The Top 25 Canadian IT Hardware and Infrastructure Companies had a great year in 2006, producing cumulative revenues of $32.16 billion, a 7.31 per cent increase over revenues produced by this same group in 2005. Last year’s list produced a total of $27.89 billion, 15.31 per cent less than what was produced this year.

Nortel Networks, Celestica and ATI Technologies reprise their roles as the top three IT Hardware and Infrastructure Companies, with combined revenues of $25.6 billion representing 79.6 per cent of the entire revenue of this group. With AMD’s acquisition of ATI after the company’s 2006 fiscal year end, this will be ATI’s final year on the Branham Top 250 as a Canadian-owned company. Creo has made a departure from the list as it is now a fully owned subsidiary of Kodak. Research In Motion appears in the number four position, while Aastra Technologies jumped one spot to number five. Notable mentions also go to Sierra Wireless and March Networks, which experienced revenue growth of 104 per cent and 79 per cent, respectively. The Top 25 IT Hardware and Infrastructure list includes several other new companies as well. Electronics manufacturing service provider SMTC Manufacturing appears at number eight with $290 million in revenue; designer and manufacturer of space hardware subsystems COM DEV is number 14 with 21 per cent year-overyear revenue growth; and EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering, provider of test and measurement technologies for the telecommunications industry, appears at number 15 with 32 per cent year-over-year revenue growth. Other new entrants include Cygnal Technologies, Vecima Networks, NBS Technologies and Memory Experts International (MXI).

This category is another example in which the revenues from the top companies contribute heavily toward the category total. In this case, the top 25 companies contribute 99 per cent of the total revenues of all IT Hardware and Infrastructure Companies on the Branham300 listing. The total revenues of all IT Hardware and Infrastructure companies that were not in the Top 25 were at $420 million with 9.92 per cent year-over-year growth.

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