ALTRIA GROUP INC

Website: www.altria.com

Altria Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products in the United States and internationally. The company also manufactures machine-made large cigars and pipe tobacco; and maintains a portfolio of leveraged and direct finance leases principally in transportation, including aircraft, as well as power generation and manufacturing equipment and facilities. It serves wholesalers and distributors, large retail organizations and chain stores, and the armed services. The company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.

AMERICAN EXPRESS CO

Website: www.americanexpress.com

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American Express Company, a payments and travel company, provides charge and credit payment card products, and travel-related services worldwide. It operates in two groups, the Global Consumer Group and the Global Business-to-Business Group. The Global Consumer Group offers a range of products and services, including charge and credit card products, consumer travel services, and stored value products, such as Travelers Cheques and prepaid products. The Global Business-to-Business Group provides business travel, corporate cards, and other expense management products and services; network services; and merchant acquisition, and merchant processing, point-of-sale, servicing and settlement, and marketing products and services for merchants. The company also publishes luxury lifestyle magazines. American Express sells its products and services to various customer groups, including consumers, small businesses, middle-market companies, large corporations, and banking and financial institutions through various channels, such as direct mail, Internet, employee and independent third party sales forces, and direct response advertising. American Express was founded in 1850 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

BOEING CO

Website: www.boeing.com

The Boeing Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, manufacture, sale, and support of commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight, and launch systems and services worldwide. It operates in five segments: Commercial Airplanes, Boeing Military Aircraft (BMA), Network and Space Systems (N&SS), Global Services and Support (GS&S), and Boeing Capital Corporation (BCC). The Commercial Airplanes segment develops, produces, and markets commercial jet aircraft, as well as provides related support services principally to the commercial airline industry. Its family of commercial jet aircraft includes the 737 Next-Generation narrow-body model; and the 747, 767, 777, and 787 wide-body models. This segment also offers aviation services support, aircraft modifications, spares, training, maintenance documents, and technical advice to commercial and government customers. The BMA segment engages in the research, development, production, and modification of military aircraft precision engagement, and mobility products and services. The N&SS researches, develops, produces, and modifies products and services to assist customers in transforming their operations through network integration, intelligence and surveillance systems, communications, architectures, and space exploration. The GS&S segment operates, maintains, trains, upgrades, and logistics support functions for military platforms and operations. The BCC segment facilitates, arranges, structures, and provides selective financing solutions for customers. Its financing solutions include equipment under operating leases, finance leases, notes and other receivables, assets held for sale or re-lease, and investments. In addition, The Boeing Company engages in engineering, operations, and technology activities focusing on the research and development of technologies and products. The company was founded in 1916 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

CADENCE DESIGN SYS INC

Website: www.cadence.com

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. develops electronic design automation software and hardware for worldwide. Its products and services are used to design and develop integrated circuits (ICs), and electronics systems. The company's Incisive functional verification platform enables customers to employ enterprise-level verification process automation, including verification planning, process tracking, and management. Its Encounter digital IC design platform enables customers to implement various aspects of their digital nanometer-scale designs. This platform is used to accurately convert logical representation of a digital IC into a detailed physical blueprint and then detailed design information. Its Virtuoso custom design platform provides designers with an integrated solution and is used for ICs designed at the transistor level, including analog, radio frequency, memories, digital blocks, and standard cell libraries. Its Allegro system interconnect design platform enables to design electronic products across the domains of IC, IC package, and printed circuit board (PCB); and includes the OrCAD product line that focuses on PCB design products. The company's Design for Manufacturing products are used to analyze and verify that the physical blueprint of the IC has been constructed correctly and can be manufactured. Cadence Design Systems also offers consulting services for verification acceleration and system emulation; technical support to facilitate the use of software and hardware solutions; and engineering and education services related to IC design and methodology. It has a strategic collaboration with ARM Ltd. to create a SoC design flow. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

CALLAWAY GOLF COMPANY

Website: www.callawaygolf.com

Callaway Golf Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells golf clubs and golf balls in the United States and internationally. Its products include drivers, fairway woods, hybrids, irons, wedges, putters, and golf balls. The company also sells golf accessories, such as golf bags, golf gloves, golf footwear, golf and lifestyle apparel, golf headwear, eyewear, golf towels, and golf umbrellas. In addition, Callaway Golf Company licenses its trademarks and service marks in exchange for a royalty fee to third parties for use on products, such as golf and lifestyle apparel, watches, travel gear, rangefinders, and practice aids. It sells its products to golf retailers, including pro shops at golf courses and off-course retailers; sporting goods retailers; and mass merchants, as well as directly and to third party distributors. The company also sells pre-owned golf products through its Web sites, callawaygolfpreowned.com and callawaygolfoutlet.com; and new Callaway Golf products through its Web site, Shop.CallawayGolf.com. Callaway Golf Company was founded in 1982 and is based in Carlsbad, California.

DU PONT (E.I.) DE NEMOURS

Website: www.dupont.com

Press Release: DuPont Has Record Innovation Year Despite 2009 Recession

E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont) operates as a science and technology company in various disciplines, including agriculture, industrial biotechnology, chemistry, biology, materials science, and manufacturing. It operates in five segments: Agriculture & Nutrition, Coatings & Color Technologies, Electronic & Communication Technologies, Performance Materials, and Safety & Protection. The Agriculture & Nutrition segment offers benzene and carbamic acid related intermediates, copper, insect control products, natural gas, soybeans, soy flake, soy lecithin, sulfonamides, corn, and soybean seeds. The Coatings & Color Technologies segment provides automotive finishes, industrial coatings, and titanium dioxide white pigments. The Electronic & Communication Technologies segment offers a range of materials for the electronics industry, flexographic printing and color communication systems, and various fluoropolymer and fluorochemical products. The Performance Materials segment provides thermoplastic, and thermoset engineering polymers and elastomers to fabricate components for mechanical and electrical systems, as well as specialized resins and films used in packaging and industrial applications, sealants and adhesives, sporting goods, and interlayers for laminated safety glass. The Safety & Protection segment offers specialty and industrial chemicals, nonwovens, aramids, and solid surfaces. The company also has interest in two antihypertensive drugs, the Cozaar and Hyzaar. It serves construction, transportation, communications, industrial chemicals, oil and gas, electric utilities, automotive, manufacturing, defense, homeland security and safety consulting, refrigeration, insulation, aerosol propellants, aerospace, automotive, electronics, chemical processing, and house ware industries. The company operates in the United States, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Canada, and Latin America. DuPont was founded in 1802 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS INC

Website: www.level3.com

Level 3 Communications, Inc. engages in the communications business in North America and Europe. It offers network and Internet services, including transport services, high speed Internet protocol services, dedicated Internet access, virtual private network services, and dark fiber services; and colocation services. The company's content distribution products and services comprise content delivery network, media delivery services, and fiber optic and satellite video transport services. Its switched services include VoIP Enhanced Local that launches IP-based local and long-distance voice services to residential and business customers; Local Inbound service that terminates traditional telephone network originated calls to Internet Protocol termination points; E-911 Direct comprising a fixed-location solution with network connections to public safety answering points and a solution for nomadic voice over IP providers; and One Plus, an automatic number identification based and carrier identification code based service, as well as a dedicated end-user service. Its switched services also comprise enterprise local and long distance voice services, including PSTN connectivity for customer telephone equipment; telephone numbers; standard services that comprise operator services, directory assistance, and 911 services; and long-distance access services. The company's switched services also include enterprise toll-free services; voice termination services; toll free services; and managed modem, an outsourced, turn-key infrastructure solution. As of December 31, 2008, its network encompassed approximately 67,000 intercity route miles in North America and an intercity network covering approximately 10,000 miles across Europe. Further, it sells coal primarily through long-term contracts with public utilities. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado.

PINNACLE WEST CAPITAL

Website: www.pinnaclewest.com

Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an electric utility that provides retail and wholesale electric services in Arizona. It involves in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity through coal, nuclear, gas and oil, and renewable resources. The company also provides energy-related products and services, such as energy master planning, energy use consultation and facility audits, cogeneration analysis and installation, and project management to commercial and industrial retail customers in the western United States. In addition, it develops residential, commercial, and industrial real estate projects in Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, and Utah. Further, the company operates as an investment firm. Pinnacle West Capital Corporation was founded in 1920 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona.

ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC

Website: www.shell.com

Royal Dutch Shell plc, through its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration, production, and trading of various energy resources worldwide. The company operates through five segments: Exploration and Production, Gas and Power, Oil Sands, Oil Products, and Chemicals. The Exploration and Production segment engages in the upstream activities of acquiring, exploring, developing, and producing oil and gas. This segment searches for and recovers oil and natural gas primarily in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Russian Federation, the Asia Pacific, and the Americas. The Gas and Power segment liquefies and transports natural gas, and develops natural gas markets and related infrastructure. Its gas to liquids process turns natural gas into cleaner-burning synthetic fuel and other products. This segment also develops wind power to generate electricity and involves in solar power technology. In addition, it licenses coal gasification technology, a cleaner way of turning coal into chemical feedstocks and energy. The Oil Sands segment engages in downstream activities of producing synthetic crude oils for use as refinery feedstocks. It extracts bitumen from oil sands in Alberta, western Canada and converts it to synthetic crude oils. The Oil Products segment turns crude oil and synthetic crude into a range of refined products for domestic, industrial, and transport use. These products include gasoline, diesel, heating oil, aviation fuel, marine fuel, lubricants, and bitumen. This segment also develops biofuels and hydrogen. In addition, it operates a branded fuel retail network of 45,000 service stations worldwide. The Chemicals segment produces petrochemicals for industrial customers. Its products include the raw materials for plastics, coatings, and detergents used in the manufacture of textiles, medical supplies, and computers. Royal Dutch Shell plc is based in The Hague, the Netherlands.

SAVIENT PHARMACEUTICALS INC

Website: www.savientpharma.com

Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing, manufacturing, and marketing pharmaceutical products that target unmet medical needs. The company sells and distributes branded and generic versions of oxandrolone, a drug used to promote weight gain following involuntary weight loss. It distributes the branded version of oxandrolone in the United States, under the name Oxandrin and authorized generic version of oxandrolone through an agreement with Watson Pharma, Inc. The company also involves in developing KRYSTEXXA (pegloticase), a biologic PEGylated uricase enzyme to control hyperuricemia, and to manage signs and symptoms of gout, including the improvement of tophi, improvement in chronic pain, improved physical functioning, and decreased frequency of flares for patients with treatment-failure gout. It distributes its products through wholesalers. The company, formerly known as Bio-Technology General Corp., was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in East Brunswick, New Jersey.