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VHA is a private cooperative alliance of more than 1,400 nonprofit hospitals and over 21,000 nonacute health care organizations worldwide. It provides analytics, clinical improvement, contracting, and revenue and supply chain management services. The organization also offers a variety of performance services that include rapid expense reduction, contract maximization, clinical documentation and product standardization. VHA works with hospital executives, physicians, pharmacists, nurses and materials managers. It operates nearly 15 regional offices that serve member health care organizations in approximately 45 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The organization purchases medical products through Novation, a medical supplier. VHA maintains performance improvement, business development and purchasing departments.

Incorporated in 1989, Sagem Avionics offers a range of marketing and sales services for commercial aerospace products. The company provides a variety of flight control components for airplanes and helicopters. It offers aircraft monitoring systems and fuel computers. The company provides navigation units, gyroscopic sensors and helicopter autopilot systems. It also provides quality assurance software for flight operations. In addition, the company offers repair and overhauling services for commercial aerospace components. It operates Flight Operational Quality Assurance programs. The company offers ground support equipment and flight data recorders. Sagem Avionics is a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of the Sagem Defense and Security, which is a part of the SAFRAN Group.

Atmos Energy, the largest pure natural gas distributor in the United States, delivers natural gas to more than 3.1 million residential, commercial, industrial and public-authority customers. Its regulated utility services are provided to more than 1,500 communities in 12 states. For the fiscal year ended September 2004, its utility operations contributed about 73 percent of its consolidated net income. Atmos Energy has grown from 279,000 customers in 1983 mainly by acquiring utility assets. The most recent acquisition was the distribution and pipeline operations of TXU Gas Company, the largest natural gas utility in Texas. Atmos Energy is also the largest natural gas distributor in Louisiana and Mississippi.