Dover (NYSE:DOV), with $7.57 billion in annualized revenue in 2008, is a diversified global manufacturer of value-added products and components that serve a variety of industrial and commercial markets. For over 50 years, Dover has been providing its customers with outstanding products and services that reflect the company’s commitment to operational excellence, innovation and market leadership. Today, Dover encompasses 34 operating companies and 32,000 employees around the world.
Dover has realigned its operating companies into four business segments, highlighting broad end-markets served and six focused market platforms including energy, fluid solutions, material handling, mobile equipment, electronic components and equipment and engineered products and product identification.
The Product Identification Platform has been created to supply the food, beverage, cosmetic, pharmaceuticals and electronic sectors with the best marking and coding equipment. In addition to the specificities of each sector, the Product ID Platform’s strategic vision has been founded on the world’s growing consumer demands and trends: - from marking to data capture, with an unparalleled product offer: direct printing and label and barcode printing technologies from Markem-Imaje and industrial barcode, RFID and barcode printers from Datamax-O'Neil.
The Product Identification Group, $924 millions in 2008, employs more than 3,600 people worldwide and provides customers with optimal product identification and coding solutions.
“The PIDG value proposition contributes to enhancing the supply chain management and improving productivity of multinational companies.”

Omar Kerbage, President and CEO of the Product Identification Group