AIT

(Pink Sheets:SDXAY) (Euronext Paris:SW)

Contact Information Sodexo 3, avenue Newton 78180 Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France Tel. +33-1-30-85-75-00 Fax +33-1-30-85-50-51

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.sodexo.com
Employees: 355,044
Employee growth: 3.7%

This company has a lot of mouths to feed. Formerly Sodexho Alliance, Sodexo is the world's #2 contract foodservice provider (after Compass Group), with operations in about 80 countries. Its subsidiaries offer corporate foodservice and hospitality services, vending services, and foodservices for educational institutions and other public-sector clients. Other operations include event concessions, health care foodservices, and such outsourced facilities management services as cleaning, groundskeeping, and laundry. Its US-based subsidiary, Sodexho, Inc., is one of the largest contract foodservice providers in North America. Chairman Pierre Bellon and his family own more than 35% of the company.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending August, 2008:
Sales: $19,964.6M
One year growth: 9.3%
Net income: $582.3M
Income growth: 17.6%

Officers:
Chairman: Pierre Bellon
Group CEO and Director: Michel Landel
Group COO; CEO, Remote Sites and Asia/Australia, Food Management Services: Nicholas Japy

Competitors:
ARAMARK
Compass Group
Elior

(Advanced Intelligent Tape) A magnetic tape technology from Sony that uses 8mm cartridges similar in appearance to 8mm video cassettes, but are of far higher quality suitable for corporate use. Capable of data compression up to 2:6:1, AIT drives employ helical scan recording and advanced metal evaporated (AME) tape. AME media contains cobalt and provides greater bit density and less head wear than regular magnetic particle media.

Super AIT (SAIT)

SAIT uses half-inch cartridges with native capacities of 500GB and 800GB. AIT and SAIT co-exist because they satisfy different performance and capacity requirements. AIT spans the range from entry-level (AIT Turbo) to midrange/high-end enterprise (AIT), while SAIT begins at the enterprise midrange point. Following is a summary of capacities:

                 Native Capacity
  Type           In Gigabytes

  AIT-1 Turbo    40
  AIT-2 Turbo    80
  AIT-3          100
  AIT-3EX        150
  AIT-4          200
  AIT-5          400
  AIT-6          800 expected

  SAIT-1         500
  SAIT-2         800

Memory-In-Cassette

AIT's Memory-In-Cassette (MIC) feature provides fast file access and WORM backup. It comprises an EEPROM chip that stores tape status and indexing information. SAIT added Remote MIC (R-MIC) enabling the chip to be read without pulling the tape out of the cartridge. For more information, visit www.aittape.com. See magnetic tape.

AIT and Super AIT Cartridges

AIT (top) and SAIT (bottom) include the Memory-In-Cassette feature, which is a chip that stores indexing information. SAIT added Remote Memory-In-Cassette (R-MIC), which allows the chip to be read without pulling the tape from the cartridge.

Helical Scan Formats

These are the helical scan tape formats used for digital storage. See helical scan.

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