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Raymond James & Associates, Inc. (RJA) is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF), a diversified holding company. RJA offers a full array of capital markets services, strategic advice and planning for institutional investors.

Sanwa Starch Co., Ltd. manufactures and processes starch and starch products. The firm also manufactures sugar and glucose-based products. The company was founded by Seiichi Morimoto on January 9, 1947 and is headquartered in Kashihara, Japan.

KMT Hepatech, Inc. provides vivo research services focusing on preclinical development of Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, and Malaria therapeutics and vaccines. It offers scientific evaluation services for drug metabolism, lipoprotein metabolism, dose response, and drug treatment. The firm provides KMT Mouse, a transgenic mouse model for practical testing of HCV drug candidates. The company was founded by Norman Miles Kneteman, David F. Mercer and David Lorne John Tyrrell in 2001 and is headquartered in Edmonton, Canada.

BTIG LLC is an institutional brokerage and fund services firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2002 through the merger of Baypoint Trading LLC and Bass Trading LLC. They are a subsidiary of Condor Trading LP. BTIG offers institutional and corporate clients with personalized multi-asset class execution, expertise and insights worldwide across equities, equity derivatives, ETFs, fixed income, futures, commodities, foreign exchange, interest rates, credit, and convertible and preferred securities. The firm’s core capabilities include global sales, portfolio, electronic and outsource trading, transition management, investment banking, prime brokerage, capital introduction, corporate access, research and strategy, commission management and more.

Suntory Foods Ltd. sells beverages and mineral water. It provides home delivery services to the customers of Tokyo. The company distributes products in the regions of Japan. Suntory Foods is located in Tokyo, Japan

Institute of Immunology Co., Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale of diagnostic reagents and monoclonal antibodies for research purpose. It develops and produces Enzyme Immunoassay (EIA) kits related to infectious diseases such as hepatitis B as well as those for human hepatocellular growth factor determination. The firm also offers EIA kits for detecting hepatitis E virus antibody and for determining the genotypes of hepatitis B virus and offers immunization of 3 mice, evaluation, fusion, screening, cloning, ascites production and purification services to the research, clinical and medical industries. The company was founded by Tetsuo Nakamura on August 18, 1979 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.