Zebra Technologies Corporation, formerly known as Data Specialties Incorporated, is a public company, headquartered in Vernon Hills, Illinois. Founded by Gerhard Cless in 1969, the company used to manufacture high-speed electromechanical products, it shifted to manufacturing specialty on-demand labeling and ticketing systems. The products include on-demand thermal bar code label and receipt printers and supplies, plastic card printers, RFID smart label printer/encoders, certified smart media, and digital photo printers. Zebra solutions are used by more than 90 percent of Fortune 500 and global 2000 companies to improve business processes, increase productivity, and strengthen security. The company acquired its current name in 1986.Using automatic identification solutions from Zebra, companies can identify, locate and track assets, transactions and people. Zebra’s product list includes a wide range of printers, print engines, supplies, networking products, and accessories. It offers repair services and technical services for the Zebra printers. The solutions delivered by the company increase productivity and strengthen security. They include print solutions, RFID solutions, and card printing solutions. The Zebra solutions are used by industry segments involved in agriculture/mining, government, construction, hospitality, retail, wholesale trade and many more. The company engages in a PartnersFirst(R) program and partners with authorized distributors, premier partners, advanced partners, and associate partners. The partners of Zebra include RFID specialist partners, Kiosk specialist partners, Zebra authorized service providers (ZASP), independent Zebra authorized service providers (IZASP), and supplies specialist partners. Zebra engages in strategic alliance with IBM, Oracle, SA, Motorola, and others. The offices of Zebra are located worldwide in the Americas, Europe, the Asia-Pacific, Africa, Middle East, Pakistan, and India.. All of Zebra’s design and manufacturing sites are certified to the ISO 9001 international standard for quality management. Zebra is often included in Business Week’s annual rating of the 100 hot growth corporations and Hoover's Hot 250 list of the fastest-growing companies in the United States. In addition, Zebra was recently named ‘Supply Chain Innovator’ and the number one company for RFID customer support, in 2008. The company trades at the U.S. stock market with the ticker symbol NSDAQ: ZBRA. Zebra can be located on the Web at www.zebra.com.