Comdisco

Comdisco provides global technology services to help its customers maximize technology functionality, predictability and availability while freeing them from the complexity of managing their technology. The Rosemont (IL) company offers a complete suite of information technology services including business continuity, managed web hosting, storage, and IT Control and Predictability SolutionsSM. Comdisco also offers equipment solutions to key vertical industries including semiconductor manufacturing and electronic assembly, healthcare, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and manufacturing. Through its Ventures division, Comdisco provides equipment leasing and other financing and services to venture capital-backed companies. With more than 100 locations around the world, Comdisco serves more than 3,000 customers in North America, South America, Europe and the Asia/Pacific Rim.

ConAgra Foods

ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE: CAG) is one of North America's largest foodservice manufacturers and retail food suppliers, with annual sales in excess of $27 billion. ConAgra Foods' consumer brands include: Hunt's tomato products, Healthy Choice, Banquet meals, Armour meats, Bumble Bee tuna, Louis Kemp seafood, La Choy, Chun King, Lunch Makers, Wesson, Country Pride, Blue Bonnet, Kid Cuisine, Parkay, Reddi-wip, Marie Callender's, Cook's ham, Butterball, Act II, Slim Jim, Decker, Chef Boyardee, Orville Redenbacher's, PAM Cooking Spray, Snack Pack puddings, Van Camp's, Peter Pan, Hebrew National, Gulden's mustard, Pemmican Jerky, Swift Brown 'n Serve Sausages, Swiss Miss, and many others.

Fujitsu (ICL)

ICL is one of the leading IT solutions companies in Europe, Middle East and Africa, employing more than 19,200 people in 40 countries. It designs, builds and operates IT systems and services for customers in the financial services, telecoms, retail and government markets. ICL helps its customers to transform their businesses and make them more efficient and productive, by providing the IT services needed today together with the end-to-end e-Business services to be successful in the new economy. These services include new media design, consultancy and systems integration through to managed infrastructure services that underpin the 'mission-critical' requirements of businesses. For the year ended 31 March 2001, the company's turnover for continuing operations was 2,418.7 million. Headquartered in London, ICL is the European-centred IT services arm of the Fujitsu Group. The Fujitsu Group is a 31 billion leader in Internet-based IT systems and services for the global marketplace.

GE Appliance

GE Appliances (GEA), one of the General Electric Company's eleven core businesses, has been headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky for more than 50 years. GEA is nearly a $6 billion business employing 18,000 workers in North America, Europe, Asia and South America. Each year GEA sells more than 12 million appliances in 150 world markets under the Monogram, GE Profile T, GE, and Hotpoint brand names.

Kellogg

Kellogg With projected annual sales of more than $9 billion, Kellogg Company is the world's leading producer of cereal and a leading producer of convenience foods, including cookies, crackers, toaster pastries, cereal bars, frozen waffles, wholesome snacks, meat alternatives, pie crusts and ice cream cones. The company's brands include Kellogg's, Keebler, Pop-Tarts, Eggo, Cheez-It, Nutri-Grain, Rice Krispies, Murray, Austin Morningstar Farms, Famous Amos, Carr's Plantation, Ready Crust and Kashi. Kellogg products are manufactured in 19 countries and marketed in more than 160 countries around the world.

MasterCard

MasterCard International has a comprehensive portfolio of well-known, widely accepted payment brands including MasterCard, Cirrus and Maestro. More than 1.7 billion MasterCard, Cirrus and Maestro logos are present on credit, charge and debit cards in circulation today. An association comprised of more than 20,000 member financial institutions, MasterCard serves consumers and businesses, both large and small, in 210 countries and territories. MasterCard is a leader in quality and innovation, offering a wide range of payment solutions in the virtual and traditional worlds. MasterCard's award-winning Priceless advertising campaign is now seen in 80 countries and in more than 36 languages, giving the MasterCard brand a truly global reach and scope. With more than 22 million acceptance locations, no card is accepted in more places and by more merchants than the MasterCard Card. At June 30, 2001, gross dollar volume exceeded US$458 billion.

Musgrave SuperValu-Centra

Musgrave is Ireland's largest grocery and food distributor, servicing over 20% of the market in the Republic and 10% in Northern Ireland. As well as supplying its franchised SuperValu and Centra supermarkets, Musgrave also supplies a large number of independent retailers and food service businesses in Ireland through its Cash & Carry outlets. The company also supplies its franchised Dialprix supermarkets and operates Dialsur Cash & Carry outlets in the south east of Spain. Musgrave's mission is to deliver the best prices to its customers to enable them to compete with the major multiples.

Nortel Networks

Nortel Networks is an industry leader and innovator focused on transforming how the world communicates and exchanges information. The company is supplying its service provider and enterprise customers with communications technology and infrastructure to enable value-added IP data, voice and multimedia services spanning Metro and Enterprise Networks, Wireless Networks and Optical Long Haul Networks. As a global company, Nortel Networks does business in more than 150 countries.

Scandinavian Airlines Systems (SAS)

SAS, formed in 1946, is a consortium of the three national airlines of the region. It offers the Scandinavian market a broad range of airline-based services with a focus on safety, punctuality, and customer service. Annually, SAS flies over 22 million passengers to over 100 destinations in 31 countries.