Corporate Profile for Symbol Technologies, dated May 17, 1996.--(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 See AOL. , 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, Prodigy, Comtex, and many others. -0- Published date: May 17, 1996 Company Name: Symbol Technologies Inc.
Address: One Symbol Plaza
Holtsville, N.Y. 11742-1300
Telephone No.: 516/738-2400 Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Dr. Jerome Swartz President & Chief Operating Officer: Tomo Razmilovic Chief Financial Officer: Thomas G. Amato Investor Relations Contact: Michael G. Archambault Business number: 516/738-4632 Public Relations Contact: Nancy Tully Business number: 516/738-4191 Trading symbol: SBL on NYSE
Industry: Bar codes, portable computers, wireless data
networks
Company description: Symbol Technologies: leader in bar code-driven data transaction systems. With an installed worldwide base of more than 14,000 wireless local area networks and 3.5 million scanners and hand-held and mobile computers, Symbol Technologies is the recognized global leader in bar code-driven data transaction systems. Symbol scanners, data terminals and wireless networks are used across a spectrum of industries, including retailing, transportation and distribution logistics, warehousing, manufacturing, parcel and postal services postal service, arrangements made by a government for the transmission of letters, packages, and periodicals, and for related services. Early courier systems for government use were organized in the Persian Empire under Cyrus, in the Roman Empire, and in medieval and health care. Working closely with customers such as Wal-Mart, Delta Air Lines, the American Stock Exchange American Stock Exchange (AMEX) Stock exchange in the U.S. Originally known as “the Curb,” it began as an outdoor marketplace in New York City c. 1850. It moved indoors to its present location in the Wall Street area in 1921. , Roadway Package System and American Freightways American Freightways (AF) was a U.S. Less Than Truckload (LTL) shipping company. Founded in 1982 by the late Sheridan Garrison, American Freightways was originally titled Arkansas Freightways. , Symbol Technologies develops solutions built on a broad family of data-management tools, Customers rely on Symbol's systems to capture, store, process and transmit data crucial to business decision-making and increased effectiveness. Symbol Technologies is the only company to design, manufacture and market single-function and integrated products based on three core technologies: high-performance bar code laser scanning, hand-held computing and sophisticated radio frequency (RF) communications. A pioneer in the bar code industry, Symbol is also the technology leader, holding more than 200 patents for products such as data management networks, RF data communication products, fixed-mount and hand-held scanners and terminals, integrated scanning terminals and interface controllers. Combining technological expertise with a customer-focused emphasis, Symbol has grown from a U.S.-market-based $89 million company in 1988 to a global $555 million company in 1995. Based in Holtsville, N.Y., Symbol Technologies sells products through more than 150 sales, service and support locations including eight international subsidiaries in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. and the United Kingdom, and sales offices situated in Australia, Canada and Singapore. Symbol offers its customers a comprehensive package that includes training, on-site service, depot service and software and symbology sym·bol·o·gy n. 1. The study or interpretation of symbols or symbolism. 2. The use of symbols. symbology 1. the study and interpretation of symbols. Also called symbolism. consultation. Products also are sold through a complementary network of domestic and international distributors and value added resellers See VAR. (company) value added reseller - (VAR, or "value added retailer") A company which sells something (e.g. computers) made by another company (an OEM) with extra components added (e.g. specialist software). . CONTACT: Symbol Technologies Inc. |
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