Corporate Profile for Eaton Corporation, dated Nov. 12, 1999.

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Published Date:   Nov. 12, 1999

Company Name:     Eaton Corporation

Address:          1111 Superior Ave.
                  Cleveland, OH 44114-2584

Main Telephone
 Number:          216/523-5000

Internet Home
 Page Address
  (URL):          http://www.eaton.com

Chief Executive
 Officer:         Stephen R. Hardis

Chief Financial
 Officer:         Adrian T. Dillon

Investor Relations
 Contact:         William C. Hartman
 Business number: 216/523-4501

Public Relations
 Contact:         Renald M. Romain
 Business number: 216/523-4736

Trading Symbol/
 Exchange:        NYSE:ETN

Industry:         Electrical/electronics, automotive, transportation

Company description: Eaton Corporation This article is about an industrial manufacturer. For other meanings see Eaton.

Eaton Corporation (NYSE: ETN) is a diversified industrial manufacturer with 2006 sales of $12.4 billion, putting it at 198 on the Fortune 500 for 2007. is one of the world's premier capital goods Capital Goods

Any goods used by an organization to produce other goods.

Notes:
Examples of capital goods include office buildings, equipment, and machinery.
See also: Capital Expenditure, Disinvestment

Capital goods manufacturers with 1999 sales expected to be approximately $9 billion. The company has 205 manufacturing plants in 25 countries.

The $2.1 billion acquisition of Aeroquip-Vickers in 1999 has given Eaton Eaton may refer to: Buildings

Eaton Centre, the name of various shopping malls across Canada
Toronto Eaton Centre, a large retail and office complex in Toronto, Ontario
Eaton's / John Maryon Tower, a cancelled skyscraper in Toronto

global leadership in mobile hydraulics hydraulics, branch of engineering concerned mainly with moving liquids. The term is applied commonly to the study of the mechanical properties of water, other liquids, and even gases when the effects of compressibility are small. and a substantial position in industrial hydraulics. With Aeroquip, Eaton acquired a $1.1 billion position in hose and couplings, serving mobile and industrial, aerospace and automotive customers and broadened Eaton's Eaton's was once Canada's largest department store retailer. Founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an Irish immigrant, Eaton's first advertisement read "We propose to sell our goods for CASH ONLY – In selling goods, to have only one price. offerings to aerospace customers to more than $700 million.

Eaton's other businesses include Cutler-Hammer, which supplies electrical equipment A piece of electrical equipment is a machine, powered by electricity and usually consists of an enclosure, a variety of electrical components and often a power switch. Examples of Electrical Equipment

Cathodic protection rectifier
Fire alarm panel

to residential, commercial and industrial construction markets. For the truck industry, Eaton designs, manufactures and markets drivetrain systems and components, including transmissions, clutches and brakes, for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and other commercial vehicles.

Another Eaton specialty is engine valves, hydraulic valve lifters Hydraulic valve lifter

A device that eliminates the need for mechanical clearance in the valve train of internal combustion engines. Clearance is normally required to prevent the valve's being held open and destroyed as the valve train undergoes thermal and cylinders, as well as a diverse variety of switches and other controls, which the company manufactures for more than 70 passenger car and truck manufacturers.

Eaton ion implanters--a critical tool in manufacturing semiconductor chips--are found in every corner of the globe. From its vast stable of products, Eaton offers only a single consumer product: Golf Pride(R) golf grips.

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