Illinois Tool Works Inc. - ITW- Profile

Illinois Tool Works Incorporated. The Group's principal activity is to manufacture engineered products and specialty systems. The Group's operations are carried out through four segments: Engineered Products-North America and Engineered Products-International segment manufactures a variety of short-time plastic and metal components and fasteners. Specialty Systems-North America and Specialty systems-International segments manufacture longer lead-time machinery and related consumables and specialty equipment. The trademarks of the Group are ITW, Acme, Angleboard, Bernard, Binks, Buildex, Chemtronics, Corex, Deltar, Devcon, Dymon, Dynatec and others. The Group operates in the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia and other countries. At 31-Dec-2006, Group had approximately 750 operations in 49 countries. The Group discontinued Leasing and Investments portfolio segment in 2006. It Group acquired BagCo Inc on 17-Jul-2006. Specialty Systems accounted for 52% of 2006 gross revenues and Engineered Products, 48%