CIT Group

ABOUT THIS COMPANY:

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CIT Group provides financing and related services to just about everybody, from small businesses to the world's largest multinational corporations. With finance products ranging from acquisition financing and asset management to venture capital and vendor financing, CIT operates across 30 industries in 50 countries, including North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The company, which itself is ranked No. 306 on the Fortune 500, does business with a majority of the Fortune 1000 companies and, by the end of 2007, managed over $80 billion in assets.

CIT's business can be broken down into four main segments. Corporate finance provides lending, leasing, and other financial and advisory services to middle-market companies, with a focus on specific industries, including health care, energy, communications, media and entertainment. The trade finance division provides factoring and other trade and financial products to companies in the retail supply chain. Transportation finance provides lending, leasing and other banking services to the rail as well as aerospace and defense industries. Vendor finance provides financing solutions to manufacturers, distributors and other intermediaries, including Avaya, Dell, Microsoft, Snap-on and Toshiba.