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Virtek Vision - machine vision applications
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Virtek Vision Corp.

Virtek is a Canadian company traded on the Canadian Dealing Network
(symbol:VRTK), located in Waterloo, Ontario and is a spin-off of the Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Lab at the University of Waterloo. There are approximately 14.4m shares outstanding.

The company designs and manufactures laser-based vision intelligence systems for use in the aerospace, construction, leather goods and packaging industries. Customers include Boeing, Lockheed and Eurocopter France. Exports to the U.S., Europe and most recently to the Far East, account for 92% of sales. Virtek reported an increase in sales from $215,000 in 1991 to $5.6 million in 1996 for a five-year revenue growth of 2,515%. In the June 1997 issue of Profit Magazine, it was ranked as the 10th fastest growing Canadian company over the past five years.

Now led by a marketing-oriented CEO, Virtek's sales have multiplied and the company is now on the verge of profitability. Today, it's share price closed at $0.85

Web site at virtek.ca (note, *not* www.virtek.COM)

Note - anyone interested in machine vision companies in general can refer also to Subject 11055 for information on Image Processing Systems of Scarborough, who finished #8 in the same Profit Magazine rankings.
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65This train seems to be leaving the station. May be a bit slow to get going, but whenitgoesup-12/12/2000
64From stockhouse stockhouse.ca VIRTEK VISION INTERNATIONAL [T.VRK] Here's checkmate-12/10/2000
63In these tough markets....I think patience will be well rewarded with this one. whenitgoesup-12/3/2000
62Virtek Vision reports 82% sales increase over fiscal 2000 - Biotech sales thewiz-11/28/2000
61 For your info - HSBC will be doing a roadshow for the upcoming issue and you shPlanet 9-5/5/2000
60 Attention Business Editors: The John P. Robarts Research Institute and Virtek Garry O'krafka-2/15/2000
59 Nice move today!mzzs-2/10/2000
58 Planet, In addition to what you have posted regarding the chip reader, Virtethewiz-12/11/1999
57 This stock has, in my opinion a long way to run. Its DNA scanner alone may be Planet 9-12/11/1999
56 Wake up thread. This stock has plenty of bid/ask games this morning with leap fdean_k-12/1/1999
55 I see CTI Securities has just upgraded. This high-tech stock is trading at 1XPlanet 9-10/27/1999
54 Attention Business Editors: Virtek Announces Acquisition of LaserTechniek Garry O'krafka-10/19/1999
53 I got this from investor relations today: -------------------------------------Nawien Sharma-6/25/1999
52newswire.caGarry O'krafka-6/11/1999
51 Virtek Vision International Inc - Virtek Vision receives conditional listing aGarry O'krafka-6/8/1999
50 What is the chance that Virtek will be bought out by another larger company? Aalan von weiler-12/9/1998
49 Virtek Vision International Inc - Third quarter results Virtek Vision Internalan von weiler-12/3/1998
48 Garry, VRTK makes it as #6 on FP Tech. Fast 55 , 5 yr. growth rate of 6083%. GCiao-9/19/1998
47 Hello Ciao Yes they are but have not heard anything about it in awhile I shoulGarry O'krafka-9/5/1998
46 Is VRTK planning a TSE listing and if so, what is their progress? Ciao-9/5/1998
45 VIRTEK ANNOUNCES SECOND QUARTER RESULTS > > > - CoGarry O'krafka-9/1/1998
44 The estimate for EPS is .20. I emailed VRTK and spoke with someone from manageCiao-7/28/1998
43 Thank you Kurp,could you please give a little more details. Did they give any oDani-7/21/1998
42 This stock has been selected by BUY LOW SELL HIGH ,an investment newsletter ,askurp-7/21/1998
41 Hi, does anybody have some information about todays bounce? I would appreciate Dani-7/20/1998
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