YEInternational, that's who. The Finnish firm is a leading European importer and wholesaler of electronic components and tools, servicing clients in Finland, Russia, Ukraine, and several Baltic nations. The company sources products ranging from batteries and soldering items to switches, connectors, and semiconductors. YEInternational offers a range of support services as well, including catalogue sales, stocking, and a retail outlet in Espoo (just outside of Helsinki). CEO Jussi Aspiala's family owns about half of the company's shares.

SMK Corporation company, established in 1929, manufactures a variety of electronic components such as connectors, power supplies, switches, jacks and plugs, and terminals. The company also makes such computer and appliance input devices as keyboards, control panels, touch screens, and remote controls. Audio-visual and communication products account for almost 75% of SMK's revenue. Its customers include other manufacturers of electronics and industrial goods. While the majority of SMK's revenues come from Japan and Asia (almost 80%), the company operates nearly two dozen manufacturing sites and sales offices in about 20 countries worldwide.

Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd. (SPIL) is one of the world's top providers of high-precision semiconductor packaging and testing services. It receives unfinished chips from its customers, tests them, and encases them in specialized protective packages for shipment and use. A preferred supplier for Intel, SPIL checks products that are commonly used in PCs, cell phones, digital still cameras, and cable modems. It is among the top three such vendors in the world, though well behind industry leaders Amkor and ASE. Customers in the US provide half of SPIL's sales.

Paul N. Gardner Company, Inc. (GARDCO) has its origin with the alliance of pioneer paint chemist Dr. Henry Alfred Gardner, Sr., Director of the Institute of Paint and Varnish Research in Washington, D.C. and his son Paul Norris Gardner in 1935. The team of Institute chemists at that time were active in the development and design of physical testing instruments for coating materials which were then made available to the industry. However, production of these instruments was not generally available to the public so the Henry A. Gardner Laboratory was established and incorporated in Bethesda, Maryland for that purpose.

Kingston Technology Europe, Ltd. which is a subsidiary of Kingston Technology, is a top supplier of computer memory in the UK. Kingston offers a variety of memory products, including flash memory cards, add-in random-access memory (RAM) modules, and portable PC hard drives. Through its Web site, customers can find memory for just about any sort of computer or consumer electronics device. As with its California-based parent company, Kingston Technology Europe has received broad recognition for its employee-friendly environment.

Shepherd Electric Supply is the oldest independent wholesale electrical distributor in the Baltimore/Washington area. Ernest J. Fluharty and Henry A. Shepherd founded Shepherd Electric in 1892. At the onset, company sales generally involved dry cell batteries and other related items. Due to the giant surge in the use of electricity in the 1900's, Shepherd's business grew rapidly. At first, there was more emphasis on industrial products; however, over the last thirty years, there has been a shift to the commercial construction market. Shepherd Electric has moved four times for expansion and currently has four locations. The company is built around exceptional service and a very large inventory.

Shell Hydrogen knows that you can fuel some of the people some of the time -- with alternative fuels. Founded in 1999, the company, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, promotes and markets the use of fuel cells as an alternative power source. Shell Hydrogen works in conjunction with partners such as General Motors (developing fuel cells for automobiles), California Fuel Cell Partnership (developing fuel cell technologies) and QuestAir Technologies (hydrogen purification).

CIMTEK is the leader Quality Lifecycle Management solutions used by electronics manufacturers to leverage critical component quality, process, test and repair information to drive higher quality designs, smarter sourcing and consistently profitable products. Product safety and quality issues are driving a call to action for more robust and repeatable processes that can minimize the risk of product failure and protect the brand owners from damaged customer satisfaction.CIMTEK Quality Lifecycle Management solutions integrate information and action to increase overall product quality and drastically reduce product return rates.

picoChip Designs Limited was founded in 2000 and is based in Bath, the United Kingdom. picoChip Designs Limited, a wireless silicon company, provides multi-core DSP products and femtocell reference designs. It offers femtocell system-on-chips (SoC)/baseband SoC processors; and picoArray, a suite of multiple instruction and data architecture devices for signal processing applications. The company also provides reference designs for fixed and mobile WiMAX, HSDPA/HSUPA software, TD-SCDMA software, CDMA, LTE software, basestation, WCDMA, and GSM applications for OEMs and telecom carriers to develop femtocells/cellular access point/wireless home gateway devices. In addition, it offers LTE development systems for small cells; and picoXcell system-on-chip devices and an integrated suite of HSPA+ femtocell access point software for system-level femtocell solutions. Further, the company provides training courses, including introductory courses and private sessions for engineers, scientists, educationalists, and companies.

TOPCON, which was founded in 1932 as the surveying instruments division of what is now Seiko Corporation, has offices and subsidiaries worldwide. TOPCON CORPORATION is a Japan-based company mainly engaged in the manufacture and sale of medical equipment, measuring equipment, industrial machinery and optical devices. The Company operates in three business segments. The Positioning segment offers global positioning systems(GPSs) for location surveys, digital photogrammetric systems and others. The Eye Care segment provides fundus cameras, tonometers, slit lamps, perimeters, operation microscopes, laser photocoagulators, photographic devices for corneal endothelial cells, digital image filing systems, electronic clinical record systems for ophthalmic practices, lens-processing machines and others. The Fine Technology segment provides wafer surface inspection equipment, proximity exposure equipment, semiconductor-related precision optical units, optical units for projectors, digital versatile discs (DVDs) and copy machines, as well as high precision lenses and infrared optical parts.

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