COMPANY INFORMATION: CATERPILLAR INC

Industry: Commercial Vehicles & Trucks

Caterpillar manufactures more than 300 products in 23 countries and serves customers in 200 countries worldwide. Their global presence extends to every continent and includes over 480 facility locations — almost half of which are outside the U.S.

Caterpillar Inc. was originally organized as Caterpillar Tractor Co. in 1925 in the State of California. Caterpillar's broad portfolio consists of products, services and technologies. The Company operates in three principal lines of business: machinery, engines and financial products.

Machinery is a principal line of business which includes the design, manufacture, marketing and sales of construction, mining and forestry machinery - track and wheel tractors, track and wheel loaders, pipelayers, motor graders, wheel tractor-scrapers, track and wheel excavators, backhoe loaders, log skidders, log loaders, off-highway trucks, articulated trucks, paving products, telehandlers, skid steer loaders and related parts. It also includes logistics services for other companies.

Engines is a principal line of business including the design, manufacture, marketing and sales of engines for Caterpillar machinery; electric power generation systems; on-highway vehicles and locomotives; marine, petroleum, construction, industrial, agricultural and other applications; and related parts. Reciprocating engines meet power needs ranging from 5 to 21,500 horsepower and turbines range from 1,600 to 20,500 horsepower.

Financial products is a line of business consisting primarily of Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation, Caterpillar Insurance Holdings, Inc., Caterpillar Power Ventures Corporation and their subsidiaries. Cat Financial provides a wide range of financing alternatives to customers and dealers for Caterpillar machinery and engines, Solar gas turbines, as well as other equipment and marine vessels. Cat Financial also extends loans to customers and dealers. Cat Insurance provides various forms of insurance to customers and dealers to help support the purchase and lease of the Company's equipment. Cat Power Ventures is an active investor in independent power projects using Caterpillar power generation equipment and services.

The Company's products and product support services are sold worldwide into a variety of highly competitive markets. The Company's machines are distributed principally through a worldwide organization of dealers, 54 located in the United States and 128 located outside the United States. Worldwide, these dealers serve 182 countries and operate 3,510 places of business, including 1,587 dealer rental outlets.

It all started with two visionaries, a first-class engineering and manufacturing operation, and a commitment to quality, innovation and customer value. Today as a global leader with a broad portfolio of leading products, technologies and brands, Caterpillar is setting higher standards by maintaining a watchful eye on the ever-changing shift in regional dynamics and responding with new product innovations and manufacturing flexibility.

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CATERPILLAR'S BRANDS

Caterpillar's businesses are brought to market under the following brands, which count among the most trusted names in the industry, and in the world.

Cat ® brand represents the industry-leading products and services made by Caterpillar. The Cat trademark was first used in 1949 and later registered in 1952, when it began appearing as part of machine trade dress. Today, the Cat brand is Caterpillar's primary public-facing brand name, representing the company's equipment, related services and the incredible dealer network that supports customers all over the world.

Caterpillar Logistics Services, Inc. provides integrated world-class supply chain solutions and services to Caterpillar and more than 65 other leading corporations in market sectors including automotive, industrial, consumer durables, technology, electronics, manufacturing logistics and others.

Cat Financialhas been providing a wide range of financing alternatives for Cat and related equipment for over 25 years to customers and Cat dealers.

Caterpillar has been in the remanufacturing business for over 30 years. Cat Reman, one of the world's largest remanufacturers, is a high-technology, low cost, global organization focused on salvage capabilities that refurbish and restore used machinery and technologies to their original condition and specifications.

Cat Rental Stores offer short- and long-term rentals for the general construction industry, with stores typically renting Cat machines and also allied products complementary to the Cat offering, such as specialized tools for jobsite needs. Many Cat Rental Stores also offer the equipment sales and servicing.

Founded in 1966, FG Wilson produces generator sets. The company was introduced into the Cat family in 1999.

MaK branded marine diesel engines are marketed and serviced through Caterpillar Marine Power Systems (CMPS), headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. CMPS' regional sales offices are located in Hamburg, Shanghai, China, Singapore and USA, while technical application support is located in Kiel, Germany.

Formed in 1932, Perkins manufactures more than 400,000 engines every year to support customers with thousands of different specifications. Since the 1970s, Perkins has functioned as a supplier to Caterpillar—its largest single customer with about 35% of sales volume. In 1997, Perkins was acquired by Caterpillar and today has manufacturing facilities in Brazil, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Solar Turbines is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of industrial gas turbine engines in its size range. Its products are used on land and offshore in 93 nations for the production and transmission of oil and natural gas, and are also used for generating electricity and thermal energy in a wide variety of industrial applications. Solar Turbines is a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc.

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The Liebherr family business was established in 1949 by Hans Liebherr. The great success of his first mobile, easy-to-assemble and affordable tower crane was the foundation on which the company flourished. Today Liebherr is not only one of the world’s leading manufacturers of construction machinery but is also an acknowledged supplier of technically innovative user-oriented products and services in numerous other fields. Over the years the family business has grown into what is today a group of companies, employing a workforce of approx. 30,000 in more than 100 companies on all continents.

The Liebherr Group is divided into company units of manageable size, operating independently. This is to ensure proximity to the customer and the ability to respond flexibly to market signals in global competition. The Liebherr Group’s holding company is Liebherr-International AG in Bulle, Switzerland, which is entirely owned by members of the Liebherr family.

Development and production of Liebherr products and components takes place at 29 locations, in twelve countries on four continents.

Liebherr’s technology has established itself firmly in the construction industry and in civil engineering. The company’s construction machinery program comprises complete tower crane, truck crane, hydraulic excavator, dumper truck, hydraulic rope excavator, wheeled loader, crawler tractor and loader, pipe-laying machine, concrete mixing plant and truck mixer model lines. Liebherr also supplies extensive families of product in many other sectors. For cargo handling there are ship, container and dockside cranes. In plant and equipment construction Liebherr is a supplier of machine tools, interlinked machine systems, aviation equipment and transport technology, and in the domestic appliances sector Liebherr offers a complete program of refrigerators and freezers.

To maintain the high quality standards with which its products have to comply, Liebherr attaches great importance to in-house control of key technologies. To avoid outsourcing core competences, major sub-assemblies also come from in-house development and production. They include for example the entire driveline and control technology for construction machinery, including the electrics, electronics, transmission, hydraulics and diesel engine product groups. Another example are hydraulic rams and anti-friction bearings, which are increasingly used in products of other makes as well.

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