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Apple
Inc.designs, manufactures, and markets personal computers,
portable digital music players, and mobile communication
devices and sells a variety of related software, services,
peripherals, and networking solutions. The Company sells
its products worldwide through its online stores, its
retail stores, its direct sales force, and third-party
wholesalers, resellers, and value-added resellers. In
addition, the Company sells a variety of third-party Macintosh
(Mac), iPod and iPhone compatible products, including
application software, printers, storage devices, speakers,
headphones, and various other accessories and peripherals
through its online and retail stores. The Company sells
to education, consumer, creative professional, business
and government customers.
AT&T
Inc. (AT&T) is a holding company whose subsidiaries and
affiliates operate in the communications services industry
both domestically and internationally providing wireline
and wireless telecommunications services and equipment,
as well as directory advertising and publishing services.
The services and products offered by the Company include
local exchange services, wireless communications, long-distance
services, data/broadband and Internet services, telecommunications
equipment, managed networking, wholesale services, directory
advertising and publishing. AT&T operates in four segments:
wireline, wireless, directory and other. On December 29,
2006, AT&T acquired BellSouth. With the BellSouth acquisition,
it acquired BellSouth’s remaining 40% interest, resulting
in 100% ownership, in AT&T Mobility LLC. In November 2007,
AT&T acquired Dobson Communications Corporation, a provider
of rural and suburban wireless communications services
under the Cellular One brand.
Cisco
Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells Internet
protocol (IP)-based networking and other products related
to the communications and information technology industry,
and provides services associated with these products and
their use. It provides a line of products for transporting
data, voice and video within buildings, across campuses
and around the world. Its products, which include primarily
routers, switches and products that the Company refers
to as its advanced technologies, are installed at enterprises,
public institutions, telecommunications companies, commercial
businesses and personal residences. It conducts its business
globally and are managed geographically in five segments:
the United States and Canada; European Markets; Emerging
Markets; Asia Pacific, and Japan. In June 2007, it acquired
BroadWare Technologies, and IronPort Systems, Inc. In
October 2007, the Company acquired Cognio, Inc.and Latigent,
LLC. In November 2007, the Company acquired Securent,
Inc.
The
Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries, is
a diversified worldwide entertainment company with operations
in four segments: Media Networks, Parks and Resorts, Studio
Entertainment and Consumer Products. On May 5, 2006, the
Company acquired Pixar, a digital animation studio. On
August 1, 2007, the Company acquired Club Penguin Entertainment,
Inc. On February 1, 2007, the Company acquired NASN Limited.In
December 2007, the Company announced that The Walt Disney
Internet Group has acquired iParenting Media.iParenting’s
content and services will be integrated into Disney’s
network of family targeted sites.
General
Electric Company (GE) is a diversified industrial corporation.
It is engaged in developing, manufacturing and marketing
a variety of products for the generation, transmission,
distribution, control and utilization of electricity.
During the year ended December 31, 2006, GE completed
the sales of its Advanced Materials business by Industrial
and GE Life, its United Kingdom-based life insurance business.
During 2006, GE acquired IDX Systems Corporation, ZENON
Environmental Inc. and Biacore International AB. On March
15, 2007, GeoEye Inc. acquired M.J. Harden Associates,
Inc., from GE. In May 2007, Smiths Group PLC sold its
aerospace businesses to GE. In May 2007, STV Partners
Corporation, the Japanese unit of GE, acquired a 97.15%
interest in SANYO ELECTRIC CREDIT CO., LTD.In October
2007, GE Healthcare, a unit of GE, acquired Dynamic Imaging,
LLC. In October 2007, GE completed the acquisition of
Sondex plc.
Google
Inc. maintains an index of Websites and other content,
and makes this information freely available to anyone
with an Internet connection. Its automated search technology
enables people to obtain nearly instant access to relevant
information from its online index. Google generates revenue
by delivering online advertising. Businesses use its AdWords
program to promote their products and services with targeted
advertising. In addition, the third-party Websites that
comprise the Google Network use the Company's AdSense
program to deliver relevant advertisements that generate
revenue. In August 2006, it acquired Neven Vision, an
online photo-search company. On October 10, 2006, it acquired
the online video company, YouTube. In October 2006, it
also acquired JotSpot. JotSpot applications are delivered
as Web-based services. In March 2007, the Company acquired
Adscape Media Inc., a company that makes technology to
deliver advertising over the Internet for placement within
videogames.
Goldman
Sachs Group, Inc. (Goldman Sachs) is global investment
banking, securities and investment management firm that
provides a range of services worldwide to a client base
that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments
and high-net-worth individuals. Goldman Sachs activities
are divided into three segments: Investment Banking, Trading
and Principal Investments, and Asset Management and Securities
Services. Investment Banking segment is divided into two
components: Financial Advisory and Underwriting. Trading
and Principal Investments segment is divided into three
components: Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities; Equities,
and Principal Investments. The components of the Asset
Management and Securities Services segment are asset management
and securities services.
Ingersoll-Rand
Company Limited is a provider of climate control, industrial,
compact vehicle, construction and security products. The
Company operates in five business segments: Climate Control
Technologies, Compact Vehicle Technologies, Construction
Technologies, Industrial Technologies and Security Technologies.
In February 2007, the Company completed the acquisition
of the remaining 40.2% interest in Instrum Rand JSC, a
Russia-based company. In October 2006, IR-Limited completed
the acquisition of Geith International, a provider of
a range of attachments for the construction, excavation,
demolition and scrap handling industries. In January 2006,
the Company completed the acquisition of an 80% of Shenzhen
Bocom Systems Engineering Co. Ltd. In April 2007, the
Company sold its Road Development business unit to AB
Volvo, in all countries except India. In November 2007,
the Company announced the sale of its Bobcat, Utility
Equipment and Attachments business units to Doosan Infracore.
Lennar
Corporation is a homebuilder and a provider of financial
services. Its homebuilding operations include the construction
and sale of single-family attached and detached homes,
and to a lesser extent, multi-level buildings, as well
as the purchase, development and sale of residential land
directly and through unconsolidated entities, in which
it has investments. The Company has grouped its homebuilding
activities into three segments: Homebuilding East, Homebuilding
Central and Homebuilding West. Information about homebuilding
activities in states that are not similar to other states
in the same geographic area is grouped under Homebuilding
Other. Its Financial Services segment provides mortgage
financing, title insurance, closing services and other
ancillary services (including personal lines insurance,
high-speed Internet and cable television) for both buyers
of its homes and others. It sells substantially all of
the loans that it originates in the secondary mortgage
market.
Pfizer
Inc. (Pfizer) is a research-based, global pharmaceutical
company. The Company discovers, develops, manufactures
and markets prescription medicines for humans and animals.
It operates in two business segments: Pharmaceutical and
Animal Health. Pfizer acquired the worldwide rights to
Exubera (inhaled insulation therapy) from sanofi-aventis
in February 2006. The Company and sanofi-aventis were
previously in a worldwide alliance to co-develop, co-promote
and co-manufacture Exubera. The Company also acquired
the sanofi-aventis rights to the Exubera insulin production
facilities located in Frankfurt, Germany, which were previously
jointly owned by the Company and sanofi-aventis. The Company
completed the sale of its Consumer Healthcare business
to Johnson & Johnson in December 2006. In January 2007,
Pfizer Animal Health completed the acquisition of Embrex,
Inc., an international agricultural biotechnology company
that offers Inovoject vaccine-delivery systems.
The
Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is focused on providing
branded consumer goods products. The Company markets its
products in more than 180 countries. During the fiscal
year ended June 30, 2007 (fiscal 2007), the Company was
organized into three global business units: Beauty and
Health, Household Care and Gillette GBU. P&G had seven
segments under United States Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles: Beauty; Health Care; Fabric Care and Home
Care; Snacks, Coffee and Pet Care; Baby Care and Family
Care; Blades and Razors, and Duracell and Braun. In September
2006, the Company's Sure brand (an antiperspirant and
deodorant brand) was acquired by Innovative Brands, LLC.
In January 2007, P&G acquired HDS Cosmetics Lab Inc.,
which manufactures and markets Doctor's Dermatologic Formula
(DDF) skin care.
Southern
Copper Corporation is an integrated producer of copper,
molybdenum, zinc and silver. All of its mining, smelting
and refining facilities are located in Peru and in Mexico,
and it conducts exploration activities in those countries
and Chile. The Company operates in three segments: Peruvian
operations, Mexican open-pit operations and Mexican underground
mining operations. Peruvian operations includes the Toquepala
and Cuajone mine complexes and the smelting and refining
plants, industrial railroad and port facilities, which
service both mines. Mexican open-pit operations includes
La Caridad and Cananea mine complexes, and the smelting
and refining plants and support facilities, which service
both mines. The Mexican underground mining operations
include five underground mines that produce zinc, copper,
silver and gold, a coal and coke mine, and several industrial
processing facilities for zinc and copper. This group
is identified as the IMMSA unit.
Exxon
Mobil Corporation (ExxonMobil) is an international oil and
gas company. ExxonMobil operates facilities or market products
in many countries, and explores for oil and natural gas
on six continents. ExxonMobil is involved in the exploration
and production of crude oil and natural gas; the manufacture
of petroleum products, and the transportation and sale of
crude oil, natural gas and petroleum products. ExxonMobil
is a manufacturer and marketer of commodity and specialty
petrochemicals, and also has interests in electric power
generation facilities. In addition, the Company conducts
research programs in support of these businesses.