Dollar Financial Corp. provides retail financial services to unbanked and under-banked consumers. Dollar Financial Corp. offers cash checking, single-payment consumer loans, longer-term installment loans, electronic tax filing, bill payment, foreign currency exchange, pawnbroking, debit cards and gift cards, photo ID, prepaid local and long-distance phone services, gold buying services, and legal document processing. Dollar Financial Corp. provides its services through its stores, which operate under the names of Money Mart, The Money Shop, Loan Mart, Insta-Cheques, The Check Cashing Store, American Payday Loans, American Check Casher, Check Casher, Payday Loans, Cash Advance, Cash Advance USA, and We The People. As of June 30, 2009, Dollar Financial Corp. had a network of 1,206 stores, including 1,031 company-operated financial services stores and 175 franchised and agent locations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and Poland. Dollar Financial Corp., formerly known as DFG Holdings, Inc., was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania.

Kirtland Capital Partners was founded in 1977 and is based in Beachwood, Ohio. Kirtland Capital Partners is a private equity firm specializing in acquisition and recapitalization of middle market and mature companies. The firm also provides capital to capitalize on growth oppurtunities. It does not invest in real estate, gaming, oil and gas exploration, and retail sectors. The firm prefers to invest in companies operating in the, niche manufacturing; distribution; business services; energy; medical and healthcare; infrastructure and building products; infrastructure truck, trailer, and equipment; packaging; and business-to-business service sectors. Within the energy sector, the firm seeks to invest in coal production and coal powder. Within the medical and healthcare sectors, it invests in health and beauty, cosmetics, OTC skin care, prescriptions, medical, dental, and veterinary lab, diagnostic, and testing equipment. Within the infrastructure and building products segment, the firm invests in, manufacturing, distribution, and supply. In the infrastructure truck, trailer, and equipment sector, it invests in mobile medical, fire, rescue, broadcast, homeland security, defense, construction, and infrastructure.

CIR S.p.A. was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy. CIR S.p.A., through its subsidiaries, engages in the utilities, media, automotive components, healthcare, and financial services businesses. Its utilities business comprises the sourcing, marketing, and sale of electricity and gas for industries, small and medium enterprises, and micro-businesses. This business also has electricity generation plants. In the media sector, the company engages in publishing daily newspapers and periodicals; broadcasting radio and digital television networks; and the collection of advertising for the company’s and third party publications, as well as operates in the Internet sector. The company’s publications include la Repubblica, a daily newspaper; and L Espresso, a weekly magazine. It also offers automotive components, including filters and flexible suspension components. The company offers filters under the brands ‘FIAAM’, ’FRAM’, ‘PBR’, ‘COOPERS’, ‘PURFLUX’, ‘TECNOCAR’, and ‘CROSLAND’ with a range of oil, gasoline, gasoil, air, and cabin filters. In addition, it engages in the management of hospitals, nursing homes, physiological and psychiatric rehabilitation centers. Further, the company involves in the acquisition and management of non performing loans and trade receivables originated by banks, financial institutions, commercial companies, and public administrations; and in the creation, acquisition, and management of retail financing companies focusing on non-conforming customers in the product segments of residential mortgages and personal loans.

BlackRock, Inc. (BlackRock) is an investment management firm. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had 3.346 trillion of assets under management (AUM). The Company offers an array of equity, fixed income, multi-asset class, alternative investment and cash management products, as well as its BlackRock Solutions investment systems, risk management and advisory services. It offers its investment products directly and through intermediaries in a variety of vehicles, including open-end and closed-end mutual funds, iShares exchange-traded funds1 (ETFs), collective investment trusts and separate accounts. Its clients include taxable, tax-exempt and official institutions, high net worth individuals and retail investors. It offers a spectrum of investment management and risk management products and services. Investment management offerings include single- and multi-asset class portfolios. On December 1, 2009, BlackRock acquired Barclays Global Investors (BGI) from Barclays Bank PLC (Barclays).

iD Ventures America, LLC (formerly known as Acer Technology Ventures America, LLC) is a venture capital business unit of iD SoftCapital Group, a group established by Acer founder Stan Shih and former Acer senior management to offer consulting services, and asset and venture fund management. Our mission at iD Ventures America is to facilitate the Intellectual Development of the New Economy through venture investing.iD Ventures America has been active in the venture community since 1998. Currently we have a total of $385 million under management with $85 million in active investments through our latest funds: iD6 Fund established in 2005; iD8 Fund established in 2008; and our most recent fund, iD5 Annex Fund. These funds are invested by Acer and other private investors. Our former funds, comprised of $300 million, have been fully invested into North America and Asia based companies: The Acer Technology Venture Fund and IP Fund One. ATVF and IPF One are invested by Acer affiliated companies and executives, as well as external institutional limited partners.

First Manhattan Co. was founded in 1964 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. First Manhattan Co. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to high net worth individuals. It also caters to individuals, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, other pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm manages separate client-focused portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. It typically makes its equity investments in value stocks of companies. The firm employs a fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolio. It uses in-house research to make its investments.

Delphi Ventures was founded in 1988 and is based in Menlo Park, California. Delphi Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed early stage, and PIPE investments. The firm seeks to invest in healthcare companies with a focus on medical devices and biotechnology. Within medical devices, it invests in cardiovascular medicine, orthopedics, gynecology, minimally invasive surgery, urology, neurovascular medicine, and next-generation diagnostics. Within biotechnology, the firm typically invests after a company has either generated early human clinical data or completed preclinical efficacy and toxicity studies. It prefers to invest in companies that are discovering new ways to treat life-threatening diseases and designing new devices to make surgery less traumatic and treatments more precise. The firm primarily invests between $500,000 million and $12 million.

Asset Value Investors was established in 1985. Asset Value Investors (formerly Ivory & Sime Asset Management) wants to increase the value of investors' assets. The UK firm primarily manages a handful of funds, which invest in a variety of assets. British Empire Securities and General Trust plc is a closed-end investment trust, while The European Asset Value Fund allows investors to participate in listed European property. Asset Value Investors company also manages the CF Asset Value Global Investors Fund, which focuses on foreign undervalued stocks, and AVI Value Fund, a US endowment portfolio. Funds under management total more than $3.4 billion.

SES Advisors, Inc. benefits from helping companies manage their ESOP plans. An investment banking firm, SES Advisors offers consulting, financing, and legal services to companies who use or intend to use ESOPs, or Employee Stock Ownership Plans, as a retirement plan option. The company helps clients transition into ESOPs, offers administrative services to companies with existing ESOPs, and provides legal services through its affiliate Steiker, Fischer, Edwards & Greenapple, P.C.. SES Advisors provides services for various industries across the US, including construction and manufacturing companies, and engineering firms.

Toyo Cotton (Japan), originally established in 1920, has been a part of Toyota Tsusho Corporation since 2007 when that company acquired TOMEN Corporation, a Japanese general trading company. Toyo Cotton (Japan) Co. is a supplier of cotton to cotton gins, spinning mills, and cotton producers located primarily in Japan and Southeast Asia. Its Dallas, Texas-based Toyo Cotton subsidiary is a supplier of cotton to mills in the US. Toyo Cotton (Japan) also has operations throughout Asia and in South America.

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