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PARTI ITEM 1. BUSINESS; ITEM 2. PROPERTIES GENERAL The term "Cooper" refers to the registrant, Cooper Industries, Inc , which was incorporated under the laws of the State of Ohio on January 8, 1919 Cooper operates in two busmess segments Electrical Products and Tools & Hardware Cooper manufactures, markets and sells its products and provides services throughout the world Cooper has manufacturing facilities m 21 countries and currently employs approximately 30,500 people On December 31, 2001, the plants and other facilities used by Cooper throughout the world contained an aggregate of approximately 20,192,100 square feet of space, of which approximately 72 percent was owned and 28 percent was leased The charts on the next page show the number of employees, square footage of facilities owned and leased and location of manufacturing facilities for each industry segment Certain equipment and production facilities have been financed by industrial revenue bonds issued by local government authorities and are subject to security arrangements customary in such financings 2