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Team, Inc. provides specialty maintenance and construction services for maintaining high temperature and high pressure piping systems and vessels that are primarily utilized in heavy industries. The company offers leak repair services, which include on-stream repairs of leaks in pipes, valves, flanges, and other parts of piping systems and related equipment; hot tapping services; emissions control services that comprise identification, monitoring, data management, and reporting services for the chemical, refining, and natural gas processing industries; and field machining and technical bolting services, which involve the use of machining equipment to repair or modify machinery, equipment, vessels, and piping systems, as well as offers flange facing, pipe cutting, line boring, journal turning, drilling, and milling services. Team, Inc. also provides field valve repair services that include onsite repair of process manual and control valves, and pressure and safety relief valves, as well as specialty valve actuator diagnostics and repair; non-destructive testing and inspection services, which consists of the examination and evaluation of piping, piping components, and equipment; and field heat treating services that comprise electric resistance and gas-fired combustion, used by industrial users. The company markets its services to companies in the petrochemical, refining, power, pipeline, pulp and paper, steel, aerospace, and automotive industries, as well as engineering and construction firms, original equipment manufacturers distributors, and end users. Team, Inc. operates in the United States, Aruba, Canada, Singapore, Trinidad, and Venezuela. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Alvin, Texas.
HMS Holdings Corp. furnishes cost containment, revenue recovery, cost reporting, and business office outsourcing services to healthcare providers and payors. The company operates through its two wholly owned subsidiaries, Health Management Systems, Inc. (Health Management Systems) and Accordis, Inc. (Accordis). Health Management Systems works on behalf of government healthcare programs to contain costs by recovering expenditures. Its customers include state and county Medicaid programs, their managed care plans, child support enforcement agencies, state prescription drug programs, and other public programs. Accordis offers business office outsourcing services, including identifying third-party resources, submitting bills to third-party payors and patients, recovering and accounting for the amounts due, responding to customer service questions from patients, and securing cost-based reimbursement from entitlement programs. It provides these services to hospitals, emergency medical transport agencies, and other healthcare providers. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in New York City.
BIDZ.com, Inc. operates as an online retailer of jewelry primarily in the United States and internationally. The company operates a Web Site, bidz.com, for the purpose of selling merchandise, utilizing an online sales auction platform. Its product inventory includes gold, platinum, and silver jewelry set with diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, and other precious and semi-precious stones; and watches. Its products also include rings, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets. In addition, BIDZ.com, Inc. offers a Certified Merchant Program that enables merchants to sell various goods, such as art and collectibles. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Culver City, California.
I-Many, Inc. provides software and related services for contract and transaction compliance management primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. Its software and related professional services enable clients to manage various aspects of their contract-based, business-to-business relationships, including contract creation, repository, actionable terms tracking, and reporting; contract compliance management for verification of compliance and accuracy of orders, shipments, invoices, rebates, and payments; cash collection, deductions management, and dispute resolution based on analysis of agreed to contract terms and conditions; and evaluation of the effectiveness of contracts and business operations. The company's primary products offerings include I-many ContractSphere and I-many CARS. I-many ContractSphere solution suite manages various kinds of commitment from contracts and obligations to payments and collections. I-many CARS enables the management of incentive-driven contract and program processes. In addition, I-Many provides professional services, including consulting services, deployment services, and business analysis services; training; and maintenance and support services. The company offers its products and services primarily to pharmaceutical and medical product companies, wholesale distributors, and managed care organizations, as well as to customers in the consumer products, foodservice, disposables, consumer durables, industrial products, chemicals, apparel, and telecommunications industries. I-Many has a strategic relationship with The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), pursuant to which the company provides purchase contract management software for P&G's commercial products group. I-Many was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Edison, New Jersey.
INNOTRAC CORPORATION (INOC)
Innotrac Corporation provides order processing, order fulfillment, and call center services to large corporations that outsource these functions. The company offers a range of fulfillment services, such as warehouse management technology, automated shipping solutions, inventory tracking and order status, purchasing and inventory management, channel development, zone skipping for shipment cost reduction, product sourcing and procurement, packaging solutions, back-order management, and returns management. It also provides various customer support services that comprise inbound call center services, technical support and order status, returns and refunds processing, call centers integrated into fulfillment platform, cross-sell/up-sell services, collaborative chat, and e-mail response. As of March 31, 2005, Innotrac operated eight fulfillment centers and two call centers in six cities in the continental United States. It primarily offers services to the telecommunications industry; retail, catalog, and direct marketing companies; and business-to-business clients. Innotrac was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
MASTERCARD INCORPORATED (MA)
MasterCard Incorporated, along with its subsidiaries, operates as a payment solutions company. The company develops and markets payment solutions, processes payment transactions, and provides consulting services to customers and merchants. It provides transaction processing and other payment-related services, as well as facilitates the authorization, clearing, and settlement process of the transactions. The company also provides various programs, such as consumer credit and debit programs, commercial payment solutions, stored value programs, and prepaid programs, as well as offers commercial payment solutions, contactless payment solutions, and consulting and research services. It manages and licenses payment card brands, including MasterCard, MasterCard Electronic, Maestro, and Cirrus. As of December 31, 2006, MasterCard Incorporated served approximately 25,000 financial institutions worldwide. The company was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York.
DYNCORP INTERNATIONAL INC (DCP)
DynCorp International, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides defense, technical, and government outsourced solutions worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Government Services (GS), and Maintenance and Technical Support Services (MTSS). The GS segment provides international policing and police training, judicial support, and immigration support. This segment also provides security and personal protection for diplomats; designs, installs, and operates security systems; and develops security software, smart cards, and biometrics. In addition, it provides peace-keeping support, humanitarian relief, de-mining, inventory procurement and tracking, property control, and data entry services. Further, this segment provides facility and equipment maintenance; control, custodial, and administrative services; civil, electrical, infrastructure, environmental, and mechanical engineering; construction management; drug eradication; host nation pilot; and crew training services. The MTSS segment provides aviation services and operations, such as aircraft fleet maintenance, depot augmentation, aftermarket logistics support, aircrew services and training, ground equipment maintenance and modifications, facilities and operations support, and aircraft scheduling and flight planning; aviation engineering, including engineering design, kit manufacturing, installation, configuration management, avionics upgrades, cockpit and fuselage redesign, and technical data; and drawings and manual revisions. This segment also provides aviation ground equipment support services, including maintenance and overhaul, modifications and upgrades, corrosion control, engine rebuilding, hydraulic and load testing, and serviceability inspections; and scheduling and work flow management services. The company serves the U.S. Departments of Defense and State, government agencies, foreign governments, and commercial customers. DynCorp International is based in Falls Church, Virginia.
RITCHIE BROS. AUCTIONEERS INCORPORATED (RBA)
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated operates as an auctioneer of industrial equipment. The company, through unreserved public auctions, sells a range of assets, including trucks and equipment used in the construction, transportation, mining, forestry, petroleum, material handling, marine, and agricultural industries worldwide. It also offers an array of services in the auction process for buyers and sellers of equipment. These services include conducting title searches on consigned equipment; making consigned equipment available for inspection by prospective buyers; providing access to representatives of finance companies, transportation companies, customs brokerages, and other service providers; and providing facilities for onsite cleaning, painting, and refurbishment of equipment. The company's customers primarily include end-users of equipment, such as contractors, equipment manufacturers, dealers, brokers, and finance companies. As of December 31, 2004, it operated from approximately 110 locations, including 29 auction sites, in 25 countries. Ritchie Bros. was founded in 1963 and is headquartered in Richmond, Canada.
CBIZ, Inc. provides professional business services to various businesses, individuals, governmental entities, and not-for-profit enterprises in the United States and Canada. It offers services through four practice groups, including financial services, employee services, medical management professionals (MMP), and national practices. The company's financial services group provides accounting, tax, financial advisory, litigation support, valuation, Sarbanes-Oxley 404 consulting, internal audit, fraud detection, and real estate advisory services. Its employee services group offers group health, property and casualty insurance, COBRA/Flex, retirement planning, wealth management, life insurance, human capital management, payroll services, specialty life insurance, and actuarial services. CBIZ's MMP group provides coding and billing, accounts receivable management, and full practice management services. Its national practices group consists of managed networking and hardware services, project management, software solutions, mergers and acquisitions, health care consulting, government relations, and IT consulting. The company was founded in 1987. It was formerly known as Century Business Services, Inc. and changed its name to CBIZ, Inc. in 2005. CBIZ is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.
HEALTHCARE SERVICES GROUP INC (HCSG)
Healthcare Services Group, Inc. provides housekeeping, laundry, linen, facility maintenance, and food services to nursing homes, retirement complexes, rehabilitation centers, and hospitals in the United States and Canada. The company operates through two segments, housekeeping, laundry, linen, and other services, and food services. The housekeeping, laundry, linen, and other services segment offers housekeeping services, which involves cleaning, disinfecting, and sanitizing resident areas in its clients' facilities; laundry services, which involve in the laundering and processing of the residents' personal clothing; linen services that involve providing, laundering, and processing of the sheets, pillow cases, blankets, towels, uniforms, and assorted linen items used by its clients' facilities; and maintenance services, which consist of repair and maintenance of laundry equipment, plumbing, and electrical systems, as well as carpentry and painting. The food services segment develops a menu that meets the residents' dietary needs, purchasing and preparing the food to assure that residents receive an appetizing meal, and participation in monitoring the residents' on-going nutritional status. It also provides consulting services to facilities in updating their food service operations. Healthcare Services Group was founded in 1976 and is based in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.
DG FASTCHANNEL INC (DGIT)
Digital Generations Systems, Inc. (DGS), through its subsidiaries, offers a suite of digital technology products and services to the advertising and broadcasting industries in the United States and Canada. The company operates a digital network from its Network Operation Center (NOC) located in Irving, Texas. Its digital network links approximately 5,000 advertisers and advertising agencies with approximately 3,100 television, cable, and network broadcast destinations and 10,000 radio stations in the United States and Canada. The company's NOC delivers audio, video, image, and data content that comprises transactions between the advertising and broadcasting industries. DGS also develops and sells proprietary digital software, hardware, and communications technology, including various bandwidth satellite receivers, audio compression codes, and software to operate integrated digital multimedia networks, as well as related engineering consulting services. The company markets and sells its transmission and distribution systems, and audio compression products through its direct sales force to corporate and commercial end-users, distributors, radio stations, and networks. Digital Generation is headquartered in Irving, Texas.
IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED (IRM)
Iron Mountain, Inc. provides information storage and protection, and related services in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Latin America. It offers records management services, which include records management program development and implementation to help customers comply with specific regulatory requirements; implementation of policy-based programs that feature storage for media, including paper, flexible retrieval access, and retention management; digital archiving services for archiving of electronic records; shredding services that ensure privacy and a chain of record custody; and specialized services for records, film and sound, and regulated industries, such as healthcare, energy, and financial services. The company's data protection services include disaster preparedness planning support; data backup and data recovery in the event of a disaster, human error or virus; electronic vaulting to provide managed, online data backup and recovery services for personal computers and server data; and escrow services to protect and manage source code and other proprietary information, and domain name management services. In addition, Iron Mountain sells storage materials, including cardboard boxes and magnetic media, as well as provides consulting, facilities management, fulfillment, and other outsourcing services. The company serves commercial, legal, banking, healthcare, accounting, insurance, entertainment, and government organizations. Iron Mountain was founded by Herman Knaust in 1951 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
PHASE FORWARD INCORPORATED (PFWD)
Phase Forward, Inc. (PFI) provides integrated enterprise-level software products, services, and hosted solutions to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies, as well as academic institutions, clinical research organizations, and other entities engaged in clinical trials. The company offers various 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. The InForm platform enables customers deploy customized electronic case report forms (eCRF) for onsite clinical data input, which incorporates automated edit checking and delivers enterprise data visibility. The InForm software product also enables clinical trial sponsors to publish relevant clinical trial-related materials for use by clinical investigators utilizing the software through a standard Web-browser. Clintrial enables customers to input, monitor, correct, code, and analyze clinical data collected through integration with its InForm platform or through traditional paper-based methods. Clintrace enables customers comply with the global safety regulations and reporting deadlines associated with clinical research, post-approval marketing, and drug surveillance. The company also provides consulting, training, and application hosting and support services. Consulting services include business process mapping and workflow design, project planning and management services, and guidance on using its software products, as well as implementation services consisting of application architecture design, systems integration, installation, and validation. PFI was co-founded by Paul A. Bleicher. The company was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Rollins, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides pest and termite control services in North America. It offers protection services against termite damage, rodents, and insects to homes and businesses, including hotels, food service establishments, food manufacturers, retailers, and transportation companies. The company, formerly known as Rollins Broadcasting, Inc., was founded in 1947. Rollins is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS LLC (BR)
Burlington Resources, Inc., a holding company, engages in the exploration for, development, production, and marketing of crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas in North America, Canada, and other countries. Its North American operations primarily include production, development, and exploration of natural gas. The company's projects and properties in North America comprise the San Juan Basin in northwest New Mexico and southwest Colorado; the Madden Field located in the Wind River Basin, covering approximately 70,000 acres in Wyoming's Fremont and Natrona counties; the Williston Basin; the Anadarko Basin located principally in western Oklahoma, which encompasses approximately 30,000 square miles; Permian Basin; the Fort Worth Basin in north-central Texas; and the Onshore Gulf Coast, including various drilling trends in south Louisiana, as well as 660,000 acres of fee lands where Burlington Resources owns the mineral rights and surface lands. The company, in Canada, engages in exploration and development activities in Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan. Burlington's International activities include exploration projects, field development projects, and production operations. Its focus areas are northwest Europe, North Africa, China, and South America. As of December 31, 2003, the company had proven reserves of 8,074 billion cubic feet of natural gas, 330.9 millions of barrels of natural gas liquids, and 282.1 millions of barrels of crude oil. Burlington Resources was formed in 1988 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES INC (UEPS)
Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. and its subsidiaries provide universal electronic payment system (UEPS), as an alternative payment system for the unbanked and under-banked populations in South Africa. Its system uses secure smart cards that operate in real time but offline, which means users of the system can enter into transactions at any time with other card holders in even the remote areas so long as a smart card reader is available. In addition, the system could be used for banking, health care management, international money transfers, voting, and identification. The company operates in four segments: Transaction-Based Activities, Smart Card Accounts, Financial Services, and Hardware, Software, and Related Technology Sales. Transaction-Based Activities segment provides a State pension and welfare benefit distribution service to governments in South Africa. It also offers wage payment, point of sale, medicine distribution, money transfers, and prepayment of utility bills utilizing its UEPS system. Smart Card Accounts segment provides smart card accounts, which consists of social welfare grant beneficiaries to its card holders. Financial Services segment provides financial services consisting of short-term loans and life insurance products to card holders through its smart card delivery channel. As of June 30, 2007, this segment also operated a microlending business with approximately 77 branches. Hardware, Software, and Related Technology Sales segment offers customers the hardware and software required to implement its UEPS system. Net 1 UEPS Technologies also leases terminals to merchants and provides an automated payment collection service to third parties. In addition, it develops and provides secure transaction technology, solutions, and services for electronic commerce transactions in the telecommunications, banking, retail, petroleum, and utilities market sectors. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Rosebank, South Africa.
WINMARK CORPORATION (WINA)
Winmark Corporation engages in the development, franchising, and operation of value oriented retail concepts for stores that buy, sell, trade, and consign used and new merchandise in the United States. It operates four franchised stores: Play It Again Sports, Once Upon a Child, Music Go Round, and Plato's Closet. The Play It Again Sports stores buy, sell, and trade used and new sporting goods, equipment, and accessories for various athletic activities, including hockey, wheeled sports, fitness, ski/snowboard, golf, and baseball/softball. The Once Upon a Child stores sell and buy used and new children's clothing, toys, furniture, and other accessories. The Music Go Round stores buy, sell, and consign used musical instruments, speakers, amplifiers, music-related electronics, and related accessories. The Plato's Closet stores buy and sell clothing and accessories for teens and young adults. As of June 25, 2005, the company operated 797 franchise and retail stores, including 404 Play It Again Sports, 210 Once Upon A Child, 142 Plato's Closet, and 41 Music Go Round stores. The company, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Winmark Capital Corporation, engages in the middle-market equipment leasing business, which covers high-technology equipment, such as computers, telecommunications equipment, point-of-sale systems, and other business-essential equipment. In addition, the company, through its other subsidiary, Winmark Business Solutions, Inc., engages in the small-ticket leasing business, which covers business essential assets, including computers, telecommunications equipment, car wash equipment, production equipment, and other equipment. The company markets its leasing services directly to end-users and indirectly through business alliances, as well as through vendors of equipment, software, value-added services, and consulting services. Winmark was incorporated in 1988 and is headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota.
SYNNEX Corporation operates as an information technology products (IT) supply chain services company. It offers a range of services to IT original equipment manufacturers and software publishers, and reseller customers worldwide. The company's supply chain services include product distribution, related logistics, contract assembly, and demand generation marketing. SYNNEX offers a variety of supply chain and logistics services, such as outsourced fulfillment services, virtual distribution, and direct shipments to end users. It also distributes a range of IT products, such as IT systems, peripherals, system components, and software and networking equipment to various customers, including value-added resellers, system integrators, retailers, and direct resellers. The company's contract assembly operations include building IT systems, such as personal computers, workstations, and servers. SYNNEX primarily operates in North and Latin America, Asia, and Europe. The company was founded in 1980 by Robert Huang. It was formerly known as COMPAC Microelectronics, Inc. and changed its name to SYNNEX Information Technologies, Inc. in 1994. Further, the name was changed to SYNNEX Corporation in 2003. SYNNEX is headquartered in Fremont, California. SYNNEX Corporation is approximately 71% owned by MiTAC International Corporation and its affiliates, as of November 30, 2004.
comScore, Inc. provides a digital marketing intelligence platform that helps customers make informed business decisions and implement digital business strategies. Its products and solutions offer insights into consumer behavior, including objective information regarding usage of their online properties, and those of their competitors, coupled with information on consumer demographic characteristics, attitudes, lifestyles, and offline behavior. The company's digital marketing intelligence platform comprises proprietary databases and a computational infrastructure that measures, analyzes, and reports on digital activity. It delivers digital marketing intelligence through its comScore Media Metrix product family and through comScore Marketing Solutions. The company's Media Metrix delivers digital media intelligence by providing an independent, third-party measurement of the size, behavior, and characteristics of Web site and online advertising network audiences among home, work, and university Internet users, as well as insights into the effectiveness of online advertising. Its Marketing Solutions products combine the proprietary information gathered from the comScore panel to deliver digital marketing intelligence, including the measurement of online advertising effectiveness, customized for specific industries. comScore, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.
INTERCONTINENTALEXCHANGE INC (ICE)
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc., through its subsidiaries, owns and operates an Internet-based global electronic marketplace for trading in futures and over-the-counter (OTC) commodities, and derivative financial products in the United States and internationally. Its products include contracts based on crude and refined oil products, natural gas and power, and emissions, as well as sugar, cotton, coffee, cocoa, and orange juice along with foreign exchange and index products. The company operates in four segments: Energy Futures and Options Markets, Global OTC Markets, Market Data, and Soft Commodity Futures and Options Markets. Energy Futures and Options Markets segment consist of trade execution in futures contracts and options on futures contracts. Global OTC Markets segment comprise trade execution in OTC energy contracts and provision of trading-related services, including OTC electronic trade confirmation and OTC risk management functionality services. Its products include derivative contracts and contracts that provide for physical delivery of the underlying commodity principally relating to natural gas, power, and oil. Market Data segment distributes electronically generated energy market data primarily derived from actual trades executed in its marketplace, as well as provides information services, which publication of daily indices, access to historical pricing data, view only access to the platform, end of day settlements, and pricing data sets, as well as a service that involves the validation of participants' own mark valuations. Soft Commodity Futures and Options Markets segment offers financial products in the currency markets, equity index, and commodity index markets. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
MULTI-COLOR CORPORATION (LABL)
Multi-Color Corporation supplies printed labels, engravings, and packaging services to consumer product and food and beverage companies, retailers, and container manufacturers primarily located in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It operates through two segments, Decorating Solutions and Packaging Services. The Decorating Solutions segment produces in-mold labels and heat transfer labels, as well as manufactures pressure sensitive, cut-and-stack, and shrink sleeve labels. This segment also provides digital, graphic, and prepress services; and produces printing cylinders and plates. The Packaging Services segment offers promotional packaging, assembly, and fulfillment services. The company has manufacturing plants located in Scottsburg, Indiana; Batavia, Troy, and Cincinnati, Ohio; Erlanger, Kentucky; Framingham, Massachusetts; Green Bay and Watertown, Wisconsin; and Norway, Michigan. Multi-Color Corporation was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.
InnerWorkings, Inc. provides print procurement services to corporate clients in the United States. Its proprietary software applications and database, PPM4, which creates an integrated solution that stores, analyzes, and tracks the production capabilities of its supplier network, as well as quote and price data for each bid it receive and print job it execute. The company offers various print procurement services, such as procuring, purchasing, and delivering print products as part of a comprehensive outsourced enterprise solution and in individual transactions. The company provides offset sheet-fed, Web offset, digital offset, letterpress, screen printing, waterless, flexography, and gravure printing services for books, brochures, catalogues, point-of-purchase displays, magazines, promotional products, annual reports, envelopes, labels, folders, calendars, posters, newsletters, billboards, playing cards, binders, t-shirts, games, stationery, postcards, stickers, bags, and magnets. In addition, it offers various fulfillment and logistics services, such as kitting and assembly, inventory management, and pre-sorting postage. Further, the company, through its subsidiary, provides print management services, as well as promotional products, apparel, and warehousing and fulfillment services. InnerWorkings serves advertising, consumer products, manufacturing, publishing, and retail industries. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
INSWEB CORPORATION (INSW)
InsWeb Corporation operates an online insurance marketplace that enables consumers to shop online and to obtain insurance company sponsored quotes for various insurance products. Insurance companies participating in its online insurance marketplace offer automobile, term life, homeowners, renters, condominium, home warranty, RV, and motorcycle insurance. In addition, the company has contractual relationships with third-party providers for critical illness and health insurance. InsWeb's marketplace enable consumers to analyze and compare insurance products; apply for and receive insurance company-sponsored quotes for actual coverage; and to purchase automobile and term life insurance coverage through its Insurance Agency. The company was co-founded by Hussein A. Enan and Darrell Ticehurst in 1995 and is headquartered in Gold River, California.
INDIA GLOBALIZATION CAPITAL INC (IGC)
India Globalization Capital, Inc. does not have significant operations. It intends to acquire one or more businesses in an unspecified industry in India through a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, or other similar business combination. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.
GRIFFIN LAND & NURSERIES INC (GRIF)
Griffin Land & Nurseries, Inc. and its subsidiaries engage in the real estate and landscape nursery business in the United States. The company engages in the ownership, construction, lease, and management of commercial and industrial properties, as well as in the development of residential subdivisions on real estate in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Its landscape nursery products business consists of the growing of containerized landscape nursery products for sale principally to retail garden center operators, landscape nursery mass merchandisers, and wholesale sales and service centers, whose primary customers are landscape contractors. As of November 27, 2004, the company owned approximately 4,000 acres of land in Connecticut, approximately 450 acres of land in Massachusetts, and 1,100 acres in northern Florida. Griffin Land & Nurseries is based in New York City.
SOTHEBYS HOLDINGS INC (BID)
Sotheby's Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an auctioneer of fine art, antiques, decorative art, jewelry, and collectibles. The company's primary activity as an auctioneer includes identification, evaluation, and appraisal of works of art; stimulating purchaser interest; and matching sellers and buyers through the auction process. In addition, it engages in other related activities, including the purchase and resale of art and other collectibles; and the brokering of art and collectible purchases and sales through private treaty sales. The company also conducts art-related financing activities and is engaged in art education activities. Sotheby's Holdings conducts Internet auctions through a strategic alliance with eBay, Inc. Sotheby's Holdings was founded in 1744 and is headquartered in New York City.
PFSweb, Inc. and its subsidiaries engage in the development and deployment of integrated business process outsourcing services in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The company offers professional consulting; technology collaboration; managed Web hosting; Internet application development; order management; Web-enabled customer contact centers; customer relationship management; financial services, including billing and collection services and working capital solutions; information management; facilities and operations management; kitting and assembly services; and international fulfillment and distribution services. It serves clients operating in a range of vertical markets, including technology manufacturing, computer products, printers, cosmetics, fragile goods, high security collectibles, pharmaceuticals, contemporary home furnishings, apparel, aviation, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. The company is headquartered in Plano, Texas.
UTEK Corporation, a technology transfer company, enables companies to acquire and commercialize technologies primarily developed by universities, medical centers, and federal research laboratories worldwide. Its U2B process facilitates publicly traded firms in various industries to identify and acquire university discoveries in exchange for their equity securities. In addition to its core technology transfer services, the company provides tools to search, analyze, and manage university intellectual properties. UTEK also conducts patent landscaping, patent mining, or technology search services for its clients. Additionally, it provides patent law firms, technology companies, universities, and research centers with software to help them manage their intellectual properties. The company has operations in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel. UTEK was founded in 1996 by Clifford M. Gross and is headquartered in Plant City, Florida.
PRG-SCHULTZ INTERNATIONAL INC (PRGX)
PRG-Schultz International, Inc. and its subsidiaries provide recovery audit services to large and mid-size businesses worldwide. It operates through two segments, Accounts Payable Services and Meridian VAT Reclaim. The Accounts Payable Services segment provides services that entail the review of client accounts payable disbursements to identify and recover overpayments. It conducts business in North America, South America, Europe, Australia, Africa, and Asia. The Meridian VAT Reclaim segment specializes in the recovery of value-added taxes (VAT) paid on business expenses for corporate clients. It provides outsourced services, such as VAT reclaim process, audit and invoice retrieval, preparation and submission of VAT claims, and the subsequent collection of refunds from the relevant VAT authorities. The company's customers include retailers, such as discount, department, specialty, grocery, and drug stores; manufacturers of high-tech components, pharmaceuticals, consumer electronics, chemicals, 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. PRG-Schultz International was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
G&K Services, Inc. provides branded identity apparel and facility services programs in North America. The company offers rented uniforms and facility services products, such as floor mats, dust mops, wiping towels, restroom supplies, and certain linen items. Its apparel and facility services programs provide rental-lease or purchase options to the customers of heavy-industrial, light-manufacturing, service businesses, and corporate casual and executive apparel markets. G&K Services also provides direct sale and custom-embroidered logo apparel programs, cleanroom garments, and process control services. In addition, the company sells uniforms and other apparel items to customers through its direct sale programs. It serves various industries, including automotive, warehousing, distribution, transportation, energy, manufacturing, food processing, pharmaceutical, semi-conductor, retail, restaurants, security, airline, and hospitality. G&K Services was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
ARBINET-THEXCHANGE INC (ARBX)
Arbinet-thexchange, Inc. and subsidiaries operate an electronic market for trading, routing, and settling communications capacity. It offers voice, data, enhanced services, and information products and services. The company's members of the exchange can anonymously buy and sell voice calls and Internet capacity. The company's exchange-based trading system permits buyers and sellers to transact business in a liquid and open market. Arbinet-thexchange was founded by Alex Mashinsky in 1996. The company was formerly known as SmartGroup Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Arbinet-thexchange, Inc. in 2002. Arbinet-thexchange is headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC (GPN)
Global Payments, Inc. processes electronic transactions for merchants, multinational corporations, financial institutions, consumers, government agencies, and other profit and nonprofit business enterprises. The company offers its products through merchant services and money transfer offerings. Its merchant service offerings provide merchants and financial institutions with credit and debit card transaction processing, check services, and terminal management. Global Payments' money transfer product and service offerings include consumer-to-consumer and business-to-business money transfer, and financial electronic data interchange, as well as account balance, management information, and depositing reporting. The company markets its products and services through a direct sales force, retail branch outlets, independent sales organizations, independent sales representatives, an internal telesales group, trade associations, alliance bank relationships, and financial institutions. Global Payments operates in the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Morocco, and the Philippines. The company was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
UNIFIRST CORPORATION (UNF)
UniFirst Corporation provides workplace uniforms and protective clothing in the United States. The company designs, manufactures, rents, cleans, delivers, and sells various uniforms and protective clothing, including shirts, pants, jackets, coveralls, jumpsuits, lab coats, smocks, and aprons. It also rents industrial wiping products, floor mats, facility service products, and other nongarment items, as well as provides first aid cabinet services and other safety supplies. In addition, UniFirst Corporation decontaminates and cleans work clothes that are exposed to radioactive materials; and services special cleanroom protective wear. The company offers its products and services to 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, and transportation companies. As of August 27, 2005, the company served approximately 190,000 customer locations in the United States, Canada, and Europe. UniFirst Corporation was founded in 1936 and is based in Wilmington, Massachusetts.
EURONET WORLDWIDE INC (EEFT)
Euronet Worldwide, Inc. processes secure electronic financial transactions. It offers outsourcing and consulting services, integrated electronic financial transaction (EFT) software, network gateways, and electronic top-up services to financial institutions, mobile operators, and retailers. The company operates in three segments: EFT Processing, Prepaid Processing, and Software Solutions. The EFT Processing segment provides outsourced management services and network services to banks and mobile phone companies primarily in the Europe, the Middle East, Egypt, and India. This segment also offers electronic recharge services for prepaid mobile airtime. As of December 31, 2004, it processed transactions for a network of 5,742 ATMs and approximately 9,700 point of sale terminals. The Prepaid Processing segment provides prepaid processing, or top-up services, for prepaid mobile airtime and other prepaid products. This segment operates a network of approximately 175,000 point of sale terminals providing electronic processing of prepaid mobile phone airtime top-up services in the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific. The Software Solutions segment offers a suite of integrated electronic financial transaction software solutions for electronic payment and transaction delivery systems. Euronet Worldwide has a joint venture with Arab Financial Services Company. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Leawood, Kansas.
HQ SUSTAINABLE MARITIME INDUSTRIES INC (HQS)
HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in aquaculture business through co-operative supply arrangements, ocean product harvesting, and processing and selling farm-bred and ocean harvested aquatic products. It also engages in the production and sale of marine bio-products and healthcare products. The company's principal products include cross-bred hybrid of tilapia and white-legged shrimp that are exported to the United States, Canada, Japan, and European countries. Its marine bio-products and healthcare products comprise shark cartilage capsule, shark liver oil, and shark liver, which are sold principally in the People's Republic of China. HQ Sustainable Maritime also manufactures nutraceuticals generated from palm oil or other natural or organic matters to enrich feed formulations for tilapia and shrimp. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
R.R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY (RRD)
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company provides print and print-related services and products primarily in North America, South America, Europe, and China. The company operates in three segments: Publishing and Retail Services, Integrated Print Communications, and Forms and Labels. The Publishing and Retail Services segment offers print services to consumer magazine and catalog publishers, and yellow and white pages directory publishers, as well as delivers company-printed products, and products printed by third parties. This segment also offers conventional and digital photography; and creative, color matching, page production, and content management services to the advertising, catalog, corporate, magazine, retail, and telecommunications markets. The Integrated Print Communications segment provides print services to the consumer, religious, educational, and specialty book markets; information management, content assembly, and print services to corporations; and customized communications solutions for investment management, banking, insurance, and managed care companies. It also offers customized, variably-imaged business communications, including account statements, customer invoices, insurance policies, enrollment kits, transaction confirmations, and database services primarily to the financial services, telecommunications, insurance, and healthcare industries. In addition, this segment provides print and print-related services, which include annual reports, marketing brochures, catalog and marketing inserts, pharmaceutical inserts and other marketing, retail point-of-sale and promotional materials, and technical publications. The Forms and Labels segment designs and manufactures paper-based business forms, labels, and printed office products. It also provides print-related services, including print-on-demand services. The company was founded by Richard Robert Donnelley in 1864. R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
FOOD TECHNOLOGY SERVICE INC (VIFL)
Food Technology Service, Inc. (FTSI) engages in the ownership and operation of irradiation facility located in Mulberry, Florida. Its irradiation facility uses Gamma radiation produced by Cobalt 60 to treat or process various foods for insect disinfestations, shelf life extension, and control of certain disease-causing microorganisms in fruits, vegetables, and meat products; and for the sterilization of medical, surgical, pharmaceutical, and packaging materials. It provides contract sterilization service to the medical device, food, and pharmaceutical industries. FTSI also processes packaging, spices, and ingredients. The company was organized in 1985 and is headquartered in Mulberry, Florida. Food Technology Service, Inc. is 53% owned by MDS Nordion, a company based in Canada.
EnerNOC, Inc. develops and provides demand response and energy management solutions to commercial, institutional, and industrial customers, as well as electric power grid operators and utilities in the United States. The company provides technology-enabled demand response and energy management solutions that enables in optimizing the balance of electric supply and demand. It uses Network Operations Center to remotely manage electricity consumption across a network of end-use customer sites and make electric capacity and energy available to grid operators and utilities on demand. The company's demand response capacity provides an alternative to build conventional supply-side resources, such as natural gas-fired peaking power plants, to meet infrequent periods of peak demand. It also offers meter data gathering and storage services for advanced meters; energy analytics and control services; energy procurement service; and emission tracking and trading support. As of February 1, 2007, the company had approximately 1,150 customer sites and 525 megawatts of electric capacity under management. EnerNOC was founded in 2001 under the name EnerNOC, LLC and changed its name to EnerNOC, Inc. in 2003. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
TechTarget, Inc. publishes integrated media that enable information technology (IT) marketers to reach targeted communities of IT professionals and executives in various phases of the technology decision-making and purchase process. The company, through its Web sites, magazines, conferences, and ROI-focused lead management services, sells customized marketing programs that enable IT vendors to reach corporate IT decision makers who are researching specific IT purchases. It offers white papers, which are technical documents created by IT vendors to describe business or technical problems; Webcasts and podcasts; software package comparisons; dedicated emails; list rentals, which enable IT vendors to message relevant registered members on topics related to their interests; and contextual advertising programs. As of December 31, 2006, the company operated a network of 35 Web sites, which focuses on a specific IT sector, such as storage, security, networking, Windows and distributed computing, data center, CIO and IT management, enterprise applications, application development, and channel. TechTarget was founded in 1999. It was formerly known as Search Hitech.com, Inc. and subsequently changed its name to TechTarget.com, Inc. in 1999. Further, it changed its name to TechTarget, Inc. in 2003. The company is headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts.
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES INC (AMIN)
American International Industries, Inc. operates in industrial/commercial, and oil and gas service businesses in the United States. The company manufactures fluid injector systems that are used in fuel system icing inhibitors, corrosion inhibitors, conductivity, and thermal stability additives primarily in the military, aviation, and industrial applications. It also offers fuel handling systems, including fuel additive systems, as well as fuel additive dispensing systems, truck mounted injectors, and omni directional vehicles. In addition, American International Industries produces and markets motor and aviation fuel additives. The company also manufactures calcium hypochlorite tablet and granular systems, which provide water disinfection for various potable and waste water applications. Further, it supplies booster cables, portable and rechargeable hand lamps, lighting products, cord sets, and miscellaneous battery and consumer automotive accessories; and residential household light bulbs, night lights, multiple outlet devices, and other consumer products to retailers and wholesalers. Additionally, American International Industries engages in onshore rig-based well servicing contracting that provides workover services, plugging and abandonment, and well completion and recompletion services for the oil and natural gas companies. It also owns oil, gas, and mineral royalty interest covering a 24 acre tract of land located in Washington County, Texas; and a real estate property consisting of 287 acres of undeveloped land located on Dickenson Bayou and Galveston Bay in Galveston County, Texas. The company was founded in 1994 and is based in Kemah, Texas.
M&F WORLDWIDE CORPORATION (MFW)
M&F Worldwide Corp. produces of licorice products for tobacco and confectionery industries. It produces licorice products from licorice root, intermediary licorice flavors produced by others, and certain other ingredients. The company also manufactures and sells cocoa and carob products for use in the tobacco industry. It sells its products to confectioners, food processors, cosmetic companies, and pharmaceutical manufacturers for use as flavoring and masking agents, including its Magnasweet brand flavor enhancer, which is used in various brands of chewing gum, lip balm, energy bars, noncarbonated beverages, chewable vitamins, aspirin, and other products. In addition, the company sells licorice root residue as garden mulch under the name Right Dress. M & F Worldwide Corp. was incorporated in 1988 and is based in New York.
Brady Corporation engages in the manufacture and marketing of identification solutions and specialty materials worldwide. Its products include facility and safety signs and identification tags and markers, pipe and valve markers, asset identification tags, lockout/tagout products, security and traffic control products, and printing systems and software for creating safety and regulatory software; wire and cable markers, labels, laboratory identification labels and printing systems, stand-alone printing systems, bar-code and other software, and automatic identification and data collection systems; and precision die-cut products for use in hard-disk drives, cellular phones, pagers, automobiles, and other personal communication products. The company also designs and produces various computer software packages, industrial thermal-transfer printers, and other electromechanical devices. It also sells various other products, such as automatic identification and data collection solutions and bar-code tags and labels to enable accurate tracking of manufacturing, warehousing, receiving, and shipping data; lettering and labeling systems, poster printers, laminators, and supplies to education and training markets; and hospital and clinical labels. The company primarily serves customers in general manufacturing, maintenance and safety, process industries, construction, electrical, telecommunications, electronics, laboratory/healthcare, airline/transportation, security/brand education, governmental, public utility, and various other industries. It markets and sells its products through multiple channels, including direct sales, distributors, mail-order-catalog marketing, retail, and electronic access through the Internet. Brady Corporation was founded in 1914 by William H. Brady and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
CSS Industries, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and distribution of various seasonal and social expression products. Its seasonal products include gift wrap, gift bags, boxed greeting cards, gift tags, tissue paper, and paper and vinyl decorations. The company's social expression products include classroom exchange Valentines, decorative ribbons and bows, Halloween masks, costumes, make-up and novelties, Easter egg dyes and novelties, and craft and educational products. CSS Industries sells its products in the United States and Canada by national and regional account sales managers, inside sales representatives, product specialists, and a network of independent manufacturers' representatives. The company was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
FIDELITY NATIONAL INFORMATION SERVICES INC (FIS)
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides various processing services to financial institutions in the United States. It operates in two segments, Transaction Processing Services and Lender Processing Services. The Transaction Processing Services segment engages in the development, implementation, management, support, and maintenance of core processing software and systems used by financial institutions to maintain the primary records of their customer accounts. It also provides a range of credit card processing and cardholder support services to its financial institution customers. This segment's processing solutions include core processing, branch automation, back office support systems, compliance, credit and debit card issuing, image item processing, print and mail, automated teller machine/electronic funds transfer, retail Internet banking, bill payment services, commercial cash management, voice response services, and check risk management solutions that are offered to commercial banks, savings institutions, credit unions, card issuers, and retailers, as well as automotive financing companies and commercial lenders. The Lender Processing Services segment offers a range of products and services related to the mortgage life cycle. It provides various mortgage life cycle products and services, including origination, title agency, data gathering, risk management, servicing, default management, and property disposition services to lenders and other real estate professionals. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of Fidelity National Financial, Inc.
PLATO LEARNING INC (TUTR)
PLATO Learning, Inc. provides computer-based and e-learning instruction software and related services worldwide. It offers curricula in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and life and job skills. The company also provides online assessment and accountability solutions and standards-based professional development services. The company's PLATO learning system offers approximately 6,000 hours of objective-based, problem-solving courseware, as well as assessment, alignment, and curriculum management tools to create standards-based curricula that facilitate learning and school improvement. It markets its products and services to K-12 schools, colleges, job training programs, correctional institutions, military education programs, corporations, and individuals. The company delivers its products through networks, CD-ROM, the Internet, and private intranets. The company has offices primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. It also operates through international distributors in Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates. PLATO Learning was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota.
CINTAS CORPORATION (CTAS)
Cintas Corporation provides specialized services to various businesses in North America. It operates through two segments, Rentals and Other Services. The Rentals segment designs and manufactures corporate identity uniforms, which it rents to its customers. This segment also sells and rents other items, including entrance mats, shop towels, and restroom supplies. The Other Services segment engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of uniforms to its customers, as well as the sale of ancillary products and services. These products and services include restroom supplies, first aid products and services, document management services, and cleanroom supplies. Cintas serves small service manufacturing companies and other corporations. The company was founded in 1968 by Richard T. Farmer and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.
COLLECTORS UNIVERSE INC (CLCT)
Collectors Universe, Inc. provides value-added grading, authentication, and information services and products to dealers and collectors of collectibles, such as coins, sportscards, stamps, autographs, and sports and entertainment memorabilia. The company publishes authoritative price guides, rarity reports, and other collectible information. Collectors Universe provides Professional Coin Grading Service, a coin grading and authentication service; Professional Sports Authenticators, a sportscard grading and authentication service; PSA/DNA Authentication Services, an authentication service for vintage autographs in sports, historical, and entertainment markets; and Professional Stamp Experts, a stamp grading and authentication service in the United States. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Santa Ana, California.
ChoicePoint, Inc. provides identification and credential verification services. It operates through four groups: Insurance Services, Business Services, Government Services, and Marketing Services. The Insurance Services group offers claims history data, motor vehicle records, accident report records, credit information, and modeling services. It also provides policy rating and issuance software, and business outsourcing services. The company's Business Services group offers preemployment background screenings and drug testing administration services, public filing searches, vital record services, tenant screening services, credential verification, due diligence information, uniform commercial code searches and filings, authentication services, mortgage fraud credentialing services, and people and shareholder locator information services. Its Government Services group provides DNA identification services, public filing searches, credential verification, data visualization, analytics, and data integration services. The Marketing Services group provides direct marketing services, including data, analytics, teleservices, and database and campaign management services, as well as print, Web, and fulfillment services. The company offers its services to consumer finance companies, asset-based lenders, legal and professional service providers, law enforcement agencies, health care service providers, nonprofit organizations, consumers, Fortune 1000 corporations, insurance companies, financial institutions, and government agencies. ChoicePoint was incorporated in 1997 and is based in Alpharetta, Georgia.
Cadiz, Inc. operates as a land and water resource management company in the United States. The company involves in groundwater storage and supply, and water-conserving irrigation. Its properties are primarily located in eastern San Bernardino County, California totaling approximately 45,000 acres. Its two of the three properties are located in proximity to the Colorado River Aqueduct, which is the source of imported water for southern California. The third property is located near the Colorado River. Its land properties are underlain by groundwater resources for various applications, including water storage and supply programs and agricultural, municipal, recreational, and industrial development. Cadiz was co-founded by Keith Brackpool and Mark A. Liggett in 1983. The company is based in Los Angeles, California.
HEARTLAND PAYMENT SYSTEMS INC (HPY)
Heartland Payment Systems, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides bank card payment processing services to merchants in the United States. Its services involve facilitating the exchange of information and funds between merchants and cardholders' financial institutions; and providing end-to-end electronic payment processing services to merchants, including merchant set-up and training, transaction authorization and electronic draft capture, clearing and settlement, merchant accounting, merchant assistance and support, and risk management. The company also offers payroll processing, gift and loyalty programs, and paper check processing services, as well as sells and rents point-of-sale devices and supplies. It serves restaurants, brick and mortar retailers, lodging establishments, automotive repair shops, convenience and liquor stores, and professional service providers. The company was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.
RESEARCH FRONTIERS INCORPORATED (REFR)
Research Frontiers Incorporated engages in the development and licensing of technology and devices to control the flow of light. These devices are referred to as light valves or suspended particle devices (SPDs) that use colloidal particles that are either incorporated within a liquid suspension or a film. The company's SPD technology enables the user to control the shading of glass/plastic manually or automatically. The technology has various product applications, including sunshades, skylights, and interior partitions for homes and buildings; automotive windows, sunroofs, sun-visors, sunshades, rear-view mirrors, instrument panels, and navigation systems; aircraft windows; eyewear products; and flat panel displays for electronic products. The SPD-Smart light control film is used in architectural, automotive, marine, aerospace, and appliance applications. Research Frontiers was incorporated in 1965 and is headquartered in Woodbury, New York.
PDI, Inc. provides outsourced sales and marketing services to the biopharmaceutical, and medical device and diagnostics industries. The company operates in three segments: Sales Services, Marketing Services, and PDI Products Group. The Sales Services segment focuses on product detailing and clinical education, which involves a representative meeting face-to-face with targeted physicians and other healthcare decision makers to provide a technical review of the product being promoted. The Marketing Services segment provides medical education and promotional communications to the biopharmaceutical, and medical devices and diagnostics industries. It provides integrated advocacy development, accredited continuing medical education, promotions, and publication services. In addition, the Marketing Services segment offers pharmaceutical marketing research services, including studies to identify, profile, positioning, message, execution, implementation, and post implementation for a product. The PDI Products Group segment sources biopharmaceutical products in the United States through licensing, copromotion, acquisition, or integrated commercialization services arrangements. PDI, Inc. is headquartered in Saddle River, New Jersey.
ABM INDUSTRIES INCORPORATED (ABM)
ABM Industries Incorporated provides janitorial, parking, engineering, security, lighting, and mechanical services for commercial, industrial, institutional, and retail facilities in the United States and in British Columbia, Canada. Its janitorial services include floor cleaning and finishing, window washing, furniture polishing, carpet cleaning, and dusting, as well as other building cleaning services. These services are provided to commercial office buildings, industrial plants, financial institutions, retail stores, shopping centers, warehouses, airport terminals, health and educational facilities, stadiums and arenas, and government buildings. The company operates approximately 1,700 parking lots and garages, as well as off-airport parking facilities in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Houston, Texas; and Los Angeles and San Diego, California. It also operates 18 parking shuttle bus services. ABM provides security officers; investigative services; electronic monitoring of fire, life safety systems, and access control devices; and security consulting services to businesses. It provides facilities with on-site engineers to operate and maintain mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems utilizing in part computerized maintenance management systems. These services are provided to customers, such as office buildings, schools, computer centers, shopping malls, manufacturing facilities, museums, and universities. The company also provides relamping, fixture cleaning, energy retrofits, and lighting maintenance service. In addition, ABM installs, maintains, and repairs heating, ventilation, and air conditioning and refrigeration equipment; performs chemical water treatment; and provides energy conservation services for commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities. The company provides customers with streamlined, centralized control, and coordination of multiple facility service needs. ABM Industries Inc. was formerly known as American Building Maintenance Industries, Inc. ABM was founded in 1909 and is headquartered San Francisco, California.
Bowne &. Co., Inc. provides financial printing, digital printing, and electronic delivery of personalized communications worldwide. The company offers services to create, manage, translate, and distribute transactional and compliance-related documents. It also provides a suite of litigation support services for law firms and corporate law departments. The company's customers include various corporations, law firms, investment banks, insurance companies, bond dealers, mutual funds, and other financial institutions, as well as software, manufacturing, transportation, and life sciences companies. Bowne & Co. was founded in 1775 and is headquartered in New York City.
Deluxe Corporation provides various personalized printed products and services to small businesses, financial institutions, and consumers. The company operates through three segments: Small Business Services, Financial Services, and Direct Checks. The Small Business Services segment sells business checks, forms, and related printed products to small businesses and home offices. It also distributes packaging, shipping, and warehouse supplies, as well as advertising specialties and other business products. In addition, Small Business Services segment provides payroll services to small businesses in the United States and Canada. The Financial Services segment supplies checks and check-related products and services to financial institutions. It also offers customized reporting, file management, expedited account conversion support, and fraud prevention services to financial institutions. The Direct Checks segment sells personal and business checks, as well as related products. Deluxe Corporation distributes its products through direct mail and a network of independent local dealers and distributors, as well as financial institution referrals and the Internet. The company was founded in 1915. It was incorporated as Deluxe Check Printers, Incorporated and changed its name to Deluxe Corporation in 1988. Deluxe Corporation is headquartered in Shoreview, Minnesota.
VISTAPRINT LIMITED (VPRT)
VistaPrint Limited provides graphic design services and customized printed products to small businesses and consumers online worldwide. It offers various products, including business cards, announcements, brochures, calendars, data sheets, folded cards, envelopes, holiday cards, flyers, invitations, letterheads, magnets, logo creation, note cards, mailing labels, note pads, newsletters, sticky notes, presentation folders, return address labels, standard and oversized postcards, and rubber stamps. The company's customers can use graphic design software to create and order printed products in its Web sites. Its customers also have access to graphic designs, content suggestions, logo design services, design templates, and approximately 70,000 photographs and illustrations. As of June 30, 2007, the company served approximately 10,000,000 customers in approximately 120 countries. VistaPrint Limited was founded in 1995 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.
LivePerson, Inc. provides solutions for managing online customer interactions. Its integrated multichannel communications platform, Timpani, enables sales, customer service, and marketing, as well as supports and manages online interactions, including chat, email, and self-service/knowledgebase. The company focuses primarily on the financial services, computer software and hardware, retail and telecommunications industries, as well as small businesses. LivePerson was founded by Robert P. LoCascio in 1995. The company is headquartered in New York City.
KONGZHONG CORPORATION (KONG)
KongZhong Corporation, through subsidiaries, provides 2.5 generation wireless interactive entertainment, media, and community services in China. Its interactive entertainment services include mobile games; pictures; karaoke; electronic books; and mobile phone personalization features, such as ringtones, wallpaper, clocks, and calendars. The company's media services provide content, such as domestic and international news, entertainment, sports, fashion, lifestyle, and other special interest areas. Its community services include interactive chat, message boards, photo albums, dating, and networking. In addition, KongZhong provides wireless value-added services on the networks of China Mobile Communications Corporation, China United Telecommunications Corporation, China Telecommunications Corporation, and China Netcom Group Corporation. The company has a strategic partnership with ESPNSTAR Multimedia. KongZhong was founded by Yunfan Zhou and Nick Yang in 2002 as Communication Over The Air, Inc. and changed its name to KongZhong Corporation in 2004. KongZhong is headquartered in Beijing, China.
AMERICAN GREETINGS CORPORATION (AM)
American Greetings Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of everyday and seasonal greeting cards, as well as other social expression products worldwide. It provides greeting cards, gift wrap, party goods, calendars, candles, balloons, and stationery, as well as educational products and custom display fixtures. The company, through its subsidiary, AG Interactive, Inc., provides email greetings, personalized printable greeting cards, and other social expression products through the its Web sites www.americangreetings.com, www.bluemountain.com, and www.egreetings.com; cobranded Web sites; and online services. AG Interactive also distributes ringtones for cellular telephones, graphics, games, alerts, and other social messaging products and applications to mobile devices. American Greetings' channels of distribution include mass merchandisers, chain drug stores, and supermarkets, as well as card and gift shops, department stores, military post exchanges, variety stores, and combo stores. The company also sells its products to third-party distributors. As of May 31, 2005, it owned and operated 534 card and gift retail stores in North America. American Greetings was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.
CoStar Group, Inc. provides information services to the commercial real estate industry in the United States and the United Kingdom. Its Property Professional service provides subscribers inventory of office, industrial, and retail properties, including for-lease and for-sale listings, historical data, building photographs, maps, and floor plans; Property Express service offers base-building information, photos, floor plans, maps, and reports; COMPS Professional service provides coverage of sales information in the U.S. commercial real estate industry; Tenant, an online business-to-business prospecting and analytical tool offers the real estate-related U.S. tenant information; and FOCUS service offers information on the U.K. commercial real estate market. The company's other services include Connect, which allows commercial real estate firms to license CoStar's technology and information to market their U.S. property listings on their corporate Web sites; Advertising that offers space for lease or sale directly to the individuals looking for that type of space through interactive advertising; NRB Shopping Center Directory, which offer access to a database of the U.S. shopping center information, including names, locations, tenants, space availability, and contact information; Exchange that provides a database of commercial real estate properties listed for sale; Professional Directory, which provides contact information for commercial real estate professionals; Market Report that provides current and historical analytical information, including vacancy and rental rates, average sales prices, and capitalization rates; Metropolis service, a single interface that combines commercial real estate data from multiple information providers; and News service, which provide commercial real estate news, such as major leasing transactions, acquisitions, new construction activity, and industry events. CoStar Group was founded in 1987 and is headquartered Bethesda, Maryland.
CHAMPION INDUSTRIES INC (CHMP)
Champion Industries, Inc. supplies commercial printing and office products, as well as offers furniture in regional markets in the United States, east of the Mississippi River. The company engages in the printing of business cards; letterhead; envelopes; and one, two, or three color brochures; process of color manufacturing of brochures, posters, advertising sheets, and catalogues; die cutting and foil stamping; and bindery services, including trimming, collating, folding, and stitching the final product. It also engages in forms printing, encompassing roll-to-roll computer forms, checks, invoices, purchase orders, and similar forms in single-part, multipart, continuous, and snap-out formats; tag manufacturing; and high volume process color Web-printing of brochures and catalogs. Champion Industries provides its customers with a range of office supplies, such as file folders, paper products, pens and pencils, computer paper, and laser cartridges; and furniture, including budget and middle price range desks, chairs, file cabinets, and computer furniture. The company also offers design services that include space planning, purchasing, and installation of office furniture, as well as the management of design projects. It sells its products directly to various customers with a focus on manufacturers, institutions, financial services companies, and professional firms. Champion Industries was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Huntington, West Virginia.
EXLSERVICE HOLDINGS INC (EXLS)
ExlService Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides business process outsourcing (BPO), research and analytics, and advisory services primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. The company's BPO services include claims processing, premium and benefit administration, agency management, account reconciliation, policy research, policy servicing, and customer services for insurance sector; and servicing and processing various banking products, including residential mortgage lending, consumer finance, retail banking, credit cards, transaction services, and other banking services, as well as transaction processing, underwriting support, documentation management, and collateral monitoring for banking and financial services sector. Its BPO services also include back-office processing for customer operations in utilities sector; finance and accounting services, such as account payables, research, reconciliation of accounts, and lock-box accounting; collection services; and customer management services. The company also provides analytical and management consulting services that include marketing analytics, such as customer acquisition and retention, credit risk analytics, customer data integration and fraud detection, marketing strategy, product and service strategy, business process re-engineering, and global resource optimization and outsourcing; analytic services offerings, which comprise analytics staff augmentation, lead generation/marketing campaign management, collections services, and primary/secondary research, data management and analysis. Further, it offers advisory Services, including business process-risk services and process excellence services; BPO opportunity and service identification; process re-engineering; and process mapping and documentation services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
TOTAL SYSTEM SERVICES INC (TSS)
Total System Services, Inc. (TSYS), through its subsidiaries, provides electronic payment processing and related services to financial and nonfinancial institutions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Honduras, Puerto Rico, and Europe. Its services include processing retail, commercial, government services, stored value, and debit cards, as well as student loans. TSYS also offers merchant services in Japan; other products and services, including risk management tools and techniques, such as credit evaluation, fraud detection and prevention, and behavior analysis tools; and revenue development tools and customer retention programs, such as loyalty programs and bonus rewards. The company, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Vital Processing Services, provides technology-based commerce-enabling services, which include authorizing and capturing electronic payments at the point-of-sale, and clearing and settling merchant transactions; merchant terminal management; and information services to acquirers and their merchants for processing credit, debit, and other card transactions. Through online accounting and electronic payment processing systems, TSYS provides electronic payment processing and other related services to card issuing institutions. The company is headquartered in Columbus, Georgia. Total System Services, Inc. operates as a majority owned subsidiary of Synovus Financial Corp., as of December 31, 2004.
TELETECH HOLDINGS INC (TTEC)
TeleTech Holdings, Inc. provides outsourced customer management services worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Customer Management Services, and Database Marketing and Consulting. Customer Management Services Segment provides outsourced customer support and marketing services for various industries through call centers in the United States, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Ireland, the Philippines, Scotland, Singapore, and Spain. Its services include customer acquisition services, customer provisioning services, customer support services, customer development services, and customer retention programs, as well as other customer-related programs, which include account collections, collecting market research from customers, and performing outbound-call campaigns. Database Marketing and Consulting Segment offers outsourced database management, direct marketing, and related customer acquisitions and retention services for automotive dealerships and manufacturers primarily in North America. Its services primarily consist of marketing campaigns through direct mail and outbound teleservice to promote automobile service business from a dealership's own customer base. TeleTech was founded by Ken Tuchman in 1982. The company is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.
COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND SYSTEMS INC (CPSI)
Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. engages in the design, development, marketing, installation, and support of computerized information technology systems for small and midsize hospitals in the United States. It provides enterprise-wide clinical management, access management, patient financial management, health information management, strategic decision support, resource planning management, and enterprise application integration solutions to healthcare organizations. The company also provides other information technology solutions, including outsourcing, remote hosting, networking technologies, and other related services. Computer Programs and Systems' compliant medical information systems and services collect, process, retain, and report data in the primary functional areas of a hospital, including patient care, clinical processing, and administration and accounting areas. Its customers include acute care community hospitals and small specialty hospitals. The company's enterprise-wide system automates the management of clinical and financial data across the primary functional areas of a hospital. Computer Programs and Systems was co-founded by Dennis P. Wilkins and M. Kenny Muscat in 1979. The company is headquartered in Mobile, Alabama.
LML PAYMENT SYSTEMS INC (LMLP)
LML Payment Systems, Inc., a financial payment processor company, provides consumer financial payment processing solutions to retailers and other clients in the United States. It provides check risk services, such as electronic check authorization; electronic check processing services that include electronic check conversion; and return check management services, which comprise traditional and electronic recovery services to retail clients. The company also offers mainframe payment processing software modules and rights to use its intellectual property to retailers and other payment processors. It provides services primarily to medium and large retailers, such as supermarkets, grocery stores, multilane retailers, convenience stores, and other retailers in the United States. The company was incorporated in 1974 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
Viad Corp., through its subsidiaries, provides various services that address the needs of trade show organizers and exhibitors, as well as travel and recreation services in the United States and Canada. The company primarily operates in three segments: GES, Exhibitgroup, and Travel and Recreation Services. The GES segment provides exhibition and event services, which include show planning and production; floor plan design and layout; decorating, graphics, and signage; and furniture, carpet and fixture procurement, and rental. It offers these services to various show organizers, including venues, trade associations, and show management companies. This segment also provides exhibit design, construction, refurbishment, storage, and rental services, including related show services, such as logistics and transportation; material handling, electrical, plumbing, rigging and cleaning; and exhibit installation and dismantling. The Exhibitgroup segment engages in custom design and construction of convention and trade show exhibits and displays for corporate customers. This segment also refurbishes and leases exhibits; designs and builds kiosks and permanent displays; and provides exhibit transportation, installation, dismantling, and warehousing services. The Travel and Recreation Services segment provides tourism services in the Canadian Rockies in Alberta and in other parts of Western Canada. This segment manages The Banff Gondola and Columbia Icefield Ice Explorer tours; provides motorcoach services; offers charter and package tours, and other sightseeing services; and hotel operations and travel agencies. It also operates four historic lodges and three motor inns, and provides food and beverage operations, retail operations, and tour and transportation services in and around Glacier National Park in Montana and Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada. The company is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.
FIRST ADVANTAGE CORPORATION (FADV)
First Advantage Corporation provides risk mitigation and business solutions in the United States. It operates through six segments: Lender Services, Data Services, Dealer Services, Employer Services, Multifamily Services, and Investigative and Litigation Support Services. The Lender Services segment offers credit reporting solutions to lenders for mortgage and home equity needs. The Data Services segment provides transportation credit reporting, motor vehicle record reporting, fleet management, supply chain theft and damage mitigation consulting, consumer location, criminal records reselling, subprime credit reporting, and consumer credit reporting services. The Dealer Services segment serves the automotive dealer marketplace by delivering consolidated consumer credit reports, credit automation software, and development services. The Employer Services segment delivers global employment background verifications, occupational health services, tax credits and incentives programs, and other business tax consulting services to support organization's human resource functions. The Multifamily Services segment includes resident screening and software services. Its resident screening services include criminal background and eviction searches, credit reporting, employment verification, and lease performance and payment histories. The Investigative and Litigation Support Services segment offers surveillance services, field interviews, computer forensics, electronic discovery, due diligence reports, and other investigations. The company is headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. First Advantage Corporation is a subsidiary of The First American Corporation.
ALLSCRIPTS HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS INC (MDRX)
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. provides clinical software, connectivity, and information solutions for physicians in the United States. The company operates in three segments: Software and Related Services, Information Services, and Prepackaged Medications. The software and Related Services segment consists of clinical software solutions, including TouchWorks, TouchScript, and Impact.MD. TouchWorks is an electronic health record solution designed to develop physician productivity using Tablet PCs, wireless handheld devices, or a desktop workstation for the purpose of automating physician activities. TouchScript is an e-prescribing solution that enables physicians to access securely via the Internet to prescribe, check for drug interactions, access medication histories, review drug reference information, and send prescriptions directly to a pharmacy. Impact.MD is an electronic document imaging and scanning solution that serves as a repository for automated patient charts, office notes, lab results, explanation of benefits, and referral letters among other paper-based documents. Information Services segment offers various products, which include Physicians Interactive, a clinical education and information solution that links physicians with pharmaceutical companies and medical product suppliers using interactive education sessions to provide clinical product information to the physician; and Patients Interactive, a solution used to educate patients about their condition, and provides various online and off-line tools to develop patient outcomes and therapy adherence. Prepackaged Medications segment provides point-of-care medication management and medical supply solutions for physicians and other healthcare providers. Allscripts Healthcare Solutions is based in Chicago, Illinois.
COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGIES INC (CTT)
Competitive Technologies, Inc. and its subsidiary provide patent and technology transfer, licensing, and commercialization services worldwide. It commercializes life, electronic, physical, and nano science technologies invented by various individuals, corporations, and universities. Life sciences include medical testing, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, biotechnologies, medical devices, and other medical or biological applications. Physical sciences include chemical, display, and environmental applications. Electronics include communications, semiconductors, Internet related, e-commerce, and consumer electronics applications. Nanotechnologies deal with the manipulation of microscopic particles into useful arrangements, and smart or novel materials. The company was established in 1968 and is based in Fairfield, Connecticut.
CONSOLIDATED GRAPHICS INC (CGX)
Consolidated Graphics, Inc. provides commercial printing services in the United States. Its print services include electronic prepress, printing, finishing, storage, and delivery of custom-designed products, such as multicolor marketing materials, product and capability brochures, point-of-purchase displays, direct mail pieces, shareholder communications, catalogs, and training manuals. The company also offers fulfillment and mailing services for printed materials. Further, it provides e-commerce software solutions that enable its customers to enhance the procurement and management of printed materials. As of June 30, 2005, Consolidated Graphics operated 70 printing businesses in 25 states. The company offers its services to national and local corporations operating in various industries, as well as to mutual fund companies, advertising agencies, graphic design firms, catalog retailers, and direct mail distributors. Consolidated Graphics was founded in 1985 by Joe R. Davis and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
ETELECARE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INC (ETEL)
eTelecare Global Solutions, Inc. provides business process outsourcing (BPO) services focusing on the voice-based segment of customer care services delivered from onshore and offshore locations. The company's customer care services are initiated primarily by inbound calls from customers on a range of topics, including billing inquiries, account and service changes, product and service inquiries, and warranty support. Its customer care services also include financial planning services, such as conducting research on customers' accounts, and providing information on the types of available funds or brokerage accounts and on tax consequences and penalties associated with various financial transactions, as well as providing customer support services for various financial products, including gift cards and travelers checks. The company's technical support services comprise handling troubleshooting calls initiated by customers regarding hardware and software issues with computer and other consumer electronic products. In addition, it handles inbound calls or calls initiated by customers, including order handling, customer retention programs, and selling products complementary to or more expensive than the products in which a customer is interested in the business-to-business and business-to-consumer markets. The company provides its services across a range of industries, with particular expertise in communications, technology, and financial services. It also serves clients in the travel and hospitality, media, and retail industries. The company delivers its services through four delivery centers in the Philippines and seven delivery centers in the United States. eTelecare Global Solutions was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Quezon City, the Philippines.
IKON OFFICE SOLUTIONS INC (IKN)
IKON Office Solutions, Inc. delivers integrated document management solutions and systems to manage document workflow. The company offers a range of products and services, including an array of digital copiers, multifunction products, printers, fax machines, digital duplicators, and print controllers for network and production copying and printing. It also offers enterprise services; professional services, such as installation, configuration, and connectivity of digital network devices, as well as end user training application customization; customer services; and managed services, including facilities management, legal document services, and business document services. IKON's customers primarily include large and small businesses, professional firms, and municipal and government agencies. It has operations worldwide, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. IKON was incorporated in 1952 and is headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES INC (PRAA)
Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc. provides outsourced receivables management and related services in the United States. The company purchases, collects, and manages portfolios of defaulted consumer receivables, which include providing collateral location services for credit originators and other debt owners. The 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. Portfolio Recovery Associates was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia.
SAVVIS, Inc., an information technology services company, provides integrated hosting, network, voice, digital content management, industry solutions, and professional services worldwide. Its hosting services include the facilities, networks, servers, storage, and operations to run business applications. The company's managed Internet protocol virtual private network services comprise hardware, management systems, and operations to transport voice, video, and data applications. SAVVIS' digital content management/media services provide a shared-managed infrastructure tied to workflow applications that enable the creation, production, and distribution of digital content and streaming media. These services enable customers to manage, share, store, and distribute their digital content inside and outside their organization. Its industry solutions integrate applications with its infrastructure to deliver services that enable industry-specific workflows and enterprise productivity. They support the financial services, media and entertainment, retail, and federal government markets. The company's professional services offer assistance and consultation in networking |
