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Founded in the late 1800s as The West Point Telephone and Electric Company, a telephone and electric concern that would eventually rival AT&T in the long distance industry, ITC today answers to an altogether different call -- that of a financial holding group. It has invested in several telecom companies, including MindSpring, headhunter.net, and knology. Current holdings include ITC Commercial Funding, which provides commercial mortgages for income-producing properties in the South; restaurant supplier Instawares; and Realview TV, a streaming video system developer. ITC Holding also has interests in the Gro-Eco growing system and venture capital firm Kinetic Ventures.

ITEX Corporation was founded in 1901. ITEX Corporation, through its independent licensed broker and franchise network, operates an exchange for cashless business transactions (the ‘Marketplace’) in the United States and Canada. The company’s business services and payment systems enable member businesses (‘members’) to trade goods and services without exchanging cash. These products and services are instead exchanged for ITEX dollars which can only be redeemed in the Marketplace (ITEX dollars). It administers the Marketplace and acts as a third-party record-keeper for its members’ transactions. Marketplace Transactions The Marketplace provides a forum for members to purchase from and sell their products and services to other members using the currency ‘ITEX dollars’ instead of the U.S. dollars (USD). An ITEX dollar is an accounting unit used to record the value of transactions as determined by the members in the Marketplace. The company issues, on a case by case basis, ITEX dollar credit lines to certain members. Members with positive ITEX dollar account balances or those within their ITEX dollar credit line may use available ITEX dollars to purchase products or services from other members and may sell their products or services to other members. Those members with negative ITEX dollar account balances are obligated to sell their products or services to other Marketplace members to offset their negative account balance.

iVoice has found the best way to increase shareholder value, separate and apart from the operating performance of iVoice, is by spinning off and distributing shares of its wholly owned subsidiaries in the form of a special dividend to the Company’s shareholders. The common stock distributions are part of a broader strategy relating to the transition of iVoice into a company focused on the development and licensing of proprietary technologies. iVoice also continue to search for potential merger candidates with or without compatible technology and products, which management feels may make financing more appealing to potential investors.

J.W. Childs Associates, L.P. was founded in 1995 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. J.W. Childs Associates, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, and recapitalizations of middle-market growth companies. The firm invests in consumer products, healthcare, specialty retail, and asset management companies. It invests in companies based in North America and Asia. The firm invests in companies having enterprise values between $150 million and $600 million and an earnings growth rate of at least 10 percent per annum. It seeks to take a seat on the board of directors of its portfolio companies.

JAFCO Co., Ltd. was founded in 1973, has offices in Japan and other parts of Asia. US subsidiary JAFCO Ventures focuses on US investments. Nomura Holdings and its affiliates together own about 30% of the company. JAFCO manages funds for investors including corporations, insurance companies, pension funds, and financial institutions. It invests in a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, media, electronics, retail, computer technology, and pharmaceuticals. The firm, with $530 billion (nearly $6 billion) under management, has seen more than 850 of its investments go public.

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