Groupe Aeroplan Inc. operates a coalition loyalty marketing program with more than 4 million members in Canada. The Aeroplan Program was created in July 1984 by Air Canada as an incentive program for its frequent flyer customers. Aeroplan's operations were formally separated from those of Air Canada in 2002. Today, members can accumulate Aeroplan Miles with 70 commercial partners representing over 150 brands. Aeroplan's key commercial partners are CIBC, American Express, and Air Canada. In 2007, approximately 2 million rewards were issued to members, including over 1.5 million round-trip flights. More than 80% of Canadian households with incomes greater than $100,000 per year are Aeroplan members. Aeroplan also owns UK-based Loyalty Marketing Group, which manages the Nectar coalition loyalty marketing program. Over 50% of UK households are Nectar members.
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Energy Future Holdings Corp., formerly TXU Corp., manages a portfolio of energy businesses, primarily in Texas. TXU Energy Holdings provides electricity and related services to more than 2.1 million competitive electricity customers in Texas. TXU Power has over 18,100 MW of generation in Texas, including 2,300 MW of nuclear and 5,800 MW of coal-fired generation capacity. TXU Wholesale optimizes the purchases and sales of energy for TXU Energy and TXU Power and provides related services to other market participants. TXU Wholesale and its affiliate, TXU Renew, are the largest purchasers of wind-generated electricity in Texas and the fifth largest in the United States. TXU Corp.'s regulated segment, TXU Electric Delivery, is an electric distribution and transmission business that uses superior asset management skills to provide reliable electricity delivery to consumers. TXU Electric Delivery operates the largest distribution and transmission system in Texas, providing power to 3 million electric delivery points over more than 100,000 miles of distribution and 14,300 miles of transmission lines.
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EverBank Financial Corp., through its EverBank subsidiaries, is a diversified financial services company operating under a thrift holding company charter. The company operates two divisions, Banking and Mortgage Banking. The core of the Banking division is a leading online banking platform that provides innovative deposit products to finance investments in high credit quality residential mortgage assets. In the Mortgage Banking division, EverBank operates a leading servicer and sub-servicer of mortgages and also originates mortgages primarily through national wholesale partnerships. The company is privately-held and headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Gerresheimer is a leading global supplier of packaging solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and life sciences industry. They develop and produce high-quality specialty products made of glass and plastic including vials, syringes, inhalers, insulin pens, and diagnostic products. The origins of Gerresheimer go back to the glass factory founded by Ferdinand Heye in 1864 in the Gerresheim suburb of Düsseldorf. Today Gerresheimer has 42 production plants in Europe, America and Asia employing a total of 10,200 people and last year generated over 1 billion Euros in sales.
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Hologic, Inc. is a developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostics, medical imaging systems, and surgical products dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of women. Hologic has leading market shares in mammography, cervical cancer screening, and related women’s health markets. Headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, Hologic employs more than 4,000 employees worldwide and generated over $1.7 billion in sales in 2008.
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Interserve
provides support services, construction, and formwork rental and sales to the public and private sectors primarily in the UK and the Middle East. They offer advice, design, construction and facilities management services for society's infrastructure and provide a range of plant and equipment in specialist fields. The company also has an active PFI investment program in the UK, helping to finance construction and maintenance of essential social infrastructure. Interserve is based in the UK. It had revenue of £1.9 billion in 2009 and a workforce of 50,000 people worldwide.
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Life Technologies is a global biotechnology tools company that was created by the combination of Invitrogen Corporation and Applied Biosystems Inc. The company’s systems, consumables and services enable researchers to accelerate scientific exploration, driving to discoveries and developments that improve the human condition. Life Technologies customers do their work across the biological spectrum, working to advance personalized medicine, regenerative science, molecular diagnostics, agricultural and environmental research, and 21st century forensics. The company has historical sales of approximately $3.5 billion, employs 9,500 people, has a presence in more than 100 countries, and possesses a rapidly growing intellectual property estate of over 3,600 patents and exclusive licenses.
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Pioneer Natural Resources is an independent oil and gas exploration and
production company. Pioneer's asset base is anchored by the Spraberry
oil field located in West Texas. The company also has operations in
other parts of Texas, the Rockies, the Mid-Continent, Alaska, Tunisia
and South Africa. As of December 31, 2008, the company had proved
reserves of approximately 960 million barrels of oil equivalent, 48% of
which were oil and other liquids. The company was founded in 1997 and
is based in Irving, TX.
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