Shareholders

Arjo Wiggins

Is the worldwide leader company that produces security paper in more than 130 Countries, collaborates with the most important companies and institutions in the world to fight forgery and falsification crimes.
Is member of the "Union des Fabricants" (international organization against forgery), and Arjo Wigging has more than 200 years experience in the sector and has a network of 25 industrial sites and 3 researching centers in Europe, United States, South America and Asia.
Thanks to important partnership made with specialized companies in the fields of holography, labeling, surveillance electronic instruments, ink and radiofrequency identification products, Arjo Wiggin can offer customized solutions that satisfies the needs of each client.

Some of the solutions offered are:

security system to prevent stealing in retail stores
identity cards (passports, visa, car license plate, birth certification)
solutions to fight falsification and guarantee to the final user the authenticity of the brand
tracking solutions of the product (or its components) from the manufacturing to the selling

The most interested markets in AW products are ITC, luxury goods (perfumes, cosmetics, fashion), food & beverages, pharmaceutic, automobile, electronic and children entertainment.

Main offered products are:
banknotes
meddling highlighter on the integrity of the purchased products
financial instruments (cheques, coupons, tickets)
brand protection



Sequana Capital - Ex Worms & Cie.

Sequana Capital - Ex Worm & Cie. is an holding which mission is to create value for the stockholders through a dynamic portfolio management of its investments and through a constantly research of new growth opportunities.

His activity portfolio is diversified in industry and services and has a net participation for 3.2 billions of euro and a stock market capitalization of 2.4 billions of euro.
The stock hold by Sequana Capital belong 100% to over-the-counter companies although the group is also one of the main stockholder of SGS (Swiss company quoted at the SWX Swiss Exchange).

The over-the-counter companies are:

Arjo Wiggings: worldwide leader in security paper production
Antalis: first European group in the distribution of communication supports
Permal Group: one of the world leader in the management of alternative founds
Antonin Rodet: trading company and producer of great Borgogna wines



STMicroelctronics

STMicroelectronics is one of the biggest company in the world in the production of semiconductors. An unique combination between the silicon and system experience, manufacturing capability, portfolio intellectual property and strategic partners. This place the company to be at the leading edge of System-on-chip (Soc) technology.

Through a worldwide strategic alliance network, ST offers innovative solutions to clients of every electronic industry segment and among his 1500 clients there are Alcatel, Bosh, Daimler-Chrysler, Ford, IBM, Motorola, Nokia, Philips and Sony.

In 2004 ST revenue were about $ 8.7 billions while the net earnings were about $ 601 millions. The group is situated all over the world with 50.000 employees, 16 advanced research and development stations, 39 design and application centers, 16 main manufacture sites and 78 commercial offices in 36 counties.

The main office of the company, further the main headquarters for Europe and the Emerging Markets, are situated in Ginevra. The headquarter in the United States is in Carrollton (Dallas, Texas), while in Asia and the Pacific Area is in Singapore and the Japanese one is in Tokyo.

ACI Informatica S.p.A.

ACI Informatica is a public limited company completely hold by ACI, established in 1977 as technological partner of the Automobile Club d'Italia with the purpose of providing the informatics instrument to manage the proceeding challenge of mobility.

The ACI Informatica experience is in the projects of the Public Administration. From the management of big volumes of data for the Public Register and the Automobile Taxation, to the offer of online services for the ACI Federation that counts 106 provincial Automobile Club, 1500 service offices and more than one million members.

The purpose of controlling the most important fields in the ICT sector brought the company to create a wide network through several strategic partnership with both public and private partners.

The newco ConiNet (45% Coni Services, 45% ACI Informatica, 10% BNL) borns to manage the CONI and SipNet informatics (40% ACI Informatica, 40% Netscalibur, 20% Dylog) and to promote the full ip services. This shows the commitment in being in the most important segment both in citizens and companies lives.

To guarantee the ambitious growing plan in the ICT field, ACI Informatica features the solidity of its structure, the experience made in the ICT field next to ACI, the innovative technological infrastructure and the expertise of over 477 employees.

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