Quixote Corporation - QUIX- Profile

Quixote Corporation. The Group's principal activities are to develop, manufacture and market highway and transportation safety products to protect, direct and inform motorists and highway workers. It operates in three segments: The Protect and Direct segment provides solutions for improving safety on the roads either by minimizing the severity of crashes that occur or by preventing crashes from occurring by directing or guiding traffic. The Inform segment provides solutions for improving traffic flow and safety on roads and runways by providing information. The Intersection Control segment provides solutions for controlling intersections. Its products include energy-absorbing highway crash cushions, flexible post delineators, electronic wireless measuring and sensing devices, weather information systems and highway advisory radios, intelligent intersection control devices and other highway and transportation safety devices. The Group operates in domestic and international markets. Protect and Direct accounted for 50% of fiscal 2006 revenues; Intersection Control, 35% and Inform, 15%