2000 Annual Report

The Revolution is Achievement

• FORTUNE named National Instruments to its list of 100 Best Companies to Work For in America - two years in a row
• Tokyo Metropolitan Government awarded NI-Japan as one of the Five Best Places For Working Women in Tokyo
• Worth magazine recognized NI President, CEO, and Co-Founder, Dr. James Truchard, as one of America's 50 Best CEOs
• Cahners Research named NI one of the Top 15 Companies Engineers and Engineering Managers want to work for
• Readers of Evaluation Engineering voted NI LabVIEW 6i Top Software Product of the Year
• Control Engineering awarded NI LabVIEW 6i the Editor's Choice Award
• EDN magazine and Cahners Research listed ni.com™ among the top three vendor Web sites for North American electronics engineers and among the top five Web sites in Europe
• Instrument and Automation News selected NI Measurement Studio™ for an Automation Excellence Award
• Plant Engineering selected NI FieldPoint modules as a Product of the Year Finalist
• NI named to Russell 1000 Index -- NI named to S&P MidCap 400 Index
• NI ranked #1 in the Top 50 Companies to Watch in 2001 in the electronics industry. Cahners Electronics Group
• NI ranked Top 200 Market Cap in Nasdaq's stocks as of the year end...