In 1993, we began to acquire other service providers - a successful strategy we still use today. We became a publicly traded company in 1996, and emerged as North America's largest provider of medical waste services in 2000.

In 1999, we began offering safety and compliance training services with the launch of the Stericycle Steri-Safe OSHA Compliance program. Today over 139,000 healthcare customers rely on us to help keep their staff safe and their office compliant with this service.

We grew our hospital offerings in 2003 when we acquired Bio Systems Sharps Management service. Since then, we have expanded Stericycle Bio Systems nationally. Today it has become the leader in re-usable sharps container management service.

Also in 2003, we entered the reverse pharmaceutical industry via acquisition. Since then, we've grown into a leading provider of pharmaceutical, medical device, durable goods and consumer goods recall, trade returns and retrieval services. Our systems even handled the single largest prescription drug recall event in U. S. history.

Internationally, we've been providing medical waste disposal service since 1998. Today, Stericycle operates in the U.S., United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Romania and Portugal, and we continue to pursue opportunities to enter new countries and offer new services.

For Stericycle, medical waste was just the beginning. We're constantly seeking to develop new services that expand our ability to protect people and reduce risk.