Public Companies Starting with the Letter "Z"

ZUMIEZ [ NASDAQ : ZUMZ ]
Zumiez is a retailer of action sports related apparel, footwear, equipment and accessories operating under the Zumiez brand name. Co.'s apparel offerings include tops, bottoms, outerwear and accessories such as caps, belts and sunglasses. Co.'s footwear offerings primarily consist of action sports related athletic shoes and sandals, while its equipment offerings, or hardgoods, include skateboards, snowboards and ancillary gear such as boots and bindings. In addition, Co. offers a selection of other items, such as miscellaneous novelties and DVDs. At Feb 3 2007, Co. operated 235 stores primarily located in shopping malls, giving it a presence in 23 states across the U.S.

Zunicom, Inc. [ OTCBB : ZNCM ]
Zunicom operates through its subsidiaries: Universal Power Group and AlphaNet Hospitality Systems. Co.'s operations through Universal encompass the sale of portable power and related synergistic products, third party fulfillment, and custom battery pack assembly and kitting services to a range of industries. Product names include: Universal Battery , Adventure Power , Starter-Up and Power-Up . Through AlphaNet, Co. is a provider of guest communication services to the hospitality market. AlphaNet provides in-room facsimile and business center services to the hotel industry for their business travelers. AlphaNet's product lines: InnFax?, The Office?, Laptop Connect?, GuestPrint? and WaveLan?.

ZVUE Corporation. [ OTC PK : ZVUE ]
ZVUE is a digital-media-to-go company that provides commercial and user generated video entertainment content to audience on personal computers, handheld devices, and mobile devices. Co. offers content through its online video content stores at YourDailyMedia.com , FunMansion.com , Putfile.com , Dorks.com , ZVUE.com , and UnOriginal.co.uk Web sites, which offer media files, including music videos, news clips, television shows, short films, and feature-length films, as well as rights to additional media files in various genres, including teens, children, and independent films. Also, Co. designs, produces, and sells portable media players in mass markets under ZVUE brand.

ZANETT [ NASDAQ : ZANE ]
Zanett is an information technology (IT) company that provides customized IT applications to mid-market companies and classified government agencies involved in Homeland Defense and Homeland Security. Co. operates in two segments: commercial solutions and government solutions. Co.'s commercial solutions segment provides full lifecycle, end-to-end business applications, including, among others, services to initiate, develop and implement e-business systems, as well as business analysis. Co.'s government solutions segments provides software and satellite engineering services with domain area expertise on government and aerospace satellite, and IT infrastructure contracts.

ZIX [ NASDAQ : ZIXI ]
Zix provides e-communication services that connect enterprises and consumers in the healthcare, finance, insurance, and government sectors to protect and deliver sensitive information. As of Jan 1 2006, Co. operated two reporting segments, Email Encryption and e-Prescribing. Co.'s Email Encryption Service is a secure messaging service, which allows an enterprise to use policy-driven rules to determine which emails need to be sent securely to comply with regulations or corporate policy. Co.'s e-Prescribing is an electronic prescribing service that allows physicians to use a handheld device to prescribe drugs and transmit prescriptions electronically to any retail pharmacy.

ZAP [ OTCBB : ZAAP ]
ZAP markets various forms of transportation, including alternative energy and fuel efficient automobiles, motorcycles, bicycles, scooters, personal watercraft, hovercraft, neighborhood electric vehicles, commercial vehicles and others. Additionally, Co. produces an electric scooter, known as the ZAPPY , using parts manufactured by various contractors. Co.'s automobile products require registration with state vehicle registration departments and must be sold through licensed dealers, while its consumer vehicles can be sold directly to consumers without registration.

ZHONE TECH [ NASDAQ : ZHNE ]
Zhone Technologies designs, develops and manufactures communications network equipment for telephone companies and cable operators. Co.'s Single Line Multi-Service (SLMS) architecture provides cost-efficiency and flexibility with support for voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and Internet protocol video. Within this SLMS architecture, Co.'s products allow service providers to deliver these entire converged packet services over their copper lines while providing support for fiber build-out. In addition, Co.'s optical transport products complement its SLMS architecture by providing flexible low-cost, additional capacity over existing fiber with multi-service transport.

Zweig Total Return Fund, Inc. [ NYSE : ZTR ]
The Zweig Total Return Fund, Inc. operates as a closed-end, diversified management investment company. The fund invests in U.S. Government obligations, which include U.S treasury bonds, U.S. treasury notes, agency non-mortgage backed securities, and short-term investments. Its portfolio comprises investments in financials, healthcare, technology, consumer, energy, industrials, information technology, materials, telecommunication services, and utilities sectors.

ZIONS BANCORP [ NASDAQ : ZION ]
Zions Bancorporation is a financial holding company that owns and operates eight commercial banks with a total of 470 offices as of Dec 31 2006. Co.'s banking businesses include: Zions First National Bank in Utah and Idaho; California Bank & Trust; Amegy Corp. and its subsidiary, Amegy Bank, in Texas; National Bank of Arizona; Nevada State Bank; Vectra Bank Colorado in Colorado and New Mexico; The Commerce Bank of Washington; and The Commerce Bank of Oregon. Co. also operates a number of specialty financial services and financial technology businesses that conduct business on a regional or national scale. As of Dec 31 2006, Co. had total assets of approximately $46.97 billion.

ZVUE Corporation Warrants Expiring 8/13/2011 [ OTC PK : ZVUEW ]
Handheld Entertainment is engaged in designing, developing and marketing portable media players (PMP) and delivers digital content through its website, www.zvue.com. Co. is focused on portable digital media devices, and distributed digital content. Co. has media files available for download, consisting of music videos, news clips, television shows, short films and feature-length films. Co. has songs available for download through strategic partnerships.

ZBB Energy Corporation [ NYSE : ZBB ]
ZBB Energy is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries Co. is engaged in the design, development, manufacture and distribument of energy storage systems. Co.'s systems are built using a proprietary process based upon the zinc-bromine rechargeable electrical energy storage technology. The modular nature of the zinc-bromine battery allows it to be sized and packaged into fully customized, large format energy storage systems. Co.'s systems combine the zinc-bromine batteries with computer hardware and software that interface with a customer's power source to recharge during off peak times and discharge power as needed.

ZOLTEK COMPANIES [ NASDAQ : ZOLT ]
Zoltek is an applied technology and advanced materials company. Co. manufactures, markets and develops carbon fibers for various applications. In addition to manufacturing carbon fibers, Co. produces an intermediate product that's refered to as technical fiber, a stabilized and oxidized acrylic fiber used in flame and heat-resistant applications. Co. has spent over 10 years developing its proprietary technology and manufacturing processes. Co.operates manufacturing plants in Nyergesujfalu, Hungary, Abilene, TX and St. Charles, MO. Co.'s plant in Hungary is our major carbon fiber manufacturing facility.

Zimmer Holdings, Inc. [ NYSE : ZMH ]
Zimmer Holdings designs, develops, manufactures and markets reconstructive orthopaedic implants, including joint and dental, spinal implants, trauma products and related orthopaedic surgical products. Co. also provides hospital-focused consulting services designed to help member institutions design, implement and manage orthopaedic programs. Co. provides hospitals and other orthopaedic practices resource capabilities in the areas of business development, marketing, in/outpatient rehab practice, clinical pathways, care mapping and space design, community relations, customer service, delivery models, cost accounting, and staff utilization.

ZIPREALTY [ NASDAQ : ZIPR ]
ZipRealty is a full-service residential real estate brokerage firm. Co.'s services include a website that provides home buyers and sellers with relevant information, a proprietary business management technology platform, and financial savings for consumers. Through Co.'s website, registered users can access a range of information and tools to research and commence the process of buying or selling a home, including direct access to local Multiple Listing Service(s) home listings data, such as asking prices, home layouts and other features. Co. also provides information such as neighborhood attributes, school district information, comparable home sales data, maps and driving directions.

ZORAN [ NASDAQ : ZRAN ]
Zoran provides products and software for the digital entertainment and digital imaging market. Co.'s products consist of integrated circuits and related products used in digital versatile disc, or DVD, players, movie and home theater systems, digital cameras and video editing systems. Co. also provides integrated circuits, software and platforms for digital television applications that enable the delivery and display of digital video content through a set-top box or television as well as digital imaging products consisting of semiconductor hardware and software that enable users to print, scan, process and transmit documents to computer peripherals that perform printing functions.

ZION OIL & GAS [ NASDAQ : ZN ]
Zion Oil & Gas explores for oil and gas in Israel. Co.'s principal assets are petroleum rights issued by the Ministry of National Infrastructures of the State of Israel, specifically an exploration license covering 397,000 Israeli dunam (approximately 98,100 acres), entitled License No. 298/Ma'anit-Joseph. Co. also holds a preliminary permit with priority rights covering 490,000 dunam (approximately 121,100 acres) and entitled Preliminary Permit No. 186/Asher, abutting on and immediately to the north and west of the Ma'anit-Joseph License. Co. does not have any proved reserves or current production of oil or gas.

Zenith National Insurance Corp. [ NYSE : ZNT ]
Zenith National Insurance is a holding company that is engaged in the business of managing insurance and investment risk. Co.'s main business activity is the workers' compensation insurance business, in which it provides insurance coverage for the statutorily prescribed benefits that employers are required to provide to their employees who may be injured in the course of employment. In addition, Co. operates an assumed reinsurance business, and also maintains a portfolio of investments, principally in fixed maturity securities. As of Dec 31 2006, Co. had an investment portfolio of $2.30 billion.

ZOLL MEDICAL [ NASDAQ : ZOLL ]
Zoll Medical designs, manufactures, markets and/or sells non-invasive resuscitation devices and related software applications. Co.'s products include pacing, defibrillation, circulation, ventilation, and fluid resuscitation devices. These devices help clinicians, EMS professionals, and lay rescuers resuscitate sudden cardiac arrest or trauma victims. Co. also designs and markets software that automates the documentation and management of both clinical and non-clinical information. Co. markets defibrillators under the M Series , E Series , R Series , LifeVest , and AED Plus , an automated external defibrillator that addresses circulatory support.

ZYMOGENETICS [ NASDAQ : ZGEN ]
ZymoGenetics is engaged in the discovery, development, manufacture and commercialization of therapeutic proteins for the treatment of human diseases, focusing on the areas of hemostasis, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, as well as cancer and viral infections. Co.'s pipeline of key internal product candidates includes rhThrombin , a topical hemostatic agent, and Atacicept , for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Co.'s marketed products includes Novolin for diabetes, NovoSeven for hemophilia, Regranex for wound-healing, GEM 21S for periodontal defects, GlucaGen for hypoglycemia and Cleactor for mycordial infarction.

ZIOPHARM ONCOLOGY [ NASDAQ : ZIOP ]
ZIOPHARM Oncology is a development stage biopharmaceutical company that seeks to acquire, develop and commercialize, on its own or with other commercial partners, products for the treatment of important unmet medical needs in cancer. Co.'s principal focus is on the licensing and development of proprietary drug candidate families that are related to cancer therapeutics that are already on the market or in development. As of December 31 2006, Co. is in phase I and/or II studies for three product candidates identified as ZIO-101, ZIO-201, and ZIO-301.

ZYGO CORP [ NASDAQ : ZIGO ]
Zygo designs, develops, and manufactures high precision measurement applications designed to improve customers' manufacturing yields, and optical sub-systems and components for original equipment manufacturers and end-user applications. Co. operates through two divisions: Metrology Solutions, which manufactures products designed to improve quality, increase productivity, and decrease the overall cost of product development and manufacturing; and Optical Systems, which provides product development and manufacturing services for medical, defense, semiconductor, laser fusion research, biomedical, and other industrial markets.

ZEBRA TECH -A- [ NASDAQ : ZBRA ]
Zebra Technologies designs, produces and distributes printing devices that print variable information on demand at the point of issuance. These devices are used worldwide by manufacturers, service organizations and governments for automatic identification, data collection and personal identification. Co.'s product range consists of direct thermal and thermal transfer label and receipt printers, passive radio frequency identification printer/encoders, dye sublimation card printers and digital photo printers. Co. also sells a range of supplies consisting of self-adhesive labels, thermal transfer ribbons, thermal printheads, batteries and other accessories, including software for label design.

Zale Corp. [ NYSE : ZLC ]
Zale is a specialty retailer of fine jewelry. Co.'s Fine Jewelry segment consists of six brands, each targeted to reach a distinct customer with products and marketing emphasized on diamond products. Co.'s Kiosk Jewelry segment operates mainly mall-based kiosks and carts under brand names such as Piercing Pagoda , Plumb Gold , and Silver and Gold Connection . Co.'s All Other segment provides insurance and reinsurance facilities for various types of insurance coverage mainly to its private label credit card customers. At Jul 31 2007, Co. operated 1,471 specialty retail jewelry stores and 793 kiosks located mainly in shopping malls throughout the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.

ZEP, Inc. [ NYSE : ZEP ]
Zep is a producer, marketer, and service provider of a range of cleaning and maintenance solutions for commercial, industrial, institutional, and consumer end-markets. Co.'s product portfolio includes anti-bacterial and industrial hand care products, cleaners, degreasers, deodorizers, disinfectants, floor finishes, sanitizers, and pest and weed control products. Co. markets these products and services under brand names, such as Zep , Zep Commercial , Enforcer , and Selig . Co. provides solutions to customers in an array of commercial, industrial, and institutional end-markets, including transportation, food processing and service, manufacturing, government, and housekeeping.

ZEROplus.com, Inc. [ OTC PK : ZPLSQ ]
On June 5, 2001, the Company announced a phased shutdown of operations and the immediate termination of all services and the majority of employees. Prior to suspending operations, the Company engaged in the business of providing Internet telephony services to consumers worldwide, including free PC-to-PC phone services, and fee-based PC-to-phone, phone-to-PC and phone-to-phone services. The Company has also developed an e-commerce solution, ZPCommerce, which enables companies to voice-enable their websites. The Company can route calls from customers' PCs to existing call centers entirely over the Internet, thereby drastically reducing e-commerce companies' inbound 800-number service costs.

Zany Brainy, Inc. [ OTC PK : ZANYQ ]
Co. is a specialty retailer of high quality toys, games, books and multimedia products for kids. Co. sells products that entertain, educate and spark the imaginations of children up to 12 years of age. As of Feb. 3, 2001, Co. operated 188 stores in 34 states. Co.'s products generally range in price from less than one dollar up to $200, the average price paid for a single product is approx. $10. Co. presents their merchandise across 12 product categories, which are: Brainy Games and Puzzles, Bright Start, Creativity, Good Sports, Kidtronics, Let's Pretend, Our Planet, Plush and Dolls, Young Builders, Books, Multimedia and Video Games.

ZAP.COM CORPORATION [ OTCBB : ZPCM ]
Zap.Com Corporation did not have significant operations as of March 31, 2003. The company intends to search for assets or businesses that it can acquire to become an operating company. Zap.Com may also consider developing a new business suitable for its situation. The company previously engaged primarily in the research and investigation of the Internet industry, the establishment of strategic relationships to provide Internet connectivity and technology systems to support its ZapNetwork, and the development of its ZapBox and the Zap.Com homepage.

Ziegler Companies, Inc. [ OTC PK : ZGCO ]
Ziegler Companies, through its wholly and partially owned subsidiaries, is engaged in financial services activities. Financial services activities are conducted through two operating segments. The Capital Markets business segment underwrites fixed income securities to finance senior living and healthcare providers, religious institutions, and private schools. The Investment Services business segment consists of two operating business units: Asset Management and Wealth Management. Asset Management provides investment advisory services. Wealth Management offers a wide range of financial products and financial planning services.

Zann Corp. [ OTC PK : ZNNC ]
Zann Corporation, formerly known as ATNG, Inc., is a public company with four (4) existing Business Units and one very close to becoming acquired. The company utilizes proprietary methodologies that have been developed over more than 20 years to identify business opportunities in niche markets with outstanding growth potential.

ZOOM TECH [ NASDAQ : ZOOM ]
Zoom Technologies designs, produces, markets, sells, and supports broadband and dial-up modems, voice over Internet protocol products and services, and other communication-related products. Co.'s products enable data communication via the Internet. Co.'s product line include digital subscriber line (DSL) modems, cable modems, and related broadband access products. Co.'s asymmetric DSL modems (ADSL) modems or DSL modems, provide a high-bandwidth connection to the Internet via a telephone line that typically connects to compatible DSL equipment in or near the central telephone office. Co.'s cable modem customers include cable service providers, original equipment manufacturers and retailers.

Zhejiang Southeast Electric Power-B [ OTC PK : ZHEXF ]
Zhejiang Expressway Company Limited, an infrastructure company, engages in the design, construction, operation, and management of high grade roads. It also engages in various other ancillary businesses, such as technical consultation, billboard advertising along expressways, automobile servicing, and fuel facilities.