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A M E R I C A N A C A D E M Y O F A U D I O L O G Y
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Audiology NOW!Charlotte Convention CenterApril 2-5, 2008
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HEARING AIDS, IMPLANTS AND TINNITUS/DEVICESAudifon GmbH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2235Audina Hearing Instruments. . . . . . 36 . . . . . . . . 801Bernafon LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532Coselgi SPA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1909Ear Technology Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 . . . . . . . 1531Electone Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1433Hansaton Hearing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833/933Interton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1703Lisound Hearing Aid (Fuzhou) Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1773Magnatone Hearing Aid Corp . . . . . 4, 5 . . . . . . 1875Micro-Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901Oticon, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 . . 1211, 1511Phonak Hearing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1230/1231/1843ReSound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 . . . . . . . . 605Rexton Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201SeboTek Hearing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755Siemens Hearing Instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1825
AAA ExhibitorsLocations subject to change GRAS Sound & Vibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601
Industrial Acoustics Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511Intelligent Hearing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925Interacoustics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1975JEDMED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1330Larson Davis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1430Maico Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1525MedRx Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1030Micro Audiometrics Corp. . . . . . . . . 34 . . . . . . . 1325Micromedical Technologies Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1425Neuro Kinetics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 . . . . . . . 1862NeuroCom International Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1759Otodynamics Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1625Otometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2242Otovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1785Pediatrix Medical Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1793Shire Human Genetic Therapies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220SonaMed Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1737Synapsys (Specialty Instruments) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503VIASYS Healthcare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515Vivosonic Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 11 . . . . 1633
SONIC innovations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 38 . . . . . . 213Starkey Laboratories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901Unitron Hearing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724Vivatone Hearing Systems . . . . . . . 37 . . . . . . . 2075Widex Hearing Aid Company Inc . . 17, 25 . . . . 1813
IMPLANTSAdvanced Bionics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Cochlear Americas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1403MED-EL Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1767
TINNITUS/DEVICESNeuromonics Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325Tinnitus Otosound Products, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
DIAGNOSTICSAcoustic Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1887Amplivox Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2140Audient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2132Audioscan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1530Bio-logic Systems Corp (Natus). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029Eckel Noise Control Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1124Etymotic Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1733Frye Electronics Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28, 29 . . . . 1127
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Allyn &Bacon
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NewportAudiology
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Starkey Laboratories
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IntelligentHearing Sys
DreveOtoplastik
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HansatonHearing
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HearingComponents
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TinnitusOtosound
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PluralPublishing
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IntriCon- RTI
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Bernafon
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VIASYSHealthcare
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NIDCD
Emtech
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ThomasDelmar
Conversor
GRAS
HPSO
Melmedtronnics
Donaldson
ClearSounds
HITECH
Bo EdinAB
Sonion
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AmiSemiconductor
HanicsTechnolgy
GlaxoSmith Kline
Deaf ResearchFoundation
VA RR&DNATIONAL
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3 ShapeA/S
EducationalAUdiology
CostcoWholesale
Shire HumanGenefic
Biologic, adivision of NATUS
Adec &Partner
Neurotone
GraggAdvertising
TexasChildren'sHospital
PsychologyPress
Box Lunches
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ChildrensHealth care
GeneralHearing
SONIC innovations
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TV Ears309
HearingTech409
ReSound
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Amparex635
PrecisionLabs1025
Mid-StatesLabs1224
FryeElect
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ACCESSORIES AND SERVICES
ACCESSORIES AND SERVICES
American Overseas Trading Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1869Amparex. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 15 . . . . . 635Association Health Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1328Computers Unlimited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858Donaldson Company Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436EARtrak Pty Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1634GlaxoSmithKline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218Hal-Hen Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1810Health Enterprises Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1820Healthcare Prov Serv Org (HPSO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637Hearing Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 . . . . . . . . 409HIMSA, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811Kaiser Permanente . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1808MiraCell Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 . . . . . . . 1739Neuro Kinetics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 . . . . . . . 1862NeuroTone Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2004Oaktree Products, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838SYCLE.NET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1779Tube Riders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2260
DISPENSING GROUPS
American Hearing Aid Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2125Audigy Group LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 13 . . . . 2225AuDNet, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1749Beltone Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1969Costco Wholesale Hearing Aid Ctr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222Ear Q Group Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1726EPIC Ear Professionals Int Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2259HearingMed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2348HEAR USA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1725Newport Audiology Centers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825Sonus USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2211Marcon Hearing Instruments Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2346
EARMOLDS/PLUGS & DRYERS
All American Mold Laboratories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1424Doc’s Proplugs Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1329Dreve Otoplastik GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 928E-A-R Auditory Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1713Ear Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1717Ear Technology Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 . . . . . . . 1531Egger Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2134Emtech Laboratories Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931
Etymotic Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1733Hearing Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834Insta-Mold Products Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2171McKeon Products Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1874Mid States Laboratories. . . . . . . . . . 31 . . . . . . . 1224Microsonic Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1959MiraCell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1739Precision Laboratories . . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . . . 1025Sahara Dry Ear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1629Warner Tech Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 . . . . . . . . 924Westone Laboratories Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524
FINANCING, WARRANTIES, INSURANCE, & REPAIRCareCredit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1983Citi Health Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2187Discovery Hrg Aid Warranties & Repair . 23. . . . . . . . . . 1324ESCO-Ear Service Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1834The HELPcard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 . . . . . . . 1834Midwest Hearing Industries Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842
PUBLICATIONSAdvance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1331Allyn & Bacon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736Auricle Ink Publishers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1731
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JEDMED ADVANCE
Cochlear Americas
All AmericanMold Labs Micromedical
Tech Inc
AudiologyAwareness
LarsonDavis
Electone
MaicoDiagnostics
SennheiserElect Corp
OtodynamicsLtd
EARtrakPty Ltd
Interton
AudiologyFoundation
E-A-RAuditory
HARCMercantile
HEAR USA
KaiserPermanente
Hal HenCo Inc
SiemensHearing Inst
COSELGI S.P.A
AudioEnergy American Hearing
Aid Assoc
VartaMicrobattery Inc
AmplivoxLtd
ESCO - EarService Corp
OaktreeProd Inc
6 1227
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1530
Audioscan
AuricleInk
SonaMedCorp
1830
ASHA
1630
HearingHealthcare
iCellTech
2235
Audifon
2128
1733
EtymoticResearch
1700
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2134
EggerCorp
1717
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1822
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AcademyStore
Doc'sPro Plugs
PhonicEar
EarGear Universityof FL
MicroDSP
Widex2009
Audient
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Ear QSaharaDry Ear
HealthEnt
NHCA
SoundBytes
AHP
Oral DeafEducation
2000
Accoustic
ChildrensHospital
MimosaAcoustics
PremierMicronutrient
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Clarity
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BalanceBack
SurgicalMonitoringAssociates
MR Rex
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Oticon
1211
Oticon
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DiscoveryHearing Aid
1324
MicroAudio
1325
Ear TechCorp
1531
Vivosonic
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MiraCell
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Widex Hearing Aid Company
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AudigyGroup
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PluralPublishing
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SebotekHearing Sys
MED -ELCorp
SYCLE.NET
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Phonak Hearing Systems
RayovacCorp
McKeonProd
Magnatone
1875
LightSPEEDTech Inc
ComputersUnlimited
Microsonic,Inc
Interacoustics
Insta-Mold
GNOtometrics
MidwestHearing Ind
Accumold
University ofTexas Medical
Beltone
1773 1872
WoltersKluwer Health
AuDNet,Inc
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2164
Knowles
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ZeniPower
LisoundHearing Aid
ISA
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NeuroCom
1983
Care Credit
CEU Theater
MicropowerBattery
The HearingReview
Arizona
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EPIC
MorconHearing
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InterTech
1968
WilliamsSound
AmericanOverseas
SoundClarity
ENTNews
DST Tuberiders
GeemarcTelecom
PediatrixMedical
ECO-GoldHealth
2192
2356Hearing
Med
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SoundsDesign Tech
Citi Health CardEnvisiontec
Technest
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AblePlanet
Materialise
Hearingmed
Krown
JodivacLLC
Mfg
Cleartone Sorenso
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VivatoneHearing Systems
2075
NeuroKinetics
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Renata
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ComfortAudio1763
Delmar Cengag Learning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817ENT News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2158Hearing HealthCare News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1630The Hearing Review/Hearing Products Report. . . . . . . . . . . 1765Plural Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1226/27Thieme Medical Publishers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1125Wolters Kluwer Heatlh-LWW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1872
ASSISTIVE DEVICESBo Edin AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700ClearSounds Communications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430Comfort Audio Inc . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 9 . . . . . . 1763Conversor Limited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734Geemarc Telecom International Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1989Hanics Technology Co, Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337HARC Mercantile Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1724HITEC Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432LightSPEED Technologies Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1871Micro-DSP Technology Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1822Phonic Ear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1431Sennheiser Electronic Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1603Sound Clarity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2169SoundBytes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1818
Sonion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401Sound Design Technologies Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2271
ORGANIZATIONS & UNIVERSITIESAcademy of Doctors of Audiol (ADA) . . . . . . . . . . . 1225Academy Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1719Amer Spch Lang-Hrg Assn (ASHA) . . . . . . . . . . . . 1830Arizona School of Health Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . 1775Army Medical Recruiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2128Arizona School of Health Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . 1775Army Medical Recruiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2128Audiology Awareness Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1428Audiology Foundation of America. . . . . . . . . . . . 1709Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia . . . . . . . . . . . 1700Deafness Research Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331Educational Audiology Association . . . . . . . . . . . . 333Intl Society of Audiology (ISA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1747Nat Hearing Conservation Assn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1711NIDCD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735Oral Deaf Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1601University of Florida/EMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1816University of Texas Medical Branch . . . . . . . . . . . 1850VA RR&D Nat Ctr for Rehab Aud Res . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
Surefire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701TV Ears Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 . . . . . . . . 309Williams Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1968
BATTERIES & COMPONENTSBATTERIESAudio Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2124Energizer Battery Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200iCellTech Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1702Micropower Battery Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2167Rayovac Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1859SY Kessler Sales/Renata Batteries . . 26, 27 . . . . 1743Varta Microbattery Inc. (PowerOne). . . . . . . . . . . . 2131Zeni Power, Zhi Li Battery Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2159
COMPONENT SUPPLIERS3Shape A/S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400Accumold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846AMI Semiconductor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214Hermetic Switch Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602In'Tech Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1868Intricon (RTI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Knowles Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2164
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