Corporate Profile for Andrew Corp., dated Sept. 8.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services See Information Systems. . These include Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Business Briefing, DataTimes, Nexis, Dialog, NewsNet, America OnLine, CompuServe, Delphi, Individual's HeadsUp and First!, Desktop Data's NewsEdge, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Company and many others. -0- Published date: Sept. 8, 1995 Company name: Andrew Corp.
Address: 10500 W. 153rd St.
Orland Park, IL 60462
Telephone No.: 708/349-3300 Chief Executive Officer: Floyd English Chief Financial Officer: Charles Nicholas Investor Relations Contact: Charles Nicholas Business number: 708/349-3300 Home number: Public Relations Contact: Tom Sykes Business number: 708/349-5661 Home number: Trading symbol: ANDW Industry: Telecommunications Company description: Andrew Corp., founded in 1937, is a global supplier of communications products and systems to commercial, industrial, government and military customers. Major markets are wireless communications, including cellular and land mobile radio, common carriers, corporations and government agencies. Its principal products are coaxial cables, microwave and satellite earth station antenna systems, radar and communication reconnaissance systems and computer connectivity devices. Coaxial cables are used to carry radio frequency signals, while waveguides have their greatest application at higher frequencies, although they are also employed in UHF (Ultra High Frequency) The range of electromagnetic frequencies from 300 MHz to 3 GHz. In the U.S., analog television has used UHF channels 52 to 69 in the 700 MHz band. broadcasting. Semiflexible sem·i·flex·i·ble adj. Partially or somewhat flexible: semiflexible tubing. cables and waveguides are sold under the trademark HELIAX(R). Microwave antenna systems are used in land-based microwave radio networks by the telecommunications industry for telephone, telex, video and data transmission. Earth station antenna systems are used at land-based terminals to receive signals from, and transmit signals to, communications satellites for distribution of CATV (Community Antenna TV) The original name for cable TV. It used a single antenna at the highest location in the community in order to deliver a quality signal to homes in areas with hilly terrain or other interference. , UHF and VHF (Very High Frequency) The range of electromagnetic frequencies from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. broadcasts. Defense electronics products, including electronic scanning and communications receiver systems, are used primarily for intelligence gathering in strategic surveillance operations. Computer connectivity devices include token-ring local area network solutions, and PC, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Macintosh connectivity solutions for data transmission to users of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) midrange and mainframe equipment. Sales in FY '94 (ended Sept. 30, 1994) were $558.4 million. Net income for the same period was $44.4 million. Stock 52 week high/low as of Aug. 31, 1995: 62 3/4 - 28 21/64 adjusted for split. CONTACT: Andrew Corp. |
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