randfontein Estates Limited, Evander Gold Mines Limited, ARMgold/Harmony Freegold Joint Venture Company (Pty) Ltd, ARMgold Limited, Avgold Limited, Kalahari Goldridge Mining Company Limited and Harmony Gold (Australia) (Pty) Limited. All are wholly-owned direct subsidiaries incorporated in South Africa, save for Harmony Gold (Australia) (Pty) Limited, a direct subsidiary incorporated in Australia.
HLIT Harmonic Inc. designs, manufactures and sells digital video systems and fiber optic systems that enable network operators to provide a range of interactive and advanced digital services that include digital video, video-on-demand, high definition television, high-speed Internet access and telephony. The Company also derives a small portion of its sales from telephone companies that offer video services to their customers. It is organized into two operating divisions. The Convergent Systems division develops standards-based solutions that enable operators to increase the capacity of their broadband networks with advanced compression and stream processing technology. The Broadband Access Networks division applies its strengths in optics and electronics to develop products that provide enhanced network reliability and allow broadband service providers to deliver advanced services. In addition, the Company provides technical support services to its customers worldwide.
HAR Harman International Industries, Incorporated is a manufacturer of high-quality, high-fidelity audio and electronic systems for consumer and professional use. The Company is organized into segments based on the end user markets it serves. The Consumer Systems Group designs, manufactures and markets loudspeakers and audio, video and electronic systems for vehicle, home and computer applications. The Professional Group designs, manufactures and markets loudspeakers and electronics used by audio professionals in concert halls, stadiums, airports and other buildings and for recording, broadcast, cinema and music reproduction applications.
HARL Harleysville Savings Financial Corporation is a bank holding company for Harleysville Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank operates from five full-service offices located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The Bank's primary business consists of attracting deposits from the general public through a variety of deposit programs and investing such deposits principally in first-mortgage loans secured by residential properties in the Bank's primary market area. The Bank also originates a variety of consumer loans, predominately home equity loans and lines of credit also secured by residential properties in the Bank's primary lending area. As of September 30, 2004, the Company had $718.2 million of total assets and $405.2 million of deposits.
HNBC Harleysville National Corporation provides banking services to individual and corporate customers located in eastern Pennsylvania through its subsidiary banks: Harleysville National Bank and Trust Company, Citizens National Bank and Security National Bank (collectively the Banks). HNC Financial Company and HNC Reinsurance Company are wholly owned subsidiaries of Harleysville. HNC Financial Company's principal business function is to expand the investment opportunities of Harleysville. HNC Reinsurance Company functions as a reinsurer of consumer loan credit life and accident and health insurance. The Banks operate as commercial banks that render commercial loans and leases and, to a lesser degree, mortgage and consumer credits.
HGIC Harleysville Group Inc. is an insurance holding company that, through its subsidiaries, engages in the property and casualty insurance business. Harleysville Group underwrites property and casualty insurance in both the personal and commercial lines of insurance. The Company's personal lines of insurance include both auto and homeowners, and its commercial lines include auto, commercial multi-peril and workers compensation. The business is marketed primarily in the eastern and midwestern United States through independent agents. Harleysville Group is approximately 57% owned by Harleysville Mutual Insurance Company (Mutual Company). The Mutual Company and the Company's insurance subsidiaries participate in an intercompany pooling arrangement under which such subsidiaries and the Mutual Company combine their property and casualty business.
HDI Harley-Davidson, Inc. (HDI) is the parent company for the group of companies doing business as Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Buell Motorcycle Company and Harley-Davidson Financial Services. Harley-Davidson Motor Company produces heavyweight motorcycles and offers a line of motorcycle parts, accessories, apparel and general merchandise. It manufactures five families of motorcycles: Touring, Dyna Glide, Softail, VRSC and Sportster. Buell Motorcycle Company produces sport motorcycles, including four big-twin XB models and the single-cylinder Buell Blast. Buell also offers a line of motorcycle parts, accessories, apparel and general merchandise. Harley-Davidson Financial Services provides wholesale and retail financing and insurance programs, primarily to Harley-Davidson/Buell dealers and customers.
HEC Harken Energy Corporation, incorporated in 1973, is engaged in oil and gas exploration, development and production operations both domestically and internationally through its various subsidiaries. The majority of its domestic operations presently include oil and gas exploration, development and production operations in the onshore and offshore Gulf Coast regions of South Texas and Louisiana. The Company's international operations during the year ended December 31, 2003 included three exclusive Association Contracts with the state-owned oil company in the Republic of Colombia and Technical Evaluation Agreements covering acreage in Peru and Panama. It divides its operations into two operating segments, which are managed and evaluated as separate operations that are North American Exploration and Production Operations and Middle American Exploration and Development Operations.
HDNG Hardinge Inc. manufactures high-precision, computer-controlled, metal-cutting turning machines, grinding machines and vertical machining centers and accessories related to those machines. It has been a manufacturer of industrial-use, super-precision and general precision turning machine tools since 1890. Turning machines, or lathes, are power-driven machines used to remove material from a rough-formed part, by moving multiple cutting tools against the surface of a part rotating at very-high speeds in a spindle mechanism. The multi-directional movement of the cutting tools allows the part to be shaped to the desired dimensions. On parts produced by Hardinge machines, those dimensions are often measured in millionths of inches.
HARB Harbor Florida Bancshares, Inc. is the holding company for Harbor Federal Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank provides a range of banking and related insurance services but is principally engaged in the business of attracting deposits predominately from the communities it serves, and using these and other funds to originate primarily one-to-four family first mortgage loans. Harbor Insurance Agency, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank, provides a full range of insurance products.
HAN Hanson PLC is a heavy building materials company. The Company is a producer of aggregates including crushed rock, sand and gravel, as well as concrete products, clay bricks and ready-mixed concrete. Its other principal products include asphalt and concrete roof tiles, and its operations are in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, Continental Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The Company restructured its trading operations, in June 2003, into four identifiable trading regions: Hanson North America, Hanson UK, Hanson Australia and Hanson Continental Europe &amp; Asia.
HANS Hansen Natural Corporation is a holding company and has no operating business except through its direct wholly owned subsidiaries, Hansen Beverage Company (HBC) and Hard e Beverage Company (HEB). HBC develops, markets and distributes alternative beverage category natural sodas, fruit juices, energy drinks and energy sports drinks, soy smoothies, functional drinks, sparkling lemonades and orangeades, non-carbonated, ready-to-drink iced teas, juice cocktails, children's multi-vitamin juice drinks and non-carbonated lightly flavored energy waters under the Hansen's brand name. It also markets and distributes energy drinks under the Monster brand name, nutrition bars and cereals under the Hansen's brand name and natural sodas, premium natural sodas with supplements, organic natural sodas, seltzer waters and energy drinks under the Blue Sky brand name. The Company's subsidiary, HEB, markets and distributes Hard e malt beverages.
HVGO.OB Hanover Gold Company, Inc. owns gold mining properties in southwestern Montana for exploration and future development. The Company's mining properties are located within the upper part of Brown's Gulch, Hungry Hollow and Barton Gulch within the Virginia City Mining District of Montana. Thirty-two patented and 121 unpatented mining claims are within the Virginia City Mining District and another 31 patented claims are located near Pony and Norris, Montana. The Company has no recurring source of revenue, has incurred operating losses since inception and has negative working capital. In addition, in response to the impact of mining related legislation in Montana, the Company has abandoned a significant portion of its mining interests in Montana.
HNV Hanover Direct, Inc. provides branded merchandise through a portfolio of catalogs and e-commerce platforms to consumers, as well as a range of Internet, e-commerce and fulfillment services to businesses. The Company's direct commerce operations comprise its catalog and Website portfolio of home fashions, apparel and gift categories including, during 2003, Domestications, The Company Store, The Company Kids, Scandia Down, Silhouettes, International Male, Undergear and Gump's By Mail. In addition, Hanover owns Gump's, a retail store based in San Francisco, California. The Company's business-to-business operations comprise the third-party fulfillment business of Keystone Internet Services, LLC, the Company's third-party, end-to-end, fulfillment, logistics and e-care provider.
HC Hanover Compressor Company, together with its subsidiaries, provides a natural gas compression business offering service, fabrication and equipment for oil and natural gas processing and transportation applications. The Company sells and rents this equipment and provides operation and maintenance services, including run-time guarantees, for both customer-owned equipment and its own fleet of rental equipment. The Company's customers include both private and independent oil and gas producers and distributors, as well as national oil and gas companies in the countries in which it operates.
HCM Hanover Capital Mortgage Holdings, Inc. (Hanover) is a specialty finance company organized as a real estate investment trust. The Company has two primary subsidiaries: Hanover Capital Partners Ltd. (HCP) and HanoverTrade, Inc. (HT). Hanover invests in subordinate mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and mortgage loans and earns net investment income on these investments. HCP generates non-interest income by providing consulting and advisory services for third parties, including loan sale advisory services, loan file due diligence reviews, staffing solutions and mortgage assignment and collateral rectification services. HT generates non-interest income by providing loan sale advisory and traditional loan brokerage services, technology solutions and valuation services.
HAFC Hanmi Financial Corporation serves as a holding company for Hanmi Bank (the Bank). Hanmi Bank is a community bank conducting general business banking, with its primary market encompassing the multi-ethnic population of Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Clara and San Diego counties. The Bank's lending activities include commercial loans, Small Business Administration (SBA) guaranteed loans, commercial mortgage loans, real estate construction loans, residential mortgage loans and consumer loans. Hanmi Bank has 15 full-service branches. During 2003, the Bank opened branches in Santa Clara County and downtown Los Angeles. In April 2004, the Company acquired Pacific Union Bank, a California state-chartered commercial bank headquartered in Los Angeles.
HGR Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc. owns and operates orthotic and prosthetic patient-care centers in the United States. In the orthotics business, the Company designs, fabricates, fits and maintains standard and custom-made braces and other devices (such as spinal, knee and sports-medicine braces) that provide external support to patients suffering from musculoskeletal disorders, such as ailments of the back, extremities or joints and injuries from sports or other activities. In the prosthetics business, Hanger designs, fabricates, fits and maintains custom-made artificial limbs for patients who are without limbs as a result of traumatic injuries, vascular diseases, diabetes, cancer or congenital disorders. The Company is also a distributor of branded and private label orthotic and prosthetic devices and components in the United States, all of which are manufactured by third parties. At December 31, 2003, Hanger operated 585 patient-care centers in 44 states and the District of Columbia.
HDL Handleman Company is a category manager and distributor of prerecorded music to mass merchants in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil and Argentina. As a category manager, the Company manages a broad assortment of titles to optimize sales and inventory productivity in retail stores, and also provides direct-to-store shipments, marketing and in-store merchandising. During the fiscal year ended May 1, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Handleman committed to a plan and reached an agreement to sell certain of its subsidiary companies within its North Coast Entertainment (NCE) business segment.
HBHC Hancock Holding Company is a bank holding company that operated 101 banking offices and 140 automated teller machines (ATMs) in the states of Mississippi and Louisiana through two wholly owned bank subsidiaries, Hancock Bank, Gulfport, Mississippi (Hancock Bank MS) and Hancock Bank of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (Hancock Bank LA). Hancock Bank MS also operated a loan production office in the State of Alabama as of December 31, 2003. Hancock Bank MS and Hancock Bank LA are referred to collectively as the Banks. The Banks are community-oriented and focus primarily on offering commercial, consumer and mortgage loans and deposit services to individuals and small to middle market businesses in their respective market areas. In November 2004, Hancock Bank, a subsidiary of the Company and Ross-King-Walker, Inc. (RKW) finalized Hancock's acquisition of RKW as a division of Hancock Insurance Agency. The post-merger entity will retain the trade name of Ross-King-Walker.
HKF Hancock Fabrics, Inc. is engaged in the retail and wholesale fabric business, selling fabrics and related accessories to the sewing and home decorating markets, and at wholesale to independent retailers. At February 1, 2004, the Company operated 433 stores in 42 states. Hancock supplies various independent retailers at wholesale prices and operates an Internet store under its two domain names. As a wholesaler of fabrics and related items, the Company sells to independent retail fabric stores through its wholesale distribution facility in Baldwyn, Mississippi. Wholesale customers accounted for approximately 1% of its total sales for the fiscal year ended February 1, 2004. 2004.
HANA Hanarotelecom Inc., formerly Hanaro Telecom, Inc. is a provider of high-speed Internet access, local telephony, multimedia, data and Internet data center services. The Company offers its subscribers always-on, high-speed Internet access at speeds up to 10 megabits per second (Mbps) over its own and leased networks. It also offers local telephony services to its subscribers as a licensed local telephony network provider in Korea. In addition, Hanarotelecom provides leased line services and Internet data center (IDC) services to its corporate clients. At April 30, 2004, it has deployed its fiber-optic backbone network in 40 cities and one district in Korea. At that date, the Company provided high-speed Internet access services to 1,228,004 subscribers through its fiber-optic, last-mile connections.
HNAB.OB Hana Biosciences Inc. is a development-stage biopharmaceutical company that aims to acquire, develop and commercialize products for the treatment of important unmet medical needs in cancer and immunological diseases. The Company seeks to acquire proprietary rights to these products by license, or otherwise fund their research and development, and eventually bring the products to market. Hana Biosciences has the rights to, and is developing, two product candidates for use in the treatment of cancer, PT-523 and IPdR. In July 2004, it completed a merger with Email Real Estate.com, Inc.
HAMP Hampshire Group, Limited is an apparel company that operates through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Hampshire Designers, Inc. (Hampshire Designers) and Item-Eyes, Inc. (Item-Eyes). Hampshire Designers is a designer and marketer of sweaters in North America and Item-Eyes is a designer and marketer of related separates. Both Hampshire Designers and Item-Eyes source the manufacture of their products through an international network of quality manufacturers. The Company is an apparel company whose products are women's and men's branded and private-label sweaters and women's woven and knit-related separates. It is a supplier to the moderate-price sector of department stores and sells to mass merchandisers, specialty retail stores and catalog companies. In October 2003, the Company sold Hampshire Investments.
JQH John Q. Hammons Hotels, Inc. is an independent owner and manager of upscale, full-service hotels located primarily in secondary markets. The Company owns and manages 47 hotels, located in 20 states, containing 11,630 guestrooms or suites. John Q. Hammons Hotels also manages 13 hotels, including two Holiday Inns, one Sheraton, four Embassy Suites, two Marriott Courtyards, one Marriott Residence Inn, two Renaissance properties and one non-franchised hotel, all of which are located in seven states (Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas) and containing a total of 3,094 guest rooms. The majority of these 60 hotels operate under the Embassy Suites Hotels, Holiday Inn and Marriott trade names. Most of its hotels are located in or near a state capital, university, convention center, corporate headquarters, office park or other stable demand generator.
HABK.PK Hamilton Bancorp Inc., through its subsidiary, Hamilton Bank, N.A. (the Bank), is engaged in providing global trade finance with particular emphasis on trade with and between South America, Central America and the Caribbean (the Region) and the United States, or otherwise involving the Region. Through its relationships with approximately 300 correspondent banks and with importers and exporters in the United States and the Region, as well as its location in south Florida, which is becoming a focal point for trade in the Region, the Company has been able to take advantage of the substantial growth in this trade. In January 2002, Hamilton Bank, N.A. was placed into receivership by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has been designated as the receiver. As a result of the seizure of the Bank, the Company has limited tangible assets.
HWG The Hallwood Group Incorporated serves as a holding company that classifies its primary continuing business operations into two segments: real estate and textile products. The Company's former energy and hotel business segments were previously reclassified as discontinued operations. Real estate operations are conducted primarily through the Company's wholly owned subsidiaries: HWG, LLC, Hallwood Realty, LLC and Hallwood Commercial Real Estate, LLC. Hallwood Realty is the sole general partner of Hallwood Realty Partners, L.P. (HRP), a master limited partnership. At December 31, 2003, HRP owned 14 real estate properties in six states containing 5,207,000 net rentable square feet. Textile products operations are conducted through the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Brookwood Companies Incorporated. Brookwood is an integrated textile firm that develops and produces fabrics and related products through specialized finishing, treating and coating processes.
HAF Hallmark Financial Services, Inc., with its wholly owned subsidiaries, engages in the sale of property and casualty insurance products. Its business involves marketing and underwriting of non-standard personal automobile insurance in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, commercial insurance in Texas, New Mexico, Idaho, Oregon and Washington and third-party claims administration and other insurance related services. The Company pursues its business activities through the Personal Lines Group that accounted for 23% of the Company's premium volume and through the Commercial Lines Group that accounted for 29% of its premium volume as of December 31, 2003.
HAL Halliburton Company is an oilfield services company and a provider of engineering and construction services. The Company has five business segments. Four segments, Drilling and Formation Evaluation, Fluids, Production Optimization and Landmark and Other Energy Services, constitute the Energy Services Group. The Engineering and Construction Group is the Company's fifth segment. Through the Energy Services Group, Halliburton provides a range of discrete and integrated products and services for the exploration, development and production of oil and gas. The Company serves national and independent oil and gas companies throughout the world. The Engineering and Construction Group provides a range of services to energy and industrial customers and governmental entities worldwide. Halliburton conducts business worldwide in over 100 countries. In January 2005, the Company emerged out of the chapter 11 proceedings and can operate the businesses without Bankruptcy Court supervision.
HPCO.OB Hallador Petroleum Company, together with its principal operating subsidiaries, Hallador Production Company and Hallador Petroleum, LLP, is engaged in the exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas. The Company's primary operating areas consist of the South Cuyama field (the Field), located in Santa Barbara County, California, approximately 75 miles southwest from Bakersfield, California, and the San Juan Basin, located in the northwest corner of New Mexico. Revenue from the Field accounted for 90% of 2003 oil and gas revenue, and San Juan Basin accounted for 4.5%. Hallador owns 92% of Santa Barbara Partners, a general partnership that has a 93% working interest (78% net revenue interest) in the Field. The Field's oil reserves consist of light oil at 29 degrees gravity. The Company's products are sold to various purchasers in the geographic area of the properties.
HX Halifax Corporation provides a range of enterprise maintenance services and solutions to a broad base of commercial and governmental clients in the United States. Halifax provides around-the-clock-technology solutions that can meet enterprise service requirements. The Company is a nationwide high-availability, multi-vendor maintenance service provider for enterprises, including businesses, global service providers, governmental agencies and other organizations in the United States. Its products are High Availability Hardware Maintenance Services offers a mix of nationwide coverage, multi-vendor and multi-system support, project management expertise and service programs; Technology Deployment and Integration Services offer seat management service, and Secure Network Program Services serve the needs of various sectors of the Federal government related to communication services in voice, data and video. In August 2003, Halifax acquired Microserv, Inc.
HAIN The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (Hain Celestial) manufactures, markets, distributes and sells natural, organic, specialty and snack food products under brand names that are sold as better-for-you products. The Company's primary natural food brands include Celestial Seasonings teas, Hain Pure Foods, Westbrae, Westsoy, Rice Dream, Soy Dream, Imagine, Walnut Acres Certified Organic, Little Bear Organic Foods, Bearitos, Arrowhead Mills, Health Valley, Breadshop's, Casbah, Garden of Eatin', Terra Chips, Harry's Premium Snacks, Boston's, Gaston's, Lima, Biomarche, Grains Noirs, Yves Veggie Cuisine, DeBoles, Earth's Best and Nile Spice. Its principal specialty product lines include Hollywood cooking oils, Estee sugar-free products, Kineret kosher foods, Boston Better Snacks and Alba Foods. On June 3, 2004, the Company acquired Jason Natural Products, Inc., a California-based manufacturer and marketer of natural health and body care products.
HGGR Haggar Corp., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, imports and markets casual and dress men's and women's apparel products, including pants, shorts, suits, sportcoats, sweaters, shirts, dresses, skirts and vests in the United States and abroad. Apparel products are offered in a wide variety of styles, fabrics, colors and sizes. The Company's operations are organized into three business segments: wholesale, retail and licensing, each of which offers similar products through different distribution channels.
HAE Haemonetics Corporation develops and manufactures technology to help ensure a safe and adequate blood supply for patients worldwide and to assist blood banks and hospitals to operate in compliance with regulatory requirements. The Company is engaged in manufacturing automated systems and single-use consumables for blood donors and patients, for the collection, processing and surgical salvage of their blood. It also develops associated data management technology. The Company's direct customers are blood and plasma collectors, hospitals and hospital service providers. During the fiscal year ended April 3, 2004 (fiscal 2004), it reorganized into two global product families that address its customers: blood donors and surgical patients. The plasma collection system (PCS) brand systems automate the collection of plasma from donors and then processed into therapeutic pharmaceuticals. The MCS brand systems automate the collection of platelets from volunteer donors.
HABC Habersham Bancorp is a bank holding company that owns all the outstanding shares of common stock of Habersham Bank (the Bank). Habersham Bank is a financial institution that operates a full-service commercial banking business in Habersham, White, Cherokee, Warren and Gwinnett counties, Georgia. It provides such customary banking services, as checking and savings accounts, various types of time deposits, safe deposit facilities and individual retirement accounts. The Bank also makes secured and unsecured loans and provides other financial services to its customers. In addition, Habersham Bank offers trust services, including trust administration, asset management services, estate and will probate and administration and other services in the area of personal trusts. The Bank has one subsidiary, Advantage Insurers, Inc., a property, casualty and life insurance agency.
GYRO Gyrodyne Company of America, Inc. develops real estate holdings in Saint James and Stony Brook, New York. The converted buildings consist of approximately 184,000 rentable square feet, housing 59 tenants in space suitable for office, engineering, manufacturing and warehouse use. This rental property operation is the principal business of the Company. Prior to this, the Company designed and manufactured co-axial helicopters. The Company's property, which is known as Flowerfield, consists of 314 acres. Approximately 30 acres are utilized for the rental property and 284 acres remain undeveloped.
GYMB The Gymboree Corporation is an international specialty retailer operating stores that sell apparel, accessories and play programs for women and children under the Gymboree, Janie and Jack, Janeville and Gymboree Play &amp; Music brands. The Company conducts its business through three primary divisions: Gymboree, Janie and Jack and Gymboree Play &amp; Music. It operates stores in the United States, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom, primarily in regional shopping malls and in selected suburban and urban locations. At January 31, 2004, the Company operated a total of 619 stores.
GWNI.OB GWIN, Inc. provides sports handicapping analysis and advice to sports bettors worldwide through the wholly owned subsidiary, Global SportsEDGE, Inc. Global SportsEDGE provides professional handicapping advice on professional football games played by the National Football League (NFL), professional basketball games played by the National Basketball Association, college football and basketball games, professional major-league baseball, hockey, NASCAR, and golf via television, radio and the Internet.
WILCF G. Willi-Food International Ltd. is engaged, directly and through subsidiaries, in the import, marketing and distribution of over 400 food products in Israel. The Company's main product lines include canned vegetables; canned fish; dairy products; edible oils; canned fruit; dried fruit, nuts and beans; chilled and frozen products, and other products. Some products are also sold in insubstantial volume in the areas administered by the Palestinian Authority. Willi-Food has occasionally sold, in insubstantial volume, to importers in Europe. The products imported by the Company are marketed and sold to over 1,000 customers, including supermarket chains, network wholesalers, minimarkets, the foodservice industry, Israel's military establishment and others. Willi-Food markets the products under the brand name Willi-Food. Certain products are marketed under brand names of the manufacturers or under other brand names. Most of the products the Company imports and markets are approved as Kosher.
GRU GuruNet Corporation provides integrated online reference answers and technology that enable rapid delivery of concise information over the Internet. The Company has acquired and developed technology that intelligently and automatically integrates and retrieves information from disparate sources and delivers the result in a single consolidated view. GuruNet generates revenues by selling subscriptions for its products; licensing and co-branding its technology; establishing partnerships with third-party Websites, and by monetizing visitor traffic to the Company's Website in the form of sponsored links and paid advertisements. GuruNet's answer engine delivers snapshot definitions and explanations from reference sources about numerous topics in its database. Its answer engine automatically displays relevant, narrative responses to a user's query without requiring the user to review a list of hyperlinks offered in response to a query.
GULF.OB GulfWest Energy Inc. is primarily engaged in the acquisition, exploitation, development and production of crude oil and natural gas. The Company also owns three workover service rigs and one swabbing unit that it operates for its own account. As of December 31, 2003, GulfWest Energy owned a total of 684 gross wells, of which it owned 94% working interest in the 266 gross producing wells. The Company is the operator of all the wells, except two, in which it owns working interests. As of December 31, 2003, its reserves consisted of 48% crude oil and 52% natural gas. GulfWest Energy's share in the estimated proved reserves these properties contain was approximately 5.0 million barrels (MBbl) of oil and 32.7 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of natural gas. All of the Company's properties are located on land in Texas, Colorado, Louisiana and Oklahoma, except for the property on Grand Lake, Louisiana.
GPOR.OB Gulfport Energy Corporation is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company with properties located along the Louisiana Gulf Coast. The Company's operations are concentrated in two fields, West Cote Blanche Bay and the Hackberry Fields. Gulfport serves as the operator of substantially all of the properties in which it holds a working interest with the exception of the ChevronTexaco well and deep rights at West Cote Blanche Bay. The Company also owns overriding royalty interests in an additional 14 producing oil and gas wells lying in four fields. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had proved reserves of 22 million barrels of fuel oil equivalent. Gulfport sells its oil and gas at the wellhead and does not refine petroleum products. During 2003, approximately 99% of the Company's revenues from oil and gas sales were attributable to three purchasers: Shell Trading Company, Apache Corporation and ChevronTexaco Corporation.
GMRK GulfMark Offshore, Inc. provides offshore marine services, primarily to companies involved in offshore exploration and production of oil and natural gas. The Company's vessels transport drilling materials, supplies and personnel to offshore facilities, as well as move and position drilling structures. The majority of its operations are conducted in the North Sea, with the balance in offshore Southeast Asia, Brazil, India and West Africa. The size of the Company's fleet has grown from 51 vessels, on December 31, 2001, to 53 vessels, on March 1, 2004. GulfMark's principal customers are integrated oil companies and independent oil and natural gas exploration and production companies working in international markets, and foreign government owned or controlled oil companies, as well as companies that provide logistic, construction and other services to such oil companies and foreign government organizations.
GIFI Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc. (GIFI) is a fabricator of offshore drilling and production platforms and other specialized structures used in the development and production of offshore oil and gas reserves. Structures and equipment fabricated by GIFI include jackets and deck sections of fixed production platforms; hull and/or deck sections of floating production platforms (such as tension leg platforms, SPARs and FPSOs); piles, wellhead protectors, subsea templates and various production, compressor and utility modules, and offshore living quarters. Services provided by GIFI include offshore interconnect pipe hook-up; inshore marine construction; manufacture and repair of pressure vessels, and steel warehousing and sales. The Company's customers are primarily independent oil and gas exploration and production companies. GIFI may also perform work as a sub-contractor for one or more of its competitors.
GTRC Guitar Center, Inc. is a retailer of guitars, amplifiers, percussion instruments, keyboards and pro-audio and recording equipment. Of the 122 Guitar Center stores the Company operated as of December 31, 2003, 107 were located in 45 major United States markets, including, among others, areas in or near Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Detroit, Boston, Minneapolis, Seattle, Phoenix, Atlanta, New York, Denver and Cleveland, and 15 stores were located in secondary markets. In addition, Guitar Center's American Music division operates 19 family music stores specializing in band and orchestral instruments for sale and rental, serving teachers, band directors, college professors and students. The Company is also a direct response retailer of musical instruments in the United States through its wholly owned subsidiary, Musician's Friend, Inc., and its catalog and Website, www.musiciansfriend.com.
GLFD Guilford Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a pharmaceutical company engaged in the research, development and commercialization of products that target the hospital and neurology markets. It markets and sells pharmaceutical products, conducts clinical research to expand the labeled indications for its marketed products and develops new product candidates. The Company also collaborates with other pharmaceutical companies to support the sales and marketing of its products and the clinical development of product candidates. Guilford has two marketed products: GLIADEL Wafer and AGGRASTAT Injection. GLIADEL Wafer provides targeted, site-specific chemotherapy for the treatment of malignant glioma, at the time of initial surgery and for recurrent glioblastoma multiforme. AGGRASTAT Injection is an inhibitor of platelet aggregation, approved for the treatment of acute coronary syndrome. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Guilford acquired AGGRASTAT Injection from Merck &amp; Co., Inc.
GDT Guidant Corporation provides therapeutic medical solutions of distinctive value for customers, patients and healthcare systems worldwide. The Company develops, manufactures and markets implantable defibrillator systems, implantable pacemaker systems, coronary stent systems, angioplasty systems and cardiac surgery systems. Guidant's lifesaving medical technologies are designed to extend the lives and improve the quality of life of millions of patients suffering from life-threatening cardiac and vascular disease. Its primary medical devices treat the heart, managing its rhythms, clearing its arteries and permitting less-invasive surgeries. Guidant has principal operations in the United States, Europe and Asia.
GES Guess?, Inc. designs, markets, distributes and licenses casual apparel and accessories for men, women and children that reflect the American lifestyle and European fashion sensibilities. The Company's apparel is marketed under trademarks including GUESS, GUESS?, GUESS U.S.A., GUESS Jeans, GUESS? and Triangle Design, Question Mark and Triangle Design, BRAND G, a stylized G, GUESS Kids, Baby GUESS and GUESS Collection. The lines include collections of denim and cotton clothing, including jeans, pants, overalls, skirts, dresses, shorts, blouses, shirts, jackets and knitwear. Guess? also selectively grants licenses to manufacture and distribute a range of products that complement its apparel lines, including eyewear, watches, handbags, footwear, kids' and infants' apparel and other fashion accessories. The Company's products are sold through three primary distribution channels: Guess? stores, a network of wholesale accounts and the Internet.
GFED Guaranty Federal Bancshares, Inc. serves as the holding company for Guaranty Bank (the Bank), a state-chartered trust company with banking powers, formerly known as Guaranty Federal Savings Bank. The primary activity of the Company is to oversee its investment in the Bank. The Bank's principal business has been, and continues to be, attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations, in both permanent and construction of one- to four-family residential mortgage loans, multi-family residential mortgage loans, commercial real estate loans and consumer and other loans. It also invests in mortgage-backed securities, United States government and federal agency securities and other marketable securities. The Bank's primary market area is Greene County, which is in the southwestern corner of Missouri and includes the city of Springfield, Missouri.
GNTY Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. serves as the holding company for Guaranty Bond Bank, formally known as Guaranty Bank (the Bank). The Company, through the Bank, offers a range of commercial loan products, including term loans, lines of credit, fixed asset loans, real estate loans and working capital loans. It also offers consumers a range of personal loan products including automobile loans, home improvement loans, consumer loans and mortgage loans. The Company also offers a variety of deposit products, including a money market account that pays a rate competitive with most brokerage investment accounts. Guaranty conducts business at 11 banking locations, with two located in Mount Pleasant, eight located in the Northeast Texas communities of Bogata, Commerce, Deport, Paris, Pittsburg, Sulphur Springs, Talco and Texarkana and one located in the West Texas community of Fort Stockton.
GSH Guangshen Railway Company Limited (Guangshen) is mainly engaged in the railway passenger and freight transportation business between Guangzhou and Shenzhen and certain long-distance passenger transportation services. The Company provides consolidated services relating to railway facilities and technology. Guangshen also engages in other businesses that are ancillary to its transportation business, such as retail sales of food, beverages and merchandise aboard its trains and in its stations, advertising, tourism and property leasing. The Company's rail line traverses the Pearl River Delta. There are 26 stations situated on its rail line, providing passenger and freight transportation services for cities, towns and ports situated between Guangzhou and Shenzhen in the Guangzhou-Shenzhen corridor and Hong Kong. Guangshen's railroad passenger and freight transportation business generated 94% of the Company's total revenues during the year ended December 31, 2003.
GTXI GTx, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development and commercialization of therapeutics primarily related to the treatment of serious men's health conditions. The Company's drug discovery and development programs are focused on small molecules that selectively modulate the effects of estrogens and androgens, two essential classes of hormones. GTx has have two product candidates that are in human clinical trials, Acapodene and andarine. The Company's most advanced product candidate is Acapodene (Toremifene Citrate), which GTx is developing to reduce the incidence of prostate cancer in men with precancerous prostate lesions known as high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN).
GTSI GTSI Corp. is an information technology solutions provider of products and services to the United States Federal (Government), state and local government and systems integrator customers worldwide. The Company's product and solution offering, technical expertise, logistics strengths, contracts portfolio, customer relationships and performance record make GTSI equally valuable to government customers and technology partners. It offers its customers a centralized source for computer, workstation, software, networking and other information technology (IT) solutions through its selection of products and services. During the year ended December 31, 2003, GTSI's sales directly to Government agencies, to prime contractors for resale to Government agencies and to state and local government agencies accounted for 85%, 12% and 3% of sales, respectively.
GTK GTECH Holdings Corporation (Holdings) operates online lottery transaction processing systems and also has a presence in commercial services transaction processing. The Company's core market is the lottery industry, for which it designs, sells and operates a suite of lottery-enabled point-of-sale terminals that are electronically linked with a centralized transaction processing system, which mediates lottery funds between the retailer, where a transaction is enabled, and the lottery authority. As of February 28, 2004, Holdings operated, provided equipment and services to or has entered into contracts to operate or provide equipment and services in the future to 27 of the 41 online lottery authorities in the United States. The Company also operates, provides equipment and services to or has entered into contracts to operate or provide equipment and services in the future, to online lottery systems for 57 of the 113 international online lottery authorities.
GTCC.OB GTC Telecom Corporation is a service provider whose services include various telecommunication services, Internet-related services and business process outsourcing (BPO) services. The Company also provides inbound call center management solutions with future plans for outbound call center management solutions, information technology (IT) management solutions and business operations management solutions through its majority-owned subsidiary, Perfexa Solutions, Inc. In April 2003, Perfexa completed the construction of its first call center and IT development center in New Delhi, India. This facility consists of a 100-seat call center and 25-seat IT development and administrative center. On July 7, 2004, the Company transferred its customer accounts to its alternate supplier, Sprint Communications Company L.P. (Sprint).
GTCB GTC Biotherapeutics, Inc. (GTC) is involved in the development, production, and commercialization of human therapeutic proteins in the milk of animals. Using a process known as transgenics, it inserts protein-specific deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) into an animal to enable it to produce that specific protein in its milk. The protein is then purified from the milk to obtain the therapeutic product, which is typically administered by injection. The Company is developing its own proprietary proteins and is obtaining regulatory and market approval for products produced transgenically. GTC uses transgenic technology to establish commercial production systems for products that are anticipated to require large production volume or are difficult to express in traditional recombinant protein production systems. Its technology platform is being used to create a pipeline of internal product programs and a portfolio of external clinical and commercial production opportunities.
GSVI.OB GSV, Inc. is focused on managing its investments in oil and gas assets and entering into new investments in this industry. The Company's business operations include managing its existing investments and entering into new business operations through acquisitions or mergers. The Company had earlier sought to identify and develop early stage Internet companies in exchange for equity positions in such companies. The Company has sublet to Nekema.com its former offices in Jersey City, New Jersey. The rent on the sublease was guaranteed by Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company (d/b/a Kemper Insurance Company). In September 2002, Nekema.com ceased business operations and defaulted on the sublease. Kemper Insurance Company made all payments of rent due under the sublease.
GSLI GSI Lumonics Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets components, lasers and laser-based advanced manufacturing systems as enabling tools for a range of applications. The Company's products allow customers to meet manufacturing specifications, including device complexity and miniaturization, as well as advances in materials and process technology. Markets for its products include the medical, automotive, semiconductor and electronics industries. In addition, it sells its products and services to other markets such as light industrial and aerospace. GSI Lumonics manages its business within three business segments: Components, Lasers and Laser Systems. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company completed three acquisitions: the encoder division of Dynamic Research Corporation, the principal assets of Spectron Laser Systems Limited (Spectron), a subsidiary of Lumenis Ltd., and Westwind Air Bearings Inc. and Westwind Air Bearings Limited (collectively, Westwind).
GSIC GSI Commerce, Inc. provides an e-commerce platform that enables retailers, branded manufacturers, entertainment companies and professional sports organizations to operate e-commerce businesses. The Company's e-commerce platform includes Website design, online merchandising, customer relationship management, e-commerce technology, order fulfillment, content development, managed hosting, customer contact center, online marketing services, merchandise and order management, reporting, analytics and business intelligence. GSI derives virtually all of its revenues from the sale of goods through its partners' e-commerce businesses, toll-free telephone number sales, bulk sales, business-to-business and group sales and related outbound shipping charges, net of allowances for returns and discounts. It also derives revenue from fixed and variable fees, earned in connection with the development and operation of partners' e-commerce businesses and the provision of marketing and other services.
GVP GSE Systems, Inc. is engaged in real-time power plant simulation. It provides simulation solutions and services to the nuclear and fossil electric utility industry and chemical and petrochemical industries. It also provides plant monitoring, security access and control, signal analysis monitoring and optimization software to the power industry. The Company consists of three divisions: Power Simulation, Process Simulation and Emergency Management Simulation. In September 2003, GSE completed the sale of all of the assets of GSE Process Solutions, Inc. to Novatech, LLC.
GSLA GS Financial Corp. serves as a thrift holding company for Guaranty Savings and Homestead Association (the Association). The Company engages in community banking, serving a market area that covers the southeast corner of Louisiana through the Association's five offices. The Association serves commercial, small business and retail customers, offering a variety of transactions and savings deposit products and secured and unsecured loan products. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the assets of the Association constituted all of the assets of GS Financial.
TMM Grupo TMM, S.A. (TMM) is a logistics and transportation company in Mexico offering a regional network of rail and road transportation services, port management, freight distribution, specialized maritime operations, logistics and technology services. The Company sold its 51% interest in the Ports division that included its operations at Cozumel, Manzanillo, Veracruz and Progreso. TMM operates in four business segments: rail operations, specialized maritime operations, logistics operations and port and terminal operations.
TV Grupo Televisa, S.A. is a media company in the Spanish-speaking world and a player in the international entertainment industry. Grupo Televisa broadcasts programs produced by the Company, as well as programs produced by others, through its own networks, through its cable system and through the direct-to-home (DTH) satellite services in which the Company owns interests in Mexico and Latin America. Grupo Televisa also licenses its programming to other television, pay-per-view television and cable broadcasters throughout the world. Grupo Televisa is an international distributor of Spanish-language magazines, and is also engaged in other businesses, including radio production and broadcasting, professional sports and show business promotions, paging services, feature film production and distribution, and an Internet portal. It also owns an unconsolidated equity interest in Univision, a Spanish-language television broadcaster in the United States.
SIM Grupo Simec, S.A. de C.V. (Simec) is a mini-mill steel producer in Mexico and manufactures a range of small and medium-sized structural steel products. Simec's products are used primarily in the residential, commercial and industrial construction markets. The Company owns and operates a non-flat structural steel mini-mill, located in Guadalajara, Jalisco, through its direct wholly owned subsidiary, Compania Siderurgica de Guadalajara, S.A. de C.V., and also owns and operates a mini-mill in Mexicali, Baja California Norte, through its indirect wholly owned subsidiary, Compania Siderurgica de California, S.A. de C.V. In May 2004, Simec announced that it intended to acquire the Mexican steel manufacturing facilities of Industrias Ferricas del Norte, S.A. The acqusition was completed in September 2004.
RC Grupo Radio Centro, S.A. de C.V. is a radio broadcasting company operating in Mexico. The Company's principal activities are the production and broadcasting of musical programs, news, interviews and special event programs. At December 31, 2003, Grupo Radio Centro owned eight amplitude modulation (AM) and five frequency modulation (FM) radio stations, and managed and operated an additional FM station. Of the 14 radio stations it owns or operates, the Company operates five AM and six FM stations in Mexico City. The remaining three AM radio stations, including one in Mexico City, are managed and operated by third parties pursuant to operating agreements. In addition to its radio broadcasting activities, Grupo Radio Centro, under the trade name Organizacion Impulsora de Radio, acts as the national sales representative for, and provides programming to, a network of affiliates in Mexico. At December 31, 2003, the Company had 111 affiliates in 73 cities throughout Mexico.
CEL Grupo Iusacell, S.A. de C.V. (Iusacell Holding) is a wireless telecommunications services provider in Mexico, with 1.3 million mobile wireless customers at December 31, 2003, 74.7% of which are prepaid customers. The Company holds concessions in the 800-megahertz band to provide cellular wireless services in five contiguous geographic regions including all of central and southern Mexico, as well as in the 1,900-megahertz band to provide personal communications system (PCS) wireless services in two of the four regions in northern Mexico. Its service regions include Mexico City and the cities of Monterrey, Tijuana, Guadalajara, Leon, Puebla, Cancun and Merida.
MSK Grupo Industrial Maseca, S.A. de C.V. produces, distributes and sells corn flour in Mexico which is then used in the preparation of tortillas and other related products. The Company sells corn flour in Mexico under the brand name MASECA. MASECA flour is a ready-mixed corn flour that becomes a dough when water is added. This corn dough can then be pressed to an appropriate thickness, cut to shape and cooked to produce tortillas and similar food products. It produces over 40 varieties of corn flour for the manufacture of different food products. The Company sells corn flour to tortilla and tortilla chip manufacturers as well as in the retail market. Its corn flour product is standard fine-textured, white flour used to manufacture tortillas.
IMY Grupo IMSA, S.A. de C.V. is a diversified industrial company that conducts its business in three segments: steel processing products, steel and plastic construction products and aluminum and other related products. The Company operates through its wholly owed subsidiary holding companies: IMSA ACERO S.A. de C.V.; IMSATEC S.A. de C.V., and IMSALUM S.A. de C.V. Foreign company and export sales accounted for approximately 54% of the Company's consolidated net sales during the year ended December 31, 2003.
GGAL Grupo Financiero Galicia S.A. is a holding company whose corporate purpose is exclusively related to financial services and investment. It was formed to hold all of the shares of capital stock of Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires S.A. (the Bank or Banco Galicia). As of December 31, 2003, it held a 93.59% interest in the Bank. The Company seeks to broaden and complement Banco Galicia's operations and businesses through holdings in companies and undertakings whose objectives are related to financial activities. Consequently, it operates in financial and related activities that Banco Galicia cannot carry out or in which it can only participate in a limited way or in those activities that would not be profitable for the Bank due to current regulations.
EKT Grupo Elektra, S.A. de C.V. is mainly engaged in the sale of consumer electronics, appliances, household furniture, telephones and computers, through a chain of 813 stores in Mexico and 66 stores in Guatemala, Peru and Honduras. The Company operates three store formats: Elektra, Salinas y Rocha and Bodega de Remates. In addition, Grupo Elektra offers, through its banking subsidiary, Banco Azteca, S. A. Institucion de Banca Multiple, a series of financial products and services that include granting of personal and consumer loans, receiving deposits, and savings and investment accounts, as well as money transfer services from the United States to Mexico and within Mexico. In October 2003, the Company acquired CIGNA Seguros, S.A. and its license to operate life, accident and health insurance. The transaction does not include any insurance portfolio in force or any liabilities.
SAB Grupo Casa Saba, S.A. de C.V. is a multi-channel, multi-product wholesaler that distributes pharmaceutical products, health, beauty aids and consumer goods, general merchandise, publications, office and other products. The Company serves the majority of Mexico's pharmacies, mass merchandisers, retail and convenience stores, supermarkets and other specialized channels nationwide. Grupo Casa Saba has 22 distribution centers in Mexico. During the year ended December 31, 2003, 99% of the Company's consolidated net sales were made in Mexico. Grupo Casa Saba's operations are organized into six business divisions: Private Pharmaceutical Products; Government Pharmaceutical; Health, Beauty Aids and Consumer Goods; General Merchandise and Other Products; Publications, and Office Products.
ASR Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A. de C.V. (Southeast Airport) holds concessions to operate, maintain and develop nine airports in the southeast region of Mexico for 50 years from November 1, 1998. As operators of these airports, the Company charges airlines, passengers and other users fees for the use of the airports' facilities. Southeast Airport also derives rental and other income from commercial activities conducted at its airports, such as the leasing of space to restaurants and retailers. The Company's concessions include the concession for Cancun International Airport, which represented 71.2% of its passenger traffic volume and 73.6% of revenues in during the year ended December 31, 2003. Southeast Airport also holds concessions to operate the airports in Cozumel, Huatulco, Merida, Minatitlan, Oaxaca, Tapachula, Veracruz and Villahermosa.
GMK GRUMA, S.A. de C.V. is a corn flour, wheat flour and tortilla producer and distributor in the world. The Company produces and distributes its products in the United States, Mexico and Venezuela. Its subsidiaries are Grupo Industrial Maseca, S.A. de C.V. (GIMSA), Molinera de M&eacute;xico, S.A. de C.V. (Molinera de M&eacute;xico), Productos y Distribuidora Azteca, S.A. de C.V. (PRODISA), Gruma Corporation, Azteca Milling (2), Gruma Centroamerica, LLC. Molinos Nacionales, C.A. (MONACA), Derivados de Ma&iacute;z Seleccionado, C.A. (DEMASECA), Investigaci&oacute;n de Tecnolog&iacute;a Avanzada S.A. de C.V. (INTASA).
GBEL.OB Grubb &amp; Ellis Company is a commercial real estate company that provides services to real estate owners/investors and tenants, including transaction services involving leasing, acquisitions and dispositions, and property and facilities management services. The Company provides its services through 41 owned-offices and 53 affiliate offices. Including its alliance with Knight Frank, a European real estate consulting firm, the Company has the collective resources of over 9,000 individuals in 200 offices in 30 countries around the world. Grubb &amp; Ellis through its offices, affiliates and alliance with Knight Frank, provides a full range of real estate services, including transaction, management and consulting services, to users and investors worldwide. Grubb &amp; Ellis strategizes, arranges and advises on the sale, acquisition or lease of such business properties as office, industrial and retail buildings, as well as the acquisition and disposition of commercial land.
DA DANONE Group is an international food and beverage company that focuses on three core activities: fresh dairy products, beverages and biscuits and cereal products. DANONE's other food businesses consist of sauces, such as HP Foods in the United Kingdom, Lea &amp; Perrins in the United States and Amoy in China. The Company also markets Asian-style grocery products under the Amoy brand name, which are exported to Western Europe from Hong Kong. The Company sells its fresh dairy products under the brand names DANONE, Bledina and Shape. DANONE's beverage activities consist of packaged water and other non-alcoholic beverages. Its biscuit products include cookies, savory snacks, crispbreads and crackers and packaged cakes.
GPI Group 1 Automotive, Inc. is a holding company operating in the automotive retailing industry. The Company has no independent assets or operations other than its investments in its subsidiaries, which are located in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. These subsidiaries sell new and used cars and light trucks through their dealerships and Internet sites; arrange related financing, vehicle service and insurance contracts; provide maintenance and repair services, and sell replacement parts. As of December 31, 2003, Group 1 operated 122 dealership franchises.
GNBA.OB Groen Brothers Aviation, Inc. (GBA) is a development-stage company engaged in the development and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification of the Hawk Gyroplane. This aircraft incorporates rotor blades optimized for autorotative flight and the Company's rotor head with infinitely variable collective pitch control. This enables the pilot to optimize the rotor blade pitch to the existing conditions and attain a smoothly controlled, ultra-short ground roll for both take-off and landing. The turbine engine further contributes to the reliability, maintainability and low-operating cost characteristics of the aircraft. Since March 31, 2003, through its wholly owned subsidiary, American Autogyro, Inc., (AAI) GBA has been selling modification kits designed to improve in-flight stability and safety for another manufacturer's kit gyroplane.
GRIL Grill Concepts, Inc. (GCI) develops and operates casual dining restaurants under the name Daily Grill and fine dining restaurants under the name The Grill on the Alley. In addition, the Company owns and operates, has management or licensing agreements with respect to other restaurant properties. During the fiscal year ended December 28, 2003 (fiscal 2003), GCI owned and operated 14 restaurants and managed or licensed eight additional restaurants, of the total, 10 Daily Grill restaurants and four The Grill on the Alley restaurants are owned and operated, five Daily Grill restaurants are managed and two Daily Grill restaurants and a City Bar &amp; Grill restaurant are licensed by GCI. With the exception of three The Grill on the Alley restaurants, which are operated by partnerships, all of the Daily Grill and The Grill on the Alley restaurants owned and operated in fiscal 2003, were solely owned and operated on a non-franchise basis by the Company.
GFF Griffon Corporation is a diversified manufacturing company with operations in four business segments: Garage Doors, Installation Services, Specialty Plastic Films, and Electronic Information and Communication Systems. The Company's Garage Doors segment designs, manufactures and sells garage doors. The Installation Services segment sells, installs and services garage doors, garage door openers, manufactured fireplaces, floor coverings, cabinetry and a range of related building products. Its Specialty Plastic Films segment develops, produces and sells plastic films and film laminates for use in infant diapers, adult incontinence products, feminine hygiene products and disposable surgical and patient care products. The Company's Electronic Information and Communication Systems segment designs, manufactures, sells and provides logistical support for communications, radar, information, command and control systems and large-scale integrated circuits for defense and commercial markets.
GRIF Griffin Land &amp; Nurseries, Inc. is engaged in two principal lines of business, the real estate business comprised of the ownership, construction, leasing and management of commercial and industrial properties and the development of residential subdivisions on real estate owned by Griffin in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and the landscape nursery products business, comprised of the growing of containerized landscape nursery products for sale to retail garden center operators and landscape nursery mass merchandisers. On January 26, 2001, a portion of the landscape nursery products business was sold to Shemin Nurseries, Inc. As part of the sale, the Company acquired a 14% interest in the equity of Shemin Acquisition Corp., the parent company of Shemin. Griffin also owns an approximately 35% interest in Centaur Communications, Ltd., a magazine and information services publisher, and has a lesser interest in Linguaphone Group plc, a designer and distributor of language teaching materials.
GW Grey Wolf, Inc. is a provider of contract land drilling services in the United States. As of February 10, 2004, the Company had a rig fleet of 117 rigs, 80 of which were marketed, 22 cold-stacked and 15 held for future refurbishment. Cold-stacked rigs are rigs that are stacked without crews, are not being marketed and do not require substantial investment to be returned to service. Grey Wolf conducts its operations in the following domestic drilling markets: Ark-La-Tex, Gulf Coast, Mississippi/Alabama, South Texas, Rocky Mountain and West Texas. The Company's contract drilling customers include independent producers and oil and gas companies. During 2003, approximately 98% of the wells Grey Wolf drilled for its customers were drilled in search of natural gas.
GREY Grey Global Group Inc. is an advertising, communications and marketing service company. It operates in 83 countries around the world, providing its clients with services and expertise over a range of communications disciplines, including mass market advertising, media planning and buying, direct marketing, healthcare marketing, public relations and public affairs, sales promotion, graphic design, corporate communications, event marketing, interactive communications, channel marketing and retail advertising support and product branding. Grey services a client base in all product categories, including fast moving consumer goods, pharmaceutical products, automobiles, entertainment and communications, technology and telecommunications and retail.
GEF Greif, Inc. is global producer of industrial packaging products with manufacturing facilities located in over 40 countries. The Company offers a line of industrial packaging products, such as steel, fiber and plastic drums; intermediate bulk containers, closure systems for industrial packaging products and polycarbonate water bottles, which are complemented by a variety of value-added services. Greif also produces containerboard and corrugated products for markets in the United States and Canada. The Company sells timber to third parties from its timberland in the southeastern United States. The Company also owns timberland in Canada that it does not actively manage. The Company's customers range from Fortune 500 companies to small and medium-sized companies in a cross section of industries. The Company operates in three business segments: Industrial Packaging and Services; Paper, Packaging and Services, and Timber.
GMAI Greg Manning Auctions, Inc. (GMAI) is a global collectibles merchant and auction house network with operations in North America, Europe and Asia and on the Internet. In September 2003, GMAI and Auctentia, S.L. (Auctentia), integrated their auction businesses, creating a global collectibles auction network. Auctentia is the wholly owned subsidiary of Afinsa Bienes Tangibles, S.A. (Afinsa), the Company's major customer. Afinsa and Auctentia collectively own approximately 69% of GMAI's outstanding common stock. In North America, the Company is a traditional and e-commerce-Internet, interactive telephone, and Internet and live simulcast-auctioneer and merchant/dealer of collectibles, including rare stamps, stamp collections and stocks, coins, sports trading cards and memorabilia, and fine art. The Company acquired H.R. Harmer in July 2004. H.R. Harmer conducts high-end philatelic auctions of rare single stamps and collections.
GVBK Greenville First Bancshares, Inc. owns all of the capital stock of Greenville First Bank, N.A. (the Bank) and all of the stock of Greenville First Statutory Trust I (the Trust). The Bank is a national bank primarily engaged in the business of accepting demand deposits and savings deposits insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and providing commercial, consumer and mortgage loans to the general public. Its primary service area consists of Greenville County, South Carolina. The Trust is a special purpose subsidiary organized for the sole purpose of issuing trust preferred securities.
GRN GreenMan Technologies, Inc. consists of six operating locations that collect, process and market scrap tires in whole, shredded or granular form. It operates tire-processing operations in California, Georgia, Iowa, Minnesota, Tennessee and Wisconsin and operates under exclusive agreements to supply whole tires used as alternative fuel to cement kilns. It collects scrap tires from three sources: local, regional and national tire stores; tire manufacturing plants, and illegal tire piles being cleaned-up by state, county and local governmental entities. The tires it collects are processed and sold: as tire-derived fuel used in lieu of coal by pulp and paper producers, cement kilns and electric utilities; as a substitute for crushed stone in civil engineering application, such as road beds, landfill construction or septic field construction, and as crumb rubber (rubber granules) used for playground and athletic surfaces, landscaping applications and bullet containment systems.
GRLC.OB Greenland Corporation develops and markets automated check cashing products and technologies. The Company's MAXcash automated banking machine (ABM) is a product similar in form to an automated teller machine (ATM). The first production units of the MAXcash ABM were introduced in 1999. Its wholly owned subsidiaries are Check Central, Inc. and ExpertHR, Inc. The Company has developed software that is capable of providing support for a range of online financial services, including check cashing, ATM, money orders and phone card dispensing services. It has developed, manufactured and delivered limited numbers of freestanding kiosks under its brand name MAXcash ABM.
GHL Greenhill &amp; Co., Inc. is an independent investment-banking firm. Its two principal sources of revenue are Financial Advisory, which includes advice on mergers, acquisitions, restructurings and similar corporate finance matters, and Merchant Banking Fund Management, which consist primarily of management of Greenhill's private equity funds, Greenhill Capital Partners and principal investments by Greenhill in those funds. The Company acts for clients located throughout the world from offices in New York, London and Frankfurt, and focuses on large and mid-size corporations in a wide range of industries, including Communications &amp; Media; Consumer Goods &amp; Retail; Financial Services; Technology; Energy &amp; Utilities; Lodging &amp; Leisure, and General Industrial. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Financial Advisory services accounted for approximately 95.8% of the Company's revenues and approximately 52.2% of the Company's advisory revenue came from non-United States clients.
SRVY Greenfield Online, Inc. is an independent provider of Internet survey solutions to the global marketing research industry. The Company derives 100% of its revenues from Internet data collection products and services. Greenfield Online actively manages the Greenfield Online panel, a 100% Internet-based panel of approximately 1.7 million individuals who participate in the Company's surveys. Its panelists represent households consisting of an estimated 4.7 million people, allowing it to compile diverse, demographically representative survey data. The Company targets its Internet survey solutions to approximately 2,500 full-service marketing research and consulting firms in the United States. Its clients use the Internet survey data to enable companies throughout the world to make critical business decisions.
GCBS Greene County Bancshares, Inc. serves as the holding company for Greene County Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a state-chartered commercial bank, whose principal business consists of attracting deposits from the general public and investing those funds, together with funds generated from operations and from principal and interest payments on loans, primarily in commercial loans, commercial and residential real estate loans and installment consumer loans. The Bank also provides collection and other banking services, directly and through its finance, acceptance and title subsidiary corporations. At December 31, 2003, the Bank had 36 full-service banking offices located throughout East Tennessee. The Bank also had one full-service branch located in nearby Madison County, North Carolina. Further, the Bank operates a trust and money management function in Wilson County, Tennessee, a loan production office in Bristol, Virginia, and a mortgage loan operation in Knox County, Tennessee.
GCBC Greene County Bancorp , Inc. operates as the holding company of The Bank of Greene County, a New York-chartered savings bank. The Company's principal business is overseeing and directing the business of The Bank of Greene County and various Greene County Bancorp, Inc. investment securities. The Bank of Greene County's business consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public in the areas surrounding its branches and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, primarily in one- to four-family residential mortgage loans, commercial real estate loans, consumer loans, home equity loans and commercial business loans. In addition, The Bank of Greene County invests a significant portion of its assets in investment securities and mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities.
GBX The Greenbrier Companies Inc. is a supplier of transportation equipment and services to the railroad and related industries. Greenbrier operates in two primary business segments: manufacturing and leasing and services. The two business segments are operationally integrated. With operations in the United States, Canada and Mexico, the manufacturing segment produces double-stack intermodal railcars, conventional railcars, marine vessels and industrial forgings and performs repair, refurbishment and maintenance activities for both intermodal and conventional railcars. The Company also manufactures new freight cars through the use of unaffiliated subcontractors. The leasing and services segment owns approximately 11,000 railcars and performs management services for approximately 122,000 railcars for railroads, shippers, carriers and other leasing and transportation companies.
GBR Greenbriar Corporation is a real estate company that owns or leases retirement-specific real estate and an outlet shopping mall. It is also engaged in the business of acquiring, enhancing and selling real estate properties. In addition, the Company owns oil and gas leases. As of March 31, 2004, Greenbriar owned or leased three retirement communities in three states. It operates two of the retirement communities with a capacity of 162 residents and leases one community to a third party. Its outlet shopping mall is in Gainesville, Texas, with approximately 315,000 square feet of retail space available for lease.
GMP Green Mountain Power Corporation (GMP) is a public utility operating company engaged in supplying electrical energy in the State of Vermont. It serves approximately 89,000 customers in Vermont. The Company's sources of revenue for the year ended December 31, 2003 were 26.9% from residential customers; 26.4% from small commercial and industrial customers; 17.1% from large commercial and industrial customers; 28.1% from sales to other utilities, and 1.5% from other sources. Its principal service territory is an area roughly 25 miles in width extending 90 miles across north central Vermont between Lake Champlain on the west and the Connecticut River on the east. Included in this territory are the cities and towns of Montpelier, Barre, South Burlington, Vergennes, Williston, Shelburne and Winooski, as well as the Village of Essex Junction and other communities.
GMCR Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. is involved in the specialty coffee industry. The Company sells over 100 coffee selections through a coordinated multi-channel distribution network in its wholesale and consumer direct operations. The wholesale operation serves supermarket, specialty food store, convenience store, food service, hotel, restaurant, university, travel and office coffee service customers.
ALLB Greater Delaware Valley Savings Bank, doing business as Alliance Bank (the Bank), is a Pennsylvania-chartered stock savings bank that conducts business through eight full-service offices located in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The Company owns 80% of the Bank's common stock. As of December 31, 2002, the Bank had $368.4 million of total assets, $333.5 million of total liabilities and $34.9 million of stockholders' equity. Stockholders' equity, as of December 31, 2002, included net unrealized gains on securities available for sale of approximately $1.3 million. The Bank is primarily engaged in attracting deposits from the general public through its branch offices, and using such deposits primarily to originate and purchase loans secured by first liens on single-family (one- to four-unit) residential properties, multi-family (over four-unit) residential properties, commercial real estate, land and construction loans, consumer loans and commercial business loans.
GFLS Greater Community Bancorp is registered as a bank holding company, whose primary business activity is the ownership and operation of its three New Jersey commercial bank subsidiaries: Greater Community Bank (GCB), Bergen Commercial Bank (BCB) and Rock Community Bank (RCB) (the Bank Subsidiaries), and its nonbank subsidiaries. The Company directly owns three nonbank subsidiaries: GCB Realty, LLC (Realty), was formed to acquire and manage real estate properties. GCB Capital Trust II's sole purpose was to issue and sell Trust Preferred Securities (preferred securities) and Common Securities. Greater Community Services, Inc. provides accounting/bookkeeping, data processing and management information systems, loan operations and various other banking-related services at cost to the Bank Subsidiaries.
GBBK Greater Bay Bancorp is a financial holding company with one bank subsidiary, Greater Bay Bank, National Association (the Bank), and one commercial insurance brokerage subsidiary, ABD Insurance and Financial Services. The Bank provides commercial banking and financial services to small and medium-sized businesses, property managers, business executives, real estate developers, professionals and other individuals. It operates community banking offices throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. ABD provides commercial insurance brokerage, employee benefits consulting and risk management solutions to business clients throughout the United States. The Company also owns a broker-dealer, which executes mutual fund transactions on behalf of its clients' employee benefit plans. Greater Bay Capital, a division of the Company, finances equipment leases. The Matsco Companies, a division of the Bank, markets dental and veterinarian financing services.
GAFC Greater Atlantic Financial Corp. is a savings and loan holding company that conducts substantially all of its business through its wholly owned subsidiary, Greater Atlantic Bank (Bank), a federally chartered savings bank, and its wholly owned subsidiary, Greater Atlantic Mortgage Corporation (Greater Atlantic Mortgage). The Company offers traditional banking services to customers through the nine bank branches located throughout the greater Washington, D.C./Baltimore metropolitan area. It also originates mortgage loans for sale in the secondary market through Greater Atlantic Mortgage.
GSBC Great Southern Bancorp, Inc. is a financial holding company that, as of December 31, 2003, owned directly all of the stock of Great Southern Bank (the Bank) and other non-banking subsidiaries. Through the Bank and subsidiaries of the Bank, the Company offers financial services, insurance, travel, discount brokerage and related services. The Bank is a state-chartered trust company that offers a range of banking services through its 29 branches located in southwestern and central Missouri. Great Southern is principally engaged in the business of originating residential and commercial real estate loans, other commercial and consumer loans and funding these loans through attracting deposits from the general public, originating brokered deposits and borrowing funds from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines and others. Great Southern's primary market area encompasses 15 counties in southwestern and central Missouri.
GXP Great Plains Energy Incorporated is a diversified public utility holding company that operates through five direct subsidiaries: Kansas City Power &amp; Light Company (KCP&amp;L), KLT Inc., Great Plains Power Inc., Innovative Energy Consultants Inc. and Great Plains Energy Services Incorporated. The Company has three reportable segments: KCP&amp;L, an integrated, regulated electric utility in the states of Missouri and Kansas, that provides electricity to retail customers; Strategic Energy LLC, which provides retail electricity services and operates in several electricity markets offering retail choice, including California, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas, and KLT Gas Inc., which explores for, develops and produces unconventional natural gas resources. In February 2004, the Company approved a plan to sell the KLT Gas portfolio and exit the gas business.
PEDE Great Pee Dee Bancorp, Inc. is a savings and loan holding company and the owner of all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of Sentry Bank &amp; Trust (the Bank). The Bank conducts its primary business in Chesterfield, Marlboro and Florence counties, South Carolina. The Bank is primarily engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the general public and using such deposits to make mortgage loans secured by one- to four-family residential real estate located in its primary market area. The Bank also makes home improvement loans, multi-family residential loans, construction loans, commercial loans, automobile loans and loans secured by deposit accounts. The Bank is a community-oriented financial institution offering a variety of financial services to meet the needs of the communities it serves. Sentry Investment Services, Inc. engages in the brokerage of a variety of investment products through an unaffiliated broker-dealer.
GNI Great Northern Iron Ore Properties (the Trust) is a conventional trust that owns interests in fee, both mineral and non-mineral lands, on the Mesabi Iron Range of Minnesota. Income is derived through royalties on iron ore minerals (principally taconite) taken from these properties by lessees. The Trust is involved solely with the leasing and care of these properties. The terms of the Great Northern Iron Ore Properties Trust Agreement, created December 7, 1906, state that the Trust shall continue for 20 years after the death of the last surviving of 18 named in the Trust Agreement. The last survivor of these 18 named in the Trust Agreement died April 6, 1995. Accordingly, the Trust terminates 20 years from April 6, 1995 (April 6, 2015).
GLK Great Lakes Chemical Corporation (Great Lakes) is a diversified specialty chemical company. The Company's segments included Polymer Additives, Specialty Products and Performance Chemicals. The Polymer Additives business unit provides portfolios of polymer additive solutions formulated specially to meet the needs of its customers in various markets, from furniture and textiles to automotive to consumer electronics to building and construction. The Specialty Products business unit supplies recreational, household and industrial specialty chemicals for a variety of applications. The Performance Chemicals business unit supplied fluorine-based fire suppression agent FM-200, fluorine-based intermediates and all phases of non-clinical toxicological testing to various markets. In October 2004, the Company announced that, effective September 30, 2004, it will report two segments: Polymer Additives and Specialty Products.
GLUX.OB Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. (Great Lakes) is a regional airline, operating as an independent carrier and as a code share partner with United Air Lines, Inc. (United Air Lines) and Frontier Airlines, Inc. (Frontier Airlines). As of February 29, 2004, the Company served 36 destinations in 10 states to and from Denver, Colorado; three destinations in three states to and from Phoenix, Arizona, and two destinations in one state to and from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Great Lakes is under a Bus Services Agreement with Greyhound Lines, Inc., which provides bus transportation services for the Company in order to transport its passengers between specified airport origins and airport destinations.
GBN Great Basin Gold Ltd. (Great Basin) is focused on acquiring ownership of and exploring and developing gold mineral deposits. The Company's Ivanhoe Project in Nevada hosts a number of gold-silver vein systems with high-indicated grades that are potentially amenable to underground mining. Great Basin has also acquired the Burnstone Project in South Africa. The Burnstone Project hosts gold veins within the Kimberley Reef with moderate to high-indicated grades that is potentially amenable to underground mining. As of December 31, 2003, these projects are in the advanced exploration stage and being assessed for their economic viability. Great Basin also owns the Casino Project, Yukon, on which a tonnage of low-grade, copper-gold-molybdenum mineralization has been outlined.
GAP The Great Atlantic &amp; Pacific Tea Company, Inc. (A&amp;P) is engaged in the retail food business. The Company operates 633 stores averaging approximately 39,100 square feet per store during the fiscal year ended February 28, 2004 (fiscal 2003). A&amp;P served as wholesaler to 63 franchise stores in Canada averaging approximately 32,500 square feet per store in fiscal year 2004. The Company operates under the trade names A&amp;P, Super Fresh, Sav-A-Center, Farmer Jack, Waldbaum's, Super Foodmart, Ultra Food &amp; Drug, Dominion, Food Basics, The Barn Markets and The Food Emporium. It sells groceries, meats, fresh produce and other items commonly offered in supermarkets. In addition, many stores have bakery, delicatessen, pharmacy, floral, fresh fish and cheese departments and onsite banking.
GFR Great American Financial Resources, Inc. (GAFRI) is a holding company that markets retirement products, primarily fixed and variable annuities, and various forms of life and supplemental health insurance through its subsidiaries, which include Great American Life Insurance Company (GALIC), Annuity Investors Life Insurance Company (AILIC), Loyal American Life Insurance Company (Loyal), Great American Life Assurance Company of Puerto Rico (GAPR), United Teacher Associates Insurance Company (UTA) and Manhattan National Life Insurance Company (MNL). GAFRI's principal products are flexible-premium deferred annuities (FPDAs) and single-premium deferred annuities (SPDAs).
GTPS Great American Bancorp, Inc. is a thrift holding company whose principal activity is the ownership and management of its wholly owned subsidiary, First Federal Savings Bank of Champaign, Urbana, (the Bank). The Bank is engaged in providing a range of banking and financial services to individual and corporate customers in Champaign County, Illinois, and surrounding counties. The Bank also provides brokerage activities through a third-party, broker-dealer and is also engaged in the sale of tax-deferred annuities. The Bank conducts its business through an administrative office located in Champaign and two branch offices.
GTNa Gray Television, Inc. owns 29 television stations serving 25 television markets. Fifteen of the stations are affiliated with CBS Inc., seven are affiliated with National Broadcasting Company, Inc. (NBC) and seven are affiliated with the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The combined television station group reaches approximately 5.3% of total United States television households. The Company also owns and operates four daily newspapers, three located in Georgia and one in Goshen, Indiana, with a total daily circulation of over 126,000 subscribers.
GOJO.OB Graphon Corporation is a developer of business connectivity software, including Unix, Linux and Windows server-based software, with an immediate focus on Web-enabling applications for use by independent software vendors, application service providers, corporate enterprises, governmental and educational institutions and others. The Company's software architecture provides application developers with the ability to relocate applications traditionally run on the desktop to a server, or host computer, where they can be run over a variety of connections from remote locations to a variety of display devices. With Graphon server-based software, applications can be Web-enabled without any modification to the original application software required, allowing the applications to be run from browsers or portals. Its server-based technology can Web-enable a variety of Unix, Linux or Windows applications. Graphon's product offerings are GoGlobal for Windows and GoGlobal for Unix.
GPK Graphic Packaging Corporation (GPC), formerly known as Riverwood Holding, Inc. and incorporated in December 1995, provides paperboard packaging solutions to multinational consumer products companies. The Company focuses on the paperboard packaging market, where it provides companies with packaging solutions designed to deliver marketing and performance benefits. GPC focuses on providing a range of paperboard packaging products to companies with recognized brands. Its customers have prominent market positions in the beverage, food, household products and tobacco industries. The Company offers customers its paperboard, cartons and packaging machines, either as an integrated solution or separately.
GRP Grant Prideco, Inc. manufactures and supplies oilfield drill pipe and other drill stem products, as well as provides high performance tubular technology and services. The Company's drill stem products are used to drill oil and gas wells while its tubular technology and services are primarily used in drilling and completing oil and gas wells. The Company also provides a variety of products and services to the worldwide offshore and deepwater market through its Marine Products and Services segment. Its marine products and services are used for subsea construction, installation and production of oil and gas wells. In addition, the Company manufactures and sells drill bit products through its Drill Bits segment that consists of entirely of ReedHycalog.
GVA Granite Construction Incorporated is a heavy civil construction contractor with operations throughout the United States. The Company serves both public and private sector clients. Within the public sector, it primarily concentrates on infrastructure projects, including the construction of roads, highways, bridges, dams, tunnels, canals, mass transit facilities and airports. Within the private sector, it performs site preparation services for buildings, plants, subdivisions and other facilities. Granite owns and leases substantial aggregate reserves and owns a number of construction materials processing plants. It also has a heavy construction equipment fleet.
GCFB Granite City Food &amp; Brewery Ltd. operates six casual dining restaurants featuring on-premises breweries under the name Granite City Food &amp; Brewery. The Company's concept incorporates two national dining preferences: high quality, casual, value-priced food, fresh handcrafted quality beers. Granite operates one restaurant in each of the following locations: St. Cloud, Minnesota; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Fargo, North Dakota, and West Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Davenport, Iowa. Each of the locations consists of an approximately 10,000 square foot facility conveniently located just off one or more interstate highways and is located within the respective area's retail, lodging and transportation activity.
GBTVK.OB Granite Broadcasting Corporation is a television broadcasting company, focused on developing and operating a group of television broadcast stations in the United States. The Company owns six middle-market stations affiliated with either ABC, NBC or CBS, its Big Three Affiliates, and two stations affiliated with the Warner Brothers Television Network, its WB Affiliates. All of the Big Three Affiliates provide local news, weather and sports in their respective markets. Granite Broadcasting owns all but one of its television stations through separate wholly owned subsidiaries. Automotive advertising accounted for approximately 21% of the Company's total gross revenues in 2003. Gross revenues from restaurants, paid programming and entertainment businesses accounted for approximately 22% of its total gross revenues in 2003.
GRIN Grand Toys International Limited, formerly Grand Toys International, Inc. (Grand) develops and distributes a variety of toys and fashion accessories throughout Canada and the United States. The Company's business consists of four areas of operation: importing and distributing, on an exclusive and non-exclusive basis throughout Canada, a variety of toy and leisure products and fashion accessories, including party goods, stationery and accessories; selling toy products and fashion accessories featuring characters licensed to the Company; earning commissions on the sale of products represented by its operating Canadian subsidiary, Grand Toys Ltd. (Grand Canada), and shipped directly from an overseas vendor to Canadian customers, and selling products such as I-screme cosmetics and Art X-press crafts. The Company's revenues are primarily derived from the operations of Grand Canada.
GWW W.W. Grainger, Inc. (Grainger) is a supplier of facilities maintenance products in North America. The Company reports its operating results in three segments: Branch-based Distribution, Lab Safety and Integrated Supply. The Company distributes a range of products used by businesses and institutions to keep their facilities and equipment up and running. It uses a multichannel business model to provide customers with a range of options for finding and purchasing products through a network of branches, field sales forces, direct marketing, including catalogs and a variety of electronic and Internet channels. Grainger serves customers through a network of nearly 600 branches, 17 distribution centers and multiple Websites.
GHM Graham Corporation is engaged in the design and manufacture of vacuum and heat transfer equipment, primarily custom built. It consists of two segments: one operated by the Company in the United States, which supplies steam jet ejector vacuum systems, surface condensers for steam turbines, liquid-ring vacuum pumps and compressors, dry pumps and various types of heat exchangers, such as Heliflow and plate and frame exchangers and one operated by its indirectly wholly owned subsidiary in the United Kingdom, Graham Precision Pumps Limited (GPPL), which manufactures liquid-ring vacuum pumps, rotary piston pumps, oil sealed rotary vane pumps, atmospheric air-operated ejectors and vacuum pump systems that are factory assembled with self-supporting structure. Products are available in all metals and in non-metallic and corrosion-resistant materials.
GTI GrafTech International Ltd. (GTI) is a manufacturer and provider of synthetic and natural graphite and carbon products and related technical and research and development services. GTI manufactures graphite electrodes and cathodes, products essential to the production of electric arc furnace steel and aluminum. The Company also manufactures thermal management, fuel cell and other specialty graphite and carbon products for, and provides services to, the electronics, power generation, semiconductor, transportation, petrochemical and other metals markets. GTI has customers in about 60 countries in a variety of industries, including Arcelor, Nucor and Bao Steel in steel; Alcoa, Pechiney and Alcan in aluminum; Cisco, IBM and Intel in electronics; MEMC Electronic Materials in semiconductors, and Ballard Power Systems in fuel cells.
GGG Graco Incorporated designs, manufactures and markets systems and equipment to move, measure, mix, proportion, control, dispense and spray a variety of fluids and viscous materials. The Company has three business segments: Industrial/Automotive Equipment, Contractor Equipment and Lubrication Equipment. The Industrial/Automotive Equipment segment markets equipment and pre-engineered packages for moving and applying paints, coatings, sealants, adhesives and other fluids. The Contractor Equipment segment markets sprayers for architectural coatings for painting, roofing, texture, corrosion control and line striping and also high-pressure washers. The Lubrication Equipment segment markets products to move and dispense lubricants for fast oil change facilities, service garages, fleet service centers, automobile dealerships, the mining industry and industrial lubrication. All segments market parts and accessories for their products.
GPSN.OB GPS Industries Inc. (GPSI) is involved in the development of golf course management technology. The Company applies Global Positioning Systems (GPS) technology, radio frequency and an integrated network of wireless technology to information systems for the golf and recreational industries. Its portable product, the Inforemer, is a communications network that utilizes advanced Internet protocols to provide a wireless information system to enhance recreational value, increase golf course profits and improve player safety. Effective September 30, 2003, the Company amended its Articles of Incorporation to change its name from Inforetech Wireless Technology Inc. to GPS Industries Inc.
GPCB GPC Biotech AG is a biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing new drugs to treat cancer. The Company's lead product candidate is satraplatin, an oral platinum-based compound intended for use as a chemotherapy drug. Satraplatin is being evaluated in a Phase III registrational trial for second-line treatment of hormone refractory prostate cancer (HRPC). Patients suffering from HRPC are those who have suffered relapse after having been treated with hormone ablation therapy. Second-line treatments are those implemented when primary, or first-line treatment fails. The Company's second most advanced product candidate is 1D09C3, a monoclonal antibody. The Company's third development program involves inhibitors of the cell division cycle, or cell cycle. GPC also has a portfolio of technologies in the fields of proteomics (the systematic study of proteins and their functions) and genomics (the systematic study of genes).
GPX GP Strategies Corporation has five operating business segments. Two of these segments, the Manufacturing and Process Segment and the Information Technology Segment, are managed through the Company's principal operating subsidiary General Physics Corporation. General Physics operates in two segments: the Manufacturing and Process Segment and the information technology (IT) Segment. The third segment is the Optical Plastics Segment, consists of GP Strategies' subsidiary MXL Industries, Inc. The fourth segment is the Simulation Segment, comprised of the Company's majority-owned subsidiary GSE Systems Inc. The fifth segment is the Home Improvement Distribution Segment, comprised of the Company's majority-owned subsidiary Five Star Products Inc (Five Star).
GPP Government Properties Trust, Inc. is a self-managed, self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company's business consists of buying and managing recently built or renovated office properties primarily leased to the United States federal government, acting through the general services administration, the federal government's property management arm, under long-term leases. In October 2004, the Company completed the sale of a property in Harahan, Louisiana, that is occupied by Federal Express Corporation.
GOV Gouverneur Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for Gouverneur Savings and Loan Association (the Bank). The Bank's business consists of gathering deposits from the general public within its market area and investing those deposits primarily in loans, debt obligations issued by the United States government and its agencies, and mortgaged-backed securities. The Bank's loans are mainly residential mortgage loans secured by one- to four-family residences, with the balance of the portfolio composed of commercial mortgage loans, other consumer loans (mostly automobile loans) and other non-real estate commercial loans. Through two full-service branch offices and one lending office, it services a primary market area consisting of southern St. Lawrence County and northern Jefferson and Lewis counties in New York State.
GOT Gottschalks Inc. operates a department and specialty store chain in the United States. As of January 31, 2004, the Company operated 63 full-line Gottschalks department stores located in six western states, with 39 stores located in California, 12 in Washington, six in Alaska and two in each of Oregon, Nevada and Idaho. Its department stores typically offer a range of better-to-moderate brand name and private-label merchandise, including men's, women's, juniors and children's apparel; cosmetics, shoes, fine jewelry and accessories, and home furnishings, including china, housewares, domestics, small electric appliances, and, in selected locations, furniture and mattresses. The Company also operates 11 Village East and Gottschalks specialty stores that carry a limited selection of merchandise.
GRC Gorman-Rupp Company (Gorman-Rupp) designs, manufactures and sells pumps and related equipment (pump and motor controls) for use in water, wastewater, construction, industrial, petroleum, original equipment, agricultural, fire protection, heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC), military and other liquid-handling applications. It operates principally in one business segment, the manufacture and sale of pumps and related fluid control equipment. The Company's pumps and fluid control products are composed of pump models ranging in size from 0.25 inch to 84 inch and ranging in rated capacity from less than one gallon per minute up to 500,000 gallons per minute. The types of pumps it produces include self-priming centrifugal, standard centrifugal, magnetic drive centrifugal, axial and mixed flow, rotary gear, diaphragm, bellows and oscillating. The pumps have drives that range from 0.29 horsepower electric motors up to much larger electric motors or internal combustion engines.
GRIC GoRemote Internet Communications, Inc., formerly GRIC Communications, Inc., provides secure managed broadband and remote access solutions to enterprises and service providers. It also provides integrated managed broadband and global remote access products and services that include intelligent client software, multiple network access modes, including broadband, Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), and dial-up, security capabilities that protect valuable corporate information and ensure security policy compliance by remote workers, a real-time remote access management console, end-to-end managed and value-added services, including managed security services, as well as design, deployment, monitoring and technical support. It provides services over a heterogeneous virtual network known as the GRIC TierOne Network.
GOOG Google Inc. offers highly targeted advertising solutions, global Internet search solutions through its own destination Internet site and intranet solutions via an enterprise search appliance. The Company maintains an online index of Websites and other content, which it makes available freely to anyone with an Internet connection. Its automated search technology helps people obtain nearly instant access to relevant information from its vast online index. The Company generates revenue by delivering relevant, cost-effective online advertising. Businesses use the Company's AdWords program to promote their products and services with targeted advertising. In addition, the thousands of third-party Websites that comprise the Google Network use the Google AdSense program to deliver relevant ads that generate revenue and enhance the user experience.
GDYS Goody's Family Clothing, Inc. is a retailer of family apparel with 335 stores in 18 states as of January 31, 2004. The Company locates its stores in small to midsize markets in the Southeast, Midwest and Southwest regions of the United States that have demographic characteristics consistent with its targeted customers. The Company opened 10 stores, relocated or remodeled 14 existing stores and closed three stores during fiscal 2003. Goody's stores have five divisions that include women's (junior's, misses, petite, plus size, intimate apparel, swimwear, outerwear and accessories), men's (sportswear, activewear, young men's and men's furnishings), children's (infants and toddlers, boys and girls), shoes (women's, men's, children's and athletic), and other (tuxedo rentals and service fees). The Company's stores carry an average of approximately 15,000 different styles of merchandise.
GDP Goodrich Petroleum Corporation is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the exploration, exploitation, development and production of oil and natural gas properties primarily in the transition zone of South Louisiana, East Texas, North Louisiana and the Gulf Coast of Texas. The Company's primary customers include Louis Dreyfus Corporation, Texon, LP, Reliant Energy, Conoco Phillips, Shell Trading and Genesis Crude Oil, L.P.
GR Goodrich Corporation is a global supplier of components, systems and services to the commercial, regional, business and general aviation markets. It is also a supplier of aircraft and satellite systems products to the global military and space markets. The Company operations are organized into three business segments: Airframe Systems, Engine Systems and Electronic Systems. Airframe Systems provides systems and components pertaining to aircraft taxi, take-off, landing and stopping. Engine Systems includes the aerostructures business unit, a supplier of nacelles, pylons, thrust reversers and related aircraft engine housing components. The segment also produces engine and fuel controls, pumps, fuel delivery systems and structural and rotating components. Electronic Systems produces an array of products that provide flight performance measurements, flight management and control and safety data.
GTIM Good Times Restaurants Inc. is a holding company for its wholly owned subsidiary, Good Times Drive Thru Inc., which is engaged in the business of developing, owning, operating and franchising hamburger-oriented, drive-through restaurants under the name, Good Times Drive Thru Burgers. The Company operates in two formats: a smaller, 880 square-foot double drive thru building focused on drive thru service and limited walk up service, and a 2,400-square-foot, 60-seat dining room format, which will be the model for future stores. As of December 16, 2004, the Company owned 11 restaurants, eight joint venture restaurants and 21 franchise-operated restaurants. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company opened one new franchise restaurant in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and two new franchise restaurants in the Denver metropolitan area.
GTA Golf Trust of America, Inc. (GTA) was formed to capitalize upon consolidation opportunities in the ownership of upscale golf courses throughout the United States. On May 22, 2001, it was decided to completely liquidate and eventually dissolve the Company. Accordingly, GTA is engaged in an ongoing orderly liquidation of its assets. As of March 22, 2004, the Company had sold 29 of its 34 properties. GTA often states golf course quantities in terms of 18-hole equivalents. Therefore, one 27-hole golf course property would be counted as 1.5 golf courses. As of March 22, 2004, the Company held interests in nine golf courses (five assets). These golf courses were located among five distinct properties: Black Bear and Wekiva Golf Club in Orlando, Florida; Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, Florida; Tierra Del Sol in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Stonehenge (Wildewood and Woodcreek Farms) in Columbia, South Carolina. In August 2004, the Company sold Wekiva. In September 2004, it sold Black Bear.
TEEE.OB Golf Rounds.com, Inc., incorporated in 1968, was engaged in the wholesale distribution of aluminum alloys, steel and other specialty metals under the name American Metals Service, Inc. until the fourth quarter of fiscal 1992. During that period, the Company liquidated its assets and did not conduct any business operations until May 1999. During this period the Company acquired the assets of PKG Design, Inc., the developer of golfrounds.com and skiingusa.com, two sports-related Internet Websites. In connection with the acquisition of these Websites, the Company changed its name to Golf Rounds.com, Inc. In August 2001, the Company determined to cease operations of its golfrounds.com and skiingusa.com Websites since continued maintenance of these Websites was not a productive use of its resources. Golf Rounds.com still own the rights to these domain names and may sell them in connection with a business combination.
GMNC.OB Goldtech Mining Corporation is engaged in the business of developing, selling and supporting computer software products. The Company also entered the business of acquiring and developing mineral claims during the year ended December 31, 2003. It has two lines of business: the development marketing and supporting of computer software products and service, and since November 2003, the acquisition and development of mining properties. The Company changed its name from Egan Systems, Inc. in November 2003. Goldtech's software products are particularly products related to the common business-oriented language (COBOL) computer language. Its main business is the creation and sale of COBOL language dialects that permit programs written in the Company's versions of COBOL to move (migrate) to high-performance systems available from a variety of suppliers without the need to rewrite the programs.
GSPG.OB GoldSpring, Inc. is a precious metals mining company specializing in the economical and efficient production of gold and other precious metals. The Company was formed, in March 2003, with a plan of agreement and reorganization by exchange was executed between the Company and Ecovery, Inc., a private corporation with mining properties in Nevada. Ecovery's assets included the Gold Canyon and Spring Valley gold placer projects in Lyon County, Nevada plus the Big Mike Copper Project in Nevada. The Gold Canyon and Spring Valley Placer gold claims, located about three miles south of Gold Hill, Nevada, have reported gold reserves of 1,199,000 ounces. These claims consist of 21 unpatented placer mining claims covering approximately 850 acres. On March 30, 2004, the Company sold 6,000 ounces of gold in a spot deferred transaction to be delivered to Johnson Matheny Refinery, Salt Lake City Pool.
GV Goldfield Corporation is engaged in electrical construction and real estate development. Its electrical construction business, through its subsidiary Southeast Power Corporation, includes the construction of transmission lines, distribution systems and substations and other electrical installation services for utility systems and industrial and specialty projects, including fiber optic cable installation which is primarily overhead (Optical Ground Wire and All-Dielectric Self Supporting Cable). The primary focus of the Company's real estate operations is on the development of waterfront condominium projects. Goldfield had purchased five sites on the east coast of Central Florida, on all of which it has developed or plans to develop condominium complexes. The Company had developed two of the sites that were sold, one site is under construction and the remaining two sites are in the permitting/planning stage of development.
GDW Golden West Financial Corporation is a savings and loan holding company, the principal business of which is the operation of a savings bank business through its wholly owned federally chartered savings bank subsidiary, World Savings Bank, FSB (WSB). WSB has a wholly owned subsidiary, World Savings Bank, FSB (Texas), which is also a federally chartered savings bank. Atlas Advisers, Inc. and Atlas Securities, Inc., also subsidiaries of Golden West, were formed to provide services to Atlas Assets, Inc., an open-ended registered investment company sponsored by the Company. Atlas Advisers, Inc. is a registered investment adviser and the investment manager of Atlas Assets, Inc.'s 16 portfolios (the Atlas Funds). Atlas Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer and the sole distributor of Atlas Fund shares. As of December 31, 2003, the Company operated 271 savings branches in nine states and 302 loan offices in 38 states.
GLDN Golden Telecom, Inc. is a facilities-based provider of integrated telecommunications and Internet services to businesses and other customers and telecommunications operators. The Company provides its services in 165 combined access points in Moscow, Kiev, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk and other population centers throughout Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Golden Telecom operates through four business groups: Business and Corporate Services, Carrier and Operator services, Consumer Internet Services and Mobile Services. The Company's dial-up Internet services are distributed under the ROL brand in Russia and Kazakhstan, and under the Svit-On-Line brand in Ukraine. Golden Telecom also holds a minority interest in MCT Corp., which, in turn, has ownership interests in 15 mobile operations located throughout Russia and in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
GSS Golden Star Resources Ltd. owns a controlling interest in four gold properties in Southern Ghana: the Bogoso property, the Prestea property, the Wassa property and the Prestea Underground property. Bogoso and Prestea are adjoining properties, operating as a single operation and referred to as Bogoso/Prestea. Bogoso/Prestea and the Prestea Underground are owned by the Company's 90%-owned subsidiary Bogoso Gold Limited (BGL). Golden Star holds a 90% equity interest in Wexford Goldfields Limited, which owns the Wassa gold property, located approximately 35 kilometers east of Bogoso/Prestea. The Prestea Underground is located on the Prestea property and consists of an inactive underground gold mine and associated support facilities. Golden Star also holds interests in gold exploration properties in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Mali, Suriname and French Guiana.
GPXM.OB Golden Phoenix Minerals, Inc. is a mineral-property development company engaged in the operation, exploration and development of mineral properties in Nevada and other parts of the western United States. The Company controls its mineral property interests through ownership, leases and mining claims. Golden Phoenix is planning exploration and development of selected properties with the intent of conducting precious and base mining and production operations. The Company's primary mining property asset is the Mineral Ridge gold project in Esmeralda County, Nevada. During the year ended December 31, 2003, it began formal operation of its Mineral Ridge property. The other three key projects include the exploration/development-stage properties, such as the Contact copper-silver project in Elko County, Nevada, the Borealis gold-silver project in Mineral County, Nevada, and the Ashdown gold-molybdenum project in Humboldt County, Nevada.
GLDC Golden Enterprises, Inc. is a holding company that operates through its subsidiary, Golden Flake Snack Foods, Inc. (Golden Flake). The Company owns Golden Flake, which manufactures and distributes a full line of salted snack items, such as potato chips, tortilla chips, corn chips, fried pork skins, baked and fried cheese curls, onion rings and buttered popcorn. These products are all packaged in flexible bags or other suitable wrapping material. Golden Flake also sells a line of cakes and cookie items, canned dips, pretzel, peanut butter crackers, cheese crackers, dried meat products and nuts packaged by other manufacturers using the Golden Flake label. No single product or product line accounted for more than 50% of Golden Flake's sales during the fiscal year ended May 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004).
GG Goldcorp Inc. is a North American-based gold producer. The Company owns and acquires properties, explores for precious metals, develops mines and produces mostly gold. Goldcorp's primary asset and key value driver is its Red Lake Mine located in Ontario, Canada, which, during the year ended December 31, 2003, produced 532,028 ounces of gold. The Company also produces gold at the Wharf Mine in the lead mining area in the Black Hills of South Dakota in the United States. In addition, Goldcorp owns an industrial minerals operation, Saskatchewan Minerals, in Saskatchewan, Canada. It produces sodium sulphate used primarily in the detergent industry. During 2003, Goldcorp produced about 603,000 ounces of gold and added approximately one million contained ounces of gold to its reserves and resources, for a net increase of approximately 400,000 ounces of gold. In November 2003, the Company acquired the Red Lake North and Adams Lake property blocks from Rubicon Minerals.
GSDD.OB Gold Standard, Inc. was established for the purpose of engaging in the exploration for, and the production and sale of, gold. The Company and its subsidiaries seek to acquire, lease and sell hard mineral properties and, if warranted, develop those properties, which have the most economic potential. Gold Standard also seeks opportunities for joint ventures or other financial arrangements with other companies to develop and/or operate the properties controlled by the Company or in which it has an interest. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2003 (fiscal 2003), the Company was an exploration-stage company, conducting exploration activities on certain properties in Brazil through its wholly owned Brazilian subsidiary, Gold Standard Minas, S.A. Gold Standard Minas is involved in active exploration programs in the Brazilian states of Sao Paulo, Parana and Mato Grasso. The Company anticipates that these Brazilian exploration activities will continue in fiscal 2004.
GRZ Gold Reserve Inc. is a mining company and is the successor issuer to Gold Reserve Corporation, a Montana corporation formed in 1956. The Company's subsidiaries include Gold Reserve Corporation, Gold Reserve de Venezuela, C.A. and Compania Aurifera Brisas del Cuyuni, C.A., as well as Great Basin Energies, Inc. and MGC Ventures Inc., which have no current business activities. The Company's primary mining asset, the Brisas project, is a gold/copper deposit located in the KM 88 mining district of the State of Bolivar in southeastern Venezuela. The Brisas project consists of the Brisas alluvial concession, the Brisas hardrock concession beneath the alluvial concession and applications for other mineralization contained in these concessions, as well as contracts and concessions for mineralization, such as gold, copper and molybdenum and infrastructure use on land parcels contiguous to the existing concessions.
GKIS Gold Kist Inc., formerly Gold Kist Holdings, Inc., is a vertically integrated producer of fresh, frozen and further-processed broiler products. The Company's broiler operation is organized into several divisions, each encompassing one or more of its broiler complexes. Each broiler complex operates within a separate geographical area and includes broiler flocks, pullet and breeder (hatching egg) flocks, one or more hatcheries, a feed mill, poultry processing plants, management and accounting offices and transportation facilities. Through these complexes, the Company controls the production of hatching eggs, hatching, feed manufacturing, growing, processing and packaging of its product lines.
GFI Gold Fields Limited is primarily involved in underground and surface gold mining and related activities, including exploration, extraction, processing and smelting, and also has strategic interests in platinum group metals exploration. Its mining operations are located primarily in South Africa. It also owns the St. Ives and Agnew gold mining operations in Australia and has a 71.1% interest in each of the Tarkwa gold mine and the Damang gold mine in Ghana. In addition, Gold Fields has gold and other precious metal exploration activities and interests in Africa, Australasia, China, Europe, North America and South America. Gold Fields owns 100% of the Arctic Platinum Partnership in northern Finland, which is evaluating the economic potential of deposits of open pittable and underground platinum group metal mineralization.
GLDB Gold Banc Corporation, Inc. is the holding company for three commercial banks with 40 offices in 21 communities in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Florida. The Company's Banks are Gold Bank-Kansas, Gold Bank-Oklahoma and Gold Bank-Florida. Gold Banc is engaged in a range of financial activities that include not only banking and securities activities, but also investment advisory and additional activities, which the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) determines to be financial in nature or complementary to such activities. In addition, the Company also owns six non-bank financial services subsidiaries. Gold Banc's financial services subsidiaries provide securities brokerage, investment management, trust, insurance agency, investment advisory, title insurance services and merchant banking services.
GLNG Golar LNG Limited owns and/or operates a fleet of nine liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers. The Company is engaged in the acquisition, ownership, operation and chartering of LNG carriers through its subsidiaries. At December 31, 2003, Golar operated a fleet of seven LNG carriers, six of which are under long-term charter contracts. Since December 31, 2003, Golar has taken delivery of two of the new buildings and has entered into a contract for the construction of one additional LNG carrier. The Company leases seven of its vessels under long-term lease agreements and has a 100% ownership interest in one vessel and a 60% ownership interest in one other vessel, the Golar Mazo.
GOL GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA is a low-fare, low-cost airline operating in Brazil that provides frequent service on routes between all of Brazil's major cities. The Company focuses on increasing the growth and profitability of its business by stimulating and meeting demand for affordable, convenient air travel in Brazil for both business and leisure passengers. GOL has flown over 16 million passengers since beginning operations. The Company operates 22 single-class Boeing 737-700/800 Next Generation aircraft serving 29 cities in Brazil. It began its operations, in January 2001, with six single-class Boeing 737-700 Next Generation aircraft serving five cities in Brazil.
GOAM GoAmerica, Inc. develops and distributes wireless data technology, applications and software that address the productivity and communications needs of enterprise customers and individuals, with one of its business units concentrating on the deaf, hard-of-hearing or speech-impaired community. In the consumer market, the Company primarily offers wireless data solutions that are designed for people who are deaf, hard of hearing or speech-impaired, through a wholly owned subsidiary, Wynd Communications Corporation. In the enterprise market, GoAmerica's solutions are primarily based on its software technology called Go.Web. By utilizing Go.Web, businesses can improve productivity by enabling secure wireless access to corporate data on many wireless-computing devices and over many wireless data networks. The Wynd Communications and Go.Web services transmit over wireless data networks in North America. In December 2004, the Company GoAmerica, Inc. purchased the assets of Global Interactive.
GONT.OB Go Online Networks Corporation is a technology holding company that provides re-engineered and refurbished computers and other compatible component products to the secondary retail marketplace through its wholly owned subsidiary, Digital West Marketing, Inc. Digital West offers value-added computer products to secondary retail outlets throughout the United States and is an emerging player in the electronic manufacturing services sector. It refurbishes virtually all major brand personal computers (PCs), laptop and notebook computers, as well as personal digital assistants (PDAs). Digital West is an authorized Compaq Presario refurbisher and is also an authorized Hewlett Packard refurbisher. All products sold by Digital West are clearly marked and identified as refurbished products, unless they are new products.
GMXR GMX Resources Inc. (GMX) is an independent oil and gas company. The Company acquired from an unrelated third party producing and undeveloped properties located primarily in east Texas and northwestern Louisiana, Kansas and southeastern New Mexico. When GMX acquired them, the properties consisted of 71.1 net producing wells, 20,829 net developed and 317 net undeveloped acres. At the acquisition date, the properties had estimated proved developed producing reserves of five billion cubic feet equivalent (Bcfe).
GCT GMH Communities Trust is a self-advised, self-managed, specialty housing company that will focus on providing housing to college and university students residing off-campus and to members of the United States Military and their families. Through its operating partnership, the Company will own and operate student housing properties, provide property management services to certain other owners of student housing properties, including colleges, universities and other private owners, and own minority interests in joint ventures that own the Company's military housing privatization projects. In addition, through its taxable real estate investment trust (REIT) subsidiaries, GMH Communities will provide development, construction, renovation and management services for its military housing privatization projects and property management services to certain other owners of student housing properties, as well as certain non-customary services for its student housing properties.
GLGS GlycoGenesys, Inc. is a biotechnology company developing pharmaceutical products based on carbohydrate compounds and related technologies. The Company's lead drug candidate, GCS-100, a potential treatment for multiple forms of solid tumors and blood-borne cancers, has completed separate Phase II (a) clinical trials for pancreatic cancer and colorectal cancer. GCS-100 is a complex polysaccharide derived from citrus pectin isolated from the peel and pulp of citrus fruits through a hydrolysis process.
GLOW Glowpoint, Inc. provides video communications services with telephone-like reliability and ease-of-use on the Glowpoint network, a carrier-grade, IP (Internet protocol)-based subscriber network that is designed exclusively for video communications. The network spans 14 points of presence, across three continents, enabling users to connect across the United States, as well as to virtually any business center around the world. Since launching its subscription service, the Company has carried approximately 13 million minutes of video calls on behalf of over 270 customers. Glowpoint offers customers a portfolio of video communications services, including videoconferencing, multi-point conferencing services and Webcasting. The Company markets and sells these services to all sectors, including commercial, government, medical and education sectors through resellers.
GBXX.OB Globix Corp. is a provider of Internet services to businesses. The Company's services include hosting and co-location in its secure and fault-tolerant Internet data centers; network services and connectivity to the Internet through its domestic and international Internet protocol (IP), fiber-based network; Internet-based managed services, focusing on application management and operating system management, security services and storage services, and media services, including streaming media, Webcasting and digital asset management. On July 19, 2004, Globix signed a definitive merger agreement with NEON Communications, Inc. (NEON), a privately held provider of optical networking services for customers in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic markets.
GTEL.OB GlobeTel Communications Corp. (GlobeTel) is engaged in the business of providing telecommunication services primarily involving Internet telephony using voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) equipment. The Company's business is the transmission of telephone calls without buffering delays, using Internet facilities. GlobeTel provides a VoIP solution to the buffering problem by having the transmitted sequence of packets follow the same path through the Internet, so that they arrive in the same sequence in which they were transmitted. In April 2004, the Company acquired Sanswire Technologies, Inc. Sanswire is developing a wireless broadband network utilizing high-altitude airships called Stratellites that, when completed, will be used to provide wireless voice, video and data services. A Stratellite is similar to a satellite, but is stationed in the stratosphere rather than in orbit.
GTVCF.OB Globetech Ventures Corp. is a development-stage company engaged in acquiring and developing mineral properties and, if warranted, the processing of related mineral resources. The Company is pursuing and evaluating potential mineral properties and other business ventures. By a lease agreement, dated August 1, 2002, commencing August 15, 2002, the Company granted Broken Hill Minerals Limited (BHM) of Zambia, a lease over plant, equipment and premises located in Kabwe, Zambia, for a period of 24 months. In addition, the Company granted BHM an option to purchase the plant on or before August 1, 2004. On April 19, 2001, the Company acquired 20% of TranslationWave.com. During the year ended September 30, 2003, the Company acquired the remaining interest in TranslationWave.com that it did not already own. Globetech announced, on March 9, 2004, that it would acquire Braz Gold LtdA.
GCOM Globecomm Systems, Inc. is an end-to-end, value-added, satellite-based communications solutions provider. The solutions offered by the Company include general contracted complex communications networks, militarized commercial off the shelf products and services, voice-over Internet protocol (VOIP), video broadcast, business recovery, satellite-based terrestrial restoral, content delivery and other networks on a global basis. To provide these solutions, it engineers all the necessary satellite and terrestrial facilities, as well as provide the integration services required to implement those facilities. Globecomm also operate and maintain these communications services on an ongoing basis.
GLBP.OB Globe Bancorp, Inc. serves as a holding company for Globe Homestead Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a federally chartered stock savings bank. The Company's business consists principally of attracting deposits from the general public and using those funds to originate loans secured by one- to four-family residential loans. The principal lending activity of Globe Homestead is the origination of one- to four-family (which are also known as single-family) residential loans. On a very limited basis, Globe Homestead offers commercial real estate loans, construction loans and consumer loans.
GSF GlobalSantaFe Corporation is an oil and gas drilling contractor, owning or operating a fleet of over 90 marine and land drilling rigs. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's fleet included 13 floating rigs, 45 cantilevered jackup rigs, 31 land rigs and one platform rig. It also has two ultra-deepwater, semi-submersibles and one high-performance cantilevered jackup under construction, and operates two semi-submersible rigs for third parties under a joint venture agreement. GlobalSantaFe provides oil and gas contract drilling services to the oil and gas industry, worldwide, on a daily rate (day-rate) basis. It also provides oil and gas drilling management services on either a day-rate or completed-project, fixed-price (turnkey) basis, as well as drilling engineering and drilling project management services, and participates in oil and gas exploration and production activities. In May 2004, the Company sold its land rigs to Precision Drilling Corporation.
GLBT.OB GlobalNet Corporation as the surviving entity from a merger of GlobalNet, Inc. and iDial Networks, Inc. GlobalNet, Inc. merged with and into iDial and iDial changed its name to GlobalNet Corporation. GlobalNet provides international voice, data, fax and Internet services on a wholesale basis over a private Internet Protocol (IP) network to international carriers and other communication service providers in the United States and internationally. GlobalNet's IP network, utilizing the convergence of voice and data networking, offers customers economical pricing, global reach and an intelligent platform that guarantees fast delivery of value-added services and applications. GlobalNet `s principal focus is providing service from the United States to Latin America, with 75% of its traffic terminating in Mexico.
GAI Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. (Global-Tech) is in the business of designing, manufacturing and selling a wide range of small electrical household appliances to brand marketers in developed countries. The product categories are floor care products, kitchen appliances, garment care and travel products, and environmental care products and accessories. The Company has designed, engineered and tooled its own products and offered them for sale to well-known household appliances companies for sale under their own brand names. Global-Tech established a separate subsidiary, Global Display, to develop and market a wide range of display-oriented products. Some of the subsidiaries of the Company include Global Lite Array (BVI) Limited, Dongguan Wing Shing Electrical Products Factory Company Limited and Wing Shing Products (BVI) Company Limited. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004) the company established the subsidiary, Dongguan Lite Array Company Limited.
GSOL Global Sources Ltd. is a business-to-business media company that provides information and integrated marketing services, with a particular focus on the Chinese market. The Company's principal business is to provide services that allow global buyers to identify suppliers and products and enable suppliers to market their products to a large number of buyers. Global provides trade information online, in print, on CD-ROM and face-to-face, meeting the marketing and sourcing needs of its supplier and buyer communities. One of its assets is the Global Sources brand. The Company serves a number of industry sectors, including electronics, fashion accessories, hardware and gifts. Global Sources assists in the facilitation of China's two-way trade of electronics. Its businesses are conducted primarily through Trade Media Limited, its wholly owned subsidiary.
GSL Global Signal Inc. owns wireless towers and other communications sites in the United States. The Company's sites are primarily located in the southeastern and mid-Atlantic regions of the country. For 2003, all of the Company's revenues came from its ownership, leasing and management of wireless towers and other communications sites. As of December 31, 2003, Global Signal owned 2,206 towers and 251 other communications sites. The Company owns in fee or has long-term easements on the land under 787 of these towers and it leases the land under 1,419 of these towers. In addition, as of December 31, 2003, the Company managed 819 towers, rooftops and other communications sites where it had the right to market space or where it had a sublease arrangement with the site owner. In total, as of December 31, 2003, the Company owned or managed 3,276 communications sites. The Company is organized as a real estate investment trust (REIT).
GEG Global Power Equipment Group Inc. designs, engineers and manufactures a portfolio of equipment primarily for gas turbine power plants and power-related equipment for industrial operations. The Company's products include heat recovery steam generators, filter houses, inlet systems, gas turbine, steam turbine and generator enclosures, exhaust systems, diverter dampers, and specialty boilers and related products. In addition, Global Power provides customers with value-added services, including engineering, retrofit and upgrade, and maintenance and repair. The Company conducts its business through two operating segments: Heat Recovery Equipment and Auxiliary Power Equipment. It markets and sells its products and services globally, principally under the Deltak, Braden and Consolidated Fabricators brand names. At year-end 2003, the Company's equipment is installed in power plants and in industrial operations in about 40 countries predominantly in North and South America, Europe and Asia.
GPN Global Payments Inc. is a high-volume payments processor of electronic transactions and related money transfers that enables consumers, corporations, government agencies and other profit and non-profit business enterprises to purchase goods and services or further other economic goals. The Company's role is to serve as an intermediary in the exchange of information and funds that must occur between the necessary parties such that a transaction can be completed.
GPTX Global Payment Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures currency validation systems, including paper currency validators and related paper currency stackers, and sells its products in the United States and numerous international markets. Validators receive and authenticate paper currencies in a variety of automated machines, including gaming and gaming-related equipment, beverage and vending machines, and retail equipment that dispense products, services, coinage and other currencies. Note stackers are sold with most validators and are designed to store validated paper currency, and, in some cases, record and store information on contents, usually in secure removable cassettes. On January 15, 2004, Global sold its remaining 5% ownership interest in Global Payment Technology Holdings (Proprietary) Limited. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004, it established a wholly owned subsidiary in Moscow, Russia, (GPT-Russia) to provide local service of the Company's products.
GLOB.OB Global Med Technologies, Inc. designs, develops, markets and supports information management software products for blood banks, hospitals, centralized transfusion centers and other health care related facilities. It classifies its products into two core business segments: the Wyndgate Division, which develops, markets and supports blood tracking systems to assist community blood centers, hospitals, plasma centers and outpatient clinics in the United States in complying with the quality and safety standards of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the collection, transfusion and management of blood and blood products and PeopleMed that offers chronic disease management as an Application Service Provider.
GMTH.OB Global Matrechs, Inc., formerly HomeCom Communications, Inc., was previously engaged in the development and marketing of specialized software applications, products and services that enabled financial institutions and their customers to use the Internet and intranets/extranets to obtain and communicate important business information, conduct commercial transactions and improve business productivity. In October 1999, the Company sold its security consulting and integration services operations and entered into a joint marketing program with the acquirer. During the year ended December 31, 2001, it sold its remaining software applications businesses. On May 22, 2003, the Company completed the transaction with Eurotech, Ltd., pursuant to which it licenses the EKOR, HNIPU, EMR/AC, Rad-X, Firesil, liquid ebonite material (LEM) and rapidly biodegradable hydrophobic material (RBHM) technologies from Eurotech.
GLBL Global Industries, Ltd. provides construction services, including pipeline construction, platform installation and removal, diving services and construction support, to the offshore oil and gas industry in the United States Gulf of Mexico (the Gulf of Mexico), as well as in selected international areas such as West Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America and the Middle East (including the Mediterranean). The Company operates two divisions, Offshore Construction, which includes worldwide pipelay (except shallow-water Gulf of Mexico) and derrick lifts, and Global Divers and Marine Contractors, which includes all diving and marine support services worldwide and Gulf of Mexico shallow-water pipelay.
GISX Global Imaging Systems, Inc. is a provider of office technology solutions to middle-market businesses in the United States, selling and providing contract services for automated office equipment, including copiers, facsimile machines and printers, network integration solutions and electronic presentation systems. Incorporating products from Konica Minolta, Canon, Ricoh, Sharp, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, NEC, InFocus and other companies, the Company offers solutions for its customers from a network of 173 locations in 28 states and the District of Columbia. The Company sells and services automated office equipment, network integration solutions and electronic presentation systems. It provides a number of office technology solutions, including the automated office equipment, network integration solutions and electronic presentation systems. In March 2004, the Company acquired Advanced Document Solutions. In May 2004, the Company acquired Imagine Technology Group, Inc. (ITG).
GAMM.OB Global Entertainment Holdings/Equities, Inc. provides business development, support and administrative assistance for technology-driven subsidiaries that license, develop and host Internet software applications in the online gaming sector. The Company's services are technology based only. Its wholly owned subsidiaries are IGW Software, N.V. (IGW), which is engaged in the development, licensing and hosting of proprietary Internet and telephony based gaming software and derives its revenues from licensing fees, software royalties, hosting services and consulting services and Prevail Online, Inc. (Prevail), which is inactive and has no revenues.
GEPT Global ePoint, Inc. operates with its subsidiaries as a provider of computers, computing solutions and digital video products. The Company's business is operated from two divisions: the contract manufacturing division and the digital technology division. The contract manufacturing division manufactures customized computing systems for the industrial, business and consumer markets with the capability of specialized, custom manufacture of other electronic products and systems. The digital technology division designs and markets digital video, audio and data transmission and recording products for surveillance systems. In April 2004, the Company acquired Perpetual Digital, a privately held systems integrator and supplier of digital video recording systems for commercial and industrial security and surveillance. Also in April 2004, it acquired AirWorks, Inc., which produces, markets and distributes digital surveillance systems for commercial and aerospace markets.
GLBC Global Crossing Ltd., formerly GC Acquisition Ltd., is a global provider of telecommunications services to carriers and commercial enterprises around the world. The principal services the Company offers to its customers include voice, data and conferencing services. Global Crossing offers these services using a global Internet protocol (IP)-based network that directly connects more than 300 cities in over 30 countries and delivers services to more than 500 major cities in over 50 countries around the world. The Company also provides installation and maintenance services for subsea telecommunications systems through its subsidiary, Global Marine Systems Limited.
GBCS.OB Global Casinos, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries operate in the domestic gaming industry. The Company is organized as a holding company for the purpose of acquiring and operating casinos, gaming properties and other related interests. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Global had one operating subsidiary, which owns and operates the Bull Durham Saloon &amp; Casino. The Bull Durham is located approximately one hour from Denver, Colorado in the mountain town of Black Hawk. The casino occupies approximately 7,200 square feet of space located at 110 Main Street in Black Hawk, Colorado. The Bull Durham's customer base consists primarily of day visitors from Denver. Many gamblers are transported to Black Hawk on charter buses provided by the casinos. A city bus stop is adjacent to the casino. The Company contracts certain bus companies to transport guests to casino from Denver, and its surrounding communities.
GLXS.OB Global Axcess Corp. provides services through its automated teller machine (ATM) network and is a processing company through its wholly owned subsidiaries. Global Axcess receives an interchange fee from the issuer of the credit or debit card for processing a transaction when a cardholder uses an ATM in its network. In addition, in most cases, the Company receives a surcharge fee from the cardholder when the cardholder makes a cash withdrawal from an ATM in its network. Global Axcess also derives revenues from providing ATM network management services to banks and other third-party owners of ATMs included in its network. On October 12, 2003, Global Axcess commenced operations of Axcess Technology Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary, to develop software products to be sold for ATM management and transaction processing. In addition, the Company added an office in South Africa to help with the development of the software products.
GRT Glimcher Realty Trust (GRT) is a fully-integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns, leases, acquires, develops and operates a portfolio of retail properties consisting of enclosed regional and super regional malls (the Malls) and community shopping centers, including single tenant retail properties (the Community Centers). As of December 31, 2003, the Company's properties consisted of 25 Malls containing an aggregate of 21.8 million square feet of gross leasable area, 1.6 million square feet of which was owned in joint ventures, and 45 Community Centers, including four single tenant retail properties, containing an aggregate of 5.2 million square feet of GLA, 443,000 square feet of which was owned in a joint venture.
GLB Glenborough Realty Trust Incorporated is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT), engaged primarily in the ownership, operation, management, leasing, acquisition, expansion and development of various income-producing properties through its majority-owned subsidiaries. Its principal consolidated subsidiary, in which it held a 1% general partner interest and an 89.27% limited partner interest at December 31, 2003, is Glenborough Properties, L.P. (the Operating Partnership). At year-end 2003, the Operating Partnership, directly and through the subsidiaries in which it and the Company own 100% of the ownership interests, controlled a portfolio of 65 real estate projects in the United States. The 65 properties consist primarily of high-quality, multi-tenant office properties, which are substantially concentrated in the following five markets: Washington D.C., Boston, Southern California, Northern New Jersey and San Francisco.
GEMS Glenayre Technologies, Inc. is a global provider of network-based messaging and communications systems and software that enable applications including voice messaging, multimedia messaging (MMS) and other enhanced telephony services. The Company's customers are communications service providers (CSPs) around the world, including wireless and fixed network carriers and broadband and cable service providers. Its products enable CSPs to provide their customers with a variety of messaging and enhanced services like voice mail, one-number services, voice-activated dialing and picture messaging. The Company's market consists of CSPs that use its platforms and applications to provide services to individual subscribers. CSPs generate revenue from these services by charging a monthly subscription fee or billing on a per-transaction basis.
GLBZ Glen Burnie Bancorp is a bank holding company for The Bank of Glen Burnie (the Bank), which is a commercial bank serving northern Anne Arundel County and surrounding areas from its main office and branch in Glen Burnie, Maryland and branch offices in Glen Burnie (South Crain location) Odenton, Riviera Beach, Crownsville, Severn and Severna Park, Maryland. The Bank also maintains three remote Automated Teller Machine locations in Ferndale, Jessup and Pasadena, Maryland. The Bank maintains a Website at www.thebankofglenburnie.com. It is engaged in the commercial and retail banking, including the acceptance of demand and time deposits, and the origination of loans to individuals, associations, partnerships and corporations. The Bank's real estate financing consists of residential first and second mortgage loans, home equity lines of credit and commercial mortgage loans. The Bank's deposits are insured up to applicable limits by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
GSK GlaxoSmithKline plc along with its subsidiaries and associated undertakings, constitute a global healthcare group engaged in the creation, discovery, development, manufacture and marketing of pharmaceutical and consumer health-related products. GlaxoSmithKline has operations in some 117 countries, with products sold in over 130 countries. The principal research and development facilities are in the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, Italy and Belgium. Products are manufactured in some 38 countries. The major markets for the Company's products are the United States, Japan, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Italy. GlaxoSmithKline operates principally in two industry segments: Pharmaceuticals (prescription pharmaceuticals and vaccines) and Consumer healthcare (over-the-counter medicines, oral care and nutritional healthcare).
GLT Glatfelter is a manufacturer of specialty papers and engineered products. The Company owns and operates paper mills located in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, and Neenah, Wisconsin. In addition, Glatfelter operates paper mills in Gernsbach and Scaer, France, and has an abaca pulp mill in the Philippines. The Company is organized into three business units: Engineered Products, Long-Fiber and Overlay Papers and Printing and Converting Papers. Glatfelter also supplies tobacco papers to fulfill obligations of a supply agreement entered into in connection with the sale of its Ecusta Division. This supply agreement expires in mid-2004.
GLMA.OB Glassmaster Company is a diversified manufacturer of thermoplastic and thermoset plastic materials, industrial controls, and electronics. The Company classifies its business into two operating segments: industrial products, consisting of extruded synthetic monofilaments and pultruded fiberglass and composites and; controls and electronics, consisting of mechanical and electronic controls, electronic test equipment, and circuit boards. In the industrial products segment, the monofilament division extrudes monofilaments from nylon, polyester, polyolefin and other engineered resins. In the controls and electronics segment, the Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Glassmaster Controls Company, Inc., manufactures and assembles a range of industrial controls, including mechanical cable and wire assemblies, mechanical and electronic HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) instrument panels and circuit board-based electronic controls and modules.
GLG Glamis Gold Ltd. is engaged in exploration, mine development and the mining and extraction of precious metals, primarily gold. At the Company's operating mines, the primary method used is open-pit mining with heap leach extraction. In 2003, the Company produced gold from the Rand Mine, located in California, the Marigold Mine, located in Nevada and the San Martin Mine, located in Honduras. The Company has other properties under development. In addition to the El Sauzal Project and the Marlin Project, it holds a 100% interest in a property located in Imperial County, California, and the Cerro Blanco Project in Guatemala, which may be available for future mining activities.
GOOD Gladstone Commercial Corp. invests in and owns net leased industrial and commercial real property and selectively makes long-term industrial and commercial mortgage loans. The Company expects that a large portion of its tenants and borrowers will be small and medium-sized businesses having significant buyout fund ownership and will be well capitalized, with equity constituting between 20% and 40% of their permanent capital. The Company expects that other tenants and borrowers will be family-owned businesses that have built significant equity from paying down the mortgage loans securing their real estate or through the appreciation in the value of their real estate. The Company will seek to enter into triple net leases having terms of approximately 15 years, with rent increases built into the leases. The Company owns two properties, which it is leasing to separate tenants under separate 10-year triple net leases.
GLAD Gladstone Capital Corporation is a specialty finance company that primarily invests in debt securities, consisting primarily of senior notes, senior subordinated notes and junior subordinated notes, of established private businesses that are backed by leveraged buyout funds, venture capital funds or others, with a particular emphasis on senior subordinated notes. In addition, the Company may acquire existing loans that meet this profile from leveraged buyout funds, venture capital funds and others. Gladstone operates as a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company, and has elected to be treated as a business development company under the 1940 Act. It has two wholly owned subsidiaries, Gladstone Advisers, Inc., through which it conducts its day-to-day administrative functions and provides managerial assistance to its portfolio companies, and Gladstone Business Loan LLC, which owns the loan investment portfolio of the Company.
HOO Glacier Water Services, Inc. (Glacier) is a provider of drinking water dispensed to consumers through self-service vending machines. Its water vending machines are placed at supermarkets and other retail locations, in order to take advantage of the regular customer traffic at such locations. The Company operates in 39 states throughout the United States, through the use of, both, in-store and outside water vending machines. For the fiscal year ended December 28, 2003 (fiscal 2003), Glacier had approximately 11,600 outside machines and 3,900 in-store machines in operation. In February 2002, Glacier acquired all of the assets of the Pure Fill Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiaries, National Water Services, Pure Fill Finance Corporation and Pure Fill Container Corporation. In October 2003, the Company acquired Water Island Inc., an operator of water vending machines in 10 states concentrated mainly in the Midwest.
GBCI Glacier Bancorp, Inc. is a multi-bank holding company with seven wholly owned subsidiaries: Glacier Bank, First Security Bank of Missoula, Western Security Bank, Mountain West Bank in Idaho, Big Sky Western Bank, Valley Bank of Helena and Glacier Bank of Whitefish (the Banks). The Company, through the Banks, provides commercial banking services from 54 banking offices throughout Montana, Idaho and Utah. The Banks offer a range of banking products and services, including transaction and savings deposits; commercial, consumer and real estate loans; mortgage origination services, and retail brokerage services. The Company also provides full-service brokerage services (selling products such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, limited partnerships, annuities and other insurance products) through Raymond James Financial Services, a non-affiliated company. In addition, the Company owns Glacier Capital Trust I, a financing subsidiary.
GKSRA G&amp;K Services, Inc. is primarily engaged in providing branded identity apparel and facility services programs that enhance image and safety in the workplace. The Company serves North American industrial, service and high-technology companies providing them with rented uniforms and facility services products, such as floor mats, dust mops, wiping towels, restroom supplies and selected linen items. It also sells uniforms and other apparel items to customers in the Company's direct sale programs. Through internal growth and acquisitions, G&amp;K Services has steadily expanded its operations into additional geographic markets. The Company operates out of over 130 North American locations serving customers in 46 states and three Canadian Provinces. In December 2004, the Company G&amp;K Services, Inc. acquired the direct sale uniform group and related assets (Lion Uniform Group) from Lion Apparel, Inc., a designer, marketer and distributor of customized uniform programs.
GKIG.OB GK Intelligent Systems, Inc. (GK) develops intelligent training software that adapts to the learning styles and abilities of individual users. It is developing an interactive software for use by companies to better serve their customers needs. The software gathers data from interacting with individuals in various settings. The data is used to develop a profile of the individual's preferences and interests. Using this profile, the Company is able to offer to the customer tailored services and products. During the year ended December 31, 2003, GK formed three wholly owned subsidiaries, Smart One Learning Systems, Inc., Recording Artists Worldwide, Inc. and The Baseball Club, Inc. In November 2003, it initiated a merger and acquisition strategy with an initial focus on business opportunities in the music and entertainment markets.
GIVN Given Imaging Ltd. provides products for the gastrointestinal community. The Company's principal product, which incorporates its core technology, is the Given System, a wireless imaging system for a visual examination of the gastrointestinal tract. The Given System uses a miniaturized video camera contained in a disposable capsule, which the Company refers to as the M2A capsule. The Given System was cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2001 as an adjunctive tool for the detection of abnormalities of the small intestine. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the FDA removed the adjunctive labeling, with the result that the Given System can be marketed in the United States as a standalone or first-line tool for the detection of abnormalities of the small intestine.
G The Gillette Company manufactures and sells a variety of consumer products throughout the world. The Company has five business segments: Blades and Razors, Duracell, Oral Care, Braun and Personal Care. The Blades and Razors segment is the primary business in terms of share of sales and profit, representing 42% of total Company net sales and 68% of total operating segment profit from operations in 2003. As of December 31, 2003, Gillette had manufacturing operations at 32 facilities in 14 countries. Gillette's products are sold in over 200 countries and territories. The Company's largest customer is Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and its affiliates, which accounted for 13% of net sales in 2003.
GILD Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes therapeutics to advance the care of patients suffering from life-threatening diseases worldwide. The Company has six products that are marketed in the United States, all of which are also marketed worldwide. These products are Viread (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) and Emtriva (emtricitabine) for the treatment of HIV infection; Hepsera (adefovir dipivoxil) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B infection; AmBisome (amphotericin B liposome for injection), an antifungal agent, and Vistide (cidofovir injection) for the treatment of CMV retinitis. Hoffmann-La Roche markets Tamiflu (oseltamivir phosphate) for the treatment of influenza, under a royalty-paying collaborative agreement with the Company.
GIL Gildan Activewear Inc. is a vertically integrated manufacturer and marketer of basic activewear for sale principally into the wholesale imprinted activewear market in the Canadian, the United States, European and other international apparel markets. It manufactures and sells T-shirts, placket collar sport shirts and fleece products in a variety of weights, sizes, colors and styles. The products are made with pre-shrunk fabric, feature details, such as topstitched collars and double stitched hems, and are quarter-turned to eliminate the center crease.The Company sells its products as blanks, which are ultimately decorated with designs and logos for sale to customers. As of November 2004, the Company had set up a network of 36 distributors in 20 countries. During the fiscal year ended October 3, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company entered the Australian market. T-shirts, Fleece and Sport shirts accounted for 79.7%, 11.9% and 8.4%, respectively, of the Company's sales, during fiscal 2004.
GILTF Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. is a provider of products and services for satellite-based communications networks. The Company designs, develops, manufactures, markets and services products that enable end-to-end telecommunications and data networking solutions, as well as broadband Internet solutions based on satellite earth stations, a related central station known as a hub, hardware equipment and software. The satellite earth stations are known as very-small aperture terminals (VSATs). These small units, which attach to communication equipment such as personal computers and telephones, enable the transmission of data, voice and images via geostationary satellites. The services provided by the Company include access to, and communication with, satellites (satellite transponder capacity), installation of network equipment, online network monitoring and network maintenance and repair services and telephone line services based on its VSAT networks.
GIII G-III Apparel Group, Ltd. designs, manufactures, imports and markets an extensive range of outerwear and sportswear, including coats, jackets, pants, skirts and other sportswear items under licensed labels, the Company owns labels and private retail labels. The Company distributes its products through a broad mix of retail partners at a variety of price points. G-III has licenses to produce products under the Kenneth Cole New York, Reaction Kenneth Cole, Nine West, Cole Haan, Jones New York, JNY Jones New York, Sean John, Timberland, Bill Blass, Blassport and James Dean fashion labels. The Company is also licensed to produce products containing trademarks of the National Football League, National Hockey League, National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, Louisville Slugger and many universities located in the United States.
GIGM GigaMedia Limited is a holding company, which, through several subsidiaries, distributes recorded music and provides broadband Internet access services and online entertainment services in Taiwan. The Company's core retail music business is operated through its subsidiary, G-Music Limited (G-Music), which controls Taiwan's two music store chains. GigaMedia's online broadband businesses are operated through its subsidiary, Hoshin GigaMedia Center Inc. and Hoshin GigaMedia's subsidiary, Koos Broadband Telecom Limited (KBT), which are focused on consumer and corporate users, respectively. In April 2004, the Company acquired Grand Virtual, a software developer and application service provider based in the Boston area of the United States. Grand Virtual develops software for online entertainment services, including online gaming and social networking, which is licensed to online gaming companies in Europe and Asia.
GIGA Giga-tronics, Incorporated produces instruments, subsystems and microwave components that have applications in both defense electronics and wireless telecommunications. The Company operates in four segments: Giga-tronics Instrument Division, which produces signal sources, generators and sweepers and power measurement instruments for use in the microwave and radio frequency (RF) range from 10 kilohertz (KHz) to 75 gigahertz (GHz); ASCOR Inc., which produces switch modules and interface adapters that operate with a bandwidth from direct current (DC) to 18 GHz; Microsource Inc., which develops and manufactures a line of yttrium, iron, garnet (YIG)-tuned oscillators, filters and microwave synthesizers, and corporate.
ROCK Gibraltar Industries, Inc., formerly Gibraltar Steel Corporation, is a processor, manufacturer and distributor of an array of high-value-added, high-margin products and services. The Company is organized into three business segments: Processed Steel Products, Building Products and Heat Treating. The Processed Steel Products segment produces a variety of cold-rolled strip steel products, coated sheet steel products and strapping products in 16 facilities in seven states and Mexico. The Building Products segment, comprised of 36 facilities in 21 states, primarily includes the processing of sheet steel to produce a variety of building and construction products. The Heat Treating segment operates 16 facilities in 10 states and Canada and provides an array of processes, which refine the metallurgical properties of customer-owned metal products for a variety of consumer and industrial applications where critical performance characteristics are required.
GMOS.OB Giant Motorsports, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary, W.W. Cycles, Inc., doing business as Andrews Cycles, operates a retail dealership of motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), scooters and personal watercraft. The dealership is located in northeastern Ohio. The Company records revenue when vehicles are delivered and title has passed to the customer, when vehicle service or repair work is performed and when parts are delivered. The Company arranges financing for customers through various financial institutions and receives a commission from the lender equal to the difference between the interest rates charged to customers and the interest rates set by the financing institution. The Company also receives commissions from the sale of various third-party insurance products to customers and extended service contracts. The Company sells both manufacturers and company warranties.
GI Giant Industries, Inc., through its subsidiary, Giant Industries Arizona, Inc., and its subsidiaries, refines and sells petroleum products and operates service stations and convenience stores on the east coast, primarily in Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina. In the southwest, it primarily operates in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. In addition, its Phoenix Fuel Co., Inc. subsidiary distributes commercial wholesale petroleum products primarily in Arizona. The Company's business units are the refining group, the retail group and Phoenix Fuel. The refining group operates its Ciniza and Bloomfield refineries, in the Four Corners area of New Mexico and the Yorktown refinery in Virginia. The retail group operates service stations that include convenience stores or kiosks. Phoenix Fuel is a commercial wholesale petroleum products distributor selling diesel fuel, gasoline, jet fuel, kerosene, motor oil, hydraulic oil, gear oil, cutting oil, grease and various chemicals and solvents.
GPOL.OB Giant Group, Ltd. reviews various courses of action, including but not limited to, an extraordinary corporate transaction, such as a merger, reorganization or liquidation. Technically, Giant falls within the definition of an Investment Company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. However, the Company is not engaged in the business of investing, re-investing or trading of securities and has, therefore, filed for an exemption from the Securities and Exchange Commission so as not to fall under the Investment Act. Giant owns 8% of the total outstanding common shares of Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. Checkers is a chain of double drive-thru restaurants in the United States. The company is a combination of two similar quick-service restaurant chains, Checkers and Rally's Hamburgers (Rally's), which were merged in August 1999.
GUPB GFSB Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for Gallup Federal Savings Bank (the Bank), a federally chartered stock savings bank headquartered in Gallup, New Mexico. GFSB is a unitary savings and loan holding company, which under existing laws is not restricted in the types of business activities in which it may engage provided that the Bank retains a specified amount of its assets in housing-related investments. The Company conducts no significant business or operations of its own other than holding all of the outstanding stock of the Bank. The Bank is subject to examination and comprehensive regulation by the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) and its deposits are federally insured by the Savings Association Insurance Fund (SAIF). The Bank is a member of and owns capital stock in the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) of Dallas, which is one of the 12 regional banks in the FHLB System.
GEXA Gexa Corp. provides electricity supply services and focuses on residential apartment dwellers and small business customers, primarily in Texas. Gexa offers consumers customer-driven restructured retail energy and customized billing solutions. The Company has built a single network architecture that provides an integrated backbone for the multiple platforms required for the retail market registration process. Gexa uses local delivery companies, including CenterPoint Energy, Oncor Energy, AEP and Texas New Mexico Power, to deliver electricity to its customers, as well as to respond to outages and emergencies.
GVHR Gevity HR, Inc. is a United States provider of end-to-end human capital management solutions. The Company offers its clients, which are typically small to medium-sized businesses with between five and 100 employees, a range of tools and services that provide a complete solution for the clients' human resource outsourcing needs. Tools and services offered by Gevity include assisting clients with finding the right employees, developing and managing the clients employees, retaining employees, managing the clients paperwork, including benefits administration, payroll administration, governmental compliance, risk management, unemployment administration, as well as health, welfare and retirement benefits and protecting the clients business. These tools and services are primarily offered to clients on a bundled or all-inclusive basis.
GTY Getty Realty Corp. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States, specializing in the ownership and leasing of retail motor fuel and convenience store properties and petroleum distribution terminals. As of December 31, 2003, it owned 772 properties and leased 256 additional properties in 13 states located principally in the northeastern part of the United States. Nine hundred and fifty eight of its properties are leased on a long-term basis to Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. (Marketing), a wholly owned subsidiary of OAO LUKoil, a Russian integrated oil company. Marketing is responsible for the cost of all taxes, maintenance, repair, insurance and other operating expenses, and for managing the actual operations conducted at these properties.
GYI Getty Images, Inc. is a provider of imagery and related products and services to businesses worldwide. Getty offers a range of visual content products that include creative or stock imagery (still and moving images), editorial photography, archival imagery (still and moving) and illustrations. The imagery product is offered through the Company's creative photography collections consisting of The Image Bank, Photodisc, Photographer's Choice, Stone and Taxi. Getty Images Film and Editorial includes news, sports, entertainment and archival imagery, and collections of other imagery providers such as Digital Vision, National Geographic and Time Life Pictures. The products and services are offered through the Getty Website, compact disc-read only memory (CD-ROMs) and an international distribution network. It offers assignment services for custom photography projects such as photographing executives for an annual report, producing product shots for a brochure or documenting a news event.
GERN Geron Corporation is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing therapeutic and diagnostic products for cancer. The Company's products are based on its telomerase technology and cell-based therapeutics using its human embryonic stem cell technology. It is working to develop anti-cancer therapies based on telomerase inhibitors, telomerase therapeutic vaccines and, through its collaborators, telomerase-based oncolytic (cancer-killing) viruses. It also intends to continue the development and commercialization of its products using telomerase as a marker for cancer diagnosis, prognosis, patient monitoring and screening.
GABC German American Bancorp is a financial services holding company that operates five affiliated community banks with 27 retail banking offices in the eight southwestern Indiana counties of Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Knox, Martin, Perry, Pike and Spencer, and a business lending center in Evansville, Indiana. It also operates a trust, brokerage and financial planning subsidiary, which operates from the banking offices of the bank subsidiaries, and two insurance agencies with five insurance agency offices throughout its market area. The Company's lines of business include retail and commercial banking, mortgage banking, comprehensive financial planning, full-service brokerage and trust administration, title insurance and a range of personal and corporate insurance products. Substantially all of the Company's revenues are derived from customers located in, and substantially all of its assets are located in, the United States.
GGB Gerdau S.A. is engaged in the production of crude steel and related long rolled products, drawn products and long specialty products. The Company produces steel based on the mini-mill concept, whereby steel is produced in electric arc furnaces from scrap and pig iron acquired mainly in the region where each mill operates. Gerdau also operates plants that produce steel from iron ore in blast furnaces and through the direct reduction process. The Company manufactures steel products for use in civil constructions, manufacturing and agribusiness, as well as specialty steel products. The markets where Gerdau operates are located in Brazil, the United States, Canada and Chile, and, to a lesser extent, Argentina and Uruguay.
GNA Gerdau Ameristeel Corporation is a minimill steel producer with annual manufacturing capacity of over 6.8 million tons of mill finished steel products. Through a vertically integrated network of 11 minimills (including one 50%-owned minimill), 13 scrap recycling facilities and 32 downstream operations (including six rebar fabrication facilities acquired from Potter Form &amp; Tie Company on March 19, 2004), the Company primarily serves customers in the eastern half of North America. Its products are generally sold to steel service centers, fabricators, or directly to original equipment manufacturers for use in a variety of industries, including construction, automotive, mining and equipment manufacturing. Gerdau Ameristeel is an indirect subsidiary of, and controlled by, Brazilian steelmaker, Gerdau S.A. The Company's operations are segmented into two operating divisions, minimills and downstream operations.
GRB Gerber Scientific, Inc. is a provider of end-to-end customer solutions to the sign making and specialty graphics, apparel and flexible materials, and ophthalmic lens processing industries. In the sign making and specialty graphics segment, the Company manufactures computer-controlled production systems, software and after-market supplies sold to a diversified international customer base in the sign making and specialty graphics industries. In the apparel and flexible materials segment, Gerber manufactures computer-controlled production systems and software for product design, marker-making (nesting), spreading, labeling, cutting and handling of flexible materials, such as fabrics and composites. In the ophthalmic lens processing segment, the Company manufactures computer-controlled production systems and after-market supplies sold to a diversified international customer base in the ophthalmic industry.
GP Georgia-Pacific Corporation has been engaged in the manufacture of four principal products: tissue products, including bath tissue, paper towels and napkins, and disposable tabletop products, including cups, plates, cutlery and containers; containerboard and packaging, including corrugated packaging, linerboard and medium; bleached pulp and paper, including paper, market and fluff pulp, kraft and bleached board, and the manufacture and distribution of building products, including plywood, oriented strand board, various industrial wood products and softwood and hardwood lumber, as well as certain non-wood products, including gypsum board, chemicals and other products. In May 2004, the Company sold its building products distribution business, its non-integrated pulp operations and its interest in three Brazilian companies that own a minority, non-voting interest in the Brazilian pulp company, Aracruz Celulose S.A.
GGC Georgia Gulf Corporation is a North American manufacturer and international marketer of two integrated product lines, chlorovinyls and aromatics. Its manufacturing processes also include the production of caustic soda, chlorine and acetone. The primary products the Company sells externally include vinyl resins, vinyl compounds and caustic soda in its chlorovinyls business and cumene, phenol and acetone in its aromatics business. These products are used globally in a wide variety of end-use applications, including construction and renovation, engineering plastics, pulp and paper production, chemical intermediates, pharmaceuticals and consumer products.
GECR.OB Georgia-Carolina Bancshares, Inc. is a one-bank holding company that owns 100% of First Bank of Georgia (the Bank), an independent, locally owned state-chartered commercial bank. The Bank operates two offices in Augusta, Georgia, two offices in Martinez, Georgia, and one office in Thomson, Georgia. The Bank targets the banking needs of individuals and small to medium-sized businesses. It offers a range of deposit and lending services and is a member of an electronic banking network that enables its customers to use the automated teller machines (ATMs) of other financial institutions. It also offers commercial and business credit services, as well as various consumer credit services, including home mortgage loans, automobile loans, lines of credit, home equity loans and home improvement loans.
GBFP.OB Georgia Bank Financial Corporation is the holding company for its wholly owned subsidiary, Georgia Bank &amp; Trust Company of Augusta (the Bank). The Bank operates a total of seven banking offices in the greater Augusta area in Richmond and Columbia Counties, Georgia. The Bank also has mortgage operations in Augusta, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia, and Nashville, Tennessee. The Bank is community oriented and focuses on offering real estate, commercial and consumer loans, as well as deposit and other services to individuals, small to medium-sized businesses and professionals in its market area.
GEOI GeoResources, Inc. is a natural resources company engaged in three principal business segments: oil and gas exploration, development and production; oil and gas drilling, and mining of leonardite (oxidized lignite coal) and manufacturing of leonardite based products that are sold primarily as oil and gas drilling mud additives. The Company generates prospects for its own exploitation, but if a prospect seems to have substantial risk or cost, it may attempt to raise all or a portion of the funds necessary for exploration or development through farmouts, joint ventures, or other similar types of cost-sharing arrangements. The Company purchased its oil and gas drilling rig in 2001 and formed a subsidiary for drilling operations in 2002. Leonardite is mined from leased reserves and processed to make a basic product that can be sold as is, or blended with other substances to make several different powdered specialty products that are used primarily in the oil well drilling mud industry.
GORX GeoPharma, Inc. manufactures, packages and/or distributes private label dietary supplements, over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, pharmaceuticals and health and beauty care products for companies worldwide under two companies: Innovative Health Products, Inc. and Belcher Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Innovative Health Products specializes in the development and manufacture of nutritional supplements. Belcher Pharmaceuticals, Inc is a Food and Drug Administration-registered drug development and manufacturing facility for generic and OTC drugs. On May 18, 2004, the Company changed its name from Innovative Companies, Inc. to GeoPharma, Inc.
GOKN.OB Geokinetics Inc. provides three-dimensional (3D) seismic acquisition services to the United States land-based oil and gas industry, as well as seismic data processing services to clients involved in both onshore and offshore operations worldwide. The Company operates through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Quantum Geophysical, Inc. and Geophysical Development Corporation (GDC). Geokinetics has repositioned itself from oil &amp; gas exploration and production into a provider of seismic acquisition and seismic data processing services to the oil and gas industry.
GGR GeoGlobal Resources Inc., formerly Suite101.com, Inc., is engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the exploration for, and development of, oil and natural gas reserves. The Company's efforts are devoted to the pursuit and cultivation of Production Sharing Contracts in a number of offshore and onshore properties in India. The Company's activities are being undertaken in locations where it and its joint venture participants have been granted exploration rights pursuant to three Production Sharing Contracts entered into with the Government of India. As of March 31, 2004, it had been granted exploration rights in three exploration blocks, of which two are located in the State of Gujarat in western India and the third is offshore eastern India. The Company intends to seek to enter into additional Production Sharing Contracts when the opportunities arise. As of December 31, 2003, the Company did not claim any probable or proved reserves of oil or natural gas.
GENZ Genzyme Corporation is a global biotechnology company with a product portfolio focused on genetic disorders, renal disease, osteoarthritis and organ transplant. The Company is organized into five segments: renal, therapeutics, transplant, biosurgery and diagnostics/genetics. The renal segment develops, manufactures and distributes products that treat patients suffering from renal diseases. The therapeutics segment develops, manufactures and distributes therapeutic products. The transplant segment develops, manufactures and distributes therapeutic products for the treatment of immune-mediated diseases. The biosurgery segment develops and markets biotherapeutics and biomaterial products. The diagnostics/genetics segment develops and markets diagnostic products. In May 2004, the Company acquired IMPATH Inc.'s Physician Services business unit, which is engaged in oncology testing.
GNW Genworth Financial, Inc. is an insurance company in the United States with an expanding international presence serving the life and lifestyle protection, retirement income, investment and mortgage insurance needs of more than 15 million customers. The Company is a carve-out of General Electric Company that distributes its products and services in 20 countries through a distribution network that includes financial intermediaries, independent producers and dedicated sales specialists. The Company's three operating segments include Protection, Retirement Income and Investments and Mortgage Insurance.
GNVC GenVec, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing and working to commercialize therapeutic proteins to treat serious and life-threatening diseases, including cancer, heart disease and diseases of the eye. The Company's lead product candidates address significant markets for which no products are available. GenVec's product candidates include TNFerade, which is in three Phase II trials for the treatment of locally advanced pancreatic cancer, non-metastatic esophageal cancer and rectal cancer; BIOBYPASS, which has completed a Phase II trial in 71 patients with severe heart disease that have no treatment options; Cell Transplantation Therapy, which is in Phase I trials for the treatment of congestive heart failure, and AdPEDF, which is in a Phase I trial for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration, a cause of blindness in individuals over the age of 50.
GGNS Genus, Inc. is engaged in supplying manufacturing systems to the semiconductor industry worldwide. Semiconductor manufacturers use its thin film deposition equipment and process technology to produce integrated circuits, commonly called chips, which are incorporated into a variety of products, including personal computers, communications equipment and consumer electronics. The Company also develops chemical vapor deposition tungsten silicide that is used in certain critical steps in the manufacture of integrated circuits. It is in the commercialization of atomic layer deposition, also known as ALD technology. This technology is designed to enable a spectrum of thin film applications, such as aluminum oxide, hafnium oxide and other insulating and conducting materials for integrated circuit manufacturing.
GPC Genuine Parts Company is a service organization engaged in the distribution of automotive replacement parts, industrial replacement parts, office products and electrical/electronic materials. The Company operates the following divisions: Automotive Parts Group, which distributes automotive replacement parts and accessory items; Industrial Parts Group, which distributes industrial replacement parts and related supplies; Office Products Group, which distributes office and other business related products, and Electrical/Electronic Materials Group, which distributes materials to electrical and electronic manufacturers. In 2003, it conducted its businesses throughout the United States, in Canada and in Mexico, from approximately 1,800 locations.
GTIV Gentiva Health Services, Inc. provides home health services throughout most of the United States. The Company generates revenues and profits primarily by providing patients with direct home healthcare services, including specialty services and neuro-rehabilitation services; by delivering national, regional and local administrative services to managed care organizations and self-insured employers, and by providing home healthcare consulting services to independent and hospital-based home health agencies. Its home health services business is conducted through more than 350 direct service delivery units and delivers a range of services principally through its Gentiva Health Services and CareCentrix brands.
GNTX Gentex Corporation, incorporated in 1974, designs, develops, manufactures and markets electro-optic products, including automatic-dimming rearview mirrors for the automotive industry and fire protection products primarily for the commercial building industry. The Company has several important customers within the automotive industry, three of which each account for 10% or more of the Company's annual sales: General Motors Corporation, DaimlerChrysler AG and Toyota Motor Corporation. The Company operates four office/manufacturing facilities in Zeeland, Michigan. In addition, it has constructed a 40,000 square-foot office, distribution and light manufacturing facility near Neckarsulm, Germany, which was completed during the year ended December 31, 2003.
GNTA Genta Incorporated is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the identification, development and commercialization of novel drugs for cancer and related diseases. The Company's research portfolio consists of two areas of focus: deoxyribonucleic acid/ribonucleic acid (DNA/RNA) Medicines, which are drugs based on chemical modifications of either DNA or RNA, and Small Molecules. The lead product from the Company's DNA/RNA Medicines program is Genasense, an antisense oligonucleotide molecule that is designed to block the production of a protein known as Bcl-2.
GNSM.OB Gensym Corporation is a provider of operations and expert systems software products and services. The Company develops and sells software products for expert operations management. The Company's products emulate the reasoning of human experts, using process knowledge and real-time data and then on the basis of such reasoning, make recommendations or take direct operational actions. Gensym has sold over 17,000 licenses to customers in a variety of industries. Its products have been used in the manufacturing, transportation, communications, aerospace and government sectors. Gensym also offers a number of products that use G2 as a platform. These products enable customers to implement certain applications more quickly and economically by providing domain-specific functionality. The products are G2, NeurOn-Line, Optegrity, Intelligent Objects, Integrity, ReThink and e-SCOR.
GLYT Genlyte Group Inc. designs, manufactures, markets and sells lighting fixtures, controls and related products for a variety of applications in the commercial, residential and industrial markets in North America. The Company's line of indoor fixtures includes incandescent, fluorescent, light emitting diodes and high-intensity discharge (HID) lighting fixtures and lighting controls for commercial, residential, industrial, institutional, medical, entertainment, hospitality and sports markets, and task lighting for all markets. Its line of outdoor fixtures includes HID and incandescent lighting fixtures and accessories for commercial, residential, industrial, institutional and sports markets. The Company's products are marketed primarily to distributors that resell the products for use in new commercial, residential and industrial construction, as well as in remodeling existing structures.
GNPI.OB Genius Products, Inc. (formerly International Trading and Manufacturing Corporation, Inc.) is a family entertainment company that produces, publishes and distributes digital video discs (DVDs), videos (VHS) and compact discs (CDs). The Company's business model includes revenues from four sources: sales of its branded proprietary and licensed DVDs and VHS, sales of its branded proprietary and licensed music audio CDs and cassettes, sales of non-branded DVDs and sales of Zoo Babies and gift sets.
GTOP Genitope Corporation is a biotechnology company focused on the research and development of novel immuno-therapies for the treatment of cancer. The Company's lead product candidate, MyVax personalized immunotherapy, is a patient-specific active immunotherapy that is based on the genetic makeup of a patient's tumor, and is designed to activate a patient's immune system to identify and attack cancer cells. MyVax is in a pivotal Phase III clinical trial and additional Phase II clinical trials for the treatment of B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (B-cell NHL). B-cells are one of the two major classes of lymphocytes, which are types of white blood cells. NHL is clinically classified as either slow-growing (indolent) or fast-growing (aggressive). The Company's pivotal Phase III clinical trial is for the treatment of follicular B-cell NHL. Genitope is also developing MyVax for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
GEB Genetronics Biomedical Corporation is a biomedical company whose technology platform is based on medical devices that use Electroporation Therapy (EPT) to deliver drugs and genes into cells. The Company is developing and commercializing medical therapies to address a number of treatment needs using EPT. Genetronics' MedPulser System is in late-stage development in the United States for the treatment of head and neck cancer. This system delivers electrical pulses to tumors injected with the generic drug, bleomycin. The feature of the system, which uses a generator, together with disposable needle applicators, is the preservation of healthy tissue at the margins of the tumor. Pursuant to the agreement, Vical Incorporated has an option to a worldwide license for the use of the Company's in vivo electroporation delivery technology in combination with Vical's vaccine and therapeutic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) technology for undisclosed targets.
GNSY Genesys S.A. is a global provider of multimedia conferencing services that integrate audio, video and Web-based conferencing capabilities to enable businesses to communicate and share critical information. Its multimedia conferencing platform offers a range of services from simple conference calls to large-scale customized, managed events that link remote participants and audiences at any time, which enable businesses to conduct real-time, interactive group meetings and presentations via the telephone and the Internet. The Company's services are offered in three categories: Genesys Meeting Center, Genesys Event Service and Video Conferencing. At December 31, 2003, Genesys had over 500,000 users worldwide at companies ranging in size from multinational corporations and Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, professional organizations and public institutions.
GNSS Genesis Microchip Inc. designs, develops and markets integrated circuits (ICs) called display controllers that receive and process digital video and graphic images for viewing on a flat-panel display. The Company's display controllers are located inside a flat-panel display device, such as a flat-panel computer monitor or television. It is targeting flat-panel computer monitor, liquid crystal display (LCD) television and digital television. The Company operates through subsidiaries and offices in the United States, Canada, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Its business is conducted globally, with the majority of the suppliers and customers located in China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. In March 2003, Genesis entered into an agreement to merge with Pixelworks, Inc. and, in August 2003, it was agreed to terminate the merger.
GHCI Genesis HealthCare Corporation is a provider of healthcare and support services to the elderly in the United States. The Company was formed by the December 2003 spin-off of its eldercare and rehabilitation businesses from Genesis Health Ventures, Inc. Within the Company's network of facilities, it offers services focusing on the medical, physical and behavioral issues facing the elderly population. Its business consists of two primary businesses: inpatient services and rehabilitation therapy services. These segments are supported by complementary service capabilities.
GEL Genesis Energy, L.P. is engaged in three operations: crude oil gathering and marketing, crude oil pipeline transportation and carbon dioxide (CO2) marketing. The Company's crude oil gathering and marketing operations are concentrated in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi. It utilizes its trucking fleet of 49 leased tractor-trailers and its gathering lines to transport crude oil. It also transports purchased crude oil on trucks, barges and pipelines owned and operated by third parties. The Company transports crude oil at regulated published tariffs on its three common carrier pipeline systems. These systems are the Texas System, the Jay System between Florida and Alabama and the Mississippi System between Mississippi and Louisiana. In November 2003, Genesis Energy acquired assets from Denbury Resources, enabling it to start a wholesale CO2 operation.
GBI Genesis Bioventures, Inc. (GBI) is engaged in the business of identifying and funding promising biotechnology companies involved in research and related product development in the fields of cancer therapy and neurodegenerative diagnostics through its subsidiary and equity investment companies. Biomedical Diagnostics, LLC, its wholly owned subsidiary, has developed a screening diagnostic for breast cancer and through its license agreement plans on developing potential screening diagnostics for the detection of ovarian and prostate cancers. As of December 31, 2003, GBI holds equity interests in Biotherapies, Incorporated, a private company that was developing a potential therapeutic for breast cancer and Prion Developmental Laboratories, Inc., a private company that is developing a diagnostic test for prion diseases, a family of fatal neurodegenerative diseases that includes Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or Mad Cow Disease.
GWR Genesee &amp; Wyoming Inc. is a holding company whose subsidiaries and unconsolidated affiliates own and operate 32 short-line and regional freight railroads in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia and Bolivia. The Company, through its subsidiaries, also provides freight car switching and rail-related services to industrial companies in the United States. Its recent acquisitions and investments include rail lines owned by industrial companies, such as Bethlehem Steel, Mueller Industries and GP; branch lines of Class I railroads; other regional railroads or short line railroads, and foreign government-owned railroads that have been privatized.
GENBB.OB Genesee Corporation (Genesee) was a holding company for a group of subsidiaries conducting dry food processing and packaging, equipment leasing and real estate investment. Until 1986, the Company was known as The Genesee Brewing Company, Inc. and was engaged solely in the production and sale of malt beverages. In 1986, the Company diversified its business operations beyond its traditional brewing business. On October 19, 2000, Genesee's shareholders approved a plan to liquidate and dissolve the Company. Pursuant to this plan, Genesee has liquidated all of its operating businesses and its real estate investments.
GCO Genesco Inc. is a retailer and wholesaler of branded footwear. The Company operates four business segments: Journeys, consisting of Journeys and Journeys Kidz retail footwear chains; Underground Station/Jarman Group, consisting of the Underground Station and Jarman retail footwear chains; Johnston and Murphy, composed of Johnston and Murphy retail operations and wholesale distribution, and Dockers Footwear. Genesco also designs, sources, markets and distributes footwear under its own Johnston and Murphy brand and under the licensed Dockers brand, to nearly 1,000 retail accounts in the United States, including a number of department, discount and specialty stores. At January 31, 2004, the Company operated 1,046 retail footwear stores and leased departments throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.
GNBT Generex Biotechnology Corporation is engaged primarily in the research and development of drug delivery technologies. The Company's primary focus is the development of its technology for the administration of formulations of large molecule drugs to the oral (buccal) cavity using a hand-held aerosol applicator. The Company's buccal delivery technology involves the preparation of a formulation in which an active pharmaceutical agent is placed in a solution with a combination of absorption enhancers and other excipients classified generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when used in accordance with specified quantity and other limitations. The resulting formulation is aerosolized with a pharmaceutical grade chemical propellant and is administered to the patient using the Company's RapidMist device.
GM General Motors Corporation (GM) participates in the automotive industry through the activities of General Motors Automotive, which consists of four regions: GM North America (GMNA), GM Europe (GME), GM Latin America/Africa/Mid-East (GMLAAM) and GM Asia Pacific (GMAP). GMNA designs, manufactures and/or markets vehicles, primarily in North America under the following nameplates: Chevrolet, Pontiac, GMC, Oldsmobile, Buick, Cadillac, Saturn and Hummer. GME, GMLAAM and GMAP meet the demands of customers outside North America with vehicles under the following nameplates: Opel, Vauxhall, Holden, Saab, Buick, Chevrolet, GMC and Cadillac. GM's Financing and Insurance Operations primarily relate to General Motors Acceptance Corporation. It provides consumer vehicle financing, automotive dealership and other commercial financing, residential and commercial mortgage services, automobile service contracts, personal automobile insurance coverage and selected commercial insurance coverage.
GIS General Mills, Inc. is a producer of packaged consumer foods that operates exclusively in the consumer foods industry. The Company's businesses are divided into three segments: United States Retail, Bakeries and Foodservice and International. The Company's segments are organized by product categories. United States Retail consists of cereals, meals, refrigerated and frozen dough products, baking products, snacks, yogurt and organic foods. The Bakeries and Foodservice segment consists of products marketed to retail and wholesale bakeries and offered to the commercial and non-commercial foodservice sectors throughout the United States and Canada, such as restaurants and school cafeterias. The International segment is made up of retail businesses outside the United States and Foodservice businesses outside of the United States and Canada. In addition to its consolidated operations, the Company manufactures and sells products through several joint ventures.
GMR General Maritime Corporation provides international seaborne crude oil transportation services. The Company's fleet, which excludes one double-bottom Aframax tanker that was held for sale, as of December 31, 2003, consists of 42 tankers, of which 23 are Aframax tankers and 19 are Suezmax tankers. The Company's fleet includes ports in the Caribbean, South and Central America, the United States, Western Africa, the Mediterranean, Europe and the North Sea. Although the majority of General Maritime's tankers operate in the Atlantic basin, the Company also operates its tankers in the Black Sea, the Far East and in other regions. General Maritime's customers include international oil companies such as ChevronTexaco Corporation, CITGO Petroleum Corp., Shell Oil Company, BPAmoco, Exxon Mobil Corporation, ConocoPhillips and Sun International Ltd.
GKIN.OB General Kinetics Incorporated designs and manufactures precision enclosures for sophisticated electronic systems. The Company is a manufacturing and engineering services company, which produces build-to-print, as well as custom engineered products. The Company has manufactured electronics-ready enclosures and mounting systems. Products include both standard and made-to-order racks, cabinets and kits. These products are precision-manufactured to enclose and protect sensitive electronic communication and detection equipment from shock and vibration. The Company sells these products as a prime contractor and also as a subcontractor to major prime contractors, such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, SAIC, Northrop Grumman and DRS Laurel Technologies.
GGP General Growth Properties Inc. is primarily engaged in the ownership, operation, management, leasing, acquisition, development and expansion of regional malls and community shopping centers in the United States. The Company, either directly or through GGP Limited Partnership (the Operating Partnership) and subsidiaries, owns 120 operating retail properties or regional malls and community centers (the Consolidated Centers), and has ownership interests in 43 regional mall shopping centers (the Unconsolidated Centers). Together, these comprise the Company Portfolio. The Company also owns General Growth Management, Inc. (GGMI) and certain other miscellaneous mixed-use commercial business properties and potential development sites.
JOB General Employment Enterprises, Inc. provides professional staffing services. The Company offers its customers both placement and contract staffing services, specializing in the placement of information technology, engineering and accounting professionals. The Company's placement services include placing candidates into regular, full-time jobs with client-employers. The Company's contract services include placing its professional employees on temporary assignments, under contracts with client companies.
GE General Electric Company (GE) conducts its businesses through 11 segments: Advanced Materials, Commercial Finance, Consumer Finance, Consumer and Industrial, Energy, Equipment and Other Services, Healthcare, Infrastructure, Insurance, NBC Universal and Transportation. Its products include major appliances, lighting products, industrial automation products, medical diagnostic imaging equipment, motors, electrical distribution and control equipment, locomotives, power generation and delivery products, nuclear power support services and fuel assemblies, jet engines, chemicals and engineered materials. GE's services include product services; electrical product supply houses; electrical apparatus installation, engineering, repair and rebuilding services, and computer-related information services. On May 11, 2004, GE completed the merger of NBC with Vivendi Universal Entertainment LLLP. In December 2004, GE Infrastructurecompleted the acquisition of InVision Technologies, Inc.
GD General Dynamics Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and supports technology products and services for information systems and technologies; land and expeditionary combat vehicles, armaments and ammunitions; shipbuilding and marine systems, and business aviation. It was created through the combination of Electric Boat Company, Consolidated Vultee and other entities. Since 1995, the Company has acquired more than 30 businesses. It operates through four primary business groups: Information Systems and Technology, Combat Systems, Marine Systems and Aerospace. In addition, a small Resources group provides construction aggregates and operates coalmines. Its customers are the United States military, other government organizations, the armed forces of allied nations and other corporate and industrial buyers. During the year ended December 31, 2003, 66% of the Company's net sales came from the United States government.
GNDV.OB General Devices, Inc. has no business operations. It had been engaged in the business of providing contract technical services. General Devices owns no real property. Effective April 14, 1990, the Company sold most of its technical services business and certain assets to TAD Technical Services Corporation. On June 1, 1990, the Company sold its 100%-owned British subsidiary, GDI Euroforce Ltd., to TAD Technical Services Corporation. The Company continued to operate in the technical services business from its King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, location on a much smaller scale. Since 1993, the Company has been inactive. A petition of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code was filed on August 23, 1996. The court confirmed the Company's Chapter 11 reorganization plan, on December 22, 1997, and issued a final decree on September 15, 1998.
GNCMA General Communication, Inc. (GCI) is primarily a holding company and, together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries, is a diversified communications provider in the State of Alaska. GCI operates a broadband communications network that permits the delivery of an integrated bundle of communications, entertainment and information services. It offers an array of consumer and business communications and entertainment services, including local telephone; long-distance and wireless communications; cable television; consulting services; network and desktop computing outsourced services, and dial-up, broadband (cable modem, wireless and digital subscriber line) and dedicated Internet access services at a wide range of speeds. These services are marketed under the GCI brand name.
BGC General Cable Corp. is a global developer and manufacturer in the wire and cable industry. The Company's operations are divided into three main segments: energy, industrial and specialty and communications segments. Energy cable products include low-, medium- and high-voltage power-distribution and power-transmission products for overhead and buried applications. Industrial and specialty wire and cable products conduct electrical current for industrial, original equipment manufacturing (OEM), commercial and residential power and control applications. Communications wire and cable products transmit low-voltage signals for voice, data, video and control applications.
GBND General Binding Corporation (GBC) and its subsidiaries are engaged in the design, manufacture and distribution of branded office equipment, related supplies and laminating equipment and films. The Company combined three of its four business units into two new groups: Commercial and Consumer Group (CCG) and Industrial and Print Finishing Group (IPFG). The Commercial and Consumer Group's major products include binding, punching and laminating equipment and related supplies, visual communications products (writing boards, bulletin boards, easels), document shredders, custom binders and folders and desktop accessories, as well as maintenance and repair services for these products. The Industrial and Print Finishing Group's primary products include thermal and pressure-sensitive laminating films, mid-range and commercial high-speed laminators and large-format digital print laminators.
GNRL General Bearing Corporation (General) manufactures, sources, assembles and distributes a variety of bearings and bearing components, including ball bearings, tapered roller bearings, spherical roller bearings and cylindrical roller bearings. General's products are used in a range of applications, including automobiles, railroad cars, locomotives, trucks, heavy-duty truck trailers, office equipment, machinery and appliances. The Company sells approximately 2,500 stock keeping units. Its product line includes ball and roller bearings and their components. It offers its products in standard, modified and custom designs where appropriate. Under the General trademark, General produces ball bearings for a variety of products including copying machines, automotive steering columns, postal equipment, wheelchairs and other applications. Under the Hyatt brand, it produces select tapered roller bearings, tapered journal bearings, spherical roller bearings and cylindrical roller bearings.
DNA Genentech, Inc. is a biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes biotherapeutics for significant unmet medical needs. It manufactures and commercializes 13 biotechnology products in the United States. These products are Rituxan anti-CD20 antibody, Herceptin anti-HER2 antibody, Nutropin Depot encapsulated sustained-release growth hormone, Nutropin growth hormone, Protropin growth hormone, Nutropin AQ and Nutropin AQ Pen liquid formulation growth hormone, TNKase single-bolus thrombolytic agent, Activase tissue-plasminogen activator, Cathflo Activase thrombolytic agent, Pulmozyme inhalation solution, Xolair anti-IgE antibody, Raptiva anti-CD11a antibody and Avastin anti-VEGF antibody. It also licenses several additional products to other companies. The Company's product development efforts cover a range of medical conditions, including cancer, respiratory disorders, cardiovascular diseases, endocrine disorders and inflammatory and immune problems.
GCOR Genencor International, Inc. is a diversified biotechnology company that develops and delivers products and services to the industrial, consumer, agri-processing and health care markets. The Company's operating segments are the Bioproducts segment and the Health Care segment. The Bioproducts segment develops and delivers products and services to the industrial, consumer and agri-processing markets to a global customer base. The Health Care segment is engaged in the performance of research and development, securing intellectual property and the establishment of strategic investments and collaborations. Genencor's products include novel enzymes used in the cleaning, textiles, sweetener, fuel ethanol and food, feed and specialties markets. The markets for the products are North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.
GMXX.OB GeneMax Corp. (GMC) is a biotechnology company whose strategic vision is to develop and market products specializing in the application of the latest discoveries in cellular and molecular immunology and cancer biology to the development of proprietary therapeutics aimed at the treatment and eradication of cancer and therapies for infectious diseases, autoimmune disorders and transplant tissue rejection. The Company's technologies are based on an understanding of the function of a protein pump within cells that is essential in the processing of tumor antigens, known as TAP. GMC has none of its product candidates on the market and is focusing on the development and testing of its product candidates.
GNLK.OB GeneLink, Inc. is a bioscience company organized to offer to the public the safe collection and preservation of a family's DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) material for later use by the family to identify and prevent inherited diseases. The expansion into the bioscience field with its genetic profiles help companies create and deliver effective personalized wellness and quality of life products tailored to their customer's individual needs based on the science of genetics, thereby allowing the customer to determine what vitamin supplements or skin-care products are best for their individual needs. The Company has developed and received a patent on a non-invasive DNA Collection Kit for the collection of DNA specimens of its clients. No licensing or training is necessary for the collection by a client of his or her DNA specimen.
GNLB Genelabs Technologies, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of pharmaceutical products to improve human health. Genelabs is pursuing regulatory approval of Prestara, its investigational drug for women with systemic lupus erythematosus, a disease for which no drug has been approved in the past 40 years and for which existing therapies are not adequate. The Company is also pursuing the discovery of antiviral compounds for treatment of hepatitis C virus infections and is initiating preclinical development work in this area. Genelabs has granted licenses to third parties under its intellectual property portfolio, including under patents covering the hepatitis E virus, hepatitis G virus and a nucleic acid amplification technology, known as LADA. During the year ended December 31, 2003, approximately 63% of revenue was the recognition into income of a received up-front license payment from Watson.
GLGC Gene Logic Inc. provides services to organizations involved in the drug discovery and development business. The Company's services consist of information services (gene expression based databases, toxicogenomics databases and technologies to access, use and analyze the information in such databases) and contract study services (primarily preclinical toxicity, pharmacology studies, related laboratory services and, to a lesser extent, Phase I clinical trial services) for drug discovery and development. Its customers include pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies worldwide, as well as United States Government agencies. The services Gene Logic provides are organized into two business segments: information services and contract study services.
GY GenCorp Inc. is a multinational diversified technology-based company that operates in four business segments: Aerospace and Defense, GDX Automotive, Fine Chemicals and Real Estate. The Aerospace and Defense segment includes the operations of Aerojet-General Corporation, which designs, develops and manufactures propulsion systems for space and defense applications, armament systems for precision tactical weapon systems and munitions applications, and advanced airframe structures. GDX Automotive develops and manufactures vehicle-sealing systems for automotive original equipment manufacturers. The Fine Chemicals segment includes the operations of Aerojet Fine Chemicals LLC, which custom manufactures active pharmaceutical ingredients and registered intermediates for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The Real Estate segment includes the activities related to development, sale, acquisition and leasing of the Company's real estate assets.
GNSC Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is engaged in the discovery and use of human gene variation for the development of a new generation of deoxyribonucleic acid-based (DNA-based) diagnostic and therapeutic products. The Company has developed a combination of technologies and expertise that it calls its HAP Technology, which allows population genomics to be integrated into the development, marketing and prescribing of new and existing medicines. In April 2004, the Company acquired Lark Technologies, Inc. Genaissance's technology services and clinical development expertise are marketed to biopharmaceutical and diagnostic development companies, as a comprehensive solution to their pharmacogenomic needs. Lark, headquartered in Houston, Texas, with European operations located near Cambridge, England, offers GLP-compliant and research genomic services for use in pharmaceutical, diagnostic and agricultural product research and development.
GENR Genaera Corporation is a biopharmaceutical company committed to developing medicines for serious diseases from genomics and natural products. Its research and development efforts are focused on anti-angiogenesis and respiratory diseases. Its research and development programs are Natural Products Development and Genomics-Based Development, as well as other programs.
GPRO Gen-Probe Incorporated develops, manufactures and markets nucleic acid probe-based products used for the clinical diagnosis of human diseases and for screening donated human blood (nucleic acid testing, or NAT). NAT enables detection of microorganisms that are difficult or time-consuming to detect with traditional laboratory methods. The Company generates revenues primarily from sales of clinical diagnostic and blood screening assays. Its clinical diagnostic products are marketed to laboratories and public health institutions in the United States and Canada through its direct sales force. Gen-Probe has agreements with Chiron, Bayer, bioM&eacute;rieux and Fujirebio, through its subsidiary Rebio Gen, Inc., to market some of its clinical diagnostic products in various global markets. For the year ended December 31, 2003, product sales, collaborative research revenues and royalty and license revenues equaled 91%, 7% and 2%, respectively.
GMST Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. develops, licenses, markets and distributes technologies, products and services targeted at the television guidance and home entertainment needs of consumers worldwide. The Company's interactive program guidance technologies are incorporated into television sets, videocassette recorders, digital versatile disk recorders, digital video recorders, personal computers and cable and satellite television set-top boxes. In addition to its interactive program guidance technologies, Gemstar owns and publishes the TV Guide magazine and operates the Website www.tvguide.com. The Company also owns and produces original programming in the form of the TV Guide Channel, which offers editorial content and television listings directly on consumers' television screens, and TVG Network, which provides horseracing programming and interactive wagering services. Gemstar sells or provides this programming to owners and operators of cable and satellite television systems.
GEMP Gemplus International S.A is a supplier of prepaid phonecards in France and elsewhere. The Company is a provider of technology, products and services that enable wireless network operators to offer their customers secure voice and data communications and transactions through mobile phones, and that enable companies, financial institutions and public entities to provide customized services to their customers and employees through a range of systems, including financial card networks, loyalty and bonus point programs and identification and Internet security systems. Gemplus operates through two main business segments: Telecommunications, which includes wireless products, such as subscriber identification modules (SIMs), related software and services and prepaid phonecards for fixed telephony operators, and Financial Services and Security, which focuses on applications for the financial services sector and corporate and national identity card programs.
GEHL Gehl Company designs, manufactures, sells and finances equipment used in the light construction equipment and agriculture equipment industries. Construction equipment consists of skid loaders, telescopic handlers, asphalt pavers, compact excavators, compact track loaders, all wheel-steer loaders, compact loaders and attachments, and is sold to contractors, sub-contractors, owner operators, rental stores and municipalities. The Company generally markets its construction equipment under the Gehl and Mustang brand names. Agriculture equipment is sold to customers in the dairy and livestock industries, and includes haymaking, forage harvesting, materials handling (skid loaders, telescopic handlers, compact excavators, compact track loaders, all-wheel-steer loaders, compact loaders and attachments), manure-handling and feedmaking equipment. The Company operates in two business segments: construction equipment and agricultural equipment.
GEAC Geac Computer Corporation Limited (Geac) is a global enterprise software company for business performance management, providing customers worldwide with the core financial and operational solutions and services. Geac's solutions include cross-industry enterprise application systems (EAS) for financial administration and human resources functions, expense management and time capture, budgeting, financial consolidation, management reporting and analysis, and enterprise resource planning applications for manufacturing, distribution and supply chain management. Geac provides industry specific applications (ISA) tailored to the real estate, restaurant, property management, local government and construction marketplaces, and for libraries and public safety agencies. It is a reseller of computer hardware and software, and provides professional services, including application hosting, consulting, implementation services and training.
GBTB GB&amp;T Bancshares, Inc. operates as a multi-bank holding company through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Gainesville Bank &amp; Trust, United Bank &amp; Trust, Community Trust Bank, HomeTown Bank of Villa Rica and First National Bank of the South, (collectively, the Banks), and a consumer finance company, Community Loan Company. GB&amp;T Bancshares, Inc. Statutory Trust I was formed by the Company as a wholly owned grantor trust to issue preferred securities in a private placement offering. Total loans increased 30.8%, or $167.1 million, for the year ended December 31, 2003. During 2003, total deposits grew by $148.4 million, or 25.6%.
GET Gaylord Entertainment Company is a hospitality company focused primarily on the large group meetings segment of the lodging market. Its hospitality business includes the Gaylord branded hotels consisting of the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee, the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center near Orlando, Florida, and the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center near Dallas, Texas. The Company also owns and operates the Radisson Hotel at Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee. Its operations are organized into four principal business segments: Hospitality, which includes hotel operations; Opry and Attractions, which includes Nashville attractions and assets related to the Grand Ole Opry; ResortQuest, and Corporate and Other.
GMT GATX Corporation provides its services primarily through three operating segments: GATX Rail (Rail), GATX Air (Air) and GATX Specialty Finance (Specialty). Through these businesses, it combines asset knowledge and services, structuring expertise, partnering and capital to provide business solutions to customers and partners worldwide. GATX specializes in railcar, locomotive and aircraft operating leasing. It invests in companies and joint ventures that complement its existing business activities, as well as partners with financial institutions and operating companies to improve scale in certain markets, broaden diversification within an asset class and enter new markets. In 2004, it sold its information technology business, GATX Technology Solutions, to CIT Group, Inc. In December 2004, GATX Rail, a unit of GATX Corporation acquired the remaining interest in Locomotive Leasing Partners from the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors.
GTW Gateway, Inc. is a direct marketer of personal computers (PCs), servers, PC-related products and services and consumer electronics products and services. Consumer electronics and other non-PC-related products and services consist of all products and services other than the PC, such as peripherals, software, accessories, extended warranty services, training, Internet services, digital televisions, digital cameras and enterprise system and networking products and services. The Company sells its products nationally through a number of channels, including its Website at www.gateway.com, its telephone call centers (1-800-GATEWAY), its retail stores and through a limited number of third-party channels. During 2003, Gateway closed 82 retail locations and exited the year with 190 Gateway retail stores located in the United States. In March 2004, the Company acquired privately held eMachines, Inc., a PC company.
GBTS Gateway Financial Holdings, Inc. serves as the holding company for Gateway Bank &amp; Trust Co. (the Bank). The Bank is a state-chartered commercial bank whose primary purpose is to serve the banking needs of individuals and businesses in Northeastern North Carolina and Tidewater, Virginia. Gateway Bank offers a range of banking services, including checking and savings accounts; commercial, installment, mortgage, and personal loans; safe deposit boxes, and other associated services. The Bank serves its customers from its full-service financial centers located in Elizabeth City, Kitty Hawk, Edenton, Plymouth and Roper, North Carolina, and Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, Virginia. In May 2004, the Company acquired Whitehurst Insurance Agency, Inc., a property and liability agency in northeastern North Carolina. In October 2004, the Company acquired three branches of Provident Bank, a subsidiary of Provident Bankshares Corporation.
GNRG.OB Gateway Energy Corporation owns and operates natural gas gathering, transportation and distribution systems and related facilities in Texas, Oklahoma and the Gulf of Mexico. These systems include approximately 778 miles of pipeline, ranging in diameter from one inch to 20 inches, through which the Company gathers natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons from producing properties owned by others; transports gas and liquid hydrocarbons, and distributes natural gas to various markets. Gateway conducts all of its business through its wholly owned subsidiary companies, Gateway Pipeline Company, Gateway Offshore Pipeline Company, Gateway Energy Marketing Company, Fort Cobb Fuel Authority, L.L.C. and Gateway Processing Company.
IT Gartner, Inc. is an independent provider of research and analysis on information technology (IT), computer hardware, software, communications and related technology industries. The Company provides coverage of the IT industry to approximately 10,000 client organizations, and serves a global client base consisting primarily of chief information officers (CIOs) and other senior IT and business executives in corporations and government agencies, as well as technology companies. Gartner is organized into three business segments: research, consulting and events.
GRMN Garmin Ltd. is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing and marketing of navigation, communications and information devices, most of which are enabled by Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. The Company's products, marketed and distributed worldwide principally under the GARMIN brand, utilize its proprietary integrated circuit and receiver designs to collect, calculate and display location, direction, speed and other information in forms optimized for specific uses. These products are generally covered by a warranty for periods ranging from one to two years. The Company operates in two business segments, Consumer and Aviation, each of which is managed separately due to the varying nature of their products and types of customers. New products launched during 2003 include the iQue 3600, Garmin's first personal digital assistant product; the StreetPilot 2610, for portable automotive applications, and the Forerunner 201 integrated personal training product.
GDI Gardner Denver, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets primarily compressed air products and pump products, including engineered stationary air compressors and blowers for industrial applications, and reciprocating pumps used in oil and natural gas well drilling, servicing and production, water jetting systems, and in industrial cleaning and maintenance. Stationary air compressors are used in manufacturing, process applications and materials handling, and to power air tools and equipment. Blowers are used primarily in pneumatic conveying, wastewater aeration and engineered vacuum systems. As of December 31, 2003, approximately 84% of the Company's revenues were derived from sales of compressed air products while approximately 16% were from sales of pump products. Gardner Denver operates predominantly in the United States but also conducts business in the international market. It operates production facilities worldwide.
GARB.OB Garb Oil &amp; Power Corporation is in the business of developing and marketing processes, which will recover crumb rubber or other recyclable rubber, oil by-products, commercially marketable, char and steel from scrap tires. It also develops a system and process to recover, repair and market truck tires of all sizes, market new tires imported for sale through distributors and market processes that will utilize scrap tires and/or municipal waste to generate steam for the production of electricity. During 1999, the Company acquired certain assets from its sister corporation, Garbalizer Machinery Corporation, including the rights to manufacture and sell Garbalizer tire shredders. The Company has the rights to act as the non-United States agent for a third party's unproven technology for the remediation of radioactive wastes and exclusive rights to build its plants in the United States and abroad.
GPS The Gap, Inc. is a global specialty retailer selling casual apparel, accessories and personal care products for men, women and children under a variety of brand names, including Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy. The Company's markets consist of the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan. Gap sells its products through both traditional retail stores and online stores. During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004 (fiscal 2003), the Company-operated a total of 3,022 store locations. Its stores offer a shopper friendly environment with an assortment of casual apparel and accessories that emphasize style, quality and good value. The Company's stores are open seven days per week and on most holidays. All sales are tendered for cash, personal checks, debit cards or credit cards, including Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy private-label credit cards that are issued by a third party.
GCI Gannett Co., Inc. is a diversified news and information company that publishes newspapers; operates broadcasting stations; operates Websites in connection with its newspaper and broadcast operations, and is engaged in marketing, commercial printing, a newswire service, data services and news programming. Gannett is an international company operating primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. Approximately 85% of its revenues are from domestic operations in 43 states, the District of Columbia and Guam. It has foreign operations in the United Kingdom and in certain European and Asian markets.
GMTN Gander Mountain Company is a specialty retailer offering an assortment of merchandise that caters to outdoor lifestyle enthusiasts, with a particular focus on hunting, fishing and camping. The Company's stores offer a broad and deep assortment of national, regional and owned brand outdoor equipment, accessories, apparel and footwear. The Company had expanded its store base from 26 stores to 66 Gander Mountain outdoor lifestyle stores in nine states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
GRS Gammon Lake Resources Inc. is a mineral exploration company engaged in the exploration of gold and silver in Mexico. The Company primarily operates two exploration projects in Mexico: the Ocampo Open Pit, a partnership project with Bolnisi Gold NL, of which Gammon had a 40% stake, and Ocampo Underground, Gammon's 100%-owned northeast Ocampo project area. In addition, the Company has a 50% stake in Mexgold Resources Inc., a private company holding the Guadalupe Gold-Silver Project located in Chihuahua, Mexico. In November 2003, the Company purchased Bolnisis Gold's 60% interest in the Ocampo Joint Venture Area, giving the Company a100% interest in the area.
GPIC Gaming Partners International Corporation, formerly Paul-Son Gaming Corp., is a manufacturer and supplier of casino table game equipment predominantly in North America, Europe and Asia. Its product lines include casino chips, table layouts, playing cards, gaming furniture, dice and miscellaneous table accessories and other products. The Company operates primarily through its subsidiaries, Paul-Son Gaming Supplies, Inc., which sells the Company's casino products manufactured in North America to licensed casinos throughout the United States and Canada, and Establishments Bourgogne et Grasset S.A., which sells its European-manufactured casino products and some North American products to licensed casinos internationally, in countries other than the United States. The Company manufactures products to meet particular customer and industry specifications, which include a range of shapes and sizes, varied color schemes and other graphics and security and anti-counterfeit features.
GMEI.OB Gaming &amp; Entertainment Group (GMEI) is a provider of advanced server-based gaming systems, downloadable games and online gaming sites for casinos, lotteries, bingo halls and licensed betting offices. It designs and develops its gaming systems, software, game content and networks to offer a comprehensive line of gaming products. In North America, its server-based gaming system (downloadable gaming enabled) and game content (a suite of electronic bingo, keno, instant lottery and slots) is supplied to Native American gaming and other casino operators. In the United Kingdom and Europe, it supplies its server-based gaming system and game content library (amusement with prize gaming devices, fixed-odds betting terminals and electronic bingo) to licensed betting offices, bingo halls and casinos. In addition, GMEI continues to license its government-accredited online gaming system to major land-based casino and other operators for utilization outside of the United States in regulated markets.
GZFX.OB GamezNFlix, Inc. is an online DVD and video game rental business operating through its Website, www.gameznflix.com, and the Website of its subsidiary VeeGeeZ.com, LLC (VeeGeeZ), www.veegeez.com. The Company has an internally developed software that allows it to customize its Website for each subscriber currently and in the future. As of December 31, 2003, GamezNFlix only provided rental services to its subscribers. The Company was originally formed the name SyCo Comics and Distribution Inc. The Company changed its name to Syconet.com, Inc. in 1999, and to Point Group Holdings, Incorporated in 2002. On January 26, 2004, the name of the company was changed to GamezNFlix, Inc.
GMTC GameTech International, Inc. designs, develops and markets interactive electronic bingo player terminals and back-office management systems. It markets portable terminals, which can be played anywhere within a bingo hall, and fixed-base systems with light pen- or touchscreen-activated monitors. Its player terminals operate on one of two proprietary operating systems known as NED and Diamond. The Company has portable and fixed-base terminals operating in charitable, Native American and commercial bingo halls. Both its portable and fixed-base systems display electronic bingo card images for each bingo game. GameTech's electronic bingo terminals enable players to play substantially more bingo cards than they can play on paper cards. As of October 31, 2003, the Company had units in operation in Native American bingo halls in 13 of those states. Collectively, as of October 31, 2003, it had products in 35 states and in five foreign countries.
GME GameStop Corp. is a specialty retailer of video game and personal computer (PC) entertainment software in the United States. The Company carries an assortment of new and used video game hardware, video game software and accessories, PC entertainment software and related products, including action figures, trading cards and strategy guides. As of January 31, 2004, it operated 1,514 stores in the United States, Puerto Rico, Ireland and Guam. GameStop carries a constantly changing selection of more than 5,000 stock keeping units (SKUs) of electronic game merchandise in most stores. In addition, it operates a Website at www.gamestop.com and publishes Game Informer, a multi-platform video game magazine, with over 1,500,000 subscribers. In March 2004, the Company purchased a new 420,000-square-foot facility in Grapevine, Texas.
HIST Gallery of History, Inc. is engaged in the business of marketing historical documents, such as letters, documents and signatures of presidents and other governmental and political figures, significant physicians, inventors, Nobel Prize winners, explorers, aviators, scientists, entertainers, authors, artists, musicians, composers, clergymen, judges, lawyers, military figures and well-known persons in sports, among others. Most of the documents were written or executed by persons now deceased, but a significant number were written or executed by persons still living, particularly in the entertainment, sports and political areas. The Company's inventory of documents consisted of approximately 183,000 different documents. Retail sales of documents are made from a gallery located at its headquarters in Las Vegas, Nevada. However, documents are largely sold through auctions conducted at the Company's headquarters location and sales conducted over its Websites.
GLH Gallaher Group Plc is an international manufacturer of tobacco products. The Company manufactures and markets a range of cigarettes, cigars and hand rolling and pipe tobacco products and snus (chewing tobacco). In 2003, its cigarette brands included Benson &amp; Hedges, Silk Cut, Sovereign, Memphis, Milde Sorte, Blend and LD. The Company operates primarily in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Republic of Ireland. The Company is also involved in the distribution of tobacco and other products in certain markets in Continental Europe as a result of its acquisition of Austria Tabak in 2001.
GXY Galaxy Nutritional Foods, Inc. is engaged in developing, manufacturing and marketing a variety of healthy cheese and dairy-related products, as well as other cheese alternatives. Galaxy is a producer of dairy alternative products made with soy. It also manufactures and markets non-branded and private-label process and blended cheese products, as well as branded, organic soy-based, rice-based and non-dairy cheese products. In the retail market, its products are formulated to meet the health concerns of consumers. In the food service markets, products are made according to the customer's specifications as to color, texture, shred, melt, cohesiveness, stretch, browning, fat retention, protein, vitamin and mineral content and cost parameters. The products are manufactured in various forms, such as slices, grated, shredded, salad toppings, deli loaves and multi-pound blocks, which are available in several flavors, including mozzarella, pepper-jack, cheddar, American, parmesan and Swiss.
GAXI.OB Galaxy Energy Corporation was created for the purpose of acquiring and developing mineral properties. At August 31, 2004, the Company's oil and gas properties consisted of undeveloped oil and gas leases and interest in 160 natural gas wells, five of which had initial production during the period. The remaining wells are in various stages of completion or awaiting hook up to pipelines. The Company has no proved reserves. On November 13, 2002, the Company completed an agreement and plan of reorganization (the Agreement) whereby it acquired Dolphin Energy Corporation (Dolphin), a private Nevada corporation. As a result, Dolphin became a subsidiary of Galaxy Energy. Dolphin's principal activities had been raising capital through the sale of its securities and identifying and evaluating potential oil and gas properties.
GNAC.OB Gainsco, Inc. (GNAC) serves as a holding company that provides administrative and financial services for its wholly owned subsidiaries. The Company is a property and casualty insurance company concentrating its efforts on the non-standard personal automobile market as it concurrently exits the commercial insurance business. The Company's insurance operations, for the most part of the year ended December 31, 2003, were conducted through two insurance companies: General Agents Insurance Company of America, Inc. and MGA Insurance Company, Inc. (MGAI).
GAIA Gaiam, Inc. is a multi-channel lifestyle company providing a selection of information, products and services to customers who value natural health, personal development, ecological lifestyles and responsible media. The Company offers its customers the ability to make purchasing decisions based on these values while providing a quality product at a price comparable to conventional alternatives. Gaiam is focused on the Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) market, and its operations are vertically integrated from content creation, through product development and sourcing, to customer service and distribution.
GBP Gables Residential Trust is a fully integrated real estate company engaged in the multifamily apartment community management, development, construction, acquisition and disposition businesses. As of December 31, 2003, it owned 76 stabilized multifamily apartment communities consisting of 20,209 apartment homes, an indirect 25% interest in one stabilized apartment community consisting of 345 apartment homes, an indirect 20% interest in four stabilized apartment communities consisting of 1,215 apartment homes and an indirect 8.3% interest in three stabilized apartment communities consisting of 1,118 apartment homes. Gables also owned seven multifamily apartment communities under development or in lease-up at year end 2003. In addition, it owned two parcels of land on which it intends to develop two apartment communities. Gables also has rights to acquire additional parcels of land, either through options or long-term conditional contracts, on which it could develop 10 communities.
GBL Gabelli Asset Management Inc. is a provider of investment advisory and brokerage services to mutual funds, institutional and high-net-worth investors, principally in the United States. The Company generally manages assets on a discretionary basis and invests in a variety of United States and international securities through various investment styles. Gabelli Asset Management conducts its investment advisory business principally through three subsidiaries: GAMCO Investors, Inc. (Separate Accounts), Gabelli Funds, LLC (Mutual Funds) and Gabelli Securities, Inc. (Alternative Investments). The Company also acts as underwriter and distributor of its open-end mutual funds and provides institutional research through Gabelli &amp; Company, Inc., its broker-dealer subsidiary.
FXEN FX Energy, Inc. is an independent oil and gas company focused on exploration, development and production opportunities in the Republic of Poland, in association with the Polish Oil and Gas Company (POGC) and others. The Company's ongoing activities in Poland are conducted in five project areas: Fences I, II and III, Pomeranian and Wilga. It is working almost exclusively on the three Fences project areas, where the gas-bearing Rotliegendes sandstone reservoir rock in Poland's Permian Basin may be a direct analog to the Southern North Sea gas basin, offshore England. The Company is focused in the Fences area because there have been gas reserves developed and produced by POGC in this Rotliegendes trend, and the Company thinks there are likely to be additional gas and oil reserves in the same horizons that can be identified through the application of geophysical techniques, which have not previously been applied in this area in Poland.
FMDAY Futuremedia Public Limited Company provides e-learning products and services to the corporate and public sector markets. The elements of the products include: courseware production, which constitutes the development and distribution of customer-specific training content and a simulated three-dimensional learning environment; courseware library, which is comprised of the distribution of off-the-shelf standard training courses from third-party content providers; the development and distribution of Internet- or Intranet-based learning management system, Aktivna, including the distribution of development tools and the facilitation of customer hosting services; the provision of e-learning through the Company's Learning For All program, and consulting and other professional services to support the development and the implementation of e-learning solutions and strategies. In March 2004, the new development capability called Experiential Learning Simulation and Assessment (ELSA) was launched.
FBN Furniture Brands International, Inc. is a large manufacturer of residential furniture in the United States. The Company manufactures and distributes case goods, consisting of bedroom, dining room and living room furniture; stationary upholstery products, consisting of sofas, loveseats, sectionals and chairs; occasional furniture, consisting of wood, metal and glass tables, accent pieces, home entertainment centers and home office furniture; recliners, motion furniture and sleep sofas, and accessories. The Company markets its products through six operating subsidiaries: Broyhill Furniture Industries, Inc., Lane Furniture Industries, Inc., Thomasville Furniture Industries, Inc. Drexel Heritage Furniture Industries, Inc., Henredon Furniture Industries, Inc. and Maitland-Smith Furniture Industries, Inc.
FNDT Fundtech Ltd. provides end-to-end financial transaction processing software solutions for financial institutions. These solutions are grouped into three categories: payment processing, foreign exchange settlement processing and delivery channels for financial institutions' cash management products. These solutions enable banks to process and manage payments, foreign exchange settlements and cash management communication between financial institutions and their customers. Fundtech's major products include ACCESS Banking, CASHplus, PAYplus USA, PAYplus for CLS, Global PAYplus, Recovery Services for disaster recovery service bureau solutions and related services and third-party hardware sales. The Company markets and sells its products and services in the United States, Europe, Israel, Asia and Australia. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Fundtech received 39.3% of its total revenues from sales to customers located outside of the United States.
FULT Fulton Financial Corporation is the holding company for 11 subsidiary banks, which are located in suburban or semi-rural geographical markets throughout a four-state region (Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware). The Company's bank and financial services subsidiaries are Fulton Bank, Lebanon Valley Farmers Bank, Swineford National Bank, Lafayette Ambassador Bank, FNB Bank, N.A., Hagerstown Trust, Delaware National Bank, The Bank, The Peoples Bank of Elkton, Skylands Community Bank, Premier Bank, Fulton Financial Advisors, N.A. and Fulton Insurance Services Group, Inc. Each of the subsidiary banks offers a range of consumer and commercial banking services in its local market area. Personal banking services include various checking and savings products, certificates of deposit and individual retirement accounts. The subsidiary banks offer a variety of consumer lending products to creditworthy customers in their respective market areas.
FULB.OB Fulton Bancshares Corporation, incorporated in March 1989, is the holding company for the Fulton County National Bank and Trust Company. The Bank engages in a full service commercial and consumer banking business, including the acceptance of time and demand deposits and the making of secured and unsecured commercial and consumer loans and offers trust services through its affiliation with Sentry Trust Company. The Bank's primary service area is located in Fulton County, Pennsylvania. The Company also has another wholly owned subsidiary, Fulton County Community Development Corporation (FCCDC). FCCDC supports efforts of the local downtown business revitalization project by making low interest loans to eligible small businesses for the purpose of facade improvement.
FHRI.OB Full House Resorts, Inc. (FHRI) develops and operates destination resorts and entertainment and gaming centers. The Company operates Midway Slots and Simulcast at the Delaware State Fairgrounds in Harrington, Delaware. Midway Slots and Simulcast has a total of approximately 1,400 gaming devices, a 450-seat buffet, a 50-seat diner and an entertainment lounge area. The Company opened Midway Slots and Simulcast in 1996. FHRI is also involved in the development of a Tribal project in Battle Creek, Michigan. The Company entered into a series of agreements in January 1995 with the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi, a Michigan Indian Tribe, to develop and manage gaming and non-gaming commercial opportunities for the Tribe.
FUJIY Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. (Fujifilm) is a global manufacturer of imaging and information products that offers a complete portfolio of imaging and information and document products, services and e-solutions to retailers, consumers, professionals and business customers. Fujifilm's product portfolio includes professional and consumer film and cameras; digital imaging products, including cameras and printers for commercial and consumer use; digital minilabs and kiosks; photographic paper and photofinishing supplies; professional motion picture film; high-capacity floppy disks, compact discs (CDs) and digital video disc (DVDs), tape cartridges and other data storage media; videotape and audiocassettes; professional and consumer optical discs; microfilm and other micrographic products, and graphic arts film, conventional and digital printing plates, analog and digital color proofing systems, drum and flatbed scanners, imagesetters and computer-to-plate systems.
FCEL FuelCell Energy, Inc. is engaged in the development and commercialization of carbonate fuel cell technology for stationary power generation. The Company is in the process of commercializing its core carbonate fuel cell products, called Direct Fuel Cell (DFC) Power Plants, and is beginning the development process of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology. Its DFC products, the DFC300A, DFC1500 and DFC3000, are rated in capacity at 250 kilowatts, one megawatt (MW) and two MW, respectively, and are scalable for distributed applications up to 50 MW. These products are designed to meet the base load power requirements of a range of commercial and industrial customers including wastewater treatment plants, data centers, manufacturing and industrial facilities, office buildings, hospitals, universities and hotels, as well as in grid support applications for utility customers. FuelCell is operating 23 DFC power plants at customer sites throughout the United States, Europe and Japan.
FTEK Fuel-Tech N.V. is a technology company engaged in the air pollution control and specialty chemical businesses through its wholly owned subsidiary Fuel Tech, Inc. (FTI). FTI's focus is the worldwide marketing of its nitrogen oxide (NOx) reduction and FUEL CHEM Processes. The NOx reduction technologies, which include the NOxOUT, NOxOUT CASCADE and NOxOUT SCR processes, reduce Nox emissions in flue gas from boilers, incinerators, furnaces and other stationary combustion sources. The FUEL CHEM business uses chemical processes for slagging, fouling, corrosion control and plume abatement in furnaces and boilers through the addition of chemicals into the fuel or by Targeted-In-Furnace-Injection.
FLIP.OB FTS Group, Inc. (formerly FTS Apparel, Inc.) is engaged in the acquisition and development of a chain of full-service retail wireless stores. The Company's primary business is the marketing, sale and activation of cellular and satellite handsets, cellular accessories and other related wireless products, such as wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) service and related access equipment for residential or business purposes. Its only wholly owned subsidiary is FTS Wireless, Inc. FTS Group markets and distributes its products and services in three East-coast markets: Florida's Gulf Coast market, New Jersey and Pennsylvania's Philadelphia market.
FCN FTI Consulting, Inc. is a national provider of forensic accounting and litigation, corporate finance/restructuring and economic consulting services in the United States. During 2003, the Company completed three strategic acquisitions of best-in-class consulting practices that fit within its business model. The Lexecon business is an economic consulting firm in the United States, concentrating in litigation support and expert analysis, public policy analysis, anti-trust and competition and general business services. FTI acquired substantially all of the assets and certain liabilities of Lexecon, Inc. from its parent Nextera Enterprises, Inc. The Company's four practices are Forensic Accounting and Litigation Practice, Corporate Finance/Restructuring Practice, Economic Consulting and Related Expert Services.
FSII FSI International, Inc. (FSI) designs, manufactures, markets and supports equipment used in the fabrication of microelectronics, such as advanced semiconductor devices. In the fiscal year ended August 28, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company provided Surface Conditioning (SC) technology solutions and POLARIS system support services to worldwide manufacturers of integrated circuits. The SC business manufactures, markets and supports equipment that uses wet, vapor, cryogenic and other chemistry techniques to clean, strip or etch the surfaces of silicon wafers. The Company terminated most of the manufacturing and sales activities of its photoresist processing POLARIS systems in the fiscal year ended August 30, 2003 (fiscal 2003). FSI established the POLARIS Systems and Services (PSS) business to provide key services enabling customers to achieve a reasonable life for their installed POLARIS systems.
FFEX Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc. is a temperature-controlled trucking company in North America. The Company is also a full-service nationwide temperature-controlled trucking company in the United States. It offers full truckload, dedicated fleets, less-than-truckload (LTL) and distribution services to various customers in the United States, Canada and Mexico. All of its services involve the over-the-road movement of freight. In the United States, it sometimes also arranges for the use of railroads to transport its loaded trailers between major cities. Most of the Company's revenue is from order-based service or from separately billing customers for each shipment, as well as asset-based or billed to its customer for the use of a truck and driver for a period of time, without regard to the number of shipments hauled.
FRO Frontline Ltd. is engaged in the ownership and operation of oil tankers, including oil/bulk/ore carriers. The Company operates tankers of two sizes: very-large crude carriers (VLCCs), which are between 200,000 and 320,000 deadweight tons and Suezmaxes, which are vessels between 120,000 and 170,000 deadweight tons. In addition, Frontline has three dry bulk carriers. It operates through subsidiaries and partnerships located in Bermuda, Isle of Man, Liberia, Norway, Panama, Singapore, Sweden, Cayman Islands, the United States and the Bahamas. Frontline is also involved in the charter, purchase and sale of vessels.
FTO Frontier Oil Corporation is an independent energy company engaged in crude oil refining and the wholesale marketing of refined petroleum products. The Company operates refineries in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and El Dorado, Kansas, with a total annual average crude oil capacity of 156,000 barrels per day. Both of its refineries are complex refineries, which means that they can process heavier, less expensive types of crude oil and still produce a high percentage of gasoline, diesel fuel and other high margin refined products. Frontier focuses its marketing efforts in the Rocky Mountain region and the plains states.
FTBK Frontier Financial Corporation wholly owns Frontier Bank (the Bank). FFC has two subsidiaries: the Bank, which is engaged in a general banking business and in businesses related to banking, and FFP, Inc., a nonbank corporation that leases property to the Bank. The Bank concentrates its lending activities in the following principal areas: installment, commercial, real estate commercial, real estate construction and residential. As of December 31, 2003, these categories accounted for approximately 2.3%, 15.2%, 45.6%, 28.7% and 8.2% of the total loan portfolio respectively. This mix was relatively unchanged compared to previous years. As of December 31, 2003, the Bank conducted its business operations out of 38 offices located in Clallam, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Pierce, Skagit, Snohomish and Whatcom counties, Washington, which comprise the Bank's principal market area.
FRNT Frontier Airlines, Inc. is a provider of air transportation for passengers and freight. As of March 31, 2004, the Company, in conjunction with its regional jet partner, Frontier JetExpress, served 37 cities in the United States and five cities in Mexico. Frontier provides its services primarily through its fleet of 10 Boeing 737 aircraft, 24 Airbus A319 aircraft, four Airbus A318 aircraft and seven CRJ 700 aircraft (operated by Horizon Air Industries, Inc.) from its base in Denver. The Company operates primarily in a hub-and-spoke fashion, connecting cities coast-to-coast through its hub at Denver International Airport (DIA). As of June 1, 2004, Frontier operated routes linking its Denver hub to 43 United States cities and to five cities in Mexico. In April 2004, the Company began its first expansion of point-to-point routes outside of its DIA hub with three routes from its focus city Los Angeles, California (LAX), and added an additional route in May 2004
FRS Frisch's Restaurants, Inc. is a regional company that operates and licenses others to operate full-service, family-style restaurants under the name Frisch's Big Boy and operates grill buffet-style restaurants under the name Golden Corral under certain licensing agreements. As of May 30, 2004, the Company operated 88 family-style restaurants using the Big Boy trade name and 26 Golden Corral, grill buffet-style family restaurants. Frisch had also licensed 31 Big Boy restaurants to other operators. All of these restaurants are located in various markets of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.
FRN Friendly Ice Cream Corporation (Friendly's) is primarily engaged in the operation of full-service restaurants, the distribution and sale of ice cream desserts through retail and institutional locations, and franchising. As of December 28, 2003, Friendly's operated 380 full-service restaurants, franchised 157 full-service restaurants and six non-traditional units, and manufactured a line of ice cream desserts distributed through more than 4,500 supermarkets and other retail locations in 13 states. The restaurants offer a variety of breakfast, lunch and dinner menu items, as well as ice cream dessert products. Friendly's restaurants target both families with kids and adults who desire a reasonably priced meal in a full-service setting.
FRD Friedman Industries, Inc. is engaged in pipe manufacturing and processing, steel processing and steel and pipe distribution. The Company's two product groups are coil and tubular products. For Coil Products, the Company purchases hot-rolled steel coils, processes the coils into flat, finished sheet and plate, and sells these products on a wholesale, rapid-delivery basis. It also processes customer-owned coils on a fee basis. Through its Texas Tubular Products Division (TTP) in Lone Star, Texas. Friedman Industries manufactures, purchases, processes and markets tubular products.
FBR Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc. is an investment bank that provides investment banking, institutional brokerage and asset management services, and invests as principal in mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and merchant banking investments. In March 2003, the Company was formed through the merger of two existing companies, both engaged in related businesses and both managed by the Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc. (Pre-Merger FBR) management team. Prior to the merger, FBR Asset Investment Corporation (FBR Asset) was a real estate investment trust (REIT) externally managed by a subsidiary of Pre-Merger FBR with a primary focus in mortgage-backed securities and merchant banking investments in debt and equity securities. Pre-Merger FBR was a company engaged in the investment banking, institutional brokerage and asset management business. Upon completion of the merger, the surviving corporation assumed the name Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc.
FDP Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. is a vertically integrated producer, distributor and marketer of fresh and packaged fresh-cut produce. The Company, trading as Del Monte Fresh Produce, conducts its business through subsidiaries operating on a global basis. Fresh Del Monte's principal product is bananas, and it also sells other fresh produce, including pineapples, melons, grapes and other non-tropical fruit, fresh-cut produce and other fruit and vegetables. These products are grown and sourced from Company-owned farms through joint venture arrangements and through supply contracts with independent growers, primarily in Central and South America, and in the Philippines. Fresh Del Monte also sources products from North America, Africa and Europe. The Company also operates a third-party ocean freight business, a plastic product and box manufacturing business, a poultry business in Jordan and a grain business in Argentina, which together comprise its Non-Produce Products and Services segment.
SALDQ.OB Fresh Choice, Inc. operates limited-service restaurants offering freshly made specialty and traditional salads, hot pasta, pizza, hot baked potatoes, soups, fresh breads and muffins, frozen low-fat soft serve and other desserts. As of March 5, 2004, the Company operated 57 restaurants, of which 53 restaurants operated under the Fresh Choice and Zoopa brand names, one operated under the Fresh Choice Express brand name, two operate as dual branded Fresh Choice Express and licensed Starbucks retail stores and one operated as a licensed Starbucks retail store. Fresh Choice operates 43 restaurants in California, four restaurants in the state of Washington and 10 restaurants in Texas, including the Fresh Choice Express restaurant, the two dual branded Fresh Choice Express and licensed Starbucks retail stores and the one licensed Starbucks retail store.
FRSH Fresh Brands, Inc. is a supermarket retailer and grocery wholesaler that operates principally through corporate-owned, franchised and independent supermarkets. As of January 3, 2004, it owned and operated 28 supermarkets, a gas station, and a convenience store, and franchised an additional 73 supermarkets. Twenty of its corporate supermarkets operate under the Piggly Wiggly banner and eight of them operate under the Dick's Supermarkets banner. All its franchised supermarkets operate under the Piggly Wiggly banner. The Company is a supplier to all 101 supermarkets and also serves as a wholesaler to a number of smaller, independently operated supermarkets and convenience stores. All its supermarkets and other wholesale customers are located in Wisconsin, northern Illinois and eastern Iowa.
FMS Fresenius Medical Care AG is a kidney dialysis company engaged in providing dialysis services and manufacturing and distributing products and equipment for the treatment of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The Company provides dialysis treatment to over 119,000 patients at its 1,560 clinics, 1,110 of which are in the United States and 450 of which are in 23 countries outside of the United States. Fresenius also provides inpatient dialysis services, therapeutic apheresis, hemoperfusion and other services under contract to hospitals in the United States. It also develops and manufactures a range of equipment, systems and disposable products that it sells to customers in over 100 countries.
FEI Frequency Electronics Inc. (FEI) designs, develops and manufactures high-technology frequency, timing and synchronization products for satellite and terrestrial voice, video and data telecommunications. The Company operates in the following markets: Commercial Communications, United States Government, Gillam FEI and FEI-Zyfer. During the fiscal year ended April 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company acquired Zyfer, Inc. During fiscal 2004.2003 and 2002, approximately 56%, 47% and 63%, respectively, of the Company's sales were for products used for terrestrial or space-based commercial communications and foreign governments.
FMT Fremont General Corporation is a financial services holding company engaged primarily in real estate lending through its industrial bank subsidiary, Fremont Investment &amp; Loan. The Company's lending operations consist of the wholesale origination of non-prime or sub-prime residential real estate loans on a nationwide basis that are primarily sold to third-party investors on a servicing-released basis or, to a lesser extent, securitized or held in its loan portfolio, and the origination of commercial real estate loans on a nationwide basis that are substantially all held in its loan portfolio. The outstanding loan portfolio totaled $4.79 billion, as of December 31, 2003.
FSL Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is a global semiconductor company focused on providing embedded processing and connectivity products to large, high-growth markets. The Company provides products to the automotive, networking and wireless communications industries. Freescale offers families of embedded processors, which provide the basic intelligence for electronic devices and can be programmed to address specific applications or functions, as well as a broad portfolio of complementary devices that provide connectivity between products, across networks and to real-world signals, such as sound, vibration and pressure. Through its embedded processors and complementary products, the Company is able to offer customers platform-level products. On October 6, 2003, the Company was created when Motorola announced its intention to separate its semiconductor operations into a separate company. In late 2004, the Company was spun off and Motorola ceased to be a controlling stockholder.
FCX Freeport-McMoran Copper &amp; Gold Inc. is a copper and gold mining and production company. The Company's principal asset is the Grasberg mine, which it discovered in 1988. Grasberg contains gold reserve and copper reserves. Its principal operating subsidiary is PT Freeport Indonesia. The Company owns approximately 90.64% of PT Freeport Indonesia, and the Government of Indonesia owns the remaining approximate 9.36%. PT Freeport Indonesia mines, processes and explores for ore containing copper, gold and silver. It operates in the remote highlands of the Sudirman Mountain Range in the province of Papua, Indonesia, which is on the western half of the island of New Guinea. PT Freeport Indonesia markets its concentrates containing copper, gold and silver worldwide.
FRE Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) is a stockholder-owned corporation charted by Congress in 1970 to keep money flowing to mortgage lenders in support of homeownership and rental housing. Freddie Mac purchases single-family and multi-family residential mortgages and mortgage-related securities, which it finances primarily by issuing mortgage pass through securities and debt instruments in the capital markets. By doing so, the Company helps homeowners and renters get lower housing costs and better access to home financing.
FRED Fred's, Inc. is engaged in the sale of general merchandise through its 488 retail discount stores located in 14 states mainly in the Southeastern United States. The Company's stores generally serve low, middle and fixed income families located in small to medium-sized towns (approximately 65% of Fred's stores are in markets with populations of 15,000 or fewer people). Fred's stores sell pharmaceuticals, household goods, apparel and linens, food and tobacco products, health and beauty aids and paper and cleaning supplies. 241 of its stores have full service pharmacies that offer brand name and generic pharmaceuticals. Fred's also markets goods and services to 26 franchised Fred's stores.
BEN Franklin Resources, Inc. (FRI) is an investment management company. Through its wholly owned direct and indirect subsidiary companies, FRI provides a broad range of investment advisory, investment management and related services to open-end and closed-end investment companies, institutional accounts, high-net-worth families, individuals and separate accounts in the United States and internationally. In support of its primary business and operating segment, investment management, FRI also provides certain related services, including transfer agency, fund administration, distribution, shareholder processing, custodial, trustee and other fiduciary services. In its secondary business and operating segment, banking/finance, the Company provides clients with select retail banking and consumer loan services through its bank subsidiaries. In October 2003, FRI acquired Darby Overseas Investments, Ltd. and Darby Overseas Partners, L.P. (collectively, Darby).
FEP Franklin Electronic Publishers, Incorporated (Franklin) designs, develops, publishes and distributes electronic information on handheld devices, memory media cards and via Internet downloads. Its handheld devices are battery-powered platforms with screen displays that incorporate the text of a reference work, such as a dictionary. The Company owns or has licenses to publish in electronic format more than 100 core reference titles, including monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, such as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary; the Holy Bible; encyclopedias, such as the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia; entertainment-oriented publications, such as The Official Scrabble Dictionary, and educational and medical publications. It also owns or has licenses to distribute in electronic format either directly or through third parties, more than 17,000 titles, including reference works and general literature, via Internet download.
FELE Franklin Electric Co., Inc. is primarily engaged in the design, manufacture and distribution of electric motors. Its motors are used principally in submersible motor applications for pumping fresh water, fuel, wastewater and other liquids in a variety of applications, including residential, industrial, agriculture, fueling, offshore drilling and mining. The Company also manufactures other industrial electric motors which are used in a variety of applications, including gasoline dispensers, paint handling equipment, electric hoists, explosion-proof vapor exhaust fans, vacuum pumping systems and food preparation equipment, as well as commercial and industrial water, fuel and other liquid pumping systems. Franklin Electric also manufactures electronic controls for the motors, which control functionality and provide protection from various hazards, such as electric surges, over-heating or dry wells and tanks.
FCSC.OB Franklin Credit Management Corporation (FCMC) is a specialty consumer finance and asset management company primarily engaged in the acquisition, origination, servicing and resolution of performing, sub-performing and non-performing residential mortgage loans and residential real estate. FCMC acquires these mortgages from a variety of mortgage bankers, banks and other specialty finance companies. These loans are generally purchased in pools at discounts from their aggregate contractual balances from sellers in the financial services industry. Real estate is acquired in foreclosure or otherwise and is also acquired at a discount relative to the appraised value of the asset. The Company conducts its business from its executive and main office in New York City, and through its Website www.franklincredit.com.
FC Franklin Covey Co. is engaged in the performance skills industry. Franklin Covey integrates training curricula, measurement methodologies and implementation tool offerings to help individuals and organizations measurably improve their effectiveness. Franklin Covey's products are paper planners, electronic solutions, binders, books and personal development and accessory products. The Company provides training and education programs, educational materials, publications, assessment and measurement instruments, implementation processes and tools. The Company operates in two business segments: the consumer business unit (CBU) designed to reach individual consumers; and the organizational solutions business unit (OSBU) designed to serve organizational clients. It offers solutions for organizations through a combination of assessment instruments, including the xQ (Execution Quotient) Profile and the 7 Habits Profile, and training courses including FOCUS: Achieving Your Highest Priorities.
FKL Franklin Capital Corporation is a business development corporation whose past focus has been the management of certain radio and telecommunication industry holdings. In October 2004, the Company initiated a recapitalization plan that includes the divestiture of its legacy assets and its entry into the medical products and financial service industries.
FBTX Franklin Bank Corp., through its wholly owned subsidiary, Franklin Bank, S.S.B., a Texas state savings bank, originates single-family residential mortgage loans, provides community banking products and services, originates residential construction loans and provides mortgage banker finance products and services. During the year ended December 31, 2003, it had 13 full service banking branches in Texas, two regional residential construction lending offices in Florida, and Arizona, 34 retail mortgage offices in 16 states throughout the United States and a regional wholesale origination office in California. In March 2004, the Company acquired Lost Pines Bancshares, Inc., which is headquartered in Smithville, Texas. In December 2003, the Company acquired Jacksonville Bancorp, which is headquartered in Jacksonville, Texas.
FFTIQ.PK Frankfort Tower Industries, Inc., formerly ROHN Industries, Inc., is a manufacturer and installer of infrastructure products for the communications industry, including cellular telephone, fiber-optic network, Internet, personal communications systems, enhanced specialized mobile radio, paging, radio and television broadcast, wireless cable, private microwave and other telecommunications businesses. During 2002, its principal product lines were tower structures, equipment enclosures and construction services. Key products for the tower structures product line consist of self-supporting and guyed tubular and solid towers, flanged and tapered steel poles and antenna mounts and accessories. In 2002, the Company decided to discontinue the manufacturing of equipment enclosures effective as of the end of the year. In September 2003, the Company and five of its direct and indirect subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.
FKKY Frankfort First Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for First Federal Savings Bank of Frankfort (the Bank). The Bank was originally chartered in 1934 as a Kentucky-chartered building and loan association, known as Greater Frankfort Building and Loan Association, and was rechartered in 1938 as First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Frankfort. The Bank operates through three banking offices located in Frankfort, Kentucky. It is primarily engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the general public and originating loans secured by first mortgages on one- to four-family residences in its market area. It also originates, to a lesser extent, church loans, home equity loans and other loans.
FTE France Telecom offers a full range of telecommunications services to consumers, businesses and telecommunications operators, including fixed-line telephony, wireless telephony, multimedia, Internet, data transmission, cable television and value-added services. During the year ended December 31, 2003, it operated in six business segments: Orange; Wanadoo; Fixed Line, Distribution, Networks, Large Customers and Operators; Equant; TP group, and Other International. The Orange segment covers all the wireless telephony activities in the world, Wanadoo segment includes Internet access services, portals, e-Merchant solutions for businesses and directories. The Fixed Line, Distribution, Networks, Large Customers and Operators segment combines France Telecom's fixed-line services, Equant covers the activities in corporate worldwide data transmission services. TP Group is a telecommunications service provider. The Other International segment covers other subsidiaries in the rest of the world.
FRGN.OB FragranceNet.com, Inc. operates an Internet discount fragrance store offering more than 6,000 brand-name fragrances, scented candles, aromatherapy and haircare products. The Company formed a new wholly owned entity, FragranceNet Wholesales, Inc., to pursue the wholesale sale of fragrances and related products. The Company operates an online store that specializes in the sale of brand-name fragrances, bath and body products, gels, candles, haircare products, powders and soaps directly to the consumer. It sells women's and men's products and does not sell any imitations or knock-offs. FragranceNet now offers its customers over 6,000 products at discounts of up to 60%. In addition, the Company offers free shipping within the United States on all orders over $60. The products sold by the Company include major brands, hard-to-find and discontinued items. The online store has search capability by price, name and type of scent.
FPL FPL Group, Inc. is a public utility holding company that, through its principal subsidiary, Florida Power &amp; Light Company (FPL), is engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy. FPL, a rate-regulated public utility, supplies electric service to approximately 4.1 million customers throughout most of the east and lower west coasts of Florida. The Company's other subsidiaries include FPL Energy, LLC and FPL FiberNet, LLC. FPL Energy invests in independent power projects through both controlled and consolidated entities and non-controlling ownership interests in joint ventures essentially all of which are accounted for under the equity method. The Company formed another subsidiary, FPL FiberNet, LLC, to enhance the value of its fiber-optic network assets that were originally built to support FPL operations. Accordingly, in January 2000, FPL's existing fiber-optic lines were transferred to FPL FiberNet.
FPIC FPIC Insurance Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries operate in three business segments: insurance, reciprocal management and third party administration (TPA). The insurance segment specializes in professional liability insurance products and related risk management services for physicians, dentists and other healthcare providers. The reciprocal management segment provides management, administrative and brokerage services to Physicians' Reciprocal Insurers (PRI), a professional liability insurance reciprocal that conducts business in the state of New York. The TPA segment provides administrative and claims management services to self-insured employer groups for group accident and health insurance, workers' compensation insurance and general liability and property insurance plans
FOXH FoxHollow Technologies, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and sells medical devices primarily for the treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD). PAD results from the accumulation of plaque in arteries, most commonly occurring in the pelvis and legs. Plaque accumulation, known as atherosclerosis, causes the narrowing of arteries, thereby reducing the flow of oxygenated blood to tissue and organs. Left untreated, PAD increases the risk of heart attack, stroke, amputation or death. The Company's first product, the SilverHawk Plaque Excision System, is a minimally invasive catheter system that treats PAD by removing plaque in order to reopen narrowed or blocked arteries. The Company offers five different SilverHawk models in the United States of various catheter diameters and tip lengths to accommodate different artery sizes and amounts of plaque for use in the peripheral vasculature.
FXX Foxby Corp. is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's non-fundamental investment objective is total return, which it may seek from growth of capital and from income in any security type and in any industry sector.
FOX Fox Entertainment Group, Inc. is a multi-faceted entertainment company with operations in four business segments, including Filmed Entertainment, Television Stations, Television Broadcast Network and Cable Network Programming. The Filmed Entertainment segment consists of the production and acquisition of live-action and animated motion pictures for distribution and licensing. The Television Stations segment principally consists of the operation of broadcast television stations in the United States. The Television Broadcast Network segment consists of the broadcasting of network programming in the United States. The Cable Network Programming segment consists of the production and licensing of programming distributed through cable television systems and direct broadcast satellite operators in the United States and professional sports team ownership in the United States.
FS Four Seasons Hotels Inc. manages a global portfolio of 62 luxury hotel and resort properties (containing approximately 16,000 guest rooms) and three Residence Clubs. These properties are operated primarily under the Four Seasons and Regent brand names in principal cities and resort destinations in 29 countries in North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and South America. Nine of its new properties are to include a Residence Club or other residential component. Hotels that the Company manages are located in international financial centers, such as London, New York, Paris, Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Milan, Shanghai, Singapore, Toronto and Sydney, as well as in emerging international markets, such as Dublin and Mexico City. Four Seasons Hotels also manages resorts in destinations, such as California, Hawaii, Nevis, Mexico and Bali.
FNSI.OB 4net Software, Inc. ceased all operations in 1991. Between 1991 to March 2000, the Company had no operations, except for necessary administrative matters, and was not engaged in operating a business. In March 2000, the Company adopted a plan of operation to make acquisitions and investments in companies that had developed niche software and/or Internet related products and services. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2001 (fiscal 2001), 4net Software was engaged in the business of providing content management and content syndication software, Web site hosting services and designing business-critical Web sites
KDE 4Kids Entertainment, Inc. is a diversified entertainment and media company specializing in the youth oriented market. Its wholly owned subsidiaries, 4Kids Entertainment Licensing, Inc. and 4Kids Entertainment International, Ltd., are engaged in the business of licensing the commercial rights to popular children's properties, personalities and product concepts. The Company, through a multi-year agreement with the Fox Broadcasting Company, leases Fox's Saturday morning programming block (the Fox Box). 4Kids provides all programming content to be broadcast on the Fox Box, which airs on Saturday mornings from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM eastern/pacific time, and retains all of the revenue from network advertising sales for the four-hour time period. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, 4Kids Productions, Inc., produces and acquires animated and live-action television programs for distribution to the television, home video and theatrical markets.
FPWR Fountain Powerboat Industries, Inc. operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Fountain Powerboats, Inc., as a designer, manufacturer and seller of offshore sport boats, sport fishing boats and sport cruisers intended for that segment of the recreational power boat market. The majority of the Company's recreational products are based upon a deep V-shaped fiberglass hull with a V-shaped pad, a notched transom and a positive lift step hull. This design enables the boat to achieve performance with standard reliable power. The Company also produces military support craft for domestic and international government agencies, including the United States Customs Service, the United States Navy and the United States Coast Guard. Fountain Powerboat's products are sold through a network of authorized dealers worldwide. Sales are made through approximately 55 dealer shipping locations throughout the United States and three international dealers.
FDRY Foundry Networks, Inc. is a provider of next-generation networking products. The Company designs, develops, manufactures and markets solutions to meet the needs of high-performance network infrastructures for Layer 2 to 7 switching and routing and wired and wireless local area networks, metropolitan area networks, wide area networks and the Web. It provides robust and high-performance routing solutions from the Internet core to the edge of the Internet data centers and a customer's network of Web and application servers. Foundry Networks' metro routers deliver the capabilities and performance needed to provide efficient and reliable core routing services to Internet data centers around the world. The Company's Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches provide the intelligence, speed and cost effectiveness required to support the increasing use of bandwidth-intensive and Internet-based applications.
FOSL Fossil, Inc. designs, develops, markets and distributes contemporary, fashion watches and accessories. The Company's brands in its line of fashion watches include Fossil (which it developed), Relic and Zodiac, and, pursuant to license agreements, other brands including Burberry, Diesel, DKNY and Emporio Armani. It offers a range of accessories including small leather goods, belts, handbags and sunglasses under the Fossil and Relic brands, jewelry under the Fossil and Emporio Armani brands and Fossil brand apparel. Sales of watches for the fiscal years ended January 03, 2004 (fiscal 2003), January 04, 2003 (fiscal 2002), and January 05, 2002 (fiscal 2001), accounted for approximately 70.2%, 69.3% and 68.1%, respectively, of the net sales.
FORD Forward Industries, Inc. designs, markets and distributes soft-sided carrying cases, bags, clips and other accessories for the handheld consumer electronic product industry, including cellular telephones and medical monitoring and diagnostic kits, cameras and other consumer electronic products. The Company's principal customers are original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The Company's suppliers custom manufacture its carrying cases and related products to the order of its original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers. Forward Industries designs and markets to its customers' order soft-sided carrying cases, bags, hand straps, clips and decorative faceplates made of leather, nylon, vinyl, plastic, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and other synthetic fabrics through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Koszegi and Forward Innovations.
FWRD Forward Air Corporation is a provider of time-definite surface transportation and related logistics services to the North American deferred airfreight market. The Company offers its customers scheduled surface transportation of cargo as a cost effective, reliable alternative to air transportation. It transports cargo that must be delivered at a specific time, but is less time-sensitive than traditional airfreight. The Company operates through a network of 80 terminals located on or near airports in the United States and Canada, including a central sorting facility in Columbus, Ohio, and eight regional hubs serving key markets. The Company's typical shipment consists of a pallet load of freight, often consisting of electronics, telecommunications equipment, machine parts, trade show exhibit materials or medical equipment. During 2003, its average shipment weighed over 700 pounds.
FRUEF.OB Forum Energy Corporation is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, and, when warranted, development of natural resource properties. The Company does not have any revenue-generating assets, and, as a result, relies on equity and/or debt financing to fund ongoing operations. Forum's ability to continue as a going concern is dependant upon achieving profitable operations and upon obtaining additional financing. The Company is pursuing exploration and development opportunities for oil and natural gas in the Philippines.
FDVI.OB Fortune Diversified Industries, Inc., incorporated in 1988, is a diversified holding company. The Company, formerly known as WOW Entertainment, Inc. and prior to that American Gaming &amp; Entertainment, Ltd., has conducted its business directly and through wholly owned subsidiaries. The Company is the parent company of Professional Staff Management, Inc., Professional Staff Management, Inc. II and Pro Staff, Inc. (collectively PSM); Nor-Cote International, Inc. (Nor-Cote); Kingston Sales Corporation (Kingston); Commercial Solutions, Inc. (Commercial Solutions); James H. Drew Corp. (JH Drew); PDH, Inc. (PDH); Cornerstone Wireless Services, Inc. (Cornerstone Wireless); Cornerstone Wireless Construction Services, Inc. (Cornerstone Construction); Innovative Telecommunications Consultants, Inc. (ITC); Telecom Technology Corp. (TTC); StarQuest Wireless Services, Inc. (StarQuest); Women of Wrestling, Inc. (WOW); and Murphy Development, Ltd. (Murphy).
FO Fortune Brands, Inc. is a holding company with subsidiaries engaged in the manufacture, production and sale of home and hardware products, spirits and wine, golf and office products. Home and hardware products offered by Company include kitchen and bathroom faucets and accessories, residential entry door systems, locks and tool storage products. Fortune Brands Home &amp; Hardware, Inc. is a holding company for subsidiaries in the home and hardware business. Spirits and wine includes products produced, marketed or distributed by Jim Beam Brands Worldwide, Inc. subsidiaries. Golf products offered by the Company include golf balls, golf clubs, golf shoes and gloves manufactured, marketed or distributed by Acushnet Company. Office products offered by Fortune include paper fastening, document management, computer accessories, time management, presentation and other office products manufactured, marketed or distributed by ACCO World Corporation subsidiaries.
FORR Forrester Research, Inc. is an independent technology research firm that conducts research and provides advice about the impact of technologies on business, consumers, and society. The Company provides a holistic perspective on technology and business known as the WholeView. This approach provides guidance on business strategy, technology investments, and customer trends that clients need to win customers, identify new markets, and scale their operations to gain competitive advantages. The Company offers its clients a flexible selection of engagement opportunities in the areas of Research, Data, Consulting and Community. Forrester's products and services are primarily targeted to senior management, business strategists and marketing and technology professionals. The Company operates in North America, Europe, and Asia.
FORTY Formula Systems (1985) Ltd. is a global information technology (IT) solutions and services company. Through its subsidiaries, the Company is principally engaged in providing software consulting services, developing software products and providing computer-based business solutions. In delivering its IT services, Formula Systems at times use software developed by members of the Formula Group (the Company, its subsidiaries and affiliates). Formula Systems provides its IT services across the full-system development life cycle, including definition of business requirements, system analysis, technical specifications, coding, testing, training, implementation and maintenance. Formula Systems delivers its solutions in over 50 countries worldwide to clients with complex IT services needs.
FORM FormFactor, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, sells and supports precision semiconductor wafer probe cards. Semiconductor manufacturers use the Company's wafer probe cards to perform wafer probe test on the whole wafer in the front end of the semiconductor manufacturing process. FormFactor's products are based on its technologies, including its MicroSpring interconnect technology and design tools. The Company manufactures its MicroSpring contact elements through precision micro-machining and scalable semiconductor-like wafer fabrication processes. FormFactor's MicroSpring contacts are springs that optimize the relative amounts of force on and across a bond pad during the test process and maintain their shape and position over a range of compression. The MicroSpring contact can be attached to many surfaces, or substrates, including printed circuit boards, silicon wafers, ceramics and various metalized surfaces.
FORG Forgent Networks, Inc. develops and licenses intellectual property, and provides scheduling software to a wide variety of customers. Forgent's intellectual property licensing program is related to communication technologies developed from a diverse and growing patent portfolio. The Company's software division, NetSimplicity, provides a spectrum of scheduling software that enables all sizes of organizations to streamline the scheduling of people, places and things.
FST Forest Oil Corporation is an oil and gas company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of natural gas and liquids in North America and selected international locations. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company operated in five business units: the Gulf Coast, Western United States, Alaska, Canada and International. Forest Oil's principal proved reserves and producing properties are located in the United States in Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wyoming, Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico and Canada. In addition, Forest Oil has acreage in various locations outside North America. At December 31, 2003, its estimated proved reserves were 1,296 billion cubic feet of gas equivalents (BCFE), approximately 62% of which were natural gas.
FRX Forest Laboratories, Inc. and its subsidiaries, develop, manufacture and sell ethical drug products, which require a physician's prescription, as well as non-prescription pharmaceutical products sold over-the-counter (OTC). The Company's products in United States consist of branded-ethical drug specialties marketed directly or detailed to physicians by the Company's Forest Pharmaceuticals, Forest Therapeutics, Forest Healthcare, Forest Ethicare and Forest Specialty Sales forces. It promotes in the United States those of its branded products, which has potential for growth and concentrates on group of physicians, who are high-prescribers of its products, such as Namenda, Forest's N-Methyl-D-Aspartate (NMDA) antagonist for the treatment of moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease; Lexapro, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) for the treatment of major depression, and Benicar, an angiotensin receptor blocker for the treatment of hypertension, which Forest co-promotes with Sankyo.
FCEa Forest City Enterprises, Inc. is principally engaged in the ownership, development, management and acquisition of commercial and residential real estate properties in 20 states and the District of Columbia. The Company operates through four business units: Commercial Group, Residential Group, Land Development Group and Lumber Trading Group. The Company has centralized the capital management, financial reporting and administrative functions of its business units. In other respects the strategic business units operate autonomously, with the Commercial Group and Residential Group each having its own development, acquisition, leasing, property and financial management functions.
FDG Fording Canadian Coal Trust (the Trust) is an open-ended mutual fund trust whose policy is to pay out to Unit holders its Trust Distributable Cash in each fiscal quarter. Distributions to Unit holders are facilitated by the Trust's investment in Fording Inc., which is held through a nominal amount of Fording common shares, Fording preferred shares and Fording subordinated notes maturing February 28, 2008. Fording Inc.'s principal asset is its initial 65% interest in the Elk Valley Coal Partnership. Fording Inc. also owns 100% of the Industrial Minerals Operations. The Partnership accounted for 96% of Fording Inc.'s revenues for the year ended December 31, 2003. The Industrial Minerals Operations accounted for the balance of the revenues. The Partners of the Partnership are Fording Inc. and Teck Cominco Limited (Teck) and Teck's affiliates, QCP and TBCI.
F Ford Motor Company is a global company with two core businesses: Automotive and Financial Services. The Automotive business consists of the design, development, manufacture, sale and service of cars, trucks and service parts. In 2003, the Company organized its Automotive business as two primary segments, Americas and International. The Americas segment includes primarily the sale of Ford, Lincoln and Mercury brand vehicles and related service parts in North America and Ford-brand vehicles and related service parts in South America. The International segment includes the sale of Ford-brand vehicles and related service parts outside of North and South America and the sale of Premier Automotive Group brand vehicles and related service parts throughout the world. The Financial Services business includes the operations of Ford Motor Credit Company, a provider of vehicle-related financing, leasing and insurance, and The Hertz Corporation, which operates a car and equipment rental business.
FRCP.OB Force Protection, Inc. formally known as Sonic Jet Performance, Inc., designs, manufactures and markets mine protected vehicles. Its products combine designs with power, safety, handling and stability to create vehicles designed to protect and save lives. The Company is composed of one business division and a corporate group. The operating division is the Mine Protected Vehicles division, while the wholly owned subsidiary is Technical Solutions Group, Inc. (TSG) through which it designs, manufactures and markets mine protected vehicles that are protected against landmines and hostile fire. Its vehicles include Buffalo, Cougar, Tempest, Typhoon and Iguana.
FMTI Forbes Medi-Tech Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the research, development and commercialization of prescription pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products derived from byproducts of the forest industry and other natural sources, primarily for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and related diseases. The Company's scientific platform and core expertise is based on plant sterols (phytosterols), which are lipid-like compounds found in the cells and membranes of oil-producing plants, grains and trees. These plant sterols have commercial applications as cholesterol-lowering agents and other pharmaceutical applications. The Company has developed cholesterol-lowering agents for use in pharmaceutical compounds, functional foods and dietary supplements. Forbes main products include the FM-VP4, a cholesterol-lowering pharmaceutical drug candidate; Reducol, a branded nutraceutical ingredient, and its non-branded nutraceutical ingredients referred to as Phyto-S Sterols.
FOOT Foothill Independent Bancorp is a one-bank holding company that owns all of the capital stock of Foothill Independent Bank, a California state-chartered bank (the Bank). The Bank is the Company's principal subsidiary and accounts for substantially all of its consolidated assets, liabilities and operating results. The Bank offers a range of commercial banking services including the acceptance of checking and savings deposits and the making of various types of commercial and business loans, including credit lines and accounts receivable and inventory financing, real estate mortgage and construction loans and consumer installment loans. In addition, the Bank provides safe deposit, collection, traveler's checks, notary public and other customary non-deposit banking services. The Bank operates 12 banking offices, one in each of the communities of Glendora, Upland, Claremont, Irwindale, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Covina, Glendale, Corona, Chino, Monrovia and Temecula California.
FL Foot Locker, Inc. is a global retailer of athletic footwear and apparel, operating mall-based stores in North America, Europe and Australia. The Company, through its subsidiaries, operates in two segments: Athletic Stores and Direct-to-Customers. The Athletic Stores segment is an international athletic footwear and apparel retailer, whose formats include Foot Locker, Lady Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker and Champs Sports. The Direct-to-Customers segment reflects Footlocker.com, Inc., which sells through its affiliates, including Eastbay, Inc., through catalogs and the Internet. In May 2004, the Company acquired 350 of Footstar, Inc.'s remaining 353 Footaction stores. Footstar, Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on March 2, 2004.
FSM Foodarama Supermarkets, Inc. operates a chain of 24 supermarkets located in Central New Jersey, as well as two liquor stores and two garden centers, all licensed as ShopRite. The Company had incorporated the concept of "World Class" supermarkets into its operations. "World Class" supermarkets are significantly larger than conventional supermarkets and feature fresh fish-on-ice, prime meat service butcher departments, in-store bakeries, international foods such as Chinese, sushi and kosher sections, meals to go, salad bars, snack bars, bulk foods and pharmacies. Foodarama also operates a central food processing facility to supply its stores with meat, various prepared salads, prepared foods and other items and a central baking facility, which supplies its stores with bakery products. The Company is a member of Wakefern, a retailer-owned food cooperative warehouse in the United States and owner of the ShopRite name.
VIFL Food Technology Service, Inc. owns and operates an irradiation facility located in Mulberry, Florida. The facility uses Gamma radiation produced by Cobalt 60 to treat or process various foods, particularly poultry and red meats, for insect disinfestations, shelf life extension and control of certain disease causing microorganisms. It provides contract sterilization service to the food packaging, medical device and food ingredient industries. The Company markets its irradiation process as a substitute for and/or a complement to other food processing methods such as canning, freezing, heat pasteurization and fumigation. Food Technology Service is working with meat processors, food distributors and with retailers to gain consumer acceptance for irradiated products. The Company irradiates meat under a special United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astronauts.
FNIX.OB Fonix Corporation delivers conversational speech solutions to consumer systems and devices for everyday use. It offers voice technology for mobile/wireless devices, computer telephony systems, the assistive market and automobiles. The Company operates as two business units: Fonix Speech Group that delivers speech solutions in the mobile / wireless, automotive, computer telephony and server, assistive and consumer speech and distributed speech markets and Fonix Telecom Group, which offers wire-line voice, data, long distance and Internet services to business and residential customers throughout BellSouth's Southeastern United States operating territory.
FONR FONAR Corporation is engaged in the business of designing, manufacturing, selling and servicing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners that utilize MRI technology for the detection and diagnosis of human disease. Its principal products are the Stand-Up MRI, the Fonar 360, the QUAD scanner series and the Echo. The principal markets for the Company's scanners are hospitals and private scanning centers. FONAR is also in the business of providing management services to medical providers through its wholly owned subsidiary, Health Management Corporation of America (HMCA). HMCA provides management services, administrative services, office space, equipment, repair and maintenance service, and clerical and other non-medical personnel to physicians and other medical providers, including diagnostic imaging centers.
FMX Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A. de C.V. (FEMSA) is a fully integrated beverage company in Latin America, with operations in soft drinks, beer, retail and packaging. In soft drinks, the Company produces and distributes Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Light, Fanta, Sprite and Powerade, and operates in nine different countries throughout Latin America, including Mexico, Argentina, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil. In beer, FEMSA Cerveza produces and distributes brands such as Tecate, Sol, Dos Equis and Carta Blanca, and reaches consumers throughout Mexico and internationally with exports to 67 countries. In retail, FEMSA Comercio operates the Oxxo Commercial Chain, a chain of convenience stores in Latin America, with more than 2,800 stores throughout Mexico. In packaging, FEMSA Strategic Procurement supports the overall beverage operations by providing packaging and procurement solutions.
FCSE FOCUS Enhancements, Inc. develops and markets video technology in two areas: semiconductors and video systems. Semiconductor products include several series of application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that process digital and analog video to be used with televisions, computer motherboards, graphics cards, video-conferencing systems, Internet television, media center and interactive television applications. The Company's system products are designed to provide solutions in personal computer-to-television scan conversion, video presentation, digital-video conversion, video production and home theater markets. Its system products include professional and consumer products. In January 2004, the Company entered into an agreement to acquire Visual Circuits Corporation (Visual Circuits).
FMXI Foamex International Inc.manufactures and distributes flexible polyurethane and advanced polymer foam products. Foamex has five business segments: Foam Products, Carpet Cushion Products, Automotive Products, Technical Products and Other Products. The Foam Products segment manufactures and markets cushioning foams for bedding, furniture, packaging and healthcare applications and foam-based consumer products, such as mattress pads and children's furniture. The Carpet Cushion Products segment manufactures and distributes rebond, prime, felt and rubber carpet padding. The Automotive Products segment distributes automotive foam products and laminates to Tier 1 suppliers and original equipment manufacturers. The Technical Products segment manufactures and markets reticulated and other specialty foams used for reservoiring, filtration, gasketing and sealing applications. The Other Products segment primarily consists of certain manufacturing operations in Mexico City.
FNX FNX Mining Company Inc. is an emerging mining company engaged in all phases of mineral exploration, development and mining, with a particular emphasis on exploration, development and mining for commercial deposits of base and precious metals, including platinum palladium and gold. The Company's business is conducted primarily in the Sudbury Basin in Ontario, Canada. During the year ended of December 31, 2003, the properties in the Sudbury Basin constitute the only material properties of FNX Mining. During 2003, the Company sold its other non-material properties. It sold its 100% interest in the 7,560-acre Gunsite property located about 90 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska, to Nevada Star Resource Corp. in exchange for a 1.5% net smelter royalty. Also during the year, FNX Mining sold its interest in the Larder Lake, Ontario, properties to NFX Gold Inc. for two million shares of NFX Gold Inc.
FNBF FNB Financial Services Corporation is a financial holding company with one bank subsidiary, FNB Southeast (the Bank). FNB Southeast provides a variety of financial services to individual and corporate customers in North Carolina through its 13 full-service branches in Reidsville, Madison, Eden, Ruffin, Greensboro, Burgaw and Wilmington, North Carolina. FNB Southeast's primary deposit products are interest-bearing checking accounts, certificates of deposit and individual retirement accounts. Its primary lending products are commercial, real estate and consumer loans. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, FNB Southeast Investment Services, the Bank offers a line of investment products and services. The Bank also provides mortgage-banking services through FNB Southeast Mortgage Corporation, another wholly owned subsidiary.
FNBP FNB Corporation through its three banking subsidiaries (the Banks) provides consumer and commercial banking services in the New River Valley; the Cities of Roanoke and Salem, and Virginia and Roanoke and contiguous counties. The Company offers a range of commercial and retail banking products and services, including checking, savings and time deposits, individual retirement accounts, merchant bankcard processing, residential and commercial mortgages, home equity loans, credit card and consumer installment loans, agricultural loans, investment loans, small business, agricultural and FHA and Small Business Administration guaranteed loans, commercial loans, lines and letters of credit and trust services. In addition to its 26 branches, three loan production offices, a financial services center, telephone and online banking, the Company has 52 automated teller machines. FNB operates two business segments: community banking and mortgage banking.
FNB F.N.B. Corporation is a financial holding company that operates a regional community bank, First National Bank of Pennsylvania; a consumer finance company, Regency Finance Company; an insurance agency, First National Insurance Company, and a trust subsidiary, First National Trust Company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, provides a full range of financial services, principally to consumers and small to medium-sized businesses in its market areas. As of January 1, 2004, F.N.B. had full-service banking offices located in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and consumer finance operations in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Tennessee. Its insurance agency has operations in Pennsylvania.
FNBN FNB Corp. is a multi-bank holding company with two full-service subsidiary banks, First National Bank and Rowan Bank, which offer a line of consumer, mortgage and business banking services, including loan, deposit, cash management, investment management and trust services, to individual and business customers. The subsidiary banks have offices in Chatham, Guilford, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond, Rowan and Scotland counties in North Carolina. In addition, FNB Corp. has a mortgage banking subsidiary, Dover Mortgage Company, which originates, underwrites and closes loans for sale into the secondary market. Dover operates six mortgage production offices in North Carolina at Charlotte, Goldsboro, Greenville, Lake Norman, Raleigh and Wilmington.
FMCO FMS Financial Corporation is the holding company for Farmers and Mechanics Bank. It conducts no significant business or operations of its own other than holding all of the outstanding common stock of the Bank. The Company principally operates through its 40 banking offices located in Burlington, Camden and Mercer counties, New Jersey. It is primarily engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the general public and originating loans that are secured by residential real estate. It also originates consumer, commercial business loans and construction loans and invests in United States government securities and mortgage-related securities.
FTI FMC Technologies, Inc. is a provider of mission-critical solutions for the energy, food processing and air transportation industries. The Company designs, manufactures and services sophisticated machinery and systems for its customers through its Energy Systems (consisting of Energy Production Systems and Energy Processing Systems), FoodTech and Airport Systems business segments. On August 20, 2003, FMC Technologies acquired a 55% ownership interest in CDS Engineering and associated assets. CDS is a provider of gas and liquids separation technology and equipment for surface applications, both onshore and offshore. On November 26, 2003, the Company acquired 100% ownership of RampSnake A/S from SAS, the parent company of Scandinavian Airlines. RampSnake has developed a baggage loading and unloading product for narrow-body aircraft. During the fourth quarter of 2003, FMC Technologies divested FoodTech's United States agricultural harvester machinery product line.
FMC FMC Corporation is a diversified, global chemical company providing solutions, applications and products to a wide variety of end markets. The Company operates in three distinct business segments: Agricultural Products, Specialty Chemicals and Industrial Chemicals. Agricultural Products' focus is on insecticides, which are used to enhance crop yield and quality by controlling pests, and on herbicides, which are used to reduce the need for manual or mechanical weeding by inhibiting or preventing weed growth. Specialty Chemicals consists of FMC's BioPolymer and lithium businesses, and focuses on food ingredients that are used to enhance texture, structure and physical stability, pharmaceutical additives for binding and disintegrant use and lithium specialties for pharmaceutical synthesis and energy storage. The Company's Industrial Chemicals segment manufactures a range of inorganic materials, including soda ash, hydrogen peroxide, specialty peroxygens and phosphorus chemicals.
FLYI FLYi, Inc., formerly Atlantic Coast Airlines Holdings, Inc., is a holding company with its primary subsidiary being Atlantic Coast Airlines (ACA). The Company is a regional airline serving 85 destinations in 30 states in the Eastern and Midwestern United States and Canada, with 850 scheduled non-stop flights system-wide every weekday. The Company operates under code-share agreements as a United Express carrier with United Airlines, Inc. and as a Delta Connection carrier with Delta Air Lines, Inc. The Company derived approximately 83% of its 2003 passenger revenue from its United Express operations. As of February 15, 2004, the Company operated a fleet of 87 50-seat Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs), 33 Fairchild Dornier 328 regional jets (328Jets) and 24 British Aerospace Jetstream-41 (J-41s) turboprop aircraft. Thirty-three 328Jets are operated in the Delta Connection program, 86 CRJs and 24 J-41s are operated in the United Express program and one CRJ is flown in charter operations.
FFIC Flushing Financial Corporation serves as the parent holding company for Flushing Savings Bank, FSB (the Bank). The primary business of the Company is the operation of its wholly owned subsidiary the Bank. The Company's principal business is attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing those deposits together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, primarily in originations and purchases of one- to four-family, multi-family residential and commercial real estate mortgage loans; mortgage loan surrogates such as mortgage-backed securities, and United States government and federal agency backed securities, corporate fixed-income securities and other marketable securities. The Bank conducts its business through 11 full-service banking offices, six of which are located in Queens County, two in Nassau County, one in Kings County (Brooklyn), one in Bronx County and one in New York County (Manhattan), New York.
FLR Fluor Corporation provides engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance services through a number of subsidiaries. The Company also performs operations and maintenance activities for major industrial clients. Fluor serves a diverse set of industries ranging from oil and gas, to power, to industrial clients and to the United States federal government. The Company is aligned into five principal operating segments: Oil and Gas, Industrial and Infrastructure, Government, Global Services and Power. Fluor Constructors International, Inc., which is organized and operates separately from its business segments, provides unionized management, construction and management services in the United States and Canada, both independently and as a subcontractor on projects to its segments.
FLS Flowserve Corporation develops and manufactures precision-engineered flow control equipment for critical service applications that require high reliability, including pumps, valves and mechanical seals. The Company's products and services are used in several industries, including, but not limited to, the petroleum, chemical, power generation, water treatment and general industrial industries. The Company conducts its operations through three business segments: Flowserve Pump Division for engineered pumps, industrial pumps and related services; Flow Solutions Division for precision mechanical seals and related services, and Flow Control Division for industrial valves, manual valves, control and nuclear valves, valve actuators and controls and related services. In November 2004, the Company sold its Government Marine Business Unit, located in Phillipsburg, N.J., to Curtiss-Wright Corp.
FLO Flowers Foods, Inc. produces and markets fresh packaged and frozen bakery products in the United States. The Company consists of two business segments: Flowers Foods Bakeries Group, LLC and Flowers Foods Specialty Group, LLC. Flowers Bakeries markets its fresh packaged bakery products in the super-regional 17-state area in and surrounding the southeastern and southwestern United States. Its soft variety and premium specialty breads are marketed throughout this entire area under its Nature's Own and Cobblestone Mill brands. Flowers Specialty produces snack cakes for sale to co-pack, retail and vending customers, as well as frozen bread, rolls and buns for sale to retail and foodservice customers. During 2003, its largest customer, Wal-Mart/Sam's Club, represented 13.0% of the Company's sales.
FLTK.OB Flotek Industries, Inc. manufactures and markets the Petrovalve line of downhole pump components and the Turbeco line of casing centralizers. The Company's other business is the specialty chemicals segment, which develops, manufactures, packages and sells chemicals used by other oilfield service companies in oil and gas well cementing, stimulation and production. Its facility construction and management segment designs, constructs and manages automated bulk material handling and loading facilities for other oilfield service companies. In June 2003, the Company announced its intentions to divest its equipment specialties business unit located in Duncan, Oklahoma. The Equipment Specialties business unit is a discontinued operation.
FRK Florida Rock Industries, Inc. is principally engaged in three business segments: construction aggregates, concrete products, and cement and calcium products. The construction aggregates segment is engaged in the mining, processing, distribution and sale of sand, gravel and crushed stone. The concrete products segment is engaged in production and sale of ready mix concrete, concrete block, prestressed and precast concrete, as well as sales of other building materials. The cement and calcium products segment is engaged in the production and sale of portland and masonry cement, the importation of cement and slag that are either sold, ground or blended and then sold, and sale of calcium products to the animal feed industries. Substantially all operations are conducted in Florida, Virginia, Georgia, Maryland, Washington D.C., Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Delaware. The Company also has an investment in a crushed stone plant in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada.
FPU Florida Public Utilities Company (FPU) provides natural gas, electricity and propane gas to retail and commercial customers in Florida. FPU's regulated segment sells natural gas and electricity to 74,582 customers in Central, Northeast, Northwest and Southern Florida. FPU's unregulated segment operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Flo-Gas Corporation, which sells propane gas to 12,413 customers throughout the State of Florida. FPU formerly provided water to customers in Fernandina Beach, Florida, however, the water assets were sold, during the year ended December 31, 2003, to the City of Fernandina Beach, Florida.
FGMG.OB Florida Gaming Corporation owns and operates two jai-alai fronton and inter-track pari-mutuel wagering facilities (each, a Fronton and collectively, the Frontons) located in South and Central Florida. Pari-mutuel wagering refers to the betting by members of the public against each other and includes wagering on both live performances and inter-track pari-mutuel wagering. The Company's business consists primarily of its operations at the Frontons, which include live jai-alai performances, inter-track pari-mutuel wagering on jai-alai, horse racing (both thoroughbred and harness) and dog racing, as well as the sale of food and alcoholic beverages. The Fort Pierce location provides inter-track wagering on interstate simulcasting of horse racing, dog racing, poker and jai-alai from various tracks and frontons in the United States and within the State of Florida.
FLA Florida East Coast Industries, Inc. (FECI) is engaged, through two wholly owned subsidiaries, in the railroad and real estate businesses. The Company's railroad subsidiary, Florida East Coast Railway, LLC (FECR), connects the population centers and port facilities of Florida's east coast, and provides service for its customers through connections to the rest of North America. The Company, primarily through its real estate subsidiary, Flagler Development Company (Flagler), is engaged in the development, management, leasing, operation and selected sale of commercial and industrial properties. Flagler has real estate holdings in Florida.
FLIR FLIR Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets thermal imaging systems and infrared camera systems that offer a variety of applications in the commercial, industrial and government markets. The Company's business is organized into two divisions, thermography and imaging. The thermography division produces systems that provide precise temperature measurement capabilities and are used for a variety of commercial and industrial applications. The imaging division produces a range of systems that are used in such applications as long-range surveillance, reconnaissance, search and rescue, security, force protection, targeting and law enforcement. In January 2004, the Company acquired Indigo Systems Corporation, a producer of infrared detectors, infrared cameras and camera subsystems.
FLT Flight Safety Technologies, Inc. (formerly known as Reel Staff Inc) is engaged in developing advanced technologies that enhances aviation safety and reduces airport delays. Using its opto-acoustic technology, known as SOCRATES (Sensor for Optically Characterizing Remote Atmospheric Turbulence Emanating Sound), the Company is working on development of a sensor that detects and tracks air disturbances known as wake vortex turbulence, created by departing and arriving aircraft in the vicinity of airports. The Company is also developing a collision avoidance and ground proximity warning system for small-aircraft based on its technology referred to as UNICORN (Universal Collision Obviation and Reduced Near-Miss). In June 2003, FSTO merged into the Company, and it now owns the patents on and is continuing the development of its SOCRATES and UNICORN technologies. On September 13, 2003, it completed a three-week test of an improved SOCRATES wake vortex sensor at Denver International Airport.
FLEX Flextronics International, Ltd. is a provider of electronics manufacturing services to original equipment manufacturers that span a range of products and industry segments, including cellular phones, printers and imaging, telecom/datacom infrastructure, medical, automotive, industrial systems and consumer electronics. The Company provides services that are designed to meet customers' product requirements throughout their product development life cycle. It also provides after-market services, such as repair and warranty services, as well as network and communications installation and maintenance. Its contract design and related engineering services include all aspects of product design, including industrial and mechanical design, hardware design, embedded and application software development, semiconductor design, system validation and test development. In October 2004, the Company acquired 70% of the outstanding shares of Hughes Software Systems.
FLXS Flexsteel Industries, Inc. is a manufacturer, importer and marketer of residential, recreational vehicle, hospitality and healthcare upholstered and wooden furniture products in the United States. The Company's primary business is the design, manufacture and sale of a broad line of upholstered furniture for residential, commercial and recreational vehicle seating use. Product offerings include a wide variety of wood and upholstered furniture, such as sofas, loveseats, chairs, reclining and rocker-reclining chairs, swivel rockers, sofa beds, convertible bedding units, occasional tables, desks, dining tables and chairs, and bedroom furniture. The Company's products are intended for use in home, office, motor home, travel trailer, yacht, healthcare and hotel applications. The Company's products are also sold to several national and regional chains, some of which sell on a private-label basis.
FSI Flexible Solutions International, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets specialty chemicals that slow down the evaporation of water. The Company's initial product, Heat$avr, is marketed for use in swimming pools and spas where its use, by slowing the evaporation of water, allows the water to retain a higher temperature for a longer period of time and thereby reduces the energy required to maintain the desired temperature of the water in the pool. Flexible also offers the Water$avr product, which is marketed for water conservation in irrigation canals, aquaculture and reservoirs where its use slows down water loss due to evaporation. In addition, the Company makes and sells dispensers that automate the deployment of the Heat$avr and Water$avr products. In June 2004, the Company acquired Donlar Corp., including its green chemistry products for water treatment, agricultural and industrial uses.
FLE Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. (Fleetwood), produces recreational vehicles, including motor homes, travel trailers and folding trailers, as well as manufactured housing. During the year ended April 25, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company sold 60,097 recreational vehicles. Fleetwood's vertically integrated housing operations are completed by the Company's retail division, Fleetwood Retail Corp., and its financial services subsidiary, HomeOne Credit Corp., which offers finance and insurance products to its retail customers. In addition, Fleetwood operates four supply companies that provide components for the recreational vehicle and housing operations, while also generating outside sales. For calendar year 2003, it shipped 19,653 manufactured homes, also known as HUD-Code homes, in the United States. HUD-Code homes are homes manufactured in accordance with regulations published by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.
BDL Flanigan's Enterprises, Inc. owns and/or operates restaurants with lounges, package liquor stores and an entertainment-oriented club (collectively, the units). At October 2, 2004, the Company operated 18 units, and had equity interests in seven additional units that have been franchised by the Company. The Company conducts its operations directly and through a number of joint ventures and wholly owned subsidiaries. The Company's business is carried out principally in two segments: the restaurant segment and the package liquor store segment. The Company's principal sources of revenue are the sale of food and alcoholic beverages. All of the Company's package liquor stores, restaurants and clubs are operated on leased properties. The Company's package liquor stores are operated under the Big Daddy's Liquors servicemark. Flanigan's Enterprises' restaurants are operated under the Flanigan's Seafood Bar and Grill servicemark.
FLDR Flanders Corporation designs, manufactures and sells air filters and related products. It is focused on providing complete environmental filtration systems for end uses ranging from controlling contaminants in residences and commercial office buildings through specialized manufacturing environments for semiconductors and pharmaceuticals. The Company also designs and manufactures much of its own production equipment to automate processes to decrease labor costs associated with its standard products. Additionally, Flanders produces glass-based air filter media for many of its products. The majority of the Company's revenues come from the sale of after-market replacement filters, since air filters are typically placed in equipment designed to last much longer than the filters. Its customers include Abbott Laboratories, The Home Depot, Inc., Motorola, Inc., Merck &amp; Co., Inc., Upjohn Co., Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Westinghouse Electric Corp. and several computer chip manufacturers.
FLML Flamel Technologies S.A. is a biopharmaceutical company principally engaged in the development of two polymer-based delivery technologies for medical applications. The Company's Micropump technology is a multiparticulate technology for oral administration of small-molecule drugs with applications in controlled-release, tastemasking and bioavailability enhancement. Its Medusa nano-particulate technology is designed to deliver therapeutic proteins, peptides and small molecules. In addition, it has developed Agsome, a herbicide delivery system, and has patented a biomaterial, ColCys. Flamel has also developed a family of biomaterials based upon collagen-cystine called ColCys, which is composed exclusively of naturally occurring molecules. ColCys biomaterials can be prepared in the form of fluids, hydrogels, molded parts, cast films or coatings, each of which has the ability to be crosslinked either before implantation, or in vivo.
FBC Flagstar Bancorp, Inc. is a thrift holding company, whose primary subsidiary is Flagstar Bank, fsb (the Bank), a federally chartered stock savings bank. Its banking group collects deposits from the general public and local government agencies at 99 banking centers located throughout southern Michigan and Indiana. It also collects certificates of deposits through secondary market offerings and solicits business through its Internet branch located at www.flagstar.com. In addition, the banking group acquires advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis. The banking group invests these funds in consumer and commercial loan products offered to the general public. The Company's home lending group acquires single-family mortgage loans on a wholesale basis. It also originates single-family loans on a consumer-direct basis from 128 home loan centers in 25 states. In addition, the home lending group originates mortgage loans from 99 banking centers located in Michigan and Indiana.
FLAG Flag Financial Corporation is a bank holding company that is the sole shareholder of Flag Bank (the Bank). Flag facilitates the Bank's abilities to serve its customers' requirements for financial services. Flag is also a service provider of mortgage, appraisal, investment and insurance services through Flag Mortgage, Flag Investment Services and Flag Insurance Services. All of these services are provided by a division of Flag Bank. Flag Bank is a state bank organized under the laws of the State of Georgia with banking offices in the following cities and counties: Atlanta (Fulton County, DeKalb County and Cobb County), Unadilla (Dooly County), Vienna (Dooly County), Montezuma (Macon County), Buena Vista (Marion County), LaGrange (Troup County), Hogansville (Troup County), Thomaston (Upson County), Jonesboro (Clayton County) and Suwanee (Forsyth County), Georgia. In December 2004, the Company acquired Payroll Solutions of Macon, Georgia.
FITB Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB) is a bank holding company that conducts its principal activities through its banking and non-banking subsidiaries from 952 banking centers located throughout Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, West Virginia and Tennessee. Principal activities include commercial and retail banking, investment advisory services and electronic payment processing. Fifth Third Financial Corporation, had six wholly owned direct subsidiaries: Fifth Third Bank; Fifth Third Bank (Michigan); Fifth Third Community Development Corporation; Fifth Third Investment Company; Old Kent Capital Trust I, and Fifth Third Reinsurance Company, Ltd. In December 2003, FITB completed the merger of its Fifth Third Bank, Kentucky, Inc., Fifth Third Bank, Northern Kentucky, Inc., Fifth Third Bank, Indiana and Fifth Third Bank Florida subsidiary banks with and into Fifth Third Bank (Michigan). In January 2005, the Company acquired First National Bankshares of Florida, Inc.
FPPC.OB Fieldpoint Petroleum Corporation is engaged in the acquisition, operation and development of oil and gas properties located in Oklahoma, Southcentral Texas and Wyoming as of December 31, 2003. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company had varying ownership interest in 338 gross productive wells (89.77 net) located in three states. The Company operates 59 of the 338 wells, and the other wells are operated by independent operators under contracts that are standard in the industry. The Company's oil and gas production is sold on the spot market, and the Company does not have any production that is subject to firm commitment contracts. In 2003, purchases by each of four customers, Westport Resources, Pontotoc Production, Inc., Dorado Oil Company and Plains Petroleum, represented more than 10% of the total Company revenues.
LION Fidelity Southern Corporation is a registered bank holding company. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Fidelity's principal activities were conducted by its wholly owned subsidiary, Fidelity Bank (the Bank), which was organized as a national banking corporation in 1973. In 2003, Fidelity had total assets of $1,092 million, total loans of $833 million and total deposits of $888 million. The Bank conducts banking activities through 19 branches in Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Clayton and Gwinnett counties in Georgia. Its customers are individuals and small and medium-sized businesses located in Georgia. The indirect automobile lending activities include the purchase of consumer automobile installment sales contracts from automobile dealers, residential construction and mortgage lending are conducted from its Jacksonville, Florida, offices and two offices in Georgia. On May 9, 2003, Fidelity changed its name from Fidelity National Corporation to Fidelity Southern Corporation.
FNF Fidelity National Financial, Inc. is a title insurance and diversified real estate information services and solutions company that operates in four business segments: title insurance, financial institution processing and outsourcing, real estate information services and specialty insurance. The title insurance segment provides core title insurance and escrow services. The financial institution processing and outsourcing segment consists primarily of the operations of Fidelity Information Services, Inc. The real estate information services segment offers the complementary specialized products and services required to execute and close a real estate transaction that are not offered by the title insurance segment. The specialty insurance segment issues flood, home warranty and homeowners insurance policies. In November 2004, the Company acquired InterCept, Inc., a provider of technology solutions to the community bank market.
FFED Fidelity Federal Bancorp is a registered savings and loan holding company. The Company's savings bank subsidiary, United Fidelity Bank, fsb (United), is primarily engaged in the business of attracting savings deposits from the general public, Federal Home Loan Bank advances and other wholesale funding savings, and investing such funds in loans served by one- to four-family residential real estate located primarily in Vanderburgh and the surrounding counties in southern Indiana. United originates consumer loans on a direct basis in its offices, and on an indirect basis through automobile dealers for the purchase of automobiles. As of December 31, 2003, Fidelity had consolidated total assets of $175.4 million and total shareholders' equity of $13.4 million.
FFFL Fidelity Bankshares, Inc. serves as the holding company parent of Fidelity Federal Bank and Trust (the Bank). The Bank is primarily engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the general public in its market area, and investing such deposits, together with other sources of funds, in loans secured by one- to four-family residential real estate. To a lesser extent, the Bank also originates multi-family loans, construction loans and land loans for single-family properties, and invests in mortgage-backed securities issued or guaranteed by the United States Government or agencies. The Bank also offers insurance and investment products through its wholly owned subsidiary, Florida Consolidated Agency, Inc. The Bank conducts its business primarily in Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie Counties in Florida, and, to a lesser extent, in Indian River and Broward Counties. On December 31, 2003, it had 41 offices in its market area.
FSBI Fidelity Bancorp, Inc. was organized to operate principally as a holding company for its wholly owned subsidiary, Fidelity Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a state-chartered savings bank conducting business through 13 offices located in Allegheny and Butler counties in Pennsylvania. Its principal business consists of attracting deposits from the general public and uses these funds to originate loans in its market area. The Bank concentrates its lending activities on the origination of loans and, to a lesser extent, the purchase of loan participations secured primarily by first mortgage liens on existing single-family residences.
FBST Fiberstars, Inc. develops and markets fiber-optic lighting systems, which are used in a variety of commercial and residential applications. Its fiber-optic lighting systems combine three types of products: illuminators, fiber and fixtures in configurations designed to meet the needs of specific markets. The electrically powered illuminators generate and focus light into the ends of optical fiber. Fiber tubing products connect to the illuminators and are designed to emit light either at the end of the fiber optics as a spot source of light or along the length of the fiber optics, similar in effect to neon lighting. The systems can also include fixtures and other accessories designed for specific applications. The Company designs, develops and manufactures its lighting systems and markets and distributes its products worldwide primarily through independent sales representatives, distributors and swimming pool builders.
FTGX FiberNet Telecom Group, Inc. deploys, owns and operates fiber-optic networks designed to provide comprehensive broadband connectivity for data, voice and video transmission to other telecommunications service providers in major metropolitan areas. These networks provide a high-bandwidth, fiber-optic solution to support the demand for network capacity in the local loop and to enable the interconnection of multiple carriers' networks. The Company's primary business is to provide optical and electrical broadband circuits within and between carrier hotels, which are industrial buildings where service providers exchange and route communications traffic. It also provides colocation in the facilities for its customers to house their communications equipment. FiberNet's networks support multiple domestic and international transmission protocols, including synchronous optical network, synchronous digital hierarchy, Ethernet, Frame Relay, asynchronous transfer mode and Internet protocol.
FMKIQ.OB FiberMark, Inc. is a producer of specialty fiber-based materials for industries and consumer needs worldwide, with facilities in the United States and Europe. The Company manufactures and converts specialty papers, pressboards, non-woven materials and combinations of various materials. It operates in two segments: German operations and North American operations. Its German operations segment manufactures and markets technical specialties, which is a product family that includes filter media, tape substrates, non-woven wall covering base and printing substrates. The North American operations produce publishing and packaging, office products and technical specialties. During the year ended December 31, 2003, its German operation and North American operations accounted for 46% and 54% of the Company's total revenue, respectively. On March 30, 2004, FiberMark and its United States operations filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.
FIA Fiat S.p.A. is engaged principally in the manufacture and sale of automobiles, commercial vehicles and agricultural and construction equipment. The Company also manufactures, for use by automotive sectors and for sale to third parties, other automotive-related products and systems, including components, metallurgical products and production systems. In addition, Fiat is involved in other sectors, including publishing and communications and service operations. In May 2003, Fiat divested its insurance sector, which was operating through Toro Assicurazioni S.p.A., an Italian life and non-life insurance company, to the DeAgostini Group. In July 2003, Fiat sold its aviation business, FiatAvio S.p.A., which was engaged in the areas of aircraft engine components and aerospace systems, to Avio Holding S.p.A. In February 2004, the Company sold its 100% interest in Fiat Engineering S.p.A. to Maire Investimenti S.p.A., a privately held Italian company.
FVE Five Star Quality Care, Inc. (Five Star) operates senior living communities, including independent living apartments or congregate care communities; assisted living communities; specialty care suites; nursing homes, and senior apartments. The Company operates 101 communities containing 14,035 living units, including 48 primarily independent and assisted living communities containing 9,167 units and 53 nursing homes containing 4,868 units. Of the 48 primarily independent and assisted living communities, the Company leases 45 communities containing 8,774 units from Senior Housing Properties Trust (Senior Housing), its former parent, including 31 communities, which are directly operated by Sunrise Senior Living Services, Inc. The Company also owns and operates three communities containing 393 units. In November 2004, the Company acquired LTA Holdings, Inc. In November 2004, the Company sold 31 senior living properties to Senior Housing Properties Trust.
JOBS 51job, Inc. is a provider of integrated human resource services in China with a focus on recruitment related services. The Company's recruitment related services are delivered in both print and online formats, and these two services are closely integrated to allow it to reach a wide and diverse audience. The Internet, Web-based applications and human resource software are critical aspects of the Company's services. In addition to recruitment advertising services, the Company also provides executive search and other complementary human resource related services for large and small employers.
FSH Fisher Scientific International, Inc. provides products and services to the global scientific research and United States clinical laboratory markets. Its customers include pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, colleges and universities, medical research institutions, hospitals and reference labs and quality control, process control and research and development laboratories. Its three reportable segments are: scientific products and services, healthcare products and services and laboratory workstations. The Company offers more than 600,000 products and services to over 350,000 customers located in approximately 145 countries. No single customer represented more than 2.5% of its total sales for the year ended December 31, 2003. In August 2004, the Company merged with Apogent Technologies Inc., a company engaged primarily in the manufacture and sale of laboratory products in the United States and other countries.
FSCI Fisher Communications, Inc. (Fisher) is a communications and media company comprised of two subsidiaries: Fisher Broadcasting Company and Fisher Media Services Company. At December 31, 2003, the Company owned and operated nine network-affiliated television stations (and owned a 50% interest in a company that owns a tenth television station) and also owned and operated 27 radio stations. Fisher also sells advertising for an FM station under a joint sales agreement. The television and radio stations are located in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon are the Company's two largest markets for both television and radio.
FISV Fiserv, Inc. provides integrated data processing and information management systems. The Company has three business segments: financial institution outsourcing, systems and services; health plan management services, and securities processing and trust services. The financial institution outsourcing, systems and services segment provides account and transaction processing systems and services to financial institutions and other financial intermediaries. The health plan management services segment provides services to employers who self-fund their health plan, including services such as handling payments to healthcare providers, assisting with cost controls, plan design services, medical provider administration and other related services. The securities processing and trust services segment provides securities processing products and services and retirement plan administration services to brokerage firms, investment advisers and financial institutions.
FSTW Firstwave Technologies, Inc. is a provider of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions to mid-size and large-scale enterprises worldwide. Firstwave's CRM solutions are designed to help companies keep customers loyal, close more sales and capture more market share. Its CRM solutions offer sales, marketing and customer service automation and project and product quality management. Firstwave CRM is adaptive and scalable and easily integrates with existing systems. This allows for rapid deployment, and, typically, a lower total cost of ownership. Firstwave supports the product lines Firstwave CRM, Firstwave Sports, Firstwave Technology and TakeControl. In March 2003, Firstwave acquired Connect-Care, Inc., a CRM company. Connect-Care's focus was on delivering a CRM solution for the high-tech industry. The Connect-Care products, as well as its management team have become a part of Firstwave's software solutions and infrastructure.
FSRV FirstService Corporation provides services to commercial, residential and institutional customers in the areas of residential property management, integrated security services, consumer services and business services. Each service line provides essential or near-essential services and generates revenues and returns on invested capital. In February 2004, the Company acquired Vista Properties, a provider of residential property management and real estate brokerage services in Vero Beach, Florida. Also in February 2004, FirstService acquired Wellington Management Services of Wellington, Florida. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004, the Company sold Greenspace Services to TruGreen ChemLawn, a subsidiary of The ServiceMaster Company. In June 2004, the Company acquired Wolin-Levin, Inc., a residential property management company. In November 2004, the Company acquired approximately 70% of the shares of CMN International Inc.
FMER FirstMerit Corporation is a diversified financial services company that, through its subsidiaries, provides a range of banking, fiduciary, financial, insurance and investment services to corporate, institutional and individual customers throughout northeastern and central Ohio and western Pennsylvania. FirstMerit Bank, N.A., one of the Company's principal subsidiaries, engages in commercial and consumer banking, and as of December 31, 2003, had a network of 158 banking offices and 172 automated teller machines. FirstMerit's non-banking direct and indirect subsidiaries provide insurance sales services, credit life, credit accident and health insurance, securities brokerage services, equipment lease financing and other financial services. Its principal direct operating subsidiaries other than FirstMerit Bank include FirstMerit Credit Life Insurance Company and FirstMerit Community Development Corporation.
FED FirstFed Financial Corp., collectively with its sole and wholly owned subsidiary, First Federal Bank of California, operates as a savings and loan holding company engaged primarily in the business of owning the Bank. The Company does not engage itself in any significant independent business operations. The Company is a savings and loan holding company, and, as such, is subject to examination and regulation by the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS). The deposits of the Bank are insured by the Savings Association Insurance Fund of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The Bank is regulated by the Director of the OTS and the FDIC and is a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) of San Francisco, which is one of the 12 regional banks comprising the Federal Home Loan Bank System.
FFDB FirstFed Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for First State Corporation (FSC). FSC is the sole shareholder for First Financial Bank (the Bank). FSC was the sole shareholder of First State Bank of Bibb County. At December 31, 2003, the Company had total assets of $194.2 million and total deposits of $151.1 million. The Bank's principal business consists of attracting deposits from the general public and investing those deposits in one- to four-family residential mortgage loans, commercial mortgage loans, commercial loans and consumer loans. The Bank is a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank system, and its deposit accounts are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) up to the maximum amount allowable by the FDIC. The Bank conducts business from eight locations in Bibb, Jefferson, Shelby and Tuscaloosa Counties, Alabama, consisting of its home office in Bessemer and seven other branches. Each branch is a full-service facility.
FE FirstEnergy Corp. is a registered public utility holding company that provides regulated and competitive energy services through its subsidiaries. The Companies' combined service areas encompass approximately 36,100 square miles in Ohio, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. FirstEnergy's principal business is the holding, directly or indirectly, of all of the outstanding common stock of its principal electric utility operating subsidiaries, Ohio Edison Company (OE); The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company (CEI); Pennsylvania Power Company (Penn Power); The Toledo Edison Company (TE); American Transmission Systems, Incorporated (ATSI); Jersey Central Power &amp; Light Company (JCP&amp;L); Metropolitan Edison Company (Met-Ed), and Pennsylvania Electric Company (Penelec). The Company's consolidated revenues are primarily derived from electric service provided by its utility operating subsidiaries and the revenues of its other principal subsidiaries.
FCFC FirstCity Financial Corporation is a financial services company with offices throughout the United States and Mexico and a presence in France and South America. The Company began operating in 1986 as a specialty financial services company focused on acquiring and resolving distressed loans and other assets purchased at a discount relative to the aggregate unpaid principal balance of the loans or the appraised value of the other assets (face value). As of December 31, 2003, FirstCity had acquired, for its own account and through various affiliated partnerships, pools of assets or single assets (collectively referred to as Portfolio Assets) with a face value of approximately $7.5 billion. In addition to Portfolio Asset acquisition and resolution, the Company is engaged in consumer lending through its minority investment in Drive Financial Services, LP.
FBNW FirstBank NW Corp. is the holding company for FirstBank Northwest (the Bank). The Bank is a community-oriented financial institution engaged primarily in the business of attracting deposits from the general public and using those funds to originate residential mortgage loans, commercial and agricultural real estate loans within the Bank's market area. The Bank also is active in originating construction and consumer and other non-real estate loans. In October 2003, the Company acquired Oregon Trail Financial Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Pioneer Bank, a Federal Savings Bank.
FBMI Firstbank Corporation is a bank holding company that owns all of the outstanding stock of Firstbank, Alma; Firstbank (Mt. Pleasant); Firstbank, West Branch; Firstbank, Lakeview; Firstbank, St. Johns and Gladwin Land Company, Inc., which is a real estate appraisal company. The Company's business is focused in a single industry segment, which is the commercial banking. Each subsidiary bank of the Corporation is a full-service community bank. The subsidiary banks offer all customary banking services, including the acceptance of checking, savings and time deposits. It also offers commercial, mortgage-single family, home improvement, automobile and other consumer loans. The trust services are offered to customers through Citizens Bank Wealth Management in the Firstbank, Alma.
FWV First West Virginia Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for Progressive Bank, N.A. (the Bank). The Bank provides a range of consumer and commercial banking products and services to individuals, businesses, professionals and governments. The loan portfolio of the Bank consists primarily of loans secured by real estate to consumers and businesses. It also engages in commercial loans and general consumer loans to individuals. Progressive Bank offers a range of, both, personal and commercial types of deposit accounts and services as a means of gathering funds. Types of deposit accounts and services available include non-interest-bearing demand checking, interest-bearing checking, savings, money market, certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts and Christmas Club accounts.
FUNC First United Corporation is a financial holding company and a bank holding company whose primary business is to serve as the parent company to its five direct subsidiaries, First United Bank &amp; Trust, a trust company (the Bank), OakFirst Loan Center, Inc., a finance company, OakFirst Loan Center, LLC, a finance company, Oakfirst Life Insurance Corporation, an reinsurance company and First United Capital Trust, a statutory business trust. As of December 31, 2003, the Corporation had assets of approximately $1,108 million, net loans of approximately $786 million and deposits of approximately $750 million. Shareholders' equity, at December 31, 2003, was approximately $84 million. The Bank operates 23 banking offices, one call center and 34 Automated Teller Machines in various Maryland Counties and in some West Virginia Counties.
FUR First Union Real Estate Equity and Mortgage Investments is in the business of owning regional enclosed shopping malls, large-downtown office buildings and parking facilities, as well as providing financing to real estate and related assets and companies. As of year ended December 31, 2003, the Company owned two real estate properties, one shopping mall and one office property, as well as cash reserves. The shopping mall, known as Park Plaza Mall, was located in Little Rock, Arkansas. The Company held fee title in the Little Rock property. In March 2004, First Union was engaged as a real estate broker to begin marketing the Park Plaza Mall property for sale. The sale was completed in June 2004 to CBL &amp; Associates Properties, Inc. The office property is known as Circle Tower and is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. First Union holds a leasehold interest in the Indianapolis property. In November 2004, the Company acquired from Finova Capital Corporation 16 triple-net leased properties.
FSTH.OB First Southern Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company, primarily engaged in the business of directing and planning the activities of its wholly owned subsidiary, First Southern Bank (the Bank). The Bank attracts retail deposits from the general public in its market area and invests those deposits, together with funds generated from operations, loan and investments sales and borrowings, in loans, and, to a lesser extent, in investment securities. The Bank conducts its business through three office facilities located in Lauderdale and Colbert Counties in northwestern Alabama.
FSNM First State Bancorporation is a bank holding company providing commercial banking services to businesses through its subsidiary bank, First State Bank N.M. (the Bank). The Bank offers a range of financial services to commercial and individual customers, including checking accounts, short- and medium-term loans, revolving credit facilities, inventory and accounts receivable financing, equipment financing, residential and small-commercial construction lending, residential mortgage loans, various savings programs, installment and personal loans, safe deposit services and credit cards. The Company operates 30 branch offices, including 23 in New Mexico, six in Colorado and one in Utah (Salt Lake City).
FSBC 1st State Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for 1st State Bank (the Bank). Ist State Bancorp is primarily engaged in the business of directing, planning and coordinating the business activities of 1st State Bank. The Bank is a North Carolina commercial bank principally engaged in attracting deposits from the general public and investing these funds in loans secured by single-family residential and commercial real estate, secured and unsecured commercial loans and consumer loans. The Bank conducts most of its business in Alamance County, North Carolina.
FSBK First South Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for First South Bank, a North Carolina chartered commercial bank (the Bank). The Company's principal business is overseeing the business of the Bank and investing the portion of the net stock conversion proceeds retained by it. The Bank's principal business consists of attracting deposits from the general public and investing these funds in commercial real estate loans, commercial business loans, consumer loans and loans secured by first mortgages on owner-occupied, single-family residences in its market area. Although the Company makes loans and obtains deposits throughout eastern North Carolina, the Company's primary market area consists of Beaufort, Craven, Cumberland, Dare, Edgecombe, Lenoir, Nash, Pasquotank, Pitt, Robeson and Wake Counties in North Carolina.
SRCE 1st Source Corporation is a bank holding company that, through its principal subsidiary, 1st Source Bank, delivers consumer and commercial banking services to individual and business customers through 60 banking locations in the Northern Indiana-Southwestern Michigan market area. The Company also competes for business by offering specialized financing services for used private and cargo aircraft, automobiles for leasing and rental agencies, medium- and heavy-duty trucks, construction and environmental equipment. 1st Source also has a number of non-banking subsidiaries engaged in activities closely related to the business of banking.
FRFC.OB First Robinson Financial Corporation serves as a holding company for First Robinson Savings Bank, National Association (the Bank). The Bank is a community oriented financial institution that serves primarily in Crawford County, Illinois. The principal business of First Robinson consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing those funds primarily in one- to four-family residential real estate loans, and, to a lesser extent, consumer loans, commercial and agricultural real estate loans and commercial business and agricultural finance loans. The Bank also invests in investment and equity securities and mortgage-backed securities, as well as other permissible investments. First Robinson's primary sources of funds are deposits, receipt of principal and interest on loans and securities, interest earned on deposits with other banks and other funds provided from operations.
FRC First Republic Bank is a commercial bank and wealth management firm. The Bank specializes in wealth management, including private banking, investment management, brokerage, trust services and real estate lending. It originates real estate secured loans and other loans for retention in its loan portfolio. In addition, First Republic originates mortgage loans for sale to institutional investors or for securitization and sale in the secondary market. The Bank also generates fee income by servicing mortgage loans for these institutional investors and other third parties. First Republic provides its services online and through branch offices in seven major metropolitan areas: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Las Vegas and New York City.
FRGB First Regional Bancorp is a bank holding company that, through one of its subsidiaries, First Regional Bank, primarily serves Southern California. First Regional Bancorp has two other subsidiaries, First Regional Statutory Trust I and First Regional Statutory Trust II, which exist for the sole purpose of issuing Trust Securities and investing the proceeds thereof in junior subordinated deferrable debentures issued by the Company and engaging in certain other limited activities. The Company's three reportable business segments are Core Bank Operations, Administrative Services in relation to Trust Administrative Services Corp. (TASC) and Trust Services.
FPO First Potomac Realty Trust is a self-managed, self-administered Maryland real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company owns and operates industrial and flex properties in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, as well as other markets in Virginia and Maryland, which are collectively referred to as the southern Mid-Atlantic region. The Company was formed to be the successor general partner to First Potomac Realty Investment Trust, Inc., the general partner of First Potomac Realty Investment Limited Partnership, the Company's operating partnership (the Operating Partnership). The Company owns all of its properties and conducts its business through the Operating Partnership, and is the sole general partner of, and owns an 86.1% interest in, the Operating Partnership. At December 31, 2003, the Company's net investment in properties was $208.3 million, consisting of 17 properties, totaling approximately 2.9 million square feet.
FPFC First Place Financial Corp was formed for the purpose of becoming a holding company to own all of the outstanding capital stock of First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Warren (First Federal). First Place offers a wide variety of business and retail banking products, as well as a full range of insurance, real estate and investment services. First Place conducts its business primarily through the Banks. The Banks' principal business consists of accepting retail and business deposits from the general public and investing these funds primarily in one-to four-family residential mortgage, home equity, multi-family, commercial real estate, commercial and construction loans. On May 28, 2004, First Place acquired 100% of the common stock of Franklin Bancorp, Inc. (Franklin) and merged Franklin into First Place. First Place Bank and Franklin Bank (together referred to as the Banks) are wholly owned subsidiaries of First Place. Effective July 2, 2004, the Banks merged.
FPTB First PacTrust Bancorp, Inc. is a thrift holding company that holds all of the stock of Pacific Trust Bank. The Company's activities are limited to banking, securities, insurance and financial services-related activities. First PacTrust's principal business consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing these funds in loans secured by first mortgages on owner-occupied, one- to four-family residences and a variety of consumer loans. It also originates loans secured by multi-family and commercial real estate, as well as commercial business loans secured primarily by residential real estate. First PacTrust serves the communities in San Diego and Riverside counties in California. The Company offers a variety of deposit accounts, including savings accounts, money market deposits, certificate accounts and checking accounts. First PacTrust solicits deposits in its market areas, as well as from financial institutions. The Company also accepts brokered deposits.
FLIC The First Long Island Corporation is a one-bank holding Company that provides financial services through its wholly owned subsidiary, The First National Bank of Long Island (the Bank). It organized a wholly owned subsidiary, The First of Long Island Agency (the Agency), as a licensed insurance agency under the laws of the State of New York. In 2003, the Agency, once again, began selling mutual funds and annuities to customers of the Bank. Such products are being mad available through a third-party provider. The Bank has two other wholly owned subsidiaries, The First of Long Island REIT, Inc. and FNY Service Corp., an investment company. The principal business of the Bank has historically consisted of attracting business and consumer checking, money market and savings deposits and investing those funds in investment securities, commercial and residential mortgage loans, commercial loans and home equity loans and lines.
FOBB First Oak Brook Bancshares, Inc. serves as the holding company for Oak Brook Bank (the Bank). The Company, through the Bank, operates in a single segment engaging in general retail and commercial banking business, mainly in the Chicago Metropolitan area. The services offered include demand, savings and time deposits; corporate treasury management services; merchant credit card processing; commercial lending products, such as commercial loans, construction loans, mortgages and letters of credit; and personal lending products, such as residential mortgages, home equity lines and vehicle loans. The Bank operates an investment management and trust department, and in 2003, formed an investment sales division. The investment sales division executes customer investment transactions in United States Treasury, United States Government agency, corporate and municipal securities for commercial businesses, not-for-profit organizations, governmental entities and high-net-worth families.
FNFI First Niles Financial, Inc. acts as a holding company for Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of Niles upon the completion of Home Federal's conversion from mutual to stock form. Home Federal is a federally chartered stock savings association headquartered in Niles, Ohio. Its deposits are insured up to applicable limits by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. The Company's principal business is attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing those funds in permanent and construction loans secured by first mortgages on owner-occupied, one- to four-family residences. It also originates loans secured by first mortgages on non-owner-occupied one- to four-family residences, permanent and construction commercial and multi-family real estate loans and consumer loans. Excess funds are invested in investment securities and mortgage-backed and related securities.
FNFG First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. accepts and invests deposits from customers through its banking centers. The deposits, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, are invested in residential mortgage, commercial real estate loans, commercial business loans and leases, consumer loans and investment securities. The business of First Niagara consists of the management of First Niagara and its Financial Services Group, which focuses on the delivery of risk and wealth management products and services that include the sale of consumer and commercial insurance on an agency basis and investment and trust services. It provides financial services to individuals and businesses. First Niagara is a full-service, multi-market, community-oriented savings bank that provides financial services to individuals, families and businesses through 47 banking centers, a loan production office and 70 automated teller machines (ATMs) located in Western and Central New York.
FNTT.OB 1st Net Technologies, Inc. had been in the Internet commerce and services business. The Company decided to suspend its California operations and moved the headquarters to Colorado in August 2001. With the closing of its California operations, it maintains no business operations, other than to manage its remaining assets and liabilities. Since August 2001, the Company has been a shell company in search of a merger candidate. Recent operations have consisted of debt restructuring.
FNLC First National Lincoln Corporation (the Company) is the parent holding company of The First National Bank of Damariscotta (the Bank). The Bank has seven offices in Mid-Coast Maine and six branch offices in Waldoboro, Maine, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, Wiscasset, Maine, Rockport, Maine, Camden, Maine and Rockland, Maine. The Bank also maintains an Operations Center in Damariscotta. It emphasizes personal service to the community, concentrating on retail banking. Customers are small businesses and individuals for whom the Bank offers services, including checking, savings and investment accounts, consumer and commercial and mortgage loans. In addition to providing banking services, the Company provides investment management and private banking services through Pemaquid Advisors, which is an operating division of the Bank.
FNCB.OB First National Community Bancorp, Inc. is a financial holding company whose primary activity consists of owning and operating First National Community Bank (the Bank) that provides customary retail and commercial banking services to individuals and businesses. The Bank provides all of the Company's earnings as a result of its banking services. The Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. The bank's operations are conducted from offices located in Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties, Pennsylvania. The Bank provides commercial banking services to individuals and businesses, including deposit instruments, such as image checking and e-statement.
FBAK.OB First National Bank of Alaska (the Bank) is a commercial bank providing general banking and trust services for business, industry and individuals primarily within the state of Alaska. Banking services are provided from 27 branches in 16 Alaska communities and 18 automated teller machines (ATMs). The Bank provides a range of depository and lending services, which include checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, time certificates of deposit (CDs), traditional/Roth individual retirement accounts (IRAs), securities sold under agreements to repurchase, commercial loans, consumer loans and construction and mortgage loans. Additional services provided by First National Bank include safety deposit boxes, night depositories, MasterCard credit cards, walk-up and drive-in banking and an ATM network. In addition, the Bank provides business services, including issuance of letters of credit, collection and escrow services, mortgage loan servicing and trust services.
FBMT First National Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company whose principal activity is the ownership and management of its wholly owned subsidiary, 1st National Bank &amp; Trust (the Bank). The Bank operates under a national bank charter and engages primarily in the business of attracting deposits from the general public and originating real estate, commercial, and consumer loans, as well as managing trust assets. Its customers are primarily individuals, professionals and small and medium-sized businesses located in Manatee County, Florida. In March 2004, the Company acquired The Trust Company of Florida, a non-depository trust company, chartered under Florida law based in Sarasota County. The Trust Company of Florida provides trust and estate planning services to its clients.
FMSB First Mutual Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company for First Mutual Bank (First Mutual). The Company's only activity is holding the stock of the bank and engaging in certain passive investment activities. It manages its operations by grouping its products and services within the business segments: Consumer Lending, Commercial Lending and Investment Securities, each business unit requires different processes and different marketing strategies to reach the customer base that purchases the products and services. The Company's business consists of attracting deposits from the general public, as well as obtaining funds from wholesale funding sources and investing those funds, primarily in commercial and residential real estate loans, business loans, construction loans and consumer loans. It also invests in federal government and agency obligations, structured notes, real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs), mortgage-backed securities and municipal securities.
FMFK.OB First Montauk Financial Corp. is a holding company whose principal subsidiary, First Montauk Securities Corp., operates a securities broker-dealer registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the National Association of Securities Dealers, the Municipal Securities Rule Making Board and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation. First Montauk Securities Corp. has been operating under the registered tradename of Montauk Financial Group, which provides a range of securities brokerage and investment services to retail and institutional clientele, as well as corporate finance and investment banking services to corporations and businesses. Montauk Financial Group is licensed to conduct its brokerage activities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. First Montauk Financial also sells insurance products through its subsidiary, Montauk Insurance Services, Inc.
CASH First Midwest Financial, Inc. (First Midwest) is a holding company with two wholly owned bank subsidiaries, First Federal Savings Bank of the Midwest and Security State Bank (the Banks). The Company, through the Banks, provides a range of financial services. The principal business of the Bank consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing those funds primarily in one- to four-family residential mortgage loans, commercial and multi-family real estate, agricultural operating and real estate, construction, and consumer and commercial business loans primarily in the Bank's market area. The principal business of the Bank has been, and continues to be, attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing those funds in commercial and multi-family real estate, commercial operating loans and one- to four-family residential and consumer loans. As of September 30, 2004, the Banks had total assets of $780.8 million and deposits of $461.6 million.
FMBI First Midwest Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company that operates two wholly owned subsidiaries: First Midwest Bank (the Bank) and First Midwest Insurance Company. The Bank is engaged in commercial and retail banking and offers a range of lending, depository and related financial services. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Bank had operated 66 banking offices primarily in suburban metropolitan Chicago. First Midwest Insurance Company operates as a reinsurer of credit life, accident and health insurance sold through the Bank, primarily in conjunction with the consumer lending operations. The Company has responsibility for the overall conduct, direction and performance of its subsidiaries. It provides various services; establishes Company-wide policies and procedures, and provides other resources as needed, including capital.
FRME First Merchants Corporation is a financial holding company whose principal activity is the ownership and management of its 10 bank subsidiaries. First Merchants Corporation's bank subsidiaries include First Merchants Bank, National Association; The Madison Community Bank, National Association; First United Bank, National Association; The Union County National Bank of Liberty; The Randolph County Bank, National Association; The First National Bank of Portland; Decatur Bank and Trust Company, National Association; Frances Slocum Bank and Trust Company, National Association; Lafayette Bank and Trust Company, National Association, and Commerce National Bank. The banks generate commercial, mortgage and consumer loans and receive deposits from customers located primarily in north-central and east-central Indiana and Butler and Franklin counties in Ohio. In 2003, First Merchants' affiliate banks had over 70 locations in 17 Indiana and two Ohio counties.
FMAR First Mariner Bancorp is a financial holding company whose business is conducted through its wholly owned operating subsidiaries, First Mariner Bank (the Bank) and Finance Maryland LLC (Finance Maryland). First Mariner Bank's deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The bank is engaged in the general commercial banking business, with particular attention and emphasis on the needs of individuals and small to mid-sized businesses. The products and services include deposit products, a variety of consumer and commercial loans, residential and commercial mortgage and construction loans, money transfer services, non-deposit investment products, Internet banking and similar services. Finance Maryland is engaged in consumer finance activities, making small direct cash loans to individuals, the purchase of installment loan sales contracts from local merchants and retail dealers of consumer goods and loans to individuals via direct mail solicitations.
FMD The First Marblehead Corporation provides outsourcing services for private education lending in the United States. It helps meet the growing demand for private education loans by providing national and regional financial institutions, and educational institutions, as well as businesses and other enterprises with an integrated suite of design, implementation and securitization services for student loan programs tailored to meet the needs of their respective customers, students, employees and members. In providing the services, the Company does not serve as a lender, guarantor or loan servicer, but instead receives fees for the services it provides in connection with processing and securitizing the clients' loans. The Company focuses primarily on loan programs for undergraduate, graduate and professional education, and, to a lesser degree, on the primary and secondary school market.
FMFC First M&amp;F Corporation is a one-bank holding company that engages in the banking business through its wholly owned subsidiary, M &amp; F Bank of Kosciusko (the Bank). The Bank offers a range of commercial and consumer services at its main office and two branches in Kosciusko and its branches within central Mississippi, including Ackerman, Bruce, Brandon, Canton, Cleveland, Clinton, Durant, Grenada, Lena, Madison, Olive Branch, Oxford, Pearl, Philadelphia, Ridgeland, Southaven, Starkville, Tupelo and Weir, Mississippi. The banking system offers deposit, investment and credit products to customers.
FKFS First Keystone Financial, Inc. serves as the holding company for First Keystone Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a community-oriented bank engaged in attracting deposits from the general public and using those funds, together with other available sources of funds, primarily borrowings, to originate loans. A substantial portion of the Bank's deposits is comprised of core deposits consisting of negotiable order of withdrawal (NOW), non-interest-bearing accounts, money market deposit accounts (MMDA) and passbook accounts. Core deposits amounted to $180 million, or 52.2%, of the Bank's total deposits on September 30, 2004.The Bank originates loans secured by first and second liens on single-family (one- to four-unit) residences located in Delaware and Chester counties, Pennsylvania, and, to a lesser degree, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and New Castle County, Delaware.
FKYS.OB First Keystone Corporation is the bank holding company for The First National Bank of Berwick (the Bank). The Corporation's business has consisted of managing and supervising the Bank and its principal source of income has been dividends paid by the Bank. The Corporation has one wholly owned subsidiary, the Bank, which has a commercial banking operation and trust department as its major lines of business. Greater than 95% of revenue and profit came from the commercial banking department, for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001, and was the only segment. In 2003, the Corporation had total consolidated assets, deposits and stockholders' equity of $481.8 million, $343.0 million and $51.3 million, respectively.
FR First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. is a self-administered real estate investment trust and a fully integrated real estate company that owns, manages, acquires, sells and develops industrial real estate in the United States. As of December 31, 2003, the Company's portfolio consisted of 423 light industrial properties, 163 research and development/flex properties, 123 bulk warehouse properties, 92 regional warehouse properties and 33 manufacturing properties containing approximately 57.9 million square feet of gross leasable area located in 22 states. First Industrial's properties have a diverse base of more than 2,400 tenants engaged in a variety of businesses, including manufacturing, retail, wholesale trade, distribution and professional services. The properties are generally located in business parks that have convenient access to interstate highways and/or rail and air transportation. The weighted average age of the properties as of December 31, 2003 was approximately 17 years.
FINB First Indiana Corporation is the holding company for First Indiana Bank, N.A. and Somerset Financial Services, LLC. First Indiana Bank and its subsidiaries, the principal asset of the Company, is a federally chartered national bank engaged primarily in the business of attracting deposits from the general public and originating commercial and consumer loans. The Bank offers banking services from 33 banking centers located throughout Central Indiana. In addition, the Bank has construction and consumer loan offices in Indiana, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina and Ohio. Through Somerset and a division of the Bank, FirstTrust Indiana, First Indiana offers an array of financial services, including tax planning and preparation, accounting services, retirement and estate planning, investment advisory and trust services and consulting services. In October 2004, the Company sold all the assets of Somerset Financial Services, LLC to Somerset CPAs, P.C.
FIFG 1st Independence Financial Group, Inc., is the holding company for First Financial Bank (First Financial) and for Citizens Financial Bank, Inc. (Citizens). On July 9, 2004, the Company changed its name from Harrodsburg First Financial Bancorp, Inc. (HFFB) and acquired the remaining 77.5% interest of Independence Bancorp, New Albany, Indiana (Independence) in a purchase transaction calling for the exchange of one share of its common stock for each share of Independence common stock held by Independence shareholders (the Merger). On October 22, 2004, the Company entered into a stock purchase agreement with Porter Bancorp, Inc., Shepherdsville, Kentucky to sell its 55.8% interest in Citizens Financial Bank, Inc., Glasgow, Kentucky. On November 1, 2004, the Bank formed a title insurance company, Foundation Title Company, LLC, located in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
FFSL.OB First Independence is the savings and loan holding company of First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Independence (First Federal), a federally chartered stock savings and loan association originally organized in 1905. First Federal is a community-oriented financial institution offering a variety of financial services to meet the needs of the communities it serves, such as originating loans. The Company also invests in mortgage-backed securities that are insured by or guaranteed by federal agencies and other investment securities. Through its offices in Independence, Coffeyville and Neodesha, Kansas, the Company serves primarily Montgomery and Wilson Counties, Kansas, and, to a lesser extent, the eastern part of Chautauqua County, Kansas. The Company also originates construction loans in Douglas County, Kansas, through a loan production office in Lawrence, Kansas.
FHRX First Horizon Pharmaceutical Corporation is a specialty pharmaceutical company that markets and sells brand name prescription products. The Company markets and sells 14 products, six of which are actively promoted and were accounted for approximately 92.7% of its total sales in 2003. Its key products are Sular, Nitrolingual, the Prenate line, the Tanafed line, the Robinul line and Ponstel. Most of these products treat recurring or chronic conditions or disorders, which results in repeated use over an extended period of time. They focus on two therapeutic categories, which are cardiology and women's health/pediatric. First Horizon markets its products to high-prescribing primary care physicians, cardiologists, obstetricians, gynecologists and pediatricians.
FHN First Horizon National Corporation, formerly First Tennessee National Corporation, is a bank holding company. The Company provides services through it subsidiaries including general banking services for consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments; mortgage-banking services; sales and underwriting of bank-eligible securities and securities eligible for underwriting by financial subsidiaries, mortgage loans, advisory services and equity research; transaction processing; trust, fiduciary and agency services; credit card products; discount brokerage; venture capital; equipment finance; financial advisory services; mutual fund sales as agent; retail and commercial insurance sales as agent; private mortgage reinsurance, and consumer lending. In April 2004, the Company changed its name from First Tennessee National Corporation to First Horizon National Corporation.
FHCC First Health Group Corp. is a full-service national health benefits services company that specializes in providing large payors with integrated managed care solutions. The Company assists a range of payor clients through a portfolio of both integrated and stand-alone managed care and administrative products. The components of its offerings include a national preferred provider organization of directly contracted healthcare providers; clinical programs, including case management, disease management and return-to-work programs; administrative products, including group health claims administration and business process outsourcing for the workers' compensation business, consisting of bill review, first report of injury and front end processing; pharmacy benefit management; fiscal agent services (generally for state entitlement programs), and group health insurance products.
FFHS First Franklin Corporation is the holding company for The Franklin Savings and Loan Company (Franklin). The assets of the Company, on an unconsolidated basis, consist primarily of cash, interest-earning deposits, the office building in which its corporate offices are located, an investment in Financial Institutions Partners III, L.P. and the stock of Franklin and DirectTeller Systems, Inc. The principal business of Franklin is accepting savings deposits from the general public and originating mortgage loans for the purpose of financing, refinancing or constructing one- to four-family, owner-occupied residential real estate. Franklin also makes loans secured by multi-family real estate and non-residential real estate and loans for consumer purposes. As of December 31, 2003, Franklin had approximately $270.86 million of assets, deposits of approximately $222.02 million and stockholders' equity of approximately $22.25 million.
FFKY First Federal Financial Corporation is the holding company for First Federal Savings Bank of Elizabethtown (First Federal). The Company is engaged in no significant activity other than holding the stock of First Federal and directing, planning and coordinating the business of the Bank. On January 8, 2003, First Federal converted to a Kentucky-chartered commercial bank from a federal-chartered savings bank. In connection with the conversion both the Company and First Federal changed to a year ending on December 31. First Federal is a federal-chartered savings bank and converted from mutual to stock form. It is a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati and, since converting to a state-charter, is subject to regulation, examination and supervision by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Kentucky Department of Financial Institutions. Its deposits are insured by the Savings Association Insurance Fund and administered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
FFCH First Financial Holdings, Inc. is a savings and loan holding company that operates First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Charleston (the Association). First Federal is a federally chartered stock savings and loan association that conducts its business through operation centers located in Charleston and Conway, South Carolina, along with 38 retail branch sales offices, seven in-store retail branch sales offices and three limited-service branches. The business of the Company consists primarily of acting as a financial intermediary by attracting deposits from the general public and using such funds, together with borrowings and other funds, to originate a variety of loan products in its primary market areas. Through its own subsidiaries or subsidiaries of the Association, the Company also engages in full-service brokerage activities; property, casualty, life and health insurance; third-party administrative services, and trust and fiduciary services.
FF First Financial Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a closed-end, diversified management investment company. The Fund's primary investment objective is to achieve long-term capital appreciation with the secondary objective of current income by investing at least 80% of its investable assets in finance and financial service-related companies, including savings and banking institutions and their holding companies. At March 31, 2004, the Fund's portfolio allocation consisted of companies, such as mortgage real estate investment trusts (4%), insurance (13%), banks and thrifts (59%), mortgage banks (11%) and others (13%).
THFF First Financial Corporation is a multi-bank holding company operating mainly in the United States. The Company provides a range of financial products and services, including commercial, mortgage and consumer lending, lease financing, trust account services and depositor services through its 46 branches in west-central Indiana and east-central Illinois. First Financial offers these products and services primarily through its subsidiaries, including wholly owned First Financial Bank, N.A. of Vigo County (the Bank), a national banking association in Indiana that operates 12 full-service banking branches within the Vigo county and one each in Ridge Farm and Marshall. The Company's primary source of revenue is derived from loans to customers, primarily middle-income individuals and investment activities. It has no foreign activities other than periodically investing available funds in time deposits held in foreign branches of domestic banks.
FFIN First Financial Bankshares, Inc. is a multi-bank financial holding company that owns, through its wholly owned subsidiary, First Financial Bankshares of Delaware, Inc., all of the capital stock of 10 banks, each of which is a separate legal entity. The Company's affiliate banks provide general commercial banking services, including accepting and holding checking, savings and time deposits, making loans, automated teller machines, drive-in and night deposit services, safe deposit facilities, transmitting funds and performing other customary commercial banking services, principally from 28 financial centers located primarily in North-Central and West Texas. The Company also owns a trust company, First Financial Trust and Asset Management Company, and an information technology subsidiary, National Association and First Technology Services, Inc. The Company's subsidiaries are all organized and located in Texas. In December 2004, the Company acquired Southwestern Bancshares, Inc.
FFBC First Financial Bancorp is a bank and savings and loan holding company. The Company engages in the business of commercial banking, and other banking and banking-related activities primarily through its wholly owned subsidiary institutions. As of December 31, 2003, First Financial Bancorp owned 12 subsidiaries comprised of seven commercial banks, one savings bank, a service corporation for the Company's subsidiaries, a registered investment advisory company and two statutory trust companies (established to facilitate the issuance of trust preferred securities). The range of banking services provided by First Financial Bancorp's subsidiaries includes commercial lending, real estate lending, consumer credit, credit card and other personal loan financing. The Company's financial institutions also offer deposit services that include interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing deposit accounts, as well as time deposits.
FDEF First Defiance Financial Corp. (First Defiance) is a unitary thrift holding company that, through its subsidiaries, focuses on traditional banking and property and casualty, life and group health insurance products. The Company's traditional banking activities include originating and servicing residential, commercial and consumer loans, and providing a range of depository services. Its insurance activities consist of commissions relating to the sale of property and casualty, life and group health insurance and investment products. Its core operations are conducted through the First Federal Bank of the Midwest (First Federal) and First Insurance &amp; Investments (First Insurance). First Federal is engaged in community banking. First Insurance is a wholly owned subsidiary of First Defiance. It offers property and casualty insurance, life insurance, group health insurance and investment products. In January 2005, the Company acquired ComBanc, Inc. and its subsidiary, The Commercial Bank.
FFFS First Federal Financial Services, Inc. is the holding company for First Federal Savings &amp; Loan Association of Edwardsville (First Federal). The Company's principal business consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public in the areas surrounding Edwardsville, Illinois, and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations, primarily in one- to four-family residential loans, multifamily mortgage loans, non-residential mortgage loans, construction loans and consumer loans, as well as in investment securities. First Federal's revenues are derived principally from interest on loans and securities, as well as from loan origination and servicing fees. The Company's primary sources of funds are deposits and principal and interest payments on loans and securities.
FFSX First Federal Bankshares, Inc. serves as the holding company for First Federal Bank (the Bank). As of June 30, 2004, the Company owned 100% of the Bank's common stock, and is engaged in no other significant activities beyond its ownership of such common stock. The Bank is organized as a federally chartered stock savings bank, which is engaged in retail and commercial banking and related financial services in Sioux City, Iowa, and adjacent counties of northwest Iowa; West Des Moines, Newton, Grinnell and surrounding areas of central Iowa, and in parts of Nebraska and South Dakota. The Bank provides traditional banking products and services, including deposits and mortgage, consumer and commercial loans. In September 2004, the Bank completed the sale of two northwest Iowa branches to another financial institution.
FFBI First Federal Bancshares, Inc. serves as a savings and loan holding company for First Federal Bank, which operates in west central Illinois and northeast Missouri. The principal lending activity of First Federal is the origination of mortgage loans for the purpose of purchasing or refinancing one- to four-family residential property. The Company also originates multi-family and commercial real estate loans, residential construction loans, commercial business loans and a variety of consumer loans. It originates loans primarily for long-term investment purposes. First Federal also invests in mortgage-backed securities, securities issued by the United States Government and state and local governments and other permissible investments. The Company's primary sources of funds are deposits, principal and interest payments on loans and investments and advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) of Chicago.
FFBH First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas, Inc. (the Company) is a unitary holding company of First Federal Bank of Arkansas, FA (First Federal or the Bank). The business and management of the Company consists of the business and management of the Bank. The Company does not own or lease any property, but instead uses the premises, equipment and furniture of the Bank. At December 31, 2003, the Company had $690.7 million in total assets, $573.6 million in total deposits and $75.1 million in stockholders' equity.
FDC First Data Corporation (FDC) provides electronic commerce and payment services solutions for approximately 3.1 million merchant locations, 1,400 card issuers and millions of consumers. The Company provides money transfer services through its Western Union and Orlandi Valuta money transfer agent networks that consists of approximately 182,000 agent locations in more than 195 countries and territories. FDC also provides credit, debit, private-label, smart and stored-value card issuing and merchant transaction processing services, and check guarantee and verification services throughout the United States and on a more limited basis in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Asia, Mexico, the Middle East and western Europe. The Company operates in four business segments: payment services, merchant services, card issuing services and emerging payments.
FCGI First Consulting Group, Inc. provides outsourcing, consulting, systems implementation and integration and research services for healthcare, pharmaceutical and other life sciences organizations throughout North America, Europe and Asia. The Healthcare business unit is comprised of four practice units: health delivery, health plans, government healthcare and technology services. Its Life Sciences practice serves pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and related organizations throughout North America, Europe and Japan. The Company provides information technology (IT) outsourcing services that include long-term, multi-year engagements with a client, where some or all of the client's IT staff reengineer IT processes in an effort to provide improved service and complete management of the IT function at a lower cost.
FCCY 1st Constitution Bancorp is a bank holding company that owns all of the issued and outstanding stock of 1st Constitution Bank (the Bank). Other than its investment in the Bank, the Company conducts no other significant business activities. 1st Constitution Bank, a commercial bank, engages in the business of commercial and retail banking. As a community bank, the Bank offers a range of services, including demand, savings and time deposits and commercial and consumer/installment loans, to individuals, small businesses and not-for-profit organizations principally in Middlesex, Mercer and Somerset Counties, New Jersey. The Bank conducts its operations through its main office located in Cranbury, New Jersey, and six branch offices in downtown Cranbury, Hamilton Square, Plainsboro, Princeton, Montgomery Township, and Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
FCCO First Community Corporation is the holding company for First Community Bank, N.A (the Bank). The Bank is engaged in a general commercial and retail banking business, providing a range of commercial and personal loans as well as deposit services. Other services include Internet banking, cash management services, safe deposit boxes, traveler's checks, direct deposit of payroll and social security checks and automatic drafts for various accounts. The Bank offers non-deposit investment products and other investment brokerage services through a registered representative with an affiliation through GAA Securities, Inc. The Bank is associated with Jeannie, Star and Plus networks of automated teller machines and Mastermoney debit cards that may be used by bank customers throughout South Carolina and other regions. In addition, the Bank offers VISA and Mastercard credit card services through a correspondent bank as an agent for the bank.
FCFL First Community Bank Corporation of America is a unitary savings and loan holding company with one-bank subsidiary, First Community Bank of America (First Community Bank or the Bank). First Community Bank is a federally chartered stock savings bank that provides a variety of banking services to small and middle-market businesses and individuals. It offers a range of interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing accounts, including business and consumer checking accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal (NOW) accounts, money market accounts with limited transactions, individual retirement accounts, regular interest-bearing statement savings accounts and certificates of deposit with a range of maturity date options. In addition to the deposit and loan products, the Bank also provides cash management services, sweep accounts, safe deposit boxes, wire transfers and automated clearing house (ACH) services, debit cards and VISA and MasterCard credit card services through its correspondent banks.
FCBC First Community Bancshares, Inc. serves as the holding company for First Community Bank, N. A. (FCBNA), a nationally chartered bank that engages in general commercial and retail banking business in West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina through 47 branch facilities. FCBNA provides safe deposit services and makes all types of loans, including commercial, mortgage and personal loans. FCBNA also provides trust services. United First Mortgage, Inc. (UFM), sold in August 2004, was a wholly owned subsidiary of FCBNA and served as a wholesale and retail distribution channel for FCBNA's mortgage banking business segment. UFM provided for the origination and sale of mortgages to secondary sources. UFM conducted its business through eight mortgage brokerage offices in Virginia. FCBNA also owns Stone Capital Management, an investment advisory firm. Stone Capital offers a range of financial services, including wealth management, asset allocation, financial planning and investment advice.
FCBP First Community Bancorp is the holding company for First National Bank (First National) and Pacific Western National Bank (Pacific Western). The Banks are full-service community banks offering a range of banking products and services, including accepting time and demand deposits; originating commercial loans, such as asset-based lending and factoring of accounts receivable; real estate and construction loans; Small Business Administration guaranteed loans; consumer loans; mortgage loans; international loans for trade finance, and other business-oriented products. In April 2004, the Company acquired Harbor National Bank. Harbor, which is located in Newport Beach, California, offers a diversified range of financial products for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as personal banking services. Harbor was merged into Pacific Western National Bank.
FCF First Commonwealth Financial Corporation is a bank holding company with one chartered bank affiliate operating under the First Commonwealth Bank (FCB) name. Personal financial planning and other financial services, insurance and products are also provided through First Commonwealth Trust Company (FCTC), First Commonwealth Financial Advisors (FCFA) and First Commonwealth Insurance Agency (FCIA). The Company also operates through First Commonwealth Systems Corporation, a data processing subsidiary, and First Commonwealth Professional Resources Inc., a subsidiary providing professional services to affiliated organizations.
FCNCA First Citizens BancShares, Inc., incorporated in 1986 is a financial holding company. The Company's two banking subsidiaries are First Citizens Bank &amp; Trust Company and Atlantic States Bank. The First Citizens Bank &amp; Trust Company (FCB) is a state chartered bank that operates 330 branches in North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. The Atlantic States Bank (ASB) is a federally chartered thrift institution with 44 branch offices in Florida, Georgia, Texas, Arizona and California. The subsidiaries offer banking services to meet the needs of both retail and commercial customers in the markets. The services offered include transaction and savings deposits, commercial and consumer lending, a full-service trust department, a full-service securities broker-dealer, insurance services and other banking activities. In March 2004, ASB changed its name to IronStone Bank.
FCZA First Citizens Banc Corp (FCBC) is engaged in the business of commercial banking through its two subsidiary banks: The Citizens Banking Company (Citizens) and The Farmers State Bank (Farmers). Citizens and Farmers, located in Erie, Crawford, Huron, Union, Marion, Richland, and Ottawa Counties, Ohio, conduct a general banking business that involves collecting customer deposits, making loans and purchasing securities. With the acquisition of Independent Community Banc Corp. and its subsidiary bank, which was merged with and into Citizens, Citizens now provides trust services.
FCEC.OB First Chester County Corporation serves as the holding company for First National Bank of Chester County (the Bank). The principal activities of the Company are the owning and supervising of the Bank, which engages in a general banking business based in Chester County, Pennsylvania. In addition, First Chester is the sole shareholder of Turks Head Properties, Inc. and Turks Head II LLC, which was formed in 2003, each of which serves the purpose of holding the Bank's interests in and operating foreclosed real property until liquidation of such properties. First Chester County Capital Trust I, which was formed on July 11, 2002, and First Chester County Capital Trust II, which was formed on November 13, 2003, are special purpose statutory trusts created expressly for the issuance of preferred capital securities and investing proceeds in junior subordinated debentures of the Company.
FCTR First Charter Corporation is a bank holding company with one wholly owned banking subsidiary, First Charter Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a full-service bank that provides a range of banking products, including interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing checking accounts; Money Market Rate accounts; certificates of deposit; individual retirement accounts; overdraft protection; a range of loan products; personal and corporate trust services; safe deposit boxes, and automated banking. The Bank operates 54 financial centers, five insurance offices and one mortgage origination office in addition to its main office, as well as 93 automated teller machines. The Bank, through First Charter of Virginia Realty Investments, Inc., also operates an additional mortgage origination office in Virginia. In December 2004, First Charter Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of First Charter Corporation, acquired Smith &amp; Associates Insurance Services, Inc. of Charlotte.
FCEN.OB 1st Centennial Bancorp serves as the holding company for 1st Centennial Bank (the Bank). The Bank is an independent state-chartered bank. In addition to its main office and corporate headquarters in Redlands, in San Bernardino County, California, 1st Centennial Bank operates three full-service branch offices in Southern California, one in Escondido, in San Diego County, one in Palm Desert, in Riverside County, and one in Brea, in Orange County. It also operates a Real Estate and Construction Loan Division in Redlands, and a Small Business Administration (SBA)/Commercial Loans Conduit Group loan production office, located in Brea, Orange County, California. The Company's only other subsidiaries are Centennial Capital Trust I and Centennial Capital Trust II, which were formed in July 2002 and January 2004, respectively, solely to facilitate the issuance of capital trust pass-through securities.
FCFS First Cash Financial Services, Inc. is engaged in the operation of pawn stores that lend money on the collateral of pledged personal property and retail previously owned merchandise acquired through pawn forfeitures. In addition to making short-term secured pawns, most of the Company's pawn stores offer short-term unsecured advances (short-term advances), which are also known as payday loans. First Cash also operates check cashing/short-term advance stores that provide short-term advances, check cashing services and other related financial services. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned and operated 160 pawn stores and 75 check cashing/short-term advance stores. In addition, First Cash is a 50% owner of Cash &amp; Go, Ltd., which owns and operates 40 financial services kiosks inside convenience stores.
FCAP First Capital, Inc. is the holding company for First Federal Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company resulting from the conversion of First Capital, Inc., M.H.C. (MHC) from a federal mutual holding company to a stock holding company. In March 2003, the Company consummated its acquisition of Hometown Bancshares, Inc. (Hometown), a bank holding company located in New Albany, Indiana. The acquisition was made for the purpose of expanding its presence in the New Albany and Floyd County, Indiana market area. The Bank considers Harrison, Floyd, Clark and Washington counties in Indiana its primary market area. All of its offices are located in these four counties, which results in most of the Bank's loans being made in these four counties.
BUSE First Busey Corporation is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the Company provides a range of banking services that include security broker/dealer services and investment management and fiduciary services. It provides the services to individual and corporate customers through its locations in Central Illinois, Indianapolis, Indiana and Fort Myers, Florida. The Company's two wholly owned banking subsidiaries are Busey Bank and Busey Bank Florida. Its non-banking subsidiaries are Busey Investment Group, Inc., First Busey Resources, Inc. and First Busey Capital Trust I. On January 5, 2004, the Corporation entered into an agreement with First Capital Bankshares, Inc. of Peoria, Illinois for acquistion.
FBTC First BancTrust Corporation is the parent company of First Bank &amp; Trust, s.b. (the Bank). The Bank is a stock savings bank that conducts business out of its main office and its operations office, both in Paris, Illinois, as well as one branch office in Marshall, Illinois. In September 2003, the Bank began operations in a temporary facility in Savoy, Illinois. The Company originates loans and solicits deposits through the Bank, but otherwise conducts no significant business, except through the Bank, the Bank's subsidiary, Community Finance Center, Incorporated, and the Company's subsidiaries, First Charter Service Corporation and ECS Service Corporation. Community Finance provides retail consumer lending to the Bank's market area.
FBSI First Bancshares, Inc. serves as the holding company for First Home Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a state-chartered, federally insured stock savings and loan association that conducts its business from its home office in Mountain Grove and nine full-service branch facilities in Marshfield, Ava, Gainesville, Sparta, Theodosia, Crane, Galena, Kissee Mills and Rockaway Beach, Missouri. The Bank provides its customers with an array of community banking services. It is primarily engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the general public and using such deposits, together with other funding sources, to invest in one- to four-family residential mortgage loans along with multi-family residential, consumer and commercial mortgage loans, including home equity loans, for its loan portfolio, as well as mortgage-backed and United States Government and agency securities and other assets.
FBP First BanCorp is a publicly owned, Puerto Rico-chartered financial holding company that operates two subsidiaries: FirstBank Puerto Rico (FirstBank), a Puerto Rico-chartered commercial bank and FirstBank Insurance Agency, Inc., a Puerto Rico-chartered insurance agency. The Company is engaged in the banking business and provides a range of financial services for retail and institutional clients. It had total deposits of approximately $6.8 billion and total stockholder's equity of approximately $1.1 billion during the year ended December 31, 2003. As a financial holding company, it engages, directly or indirectly, in any activity that is determined to be financial in nature, incidental to such financial activity, or complementary to a financial activity and does not pose a substantial risk to the safety and soundness of depository institutions or the financial system.
FBEI First Bancorp of Indiana (First Bancorp) is the holding company for First Federal Savings Bank (First Federal). First Bancorp does not transact any material business other than through its subsidiary, First Federal. First Federal conducts its operations through seven offices located in the Evansville, Indiana area. First Federal offers residential real estate loans, construction loans, commercial and multi-family real estate loans, commercial business loans and consumer and other loans.
FBNC First Bancorp is a bank holding company whose principal activity is the ownership and operation of First Bank. First Bank is a state-chartered bank operating in a 21-county area centered in Troy, North Carolina. The Bank conducts business from 57 branches located within a 120-mile radius of Troy, covering principally a geographical area from Latta, South Carolina, to the southeast, to Wallace, North Carolina, to the east, to Mayodan, North Carolina to the north, to Wytheville, Virginia, to the northwest and Harmony, North Carolina, to the west. First Bank provides a range of banking services, including the accepting of demand and time deposits, the making of secured and unsecured loans to individuals and businesses, and the offering of credit cards and debit cards. The Company also owns and operates two non-bank subsidiaries, Montgomery Data Services, Inc., a data processing company, and First Bancorp Financial Services, Inc., which owns and operates various real estate.
FAVS First Aviation Services Inc., together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, Aircraft Products International Ltd. and API Asia Pacific Inc., and its majority-owned subsidiary, Aerospace Products International Inc. (API), is a supplier of products and services to the aviation industry worldwide. These services include the sale of aircraft parts and components and the provision of supply chain management services, such as the provision of third-party logistics and inventory management services. In addition, the Company performs overhaul and repair services for brakes and starter/generators and is a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-authorized hose assembly facility, building custom hose assemblies.
FAF The First American Corporation is engaged in the business of providing business information and related products and services. The Company has seven segments that fall within two business groups: financial services and information technology (IT). The financial services group includes title insurance, specialty insurance and trust and other services. The IT group includes mortgage information, property information, credit information and screening information. In February 2003, the Company acquired Infinity Information Solutions, Inc., a provider of lien release information. In June 2003, the Company added to its title information business with the acquisition of Abstracter's Information Services, Inc.
FACT First Albany Companies Inc. (the Company) is the parent company of First Albany Capital Inc. (First Albany), formerly First Albany Corporation, FA Asset Management Inc. and FA Technology Ventures Corporation. The Company is an institutionally focused independent investment bank and asset management firm. First Albany is a research driven investment banking and capital markets boutique providing corporate and public finance services and the trading of corporate, government and municipal securities for institutions. FA Asset Management is an investment management company. FA Technology Ventures is a manager of venture capital funds that invest in early stage companies, while providing management and guidance for these companies in the emerging growth sectors of information technology and energy technology. The Company has 19 offices in 12 states.
FADV First Advantage Corporation provides global risk management screening services to enterprise and consumer customers in the United States. The Company operates in three primary business segments: Enterprise Screening, Risk Mitigation and Consumer Direct. The Enterprise Screening segment includes employment background screening, occupational health services and resident screening services. The Risk Mitigation segment includes motor vehicle records and investigative services. The Consumer Direct segment provides consumers with a single, comprehensive access point to a range of information to assist them in locating people and other public data searches. First Advantage was created by the merger of The First American Corporation's Screening Technologies division with US SEARCH.com Inc.
FAC First Acceptance Corporation, formerly known as Liberte Investors Inc., is a retailer, servicer and underwriter of non-standard personal automobile insurance based in Nashville, Tennessee. The Company writes non-standard personal automobile insurance in seven states: Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri and Indiana. It has licensed as an insurer in 16 additional states. As of September 1, 2004, the Company owns and operates 146 retail locations staffed by employee-agents, exclusively sell insurance products either underwritten or serviced by the Company. On April 30, 2004, the Company acquired USAuto Holdings, Inc. (USAuto), a retailer, servicer and underwriter of non-standard personal automobile insurance. First Acceptance owns two insurance company subsidiaries: USAuto Insurance Company, Inc. and Village Auto Insurance Company, Inc.
FATS.OB Firearms Training Systems, Inc. (FATS) develops virtual training solutions designed to provide training for military, law enforcement and security personnel in direct and indirect fire, tactical decision making, close air support, judgmental use of lethal and non-lethal force and marksmanship. FATS has developed over 300 variations of simulated weapons, manufactured and delivered over 60,000 simulated weapons, developed over 1,200 training scenarios and delivered over 5,200 systems to more than 50 countries. Complimenting the Company's vertically integrated manufacturing operations in Atlanta are engineering resources located in Atlanta and Montreal, supported by sales and service operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Australia, Singapore and Canada.
FNVG.OB The FINOVA Group Inc. is a financial services holding company. Through its operating subsidiary, FINOVA Capital Corporation, the Company has provided a range of financing and capital markets products to mid-size businesses. FINOVA emerged from chapter 11 reorganization proceedings on August 21, 2001. Since then, its business activities have been limited to the orderly collection and liquidation of its assets. The Company's assets portfolio consists of commercial equipment, communications, corporate finance, franchise, healthcare, mezzanine, rediscount, resort, specialty real estate and transportation portfolios. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the resort portfolio accounted for 29.1%, the specialty real estate portfolio accounted for 24.9%, the transportation portfolio accounted for 18.3% and other portfolios, including commercial equipment, communications, corporate finance, franchise, healthcare, mezzanine and rediscount accounted for 27.7% of it's total financial assets.
FNLY Finlay Enterprises, Inc. conducts business through its wholly owned subsidiary, Finlay Fine Jewelry Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiaries (Finlay Jewelry). The Company and Finlay Jewelry are collectively referred to as Finlay. Finlay sells a selection of moderately priced fine jewelry, including necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and watches and markets these items principally as fashion accessories. The Company operates leased fine jewelry departments in department stores for retailers such as The May Department Stores Company (May), Federated Department Stores (Federated), Belk, the Carson Pirie Scott division of Saks Incorporated, Marshall Field's and Dillard's. As of January 31, 2004, Finlay operated its 972 locations in 17 host store groups, in 46 states and the District of Columbia.
FINL The Finish Line, Inc., together with its wholly owned subsidiaries Spike's Holding, Inc. and Finish Line Transportation Company, Inc., is a mall-based specialty retailer of brand name athletic, outdoor and lifestyle footwear, activewear and accessories in the United States. As of April 16, 2004, the Company operated 545 stores in 46 states. A Finish Line store generally carries a selection of men's, women's and children's athletic and lifestyle shoes, as well as an assortment of activewear and accessories. Brand names offered by the Company include Nike, adidas, Reebok, K-Swiss, Phat Farm, New Balance, And 1, Timberland, Asics and Saucony. The Company aims to distinguish itself from other athletic footwear specialty retailers through larger mall-based store formats. Finish Line stores average 5,802 square feet, and the Company's stores opened during the fiscal year ended February 28, 2004 (fiscal 2004) averaged approximately 4,527 square feet.
FNSR Finisar Corporation is a provider of fiber-optic subsystems and components and network test and monitoring systems, which enable high-speed data communications over local area networks (LANs), storage area networks (SANs) and metropolitan area networks (MANs). Finisar is focused on the application of digital fiber optics to provide a line of high-performance, value-added optical subsystems for data networking and storage equipment manufacturers. Finisar also provides network test and monitoring systems to original equipment manufacturers for testing and validating equipment designs, and to operators of networking and storage data centers for testing, monitoring and troubleshooting the performance of their systems. On April 29, 2004, the Company entered into an agreement with Infineon Technologies AG to acquire Infineon's fiber-optics business unit.
FWHT FindWhat.com is a developer and provider of performance-based marketing services for the Internet. To accomplish this full circle e-commerce offering, FindWhat.com provides three primary, proprietary performance-based services: the FindWhat.com Network, a keyword-targeted advertisement service that distributes advertisements throughout the Internet each day; a private label service, which offers large companies the opportunity to brand and sell their own performance-based, keyword-targeted advertising service using the Company's turnkey operation, or parts thereof, and a set of merchant services, which are commerce-enabling products and services that help online businesses capitalize on opportunities to transacting business on the Internet.
FSVP.OB FIND/SVP, Inc. provides a range of custom research, consulting, quantitative market research and outsourced information services that address its customers' critical business information needs. In many cases, the Company functions as its customers' primary information and business intelligence resource on an outsourced basis. In other cases, FIND/SVP serves as a supplemental resource to customers' internal capabilities. In addition, with its acquisitions in 2003 of Guideline Research Corp. and Teltech, as well as its internal development of new service offerings, the Company provides a range of specialized higher priced research and consulting services such as quantitative custom market research and due diligence research services that address a particular strategic business information need within specific markets. FIND/SVP is organized into four business segments: Quick Consulting Service, Strategic Consulting and Research Group, Quantitative Market Research and Teltech.
FCON.OB FinancialContent, Inc. provides a turnkey content management and delivery system that streamlines the process of aggregating and integrating content into any platform. The Company provides these services through its wholly owned subsidiary, FinancialContent Services, Inc. (FinancialContent Services). The Company offers a suite of financial data and tools for clients seeking speed of deployment, simplicity and reasonable pricing. FinancialContent facilitates the process by which clients secure all the necessary rights and licenses relating to the use of financial data. Clients have access to a wide range of content, including stock quotes, company news, Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, company profiles, economic data, import/export data, interest rates, treasury summaries, currency data and more. The Company offers its product line through a Standard Package, an IR Package and Individual Solutions.
FSF Financial Security Assurance Holdings Ltd. through its wholly owned subsidiary, Financial Security Assurance Inc. (FSA), is engaged in the business of providing financial guaranty insurance on asset-backed and municipal obligations. FSA expanded the focus of its business include financial guaranty insurance of municipal obligations and has since become a major insurer of municipal obligations. FSA is licensed to engage in the financial guaranty insurance business in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. In addition, the Company offers FSA-insured guaranteed investment contracts and other investment agreements (GICs) through its subsidiary, FSA Capital Management Services LLC (FSACMS). FSA owns FSA Insurance Company (FSAIC), which in turn owns Financial Security Assurance International Ltd. (FSA International) and Financial Security Assurance (United Kingdom) Limited (FSA-UK).
FISI Financial Institutions, Inc. (FII) is a bank holding company that operates through its four wholly owned commercial banks, Wyoming County Bank, National Bank of Geneva, First Tier Bank &amp; Trust and Bath National Bank that provide consumer, commercial and agricultural banking services in Western and Central New York State. The Company provides a range of services to individuals, municipalities and businesses through a network of 48 branches and 69 automated teller machines in 15 contiguous counties, including Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Shuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Wyoming and Yates. During the year ended December 31, 2003, FII's total assets amounted to $2.17 million.
FIF Financial Federal Corporation is an independent nationwide financial services company. It finances industrial and commercial equipment through installment sales and leasing programs for manufacturers, dealers and end users of such equipment. The Company also makes capital loans to equipment users, secured by the same types of equipment and other collateral. Financial Federal provides its services to middle-market businesses located throughout the United States, generally with annual revenues of up to $25 million, in the general construction, road and infrastructure construction and repair, road transportation, waste disposal and manufacturing industries. The equipment financed by the Company include air compressors, bulldozers, buses, cement mixers, compactors, crawler cranes, earth movers, excavators, generators, hydraulic truck cranes, loaders, machine tools, motor graders, pavers, personnel and material lifts, recycling equipment, resurfacers, rough terrain cranes and scrapers.
FILE FileNET Corporation develops, markets, sells and supports a software platform and framework for Enterprise Content Management (ECM). During 2003, the Company focused its development efforts on enhancing and integrating the capabilities of the FileNet P8 architecture and bringing this architecture to market. FileNet P8 provides users the ability to easily configure, design, build and deploy a variety of ECM solutions to meet a range of content management and business process management needs within a single scalable framework. The Company also manufactures and markets an optical storage and retrieval library product. In addition, it provides customer support and professional and education services to end users of its products.
FFWC FFW Corporation is the holding company for First Federal Savings Bank of Wabash (the Bank). The Company's business consists primarily of the business of the Bank. The Company also offers insurance and investment products through its wholly owned subsidiary, FirstFed Financial, Inc. (FirstFed), which offers insurance products, including life insurance, mutual funds, annuity and brokerage services through a registered broker dealer. The Bank is a federally chartered stock savings bank headquartered in Wabash, Indiana, and regulated by the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS). Its deposits are insured up to applicable limits by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the FDIC), which is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government. The Bank primary market area covers Wabash, Kosciusko and Whitley counties in northeast and central Indiana, which are serviced through its five offices in Wabash, North Manchester, Syracuse, South Whitley and Columbia City, Indiana.
FFLC FFLC Bancorp, Inc. is a savings and loan holding company for First Federal Savings Bank of Lake County (the Bank). The Bank is a community-oriented savings institution offering a variety of financial services. Its deposit gathering and lending markets are primarily concentrated in the communities surrounding its full-service offices located in Lake, Sumter, Citrus and Marion counties in Central Florida. The Bank serves its market area with a selection of residential mortgage loans and other retail financial services.
FFDF FFD Financial Corporation is a savings and loan holding company that owns all of the issued and outstanding common shares of First Federal Community Bank (First Federal). First Federal is federal savings bank primarily engaged in attracting deposits from individual and business customers. Such deposits are used to originate loans to individuals and businesses in First Federal's market area consisting of Tuscarawas and contiguous counties in Ohio. First Federal provides deposit products, including checking, savings, money market and individual retirement accounts (IRAs), as well as certificates of deposit (CDs). In addition, it provides access to its products and services via the Internet at www.onlinefirstfed.com. First Federal originates residential and home equity loans, construction loans, non-residential real estate loans, business loans and consumer loans.
FOE Ferro Corporation is a global producer of performance materials sold to a range of manufacturers in approximately 30 markets throughout the world. The Company applies certain core scientific expertise in organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, polymer science and material science to develop coatings for ceramics and metal, materials for passive-electronic components, pigments, enamels, pastes and additives for the glass market, specialty plastic compounds and colors, polymer additives, specialty chemicals for the pharmaceuticals and electronics markets, and active ingredients and high-purity carbohydrates for pharmaceutical formulations. Ferro's products are classified as performance materials, rather than commodities, because they are formulated to perform specific and important functions both in the manufacturing processes and in the finished products of its customers.
FGP Ferrellgas Partners, L.P. is a holding company and conducts activities through Ferrellgas, L.P. The consolidated subsidiaries of the Company include Ferrellgas Partners Finance Corp., Ferrellgas, L.P. and Ferrellgas Finance Corp. The Company is a distributor of propane and related equipment, and supplies to customers primarily in the United States. The operations primarily include the distribution and sale of propane and related equipment. The propane distribution business includes transporting propane purchased from third parties to the retail distribution outlets and from there to tanks on the propane customers' premises. The portable tank exchange operations provide a nationally branded portable tank exchange through a distributor network of independent and owned distributorships. It serves more than one million residential, industrial/commercial, portable tank exchange, agricultural and other customers.
FCH FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated is a lodging real estate investment trust (REIT). As the sole general partner of, and the owner of a greater than 95% partnership interest in, FelCor Lodging Limited Partnership (FelCor LP), the Company had a consolidated hotel portfolio of 161 hotels with nearly 45,000 rooms and suites as of December 31, 2003. All of its operations are conducted solely through FelCor LP and its subsidiaries. Its hotels are located in the United States (33 states) and Canada, with concentrations in Texas (38 hotels), California (19 hotels), Florida (16 hotels) and Georgia (14 hotels). It owns a number of Embassy Suites Hotels, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and independently-owned Doubletree-branded hotels, as well as a 50% interest in five hotels that were not included in the consolidated operations as of December 31, 2003.
FEIC FEI Company designs, manufactures, markets and services products and systems that are used in research, development and manufacturing of very-small objects, primarily by providing an understanding of their three-dimensional (3D) shape. The majority of the Company's customers work in fields that are classified as nanotechnology, which can be described as the science of characterizing, analyzing and fabricating things smaller than 100 nanometers (a nanometer is one billionth of a meter). Its products are based largely on focused, charged particle beam technology. They include transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), scanning electron microscopes (SEMs), focused ion-beam systems (FIBs), DualBeam systems that combine a FIB column and a SEM column on a single platform, secondary ion mass spectrometers (SIMS), stylus nanoprofilometers (SNPs) and software systems for semiconductor yield improvement. FEI operates in four segments: microelectronics, electron optics, service and components.
FDX FedEx Corporation provides transportation, e-commerce and business services with companies that operate independently and compete collectively under the respected FedEx brand. The Company's operations are primarily represented by Federal Express Corporation, FedEx Ground Package System, Inc., FedEx Freight Corporation and FedEx Kinko's Office and Print Services, Inc. FedEx Express is an express transportation company. The FedEx Express segment also includes FedEx Trade Networks, Inc. FedEx Ground is a provider of small-package ground delivery service. The FedEx Ground segment also includes FedEx Supply Chain Services, Inc. FedEx Freight is a provider of regional next-day and second-day and interregional less-than-truckload freight services in the United States. The FedEx Freight segment also includes the operations of FedEx Custom Critical, Inc. and Caribbean Transportation Services, Inc. FedEx Kinko's is a provider of document solutions and business services.
FII Federated Investors, Inc. is a provider of investment management products and related financial services. Federated had $197.9 billion in assets under management at December 31, 2003. The Company sponsors, markets and provides investment-related services to various investment products, including mutual funds and separately managed accounts. Federated's principal source of revenue is investment advisory fee income earned by various subsidiaries of Federated pursuant to investment advisory contracts with the investment products. These subsidiaries are registered as investment advisers under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Investment advisers are compensated for their services in the form of investment advisory fees based upon the net assets of the fund or separately managed account.
FD Federated Department Stores, Inc. is a retail organization operating department stores that sell a range of merchandise, including men's, women's and children's apparel and accessories, cosmetics, home furnishings and other consumer goods. As of January 31, 2004, the Company, through its subsidiaries, operated 393 department stores and 66 furniture galleries and other specialty stores. Prior to August 1, 2003, the stores were operated under the names Bloomingdale's, The Bon Marche, Burdines, Goldsmith's, Lazarus, Macy's and Rich's. Pursuant to a broad national strategy announced, in May 2003, by the Company to more fully leverage its Macy's brand, The Bon Marche, Lazarus, Goldsmith's and Rich's stores were renamed effective August 1, 2003, and the Burdines stores were renamed, effective February 1, 2004, to become Bon-Macy's, Lazarus-Macy's, Goldsmith's-Macy's, Rich's-Macy's and Burdines-Macy's stores, respectively.
FDT Federal Trust Corporation is the sole shareholder of Federal Trust Bank (the Bank). The Company operates as a unitary savings and loan holding company. Its business activities primarily include the operation of the Bank. The Bank is federally chartered as a stock savings bank. It provides a range of banking services to individual and corporate customers through its six offices located in Orange, Seminole and Volusia Counties, Florida. The Bank is primarily engaged in the business of obtaining funds in the form of deposits and Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) advances, and investing such funds in permanent loans on residential and to a lesser extent commercial real estate; in various types of commercial, construction and consumer loans, and in investment securities.
FSS Federal Signal Corporation is a worldwide manufacturer and supplier of street cleaning, vacuum loader and refuse collection vehicles; fire rescue vehicles; safety, signaling and communication equipment, and tooling products. The Company and its subsidiaries operate manufacturing facilities in 52 plants around the world in 12 countries, serving customers in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Products manufactured and services rendered by the Company are divided into four operating groups: Environmental Products, Fire Rescue, Safety Products and Tool.
FSCR Federal Screw Works is a domestic manufacturer of industrial component parts, consisting of locknuts, bolts, piston pins, studs, bushings, shafts and other machined, cold formed, hardened and/or ground metal parts, all of which constitute a single industry segment. The Company's products are manufactured at several plants and are fabricated from metal rod and bar, which are generally available from multiple sources. Production is in high-volume job lots to the specification of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and sold to them for incorporation into their assemblies. The majority of these sales are to manufacturers of automobiles and trucks, with the balance being mainly to manufacturers of non-automotive durable goods. Approximately 93% of the Company's net sales, during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), were made either directly or indirectly to automotive companies.
FRT Federal Realty Investment Trust is an equity real estate investment trust specializing in the ownership, management, development and redevelopment of retail and mixed-use properties. At December 31, 2003, the Company owned or had an interest in 62 community and neighborhood shopping centers comprising approximately 13.5 million square feet, primarily located in densely populated and affluent communities throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States. In addition, Federal Realty owned 49 urban and retail mixed-use properties comprising over 2.7 million square feet and one apartment complex, primarily located in strategic metropolitan markets in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions and California. At December 31, 2003, the Company had approximately 2,200 tenants, ranging from sole proprietors to major national retailers. In total, its properties were 93.1% leased at year end.
FDMLQ.OB Federal-Mogul Corporation is a global supplier of vehicular parts, components, modules and systems to customers in the automotive, small-engine, heavy-duty and industrial markets. It operates in five segments: powertrain, sealing systems and systems protection, friction, aftermarket and other. Federal-Mogul offers its customers an array of products for original equipment (OE) and parts replacement (aftermarket) applications, including engine bearings, pistons, piston pins, rings, cylinder liners, valve train and transmission products, connecting rods, sealing systems, element resistant systems protection sleeving products, electrical connectors and sockets, disc pads and brake shoes and ignition, lighting, fuel, wiper and chassis products. On October 1, 2001, Federal-Mogul and all of its wholly owned United States subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.
AGM Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac) is a stockholder-owned instrumentality of the United States that was created to establish a secondary market for agricultural real estate and rural housing mortgage loans and to increase the availability of long-term credit at stable interest rates to American farmers, ranchers and rural homeowners. The Farmer Mac secondary market for agricultural mortgage loans accomplishes that mission by providing liquidity and lending capacity to agricultural mortgage lenders. At December 31, 2003, outstanding loans held by Farmer Mac and loans that either back Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities or are subject to long-term standby purchase commitments totaled $5.8 billion.
FJC Fedders Corporation manufactures and markets worldwide air treatment products, including air conditioners, air cleaners, gas furnaces, dehumidifiers and humidifiers and thermal technology products. Its Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVACR) segment designs, manufactures and distributes window, residential split system condensing units and air handlers, gas furnaces, multi-split systems, through-the-wall, portable and packaged unit air conditioners, residential humidifiers, dehumidifiers and air cleaners. Its Engineered Products segment designs, manufactures and distributes media filters, electronic filters, humidifiers, dust collectors, fan filter units and solid-state thermoelectric heat pump modules. Fedders owns several trademarks and licenses the name Maytag from Maytag Corporation for use on air conditioners and dehumidifiers. Its other trademarks are Fedders, Emerson Quiet Kool, Airtemp, Melcor, Trion, Sun, Koppel, Eubank, Polenz and MAC-10.
FTHR Featherlite, Inc. is engaged in the design, manufacture and marketing of over 400 models of both custom-made and standard model specialty aluminum and steel trailers. Featherlite operates in two principal industries: specialty trailers and motorcoaches. Rework and warranty services are also provided for Company-built trailers and motorcoaches at Featherlite's facilities and dealer locations. During the year ended December 31, 2003, approximately 93% of the Company's revenues were derived from trailer and motorcoach sales. The Company's other business activities include the sale of replacement and specialty trailer and motorcoach parts, aircraft dealership and the sale of car care products.
FFG FBL Financial Group, Inc. sells individual life insurance and annuity products principally through an exclusive distribution force consisting of farm bureau agents and managers in the midwestern and western sections of the United States. Variable universal life and variable annuity products are also marketed in other states through alliances with other insurance companies and a regional broker/dealer. During 2003, the Company expanded its distribution and began marketing individual annuity products through independent agents and brokers. In addition to writing direct insurance business, FBL assumes through a coinsurance agreement a percentage of certain annuity business written by American Equity Investment Life Insurance Company.
FBSS Fauquier Bankshares, Inc. conducts business through The Fauquier Bank (the Bank). The Bank provides a range of consumer and commercial banking services to individuals, businesses and industries, including interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing accounts, money market deposit accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, time deposits, safe deposit services, credit cards, cash management, direct deposits, notary services, money orders, night depository, traveler's checks, cashier's checks, domestic collections, savings bonds, bank drafts, automated teller services, drive-in tellers, Internet banking and banking by mail. It also makes secured and unsecured commercial and real estate loans, issues stand-by letters of credit and grants available credit for installment, unsecured and secured personal loans, residential mortgages and home equity loans, as well as automobile and other types of consumer financing. The Bank also provides automated teller machine cards.
FAST Fastenal Company is engaged in the wholesale distribution of industrial and construction supplies. As of December 31, 2003, it operated 1,314 store sites located in 50 states, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Singapore. In addition to the stores, Fastenal also operates in-plant sites. An in-plant site is a selling unit located in or near a customer's facility that sells product solely to that customer. The Company sells approximately 448,000 different types of industrial and construction supplies in 10 product categories. These include threaded fasteners and miscellaneous supplies, different types of tools, metal cutting tool blades, fluid transfer components and accessories for hydraulic and pneumatic power, material handling and storage products, janitorial and paper products, electrical supplies, welding supplies (excluding welding gases), safety supplies and raw materials (metals).
FARO Faro Technologies, Inc. designs, develops, markets and supports portable, software-driven, three-dimensional (3D) measurement systems that are used in a range of manufacturing and industrial applications. The Company's principal products are the Faro Arm and Faro Gage articulated measuring devices, the Faro Laser Tracker and their companion computer-aided manufacturing measurement (CAM2) software, which provide for computer-aided design (CAD) based inspection and/or factory-level statistical process control. Together, these products integrate the measurement and quality inspection function with CAD software to improve productivity, enhance product quality and decrease rework and scrap in the manufacturing process. It uses the acronym CAM2 for this process.
FNSW.OB Farnsworth Bancorp, Inc. is a holding company for Peoples Savings Bank (the Bank). The Company has no significant business or operations of its own other than holding all of the outstanding stock of the Bank. The Bank is a federally chartered stock savings bank. The Bank operates a traditional savings bank business, attracting deposit accounts from the general public and using those deposits, together with other funds, primarily to originate and invest in loans secured by one- to four-family residential real estate. In addition to the Bank, the Company has one subsidiary, Peoples Financial Services, Inc. Peoples Financial Services, Inc. was organized for the purpose of providing securities brokerage and investment advisory services and products to customers of the Bank and the general public.
FTG Farmstead Telephone Group, Inc. (Farmstead) markets Avaya, Inc.'s (Avaya) business telecommunications parts, complete systems and services. The Company provides used Classic Avaya telecommunications equipment pursuant to an Authorized Remarketing Supplier Program with Avaya, under which Farmstead is one of only five authorized companies throughout the United States. Its product offerings are primarily customer premises-based private switching systems and peripheral products, including voice-messaging products. It also provides telecommunications equipment installation, repair and refurbishing, short-term rental, inventory management and related services.
FMNB.OB Farmers National Banc Corp. is a one-bank holding company that operates through its subsidiary The Farmers National Bank of Canfield (the bank). The Company and its subsidiary operate in one industry, domestic banking. Farmers National Banc conducts no business activities except for investment in securities permitted under the Bank Holding Company Act. The bank is a full-service national bank engaged in commercial and retail banking in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana Counties in Ohio. The bank's commercial banking services include checking accounts, savings accounts, time deposit accounts, commercial, mortgage and installment loans, home equity loans, home equity lines of credit, night depository, safe deposit boxes, money orders, bank checks, automated teller machines and travelers checks, E Bond transactions, utility bill payments, MasterCard and Visa credit cards, brokerage services and other miscellaneous services normally offered by commercial banks.
FMCB.OB Farmers &amp; Merchants Bancorp serves as a holding company for its principal wholly owned subsidiary, Farmers &amp; Merchants Bank of Central California (the Bank). The Bank, a California chartered bank, is the Company's principal asset. Through the Bank, the Company provides banking and financial products and services in the northern Central Valley of California through 18 banking offices. The Bank has two wholly owned subsidiaries: Farmers &amp; Merchants Investment Corporation, which is dormant, and Farmers/Merchants Corp., which acts as trustee on deeds of trust originated by the Bank. As a legal entity separate and distinct from its subsidiary, the Company's principal source of funds is dividends paid by and other funds advanced from the Bank. The Bank is a member of the Federal Reserve System.
FFKT Farmers Capital Bank Corporation is a financial holding company. The Company's subsidiaries provide a range of banking and bank-related services to customers throughout Kentucky. The Company's range of financial services is offered to individuals, corporations, and others through its 23 banking locations throughout Central Kentucky. These services primarily include the activities of lending and leasing, receiving deposits, providing cash management services, safe deposit box rental, and trust activities. Operations are managed and financial performance is evaluated at the subsidiary level. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had $1.3 billion in consolidated assets.
FARM Farmer Brothers Co. (FBC) is a manufacturer and distributor of coffee and spices to the segment institutional food service. The Company's product line is specifically focused on the needs of its market segment: restaurants and other institutional food service establishments that prepare and market meals, including hotels, hospitals, convenience stores and fast food outlets. The product line includes roasted coffee, coffee-related products, such as coffee filters, sugar and creamers, assorted teas, cocoa, spices, and soup and beverage bases. The product line includes over 300 items. Roasted coffee products make up about 50% of total sales. No single product other than coffee accounts for 10% or more of revenue. Coffee purchasing, roasting and packaging takes place at its Torrance, California, plant, which is also the distribution hub for its branches.
FRGO Fargo Electronics, Inc. is a developer, manufacturer and supplier of printing systems and consumable supplies that personalize plastic identification cards by printing images and text onto the card. The Company's printing systems are capable of encoding data onto cards that incorporate bar code, magnetic stripe, and smart card or proximity card technology. It offers three technologies in printing systems: High Definition Printing (reverse image), traditional Direct-to-Card printing (dye-sublimation) and CardJet Printing technology (inkjet) to personalize plastic identification cards, complete with digital images and text, lamination and electronically encoded information.
FEEC.OB Far East Energy Corporation is a development-stage company whose primary focus is on the development of coalbed methane (CBM) gas in China. The Company's activities have mainly included initial organization, capital formation, acquisition of mineral leases and/or production sharing contracts, giving it the right to explore for, develop, produce and sell oil and gas or CBM. The Company has drilled its first three wells in Yunnan to total depth. In October 2003, it drilled its first well on the Enhong-Laochang CBM block in the Yunnan Province of the People's Republic of China. On January 8, 2004, it spudded its second well on the Enhong-Laochang Block, and the well reached total depth on February 18, 2004. the Company's third well in China was spudded on March 16, 2004. The well is located on its Enhong Block in Yunnan Province near Shang Sheshui Village. This is the third of five exploration wells that are expected to be drilled and completed by the early summer of 2004.
FNM Federal National Mortgage Association, operating as Fannie Mae, is a source of financing for home mortgages in the United States. The Company was chartered by the United States Congress to provide liquidity in the secondary mortgage market to increase the availability and affordability of homeownership for low-, moderate- and middle-income Americans. Fannie Mae's charter limits its operations to activities related to housing, mortgages and related financial products. Its business activities are aligned with national policies that support the expansion of homeownership in America, and serve to increase the total amount of funds available to finance housing. Though chartered by Congress, the Company's business is self-sustaining and funded exclusively with private capital. The United States government does not guarantee, directly or indirectly, Fannie Mae's securities or other obligations.
DAVE Famous Dave's of America, Inc. develops, owns, operates and franchises restaurants under the name Famous Dave's. During the fiscal year ended December 28, 2003 (fiscal 2003), the Company had 38 Company-owned restaurants and 54 franchise-operated restaurants in 23 states, and an additional 147 signed franchise-operated development agreements with 15 of them in various stages of development. Famous Dave's restaurants, a majority of which offer full-table service, feature hickory-smoked, off-the-grill meat entree favorites, served in one of the Company's three casual formats: a Northwoods-style lodge, a nostalgic roadhouse shack, or a Blues Club featuring nightly musical entertainment.
FMLY.OB Family Room Entertainment Corporation (FMLY) is engaged in key aspects of motion picture entertainment, including production, production services, finance and distribution. FMLY develops, produces and performs production-related services for the entertainment industry mainly through three wholly owned subsidiaries: Emmett/Furla Films Productions Corporation. (EFFP), Emmett Furla Films Distribution LLC and E F F Independent, Inc. (EFFI). EFFP is a motion picture development, production and production-related services entity that primarily develops, produces and provides production-related services for motion pictures intended for worldwide theatrical release. Emmett Furla Films Distribution LLC oversees and arranges worldwide distribution and/or exploitation of FMLY's entertainment projects and properties. EFFI develops and produces action, adventure and family oriented motion pictures for television and home video distribution, as well as episodic television and Internet programming.
FDO Family Dollar Stores, Inc., incorporated in 1969, operates a chain of self-service retail discount stores. As of October 1, 2004, there were 5,481 stores in 44 states and the District of Columbia. During the fiscal year ended August 28, 2004 (fiscal 2004), 500 stores were opened, 61 stores were closed, 28 stores were relocated within the same shopping center or market area, 51 stores were expanded in size and 116 stores were renovated. From August 29, 2004, through October 1, 2004, the Company opened 18 new stores, closed three stores, relocated two stores, expanded seven stores and renovated 11 stores. The stores offer a variety of hardlines and softlines merchandise.
FALC FalconStor Software, Inc. is a provider of network storage infrastructure software solutions and related maintenance, implementation and engineering services. The Company's open software approach to storage networking enables clients to embrace equipment from any storage manufacturer without rendering their existing or legacy solutions obsolete. FalconStor's flagship software, IPStor, is utilized by other companies to power special purpose storage appliances to perform real-time data migration, data replication, virtual tape library backup and other advanced storage services. IPStor leverages the high-performance Internet protocol (IP) or Fibre Channel (FC)-based network to help corporate IT (information technology) aggregate storage capacity and contain the run-away cost of administering mission-critical storage services, such as snapshot, backup and data replication. Over 400 customers worldwide have deployed IPStor in production environments to manage their storage infrastructure.
FLCN Falcon Financial Investment Trust is an integrated, self-advised, internally managed real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on the business of originating and servicing loans to automotive dealers in the United States. The Company has also provided loans to select motorcycle dealers on a limited basis. Falcon Financial was formed to address the specialized capital needs of the automotive retailing industry. In addition to financing for new and used automobile inventories, many automotive dealerships require capital for other purposes, including the acquisition of other dealerships, the acquisition of dealership real estate, facility expansion and renovations, partner buyouts and refinancing of existing debt.
FHR Fairmont Hotels &amp; Resorts Inc. (FHR) manages a global portfolio of luxury and first-class hotels and resorts. At December 31, 2003, the Company managed 87 hotels and resorts containing more than 33,000 rooms. The properties are located in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Bermuda, Barbados and the United Arab Emirates. An additional two properties are under development as of December 31, 2003. FHR manages hotels under two subsidiaries, Fairmont Hotels Inc. and Delta Hotels Limited, each with their own distinct brand identity. FHR owns 83.5% of Fairmont, which, during the year ended December 31, 2003, managed 43 properties in major city centers and key resort destinations throughout Canada, the United States, Mexico, Bermuda, Barbados and the United Arab Emirates. Delta, a wholly owned subsidiary of FHR, managed or franchised 39 Canadian hotels and resorts as at year-end 2003.
FFH Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited is a financial services holding company that, through its subsidiaries, is primarily engaged in property and casualty insurance conducted on a direct and reinsurance basis. Its insurance and reinsurance subsidiaries are Northbridge Financial Corporation, Crum &amp; Forster Holdings, Inc., Falcon Insurance Company Limited, Fairmont Specialty Group, Old Lyme Insurance Company of Rhode Island, Inc. and Odyssey Re Holdings Corp. The Company's run-off business segment is comprised of nSpire Re Limited, which fully reinsures the United Kingdom run-off entities; Sphere Drake Insurance Limited and RiverStone Insurance (UK) Limited, and the United States run-off company formed by the merger of TIG Insurance Company and International Insurance Company.
FCS Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. is an independent semiconductor company that develops, manufactures and sells analog, interface, discrete, standard logic, non-volatile memory and optoelectronic semiconductors critical to multiple-end markets. Its products are used as building-block components in a variety of electronic applications including sophisticated computers and Internet hardware, communications, networking and storage equipment, industrial power supply and instrumentation equipment, portable digital consumer cameras, displays, audio/video devices, household appliances and automotive ignition applications. Its products are organized into three principal product groups: Analog and Mixed Signal Products, Discrete Products and Logic and Memory Products.
FA The Fairchild Corporation (Fairchild) has three core businesses: sports &amp; leisure, aerospace and real estate operations. The sports &amp; leisure segment is engaged in the design and retail sale of protective clothing, helmets and technical accessories for motorcyclists in Europe, and the design and distribution of such apparel and helmets in the United States. The aerospace segment stocks a wide variety of aircraft parts and distributes them to commercial airlines and air cargo carriers, fixed-base operators, corporate aircraft operators and other aerospace companies worldwide, and also manufactures airframe components. The real estate operations segment owns and leases a shopping center located in Farmingdale, New York, and owns and rents an improved parcel located in Southern California. In November 2003, the Company acquired substantially all of the worldwide operations of Hein Gericke, PoloExpress and Intersport Fashions West (IFW).
FIC Fair Isaac Corporation (Fair Isaac) provides products and services that enable businesses to automate and improve decisions. Its predictive modeling, decision analytics, business intelligence management, decision management systems and consulting services power billions of customer decisions each year. The Company helps businesses make better decisions in the areas of customer targeting and acquisition, customer origination, customer management, fraud and collections, as well as helping businesses improve the speed and consistency of non-customer decisions, such as processing. Fair Isaac categorizes its products and services into four segments: strategy machine, scoring solutions, professional services and analytical software tools.
FDS FactSet Research Systems Inc. supplies financial intelligence to the global investment community. The Company combines more than 200 databases, including content regarding tens of thousands of companies from multiple stock markets, research firms, governments and other sources into a single-online source of information and analytics. Clients have simultaneous access to data from all the sources, which they can combine and download into spreadsheets and analyze, using FactSet or custom-built applications.
FCPO Factory Card &amp; Party Outlet Corporation is a specialty retailer offering a selection of party supplies, greeting cards, giftwrap, balloons, everyday and seasonal merchandise and other special occasion merchandise. As of April 14, 2004, the Company operated 179 stores in 20 states. Its stores provide customers with a one-stop shopping destination for party supplies, greeting cards and special occasion merchandise for all major holidays and celebratory events, including birthdays, graduations, weddings and baby showers; seasonal events, including Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day, and other family, religious and special occasions. On March 23, 1999, the Company filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. On April 9, 2002, the Company emerged from Chapter 11.
FIT Fab Industries, Inc. is a supplier of knitted fabrics and lace in the textile industry of the United States. The Company operates in three segments: Apparel Fabrics, Home Fashions and Accessories, and Other. The Apparel Fabrics segment manufactures warp and circular knit fabrics and raschel laces. The Home Fashions and Accessories segment utilizes the Company's own textile fabrics internally to produce flannel and satin sheets, blanket products, comforters and other bedding products, which Fab sells to specialty stores, catalogue and mail order companies and airlines. The Other segment consists of the Gem Urethane operation, the Over-the-Counter Retail operation and Industrial Fabrics. It produces a line of ultrasonically, hot melt adhesive, flame and adhesive bonded products for environmental, health care, industrial and consumer markets.
FFIV F5 Networks, Inc., incorporated in February 1996, develops, manufactures and sells products and services to help companies efficiently and securely manage their Internet traffic. The Company's core technology is software for Internet protocol (IP) application traffic management and security, including secure remote access. These products are systems that integrate the Company's software with hardware that is built using a combination of commodity components and its custom application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) for Layer 4 processing. The Company's systems include three product families: BIG-IP, FirePass and TrafficShield. It also offers a broad range of services, including consulting, training, installation, maintenance and other technical support services. On May 31, 2004, the Company acquired MagniFire Websystems, Inc., or MagniFire.
EZEN.OB Ezenia! Inc. develops and markets products that enable organizations to provide group communication and collaboration capabilities to commercial, governmental, consumer and institutional users. The Company's products allow individuals and groups that are geographically distant from each other to interact and share information voice-to-voice, face-to-face, flexibly and in real-time. Built on an industry-standard hardware and software platform, these products enable seamless connectivity across a range of networks, including local area networks (LANs), intranets, Internet, integrated services digital network (ISDN), Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and frame relay. Its products include software-only solutions and configurable hardware solutions that can be deployed at small sites or in locations with a large number of users.
EZPW EZCORP, Inc. is primarily engaged in operating pawnshops and payday loan stores, which function as convenient sources of short-term cash and as value-oriented specialty retailers of primarily previously owned merchandise. The Company meets the short-term cash needs of the cash and credit constrained consumer by offering convenient, non-recourse loans collateralized by tangible personal property, commonly known as pawn loans; by offering short-term, non-collateralized loans, often referred to as payday loans, and by purchasing customers' merchandise at its pawnshops. The Company makes pawn loans in its 280 pawnshops. The Company acquires inventory for its retail sales primarily through pawn loan forfeitures and, to a lesser extent, through purchases of customers' merchandise.
EZM E-Z-EM, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets medical diagnostic and therapeutic products through two business segments: E-Z-EM business segment and AngioDynamics business segment. The E-Z-EM segment is a provider of medical products used by radiologists, gastroenterologists and speech language pathologists primarily in screening for and diagnosing diseases, and disorders of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Products in this segment are used for colorectal cancer screening, evaluation of swallowing disorders (dysphagia), and testing for other diseases and disorders of the GI system. AngioDynamics business segment is conducted through its subsidiary, AngioDynamics, Inc., a provider of medical devices used in minimally invasive, image-guided procedures to treat peripheral vascular disease (PVD). In May 2004, the Company spun-off AngioDynamics, Inc. into a separate public company.
EYET Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that specializes in the development and commercialization of novel therapeutics to treat diseases of the eye. The Company's initial focus is on diseases affecting the back of the eye, particularly the retina. Its most advanced product candidate is Macugen (pegaptanib sodium), which Eyetch is developing for the treatment of the wet form of age-related macular degeneration, known as AMD, and diabetic macular edema, known as DME. Both AMD and DME are serious diseases of the retina that can lead to severe vision loss and blindness. The active pharmaceutical ingredient in Macugen is a chemically synthesized aptamer that binds to and inhibits the function of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF).
XOM Exxon Mobil Corporation is engaged in the energy and petrochemical business. Through its divisions and affiliated companies, Exxon Mobil operates or markets products in the United States and approximately 200 other countries and territories. The Company's principal business is energy, involving exploration for, and production of, crude oil and natural gas, manufacture of petroleum products and transportation and sale of crude oil, natural gas and petroleum products. Exxon Mobil is also a manufacturer and marketer of basic petrochemicals, including olefins, aromatics, polyethylene and polypropylene plastics and a variety of specialty products. In addition, the Company has interests in electric power generation facilities.
EXTR Extreme Networks, Inc., is a provider of network infrastructure equipment for corporate, government, education and health care enterprises and metropolitan telecommunications service providers. The Company's principal hardware and software products are the Summit Stackable Product Family, BlackDiamond Modular Chassis, Alpine Modular Chassis and ExtremeWare Software. The Company's products share a common hardware, software and network management architecture that are based on industry-standard routing and network management protocols and offer policy-based, quality-of service features.
EXR Extra Space Storage, Inc. (ESSI) is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust that acquires, develops and operates self-storage facilities. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned and operated 110 self-storage properties located in 15 states, 92 of which are wholly owned and 18 of which are held in joint ventures with third parties. ESSI also manages for third parties an additional 12 properties. The Company's properties are situated in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Northern New Jersey and San Francisco. Its properties contain an aggregate of approximately 7.1 million net rentable square feet of space configured in approximately 69,700 separate storage units as of February 29, 2004. In September 2004, the Company acquired 26 self-storage properties from Storage Spot Properties No. 1, L.P. and Storage Spot No. 4, L.P., a group of facilities located in the Southern and South Eastern United States operated by Storageworld, L.P.
XJT ExpressJet Holdings, Inc., together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, XJT Holdings, Inc. and ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. (which operates as Continental Express) is a regional United States air carrier engaged in the business of transporting passengers, cargo and mail. The Company's principal asset is XJT Holdings, Inc., the sole owner of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. As of January 20, 2005, ExpressJet offered scheduled passenger service with up to 1,175 daily departures to 148 cities in 38 states, the District of Columbia, Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean. The Company provides Continental all of its regional jet capacity at its hub airports in New York/Newark, Houston and Cleveland, and additional non-hub service to and from Mexico.
ESRX Express Scripts, Inc. is an independent pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) that provides integrated pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services, including network pharmacy claims processing, mail pharmacy services, benefit design consultation, drug utilization review and formulary management. The Company provides healthcare management and administration services on behalf of clients that include health maintenance organizations, health insurers, third-party administrators, employers, union-sponsored benefit plans and government health programs. Express also provides non-PBM services through its Pharma Business Solutions unit. Non-PBM services include distribution services through its Express Scripts Specialty Distribution Services subsidiary and drug sample fulfillment and sample accountability services through its Phoenix Marketing Group, Inc. subsidiary.
EXPO Exponent, Inc., formerly The Failure Group, Inc., is a science and engineering consulting firm that provides solutions to complex problems. Its multidisciplinary team of scientists, physicians, engineers and business consultants brings together more than 70 different technical disciplines to solve issues facing industry and business today. Exponent serves clients in automotive, aviation, chemical, construction, energy, government, health, insurance, manufacturing, technology and other sectors of the economy. Exponent's service offerings are provided through a practice-focused format. It operates in 15 practice areas: Biomechanics, Civil Engineering, Data/Risk Analysis, EcoSciences, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Science, Food &amp; Chemicals, Health and Epidemiology, Human Factors, Human Health Risk Assessment, Industrial Structures, Mechanical Engineering &amp; Materials Science, Technology Development, Thermal Sciences and Vehicle Analysis.
EXGP.PK ExperTelligence, Inc. is a technology company that develops and operates Internet businesses based on its proprietary technologies and ideas. The Company maintains a division to support its long-standing consulting practice and software products, WebBase and ExperForms, and runs a database portal at WebData.com. ExperTelligence focuses on businesses relating to "Internet hubs" and "exchanges" that create value by connecting and distributing information over the Internet. The Company forms and capitalizes the new entities, recruits management, provides space in its facilities, provides ongoing strategic guidance and mentoring, creative design, Web development, accounting, legal and administrative services, with the goal of preparing each business for independent operation. The Company has created 3DStockCharts.com (69% owned) and ExperClick.com, as subsidiaries.
EXPD Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. is engaged in the business of providing global logistics services. The Company offers its customers a seamless international network supporting the movement and strategic positioning of goods. Its services include the consolidation or forwarding of air and ocean freight. In each United States office and in many overseas offices, it acts as a customs broker. It also provides additional services, including distribution management, vendor consolidation, cargo insurance, purchase order management and customized logistics information. Shipments of computer components, other electronic equipment, housewares, sporting goods, machine parts and toys, comprise a significant percentage of the Company's business. The import customers include computer retailers and distributors of consumer electronics, department store chains, clothing and shoe wholesalers, manufacturers and catalogue stores.
XIDE Exide Technologies, manufactures and supplies lead acid batteries, associated equipment and services for transportation and industrial customers worldwide. Exide has three primary business segments: Transportation, Motive Power and Network Power. On April 15, 2002, Exide Technologies, together with certain of its United States subsidiaries, filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy laws in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. On November 21, 2002, two additional wholly owned, non-operating subsidiaries of Exide filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in the Bankruptcy Court.
EXFO EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. (EXFO) is engaged in the global telecommunications industry through the design and manufacture of advanced test and measurement solutions. The Telecom Division, which represents its main business activity, offers fully integrated and complete test solutions to network service providers (NSPs), system vendors and component manufacturers in approximately 70 countries. One of its offering is the PC/Windows-based modular platforms that host a wide range of tests across optical, physical, data and network layers, while maximizing technology reuse across several market segments. The Photonics and Life Sciences Division mainly leverage core telecom technologies to offer value-added solutions in the life sciences and high-precision assembly sectors.
EXC Exelon Corporation is a public utility holding company that, through its subsidiaries, operates in three business segments: Energy Delivery, Generation and Enterprises. Energy Delivery consists of Exelon's regulated energy delivery operations conducted by Commonwealth Edison Company and PECO Energy Company. The Generation business consists of the owned and contracted for electric generating facilities and energy marketing operations of Exelon Generation Company, LLC, a 50% interest in Sithe Energies, Inc. and, effective January 1, 2004, the competitive retail sales business of Exelon Energy Company. The Enterprise business consists primarily of the energy services business of Exelon Services, Inc., the district cooling business of Exelon Thermal Holdings, Inc., the electrical contracting business of F&amp;M Holdings, Inc., a communications joint venture and other investments weighted towards the communications, energy services and retail services industries.
EXEL Exelixis, Inc. is a biotechnology company that develops human therapeutics by leveraging its integrated discovery platform to increase the speed, efficiency and quality of pharmaceutical product discovery and development. The Company uses comparative genomics and model system genetics to find new drug targets. Its research is designed to identify novel genes and proteins expressed by those genes, that, when changed, either decrease or increase the activity in a specific disease pathway in a therapeutically relevant manner. Exelixis has generated a substantial development pipeline of small molecule cancer compounds. The pipeline is led by XL119, the Company's Phase III cancer compound, and includes XL784, XL647, XL999, XL844 and additional novel cancer-related compounds arising from its gene-to-drug platform. In October 2004, the Company acquired X-Ceptor Therapeutics, Inc., a discovery and development of small molecules that modulate nuclear hormone receptors.
EXJF Exchange National Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company registered under the Bank Holding Company Act that has elected to become a financial holding company. The Company's activities are limited to ownership, directly or indirectly through subsidiaries, of the outstanding capital stock of Exchange National Bank, Citizens Union State Bank and Osage Valley Bank. In addition to ownership of its subsidiaries, Exchange may seek expansion through acquisition and may engage in activities, such as investments in banks or operations that are financial in nature in which it is permitted to engage under applicable law.
LRNS Excelligence Learning Corporation is a developer, manufacturer and retailer of educational products, which are sold to child care programs, preschools, elementary schools and consumers. The Company serves early childhood professionals, educators and parents by providing educational products and programs for children from infancy to 12 years of age. With its proprietary product offerings, a multi-channel distribution strategy and extensive management expertise, it aims to further children's education and to reinforce the connection between children's learning at school and at home.
XLTC Excel Technology, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets photonics-based solutions, consisting of laser systems and electro-optical components, primarily for industrial and scientific applications. The Company's range of products include laser marking and engraving systems, laser micro-machining systems, carbon dioxide lasers, optical scanners, high-power solid-state and ultrafast lasers, high-energy solid-state pulsed lasers, precision optical components and light and color measurement instruments. The Company has several subsidiaries engaged in marketing, distributing, integrating and servicing its laser systems that are manufactured at its facilities in East Setauket, New York; Santa Clara, California; Orlando, Florida, and Mukilteo, Washington.
EXM Excel Maritime Carriers is an owner and operator of dry bulk carriers and a provider of worldwide seaborne transportation services for dry bulk cargo. This includes commodities such as iron ore, coal and grains, as well as bauxite, fertilizers and steel products. The Company owns and operates a fleet of two cape-size bulk carriers, two handymax bulk carriers and one handy-size bulk carrier. The Company plans to deliver an additional three handymax bulk carriers and two panamax bulk carriers, which, together with the disposal of one older handymax carrier, will increase the Company's fleet to nine ships, representing a total capacity of 585,589 dead weight tons (dwt).
EXCB.OB Excalibur Industries, Inc. is a contract machining and manufacturing company focused in the energy field services market. Through its Shumate Machine Works operating subsidiary, the Company manufactures products, parts, components, assemblies and sub-assemblies for its customers designed to their specifications. Products the Company manufactures include launchers and liner hangers for oil and gas field service applications, blow-out preventers and their spare parts, top drive assemblies/sub assemblies, directional drilling products, exploration products, natural gas measurement equipment, including fittings and valves, control ands check valves and subsea control equipment. Excalibur's three-dimensional modeling software, computer numeric controlled (CNC) machinery and manufacturing expertise are contracted by its customers' research and development, engineering and manufacturing departments to ensure optimization and timely desired results for their products.
EXAR Exar Corporation and its subsidiaries design, develop and market high-performance, high-bandwidth, physical-interface and access control solutions for use in the worldwide communications infrastructure. The Company provides original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with integrated circuits (ICs) that facilitate the aggregation and transport of signals in access, metro and wide area networks (WAN). Exar's physical layer silicon solutions address transmission standards, such as T/E carrier, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and synchronous optical network/synchronous digital hierarchy (SONET/SDH). During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Exar expanded its communications portfolio by offering a family of clock distribution devices, which leverage technology common with its existing network and transmission products. The clock distribution devices are targeted at wireless base stations, network switches and routers.
EXAC Exactech, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets, distributes and sells orthopedic implant devices and related surgical instrumentation, and distributes biological materials to hospitals and physicians in the United States and internationally. The Company's revenues are principally derived from sales and distribution of its joint replacement systems, including knee and hip implant systems, and distribution of biologic allograft materials. On October 30, 2003, the Company acquired a 16.7% minority interest in Altiva Corporation. Altiva is an early stage company that is building an asset portfolio through the acquisition of existing spinal products and systems, as well as acquiring distribution rights to other existing spinal market technologies.
EXAS EXACT Sciences Corporation is an applied genomics company that develops and commercializes proprietary DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)-based tests for the early detection of cancer. The Company has selected colorectal cancer as the first application of its technology platform. EXACT has devoted a majority of its efforts on research and development activities related to its PreGen technologies, including several large multi-center clinical studies. The Company has also been focused on the marketing of PreGen-Plus, its proprietary, non-invasive DNA-based technology for the early detection of colorectal cancer in the average-risk population, which is being offered commercially by Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings.
EXBT.OB Exabyte Corporation is a provider of information storage products, including tape drive products, automated tape libraries and recording media. The Company focuses on data backup, restoration and archival applications for workstations, midrange computer systems and networks. Computer manufacturers and resellers require a variety of storage products, which vary in price, performance, capacity and form-factor characteristics to meet their needs for reliable data backup, restoration and archival storage increase, hence, the Company offers a number of products to address a range of these requirements. Its tape drive products are based on VXA and MammothTape technologies and its tape library products are based upon VXA, MammothTape and LTO (Ultrium) technologies.
SSP The E. W. Scripps Company is a diversified media company with interests in newspapers, national television networks (Scripps Networks), broadcast television and television retailing (Shop At Home). It operates 21 daily newspapers in 19 markets in the United States. Scripps Networks includes four cable and satellite television programming services: Home &amp; Garden Television (HGTV), Food Network, DIY - Do It Yourself Network (DIY) and Fine Living. Broadcast television includes 10 television stations, nine of which are affiliated with national broadcast television networks. Shop At Home sells a range of consumer goods directly to television viewers and visitors to its Website. In addition, the Company operates United Media, which owns and licenses worldwide copyrights relating to Peanuts, Dilbert and other properties for use on numerous products.
EVOL Evolving Systems, Inc. is a provider of mission critical and cost-effective software solutions to tier one telecommunications companies. The Company maintains long-standing relationships with wireline and wireless telecommunications providers in the United States. Customers rely on Evolving Systems to develop, deploy, enhance, maintain and integrate complex, reliable software solutions for a range of operations support systems (OSS) and enhanced services platforms. The Company offers software products and solutions that enable its customers to comply with government-mandate requirements regarding local number portability for wireline and wireless number portability. Evolving Systems also offers inventory and assignment software that supports carriers' compliance with the government phone number conservation mandates. In addition, the Company offers network assurance and fulfillment solutions that were added to its portfolio when it acquired CMS Communications Inc. in 2003.
EVLO.OB Evolve One, Inc. (EONE) is a diversified holding company that develops and operates Internet and direct retail marketing companies. The EONE Group includes the Company's wholly owned subsidiaries, Stogiesonline.com (Stogies), A1DiscountPerfume Inc. and Ventures LLC, and its majority-owned subsidiaries, The BroadcastWeb.com, Inc. (The BroadcastWeb) and Mr. Cigar, Inc. (Cigar). EONE, through its venture division, owns an equity interest in several other companies. EONE's original business was operating as a developmental-stage company through Cigar, which was in the business of licensing, selling and/or operating cigar vending machines. The Company opened its StogiesOnline.com Internet site in November 1998. As a result of the success of the StogiesOnline Website, the Company refocused its resources in 1999 into the Internet cigar sales market and other specialty goods. EONE sold the vending equipment and business of Cigar in December 1999. It sold The BroadcastWeb in December 2001.
EVST Everlast Worldwide Inc. designs, manufactures, markets and sells a diverse collection of consumer products, encompassing apparel and sports products, principally under the Everlast trademark. The Company's apparel products include men's and women's activewear, sportswear and outerwear. Its sports products consists of sporting goods related primarily to the sport of boxing, such as boxing gloves, heavy bags, speed bags, boxing trunks and miscellaneous gym equipment. The Company also licenses the Everlast trademark to other companies that source or manufacture ancillary products such as men's, women's and children's apparel; sleepwear; underwear; hosiery; footwear; eyewear; hats; sports bags; cardiovascular equipment; fragrances; nutritional products; batteries, and other accesories. Everlast's products are sold through sporting goods stores, mass merchandisers, catalog operations, gymnasiums and martial arts studios.
ESLR Evergreen Solar, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets solar power products that are capable of providing reliable and environmentally clean electric power to the global solar power market. Its solar power technologies are based on its String Ribbon technology. The Company continues to refine, develop and commercialize laboratory-demonstrated advancements in its solar power technologies, including String Ribbon crystal growth, solar cells and solar panel designs. Between 1997 and June 2001, Evergreen Solar used pilot manufacturing facilities to refine its solar power products and manufacturing processes. In 2001, it expanded its manufacturing capacity capability by relocating its operations to a 56,250 square-foot facility in Marlboro, Massachusetts where it constructed a manufacturing line. Since its inception, it has shipped over 50,000 solar panels for residential, commercial and industrial applications in the United States and internationally.
RE Everest Re Group, Ltd. (Group), through its operating subsidiaries, is engaged in the underwriting of reinsurance and insurance in the United States, Bermuda and international markets. The Company underwrites reinsurance both through brokers and directly with ceding companies, giving it the flexibility to pursue business regardless of the ceding company's preferred reinsurance purchasing method. Group underwrites insurance principally through general agent relationships and surplus lines brokers. The Company's operating subsidiaries are Everest Reinsurance (Bermuda), Ltd., Everest International Reinsurance, Ltd., Everest Reinsurance Company, Everest National Insurance Company, Everest Indemnity Insurance Company, Everest Security Insurance Company, Mt. McKinley Managers, L.L.C., Mt. McKinley Insurance Company and Everest Re Holdings, Ltd.
EVCI EVCI Career Colleges Incorporated provides on-campus career college education through its wholly owned subsidiary, Interboro Institute, Inc. Interboro is a two-year college that offers degree programs leading to the Associate of Occupational Studies degree. It has a main campus in mid-town Manhattan and an extension center in Flushing, New York. Interboro also has two other college sites, one in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, New York City, and the other in Yonkers, New York. Interboro offers educational programs in the following career-related areas of academic study: business administration, accounting and management, ophthalmic dispensing, paralegal studies, office technologies, executive assistant, legal office assistant and medical office assistant and security services and management. Interboro has Spring, Summer and Fall semesters and day and evening programs. There were approximately 2,800 full-time students enrolled at Interboro for the 2004 Spring semester.
EVSI.OB Evans Systems Inc. and its subsidiaries (dba MC Star) operate convenience stores selling gasoline, merchandise and fast food to the motoring public; provide environmental remediation services in southern Texas, and provide freight deliver services of petroleum products. At September 30, 2004, the Company operated three convenience stores, featuring self-service motor fuels and a variety of food and non-food merchandise. On July 1, 2004, the Company entered into an agreement with Mauritz &amp; Couey (MC) whereby it conveyed its Exxon, Chevron and unbranded fuel distribution contracts and certain petroleum marketing distribution assets, accounts receivable and inventory to MC for relief of amounts owed to MC for fuel purchases and management fees, the assumption of the Company's line of credit obligation by MC and the issuance of a note receivable. As a result, the Company discontinued its petroleum marketing distribution segment and effectively disposed of the segment's assets.
ESCC Evans &amp; Sutherland Computer Corporation (E&amp;S) produces visual systems used to display images of the real world rapidly and accurately. E&amp;S designs, manufactures, markets and supports visual systems for simulation with solutions that meet the training requirements for a range of military and commercial applications. The Company also provides visual systems for planetariums, science centers and entertainment venues. It develops and delivers a line of image generators, displays, databases, services and support products that match technology to customer requirements. These products are available either as complete systems or subsystems and can include system integration and installation service and support. Worldwide customers using E&amp;S products include United States and international armed forces, aerospace companies, airlines, laboratories, museums, planetariums and science centers.
EVBN Evans Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company that conducts its business through its wholly owned subsidiary, Evans National Bank (the Bank), and the Bank's subsidiaries, ENB Associates Inc. (ENB), M&amp;W Agency, Inc. and Evans National Holding Corp. (ENHC). The Bank is in the commercial banking business, attracting deposits from and making loans to the general public in its immediate geographical area. The Bank's main administrative office is located in Angola, New York, and it has branches in Amherst, Angola, Derby, Evans, Forestville, Hamburg, Lancaster, North Boston and West Seneca. ENB provides non-deposit investment products, such as mutual funds and annuities, to bank customers through the branch network. M&amp;W is a retail property and casualty insurance agency headquartered in Silver Creek, New York. ENHC holds certain real estate loans and provides management services to the Bank.
EWEB EuroWeb International Corp. (EuroWeb) provides Internet access and additional value-added services to business customers. It operates in the Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia through its subsidiaries, EuroWeb Czech Republic spol. s.r.o., EuroWeb Slovakia a.s. and EuroWeb Romania S.A. The Company's activities include traditional Internet service provider (ISP) services consisting of Internet access, content, Web and other services, international/national leased line, Internet protocol (IP) data services (IP connections between different countries), voice-over IP (VoIP) services and facilities that include sale, rent and maintenance of dark fiber between the Hungarian border and the Romanian City of Timisoara. The Company also has a 49% ownership interest in EuroWeb Hungary Rt. On March 1, 2004, EuroWeb purchased the remaining 51% of EuroWeb Hungary Rt. from PanTel Telecommunication Rt. (PanTel Rt.).
EURO EuroTrust A/S is engaged in providing production and broadcasting services, as well as Internet security products and services in Scandinavia and other European countries. The Company's production and broadcasting segment consists of a broadcast media property and operates a media production company in Scandinavia with a special focus on sports programming. The media division also offers educational courses in television production. The Company has consolidated all of its television programming into a single television channel, dk4. The Internet security product and services segment offers trusted Internet security products and services, including virus detection, e-mail security products, vulnerability testing, secure communications, onsite solutions and payment platforms to Website owners, commercial enterprises and electronic commerce service providers. In April 2004, EuroTrust also sold its Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) services business to VeriSign, Inc.
EEFT Euronet Worldwide, Inc. is a provider of secure electronic financial transactions solutions, offering outsourcing and consulting services, integrated electronic funds transfer (EFT) software, network gateways and electronic prepaid processing services (top-up services) to financial institutions, mobile operators and retailers. The Company operates an independent pan-European automated teller machine (ATM) network and a shared ATM network in India. In its EFT processing segment, it processes transactions for a network of 3,350 ATMs across Europe and India. Through the prepaid processing segment, the Company provides top-up services for prepaid mobile phone airtime. Through the software solutions segment, it offers a suite of integrated EFT software solutions for electronic payment and transaction delivery systems.
EUBK EuroBancshares Inc. is a diversified financial holding company offering an array of financial services through its wholly owned banking subsidiary, Eurobank, and a wholly owned insurance subsidiary, EuroSeguros. Eurobank is a full-service commercial bank with 21 branches located throughout Puerto Rico. The Bank is engaged in the acceptance of checking, savings and time deposits; making of commercial and consumer loans, mortgage loans, real estate loans, lease financing, and other installment and term loans. Eurobank also offers trust and wealth management services. As a traditional commercial bank, Eurobank earns interest on loans, leases and investment securities that are funded by customer deposits, borrowings, retained earnings and equity. At March 31, 2004, the Company had total assets of $1.4 billion, net loans and leases of $951.4 million and total deposits of $1.1 billion. In May 2004, Eurobancshares acquired BankTrust, a commercial bank headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
CLWT Euro Tech Holdings Company Limited (Euro Tech) is a distributor of a range of advanced water treatment equipment (including chlorination equipment), laboratory instruments, analyzers, test kits and related supplies and power generation equipment (including recorders and power quality analyzers). The Company acts as an exclusive and non-exclusive distributor for manufacturers of such equipment, primarily to commercial customers and governmental agencies or instrumentalities in Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Euro Tech distributed products to over 1,000 customers. Its products are manufactured by American, European and Japanese corporations, including Eurotherm, Hioki and Hach.
ET E*TRADE Financial Corporation is a global financial services holding company that offers a range of financial products and services primarily through its subsidiaries. The Company serves retail, corporate and institutional customers, principally under the E*TRADE FINANCIAL brand, providing brokerage, banking and lending products through electronic delivery channels, including the Internet. Its business is organized into two segments, Brokerage and Banking. Brokerage services, including advanced trading platforms, options trading and streaming quotes, are based upon proprietary transaction-enabling technology and are designed primarily to serve the needs of self-directed investors. The Brokerage Segment generates revenues primarily from commissions and margin lending. Primarily through E*TRADE Bank, the Company offers a full suite of commercial banking products and services. The Banking Segment earns interest from its diversified interest-earning assets and produces fee-based income.
ETH Ethan Allen Interiors Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary, Ethan Allen Inc., and its subsidiaries is a manufacturer and retailer of home furnishings and accessories. The Company sells a full complement of home decorating solutions through a network of home furnishing retail stores. The Company's operations are classified into two segments: wholesale and retail. The wholesale segment is involved in the development of the Ethan Allen brand, which encompasses the design, manufacture, domestic and off-shore sourcing, sale and distribution of a full range of home furnishings to a network of independently owned and Ethan Allen-owned stores, as well as related marketing and brand awareness efforts. The retail segment sells home furnishings to consumers through a network of Company-owned stores.
DEG Delhaize Group is a food retailer headquartered in Belgium, with operations in 10 countries on three continents: North America, Europe and Southeast Asia. As of December 31, 2003, Delhaize Group's sales network (which includes Company-operated, affiliated and franchised stores) consisted of 2,559 stores. Store formats are primarily supermarkets, which represent approximately 82% of Delhaize Group's sales network. The Company's sales network also includes other store formats, such as proximity stores and specialty stores. In addition to food retailing, which accounted for more than 94% of Delhaize Group's sales for the year ended December 31, 2003, Delhaize Group engaged in food wholesaling to stores in its sales network and in non-food retailing of products, such as pet products and health and beauty products.
ESL Esterline Technologies Corporation (Esterline) is a specialized manufacturing company principally serving aerospace and defense customers. The Company operates in three business segments. The Avionics and Controls segment designs and manufactures technology interface systems for military and commercial aircraft, and land- and sea-based military vehicles, secure communications systems, specialized medical equipment and other industrial applications. The Sensors and Systems segment produces high-precision temperature and pressure sensors, electrical power switching, control and data communication devices, fluid control components, micro-motors, motion control sensors and other related systems principally for aerospace and defense customers. The Advanced Materials segment develops and manufactures high-performance elastomer products used in a wide range of commercial aerospace and military applications and combustible ordnance for military applications.
EL The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. is a manufacturer and marketer of skin care, make-up, fragrance and hair care products. The Company's products are sold in over 130 countries and territories under brand names, such as Estee Lauder, Clinique, Aramis, Prescriptives, Origins, M.A.C, Bobbi Brown, La Mer, Aveda, Stila, Jo Malone, Bumble and bumble, Darphin, Rodan &amp; Fields, American Beauty, Flirt! And good skin. The Company is also the global licensee for fragrances and cosmetics sold under the Tommy Hilfiger, Donna Karan, kate spade and Michael Kors brands, and it is also developing products to be sold under the Sean John label. The Company sells its products through limited distribution channels, encompassing over 20,000 points of sale, consisting primarily of upscale department stores, specialty retailers, upscale perfumeries and pharmacies. In February 2004, the Company sold the assets and operations of its reporting unit that sold Jane brand products.
ESS Essex Property Trust, Inc. is a self-administered and self-managed equity real estate investment trust engaged in the ownership, acquisition, development and management of multifamily apartment communities. The Company's multifamily portfolio as of December 31, 2003 consists of ownership interests in 121 properties (consisting of 26,012 apartment units), of which 14,943 units are located in Southern California, 4,605 units are located in Northern California, 5,886 of which are located in the Pacific Northwest and 578 are located in other areas. In addition, Essex has an ownership interest in other real estate assets consisting of five recreational vehicle parks, four office buildings and two manufactured housing communities. The Company along with its affiliated entities and joint ventures also has entered into commitments for the development of 1,056 units in five multifamily communities. Essex conducts substantially all of its activities through Essex Portfolio, L.P.
KEYW Essex Corporation provides advanced optoelectronic and signal processing services and products for United States Government intelligence and defense customers and communications customers with which it has established and maintained long-standing relationships. The Company provides advanced optical and optoelectronics, which involve both optical and electronic parts, signal processing services and products within the four business areas: Communications and Networks, Radar Analysis, Three-Dimensional (3-D) Imaging and Critical Information Technology Infrastructure. Essex provides optoelectronic and signal processing services to classified United States Government customers under next-generation research and development contracts. It supports the intelligence community's mission-critical voice and video systems infrastructure and provides systems engineering services to highly classified United States Government customers.
ESST ESS Technology, Inc. is a designer, developer and marketer of highly integrated analog and digital processor chips, imaging sensor chips, digital amplifiers and camera lens modules. The Company has also developed encoding processors to address the growing demand for digital video recorders, recordable DVD players, digital still cameras and digital camcorders. In addition, ESS is a supplier of chips for use in modems, other communication devices and personal computer audio products. The Company sells its chips to distributors and original equipment manufacturers of digital video disc (DVD), video compact disc (VCD), moving picture experts group layer-3 audio (MP3), digital still cameras, digital camcorders, consumer digital audio, digital media players, cellular phones, modem and personal computer products.
ESF Espirito Santo Financial Group S.A. (ESFG), through its subsidiaries, is engaged in banking activities, including commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, stockbroking and private banking and insurance operations. The Company conducts its commercial banking activities through BES, a full-service financial group in Portugal, and Banco Internacional de Credito, S.A., a commercial bank with special emphasis on mortgage credit and on high-net-worth individuals. ESFG's investment banking business is managed through Banco Espirito Santo de Investimento, S.A. (BESI), based in Portugal, while its asset management activities are operated through Espirito Santo Activos Financeiros S.A., Compagnie Bancaire Espirito Santo S.A. and Espirito Santo Activos Financieros, S.A., based in Portugal, Switzerland and Spain, respectively. The Company conducts its stock-brokerage activities through BESI. ESFG conducts its insurance business through Tranquilidade and Tranquilidade-Vida.
ESP Espey Manufacturing &amp; Electronics Corp. is engaged principally in the development, design, production and sale of specialized electronic power supplies, transformers and other types of iron-core components, as well as electronic system components. In some cases, the Company manufactures such products in accordance with pre-developed mechanical and electrical requirements (build to print). In other cases, it is responsible for both the overall design and manufacture of the product.
ESPD eSpeed, Inc. develops and deploys interactive vertical electronic marketplaces and related trading technology that offers traders access to liquid, efficient and neutral financial markets. eSpeed operates multiple-buyer, multiple-seller, real-time electronic marketplaces for the global capital markets, including government bond markets and other fixed income and equities marketplaces. The Company's suite of marketplace tools provides end-to-end transaction solutions for the purchase and sale of financial and non-financial products over its global private network or via the Internet. eSpeed is a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald. The Company has organized its business in four categories across multiple liquid and commoditized industries in the financial services markets. These four categories are core products, product extensions and enhancements, eSpeed Software Solutions sales and new product rollouts.
ESE ESCO Technologies Inc. (ESCO) is a producer of engineered products and systems for industrial and commercial applications sold to customers worldwide. ESCO operates in three segments: Filtration/Fluid Flow, Communications and Test. The Filtration/Fluid Flow segment develops, manufactures and markets a range of filtration products. The Company, through its subsidiaries is engaged in the manufacturer of two-way power line communication systems for the electric utility industry in its Communications segment. It also manufactures advanced video security monitoring systems for commercial and industrial applications. In the Test segment, ESCO designs and manufactures products to measure and contain electromagnetic and acoustic energy. In July 2003, the Company announced its decision to divest its microfiltration and separations businesses (MicroSep Business) in the Filtration/Fluid Flow segment.
ESMC Escalon Medical Corp. (Escalon) operates in the healthcare market, specializing in the development, manufacture, marketing and distribution of ophthalmic medical devices, pharmaceuticals and vascular access devices. Escalon's name was adopted in August 1996. Its wholly owned subsidiaries include Sonomed, Inc. (Sonomed), engaged in developing, manufacturing and marketing ultrasound systems; Sonomed EMS, Srl. (Sonomed EMS); Escalon Vascular Access, Inc. (Vascular), develops, manufactures and markets vascular access products; Escalon Digital Vision, Inc. (EMI) and Escalon Pharmaceutical, Inc. (Pharmaceutical).
ESCA Escalade, Incorporated operated in two business segments: sporting goods and office products. Escalade and its predecessors have manufactured and sold sporting goods products. The Company's Sporting goods segment contributed 63%, 82% and 80% to its net sales as of the year ended December 27, 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively. The office/graphic arts segment contributed 37%, 18% and 20%. Escalade Sports manufactures and distributes widely recognized brands in family game room and outdoor sporting goods products through traditional department stores, mass merchandise retailers and sporting goods specific retailers. Operating under the Martin Yale name, the office product business gained a worldwide presence with the 2003 acquisition of Schleicher &amp; Co. International, AG, a manufacturer and distributor of data shredding equipment headquartered in Germany.
ESBF ESB Financial Corporation is a thrift holding company that provides a range of retail and commercial financial products and services to customers in Western Pennsylvania through its wholly owned subsidiary bank, ESB Bank (ESB or the Bank). On January 23, 2004, ESB Bank converted from a federal savings bank to a Pennsylvania chartered savings bank. The Company is also the parent company of PennFirst Financial Services, Inc., which is engaged in the management of certain investment activities on behalf of the Company, the now inactive PennFirst Capital Trust I (the Trust I) a statutory business trust established in 1997 to facilitate the issuance of trust preferred securities to the public by the Company, ESB Capital Trust II (the Trust II) and ESB Statutory Trust III (the Trust III) are statutory business trusts established to facilitate the issuance of trust preferred securities to the public by the Company.
ERXI.OB eRXSYS, Inc. is engaged in the business of operating pharmacies that harness available technology to deliver pharmaceutical management services to enroll physicians with a focus on the pain management practice. Enrolled physicians transmit prescriptions from a personal digital assistant (PDA) and/or desktop computer directly to its dedicated pharmacies, thus eliminating or reducing the need for paper prescription. As the Company's focus is on physicians that practice in pain management, it typically does not keep in inventory non-prescription drugs or health and beauty related products (walking canes, bandages, shampoo). The majority of the Company's business is derived from physician members that send prescriptions directly to its store electronically. It has limited walk-in prescriptions from non-member physicians. The Company derives its revenue from the sale of prescription drugs.
ERMS.OB eRoomSystem Technologies, Inc. has developed and introduced to the lodging industry an intelligent, in-room computerized platform and communications network (eRoomSystem). The eRoomSystem is a computerized platform and processor-based system that is installed within the Company's eRoomServ refreshment centers and designed to collect and control data. The eRoomSystem also supports the eRoomSafe, an electronic in-room safe, eRoomTray; an in-room ambient tray that can sell a variety of products at room temperature, and eRoomEnergy, an in-room digital thermostat designed to control virtually any fan coil unit or packaged-terminal air conditioner found in hotel rooms. The Company has 14,436 eRoomServ refreshment centers, 7,103 eRoomSafes, 1,089 eRoomTrays and 522 eRoomEnergy management products installed and active.
ERIE Erie Indemnity Company operates primarily as a provider of sales, underwriting and policy issuance services to the policyholders of Erie Insurance Exchange (the Exchange). The Company has served since 1925 as attorney-in-fact for the policyholders of the Exchange. Management fees earned in the capacity as attorney-in-fact covered 74% of total Company revenue in 2003. The Company also operates as a property and casualty insurer through its wholly owned subsidiaries. The Exchange and its property and casualty subsidiary, and Erie's three property and casualty subsidiaries (the Property and Casualty Group) write personal and commercial lines of property and casualty coverages exclusively through independent agents, and pool their underwriting results. The Company also owns 21.6% of the common stock of an affiliated life insurance company, of which the Exchange owns 53.5%. The Company operates in 11 states and in the District of Columbia.
ERIF.OB Erie Family Life Insurance Company is primarily engaged in the business of underwriting and selling nonparticipating individual and group life insurance policies, including universal life, annuity and disability income products. The Company is owned 21.6% by the Erie Indemnity Company (EIC) and 53.5%. Its portfolio of life insurance includes permanent life, endowment and term policies, including whole life, mortgage and decreasing term, group and universal life insurance.
ERGO.OB Ergo Science Corporation is a company in transition. From its incorporation through March 2001, the Company was engaged in the development of ERGOSET tablets for the treatment of type II diabetes. In March 2001, Ergo Science decided that the next phase of the development of ERGOSET would be better undertaken by a company that has more experience with human drug development and more resources for regulatory approval and marketing than the Company does. On November 24, 2003 the Company sold all of its scientific and research assets and certain other intellectual property assets to Pliva d.d.
ERES eResearch Technology, Inc. provides technology and services that enable the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries to collect, interpret and distribute cardiac safety and clinical data more efficiently. The Company provides centralized electrocardiographic services (Cardiac Safety services) and technology and services that streamline the clinical trials process by enabling customers to evolve from traditional, paper-based methods to electronic processing using clinical data management products and services. The Cardiac Safety services are utilized by clinical trial sponsors and clinical research organizations during their conduct of clinical trials. In addition, the Company offers the licensing and, at the client's option, hosting of its proprietary clinical data management software products and the provision of maintenance and consulting services in support of its clinical data management software products.
EQS Equus II Incorporated is a closed-end fund that seeks to achieve capital appreciation principally by making investments in equity and equity-oriented securities issued by privately owned companies in transactions negotiated directly with such companies (Portfolio Companies). The Company seeks to invest primarily in companies that intend to acquire other businesses, including through leveraged buyouts. Equus II may also invest in recapitalizations of existing businesses or special situations, from time to time. The Company's investments in Portfolio Companies consist principally of equity securities, such as common and preferred stock, but also include other equity-oriented securities, such as debt convertible into common or preferred stock or debt combined with warrants, options or other rights to acquire common or preferred stock. Equus II has engaged Equus Capital Management Corporation to provide certain investment management and administrative services to the Company.
EQR Equity Residential (EQR) is an integrated real estate company engaged in the acquisition, development, ownership, management and operation of multi-family properties. The Company is the general partner of ERP Operating Limited Partnership, an Illinois limited partnership (the Operating Partnership). As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned an approximate 92.7% ownership interest in ERP. Said partnership is, directly or indirectly, a partner, member or shareholder of numerous partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations that have been established primarily to own fee simple title to multi-family properties, or to conduct property management activities and other businesses related to the ownership and operation of multi-family residential real estate.
EOP Equity Office Properties Trust (EOP) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) whose primary business is the ownership and operation of office properties in the United States. The Company owns substantially all of its assets and conducts all of its operations through a consolidated subsidiary, EOP Operating Limited Partnership, which, though its various subsidiaries, is engaged in owning, managing, leasing, acquiring and developing office properties. At December 31, 2003, the Company had a portfolio of 684 office properties consisting of approximately 122.3 million square feet of commercial office space in 18 states and the District of Columbia, 75 industrial properties consisting of approximately 5.8 million square feet, and approximately 0.4 million square feet of office properties under development. In addition to its development pipeline, EOP owns various undeveloped land parcels on which approximately 12 million square feet of office space could be developed.
ENN Equity Inns, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) engaged principally in the business of acquiring and disposing of equity interests in hotels, primarily mid-scale to upscale properties in the United States. The Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Equity Inns Trust, is the sole general partner of Equity Inns Partnership, L.P. (the Partnership), and, at the end of 2003, owned approximately 97.4% interest in the Partnership. Equity Inns conducts its business through the Partnership and its other subsidiaries. At December 31, 2003, the Company owned 93 hotel properties with a total of 11,997 rooms in 34 states. These hotels are leased to taxable REIT subsidiaries of the Company and are managed by unrelated third parties. The Company's independent hotel managers are Interstate Hotels Corporation with 51 hotels managed, Promus Hotels, Inc. (a Hilton Hotels Corporation subsidiary) with 18 hotels, Prime Hospitality Corporation with 18 and others with six hotels managed.
ATF The Equity Investor Fund, First Exchange Series - AT&amp;T Shares (the Fund) is a unit investment trust that was formed in 1983 under New York law and in accordance with the Investment Company Act of 1940 by a trust indenture among Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner &amp; Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Prudential Securities Incorporated and Smith Barney Inc. as Sponsors and The Bank of New York as Trustee. The Fund was formed for the purpose of permitting an investor in common shares of the predivestiture American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&amp;T) to hold an investment in AT&amp;T and the seven regional holding companies created pursuant to the AT&amp;T Plan of Reorganization in the form of units of beneficial interest (the Units) of the Fund, which consists solely of shares of AT&amp;T common stock and those securities that are distributed to holders of such AT&amp;T common stock pursuant to the reorganization.
EQY Equity One, Inc. is a real estate investment trust that principally acquires, renovates, develops and manages community and neighborhood shopping centers located predominately in high growth markets in the southern United States. The Company's property portfolio, as of December 31, 2003, consisted of 185 properties, comprising 123 supermarket-anchored shopping centers, 11 drug store-anchored shopping centers, 44 other retail-anchored shopping centers, one self-storage facility, one industrial and five retail developments, as well as non-controlling interests in two unconsolidated joint ventures that own and operate commercial properties. These properties are located in 12 states in the southern United States and contain an aggregate of 19.9 million square feet of gross leasable area. In December 2004, the Company completed the acquisition of Westport Plaza in Davie, Florida.
EQT Equitable Resources, Inc. is an integrated energy company, with an emphasis on Appalachian area natural gas supply activities, including production and gathering, natural gas distribution and transmission, and energy efficiency solutions, primarily in the eastern and western coastal regions of the United States. The Company offers energy (natural gas, and a limited amount of crude oil and natural gas liquids) products and services to wholesale and retail customers through three business segments: Equitable Utilities, Equitable Supply and NORESCO. Equitable Utilities contains both regulated and non-regulated operations, while Equitable Supply consists of two activities: production and gathering. NORESCO provides an integrated group of energy-related products and services that are designed to reduce its customers' operating costs and improve their energy efficiency.
EQIX Equinix, Inc. provides network neutral colocation, interconnection and managed services to enterprises, content companies, systems integrators and networks. Through the Company's 14 Internet Business Exchange (IBX) hubs in the United States and Asia, customers can directly interconnect with each other for critical traffic required. The Company offers three types of products and services, Colocation, Interconnection and Managed IT (information technology) Infrastructure services. Colocation services include cabinets, power, operations space and storage space for its customers' colocation needs. Interconnection services allow customers to share and trade network components with each other simply and easily. Managed IT Infrastructure services allow its customers to leverage its telecommunication expertise, maximize the benefits of its IBX hubs and optimize their infrastructure and resources.
EQUI.OB EquiFin, Inc. has pursued the strategy of liquidating assets from the Company's previous line of business and directing its efforts and assets to building a commercial finance company that provides asset-based credits to small and mid-sized business enterprises. The Company has discontinued and divested itself of unprofitable manufacturing operations, extinguished debt related to those operations and at the start of 2002 focused all of its resources on building a commercial finance company through Equinox Business Credit Corp., the Company's 81% owned subsidiary. EquiFin's structured credits may also include subordinated secured loans, bridge loans, convertible loans, loan guarantees and other similar opportunistic situations. It has a subsidiary, Equinox Factors, Inc., that provides factoring services.
EFX Equifax Inc. collects, organizes and manages various types of credit, financial, public record, demographic and marketing information regarding individuals and businesses. The Company operates in 13 countries: North America (the United States and Canada), Europe (the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Italy and Portugal) and Latin America (Brazil, Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Peru and Uruguay). It serves customers across various industries, including financial services, retail, telecommunications, utilities, automotive, brokerage, healthcare and insurance, as well as state and federal governments. The Company has three reportable segments: Equifax North America, Equifax Europe and Equifax Latin America. The North American segment is made up of three operating segments: Information Services, Marketing Services and Consumer Direct. The Europe and Latin America segments are made up of varying mixes of three product lines: Information Services, Marketing Services and Consumer Direct.
ENT Equant N.V. provides global, integrated and customized communications infrastructure solutions, comprised of data and Internet protocol (IP) network products and value-added services, as well as network integration services. The Company's data and IP network products include frame relay, local area network access, asynchronous transfer mode, IP virtual private network, Internet direct and traditional managed data network services. Integration services include remote server management, messaging, hosting, security, fulfillment or equipment sale, deployment, maintenance and consulting services. Other services include convergence solutions and circuit-switched voice services. The Company's target customers are global multinational corporations and other large international institutions requiring multi-year, multi-service contracts.
EPLN.OB Epolin, Inc. is a specialized chemical company primarily engaged in the manufacturing, marketing, research and development of dyes and dye formulations. It is a producer of near infrared (NIR) dyes, and offers a varied assortment of dyes absorbing in the NIR region of the spectrum, from 700 to 1600 nanometer. The dyes are sold as pure, crystalline, powders or as formulations or mixtures of dyes. Epolin also maintains production and sales of specialty products made on a custom basis. These include products used as components in plastics, process aids, adhesives and coatings, flavors and odorant mixtures, pharmaceutical and medical products and aerospace materials. The applications for Epolin's dyes cover several markets, including laser protection, welding, security inks, specialty filters, sun protection, heat shields and interlayer and laminates.
PLUS ePlus inc. serves as a holding company for ePlus Group, inc., ePlus Technology, inc., ePlus Government, inc., ePlus Canada Company, ePlus Capital, inc., ePlus Systems, inc., ePlus Content Services, inc., ePlus Document Systems, inc. and ePlus Information Holdings, inc. The Company's offering includes Internet-based applications for the catalog content management, e-procurement, asset management, document imaging, document management and distribution, electronic bill presentment and payment and management of operating resources that can be integrated with financing and other asset services. It offers customers a choice of Internet products on a licensed basis or as a remotely hosted solution. ePlus has two basic business segments: the financing business unit and the associated business process outsourcing services and the technology sales business unit.
EPXR.OB EPIXTAR Corp. aggregates contact center capacity and robust telephony infrastructure to deliver comprehensive, turnkey services to the enterprise market. From campaign design through ongoing management, the Company delivers outsourcing solutions for the customer relationship management (CRM) and telesales initiatives of third-party companies. Companies use EPIXTAR's marketing expertise and personnel to acquire, support and enhance the customer experience, reduce costs and generate revenue. The Company's corporate headquarters is in Miami, Florida, and it maintains two contact centers in Manila, the Philippines, with developmental plans to expand to additional centers.
EPIX EPIX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a developer of targeted contrast agents that are designed to improve the diagnostic quality of images produced by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MRI is an imaging technology for range of applications, including the identification and diagnosis of a variety of medical disorders. The Company is developing two products, MS-325 and EP-2104R, for use in MRI to improve the diagnosis of multiple cardiovascular diseases affecting the body's arteries and veins (the vascular system). In December 2003, it submitted a New Drug Application, for MS-325, the principal product the Company is developing, to the United States Food and Drug Administration. MS-325 is designed to provide visual imaging of the vascular system through a type of MRI known as magnetic resonance angiography. EP-2104R is designed to illuminate and identify blood clots using MRI.
EPIQ EPIQ Systems, Inc. provides technology-based case management solutions to attorneys, law firms, trustees and debtor companies that administer cases in the federal bankruptcy system. Customers implement its solutions to administer personal and corporate bankruptcy cases of all sizes and configurations. The Company's product and service offerings automate various administrative tasks pertaining to bankruptcy claims, assets, financial records and other data associated with liquidations and reorganizations and assist customers in organizing and managing their databases of case information, preparing notices and mailings and in fulfilling their additional responsibilities. Customers implementing its bankruptcy management solution have a single environment in which to administer their cases. TCMS, CasePower and DataExpress are the Company's registered trademarks. Its customers consist of corporations, plaintiff law firms, defense law firms and government entities.
EPNY E.piphany, Inc. develops, markets and licenses the E.piphany E.6 suite, an integrated set of customer relationship management (CRM) software products. The E.6 Suite consists of three principal product lines: E.piphany Marketing, E.piphany Sales and E.piphany Service. With products from each of these product lines, customers may also license certain analytical CRM capabilities, including its E.piphany Insight products for batch-based, online analytical processing and data mining analysis and its E.piphany Interaction Advisor products for real-time data analysis. The Company's Interaction Advisor products use a combination of historical, personal and contextual data to create a real-time customer profile, and then apply a unique combination of real-time analytics and business rules to deliver the highest-impact communications at the moment of customer interaction. It then measures the results and continuously adjusts itself to improve effectiveness over time.
EPMN Epimmune Inc. is focused on the development of therapeutic vaccines that use multiple epitopes, or protein fragments to specifically activate the body's immune system for the more effective management of infectious diseases and cancer. In September 2002, the Company commenced a Phase I/II clinical trial of its therapeutic, multi-epitope vaccine candidate, EP HIV-1090, in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) 1, which is the predominant strain of HIV in North America and Western Europe. Patients enrolled in the trial are immunized while receiving multiple antiretroviral drugs. In February 2003, it also commenced two Phase I/II clinical trials of its therapeutic, multi-epitope vaccine candidate EP-2101, one in patients with lung cancer and one in patients with colorectal cancer. In addition, it conducts research and preclinical development of vaccines to treat breast, prostate and other cancers under contracts from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
EPIC Epicor Software Corporation designs, develops, markets and supports enterprise and e-business software solutions for use by mid-sized companies, as well as divisions and subsidiaries of corporations worldwide. Epicor's solutions are designed to help companies focus on their customers, suppliers, partners and employees through enterprise-wide management of resources and information. It offers solutions in areas of Manufacturing, Distribution, Services, Hospitality and Entertainment, Supply Chain, Supplier Relationship Management and Customer Relationship Management. The Company's products are aligned according to the markets that they serve: Customer Relationship Management (Clientele), Distribution and Services (e by Epicor) and Manufacturing and Supply Chain (Avante, Vantage and Vista).
EPIK Epic Bancorp, formerly San Rafael Bancorp, operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Tamalpais Bank (the Bank). The Company conducts business from its three full-service branch offices, its network of four automated teller machines (ATMs) and from its administrative headquarters. In addition, the Company supports its customers through Internet banking, 24-hour telephone banking, courier service, mail and access through the STAR, PLUS and VISA ATM networks. Through its network of banking offices, the Bank offers personalized services focused upon three primary markets: households, professionals and small businesses.
EPC EPCOS AG is a producer and supplier of passive electronic components, which process electrical signals, control power supplies and protect electronic circuitry, among other things. The Company's business is organized into four segments: capacitors, surface acoustic wave (SAW) components, ceramic components and ferrites and inductors. With more than 40,000 different products, EPCOS provides customers across a spectrum of industries one-stop access to a line of passive components for a range of applications. The Company manufactures its products using an array of proprietary processes in advanced facilities in 13 countries on four continents.
EPMD EP MedSystems, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets a line of products for the cardiac electrophysiology market used to diagnose, monitor, visualize and treat irregular heartbeats known as arrhythmias. The Company's product offerings include the EP-WorkMate electrophysiology work station integrated with RPM (realtime position management) navigation technology; the EP-3 Stimulator; EP-4 Computerized Cardiac Stimulator; diagnostic electrophysiology catheters; the ALERT System consisting of the ALERT Companion II and ALERT family of internal cardioversion catheters; the ViewMate intracardiac ultrasound catheter system, and related disposable supplies. These products are sold to medical institutions and physicians in the United States, which then bill various third-party payers, such as government programs and private insurance plans.
ELAB Eon Labs, Inc. is a generic pharmaceutical company engaged in developing, licensing, manufacturing, selling and distributing a range of prescription pharmaceutical products primarily in the United States. The Company focuses primarily on drugs in a broad range of solid oral dosage forms, utilizing both immediate and sustained release delivery, in tablet, multiple layer tablet, film-coated tablet and capsule forms. Eon Labs obtains new generic pharmaceutical products primarily through internal product development and from strategic licensing or co-development arrangements with Hexal AG, as well as with other companies. The Company is involved in the development of over 45 pharmaceutical products, including products with applications pending with the United States Food and Drug Administration.
EONC eOn Communications Corporation designs, develops and markets unified voice, e-mail and Web-based communications systems and software for customer contact centers and general business applications. The Company's primary business focus is to provide multi-media contact center solutions that help businesses communicate more effectively and efficiently with their customers, using all forms of voice, messaging and Internet-based interactions. Through such products eOn enables companies to improve customer service and loyalty, increase agent productivity and lower the cost of ownership. For small and medium-sized general business applications, it also offers integrated communication systems, such as private branch exchanges (PBX's), voice mail and unified messaging solutions. On June 1, 2004, eOn purchased, through a wholly owned subsidiary, a controlling interest in Cortelco Shanghai Telecom Equipment Company, a telecommunications company that provides telecommunications products in China.
EON E.ON AG is an industrial group in Germany that is organized into five separate business divisions. The Company's business divisions include E.ON Energie AG and its consolidated subsidiaries (E.ON Energie), Ruhrgas AG and its consolidated subsidiaries (Ruhrgas), Powergen Limited and its consolidated subsidiaries (Powergen), Viterra AG and its consolidated subsidiaries (Viterra) and Degussa AG and its consolidated subsidiaries (Degussa). E.ON Energie is a European power company that operates in Germany and continental Europe. Ruhrgas operates a gas business in Germany. Powergen is an integrated energy company with segments consisting of the generation, transmission, distribution, retail and trading of electricity. Viterra is the Company's real estate group that is engaged in residential real estate and real estate development. Degussa's five divisions are construction chemicals, fine and industrial chemicals, performance materials, coatings and advanced fillers, and specialty polymers.
EOG EOG Resources, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, explores for, develops, produces and markets natural gas and crude oil primarily in major producing basins in the United States, as well as in Canada and Trinidad and, to a lesser extent, other selected international areas, including the United Kingdom North Sea. As of December 31, 2003, EOG's total estimated net proved reserves were 5,216 billion cubic feet equivalent (Bcfe), of which estimated net proved natural gas reserves were 4,645 billion cubic feet (Bcf) and estimated net proved crude oil, condensate and natural gas liquids reserves were 95 million barrels (MMBbl). Approximately 49% of EOG's reserves on a natural gas equivalent basis were located in the United States, 27% in Trinidad, 23% in Canada and 1% in the United Kingdom North Sea.
ENZN Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that is focused on the discovery, development, manufacture and commercialization of pharmaceutical products in three areas of therapeutic focus: oncology and haematology; transplantation, and infectious disease. Enzon has developed or acquired four human therapeutic products that are marketed by the Company: ABELCET (amphotericin B lipid complex injection), ONCASPAR (pegaspargase), ADAGEN (pegademase bovine injection), and DEPOCYT (cytarabine liposome injection). Enzon also receives royalties on sales of PEG-INTRON, a polyethylene glycol (PEG)-enhanced version of Schering-Plough's product, INTRON A (interferon alfa-2b, recombinant), as well as a share of certain revenues received by Nektar Therapeutics (Nektar) on sales of Hoffmann-La Roche's PEGASYS, a PEG-enhanced version of ROFERON-A (interferon alfa-2a recombinant).
ENZ Enzo Biochem, Inc. (Enzo) is a life sciences and biotechnology company focused on harnessing genetic processes to develop research tools, diagnostics and therapeutics. Enzo also provides diagnostic services to the medical community. Enzo has concentrated on developing enabling technologies for detecting and identifying genes and for modifying gene expression. These technologies are generally applicable to the diagnosis of infectious and other diseases, and form the basis for a portfolio of over 300 products marketed to the biomedical and pharmaceutical research markets. The Company is further using these technologies as platforms for its planned entry into the clinical diagnostics market. In addition, Enzo's work in gene analysis has led to the development of significant therapeutic product candidates, several of which are in clinical trials and several are in preclinical studies. In February 2004, the Company acquired OraGen Corporation.
ECGI Envoy Communications Group Inc. is a marketing and international consumer and retail branding company with offices throughout North America and Europe. Envoy conducts its branding services through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Watt International Inc. and Watt Gilchrist Limited. Watt International is a brand strategy and design consultancy that provides the following services: strategic brand consulting, corporate identity and communications, retail branding and store design, and package design. The Company also provides brand management, pre-press and film through Watt Gilchrist. Envoy provides advertising and communications services through a 70%-owned subsidiary, John Street Inc. Services offered by John Street include creative concept development, strategic planning and consulting, advertising production, media planning and purchasing.
ETC Environmental Tectonics Corporation (Environmental) is engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of software-driven products used to create and monitor the physiological effects of motion on humans and equipment and to control, modify, simulate and measure environmental conditions. The Company operates in two business segments: Aircrew Training Systems, which includes three product groups, such as aircrew training devices, entertainment products and disaster management simulation and the Industrial Group, which includes three product lines, such as sterilizers, environmental systems and other products and hyperbarics. Environmental's three subsidiaries are Entertainment Technology Corporation, which focuses on the development, manufacturing and distribution of entertainment products; ETC-PZL Aerospace Industries, a 95%-owned subsidiary that manufactures simulators, and ETC-Europe, a 99%-owned subsidiary that focuses on generating international sales.
ERHC.OB Environmental Remediation Holding Corporation (ERHC) is an independent oil and gas company, which focuses to maximize its value through profitable growth in oil and gas reserves and production in the Gulf of Guinea offshore of central West Africa. The Company focuses on exploiting its only assets, which are rights to working interests in exploration acreage in the Joint Development Zone (JDZ) between the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome &amp; Principe (DRSTP) and the Federal Republic of Nigeria (FRN) and in the exclusive territorial waters of Sao Tome (the Exclusive Economic Zone or EEZ). The Company intends to explore forming relationships with other oil and gas companies with technical and financial capabilities to assist the Company in exploiting its assets in the EEZ and the JDZ.
EVMT.OB Environmental Monitoring &amp; Testing Corporation was engaged in the business of drilling wells, primarily for the purpose of environmental monitoring and testing, principally in South Carolina and Georgia. On December 31, 2001, the Company liquidated its real estate and drilling assets. Since December 31, 2001, the Company has had no operations.
EVTN.OB Enviro Voraxial Technology, Inc. is a provider of environmental and industrial separation technology. The Company has developed and patented the Voraxial Separator (VAS), a proprietary technology that separates large volumes of liquid/liquid, liquid/solids or liquid/liquid/solids with distinct specific gravities. VAS operates in-line and is scaleable. It is capable of processing volumes as low as three gallons per minute, as well as volumes over 10,000 gallons per minute with only one moving part. The Company is researching and developing VAS solutions for various applications and markets, including pre-treatment (headworks/entrance to municipal wastewater plant) of wastewater, grit/sand separation, oil-water separation, oil exploration and production, oil refineries, marine/oil-spill clean up, and food processing and manufacturing waste treatment.
ENTX Entrx Corporation is engaged in insulation services, including asbestos abatement and material sales, to customers primarily in California. The Company conducts its business operations primarily through a wholly owned subsidiary, Metalclad Insulation Corporation (MIC). Entrx's industrial customers are predominately public utilities (power, natural gas and water/water treatment), oil companies for oil refineries and petrochemical plants, chemical and food processors, other heavy manufacturers and engineering/construction companies. The commercial customers are primarily government installations, schools, hospitals, institutions, an array of manufacturing/commercial facilities and the general or mechanical construction contractors. In 2003, the Company received a portion of its revenues from Southern California Edison Company (17.5%) and LA Power Joint Venture (14.1%), both through its Curtom-Metalclad joint venture. Shell Oil Products United States accounted for 10% of its revenues.
ENTU Entrust, Inc. is a provider of software that secures digital identities and information. This software and the associated services enable businesses and governments around the world to securely execute transactions and communicate information over wired and wireless networks, including the Internet. The Company has a broad set of products that provides identification, entitlements, verification, privacy and security management capabilities. The Company's customers are the government agencies, financial institutions and Global 1,500 enterprises, including financial, healthcare, telecommunications and large manufacturing organizations in more than 50 countries. Entrust packages its products and services together into three solutions secure data, secure messaging and secure identity management. This allows customers to deploy one solution or product to meet a current need and then easily integrate another one later.
ENFN.OB Entrust Financial Services, Inc. is a holding company engaged in mortgage banking activities through its wholly owned subsidiary, Entrust Mortgage Inc. Entrust Mortgage markets consumer financial products, including first and second mortgages, and home equity loans. It primarily originates non-conforming mortgage loans, which are loans that do not conform to the Federal National Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Administration requirements. Entrust Mortgage is licensed as a mortgage banker in 37 states and provides loan services to more than 600 contracted mortgage broker.
ETOP.OB Entropin, Inc. is a pharmaceutical research and development company focused on the development of proprietary compounds for pain therapy. The Company is pursuing two delivery systems, injectable and topical, for ENT-103, a compound for pain therapy that has the potential to treat a number of medical conditions using various delivery systems. A third delivery system, inhalation therapy, is being evaluated. Entropin's primary activities since inception have been research and development, including preclinical studies, and tests focused on securing United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its proprietary compounds.
ERMX.OB EntreMetrix Corporation, formerly known as Missouri River and Gold Gem Corp, provides Administrative Employer and strategic guidance services to small business owners. The Company provides business process outsourcing (BPO) services for small businesses, including employee-related administration handling, such as payroll, benefits and insurance operations, regulatory filings and overall human resource (HR) guidance as the client's Administrative Employer. It provides financial guidance in areas of treasury management and capital formation for small business clients. On March 8, 2004, the Company acquired of EnStruxis, which became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.
ENMD Entremed, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutics primarily for the treatment of cancer. Panzem, the Company's lead drug candidate, is in clinical trials for cancer, as well as preclinical development for indications outside of oncology. EntreMed's research and development programs are designed to identify new chemical entities by understanding the interrelationships of cell cycle regulation, inflammation, coagulation and angiogenesis, processes vital to the treatment of multiple diseases, including cancer. These programs have led to the identification of new therapeutic targets such as inhibition of the tissue factor pathway and the proteinase-activated receptor-2 (PAR-2). Based on these targets, EntreMed scientists are designing additional drug candidates for in-house development or partnering opportunities.
EVC Entravision Communications Corporation is a diversified Spanish-language media company with a portfolio of television, radio and outdoor advertising assets. The Company owns and/or operates 45 primary television stations, a majority of which is located in the southwestern United States, including the United States/Mexican border markets. Entravision's television stations consist primarily of affiliates of the two television networks of Univision. The Company also owns and operates 57 radio stations in 22 United State markets. Entravision's radio stations consist of 42 FM (frequency modulation) and 15 AM (amplitude modulation) stations located primarily in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas. The Company's outdoor advertising operations consist of approximately 10,900 advertising faces located primarily in Hispanic communities in Los Angeles, California and New York, New York.
ESAN.OB Entrada Networks, Inc. is in the business of developing, marketing and selling products for the network connectivity segments through its three wholly owned subsidiaries: Torrey Pines Networks, Inc., Rixon Networks, Inc. and Sync Research, Inc. Torrey Pines designs, manufactures, markets and sells storage area network transport switching products. Rixon designs, manufactures, markets and sells a line of fast and gigabit Ethernet products that are incorporated into the remote access and other server products of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Sync Research designs, manufactures, markets, sells and services frame relay products for financial institutions in the United States and abroad. In May 2004, Torrey Pines acquired Microtek Systems, a provider of security, digital imaging, information infrastructures and storage solutions. Microtek was privately held and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
EPR Entertainment Properties Trust (EPR) is a self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) engaged in the development of destination entertainment and entertainment-related properties, including megaplex movie theater complexes in the United States. As of December 31, 2003, its real estate portfolio consisted primarily of 45 megaplex theater properties located in 18 states, two entertainment retail centers located in Westminster, Colorado, and New Rochelle, New York, and land parcels leased to restaurant and retail operators adjacent to several of its theater properties. The Company's theater properties are leased to theater operators, including American Multi-Cinema, Inc. (AMC), a subsidiary of AMC Entertainment, Inc.; Muvico Entertainment, LLC; Regal Cinemas, Inc.; Consolidated Theatres; Loews Cineplex Entertainment; Rave Motion Pictures; AmStar Cinemas, LLC; Wallace Theatres, and Crown Theatres. Approximately 62% of the Company's megaplex theater properties are leased to AMC.
EENC Enterra Energy Trust (the Trust) is an open-ended unincorporated investment trust whose principal undertaking is to issue trust units and to acquire and hold debt instruments, royalties and other interests. Enterra Energy Corp. (New Enterra) is the principal operating subsidiary of the Trust. Enterra Production Partnership (the Partnership), which was formed as a general partnership, holds all of the Trust's producing crude oil and natural gas properties. The partners of the Partnership are New Enterra and Enterra Energy Partner Corp. The Trust's production is approximately 6,500 to 7,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day and its established reserves are approximately 12 million barrels of oil equivalent. The Trust's core areas include the Peace River Arch area of Alberta, Central Alberta and East Central Alberta.
EPD Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (Enterprise) is a midstream energy company serving producers and consumers of natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs). The Company conducts all of its business through its wholly owned subsidiary, Enterprise Products Operating L.P. and its subsidiaries and joint ventures. The Company has five business segments: Pipelines, Fractionation, Processing, Octane Enhancement and Other. Pipelines consists of NGL, petrochemical and natural gas pipeline systems, storage and import/export terminal services. Fractionation primarily includes NGL fractionation, isomerization and propylene fractionation. Processing includes Enterprise's natural gas processing business and related NGL marketing activities. Octane Enhancement represents the Company's investment in a facility that produces motor gasoline additives to enhance octane. The Other business segment consists of fee-based marketing services and various operational support activities.
ETR Entergy Corporation is an energy company engaged in electric power production, retail electric distribution operations, energy marketing and trading and gas transportation. The Company owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity. Entergy delivers electricity to 2.6 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Through Entergy-Koch, it is a provider of wholesale energy marketing and trading services, as well as an operator of natural gas pipeline and storage facilities. Entergy operates through its segments: U.S. Utility, Non-Utility Nuclear and Energy Commodity Services. In November 2004, the Company sold its energy trading business, Entergy-Koch, LP, a venture of Entergy Corporation and Koch Energy, Inc. to Merrill Lynch &amp; Co., Inc. In December 2004, Loews Corp.' subsidiary, TGT Pipeline, LLC acquired Gulf South Pipeline, LP from Entergy-Koch, LP, a venture between the Company and Koch Energy, Inc.
ETM Entercom Communications Corp. is a radio broadcasting company that acquires, develops and operates radio broadcast properties throughout the United States. The Company owns or operates radio stations in 19 markets. The Company derives its revenues primarily from the sale of broadcasting time to local and national advertisers by selling advertisers access to its radio stations' base of listeners. In 2003, Entercom generated 78% of its net revenues from local advertising and 20% from net national spot advertising. It generated the balance of its 2003 revenues principally from network compensation, radio station events and rental income from tower sites.
ETS Enterasys Networks, Inc. designs, develops, markets and supports networking solutions to address the networking requirements of global enterprises. Its installed base of customers consists of commercial enterprises; governmental entities; healthcare, financial, educational and non-profit institutions, and various other organizations. Enterasys Dragon, Enterasys Matrix, Enterasys Networks, Enterasys RoamAbout, NetSight, Networks that Know, RoamAbout, Secure Networks and X-Pedition are some of the Company's trademarks. The Company conducts sales operations primarily in four regions around the world including North America (United States and Canada), EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa), Asia Pacific (Asia and Australia) and Latin America (South America, Mexico and Caribbean). Enterasys' products are classified into four principal categories including multilayer switching, routing, wireless networking and security.
ENTG Entegris, Inc. is a provider of materials integrity management solutions to the microelectronics industry in particular, the semiconductor and data storage markets. The materials integrity management products include wafer shippers, wafer transport and process carriers, standard mechanical interface pods and work-in-process boxes. The fluid handling products, such as valves, fittings, tubing, pipe, fluid measuring and control products, and containers, assure the consistent and safe delivery and storage of sophisticated chemicals between chemical manufacturers and manufacturers' point-of-use. The Company's materials integrity management solutions for the semiconductor industry assure the integrity of materials as they are handled, stored, processed and transported throughout the semiconductor manufacturing process, from raw silicon wafer shipping to the manufacturing and packaging of completed integrated circuits.
ESGR The Enstar Group, Inc. is engaged in the operation of several equity affiliates in the financial services industry. Enstar also continues its active search for one or more additional operating businesses that meet certain acquisition criteria. Through the operations of its partially owned equity affiliates, Castlewood Holdings Limited and B.H. Acquisition Limited, and their subsidiaries, the Company has acquired and manages property and casualty insurance and reinsurance companies. Enstar's only wholly owned subsidiary, Enstar Financial Services, Inc. is inactive.
ESV Ensco International Incorporated is an international offshore contract drilling company. As of February 29, 2004, its complement of offshore drilling rigs included 43 jackup rigs, seven barge rigs, five platform rigs and one semisubmersible rig. The Company's offshore contract drilling operations are integral to the exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas. It is an international provider of offshore contract drilling services to the oil and gas industry. The Company's operations are concentrated in the geographic regions of North America, Europe/Africa, Asia Pacific and South America/Caribbean. Its contract drilling operations are conducted by a number of subsidiaries, substantially all of which are wholly-owned. On February 20, 2003, the Company reached an agreement to sell its 27-vessel marine transportation fleet. After receipt of various regulatory consents, the transaction was finalized on April 1, 2003.
NPO Enpro Industries, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets proprietary engineered industrial products, including sealing products; self-lubricating, non-rolling, metal polymer bearing products; air compressor systems and vacuum pumps, and heavy-duty diesel and natural gas engines. The Company also designs, manufactures and sells other engineered industrial products such as polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) products and specialized tooling. It has 33 primary manufacturing facilities located in the United States and nine countries outside the United States. The Company manages its business as two segments, a sealing products segment, which includes sealing and PTFE products, and an engineered products segment, which includes metal polymer bearings, air compressor systems, medium-speed engines and specialized tooling.
NPTH Enpath Medical, Inc. (Enpath) is a medical products company engaged in the design, development, manufacture and marketing of percutaneous vessel introducers, safety needles and related vascular delivery products; implantable stimulation leads, lead delivery systems and lead accessories for cardiac rhythm management, neuromodulation and hearing restoration markets, and the manufacture of medical devices and components for other medical product companies on a contract basis. On October 23, 2003, the Company completed its acquisition of the operating assets of BIOMEC Cardiovascular Inc. (BCI) from BIOMEC Inc. and began to operate the BCI business through its wholly owned subsidiary, Enpath Lead Technologies, Inc. (ELT). Enpath consists of two operating divisions: the Delivery Systems Division (formerly Medamicus) and the Lead Technologies Division (formerly BCI), also referred to as ELT. Enpath changed its name from Medamicus, Inc. to Enpath Medical, Inc. on February 2, 2004.
ENVA.OB Enova Systems, Inc. is engaged in the development and production of commercial digital power management systems for transportation vehicles and stationary power generation systems. Power management systems control and monitor electric power in an automotive or commercial application, such as an automobile or a stand-alone power generator. Drive systems are comprised of an electric motor, an electronics control unit, and a gear unit which power an electric vehicle. Hybrid systems, which are similar to pure electric drive systems, contain an internal combustion engine, in addition, to the electric motor, eliminating external recharging of the battery system.
ENO Enodis plc is engaged in the manufacture and distribution of commercial foodservice equipment, including both warm and cold side products. The Company operates its business in two principal segments: Food Service Equipment and Food Retail Equipment. The Food Service Equipment segment manufactures and distributes primary cooking equipment, refrigeration and ice machines, sanitation and environmental machines, serving equipment, food preparation equipment, smallwares, cookwares, kitchen tools, storage and handling equipment, as well as custom fabrications used by commercial and institutional foodservice operators. The Food Retail Equipment segment manufactures and sells equipment used to store and display food in retail food outlets, such as supermarkets, convenience stores and specialty stores. Enodis also has property development operations.
EBF Ennis, Inc., formerly Ennis Business Forms, Inc., is primarily engaged in the production of and sale of business forms and other business products. The Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates in three business segments: the Forms Solutions Group, the Promotional Solutions Group and the Financial Solutions Group. The Forms Solutions Group is primarily engaged in the business of manufacturing and selling business forms and other printed business products. The Promotional Solutions Group is primarily engaged in the business of design, production and distribution of printed and electronic media, presentation products, flexographic printing, advertising specialties and Post-it Notes. The Financial Solutions Group designs, manufactures and markets printed forms and specializes in internal bank forms, secure and negotiable documents and custom products. In November 2004, the Company completed the merger of Alstyle Apparel, Inc. with and into a subsidiary of Ennis.
E Eni S.p.A., with its consolidated subsidiaries, is engaged in the oil and gas, electricity generation, petrochemicals, oilfield services and engineering industries. The Company is engaged in the exploration and production of hydrocarbons in Italy, Croatia, North Africa, West Africa, the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the Middle and Far East, the Caspian Sea, Australia and Latin America. Eni's business includes exploration and production, natural gas and electricity generation, refining and marketing, petrochemicals, oilfield services construction and engineering and related activities. Eni's proved reserves of hydrocarbons, at December 31, 2003, totaled 7,272 million barrels of oil equivalent (oil and condensates 4,138 million barrels and natural gas 18,008 billion cubic feet) and the average reserve life index was 12.7 years.
ENHT.OB enherent Corp. provides two primary lines of service: information technology (IT) staffing of individuals and teams, and solutions outsourcing involving software development projects or IT operational services. In partnership with clients, enherent addresses business needs in a variety of industries by focusing on the critical disciplines of project management, business requirements management and technology integration. A range of staffing and professional services is available from enherent, which include application development, project management, application infrastructure, testing services, application maintenance, software performance optimization and professional IT staffing. For clients with temporary needs, the Company provides individual or team staffing on a consultative basis. In addition, enherent provides permanent placement of specialized individuals for clients with long-term needs.
ENG ENGlobal Corporation is a provider of engineering services and systems principally to the petroleum refining, petrochemical, pipeline, production and process industries throughout the United States and internationally. The services provided by the Company span the life cycle of a project, and include feasibility studies, design, procurement and construction management. ENGlobal also supplies automation, control and uninterruptible electrical power systems to its clients worldwide. The Company's business consists of two segments, engineering and systems. The engineering segment offers engineering consulting services to clients for the development, management and turnkey execution of engineering projects and inspection services. The systems segment designs, assembles, programs, installs, integrates and services control and instrumentation systems for specific applications in the energy and processing related industries.
ELLG.OB English Language Learning and Instruction System, Inc. is a provider of interactive multimedia software used in teaching the English language. The Company's flagship product is ELLIS, a series of interactive multi-media software programs that provide English language instruction. ELLIS combines text, translation in over 60 languages, full-motion video and digitized sound, voice recording, graphics and animation in a comprehensive and user-friendly environment for learners at virtually all English language proficiency levels. This methodology brings about an active and interactive learning situation.
EASI Engineered Support Systems, Inc. is a holding company for 11 wholly owned subsidiaries. These subsidiaries are organized within the Company's two business segments: Support Systems and Support Services. The Support Systems segment includes the operations of Systems &amp; Electronics Inc., Keco Industries, Inc., Engineered Air Systems, Inc., Engineered Coil Company, Engineered Electric Company, Universal Power Systems, Inc., Engineered Environments, Inc. and Pivotal Power Inc. The Support Services segment includes the operations of Technical and Management Services Corporation, Radian, Inc. and ESSIbuy.com, Inc. The Support Systems segment designs, engineers and manufactures integrated military electronics and other support equipment. The Support Services segment provides engineering, logistics support and systems integration services. Substantially all revenues the Company's revenues are derived from contracts with the United States Department of Defense and certain foreign militaries.
EGX Engex Inc. (the Fund) is a non-diversified, closed-end investment company. The Fund seeks investment opportunities in one or more additional companies in which it would acquire a controlling interest. It also invests in common stocks of companies in the biotechnology, technology, gaming, telecommunications, distribution, environmental and financial services sectors. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2003, the net asset value of the Fund increased, which is attributed to the increase in the price of its principal holding, Enzo Biochem, Inc. Enzo is an emerging biotechnology company that has initiated a Phase II randomized double-blind clinical trial of its new treatment for Crohn's Disease. American Investors Advisors, Inc. serves as the Advisor of the Fund.
EC Engelhard Corporation develops, manufactures and markets value-added technologies based on surface and materials science for various industrial customers. The Company also provides its technology segments, their customers and others with precious and base metals and related services. The Company operates on a worldwide basis with corporate headquarters in the United States, and manufacturing facilities, mineral reserves and other operations in Asia, the European community, North America, the Russian Federation, South Africa and Brazil. Its businesses are organized into four reportable segments: Environmental Technologies; Process Technologies; Appearance and Performance Technologies, and Materials Services.
ENC Enesco Group, Inc. (Enesco) is a global supplier of gift, collectible and home and garden decor products. Enesco's giftware, collectible and home and garden decor product lines consist of approximately 24,000 items worldwide, including approximately 8,000 items sold in the United States. These product lines are product licensed by Enesco and its subsidiaries from independent creative designers, Enesco's collection of proprietary designs and product it distributes under third party distribution arrangements. The products include lines of branded porcelain bisque, cold cast and resin figurines, cottages, musicals, music boxes, ornaments, plush animals, waterballs, candles, tableware and general home accessories. These products are primarily produced by independent manufacturers in the Far East.
ENS EnerSys is a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of industrial batteries. The Company also manufactures, markets and distributes related products, such as chargers, power equipment and battery accessories, and provides related after-market and customer-support services for lead-acid industrial batteries. Industrial batteries are characterized as reserve power batteries, which are used to provide back-up power for the continuous operation of critical telecommunications and uninterruptible power systems during power disruptions, and motive power batteries, which are used to power mobile manufacturing, warehousing and other ground handling equipment, such as electric industrial forklift trucks. It provides responsive and efficient aftermarket support for the products through strategically located warehouses and a Company-owned service network supplemented by independent representatives.
ENI Enersis S.A. is an electricity utility company primarily engaged, through its principal subsidiaries and related companies, in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Peru. The Company has over 10 million customers. Endesa Spain acquired control of Enersis in April 1999, and owned 60.6% of Enersis' outstanding shares at December 31, 2003. The Company operates its electricity generation business through Endesa-Chile. Enersis' electricity distribution business has been conducted through Chilectra, Rio Maipo, Edesur, Cerj, Coelce, Codensa and Edelnor. Enersis remained focused on the electricity sector, although it also has small operations in other businesses, such as real estate, electrical parts procurement, computer services and infrastructure projects.
ERF Enerplus Resources Fund is an energy investment trust that holds royalties for EnerMark Inc., Enerplus Resources Corporation and Enerplus Oil &amp; Gas Ltd. All of Enerplus' oil and natural gas property interests are located in western Canada in the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Production volumes for the year ended December 31, 2003, from Enerplus' properties consisted of approximately 42% crude oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs) and 58% natural gas on a barrel of equivalent oil (BOE) basis. During 2003, Enerplus participated in the drilling of 543 gross wells (294 net wells). In January 2004, the Fund acquired Ice Energy Limited, which operates a core shallow gas area in western Saskatchewan, as well as a commercial coal bed methane development project in central Alberta.
ENY EnerNorth Industries Inc. engaged in mechanical contracting and fabrication. The Company conducts its operations through an Industrial and Offshore Division and an Oil and Gas Division. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary M&amp;M Engineering Limited (M&amp;M), and M&amp;M's wholly owned subsidiary M&amp;M Offshore Limited (MMO). In the Oil and Gas Division, through its directly held interests in oil and gas properties the Company participates in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of oil and gas reserves. Through its wholly owned subsidiary EPS Karnataka Power Corp. a company incorporated in Ontario (EPS Karnataka), the Company owns a 97% interest in Euro India Power Canara Limited, a company incorporated in India (EIPCL).
ENSI EnergySouth, Inc. was formed for the primary purpose of becoming the holding company for Mobile Gas Service Corporation (Mobile Gas), a natural gas utility, and its subsidiaries. Mobile Gas is engaged in the purchase, distribution, sale and transportation of natural gas to approximately 98,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in Southwest Alabama, including the City of Mobile. Mobile Gas' service territory covers approximately 300 square miles. Mobile Gas is also involved in merchandise sales, specifically sales of natural gas appliances. Through EnergySouth Services, Inc. (Services), the Company provides contract and consulting work for utilities and industrial customers. MGS Marketing Services, Inc. (Marketing) was formed to assist existing and potential customers in the purchase of natural gas. Services, Marketing and MGS Storage Services, Inc. (Storage) are wholly owned subsidiaries of EnergySouth.
ETP Energy Transfer Partners, L.P., formerly Heritage Propane Partners, L.P., is a holding company that is engaged in the natural gas midstream and transportation business through its operating subsidiary, La Grange Acquisition, L.P. (ETC OLP), and is a retail marketer of propane in the United States through its operating subsidiary, Heritage Operating, L.P (HOLP). In December 2003, the Company acquired 50% interest in Bi-State Propane in addition to the 50% interest it already owned. The Company wholly owns Bi-State Propane. In January 2004, the Company acquired Metro Lift Propane. In January 2004, the Company combined the retail propane operations of Heritage Propane Partners, L.P. with the natural gas midstream and transportation operations of ETC OLP. In March 2004, the Company changed its name to Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. In June 2004, the Company acquired the assets of TXU Fuel Company from TXU.
EPL Energy Partners, Ltd. is an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company focused on the shallow to moderate depth waters of the Gulf of Mexico Shelf. The Company engages in exploration, exploitation and development drilling and multi-year, multi-well, drill-to-earn programs, as well as strategic acquisitions of mature oil and natural gas fields. Energy Partners has interests in 24 producing fields and six fields under development, all of which are located in the Gulf of Mexico Shelf region. These fields fall into three focus areas identified as its Eastern, Central and Western areas. The Eastern area comprises of two fields, including the East Bay field. The Central area comprises of six fields, four of which are contiguous and together cover most of the Bay Marchand salt dome. The Western area comprises of 17 producing fields.
EAS Energy East Corporation is a public utility holding company with operations in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire. The company's principal energy delivery business consists primarily of its regulated electricity transmission, distribution and generation operations and its regulated natural gas transportation, storage and distribution operations. Energy East serves approximately 1.8 million electricity customers and 900,000 natural gas customers. The service territories include high-technology firms, insurance, light industry, consumer goods manufacturing, pulp and paper, ship building, colleges and universities, agriculture, fishing and recreational facilities. The Company's subsidiaries are New York State Electric &amp; Gas Corporation, Connecticut Energy Corporation, CMP Group, Inc., CTG Resources, Inc., Berkshire Energy Resources and RGS Energy Group, Inc.
ENER Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (ECD) is a technology, product development and manufacturing company engaged in the invention, engineering, development and commercialization of new materials, products and production technology in the fields of alternative energy technology and information technology. The Company has developed materials that permit them to design and commercialize products, such as thin-film solar cell (photovoltaic) products, nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries, and phase-change memory devices. ECD's materials, products and technologies are referred to as Ovonic. The Company operates in three segments: ECD segment, Ovonic Battery segment and United Solar Ovonic segment. All the activities of the Company are conducted directly, and through subsidiaries and joint ventures. In addition, ECD is engaged in the research and development, and production of its own materials and products, as well as in designing and building production machinery.
ENR Energizer Holdings, Inc. (Energizer) is a manufacturer of primary batteries, flashlights and men's and women's wet-shave products. Energizer's subsidiaries manufacture and market a line of primary alkaline and carbon zinc batteries, miniature batteries, specialty photo lithium batteries, rechargeable batteries, and flashlights and other lighting products. Energizer MAX brand alkaline batteries are offered in 1.5 volt, 4.5 volt, 6 volt and 9 volt configurations, and are available in the standard selection of sizes, including AA, AAA, AAAA, C, D and 9 volt sizes. In specialty batteries, Energizer offers a range of miniature batteries for hearing aids, watches and small electronics, and photo batteries for film cameras. Energizer manufactures and markets a complete line of flashlights and other battery-powered lighting products under the Energizer and Eveready brands.
EGN Energen Corporation is a energy holding company engaged in the acquisition, development, exploration and production of oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids in the continental United States and in the purchase, distribution and sale of natural gas, principally in central and north Alabama. The Company's two subsidiaries are Energen Resources Corporation and Alabama Gas Corporation (Alagasco). During the year ended December 31, 2003, Energen Resources' inventory of proved oil and gas reserves totaled 1,364.9 billion cubic feet equivalent (Bcfe). Substantially all of the company's approximately 1.4 trillion cubic feet equivalent of reserves are located in the San Juan Basin in New Mexico, the Permian Basin in west Texas, the Black Warrior Basin in Alabama, and the north Louisiana/east Texas region. Approximately 81% of Energen Resources' reserves are proved developed reserves in 2003.
ENEI.OB Ener1, Inc. is an energy-related technology holding company, providing the necessary resources and capital to develop and commercialize new technologies and products for clean, efficient energy sources. The Company develops and markets lithium power technologies and products for stored energy and battery power, including secondary (rechargeable) cells, primary cells (non-rechargeable), battery packs and electronics, through EnerDel, its majority-owned venture with Delphi Corp. Ener1 develops and markets nanotechnology-based materials and manufacturing processes and components through its NanoEner, Inc. subsidiary. Ener1 develops select fuel cell components and provides fuel cell-related testing services through its EnerFuel, Inc. subsidiary. Ener1's products have market applications for power tools, industrial equipment, medical devices, hybrid vehicle propulsion and military communications. The Company holds numerous United States and international patents for its technologies.
EN Enel S.p.A. is an electricity company in Italy, which is engaged in the generation, distribution, sales and transmission of electricity. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's net electricity production was 137.8 terawatt hours. Enel's generation and energy management division includes electricity operations in Italy. Through its sales, infrastructure and networks business, the Company distributes electricity in Italy. Enel's international division includes electricity generation, distribution and sales activities outside of Italy, as well as business development through partnerships and acquisitions outside of Italy. The Company's transmission division owns transmission assets of Italy's national electricity grid. Enel's telecommunications division, WIND, provides mobile telephony services in Italy. The Company's services and other activities division include real estate, engineering and construction and information technology services, as well as water activities.
ENWV Endwave Corporation designs, manufactures and markets RF (radio frequency) subsystems that enable the transmission, reception and processing of high-speed electromagnetic signals in broadband wireless telecommunications systems, cellular telephone infrastructure networks, defense electronics systems and other similar systems requiring RF, microwave and millimeter wave technology. The Company designs products to best satisfy its customers' technical, inventory, logistical and cost requirements by using proprietary technologies, RF design and manufacturing expertise. Endwave offers a range of products at multiple levels of integration that are optimized for a customer's specific product and performance needs. The Company's target customers for these applications are microwave radio manufacturers and wireless systems integrators that provide the wireless equipment used by communications service providers to deliver voice, data and video services to businesses and consumers.
ENH Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. is a holding company that through its operating subsidiaries based in Bermuda, the United Kingdom and the United States, focuses on underwriting specialty lines of personal and commercial property and casualty insurance and reinsurance on a global basis. The Company defines specialty lines as those lines of insurance and reinsurance that require dedicated, specialized underwriting skills and resources in order to be profitably underwritten. Its portfolio of specialty lines of business is organized into segments, such as property-per-risk treaty reinsurance, property catastrophe reinsurance, casualty treaty reinsurance, property individual risk, casualty individual risk and aerospace and other specialty lines. The Company's primary operating subsidiaries are Endurance Specialty Insurance Ltd., Endurance Worldwide Insurance Limited and Endurance Reinsurance Corporation of America.
EVSC.OB Endovasc, Inc. develops, markets and licenses biopharmaceutical products, particularly liposomal drug delivery methods, for the human healthcare industry. The Company develops liposomes, which are microscopic cell-like spheres composed of a thin, durable lipid membrane surrounding a hollow compartment. Liposomes entrap and protect drugs from degradation in the blood stream and can be engineered to regulate the transport of molecules across their outer membrane. Using this technology, Endovasc is developing products that deliver drugs to their intended target and release them with efficiency and control. Its product development is focused on two core products: Liprostin and Angiogenix. The Company has not generated any revenues from the sale of these products and has historically operated with significant losses.
ELGX Endologix, Inc. develops, manufactures, sells and markets invasive therapies for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. The Company's products, the Powerlink System and PowerWeb System, are catheter-based alternative treatments for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Endologix developed catheter-based systems to treat cardiovascular disease, prior to developing the Powerlink System. It licensed the Company's Focus balloon technology to Guidant Corporation for use in Guidant's coronary stent delivery systems. The Powerlink System and its predecessor, the PowerWeb System, is a catheter and endoluminal graft (ELG) system. The self-expanding stainless steel stent cage is covered by ePTFE, a common surgical graft material. The system consists of a self-expanding stainless steel stent cage covered with ePTFE, a common surgical graft material. The Powerlink ELG is implanted in the abdominal aorta, gaining access by a small incision through the femoral artery.
ENDP Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. is engaged in the research, development, sale and marketing of branded and generic prescription pharmaceuticals used primarily to treat and manage pain. The Company's primary area of focus within the pain management market is in the opioid analgesics segment. Endo Pharmaceuticals has a portfolio of branded products that includes established brand names such as Lidoderm, Percocet, Percodan and Zydone. Branded products accounted approximately 70% of its net sales during the year ended December 31, 2003. The Company's generic portfolio, which accounted for 30% of its net sales in 2003, consisted of products that are concentrated in pain management.
ENDE.OB EnDevCo, Inc. is an energy company establishing an identity that is consistent with its business development activities. The Company's business plan includes strategies to participate in three sectors of the energy industry: oil and gas exploration and production, development of new technologies for the enhancement of oil and gas production and the utilization of that technology to gain leverage in the purchase of domestic natural gas production and merchant power and integrated industrial site development.
ELE Endesa S.A. is an electricity company in Spain. The Company has a significant presence in the Southern European electricity market, particularly in Italy, as well as in Latin America. Endesa's core business is energy and it is also involved in other activities related to its core energy business, such as renewable energies and co-generation, and the distribution and supply of natural gas. In addition, the Company holds interests in other businesses, such as telecommunications. Endesa's electricity business is principally focused on Spain, the Southern European region, including Italy, France and Portugal, as well as in Latin America. At December 31, 2003, the Company had a total installed capacity of 41,836 megawatts, and during the year ended December 31, 2003, Endesa generated 159,558 gigawatt hours and sold 161,499 gigawatt hours, supplying electricity to approximately 20.9 million customers in 12 countries.
END Endeavour International Corporation, Inc. is engaged in the business of acquiring, exploring and developing natural gas and oil properties. From the date of its formation through February 2002, the Company was engaged in the business of marketing and selling graphics media products, such as symbols, logos, pictures, signs and business advertisements over the Internet. It was formerly known as Continental Southern Resources, Inc. and Expression Graphics, Inc.
ENCY Encysive Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Encysive) is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of novel, synthetic, small-molecule compounds for the treatment and prevention of a variety of cardiovascular, vascular and related inflammatory diseases. The Company is working on a number of long-term development projects in the areas of vasospasm/hypertension, thrombosis, vascular inflammation and vascular disease. The Company's lead drug candidate, Thelin (sitaxsentan), is an endothelin receptor antagonist in Phase III clinical trials, being developed as a treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Encysive has other clinical product candidates in earlier stages of development, including TBC3711 and Bimosiamose. In April 2003, the Company acquired the ownership interest of ICOS Corporation in ICOS-Texas Biotechnology L.P. (ICOS-TBC), a limited partnership.
WIRE Encore Wire Corporation is a manufacturer of copper electrical building wire and cable. Its operations are conducted through Encore Wire Limited, a Texas limited partnership. The Company offers a residential wire product line that consists primarily of non-metallic (NM) cable and underground feeder (UF) cable. Encore's commercial product line consists primarily of THWN-2 (thermoplastic heat- and water-resistant, nylon coated) commercial wire. In addition, the Company manufactures other types of commercial wire products. Encore also purchases small quantities of other types of wire to re-sell to the customers that buy the products it manufactures. The principal customers for the Company's wire are wholesale electrical distributors, which serve both the residential and commercial wire markets. Encore sells its products primarily through manufacturers' representatives located throughout the United States and, to a lesser extent, through its own direct in-house marketing efforts.
ENMC Encore Medical Corporation is a diversified orthopedic company that designs, manufactures and distributes a range of orthopedic devices, sports medicine equipment and other related products for the orthopedic industry. The Company sells its products to orthopedic surgeons, physical and occupational therapists and other orthopedic specialists who use its products to treat patients with musculo-skeletal conditions resulting from degenerative diseases, deformities, traumatic events and sports related injuries. Encore's surgical implants are used in reconstructive surgical procedures for the knee, hip, shoulder and spine. Its soft goods and rehabilitation products are used before surgery to offset the progression of an orthopedic condition. After surgery, the Company's rehabilitation and soft goods products are used to assist the patient in recovery and to protect against further injury.
ECPG Encore Capital Group, Inc. is a systems-driven purchaser and manager of charged-off consumer receivables portfolios. The receivable portfolios consist primarily of charged-off domestic consumer credit card receivables purchased from national financial institutions, retail credit corporations and resellers of such portfolios. Encore acquires these portfolios at deep discounts from their face values using its proprietary valuation process that is based on the consumer attributes of the underlying accounts. The Company employs a mix of collection strategies to maximize its return on investment. Encore is a holding company whose principal assets are its investments in its wholly owned subsidiaries, Midland Credit Management, Inc., Midland Funding 98-A Corporation, Midland Receivables 99-1 Corporation, Midland Acquisition Corporation, MRC Receivables Corporation, Midland Funding NCC-1 Corporation, Midland Funding NCC-2 Corporation and Midland Receivables 98-1 Corporation.
EAC Encore Acquisition Company is an independent energy company engaged in the acquisition, development, exploitation and production of onshore North American oil and natural gas reserves. The Company's properties are located in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota, the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico, the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma, the Powder River Basin of Montana, the Paradox Basin of Utah and the North Louisiana Salt Basin of Louisiana. The Cedar Creek Anticline (CCA), located in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota, represented 73% of its total proved reserves in 2003.
ECI Encision Inc. produces and markets a line of analytical electron microscopy (AEM) surgical instruments, which are shielded and monitored to prevent stray electrosurgical burns from insulation failure and capacitive coupling. The Company's product line includes a range of articulating instruments (scissors, graspers and dissectors), fixed-tip electrodes and suction-irrigation electrodes. These AEM instruments are available in an array of reusable and disposable options. Revenue from replacement reusable and disposable AEM products in converted hospitals represented over 80% of Encision's revenue during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004).
ECA EnCana Corporation is an independent crude oil and natural gas exploration and production company. Its key landholdings are in western Canada, the United States Rocky Mountains, Ecuador, the United Kingdom central North Sea, offshore Canada's East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico. EnCana explores for, produces and markets natural gas, crude oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs) in Canada and the United States. EnCana is also engaged in exploration and production activities internationally including production from Ecuador and the United Kingdom central North Sea. EnCana has interests in midstream operations and assets, including natural gas storage, NGLs gathering and processing facilities, power plants and pipelines.
ENB Enbridge Inc. is engaged in energy transportation and distribution in North America and internationally. As a transporter of energy, Enbridge operates, in Canada and the United States, a crude oil and liquids transportation system. The Company also has international operations and a growing involvement in the natural gas transmission and midstream businesses. As a distributor of energy, Enbridge owns and operates a natural gas distribution company in Canada, and provides distribution services in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and New York State. The Company conducts its business through five operating segments: Liquids Pipelines, Gas Pipelines, Sponsored Investments, Gas Distribution and Services and International. In January 2005, the Company's wholly owned United States subsidiary, Enbridge (U.S.) Inc., purchased Shell Gas Transmission, LLC from Shell US Gas &amp; Power LLC.
EEP Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P. is a limited partnership that owns and operates crude oil and liquid petroleum transportation assets and natural gas gathering, treating, processing, transmission and marketing assets in the United States. The Company conducts its business through four business segments: Liquids Transportation, Gathering and Processing, Natural Gas Transportation and Marketing. Its ownership consists of a 2% general partner interest and a 98% limited partner interest. In Janurary 2005, the Company acquired the North Texas Natural Gas System from Devon Energy Corporation.
ENPT En Pointe Technologies, Inc. (En Pointe) is a national provider of information technology products (hardware and software) and value-added services with a customer base consisting primarily of large and medium sized companies and government entities. The Company uses software and systems to drop-ship information technology products to the customers through an electronically linked network of suppliers that include distributors and certain manufacturers in the United States. This software allows it to serve as an electronic clearinghouse of computers and computer related products. It provides customers with electronic commerce tools to search searching for and acquire computer equipment and other technology products. The tools provided includes AccessPointe, a powerful and flexible Internet procurement system that is electronically linked to the extensive warehousing, purchasing and distribution functions of the suppliers.
ELX Emulex Corporation is engaged the design, development and sales of fibre channel host bus adapters (HBAs). The Company delivers a broad range of intelligent building blocks, including embedded storage switches and input/output (I/0) controllers for next-generation storage networking systems. HBAs are the data communication products that enable servers to connect to storage networks by offloading communication-processing tasks as information is delivered and sent to the storage network. Embedded storage switches and I/0 controllers are deployed inside storage arrays, tape libraries and other storage appliances, delivering improved performance and reliability and storage connectivity. Emulex's architecture offers customers an application program interface (API) that has been preserved across multiple generations of storage networking solutions, and to which the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have customized software for mission-critical server and storage system applications.
ETEC.OB Emtec, Inc. is a systems integrator focused on providing technology solutions that enable its customers to effectively use and manage their data to grow their businesses. The Company's areas of specialization in information technology (IT) services include enterprise computing, data communications, data access, network design, enterprise backup and storage consolidation, managed services and staff augmentation. Emtec is also reseller of IT products, including workstations, servers, microcomputers, application software and networking and communications equipment. The Company's customers are primarily companies, state and local government, local school districts, and other large and mid-sized companies located principally in the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area and the Southeastern United States.
ELMG EMS Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets products that are used in many kinds of wireless communications. The Company is organized into five business segments: Space &amp; Technology, LXE, EMS Wireless, SATCOM and SatNet. The Space &amp; Technology segment manufactures hardware for use in space electronics (both commercial and defense satellite applications) and aerospace. The LXE business and manufactures wireless mobile computers and wireless local area network (LAN) products for logistics and other enterprise applications. The EMS Wireless segment manufactures base-station antennas and repeaters for personal communications service (PCS)/cellular communications systems. The SATCOM segment manufactures earth-based antennas, terminals and other hardware for communications via satellite link. This segment focuses on high-speed, two-way Internet via satellite hubs and terminals that use the DVB-RCS open standard.
EMRI.OB Emrise Corporation, formerly Microtel International Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, assembles and markets products and services in two material business segments: electronic components and communications equipment. The Company operates through its three wholly owned subsidiaries: CXR Telcom Corporation and CXR Anderson Jacobson (CXR-AJ), which manufactures, assembles and distributes communications products and network access and transmission products, and XET Corporation, which designs, manufactures and markets electronic components for defense, aerospace and industrial markets. Microtel's sales are primarily in North America, Europe and Asia.
ICA Empresas ICA Sociedad Controladora, S.A. DE C.V. (ICA) is an engineering, procurement and construction company, and is a provider of construction services to both public and private-sector clients in Mexico. It is engaged in a range of construction and related activities, involving the construction of infrastructure facilities, as well as industrial, urban and housing construction. The Company is also engaged in the development and marketing of real estate, the construction, maintenance and operation of airports, highways, bridges and tunnels and in the management and operation of water supply systems, solid waste disposal systems and automobile parking facilities under concessions granted by governmental authorities. ICA's operations are divided into six segments: Civil Construction, Industrial Construction, CPC-Rodio, Infrastructure Operations, Real Estate and Housing and Corporate and Other Operations.
EOC Empresa Nacional de Electricidad S.A. (Endesa-Chile) is a public electric generation company with operations in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Peru. Its main business is electricity generation, however, it also participates in electricity transmission and engineering services. Endesa-Chile's consolidated installed capacity, as of December 31, 2003, was 11,599 megawatts, comprised of 66% hydroelectric capacity and 34% thermal electric generation capacity. Endesa-Chile owns and operates 19 generation facilities in Chile with an aggregate installed capacity, as of December 31, 2003, of 3,763 megawatts. The Company also had interests in 23 generation facilities outside Chile with an aggregate installed capacity of 7,836 megawatts at December 31, 2003.
ERS Empire Resources, Inc. is engaged in the purchase of principally non-ferrous metals and their sale and distribution to a diverse customer base located throughout the United States, and in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Empire Resources sells its products through its own marketing and sales personnel and through its independent sales agents located in North America who receive commissions on sales. Empire-Pacific, a wholly owned subsidiary of Empire Resources, acts as the Company's sales agent in Australia and New Zealand. The Company purchases from suppliers located throughout the world. One supplier, Hulett Aluminium Ltd., furnished approximately 55% of its products in 2003. Empire Resources does not typically purchase inventory for stock; rather, it places orders with its suppliers based upon orders that it has received from its customers.
NYNY Empire Resorts, Inc. has served as a holding company for subsidiaries engaged in the ownership, development and operation of gaming facilities. The Company was incorporated under the name Alpha Hospitality Corporation and changed its name to Empire in May 2003. Since the year ended December 31, 2001, it has concentrated most of its efforts on developing gaming operations in Monticello, New York. As part of this effort it has disposed of the ancillary interests and terminated certain unprofitable operations. In March 2002, the Company sold its interests in a casino project in Greenville, Mississippi, and, in June 2003, it sold its ownership in Casino Ventures, LLC. In January 2004, it closed a private sale of 4,050,000 shares of common stock to multiple investors.
EFH Empire Financial Holding Company is a financial brokerage services firm serving institutional, retail and wholesale customers. Empire Financial's services are delivered through the Internet and through traditional means. The Company's subsidiary, Empire Financial Group, Inc., conducts its retail discount and full service brokerage operation, services independent registered representatives and provides retail and wholesale order execution and market making services. Another subsidiary, Empire Investment Advisors, Inc., provides financial, custodial and investment advisory products and services. In November 2003, Empire Financial sold all of the outstanding capital stock of Advantage Trading Group, Inc.
EEGC.OB Empire Energy Corporation International is a shell corporation with no operating assets and has liabilities. It is pursuing the merger with Great South Land Minerals, Ltd. (GSLM) and the definitive merger agreement is being negotiated. During 2003, it continued to sell its property and assets and settle its debts. The Company had no revenue from operating activities or the sale of oil and gas, no longer has any reserves and has discontinued all oil and gas operations.
EDE The Empire District Electric Company is an operating public utility engaged in the generation, purchase, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity in parts of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. It also provides water service to three towns in Missouri and has investments in several non-regulated businesses. In the year ended December 31, 2003, 93.2% of its gross operating revenues were provided from the sale of electricity, 0.4% from the sale of water and 6.4% from its non-regulated businesses. The territory served by its electric operations embraces an area of about 10,000 square miles with a population of over 450,000. The service territory is located in Southwestern Missouri and also includes smaller areas in Southeastern Kansas, Northeastern Oklahoma and Northwestern Arkansas. During 2003, retail electric revenues was comprised of approximately 88.7% from Missouri customers, 5.8% from Kansas customers, 2.8% from Oklahoma customers and 2.7% from Arkansas customers.
EMMS Emmis Communications Corporation (Emmis) is a media company with radio broadcasting, television broadcasting and magazine publishing operations. The Company owns and operates 23 frequency modulation (FM) and four amplitude modulation (AM) radio stations in the United States. It also owns and operates a portfolio of television stations covering geographically diverse markets in the United States. In addition to its radio and television broadcasting properties, Emmis operates a news information radio network in Indiana, publishes Texas Monthly, Los Angeles, Atlanta; Indianapolis Monthly, Cincinnati, and Country Sampler and related magazines and operates an international radio business. On December 23, 2003, Emmis agreed to sell its interest in Votionis, S.A., which owns and operates two radio stations in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to its minority partners. This transaction was completed in May 2004.
EMIS Emisphere Technologies, Inc. formerly known as Clinical Technologies Associates, Inc., is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the oral delivery of therapeutic macromolecules and other compounds that are not deliverable by oral means. The Company has the oral delivery of otherwise injectable drugs, including proteins, peptides, polysaccharides and other compounds. The Company has product candidates in development across a broad range of therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, growth disorders, asthma and allergies, obesity and infectious diseases. It develops oral forms of injectable drugs, either alone or with corporate partners, by applying the eligen technology to those drugs. The injectable drugs that it targets have received regulatory approval, have demonstrated safety and efficacy and are available on the market.
MSN Emerson Radio Corp. operates in two business segments: consumer electronics and sporting goods. The consumer electronics segment (Emerson) designs, sources, imports and markets a variety of consumer electronic products and licenses consumer electronic products, both domestically and internationally, under the Emerson and HH Scott brand names. The sporting goods segment (SSG), which is operated through the Company's 53% ownership of Sport Supply Group, Inc., distributes and markets sports-related equipment and leisure products primarily to institutional customers in the United States.
EMR Emerson Electric Co. is engaged in designing and supplying product technology and delivering engineering services in a wide range of industrial, commercial and consumer markets worldwide. The Company operates in five segments. The Process Management segment provides measurement, control and diagnostic capabilities for automated industrial processes producing items. The Industrial Automation segment brings integrated manufacturing solutions to diverse industries worldwide. The Network Power segment provides power conditioning and reliability to help keep telecommunication systems, data networks and critical business applications continuously operating. The Climate Technologies segment enhances household and commercial comfort, as well as food safety and energy efficiency through air conditioning and refrigeration. The Appliance and Tools segment provides motors for a broad range of applications, appliances and integrated appliance solutions, and tools for homeowners and professionals.
ESC Emeritus Corporation is an operator of assisted living residential communities in the United States. Assisted living communities provide a residential housing alternative for senior citizens who need help with the activities of daily living, with an emphasis on assisted living and personal care services. At December 31, 2003, the Company operated, or had an interest in, 175 assisted living communities, consisting of approximately 14,845 units with a capacity for 18,208 residents, located in 33 states. These include 19 communities that it owns, 109 communities that it leases and 47 communities that it manages, including one in which it holds a joint venture interest. Emeritus' assisted living communities generally consist of one-story to three-story buildings and include common dining and social areas. Seventeen of the Company's operating communities offer some independent living services and three are operated as skilled nursing facilities.
ISEE.OB Emerging Vision, Inc. owns and manages a chain of retail optical stores and franchise optical chains in the United States. The Company and its franchisees operate retail optical stores under the trade names Sterling Optical, Site For Sore Eyes, Duling Optical and Singer Specs. Most stores other than the Company's Site for Sore Eyes stores are located in Northern California operate under the name Sterling Optical. Emerging Vision also operates VisionCare of California, Inc. (VCC), a specialized healthcare maintenance organization licensed by the State of California Department of Managed Health Care.
EMFP.OB Emergency Filtration Products, Inc. is a specialty filter products company that has developed an air filtration technology for removing infectious bacteria and viruses in airflow systems. The Company's product line includes RespAide cardiopulmonary resuscitation isolation masks, disposable filters for bag valve masks (BVMs), Superstat, a modified collagen hemostat and personal environmental masks. Emrgency Filtration also has products in various stages of development and production. These include its breathing circuit filters and emergency life support ventilation and intubation system (ELVIS) for the BVM market. Approximately 80% to 90% of the Company's sales have been to the United States military. Emergency Filtration holds military national stocking numbers for the RespAide CPR isolation mask, the replacement filters and for Superstat. These stocking numbers make the products acceptable for inventory in all four branches of the military and the United States Coast Guard.
EMRG eMerge Interactive, Inc. is a technology company providing individual-animal tracking, food-safety and supply procurement services to the beef production industry. The Company is structured into two operating groups, the Food Safety Technologies (FST) Group and the Animal Information Solutions (AIS) Group. The FST Group's patented VerifEYE food safety technology is a machine vision technology designed to detect microscopic levels of organic contamination, which can harbor deadly pathogens. The VerifEYE technology is available in several applications for the meat processing and food processing industries, with additional products being developed for the food service, healthcare and childcare industries. The AIS Group focuses on providing comprehensive, data-driven solutions to meet customers' information challenges.
EMKR EMCORE Corporation offers a broad portfolio of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite, and wireless communications markets. EMCORE continues to expand its product portfolio to enable the transport of voice, data and video over copper, hybrid fiber/coax (HFC), fiber, satellite and wireless communication networks. The Company provides cost-effective components and subsystems for the cable television (CATV), telecommunications, data and storage, satellite and wireless communications markets. In June 2004, EMCORE acquired Corona Optical Systems, Inc. Corona provides parallel optics with its ultra-small form factor OptoCube transceiver, which is being deployed by Tier 1 customers for use in telecommunications switching and carrier-class routing applications.
EME EMCOR Group, Inc. is a mechanical and electrical construction and facilities services firm that provides services to commercial, industrial, utility and institutional customers through approximately 70 principal operating subsidiaries, joint ventures and a majority-owned interest in a limited liability company in the United States. The Company specializes in providing construction services relating to mechanical and electrical systems in facilities of all types and in providing comprehensive services for the operation, maintenance and management of substantially all aspects of such facilities, commonly referred to as facilities services. EMCOR has offices in 38 states and the District of Columbia in the United States, eight provinces in Canada and 15 primary locations in the United Kingdom. In the United Arab Emirates and South Africa, the Company carries on business through joint ventures.
EMCI EMC Insurance Group Inc. is an insurance holding company that is 80.9% owned by Employers Mutual Casualty Company (Employers Mutual), a multiple-line property and casualty insurance company that is licensed in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The Company conducts its insurance business through two business segments: Property and Casualty Insurance and Reinsurance. The four property and casualty insurance subsidiaries of the Company and two subsidiaries and an affiliate of Employers Mutual (Union Insurance Company of Providence, EMC Property &amp; Casualty Company and Hamilton Mutual Insurance Company) are parties to reinsurance pooling agreements with Employers Mutual.
EMC EMC Corporation designs, manufactures, markets and supports a range of networked storage products and information storage and management software that are designed to enable organizations of all sizes to extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle. It also offers services for information storage and management. The Company's products and services are used in conjunction with a variety of computing platforms, storage systems and software applications to support key business processes, including transaction processing, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, data warehousing, electronic commerce, content management, business intelligence and Web hosting. The Company operates in four segments: information storage products, Documentum products and services, LEGATO products and services, and information storage services.
EMBR.OB Embryo Development Corporation was formed to develop, acquire, manufacture and market various bio-medical devices. The Company also holds a 10.3% minority voting investment interest in Hydrogel Design Systems, Inc. (HDS), a privately held Delaware corporation engaged in the manufacturing, marketing, selling and distribution of hydrogel materials. HDS became a majority owned subsidiary of Nesco Industries, Inc. (Nesco).
EMBX Embrex, Inc. is an international agricultural biotechnology company engaged in the development of in ovo (in the egg) solutions that meet the needs of the global poultry industry. It also provides value-added solutions with its automated injection and detection devices, as well as certain select vaccines. The Company is focused on developing patented biological and mechanical products that improve bird health, help reduce production costs and provide other economic benefits to the poultry industry. Embrex's existing products are Inovoject Egg Injection System and Other Devices, Antigen-Antibody Complex (AAC) Technology and Infectious Bursal Disease (IBD) Vaccines.
ERJ Embraer-Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A. is engaged in the manufacturing and sales of aircraft for commercial, corporate and defense purposes. The Company's aircrafts include EMB 120 Brasilia, a passenger aircraft; AM-X, a jet strike bomber, and ERJ 145 series, commercial aircrafts. Embraer also markets and sells the Legacy, a line of corporate jets. For the defense market, the Company offers a line of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircrafts. During the year ended December 31, 2003, commercial aircrafts accounted for approximately 71.2% of the Company's net sales. Embraer's business segments include the commercial airline business, the defense business, the corporate jet business and other related businesses.
AKOa Embotelladora Andina S.A. is a producer of soft drinks in Chile, Brazil and Argentina. The Company's principal business is the production and distribution of Coca-Cola soft drinks, which accounted for 86.6% of net sales during the year ended December 31, 2003. Andina is the producer and distributor of Coca-Cola soft drinks in Chile. Through its subsidiary, Rio de Janeiro Refrescos Ltda., Andina is the producer and distributor of Coca-Cola soft drinks in Brazil. Through another subsidiary, Embotelladora del Atlantico S.A. (Edasa), the Company is the producer of Coca-Cola soft drinks in Argentina. In addition, through its subsidiary, Vital S.A., Andina produces and distributes fruit juices, other fruit-flavored beverages and mineral water in Chile. The Company also manufactures polyethylene perephtalate bottles, primarily for its own use in the packaging of Coca-Cola soft drinks in Chile and Argentina. In Brazil, Andina distributes Kaiser brand beers.
EMAK EMAK Worldwide, Inc. (EMAK), formerly Equity Marketing, Inc., is a global marketing services company. EMAK complements its core marketing services business by developing and marketing distinctive consumer products based on emerging and evergreen licensed properties, which are sold through mass-market and specialty retailers. The Company provides services in the areas of strategic planning and research, entertainment marketing, design and manufacturing of custom promotional products, promotion, event marketing, collaborative marketing, retail design and environmental branding. EMAK's clients include Burger King Corporation, Diageo, Kellogg's, Kohl's, Macy's, Nordstrom, Procter &amp; Gamble and Subway Restaurants, among others. In February 2004, EMAK acquired Johnson Grossfield, expanding its client base in the quick-service restaurant category with the addition of the kids marketing program of Subway Restaurants.
EMA eMagin Corporation (eMagin) is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing and marketing of virtual imaging products that utilize organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), OLED-on-silicon microdisplays and information technology solutions. The Company integrates OLED technology with silicon chips to produce high-resolution microdisplays smaller than one-inch diagonally, which create virtual images that appear comparable in size to that of a computer monitor or a large-screen television. eMagin's products enable original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers to develop and market improved or new electronic products.
ELTK Eltek Ltd. develops, manufactures, markets and sells printed circuit boards (PCBs), including High Density Interconnect (HDI), multi-layered and flex-rigid boards for the telecommunications, defense and aerospace and medical technology industries. The Company's customers include manufacturers of defense and aerospace equipment, medical equipment, telecom and networking equipment and industrial equipment, as well as contract electronic manufacturers. Eltek has a European manufacturing and marketing subsidiary named Kubatronik Leiterplatten GmbH (Kubatronik) located in Geislingen Germany. In 2003, HDI products and PCBs accounted for 52% of total sales in the year ended December 31, 2003, as compared to 49% of total sales in the year ended December 31, 2002.
ELT Elscint Limited is engaged in businesses, such as ownership and operation of hotels in Europe and elsewhere. The Company is also involved in construction of hotel projects through wholly owned and jointly controlled subsidiary companies; hotel leasing; ownership, operation and management, through a wholly owned subsidiary, of the Arena commercial center, and investment in a biotechnology company. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the business activities and investments include the completion of a long term lease of the hotel property located on Euston Road in London, England, to an unrelated third party; the opening of the oceanarium attraction (Aquatopia) at the Astrid Park Plaza hotel in Antwerp, Belgium; the opening of the re-branded apartment hotel (Centreville) in the Bucuresti hotel complex in Bucharest, Romania; the opening of the Arena in Herzlia in June 2003, and the sale of the Company's interest in Algotech System Ltd. to an unrelated third party.
ELRN Elron Electronic Industries Ltd. (Elron) is a multi-national, high-technology operational holding company that operates through its group companies in two segments: the systems and projects segment, through Elron TeleSoft, Inc., and other holdings and corporate operations, which includes the Company's holdings in its group companies engaged in various fields of technology and the provision of strategic and operational support to the group companies.
ELOY eLoyalty Corporation, incorporated in May 1999, is a management consulting, systems integration and managed services company focused on optimizing customer interactions. Its range of enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) services and solutions include creating customer strategies; defining technical architectures; selecting, implementing and integrating CRM software applications, and providing ongoing support for multi-vendor systems. The Company operates in two primary business segments: North America (consisting of the United States and Canada) and International. eLoyalty builds solutions around emerging technologies, such as voice-over Internet protocol and speech mining. Its focus areas include converged Internet protocol, contact center solutions, marketing solutions, contact center optimization solutions and behavioral analytics.
LONG eLong, Inc. is an online travel service provider in China. The Company utilizes a centralized modern call center and Web-based distribution technologies to provide its services. Through its nationwide 24-hour, toll-free call center, Chinese and English language Websites and extensive reseller network, eLong provides its customers with consolidated travel information and the ability to book rooms at discounted rates at over 2,600 hotels in more than 220 cities across China. The Company also offers convenient air ticketing and other travel related services, such as rental cars, vacation packages and corporate travel services.
EELN E-LOAN, Inc. is an online provider of loans, offering borrowers a variety of purchase and refinance mortgage loans, home equity loans, home equity lines of credit and auto loans to suit their financial needs. The Company originates loans through its Website and by telephone, funds the loans using warehouse and other lines of credit and sells the closed loans. E-LOAN's principal sources of income are gains from the origination and sale of mortgage, home equity and auto loans, as well as interest income earned on loans during the period that they are held pending sale. All loans are underwritten pursuant to standards, the Company establishes, to satisfy the underwriting criteria of the ultimate purchasers of the loans.
ESBK The Elmira Savings Bank, FSB operates as an independent community bank serving consumers and businesses through six offices in and around Chemung County, New York, and Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The Company offers traditional retail services such as savings, checking, negotiable order of withdrawal (NOW) and money market accounts; certificates of deposit (CDs), and individual retirement accounts (IRAs). One- to four-family residential real estate loans account for approximately 40% of the Company's loan portfolio. Elmira Savings' other lending activities include automobile and other consumer loans, business loans and commercial mortgages.
ELMS Elmer's Restaurants, Inc. is a franchisor and operator of full-service, family oriented restaurants under the names Elmer's Breakfast o Lunch o Dinner and Mitzel's American Kitchen and operates delicatessen restaurants under the names Ashley's Cafe, Richard's Deli and Pub and Cooper's Deli and Pub. The Company operates in two business segments: restaurant operations and franchising the Elmer's restaurant concept. The 11 Company-owned Elmer's restaurants are located in the states of: six in Oregon, three in Washington and one each in Idaho and California. It operates five Mitzel's restaurants all located in the Puget Sound area in the state of Washington.
ECF Ellsworth Convertible Growth and Income Fund, Inc. (the Fund) operates as a closed-end, diversified management investment company and invests primarily in convertible securities, with the objectives of providing income and the potential for capital appreciation. As of September 30, 2003, the Fund's largest investment holdings were Washington Mutual, Inc., Reinsurance Group of America, Inc., Church &amp; Dwight Co., Inc., Ivax Corp., Lucent Technologies, Inc., Travelers Property Casualty Corp., School Specialty, Inc., New York Community Bancorp, Inc., ChevronTexaco Corp. and The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. As of September 30, 2003, 78.2% of its investments were in the following industries: financial and insurance, pharmaceuticals, banking/savings and loan, retail, telecommunications, healthcare, energy, technology, aerospace and defense and entertainment. Davis-Dinsmore Management Company serves as the Fund's investment adviser.
RDEN Elizabeth Arden, Inc. is a global fragrance and beauty products company with a portfolio of fragrance, skin care and cosmetics brands. The Company markets approximately 50 owned or licensed prestige fragrance brands, including Elizabeth Arden's Red Door, Red Door Revealed, Fifth Avenue, Elizabeth Arden green tea, ardenbeauty, Sunflowers and Elizabeth Arden Provocative Woman; Elizabeth Taylor's White Diamonds, Passion, Forever Elizabeth and Gardenia; White Shoulders; Halston and Z-14; Geoffrey Beene's Grey Flannel; PS Fine Cologne for Men; Design, and Wings. Its skin care brands include Ceramide, Eight Hour Cream and Overnight Success, and its cosmetics products include Elizabeth Arden brand lipstick, foundation and other color cosmetics products. In addition to its owned or licensed fragrance brands, the Company distributes over 250 additional fragrance brands, primarily in the United States through distribution and other purchasing agreements.
ELI Elite Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages primarily in researching, developing and licensing proprietary controlled-release drug delivery systems and products. Controlled-release drug delivery of a pharmaceutical compound offers a safer and more effective means of administering drugs through releasing a drug into the bloodstream or delivering it to a certain site in the body at predetermined rates or predetermined times. The goal is to provide more effective drug therapy while reducing or eliminating many of the side effects associated with conventional drug therapy and/or to reduce the frequency of administration. The Company is also equipped to manufacture controlled-release products on a contract basis for third parties.
ELU eLinear, Inc. is a provider of comprehensive security solutions, Internet protocol (IP) telephony and network and storage solutions. The Company's security efforts help protect businesses from network and system risks, and include the planning, design, implementation and support of solutions fulfilling a wide range of blended threat protection needs, including vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, secure sockets layer virtual private network (SSL VPN) and intrusion detection and prevention. The Company also provides IP telephony solutions, which include the planning, design, implementation and support of high-speed, fault-tolerant, voice and data networks, including IP telephones, Voice-over IP (VoIP) technology and infrastructure and related services. In relation to network and storage solutions, eLinear provides assessment, procurement, implementation and support, as well as related services and communications infrastructure design and installation.
EEGI.OB Eline Entertainment Group, Inc. is a holding company that operates through its two subsidiaries, Industrial Holding Group, Inc. and 24/7 MRI, Inc. Industrial Holding, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Industrial Fabrication and Repair, Inc. (IFR), provides machining, welding, specialty design and fabrications for custom applications to customers from various industries, including paper, steel mills, rock quarry operations, coal mining applications and bottling facilities. 24/7 MRI is a development-stage company engaged in developing operations in the diagnostic imaging industry.
LLY Eli Lilly and Company discovers, develops, manufactures and sells pharmaceutical products. The Company's largest category of products is the neurosciences group, which includes Zyprexa, Prozac, Strattera and Permax. Endocrinology products consist primarily of Humulin, Humalog, Actos, Evista, Forteo and Humatrope. Oncology products consist primarily of Gemzar. Animal health products include Tylan, Rumensin, Coban and other products for livestock and poultry. Cardiovascular products consist primarily of ReoPro and Xigris. Anti-infectives include primarily Ceclor and Vancocin. The other pharmaceutical product group includes Cialis, Axid and other miscellaneous pharmaceutical products and services. Most of the Company's pharmaceutical products are distributed through wholesalers that serve pharmacies, physicians and other healthcare professionals, and hospitals. Eli Lilly's products are sold in approximately 140 countries.
EGDE.OB Elgrande.com Inc. specializes in designing, sourcing, importing, marketing and distributing products for the North American giftware and home decor sectors. Its wholesale distribution division, European Sources Direct (ESD), sources products from small and mid-sized, European-based, export-ready manufacturers and sells to 700 customers with over 1,100 retail locations that include independent retailers and national key accounts. Sales are derived through a network of 12 sales agencies, 10 show rooms and 120 professional sales representatives. In addition to representing established product lines, the Company actively works with selected artists and manufacturers to design and produce limited edition products for sale through ESD's customer base.
PUBSF.OB Elephant &amp; Castle Group Inc. owns and operates pub and casual dining restaurants in the United States and Canada, and is engaged in restaurant franchising activities. It owns and operates a chain of 16 full-service casual dining restaurants and pubs, 11 of which are located in Canada and five of which are located in the United States. Fifteen of its 16 owned restaurants are operated under the name Elephant &amp; Castle, an English pub concept, of which five are in the United States. The sixteenth owned restaurant, located in Canada, operates under the name Rosie's on Robson. At the Elephant &amp; Castle restaurants, the Company features a distinctive British style and Tudor decor. It offers a variety of menu items, including a number of English-style dishes, which are regularly updated. Although all of its restaurants provide liquor service, alcoholic beverages are primarily served to complement meals.
EFII Electronics For Imaging, Inc. is a global provider of digital imaging and print management solutions for professional and enterprise printing. Its technologies offer document management tools from creation to print, including production workflow, print management information software solutions, proofing software and enterprise and mobile printing solutions. Main products include stand-alone servers that are connected to digital copiers and other peripheral devices and controllers, which are embedded in digital copiers and desktop color laser printers. The Company's products support a range of printers, copiers, multifunction devices and mobile communication devices.
ELBO Electronics Boutique Holdings Corp. is a specialty retailer of video game hardware and software, personal computer (PC) entertainment software, pre-played video games and related accessories and products. As of January 31, 2004, the Company operated 1,528 stores, primarily under the names EB Games and Electronics Boutique, in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Sweden and the United States. It also markets its products through a commercial Website, www.EBgames.com. The Company serves the avid gamer who demands immediate access to new release titles and who generally purchases more video game titles and PC entertainment software than the casual gamer.
ELST.OB Electronic Systems Technology, Inc. (EST) specializes in the manufacturing and development of wireless modem products. The Company uses research and development, manufacturing and marketing efforts to produce and market the Company's line of ESTeem Wireless Modem products and accessories. EST offers products providing communication solutions for applications not served by existing conventional communication systems. Its products are offered in markets for process automation in commercial, industrial and government arenas both domestically and internationally, as well as domestic markets for public safety communications infrastructure, primarily used by police and fire departments. The Company's products are marketed through direct sales, sales representatives and domestic and foreign resellers.
EDS Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS) is a provider of IT (information technology) and business process outsourcing services. It has delivered infrastructure, application and business process outsourcing services to clients in the manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, communications, energy, transportation, consumer and retail industries, as well as governments around the world. The Company has one subsidiary, A.T. Kearney, a high-value management consultancy. UGS PLM Solutions, a former subsidiary, was a provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software applications and related services. In May 2004, EDS sold UGS PLM Solutions to a group of three private equity firms: Bain Capital, Silver Lake Partners and Warburg Pincus.
ECHO Electronic Clearing House, Inc. (ECHO) is an electronic payment processor that provides for the payment processing needs of merchants, banks and collection agencies. The Company derives the majority of its revenues from two main business segments, bankcard and transaction processing services, whereby it provides solutions to merchants and banks to allow them to accept credit and debit card payments from consumers, and check-related products (check services), whereby it provides various services to merchants and banks to allow them to accept and process check payments from consumers. The principal services ECHO offers within the bank card services segment are debit and credit card processing, and with respect to the check services segment, it offers check guarantee, check verification, electronic check conversion, check re-presentment and check collection services. The Company operates its services under brands, such as MerchantAmerica, National Check Network and XPRESSCHEX, Inc.
ERTS Electronic Arts Inc. develops, markets, publishes and distributes interactive software games that are playable by consumers on platforms, including home videogame machines, such as the Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameCube and Sony PlayStation consoles; personal computers (PCs); handheld game machines, such as the Game Boy Advance, and online, over the Internet and other online networks. The products designed to play on consoles and handhelds, are published under license from the manufacturers of these platforms, such as Sony for the PlayStation and PlayStation 2, Microsoft for the Xbox and Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance. The Company pays a fee to the console manufacturers for the right to publish products on their platforms. Electronic Arts invests in the creation of software tools that it uses in product development and to convert products from one platform to another.
ELUX Electrolux AB is a producer of appliances and equipment for kitchen, cleaning and outdoor use. The Company sells more than 55 million consumer products a year, including products such as refrigerators, cookers, washing machines, chainsaws, lawnmowers and garden tractors. Electrolux's products are targeted at both professionals and retail consumers. It conducts operations in 60 countries. The Company operates in three business areas: consumer durables, professional indoor products and professional outdoor products. In April 2004, the Consumer and Professional Outdoor Products segments were combined into one segment. The Company's garden equipment for the consumer market is listed as separate segment within Consumer Durables.
EGLS Electroglas, Inc. is a supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and software to the global semiconductor industry. Its primary product line is automated wafer-probing equipment and related network software to manage information from that equipment. The Company's semiconductor manufacturing customers use its wafer probers and network software to test semiconductor wafers for quality and to improve their productivity and control their processes. Electroglas is also involved in the development, manufacture, marketing and servicing of test handlers. The Company sold its Design for Manufacturing and Fab Solutions software product lines in July 2003, and its Optical Inspection product line in October 2003.
ELSE Electro-Sensors, Inc. (ESI) operates two distinct businesses: Controls Division and AutoData Systems (ADS). The Controls Division manufactures and sells different types of monitoring systems that measure actual machine production and operation rates, as well as systems that regulate the speed of related machines in production processes. These products are sold to a variety of original equipment manufacturers and processors to monitor process machinery operations. ADS designs and markets a desktop software based system that reads hand printed characters, checkmarks and bar code information from scanned or faxed forms. ADS products are designed to provide capabilities to automate data collection and are sold to end users, resellers and developers in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. In addition, through its subsidiary, ESI Investment Company, the Company periodically invests in other businesses and companies.
ESIO Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (ESI) designs and manufactures high-technology manufacturing equipment for the global electronics market, including advanced laser systems that are used to microengineer electronic device features in high-volume production environments. The Company operates within the high-technology manufacturing equipment segment, comprised of three product groups: the semiconductor group, the passive components group and the electronic interconnect group. Principal products include laser manufacturing systems for semiconductor yield improvement; production, test and inspection equipment for the manufacture of passive components; laser micro-via drilling systems used to process high-density interconnect circuit boards, and machine vision systems. ESI serves the global electronics market from its headquarters in Portland, Oregon, and through subsidiaries located in the United States, Europe and Asia.
ELRC Electro Rent Corporation (ERC) is engaged in the rental, lease and sale of electronic equipment. About 81% of the Company's equipment portfolio at acquisition cost is composed of general-purpose test and measurement instruments purchased from manufacturers like Agilent Technologies and Tektronix. The remainder of the equipment portfolio is comprised of personal computers and servers from manufacturers, including Dell, Hewlett-Packard/Compaq, International Business Machine and Toshiba. A large part of the Company's test and measurement equipment portfolio is rented or leased to Fortune 500 companies in the aerospace, defense, electronics and telecommunications industries. ERC also rents equipments. No customer accounted for more than 10% of the Company's revenues for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004). In March 2004, ERC acquired certain contracts of a quick-ship services business from a unit of CIT Group Inc.
EDP EDP Energias de Portugal SA, formerly EDP Electricidade de Portugal, S.A. (EDP), is engaged in the generation and distribution of electricity in Portugal and Spain (the Iberian Peninsula). In addition, the Company owns 30% of REN-Rede Electrica Nacional, S.A. (REN), the sole transmitter of electricity in Portugal. EDP is also involved in activities related to its core energy business both in its domestic market, such as the distribution and supply of natural gas and in Brazil, where it exercises control over three distribution companies and owns interests in generation. In addition, the Company holds interests in other complementary businesses, such as a 56% stake in ONI, SGPS, S.A., a fixed line telecommunications operator in Portugal and Spain.
ELGT.OB Electric &amp; Gas Technology, Inc (ELGT) is a holding company that, through its subsidiaries, operates in three distinct business segments: utilities products, contract manufacturing and water production. The Utilities sector designs, manufactures and markets products for natural gas measurement, metering and odorization primarily for municipalities and publicly owned utility companies. The Contract Manufacturing sector provides precision sheet metal fabrication and assembly for a diverse customer base, including telecom and networking cabinetry, electrical controls, and other functional and aesthetic sheet metal applications. Through its subsidiary, Atmospheric Water Technology, Inc. (AWT), the Company developed the Watermaker line of products that extract water from the atmosphere, and filter and purify if for drinking purposes.
ELC Electric City Corp. is a developer, manufacturer and integrator of energy saving technologies and building automation controls as well as an independent developer of scalable, negative power systems. The Company manufactures products or provides services under two business segments. The energy technology segment includes the EnergySaver and GlobalCommander product lines manufactured and sold by Electric City Corp. In addition, this segment markets the Virtual Negawatt Power Plan (VNPP), which is essentially a negative power system designed for utilities as a demand response system. The building control and automation business segment is served by the Company's subsidiary, Great Lakes Controlled Energy Corporation (Great Lakes), which specializes in the installation and maintenance of building control and automation systems.
ASY Elecsys Corporation is a designer, manufacturer and integrator of custom electronic interface solutions for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the medical, aerospace, communications, safety systems and industrial and consumer product industries through its wholly owned subsidiary, DCI, Inc. (DCI). The Company designs and manufactures custom electronic assemblies that integrate a variety of interface technologies, such as custom liquid crystal displays (LCDs), light-emitting diodes displays and keypads with circuit boards and other electronic components. Through DCI, the Company provides a range of design, manufacturing, integration and testing services to OEMs that desire a single source for the development and production of custom electronic assemblies that integrate specialized interface technologies with flexible electronic production. In November 2004, the Company acquired certain assets, the technology and assumed certain liabilities of Network Technologies Group, LLC.
ELEC.OB eLEC Communications Corp. is a telecommunications company that focuses on developing integrated telephone service in the emerging competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) industry. The Company's basic categories of services are local exchange services, long distance and international calling. eLEC offers small businesses and residential consumers an integrated set of telecommunications products and services, including local exchange, local access, domestic and international long distance telephone and a suite of local features and calling plans. The Company primarily markets its services through two different distribution channels. eLEC uses third-party telemarketers to attract small business and residential accounts, typically less than five telephone lines for each account. The Company also uses agents and direct marketing to attract small business and residential accounts, typically one to 20 lines in size for each account.
EGO Eldorado Gold Corporation is engaged in the mining and processing of gold (Au) ore and the exploration for and the acquisition and development o, gold-bearing mineral properties. The Company holds interests in a portfolio of mineral properties located primarily in Brazil and Turkey. In Brazil, Eldorado produces gold principally from its Sao Bento Mine, located in Santa Barbara in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the mine produced 95,049 ounces of gold. All of the Company's development projects are located in western Turkey. Its key development property is the Kisladag project located in the Usak Province. As of year-end 2003, Eldorado is reviewing opportunities in China.
ELDO.OB Eldorado Artesian Springs, Inc. is principally engaged in the business of selling bottled artesian spring water in Colorado. The Company bottles, markets and distributes natural spring water under the Eldorado Artesian Spring Water brand. Sales of its water have historically been made by selling five-gallon and three-gallon bottles of water directly to home and business, retail grocery stores and distributors located in Colorado. The Company also sells its water at wholesale to retail food stores (grocery chains) packaged in the smaller, more convenient sizes, which are suitable for retail distribution. Eldorado Artesian Springs owns and operates a resort on its property during the summer months and rents a single-family home. The water bottling operation accounts for 98% of its revenues.
ELK ElkCorp is primarily engaged in the building materials industry. The Company, through Elk Premium Building Products, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively, Elk), is engaged in the manufacturing of premium roofing products, performance nonwoven fabrics and composite building products. The building products segment is Elk's primary business, accounting for 97% of consolidated sales in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004. The Company's roofing products are premium laminated, fiberglass asphalt shingles and accessory roofing products for steep slope applications. Elk's performance nonwoven fabrics subsidiary is a manufacturer of nonwoven fiberglass shingle substrates and other products. The Company's composite building products is a platform designed for advanced composite technology, as well as the development of high-end, non-asphaltic roofing products. Elk's Other, Technologies segment consists of Ortloff Engineers, LTD, Chromium Corporation and Elk Technologies, Inc.
ELCO.OB Elcom International, Inc. is a provider of Internet and Web-based, remotely hosted, integrated e-procurement and e-marketplace solutions and services, including e-purchasing. Its Professional Electronic Commerce Online System (PECOS) e-purchasing solution provides deployment and single-point responsibility for clients. Elcom operates in the United States and United Kingdom. The PECOS system automates supply chain and financial settlement functions associated with procurement. The Company has licensed a trading system platform to provide auction, reverse auction and other electronic negotiation functions, and has also marketed an asset management system, both from third parties, which modules are offered as optional functionality to clients. Its PECOS solution can support a number of end user clients, products, suppliers and transactions. The transaction server middleware provides a scalable foundation for system performance and high-transaction capacity.
EVSNF.OB Elbit Vision Systems Ltd. (EVS) designs, develops, manufactures, markets and supports automatic visual inspection and quality monitoring systems for the textile and other fabric industries. The Company markets five product lines designed to address the quality monitoring needs of different sectors within the fabric manufacturing industry: I-Tex, for the visual inspection and quality monitoring of woven and knitted fabrics; PRIN-TEX, for the detection of printing defects on fabric; Broken Filaments Analyzer, for the detection of filament defects in glass fabrics; Shade Variation Analyzer (SVA LITE), for the detection of shade inconsistencies in dyed fabric, and LOOM-TEX, for the automatic visual quality inspection system that is integrated with the weaving loom and monitors the fabric while weaving.
ESLT Elbit Systems Ltd. develops, manufactures and integrates defense electronic and electro-optic systems for customers throughout the world. The Company focuses on designing, developing, manufacturing and integrating command, control, communication, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems for defense and homeland security applications. It also performs upgrade programs for airborne, land and naval defense platforms, often as a prime contractor. Its major areas of operations include aircraft and helicopter systems and upgrades; helmet-mounted systems; unmanned air vehicle (UAV) integrated systems; tactical, security and naval systems; battlefield management and government information systems; land vehicle systems and upgrades; electro-optic and countermeasures systems and products; services, and technology spin-offs for commercial applications. Elbit Systems is engaged in spin-offs of its defense technologies to commercial applications.
EMITF Elbit Medical Imaging Ltd., through a wholly owned subsidiary, is engaged in the business of ownership, operation, leasing, management, acquisition, expansion and development of commercial and entertainment malls in central and eastern Europe. Through the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Plaza Centers (Europe) BV of The Netherlands (Plaza Centers), it held an aggregate of 19 operating commercial and entertainment malls 16 in Hungary and three in Poland, as well as an aggregate of nine malls in various stages of development and planning in Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Latvia and Greece, as of June 30, 2004. Of the active centers, 12 were expected to be sold to a third party. On July 30, 2004, the Company finalized the sale of 12 shopping centers owned and operated by Plaza Centers in Hungary to Klepierre Group of France, an owner and operator of shopping centers in Europe.
ELN Elan Corporation, plc is a neuroscience-based biotechnology company that focuses on discovering, developing, manufacturing and marketing advanced therapies in neurology, autoimmune diseases and severe pain. Elan markets two products in the United States: AZACTAM (aztreonam for injection, USP) and MAXIPIME (cefepime hydrochloride) for Injection. AZACTAM is a monobactam indicated for the treatment of the infections caused by susceptible gram-negative microorganisms and is principally used by surgeons, infectious disease specialists and internal medicine physicians to treat pneumonia, post-surgical infections and septicemia. MAXIPIME for Injection is a semi-synthetic, broad-spectrum, cephalosporin antibiotic used by pulmonologists, infectious disease specialists, internal medicine physicians, hematologists and oncologists to treat patients with serious and/or potentially life-threatening infections.
ELAM Elamex, S.A. de C.V. is a Mexican company with manufacturing operations and real estate holdings in Mexico and the United States. The Company has three operating segments: food services, shelter services and metal stamping. The food services segment conducts the Company's candy manufacturing and nut packaging operations. The shelter services segment provides shelter and assembly services in Mexico for non-electronics manufacturing services companies. Certain assets and contracts related to shelter services were sold as of July 4, 2003. The metal stamping segment provides metal and stamping services primarily to the appliance and automotive sectors. On December 19, 2003, Precision voluntarily filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code in the United States.
EE El Paso Electric Company is a public utility engaged in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in an area of approximately 10,000 square miles in west Texas and southern New Mexico. The Company also serves wholesale customers in the states of Texas and New Mexico and in the Republic of Mexico. The Company owns or has significant ownership interests in six electrical generating facilities providing a total capacity of approximately 1,500 MW (megawatts). The Company's net installed generating capacity of approximately 1,500 MW consists of approximately 600 MW from Palo Verde Units 1, 2 and 3, 482 MW from its Newman Power Station, 246 MW from its Rio Grande Power Station, 104 MW from Four Corners Units 4 and 5, 68 MW from its Copper Power Station and 1.32 MW from Hueco Mountain Wind Ranch. For 2002, the Company's energy sources consisted of approximately 52% nuclear fuel, 25% natural gas, 6% coal, 17% purchased power and less than 1% generated by wind turbines.
EP El Paso Corporation is an energy company engaged in the interstate and intrastate transportation, gathering and processing of natural gas; the marketing of natural gas, power and other commodities, and the development and operation of energy infrastructures. The Company served as a regional pipeline company conducting business mainly in the western United States. From 1996 through 2001, El Paso expanded to become an international energy company through a number of mergers and acquisitions, as well as internal growth initiatives. By 2001, its operations extended from natural gas production to power generation, and included many new ventures and businesses, in addition to its traditional natural gas businesses. For the year ended December 31, 2003, El Paso operated through four business segments: Pipelines, Production, Field Services and Merchant Energy. In November 2004, the El Paso Merchant Energy, L.P. segment name was changed to El Paso Marketing, L.P.
EGHT 8x8, Inc. develops and markets telecommunication services and technology for Internet protocol (IP) telephony and video applications. 8x8 offers the Packet8 broadband voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) and video communications service, Packet8 Virtual Office service and videophone equipment and services. The Company launched the Packet8 Virtual Office business service offering in March 2004. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), 8x8 had approximately 11,000 activated Packet8 subscribers. In fiscal 2004, substantially all of the Company's revenues were generated from the sale, license and provisioning of VoIP products (including semiconductors), services and technology. Sales to customers outside the United States represented 71% of total revenues in the fiscal year 2004.
ETIFF.OB Eiger Technology, Inc. through its subsidiaries, the Company offers voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) services to the Canadian long-distance market and manufactures and distributes electronic/computer peripherals and electronic ballasts to original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and consumer markets worldwide. It has three principal subsidiaries, namely, Newlook Industries Corp., K-Tronik International Corp. and Eiger Net Inc. Newlook closed its acquisition of Onlinetel on March 18, 2004. Onlinetel is a telecommunication software and services company that harnesses the power of soft-switch technology to deliver VoIP communication services to individuals, businesses and carriers. K-Tronik is a North American manufacturer of energy efficient electronic ballasts for fluorescent lighting. Eiger Net has been involved in the research and development, engineering and manufacturing of multimedia and data communication cards.
EIDSY Eidos plc is engaged in the activity of development and publishing of entertainment software. The Company is a video games developer and publisher in the United Kingdom. The Company provides portfolio game titles for personal computer, PlayStation, GameCube, Xbox and N-Gage. The Company has publishing operations across Europe (France, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom) and in the United States, Japan and Australia. The Company has development studio expertise, both internal and external, in Europe and the United States. Edios is the parent company of the Eidos Group of companies. On October 28, 2003, the Company announced the creation of a New Media Division, formed to help facilitate the extension of the intellectual property into new markets and introduced some of the brands to new platforms, such as mobile phone handsets, new handheld game devices and interactive digital television. On 31 March 2004, the Company acquired IO Interactive A/S, a Danish studio.
DD E. I. DuPont de Nemours (DuPont) is a global company engaged in the field of science and technology in a range of disciplines, including high-performance materials, synthetic fibers, electronics, specialty chemicals, agriculture and biotechnology. The Company operates globally, manufacturing a range of products for distribution and sale to many different markets, including the automotive, textile, construction, agricultural, medical, packaging, electronics and nutrition and health markets. DuPont and its subsidiaries have operations in approximately 75 countries worldwide, and approximately 55% of consolidated net sales are made to customers outside the United States. Subsidiaries and affiliates of DuPont conduct manufacturing, seed production or selling activities, and some are distributors of products manufactured by the Company.
EAGL EGL, Inc. is a global transportation, supply chain management and information services company that provides logistics solutions, such as air and ocean freight forwarding, customs brokerage, local pick up and delivery service, materials management, warehousing, trade facilitation and procurement and integrated logistics and supply chain management services. The Company provides services in addition to those customarily provided by traditional air freight forwarders, ocean freight forwarders and customs brokers. These services are designed to provide global logistics solutions for customers in order to streamline their supply chain, reduce inventories, improve logistics information and provide domestic and international distribution strategies. The Company has a network of approximately 400 facilities, agents and distribution centers located in over 100 countries, and conducts operations primarily under the name EGL Eagle Global Logistics.
EGAM.OB eGames, Inc. publishes, markets and sells personal computer (PC) software games. The The Company focus resources on publishing software games for the PC platform only, such as game consoles, hand held game devices, mobile phones and personal digital assistants. In North America, the products are distributed primarily on a non-exclusive basis through third-party software distributors that service the mass-merchant and major retailers. In addition license PC games to third-party software distributors who are responsible for the manufacture and distribution of PC games within specific geographic territories. All eGames titles are family friendly, easy-to-use, and are typically rated E for Everyone by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, which means they are non-violent and appropriate for all ages.
EGAN.OB eGain Communications Corporation is a provider of customer service and contact center software. eGain Service 6, the Company's software suite, available licensed or hosted, includes integrated applications for customer e-mail management, live Web collaboration, virtual agent customer service, knowledge management and Web self-service. These applications are built on the eGain Service Management Platform (eGain SMP), a scalable next-generation framework that includes end-to-end service process management, multi-channel, multi-site contact center management, a flexible integration approach, and certified out-of-the-box integrations with a call center and business systems. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), no single customer accounted for more than 10% of the Company's revenue.
EFD eFunds Corporation provides electronic transaction processing, automated teller machine (ATM) management, risk management and outsourcing services to issuers of transaction accounts. It offers products and services that are directed at enhancing the ability of customers to manage the entire span of the transaction account lifecycle, from customer acquisition and screening, to account transaction processing and authorization through account closure and collections. The Company's four principal business lines are electronic payments, ATM management, risk management and global outsourcing.
EFJI EFJ, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiaries, is engaged in the manufacture of wireless communications systems (including infrastructure, subscriber products, and service) and information security products. Through E.F. Johnson Company, the Company designs, develops, manufactures and markets mobile and portable land mobile radios (LMR), stationary LMR transmitters/receivers (base stations or repeaters) and LMR systems (voting equipment, gateways and all associated control platforms). Through Transcrypt International, Inc., EPJ designs, manufactures and markets information security products, which prevent unauthorized access to sensitive voice communications. To a lesser degree, Transcrypt also designs, manufactures and markets LMR interoperability products (audio cross-connect accessories) and LMR signaling accessory products. The information security products are based on a range of analog scrambling and digital encryption technologies.
EFC EFC Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for EFS Bank. The Bank is a community-oriented financial institution that offers a variety of financial services to meet the needs of the communities it serves. EFS Bank operates four full-service banking facilities in Elgin and four full-service facilities located in West Dundee, East Dundee, Huntley and Carpentersville, Illinois. The Bank's principal business consists of the acceptance of retail deposits from the general public and the investment of those deposits, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, primarily in one- to four-family residential mortgage loans and, to a lesser extent, multi-family and commercial real estate loans, construction and land loans, commercial business loans, home equity loans and automobile and passbook savings loans. The Bank also invests primarily in government insured or guaranteed mortgage-backed securities, United States Government obligations and municipal securities.
EW Edwards Lifesciences Corporation is a provider of products and technologies designed to treat advanced cardiovascular disease. The Company focuses on providing products and technologies to address four main cardiovascular disease states: heart valve disease, coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease and congestive heart failure. The products and technologies are categorized into five main areas: Cardiac Surgery, Critical Care, Vascular, Perfusion and Other Distributed Products.
EDUC Educational Development Corporation (EDC) is the exclusive trade publisher of a line of children's books produced in the United Kingdom by Usborne Publishing Limited. During the fiscal year ended February 29, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company operated two divisions: Home Business Division, known as Usborne Books at Home (UBAH) and Publishing Division. The Home Business Division distributes books through independent consultants who hold book showings in individual homes and through book fairs, direct sales and Internet sales. The Home Business Division also distributes these titles to school and public libraries. The Publishing Division markets books to bookstores, toy stores, specialty stores and other retail outlets.
EDMC Education Management Corporation (EDMC) is engaged in the business of providing private post-secondary education in North America. EDMC provides career-oriented education. As of the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the company had 67 primary campus locations in 24 states and two Canadian provinces. EDMC's educational systems offer a broad range of academic programs concentrated in the media arts, design, fashion, culinary arts, behavioral sciences, health sciences, education, information technology, legal studies and business fields, culminating in the award of associate's through doctoral degrees. Prior to fiscal 2004, The Art Institutes and Argosy University were managed as separate operating segments. During fiscal 2004 EDMC shifted from an educational system approach to a centralized corporate structure utilizing divisions, which have been aggregated into one operating segment.
EDLG Education Lending Group, Inc. is a specialty finance company principally engaged in providing student loan products, services and solutions to students, parents, schools and alumni associations. The Company's business is focused on originating and purchasing guaranteed student loans made under the Federal Family Education Loan Program, known as FFELP, which includes consolidation loans, Stafford loans and Parent Loans for Undergraduate Students (PLUS). It also offers and purchases alternative supplemental loans that may be guaranteed by a third-party guarantor. During the year ended December 31, 2003, all of Education Lending's alternative supplemental loans were guaranteed by a third-party guarantor. On May 21, 2002, the Company changed its name from Direct III Marketing, Inc. to Education Lending Group, Inc. The vast majority of loans originated by the Company have been consolidation loans.
EEEE Educate, Inc. is a national provider of tutoring and other supplemental education services to pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade (pre-K-12) students. The Company operates through three business segments: Learning Center, Institutional Services and Online Learning Services, which collectively served more than 250,000 students in 2003. Its North American learning centers are operated under the Sylvan brand name. The Learning Center segment develops and delivers personalized tutoring programs to pre-K-12 students through a network of learning centers in North America and Europe. Since 1993, Catapult Learning, formerly known as Sylvan Education Solutions, has provided supplemental instruction programs, primarily in reading and math, to students in schools, school districts and private educational entities (primarily parochial schools) across the United States. eSylvan offers online tutoring programs modeled after those provided in the Company's Sylvan Learning Centers.
EDO EDO Corporation provides military and commercial products and professional services, with core competencies in a range of critical defense areas, including: Defense Electronics, Aircraft Armament, Undersea Warfare, Professional Services, C4I - Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence and Integrated Composite Structures. The Company has three segments: Defense, Communications and Space Products, and Engineered Materials. The Defense segment consists of Marine and Aircraft Systems, Mtech, Defense Programs and Technologies, Combat Systems, Technical Services Operations, Professional Services, Reconnaissance and Surveillance Systems, EDO (UK) Ltd. The Communications and Space Products segment, which accounted for 12% of consolidated net sales in 2003, 14% in 2002, and 15% in 2001, includes antenna product and ultra-miniature electronics and systems. The Engineered Materials segment includes Electro-Ceramic Products, Fiber Science, and Specialty Plastics.
EIX Edison International is a holding company that operates through three business segments: an electric utility segment (Southern California Edison Company (SCE)), a non-utility power generation segment (Edison Mission Energy (EME)), and a financial services provider segment (Edison Capital). SCE is a public utility primarily engaged in the business of supplying electric energy to a 50,000-square-mile area of central, coastal and southern California, excluding the City of Los Angeles and certain other cities. EME is an independent power producer engaged in the business of owning or leasing and operating electric power generation facilities worldwide. EME also conducts price risk management and energy trading activities in power markets open to competition. Edison Capital has investments worldwide in energy and infrastructure projects.
EDIG.OB e.Digital Corporation is a holding company that operates through a wholly owned California subsidiary of the same name. It offers technology platforms and engineering services to electronics companies to create portable digital devices that can link to personal computers, the Internet and other electronic devices. The Company offers reference designs and technology platforms for private labeling by original equipment manufacturers/original design manufacturers. The Company's technology and platforms include MicroOS, Personal Digital Video Platform, Digital Audio Platform and Wireless Technology Platform.
DIET eDiets.com, Inc. is executing a strategy to be an online provider of services, information and products related to nutrition, fitness and motivation. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company derived 86% of its total revenues from the sale of 406,000 personalized subscription-based online nutrition plans related to weight management, to dietary regimens, such as vegetarianism and to specific medical conditions, such as Type II diabetes. As of December 2003, eDiets had 189,000 paying subscribers. During 2003, the Company undertook a strategy to obtain licenses for the intellectual property associated with third-party nutrition and fitness approaches and to offer personalized versions of these approaches in addition to its own internally-developed plans.
EDGW Edgewater Technology, Inc. is a consulting firm that specializes in combining strategic consulting, technical knowledge and industry domain expertise to develop technology solutions that assist primarily companies to align their processes with their purposes. This approach not only promotes increased efficiency but also supports increased effectiveness. The Company's operates through two subsidiaries: Edgewater Technology (Delaware), Inc. and Intelix, Inc (Intelix). The Company acquired Intelix in June 2003. It is a provider of systems integration and custom software development services. Edgewater Technology's customers are generally middle-market companies that span across a variety of industries, including financial services (retail banking, portfolio/asset management), health care (managed care), higher education, insurance, life sciences, real estate, retail, telecommunications and various emerging markets.
EPEX Edge Petroleum Corporation is oil and natural gas company engaged in the exploration, development, acquisition and production of crude oil and natural gas properties in the United States. During the year ended December 31, 2003, its net proved reserves were 63.9 billion cubic feet equivalent, consisting of 46.8 billion cubic feet of natural gas, 1.5 million barrels of oil and 1.4 million barrels of plant products. The natural gas and natural gas liquids accounted for approximately 86% of those proved reserves. In 2003, Edge entered into an exploration project in Southeastern New Mexico and completed three transactions, including the merger with Miller Exploration Company, which was completed in December 2003. Edge Petroleum drilled 36 wells in 2003, with 28 completed as productive for a 78% apparent success rate. In December 2004, the Company acquired Contango Oil &amp; Gas Co.'s south Texas natural gas and oil interests.
EDGR EDGAR Online, Inc. is a financial and business information company specializing in providing information contained in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings in an easy-to-use, searchable and functional format. Using the Company's products and services, customers can quickly view and analyze specific aspects of a public company's business, financial and ownership history. Its customers include financial institutions, investment funds, asset managers, market data professionals, accounting firms, law firms, corporations and individual investors. The Company's services are available through subscriptions and license agreements.
EDEN Eden Bioscience Corporation is a plant health technology company focused on developing, manufacturing and marketing products for agriculture using its natural protein-based harpin technology. The Company has a new, patented and proprietary technology that enhances plant health and improves overall crop production and quality. Its products are collectively called the Messenger Products. Harpin proteins trigger a plant's natural defense reaction and activate growth and stress-defense responses that enhance the plant's vigor and stamina and improve overall plant health. This process initiates a reinforcing cycle of plant responses that enhance plant health and enhance the plant's ability to respond to stresses and to grow. This beneficial, reinforcing cycle of plant health results in production benefits related to improve marketable yields, quality and shelf life.
EDAP EDAP TMS S.A. is engaged in the development, production and marketing of minimally invasive medical devices, mainly for urological diseases, through its High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) and Urology Devices and Services (UDS) divisions. The HIFU division is engaged in the development and marketing of medical devices based on HIFU technology for the minimally invasive treatment of urological and other clinical indications. The UDS division is engaged in the development, marketing, manufacturing and servicing of medical devices for the minimally invasive diagnosis or treatment of urological and other clinical indications.
EDAC.OB EDAC Technologies Corporation (EDAC) provides design and manufacturing services for various industries in areas such as special tooling, equipment and gauges and components used in manufacture, assembly and inspection of jet engines. The Company also specializes in the design and repair of precision spindles. It has introduced new Spindle products for the woodworking and automotive markets, and in July 2003, it entered into a worldwide licensing agreement to develop, design, manufacture and market a patented hydrostatic spindle product line. The Company's wholly owned subsidiaries are Gros-Ite Industries, Inc. and Apex Machine Tool Company, Inc. As a result of a restructuring, during the fiscal year ended January 03, 2004 (fiscal 2003), the Company operated during fiscal 2003 as one segment.
ECTX ECtel Ltd. develops and markets revenue assurance solutions for circuit-switched and packet-switched wireline and wireless networks. The Company's solutions equip telecommunications service providers with data gathering and analysis capabilities to improve their operational efficiency and profitability by detecting and preventing fraud; supporting billing assurance, including billing mediation functions of interconnection arrangements, and monitoring the quality of service over their networks. ECtel's surveillance solutions enable governmental agencies to perform surveillance on telecommunications networks. In March 2004, the Company sold this business to Verint Systems.
ECST eCOST.com. Inc. is a multi-category, online discount retailer of new, close-out and refurbished brandname merchandise. It offers over 100,000 products in seven merchandise categories, including computer hardware and software, home electronics, digital imaging, watches and jewelry, housewares, digital video disc (DVD) movies and video games. The Company offers two shopping formats: everyday low price and Bargain Countdown. It carries products from manufacturers, such as Canon, Citizen, Denon, Hewlett-Packard, Nikon, Onkyo, Seiko and Toshiba, and has access to a broad and deep selection of merchandise, including deeply discounted, close-out and refurbished merchandise. eCOST is a wholly owned subsidiary of PC Mall, Inc., which, through its subsidiaries, is a supplier of technology solutions for businesses, and government and educational institutions, as well as consumers
ECMV E Com Ventures, Inc. (ECOMV) performs all of its operations through two wholly owned subsidiaries, Perfumania, Inc. and perfumania.com, Inc. Perfumania is a specialty retailer and wholesale distributor of a range of brand name and designer fragrances. At January 31, 2004, Perfumania operated a chain of 232 retail stores specializing in the sale of fragrances at discounted prices up to 75% below the manufacturers' suggested retail prices. Perfumania's wholesale division distributes fragrances and related products to other wholesale distributors throughout North America and overseas. Perfumania operates its wholesale business directly. It operates its retail business through Magnifique Parfumes and Cosmetics, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Perfumania, although the stores are generally operated under the name Perfumania. perfumania.com is an Internet retailer of fragrances and other specialty items.
EEI Ecology and Environment, Inc. (EEI) is a broad-based environmental consulting and testing firm. The Company offers a broad range of environmental consulting services, including environmental audits; environmental impact assessments; terrestrial, aquatic and marine surveys; air quality management and air toxics pollution control; environmental engineering; noise pollution evaluations; wastewater analyses; water pollution control; industrial hygiene and occupational health studies; archaeological and cultural resource studies; environmental infrastructure planning; air, water and groundwater monitoring, and analytical laboratory services.
ECLG eCollege.com (eCollege), incorporated in July 1996, is an outsource provider of eLearning solutions for post-secondary online degree programs. With the acquisition of Datamark Inc. in October 2003, the Company has expanded to become an outsource provider of value-added information services to the post-secondary education market. The Company operates in two business segments: eLearning, an outsource provider of technology, products and services that enable colleges, universities and high schools to offer an online environment for distance, on-campus and hybrid learning, and Enrollment, which include products and services that are focused on three stages of the student life cycle: lead generation, lead conversion and student retention.
ECL Ecolab Inc. develops and markets products and services for the hospitality, foodservice, institutional and industrial markets. The Company provides cleaning, sanitizing, pest elimination, maintenance and repair products, systems and services primarily to hotels and restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, quick-service (fast-food and other convenience store) units, grocery stores, commercial and institutional laundries, light industry, dairy plants and farms, food and beverage processors, pharmaceutical and cosmetics facilities and the vehicle wash industry. The Company's three segments include United States Cleaning &amp; Sanitizing Segment, United States Other Services Segment and International Cleaning &amp; Sanitizing Segment.
ECLP Eclipsys Corporation is a healthcare information technology (HIT) company that develops and licenses proprietary software to hospitals. The Company's software allows them to automate the key clinical, administrative and financial functions that they require. Eclipsys' software is designed to improve patient care and patient satisfaction for its customers and allow them to reduce their operating costs. Among other things, its software enables physicians and nurses to check on a patient's condition, order patient tests, review test results, monitor a patient's medications and provide alerts to changes in a patient's condition. The Company's software enables hospitals to admit patients, maintain patient records, create invoices for billing patients or insurance companies, control inventories, effect cost accounting, schedule doctor's visits, determine the profitability of physicians and physician groups, understand the profitability of medical procedures and perform other functions.
ECIL ECI Telecom Ltd. (ECI) provides network and access solutions for digital telecommunications networks. The Company designs, develops, manufactures, markets and supports digital telecommunications solutions for evolving services, including voice, data, video and multimedia and converging networks. ECI's equipment supports traffic on more than 500 service networks in over 145 countries. The Company operates through two divisions: the Optical Networks Division and the Broadband Access Division. In addition, ECI has interests in a number of companies in the areas, such as telephony solutions (Veraz Networks) and telecommunications revenue assurance solutions (ECtel). The Company's products are sold primarily by its international sales force located in its offices worldwide. In some markets, sales are handled by local agents and resellers. The direct sales force targets service providers in Western Europe, Israel, Asia-Pacific and North and South America.
DISH EchoStar Communications Corporation (ECC) is a provider of satellite-delivered digital television to customers across the United States through its digital information sky highway (DISH) Network. DISH Network services include hundreds of video, audio and data channels, interactive television channels, digital video recording, high-definition television, international programming, professional installation and 24-hour customer service. At December 31, 2003, the DISH Network had approximately 9.425 million subscribers. ECC has nine in-orbit satellites that enable it to offer over 1,000 video and audio channels to consumers across the United States. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, EchoStar Technologies Corporation (ETC), the Company designs and develops direct broadcast satellite set-top boxes, antennae and other digital equipment for the DISH Network. ETC also designs, develops and distributes similar equipment for international satellite service providers.
ELON Echelon Corporation develops, markets and supports hardware and software products and services that allow everyday devices such as appliances, thermostats, air conditioners, electricity meters and lighting systems to communicate with one another and across the Internet. The Company's products and services are based on its LONWORKS technology. Echelon offers a set of over 90 products and services marketed under the LONWORKS brand name. These products and services provide the infrastructure and support required to implement and deploy open and interoperable control network solutions. Its product offerings include transceivers, concentrator products, control modules, routers, network interfaces, development tools and software tools and toolkits. Through a project with Enel S.p.A., an electric utility in Italy, Echelon also provides products that enable electricity metering and other home networking functions to be networked across the utility's service area.
ECBE ECB Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company that operates through its wholly owned banking subsidiary, The East Carolina Bank (the Bank). The Company's principal asset is the investment in the Bank, and its primary source of revenue is the dividends it receives from the Bank. The Bank is engaged in a general, community-oriented commercial and consumer banking business. Its principal activities are the taking of demand and time deposits and the making of consumer and commercial loans. The Bank's deposit services include business and individual checking accounts, savings accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, certificates of deposit and money market checking accounts. The Bank has two wholly owned subsidiaries: ECB Realty, Inc., which holds title to five of the Bank's branch offices that is leased to the Bank, and ECB Financial Services, Inc., which provided courier services to the Bank but is inactive.
EBKR ebookers plc is a pan-European online travel agency serving the consumer and small business market. The Company has local language Websites servicing 13 European countries. ebookers offers travel products and services, including air tickets, hotels, car hire, travel insurance and various other products, as well as some non-travel products. The Company is supplied with the travel products and services directly from travel product and service providers, such as airlines, hotel operators and car hire companies. ebookers specializes in the mid- and long-haul leisure segments of the European travel industry. It specializes in the modular area of the market, wherein it allows consumers to choose each component of their holiday themselves. The Company also specializes in selling discount merchant fares. Merchant fares are negotiated with the airlines up to a year in advance and can offer customers substantial discounts on airlines' published prices.
EBIX Ebix, Inc. is an international provider of software and Internet-based solutions for the insurance industry. The Company's product and service strategy focuses on three areas: worldwide sales and support of agency management systems including EbixASP, expansion of connectivity between consumers, agents, carriers and third-party providers through Ebix.com, INS-Site, EbixExchange and LifeLink, and business process outsourcing services, which include software development, call center and back office, either offsite or at the Company's facilities. Professional services offered by Ebix include consulting, implementation, training and project management provided to customers with installed systems and those in the process of installing systems.
EBAY eBay Inc. developed an Internet-based community in which buyers and sellers are brought together to buy and sell almost anything. The eBay online service permits sellers to list items for sale, buyers to bid on items of interest and all eBay users to browse through listed items in a fully automated, topically arranged service that is available online seven days a week. Through the PayPal service, the Company enables any business or consumer with e-mail in 38 countries to send and receive online payments. As of December 31, 2003, through wholly owned and majority-owned subsidiaries and affiliates, eBay had Websites directed toward the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.
EBDC.OB ebank Financial Services, Inc. is the holding company for ebank, a federal savings bank. ebank provides an array of financial products and services to its small business and retail customers, including checking, money management accounts and certificates of deposit; residential mortgage lending products, including home equity lines of credit and first and second mortgages; consumer loans and personal lines of credit; loans to small businesses and residential builders as well as commercial real estate developers; automated teller machine (ATM) cards, which allows customers to access their accounts at ATMs affiliated with the Cirrus, Honor, Avail and Star networks, and online account statements and bill payment, which allows customers to track the activity in their accounts directly through the Internet and pay their bills electronically, obtain account balances and transaction history, transfer funds between various accounts and download account statements.
EACC.OB eAutoclaims Inc., formerly, eAutoclaims.com, Inc., provides Internet-based vehicle collision claims services for insurance companies, managing general agents and third-party claims administrators and self-insured automobile fleet management companies. The Company accepts assignment of claims from its customers, and provides vehicle repairs through a network of repair shops. It also provides online systems to connect clients with service providers of estimates, audits and claims administration services for claims for which it does not perform the repair. It controls the vehicle repair process from the reporting of the accident through the satisfactory repair of damage. The Company brings together and coordinates the activities of the insurance company, its insured and the various parties involved in evaluating a claim, negotiating the cost of the repair and performing necessary repair services.
EV Eaton Vance Corp. operates as an investment adviser managing fund and separate account assets. It conducts its investment management business through its two wholly owned subsidiaries, Eaton Vance Management (EVM) and Boston Management and Research, and its three majority-owned subsidiaries, Atlanta Capital Management, LLC, Fox Asset Management LLC and Parametric Portfolio Associates. Eaton Vance Distributors, Inc., a wholly owned broker/dealer, markets and sells the Eaton Vance funds. Eaton Vance Management (International) Limited, a wholly owned financial services company, markets and sells the Company's investment products in Europe and certain other international markets. As of October 31, 2003, the Company managed $75.0 billion in assets with investment objectives ranging from high current income to maximum long-term capital gain. In addition, Eaton Vance, through its subsidiary, EVM, has an investment advisory and administrative agreement with The U.S. Charitable Gift Trust.
ETN Eaton Corporation is a globally diversified industrial manufacturer engaged in the design and manufacture of fluid power systems; electrical power quality, distribution and control; automotive engine air management and powertrain controls for fuel economy; and intelligent drivetrain systems for fuel economy and safety in trucks. The principal markets for the Company's Fluid Power, Automotive and Truck segments are original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and after-market customers of aerospace products and systems, off-highway agricultural and construction vehicles, industrial equipment, passenger cars and heavy-, medium-, and light-duty trucks. The principal markets for the Electrical segment are industrial, construction, commercial, automotive and government customers.
JOES.OB Eat at Joe's Ltd. intends to open and operate theme restaurants styled in an American diner atmosphere, where families can eat wholesome, home cooked food in a safe friendly atmosphere. Eat at Joe's, the classic American grill, is a restaurant concept that takes guests back to eating in the era when favorite old rockers were playing on chrome-spangled jukeboxes and neon signs reflected on shiny tabletops of the 1950's. At December 31, 2003, the Company owned and operated one theme restaurant located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and operated under its subsidiary, E.A.J. PHL Airport Inc. Eat at Joe's plans at least four acquisitions during 2004, subject to the availability of funding. All restaurants will be located in high-traffic locations. The restaurants will be modest priced restaurants catering to the local working and residential population rather than as a tourist destination.
EASY EasyLink Services Corp. is a provider of services that facilitate the electronic exchange of information between enterprises, their trading communities and their customers. The Company handles approximately one million transactions per business day that are integral to the movement of money, materials, products and people in the global economy, such as insurance claims, trade and travel confirmations, purchase orders, invoices, shipping notices and funds transfers. It offers a range of information exchange services to businesses and service providers, including transaction delivery services such as electronic data interchange, telex, desktop fax, broadcast and production messaging services; services that protect corporate e-mail systems such as virus protection, spam control and content filtering services, and transaction management services, including document capture and management services such as fax-to-database, fax-to-data and data conversion services.
EK Eastman Kodak Company is engaged primarily in developing, manufacturing and marketing traditional and digital imaging products, services and solutions to consumers, the entertainment industry, professionals, healthcare providers and other customers. For 2003, Kodak organized its business into four segments: Photography, Health Imaging, Commercial Imaging and All Other. The Photography segment includes digital and traditional products for consumers, professional photographers and the entertainment industry. Products of the Health Imaging segment include traditional analog medical films, chemicals and processing equipment. The Commercial Imaging segment derives revenues from microfilm equipment and media, wide-format inkjet printers, inks and media, scanners and graphics film products. The All Other group derives revenues from the sale of organic light-emitting diode displays, imaging sensor solutions and optical products to other manufacturers.
EMN Eastman Chemical Company is a global chemical company engaged in the manufacture and sale of a portfolio of chemicals, plastics and fibers. The Company's products and operations are managed in three divisions: Eastman, Voridian and Developing Businesses. The Eastman Division consists of the Coatings, Adhesives, Specialty Polymers and Inks segment, the Performance Chemicals and Intermediates segment and the Specialty Plastics segment. The Voridian Division consists of the Polymers segment and the Fibers segment. The Polymers segment contains two principal product lines, polyethylene terephthalate polymers and polyethylene. The Fibers segment is primarily made up of acetate tow, acetate yarn and acetyl chemical products. The Developing Businesses segment includes the Company's new businesses and certain investments in non-traditional growth opportunities. In November 2004, the Company sold its Ariel Research Corporation to 3E Company.
EGP EastGroup Properties, Inc. is an equity real estate investment trust (REIT). It is focused on the acquisition, operation and development of industrial properties in Sunbelt markets throughout the United States with a special emphasis in the states of Arizona, California, Florida and Texas. EastGroup owned 166 industrial properties and one office building as of December 31, 2003. The Company has developed over 20% of its total portfolio. Its focus is the ownership of business distribution space (75% of the total portfolio) with the remainder in bulk distribution space (21%) and business service space (4%). Business distribution space properties are typically multi-tenant buildings with a building depth of 200 feet or less, clear height of 20-24 feet, office finish of 10-25% and truck courts with a depth of 100-120 feet.
EVBS Eastern Virginia Bankshares, Inc. (EVB) is a bank holding company that conducts its primary operations through three wholly owned subsidiaries, Southside Bank, Bank of Northumberland, Inc. and Hanover Bank. The Company's primary activity is retail banking. Through its bank subsidiaries, EVB provides full-service banking, including commercial and consumer demand and time deposit accounts, real estate, commercial and consumer loans, Visa and Mastercard revolving credit accounts, drive-in banking services, automated teller machine transactions, Internet banking and wire transfer services. The bank's 20 branches serve diverse markets providing ancillary services, including travelers' checks, safe deposit box rentals, collections and other customary bank services.
EML The Eastern Company is engaged in the manufacture and sale of industrial hardware, security products and metal products from four United States operations and six wholly owned foreign subsidiaries. The Company's industrial hardware segment produces latching devices for use on industrial equipment and instrumentation, as well as a line of proprietary hardware designed for truck bodies and other vehicular type equipment. The security products segment manufactures and markets a range of locks for traditional general-purpose security applications, as well as specialized locks for soft luggage, coin-operated vending and gaming equipment, and electric and computer peripheral components. This segment also manufactures and markets coin acceptors and metering systems to secure cash used in the commercial laundry industry and produces cashless payment systems utilizing advanced smart card technology.
NGT Eastern American Natural Gas Trust (the Trust) was formed to acquire and hold net profits interests created from the working interests owned by Eastern American, in 650 producing gas wells and 65 proved development well locations, located in West Virginia and Pennsylvania (the Underlying Properties). In May 2000, The Bank of New York acquired the corporate trust business of the Bank of Montreal Trust Company / Harris Trust. Consequently, The Bank of New York serves as Trustee. The net profits interests (NPI) were created from the Underlying Properties and conveyed to the Trust, pursuant to two Conveyances: one conveying a royalty interest in specified wells (the Royalty NPI Conveyance), and the other conveying the a term interest in specified wells (the Term NPI Conveyance, and together with the Royalty NPI Conveyance, the Conveyances).
EWBC East West Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company whose principal asset is the East West Bank (the Bank), a state-chartered commercial bank that specializes in lending for commercial, construction and residential real estate projects, and financing international trade for California companies, with a particular focus on the Chinese-American community. East West's principal business is to serve as a holding company for the Bank and other banking or banking-related subsidiaries that it may establish or acquire. The Bank delivers and provides its products and services primarily through a network of 42 retail branches in the United States, including in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and the San Francisco Bay area. On January 20, 2003, the Bank opened its first overseas office in Beijing, China, and on March 14, 2003, completed its acquisition of Pacific Business Bank. The Company has four other wholly owned subsidiaries, operating as statutory business trusts.
ETFS.OB East Texas Financial Services, Inc. is the savings and loan holding company of First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Tyler (First Federal). First Federal, founded in 1923, is a federally chartered mutual savings and loan association primarily serving the east Texas area. Through First Federal, the Company's principal business consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing those funds in one- to four-family residential mortgage loans, commercial real estate, one- to four-family construction, multi-family, commercial and consumer loans. East Texas Financial also purchases mortgage-backed securities and invests in United States government and agency obligations and other permissible investments. The Company offers a full line of products and services that include commercial and consumer loans, debit and credit cards, automated teller machines (ATMs) and cards and safe deposit boxes.
EPEN East Penn Financial Corporation was incorporated for the purpose of forming a one-bank holding company. On July 1, 2003, the Company completed the reorganization and merger of East Penn Bank (the Bank) into the holding company form of ownership. In the reorganization, the Bank became a wholly owned banking subsidiary of the Company. The Company provides a variety of financial services, through the Bank, to individuals, small businesses and municipalities through its seven branches located principally in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The Bank operates under a state bank charter and provides full-banking services. On July 31, 2203, the Company formed East Penn Statutory Trust I, a statutory business trust, for the purpose of issuing $8 million in capital pass-through securities to investors.
EWKE.OB Earthworks Entertainment (formerly E-Content, Inc.) is a development stage company that is engaged in the creation, co-production, marketing and distribution of high-quality children's and family-oriented entertainment properties. The properties are marketed in all multi-platform areas of commercial exposition ranging from television to home video, merchandise licensing to electronic and video games to book and music publishing.
ERTH.OB EarthShell Corporation is a development-stage company engaged in the commercialization of a composite material technology for the manufacture of disposable packaging for the foodservice industry. The Company's field of use of the technology is for the development, manufacture and sale of disposable packaging for use in the foodservice industry and for certain specific food packaging applications. EarthShell Packaging can be categorized into four types: foam laminate, flexible wraps, injection-molded articles and paperboard substitutes. Through 2003, the EarthShell technology has been used to produce plates, bowls and hinged-lid containers intended for use by all segments of the foodservice disposable packaging market, including quick-service restaurants, food and facilities management companies, the United States government, universities/colleges and retail operations. The EarthShell composite material is primarily made from natural raw materials, such as limestone and potato starch.
ELNK EarthLink, Inc. is an Internet service provider that provides nationwide Internet access and related value-added service to its individual and business customers. The Company's primary service offerings include narrowband Internet access, including premium and value-priced dial-up access over traditional telephone lines and wireless access through a variety of handheld and laptop devices; high-speed or broadband access via digital subscriber line, cable modem, satellite and dedicated circuits; Web hosting; and advertising and related marketing services. By acquiring PeoplePC Inc. in July 2002, the Company also offers PeoplePC's access software, which is used to deliver service to the EarthLink-branded premium narrowband subscribers. In September 2003, the Company launched TotalAccess 2004, a version of EarthLink's Internet access software that provides tools and e-mail features to enhance customers' Internet experiences.
EFTI.OB EarthFirst Technologies, Incorporated is a holding company focused on yielding products from carbon-rich solid and liquid materials considered wastes. The Company is also focused on the research, development and commercialization of technologies for the production of alternative sources of fuel and the destruction, purification, and/or remediation of liquid and solid wastes. The Company's subsidiaries are engaged in a number of business activities, including solid-waste technologies, applied technical consulting, electric machinery enterprises, liquid-waste technologies and 360-degree energy business.
EPAT.OB Earth Products and Technologies, Inc. (Earth Products) is a blank check company and have had recurring operating losses since the year ended December 31, 2002. As of January 1999, the Company had divested all of its operations and became inactive. Its business plan is to seek, investigate and, if warranted, acquire an interest in a business opportunity. Its acquisition of a business opportunity may be made by merger, exchange of stock or otherwise. The Company has not identified any business opportunity that it plans to pursue, nor has it reached any preliminary or definitive agreements or understandings with any person concerning an acquisition or merger.
ESH Earl Scheib, Inc. operates in the automobile paint and repair industry. As of April 30, 2004, the Company operated a chain of 113 retail production paint and body shops, which specialize in repainting of automobiles and performing body repairs, other than major collision repair, frame straightening (in most instances) or axle work. The Company operates one large industrial painting and collision center (the Fleet Center) dedicated to large fleet vehicles and other oversized equipment. The Company also offers the replacement of certain car body parts using new, used and aftermarket parts, glass replacement, as well as factory-style pinstriping, molding and vinyl top replacement. The Company's shops are located in approximately 100 cities throughout 23 states in the United States and the District of Columbia, with 50 shops and the Fleet Center in California. During the fiscal year ended April 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company opened eight new shops and closed 12 shops.
EPEI.OB EAPI Entertainment, Inc. is in the initial stage of developing its products and business. The Company has not completed the development of any video game products or on-line education software programs and is still in the initial stages of developing its plans for marketing natural agricultural, food and gardening products and waste technologies. The Company has not generated revenue from any of its proposed businesses.
EXP Eagle Materials Inc. is a producer of basic construction products used in residential, industrial, commercial and infrastructure applications. The Company is a holding company and the businesses of the consolidated group are conducted through its subsidiaries. EXP produces and sells cement, gypsum wallboard, recycled paperboard, aggregates and readymix concrete. It conducts two of its four cement plant operations through joint ventures, Texas Lehigh Cement Company LP which is located in Buda, Texas and Illinois Cement Company, which is located in LaSalle, Illinois.
EHP Eagle Hospitality Properties Trust, Inc. was formed to pursue investment opportunities in the full-service and all-suites hotel industry. The Company owns a portfolio of nine hotels, flagged by nationally recognized brands, including Embassy Suites Hotels, Marriott, Hyatt and Hilton. It owns a 100% interest in eight of its hotels and a 49% interest in the ninth hotel, with the right and obligation to acquire the remaining 51% interest in the ninth hotel no later than January 31, 2006. The Company owns its hotels and conducts its business through an operating partnership, EHP Operating Partnership, L.P. It is the sole general partner and owns approximately 70% of the partnership units in its operating partnership.
EGXP.OB Eagle Exploration Company is engaged in the purchase and development of residential and commercial real estate. In 1992, the Company changed its business focus from oil and gas exploration to real estate development, and, in connection with this change, subsequently sold most of its oil and gas interest and investments. The Company continues to hold minor interests in oil and gas properties and indirect interests by acquiring equity in other oil and gas companies. The Company is also investigating various potential acquisitions and other business opportunities.
EAG Eagle Broadband, Inc. (Eagle), is a provider of broadband, Internet protocol (IP) and satellite communications technology and services. The Company is focused on three core businesses: broadband bundled services, IP set-top boxes and satellite communications technology. The Company's product offerings include a four-play suite of IP-based broadband bundled services with high-speed Internet, cable TV, telephone and security monitoring, and a turnkey suite of financing, network design, operational and support services that enables municipalities, utilities, real estate developers, hotels, multi-tenant owners and service providers to deliver value entertainment and communications choices and single-bill convenience to their residential and business customers.
EGBN Eagle Bancorp, Inc provides general commercial and consumer banking services through its wholly owned banking subsidiary, EagleBank (the Bank). The Bank operates as a community bank from six southern Montgomery County offices located in Gaithersburg, Rockville, Bethesda and Silver Spring, Maryland and the District of Columbia. The Bank offers the following credit services: commercial loans for business purposes, asset-based lending and accounts receivable financing, real estate loans, lease financing and traditional general purpose consumer installment loans. The Bank also offers personal lines of credit. In June 2003, the Company formed a second wholly owned subsidiary, Bethesda Leasing, LLC, for the purpose of acquiring an impaired loan from the Bank in order to affect more efficient administration and collection procedures.
EACO.OB EACO Corporation, formerly Family Steak Houses of Florida, Inc., operates 18 restaurants in the state of Florida. It is the sole franchisee for Ryan's Family Steak House, Inc. in Florida operating under a franchise agreement with Ryan's Properties, Inc. Ryan's restaurants are family-oriented buffet restaurants with server-assisted service. Ryan's restaurants feature self-service scatter bars with a variety of over 100 fruit, vegetable and meat entree items, bakery and dessert bar, drink refills and table service. Several restaurants feature a display cooking area, where guests can have grilled-to-order steaks, chicken, pork chops and other items, all of which is included in the price of the all-you-can-eat buffet. The Company operated 15 Ryan's restaurants and three Florida Buffet Restaurants as of February 25, 2004.
DX Dynex Capital, Inc. is a financial services company that invests in loans and securities consisting of single-family mortgage loans, commercial mortgage loans, manufactured housing installment loans and, until September 2004, delinquent property tax receivables. The loans and securities in which the Company invests have been pooled and pledged, securitized as collateral for non-recourse bonds, which provides long-term financing for such loans while limiting credit, interest rate and liquidity risk. Dynex earns the net interest spread between the interest income on the loans and securities in its investment portfolio and the interest and other expenses associated with the non-recourse securitization financing. The Company also collected payments from property owners on its investment in delinquent property tax receivables. In September 2004, the Company sold its delinquent property tax receivable portfolio located in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, to Plymouth Park Tax Services, LLC.
DYN Dynegy Inc. is a holding company that conducts substantially all of its business operations through its subsidiaries. Its business operations are focused primarily on three areas of the energy industry: power generation, natural gas liquids and regulated energy delivery. The power generation segment is engaged in the production and sale of electric power from the Company's owned and leased facilities. As of December 31, 2003, Dynegy owned or leased more than 12,700 megawatts of net generating capacity. Its natural gas liquids business owns natural gas gathering and processing assets in key producing areas of Louisiana, New Mexico and Texas. This business also owns integrated downstream assets used to fractionate, store, terminal, transport, distribute and market natural gas liquids. The regulated energy delivery segment is engaged in the transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy and the distribution, transportation and sale of natural gas in the state of Illinois.
DVAX Dynavax Technologies Corporation discovers, develops and intends to commercialize products to treat and prevent allergies, infectious diseases and chronic inflammatory diseases using approaches that alter immune system responses in highly specific ways. The Company's clinical development programs are based on immunostimulatory sequences (ISS), which are short DNA sequences that enhance the ability of the immune system to fight disease and control chronic inflammation. It has developed an injectable product candidate, AIC, to treat ragweed allergy. The Company is nearing completion of two Phase II trials in Canada for its hepatitis B vaccine. It also has an inhaled therapeutic product candidate for asthma in a pilot Phase II trial in Canada. Dynavax has an ISS-based cancer therapeutic product in Phase I trials and preclinical programs targeting additional allergies. It has other preclinical programs focused on chronic inflammation, antiviral therapies and next-generation vaccines.
DYNT Dynatronics Corporation's principal business is the design, manufactureing, marketing and distribution of physical medicine products and aesthetic products. Dynatronics sells approximately 2,000 physical medicine and aesthetic products. It manufactures approximately 20% of the physical medicine products and 16% of the aesthetic products in its product line. The remaining products are manufactured by third parties for whom Dynatronics acts as a distributor. In September 2003, the Company introduced the Dynatron Solaris Series, a line of combination therapy devices. Dynatronics manufactures and distributes a broad line of medical equipment, including therapy devices, medical supplies and soft goods, treatment tables and rehabilitation equipment. In addition, it manufactures and distribute a line of aesthetic equipment, including aesthetic massage and microdermabrasion devices, as well as skin care products.
DYSL.OB Dynasil Corporation of America is primarily engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of customized synthetic fused silica products. The Company's products and services are used in the optical lens and laser manufacturing industries, as well as in the medical industry. Other applications include usage in the manufacturing of analytical instruments and semiconductors. Dynasil products and services are sold throughout the United States and internationally. It has over 150 customers, with approximately 87% of its business concentrated in its top 40 customers.
DYMTF.OB DynaMotive Energy Systems Corporation is engaged in biomass-to-liquid fuel conversion, a process known as fast pyrolysis. The Company's principal business is the development and commercialization of its renewable energy process called biotherm, which is a pyrolysis process that produces liquid biooil fuel from biomass or biomass waste feedstocks. The Company's wholly owned subsidiaries include DynaMotive Corporation, DynaMotive Europe Limited, DynaMotive Canada, Inc., the West Lorne BioOil Co- Generation Limited Partnership, DynaMotive ElectroChem Corporation, DynaMill Systems Limited and DynaMotive Puerto Rico, Inc.
DRCO Dynamics Research Corporation (DRC) provides information technology, engineering and other services focused on defense, public safety and citizen services for federal, state and local governments. The Company operates through its parent corporation and its wholly owned subsidiaries, HJ Ford Associates, Inc. and Andrulis Corporation (ANDRULIS). DRC's core capabilities are focused on information technology, engineering and technical subject matter expertise, which pertains to the knowledge domains relevant to the Company's core customers. More specifically, these capabilities include design, development, operation and maintenance of information technology systems, engineering services, complex logistics planning systems and services, defense acquisition management services, simulation, modeling, training systems and services and custom built electronic test equipment and services.
DYOLF Dynamic Oil &amp; Gas, Inc. is engaged in the business of acquiring, exploring and developing natural gas and crude oil properties. The Company's natural gas and crude oil properties are located in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan. It derives its revenue from the sale of natural gas, natural gas liquids and crude oil. The Company has one major property located at St. Albert, Alberta, that began as a one-well producing property in 1985. As of 1999, the property became Dynamic's major producing property with up to 24 producing natural gas and oil wells. Of the Company's total production in 2003, 85% came from the St. Albert property. The remainder originated mainly from seven other fields: Halkirk, Cypress/Chowade, Peavey/Morinville, Alexander, Simonette, Stanmore and Westlock.
BOOM Dynamic Materials Corporation (DMC) is engaged in high-energy metal working business, which includes the use of explosives to perform metallurgical bonding or metal cladding. The Company is organized in two segments: the Explosive Metalworking Group and the Aerospace Group. Explosive Metalworking uses explosives to perform metal cladding and shock synthesis. The significant product of this group is clad metal which is used in the fabrication of pressure vessels, heat exchangers and transition joints used in the hydrocarbon processing, chemical processing, power generation, petrochemical, pulp and paper, mining, shipbuilding and heat, ventilation and air conditioning industries. Aerospace machines, forms and welds parts for the commercial aircraft, aerospace and defense industries.
DDN Dynamex Inc. is a provider of same-day delivery and logistics services in the United States and Canada. Through its network of branch offices, the Company provides same-day, on-demand, door-to-door delivery services utilizing its ground couriers. For many of its inter-city deliveries, Dynamex uses third-party air or motor carriers in conjunction with its ground couriers to provide same-day service. In addition to on-demand delivery services, the Company offers scheduled distribution services, which encompass recurring, often daily point-to-point deliveries or multiple destination deliveries that often require intermediate handling. It also offers outsourcing services, fleet and facilities management services. These services include designing and managing systems to maximize efficiencies in transporting, sorting and delivering customers' products on a local and multi-city basis.
FAIM.OB Dynabazaar, Inc. was an online auction and promotions technology service provider that enabled marketers to create rewards programs and helped commerce companies automate the process of online sales of their excess inventory to wholesale and consumer buyers. In September 2003, the Company sold substantially all of its operating assets to eBay, Inc. under the terms and conditions of an asset purchase agreement. The assets sold included all of Dynabazaar's intellectual property and technology, all rights under certain transferred customer contracts and under certain intellectual property license agreements, as well as accounts receivable relating to services performed after the date of the closing of the asset sale with respect to the transferred customer contracts.
DGIX.OB Dyna Group International, Inc. conducts all of its business through its wholly owned subsidiary, Great American Products, Ltd. It designs, manufactures and markets lines of consumer products, as well as products for industry used as advertising specialties and premiums utilizing pewter centrifugally cast in rubber molds. These products include belt buckles, model miniatures, key chains, picture frames, as well as pewter-decorated glassware, caps, ceramic ware, pewter-decorated wall and desk decor and pewter-enhanced keepsake boxes.
DY Dycom Industries, Inc. is a provider of specialty contracting services, including engineering, construction, installation and maintenance services to telecommunications providers throughout the United States. The Company provides a comprehensive range of telecommunications infrastructure services, including the engineering, placement and maintenance of aerial, underground, and buried fiber-optic, coaxial and copper cable systems owned by local and long-distance communications carriers and cable television multiple system operators. In addition, Dycom provides similar services related to the installation of integrated voice, data and video, local and wide area networks within buildings. In addition, it also provides underground locating services to various utilities, and other construction and maintenance services to electric utilities and others.
DYAX Dyax Corp. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of antibody, protein and peptide based therapeutic products. The Company's product development programs are primarily focused on inflammatory diseases and cancer. It has two product candidates in or entering into Phase II clinical trials for three indications. DX-88 is being studied for the treatment of both hereditary angioedema and for the prevention of blood loss and other systemic inflammatory responses in on-pump, open-heart surgery, and DX-890 is being studied for the treatment of cystic fibrosis. Dyax also has a number of ongoing discovery programs using its and patented technology, known as phage display, to identify new compounds, especially antibodies, with potential for the treatment of various diseases.
DXPE DXP Enterprises, Inc. is primarily engaged in the business of distributing maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) products, equipment and service to industrial customers in the United States. The Company is organized into two segments: MRO and Electrical Contractor. The MRO segment is engaged in providing MRO products, equipment and integrated services, including engineering expertise and logistics capabilities, to industrial customers. The Company provides a range of MRO products in the fluid handling equipment, bearing, power transmission equipment, general mill, safety products and electrical products categories. The Electrical Contractor segment sells a range of electrical products, such as wire conduit, wiring devices, electrical fittings and boxes, signaling devices, heaters, tools, switch gear, lighting, lamps, tape, lugs, wire nuts, batteries, fans and fuses, to electrical contractors.
DWGN.OB Dwango North America Corp., doing business as Dwango Wireless, offers a comprehensive approach for bringing lifestyle and affiliate brands to the wireless arena through customized entertainment content, polyphonic and audio ringtones, games, images and applications for mobile telephones. Dwango Wireless provides content for many lifestyle brands, including Rolling Stone, Beliefnet, Napster, ESPN and Playboy.
DVLN.OB DVL, Inc. is a commercial finance company primarily engaged in the ownership of residual interests in securitized portfolios, ownership and servicing of a portfolio of secured commercial mortgage loans made to limited partnerships in which the Company serves as general partner (each an Affiliated Limited Partnership) and real estate asset management and administrative services. The Company operated in two segments: real estate and residual interests. The real estate business comprised real estate assets, mortgage loans on real estate, real estate management and investments in Affiliated Limited Partnerships that own real estate. The residual interests business comprised investments in residual interests in securities receivables portfolios.
DUSA DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company developing drugs in combination with light devices to treat or detect a variety of conditions in processes known as photodynamic therapy or photodetection. The Company is engaged primarily in the research, development and marketing of its first drug, Levulan brand of aminolevulinic acid HCl (ALA), for use in a range of medical conditions. When the Company uses Levulan and follows it with exposure to light to treat a medical condition, it is known as Levulan photodynamic therapy (Levulan PDT). When it uses Levulan and follows it with exposure to light to detect medical conditions, it is known as Levulan photodetection (Levulan PD). In September 2003, the Company received clearance from the United States Food and Drug Association (FDA) to market the BLU-U, without Levulan PDT, for the treatment of moderate inflammatory acne vulgaris.
DRRX DURECT Corporation is a pharmaceutical company focused on the development of pharmaceutical systems based on its drug delivery platform technologies that treat chronic debilitating diseases and enable biotechnology products. These platform technologies include the SABER Delivery System (a versatile depot injectable useful for protein and small molecule delivery), the ORADUR sustained release oral gel-cap technology (an oral sustained release technology with several potential abuse deterrent properties), the DURIN Biodegradable Implant (drug-loaded implant system) and the MICORDUR Biodegradable Microparticulates (microspheres injectable system). DURECT also partners with pharmaceutical companies to develop and commercialize pharmaceutical products based on its technologies. DURECT has four disclosed ongoing development programs of which three are in collaboration with pharmaceutical partners. Products in development range from chronic pain and post-surgical pain to Alzheimer's disease.
DROOY DRDGOLD Ltd., formerly Durban Roodepoort Deep, Limited, is a gold mining company engaged in underground and surface gold mining including exploration, extraction, processing and smelting. Its South African operations consist of the North West Operations, comprising the Harties Section and the Buffels Section, the Blyvoor Section and its 40% interest in CGR comprising the Crown Section and ERPM Section. The Company's Australasian operations consist of the Tolukuma Section and its 20% interest in the unincorporated Porgera Joint Venture, or Porgera, both of which are in Papua New Guinea and a 45.33% interest in Emperor Mines Limited, or Emperor, which as of October 31, 2004, owns the Vatukoula gold mine in Fiji. It also has exploration projects in South Africa, Papua New Guinea and Australia, though principal focus is on its operations in South Africa and Papua New Guinea.
DRTK Duratek, Inc. provides services, together with it's wholly owned subsidiaries, to commercial and government customers primarily in the United States that ensures safe and secure radioactive materials disposition and nuclear facility operations. Its services include decommissioning services, nuclear facility operations, radioactive material characterization, processing, transportation, accident containment and restoration services and final disposal. Its government work comes largely from the Department of Energy (DOE). The majority of its commercial clients are commercial nuclear utilities. Duratek also provides services to non-utilities, including pharmaceutical companies, research laboratories, universities and industrial facilities. The Company has three business segments: Federal Services, Commercial Services and Commercial Processing and Disposal
DSWT Duraswitch Industries, Inc. has developed technologies utilizing a magnetic-based design for electronic switches. The Company is expanding the use of these technologies by licensing manufacturers to produce and sell products using its technologies. Its license agreement with Delphi Automotive Systems LLC accounted for 54% of its licensing revenue and total net revenue for the year ended December 31, 2003. Duraswitch has a number of switch applications based on its magnetic-based technologies. The Company has licensed the PushGate, thiNcoder and MagnaMouse to its licensees.
DRRA Dura Automotive Systems, Inc., together with its subsidiaries (Dura), designs and manufactures driver control systems for the global automotive industry. The Company is also a supplier of seating control systems, glass systems, engineered assemblies, structural door modules, exterior trim systems and mobile products. It sells its products to every North American and Japanese automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and to nearly every European OEM. Dura has 67 manufacturing and product development facilities located in the United States, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Mexico, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and the United Kingdom. The customers for Dura's recreation vehicle products include Fleetwood Enterprises, Winnebago Industries, Thor Industries, Damon Corporation, Jayco, Coachmen Industries, Monaco Coach Corporation, Motor Coach Industries and Navistar International Corporation.
DQE Duquesne Light Holdings, Inc. (Holdings) is an energy services holding company that serves as the holding company for Duquesne Light Company (Duquesne Light). The Company is engaged in unregulated energy and related businesses. Duquesne Light, the Company's subsidiary formed by the consolidation and merger of three companies. Duquesne Light is an electric utility engaged in the supply through its provider-of-last-resort service, transmission and distribution of electric energy. Its electric utility operations provide service to approximately 588,000 direct customers in southwestern Pennsylvania, including in the City of Pittsburgh, a territory of approximately 800 square miles. Duquesne Light's subsidiaries are involved in operating the Company's automated meter reading technology and providing financing to certain affiliates. During the year ended December 31, 2003, AquaSource, Inc., formerly the Company's water resource management subsidiary completed the sale of its assets.
DPMI DuPont Photomasks, Inc., is primarily engaged in the manufacture and sale of photomasks. Photomasks are high-purity quartz or glass plates containing precision images of integrated circuits and are used as masters by semiconductor manufacturers to optically transfer these images onto semiconductor wafers. Photomasks are a necessary component in the production of semiconductors, and advanced photomask technologies are critical when it comes to enabling the manufacture of increasingly complex semiconductor devices. The Company manufactures a range of photomasks based on customer-supplied design data, including photomasks that meet the highly demanding design specifications required by semiconductor manufacturers. DuPont also develops electronic design automation (EDA) software.
DENG.OB Dune Energy, Inc. is an independent energy company engaged in the business of leasing, acquiring and subsequently developing natural gas and crude oil producing properties. The Company will seek to develop its existing assets and to acquire additional properties with proved producing reserves plus incremental development opportunities. Dune Energy's main property asset is The Welder Ranch, which is located in Victoria County, Texas. In this area, the Company has leased approximately 7,950 acres of privately held land (the Welder Acreage). A high-density of drilling surrounds the Welder Acreage on lands not privately controlled. The Welder Acreage is prospective in zones as shallow as 900 feet to as deep as 17,000 feet in four proven productive formations. The most significant are the Wilcox Formation, the Frio Formation, the Miocene Formation and the Yegua Formation.
DRE Duke Realty Corporation is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. The Company's services for its properties and for certain properties owned by third parties include leasing, management, construction, development and other tenant-related services. Duke, through its service operations, also provides, on a fee basis, leasing, property and asset management, development, construction, build-to-suit and other tenant-related services for approximately 300 tenants in over 8.4 million square feet of space at properties owned by third-party clients. The Company has 12 regional offices located in Atlanta, Georgia; Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland in Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Nashville, Tennessee; Orlando and Tampa, Florida; Raleigh, North Carolina, and St. Louis, Missouri.
DUK Duke Energy Corporation is an energy company that operates the following business units: Franchised Electric, Natural Gas Transmission, Field Services, Duke Energy North America (DENA), International Energy and Other Operations. Franchised Electric generates, transmits, distributes and sells electricity. Natural Gas Transmission primarily provides transportation and storage of natural gas for customers. Field Services conducts the Company's natural gas processing operations. DENA primarily operates and manages merchant power generation facilities. International Energy develops, operates and manages power generation facilities, and engages in sales and marketing of electric power and natural gas outside the United States and Canada. The Company's Other Operations is composed of diverse businesses, operating through Crescent Resources, LLC, DukeNet Communications, LLC, Duke Energy Merchants, LLC and Duke/Fluor Daniel.
DCO Ducommun Incorporated, through its subsidiaries, designs, engineers and manufactures aerostructure and electromechanical components and subassemblies principally for domestic and foreign commercial aircraft, military and space programs. Domestic commercial aircraft programs include the Boeing 737NG, 747, 757, 767 and 777. Foreign commercial aircraft programs include the Airbus Industrie A330, A340 and A340-600 aircraft, Bombardier business and regional jets and the Embraer 145 and 170/190. Major military programs include the Boeing C-17, F-15 and F-18, Lockheed Martin F-16, various Sikorsky, Bell, Boeing Apache and Augusta helicopter programs and various aircraft and shipboard electronics upgrade programs. Space programs include the Space Shuttle external tank and various commercial and military space launch and satellite programs. Ducommun operates in two business segments: Ducommun AeroStructures, Inc. and Ducommun Technologies, Inc.
DUCK Duckwall-ALCO Stores, Inc. is engaged in the business of retailing general merchandise throughout the central portion of the United States through discount department and variety store outlets. As of April 30, 2004, the Company operated 265 retail stores, consisting of 185 ALCO retail discount stores and 80 Duckwall variety stores. ALCO discount stores offer a line of merchandise consisting of approximately 35,000 items, including automotive; candy, crafts and domestics; electronics; fabrics, furniture and hardware; health and beauty aids; housewares; jewelry; ladies', men's and children's apparel and shoes; pre-recorded music and video; sporting goods; seasonal items; stationery, and toys. Duckwall variety stores offer a more limited selection of similar merchandise.
DMH Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A. manufactures high-performance sport motorcycles. It produces motorcycles in five model lines, which vary in their technical and design features and intended customers: Superbike, Super Sport, Sport Naked, Sport Touring and Multistrada. The Company sells its motorcycles and related products in 66 countries worldwide, with a primary focus on the Western European and North American markets. Ducati has a global distribution network directly controlling its Italian sales and operating wholly owned distribution subsidiaries in North America, France, Germany, the Benelux countries (which is also responsible for Sweden), Japan and the United Kingdom. Its manufacturing operations, based in Bologna, Italy, consist primarily of engine and motorcycle assembly.
DTE DTE Energy Company is a diversified energy company that conducts its regulated operations through its subsidiaries, Detroit Edison Company and Michigan Consolidated Gas Company (MichCon). Detroit Edison is an electric utility engaged in the generation, purchase, distribution and sale of electric energy to 2.1 million customers in southeast Michigan. MichCon is a natural gas utility engaged in the purchase, storage, transmission and distribution and sale of natural gas to 1.2 million customers throughout areas of Michigan. Additionally, the Company has numerous non-regulated subsidiaries engaged in energy marketing and trading, energy services and various other electricity, coal and gas related businesses predominantly in the midwest and eastern United States. DTE Energy operates its businesses through three strategic business units: Energy Resources, Energy Distribution and Energy Gas.
DST DST Systems Inc. (DST) is a global provider of sophisticated information processing and computer software services and products to the financial services industry (primarily mutual funds, corporations and investment managers), video/broadband/satellite television industry, communications industry and other service industries. The Company's business units are reported as three operating segments: Financial Services, Output Solutions and Customer Management. In addition, investments in equity securities and certain financial interests and the Company's real estate subsidiaries and affiliates have been aggregated into an Investments and Other segment.
DSPG DSP Group, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company offering complex integrated circuit (IC) solutions. It is engaged in the short-range wireless communication market, enabling home networking convergence for voice, video and data. DSP Group combines its in-house technologies, including digital signal processors, its portfolio of wireless communication protocols, advanced radio frequency complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor and silicon germanium, as well as voice-over Internet protocol ICs, offering a one-stop shop for a wide range of applications. Applications include ISM-band digital 900-MHz, 2.4-GHz and 5.8-GHz telephony, as well as European DECT 1.9-GHz telephony, and Bluetooth systems for voice, data and video communication. Customers include Panasonic, Sony, Uniden, CCT Telecom, Motorola, Samsung, Philips, Alcatel, Thomson, General Electric, North Western Bell, South Western Bell, Conair, LG Electronics and Cenix, among others.
BIZ DSL.net, Inc., incorporated in 1998, provides high-speed data communications, Internet access and related services to small and medium-sized businesses, as well as to branch offices of larger businesses and their remote office users, throughout the United States. It functions as its customers' Internet service provider and voice carrier, and delivers a range of Internet-based, value-added solutions. The Company's services include all necessary equipment, software and lines required to establish and maintain a digital Internet connection and carrier-class voice service. DSL.net's primary services include high-speed data communications, with or without Internet access, integrated voice and data services, e-mail, domain name system management and Web hosting. Other services provided include firewalls, online data backup and recovery services, nationwide dial-up services, private frame relay and virtual private networks that connect customers' various offices.
DSGIF DSG International Limited manufactures and markets disposable baby diapers, training pants and adult incontinence products under its own brand names: DRYPERS, FITTI, PET PET, COSIFITS, BABY LOVE, BABYJOY, DISPO 123, HANDY, CERTAINTY and MERIT and also under private labels. Its products are sold internationally, with its nine manufacturing facilities in Hong Kong, the United States, the United Kingdom, the People's Republic of China (PRC), Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. The Company's subsidiaries are Advance Medical Supply Company Limited, Associated Hygienic Products Inc., Associated Hygienic Products LLC, Disposable Soft Goods Sdn. Bhd., Disposable Soft Goods Pte Limited, Disposable Soft Goods Plc., Disposable Soft Goods Limited, Disposable Soft Goods Limited, DSG Sdn. Bhd., DSG Manufacturing Limited, DSG International Limited, PT DSG Surya Mas Indonesia, Shuiling Holding Company Limited and Shanghai DSG MegaThin Company Limited.
DCU DRYCLEAN USA, Inc. is a supplier of commercial and industrial dry cleaning equipment, laundry equipment and steam boilers and related activities in the United States, the Caribbean and Latin American markets through Steiner-Atlantic Corp. (Steiner). The services provided by the Company include distributing commercial and industrial laundry and dry cleaning machines and steam boilers manufactured by others; selling its own proprietary lines of laundry and dry cleaning machines under its Aero-Tech, Multi-Jet and Green Jet brand names; designing and planning turn-key laundry and/or dry cleaning systems to meet the layout, volume and budget needs of a variety of institutional and retail customers; supplying replacement equipment and parts to its customers; providing warranty and preventative maintenance through factory-trained technicians and service managers, and selling process steam systems and boilers.
DSCM drugstore.com, inc. is an online provider of health, beauty, wellness, personal care, vision and pharmacy solutions. Located on the Internet at www.drugstore.com, the Web store sells health, beauty, wellness, personal care, sexual well-being and pharmacy products. The Company also sells prestige beauty products through its Website located at www.beauty.com, which is also accessible through the drugstore.com Website. The Company expanded its service offerings to include customized nutritional supplement programs sold through its wholly owned subsidiary, Custom Nutrition Services, Inc., through Websites located at www.DrWeilVitaminAdvisor.com, www.zoneprofiler.com and www.pritikin@home.com. In addition, the Company sells contact lenses and other vision products through its wholly owned subsidiary, International Vision Direct Corp., through Websites located at www.visiondirect.com, www.lensmart.com and www.lensquest.com.
DMAX DrugMax, Inc. is a specialty pharmacy and drug distribution provider that works closely with doctors, patients, managed care providers, medical centers and employers to deliver low cost and effective healthcare solutions. The Company is focused on building an integrated specialty drug distribution platform with multiple sales channels. DrugMax operates more than 80 pharmacies under the Arrow Pharmacy &amp; Nutrition Center and Familymeds Pharmacy brand names at or near the point of medical care in 13 states in the United States. Many of these pharmacies serve defined population groups on an exclusive or closed-panel basis. The Company distributes specialty drugs and provides services for the treatment of complex diseases and medical conditions, such as cancer, diabetes and chronic pain.
DKIN.OB Drucker, Inc. had no operations during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003. It had limited operations within the last five years and such operations have been restricted to investigation of opportunities, evaluation and negotiations of the joint venture agreements and joint venture participations in oil exploration projects in the following geographical areas: China in 1997, Egypt in 1999 and Algeria in 2000. In June 2003, the Company entered into an acquisition agreement with Speed One Investment Limited and Beijing Beike Machinery Electronic Materials Hightech Corporation to acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of Beijing Beike-Masic Automation Engineering Company Limited (BK).
DRS DRS Technologies, Inc. is a supplier of defense electronic products and systems. The Company provides products and services to all branches of the United States military, aerospace and defense prime contractors; government intelligence agencies; international military forces, and industrial markets. It focuses on several key areas of importance for the United States Department of Defense (DoD), such as intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, power management, advanced communications and network systems. DRS is a provider of thermal imaging devices, combat display workstations, electronic sensor systems, power systems, battlefield digitization systems, air combat training systems, mission recorders and deployable flight-incident recorders.
DRQ Dril-Quip, Inc. manufactures highly engineered offshore drilling and production equipment that is well suited for use in deepwater, harsh environment and severe service applications. The Company's principal products consist of subsea and surface wellheads; subsea and surface production trees; mudline hanger systems; specialty connectors and associated pipe, drilling and production riser systems; wellhead connectors, and diverters for use by integrated, independent and foreign national oil and gas companies in offshore areas throughout the world. Dril-Quip also provides installation and reconditioning services, and rents running tools for use in connection with the installation and retrieval of its products. The Company has four subsidiaries that manufacture and market its products abroad: Dril-Quip (Europe) Limited (DQE), Dril-Quip Asia Pacific PTE Ltd., DQ Holdings PTY Ltd. and Dril-Quip do Brasil LTDA. Dril-Quip (Nigeria) Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of DQE.
LEO Dreyfus Strategic Municipals, Inc. (the Fund) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is to maximize current income exempt from federal income tax to the extent consistent with the preservation of capital. The Dreyfus Corporation serves as the Fund' s investment adviser. The Adviser is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mellon Bank, N.A., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mellon Financial Corporation. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in municipal obligations. Generally, the Fund invests at least 50% of its net assets in municipal bonds considered investment-grade or the unrated equivalent as determined by Dreyfus in the case of bonds, and in the two highest-rating categories or the unrated equivalent as determined by Dreyfus in the case of short-term obligations having or deemed to have maturities of less than one year.
DSM Dreyfus Strategic Municipal Bond Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund's objective is to maximize current income exempt from federal income tax. In pursuing this goal, the fund invests at least 80% of its assets in municipal bonds. Municipal bonds are classified as general obligation bonds, revenue bonds and notes. The Fund makes investments by analyzing each individual bond's structures. Within the context of the bond structure analyses, Dreyfus pays particularly close attention to each bond's maturity and early redemption features.
DNM Dreyfus New York Municipal Income, Inc. (the Fund) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as a non-diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to maximize current income exempt from federal, New York State and New York City personal income taxes to the extent consistent with the preservation of capital. During periods of normal market conditions, the Fund invests 100% of the value of its net assets in New York municipal obligations. It invests in municipal obligations, which, at the time of purchase, are rated investment-grade or the unrated equivalent as determined by Dreyfus Corporation, the Fund's investment adviser, in the case of bonds, and rated in the two highest rating categories or the unrated equivalent as determined by Dreyfus in the case of short-term obligations having, or deemed to have, maturities of less than one year.
DMF Dreyfus Municipal Income, Inc. is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as a non-diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to maximize current income exempt from federal income tax to the extent consistent with the preservation of capital from a portfolio that, under normal market conditions, invests at least 80% of the value of its net assets in municipal obligations. Under normal market conditions, it invests in municipal obligations, which, at the time of purchase, are rated investment-grade or the unrated equivalent as determined by Dreyfus Corporation, the Fund's investment adviser, in the case of bonds, and rated in the two highest rating categories or the unrated equivalent as determined by Dreyfus in the case of short-term obligations having, or deemed to have, maturities of less than one year.
DCG Dreyfus California Municipal Income, Inc. (the Fund) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as a non-diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is to maximize current income exempt from federal and California personal income taxes to the extent consistent with the preservation of capital. During periods of normal market conditions, the Fund invests 100% of the value of its net assets in California municipal obligations. The Fund invests in municipal obligations which, at the time of purchase, are rated investment-grade or the unrated equivalent as determined by Dreyfus Corporation, the Fund's investment adviser, in the case of bonds, and rated in the two highest rating categories or the unrated equivalent as determined by Dreyfus in the case of short-term obligations having, or deemed to have, maturities of less than one year.
DRYR Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Inc. is engaged primarily in the business of manufacturing and distributing ice cream and other frozen dessert products to grocery and convenience stores, foodservice accounts and independent distributors primarily in the United States. The Company's premium product line includes Dreyer's and Edy's Grand Ice Cream, its flagship product line. The flagship product is complemented by the better for you products, including Frozen Yogurt, Grand Light, No Sugar Added and Fat Free ice creams. Dreyer's' superpremium product line includes H&auml;agen-Dazs and Starbucks Ice Cream. In addition to its brand products, Dreyer's' also distributes partner brands. The Company is the successor entity to the Nestle Ice Cream Company, LLC (NICC) business. The Company was formed as a result of the combination of NICC and Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Inc.
DW Drew Industries Incorporated supplies an array of components for recreational vehicles and manufactured homes through its wholly owned active subsidiaries, Kinro, Inc. and Lippert Components, Inc. Kinro manufactures and markets primarily aluminum windows and doors for recreational vehicles, and vinyl and aluminum windows and screens and thermo-formed bath and shower units for manufactured and modular homes. Lippert manufactures and markets primarily steel chassis, steel chassis parts, slide-out mechanisms and related power units, and electric stabilizer jacks for recreational vehicles and steel chassis and steel chassis parts for manufactured homes.
DBRN The Dress Barn, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries operate a chain of women's apparel specialty stores. The stores, operating principally under the names Dress Barn and Dress Barn Woman, offer in-season, career and casual fashion to the working woman. The Company primarily operates combination Dress Barn/Dress Barn Woman stores (Combo Stores), which carry both Dress Barn and larger sized Dress Barn Woman merchandise, as well as freestanding Dress Barn and Dress Barn Woman stores. As of July 31, 2004, the Company operated 776 stores in 45 states and the District of Columbia. The Dress Barn and Dress Barn Woman stores average approximately 4,500 and approximately 4,000 square feet, respectively, and the Combo Stores average approximately 8,500 square feet. In January 2005, the Company completed the acquisition of Maurices Incorporated.
DWA DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. develops and produces computer-generated (CG) animated films. Utilizing creative talent and advanced CG film-making technology, DreamWorks Animation has produced a number of movies including Shrek, the first-ever winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature film, and Shrek 2, the third highest-grossing movie ever. The Company also released Shark Tale. In just 24 days of release, Shark Tale earned over $220 million worldwide. It remained number one in the United States box office for three weeks, and opened at number one in over 20 international markets.
DRMS.OB Dreams, Inc. operates in three business segments: Retail, which represents the Company-owned Field of Dreams retail stores and its e-commerce business operations, including Fansedge.com (acquired in October 2003), and ProSportsMemorabilia.com (acquired in April 2004); Manufacturing/Distribution, which represents the manufacturing and wholesaling of sports memorabilia products, custom artwork and reproductions and acrylic cases, principally conducted through a wholly owned subsidiary, Mounted Memories (MMI), and Franchise, which represents the results of the Company's franchise program.
DRAX DRAXIS Health Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops and markets radiopharmaceutical products for the global nuclear medicine marketplace through DRAXIMAGE Inc. and provides contract pharmaceutical manufacturing services through DRAXIS Pharma Inc. (DPI). DPI specializes in liquid and freeze-dried injectables and other sterile products. The Company's subsidiary, Deprenyl Animal Health, Inc. receives licensing and royalty revenue related to Anipryl, a companion animal health product. In addition, DRAXIS has continuing financial interests associated with its collaboration agreements with Pfizer Inc. with respect to Anipryl, GlaxoSmithKline with respect to the SpectroPharm line of dermatology products, and Shire BioChem Inc. with respect to Canadian sales of products divested during the year ended December 31, 2003.
DRUG.OB Dragon Pharmaceutical Inc. is a pharmaceutical and biotechnological company whose business plan is to develop and manufacture pharmaceutical products in China, and market pharmaceutical products in China and developing countries. In 1999, the Company acquired a 75% interest in Nanjing Huaxin Bio-pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a drug manufacturing company based in Nanjing City, China. Nanjing Huaxin is implementing the Company's technology, which allows Nanjing Huaxin to produce drugs, such as erythropoietin (EPO). Dragon Pharmaceutical's strategy is to use its biotechnological expertise to produce and market pharmaceutical products primarily in China and developing countries at a competitive cost and enter the market of developed countries with licensees when the patent situation allows it. The Company acquired the remaining 25% interest in Nanjing Huaxin in January 2002, and thus, has a 100% interest in Nanjing Huaxin.
DRGG.OB Dragon International Group Corp., formerly RetailHighway.Com, Inc, is the surviving entity of the merger between RetailHighway.Com, Inc and Dragon International Group Corp, Ningbo, China (Dragon), in August 2004. RetailHighway.Com, Inc. was involved in establishing a primary portal and transaction point for online extensions of Bricks and Mortar (BAM) retail stores. Dragon, through Ninbo Anxin International Co. Ltd. (Anxin), operates in international trade and is a manufacturer in integrated packaging paper industry. In addition to its own operations, Anxin operates three subsidiaries, Shanghai Anhong Paper Co. Ltd., (Anhong), a trading company located in Shanghai, whose main products are Federal SBS and Hang Kong CCB; Ningbo Long'an Industry and Trade Co. Ltd (Long'an), which has been set up to begin the business of Indonesia Hang Kong CCB. It holds the national license to import and export, and Jiangdong Yonglongxin Special Paper Co., Ltd. (Yonglongxin).
RDY Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Limited is an emerging global pharmaceutical company with basic research capabilities. The Company develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of pharmaceutical products in India and overseas. Dr. Reddy's produces finished dosage forms, active pharmaceutical ingredients, diagnostic kits, critical care and biotechnology products. The basic research program of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories focuses on cancer, diabetes, bacterial infections and pain management. The Company operates through business units including Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) or Bulk Actives, Branded Formulations, Generics, Emerging Businesses, Discovery Research and Other Businesses.
DHI D. R. Horton Inc. is a national builder. The Company constructs and sells single-family homes designed principally for first-time and move-up homebuyers through its operating divisions in 21 states and 63 metropolitan markets of the United States. The homes range in size from 1,000 to 5,000 square feet, and range in price from $80,000 to $900,000. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company closed 43,567 homes with an average sales price approximating $240,800. Through its financial services operations, the Company provides mortgage banking and title agency services to homebuyers in many of its homebuilding markets. DHI Mortgage, it's wholly owned subsidiary, provides mortgage financing services to purchasers of homes it builds and sells. Its subsidiary title companies serve as title insurance agents by providing title insurance policies, examination and closing services primarily to purchasers of homes it builds and sells.
DPL DPL Inc., (DPL), is the parent company of Dayton Power and Light Company (DP&amp;L), a public utility that sells electricity to residential, commercial, industrial and governmental customers in a 6,000-square-mile area of West Central Ohio. Electricity for DP&amp;L's 24 county service area is primarily generated at eight coal-fired power plants and is distributed to more than 500,000 retail customers. Principal industries served include automotive, food processing, paper, plastic manufacturing and defense. DP&amp;L provides transmission and wholesale electric service to 12 municipal customers in its service territory, which distribute electricity within their incorporated limits. DP&amp;L also maintains an interconnection agreement with one municipality that has the capability to generate a portion of its energy requirements. The Company's other wholly owned subsidiaries include DPL Energy, LLC (DPLE), MVE, Inc. (MVE), Plaza Building, Inc. and Miami Valley Insurance Company (MVIC).
DPAC DPAC Technologies Corp. provides wireless connectivity products for industrial, transportation, medical and other commercial application, as well as high-density memory packaging technology. DPAC designs and manufactures products that require packaging skills for miniature electronic components into the wireless, memory and military markets. The Company packages pre-existing electronic configurations into industry standard products, that produce high-density plastic or ceramic-based products for the industrial or military market and packages wireless connectivity modules for the industrial market. DPAC's product, the wireless Local Area Network (LAN) Node Module, which was introduced in September 2003, is designed to enable original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) equipment designers to incorporate wireless LAN connectivity into their device, instrument or equipment through the inclusion of DPAC's Wireless LAN Node Module.
DSL Downey Financial Corp. is a federally chartered savings association that attracts funds from the general public and institutions and obtains borrowings, originates and invests in loans, primarily residential real estate mortgage loans, investment securities and mortgage-backed securities. It owns 100% of the Downey Savings and Loan Association (Bank). Downey's real estate investment activities are conducted primarily through DSL Service Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank, which is a diversified real estate development company, established in 1966, as a neighborhood shopping center and residential tract developer. Its capabilities include development, construction and property management activities relating to its portfolio of projects within California and Arizona. In addition, it associates with other qualified developers to engage in joint ventures, and its primary revenue sources include net rental income and gains from the sale of real estate investments.
DJ Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. is a global provider of business and financial news and information through newspapers, newswires, magazines, the Internet, television and radio stations. In addition, the Company owns certain general-interest community newspapers throughout the United States. Approximately 60% of the Company's revenues are contributed from the print publishing segment, which largely consists of the global operations of The Wall Street Journal. The remaining 40% of revenues are split almost equally between its general-interest community newspapers segment and its electronic publishing segment, which includes newswires, The Wall Street Journal Online (WSJ.com) and other electronic operations.
DOW The Dow Chemical Company is a diversified, worldwide manufacturer of more than 3,500 basic and performance chemicals and plastics, and agricultural products that are primarily used by customers as raw materials to manufacture a diverse range of products that serve various consumer markets. The Company serves the following industries: appliance; automotive; agricultural; building and construction; chemical processing; electronics; furniture; housewares; oil and gas; packaging; paints, coatings and adhesives; personal care; pharmaceutical; processed foods; pulp and paper; textile and carpet; utilities, and water treatment. Dow conducts its worldwide operations through global businesses that are organized in six operating segments: Performance Plastics, Performance Chemicals, Agricultural Sciences, Plastics, Chemicals, and Hydrocarbons and Energy. In December 2004, the Company sold the DERAKANE epoxy vinyl ester resin business to Ashland Composite Polymers.
DVD Dover Motorsports, Inc. is a promoter of motorsports events in the United States. The Company's motorsports subsidiaries operate five motorsports tracks (four permanent facilities and one temporary circuit) in four states, and promoted 19 major events during 2003 under the auspices of four of the premier sanctioning bodies in motorsports - the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART), the Indy Racing League (IRL) and the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA). The Company owns and operates Dover International Speedway, Nashville Superspeedway, Gateway International Raceway and Memphis Motorsports Park. The Company also organizes and promotes the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach in California.
DOVRA.OB Dover Investments Corporation engages primarily in residential real estate development. The Company's real estate projects are developed through ventures with wholly owned subsidiaries of E. F. Communities, Inc. (EFC). Under the governing agreements, EFC is primarily responsible for the construction and the development of the real estate. A California general partnership, Glenbriar Joint Venture and five California limited liability companies, Glenbriar Venture #2, LLC (GV #2), Tracy Residential Venture Partners, LLC, Meadowbrook Ventures, LLC, Glenbrook Homes, LLC and Meadowbrook Residences, LLC, have been formed by the Company for development of the Glenbriar Estates project. South Tracy Industrial Park, LLC, Halcyon Properties, LLC and Woodview Estates, LLC, all California limited liability companies, have been formed for the development of the South Tracy Industrial Park project, Halcyon project and Woodview project, respectively.
DDE Dover Downs Gaming &amp; Entertainment, Inc. is a diversified gaming and entertainment company whose operations consist of Dover Downs Slots, an 80,000-square-foot video lottery (slots) casino complex, the Dover Downs Hotel and Conference Center, which features luxury accommodations with conference, banquet, fine dining, ballroom and concert hall facilities and the Dover Downs Raceway, a harness racing track with pari-mutuel wagering on live and simulcast horse races. These facilities are located in close proximity to the major metropolitan areas of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
DOV Dover Corporation is a diversified company that primarily manufactures specialized industrial products and sophisticated manufacturing equipment. The Company's businesses are divided into four segments: Diversified, Industries, Resources and Technologies. Diversified builds packaging and printing machinery, heat transfer equipment, food refrigeration and display cases, specialized bearings, construction and agricultural cabs and products for the defense, aerospace and automotive industries. Industries makes products for use in the waste handling, bulk transport, automotive service, commercial food service and packaging, welding, cash dispenser and construction industries. Resources manufactures products primarily for the automotive, fluid handling, petroleum, original equipment manufacturers, engineered components and chemical equipment industries. Technologies builds automated assembly and testing equipment, specialized electronic components and industrial printers.
DOVP DOV Pharmaceutical, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, in-licensing, development and commercialization of drug candidates for central nervous system and other disorders, including cardiovascular, that involve alterations in neuronal processing. The Company has six product candidates undergoing clinical development that address therapeutic indications: Indiplon, Ocinaplon, Bificadine, DOV 216,303, DOV 21,947 and DOV Diltiazem. DOV Pharmaceutical also has two compounds in preclinical development: DOV 102,677 for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, restless leg syndrome, attention deficit disorder, and DOV 51,892 for anxiety disorders, including panic. Based upon preclinical pharmacological data, DOV Pharmaceutical intends to move these product candidates into clinical testing in the second half of 2004.
DCLK DoubleClick Inc. is a provider of an array of technology and data products and services designed to address a full range of marketing processes, from pre-campaign planning and testing to execution, measurement and campaign refinements. The Company's products and services are used primarily by direct marketers, Web publishers and advertisers to plan, execute and analyze their marketing programs. Combining technology and data expertise, its solutions help its customers optimize their advertising and marketing campaigns online and through direct mail. DoubleClick derives its revenues from two business segments, DoubleClick TechSolutions, which includes the Company's ad management and marketing automation products and services, and DoubleClick Data, consisting of its Abacus and Data Management divisions, which provides products and services to direct marketers. Prior to its divestment in 2002, it operated media businesses, referred to as the DoubleClick media segment.
DBLE Double Eagle Petroleum Co. explores, develops, produces and sells crude oil and natural gas. Its areas of exploration and development focus include the Green River Basin in southwestern Wyoming, the Powder River Basin in northeastern Wyoming, the Washakie Basin in south-central Wyoming, the Wind River Basin in central Wyoming and the Christmas Meadows area in northeastern Utah. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned interests in a total of 421 producing wells, with oil constituting approximately 7% and natural gas constituting approximately 93% of its production.
DOTX.OB Dotronix, Inc. was originally focused on designing, manufacturing and marketing cathode ray tube (CRT) displays. The Company is undertaking a change in strategy to purchase its products rather than manufacture them. It has secured competitive pricing from reliable vendors for both CRT-based products and CRT replacement products, such as plasma panels, digital light projectors (DLP), liquid crystal displays (LCD) and light emitting diode displays (LED). The Company is also developing several complementary skills, such as content development and content management and to provide system solutions to customers in the digital signage markets.
HILL Dot Hill Systems Corp. is a provider of storage systems for organizations requiring high reliability, high performance networked storage and data management solutions in an open systems architecture. The Company's storage solutions consist of integrated hardware and software products employing a modular system that allows end users to add capacity as needed. Dot Hill's range of products, from medium-capacity stand-alone storage units to complete turnkey, multiterabyte storage area networks, provides end users with a cost-effective means of addressing storage demands without sacrificing performance. The Company's end users consist of entry-level, midrange and high-end/data center users, requiring cost-effective, easily managed, high performance, reliable storage systems.
DIIB Dorel Industries Inc. is a global manufacturer of consumer products. The Company specializes in two market segments: juvenile products and home furnishings. Dorel's product offering includes juvenile products such as infant car seats, strollers, high chairs, toddler beds, cribs, infant health and safety aids, play-yards and juvenile accessories, and home furnishings such as a variety of ready-to-assemble (RTA) furniture for home and office use, as well as metal folding furniture, futons, step stools, ladders and other imported furniture items. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Dorel had two major customers, Wal-Mart and Toys "R" Us, representing an aggregate of 49.0% of total sales. In February 2004, the Company acquired all the outstanding shares of Pacific Cycle LLC, a designer and supplier of bicycles and other recreational products headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.
DMLP Dorchester Minerals L.P. is active in the area of oil and natural gas properties through the acquisition, ownership and administration of net profits interests and royalty properties. The Company was formed by the combination of Dorchester Hugoton, Ltd., Republic Royalty Company, L.P. and Spinnaker Royalty Company, L.P. Dorchester Hugoton was a publicly traded Texas limited partnership and Republic and Spinnaker were private Texas limited partnerships. The Company intends to grow by acquiring additional oil and natural gas properties.
DRL Doral Financial Corporation is a diversified financial services company engaged in mortgage banking, commercial banking, institutional broker-dealer activities and insurance agency activities. Its activities are principally conducted in Puerto Rico and in the New York City metropolitan area. The Company operates 56 mortgage banking offices in Puerto Rico and one office on the United States mainland. It is engaged in commercial banking activities through its subsidiary, Doral Bank PR, which operates through 37 branches in Puerto Rico. The Company conducts its mortgage banking activities in Puerto Rico primarily through its HF Mortgage Bankers division, and through its subsidiaries, Doral Mortgage Corporation, Centro Hipotecario de Puerto Rico, Inc. and Sana Investment Mortgage Bankers, Inc. On the United States mainland, it conducts its mortgage banking activities through its subsidiary, Doral Money, Inc.
DOR DOR BioPharma, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of biodefense vaccines and therapeutics for unmet medical needs. Through its biodefense division, the Company is developing bioengineered vaccines designed to protect against the deadly effects of exposure to ricin and botulinum toxins, both of which are considered serious bioterrorism threats. The technologies that were exclusively licensed by the Company from two university research centers, are undergoing efficacy and toxicity testing in animals prior to initiating human clinical trials. Through its therapeutics division, the Company is developing oral beclomethasone dipropionate (orBec) for the treatment of intestinal inflammation associated with acute Graft-versus-Host Disease (GvHD). orBec is an orally-delivered, potent, locally acting corticosteroid that reduces inflammation within the tissue of the gastrointestinal tract.
DNOB.OB DONOBi, Inc., formerly H-NET.NET, Inc., is an Internet solutions company providing Internet services and connectivity to electronic commerce business customers wanting Web-based database development and business application solutions. The Company's operational and technological platform enables it to deliver Internet connectivity and related technical support, customer service and billing systems; provide broadband fiber optics and fiber connectivity, and establish broadband wireless connectivity in rural and urban areas. DONOBi has successfully executed its primary business objective since its inception in 2000 by acquiring 10 rural Internet service providers (ISPs) and completing a strategic merger with a public company in 2004. Recent acquisitions have successfully increased the Company's subscriber base from 1,000 to over 10,000 subscribers.
DNKY.OB Donnkenny, Inc. is a holding company, and, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the women's apparel business. Donnkenny Apparel, Inc. and Beldoch Industries Corporation are the operating subsidiaries of the Company. The Company's business consists of importing and marketing women's apparel, consisting primarily of women's sportswear and coats, to its retail customers who in turn sell its products to the ultimate retail consumer. Its major labels include Pierre Cardin, Donnkenny, Bill Blass, Bill Blass Signature, Blassport, Casey &amp; Max, Victoria Jones and Harve Benard. The Company's products are marketed through its divisions including Pierre Cardin, Donnkenny, Casey &amp; Max, Victoria Jones, Robyn Meredith and Donnkenny Coats. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company shipped orders to approximately 10,100 stores in the United States, with its customer base representing approximately 650 accounts.
RRD R. R. Donnelley &amp; Sons Company prepares, produces and delivers integrated communications services that produce, manage and deliver its customers' content, regardless of the communications medium. The Company has three business segments: Print, Logistics and Financial. The Print segment is comprised of its businesses serving the following end markets: Magazines, Catalogs and Retail; Books; Telecommunications, and Premedia Technologies Services. The Logistics segment represents RR Donnelley's logistics and distribution services operations for its print customers and other mailers. The Financial segment serves the compliance and transactional documentation needs of the domestic and international capital markets, and provides customized communications solutions to investment management, banking, managed care and insurance clients to help manage and produce their stakeholder communications. In February 2004, the Company merged with Moore Wallace Incorporated, a diversified printing company.
DGICA Donegal Group Inc. is a property and casualty insurance company whose insurance subsidiaries offer personal and commercial lines of insurance to businesses and individuals in 14 mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states. Donegal Mutual Insurance Company owns approximately 42% of Donegal Group's Class A common stock and approximately 62% of its Class B common stock. The Company conducts most of its operations through five insurance subsidiaries. The Company's personal lines of business consist of automobile and homeowners insurance. Its commercial lines of business consist of commercial automobile, commercial multi-peril and workers' compensation insurance. In January 2004, the Company acquired Le Mars Mutual Insurance Company, an operator of a multiple-line carrier. It also purchased Peninsula Indemnity Company and The Peninsula Insurance Company from Folksamerica Holding Company, Inc. Peninsula specializes in private passenger automobile coverage.
DCI Donaldson Company, Inc. is a worldwide manufacturer of filtration systems and replacement parts. The Company operates in two segments engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of systems to filter air and liquid, and other complementary products. The two segments are Engine Products and Industrial Products. Products in the Engine Products segment consist of air intake systems, exhaust systems, liquid filtration systems and replacement parts. Products in the Industrial Products segment consist of dust, fume and mist collectors; compressed air purification systems; liquid filters and parts; static and pulse-clean air filter systems for industrial gas turbines; computer disk drive filter products; other specialized air filtration systems and Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membrane and laminates. Products are manufactured at more than 30 plants around the world and through three joint ventures.
DTC Domtar Inc. is a paper and forest company operating in North America. The Company's four segments are Papers, Paper Merchants, Wood and Packaging. The Papers segment represents the aggregation of the manufacturing and distribution of business, commercial printing and publication of technical and specialty papers, as well as pulp. The Paper Merchants segment is engaged in the purchasing, warehousing, sales and distribution of various products made by Domtar and by other manufacturers. These products include business and printing papers, graphic arts supplies and certain industrial products. The Wood segment is comprised of the manufacturing and marketing of lumber and wood based, value-added products and the management of forest resources in Canada and the United States. The Packaging segment is comprised of the Company's 50%-ownership interest in Norampac Inc., a Canadian producer of containerboard and corrugated products.
DPZ Domino's Pizza, Inc. is a pizza delivery company in the United States with an international presence. The Company operates through a network of more than 7,500 Company-owned and franchised stores located in the United States and in more than 50 countries. In addition, it operates 18 regional dough manufacturing and distribution centers in the United States, and eight dough manufacturing and distribution centers outside the United States. The Company's domestic stores segment is comprised of 4,327 franchise stores and 577 Company-owned stores. The domestic distribution segment distributes food, equipment and supplies to all of the domestic Company-owned stores and approximately 98% of its domestic franchise stores. The international segment oversees 2,506 franchise stores, operates 17 Company-owned stores outside the contiguous United States and also distributes food and supplies in a limited number of these markets.
D Dominion Resources, Inc. is a fully integrated gas and electric holding company. The Company manages its operations along four primary business lines: Dominion Delivery, Dominion Energy, Dominion Exploration and Production and Dominion Generation. Dominion Delivery manages the electric and gas distribution systems and customer service operations, as well as retail energy marketing operations. Dominion Energy manages the electric and gas transmission operations, certain gas production and storage operations, and energy trading, marketing, hedging and arbitrage activities. Dominion Exploration and Production manages the gas and oil exploration, development and production operations. Dominion Generation manages the generation operations of the Company's electric utility and merchant fleet and its power purchase agreements. The Company operates generating facilities in Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.
DOM Dominion Resources Black Warrior Trust (the Trust) acquires and holds certain overriding royalty interests, burdening proved natural gas properties located in the Pottsville coal formation of the Black Warrior Basin, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, owned by Dominion Black Warrior Basin. The only assets of the Trust, other than cash and temporary investments being held for the payment of expenses and liabilities and for distribution to Unitholders, are the Royalty Interests.
DHOM Dominion Homes, Inc. is a builder of high-quality homes in Central Ohio and Louisville, Kentucky. The Company is expanding its presence in Kentucky by entering the Lexington market and expects to begin selling and delivering homes in Lexington during 2004. Dominion focuses on providing high-quality, affordably priced single-family homes primarily for entry-level and first-time move-up homebuyers. Its homes range in price from approximately $100,000 to more than $350,000 and in size from approximately 1,000 to 3,500 square feet. The Company offers three distinct series of homes, Independence Series, Celebration Series and Tradition Series, which are differentiated by price, size, standard features and available options.
DLTR Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. is an operator of discount variety stores offering merchandise at the fixed price of $1.00. The Company maintains a balanced selection of products within traditional variety store categories. Dollar Tree offers a selection of everyday basic products and it supplements the basic everyday items with seasonal and closeout merchandise. At January 31, 2004, the Company operated 2,513 single-price point stores under the names of Dollar Tree, Greenbacks, Dollar Express, Dollar Bills, Only One Dollar and Only $One in 47 states.
DTG Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc., (DTG), owns DTG Operations, Inc., Dollar Rent A Car, Inc. and Thrifty, Inc. DTG Operations operates Company-owned stores under the Dollar and Thrifty brands, provides vehicle leasing to franchisees and operates reservation centers for both brands. Thrifty, Inc. owns Thrifty Rent-A-Car System, Inc. and Thrifty Car Sales, Inc., which operates a franchised retail used car sales network. Thrifty Rent-A-Car System, Inc. owns Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Canada, Inc. As of December 31, 2003, Dollar's vehicle rental system included 314 locations in the United States and Canada, consisting of 169 Company-owned stores and 145 franchisee locations. Thrifty's vehicle rental system at that date included 509 rental locations in the United States and Canada, consisting of 368 franchisee locations and 141 Company-owned stores.
DG Dollar General Corporation is a discount retailer of general merchandise at everyday low prices. Through its stores, the Company offers a focused assortment of consumable basic merchandise including health and beauty aids, packaged food products, home cleaning supplies, housewares, stationery, seasonal goods, basic clothing and domestics. Dollar General stores serve primarily low-, middle- and fixed-income families. As of February 27, 2004, the Company operated 6,817 stores in 29 states, primarily in the southern, eastern and midwestern United States.
DMC Document Security Systems, Inc. develops, licenses and sells anti-counterfeiting technology and products. Document Security also offers its verification technology to authenticate originals from forgeries. The Company has exclusive and complete ownership of 12 technologies for which patent applications have been made in the United States and 133 other countries through the Patent Cooperation Treaty. Another eight exclusive technologies have provisional patents filed. It also has partial ownership interests in three United States patents, a European Patent Office patent that covers 13 European countries and one Canadian patent for document anti-counterfeit and anti-fraud technology. Document Security's technology applies to both analog and digital copiers and scanners, software, Internet security, weapon and ammunition technology.
DOCX Document Sciences Corporation develops, markets and supports a family of document automation software used in high-volume print and transactional Web-based applications. The Company's established Autograph document automation software products, as well as its newer xPression content processing product family, each, enable automated publishing solutions for many industries, including insurance, financial services, managed healthcare and commercial print outsourcing. Its software products facilitate communication between organizations and their customers by employing enterprise data assets and business compliance rules to produce high-quality, personalized regulated documents that are ready to print on demand, to e-mail or to distribute over the Web in real-time, using hyper text markup language (HTML) or Adobe Systems' portable document format (PDF) technology.
DOCC Docucorp International, Inc. develops, markets and supports a portfolio of information software, application service provider (ASP) hosting and professional services that enable companies to create, publish, manage and archive complex, high-volume, individualized information. The Company's software products are designed to personalize, produce and manage documents, such as insurance policies, utility statements, telephone bills, bank and mutual fund statements, invoices, correspondence, bills of lading and other customer-oriented documents. The Company's ASP offerings include customer statement and bill generation, electronic bill presentment and payment, insurance policy production, disaster recovery and electronic document archival. Its professional services offerings include implementation, integration, training and consulting services. Docucorp markets its solutions primarily to three vertical markets: insurance, financial services and utilities.
DCEL Dobson Communications Corporation is a provider of rural and suburban wireless communications services, predominantly in the United States. At December 31, 2003, the Company's wireless telephone systems covered a total population of 10.6 million and it had approximately 1,552,100 subscribers. Dobson offers digital voice and digital feature services to all of its covered population through time division multiple access digital networks. The Company is in the process of updating its digital network to global system for mobile communications (GSM) and general packet radio service (GPRS), with an evolution towards enhanced data for GSM evolution (EDGE) technology. Dobson offers wireless service under the CELLULAR ONE trademark. It also uses and owns the service mark DOBSON CELLULAR SYSTEMS. The Company is included in the North American cellular network, a wireless telephone network system linking wireless operators throughout the United States and Canada.
DBMI.OB DOBI Medical International, Inc. together with its wholly owned subsidiary, DOBI Medical Systems, Inc., is an advanced medical technology imaging, development-stage company engaged in the business of developing and commercializing a non-invasive, gentle and inexpensive means for the improved diagnosis of cancer and other diseases through the detection of vascular changes (angiogenesis), which is associated specifically with malignant tumors. The application of the Company's technology is the ComfortScan system, an adjunct to mammography and physical exam. The ComfortScan system is a non-invasive, non-ionizing medical imaging device designed to assist physicians in the detection of breast cancer at the earliest stages of tumor development.
DNP DNP Select Income Fund Inc. (the Fund) is a close-end diversified management investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The primary investment objectives of the Fund are current income and long-term growth of income. Capital appreciation is a secondary objective. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objectives by investing in a diversified portfolio of equity and fixed income securities of companies in the public utilities industry. The Fund has engaged Duff &amp; Phelps Investment Management Co. to provide professional investment management services and has engaged J. J. B. Hilliard, W. L. Lyons, Inc. to provide administrative and management services. DNP's investment is made up of common stocks, preferred stocks, bonds, United States treasury obligations, United States government agency obligations and money market instruments.
DNBF.OB DNB Financial Corporation is the holding company for DNB First, NA (the Bank). The Company's business consists of managing and supervising the Bank. Its principal source of income is dividends paid by the Bank. The Bank derives its income from interest charged on loans and interest earned on investments, as well as fees received in connection with the origination of loans and for other services. The Bank's principal expenses are interest expense on deposits and borrowings and operating expenses. Funds for activities are provided by operating revenues, deposit growth and the repayment of outstanding loans.
DKHR D&amp;K Healthcare Resources, Inc. is a wholesale distributor of branded and generic pharmaceuticals and over-the-counter healthcare and beauty aid products. The Company serves three classes of customers: independent and regional pharmacies, national pharmacy chains (national accounts) and other healthcare providers. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), sales to independent and regional pharmacies consist of branded pharmaceuticals (approximately 89% of net sales), generic pharmaceuticals (approximately 8% of net sales) and over-the-counter health and beauty aid products (approximately 3% of net sales). The Company's national accounts trade class sales are predominantly branded pharmaceuticals. D&amp;K serves its customers through distribution facilities located in Missouri, Kentucky, Minnesota, South Dakota and Texas.
DJO DJ Orthopedics, Inc. is a medical device company specializing in rehabilitation and regeneration products for the non-operative orthopedic and spine markets. The Company's range of about 600 rehabilitation products, including rigid knee braces, soft goods and pain management products, are primarily used to prevent injury, treat chronic conditions and to aid in recovery after surgery or injury. Through its acquisition of OrthoLogic Corp.'s business, in November 2003, DJ Orthopedics entered the regeneration market and offered its first product that targets the spine. The Company's regeneration products, which include the OL1000 and SpinaLogic, consist of bone growth stimulation devices that are used to treat non-union fractures and act as an adjunct therapy after spinal fusion surgery. The Company's products are distributed through networks of agents and distributors that sell to orthopedic and spine surgeons, athletic trainers and other healthcare professionals.
DXT Dixon Ticonderoga Company is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of writing and art materials. It is engaged in the manufacture and sale of writing and drawing pencils, pens, artist materials, felt tip markers, industrial markers, lumber crayons, correction materials and allied products. On December 16, 2004, Dixon Ticonderoga and Fila - Fabbrica Italiana Lapis ed Affini S.p.A. (Fila) executed a definitive merger agreement under which Fila would acquire all of the outstanding shares of the Company.
DVNTF.OB Diversinet Corp. is a security software product company that develops, markets and distributes wireless security and identity management solutions and professional services to the enterprise, financial services, government and gaming and wagering marketplace. The Company has six primary products: Passport Certificate Server, Passport ONE, Connexus Platform, Passport SMS Messenger, Passport Authorization Product and Passport Wireless VPN that, together, provide a comprehensive security solution with a focus on wireless applications. As part of providing these solutions, Diversinet performs professional services to install, support and integrate its solutions with other applications. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Diversinet acquired DSS Software Technologies. In September 2003, Diversinet acquired Caradas, Inc., a digital identification (ID) and authentication management provider.
DVTS.OB Diversified Thermal Solutions, Inc. (Diversified) was previously engaged in the delivery of international long distance service via flexible, server-based networks consisting of re-sale arrangements with other long distance providers primarily through its wholly owned subsidiary, Access Communications, Inc. On March 29, 2002, the Company sold 100% of the common stock of Access Communications, Inc. to an independent third party. After the sale, Diversified operated essentially as a shell company for the purpose of acquiring businesses related to the manufacturing and distribution of materials used in the refractory industry. In June 2004, the Company acquired a precast shape operation, LWC Precast. The acquired assets include a dry out furnace with a five-million British thermal unit (BTU) burner system, which provides the means to fire the majority of all shapes at virtually any temperature.
DVS Diversified Security Solutions, Inc. is a single-source/turnkey provider of technology-based security solutions for medium and large commercial and governmental agencies in the United States. As a single-source/turnkey provider of diversified technology-based integrated security solutions, the Company can expedite project completion, optimize system performance and manpower performance. Diversified Security's engagement may include consulting and planning; engineering and design; systems installation and management; maintenance and technical support, and evacuation planning.
DVSA Diversa Corporation is engaged in applying genomic technologies for the discovery and optimization of novel protein-based products, including enzymes, as well as small molecules made by pathways of catalytic proteins and antibodies. It is directing its integrated portfolio of technologies to the discovery, evolution and production of molecules with pharmaceutical applications, such as monoclonal antibodies and orally active drugs, as well as enzymes and small molecules with agricultural, chemical and industrial applications. The key areas of focus for internal product development are animal care, fiber processing, nutritional oils and anti-infective therapies. Diversa has commercialized the products, including Phyzyme XP Animal Feed, Quantum phytase, Green Fluorescent Protein, Cyan Fluorescent Protein, ThermalAce, Pyrolase 200 Enzyme and Pyrolase 160 Enzyme.
DITC Ditech Communications Corporation is a global telecommunications equipment supplier for voice networks. The Company's voice-processing products include echo cancellers, which are used to eliminate echo, a problem in existing and emerging voice networks. Echo cancellers have been Ditech's primary source of revenue to date. The Company's newest voice-processing products not only provide customers with the traditional echo cancellation features, but also can be used to provide voice quality assurance (VQA) features that address issues, such as background noise and other voice quality issues in wireline and wireless communications. On July 16, 2003, the Company completed the sale of the optical subsystem communications business. Ditech directly markets its products in the United States and to a lesser degree, through original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and distributors.
DESC Distributed Energy Systems Corp. creates and delivers products and solutions to the energy marketplace, giving users control over their energy cost, quality and reliability. Distributed Energy is the parent company of two established businesses: Proton Energy Systems, Inc. (Proton) and Northern Power Systems, Inc. (Northern). Proton develops technology related to hydrogen production and fuel cell applications. Northern designs and integrates projects that meet critical energy needs with an array of proven technologies, including renewables, combustion and batteries. For the year ended December 31, 2003, Distributed Energy's contract revenue from government-sponsored agencies accounted for approximately 29% of total revenue. During 2003, sales to British Petroleum Exploration totaled approximately 18% of total revenue.
DYS Distribucion y Servicio D&amp;S S.A. (D&amp;S) is a hypermarket and supermarket company that operates 75 stores in three complementary store formats under the Lider brandname. D&amp;S also operates businesses complementary to its core retail operations, including real estate development, credit card operations, pharmacies and restaurants, which, together, generated 5.7% of total net revenues during the year ended December 31, 2003. During 2003, groceries accounted for 47% of the Company's total revenues, perishable goods accounted 34.1%, apparel products accounted 6%, electronics and appliances accounted for 3%, housewares and furniture accounted for 3% and other non-food products accounted for 6.9% of total revenues. In January 2004, the Company acquired Carrefour Chile S.A., adding seven hypermarkets, of which six have been converted into Lider stores.
DDVS.OB Distinctive Devices, Inc. (DDI), through its subsidiaries, operates in two distinct segments: digital television technologies and telecom access equipment. Its wholly owned subsidiary, galaxis technology ag, is involved in developing, manufacturing and marketing digital television technologies and in distributing digital set-top-boxes on terrestrial, cable, satellite and Internet protocol (IP) platforms. Convergence GmbH, a subsidiary of galaxis, is a provider of multimedia home platforms (MHP) on Linux platform and develops advanced software applications for chip manufacturers. The Company's indirect subsidiary, Realtime Systems Ltd., designs, manufactures and sells multi-service access platforms (MAP) that provide voice, data and video services over existing copper wire infrastructure for both telecom and cable. The Company provides system integration, information technology solutions, software resales and educational services through its subsidiary, Distinctive Devices (India), PLC.
DTEK.PK Display Technologies, Inc. is engaged in three business segments: image enhancement displays, electronic billboard advertising and other. The display segment markets and produces custom-designed and stock sign products, which are specifically designed for internal and external use by institutional, governmental and commercial enterprises. The electronic billboard advertising segment includes a network of electronic billboards at various locations throughout the United States. Operations within the other segment include the manufacture and sale of a line of products which, when installed in compressed air lines, substantially reduces or totally eliminates water and condensate problems and most foreign contaminants in the air line. After recent divestitures and foreclosures, Lockwood Sign Group is the Company's only subsidiary still conducting operations. Lockwood is currently negotiating a sale of its business. Upon such a sale or foreclosure, the Company will cease all operations.
DPII Discovery Partners International, Inc. develops and offers libraries of drug-like compounds, proprietary instruments, consumable supplies, drug discovery services, computational tools to generate compound libraries and testing and screening services to optimize potential drugs. In addition, the Company licenses proprietary gene profiling systems. It provides a number of services such as assays development, the automation of products and services, proprietary libraries of compounds, screening, hits-to-optimized leads, drug discovery informatics and integrated drug discovery programs. The Company's offerings are Assays, Automation Products and Services, Proprietary Libraries of Compounds, Screening, Hits-to-Optimized Leads, Drug Discovery Informatics/ADME and Toxicology and Integrated Drug Discovery Programs.
DSCO Discovery Laboratories, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company developing proprietary humanized lung surfactant technology as Surfactant Replacement Therapies for respiratory diseases. Surfactants are compositions produced naturally in the lungs and are essential to the lungs' ability to absorb oxygen and to maintain proper airflow through the respiratory system. The absence or depletion of surfactants is involved in a number of respiratory diseases. The Company's technology produces an engineered version of natural human lung surfactant that is designed to closely mimic the essential properties of human lung surfactant. It completed two Phase III clinical trials of Surfaxin, its lead product, for the treatment of Respiratory Distress Syndrome in premature infants and is preparing to file drug applications with the United States Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory authorities in the rest of the world.
DIRI.OB Direct Insite Corp. operates as an application service provider (ASP) and markets an integrated service offering that provides for high-volume processing of transactional billing data and supports a visual data analysis and reporting tool that is delivered via the Internet. The Company operates in one business segment, the electronic billing presentment and payment (EBP&amp;P) sector, and, during the years 2003 and 2002, has provided three primary forms of service offerings: EBP&amp;P application service provider (ASP) services, telecommunications asset management system (TAMS) and professional engineering services. Within the ASP offering, the Company provides two primary services: Invoices On Line, an EBP&amp;P offering, and dbExpress, a data-visualization and mining service.
DRCT Direct General Corporation is a financial services holding company whose operating subsidiaries provide non-standard personal automobile insurance, term life insurance, premium finance and other consumer products and services through neighborhood sales offices staffed by employee-agents. The Company's operations are concentrated in the southeastern part of the United States. Its core business involves issuing non-standard personal automobile insurance policies. These policies provide coverage to drivers who cannot obtain insurance from standard carriers due to factors, including the lack of flexible payment plans, the failure to maintain continuous coverage, age, prior accidents, driving violations, occupation and type of vehicle.
DNEX Dionex Corporation designs, manufactures, markets and services analytical instrumentation and related accessories and chemicals. The Company's products are used to analyze chemical substances in the environment and in a broad range of industrial and scientific applications. Dionex designs, manufactures, markets and services a range of liquid chromatography systems, sample preparation devices and related products that are used by chemists to separate and quantify the individual components of complex chemical mixtures in many industrial, research and laboratory markets. The Company also generates sales from its customer service organization through maintenance contracts, spare part sales, customer training and sales of other products and valued-added services. The sale of Dionex ion chromatography systems and related products accounted for over 60% of the Company's net sales during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004).
DIO Diomed Holdings, Inc. (Diomed) specializes in developing and commercializing laser and related disposable product technologies used in minimally invasive medical procedures primarily through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Diomed, Inc. and, to a lesser extent, Diomed, Ltd. Its focus on the development and commercialization of minimally invasive medical procedures using laser technology and disposable products has led to an array of applications, such as Endovenous Laser Treatment, Cancer Treatments Using Photodynamic Therapy and Original Equipment Manufacturing.
DIOD Diodes Incorporated manufactures, sells and distributes discrete semiconductors worldwide, primarily to manufacturers in the communications, computing, industrial, consumer electronics and automotive markets, and to distributors of electronic components to end customers in these markets. The Company's product line includes high-density diode and transistor arrays in ultra-miniature surface-mount packages, as well as silicon wafers used in manufacturing these products. Technologies include high-density diode and transistor arrays in multi-pin surface-mount packages; Powermite3, high-performance surface-mount packages; performance Schottkys, switching and rectifier diodes; single and dual pre-biased transistors; performance tight-tolerance and low-current zener diodes; subminiature surface-mount packages; transient voltage suppressors; small signal transistors and MOSFETs, and standard, fast, ultra-fast and super-fast rectifiers.
DMN DIMON Incorporated is an independent leaf tobacco merchant in the United States. The Company suppplies tobacco leaves to manufacturers of cigarettes and other consumer tobacco products in 90 countries around the world. DIMON's revenues are comprised of sales of processed tobacco and fees charged for processing, as well as related services to manufacturers of tobacco products around the world. The Company does not manufacture cigarettes or other consumer tobacco products. DIMON deals primarily in flue-cured, burley and oriental tobaccos that are used in branded cigarettes. Brand cigarettes include Virginia cigarettes that contain only flue-cured tobaccos, as well as American blend cigarettes. American blend cigarettes contain approximately 50% flue-cured, 37% burley and 13% oriental tobacco, contain less tar and nicotine and taste milder than locally produced cigarettes containing dark and semi-oriental tobacco.
DCOM Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. is the parent company of The Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh (the Bank), a federally chartered stock savings bank. The Company is a unitary savings and loan holding company, which, under existing law, is generally not restricted as to the types of business activities in which it may engage, provided that the Bank continues to be a qualified thrift lender. The Company's primary business is the operation of its wholly owned subsidiary, the Bank. The Bank has been, and intends to remain, a community-oriented financial institution providing financial services and loans for housing within its market areas. The Bank maintains its headquarters in the Williamsburgh section of the borough of Brooklyn, New York, and operates 20 full-service retail banking offices located in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, and in Nassau County, New York.
DDS Dillard's, Inc. operates retail department stores located primarily in the Southwest, Southeast and Midwest United States. The Company's stores are located in suburban shopping malls and offer a selection of fashion apparel and home furnishings. Dillard's sells products under the following merchandising categories: cosmetics, women's and juniors' clothing, children's clothing, men's clothing and accessories, shoes, accessories and lingerie and home. At January 31, 2004, there were 328 stores in operation with gross square footage approximating 56.0 million feet. The Company owned or leased, from wholly owned subsidiaries, a total of 257 stores with 43.9 million square feet. Dillard's leased 71 stores from third parties, which totaled 12.1 million square feet.
DTAS Digitas Inc. is a relationship marketing services provider offering strategy and technology enablement and marketing agency services. The Company helps clients attract, retain and grow customer relationships in their industries. Digitas builds multi-channel programs for clients that drive market share gains through quantitative and qualitative improvements in their customer relationships. It combines enablement and execution to support its clients' efforts to manage their customer relationships more effectively. Within enablement, its approach includes designing customer relationship strategies to optimize marketing investments and building new technology infrastructure to improve the productivity of its marketing programs. Within agency services, Digitas provides services for designing and executing communications programs across all channels. In October 2004, Digitas acquired Modem Media, Inc., an interactive marketing strategy and services firm.
DVID Digital Video Systems, Inc. (DVS) is a technology company specializing in the development and application of digital video disc (DVD) technologies that enable the convergence of data, digital audio, digital video and high-end graphics. Its product offerings include DVD loaders, which are the principal hardware component of DVD players, as well as DVD sub-systems and components. In August 2003, the Company established DVS Electronics Pvt. Ltd (DVSE), a wholly owned subsidiary. DVSE is in the process of establishing an end user brand under the DVS marquee for a product offering that includes DVD players and home theatre systems.
DTSI Digital Theater Systems, Inc. (DTS) provides entertainment technology, historically focused on digital multi-channel audio technology, products, and services for entertainment markets worldwide. Multi-channel audio, commonly referred to as surround sound, allows listeners to hear discrete sounds simultaneously through more than two speakers. The Company's theatrical business provides digital playback systems and cinema processor equipment to movie theaters, and provides film licensing services to film studios and production companies. Its consumer business licenses audio technology to consumer electronics, personal computer, broadcast and professional audio companies, and sells multi-channel audio and video content to consumers.
DRIV Digital River, Inc. is a provider of comprehensive electronic-commerce outsourcing solutions. As a global e-commerce outsource provider, the Company enables its clients to access its proprietary electronic-commerce system over the Internet. Digital River has developed a technology platform that allows the Company to provide a suite of electronic-commerce services, including Web commerce development and hosting, transaction processing, fraud screening, digital delivery, integration to physical fulfillment and customer service. Digital River also provides analytical marketing and merchandising services to assist clients in increasing Web page view traffic to, and sales through, their Web commerce systems. The Company provides an outsourcing solution that allows its clients to promote their own brands while leveraging its investment in infrastructure and technology.
TBUS Digital Recorders, Inc. (DRI) designs, manufactures, sells and services information technology and audio surveillance technology products, directly or through its contractors. The Company also designs, manufactures, sells and services new generations of electronic destination sign systems used worldwide on transit and transportation vehicles. DRI operates through two major business segments, Transportation Communications and Law Enforcement and Surveillance. The Transportation Communications segment's products are sold worldwide within the passenger information communication market. The Company operates in the international market. The Company's principal supplier for the Digital Recorders business unit for most of 2003, CEA of North Carolina, is a contract-manufacturing firm that produces Digital Recorders-designed equipment. Digital Recorders also performs part of its assembly work in-house. The Digital Audio subsidiary primarily manufactures or assembles its products internally.
DLR Digital Realty Trust, Inc. owns, acquires, repositions and manages technology-related real estate. The Company targets strategically located properties containing applications and operations critical to the day-to-day operations of technology industry tenants. Its tenant base is diversified within the technology industry and reflects a broad spectrum of regional, national and international tenants.
DPW Digital Power Corporation (DPW) designs, develops, manufactures, markets and sells switching power supplies to telecommunications, data communications, test and measurement equipment, office and factory automation and instrumentation equipment manufacturers. DPW also provides value-added services, referring to the Company's incorporation of an original equipment manufacturer's (OEM's) selected electronic components, enclosures and cable assemblies with its power supply products to produce a power subassembly that is compatible with the OEM's own equipment and specifically tailored to meet the OEM's needs. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Digital Power Limited, the Company also designs, manufactures and sells products for the European market place, including power conversion products for naval and military applications and direct current (DC)/alternating current (AC) inverters for the telecommunications industry under the label Gresham Power Electronics.
DIGL Digital Lightwave, Inc. provides the global fiber-optic communications industry with products and technology used to develop, install, maintain, monitor and manage fiber-optic communication networks. Telecommunications service providers and equipment manufacturers deploy the Company's products to provide assurance and ensure optimum performance of optical communications networks and network equipment. Its revenue has been generated from the sale of its original product line, the Network Information Computers (NIC). Digital Lightwave's other product lines include the Network Access Agents (NAA), the Optical Wavelength Manager (OWM) and the Optical Test System (OTS). The Company organizes it products and services under four categories: Network Installation and Maintenance Products, Network Management Systems, Network Equipment Test and Measurement Products Network Management Services.
DGIN Digital Insight Corporation is a provider of outsourced online banking applications and services to banks, credit unions and savings and loan associations, serving more than 1,700 client financial institutions. The Company offers outsourced software products and related services, hosted in its data centers, primarily to financial institutions with under $20 billion in assets. Digital Insight's outsourcing operations include three main product lines: online banking for consumers, which also includes bill payment and bill presentment; online cash management for businesses, and online lending for consumer loans. Through its acquisition of Magnet Communications, Inc. in November 2003, the Company also offers online cash management products to large financial institutions that are available either as a licensed software implementation or hosted in its data centers.
DIGI Digital Impact, Inc. is a provider of integrated digital marketing solutions for enterprises. Its solutions enable corporations to create and deliver integrated digital marketing programs and provide customer insight and program execution through a combination of hosted applications, technology infrastructure and services. The Company is organized into two segments: customer marketing and professional services. Digital Impact's clients consist of a group of companies operating in industries primarily throughout the United States, ranging from Fortune 500 to smaller corporations. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), two clients, Hewlett-Packard and Gap Inc. Direct, accounted for 12% and 11% of total revenue, respectively.
DGIT Digital Generation Systems, Inc. (DGS) and its wholly owned subsidiary, StarGuide Digital Networks, Inc. (StarGuide), offers a suite of digital technology products and services. The Company operates a nationwide digital network out of its Network Operation Center (NOC) located in Irving, Texas. The network links more than 5,000 advertisers and advertising agencies with more than 6,700 radio stations and over 1,875 broadcast and cable television destinations across the United States and Canada. Through the NOC, DGS delivers audio, video, image and data content that comprise transactions between the advertising and broadcast industries. Through StarGuide, the Company develops and sells digital software, hardware and communications technology, including bandwidth satellite receivers, audio compression codes and software to operate integrated digital multimedia networks and offers engineering consulting services.
DIGF.OB Digital Fusion, Inc. is an information technology (IT) consulting firm that helps its customers maximize the use of modern technology to access business information, enhance the performance of their human resources and meet various business needs. It provides services to business organizations and public sector institutions in the Eastern United States. Digital Fusion's experience and expertise covers IT services with initiatives in, both, the commercial and government sectors. It has managed and deployed large-scale, multi-site infrastructure projects involving complex systems integrations and migrations. Its consultants have also designed and developed customized software applications and implemented third-party solutions to fulfill specific client needs. In addition, a number of Digital Fusion consultants work onsite in organizations, providing ongoing support and guidance for in-house IT projects. In January 2005, the Company acquired Summit Research Corporation.
DOC Digital Angel Corporation operates through its three subsidiaries, Digital Angel technology Corporation (DATC), Timely Technology Corp. and Signature Industries, Limited. DATC develops and markets technologies that are used to identify, locate and monitor people, animals and objects. Upon the acquisition of Medical Advisory Systems, Inc., in March 2002, the Company re-organized into four segments: Animal Applications, Wireless and Monitoring, GPS and Radio Communications and Medical Systems. On January 22, 2004, Digital Angel Corporation completed the acquisition of OuterLink Corporation pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated November 2, 2003, by and among Digital Angel Corporation, DA Acquisition and OuterLink Corporation. Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, OuterLink Corporation became a wholly owned subsidiary of Digital Angel Corporation.
DRAD Digirad Corporation is engaged in the development, manufacture and distribution of solid-state medical imaging products and services for the detection of cardiovascular disease and other medical conditions. The Company designed and commercialized the first solid-state gamma camera. Its initial focus is on nuclear cardiology imaging procedures performed with gamma cameras. Its target markets are primarily physician practices and outpatient clinics. Digirad sells its imaging systems to physicians, outpatient clinics hospitals. In addition, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Digirad Imaging Solutions, Inc., it also offers a comprehensive and mobile imaging leasing service, called FlexImaging, for physicians who wish to perform nuclear cardiology imaging procedures in their offices but do not have the patient volume, capital or resources to justify purchasing a gamma camera.
DGII Digi International Inc. (Digi) develops and provides hardware and software connectivity solutions. Digi operates in two segments: Connectivity Solutions and Device Networking Solutions. The Connectivity Solutions segment includes multi-port serial adaptors, terminal servers, universal serial bus (USB)-connected products and associated remote device management software, which provide connectivity solutions that are external to the devices they support. The Device Networking Solutions segment includes external and embedded device servers, integrated microprocessors, networking software and networking modules for printers and copiers, which are embedded in the devices themselves. Digi provides commercial and industrial-grade solutions to customers in an array of markets, including building automation and control, industrial automation, point-of-sale, medical, hospitality, network cameras, information displays and office networking.
DIGE Digene Corporation develops, manufactures and markets gene-based testing systems for the screening, monitoring and diagnosis of human diseases. Its primary focus is in women's cancers and infectious diseases. The Company has applied its Hybrid Capture technology to develop a diagnostic test for human papillomavirus (HPV), which is the primary cause of cervical cancer and is found in greater than 99% of all cervical cancer cases. In addition to the HPV Test, Digene's product portfolio includes gene-based tests for the detection of chlamydia, gonorrhea, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and cytomegalovirus (CMV). The Company's diagnostic test kits include biochemicals and consumables. Digene also provides instrumentation systems and consumables required for specimen collection, detection and analysis.
DDRX Diedrich Coffee, Inc. is a specialty coffee roaster, wholesaler and retailer. It sells brewed, espresso-based and various blended beverages primarily made from its own fresh roasted premium coffee beans, as well as light food items, whole bean coffee and accessories, through Company-operated and franchised retail locations. The Company also sells whole bean and ground coffees on a wholesale basis through a network of distributors in the Office Coffee Service (OCS) market, and to other wholesale customers, including restaurant chains, a grocery store chain and other retailers. The Company's brands include Diedrich Coffee, Gloria Jean's Coffees and Coffee People. As of June 30, 2004, Diedrich owned and operated 56 retail locations and franchised 426 other retail locations under these brands, for a total of 482 retail coffee outlets. Its retail units are located in 34 states and 13 foreign countries.
DBD Diebold, Incorporated is primarily engaged in the manufacture, sale, installation and service of automated self-service transaction systems, electronic and physical security products, election systems and software. The Company operates three business segments: Diebold North America (DNA), Diebold International (DI) and Election Systems and Other. The DNA segment sells financial and retail systems, and also services financial, retail and medical systems in the United States and Canada. The DI segment sells and services financial and retail systems over the remainder of the globe. The Election Systems and Other segment includes the operating results of Diebold Election Systems, Inc., a manufacturer and supplier of elections systems. Its primary customers include banks and financial institutions, as well as hospitals, colleges and universities, public libraries, government agencies, utilities and various retail outlets.
DKS Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. (Dick's) is a full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel and footwear in a specialty store environment. As of January 31, 2004, the Company operated 163 stores in 27 states throughout the Eastern half of the United States. Dick's offers a full range of sporting goods and active apparel at each price point in order to appeal to the beginner, intermediate and enthusiast sports consumer. Sales from apparel, footwear and hardlines represented approximately 23%, 18% and 59% for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004 (fiscal 2003), respectively. Hardlines include items, such as hunting and fishing gear, sporting goods equipment and golf equipment. In July 2004, the Company acquired Galyan's Trading Company, Inc., a specialty retailer with 47 stores that offers a range of outdoor and athletic equipment, apparel, footwear and accessories, as well as casual apparel and footwear.
DWMA Dickie Walker Marine, Inc. designs, sources and has manufactured, markets and distributes authentic lines of nautically inspired apparel, gifts and decorative items. Its products are designed to appeal to consumers who enjoy coastal living, boating or being around the water. The Dickie Walker brand consists of nautically inspired apparel and nautically inspired decorative and functional accessory items for the home, office and boat. The Company's apparel line features quality fabrics and comfortable silhouettes for the 30 to 60 year-old, upper middle-class consumer. The Company's gift and decorative items consist of domestic soft goods, such as towels, linens, rugs, pillows, bags, placemats, napkins, potholder mitts and aprons; cocktail coasters; storage containers; tote and duffel bags; blankets; candles, and stationery items, such as log books, photo albums, journals, guest books and decorative note pads.
DYX DiaSys Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and distributes propriety workstation instruments, consumables, reagents and specialized test kits to hospital, clinical and private physician laboratories worldwide. Its workstation instruments standardize, increase the accuracy of, and reduce the cost to perform laboratory analysis of, urine sediment, fecal concentrates, cerebral spinal fluid, fine needle aspirations and other cell suspensions compared to traditional laboratory testing methods. The Company's consumable products are, in some cases, combined with its workstation instruments to create practical, affordable system solutions, while other consumables provide cost-effective alternatives to similar products offered by other companies. DiaSys has also developed a method for diagnosing Multiple Myeloma cancer. The Multiple Myeloma test is sold in Europe for research purposes only and is in the process of being tested for human applications worldwide.
DIAC.OB Diapulse Corporation of America develops, manufactures and markets Diapulse Technology, a proprietary medical system that produces non-thermal pulsed high frequency, high peak power electromagnetic energy to treat post-operative edema and pain in acute and chronic wounds. The Company's product is sold and rented to hospitals, nursing facilities, outpatient clinics and physicians' practices, and is prescribed for use in patients' homes throughout the United States. A number of insurance companies reimburse for treatment. During 2003 and 2002, approximately 79% and 61%, respectively, of revenue were from rentals to patients covered through Medicare.
DHCC.OB Diamondhead Casino Corporation is engaged in the development of a casino resort in Diamondhead, Mississippi. The Company owns, through its subsidiary, Mississippi Gaming Corporation, a total of approximately 404.5 acres of unimproved land in Diamondhead, on the Bay of St. Louis, in Hancock County, Mississippi. The property is held in fee simple and is debt-free and lien-free. The Company intends to develop the property as a destination casino resort. The resort is expected to include a luxury hotel and spa, sports and entertainment center, a maximum of 120,000 square feet of casino space, a recreational vehicle (RV) park and a business conference center. The casino, which is required under Mississippi law to be water-based, will be located in the Bay of St. Louis.
DTPI DiamondCluster International, Inc. is a global management-consulting firm. The Company helps organizations worldwide to understand and leverage technology to realize value in their businesses. It offers clients skills in strategy, technology and program management. DiamondCluster works with its clients using teams of consultants. The Company serves clients in five vertical industries: financial services, insurance, telecommunications, healthcare and the public sector. It also has an incubator industry it calls Enterprise, which encompasses clients in industries outside of those formally served. It operates globally with offices in North America, Europe and Latin America.
DO Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. engages principally in the contract drilling of offshore oil and gas wells. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had a fleet of 45 offshore rigs consisting of 30 semisubmersibles, 14 jack-ups and one drillship. Diamond offers a range of services worldwide in various markets, including the deep water, harsh environment, conventional semisubmersible and the jack-up market. Its principal markets for its offshore contract drilling services are the Gulf of Mexico, including the United States and offshore Mexico, Europe, principally the United Kingdom and Norway, South America, Africa and Australia/Southeast Asia. From time to time, its fleet operates in various other markets worldwide. Diamond provides offshore drilling services to a customer base that includes private and independent oil and gas companies and government-owned oil companies.
DHIL Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc. operates primarily as a holding company with investment advisory services provided by its two subsidiary operating companies, Diamond Hill Capital Management, Inc. and Diamond Hill Securities, Inc. (DHS), and underwriting and broker-dealer operations conducted by DHS. The Company maintains an investment portfolio, primarily composed of mutual funds and the investment partnership, which are managed by DHCM. At December 31, 2003, assets under management totaled $250,072,505, a 132% increase from December 31, 2002. The Company develops business with clients through direct contact or strategic alliances. The primary geographic areas are Columbus, Ohio and Georgia, with efforts outside this area on an opportunistic basis.
DMEC.OB Diamond Entertainment Corporation (DMEC) markets and sells videocassette and digital video disc (DVD) titles to the budget home video and DVD market. The Company also purchases and distributes general merchandise including children's toy products, general merchandise and sundry items through its wholly owned subsidiary, Jewel Products International, Inc. (JPI). It markets video programs to national and regional mass merchandisers, department stores, drug stores, supermarkets and other similar retail outlets.
DMED.OB Diametrics Medical, Inc. develops, manufactures and distributes blood and tissue monitoring systems that provide continuous diagnostic information at the point-of-patient care. Its continuous monitoring systems are based on fiber optic sensor technology that measures color changes optically via light transmitted through plastic fibers embedded with fluorescent dyes sensitive to chemicals in blood and tissue. Diametrics' principal products include TrendCare Continuous Blood Gas Monitoring System and Neurotrend Cerebral Tissue Monitoring System. TrendCare consists of a monitor, patient data module and calibrator that operate with the Paratrend 7+ and Neotrend L intravascular disposable sensors. Neurotrend is designed for continuous monitoring of oxygen, carbon dioxide, acidity and temperature in brain tissue and fluids as an indication of cerebral ischemia and hypoxia in patients with severe head injury, and also for use during surgical intervention in the brain.
DCAI Dialysis Corporation of America is engaged in the development and operation of outpatient kidney dialysis centers that provide dialysis and ancillary services to patients suffering from chronic kidney failure, which is referred to as end stage renal disease (ESRD). The Company also provides acute inpatient dialysis treatments in hospitals; provides homecare services through its wholly owned subsidiary, DCA Medical Services, Inc., and provides dialysis center management services. The Company operates 21 outpatient dialysis facilities, including a dialysis center in Ohio. In September 2004, the Company acquired Keystone Kidney Care, in central Pennsylvania. Keystone's two facilities, located in Bedford and Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, have a combined total of 22 treatment stations, serving the communities in which they are located.
DLGS Dialog Semiconductor plc is a fabless semiconductor company that develops and supplies power management, audio and imaging technology, delivering mixed-signal standard products, as well as application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) solutions for wireless, automotive and industrial applications. The Company's products are categorized into power management and audio integrated circuits (ICs), camera modules, liquid crystal display (LCD) drivers and ASICs. Dialog's principal customers are wireless communications manufacturers and automotive equipment manufacturers. During the year ended December 31, 2003, revenues from wireless communications applications accounted for 75% of the Company's total revenues; revenues from the industrial applications sector and the automotive applications sector were 14% and 9%, respectively, and other revenues were 2% of total revenues.
DTIX.OB Dial Thru International Corporation is a facility-based provider of communication products to small and medium-sized businesses, both in the United States and internationally. The Company provides a variety of international and domestic communication services, including international re-origination and dial-through, Internet voice and fax services, global roaming and other value-added communication services, using its Voice over Internet Protocol network to effectively deliver the products to the end user. It also sells telecommunications services for both the foreign and domestic termination of international long distance traffic into the wholesale market. In addition to helping companies achieve savings on long distance voice and fax calls by routing calls over the Internet or its private network, Dial Thru also offers new opportunities for existing Internet service providers wishing to expand into voice services and private corporate networks seeking to lower long distance costs.
DP Diagnostic Products Corporation (DPC) develops, manufactures and markets immunodiagnostic systems and immunochemistry kits used in hospital, reference and physicians' office laboratories and in veterinary, forensic and research facilities. The test kits utilize technology derived from immunology and molecular biology to obtain precise, rapid identification and measurement of medically significant chemical substances that are often present at infinitesimal concentrations. DPC's immunoassays (test kits) apply to the diagnosis and management of thyroid, reproductive, bone metabolism and cardiac disorders; allergies; infectious diseases; anemia; diabetes; cancer, and therapeutic drug administration. Its IMMULITE systems consist of instrumentation and software for automating DPC's immunoassays and for integrating this process with sample-handling and data manipulation steps to improve the accuracy, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of in vitro diagnostic testing in clinical laboratories.
DEO Diageo plc is a beverage alcohol business with a portfolio of international brands. The Company was formed by the merger of Grand Metropolitan Public Limited Company and Guinness PLC. As a result of the merger, Grand Metropolitan Public Limited Company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Guinness PLC, and Guinness PLC was renamed Diageo plc. The Company brews and markets beer and wine. It produces and distributes a wide range of brands, including Smirnoff vodka, Johnnie Walker Scotch whiskies, Guinness stout, Baileys Original Irish Cream liqueur, J&amp;B Scotch whisky, Captain Morgan rum and Tanqueray gin. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Diageo sold 98.2 million equivalent units of spirits (including ready to drink), 2.5 million equivalent units of wine and 21.4 million equivalent units of beer.
DHB DHB Industries, Inc. (DHB) is a holding company consisting of two divisions: DHB Armor Group (Armor Group) and DHB Sports Group (Sports Group). The Armor Group consists of Point Blank Body Armor, Inc. (Point Blank) and Protective Apparel Corporation of America (PACA). The Armor Group principally manufactures three types of body armor: concealable armor, which is worn beneath the user's clothing and is designed to protect against less serious ballistic threats; tactical armor, which is worn externally and is designed to protect against more serious threats, and modular concealable/tactical armor, which allows the wearer to customize the armor for either concealed or tactical use. The Sports Group, which consists of NDL Products, Inc., manufactures and distributes protective athletic apparel and equipment, including elbow, breast, hip, groin, knee, shin and ankle supports and braces, as well as a line of therapy products.
DGSE DGSE Companies, Inc. sells jewelry and bullion products to both retail and wholesale customers throughout the United States and makes collateralized loans to individuals. The Company's products are marketed through its facilities in Dallas and Carrollton, Texas and Mt. Pleasant South Carolina and through its Internet Websites dgse.com; USBullionExchange.com; FairchildWatches.com, and SilvermanLiquidations.com. It also provides consulting and liquidation services through its wholly owned subsidiary, Silverman Consultants, Inc. (SCI). SCI's primary business is conducting liquidation, consolidation, promotional or other large-scale retail sales for jewelry stores and other types of retailers. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, National Jewelry Exchange, Inc. (NJE) operates a pawn shop in Carrollton, Texas. It has focused the operations of NJE on sales and pawn loans of jewelry products.
DEX Dex Media, Inc. is the exclusive publisher of the official yellow pages and white pages directories for Qwest in the states where Qwest is the primary incumbent local exchange carrier, including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming (collectively, the Dex States). The Company's contractual agreement with Qwest grants it the right to be the exclusive incumbent publisher of the official yellow pages and white pages directories for Qwest in the Dex States until November 2052, as well as prevent Qwest from competing with Dex in the directory products business in the Dex States until November 2042.
DEWY.OB The Dewey Electronics Corporation is a systems-oriented military electronics development, design and manufacturing organization. The Company is comprised of two separate and distinct businesses, the electronics segment and the leisure and recreation segment. In the electronics segment, Dewey is a producer of electronic and electromechanical systems for the Armed Forces of the United States. The Company provides its products in this segment either as a prime contractor or as a subcontractor for the Department of Defense. In the leisure and recreation segment, Dewey, through its HEDCO Division, designs, manufactures and markets snowmaking equipment. It also supplies replacement parts for items no longer covered under warranty.
DV DeVry Inc. operates through its wholly owned subsidiaries as an owner and operator of DeVry University, Ross University and Becker Conviser Professional Review. DeVry University is a private, degree-granting, regionally accredited, higher education system in North America. DeVry University includes DeVry undergraduate programs in technology and business and Keller Graduate School of Management with graduate programs in management. Ross University is a provider of medical and veterinary medical education. The Company acquired Dominica Management, Inc. (DMI), the owner and operator of Ross University School of Medicine and the Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, operating in the Caribbean countries of Dominica and St. Kitts/Nevis, respectively, in May 2003. Becker prepares candidates for the Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) professional certification examinations.
DVN Devon Energy Corporation, is an independent energy company engaged primarily in oil and gas exploration, development and production, the acquisition of producing properties, the transportation of oil, gas, and NGLs and the processing of natural gas. Its North American properties are concentrated within five geographic areas. Operations in the United States are focused in the Permian Basin, the Mid-Continent, the Rocky Mountains and onshore and offshore Gulf Coast. Canadian operations are focused in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin in Alberta and British Columbia. Operations outside North America are located primarily in Azerbaijan, China, Egypt, and areas in West Africa, including Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Cote d'Ivoire. As of December 31, 2003, its estimated proved reserves were 2,089 million barrels of oil equivalent, of which 58% were natural gas reserves and 42% were oil and NGLs reserves. In January 2005, Devon sold its North Texas Natural Gas System.
DDR Developers Diversified Realty Corporation (DDR), a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (a REIT), is in the business of acquiring, developing, redeveloping, owning, leasing and managing shopping centers and business centers. The Company's portfolio, as of February 27, 2004, consisted of 347 shopping centers and 34 business centers, including 127 properties owned through joint ventures, and over 550 acres of undeveloped land, including approximately 50 acres owned through joint ventures. As a REIT, DDR does not engage or pay for a REIT advisor, and the Company manages all of the Portfolio Properties. As of December 31, 2003, DDR owned and/or managed over 72 million total square feet of gross leasable area (GLA), which included all of the Portfolio Properties and two properties owned by third parties.
DEVC Devcon International Corp. produces and distributes ready-mix concrete, crushed stone, concrete block, and asphalt, and distributes bagged cement in the Caribbean. Through its Construction division, the Company also performs earthmoving, excavating and filling operations, builds golf courses, roads, and utility infrastructures, dredges waterways and constructs deep-water piers and marinas in the Caribbean. In addition, Devcon has invested or participated in several joint ventures in connection with its Construction and Materials divisions. From time-to-time, the Company evaluates opportunities to expand its operations to areas of the Caribbean where it has no business. Devcon entered into a venture in water desalination and sewage treatment plants in June 2003. In August 2004, the Company acquired Security Equipment Company, Inc., a residential and commercial electronic security company. The Company also announced that it has formed a new Security Services Division.
DT Deutsche Telekom AG is a global provider of telecommunications services that operates through four divisions: T-Com, T-Mobile, T-Systems and T-Online. T-Com is responsible for the Company's European fixed-network business. T-Com provides network-related services to all of Deutsche Telekom's divisions, as well as approximately 200 telecommunications companies. T-Mobile's business combines all the activities of the T-Mobile International group. Through its operating subsidiaries, T-Mobile operates a transatlantic global system for mobile communications (GSM) network and thus, offers the advantages of a standardized technical platform for a range of customers mainly in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Austria, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands.T-Systems provides Deutsche Telekom's national and international key accounts with customized information and communication technology (ICT) solutions. T-Online operates as an Internet service provider in Germany.
DB Deutsche Bank AG (DB) is a financial institution that offers a variety of investment, financial and related products and services to private individuals, corporate entities and institutional clients around the world. As of year ended December 31, 2003, DB had operations in 74 countries with 1,576 facilities, of which 54% were in Germany. DB is organized into three groups: Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB), Private Clients and Asset Management (PCAM) and Corporate Investments. CIB combines DB's corporate banking and securities activities (including sales and trading, corporate finance, global banking and loan exposure management activities) with its transaction banking activities. PCAM combines DB's asset management, private wealth management and private and business clients activities. Corporate Investments combines the management of DB's industrial holdings, private equity investments and other corporate principal investment activities.
DSWL Deswell Industries, Inc. is an independent manufacturer of injection-molded plastic parts and components, electronic products and subassemblies, as well as metallic molds and parts for original equipment and contract manufacturers. The Company conducts its manufacturing activities at separate plastics, electronics and metallic operation factories located in the People's Republic of China. Deswell produces a variety of plastic parts and components that are used in the manufacture of consumer and industrial products, using different plastic injection technologies, such as film, integrated and insert injection. Its products include cases and key tops for personal organizers; cases for flashlights, telephones, paging machines, projectors and alarm clocks; grips and rods for fishing tackle; toner cartridges and cases for photocopy machines; parts for electrical products; parts for audio equipment; double injection caps and baby products; laser key caps, and automobile components.
DSNY.OB Destiny Media Technologies (Destiny) is a holding company that operates through its fully owned subsidiary, Destiny Software Productions, Inc. The Company develops software tools that enable digital content owners to stream audio and video content in web pages and emails on a variety of operating systems and on compliant hardware devices; securely sell digital content online so that it is protected from piracy, and securely move digital content from one computer to another through the Internet. The Company has four commercially mature and ready to market technologies to facilitate the distribution of digital content: Clipstream, MPE, RadioDensity Broadcaster and the Density Media Player.
DWRI Design Within Reach, Inc. is an integrated multi-channel provider of modern design furnishings and accessories. The Company markets and sells its products to both residential and commercial customers through its catalog, studios and Website, as well as through a direct sales force. The Company has relationships with international and emerging designers, which allows it to offer its customers an array of merchandise. Design Within Reach offers over 725 products in numerous categories, including chairs, tables, workspace and outdoor furniture, lighting, floor coverings, beds and related accessories, bathroom fixtures, fans and other home and office accessories.
DEZ Desert Sun Mining Corp. is a mineral company engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral properties for the purpose of producing precious metals. The Company's principal asset is its 100% interest in the Jacobina gold property located in the State of Bahia, in northeastern Brazil. The Jacobina property is in the development stage. Desert Sun commissioned SNC Lavalin to complete a bankable feasibility study at the Jacobina Mines. The feasibility study established proven and probable reserves to be 10,746,000 Tones at 2.20 grams of gold per tone containing 758,000 ounces of gold. In September 2003, the Company exercised its option to acquire 100% of the Bahia Gold Belt and the Jacobina Mines.
DCBK Desert Community Bank (DCB) is a California state-chartered commercial bank that serves the high desert region of Southern California, offering a full range of deposits and loan products through seven branches. Products include checking accounts, NOW accounts, money market accounts, savings accounts, Desert Gold accounts, certificates of deposit (CDs), safety deposit boxes, VISA check card, overdraft protection, automated teller machine (ATM) cards, traveler's checks, wire transfers, currency exchange, Kid's savings accounts, Direct Call Banker, auto loans, boat loans, mortgage loans, second trust deeds, construction loans, home improvement loans and credit cards. The Bank has seven offices in Victorville Main, Victorville North, Apple Valley, Hesperia, Adelanto, Barstow and Wrightwood.
DSGX Descartes Systems Group Inc. develops, markets, operates, implements and supports software and network-based solutions for logistics management. In addition, the Company provides a variety of related services, including support and maintenance services, consulting, implementation and training. Companies in over 60 countries use Descartes' solutions. The Company offers four application suites to specific industry needs. These include Supply Chain Execution Management, Transportation Management, Ocean Contract Management and Routing and Scheduling.
HXM Homex Development Corp. is a vertically integrated home development company focusing on affordable entry-level and middle-income housing in Mexico. During the three months ended March 31, 2004, the Company sold 3,995 homes, an increase of 112.6% over the same period in 2003. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company sold 13,396 homes, an increase of 85.9% over 2002, and an increase of 179.5% over 2001. As of March 31, 2004, Homex Development Corp. had 32 developments under construction in 20 cities located in 14 Mexican states. It had total land reserves under title of approximately 7.7 million square meters as of March 31, 2004. As of March 31, 2004, it also had approximately 2.3 million square meters of land for which it had signed purchase agreements and made partial payment, and for which title was in the process of being transferred.
DSCI.OB Derma Sciences, Inc. is engaged in the manufacture, marketing and sale of three dermatological related product lines: wound care, wound closure-fasteners and skin care. The Company's customers consist of various healthcare agencies and institutions, such as nursing homes, hospitals, home healthcare agencies, physicians' offices and retail and closed door pharmacies. Derma Sciences sells its products through distributors servicing these markets in the United States and select international markets. In Canada, the majority of the sales are made directly to hospitals. The Company's manufacturing and distribution facilities are located in St. Louis, Missouri and Toronto, Canada. Derma Sciences, through Dumex Canada, maintains a manufacturing facility in Nantong, China producing wound care products. The Company's products are sold throughout the rest of the world through various licensing and distribution agreements.
DEPO Depomed, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the development of pharmaceutical products based on its oral drug delivery technologies. The Company has two products that have completed pivotal Phase III clinical trials, for which New Drug Applications (NDAs) are being prepared for submission to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) if the trials are successful. It also has one product in a Phase II clinical trial and one product that has completed a Phase I clinical trial, which it intends to advance into a Phase II trial in 2004. Depomed's primary oral drug delivery system is its patented Gastric Retention System, or the GR System. The GR System is a tablet designed to be retained in the stomach for an extended period of time while it delivers the incorporated drug or drugs on a continuous, controlled-release basis.
DFS Department 56, Inc. designs, distributes, wholesales and retails collectibles and other giftware products sold through gift, home accessory and specialty retailers, department stores, general merchandise chains and Big-Box specialty chains together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries. It also operates through its own stores and consumer-direct home show sales business and has two reportable segments: wholesale and retail. It is known for its Village Series of collectible, handcrafted, lighted ceramic and porcelain houses, buildings and related accessories in The Original Snow Village Collection and other Village series, as well as its line of holiday, special occasion and home decorative products, including its Snowbabies collectible porcelain figurines.
XRAY DENTSPLY International Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets a range of products for the dental market. The Company's principal dental product categories are dental consumables, dental laboratory products and dental specialty products. These products are produced by the Company in the United States and internationally and are distributed throughout the world under several brand names and trademarks, including Ankylos, Aquasil, Caulk, Cavitron, Ceramco, Cercon, Citanest, Delton, Dentsply, Detrey, Elephant, Esthet.X, Frialit, Gac Orthoworks, Golden Gate, In-Ovation, Maillefer, Midwest, Mystique, Nupro, Pepgen P-15, Polocaine, Profile, Protaper, Rinn, R&amp;R, Sani-Tip, Thermafil, Trubyte and Xylocaine. Sales of dental products accounted for approximately 98% of DENTSPLY's consolidated sales for the year ended December 31, 2003. The remaining 2% of consolidated sales is primarily related to materials sold to the investment casting industry.
DNYY.OB Denny's Corporation (Denny's) is a restaurant company in the United States that, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Denny's Holdings, Inc. and Denny's, Inc., owns and operates the Denny's restaurant brand. The Denny's brand consists of 1,638 restaurants, 561 of which are Company-owned and operated and 1,077 of which are franchised and licensed restaurants. As of December 31, 2003, Denny's restaurants operated in 49 states, the District of Columbia, 2 United States territories and 4 foreign countries, with concentrations in California (24% of total restaurants), Florida (11%) and Texas (10%). Denny's restaurants generally are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Its menu offers traditional American-style food such as hamburgers and fries, grilled chicken breast dinners, its Grand Slam breakfast and Meat Lover's breakfast.
DRTE Dendrite International, Inc. offers a range of pharmaceutical sales and marketing solutions, with its products and services used across 50 countries. The Company designs, develops, implements and trains users on industry-specific software solutions, and reaches out to physicians and other healthcare professionals with promotional and drug safety information through a suite of branded communication channels. Its solutions span the pharmaceutical commercialization process and fit into five main categories: sales effectiveness, clinical development, brand marketing, customer management and compliance management.
DNDN Dendreon Corporation is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of targeted therapies for cancer. The Company's portfolio includes product candidates to treat a range of cancers using therapeutic vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, small molecules and pro-drugs. Its most advanced product candidate is Provenge, a therapeutic vaccine for the treatment of prostate cancer. Provenge is being evaluated under a pivotal, randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled Phase III clinical trial in men with androgen independent prostate cancer whose cancer has a Gleason score of seven and less. Dendreon's preclinical programs include monoclonal antibodies, therapies targeting the trp-p8 pathway and serine protease and pro-drug product candidates for the treatment of cancer. In July 2003, Dendreon completed its acquisition of Corvas International, Inc.
DNR Denbury Resources Inc. is engaged in the acquisition, development, operation and exploration of oil and natural gas properties in the Gulf Coast region of the United States, primarily in Louisiana, Mississippi and in the Gulf of Mexico. Virtually all of the Company's natural gas production is close to existing pipelines and, consequently, it generally has a variety of options to market its natural gas. Denbury sells the majority of its natural gas on one-year contracts with prices fluctuating month to month based on published pipeline indices with slight premiums or discounts to the index.
DLX Deluxe Corporation designs, manufactures and distributes printed checks, as well as checkbook covers, business forms, address labels, self-inking stamps, fraud prevention services and customer retention programs. Its checks and business forms are compatible with nearly all off-the-shelf accounting software packages. Deluxe provides check printing services for more than 8,000 financial institution clients nationwide, including banks, credit unions and financial services companies. It markets products directly to consumers and small businesses via direct-response marketing and the Internet. In October 2003, Deluxe launched its Knowledge Exchange Series. Deluxe operates three business segments: Financial Services, Direct Checks and Business Services. During 2002, Business Services became the endorsed supplier of business checks and forms for Microsoft Money and Microsoft Business Solutions, giving small and mid-sized Microsoft business customers access to Business Services products.
DEL Deltic Timber Corporation is a natural resources company engaged primarily in the growing and harvesting of timber and the manufacture and marketing of lumber. The Company owns approximately 434,000 acres of timberland, primarily in Arkansas and north Louisiana. Its sawmill operations are located at Ola in central Arkansas and at Waldo in south Arkansas. In addition to its timber and lumber operations, the Company is engaged in real estate development in central Arkansas. The mills produce a variety of products, including dimension lumber, boards, timbers, decking and secondary products, such as finger-jointed studs. The Company also holds a 50% interest in Del-Tin Fiber L.L.C., a joint venture formed to manufacture and market medium-density fiberboard.
DDDC deltathree, Inc. is a provider of integrated voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephony services. Its business includes the provision of Web-based and other communications services to individual consumers under iConnectHere brand name; the provision of Web-based and other communications services to international resellers, under either their own brand name, a white-label brand, and/or iConnectHere brand name; the provision of hosted communications solution that enables resellers, corporate customers and service providers to offer private label telecommunications to their customer bases, and the transmission of voice and data traffic for communications carriers.
DLWI.OB Delta Woodside Industries, Inc. is the parent of subsidiaries that are engaged in the manufacture, sale and distribution of textile products. The Company produces woven textile fabrics through its Delta Mills operating subsidiary, which is the only business segment of the Company. Delta Woodside produces cotton pants-weight woven fabric used in the manufacture of casual slacks, such as Levi-Strauss' Dockers and Haggar Corp.'s Wrinkle-free. Other apparel items manufactured with the Company's fabrics include women's chino pants, women's blazers and career apparel (uniforms). The Company sells its fabrics primarily to numerous apparel manufacturers, and apparel resellers and their subcontractors. The Company also sells camouflage fabric and other fabrics used in apparel for the United States Department of Defense.
DLP Delta and Pine Land Company is primarily engaged in the breeding, production, conditioning and marketing of varieties of cotton planting seed in the United States and other cotton producing nations. The Company also breeds, produces, conditions and distributes soybean planting seed in the United States. Since 1915, the Company has bred, produced and/or marketed upland picker varieties of cotton planting seed for cotton varieties that are grown primarily east of Texas and in Arizona. It has used classical plant breeding programs to develop a gene pool necessary for producing cotton varieties with improved agronomic traits important to farmers, such as crop yield and to textile manufacturers, such as enhanced fiber characteristics.
DPTR Delta Petroleum Corporation (Delta) is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of oil and gas properties. The Company's principal products are crude oil and natural gas. The products are generally sold at the wellhead to purchasers in the immediate area where the product is produced. The Company's primary oil and gas areas of operations include the Gulf Coast Region, South Texas and Louisiana Basins; Rocky Mountain Region, Denver Julesburg, Wind River, Williston and Piceance Basins, and Offshore California near Santa Barbara. On June 29, 2004, Delta acquired all of the oil and gas assets owned by several entities controlled by Alpine Resources, Inc. (Alpine). On August 19, 2004, Delta completed the sale of its interests in five fields in Louisiana and South Texas previously acquired in the Alpine Acquisition, which closed on June 29, 2004, to Whiting Petroleum Corporation.
DGAS Delta Natural Gas Company, sells natural gas to approximately 40,000 retail customers on its distribution system in central and southeastern Kentucky. The Company transports natural gas to its industrial customers that purchase their gas in the open market. Its largest service areas are Nicholasville, Corbin and Berea, Kentucky. In Nicholasville, Delta serves approximately 8,000 customers; in Corbin, it serves approximately 7,000 customers, and in Berea, it serves approximately 4,000 customers. The Company also transports natural gas on behalf of local producers and customers not on its distribution system and produces a relatively small amount of natural gas and oil from its southeastern Kentucky wells.
DELT Delta Galil Industries Ltd. (Delta Galil), with its consolidated subsidiaries, is a manufacturer and marketer of private-label ladies' intimate apparel, men's underwear, socks, shirts, babywear, bras, leisurewear and nightwear, knitted fabrics, dyeing, trimmings and elastic ribbons. The Company sells its products to retailers in Europe, including Marks &amp; Spencer in the United Kingdom, and Hema in Holland. It also sells to Victoria's Secret, Gap, Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target, JC Penney and Mervyn's in the United States. Delta Galil designs and develops its products primarily in the United States, England, Israel and Scotland. In November 2002, it purchased a logistic center in Hungary. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Delta Galil closed its manufacturing activities in Scotland, and completed the acquisition of Auburn Hosiery Mills, including its manufacturing facilities in the United States and in Ireland.
DFC Delta Financial Corporation is a specialty consumer finance company that originates, securitizes and sells non-conforming mortgage loans. The Company's loans are primarily secured by first mortgages on one- to four-family residential properties. Delta Financial focuses on lending to individuals, who generally do not satisfy the credit, documentation or other underwriting standards set by more traditional sources of mortgage credit. The Company makes loans to these borrowers for purposes such as debt consolidation, refinancing, education and home improvement.
DLA Delta Apparel, Inc., incorporated in 1999, is a vertically integrated marketer, manufacturer and distributor of branded and private-label active wear apparel. The Company specializes in selling a variety of branded casual and athletic active wear tops and bottoms, embellished and unembellished T-shirts, and fleece products for the apparel market. The products are sold to screen printers, private-label accounts and distributors, as well as through specialty sporting goods stores and department stores. In addition, certain products are sold in college bookstores and to the United States Military. It operates its business in two segments: Delta and Soffe. The two segments manufactures, markets and distributes unembellished and embellished knit apparel. On October 3, 2003, the Company acquired M. J. Soffe Co., a North Carolina corporation.
DAL Delta Air Lines, Inc. provides scheduled air transportation for passengers and cargo throughout the United States and around the world. With the Company's domestic and international codeshare partners, its route network covers 264 domestic cities in 47 states and 230 cities in 84 countries. As of March 1, 2004, the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc. (ASA) and Comair, Inc. served 206 domestic cities in 47 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands, as well as 48 cities in 32 countries. The Company is managed as a single business unit. The Company has hub airports in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Dallas/Fort Worth and Salt Lake City. Each of these hub operations includes Delta flights that gather and distribute traffic from markets in the geographic region surrounding the hub to other major cities and to other Delta hubs.
DFG Delphi Financial Group, Inc. is a holding company whose subsidiaries provide integrated employee benefit services. The Company manages all aspects of employee absence to enhance the productivity of its clients, and provides the related insurance coverages, including long-term and short-term disability, excess and primary workers' compensation, group life, travel accident and dental. Delphi Financial's asset accumulation business emphasizes individual fixed annuity products. The Company offers its products and services in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Delphi Financial's three segments are group employee benefit products, asset accumulation products and other products and services.
DPH Delphi Corporation is a global supplier of vehicle electronics, transportation components, integrated systems and modules, and other electronic technology to vehicle manufacturers. During 2003, the Company operated its business along three segments: the Dynamics, Propulsion and Thermal Sector; the Electrical, Electronics, Safety and Interior Sector; and the Automotive Holdings Group. The Dynamics, Propulsion and Thermal Sector includes selected businesses from Delphi's energy and engine management systems, chassis, steering and thermal systems product lines. The Electrical, Electronics, Safety and Interior Sector includes selected businesses from the Company's automotive electronics, audio, consumer and aftermarket products, communication systems, safety and power, and signal distribution systems product lines. The Automotive Holdings Group is responsible for the production of halfshafts, condensers, batteries, filters, spark plugs, generators and compressors.
DLPX Delphax Technologies Inc. designs, manufactures, sells and services advanced digital print-production equipment based on its electron beam imaging (EBI) technology. The Company's printing equipment provides customers with the capability to personalize, encode, print and collate documents for publishing, direct mail, legal, financial, security, forms and other commercial printing applications. The Company sells both sheet-fed and roll-fed printing equipment that is used in a number of commercial printing applications. The Company manufactures a finishing system to complement its sheet-fed printing equipment. Delphax Technologies also provides various pre-press software and hardware solutions for use with its printing equipment. In May 2004, the CR2000 was introduced at the Drupa 2004 tradeshow in Germany. As of September 30, 2004, the Company had approximately 4,000 installations using its EBI technology in more than 60 countries.
DELL Dell Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, markets, sells and supports a range of computer systems and services that are customized to customer requirements. These include enterprise systems (servers, storage and networking products, and workstations), client systems (notebooks and desktops), software and peripherals, and service and support programs. Dell also offers a portfolio of services that help maximize information technology (IT), rapidly deploy systems and educate IT professionals and consumers. In addition, the Company provides financial services to its business and consumer customers in the United States. Dell markets and sells its products and services directly to its customers, which include large corporate, government, healthcare and education accounts, as well as small to medium-sized businesses and individual consumers.
DCTH Delcath Systems, Inc. is a development stage company developing and marketing a proprietary drug delivery system capable of introducing and removing high-dose chemotherapy agents to a diseased organ system while greatly inhibiting their entry into the general circulation system. The Company has developed the Delcath system to isolate the liver from the general circulatory system and to administer chemotherapy and other therapeutic agents directly to the liver. Delcath is seeking to complete clinical trials in order to obtain separate United States Food and Drug Administration pre-marketing approvals for the use of its delivery system using doxorubicin and melphalan, chemotherapeutic agents, to treat malignant melanoma that has spread to the liver.
DLM Del Monte Foods Company produces, distributes and markets branded and private-label food and pet products for the United States retail market. The Company's food brands include Del Monte, StarKist, Contadina, S&amp;W, College Inn, Nature's Goodness and other brand names, and its pet food and pet snacks brands include 9Lives, Kibbles 'n Bits, Pup-Peroni, Snausages, Nawsomes!, Jerky Treats, Canine Carry-Out, Meaty Bone and Pounce. The Company's businesses are aggregated into two segments: Consumer Products and Pet Products. The Consumer Products segment includes branded shelf-stable seafood, baby food, fruit, vegetable and tomato products, as well as private -label soups and broth. The Pet Products segment includes dry and wet pet food and pet snacks. The Company was formed in December 2002 via the spin-off of SKF Foods from H.J. Heinz Co. and its subsequent merger with Del Monte Foods Company.
DLI Del Laboratories, Inc. manufactures, markets and distributes cosmetics and proprietary over-the-counter pharmaceuticals. The cosmetics business is conducted primarily by the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Del Laboratories (Canada) Inc. The pharmaceuticals business is conducted primarily by Del's wholly owned subsidiary, Del Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and its wholly owned subsidiary, Del Pharmaceutics (Canada) Inc. Del's principal cosmetic products are nail care products, nail color, color cosmetic, beauty implements, bleaches and depilatories, personal care products and other related items marketed under such brands as Sally Hansen, Healing Beauty, CornSilk, LaCross, N.Y.C. New York Color and Naturistics. Its pharmaceutical products include oral analgesics, first-aid products, eye/ear medications, diabetes treatments and baby care products marketed under such brands as Orajel and Tanac, Pronto, Stye, Dermarest, Auro-Dri, DiabetAid and Gentle Naturals.
DFTS.OB Defense Technology Systems, Inc., formerly Dataworld Solutions, Inc. consists of two operating divisions, DWS Manufacturing is a specialty assembler of electronic cable assemblies used in data systems and is also a distributor of cabling systems, components and cable management solutions; DWS Defense Systems is a distributor, installer and integrator of specialized security products. Both divisions operate in one business segment. The Company also provides connectivity solutions, which may include distributed sales of passive components (electronic connectors, electronic wire and cable, cabinets and racks, and patch panels) and active components (hubs, bridges, routers, gateways and modems). The Company provides products for interconnection requirements, including Fiber Optics, CAT 5, Telco, V.35, Wire Harnesses, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Token Ring, Flat Ribbon and Coax cables. The Company is one of five domestic distributors of Corning Cable Systems Premise Wiring.
DE Deere &amp; Company, together with its subsidiaries (collectively, John Deere), manufactures and distributes a line of agricultural equipment, a variety of commercial and consumer equipment and a range of equipment for construction and forestry. Through its financial services segment, the Company also finances sales and leases by John Deere dealers of new and used agricultural, commercial and consumer and construction and forestry equipment. It also provides wholesale financing to dealers of the foregoing equipment, provides operating loans and finances retail revolving charge accounts. John Deere is also engaged in special technologies operations and provides managed healthcare plans.
DECT Dectron Internationale Inc. (Dectron) is a provider of custom and semi-custom heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) products and services to the building systems, food processing, petrochemical and various industrial and commercial markets. Its core businesses are classified into five principal areas, including Dectron, Inc., RefPlus, Circul-Aire, Thermoplus and International Water Makers. Dectron, Inc., Circul-Aire and Thermoplus serve customers in commercial and residential buildings through a network of manufacturers' representatives, dealers and each subsidiary's internal sales force. Circul-Aire and Dectron, Inc. also serve industrial customers. RefPlus serves commercial refrigeration customers through a network of wholesalers in Canada and dealers in the United States. The products manufactured and supplied by Dectron include energy recycling dehumidifiers, moisture recovery systems, refrigeration packages, air purification and filtration systems and HVAC equipment.
DCZ Decorize, Inc. is a manufacturer and wholesaler of imported home furnishings and home accent items. Products designed and manufactured by the Company include an array of home furnishings, including larger furniture items, such as hand-painted or traditionally finished armoires, chests, large tables and chairs. Accent furniture includes items, such as occasional tables, end tables, mirrors, wicker chairs and tables, as well as ottomans. Accessories include items, such as wood, rattan, glass or ceramic bowls, statuettes, vases, candles and candleholders, baskets, boxes, lamps and bath items. Wall art includes a variety of traditional art, such as framed oil paintings or prints, but it includes many other types of materials and designs, including fabrics, woven materials and collages. The Company does business under the names Decorize.com, GuildMaster and Faith Walk.
DII Decorator Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells interior furnishings, principally draperies, curtains, shades, blinds, bedspreads, valance boards, comforters, pillows and cushions. The Company sells interior furnishings products to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of recreational vehicles, as well as to the manufactured housing and hospitality (motels/hotels) industries, either through distributors or directly to the customers. Sales to Fleetwood Enterprises accounted for 26.5%, 23.8% and 18.9% of Company sales in 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively. Fleetwood operates in the manufactured housing and recreational vehicle industries. Sales to Champion Enterprises accounted for 5.7%, 8.4% and 12.0% of Company sales in 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively. Champion operates solely in the manufactured housing industry.
DECA Decoma International Inc. is engaged in the design, engineering and manufacturing of automotive exterior components and systems that include fascias, front and rear end modules, plastic body panels, roof modules, running boards, exterior trim components, sealing and greenhouse systems and lighting components for cars and light trucks, including sport utility vehicles and mini-vans. At December 31, 2003, the Company had 49 manufacturing, engineering and product development facilities in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Germany, Belgium, England, France, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Japan. Decoma has a diversified customer base that spans the automotive markets of North America and Europe, including Ford, GM, DaimlerChrysler, Honda, Nissan, Toyota, the VW Group, Rover, BMW, Volvo Truck, Renault, MAN Truck, PSA/Peugeot and Citroen.
DCGN deCODE genetics, Inc. is a population genetics company developing drugs and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-based diagnostics based upon its discoveries in the inherited causes of common diseases. The Company's business is divided into two components such as products and services. Its service offerings include contract service businesses in drug discovery and medicinal chemistry, three-dimensional protein crystallography products and contract services, pharmacogenomics and clinical trials services, database services and genotyping services. It is developing such products as DNA-based diagnostic tests, pharmacogenomic tests and bioinformatics systems. During the year ended December 31, 2003, deCODE had identified 15 genes involved in 11 common diseases and located genes involved in almost 30 common diseases. In 2003, deCODE adapted the Clinical Genome Miner (CGM) Discovery system and the Identity Protection System (IPS) to run on IBM operating systems, software and servers and the products.
DECK Deckers Outdoor Corporation designs, manufactures and produces sandals; is a brand manager of footwear, and the category creator in the sport sandal and luxury sheepskin footwear segments. Its footwear is sold through the domestic retailers in the United States and international distributors and directly to end user consumers through Websites and catalogs. The Company markets its products under three proprietary brands: Teva, UGG and Simple. The Company's principal customers include specialty retailers, selected department stores, outdoor retailers, sporting goods retailers and shoe stores.
DEBS Deb Shops, Inc. operates 332 women's and men's specialty apparel retail stores in regional malls and strip shopping centers principally located in the East and Midwest regions of the United States. The Company operates 323 stores under the name DEB, which offer moderately priced, fashionable, coordinated women's sportswear, dresses, coats, lingerie, accessories and shoes for junior and plus sizes. In addition, Deb Shops operates three outlet stores under the name CSO. The outlet stores offer the same merchandise as DEB at reduced prices, and serve as clearance stores for slow-moving inventory. Of the DEB stores, 128 contain plus-size departments. The Company also operates six apparel retail stores under the name Tops 'N Bottoms. The Tops 'N Bottoms stores sell moderately priced men's and women's apparel. Of the DEB stores, 18 contain Tops 'N Bottoms departments.
DEAR Dearborn Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding corporation owning all the common stock of the Community Bank of Dearborn (the Bank), a Michigan banking corporation. The Bank is a commercial bank headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, and conducts business primarily in Wayne, Macomb and Oakland Counties, Michigan. The Bank, through its main office, branch offices and regional lending centers, emphasizes and offers highly personalized service to its customers. It offers a range of financial products and services, including checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, business checking, direct deposit, loan services (commercial, consumer and real estate mortgages), travelers' checks, cashiers' checks, wire transfers, safety deposit boxes, collection services and night depository services. In October 2004, the Bank acquired Bank of Washtenaw, a wholly owned bank subsidiary of Pavilion Bancorp, Inc.
DF Dean Foods Company is a food and beverage company that operates a Dairy Group, which is a processor and distributor of milk and various other dairy products in the United States, and a Branded Products Group that markets and sells dairy and dairy-related branded products. The Company also operates a Specialty Foods Group, a pickle processors in the United States and a maker of a variety of other specialty food products. It also owns a large dairy processor in Spain. In 2003, it had three reportable segments including the Dairy Group, Morningstar/ White Wave and the Specialty Foods Group. Effective January 1, 2004, however, it reorganized its former Morningstar Foods division, which has resulted in the new segment reporting structure.
DER De Rigo S.p.A. is engaged in the design, manufacture and marketing of eyewear in the mid- and premium-priced categories, as well as an optical retailer in Europe through its D&amp;A and General Optica retail chains. The Company directly owns and operates the manufacturing plants that design and manufacture metal and plastic eyeglass frames and distributes its products through subsidiaries and directly, as well as using independent distributors. The Company also operates as an optical retailer in the United Kingdom through its subsidiary D&amp;A, and in Spain and Portugal through its subsidiary General Optica. The Company's product portfolio is divided into owned brands and designer lines of prescription eyeglass frames and sunglasses. Its traditional lines are produced under brand names owned by De Rigo and feature conventional and fashion-conscious styles. De Rigo's D&amp;A and General Optica retail subsidiaries also sell traditional and designer eyewear produced by third parties.
DECC D&amp;E Communications, Inc. provides integrated communications services to residential and business customers in markets throughout the eastern half of Pennsylvania. The Company operates as an incumbent, rural local exchange carrier (RLEC) in parts of Berks, Lancaster, Union and smaller portions of five other adjacent counties in Pennsylvania, and as a competitive local telephone company (CLEC) in the Lancaster, Harrisburg, Reading, Altoona, Pottstown, State College and Williamsport, Pennsylvania, metropolitan areas. D&amp;E offers its customers local and long-distance telephone services, high-speed data, Internet access and video services. It also has made investments in a foreign telecommunications service provider, Pilicka Telefonia Sp. z o.o. D&amp;E's segments are RLEC, CLEC, Internet Services, Systems Integration and Conestoga Wireless. Remaining consistent with its focus on wireline communications, D&amp;E completed the sale of Conestoga Wireless on January 14, 2003.
DDIC DDi Corp. provides technologically advanced, time-critical electronics design, development and manufacturing services to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and other electronics manufacturing service providers. Operating through its primary operating subsidiaries, Dynamic Details, Incorporated (Dynamic Details) and DDi Europe Limited (DDi Europe), the Company targets customers that have new product development programs demanding the rapid application of advanced technology and design. Extreme quick-turn infrastructure (lead times as low as 24 hours) and value-added technologies make DDi an enabler of reducing time to market for its 1,500 OEM and electronics manufacturing services (EMS) customers. DDi and its subsidiaries offer fabrication and assembly services to customers on a global basis, from 10 manufacturing facilities located across North America and in England.
DCAP DCAP Group, Inc. owns, operates and franchises storefront insurance agencies under the DCAP, Barry Scott and Atlantic Insurance brand names. Its storefront locations serve as insurance agents or brokers and place various types of insurance on behalf of customers. The Company focuses on automobile, motorcycle and homeowners insurance and its customer base are primarily individuals rather than businesses. Through a wholly owned subsidiary, Payments Inc., it provides insurance premium financing services to DCAP, Barry Scott and Atlantic Insurance locations, as well as non-affiliated insurance agencies. Payments are licensed by the New York State Department of Banking as an insurance premium finance agency and have been granted permission to conduct business in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. DCAP also offers automobile club services for roadside emergencies. Income tax preparation services are also offered in connection with the operation of the DCAP stores.
DSTI DayStar Technologies Inc. has developed a thin-film copper-indium-gallium-selenide solar cell (CIGS solar cell) for the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity, which is known as the photovoltaic (PV) effect. The Company is developing a high-volume manufacturing process that could significantly reduce the cost of solar cell production, and therefore reduce the cost of solar electricity. Prototypes of the Company's CIGS cells produced in batches in the laboratory are being tested by the United States Air Force Research Laboratory and Dutch Space B.V. for satellite power applications.
DXR Daxor Corporation is a medical device manufacturing company with additional biotech services. The Company's focus is on the development of an instrument that rapidly and accurately measures human blood volume. The instrument, called the BVA-100, is used in conjunction with a single-use diagnostic injection and collection kit. It obtained marketing clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the instrument and for its specialized single-use injection kit, known as Volumex. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Scientific Medical Systems, Inc. has operations of the sperm bank, blood bank and laboratory. The Company manufactures its own injection kit components and established a small scale manufacturing facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for research and development purposes. The Blood Volume Analyzer is also manufactured for Daxor by an original equipment manufacturer (OEM).
DWSN Dawson Geophysical Company is a provider of onshore seismic data acquisition services in the United States. The Company acquires and processes two-dimensional (2-D), three-dimensional (3-D) and multi-component seismic data for its clients, ranging from major oil and gas companies to independent oil and gas operators, as well as providers of multi-client data libraries. The clients rely on seismic data to identify new areas where subsurface conditions are favorable for the accumulation of hydrocarbons, as well as to optimize the development and production of hydrocarbon reservoirs.
DVA DaVita Inc. is a provider of dialysis services in the United States for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure, also known as end-stage renal disease (ESRD). As of December 31, 2003, the Company operated or provided administrative services to approximately 570 outpatient dialysis centers located in 34 states and the District of Columbia, serving approximately 48,500 patients. The Company also provided acute inpatient dialysis services in approximately 300 hospitals. All other activities, which accounted for less than 4% of consolidated revenues in 2003, related to DaVita's business of providing ESRD laboratory services, administration of third-party dialysis centers, disease management services and ESRD clinical research programs.
DAVL.OB Davel Communications, Inc. (Davel) is an independent payphone service provider in the United States. The Company operates in a single business segment within the telecommunications industry, operating, servicing and maintaining a system of payphones throughout the United States. At December 31, 2003, Davel owned and operated a network of approximately 47,000 payphones in 46 states and the District of Columbia. The Company's installed payphone base generates revenue through coin calls (local and long distance), non-coin calls (calling card, credit card, collect and third-party billed calls using Davel's pre-selected operator services providers such as Opticom) and dial-around calls (utilizing a 1-800, 1010XXX or similar toll-free dialing method to select a carrier other than the Company's pre-selected carrier). A significant portion of Davel's payphones is located in high-traffic areas such as convenience stores, shopping centers, service stations and grocery stores.
DAB Dave &amp; Buster's, Inc. is an operator of large-format, high-volume, regional entertainment complexes. Each entertainment complex offers an array of entertainment attractions such as pocket billiards, shuffleboard, interactive simulators and virtual reality systems, as well as traditional carnival-style games of skill. The Company's complexes also offer food and beverages. Its entertainment complexes can be separated into two categories: mega entertainment complexes, which are between 50,000 and 70,000 square feet in size, and intermediate entertainment complexes, which are between 40,000 and 49,000 square feet in size. The entertainment complexes operate seven days a week, and are typically open from 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. on weekdays and 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. on weekends.
DWCH Datawatch Corporation is a provider of enterprise reporting, business intelligence, report mining, data transformation and service center software products that help organizations increase productivity, reduce costs and gain competitive advantages. Datawatch products are used in more than 20,000 companies, institutions and government agencies worldwide. On August 11, 2004, the Company acquired 100% of Mergence Technologies Corporation (Mergence). The Company offers its enterprise products through the sale of perpetual licenses and introduced the subscription-pricing model, which allows customers to use its products at a lower initial cost of software acquisition. Subscription terms run 90 days or 24 months and automatically renew unless terminated with 90 days notice.
DATA DATATRAK International, Inc. is a provider of software and other related services, such as an application service provider. The customers use the Company's software to collect and transmit clinical trial data electronically, referred as electronic data capture (EDC). DATATRAK's customers are companies in the clinical pharmaceutical, biotechnology, contract research organization and medical device research industries. The Company's services assist these companies in accelerating the completion of clinical trials by providing improved data quality. The Company began EDC operations in 1997 and also participated in a joint venture with IBM Global Services to develop and market a data collection and management system for use in clinical trials. The Company purchased the software, DATATRAK EDC from PadCom Clinical Research.
DSCP Datascope Corp. is a diversified medical device company engaged in the development, manufacturing and marketing of products for the clinical health care markets in interventional cardiology and radiology; cardiovascular and vascular surgery; anesthesiology; emergency medicine, and critical care. Datascope has four product lines: patient monitoring, cardiac assist, interventional products and intervascular (vascular grafts). The Company's physiological monitors and monitoring systems are designed to provide for patient safety and management of patient care. Datascope provides the intra-aortic balloon (IAB), counterpulsation therapy and products, including IAB pumps and catheters. The Company's interventional products are used to seal arterial puncture wounds. The Company's subsidiary, InterVascular Inc., designs, manufactures and distributes a line of knitted and woven polyester vascular grafts and patches for reconstructive vascular and cardiovascular surgery.
DRAM Dataram Corporation is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of large-capacity memory products primarily used in high-performance networks servers and workstations. The Company provides customized memory solutions for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and compatible memory for computers manufactured by Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun), Hewlett-Packard (HP), Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and Dell Corporation (Dell). The Company also manufactures a line of memory products for Intel motherboard-based servers for sale to OEMs and channel assemblers. The Company's memory products are sold worldwide to OEMs, distributors, value-added resellers and end users. The Company has manufacturing facilities in the United States, Europe and Japan. The Company operates in one industry segment.
DMCX DataMirror Corporation designs, develops and markets software solutions for real-time data integration, resiliency and data monitoring. The Company's family of products allows companies to capture, transform and flow data in real-time across multi-platform computing environments. DataMirror's software products provide business data integration, giving its customers the ability to keep corporate data integrated, distributed and available within enterprises and across the Internet. The Company's resiliency solutions provide disaster recovery and avoidance ensuring 24/7 business operations. DataMirror's data monitoring solution allows companies to monitor, track and report on critical information stored in their databases to ensure the security of their data assets at all times. The Company's PointBase solutions provide relational database products and synchronization solutions designed to help lead the industry's move toward software that delivers on the promise of Java.
DTMG.OB DataMEG Corp. is a development stage technology company focused on developing new technologies, software applications and products primarily for the data and telecommunications industries. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company has no commercially viable products and has earned no revenues since it commenced its business. DataMEG has two subsidiaries: CASCommunications, Inc., of which the Company owns 40%, and North Electric Company, Inc., which the Company wholly owns. CASCommunications focuses on developing devices related to high-speed broadband access. North Electric focuses on becoming a provider of network assurance products and services.
DLGI.OB DataLogic International, Inc. is a technology and professional services firm that provides a range of information technologies and communications-related products and services. DataLogic's client base for its consulting services is predominantly located in North America. It includes small to large commercial businesses, as well as all levels of governmental agencies. Among the industries that the Company serves are communications, energy, financial, government, healthcare, manufacturing, retail and transportation. It uses a direct sales force, online marketing, partnerships and distributor programs to market its services. DataLogic is also engaged in advertising and other traditional marketing techniques such as client referrals, trade shows and personal sales calls to targeted clients.
DTLK Datalink Corporation is an independent architect of enterprise-class information storage infrastructures. The Company works with customers to analyze, design, implement and support information storage infrastructures that store, protect and provide continuous access to information. Datalink's areas of expertise include data availability, data recovery, storage management and support and maintenance. The Company's architectures are designed to protect against planned and unplanned downtime and provide fast access to information. Data recovery solutions enable companies to recover data, applications and entire computing environments following a disaster. Datalink storage management architectures maximize utilization of storage technologies and the resources that manage them. After designing and installing data storage solutions for its customers, Datalink provides expertise through 24-hours a day telephone problem solving support and, when necessary, on site maintenance.
DSSI Data Systems &amp; Software Inc. provides software consulting, development and integration services for computer software and systems through its subsidiary, dsIT Technologies Ltd. The Company is an authorized dealer and a value-added-reseller of computer hardware through its subdsidiary, Databit, Inc. It is a provider of energy intelligence solutions through its Comverge Inc. investment. The Company develops and markets load control, data communications and other energy intelligence solutions for electric utilities and their customers.
DAIO Data I/O Corporation (Data I/O) designs, manufactures and sells programming systems used by designers and manufacturers of electronic products worldwide. The Company's line of programming systems includes a range of products, systems, modules and accessories, which are grouped into two categories: automated programming systems and non-automated programming systems. Principal customers include Motorola, Nokia and Siemens. Foreign sales represented approximately 70%, 63% and 64% of net sales of the Company's programming systems for the year ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively.
DASTY Dassault Systemes SA is a developer of software solutions using three-dimensional (3D) digital technology. It operates in two segments: the process-centric market, in which customers need to support product development, production and maintenance, and the design-centric market, in which customers need to support product design. Its process-centric products are organized under the Company's flagship CATIA brand for product creation, the DELMIA brand for digital manufacturing process management and the ENOVIA and SMARTEAM brands for virtual product synthesis, collaboration and product lifecycle integration. Altogether, these four brands form the Company's product lifecycle management (PLM) offer. Spatial Corp., one of its wholly owned subsidiaries, distributes and supports Dassault Systemes' Component Application Architecture (CAA) V5 development platform. Its design-centric products are offered under the SolidWorks brand.
DAR Darling International Inc. is a recycler of food processing by-products. The Company collects and recycles animal processing by-products, and used cooking oil from food service establishments. It provides grease trap service to food service establishments under the name TORVAC. The Company's operations are organized into two segments: rendering, the core business of turning inedible food by-products from meat and poultry processors into high-quality feed ingredients and fats for other industrial applications, and restaurant services, a group focused on growing the grease collection business and grease collection equipment sales, while expanding the line of services to include grease trap servicing offered to food service establishments and food processors.
DRI Darden Restaurants, Inc. is a casual dining restaurant company, which operates 1,325 restaurants in the United States and Canada. In the United States, it operates 1,288 restaurants in 49 states, with the exception of Alaska, including 649 Red Lobster, 537 Olive Garden, 32 Bahama Breeze, 69 Smokey Bones Barbeque &amp; Grill and one Seasons 52 restaurants. In Canada, it operates 37 restaurants, including 31 Red Lobster and six Olive Garden restaurants. The Company owns and operates all of its restaurants in the United States and Canada, with no franchising. Of its 1,325 restaurants open as of fiscal year ended May 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), 816 were located on owned sites and 509 were located on leased sites. In Japan, the Company licensed 38 Red Lobster restaurants to an unaffiliated Japanese corporation that operates the restaurants under an Area Development and Franchise Agreement.
DAOU.OB Daou Systems, Inc. (Daou) provides consulting and management services to healthcare organizations in the design, deployment and support of information technology (IT) infrastructure and application systems. Daou designs and implements solutions to help healthcare organizations navigate the intersection of legacy systems with emerging technologies, such as Web portals, wireless and other portable computing solutions. The Company's services include application development and integration, application implementation and support, network services, management consulting, business process redesign and best practices in help desk and break/fix and desktop support. It has provided services to more than 1,600 healthcare organizations, including private and public hospitals, managed care organizations on both the payer and provider sides of the market, as well as integrated healthcare delivery networks and some government healthcare entities.
DANKY Danka Business Systems PLC is an independent provider of office imaging equipment, document solutions and related services and supplies in the United States and Europe. The Company offers office imaging products, services, supplies and solutions that include digital and color copiers, digital and color multifunction peripherals (MFPs), facsimile machines and software. It also provides contract services, including professional and consulting services, maintenance, supplies, leasing arrangements, technical support and training on the installed base of equipment created by its retail equipment and related sales. Danka operates in 23 countries. It generated 49%, 42% and 9% of its total revenue from the United States, Europe and other international areas, respectively, during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004).
DHC Danielson Holding Corporation (DHC) is engaged in two primary businesses: the holding company business and the insurance services business. The Company is engaged in insurance operations through its indirect subsidiaries, National American Insurance Company of California (NAICC) and related entities. DHC also has an equity interest in companies engaged in the marine transportation and services industry through its investment in American Commercial Lines, LLC (ACL) and related entities. During the year ended December 31, 2003, DHC wrote off its remaining investment in ACL, which filed a petition with the United States Bankruptcy Court to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the United State Bankruptcy Code. On December 2, 2003, DHC executed a definitive investment and purchase agreement to acquire the energy and water businesses of Covanta in connection with Covanta's emergence from Chapter 11 proceedings in bankruptcy.
DHR Danaher Corporation is engaged in the design, manufacture and marketing of industrial and consumer products. It conducts its operations through two business segments, Process/Environmental Controls and Tools and Components. Representative products offered by the Process/Environmental Controls segment are electronic test tools; product identification equipment and consumables; water quality instrumentation and consumables; retail petroleum automation products; underground storage tank leak detection systems, and motion, position, speed, temperature and level instruments and sensing devices. The Tools and Components segment is a producer and distributor of general purpose and specialty mechanics' hand tools in the United States. Other products manufactured by the businesses in this segment include toolboxes and storage devices, diesel engine retarders, wheel service equipment, drill chucks and custom-designed headed tools and components.
DCN Dana Corporation is an independent supplier of modules, systems and components for light, commercial and off-highway vehicle original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) globally and for related OEM service customers. Its products are used in passenger cars and vans, sport-utility vehicles, light, medium and heavy trucks and a wide range of off-highway vehicles. In addition, Dana is an aftermarket supplier in the North American market. Nearly all of its aftermarket operations have been conducted through the Automotive Aftermarket Group (AAG). The Company's continuing operations were organized into three market-focused strategic business units: Automotive Systems Group (ASG), Engine and Fluid Management Group and Heavy Vehicle Technologies and Systems Group. In March 2004, the Company combined ASG and Engine and Fluid Management Group into a single business unit under the ASG name. In November 2004, the Company sold its automotive aftermarket businesses to Affinia Group Inc.
TRMD Dampskibsselskabet Torm A/S (A/S Steamship Company Torm (TORM)) is a Danish shipping company engaged in the ownership and operation of product tankers and bulk carriers. The Company's product tankers primarily carry refined products, such as naphtha, gasoline, gas oil, jet fuel and diesel oil. Its dry bulk vessels carry commodities, such as coal, iron ore and grain. Prior to December 2003, the Company also provided offshore marine service vessels. It ceased this service in December 2003. At April 30, 2004, the Company owned 24 vessels, including 18 product tankers and six dry bulk carriers. TORM also owns a 50% interest in an additional product tanker. The total tonnage of these vessels is approximately 1,593,000 deadweight tons (dwt). The Company's vessels trade worldwide.
DRDF.OB Dalrada Financial Corporation (DRDF) provides a variety of financial services to small and medium-size businesses. These services allow customers to outsource many human resources tasks, including payroll processing, workers' compensation insurance, health insurance, employee benefits, 401k investment services, personal financial management and income tax consultation. DRDF provides financial services principally through its wholly owned subsidiary, SourceOne Group, Inc. (SOG), which includes several operating units, including ProSportsHR , MedicalHR and CallCenterHR. These units provide a broad range of financial services, including benefits and payroll administration, health and workers' compensation insurance programs, personnel records management, employer liability management and (in the case of MedicalHR and CallCenterHR) temporary staffing services to small and medium-sized businesses.
DJRT.OB Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure, Inc. offers entertainment-based oval driving schools and events. These classes are conducted at various racetracks in the United States. The Company offers five types of ride or drive programs for individuals and corporations. The Qualifier is a three-lap ride with a professional driver, which lasts about five minutes, depending on the length of the track. The Season Opener is a half-day training class culminating in the student driving for 10 laps. The Rookie Adventure and Happy Hour are also half-day driving classes with the students driving 20 or 30 laps, respectively. The Advanced Stock Car Adventure is a full-day, 50-lap class. Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure also offers a number of add-on sale items, including videos from its Adventure Cam located in the car, clothing and souvenirs.
DAKT Daktronics, Inc. is a supplier of electronic scoreboards, large-electronic display systems, marketing services, digital messaging solutions and related software and services for sports, business and transportation applications. Its product offering consists of four major product families: sport products, primarily All Sport, Tuff Sport and OmniSport scoreboards, controllers and timing systems; video products, primarily ProStar and ProAd displays; business (commercial) products, primarily Galaxy displays, and transportation products, primarily Vanguard displays. The services provided by the Company include project management, onsite installation and event support, content creation, product maintenance, marketing assistance and display rentals.
DCX DaimlerChrysler AG develops, manufactures, distributes and sells a range of automotive products, mainly passenger cars, light trucks and commercial vehicles. The Company also provides financial and other services relating to its automotive business. The Mercedes Car Group includes activities related mainly to the development, design, manufacture, assembly and sale of passenger cars and off-road vehicles. The Chrysler Group includes the development, design, manufacture, assembly and sale of cars and trucks. The Commercial Vehicles segment is involved in the development, design, manufacture, assembly and sale of vans, trucks, buses and Unimogs. Activities in the Services segment extend to the marketing of services related to financial services, insurance brokerage, trading and information technology. The Company's fifth segment, Other Activities, consists of all other businesses and investments in businesses not allocated to one of its primary business segments.
DJCO Daily Journal Corporation publishes newspapers and Websites covering California, Arizona and Nevada, as well as the California Lawyer magazine, and produces several specialized information services. It also serves as a newspaper representative specializing in public notice advertising. Sustain Technologies, Inc. (Sustain), a 93%-owned subsidiary, as of September 30, 2004, has been consolidated since it was acquired in January 1999. Sustain supplies case management software systems and related products to courts and other justice agencies, including district attorney offices and administrative law organizations. These courts and agencies use the Sustain family of products to help manage cases and information electronically and to interface with other critical justice partners.
DAGM Dag Media, Inc. publishes and distributes print and online business directories for niche markets in the United States. Its principal directories are the Jewish Israeli Yellow Pages, a bilingual English and Hebrew yellow page directory distributed free through local commercial and retail establishments in the New York metropolitan area and Florida, and through travel agencies in Israel; the Master Guide and Kosher Guide, each a yellow page directory designed to meet the special needs of the Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in the New York metropolitan area, and various Blackbook photography and illustration source books that are references source for finding photographers, illustrators and graphic designers in North America. As a sales incentive, the Company also provides its advertisers with added values, such as referral services and a consumer discount club.
DADE Dade Behring Holdings, Inc. is a manufacturer and distributor of in vitro diagnostics (IVD) products and services to clinical laboratories in the United States. The Company manufactures and markets a range of IVD products and services that include medical diagnostic instruments, reagents and consumables and maintenance services. Reagent and consumable shipments represented approximately 84% of the Company's sales in 2003, while instruments (12%) and maintenance services (4%) accounted for the remainder. Reagents and consumables sales include revenue from instrument rentals included in customer contracts where equipment is placed with end customers in exchange for contractual commitments for ongoing reagent revenues. At December 31, 2003, Dade Behring had a worldwide installed base of approximately 32,400 diagnostic instruments.
DAAT.OB DAC Technologies Group International, Inc. is in the business of developing, manufacturing and marketing various patented and unpatented consumer products that are designed to provide security for the consumer and their property. In addition, the Company has developed a range of security and non-security products for the home, automobile and individual. DAC's products can be grouped into four main categories: Gun Safety, Gun Maintenance, Personal Security and Non-Security Products. The Company designs and engineers its products with the assistance of its Chinese and domestic manufacturers, which are responsible for the tooling, manufacture and packaging of its products. These products, along with other items manufactured in the United States, are sold primarily to major retail chains in the United States, targeting sportsmen, hunters and outdoorsmen and recreational enthusiasts. In 2003, Wal-Mart accounted for 52% of the total revenues of DAC.
CYTC Cytyc Corporation is a medical device company that designs, develops, manufactures, and markets products primarily focused on women's health. Cytyc's products cover a range of women's health applications, including cervical cancer screening, breast cancer risk assessment and treatment of excessive menstrual bleeding. The ThinPrep System is used for cervical cancer screening in the United States. The ThinPrep System consists of the ThinPrep 2000 Processor, ThinPrep 3000 Processor, ThinPrep Imaging System and related reagents, filters, and other supplies. The ThinPrep System also provides the platform from which the Company has launched its expansion into breast cancer risk assessment with the FirstCyte Breast Test. Cytyc Surgical Products, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cytyc Corporation, manufactures and markets the NovaSure Impedance Controlled Endometrial Ablation System (the NovaSure System), an endometrial ablation device to treat menorrhagia or excessive menstrual bleeding.
CYTR CytRx Corporation is a biopharmaceutical research and development company, based in Los Angeles with a subsidiary in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Company is engaged in the development of products, primarily in the area of small molecules and ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi), in a variety of therapeutic categories. It acquired three clinical stage compounds and a library of 500 small-molecule drug candidates from Biorex Research &amp; Development Company. CytRx has a broad-based strategic alliance with the University of Massachusetts Medical School to develop novel compounds in the areas of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), obesity, type 2 diabetes and cyto-megalo virus (CMV) using RNAi technology. CytRx also licensed from UMMS the rights to a DNA-based HIV vaccine technology in a Phase I clinical trial. It also has a research program with Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University's teaching hospital, to use RNAi technology to develop a drug for the treatment of ALS.
CYME.OB Cytomedix, Inc. is a biotechnology company with its business model premised upon developing, producing, licensing and distributing autologous cellular therapies (therapies using the patient's own body products), including the Company's proprietary platelet rich plasma gel, for the treatment of chronic, non-healing wounds. To create the proprietary platelet rich plasma gel, the patient's own platelets and other essential blood components for the healing process are separated through centrifugation and formed into a gel (AutoloGel) that is topically applied to a wound (under the direction of a physician). Cytomedix focuses on the treatment of chronic wounds predominately caused by vascular disease, venous insufficiency, excessive pressure, diabetic neuropathy or dehisced surgical wounds, which are prevalent within the elderly population.
CYTK Cytokinetics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel, small-molecule drugs that specifically target the cytoskeleton. The Company's focus on the cytoskeleton enables it to develop novel and potentially safer and more effective drugs for the treatment of diseases. Its approach has produced two cancer drug candidates, potential congestive heart failure drug candidates and more than 10 other research programs addressing a variety of other disease areas, including fungal diseases, inflammatory diseases, high blood pressure and asthma. Its most advanced cancer drug candidate, SB-715992, is the subject of a Phase II clinical trials program being conducted by its partner, GSK. An investigational new drug (IND) application was filed with the Food and Drug Administration in 2003 for SB-743921, the Company's second cancer drug candidate being developed by GSK, which is expected to enter Phase I clinical trials in 2004.
CYTO Cytogen Corporation produces oncology-focused biopharmaceutical products and licenses, develops and commercializes both therapeutic and molecular imaging/diagnostic products that address the unmet medical needs of physicians and the patients they serve. The Company directly markets QUADRAMET, samarium Sm-153 lexidronam injection, PROSTASCINT, capromab pendetide kit for the preparation of Indium In-111 capromab pendetide and NMP22 BLADDERCHEK, nuclear matrix protein-22 in the United States. The Company also has exclusive United States marketing rights to COMBIDEX, ferumoxtran-10, which is under review by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It is also developing therapeutics targeting prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA), a protein highly expressed on the surface of prostate cancer cells and the neovasculature of solid tumors.
CYT Cytec Industries Inc. is a global specialty chemicals and specialty materials company that focuses on value-added products. The Company serves major markets for aerospace, water treatment and mining, automotive and industrial coatings, plastics and chemical intermediates. The Company operates in four segments: Water and Industrial Process Chemicals, Performance Products, Specialty Materials and Building Block Chemicals. Water and Industrial Process Chemicals principally include water treatment chemicals, mining chemicals and phosphine chemicals. Performance Products principally include coating chemicals, performance chemicals and polymer additives. Specialty Materials principally include advanced composites and film adhesives. Building Block Chemicals principally include acrylonitrile, hydrocyanic acid, acrylamide, sulfuric acid and melamine.
CYON.OB Cytation Corporation provides consulting and related services to private companies that wished to go public and develop a trading market for their securities. Cytation's expertise ranges from assisting in the selection of competent corporate and securities counsel and independent auditors experienced in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) practice and procedure to counseling on business plan analysis and applicable listing requirements.
CY Cypress Semiconductor Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits for various markets, including networking, wireless infrastructure and handsets, computation, consumer, automotive and industrial. The Company has four product divisions and four subsidiaries organized into two businesses: Memory and Non-Memory. Its product divisions are Memory, Data Communications, Timing Technology and Personal Communications. The Company's four subsidiaries are Silicon Light Machines, Cypress MicroSystems, Silicon Magnetic Systems and SunPower Corporation. In December 2003, the Company acquired Cascade Semiconductor Corporation, a company specializing in one-transistor Pseudo-SRAM (static random access memory) products for wireless applications, including cellular telephones.
CYPB Cypress Bioscience, Inc. develops products for the treatment of patients with Functional Somatic Syndromes and other related chronic pain and central nervous system disorders. The Company is developing milnacipran for the treatment of Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS), the focus of its initial efforts in the area of Functional Somatic Syndromes. Cypress obtained a license for milnacipran from Pierre Fabre Medicament in the year ended December 31, 2001. Milnacipran is approved for the treatment of depression in 32 countries, including Japan. Milnacipran has not been approved in the United States for any indication, and Cypress is the first company conducting clinical trials of milnacipran in the United States for FMS. In January 2004, Cypress entered into a collaboration agreement with Forest Laboratories, Inc., a marketer of central nervous system drugs with a franchise in the primary care and psychiatric markets, for the development and marketing of milnacipran.
CYMI Cymer, Inc. is a supplier of excimer light sources, the essential light source for deep ultraviolet (DUV) photolithography systems. DUV photolithography is a key enabling technology that has allowed the semiconductor industry to meet the exacting specifications and manufacturing requirements for volume production of advanced semiconductor chips. Cymer's light source systems are incorporated into step-and-repeat (steppers) and step-and-scan (scanners) photolithography systems for use in the manufacture of semiconductors with critical feature sizes below 0.35 microns. Cymer's products consist of photolithography light source systems, replacement parts and service. Cymer maintains a worldwide service organization that supports its installed base of light sources. As of December 31, 2003, this installed base totaled 2,217 light sources. Cymer's customers include all three manufacturers of DUV photolithography systems: ASM Lithography, Canon and Nikon.
CYGN.OB Cygnus, Inc. develops and manufactures frequent, automatic and non-invasive glucose monitoring devices. The Company's devices are designed to provide more data to individuals and their physicians that enable them to make better-informed decisions on how to manage diabetes. Cygnus began the United States market launch of its first-generation GlucoWatch Biographer on April 15, 2002. On March 21, 2002, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved its second-generation product, the GlucoWatch G2 Biographer. The GlucoWatch G2 Biographer provides readings frequently, automatically and non-invasively, up to six times an hour, for up to 13 hours, day or night, and is designed to enable people with diabetes and their physicians and other caregivers to identify trends and track patterns in glucose levels that would be difficult to detect with current testing techniques.
CYDS.OB Cygne Designs, Inc. is a manufacturer of private-label women's career and casual apparel with sales primarily to Lerner New York. During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004 (fiscal 2003), the Company's products from continuing operations included woven jackets, skirts and pants and cut and sewn knit tops and bottoms. As a private-label manufacturer, Cygne produces apparel upon orders from its customers for sale under the customers' own labels, rather than producing its own inventory of apparel for sale under the Cygne name. Substantially all of the Company's products are manufactured outside the United States, either by non-affiliated contract manufacturers or at its manufacturing facilities located in Guatemala. During fiscal 2003, products representing approximately 99% and 1% of the Company's net sales from continuing operations were produced in Guatemala and the United States, respectively.
ATC Cycle Country Accessories Corp. is a manufacturer and distributor of accessories for all terrain vehicles (ATVs). The Company manufactures line of branded products, including snowplow blades, lawnmowers, spreaders, sprayers, tillage equipment, winch mounts, utility boxes, oil filters and oil coolers, baskets and an assortment of other ATV accessory products. These products custom fit essentially all ATV models from Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Polaris, Arctic Cat and Bombardier. The Company designs, engineers and assembles all accessory products at its headquarters and subcontracts the manufacture of many original equipment components. The Company also manufactures golf car hubcaps. It sells directly to golf car manufacturers and has distribution network across the United States, Europe and Asia.
CYB Cybex International, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets professional quality exercise equipment products that can generally be grouped into two major categories: cardiovascular products and strength systems. Its cardiovascular products include treadmills, a cross trainer, bikes and steppers. The Company's line of strength systems includes selectorized single station equipment, modular multi-station units, MG500 multi-gym, PG400 personal gym, the FT360, plate-loaded equipment and free-weight equipment. Cybex markets its products to commercial customers and to individuals interested in purchasing premium quality equipment for use in the home. Typical commercial customers are health clubs, corporate fitness centers, hotels, resorts, spas, educational institutions, sports teams, sports medicine clinics, military installations and community centers. The Company also has a subsidiary, Cybex Capital Corporation, which arranges equipment lease financing for its commercial customers.
CYBT.OB Cybertel Capital Corporation, formerly Cybertel Communications Corp., is a provider of long distance voice and data telecommunications services. The Company uses the network switching and transport facilities of Tier I long distance providers such as Global Crossing, to provide an array of integrated long distance telecommunications services such as long distance, calling cards and wireless communications. It is offering 1 plus and 800 long distance service to residential and business customers. The cost to carry traffic ranges from $.042 down to $.02, and the service makes use of underlying carriers and directing customer call traffic over the transmission networks of more than one carrier. It also offers travel and debit cards with low long distance rates and charges either per unit fees or bills subscriber monthly. Its cards work the same as other calling cards and have no transaction fees per call.
CYBS CyberSource Corporation provides secure electronic payment and risk management solutions to organizations that process orders for goods and services over the Internet. The Company's payment solutions allow eCommerce merchants to accept a range of online payment options, from credit cards and electronic checks, to global payment options and emerging payment types. Its risk and compliance management tools address issues such as credit card fraud, online tax requirements and export controls. Its reporting and management tools help automate the flow of complex eCommerce processes, such as recurring billing and payment reconciliation. CyberSource partners with and connects to a network of payment processors and other payment service providers to offer merchants a single source solution. Traditionally, its target customer base has been medium and large enterprises, but for the year ended December 31, 2003, it had also focused development and marketing efforts on the small business segment.
CYBE CyberOptics Corporation is a global supplier of optical process control sensors and inspection systems used to control the manufacturing process and to ensure the quality of electronic circuit boards manufactured by its customers using surface mount technology (SMT), as well as the placement and transport of wafers during semiconductor fabrication. It also develops and sells products for use with the robotic equipment that handles semiconductor wafers during the semiconductor fabrication process. It sells a frame grabber product line for general industrial applications. The product lines are sold through CyberOptics Semiconductor, Inc. Most of the Company's products are developed and sold for use in SMT electronic circuit board assembly or with equipment used in SMT electronic circuit board assembly.
CYBX Cyberonics, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets the Cyberonics VNS (Vagus Nerve Stimulation) Therapy System, an implantable medical device for the treatment of epilepsy and other debilitating chronic disorders. The VNS Therapy System consists of the VNS Therapy Pulse Generator, the Bipolar Lead, the programming wand and software and the tunneling tool. The Company has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the VNS Therapy System in the United States, as an adjunctive therapy for reducing the frequency of seizures in patients over 12 years of age with partial onset seizures that are refractory or resistant to drugs. Cyberonics has also received regulatory approval to sell the VNS Therapy System in Canada, Europe, Australia and certain countries in Eastern Asia for the treatment of refractory epilepsy and without patient age or seizure type limitation.
CGFW CyberGuard Corporation provides a broad portfolio of security products that deliver security for enterprises and government entities worldwide. The Company's products are designed to provide the security and protection available along with robust centralized management. It offers a broad family of security appliance solutions and related software that include firewall, virtual private networking (VPN), secure content management and security management technologies. The appliances are built upon a highly secure operating system and software designed to identify network and application attacks and prevent them from reaching mission-critical resources. The customers are enterprises, financial institutions and government entities worldwide. The appliances are sold to end users directly and indirectly by a direct sales force and resellers in the United States and in over 30 foreign countries.
CYAD.OB CyberAds, Inc. (CYAD) markets cellular phone services and plans to consumers. CYAD's cellular phone services are marketed through an affiliate program. The Company attracts third-party Websites to become part of its affiliate program by offering commissions for sales of cell phones and cell phone services, in which they initiated the contact with the consumer. A Website becomes an affiliate of CYAD by placing freecellular-phone.com advertising materials and banners on their Websites. These advertisements and banners promote the Company's cellular phone services. When a consumer on an affiliate's site clicks on CYAD's banner or advertising they are directed to freecellular-phone.com. CYAD derives all of its revenues from its cellular phone marketing services.
CMEE.OB Cyber Merchants Exchange, Inc. (C-Me) is a trade-show organizer and an international electronic trading and logistics company in the apparel industry. The Apparel Sourcing Association Pavilion (ASAP) Trade Show is an extension of C-Me's online model. The Company's core business model changed from attracting paid subscribers for its Internet Sourcing Network (ISN) services to organizing trade shows and transaction sales. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2003 and June 30, 2002, the Company entered into agreements with third parties to form joint ventures in Bangladesh, Korea, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Sri Lanka named C-Me Bangladesh, C-Me Korea, C-Me Hong Kong, C-Me Indonesia and C-Me Sri Lanka, respectively, in which all will use the Company's Web-based communication systems to facilitate the front-end merchandise sourcing. C-Me has also developed technologies, such as Product riven Search Engine, Focused Broadcasting and Dynamic End-User Profile System.
CYBD.OB Cyber Digital, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets distributed digital voice switching infrastructure equipment for public switched voice network operators worldwide. The Company also designs, develops, manufactures and markets Internet infrastructure systems, such as soft-switches, routers, gateways, firewalls and servers used by Internet service providers to create digital broadband services, voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) services and virtual private networks services. Cyber Digital's Internet infrastructure systems are Cyber Business Internet Gateway, Cyber Internet Access Network distribution router, Cyber Firewall IP security-based firewall appliance and Cyber Web Server. The Company's distributed digital switching systems are Cyber distributed central office, Cyber Tandem Exchange and Cyber Rural Exchange for various applications, primarily for use in developing countries and for domestic competitive local exchange carriers and long distance carriers.
CYAN Cyanotech Corporation is engaged in the cultivation and production of natural products derived from microalgae. It cultivates on a large scale basis, two microalgal species from which its two product lines, spirulina products and natural astaxanthin products are derived. The products include BioAstin natural astaxanthin, an antioxidant with application as a human nutraceutical in areas, such as enhanced immune response, sunburn protection and relief from pain and inflammation, such as carpal tunnel syndrome and rheumatoid arthritis; NatuRose natural astaxanthin, a feed ingredient for the aquaculture feed industry, specifically providing natural pigmentation to aquaculture-raised shrimp, salmon, yellowtail tuna and tai, a red-sea bream, and for the animal feed industry to naturally pigment the yolk of chicken eggs; Spirulina Pacifica, a dietary supplement used for extra energy, a strengthened immune system, and Natural phycobiliproteins, a fluorescent pigments purified from microalgae.
CVS CVS Corporation sells prescription drugs and a variety of general merchandise, including over-the-counter drugs, greeting cards, film and photo finishing services, beauty products and cosmetics, seasonal merchandise and convenience foods through its CVS/pharmacy retail stores and online through CVS.com. As of January 3, 2004, the Company operated 4,132 retail drugstores located in 27 states and the District of Columbia. The Company also provides a range of prescription benefit management services to managed care and other organizations. In addition, CVS has a Specialty Pharmacy unit, which operates as a retail and mail provider of specialty pharmacy services in the United States. As of January 3, 2004, CVS operated 47 specialty pharmacies, located in 19 states and the District of Columbia, and two mail order facilities. In July 2004, the Company acquired J.C. Penney Co. Inc.'s Eckerd drugstore chain of approximately 1,260 Eckerd drug stores.
CNVT.OB CVF Technologies Corporation is involved in the business of managing early stage companies primarily engaged in the information technology and environmental technology sectors. Its mandate is to acquire significant holdings in new and emerging technology companies, assist them in their management and, through them, engage in their respective businesses. As of December 31, 2003, the Company's investee companies included SRE Controls Inc., Biorem Technologies Inc., Gemprint Corporation, Ecoval Corporation, CVF Capital Management Corporation, Petrozyme Technologies Inc. and IMT Systems Inc. CVF generates revenues and profits through consolidation of the operating results of its investee companies. CVF also endeavors to realize gains through the eventual sale of all or a portion of its holdings in these companies at such time as management determines that CVF's funds can be better deployed in other industries or companies.
CVV CVD Equipment Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, markets, installs and services equipment primarily for the semiconductor industry. The Company's products and services include batch and single wafer systems used for depositing, rapid thermal processing, annealing, diffusion and etching of semiconductor films, gas and liquid flow control systems, ultra high purity gas and chemical piping delivery systems, standard and custom quartzware and reflow furnaces and rework stations for surface mounting of components onto printed circuit boards. CVD Equipment also provides equipment consulting and refurbishing of semiconductor processing equipment. Its products are generally manufactured as standard products or customized to the particular specifications of its customers. The Company conducts its operations through three divisions: Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), Stainless Design Concepts, Ltd. / Equipment Consulting Services (SDC/ECS) and Conceptronic/ Research International (RI).
CVBF CVB Financial Corp. is a bank holding company whose principal business is to serve as a holding company for Citizens Business Bank, Community Trust Deed Services and other banking or banking-related subsidiaries that the Company may establish or acquire. CVB is also the common stockholder of CVB Statutory Trust I and CVB Statutory Trust II, which were created in December 2003 to issue trust preferred securities in order to raise capital for the Company. The Bank has one operating subsidiary, Golden West Enterprises, Inc, which engages in automobile and equipment leasing and brokers mortgage loans. CVB's principal source of funds is, and will continue to be, dividends paid by and other funds advanced from primarily the Bank. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had $3.85 billion in total consolidated assets, $1.74 billion in net loans and $2.66 billion in deposits. On September 19, 2003, the Company acquired 100% of the stock of Kaweah National Bank by merger.
CVTX CV Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of new small-molecule drugs for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The Company is developing its lead drug candidate, Ranexa (ranolazine), as a potential treatment for chronic angina. Ranexa appears to exert its anti-anginal activity without depending on reductions in heart rate or blood pressure. CV Therapeutics is also developing regadenoson, an A2A-adenosine receptor agonist, for potential use as a pharmacologic agent in cardiac perfusion imaging studies, and tecadenoson, an A1-adenosine receptor agonist, is being developed for the potential reduction of rapid heart rate during atrial arrhythmias. Adentri, an A1-adenosine receptor antagonist for the potential treatment of acute and chronic congestive heart failure (CHF), is licensed to Biogen Idec Inc.
CBUK Cutter &amp; Buck Inc. designs, sources and markets men's and women's sportswear, fashion and outerwear apparel under the Cutter &amp; Buck brand. The Company sells its products through golf pro shops and resorts, corporate accounts, upscale specialty retail stores, and international distributors and licensees. Its men's line offers sportswear suitable for golf, business casual, family activities, active lifestyles and casually elegant situations. Cutter &amp; Buck offers knit and woven shirts, pants and shorts, sweaters, vests, wind and rain apparel, jackets and accessories. Its women's line concentrates on clothing for golf, active lifestyle and casual weekend use. During the fiscal year ended April 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), 85% of the Company's sales were men's apparel and 15% were women's apparel. Most of its golf customers and some of its corporate and specialty retail customers want their logos embroidered on the Cutter &amp; Buck apparel.
CUTR Cutera, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets its CoolGlide products for aesthetic treatments. The Company's family of laser and other light-based products enables dermatologists, plastic surgeons, gynecologists, primary care physicians and other qualified practitioners to perform non-invasive aesthetic procedures for their patients. Cutera commercially launched its first CoolGlide product for hair removal in March 2000. The Company has received United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to market its CoolGlide products for hair removal and the permanent reduction of hair; for the treatment of vascular lesions, including leg and facial veins; for the treatment of wrinkles, and for the treatment of benign pigmented lesions.
CUSIF.OB Cusac Gold Mines Ltd. (Cusac) is engaged in the business of acquisition, exploration, development and mining of precious metal resource properties. The primary focus of the Company is the production of gold from operations at the Table Mountain Gold Property (Table Mountain) located in the Cassiar Mining District of the Liard Mining Division in Northern British Columbia. Cusac is also involved in Platinum exploration in the Similkameen Mining Division of British Columbia. Table Mountain is in northern British Columbia, 115 kilometers southwest of Watson Lake, Yukon Territory, and 120 kilometers northeast of Dease Lake, British Columbia. The property covers approximately 14,000 hectares (5,100 acres) and is contiguous. A majority of the claims are owned outright, with some subject to option payments and net smelter royalties or net profit interests.
CW Curtiss-Wright Corporation, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the design and manufacture of motion control, metal treatment and flow control products for the aerospace, defense, automotive, construction, oil, petrochemical, metal working and other industries. The Company's flow control segment designs, manufactures, distributes and services a range of highly engineered flow control products for severe service military and commercial applications. The Motion Control segment designs, develops, manufactures and maintains mechanical actuation and drive systems, mission-critical electronic component and control systems and sensors for the aerospace, defense and industrial equipment markets through its three main operating divisions: mechanical systems, sensors and drives and electronic systems. The Metal Treatment segment provides approximately 50 metal treatment services, with its principal services being shot-peening and heat-treating.
CRIS Curis, Inc. is a therapeutic drug development company focused on the discovery, development and future commercialization of products that modulate key regulatory signaling pathways controlling the repair and regeneration of human tissues and organs. Its product development approach involves using small molecules, proteins or antibodies to modulate these regulatory signaling pathways. The Company has developed several preclinical product candidates in the fields of kidney disease, cancer, neurological disorders, cardiovascular disease and hair growth regulation. Its product candidates include BMP-7 protein for kidney disease, hedgehog (Hh) small molecule antagonist for basal cell carcinoma, Hh small molecule antagonist for cancer and hair growth inhibition, Hh antibody antagonist for cancer, Hh small molecule agonist for central nervous system disorders, peripheral nervous system disorders and hair loss, Hh agonist/protein/gene for cardiovascular disease and PYY peptide for obesity.
CURE Curative Health Services, Inc. seeks to deliver care and clinical results for patients with serious or chronic medical conditions. The Specialty Infusion business, through its national footprint of Critical Care Systems' local pharmacy branches, provides products, related clinical services and disease management support to patients with chronic or severe conditions, such as hemophilia and other bleeding disorders, chronic or severe infections, gastrointestinal illnesses that prohibit oral digestion and other severe conditions requiring nutritional support, as well as immune systems disorders, cancer and the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus. The Wound Care Management business is engaged in the area of disease management, specializing in chronic wound care management. The Wound Care Management business manages, on behalf of hospital clients, a nationwide network of Wound Care Center programs that offer a comprehensive range of services for treatment of chronic wounds.
CRGN CuraGen Corporation is a genomics-based pharmaceutical development company dedicated to improving the lives of patients by developing novel protein, antibody and small molecule therapeutics in the areas of oncology, inflammatory diseases, obesity and diabetes, and central nervous system disorders. CuraGen has focused its research efforts on three types of targets: targets that encode protein therapeutics, targets amenable to antibody therapeutic development and targets amenable to small molecule therapeutic development. The Company uses internal resources to develop its protein therapeutics and has established development alliances with Abgenix, Inc. to support its antibody projects and Bayer AG to support small molecule projects. As of December 31, 2003, CuraGen had one protein therapeutic in clinical development for cancer support and a preclinical pipeline of over 15 protein, antibody and small molecule projects.
CUNO CUNO Incorporated is engaged in the business of designing, manufacturing and marketing a line of filtration products for the separation, clarification and purification of liquids and gases. The Company's products, which include depth filters and semi-permeable membrane filters, are used in the potable water, fluid processing and healthcare markets. Many of the products manufactured by the Company use electrokinetic adsorption, a chemical process it developed, which alters both membrane and depth filter media surfaces. Electrokinetic adsorption uses molecular charges on dissolved ions to bind finer contaminants to the filter surface. This attribute enhances filtration efficiency by removing contaminants smaller than the micron rating of the filter. CUNO typically groups its products into the membranes, depth filters, cleanable filters and systems, and housings and systems categories.
CMLS Cumulus Media Inc. is a radio broadcasting corporation focused on acquiring, operating and developing commercial radio stations in mid-size radio markets in the United States. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned and operated 266 radio stations in 56 mid-sized United States media markets. In addition, the Company owns and operates a multi-market network of five radio stations in the English-speaking Caribbean. Under its local marketing agreements, Cumulus provides sales and marketing services for four radio stations in four United States markets in exchange for a management or consulting fee, pending Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval of the Company's acquisitions of these stations.
CMI Cummins Inc. designs, manufactures, distributes and services diesel and natural gas engines, electric power generation systems and engine-related products, including filtration and emissions solutions, fuel systems, controls and air handling systems. It is organized into four business segments. The Engine segment produces engines and parts for sale to customers in automotive and various industrial markets. The Power Generation segment is a provider of power systems, selling engines, generator sets and alternators. It also offers rental of power equipment for both standby and prime power uses. The Filtration and Other segment is engaged in the sale of filtration products, exhaust systems and turbochargers. The International Distributor segment includes Company-owned distributorships engaged in selling engines, generator sets and service parts, performing service and repair activities on the Company's products and maintaining relationships with various original equipment manufacturers.
CLG Cumberland Resources Ltd. (Cumberland) is a mineral exploration and development company engaged in the business of acquiring, exploring and developing mineral properties in Nunavut, Canada, with an emphasis on gold. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company has no producing properties and has not yet determined if its properties contain ore reserves that are economically recoverable. Its principal focus in recent years has been the development of the Meadowbank Project, on which it has completed extensive drilling and test work. In March 2004, the Company announced that the feasibility study would not be completed as originally planned and that due to seasonal constraints in shipping, such delay in the feasibility study will result in a one-year setback to the planned development of the Meadowbank project. Cumberland also has a 22% carried to production interest in the Meliadine West Project also located in Nunavut.
CFI Culp, Inc. manufactures and markets mattress fabrics and upholstery fabrics. The Company's fabrics are used in the production of residential and commercial furniture and bedding products, including sofas, recliners, chairs, loveseats, sectionals, sofa-beds, office seating, panel systems and mattress sets. Culp offers its products in a range of fabric constructions, patterns, colors, textures and finishes. The Company's operating segments are mattress fabrics and upholstery fabrics, with related divisions organized within those segments. The division within mattress fabrics is Culp Home Fashions. The divisions within upholstery fabrics are Culp Decorative Fabrics, including the company's yarn manufacturing facilities and the operation located in China, and Culp Velvets/Prints. The mattress fabrics segment sales accounted for 33.4%, and the upholstery fabrics segment accounted for 66.6% of the Company's consolidated sales during the fiscal year ended May 2, 2004 (fiscal 2004).
CFR Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. is a financial holding company and a bank holding company that offers, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, commercial and consumer banking services, as well as trust and investment management, investment banking, insurance brokerage, leasing, asset-based lending, treasury management and item processing services. Its significant subsidiaries are The New Galveston Company, Cullen/Frost Capital Trust I, The Frost National Bank, Frost Insurance Agency, Inc., Frost Brokerage Services, Inc., Frost Securities, Inc., Main Plaza Corporation and Daltex General Agency, Inc. The Company operates as a locally oriented, community-based financial services organization, augmented by centralized support in select critical areas. It serves a variety of industries, including, among others, energy, services, retail, manufacturing, construction, telecommunications, healthcare, military, logistics and transportation.
CUIS.OB Cuisine Solutions, Inc. develops, produces and markets chef-created fully cooked, fully prepared entrees and sauces for the banquet, airline, passenger rail service, retail and restaurant industries. The Company's product line consists of items not usually available to its customers such as Osso Buco, Chilean Sea Bass, Beef Wellington, Lamb Shanks and Stuffed Pork Chops, as well as staple items, such as plain and stuffed chicken breast. The majority of Company sales are frozen products shipped throughout the United States and Europe. Cuisine Solutions Norway provides most of the salmon products globally while Cuisine Solutions France and the United States produce non-salmon products for Europe and the United States, respectively. All products are shipped frozen except for some retail sales in France, which are refrigerated.
CBST Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the research, development and commercialization of products that address unmet medical needs, particularly in the anti-infective marketplace. Base don its original technology, the Company discovers new antibiotics to inhibit specific bacterial targets. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Cubist received approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration to market Cubicin in the United States for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections (cSSS infections) caused by certain Gram-positive bacteria. During 2003, the Company launched Cubicin in the United States and began filling and shipping orders to hospitals. In 2003, Cubist signed an international commercialization agreement with Chiron for the development and commercialization of Cubicin in Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, New Zealand, India and certain Central American, South American and Middle Eastern countries.
CUB Cubic Corporation (Cubic) designs, develops, manufactures and installs products that are mainly electronic in nature, such as equipment for use in customized military range instrumentation, training and applications systems, simulators, communications and surveillance systems, surveillance receivers, power amplifiers and avionics systems, and automated revenue collection systems, including contactless smart cards, passenger gates, central computer systems and ticket vending machines for mass transit networks, including rail systems, buses and parking lots. The Company also performs a variety of services, such as computer simulation training, distributed interactive simulation and development of military training doctrine, as well as field operations and maintenance. Cubic manufactures replacement parts for the products it produces. In addition, the Company operates a corrugated paper converting facility through its subsidiary, Consolidated Converting Company.
CTS CTS Corporation designs, manufactures, assembles and sells a line of components and sensors and provides electronics manufacturing services for the automotive, communications and computer markets. CTS operates manufacturing facilities located throughout North America, Asia and Europe. Its product lines serve major markets globally, focused primarily on the needs of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The Company has two business segments, Components and Sensors and Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS). Components and sensors are products that perform specific electronic functions for a given product family for use by global OEMs, contract manufacturers and electronic distributors. EMS include the higher level assembly of electronic and mechanical components into a finished subassembly, including printed circuit assembly, or the final assembly of a product performed under a contract manufacturing agreement with OEMs or other contract manufacturers.
CTRP Ctrip.com International, Ltd. is a consolidator of hotel accommodations and airline tickets in China. The Company aggregates information on hotels and flights and enables its customers to make informed and cost-effective hotel and flight bookings. The Company's reservation and fulfillment infrastructure enables its customers to choose and reserve hotel rooms in cities throughout China and selected cities abroad; book and purchase airline tickets for domestic and international flights originating from China, and choose and reserve packaged tours that include transportation, accommodation and sometimes guided tours as well. The services to customers are offered through an advanced transaction and service platform, consisting of centralized toll-free, 24-hour customer service center and bilingual Websites.
CTMI CTI Molecular Imaging, Inc is a manufacturer of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging equipment and related molecular imaging products used in the detection and treatment of cancer, cardiac disease and neurological disorders. The Company's product line for PET includes scanners, cyclotrons, microPET animal scanners, radiopharmaceuticals, detector materials, medical image analysis applications and support services. The Company manufactures and distributes a line of PET and PET/CT scanners through CTI PET Systems, Inc., doing business as CPS Innovations (CPS). Through CTI Concorde Microsystems, LLC (Concorde), acquired in June 2004, the Company manufactures and distributes microPET animal scanners. Through Mirada Solutions Limited (Mirada), it develops and licenses medical image analysis applications. The Company also provides services, including site planning, installation, preventive maintenance and repair, and technical and marketing support for users of PET technology.
CTIB CTI Industries Corporation (CTI) is engaged in the development, manufacture, sale and distribution of two principal lines of products: novelty products, principally balloons, including metalized balloons, latex balloons, punch balls and other inflatable toy items, and specialty and printed films and flexible containers for food packaging, specialized consumer uses and various commercial applications. The Company's metalized and latex balloons and toy products are sold throughout the United States and in 30 foreign countries through a variety of retail outlets, including general merchandise and drugstore chains, grocery chains, card and gift shops and party goods stores, as well as through florists and balloon decorators. European sales are conducted by CTI Balloons, the Company's subsidiary, and CTI Mexico and Flexo Universal conduct sales and marketing activities for the sale of balloon products in Mexico, Latin America and certain other markets.
CTIG.OB CTI Group (Holdings) Inc. designs, develops, markets and supports billing and data management software and services. The Company has three business segments: Billing and Customer Care (BCC), Telemanagement and Patent Enforcement Activities. BCC designs, develops and provides customer management, billing and electronic bill presentment and analysis software and complementary services to telecommunications providers. BCC software and services are used primarily by wireline and wireless network operators and resellers to manage customer accounts, generate paper-based and electronic bills and manage customer service operations. Telemanagement designs, develops and provides software and services used by corporate, governmental and institutional end users to manage their telecommunications service and equipment usage. Patent Enforcement involves the licensing, protection, enforcement and defense of CTI's intellectual property, including patents.
CTG Computer Task Group, Inc. (CTG) is an international information technology (IT) solutions and staffing business, which serves customers through an international network of offices in North America and Europe. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company had seven operating subsidiaries the CTG Services, Inc., the CTG HealthCare Solutions (Kansas), Inc., and the Computer Task Group of Canada, Inc., primarily providing services in North America, and the Computer Task Group Belgium N.V., the Computer Task Group Luxembourg S.A., the Computer Task Group Nederland B.V., and the Computer Task Group (U.K.) Ltd. primarily providing services in Europe. The Company typically offers the IT business solution life cycle, including phases for planning, developing, implementing, managing, and ultimately maintaining the IT solution.
CTDH.OB CTD Holdings, Inc. sells cyclodextrins (CDs) and related products to the food, pharmaceutical and other industries. CDs are molecules that bring together oil and water and have potential applications anywhere oil and water must be used together. The Company has developed CD-based applications in stabilization of flavors for food products; elimination of undesirable tastes and odors; preparation of antifungal complexes for foods and toiletries; stabilization of fragrances and dyes; reduction of foaming in foods; cosmetics and toiletries, and the improvement of quality, stability and storability of foods. CTD also provides consulting services for the commercial development of new products containing CDs. Its revenues are derived from consulting, distribution of CDs, manufacturing of selected CD complexes and sales of its own manufactured and licensed products containing CDs.
CITN.OB Holdings, Inc. provides management expertise, including consulting on operations, marketing and strategic planning, and has been a source of capital to early-stage technology companies. The Company holds investments in Parago Inc. (Parago) and River Logic, Inc. (River Logic). Parago is an application service provider (ASP) and an Internet-based, business process outsourcer that provides an online suite of offerings. Its services include online promotional management, online rebate processing, proactive e-mail, online surveys and customer data warehousing, analysis and reporting. Using COR Technology, a rapid-application development system, developers at River Logic create applications that enable industry professionals to model complex enterprises and explore financial relationships on a desktop computer or laptop. Embedded analytics allow end users to understand the financial implications of critical business decisions by manipulating graphical icons that model their enterprise.
CTCI CT Communications, Inc. is a holding company that, through its operating subsidiaries, provides a range of telecommunications services to residential and business customers located primarily in North Carolina. It offers a package of telecommunications and related services, including local and long distance telephone, Internet and data services and digital wireless products and services. The Company began operations as The Concord Telephone Company (Concord Telephone). Concord Telephone continues to operate as an incumbent local exchange carrier in a territory covering Cabarrus, Stanly and Rowan counties in North Carolina.
CSX CSX Corporation operates rail networks in the United States, and also arranges for and provides integrated rail and truck (intermodal) transportation services across the United States, Canada and Mexico. Its marine operations include an international terminal services company, which operates and develops container terminals, distribution facilities and related terminal activities. In February 2003, CSX conveyed most of its interest in its domestic container-shipping subsidiary, CSX Lines LLC, to a new venture formed with the Carlyle Group.
CSS CSS Industries, Inc. is a consumer products company engaged in the design, manufacture, procurement and sale to mass market retailers of seasonal and social expression products, including gift wrap, gift bags, boxed greeting cards, gift tags, tissue paper, paper and vinyl decorations, classroom exchange Valentines, decorative ribbons and bows, Halloween masks, costumes, make-up and novelties, Easter egg dyes and novelties and educational products. The Company provides its retail customers to use a single-vendor for much of their seasonal product requirements. A substantial portion of its products are manufactured, packaged and warehoused in 20 North American facilities, with the remainder purchased primarily from manufacturers in the Far East. CSS' products are sold to its customers by national and regional account managers and by a network of independent manufacturers' representatives. Its operating subsidiaries include Paper Magic Group, Inc., Berwick Offray LLC and Cleo Inc.
CSKKY CSK Corporation (CSK) is an independent information technology (IT) services provider that provides comprehensive information services ranging from systems design, development and construction, to consulting and user support. The Company provides IT outsourcing (ITO), business process outsourcing (BPO) and financial services. The Company focuses on two areas: ITO, which integrates systems integration and systems management, and BPO, which incorporates items peripheral to systems, such as operational processes and contact centers. CSK has three wholly owned subsidiaries: ServiceWare Corporation and CSK Communications Corporation (the core companies in its BPO business), and CSK Network Systems Corporation (the core company of its ITO business).
CAO CSK Auto Corporation is a holding company. As of February 1, 2004, the Company's only business activity was its investment in CSK Auto, Inc. (Auto), a wholly owned subsidiary. Auto is a specialty retailer of automotive aftermarket parts and accessories. As of February 1, 2004, Auto operated 1,114 stores in 19 states under three brand names: Checker Auto Parts, founded in 1969, with 411 stores in the southwestern, Rocky Mountain and northern Plains states and Hawaii; Schucks Auto Supply, founded in 1917, with 226 stores in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, and Kragen Auto Parts, founded in 1947, with 477 stores primarily in California. Auto offers a variety of brand name, private-label and generic automotive products for domestic and imported cars and light trucks. Its products include new and remanufactured automotive replacement parts, maintenance items and accessories.
CSGS CSG Systems International, Inc. is a global company engaged in next-generation billing and customer care solutions for the cable television, direct broadcast satellite, advanced Internet protocol services, next-generation mobile and fixed wireline markets. The Company's combination of solutions, delivered in both outsourced and licensed formats, is designed to enable its clients to deliver quality customer service, improve operational efficiencies and bring new revenue-generating products to market. CSG has two operating segments: the Broadband Services Division and the Global Software Services (GSS) Division. The Broadband Division consists principally of CSG's historical processing operations and related software products. The GSS Division consists of its stand-alone software products and related services, which includes the Kenan Business.
KRY Crystallex International Corporation is engaged in the production of gold and related activities, including exploration, development, mining and processing. It conducts these activities primarily through mineral concessions that it owns or controls in Venezuela. Cyrstallex's principal asset is the Las Cristinas deposits located in southeastern Venezuela. Crystallex's other principal mineral assets in Venezuela include the Tomi concession, the La Victoria concession and the Albino concession. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Crystallex sold its San Gregorio mine in Uruguay to Uruguay Mineral Explorations Inc.
CYXG.OB Crystalix Group International, Inc. manufactures, distributes and markets laser subsurface engraved optical quality glass products through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Crystalix USA Group, Inc. and Lazer-Tek Designs Ltd. Its principal product is a personalized three-dimensional engraved crystal that features the facial image of one or more persons or other three-dimensional images. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company had 32 kiosks owned by its marketing partners and one corporate-owned kiosk in retail shopping malls, resorts, promenades, casinos and theme parks where its crystals are engraved and sold. These kiosks are located in the United States, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Bahamas, United Kingdom, Ireland and Beirut. Through Lazer-Tek, the Company also designs, manufactures and sells laser inscribed gift crystals to privately held businesses and corporate customers throughout the United States.
CYTGF.OB Crystal Graphite Corporation is an industrial mineral exploration and development company engaged in the exploration and development for production of mineral properties. The Company has a 100% interest in one property, the Black Crystal Property, located near the City of Nelson in southeastern British Columbia. The Company's main focus is exploring and mining this graphite property and implementing plant operations on the Black Crystal Property.
CRYP CryptoLogic Inc. is a software and services provider to the worldwide Internet gaming market. WagerLogic Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of CryptoLogic, is responsible for the licensing of its gaming software and services to an international customer base. In addition to a product portfolio of more than 80 casino games, multi-player bingo and player-to-player poker, WagerLogic offers integrated e-cash management and customer care services in multiple currencies and multiple languages. Ninety-seven percent of CryptoLogic's revenue is of a recurring nature and is generated from long-term software licensing and services contracts that generally extend three to five years.
CRY CryoLife, Inc. preserves and distributes human tissues for cardiovascular, vascular and orthopedic transplant applications. It also develops and commercializes implantable medical devices, including BioGlue Surgical Adhesive, a glutaraldehyde-fixed stentless porcine heart valve, and SynerGraft processed bovine vascular grafts for use as arteriovenous access devices. The Company distributes preserved human cardiovascular, vascular and orthopedic tissue throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. It can distribute BioGlue throughout the United States and more than 40 other countries for designated applications. CryoLife markets the SynerGraft processed bovine vascular graft in Europe and the Middle East. In addition, the Company markets its CryoLife-O'Brien aortic heart valve in Europe and certain other territories outside the United States.
CCEL.OB CRYO-CELL International, Inc. is engaged in cryogenic cellular storage, with a focus on the processing and preservation of umbilical cord blood stem cells for autologous/sibling use. The Company pioneered several technologies that allow for the processing and storage of specimens in a cryogenic environment. These technologies include the storage of fractionated (separated) U-Cord stem cells and the development and patenting of the first computer controlled, robotically operated cryogenic storage system Its headquarters facility in Clearwater, Florida handles all aspects of its business operations including the processing and storage of specimens. In October 2002, CRYO-CELL introduced a dual storage program whereby a portion of newly processed specimens are stored in its Clearwater, Florida facility and the balance of the collected specimen are stored at a facility in Arizona. The specimens are stored in commercially available cryogenic storage equipment.
CRXL Crucell N.V. serves as the holding company for Crucell Holland N.V. The Company is a biotechnology company that combines technologies to discover, develop and produce a variety of biopharmaceutical products for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. Crucell's PER.C6 technology encompasses a human cell line production system that is used to develop biopharmaceutical products. The Company's AdVac technology is a recombinant vector technology that is used to develop adenoviral-based products. Crucell's MAbstract phage antibody-display technology is used to display antibodies on the surface of a bacteria-infecting virus called a phage. The Company is developing vaccines against influenza, Ebola, malaria and West Nile virus using the PER.C6 and AdVac technologies. Crucell is also developing antibody products using PER.C6 and MAbstract.
CRO CRT Properties, Inc, formerly Koger Equity, Inc., (KE) is a self-administered, self-managed equity real estate investment trust (REIT) that develops, owns, operates, leases and manages office buildings in metropolitan areas in the Southeastern United States and Texas (the Office Projects). In addition, KE provides leasing, management and other customary tenant-related services for certain office projects. During the year ended December 31, 2003, its portfolio of assets consisted of 128 office buildings totaling 9.4 million rentable square feet. KE directly owns 107 of the 128 office buildings in its current portfolio. Koger-Vanguard Partners, L.P. (KVP), a consolidated wholly owned subsidiary limited partnership, owns a suburban office project in Charlotte, North Carolina, consisting of 13 office buildings containing approximately 526,000 rentable square feet.
CRCE.OB Crown Resources Corporation, incorporated in August 1988, is a precious metals exploration company operating in the western United States and owning 38.7% of Solitario Resources Corporation. Solitario operates as a precious and base metals exploration company in the United States, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. The Company is not engaged directly in any significant exploration or development activity other than at its Buckhorn Mountain Project, located in Washington State. As of December 31, 2003, Crown was reporting gold reserves of 991,300 ounces, based upon a feasibility study prepared by SRK Consulting of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. On November 20, 2003, Crown executed a definitive agreement with Kinross Gold Corporation, whereby Kinross will acquire Crown and its Buckhorn Mountain Project.
CRWN Crown Media Holdings, Inc. owns and operates pay television channels, known around the world as the Hallmark Channel, dedicated to entertainment programming for adults and families in the United States and in various countries throughout the world. The international operations of the Hallmark Channel extend to approximately 116 countries and are operated by Crown Media International, and, in the United Kingdom, by Crown Entertainment Limited. Domestically, the Hallmark Channel is operated and distributed by Crown Media United States. The Company's programming resources include its own Crown Media Library, Hallmark Entertainment Distribution and third-party sources.
CCK Crown Holdings, Inc. is engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of packaging products for consumer goods. The Company's primary products include steel and aluminum cans for food, beverage, household and other consumer products and a variety of metal and plastic caps, closures and dispensing systems. These products are manufactured in the Company's plants both within and outside the United States and are sold to the soft drink, food, citrus, brewing, household products, personal care and various other industries. Crown Cork &amp; Seal Company, Inc. formed crown Holdings, in February 2003, in connection with its debt refinancing and corporate reorganization. Crown Cork became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.
CRWS.OB Crown Crafts, Inc. (Crown) operates indirectly through its subsidiaries, including Hamco, Inc., Churchill Weavers, Inc., Crown Crafts Infant Products, Inc. and Burgundy Interamericana in the infant products segment within the consumer products industry. Infant products include crib bedding, diaper stackers, mobiles, bibs, receiving blankets, burp cloths, bathing accessories and other infant soft goods and accessories. The Company also produces hand-woven throws for infants and adults, which are manufactured and imported in a variety of colors, designs and fabrics, including cotton, acrylic, cotton/acrylic blends, rayon, wool, fleece and chenille. Crown's products also included two additional groups: bedroom and bath products. It also imported and jacquard-woven throws. Bedroom products included comforters, comforter sets, sheets, pillowcases, sheet sets, pillow shams, bed skirts, duvets, decorative pillows, coverlets and jacquard-woven bedspreads.
CCI Crown Castle International Corp. (CCI) owns, operates and leases towers and co-locatable rooftop sites and transmission networks for wireless communications and broadcast transmission. CCI also provides certain network services relating to sites or other wireless infrastructure for its customers, including project management of antenna installations. CCI engages in such activities through a variety of structures, including subleasing and management arrangements. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned, leased or managed 15,517 sites, including 10,642 sites in the United States and Puerto Rico, 3,487 sites in the United Kingdom and 1,388 sites in Australia. CCI operates its businesses principally through its subsidiaries and joint ventures. Its customers include wireless communications and broadcast companies, including Verizon Wireless, the British Broadcasting Corporation and Cingular. In November 2004, CCI purchased Verizon's 37% interest in the Crown Atlantic Joint Venture.
CRWTF.OB Crow Technologies 1977 Ltd. is engaged in the area of security alarm systems. The Company designs, develops, manufactures, sells and distributes a range of security detection and alarm systems consisting of a range of wired and wireless control panels, several lines of indoor and outdoor sensors, access controls and communication systems for use in commercial and industrial facilities, residential homes and open areas. In addition, to the security detection and alarm systems, it also designs and produces microwave barriers and perimeter protection systems for civil and military applications. The Company is primarily an Israeli holding company, and its principal business activities are conducted through its Israeli subsidiary, Crow Electronic Engineering Ltd. (Orev).
XTEX Crosstex Energy, L.P. (Crosstex) is a midstream energy company engaged in the gathering, transmission, treating, processing and marketing of natural gas. The Company's assets include over 2,500 miles of natural gas gathering and intrastate transmission pipelines, three natural gas processing plants connected to its gathering systems with a total natural gas liquid production capacity of 289,800 gallons per day and 61 treating plants. Crosstex has two operating segments, Midstream and Treating. The Midstream division focuses on the gathering, processing, transmission and marketing of natural gas, as well as providing certain producer services, while the Treating division focuses on the removal of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide from natural gas to meet pipeline quality specifications. In April 2004, the Company acquired the LIG Pipeline Company and its subsidiaries from American Electric Power, which is an intrastate pipeline in the state of Louisiana.
XTXI Crosstex Energy, Inc. has its assets consists mostly almost exclusively of partnership interests in Crosstex Energy, L.P., a publicly traded limited partnership engaged in the gathering, transmission, treating, processing and marketing of natural gas. The Partnership connects the wells of natural gas producers in its market areas to its gathering systems, treats natural gas to remove impurities to ensure that it meets pipeline quality specifications, processes natural gas for the removal of natural gas liquids, transports natural gas and provides an aggregated supply of natural gas to markets. It purchases natural gas from natural gas producers and other supply points and sells that natural gas to utilities, industrial consumers, other marketers and pipelines and thereby generates gross margins based on the difference between the purchase and resale prices.
CRDS Crossroads Systems, Inc. is a provider of enterprise data routing solutions for open system storage area networks (SANs). The Company's storage routers serve as the interconnect between SANs and other devices in a computer network and allow organizations to effectively and efficiently store, manage and ensure the integrity and availability of their data. Crossroads provides its products in a variety of configurations including both a stand-alone box and an embedded product with varying port counts. Its products are installed at companies, institutions and other entities, ranging from large enterprises to small businesses. The Company's products and services are marketed and sold to end users through its distribution partners, including original equipment manufacturers, distributors and value-added resellers.
CRT Cross Timbers Royalty Trust (the Trust) holds 90% net profits interests in certain royalty and overriding royalty interest properties in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, and 75% net profits interests in certain working interest properties in Texas and Oklahoma. XTO Energy Inc. owns the underlying properties from which these net profits interests were conveyed. Bank of America, N.A. is the trustee of Cross Timbers. Total oil production in the underlying properties was 298,869 barrels for the year ended December 31, 2003. Average daily production was 819 barrels during the same period. The most significant producing region in which the underlying royalties are located is the San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico, which produced approximately 81% of the Trust's total gas reserves in 2003.
CCRN Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. provides healthcare staffing services in the United States with a client base of approximately 3,000 hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and other healthcare providers across all 50 states. The Company provides travel nurse staffing services and per diem nurse staffing services. In 2003, approximately 18,300 individuals that completed field staff applications were added to Cross Country's database. The Company also provides an array of healthcare-oriented human capital management services, which complement its core travel nurse staffing business. These services include search and recruitment, healthcare consulting services and education and training Services. In June 2003, Cross Country acquired the assets of Med-Staff, Inc., a privately held travel nurse and per diem nurse staffing company.
CRNS The Cronos Group owns and manages a fleet of dry cargo, refrigerated, tank and dry freight special containers. Through a global network of offices and agents, the Company leases both it's own and other owners' intermodal marine containers to over 400 ocean carriers and transport operators, including a majority of ocean carriers. Its dry cargo containers are constructed of all Corten steel, which is a high-tensile steel yielding greater damage and corrosion resistance than mild steel. Refrigerated containers are used to transport temperature-sensitive products, such as meat, fruit, vegetables and photographic film. All of Cronos' refrigerated containers have high-grade stainless steel interiors. The Company has three operating segments, including Container Equity Programs, Other Managed Container Programs and Owned Containers. The Company's sales and marketing operations are conducted through its wholly owned subsidiary Cronos Containers Limited.
CK Crompton Corporation has businesses grouped into two units, Polymer Products and Specialty Products. Polymer Products consists of polymer additives (plastic additives, rubber additives, urethane additives and petroleum additives), polymers (EPDM and urethane polymers) and polymer processing equipment (Davis-Standard). Specialty Products consists of crop protection (specialty actives) and other (refined products). Most of the Company's products are sold to industrial customers for use as additives, ingredients or intermediates that impart particular characteristics to the customers' end products. The Corporation's products are marketed in more than 120 countries and serve a wide variety of end use markets including tires, agriculture, automobiles, textiles, plastics, lubricants, petrochemicals, leather, construction, recreation, mining, packaging, home furnishings, personal care, appliances and paper.
CHBH.OB Croghan Bancshares, Inc. serves as a holding company for The Croghan Colonial Bank (the Bank). The Bank conducts a general banking business in Ohio, embracing the usual functions of commercial, retail and savings banking, including time, savings, money market and demand deposits; commercial, industrial, agricultural, real estate, consumer installment and credit card lending; safe deposit box rental; automatic teller machines; trust department services, and other services tailored for individual customers. The Bank originates and services secured and unsecured loans to individuals, firms and corporations. Direct loans are made to individuals and installment obligations are purchased from retailers, both with and without recourse. The Bank makes a variety of residential, industrial, commercial and agricultural loans secured by real estate, including interim construction financing. In addition, investment products are offered through the Bank's Trust and Investment Services Division.
CMD Criticare Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets vital signs and gas monitoring instruments, and related non-invasive sensors used to monitor patients in many healthcare environments. Criticare's products also allow hospitals to contain costs primarily by substituting cost-effective reusable pulse oximetry sensors for disposable sensors, controlling the use of costly anesthetics and increasing personnel productivity. Criticare has developed a broad line of patient monitors that combine one or more of its technologies, for monitoring oxygen saturation, carbon dioxide and anesthetic agents, with standard monitoring technologies that provide electrocardiogram (ECG), invasive and non-invasive blood pressures, temperature, heart rate and respiration rate. In addition, the Company's VitalView telemetry system allows one nurse to monitor up to eight patients simultaneously from a convenient central location.
CRTX Critical Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of therapeutic products designed to regulate the inflammatory response associated with asthma and critical care diseases. Zyflo, a United States Food and Drug Association (FDA)-approved product, is an immediate-release formulation of zileuton for asthma that the Company expects to begin selling in 2005. It also has two additional formulations of zileuton in development. In addition, Critical Therapeutics has three programs directed at developing products to regulate the excessive inflammatory response that can damage vital internal organs, and, in the most severe cases, result in multiple organ failure and death. It is also developing treatments directed towards the severe inflammatory response in acute diseases and acute exacerbations of other chronic diseases.
CPTH Critical Path, Inc. delivers digital communications software and services that enable enterprises, government agencies, wireless carriers and service providers to rapidly deploy highly scalable solutions for messaging and identity management. The messaging solutions, which are available both as licensed software and as hosted services, provide integrated access to various communication and collaboration applications from wireless devices, Web browsers, desktop clients and voice systems. For enterprises and governments, the solutions are designed to reduce burdens on helpdesks, simplify the deployment of key security infrastructure, enable compliance with new regulatory mandates and help reduce the cost and effort of deploying modern messaging services to distributed organizations, mobile users, deskless workers, suppliers and customers.
CGW Cristalerias de Chile S.A. is engaged in the production of glass bottles for the beverage industry in Chile. Through an affiliate company, the Company also produces plastic containers, caps and crates. In addition to its packaging operations, Cristalerias has operations in Chile's wine, media and communications, and real estate industries, through interests in Sociedad Anonima Vina Santa Rita, Comunicacion, Informacion, Entretencion y Cultura S.A., Cristalchile Comunicaciones S.A. and Constructora Apoger S.A., respectively. The Company is a member of the Elecmetal Group under its parent company, Compania Electrometalurgica S.A.
CMM CRIIMI MAE Inc. is a commercial mortgage company structured as a self-administered real estate investment trust. Its business consists of investments in its core assets, which are subordinated commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) backed by pools of commercial mortgage loans on multifamily, retail, hotel, and other commercial real estate; investments in non-core assets, including direct and indirect investments in government-insured mortgage backed securities and a limited number of other assets and trading in CMBS, residential mortgage-backed securities, agency debt securities and other fixed income securities. The Company also performs mortgage servicing through a servicing subsidiary, CRIIMI MAE Services Limited Partnership (CMSLP). CMSLP performs special servicing on the commercial mortgage loans underlying its subordinated CMBS.
CRHCY CRH PLC is an international group of companies that is engaged in the manufacture and supply of a range of building materials and in the operation of merchanting for builders and do-it-yourself (DIY) stores. The Company is organized into four divisions, two in Europe (Europe Materials and Europe Products &amp; Distribution) and two in the Americas (Europe Materials and Europe Products &amp; Distribution). The Materials Division in Europe is a producer of primary materials and value-added manufactured products; Products &amp; Distribution in Europe operates manufacturing groups involved in concrete, clay, insulation and other building products; The Americas Materials Division is asphalt producer and has ready-mixed concrete operations in the United States, and The Products &amp; Distribution Division in the Americas operates mainly in the United States, with a growing presence in Canada. The Company resulted from the merger in 1970 of two Irish companies, Cement Limited and Roadstone, Limited.
CRESY Cresud Inc. (Cresud) is an Argentine producer of basic agricultural product. The Company is involved in various operations and activities, including crop production, cattle raising and fattening, milk production and certain forestry activities. Cresud does not directly operate in the real estate development business but, from time to time, sells properties to profit from real estate appreciation opportunities, which supplement its primary operations. At June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company, together with its subsidiaries, owned 18 farms. Approximately 13,351 hectares of the land it owns are productive and suitable for crop production, approximately 125,513 hectares are best suitable for beef-cattle production and 820 hectares are used for milk production. The remaining 266,916 hectares are primarily natural woodlands. In addition, during fiscal year 2004, Cresud leased farms for crop production on an aggregate total area of 9,766 hectares on 19 farms.
CBAG.OB Crested Corp. acquires, explores, develops and/or sells or leases properties prospective for hard rock minerals including lead, zinc, silver, molybdenum, gold, uranium, oil and gas and commercial real estate properties. However, the Company has had no production from any of its mineral properties during the periods from May 31, 2001 through December 31, 2003 except coalbed methane (CBM). The CBM business was conducted through Rocky Mountain Gas, Inc. (RMG), a non-consolidated affiliate formed by Crested and its subsidiary United States Energy Corp. in 1999. At December 31, 2003, the Company, on a consolidated basis, owned 39.8% of RMG.
CEI Crescent Real Estate Equities Company is a real estate investment trust with assets and operations divided into four investment segments: Office, Resort/Hotel, Residential Development and Temperature-Controlled Logistics. The primary business of the Company is its Office segment, which consisted of 72 office properties as of December 31, 2003. The office properties are located primarily in Dallas and Houston, with additional concentrations in Austin, Denver, Miami and Las Vegas. The Resort/Hotel segment consisted of nine resort/hotel properties, including five luxury and destination fitness resorts and spas and four business-class hotels. The Residential Development segment consisted of four residential development corporations that owned in whole or in part 23 residential development properties. The Temperature-Controlled Logistics segment consisted of the Company's unconsolidated 40% interest in 87 temperature-controlled logistics properties.
CRFN Crescent Financial Corporation (CFC) serves as the bank holding company for Crescent State Bank (the Bank). The Company formed Crescent Financial Capital Trust I during the year ended December 31, 2003 in order to facilitate the issuance of trust preferred securities. During 2003, CFC has no operations and conducts no business on its own other than owning the Bank and the Trust. The Company's market area consists of the Towns of Cary, Apex and Holly Springs, Wake County, North Carolina, the Town of Clayton, Johnston County, North Carolina, the towns of Pinehurst and Southern Pines, Moore County, North Carolina and the Town of Sanford, Lee County and North Carolina. Crescent State Bank is a North Carolina-chartered banking corporation. Its primary business is to solicit deposits and invest those funds by originating loans in its established market area.
CSNT Crescent Banking Company (Crescent) conducts its traditional commercial banking operations through Crescent Bank &amp; Trust Company (the Bank), a community-focused commercial bank. The Bank's commercial banking operations are primarily retail-oriented and aimed at individuals and small- to medium-sized businesses located within its market area. Its principal activities as a community bank are the taking of demand and time deposits and the making of secured and unsecured consumer loans and commercial loans to its target customers. Approximately 87% of the Bank's loan portfolio is secured by commercial and residential real estate in its primary market area. The Company's commercial loan portfolio represents the largest earning asset for its commercial banking operations. The portfolio grew 33% in 2001, 62% in 2002 and 37% for the year ended December 31, 2003. At December 31, 2003, Crescent had total commercial loans of $274.5 million.
CREO Creo Inc. is a developer and manufacturer of digital solutions for the graphic arts industry. The Company manufactures more than 300 products for commercial, publication and on-demand printers, packaging converters, prepress tradeshops, newspaper publishers and creative professionals. Its prepress, printing and digital press solutions are based on a foundation of intellectual property and include software and hardware for computer-to-plate imaging, systems for digital photography, scanning and proofing, as well as printing plates and proofing media. Creo also supplies on-press imaging technology, components for digital presses and color servers for high-speed digital printers to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
CREE Cree, Inc. develops and manufactures semiconductor materials and devices based on silicon carbide (SiC), Group III nitrides (GaN), silicon and related compounds. The Company's SiC and GaN materials technology is the basis for many of the devices that it develops and produces. The Company focuses its expertise in SiC and GaN materials on four product areas: light emitting diodes (LEDs), including blue, green and near ultraviolet (UV) LED chips and high-power packaged LEDs; power switching products; radio frequency (RF) and microwave devices, and near UV lasers. It has products commercially available in each of these categories except for near UV lasers. The Company operates its business in two segments, the Cree segment, which consists of its SiC and GaN-based products and research contracts, and the Cree Microwave segment, which includes silicon-based RF transistors and RF transistor modules.
CRED CREDO Petroleum Corporation is an independent oil and gas company primarily engaged in oil and gas exploration, development and production activities in the Mid-Continent region of the United States. CREDO is an active operator in Kansas, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. Its subsidiary, United Oil Corporation, is an active operator doing business exclusively in Oklahoma, and another subsidiary, SECO Energy Corporation, primarily owns royalty interests in the Rocky Mountain region. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2003 (fiscal 2003), the Company and its subsidiaries focused on two core activities, natural gas drilling in the Northern Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma and recovering standard gas from low-pressure reservoirs using its Calliope Gas Recovery System. The Company owns the exclusive right to the Calliope Gas Recovery System technology. Calliope is a generation of fluid lift technology that is applicable to gas wells that meet certain criteria.
CRMZ.OB CreditRiskMonitor.com, Inc. (CRM) offers an interactive Internet-based financial information and news service designed specifically for corporate credit professionals. CRM offers three commercial credit analysis services to corporate credit managers. The Company offers coverage of approximately 16,200 United States and Canadian public companies with full financial analysis and up-to-date financial news coverage for purposes of credit evaluation. CRM also offers individual credit reports on approximately 20 million foreign public and private companies. During 2003, CRM introduced a service that covers approximately 18,500 foreign public companies with full financial analysis for purposes of credit analyses. The Company's services are sold on a subscription basis pursuant to customer contracts that span varying periods of time, but are generally for a period of one year.
CSR Credit Suisse Group is a global financial services company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. The activities of the Company are structured into two main business units: Credit Suisse Financial Services and Credit Suisse First Boston. Credit Suisse Financial Services is a provider of comprehensive financial services in Europe and other selected markets. Credit Suisse First Boston, in its role as a financial intermediary, serves institutional, corporate, government and high-net-worth clients around the world, with a broad range of financial products and investment advisory services. Effective July 13, 2004, Credit Suisse Group is structured along three business lines: investment banking and wealth and asset management under Credit Suisse First Boston; financial services, including global private banking and corporate and retail banking in Switzerland, under Credit Suisse, and insurance under Winterthur.
CIK Credit Suisse AM Inc Fund (the Fund) is registered as a diversified, closed-end investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Fund's investment objective is to seek income through investment primarily in debt securities. During the year ended December 31, 2003, $175.6 million of the Fund's assets were invested in high-yield debt securities; $29.5 million in emerging-market debt securities; $4.4 million in investment-grade debt securities; $3.2 million in equity securities, and the balance of $2.8 million in cash equivalents. Of the debt securities, the largest concentration, 66.7%, was invested in issues rated B through BBB. The net asset value (NAV) of the Fund is determined daily as of the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. on each day the Exchange is open for business. The Fund may invest up to 10% of its total assets in securities.
CACC Credit Acceptance Corporation has provided auto loans to consumers, regardless of their credit history. The Company's product is offered through a nationwide network of automobile dealers who benefit by selling vehicles to consumers who otherwise could not obtain financing, by repeat and referral sales generated by these same customers, and from sales to customers responding to advertisements for its product, but who actually end up qualifying for traditional financing. A customer who does not qualify for conventional automobile financing can purchase a used vehicle from a Credit Acceptance dealer-partner and finance the purchase through the Company. As payment for the vehicle, the dealer-partner receives a down payment from the customer; a cash advance from the Company, and, after the advance has been recovered, the cash from payments made on the loan, net of certain collection costs and its servicing fee.
BAP Credicorp Ltd. is a financial services holding company that operates primarily through its four principal subsidiaries, Banco de Cr&eacute;dito del Peru (BCP), Atlantic Security Holding Corporation (ASHC), El Pac&iacute;fico-Peruano Suiza Compania de Seguros y Reaseguros (PPS) and Banco Tequendama. Credicorp is engaged principally in commercial banking (including trade finance, corporate finance and leasing services), insurance (including commercial property, transportation and marine hull, automobile, life, health and pension fund underwriting insurance) and investment banking (including brokerage services, asset management, and trust, custody and securitization services and trading and investment). BCP is the Company's primary subsidiary that, as of the year ended December 31, 2003, accounted for 85.3% of Credicorp's total revenues, 79.3% of total assets, 113.2% of net income and 67.9% of shareholders' equity.
CMOS Credence Systems Corporation designs, manufactures, sells and services engineering validation test equipment, emission-based optical diagnostics and failure analysis products and automatic test equipment used for testing semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs). These hardware products are designed to test semiconductors at two stages of their lifecycle: first, at the prototype stage, and second, as they are produced in high volume. The Company also develops, licenses and distributes software products that provide automation solutions in the IC design and test flow fields. Its software products enable design and test engineers to develop and troubleshoot production test programs prior to fabrication of the device prototype. The Company's customers include major semiconductor manufacturers, fabless design houses, foundries and assembly and test services companies.
CREAF Creative Technology Ltd. is a provider of personal digital entertainment (PDE) products and products for personal computers (PC). Its products include digital media players and other products used in a wide array of solutions for PC entertainment, education, music, Internet applications and services, and productivity tools markets. Creative's product line includes a wide array of PDE products, such as the MuVo and Zen line of portable digital media players, DC-CAM/PC-CAM and Webcam digital cameras, and PC upgrades, such as Sound Blaster audio cards, multi-channel speakers and a mix of other products, including three-dimensional (3D) graphics cards, modems, software, musical instruments, computer mice and keyboards. The Company markets its products to consumers and system integrators through traditional marketing channels, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and the Internet under a variety of trademarks, including the MuVo, Zen and Blaster family names.
CAP Creative Computer Applications, Inc. (CCA) is a healthcare information technology and service provider that specializes in Clinical Information Systems (CIS) software, services and browser-based solutions for hospitals and clinic-based laboratories, pharmacies and radiology departments. Clinical information is data that is gathered concerning each individual patient's health condition, diagnosis and treatment that are used by doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers. Such data may include laboratory tests results, transcribed reports of radiological or imaging procedures, medication administration records and other clinical data. The Company's business consists of four operational areas: CIS products, service of its client's installations, implementation services and data acquisition products.
CBAK.OB Creative Bakeries, Inc. (Creative) offers a line of pastries, cakes, pies, cookies and other assorted desserts. Baked products offered by the Company include cheesecakes, mousse cakes and tart shells, as well a complete gourmet line of muffins. Such baked goods are marketed and distributed on a wholesale basis to supermarkets, restaurants and institutional dining facilities. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Brooklyn Cheesecake and Desserts Company, has kosher certification. The Company's products are not kosher for Passover. Creative sells its products through food distributors to hotels, hospitals and institutional feeders such as corporate caters, restaurants and coffee shops. The products are also sold retail through food distributors and direct to supermarket distribution centers.
CRAY Cray Inc. is engaged in the design, development, marketing and support of high-performance computer systems, commonly known as supercomputers. These systems provide higher capability and capacity than typical mainframe computer systems and address challenging computing problems for government, industry and academia. The Company markets four computer systems: the Cray X1, Cray SX-6, Cray MTA-2 and cluster solutions, and is developing a new supercomputer system, called Red Storm, for delivery to Sandia National Laboratories in 2004, pursuant to a long-term development contract. The Company also provides maintenance services to the installed base of Cray computers. In April 2004, the Company acquired privately held OctigaBay Systems Corporation of Vancouver, British Columbia. OctigaBay is developing a high-performance computing system designed to make supercomputing performance accessible to the growing community of scientific and technical computing users.
CRDb Crawford and Company is an independent provider of claims management solutions to insurance companies and self-insured entities, with a global network of more than 700 offices in 67 countries. Major service lines include workers' compensation claims administration and healthcare management services, property and casualty claims management, class action services and risk management information services. The major elements of United States claims management services are Initial Loss Reporting, Investigation, Evaluation, Disposition and Subrogation. Expanded services include Information Services, Management, Auditing Services, Managed Care Services, Vocational Services, Medical Case Management Services and Long-Term Care. The major elements of class action services are Administration and Inspection. Additional risk management and other services is comprised of Risk Sciences Group, Inc., The PRISM Network, Inc. and Education Services.
CR Crane Co. is a diversified manufacturer of engineered industrial products. During 2003, the Company acquired Signal Technology Corporation, a manufacturer of power management products and electronic radio frequency and microwave frequency components and subsystems for the defense, space and military communications market. The operations were integrated with Crane's Aerospace &amp; Electronics Segment. In June 2003, Crane purchased certain pipe coupling and fittings businesses from Etex Group S.A. These businesses provide pipe jointing and repair solutions to the water, gas and industrial markets worldwide. The businesses were integrated into the Company's subsidiary, Crane Ltd. The Company operates in five segments: Aerospace &amp; Electronics, Engineered Materials, Merchandising Systems, Fluid Handling and Controls. In December 2004, Crane Co. sold its United Kingdom-based business and intellectual property of Victaulic to Euro-Victaulic B.V.B.A., a subsidiary of Victaulic Company of America.
CRFT Craftmade International, Inc. is organized into two operating segments: Craftmade International, Inc. (Craftmade) and Trade Source International, Inc. (TSI). Craftmade is principally engaged in the design, distribution and marketing of ceiling fans, light kits, outdoor lighting, bath-strip lighting and related accessories to a nationwide network of over 1,600 lighting showrooms and electrical wholesalers specializing in sales to the remodeling, new home construction and replacement markets. TSI is principally engaged in the design, distribution and marketing of outdoor and indoor lighting, selected ceiling fans and various fan accessories to mass merchandisers. In addition, the Company has a 50% ownership interest in each of two entities, Design Trends, LLC (Design Trends) and Prime/Home Impressions, LLC (PHI), which are part of the TSI segment
BCR C. R. Bard, Inc. is engaged in the design, manufacture, packaging, distribution and sale of medical, surgical, diagnostic and patient care devices. The Company has four major product group categories: urology, vascular, oncology and surgical specialties. Bard markets its products through 23 subsidiaries and a joint venture in over 90 countries outside the United States. The Company's principal international markets are in Europe and Japan. Bard's products are distributed domestically directly to hospitals and other healthcare institutions, as well as through numerous hospital/surgical supply and other medical specialty distributors with whom the Company has distributor agreements. In international markets, products are distributed either directly or through distributors, with the practice varying by country. Full-time representatives of the Company in domestic and international markets carry on sales promotion.
CPY CPI Corp. is a holding company engaged, through its majority- or wholly owned subsidiaries and partnerships, in selling and manufacturing professional portrait photography of babies, children, adults and family groups and offers other related products and services. The Company operates 1,018 professional portrait studios throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico under license agreements with Sears, Roebuck and Co. CPI also has a mobile photography operation under the name Everyday Expressions that offers mobile photography services to childcare centers in four metropolitan markets. The Company offers mobile photography services to childcare centers, youth sports associations and events in 26 markets throughout the United States. In addition, CPI operates searsphotos.com, an online photofinishing service, as well as a vehicle for its customers to archive, share portraits via e-mail and order additional portraits and products.
CVU CPI Aerostructures, Inc. operates as a mini-prime contractor supplying structural aircraft parts under prime contracts with several branches of the United States Government. The Company delivers skin panels, leading edges, flight control surfaces, engine components, wing tips, cowl doors, nacelle assemblies and inlet assemblies for military aircraft such as the C-5A Galaxy cargo jet, the T-38 Talon jet trainer, the C-130 Hercules cargo jet, the A-10 Thunderbolt or Warthog attack jet and the E-3 Sentry AWACS jet. CPI Aerostructures also supplies commercial aircraft products, including aprons and engine mounts, which attach jet engine housings to aircraft such as the Lear 60 and Astra Galaxy business jets. The Company's products are sub-assemblies, a series of parts fixed together to form a larger unit that will comprise a part of a complex aerodynamic structure. It also provides engineering, technical and program management services to its customers.
CPL CPFL Energia S.A. is a holding company that, through its subsidiaries, distributes, generates and commercializes electricity in Brazil. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company delivered 33,669 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity to more than 5.3 million customers. In 2003, its installed generating capacity was 812 megawatts (MW). The Company is also involved in the upgrading of existing generation assets and the construction of six hydroelectric generating facilities, through which the Company expects to increase its installed generating capacity to 1,990 MW as they are progressively completed over the next five years. In addition, it is also engaged in electricity commercialization and provides electricity-related services to its affiliates, as well as unaffiliated parties. The Company is comprised of three core businesses: Distribution, Generation, and Commercialization and Electricity-Related Services.
CPCF.OB CPC of America, Inc. is engaged in the development and acquisition of cardiology medical devices, therapeutic devices and disposable products, as well as the manufacture and distribution of these devices and products for the diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease. The Company completed the development of an external counterpulsation device, known as the CPCA 2000, primarily used for the treatment of coronary artery disease. CPC also holds a controlling interest in Med Enclosure, LLC, a development-stage company in the business of developing an internal puncture closing device and technique known as MedClose. In October 2002, CPC organized MedClose Corp. to conduct the development and commercialization of non-cardiac applications of the MedClose technology. As of December 31, 2003, CPC had no revenue-producing operations. The Company's operations, to date, consists of the design and development of its counterpulsation units and MedClose, as well as the raising of capital.
CPAK CPAC, Inc. through its two business segments: Fuller Brands and CPAC Imaging. Fuller Brands Segment consists of three business operations that develop, manufacture, distribute and market approximately 2,700 branded and private-label products for consumer and commercial cleaning and personal care applications. These business operations are The Fuller Brush Company, Inc., Stanley Home Products and Cleaning Technologies Group (CTG). CPAC Imaging Segment develops, manufactures, packages, distributes and markets its line of branded and private-label chemicals and equipment for Color Photographic, Healthcare and Graphic Arts applications. This segment's business operations consist of CPAC Equipment, Inc. (CEI), PRS, Inc., Trebla Chemical Company, Allied Diagnostic Imaging Resources, Inc., CPAC Europe, CPAC Italia, CPAC Africa and CPAC Asia Imaging Products Limited.
TEU CP Ships Limited is a container shipping company offering its customers door-to-door, as well as port-to-port containerized services for the international transportation of a range of industrial and consumer goods, including raw materials, semi-manufactured and finished goods. The Company operates a fleet of 80 ships in 22 trade lanes focusing on four principal markets. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company transported 2.2 million 20-foot equivalent units on behalf of approximately 23,700 customers. CP Ships provides scheduled services in its four principal markets: TransAtlantic, Australasia, Latin America and Asia, which it serves through seven brands, including Canada Maritime, Cast, Contship Containerlines, ANZDL, Lykes Lines, TMM Lines and Italia Line.
CNRD Conrad Industries, Inc. specializes in the construction, conversion and repair of a variety of steel and aluminum marine vessels for commercial and governmental customers. Through its subsidiaries, the Company operates four shipyards: one in Morgan City, Louisiana; two in Amelia, Louisiana, and one in Orange, Texas. During 2003, Conrad Industries expanded into the aluminum marine fabrication and repair business after transforming one of its existing repair yards in Amelia, Louisiana, into a facility specifically designed to handle aluminum marine fabrication and repair. In February 2003, the Company expanded its repair capabilities when it opened its second facility in Amelia. The Company's customers include marine service companies, offshore support companies, rig fabricators, offshore and inland barge and support vessel operators, offshore construction and drilling contractors, diving companies, energy companies and various governmental agencies.
CNLG Conolog Corporation is engaged in the design, manufacture (directly or through subcontractors) and distribution of small electronic and electromagnetic components and subassemblies for use in telephone, radio and microwave transmission and reception and other communication areas that are used in both military and commercial applications. The Company's primary products include transducers, digital signal processing (DSP) systems and electromagnetic wave filters, audio transmitters and modulators, audio receivers and demodulators, magnetic networks, analog transmitters and receivers and multiplexer supervisory controls. Such products are used for transceiving various quantities, data and protective relaying functions in industrial, utility and other markets. In March 2004, the Company ceased operating of its staffing business, and the assets of the wholly owned subsidiary, Nologoc, Inc. trading as Atlas Design were sold.
COP ConocoPhillips is an integrated, global energy company. Its business is organized into five operating segments: Exploration and Production (E&amp;P), Midstream, Refining and Marketing (R&amp;M), Chemicals and Emerging Businesses. E&amp;P primarily explores for and produces crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids on a worldwide basis. Through both consolidated and equity interests, the Midstream segment gathers and processes natural gas produced by ConocoPhillips and others and fractionates and markets natural gas liquids, primarily in the United States, Canada and Trinidad. R&amp;M refines, markets and transports crude oil and petroleum products, mainly in the United States, Europe and Asia. The Chemicals segment manufactures and markets petrochemicals and plastics on a worldwide basis. The Emerging Businesses segment encompasses the development of new businesses beyond the Company's traditional operations.
CONN Conn's, Inc. is a specialty retailer of home appliances and consumer electronics. The Company sells major home appliances, including refrigerators, freezers, washers, dryers and ranges, and a variety of consumer electronics, including projection, plasma and liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions, camcorders, videocassette recorders (VCRs), digital video disc (DVD) players and home theater products. Conn's also sells home office equipment, lawn and garden products and bedding. The Company offers over 1,100 product items or stock keeping units (SKUs) in a wide range of price points representing such brands as General Electric, Whirlpool, Frigidaire, Mitsubishi, Sony, Panasonic, Thomson Consumer Electronics, Simmons, Hewlett Packard and Compaq. Each of Conn's stores sell five major categories of products: major home appliances, consumer electronics, home office equipment, delivery and installation services, and other household products, including lawn and garden equipment and bedding.
CNCT Connetics Corporation is a specialty pharmaceutical company focusing exclusively on the treatment of dermatological conditions. It markets two pharmaceutical products: OLUX Foam (clobetasol propionate) 0.05%, and Lux&iacute;q Foam (betamethasone valerate) 0.12%. On February 9, 2004, the Company announced that it had entered into a binding purchase agreement with Roche to acquire exclusive United States rights to Soriatane-brand acitretin, an approved oral medicine for the treatment of severe psoriasis in adults. The transaction closed on March 4, 2004. Soriatane, a once-a-day oral retinoid approved in the United States, is used for the treatment of severe psoriasis in adults.
CTWS Connecticut Water Service, Inc. is a holding company whose income is derived from its 11 wholly owned subsidiaries. Connecticut owns five regulated water companies: The Connecticut Water Company, The Gallup Water Service, Incorporated, The Crystal Water Company of Danielson, The Barnstable Water Company and The Unionville Water Company. The Company owns six unregulated companies: Chester Realty, Inc., New England Water Utility Services, Inc., Connecticut Water Emergency Services, Inc., Crystal Water Utilities Corporation, Barnstable Holding Company and BARLACO. The Company has three business segments: water activities, real estate transactions and services and rentals. Water activities consist of regulated water activities to supply public drinking water to its customers. Real estate transactions involve the sale or donation for income tax benefits of limited excess real estate holdings. The services and rentals segment provides contracted services to water and wastewater utilities.
CNMD CONMED Corp. is a medical technology company specializing in instruments, implants and video equipment for arthroscopic sports medicine, and powered surgical instruments, such as drills and saws, for orthopedic, otolaryngologic, neurosurgery and other surgical specialties. CONMED develops, manufactures and supplies radio frequency electrosurgery systems, used to cut and cauterize tissue in various types of surgical procedures worldwide; endoscopy products such as trocars, clip appliers, scissors and surgical staplers and electrocardiogram electrodes for heart monitoring, and other patient care products. It also offers integrated operating room systems and equipment. Its products are used in a variety of clinical settings, such as operating rooms, surgery centers, physicians' offices and hospitals. The Company's offerings are categorized under six product lines: Arthroscopy, Powered Surgical Instruments, Electrosurgery, Patient Care, Endoscopy and Integrated Operating Room Systems.
CGM Congoleum Corporation produces sheet and tile floor-covering products with a variety of product features, designs and colors. The Company also produces through-chip-inlaid products for residential and commercial markets. In addition, Congoleum purchases sundries and accessory products for resale. The Company's products serve both, the residential and commercial hard-surface flooring markets, and are used in remodeling, manufactured housing, new construction and commercial applications. These products, together with a limited quantity of related products purchased for resale, are sold primarily to wholesale distributors and retailers in the United States and Canada. On December 31, 2003, Congoleum filed a voluntary petition with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey, seeking relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, as a means to resolve claims asserted against it related to the use of asbestos in its products.
CNXT Conexant Systems, Inc. designs, develops and sells semiconductor system solutions, comprised of semiconductor devices, software and reference designs, for use in broadband communications applications that enable high-speed transmission, processing and distribution of audio, video, voice and data to and throughout homes and business enterprises worldwide. The Company's access solutions connect people through personal communications access products, such as personal computers (PCs), set-top boxes and game consoles to audio, video, voice and data services over wireless and wire line broadband connections, as well as over dial-up Internet connections. The Company's central office solutions are used by service providers to deliver high-speed audio, video, voice and data services over copper telephone lines to homes and businesses around the globe.
CCUR Concurrent Computer Corporation is a provider of computer and software systems for both the video-on-demand (VOD), market through the VOD division (formerly the Xstreme division) and high-performance computing applications through its Integrated Solutions Division (ISD) (formerly the Real-Time division). The VOD division provides VOD systems consisting of hardware and software, as well as integration services, primarily to residential cable companies, which have upgraded their networks to support interactive, digital services. The Integrated Solutions Division provides high-performance, real-time computer systems to commercial and government customers for use in applications, such as simulation and data acquisition.
CNQR Concur Technologies, Inc. is a provider of business services and software solutions that automate processes involved in the management of corporate expenses. The Company's flagship products are Concur Expense services and software for automating the travel and entertainment expense management process. It also offers value-added services and software that are integrated with core software and services, as well as consulting, customer support and training. Concur's solutions, comprised of all these elements, are designed to automate and streamline business processes, reduce operating costs, improve internal controls and empower businesses to apply greater insight to their spending patterns through comprehensive analytics. The Company provides subscription services to customers over the Internet or a dedicated telecommunications connection, allowing them to outsource their corporate expense management functions.
CCDC Concorde Career Colleges, Inc. owns and operates proprietary, postsecondary institutions that offer career vocational training programs primarily in the allied health field. The Company serves the segment of population seeking to acquire a career-oriented education. As of December 31, 2003, the Company operated campuses at 12 locations in seven states. The Company's twelve campuses are located in the following cities: North Hollywood, Garden Grove, San Bernardino and San Diego, California; Denver, Colorado; Lauderdale Lakes, Jacksonville and Tampa, Florida; Kansas City, Missouri; Portland, Oregon; Memphis, Tennessee, and Arlington, Texas. The Company has designated each campus except Memphis, as a Concorde Career Institute, to increase name recognition. The Memphis, Tennessee Campus has been designated as Concorde Career College.
CCRD Concord Communications, Inc. is a software company that provides a business service management solution to enterprise customers, managed service providers and telecommunication carriers. The Company's solution, the eHealth Suite of products, maps information technology (IT) services to business needs, measures the actual end user experience and manages application, system and network infrastructures. The eHealth Suite software is composed of the eHealth E2E console and three solution sets that contain products designed to manage applications, systems and networks. The eHealth solution also contains a number of cross-technology, suite-wide products that operate across all technology areas such as fault management and distributed eHealth.
CPTS Conceptus, Inc. is engaged primarily in the design, development and marketing of minimally invasive devices for reproductive medical applications. The Company manufactures and markets Essure, a medical device and procedure for women designed principally to provide a non-incisional alternative to tubal ligation. The Essure device is a proprietary soft and flexible micro-insert designed to be deployed permanently into each fallopian tube using the Company's minimally invasive transcervical tubal access catheter system. Clinical studies have shown that the Essure device induces an occlusive tissue response. The Company's catheter systems are based on technology initially developed and used by Target Therapeutics, Inc., a business unit of Boston Scientific Corporation, and licensed exclusively to conceptus in the field of reproductive physiology. The United States Food and Drug Administration approved the Essure for marketing in the United States in November 2002.
CAG ConAgra Foods, Inc. is a packaged food company serving a wide variety of food customers. During the fiscal year ended May 30 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company's operations were classified into three segments: Retail Products, Foodservice Products and Food Ingredients. The Retail Products segment includes branded foods in the shelf-stable, frozen and refrigerated temperature classes that are sold in various retail channels; the Foodservice Products segment includes branded and customized food products, including meals, entrees, prepared potatoes, meats, seafood, sauces and a variety of custom-manufactured culinary products packaged for sale to restaurants and other foodservice establishments, and the Food Ingredients segment includes certain branded and commodity food ingredients, including milled grain ingredients, seasonings, blends and flavorings, which are sold to food processors, as well as certain commodity sourcing and merchandising operations.
CMVT Comverse Technology, Inc. (CTI) designs, develops, manufactures, markets and supports software, systems and related services for multimedia communication and information processing applications. The Company's products are used in a range of applications by wireless and wireline telecommunications network operators and service providers, call centers and other government, public and commercial organizations worldwide. Through its subsidiary, Comverse, Inc. (Comverse), CTI provides telecommunication software, systems and related services for voice and data value-added enhanced services. Through its subsidiary, Verint Systems Inc. (Verint), it provides analytic software-based solutions for communications interception, digital video security and surveillance and enterprise business intelligence. Through its subsidiary, Ulticom, Inc. (Ulticom), the Company provides services enabling signaling software for wireline, wireless and Internet communications.
CMTX.OB Comtex News Network, Inc. is a wholesaler of real-time news and related content for major financial and business information distributors. With a specialization in the financial news and content marketplace, Comtex receives, enhances, combines, filters and distributes news and content received from more than 10,000 national and international news bureaus, agencies and publications. The resulting news and content products, with embedded stock tickers, key words, standardized metadata, uniform formatting and custom filters, are all designed to meet the exacting standards required by investment professionals. The Company produces and distributes three main product lines: CustomWires, Comtex TopNews and Publisher Full Feeds.
CMTL Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Comtech) designs, develops, produces and markets products, systems and services for advanced communications solutions. The Company conducts its business through three complementary segments: telecommunications transmission, mobile data communications and radio frequency (RF) microwave amplifiers. The telecommunications transmission segment, which is the Company's largest business segment, provides sophisticated equipment and systems for satellite, over-the-horizon microwave and wireless line-of-sight telecommunications systems. The mobile data communications segment provides satellite-based mobile tracking and messaging services, and mobile satellite transceivers primarily for defense applications, including logistics, support and battlefield command and control. Comtech designs, develops, manufactures and markets solid-state, high-power, broadband amplifiers in the microwave and RF spectrums.
CITP COMSYS IT Partners Inc. (formerly Venturi Partners, Inc.) will offer information technology (IT) staffing, permanent recruiting and placement of IT professionals, vendor management services, project solutions, offshore development, specialized IT staffing, network services, translation services and a number of software practices, including business intelligence. The Company is a merger between Venturi Partners, Inc. and COMSYS Holding, Inc. that was completed on September 30, 2004. Venturi is a provider of technology and staffing services to businesses, and professional and government organizations. COMSYS Holding is a provider of IT staffing services, vendor management services and project solutions to a diversified customer base, including clients in the energy, healthcare, insurance, financial services, telecommunications and government sectors. Venturi also announced that, it has agreed to sell Venturi Staffing Partners, Inc., its commercial staffing business, to Compass CS, Inc.
CRK Comstock Resources Inc. is an independent energy company engaged in the acquisition, development, production and exploration of oil and natural gas properties. Comstock's oil and natural gas operations are concentrated in the Gulf of Mexico, east Texas/north Louisiana, southeast Texas and south Texas regions. In addition, the Company has properties in the Illinois Basin region in Kentucky and the Mid-Continent regions located in the Texas panhandle, Oklahoma and Kansas. Its oil and natural gas properties are estimated to have proved reserves of 616.9 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent (Bcfe) as of December 31, 2003. Its proved oil and natural gas reserve base is 81% natural gas and 67% proved developed on a Bcfe basis. The Company replaced 108% of its production of 44 Bcfe in 2003 through its exploration, development and acquisition activities.
CIX CompX International Inc. is a manufacturer of precision ball bearing slides, security products and ergonomic computer support systems used in office furniture, computer-related applications and a variety of other industries. These products are principally designed for use in medium- to high-end product applications, where design, quality and durability are critical to customers. The Company's precision ball bearing slides and ergonomic computer support systems are sold under the CompX Waterloo, Waterloo Furniture Components, Thomas Regout and Dynaslide brand names, and its security products are sold under the CompX Security Products, National Cabinet Lock, Fort Lock, Timberline Lock, Chicago Lock, STOCK LOCKS, KeSet and TuBar brand names. CompX also manufactures, markets and/or distributes a line of window furnishings hardware in European markets in addition to other furniture products.
CPWR Compuware Corporation provides software products and professional services designed to increase the productivity of the information technology (IT) departments of businesses worldwide. The Company extended its offerings to include application services by acquiring certain assets of Covisint LLC. Covisint provides business-to-business applications and communication services that connect the global automotive industry. In addition, Compuware acquired Changepoint Corporation. Changepoint offerings provide critical insight into IT spending, operations and management. The Company operates in two business segments in the software and technology services industries: products and professional services.
COIB.OB Computerized Thermal Imaging, Inc. (CTI) designs, develops, manufactures and markets thermal imaging systems and infrared devices for applications in healthcare and industrial markets. The Company's systems are based upon computer interpretation of thermal photography using software that the Company has developed. Its principal products include the BCS 2100 breast imaging system designed to assist radiologists in their efforts to distinguish between benign and malignant breast masses; the Photonic Stimulator and Thermal Image Processors for pain management applications, and the Turbine Blade Inspection System, a quality assurance tool for non-destructive testing and examination of industrial components, composite materials and metals. The Company's target customers are hospital radiology departments, cancer research facilities and imaging centers, chiropractors and physical therapists, and manufacturers of products with complex cast components or processes.
CSC Computer Sciences Corporation is a provider of information technology (IT) and professional services. The Company specializes in the application of complex IT, enabling its customers to achieve their strategic objectives. Outsourcing involves operating all or a portion of a customer's technical infrastructure and also includes business process outsourcing. IT and professional services include systems integration, consulting and other professional services, as well as product sales and related services. The Company provides these services to customers in the global commercial and United States federal markets. It also provides certain non-IT technical services, including aircraft maintenance, marine services and international peacekeeping and security support to United States federal customers. On a geographic basis, CSC provides services to global commercial customers in the United States, Europe and other International locations.
CPSI Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. is a healthcare information technology company that designs, develops, markets, installs and supports computerized information technology systems to meet the demands of small and mid-size hospitals. The Company's market includes acute care community hospitals with 300 or fewer beds and small specialty hospitals. It provides software and hardware products, complemented by data conversion, complete installation and support. The Company's enterprise-wide system automates the management of clinical and financial data across the functional areas of a hospital. It also provides services that enable customers to outsource certain data-related business processes. The Company has grown to serve more than 490 hospital customers across 45 states and the District of Columbia.
CMNT Computer Network Technology Corporation is a provider of storage networking solutions. The Company focuses primarily on helping customers design, develop, deploy and manage storage and data networks, including storage area networks (SANs), a high-speed network within a business' existing computer system that allows the business to manage its data storage. The Company designs, manufactures, markets and supports a range of solutions that provide connections among networks of computer and related devices, including applications such as remote data replication, or the real-time backup of data to remotely located disks, and remote tape vaulting, or the backup of data to remotely archived tapes.
CHRZ Computer Horizons Corp. (CHC) is a strategic solutions and human capital management company that provides services to multi-national companies through its bestshore delivery centers located globally. The Company offers global technology services and solutions, which are divided into three divisions: Solutions, IT Services and Chimes. It markets solutions to existing and potential clients with the objective of becoming a preferred provider of information technology (IT) services and solutions for such clients. During the year ended December 31, 2003, it provided IT services to 967 clients, with its primary client accounting for 7% of its consolidated revenues. The range of business and technical services is comprised of software and tools, proven processes and methodologies, tested project management practices and resource management and procurement programs.
CA Computer Associates International, Inc. is a provider of management software. The Company designs, markets and licenses computer software products that allow businesses to efficiently run, manage and automate critical aspects of their information technology (IT) operations. It has a portfolio of software products that are designed to operate with all major business computer hardware platforms, operating systems and products marketed by other hardware and software companies. Its software products include those that it has sold for many years, as well as newer products designed to address customers' business needs. It is considered an independent software vendor (ISV) and develops and licenses software products that can increase the efficiency of computer hardware platforms or operating systems sold by other vendors, such as the Company. In March 2004, the Company sold its 90% interest in ACCPAC International, Inc. (ACCPAC), to The Sage Group, plc. (Sage).
CMPD.OB CompuMed, Inc. is a developer of computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) solutions for the healthcare industry that provides medical imaging software solutions and remote, computer-aided interpretation of electrocardiograms. The two main products are the OsteoGram and CardioGram systems. The OsteoGram is an image processing software that utilizes either digital or film-based, x-rays of the hand to screen, diagnose and monitor osteoporosis, a disease that affects more than 200 million people worldwide. The CardioGram consists of computer-aided telemedicine services that offer online interpretation of electrocardiograms to physicians, government and corporate healthcare providers.
CGEN Compugen Ltd. is a genomics-based drug and diagnostic discovery company, whose mission is to increase the probability of successful development of novel drug and diagnostic products by incorporating ideas and methods from mathematics, computer science and physics into the disciplines of biology, organic chemistry and medicine. The Company initially developed a computer hardware system and software applications to accelerate homology searches of biological sequences. This system and those applications were commercialized under the name Bioccelerator since 1994. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company sold the Bioccelerator product line. By divesting the Bioccelerator product line, Compugen sought to increase its focus on its two primary commercial offerings.
CDCY CompuDyne Corporation provides products and services to the Public Security markets. It operates four segments: Institutional Security Systems, Attack Protection, Federal Security Systems and Public Safety and Justice. The Institutional Security Systems segment provides physical and electronic security products and services to the corrections industry prisons and jails market, and to the courthouse, municipal and commercial markets. The Attack Protection segment is an original equipment manufacturer of bullet-, blast- and attack-resistant windows and doors designed for high-security applications such as embassies, courthouses, federal buildings, banks, corporate headquarters and other facilities. The Federal Security Systems segment provides turnkey systems integration of public security and safety systems. In December 2004, the Company's Public Safety &amp; Justice Unit acquired Copperfire Software Solutions.
CCRT CompuCredit Corporation is principally a provider of credit and related financial services and products to, or associated with, the underserved or sub-prime consumer credit market. Historically, it has served this market primarily through marketing and solicitation of credit card accounts originated by banks under an agreement with the Company and its servicing of the credit card receivables underlying the originated accounts. Since 1998, CompuCredit has used acquisitions of distressed portfolios of credit card receivables as a channel for adding credit card receivables. Commencing in 2002 and continuing into 2003, however, the Company used acquisitions of distressed portfolios as the primary channel for adding credit card receivables, principally because it has been able to obtain better leverage (or advance rates) against the discounted purchase prices of these acquired receivables than it can obtain against receivables generated through its other origination channels.
CHCR.OB Comprehensive Care Corporation (CompCare), primarily through its wholly owned subsidiary, Comprehensive Behavioral Care, Inc. (CBC), provides managed care services in the behavioral health and psychiatric fields. The Company manages the delivery of a continuum of psychiatric and substance abuse services to commercial, medicare, and medicaid members on behalf of employers, health plans (including health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and preferred provider organizations (PPOs)), government organizations, third-party claims administrators, and commercial and other group purchasers of behavioral healthcare services. Its services include a broad spectrum of inpatient and outpatient mental health and substance abuse therapy, counseling and supportive interventions. The managed care operations include administrative service agreements, fee-for-service agreements and capitation contracts.
CPTC.OB Compostite Technology Corp. (CTC) specializes in the development and commercialization of products relating to the electrical utility industry. The Company's first product is a composite core overhead bare conductor cable, the Aluminum Conductor Composite Core (ACCC) Cable used in the electric transmission and distribution industry. Follow-on products to be introduced by the Company include electrical towers and poles, wind turbine erection and support systems, and other structural components.
CMPX Compex Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures electrical stimulation products for pain management, rehabilitation, fitness and sports performance enhancement. The Company's products are used in clinical, home healthcare, sports and occupational medicine settings. The Company specifically designs, manufactures, distributes, sells and rents electrical stimulation products that use different modalities to deliver electrical current through electrodes placed on the skin for rehabilitation, edema reduction, and pain management as medical devices, and for sports performance enhancement and muscle toning as consumer products. The Company's portfolio of products includes neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), pulsed direct current stimulation (PDC), transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), interferential stimulation (IF), ultrasound and iontophoresis devices, accessories and supplies. Compex acquired all of the operating assets of BMR Neurotech, in May 2003.
CTT Competitive Technologies, Inc. (CTT) provides technology transfer, selling and licensing services focused on the technology needs of its customers to match those requirements with commercially viable technology solutions. The Company identifies and commercializes technologies in life, digital, nano and physical sciences developed by universities, companies, independent research institutions and individual inventors. Life sciences include medical testing, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, biotechnologies, medical devices and other medical or biological applications. Digital sciences include communications, semiconductors, Internet related, e-commerce and consumer electronics applications. Nano sciences deal with the manipulation of microscopic particles into useful arrangements and smart or novel materials. Physical sciences include chemical, display and environmental applications.
CMP Compass Minerals International, Inc., based in the Kansas City metropolitan area, is a salt producer in North America and the United Kingdom, and operates nine production facilities. The Company's product lines include salt for highway deicing, consumer deicing, water conditioning, consumer and industrial food preparation, agriculture and industrial applications. In addition, Compass is a North American producer of sulfate of potash, which is used in the production of specialty fertilizers for high-value crops and turf.
CBSS Compass Bancshares, Inc. is a financial services company with four operating segments: Corporate Banking, Retail Banking, Wealth Management and Treasury. The Company's principal bank subsidiary is Compass Bank, which conducts a general commercial banking and trust business at 376 banking center, including 136 in Texas, 89 in Alabama, 71 in Arizona, 42 in Florida, 28 in Colorado and 10 in New Mexico. In addition, Compass Bank operates loan production offices in Georgia and Maryland. The Company's other bank subsidiary is Central Bank of the South, which has limited activities. In addition, the Company, through its wholly owned subsidiaries Horizons Insurance Group, Inc., Maxson-Mahoney-Turner, Inc. and Schaefer-Smith-Ankeney Insurance Agency, Inc., is engaged in providing insurance products to its customers. In January 2005, the Company acquired Stavis, Margolis Advisory Services, Inc., a Houston, Texas-based investment advisory firm.
CTC Compania de Telecomunicaciones de Chile SA is a telecommunications company in Chile that, as of December 31, 2003, owned approximately 75% of all telephone lines in the country and serviced approximately 30% of all mobile subscribers. The Company provides a broad range of telecommunications and other services throughout Chile, including local telephone service, mobile telephone service, mobile communications services, domestic long-distance service and international long-distance service, data transmission, dedicated lines, broadband and wireless fidelity, terminal equipment sales and leasing, public telephone service, interconnection services, value-added services (including the sale of telephone numbers-such as 700 numbers for toll calls-to providers of telephone-based services, and the provision of supplementary services and direct dialing), Internet access for corporate customers and security systems services.
BVN Minas Buenaventura SA (Buenaventura Mining Company Inc.) is engaged in the mining, processing, development and exploration of gold, silver, and, to a lesser extent, other metals, in Peru. The Company operates three mines: Julcani, Uchucchacua and Orcopampa. It has controlling interests in five mining companies, which have controlling interests in the Antapite, Colquijirca, Ishihuinca, Shila and Paula mines. The Company also owns an electric power transmission company and an engineering services consulting company, and has minority interests in several other mining companies, including a significant ownership interest in Yanacocha, a Peruvian partnership.
CU Compania Cervecerias Unidas S.A. (United Breweries Company, Inc.) is a diversified beverage company operating principally in Chile and Argentina. The Company operates in five segments, which comprise the production and sale of beer in Chile and Argentina, soft drinks and mineral water, wine and other activities that include the production and sale of plastic cases and containers. United Breweries' beer and soft drink products include a range of Company-owned, licensed and imported brands. The Company also produces and distributes bottled nectar, wine and pisco in Chile, and recently entered the confectionery industry. During the year ended December 31, 2003, 39% of the Company's net sales were accounted for by beer sales in Chile, 8.2% by beer sales in Argentina, 30% by soft drinks, nectar and mineral water sales in Chile, 21.5% by wine sales and the remainder, by sales of other products.
RIO Companhia Vale Do Rio Doce (Vale Overseas Limited), through its subsidiaries, produces and exports iron ore and pellets. The Company holds exploration claims that cover 9.8 million hectares in Brazil and 395.8 thousand hectares outside Brazil in Gabon, Chile and Peru. Companhia Vale Do Rio Doce operates logistics systems, including railroads and ports that are integrated with its mining operations. Directly and through affiliates and joint ventures, the Company has investments in the aluminum-related energy and steel businesses. In February 2003, the Company acquired 100% of Elkem Rana AS, which was renamed RDMN. In April 2003, it completed its acquisition of a total of 28.02% shares of CST from Acesita. In September 2003, the Company completed its acquisition of Mitsui's interest in Caemi. In November 2003, it sold its interest in Sepetiba Tecon S.A., and, in October 2003, sold its interest in Fosfertil to Bunge Fertilizantes S.A.
SID Companhia Siderurgica Nacional, also known as National Steel Company, is a vertically integrated company that produces a range of value-added steel products, including slabs, hot and cold-rolled coils and sheets for the distribution, packaging, automotive, home appliance and construction industries. The Company is also a producer of tin mill products for packaging containers. National Steel also runs its own iron ore, limestone and dolomite mines, in the State of Minas Gerais, which supply all the needs of its Presidente Vargas Steelworks in the State of Rio de Janeiro. As a complement to its activities, the Company has also made strategic investments in railroads and power supply companies, among others. The Company's products are sold both in Brazil and abroad as a main raw material for several different manufacturing industries, including the automotive, home appliance, packaging, construction and steel processing industries.
ELP Companhia Paranaense de Energia (COPEL) is a mixed capital corporation engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in the Brazilian State of Parana pursuant to concessions granted by the Brazilian regulatory agency for the electric sector, the National Agency of Electric Energy. In addition, COPEL is authorized to be a member, together with private companies, of consortiums or companies with the objective of engaging in operations in the energy and telecommunications areas, in conformity with applicable legislation. COPEL has five principal wholly owned subsidiaries: COPEL Geracao S.A., COPEL Transmissao S.A., COPEL Distribuicao S.A., COPEL Telecomunicacoes S.A. and COPEL Participacoes S.A.
CIG Companhia Energetica de Minas Gerais (CEMIG) is an electric power public utility concessionaire controlled by the Government of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Its principal activities include the construction and operation of systems used in the production, transformation, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy, as well as in certain other related business activities. The Company holds a concession agreement to distribute electric power over an area of 562,478 square kilometers to approximately 5.74 million consumers at December 31, 2003. At December 31, 2003, the Company generated electricity at 44 hydroelectric plants, three thermoelectric plants and one wind farm, and had a total installed generation capacity of 5,771 megawatts, of which hydroelectric plants accounted for 5,599 megawatts, thermoelectric plants accounted for 171 megawatts and its wind farm accounted for one megawatt.
ABV Companhia de Bebidas das America is a brewer in Latin America. It produces, distributes and sells beer, soft drinks and other beverage products primarily in Brazil, but also in the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru and Venezuela. The Company's operations in Brazil accounted for approximately 88.0% of its net sales in 2003. Through the acquisition of its stake in Quilmes Industrial Societe Anonyme (Quinsa) in early 2003, it is also present in the beverage markets, primarily beer, of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Its principal operations outside of Brazil are Cerveceria Rio, its subsidiary in Guatemala, and Quinsa. Its economic interest in Quinsa was 50.9% as of May 31, 2004. In addition, the Company is the sole distributor of Pepsi beverage products in Brazil. The balance of its business is comprised primarily of sales of non-carbonated beverages (NANC) beverage products, including mineral water, isotonic sport drinks, iced tea and other products.
GGY Compagnie Generale de Geophysique is a global participant in the geophysical services industry, providing a range of seismic data acquisition, processing and interpretation services, as well as related processing and interpretation software to clients in the oil and gas exploration and production business. It provides geophysical services principally to oil and gas companies that use seismic imaging to help explore for, develop and manage oil and gas reserves by identifying new areas where subsurface conditions are favorable for the accumulation of oil and gas, determining the size and structure of previously identified oil and gas fields and optimizing development and production of oil and gas reserves (reservoir management). The Company is also a global manufacturer of geophysical equipment.
CWBC Community West Bancshares serves as a bank holding company for its sole bank subsidiary Community West Bank (the Bank), which offers a range of commercial and retail financial services to professionals, small to mid-sized businesses and individual households. These services include commercial, real estate, Small Business Administration, construction and consumer loan options, as well as deposit products. The Bank also offers cash management, remittance processing, electronic banking, merchant credit card processing, online banking and other financial services. Relationship banking is conducted at the community level through two branches, in Goleta and Ventura, California, and a loan production office in Santa Maria, California. The primary customers are small to mid-sized businesses and their owners and managers. In addition, the Bank offers Internet banking, automated clearinghouse origination, electronic data interchange, draft preparation and processing and check imaging.
CTBI Community Trust Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company that, as of December 31, 2003, owned all the capital stock of Community Trust Bank, Inc., a commercial bank, and Community Trust and Investment Company, a trust company, serving small and mid-sized communities in eastern, northeast, central and south central Kentucky and southern West Virginia. Through its subsidiaries, the Company engages in a range of commercial and personal banking and trust activities, which include accepting time and demand deposits; making secured and unsecured loans to corporations, individuals and others; providing cash management services to corporate and individual customers; issuing letters of credit; renting safe deposit boxes, and providing funds transfer services.
CSHB.OB Community Shores Bank Corporation is the holding company for Community Shores Bank (the Bank). The Bank provides a full range of commercial and consumer banking services primarily in the Western Michigan Counties of Muskegon and Northern Ottawa. The Bank's services include checking and savings accounts, certificates of deposit, safe deposit boxes, courier service and loans for commercial and consumer purposes. Additionally, the Bank offers mutual funds and annuities that are non-insured, through an alliance with the Independent Community Financial Services Association. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company had total consolidated assets of $184 million.
CBAC.OB Community National Bancorporation is a holding company with two subsidiaries, Community National Bank and First National Bank (Tarpon). CNB and Tarpon (collectively the Banks) conduct a commercial banking business serving Turner and Crisp Counties, Georgia and Pinellas County, Florida. The Banks offer a range of interest bearing and non-interest bearing accounts to residents, businesses and employees of businesses within its market areas. Other services of the Banks include safe deposit boxes, travelers' checks, direct deposit of payroll and social security checks, and automatic drafts for various accounts, second mortgage loans and installment loans for personal use such as education and personal investment, or for the purchase of automobiles or other consumer items. In October 2003, Community National entered into an agreement to sell Tarpon to Gulf Atlantic Financial Group, Inc. Either party may terminate the agreement if the sale of Tarpon has not been completed by June 30, 2004.
CIBI Community Investors Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for First Federal Community Bank (the Bank) of Bucyrus. The Bank is a traditional community bank, which is primarily engaged in attracting deposits from the general public through its offices, and using those and other available sources of funds to originate loans secured by single-family residences primarily located in Crawford County, Ohio. To a lesser extent, the Bank originates other real estate loans secured by non-residential real estate and construction loans and non-real estate loans, primarily consisting of consumer loans. The Bank also invests in United States treasury and federal government agency obligations and mortgage-backed securities, which are issued or guaranteed by federal agencies.
CYH Community Health Systems, Inc. is a non-urban provider of general hospital healthcare services in the United States. The Company's hospitals offer a variety of services involving a broad range of inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services. These include orthopedics, cardiology, occupational medicine, diagnostic services, emergency services, rehabilitation treatment, home health and skilled nursing. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned, leased or operated 72 hospitals, geographically diversified across 22 states, with an aggregate of 7,810 licensed beds.
CFFC Community Financial Corporation (Community) owns Community Bank (the Bank). Its primary business consists of attracting deposits from the general public and originating real estate loans and other types of investments through offices located in Staunton, Waynesboro, Stuart Drafts, Raphine, Verona and Virginia Beach, Virginia. In June 2003, Community First Mortgage Corporation, a wholly owned mortgage-banking subsidiary, was sold. Lending activities are concentrated on first mortgage conventional loans secured by residential and, to a lesser extent, commercial and multi-family real estate with an emphasis on multi-family housing.
CCBD Community Central Bank Corporation is the holding company for Community Central Bank (the Bank). The Company exists primarily for the purpose of holding all the stock of the Bank and of such other subsidiaries as it may acquire or establish. The Bank, through its main branch in Mount Clemens, Michigan and its full service branch in Rochester Hills, Michigan, provides a variety of commercial banking services to individuals, businesses, governmental units and other institutions. Its services include accepting time, demand and savings deposits, including regular checking accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal (NOW) and money market accounts and certificates of deposit. In addition, the Bank makes secured and unsecured commercial, construction, mortgage and consumer loans, and provides safe deposit facilities. Community Central Mortgage Company, LLC a subsidiary of the Company and Bank, operates locations in Mount Clemens, Warren, Dearborn, Livonia and Anchorville.
CYL Community Capital Corporation is the holding company for Greenwood Bank &amp; Trust. As of March 4, 2004, the Company was the survivor of a merger with Abbeville Capital Corporation, a South Carolina corporation and the holding company for The Bank of Abbeville, a South Carolina corporation. Immediately following the merger with Abbeville Capital Corporation, it merged The Bank of Abbeville with and into CapitalBank. The bank offers a range of commercial banking services, including checking and savings accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts (NOW), individual retirement arrangement (IRA) accounts and other savings and time deposits of various types ranging from money markets to long-term certificates of deposit.
ALBY Community Capital Bancshares, Inc. is a holding company with two bank subsidiaries: Albany Bank &amp; Trust, N.A. and First Bank of Dothan (collectively, the Banks). The Company acquired First Bank of Dothan on November 13, 2003. Albany Bank &amp; Trust was chartered as a national bank and began business as a full-service commercial bank on April 28, 1999. The Banks operate as community banks for the residents and businesses located in Dougherty and Lee Counties, Georgia, and Houston County, Alabama. The Banks' lending services include consumer loans to individuals, commercial loans to small to medium-sized businesses and professional concerns and real estate-related loans. The Banks also offer an array of deposit services. To complement its lending and deposit services, the Banks provide cash management services, safe-deposit boxes, traveler's checks, direct deposit, automatic drafts and courier services to commercial customers.
CBIN Community Bank Shares of Indiana, Inc. is a single bank holding company for its wholly owned subsidiary, Community Bank of Southern Indiana (the Bank). The Bank is a community-oriented financial institution engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the general public, and using such funds for the origination of commercial business and real estate loans and secured consumer loans such as home equity lines of credit, automobile loans and recreational vehicle loans. It also originates and sells, into the secondary market, mortgage loans for the purchase of single-family homes. The Bank invests excess liquidity balances in mortgage-backed, United States agency, state and municipal and corporate securities. It provides financial services through its 10 branch offices in Southern Indiana and five branch offices in Kentucky. Its primary lending products are residential mortgage, commercial and installment loans.
SCB Community Bankshares Inc. (CBI) is a bank holding company. CBI owns four banking subsidiaries: Orangeburg National Bank, Sumter National Bank, Florence National Bank and the Bank of Ridgeway (collectively, the Banks), as well as a mortgage subsidiary, Community Resource Mortgage, Inc. (CRM). The Banks and CRM provide a variety of financial services to individuals and businesses throughout South Carolina. Deposit services offered by the Banks include business and personal checking accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, various term certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts and other deposit services. The Banks also offer secured and unsecured, short-to-intermediate term loans, with floating and fixed interest rates for commercial and consumer purposes. CRM provides a variety of one- to four-family residential mortgage products, primarily for resale in the secondary market.
CMTY Community Banks, Inc. is a financial holding company with one banking subsidiary, Community Banks (the Bank). Community, through the Bank, conducts a full-service commercial banking business and provides trust services through 46 branch banking offices located in Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Luzerne, Northumberland, Schuylkill, Snyder and York Counties in Pennsylvania, and Carroll County in Maryland. Community Banks provides a range of services through its network of offices. Lending services include secured and unsecured commercial loans, residential and commercial mortgages and various forms of consumer lending. Deposit services include a variety of checking, savings, time and money market deposits. Community also has special-purpose subsidiaries. Community Bank Investments, Inc. makes investments primarily in equity securities of other banks. Community Banks Life Insurance Company, Inc. provides credit life insurance to its consumer credit borrowers.
CBNH.OB Community Bank &amp; Trust Company (the Bank) is a state-chartered, full-service commercial bank. The Bank engages in a wide range of commercial and personal banking activities, including accepting demand deposits, accepting savings and time deposit accounts, making secured and unsecured loans to businesses and consumers and originating mortgage loans for both commercial and residential. The Bank's lending services include commercial, real estate and consumer installment loans. Revenues from the Bank's lending activities constitute the largest component of the Bank's operating revenues. The Bank makes certain insurance products and securities brokerage services available through a third-party contractual arrangement with Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., doing business as Smith Barney, Inc. Similarly, the Bank offers its customers various trust services through a third-party contractual arrangement.
CBU Community Bank System, Inc. is a single-bank holding company that wholly owns four subsidiaries: Community Bank, N.A. (the Bank), Benefit Plans Administrative Services, Inc. (BPA), CFSI Closeout Corp. (CFSICC) and First of Jermyn Realty Co. (FJRC). The Bank operates 126 customer facilities throughout 22 counties of upstate New York and five counties of northeastern Pennsylvania, offering a range of commercial and retail banking services. BPA owns two subsidiaries, Benefit Plans Administrative LLC and Harbridge Consulting Group LLC. BPA provides administration, consulting and actuarial services to sponsors of employee benefit plans. CFSICC and FJRC are inactive companies. The Company also wholly owns three unconsolidated subsidiary business trusts formed for the purpose of issuing mandatorily redeemable preferred securities, which are considered Tier I capital under regulatory capital adequacy guidelines.
CBNV Community Bank of Northern Virginia is a full-service banking institution. As of September 30, 2002, the Bank had total assets of $661.7 million. The Bank operates 11 branch offices, 14 automatic teller machines (ATMs) and one mortgage loan production office. The primary services offered by the Bank include retail and home banking, commercial banking and mortgage banking. In addition, it also offers business loans and student loans.
CMBC Community Bancorp Inc. is a bank holding company for Community National Bank. Community Bancorp provides traditional commercial banking services to small and medium-sized businesses and individuals in the communities along the I-15 corridor in northern San Diego County and southwest Riverside County. The Bank originates small business administration (SBA) loans in Oregon. The Bank is comprised of two divisions, Banking and SBA. The Banking Division serves its customers from the branch offices and is focused on the more traditional aspects of commercial banking, including building long-term relationships and servicing the entire banking relationship. The SBA Division focuses on the origination and servicing of SBA loans that it may retain in the Bank's loan portfolio or sell to third-party investors.
JCS Communications Systems, Inc. is principally engaged in the manufacture and sale of modular connecting and wiring devices for voice and data communications, and the manufacture of media and rate conversion products for telecommunications networks. The Company is also engaged in the sale of wireless networking products. The Company divides its businesses into four segments: Suttle, which manufactures United States standard modular connecting and wiring devices for voice and data communications; Austin Taylor, which manufactures British standard line jacks, patch panels, wiring harness assemblies, metal boxes, distribution cabinets and distribution and central office frames; Transition Networks and MiLAN Technology, which design and market data transmission, computer network and media conversion products and print servers, and JDL Technologies, Inc., which provides telecommunications network design, specification and training services to educational institutions.
CICI.OB Communication Intelligence Corporation (CIC) is a supplier of biometric signature verification and natural input software. The Company is also a provider of electronic signature solutions focused on high-potential applications, including paperless workflow, handheld computers, smart phones and e-commerce. It is organized in two segments: handwriting recognition software and systems integration. The handwriting recognition segment derives revenues from original equipment manufacturers (OEM), enterprise and online sales. Systems integration represents the sale and installation of third-party computer equipment and systems that use its software products.
CTCHC Commtouch Software Ltd. (Commtouch) is a provider of anti-spam solutions to enterprise customers. The Company offers its enterprise anti-spam solution to small, medium and large enterprises through a variety of distribution channels, including various reseller channels. The solutions are also available for integration with security, content filtering, anti-virus and other filtering solutions through alliances and strategic partnerships, including original equipment manufacturer (OEM) arrangements. The Company's solutions are marketed worldwide through an internal sales force and external distribution channels.
CTV CommScope, Inc. is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of a line of coaxial, fiber-optic and other high-performance electronic cable products for cable television, telephony, Internet access, wireless communications and other broadband services. The Company supplies fiber-optic cables for Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC) cable networks and develops fiber-optic products for telecommunications applications. It also supplies coaxial cable for telephone central office switching and transmission applications and video distribution applications such as satellite television and security surveillance. In addition, it offers a line of coaxial cables for wireless communication infrastructure applications and high-performance premise wiring for the mid-tier local area network market. In January 2004, it acquired the Connectivity Solutions business from Avaya Inc. CommScope's product lines include Enterprise Solutions, Broadband Solutions, Wireless Solutions and Carrier Solutions.
CTCO Commonwealth Telephone Enterprises Inc. (CTE) is a telecommunications company providing telephony and related services in Pennsylvania markets as a rural incumbent local exchange carrier (RLEC) and a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC). Its RLEC operation is conducted through its subsidiary, Commonwealth Telephone Company (CT). CTE also operates as a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) in three regional Pennsylvania markets that border CT's markets. This operation is conducted through CTSI LLC, a competitive local exchange carrier and a subsidiary of CT. The Company's activities can be divided into two primary operations: CT and CTSI. CTE also owns and operates other telecommunications-related support businesses that all operate in the deregulated segments of the telecommunications industry and that support the operations of its two primary operating companies.
CBTE Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc. provides research and development support services on a contract basis to the biotechnology industry. The Company provides basic research services in the general areas of protein/peptide and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)/ribonucleic acid (RNA) chemistries. Its services include synthesis, sequence analysis, composition analysis, protein purification and biophysical characterization of biologically relevant materials. It also pursues its own research and development leading to intellectual properties. The Company's customers consist of private companies, academic institutions and government agencies, all of which use biological processes to develop products for research, health care, agricultural and other purposes. In November 2004, the Company purchased the assets of Fairfax Identity Labs (FIL), a deoxyribonucleic acid profiling company and a division of Genetics &amp; IVF Institute, Inc. Fairfax, Virginia.
CWBS Commonwealth Bankshares, Inc. serves as a holding company for Bank of the Commonwealth (the Bank). The Bank provides a range of commercial banking services to individuals and small to medium-sized businesses. It conducts substantially all of the business operations of a typical independent, commercial bank, including the acceptance of checking and savings deposits and the initiating of commercial, real estate, personal, home improvement, automobile and other installment and term loans. Bank of the Commonwealth also offers other related services, such as home banking, trust, travelers' checks, safe deposit, lock box, depositor transfer, customer note payment, collections, notary public, escrow, drive-in facility and other customary banking services. The Bank operates three branches in Norfolk, four branches in Virginia Beach, one branch in Chesapeake and one branch in Portsmouth.
CXII.OB Commodore Applied Technologies, Inc. is an environmental solutions company offering a range of engineering and technical services to the public and private sectors related to remediating contamination in soils, liquids and other materials and disposing of or reusing certain waste by-products by using the Company's Solvated Electron Technology (SET), and providing services related to environmental management for onsite and offsite identification, investigation remediation and management of hazardous, mixed and radioactive waste. Commodore has two segments: Commodore Advanced Sciences, Inc. (Advanced Sciences), which provides various engineering, sampling and public relations services to Government agencies on a cost plus basis and Commodore Solutions, Inc. (Solutions), which is commercializing technologies to treat mixed and hazardous wastes.
CVGI Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc. (CVG) is a supplier of interior systems, vision safety solutions and other cab-related products for the global commercial vehicle market, including the heavy-duty (Class 8) truck market, the construction market and other specialized transportation markets. Its products include suspension seat systems, interior trim systems (including instrument panels, door panels, headliners, cabinetry and floor systems), mirrors, wiper systems, controls and switches specifically designed for applications in commercial vehicle cabs. CVG offers OEMs a broad range of products and system solutions for a variety of end-market vehicle applications that include local and long-haul commercial truck, bus, construction and agricultural, end-market industrial, marine, municipal and recreation. It classifies its products into three general categories: seats and seating systems, trim systems and components, and mirrors, wipers and controls.
NNN Commercial Net Lease Realty, Inc. is a fully integrated, self-administered real estate investment trust that acquires, owns, invests in, manages and indirectly develops, through investment interests, primarily single-tenant retail and office properties that are generally leased under long-term commercial net leases. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned 339 properties located in 39 states that are leased to established tenants, including Academy, Barnes &amp; Noble, Bennigan's, Best Buy, Borders, Eckerd, Jared Jewelers, OfficeMax, The Sports Authority and the United States of America. Approximately 97% of the gross leasable area of its portfolio of properties was leased as of December 31, 2003. Commercial Net Lease Realty holds its properties until it determines that the sale of the properties is advantageous in view of its investment objectives.
CNAF Commercial National Financial Corporation is engaged in banking, trust and insurance agency operations through its subsidiaries. The Company owns 100% of the outstanding shares of common stock of Commercial Bank of Pennsylvania. Two banking offices are in operation in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, two in Unity Township, Pennsylvania and one each in Ligonier, West Newton, Greensburg, Norwin and Hempfield Township, Pennsylvania. The Company owns two insurance agencies, Gooder Agency, Inc., (Gooder Agency) and Gooder &amp; Mary, Inc., which owned a 50% interest in Commercial National Insurance Services. This makes it the full ownership of Commercial National Insurance Services, which operates as part of Gooder Agency.
CEFC.OB Commercial National Financial Corporation (Commercial) is a financial holding company that operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Commercial National Bank (the Bank). The Bank's subsidiaries include Commercial National Financial Services Incorporated (the Agency), which purchased a minority interest in Michigan Bankers Title of Northern Michigan, LLC (the Title Agency); The Centennial Group (Centennial), and CNFC Mortgage Corporation. The Bank concentrates its efforts in two areas: commercial lending and residential real estate lending. Loan, deposit and other products are designed to support these market segments. The Bank also provides traditional banking services to individuals located in its service area. Commercial Bank offers deposit products, including checking, savings, money market, individual retirement accounts, certificates of deposit and repurchase agreements.
CMC Commercial Metals Company manufactures, recycles, markets and distributes steel and metal products, and related materials and services through a network of locations located throughout the United States and internationally. The Company's business is organized into five segments: domestic mills, CMC Zawiercie, S.A., domestic fabrication, recycling, and marketing and distribution. The domestic mills segment produces reinforcing bar, angles, flats, small beams, rounds, fence-post sections and other shapes. CMCZ sells rebar primarily to fabricators, distributors and construction companies. The domestic fabrication segment operates facilities that are engaged in the various related aspects of steel fabrication. The recycling segment processes secondary metals, or scrap metals, for use as a raw material by manufacturers of new metal products. The marketing and distribution segment buys and sells primary and secondary metals, fabricated metals and other industrial products.
CFB Commercial Federal Corporation is a unitary non-diversified savings and loan holding company whose primary asset is Commercial Federal Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a community banking institution with 192 branches located in Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arizona. Commercial Federal Bank provides consumer and commercial banking services including single-family residential lending, consumer lending, commercial real estate lending, commercial operating and industrial lending, small business banking, construction lending, mortgage loan servicing, cash management, brokerage and insurance services and Internet banking. The Bank conducts loan origination activities through its branch office network, loan offices and a nationwide correspondent network. Its operations are aligned into four lines of business: Commercial Banking, Retail Banking, Mortgage Banking and Treasury.
CCBI Commercial Capital Bancorp, Inc. (Commercial Capital) is a diversified financial services holding company that provides a variety of lending and deposit products and services to middle-market commercial businesses, income property real estate investors, related real estate service companies and professionals. Commercial Capital conducts its operations through Commercial Capital Bank, FSB (the Bank), a federally chartered savings bank, Commercial Capital Mortgage, Inc., a commercial mortgage banking company and ComCap Financial Services Inc., a registered broker dealer. At December 31, 2003, the Bank's trust department had administered 21 accounts. The Company outsourced the money management and investment functions of its trust department through SEI Investment Advisory Group. In June 2004, the Company acquired Hawthorne Financial Corporation, a savings and loan holding company.
CLBK Commercial Bankshares, Inc. is a bank holding company with a wholly owned subsidiary, The Commercial Bank of Florida (the Bank). Through its ownership of the bank, the Company is engaged in a commercial banking business, and its primary source of earnings being income generated by its ownership and operation of the bank. The bank engages in commercial banking and related businesses from its 14 banking facilities: its main office and nine other offices located in Miami (Dade County), Florida, and four offices in Broward County, Florida. It is operated as a network of community bank branches, and primarily focuses on providing personalized banking services to small businesses and individuals within the market areas where its banking offices are located.
CMOH.OB Commercial Bancshares Inc. serves as a bank holding company for The Commercial Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank provides customary retail and commercial banking services, including acceptance of deposits for demand, savings and time accounts and servicing of such accounts, commercial, consumer and real estate lending, including installment loans, individual retirement accounts, safe deposit facilities and night depository facilities primarily in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary Advantage Finance, Inc. provides small consumer loans to customers in Marion, Ohio.
CGI Commerce Group, Inc. provides personal and commercial property and casualty insurance in the United States, primarily in Massachusetts. The Company's core product lines are personal and commercial automobile and homeowners insurance. Through its principal subsidiary, The Commerce Insurance Company, and three other subsidiaries, Citation Insurance Company, Commerce West Insurance Company and American Commerce Insurance Company, the Company operates its writing insurance business. Citation writes insurance in Massachusetts, Commerce West writes insurance in California and Oregon and American Commerce writes insurance in 16 states. In addition to its core product lines, the Company writes commercial multi-peril, inland marine, fire, general liability and personal and commercial umbrella insurance, as well as reinsurance with other insurance companies. The Company markets its products exclusively through its network of independent agents.
EGR Commerce Energy Group, Inc. (Commerce) is a diversified energy services company. Commerce provides retail electric power to its residential, commercial, industrial and institutional customers and provides consulting and technology services to energy-related businesses and provides energy transaction data management services. Commerce Energy is a holding company that operates through its wholly owned operating subsidiaries: Commonwealth Energy Corporation, doing business as electricAmerica, Skipping Stone Inc. and UtiliHost, Inc. On July 6, 2004, Commonwealth reorganized into a holding company structure, whereby Commonwealth became a wholly owned subsidiary of Commerce Energy. The Company has investments in three energy technology companies: Encorp Inc. (formerly known as Envenergy, Inc.), Turbocor B.V. and Power Efficiency Corporation.
CBSH Commerce Bancshares, Inc. is the holding company for four national banking associations that are headquartered in Missouri, Illinois, Kansas and Nebraska. The Nebraska bank is limited in its activities to the issuance of credit cards. The remaining three banking subsidiaries engage in general banking business, providing a range of retail, corporate, investment and private banking products and services to individuals and businesses. The Company also owns, directly or through its banking subsidiaries, various non-banking subsidiaries. Their activities include owning real estate leased to the Company's banking subsidiaries, underwriting credit life and credit accident and health insurance, selling property and casualty insurance (relating to consumer loans made by the banking subsidiaries), venture capital investment, securities brokerage, mortgage banking and leasing activities. Commerce Bancshares owns two second tier holding companies that are the direct owners of several of its banks.
CBH Commerce Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company that operates four nationally chartered bank subsidiaries: Commerce Bank, N.A. (Commerce NJ), Commerce Bank/Pennsylvania, N.A., Commerce Bank/Shore, N.A. and Commerce Bank/Delaware, N.A., and one state chartered bank subsidiary, Commerce Bank/North. As of December 31, 2003, the banks had 270 full-service retail branch offices located in the states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New York. The banks provide a range of retail and commercial banking services for consumers and small and mid-sized companies. Lending services are focused on commercial real estate and commercial and consumer loans to local borrowers. The banks' lending and investment activities are funded principally by retail deposits gathered through each bank's retail branch office network.
CMMD.OB Command Security Corporation is a uniformed security guard service company operating in New York, Connecticut, California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon and Pennsylvania. The Company also provides other security guard companies, such as administrative service clients and police departments in various states, with administrative services, such as billing, collection and payroll, for a percentage of the related gross revenue. Command Security has customers in the commercial, financial, industrial, aviation and governmental sectors of the United States. The Company has categorized its security services into three groups: guard services, aviation services and support services.
CCBP Comm Bancorp, Inc. is a holding company with two wholly owned subsidiaries: Community Bank and Trust Company (Community Bank) and Comm Realty Corporation (Comm Realty). Community Bank is a commercial bank that provides a range of products and services, including time and demand deposit accounts, consumer, commercial and mortgage loans and commercial leases to individuals and small to medium-sized businesses in its Northeastern Pennsylvania market area. At December 31, 2003, Community Bank had 17-branch banking offices located in the Pennsylvania counties of Lackawanna, Monroe, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming. Comm Realty holds, manages and sells foreclosed or distressed assets on behalf of Community Bank.
FIX Comfort Systems USA, Inc. provides heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) installation, maintenance, repair and replacement services within the mechanical services industry in 51 cities and 63 locations throughout the United States. It operates primarily in the commercial, industrial and institutional HVAC markets, and performs a majority of its services within office buildings, retail centers, apartment complexes, manufacturing plants, and healthcare, education and government facilities. Comfort Systems provides specialized applications such as building automation control systems, fire protection, process cooling, electronic monitoring and process piping. Approximately 96% of consolidated 2003 revenues were derived from commercial, industrial and institutional customers. Approximately 80% of Comfort Systems' revenues are earned on a project basis for installation of HVAC systems in newly constructed facilities or for replacement of HVAC systems in existing facilities.
CFS COMFORCE Corporation is a provider of specialty staffing, consulting and outsourcing services to Fortune 500 companies for their healthcare support, technical and engineering services, information technology (IT), telecommunications and other staffing services. COMFORCE Operating, Inc. (COI), a wholly owned subsidiary of COMFORCE, was formed for the purpose of facilitating certain of the Company's financing transactions in November 1997. COMFORCE's three operating segments: Human Capital Management Services, Staff Augmentation and Financial Outsourcing Services. In March 2004, it sold controlling interin two-telecom subsidiaries that operated in the customer premise equipment services niche of the telecom sector and contracted to sell its remaining minority interin these companies by June 2004. It provides staffing, consulting, financial and outsourcing services, including Web-enabled solutions for the effective procurement, tracking and engagement of contingent or non-employee labor.
CMEK.OB Comet Technologies, Inc. (Comet) is a blank check company that has been seeking to locate a business enterprise, which it may acquire, merge or reorganize with or become engaged in. The Company had been inactive for several years and until January 2004, when it entered into an agreement with Town House Land Limited had not located any specific business enterprise for its involvement nor had it entered into any arrangement or agreements with respect thereto. It has not acquired any business venture or engaged in any active operations. In January 2004, Comet entered into a stock exchange agreement (the Agreement) by and among Comet, Town House Land Limited, a company organized in the Hong Kong special administrative region (Town House), in The People's Republic of China (PRC) and the shareholders of Town House (the Town House Shareholders).
CMA Comerica Incorporated is a financial services company, strategically aligned with the Business Bank, Small Business and Personal Financial Services and Wealth and Institutional Management divisions. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company owned directly or indirectly all the outstanding common stock of three active banking and 48 non-banking subsidiaries. Comerica Bank locations are in Michigan, California, Texas and Florida, with select businesses operating in several other states. Comerica Securities and Munder Capital Management are investment services affiliates. Comerica also has commercial banking operations in Canada and a commercial banking subsidiary in Mexico.
CDCO.OB Comdisco Holdings, Inc. was formed for the purpose of selling, collecting or otherwise reducing to money in an orderly manner its remaining assets and all of its direct and indirect subsidiaries, including Comdisco, Inc. Comdisco, Inc. formerly provided technology services worldwide to help its customers maximize technology functionality, predictability and availability, while freeing them from the complexity of managing their technology. It offered leasing to key vertical industries, including semiconductor manufacturing and electronic assembly, healthcare, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and manufacturing. Through its Comdisco Ventures group, it provided equipment leasing and other financing and services to venture capital-backed companies. In July 2001, Comdisco, Inc. voluntarily filed for Bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. It emerged from Chapter 11 in August 2002, and its continuing business is comprised of selling of its assets.
CMDZ.OB Comdial Corporation designs and markets voice communications solutions for small to mid-sized offices. Comdial offers a variety of communications products, including switching products, messaging systems, computer telephony integration (CTI) solutions and other software applications. The Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation. In 2003, the Company's three supply houses, ALLTELL Supply, Inc., Graybar Electric Company, Inc., and Sprint North Supply, Inc., accounted for 18%, 44% and 24%, respectively, of Comdial's net sales as of December 31, 2003. Comdial's new products and product enhancements that are scheduled for release during 2004 include: CONVESip MP5000 Platform, CONVERSip MP1000 Media Platform, CONVERSip EP300 Voice IP Endpoint, CONVERSip EP200 Multimedia IP Endpoint, Interchange Communications Suite, DX-80 in-skin voice mail system and DX-80 VoIP options. In June 2003, Comdial purchased the technology and assets of Soundpipe Inc. (Soundpipe).
CMCSA Comcast Corporation is principally involved in the management and operation of cable communications networks and in the management of programming content over cable and satellite television networks. The Company's cable business is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband communications networks in the United States. Its consolidated cable operations served approximately 21.5 million subscribers as of December 31, 2003. In 2003, Comcast received over 95% of its revenue from cable operations, primarily through monthly subscriptions to its video, high-speed Internet and phone services, and advertising. The Company conducts the national networks of its content business through its consolidated subsidiaries E! Entertainment Television, Inc., The Golf Channel, Outdoor Life Network and G4 Media, LLC. The content business also includes Comcast Spectacor, Comcast SportsNet, Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic, Cable Sports Southeast and CN8.
CINJ.OB COMC, Inc. is a technology service company in the telecommunications industry with a regional geographic service coverage area through its wholly owned operating subsidiary, ICF Communication Solutions, Inc. (ICF). The Company designs, implements, supports and manages local area network and wide area network computer network systems, voice communication network systems and premise wiring for both data and voice. In addition, it distributes and maintains equipment on behalf of telecommunication equipment manufacturers. In servicing these customers, the Company provides trained and experienced technicians and design engineers on a rapid-response basis to meet customers' telecommunications planning, design, installation, maintenance and emergency needs. The Company's recruitment services division provides its customers with permanent and temporary technical professional recruitment and placement services to fill their internal staffing needs.
CMRO COMARCO, Inc. through its subsidiary Comarco Wireless Technologies, Inc. (collectively with COMARCO, Comarco), is a provider of wireless test solutions for the wireless industry. The Company's operations consist of the operations of Comarco Wireless Technologies, Inc. It has two primary businesses: wireless test solutions (WTS) and wireless applications. Its WTS business designs and manufactures hardware and software tools for use by wireless carriers, equipment vendors and others. Comarco's wireless applications business designs and manufactures emergency call box systems and mobile power products for notebook computers, cellular telephones, PDAs (personal digital assistants) and other handheld devices.
CMCO Columbus McKinnon Corp. is a manufacturer and marketer of hoists, cranes, chain, conveyors, material handling systems, lift tables and component parts serving a wide variety of commercial and industrial end markets. The Company's products are used to move, lift, position or secure objects and loads. Its brand names include CM, Coffing, Duff-Norton, Shaw-Box and Yale. Columbus McKinnon operates in two business segments: Products and Solutions. The Products segment designs, manufactures and distributes a broad range of material handling products for various industrial applications and for consumer use. The Solutions segment is engaged primarily in the design, fabrication and installation of integrated workstation and facility-wide material handling systems, as well as in the design and manufacture of tire shredders.
COLM Columbia Sportswear Company is engaged in the design, manufacture, marketing and distribution of active outdoor apparel, including outerwear, sportswear, footwear, related accessories and equipment. The durability, functionality and affordability of Columbia's products make them ideal for use in a range of outdoor activities, including skiing, snowboarding, hunting and fishing, hiking, backpacking, mountaineering and rock climbing, as well as for casual wear. The Company's products are sold to approximately 12,000 specialty and department store retailers worldwide. In June 1999, the Company introduced a strategy to build brand awareness by licensing its trademarks across a range of categories that complement its current offerings.
CBRX Columbia Laboratories, Inc. is engaged in the development, licensing and sale of pharmaceutical products. It is involved in the research and development and commercialization of women's healthcare and endocrinology products, including those intended to treat infertility, endometriosis and hormonal deficiencies. Columbia Laboratories develops products for vaginal delivery of hormones and other drugs and buccal delivery of hormones and peptides. The Company's products are Crinone/Prochieve, Striant Testosterone Buccal System, Advantage-S Bioadhesive Contraceptive Gel, Replens Vaginal Moisturizer, RepHresh Vaginal Gel and other products.
COLB Columbia Banking System, Inc. is a registered bank holding company whose wholly owned subsidiary, Columbia State Bank, conducts a full-service commercial banking business. The Company provides a range of banking services to small and medium-sized businesses, professionals and other individuals in the Tacoma metropolitan area and contiguous parts of the Puget Sound region of Washington, as well as the Longview and Woodland communities in southwestern Washington. Substantially all of the Company's loans, loan commitments and core deposits are geographically concentrated in its service areas. Columbia Banking System had a network of 34 branches as of December 31, 2003. Twenty-one branches are located in Pierce County, eight in King County, three in Cowlitz County and one each in Kitsap and Thurston counties.
CBBO Columbia Bancorp \OR\ (Columbia) is a financial holding company with two wholly owned subsidiaries: Columbia River Bank (CRB) and Columbia Bancorp Trust I. CRB is an 18-branch, state-chartered institution authorized to provide banking services in Oregon and Washington. Columbia offers a range of financial services to its customers, including small and medium-sized businesses, farmers and individuals. Its 12 full-service branch facilities and three limited-service branch facilities in Oregon serve the northern and eastern Oregon communities of The Dalles, Hood River, Pendleton and Hermiston; the central Oregon communities of Madras, Redmond and Bend, and the communities of McMinnville, Canby and Newberg in the Willamette Valley. Columbia's three south central Washington full-service branches serve the communities of Goldendale, White Salmon and Kennewick.
CBMD Columbia Bancorp is a bank holding company. It organized the Columbia Bank (the Bank) as a Maryland trust company in May 1988. The Bank is a community bank providing professional financial services to its customers, while offering the usual banking services of other banks. It provides comprehensive and service-intensive commercial and retail banking services to individuals and small- and medium-sized businesses. The categories of loans in the Company's loan portfolio are real estate development and construction, commercial, residential real estate, commercial real estate and retail.
COLT COLT Telecom Group plc provides high bandwidth data, Internet, voice and advanced business communications services to business and government customers across Europe. In 2003, the Company operated an integrated international digital fiber optic network of approximately 20,000 route kilometers (12,420 route miles) providing long distance international network facilities, linking 32 major cities in 13 countries, augmented by a further 42 network cities and 11 Internet solution centers. The Company operates in a single segment, telecommunications. The services that it provides are broken down into two general categories, switched and non-switched.
CLRK Color Kinetics Incorporated is engaged in the design, marketing and licensing of intelligent solid-state lighting systems. Its systems use solid-state semiconductor devices known as light emitting diodes (LEDs) as the light source. The Company's systems combine the advantages of LEDs as a light source with its digital control technology to create a new category of lighting technology, which the Company refers to as intelligent solid-state lighting systems. The Company operates in two principal lines of business: lighting systems and original equipment manufacturing (OEM) and licensing. The lighting systems include all the hardware, software and other components necessary to implement dynamic, color lighting installations in interior or exterior environments. The OEM products are a standardized line of solid-state modules that can readily be incorporated by other manufacturers in their products.
CIMG.OB Color Imaging, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets products used in electronic printing. It formulates and manufactures black text and specialty toners, including color and magnetic character recognition toners for numerous laser printers, facsimile machines, and analog and digital photocopiers. Color Imaging's toners permit the printing of a range of user-selected colors and also the full process color printing of cyan, yellow, magenta and black. Magnetic character recognition toners enable the printing of magnetic characters that are required for the high-speed processing of checks and other financial documents. Color Imaging also supplies other consumable products used in electronic printing and photocopying, including toner cartridges, cartridge components, photoreceptors and imaging drums.
CBAN Colony Bankcorp, Inc. is a bank holding company that provides, through its wholly owned bank subsidiaries, an array of financial products and services throughout 15 Georgia markets. The Company offers commercial, consumer and mortgage banking services through its subsidiaries, Colony Bank of Fitzgerald, Colony Bank Ashburn, Colony Bank Wilcox, Colony Bank of Dodge County, Colony Bank Worth, Colony Bank Southeast and Colony Bank Quitman, FSB. On November 8, 1996, Colony organized Colony Management Services, Inc. to provide support services to each subsidiary. Services provided include loan and compliance review, internal audit and data processing.
CLP Colonial Properties Trust is a self-administered equity real estate investment trust that is an owner, developer and operator of multifamily, office and retail properties in the Sunbelt region of the United States. The Company is a fully integrated real estate company, which means that it is engaged in the acquisition, development, ownership, management and leasing of commercial real estate property. Its activities include ownership and operation of a diversified portfolio of 112 wholly and partially owned properties as of December 31, 2003, consisting of multifamily, office and retail properties located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Colonial is the direct general partner of, and hold approximately 71.8% of the interests in Colonial Realty Limited Partnership (CRLP). The Company conducts all of its business through CRLP, Colonial Properties Services Limited Partnership and Colonial Properties Services, Inc.
CCOM.OB Colonial Commercial Corp., through its subsidiaries, Universal Supply Group, Inc., (Universal), RAL Supply Group, Inc. (RAL) and American Universal Supply, Inc. (American), is a distributor of heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment (HVAC), climate control systems and high-end plumbing supplies. The Company's products are marketed primarily in New Jersey and New York, through 17 locations, to HVAC and plumbing contractors, that, in turn, sell such products to residential, commercial and industrial customers. No product accounted for 15% or more of consolidated revenues during 2003, 2002 and 2001. The Company does not manufacture or assemble, except for custom designed control panels and it has no patent or intellectual property rights with respect to any products.
CNB The Colonial BancGroup, Inc. is the holding company for Colonial Bank, N.A., which was converted into a national association on August 8, 2003. Colonial Bank conducts a commercial banking business in its service areas, and offers a variety of demand, savings and time deposit products as well as extensions of credit through personal, commercial and mortgage loans within each of its market areas. Colonial Bank also provides cash management services, electronic banking services, credit card and merchant services and financial planning services. Financial planning services include trust services, insurance sales and the sales of various types of investment products such as mutual funds, annuities, stocks, municipal bonds and United States government securities. As of December 31, 2003, Colonial Bank had a total of 274 branches, with 122 branches in Alabama, 104 branches in Florida, 21 branches in Georgia, 12 branches in Texas, 12 branches in Nevada and three branches in Tennessee.
COLL Collins Industries, Inc. manufactures specialty vehicles and accessories for various basic service niches of the transportation industry. Its products include ambulances, small school buses, shuttle and mid-size commercial buses, terminal trucks, commercial bus chassis, road construction equipment and industrial rental sweepers. The Company sells its products under several trade names, including Wheeled Coach (ambulances), Collins Bus and Mid Bus (small school buses), World Trans (commercial buses), Capacity (terminal trucks) and Waldon/Lay-Mor (road construction and industrial rental sweeper equipment). A majority of its products are built to customer specifications from a range of options offered by the Company.
CKC Collins &amp; Aikman Corporation is engaged primarily in the design, engineering and manufacture of automotive interior components, systems and modules. The Company supplies products from three primary categories: plastic components and cockpits, soft trim and convertible roof systems. Its products include instrument panels, fully assembled cockpit modules, floor and acoustic systems, automotive fabric and interior trim, as well as exterior trim and trim set, backlights, well slings, tonneau covers and power actuating systems. In North America, Collins &amp; Aikman manufactures components for approximately 90% of all light vehicle production platforms. Sales are primarily made to North American-based original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), as well as Asian- and European-based OEMs. It conducts all of its operating activities through its wholly owned subsidiary Collins &amp; Aikman Products Co. The Company has 102 plants and facilities worldwide.
BOO Collegiate Pacific Inc. is a marketer, manufacturer and distributor of sporting goods and equipment, team uniforms, and physical education, recreational and leisure products primarily to the institutional market in the United States. The institutional market consists of youth sports programs, park and recreational organizations, schools, colleges, churches, government agencies, athletic teams, athletic clubs and dealers. The Company offers approximately 4,500 sports related equipment products to approximately 80,000 customers. Collegiate Pacific has three wholly owned subsidiaries, Tomark Sports, Inc., Kesslers Team Sports, Inc. and Dixie Sporting Goods Co., Inc. In December 2004, the Company acquired Orlando Team Sports (OTS). Founded in 1994, Orlando Team Sports is a team sporting goods distributor in the state of Florida, covering the state from Jacksonville to Miami.
CFSI Collegiate Funding Services, Inc. is a vertically integrated education finance company that markets, originates, finances and services education loans. It markets education loans primarily through direct-to-consumer programs, including targeted direct mail, telemarketing and the Internet. Using its direct-to-consumer and its school-based distribution channels, the Company assists consumers in financing and refinancing the cost of undergraduate, graduate, professional, career and continuing education. It finances, retains and services a substantial portion of the loans that it originates. The Company also markets and originates loans to students enrolled in schools and recent graduates through financial aid offices.
CGPA.OB College Partnership, Inc. is an education and full service college preparation company, offering students and their families resources and services to help them discover and achieve their career and educational goals. The Company provides information services to high-school students to assist in career planning, college course selection, college selection, college entrance testing, study skills, and searches for merit awards and financial aid. These deliverables consist of printed materials; videocassettes and test preparation; college major and career assessment software, and databases accessed through compact disk read only memory (CD-ROM) or the Internet. The majority of its services are sold as a bundled package referred to as the College Action Plan (CAP). CAP designed to help high-school students and their families through each step of the high-school to college transition.
CLCT Collectors Universe, Inc., is a provider of value-added grading, authentication and information services and products to dealers and collectors of high-end collectibles, such as coins, sportscards, stamps, autographs and other collectibles. Dealers and collectors of such collectibles submit such collectibles for certification of their authenticity and in most cases, to also obtain a grade, based on uniform standards, as determined by experts so that a proper value for the collectibles is more readily established by the market. The Company generates revenues principally from fees, typically ranging from $6 to $200 per item authenticated or graded, that are paid to the Company for the authentication and grading services that the Company provides to its customers.
CGPI Collagenex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., together with subsidiaries, is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on providing medical therapies to the dental and dermatology markets. The Company's first product, Periostat, is an orally administered, prescription pharmaceutical product that was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration in September 1998, and is designed to treat adult periodontitis by inhibiting the enzymes that destroy periodontal support tissues. Periostat is indicated as an adjunct to scaling and root planing (SRP), the most prevalent therapy for adult periodontitis, to promote attachment level gain and to reduce pocket depth in patients with adult periodontitis.
CL Colgate-Palmolive Company is a consumer products company whose products are marketed in over 200 countries and territories throughout the world. The Company has two distinct business segments, Oral, Personal, Household Surface and Fabric Care, and Pet Nutrition. Oral, Personal, Household Surface and Fabric Care products include toothpaste, oral rinses and toothbrushes, bar and liquid hand soaps, shower gels, shampoos, conditioners, deodorants and antiperspirants, shave products, laundry and dishwashing detergents, fabric conditioners, cleansers and cleaners, bleaches and other similar items. These products are sold primarily to wholesale and retail distributors worldwide. Pet Nutrition products include pet food products manufactured and marketed by Hill's Pet Nutrition. The principal customers for Pet Nutrition products are veterinarians and specialty pet retailers.
CM Coles Myer Ltd., incorporated in 1921, is an Australian-based retailer, owning and operating stores in sectors of the Australian retail market, in the general merchandise sector of the New Zealand retail market and on the Internet. The Company supplies a range of food and non-food items in supermarkets, discount stores, department stores, liquor stores, office supply stores, automotive service centers and online. Coles Myer trades under the names of Coles, Coles Express, Coles Online, Bi-Lo, Liquorland, Vintage Cellars, Quaffers, Theos, Kmart, Kmart Garden Super Center, Kmart Tyre &amp; Auto, Tyremaster, Officeworks, Target, Target Country, Myer, Grace Bros, Megamart, Viking and Harris Technology. In New Zealand, the Company trades as Kmart. During the fiscal year ended July 25, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company acquired, from Shell multi-site franchisees, the right to operate 585 fuel and convenience outlets and eight stand-alone convenience stores.
COLV.OB Cole Computer Corporation is a computer corporation doing business as Computer Masters and providing service while upgrading customer's computers at a fraction of the cost of new systems sold by competitors. The customer demand for helpful service, low cost and state-of-the-art computers drove Computer Masters into the marketing of new computers, in wholesale and retail sales. In March 2004, the Company's management decided to cease doing business as a retail computer sales operation. Accordingly, all activities have been treated as discontinued operations. Agreements are being prepared to dispose of its operations through the sale to another entity or liquidation of the business. Further, agreements are being negotiated to determine the future operations of the Company. At this time, no definitive contracts have been completed to either dispose of the activities or change its operations.
CWTR Coldwater Creek Inc. is a multi-channel, specialty retailer of women's apparel, accessories, jewelry and gift items. The Company offers its customers colorful, proprietary designs and novelty items that reflect different aspects of their lifestyles, including casual weekend wear, soft career and special occasion. The products it offers are current but not trendy and address customers' needs for ease and simplicity. All of the Company's apparel is designed, developed and sold under the Coldwater Creek label. Its merchandise assortment is designed to appeal to women between the ages of 30 and 60, with household incomes in excess of $75,000. The Company reaches its customers through its direct segment, which consists of the catalog and e-commerce businesses, and its base of retail stores. As of January 31, 2004, Coldwater Creek operated 66 full-line retail stores, as well as two resort stores and 16 merchandise clearance outlet stores in 51 markets.
CSTR Coinstar, Inc. owns and operates a multinational fully automated network of self-service coin-counting machines. The Company's machines are installed primarily in supermarkets across the United States, in Canada and in the United Kingdom. The Company launched its business in North America with the installation of the first Coinstar unit in 1993 and in 2001, it began rolling out its coin-counting service in the United Kingdom. Since inception, Coinstar's business has counted and processed more than 175 billion coins worth over $8.5 billion in more than 245 million customer transactions. With over 285 retail partners (including supermarket chains, independent operators and financial institutions), the Company operates more than 10,700 Coinstar units in 178 regional markets across North America and in the United Kingdom.
COHU Cohu, Inc. is engaged in the development, manufacture, marketing, sale and servicing of test handling equipment for the global semiconductor industry. The Company is organized into four operating segments. The semiconductor equipment segment, operated under Cohu's wholly owned subsidiary Delta Design, Inc., designs, manufactures and sells semiconductor test handling equipment to semiconductor manufacturers and semiconductor test subcontractors throughout the world. The television camera segment (the Electronics Division) designs, manufactures and sells closed circuit television cameras and systems to original equipment manufacturers, contractors and government agencies. Cohu's other segments include Fisher Research Laboratory, Inc., a metal detection instrumentation business, and Broadcast Microwave Services, Inc., a microwave communications equipment company.
COHT Cohesant Technologies Inc. is engaged in the design, development, manufacture and sale of specialized two component dispense equipment systems and replacement parts used in the operation of this equipment and specialty two component epoxy coating and grout products. The Company's dispense equipment systems are designed specifically for use with multiple component formulations such as fiberglass reinforced plastics, polyurethanes and polyureas and epoxies. These equipment systems are commonly employed in the construction, transportation and marine industries to apply insulation, protective coating, sealant and anti-corrosive products and to create packaging and to fill molds for diverse products such as recreational boat hulls and construction products. The Company also maintains an extensive inventory of replacement parts. Cohesant conducts business through its subsidiaries, Glas-Craft, Inc. and Raven Lining Systems, Inc.
COHR Coherent, Inc. is a supplier of photonics-based solutions in a broad range of commercial and scientific research applications. The Company designs, manufactures and markets lasers, laser-based systems, precision optics and related accessories. The Company has two business segments Electro-Optics and Lambda Physik. The Electro-Optics segment focuses on markets, such as semiconductor and related manufacturing, materials processing, original equipment manufacturer (OEM) laser components and instrumentation, scientific research and government programs and graphic arts and display. Lambda Physik AG (Lambda Physik), the subsidiary focuses on markets using lasers for the production of thin-film transistors (TFT) used in flat panel displays, microlithography applications in the semiconductor industry, ink jet printers, automotive, environmental research, scientific research, medical OEMs, materials processing and micro-machining applications.
CNS Cohen &amp; Steers, Inc. is a manager of real estate mutual funds. The Company is considered to be a small investment advisory firm within the broader asset management industry. It manages 12 mutual funds. Cohen &amp; Steers has historically specialized in managing portfolios of real estate securities, and such securities represented 92% of the assets it managed as of December 31, 2003, and 81% of the assets it managed as of July 31, 2004. Since 2003, the Company has diversified its business and focuses on managing portfolios of securities including common and preferred stocks of real estate investment trusts, corporate preferred stocks (which it began to manage in 2003) and common and preferred stocks of utilities (which it began to manage in 2004). As a complement to its asset management business, the Company also provides investment banking services to companies in real estate and real estate-intensive businesses.
COGN Cognos Incorporated is a global provider of business intelligence software. The Company's solution helps improve business performance by enabling planned performance management, supported by effective decision-making at all levels of the organization through the consistent reporting and analysis of data derived from various sources. Using its software, customers can plan and manage the performance of all aspects of their business and gain valuable insights that can be used to improve operational effectiveness, enhance customer satisfaction, accelerate corporate response times, and, ultimately, increase revenues and profits. Its integrated solution consists of its suite of business intelligence components, analytical applications and performance management applications.
CTSH Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is a provider of custom information technology (IT) services related to information technology (IT) design, development, integration and maintenance services for Fortune 1,000 companies located in the United States and Europe. Cognizant's core competencies include Web-centric applications, data warehousing, component-based development and legacy and client-server systems. Cognizant provides the IT services it offers using an integrated onsite/offshore business model, which combines technical and account management teams located onsite at the customer location and offshore at dedicated development centers located in India and Ireland.
CGN Cognitronics Corporation designs, manufactures and markets voice-processing systems. The Company operates in two segments: in the United States, where it designs, manufactures and sells equipment for use in telephone central offices and in Europe, where it distributes equipment for use on customers' premises. Cognitronics' products include Network Media Servers and Intelligent Announcers, Cognitronics Exchange (CX) Messaging Systems, Passive Announcers and Call Processors. These products are sold directly to telecommunication service providers, switch manufacturers, Internet protocol (IP)-based communications systems manufacturers, systems integrators and value-added resellers who distribute the Company's products. Dacon Electronics Plc. is a distributor of Cognitronics' call management and voice processing products in Europe.
CGNW.OB Cognigen Networks, Inc. (Cognigen) sells telecommunication and personal technology services through multi-faceted sales and marketing organizations that utilize the Internet as a platform to provide customers and subscribers with a variety of telecommunications and technology-based products and services. Through a network of independent agents, the Company has sold its own products and services, or sold as a third-party agent, or outside vendor products and services to customers and subscribers worldwide. Domestic and international long-distance services make up the major portion of its sales with prepaid calling cards and paging, wireless communications, computers and Internet-based telecommunications products and other products in its sales mix.
CGNX Cognex Corporation, designs, develops, manufactures and markets machine vision systems (computers that can see) that are used to automate a range of manufacturing processes where vision is required. The Company has two operating divisions: the Modular Vision Systems Division (MVSD) and the Surface Inspection Systems Division (SISD). MVSD designs, develops, manufactures and markets modular vision systems that are used to automate the manufacture of discrete items, such as semiconductor chips, cellular phones and light bulbs, by locating, identifying, inspecting and measuring them during the manufacturing process. SISD designs, develops, manufactures and markets surface inspection vision systems that are used to inspect the surfaces of materials processed in a continuous fashion, such as paper, metals, plastics and non-wovens, to ensure there are no flaws or defects on the surfaces.
COGT Cogent, Inc. is a provider of automated fingerprint identification systems (AFIS) and other fingerprint biometrics solutions to governments, law enforcement agencies and other organizations worldwide. The Company's AFIS solutions enable customers to capture fingerprint images electronically, encode fingerprints into searchable files and compare a set of fingerprints. The Company's AFIS solutions include Cogent automated fingerprint identification system and Cogent live-ID; Its AFIS products include programmable matching accelerator servers and live-scan systems; Cogents AFIS services include the design, integration and training, as well as outsourced live-ID biometric processing services, and the Company's ASIC applications include BioGate, national identification card programs and MobileIDENT. Cogent offers all of the elements to deploy fingerprint biometric solutions, including search and retrieval software, capture devices and systems integration services.
COI Cogent Communications Group, Inc. (Cogent) provides high-speed Internet access to businesses and other telecommunications service providers, which are located in buildings directly connected to its fiber optic network. Services provided to customers in these locations using Ethernet interfaces are called on-net services. The Company also offers off-net services to customers using leased circuits providing traditional Internet access speeds of T1, E1, E3 and T3. It also provides high-speed Internet access and rack co-location in approximately 27 data centers in the United States and Europe.
CDE Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation is engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the operation and/or ownership, development and exploration of silver and gold mining properties and companies located primarily within the United States (Nevada, Idaho and Alaska), South America (Chile, Argentina and Bolivia) and Africa (Tanzania). The Company's most significant operating and development-stage mining properties and interests are the Rochester Mine, the Cerro Bayo Mine, Compania Mineral Polimet S.A. (Polimet), Coeur Silver Valley Inc., Empressa Minera Manquiri S.A. and the Kensington Property. During the first quarter of 2004, Coeur acquired 10 prospecting licenses for properties located in Tanzania, Africa. The prospecting licenses are valid for a period of three years and contain renewal options.
CVLY Codorus Valley Bancorp, Inc. is a one-bank holding company that provides a range of financial services through its wholly owned subsidiary, PeoplesBank. PeoplesBank offers a range of business and consumer banking services through 11 financial centers throughout York County, Pennsylvania. It also offers wealth management and real estate services. PeoplesBank operates two wholly owned subsidiaries: SYC Insurance Services, Inc. that sells nondeposit investment products and SYC Settlement Services, Inc., which provides real estate settlement services. The Company also has a non-bank subsidiary, SYC Realty Co., Inc. SYC Realty was created primarily for the purpose of disposing of selected properties obtained from PeoplesBank in satisfaction of debts previously contracted. Codorus Valley's business consists primarily of managing its subsidiaries.
CCH Coca-Cola HBC S.A. (CCH) is engaged in the production and distribution of alcohol-free beverages under franchise from The Coca-Cola Company. CCH operates in 26 countries primarily in Europe. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company sold approximately 1.3 billion unit cases. CCH produces, sells and distributes both carbonated soft drinks (CSD) and non-CSD products under the brands of The Coca-Cola Company. The Company also produces, sells and distributes CSD products under the brands that The Coca-Cola Company acquired for certain countries from Cadbury Schweppes plc in 1999. Schweppes Holdings Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company, has granted to CCH the rights to produce, sell and distribute these beverages in Greece, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Nigeria, the Russian Federation, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Ukraine, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.
KOF Coca-Cola FEMSA S.A. de C.V. produces, markets and distributes Coca-Cola trademark beverages through standard bottler agreements with the Coca-Cola Company that cover all of its territories. The Company operates in some parts of Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina. During the year ended December 31, 2003, approximately 93.2% of the Company's sales were derived from sales of Coca-Cola trademark beverages. The Company also produces, markets and distributes other brands and beverages licensed from third parties. In addition, the Company produces and distributes Coca-Cola trademark beverages in additional territories in the central and the gulf regions of Mexico and in Central America (Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama), Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil.
CCE Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. is a marketer, distributor, and producer of bottle and can nonalcoholic beverages. The Company conducts its business primarily under agreements with The Coca-Cola Company, its largest shareowner. These agreements give the Company the exclusive right to produce, market and distribute beverage products of The Coca-Cola Company in authorized containers in specified territories. Coca-Cola Enterprises distributes its bottle and can products to customers and consumers in the United States and Canada through license territories in 46 states in the United States, the District of Columbia and the 10 provinces of Canada. It is also the sole licensed bottler for products of The Coca-Cola Company in Belgium, continental France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Monaco and the Netherlands.
KO The Coca-Cola Company manufactures, distributes and markets non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups, including fountain syrups, in markets across the world. The Company manufactures and sells non-alcoholic beverages, primarily carbonated soft drinks and a variety of non-carbonated beverages. Coca-Cola also manufactures and distributes juices and juice drinks and certain water products such as Dasani. In addition, the Company has ownership interests in numerous bottling and canning operations. Coca-Cola has five strategic business units: North America, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, Eurasia and the Middle East. Finished beverage products bearing its trademarks are sold in more than 200 countries worldwide.
COKE Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated produces, markets and distributes carbonated and non-carbonated beverages or products of The Coca-Cola Company. The Company's product offerings include carbonated soft drinks, bottled water, teas, juices, isotonics and energy drinks. During the fiscal year ended December 28, 2003, (fiscal 2003), Coca-Cola Bottling held bottling rights from The Coca-Cola Company covering the majority of North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia, and portions of Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Florida. The total population within the Company's bottling territory is approximately 18.2 million in fiscal 2003.
COBR Cobra Electronics Corporation manufactures two-way mobile communications products in the United States, Canada and Europe. The Company is also involved in the business of handheld global positioning systems (GPS), marine very-high-frequency (VHF) radios and marine power inverters. During the year ended December 31, 2003, it introduced a line of handheld GPS devices for recreational use and a line of marine radios and power inverters. The Company operates only in the consumer electronics industry. The products include microTALK family radio service (FRS) and general mobile radio service (GMRS); PMR two-way radios; nine-, 10- and 11-band radar detectors with exclusive Strobe Alert technology; Citizens Band radios, including those with exclusive SoundTracker and NightWatch technologies; HighGear accessories; GPS handheld receivers, and Marine VHF radios and power inverters.
COBZ CoBiz Inc. is a financial holding company. The Company provides a range of banking products and services, including credit, treasury management, investment, deposit and trust products to its targeted customer base of small and medium-sized businesses and high-net-worth individuals. CoBiz's banking products are complimented by its fee-based business lines, which include employee benefits brokerage and consulting, insurance brokerage, wealth transfer planning, life insurance, investment banking and investment management services. CoBiz's wholly owned subsidiary, CoBiz Bank, N.A. (the Bank, formerly named as American Business Bank, N.A.), is a full-service business banking institution with 10 Colorado locations, and four Arizona locations. Each of the Company's bank locations operates as a separate business bank. The Bank operates in its Colorado market areas under the name Colorado Business Bank and in its Arizona market areas under the name Arizona Business Bank.
CLSC.OB Cobalis Corporation, formerly BioGentec Corp., is a development-stage company dedicated to the development and commercialization of medical products, focused primarily in the fields of allergic disease. The indications include seasonal allergic rhinitis (seasonal allergies or outdoor allergies); perennial allergic rhinitis (year-round or indoor allergies); pediatric dosing for seasonal allergic rhinitis; allergic asthma; food allergies (including peanut); immunoglobulin E (IgE)-mediated skin disorders (dermatitis, chronic urticaria, eczema and psoriasis), and allergic and migraine headache. BioGentec, the Company's subsidiary, manufactures PreHistin, a preventative system for seasonal and year-round allergies, both outdoor (pollen) and indoor (dust, pet dander and mold), triggered by the most common allergens. This 21-day system of flavored lozenges was demonstrated in clinical studies to have a persistence of effect lasting months.
CFCP Coastal Financial Corporation was formed for the purpose of becoming a savings and loan holding company for Coastal Federal Bank formerly, named Coastal Federal Savings Bank (Coastal Federal or the Bank). Coastal Federal's 18 offices are located in Horry and Georgetown Counties of South Carolina, and Brunswick and New Hanover Counties of North Carolina. Coastal Federal's principal business consists of attracting deposits from the general public and using these funds to originate consumer, commercial business loans, commercial real estate loans and residential mortgage loans.
COCBF.OB Coastal Caribbean Oils and Minerals, Ltd. is engaged in the exploration for oil and gas reserves through its majority owned subsidiary, Coastal Petroleum Company. The Company has been involved in litigation to obtain compensation from the State of Florida for the alleged taking by the State of Coastal Petroleum's Lease 224-A by the denial of a permit to drill on the lease. In December 2003, the appellate court issued a unanimous decision, without a written opinion, affirming the trial court's decision. The Court further denied Coastal Petroleum's petition for clarification, rehearing, certification and request for written opinion, and the decision became final in January 2004. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company actively pursued the Florida Litigation.
CFHI Coast Financial Holdings, Inc. (Coast Financial) is a bank holding company that owns all of the capital stock of Coast Bank of Florida (Coast Bank). The Company's primary asset is Coast Bank and does not engage in any activities other than those related to its ownership of Coast Bank. Coast Bank is a Florida state-chartered bank and is not a member bank of the Federal Reserve System. Coast Bank is a general commercial bank that provides corporate and personal banking services to individuals and small to mid-sized businesses from its six full service banking office locations: Coast Bank's main office in Bradenton, Florida; three branches in Bradenton; one branch in Palmetto, and one branch on Longboat Key, Florida. In addition, Coast Bank maintains automated teller machines with an attached deposit drop for businesses and individuals located on Anna Maria Island, Florida and at Waterlefe, a residential community in Bradenton, Florida.
CRV The Coast Distribution System, Inc. is a wholesale supplier of replacement parts, supplies and accessories for recreational vehicles (RVs) and boats in North America. RV products distributed by the Company include antennae, vents, electrical items, towing equipment and hitches, appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators, ranges and generators, LP gas equipment, portable toilets and plumbing parts, hardware and tools, specialized recreational vehicle housewares, chemicals and supplies and various accessories, such as ladders, jacks, fans, load stabilizers, mirrors and compressors. Coast Distribution also carries a line boating and marine products, including boat covers, stainless steel hardware, depth sounders, anchors, life jackets and other marine safety equipment and fishing equipment. The Company has also introduced into the RV and boating aftermarkets, which are manufactured by independent manufacturers.
CMKG CoActive Marketing Group, Inc. operates through its wholly owned subsidiaries as a full-service multicultural marketing, sales promotion and interactive media services and e-commerce provider organization. The Company designs, develops and implements turnkey customized national, regional and local consumer and trade promotion programs principally for Fortune 500 consumer product companies. Its programs are designed to enhance the value of its clients' budgeted expenditures and achieve, in an objectively measurable way, its clients' specific marketing and promotional objectives, which include reinforcement of product brand recognition and providing incentives that generate near-term sales. The Company's wholly owned subsidiaries are Inmark Services LLC, Optimum Group LLC, U.S. Concepts LLC and TrikMedia LLC.
COA Coachmen Industries Inc. operates in two primary business segments, Recreational Vehicles and Housing and Buildings. The Recreational Vehicle segment manufactures and distributes Class A and Class C motor homes, travel trailers, fifth wheels, camping trailers and related parts and supplies. The Housing and Building segment manufactures and distributes factory-built modules for residential and commercial buildings.
CIGI.OB Coach Industries Group, Inc. (Coach) is a holding company that manufactures luxury limousines, specialty vehicles and limousine buses, and sells financial services and products related to its business through its various operating subsidiaries. The Company has two subsidiaries. Commercial Transportation Manufacturing Corporation (CTMC) focuses on manufacturing specialty vehicles and limousine buses. Springfield Coach Industries Corporation, Inc. (SCB) focuses on manufacturing Lincoln Town Car limousines and Ford Excursion limousines. Through its subsidiaries, the Company manufactures luxury limousines, specialty vehicles and limousine buses. Coach operates under agreements with Ford Motor Company and General Motors Corporation. In October 2004, Coach acquired Corporate Development Services, Inc., a New York-based provider of contract labor, insurance products and management services to the transportation industry throughout the United States, and its affiliated companies.
COH Coach, Inc. is a designer, producer and marketer of modern American classic accessories, handbags, women's and men's small leather goods, business cases, weekend and travel accessories, outerwear and related accessories. Together with its licensing partners, Coach also offers watches, footwear, eyewear and office furniture with the Coach brand name. Coach's products are sold through a number of direct to consumer channels, which, at the end of the fiscal year ended July 3, 2004 (fiscal 2004), included 174 United States retail stores, direct-mail catalogs, online store and 76 United States factory stores.
CXR Cox Radio, Inc. is a radio broadcasting company operating in the United States. The Company owns, operates or provides sales services for 78 radio stations (67 FM (Frequency Modulation) and 11 AM (Amplitude Modulation)) clustered in 18 markets. Cox Radio operates three or more stations in 15 of its 18 markets. The Company operates a range of programming formats in geographically diverse markets across the United States. These include News/Talk, Urban Adult Contemporary, Adult Contemporary, Rhythmic Contemporary Hit Radio(CHR), R&amp;B/Soul, Hip Hop, Country, 80's, Oldies, Classic Country, Classic Rock, Hawaiian CHR, Country Legends, Mainstream Rock, Hot Adult Contemporary, Dance CHR, Active Rock, Soft Adult Contemporary, Alternative Rock and Classic Hits. The Company is an indirect majority-owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, Inc.
CWLZ Cowlitz Bancorporation serves as the holding company for Cowlitz Bank (the Bank), a state chartered bank. Cowlitz Bank operates four branches in Cowlitz County in southwest Washington. Outside of Cowlitz County, the Bank does business under the name Bay Bank, with branches in Bellevue, Washington, and Portland, Oregon; a loan production office in Vancouver, Washington, and a limited-service branch in a retirement center in Wilsonville, Oregon. Cowlitz Bank also provides mortgage banking services through its Bay Mortgage division, with offices in Longview and Vancouver, Washington. During much of 2003, the Company also operated Bay Mortgage and Bay Escrow offices in Bellevue and Seattle, Washington. As part of a strategy to consolidate resources into commercial banking and reduce reliance on mortgage lending activities, those offices were closed during the fourth quarter of 2003.
CVST Covista Communications, Inc. is a telecommunications, Internet and data services provider that operates three business segments: retail, KISSLD and wholesale. Retail is the largest segment and provides local, long distance, data and Internet services to small and medium-sized businesses, principally in the Northeast region of the United States. KISSLD is the fastest growing segment and offers bundled local and long distance services to residential users located in areas supported by the Company's long distance network facilities. The wholesale segment provides long distance telecommunication services to other carriers for resale. Covista utilizes its own switching equipment and leased fiber-optic transmission cable. Its products and services consist of voice, data and Internet, including local, long distance and toll-free services, calling cards, data, Internet access, virtual private network, directory assistance and teleconferencing services.
COVR.OB Cover-All Technologies Inc. provides software products and services to the property and casualty insurance industry through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cover-All Systems, Inc. Its software products and services focus on the functions required to market, rate, issue, print, bill and support the entire life cycle of insurance policies. Its products are either available off-the-shelf or customized to specific customer needs. The Company's software can be licensed for customer use on their own platforms or can be licensed through the Company's application services provider using third-party technology platforms and support. The Company also provides a range of professional services that support product customization, conversion from existing systems and data integration with other software or reporting agencies.
CVH Coventry Health Care Inc. is a managed health care company operating a diversified portfolio of local market health plans serving 14 markets, primarily in the mid-Atlantic, midwest and southeast United States. Coventry's health plans are operated under the names Altius Health Plans, Carelink Health Plans, Coventry Health Care, Coventry Health and Life, Group Health Plan, HealthAmerica, HealthAssurance, HealthCare USA, PersonalCare, SouthCare, Southern Health and WellPath. The Company has three reportable segments: Commercial, Medicare and Medicaid products. Coventry also offers management services and access to its provider networks.
CVTI Covenant Transport, Inc. is a truckload carrier, focused on longer lengths of haul in targeted markets. The Company offers transportation services, such as team, refrigerated and dedicated contract services, to customers predominantly in the United States. Its primary customers include manufacturers and retailers, as well as other transportation companies. In its core long-haul business, Covenant Transport uses large fleet of tractors operated by two-person driver teams to provide expedited transportation, generally over distances from 1,500 to 2,500 miles. It also operates a single driver fleet that concentrates on expedited movements with an average length of haul of approximately 800 miles. Its long-haul temperature-controlled business frequently hauls dry freight to the West Coast and temperature-controlled freight to the East. The largest part of the Company's business is medium-to-long haul dry van service.
CVNS Covansys Corporation is a global technology services company with a focus on industry-specific solutions, outsourcing and integration services. The Company offers flexible project delivery capabilities by providing clients a choice among any combination of the options, which include onsite at the client facility; offsite at one of its development facilities in North America, or offshore at one of its development facilities in India. Covansys applies its industry-specific knowledge to deliver a range of outsourcing and integration services, which include application maintenance and development outsourcing, custom application development, Web-to-enterprise integration and traditional e-business services, packaged software implementation, upgrades and enhancements and software engineering. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Covansys had over 500 clients.
CVD Covance Inc. is a drug development services company that provides a range of early stage and late stage product development services on a worldwide basis primarily to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. Covance also provides services such as laboratory testing to the chemical, agrochemical and food industries. The Company has two business segments: early development services, which includes preclinical services and Phase I clinical services, and late-stage development services, which includes central laboratory, clinical development, periapproval, central electrocardiogram diagnostic services, and healthcare economic and reimbursement services.
CVGR Covalent Group, Inc. offers clinical research and development services, primarily Phase I through IV clinical trials, to companies in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. The Company's services include study protocol design, clinical trials management, global data management services, biostatistics, TeleTrial system access and medical and regulatory affairs, as well as quality assurance and compliance. Covalent has clinical trial experience across various therapeutic areas, such as cardiovascular, endocrinology/metabolism, diabetes, neurology, oncology, immunology, vaccines, infectious diseases, gastroenterology, dermatology, hepatology, womens' health and respiratory medicine. The Company can conduct clinical trials on a global basis. Covalent has managed studies in 22 countries, including the United States, Canada, Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, Australia and Scandinavia.
COVD.OB Covad Communications Group, Inc. is a nationwide provider of broadband voice and data communications. The Company offers digital subscriber line (DSL), Voice Over IP (VoIP), T1, Web hosting, managed security, Internet protocol (IP) and dial-up and bundled voice and data services directly through Covad's network and through Internet service providers (ISPs), value-added resellers, telecommunications carriers and affinity groups to small and medium-sized businesses and home users. Covad broadband services are available across the country in 44 states and 235 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and can be purchased by more than 57 million homes and businesses, which represent over 50% of all United States homes and businesses.
CUZ Cousins Properties Inc. is a fully integrated, self administered equity real estate investment trust that owns, directly and through subsidiaries and joint ventures, a portfolio of office, medical office, retail and residential development projects and holds several tracts of strategically located undeveloped land. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had 36 commercial office buildings in its office portfolio, six medical office portfolio in its medical office portfolio and 11 properties in its retail portfolio. The Company's other real estate holdings include interests in over 280 acres of strategically located land held for investment or future development at North Point and Wildwood Office Park in Atlanta, Georgia, and the option to acquire the fee simple interest in approximately 7,100 acres of land through its Temco Associates joint venture, among other holdings.
CRRC Courier Corporation is a book manufacturer and specialty publisher. The Company has two business segments: full-service book manufacturing and specialty book publishing. In 2003, Courier sold all of the assets of Courier Custom Publishing, Inc., which comprised all of the remaining activities of the customized education segment. The book manufacturing segment focuses on streamlining and enhancing the process of bringing books from the point of creation to the point of use, and accounted for 84% of Company's revenue during the fiscal year ended September 25, 2004 (fiscal 2004). The specialty book segment consists of Dover Publications, Inc. (Dover), acquired by Courier in September 22, 2000, as well as Research &amp; Education Association, Inc., which was acquired in January 6, 2004. Dover publishes over 8,500 titles in more than 30 specialty categories ranging from literature and poetry classics to paper dolls, and from musical scores to typographical fonts.
CFC Countrywide Financial Corporation (CFC) is a diversified financial services holding company with five operating segments: Mortgage Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance, Banking and Global Operations. The Mortgage Banking segment originates, purchases, securitizes and services mortgage loans in the United States. The Capital Markets segment operates as an institutional broker-dealer that primarily specializes in trading and underwriting mortgage-backed securities. Through the Banking segment, CFC operates a federally chartered bank that primarily invests in mortgage loans and home equity lines of credit sourced through the mortgage banking operation. The Insurance segment offers property, casualty, life and credit insurance as an underwriter and as an independent agent. The segment also provides reinsurance coverage to primary mortgage insurers. In its Global Operations segment, CFC conducts activities such as loan processing and sub-servicing, and valuation services.
CXSN.OB Counsel Corporation is a diversified company engaged primarily in the ownership and development of companies that provide services and products in the United States and Canada. The Company is focused on acquiring and building businesses in two specific sectors: communications in the United States and real estate in Canada. Counsel's communications business is organized in three business units: telecommunications-retail, telecommunications-enterprise and telecommunications-technologies. The Company's real estate business, Counsel Real Estate Inc., is in the business of investing and developing income-producing commercial properties, primarily retail shopping centers, and receives fees for its participation in a variety of real estate ventures and from property management activities.
COT Cott Corporation is a supplier of retailer brand carbonated soft drinks in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. In addition to carbonated soft drinks, Cott's product lines include clear, sparkling flavored beverages, juices and juice-based products, bottled water, energy drinks and iced teas. Approximately 92% of all beverages sold by Cott, excluding concentrates, in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom are under customer-controlled retailer brands, and the remainder is sold under brand names that Cott either owns or licenses from others. The Company operates its United States business through an indirect wholly owned subsidiary, Cott Beverages Inc., its Canadian business through the Cott Beverages Canada division and its United Kingdom business through an indirect wholly owned subsidiary, Cott Beverages Ltd. During 2003, Cott formed a new business in Mexico, Cott Embotelladores de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.
CTRX CoTherix, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on licensing, developing and commercializing therapeutic products for the treatment of cardiopulmonary and other chronic diseases. Ventavis, its lead product candidate, is an inhaled formulation of iloprost. Iloprost is a synthetic compound that is structurally similar to prostacyclins, which are naturally occurring molecules that cause the blood vessels to dilate. The Company is developing Ventavis for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a highly debilitating disease characterized by severe constriction of the blood vessels in the lungs that lead to very high-pulmonary arterial pressure. CoTherix' other product candidate is CTX-100, an inhaled hyaluronic acid solution, for two indications, emphysema due to smoking and genetic emphysema. Hyaluronic acid is a naturally occurring carbohydrate that is a principal component of lung tissue.
CGZT.OB Cotelligent, Inc. provides business solutions specializing in mobile business and Web services solutions to extend information technology (IT) beyond the desktop to the mobile enterprise and to businesses in the United States of America. Cotelligent's mobility business solutions keep mobile workforces connected to the companies' business applications. The Web services solutions keep clients' customers, vendors, partners and employees connected via the Internet to information residing in clients' IT infrastructures. Cotelligent also provides maintenance and support on software products licensed to its clients in connection with solutions it develops. In March 2004, it acquired OnSite Media, Inc, which provided this software and service offerings to the hospitality and gambling industries. It's products, services and applications are mBusiness and mobility solutions, eBusiness solutions, Web services solutions, narrowcasting, video media and other specialized business software solutions.
COST Costco Wholesale Corporation operates membership warehouses based on the concept of offering members very low prices on a limited selection of nationally branded and selected private-label products in a wide range of merchandise categories. During the fiscal year ended August 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Costco operated 417 warehouse clubs, of which 327 were in the United States, 63 were in Canada, 15 were in the United Kingdom, five were in Korea, three were in Taiwan and four were in Japan. In fiscal 2004, the Company operated, through a 50%-owned joint venture, of which Costco is the managing partner 24 warehouses in Mexico.
CSGP CoStar Group, Inc. is a provider of information services to the commercial real estate industry in the United States and United Kingdom. The Company delivers content to customers via an integrated suite of online service offerings that includes information about space available for lease, comparable sales information, tenant information, information about properties for sale, information for clients' Websites, information about industry professionals and business relationships, analytic information, data integration, property marketing, organizational tools for contact and property information and industry news. CoStar's services are derived from a database of building-specific information and offer customers specialized tools for accessing, analyzing and using information. The subscription-based information services, consisting primarily of CoStar Property Professional, CoStar Tenant, CoStar COMPS Professional and FOCUS services, generate over 90% of the company's total revenues.
CULS Cost-U-Less operates mid-sized warehouse club-style stores in the United States territories, foreign island countries in the Pacific and the Caribbean, the Hawaiian Islands and Sonora, California. The Company operates in island markets, offering predominately United States branded goods and operates eleven retail stores, including two stores in each of Hawaii and Guam, and one store in each of St. Thomas, St. Croix, American Samoa, Fiji, Curacao, St. Maarten and Sonora, California. Cost-U-Less has incorporated into its prototype store many standard features found in domestic warehouse clubs. Store layout and interior designs were planned and calculated using computer models to maximize the sales per square foot and to provide uniformity among the stores.
CPWM Cost Plus, Inc. (Cost Plus World Market) is a specialty retailer of casual home furnishings and entertaining products. At January 31, 2004, the Company operated 204 stores under the name World Market, Cost Plus World Market, Cost Plus or Cost Plus Imports in 26 states. Its stores are located predominantly in high-traffic metropolitan and suburban locales, often near malls. Cost Plus World Market also offers its customers a selection of gourmet foods and beverages, including wine, microbrewed and imported beer, coffee, tea and bottled water. The Company classifies its sales into the home furnishings and the consumables product lines. During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004, Home furnishings accounted for approximately 62% of the Company's total sales while consumables accounted for approximately 38 %.
COSN CoSine Communications, Inc. is engaged in the development and sale of a communications platform designed to enable network service providers to rapidly deliver a portfolio of profitable communication services to business and customers. The Company's Internet protocol (IP) service delivery platform consists of hardware elements: a chassis, including its IPSX 9500 and IPSX 3500 service processing switches (IPSXs) and sub-systems known as its IP Service Generators (IPSGs) that support various IP services, and software elements, consisting of its InVision Service Management software for network management and InGage Customer network Management software. CoSine's network-based platform is designed to allow delivery of applications and services to tens of thousands of subscriber networks simultaneously, help address the cost, management complexity and scalability issues of service delivery and reduce the need for equipment on a customer's premises to provide these applications and services.
COSI Cosi, Inc. owns and operates 88 fast casual restaurants in 11 states and the District of Columbia. Cosi restaurants are all-day cafes that feature signature bread and coffee products. The majority of the Company's restaurants offer breakfast, lunch, afternoon coffee, dinner and dessert menus. Cosi operates its restaurants in two formats: Cosi and Cosi Downtown. Cosi Downtown restaurants, which are located in non-residential central business districts, close for the day in the early evening, while Cosi restaurants offer dinner and dessert in a casual dining atmosphere. Cosi offers bread and coffee products for all five dayparts, breakfast, lunch, afternoon coffee, dinner and dessert. The Company's food menu includes Cosi bagels, sandwiches, salads, soups, and appetizers, Warm n' Cosi Melts, pizzas, s'mores and other desserts. Its beverage menu features a full-line of coffee beverages, teas, Arctic smoothies, mochas and lattes and its signature coffee cocktails.
CRVU.OB CorVu Corporation is a holding company that, through its subsidiaries, develops and sells business performance management software products and related professional services. Its principal operating subsidiaries are CorVu North America, Inc. (responsible for North and South America), CorVu Plc (responsible for United Kingdom/Europe), CorVu Australasia Pty. Ltd. (responsible for the Australian-Pacific region), CorVu Software Marketing, Inc. and Corvu Latin America, Inc. CorVu Plc has one subsidiary, CorVu Nordic AB, and CorVu Software Marketing, Inc. has one subsidiary, CorVu Software, Ltd., Performance management software is designed to manage and monitor business performance in order to help businesses drive profitable growth. The CorVu solution is a purpose-built application for performance metrics, initiatives, resources and risks to strategic objectives.
CRVL CorVel Corporation is an independent provider of medical cost containment and managed care services designed to address the escalating medical costs of workers' compensation and other healthcare benefits, primarily coverage under group health and auto policies. The Company offers its services in two general categories, Network Solutions and Patient Management services, which are sold as bundles of solutions directed to managing claims, care, networks, reimbursements and settlements. They include automated medical fee auditing, preferred provider networks, out-of-network/line item bill negotiation and repricing, utilization review and utilization management, medical case management, vocational rehabilitation services, early intervention, Medicare Set-Asides and life care planning, and a variety of directed care services, including independent medical examinations, diagnostic imaging, transportation and translation, durable medical equipment and physical therapy.
CGA Corus Group plc is a steel producer, with production of 19 million tonnes of crude steel in 2003. Its European steelworks accounted for approximately 11% of the European Union's (EU) steel production in 2003. The majority of Corus steel is rolled in its own mills although it supplies semi-finished steel products to other steelmakers for rolling into finished products. Europe, principally the EU, including the United Kingdom, accounted for 80% of total carbon steel turnover in 2003, with North America accounting for 9% and other areas for 11%. The aluminum businesses manufacture and supply primary products, rolled products and extrusions. Corus is a producer of rolled aluminum products and extruded aluminum products combined. Europe accounted for 75% of total aluminum turnover in 2003, with North America accounting for 17% and other areas for 8%.
CJR Corus Entertainment Inc. is an integrated Canadian media and entertainment company with an established global distribution network for the programming it produces. The Company's principal assets consist of 50 radio stations; a number of specialty television networks focused on children and adult genres; western Canada's premium television services; Nelvana Limited, an international producer and distributor of children's programming and products; Kids Can Press, Canada's publisher of children's books; three conventional television stations; a local cable advertising service (Digital ADventure), and Max Trax, a digital audio service. Corus organizes its business into three operating groups: Radio, Television and Content.
CORS Corus Bankshares, Inc. is the holding company for Corus Bank, N.A. The Company, through its wholly owned banking subsidiary, provides consumer and corporate banking products and services. Corus' other activities include investments in the common stocks of financial industry companies as well as participation in certain of the Bank's larger commercial real estate loans. The two main business activities for the Bank are commercial real estate lending and deposit gathering. The third, and smaller, business is servicing the check cashing industry.
COR Cortex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of pharmaceuticals for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and other neurological and psychiatric disorders. Since 1993, the primary effort at Cortex has been to develop a novel pharmacology that positively modulates AMPA-type glutamate receptors, a complex of proteins that is involved in communication between nerve cells in the human brain. Cortex is developing a family of chemical compounds known as AMPAKINE compounds that enhance the activity of this receptor. AMPAKINE compounds, which act on chemical pathways that impact at least 85% of all the neurotransmission occurring in the brain, have been demonstrated to enhance memory and cognition in both animals and humans. The compounds can be taken orally or intravenously, and rapidly pass through the brain membrane.
CRTQ Cortech, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company whose research and development efforts were focused on protease inhibitors and bradykinin antagonists. These efforts produced a technology portfolio that may have therapeutic application across a range of medical conditions. In response to disappointing test results and its loss of collaborative partner support, Cortech implemented a series of reductions in force, which resulted in the Company having no compensated employees since February 1999, and effectively discontinued all internal research and development activities. In addition, Cortech decommissioned its laboratories, and sold its scientific, technical office equipment and leasehold improvements. As a result of these actions, Cortech no longer has the staff or operative facilities required to recommence internal research and development activities.
CO Corrpro Companies, Inc. provides corrosion control engineering services, systems and equipment (corrosion control), coatings services (coatings) and pipeline integrity and risk assessment services. The Company has organized its operations into three business segments by geographic region: Domestic Core Operations, Canadian Operations and European Operations. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Corrpro completed the sales of its Middle East subsidiaries and also sold its Asia Pacific Operations. In March 2003, it sold its Bass-Trigon Software business unit and Rohrback Cosasco Systems subsidiary. It also disposed of two smaller international offices.
CXW Corrections Corporation of America specializes in owning, operating and managing prisons and other correctional facilities, and providing inmate residential and prisoner transportation services for governmental agencies. In addition to providing the fundamental residential services relating to inmates, the Company's facilities offer a variety of rehabilitation and educational programs, including basic education, religious services, life skills and employment training and substance abuse treatment. These services are intended to help reduce recidivism and to prepare inmates for their successful reentry into society upon their release. The Company also provides healthcare (including medical, dental and psychiatric services), food services and work and recreational programs. Corrections' customers consist of federal, state and local correctional and detention authorities. For 2003, federal correctional and detention authorities represented 37% of its total revenue.
CSCQ Correctional Services Corporation operates and manages detention and correctional facilities, as well as educational, developmental and rehabilitative programs for federal, state and local government agencies. The Company provides juvenile rehabilitative services through 19 facilities and 2,500 beds. In addition, Correctional Services develops and operates 13 adult correctional facilities, representing approximately 5,000 beds. Additionally, it provides design and construction services for juvenile and adult correctional facilities, including project consulting; design, development and construction of new correctional and detention facilities, and the redesign and renovation of existing facilities. These services are usually provided, in conjunction with an agreement, for the Company to operate the facility upon completion of the construction or renovation.
CPV Correctional Properties Trust is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust that acquires correctional and detention facilities from private prison operators and government entities. At December 31, 2003, the Company owned and leased 14 correctional and detention facilities in 10 states. Eleven of the Company's facilities are located in eight states and leased to and operated by The Geo Group, Inc. and its affiliates. These facilities represent approximately 72% of the Company's rental income. Two of its facilities, which represent approximately 20% of its rental income, are leased to the State of North Carolina and are operated by the North Carolina Department of Correction. The remaining facility, which represents approximately 8% of its rental income, is located in the State of New Jersey and leased to and operated by Community Education Centers. At December 31, 2003, the aggregate design capacity of the Company's facilities was 8,008 beds.
OFC Corporate Office Properties Trust is a fully-integrated and self-managed real estate investment trust that focuses principally on the ownership, management, leasing, acquisition and development of suburban office properties located in select submarkets in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned 119 operating office properties in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Virginia containing approximately 10 million rentable square feet that were 91.2% occupied (including one owned through a joint venture); four office properties under construction or development that the Company estimates will total approximately 399,000 square feet upon completion, including two properties owned through joint ventures, and land parcels totaling 224 acres that were contiguous to certain of its operating properties, and potentially developable into approximately 3.8 million square feet.
EXBD The Corporate Executive Board Company provides best practices research, decision support tools and executive education focusing on corporate strategy, operations and general management issues. Best practices research supports senior executive decision making by identifying and analyzing specific management initiatives, processes and strategies that have been determined to produce the best results in solving common business problems or challenges. The Company provides research and analysis to a membership of over 2,100 corporations. For a fixed annual fee, members of each research program have access to an integrated set of services, typically including best practices research studies, executive education seminars, customized research briefs, Web-based access to the program's digital content database and decision support tools.
CDIK.OB Coronado Industries, Inc. is a holding company that conducts all its business operations through three wholly owned subsidiaries. The Company, through its subsidiary, Ophthalmic International, Inc., manufactures a fixation device with a designed suction ring that treats open angle and pigmentary glaucoma. Coronado Industries intends to market its vacuum fixation device and suction rings to medical supply companies and health care providers throughout the world. Another Company subsidiary, American Glaucoma, Inc., operated a glaucoma treatment center in Scottsdale, Arizona. Ophthalmic International, L.L.C., a limited liability company, holds the patent for the Company's fixation device and process. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Coronado Industries commenced an application for a Type 2a European medical product distribution certification. Successful completion of the Type 2a certification process will allow the Company's devices to be sold within the European Union.
GLW Corning Incorporated is a global, technology-based corporation that operates in two reportable business segments: Telecommunications and Technologies. The Telecommunications Segment produces optical fiber and cable, and hardware and equipment products for the worldwide telecommunications industry. The segment represented approximately 46% of the Company's sales during the year ended December 31, 2003. The Technologies Segment manufactures specialized products with properties for customer applications utilizing glass, glass ceramic and polymer technologies. Its products include liquid crystal display glass for flat panel displays, environmental products, life science products, specialty materials products, and glass panels and funnels for televisions. The Technologies Segment represented approximately 53% of Corning's sales during 2003.
TCR Cornerstone Realty Income Trust, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, is a self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns, acquires, develops and manages apartment communities located in the United States. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned 89 apartment communities, consisting of a total of 23,189 apartment homes. The Company's apartment communities are located in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia.
CBN Cornerstone Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company formed by Cornerstone Bank (the Bank) for the purpose of owning all of the Bank's outstanding common stock. The Bank, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bancorp, is engaged in commercial and consumer banking business, including attracting deposits from the general public and local businesses and loaning or investing these deposits. It originates loans collateralized by liens on commercial and residential properties, as well as secured and unsecured commercial and consumer installment loans. The primary market area of the Bank consists of the city of Stamford and the surrounding communities of Greenwich, Darien, New Canaan, Westport and Norwalk, Connecticut. The remainder of Fairfield County forms a secondary market area. Cornerstone Business Credit, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank, is engaged in the origination of small business loans that qualify for the guaranty of the United States Small Business Administration.
CRN Cornell Companies, Inc. is a provider of corrections, treatment and educational services outsourced by federal, state and local government agencies. The Company provides a portfolio of services for adults and juveniles through three operating divisions, which are also its reportable segments: adult secure institutional services; residential and community-based juvenile justice, educational and treatment services, and adult community-based corrections and treatment services. The Company's services include incarceration and detention, transition from incarceration, drug and alcohol treatment programs, behavioral rehabilitation and treatment and education for grades three to 12. As of December 31, 2003, the Company operated 66 facilities and had four facilities that were under development, construction or renovation, and its total available facility service capacity was 16,514.
CPO Corn Products International, Inc. is a corn refiner and supplier of food ingredients and industrial products derived from the wet milling and processing of corn and other starch-based materials. Corn refining is a two-step process that involves the wet milling and processing of corn. In the front-end process, corn is steeped in a water-based solution and separated into starch and by-products such as animal feed and germ. The starch is then either dried or further modified or refined through various processes to make sweeteners and other starch-based products. The Company supplies a range of customers in over 60 industries. The customers include the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, paper products, corrugated and laminated paper, textile and brewing industries and in the animal feed markets. The Company's products are Sweetener Products, Starch Products and Co-Products and Others.
CRXA Corixa Corporation is a developer of immunotherapeutic products, including monoclonal antibodies, vaccines and adjuvants and small molecules called TLR4 agonists and antagonists designed to affect the immune system and treat debilitating and life-threatening conditions caused by cancer and infectious disease. Originally founded to pursue development of antigen discovery technology, the Company has become a product development company with multiple product candidates, many in late-stage human clinical trials.
CRIO Corio, Inc. is an enterprise application service provider that operates through two lines of business: Application Management Services and Professional Services. Corio's application management services consist of ongoing services for business software application systems, which often includes providing the computers, data center facilities and networks to support the software applications and working with its customers to address problems that arise with these applications or the computers or networks that run them. The Company's professional services engagements consist of discrete projects on behalf of its customers such as implementing business software applications in a manner that meets the customer's requirements. The solutions Corio provides its customers are services related to enterprise software applications provided by companies such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Ariba and Siebel Systems.
COCO Corinthian Colleges, Inc. is a for-profit, post-secondary education company. As of June 30, 2004, it operated 88 colleges in 22 states, and 45 colleges (10 of which are expected to close during fiscal year ended June30, 2005 (fiscal 2005)) and 15 corporate training centres in seven Canadian provinces. It offers a variety of master's, bachelor's and associate's programs through four principal operating divisions in the United States and one principal operating division in Canada. The principal divisions include Corinthian Schools division (CSI), The Titan Schools division (TSI), The Rhodes Colleges division (RCI), The CDI Education Corporation Post-Secondary Education division (CDI-PS) and The CDI Education Corporation Corporate Education division (CDI-CE).
CORI Corillian Corporation is a provider of solutions that enable banks, brokers, financial portals and other financial service providers to rapidly deploy Internet-based financial services. The Company's solutions allow consumers to conduct financial transactions, view personal and market financial information, pay bills and access other financial services on the Internet. Corillian Voyager is a software platform combined with a set of applications for Internet banking, electronic bill presentment and payment, targeted marketing, data aggregation and online customer relationship management. Corillian also offers a variety of professional services to support its customers throughout the process of implementing and maintaining its solutions. The Company's Corillian Voyager customers include Chase Manhattan Bank, Bank One, Wachovia Bank and SunTrust Bank.
CGTK Corgentech, Inc. is focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of a new class of therapeutics called transcription factor decoys (TF decoys). The Company's TF decoys are synthetically manufactured short strands of DNA that specifically bind to and block the activity of their target transcription factors. Transcription factors are widely recognized as therapeutic targets because they control gene expression and biological processes. A single TF decoy can target multiple genes involved in a specific disease process. The Company is focused on TF decoys initially for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, inflammatory disease, such as arthritis, and cancer. The Company is creating a pipeline of novel therapeutics based on its proprietary TF decoy technology. Its lead product candidate, E2F Decoy, is in two Phase III clinical trials for the prevention of vein graft failure. The Company is also developing E2F Decoy for the prevention of arterio-venous (AV) graft failure.
CONX.OB Corgenix Medical Corporation is engaged in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of in-vitro (outside the body) diagnostic products for use in disease detection and prevention. The Company's diagnostics products business is managed by its two wholly owned operating subsidiaries: Corgenix, Inc. and Corgenix (UK) Ltd. It sells 73 diagnostic products on a worldwide basis to hospitals, clinical laboratories, commercial reference laboratories and research institutions. Some of these products are developed and manufactured at the Company's Colorado facility and others products are purchased from other healthcare manufacturers (OEM Products). All of these products are used in clinical laboratories for the diagnosis and/or monitoring of five important areas of healthcare: autoimmune disease and antiphospholipid antibody testing, vascular disease, infectious diseases, liver diseases and miscellaneous testing (pregnancy, fecal occult blood and related products).
CMT Core Molding Technologies, Inc. (CMT) and its subsidiaries operate in the plastics market in a family of products known as reinforced plastics. Reinforced plastics are combinations of resins and reinforcing fibers (typically glass or carbon) that are molded to shape. The Company's Columbus, Ohio and Gaffney, South Carolina facilities produce reinforced plastics by compression molding sheet molding compound (SMC) in a closed mold process. As a result of the acquisition of Airshield Corporation in 2001, CMT established operations in a Matamoros, Mexico facility, which produces reinforced plastic products by spray-up and hand-lay-up open mold processes and a vacuum assisted resin infused (VRIM) closed mold process.
CLB Core Laboratories N.V. is a global provider of reservoir description, production enhancement and reservoir management services to the oil and gas industry. These services are directed toward enabling its clients to improve reservoir performance and increase oil and gas recovery from producing fields. The Company derives revenues from services and product sales to clients primarily in the oil and gas industry. It also conducts research and development to meet the needs of clients who are continually seeking new services and technologies to lower their costs of finding, developing and producing oil and gas.
CORT Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated is a pharmaceutical company engaged in the development of drugs for the treatment of severe psychiatric and neurological diseases. Its focus is on the development of drugs for disorders associated with a steroid hormone called cortisol. Elevated levels and abnormal release patterns of cortisol have been implicated in a broad range of human disorders. The Company's lead product candidate, CORLUX, modulates the effect of cortisol by selectively blocking the binding of cortisol to one of its two known receptors, the GR-II receptor. Corcept has been granted fast track status by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is preparing to initiate pivotal clinical trials for CORLUX for the treatment of the psychotic features of psychotic major depression (PMD). The Company has also initiated a clinical study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of CORLUX in improving cognition in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease.
VEGF Corautus Genetics Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of gene therapy products for the treatment of cardiac and vascular disease. The Company focuses on the clinical development of gene therapy products using a vascular growth factor gene known as Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor 2 (VEGF-2), for the treatment of severe cardiovascular disease. Corautus changed its name from GenStar after the completion of a merger with Vascular Genetics Inc. on February 5, 2003. Vascular Genetics survived the merger and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Corautus.
CGREF.OB Coral Gold Resources Ltd. formerly Coral Gold Corp., explores and develops mineral properties. The Company is in the process of exploring and developing its mineral properties and has not yet determined whether its mineral properties contain ore reserves that are economically recoverable. The recoverability of amounts shown for mineral properties is dependent upon the discovery of economically recoverable ore reserves in its mineral properties, the ability of the Company to obtain the necessary financing to complete development, confirmation of the Company's interest in the underlying mineral claims and leases, and upon future profitable production or sufficient proceeds from the disposition of its mineral properties. The Company's mining claims are located in the States of Nevada and California in the United States. The Company's present principal exploration activities have been focused on the Robertson Mining Claims located in Crescent Valley, Nevada.
COPY.OB Copytele, Inc. is principally engaged in the development, production and marketing of thin, high-brightness, flat panel video displays. The Company has developed an electron emission display technology that not only preserves the desirable characteristics of a cathode ray tube but also achieves high-brightness, has an electron emission and pixel structure with built-in pixel memory and has long life. Copytele is producing and marketing two types of its thin high-brightness video displays, Model CTVD-101 and Model CTVD-102 displays. The Company is also producing and marketing a line of high-grade, hardware- and software-based encryption products that provide security for voice, fax and data transmissions utilizing cellular, satellite, digital and analog communication media.
CMTN Copper Mountain Networks, Inc. offers intelligent broadband access solutions to enable efficient and scalable deployment of advanced voice, video and data services while leveraging existing network infrastructures and reducing both capital and operational costs. Its products provide multiple building blocks used to build and expand broadband access networks: intelligent access network aggregation solutions that aggregate traffic from existing digital subscriber line (DSL) access multiplexers; equipment that terminates the service provider side of subscriber loop circuits using technologies such as DSL and T1/E1, and a suite of network management tools for managing the intelligent edge of the service provider's broadband access network. The Company's solutions consist of VantEdge Access Broadband Remote Access Servers (BRASs), CopperEdge DSL Concentrators and CopperView Network Management Software Tools.
CPRT Copart, Inc. is a provider of salvage vehicle auction services in the United States. The Company provides vehicle suppliers, primarily insurance companies with a full range of services to process and sell salvage vehicles through auctions, principally to licensed vehicle dismantlers, rebuilders, repair licensees, used vehicle dealers and exporters. It offers vehicle suppliers a full range of services that expedite each stage of the salvage vehicle auction process, and minimize administrative and processing costs. During the fiscal year ending July 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Copart acquired three salvage vehicle auction facilities and opened two new salvage vehicle auction facilities. The Company acquired auction sites located in Eugene, Oregon; Cleveland, Ohio, and Anchorage, Alaska. It opened new vehicle auction sites in Toronto, Canada and Helena, Montana.
COOP Cooperative Bankshares, Inc. is the holding company for Cooperative Bank (Cooperative), a North Carolina chartered commercial bank. The Bank provides a range of banking products, including interest bearing and non-interest bearing checking accounts, certificates of deposit and individual retirement accounts. It offers an array of loan products, such as overdraft protection, commercial, consumer, agricultural, real estate, residential mortgage and home equity loans. Also offered are safe deposit boxes and automated banking services through automated teller machines and Access24 Phone Banking. Cooperative began offering Online Banking and Bill Payment in July 2003. In addition, the Bank also offers discount brokerage services, annuity sales and mutual funds through a third-party arrangement with UVEST Investment Services. Cooperative considers its primary market area to be the communities of Eastern North Carolina between the Virginia and South Carolina borders.
CTB Cooper Tire &amp; Rubber Company is a manufacturer of replacement tires and original equipment automotive components. The Company is organized into two separate, reportable business segments: Cooper Tire and Cooper-Standard Automotive. Cooper Tire, the segment that comprises the Company's tire and related businesses, focuses on the sale of passenger and light truck replacement tires. It also manufactures radial medium truck tires and materials and equipment for the truck tire retread industry. Cooper-Standard Automotive, the segment that includes all of Cooper's automotive components business, designs and manufactures automotive body sealing products, as well as noise, vibration and harshness control products and fluid handling systems for the automotive industry. Cooper operates 52 manufacturing facilities in 13 countries. In December 2004, The Cypress Group and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners acquired Cooper-Standard Automotive from the Company.
CBE Cooper Industries, Ltd. operates in two business segments: Electrical Products and Tools and Hardware. Cooper manufactures, markets and sells its products and provides services throughout the world. Cooper has manufacturing facilities in 21 countries and employs approximately 27,200 people. On December 31, 2003, the plants and other facilities used by Cooper throughout the world contained an aggregate of approximately 18,265,995 square feet of space, of which approximately 74% was owned and 26% was leased. Operations in the United States are conducted by wholly owned subsidiaries of Cooper, organized by the two business segments. Activities outside the United States contribute significantly to the revenues and operating earnings of both segments of Cooper. These activities are conducted in commercial countries by wholly owned subsidiaries and jointly owned companies.
COO The Cooper Companies, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets healthcare products through its two principal business units: CooperVision (CVI) and CooperSurgical (CSI). CVI develops, manufactures and markets a range of contact lenses for the worldwide vision care market. It specializes in toric lenses that correct astigmatism, cosmetic lenses that change the appearance of the color of the eye, and other lenses, primarily for high growth, specialty and value-added market segments around the world. Its principal products are disposable and planned replacement toric and spherical lenses. CSI develops, manufactures and markets medical devices, diagnostic products and surgical instruments and accessories used primarily by gynecologists and obstetricians.
CAM Cooper Cameron Corporation is an international manufacturer of oil and gas pressure control equipment. It also manufactures centrifugal air compressors, integral and separable gas compressors and turbochargers. During 2003, the Company's operations were organized into three separate business segments: Cameron, Cooper Cameron Valves (CCV) and Cooper Compression. Cameron is a provider of systems and equipment used to control pressures and direct flows of oil and gas wells. CCV is a provider of valves and related systems primarily used to control pressures and direct the flow of oil and gas as they are moved from individual wellheads through flow lines, gathering lines and transmission systems to refineries, petrochemical plants and industrial centers for processing. Cooper Compression is a provider of compression equipment and related aftermarket parts and services.
CSAV.OB CoolSavings, Inc. is an online direct marketing and media company with a database of 11.5 million consumers who have taken an action on the Company's Website. Using CoolSavings, marketers drive sales and customer traffic to their stores, Websites, catalogues or call centers by taking advantage of a variety of highly targeted marketing services, including lead generation, couponing, targeted e-mail, category newsletters, direct mail, product sampling and banner advertisements. In addition, its proprietary database technology and analytical tools track consumer response, shopping preferences and site behavior at the household and shopper level to provide clients with a range of consumer data. CoolSavings' Website, coolsavings.com, and its marketing network offers personalized incentives for goods and services from a range of advertisers, including national retailers, consumer packaged goods manufacturers, media and publishing companies, and travel and financial service providers.
CHR Converium Holding AG (Converium) is a global professional reinsurer that offers a range of traditional non-life and life reinsurance products, as well as non-traditional solutions to help clients manage capital and risk. Its business is organized around three segments: standard property and casualty reinsurance, which include general third-party liability, motor, personal accident (assumed from non-life insurers) and property; specialty lines, which include agribusiness, aviation and space, credit and surety, engineering, marine and energy, professional liability and other special liability and workers' compensation, and life and health reinsurance, which contains life and disability, as well as accident and health lines of businesses.
CVG Convergys Corporation provides outsourced customer management, employee care and integrated billing software services. The Company focuses on developing long-term strategic relationships with clients in employee and customer intensive industries, including communications, technology and financial services, as well as governmental agencies. Convergys has two operating segments: the Customer Management Group, which provides outsourced marketing, customer support services and employee care services, and the Information Management Group, which provides outsourced billing and information services and software. The Company has developed a base of recurring revenues by providing value-added billing and customer management and employee care solutions for its clients, generally under multiple-year contracts.
CNVR Convera Corporation designs, develops, markets, implements and supports enterprise search and categorization solutions that enable a broad range of mission-critical applications within commercial enterprises and government agencies. These applications include knowledge management, enterprise portals, intelligence gathering and analysis, safety and national security, law enforcement, research and discovery, regulatory compliance and customer service. Convera also offers professional implementation services to ensure that the Company's products integrate seamlessly into customer environments, as well as training, consulting and maintenance services to facilitate full implementation and optimal use of its technologies.
MCM Controladora Comercial Mexicana, S.A. de C.V. (CCM) is a holding company that, through its subsidiaries, operates a retail chain in Mexico, as well as a chain of family restaurants. In addition, CCM owns a 50% interest in the Costco Mexico joint venture with Costco Wholesale Co. of the United States, which operates a chain of warehouse clubs in Mexico. The Company's retail operations sell a variety of food items, including basic groceries and perishables and non-food items, which include general merchandise and clothing, with food items representing 66.3% of total sales during the year ended December 31, 2003. At December 31, 2003, CCM had 175 stores with a total selling area of approximately 13 million square feet, concentrated primarily in the Mexico City metropolitan area and the central Mexico region, including Guadalajara or the Central Region.
CNU Continucare Corporation (CNU) is a provider of primary care physician services. The Company, through its network of 15 medical centers, provides primary health care services on an outpatient basis. The Company provides practice management services to 31 Independent Practice Associations (IPAs). All of its medical centers and IPAs are located in Miami-Dade, Broward and Hillsborough Counties, Florida. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), it provided services to approximately 28,700 patients through its medical centers and IPAs.
KMKCF.OB Continental Minerals Corp. is engaged in the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties. Continental is exploration-stage company engaged in the exploration of the Xietongmen property. Continental does not have any properties in the development or production stages. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company focused its efforts on acquiring a new mineral exploration project. In 2003, the Company did not hold a mineral property interest other than its indirect mineral property interest through its preferred share investment in Gibraltar. In February 2004, Continental entered into an agreement to acquire the right to earn in to the Xietongmen Project in People's Republic of China (the PRC). In February 2004, the Company announced it had acquired the right to earn a 60% interest in China NetTV Holdings Inc.'s Xietongmen Gold-Copper Property in Tibet in the PRC.
CUO Continental Materials Corporation operates primarily in two industry segments, the heating and air conditioning segment and the construction materials segment, through its wholly owned subsidiaries. The primary products manufactured by the heating and air conditioning segment are gas-fired wall furnaces, console heaters, evaporative coolers and fan coils. Gas-fired wall furnaces, console heaters and fan coil products are by Williams Furnace Co. of Colton, California. Evaporative coolers are manufactured at Phoenix Manufacturing, Inc. The primary products of the construction materials segment are ready mix concrete, construction aggregates, building supplies and doors which are offered by Transit Mix Concrete Co. and Castle Concrete Company in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Transit Mix of Pueblo, Inc. and McKinney Door and Hardware, Inc. (MDHI) in Pueblo, Colorado. Currently, Rocky Mountain Ready Mix Concrete, Inc. (RMRM) of Denver, Colorado, only offers ready mix concrete.
CPPXF.OB Continental Energy Corporation is an oil and gas exploration enterprise focusing its efforts on making commercial discoveries and establishing petroleum production in low- to medium-risk and high-potential-reward properties in Indonesia. The Company is an exploration-stage, junior resource company with three principal properties all located in Indonesia: the Bengara-II Block, the Yapen Block and the Bangkudulis Block. All three properties are held under separate production-sharing contract concessions with BPMigas, the Indonesian state oil concession regulating agency. The Company's Bengara-II and Yapen oil and gas properties have no proved commercially viable deposits of oil and gas. The Bangkudulis property contains proved reserves, but is not yet in production pending development. As of July 31, 2003, none of the Company's properties were producing and the Company had no internally generated revenues.
CAL Continental Airlines, Inc. is a United States air carrier engaged in the business of transporting passengers, cargo and mail. Together with ExpressJet Airlines, Inc., from which Continental Airlines purchases seat capacity, and its wholly owned subsidiary, Continental Micronesia, Inc. (CMI), the Company served 228 airports worldwide as of December 31, 2003. As of year-end 2003, Continental Airlines flew to 127 domestic and 101 international destinations and offered additional connecting service through alliances with domestic and foreign carriers. It directly served 16 European cities, seven South American cities, Tel Aviv, Hong Kong and Tokyo as of December 31, 2003. In addition, the Company provides service to destinations in Mexico and Central America, serving 31 cities. Through its Guam hub, CMI provides extensive service in the western Pacific, including service to many Japanese cities.
MCF Contango Oil &amp; Gas Company is a natural gas and oil company engaged in the exploration, production and acquisition of natural gas and oil in the United States, both onshore Gulf Coast and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. The Company holds a 10% limited partnership interest in Freeport LNG Development, L.P., which is developing a 1.5 billion cubic feet (Bcf) per day liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in Freeport, Texas. It also has a 32% interest in Contango Capital Partnership Management, LLC, which was formed to invest in the alternative energy venture capital market. As of June 30, 2004, the Company owned approximately 17.4 Bcf of total proved reserves, compared to 23.6 Bcfe, as of June 30, 2003. As of June 30, 2004, approximately 99% of total proved reserves were classified as proved developed producing. In December 2004, the Company sold substantially all of its south Texas natural gas and oil interests to Edge Petroleum Corporation.
CBKM.OB Consumers Bancorp, Inc. is a holding company for Consumers National Bank (the Bank). The Company's activities have been limited primarily to holding the common shares of the Bank. Consumers National Bank's business involves attracting deposits from businesses and individual customers and using such deposits to originate commercial, mortgage and consumer loans in its market area, consisting primarily of Stark, Columbiana, Carroll and contiguous Counties in Ohio. It also invests in securities consisting primarily of United States government and government agency obligations, municipal obligations, mortgage-backed securities and other securities. The Bank owns 100% of Community Title Agency, Inc., a title agency company.
CPSS Consumer Portfolio Services, Inc. (CPS) is a consumer finance company specializing in purchasing, selling and servicing retail automobile installment purchase contracts, originated by licensed motor vehicle dealers in the sale of new and used automobiles, light trucks and passenger vans. Through its purchases, the Company provides indirect financing to dealer customers with limited credit histories, low incomes or past credit problems. CPS serves as an alternative source of financing for dealers, allowing sales to customers who otherwise might not be able to obtain financing. The Company does not lend money directly to consumers. Rather, it purchases installment contracts from dealers.
CSLR Consulier Engineering, Inc. is engaged in the development and sale of household and tool products, as well as investment activities. Consulier International, Inc., a subsidiary, markets and distributes Captain Cra-Z Soap, and C-6 Products, Inc., another subsidiary, distributes Tool Topper products. The Company's investment income and losses are derived from investments in limited liability companies and limited partnership interests in BioSafe Systems, LLC, Systems Technologies, LLC (ST, LLC) and AVM, L.P. BioSafe develops and markets environmentally safe products, alternatives to traditionally toxic pesticides. ST, LLC is a majority member of Patient Care Technology Systems LLC, which develops and licenses data-based integrated emergency room information systems. AVM is a broker/dealer in government securities and other fixed income instruments.
CEG Constellation Energy Group Inc. is a North American energy company that includes a merchant energy business and Baltimore Gas Electric (BGE), its regulated electric and gas public utility in central Maryland. Its merchant energy business is a provider of energy solutions for large customers in North America. It has electric generation assets located in various regions of the United States, and provides energy solutions to meet customers' needs. The Company also operates other nonregulated businesses, which design, construct and operate heating, cooling and cogeneration facilities for commercial, industrial and municipal customers throughout North America, and provide home improvements, service heating, air conditioning, plumbing, electrical and indoor air quality systems, and natural gas retail marketing to residential customers in central Maryland.
STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. is an international producer and marketer of beverage alcohol brands with a portfolio across the wine, spirits and imported beer categories. The Company is a multi-category supplier of beverage alcohol in the United States, a producer and exporter of wine from Australia, and New Zealand and both a producer and drinks wholesaler in the United Kingdom. The Company's brands include Corona Extra, Modelo Especial, Pacifico, St. Pauli Girl, Franciscan Oakville Estate, Simi, Estancia, Ravenswood, Blackstone, Banrock Station, Hardys, Nobilo, Houghton, Leasingham, Almaden, Inglenook, Arbor Mist, Vendange, Alice White, Stowells, Black Velvet, Fleischmann's, Schenley, Ten High and Blackthorn. It distributes the products through wholesale distributors, directly to off-premise accounts, such as major retail chains, on-premise accounts, such as hotels and restaurants and large wholesalers, through on-premise accounts, including pubs, clubs, hotels and restaurants.
CNST Constar International Inc. produces polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic containers for food and beverages. Constar manufactures PET containers for conventional PET applications in soft drinks and water and for custom PET applications. Custom PET container applications include food, juices, teas, sport drinks, new age beverages, beer and flavored alcoholic beverages. Oxbar, the Company's oxygen-scavenging technology, allows Constar to produce the special packaging required for the protection of oxygen sensitive products. The Company has also developed proprietary methods for addressing the challenges of hot-filling PET containers. Constar primarily manufactures and sells bottles in the United States. In Europe, the Company primarily sells preforms. Approximately 76% of 2003 revenue was attributable to sales in the United States and approximately 24% was attributable to sales in Europe.
CWCO Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. processes and supplies water to customers in the Cayman Islands, Belize, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The Company sells water to a variety of customers including public utilities, commercial and tourist properties, residential properties and government facilities. In February 2003, the Company acquired interests in five companies that operate a total of seven desalination plant facilities. In July 2003, it acquired a 13.5% of Waterfields, and in August 2003, acquired an additional 64.7% interest of Waterfields. The Company obtained the right, through October 2009, to distribute the DWEER (dual work exchange energy recovery) system, for use in reverse osmosis seawater desalination plants in the Caribbean basin. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's Retail Water, Bulk Water and Services segments accounted for approximately 57%, 37% and 6%, respectively of total revenue.
CTO Consolidated-Tomoka Land Co. is primarily engaged in the real estate, income properties and golf businesses through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Indigo Group Inc., Indigo Development Inc., Indigo International Inc., Indigo Group Ltd., and Palms Del Mar Inc. Real estate operations include commercial real estate, real estate development, residential, leasing properties for oil and mineral exploration and forestry operations. Income properties primarily consist of owning properties leased on a triple-net and double-net basis. Golf operations consist of the operation of two golf courses, clubhouse facility and food and beverage activities. These operations are predominantly located in Volusia County in Florida, with various income properties located throughout the State of Florida.
CSLMF Consolidated Mercantile Incorporated carries on business as an investment management holding company with investments in operating companies and subsidiaries in the furniture, specialty covers and packaging industries. The Company's packaging and specialty pool cover investment consists of a 23.3% interest (44.5% until March 2004) in Polyair Inter Pack Inc., which in turn owns 100% of Cantar/Polyair Corporation, a manufacturer packaging and specialty cover products. Consolidated's furniture division consists primarily of a 50.33% interest in Distinctive Designs Furniture Inc. At December 31, 2003, the Company also held an aggregate of 1.44% (5.04% of all equity) in Genterra Inc., an Ontario public company with investments in real estate, mortgages and other loans.
CGX Consolidated Graphics, Inc. is a provider of commercial printing services. The majority of the Company's sales are derived from commercial printing services that include electronic prepress, printing, finishing, storage and delivery of high-quality, custom-designed products. It also serves its customers by providing fulfillment and mailing services that complement its traditional printing services. In addition, using the CGXmedia brand the Company capitalizes on its expertise in digital processes and technological capabilities to provide Internet-based software solutions and electronic media services to help its customers better manage the print procurement process. In July 2003, CGX merged its existing operations in Cleveland with Solon, Ohio-based Custom Graphics, Inc. to form AGS Custom Graphics, Inc. In March 2004, the Company acquired Eastwood Printing, a full-service Web and sheet-fed printing company serving the Denver market.
ED Consolidated Edison, Inc. (Con Edison) owns all of the outstanding common stock of Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison of New York) and Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&amp;R), collectively known as the Utilities. Con Edison of New York provides electric service to 3.1 million customers and gas service to 1.1 million customers in New York City and Westchester County. O&amp;R, along with its regulated utility subsidiaries, provides electric service to over 285,000 customers in southeastern New York and adjacent sections of New Jersey and northeastern Pennsylvania and gas service to over 120,000 customers in southeastern New York and northeastern Pennsylvania. Con Edison' s subsidiaries are Consolidated Edison Solutions, Inc., Consolidated Edison Energy, Inc., Consolidated Edison Development, Inc. and Con Edison Communications, LLC. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the operating revenues of the Utilities were 90% of Con Edison's operating revenues.
CNX CONSOL Energy Inc. is a multi-fuel energy producer and energy services provider that primarily serves the electric power generation industry in the United States. The Company has two principal business units, Coal and Gas. The principal activities of the Coal unit are mining, preparation and marketing of steam coal, sold primarily to power generators, and metallurgical coal, sold to steel and coke producers. As of December 31, 2003, CONSOL Energy produced high-British thermal unit (Btu) bituminous coal from 20 mining complexes in the United States and Australia. The principal activity of the Gas unit is to produce pipeline quality methane gas for sale primarily to gas wholesalers. Additionally, the Company provides energy services, including terminal services, industrial supply services and coal waste disposal services. It is developing its land assets that it previously used primarily to support its coal operations.
CNO Conseco, Inc. (CNO) is the holding company for a group of insurance companies operating throughout the United States that develop, market and administer supplemental health insurance, annuity, individual life insurance and other insurance products. The Company focuses on serving the senior and middle-income markets. It sells its products through three distribution channels: career agents, professional independent producers (some of whom sell one or more of CNO's product lines exclusively) and direct marketing. CNO became the successor to Conseco, Inc. (Old Conseco) in connection with its bankruptcy reorganization that became effective in September 2003.
CNXS CNS, Inc. is engaged in the business of developing and marketing consumer healthcare products, including Breathe Right nasal strips, Breath Right Snore Relief throat spray, Breathe Right Vapor Shot! personal vaporizer and FiberChoice chewable fiber tablets. It focuses on products that address consumer needs within the aging well/self care market, including better breathing and digestive health. The Company is exploring possibilities for acquiring or licensing new consumer healthcare products that have established consumer brands, particularly those that complement its drug-free, better breathing and digestive health platforms. It is also considering opportunities for licensing new products and technologies. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company launched Breathe Right Vapor Shot! personal vaporizer, which is a drug-free convenient personal vaporizer designed to relieve day-time congestion related to colds, flu and allergies.
CNHC.OB CNH Holdings Company, through Corvero Networks, Inc., designs and develops extensible markup language (XML)-based application appliances utilized in the Internet protocol (IP) communications and enterprise application integration markets. The Corvero Convergence Platform enables the integration of voice, video and data into the network infrastructure. The Corvero Integration Platform enables companies to share data among multiple applications across the business enterprise and with multiple-trading partners. In May 2003, Corvero Networks, Inc. was formed as a wholly owned subsidiary of CNH Holdings, focused specifically on the IP telephony market. Corvero Networks signed a technology licensing agreement with XBridge Software, a private Company, which allowed it to utilize XBridge's technology to introduce XML-based technology into the IP telephony market.
CNH CNH Global N.V. is a global full-line company in, both, the agricultural and construction equipment industries. The Company's agricultural equipment segment manufactures and distributes a line of farm machinery and implements, including two-wheel and four-wheel drive tractors, combines, cotton pickers, grape and sugarcane harvesters, hay and forage equipment, planting and seeding equipment, soil preparation and cultivation implements and material handling equipment. The CNH construction equipment segment manufactures and distributes a line of construction equipment, including excavators, crawler dozers, graders, wheel loaders, loader/ backhoes, skid steer loaders and trenchers. The Company also has a financial services segment that offers an array of financial services products, including retail financing for the purchase or lease of new and used CNH and other manufacturers' products, and other retail financing programs.
CNF CNF, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides supply chain management services for business-to-business shipments by land, air and sea throughout the world. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned 100% of the capital stock of Con-Way Transportation Services, Inc., Con-Way NOW, Inc., Con-Way Logistics, Inc., Con-Way Air Express, Inc., Menlo Worldwide, LLC, Emery Worldwide Airlines, Inc. and other less significant wholly owned subsidiaries. The Company is divided into five segments: Con-Way Transportation Services, Menlo Worldwide Forwarding, Menlo Worldwide Logistics, Menlo Worldwide Other and CNF Other. In December 2004, the Company sold its Menlo Worldwide Forwarding unit to United Parcel Service of America Inc.
CNET CNET Networks, Inc. is a global media company with operations in the United States and in 15 countries internationally. The Company's portfolio of online brands encompasses three distinct content categories: personal technology, games and entertainment and business technology. The personal technology category is anchored by brands such as CNET.com, Download.com and Shopper.com. The games and entertainment category primarily consists of the GameSpot and MP3.com brands. MP3.com was added to the portfolio in late 2003. Brands such as ZDNet, TechRepublic, News.com and Builder.com are components of the business technology category. In addition to its Internet operations, the Company also has publishing operations. Its Computer Shopper magazine has a total average paid circulation of more than 500,000 copies per month and a total readership of more than three million per month.
CNE CNE Group, Inc. is a holding company of its wholly owned subsidiaries, SRC Technologies, Inc. and CareerEngine Network, Inc. SRC, the Company's primary operating subsidiary, has three operating subsidiaries: Connectivity, Inc. (Connectivity); Econo-Comm, Inc. (ECI), which conducts business under the name of Mobile Communications (Mobile Comm), and U.S. Commlink, Ltd. (US Commlink). These companies, which the Company acquired in April 2003, market, manufacture, repair and maintain remote radio and cellular-based emergency response products to a variety of federal, state and local government institutions and other vertical markets throughout the United States. CNE also manufactures ancillary devices for wireless data networks and offers niche products that use either existing infrastructures or low cost wireless systems that can be rapidly deployed. The Company's markets include Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS) and security related products.
CCNE CNB Financial Corporation is a financial holding that operates through its wholly owned subsidiaries: County National Bank (the Bank), a national banking chartered institution; CNB Investment Corporation, which holds and manages investments that were owned by the Bank and the Corporation; County Reinsurance Company, which provides accidental death and disability and life insurance as a part of lending relationships of the Bank, and CNB Insurance Agency which provides fixed annuity products to banking customers. County National Bank is a full service bank engaging in a range of banking activities and services for individual, business, governmental and institutional customers. These activities and services include checking, savings and time deposit accounts; real estate, commercial, industrial, residential and consumer loans, and other specialized financial services.
SUR CNA Surety Corporation is an insurance holding company. The Company, through its insurance subsidiaries, writes surety and fidelity bonds in all 50 states through a combined network of approximately 34,000 independent agencies. CNA Surety's insurance subsidiaries are Western Surety Company and Universal Surety of America. The insurance subsidiaries write, on a direct basis from Continental Casualty Company, which is a small fidelity and non-contract surety bonds, also known as commercial bonds, small, medium and large contract bonds and errors and omissions liability insurance. Western Surety's affiliated company, Surety Bonding Company of America, is licensed in 28 states and the District of Columbia. During the year December 31, 2000, CNA Surety purchased an equity interest in De Montfort Insurance Company PLC, a United Kingdom-based insurance company that specializes in providing surety bonds and credit insurance.
CNA CNA Financial Corporation (CNAF) is an insurance holding company whose primary subsidiaries consist of property and casualty and life and group insurance companies. The Company conducts its operations through five operating segments: Standard Lines, Specialty Lines, CNA Re, Group Operations and Life Operations. The Company serves a wide variety of customers, including small, medium-sized and large businesses; insurance companies; associations; professionals, and groups and individuals with a broad range of insurance and risk management products and services. Insurance products have included property and casualty coverage; life, accident and health insurance; and retirement products and annuities. CNAF's services include risk management, information services and claims administration. The Company's products and services are marketed through independent agents, brokers, managing general agents and direct sales. In April 2004, CNAF sold its individual life insurance business to Swiss Re.
CMS CMS Energy Corporation is an energy holding company operating through subsidiaries in the United States and in selected markets around the world. The Company's subsidiaries are Consumers Energy Company and CMS Enterprises Company. Consumers is a public utility that provides natural gas and/or electricity to almost six million of Michigan's 10 million residents and serves customers in all 68 of the state's lower peninsula counties. Consumers' customer base includes a mix of residential, commercial and diversified industrial customers, which includes the automotive industry. Enterprises, through subsidiaries, is engaged in domestic and international diversified energy businesses, including independent power production, natural gas transmission, storage and processing and energy services.
CMGI CMGI, Inc. (CMGI) provides global supply chain management (SCM) services and marketing distribution solutions that help businesses market, sell and distribute their products and services. In addition, through its venture capital affiliate, @Ventures, CMGI invests venture capital in a variety of technology ventures. CMGI's business has focused on technology and SCM services, as well as the strategic investment in other companies that have demonstrated synergies with CMGI's core businesses. The Company has presence in 39 strategically located facilities in 13 countries, including sites in North America, Europe and China. On July 31, 2003, CMGI contributed the capital stock of SL Supply Chain Services International Corp. to SalesLink. On August 2, 2004, CMGI completed its acquisition of Modus Media, Inc. (Modus), which conducted business through its wholly owned subsidiary, Modus Media International, Inc.
CLOV.OB Clover Leaf Financial Corp. serves as the stock holding company for Clover Leaf Bank, a commercial bank that operates in the surrounding neighborhood of Edwardsville, Illinois. The Company's loan portfolio consists of one- to four-family residential real estate loans, commercial and consumer, and construction and overdraft loans. Clover Leaf's debt securities are mainly composed of securities issued by the United States Government and government agencies (primarily Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB), Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC)), although, from time to time, it makes other investments as permitted by applicable laws and regulations. Deposits have been the Company's primary source of funds for lending and other investment purposes. In addition to deposits, the Company derives funds primarily from principal and interest payments on loans.
CLSR Closure Medical Corporation develops and manufactures biomaterial-based medical devices for wound care and wound closure that fulfill the needs of healthcare practitioners, patients and consumers. The Company's leading product, DERMABOND adhesive is sold to healthcare professionals as an alternative to sutures and staples to rapidly close wounds and incisions while sealing and protecting them from infection. The Company has other products that are marketed in the over-the-counter market. BAND-AID Brand Liquid Bandage seals, protects and stops bleeding from minor cuts and scrapes. SOOTHE-N-SEAL adhesive provides a protective barrier that shields oral ulcers and sores from irritation caused by eating and drinking while providing immediate and long-term pain relief. In addition, Closure Medical has two veterinary products in the NEXABAND product lines that are used in cat declaw procedures, as well as spay and neuter procedures.
CLDA Clinical Data, Inc. focuses on the operational needs of physician's office laboratories (POLs) and other small to medium-sized clinical laboratories and hospitals through its domestic and foreign subsidiaries. The Company provides a range of technical products and consulting services to the domestic POL market, and also offers blood analysis instrumentation and diagnostic reagents. Through a Dutch subsidiary, it manufactures and distributes blood chemistry and coagulation analyzers. Clinical Data provides a choice of three private-labeled blood chemistry analyzers, as well as technical support. Through licensing and distribution arrangements with third parties, it also provides a laboratory information software system for management and control of smaller laboratories. In October 2003, the Company changed its name from Novitron International, Inc. to Clinical Data, Inc.
CSBK Clifton Savings Bancorp, Inc. is a New Jersey state chartered savings and loan association, serving its customers in New Jersey. The Company operates as a community-oriented financial institution offering traditional financial services to consumers and businesses in its market area. Clifton Savings attracts deposits from the general public and uses those funds to originate one- to four-family, multi-family and commercial real estate and consumer loans, which the Company holds for investment.
CKSW ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd. is a provider of end-to-end service optimization software. The ClickSoftware service optimization suite consists of ClickSchedule that enables companies to automate and optimize their service resources; ClickAnalyze, ClickPlan and ClickForecast, which enable corporate decision makers to intelligently analyze past performance, monitor current performance and effectively plan for future service needs, and ClickFix and ClickMobile, which provides service personnel by providing real-time information and solutions for service related issues. ClickSoftware products are used by organizations in a number of service industry segments, including telecommunications, computer and office equipment, industrial equipment, medical equipment, building automation, utilities, aerospace and defense and home services.
CLIK.OB clickNsettle.com, Inc. operates in one business segment, as a provider of arbitration and mediation services, known as alternative dispute resolution services (ADR) services and related electronic oversight applications, principally to insurance companies, law firms, corporations and municipalities. An ADR proceeding is an alternative forum to the public court system for resolving civil disputes.
CKCM Click Commerce, Inc. provides sell-side e-business software solutions that connect large, global manufacturing, high technology and financial services companies with their channel partners. The Company's software products and supplemental integration, hosting and business consulting services enable companies to effectively manage and engage in collaborative business-to-business interactions throughout their sell-side channels and processes. The solutions Click Commerce offers use the Internet to enable communication between companies and all participants in the network or chain of distribution who have a password and an Internet browser. These partners may include distributors, dealers, retailers, consumers, national accounts, original equipment manufacturers, resellers, specifiers, affiliates, service centers and contractors, channel partners' employees and channel partners' customers.
CLF Cleveland-Cliffs Inc (CLF) is a producer of iron ore pellets. It operates six iron ore mines located in Michigan, Minnesota and Eastern Canada that have a rated capacity of 36.9 million tons of iron ore pellet production annually. Based on the percentage ownership of the mines CLF operates, the Company's share of the rated pellet production capacity is 22.6 million tons annually. The Company manufactures 13 grades of iron ore pellets, including standard, fluxed and high manganese, for a variety of applications. For the year ended December 31, 2003, it produced a total of 30.3 million tons of iron ore, including 18.1 million tons for its account and 12.2 million tons on behalf of the steel company owners in the mines. CLF sells its share of iron ore production to integrated steel producers, generally pursuant to term supply agreements with various price adjustment provisions.
CNL Cleco Corporation is an energy services holding company that has two principal operating business segments: Cleco Power LLC, an electric utility regulated by the Louisiana Public Service Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and Cleco Midstream Resources LLC, a merchant energy subsidiary. Cleco Power has approximately 264,000 customers in 104 communities in central and southeastern Louisiana. Cleco Midstream owns and operates wholesale generation plants in Louisiana. As of December 31, 2003, Cleco owned all, or part of, three wholesale generation plants with a net capacity of 2,073 megawatts, including the 718-megawatt Perryville plant. The sale of the Perryville plant to a subsidiary of Entergy is pending.
CCBC.OB Clearly Canadian Beverage Corporation (Clearly Canadian) produces, distributes and markets beverage products, including Clearly Canadian Flavored Sparkling Water, which includes all natural sodas, that, for the most part, contains all natural ingredients, including no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives; Clearly Canadian O+2, which, in its unflavored form, is produced with up to 10 times the normal concentration of oxygen naturally found in water; Cascade Clear Bottled Water, a non-sparkling water in 1.5 liters or less polyethylene terephthalate bottles sold by Advanced H2O, Inc., in which the Company's subsidiary, CC Beverage, has a continuing interest, and Tre Limone, a dry, sparkling lemon-ginger drink packaged in a 414-milliliter (14 fluid ounce) glass bottle with a shrink-sleeve label.
CCU Clear Channel Communications, Inc. is a diversified media company with three primary business segments: radio broadcasting, outdoor advertising and live entertainment. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned 1,182 domestic radio stations and a radio network in the United States. In addition, it had equity interests in various international radio broadcasting companies. Clear Channel also owned or operated 145,895 domestic outdoor advertising display faces and 641,680 international outdoor advertising display faces. The Company also operates as a promoter, producer and venue operator for live entertainment events. As of December 31, 2003, it owned or operated 74 live entertainment venues domestically and 29 live entertainment venues internationally, excluding 23 domestic venues and two international venues. Clear Channel also owns or programs 39 television stations, owns a media representation firm and represents professional athletes.
CLHB Clean Harbors, Inc. provides a range of environmental services and solutions and is managed in two segments: Technical Services and Site Services. Technical Services include treatment and disposal of industrial wastes, which includes physical treatment, resource recovery and fuels blending, incineration, landfills, wastewater treatment, lab chemical disposal and explosives management, collection, transportation and logistics management, specialized packaging, transportation and disposal of laboratory chemicals and household hazardous wastes. These services are known as CleanPack services and Apollo Onsite Services, which provide outsourced environmental programs management at customer sites. Site Services provide experts using specialty equipment and resources to perform services such as industrial maintenance, surface remediation, groundwater restoration, site and facility decontamination, emergency response, site remediation, transformer decommissioning and oil disposal.
CDTI.OB Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc. (CDT) is a specialty chemical and energy technology company supplying fuel additives and systems to reduce harmful emissions from internal combustion engines, while improving fuel economy. The Company has developed its technologies, and is commercializing Platinum Plus fuel borne catalyst and the ARIS 2000 nitrogen oxide (NOx) reduction system. CDT's products, combined with other devices, can reduce particulate emissions and NOx from diesel engines to, or below, the emission levels of natural gas engines, while also reducing fuel consumption. This results in a reduction in fuel costs and greenhouse gas emissions, primarily carbon dioxide, as well as in emissions of particulates, NOx, carbon monoxide (CO) and unburnt hydrocarbons.
CWEI Clayton Williams Energy, Inc. is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the exploration for and production of oil and natural gas in the United States, primarily in Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Mississippi. The Company's total estimated proved reserves, at December 31, 2003, were 62.9 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 10.3 million barrels of oil and natural gas liquids. During the year ended December 31, 2003, CWEI added proved reserves of 9.7 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent (Bcfe) through extensions and discoveries and had downward revisions of previous estimates of 7.8 Bcfe. The Company held interests in 537 gross producing oil and gas wells and owned leasehold interests in approximately 1.2 million gross undeveloped acres at year-end 2003. CWEI sells substantially all of its oil production and the majority of its gas production in the United States under short-term contracts.
CGR Claude Resources Inc. is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of precious metal properties, the acquisition and development of oil and gas properties and the production and marketing of minerals, oil, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and natural gas. The majority of the Company's mineral properties are in northern Saskatchewan, northern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario. The Company is the sole owner and operator of the Seabee mine, located 125 kilometers northeast of LaRonge, Saskatchewan. This operation has been in production since December 1991, producing 675,000 ounces of gold to December 31, 2003. Claude through its wholly owned subsidiary, 574095 Alberta Ltd., owns and administers its oil, NGLs and gas property interests in Alberta.
CLAS Classic Bancshares, Inc. serves as a financial holding company for its wholly owned subsidiary, Classic Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a community-oriented financial institution that serves its market communities in Eastern and Northeastern Kentucky, as well as in Southern Ohio. It attracts deposits from the general public and uses such deposits, together with other funds, to originate consumer, commercial and other loans in its market areas. Classic has trust powers with its state charter but has chosen to limit its scope to a small group of customers. Limited services provided include managing and investing trust assets, disbursing funds as required by trust agreements and arranging for maintenance at two local cemeteries. In June 2003, the Company completed its acquisition of First Federal Financial Bancorp, Inc.
CKSB.OB Clarkston Financial Corporation is a bank holding company that owns all of the outstanding common stock of Clarkston State Bank (the Bank). The Bank provides a range of commercial and consumer banking services for small to medium-sized businesses, as well as individuals. It focuses on commercial, consumer and residential real estate lending. The Bank also offers an array of deposit products and deposit services, including interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing checking accounts, savings accounts and time deposits of various types. Management introduced personal computer banking in 2003, which is designed to complements its telephone banking service, which began in April of 2000.
CLK Clark Inc., doing business as Clark Consulting, Inc., designs, markets and administers compensation and benefit programs for companies supplementing and securing employee benefits, and provides executive compensation and related consulting services to United States corporations, banks and healthcare organizations. Clark operates through six operating segments: Executive Benefits Practice, Banking Practice, Healthcare Group, Human Capital Practice, Pearl Meyer &amp; Partners and Federal Policy Group. These six segments operate as independent and autonomous business units with its own client base, as well as its own marketing, administration and management. Through these segments, the Company is able to design customized products that meet the specific organizational needs of its clients.
CLAR.OB Clarion Technologies, Inc. is a custom injection molder, providing mold design and engineering services, mold manufacturing, injection molding and post-molding assembly to a diverse base of customers in the automotive and consumer goods industries. The Company produces injection molded plastic products for its customers on a contract basis and does not sell proprietary products to the general marketplace. During the year ended December 31, 2003, sales in the automotive market accounted for approximately 32% of Clarion's total revenues, and sales in the consumer goods market accounted for the remaining 68%.
CLC CLARCOR Inc. conducted business in three principal industry segments: Engine/Mobile Filtration, Industrial/Environmental Filtration and Packaging, during the fiscal year ended November 29, 2003. The Engine/Mobile Filtration segment manufactures and markets a line of filters for oil, air, fuel, coolants and hydraulic fluids used in trucks, automobiles, construction, mining and industrial equipment, locomotives, marine and agricultural equipment. The Industrial/Environmental Filtration segment manufactures and markets a line of filters, cartridges, dust collectors and filtration systems used in the filtration of air and industrial fluid processes in both domestic and international markets. The Packaging segment manufactures and markets consumer and industrial packaging products, including custom-designed plastic and metal containers and closures and lithographed metal sheets in both domestic and international markets.
CLSI.OB Clancy Systems International, Inc. designs, develops and manufactures automated parking enforcement systems primarily for lease to municipalities, universities and institutions, including a ticket writing system and other enforcement systems. It has installed numerous parking enforcement systems for various clients, towns and universities. To augment the enforcement element of the system, Clancy manufactures and markets the original Denver Boot and other enforcement tools. It also acquired and developed several standalone computer programs for special niche operations, including IDBadge.com, WhatsImportantNow.com, VirtualPermit.com, Remit- online.com, Expo1000.com, Permit-sales.com and Park-by-phone.com. It also provides hardware and software for special projects for Hertz Corporation, including a project called Fleet Control. In addition, Clancy has developed and is manufacturing a product named Palmtype, which is a keyboard/cradle for a Palm personal digital assistant (PDA).
CLE Claire's Stores, Inc. is a specialty retailer of value-priced fashion accessories for pre-teens and teenagers, as well as young adults, primarily through its two store concepts, Claire's Accessories and Icing by Claire's. The Company is organized based on its geographic markets, which include its North American operations and its International operations. At March 31, 2004, Claire's Stores operated a total of 2,953 stores in all 50 states of the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, the Virgin Islands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, Ireland and Japan. The stores are operated mainly under the trade names Claire's Boutiques, Claire's Accessories, Icing by Claire's, Afterthoughts and The Icing.
CLAI.OB Claimsnet.com Inc. is an electronic-commerce company engaged in healthcare transaction processing for the medical and dental industries by means of the Internet. The Company's software enables the communication of data between healthcare players and their provider networks and trading partners, for the purpose of conducting administrative transactions required to effect financial reimbursement for healthcare services. The Company's system improves the ease of data exchange, as well as the quality of the data being exchanged, allowing the users to realize an increase in electronic transaction and cost improvements from better data. Claimsnet accomplishes this by allowing healthcare providers, electronic data interchange vendors, as well as trading partners to download healthcare claims interactively on the Internet and electronically transmit the claims to the Company for pre-processing.
CKR CKE Restaurants, Inc. owns, operates, franchises and licenses approximately 3,250 quick-service restaurants, primarily under the brand names Carl's Jr., Hardee's and La Salsa Fresh Mexican Grill. Carl's Jr. restaurants offer a menu focused on burgers and premium dining selections at reasonable prices. Approximately 20% of Carl's Jr. restaurants are dual-branded with Green Burrito. Carl's Jr. is predominantly a lunch and dinner concept. Hardee's restaurants are located predominantly in the Southeastern and Midwestern United States. This restaurant concept offers quality food in generous portions at moderate prices. La Salsa restaurants are located predominantly in California, and are fast-casual restaurants featuring traditional Mexican food items including tacos, burritos, enchiladas and salads.
CTVWF.OB CityView Corporation Limited along with its wholly owned subsidiary, CityView Asia Pty Ltd., is engaged in the business of oil and gas exploration in Indonesia. The Company identified Indonesia for its focus for acquisitions and development of oil and gas reserves after considering the demand for the produced product, availability of supportive infrastructure, foreign company participation terms and conditions and sovereign risk. The Company's energy portfolio includes the Madura Block, onshore the Madura Island near Surabaya, East Java and the Simenggaris Block, onshore the North-East Borneo.
CTEL City Telecom (H.K.) Limited provides international telecommunications, and, through its subsidiary, Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited (HKBN), international telecommunications, Internet access, pay-television and other fixed telecommunications network services in Hong Kong. The Company launched its pay-television services via its fixed telecommunications network in August 2003. In addition to its operations in Hong Kong, City Telecom also provides international telecommunications services in Japan and Canada. In Japan, these services were provided through City Telecom (Japan) Co. Ltd. The Company established this company, in February 1997, to compete in the Japanese international telecommunications market. However, its operations in Japan were discontinued following the disposal of its Japanese subsidiary in July 2003.
CSFC.OB City Savings Financial Corporation is a savings and loan holding company that owns City Savings Bank (the Bank). Effective December 1, 2002, the name of the Bank was changed to City Savings Bank from Michigan City Savings and Loan Association. The Bank offers a variety of lending, deposit and other financial services to its retail and commercial customers. Its principal business consists of attracting deposits from the general public and originating mortgage loans, most of which are secured by one- to four-family residential real property in La Porte County. The Bank also offers commercial real estate loans, home equity, second mortgage loans and other types of consumer loans, real estate construction loans, commercial loans, automobile loans, land loans and multi-family residential loans. The Bank conducts its business from two offices located in Michigan City, Indiana, and Rolling Prairie, Indiana.
CSN City Network, Inc. is a provider of Internet broadband and wireless infrastructure equipment and services for the hospitality, residential property, telecommunications and small and medium-sized enterprise marketplace worldwide. The Company designs, manufactures and markets a comprehensive line of broadband and wireless Internet access solutions. Its product line ranges from the City Network Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HPNA) device for the worldwide residential building and hospitality market to the simple digital subscriber line (DSL) bridge/modem for the home and small-business user. All City Network broadband access equipment includes graphical user interface (GUI)-based remote management and routing technology software packages for simplified set-up, extensive network management and global network connectivity capabilities.
CYN City National Corporation provides private and business banking, including investment and trust services, through its primary subsidiary, City National Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a commercial bank headquartered in California. Its client base includes small- to mid-size businesses, entrepreneurs, professionals and individuals. The Company, through the Bank, offers a range of lending, deposit, cash management, international banking and other products and services. It also lends, invests and provides services in accordance with its Community Reinvestment Act commitment. Through Convergent Capital Management (CCM) and Reed, Conner &amp; Birdwell, LLC, subsidiaries of the Company, and Wealth Management, a division of the Bank, it offers investment management and advisory services, brokerage services, personal and business trust and investment services, estate and financial planning and custodial services. The Company acquired CCM on April 1, 2003.
CNVLZ City Investing Company Liquidating Trust (the Trust) was created on September 25, 1985, pursuant to an Agreement and Declaration of Trust (Trust Agreement) by and between City Investing Company (City) and the three individuals then serving as trustees of the Trust (Trustees). Pursuant to a Plan of Complete Liquidation and Dissolution approved by stockholders of City on December 12, 1984, City transferred all its remaining assets and liabilities (Trust Estate) to the Trust to assure compliance with Section 337 of the Internal Revenue Code. The sole purpose of the Trust is to liquidate the Trust Estate in a manner calculated to conserve and protect the Trust Estate, and to collect and distribute to the beneficiaries the income and proceeds therefrom in as prompt and orderly a fashion as possible after the payment of, or provision for, expenses and liabilities. On June 18, 2003, the Trustees extended the time limit of the Trust's existence to September 25, 2004
CHCO City Holding Company is a bank holding company that provides diversified financial products and services to consumers and local businesses. The Company conducts its principal activities through its wholly owned subsidiary, City National Bank of West Virginia (City National). Through its network of 53 banking offices in West Virginia (51 offices) and Ohio (two offices), City National provides credit, deposit, trust and insurance products and services to its customers. In addition to its branch network, City National's delivery channels include automated teller machines (ATMs), check cards, interactive voice response systems and Internet technology. The West Virginia locations are primarily centered in the Charleston, Huntington, Beckley and Martinsburg markets. The Company's business activities are limited to one business segment, which is community banking.
CTBK City Bank (the Bank) is a state-chartered commercial bank and is headquartered in Lynnwood, Washington. Eight banking offices of the Bank serve both Snohomish and North King counties. Mortgage lending is conducted through its two mortgage- lending offices in Snohomish and Pierce counties. City Bank provides a wide range of banking services for business and individuals, including loans for residential construction, commercial, small business administration, mortgage and consumer, and all types of deposits, as well as other general banking services. The Bank's majority-owned subsidiary, Diligenz, Inc. is a nationwide Web-based due diligence and document retrieval service provider. Diligenz, Inc. offers the filing and due diligence services, including corporate good-standing searches, right from the client's desktop.
CTXS Citrix Systems, Inc. is a supplier of access infrastructure software and services that enable the effective and efficient enterprise wide deployment, management and access of applications and information that include Microsoft Windows operating systems and UNIX operating systems. The Company's MetaFrame products permit organizations to provide secure access to Windows-based, Web-based and UNIX applications regardless of the user's location, network connection or type of client hardware platforms. Citrix markets its products through multiple channels such as value-added resellers, channel distributors, system integrators and independent software vendors. During February 2004, the Company acquired Expertcity.com, Inc., which is integrated into Citrix as the Citrix Online Division. The Company's portfolios of access products include GoToMyPC line and GoToAssist software service.
CSBC Citizens South Banking Corporation serves as a holding company for federally chartered savings bank, Citizens South Bank (the Bank). The Bank provides Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-insured deposit accounts to local customers through its 10 branch offices, and invests those deposits, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, in nonresidential real estate loans, construction loans, commercial business loans, consumer loans, investment securities and mortgage-backed securities. The Bank also acts as a broker in both the origination of loans secured by one- to four-family dwellings and in the sale of uninsured financial products.
CIA Citizens, Inc. is a life insurance holding company. Through subsidiaries, Citizens offers life and accident and health insurance. Additionally, the Company provides management services to its subsidiaries and other companies that may contract with the Company for its services under management services agreements. Through several of its subsidiaries, Citizens operates principally in three business segments: offering selected lines of individual life insurance policies in the United States, offering selected lines of accident and health insurance policies in the United States, and the acceptance of applications from foreign nationals and overseas residents for the consideration of the issuance of individual ordinary whole life insurance around the world.
CIZ Citizens Holding Company is a one-bank holding company that holds 97.53% of the outstanding shares of The Citizens Bank of Philadelphia (the Bank). The Corporation, through the Bank, engages in a range of commercial and personal banking activities, including accepting demand deposits, savings and time deposit accounts, making secured and unsecured loans, issuing letters of credit, originating mortgage loans, as well as providing personal and corporate trust services. It also provides, through the Bank, certain services that are related to commercial banking such as credit life insurance and title insurance for its loan customers.
CZFS.OB Citizens Financial Services, Inc. is the holding company for First Citizens National Bank (the Bank). The Company is engaged only in the ownership and management of First Citizens National Bank and its wholly owned insurance agency subsidiary, First Citizens Insurance Agency, Inc. The Bank is a full-service bank engaged in a range of banking activities and services for individual, business, governmental and institutional customers, including checking, savings, time and deposit accounts; real estate, commercial, industrial, residential and consumer loans, and other specialized financial services. The Bank's Trust and Investment division offers a range of client investment, estate and retirement services. First Citizens also offers annuities and life insurance through First Citizens Insurance. The Bank has a main office and 14 full service branch offices in its primary market area of Pennsylvania and Southern New York.
CIWV.OB Citizens Financial Corp. is a bank holding company providing retail and commercial banking services primarily in central and eastern West Virginia. The Company operates through its subsidiary Citizens National Bank of Elkins (the Bank). The Bank provides a range of banking services including demand, savings and time deposits; residential, consumer and commercial loans; letters of credit; safe deposit and wire transfer services, and automated teller machines and telebanking services. In addition, the Bank operates a trust department and has formed relationships that allow it to provide brokerage and financial planning services, as well as fixed-rate residential mortgages.
CNFL Citizens Financial Corporation is a holding company that engages in the business of life insurance, annuities and accident and health insurance through Citizens Security and United Liberty Life Insurance Company (collectively, the Life Insurance Subsidiaries). The Company also owns Citizens Insurance Company, which is licensed as a property and casualty insurer but has no business in force. Citizens Financial, through its Life Insurance Subsidiaries, operates in five segments: home service life insurance, broker-sold life insurance and annuities, preneed life insurance, dental insurance and other health and accident insurance. The home service and preneed life segments provide individual coverage; the dental segment provides group coverage; while the broker life and other health segments include individual and group insurance coverage.
CZN Citizens Communications Company is a telecommunications company providing wireline communications services to rural areas and small and medium-sized towns and cities as an incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC). The Company offers its ILEC services under the Frontier name. In addition, Citizens Communications provides competitive local exchange carrier services to business customers and to other communications carriers in certain metropolitan areas in the western United States through Electric Lightwave, LLC, its wholly owned subsidiary. The Company also provides electric distribution and generation services to primarily rural customers in Vermont. Citizens Communications has a contract to sell those electric distribution and generation operations. In 2003, the Company completed the sale of its Arizona electric division and its transmission facilities in Vermont.
CZBS.OB Citizens Bancshares Corporation is the holding company for Citizens Trust Bank (the Bank), its only operating subsidiary. The Bank operates 11 branch offices located in Atlanta, Lithonia, Decatur, Stone Mountain and Columbus, Georgia, and Birmingham and Eutaw, Alabama. It conducts a general commercial banking business that serves Fulton, DeKalb and Muscogee Counties, Georgia, as well as Jefferson and Greene Counties, Alabama, acts as an issuing agent for the United States savings bonds, travelers checks and cashiers checks and offers collection teller services. The primary focus of the Bank is the small business and commercial/service firms in the area plus individuals and households that reside in or commute to the area.
CBCF Citizens Banking Corporation is a diversified banking and financial services company that provides a range of banking and financial services to individuals and businesses through its Citizens Bank and F&amp;M Bank subsidiaries. The Company also provides wealth management services through Citizens Bank Wealth Management, N.A., and through affiliate trust departments of F&amp;M Bank - Wisconsin and F&amp;M Bank - Iowa. The Company operates in three business segments: Commercial Banking, Consumer Banking and Wealth Management. As of December 31, 2003, Citizens Banking conducted its operations through 176 banking offices, 194 automated teller machine locations and 29 brokerage centers located in Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois.
CFSB Citizens First Financial Corp. is the thrift holding company for Citizens Savings Bank (the Bank), a state savings bank. The Bank's principal business consists of the acceptance of retail deposits from the general public in the area surrounding its main and branch offices and the investment of these deposits, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings into loans and investment securities. The Bank originates one- to four-family residential mortgages, as well as commercial, multi-family, construction and land, commercial real estate, agricultural, consumer and other loans. The primary market area for the Bank's lending and deposit gathering activities is concentrated in the communities surrounding its five offices located in the municipalities of Bloomington, Normal and Fairbury, Illinois, which are part of McLean and Livingston counties.
CZFC.OB Citizens First Corporation is involved in the banking business, through its subsidiary Citizens First Bank, Inc. (the Bank). The Bank primarily serves customers in the Bowling Green/Warren County market and in the Franklin/Simpson County Market. The Bank provides a full range of corporate and retail banking services that include checking, savings and time deposit accounts; secured and unsecured loans to corporations, individuals and others; letters of credit; rental of safe deposit boxes, and cash management services. The Bank also offers, through affiliations with third parties, trust services, investment management services and business and personal insurance products.
CTZN Citizens First Bancorp, Inc. is a holding company for Citizens First Savings Bank (Citizens First). Citizens First operates as a community-oriented financial institution that accepts deposits from the general public in the communities surrounding its 16 full-service banking offices located in St. Clair, Sanilac, Huron, Lapeer and northern Macomb counties, Michigan. On January 9, 2004, the Company acquired Metro Bancorp, Inc. and its subsidiary, Metrobank. Metro Bancorp is a bank holding company with over $147 million in assets in Oakland County, Michigan. In October 2002, Citizens First entered into an agreement with Fiserv Solutions, Inc. (Fiserv) relating to Fiserv's ITI software package.
C Citigroup Inc. is a financial services holding company that conducts its activities through the Global Consumer, Global Corporate and Investment Bank (GCIB), Private Client Services, Global Investment Management (GIM) and Proprietary Investment Activities segments. Global Consumer includes a global, full-service consumer franchise delivering banking, lending, insurance and investment services through a network of branches, offices and electronic delivery systems. The businesses included in the GCIB segment provide a range of banking and financial products and services. Private Client Services provides investment advice, financial planning and brokerage services to affluent individuals, small and mid-size companies, non-profits and large corporations. GIM offers life insurance, annuity, asset management and personalized wealth management products and services. The Proprietary Investment Activities segment includes the Company's venture capital activities and other investments.
CDSS Citadel Security Software Inc. develops and markets computer security and privacy software. Its information technology (IT) security computer software products include security and management solutions for networks and personal workstations designed to secure and manage personal computers and local area networks. These products enable companies to remediate the security vulnerabilities on IT networks that occur through software applications, unauthorized access and misconfigurations of systems. With the Company's products, companies are able to manage their computing environments and enforce security policies from a single point of control across Windows, Linux, and UNIX platforms. The Company has three principal products: Hercules, WinShield Secure PC and NetOFF.
CDL Citadel Broadcasting Corporation is a radio broadcasting company that owned and operated 145 frequency modulation (FM) and 58 amplitude modulation radio stations in 43 markets located in 24 states across the United States as of February 29, 2004. Citadel has a clustered radio station portfolio that is diversified by programming formats, geographic regions, audience demographics and advertising clients. The Company's radio stations are predominantly located in mid-sized markets. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Citadel completed seven acquisitions for a total of 20 radio stations. On September 8, 2003, it also completed the acquisition of five radio stations in the Des Moines, Iowa market, four radio stations in the New Orleans, Louisiana, market, and two radio stations in the Springfield, Missouri, market.
CIT CIT Group Inc. (CIT) is a global commercial and consumer finance company that provides clients with financing and leasing products and advisory services. Founded in 1908, CIT has nearly $50 billion in assets and possesses the financial resources, industry expertise and product knowledge to serve the needs of its customers in a broad range of industries. The Company holds positions in vendor financing, factoring, commercial and corporate aircraft financing, rail car and locomotive financing, construction financing, Small Business Administration (SBA) loans and asset-based and credit-secured lending. CIT has principal offices in Livingston, New Jersey, and New York City and locations throughout North America, Europe, Latin and South America and the Pacific Rim. The Company serves its clients through four strategic operating groups: Capital Finance, Commercial Finance, Equipment Finance and Specialty Finance.
CSCO Cisco Systems, Inc. manufactures and sells networking and communications products and provides services associated with that equipment and its use. The Company's products are installed at corporations, public institutions, telecommunication companies, commercial businesses and in some personal residences. Cisco provides a broad line of products for transporting data, voice and video within buildings, across campuses and around the world. The Company's offerings fall into several categories, such as routing, switching, home networking, Internet protocol (IP) telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, wireless technology, access, network management software and service. In January 2004, the Company acquired Latitude Communications, Inc., and in February 2004, it acquired Andiamo Systems, Inc. In December 2004, the Company acquired privately held BCN Systems, Inc.
CRUS Cirrus Logic, Inc. is a supplier of analog or mixed-signal and digital processing integrated circuits (ICs) and solutions for consumer entertainment, automotive entertainment and industrial applications. The Company develops and markets ICs and embedded software used by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). It provides system reference designs, based on its technology that enables customers to bring products to market in a timely and cost-effective manner. The product categories were Audio, which include analog and mixed-signal products, digital home audio processors and digital portable processors, commercial audio processors, automotive audio solutions and Video, which include digital video products for digital video disc (DVD) recorders/receivers and home theater recorder systems. During the fiscal year ended March 27, 2004, (fiscal 2004), it announced its third-generation of MPEG encoding chips, the CS9268X family and a chipset and software platform, the Home Theater Recorder.
CROO.OB Cirond Corporation develops software solutions to help businesses implement, use, secure and manage wireless networks. The Company's products include AirPatrol Mobile and AirPatrol Enterprise (rogue access point and ad-hoc user detection and location, network security and management solutions); AirSafe (which prevents wireless sharing of authorized wireless connections by mobile computer users); AirSentinel (which provides around-the-clock, wired-side detection of wireless devices), and the Winc and pocketWinc wireless connectivity tools for the Windows and Pocket PC family of operating systems. Cirond products are available directly through the Company's Website or through its network of value-added resellers and licensees. In November 2003, the Company acquired Cirond Networks Inc. (CNI), a developer of technologies designed to enhance the performance and security of wireless networking technologies, with an initial specific focus on 802.11b wireless local area network technology.
CRLU.OB Cirilium Holdings, Inc., formerly SK Technologies Corporation, is engaged in licensing retail store management software for the specialty retail industry. The Company's StoreKare product family is a modular system of information technology (IT) products. On September 12, 2001, the Company entered into a license and consulting agreement with Synchronics, whereby Synchronics licenses through December 31, 2003, all of the Company's right, title and interest in and to StoreKare software and certain other related assets. As a result of this agreement, the Company has limited operations and is not developing any new products. On April 1, 2004, Starliner Systems Inc., a British Virgin Islands corporation (Starliner), made cash payment to certain shareholders of the Company. Starliner beneficially directly owns 75.7% of the issued and outstanding common stock of the Company.
CRLI.OB Circuit Research Labs, Inc. (CRL) develops, manufactures and markets electronic audio processing, transmission encoding and noise reduction equipment for the worldwide radio, television, cable, Internet and professional audio markets. CRL's main product lines control the audio quality and range of radio, television, cable and Internet audio reception and allow radio and television stations to broadcast in mono and stereo. The Company operates through two divisions, its Orban division and CRL division. The Orban division manufactures and markets audio processing equipment using digital technology, under the Orban, Optimod, and Audicy and Opticodec brand names. The CRL division also manufactures and markets audio processing equipment using analog technology, under the CRL, Millennium, TVS and Amigo brand names. The combined product line can be classified into four different series or product families: FM Series, AM Series, Television Series and other audio post-production workstations.
CC Circuit City Stores, Inc. is a national retailer of brand-name consumer electronics, personal computers (PCs) and entertainment software. As of November 30, 2004, the Company operated 622 superstores and five mall-based stores. Circuit City is a national retailer of brand-name consumer electronics, personal computers and entertainment software. During the fiscal year ended February 29, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company began to introduce its own merchandise brands, including Liquid Video, Verge and esa, tailored to specific needs within a broad consumer base. Products offered include video equipment, audio equipment, home office products, entertainment software products and other consumer electronic products.
CIR CIRCOR International, Inc. designs, manufactures and distributes valves and related products and services for use in a range of applications to optimize the efficiency or ensure the safety of fluid-control systems. The valves and related fluid-control products that the Company manufactures are used in the processing industries; oil and gas exploration, production, distribution and refining; heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) and power, and aerospace, military and commercial aircraft. It has two major product groups: Instrumentation and Thermal Fluid Controls Products and Petrochemical Products. The Instrumentation and Thermal Fluid Controls Products segment serves a variety of end markets, including military and commercial aerospace, chemical processing, power generation, HVAC systems, food and beverage processing and other general industrial markets. The Petrochemical Products segment primarily serves the oil and gas exploration, production and distribution markets.
CXN Circle Group Holdings, Inc. provides emerging technology companies infrastructure, funding and intellectual capital to bring their technologies to the marketplace through all phases of the commercialization process. Circle Group operates three segments: food product development, defense product development and e-tailer. Fibergel Technologies, Inc. and Z-Amaize Technologies, Inc. make up the food product development segment, Mini-Raman Lidar Technology, ThraxVac Technology and The Brave Way Training Systems Inc. make up the defense product development segment and On-Line Bedding makes up the e-tailer segment.
CPCI Ciprico Inc. designs, manufactures and markets storage and system solutions for digital media applications. The solutions combine storage, networking and computing technologies to improve the productivity of customer workflows for the creation, manipulation, storage and management of digital assets. The storage solutions are designed primarily for visual computing applications ranging from high-speed image data capture, through processing and analysis, to real-time playback at sustained performance levels within the broadcast, content creation, post production, military and government, digital prepress and other media application markets.
CIPH Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets ProteinChip Systems, which use Surface Enhanced Laser Desorption/Ionization (SELDI) technology. The ProteinChip Systems enable protein discovery, characterization and assay development to provide researchers with a better understanding of biological functions at the protein level. Ciphergen's ProteinChip Systems integrate the key steps of proteomics research on a single, miniaturized biochip. The ProteinChip Systems incorporate SELDI technology on the surface of a consumable biochip, which allows researchers to capture and analyze proteins directly. The ProteinChip Systems enable rapid, reproducible, on-chip protein expression and protein analysis from complex biological samples, such as whole blood, tissue or saliva, without separation, tagging and amplification processes and with minimal prior purification.
CIHR.OB Cipher Holding Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Cipher Multimedia, Inc. (Cipher), allows publishers and distributors to mass distribute full-feature video and/or software in a secure format in the form of CDs and DVDs, personal computer (PC) disk drives and Internet downloads. Cipher is a digital distribution solution and marketing company that secures and allows publishers and distributors to distribute digital content in a secure format to mass markets. Secured video and software content is distributed through new and existing commercial product offerings and distribution channels. The Company was formed through a reverse acquisition between Cipher and Momentum Holdings Corp.
CNCN.OB Cintel Corp. is engaged in the development of a three-dimensional (3D) animation and digital effects studio that would provide high-end 3D animation and digital effects to the music video industry. On September 30, 2003, the Company entered into a definitive share exchange agreement with CinTel Co., Ltd (Cintel Korea). Cintel Korea develops network solutions to address technical limitations to the Internet. It has provided various Internet traffic management solutions to the business world and other consuming public, including PacketCruz iCache, PacketCruz i2one and PacketCruz Proximator. On September 30, 2003, the Company changed its name from Link2 Technologies, Inc. to Cintel Corp.
CTAS Cintas Corporation provides highly specialized services to businesses of all types throughout North America. Cintas designs, manufactures and implements corporate identity uniform programs, and provides entrance mats, restroom supplies, promotional products and first aid and safety products for over 500,000 businesses. Cintas classifies its businesses into two operating segments: rentals and other services. The rentals operating segment designs and manufactures corporate identity uniforms that it rents, along with other items to its customers. The other services operating segment involves the design, manufacture and direct sale of uniforms to its customers, as well as the rental or sale of ancillary services, including hygiene supplies, first aid products and services and clean room supplies.
CIN Cinergy Corp. is a utility holding company that owns all outstanding common stock of The Cincinnati Gas &amp; Electric Company (CG&amp;E) is a combination electric and gas public utility company that provides service in the southwestern portion of Ohio and through its subsidiaries, CG&amp;E's subsidiary, The Union Light, Heat and Power Company (ULH&amp;P), provides electric and gas service in northern Kentucky and PSI Energy, Inc. (PSI) is a regulated electric utility that provides service in north central, central and southern Indiana. The Company's other subsidiaries are Cinergy Services, Inc. (Services), Cinergy Investments, Inc. (Investments) and Cinergy Wholesale Energy, Inc. (Wholesale Energy) and Cinergy Power Generation Services, LLC (Generation Services). The Company conducts operations through its subsidiaries and manages its businesses through its three segments: Commercial Business Unit, Regulated Businesses Business Unit and Power Technology and Infrastructure Services Business Unit.
MOVE.OB Cinema Ride, Inc. was in the business of developing and operating rides consisting of three-dimensional motion simulator attractions. The Company owns 100% of the Tix4Tonight business, which is the Company's only source of operating revenues in 2004. Management is evaluating the prospects for expansion of this business into other cities throughout the United States and Canada. The Company operated two ride facilities, for the year ended December 31, 2003, as well as one ride facility in a joint venture through February 15, 2003. Cinema Ride operated a ride facility located in the Forum Shops at Caesar's Palace Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, and a ride facility located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, located in the West Edmonton Mall. The Las Vegas ride facility provided approximately 94% of the Company's consolidated revenues in 2003. The Las Vegas Facility and the West Edmonton Mall Facility were closed on or about December 31, 2003, thus terminating this line of business.
CINF Cincinnati Financial Corporation (CFC), through its subsidiaries, markets commercial, personal and life insurance. The Company operates in four segments: commercial lines property casualty insurance, personal lines property casualty insurance, life insurance and investments. The commercial lines and personal lines property casualty insurance segments combined to generate more than 83% of the Company's revenue in 2003. CFC owns 100% of its three subsidiaries: The Cincinnati Insurance Company, CFC Investment Company and CinFin Capital Management Company. The Cincinnati Insurance Company owns 100% of its three subsidiaries: The Cincinnati Casualty Company, The Cincinnati Indemnity Company and The Cincinnati Life Insurance Company.
CBB Cincinnati Bell Inc., formerly known as Broadwing Inc., is a full-service, regional provider of local, long distance, wireless and data communications services. The Company reports its results in four business segments: Broadband, Local, Wireless and Other, but operates as a single entity, making it a provider local, long distance, wireless and data communications services bundled together, billed and serviced as one to the Cincinnati region. In September 2003, the Company sold its Broadband business to C III Communications, LLC.
CIMK.OB CIMNET, Inc. is a developer and marketer of process improvement software solutions for the global manufacturing industry. The Company provides manufacturers with information and communication software solutions for their production environment. CIMNET's software solutions manage the conversion between process information on the shop floor and financial/logistical information in the office and supply chain. In addition, the Company's software solutions control and enhance a firm's production process inputs, improving manufacturing flexibility and lowering production costs.
CIMT Cimatron Ltd. designs, develops, manufactures, markets and supports a family of modular computer automated design/computer automated manufacturing (CAD/CAM) software products. The Company's products provide a design through manufacturing solution for small to medium-sized companies and manufacturing divisions of large corporations and interface with other CAD/CAM systems. They offer functionality in the areas of design for manufacturing and manufacturing.
XEC Cimarex Energy Co. is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company whose principal areas of operations are located in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Louisiana. At December 31, 2003, the Company's proved reserves totaled 422.2 billion cubic feet equivalent consisting of 337.3 billion cubic feet of gas and 14.1 million barrels of oil, of which 80% are gas and more than 99% are classified as proved developed. Cimarex operates the wells that account for 65% of its total proved reserves and production. The Company conducts a majority of its gas marketing activity through its wholly owned subsidiary, Cimarex Energy Services, Inc.
CI CIGNA Corporation is an investor-owned employee benefits organization in the United States. Through its subsidiaries, the Company is a provider of employee benefits offered through the workplace, including health care products and services, group life, accident and disability insurance, retirement products and services and investment management. CIGNA's principal subsidiary is Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. The Company operated in six business segments: Health Care, Disability and Life, Retirement, International, Run-off Reinsurance and Other Operations. In November 2003, CIGNA entered into an agreement to sell its retirement business, excluding its corporate life insurance unit, to Prudential Financial, Inc. The sale was completed in 2004.
CIEN Ciena Corporation is a supplier of application-focused communications-networking equipment, software and services to communications service providers, cable operators, governments and enterprises. Ciena is focused on optimizing access and edge networks for broadband communication, enhancing enterprise data services and evolving network infrastructure to support new services through automation and convergence. Ciena organizes its operations into four separate business segments, including the Transport and Switching Group (TSG), the Data Networking Group (DNG), the Broadband Access Group (BBG) and Global Network Services (GNS). These business segments provide products and services for applications across the four market segments in which Ciena operates, including telco, cable, government and enterprise. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company completed the acquisitions of Catena Networks, Inc. and Internet Photonics Inc.
CBR CIBER, Inc. and its subsidiaries provide information technology (IT) system integration consulting and other IT services primarily to governmental agencies, and Fortune 500 and middle market companies, across most major industries, from offices located throughout the United States and Europe, as well as Canada and India. The Company provides its clients with a broad range of IT services, including custom and package software development, maintenance, implementation and integration. In addition, it also provides IT staff supplementation services and, to a lesser extent, resell certain IT hardware and software products. The Company serves clients through local branch offices, as well as traveling consultants.
CSB Ciba Specialty Chemicals Holding Inc. is engaged in the discovery and manufacture of specialty chemicals that provide color, performance and care for plastics, coatings, textile, paper, home and personal care and other products. Its products and services are also used to provide clean water and to treat water streams in industrial and municipal applications. Ciba operates on a global basis with manufacturing facilities in 23 countries and sales in more than 120 countries. The Company's organizational structure consists of five segments focused on specific customer markets and various group service units focused on providing cost-efficient support services to the segments. Its five segments are Plastic Additives, Coating Effects, Water and Paper Treatment, Textile Effects and Home and Personal Care. The Company also invests in equity affiliates to support and supplement the growth of its core business.
CYRO.OB Chyron Corporation develops, manufactures, markets and supports hardware and software products that enhance the presentation of live and pre-recorded video, audio and other data. The Company also provides products for graphics authoring for the worldwide emerging markets of interactive television. Sales to customers outside the United States accounted for 9%, 24% and 19% of the Company's total sales as of December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively. On November 6, 2003, the Company completed the sale of the entire issued share capital of Chyron UK Holdings Limited, including its operating subsidiary, Pro-Bel Limited. The Company's customers include ABC, ESPN, Fox News, C-SPAN, Discovery, Home Shopping Network, Fox Sports, CBS, CBC (Canada), Comcast, DirecTV, Shop At Home, Court TV, CNN, BBC (UK), France 3, Korean Broadcast, YV Catalonia (Spain), NBA, Turner Entertainment and hundreds of local and regional stations.
CHDN Churchill Downs Incorporated is a horse racing company that conducts parimutuel wagering on live thoroughbred, quarter horse and standardbred horse racing and simulcasts signals of races. Additionally, the Company offers racing services through its other business interests. The Company groups its operations into seven segments: Kentucky Operations, including Churchill Downs racetrack and its off-track betting facility (OTB) and Ellis Park racetrack and its on-site simulcast facility; Hollywood Park racetrack and its on-site simulcast facility; Calder Race Course; Arlington Park and its seven OTBs; Hoosier Park racetrack and its on-site simulcast facility and three Indiana simulcast facilities; Churchill Downs Simulcast Network (CDSN), the simulcast product provider of the Company, and other investments, including Churchill Downs Television Services and the Company's various equity interests.
CHD Church &amp; Dwight Co., Inc. develops, manufactures and markets consumer and specialty products under the Arm &amp; Hammer brand name, as well as other brand names, such as Arrid, Brillo and Xtra. The Company's consumer products include deodorizing and household cleaning products, such as baking soda and cat litter; laundry products, such as detergent and fabric softeners, and personal care products, such as antiperspirants and toothpaste. The Company's specialty products include, in addition to sodium bicarbonate, sodium sesquicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate and a rumen bypass fat product, which are used in a variety of industrial, animal nutrition and food products. In January 2002, the Company acquired Biovance Technologies, Inc., a producer of specialty animal feed ingredients, which complements its existing range of animal nutrition products. In October 2003, the Company acquired Unilever's oralcare brands in the United States and Canada.
CHT Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. provides bundled and value-added telecommunications services to business and residential customers in Taiwan. The Company's service offerings are categorized into three principal groups: fixed-line services, wireless services and Internet and data services. Fixed-line services are the Company's principal business activity. It provides local, domestic long-distance and international long-distance telephone services in Taiwan. Chunghwa also provides interconnection with its fixed-line network to other cellular and fixed-line operators. Wireless services offered by Chunghwa include cellular and paging services. Internet and data services offered by Chunghwa include asymmetrical digital subscriber line (ADSL) Internet access, Internet value-added services and wireless local area networks, leased line services, managed data services and Internet data center services.
CB Chubb Corporation is a holding company for a family of property and casualty insurance companies known informally as the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies (the P&amp;C Group). The P&amp;C Group is divided into three strategic business units. Chubb Commercial Insurance offers a range of commercial customer insurance products, including coverage for multiple peril, casualty, workers' compensation and property and marine. Chubb Specialty Insurance offers specialized executive protection and professional liability products for privately and publicly owned companies, financial institutions, professional firms and healthcare organizations. Chubb Specialty Insurance also includes the Company's surety and accident businesses, as well as its reinsurance assumed business. Chubb Personal Insurance offers products for individuals with fine homes and possessions who require more coverage choices and higher limits than standard insurance policies.
CHMD Chronimed Inc. is a specialty pharmacy that distributes prescription drugs and provides specialized therapy management services for people with certain health conditions, including Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) / Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), organ transplants and diseases treated with injectable medications. The Company works with patients, physicians and other healthcare providers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, health plans and insurers and government agencies to improve clinical and economic outcomes. Chronimed distributes its products through 32 distribution facilities. As of July 2, 2004, this included mail service facilities located in Minnesota, California, Texas, Tennessee and Florida, as well as its nationwide StatScript Pharmacy retail chain, which consisted of 28 Company-owned, community pharmacies.
CRC Chromcraft Revington, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiaries, is engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of residential and commercial furniture. The Company's subsidiaries are Chromcraft Corporation, Peters-Revington Corporation, Silver Furniture Co., Inc., Cochrane Furniture Company, Inc. and Korn Industries, Incorporated. The Company's products are categorized under Occasional Furniture, Bedroom Furniture, Dining Room Furniture, Upholstered Furniture and Commercial Furniture.
CVSN ChromaVision Medical Systems, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets an automated digital microscope system with the ability to detect, count and classify cells based on color, size and shape to assist pathologists in making medical decisions that can affect patient treatment. ChromaVision's Automated Cellular Imaging System (ACIS) combines an automated microscope with computer-based color imaging technology. The ACIS has five capabilities: tissue scoring and quantitative analysis, rare event detection, object detection and counting, integrated optical density analysis and tissue microarray technology. The ACIS system scans and processes the stained slides and creates a single image that reconstructs the entire tissue section. Using digital technology, the pathologist is then able to view the stored images at higher power for interpretation and quantitative information such as number of detected objects or intensity of color.
CBK Christopher &amp; Banks Corporation is a retailer of women's specialty apparel that operates retail stores through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Christopher &amp; Banks, Inc. and Christopher &amp; Banks Company. At April 30, 2004, the Company operated 556 stores in 42 states including 426 Christopher &amp; Banks stores and 130 C.J. Banks stores. The Christopher &amp; Banks stores offer distinctive fashions featuring exclusively designed, coordinated assortments of sportswear, sweaters and casual dresses in sizes four to 16. The C.J. Banks stores offer similar assortments of women's specialty apparel in sizes 14W and up. The Company's target customer is a 40- to 60-year-old working woman with an annual family income of $50,000 and above. Christopher &amp; Banks differentiates itself from other women's specialty apparel retailers through offering a merchandise assortment that is characterized by novelty designs, many featuring seasonal themes.
CHRD Chordiant Software, Inc. is an enterprise software vendor that offers software solutions for global business-to-consumer companies that seek to improve the quality of their customer interactions and to reduce costs through increased employee productivity and process efficiencies. It concentrates on customers in retail financial services, communications and consumer direct industries. Its customer solutions include software applications and tools and services that enable businesses to integrate their customer information and corporate systems so that they can have an accurate, real-time view of their customers across multiple forms of customer interaction. The software solutions and architecture are based on industry standards that are adopted by business customers in the industries it serves.
CTEC Cholestech Corporation is a provider of diagnostic tools and information for immediate risk assessment and therapeutic monitoring of heart disease and diabetes. It manufactures the LDX System, which includes the LDX Analyzer and a variety of single-use test cassettes. It also markets and distributes the GDX System under a multi-year global distribution agreement with Provalis Diagnostics Ltd. The Company's products measure and monitor blood cholesterol, related lipids, glucose and liver function, and are used to test patients at risk of, or suffering from heart disease, diabetes and liver disease.
CPS ChoicePoint Inc. is a provider of identification and credential verification services to business, government and individual customers. The Company operates its business through three primary service groups: Insurance Services, Business and Government Services and Marketing Services. The Insurance Services group provides information products, software and services used in the underwriting and claims processes by property and casualty insurers. The Business and Government Services group provides information products and services to corporations, consumer finance companies, asset-based lenders, legal and professional service providers, healthcare service providers, non-profit organizations, small businesses, private investigators, consumers and Federal, state and local government agencies. The Marketing Services group provides direct marketing services to corporations, insurance companies and financial institutions.
CHH Choice Hotels International, Inc. is a hotel franchisor with franchise agreements representing 4,810 open hotels and 491 hotels under development as of December 31, 2003, representing 388,618 rooms open and 39,877 rooms under development in 44 countries and territories. Choice franchises lodging properties under the following proprietary brand names: Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality, Clarion, Sleep Inn, Econo Lodge, Rodeway Inn, MainStay Suites and Flag Hotels. These brands offer consumers and developers a range of choices from economy hotels to upscale, full-service properties. Choice's franchises operate in 49 states, Puerto Rico and 41 additional countries and territories. Approximately 95% of the Company's 2003 revenues were generated from hotels franchised in the United States.
CHZ Chittenden Corporation (CC) is a registered bank holding company that had total consolidated assets of approximately $5.9 billion as of December 31, 2003. The Company is the holding company parent and owns 100% of the outstanding common stock of Chittenden Trust Company (CTC), Flagship Bank and Trust Company (FBT), The Bank of Western Massachusetts (BWM), Maine Bank &amp; Trust (MBT), Ocean National Bank (ONB) and Granite Bank (GB) (collectively, the Banks). The Banks offer services such as the acceptance of demand, savings, money market, cash management and time deposits. As of December 31, 2003, total interest-bearing deposits and non-interest-bearing demand deposits amounted to approximately $4.1 billion and $899 million, respectively. The Banks also provide personal trust services, including services as executor, trustee, administrator, custodian and guardian. Corporate trust services are also provided, including trustee for pension and profit sharing plans.
CHIR Chiron Corporation is a global pharmaceutical company focused on developing products for cancer and infectious diseases. It commercializes its products through three business units: blood testing, vaccines and biopharmaceuticals. Chiron Blood Testing develops and commercializes a range of blood safety products used by the blood banking and transfusion medicine industry. Chiron Vaccines offers more than 30 vaccines including flu, meningococcal, travel and pediatric vaccines. Chiron Biopharmaceuticals discovers, develops, manufactures and markets a range of therapeutic products. Its products include TOBI (tobramycin solution for inhalation) for pseudomonal lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients, Proleukin (aldesleukin) for cancer (metastatic melanoma and renal cell carcinoma) and Betaseron (interferon beta-1b) for multiple sclerosis.
CQB Chiquita Brands International, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively, Chiquita) operate as an international marketer, producer and distributor of bananas and other fresh produce, sold under the Chiquita and other brand names. The Company also distributes and markets fresh-cut fruit and other branded, value-added fruit products. It has two reportable segments: Banana, which distributes and markets bananas sold under the Chiquita and other brand names, and Other Fresh Produce, which distributes and markets a line of fresh fruits and vegetables other than bananas in Europe, North America and the Far East. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company completed the acquisition of a German distributor of fresh produce, Atlanta AG, which was its customer in Europe, and in which Chiquita already held a substantial investment.
IMOS ChipMOS Technologies Ltd. is an independent provider of semiconductor testing and assembly services. The Company provides a range of back-end testing services, including engineering testing, wafer probing and final testing of memory and mixed-signal semiconductors. It also offers a selection of leadframe-based and organic substrate-based package assembly services for memory and mixed-signal semiconductors. In addition, ChipMOS provides testing and assembly services for liquid crystal display (LCD) and other flat-panel display driver semiconductors by employing tape carrier package (TCP), chip-on-film (COF) and chip-on-glass (COG) technologies. The Company also provides semiconductor turnkey services by purchasing fabricated wafers and then selling tested and assembled semiconductors, primarily memory products.
CHDX Chindex International, Inc. operates in several healthcare sectors of the Chinese marketplace, including Hong Kong. Revenue is generated from the sale of healthcare equipment and products and the provision of healthcare services. The Company operates in three segments: Medical Capital Equipment Division, which markets, sells and facilitates the export of select capital healthcare equipment and instrumentation to China on the basis of both exclusive and non-exclusive agreements with the manufacturers of these products; Healthcare Products Distribution Division, which imports and distributes off-the-shelf healthcare instrumentation and health-related consumable products developed by third parties, and Healthcare Services Division, which operates the Company's private hospital and clinics.
CHWE.OB Chinawe.com Inc. (Chinawe) is engaged in the business of enabling e-commerce transactions for small- and medium-sized producers of goods on Mainland People's Republic of China (PRC) for sale to overseas wholesale customers. It is also engaged in managing assets located in the PRC by attempting to expedite transactions between Chinese operators of these assets and overseas purchasers and joint ventures. The Company is a PRC-based enterprise that uses electronic technology on its proprietary bilingual (Chinese and English) Website. Its Website has focused on providing business-to-business, e-commerce services whereby members subscribing to its services are allowed access to the site to describe the products they manufacture and offer for sale to overseas purchasers. Chinawe provides product/suppliers search engines, a message board, sample sale, factory outlet and business-related services covering the entire product sales lifecycle.
CHINA chinadotcom corporation provides enterprise software and solutions, mobile services, as well as applications and marketing and advertising services to companies throughout Greater China and Asia, North America, the United Kingdom and Europe. The Company's enterprise software business focuses on key industry groups, including manufacturing for export, finance and travel and in key business areas, including supply chain management, human resource and payroll administration and customer relationship management. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Greater China represented approximately 28% of the Company's total revenue. In August 2004, the Company acquired Ross Systems, Inc., a global provider of enterprise software for manufacturers.
CYD China Yuchai International Limited is a holding company that owns a 76.4% interest in Yuchai through six wholly owned subsidiaries. Yuchai is a medium-duty diesel engine manufacturer in China that also produces diesel power generators and diesel engine parts. Yuchai's primary products are its 6105 and 6108 medium-duty engines, which are principally used in medium-duty trucks with a load capacity of five to seven tons. In addition, Yuchai also offers the 4-Series, light-duty engines and the 6112 heavy-duty engines. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the annual production capacity of Yuchai's manufacturing facilities was approximately 140,000 units of medium-duty diesel engines and 100,000 units of heavy-duty and light-duty diesel engines. Yuchai distributes its engines directly to auto plants and retailers from its primary manufacturing facilities in Yulin City. Yuchai provides a repair and replacement warranty for all of its engines.
CHU China Unicom Limited is an integrated telecommunications operator in China offering telecommunications services, including cellular, international and domestic long distance, data, Internet and paging services, all of which are based on the Company's network system. It provides traditional public switched and Internet protocol (IP) telephony, international and domestic long distance, as well as data and Internet services in China. These businesses represent a small portion of the Company's overall business. Its long distance, data and Internet businesses contributed to approximately 8.4% of total revenue during the year ended December 31, 2003.
CHA China Telecom Corporation Limited is engaged in the provision of wireline telecommunications and related services in Shanghai Municipality, Guangdong Province, Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province, Anhui Province, Fujian Province, Jiangxi Province, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Chongqing Municipality and Sichuan Province, all of which are in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The Company offers a range of wireline telecommunications services to residential and business customers, including local, domestic long-distance and international long-distance telephone services, Internet and managed data, leased line and other related services.
ZNH China Southern Airlines Company Limited, incorporated in March 1995, provides commercial airline services throughout China, Hong Kong and Macau regions, as well as Southeast Asia and other parts of the world. The Company conducts a portion of its airline operations through its airline subsidiaries Xiamen Airlines, Southern Airlines Group Shantou Airlines Company Limited, Guangxi Airlines Company Limited, Zhuhai Airlines Company Limited and Guizhou Airlines Company Limited (collectively, the Airline Subsidiaries). China Southern also provides air cargo and mail services. The Company's airline operations are fully integrated with its airline-related businesses, including aircraft and engine maintenance, flight simulation and air catering operations. China Southern operates a total of 334, including 274 domestic routes, 18 Hong Kong regional routes, which include Hong Kong routes and Macau routes, and 42 international routes.
SNP China Petroleum &amp; Chemical Corporation is a petroleum and petrochemical company that, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in fully integrated petroleum and petrochemical operations in China and Asia. Petroleum operations consist of exploring for, developing and producing crude oil and natural gas; processing crude oil into refined petroleum products, buying and selling refined petroleum products, and transporting, marketing and distributing refined petroleum products. Its crude oil and natural gas productions are mostly internally consumed by its refining and petrochemical operations. Petrochemical operations include the manufacture and marketing of various chemicals for industrial uses.
CHMS.OB China Mobility Solutions, Inc. is a provider of mobile business solutions to diverse corporations across China. China Mobility Solutions provides mobile business solutions to its client base of more than 10,000 companies and a further 500,000 companies through its proprietary database. The Company has profit-sharing contracts with telecommunications companies in China, including China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom. The Company's proprietary technology platform allows corporations in China to directly market to consumers via short text messages to their cellular phones and other wireless handheld devices.
CHL China Mobile (Hong Kong) Limited is a provider of a range of mobile telecommunications services principally using the global system for mobile communications (GSM) standard. GSM is a pan-European mobile telephone system based on digital transmission and mobile telecommunications network architecture with roaming capabilities. China Mobile's service offerings primarily include voice-related services and data services, as well as Internet access services. It also provides interconnection and roaming services through its interconnection and roaming agreements with other telecommunication service providers and operators. The Company offers these services through a network of sales outlets and retail outlets. Most of China Mobile's sales outlets also offer differentiated services to subscribers under different service brands, including billing information and payment collection, services consultation, handset repair and other customer services.
LFC China Life Insurance Company Ltd. (China Life) is a writer of life insurance, providing life, annuities, accident and health insurance products in China. China Life had more than 48 million individual and group life insurance policies, annuity contracts and long-term health insurance policies in force as of December 31, 2003. The Company also offers accident and short-term health insurance policies to individuals and groups. China Life offers its life insurance and annuity products primarily through a distribution force comprised of approximately 655,000 exclusive agents operating in approximately 8,200 field offices throughout China, as well as other non-dedicated agencies located at branch offices of banks, post offices and other organizations.
JRJC China Finance Online Co. Limited specializes in providing online financial and listed company data and information in China. The Company offers subscription-based services based on a single information platform that integrates data and information from multiple sources with features and functions, such as data and information search, retrieval, delivery, storage and analysis. It delivers these features and functions using software tools that have been developed, which are referring to as research tools. China Finance's research tools combine: financial analysis tools, which permit users to calculate and analyze quantitatively financial data; current and historical financial data and information for China's listed company stocks, bonds and mutual funds; categorized news and research reports, and online forums and bulletin boards.
CSHEF.OB China Enterprises Limited is principally engaged in the tire manufacturing and trading business. The Company's tire business is primarily conducted through Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co., Limited, which, through September 2003, was a majority-owned subsidiary of the Company. China Enterprises sold a 25% interest in Hangzhou Zhongce, during the year ended December 31, 2003, leaving the Company with a minority interest in Hangzhou Zhongce as of October 1, 2003. During the year ended December 31, 2002, China Enterprises began to diversify its business and acquired an interest in Wing On Travel (Holdings) Limited, a Hong Kong-based travel company. On June 16, 2004, the Company, through an indirect wholly owned subsidiary, entered into an agreement with an independent third party, Shanghai Jiu Sheng Investment Company Limited, for the proposed acquisition by the Company of a parcel of land and a 24-story building under construction on the land located in Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
CEA China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited is an air carrier company that operates primarily from Shanghai's Hong Qiao International Airport and Pudong International Airport. The primary focus of the Company's business is the provision of domestic, Hong Kong regional and international passenger airline services. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's passenger traffic volume totaled 18,002.7 million passenger kilometers. Its cargo and mail traffic volume totaled 1,296.6 million ton kilometers. During April 2003, China Eastern acquired a 45% equity interest in Eastern Aviation Import and Export Company. In December 2003, China Eastern entered into a joint venture agreement with CEA Holding to establish China Eastern Air Catering Investment Company Ltd.
CHDT.OB China Direct Trading Corp. is a holding company that conducts its businesses through wholly owned or majority-owned subsidiaries. The Company's principal business is to act as a trader and distribute souvenir, promotional, gift and other similar products customized and manufactured by its manufacturing sources in China, for North American customers of Souvenir Direct, Inc. (SDI), its wholly owned subsidiary. A typical product distributed by SDI would be a novelty key chain with the customer's logo or trademark. SDI distributes its products to Wal-Mart, Walt Disney Resorts, Six Flags Theme Parks and other retailers and distributors. In February 2004, CBQ organized China Pathfinder Fund. The proposed business of China Pathfinder Fund is to identify companies in North America that want to conduct business in China (either directly or through commercial joint ventures), to acquire or be acquired by Chinese companies or to receive funding or investment from sources in China.
CHDW.OB China Digital Wireless, Inc., formerly known as Boulder Acquisitions, Inc. through its subsidiary TCH Data Technology Co. Ltd. (TCH), is engaged in the business of mobile phone distribution and provides pager and mobile phone (collectively wireless receiver) users with access to certain information reformatted by TCH. In the process of providing value-added information services TCH purchases trading activity information from stock exchanges, comments and analysis on People's Republic of China (PRC) stock markets provided by certain reputable security and investment companies, lottery information and weather forecast. On June 23, 2004, Boulder Acquisitions, Inc. completed a stock exchange transaction with the shareholders of Sifang Holdings Co., Ltd.
CAAS China Automotive Systems, Inc., based in Hubei Province, the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a supplier of power-steering components and systems to the Chinese automotive industry. The Company operates through five Sino-foreign joint ventures, including Jingzhou Henglong Automotive Parts Co., Shashi Jiulong Power Steering Co., Shenyang Jinbei Henglong Automotive Steering System Co Ltd., Zhejiang Henglong &amp; Vie Pump-Manu Co. Ltd. and Jingzhou Henglong Fulida Textile Co., Ltd.
CH The Chile Fund, Inc. is a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. Its investment objective is to seek total return, consisting of capital appreciation and income through investments primarily in Chilean equity and debt securities. Credit Suisse Asset Management, LLC (New York) is the Fund's investment adviser. It provides advisory services to the Company, as well as certain administrative services. Credit Suisse Asset Management, LLC is part of Credit Suisse Asset Management, the institutional and mutual fund asset management arm of Credit Suisse First Boston. Celfin Capital Servicios Financieros S.A. serves as the Company's Chilean sub-adviser. At December 31, 2003, The Chile Fund had investments in banking, chemicals-diversified, diversified operations, electric-integrated, food and beverages, infrastructure, paper and related products, retail-major department stores, shipping, telephone-integrated and water sectors.
PLCE The Children's Place Retail Stores, Inc. is a specialty retailer of apparel and accessories for children from newborn to 10 years of age. The Company designs, sources and markets its products under the proprietary The Children's Place brand name for sale in its stores and on the Internet. As of April 1, 2004, the Company operated 695 stores in the United States and Canada. Most of its stores are clustered in and around major metropolitan areas in regional malls, with the exception of 74 strip center, 58 outlet and 46 street stores. The Children's Place stores offer an updated, focused assortment of styles in a variety of colors and patterns, with the aim of consistently creating a fresh youthful look at value prices. The Company divides the year into quarterly merchandising seasons: Spring, Summer, Back-to-School and Holiday. Each season is built around a theme that includes an assortment of coordinated basic and fashion apparel with matching accessories.
CHS Chico's FAS, Inc. is a retailer of exclusively designed private label, sophisticated women's clothing, complementary accessories and other non-clothing gift items under the Chico's and White House brand names. The Chico's brand focuses on women who are 35 years old and up with moderate and higher income levels. The styling is relaxed, figure-flattering and designed for easy care. The White House offers fashion and basic merchandise assorted primarily in the classic and timeless colors of white, black and related shades under the White House|Black Market label. The White House brand targets educated, middle- to upper-income, youthful women who lead active work and social lives. As of May 10, 2004, the Company operated 571 women's specialty stores in 46 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The Company owns 410 Chico's front-line stores, 23 Chico's outlet stores and 126 White House|Black Market stores; franchisees own and operate 12 Chico's stores.
CVR Chicago Rivet &amp; Machine Co. operates in two segments of the fastener industry: fasteners and assembly equipment. The fastener segment consists of the manufacture and sale of rivets, cold-formed fasteners and parts and screw machine products. The assembly equipment segment consists primarily of the manufacture of automatic rivet setting machines, automatic assembly equipment, parts and tools for such machines and the leasing of automatic rivet setting machines. The principal market for the Company's products is the North American automotive industry. Of the Company's properties (the Jefferson, Iowa, and the Madison Heights, Michigan, facilities) are used entirely in the fastener segment. The Albia, Iowa, facility is used exclusively in the assembly equipment segment. The Tyrone, Pennsylvania, and the Naperville, Illinois, facilities are utilized in both operating segments.
CME Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (CME) offers market participants the opportunity to trade futures contracts and options on futures contracts, primarily in four product areas, including interest rates, stock indexes, foreign exchange and commodities. CME's key products include Eurodollar contracts and contracts based on United States stock indexes, including the S&amp;P 500 and the NASDAQ-100. The Company also offers contracts for the principal foreign currencies and for a number of commodity products, including cattle, hogs and dairy. Its products provide a means for hedging, speculation and asset allocation relating to the risks associated with interest-rate sensitive instruments, equity ownership, changes in the value of foreign currency and changes in the prices of commodity products. CME's customers include professional traders, financial institutions, institutional and individual investors, corporations, manufacturers, producers, supranational entities and governments.
CBI Chicago Bridge &amp; Iron Company N.V., an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company, specializes in lumpsum turnkey projects. The Company is an integrated EPC service provider that offers a complete package of conceptual design, engineering, procurement, fabrication, field erection, mechanical installation and commissioning. Its projects include hydrocarbon processing plants, liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, offshore structures, pipelines, water storage and treatment facilities and other steel structures with associated systems. It also provides a range of repair and maintenance services including complete turnarounds for petroleum refining and petrochemical plants. In April 2003, it acquired Petrofac Inc., and, in May 2003, it acquired John Brown Hydrocarbons Limited. Its value-added services include Process and Technology, Low Temperature/Cryogenic Tanks and Systems, Pressure Vessels, Standard Tanks, Specialty and Other Structures and Repairs and Turnarounds.
CVX ChevronTexaco Corporation manages its investments in subsidiaries and affiliates and provides administrative, financial and management support to United States and foreign subsidiaries that engage in fully integrated petroleum operations, chemicals operations, coal mining, and power and energy services. The Company operates in the United States and in more than 180 other countries. Petroleum operations consist of exploring for, developing and producing crude oil and natural gas; refining crude oil into finished petroleum products; marketing crude oil, natural gas and the many products derived from petroleum; and transporting crude oil, natural gas and petroleum products by pipeline, marine vessel, motor equipment and rail car. The Company has petroleum operations in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Central and Far East Asia, and Australia.
CHEV Cheviot Financial Corp. is a federal corporation that was organized by Cheviot Savings Bank (the Bank) for the purpose of acquiring all of the capital stock of the Bank upon completion of the Bank's reorganization into the mutual holding company structure. Prior to the consummation of the reorganization and the initial stock offering, the Company had not issued any stock, had no assets and no liabilities, and had not conducted operations other than of an organizational nature. Following completion of the reorganization and initial stock offering, the Company's only significant assets are 100% of the shares of the Bank's outstanding common stock and approximately 40% of the net proceeds of the Company's initial public stock offering. The Office of Thrift Supervision approved the transaction in January 2004.
CVAL Chester Valley Bancorp Inc. is a bank holding company in the United States. The Company operates through its two operating subsidiaries: First Financial Bank (the Bank), a Pennsylvania-chartered commercial bank, and Philadelphia Corporation for Investment Services (PCIS), a full-service investment advisory and securities brokerage firm. The Bank provides a wide range of banking services to individual and corporate customers through its 12 full-service branch offices located in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The Bank provides residential real estate, commercial real estate, commercial and consumer lending services, which are primarily funded by retail and business deposits, as well as borrowings. PCIS provides many services, including self-directed and managed retirement accounts, safekeeping, daily sweep money market funds, portfolio and estate valuations, life insurance and annuities, as well as margin accounts to individuals and smaller corporate accounts.
CPK Chesapeake Utilities Corporation is a utility company engaged, directly or through subsidiaries, in natural gas distribution and transmission, propane distribution and wholesale marketing, advanced information services and other related businesses. Chesapeake's three natural gas distribution divisions serve approximately 47,600 residential, commercial and industrial customers in central and southern Delaware, Maryland's Eastern Shore and parts of Florida. The Company's natural gas transmission subsidiary, Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company, operates a 304-mile interstate pipeline system. The Company's propane distribution operation serves approximately 34,900 customers in central and southern Delaware, the Eastern Shore of both Maryland and Virginia and parts of Florida. The advanced information services segment provides domestic and international clients with information technology-related business services and solutions for both enterprise and e-business applications.
CHK Chesapeake Energy Corporation is an independent natural gas producer in the United States. At the end of 2003, the Company owned interests in 14,950 (5,873 net) producing oil and gas wells, including properties in which it held an overriding royalty interest. Of these, 2,665 (942 net) were classified as primarily oil producing wells and 12,285 (4,931 net) were classified as primarily gas producing wells. Chesapeake operates approximately 5,990 of its producing wells, and in 2003, it drilled 442 (352 net) wells and participated in another 641 (104 net) wells operated by other companies. It also owns six rigs, which are dedicated to drilling wells it operates, and three additional rigs are under construction. The drilling business is conducted through a wholly owned subsidiary, Nomac Drilling Corporation. In 2004 the Company completed an acquisition of South Texas gas assets and of the Permian Basin and Mid-Continent oil and gas assets from Concho Resources Inc.oration.
CSK Chesapeake Corporation is a supplier of specialty value-added paperboard packaging products in Europe and also an international supplier of plastic packaging products to niche end use markets. The Company focuses on specific end use markets, where its multinational customers demand creative packaging designs and desire broad geographic coverage from their packaging supplier. Chesapeake operates in two core business segments: Paperboard Packaging and Plastic Packaging. The Paperboard Packaging segment designs and manufactures folding cartons, leaflets, labels and other value-added paperboard packaging products. Its primary end use markets are pharmaceutical and healthcare; international and branded products; tobacco products, and food and household. The Plastic Packaging segment designs and manufactures plastic containers, bottles, preforms and closures. Its primary end use markets are agrochemicals and other specialty chemicals, as well as food and beverages.
CHRK Cherokee International Corporation is a designer and manufacturer of power supplies for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The Company's power supply products are typically custom designed into mid- to high-end commercial applications in the computing and storage, wireless infrastructure, enterprise networking, medical and industrial markets. The Company specializes in providing alternating current /direct current (AC/DC) custom power supply solutions, and derived approximately 85% of its net sales, during the year ended December 31, 2003, from AC/DC custom products.
CHKE Cherokee Inc. is in the business of marketing and licensing the Cherokee and Sideout brands and related trademarks and other brands it owns or represents. The Company is a licensor of brand names and trademarks for apparel, footwear and accessories in the United States and overseas. Cherokee and its wholly owned subsidiary, SPELL C. LLC, owns several trademarks, including Cherokee, Sideout, Sideout Sport, Carole Little, CLII, Saint Tropez-West, Chorus Line, All that Jazz, Molly Malloy and others. The Sideout brand and related trademarks represent a young active lifestyle. The Carole Little and Chorus Line brands and trademarks are women's brands marketed in apparel, accessories and home products. During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company has 12 continuing license agreements.
CHKJ.OB Cherokee Banking Company serves as the holding company for Cherokee Bank, N.A. (the Bank). The Company was organized to facilitate the Bank's ability to serve its customers' banking needs. Cherokee Bank is a commercial bank that offers personal and business checking accounts, interest-bearing checking accounts, savings accounts and various types of certificates of deposit. The Bank also offers commercial loans, installment and other consumer loans, home equity loans, home equity lines of credit, construction loans and mortgage loans. In addition, the Bank provides such products and services as official bank checks and money orders, traveler's checks, Mastercard and Visa credit cards, MasterMoney debit cards, Internet banking and bill-pay, bank-by-mail, direct deposit and United States Savings Bonds. The Bank's primary service or market area is Cherokee County, Georgia, which includes the cities of Ball Ground, Canton, Holly Springs, Waleska, and Woodstock.
LNG Cheniere Energy, Inc. is engaged primarily in the development of liquefied natural gas (LNG)-receiving terminal business and related LNG business opportunities centered on the United States Gulf Coast. The LNG-receiving terminal business consists of receiving deliveries of LNG from LNG ships, processing such LNG to return it to a gaseous state and delivering it to pipelines for transportation to purchasers. As of December 31, 2003, Cheniere was in the preliminary stage of developing its LNG receiving terminals. The Company is also engaged in oil and gas exploration, development and exploitation activities in the Gulf of Mexico. Its oil and gas exploration and development activities are focused on two areas: the Cameron Project, extending roughly three to five miles on either side of the westernmost 28 miles of Louisiana coastline, and the Offshore Texas Project area, covering the shallow waters offshore Texas and the West Cameron area of offshore Louisiana.
CHFC Chemical Financial Corp. (Chemical) is a multi-bank holding company primarily engaged in commercial banking. Chemical's subsidiaries offer a range of commercial banking and fiduciary services. These include accepting deposits, business and personal checking accounts, savings and individual retirement accounts, time deposit instruments, electronically accessed banking products, residential and commercial real estate financing, commercial lending, consumer financing, debit cards, safe deposit box services, automated teller machines, access to insurance and investment products, money transfer services, corporate and personal trust services and other banking services. The principal markets for these financial services are the communities within Michigan in which Chemical's subsidiaries are located and the areas surrounding these communities. As of December 31, 2003, Chemical and its subsidiaries had 133 banking offices and two loan production offices across 33 counties.
CHE Chemed Corporation provides hospice services for patients with severe, life-limiting illnesses through its VITAS Healthcare Corporation subsidiary. Hospice care is focused on making the terminally ill patient's final days comfortable and pain-free. VITAS provides services to 8,900 terminally ill patients daily in 12 states. Chemed also operates in the residential and commercial repair-and-maintenance-service industry under the names Roto-Rooter and Service America. Roto-Rooter provides plumbing and drain service through Company-owned branches, independent contractors and franchisees in the United States and Canada. The Company also has licensed master franchisees in China/Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines and the United Kingdom. Operating in Florida and Arizona, Service America furnishes residential and commercial appliance and heating and air conditioning repair and maintenance services.
CHEF.OB Chefs International, Inc. operates 10 restaurants on a year-round basis, eight of which are freestanding seafood restaurants in New Jersey and Florida; one of which is a free-standing Mexican-theme restaurant located in Freehold, New Jersey, and one of which is a free-standing restaurant also located in Freehold, New Jersey, featuring an eclectic American food menu. Six of the seafood restaurants are operated under the name Jack Baker's Lobster Shanty, one under the name Baker's Wharfside and one under the name Mr. Manatee's Casual Grille. The Mexican-theme restaurant is operated under the name Escondido's Mexican Restaurant. The eclectic American food restaurant is operated under the name Moore's Tavern and Restaurant. In June 2003, as a result of continuing operating losses at its Monmouth Mall Mexican theme restaurant, the Company closed this restaurant.
CAKE The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated, incorporated in February 1992, operates casual dining restaurants under The Cheesecake Factory and Grand Lux Cafe marks in the United States. On March 4, 2004, the Company operated 75 upscale, full-service, casual dining restaurants under The Cheesecake Factory mark in 24 states and the District of Columbia. It also operated three upscale full-service casual dining restaurants under the Grand Lux Cafe mark in Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles, California, and Las Vegas, Nevada; and one self-service, limited-menu express foodservice operation under The Cheesecake Factory Express mark inside the DisneyQuest family entertainment center in Orlando, Florida. The Company also operated a bakery production facility in Calabasas Hills, California, which produces baked desserts and other products for the Company's restaurants and for other foodservice operators, retailers and distributors.
CKP Checkpoint Systems Inc. manufactures and markets integrated system solutions for retail security, labeling and merchandising. The Company provides technology-driven integrated supply chain solutions to brand, track and secure goods for retailers and consumer product manufacturers worldwide. Checkpoint Systems provides electronic article surveillance systems and tags using radio frequency and electromagnetic technology, security source tagging, branding tags and labels for apparel, barcode labeling systems, retail display systems and hand-held labeling systems. Its labeling systems and services are designed to consolidate labeling requirements for customers across many markets and industries. Applications for labeling systems include brand identification, automatic identification, retail security and pricing and promotional labels. The Company's products and services are grouped into three segments: security, labeling services and retail merchandising.
CKFR CheckFree Corporation is an electronic payment processing company. The Company provides financial electronic commerce products and services. The Company's operations are divided in to three divisions: Electronic Commerce, Investment Services and Software. Through the Electronic Commerce division, the Company enables consumers to receive and pay bills. Through the Investment Services division, the Company provides a range of portfolio management services to financial institutions, including broker dealers, money managers and investment advisors. Through the Software division, the Company delivers software, maintenance, support and professional services to large financial service providers and other companies across a range of industries. On June 22, 2004, the Company acquired American Payment Systems, Inc. (APS), a provider of walk-in bill payment services to consumers. As part of the Electronic Commerce division, APS enables to reach consumers who were not previously serviced.
CHKR Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries are in the business of operating and franchising Checkers and Rally's Hamburgers restaurants. The menu at Checkers and Rally's is a hamburger product line including the original quarter-pound Champ Burger, the signature Big Buford, all white-meat chicken sandwiches, all beef hotdogs, including chili-cheese dogs, Checkers Famous Fries or Rally's seasoned fries, Coca-Cola soft drinks and super thick shakes. In December 2003, there were 784 restaurant locations, consisting of 222 Company-owned restaurants and 562 franchisee-owned restaurants. Of the 784 locations, 379 are Rally's restaurants operating in 17 different states and 405 are Checkers restaurants operating in 20 different states, the District of Columbia and the West Bank.
CHKP Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. develops markets and supports Internet security and virtual private networking solutions for enterprise and high-end networks, service providers, small and medium businesses and consumers. The Company delivers solutions that enable secure, reliable and manageable communications over Internet protocol networks, including the Internet, Intranets and extranets. The technology of Check Point is aimed to provide enterprises with intelligent security solutions for their most critical information security challenges in three distinct areas: perimeter, Web and internal networks. The capabilities of Check Point products can be extended with the open platform for security, enabling integration with hardware appliances and third-party security software applications. The Company's products run on a range of hardware platforms, running primarily on operating systems, such as Nokia IPSO, Microsoft (Windows), Sun Microsystems (Solaris) and Linux.
FLI CHC Helicopter Corporation is a global commercial helicopter operator and, through the subsidiaries, has been providing helicopter transportation services. The Company operates in over 30 countries and in most of the major offshore oil and gas producing regions of the world. Its operations are concentrated in Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia. The services include helicopter repair and overhaul, helicopter transportation for search and rescue operations and emergency medical services, and ancillary helicopter services, including flight training. The Company provides helicopter transportation services to a broad base of major energy companies and independent and state-owned oil and gas companies to transport personnel and, to a lesser extent, parts and equipment, to, from and among offshore production platforms, drilling rigs and other facilities. On February 16, 2004, the Company acquired Schreiner, located in the Netherlands.
CHTT Chattem, Inc. markets and manufactures branded over-the-counter (OTC) healthcare products. Its portfolio of products includes topical analgesics such as Icy Hot, Aspercreme and Flexall; medicated skin care products such as Gold Bond medicated skin care powder, cream, lotion, first aid and foot care products; pHisoderm medicated acne treatment products and skin cleansers; Selsun Blue medicated dandruff shampoos and conditioner; dietary supplements, including Dexatrim, Garlique and New Phase, and Other OTC and toiletry products such as Pamprin and Premsyn PMS, menstrual analgesics; Herpecin-L, a lip care product; Benzodent, a dental analgesic cream, and toiletries such as Mudd, a line of deep cleanser masques; Bullfrog, a line of sunblocks; Ultraswim, a chlorine-removing shampoo, and Sun-In, a hair lightener. The Company's products are sold globally primarily through mass merchandisers, independent and chain drug stores, drug wholesalers and food stores.
CCF Chase Corporation (Chase) is a multi-divisional advanced manufacturing company providing industrial products to a wide variety of industries, including wire and cable, construction and electronics. The Company is organized into six major operating divisions: Coating and Laminating, HumiSeal, Royston, Tapecoat, NEQP and Chase EMS (known as RWA). All operating divisions are part of the Company's specialized manufacturing segment with the exception of Chase EMS, which is part of the Company's electronic manufacturing services segment.
CHC CharterMac is a statutory trust that focuses on providing capital solutions to developers and owners of multi-family rental housing throughout the United States, as well as investment products to institutional and retail investors. The Company and its subsidiaries are engaged in portfolio investing, which includes acquiring and holding federally tax-exempt multi-family housing revenue bonds issued by various state or local governments, agencies or authorities and other investments designed to produce federally tax-exempt income; mortgage banking, which includes originating and servicing mortgage loans on behalf of third parties such as the Federal National Mortgage Association, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, the Government National Mortgage Association and the Federal Housing Authority; credit enhancement, which includes guaranteeing tax credit equity returns and mortgage loans, and fund management, which includes sponsoring investment programs for a fee.
CHRT Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. is a semiconductor foundry that provides wafer fabrication services and technologies to semiconductor suppliers and systems companies. The Company focuses on providing foundry services to customers that serve high-growth, technologically advanced applications, in the communication, computer and consumer applications. For the prefabrication services, Chartered makes available to its customers, in conjunction with its partners, a number of electronic design automation design tools, design libraries, third party intellectual property and process technologies that have been validated for its manufacturing process. The Company also offers turnkey services, which include wafer fabrication, assembly and test. As of December 31, 2003, Chartered owned, or had an interest in, five fabrication facilities, all of which are located in Singapore.
CHFN Charter Financial Corporation serves as the holding company for CharterBank (Bank). CharterBank operates a main office, seven full-service branch offices and five loan production offices in Georgia and Alabama. The Bank is a community-oriented financial institution serving primarily consumer households and small businesses. It offers numerous loan products, including residential mortgage loans, commercial real estate loans, commercial loans, home equity loans, second mortgages, and other products. CharterBank also offers deposit products, including consumer and commercial checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, and Certificates of Deposit.
CHTR Charter Communications, Inc. is a broadband communications company operating in the United States, with approximately 12.4 million homes passed and approximately 6.54 million customers. Through its broadband network of coaxial and fiber-optic cable, the Company offers its customers traditional cable video programming, comprised of analog and digital (video service); high-speed cable Internet access (high-speed data service); advanced broadband cable services, such as video-on-demand (VOD), high-definition television service and interactive television, and, in some of its markets, telephone service (telephony).
CIDI.OB Chart Industries, Inc. and its subsidiaries manufactures standard and engineered equipment used for low-temperature and cryogenic applications. The Company has developed cryogenic systems and equipment that operate at low temperatures, sometimes approaching absolute zero. The majority of Chart's products, including vacuum-insulated containment vessels, heat exchangers, cold boxes and other cryogenic components are used throughout the liquid-gas supply chain for the purification, liquefaction, distribution, storage and use of industrial gases and hydrocarbons. The Company's operations are organized within three segments: Biomedical, Distribution and Storage and Energy and Chemicals. In July 2003, The Company and certain of its United States subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.
CHRS Charming Shoppes, Inc. operates retail specialty stores located throughout the continental United States that merchandise plus-size, misses and junior sportswear, dresses, coats and intimate apparel, as well as accessories and casual footwear. At January 31, 2004, the Company operates 2,227 stores in 48 states. The stores are primarily located in suburban areas and small towns. Approximately 70% of these stores are located in strip shopping centers, while the balance is located in community and regional malls. Charming focuses on plus-size women's apparel through its three distinct brands: Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug and Catherines Plus Sizes. During fiscal 2003, sale of plus-size apparel represented approximately 77% of its total net sales.
CHIC Charlotte Russe Holdings, Inc. is a mall-based specialty retailer of apparel and accessories targeting young women in their teens and twenties. The Company has two distinct store concepts: Charlotte Russe and Rampage. During the fiscal year ended September 25, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company operated a total of 360 stores throughout 39 states and Puerto Rico. Charlotte Russe stores offer fashionable, affordable apparel and accessories that have been tested and accepted by the marketplace. Rampage stores feature emerging fashion trends. Charlotte Russe and Rampage stores are located predominantly in high-visibility, center court mall locations in spaces that average approximately 7,000 square feet.
SCH The Charles Schwab Corporation engages, through its subsidiaries, in securities brokerage, banking and related financial services. It offers its services to individuals, institutional clients and broker-dealers through four segments: Individual Investor, Institutional Investor, Capital Markets and U.S. Trust. The Individual Investor segment includes the Company's retail brokerage and banking operations. The Institutional Investor segment provides custodial, trading and support services to investment advisors, serves company 401(k) plan sponsors and third-party administrators and supports company stock option plans. The Capital Markets segment provides trade execution services in NASDAQ, exchange-listed and other securities primarily to broker-dealers, including Schwab, and institutional clients. The U.S. Trust segment provides investment, wealth management, custody, fiduciary and private banking services to individual and institutional clients.
CRL Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (CRL) is a global provider of solutions that advance the drug discovery and development process. The Company's products and services are designed to enable its clients to bring drugs to market faster and more efficiently. Backed by its rigorous procedures and proven data collection, analysis and reporting capabilities, the Company's products and services are organized into three categories spanning every step of the drug development pipeline: Research Models and Services, Pre-Clinical Services and Clinical Services. CRL's customer base includes all of the major pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, governments and many hospitals and academic institutions.
CRAI Charles River Associates Incorporated (CRAI) is an economic and business consulting firm that applies advanced analytic techniques and in-depth industry knowledge to complex engagements for a range of clients. The Company works with businesses, law firms, accounting firms and governments to provide original, authoritative advice and a range of services around the world. It combines economic and financial analysis with expertise in litigation and regulatory support, business strategy and planning, market and demand forecasting, policy analysis and engineering and technology strategy. CRAI is often retained in high-stakes matters, such as multibillion-dollar mergers and acquisitions, new product introductions, major strategy and capital investment decisions and complex litigation, the outcomes of which often have significant implications or consequences for the parties involved.
CTHR Charles &amp; Colvard, Ltd. manufactures, markets and distributes Charles &amp; Colvard created moissanite jewels (also called moissanite or moissanite jewels) for sale in the worldwide jewelry market. Moissanite, also known by its chemical name, silicon carbide (SiC), is a rare, naturally occurring mineral found primarily in meteorites. Charles &amp; Colvard primarily sells near-colorless moissanite jewels cut in a variety of shapes, including round, princess, radiant, oval, marquise, heart, cushion, square brilliant, pear and trillion shapes in sizes ranging from two to 10 millimeter (approximately 0.03 to 3.1 carats). The Company distributes a limited quantity of green moissanite jewels to evaluate the market potential of colored moissanite. Charles &amp; Colvard may elect to offer, from time to time, additional cuts, sizes and colors of moissanite jewels. The Company's moissanite jewels are made from SiC crystals grown by Cree, Inc.
CHAR.OB Chaparral Resources, Inc. is an oil and gas exploration and production company. Through intermediate holding companies, Central Asian Petroleum (Guernsey), Ltd., a Guernsey company; Korporatsiya Mangistau Terra International Limited, a Kazakhstan company, and Central Asian Petroleum, Inc., a Delaware company, the Company owns a 60% interest in Closed Type JSC Karakudukmunay (KKM), a Kazakh joint stock company that holds a governmental license to develop the Karakuduk Oil Field. The other stockholder of KKM is KazMunayGaz JSC, the state-owned national petroleum and transportation company of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which owns a 40% interest. Since 1995, the business of Chaparral has been the development of the Karakuduk Field, a 16,900-acre oil field in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
CHNL Channell Commercial Corporation is a designer and manufacturer of telecommunications equipment supplied to broadband and telephone network providers worldwide. Major product lines include a line of thermoplastic and metal fabricated enclosures, advanced copper termination and connectorization products, fiber optic cable management systems and heat shrink products. The Company markets over 50 product families, with several thousand optional product configurations. The primary functions of its products, designed for the telecommunications industry, are cable routing and management, equipment access, heat dissipation and security.
CMPP Champps Entertainment, Inc. owns, operates and franchises restaurants under the name Champps Americana. The Company aims to offer an energetic, upscale casual dining experience with an extensive menu of items, set in a comfortable atmosphere that promotes social interaction among its guests. As of September 19, 2003, the Company owned and operated 44 restaurants in 16 states and had 12 restaurants operating under franchise or license agreements in five states. Its menu is comprised of approximately 86 items, primarily made from scratch on the premises. Champps typically includes a selection of 16 appetizers, 10 main plate salads, 28 high-end sandwiches and specialty burgers and 26 entree selections, along with an additional five to eight regularly changing specials. The Company's menu selection includes not only traditional American dishes such as Champp's meatloaf and frilled salmon, but also a variety of ethnic cuisine such as the Mongolian egg rolls and Wai Kan chicken.
CSBR.OB CHAMPIONS Sports, Inc. (CSI) is a licensee of one CHAMPIONS Sports Bar Restaurant and the supplier of sports memorabilia and consultant to Marriott International, Inc. (Marriott). The Company operates a restaurant in San Antonio, Texas, by the name of CHAMPIONS, which has a sports theme concept that combines casual dining, sports viewing with strategic marketing and promotions. In the fiscal year ended April 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company owns one CHAMPIONS Sports Bar Restaurant in San Antonio, Texas, that is licensed, royalty free from Marriott.
CPLY.OB ChampionLyte Holdings, Inc. has created a sugar, carbohydrate and calorie free isotonic sports beverage called ChampionLyte. The product is a sports drink that provides electrolytes for replacement after exercise, work or any sport, and without ingredients, such as sugar, caffeine, carbonation or preservatives. The product is delivered in five different flavor beverages. The Company reformulated the sports drink with the sweetener Splenda the trade name for Sucralose produced by McNeil Nutritionals, a Johnson &amp; Johnson company. It also switched flavor houses, reduced sweetener levels, added flavor and took out preservatives. ChampionLyte will continue to have no label warnings and is available in lemon-lime, orange, fruit punch, pink lemonade and blue raspberry flavors. ChampionLyte is available at a limited number of the nation's mass-market retail locations, as well as a limited number of governmental institutions.
CREB.OB Champion Parts, Inc. remanufactures and sells replacement fuel system components (carburetors and diesel fuel injection components) and air conditioning compressors for substantially all makes and models of domestic and foreign automobiles, trucks and marine applications. It also remanufactures and sells replacement constant velocity drive assemblies, electrical and mechanical products for certain passenger car, agricultural, marine and heavy-duty truck original equipment applications. During the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, the Company's net sales of parts for automobiles (including light duty trucks) accounted for 83%, 87% and 83%, respectively, of total net sales; sales of parts for heavy duty trucks, farm equipment and marine applications accounted for 17%, 13% and 17%, respectively, of total net sales.
CHMP Champion Industries, Inc. is engaged in the commercial printing and office products and furniture supply business in regional markets east of the Mississippi River. The Company sells a range of printing services, business forms, office products and office furniture. Its printing services range from the simplest to the most complex jobs, including business cards, books, tags, brochures, posters, four- to six-color process printing and multi-part, continuous and snap-out business forms. The Company is equipped to provide computerized composition, art design, paste-up, stripping, film assembly and color scanner separations. Included within the print segment are fulfillment services to customers, including warehousing, distribution and reporting services. It also offers complete bindery and letterpress services. In addition, Champion provides a range of office products and office furniture primarily in the budget and middle price ranges, as well as office design services.
CHB Champion Enterprises, Inc. primarily produces and sells manufactured homes. As of January 3, 2004, it operated 30 manufacturing facilities in 14 states in the United States and two provinces in western Canada, and 78 retail locations in 21 states. The Company produces a range of multi-section and single-section homes under various trade names and brand names and in a variety of floor plans and price ranges. A majority of the homes Champion builds are single-story, ranch-style homes, but the Company also builds one and one-half story and two-story homes, cape cod-style homes and multi-family units such as townhouses. The homes that Champion manufactures generally range in size from 400 to 4,000 square feet and typically include two to four bedrooms, a living room or family room, dining room, kitchen and two full bathrooms. During the fiscal year ended January 3, 2004, the Company produced and sold 25,483 homes, of which 84% were multi-section homes.
CCMS.OB Champion Communication Services, Inc. is a provider of high-powered community repeater dispatch services, operating within the 450-512 megahertz (MHz) and limited operations in the 800 MHz frequency band in the United States. The Company provides its customers with dispatch communication services, as well as options for vehicle tracking. Champion is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to operate its Trunked Systems serving customers who do not have their own licenses. The Company's customers consist primarily of business and government agencies located in both, metropolitan and rural geographic regions. Champion also formed Champion Wireless International B.V., Champion Vietnam Wireless B.V. and Champion Wireless Systems International N.V. to offer wireless local loop telephony systems to government agencies and private carriers providing telephone service to remote towns and villages with low-density populations in developing nations.
CHLN Chalone Wine Group, Ltd. produces, markets and sells super-premium, ultra-premium and luxury-priced white and red varietal table wines, primarily Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc. It owns and operates wineries in various counties of California and Washington State. The Company's wines are made from grapes grown at Moon Mountain Vineyard, Edna Valley Vineyard, Chalone Vineyard, Acacia Vineyard and Hewitt Vineyard in California, and the Canoe Ridge Vineyard in Washington State, as well as from purchased grapes. The majority of the Company's products are sold to wholesale distributors, restaurants and retail establishments throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. The wines are sold under the labels Provenance Vineyards, Chalone Vineyard, Edna Valley Vineyard, Dynamite Vineyards, Acacia, Canoe Ridge Vineyard, Jade Mountain, Sagelands Vineyard and Echelon Vineyards.
CCCFF.OB Chai-Na-Ta Corp. is engaged in growing, processing and marketing of North American ginseng. Ginseng, a woodland plant with species native to both China and North America, is prized for its root, which is an herb in oriental medicine. The Company farms in two areas, British Columbia and Ontario, Canada. As of December 31, 2003, Chai-Na-Ta has under lease 1,959 acres and owns 270-acres of farmland, of which 1,211 are under ginseng cultivation. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Chai-Na-Ta Farms Ltd. (CNT Farms), carries out the planting, growing and harvesting of the ginseng crops. CNT Farms also handles the storage of Chai-Na-Ta's root inventory and manages the distribution of inventory directly to local customers or to customers in the Far East through CNT Trading (Hong Kong) Limited. CNT Farms also carries out crop research through its plant staff. The Company's product is typically sold to ginseng brokers in Hong Kong and a limited number of smaller customers.
CTU Chad Therapeutics, Inc. develops, produces and markets respiratory care devices designed to improve the efficiency of oxygen delivery systems for both home and hospital treatment of patients who require supplemental oxygen. Recognizing the need for more efficient oxygen delivery systems, the Company has pursued, since its inception, the development and marketing of devices that are designed to conserve oxygen. The benefits of such improvements include cost savings for the home care provider, as well as increased mobility for ambulatory patients who require portable oxygen supplies. These devices extend the life of oxygen supplies and make possible more compact and longer lasting portable systems. The Company also offers ancillary products that support the principal oxygen conserving products. These include oxygen cylinders of various sizes and compositions, regulators, cannulas and connecting tubing and assorted carrying pouches.
CHRW C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. is a third-party logistics company providing freight transportation services and logistics solutions to companies in the industry. During the year ended December 31, 2003, it handled approximately 3.2 million shipments for over 16,000 customers. It operates through a network of 158 offices in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. It has global multimodal transportation and distribution networks to provide seamless logistics services worldwide. In 2003, it acquired the ongoing operations of Frank M. Viet GmbH Internationale Spedition, an international freight forwarding and third-party logistics company, and, in February 2004, it acquired Camway Transportation Corporation, a third-party logistics company that provides domestic truckload and intermodal transportation brokerage services.
CHG CH Energy Group, Inc. serves as the holding company for Central Hudson Gas &amp; Electric Corporation (Central Hudson) and Central Hudson Enterprises Corporation (CHEC). Central Hudson is a natural gas and electric corporation that purchases, sells at wholesale and distributes electricity and natural gas in New York State. CHEC is primarily engaged in providing fuel distribution and related services to retail and wholesale customers in Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire and New York. CHEC is also the holding company parent of Griffith Energy Services, Inc. and SCASCO, Inc., which are both energy services companies.
CGIH.OB CGI Holding Corporation (formerly known as North Star Petroleum, Inc.) operates one subsidiary, WebSourced, Inc. WebSourced, Inc., doing business as KeywordRanking.com and ProRanking.com, is primarily engaged in providing search engine enhancement services to Websites under the names KeywordRanking.com and ProRanking.com. KeywordRanking.com and ProRanking.com assist their clients' Websites in obtaining top 20 positioning on search engines worldwide. WebSourced provides integrated solutions for all aspects of online business. These compatible solutions include search engine optimization and marketing, Website design and maintenance, hosting, tracking software, targeted e-mail marketing and Web-based long distance.
GIB CGI Group Inc. (CGI) provides systems integration and consulting, as well as managed information technology (IT) and business process services to its clients. It integrates and customizes technologies and software applications to create IT systems. CGI also provides a full range of IT and management consulting services, including business transformation, IT strategic planning, business process engineering and systems architecture. CGI targets five economic sectors: Financial services, Government and Healthcare, Telecommunications and Utilities, Retail and Distribution, and Manufacturing in regions, such as Canada, the United States, and Europe and Asia Pacific. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company acquired Apex Consulting Group Inc., GDS &amp; Associates Systems Ltd. and American Management Systems, Inc.
CITZ CFS Bancorp, Inc. and subsidiaries is the holding company for Citizens Financial Services, FSB (the Bank) headquartered in Munster, Indiana. The Bank is a federal savings bank offering a range of financial services to customers who are located in northwest Indiana and the south and southwest Chicagoland area. The Bank is engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the general public and using such deposits to originate residential and commercial mortgage loans and other types of consumer and commercial loans. The Bank's subsidiaries are CFS Insurance Agency, Inc., CFS Investment Services, Inc., CFS Holdings, Ltd. and Suburban Mortgage Services, Inc.
CFCI CFC International, Inc. formulates, manufactures and sells functional coatings that provide performance under a range of operating conditions. The Company applies its coatings to rolls of plastic film from which its customers transfer the coatings, or with which they laminate the coatings to their products for protective and informative purposes. The Company produces five primary types of coated products: holographic products, printed products, pharmaceutical pigmented coatings, security products and simulated metal coatings. The Company's three largest customers during the year ended December 31, 2003, were Baxter Healthcare, Intel and Unifoil.
CFFI C&amp;F Financial Corporation is a bank holding company that owns all of the stocks of its sole subsidiary, Citizens and Farmers Bank (the Bank), which is an independent commercial bank chartered. The Company operates through the Bank's wholly owned subsidiaries in a decentralized manner in three principal business activities: retail banking, mortgage banking and consumer finance. C&amp;F Financial conducts brokerage activities through C&amp;F Investment Services, Inc., insurance activities through C&amp;F Insurance Services, Inc., title insurance services through C&amp;F Title Agency, Inc. and real estate loan settlement services through Hometown Settlement Services LLC.
CEVA CEVA, Inc. licenses to semiconductor companies and electronic equipment manufacturers (also known as original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)) digital signal processor (DSP) cores and related intellectual property (IP) solutions that power a variety of electronic devices, including power wireless devices, handheld devices, consumer electronics products, global positioning system (GPS) devices, consumer audio products and automotive applications. The Company offers a portfolio of programmable DSP cores. Around these cores, CEVA provides its Xpert Open Framework, the essential system-on-chip (SoC) software and hardware infrastructure, as well as its Xpert Applications, which are a range of DSP-centric applications from GPS to voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) to digital multimedia. The Company's Xpert Integration technical services group assists licensees with their development and deployment needs. In December 2003, the Company changed its name from ParthusCeva, Inc. to CEVA, Inc.
ENV CET Services, Inc. is engaged in property development in conjunction with municipal authorities. The Company's two segments are water/wastewater construction and residential housing development and construction. During the year ended December 31, 2003, it has restructured its business activity and is focuses on property development in urban areas. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Community Builders, Inc., a Colorado corporation. In January 2004, CET entered into two Buy and Sell Real Estate agreements, for the acquisition of property for development. One agreement involves a vacant 10-acre tract in Jefferson County, Colorado, with a purchase price of $1.5 million. The other is a residential property site in Westminster, Colorado, with a purchase price of $258,000 and involved in a future development project with the city.
CERS Cerus Corporation is engaged in the development of medical systems, therapeutics and vaccines. Its programs are focused on systems to enhance the safety of blood products used for transfusion. The INTERCEPT Blood System is designed to target and inactivate blood-borne pathogens, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis B and C, as well as harmful white blood cells, while leaving intact the therapeutic properties of the blood components. The INTERCEPT Blood System inactivates an array of pathogens and has the potential to reduce the risk of transmission of pathogens. The Company's product development programs include Platelet Program, Plasma Program, Red Blood Cell Program and Vaccine Platform Program.
CRTN.OB Certron Corporation was engaged in the distribution of magnetic media products, primarily blank audio and videocassettes during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2003 (fiscal 2003). It also distributed magnetic media accessories for computers. All videotape and most audiotape and related plastics were procured by the Company primarily from offshore sources. Due to continuing intense price competition and technological changes in the marketplace for its products, Certron lost its remaining significant customers and disposed of or wrote off its remaining inventory during fiscal 2003. As a result of these occurrences, the Company concluded that its audio and videotape businesses were no longer viable and some of its product lines were obsolete and it placed its emphasis on attempting to find a buyer for its business.
CEY Certegy Inc. provides credit and debit card processing and check risk management services to financial institutions and merchants in the United States and internationally. The Company's business consists of two segments, Card Services and Check Services. Card Services provides card issuer services in the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Thailand and the Dominican Republic. Additionally, Card Services provides merchant processing and e-banking services in the United States and card issuer software, support and consulting services in numerous countries. In 2003, Certegy serviced over 38 million accounts worldwide. Check Services provides check risk management services and related processing services in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. In 2003, Certegy authorized approximately $35.2 billion of check transactions worldwide.
CERN Cerner Corporation is supplier of healthcare information technology. The Company's solutions give end users secure access to clinical, administrative and financial data in real time. Consumers retrieve appropriate care information and educational resources via the Internet. It implements these solutions as stand-alone, combined or enterprise-wide systems. Its solutions can be managed by its clients or via an application outsourcing/hosting model. The solutions are designed and developed using the Cerner Millennium architecture, which is a technology infrastructure that combines clinical, financial and management information solutions. The Company provides access to an individual's electronic medical record at the point of care and organizes information for the specific needs of the physician, nurse, laboratory technician, pharmacist or other care provider, as well as for front and back office professionals. In January 2005, the Company purchased VitalWorks, Inc.'s medical division.
CEN Ceridian Corporation is an information services company principally in the human resource, transportation and retail markets. The Company's human resource solutions business enables customers to outsource employment processes, including recruitment and applicant screening; payroll, tax filing, human resource information systems, employee self-service, time and labor management, benefits administration, employee assistance and work-life programs, and post-employment Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and retirement plan administration. Ceridian has HRS operations in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Its Comdata business provides transaction processing, financial services and regulatory compliance services primarily to the transportation industry. Comdata's products and services include payment processing and the issuance of credit, debt and stored value cards.
CERG Ceres Group, Inc., through its insurance subsidiaries, provides an array of health and life insurance products through two primary business segments. The Company's Senior segment includes senior health, life and annuity products for Americans age 55 and over. The Medical segment includes catastrophic and major medical health insurance for individuals, families, association members and small to mid-size businesses. To help control medical costs, the Company also provides medical cost management services to its insureds. The Company's nationwide distribution channels include independent agents and its electronic distribution platform.
CERB.OB CERBCO, Inc. (CERBCO) is a parent holding company with a controlling interest, through its wholly owned subsidiary, CERBERONICS, Inc. (CERBERONICS), in INEI Corporation (INEI). CERBERONICS, which had been providing engineering, analytical and technical support services to the United States Government, discontinued operations in 1991, but continues as a holding company subsidiary. Historically, substantially all of CERBCO's operations were attributable to Insituform East, Incorporated (Insituform East), known as INEI since September 5, 2003. Insituform East primarily rehabilitated and repaired underground sewers and other pipelines, which business constituted the Company's only industry segment. INEI was dissolved as of June 30, 2004. On September 24, 2003, CERBCO was also dissolved.
CPSX.OB Ceramics Process Systems Corporation (CPS), incorporated in 1984, serves the wireless communications infrastructure market, high-performance microprocessor market, motor controller market and other microelectronic markets by developing, manufacturing and marketing metal-matrix composite components to house, interconnect and thermally manage microelectronic devices. The Company's products are in the form of housings, packages, lids, substrates, thermal planes, heat spreaders or baseplates and are used in applications where thermal management and/or weight are important. Its products are manufactured by processes that CPS has developed including the Quickset Injection Molding Process and the QuickCast Pressure Infiltration Process. The Company has sold licenses to portions of its technology to partners such as Hitachi Metals Ltd.
CRNT Ceragon Networks Ltd. designs, develops, manufactures and sells wireless network equipment for cellular operators, fixed operators and private networks and enterprises. The Company's products operate over most of the six to 38 GHz high-frequency bands, which are licensed by various countries in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region for use by the end customer. The Company targets fixed and mobile communications service providers and private networks and enterprises that require connectivity. Its products have been commercially deployed in more than 50 countries by communications service providers, including local telephone companies and cellular telephone service operators and large and medium corporate organizations. Cellular operators use Ceragon Networks' products to connect their cell sites or switch locations and to provide backhaul.
CRDN Ceradyne, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets advanced technical ceramic products and components for defense, industrial, automotive/diesel and commercial applications. The Company's primary products include lightweight ceramic armor for soldiers and military helicopters; aesthetic ceramic orthodontic brackets; durable, reduced friction, ceramic diesel engine components; ceramic-impregnated dispenser cathodes for microwave tubes, lasers and cathode ray tubes, and ceramic industrial components for erosion and corrosion resistant applications. The Company has also developed the following products: missile radomes (nose cones) for the defense industry; ceramic crucibles used for melting silicon in the photovoltaic solar cell manufacturing process; corrosion resistant ceramic components sold to semiconductor equipment manufacturers, and lightweight ceramic armor for incorporation into civilian and military vehicles.
CPHD Cepheid develops, manufactures and markets fully integrated systems that perform genetic analysis including DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) or RNA (Ribonucleic Acid) analysis, principally for the clinical genetic assessment, life sciences and biothreat markets. The Company has developed complete testing systems, including instrumentation and test cartridges that integrate automated sample preparation, amplification and detection. Cepheids's systems enable rapid, sophisticated genetic testing of organisms by automating otherwise complex manual laboratory procedures. These systems are designed to handle a variety of different biological samples in a range of environments. Its systems offer a range of benefits, including portability and ease of use, flexible modular platform, multiple target analysis and enhanced sensitivity. Cepheid's two principal product platforms are the Smart Cycler and GeneXpert systems.
CEPH Cephalon, Inc. is an international biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and marketing of products to treat sleep disorders, neurological disorders, cancer and pain. In addition to conducting an active research and development program, it markets three products in the United States and numerous products in various countries throughout Europe. The Company operates manufacturing facilities in France for the production of modafinil, which is the active drug substance in PROVIGIL (modafinil) tablets [C-IV], and Salt Lake City, Utah, for the production of ACTIQ (oral transmucosal fentanyl citrate) [C-II] for worldwide distribution and sale. The Company's three biggest products in terms of product sales, PROVIGIL, ACTIQ and GABITRIL (tiagabine hydrochloride), accounted for approximately 86% of its worldwide net sales for 2003. In August 2004, the Company acquired Cima Labs, Inc., a company that develops and manufactures prescription and over-the-counter products.
CVO Cenveo Inc., formerly Mail-Well, Inc., is engaged in commercial printing, the printing and manufacturing of envelopes and the printing and manufacturing of business forms and labels. It also provides value-added services to meet the visual communications needs of customers. In October 2003, the Company reorganized into two business segments, commercial and resale. The commercial segment consists of commercial printing facilities that specialize in printing of annual reports, car brochures, brand marketing collateral, catalogs, maps and guidebooks, calendars, financial communications and facilities that produce customized envelopes for billing and remittance and direct mail advertising. The resale segment includes facilities that produce specialty packaging, customized and stock labels, envelopes and printed business documents, which are sold to distributors and value-added resellers of office products.
ICU Cenuco, Inc. develops wireless and Internet-based software solutions for transmitting live streaming video and other targeted content directly onto cellular phones and remote computers. The Company's technology has applications in a variety of markets, including security, marketing and advertising, education and training, government and retail. Cenuco's wireless data technology is primarily focused on wireless video monitoring solutions that allow users to view real time, streaming video of security cameras or video content feeds at their home or place of business from anywhere they receive a cellular connection, regardless of the cellular carrier, user's location or type of cellular phone or wireless device. The Company's products address the security, surveillance and homeland security markets, and some of its monitoring products have been listed on the Federal General Services Administration (GSA) schedule.
CTL CenturyTel, Inc. is an integrated communications company engaged primarily in providing local exchange telephone services in the continental United States. At December 31, 2003, the Company's local exchange telephone subsidiaries operated approximately 2.4 million telephone access lines, primarily in rural, suburban and small urban areas in 22 states, with over 70% of these lines located in Wisconsin, Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas and Washington. For the year ended December 31, 2003, local exchange telephone operations provided 87% of the consolidated revenues from continuing operations of CenturyTel and its subsidiaries. The Company also provides long distance, Internet access, fiber transport, competitive local exchange carrier, security monitoring, and other communications and business information services in certain local and regional markets. Other operations accounted for 13% of its consolidated revenues from continuing operations during 2003.
CRLTS Century Realty Trust is in the principal business of the ownership of income-producing real properties, which consist of 15 apartment complexes, two restaurant properties, three commercial properties and various parcels of undeveloped land which are situated adjacent to rental properties owned by the Trust. In 1997, the Trust expanded its investment options to include the exclusive control of real estate through the use of operating partnerships. Five of the Trust's 15 apartment properties are owned by operating partnerships. Other than long-term leases on the restaurant properties, the Trust's rental income is derived from short-term leases of units in its various buildings. The residential properties are managed under agreements with independent property management firms.
CNTY Century Casinos, Inc., (CCI) is an international gaming company that owns and manages casino operations in the United States, South Africa, the Czech Republic and international waters through its subsidiaries. The wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company include Century Casinos Management, Inc., Century Casinos Nevada, Inc., Century Resorts Limited (CRL), Century Management u. Beteiligungs GmbH (CMB) and WMCK Venture Corp. The wholly owned subsidiaries of WMCK include WMCK-Acquisition Corp. and Century Casinos Cripple Creek, Inc. Century Casinos Cripple Creek, Inc. and Century Casinos Africa (Pty) Ltd, is a 96.5% owned subsidiary of CCI, it also owns 100% of Century Casinos Caledon (Pty) Ltd., 55% of Century Casinos West Rand (Pty) Ltd. and 50% of Rhino Resort Ltd. It serves as a holding company, which provides corporate administrative and governance services to its subsidiaries.
CBIZ Century Business Services, Inc. (CBIZ) is a diversified services company, which, acting through its subsidiaries, provides professional outsourced business services to businesses, as well as individuals, governmental entities and not-for-profit enterprises throughout the United States and Toronto, Canada. CBIZ delivers integrated services through its three practice groups: Accounting, Tax and Advisory; Benefits and Insurance, and National Practices. CBIZ provides services through 62 business units with more than 160 offices located in 34 states, Washington D.C., and Toronto, Canada.
CNBKA Century Bancorp, Inc. is a holding company with one banking subsidiary, Century Bank and Trust Company. The Company had total assets of approximately $1.7 billion on December 31, 2003. The Company operates 21 banking offices in 16 cities and towns in Massachusetts ranging from Braintree, south of Boston, to Peabody, north of Boston. The Company offers a range of services to commercial enterprises, state and local governments and agencies and individuals. The Company makes commercial loans, real estate and construction loans and consumer loans, and accepts savings, time and demand deposits. The Company also offers its corporate customers automated lock box collection services, cash management services and account reconciliation services, and actively promotes the marketing of these services to the municipal market. The Company provides service securities brokerage services through its subsidiary, Century Financial Services, Inc., in conjunction with Commonwealth Equity Services, Inc.
CENX Century Aluminum Company is a holding company, whose principal subsidiaries are Century Aluminum of West Virginia, Inc., Berkeley Aluminum, Inc. and Century Aluminum of Kentucky, LLC. Century of West Virginia operates a primary aluminum reduction facility in Ravenswood, West Virginia. Berkeley holds a 49.7% interest in a partnership, which operates a primary aluminum reduction facility in Mt. Holly, South Carolina, and a 49.7% undivided interest in the property, plant and equipment comprising the Mt. Holly facility. The remaining interest in the partnership and the remaining undivided interest in the Mt. Holly facility are owned by Alumax of South Carolina, Inc., a subsidiary of Alcoa. Century Aluminum of Kentucky operates the Hawesville facility, located on the Ohio River near Hawesville, Kentucky. Through ownership interests in the Mt. Holly, Ravenswood and Hawesville facilities, the Company has an annual production capacity of approximately 1.2 billion pounds of primary aluminum.
CFF Centrue Financial Corporation is a financial holding company. The Company's primary business activity is acting as the holding company for Centrue Bank (the Bank), a state- chartered commercial bank. As a community-oriented financial institution, the Bank operates 18 retail banking offices and provides comprehensive financial services to families and local businesses residing in Kankakee, Champaign, Clinton, Grundy, Iroquois, Livingston and St. Clair counties, and portions of Will County in Illinois. The Bank is principally engaged in originating mortgage, commercial real estate, consumer, multi-family, commercial business and construction loans, and attracting deposits from the general public. It also offers a Visa/MasterCard program, debit card services and online banking and bill payment services. The Bank has one subsidiary, Centrue Service Corp., which engages in the business of providing securities brokerage services and insurance and annuity products to its customers.
CWIR.OB Central Wireless, Inc. (Central) is a wireless communications infrastructure company. Its primary business is the development and construction of towers for the transmission of broadband, cellular and other wireless communications signals. It also provides related services, including site acquisition, zoning and engineering services, and antennae and line installation. The Company provides various consulting services to its customers, which include lease negotiation, assistance in regulatory matters and tower design. It functions as the general contractor and hire construction subcontractors on an as-needed basis to build towers to customer's specifications. The Company's potential customers consist primarily of broadband and other wireless telecommunications carriers, and individuals or businesses desiring to lease or own telecommunications towers.
CVBK Central Virginia Bankshares, Inc. owns Central Virginia Bank (the Bank). The Bank offers all traditional loan and deposit banking services, as well as newer services, such as Internet banking, telephone banking, debit cards and other ancillary services, such as the sales of non-deposit investment products, through a partnership with UVEST. Central Virginia Bank also offers other related services, such as automated teller machines, travelers' checks, safe deposit boxes, deposit transfer, notary public, escrow, drive-in facilities and other customary banking services. It provides trust services to its customers through an affiliation with The Trust Company of Virginia. The Bank's primary service areas are Powhatan and Cumberland counties, eastern Goochland County and western Chesterfield and western Henrico counties.
CV Central Vermont Public Service Corporation (Cenral Vermont), incorporated in 1929, is engaged in the purchase, production, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity. The Company has various wholly and partially owned subsidiaries. In addition, the Company supplies electricity to one municipal utility, one rural cooperative and one private utility. In addition, the Company supplies electricity to one municipal utility, one rural cooperative and one private utility. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Connecticut Valley Electric Company Inc. (Connecticut Valley), distributed and sold electricity in parts of New Hampshire bordering the Connecticut River. It served 10,507 customers in 13 communities in New Hampshire. The other wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company include are C.V. Realty, Inc., Central Vermont Public Service Corporation - East Barnet Hydroelectric, Inc., and Custom Investment Corporation.
CVCY Central Valley Community Bancorp is the holding company for its wholly owned subsidiary, Central Valley Community Bank, formerly known as Clovis Community Bank (the Bank). The Company's principal business is to provide, through its banking subsidiary, financial services in its primary market area in California. It serves Fresno County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area through the Bank. The Bank operates seven full-service banking offices in Clovis, Fresno, Kerman, Sacramento and Prather, California. The Bank established a Real Estate Division in 1995, in a freestanding facility in downtown Clovis. All real estate related transactions are conducted and processed through the Real Estate Division, including interim construction loans for single-family residences and commercial buildings. All types of permanent single-family residential loans are also offered. In December 2004, Central Valley Community Bancorp. acquired Bank of Madera County.
CET Central Securities Corporation is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Company's investment approach continues to be based on the long-term view. Central Securities is looking for companies with good economic fundamentals and the capacity for growth. The Company's practice in recent years has been to keep about one-half of its assets in a small number of companies, with the remainder in a general market portfolio. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Central Securities' 10 largest investments were The Plymouth Rock Company, Inc., Intel Corporation, Capital One Financial Corporation, American Management Systems, Inc., Analog Devices, Inc., Brady Corporation, Murphy Oil Corporation, The Bank of New York Company, Inc., Flextronics International Ltd. and Convergys Corporation. The 10 largest holdings accounted for 54% of its assets.
CPC Central Parking Corporation is a provider of parking and related services. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Central Parking operated 3,433 parking facilities containing 1,529,302 spaces in 38 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Spain, Germany, Poland, Greece and Switzerland. The Company operates or manages multi-level parking facilities and surface lots. It also provides ancillary services, including parking consulting, shuttle bus, valet, parking meter collection, and enforcement and billing services. Central Parking operates parking facilities under three general types of arrangements: management contracts, leases and fee ownership.
CPF Central Pacific Financial Corp. serves as a holding company for its subsidiary, Central Pacific Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a commercial bank that has 24 banking offices and 78 automated teller machines located throughout the State of Hawaii. The main offices are in Honolulu, and there are 18 other branches on the island of Oahu. In addition, the Bank operates two branches on the island of Maui, one branch on the island of Kauai and two branches on the island of Hawaii. Through its network of banking offices, the Bank emphasizes personalized services and offers a range of banking services and products to small and medium-sized businesses, professionals and individuals in Hawaii. The Bank engages in a range of lending activities including the granting of commercial, consumer and real estate loans. The Bank also offers a variety of deposit instruments, including personal and business checking and savings accounts, money market accounts and time certificates of deposit.
CENT Central Garden &amp; Pet Company produces and markets products for the pet, lawn and garden supplies markets. Its pet products include pet bird and small-animal food, aquarium products, flea, tick, mosquito and other pest control products, edible bones, cages, carriers, pet books and other dog, cat, reptile and small-animal products. These products are sold under brand names, including Kaytee, All-Glass Aquarium, Oceanic, Kent Marine, Energy Savers Unlimited, Zodiac, Pre-Strike, Altosid, Nylabone, TFH, Four Paws and Interpet. The lawn and garden products include grass seed, wild bird food, weed and insect control products, decorative outdoor patio products, Christmas products and lighting and ant control products. These products are sold under brand names, including Pennington, Rebel, Lofts, Norcal Pottery, New England Pottery, GKI/Bethlehem Lighting, Lilly Miller, Matthews Four Seasons, AMDRO and Grant's. In August 2004, the Company acquired Energy Savers Unlimited, Inc.
CEF Central Fund of Canada Limited is a specialized holding company, the assets of which are held through its wholly owned subsidiaries, primarily as gold and silver bullion. The Company was originally incorporated as a specialized investment holding company. Following its incorporation, Central Fund invested mainly in shares and other securities of Canadian issuers, primarily with a view toward capital appreciation. During 1983, Central Fund changed its character to that of a specialized holding company. Its objective is to provide an investment alternative for investors interested in holding marketable gold- and silver-related investments. Its policy is to invest primarily in long-term holdings of gold and silver bullion, and not to actively speculate with regard to short-term changes in gold and silver prices. Central Fund's investment policies require it to hold at least 90% of its net assets in gold and silver bullion, primarily in bar form.
CENF Central Freight Lines, Inc. is a regional less-than-truckload (LTL) trucking company that has operations in the Southwest, Northwest, West Coast and Midwest regions of the United States of America. The Company also offers inter-regional service between its operating regions. It maintains alliances with other similar companies to complete transportation of shipments outside of its operating territory. The Company offers regional LTL services to customers in its eight-state Southwest region, its seven-state Midwest region, its expanded Northwest region (three states) and two additional contiguous states.
GCFC Central Federal Corporation serves as the holding company for Central Federal Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a community-oriented savings institution that operates through its offices in Fairlawn, Ohio, Columbiana County, Ohio, Jefferson County, Ohio, and Columbus, Ohio. Its principal business consists of attracting deposits from the general public in its primary market area and investing those deposits, and other funds generated from operations and from borrowings, primarily in conventional mortgage loans secured by single-family residences. The Bank also invests in consumer loans, primarily indirect automobile loans and loans originated directly or on its behalf by automobile dealers at the time of sale. To a lesser extent, the Bank invests in home equity, multi-family, construction and land loans. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company formed Central Federal Capital Trust I as a wholly owned subsidiary to raise additional funding.
CETV Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (CETV) is a Bermuda company that, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, invests in, develops and operates national and regional commercial television stations and networks in Central and Eastern Europe. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had operations in Romania, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Ukraine. The assets of CETV are held through a series of Dutch and Netherlands Antilles holding companies. In each market, the Company has interests both in license companies and in operating companies. License companies have been authorized by the relevant local regulatory authority to engage in television broadcasting in accordance with the terms of a particular license. Revenues are generated primarily through operating companies, which acquire programming for broadcast by the corresponding license holding company and have agreements to sell advertising time on behalf of the license company to third parties.
CEDC Central European Distribution Corporation (CEDC) is an importer and distributor of alcoholic beverages in Poland. CEDC distributes approximately 850 brands in five categories: beer, spirits, wine, soft drinks and cigars. The Company is the importer and distributor in Poland for 15 international beers, including Guinness, Corona, Foster's, Beck's Pilsner, Bitburger and Budweiser Budvar. It is also a distributor of locally produced beers. CEDC distributes approximately 300 spirit products, including international brands of scotch, single malt and other whiskeys, rums, bourbons, Polish vodkas, tequilas, gins, brandy, cognacs, vermouths and specialty liquors. In addition, the Company is the importer and distributor in Poland for approximately 380 wine brands. In addition to its distribution agreements with various alcoholic beverage suppliers, CEDC is the importer in Poland for Dunhill Cigars, General Cigar products and Evian water.
CCBN Central Coast Bancorp is the holding company for Community Bank of Central California (the Bank), the former Bank of Salinas. The Bank serves individuals, merchants, small and medium-sized businesses, professionals, agribusiness enterprises and wage earners located in the California Central Coast area. The Bank concentrates its lending activities in four principal areas: commercial loans (including agricultural loans); consumer loans; real estate construction loans (both commercial and personal), and real estate-other loans. As of December 31, 2003, these four categories accounted for approximately 30%, 2%, 6% and 62% of the Bank's loan portfolio, respectively. The Bank operates through its main office in Salinas and through 12 branch offices located in Castroville, Gilroy, Gonzales, Hollister, King City, Marina, Monterey (two), Salinas (two), Seaside and Watsonville, California.
CEBK Central Bancorp, Inc. was organized by Central Co-operative Bank (Central or the Bank) to acquire all of the capital stock of the Bank as part of its reorganization into the holding company form of ownership. The primary business of the Bank is to generate funds in the form of deposits and use the funds to make mortgage loans for the construction, purchase and refinancing of residential properties, and to make loans on commercial real estate in its market area. Central also makes a limited amount of consumer loans, including secured and unsecured personal loans, and commercial and industrial loans. It also maintains an investment portfolio of various types of debt securities, including corporate bonds and mortgage-backed securities, and a limited amount of equity securities.
CTRA Centra Software, Inc. (Centra) provides application software, services and solutions for online business communications and collaboration. Its products and services augment operational business processes to enable real-time, group-oriented human interaction over corporate networks and the Internet. The Company's products are designed to help customers accelerate product introductions, deliver hands-on deployment of software applications, effect change-management initiatives, expand training and certification to employees and external channel partners, facilitate customer interaction and online selling and support project management activities. In addition, Centra offers consulting, education and support services that enable its customers to implement the Company's products and solutions throughout their organizations.
CTLM Centillium Communications, Inc. provides semiconductor products that enable broadband communications, a high-speed networking of data, voice and video signals, for consumers and business enterprises. The Company's product portfolio includes silicon integrated circuits and associated software that are used in communications equipment for several broadband markets, including digital subscriber line (DSL) and Voice over Packet (VoP) applications. It is also developing a family of optical access products initially targeting opportunities to build optical infrastructure in the Fiber-To-The-Premises (FTTP) market, which the Company will introduce in 2004. Its core markets include DSL Central Office (CO) infrastructure products for use in the service provider's central office, DSL Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) products for use in a DSL subscriber's home or business and VoP products for use in carrier- and enterprise-class voice gateways and switches.
CTX Centex Corporation is a residential construction company that has evolved into a multi-industry company. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company's subsidiaries operated in four business segments: Home Building, Financial Services, Construction Services and Investment Real Estate. Centex' homebuliding subsidiary, Centex Homes, purchases and develops land or lots, and constructs and sells single-family homes, townhomes and low-rise condominiums. The Financial Services operations are engaged in the residential mortgage lending business, as well as other financial services related to the residential mortgage market. The Construction Services segment provides a range of commercial contracting services, including construction management, general contracting, design-build and preconstruction services. Investment Real Estate's operations involve the development and sale of land for industrial, office, multi-family, retail, residential and mixed-use projects.
CSFL CenterState Banks of Florida, Inc. (CenterState) is a registered bank holding company with First National Bank of Osceola County (First National/Osceola), First National Bank of Polk County (First National/Polk), Community National Bank of Pasco County (Community National Bank) and CenterState Bank of Florida (CenterState Bank) as separate wholly owned subsidiaries. CenterState provides a range of consumer and commercial banking services to individuals, businesses and industries. The basic services offered by the Company include demand interest-bearing and noninterest-bearing accounts, money market deposit accounts, time deposits, safe deposit services, cash management, direct deposits, notary services, money orders, night depository, traveler's checks, cashier's checks, domestic collections, savings bonds, bank drafts, automated teller services, drive-in tellers, and banking by mail.
CNT CenterPoint Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust that owns and operates primarily warehouse and other industrial properties in the metropolitan Chicago, Illinois area. CenterPoint seeks to create share value through customer-driven management, investment, development, and redevelopment of warehouse, distribution, light manufacturing, airfreight and rail-related facilities. The Company also develops multi-facility industrial parks that are strategically located near highways, airports and railroads. At December 31, 2003, the Company's investment portfolio of operating warehouse and other industrial properties consisted of 187 properties, totaling approximately 34.4 million square feet, with a diverse base of approximately 284 tenants engaged in a variety of businesses. At December 31, 2003, CenterPoint had accumulated control of a large land portfolio exceeding 3000 acres upon which 50.1 million square feet of warehouse and other industrial properties can be developed.
CNP CenterPoint Energy, Inc. is a public utility holding company, whose operating subsidiaries own and operate electric generation plants, electric transmission and distribution facilities, natural gas distribution facilities and natural gas pipelines. The Company's subsidiaries are CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC (CenterPoint Houston), which owns and operates the Company's electric transmission and distribution business in the Texas Gulf Coast area, and CenterPoint Energy Resources Corp. (CERC), which owns and operates the Company's local gas distribution companies, gas gathering systems and interstate pipelines. The Company operates in five segments: electric transmission and distribution, electric generation, natural gas distribution, pipelines and gathering and other operations. In December 2004, Texas Genco Holdings, Inc. mergerd with a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.
CVP Centerplate Inc., formerly Volume Services America Holdings, Inc. is a provider of food and beverage concessions, catering and merchandise services in sports facilities, convention centers and other entertainment facilities. The Company operates throughout the United States and in Canada. It has a diversified client base, serving 129 facilities, as of fiscal year ended December 30, 2003 (fiscal 2003), and the average length of its client relationships is over 15 years. The Company's contracts are long-term and exclusive. It has provided services to several of the highest profile sporting and other events, including 24 World Series events; three United States Presidential Inaugural Balls; nine Super Bowls, including the 2003 Super Bowl at Qualcomm Stadium; eight NCAA Final Four Men's Basketball Tournaments, and 14 World Cup Soccer games. In February 2003, the Company announced that it changed the trade name for its operating businesses from Volume Services America to Centerplate.
CLFC Center Financial Corporation is a bank holding company that owns all of the outstanding shares of Center Bank. Center Bank is a community bank providing financial services to small to medium-sized business owners, mostly in Southern California. It specializes in commercial loans, which are mostly secured by real property, to multi-ethnic and small business customers. In addition, the Bank is a Preferred Lender of small business administration (SBA) loans and provides trade finance loans and other international banking products. Center Bank's primary market is the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, including Orange, San Bernardino and San Diego counties, primarily focused in areas with high-concentrations of Korean-Americans. The Company's only other direct subsidiary is Center Capital Trust I, a statutory business trust that was formed in December 2003. In April 2004, the Bank acquired the branch operations of Korea Exchange Bank in Chicago, Illinois.
CNBC Center Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for the Union Center National Bank (the Bank). The Bank operates five offices in New Jersey. The Bank is a commercial bank offering a range of individual and commercial services. The Company also has statutory business trusts, which exist for the exclusive purpose of issuing Trust securities, representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust; investing the gross proceeds of the Trust securities in junior subordinated deferrable interest debentures (subordinated debentures) of the Corporation, and engaging in other related activities. The Bank has two investment subsidiaries to hold portions of its securities portfolio, and in January of 2003, established an insurance subsidiary for the sale of insurance and annuity products. The Bank offers a range of lending, depository and related financial services, including trust services, to commercial, industrial and governmental customers.
CHLE Centennial Specialty Foods Corporation is the parent company of Stokes Canning Company (SCC). The Company markets, sells and distributes branded ethnic southwestern sauces and food products in the expanding Mexican food segment of the domestic food industry. Its products are sold under the Stokes and Ellis labels, two southwestern brands. The Company offers five distinct green chile sauces and three distinct chili con carne or chili products under the Stokes brand. Both its sauces and chili products come in varieties with pork, chicken and beef. Its Ellis products include four varieties of refried beans, three distinct tamale products, three distinct chili products, two bean products and the Company's Ellis burrito sauce.
CYCL Centennial Communications Corp. is a regional wireless and broadband telecommunications service provider serving over one million customers in markets covering over 17.3 million Net Pops in the United States and the neighboring Caribbean. In the United States, the Company is a regional wireless service provider in small cities and rural areas in two geographic clusters covering parts of six states. In its Puerto Rico-based Caribbean service area, which also includes operations in the Dominican Republic and the United States Virgin Islands, Centennial is a facilities-based, fully integrated communications service provider offering both wireless, and, in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, broadband services to business and residential customers. As of May 31, 2004, the Company had approximately 1,051,200 wireless subscribers, 264,100 access line equivalents and 73,400 cable subscribers. In December 2004, the Company sold its subsidiary, Centennial Puerto Rico Cable TV Corp.
CNC Centene Corporation is a multi-line managed care organization that provides Medicaid and related programs to organizations and individuals through government subsidized programs, including Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and the State Children's Health Insurance Program. In addition, Centene provides specialty services, including behavioral health, nurse triage and pharmacy compliance to its own and other healthcare organizations. The Company has health plans in Wisconsin, Texas, Indiana, New Jersey and Ohio, and provides specialty services in Texas, California, Arizona, Colorado, Wisconsin and Indiana. Its disease management, educational and other initiatives are designed to help members utilize the healthcare system to ensure they receive appropriate, medically necessary services and effective management of routine, severe and chronic health problems.
CD Cendant Corporation focuses on providing travel and real estate services. The Company operates in five business segments. The Real Estate Services segment franchises the Company's real estate brokerage businesses. The Hospitality Services segment operates nine lodging franchise systems, a timeshare exchange business, a timeshare sales and marketing business and a vacation home rental business. The Travel Distribution Services segment provides global distribution services for the travel industries and travel agency services. The Vehicle Services segment operates and franchises two vehicle rental brands and provides commercial fleet management and fuel card services. The Financial Services segment primarily provides financial institution enhancement products and insurance-based and loyalty solutions. In December 2004, NRT Incorporated, a subsidiary of Cendant Corporation acquired Sotheby's International Realty Limited.
CX CEMEX, S.A. de C.V. is a Mexican holding company of entities whose main activities are oriented to the construction industry through the production, distribution, marketing and sale of cement, ready-mix concrete and clinker. The Company is a global cement manufacturer with operations in North, Central and South America, Europe, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa. At December 31, 2003, CEMEX had an installed capacity of approximately 81.5 million tons. Its main cement production facilities are located in Mexico, Spain, Venezuela, Colombia, the United States, Egypt, the Philippines, Thailand, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Nicaragua and Puerto Rico.
CLTR.OB Celtron International, Inc. markets vehicle locating and management systems and mobile technology and its applications through its subsidiaries. The vehicle locating and management systems utilize cellular, global positioning and satellite technology that helps fleet owners manage their fleets of vehicles and helps consumers to locate stolen vehicles. Celtron's subsidiaries are Orbtech Holdings, Ltd., (South Africa), a Sub Sahara holding company, of which it owns approximately 70%, and Celtron Tracking Systems, Ltd., of which it owns approximately 51%. Orbtech has four operating subsidiaries: Orbtech Tracking Systems, Ltd., of which Celtron owns 90%, Buddi-Track (Pty) Ltd., of which the Company owns 100%, Odyssey Solutions (Pty) Ltd., of which it owns 100%, and MineWorx International (Pty) Ltd., of which Celtron owns 100%.
CLN Celsion Corporation is a biotechnology company dedicated to the development and commercialization of treatment systems for cancer and other diseases using focused heat energy, either administered alone or in combination with other therapeutic devices, heat-activated genes and heat-activated drugs. The Company has completed clinical trials and made its application for premarketing approval to the Food and Drug Administration for its Mircrofocus BPH 800 Microwave Urethroplasty system for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia. In addition, it is in active clinical development of systems using its adaptive phased array focused microwave technology to treat both early-stage cancer and locally advanced breast cancer and heat-activated liposome technology to deliver chemotherapeutic drugs for the treatment of prostate and liver cancer. In addition, the Company's gene-based cancer repair inhibitor, licensed from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, is in late-stage animal testing.
CTSC.OB Cellular Technical Services Company, Inc. (CTS) develops, markets, distributes and supports a diversified mix of products and services for the telecommunications industry. The Company develops expertise in real-time wireless call processing and has created technologically advanced solutions for these industries by focusing on the area of wireless communications fraud management, geo-location wireless software applications and sales of pre-paid long-distance phonecard products. Through Isis Tele-Communications, CTS operated as a distributor and a reseller of pre-paid long-distance and wireless products in Boston, Massachusetts, Los Angeles and California metropolitan areas. CTS, through its Neumobility division, was engaged in the development of geo-location wireless software applications. Its also involved in design, development, marketing, installation and support of integrated information processing and information management systems for the domestic wireless communications industry.
CLST CellStar Corporation is a global provider of distribution and value-added logistics services to the wireless communications industry, with operations in the Asia-Pacific, North American and Latin American regions. The Company's distribution services include purchasing, selling, warehousing, picking, packing, shipping and "just-in-time" delivery of wireless handsets and accessories. In addition, it offers its customers value-added services, including Internet-based supply chain services via its OrderStar system (patent pending), Internet-based tracking and reporting, inventory management, marketing, prepaid wireless products, product fulfillment, kitting and customized packaging, private labeling, light assembly, accounts receivable management and end user support services. The Company also provides wireless activation services and operates retail locations in certain markets. In November 2004, CellStar Corporation sold its operations in Singapore.
CLGY Cellegy Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a development stage specialty biopharmaceutical company that develops and intends to commercialize prescription drugs targeting gastrointestinal conditions and sexual dysfunction using topical formulations and nitric oxide (NO) donor technologies. In January 2004, Cellegy reported results from a confirmatory Phase III study using Cellegesic, also known as nitroglycerin ointment for the treatment of chronic anal fissure pain. The Company is also developing Cellegesic for the treatment of hemorrhoids and a painful condition called dyspareunia, which prevents or inhibits sexual intercourse in more than five million women in the United States. Other early stage NO donor product candidates in Cellegy's pipeline address a number of conditions including prostate cancer, Raynaud's Disease and Restless Leg Syndrome.
CTIC Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) develops, acquires and commercializes novel treatments for cancer. The Company's research and in-licensing activities are concentrated on identifying new, less toxic and more effective ways to treat cancer. Cell Therapeutics markets TRISENOX for the treatment of relapsed or refractory acute promyelocytic leukemia in the United States and in the European Union. In addition, the Company has more than 70 ongoing or planned clinical development trials or investigator-sponsored research trials related to potential market expansion for TRISENOX. CTI is developing XYOTAX for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and ovarian cancer. CTI is also developing pixantrone, a novel anthracycline for the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), and plans to initiate a pivotal phase III trial for relapsed, aggressive NHL. In addition, the Company is developing CT-2106 for the treatment of colorectal, ovarian and small cell lung cancer.
CRII.OB Cell Robotics International, Inc. manufactures and markets a laser-based medical device called the Lasette, with applications in the blood sample and collection markets. The Company has also developed a medical laser called the UltraLight Laser for aesthetic or skin rejuvenation applications, commonly known as laser skin photo rejuvenation. In addition, Cell Robotics develops, produces and markets the Cell Robotics Workstation, a scientific research instrument line that increases the usefulness and importance of the conventional laboratory microscope. The Company's customers consist primarily of research institutes, universities, distributors and mail-order businesses that serve patients with diabetes, as well as the physician community and medical clinics.
CEGE Cell Genesys, Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on the research, development and commercialization of biological therapies for cancer. The Company is developing cell-based cancer vaccines, oncolytic virus therapies and antiangiogenesis therapies to treat different types of cancer. Its clinical stage cancer programs involve cell- or viral-based products that have been genetically modified during product development to impart disease-fighting characteristics that are not found in conventional therapeutic agents. As part of its GVAX cancer vaccines program, the Company has completed Phase II clinical trials in prostate cancer, is in ongoing Phase II clinical trials in lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and leukemia, and is in a Phase I/II clinical trial for multiple myeloma. It expects to initiate a Phase III clinical trial for GVAX prostate cancer vaccine during the second quarter of 2004.
CELG Celgene Corporation is an integrated biopharmaceutical company primarily engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of therapies designed to treat cancer and immunological diseases through regulation of cellular, genomic and proteomic targets. The Company has built a discovery, development and commercialization platform for drug- and cell-based therapies that allows it to both create and retain significant value within its therapeutic franchise areas of cancer and immune/inflammatory diseases. This target-to-therapeutic platform integrates both small molecule and cell-based therapies and spans the key functions required to generate a pipeline of new drugs and cell therapy candidates. Celgene's commercial stage programs include pharmaceutical sales of Thalomid and Alkeran, a licensing agreement with Novartis for Focalin and the entire Ritalin family of drugs and biotherapeutic products through Celgene Cellular Therapeutics.
CLS Celestica Inc. provides a range of electronics manufacturing services (EMS), including design, prototyping, system assembly, testing, product assurance, supply chain management, worldwide distribution and after-market services to its customers, primarily in the computing and communications industries. The Company has operations in the Americas, Europe and Asia. It conducts its business through subsidiaries operating on a worldwide basis. Celestica supplies products and services to over 160 original equipment manufacturers, including such companies as Avaya Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., EMC Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Corporation, IBM Corporation, Lucent Technologies Inc., Motorola Inc., NEC Corporation and Sun Microsystems Inc. In March 2004, the Company acquired Manufacturers' Services Limited, a global electronics manufacturing and supply chain services company. In April 2004, Celestica completed the acquisition of certain assets from NEC Corporation in the Philippines.
CESY.OB Celerity Systems, Inc. is a business development company primarily seeking investments in developing companies. It intends to focus its investments in developing companies, but does not intend to limit its focus in any particular industry. The types of securities in which Celerity may invest and the proportion of its assets, which may be invested in, each, such type of security, is to be left to its discretion. The Company may, but is not required, to take a controlling position in its investment companies. It is to offer managerial assistance to each of its portfolio companies, and reserves the right to be compensated by the portfolio companies at market rates for such services. Celerity's operations have been financed primarily from the sale of debt and equity securities. Celerity has two investments: one, in a wholly owned subsidiary called Celerity Systems, Inc. (Celerity-Nevada), and the other, a minority interest in Yorkville Advisors Management, LLC (Yorkville).
CLTK Celeritek, Inc. designs and manufactures gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductor components and GaAs-based subsystems used in the transmission of voice, video and data-over wireless communication networks and systems. The Company's semiconductor products are designed to facilitate broadband voice and data transmission in satellite handsets, wireless communications network infrastructure and defense applications. Its GaAs-based subsystems are used in defense applications, such as tactical aircraft, ground-based and shipboard radar systems, electronic countermeasures and satellite communications systems. In September 2003, the Company exited the wireless handset power amplifier market. In October 2003, Celeritek sold all its assets related to the wireless handset power amplifier market to Anadigics, Inc. In October 2004, Celeritek, Inc. sold its defense electronics business to Teledyne Technologies Incorporated.
BDAY Celebrate Express, Inc. is a provider of celebration products serving families with young children, via the Internet and catalogs. The Company operates three brands, Birthday Express, Storybook and Costume Express, which respectively offer high-quality children's party products, girls' specialty apparel and children's costumes. Celebrate supports customers' purchasing experience with detailed product information, knowledgeable event planning advice and responsive customer service. Each of its brands was built around the concept of offering a complete accessorized product assortment for the celebration needs of families with young children. Each party theme encompasses the products and information necessary to help busy parents create a memorable birthday celebration.
CLDN Celadon Group, Inc. through subsidiaries, provides long haul, full truckload services between the United States, Canada and Mexico. The Company's primary trucking subsidiaries are Celadon Trucking Services, Inc. (CTSI), a United States- based company; Servicio de Transportation Jaguar, S.A. de C.V. (Jaguar), a Mexican-based company, and Celadon Canada (CelCan), a Canadian-based company. Its customer base predominantly includes shippers, such as DaimlerChrysler, General Electric and Philip Morris. In addition to its truckload hauling business, Celadon, through its ownership interest in TruckersB2B, Inc., provides certain services, including discounted fuel, tires, and other products to small and medium-sized trucking companies. TruckersB2B offers these products and services through its Website, www.truckersb2b.com. The Company also provides warehousing services to certain companies.
CVM CEL-SCI Corporation is involved in the research and development of the drugs and vaccines. Its first and main product, MULTIKINE, manufactured using its proprietary cell culture technologies, is a combination, or cocktail, of natural human interleukin-2 (IL-2) and certain lymphokines and cytokines. MULTIKINE is being tested to determine if it is effective in improving the immune response of cancer patients. MULTIKINE has been shown to induce both an anti-cancer immune response and to increase the susceptibility of the tumor cells to radiation therapy. MULTIKINE has been tested in over 190 patients in clinical trials conducted in the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel. The United States Food and Drug Administration or any other agency has yet to determine the effectiveness of CEL-SCI's MULTIKINE product against any form of cancer.
CDSW Cedara Software Corp. is a provider of medical technologies used by medical device manufacturers, healthcare information technology companies, hospitals, imaging centres, and medical clinics. Many of Cedara's medical technologies are sold through healthcare device manufacturers and information technology providers, including General Electricals, Siemens, Philips, Toshiba, Hitachi and Cerner. Cedara generates revenues in three ways, by developing and licensing its software technology and products, through development of custom software for healthcare equipment manufacturers, and through service and support provided to its customers. The Company's medical imaging solutions are used in all aspects of clinical workflow, including the capture of patient digital images, the sharing and archiving of images, sophisticated tools to analyze and manipulate images, and the use of imaging in surgery.
CDR Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc., formerly Cedar Income Fund, Ltd. is an integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate company that focuses on the ownership, operation and redevelopment of community and neighborhood shopping centers located in Pennsylvania. It has additional properties in Connecticut, Maryland and New Jersey. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company owned 22 properties, aggregating approximately 3.5 million square feet of gross leasable area (GLA).
FUN Cedar Fair, L.P. owns and operates seven amusement parks: Cedar Point, located on Lake Erie between Cleveland and Toledo in Sandusky, Ohio; Knott's Berry Farm, located near Los Angeles in Buena Park, California; Dorney Park &amp; Wildwater Kingdom, located near Allentown in South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania; Valleyfair, located near Minneapolis/St. Paul in Shakopee, Minnesota; Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri; Michigan's Adventure near Muskegon, Michigan, and Geauga Lake, located near Cleveland, Ohio. The parks are family-oriented, with recreational facilities for people of all ages, and provide clean and attractive environments with rides and entertainment. Cedar Fair also owns and operates separate-gated water parks near San Diego and in Palm Springs, California, and adjacent to Cedar Point, Knott's Berry Farm and Worlds of Fun. The Company also operates Camp Snoopy, a seven-acre indoor amusement park at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota.
CECE CECO Environmental Corp. is a provider of air pollution control products and services. The Company markets its products and services in trade names, such as Kirk &amp; Blum, kbd/Technic, CECO Filters, Busch International, CECO Abatement Systems and K&amp;B Duct. The Company focuses on engineering, designing, building and installing systems that capture, clean and destroy airborne contaminants from industrial facilities, as well as equipment that control emissions from such facilities. It markets these turnkey pollution control services under the Kirk &amp; Blum trade name. CECO provides services to a myriad of industries including aerospace, brick, cement, ceramics, metalworking, printing, paper, food, foundries, metal plating, woodworking, chemicals, tobacco, glass, automotive and pharmaceuticals with a customer base of more than 1,500. In February 2004, it added CECO Filters India Pvt. Ltd. to penetrate the Asian market under the CECO Filters trade name.
CEC CEC Entertainment Inc. is engaged in the family restaurant/entertainment center business. As of December 28, 2003, the Company operated 418 Chuck E. Cheese's restaurants. In addition, franchisees of the Company operated 48 Chuck E. Cheese's restaurants. Chuck E. Cheese's restaurants offer a variety of pizzas, a salad bar, sandwiches, appetizers and desserts, and feature musical and comic entertainment by robotic and animated characters, family oriented games, rides and arcade-style activities. Soft drinks, coffee and tea are also served, along with beer and wine where permitted by local laws. The restaurants are intended to appeal to families with children between the ages of two and 12. The Company and its franchisees operate in 48 states and five countries. CEC Entertainment owns and operates Chuck E. Cheese's restaurants in 41 states and Canada.
CFK CE Franklin Ltd distributes the general oilfield supplies, including pipe, valves, fittings, production equipment and tubular goods to producers of oil and gas in Canada, through its Distribution segment and the manufacturing for rent or sale of small-horsepower gas compression equipment for the producers of oil and gas in Canada, through its Manufacturing segment. In February 2002, CE Franklin amalgamated with its wholly owned subsidiary, CEF Technologies Ltd. The Company operated as one legal entity, CE Franklin Ltd. from February 2002 to January 2003. In January 2003, the Company transferred the property and equipment and operations of its compression operations into a wholly owned subsidiary, Brittania, and a 50% interest in the new subsidiary was sold.
CDWC CDW Corporation, formerly known as CDW Computer Centers, Inc., is a direct marketer of multi-brand computers and related technology products and services in the United States. Its product offerings include multi-brand computers and related technology products, including hardware and peripherals, software, accessories and other products, for use with microcomputers based on a variety of operating platforms, including Microsoft, Apple, Linux, Novel, Unix and others. CDW also provides a variety of value-added services and Web-based tools to its customers, including the ability to custom configure multi-branded solutions, manage software licenses through its Software License Tracker tool and track tagged assets through its IT Asset Management Tracking Database. The Company also offers technical support 24 hours a day, seven days a week to its customers.
CDSI.OB CDSI Holdings Inc. holds limited amounts of cash and an approximate 0.3% interest on a fully diluted basis in Dialog Group Inc. Dialog is a marketing services company that provides direct mail and telemarketing services. Prior to February 2000, the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Controlled Distribution Systems, Inc. (CDS), was primarily engaged in marketing and leasing a prepaid, wireless, remote-operated retail inventory control and dispensing system for tobacco products called the Coinexx Star 10. Prior to October 2000, CDS also owned traditional cigarette vending machines and a related vending route. In February 2000, the Company terminated all operations relating to marketing and leasing the Coinexx Star 10 system. On October 5, 2000, CDS sold to Gutlove &amp; Shirvant, Inc. the assets of its cigarette vending route, including vending machines and a van. CDSI intends to seek new business opportunities.
CDV CD&amp;L, Inc. is a national full-service provider of customized, same day, time-critical, delivery services to a range of commercial, industrial and retail customers. Its services include Rush Delivery Service, Routed and Scheduled, Facilities Management and Dedicated Contract Logistics. The Company's services are provided throughout the United States. CD&amp;L operates from 67 leased facilities and 34 customer-owned facilities in 22 states and with various managed agents in all other states. The size of each facility varies includes dedicated dispatch and order entry functions, as well as delivery personnel. The Company accomplishes coordination and deployment of its delivery personnel either through communications systems linked to its computers, through pagers, mobile data units, or by radio or telephone. CD&amp;L routes a shipment according to its type and weight, the geographic distance between its origin and destination and the time allotted for its delivery.
CDI CDI Corp. is a provider of engineering and information technology outsourcing solutions, professional services, specialized staffing and permanent placement services. CDI concentrates on several vertical markets, including aerospace, government services, information technology, life sciences, process and industrial and construction. In addition to traditional staffing and permanent placement services, the Company offers a range of services from engineering, design, consulting, information technology staffing and project management solutions. Its four reporting segments are Business Solutions, AndersElite, Todays Staffing and Management Recruiters International. The Company has realigned its Professional Services and Project Management segments to form a new segment called Business Solutions. AndersElite is a provider of building and construction professionals on a permanent and temporary basis in the United Kingdom.
CDGEF.OB CDG Investments Inc. business consists of holding investments in mineral exploration companies. It has participated in a mineral exploration joint venture that is conducting exploration on a prospective gold-copper property in Mexico. However, subsequent to fiscal year ended September 30, 2003, the Company's interest in the property was sold to its joint venture partner. The Company's only remaining mineral exploration property at September 30, 2003 was the Bahuerachi property, which is located in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. The Company participated in a joint venture with Tyler Resources Inc.
CHP C and D Technologies, Inc. is a technology company that produces and markets systems for the conversion and storage of electrical power, including reserve power systems and embedded, high frequency switching power supplies. The Company's integrated reserve power systems are comprised of industrial lead acid batteries, power rectifiers, power control and distribution equipment and related accessories. The Company's power supplies consist of direct current (DC)-to-DC converters, alternating current (AC)-to-DC and DC-to-DC power supplies, Magnetics (transformers and inductors) and custom architectures. The Company also generally provides installation and support services to its customers. The Company's operations are classified into four business divisions: Dynasty, Powercom, Power Electronics and Motive Power. The Company operates worldwide and derives a portion of its revenue from sales outside the United States.
CCBL C-COR Incorporated (C-COR) (formerly known as C-COR Electronics, Inc.) provides network transport communications equipment, software solutions and technical services to the global market for the full-network lifecycle of two-way broadband networks. C-COR operates through three divisions, each focused on a business segment: Broadband Communications Products (BCP), Broadband Network Services (BNS) and Broadband Management Solutions (BMS).
CCHI.OB C-Chip Technologies Corporation develops and markets products and services that use integrated wireless communications technology, transaction processing, software applications and the Internet. It also offers global positioning system (GPS) technology to enable users to efficiently access, control and manage remote assets. C-Chip allows the customers to use the Company's Website to remotely access, control, locate and monitor different types of equipment or services. It allows users to selectively enable or disable (on/off) targeted equipment or send other commands from anywhere in North America. The information technology (IT) infrastructure and network application software used provides services at the Secure Data Management Center (SDMC) in Montreal. In January 2003, C-Chip acquired from Capex Investments Limited a new wireless and Web-based set of communication tools that offers users complete access, remote control and monitoring of a variety of equipment.
CCFH CCF Holding Company is a holding company for its wholly owned subsidiary, Clayton County Federal Savings and Loan Association (the Bank). The Bank is a state-chartered commercial bank that provides various financial services through its six branch offices in Clayton, Fayette and Henry Counties, Georgia. To a much lesser extent, the Bank also makes loans in adjacent Georgia counties. The Bank offers financial products and services as that of a typical commercial bank. It primarily attracts deposit accounts from the general public and uses these deposits, together with other funds, primarily to originate and invest in long-term conventional loans secured by single-family residential real estate. The Bank, through its wholly owned subsidiary, also issues trust preferred securities.
CCCG CCC Information Services Group Inc. offers products and services that facilitate the processing of automobile physical damage claims and help improve decision-making and communication between various parties, such as automobile insurance companies and collision repair facilities, involved in the automobile insurance claims process. The Company's products and services fall into five categories (suites): CCC Pathways, CCC Valuescope, Workflow Products, Information Services and Other Products and Services. Its principal products and services are CCC Pathways collision estimating software, which provides customers with access to various automobile information databases and claims management software, and CCC Valuescope Claim Services (formerly Total Loss Valuation Services). The Company has over 21,000 collision repair-facilities, located in all 50 states, and over 350 insurance company installations in the United States.
CAW CCA Industries, Inc. manufactures and distributes health and beauty aid products. The Company owns registered trademarks, or exclusive licenses to use registered trademarks, which identify its products by brand name. Under most of the brand names, CCA markets several different but categorically related products. The principal brand and trademark names include Plus+White, which includes Booster (oral healthcare products); Sudden Change (skin-care products); Nutra Nail, Power Gel and Nutra Nail 60 (nail treatments); Bikini Zone (pre- and aftershave products); Mega T Green Tea and SweetEnders (dietary products); Hair Off (depilatories); IPR (foot care products); Solar Sense (sun care products); Wash 'N Curl (shampoos); Cherry Vanilla (perfumes), and Scar Zone (scar diminishing cream).
CBRL CBRL Group, Inc. is a holding company that, through certain subsidiaries, is engaged in the operation and development of the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and Logan's Roadhouse restaurant and retail concepts. As of September 28, 2004, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. (Cracker Barrel) operated 506 full-service country store restaurants and gift shops located in 41 states, and Logan's Roadhouse, Inc. (Logan's) operated 113 Logan's restaurants and franchised an additional 20 Logan's restaurants in 18 states.
CBL CBL &amp; Associates Properties, Inc. is a self-managed, self-administered, fully integrated real estate investment trust (REIT) that is engaged in the development, acquisition and operation of regional shopping malls and community centers. The Company owns interests in properties primarily in middle market communities in the southeast and midwest, as well as in select markets in other regions of the United States. It conducts substantially all of its business through the Operating Partnership, and is the 100% owner of two qualified REIT subsidiaries, CBL Holdings I, Inc. and CBL Holdings II, Inc.
CBG CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. is a commercial real estate services firm offering services to occupiers, owners, lenders and investors in office, retail, industrial, multi-family and other commercial real estate assets. The Company's business is focused on strategic advice and execution assistance for property leasing and sales, forecasting, valuations, origination and servicing of commercial mortgage loans, facilities and project management and real estate investment management. It generates revenues, both, on a per-project or transaction basis and from annual management fees. The Company operates in three segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Asia Pacific. Within the Americas segment, the Company further organizes its services into three business areas, in order to maximize synergies and cross-selling opportunities among its clients: advisory services, outsourcing services and investment management services.
CVCO Cavco Industries, Inc. is a producer of manufactured homes in Arizona. The Company made wholesale shipments of 3,646 manufactured housing units during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004. Its business is vertically integrated and encompasses manufacturing and wholesale, as well as retail marketing and sales operations. Cavco's manufactured homes are produced under various tradenames and in a variety of floor plans and price ranges. The Company produces homes constructed to the building standards promulgated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and by the International and Universal Building Codes, as well as park model homes. Cavco's park model homes are less than 400 square feet in size and are purchased primarily for use as second homes, vacation homes or for retirement living that are placed in planned communities or recreational home parks. The Company also produces camping cabins and commercial structures for a variety of purposes.
CAVB Cavalry Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for Cavalry Banking (the Bank). At December 31, 2003, the Company had total assets of $515.2 million, total deposits of $454.3 million and shareholders' equity of $54.4 million. The Company has not engaged in any significant activity other than holding the stock of the Bank. The Bank is a community-oriented financial institution whose primary business is attracting deposits from the general public and using those funds to originate a variety of loans to individuals residing within its primary market area and to businesses owned and operated by such individuals.
CAV Cavalier Homes, Inc. is engaged in the production, sale, financing and insuring of manufactured homes. The Company's distribution system involves independent dealers, including independent exclusive dealers. During the year ended December 31, 2003, it had a total of 132 dealer locations participating in its Exclusive Dealer program, including three Company-owned retail locations. It markets its homes through approximately 270 active non-exclusive independent dealer locations. Through its finance subsidiary, Financial Services, Inc. (CIS), Cavalier purchases qualifying retail installment sales contracts for manufactured homes sold through the Company's dealer network. The Company designs and manufactures a range of homes with a focus on serving the low to medium-priced manufactured housing market in the South Central and South Atlantic regions of the United States. The Company's homes are sold under multiple brand names and consist of one or more floor sections.
CTTY Catuity, Inc. is a software development company that provides a real time, multi program marketing platform for loyalty and incentive programs delivered at the point-of-sale (PoS) during the transaction process. The Company's software, referred to as the Catuity System, delivers purchase information about the consumer to the PoS at the time of a transaction. The software allows users to establish and self-administer customer loyalty programs, integrated to the payment system. Catuity also provides various services to customers from its offices in Arlington, Virginia. These services are provided as part of a master services agreement and associated Statements of Work.
CTLE.OB The CattleSale Company provides online auction trading services to producers of beef and dairy cattle thru www.cattlesale.com. The cattlesale.com is a Website that offers a neutral cattle-trading exchange and provides information and cost efficiencies to the cattle industry for each stage of the production cycle. In February 2003, the Company acquired all of the beneficial interests in two limited liability companies owned by its subsidiaries: AEI Environmental, Inc. (AEI), CS Livestock Commissions Co. LLC and CS Auction Production Co. LLC. It consequently changed its name from Dynacore Holdings Corporation to The CattleSale Company. In March 2004, the Company signed a letter of intent to acquire the assets of CowTek, Inc. CowTek, is engaged in involved in ISO Memory tag technology and has a distributive database management system for the identification and traceability of individual cattle records.
CTR The Cato Corporation operated 1,102 women's fashion specialty stores at January 31, 2004, under the names Cato, Cato Fashions, Cato Plus and It's Fashion! in 28 states, principally in the southeastern United States. The Company offers fashion apparel and accessories in junior/missy and plus sizes. In addition, it offers clothing for girls ages seven to 16 in selected locations. The Company's stores feature an assortment of apparel and accessories, including casual and dressy sportswear, dresses, careerwear, coats, shoes, costume jewelry and handbags. A portion of its merchandise is sold under its private labels and is produced by various vendors in accordance with its strict specifications. Most stores range in size from 4,000 to 6,000 square feet and are located primarily in strip shopping centers anchored by national discounters or market-dominant grocery stores.
CMQ Cathay Merchant Group, Inc. (CMG) is a financial holding company whose business is conducted primarily through its indirect wholly owned operating subsidiary, CMG Shanghai Ltd. (CMG Shanghai). CMG Shanghai is an international merchant banking company. Merchant banking encompasses a broad spectrum of activities related to the integrated combination of merchant banking, trading, financing commercial trade and proprietary investing. CMG Shanghai's merchant banking activities may provide specialized corporate finance services and advise clients on corporate strategy and structure, including mergers and acquisitions, and capital raising. These activities may also include trading in commodities and natural resources, and investing of the Company's own capital in enterprises to realize long-term or trading gains. In October 2004, the Company changed its name to Cathay Merchant Group, Inc. from Equidyne Corporation.
CATY Cathay General Bancorp (Bancorp) is a business corporation and holding company of Cathay Bank, a California state-chartered commercial bank. Its sole current business activity is to hold all of the outstanding stock of Cathay Bank. Its branch offices have loan approval rights subject to the branch manager's authorized lending limits. The Bank conducts substantially the same business operations as a typical commercial bank. It accepts checking, savings and time deposits, and makes commercial, real estate, personal, home improvement, automobile and other installment and term loans.
CAT Caterpillar Inc. operates in three principal lines of business. The Machinery segment designs, manufactures and markets construction, mining, agricultural and forestry machinery. The Engines segment designs, manufactures and markets engines for Caterpillar machinery and electric power generation systems; on-highway vehicles and locomotives; marine, petroleum, construction, industrial, agricultural and other applications, and related parts. The Financial Products segment consists primarily of Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation, which provides financing alternatives for Caterpillar machinery and engines, solar gas turbines and other equipment and marine vessels, and Caterpillar Insurance Holdings, Inc., which provides insurance to customers and dealers to help support the purchase and lease of equipment. In addition, Caterpillar Logistics Services, Inc. provides supply chain solutions and services to the Company and over 50 companies throughout the world.
CDX Catellus Development Corporation is a real estate development company that began operating as a real estate investment trust (REIT) effective January 31, 2004. The Company manages, acquires and develops predominantly industrial rental property in major distribution centers and transportation corridors. These properties are located in such distribution markets as southern California; Dallas, Texas, and Chicago, Illinois. The Company has also begun to expand into northern New Jersey and Atlanta, Georgia. The majority of Catellus' rental portfolio is relatively new and has been developed by the Company. Catellus owns a significant portfolio of developable land intended for future growth.
CATT Catapult Communications Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, markets and supports software-based test systems offering integrated suites of testing applications for the global telecommunications industry. The Company's telecommunications test system product line consists of three products, including DCT, MGTS and Chameleon products that are digital communications test systems designed to enable equipment manufacturers and network operators to deliver complex digital telecommunications equipment and services more quickly and cost-effectively, while helping to ensure interoperability and reliability. The Company's software and hardware assist customers in the design, integration, installation and acceptance testing of a broad range of digital telecommunications equipment and services by performing a variety of test functions, including design and feature verification, conformance testing, interoperability testing, load and stress testing and monitoring and analysis.
CESI Catalytica Energy Systems, Inc. provides emissions solutions to ease the environmental impact of combustion-related applications in the power generation and transportation industries. Catalytica's business activities include designing, developing and manufacturing advanced products based on its catalyst and fuel processing technologies to offer solutions for reducing nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions. The Company has commercialized and is marketing Xonon Cool Combustion, a pollution prevention technology that enables natural gas-fired turbines to achieve low emissions through a proprietary catalytic combustion process. It is also developing NOx reduction solutions for mobile, stationary and off-road diesel engines. In addition, Catalytica continues to conduct development efforts related to fuel processing systems for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cells used in vehicular applications.
CATS Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. designs, develops and markets a line of reprogrammable non-volatile memory products and analog and mixed-signal products. It offers a range of serial electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) products compatible with the three industry standard bus interface protocols: the inter-integrated circuit, bus interface of Philips Electronics; the microwire interface protocol of National Semiconductor, and the serial peripheral interface, bus protocol of Motorola. It also offers flash memory in a small number of densities. The Company's analog and mixed-signal products include supervisory products with EEPROM, supervisory products without memory, digitally programmable potentiometers, white light emitting diodes drivers, direct current (DC) to DC converters and interface input/output expanders.
POS Catalina Marketing Corporation is engaged in the development and distribution of behavior-based communications for consumer packaged goods manufacturers, pharmaceutical manufacturers and marketers and retailers. The Company offers behavior-based, targeted-marketing services and programs globally. Employing technology developed for its in-store network, the Catalina Marketing Network, Catalina Marketing also offers online and at-home access to consumers. These marketing solutions, including discount coupons, loyalty marketing programs, attitudinal research programs, sampling, advertising, in-store, instant-win games and other incentives are delivered directly to shoppers by various means. In November 2004, the Company sold its Catalina Marketing Research Solutions division to Schulman, Ronca, &amp; Bucuvalas, Inc.
CALA Catalina Lighting, Inc. designs, manufactures, contracts for the manufacture of, imports, warehouses and distributes a line of lighting fixtures and lamps under the Catalina, Dana, Ring and Illuminada trade names. It also functions as an original equipment manufacturer, selling goods under its customers' private labels. The Company's line of lighting fixtures include outdoor/security lighting, chandeliers, recessed and track lighting and wall and ceiling lights. It sells both table and floor lamps, which may be either functional or decorative. A smaller percentage of the Company's product line consists of industrial consumables, products for the automotive aftermarket and train and bus lighting. Catalina develops, manufactures and maintains separate product lines for sale in North America, continental Europe and the United Kingdom due to the different consumer preferences and electrical specifications of each of these markets.
CMRG Casual Male Retail Group, Inc., togther with its subsidiaries, is a specialty retailer of big and tall men's apparel in the United States and Puerto Rico. The Company operates 481 Casual Male Big &amp; Tall stores, the Casual Male catalog business and two e-commerce Websites, 58 Levi's/Dockers Outlet by Designs and 21 outlet stores of Ecko Unltd. Casual Male Retail operates in two segments, its Casual Male business and its Other Branded Apparel businesses.
MOAT.OB Castleguard Energy, Inc. is an independent energy company engaged in the exploration for and the acquisition, development, exploitation and operation of crude oil and natural gas properties, and in the production of crude oil and natural gas in North America. The Company's activities are conducted principally in the States of Louisiana, Texas and Alabama. Castleguard acquires interests in land and producing properties through acquisition and lease on which it drills and/or has working interests in oil or gas wells in efforts to discover and/or to produce oil and gas. At December 31, 2003, the Company owned interests in 10 gross gas wells (1.11 net), two of which are dual completions and three gross oil wells (.21 net).
CECX Castle Energy Corporation operated in the exploration and production segment of the energy business from inception in February 1981 until September 2002. During this period, the Company owned interests in oil and gas wells in 14 states in the United States and participated in the drilling of five wildcat wells in Romania. For the periods from inception until August 1989 and from June 1999 to September 6, 2002, the exploration and production segment of the energy business was the only business in which the Company operated. On May 31, 2002, Castle sold all of its domestic oil and gas properties to Delta Petroleum Corporation. In March 2004, the Company acquired interests in 166 western Pennsylvania gas wells from Delta.
CVF Castle Convertible Fund, Inc. is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund invests in corporate convertible bonds, convertible preferred securities, mandatory convertible securities, common stocks, short-term investments and preferred stocks. As of October 31, 2003, 64.4% of the Fund's investments were in corporate convertible bonds. The Fund's largest holdings were in the communications equipment sector, in such companies as Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., CIENA Corporation, Corning Incorporated and Nortel Networks Corporation. Fred Alger Management, Inc. serves as the investment adviser of the Fund. Alger Shareholder Services, Inc., an affiliate of the Adviser, serves as transfer agent for the Fund.
CSTL Castelle develops, manufactures, markets and supports office automation systems that allow organizations to implement faxing and printing over local area networks (LAN) and the Internet. The Company's FaxPress fax servers provide a simple way to integrate fax with e-mail, desktop and back-end applications. Castelle also provides LANpress print servers that enable users to locate printers anywhere on the network and the InfoPress information-on-demand software suite. The products are designed to be easy to use and maintain and provide an economical way for companies to share resources over their networks.
CASS Cass Information Systems, Inc. (Cass) is a provider of payment and information processing services to large manufacturing, distribution and retail enterprises across the United States. The Company provides freight invoice rating, payment, audit, cost accounting and transportation information. It is also a processor and payer of utility invoices in the United States, including electricity, gas, water, telecommunication and refuse collection. In addition, the Company, through its wholly owned bank subsidiary, Cass Commercial Bank (the Bank), provides banking services in the commercial, industrial and residential areas it serves. Its primary focus is to support the Company's payment operations and provide banking services to its target markets, which include privately owned businesses and churches and church-related ministries. Services include commercial, real estate and personal loans; checking, savings and time deposit accounts and other cash management services.
TQ Cash Technologies, Inc. (CTI) operates through three business segments: Cash Processing, CoinBank Machines and E-Commerce Message Management Architecture (EMMA). The Company's wholly owned subsidiaries include National Cash Processors, Inc.; CoinBank Automated Systems, Inc.; CoinBank Automation Handels GmbH; Cintelia Systems Inc., and CT Holdings, LLC., which is 86.65% owned by CTI. The Company also sells self-service coin counting machines through existing equipment distribution channels. CTI is developing the EMMA transaction processing system, which is designed to interface with its various e-commerce partners and to seamlessly connect with financial networks, particularly the four main channels, through which trillions of dollars in commerce are transacted each year. These four channels are the automated teller machine (ATM) network, the credit card network, the automated clearing house network and cash. In May 2004, the Company formed Heuristic Technologies, Inc.
CKN Cash Systems, Inc. is a provider of cash access services to the gaming and retail industries. The Company has developed three primary products: credit/debit card cash advance, automatic teller machine (ATM) and check cashing solutions. These products are the primary means by which casinos make cash available to gaming customers. The credit/debit card cash advances product and ATMs have been installed in casinos and other businesses throughout the United States and Caribbean countries.
CASY Casey's General Stores, Inc. operates convenience stores under the name Casey's General Store in nine Midwest states, primarily Iowa, Missouri and Illinois. The stores carry a selection of food, including freshly prepared foods, such as pizza, donuts and sandwiches, beverages, tobacco products, health and beauty aids, automotive products and other non-food items. In addition, all stores offer gasoline for sale on a self-service basis. During the fiscal year ended April 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), there were a total of 1,358 Casey's General Stores in operation, of which 1,322 were operated by the Company (Corporate Stores) and 36 stores were operated by franchisees (Franchise Stores). There were 15 Corporate Stores newly constructed and 24 stores purchased in fiscal 2004. The Company operates a central warehouse, the Casey's Distribution Center, through which it supplies grocery and general merchandise items to Corporate and Franchise Stores.
CWST Casella Waste Systems, Inc. is a solid waste services company that provides collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services to residential, industrial and commercial customers in the eastern United States. The Company manages its solid waste operations on a geographic basis through three regions, including the Central, Eastern and Western regions that consists of Solid Waste Services and FCR, which is comprised of the Company's larger-scale, non-solid waste recycling and its brokerage operations.
CGC Cascade Natural Gas Corporation (Cascade) is engaged in the business of distribution of natural gas to customers in the states of Washington and Oregon. As of September 30, 2004, the Company had approximately 184,300 residential customers, 29,000 commercial customers and 726 industrial and other customers. Residential, commercial and most small industrial customers are generally core customers, who take traditional bundled natural gas service, which includes supply, peaking service and upstream interstate pipeline transportation. Sales to core customers during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004) accounted for approximately 23% of gas deliveries and 69% of operating margin. Non-core customers are generally large industrial and institutional customers who have chosen unbundled service, meaning that they select from among several upstream supply, pipeline transportation and gas management service options independent of the Company's distribution service.
CASB Cascade Financial Corporation is a bank holding company. At December 31, 2003, the Corporation's wholly owned subsidiaries were Cascade Bank (Cascade or the Bank) and Cascade Capital Trust I. The Corporation conducts its business from its main office in Everett, Washington and 15 other offices (10 in Snohomish County and five in King County) in the greater Puget Sound region. At December 31, 2003, the Corporation had total assets of $885.2 million, total deposits of $564.3 million and stockholders' equity of $64.0 million. The Bank, a community bank, offers a range of products and services. The deposits of the Bank are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
CAE Cascade Corporation manufactures materials handling load engagement devices and related replacement parts, primarily for the lift truck industry. The Company manufactures a range of materials handling load engagement products that are used on forklift trucks and, to a lesser extent, on construction and agricultural vehicles. The Company's products are primarily manufactured with the Cascade and Cascade-Kenhar names and symbols. The primary function of these products is to provide the lift truck with the capability of engaging, lifting, repositioning, carrying and depositing various types of loads and products. Examples of specialized products include devices specifically designed to handle loads such as appliances, paper rolls, baled materials, textiles, beverage containers, drums, canned goods, bricks, masonry blocks, lumber, plywood and boxed, packaged and containerized products.
CACB Cascade Bancorp is a financial holding company for its subsidiary, Bank of the Cascades (the Bank). The Bank is a community bank offering a range of financial services to its business and consumer clients, including residential mortgage, trust and investments. It offers a range of commercial and retail banking services to its customers. Lending activities serve small to medium-sized businesses, municipalities and public entities and professional and consumer clientele. It also provides commercial real estate loans, real estate construction and development loans and commercial and industrial loans, as well as consumer installment, line of credit, credit card and home equity loans. It also provides consumer and business deposit services. On January 1, 2004 the Company completed the acquisition of the single branch office of Community Bank of Grants Pass, Oregon.
CAMY.OB CAS Medical Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets medical products, specifically blood pressure measurement equipment, apnea monitoring equipment and products, for a full range of patient applications, including neonatal intensive care. The Company also has several other products in various stages of development. Its product lines include Blood Pressure Monitors and Blood Pressure Measurement Technology; Cardio-Respiratory Monitors; Neonatal Supplies; Klear-Trace Electrodes; NeoGuardReflectors, Limboard Arm Boards and Klear-Temp Temperature Probes; Pedisphyg, Safe-Cuff and Tuff-Cuff Blood Pressure Cuffs; BiliBottoms Diapersp, and Premie Nestie Supportive Positioning Aid.
CNY Carver Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for Carver Federal Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank's operations consist primarily of the origination and purchase of one- to four-family residential, commercial, construction and multifamily real estate in its primary market area. Carver Federal invests funds not utilized for loan originations or purchases in the purchase of United States Government Agency securities and mortgage-backed securities and expands its branch network by opening de novo branches and stand-alone automated teller machine centers. The Bank generates fee income by attracting and retaining high-transaction core deposit accounts. Carver Federal considers its primary lending market to include Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens and Richmond counties, together comprised of New York City, as well as lower Westchester County, New York. In March 2004, Carver Bancorp entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Independence Federal Savings Bank.
CRI Carter's Inc. (formerly Carter Holdings, Inc.) markets apparel for babies and young children in the United States. Carter's sells its products through its three channels: wholesale, retail and mass channel. The Company's marketing network consists of approximately 100 vendors located in more than 15 countries. Its Carter's Classics program consists of small coordinated layette programs designed for first-time mothers and gift-givers. Carter's sleepwear products include pajamas, cotton long underwear and blanket sleepers in sizes 12 months to seven. For the fiscal year ended January 3, 2004 (fiscal 2003), in all its sales channels, these products accounted for 23% of total net sales. The Company's playclothes products include knit and woven cotton apparel for everyday use in sizes three months to seven. In fiscal 2003, these products accounted for 26% of total net sales. The Company changed its name from Carter Holdings, Inc. to Carter's Inc. on September 30, 2003.
CRRB Carrollton Bancorp (the Company) is a bank holding company for its principal subsidiary, Carrollton Bank (Carrollton or the Bank). The Bank is a commercial bank engaged in a general commercial and retail banking business. The types of services and products the Bank offers include commercial loans for businesses, including those for working capital purposes, equipment purchases and accounts receivable and inventory financing; commercial and residential real estate loans for acquisition, refinancing and construction; consumer loans, including automobile loans, home equity loans and lines of credit; letters of credit and remittance services; credit and debit card services; merchant credit card deposit servicing; brokerage services for stocks, bonds, mutual funds and annuities; a 24-hour automated teller machine (ATM) network; safe deposit boxes; point-of-sale services, and other services, such as direct deposit, traveler's checks and individual retirement accounts.
CRZO Carrizo Oil &amp; Gas, Inc. is an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, development and production of natural gas and oil. The Company's operations are focused in producing natural gas and oil geologic trends along the onshore Gulf Coast in Texas and Louisiana, primarily in the Miocene, Wilcox, Frio and Vicksburg trends. Its other interests include properties in East Texas, a coalbed methane investment in the Rocky Mountains and the Barnett Shale trend in North Texas. In addition, during the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company obtained licenses to explore in the United Kingdom North Sea. From inception through 2003, Carrizo participated in the drilling of 295 wells (89.9 net) with a success rate of approximately 68% in its onshore Gulf Coast core area. Exploratory wells accounted for 97% of the total wells the Company drilled. Its total proved reserves, as of December 31, 2003, was an estimated 70.4 billion cubic feet equivalent (bcfe).
CARN Carrington Laboratories, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical, medical device, raw materials and nutraceutical company engaged in the development, manufacturing and marketing of naturally-derived complex carbohydrates and other natural product therapeutics for the treatment of major illnesses, the dressing and management of wounds and nutritional supplements. Carrington sells prescription and nonprescription human and veterinary products through its Medical Services Division. Through Caraloe, Inc., its consumer products subsidiary, the Company sells consumer and bulk raw material products and also provides product development and manufacturing services to customers in the cosmetic, nutraceutical and medical markets. Its wholly owned subsidiary, DelSite Biotechnologies, Inc., is responsible for the research, development and marketing of the GelSite technology for controlled release and delivery of bioactive pharmaceutical ingredients.
CACS Carrier Access Corporation is engaged in the design, manufacturing and sales of broadband access equipment to communications service providers. Its products are used to upgrade capacity of wireline and wireless communications networks. The Company's product portfolio features eight platforms that reside in a variety of locations, including the service providers' central office, cell site and wireless hub locations, as well as the end users' business premises. The Company's products include Axxius 800 Platform, Adit 600 Platform, Adit 600 Customer Media Gateway, Exxtenz Platform, Wide Bank 28 Platform, Broadmore 1750 Platform, Access Navigator, NetworkValet, MASTERseries and BROADway.
CSV Carriage Services, Inc. is a provider of death care services and products in the United States, with 139 funeral homes and 30 cemeteries in 29 states under its operation during the year ended December 31, 2003. The Company provides a range of funeral and cremation services, including planning and coordinating personalized funerals, conducting memorial services, performing cemetery interment services and managing and maintaining cemetery properties. It sells products and merchandise including caskets, urns, burial vaults, garments, cemetery interment rights and monuments and markers. Its operations are divided into two segments: funeral operations and cemetery operations. In addition to sales of funeral merchandise and services, cemetery interment rights and cemetery merchandise and services at the time of need, it also market funeral and cemetery services and products on a preneed basis.
CANI Carreker Corporation is engaged in the design, development, sales and delivery of payments-related software and consulting solutions to financial institutions and financial service providers. Its products and services traverse a spectrum of payment activities and are designed to help customers set strategies in their payments businesses; improve operational efficiency in payments processing; enhance revenue and profitability from payments-oriented products and services; reduce losses associated with fraudulent payment transactions, and/or improve the alignment of product offerings with customer needs. The Company is organized into three primary operating divisions: Global Payments Technologies (GPT), Revenue Enhancement (RevE) and Global Payments Consulting (GPC). The Company's customers are financial institutions in the United States, Canada, Australia, Latin America, South Africa, Europe and the United Kingdom.
CRE CarrAmerica Realty Corporation is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed publicly traded real estate investment trust that focuses on the acquisition, development, ownership and operation of office properties, located primarily in selected markets across the United States. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned greater than 50% interests in 259 operating office buildings and one residential property under construction. In 2003, CarrAmerica also owned minority interests (ranging from 15% to 50%) in 38 operating office buildings and one building under construction. The Company's principal segment of operations is real estate property operations, which consists primarily of commercial property ownership. Based on property operating income, its most significant markets include the San Francisco Bay area, the Washington, D.C. Metro area, southern California and Seattle. In December 2004, the Company acquired Mission Towers I in Santa Clara, California.
CRS Carpenter Technology Corporation is engaged in the manufacturing, fabrication and distribution of specialty metals and engineered products. The Company operates in four business units: specialty alloys, dynamet, carpenter powder products and engineered products. Carpenter primarily processes basic raw materials, such as chromium, nickel, titanium, iron scrap and other metal alloying elements through various melting, hot forming and cold working facilities. The Company produces billets, bars, rods, wires, narrow strips, special shapes and hollow forms in many sizes and finishes. It also produces certain metal powders and fabricated metal products. In addition, ceramic products are produced using molding, heating and other processes. The Company's specialty metals include stainless steels, titanium, high-temperature alloys, electronic alloys and tool steels. Its engineered products include structural ceramic products, ceramic cores, tubular metal products and custom-shaped bars.
CG Carolina Group is a group company of Loews Corporation that was designed for the purpose of holding a 100% interest in the tobacco subsidiary, Lorillard, Inc. (Lorillard). Lorillard, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the production and sale of cigarettes. The principal cigarette brand names of Lorillard are Newport, Kent, True, Maverick and Old Gold. Its major selling brand is Newport, which accounted for approximately 90.2% of sales during the year ended December 31, 2003. Substantially all of Lorillard's sales are in the United States, Puerto Rico and certain United States territories. Lorillard sells its products primarily to distributors that, in turn, service retail outlets, chain store organizations and government agencies, including the United States Armed Forces. At December 31, 2003, Lorillard had approximately 740 direct buying customers servicing more than 400,000 retail accounts.
CUK Carnival plc is a global cruise and vacation company that offers cruises to all major destinations outside the Far East. The Company primarily serves the following vacation markets: North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, southern Europe and South America. The Company has a portfolio of 12 cruise brands: Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Costa Cruises, P&amp;O Cruises, AIDA, Cunard Line, Ocean Village, P&amp;O Cruises Australia, Swan Hellenic, Seabourn Cruise Line and Windstar Cruises. Its passenger capacity has grown to 113,296 berths, as of November 30, 2003. In addition to its cruise operations, Carnival operates two tour companies under the brand names Holland America Tours and Princess Tours, which primarily complement their respective cruise operations. These tour companies primarily operate as cruise/tour operators in the State of Alaska and the Canadian Yukon.
CCL Carnival Corporation is a global cruise and vacation company that offers cruises to all major destinations outside the Far East. The Company primarily serves the following vacation markets: North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, southern Europe and South America. The Company has a portfolio of 12 cruise brands: Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Costa Cruises, P&amp;O Cruises, AIDA, Cunard Line, Ocean Village, P&amp;O Cruises Australia, Swan Hellenic, Seabourn Cruise Line and Windstar Cruises. Its passenger capacity has grown to 113,296 berths, as of November 30, 2003. In addition to its cruise operations, Carnival operates two tour companies under the brand names Holland America Tours and Princess Tours, which primarily complement their respective cruise operations. These tour companies primarily operate as cruise/tour operators in the State of Alaska and the Canadian Yukon.
CKEC Carmike Cinemas, Inc. is a motion picture exhibitor in the United States, which owns, operates or has an interest in 299 theatres with 2,253 screens located in 35 states. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company-owned 70 of these theatres, leased 225 of these theatres and operated an additional four theatres under shared ownership. Of its 299 theatres, 259 show films on a first-run basis and 40 are discount theatres. The Company's distributors include Buena Vista, DreamWorks, Fox, MGM/UA, Miramax, New Line Cinema, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Brothers. Carmike obtains licenses to exhibit films by directly negotiating with film distributors, who accounted for approximately 99.8% of its box office admissions. It enters into licenses that provide for rental fees based on either firm terms established prior to the opening of the picture or on an agreed settlement on the conclusion of the film run, and pays the distributor a specified percentage of box office receipts.
KMX CarMax, Inc. is a specialty retailer of used cars and light-trucks in the United States. The Company purchases, reconditions and sells used vehicles. It also sells new vehicles under various franchise agreements. CarMax provides its customers the opportunity to shop for vehicles the same way they shop for items at other big-box retailers, by offering a selection of vehicles at low, no-haggle prices in a customer-friendly atmosphere. It conducts its used vehicle operations in three basic retail formats: mega, standard and satellite superstores. CarMax also provides its customers with a range of related services, including the financing of vehicle purchases through its own finance operation, CarMax Auto Finance (CAF), and third-party lenders; sale of extended warranties, and vehicle repair service. During the fiscal year ended February 29, 2004 (fiscal 2003), used vehicles represented 91% of the total vehicle units sold by CarMax.
CLHL Carlisle Holdings Limited is engaged in three service businesses: facilities services operating in the United States and the United Kingdom; staffing services operating in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, and financial services operating in Belize. Facilities services include outsourced facilities services, providing cleaning and value-added building maintenance and support services; staffing services include temporary and permanent staff recruitment services, and financial services include commercial loans for short-term financing and working capital purposes. The Company also continues to hold an equity investment in the businesses of Grupo Agroindustrial CB, S.A. and related companies (collectively known as NUMAR).
CSL Carlisle Companies Incorporated is a holding company for Carlisle Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiaries. The Company's diversified manufacturing operations are conducted through its subsidiaries. The Company manufactures and distributes a wide variety of products across a broad range of industries, including, among others, roofing, construction, trucking, automotive, foodservice, industrial equipment, lawn and garden and aircraft manufacturing. The Company markets its products both as a component supplier to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), as well as directly to end users. The Company's activities can be broadly divided into six industry segments: industrial components, construction materials, automotive components, transportation products, specialty products and general industry (all other). During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company acquired Flo-Pac Corporation.
CMX Caremark Rx Inc is a pharmaceutical services company that conducts its operations primarily through its wholly owned, indirect subsidiary, Caremark Inc. Caremark Rx's pharmaceutical services are generally referred to as pharmacy benefit management services and involve the design and administration of programs aimed at reducing the costs and improving the safety, effectiveness and convenience of prescription drug use. The Company's customers are primarily sponsors of health benefit plans and individuals located throughout the United States. The Company dispenses pharmaceuticals to eligible participants in benefit plans maintained by its customers and utilizes its information systems to perform safety checks, drug interaction screening and generic substitution. During 2003, Caremark Rx managed over 114 million prescriptions for individuals from over 1,200 organizations. In March 2004, the Company merged with AdvancePCS, a health improvement company.
CECO Career Education Corporation is a provider of private, for-profit, post-secondary education, with 82 campuses throughout the United States, Canada, France, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. The Company also offers online education programs through its Online Education Group, which includes American InterContinental University Online and Colorado Technical University Online. The Company's total student population, as of October 31, 2004, was approximately 97,300 students, including the total student population of its Online Education Group, as of October 31, 2004, of approximately 20,900 students. The Company's schools offer degree and diploma programs within its core curricula of business studies, culinary arts, information technology, visual communication and health education.
CADV.OB CareAdvantage, Inc. (CAI) is a management consulting firm specializing in the improvement of healthcare delivery and quality. The Company, through its direct and indirect subsidiaries, CareAdvantage Health Systems, Inc. and Contemporary HealthCare Management, Inc., provides management and consulting services designed to enable integrated healthcare delivery systems and other care management organizations and self-insured employers and unions to reduce the costs, while improving the quality, of medical services provided to their subscribers. The management and consulting services include care management program enhancement services, executive and clinical management services and training programs. CAI's management and consulting services have been provided to integrated healthcare delivery systems and other care management organizations.
IBD Interactive Brand Development Inc., formerly Care Concepts I, Inc. (Care) through it's wholly owned subsidiary, iBid America, Inc. (IBID), is an online marketing, advertising and sales promotion company that combines the sales promotion techniques of discount coupons and promotional offers with the developments of Internet auctions. At the Company's Website, www.ibidusa.com, consumers can bid to acquire gift certificates redeemable for such items as hotel accommodations, restaurant meals, concerts, golf courses, shopping experiences and personal services provided by businesses. These businesses are local commercial establishments seeking to promote their business, introduce new products and services, generate consumer awareness, develop new customers and reward old customers with the ultimate goal of developing additional consumer visits to their establishments. In November 2004, the Company acquired 4playauction.com, an adult lifestyle auction Website.
CTE CardioTech International, Inc. uses manufacturing technology to develop and manufacture small bore vascular grafts, which is synthetic blood vessels made of ChronoFlex. Vascular grafts are used to replace, bypass or provide a new lining or arterial wall for occluded, damaged, dilated or severely diseased arteries. The Company developed a vascular access graft, VascuLink Vascular Access Graft, and was developing a peripheral graft, MyoLink Peripheral Graft. It sold the VascuLink and MyoLink products to Nervation Ltd in connection with the disposition of the Company's United Kingdom subsidiary, CardioTech International, Ltd (CTL), in November 2000. CardioTech is developing a layered microporous coronary artery bypass graft, CardioPass, which utilizes similar material used in the grafts produced by CTL. Through its Biomaterials division, the Company develops, manufactures and markets polyurethane-based biomaterials for use in both acute and chronically implanted devices.
CRME Cardiome Pharma Corp. is a drug discovery and development company focused on developing drugs to treat or prevent cardiac diseases. The Company's drug discovery and development efforts target the treatment of cardiac arrhythmia, which is an abnormal electrical signal in the heart or an abnormal heart beat resulting from such a signal, and congestive heart failure, which is the failure of the heart to pump blood at a rate sufficient to support the body's needs. Cardiome's arrhythmia drug candidates are designed to stop and prevent future occurrences of arrhythmia by blocking specific ion channels, which are specialized pores in the membrane of certain cells. Its congestive heart failure drug candidate sensitizes cardiac muscle cells to intracellular calcium, leading to improved cardiac oxygen-use efficiency. The Company also has a program, applying its congestive heart failure drug candidate, for the treatment of allopurinol intolerant hyperuricemia (gout).
CGCP.OB CardioGenesis Corporation designs, develops and distributes laser-based surgical products and disposable fiber-optic accessories for the treatment of advanced cardiovascular disease through transmyocardial revascularization (TMR) and percutaneous transluminal myocardial revascularization (PMR). TMR and PMR are laser-based heart treatments in which channels are made in the heart muscle. TMR is performed by a cardiac surgeon through a small incision in the chest under general anesthesia. A cardiologist in a catheter-based procedure that utilizes local anesthesia performs PMR. The clinical studies have demonstrated a significant reduction in angina and increase in exercise duration in patients treated with TMR or PMR plus medications, when compared with patients who received medications alone.
CDIC CardioDynamics International Corporation develops, manufactures and markets non-invasive diagnostic and monitoring technologies. The Company's Impedance Cardiography (ICG) technology non-invasively monitors the heart's ability to deliver blood to the body and the amount of fluid in the chest. CardioDynamics' systems provide 12 hemodynamic (blood flow) parameters, the most significant of which is cardiac output, or the amount of blood pumped by the heart each minute. The Company's lead product, the BioZ ICG Monitor (previously known as the BioZ.com), has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration. CardioDynamics sells to physicians and hospitals in the United States through its own direct sales force and distributes its products to domestic hospitals and targeted international markets through a network of distributors.
CSNC Cardinal State Bank (Durham, NC) is a North Carolina-chartered banking corporation that offers a full array of commercial and retail banking services. The Bank operates three full-service offices in Durham, North Carolina. Cardinal State Bank (the Bank) offers retail and commercial deposit services, retail and commercial loans, trust and estate planning services, mortgage loans, construction loans, safe deposit boxes, online banking and online cash management. The Bank operates for the primary purpose of serving the banking needs of individuals and small to medium-sized businesses in its market area. Total assets, at December 31, 2003, were $96.6 million, an increase of $49.6 million, or 105.5%, from December 31, 2002. This increase was primarily due to an increase in total deposits of $50.5 million. The Bank provides its services through three segments, Business Banking, Personal Banking and Investment Services.
CDIN.OB Cardinal Minerals, Inc. (Cardinal) executed an assignment of purchase option agreement with its majority stockholder in January 2004, for the option to purchase all the assets of Hunter Gold Mining Inc. and Hunter Gold Mining Corporation, including the Bates Hunter Mine and the Golden Gilpin Mill (collectively the Bates-Hunter Mine), which includes a dewatering plant, mining properties, claims, permits and all ancillary equipment free and clear of any and all financial liens or encumbrances.
CAH Cardinal Health, Inc. is a holding company encompassing a number of operating subsidiaries that do business as Cardinal Health. The Company is a provider of products and services supporting the healthcare industry, and helping healthcare providers and manufacturers improve the efficiency and quality of healthcare. The Company has four reporting segments: pharmaceutical distribution and provider services, medical products and services, pharmaceutical technologies and services and automation and information services. In July 2004, the Company acquired ALARIS Medical Systems, Inc., a global company engaged in intravenous medication safety products and services. On August 30, 2004, the Company announced the creation of a new segment, Clinical Technologies and Services, which will replace the Company's Automation and Information Services segment.
CFNL Cardinal Financial Corporation is a holding company whose activities consist of investment in its wholly owned subsidiaries. The Company owns Cardinal Bank, N.A., a nationally chartered community bank, and Cardinal Wealth Services, Inc., an investment services subsidiary. Through these two subsidiaries, Cardinal Financial offers a range of banking products and services to both commercial and retail customers. Cardinal Bank has offices in Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax City, Herndon, Leesburg, McLean, Reston, Sterling, Manassas, Tysons Corner and Woodbridge, Virginia. The Company complements its core banking operations by offering investment products and services to customers through a third-party brokerage relationship with Raymond James Financial Services, Inc.
CRDM Cardima, Inc. is focused on the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. Arrhythmias are abnormal electrical heart rhythms that cause fast and/or otherwise irregular heartbeats, which can potentially be fatal. The Company's products have been developed for the diagnosis and treatment of the two most common forms of arrhythmias: atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia. Since 2001, however, Cardima's efforts have primarily focused on developing differentiated products that diagnose and treat atrial fibrillation, including its REVELATION Tx microcatheter for use in the electrophysiology market and its surgical ablation system for use in the surgical market.
DFIB Cardiac Science, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and provides comprehensive AED/ cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training services. Cardiac Science's RHYTHMx software technology and STAR Biphasic energy delivery system form the technology platform for its line of AED products, the Powerheart AED and its therapeutic monitor-defibrillator, the Powerheart Cardiac Rhythm Module (Powerheart CRM). The Company's products and technology are designed to treat victims of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), whether outside or inside a hospital, in the shortest time frame possible, thereby increasing a victim's chance of survival. In October 2003, the Company acquired Complient Corporation, a Cleveland-based company and provider of AED and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training and comprehensive program management.
CRR CARBO Ceramics Inc. is a producer and supplier of ceramic proppants for use in the hydraulic fracturing of natural gas and oil wells. The Company has four production plants operating in New Iberia, Louisiana, Eufaula, Alabama, McIntyre, Georgia, and Luoyang, China. It predominantly markets its proppant products through pumping service companies that perform hydraulic fracturing for major oil and gas companies. The Company also provides fracture diagnostic and mapping services, sells fracture simulation software and provides fracture design services to oil and gas companies worldwide through its wholly owned subsidiary, Pinnacle Technologies, Inc. In 2002, CARBO Ceramics expanded its business through the acquisition of Pinnacle Technologies, Inc. Pinnacle provides fracture diagnostic and mapping services, sells fracture simulation software and provides fracture design services to oil and gas companies worldwide.
CSAR Caraustar Industries, Inc. is a manufacturer of recycled paperboard and converted paperboard products. The Company operates in three business segments: paperboard; tube, core and composite container, and carton and custom packaging. The paperboard segment manufactures 100% recycled uncoated and clay-coated paperboard and collects recycled paper and brokers recycled paper and other paper rolls. The tube, core and composite container segment produces spiral and convolute-wound tubes, cores and cans. The carton and custom packaging segment produces printed and unprinted folding carton and set-up boxes and provides contract manufacturing and packaging services.
CPD Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. develops, manufactures and markets generic, prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals in the United States. The Company's drugs relate to a variety of therapeutic segments, including the central nervous system, cardiology, pain management and diabetes. Caraco's product portfolio includes 17 prescription products in 31 strengths, in 70 package sizes. Its products include Metroprolol Tartrate, Miraphen PSE, Paromomycin Sulfate, Salsalate, CMT, Guai/DM, Clonazepam, Flurbiprofen, Carbamazepine, Oxaprozin, Metformin Hydrochloride, Tramadol Hydrochloride, Miraphen PE, Digoxin, Meperidine Hydrochloride, Ticlopidine and Tizanidine.
CPTV Captiva Software Corporation is a provider of input management solutions designed to manage business critical information from paper, faxed and electronic forms, documents and transactions into the enterprise. Its solutions automate the processing of billions of forms, documents and transactions annually, converting their content into information that is usable in database, document, content and other information management systems. Organizations can use the Company's products to capture information digitally, extract the meaningful content or data and apply business rules that ensure the data's accuracy. Captiva also offers hardware products, such as digital scanners, and other third-party products.
CAPA Captaris, Inc. is a provider of business information delivery solutions that integrate, process and automate the flow of messages, data and documents primarily for medium and large-sized enterprises. The Company's product lines include computer- and mobility-oriented products. Its computer-oriented product lines target the fax server, document delivery and information exchange markets and focus on high-performance fax processing, e-document delivery and business process automation, as well as Internet and corporate intranet information access. Captaris' products run on off-the-shelf server hardware, Windows New Technology (NT), Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and Microsoft.NET, and interface with a variety of telephony and computer equipment.
CPST Capstone Turbine Corporation (Capstone) develops, manufactures, markets and services microturbine technology solutions for use in stationary distributed power generation applications, such as cogeneration (combined heat and power and combined cooling heat and power), resource recovery, power reliability and remote power. Its microturbines can be used as generators for hybrid electric vehicle applications and allow customers to produce power on-site. Capstone MicroTurbines are compact generators of electricity and heat. They operate on the same principle as a jet engine but can use a variety of commercially available fuels, such as natural gas, diesel, kerosene and propane, as well as previously unusable or underutilized fuels. Model C30 generates approximately 30 kilowatts of electric power and approximately 300,000 kilojoules per hour of heat. Model C60 is designed to similar criteria and generates approximately 60 kilowatts of electric power.
CMO Capstead Mortgage Corporation operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) earning income from investing in real estate-related assets on a leveraged basis and other investment strategies. These investments include, but are not limited to, financial assets, specifically residential adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) securities issued by government-sponsored entities, either Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or Ginnie Mae (Agency Securities). Capstead has also made limited investments in credit-sensitive commercial mortgage assets including the direct ownership of real estate.
CFFN Capitol Federal Financial is the holding company for Capitol Federal Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank, the only operating subsidiary of the Company, serves primarily the entire metropolitan areas of Topeka, Wichita, Lawrence, Manhattan, Emporia and Salina, Kansas and a portion of the metropolitan area of greater Kansas City. It attracts retail deposits from the general public and invests those funds primarily in permanent loans secured by first mortgages on owner-occupied, one- to four-family (single-family) residences. The Bank also originates a limited amount of loans secured by first mortgages on non-owner-occupied, one- to four-family residences, consumer loans, permanent and construction loans secured by commercial real estate and multi-family real estate loans. It also purchases mortgage loans and invests in certain investment and mortgage-related securities funded through retail deposits and advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka (FHLB).
CBC Capitol Bancorp Ltd. is a multibank holding company. As of December 31, 2003, Capitol's banking network consisted of 30 community banks operating in three regions in the United States: the Great Lakes Region, the Southwest Region and the California Region. The bank affiliates provide a range of banking services to individuals, businesses and other customers located in their respective communities. Each of the banks generally operates from a single location, and focuses its activities on meeting the various credit and other banking needs of entrepreneurs, professionals and other businesses and individuals. A variety of deposit products are offered, including checking, savings, money market, individual retirement accounts and certificates of deposit. In addition, trust and investment services are offered through Paragon Bank &amp; Trust. In addition to commercial banking units, mortgage banking activities are offered through Amera Mortgage Corporation, a less-than-50%-owned affiliate.
CSE CapitalSource Inc. is a commercial finance company providing loans to small and medium-sized businesses. The Company provides debt-financing products that it negotiates and structures on a client-specific basis through direct interaction with the owners and senior managers of its clients. The financing needs of the Company's clients are specific to their businesses or their situation. Focusing its efforts in these specific sectors, industries and markets allows the Company to design and implement lending products that satisfy the special financing needs of clients. Its lending groups are Corporate Finance, which provides senior and mezzanine loans to businesses backed by private-equity sponsors; HealthCare Finance, which provides asset-based revolving lines of credit, first mortgage loans, equipment financing and other senior and mezzanine loans to healthcare companies, and Structured Finance, which provides asset-based lending to finance companies and commercial real estate owners.
CT Capital Trust, Inc. is an integrated, self-managed finance and investment management company that specializes in originating and managing credit-sensitive structured financial products. Its investment programs are executed directly for its own account and for third-party funds that it manages. The Company's activities have been focused exclusively on the commercial real estate mezzanine market where it has originated over $3.4 billion of investments since 1997. Capital Trust is organized and conducts its operations to qualify as a real estate investment trust. The Company's balance sheet investment program focuses on structured commercial real estate debt investments, including B Notes, subordinate commercial mortgage-backed securities and small-balance (under $15 million) mezzanine loans.
CTGI Capital Title Group, Inc. is a regional title agency, title insurance underwriter and provider of related services to facilitate the purchase, sale and financing of real estate. The Company issues title insurance policies underwritten by its United Title Insurance Company subsidiary and other third-party title insurance underwriters, and performs other title-related services, such as escrow activities, in connection with real estate transactions. In addition to United Title Insurance Company, Capital Title conducts its business through several other operating subsidiaries. It provides title insurance and related services to its customers through Capital Title Agency, Inc. in Arizona; Nations Holding Group, New Century Title Company, United Title Company and First California Title Company, Inc. in California, and Land Title of Nevada in Nevada. As of December 31, 2003, Capital Title operated through over 120 offices located in Arizona, California and Nevada.
CSWC Capital Southwest Corporation is a venture capital investment company, whose objective is to achieve capital appreciation through long-term investments in businesses that have favorable growth potential. The Company's investment interests are focused on expansion financings, management buyouts, recapitalizations, industry consolidations and early-stage financings in industry segments. The portfolio is comprised of companies in which it has major interests, as well as a number of developing companies and marketable securities of established publicly owned companies. The Company makes available managerial assistance to the companies in which it invests. The investments it owns represented 87.7% of the value of its consolidated investment portfolio during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004).
CSU Capital Senior Living Corporation and its subsidiaries (collectively, the Company) operate senior living communities in the United States. The Company provides senior living services to the elderly, including independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing and homecare services. Many of the Company's communities offer a continuum of care, to meet its residents needs as they change over time. This continuum of care, which integrates independent living and assisted living, and is bridged by homecare through the Company's homecare agency or other independent homecare agencies, sustains residents' autonomy and independence based on their physical and mental abilities. During the year ended December 31, 2003, it operated 42 senior living communities in 20 states, with an aggregate capacity of approximately 6,900 residents, including 41 senior living communities that the Company owned, or in which it had an ownership interest, and one community that it managed for a third party. .
CPI Capital Properties, Inc. operates in two segments: leasing and petroleum storage facilities. The leasing segment consists of the long-term leasing of certain of its real estate interests in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, and locations along interstate and primary highways in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The petroleum storage facilities segment operates the Company's petroleum storage facilities in East Providence, Rhode Island. Dunellen, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary through which the Company owns its petroleum storage facilities. Capital Terminal Company, another wholly owned subsidiary operates the petroleum storage facilities.
COF Capital One Financial Corporation is a holding company whose subsidiaries market a variety of consumer financial products and services. The Company's principal subsidiaries are Capital One Bank (the Bank), which offers credit card products; Capital One, F.S.B., which offers consumer lending (including credit cards) and deposit products, and Capital One Auto Finance, Inc., which offers automobile and other motor vehicle financing products. In addition to offering credit cards throughout the United States, Capital One also offers credit card products outside of the United States principally through Capital One Bank (Europe) plc, an indirect subsidiary of the Bank, and a branch of the Bank in Canada. Capital One also engages in limited non-lending activities. It takes deposits from customers in the United States, which are originated through direct and indirect channels. In January 2005, the Company's subsidiary, Capital One Auto Finance, Inc., acquired Onyx Acceptance Corporation.
LSE Capital Lease Funding, Inc. (CapLease) is a net lease REIT focused on commercial real estate assets that are net leased primarily to high credit quality corporate, government and not-for-profit tenants. The Company provides private and corporate owners of net lease real estate with a full range of equity, debt and mezzanine financing options. The Company originates net lease investments through a national network of over 200 commercial real estate brokerage companies and commercial banks operating throughout the United States.
CGLD.OB Capital Gold Corporation owns concessions located in the State of Sonora, Mexico and rights to property located in the California Mining District, Lake County, Colorado. The Company is engaged in the business of exploring for gold and other minerals on its Mexican concessions. None of its concessions or properties is in production and, consequently, it has no operating income or cash flow. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Oro de Altar S. de R. L. de C.V., and its affiliate, Santa Rita, the Company owns 100% of 14 mining concessions. These concessions, located in the Municipality of Altar, State of Sonora Republic of Mexico, are subject to the terms of the Company's joint venture agreement with FG S.A. de C.V. (FG) which allows FG to earn up to a 45% interest in the venture.
CAPX Capital Crossing Bank (the Bank), formerly Atlantic Bank and Trust Company, operates as a commercial bank primarily focused on purchasing and originating commercial real estate, multi-family and one- to four-family residential real estate loans, secured commercial loans and leases that finance the business activities of small companies and individuals. The Bank offers commercial lending and leasing services to business customers through multiple delivery channels, including the Internet and personal bankers. It conducts its business from its main office in Boston, Massachusetts; a branch in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; through its Website, and through Dolphin Capital, its leasing subsidiary in Moberly, Missouri.
CCOW Capital Corp of The West is a bank holding company and holds all of the capital stock of County Bank (the Bank). Town and Country Finance and Thrift were merged into County Bank. The Company's primary asset and source of income is the Bank. The Company has one wholly owned investment advisory and asset management company, Regency Investment Advisors, Incorporated. The Company also has one wholly owned inactive nonbank subsidiary, Capital West Group. The Bank has three wholly owned subsidiaries, Merced Area Investment &amp; Development, Inc., County Asset Advisors and County Investment Trust. The Bank conducts commercial banking business, including acceptance of demand, savings and time deposits. It also offers commercial, agriculture, real estate, personal, home improvement, home mortgage, automobile, credit card and other loans. It offers travelers' checks, safe deposit boxes, banking-by-mail, drive-up facilities, 24-hour automated teller machines and other banking services.
CCBG Capital City Bank Group, Inc. (CCBG) is a financial holding company that was organized to acquire five national banks and one state bank that all subsequently became part of CCBG's bank subsidiary, Capital City Bank (CCB). CCB provides a range of consumer banking services, including checking accounts, savings programs, automated teller machines, overdraft facilities, debit/credit cards, night deposit services, safe deposit facilities and personal computer/Internet banking. The Company offers access to retail investment products through Capital City Securities, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital City Bank. In October 2004, CCBG completed its merger with Farmers and Merchants Bank of Dublin, Georgia, a $411 million asset financial institution with three offices in Laurens County.
CBEV.OB Capital Beverage Corporation distributes, on an exclusive basis in the entire state of New York, several brands of beer pursuant to distributor agreements with Pittsburgh Brewing Company. These brands include Brigade, Brigade Light, Brigade Ice, Brigade N/A, Prime Time Lager, Prime Time Malt Liquor, Iron City, Iron City Light, Light Twist Acapulco Lime, Iron City Twist, Rio Cherry, Old German, Augustiner, Evil Eye Ale, Evil Eye Black Jack, Evil Eye Amber Lager and Evil Eye Honey Brown. On June 29, 2001, pursuant to a purchase agreement, the Company acquired all of the assets of Prospect Beverages Inc.'s business relating to the distribution of beverages, including beer distribution rights, properties, rights, leases, interests, goods and customer lists of prospect. Inclusive with the acquisition came several national brands, including Colt 45, Old Milwaukee, Schaefer, Schlitz, Champale, Schmidts, Stroh, Piels, McSorleys and an extensive list of various imports.
CBKN Capital Bank Corporation serves as the holding company for its wholly owned subsidiaries, Capital Bank (the Bank) and Capital Bank Investment Services, Inc. (CBIS). In addition, the Company has interest in two trusts, Capital Bank Statutory Trust I and II (Trusts). Capital Bank is a community bank engaged in the general commercial banking business in Wake, Chatham, Northampton, Granville, Warren, Alamance and Lee Counties, North Carolina and the communities of Asheville and Hickory, North Carolina. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had assets of approximately $857.7 million, gross loans outstanding of approximately $625.9 million and deposits of approximately $629.6 million.
CARS Capital Automotive REIT is a self-administered and self-managed real estate company operating as a real estate investment trust (REIT) for federal income tax purposes. The Company's primary business strategy is to purchase real estate (land, buildings and other improvements), which it simultaneously leases to operators of franchised automobile dealerships and motor vehicle service, repair or parts businesses, used vehicle businesses and other related businesses under long-term, triple-net leases. As of December 31, 2003, Capital had investments in 331 properties located in 30 states, consisting of approximately 2,323 acres of land and containing approximately 13.6 million square feet of buildings and improvements. The Company own interests in real estate and conducts its operations, directly or indirectly, through Capital Automotive L.P. (the Partnership). Capital is the sole general partner of the Partnership.
CAA Capital Alliance Income Trust Ltd., A Real Estate Investment Trust (the Trust), is a specialty mortgage finance company, which, together with its subsidiary, Capital Alliance Funding Corporation, operates a mortgage banking concern that emphasizes three areas referred to as the mortgage investment business, the mortgage conduit business and the warehouse lending business. The Company's servicing includes collecting and remitting loan payments; making required advances; accounting for principal and interest; holding escrow or impound funds for payment of improvement holdbacks, interest, taxes and insurance, if applicable; making required inspections of the mortgaged property; contacting delinquent borrowers and supervising foreclosures, and property dispositions in the event of unremedied defaults in accordance with the Trust's guidelines.
CGYN.OB Capco Energy, Inc. is an independent energy company engaged primarily in the acquisition, development, production of and the sale of oil, gas and natural gas liquids. The Company's production activities are located principally in the United States. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Capco holds interests in oil and gas leaseholds in Alabama, California, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana and Texas. The Company's principal products are crude oil and natural gas. Crude oil and natural gas are sold to various purchasers, including pipeline companies that service the areas in which Capco's producing wells are located. Total production was 108,000 barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) in 2003, compared with 57,300 BOE in 2002.
RKE Cap Rock Energy Corporation owns and operates an electric distribution and transmission business in various non-contiguous areas in the State of Texas. The Company provides electric distribution service to approximately 35,000 meters in 28 counties covering approximately 13,000 square miles in Texas. This includes 23,000 meters in 17 counties within two operating divisions in the Midland-Stanton area of west Texas, 6,100 meters in the central Texas area around Brady, and over 4,200 meters in northeast Texas in Hunt, Collin and Fannin Counties. Cap Rock also provides management services to the Farmersville Municipal Electric System that services nearly 1,500 meters in Farmersville, Texas. The Company's largest service area is in west Texas, where it primarily serves residential customers, ranching customers and the oil and gas industry.
CAU Canyon Resources Corporation explores, acquires, develops and mines precious metal and other mineral properties. The Company has gold production operations in the western United States, and has conducted exploration activities in the search for additional valuable mineral properties in the western United States and in a number of areas in Latin America and Africa. Its exploration and development efforts emphasize precious metals (gold and silver). The Company has conducted a portion of its mineral exploration and development through joint ventures with other companies. Canyon Resources has also independently financed the acquisition of mineral properties and conducted exploration and drilling programs and implemented mine development and production from mineral properties in the western United States and exploration programs in Latin America and Africa.
CWG CanWest Global Communications Corp. is an international media company with interests in broadcast television, newspapers, radio, specialty cable channels, outdoor advertising and online operations in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Republic of Ireland. In addition, the Company has interests in film and television production and distribution in the United States and the United Kingdom. In October 2004, the Company announced a realignment of its operations under the CanWest MediaWorks corporate brand. CanWest MediaWorks encompasses all of Canadian business units, including newspapers, television and radio operations and Web-based interactive operations. CanWest MediaWorks International includes CanWest's investments in Network TEN in Australia, CanWest MediaWorks (NZ) and TV3 in Ireland.
ECP Canterbury Park Holding Corporation hosts pari-mutuel wagering on live thoroughbred and quarter horse racing at its facilities in Shakopee, Minnesota (the Racetrack), and on races held at out-of-state racetracks that are televised simultaneously at the Racetrack. The Company, authorized under Minnesota law, also hosts unbanked card games through its Canterbury Card Club (the Card Club). In addition, Canterbury Park Holding derives revenues from related services and activities, such as concessions, parking, advertising, admissions and programs, and from other entertainment events held at the Racetrack, including snowmobile races, major arts and crafts shows, trade shows and concerts. The Company divides its business according to the nature of its operations: Card Club, Horse Racing and Concessions.
CMN Cantel Medical Corp. (Cantel) is a healthcare company providing infection prevention and control products that include specialized medical device reprocessing systems for renal dialysis and endoscopy, water treatment systems, sterilants, diagnostic imaging and therapeutic medical equipment primarily focused on endoscopy, hollow fiber membrane filtration and separation technologies for medical and non-medical applications, and specialized packaging for infectious and biological specimens. The Company also sells scientific instrumentation products and provides technical maintenance and compliance training services for its products. At July 31, 2004, Cantel had four wholly owned operating subsidiaries: Minntech Corporation (Minntech), Carsen Group Inc. (Carsen), Mar Cor Services, Inc. (Mar Cor), and Saf-T-Pak Inc. (Saf-T-Pak). The Company's fifth operating company, Biolab Equipment Ltd. (Biolab), is a wholly owned subsidiary of Carsen.
CAJ Canon Inc. is a manufacturer of plain paper copying machines, digital multifunction devices (MFDs), laser beam printers, inkjet printers, cameras and steppers. Its products are divided into three product groups: business machines, which are divided into three sub-groups consisting of office imaging products, computer peripherals and business information systems; cameras, which include digital cameras and film cameras, as well as digital video camcorders, lenses and various camera accessories, and optical and other products, which include semiconductor production equipment, broadcasting lenses, medical equipment and electronic components. The Company sells its products under the Canon brand name and through sales subsidiaries.
CAND Candie's, Inc. designs, distributes and markets jeanswear under the Bongo brand through its wholly owned subsidiary, Unzipped Apparel, LLC, which is managed by Sweet Sportswear, LLC. The Company also arranges, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Bright Star Footwear, Inc., for the manufacture of footwear products for mass market and discount retailers. The Company was active in licensing and marketing the Candie's and Bongo names with respect to young women's footwear, apparel and fashion products. In May 2003, it licensed the Candie's and Bongo trademarks for footwear to Steven Madden Ltd and Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc., respectively, eliminating its operations in the production and distribution of women's and girl's footwear. Candie's has closed all of its retail stores. The Company manufactures, distributes, sells and markets jeanswear under the Bongo label through its Unzipped division, and markets and sells a variety of men's outdoor boots and casual shoes through Bright Star.
CLZR Candela Corporation is engaged in the development and commercialization of advanced aesthetic laser systems that allow physicians and personal care practitioners to treat a wide variety of cosmetic and medical conditions, including vascular lesion treatment of rosacea, facial spider veins, leg veins, scars, stretch marks, warts, port wine stains and hemangiomas; hair removal; removal of benign pigmented lesions, such as age spots, freckles and tattoos; skin rejuvenation and wrinkles; acne and acne scars; psoriasis, and other skin treatments. Candela's product line offers comprehensive and technologically sophisticated aesthetic and medical laser systems used by dermatologists, plastic surgeons and various other medical and personal care practitioners. Candela's product line includes GentleLASE family of lasers, Vbeam, ALEXLAZR, Smoothbeam diode laser and C-beam pulsed dye laser.
CNVX CancerVax Corporation is a biotechnology company focused on the research, development and commercialization of novel biological products for the treatment and control of cancer. The Company's lead product candidate, Canvaxin, is one of a class of products being developed in the area of specific active immunotherapy, also known as therapeutic cancer vaccines. Canvaxin is being studied in two Phase II clinical trials at 80 sites worldwide for the treatment of advanced-stage melanoma, a form of skin cancer. Canvaxin is based on specific active immunotherapy technology platform that uses human tumor cell lines that express tumor-related antigens. It has been studied in a Phase I/II clinical trial for advanced-stage colorectal cancer, and CancerVax is finalizing the design of a Phase II clinical trial for patients with Stage III colon cancer.
CCRE.OB Can-Cal Resources Ltd. is an exploration company that, since its inception, has examined mineral properties prospective for precious metals and minerals and acquired those deemed promising. The Company owns, leases or has interests in one mineral property (The Arco Project) in Durango State, Mexico and four mineral properties in California and Arizona. All the United States properties are grass roots because they are not known to contain reserves of precious metals or other minerals. None of these properties are in production.
CNR CanArgo Energy Corporation is an independent energy company focused primarily in the Republic of Georgia in the Caucasus. At December 31, 2003, proved developed and undeveloped reserves totaled 6.8 million gross barrels of oil and three billion cubic feet of gas. The Company's share under its production sharing contracts totaled 4.4 million gross barrels of oil and 1.9 billion cubic feet of gas on that same date. In 2003, production at the Ninotsminda Field totaled 695,174 gross barrels of oil (292,289 in 2002). In early 2004, CanArgo acquired the adjacent Samgori Field that has produced over 170 million barrels. The Company has commenced a development plan to increase production on these two fields that will involve introducing new drilling techniques to the region in the form of under-balanced horizontal drilling, to be provided by Weatherford International, in addition to the production program it is appraising an oil discovery that it made on its Manavi M11 well at the end of 2003.
CRCUF.OB Canarc Resource Corp. (Canarc) is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, and, if warranted, development of precious metal properties in Canada, Costa Rica and Suriname. The Company owns or holds, directly or indirectly, interests in a total of five precious metal properties, including the New Polaris and GNC properties in British Columbia, Canada, the Bellavista property in Costa Rica and the Sara Kreek and Benzdorp properties in Suriname. Canarc has not developed any commercial mineral production or revenues from its mining properties.
COWP.OB Canal Capital Corporation is engaged in two distinct businesses, real estate and stockyard operations. The Company's real estate properties, which are located in five midwestern states, are primarily associated with its current and former agribusiness-related operations. Each property is adjacent to a stockyards operation and consists, for the most part, of an exchange building (commercial office space) and land and structures leased to third parties as well as vacant land available for development or resale. As a result of an August 1, 1999 asset purchase agreement, Canal operates two central public stockyards located in St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Public stockyards act much like a securities exchange, providing markets for all categories of livestock and fulfilling the economic functions of assembly, grading and price discovery. In addition, Canal has a significant contemporary art inventory, which it intends to liquidate in an orderly manner.
SNG Canadian Superior Energy Inc. is a crude oil and natural gas exploration and production company with its primary emphasis on the exploration for and production of crude oil and natural gas in western Canada, offshore Nova Scotia in east coast Canada and offshore Trinidad and Tobago. The Company's interests in offshore Nova Scotia comprises of six exploration licenses totaling 1.29 million acres. Projects in the area include the Mariner and Marquis. In western Canada, Canadian Superior's assets include a portfolio of properties and projects in Alberta. The Company focused on initiating a development-drilling program with respect to its Drumheller area assets acquired, in March 2003, from El Paso Corporation. In offshore Trinidan, Canadian Superior secured a joint venture position for exploration of the Tradewinds project.
CP Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (CPR) operates a transcontinental railway in Canada and the United States. The Company provides rail and intermodal transportation services over a network of approximately 14,000 miles, serving the principal business centers of Canada, from Montreal to Vancouver, as well as the United States Northeast and Midwest regions. CPR transports bulk commodities, merchandise freight and intermodal traffic. Bulk commodities include grain, coal, sulphur and potash. Merchandise freight consists of finished vehicles, automotive parts and forest and industrial products. Intermodal traffic consists of high-value, time-sensitive consumer products transported in overseas containers and in domestic containers and trailers. The CPR network consists of four primary corridors: the Western Corridor, the Southern Corridor, the Central Corridor and the Eastern Corridor. Each of these corridors is complemented by a number of collector and feeder lines.
CNQ Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) is in the business of acquiring interests in crude oil and natural gas rights and the exploration, development, production, marketing and sale of crude oil and natural gas. CNRL's principal regions of crude oil and natural gas operations are in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea and Offshore West Africa. On February 18, 2004, the Company acquired certain resource properties located in East Central Alberta and Saskatchewan. In April 2004, the Company acquired certain resource properties located in Northeast British Columbia and Northwest Alberta. The properties are producing approximately 68 million cubic feet per day, before royalties, of natural gas, together with 200 barrels per day, before royalties, of light oil and natural gas liquids and contain over 415,000 acres of developed and undeveloped land.
CNI Canadian National Railway Company (CN) operates a network of approximately 17,500 route miles in Canada and the United States. As of December 31, 2003, the Company operated in three regions: the Western Canada region, the Eastern Canada region and the United States region. In addition to its regional structure, the Company has organized its business under seven business units: petroleum and chemicals, metals and minerals, forest products, coal, grain and fertilizers, intermodal and automotive. CN's revenues are derived from the movement of a diversified and balanced portfolio of goods. In 2003, 22% of its revenues came from United States domestic traffic, 34% from trans-border traffic, 25% from Canadian domestic traffic and 19% from overseas traffic.
BCM Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) is a diversified financial institution that operates three business lines: CIBC Retail Markets (including Amicus operations in Canada), CIBC Wealth Management and CIBC World Markets. CIBC Retail Markets provides financial services and products to personal and small business customers in Canada. CIBC Wealth Management provides relationship-based advisory, sales, service and product solutions to the full spectrum of wealth-building clients, primarily in Canada. CIBC World Markets is the wholesale banking arm of CIBC, providing a full range of integrated credit and capital markets products, investment banking and merchant banking to clients in key financial markets in North America and around the world. In December 2004, the Company sold its United States-based Juniper Financial Corp. to Barclays Bank.
CSPLF Canada Southern Petroleum Ltd. is engaged in the exploration for, and development of, properties containing or believed to contain recoverable natural gas and oil reserves, and the sale of natural gas and oil from these properties. Although many of the properties in which Canada Southern Petroleum has interests are undeveloped, all properties with proved reserves are partially or fully developed. Canada Southern Petroleum's interests in exploratory ventures are on properties located in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, the Northwest and Yukon Territories, as well as the Arctic Islands in Canada. The Company's principal asset is its 30.67% carried interest in the Kotaneelee field, a producing natural gas field in the Yukon Territory.
CAMT Camtek Ltd. designs, develops, manufactures and markets automated optical inspection (AOI) systems and related products. AOI systems are computerized systems, which optically inspect electronic product components for defects caused during the manufacturing process. The Company's AOI systems are used to enhance both production processes and yields for manufacturers in three industries: the printed circuit board (PCB) industry, the high-density interconnect, or HDI-S, industry, and the semiconductor manufacturing and packaging industry. Its systems provide customers with defect detection, are reliable and offer throughput. The Company has sold more than 1,000 of its AOI systems in over 30 countries around the world, predominantly to the PCB industry. Its customer base includes 100 PCB manufacturers worldwide. Camtek's global, direct customer support network provides responsive, localized support for its installed base.
CPB Campbell Soup Company (Campbell) together with its consolidated subsidiaries is a global manufacturer and marketer of high-quality, branded convenience food products. Campbell operates in four segments: North America Soup and Away From Home, North America Sauces and Beverages, Biscuits and Confectionery and International Soup and Sauces. The North America Soup and Away From Home segment is comprised of the retail soup and Away From Home business in the United States and Canada. The North America Sauces and Beverages segment includes United States retail sales for various sauces, juices and beverages. The Biscuits and Confectionery segment includes all retail sales of various cookies and biscuits. The International Soup and Sauces segment includes operations outside of North America.
CBLRF.OB Campbell Resources, Inc. is a gold and copper mining company operating principally in northern Quebec. The two main assets of the Company are the Joe Mann Mine and Copper Rand Mine, which the Company wholly owns. The Copper Rand Project is underway to deepen the mine and develop new infrastructure between the 4,000- and 5,000-foot levels. The mine will be ready to resume production during the year that will end in December 2004. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, MSV, is involved in the production and development of gold and copper deposits in the Chibougamau region and along the Eastmain River in northwestern Quebec. MSV's assets are comprised of a 100% interest in Corporation Copper Rand Inc. (CCR), owner of the Copper Rand Project, which owns the Copper Rand Mine, the Cedar Bay Property and the Copper Rand Mill.
CMSF.OB CaminoSoft corp. (CaminoSoft) develops and manufactures software solutions that store, manage, and safeguard large quantities of data created in a business and application settings. The Company's software for Microsoft Windows 2000 and 2003 and Novell NetWare environments enable organizations to maximize storage resources, reduce backup and recovery time and control file retention and are available worldwide through commercial distributors, value-added resellers, systems integrators and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners. The Company's products are designed to meet the storage management needs of small, medium, and enterprise organizations. It serves markets, which produce and manage large amounts of data, such as banking, financial services, healthcare, legal services, engineering and architectural Services, federal and state Government, and higher education.
CPFR.OB Camera Platforms International, Inc. designs, manufactures, rents and leases a variety of production equipment to the film and video industries. The Company rents three varieties of camera cars: Akela; Pegasus, and Enlouva cranes, Panther dollies, jib arms and dolly track. The Shotmaker Camera Car fleet consists of 15 camera cars, including one Shotmaker Elite Plus, four Shotmaker Elites, one Shotmaker Premium Plus, two Shotmaker Premiers, six Shotmaker Classics and one Shotmaker Standard. All the camera cars are rented throughout the western United States except two cars operating under a split rental agreement in New York City. Major items of equipment in the Dollies and Cranes rental fleet include 18 dollies, 12 Pegasus cranes, nine jib arms, six Akela cranes and eight Enlouva cranes that are approximately 650 feet of tubular dolly track.
CCJ Cameco Corporation is engaged in exploring, developing, mining and milling uranium ore to produce uranium concentrates. The Company is also a commercial converter of uranium concentrates (U3O8) to UF6 (uranium hexafluoride), as well as a supplier of services to convert uranium concentrates to UO2 (uranium dioxide). Cameco, through its subsidiaries, has a 31.6% limited partnership interest in Bruce Power Limited Partnership, which operates a nuclear electricity generating facility in Canada. Bruce Power has six nuclear reactors at the facility in service. While Cameco continues its principal focus on the nuclear business, it is also engaged in the gold business. One of the Company's subsidiaries has a one-third operating interest in the Kumtor gold mine in the Kyrgyz Republic in Central Asia. Another Cameco majority-owned subsidiary is engaged in developing the Boroo gold mine in Mongolia.
CPT Camden Property Trust is a real estate investment trust with operations related to the ownership, development, construction and management of multifamily apartment communities in the United States. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned interests in, operated or was developing 146 properties containing 52,346 apartment homes geographically dispersed in the Sunbelt and Midwestern markets, from Florida to California. Two of its newly developed multifamily properties containing 786 apartment homes were in lease-up at year end. Two of its multifamily properties containing 1,002 apartment homes were under development at December 31, 2003, including 464 apartment homes owned through a joint venture. The Company's properties typically consist of two- and three-story buildings in a landscaped setting and provide residents with a variety of amenities.
CAC Camden National Corporation is a multi-bank and financial services holding company. The Company provides commercial and consumer banking services in its 28 branch locations. The Company's two bank subsidiaries are Camden National Bank (CNB) and UnitedKingfield Bank. The two banking subsidiaries conduct operations throughout eastern, central, western, southern and mid-coast Maine. It also provides brokerage and insurance services through Acadia Financial Consultants, which operates as a division of the two banking subsidiaries. Camden also provides wealth management, trust and employee benefit administration through its other subsidiary, Acadia Trust, N.A., which is located in Portland and Bangor, Maine. In addition, it provides managerial, operational and technology services to its subsidiaries. These services include general management, financial management, risk management and bank operations.
CAFI Camco Financial Corporation is a savings and loan holding company. The Company is engaged in the financial services business in Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Advantage Bank (Advantage or the Bank) and Camco Title Insurance Agency, Inc. (Camco Title) and its second-tier subsidiary, Camco Mortgage Corporation (CMC), collectively known as Advantage or the Bank. In October 2003, CMC was dissolved and its operations became part of the Bank. The Company operated through five banking subsidiaries: Cambridge Savings Bank, Marietta Savings Bank, First Savings Bank, First Bank for Savings and Westwood Homestead Savings Bank. In December 2004, the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Advantage Bank, completed the sale of its Ashland, Kentucky and Summit, Kentucky branches to Peoples Bank, National Association of Marietta, Ohio.
CAMH.OB Cambridge Heart, Inc. is engaged in the research, development and commercialization of products for the non-invasive diagnosis of cardiac disease. The Company's technology and products are directed towards identifying individuals at risk of sudden cardiac death. Its patients include those individuals with underlying cardiac disease. Cambridge Heart's products incorporate the Company's technology to non-invasively measure Microvolt levels of T-Wave Alternans, which is a subtle beat-to-beat fluctuation in the T-wave segment of a patient's heartbeat. The use of the Company's products and technology in the performance of a Microvolt T-Wave Alternans Test can detect these tiny heartbeat variations, measured down to one millionth of a volt. Cambridge Heart's system and sensors, when placed on the patient's chest can acquire and analyze the heartbeat for Microvolt T-Wave Alternans.
CATG Cambridge Antibody Technology Group PLC (CAT) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and drug development of human monoclonal antibodies as new treatments for human disease. CAT has an advanced platform technology for rapidly isolating human monoclonal antibodies using Phage Display and Ribosome Display systems. CAT has phage antibody libraries, incorporating more than 100 billion distinct antibodies. These libraries form the basis for CAT's capability to develop a portfolio of antibody-based drugs. The Company's pipeline of human monoclonal antibody product candidates consists of four CAT human therapeutic antibody products at various stages of clinical development and one CAT product candidate in pre-clinical development. Six further licensed CAT-derived human therapeutic antibodies are in clinical development, with six further licensed product candidates in pre-clinical development.
CBM Cambrex Corporation is a life sciences company engaged in providing essential products and services to accelerate drug discovery, development and manufacturing processes for human therapeutics. The Company primarily supplies its products and services worldwide to pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical companies, generic drug companies, biotech companies and research organizations. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company began reporting in three segments: Human Health (formerly Human Health and All Other segments), primarily consisting of pharmaceutical ingredients derived from organic chemistry; Bioproducts, consisting of cell culture products, endotoxin detection products and services and electrophoresis and chromatography products, and Biopharma, consisting of the Company's contract biopharmaceutical process development and manufacturing business.
CBJ Cambior Inc. is engaged in exploration, development and mining of gold deposits in North and South America. The Company holds a 50% interest in a niobium mine, and, from time to time, reviews the potential production of other metals and minerals to complement its gold mining operations. Cambior's activities were largely focused on the construction and development of the Rosebel project, which is scheduled to reach commercial production in 2004. The Company's revenues are generated predominantly from the sale of gold, with the remaining portion from the sale of ferroniobium, a strengthening additive used in the steel alloy industry. Cambior also has investments in the Carlota copper project located in the Globe-Miami mining district in Arizona, and in the Camp Caiman gold project that lies approximately 45 kilometers southeast of the capital city of Cayenne in French Guiana.
CBEX.OB Cambex Corporation is a designer and supplier of data storage products and solutions. The Company's products include memory for computing systems and fibre channel connectivity and storage products used to build storage area networks (SANs). The Company designs, manufactures and markets memory products that enhance the performance and reliability of computing systems and networking devices. Cambrex also provides memory upgrade solutions for most of the major servers, workstations and personal computers manufactured by IBM, Sun, Hewlett-Packard and Dell. The Company's memory products are designed to the same specifications as original system memory and, in most, cases are identical in fit, form and function. The Company also develops and offers fiber channel host bus adapters and hubs, high-availability software, fiber channel disk storage arrays and management software for the deployment of SAN solutions.
CADA CAM Commerce Solutions, Inc. provides total commerce solutions for small to medium-sized, traditional retailers and Web retailers. The Company offers complete retailing systems consisting of software, hardware, installation, training, technical support services and Web hosting services. It offers comprehensive payment processing solutions and services that integrate with the retailing systems, as well as other suppliers' systems. These solutions are based on the Company's open architecture software products for managing inventory, point of sale, sales transaction processing, accounting and payment processing.
HIV Calypte Biomedical Corporation is engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of in vitro diagnostic tests primarily for the detection of antibodies to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted and infectious diseases. The Company has historically focused its business on urine-based screening and supplemental tests for use in laboratories. By integrating several technologies, Calypte developed urine HIV antibody tests, the Calypte urine-based enzyme immunoassay (EIA) HIV Type 1 (HIV-1) screening test and the Cambridge Biotech urine-based, HIV-1 western blot (Urine Western Blot) supplemental test. Calypte also manufactures and markets the Cambridge Biotech serum-based western blot (Serum Western Blot) supplemental test for detecting HIV-1 antibodies in serum. The Company's revenues are generated from sales of these three products, which it refers to, collectively, as the ELISA tests.
CTON.OB Calton, Inc. is engaged in constructing single-family homes through Homes by Calton, LLC, providing Internet business solutions and consulting services through eCalton.com, Inc. and the development of a loyalty and co-branded credit card program through PrivilegeONE Networks, LLC. Homes by Calton focuses on homebuilding developments primarily located in Indian River County, Florida. eCalton provides Internet strategy consulting services and develops comprehensive Internet-based solutions for its clients. PrivilegeONE develops and implements the PrivilegeONE Loyalty Program, which aggregates disparate entities under the PrivilegeONE umbrella to create customer loyalty and retention to the individual entity through the issuance of co-branded credit card and membership cards.
CPN Calpine Corporation is a North American power company engaged in the development, construction, ownership and operation of power generation facilities and the sale of electricity predominantly in the United States, as well as in Canada and the United Kingdom. The Company focuses on two types of power generation technologies, natural gas-fired combustion turbine and geothermal. As of December 31, 2003, it owned over 800 billion cubic feet equivalent of net proved natural gas reserves located in Alberta, Canada, as well as in the Sacramento Basin, Rockies and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. In addition, the Company owns a 25% interest in Calpine Natural Gas Trust. Calpine is capable of producing 215 million cubic feet equivalent of natural gas per day. In September 2004, the Company sold all of its Canadian natural gas reserves and petroleum assets to PrimeWest Energy Trust and affiliates. It also sold its natural gas reserves in the Colorado Piceance Basin in September 2004.
CALM Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., is primarily engaged in the production, cleaning, grading, packaging and distribution of fresh shell eggs for sale to shell egg retailers. The Company had sales of approximately 605 million dozen shell eggs during the fiscal year ended May 29, 2004 (fiscal 2004). It primarily markets shell eggs in the southwestern, southeastern, mid-western and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The Company markets its shell eggs through its distribution network to a diverse group of customers, including national and regional grocery store chains, club stores, foodservice distributors and egg product manufacturers. The Company also produces and markets value-added specialty shell eggs in the United States. Specialty shell eggs include reduced cholesterol, cage free and organic eggs.
CALL CallWave, Inc. provides application services on a subscription basis that add features and functionality to the telecommunications services used by mainstream consumers, and small and home offices. The Company's software-based services are delivered to consumers, and small and home offices through its Enhanced Services Platform, which allows subscribers to manage calls across their existing landline, mobile and Internet networks. This process called call-bridging, enables subscribers to receive calls on any communications device that is available to them at the time without requiring them to purchase or install additional hardware. CallWave's software allows subscribers to screen a voicemail in real time before deciding whether to take the call on their existing landline, mobile or Internet networks, enabling mass-market subscribers to more effectively manage their personal telecommunications. As of June 30, 2004, CallWave had approximately 797,000 paying subscribers.
CPE Callon Petroleum Company is engaged in the exploration, development, acquisition and production of oil and gas properties and provides oil and gas property management services for other investors. The Company's properties are concentrated offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and onshore, in Louisiana and Alabama. At December 31, 2003, Callon owned working interests in a total of 73 blocks/leases covering 157,000 net acres. Its estimated net proved reserves totaled 23.7 million barrels of oil and 74.7 billion cubic feet of natural gas. Gas constitutes approximately 34% of its total estimated proved reserves and approximately 42% of its total estimated proved reserves are proved developed reserves. Callon's Medusa (Mississippi Canyon Blocks 538/582) and Habanero (Garden Banks Block 341) discoveries began production during the year ended December 31, 2003. These two deepwater discoveries are expected to increase the Company's projected 2004 production by approximately 85% from 2003 levels.
KAL Callisto Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of drugs to treat multiple myeloma (an incurable blood cancer that invades and proliferates in bone marrow), other cancers and osteolytic bone disease. The Company's lead drug candidate, Atiprimod, is a small-molecule, orally available drug with antiproliferative and antiangiogenic activity. The Company was formed, in April 2003, through a reverse acquisition between Callisto Pharmaceuticals and Webtronics, Inc.
CALD Callidus Software Inc. is a provider of enterprise incentive management (EIM) software systems to global companies across multiple industries. Large enterprises use EIM systems to model, administer, analyze and report on incentive compensation or pay-for-performance plans that compensate employees and business partners for the achievement of targeted quantitative and qualitative objectives, such as sales quotas, product development milestones and customer satisfaction. The Company provides a suite of software products that enable companies to access applicable transaction data, allocate compensation credit to employees and business partners, determine compensation measurements, payment amounts and timing and report on compensation results. The Company's product suite is based on its technology and expertise in pay-for-performance programs and provides the flexibility and scalability required to meet the dynamic EIM requirements of businesses across multiple industries.
ELY Callaway Golf Company designs, manufactures and sells golf clubs (drivers, fairway woods, irons, wedges and putters) and golf balls together with its subsidiaries. It also sells golf accessories such as golf bags, golf gloves, golf headwear, travel covers and bags, golf towels and golf umbrellas. The products are generally sold to golf retailers, sporting goods retailers and mass merchants, directly and through wholly owned subsidiaries and to third-party distributors. Its products are sold in the United States and in over 100 countries around the world. In addition, the Company licenses its trademarks and service marks in exchange for a royalty fee to third parties for use on products such as golf apparel, golf shoes, watches, luggage and other golf related products such as headwear, travel bags, golf towels and umbrellas.
CLNW.OB Call Now, Inc. is primarily engaged in the management of Retama Park Racetrack in Selma, Texas through Retama Entertainment Group, Inc., its 80% owned subsidiary. Call Now was originally formed to acquire the assets or securities of another business, through an acquisition of assets or securities, merger or other business combination. Retama Entertainment Group, under a management agreement effective until November 1, 2010, is accorded the right to manage the operations of the racing facility and is reimbursed for the expenses of operating the track from revenues generated at the track. The Company also has investments in Retama Development Corp, and has another wholly owned subsidiary, Jupiter Prime Corp.
CNEZF.OB Call-Net Enterprises Inc. is a holding company that conducts its telecommunications business primarily through its wholly owned operating subsidiaries: Call-Net Communications Inc., Call-Net Technology Services Inc., Sprint Canada Inc., AlternaCall Inc. and CNCS Inc. The Company primarily offers data, network solutions, online services, local access and long-distance voice services across Canada. A range of such services is offered to businesses, residential customers, governments and other telecommunications carriers. The Company operates in 13 locations across Canada. Its service offerings can be categorized into the groups, including local and long-distance services, residential long-distance services, residential local or home phone service, business local and long-distance services, residential data services, as well as business data services and Internet protocol (IP) services.
CALP Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. uses its core technologies of liquid handling, automation and labchip microfluidics to create edge tools for the life sciences industry. Within the life sciences industry, the Company addresses three major markets: drug discovery and development, genomics and proteomics and molecular diagnostics. The Company's products and services include high-throughput screening systems and integrated workstations, advanced liquid handling, plate management and storage, separations and analysis, pharmaceutical development and quality control and application development systems. It also derives a portion of revenue from service and aftermarket products, including consumable and accessory products such as labchip devices, pipette tips, filters, glassware and storage trays.
CWT California Water Service Group is engaged in the supply and distribution of water and the providing of water-related utility services. The Company conducts its operations through five subsidiaries: California Water Service Company (Cal Water), CWS Utility Services, New Mexico Water Service Company (New Mexico Water), Washington Water Service Company (Washington Water) and Hawaii Water Service Company, Inc. (Hawaii Water). Cal Water, New Mexico Water, Washington Water and Hawaii Water are regulated public utilities. California Water Service Group's business consists of the production, purchase, storage, purification, testing, distribution and sale of water for domestic, industrial, public and irrigation uses, and for fire protection. As of December 31, 2003, it served approximately 446,400 customers in its principal markets in California, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Washington.
CPKI California Pizza Kitchen, Inc. is a casual dining restaurant chain with a particular focus on the premium pizza segment. As of March 12, 2004, the Company owns, licenses or franchises 168 restaurants in the United States and five foreign countries, of which 139 are Company owned and operated under the names California Pizza Kitchen and California Pizza Kitchen ASAP, and the remaining 29 operate under franchise or license arrangements. California Pizza Kitchen's restaurants, which feature an exhibition style kitchen centered on an open flame oven, provide a distinctive, casual dining experience that is family friendly and has broad consumer appeal. The Company's menu focuses on imaginative toppings and showcase recipes that capture tastes and flavors that customers readily identify, but do not typically associate with pizza, pasta or salads.
CAMD California Micro Devices Corporation (California) designs and sells application specific analog semiconductor products primarily for high-volume applications in the mobile, computing and consumer electronics markets. It is a supplier of application specific integrated passive (ASIP) devices that provide electromagnetic interference (EMI) filtering, electrostatic discharge protection (ESD) and termination for high-speed signals. The Company offers a portfolio of active analog devices, including power management and interface devices. It also manufactures a limited number of thin film products in its Tempe, Arizona fabrication facility. The customers for semiconductor products are original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, Kyocera Wireless Corp., LG Electronics, Motorola, Inc., Royal Philips Electronics N.V., Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sony Corporation and TriGem Computer Inc.
CALC California Coastal Communities, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries (the Company) is a residential land development and homebuilding company with properties located primarily in southern California. The principal activities of the Company include obtaining zoning and other entitlements for land it owns or controls through purchase options and improving the land for residential development and designing, constructing and selling single-family residential homes in southern California. Once the residential land owned by the Company is entitled, it may build homes, sell unimproved land to other developers or homebuilders, sell improved land to homebuilders or participate in joint ventures with other developers, investors or homebuilders to finance and construct infrastructure and homes.
CFNB California First National Bancorp is a bank holding company with leasing and bank subsidiaries. The Company has two leasing subsidiaries, California First Leasing Corporation (CalFirst Leasing) and Amplicon, Inc. (Amplicon), (collectively, the Leasing Companies). The Company has a bank subsidiary, California First National Bank (CalFirst Bank or the Bank), which is a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)-insured national bank. The Leasing Companies and CalFirst Bank focus on leasing and financing capital assets, primarily computers, computer networks and other high-technology assets, through centralized marketing programs designed to offer cost-effective leasing alternatives. Leased assets are re-marketed at lease expiration. CalFirst Bank also provides business loans to fund the purchase of assets leased by third parties, including the Leasing Companies. CalFirst Bank gathers deposits using the telephone, the Internet and direct mail from a centralized location.
CCC Calgon Carbon Corporation provides services, products and solutions for purifying water and air. The Company has four operating segments: Activated Carbon, Service, Engineered Solutions and Consumer. The Activated Carbon segment manufactures granular activated carbon for use in applications to remove organic compounds from water, air and other liquids and gases. The Service segment consists of reactivation of spent carbon and the leasing, monitoring and maintenance of mobile carbon adsorption equipment. The Engineered Solutions segment provides solutions to customers' air and water purification problems through the design, fabrication and operation of systems that utilize a combination of the Company's enabling technologies: carbon adsorption, ultraviolet light and advanced ion exchange separation. The Consumer segment primarily consists of the manufacture and sale of carbon cloth, lump charcoal and briquettes and new consumer products.
CALVF.OB Caledonia Mining Corporation (Caledonia) is a mining, exploration and development company that owns a diversified portfolio of properties in Southern Africa and Canada. Caledonia continues to focus on the re-start of the Barbrook mine in Southern Africa. Exploration activities are also being undertaken on diamond, gold and platinum properties. Exploration projects are being carried out through companies, such as Eersteling Gold Mining Limited, Ashton Mining of Canada Inc., Motapa Diamonds Inc. and Caledonia Nama Limited. All gold bullion production is refined by Rand Refinery in Germiston and sold to Absa Bank Limited in Johannesburg, South Africa, under contract.
CKX Calcasieu Real Estate and Oil Co., Inc. owns and operates real estate holdings that generate oil and gas royalties, timber sales and agriculture rents. Originally formed to receive mineral royalties spun off by a bank to its shareholders, the Company has pursued a goal of acquiring land-holdings in Southwest Louisiana. Its income is derived from the acreage and mineral interests it owns either totally or as an undivided owner of land managed as a unit under the name Walker Louisiana Properties. The largest source of income is from oil and gas production from these properties. The next largest sources are from agriculture and timber grown on the Company's land. It is not involved in exploration and production.
CVGW Calavo Growers, Inc. engages in the procurement and marketing of avocados and other perishable foods and the preparation and distribution of processed avocado products. Through its two operating facilities in Southern California and two facilities in Mexico, the Company sorts and packs avocados procured in California and Mexico and prepares processed avocado products. Additionally, Calavo procures avocados internationally, principally from Chile, the Dominican Republic and New Zealand, and distributes other perishable foods, such as Hawaii-grown papayas. The Company markets its products to food distributors, produce wholesalers, supermarkets and restaurants on a worldwide basis. Calavo organizes its operations in three different business segments: California avocados, international avocados and perishable food products and processed products.
CAMP CalAmp Corp., formerly California Amplifier, Inc., designs, manufactures and markets microwave equipment used in the reception of television programming transmitted from satellites and wireless terrestrial transmission sites and two-way transceivers used for wireless high-speed Internet-broadband service. The Company's satellite business unit designs and markets reception products for the Direct Broadcast Satellite subscription television market in the United States and line of consumer and commercial products for video and data reception. The Wireless Access business unit designs and markets integrated reception and two-way transmission equipment for broadband data and video applications. On April 12, 2004, California Amplifier completed the acquisition of Vytek Corporation, a privately-held company engaged in providing hardware and software products and services that enable both wireless and wireline access to video, voice and data.
CLMS Calamos Asset Management, Inc. provides investment advisory services through its subsidiaries to institutions and individuals, principally in the United States, and had $33.2 billion in client assets managed by its subsidiaries at September 30, 2004. The Company has consistently applied its own investment philosophy and process, centered on risk management across an expanding range of investment strategies within the equity, balanced, convertible, high-yield and alternative asset classes. The Company's target clients are institutions and individuals with long-term investment horizons. Through its subsidiaries, the Company offers six types of investment products that fall into two categories: mutual funds, including eight registered open-end funds and three registered closed-end funds, and separate accounts, including institutional accounts, managed accounts, private-client accounts and alternative investments.
CAAUF.OB Calais Resources Inc. is a mineral exploration company engaged, directly and indirectly through its subsidiaries, in the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral properties. The Company's primary property is the Caribou Property located in Nederland, Colorado. Calais Resources also has exploration properties in Nevada, as well as in Panama. The Company's wholly owned subsidiaries include Calais Resources Colorado, Inc. and Calais Resources Nevada, Inc. The Company is in the business of researching, acquiring, exploring, and, when warranted, developing mineral prospects. It also seeks out and acquires potential gold prospects. Calais Resources has not produced any gold or silver for sale and has not developed any marketing channels. Calais' existing operations and its prospective operations are not dependent on any intellectual property, as well as licenses, industrial, commercial or financial contracts or new manufacturing processes.
CDIS Cal Dive International, Inc. (CDI) is an energy services company with operations in two primary business segments: marine contracting and oil and gas production. Within its marine contracting segment, the Company operates primarily in the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf). It operates the North Sea and Asia/Pacific with services that cover the lifecycle of an offshore oil or gas field. CDI's fleet of 22 vessels and 25 remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and trencher systems perform services that support drilling, well completion, intervention, construction and decommissioning projects involving pipelines, production platforms, risers and subsea production systems. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Shell Trading Company and Petrocom Energy Group Ltd accounted for 10%, each, of the consolidated revenue of the Company.
CZR Caesars Entertainment, Inc. is a casino/hotel operating in Nevada, New Jersey and Mississippi. The Company operates 29 properties with approximately 29,000 guest rooms and more than two million square feet of casino space. Caesars Entertainment's properties are operated under brands including Caesars, Paris, Bally's, Flamingo, Grand Casinos, Hilton and Conrad. The Company has its properties in four geographic regions that include the Western, Eastern, Mid-South and international regions. In September 2003, Caesars negotiated agreements with Pauma-Yuima Band of Luiseno Mission Indians to develop and manage a Caesars-branded casino on tribal lands in Pauma Valley in Southern California. In January 2004, Caesars Entertainment had a preliminary agreement with the Big Sandy Band of Western Mono Indians to develop and manage a casino resort on tribal lands near Fresno, California.
CGT CAE, Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of advanced simulation and control equipment, and a provider of integrated training solutions for the military, civil aviation and marine markets. CAE has delivered simulation products to the military forces of more than 30 countries. CAE also provides marine automation systems for both naval and commercial shipping, and supplies full-scope simulators to support the training of staff for both nuclear and fossil-fueled power generation plants. In addition, CAE also provides a range of simulation equipment for sea and land-based activities. CAE also provides a range of technical support services to civil and military simulator operators, including parts replacement and repairs, installations, relocations, upgrades and technical training. Customers use the Company's technical services to answer questions, trouble-shoot and receive advice.
KDUS.OB Cadus Corporation seeks to license, through its subsidiary, Cadus Technologies, Inc., drug discovery technologies and use a portion of the available cash obtained to invest in companies or income-producing asset. Three of the Company's technologies are used to identify small molecules that act as agonists or antagonists to cell surface receptors. These technologies include a hybrid yeast cell technology that expresses a functioning human receptor and a portion of its signaling pathway in a yeast cell; the autocrine peptide expression (Apex) system that expresses in a hybrid yeast cell both a known human ligand and the receptor that is activated by that ligand, and the self-selecting combinatorial library (SSCL) technologies, which are used to identify a ligand that activates a targeted orphan receptor (a receptor whose function is not known).
CDMS Cadmus Communications Corporation (Cadmus) provides end-to-end integrated graphic communications services to professional publishers, not-for-profit societies and corporations. Cadmus has augmented its core printing and content management competency through a series of strategic mergers and acquisitions. The Company has focused its operations around two segments: the Publisher Services and Specialty Packaging segments. The Publisher Services segment provides products and services to both not-for-profit and commercial publishers under the division names of Cadmus Professional Communications and Cadmus Specialty Publications. The Company's Specialty Packaging segment provides high-quality specialty packaging services under the division name of Cadmus Whitehall.
CDNR.OB Cadence Resources is an independent oil and gas exploration company. It has operations in Wilbarger County, Texas; DeSoto Parish, Louisiana; Eddy County, New Mexico and Alpena County, Michigan. It also has leased interests in western Kansas and southern Texas. The Company is engaged in acquiring, exploring, developing and producing oil and gas properties. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), substantially all of its revenues were derived from its interests in five producing oil wells in Wilbarger County, Texas, and eleven producing natural gas wells in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana.
CDN Cadence Design Systems, Inc. licenses electronic design automation (EDA) software and hardware technology and provides design and methodology services throughout the world to help accelerate and manage customers' electronic product development processes. Cadence's products are used by companies to design and develop complex integrated circuits (ICs) and personal and commercial electronic systems, including semiconductors, computer systems and peripherals, telecommunications and networking equipment, mobile and wireless devices, automotive electronics, consumer products and other advanced electronics. In January 2003, the Company acquired Celestry Design Technologies, Inc., a provider of silicon modeling tools and full-chip circuit simulation technology. In May 2003, it acquired K2 Technologies, Inc., a provider of mask data preparation and in January 2004, it acquired Q Design Automation, Inc. (QDA), a provider of solutions for migrating and optimizing integrated circuit layout.
CSG Cadbury Schweppes plc is an international confectionery and beverages group that operates both as a manufacturer and as a licensor. In confectionery, Cadbury Schweppes markets a range of chocolate, gum and sugar confectionery brands, including Cadbury, Trident, Halls, Dentyne, Hollywood, Bubbaloo, Stimorol, Trebor, Wedel, Bassett's and Maynards, in nearly 190 countries. Products include bars, blocks, bagged products, packets, rolls, boxed assortments, chocolate eggs and novelties. In beverages, key brands include Dr Pepper, 7 UP, Schweppes, Snapple, Hawaiian Punch, Mott's, Orangina, Oasis, Clamato, Canada Dry, A&amp;W, Sunkist, Yoo-Hoo and La Casera. 7 UP is owned by the Company in the United States and Puerto Rico only, and Sunkist is a licensed product. All other carbonated soft drink brands are owned in a limited number of countries, principally the United States, Canada, Mexico, Continental Western and Central Europe, Scandinavia and Australia.
CAI CACI International Inc. is engaged in the simulation technology, information technology (IT) and communications industries. The Company serves clients in the government and commercial markets throughout North America, the United Kingdom and worldwide. CACI primarily delivers IT and communications solutions to clients through four areas of expertise: systems integration, managed network services, knowledge management and engineering services. Through its service offerings, the Company provides IT and communications solutions by adapting emerging technologies and evolving legacy strengths in areas, such as information assurance and security; reengineering, logistics and engineering support; automated debt management systems and services; litigation support systems and services; product data management; software development and reuse; voice, data and video communications; simulation and planning; financial and human resource systems, and geo-demographic and customer data analysis.
CACH Cache, Inc. is a specialty retailer of social occasion sportswear and dresses targeting style-conscious women. The Company owns and operates two separate store concepts, Cache and Lillie Rubin, each of which carries its own distinctive branded merchandise. Cache targets women between the ages of 25 and 45, while Lillie Rubin stores offer a more sophisticated line of social occasion apparel targeting women between the ages of 35 and 55. Both store concepts focus on social occasion dressing designed for contemporary women. The Cache and Lillie Rubin lines extend from elegant eveningwear to distinctive day-into-evening sportswear, which encompasses a variety of tops, bottoms and dresses versatile enough to be worn during the day or evening. As of December 27, 2003, the Company operated 227 Cache and 28 Lillie Rubin stores primarily situated in central locations in high traffic, upscale malls throughout the United States.
COG Cabot Oil &amp; Gas Corporation is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the exploration, development, production and marketing of natural gas and, to a lesser extent, crude oil and natural gas liquids. The five principal areas of operation are in Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast, Rocky Mountains, Anadarko Basin, Appalachian Basin and the gas basin of Western Canada. Cabot produced 89.0 billion cubic feet equivalent (Bcfe), or 243.8 million cubic feet equivalent per day in 2003. The Company's proved reserves totaled approximately 1,142 Bcfe, as of December 31, 2003, of which 94% was natural gas. Cabot organizes its oil and gas operations into three geographical segments: Gulf Coast region, the Western region, which consists of the Rocky Mountains and Mid-Continent areas, and the Eastern region. Ancillary to its exploration, development and production operations, the Company transports, stores, gathers and purchases natural gas for resale.
CCMP Cabot Microelectronics Corporation is a supplier of high-performance polishing slurries used in the manufacture of the most advanced integrated circuit (IC) devices within the semiconductor industry, in a process called chemical mechanical planarization (CMP). CMP is a polishing process used by IC device manufacturers to planarize or flatten many of the multiple layers of material that are built upon silicon wafers in the production of advanced ICs. The Company's CMP products are used for a number of applications, such as polishing insulating oxide layers, the tungsten plugs that connect the multiple wiring layers of IC devices through these insulating layers, and copper wiring. The Company has developed and sells CMP slurries for polishing certain components in hard disk drives, specifically rigid disk substrates and magnetic heads. In addition, it is developing polishing pads for use in the CMP process.
CBT Cabot Corporation (Cabot) is a global specialty chemicals and performance materials company. Its principal products are carbon black, fumed metal oxides, inkjet colorants, tantalum and related products, and cesium formate drilling fluids. Cabot and its affiliates have manufacturing facilities in the United States and more than 20 other countries. The Company is organized into three business segments: the Chemical Business, the Supermetals Business and the Specialty Fluids Business. The Chemical Business is principally comprised of the carbon black, fumed metal oxides, inkjet colorants and aerogels product lines. Through Cabot Supermetals, the Company produces tantalum, niobium (columbium) and their alloys. The Company's Specialty Fluids Business produces and markets cesium formate as a drilling and completion fluid for use primarily in high pressure and high-temperature oil and gas well operations.
CVC Cablevision Systems Corporation (CSC) is a cable operator in the United States. The Company also has investments in cable programming networks, entertainment businesses and telecommunications companies. During the year ended December 31, 2003, CSC served about 2.9 million cable television subscribers in and around the New York City metropolitan area. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Rainbow Media Holdings LLC, the Company owns interests in, and manages, numerous national and regional programming networks, the Madison Square Garden sports and entertainment business and cable television advertising sales companies. Through Cablevision Lightpath, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, CSC provides switched telephone services and high-speed Internet access to the business market. The Company also owns or has interests in a number of other businesses and companies that include Clearview Cinemas, a chain of 54 movie theaters, and Rainbow DBS, a direct broadcast satellite provider.
CWP Cable and Wireless plc is an international telecommunications company with customers in 80 countries. The Company's principal operations are in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Caribbean, Panama, Macau and Japan. It provides Internet protocol (IP), voice and data services to business customers, and to residential customers in some markets, as well as services to other telecommunications carriers, mobile operators and providers of content, applications and Internet services. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2003 (fiscal 2003), the Company integrated its global and regional divisions to create a group of national telecommunications companies.
CAB Cabela's Incorporated is a direct marketer, and a specialty retailer, of hunting, fishing, camping and related outdoor merchandise. Through its established direct business and its growing number of destination retail stores, the Company aims to offer a wide selection of outdoor products at competitive prices. The Company operates as an integrated multi-channel retailer, offering its customers a seamless shopping experience through its catalogs, Website and destination retail stores. It issues the Cabela's Club VISA credit card, through which it offers a related customer loyalty rewards program as a vehicle for strengthening its customer relationships. In 2003, the Company processed over 7.1 million customer orders through its direct business and completed over 6.1 million sales transactions at its nine destination retail stores.
VNT Cia Anonima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela (CANTV) is a telecommunications services provider in Venezuela. As of December 31, 2003, the Company had 2.7 million access lines in service. The Company is comprised of three business units. The Mass Markets business unit is in charge of customer services for residential and public telephony users. In August 2003, this business unit launched the Cantv Listo (Cantv Ready) post-paid and pre-paid basic telephony service with wireless access. The Companies and Institutions business unit is engaged in customer service for the business and government sectors. The Interconnection business unit provides services to telecommunications companies, such as managing interconnection relations. Through its subsidiaries, the Company provides other telecommunications-related services, including mobile and information services.
BWCF BWC Financial Corp. is a holding company for the Bank of Walnut Creek (Bank). The Bank's focus is to engage in wholesale commercial banking, serving small to middle-sized businesses, professionals, high-net-worth individuals and general retail banking business. The Corporation has a subsidiary, BWC Real Estate, which operates a joint venture brokerage service called BWC Mortgage Services. The Bank offers range of services, which includes checking and savings deposits, construction loans, mortgage real estate loans, commercial loans, SBA loans, leases and installment loans and safe deposit services such as boxes for short-term storage. It sells travelers checks, issues drafts and offers other customary banking services. It offers its depositors a selection of deposit instruments, including money market accounts, NOW accounts and time certificates of deposit. The Bank also offers an auto deposit pick-up service to its professional and business clients.
BVRSF.OB B.V.R. Systems (1998) Ltd. is engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of training and simulation systems for military and civilian applications. The Company markets three lines of products: on-board training systems, such as Ehud air combat maneuvering instrumentation (ACMI) and naval combat instrumentation System (NCMI); military simulators, such as simulators for fighter aircraft, helicopters, training aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, tank and gunnery and naval simulators; embedded simulation, such as advanced trainer avionics suite (ATAS) and in-flight electronic warfare simulation (IFEWS).
BUKS.OB Butler National Corp. (BNC) offers services, such as Aircraft Modifications, which includes the modification of customers' aircrafts; Avionics, which includes the manufacture, sale and service of airborne electronic switching units; Gaming, which includes business management services; Monitoring Services, which includes the monitoring of water and wastewater pumping stations, and Corporate/Professional Services, which includes management service-licensed architectural services. These segments accounted for 55.4%, 17.3%, 11.4%, 11.1% and 4.8%, respectively, of the net revenues of the Company during the fiscal year ended April 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004).
BUTL Butler International, Inc. provides outsourcing, project management and technical staff augmentation services in technical, information technology (IT) and telecommunications disciplines. The Company's services include engineering design support used for aerospace, defense and heavy equipment manufacturing, software quality assurance testing, software applications development and implementation, enterprise network design and implementation and telecommunications network systems implementation. These services are provided through three business segments: Technical Group, Information Technology Solutions and Telecommunications Service. Companies utilize Butler's services on a contractual basis. Its clients include United Technologies Corp. (UTC), Boeing, Caterpillar, Verizon, BellSouth, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Los Alamos National Laboratory, SBC, United Defense, Nortel Networks and Nokia.
BOBJ Business Objects S.A. is a worldwide provider of business intelligence solutions. It develops, markets and distributes software that enables organizations to track, understand and manage enterprise performance. The Company's products include data integration, query, reporting, online analytical processing, information broadcasting, business alerts, analytical application frameworks and pre-packaged analytic applications. Its products also include administration tools that enable information technology professionals to set up and deploy its products across an enterprise. The software can be deployed in Web, Windows or mobile environments. The Company has three product families: business intelligence platform, enterprise analytic applications and data integration. In addition, the Company has a service and support organization that provides its customers post-sales customer support and software maintenance services, customer education and training services and consulting services.
BR Burlington Resources Inc. is engaged in the exploration, development, production and marketing of natural gas, crude oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs) through its main subsidiaries, Burlington Resources Oil &amp; Gas Company LP, The Louisiana Land and Exploration Company, Burlington Resources Canada Ltd. and Burlington Resources Canada (Hunter) Ltd., and their affiliated companies. The Company's operating segments are United States, Canada and Other International. Its North American operations include a mix of production, development and exploration assets, with lease holdings extending from the United States Gulf Coast to the Arctic coast of Canada. International operations focus on northwest Europe, North Africa, China and South America.
BNI Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation is engaged primarily in management of its investment in its principal and wholly owned subsidiary, The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF Railway). BNSF Railway operates a railroad network in North America with approximately 32,500 route miles covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. Through one operating transportation services segment, BNSF Railway transports a range of products and commodities, including the transportation of consumer products, industrial products, coal and agricultural products, derived from manufacturing, agricultural and natural resource industries. BNSF Railway also operates various facilities and equipment to support its transportation system, including its infrastructure and locomotives and freight car. It also owns or leases other equipment to support rail operations, including highway trailers, containers and vehicles.
BCF Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation (BCFWC) and its subsidiaries offer a complete line of men, women and children's wear and accessories, such as handbags, belts, perfume, watches, children's furniture, shoes, as well as linens, bath shop items, gifts and luggage. The primary product segments of the Company are Apparel and Home products. Through its Burlington Coat Factory division, a chain of department stores, the Company offers merchandises in a moderate to higher price ranges. The Company also offers merchandise for sale through its Internet subsidiary, Burlington Coat Factory Direct Corporation (BCFDC), on the Web (www.bcfdirect.com). During the fiscal year ended May 29, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company completed the construction of a new warehouse and distribution facility of approximately 650,000 square feet in Edgewater Park, New Jersey. BCFWC also completed a roll-out of new point-of-sale register systems to all of its stores.
BMLS.OB Burke Mills, Inc. is engaged in texturing, winding, dyeing and processing filament, novelty and spun yarns, and markets them for apparel, upholstery and industrial uses through the knitting and weaving industry. The Company markets its products throughout the United States, Caribbean Basin, Mexico and Canada, with the bulk of the business being primarily in the eastern United States. Burke Mills also markets its products in Mexico, Central America and South America through its 50%-owned affiliate, Fytek, S.A. de C.V. For the fiscal year ended January 3, 2004 (fiscal 2003), approximately 3% of the Company's sales were from dyeing and processing of yarn for customers that supplied the yarn.
BNL Bunzl plc is a holding company for an international group of companies involved in the provision of outsourcing solutions and customer service oriented distribution and light manufacture, primarily of plastic and paper-based products. The Company's operations are organized primarily by international line of business into two business areas: Outsourcing Services and Filtrona. Operating across North America, Europe and Australasia, the Outsourcing Service business is a supplier of a range of products, including outsourced food packaging, disposable supplies and cleaning and safety products for supermarkets, redistributors, caterers, food processors, hotels, contract cleaners, non-food retail and other users. Filtrona is a supplier of outsourced cigarette filters, ink reservoirs and other bonded fiber products, protection and finishing products, self-adhesive tear tapes and certain security products. It is also an extruder of custom plastic profiles.
BG Bunge Limited is an integrated, global agribusiness and food company operating in the farm-to-consumer food chain, with operations ranging from sales of raw materials such as grains and fertilizers to retail food products such as margarine and mayonnaise. The Company conducts its operations in three divisions: agribusiness, fertilizer and food products. The agribusiness division is an integrated business involved in the purchase, sale and processing of grains and oilseeds. The fertilizer division is involved in every stage of the fertilizer business, from mining of raw materials to the sale of fertilizer products. The food products division consists of two business lines, edible oil products and milling products. These businesses produce and sell food products such as edible oils, shortenings, margarine, mayonnaise and milled products such as wheat flours and corn products.
BMHC Building Materials Holding Corporation (BMHC) specializes in providing construction services, including structural framing and shell construction, manufacturing building components and installation, value engineering, and lumber and high-quality building materials to residential builders across the United States. The Company's principal operating subsidiaries include BMC Construction, Inc., which provides construction services, and BMC West Corporation, which is primarily engaged in lumber and building materials distribution, truss manufacturing and millwork operations as well as installation and framing services in selected markets. BMHC's business focuses on two customer categories in the new residential construction market: large, high-volume production homebuilders with national or multiple-market operations; and local custom, low-volume production homebuilders and new-home contractors.
BBW Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. provides a make-your-own-stuffed-animal interactive retail entertainment experience. As of October 12, 2004, the Company operated 165 stores in 39 states and Canada, and had eight franchised stores internationally, all under the Build-A-Bear Workshop brand. The Company's concept is based on the customers or guests creating, personalizing and customizing their stuffed animals, and capitalizes on demand for experience-based shopping, as well as the widespread appeal of stuffed animals. The Company offers an extensive and coordinated selection of merchandise, including over 30 different styles of animals to be stuffed and a wide variety of clothing, shoes and accessories for the stuffed animals. Its concept appeals to a broad range of age groups and demographics, including children, teens, parents and grandparents.
BUH Buhrmann N.V. is an international business-to-business services and distribution group primarily engaged in supplying office products, and graphic systems and related services for the business market. The Company operates in the European, North American and Australian markets under the name Corporate Express. Buhrmann's graphic systems business is active in six European countries, supplying graphic machines, materials and related services to the graphic industry. The Company is an agent for Heidelberg. Buhrmann's business activities are organized into four divisions.
BWLD Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. is an owner, operator and franchisor of restaurants featuring flavored, made-to-order menu items, including the Company's Buffalo, New York-style chicken wings spun in any of its 12 signature sauces. The Company's restaurants create an inviting neighborhood atmosphere that includes a multi-media system, a bar and an open layout that appeals to sports fans and families alike. Its flexible service model allows guests to choose among dining options, such as quick casual counter service, casual dining table service or take-out. The appeal of the Company's concept establishes its restaurants as a neighborhood destination with 245 restaurants in 29 states as of the fiscal year ended December 28, 2003. Its menu features fresh chicken wings and other items, including boneless wings, chicken tenders, specialty hamburgers and sandwiches, wrappers, Buffalito soft tacos, finger foods and salads.
BUCY Bucyrus International, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets large excavation machinery used for surface mining, and provides aftermarket services, supplying replacement parts and offering maintenance and repair contracts and services for these machines. The Company manufactures its original equipment manufactured (OEM) products and manufactured aftermarket parts at its facility in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its principal OEM products are draglines, electric mining shovels and rotary blasthole drills, which are used primarily by customers who mine copper, coal, oil sands and iron ore throughout the world. In addition, the Company provides aftermarket services in mining centers throughout the world, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, England, India, Peru, South Africa and the United States. The largest markets for this mining equipment have been in the United States, South America, Australia, South Africa and Canada.
BKE The Buckle, Inc. is a retailer of medium to better-priced casual apparel, footwear and accessories for fashion conscious young men and women. As of January 31, 2004, the Company operated 316 retail stores in 38 states throughout the central United States, as well as in the northwest, southeast and southwestern states under the names Buckle and The Buckle. The stores are in four downtown locations, 11 strip centers, seven lifestyle centers and 296 shopping malls. Buckle markets a selection of mostly brand name casual apparel. The Company emphasizes personalized attention to its customers and provides customer services such as free alterations, free gift-wrapping, layaways, The Buckle private label credit card and a frequent shopper program.
BKI Buckeye Technologies Inc. (Buckeye) produces value-added, cellulose-based specialty products made up from both wood and cotton, utilizing wetlaid and airlaid technologies. The product categories of the Company are chemical cellulose, customized fibers, fluff pulp and non-woven materials, and accounted for approximately 32%, 17%, 18% and 33%, respectively, of the revenues during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004). These products are managed within two segments: specialty fibers and non-woven materials. The Company operates manufacturing facilities in the United States, Canada, Germany and Brazil and sells its products in 60 countries. The geographic markets of the Company are North America, Europe, Asia, South America and Others, and accounted for approximately 39%, 40%, 11%, 4% and 6%, respectively, of the total sales during fiscal 2004.
BPL Buckeye Partners, L.P. handles the transportation, terminalling and storage of refined petroleum products for integrated oil companies, refined-product marketing companies and major end users of petroleum products on a fee basis through facilities owned and operated by the Company. It also operates pipelines owned by third parties under contracts with major integrated oil and chemical companies. Buckeye Partners conducts all its operations through subsidiary entities. These operating subsidiaries are Buckeye Pipe Line Company, L.P. (Buckeye), Laurel Pipe Line Company, L.P., Everglades Pipe Line Company, L.P. and Buckeye Pipe Line Holdings, L.P. (BPH). The Company owns approximately a 99% interest in each of the Operating Partnerships. BPH owns, directly or indirectly, a 100% interest in each of Buckeye Terminals, LLC (BT), Norco Pipe Line Company, LLC and Buckeye Gulf Coast Pipe Lines, L.P. (BGC), and interests in other companies.
BUCA BUCA, Inc. owns and operates 105 full-service restaurants under the names Buca di Beppo and Vinny T's of Boston. The Buca di Beppo restaurants are dinner-only restaurants that offer immigrant Southern Italian cuisine served family-style in small and large family sized portions in an atmosphere that parodies the decor and ambiance of post-War Italian/American restaurants. In calendar year 2003, the Company began to serve lunch seven days per week at 11 Buca di Beppo restaurants. The Vinny T's of Boston restaurants are based upon re-creations of the neighborhood Italian eateries prominent in the neighborhoods of lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, north-end Boston and South Philadelphia in the 1940s. The menu also includes both individual and family sized portions. The Company owns and operates 95 Buca di Beppo restaurants and 10 Vinny T's of Boston restaurants located in 43 markets in 30 states and the District of Columbia.
BTUI BTU International, Inc. designs, manufactures, sells and supports thermal processing systems used for semiconductor packaging, printed circuit boards (PCB) assembly and advanced materials processing. The Company produces thermal systems for specialty applications for a range of temperatures. Its products are sold worldwide through a direct technical sales force and through independent sales representatives. Among the Company's revenue generating customers in 2003 were IBM, Dana Corporation, Intel Corporation, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), Compal, Nokia, Motorola, Inc., Celestica Incorporated, Delphi and Samsung Corporation. Net sales to BTU's 10 largest customers accounted for approximately 28% of its net sales for the year ended December 31, 2003. The Company markets its systems and services globally. In 2003, 76% of its net sales originated outside the United States, with Asia Pacific and Europe representing 53% and 19% of net sales, respectively and 4% to Other Americas.
BSQR BSQUARE Corporation provides software, professional service and hardware offerings to the smart device marketplace. The Company's smart device businesses are focused on devices running customized embedded versions of the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems, specifically Windows CE.NET, Windows XP Embedded and Windows Mobile for Pocket PC (Personal Computers) and Smartphone. Examples of smart devices that BSQUARE targets include set-top boxes, home gateways, point-of-sale terminals, kiosks, voting machines, gaming platforms, personal digital assistants, personal media players and smartphones.
BSDM.OB BSD Medical Corporation develops, manufactures, markets and services systems that deliver focused electromagnetic energy for use in a variety of medical therapies and applications. The Company has have developed various technologies for heating cancerous tumors, depending on their location in the body. The Company's hyperthermia therapy systems precisely deliver microwave energy to elevate the temperature of tumors. In October 2004, the Company entered into an agreement with Best Medical International, Inc. to act as its exclusive sales agent for the BSD-500 in the United States. Best Medical is a supplier of products in the target market for the BSD-500. The Company's cancer therapy business is focused on developing and commercializing systems that can provide hyperthermia treatment for cancerous tumors that occur anywhere in the body. On July 15, 2004, TherMatrx was sold to American Medical Systems Holdings, Inc.
BMTC Bryn Mawr Bank Corporation is a bank holding company. The Bryn Mawr Trust Company (the Bank), the principal subsidiary of the Corporation, is a state chartered bank. Through its subsidiaries, especially the Bank, the Company provides banking services including deposits, lending and wealth management services, as well as other financial services. Other services include insurance sales and services through Insurance Counsellors; brokerage related services through the Bank, and title abstract services through BMT Settlemen. The primary market for these services is in Montgomery, Delaware and Chester counties of Pennsylvania.
BW Brush Engineered Materials Inc. is a manufacturer of high-performance engineered materials serving the global telecommunications and computer, optical media, automotive electronics, industrial components, aerospace and defense and appliance markets. The Company's subsidiaries are organized under two segments: the Metal Systems Group and the Microelectronics Group. The Metal Systems Group includes Brush Wellman Inc. (Alloy Products and Beryllium Products) and Technical Materials, Inc. The Microelectronics Group includes Williams Advanced Materials Inc. and Electronic Products, which in turn, consists of Zentrix Technologies Inc. and Brush Ceramic Products Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Brush Wellman Inc.). Portions of Brush International, Inc. are included in both segments.
BC Brunswick Corporation is a manufacturer and marketer of consumer brands that operates in four segments. The Marine Engine segment manufactures outboard engines, sterndrive engines, inboard engines, water-jet propulsion systems, marine electronics, engine controls and other related equipment. It also manufactures boats in certain international markets. The Boat segment designs and manufactures fiberglass pleasure boats, high-performance boats, offshore fishing boats and aluminum fishing, deck and pontoon boats. It also owns and operates marine parts and accessories distribution and manufacturing businesses. The Fitness segment designs and manufactures fitness equipment, including treadmills, total-body cross trainers, stationary bikes and strength-training equipment. The Bowling and Billiards segment designs and manufactures bowling capital equipment and associated parts and supplies, and operates bowling centers in the United States and Japan.
BRB Brunswick Bancorp (BB) is a bank holding company whose principal activity is the ownership and management of its wholly owned subsidiaries, Brunswick Bank &amp; Trust Company (the Bank) and Brunscor Realty, Inc. The Bank also has a wholly owned investment subsidiary, BTB Investment Corp. Inc. The Bank generates commercial, mortgage and consumer loans and receives deposits from customers located primarily in Central New Jersey, with primary emphasis on Middlesex and Monmouth counties, and services are provided at six locations. Brunscor holds one of the Bank's parking lots as a rental property. As a secondary function, BB purchases loan participations. The Bank also provides trust services.
BRKR Bruker Biosciences Corporation designs and markets products to address the rapidly evolving needs of the life science industry. In July 2003, the Company merged with Bruker AXS Inc., a company under common control, and Bruker Biosciences was the surviving corporation in that merger. In connection with the merger, the Company changed its name from Bruker Daltonics Inc. to Bruker BioSciences Corporation and formed two operating subsidiaries, Bruker Daltonics Inc. and Bruker AXS Inc., into which it transferred substantially all of the assets and liabilities, except cash, which formerly belonged to the Company and Bruker AXS. As a result of the merger, Bruker Biosciences has two operating segments: Bruker Daltonics and Bruker AXS. Bruker Daltonics is a developer and provider of life science tools based on mass spectrometry, and also develops and provides a broad range of field analytical systems for nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) detection.
BRT BRT Realty Trust is a real estate investment trust (REIT), whose principal business activity is to generate income by originating and holding for investment, for its own account, senior and junior real estate mortgage loans secured by real property. The Company also purchases and holds for investment senior and junior participations in existing mortgage loans originated by others and sell senior, junior and pari passu participations in real estate mortgage loans originated by the Company. On occasion, the Company participates as both lender to and an equity participant in joint ventures, which acquire real property, and it will originate and hold for investment a loan secured by a commercial or multi-family residential property that is vacant, pending renovation and sale or leasing.
BWS Brown Shoe Company, Inc. is a footwear retailer and wholesaler. The Company provides branded, licensed and private-label casual, athletic and dress footwear products to women, children and men. Footwear is sold at a variety of price points through multiple distribution channels both domestically and internationally. At January 31, 2004, the Company operated 1,271 retail shoe stores in the United States and Canada under the Famous Footwear, Naturalizer and F.X. LaSalle names. In addition, through its Wholesale division, Brown Shoe designs, sources and markets footwear to retail stores in the United States and internationally, including department stores, mass merchandisers and specialty shoe stores. In November 2004, the Company consolidated its wholesale operations into one division, Brown Shoe Wholesale. The Company also created a new division, Specialty Retail to manage its 365 Naturalizer stores and 16 FX LaSalle stores in the United States and Canada.
BFb Brown-Forman Corporation is a diversified producer and marketer of consumer products. The Company consists of two business segments: Beverages and Consumer Durables. The Beverage segment includes both wine and spirits brands, which are produced, marketed and sold on a global basis. Approximately two-thirds of the segment's sales are generated in the United States, which is the Company's largest market. The Consumer Durables segment includes tabletop, collectibles and luggage products marketed under the Lenox, Dansk, Gorham, Kirk Stieff and Hartmann brand names. The sales are derived from three primary channels: department stores; Company-owned retail outlet stores, and direct-to-the-consumer through catalogs, direct mail and the Internet. During the fiscal year ended April 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Beverage segment generated approximately 96% and the Consumer Durables segment generated the remaining 4% of the Company's total operating income.
BRO Brown &amp; Brown, Inc. is a general insurance agency, marketing and selling insurance products and services, primarily in the property, casualty and employee benefits area. The Company's business is divided into four segments: the Retail Division, the National Programs Division, the Services Division and the Brokerage Division. The Retail Division provides a range of insurance products and services to commercial, governmental, professional and individual customers. The National Programs Division is comprised of two units, Professional Programs and Special Programs. The Services Division provides insurance-related services, including third-party administration, consulting for the workers' compensation and employee benefit self-insurance markets and managed healthcare services. The Brokerage Division markets and sells excess and surplus commercial insurance and reinsurance, primarily through independent agents and brokers.
BRKT Brooktrout, Inc., headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, delivers hardware and software platforms that enable the development of New NetworkT applications, systems and services. The Company is engaged in building the New Network, which allows voice, fax and data to be distributed over both Internet protocol (IP) and packet-based networks, by offering core technologies that marry the telephone to the data network. Brooktrout's focus on customers and products, as well as its strategic acquisitions, allow it to offer a vast array of services to communications service providers and enterprise application providers. It supplies products for media processing, network interface, call control and signal processing, including protocols that allow Internet and traditional telephony systems to communicate.
BKST Brookstone, Inc. is a nationwide specialty retailer that develops proprietary branded products and offers them to customers via multiple distribution channels, retail stores and direct to customer via catalog and the Internet. The Company's portfolio includes three brands: Brookstone, Hard-to-Find-Tools and Gardeners Eden. The Brookstone's merchandise includes lawn and garden, health and fitness, home and office and travel and auto products. Hard-to-Find-Tools features solutions for homeowners primarily focused on home improvement and the indoor and outdoor home environment. Gardeners Eden is a garden-inspired lifestyle brand that features garden themed home accessories, live plants, and outdoor furniture. The Company sells its products through 273 full-year stores, including 34 airport-based stores, three outlet stores and three Gardeners Eden stores in 39 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
BRKS Brooks Automation, Inc. is a supplier of automation products and solutions primarily serving the worldwide semiconductor market. The Company supplies hardware, software and services to both chip manufacturers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), who make semiconductor device manufacturing equipment. The Company offers individual hardware and software modules to fully integrated systems, as well as services to install and support the products worldwide. It is focused on providing automation solutions for a number of related industries, including flat panel display manufacturing, data storage and other complex manufacturing.
BRKL Brookline Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company parent of Brookline Bank (the Bank). The primary activities of the Bank are to gather deposits from the general public and to invest the resulting funds, plus those derived from borrowings, capital initiatives and operations, in loans and investment securities. The Company's loan portfolio consists of loans secured by real estate and indirect automobile loans. The investment portfolio primarily consists of debt securities and mortgage-backed securities issued by the United States Government and United States Government Agencies. Brookline operates five full-service banking offices in Brookline, an urban/suburban community adjacent to the City of Boston, and full-service banking offices in Newton and West Roxbury, communities adjacent to Brookline.
BPO Brookfield Properties Corporation owns, develops and manages North American office properties. In the commercial property business, Brookfield's portfolio spans 47 properties and development sites, primarily office buildings, totaling 45 million square feet of rentable area in which the Company has a net effective ownership interest in 35 million square feet. The Company operates ancillary real estate service businesses, which focus on enhancing the value and returns from the core commercial property business through tenant service and amenities. As of December 31, 2003, Brookfield managed in excess of 140 million square feet of space across North America, including its own assets. Brookfield also operates a development business, including a number of low-cost commercial development sites in Toronto and Manhattan. In addition, the Company owns a land development and housing operation.
BHS Brookfield Homes Corporation is a residential homebuilder and land developer, building homes and developing land in master-planned communities and infill locations. The Company designs, constructs and markets single-family and multi-family homes primarily to move-up and luxury homebuyers. It also develops land for its own communities and sells lots to other homebuilders. The Company's operations are focused primarily in five markets: the San Francisco Bay Area, the Southland/Los Angeles Area, San Diego/Riverside, Sacramento and Northern Virginia. In each of its markets, Brookfield Homes operates through local business units, which are involved in all phases of the planning and building of master-planned communities and infill developments. In the five year period ended December 31, 2003, the Company closed a total of 7,717 homes. In 2003, Brookfield Homes closed a total of 1,528 homes, compared with 1,554 in 2002.
BXX Brooke Corporation is engaged in three primary lines of business: Franchise Services Business, Insurance Brokerage Business and its Facilitator Services Business. The Franchise Services Business includes the sale of insurance, financial, funeral and credit services on a retail basis primarily through franchisees. The Insurance Brokerage Business includes the sale of insurance on a wholesale basis through the Company's franchisees and others. The Facilitator Services Business includes the sale of those services, such as lending and consulting, which facilitate the transfer of ownership to franchisees and others. Franchise services are marketed under the name of Brooke Franchise Corporation and consulting services are marketed under the trade names of Heritage Agency Consultants and Agency Business Consultants. Brooke's operations are performed by three operating subsidiaries: Brooke Franchise Corporation, Brooke Credit Corporation and CJD &amp; Associates, LLC.
BNZE.OB Bronze Marketing, Inc. was initially engaged in the business of providing inventory financing to facilitate the marketing of bronze artwork and sculptures created by a relative of the Company's president. It received royalties from the sale of the inventory. However, during 1999, Bronze Marketing restructured its business plans to market its inventory of bronze artwork and sculptures. This business was not successful. The Company experienced losses from its inception and operations were eventually discontinued as of December 31, 2002. Bronze Marketing is not engaged in any significant business activities and has no operations or assets. Its principal activity has been to investigate potential acquisitions. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company had not located any suitable potential business acquisition and had no plans, commitments or arrangements with respect to any potential business venture.
BRCD Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. designs, develops, markets, sells and supports data storage networking products and services. It offers a line of intelligent storage networking switches and storage area networking (SAN) management operating system that enables companies to implement highly available, scalable, manageable and secure environments for data storage applications. The Brocade SilkWorm family of SAN switches is designed to help companies reduce the cost and complexity of managing business information within a data storage environment. Brocade products are installed worldwide at companies, institutions and other entities of all sizes, ranging from large enterprises to small businesses. Brocade products and services are marketed, sold and supported worldwide to end users through distribution partners, including original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) value-added distributors, systems integrators and value-added resellers (VARs).
BWNG Broadwing Corporation, formerly Corvis Corporation, is the parent company of Broadwing Communications, LLC and Corvis Equipment Corporation. Broadwing Communications provides telecommunications solutions to enterprises, carriers and government entities. The Company's nationwide, all-optical network enables the delivery of data, voice, video and high-capacity bandwidth services. Corvis Equipment Corporation develops advanced optical networking equipment selling primarily to the United States Government. The Optical Convergence Switch (OCS) is an optical-to-electrical-optical (OEO), cross-connect switch with a high density and capacity. It also developed a field-deployed, all-optical solution and offers a path for any network to migrate to an all-optical infrastructure.
BVSN BroadVision, Inc. develops, markets and supports personalized, self-service Web applications that enable organizations to unify their e-business infrastructure and conduct both interactions and transactions with employees, partners and customers. The Company's integrated suite of process, commerce, portal and content solutions unify an organization's e-business infrastructure. The Company also provides a range of professional services to support its customers, including implementation, training, education and technical support. BroadVision's software is deployed in a number of industry groups, including financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, retail and telecommunications. Customers include entities such as Achmea, CIBC, Wal-Mart, KPN, O2 and Vodafone.
BDVM.OB Broadview Media, Inc. and its subsidiary, Broadview Media/Chicago, Inc. are engaged in the creation and production of communication products, primarily video and film-based products. The Company sells its products to three business customer types that comprise the Company's operations: Entertainment, Media Production and Education. The Entertainment Group creates and produces television shows for cable networks. Media Production develops communication products for corporations, associations and other organizations. The Education Group creates and produces educational products for large publishers plus products for sale through third-party vendors and under its own brand, Media Rich Learning. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company derived 60% of its revenues from two customers: HGTV accounted 53% and McDougal Littell accounted 7%.
BDLF.OB Broadleaf Capital Partners, Inc. is a diversified investment holding company that makes direct investments in, and/or acquisitions of, private and undervalued public companies in a variety of different industries. In addition to providing management services, the Company may participate in the formation of, and invest in emerging or early-stage, small to medium-sized companies in various fields of business by arranging for and contributing capital. Broadleaf has continued with its restructuring and plans expansion through the ongoing development of its available operations and other business opportunities.
BRCM Broadcom Corporation is a provider of highly integrated semiconductor solutions that enable broadband communications and networking of voice, video and data services. The Company designs, develops and supplies complete system-on-a-chip solutions incorporating digital, analog and radio frequency technologies, as well as related hardware and software system-level applications. The Company's product portfolio addresses broadband communications market and includes solutions for digital cable and satellite set-top boxes; high definition television; cable and digital subscriber line modems and residential gateways; high-speed transmission and switching for local, metropolitan, wide area and storage networking; home and wireless networking; cellular and terrestrial wireless communications; voice over Internet protocol gateway and telephony systems; broadband network and security processors, and system input/output server solutions.
BCST.OB Broadcast International, Inc. is an integrator of broadband delivery technologies, such as satellite, Internet streaming and wireless fidelity, through its wholly owned subsidiary acquired in October 2003, BI Acquisitions, Inc. (BI). BI provides value-added services that enable it to offer a turnkey solution for its clients. BI services consist of Internal Business Applications, External Business Applications, Satellite-Based Services, Streamed Video Hosting Services and Production &amp; Content Development Services. BI provides services to United States corporations such as Caterpillar, Albertson's, Safeway, Sprint Communications and Chevron. Broadcast International changed its name from Laser Corporation in January 2004.
BKBK Britton &amp; Koontz Capital Corporation is a bank holding company that owns Britton &amp; Koontz First National Bank (the Bank), a national banking association. The Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. The Bank conducts a full service banking business from its main office and three branch offices in Natchez, Mississippi, two branches in Vicksburg, Mississippi, one branch office in Madison, Mississippi, as well as three branch offices in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Britton &amp; Koontz also wholly owns B&amp;K Title Insurance Agency. The Agency issues policies of title insurance for and on behalf of the Company upon properties in all counties in the state of Mississippi. In addition, the Company has a 37% interest in Sumx Inc., a company formed to develop and market Internet-based electronic banking to financial institutions.
BSY British Sky Broadcasting Group plc. with its subsidiaries, operates a pay-television broadcasting service in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. The Company derives revenues from television broadcasting services and certain ancillary functions that are provided to both retail and wholesale customers. Sky operates and distributes 16 wholly owned channels (Sky's Channels) and retails a further 104 third-party channels to direct-to-home (DTH) viewers via its digital service. In addition, the Company operates the Sky Box Office service (SBO), which provides pay-per-view services covering films, sporting events and concerts. It also retail its channels, together with channels broadcast by third parties, to DTH subscribers and retail certain of its channels to a limited number of digital subscriber line (DSL) subscribers.
BTI British American Tobacco is an international tobacco group that has an active business presence in 180 markets. The Company is engaged in the harvesting, curing, processing, manufacturing, trade marketing and distribution of tobacco products. It has had over 300 brands in its portfolio, including such brands as State Express 555, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall, Benson &amp; Hedges, John Player and Kent, and has operated 87 factories in 66 countries. The Company primarily markets its products to retail markets and outlets. These outlets include supermarkets, convenience stores, hotels, restaurants, cafes, tobacconists and duty-free shops outside Europe. It has operated in regions, including America-Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Africa and the Middle East. In July 2004, the Company combined its United States businesses with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, Inc. under a new holding company, Reynolds American.
BAB British Airways plc provides international and domestic scheduled air services for the carriage of passengers and cargo. British Airways' (BA) main business is the provision of scheduled passenger services, which accounted for approximately 85% of the Company's turnover during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004). The Company also provides other services to outside parties, such as aircraft maintenance. In addition, the Company's operations include certain ancillary airline activities. BA's airline route network was comprised of 154 destinations in 75 countries at March 31, 2004. During fiscal 2004, the Company carried more than 36 million passengers on its services. Also during fiscal 2004, BA introduced services to Algiers, Bari, Dubrovnik and Turin and reintroduced services to Islamabad. Services to Bremen, Guernsey, Lilongwe, Liverpool, Newquay, Plymouth, San Diego and Zagreb were discontinued.
BSML BriteSmile, Inc. and its affiliates develop, distribute, market, sell and lease advanced teeth whitening technology, products, systems and services. Its operations include the development of technologically advanced teeth whitening processes that are distributed in professional salon settings, known as BriteSmile Professional Teeth Whitening centers (Centers). The Company also offers its products and systems through existing independent dental offices, BriteSmile Professional Teeth Whitening Associated Centers (Associated Centers). As of March 15, 2004, the Company had 14 Centers and approximately 4,995 Associated Centers in operation.
BRW Bristol West Holdings, Inc. is a provider of non-standard private passenger automobile insurance and related services. The Company offers insurance coverage through a network of 5,300 independent agents and brokers, some of that operate from multiple locations. It is licensed to provide insurance in 35 states and the District of Columbia, although Bristol west focuses its operations in 17 states that provide opportunity for profitable growth. The Company's markets include California, Florida and Texas, the three largest non-standard automobile insurance markets in the United States. Together, these three states accounted for 76.7% of gross premiums written for the year ended December 31, 2003. In addition to the premiums the Company charges for its insurance policies, it receives fees for policy issuance, installment payment processing and other services, which aggregate 10% of premiums.
BMY Bristol-Myers Squibb Company is engaged in the discovery, development, licensing, manufacturing, marketing, distribution and sale of pharmaceuticals and other healthcare-related products. The Company has four business segments: Pharmaceuticals, Oncology Therapeutics Network (OTN), Nutritionals and Other Healthcare. The Pharmaceuticals segment is made up of the global pharmaceutical and international (excluding Japan) consumer medicines business. The OTN segment provides oncology products, supportive care products and related supplies to office-based oncologists in the United States. The Nutritionals segment consists of Mead Johnson Nutritionals, primarily an infant formula business. The Other Healthcare segment consists of ConvaTec, Medical Imaging and Consumer Medicines (North America and Japan) businesses.
EAT Brinker International, Inc. is principally engaged in the ownership, operation, development and franchising restaurant concepts. The Company's restaurant concepts include Chili's Grill &amp; Bar, which is a full-service restaurant, featuring a menu of chicken, beef and seafood, steaks, fajitas, sandwiches, salads, appetizers and desserts; Romano's Macaroni Grill, which is a casual Italian restaurant; Maggiano's Little Italy, which are re-creations of dinner houses found in New York's Little Italy in the 1940s; On The Border Mexican Grill &amp; Cantina, which is a full-service, national, casual-dining Mexican restaurant chain; Corner Bakery Cafe, which is a quick-casual bakery cafe; Big Bowl Asian Kitchen, which is a full-service, casual dining concept with a menu influenced by Asia, and Rockfish Seafood Grill, which offers seafood dishes.
BDEI.OB Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. (BDE) operates a peer-to-peer-based content distribution network through its subsidiary, Altnet, Inc., that allows the Company to distribute a content owner's music, video, software and other digital files to computer users via the Internet. Using internally developed and licensed technology, BDE has created technologies for a private, or closed peer-to-peer network, which allows the Company to centrally control the distribution of a digital file, with authorization from the copyright owner, directly from one computer user (peer) to another (peer). The Company's ability to control files distributed over its private network, as well as its use of widely available digital rights management (DRM) technologies from Microsoft Corporation and others, prevent the distribution of unauthorized files over the BDE network, and help to protect against the unauthorized use of a digital file, once it resides on an end user's computer.
CBA Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Limited, through its subsidiary, Shenyang Automotive, manufactures and sells minibuses and Zhonghua sedans in China. The Company also has a joint venture with BMW to produce and sell 3-Series and 5-Series sedans in China. Shenyang Automotive's production facilities are located in the industrial city of Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning Province in northeastern China. Its principal products are the deluxe minibus, the mid-priced minibus and the Zhonghua sedan. The principal minibus products are the deluxe minibus and the mid-priced minibus. These vehicles are used for passenger transportation but can also be modified for use as police vans, ambulances or other specialty vehicles. Shenyang Automotive sells all of its minibuses under the JinBei brand name in models designed to meet the requirements of particular market segments.
BRLC Brillian Corporation designs and develops large-screen, rear-projection, high-definition televisions (HDTVs) utilizing the Company's liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) microdisplay technology. The Company markets its HDTVs for sale under the brand names of retailers, including consumer electronics retailers, consumer retail stores, personal computer manufacturers and high-end audio/video manufacturers. It has established a manufacturing model utilizing third-party contract manufacturers to produce its HDTVs, which incorporate the LCoS microdisplays that the Company manufactures. Brillian also offers a line of LCoS microdisplay products and subsystems that original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can integrate into HDTV products, home theater projectors and near-to-eye applications, such as head-mounted monocular or binocular headsets and viewers, for industrial, medical, military, commercial and consumer applications.
BTSR.OB BrightStar Information Technology Group, Inc. (BrightStar) provides information technology (IT) services for its customers. It helps organizations maximize their advantage through the implementation and/or support of enterprise-level, packaged-systems applications and legacy software systems. The Company focuses primarily on serving clients in the healthcare and government markets. It also provides software support and training services to major corporations. For enterprise resource planning (ERP), BrightStar implements and/or supports systems, applications and products in data processing (SAP), PeopleSoft and Lawson applications. In the legacy systems area, BrightStar consultants support the Medicare Part A claims processing software programs known as the Arkansas Part A Standard System (APASS) and the Fiscal Intermediary Standard System (FISS).
CELL Brightpoint, Inc. is engaged primarily in the distribution of wireless devices and accessories, as well as the provision of integrated logistics services to wireless network operators, resellers, retailers and wireless equipment manufacturers. The Company handles wireless products manufactured by companies such as Nokia, Motorola, Kyocera, Audiovox, Sony Ericsson, Siemens, Samsung, Panasonic and PalmOne. Its integrated logistics services are intended to provide outsourcing solutions for mission-critical requirements of wireless network operators. The Company operates in three principal geographic markets: the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe. Brightpoint has operation centers and/or sales offices in various countries including Australia, Colombia, France, Germany, India, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Sweden and the United States.
BFAM Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc. is a provider of workplace services for employers and families, including early care and education and strategic work/life consulting. The Company operates 509 early care and education programs for over 400 clients and has the capacity to serve more than 59,200 children in 37 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom. The early care and education center concept evolved from the more traditional child care center and is designed to serve the worksite population. Its early care and education centers provide a number of services designed to meet the business objectives of the client and the family needs of the client's employees. The services are designed to address employers' ever-changing workplace needs, enhance employee productivity, improve recruitment and retention of employees, reduce absenteeism and help project the image as the employer-of-choice within the employer's industry.
BEXP Brigham Exploration Company is an independent exploration and production company that applies three-dimensional (3D) seismic imaging and other advanced technologies to systematically explore for and develop onshore oil and natural gas reserves in the United States. The Company's exploration and development activities are focused primarily in the onshore Texas Gulf Coast, the Anadarko Basin and West Texas. The Company's net equivalent production volumes, for the year ended December 31, 2003, were 10.7 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent (bcfe) (29.7 million cubic feet of natural gas equivalent per day (mmcfe/d)) compared to 10 bcfe (27.8 mmcfe/d) during the year ended December 31, 2002, and 9.6 bcfe (26.6 mmcfe/d) during the year ended December 31, 2001. The increase in production volume was due to production growth from wells that were drilled and completed during the periods. New production from these wells was partially offset by the natural decline of existing production.
BGG Briggs &amp; Stratton Corporation is a producer of air-cooled gasoline engines for outdoor power equipment. The Company designs, manufactures, markets and services these products for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide. These engines are primarily aluminum alloy gasoline engines ranging from three to 31 horsepower. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Briggs &amp; Stratton Power Products Group, LLC (BSPPG), Briggs &amp; Stratton designs, manufactures and markets portable generators, pressure washers and related accessories. Briggs &amp; Stratton conducts its operations in two segments: Engines and Power Products.
BRID Bridgford Foods Corporation is engaged in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of frozen, refrigerated and snack food products throughout the United States and Canada. The products manufactured and distributed by Bridgford consist of a line of food products that include biscuits, bread dough items, roll dough items, dry sausage products and a variety of sandwiches and sliced luncheon meats. The products purchased by the Company for resale include a variety of jerky, cheeses, salads, party dips, Mexican foods, nuts and other delicatessen type food products. The Company's frozen food division sells approximately 200 frozen food products through wholesalers, cooperatives and distributors to approximately 18,000 retail outlets and 21,000 restaurants and institutions. Its refrigerated and snack food products division sells approximately 300 different items through a direct store delivery network serving approximately 37,000 supermarkets, mass merchandise and retail stores.
OCNB Bridge Street Financial, Inc. is a bank holding company for Oswego County National Bank, which converted from a New York savings bank (Oswego County Savings Bank) to a national bank in January 2003. Oswego County offers loans that include one- to four-family residential mortgages, home equity loans, commercial mortgages commercial loans and consumer loans. It also invests in mortgage-backed and other investment securities, consisting primarily of United States government and federal agency securities, New York State municipal securities and corporate securities.
BDGE.OB Bridge Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company, the sole subsidiary of which is The Bridgehampton National Bank (the Bank). The Company was organized as a New York business corporation and incorporated under the laws of the State of New York in 1988, at the direction of the Board of Directors of the Bank for the purpose of becoming a bank holding company pursuant to a plan of reorganization; under the plan the former shareholders of the Bank became the shareholders of the Company. Since commencing business in March 1989, after the reorganization, the Company has functioned primarily as the holder of all of the Bank's common stock. In May 1999, the Bank established a real estate investment trust subsidiary, Bridgehampton Community, Inc. (BCI). In April 2002, the Bank capitalized a financial subsidiary, Bridgehampton Abstract Holding, LLC. This subsidiary provides title insurance for the Bank. The Bank engages in full-service commercial and consumer banking and limited trust business.
BRER.OB Bresler &amp; Reiner, Inc. (B&amp;R) is engaged in real estate business activities, including commercial, residential and hospitality property ownership, residential and commercial property development, land development and residential property management, through either direct ownership or through joint ventures with unrelated third parties. The Company is engaged in these activities in the Washington D.C., Orlando, Florida, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan areas. B&amp;R operates four segments: Commercial Rental Property, Residential Rental Property, Hospitality Properties and Commercial, Residential and Land Development. The Company employs independent management companies to perform onsite management, leasing, maintenance and development activities. It also partners with regional and national developers to develop and reposition properties.
BWLRF.OB Breakwater Resources Ltd. (Breakwater) is a mineral resource company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and mining of base metal deposits in the Americas and North Africa. The Company's principal product is zinc concentrate, lead and copper concentrates sold to smelters located in Canada, South America, Europe and Asia. It also sells to trading companies, which then resell the concentrate to smelters throughout the world. Breakwater's production is derived from four mines, one of which is located in Canada, and one of which is located in each of Tunisia, Honduras and Chile. The Company owns two additional mines in Canada, both of which are being held on a care and maintenance basis. The Nanisivik mine in Nunavut, Canada, was closed in September 2002, and reclamation activities are ongoing. Breakwater also owns base metal and gold exploration properties in Canada, Honduras, Tunisia and Chile.
BWAY.PK Breakaway Solutions, Inc. is a full service provider of collaborative business solutions. The Company's target market segment, the Global 3000 enterprise, is comprised of companies with revenues greater than $250 million or project budgets greater than $10 million that seek to create additional revenue streams or obtain operational efficiencies. The Company offers its clients integrated services for business strategy, branding and user experience, e-business implementation and package customization. Complementing these services, the Company offers full application hosting and operations support. All of these services are designed to provide a strong focus on customer value and satisfaction. In September 2001, the Company filed a petition under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.
BRE BRE Properties, Inc. is a self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on the development, acquisition and management of multifamily apartment communities in the Western United States. As of December 31, 2003, BRE's portfolio, owned directly or through wholly or majority owned subsidiaries, consisted of 80 multifamily communities (aggregating 22,981 units). Of these properties, 51 were located in California, 13 in Washington, seven in Arizona, five in Colorado and four in Utah. In addition, as of December 31, 2003, there were seven properties under various stages of construction and development aggregating an estimated 1,388 units, including four directly owned properties with 744 units and three land parcels estimated to have 644 units. BRE also holds a 35% interest and is the managing member of two real estate joint ventures that own two multifamily properties, and a 15% joint venture interest in a multifamily portfolio managed by a third party.
BZF The Brazil Fund, Inc. is a closed-end investment company investing in a broad spectrum of Brazilian industries. The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation through investment, primarily in equity securities of Brazilian issuers. The Fund acts as a vehicle for international diversification through participation in the Brazilian economy. Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. (DeIM) is the investment manager for the fund. The Fund's net asset value (NAV) total return was 46.56% for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004).
BOBS.OB Brazil Fast Food Corp. (Brazil) owns and operates a fast food hamburger restaurant chain in Brazil through its wholly owned subsidiary, Venbo Comercio de Alimentos Ltda., which conducts business under the tradename Bob's. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Brazil had 345 points of sale, including 66 kiosks and trailers. Of the 345 points of sale, it owns and operates 60 and the remaining 285 are franchises, which are each operated under Bob's by a franchisee. Approximately 210 of these points of sale are located in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, and the remaining points of sale are spread throughout major cities in other parts of Brazil, except for three franchised restaurants that opened in Portugal. All points of sale serve a uniform menu of hamburgers, chicken burgers, hot dogs, sandwiches, French fries, soft drinks, juices, desserts and milk shakes. Selected points of sale also serve coffee and/or beer.
BRVO.OB Bravo! Foods International Corp. is engaged in the sale of flavored milk products and flavor ingredients in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Middle East, Canada and Mexico, and the co-production, marketing and distribution of branded dairy products in the People's Republic of China. The Company's business involves the development and marketing of its Slammers trademarked brand, the obtaining of license rights from third-party holders of intellectual property rights to other trademarked brands, logos and characters, as well as the granting of production and marketing rights to processor dairies to produce branded flavored milk utilizing the Company's intellectual property. The Company generates revenue primarily through the sale of kits to these processors. In the United States, Bravo! Foods also generates revenue from the unit sales of finished branded flavored milks to retail consumer outlets.
BAK Braskem S.A. is an integrated petrochemical cracker and thermoplastics producer in Brazil, and produces a diversified portfolio of petrochemical products. The Company's business operations are organized into four business units. The Basic Petrochemicals unit includes the Company's basic petrochemical production activities and supply of electricity, steam and compressed air to second-generation producers. The Polyolefins unit encompasses activities related to the production of polyethylene and polypropylene. The Vinyls unit is engaged in the production of polyvinylchloride, caustic soda and chlorine. The Business Development unit is engaged in activities related to the production of other second generation petrochemical products. The Company's principal subsidiary is Polialden Petroqu&iacute;mica S.A. In addition, the Company's equity investments in Copesul-Companhia Petroqu&iacute;mica do Sul and Politeno Ind&uacute;stria e Com&eacute;rcio S.A. have a significant impact on its performance.
BRP Brasil Telecom Participacoes S.A. is a holding company that conducts substantially all of its operations through its only and wholly owned subsidiary, Brasil Telecom S.A. (Brasil Telecom). Brasil Telecom provides fixed-line telecommunications services in Brazil. The fixed-line telecommunications services that it offers consist of local services, including all calls that originate and terminate within a single local area in the region, as well as, installation, monthly subscription, measured services, public telephones and supplemental local services; intraregional long-distance services, which include intrastate (calls between local areas within a state in its region) and interstate (calls between states in its region); interregional and international long-distance services; network services, including interconnection, leasing of facilities and fixed-to-mobile services; data transmission services; wireless mobile services and other services.
BNN Brascan Corporation is an asset management company with a focus on real estate and power generation. The Company also holds investments in the resource sector. Brascan's investments include 55 office properties and 120 power generating plants with a generating capacity of over 2,600 MW (megawatts). The Company owns and operates its operations directly, as well as through partially owned companies, joint venture partnerships and investment funds that are co-owned with institutional and other partners. Its real estate assets include office properties, residential home building, development assets, income-producing land and associated services businesses. Its power generating plants are predominantly hydroelectric generating facilities located on North American river systems. The Company's funds management operations consist of bridge loan, mezzanine, restructuring and other alternative investment funds focused within its areas of expertise.
BBDC Brantley Capital Corporation is an investment company that has provided equity and long-term debt financing to small and medium-sized companies in a variety of industries throughout the United States. Its portfolio consists primarily of private equity securities, and, to a lesser extent, mezzanine investments primarily in the form of subordinated debt with warrants. Brantley Capital had investments in private companies, during the year ended December 31, 2003, including Disposable Products Company, LLC, Fitness Quest, Inc., Flight Options International, Inc., Health Care Solutions, Inc., The Holland Group, Inc., National Rehab Partners, Inc., Integrated Physician Solutions, Inc., Prime Office Products, Inc., Streamline Foods, Inc. and Value Creation Partners, Inc. Brantley Capital Management, L.L.C. serves as the Company's investment advisor. In November 2004, the Company completed the sale of its primary interest in Fitness Quest, Inc.
BDN Brandywine Realty Trust is a real estate investment trust (REIT) active in acquiring, developing, redeveloping, leasing and managing office and industrial properties in the United States. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company owned 208 office properties, 25 industrial facilities and one mixed-use property, containing an aggregate of approximately 15.7 million net rentable square feet. Brandywine was also performing management and leasing services for 41 properties containing an aggregate of 3.6 million net rentable square feet. It also held economic interests in 10 unconsolidated real estate ventures that it formed with third parties to develop or own commercial properties. The real estate ventures own 10 office buildings that contain approximately 1.8 million net rentable square feet. Brandywine's also owns approximately 445 acres of undeveloped land and holds options to purchase approximately 61 additional acres.
BPTR.OB BrandPartners Group, Inc. provides services and products to the financial services industry through its wholly owned subsidiary, Willey Brothers, Inc. Services offered by the Company include strategic market intelligence and branch network analysis; environmental design, furniture and store project management services; traditional and digital merchandising systems, logistics, distribution and inventory management, and point-of-sale communications, brand strategy, sales training and marketing programs. The Company's revenues have historically been derived from businesses in the financial services markets, primarily, but not exclusively, banking organizations.
BRHI.OB Braintech, Inc. develops and supplies custom machine vision systems. The Systems the Company develops are known as application specific machine vision systems. Application specific machine vision systems are generally custom designed to perform a specific function. The Company has also developed specialized software products for use in the development, maintenance and support of machine vision systems. The principal industrial applications of machine vision systems are inspection, location analysis and pattern recognition. Examples of inspection, location analysis and pattern recognition applications include inspection of products for quality control purposes, location analysis for control of industrial machines or robots, or control of fitting and assembly of products and optical character recognition.
BRC Brady Corporation is an international manufacturer and marketer of identification solutions and specialty materials that help customers increase safety, security, productivity and performance. Its products include high-performance labels and signs, printing systems and software, label-application and data-collection systems, safety devices and precision die-cut materials. The Company serves customers in electronics, telecommunications, manufacturing, electrical, construction, laboratory, education, governmental, public utility, computer, transportation and a variety of other industries. Brady also manufactures specialty tapes and related products that are characterized by high-performance adhesives, most of which are formulated by the Company, to meet high-tolerance requirements of the industries in which they are used. In May 2004, the Company acquired EMED Co., Inc. from Summit Partners.
BDY Bradley Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company that acquires, develops and markets prescription and over-the-counter products in select markets. The Company's subsidiary, Doak Dermatologics, promotes its core branded dermatologic and podiatric products including Bradley Pharmaceuticals' Carmol40, Lidamantle, Rosula and Zoderm product lines, primarily to dermatologists and podiatrists. Its Kenwood Therapeutics division promotes the Company's core branded gastrointestinal products including Anamantle HC, Pamine, Pamine Forte and Flora-Q, primarily to gastroenterologists and colon and rectal surgeons, and, to a lesser extent, it also markets nutritional supplements and respiratory products. The Company's products are manufactured by third parties according to the Company's quality control standards and are distributed through wholesalers to retail pharmacies and healthcare institutions throughout the United States and select international markets.
BRKC.PK Bracknell Corporation provides a full range of infrastructure services for networks, systems, production facilities and equipment of companies across North America. Bracknell's capabilities include the design and engineering, project management, installation, maintenance and service of critical infrastructure. The Company provides its services on systems related to voice, data and video wireless and wireline communications, electrical power, lighting, automated controls, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration, plumbing and process piping, and low-voltage systems, such as fire alarms, security and surveillance.
BPT BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust (the Trust) is a grantor trust that holds royalty interest for The Standard Oil Company, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. (the Company), The Bank of New York and F. James Hutchinson. The Trust distributes royalties on approximately 16% of the first 90,000 barrels of the average actual daily net production of oil and condensate per quarter from the Company's working interest in the Prudhoe Bay Field on the North Slope of Alaska. As of December 31, 2003, there were about 1,109 active producing oil wells, 33 gas reinjection wells, 80 water injection wells and 137 water and miscible gas injection wells in the Field. In terms of individual well performance, oil production rates range from 100 to 3,500 stock tank barrel (STB) of oil per day. The average well production rate is about 350 STB of oil per day.
BP BP p.l.c. is an oil company with four main businesses: Exploration and Production; Gas, Power and Renewables; Refining and Marketing, and Petrochemicals. Exploration and Production includes oil and natural gas exploration and field development and production, together with pipeline transportation and natural gas processing. Gas, Power and Renewables activities include marketing and trading of natural gas, natural gas liquid, new market development, liquefied natural gas and solar and renewables. The activities of Refining and Marketing include oil supply and trading, as well as refining and marketing. Petrochemicals activities include manufacturing, marketing and distribution. In September 2003, BP merged its Russian assets into those of Tyumen Oil Co. (TNK), creating TNK-BP, a joint venture between the Company and the Alfa Group and Access-Renova (collectively, AAR). In addition, the Company plans to incorporate AAR's 50% interest in OAO Slavneft, a Russian oil company, into TNK-BP.
BOY Boykin Lodging Company is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns interest in 28 hotels located throughout the United States. Boykin also has hotel ownership, acquisition, redevelopment and repositioning activities of its predecessors, Boykin Management Company and its affiliates (the Boykin Group). Boykin Hotel Properties, L.P. (the Partnership), is the operating partnership that transacts business and holds the direct and indirect ownership interests in its hotels. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Boykin had an 85.2% ownership interest in the sole general partner of and conducts all of its business through the Partnership. In March 23, 2004, the hotels in its portfolio were managed by BMC (24 hotels), Concord Hospitality Enterprises (1 hotel), Davidson Hotel Company (1hotel), Chambers Group (1 hotel) and Outrigger Lodging Services (1 hotel).
BYD Boyd Gaming Corporation is a multi-jurisdictional gaming company. Headquartered in Las Vegas, the Company is the owner and operator of 18 gaming, hospitality and entertainment operations and a number of development opportunities in Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada and New Jersey. In July 2004, the Company merged with Coast Casinos, Inc., an owner and operator of four Las Vegas hotel-casinos: The Orleans, the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino, the Suncoast Hotel and Casino and the Barbary Coast Hotel and Casino. Coast Casinos is also developing a fifth property, the South Coast Hotel and Casino, on the south end of the Las Vegas strip, which is expected to open in the fourth quarter of 2005. Coast Casinos operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Boyd Gaming.
BNE Bowne &amp; Co., Inc. is a global provider of high-value document management services. Its business is divided in three segments: Financial Print segment is composed of two business units: Bowne Financial Print, which offers an array of transactional and compliance-related services; The financial printing and Bowne Enterprise Solutions, which provides digital printing and electronic delivery of personalized communications; The outsourcing segment consists of Bowne Business Solutions, which renders outsourcing services in information technology, document processing services, litigation support services and office document services, and the globalization segment consists of Bowne Global Solutions, which offers a range of translation, localization, technical writing and interpretation services. In November 2004, the Company sold Bowne Business Solutions, its document outsourcing business to Williams Lea.
BOW Bowater Incorporated is engaged in the manufacture, sale and distribution of newsprint, uncoated specialty paper, coated groundwood paper, market pulp, lumber and timber. The Company operates facilities in the United States, Canada and South Korea, and, as of December 31, 2003, its operations were supported by 1.4 million acres of timberlands owned or leased in the United States and Canada and 31.8 million acres of timber cutting rights on Crown-owned lands in Canada. Bowater operates through five divisions: the Newsprint Division, the Coated and Specialty Papers Division, the Pulp Division, the Forest Products Division and the Canadian Forest Products Division.
BVX Bovie Medical Corporation is engaged in the business of manufacturing and marketing medical products and developing related technologies. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Aaron Medical Industries, Inc. (Aaron), is engaged in marketing Bovie's medical products. Bovie's previous product line was battery-operated cauteries, but it has shifted its focus to the manufacture and marketing of generators and electrosurgical disposables. Bovie also manufactures a specialty lighting instruments for use in ophthalmology, general surgery, hip replacement surgery and for the placement of endotracheal tubes. It manufactures and markets its products both under private label and the Bovie/Aaron label to distributors worldwide. The sales for medical products represented approximately 98% and 94% of total sales as of December 31, 2003 and 2002, respectively. One customer accounted for 80% of non-medical sales.
EPAY Bottomline Technologies (de), Inc. (Bottomline) provides a set of solutions for financial business process management (fBPM). The Company's software products and services enable organizations to automate, manage, standardize and control transaction-based processes across the enterprise, particularly those that involve making and collecting payments, sending and receiving invoices, generating business documents and conducting electronic banking. It offers software designed to run on site at the customer's location, as well as hosted solutions. The customer base included over 6,000 companies in industries, such as financial services, health care, technology, communications, education, media, manufacturing and government. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the Company employed 65 sales executives worldwide, and focused its activities in the Americas markets, European markets and on Asia Pacific markets.
BSX Boston Scientific Corporation is a worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices whose products are used in a range of interventional medical specialties, including interventional cardiology, peripheral interventions, neurovascular intervention, electrophysiology, vascular surgery, endoscopy, oncology, urology and gynecology. The Company's products are offered for sale by two dedicated business groups, Cardiovascular and Endosurgery. The Cardiovascular organization focuses on products and technologies for use in interventional cardiology, peripheral interventions, vascular surgery, electrophysiology and neurovascular procedures. The Endosurgery organization focuses on products and technologies for use in oncology, endoscopy, urology and gynecology procedures. During 2003, approximately 72% of the Company's net sales were derived from the Cardiovascular business and approximately 28% from the Endosurgery business.
BRAI.OB Boston Restaurant Associates, Inc. operated a chain of 18 restaurants, 12 fast-service, high-volume pizzerias under the Pizzeria Regina name, four full-service, family-style Italian/American restaurants under the Polcari's North End name, one Polcari's North End restaurant for seven months and one Pizzeria Regina kiosk. The Company opened a new Polcari's North End restaurant in October 2003, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In July 2004, the Company opened a Pizzeria Regina kiosk in Boston, Massachusetts. A majority of the restaurants are located in Boston, Massachusetts.
BXP Boston Properties, Inc. is a fully integrated self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns and develops office properties in the United States. Its properties are concentrated in four core markets: Boston, Washington, D.C., midtown Manhattan and San Francisco. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned or had interests in 140 properties totaling approximately 43.9 million net rentable square feet. Its properties consisted of 131 office properties comprised of 103 Class A office properties (including three properties under construction) and 28 office/technical properties; four industrial properties; three hotels, and two retail properties. Boston Properties owns or controls 43 parcels of land totaling 551.3 acres and structured parking for 31,098 vehicles containing approximately 9.4 million square feet.
BPFH Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc. is the parent holding company of Boston Private Bank &amp; Trust Company, a trust company chartered by The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The Company also owns all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Borel Private Bank &amp; Trust Company; Westfield Capital Management Company, LLC, Sand Hill Advisors, Inc. and Boston Private Value Investors, Inc. (BPVI), each a registered investment adviser, and RINET Company, LLC , an investment adviser and financial planning firm. The Company also holds a 27% minority interest in Coldstream Holdings, Inc. Boston Private conducts substantially all of its business through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Boston Private Bank and Borel (the Banks), Westfield, Sand Hill, BPVI and RINET. Boston Private Bank is a trust company that had $1.5 billion in balance sheet assets and $2.0 billion of assets under management as of December 31, 2003.
BLSI Boston Life Sciences, Inc. is a development stage biotechnology company engaged in the research and development of biopharmaceutical products for the diagnosis and treatment of central nervous system diseases and for the treatment of some cancers. The Company has 11 technologies in its product portfolio, all of which were invented or discovered by researchers working at Harvard University and it's affiliated hospitals and has been licensed to the Company. The Company is developing the ALTROPANE imaging agent, a small molecule invented by researchers at Harvard and its Affiliates, including the Massachusetts General Hospital, as an aide in the diagnosis of Parkinsonian Syndromes in patients with tremor and as an aide in the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
BCGI Boston Communications Group, Inc. provides real-time subscriber management services to the wireless industry through a combination of proprietary software applications, a carrier-class-hosted environment, a voice resource network and a service and support organization. Its operating segments consist of billing and transaction processing services, roaming services and prepaid systems. Billing and transaction processing services offerings allow wireless carriers to access its voice resource network and transaction processing platform, enabling such carriers to offer prepaid wireless calling to their subscribers. Roaming services provide wireless carriers the ability to generate revenues from subscribers who are not covered under traditional roaming agreements by arranging payment for roaming calls. The prepaid systems segment assembles and markets prepaid systems to international carriers and assembles the voice nodes used to support its voice resource network.
SAM The Boston Beer Company, Inc. is a specialty brewing company engaged in the business of brewing and selling malt beverages and cider products primarily in the United States market, and, to a lesser extent, in select international markets. During the fiscal year ended December 27, 2003 (fiscal 2003), the Company sold 1,229,000 barrels of the Company's products (core brands) and brewed 7,000 barrels under contract (non-core products) for third parties. Core brands include all products sold under the Samuel Adams, Sam Adams, Twisted Tea and HardCore trademarks. The Company's flagship product is Samuel Adams Boston Lager. During fiscal 2003, Boston Beer sold a total of 22 beers under the Samuel Adams brand name, three flavored malt beverage products under the Twisted Tea brand name, and one cider product under the HardCore Cider brand name. The Company's revenues are derived by selling its products to distributors, which in turn sell the product through to retailers and consumers.
BOSA Boston Acoustics, Inc. engineers, manufactures and markets audio systems for use in home audio and video entertainment systems in original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and after-market automotive audio systems and in multimedia computer environments. The Company purchases various home, automotive and multimedia-finished products from third-party suppliers that are manufactured according to its specifications. Boston Acoustics also assembles finished products from manufactured and purchased subassemblies. The Company's business consists of the Home, Designer, Automotive after market and Integrated Audio lines of products. Boston Acoustics' speakers are marketed nationwide through selected audio and audio-video specialty dealers and through distributors in many foreign countries. Boston Acoustics' products are also exported to dealers in Canada and sold through exclusive distributors in over 50 foreign countries, primarily in Europe, Asia/Pacific Rim and South/Central America.
BSHI.OB Boss Holdings, Inc. operates primarily in the work gloves and protective wear business segment through its subsidiary Boss Manufacturing Company. In addition, the Company conducts operations in the pet supplies business segment through its wholly owned subsidiary Boss Pet Products, Inc. and the Warren Pet division of Boss Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. Other income, during the year ended December 31, 2003, consisted primarily of foreign exchange gains on certain obligations of the Company's Canadian subsidiary.
BOSC B.O.S. Better OnLine Solutions Ltd. (BOS) operates in three main business product lines: connectivity, wherein the Company creates solutions for integration of personal computers and local area networks (LAN) into the midrange host environment, as well as designs, integrates, tests, markets and supports products that provide solutions to personnel connecting personal computers to IBM midrange hosts; software utilities, which include BOSaNOVA PrintBoss product, and communication solutions, wherein the Company has developed a series of intelligent voice-over Internet protocol (VOIP) communication products designed for the corporate market.
BORL Borland Software Corporation is the global provider of platform independent solutions for software delivery optimization. The Company provides the software and services that align the teams, technology and processes required to maximize the business value of software.
BWA BorgWarner Inc. is a supplier of highly engineered systems and components, primarily for powertrain applications. Its products help improve vehicle performance, fuel efficiency, air quality and vehicle stability. The Company's products fall into two operating segments: Drivetrain and Engine. The Drivetrain Group leverages BorgWarner's legacy and understanding of powertrain torque management to develop interactive control systems and strategies for traditional mechanical products. The Drivetrain Group's products are primarily transmission components or torque management applications and systems. The Engine Group develops strategies and products to manage engines for fuel efficiency, reduced emissions and enhanced performance. Its products fall into three major categories: chains, turbochargers, and emissions and thermal systems. BorgWarner's products are sold to original equipment manufacturers of passenger cars, sport-utility vehicles, trucks and commercial transportation products.
BGP Borders Group, Inc., operates book, music and movie superstores, including mall-based bookstores, through its subsidiaries, Borders, Inc. (Borders), Walden Book Company, Inc., Borders U.K. Limited and Borders Australia Pty Limited, among others. As of January 25, 2004, the Company operated 482 superstores under the Borders name, including 24 in the United Kingdom, nine in Australia, two in Puerto Rico and one each in Singapore and New Zealand. The Company also operated 716 mall-based and other bookstores, primarily under the Waldenbooks name in the United States and 36 bookstores under the Books etc. name in the United Kingdom.
WEL Boots &amp; Coots International Well Control, Inc. (Boots &amp; Coots) is a global-response oil and gas service company that specializes in responding to and controlling oil and gas well emergencies, including blowouts and well fires. In connection with these services, the Company has the capacity to supply the equipment, expertise and personnel necessary to contain the oil and hazardous material spills and discharges associated with oil and gas emergencies and restore affected oil and gas wells to production. Through its participation in the insurance program, WELLSURE, Boots &amp; Coots provides lead contracting and high-risk management services, under critical loss scenarios, to the program's insured clients. In addition, under the WELLSURE program, the Company provides certain pre-event prevention and risk mitigation services. The Company also provides high-risk well control management services, as well as pre-event planning, training and consulting services.
BAMM Books-A-Million, Inc. is a book retailer in the southeastern United States. The Company has developed several store formats to address the various market areas it serves. Superstores range in size from 8,000 to 36,000 square feet and operate under the names Books-A-Million and Books and Co. Traditional bookstores are smaller stores operated under the names Bookland and Books-A-Million. These stores range in size from 2,000 to 7,000 square feet and are located primarily in enclosed malls. The Company also operates newsstands under the name Joe Muggs Newsstands. Newsstands range in size from 1,000 to 5,000 square feet and are located in high-traffic areas. All store formats, excluding newsstands, offer a selection of best sellers and other hardcover and paperback books, magazines and newspapers. In addition to the retail store formats, it offers its products over the Internet at Booksamillion.com and Joemuggs.com.
BKHM Bookham, Inc. became a parent company of the Bookham Technology plc group of companies, including Bookham Technology plc. The Company designs, manufactures and markets optical components that generate, detect, route, amplify and manipulate light signals with primary application in communications networks. It has expertise in technology, such as III-V optoelectronic semiconductors utilizing indium phosphide and gallium arsenide substrates, thin film filters and micro optic assembly and packaging technology. In addition to these technology platforms, Bookham has electronics design, firmware and software capabilities to produce transceivers, transponders, intelligent optical amplifiers and other added value subsystems.
BONT The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. is a traditional department store retailer with a 106-year history of providing merchandise to its customers in secondary markets. On October 24, 2003, the Company acquired The Elder-Beerman Stores Corp., nearly doubling its number of stores and adding 5.7 million square feet of retail space. As a result of the acquisition, at January 31, 2004, The Bon-Ton Stores operates 140 department stores and two furniture stores in 16 states, from the Northeast to the Midwest, under the Bon-Ton and Elder-Beerman names. The stores carry an assortment of brand name and private-label fashion apparel and accessories for women, men and children, as well as cosmetics and home furnishings. The Company's primary target customers are women between the ages of 35 and 65 with annual household incomes between $35,000 and $100,000.
BNSO Bonso Electronics International Inc. (Bonso) designs, develops, produces and sells electronic sensor-based and wireless products for private-label original equipment manufacturers (OEM), original brand manufacturers (OBM) and original design manufacturers (ODM). As of August 1, 2002, Bonso acquired 51% of the equity of Gram Precision from a third party. Gram Precision is primarily engaged in the distribution and marketing of pocket scales in the United States, Canada and Europe. As of May 1, 2001, the Company acquired 100% of the equity of Korona, which markets consumer scale products throughout Europe to retail merchandisers and distributors. Bonso has one wholly owned Hong Kong subsidiary Bonso Electronics Limited (BEL). BEL also has one active Peoples Republic of China subsidiary, Bonso Electronics (Shenzhen) Company Limited. Bonso's another wholly owned British Virgin Islands subsidiary, Modus Enterprise International Inc., which owns 100% of Korona and 51% of Gram Precision.
BCII Bone Care International, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of therapeutic products to treat the medical needs of patients with debilitating conditions and life-threatening diseases. The Company's commercial and therapeutic focus is on nephrology utilizing Hectorol, its novel vitamin D hormone therapy to treat secondary hyperparathyroidism in patients with moderate to severe chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease. The Company has two products approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Hectorol Injection and Hectorol Capsules. Hectorol Injection and Hectorol 2.5 microgram (mcg) Capsules are approved for the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in end-stage renal disease. The Company has two products in development, LR-103 and BCI-202, for the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism.
BBA The Bombay Company, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries design, source and market a line of fashionable home accessories, wall decor and furniture, through a network of retail locations throughout the United States and Canada, specialty catalogs, the Internet and international licensing arrangements. Bombay operates stores primarily located in regional shopping malls, certain secondary malls and selected urban and suburban locations. As of the end of fiscal year ended January 31, 2004 (fiscal 2003), there were 415 stores in 42 states in the United States and 56 stores in nine Canadian provinces. The Company also markets its products through its mail order operations in the United States and Canada, and over the Internet at www.bombaycompany.com and www.bombay.ca. Bombay also has a small wholesale operation that distributes a separate line of occasional furniture.
BTJ Bolt Technology Corporation operates in two business segments: geophysical equipment and industrial products. The geophysical equipment segment develops, manufactures and sells marine seismic energy sources and underwater electrical connectors and cables, air gun signature hydrophones and pressure transducers used by the marine seismic industry. The industrial products segment develops, manufactures and sells miniature industrial clutches, brakes and sub-fractional horsepower electric motors. It consists of three operating units: Bolt Technology Corporation, A-G Geophysical Products, Inc. and Custom Products Corporation. Bolt and A-G are in the geophysical equipment segment. Bolt manufactures and sells air guns and replacement parts, and A-G manufactures and sells underwater cables, connectors and hydrophones. Custom Products are in the industrial products segment, manufactures and sells miniature industrial clutches and brakes and sells sub-fractional horsepower electrical motors.
BOKF BOK Financial Corporation is a financial holding company whose activities are limited by the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (BHCA), as amended by the Financial Services Modernization Act or Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. The Company operates four principal lines of business under its Bok franchise: corporate banking, consumer banking, mortgage banking and wealth management. It also operates a fifth principal line of business, regional banks, which includes all banking functions for its principal subsidiaries, which are Bank of Texas, N.A., Bank of Albuquerque, N.A., Bank of Arkansas, N.A. and Colorado State Bank and Trust, N.A. These five principal lines of business account for approximately 94% of the Company's total revenue. Other subsidiaries of the Company include BOSC, Inc., a broker/dealer that engages in retail and institutional securities sales and municipal bond underwriting.
BSXT BOE Financial Services of Virginia, Inc. is a bank holding company for its sole direct subsidiary, Bank of Essex (Bank). The Bank operates six full-service offices in Virginia, engages in a general commercial banking business and provides a range of financial services primarily to individuals and small businesses, including individual and commercial demand and time deposit accounts, commercial and consumer loans, travelers checks, safe deposit box facilities, investment services and fixed-rate residential mortgages. Essex Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank, was formed to sell title insurance to the Bank's mortgage loan customers. Essex Services, Inc. also offers insurance products through an ownership interest in Bankers Insurance, LLC and investment products through an affiliation with VBA Investments, LLC.
BBOI.OB Bodisen Biotech, Inc. is engaged in manufacturing and marketing organic fertilizers in China. The Company sells over 60 packaged products that are broken down into three product segments: organic compound fertilizer, liquid fertilizer and pesticides and insecticides. These products address a wide variety of grain, vegetable and fruit crops. Bodisen's three product lines are sold directly to the farming community in rural areas or wholesalers through its distribution network.
BOX The BOC Group plc has an international portfolio of companies operating as three lines of business. These are Process Gas Solutions (PGS), Industrial and Special Products (ISP) and BOC Edwards. PGS manages all aspects of BOC's business with customers requiring bulk supplies of industrial gases from onsite plants or by pipeline, as well as deliveries of liquefied gases. ISP covers BOC's business with customers in the fabrication, medical and leisure sectors, as well as the special products and liquefied petroleum gases businesses. BOC Edwards supplies bulk gases and electronic materials, vacuum and abatement technology, chemical management systems and semiconductor-related services. In addition, the Company has two separately managed specialty businesses, Afrox hospitals and Gist. Afrox hospitals owns and manages private hospitals and clinics in southern Africa. Gist has developed capability in supply chain consultancy, managed solutions and electronic commerce fulfillment services.
BOBE Bob Evans Farms, Inc. conducts business in two principal industry segments: the ownership and operation of a chain of full-service, family-casual restaurants located in 22 states, and the manufacture, distribution and sale of fresh and fully cooked pork products and other complementary food products in 30 states. In July 2004, the Company acquired SWH Corporation (d/b/a Mimi's Cafe). Mimi's, based in Tustin, California, operates 81 company-owned Mimi's Cafe restaurants in 10 states, with most of the locations in California and other western states.
BNP BNP Residential Properties, Inc. is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) with operations in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Its primary activity is the ownership and operation of apartment communities. As of December 31, 2003, the Company managed 28 multi-family communities containing 6,920 units. Of these, BNP owns 20 apartment communities, containing 4,859 units. Third parties own the remaining eight communities, containing 2,061 units, and the Company manages them on a contract basis. In addition to its apartment communities, as of December 31, 2003, BNP owned 40 properties that it leases to a third party under a master lease on a triple-net lease basis. The lessee operates these properties as restaurants and, under the terms of the lease, is totally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the properties.
BNCC BNCCORP, Inc. (BNC) is a bank holding company. It is the parent company of BNC National Bank (the Bank), together with the Bank's wholly owned subsidiaries, BNC Insurance, Inc., Milne Scali &amp; Company, Inc. and BNC Asset Management, Inc. (BNC AMI). BNC, through these wholly owned subsidiaries, provides a range of banking, insurance, brokerage, trust and other financial services to small and mid-sized businesses and individuals. The Company operates in three distinct markets: Tempe-Phoenix-Scottsdale and Tucson, Arizona; Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, and Bismarck-Mandan, North Dakota and surrounding communities (Crosby, Ellendale, Garrison, Kenmare, Linton, Stanley and Watford City).
BNCN BNC Bancorp serves as a one-bank holding company for Bank of North Carolina (the Bank). The Bank is a full-service commercial bank principally engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the general public and using such deposits, together with other funding from the Bank's lines of credit to primarily make consumer and commercial loans. It provides banking services to individuals and small to medium-sized local businesses. Specifically, the Bank makes business loans secured by real estate, personal property and accounts receivable; unsecured business loans; consumer loans, which are secured by consumer products, such as automobiles and boats; unsecured consumer loans; commercial real estate loans, and other loans. The Bank also offers a wide range of banking services, including checking and savings accounts, commercial, installment and personal loans, safe deposit boxes and other associated services. The Company has one subsidiary other than the Bank.
BMC BMC Software, Inc. is an independent systems software vendor. The Company provides software solutions that allow companies to manage their information technology (IT) infrastructure from a business perspective. Its portfolio of software solutions spans from enterprise systems, applications, databases and service management. The Company's software products are designed to help its customers manage their businesses through enterprise management solutions. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), BMC managed its business along categories such as Enterprise Data Management, Enterprise Systems Management, Remedy and Security and Other Solutions.
BMBM.OB BMB Munai, Inc. is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the exploration, development, exploitation and production of crude oil and natural gas in the Republic of Kazakhstan (ROK). Its operations are focused onshore in the exploration and development of the License and Exploration Contract of the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Emir Oil, LLC.
BTH Blyth, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, is a home expressions company operating primarily in the home decor, seasonal decorations and gift industry. The Company designs, markets and distributes an extensive array of candles, home fragrance products, decorative accessories, seasonal decorations and household convenience items, as well as tabletop lighting and chafing fuel for the Away From Home or foodservice trade. Blyth manufactures most of its candles and sources nearly all of its other products. The Company's sales and operations take place primarily in the United States, Canada and Europe, with additional activity in Mexico, Australia and the Far East. It has five business segments: Direct Selling, Wholesale Home Fragrance, Wholesale Creative Expressions, Catalog and Internet and All Other.
BXG Bluegreen Corporation provides vacation and residential lifestyle choices through its resorts and residential community businesses. The Company is organized into two divisions: Bluegreen Resorts and Bluegreen Communities. Bluegreen Resorts acquires, develops and markets vacation ownership interests (VOIs) in resorts located in high-volume, drive-to vacation destinations. Bluegreen Communities acquires, develops and subdivides property and markets residential land parcels, the majority of which are sold directly to retail customers, who seek to build a home in a high-quality residential setting, in some cases on properties featuring a golf course and related amenities. The Company also generates significant interest income through its financing of individual purchasers of VOIs and, to a lesser extent, homesites sold by Bluegreen Communities.
BFLY Bluefly, Inc. is an Internet retailer of designer fashion and home accessories at discount prices. The Company sells over 350 brands of designer apparel, accessories and home products at discounts up to 75% off retail value. During 2003, Bluefly offered over 80,000 different types of items for sale in categories such as men's, women's and accessories, as well as house and home accessories. The Company launched the Bluefly.com Website in September 1998. Since its inception, Bluefly.com has served over 500,000 customers and shipped to over 20 countries. At Bluefly.com, the Company aims to offer the designer selection of a full-price department store, the customer service of a high-end retailer or catalog, the discounts of an off-price store, the convenience of 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week shopping from home or the office and sophisticated search and sort functionality made possible by the Internet.
BSI Blue Square-Israel Ltd. (Blue Square) offers a range of food and beverages products and also housewares and cosmetics. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned and operated 161 supermarkets under the brand names Mega, Super Center, Super Center City, Shefa Shuk, Co-Op and other formats. Blue Square's activities are carried out together with its consolidated subsidiaries, the largest of which is Blue Square Chain Investments &amp; Properties Ltd. (BSIP). As of March 31, 2004, Blue Square owned 80.73% of the outstanding shares of BSIP. BSIP and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, including Blue Square Chain (Hyper Hyper) Ltd., are the owners of 59 of the Company's supermarkets.
BRBI Blue River Bancshares, Inc. serves as the holding company for Shelby County Bank and Unified Banking Company (the Banks). Unified Banking Company, a federal savings bank, was acquired by the Company on November 17, 2003. The Banks provide financial services to south central Indiana through their main office in Shelbyville and three other full service branches in Shelbyville, Morristown and St. Paul, Indiana, and to the city of Lexington and Fayette County, Kentucky, through one office located in Lexington, Kentucky. The Company provides general policy and management direction and specialized staff support services for the Banks. These services include human resources assistance and administration of employee benefit plans; internal auditing and regulatory compliance reviews, and loan review and credit administration services, including the evaluation of loan policy, individual credit reviews and portfolio reviews.
BLRGZ.OB Blue Ridge Real Estate Company owns 18,581 acres of land in Northeastern Pennsylvania, which are predominately located in the Pocono Mountains. Of this acreage, 13,843 acres are held for investment and 4,738 are held for development. Income is derived from these lands through leases, selective timbering by others, condemnation, sales and other dispositions. Blue Ridge also owns the Jack Frost Mountain Ski Area, which is leased to its subsidiary, Jack Frost Mountain Company, a 225-site campground, a retail store leased to Wal-Mart, a shopping center and 12 residential investment properties. In addition to Jack Frost Mountain Company, the Company's other wholly owned subsidiaries are Northeast Land Company, Boulder Creek Resort Company and BRRE Holdings, Inc.
BPHX BluePhoenix Solutions Ltd. develops and markets enterprise information technology (IT) modernization or EIM solutions that enable companies to automate the process of modernizing and upgrading their mainframe and distributed IT infrastructure. The Company's solutions, which include technology for understanding, presentment, migration, remediation and redevelopment allow companies to fully leverage their systems and applications, speed up and reduce the cost of the renewal process and update their systems.
NILE Blue Nile, Inc. is an online retailer of diamonds and fine jewelry with a particular focus on engagement diamonds and settings. Diamonds represent the most significant component of its product offerings. The Company's range of fine jewelry products includes diamond, platinum, gold, pearl and sterling silver jewelry and accessories. Its fine jewelry assortment includes rings, wedding bands, earrings, necklaces, pendants, bracelets and watches. Customers can purchase customized diamond jewelry by selecting a diamond and then choosing from a variety of ring, earring and pendant settings that are designed to match the shape of each individual diamond. The customized product is then assembled and delivered to the customer typically within four business days.
BLUE Blue Martini Software, Inc. provides software designed to help companies increase revenues by guiding sales people, partners and customers through sales interactions. Its software offerings include products for sales, marketing and commerce. While its business model focuses on the development and licensing of software, it also offers a selection of services to customers, including professional, technical support and training services, as well as value-added data analysis services. Professional services are offered to customers for the deployment of the Blue Martini Software's application suite and its integration with third-party software, such as traditional call centers, sales force automation, merchandising, enterprise resource planning and supply chain management systems. Technical support is designed to allow companies to address technical issues and to provide updates and upgrades to customers.
BDCO Blue Dolphin Energy Company is a holding company that conducts all of its operations through its subsidiaries. It conducts its business activities in two business segments: oil and gas exploration and production, which includes the exploration, acquisition, development, operation and disposition of oil and gas properties and pipeline operations, which includes developmental projects. The Company's subsidiaries and affiliates are Blue Dolphin Petroleum Company, Blue Dolphin Pipe Line Company, Blue Dolphin Exploration Company, Blue Dolphin Services Co., Petroport, Inc., New Avoca Gas Storage, LLC, in which it owns a 25% interest, Drillmar, Inc., in which it owns a 12.8% interest and American Resources Offshore, Inc. In November 2004, the Company and WBI Pipeline &amp; Storage Group, Inc. (WBI) consummated the sale of New Avoca Gas Storage, LLC. to SemGas, L.P., a business segment of SemGroup, L.P.
BCSI Blue Coat Systems, Inc. designs, develops, markets and supports proxy appliances. Based on Blue Coat SGOS, a custom, object-based operating system with integrated caching, these proxy appliances leverage existing authentication systems to enable flexible policy enforcement down to the individual user. The Blue Coat ProxySG appliances combine proxy support of most Web protocols with integrated uniform resource locator (URL) filtering, content security, Web-virus scanning, instant messaging control, peer-to-peer (P2P) control and streaming control. The ProxySG family of appliances includes the ProxySG 400 Series, the ProxySG 800 Series and the ProxySG 8000 Series. The Company's ProxyAV Web anti-virus appliances include the ProxyAV 400 Series and the ProxyAV 2000 Series. In addition, the Company manufactures an appliance called Director, which is used primarily to manage large numbers of ProxySG appliances in a customer's environment.
BLU Blue Chip Value Fund (the Fund) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as a diversified, close-end management investment company. The Fund seeks a high-level of total return through capital appreciation and current income consistent with investment in a diversified portfolio of common stocks. During normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of large companies with headquarters in the United States. These stocks are those included in, or similar in size to those included in, the Standard and Poor's 500 Composite Stock Price Index. The Fund has an Investment Advisory Agreement with Denver Investment Advisors LLC (DIA). ALPS Mutual Funds Services, Inc. and DIA serve as the Fund's co-administrators. The administrative agreement includes the Fund's administrative and fund accounting services. The administrative services fee is based on an annual rate of average daily net assets, which is paid monthly.
BLT Blount International, Inc. is an international manufacturing and marketing company that operates in three business segments: Outdoor Products, Lawnmower and Industrial and Power Equipment. Blount's Outdoor Products segment specializes in attachments and components for cutting a variety of media from wood to concrete to brush, grass and weeds. These products are sold primarily under the Oregon, ICS and Windsor brand names. The Company's Lawnmower segment is comprised of Dixon Industries, Inc., which manufactures zero-turning-radius (ZTR) lawnmowers and related attachments. Blount's Industrial and Power Equipment segment manufactures equipment for the timber harvesting industry and for industrial use, industrial tractors for land and utility right-of-way clearing and power transmission components.
BDR Blonder Tongue Laboratories, Inc. provides a line of electronics and systems equipment, primarily for the cable television industry, including both franchise and private cable. The Company's products are categorized according to function, and include Analog Video Headend, Digital Video Headend, High Speed Data, Telephony, Microwave, Fiber, Distribution, Addressable Subscriber and Interdiction, and Test products. These products are used to acquire, distribute and protect the range of communications signals carried on fiber optic, twisted pair, coaxial cable and wireless distribution systems. The Company's product offerings include a line of telephony products and the MegaPort line of high speed data products. Products are sold to customers providing an array of communications services to single-family dwellings, multiple dwelling units, the lodging industry and institutions throughout the United States. The Company's principal customers are cable system integrators.
BBI Blockbuster Inc. is a global provider of in-home rental and retail movie and game entertainment, with approximately 8,900 stores in the United States, its territories and 27 countries. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company purchased 341 stores and sold 143 stores for a net addition of 198 stores worldwide. It also opened 144 franchised stores and sold 20 franchised stores for a net addition of 124 franchised stores worldwide. In 2003, Blockbuster approximately had 200 franchisees, 1,091 stores in the United States and 671 stores outside of the United States. Under its United States franchising program, the Company entered into a development and franchise agreement(s) with the franchisee. In 2003, it focused on the Website, blockbuster.com, which supports its stores and drives store revenue. In 2004, Viacom Inc. announced to pursue the divestiture of its 81.5% equity interest in the Company. In 2004, Blockbuster launched an online rental subscription service.
BL Blair Corporation is engaged in the sale of fashion apparel for men and women, as well as a range of home products. It offers current styles of womenswear (such as coordinates, dresses, tops, pants, skirts, lingerie, sportswear, suits, jackets, outerwear and shoes), menswear (such as suits, shirts, outerwear, active wear, slacks, shoes, and accessories) and home (such as bedspread ensembles, draperies, furniture covers, area rugs, bath accessories, kitchenware, gifts, collectibles and personal care items). Although the Company's revenues are generated primarily through direct mail merchandising, it has transitioned into a multi-channel direct marketer, as an increasing amount of total sales revenue, approximately 12% in 2003, is being generated through its e-commerce Websites that were launched in 2000. Blair operates three retail stores, two in Pennsylvania and one in Delaware.
BKT BlackRock Income Trust (the Trust) is a perpetual closed-end taxable bond fund. Its investment objective is to provide high monthly income while preserving capital by investing in a portfolio of mortgage-backed securities. The Trust is among the BlackRock closed-end funds managed by BlackRock Advisors, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. BlackRock, Inc. is an asset management company, with approximately $200 billion in bonds, including 16 open-end and 47 closed-end bond funds, under management as of September 30, 2003. BlackRock Income Trust's corporate investments, as of October 31, 2003, consisted of Mortgage Pass-Throughs (32%), United States Government and Agency Securities (30%), Interest Only Mortgage-Backed Securities (15%), Principal Only Mortgage-Backed Securities (11%), Inverse Floating Rate Mortgages (4%), Federal Housing Administration (3%), Agency Multiple Class Mortgage Pass-Throughs (3%) and Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (2%).
BLK BlackRock, Inc. is an investment management firm in the United States. The Company had approximately $309 billion assets during the year ended December 31, 2003. The Company's products span a spectrum of fixed income, liquidity, equity and alternative investment separate accounts and mutual funds, including its BlackRock Funds and BlackRock Liquidity Funds. It also offers risk management, investment analytics and investment system services to institutional investors through its BlackRock Solutions product line. The Company is a majority owned indirect subsidiary of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (PNC), a diversified financial services company. In 2003, PNC indirectly owned approximately 70% of BlackRock. In April 2003, BlackRock acquired HPB Management. In 2003, the Company added 14 new assignments and increased revenues to $58.7 million, or18%.
BBBB Blackboard, Inc. is a provider of enterprise software applications and related services to the education industry. Its product line consists of five software applications bundled in two suites, the Blackboard Academic Suite and the Blackboard Commerce Suite. The Company's clients include colleges, universities, schools and other education providers, as well as textbook publishers and student-focused merchants. These clients use the Company's software to integrate technology into the education experience and campus life, and to support activities such as a professor assigning digital materials on a class website; a student collaborating with peers or completing research online; an administrator managing a departmental website, or a merchant conducting cash-free transactions with students and faculty through pre-funded debit accounts. During the year ended December 31, 2003, approximately 67% of the Company's revenues were derived from the United States postsecondary education market.
BLKB Blackbaud, Inc. is a global provider of software and related services designed specifically for non-profit organizations. The Company's products and services enable non-profit organizations to increase donations, reduce fundraising costs, improve communications with constituents, manage their finances and optimize internal operations. The Company's suite of products and services includes The Raiser's Edge, The Financial Edge, The Education Edge, The Information Edge, and ProspectPoint and WealthPoint. Blackbaud has Web-enabled most of its applications to allow customers to access them over the Internet. In addition, the Company provides a broad range of services, including implementation, business process improvement, training and education services, and maintenance and technical support to enable customers to more effectively run their organizations.
BKH Black Hills Corporation is a diversified energy holding company operating principally in the United States with three major business groups: wholesale energy, electric utility and communications. Its wholesale energy group engages in the production and sale of electric power through ownership of a diversified portfolio of generating plants; the production of coal, natural gas and crude oil primarily in the Rocky Mountain region, and the marketing and transportation of fuel products. The electric utility group generates, transmits and distributes electricity to customers in South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana. Black Hills' communications group offers broadband telecommunications services, including local and long-distance telephone services, expanded cable television service, cable-modem Internet access and high-speed data and video services to approximately 26,890 residential and business customers located in Rapid City and the northern Black Hills region of South Dakota.
BDK The Black &amp; Decker Corporation is a global manufacturer and marketer of power tools and accessories, hardware and home improvement products and technology-based fastening systems. The Company operates in three business segments: Power Tools and Accessories, including consumer and professional power tools and accessories, electric lawn and garden tools, electric cleaning and lighting products and product service; Hardware and Home Improvement, including security hardware and plumbing products, and Fastening and Assembly Systems.
BBOX Black Box Corporation is a network infrastructure services provider. The Company offers one-source network infrastructure services for data networks, including structured cabling for wired and wireless systems; voice systems, including new and upgraded telephony systems, and around-the-clock-hotline technical support for more than 90,000-network infrastructure products that it sells through its catalog, Website and onsite services offices. With more than 2,000 technical experts and 117 offices, Black Box serves more than 150,000 clients in 132 countries throughout the world. The Company operates subsidiaries in five continents. The Company provides its clients with around-the-clock, seven days per week technical support at no charge through its hotline telephone consulting service, available to clients in 132 countries worldwide.
BKF BKF Capital Group, Inc. (BKF) operates entirely through John A. Levin &amp; Co., Inc., an asset management business acquired by BKF in June 1996, and its related entities. As part of the acquisition, BKF formed Levin Management Co., Inc. to provide administrative and management services to John A. Levin &amp; Co. and its related companies (collectively, Levco). Levco is an investment adviser that specializes in managing equity portfolios for institutional and individual investors primarily in the United States. Levco also offers a range of alternative investment products and other more specialized investment programs. As of year ended December 31, 2002, Levco's assets under management were approximately $11.3 billion. Through Levco GP, Inc., Levco acts as the managing general partner of several private investment partnerships and, through John A. Levin &amp; Co., Levco serves directly as an adviser to private investment vehicles organized outside the United States.
BJS BJ Services Company is a provider of pressure pumping and other oilfield services serving the petroleum industry worldwide. The Company's pressure pumping services consist of cementing and stimulation services used in the completion of new oil and natural gas wells and in remedial work on existing wells, both onshore and offshore. Other oilfield services include completion tools, completion fluids and casing and tubular services provided to the oil and natural gas exploration and production industry, commissioning and inspection services provided to refineries, pipelines and offshore platforms and production chemical services. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2003, the Company generated approximately 83% of its revenue from pressure pumping services and 17% from other oilfield services.
BJ BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. is a warehouse club operator in the eastern United States. During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004 (fiscal 2003), the Company operated 150 warehouse clubs in 16 states, of which 92 are leased under long-term leases and 48 are owned. The Company operated 132 warehouse clubs that averaged approximately 112,000 square feet and 18 smaller format warehouse clubs that averaged approximately 71,000 square feet. The smaller format clubs are designed to serve markets whose population is not sufficient to support a full-sized warehouse club. The smaller version requires approximately eight acres. A full-sized BJ's club requires nine to eleven acres of land, including space for parking. The Company's clubs are located in freestanding locations and shopping centers. BJ's items that are offered in each product line includes fast selling styles, sizes and colors, carrying an average of approximately 6,500 active stockkeeping units (SKUs).
BJRI BJ's Restaurants Inc., formerly Chicago Pizza &amp; Brewery, Inc., (BJ's) owns and operates 29 restaurants located in California, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona and Texas and receives fees from one licensed restaurant in Lahaina, Maui. Each of the Company's restaurants is operated either as a BJ's Restaurant &amp; Brewery, a BJ's Pizza &amp; Grill or a BJ's Restaurant &amp; Brewhouse. The Company's menu features the BJ's signature deep-dish pizza, BJ's own hand-crafted beers, as well as a selection of appetizers, entrees, pastas, sandwiches, specialty salads and desserts. The nine BJ's Restaurant &amp; Brewery restaurants feature in-house brewing facilities where BJ's handcrafted beers are produced. The three Pietro's Pizza restaurants served primarily Pietro's thin-crust pizza in a very casual, counter-service environment. In February 2004, the Company entered into an agreement to sell all of the Pietro's restaurants to key employees of those restaurants in a transaction that became effective March 15, 2004.
BIW BIW Limited is the parent company of Birmingham Utilities, Inc. (BUI), a specially chartered public service corporation in the business of collecting and distributing water for domestic, commercial and industrial uses and fire protection in Ansonia and Derby, Connecticut, and in small parts of the contiguous Town of Seymour. Water service is also provided for domestic and commercial use in 30 satellite water operations in 16 towns in eastern Connecticut, which form BUI's Eastern Division. This division, which was acquired during the year ended December 31, 2003, was the former Eastern Connecticut Regional Water Company, Inc. Birmingham H2O Services, Inc., the Company's non-regulated subsidiary, offers a consumer protection program for residential service lines and provides water related services to other water utilities, municipalities, contractors and individuals throughout Connecticut.
BITS Bitstream Inc. is a software development company that enables customers worldwide to render text, browse the Web on wireless devices, select from a collection of fonts online, create variable documents dynamically and customize documents over the Internet. Its core competencies include fonts, font technology, browsing technology and publishing technology. The Company is composed of three separate and distinct businesses: Type, MyFonts.com and Pageflex, Inc. The Type business generates revenue primarily from the licensing of font rendering software and fonts to the embedded, set-top box, wireless device and information appliance markets. MyFonts.com is a wholly owned subsidiary that was formed to aggregate fonts from multiple vendors on one easy-to-use Website. Pageflex, Inc. is also a wholly owned subsidiary that was formed to focus on the Company's dynamic page composition technologies.
BSG The BISYS Group, Inc., together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, supports more than 22,000 financial institutions and corporate clients with products and services provided through three principal business groups: BISYS Investment Services, BISYS Insurance and Education Services, and BISYS Information Services. The Investment Services group provides a broad array of investment services, including mutual fund, hedge fund, private equity fund and retirement plan services. The Insurance and Education Services group provides an overall solution for life insurance and commercial property/casualty insurance distribution, as well as financial services education and licensing automation. The Information Services group supports approximately 1,450 banks, insurance companies and corporations with information processing, asset retention solutions, specialized back-office services, health savings accounts and check imaging solutions.
BSOI.OB Bison Instruments, Inc. has no business operations. The Company was previously engaged in the manufacture and sale of electronic instrumentation. Bison sold substantially all of its operating assets during the fiscal year ended October 31, 1998 and the fiscal year ended October 31, 1999, and, during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2000, made sales of residual seismic product inventory on hand and interest income. In the fiscal year ended October 31, 2002 and the fiscal year ended October 31, 2003, the Company was commercially inactive. Subject to market conditions and opportunities, Bison intends to maintain its existing efforts to explore various alternatives, including acquisition opportunities, for the future use of the public corporate entity. Its discretion in the selection of business opportunities is unrestricted, subject to the availability of such opportunities, economic conditions and other factors.
BDMS Birner Dental Management Services, Inc. acquires, develops and manages geographically dense dental practice networks in Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. As of December 31, 2003, the Company managed 54 dental practices (the Offices), of which 37 were acquired and 17 were developed internally (de novo Offices). Birner provides a solution to the needs of dentists, patients and third-party payors by allowing its affiliated dentists to provide dental care in patient-friendly family practice settings. Dentists practicing at the various locations provide comprehensive general dentistry services, and the Company increasingly offers specialty dental services through affiliated specialists. The Offices typically are located either in shopping centers, professional office buildings or stand-alone buildings. The majority of the de novo Offices are located in supermarket-anchored shopping centers.
BIOV BioVeris Corporation develops, manufactures and markets advanced biological and chemical detection systems, including instruments, tests and related consumable reagents. The Company was spun-off from IGEN International, Inc., a diagnostics systems manufacturer, in February 2004, as a result of Roche Holding Ltd.'s acquisition of IGEN. IGEN restructured its operations so that the Company, which was a wholly owned subsidiary, assumed IGEN's biodefense, life science and industrial product lines, as well as IGEN's opportunities in the clinical diagnostics and healthcare fields, its equity interest in Meso Sale Diagnostics, LLC, cash and certain other rights and licenses held by IGEN. As a result, BioVeris operates as a separate, independent company.
BVF Biovail Corporation is a pharmaceutical company engaged in the development, manufacture, marketing, licensing and distribution of pharmaceutical products for the treatment of chronic medical conditions primarily in North America. The Company's primary focus is on therapeutic areas, such as cardiovascular disease, central nervous system (CNS) disorders and pain management. Other areas of interest include Type II diabetes, antiviral medicine and select niche therapeutic categories with identified potential. Its commercial portfolio of cardiovascular therapeutic products in the United States includes Cardizem LA, Cardizem CD, Tiazac, Vasotec, Vaseretic, Teveten, Teveten HCT, Isordil and a number of generic pharmaceutical products. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company's operations were organized into five categories: Promoted Products, Biovail Pharmaceuticals Canada (BPC), Wellbutrin XL, Legacy Products and Generic Products.
BTX BioTime, Inc. is a development-stage company engaged in the research and development of synthetic solutions that can be used as blood plasma volume expanders, blood replacement solutions during hypothermic surgery and organ preservation solutions. Plasma volume expanders are used to treat blood loss in surgical or trauma patients until blood loss becomes so severe that a transfusion of packed red blood cells or other blood products is required. The Company is also developing a specially formulated hypothermic blood substitute solution that would have a similar function and would be used for the replacement of very large volumes of a patient's blood during cardiac surgery, neurosurgery and other surgeries that involve lowering the patient's body temperature to hypothermic levels. BioTime is developing Hextend, PentaLyte, HetaCool and other synthetic plasma expander solutions to treat acute blood loss that occurs as a result of trauma injuries and during many kinds of surgery.
BIOHF.OB Biotech Holdings Ltd. is primarily engaged in the development and distribution of its Type II Diabetes drug, known as DIAB II (also known as Sucanon and Glucanin). The operations of the Company's subsidiary for the development, manufacture and distribution of lotions and creams were discontinued during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2003 (fiscal 2003). The pharmaceutical business is divided into the two regions: China and other Asia Countries, which are defined as Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Kampuchia (Cambodia), Thailand, Laos, China, Mongolia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Macao and Singapore, and All other countries. DIAB II is a synthesized molecule that has significant hypoglycemic effect in non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) patients.
BSMD BioSphere Medical, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets products for medical applications using embolotherapy techniques. The Company's core technologies, consisting of patented bio-engineered polymers and manufacturing methods are used to produce miniature spherical beads with properties for a variety of medical applications. BioSphere Medical focuses on the treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids using a procedure called uterine fibroid embolization (UFE). Embolotherapy works by reducing blood flow to targeted areas of the body. The procedure is performed by injecting particles through a catheter into the blood vessels that feed these target areas. By selectively blocking the target tissue's blood supply, the deprived tissue will either become destroyed or devitalized, resulting in therapeutic benefit.
BIOI BioSource International, Inc. manufactures, markets and distributes products used worldwide in biomedical research that are instrumental in the development of new drug therapies and medical diagnostic methods. The Company's products enable scientists and biomedical researchers to better understand the biochemistry, immunology and cell biology of the human body, as well as disease processes. It offers over 3,600 products that are grouped into three product lines: assays, biologicals (antibodies, bioactive proteins and peptides and oligonucleotides), and serum, buffers and media. In January 2005, the Company sold its Hopkinton, Massachusetts-based custom antibody and peptide business.
BSTE Biosite Incorporated is a provider of medical diagnostics that aid a physician to diagnose diseases and health conditions. Biosite offers tests for drug screening, heart attack, congestive heart failure (CHF), acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and certain bacterial and parasitic infections. Its commercialized products include Triage MeterPlus, Triage BNP Test, Triage Cardiac Panel, Triage Cardio ProfilER, Triage Drugs of Abuse and Triage Microbiology Panels. The Triage BNP Test represented 61% of the Company's total product sales during the year ended December 31, 2003. The Triage BNP Test aids in the stratification of ACS patients, and in the diagnosis and severity assessment of CHF. The Fisher HealthCare Division of the Fisher Scientific Company distributes all of the Company's products in United States hospitals. In international markets, Biosite has established direct-selling efforts, and utilizes a network of country-specific and regional distributors in other areas.
BPA BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a development-stage, biopharmaceutical company developing a pipeline of hormone therapy products to treat men and women. The Company is also engaged in the development of its calcium phosphate nanotechnology (CAP) for vaccine adjuvants or immune system boosters, drug delivery systems and the purification of the milk of transgenic animals. BioSante has not commercially introduced any products. Its business operations consist mostly of research and development activities. The Company's successful completion of its development program and its transition to profitable operations is dependent upon obtaining regulatory approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) prior to selling its products within the United States, and foreign regulatory approval must be obtained to sell its products internationally.
BIO Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. manufactures and supplies the life science research, healthcare, analytical chemistry and other markets with a broad range of products and systems used to separate complex chemical and biological materials and to identify, analyze and purify their components. The Company has distribution channels in over 30 countries outside the United States through subsidiaries whose primary focus is customer service and product distribution. Bio-Rad is a provider of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or mad cow (BSE) tests throughout the world. Revenues from the sales of testing products for BSE within the Company's Life Science segment represented approximately 11% and 12% of consolidated net revenue in 2003 and 2002, respectively. Bio-Rad operates in two industry segments, Life Science and Clinical Diagnostics. Each operates in both the United States and international markets.
BPUR Biopure Corporation develops and manufactures oxygen therapeutics, a new class of pharmaceuticals that are administered intravenously into the circulatory system to increase oxygen transport to the body's tissues. Using its technology, the Company has developed and manufactures two products: Hemopure (HBOC-201) for human use, and Oxyglobin (HBOC-301) for veterinary use. Hemopure is approved in South Africa for eliminating, reducing or delaying the need for allogenic red blood cell transfusion in adult surgical patients who are acutely anemic. As of October 31, 2004, Hemopure is being developed for the management of patients with cardiovascular ischemia and patients with acute anemia resulting from traumatic injury, including as an early intervention to provide immediate oxygen-carrying support in the out-of-hospital setting. Oxyglobin is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Commission for the treatment of anemia in dogs.
BPRG BioProgress plc is engaged in the research, development, marketing, sales and distribution of products that use water soluble and biodegradable films for the dietary supplement, pharmaceutical and other applications. The Company also develops flushable and biodegradable products for the medical industry. BioProgress operates through four wholly owned subsidiaries, BioProgress Technology International, Inc., BioProgress Technology Limited (United Kingdom), BioProgress Technology Inc. and BioTec Films LLC. Its principal research and development operations are in England. The Company's primary focus is on the development and commercialization of a process, the XGEL film system (XGEL), which is comprised of the equipment used to encapsulate ingredients in the XGEL film.
BIPH.OB Biophan Technologies, Inc. provides solutions for making biomedical devices safe for use with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) devices and to reduce the interference these devices cause to the quality of MRI images. The solutions include coatings, filters and photonics and can be applied to a wide range of implanted biomedical devices, as well those used in surgical and diagnostic procedures (interventional medicine). The list of implantable devices that can benefit by Biophan's technologies includes pacemakers, defibrillators, neurostimulators, stents, guide wires, aneurysm clips, and biopsy needles, among others.
BIOM Biomira Inc. is a biotechnology company engaged in the research and development of products to treat cancer. The Company's research and development efforts are focused on its core competency in immunotherapeutics. The principal subsidiaries of the Company are Biomira International Inc., Biomira Europe B.V. and Biomira USA Inc. The immunotherapeutic or cancer vaccine approach is based on the concept that tumors possess distinct antigens that should be recognized by the body's immune system. Immunotherapy is designed to stimulate an individual's immune system to recognize cancer cells and control the growth and spread of cancers. Biomira's immunotherapeutics program focuses on the development of synthetic vaccines for active specific immunotherapy (ASI), utilizing synthetic carbohydrate or synthetic peptide mimics of natural cancer associated antigens to induce anti-cancer immune responses. Liposome-based strategies have also been developed for liposomal encapsulation of vaccines.
BTOO.OB Biometrics 2000 Corporation markets, resells and integrates biometric devices into existing electronic access control systems, time tracking systems, health care systems and data security systems. It is also a value added reseller and integrator of spread spectrum wireless transceiver for data transmission systems. The Company's hardware and software applications include BioXTouch fingerprint readers and its Touch Device Management software control package. The identification and security products Biometrics develops recognize people through their unique characteristics such as fingerprints. The Company is the resulting business in the reverse merger of VillageWorld.com, Inc. with Biometrics 2000 Corporation on March 2, 2004.
BMET Biomet, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets products used primarily by musculoskeletal medical specialists in both surgical and non-surgical therapy. The Company's product portfolio includes reconstructive products, fixation devices, spinal products and other products and accounted for approximately 65%, 15%, 10% and 10%, respectively, of the total net sales of the Company during the fiscal year ended May 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004). The geographic markets of the Company are United States, Europe and Rest of the world. The Company has manufacturing and/or office facilities in more than 50 locations worldwide. Biomet's principal subsidiaries include Biomet Orthopedics, Inc., Biomet Manufacturing Corp., EBI, L.P., Biomet Europe B.V., Implant Innovations, Inc., Walter Lorenz Surgical, Inc. and Arthrotek, Inc. On March 22, 2004, Biomet acquired Merck KGaA's 50% interest in the Biomet Merck joint venture and completed the merger with Interpore International, Inc. on June 18, 2004.
BMRA.OB Biomerica, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets medical diagnostic products designed for the early detection and monitoring of chronic diseases and medical conditions. Through its subsidiary, Lancer Orthodontics, Inc. (Lancer), the Company is engaged in the design, manufacture and distribution of orthodontic products. Biomerica's medical diagnostic products are sold worldwide in three markets: clinical laboratories, physician's offices and over-the-counter (drugstores). The Company's orthodontic products are sold worldwide through a direct sales force and distributors.
BMRN BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. focuses on developing and commercializing first-to-market biopharmaceuticals to improve the lives of people living with life-threatening diseases or serious medical conditions. Its first product, Aldurazyme (laronidase), has been approved for marketing in the United States by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in the European Union by the European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) and other countries for the treatment of mucopolysaccharidosis I (MPS I) disease. MPS I is a debilitating and life-threatening genetic disease caused by the deficiency of alpha-L-iduronidase, an enzyme normally required for breaking down certain complex carbohydrates. Aldurazyme has been granted orphan drug status in the United States and the European Union. The Company has developed Aldurazyme through a joint venture with Genzyme Corporation.
BLFS.OB BioLife Solutions, Inc. provides contract-based services for the development of cryopreservation solutions and processes, and, based upon its patented HypoThermosol platform technology, develops, manufactures and markets proprietary cryopreservation solutions that improve the biological processing and preservation of cells and tissues. BioLife's products are HypoThermosol Base, HypoThermal DCC, HypoThermal FRS, HypoThermosol Purge, CryoStor CS5, CryoStor CS AI and CP Rescue, GelStor and GelStor FRS. The Company was incorporated as a wholly owned subsidiary of Cryomedical Sciences, Inc., a company that was engaged in manufacturing and marketing cryosurgical products.
BLTI BioLase Technology Inc. is a medical technology company operating in one business segment that designs, manufactures and markets advanced dental, cosmetic and surgical laser and related products. The Company's primary product, the Waterlase system, precisely cuts hard tissue, such as bone and teeth, and soft tissue, such as gums, with minimal or no damage to surrounding tissue and dental structure. Its LaserSmile system is designed to complement the Waterlase, and is used in soft tissue procedures and tooth whitening. BioLase has clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its laser systems in the United States. It also has the approvals necessary to sell its laser systems in Canada, the European Union and other international markets.
BJCT Bioject Medical Technologies Inc. develops needle-free injection systems that improve the way patients take medications and vaccines. The Company sells needle-free vial adapters used in the drug reconstitution process for lyophilized drugs, the Biojector 2000 or B-2000, needle-free injection system and Vitajet, a spring-powered, needle-free, self-injection device, to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Bioject has three strategic partners for its needle-free injection systems: Ares-Serono, Alkermes and Merial. For the year ended December 31, 2003, two customers, Amgen and Serono, accounted for approximately 32% and 29% of total revenues, respectively.
BIIB Biogen Idec Inc. develops, manufactures and commercializes novel therapies. As of December 31, 2003, it had four commercial products: Avonex (Interferon beta-1a) for the treatment of relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS), Rituxan (rituximab) and Zevalin (ibritumomab tiuxetan), both of which treat certain B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, also referred to as B-cell NHLs, and Amevive (alefacept) for the treatment of adult patients with moderate-to-severe chronic plaque psoriasis who are candidates for systemic therapy or phototherapy. The Company also receives revenues from royalties on sales by its licensees of a number of products covered under patents that it controls including sales of Rituxan outside the United States. The Company was formed via the merger of Biogen, Inc. and IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corporation.
BZET.OB Biofield Corp. is a development stage medical technology company that has developed a device to assist in detecting breast cancer in a non-invasive procedure. The Company's breast cancer diagnostic device, the Biofield Diagnostic System, employs single-use sensors designed by Biofield and a measurement device to detect and analyze changes in cellular electrical charge distributions associated with the development of epithelial cancers such as breast cancer. Principal activities of Biofield to date include product development, conducting clinical trials, seeking permission from various regulatory authorities to market the device and raising capital.
BIOF.OB Biofarm, Inc. aims to acquire, operate and develop environmental contracting and consulting companies and related businesses. From inception until 1996, it was engaged in the environmental remediation business with emphasis upon the elimination of oil spill damages. On October 5, 1998, in connection with the acquisition of approximately 87% of the capital stock of Biofarm, S.A., the shareholders voted to change the name of the Company to Biofarm, Inc. Such acquisition was rescinded on October 31, 1999. All of Biofarm's operating companies were disposed of or sold in prior years. The Company, having disposed of all its operations, may be fairly characterized as a non-operating shell corporation. In December 2004, the Company introduced its new business unit, friendlyway Media.
BIVN Bioenvision, Inc is an emerging biopharmaceutical company whose primary business focus is the development and distribution of drugs to treat cancer. The Company has a broad range of products and technologies under development, but its two lead drugs are Clofarabine and Modrenal. The Company's product portfolio includes Clofarabine, Modrenal, Velostan, Virostat, OLIGON and Gene Therapy. Its anti-cancer product portfolio includes Modrenal (trilostane), clofarabine and Velostan(l-gossypol), which are used or which may have clinical utility in a wide variety of cancers, and one Gene Therapy technology platform, which may be useful in several indications.
BCRX BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on designing, optimizing and developing novel small molecule pharmaceuticals that block key enzymes essential for cancer, cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases and viral infections. The Company's development projects are purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) Inhibitor (BCX-1777), indicated for T-cell cancers; PNP Inhibitor (BCX-4208), indicated for autoimmune diseases, such as psoriasis; Tissue Factor/Factor VIIa Inhibitors, indicated for coagulation, inflammation and angiogenesis, and Hepatitis C Polymerase Inhibitors, indicated for Hepatitis C.
BCRA.OB Biocoral, Inc. is an international biomaterials tissue-engineering company specializing in the research, development and commercialization of high-biotech technologies, as well as biomaterials in the health care area. Through its subsidiaries, the Company is engaged in the research, development, manufacturing and commercialization of bone graft substitutes and other high-technology biomaterials. Biocoral, the Company's product, is a natural coral carbonate calcium-derived bone graft substitute, used by surgeons and practitioners, because of its biocompatibility, resorbability, osseo conduction and safety. Certain chemical, physical and structural characteristics of Biocoral are similar to that of human bone tissue. Biocoral is derived from three particular species of coral naturally present in abundance, and is primarily comprised of calcium carbonate. Biocoral is porous and resorbable, and is prepared in microgranules and various engineered shapes according to specific indication.
BASI Bioanalytical Systems, Inc. provides contract development services and research equipment to pharmaceutical, medical research and biotechnology companies and institutions. It operates in two business units: contract research services and research products. Its contract research services unit provides screening and pharmacological testing, preclinical safety testing, formulation development, clinical trials, regulatory compliance and quality control testing. The Company is focusing its products business on expediting preclinical screening of developmental drugs. It designs, develops, manufactures and markets robotic blood sampling systems and accessories, in vivo microdialysis collection systems, physiology monitoring tools and liquid chromatography and electrochemistry instruments platform. Scientists engaged in analytical chemistry clinical trials, drug metabolism studies, pharmacokinetics and basic neuroscience research at pharmaceutical companies are its principal clients.
BSLU.OB Bio-Solutions International, Inc., prior to the sale of Bio Solutions Manufacturing, Inc., (BSMI) and the spin out of Bio-Solutions Franchise Corp (BSFC), was a technology provider of biological solutions to industries that desire environmentally-friendly forms of waste remediation. As of July 1, 2004, the Company had no operations, products, services or business plan. In March 2004, the Company sold certain of its assets associated with the manufacturing portion of its business to BSMI and in July 2004, the Company approved the spin out of its wholly owned subsidiary, BSFC, to its existing shareholders.
BRLI Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. is a regional clinical laboratory with focused market testing capabilities. The Company services the New York metropolitan area and does business in most New York State counties, as well as in most of New Jersey and some parts of Pennsylvania and Connecticut. The Company primarily offers laboratory services to physician offices in these areas, with an infrastructure that includes a comprehensive logistical department, extensive phlebotomy services and phlebotomy draw stations. It has also developed expertise in certain focused testing areas, with specific emphasis in cancer pathology and diagnostics, as well as molecular diagnostics. These services are marketed as a business unit, called GenPath, servicing customers outside of routine physician office testing. The Company has developed certain specialized markets, such as in the areas of correctional health, substance abuse testing, fertility testing and molecular diagnostics.
BLLI.OB Bio-Lok International Inc. is the manufacturer and distributor of the Bio-Lok Precision Dental Implant System. The system represents a product line, which includes a line of dental implants, their prosthetic components, tools, devices, irrigated spade drills and membranes and bone augmentation materials for use around implants. Dental implants are the foundation upon which natural looking teeth are placed via a sound and lasting prosthesis. Dental implants are small anchors shaped like screws or cylinders, which, when placed, become an artificial replacement of the natural roots, are made out of bio-compatible titanium and are placed into the maxilla and mandible of a patient. In the United States, the Company markets the Bio-Lok Precision Dental Implant System directly to the end users, including clinicians, dental specialists and institutions. Internationally, Bio-Lok sells and markets its products via distributors, majority-owned subsidiaries and/or joint ventures.
BLSC Bio-logic Systems Corp. designs, develops, assembles and markets computer-based, electro-diagnostic systems for use by hospitals, clinics, universities and physicians. The procedures performed by the Company's systems include automated auditory brainstem response testing, otoacoustic emissions testing used for infant hearing screening, evoked response testing used for hearing diagnosis, polysomnography, a sleep apnea diagnostics, electroencephalography (EEG) for routine and long-term epilepsy monitoring and other quantitative EEG analysis. Bio-logic also offers related supplies, such as its Ear Muffin transducer, warranty, and service and repair activities. The international sales represented 19% of total net sales during the fiscal year ended February 29, 2004 (fiscal 2004).
BKYI.OB BIO-key International, Inc., formerly SAC Technologies, Inc., is engaged in the business of developing and marketing biometric technology and software solutions. The Company has pioneered the development of high-performance automated finger identification technology that can be used without the aid of non-automated methods of identification, such as a personal identification number (PIN), password, token, smart card, identification (ID) card, credit card, passport, drivers license or other form of possession based or knowledge based identification. In March 2004, the Company acquired Public Safety Group, Inc., a privately held Winter Park, Florida, provider of wireless solutions for law enforcement and public safety markets.
BITI Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc. is a global pharmaceutical contract service organization, providing services that support the product development process of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. The Company specializes in assisting its clients in the design and management of the medical imaging component of clinical trials for all modalities, which consist of computerized tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, x-rays, dual energy x-ray absorptiometry, or DEXA, position emission tomography, single photon emission computerized tomography and ultrasound. Bio-Imaging utilizes its own processes and software applications in providing its services to pharmaceutical companies. The Company is directing its marketing and sales efforts towards those clinical development areas that heavily depend upon medical imaging. These areas include oncology, musculoskeletal, central nervous system and cardiovascular. In December 2004, the Company acquired Heart Core B.V.
BIGR.OB Bingo.com, Inc. is in the business of developing and operating a bingo-based Web portal designed to provide a variety of free games and other forms of entertainment, including an online community, chat rooms, contests, sweepstakes, tournaments, and more using its bingo.com domain name. The free site provides content to its players in the form of free-to-play, multiplayer theme bingo games, such as Astrology Bingo, Cupid Bingo, Secret Garden Bingo, and the like, as well as online video poker, sweepstakes and slot machines. The Company also offers its registered players other forms of entertainment such as fortune telling, chat rooms and member profiles.
BVEW BindView Development Corporation (BindView) is a provider of software for managing business policy, information technology (IT) security and computer network directory information. It builds, licenses and provides technical support for three main software-technology suites, which include multiple software products, in the areas of policy compliance, vulnerability management and directory administration and migration. The Company's suite of products include policy compliance products, which help organizations to centralize and automate the creation and distribution of security policies across the enterprise; vulnerability management products, which provides assessment and evaluation of systems, applications and networks, and directory administration and migration products, which promotes compliance with IT and operational policies for directory and password management, roles-based administration of users, as well as migration between operating systems and e-mail systems.
BMM Bimini Mortgage Management, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests in mortgage-related securities. It primarily invests in residential mortgage-related securities issued by the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) and the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae). The Company seeks to generate operating income based on the difference between the yields on its mortgage-backed investment assets and its expenses of doing business, which include the cost of its borrowings. It intends to borrow between eight and 12 times the amount of its equity. In evaluating its assets and their performance, the Company's management team primarily evaluates five factors: asset performance in differing interest rate environments, duration of the security, yield to maturity, potential for prepayment of principal and the market price of the investment.
BLI Big Lots, Inc. is a broadline closeout retailer. At January 31, 2004, the Company operated a total of 1,430 stores (1,385 under the name Big Lots and 45 stores under the name Big Lots Furniture). The Company's Web site is located at www.biglots.com. Wholesale operations are conducted through Big Lots Wholesale, Consolidated International, Wisconsin Toy and with online purchasing at www.biglotswholesale.com.
BDOG Big Dog Holdings, Inc. is the parent company of Big Dog USA, Inc. (Big Dogs). Big Dogs develops, markets and retails a branded, lifestyle collection of consumer products, including activewear, casual sportswear, accessories and gifts. Its apparel lines include collections of classic unisex casual sportswear and activewear for adults, as well as collections for infants and children and the big-size market. The Company's products are centered around the signature BIG DOGS name, logo and big dog characters. The Big Dog attitude and sense of fun are brought to life through the Company's graphic capabilities that portray the big dog characters in a number of engaging, positive and inspiring situations and activities. Its graphics and slogans combine a bold, spirited attitude with wry, lighthearted humor. In March 2004, the Company, through a newly formed subsidiary, acquired substantially all of the assets of The Walking Company out of bankruptcy.
BGFV Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation (Big 5) is a sporting goods retailer in the western United States. The Company's product mix includes athletic shoes, apparel and accessories, as well as a broad selection of outdoor and athletic equipment for team sports, fitness, camping, hunting, fishing, tennis, golf, snowboarding and in-line skating. The Company provides a full-line product offering in a traditional sporting goods store format that averages approximately 11,000 square feet. The Company conducts its business through Big 5 Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary. During the fiscal year ended December 28, 2003 (fiscal 2003), the Company operated 294 stores in 10 states under the Big 5 Sporting Goods name. Big 5 stores carry a range of products from brand name manufacturers, including Nike, Reebok, Adidas, New Balance, Wilson, Spalding and Columbia. The Company also offers brand name merchandise produced exclusively for Big 5.
BCORF.PK Biacore International AB develops, manufactures and markets analytical systems (generally consisting of an instrument, computer and software) that are used for determining the binding properties of biomolecules and their concentration in a sample. The systems perform continuous optical measurement and computer-based analysis of biochemical reactions as they occur, utilizing the quantum physical phenomenon of surface plasmon resonance. Biacore's products have many applications in for example proteomics, cancer research, immunology, infectious diseases, neurology and clinical research. But the technology can also be applied in other areas, for example quality control, food analysis and environmental control. Biacore's customers primarily include medical and life science laboratories within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and food industries, universities and research institutes. The Company also offers consumables and related services.
BBL BHP Billiton plc is a diversified resources group. On March 19, 2001, the Company announced the agreement with BHP Limited to form a Dual Listed Companies structure to establish a diversified global resource group to be called BHP Billiton. The Company's products include metallurgical coal for the steel industry, exporter of energy coal, producer of iron ore, copper, nickel metal, manganese ore, primary aluminum, and manganese and chrome ferroalloys. It has substantial interests in oil, gas, liquefied natural gas, diamonds, silver and titanium minerals. The Company's customer sector groups are organized into three broadly related business areas of Non-Ferrous Materials, Energy and Carbon Steel Materials.
BHP BHP Billiton Limited is a diversified resources group. The Company is an exporter of metallurgical coal for the steel industry; an exporter of energy coal; a producer of iron ore, copper, nickel metal, manganese ore, primary aluminium and manganese and chrome ferroalloys. It also has substantial interests in oil, gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG), diamonds, silver and titanium minerals. BHP Billiton operates in seven segments: Petroleum (oil, natural gas and LNG), Aluminium (aluminium and alumina), Base Metals (copper, silver, zinc and lead), Carbon Steel Materials (metallurgical coal, iron ore and manganese), Diamonds and Specialty Products (diamonds, titanium minerals and metals distribution), Energy Coal (energy coal) and Stainless Steel Materials (nickel metal, and chrome and nickel ferroalloys).
BHO B&amp;H Ocean Carriers Ltd. is engaged in the business of acquiring, investing in, owning, operating and selling vessels for dry bulk and liquid cargo transportation. As of December 2003, the Company owned and operated nine product tankers. Each vessel accounted for a significant portion of its revenues during 2003. The Company's fleet consists of "handy-size" vessels that are between 30,000 and 50,000 summer deadweight tons and are able to transport commodities to and from most ports in the world, including those located in less-developed third-world countries. Bulk carriers are single-deck oceangoing vessels used to transport iron ore, coal, grain, bauxite, phosphate, sugar, steel products and other dry bulk commodities. Product tankers are single-deck oceangoing vessels designed to carry a number of segregated liquid bulk commodities such as refined petroleum products, vegetable oils, caustic soda and molasses.
BRG BG Group plc is an integrated gas company with activities across the whole range of gas operations from exploration to the final consumer. The operations of the Company is comprised of Exploration and Production (E&amp;P), Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), Transmission and Distribution (T&amp;D), Power Generation and Other Activities. E&amp;P is comprised of exploration, development, production and marketing of hydrocarbons with a focus on gas. The LNG business combines the development and use of LNG import and exports facilities with the purchase, shipping and sale of LNG and regasified natural gas. T&amp;D owns and operates pipelines and distribution networks and supplies gas through these to the end customer. The Power Generation business develops, owns and operates natural gas-fired power generation plants around the world. The Other Activities segment includes the Microgen and Iqara businesses. Iqara's segments are natural gas vehicles and broadband telecommunications.
BGF B&amp;G Foods Inc., formerly B&amp;G Foods Holdings Corp., manufactures, sells and distributes a portfolio of shelf-stable foods. The Company sells its branded products primarily through broker sales networks to supermarket chains, food service outlets, mass merchants, warehouse clubs, non-food outlets and specialty food distributors. Its broker sales network handles the sale of its products at the customer level. Its sales managers supervise its broker activities, as well as support its relationship with buyers from its key accounts. The Company distributes its products in the greater New York metropolitan area primarily through its direct-store-organization sales and distribution system (the DSO system). Its DSO system supports an organization of sales personnel who directly service over 2,000 individual grocery stores.
BFCF BFC Financial Corporation is a holding company with controlling interests in BankAtlantic Bancorp, Inc. and Levitt. As the controlling shareholder of BankAtlantic Bancorp, the Company is a unitary savings bank holding company. The Company's primary activities relate to the operations of BankAtlantic Bancorp and Levitt. Through its direct and indirect subsidiaries, it provides a spectrum of products and services encompassing consumer and commercial banking, brokerage and investment banking, homebuilding and real estate development. The Company reports results of operations through segments, such as Banking Operations, which are conducted solely by BankAtlantic Bancorp and BankAtlantic, which consist of Commercial Banking, Community Banking and Bank Investments; Ryan Beck, and BankAtlantic Bancorp Parent Company, Levitt and BFC Holding Company. During the year ended December 31, 2003, Levitt was a wholly owned subsidiary of BankAtlantic Bancorp.
BFEN BF Enterprises, Inc., incorporated 1987, is engaged primarily in the real estate business, including the last stages of the development of a tract of land, known as Meadow Pointe, in suburban Tampa, Florida, and, as owner and landlord, leasing of a 220,000 square foot building on 16 acres in Tempe, Arizona. In addition, the Company owns approximately 21 acres of undeveloped land in suburban Nashville, Tennessee. Revenues from BF Enterprises' lease agreement with Bank One, Arizona, NA covering the 220,000-square-foot Tempe commercial building in Tempe, Arizona represent 60% of its revenues for the year ended December 31, 2003.
BXL Bexil Corporation is a holding company operating businesses directly or through companies in which it has a majority or other substantial interest. The Company's primary business consists of its 50% interest in privately held York Insurance Services Group, Inc. Since the 1930's, York's affiliates have served as third-party administrators and independent adjusters providing claims data and risk related services to insurance carriers, self-insureds, public entities, brokers and other intermediaries. York's claims services include property and casualty, workers' compensation, special investigative unit services and surveillance, transportation and logistics, environmental, construction, and inland and ocean marine. At December 31, 2003, approximately 76% of the Company's assets were devoted to York.
BHBC Beverly Hills Bancorp, Inc., formerly known as Wilshire Financial Services Group Inc., is a financial holding company that conducts banking operations through its wholly owned subsidiary, First Bank of Beverly Hills, F.S.B. (the Bank), and mortgage investment operations through its investment subsidiary, WFC Inc. The Bank's business is focused primarily on specialty niche products, including commercial and multi-family real estate lending and investments in primarily AAA-rated and government agency mortgage-backed securities. The primary source of liquidity for the Bank's purchases and originations are wholesale certificates of deposit (CDs), retail deposits, Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) advances and repurchase agreements.
BEV Beverly Enterprises, Inc. is engaged in providing healthcare services, including the operation of nursing facilities, assisted living centers, hospice and home care centers, outpatient clinics and rehabilitation therapy services. As of December 31, 2003, the Company operated 373 nursing facilities with a total of 39,435 licensed beds in the United States. Its nursing facilities are located in 24 states and the District of Columbia and range in capacity from 24 to 355 licensed beds. As of December 31, 2003, Beverly Enterprises also operated 20 assisted living centers containing 535 units, 23 hospice and home care centers, and 10 outpatient clinics. In addition, it provides rehabilitation therapy services in 36 states and the District of Columbia.
BESC.OB BestNet Communications applies Internet technology to provide worldwide long distance telephone communication and teleconferencing services to commercial and residential consumers at prices lower than those generally available from conventional telephone companies. The Company is exploring the possibility to enter a new field of business in the bio tech industry. The Internet technology the Company uses is patented by Softalk, Inc. (Softalk), an Ontario, Canada corporation, which connect telephone users directly to ordinary worldwide telephone circuits (called the Public Switched Telephone Network or PSTN) operated by wholesalers, who are generally telecommunications companies.
BBY Best Buy Co., Inc. is a specialty retailer of consumer electronics, home-office products, entertainment software, appliances and related services. The Company operates retail stores and/or commercial Websites under the brand names Best Buy (BestBuy.com and BestBuyCanada.ca), Future Shop (FutureShop.ca), Magnolia Audio Video (MagnoliaAV.com) and Geek Squad (GeekSquad.com), as well as an outlet store on eBay. During the fiscal year ended February 28, 2004 (fiscal 2003), Best Buy operated two segments: domestic and international. The domestic segment is comprised of the United States Best Buy and Magnolia Audio Video operations. The International segment is comprised of Future Shop and Best Buy operations in Canada. In the third quarter of fiscal 2003, the Company acquired Geek Squad, Inc.
BRY Berry Petroleum Company is engaged in the production, development, acquisition, exploitation and exploration of crude oil and natural gas. Its principal reserves and producing properties are located in the San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles, Ventura basins, California, and the Uinta Basin, Utah. As of December 31, 2003, approximately 86% of the Company's proved reserves, or 94 million barrels, consisted of heavy crude oil produced from depths shallower than 2,000 feet. It owns 16 conventional boilers with a total rated capacity of approximately 38,000 barrels of steam per day. The Company also owns three cogeneration facilities with a combined annual average electricity generation of approximately 93 MW. During the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company acquired some properties in the Poso Creek field, California, and the Brundage Canyon in Utah. These acquisitions added a total of approximately 11.7 million BOE of proved reserves.
CHBD.OB Bernard Chaus, Inc. (Chaus) designs, arranges for the manufacture of, and markets a wide range of women's career and casual sportswear principally under the Josephine Chaus Collection, Josephine Chaus Sport, Chaus, Cynthia Steffe, Cynthia Cynthia Steffe, and Frances &amp; Rita trademarks, and under private-label brand names. The Company's products are sold nationwide in an estimated 5,000 stores operated by approximately 650 department store chains, specialty retailers and other retail outlets. Chaus markets its products as coordinated groups of jackets, skirts, pants, blouses, sweaters and related accessories.
BHL Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for Berkshire Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a community bank that provides a variety of financial services to individuals, municipalities and businesses through its offices in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It accepts retail deposits from the general public and uses those funds, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, to originate residential mortgage loans, commercial business and real estate loans and consumer loans, primarily automobile loans and home equity lines of credit. Berkshire Bank primarily holds the loans that it originates for investment, but occasionally sells or securitizes some of its loans, including automobile and fixed-rate residential mortgage loans, in the secondary market. The Company, in addition to the Bank, has two wholly owned active subsidiaries: Berkshire Hills Funding Corporation and Berkshire Hills Technology, Inc.
BRKa Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is a holding company that owns subsidiaries engaged in both primary insurance and reinsurance of property and casualty risks. The Company also reinsures life and health risks. In primary insurance activities, Berkshire subsidiaries assume defined portions of the risks of loss from persons or organizations that are directly subject to the risks. In reinsurance activities, Berkshire subsidiaries assume defined portions of similar or dissimilar risks that other insurers or reinsurers have subjected themselves to in their own insuring activities. Berkshire's principal insurance businesses are GEICO, General Re, Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group and Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group. Through its other subsidiaries, Berkshire is engaged in a variety of non-insurance businesses, including operations in the apparel, building products, finance and financial products, flight services and retail industries.
BERK Berkshire Bancorp Inc. is a bank holding company whose principal activity is the ownership and management of its wholly owned banking subsidiary, The Berkshire Bank (the Bank), a New York State-chartered commercial bank. The Bank's principal business consists of gathering deposits from the general public and investing those deposits primarily in loans, debt obligations issued by the United States Government and its agencies, business corporations and mortgage-backed securities. The Bank operates from five deposit-taking offices in New York City and four deposit-taking offices in Orange and Sullivan counties, New York. During the year ended December 31, 2003, it opened two branches in Brooklyn, New York.
BNT Bentley Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on research, development and licensing/commercialization of advanced drug delivery technologies and pharmaceutical products. The Company is also engaged in the development, licensing and sales of generic and branded pharmaceutical products and the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals for others. Revenues are generated through five primary sales channels: branded, generic, contract manufacturing, sales outside of Spain and licensing and collaborations, the first three of which respectively accounted for 29%, 42%, 15% of the Company's 2003 revenues. The generic and branded products are marketed to physicians, pharmacists and hospitals by three separate sales and marketing organizations based in Spain: Laboratorios Belmac, Laboratorios Davur and Laboratorios Rimafar.
BTHS Benthos, Inc. is engaged in the manufacture of oceanographic products. The Company has two divisions: the Undersea Systems Division and the Package Inspection Systems Division. The Undersea Systems Division designs, develops, manufactures and sells products and services used in oceanographic and underwater environments to the commercial, scientific, military and governmental markets. The Package Inspection Systems Division designs, develops, manufactures and sells systems used to inspect the integrity of containers in the food, pharmaceutical, dairy, chemical, personal care and beverage industries (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic).
BEL Bennett Environmental Inc. (BEI) is engaged in the business of using thermal oxidation technology to remediate contaminated soil, contaminated construction debris and mercaptan contaminated gas distribution equipment. The Company owns and operates remediation facilities located in Saint Ambroise, Quebec and Cornwall, Ontario, and is constructing a third facility in New Brunswick. BEI markets its remediation services throughout Canada and the United States. The Company operates through its three wholly owned operating subsidiaries, Recupere Sol Inc. (RSI), Material Resources Recovery S.R.B.P. Inc. (MRR) and Bennett Environmental New Brunswick Inc. (BEN). RSI operates a thermal treatment facility in Saint Ambroise, Quebec, MRR operates a thermal treatment facility in Cornwall, Ontario, BEN was formed to operate the Company's proposed facility in Belledune, New Brunswick and BEI provides remediation services through its facilities located in Saint Ambroise, Quebec, and Cornwall, Ontario.
BNHNA Benihana Inc. operates teppanyaki-style Japanese restaurants in the United States. Its core concept, the traditional Benihana restaurant, offers teppanyaki-style Japanese cooking in which steak, chicken and seafood is prepared by a Benihana chef on a grill, which forms a part of the table on which the food is served. The Haru concept offers a menu of Japanese fusion dishes in an urban atmosphere. In addition to traditional sushi and sashimi creations, Haru offers raw bar items and Japanese cuisine, including New York strip steak with wasabi croquette, spicy shallots and ginger sauce, garlic shrimp and crispy duck. RA Sushi concept offers sushi and a menu of Pacific-Rim dishes in an environment featuring upbeat design elements and music. On June 11, 2004, the Company owned and operated 56-Benihana, teppanyaki-style Japanese dinnerhouse restaurants, including one restaurant under the name Samurai, and franchises to operate 22 additional Benihana restaurants.
BNG Benetton Group S.p.A. is engaged in the design, manufacture and marketing of distinctive casual apparel for men, women and children, which it markets principally under the brand names United Colors of Benetton and Sisley. Following the 1997 acquisition of Benetton Sportsystem S.p.A., the Company was active in the sportswear and sports equipment sector with brands such as Prince, Rollerblade, Nordica, Kastle, Killer Loop and Ektelon, but the equipment businesses were sold in 2003. In launching a new potential area of growth, it added a new sportswear brand, Playlife. Until the sale of the sports equipment business in the first half of 2003, the Group's operations were divided into two primary sectors: casual, which includes footwear, accessories and other complementary items sold through the network of Benetton stores, and sports, comprised of sportswear, distributed mainly through the Playlife stores, and equipment, marketed only through sporting goods stores.
BHE Benchmark Electronics, Inc. is in the business of manufacturing electronics and providing services to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of computers and related products for business enterprises, medical devices, industrial control equipment, testing and instrumentation products and telecommunication equipment. The services that the Company provides are commonly referred to as electronics manufacturing services (EMS), which include design and manufacturing services, from initial product design to volume production and direct order fulfillment. The Company also provides specialized engineering services, including product design, printed circuit board layout, prototyping and test development.
BMRB.OB Benchmark Bankshares, Inc. (Benchmark) is a bank holding company for Benchmark Community Bank (the Bank). The Bank offers a range of banking and related financial services to individuals and small to medium-ranged businesses. The services offered are in the form of checking, savings accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal and money market accounts, certificates of deposit, business loans, personal loans, mortgage loans and other consumer-oriented financial services, including individual retirement arrangements, safe deposit, drive-up, night deposit, Internet banking and automatic teller machines at all, but its downtown Farmville, locations. The Bank does not offer any trust services. Benchmark does not own or operate any other businesses.
BMS Bemis Company, Inc. is a manufacturer of flexible packaging products and pressure sensitive materials selling to customers throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, with a presence in Asia Pacific, South America and Mexico. In 2003, approximately 80% of the Company's sales were derived from the Flexible Packaging segment and approximately 20% were derived from the Pressure Sensitive Materials segment. The primary market for the Company's products is the food industry. Other markets include companies in the chemical, agribusiness, medical, pharmaceutical, personal care products, tissue, batteries, electronics, automotive, construction, graphic industries and other consumer goods businesses.
BGO Bema Gold Corporation is engaged in the mining and production of gold and silver, and the acquisition, exploration and development of precious metal properties principally in the Russian Federation, South Africa, Chile and Canada. The Company's principal mineral properties, Julietta, Petrex, Refugio, Aldebaran and Kupol, are held through its principal subsidiaries. The dore produced by the Company at its Julietta and Petrex mines is further refined by third-party refineries before being sold as bullion (99.99% pure gold). The gold bullion is either sold at the spot price or delivered against existing forward sales, call option or put option contracts to one of the various precious metals merchants.
BLC Belo Corp. is a large media company with a diversified group of television, newspaper, cable and interactive media assets. The Company operates media franchises in many United States markets and regions, including Texas, the Northwest, the Southwest, Rhode Island and the Mid-Atlantic. Belo owns 19 television stations (six in the top 15 markets), owns or operates seven cable news channels and manages one television station through a local marketing agreement. The Company's daily newspapers are The Dallas Morning News, The Providence Journal, The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California) and the Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Texas). Belo operates more than 30 Websites, several interactive alliances and a broad range of Internet-based products.
BLMT Belmont Bancorp. is a bank holding company, which owns Belmont National Bank (BNB), a banking corporation organized as a national banking association. In addition, the Company also owns Belmont Financial Network, Inc. (BFN), a non-bank subsidiary. BNB operates a network of twelve full-service branches located in Belmont, Harrison and Tuscarawas Counties in Ohio and Ohio County in West Virginia. BNB provides a wide range of retail banking services to individuals and small to medium-sized businesses. These services include various deposit products, business and personal loans, residential mortgage loans, home equity loans, as well as other consumer oriented financial services, including individual retirement account and Keogh accounts, safe deposit and night depository facilities. BFN serves as a community development corporation by investing in a low-income housing project that provides low-income housing and historic tax credits.
BLS BellSouth Corporation is a communications services company that serves local, long distance, Internet and wireless customers in the United States and 13 other countries. It provides an array of voice, broadband data and e-commerce solutions to business customers. In the residential market, the Company offers digital subscriber line (DSL) high-speed Internet access, advanced voice features and other services. It also provides online and directory advertising services, including BellSouth Real PagesSM.com. The Company owned approximately 40% of Cingular Wireless in the United States. BellSouth has four operating segments: Communications Group, Domestic Wireless, Latin America Group and Advertising and Publishing Group. In October 2004, the Company transfered its ownership interest in three wireless operations in Latin America (Ecuador, Guatemala and Panama) to Telefonica Moviles S.A. Also in October 2004, Cingular Wireless merged with AT&amp;T Wireless Services Inc.
BELM Bell Microproducts Inc. is a value-added distributor of storage products and systems, semiconductors and custom-configured computer products and peripherals. Its products also include value-added services such as system design, integration, installation, maintenance and other consulting services. The Company also offers network attached storage (NAS), storage area network (SAN) and other storage systems, computer platforms and related software. It markets and distributes its products at various levels of integration, from raw components to integrated, tested and certified systems. Bell carries over 130 brand name product lines as well as its own proprietary Rorke Data storage products and Markvision memory modules.
BI Bell Industries, Inc.'s operations include technology lifecycle and outsourced services; distribution of aftermarket products for recreational vehicles, motorcycles, snowmobiles and powerboats and manufacturing of specialty electronic components. The Company has three business segments: Technology Solutions, a provider of integrated technology solutions; Recreational Products, a distributor of replacement parts and accessories for recreational and other leisure-time vehicles, and Electronic Components, a specialty manufacturer and distributor of standard and custom magnetic products. Products accounted for 81.5 %, 82.8 % and 84.1 % of net revenues for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively. Services accounted for 81.4 %, 76.4 % and 75.3 % of net revenues for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively.
BDC Belden CDT, Inc., formerly Cable Design Technologies Corporation, is a United States-based manufacturer of high-speed electronic cables. The Company focuses on products for the specialty electronics and data networking markets, including connectivity. In July 2004, Belden CDT was formed through the merger of Belden Inc., a designer, manufacturer and marketer of various wire and cable configurations, and Cable Design Technologies Corporation, a designer, manufacturer and distributor of advanced connectivity products. Upon completion of the merger, the Company changed its name from Cable Design Technologies Corporation to Belden CDT, Inc.
BELFB Bel Fuse, Inc. is a producer of electronic products that aim to help make global connectivity a reality. The Company's products are classified under the following groups: Magnetics, which include discrete components, power transformers and MagJack integrated connector modules; Modules, which include power conversion modules, integrated analog front-end modules and custom modules; Circuit Protection, which includes miniature fuses, micro fuses and surface mount fuses, and Interconnect, which includes passive jacks, plugs and cable assemblies. While these products are deployed primarily in the computer, networking and telecommunication industries, Bel's portfolio of products also finds application in the automotive, medical and consumer electronics markets. These products are designed to protect, regulate, connect, isolate or manage a variety of electronic circuits.
BEIQ BEI Technologies, Inc. is engaged in designing, developing, engineering, manufacturing and marketing of intelligent sensors, sensor-based systems, actuators and motors for use in precision motion control applications. Most of the Company's sensors measure physical motion and provide information that is essential to logical, safe and efficient operation of sophisticated machinery. The Company sells its highly engineered products to manufacturers in the automotive and transportation, industrial and aerospace and defense industries. It generally sells the company's automotive products to Tier I suppliers; most of its other products are sold directly to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), in the transportation and aerospace and defense markets, and BEI is frequently a sole-source supplier.
BED Bedford Property Investors, Inc. is a self-administered and self-managed equity real estate investment trust (REIT), engaged in the business of owning, managing, acquiring and developing industrial and suburban office properties proximate to metropolitan areas in the western United States. As of December 31, 2003, the Company owned and operated 92 properties totaling approximately 7.8 million rentable square feet. Of these 92 properties, 61 are industrial properties and 31 are suburban office properties. As of December 31, 2003, the 92 properties were leased to 504 tenants with an average occupancy rate of approximately 93%. The properties are located in California, Arizona, Washington, Colorado and Nevada.
BBBY Bed Bath &amp; Beyond Inc. operates specialty retail stores in the United States, including Bed Bath &amp; Beyond stores (BBB), Harmon stores and Christmas Tree Shops stores (CTS). BBB stores are almost exclusively of a big box format. BBB's domestics merchandise line includes items, such as bed linens, bath accessories and kitchen textiles and BBB's home furnishings line includes items, such as cookware, dinnerware, glassware and basic housewares. At February 28, 2004, BBB operated 575 stores in 44 states and one territory. CTS is a retailer of giftware and household items selling an assortment of domestics merchandise and home furnishings at low prices in many categories, including home d&eacute;cor, giftware, housewares, food, paper goods and seasonal products. At fiscal year end 2003, CTS operated 24 stores in six states. Harmon is a health and beauty care retailer, which operated 30 stores in three states at fiscal year end.
BDX Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) is a medical technology company engaged principally in the manufacture and sale of a broad range of medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products used by healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, industry and the general public. BD's operations consist of three worldwide business segments: BD Medical, BD Diagnostics and BD Biosciences. In July 2004, BD acquired Atto Bioscience, Inc. (Atto), a privately held company specializing in optical instrumentation, software and reagents for real-time analysis of interactions taking place in living cells. In September 2004, the Company decided to sell the Clontech unit of the BD Biosciences segment (Clontech).
BEC Beckman Coulter, Inc. simplifies and automates laboratory processes used in all phases of the battle against disease. The Company designs, manufactures and markets systems, which consist of instruments, chemistries, software and supplies that meet a variety of biomedical laboratory needs. Its products are used in a range of applications, from instruments used for pioneering medical research, clinical trials and drug discovery to diagnostic systems found in hospitals and physicians' offices to aid in patient care. Beckman Coulter's product lines include virtually all blood tests routinely performed in hospital laboratories and a range of systems for medical and pharmaceutical research. It has more than 200,000 systems operating in laboratories worldwide, with approximately 64% of 2003 revenues coming from after-market customer purchases of operating supplies, chemistry kits and service. Beckman Coulter markets its products in more than 130 countries.
BEBE bebe stores, inc. designs, develops and produces a line of contemporary women's apparel and accessories. Its broad product offering includes tops, pants, skirts, dresses, suits, logo products, casual sportswear, activewear, outerwear, handbags and other accessories for all facets of the customer's lifestyle, including career, casual, evening and weekend wear. The Company markets its products under the bebe O, bebe and BEBE SPORT brand names through 199 retail stores, of which 159 are bebe stores, 22 are BEBE SPORT stores and 18 are bebe outlet stores. These stores are located in 32 states, the District of Columbia and Canada. In addition, bebe has an online store at www.bebe.com and its licensees operate 12 international stores. The Company's target customers are 21- to 35-year-old women who seek fashion trends interpreted to suit their lifestyle needs. The bebe look is designed to appeal to a hip, sophisticated, body-conscious woman who takes pride in her appearance.
BZH Beazer Homes USA, Inc., designs homes at various price points to appeal to homebuyers across various demographic segments. The Company's product offering is broken down into three product categories: Economy, Value and Style. Economy class homes are targeted primarily at entry-level buyers, are generally 1,500 square feet or less in size and are intended to meet the needs of those buyers for whom price is the most important factor in the buying decision. Value category homes are targeted at entry-level and move-up buyers, generally range from 1,500 to 2,500 square feet in size and are intended to appeal to buyers who are more interested in style and features, but are still somewhat price-focused. Style class homes are targeted at more affluent move-up buyers, are generally greater than 2,500 square feet in size and are intended to appeal to buyers in the more luxurious segment of the market, who place greater emphasis on style and features.
BBGI Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. is a radio broadcasting company operating primarily in the eastern United States. The Company owns and operates 41 radio stations in 10 markets including Atlanta, Georgia; Boston, Massachusetts; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Las Vegas, Nevada; West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, Florida; Ft. Myers-Naples, Florida; Fayetteville, North Carolina; Greenville-New Bern-Jacksonville, North Carolina, and Augusta, Georgia. The Company operates its radio stations in clusters to capture a variety of demographic listener groups. Among its stations' programming formats are religious, Hispanic, country, financial, sports/talk, health, foreign language, 80's, adult standards, alternative rock, urban, oldies, classic rock and adult contemporary.
BE BearingPoint, Inc. is a business consulting, systems integration and managed services firm serving Global 2,000 companies, medium-sized businesses, government agencies and other organizations. The Company, formerly KPMG Consulting, Inc., provides business and technology strategy, systems design, architecture, applications implementation, network, systems integration and managed services. Through June 30, 2003, BearingPoint provided consulting services through five industry groups in which the Company has industry-specific knowledge. Effective July 1, 2003, BearingPoint combined its Consumer and Industrial Markets and High Technology industry groups to form the Consumer, Industrial and Technology industry group. The Company's industry groups are Public Services, Communications and Content, Financial Services and Consumer, Industrial and Technology.
BRCO.OB The Beard Company was an oil and gas exploration company. The Company has reduced its operating activities down to four segments: the coal reclamation segment, which is in the business of operating coal fines reclamation facilities in the United States; the carbon dioxide segment, which has produced CO2 gas since the early 1980's; the China segment, which is pursuing environmental opportunities in China, focusing on the financing, construction and operation of fertilizer plants, which will utilize proprietary composting technology licensed from third parties, and the e-Commerce segment, whose strategy is to develop licensing agreements and other fee based arrangements with companies implementing technology in conflict with its intellectual property. All of such activities, with the exception of Beard's CO2 gas production activities, are conducted through subsidiaries.
BYFC Broadway Financial Corporation is primarily engaged in the savings and loan business through its wholly owned subsidiary, Broadway Federal Bank, f.s.b. (the Bank). The Bank is a community-oriented savings institution dedicated to serving the African-American, Hispanic and other communities of Mid-City and South Los Angeles, California. The Bank conducts its business from three banking offices in Los Angeles and one banking office located in the City of Inglewood. The Bank's principal business consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public in the areas surrounding its branch offices and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, primarily in multi-family and single-family residential mortgage loans.
BSC The Bear Stearns Companies Inc. is an investment banking, securities and derivatives trading, clearance and brokerage firm. It conducts its businesses through its broker-dealer and bank subsidiaries, Bear, Stearns &amp; Co. Inc.; Bear, Stearns Securities Corp. (BSSC); Bear, Stearns International Limited, and Bear Stearns Bank plc. BSSC provides professional and correspondent clearing services, in addition to clearing and settling customer transactions of the Company. Bear Stearns Companies also conducts activities through other wholly owned subsidiaries, including Bear Stearns Global Lending Limited, Custodial Trust Company, Bear Stearns Financial Products Inc., Bear Stearns Capital Markets Inc., EMC Mortgage Corporation, Bear Stearns Mortgage Capital Corporation, Bear Stearns Credit Products Inc. and Bear Stearns Forex Inc. The Company primarily engages in three segments: Capital Markets, Global Clearing Services and Wealth Management.
